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MONDAY, FEE. 3, 1958

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Federal Election Called

_ The dissolution of Parliament and the calling of another general election for March 31 cannot have taken many people by surprise. Ten-

sion was building up all throughthe

recent session, with the Opposition sniping continuously at the Govern- ment from different angles but re- fraining from joining forces for fear of defeating it on at motion of non- confidence, thereby precipitating an appeal to the electors. The situation was ‘farcical from the standpoint of democratic government, and in the circumstances was becoming tragic. The worsening of the - economic situation-—forseen_' in a- "report sub- mitted to the St. Laurent Govern- ment by its own officials, but kept dark during the last election cam- p_aign——calls for long-range policies which can only be undertaken by a. stable administration. § According to the new Liberal‘

leader, Mr. Pearson, this need is self ‘ evident; but he doesn't‘ want. an elec- tion. He wants ‘the government to abdicate in his party's favour on the" basis of resolutions passed by the

delegates at.his_ party’s convention.

This proposal found as little favor with the other Opposition groups as it did with. the government, and of

course was defeated when put to a

vote. But it does point up the fact that the present unstable position is

not conducive to good government,

which is precisely the stand taken

? by Prime Minister Diefenbaker. in-

calling for another electoral show- down.-« ‘He cites the Liberal non-

_confidence.motion ’of January 20 as

“clear, indication” that his _minority'’

government can no longer expect co-

operation and he. has asked for “a direct and unquestioned mandate from the people.” There can be no '

substitute for such an appeal iwhetié‘,-I

conditions warrant it.’ Undesirable as ‘ an election campaign may be-at’t-his time, it is infinitely better than hav- ing a Parliament at cross purposes

and a government hamstrung by un- ,

certain support.

Petty Retaliation , Commenting on the United States a certain number of Chinese athletes and cartoonists to enter the country while Chinese scientists are not given that - privilege, Dr. Warren Weaver, Vice-President ‘of ' the Rockefeller Foundation, called American security regulations “the laughing-stock of the , world”. Cer- tainly, "they do seem to be a bit on the ludicrous side. '

From time to time, for example, a few Russian scientists are admit- ted. Why the Chinese-—that is, those from the Chinese mainland——are con- ' sidered more risky than the Russians has never been explained. Again the Russians who are admitted can

I only» travel to certain areas. Some-

times a distinction is made between two localities in the same general area. In this connection, Dr. Weaver cited the case of five Russian women, physicians,'who came to the United States at the invitation of the Found- ,' ation. On the last day of their visit the American woman‘ doctor who- had accompanied them on their tra- vels wanted to have them as her per- i sonal guests for dinner. But be-' cause she lived in Brooklyn-—an out- of-bounds area—this was not permis- sible. She had to take them to a restaurant in Manhattan, just across the river from Brooklyn.

,Dr. Weaver agreed that similar restrictions are imposed on United States’ citizens visiting the Soviet Union. He added, ‘however, that “that sort of petty retaliation by the United States raises questions concerning our standard of national dignity”. “Is it necessary”, he asked, “for us to throw silly little interna- tional spitballs, just because someone else does it”? It is a pertinent ques- tion.,’l‘he United States has the re- sponsibility to show the world that ‘ 5! free way of life is better l'.l’l«‘:l,ll a totalitarian way of life. Yet, Amer- ican officialsuappear to proceed on

~ reaction by the

the theory that they must. match the restrictive policies of the Commun- ists. In any case, what possible harm could a few scientists from Russia or China do to the security of the United States, in View of the fact that those who do manage to get in are watched closely from the moment they arrive to the moment of their departure? One would ima- gine that a good cartoonist would be a lot more mischievous.

Border Life

While all Canadians talk cheer- fully about,the “unarmed border” between this country and the Un- ited States, the citizens of Rock Island, Que. have a special reason for doing so: they are living on it and findingit a pleasant way of life. Indeed, according to a C.P. dispatch, ‘,‘when a stiff North wind blows through Rock Island the Union Jack flies over United States’ territory”. The flag stands beside an interna- tional road maintained jointly by the Quebec and, Vermont Governments. The road passes between Canada and the United States, dividing the

-towns of Derby Line, Vt. and Rock

Island. ‘ Actually, the two towns are in-

separable. The “invisible? boundary "

cuts between them, dividing homes, stores, factories, 8. library and a skat- ing rink. That means that part of a house may be in Canada and the other part in the United States. “Recently” the dispatch reveals, "‘a man bought 9. house on the border line and had it moved completely to the -Canadian side. He had to pay

