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New Safety Campaign

Alarmed about the traffic toll in New York State, Governor Rockefeller is attempting to do something about it. Last year more than a quarter million New Yorkers were killed or injured on the high-— ways, suggesting to the governor that every man, woman and child in the state faced the prospect of becoming a traffic casualty at some { time of his life. Now he has created an interdepartmental committee made up of representatives of every state agency having anything to do with motor vehicles, highways or safety. It is to study all approaches to. highway safety.

The committee will make an as- sessment of seat belts. It will explore. the testing field to see whether un- . safe drivers might be identified be- fore they kill themselves or others. Special attention will be focused on drinking and driving because of the findings in Westchester county, just north of New York city, covering a

‘seven year period. This study dis- - closed that 49 per cent of the drivers killed in single car accidents were ‘intoxicated. Another 20 per cent had been drinking enough to affect

~ their driving seriously.

-The New York governor has set a good example by sparking traffie inquiries of this kind. Similar action might well be taken by execu- tive bodies in Canada. Indeed, the

the time of the explosion can be calculated to the nearest few thou- sandths of a second.

Taken separately, none of these methods is infallible; but used to- gether, they can ensure the detec- tion of any atomic explosion—pro- vided, of course, the control stations are sufficiently close together. The network suggestéd by the experts in Geneva is of considerable size and, consequently, would be quite costly to operate. But who would refuse to pay it if it meant freeing the world from the spectre of the bomb? It is not the financial problem that is causing trouble, but the in- ability of the nations to agree on the composition and powers of an inter- n..tional control commission. Accord- ing to a Geneva despatch, there is a feeling that the eonference now will enter a new phase and advance en- ough to erable final decisions to be taken at any summit conference later this summer. That is a consummation devoutly to be wished.

EDITORIAL NOTES

According to a Geneva _ report, all the private talks between the Big Four foreign ministers at Geneva are carried on in English, _.which Gromyko, the Soviet minis- ter, speaks fluently.

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Mr. Khrushchev remarked the

time has come for coordinating activ- | other day that he was willing to go

ities of this kind on a continent-wide basis, for there is no doubt that most of the factors involved in traffic ac- cidents in one area are operative in others. Emotional appeals in the way of safety campaigns should be rein- forced by scientific research along the most comprehensive lines. This, — we gather, is the. purpose of Gover- nor Rockefeller’s committee, and it is one which’ should commend itself

generally. Tracking Nuclear Blasts To the layman it is extremely

difficult to follow the long interna- tional conference which has been going on for months in Geneva on the halting of nuclear tests. This job will be one of the biggest in- ternational operations ever wunder- taken, and the most important. Al- ready it has been blueprinted in a document which is serving as a basis for the discussions—a long, detailed report unanimously adopted by a committee of experts who klso met in Geneva a few months ago.

Up to now all atomic explosions have been. registered by seismo- graphs. Yet the experts in Geneva decided not to recommend this meth- od systematically because it in- volves a certain risk of confusion’ This does not apply-to underground explosions, but when a bomb is ex- ploded in the air the curve of the seismograph’s chart may not show clearly whether it really is a bomb > or an earthquake. A more reliable method of detecton is by the sound waves created by explosions. Under the most unfavourable conditions, the “weakest” of atomic blasts can be “heard” at a distance of 800 miles. - In the sea, sound waves can be de-

tected from ‘a far greater distance. And there are ways of distinguish- ing the pressure waves stirred up by volcanic eruptions from those of atomic origin. ' Then there is the radioactive ash or “fall-out” which has become al- : most a household word today. Any : bomb not exploded under the earth’s surface “throws up ashes into’ the © atmosphere, which will be discover- @d sooner or later when the radio- y of the dust in the air is : But the whims of the id may blow the ash north, south, ; | or west. That is why it is dif- an explosion by this method. How- evidence

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to “the ends of the earth” to meet Mr. Eisenhower. That, says an ex- change, obviously means San Fran-° cisco. The hit tune nowadays in Moscow is, “California, Here We Come.” c

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American researchers have come up with a sure-fire cure for that summer bugaboo, sunburn. It is a cortisone-type drug called “triam- cinolone.” The two University of Pennsylvania doctors who develop- ed it say it can give complete re- lief for severe cases of sunburn in 24 hours.

