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PAGE 4 WEDNESDAY, OCT. 21, 1959. Public Interests First °

Our new Provincial administra- tion is reportedly making a vigorous sweep in the replacing of employes

% who are not specifically protected . _ under the Publie Service Act. Easy, _ boys! Some changes no doubt are inevitable, some even desirable; but every case.should be considered on _ its merits. And by that we don’t _ mean the political claims of the job hunter. Let the misfits go, but keep the men and women who have given long and faithful service, whether or not they were appointed By the Liberals in years gone by. Provided, ef course, that they have refrained from partisan activities since .their appointment and are conscientiously @o-operating with their mew bosses.

To say that the Liberals didn’t always observe this rule is beside the point. We are living in a more enlightened age politically, and it was on higher ground than this that the Conservatives appealed for votes on September lst. The Pro- vince suffered a great deal in the past by the wholesale houseclean- ings that took place after every change in party administration. We just can’t afford to play this part- isan game any longer.

All we are pleading for, really, js a more generous interpretation of the Service Act and the spirit in which it was passed. It was in-

-_tended not so much to safeguard in- dividuals as- to ensure the kind of efficiency that is required in every business undertaking, where. exper-

- jence and ability are taken into ae- count, and properly rewarded.

We have every’ confidence in Premier Shaw’s good intentions, and we are aware of the pressure he and his colleagues are under of

+ providing for the deserving democ- rats who supported them actively in the campaign. But the claims of these people, wherever they run counter to the wider interests of which we have spoken, should be given short shrift. Our citizens generally neither asked, nor expect to receive, a bonus for: their votes. They voted for good government, and that is all anyone has a right te demand of men in public office. —

The best policy, in our view, would be to call a moratorium of six months or more on hirings and fir- ings after every change of govern- ment, to give time for the new min- isters to acquaint themselves

_ thoroughly with their departments. Only then would they be in a position to know whether those under them were doing a good job or not. Wntil we get something equivalent to this. gystem we shall be continually sell- ing ourselves short, and squander- ing our limited supply of training and ability in the public service to very poor. purpose. .

Highway Development

Back in 1892 a weekly newspaper published in Shelburne, N.S., carri- ed this straight-from-the-shoulder indictment of high-handed practice in the use of public funds:

“The sum of $30'was granted by the jocal Legislature during this last session for ‘the road from Ohio to Welshtown in this county and the _ bridge across the Shelburne River. Tenders were called for, to secure 3,000 feet of plank for the said

_ bridge. A tender was handed in to furnish the said plank at the rate of $7.75 per thousand feet, which would amount to $23.25. Planks could be put in position on the bridge for 25 cents per thousand, making 75 eents. Commission at 5 per cent

would be $1.50; total amount of ex- |

penditure would be $25.50. There are some of us who are interested in the gaid road who would like to ascertain

from the Commissioner what has be-

-eome of the balance of $4.50. which was appropriated by the Legislature.” . . This comment was cited by Mr. - ©.W. Gilchrist, managing director of .

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Canada Association of Highway Of- ficials at Fredericton yesterday. It strikingly points up the difference in the publie attitude towards high- way expenditures that has taken

in recent years. Road and street budgets for the current year in Can-

ada, at different levels of govern-

ment, will exceed one billion dollars. Ten years hence we can expect to see nearly twice as many, vehicles in Canada, with correspondingly higher road expenditures and tax revenue to provincial governments from this source. Road building is indeed big business, with only, two categories of government expendi- ture—national defence and social wel- fare services—ranking higher. | The Canadian’ Good Roads As- sociation has done a great deal in the field of highway technology, but its greatest accomplishment has been the*production of new standards for traffic control devices. Mr.. Gilchrist dealt particularly with this point in his address. Now for the first time Canadian highway .officials have a set of uniform signs, signals and pavement markings for installation and operation on the roads and

streéts. of the country. In the very

near future, highway users should be able to travel from coast to coast with the assurance that these devices will

convey the same message across Canada,

Apart from facilitating travel, it is believed that the. new signs will have a very important effect on hign- way sxfety, which has become the Number One problem to all concern- ed with highway traffic measures. The C.G.R.A. was responsible for calling the first national meeting to deal with “motorized massacre”, and it was out of this meeting that the Canadian Highway Safety Coun- cil evolved. The Association believes that it is cheaper (and safer) for the nation to have good road systems than to try and get along without them.

