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Oitawa Stand Justified

Finance Minister Fleming deser- yes more sympathy than criticism for. his refusal to yield at this time to the demand for’a blanket increase in civil service salaries. Our federal

‘civil servants are a deserving class of citizens, and entitled to every reasonable consideration; but Mr. Fleming has responsibilities to other segments of the population, ‘and the taxpayers generally will indorse his view that it would be inexcusable to add at this time another $242,000,-'

’ 000 to the current budget.

That is what he says the imple- mentation of retroactive pay in-

creases recommended by the Civil

Service Commission would cost. For it involves similar increases to the armed forces and a heavy lump sum payment to superannuation and pen- sions funds. To get this money, Ottawa would have to boost person- al income taxes by some 15 per cent.

The Government is ready to con- sider pay increases in specific in- stances in the civil service where it

can be shown that the existing pay scale compares unfavorably with that of private industry. That's as

far as it will go, and it seems a reasonable position to take.

Spokesmen for the civil servants

eomplain that they are being vic- timized, penalized, and asked to sub- sidize the Government’s deficit, with no consideration given to their cause, But haven’t we all been pen- alized by the recession which has necessitated heavy deficit budgeting during the past few years? We are

_ thinking particularly of those people ~ -on fixed incomes, of pensioners and the like, who have watched helpless-

ly while the dollar value of their shackled income eroded away.

: The argument that the Federal Government is a “poor employer” is countered by evidence that since Oct- ober, 1947, seven general pay in- creases have been granted. There was an 8.5 per cent increase in Oct- ober, 1947; an 8 per cent increase in 1948; a 10 per cent raise in 1950; an 8,5 per,cent increase in 1951; a 7 per cent increase in 1953; a 7.5 per cent one in 1956 and a 6 per cent increase in 1957: The average weekly pay is now $77.64.

Despite the effovts of successive governments to keep the size of the civil service within bounds, it has grown steadily until it is now close to the 200,000-mark. And there never seems to be any shortage of applic- ants, Any ‘flight from the service

‘$n recent years has been from posi- tions at or near the top; and across- the-board general pay increases do little to remedy this situation.

Liberal newspapers which are seeking-to make political capital out of this issue are playing a dangerous game. To argue, as some of them do, that because this increase is a Civil Service Commission recommendation it sould be granted without consid- eration of other interests, is to argue for abrogation of responsible govern- ment entirely,

Quiz Show kl

The Congressional committee in- vestigating U.S. television quiz show scandals has shown that widespread trickery and deception were resorted to on these shows that so recently fascinated and amazed millions of vigwers—in Canada as well in their country of origin—and sold the spon- gors’ products,

_ It has been argued that while these shows may have been fixed dnd a certain, amount of deception practic- ed, no laws were broken and nobody hurt. “Show business,” it ig claimed, “is built on a world of illusion. No- body who watches a stage magician sawing a woman in half thinks for a

_ moment that the performance is real’ _ gnd that murder is being committed

before his eyes.” That, of course, is _ the point, One knows that a magician _ deals in illusions, but the producers e @ ws shows pretended otherwise.

” e extent to which the decept-

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cerned with is the relationship of the networks, advertising agencies and sponsors to the frayds thus per- petrated on the public. Gossip about rigged contests was prevalent before the scandal broke; and dramatic sus- pensions and firings now cannot, ge- lieve the industry of the responsib- ility it also when quiz show rat- ings were zooming. 3

The two governmental regulatory, bodies are also coming under fire, These are the Federal Communicat- ions Commission and the Federal Trade Commission. The chairmen of these organizations take the line that action on their part might constitute “censorship” and infringement of

“free speech.” They would doubtless .

be the first to maintain, however, that fraudulent advertising in news- papers should be severely dealt with.

There is another point, which was raised by U.S. Attorney General Wil- liam Rogers in reference to the TV scandals. This is the degree to which

“the conduct of conniving producers

and contestants reflects the readiness of Americans to trade honor and good name for a fast buck. “Integ- rity and character are products of a whole society, not of law enforce- ment or government regulation,” he said..“It is difficult to imagine the greed and Synicism which prompts a few people deliberately and will- fully to exploit the public trust. We adults do a lot of worrying about juvenile delinquents—but there were no juveniles responsible for these scandals. Yet there were undoubted- ly millions of young people who watched—with admiration for the learning of the contestants—and who now must be doing a lot of wonder- ing.” : .

