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PAGE 4 SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1965. |

Still Going Strong |

The contract for a new ferry for | the Borden-Tormentine service,

which has now been let, calls for |

a quadruple screw diesel electric

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ship costing upwards of $13 million, with provision for 90 automobiles and 24 fully loaded railway cars, as well as for 1,000 passengers and 82 crew members. It will be built to ful] icebreaking standards, is ex- pected to be in service in 1967 and , is designed so that it can be used

on a Newfoundland run when the P.E.I. causeway has been com-

pleted. This was a Liberal promise in the last. federal election campaign,

which is now on the way to-being |. implemented. It will be noted that whatever plans may be under way following that “meeting of the minds” at Ottawa last August with a view to “phasing out the rail- way” in this Province, there is no intention of embodying them in the , new ferry design. And after we get ur and the ship is re- for service in Newfoundland still, presumably, be ferrying raflway cars for years to come,

* This is a wise provision. The “phasing out” process for the rail- way is going to take a long time,

- and we see no reason why we should be active in speeding it up local- ly. Surely it. would be more to our advantage to press for improv-

‘pail transportation, as they are

jing elsewhere. Why can’t we get all-weather roads too, for that mat- tet; where they are needed for in- dustrial expansion?

ieBuch roads are being constructed if other provinces; yet according to

ident Donald Gordon in his year-

ni pauat, ot the activities of the Canadian National Railways, the 1964°was one of significent

achievement in provision of new Sa seat and and services, better | equipment and modern niethods de- | qigned to meet their expanding

needs. Both freight and passenger

Labor margin in the House of Com- mons to three, and posed a difficult problem’ for Prime Minister Wilson in replacing him. ‘

The voting was the first test for the Wilson government since it was elected, and naturally. the Censer- vatives are elated at the success their candidate scored. At this dis- tance, we are more interested in figuring how it could have happen- ed in a Labor riding

It seems that in the general elec-

0 constituency of Smethwick, s Midlands area where colored immi- gration because a red-hot issue at the time. The Labor party blamed the Conservative winner for ex- ploiting the controversy. The latter, of course, denied this, maintaining that fective campaigner.

There is no suggestion that the Laborites are blaming Thursday’s byelection results on the color is- issue. Mr. Walker himself has of- fered no alibi. It may well be, therefore, that despite his qual- ifications for office he is “in- effective’ on the hustings, and just can’t sell himself to the voters. It has happened before, though rare- ly under such dramatic circumstan- ces. Coming on the 97th«day. of Prime Minister Wilson's much-pub- licized “first’ 100 days of dynamic action,” it is not likely to be for- gotten for a long time.

Reassuring

It is reassuring to note, on the authority of Mr. Storey, general manager of the Fathers of Confed- eration Memoriat Buttding; that the dispute between the contractors and architects, resulting in a lien being placed on the building by the ~con- tractors, has nothing to do with the financial position of the building’s administrators, and will not inter- fere in any way with the heavy schedule of events planned for the centre during the winter months and the summer festival.

It is" necessary, if we are’to take advantage of the impetus given by last year’s centennial activities, that the program arranged for this year be carried out without impediment. Indeed, the program should be ampli- fied if possible, making this mag- nificent provision for cultural and entertainment activities a spur to greater effort in these fields, and setting an example to be proud of.

Many other communities, larger and more prosperous than ours, envy us the opportunity that has been placed in our way in this re- gard. Many visitors have expressed doubt as to whether we can meas- ure up the challenge that such op- portunity presents. These~ doubts could not have been sharéd by the federal] and provincial governments across Canada in making the gener- ous contributions they did to the. building’s construction, nor have they any place in the program plan-

Walker was simply an inef- _

| QUEBEC SUPPORT

| GOUM THE First

| | JUST A BUST

OTTAWA REPORT By Patrick Nicholson

|. Martin Heads List Of Political. Veterans

tributions. John Diefenbaker

first won election at Lake Cen- | tre. then moved to Prince Al-

bert and there maintained his | Pusition in the House of Com- mons. ‘

But none of these five MPs approaching their quarter cen- tury have ever won election by | such thumping majorities as the | 16,000 plus margins which Paul | Martin has achieved in the last | two campaigns

OLD OTTAWA BOY

The only one of this quintet

who sits, with Paul Martin, m the Cabinet is George Mcli- rakh, the tall, soft-spoken, sch- olarly lawyer who is President of the Privy Council and who fills the interesting new post as | Minister in full-time supervision of the Treasury Board.