This. dogsn’t explain what be- eame of that'$4.50 which the Shel- burne paper was concerned about in 1892, in its bridge expenditure com- plaint. But in this day and age, with millions being spent on highway im- provement projects in every prov- ince, the test of economy has shift- ed. Poorly designed work, that tends to increase the accident and fatality rate, is now regarded as dear at any price.

EDITORAL NOTES

- Those siow Britishers again. They

will export nearly 250,000 cars to the United States this year, a 65 per cent increase over 1958, according to the president of the Society of British Motor Manufacturers and Traders.

For the first time in history, through the Texaco Company’s new bulk storage plant, this Province’ will become engaged in the export trade for pet®dleum products. This is a big forward step, and congratulations are due to the district manager, Hon. J. David Stewart, and all eon- cerned in bringing the project here.

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The Queen Mother has-accepted an invitation to visit the Rhodesian Federation next May to open the giant Kariba Dam on the- Zambesi River. Here is another heavy official chore, which the Royal Family takes in its stride. It willbe a two weeks’ visit, and a tiring one for the Queen Mother. But it will be.made with all her customary graciousness and charm.

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Finance Minister Fleming told the provincial delegates at last week’s fiscal conference that they. might get help indirectly through the Fed- eral Government’s determination to reduce its deficits—‘“to bring our revenue and expenditures into closer balance, and reduce our demands on the market for new money.” In this way, there would be more room in the market for borrowings by the other levels of government. That’s not an inspiring message, but it makes sober sense.

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When Deputy Minister Eugene Gorman talks on fisheries, he -al- ways has something worthwhile «to say. His address to the Rotary Club on Monday was a case in point. Mr. Gorman emphasized ‘particularly the need for searching out new and more efficient methods in the industry .f we are to remain competitive. “He outlined what is being done, and what the prospects are for develap-

ment. It was a hopeful address, as,

well as an informative one, with promise of much better returns from this revenue source in the forsee-

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SILENT PARTNER

Perhaps the best-known scene ever described in the English language occurred in the garden

of Verona, Italy. Juliet Capuiet stood on her moonlit balcony, dis- traught because her lover Romeo

hated enemies, the Montagues.

“Tis but thy name that is mine enemy,” sighed the lovesick maiden. “What's in a .name? That which we call a rose_ by any. other name would smell as sweet.”

Thus too might Juliet, che livirig in Verona, Ontario, to- day, comment on the various ed- iterial praise and carping heaped recent speech about the tight money situation.

Hon, Donald Fleming, addres- sing the Empire Club in Toronto, described the economic policy of the Diefenbaker Government. as ‘Expansion without Inflation’, striving for steady prices and steady wages without tight money.

A ROSE OR A SKUNK? Commenting editorially on that speech, various newspapers prais- ed or carped. Under the title “Finarfce Minister Fleming sets the record straight’’, the Ottawa Journal called a rose a\rose. ¢‘We

Tt may seem inconceivable that a country’s economy can stumble and fall on the question of how much time a man should spend washing his hands and drinking coffee.

Yet these have become import- ant issues in the current United States steel strike, the longest and costliest in history. For he multi-billion-dollar strike involves more than labor demands for higher. wages: it involves man- zgement demands for great con- trol over working conditions in the mills.

In_this case it {s not so much a question of a technological rev- olution or. automation replacing men, but of company complainis that workers show reluctance to break long - established working habits; that they refuse to co- operate to increase production ef- ficiency.

