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The Margarine Bill

The bill to repeal the law prohibit- ing the sale of margarine in the Prov- ince has passed the crucial second reading in the Legislature on a vote of 16 to 12, and now awaits third reading and royal assent. Introduced by Mr. Driscoll, 3rd Queens, it met with less opposition than was expect- ed, and the vote was along non-par- tisan lines. Even some of those who voted against the measure did so, they conceded, less from conviction than because they believed there was still

« a strong feeling in their constituen- cies against legalizing the sale of but- ter substitutes.

What was it that Edmund Burke said about a member's mature judg- | ment being a trust from Providence, | for the abuse of which he was deeply

answerable, and that he betrayed, in- ;! stead of serving, his constituents if he sacrificed it to their opinion? | Our own position in the matter was stated. when the bill was first mooted. We believe, with its pro- moter, that the margarine ban is unenforceable, and that the time’

has gone by when its retention would be of any practical value to our dairy | industry. Agriculture Minister Mac-

Rae frankly confessed that his own

views had changed on this point, and

he cited, among other things, the

stabilizing influence which our export

butter sales is providing. We held the fort on this issue in

Prince Edward Island longer than

any other province in Canada. We

did so because we realized how im-

portant a factor dairying is in our

provincial economy. It still is, and will continue to be, and there is every reason why our Legislature should | be concerned in furthering its-inter- ests in every practical way. The mem- bers who voted for repeal of the existing law have no right to be re- | garded as deserters from this cause. Since the ban had notoriously fail- ed-in its purpose of excluding mar- garine importation, there was every reason why attention should now be given to the rights of consumers who had abided by the law and uncom- - plainingly paid the difference in cost while there was any substantial value accruing to our butter producers. f This was logical and, as Mr. MacRae also pointed out, morally justifiable. There has been no betrayal of our farmérs’ interests in this matter, and it is to be hoped that those who con- tend otherwise will see that they are doing a disservice to all concerned.

How Is That Again?

It used to be easy, in the old days, for our legislators todiscuss. budgetary problems. The sums involv- ed were comparatively small; there | was not the diversity of expenditures | that there is now, and the method of « accounting seemed much less com: plicated. An example of the difficulty involved in getting the present-day accounts into perspective was shown in the budget presentation of Provin- cial Treasufer Farmer on Thursday

night, Mr. Farmer may have the pic- ture clear in his own mind, but we

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venture to say that many of his hear- ers were left confused. _ Take the consolidated balance }—--heet-forthe last fiscal year, for ex- ample. This showed, as he explained, |

gn outstanding debt of $50,916,681,

but against this were recoverable as- . Sets totalling $11,821,341, leaving a pes of March 31,:1964, of

fet debt as $39,095,339.

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bank credits and debenture issues for development projects, towns and vil- lages. schoo} districts and others amounting to $10,428,320, for which the Province was not directly liable “unless the creditor defaults.’’ Which, unfortunately. sometimes happens

There were also contingent liabil- ities totalling $5.983.600 for construc. tion in progréss on roads since com. pleted and for,the new administration building still under construction. Also, there was a contingent lability of undetermined amount for the guar- antee of the solvency of the Teachers’ and Civil] Service Superannuation Funds

So much for last year’s complt- cated picture. This vear's forecast is that the debt of the consolidated fund will increase by $3.059.967, and dur ing the next fiscal vear by $7,441.782, and again, presumably, there will be other factors not taken tnto aceount which could produce a different cal- culation One thing sure. if we under- stand Mr. Farmer aright. is that we'll be paving $4.028 728 to finance our

debt, charges next vear. We wish he had¥old us more clearly how we are going to do it without raising taxes.

Not Yet In Sight

Prime Minister Pearson is said to be waiting for new developments in New York and Washington which might indicate a measure of agree- ment with his proposals for a solution to the Viet Nam situation. What he has in mind is a conference of per- haps seven powers including North and South Viet Nam and Communist China to revive the spirit of the 1954 Geneva conference on Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia. Other members participating would be the other Big Four powers—the U.S, Britain, France and Russia.