Strange News From Laos

There is strange news coming out of Laos. What was heralded only a few weeks ago as a massive invasion of that country now appears to have been something far less and to have been created in large part by inaccur ate reports.

_ The Laotian government reported heavy infiltration of its northern part by forces ‘trdined and equipped in North Vietnam. It reported heavy clashes in which hundreds fought on both sides, of northern villages being lost to superior forces and of battles in which the villages were retaken. French observers tended to minimize the whole business, but American officials on the scene back- ed up the Loatian reports.

A United Nations fact-finding team sent quickly to Laos found great difficulty in getting any facts. They couldn’t find the war. The lack of highways and communication ser- vices made it difficult to hunt for it. The true story hasn’t been reveal- ed yet, but it seems already obvious that there was no mass invasion, It may well turn out that what seem- ed to be a serious new flare-up of war in southeast Asia was little more than hysteria on the part of Laotian officials and some of their counter- parts among American observers. That, if true, would be a relief, of course; but it is embarrassing to the Western powers to have given cred- ence to these alarming reports be- fore thoroughly investigating the situation, + “~

EDITORAL NOTES

It is cheering to note that West Berlin is enjoying ita biggest boom since World War II despite the Soviet. threat that still hovers over the isolated city. The economy is behaving as if there was no Berlin crisis. Rerhaps there isn’t,

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Washington scientists have figur- ed out that enough cigarets were produced last year to make a carpet seven feet wide and one eigaret thick from the earth to’ the moon. That must make the Russians, who only got a rocket to the moon, feel pretty sheepish, 2

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Bernard Berenson, the famous art expert who died in Florence recent- ly at the age of 94.$was proud of his collection of . He once re- marked that any youth “with mod- erate equipment” could .call himself an educated man after spending four years in this library. Asked what he meant by moderate equipment, he re- plied that a working knowledge of French,~ English, German, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Greek and Sanskrit, plus a little Hebrew would suffice,

“der individual face-power blends.

NATURE'S PAINTS

AREN'T “THINGS

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THINK. AND BE THANKFUL

POST'- ELECTION JOB

British

Governments Task

By Stanley Godfrey

United Kingdom Information Service

On of the biggest and most ] immediate tasks facing Mr. Mac- millan’s Government as it b- gins its new five-year term of office is to improve and strcngth- en relations between Britain and Western Europe,

The impending Summit meet- ing will of course steal most of the diplomatic limelight in the coming months; but behind the rublic drama of the Heads of Governments meeting will bea long and painstaking operation to repair. the cracks in the WeSstera wall and rebuild mutual confid- ence.

It wolild be foolish to pretend that relations today between the United Kingdom and France and Germany are all we would wish them to be. But there are clear signs of closer understanding, ana Mr. Selwyn Lioyd's expected visit to Paris in the next few weehs will no doubt help speed this

process. On the German front, the visit of Dr. Adenauer to Lon-

Cosmetics In

don should present a first class opportunity for a frank exchange of ideas. on

“There have beentwelcome eign: too, to indicate -that this desice to improve relations {s shared by both France and Germany. Earlier this week Dr. Adenauer said that West Germany was leady to move nearer to Hrut- ain in the economic field, And is Paris, Premier Debre said his Government would do all in its power to aid the cause of Eur- opean solidarity,

THE MAJOR PROBLEMS There are three main areas in which progress might usefully ve made, These are: : Defence: It is obvious that at present there is too much unce ordinated defence production in Europe. The Americans cannot be expected to continue indefint- tely supplying arms to Europeas nations without payment.- There could therefore be a pooling or

The Jungle

National Geographic Society

In the universal arts of beauty, today’s jungle matron is becom- ing as discriminating as a Fifth Avenue shopper. tues

So at least reports the manag- er of an Australian cosmetics firm -who recently returned from, a visit to cutomers in the New Guinéa wilderness.

