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Good Intentions

Commenting on the Federal Government’s plan to improve the harbour at St. J ohn’s, Newfoundland, at a cost of $12 million, Mr. J. W. Pickersgill,§ who represented ‘a New- foundland riding in the last Parlia- ment and who was a member of the last Liberal Cabinet, said “it was nothing new; the Liberal Govern- ment had considered the project for two years or more”.

Quite inadvertently, no doubt, Mr. Pickersgill put his finger on one of the reasons why the Liberal Gov- -qrpmment fell from public flavour

last summer. They seemed always 5

to be in the process of “consider-, ing” something but rarely able to no past that stage and get down to concrete action. For instance, they were considering the need for special grams to the Atlantic Pro- vinces over a period of several years; but they never did get around

to doing anything about it. Again,-

they gave long consideration to the request for cash advances to wheat farmers and for a stabilization pro- gram for farming in general. In neither case, did consideration re- sult in practical measures. Other cases, many of them, could be cited to illustrate the fondness of the former Liberal Government‘ for weighty consideration of matters of general interest»-unaccompanied by action, __

Whatever may be said about the policies of the present Government —-some of them, no doubt, contain flaws--it“certainly cannot be said that they are confined to’ political or ocpnomlc -theory. It’s been a long time since Canada had a more active’

Government or one which believed "

more strongly in following up pro- mine: with deeds. , = ;

He Would Be Welcome

Contrary to speculations which 5

have been aired in the American” and British press, Prime Minister _Mac- millan is not planning. to visit, the United States on his way home from his Commonwealth tour. In fact, he told reporters "somewhere along his route that he doesn't expect to see President Eisenhower again until that gentleman comes to England.

There is no word yet as to wheth- or the British Prime Minister might stop off at Ottawa for a day or two. Certainly, he would be warmly wel- comed if he could see his way clear to do so. Mr. Diefenbaker is going to be even busier than usual for the next six weeks or so, but not too busy to give the distinguished ton a little of his time. Anyway, it doesn’t seem just right for a “Com- monwealth tour” to be completed

‘without taking inthis country which

has played an important part in Com- monwealth relations in the past and promises to play an even greater part in the future. . . ,

Of course, if Mr. Macmillan did stop off at Ottawa he would have to be very cautious about expressing any political opinion. But, then, he is well schooled in that sort of thing; and he would be most care- ful not to give the Liberals the slightest excuse for saying he was brought in to help the Tories. As things look at the moment, the Tor- ies are well able to look after them- selves: without help from any out- side source.

Training Cooks In Alberta cooking is not only an art; it is designated a trade un- der the Provincial Apprenticeship Act passed last fall. Consequently, anyone who aspires to‘ do the work of

a cook in public eating places will

have to go through a course of training like any other tradesrnan. The first class has already been set up under a course which will lead in three years to “journeymen’s” pap- ers as cooks or qualified chefs.

A report from Calgary says that The Government believes it may take about 15 years, but eventually all chefsiand cooks in the Province will have to possess papers of qualifica- tion when working in public places. Experienced cooks may qualify by

passing a "placement" Test.

Each year for three years the apprentice cooks will spend 8 weeks at the Provincial Institute of Tech- nology and Art. The rest of the year will be spent in regular employment, gaining practical experience. Dur- 'ing the first 8-week period at the Institute the students will’ learn how to make soups, salads, sand-

I wiches, rolls, buns, vegetables, sauce

preparations. Later, they will take up more advanced studies such as preparing and cooking meat‘ and fish, the theory of food, sanitation, food demonstration, catering, busi- ness knowledge and human rela- tions.

The whole program is intended as an aid to the tourist industry on the theory——and a plausible one it is—-that tourists» are more interested

in good _food properly cooked than V in anything else they might encoun- ,

ter in their travels. It is an idea which might’ be copied with profit wherever the tourist business is con- sidered an economic asset.

Stalingrad Revisited Pity the lot of historical wliters

in Soviet Russia! Here is ‘an amusing

example of their difficulties:

In early 1950 an article in Prav- da, commemorating the seventh an- niversary of the Stalingrad victory, said: “In the course of the Stalin- grad battle the whole range of Stalin’s ‘foresight was demonstrated. From beginning to end Comrade Stalin was daily and actually in charge of operations.” This view was authoritatively endorsed by A. Yeremenko, General of the Army, in an article in Izvestia.