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Parliamentarians should know parliamentary history. Hon. Gordon Churchill, Minister of Trade and Commerce, was caught off base the other day when he told an Opposi- tion member that his oratory re- minded him of “that classic phrase which I think was used by Winston Churchill! with respect to a member of the House being carried away by the exuberance of his own verbos- ity.” Mr. Pearson was quick to point out that it was Disraeli who coined this phrase, in speaking of Glad-

stone.

A segregationist leader in Miami has asked the Florida legislature to ban The Three Little Pigs from state bookshelves. It is being used by clever integrationists, he says, to “brainwash” American children. What are they to think when they see the little black pig outwitting the wolf ‘who ate the little white pigs? This controversy, following hard on the heels of the row about The Rabbits’ Wedding, directs at- tention once again to the perils which lurk in ° fairy tales. They should be kept strictly away from impressionable adults! ’

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Mark Twain, the author who made an enduring name for him- self in American fiction. during his 75 years, now has an estate worth an estimated $700,000 from the ‘royalties on his books. The annual passing of his accounts was read by Probate Judge Hjalmar Ander- gon recently in the small Redding township. Judge Anderson was six

‘ years old when Twain, Samuel L. Clemens, died in Redding in 1910. .The-funds are in trust, the income _of which goes each year to Twain’s ‘daughter, Mrs. Clara Clemens /Samossoud, San Diego, Calif. She was married in Redding to the late Ossip Gabrilowitsch, composer and conductor, the year before her

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our smallest . province, Prince Edward Island, is tourism.

So it is understandable that Is- landers should be distressed at the spectacle of tourists’ cars waiting from 7 a.m. until 10 p.m. for the 45 minute ferry crossing, and by the 300 cars still unferried at 10 a.m. ene summer's day, as Teported by P.E.I. Conservative M.P., Dr. Orville Phillips. Those 300 carg could represent perhaps | $9,000 revenue lost to the Island tourist trade, plus several times that amout frightened away later by such adverse publicity reported back home by the frus- trated tourists.

Such a situation is certainly not in accord with the promise made to P E.I.‘at the time when she agreed to join Confederation: namely that the federal govern- ment would make itself respon- sible for providing and maintain- ing continual access between the Island and the mainland. COMMISSION IGNORED

In* 1951, the Turgeon Royal Commission on Transportation recommended, improvements in the service provided for P.E.I. In the six following years, the Liberal M.P.'s representing the Island at Ottawa had failed to persuade the Liberal government at Ottawa to take any steps to implement these recommenda- tioms in a satisfactory manner. The crowding on the ferries at the peak season has steadily become worse. The 90,000 passenger cars which made the crossing during 1954 had multiplied to 120,000 cars last year, while trucks and buses had jumped from 15,000 to 23,000 in the same period. a

Last week, the news began to break of the plans which .Hon. Angus MacLean, Dr. Orville Phillips, Heath Macquarrie and J.A. Macdonald, the Island’s 100 per cent Conservative represen- tation at Ottawa, have presuaded the Conservative government to take action to help P.E.I. and to facilitate the travel of ali Canad- igms and Americans wishing to visit our beautiful island prav- ince.

A new ferry boat is to be built to expand the facilities as soon as possible, This boat is to be m service by mid-1961. Subsequent- ly it is hoped, a 10mile long causeway will link the Island with the mainland, at a cost which is estimated at slightly more than $60,000,000. Work could be com- menced on this imaginative feat as soon as engineering studies have been completed, and the oversea-road be in use within ten years.

Such a causeway would provide a 24-hour instantaneous all-weath- er year-around crossing facility, which could stimulte a tourist boom for our “Garden Province’. NEW FERRY DESIRED .

The Government has been criticised for not adopting the more immediate course of buying the discarded U S. ferry ‘‘Vaéa- tionland”’, built to operate im the Straits of Mackinac on the Great Lakes. That ship would require new bow and stern, new engines Not having been in dry-<dock for

very careful inspection. This work would add $2,000.000 to her Cost, and slie would not be ready for service until late 1960, She

on a Canadian ferry service on the Great Lakes.

