WEDNESDAY; MARCH 4, 1959.

Prince Edward Island can be repaired - at Borden, or will have to go into dry- dock again, thus posing the prospect of the Abegweit’s departure for her annual spring overhaul being de- _ layed. The damage to the older car- i ieved to be quite -exten-

sive. Her ten days’ voyage from Port

_ aux to her home port, via- _ Souris, was the most memorable one

| of her career, and there is no ques-

tion as to the calibre of the seaman-

_ ship displayed in _bringing her

_ through the icepacks without dis- - aster. But the uncertainty attending

. upon her condition, and on her ability

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transportation requirements, is now of grave concern, |

It might strengthen the hands of our representatives at Ottawa if a

| resolution, stressing the urgency of | this matter, were passed immediately

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_ the’ Federal Minister of Transport. _ It has been dealt with in the Throne

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Speech, but a formal resolution would underline: the gravity of the situation. This. regardless of the re-

extent of the damage sustained to

Ee the ferry’s steering mechanism. A

new auxiliary boat is a requirement

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_of first imp®rtance to this Province, and we want assurance that it is being given top priority at Ottawa.

Is it at all possible to recondition an existing icebreaker for the ser-

_ vice? If not, can the plans of the

e Abegweit be utilized in constructing

a less expensive but adequate boat,

_ thus cutting down the time required in building a new one? These are

engineering problems, and there are many others to be taken into account. Delay will be involved in any case, but we want to insure that there will

E be no further unnecessary delay. We _ have been harping on this theme for

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the past two years, when work on the project should have started. How much longer will the Causeway cam- paign be ud as an excuse for in- action? “s

If this situation existed in any other Province, there would be ‘another “march:on Ottawa” that

- would get nation-wide attention. We

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drum in this manner. We prefer the “soft approach,” But our patience is running out. We warn the Govern- ment that the attention it has given to our needs in other respects will not compensate for any neglect of precautionary .measures in _ this crisk. We want to know at once where we stand, i we would wel- come a clear exposition of the whole matter by the Minister on the floor of Parliament._:

The Tension Eased

Last week the. possibility of any German settlement seemed dim in- deed. Ignoring simpie diplomatic ‘courisey, Premier Khrushchev prac- tically insulted his - invited guest, Prime Minister Macmillan of Great

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Soviet must havé all its demands or there is no use negotiating. He al- lowed no room for compromise.

Now we have Moscow dispatches reporting that the Soviet Union has agreed to Western proposals for a foreign minister’s meeting on the Berlin and’ German problems. There is little doubt that much of the credit for this sudden switch is due to the firm, but courteous, attitude of Mr. Macmillan, who during his ten days’ Stay in\the Soviet Union never ap- pears to have lost his temper, but hammered away on the theme of

' negotiation. One shudders to think of

the mess U.S. Secretary - Dulles would have made of the situation had he been in charge. It callé@.for real diplomacy, not-blustering retorts in kind.

Heretofore the Soviet Government had - proposed two seperate and different conferences, each: to deal with specific questions. In each case, acceptance of the Soviet demand “yror require prior agreement by he Western Powers and by Western

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sults of the survey to determine the.

Yeast it is a step in the right di- rection, and the Western Powers would be wise to aécept it in that spirit. Russia wants its satellites, Poland and Czechoslovakia, repre- sented at the meeting. If this should give the East a greater sense of equality in the talks, wnat would-be

- the objection? President: Eisenhower

has said: “We shall remain strong and alert, united with our allies, and

ever ready to negotiate ovér pro-:

blems when there is any real pro- .mise of success.” No one can _ tell ‘whether this is a “real promise” or not; but the chance is well worth exploring.-