The difficulty of negotiation, notes the New York Times, is that it de- pends largely on each side's estimates of how the workable guarantees would, in fact, work. The U.S. would want to feel reasonably confident that any South Vietnamese regime could not be subverted by the Communists from within; the Communists would want to feel reasonably confident they could do precisely that. . The hope, accordingly, would be that

‘some kind of ‘equilibrium—or “neu-

tralization’”—of these conflicting aims could be achieved, because the price for any other solution was too high. A Times correspondent in Wash- ington, commenting on the fact that debate on Congress over Viet Nam had quieted down, attributed the lull to two factors. One was the clear in- dication from President Johnson that he wanted to keep as many doors open as possible. The other was the feeling among many Congressmen that too much public debate and con- troversy might weaken the U.S. posi- tion. On the other hand, there were those who argued that now was pre- cisely the time for a full airing of alternatives and risks in Viet Nam. The Times correspondent wrote: “The fact is that there is nothing yet in long range planning for a Viet Nam settlement that you can sink your teeth into. For the moment, each side seem to be waiting for the other to cry ‘uncle’ and is not yet conceiv- ing plausible forms of settlement.”

A Nice Gesture

We note from an exchange that out of the welter of projects which will mark Canada’s centennial the small Alberta city of Lethbridge has hit upon a unique and praiseworthy program. There it has been decided to build a Japanese garden as a

tribute to‘the 2,800 Canadians of |

Japanese ancestry who were forcibly moved to.southern Alberta after Pearl Harbor. :

They arrived there, it is said, in bitterness to’ be met by suspicious farmers to whom they had been as- signed as hired hands. As the war ran its course they came to be re- spected and liked, and many of them settled in or around Lethbridge when their peonage ended in 1945.

The uprooting of 24,500 Cana- dians, many Canadian-born, and the

order that they move at least one hundred miles away from the coast,

was a measure’ prompted by wartime hysteria. Their expulsion weighs on the conscience of the country, and it is a good thing to know that one of the areas which played jailer to the B.C. Japanese is paying these good citizens a tribute in marking the na- tion’s centennial.

» EDITORIAL NOTE

A group of Eskimo women at Tuktoyaktuk have created “Sikusi,” a “Friend of Ookpik” and the North- ern Affairs Department will help promote it. Sikusi is, of all things, a furry ice-worm. - . fy

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, cow, | southern portion of Hudson Bay and the southern-most part of

| teeming.

NOP ENTRY WHITER, THAN WHITE

OTTAWA WINTERCARNIVAL _

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UNDER THREE FLAGS Problem For America, Canada And Russia

Take a map of the world. Piak out the 55th north latitude. This is the imaginary line which cir- cles the globe just south of Mas- the Scottish border, the

Alaska’s panhandle.

South of that line les the vast, active world of the Northern Hemisphere North of that line; except primarily for Seandinavia, Scotland, and a few Soviet areas. there lies an endless emptiness stretching north and south. east and west

across’ some 5,000,000 square miles of land Looking at this area more

‘closely, amd again leaving out the comparatively small area of

| Scandinavia, we find that over

PUBLIC FORUM

This colume ts epem te the discussics by correspondens of questions of &® terest. The Guardian dees net neces sarily endorse the opinion ef corres pendents. All letters published are sab ject to editing amd condensation where secessary, The Guardian is unable te enter inte any corrrespondence regaté- tog) letsers§«submitied.

NEW APPOINTMENT | Sir,—Premier Shaw is report- | ed to be angry about Mr. Fergu- son's Criticism of the newly created Civil Service Commis- sion and its chairman. Mr. Fer- guson is right and a full investi- gation should be made by an in- dependent committee | Why wasn't the position of | chairman advertised for compe- tition with requirements in edu- cation and experience set forth, as is the practice for other gov- ernment positions?

I am. Sir, ete, | ERIC MacCALLUM | Marshfield, P.E.T

}s STUDENTS’ PETITION | Sir.— Several weeks ago I signed a_ petition circulated | among the Islanders studying at Dalhousie. That petition had four numbered clauses. Each chause was included with a par- ticular object in mind. | A fellow Islander pointed out | to me an article in The Guard- | ian of March 8 The heading of the article read ‘‘Island students } at Dal urge SDU-PWC Unity" ' I immediately wondered what | other Island students at Dal | -have been communicating theit | feelings on the university issue

Upon reading the body of the article I was horrified to find that the heading in question was intended to be a.gummation of our petition:

It is my opinion, backed by several senior students both of the arts and law, that the head- ing the article in question constitutes nothing but gross distortion. The writer of heading didn’t take his swhject from the first (primary) clause of the petition. He didn't take from the second

primary (first) petition.