Many South Seas tribesmen, he said, now prefer chemical dyes and synthetie perfumes for cere- monial decoration and “‘sing-sing’”’ war paint, Abandoning tradition- al clay-ochre and pig-fat prepara- tions, they call for sweet scented brilliantine, hydrogen peroxide, and taleum powders.

Some even have speetal eolors made up, as Western women or-

One New Guinea customer gave the traveling salesman a local red flower to take home and copy in sing-sing paint,

Cosmetics dealers in the Paci- fie’s highly specialized jungle trade already complain of grow- ing competition. but the industry js young, Before it lies a world of untapped backland markets.-

A survey of National Geogra- phic Magazine articles discloses any number\of little-traveled re- gions where primitive peoples still mix, pound, and roll their own makeup from nature’s bounty,

In the upriver wilds of South America’s British Guiana, for in- stance, exploring archeolpgists found the Wai Wai—a tribe of bow-and-arrow Indians who paint their shaved eyebrows, faces, and

its with a red liquid maae from the coating of the wurucu seed. They use red because they believe evil spirits cannot see anything so colored, Ziving them immunity from harmful spells.

The Wal Wai—especially the men—are inveterate primpers. “hey. start the day with an ela- borate. toilet, combing and an- nointing their long blactc’ hair with palm-nut oil before binding it into tight pigtails,

No less interested fn appear- ance are the Choco Indians of the remote higif\nds of Panama. They wear a short, straight bob, well brushed and oiled, and splash their podies with n&ture’s red and black pigments extrac- ted from fruits and seeds,

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out-of-the-way spots

the globe, almost Bon Tg 3

is likely to turn up in beautify-

ing or ritual-serving cosmetics, Solomon Islanders’ of

and eyebrows white with con- venient ecoral-lime paste. Tribes- rE in the Transkei Territory of the Union-of South Afriea daub themselves with. the abundant yellow and red ochre pigments found in the soil. Villagers in In-

dia brush their teeth with twigs |hope the

dipped in toothpowders of ground almond shelly, cloves; black pep-

the | spok ‘Gouth Pacific bleach their hair

per, charcoal, and bone. A Popular beauty treatment

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practice by women in India’s Himalayan region of Ladakh is to rub their cheeks with the juice of a small berry, similar to a gooseberry. The covering not only serves Pps an anti-sun- burn eream, but allegedly tight- ens the skin and smooths out wrinkles. For added effect, a pat-

tern in the fruit’s tiny seeds is traced on the cheeks,

THE MIDDLE EAST

In ‘many Middle East lands, women still follow the ancient eus- tom of staining their hands with dye from the henna shrub, and

test synthetic scents from the

resources in Europe and greater emphasis given to co-ordination ot weapons and possible schemes for joint production,

Political Consultation: Emopna- sig in this field would be mainiy a\ question of building up confia- ence. A start on such a program might usefully be made through the existing machinery of the Western European Union.

Trade: One of the vital tasks in this field is to build: a real “Bridge” between the “Six” and the “Seven” so that trade be tween nations within Europe should form a bond between all and not a barrier between two separate groupings, The coming mectings in Stockholm will play an important role in this develop- ment; so will next summer's re- view in the “Six” of tariff pol- icies.

These then are the major tacks to be tackled in Europe, But they ere not the only problems now facing the British Government in the international field. There is the Summit meeting expected shortly; the first session of the ‘new Ten - Power disarmament group; the Geneva nuclear test talks and many other major af- fairs to be reviewed. All in all, it looks like a busy year ahead

darkening their eyelashes and shadowing their‘eyes with kohl, or powdered antimony.

In fact, both the -homemade

smetics and the highly-refined 2nd glamorous products turned out by modern chemical factor- ies often are compounded from aromatic gums, oils, and fats in ase for thousands of years,

Today's expensiv2 lotions, cragms, and lipsticks contain min- eral and vegetable oils and na- tural fragrances of flowers and spices gathered from the ends ot the earth. The Biblical frankin- conse and myrrh carried by Wie Men as precious gifts to Bethle- hem—stil] stand on perfume-ma- kers’ shelves, along with the la-

laboratory.

