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Safeguarding The Corridor

In commenting yesterday on the possible need of reviving the Berlin airlift, which was so successful in defeating the Russian blockade of - -that city ten ago, we noted that Moscow is insisting that Western aircraft fly under a ceiling of 10,000 ‘feet in flights to West Berlin. The test case was a U.S. cargo aircraft which was “buzzed” by Soviet fight- ers as it flew into Berlin on March 27 at 22,000 feet. A similar incident occurred yesterday, after. Washing- ton had formally rejected the Soviet demand, stating that “whenever weather or the operational charac- teristics of equipment require” such flights at higher altitudes, they will be carried out.

In turning down Russia’s com- plaint, Washington says that no ceil- ing was ever set on the Berlin air corridors. During 1944 and 1945, when vague arrangements were made for the Berlin occupation, such de- tails were not considered. Ten years ago, indeed, such a ceiling would not have created much of a problem, as

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not operate at more than 10,000 feet altitude. Today’s jet carriers fly best at high altitudes, and bringing them down to 10,000 or less would involve a noticeable limitation on their use. This air-corridor ceiling issue is just another of the many ways in which the Soviets are putting pressure on the West about Berlin. The firm reply from Washington on Monday. -in- dicates that there is no intention of jeopardizing the interests of West Berliners in this manner.

Meanwhile, we note that at Ot-

tawa Mr. Diefenbaker has amplified his earlier hints about a United Nations role in Germany. This pre- supposes a Four-Power agreement which would include a Soviet (and East German) pledge to preserve freedom of access to West Berlin. In the Canadian view the “United Na- tions presence” would extend to the lines of communications. The basic U.N. role would be “to verify that all parties were abiding by the terms of the agreement.” In this proposal he has the full support of Mr. Pearson.

- While seeking to find grounds for

negotiations with Russia, both lead- ers have emphasized that on such issues as the security of West Ber- lin- and the freedom of its citizens there can be no surrender. _

The Tourist Dollar

We note that accommodation queries receivéd this year br the Travel Bureau regarding campsites ° and trailer parks in the Province are at an all-time high. This is promising for our tourist season, still more so~ if it reflects a general trend across Canada. We can do with more tourist dollars, but there is only one way in which to insure a steady rise in this

. revenue.

In addressing the Canadian Res- taurant Association in Toronto re-

cently; Mr. James M. McAvity, presi- |

dent of the Canadian Tourist Asso- ciation, noted the disturbing fact that while Canadian tourists have doubled their spending abroad in the last 20 years or so, visitors to Canada are spending only fractionally more—

‘even less, if the shrinkage of the

dollar’s value is counted: Thus, last year, while Canadians spent $544 million abroad, visitors to Canada spent only $352 million.

Of this tourist revenue, visitors from the United States account for $300 million annually. For these, and more like them, our greatest com- petitor is. not in other foreign lands, But in the U.S. itself. And, as Mr. ‘McAvity emphasized, we often go the wrong way about the business. In his eating habits at least, the Ameri-

_ ean on tour doesn’t want to be made

to feel “at home”; he wants to be made to feel away from home. Even : the New Yorker in California, the Chicagoan in Maine, likes to think he is somehow in a foreign country —and the various States, in their rivalry, do much to encourage the feeling. Similarly, the visitor among

“us is not specially interested in

“Southern fried chicken,” wheat cakes, or fruit salad made of Cali-

fornia or Florida citrys. He is keen- ly interestéd in Canadian cuisine. He wants distinctive and propagandized Canadian dishes (whether he deems _ them superior or inferior to his own) and if they are good enough he will go a long way, again and again, to spend a lot of money to get them.

This ‘is a point which our Island ‘Tourist Bureau has been stressing in

| recent years, and rightly so. The

distinctive features that make us “a

States $12.09 per annum | Garden Province, cradled on the

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else; and if we ¢ould develop, along with other attractions, our own choice food specialties they would pay - off handsomely.

- Our Best Egg Market

It may surprise many of our farm readers to learn that Venezuela buys more Canadian shell eggs than any other country. Sales in 1958—report- ed in the latest issue of “Foreign Trade”—totalled some 11.4 million dozen valued at about $4 million. This country, in fact, took 80 per cent of our total egg exports last year. Canada is the second largest supplier of eggs to Venezuela—sec- ond only to the United States, which sold about $9 million worth in 1957.

Because of their high quality, Canadian eggs enjoy a price premium over most other imports of between 50 cents and $1:00 per case of 30 dozen. The Venezuelans consider the browns a superiér egg and this has helped to raise the demand for Cana- dian eggs because our shipments con- ‘tain a.large number. In addition, be- ‘cause of our exporters’ strict adher- ence to regulation tolerances Cana- dian eggs have been readily cleared through customs. And because the regulations permit oiling of the eggs (when the treatment is approved by the Venezuelan Ministry of Health) the high quality of Canadian eggs on arrival there is further assured.