Poultry Production

Canadian beef, swine, or lamb”

producers wondering whether fes- sure on meat prices, which is being exerted by the plentiful supplies of cheap poultry coming to market, is going to.ease up, are in for a dis- appointment. That’s the view of Prof. Ross Cavers, head of the On- department. He says there seems to -be no turning back in our lifetime from the great and plentiful supply of eggs, broilers and turkeys. Professor Cavers reports ‘that

in 1950 poultry meat consumption

per capita in Canada was 22 Ib. By 1957, it had increased another 50 per cent to 33.5 lb. Yet many of the factors that have contributed to this growth have only begun to be exploited in the past 2 or 3 years Broiler production has doubled every second year for the past 6 years, he says. Despite present low broiler prices, he doesn't expect it to take much more than another, two years to double again, although much of this further increase would take place outside of Ontario. Why is the poultry industry veloping so fast? According to Pro- fessor Cavers, the reason is because it is_producing meat that can be sold to the consumer at a very low cost. He said the wholesale price index,

|. which uses prices during the 1935- 39 period to compute its base of 100,

tells the story. Last spring, that in- dex had risen to 231,5 for all agri- cultural products. It stood at 300 for red meats, 240 for dairy products, but only at 152 for poultry meat, and 150 for eggs.

EDITORIAL NOTES The Soviet news agency Tass reports that huge reservoirs of boil- ing water have been discovered be- tween 2800 and 9000 feet below the surface near a town on the Trans- Siberia railway. The water will be

used for heating homes and factories

over a wide area. _—

: * s -8 “Iran treated us as if we were Luxembourg” complained the Rus- sian ambassador to Iran when the

Government of that country. refused °

to bow to Soviet demands that no

“treaty be signed with the United

States. It’s time that somebody stood up to their threats) and bluffs. * _ *

The Easter Seals campaign in aid of crippled children is now underway. This is an appeal which touches the hearts of all our citizens. It is un- necessary to dwell on the import- ance of the work carried on, except to say that its financing is sparked by enthusiastic volunteers who have

‘a right to expect full cooperation in

their activities. It is hoped this year that the response will be more gener-

ous than ever. ¢ * ” * i The Ontario Department of Transport is trying to educate

motorists in the basic features. of its demerit sysien. ow onerating- 6n a two-month trial basis. Bill- boards have recently sprouted along the major highways, urging drivers to safeguard their licenses by obey- ing the law; for under the demerit system, a license will be suspended automatically when a driver is con- victed for traffic offences suffient

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* FORGOTTEN SOMETHING?

OTTAWA REPORT — "|

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A very worthwhile enquiry by the Public Accounts Committee of our House of Commons would be an immediate scrutiny of all the postwar payments of: your money to the A. V. Roe aircraft manu- facturing company, under con- tracts initiated by the former Li- beral Government. The Commit- tee might as a result be able to recommend that some’ of those huge payments could be recov- ered by the sale of assets still belonging to the taxpayer.

Last year’s sefisational revela- tions of Libera! prodigalities over the Government Printing Palace in Hull would probably be pea- nuts by comparison. pos in

During the past four years

+ alone, you the taxpayers have

paid a staggering $652,710,959 to Avro. The immensity of this sum can be gauged by the compari- son that it is more than enough to pay ail the Government's contribution to the Na I Hos- pital ‘Plan for the four years at current rates.

The history, of what may prove to have been the taxpayers’ most, generous industrial security pay- ments of all time passed a mile- 1953. On “that date, Avro purchased from you and me the Government’s war- time ‘Victory’ aviation plant at Malton Airport, near Toronto.

Land and buildings, which had cost the taxpayers $17,383,000, were sold to Avro “‘at cost less normal depreciation,’ or for a loss of $250,000, said the then re- sponsible Liberal Minister, C. D. Howe. But was no allowance made for “apprecidftion’’ of the land ddring the previous 15 years or so of immense expansion and dolar devaluation? The Public Accounts Committee would probably learn that the value of the land had quadrupled during those 15 years when our cost of living index had leapt from 62 to 116.

REMEMBER THE JET-LINER

‘After the war, Avro was given the Jet-Liner project. $6,600.000 of the taxpayers’ money, said Mr. Howe, was invested in that world- leading civilian aircraft, before he decided that it was “a dead duck’’ and should be scrapped. Were any additional buildings and tools bought with that money; which now should belong to the taxpayers? Next came the proe ject to design and develop- the CF-100 fighter aircraft. Mr. Howe said that we had invested $122,- 009.000 in that. befowe we got our first p'ane. “That included the building and equipping of an en- gine plant,” he admitted to Par- T “as well as substantial additions to the air- craft plant and the installation of additional equipment..’