Disarmament

By Joseph MacSween Canadian Press Staff Writer

A gnawing worry seems to be ypreading among the middle and smaller powers in the United Na- tions that their interests may be

ignored by the Big Four in dis- |

armament negotiations.

This is evident in speeches and in private conversations in eon- nection with the formation of a new 10-power East-West commit- tee scheduled to start arms talks outside the UN early next year. The committee, meeting in Ge- reva, will report to the 82-mem- ber UN disarmament commis- sion, which formally noted its formation earlier in the current session. : :

The committee {Includes the United States, Britain, France, Canada and Italy on the Western side and Russia, Bulgaria, Czech- oslovakfa, Poland and -Romania on the Communist side, :

Howard Greon, Canadian ex- ternal affairs minister, has em- phasized the links between the committee and the UN, saying it is “intended not to replace but to supplement the responsibilitic? of the United Nations in the field of disarmament.”

CANADIAN VIEW

In Green’s view, the eommit-

tee should not only report to the UN but also the UN should dis- cuss its progress, encourage it in every way possible and ‘evolve ee ideas in this general

“Clearly, Green sald, “the mid-

aed and smaller. a om e@; an heard, for ee is of the

deepest concern to all mankind.’ Australian and New Zealand

have iar chord, External Affairs Min- ister Richard Casey of Australia

telling the hig powers that disar- }

mament failure by them w disaster for

Negotiations

tion committee but pointedly de- clared; “‘we do not think the UN should be inactive.”

OTHER WAYS

The auxiety of the smaller pow- ers on disarmament has been manifested in several ways.

Ireland has put on the assem- bly agenda an appeal to restrict nuclear weapons to the nations that now have them—the U. &., Britajn and Russia.

Foreign Minister Frank Aiken also has suggested that an ex- pert study be made on the mer-

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NOT IN PUBLIC T\don't recommend you prac- tice this in a bus, train or other So a You might be off to the hooby ,hatch: before you realize what is hap- pening. : ie When you walk, push with your tces as you take each step. Let your arms swirg freely as though you didn’t have a care in the world.

SHIFT WEIGHT

If you have to carry some- thing, use a little commen sense. Shift wetsht from one hend to the other about every block, even if it isn't heavy.

When you have to climb stairs, take it easy, As you climb, be sure to breathe deeply. And once you are at the top, don’t pause to catch your breath. I think you'll find you recover more quickly if you keep moving.

_| WHEN SITTING

Since many of us sit a good part of the day there is one im- portant thing I want you to re- member about resting in a chair. Naturally, you should maintain

"| 800d posture when sitting as well

as when standing.

But it is even more important to remember not to sit with your legs croased for too long a period. Such a position tends to restrict circulation in your legs and feet and could result in formation of varicose veins,

RAISE LEGS ‘

It m‘ght help to raise your legs and ho'd them up off the floor for a few moments every, so often if you must sit for any length of time.

There are many other similar little tricks that you can verform just about. any stime. I'll pass along more of them from time to time.

QUESTION AND ANSWER

Mrs. J, K.: My lips peel al- most constantly since I was pregnant with my_ first child about five years ago. .

Is this a symptom-of “trench mouth?”’ ‘

Answer: Peeling of the lips is not necessarily a symptom of trench mouth. It might be an indication’ of some deficiency, such as lack of vitamins. :

MAXIMS

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.,.

, several quarters.

Finlaz:: declared that the deci- sion to shift the stalled arms talks to the new committee does not “aheolve the UN of its re- spensihi ity’? and Norway's Hal- vard Lange flatly added his gov- ernment “is anxious that the UN should as soon as possible again assume an active role ih the field of disarmament.”

The first rumblings of discon- tent came several weeks ago when the UN disarmament com- mission approved the decision to set up the committee. At the urg- ing of the great: powers, the vote was unanimous. But Greece's Christian X, Palamas complained that the participating countries would view the disarmament is- sue “through the prism’ of their own interests.

