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WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1959.

Refute It Every Time!

“Every once in a while, somebody moves in the House of Commons to shave the distribution of federal con- ‘stituencies placed on a straight po- pulation percentage basis. The idea is one which appeals to theorists, but if it ever gained the support of a ma- jority in Parliament it would wreck Confederation about as quickly as any measure we could imagine. This Pro- vince is particularly concerned in re- futing arguments for such a proposal, and we could wish for no better in- formed champion of our cause in this matter than the junior member for Queens, Mr. Heath Macquarrie.

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This hoary proposal came up in the

House on Victoria Day—of all days— _ in the form of a private member’s bill moved by Mr. Douglas Fisher,

~. ,CCF member for Port Arthur, On-

tario. When Mr. Macquarrie said

there was no “magical quality” in |

a strictly mathematical calculation of the size of a constituency, he was interrupted by Mr. Fisher who asked if there was any magical qual- ity in the practice that kept Prince Edward Island with four members when on a strictly population basis it “deserved” only two. Mr. Mac- quarrie had not time to make a full reply, but he was able to point out that this Province entered Confeder- ation with six seats, and that our negotiators in 1873 would have serv- ed “not only Prince Edward Island “but Canada better” had they insisted on this number as a minimum.

Had it not been for the presenta- tion at Ottawa of a former Conserva- tive government in this Province, un- der the late Hon. John A. Mathieson, we would now probably be reduced

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world may fall on deaf ears, while the same message emanating from Arab nationalist sources may be de- voured at a rate astonishing even to

its sponsors.”

Exploring The Ocean * With Sputniks and Vanguards circling the earth, space. research is very much in the news these days. Yet nearer to home avast field of re- search has. barely been touched up- on: oceanography. For though the oceans cover two-thirds of the sur- face of our planet, scientists admit

that they know less about them and ;

the life hidden in their depths than about the face, of the-moon.

But the move is towards more ex- ploration. Unesco has already start- ed a project in this connection, and

recently, a special committee ap-.

pointed by the United States Acad- emy of Science, and headed by Prof. Harrison Brown of the California Institute of Technology, discussed an ambitious ten-year programme for unlocking the ocean’s treasures.

The committee recommended a

~ programme of grants to universities to enable them to create depart- ments of oceanography, fellowships for research students, the equipment of laboratory ships, etc.

Proposed experiments include such projects as methods of mining the ocean floor, some ports of which are known to be rich in deposits of co- balt, nickel, and maganese; fertilis- ‘ng the surface waters to develop marine life; studying the properties of sea water and its interaction with the Earth's atmosphere, etc., etc. All this and many other projects would call for a vast network of signal buoys, research ships, bathys- caphs and ice-breaking submarines.

EDITORIAL NOTES

United States’ Secretary of Labor Mitchell says he has no objection to

that time in getting the British North America Act changed, to the effect that the number of members as- signed to a Province should not fall

_ below the number of Senators repre- senting that Province. This was but one of the measures taken to elimin- ate sharp reductions in provincial re- presentation from one census to ano- ther, and it was passed after fuil consideration of all the factors in- volved.

We do not think that any Canadian Parliament would agree to scrap- ping the B.N.A. Act in the manner proposed by the CCF member from Port» Arthur, but we expect our Is- land spokesmen to go to bat on the issue every time our position is chal- lenged. The disadvantages we have incurred under Confederation are strikingly pointed up by the fact that our expected development, popula- tion-wise, has been so dis2ppointing. Had the promises held out to us at that time been fully implemented, this would not have been the case. That, no doubt, was what Mr. Mac- quarrie was leading up to. We trust that he will get another opportunity of expounding this theme, if the oc- casion for it arises.

Reaching The Arabs

In 1956 Life magazine put out a small bock on the Hungarian revolu- tion. It got world-wide distribution, due largely to the American govern- ment. An early translation, publish- ed in Lebanon in Arabic, however, received little public ‘attention. It was given away free, but few Arabs read it. Why? Th idered it western propaganda because it was a western publication.

On Apr. 11 the identical book ap- peared in the_news kiosks of Cairo. In six days, according to a report in the Christian Science Monitor, 100,- 000 copies had been sold at 2 piasters each, about 5c. It is complete with pictures, text and introduction. The introduction, Arab oriented, declares that what happened in Hungary will happen to any nation whose peoples are deceived by the red flag—and who do not realize that the flag was made red by the blood of millions of

people. The new edition of the book on

Hungary is being spread over the

Arab world, except in Irak and Jor-

dan. Iraq has been coming under in- ©

creased Communist pressure. Jordan is hostile to anything that comes out of Egypt.