ENSLAVEMENT CHARGED Management argues there is ‘“featherbedding’’ going on: a slackness in = producing _ steel. David J. McDonald, Uhited Steel Workers president, charges the companies ate trying to ‘“‘auto- _ Mate individuals and enslave the human being in the mills and fac- \teries.”” : : Management negotiator R. Con- rad Cooper proposes that the question of working conditions be placed before an arbitration

board. “Over my dead _ body,” says McDonald. Why this deep-rooted — tug-of-

war over working conditions? Back in 1947 management agreed to a work contract clause which pretty well allowed work customs in logal mills to prevail. Where differences between labor and mahagement arose, a grievance committee was to rule,

DIDN’T WORK .

Im practice, management, said it found the grievance committee sometimes took two or three years to réach a decision. In the meantime there was ferment and unrest among the workers be-

cause management had _ sought changes. In one plant, management

found employees were taking ‘“‘ex- cessive” time for coffee breaks. This slowed production. “But somewhere along the line it became a past practice and management was stuck\with it,” a company official said. Management also complained that workers left their jobs 10 minutes before quitting time and spent this time“washing up or ieaving the plant.

| said of the Capulet home in the ciiy | its whole; a speech for confid-

on Finance Ministep Fleming's |

Idn’t a man clean up jges have also "Simon me ieten alk, | aiiieinen. <i

OTTAWA REPORT A Controversial Speech

By Patrick Nicholson | devoutly hope that Mr. Flem-

ing’s speech will be widely read.” the Journal. “‘For it is, in

ence.”’ On the same day, writing of the-same speech, the Ottawa Cit-

bore the name of her family’s | izen gave the rose another name,

under the heading “Finance Min- ister Fleming's fancy foot work.”’ This paper editorialized: ‘Mr. Fleming and his -colleagues can- rot escape primary responsibil- ity for any tightness of money, or

jof the high level interest rates were | have reached”’.

One of the ground rules of a

|} democracy gives the press free |

dom to print \what the writer wishes and the editor permits, subject only to the sanctjon of

the legal penalties for malicious

misrepresentation. But a corol- lary of this freedom of the press is, of course, the freedom of each citizen not only to buy or not to buy, but also to believe or not to believe, any particular news-

| paper.

To exercise this freedom wis- ely, the reader requires the back- ground Knowledge to judge whe- ther a journalist is attempting to

conceal the sweet smell of the rose by giving it another name. For example, to assess the

merit ef any assertion that Mr. Fleming's rose is an activated

No Reconciliation In Sight

By Harold Morrison Canadian Press Staff. Writer

cial retorted. “It's done in every other industry.”

CO-OPERATION SOUGHT

These and other company com- plaints of inefficiency in working conditions has shown Jheavy fi- nancial costs, management main- tained.

wants nor . ati | It a Oe Sooper ale |}mands for wage hodsts but they

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attitude by labor, - but charges. management wants

ifor thousands of men.

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aware of, if not familiar with, the published bank statistics. The Conservative Government |}

has been running a budgetary de

ficit as a result of its heavy |

spending to ameliorate the ef- fects of the recession. Some quarters have argued that the government has. accordingly bor- rowed so much money that it has depleted the banks’ supoly of lending money, and has thus itself made money “‘tight’’,

MONEY IS LOOSER ~

Yet the official statistics show that on the Ist of this month. loans advanced by the charter- ed banks were $879 million, or

nearly one - fifth higher than twelve months earlier: and this despite the fact that the ‘otal money supply had been reduced by $125 million, presumably by

the. action of the, Bank of Can- |

ada. , ° These figures certainly do not

Suggest that the government has |

been milking the banks dry. On the contrary, they reveal the weakness of the position taken

[ty those critics of the govern- |

ment,

The Fall, as we know, is ¢he hunting season. Sometimes may- be journalists in some quarters are. so busy skunk-hunting that they just don't have time to do tneir homework and study revealing statistics. Which ex- plains why newspaper readers should ignore the applied name, and smell the scent for tbhem- selves to learn whether it is swert.

called experts to dictate how hard

a man should work, how long he |

should spend on lunch or in the washroom and a hundred other details that cannot be master- minded by anybody in advance These de- tails can be worked out locally ; . .