Recently, Yeremenko, now a marshal, took’ steps to correct the historical record. In an article in Kommunist, Marshal Yeremenko said the fiction that Stalin was in

5 command at Stalingrad developed “under the influence of the‘ cult of ’

personality.” He added that there

‘is “no need to prove that this as- sertion does not correspond to his-

torical reality.” - ,

- In-reality, he said, theyvictory ‘at Stalingrad was the Work of many people. Among these, he said, much credit for his “noble and thorough work,” must go to Nikita S. Khrush-

i chev, then the obscure political of-

ficer/on the Stalingrad front!

, EDITORIAL NOTES

The long range forecast is ‘for at least another 30 day: ‘;of good weather with above norrnal tem-

peratures. By then, if all goes well, the nearness of Spring combined

with election excitement will create a more or less cheerful atmosphere, no matter’ what the Ides of March may reveal. ‘

A -A- 9 1:

Those who think that modern education is much more advanced than itwas a generation or two ago willbe a. little uneasy about a re-

" port recently ‘issued by the United _ States’

Department of _ Education, Health and Welfare. It reveals that while in 1890, 1 of every 5 high school students studied physics, the figure today is 1 in 29. Also, in the last decade of the last century more than half the students studied alge- bra; now the figure is less than one- fourth, and the study of chemistry has fallen off 30 per cent. ‘ ‘k * ‘k

V An American educator‘ has urged the United States Government to provide $1 billion annually for aid to education “from the nursery to the Ph.D”. Certainly, any system of aid to education, whether in the United States or Canada, that doesn’t extend to elementary and secondary schools as well as to universities is

. inadequate. Indeed, if a distinction ' must be made, t-he first schools are

the more deserving; for it is in them that the foundation of a sound educa- tion must be laid. ’

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An astronomer says that man's first flight into space is more likely to be to one of Mar’s two moons than to the earth’s moon, although the distance from the earth to the Martian moons is about 35 million miles, while from the earth to its moon is only about 239,000 miles He explains this by saying “it would be very difficult to land on the earth's moon and to be able to take off from it, because launching de- vices would be required for the return trip. But launching devices would not be necessary on the Mar tian moons because their ‘gravita- tional allT.'acl.ion’ is ncglogiblc.” Il.’s apparently a case of the longest way around being the shortest way home.

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oTTAwA REPORT

Plqnning Leocock Memorial ‘By Patrick Nicholson Special Correspondent for The Guardian

Ottawa: 3 small Ontario town world fam- ous is a step nearer posthumous _honour' in that town. Stephen Leacock, who died 13 years ago in his 75th year, was a profes- sor of political science and ec- onomics at McGill University.

.But his world-wide fame came

from his books of humour, of which the best known is that thinly-veiled account of life in Orillia early this century,- entit- led “Sunshine Sketches of a Lit- tle Town”. This -book has been translated into Russian and pub-. lished in the Soviet Union, where its mammoth circulation ,h‘a| made Orillia‘ the best-known Can- adian co'mmunity.. ’ .

Dr. P.B. Rynard, Orillia’s mem bet in the late parliament, has beeninteresting himself in a pro- ject to establish the old Leacock home in Orillia as a national‘ his- tori

frame house and a r-‘large’ part of the writer’: library; his furnishings have all gone. But Dr. Rynard believes that pioneer furniture could‘. be gathered there, as well as cer- tain other historic relics, to make the house an attractive mecca for Canadians and foreign tour-

The man who made.

_ monument. - Unfort_unately~ “not ing now remains‘: '-but - the?-~

ists as well as a suitable shrine to the man who is perhaps Can- ada's best’-known literary, figure. Accordingly Dr. Rynard took Mr. James “Pete” McGarvy, who is chairman of the Stephen Lea- cock Memorial, to discuss the project with I-Ion. Alvin Hamil-

fairs and National Resources. The final decision as to whether fed- eral aid should be granted will lie with the National Historic Sites Board. , JOBS FOR PEMB_ROKE . From piaper books to paper boxes: there is welcome news of yet another industry moving in- to the fast-growing Ottawa’ Val- ley. The town of Pembroke, some 80 miles up the river from our Capital, is to be the site of a -new plant which will process lum- her. The interests which control

~11-nalkinz everything from. match

control the even ‘better known‘ A lmer fruitandvegetable pack- iii company. Now they plan to set up a new Eddy Plant at Pem- broke, to make cartons and sim- ilar containers from wood pulp for use in the food packing bus- iness. This is talk on the grape-

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Com plocency

1' Globe and Mail. Toronto

The news that the United Sta- tes has placed a satellite in orbit has been received with re- joicing and relief throughout the free world. There is something comforting about the thought that the Soviet Sputnik II is no longer alone in space. The launching was certainly a great achieve ment, reflecting the highest credit on United States science; and especially on the devoted group of Army physicists and engineers who made it possible. ’