Have all those capital expen- ditures been recovered from Avro? os

There has long been a very ‘close association between Avro President Crawford Gordon and Liberal Cabinet Minister C. D, Howe. who hired Gordon to as- _sist him in three different jobs in Government during long war- time and post-war stretches. This ‘ho doybt helped negotiations unm der which Avro attained a posi-

. tion as virtually a Crown Com-

pany dependent upon government business, such as the CF-105 Ar- row development: project under which ‘not one. aircraft has yet been delivered to the R.C.A.F. for squadron use in return for open - ended payments total- ling $341,000.000 to date. THE GOLDEN LOBBY

In 1955. Mr. Howe. the then responsible Minister.. admitted that the cost of the Arrow fro- gram gave him the shudders. Two years later, top air force orass told: Defence Minister George Pearkes that the program was again inereasing in cost. s

What were the elements of that cost? ;

For example, is the big salary

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For Full Inquiry

By Patrick Nicholson

how does it compare with remuneration of $14,040 per year paid to the Air Force officer commanding the supply branch, or the $17,000 paid to the Minis- ter of. Defence Production? Is Mr. Gordon in receipt of an ex- pense account no larger than is compatible with good husbandry of the public purse? How much did Avro contribute to Liberal Party funds while it was eating high off the taxpayers’ hog? Mr. Gordon boasted in Toronto a few months ago that he would

make the Prime Méimister change his decision to scrap the Arrow, even if it was the last thing he did. An unprecedented lobby was

unions, journalists, broadcasters, public citizens and politicians, -and vividly illustrating the Prime Minister’s dictum: ‘“‘The weaker the case, the stronger the lobby.” Was this enormous propaganda campaign in effect paid for. by you and me? :

We don't know the answers to these pertinent questions without a public enquiry. On the surface, there appear? to be grounds

organized by someone with the =@psame objective, enlisting labour the

Public Accounts Committee tak- ing a close look at the liberal treatment accorded to Avro.

PUBLIC FORUM |

This column ts open to the discus

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interest. The Guardian dogs not neses

sarily en‘orse the opinion of corres pondents.

HOME AND SCHOOL

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Sif™—Every year a number of children come of age to attend’ school and many parents are wondering how they can prepare their child for this, to many chil- dren, frightening experience _ of] leaving the shelter of home for the first time. :

In Education Week it is well to remind ourselves of a truth very often forgotten, that the home and parents have the first responsibility for the education of children; the church and school are supplementary agencies. The task o! forming ‘‘the complete man” by Christian education is a challenge worthy of the com- bined efforts_of- parents. clergy and teachers.

Another truth which is also too often overlooked is that the pre- sdhool years are most important; ae fér living must begin at birth. The habit formation. of; a bundle of sweet and helpless humanity is confided to the parents’ care. The acquisition of motor control of capa city for speech, of development through the exercise of his sense are. really important and _ inter- esting facets in pre-school train-. ing but perhaps training in obe- dience (one phase of the more comprehensive term, discipline) is above all that which will make adjustment to school jife easy for the young child.

Children-who-aré“hard-to man- age in school are those who were not: taught to obey. If parents themselves cannot make chil- dren obey it may well be that they do not begin early enough to show their child that they must respect authority. They listen to the sob-sisters who talk about ‘how cruel it is for a big man to punish a helpless child. They. claim that parents should: control their children by reasoning with them. Experience has proved that by the time the child has

ached the use of reason the parents have lost control and can never regain it. You cannot rea- son with a six-<month-old baby biit’a slap on the hands will teach it not to pull off glasses, practic- es which most babies find quite amusing. ;

Is it merely coincidental that juvenile delinquency increased When ‘‘spanking’’ went out? Some parents allow their children to do as they like, consoling themselves by saying “‘Oh, it will be differ- ent when they go to school.’ Then when the teacher makes them conform to rules the youngsters naturally dislike it. Scripiure says “An obedient man Shall speak of victory’’ and tine obedient child is easily led in-a wider discipline of right conduct and self-control to. show consid- eration _ for others, to practice truthfulness, courtesy and ¢orrect social behavior, and to take on yespoxsibilities compatible with his years. i -

Children should be taught to work. at' an early age. In rural areas, €ven in this machine era. there are many chores a child can do. In urban centers parents

-neighbor’s house and found the seven year old daughter, washing the supper dishes. was her job each evening and she was given an allowance for it.