It’s good news*to learn that the .

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putting union labels “on bathing -suits;—

as requested by labor leaders—pro- vided there is room for them, which he doubts.

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The Federal Government, from now on, will demand proof of financial responsibility and definite work pro- grams before permits are granted for gas and oil ‘explorations in the Arctic. The idea is to restrict speculation to a reasonable level; and a good thing

it is, too.

With the exception of May 1957,

British imports last month were the -highest for any-month, reports the President of the Board of Trade. This will be another help to Prime Minis- ter Macmillan’s campaign in the forthcoming election. There’s nothing like economic improvement to bolster a government’s reputation. +. * .

Her Majesty the Queen has approv- ed the appointment of the Rev. Dr. Cuthbert Simpson to the deanship of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, and head of the college of the same name at Oxford University. This is the first time that an American has been nam- ed Dean of an English Cathedral. Dr. Simpson is the son of the late Canon Simpson, for many years Incumbent of St. Peter’s Cathedral in Charlotte- town. He has many friends here.

The Canadian Girl Guides Associa-

tion has ordered 250,000 tulip bulbs

from Holland. They will be planted in communities all across Canada next fall to blossom in the Spring of 1960, the golden jubilee of the movement in Canada. Mrs. W. Rankine Nesbitt, Chief Commissioner, says that “beau- tifying their own communities by planting these gardens is one way our Guides can say ‘thank you’ for

* community support they have enjoy-

ed during the past half century”. *. * -

Former President Harry S. Tru- man has received an abundance of recognitions and awards in recent months. The latest was the “Page One” award of the Newspaper Guild of New York in ‘recognition of his “couraged and spirited fight as a private citizen for those ideas and ideals he espoused as President .of the United States”. It’s a pity that

_Mr. Truman is not a few years younger. He would save the Demo- eratic Party the chore of looking

|. for a Presidential candidate for 1960.

From all_reports, he was never more popular than he is now,

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HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL

FROM N.B. TO P.EL.

First Submarine Cable

The first messages to cross the Atlantic by cable were exchang- ed August 16, 1858. The first sub- marine cable on this side of the Atlantic was that between New Brunswick and Prince Edward Is- land, a distance of ten miles, by the Governments of the two pro- vinces in 1851. The second cable in America was also laid by Can- adian enterprise between Cape

Breton and Newfoundland, a dis-|

tarice of 85 miles, in 1856.

The idea of laying a_ cable

across the Atlantic originated not with Cyrus W. Field, who organ- ized the company that was ‘ul- timately successful in the enter- prise, but with Frederick New- ton Gisborne, an Englishman who came to Canada in 1845 and spent

deputed to visit New Brunswick and Nova Scotia with the purpose of connecting those provnces with the other Canadas by telegraphs. His representations, proving ac- ceptable, he was appointed sup- erintendent and chief operator of the Government lines in Halifax, 1849 to 1851, during which period he became interested in the_pos- sifilities of insulating wire in rub-

covering to carry the elec- tric current under water.

After successful experimenta - tion, he prevailed upon the Gov- ernments of Prince Edward Is- land and New Brunswick to lay the short cable under Northumb- | erland Strait in 1852. He then pro-

posed the laying of a submarine

cable from Cape Breton to New-

foundland and the further exten-

| ringworm. It accounts for about

| Infections Of Finger Nails

20 per cent of all nail infections. Ringworm may be caused by var- ious organisms, but generally the villain is one of three types. Probably the first sign that something is wrong will be a sealing at the edge of the nail. Usually only one nail is affected at first. Then the disease spreads to others. Anywhere from

one to all ten may be affected. BECOMES OBVIOUS... ... .

Once it gets underway, the in- | fection usually becomes ee |

obvious. The nail is likely to be-

come and you |

“heaped up” won't be able to see through it any more.

The edges of the nail will become powdery. Now there might or might not be accom- | Panying skin infection. But, as the disease progresses, fungi will | be noticed at the nail. And these | INCREASING AMOUNT...

The result is usually an in- creasing amount of ringworm in- fection. You probably will call it | athlete’s foot, whether it is the finger or toenails that are in- volved.