I hope that you will print thi to rectify what most of us who

NT FAVREAU'S Hl Parmry IMAGE

IN QuEBEC

Christian Science Monitor

the livable portions of this im- mense land-mass there fly but three flags— American, Canad- ian, Russian

JOINT POSSESSION

And in a world of escalating population, where more and More eyes are turning toward the earth's unpopulated areas, this joint possession of the un- settied North gives Russia many interests in common with Amer- ica and Canada, whatever idenl OgVv may say

Not the least of these Russian interests is the fact that the hordes of China press against the Siberian border

Nor have things been going well in Siberia. Indeed, the So- viet Union appears to be under- going serious frustrations and setbacks in that lonely land of tundra, taiga, and forest.

While it cannot be said that | things are going ill in the Am- erican and Canadian North, it can, however, almost be said that they are not going at all

Therefore, might there not be great advantages to be reaped

oR JUMPING To CONCLUSIONS

PENSION OPPOSITION

oc RED VERSION OF

MR. CLEAN

| correct

What Is ' A Laser?

By Dr. Theodore R.’Van Dellen Laser light rays continue as an experimental scientific tool. No one is sure whether this is a wonder device capable of de- stroying. cancer, hitting the moon or just a dud. Time will | tell .

Laser stands for light ampli- | fication by the stimulated emis- } Sion of radiation. It begins as an

ordinary light wave that is sup- er-charged or stimulated after | passing through a ruby crystal or other substance such as neo- dymium in glass, or uranium in , | strontium fluoride. The effect is | likened to amplifying the voice by speaking into a megaphone. | The ensuing beam is a pure light, thin as a pencil, and many times more intense than the sun

The rays can be focused to deliver enormous energy fluxes to very small areas. This may explain why they were called death rays a few years ago and considered of military impor- tance.

The amazing laser is being used in experimental! laborator- jes. It has destroyed certain cancers located in areas with an unobstructed view such as on the skin or in a body opening. The rays do not damage healthy | tissue surrounding the tumor. The apparatus also is used for experimental welding of animal retinas. The beam acts as a photocoagulater when the retina fears away or is detached from the back of the eye. The heat is just enough to create a bubble

‘perhaps of steam or carbon | diomde) behind the retina that glues the lavers together.

Experimenta! work also is be- ing done on joining small blood vessels without interrupting blood flow to the heart during the procedure. The aim is to defective artries re-

| sponsible for angina pectoris,

@ from an effort to develop the three lands concurrently?

NO SECURITY THREAT

This could perhaps be done through some Northern Area In- stitute in which geologists, phy- sicists, meteorologists, agricul- turists, and many other natural scientists from America, Can- ada and Russia could pool their discoveries. and help correct each other's mistakes

This need involve no threat to the national security of any of the three It need entail no loss of national sovereignty. It need not mean Russians swarming over Alaska or Americas swar- ming over Kamchatka.

Someday, in some way. the United States and the Soviet Union (with Canada sharing many of the American positions but often in a less heated man- ner) will recognize that their mutual interest lies in peaceful and friendly cooperation. One of the ways in which this might easily begin would be through sharing their experiences northern development.

| Four Of 10 Protected

| : Health League Of Canada

Four out of 10 Ontario resi- dents have fluoride protection in their piped water supply. ac- cording to statistics released by the Health League of Canada. For 2,443,000 people living in 58 communities, the fluoride level has been adjusted to a million parts of water

However, another 172.000 peo- ple are fortunate enough to live in 63 communities where the

fluoride cqntent needs no ad- justmert. In these supplies. the water

has picked up sufficient fluoride | from underground deposits to | provide at least the minimum | level recognized by scientists as necessary to prevent much needless tooth decay and suf- fering.

In all, there are 94 water sys- tems, supplying 121 communi- ties and serving 2,615,000 people | with fluoridated water, either naturally present or mechanic- ally adjusted. These people make up 4 per cent of the pop- ulation of Ontario and 58 per

Ottawa

Health Minister LaMarsh de- ‘clares that everyone who pays a contributidn and obtains a bene- fit under the Cdnada pension |plan must have a number. There is no option

To drive home this point. Lab- ‘or Minister MacEachen says | that no person could be eligible | for unemployment insurance without a social insurance num- | ber such as 6,314,000 carry to day, about 1,000,000 voluntary

egistrations.