Nevertheless there are certain hard comparisons which have to be made. Remarkable as the “Explorer” is-with many refine- ments absent from earlier satel- lites——it weighs only 30.8 pounds as against 1,056 for Sputnik II. The difference is eloquent as to the relative power of the pockets which projected each into space. The Jupiter-C rocket used in

“Explorer” had, in fact, an initial‘

thrust of 75,000 pounds, whilethe Sputnik II rocket is estimated to have had a thrust of 250,000 pounds—adequate for an inter- continental missile. FIVE YEARS NEEDED

Dr. Wernher von Braun, tech-

nical director of the U. S. Army’s missile program, has stated that it will take five years for the United States to overtake Rus- sia in the ‘missile ‘and satellite art. “What we have in orbit now," he told a press conference Satur- day, “is only a rival in spirit to Sputnik."

The Russian lead in this field, important as it is. is nevertheless only one phase of a much greater problem. The basic threat to the West lies in the extraordinarily rapid advance which the Soviet Union has made in little more than a decade. When the Second World War ended, Russia, despite progress in industrialization under Stalin's Five-Year Plans, was still a relatively backward country. Its one real source of strength was its massive army. Since 1945, however, it has nar- rowed the gap with astonishing speed. While maintaining its lead in ground forces, it has built up a powerful, modern Air Force and Navy and mastered atomic and hydrogen weapons. Yet so great has been the expansion of Soviet heavy industry that it has been able to carry these burdens

Canada's National Game

National Geographic Society

Ice hockey, little known out- side Canada a ‘generation ago, has soared to international pop- ularity.

As evidence of the game's suc-

cess, more than a dozen nations —including the United States and the Soviet Union——have entered 1958 world championships starting February 28 in Oslo, Nor- way. , Hockey may have developed from a crude sort of stick game played by ancient Persians. A form of field hockey became po- pular in medieval Europe where the game got its name. “Hockey” is a corruption of the old French word “hoquet,” meaning a shep- herd's crook.

But modern ice hockey is un- questionably a Canadian ' inven- tion. Though the precise place and date of its origin are dis- puted, students at McGill Univ- ersity played the game in the 18705 on the St. Lawrence Riv- er. They used canes, brooms, and branches to hat a hard rubber ball back and forth. EPOCH-MAKING DlS(,‘.()VERY

The first players had one no- table trouble. The ball kep boun- ding far away from them. Play had to stop until it was retriev-

ed. Finally a player ingeniously cut away part of the ball to keep it under better control. V

It was a dramatic moment: the puck had been invented. The mod- ern puck is a standardized black rubber disk, three inches in dia- meter. It slides at speeds up to 90 miles an hour.

In the beginning the number of players was unlimited. But large numbers made the game unwieldy. Hence, team size went progressively down: to nine, to eight, to even, and finally, to six players.

Hockey rapidly became Cana- da's national game, although play remained strictly amateur for years. In 1893 Lord Frederick Stanley, then governor general. donated money for a cup honor- ing Canada’s amateur champion team.

In 1908 the leading teams or- ganized the National Hockey Lea- gue, an all-professional group. The Pacific Coast League. also professional, was formed Nears latter. in ‘l912 the Stanley -.Cup went to the winner of the

‘league play-off for the first time. ~ ,The professionals had convinced things in the world. One is to ‘lthe Cup’s trustees that Canada , make a name for no longer had any major ama- I the other is to keep it.

A ficially confirmed. ‘A

ton, our Minister of Northern Af-.

the well—known Eddy Company.-

“books to-cleansing tissue,- also-

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SIDEWALK SUPER _ Ottawans going about their daily business were quick to no- tice a familiar "figure strolling down Sussex S‘treet on a recent crisp, sunny, snow-underfoot ‘day. Walking arm in arm with a wo- man whose face is almost equal- ly« familiar, it was the Prime Minister with Mrs. Diefenbaker, on his first convalescent outing after spending several days in bed suffering from the pain of muscular dislocation in his back. As the slow-stepping couple came to the riverside site of the half

halted to talk to the construction workers, showing a keen, interest .,—-said one-not only in the build- ing but even more in the build- ers. STAFF CHANGE « Governor General Vincent Mas- sey_has just made the first im- portant change on his personal staff since he assumed officesix years ‘ago. 52 year old Comman- der Francis John (“Jake") Pem- berton, a native of Victoria, B.C. has been appointed Comptroller of the Governor General’s House- hold. Commander Pernberton and

naval, diplomatic and Ottawa cir- cles. His new job as Comptroller involves supervision of the fin- ances, the supplying and the staf- fing of the Governor General’s household, both at Rideau Hall in Ottawa and, during peniods of re- sidence there, at The Citadel in Quebeculn addition, he is respon- sible for supervising the internal and external maintenance of Gov- ernment House. And when the Governor General travels, the Jake-of-all-Trades has to see. that the private railroad cars are fully stocked, adquately staffed and ap- propriately routed.