The disease’s progression 4s | Benerally painless. And that {s unfortunate. For, if there were |

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sion of cable service from New-

pain, more victims would seek |}

| prompt medical treatment. As it |

foundland to Ireland. To enlist capital for this later

enterprise, he went to New York | in the winter of 1853-1854 and there met Cyrus W. Field. The outcome of the interviews with Cyrus Field was the organiza- tion of the New York, Newfound- | land and London Telegraph Co., | and the successful laying of the Atlantic cable in 1857; but Fred- erick Newton Gisborne was ne- vertheless the originator of the idea and prime mover of the en- | ‘terprise. In 1856 he completed a | land telegraph line across 'New- foundland that was utilized as a part ofthe first cable system. |

Up to 1854 Cyrus W. Field was not interested in the possibilities of the submarine cable;.--before meeting Frederick Gisborne he was a moderately wealthy dealer in paper stock in New York Cfty.

is, far too many of them just let | it go. : i

If the disease is severe, it | might mean complete loss of a nail, or nails. Maybe the nail | will simply disintegrate, maybe |

| it will become separated from other Fathers of Confederation, | the nail bed.

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES... .. | As you might suspect, persons | handling and packing fruit and | vegetables are especially value | able to certain types of nail dis- | eases. : | There are several things your doctor can do to help you and your nails, should they become infected. If the infection is deep, | he might have to remove the | nails. If it isn't, might. be helpful. i Not long ago a new penetrating nail base was developed to carry | iodine or other preparations | throughout he nail plate.

roentgen rays!

| tells of @ bishop whe advised a

fungi are apt to infect the skin. | -

| main unifying force. Undoubted-

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Health authorities have made it available without charge. But parents are still responsible for making sure their children. are protected.—Winnipeg Tribune

Representative Brooks Hays

politician to go out into the rain and lift his head heaven-ward. “It will bring a revelation to you,” the old bishop promised. Next day the politician reported. “I followed your advice and no revelation came. The water pour- ed down my neck and I felt like a fool.” “Well,” said the bis- hop, “isn’t that quite a revela- tion for the first try?’’—Galt Re- | porter The Canadian Association of | Consumers is campaigning against food packages that are too large, too hard to open, or too uninformative in what they say—or hide. It wants better bread, with less factory slicing: better care of eggs; compulsory meat inspection and milk past- eurization everywhere. Having af- ter much effort got the red net- ting removed from fruits and the red stripes from bacon wrappings the association is encouraged to aim at further victories.—Ottawa Citizen

Sir John A. MacDonald and the

bent on establishing a strong cen- tral government,visualized the cabinet as being the nation’s

ly it has proven so, but cabinet ministers today are very busy Persons and, too frequently, lia- son with the provinces is relega- ted to a function of minor im- portance. The establishment of a portfolio for provincial —affairs might go a long way toward fit-

tent.—Edmonton Journal

made mostly of. sandstone,—_sur- faced with white stucco, and de- corated with miles of sparkling

only to show why we're taking in stride the news that a new

built so that guests can drive their cars up a central ramp and park on the same floor. as their rooms.—New York Herald. Tri- bune :

OUR YESTERDAYS.

(From the Guardian Files)

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (May 19, 1934)

A glowing picture of air trans portation in Canada and more particular in the Maritimes in the near future was described by Mr. G.M. Ross, executive sec-_. retary of the Canadian Flying ©. Clubs Association who arrived here yesterday. The Maritimes, Mr. Ross stated, is a better na- tural location for interurban air transportation than any other part of Canada.

Discussion of the building by- laws and examinations for elec- trical contractors were discussed at a specia] meeting of the City Council held last evening. It was decided to renew licenses to those electricians who had pre- viously taken examinations, and - new applicants would be requir- ed to take the examizations.

TEN YEARS AGO (May 91, 1949)

In a letter forwarded to siraw- berry growens throughout the province, the Matthew-Wells Com- pany Ltd., announces that it has decided against packing straw- berries in Prince Edward Island this year, and has accordingiy placed—its—cemmitments for this, year's supply elsewhere.

Mr. George N. Rendell has ta-. ken over the management of the Bank of Nova Scotia in Monta- i id Sem-

ther, Hartley, on a farm near St, | Eustache, Quebec. , '

Becoming interested in electric telegraphy, thén showing possi-

bilities" of commercial develop =}

ment, the brothers studied the Morse alphabet and secured em- ployment with the Montreal Tele- graph Co. as operatores in 1847, Frederick Gisborne opening the first office in Quebec. GISBORNE IN EGYPT... . ... Some years later, Hartley’ Gis- borne went to Egypt, where he became director of the state tele- graphs. Frederick became asso- ciated with the organization of the British North American Electric Telegraph Association and was

PUBLIC FORUM

HIGHWAY PAYMENTS

Sir,—We hope you will give this letter space in your valuable pa- por. I would like the people. of this Province to know how this Island is being run by the Lib eral Government.