With that kind of attitude exist- ing on both sides, it is not likely a- court back-to-work order will bring reconciliation. Management

only

| and labor appear to have nar-

rowed their differences in de- are still as far;apart as ever on

working conditions control,

National Geographie Society

The city of Paris has more than 30 bridges to link its fam- cus divisions—the Right Bank ana the Left Bank.

Busy people may regard the bridges merely as a way tp get across the Seine River. But to the down-and-out, they -give shel- ter. To painters, they offer beau- ty. To lovers, they provide a ro- mantic setting.

Without bridges, Paris could hardly be the city it is today: The great “city of light’’ began very modestly as-a village on a small island in the Seine, the Isle de la Cite. To expand the town, the ancient Parisii turned to bridges.

BRIDGES SUPPORTED HOUSES Houses ‘were built on the early bridges, because the city was walled for protection and every available bit of space had to be used. Furthermore, the belief had arisen that houses strengthened & span. ' All that changed after the Pont Neuf (New Bridge) was erected at the end of the. 16th century. The bridge astonished Parisians by its size—it is large enough for modern traffic — and its side- walks. At that time, Paris streets had none,

Uncluttered by houses, the spacious Pont Neuf became a carnival and market, Peddlers, dancers, jugglers, and acrobats attracted crowds of shoppers and onlookers. Theatr roductions were staged.

Eventualy more ie had to be made for traffic, and the en-

q tertainers were forced to move.

Booksellers, meanwhile, took their place on the near-by banks cf. the Seine. There they have remained, to the delight of pain- ters, strollers, browsers, and — once in a while—an, actual cus- tomer. 4

Today the “New” bridge the oldest in Paris, and perhaps the best loved. But other brid- earned the city's

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which runs across the Isle de la’ Cite to the square in front of the Paris city hall Hotel de Ville), got its name during the 1830 revolution when a young man charged onto the bridge cry- ing, “If 1 am killed, remember my name igs d'Arcole.”” He was

killed on the spot, and Parisiang |

remembered the name by giving it to the bridge. NAMED FOR CZ4&R

Paris's most elegant bridge is the Pont Alexandre Ill, which

connedats the famous Quai d'Orsay | Bank with the ex- |

on the Left

hibition palaces (‘Grand Palais,

Petit Palais) on the Right, The | foundation stone was laid in 1896 |

Ly Nicholas TI of Russia, son of the Czar for whom the bridge was named. The ornate span. with

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By Herman N. Bundesen, M. D. YOU ARE probably saving much more than you think. I's not referring to your bank ac- count, hut.to your calorie count.

Years ago the average house- wife burned approximately 3,000 calories a day the

course of her regular

But the advent of the ranch type house, the increased use of the automobile and the develop- ment of modern home applianc- es have changed this consider- ably.

The homemaker of today no longer has & climb stairs at least not as many of them as her mo- ther and grandmother did.

She uses the family car is- stead -of walking.

EASIER JOBS

The automatic washing mach- ive and dryer take most of the work out of the laundering.

Vacuum cleaners save wear

tend tear on the little woman as

well as on the rugs and carpet- ing. Now she can even dust with some types of vacuum cleaners.

keep the home fairly clean with- out. the lady of the house even turning a finger.

LESS COOKING Use of frozen and canned foods,

‘lof course, means that she has to

spend considerably less time m the kitchen.

In short, the homemaker of to- day spends legs energy per day than her mother did, no matter what she tells you.” ;

In fact, one medical expert es- timates that the average house- wife of today consumes only about 2,000 ealories a day, ap- proximately 1,000 less than her counterpart of a few years ago.