Boys ¢an wash \dishes. too; and any child can clean his or her own room with a vacuum clean- er. Many of our great men had paper routes or sold papers in their boyhoqd. Discipline and work are ¢wo great preventitives of juvenile delinquency.

Parents can do much to pre- pare the child for school by re- lating their pleasant experiences 'fifr*school ‘and not. telling the un- pleasant things. The child who has interesting stories read to him will be “motivated” in his ef- forts to learn reading. A Grade One teacher who has been emin- ently successful in this province likes to have’ the beginners group for the next year come:to school in the month of June that they may be~ acquainted with class routine, When September com- es the little ones are eager to re- turn to school. Children should not be asked how they like the teacher. We must assume that they -like the teacher. Parents would do well to find out how the teacher likes their child.

The parents’ responsibility for the child’s education does not cease even when Grade One is successiully completed. One sta- tistician computed that the aver- age child in his first fifteen years has spent 1,000 hoars in church, -9.000 hours_in school and 50,000 weking hours at home, ten times as many hours at home as in church and school combined.

All through his school years the child needs his parents’ co-oper- ation with teachers, their repre- sentative employed to help them in their God-given responsibility for education, The parents must take pains to impress their off- spring with the paramount impor~ tance of education by the inter- est they show in: school affairs by being ready to Make sacrific- es to attend. meetings such: as Home..and School nights, to pay their fair share of educational costs, to provide suitable time and place for home study, to man- {fest approval when a child does well according to his ability. It is a. mistake to forget that chil- dren have individual differences and all cannot progress at - the same rate. ‘ ;

Children are great imitators. If the pai assume the teacher has no inferest in the child’s welfare little Johnny too will have that opinion. If parents are disloyal to the teachers, by cri- ticizing them cpenly before t he family, the children will natural- ly lose respect for the teachers. If at any time -the parents think the teacher is mistaken in this or that particular they should reserve judgment until they, in- vestigate the facts. Most the time the teacher will be right, not because “the teacher ig al- ways right,’ but, because the teacher is a specially trained adult, the child is a child natur- ally prejudiced in his own favor

This tendency of children for imitation emphasizes the impor. tance o° gdéod example on the part of parents. Of what avail /an attempt to teach children re- spect for laws if the father or mother habitually violates traffic laws?, Can children be expected to respect school property if

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VERTICAL INTEGRATION

Sir,—Our fellow citizen in Sou- thern Kings ventures to say that if, as a result of vertical integra- tion, production and marketing of all. foodstuffs were controlled by one large organization, potatoes would not be selling for sixty- five cents per seventy-five lbs. Kt is a principle of economics that the price of any commodity in the open market is, or should be. controlled by the law of sup- ply and demand. As tampering with the balance of nature leads to trouble, so tampering with the laws of economics—by means of price<sapports and the like— leads to trouble. Any price not controlled by supply and demand is an artificial one and the out- come of vertical integration as put forth by our friend would ag- gravate the existing chaos in the field of prices. eee

Under the present methods of producing and mrketing food stuffs a farmer has a choice of selling his produce to one of several dealers in each, of his commodities, whereas if one large organization controlled the mar- keting of all foodstuffs such would not be the case. Moreover, with several .men buying a ——— commodity, such as beef, from

_ there is competition among dealers which could not exist if one organization held &@ monopoly in the field of mar- keting agricultural produce. Such an’ organization could set any price it chose on each item the farmer produces and the farmer would have no choice but to sell to this organization, nor could

tablish a dealership in any or all foodstuffs because of the mono- poly held by the already estab- lished organization.

Our fellow citizen, in his rea- sonably well - written but falla- cious exposition in support of

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as an alternative thereto. “the Government could take over as they did in the case of the bank- rupt railways."’ This implies one of two things: either that the farmers of Prince Bdward Island are, on the whole. actually bank- rupt, or, if not, then that they should consider themselves as such arid submit to the Govern- ment’s taking over their affairs. “In view of the very good cre-

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