A few years ago they widened the road in front of our two farms, cne in Hill River, and one in Mill River. They got clay from m2 for fills from both farms, also ornamental trees, and crop land for the read. I got paid for the crop land for road, and some on the trees.

Hon. George MacKay has al- ways been very obl'ging with me. When I asked him for the money @ie me, he admitted to me that they owed me the money, but coul’n't pay me for the following reason. Let me quote you a para- graph from a letier written to me by Mr. MacKay, dated March 25, 1957: “In this connection I have been severely criticized from your area for paying you the amount of money which we have paid, and many different parties have told me that we overpaid you to a great extent.”

Now it seems to me, that jeal- ous minded pecple seom to have more say in running the govern- ment .than the Matheson. Govern- ment. I always thought our Pre- mier was there to see to the needs of the people, so I wrote him, explaining everything to him. He never answered my letter.

Regarding what they are do- ing for the tourist industry in the area, I had a beautiful shore front in Mill River, where tour- ists and Island people: liked to park and\camm. They dug a clay pit right in front of my drive- way, which has made it so that that can’t get in on the grounds and spoils the look of the place. The bargain was that this piece of land between the new and old road was to be levelled; instead, this is the damage they have done.

I think the, people on the Is- land should wise up, those that already haven't, as to how our Province has been run, when the next election cames.

1 am, Sir, etc., . GEORGE CLARK, Alberton, PEL

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“& mirror of the ma-veis—cf the world” was one of the phrases used by the well-known Austral- ian broadicastor Colin Wills to ces- er‘be the British Museum in a programme broadcast recently in the BBC's General Overseas Service to make the two-hund- redth anniversary of the Mus- eum's opening to the public.

Th foundations of \ this vast coliction of treasures were laid when the books and manuscripts, works of art and ‘curiousities’ ac- cumulated from many parts of the world bv the remarkable eigh- teenth-century physician Sir Hans Sloane were purchased for the gation on hig death. Through the years other co'lections and indi- vidual items of great rarity and value have been added.

George Hl, for example, pres- ented all the libraries of all the kings and queens of England from Henry VII onwards. The museum has three oréginal cop- ies of Magna Carta; the earliest known copies of the ‘Iliad’ and the ‘Odyssey’; the Codex Sinai- aticus; the Elgin Marbles, the

‘| sculptures that once adorned te

Parthenon in Athens: and the Rosetta Stone, a small fragmert of black basalt found by an of- ficer of Napoleon's army in the sands of Egynt, which gave the key ‘to one of the greatest my- steries of archaeclogy—the mean- ing of the Eg ptian hieroglyphs. PRICELESS RELICS Amorg the priceless relics found in Britain is the famous Sutton Hco treasure unearthed in Suffolk just before the war, The

tock place in about the year 650, it shows as nothing else can, the life and art of Saxon times, and

mets, bowls and other cbjocts the earliest known fragmento of a European harp, from‘ which a model has been reconstructed. One port of the Museum that is famous as the whole is the leading Room. In this great cir- hall with its high dome and bock-lined walls there are rows and rows of desks where young students sit side by side with scholars of world-wide renown, reading up the subjects of their special study in some of the six million volumes belonging to the Library. A circular bookoase in

the centre some 1500 vol- umes of a. woe catalogue. Rocm of the Brit-

ted Books, who said in 1836: want a poor student to have the same means of i his

Reading Room sta‘f try to pra; vide the student with any book he is likely to wart to car- on his work in any subject at all, and will bring to his desk any book in the general cata- logue whether it is the First Folio Shakespeare, the Gutenberg Bible, or a modern newspaper OF CATALOGUING ©

Mr. Francis, the newly appoin- Director of the British Mus-

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remains of a royal burial which |c

includes among the shining hel- |

t attractive

QUESTION AND ANSWER F. D.:. How often should one

eum, spoke inthis BBC pro- + amme about the hizh’y organiz | ed work of cataloguing, which is carried on all the time, and in- | volves making about 70,000 new entries in the ccurse of a year. | It was an important new develop- | ment, he said, that they were proposing to reprint by modern | process of photo-offset }ithography — the catalogue complete up to the end of 1955. ‘ There would be about 300 vol- umes, each containing about 20.- 000 separate entries, which woud be produced at the rate of a vol- | ume ga week over the next six | years. The reprinted catalogue | would enable people in other | parts of the world to see what books were in the British Mus- eum, would help them very of- ten to focus their enquiries more precisely and also enable them to ask for photostats of meterial

in which they were interested. |

He hoped that it would be a con-

stant source of reference in lib- |

raries abroad and, in view of the comprehensiveness of Brit-

ish Museum collections, he was |

sure it would be of enormous va- lue to institutions in all parts of the world, \ : Speaking about the British Mu- seum as a whole, Mr.. Francis stressed that it was not merely a repository of the past. ‘One of

its most important functions js to |

make the past come. alive again not on'y for the scholar, but also for the ordinary person whose mind can be enriched and en- livened and made more profitable for the future’’.