Born at Lanark, in the Ot- tawa Valley, 56 years ago, of | Scottish - Canadian parents,

George Mcliraith has lived in

jove th for many years ae en- | s the. rare inction hav-

ing kno aS ty half of ' the fourteen prime ministers which | this country has had since Con-

There is today only one ‘‘twen- tyfive year man”, who has sat | in House of Commons for that | length of time without a break. | He is Hon. Paul Joseph James | Martin, who was eleccved as Lib- | eral MP for Essex East (Wind- | sor), Ontario, just after his 32nd birthday, on’ i4th October 1935. | Since then he has won re-elect- jon at eight consecutive general elections. Of his 29'2 years in the Commons, he has sat on the Cabinet benches for nearly half; he has been a Privy Councillor for nearly 20 years; and he has | gat in Opposition for only six | years. } On 26fh~March this year, five | other MPs will join Paul Martin | in his distinction as a 25-year man. These are MPs who were first elected to the House of | Commons in the election on 26th. March 1940, and have won re- election at every general elec- | tion since. Elston Cardiff, Con- servative MP for Huron; Ray- mond Eudes, Liberal MP for Hochelaga; George Mcliraith, Liberal MP for Ottawa West: and George Nixon, Liberal WP

‘ | federation for Algoma West, have all con- | .He knew well Sir Rober: Bor- sistently represented the same | den, Canada’s eighth pri

constituency since 1940—- sub- ject only to changes of bound- ary and so on at decennial redis-

PUBLIC FORUM.

| minister, who headed the gov- | ernment from 1911-1920. After his retirement from politics, he enjoyed a happy and popular old age in his large home overlook- ing Ottawa's pretty Rideau Riv-

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| er — a house which is now the | Embassy of the Chinese Nacion- | alist Government. George Mc- | Hiraith lived nearby; in those more leisurely days, he and the retired prime minister often walked into town together; and | George played golf on | course which Borden promaed,

just across the Ottawa River in | Quebec.

KING OF THEM ALL

He knew Arthur Meighen; he.

now serves under Mike Pearson | of course; and he has also sat in | the House with Bennett, Mac- | kenzie King, St. Laurent and Diefenbaker. Who was the great- es of them all? Without any hes- itation, Hon. George Mcllraith gives the palm to Mackenzie ' King— astute politician, good man-handler, keen brain, and with an unequalled ‘ability to pick the right man for the job. When Borden had recired from politics, he maintained a keen interest in public affairs, and used to ask a young journalist in the Parliamentary Press Gal- lery to walk round to his house, and tell him what was happen- ing on Parliament Hill. Today tha: young observer of Periia- ment has passed his 80th birth- day; he is a life member of the Gallery; he even exceeds George Mcliraith’s acquaintan- ceships, for he also knew the great Sir Wilfred Laurier.

This column ts open to the discussion — by correspendens of questions of t | terest. The Guardian does not neces sarily endorse the opinion of corres pendents. All letters published are sob fect to editing 20d condensation where | gecessary, The Guardiem ts enadle to | enter inte any corrrespondence regard tug letiers «submitted.

Ottawa

Mothers of 1965 can hardly know what the mothers of 15 endured because it was the fas- hion then for small boys to | wear breeches with leather. pat- ches on the knees.

RAIL FERRY SERVICE

movements increased as compared with 1963. Freight shipments of many com- modities, says Mr. Gordon, showed marked increases, enabling the com- pany to establish a record year in freight revenues. New facilities and

pment are to be introduced

this

year. A new Toronto hump yard is to open early in the year, capable _ of processing 6,000 freight cars daily through its 256 miles of trackage and access lines. Does this look as if the railway is “doomed” to early extinction, or that we should be concerned over-

mutch in planning its obsequies?

' Sensational Defeat

ning for the future. But it is im- portant for our citizens to cooperate in making these plans a success.