HEAVY MOOSE KILL

SIOUX LOOKOUT, Ont. (CP)— Three out of every four moose- hunters in this area reported kills in the first two weeks of the moose season—an unusually high rate of success. A big game checking station on the Red Lake road inspected 265 moose be- tWeen Oct. 1 and Oct. 15. Offi- cials said the heavy mogse kill in this area 150 northwest*of the lakehead verifies the findings of an aerial survey last winter wich reported a sharp increase in the moose population. Deer

its of an agreement for regional- zones which has foved favor in

herds were up also.

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couple of months ago, Dieting has resulted in a loss of weight aver- aging about 15 pounds per coa- siable for the 400 overweight men studied in a survey. Apparently, their chief gave them a dressing down for being fat, and worry- ing as well as dieting may have Played some part in the reduc-

With over 2,670,900 registered television sets, West Germany has reached fifth place among those ccuntries with television. The United States is first witu nearly 50 million sets, the Unitea Kingdom second with 9,1 million. Canada third with, 3.1 million and Soviet Russia fourth with 3 mil- lion ._ sets.—Atlantic-Brucke, Ham- burg

See ee eee OCTOBER SCARECROW

By now the crows cannot recall a time 8

They didn’t know him, Comfort- ably perched

On his grey threadbare shoulder, one keeps watch that I'm

Far down among the squash where I belong.

After a while, gieaned his fill

In stubble rows of corn, another rill

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Or two, to give my harvest where abouts, ;

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But will he ever work again for me

In seed and growing-time? I have my doubts.

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THE WAY

(From the Guardian Files)

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO -

(Oct. 20, 1834) The old infirmary building at

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undergoing extensive repairs and

alterations and is now ready for— occuvancy by the male Falcon- —

wood patients, who will move in from the Sims building next week: There is accogemodation

for over 100 patients which will

do away with the necessity of using the Sims building in the future. °

The three starch factories at Murray Harbour, Hunter River and St. Peters are. buying be- tween 5000 and 6000 bushels of potatoes per day, paying 12 cents to 15 cents per bushel at the fac-

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tories, according to the stareh - content. It is estimated that these

three factories will use 225,000 bushels during: the next two months.

TEN YEARS AGO (Oct. 20, 1949)

Charles W. MacArthur, retired R.C.M.P. Corporal, was appoin- ted Chief of Police for the City of Charlottetown, his duties to commence on November 1. Mr. MacArthur succeeds Chi Police A. Birtwhistle who will be retired on superannuation. : A

Work on the new housing pro- ject at the new R.C.A.F. Sta- tion, Summerside, to consist of 150 units, is proceeding satisfac- torily, according to Mr. Herbert Reasin, superintendent of the pro- ject, and it is hoped that it will all be completed by the end of

March. The general. contractors.

are the Bayside Construction Co, Ltd. of Campbellton, N.B. .

General Patton's Prayer |

From “Battle:.The Story of the Bulge,”

By John

Gen. George Patton had order- ed his chaplain to publish a prayer for good weather for his Saar attack. “See if we can’t get God to work on our side.”

“Sir, replied Chaplain O'Neill, “it’s going to take a pretty thick rug for that kind of praying.”

“I don't care if it takes ‘a fly- ing carpet.”

“Yes, sir,” replied O'Neill re- luctantly. “But it usually isn’t customary among men of my profeszion to pray for clear wea- ther to kill fellow men.”

“Chaplain, are you teaching me theology, or are you the chap- lain of the Third army? I want a prayer.”

he prayer was written.

“Almighty and merciful Fath- | er. a oe That morning it was being read

er, we humb!y beseech Thee of

Thy great goodness to restrain us these immoderate rains with

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us fair weather fer battle.” Patton, delighted. with O'Neill's

‘ayer, ordered thousands of cop- «

es printed. But before they could be distributed, the Saar attack was cance) and the entire Third army pivoted 90 degrees teward Ardennes,

Now as Patton’s III corps head- ed north to bite into the great German offensive, the prayer was being passed out, even Patton's chief of staff, Gen. Gay had reminded him that it had

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“Oh, the Lord won’t mind.” was Patton’s reply. “He knows we're too busy right now killing Germans to print another pray

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