'duty .not on the whole house but

on the part of it which was moved off American soil”. Other strange things happen,» too. For instance, a television set bought in the United States must be placed on the Amer-

ican side of the house,’ to avoid cus- '

toms duty, though viewers can-watch the shows from the other side of_ the border——that.is to say, from the bth- er side of the house. ”

Most babies‘ are born at Newport, Vt; where the nearest hospital is located. The infants’ births: have to be reported in both countries, and they have a choice of citizenship on reaching 20 years of "age. The pub- lic library is-located partly in Can- ada and partly in’ the United States. It is incorporated‘ in Vermont. 1

if‘? S’>RlAL sy;-maria Egypt iiiiivé decided td form 2. uhion with President Nasser;

can really get down to fighting--among themselves. ‘ ' I iv 1- 1-

A psychiatrist says that the aver- age man, if he could only get rid of

his fears and anxieties, could easily

live to be as old as Methusaleh who, the Bible says, reachedthe ripe old age of 969. And what good would that do? ’ ‘ . ' '

‘I’ R ‘k

Any day now we can expect to

- hear that a “summit” meeting has

been agreed upon. First, President Eisenhower wanted to be. sure that it held some promise of success be- fore‘ giving his consent. Now, ‘he says he will be satisfied,» if heads of governments can agree beforehand" on “what questions they want to.dis- cuss”. I’ ‘I’ t 1

Word from London is that Brit- ish scientists may be ahead of the Americans in missile development, although they are not saying much about it for the present. The report

‘adds that the missiles now nearing

completion will be fired from under- ground bases, an improvement over the American plan for firing‘ from ground level.

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President Eisenhower told of- ficers of the Young Republican Na- tional Federation: “Go out and find the very best men of character, honesty, integrity and devotion— work with them and you will win the elections.” Alas, there is. more involved in ‘winning elections than

i

’ selecting candidates of the prescrib-

ed qualifications—a fact of which the President must be aware. ‘ 3 av t '

. The Secretary General of the Un- ited Nations has urged an interna- tional committee of scientists: “to ignore the pressure of politics V and speak out with a single objective voice on the hazards of atomic radia- tion”. More than 9000 scientists did that-very thing only a couple of weeks ago. And what good came of it’! None, as far as any favourable governments in- volved is concerned.

a of Egypt the -,first head of the Fed-' leration. Now the two peoples

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Ottawa: ‘ Every politican has experiened the‘ traditional smoke- filled rooms. But there is no M. P. who has repeatedly endured the horrors of smoke-filled rooms in the sane way as Murdo Mar- tin, the new C.C.F. member for Timmins. .

For the tough stocky Mr. Mar-. tin was a fire-fighter before he was elected to Parliament last June. '

During the debate on the amend ment to the National Housing Act, he spoke up about the danger of the firet-raps -which scar every community in this second richest country in the wprld.

His words still echo round the comfortable , and nearly fire-proof House of Commons. And they are re‘-echoed each morning when we hear the radio news bulletin, ev- or trying to start our day cheer- fully, announce ,“Four children were burned death in their “frame, -bunga1ow,l_{ast night.”

" _Mr. Martin ‘told’ Parliament of ‘his first-hand experiences of this

almost daily tragedy .

“On different occasions I have struggled through smoke-filled -rooms. and carried out the bodies , of little children burned to death

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in these firetraps." he told his fellow M.Ps. “If Honourable mem bers could undergo that absolute- ly unforgettable cxperience, they would realise that this is a pro- blenivwhich we are going to have to meet in ‘this country.” ' AFTER THE HOSES

When I later asked Mr. Martin to describe some of these unfor- gettable horrors he told me of one flaming bungalow where unfor- tunately the doors had ,all been opened and the windows broken in fruitless r e s c u e attempts. These openings created currents of air which fanned the raging flames. The whole home was a- blaze when fire-fighter Martin, the first into action, started knoc- king down the flames with his hose. ‘

From that home of ashes, he told me, he later carried out the bodies -of four babies and young children, all wrapped in the same charred blanket. They had all died of suffocation in their sleep, the; agonising scorches of - the flames not lick-ing them until the dense smoke had coinpleted its murder — fortunately. .« '

Like Mr.-Martin, his neighbour

.and fellow M.P., Arnold Peters

J. Emlyn Williams in the

A It is 25 years since Adolf Hitler became German chancellor and many Germans are asking them- selves how this was possible and who placed him _, into power on Jan. 30, 1933.