There's a hitch, however. De- spite the fact that a housewife doeg Jess, work, she still often continues to eat about as much

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lace the woman of yesteryear did. skunk, the reader needs to be 'Calorie intake probably is- closer

to 3,000 per day than it is to the needed 27.000

That means that the averaze housewife of today probably 1s eating too much. And that, ob- viously, means that she is get-

Se iting fat: .

Men also are victims of our mechanical advances.

EXPEND LESS CALORIES

The farmer who used to ex- }pend 400 calories an hour walk- ling behind a plow now uses up

- |only 130 because: he rides a trac-

i} tor ieee

| The lumberiack who used to consume 450 calories an hour by-chopping down trees now uses

|a gas-powered cHain saw and chops his calorie consumption to a mere 130 an hour.

| AFFECTS OFFICE WORKERS

There has been a change in ithe number of calories used by the white collar worker, too. He ill -spends the same 75 to 100 lealories per hour while working at his desk, ‘but he doesn’t walk nearly as much as he used to. The solution is obvious: eat jless and exercise reasonably.

i |} QUESTION AND ANSWER Night. and day J ihave constant buzzing in my ght ear. I am also hard of hear- What causes this and could you suggest a remedy?

i | A Sufferer:

| Answer: Buzzing in the ear land defective hearing may be the lresult of mapy conditions.

An examination by an ear

| specialis® will probably determine {the cause.

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ifigures in blazing gold, has huge | pillars surmounted by Pegasuses and trumpeting Glories. | The Pont de l'Alma, built in the 1850's, is decorated with sta- tues of four French soldiers, in- |cluding a Zouave. Ordinarily, the |Zouave is ahove the waterline, |but in river-rising periods the water may lap his knees, waist, ne or. head. Parisians describe the Seine’s level by reference to Zouave’s body.

For Americans one Paris irridge offers a special reminder of home. A reproduction of the original Statue of Liberty, which the French reople gave to the United States,’ stands on the Pont de Grenelle. :

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One woman's poise is another |; woman's poisen, "FAMED ARTIST

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OUR YESTERDAYS (From the Guardian Files)

* (Oct. 21, 1931:

In reply toa letter from the Charlottetown Board of Trade Mr. Leo Dolan, director of the Can- adian Travel Bureau, stated \that he would endeavor to be in Char- lottetown during Noyember to address a combined meeting ef the Board of Trade and Tourist Association in connection wita the tourist business.

The home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Burdette, Rocky Point, was the scene of a happy event when one hundred and fifty young people gathered to tender a mis- cellaneous shower to Mr. and Mrs. Newton Taylor on their re- turn from the United States where they spent their honeymoon. Gifts were presented by Jessie Smith and Margaret Betts while Freda Burdette read the verses.

TEN YEARS AGO (Oct. 21, 1949)

Fire yesterday morning des- troyed the dwelling house of Mr. Bernard MacDonald, Kensington Road. Neither Mr. or Mrs. Mac- Donald. were at home at the time

of the outbreak. City and Park- | dale firemen responded to the,

call but the building was lost be- fore either could arrive.

Wendell H. Beaton was elec- ted Chief of the Caledonian Cluo at the annual meeting held last

night. Other officers include pre- |

sident, J.0.C. Campbell: vice pre-

sidents, John B. Campbell and |

Bruce MacPherson; treasurer, Blair MacDonald; recording. sec- retary, J. William MacKinnon;

Corresponding secretary, J. E. |

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My room ig full of bushes, trees, ground, :

around, urging me to be with them. If 1 will not be : forthright and go out, they will come to me.

They insist with their stems, -

branches, buds,

above chill in the morning, east wind and floods |

ot sudden rain. They will not take no ; .

for an afiswer, but persuasively grow.

Pulling up such a verdure in me that my mien

becomes slowly, surely, progres- sively green

and I am forced out, at length, to be wholly one

with things responding to a gleam of sun! ~

—Helen Harrington in the Christian Science Monitor

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