It is regrettable that there should be any dispute arising out of the building of the project, but this is a legal matter and we must leave it there. Mr. Storey’s assur- ance that it will not hinder the completion of the structure, or the activities that are ‘being planned, in what chiefly concerns us. It will be good news also to the many visit- ors who are looking forward to en- joying the facilities at the centre during. the coming montis.

EDITORIAL NOTES The Canadian Highway Council reveals that a new safety device is on, its. way. It consists of a red

Sir,—Your editorials of Janu- ary 2 and 22 and Mr. E.D. /~Reed's letter are quite logical but one essential point is com- pletely missed regarding rail track on the causeway.

Why shotld we be without rail accommodation if the causeway has-no rail track? Why couldn't | a modified ferry service be

maintained until] such time in | the dim and distant future, (if ever) when a railway would not be required on the Island? | There are several reasons for this. First, -using Mr. Reed's

tentative figures of $100,000,000. | and $65,000,000 | that a causeway without rail

| would be $35,000,000 less than,

with rail. The annual saving in | interest would amount to rough- ly, some $2,000,000 a sum al-

fied ferry service.

vantages to be considered. Picture a.: with two

we can assume |

wost sufficient to run a modi- | . Second, there are other ad. |

miles of bridges. Picture a freez--

| The small boys counted the day | 4H spent when they did not re-

| turn with one or both the leather |

| patches flying free. And moth- |ers, far in the night, would stifch the unyielding leather to tattered cloth. What small boys wear now are long pants and to be eight with- out long pants is to be out of step and to be out of step with | the gang at eight is agony. To mothers of 1945 a cloth

| patch on a cloth knee offered no .|

| challenge whatever.

Val Werier of the Winnipeg Tribune asked a nine - year - | old what he thought was proper Winter wear and was told:

_. “Ski jacket, cotton pants, ski | boots, shor: underwear, maybe | a head band — and that's all.”

| That's all, of course, if mother’

will let him .get away with it.

Lightly-Clad Braves

Journal

, Old-.fashioned mothers probably will insist he needs more, but it is noticable that the errors of the Canadian Winter are being , defied by modern youngsters. Where are the leather helmets | of yesteryear, the long, woolly scarves, the stout leather wind- breakers? Where are the parkas and long underwear? Where did anyone last see a boy with put- tees wound around his legs?

It is astonishing to an older \ generation what boys can en-

dure with uncovered heads — whooping down the ski trails as if it were California.

A similar disregard of the weather is evident elsewhere. Visitors to Africa’ have been surprised to find chat white men | have discarded topees and go

out in the noon - day sun with

heads uncovered, There.was a | day in Africa when every white

wore a ‘cholera belt’ of flan-

nel which was supposed to save him from fearsome diseases.

| ca. Are we growing tougher?

Diamonds Up North

Guelph Mercury

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'Neck Pain Is Common

. By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen |

Neck pain is common. Often it is merely an annoyance, not serious enough to warrant the use of a brace or surgery. A few simple daily exercises will bring | relief. when rheumatism, strain | or tension is responsible.

Many persons have arthritis of the neck as a result of prev- jous injury. In some instances,

be forgotten. In others, the bony cha.yes are a manifesta- tion of widespread degeneration associated with aging.

At any rate. when pain and stiffness of the neck occur, many victims hear a grating sound when the head is moved. Distress may extend into one or both arms. Pressure on the nerve root may be felt in the fingers as a sensation of pins and needles. Symptoms often | come and go and are likely to | be worse after working hard or |} in damp weather.

A herniated disk is a more serious cause of neck pain and usually stems from a jarring or | twisting strain. Discomfort is | made worse by coughing or

straining and often radiates in- to the arm. Muscle weakness | may ensue. Spontaneous recov- | ery-may take place but when

pain persists, a supportive col- |

| lar made of plaster of paris or | plastic is recommended. Sur- | gery may be needed if this fails | to bring relief. The ordinary stiff. neck is re- ferred to as fibrositis because | the fibrous tissues are affected primarily. Some sufferers tell of having had a cold recently or an infection in the sinuses, nose, or throat. Others recall having been in a draft. Pain is aggrava- ted by movements of the head and when looking to the right or left One or two aspirins are help- ful during the attack. Heat also is useful

neck and covered with a dry

_ towel. This supplies warmth

and at the same time lends sup-

| port to the head and neck

| TODAY’S HEALTH HINT— Worry seldom solves anything

and makes you tense and tired.