During the quarter century in between tremendous changes have been wrought in Germany and the world. And after the Third Reich collapsed‘ in 1945, millions of words were written, - to explain the “Fuhrer’s” rise But many honest Germans still are perplexed as to how it all happened.

As Ernst von Weiszacker for- mer Undersecretary in the Ger- man Foreign Office, stated in his memoirs, attempts to reconstruct -the period 1933 to 1945 from pri- vate letters and ‘ documents of that time are unsatisfactory.

to clear the air leave too much unexplained and are at best de- fence evidence. ‘ HORRIBLE DREAM

Of the authors of pro-Nax-i ac-

sive if not active

that period still asks if the writ- er‘s interpretation would not have

a different course.

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Christian Science Monitor

glad in the early postwar years to turn to the crudities of the occu- pation rule, particularly the psy- chological weaknesses of the “Frageboge ” or . questionnaire

' and the overzealousness of Ger-

man employees of the occupation powers, as relief. '

Yet it is undeniable that the en- thusiasm of a large section of German youth and of German women of that day for Hitler as well as admiration of. prominent individuals abroad and at home is the outstanding feature which is still uppermost in thought of at least one observer of that time.

During 1932 and early 1933 al- most 50 per. cent of the German electorate voluntarily paved the way to power for Hitler. Their votes were neither faked nor in- vented. And only much later did

Many of the memoirs which have [they realize what they had done. appeared since 1945 with the aim Even after much: had been al-

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lowed for the Nazi’s tyrannical methods, many foreigners who at- tended the Olympic Games in Tier- lin in 1936 returned home convinc- ed that 70 to 80 per cent of the

t-ivities the reader could conclude i, Germans supported the Nazi reg- that the writer was definitely pasi [ anti-Hitler ‘; PATIENCE EXHAUSTED from the first day of the latter'sl seizure of power. Yet a foreign 3 what happened on that Jan. 30, observer who has lived through a 1933: The defeat in World War

ime.

There are various reasons for

I ensuing inflation which. under- mined the middle class, the fail-

been different had history taken ' ure of _ the Weimar Republic to

tackle economic ‘problems, leav-

The Third Reich still is regard- , ing 5,300,000 unemployed at the ed by many here as a horrible -‘beginning of 1933. street fights and dream or the “madness" of a ‘lawlessness of the Communists, few individuals who deserved to paralleled and surpassed by the be executed. And many were lawlessness of Nazi brownshirts,

Among visitors to the United States, none is more hospitably welcomed and pampered than the Canada goose. ’ ‘

Sounding their clarion notes on still nights, the wild geese come in V-shaped formations to pass the winter on ancestral feeding grounds. They are among the first birds to start north again in-early spring to breed.

Though hunter by fair means and foul, the big Canada geese are more than holding their own.

tlmates that some 327,000 came

iigcs tntali.11_g 9,422,935 acres. FRESH CROPS To assure the welcome guests

in refuges along the

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Fields are burned well in advance so the geese will be greeted with an expanse of tender green shoots. Oats, rye_,‘soy beans, and clover are planted in clearings.

The Canada goose (Branta can- aden-sis) gets around more than perhaps any other water fowl. The species is seen seasonally from

;the Atlantic to the Pacific. and ‘from the Gulf of Mexico to the

Arctic ‘Circle.

Adults have a winds-preatl of a-

bout six feet and weigh from sev-

The- population trend is upward. en to 14 pounds. Bodly marked The Fish and Wildlife Service es- the

brownish-grey gees black heads, white che s,

L i k e periscopes.

ing flock. The guard;

lers to lake their turn eating.

Far from being silly, the CaI_i- ‘ plenty of food, crops at‘ c set out ada goose is famous _f0I‘.1lS wari- '~ flyways. lness, wisdom, and iiedlity. it Bl

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p HOME AWAY FROM HOME OTTAWA A REPORT , . Against Fire Hazards‘

By Patrick Nicholson Special Correspondent for_Tl1e Guardian.

have and down the Atlantic Flyway alone long black necks or “stockings.” in 1957 as compared to 266.000 in I _ 1954. These and Canada geese mi-- 1 iiecks and heads of sentinels pro- grating along other flyway,-s find trude above the backs of a feed- winter haven at 25.3 federal ref-l

the black

remain l tensely alert until relieved by oth-

from Timiskaming was also prom-’ ineiit among those who spoke in this debate about the shame of our slums and the social scourge of our ‘sub-standard housing as well as.’ the danger of our fire- traps. ‘

same slum areaspproduce not only the major portion of fire calls but also the major portion of pol- ice calls.