In these circumstances, the Government has decided wisely to build a new ferrv, ice-reinforc-

maritime service. Work will be- gin at once, and she will be in service by mid-1961, at an es- timated cost of $4,000,000. Unlike the Vacationband, this new ferry —as yet unnamed—will have a residual value when the

way is completed; she could be used either on the Newfoundland or on the Nova Scotia ferry run,

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ONWARD AND UPWARD

OTTAWA REPORT P.E.I. Transportation

By Patrick

One of the staple industries of |capital cost of the present ferry service to P.E.I., plus capitaliza- {

tion of the working deficit, totals the same as the estimated cost of the causeway, which however should endure for many times the life of a ship. It will probably carry a toll charge, matching the present $3 per’ car plus 90 cents per passenger charged on the ferry. Trains may continue to be carried on ferry; if tracks wer

Causeway, it would need to have 20 feet added

to its planned 60 foot width, which

would add about $20,000,000 to its cost.

Dr. Phillips told me that he has made a close study of possible plans for the causeway, which would be one of the most daring construciion feats ever atiempt- ed in Canada. To span the 9 miles of the Northumberland Strait which dro»s to a maximum water de>th of 8 feet, would require 180 000.000 tons of granite in 12,ton hunks tof orm the outer layer of the causeway. This armour ¢oat- ing would be backed by smaller rocks and fill. There would be; bridge links, to permit the pas- sage of ships and to allow the ‘low of the tides. :

Indonesian By Joseph

Canadian Press Staff Writer

Indonesia, where civil war flared last year, is once again in mag of explosive political problems — as it has been pe- riodically since winning independ- ence from The Netherlands in 1949.

Lt.- Gen. Abdal Haris Nasution, army chief of staff, banned all political activity in the 3,000-is- land republic after a vote in the Constituent Assembly went against the “guided democracy” proposals of President Sukarno.

An oddity of the situation is that Sukarno, the spellbinding leader of the Indonesian revolu- tion, was not at home at this critical time, but instead away on one of his many tours.

Nasution’s action ‘appargntly headed off the danger.of immedi- ate violence and was generally applauded by the'‘more moderate Indonesian newspapers. The pa- pers predicted,that the general’s move would keep things quiet at least until the return of Sukarno, who is completing a world tour with scheduled medical treatment

:in Japan.

Sukarno has said repeatedly that Western - style democracy will not work in his country. He insists instead on a constitution providing for appointed govern- ment members in addition to those elected by the people.

He denies es from Mos- lem elements, particularly in out- lying islands of the Indonesian archipelago, that he has ever come under Communist influence, and staunchly defends his position of neutrality between the great power blocs.

Botanical Warriors Meet

John Bird in the Winnipeg Free Press

It is an ili wind that bloweth no man good. Canada is becom- ing the beneficiary of the U.S. McCarran Act and the neighbor- ing repubile’s reputation for suspicion towa d visitors from inside the Iron Curtain. More and more international confer- ences attended by scientists from all over the world, includ- ing the Soviet bloc, are being held in Canada when North Amer- ica’s turn comes up because there: is less fuss and bother about bringing Communist scient- ists here than to the United States, “

Thus, in Montreal this August is fheld the whacking great International Botanical Congress with 4,000 top scientists from 72 different countries. One of the principal public addresses. will be given! by a Russian botanist, Dr. A. Kursanov. Indeed, some- thing like @ pattern of choosing Canada for such meetings is be- coming evident, with the Inter- national Entomological confer- ence at Montreal-two years ago

Naturally, Canada has \ many other claims for attracting bot- anists—a vast territory with varied flora from the Arctic “tundra through the Boreal forest to the Appalachian zone. Before the conference meetings begin, seventeen different parties of in- ternational botanists, numbering

It is interesting to note that ihe some 1,500 in all, will have

Democracy

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The United States and Britain have indicated a certain amount of confidence in this view, both having agreed to send him mili- tary aid — as the Russians also have done. :

In a state like Ind. 7esia, where about 90 per cent «é the popula-; tion is Moslem, Islam obviously is destined to play a major role in political life.