(NOTE: All correspondence te Dr. Van Dellen should be addressed to: Dr. Theodore

Van Dellen, co Chicago Trib- une, Chicago, Illinois.)

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A warm, moist towel | ou-f-may—he...weapped around. the _,

NOTES BY

THE WAY

(From The Hamilton Spectator) One interesting line of least | pesistance is the one we.ate asked to sign on. — Hamilton | Spectator.

| Your kids are really genuine | teenagers, when they stop ask-

| ing you questions and start tell- |

| ing you the answers. — Door | County Advocate.

The youngster approaching her third birthday overheard that | her aunt was going to the hospi- | tal. “I want to go to the -hospi- | tal too,” she said. “Oh, ‘why do you want to go?” her | mother inquired. “To see Ben

Casey,’ she answered. — Fort | William Times ~Journal.

President Johnson's inaugural | ) statement that the United States | “can never again stand aside, prideful in isolation.’’ will fall unsympathetically on many American ears.

It comes at a time when many Americans feel their country has suffered more than enough abuse—from -Paris to Jakarta and from Saigon to Cairo.

Conyersations with Americans repeatedly revea! frustration and irritation over what are re- garded as gratuitous ‘insults to the United States

Americans ask themselves— and others — why they should bend before de Gaulle; feed for- eign aid to those who burn” American libraries or tolerate a Castro regime just off the coast.

SELDOM LIKED

They concede that anti-Ameri- canism is not new, that the wealthy and powerful are sel- dom liked.

But they. - nevertheless ing abuse has had a~psychologi- | cal effect on the nation; causing |

deep-seated resentment against

the outside world

The effect is two-sided: For | some there is an inclination to pull back inside “fortress Amer- | ica’ and let the rest of the world go hang. Others look back with nostaigia- en Teddy Roose- velt's ‘‘big stick,"’ and feel a |

United States show a much

show

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| Why. is it that.a- nm can | make herself right at while | waiting for the youngsters to get | a haircut’in a barber shop, but

a man will be the loneliest guy

' | in the world while waiting for bis

| wife in a beauty salon? — West | Bend News.

Angela shook her head with fi-

nality. “No, Tom, I can never | be yours, Sorry.” He took the | blow quite calmly. ‘‘All right,’ | he replied. “What about all my presents?” ‘‘I'll return them,

U.S. And World Affairs

vy Cumming Canadian Press Staff Writer -.

harsher face to those who try to twist the eagle's tail.

These sentiments seem even to creep into the conversation of some Americans who realize full well that gunboat diplomacy is outdated and that the U.S. cannot possibly draw back now into the isolationist shell of the 30s.

Some of these peopth voted against Barry Goldwater's brand of tough brinkmanship, but nevertheless feel a reclut- ant sympathy for it.

The very fact Johnson in- cluded the reference to isolation- ism in his speech indicated awareness of the public mood.

How this will be transferred into government action is still to be seen

But already, there is discern- ible reaction in Congress and the administration over foreign aid. This year's foreign aid request was the smallest an adminis- tration has presented to Con-

| gress since the Marshall Plan

4 A een ts — staat . _ And there is evidence the ad-

ministration plans to crack down hard on minor anti-Ameri-

_ can provocations of the lbrary-

burning type.

But on the big issues—Viet Nam, The Congo, or the pro- posed Atlantic nuclear force— the likelihood is that the admin- istration will continue to walk softly and keep its big stick out of . sight.

Flannel has gone out in Afri- |

Pierre Berton’s new book, The Comfortable Pew, is. published jointly by McClelland and Stewart Limited and the General Board of Religious Education of the Anglican Church.

What color was Christ? Can Christian morality be pre-packaged? These and other questions are raised’ by Pierre Berton as he takes a critical look at the role the Anglican and Protestant Churches are playing in today’s world. Excerpts from this sure-to-be controversial book are featured in Weekend Magazine.

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