(Reuter?)—Two Londoners were

| day fer their planned Viking-trail

Therese Casgrain, former leader

|wash one’s hair? Is there any |

general information available as | to how to keep the hair healthy?

Answer: Often enough to keep | it clean but not too often to cause |

| drying of natural oils. General |

care of the hair would include a | normal diet with sufficient vita- mins and minerals, keeping the | hair clean and brushing it daily. |

j S\'L FOR LABRADOR |

GRF= YARMOUTH, England | fitting sut a 28-foot yacht Mon-

voyage to Labrador. David Rea- gen and Leslie Shepherd plan to cross the Atlantic this summer using route taken by Viking crews 1,000 years ago. They are calling at the Orkneys, Iceland and Greenland before the 500- mile trip across the Atlantic to Indian Harbor, Labrador.

SACRIFICE FOR ARTS

MONTREAL (CP) Mme.

| of the Social Democratic party (CCF) in Quebec province, has urged Montrealers to give up smoking and drinking temporar- ily and contribute the money saved to the city’s projected Place des Arts. She was address- ing the Canadian Progress Club of Montreal Tuesday.

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I have often thought morality | may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making \a choice. |

Egypt is giving a new look to Luxor, showcase for the world’s la single collection of an- cient ruins.

Laxor and two smaller modern towns, El Karnak and Qurna, share the site of Thebes about 40 miles upstream from Cairo, the National Geographic Society #C. Thebes was Egypt's fair- says. From about .1600 to 100 est city and the unrivaled cen- ter of civilization.

Kh was a metropolis of monu- mental temples, palaces, statues, towered gateways, and gold-tip- ped obelisks. From conquered countries flowed a profusion of wealth—chariots encrusted with silver, golden vessels, fine hor- ses, armor, fragrant woods, per- Aiines, amd incense, and the choicest delicacies from the gar- dens of Palestine and Syria. ROADS AND GARDENS:

Thebes’ remains and gentle winter weather have made Luxor a favorite resort. To enhance its appearance and set off the an- tiquities, the Egyptian Govern- ment has started an extensive : rE phent, veathonnen. ga ses, and restaurants. Para Ms

The massive ruins that tow- er over Luxor and

Egypt Beautifying Luxor

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the Nile. Excavations will uncov- er an ancient avenue of .sphin- xes.

Thebes flowered as capital of the New Kingdom, an age of ‘glory that began in 1580 B.C. Arts flourished. Egypt controlled the bulk of the gold of the known world.

Eventually Egypt ruled and le- vied tribute on an empire stretch- ing southward to the Fourth Cat- aract of the Nile and northward into Asia to the farther shore of the Euphrates.

A chief activity of the dynas- tie governments was raising huge public buildings. The god Amun was patron of Thebes and a spe- ial divinity of royalty. Not sur- prisingly, much of the nation’s resources in gold, land, cattle, and sheer human energy went into his glorification.

The Temple of Amun in El Karnak js the Jangest colum- nar structure ever created by man. Its hypostyle hall—an au- dience, chamber built by the great Rameses I (reign, 1292- 1225 B.C.—could easily swallow the Oathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. :

Established prior to the New Kingdom, the temple itself was 2,000 years building, with sut-. cessive rulers enlarging and em-

neighboring Fi. Karnak will be fluminated. A scenic drive will be bul on

bellishing i, The temple was

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_| VALLEY OF THE KINGS

Thebes’ Necropolis or City of the Dead lies across the river from Luxor near _ present-day Qurna.“ Most nobles of the New Kingdom were buried amid bar- ren, windswept hills known as the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings. There in secret, rock-hewn sarcophagi pharaohs were settled down comfortably and surround- ed by luxuries for the next life.

Grave robbers got at many of the royal tombs. But in 1922 work- men uncovered rock-cut steps jeading down into the intact bur- ial place of “King Tut’’—Tu- tankhamun. It took eight years to clear the tomb of its fabul- ously rich contents.

Thebes’ glory faded after the reign of Rameses II when £gypt’s tide of prosperity began to flow northward down the Nile.

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