But its impact as‘unified and powerful political force is far less than it could be, owing to the fact that the Moslem political forces are splintered into a va- riety of parties frequently pulling in different directions — much to the delight of the Communists. REFUSED SUPPORT

Nevertheless, the Moslem forces managed to make their will prevail im the recent as- sembly test of strength. They re- fused to support Sukarno’s con- stitution without an amendment providing in effect that Indonesia would be a Moslem state.

The armed forces have played an important and sometimes equivocal role since Indonesia won independence. Sukarno’s plan provides for a new parliament including. 35 representatives of the armed forces. :

Nasution tried to explain the military’s role in Indonesia's life when the said in February: “It is different from South America. where the army is completely in politics and business, different from Western Europe, where mil- itary men are strictly tools of the government,. and different from’ East Europe, where the

army is part of the party.”

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“spot check different areas across the couatry in special pre-conference trips organized and led by acknowledged Canad- fan authorities.

For example, H.J. Scoggan of the National Museum wil! lead a party around Churchill on Jud- son Bay while his colleague, W. G. Dore, takes another through ‘Toronto and southern Ontario.

It is an honor for Canada to act as host to one of these great, science-wide congressers which take place only once every five years. But. what does botany mean.to the ordinary man-in-the- street, apart from gardeners: Actually botany and the result of botanical studies affect us a every turn in the food we eat, the clothes we wear — even the very paper upon which these words are written.

MEAT FROM GRASS

You like beef steak? The steer from which the meat comes eats grass and the quality will be af- fected by the kind of grass it ate. Or beed? Even more obviously, ‘the breeding of wheats involved practical, applied botany of .many kinds, from developing a spring wheat that would mature in the short prairie summer to breeding rust-resistant varieties. Canadian farmers and millers owe an obvious, billion dollar debt fo botanists. ;

\ Tlis isthe centenary of Char-

. Holding the crying baby in your arms and rocking in a rocking

chair would be a satisfactory substitute. But you don't see many rocking chairs any more, either. .

Probably the best you can do is to push the bassinet gently back and forth until the infant stops crying.

Sometimes rubbing the baby’s back will do the trick. Or if you can fix his atiention on something —Maybe some scovhing musie or a fascinating baby -mobile—he mizht cease ervinc.

SUCK THEIR THUMBS

Some babies solve their own problems by sucking their thumbs. Some parents use paci- fiers as a substitute. -

The suggestions I have just lis- ted apply only to those cases in “which the baby has no serious Physical trouble.

If the baby is hungry, feeding is the only real solution.

IF IT’S A PIN

If a pin is sticking him, no mere pat on the back is going to halt the pain.

And if he is ill or injured, naturally, a doctor should be summoned immediateiy.

Often, though, even the anguish of colic can be alleviated some- what by some of the methods I have just described.

Certainly, worth a try. QUESTION AND ANSWER

C.G.: Will the use of tobacco

cause heart trouble?

Answer: The use of tobacco will not necessarily cause heart trouble. However, there is more question of the relationship of heavy cigarette smoking Over a

period of years to lung cancer-

and other diseases.

English and French. It should not be forgotten that Darwin was first and foremost a botanist and that his theory of evolution was largely based on botanical evid- ence—far more s than upon stud- ies of afimals such as monkeys. Botany has much for the intel- lectually curious. .

Human interes‘? This Congress will be alive with it. Take, for example, the fabulous Dr. A. Erl- ing Porsild, Greenland — born Dafiish-Canadian who is head of the national herbarium in Ot- tawa and an acknowledged world authority ‘on Arctic flora. : Br. Porsild was the first man actu- ally to establish that those mys- terious balloons arriving on the West Coast during World War Two came from Japan Everyone suspected it but nobody could prove it.

| F.B.1. AND MOUNTIES

After U.S. and Canadian mili- tary intelligence, the FBI and Mounties has all tried without success, Porsilk was called in. He identified a tiny piece of vegetation clinging to a carriage attached to one of the balloons as coming not merely from Jap- an, but from a particular island in the Japanese group, one of the lesser-known ones. That plant had a very restricted range. (Porsild will lead the Congress field trips to the Rockies and the Arctic.)