Now the intention is to use the

plans. The Canadian who resents be- ing a number, who dislikes the

MOSCOW (AP) — Tass news agency has reported from Dushanbe that an hour’ - long snowfall on the Darvaz Moun- tains in the Tajik region of So- viet Central Asia recently was colored red. It said the color came from dust storms in Iraq, some 1,500 miles to the west.

In The Grip Of Numbers

“thought of being a punched card , . through

cent of those on piped water supphes

Urged on by the slogan ‘Help Them Drink Away Tomorrow's Tooth Decay" the electors of Ot- tawa, capital city of Canada with a population of 284,000, turned out in December to ap- prove “fluoridation by a margin of over 22,000 votes. ‘Yes'’ vot- es numbered 58.234 or 61.7 per cent while there were 36,079 “no” votes cast

The two year campaign was conducted by a committee of citizens with background sup- | port fromthe Health League of Canada and with the active help and co-operation of the local Academy of Medicine and the Ottawa Dental Society and of a long list of scientists. many en- gaged in federal government projects.

Waterworks Commissioner H. P. Stockwell has stated that the city will be able to fluoridate its water only five months after” city council passes the neces- sary by-law.

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stroke, and aneurysms. Many industrial uses of laser

‘rays are anticipated. A compli- | Someone a favor seldom- makes

cated lensless camera utilizes these rays to obtain three-dim- ensional pictures. TOE DEFECT J. G. writes: What is hammer- toe” REPLY A defect in which the end of the toe is bent downward, so that the part resembles the head of a hammer. As a rule, the digit next to the large toe is involved. Surgery usually is re- | commended, especially if pain | full calluses or corns develop on the upper part of the toe CHEMICALS IN FOOD | 1. N writes: All foods seem | to contain chemicals. Are these chemicals a danger to health? REPLY No. Some diseases are traced to a lack of certain chemicals such as iodine or copper in foods. This stems from a defic- iency in the soil. We obtain our foods from different areas of | the country so that our diets are balanced. FIBROIDS AND THE MENOPAUSE Mrs B. Writes’ Do fibroid growths in the uterus disappear after the change” REPLY | No, but they usually become smaller as the glandular secre-

i tions diminish

INFLAMED COLON

D. B. writes: Is dieting best treatment for colitis? REPLY ‘

A bland diet helps because it leaves little residue and gives the bowel a rest. Diet is not the | sole treatment because there are various types of colitis

(spastic, bacterial. and inftven-

zal), each requiring specifie

care.

TODAY'S HEALTH HINT— Treat mental illness early. (NOTE: All correspondence

te Dr. Van Delien should be

addressed to: Dr. Theodore

Van Delien, co Chicago Trib-

une, Chicage, Illinois.)

the

‘Our Yesterdays

(From The Guardian Files)

A very pleasant social was held in St. James Hall last eve- ning by the Kirk Auxiliary in h of Mrs. Alex Scott who

Journal

decide to stay out of the pension plan and risk the loss of pos-. sible benefits. But that would | not end the story. Mr. Benson adds: ; “We could stjll go after them | in regard to their contributions | to the plan. They owe the money | to the Crown, the’ same as a

plan for the self- employed.” Yes, Mr. Benson added, the Government certainly intended to take action in a case where such a person refused to join

| the plan. And, as Miss LaMarsh said,

with her young daughter Janet, are leaving shortly for Halifax to join Mr. Scott.

Mr. James Haslam was guest

| speaker at the regular Wetines-

day night supper meeting of the Hi-Y Grads Club. His talk on ‘‘Parliamentary Procedure” was both. interesting and help- ful. Harold Rodd led the sing- song and Donald Stewart was in the chair.

TEN YEARS AGO

! (March 13, 1965) ‘4 Miss Mary Thompson, !7- Q .

year-old grade XH student at ee Soeer ete Dairy Super- Se ee - Report of the P sident.

the 1965 advestare in citizenship” he °

to be held dering the summer Report of the Secretary.