EDITORIAL NOTES

The famed Washington Monu- ment is slowly sinking into its clay and gravel base. Last year, reports a Washington parks engineer, the rate of sinking was three times nor- mal. But it would take .an expert- to notice it. The normal sinking rate 4s one-sixteenth of an inch a year.

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It was but fitting that Sir Win- ston Churchill should be asked to come to.Canada during his North American visit next month. Gover- nor General Massey has forwarded the invitation, and it is to be hoped Sir Winston will accept. He is to be President Eisenhower’s guest in Washington for three days, startin, May 5.

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The Fleming budget steered a pretty even course this year between production and freer trade. 32 items are listed bearing increases in duty and 40 on which some reductions have been made. There are also nine which work both ways, depending on the season. It is noteworthy that most of the tariff changes apply to fruits and vegetables—in our farm- ers’ interests.

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When national prohibition ended in the United States in 1933 Okla- homa remained dry, legally at least, at is had been ever since\it became a state. Now it has finally voted to end its ban on liquor, effective in 60 or: 90 days when legislative actions will have been completed. This leaves the dry field among the states to Mississippi.

a ” * Critics are saying that by mak- .ing the duty on imported potatoes 374, cents per hundredweight throughout the year we may be antagonizing the United States. Why so? The rate is the same as applied by the U.S. to the bulk of Canadian potatoes entering that country, and the Liberals could have made the change long ago if they had had our potato growers’ interests at heart. * * *

A reminder of the unsung role played by one group of war heroes in the United Kingdom was afforded by a recent incident in London. An unexploded 2,000-pound German

under mud for 19 years. It has been dug up and carted 40 miles away to be exploded harmlessly. The engineer chief, “bowler hatted,” greeted the monster with a poke of his umbrella and the. bomb-disposal team went after the fuse assembly with ham- mers and chisels. Courage of a high order was called for in this opera- tion, but it .was performed with characteristic British stolidity and

apparent unconcern,

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OTTAWA REPORT

Ottawa is chuckling about the Easter gift, given by the Conser- vative Government without its knowledge, to the son of Que- bec City’s distinguished Liberal Senator, “Chubby” Pcwer.

Mr. Frank G. Power has just been appointed to a high posi- tion with the legal department of the Unemployment Insurance Commission here. :

He is, like his father, a form- er Liberal M.P.. He was defeated last March, when Jacques Flynn achieved the Conservative Party’s first-ever victory in the consitue- ncy of Quebec West; “Power- borough’’, as it might be called, had been represented in Parlia- ment by a Power ever since its creation more than forty years earlier.

Mr. Power was appointed to his new government job by the Civil. Service Commission, after the prescribed advertising of the job, and after the screening of Mr. Power was found to be better qualified for this job, paid at up to $7,300 a year, than any Con- servative supporters who were interested in applying for it, in the discerning eyes of the Civil Service Commission.’ At that time that three-member Commission consisted of a former private se- eretary of Liberal Prime Minis-: ter Mackenzie Kinz, a former member of the staff of the St. Laurent Liberal Cabinet, and a former associate of Liberal Trade Minister C.D. Howe. PATRONAGE NOW OUT

The appointment of Mr. Power is regarded here as another vivid example of the new Conserva-

Indecision regarding the future role of John Foster Dulles comes at an extremely delicate and arduous period in international diplomacy. pe

The American state secretary, fighting cancer with the same courage and strength he-has so often shown in cold-war show- downs, cannot long postpone a de- cision on whether he will be able to ccntinue in office.

He now has been away from his pest for two months on leave of absence. It appears that the Western Allics—under the pres- sure of events—are beginning to act on the assumption that he will not be able to undertake again the full responsibiliteis he held in

, the past.

After President Eisenhower vis- ited the 71-year-old Dulles in hos- pital Monday, it was announced merely that the secretary had not resigned and:

“Pending additional medical evaluation there will be no fur- ther statement from the pres- ident.”’

. DEADLINE NEARS eanwhile, just four weeks re-

‘main before the foreign ministers of the Big Four — the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union — meet in Geneva

r May 11 to discuss the German

problem. A summit conference may follow this ;

In London, Prime Minister Macmillan and Foreign Secretary

with French Premier Debre and Foreign Minister Maurice Couve a Murville on the German ques-

Yesterday a working group of senior U.S., French, West Ger- man and British officials resum- ed the task of co-ordinating West- ern policies and methods for the Big Four meeting. .