Who do you suppose Porsild will be meeting.iat Montreal? None other than Professor Bruno Huber, forestry botanist of Mun- ich, a sort of war-time’ opposite number on the German side. It was Dr. Huber’s job to examine Allied planes which crashed in Germany, on behalf of the Luft- waffe. In passing through the air planes tend to collect pollens. By examining the wreckage Huber could often tell from which par- ticular home base in Britain the plane had come. Porsild and Hub- er already know each other but a Montreal meeting between the two botanical detectives should produce some interesting mom- ents.

The 1959 Congress will put Ca- nada boldly upon the botanical map of the world, and draw the attention of som 4,000 scientific leaders to this country’s endow- ment and the work being done here to study it and harness it. What practical, immediate dol- lars—and—cents results it may have, nobody can foretell. Even forgetting pure science, who would dare to set limits to the advance tf applied. science, in- cluding botany? :

AWARDED $12,203

HALIFAX (CP- — Real estate dealer Max Pascal Monday was awarded $12,203 by the Nova Scotia Supreme Court as, the re- sult of a breach of contract suit against Imperial Oil Limitéd. Mr. Justice John Doull said Mr. Pascal had notified the company he would be absent from his home and was justified in de- pending on the company to keep his oil tanks full. Mr. Pascal's

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officially called, ‘‘Volante Anti-- somno” (anti-sleep wheel). consists of a metal ring which fits almost flush with the or- dinary steering wheel of any au- temobile. When the “halo” is switched on, a driygr’s hand must stay on the steering whee: at all times to keep the slight pressure of the device flush with the underside of the -steering wheel, Otherwise a horn blows in the car of the driver and the electric impulse connected to it sets off a hand brake.—The War Cry

OUR YESTERDAYS

(From the Guardian Files)

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (June 11, 1934)

The S.S. New Northland arriv- ed-in port at Carvell’s wharf yes- terday afternoon and will leave today for St. John’s, Newfound- land, continuing her goodwill cruise. A radio program was presented last evening in which among other features;—a—solo, was rendered by Mrs. Kenneth L. Richards of this city, and an address was given by Hon. H.F. MacPhee; Acting Premier.

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Mr. Harold Crockett has pur- chased the new bungalow of Mr. Arthur F. Bell on Granville Street ¢ Summerside, lately occupied by Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Hunter. Mr. and Mrs. Hunter have taken the house lately oceupied by Mr. and Mrs. Monkley on Belmont Street.

TEN YEARS AGO (June 11, 1949)

Mr. George Wahl has returned to the Island and states from his hotel in Rustico that he is mak- ing further arrangements towards the completion of the artificial fish drying plant at the airport. Last summer Mr. Wahi and his associates leased a large building from the Provincial Government and still retain the lease. ‘

A fire in Bristol on Saturday

fire started around the stove while the family was out, fanned by a high wind, the soon levelled the house. Mr Mrs. Laybolt are now their home with Mrs. Laybolt’ parents.

MAXIMS

Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what really above him? No nobler

This _ to the change in our way there

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more blessed feeling swells man’s heart.

Nowadays one hears more the danger of over-weight health than of under-weight. wasn’t always so. Indeed, even generation or so ago, ple feared being too than being too fat.

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much larger proportion engaged in farming, or

now. Few people, in such work, ever had a chance to get fat— Windsor Star j

The Age Old Story |

He hath made him te be sia for us who knew no sin; that

might be made the righteousness

WHEN SPRING TIES TASSELS

Is Heaven so fair that you, whe loved the world, 4 May never feel the urge to come | again ~~ When Spring ties tassels on white birch trees

bhi AREAS banks Mies ae Si ge!

on ea Pe eae wild : ng to : flying by? on

M yon remeniber, then 3 est eae From your eternity, te eome-

again And stand upon the hill counting When dawn with sacred torch

One hour—and yet may spirits

leave their home . To wander in the haunts they lo» | ed before? | Surely I hear his laughter in the ; stream ne And whose these footprints in the lush damp grass?

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