and still prnduceia surplus for aid to strategic backward nations. UNRIVALLED SCALE ’

It is doubtful if anything like this forward leap has ever been seen before. Yet the Russian Government is taking the best ' means of preserving the impetus by training scientists and engine- ers on a scale not rivalled by any Western country.

Against this backgorund, we must not let individual scientific achievemeuts—-whether the laun- ching of “Explorer” or the pro- duction of controlled fusion re- action in Britain——lul1 us into the complacent belief that all is well, that “our side" is safely ahead again. The challenge that faces the West is to match the pace of the Soviet advance along the whole front of science, technology and military power. It is a task which will require the combined brains and resources of all the Western countries, not the U. S. and Britain alone.

teur teams. ENTERS HOCKEY Americans tried outdoor hodkey as early as the 1890's, but the game caught on slowly. Cleveland gave the game a boost by building an indoor rink about 1904. Widespread popularity in the United States did not come until Boston got a franchise in Can- ada's National Hockey League for the 1925-26 season. Other Ameri-

can cities followed Boston into professional hockey. Indoor rinks have helped the

sport everywhere, and seasonal attendance throughout the world

pularity.

Hundreds of Canadian players have gone abroad to teach tech- ‘niques of the game. Today their l Droteges are proving good enough ‘No challenge and sometimes de- ,fcat. the masters. '; In Canada, hockey now has lreached the point of being a na- ltional passion. When an elderly llady collapsed of a heart attack ‘during the 1954 play-offs, she

ilaspedl “G0 See who scored that

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point out. is not a seasonal PI‘0b‘

breaking down of urea and sub- sequent development of ammo- nia, and not by perspiration. it can occur in any weather.

MAY BE YOUR FAULT

it, chances are it may be V0111‘ fault.

lack of cleanliness and irrita- tion of the baby's tender skin. You must see that the diaper area is kept as warm and as dry as possible. Change 1118 diapers as soon as they become wet.

FURTHER PROTECTION

‘too, to protect your child from this irritation rash.

plastic pants on the youngster only while traveling or making brief visits. when changing 15 inconvenient. Never permit the

built City Hall, Mr. Diefenbaker ,

his “wife, the former Amy Ma-"W .‘gr’ath“of;—' Ottawa; have long been : well-known and very popular‘in'

ice .

now totals many" millions. Tele- . vision is helping increase its po-

Boloy’s Diaper Rosb Problems

lime to time. 1‘ l"‘C9lV"-

VF01“ . pellant.

letters ‘mm m°‘.he"5 "°m"“"“” that could get. a T"”°‘Ve'y"‘“’°1d ing that their children have de- boy out of bed in time for school. veloped diaper rash. They seem will they drop us a lme‘.’——Wm- surprised that diaper rash ‘can mpeg Trib. I,

occur during the cold Winter

months. Stone pits found along Lake

Diaper rash. Iwould like to

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If your infant is bothered by

Diaper rash is aggravated by

There's a lot more you can do,

For example. use rubber or

child to wear waterproof pants throughout -the night.

LAUNDERING DIAPERS

You must pay particular at- tention to laudering the._cl1ap_ers. The Journal of the American Medical Association reported not long ago that testing showed that, as a. rule. commercial launde_r- ing was much more effective in removing and inhibiting growth of ammonia-forming bacteria and in removing irritating detergents than home-laundering methods._‘ Commercial diaper services In most cities do an excellent job.

If you must launder the dia- pers at home, you should use a bactericvide, an urease inhibitor and zinc silicofluoride.

three per cent phenylmercuric acetate seems to be the best antiseptic. -

ON ,DOCTOR’S ADVICE‘ 3 Methylbenzethonium and RH -3104 re effective inhibitors of urea ecomposition, according to the Journal, but they should be used with the doctor’s advice.

In addition, the diapers should be given warm and hot rinses and twosoapings at 180 degrees. Then they shouldbe bleached and giv- en three more hot rinses.