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Thompson | The Financial Statement.

of Spring Street in Summerside. |} "

"Mis, Les Cameron hax teew) Election: ~~ Three Directors of the

Maple Leaf British ‘Columbia Association. a

See ot ees need ah Officers for the current

office in the province of British

Columbia, Mré. Cameron and year.

her pao elites ot eee | “

coecated the Came tee | Voting: Funds for the Association. GURKHAS CAPABLE Consideration of Policy

the fret US. Army epecisiiss | for the Dairy Industry

assigned to train Nepalese sold-

iers have left here two months The Annual Meeting will conclude with a

sate, sit ‘medical’ corps men, || banquet in the Charlotteown Hotel at 6:30 p.m.

said their students {n the home-

ee ee eae ee Guest speaker Mr. George R. MacLaughlin,

trelatag. went faster than had Vice-President Dairy Farmers of Canada. ; believed possible. - Sane

U.S. Aid Prégram

By Arch MacKenzie . Canadian Press Writer

United States business and in- | jnternational agency parcel out dustry have a steadily-rising ‘the afd rather than continve stake in ‘the huge American separate deals between the US. foreign aid program. and each recipient cointry.

Latest figures show % per Economic. self interest at cent of the money spent for for- home could be one good reason eign aid commodities such as for opnosing this last sugges. textiles or cars—exclusive of tion Figures compiled by the military arms—goes to Ameri- US. commerce départmnt for can producers. the first three months of the fis-

This is one factor on the side cal year begun last July 1 show of the 1966 budget of $3,400,000,- that 94 per cent of the foreign 000 as it begins its usual tor- aid in commodity form was pro- tuous course through, Congress. duced in the U.S

The U.S. aid program grew This compares with 87 per from the Lend-Lease arrance- cent in the last complete fiscal ments of the Second World War. vear and 79 per cent a year ear- It combines the aims of | lier. The figure in 1960 was only strengthening U.S. Allies mili- 41 per cent tarily with helping the less-de- The value of the commodity veloped countries economically goods in foreign aid in the first

and socially three months of the: fiscal year DOUBT ITS WORTH was $346,400,000. Western Eu- While the 1966 budget has. rope and Japan got one per

been pre-trimmed, some mem- cen of the production and vari-

bers of the Senate and House of ous underdeveloped countries Representatives as usual would 8&0! five per cent like to cut more. Others are Such commodity aid repre-

openly dubious about the worth of ‘the programs in view of re- cent h, -tile experiences with In- donesia, Egypt and other recipi- ents of substantial benefits Respected Democratic Sena- tor William J. Fulbright, the Arkansas internationalist, holds a minority view that arms aid should be separated from the foreign aid packagé and han- dled separately this time from the proposed allocation of §$2,-

sents 55 to #0 per cent of the full economic program The U.S. economy retains most of the rest as well. says the com- merce department, in the form of ocean shipping, foreign stu- dent training or the cost of fi- nance handling

\ll this economic help comes under the agency for interna- tional aid It does not take ac- count of arms aid, the big food- for-peace program or the loans

210.000.000 for economic help. made by the import - export He also would like to have an bank London Free Press It ts as difficult for a nation | to the fact that US - Indonesian as for an individual to woo relations could hardly be worse

someone who doesn't want to be loved—to admit that the court- ship has become a one- sided affair. One of the more painful lessons being learned in Wash- ington is actually one of the world’s oldest truths: doing

Indonesia ts only one symp- tom of a widespread ailment the U.S. administration has been reluctant to recognize, and it supplies further evidence for. the critics who have been saying for 20 years that Uncle Sam cannot buy. the world’s friendship.

Set up with the best of inten- tions, the USIA program has been harassed by the Sukarno government, had its libraries at- tacked and seized, its films ban-

him your friend

By deciding to close its US Information Agency libraries in Indonesia, maintained at a cost of more than one million dollars,

, Washington has finally faced up - ned and its books burned.

H.R. DOANE AND COMPANY

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P.E.I, Fluid Milk Association

| NOTICE

Semi-Annual Meeting

Members, both producers and processors are advised that the semi-annual meeting is called for Wednesday, March 17th at 2:30 p.m. at the Char- lottetown Hotel.

All fluid milk producers are invited to attend.

P.E.l. Fluid Milk Association

Prince Edward Island -Dairymen’s Association

NOTICE OF 66th Annual Meeting

Wednesday, March 17th 10.30 a.m. and 1.30 p.m.

Charlottetown Hotel Charlottetown Dairy farmers and the accredited delegates

of all dairy plants are advised that the following matters will be dealt with:

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