FIRETRAPS . ‘

The M.P. for Timmins and the M.P. for Kirkland Lake werenot. pointing a finger in accusation of their own or any other community in this. They were pointing a fin- ger at the whole of Canada, for every city, every town and every village is guilty. ..

Take the matter of firetraps. As Mr. Martin explained to me, ev- ery house built ten years ago or earlier was equipped with elec- tricwiring adequate for lighting and very little else. Since 1948, perhaps forty or fifty different types of electric gadgets have been out on the market and all are within the financial‘ reach of .the “dollardown and I dollar for llfe" ‘buyers. ' ;

This spate of electric ‘gadgets makes life easier. But. it makes’ death come easier too. .

Mr. Martin served his commun- ity and his country well with his criticism based, on his experiencce of horrors. We can expect to hear more from him in the future, in his worthwhile drive to make our homes safe for us to live in, ra- ther than involuntary reproduc- tions of that agoriising death which the first Canadians reserv- ed for the less fortuante or less swift-footed of our forebears.

and damage .to the national pride in the Versailles Treaty. - ‘ All these ‘and other factors re- sulted in an attitude of “This can- not go on” which led to the down- fall of Weimar Republic. Many prominent Germans wrote Presi- dent Hindenburg urging him to “give Hitler a chance,” hoping-he would reform or destroy himself. They were prepared to disregard Hitler"s,confused ideas and his in- human racial theories since they assumed he would abandon his t h e o r i e s expressed in “Mein Kampf,” once he obtained legiti- mate power. * Hitler, however, did not change his ideas and only four days af- ter becoming Chancellor announc-

of the Reich armed forces that he intended to set aside democracy and conquer new “lebensraum” in the east and -mercilessly Ger- manize that territory.

It helped him that President Hi- denburg, though formally true to the Constitution, was at heart. a monarch-ist and alien to the demo- cratic idea. I-Iit1er’s Germanic ex- pansionism eastward found more latent support among those still dreaming of "Drang nach Osten" than was openely admitted.

During the ensuing 12 years in

power Hitler pursued the policy his superefficient Propaganda Mi- nister Josef Goebbels recorded in his diary on Sept. 4, 1932, when the Nazie Party was in difficulties namely that they must “appeal to the primtive instincts of the masses” for succtss.

an expert at playing possum - even on water. Audubon wrote that it could easily distinguish the cracking of a twig by a harmless deeer from the same accident caused by man. -

Canada geesemate for ife and show great concern for each other. The gander doesn't deign to sit on the nest, but it keeps constant watch, and is a fierce defender of the family.

The goose usually lays five or six eggs, which hatch in 23 to 30 days. Gosling training begins at once. First order of business is a swim. with the gander leading, the goslings following, and the mother bringing up the rear guard. To one downy chick, the mother may point out a floating seed. She calls another’s atten- ti'o_n‘to a tasty slug.

GRDUNDEI) IN SUMMER. Natiirt-' gro11_n_ds l;hi= geese for

family duties in suinmer by 5 {min foe. A few ;\‘ear. ling their wing and tall l’eal.hersl big Canadas foiihcl asyliim at 3;, ltn molt. Al. the beginning of Sep- - pond on a farm near AIISOIIV-'lll€.l étember, the adults have regain- 1 North Carolina. The word appapl ed their flight powers and thel ently got around, for thousands] young are strong enough to under 3 winter now at the private refuge.

Mr. Martin pointed out that the '

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Frostbite May Be Dangerous

By Herman N. Bundesen. M1). THE danger of. frostbite is with

' us once again. Caused by expos-

ure to extreme cold, frostbite probably is one of winter's most common ailments.

some persons, of course. are more sensitive to cold than oth- ers. Even a Cold Sh0W€1' Wm cause welts to form on the skin of some highly sensitive indivi- duals. Their skin may become itchy and swollen 1f,they so much as carry a cold’ bottle of milk- or ‘beer-«under their arms.

BAD CASE _