And the results of the working party’s study will be reviewed by the four Western foreign min-

The U.S. would be placed in an

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Patronage System In Reverse

By Patrick Nicholson :

tive Government's determination to be fair to everyone. It is lean- ing over backwards to avoid the appearance of favouring its own supporters over their political op- ponents. This has led to condi- tions in the government which are summed up by the phrase: “The Grits never had it so good before.”

Complaints r into Ottawa from Consurdive supporters in all parts of Canada about this startling contrast with previous governments. Under the time- honoured patronage system, Lib- eral supporters got an edge in obtaining . government contracts or jobs on the public payrcll or other favours, during the long years of Liberal rule when all Conservative supporters were fro- zen out. Now, under the Conser- vative Government, Liberal sup- porters still get an edge, for the feason that the Conservatives Want to show that they have ab- olished patronage.

In Ottawa today, it is easier for a Liberal to pass through the eye of a need’e than for a Con- servative even to get’ a look at that needle—if it was paid for out of public funds.

Most plum jobs and important senior appointments with the gov- ernment service, al] within the unfettered gift of the Cabinet, are still filled with the Liberal ap- pointees of the previous rule. Most of those contentedly began to pack their bags on the morn- ing after the great Liberal de- feat at the palls in June 1957. Men who were then preparing to return to private business are today still employed on the pub-

Conference Deadline Nears

By Joseph MacSween Canadian Press Staff Writer

to Geneva for the East - West meeting an acting secretary of state rather than one who was fully authorized to speak for his government.

Such a representative would be handicapped, particularly in ne- gotiations with so astute an ad- versary as Russia’s Foreign Min- ister Andrei Gromyko.

He probably would, for one thing, have to check back with Eisenhower and Dulles on some of the delicate points that are bound to arise.

The presence of an acting U.S. representative also would give the Russians what, some diplomats regard as an effective argument for a summit conference on their terms. They could. for example, argue that the foreign ministérs’ talks, without a fully-empowered U.S. secretary of state. would not provide a basis for worth- while discussion—and then press for talks of a higher level. HERTER’S POSITION

In Dulles’ absente, his job is being held down on an acting

MAXIMS

Men may tire themselves i, a labyrinth of search, and talk of God; but if we would know Him indeed, it must be trom the im- pressions we receive of Him;

‘and the softer our hearts are,

the deeper and livelier those will be upon us. r

NEW. MEMBERS

. ROME (AP)—The World Vet- erans Federation Monday admit- ted the Canadian National Rail- ways War Veterans Association and the ex-prisoners of War As- sociations of Australia to mam- bership.

". CRASH KILLS THREE .

OTTAWA (CP) — Richard La- vergne, 29, died in hospital early Monday from injuries in a traffic aceient Saturday.

Charles McCarthy, 14, and Ron- |

ald Dan McCann, 24, died ‘n the crash while Bernard MéCarthy, 26, is unconscious in hospital.

lic payroll, in Canada or abroad, laughing at their new masters and openly referring to those who did not do the expected firing as “those fools’’. Having been ap- pointed by the Liberals, their po- litical leanings are both obvious and very active—I am nct here talking about career civil ser- vants, but about patronage ap- pointees.

ROT SPREADS DOWN

One very senior official, a staunch Liberal who knew that his own shortcomings had caus- ed the imminent erd of his pa- tronage appointment under the Liberal rule, still remains here, supreme and not fired by his new masters. A government con- tractor teld me of his amazement at hearing another very senior official, another staunch Liberal appointed... by the Liberals, say publicly-of his Conservative Min- ister: “‘don’t take any notice of what he says, he is just a nin- compoop”’. . '

Private members in the Con- servative ranks are increasing- ly concerned by the way this at- titude is spreading downwards through the Government depart- ments, where the red carpet is always laid out for any Liberal, but where the bureaucratic brush- off 4s waiting for any Conserva- tive. These M.Ps feel that it may be wonderful to have the best possible officials run the country—if such they be—but it is less than wonderful to have those same officials ruin the Con- servative Party.

But at least those M.Ps know that any of them who need bags, to pack up and leave Ottawa af- ter defeats in the probable 1962 el- ection, would have’ no. difficulty in borrowing them from those Liberal supporters who have been left in Ottawa to orgdnize the Li- beral counter-revolution, and who have never had to pack up.

basis by Christian Herter, his un-

dersecretary and a former Re- publican governor of Massachu- setts. .

If Dulles decides his health will not permit him to carry on as full-time secretary, the betting in government circles is that the job will go to Herter. Running a close second in speculation is C. Doug- las Dillon, Dulles’ 49-year-cld un- dersecretary of state for econ- nomic affairs.

Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. am- bassador to the United Nations, also is mentioned as a possible successor.

Eisenhower, who regards Dul- les as one of the greatest secre- taries of state in American his- tory, probably would appoint him as presidential adviser on foreign affairs if Dulles decided he coutd not return on a full-time VWasis.

Many Modern Antibiotics

penicillin and other antibiotics. Moreover, its high stability in gastric juice enables it to enter the intestine and be absorbed in the bloodstream without being de- stroyed in the stomach.

Vancocin is another new anti- botic - which reportedly works when some others fail. Research- ers report, after four years of trials, that Vancocin is indicated for many patients seriously ill with infections caused by various gram-postive organisms, such as staphylococci, which resist most other antibiotics. It does how- ever have certain limitations and possible side effects with, which physicians are familiar.

Urobotie—is—a—new_broad-spec- trum antibiotic for treatment of urinary infections. Administered orally, it provides a multiple an- timerobial approach at the site of the infection.

Taomid is a new antibiotic. It combines Tao with three sulfina-

mides and is used for treatment }*

of common and mixed genito-ur- inary tract infections and upper respiratory diseases. GREATER -CONVENIENCE Thesantibiotic-chemotherapeutic combination reportedly provides greater convenience, range of ef- fectiveness and safety in control of mixed infections than ¢ach

drug administered separately to-

the patient.

Humatin is a new oral anti- biotic which has been used suc- cessfully in treating patients with intestinal amebiasis, an infecton originating in the large intestine.

And these, mind you, are just a few of the newest antibiotics. QUESTION AND ANSWER

Mrs. “C.C. ; Could :ou advise me of a remedy for violent itch- ing? I have tried different salves but to no avail. :

Answer: If violent itching is not relieved: by ordinary reme- dies, it may be wise to have an

to determine the ceuse.

The Age Old Story

God forbig that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unte the world.

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(From the Guardian Files)

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (April 15, 1934)

Tentative arrangements are reported to be underway for the establishment in Summerside of a $40,000 pork packing plant by’ the Swift Canadian Company, which it is sa:d would employ about thirty pcrsons and would use all available local farm pro- ducts. Mr. Brownell, a represen- tative of the Company,. was in Summerside last week looking over the situation.

Word has been received that a

Preston James Sentner and John Angus Weir, Charlottetown, for improvements ir collapsible run- ners for baby carriages and such like, as well as aeroplanes.

TEN YEARS AGO (April 15, 1949)

Two members of the R.C.M.P. have left for St. John’s, Nfid., where they will be part of the ad- vance party of the R.C.M.P. in the new province. Cpl. D. R. George went from the Montague Detachment, and Const. S.F.W. Hagan from the Charlottetown Detachment. Const. R.D. Sand- berg, who has been at Souris, is replacing Cpl. George on the

ment.

Mr. T.E. Hickey, C.A., announc- ed yesterday that a committee of Summerside business men had been formed to promote the Chig- necto Canal project in this local- ity.-The members of the com- mittee are Mr. Hickey, Mayor J.F. Arnett, Mr. Leslie Simmons, Captain Basil Kelly and Mr. R. S. Hinton.

patent has been granted by the Dominion-Government—_to—Messrs

strength of the Montague detach. |

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test to every meeting they at-

tend.—Kitchener-W Record .

Today the tide in favor of pub- |

lic ownership is fast ebbing, as | is clearly shown in a public op-

inion poll, covering - the major

industrial countries of the free

world, which was published in Fortune for February. In Austra- lia, Britan, The Netherlands, Swe- | den, Canada, Germany, Norway, Denmark and Belgium, those_ favoring nationalization of indus- try numbered only a tiny frac tion of the population ranging be- tween three per cent and eight per cent.—Financial Times.

There are limits to man’s as sistance to wildlife. All-wise Na+. ture looks after her own. Trouble comes when man interferes and upsets the balance. How often have we listened to well-intent- ioned opinions on ridding the for- ests of wolves? How often have we heard speeches on the slaugh- ter of deer by wolves? Yet, it is estimated that some 50,000 deer in Ontario may die this year from starvation and malnutrition. Do the wolves kill 50,000 deer in one winter? Conservationists recoge nize the wolf as the best scaw enger in the forest. He is part of wildlife’s sanitation depart-

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And all the trees are green;

And every goose a swan, lad,

And every lass a queen;

Then hey for boot and horse, lad

And round the world away;

= blood must have its course ad,

And every dog his day.

When all the world is old, lad,

And all the trees are brown;

And all the sport is stale, lad, -

And all the wheels run down:

Creep home, and take your place there, :

The spent and maim’d among;

God--grant-you find one face there :

You loved when you were young.

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