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ly the Minister of Labor ‘from New ” " Brunswick, and Hon. Ralph.Camp-»
‘ to the west. The 18,000,000 German
from Egypt. At least 700,000 have ,
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TI_fl:]§l)lr’T~NlARCH 25‘, 195%
, Among The Absent
A remarkable feature of this elec- tion campaign has been noted by many newspapers across Canada.
liacij 4
That ‘is that the Liberal Cabinet.
which was presiding over the nation at this time lastyear has, in the poli- tical sense, so largely melted away.‘ Many ministers of the Liberal Cab- inet were casualties in the June elec- tion; but what is remarkable is that so» many of them have declinedito present themselves for re—election. In contrast to the usual period of four or five years, the two elections are only nine months apart. It might
have seemed, then, that those who '
happened to suffer defeat underthé chances of “political warfare might have looked forward‘ to regaining their positions. The (elder statesmen, such as Mr. St. Laurent, Mr. Howe and Dr. McCann, would in any case- be quitting the field before long; but what of -the younger cabinet mem- bers,’ who, it might seem, had still their political lifebefore them? 0 Hon. R- H- Winters, the Minister of Public Works, a. man still inhis forties, has taken up business inter- ests. A former cabinet colleague,. also still in his forties, has not chosen to seek ;re—election——Hon. Hughes Lapoint of Quebec, whdhad been holding the portfolios of Vet‘-
eral. Two other young cabinet minis- ters, Hon. George Prudham,~former Minister of Mines and,Technical Sur- veys, and Hon. Roch Pinard, Secret- ary of State, both retired shortly before the June election, and have. shown no inclination to return to political life. Hon. Milton F.“Greg‘g,'
ney, the Minister of National De- fence from British Columbia, are 0 among, the casualties in ‘June, who,’ are. not candidates in March. 7 there isthe case of the .forrri?er Min-‘ ister of Justice, Hon. Stuart Garson, who-gleft his post as Premier‘ of ‘ Manitoba to enter the cabinet 0 at Ottawa. He has decided not tot;'con- 5 test. his forlner constituency of Mar- quette. Hon. Walter Harris, “ the former Minister of Finance, ~ once‘ considered alikely candidate for the party’s leadership, is not seeking to regain his old seat0of;Grey Bruce in Ontario. '
As the Montreal Gazette remarks, thecxample of these former cabinet ministers to abstain, in such num- bersffrom the present political con- -test might give the impression that,. in their experienced opinion, their. pa,rty’s prospects do not appear, at the present time, to be particularly attractive. ' ‘
Homeless Men This may go down in history as ~ the “Ccntu.ry of the -‘Homeless Man.” '._l.‘hat’s the title of 9. report by Elfan Rees in a recent issue of; Internat- ional Conciliation, supported by the Cslrnegie Endowme 0 for Internat- ional Peace. It’s a report on the work of governnients and the United.,Na- tions in the field of refugee prob- lems- ‘ s 0 The mere figures of refugee totals are staggering. Rees estimates that our era has produced 40,000,000 refugees--slightly less than 25% as many people as live in the United Sta.tes. _ Consider some of them: . ' .
The 193,000 Hungarians who fled in 1956 from Communist tyranny. The 920,000 Arab refugees in Gaza, Jordan. and neighboring states who fled Palestine. The 2,800,000. Ger- mans from East Germany who fled .
refugees and expellees from former German areas . east of the Oder- N eisso line, Poland, the Sudetenland, etc.—--/l,()00,000 of whom were killed.
Israel has taken in most of the 400.000 Jews who fled from Yemen, north Africa and Iraq and the 20,000
fled into Hong Kong from Commun- ist China. Some 15,000 lflllropean re- fugccs ialso help crowd Hang pximgk 1 Finland sol 400.000 lcamllal-is after ceding the Karelian isthmus to Rus- sia. _
Turkey got 350,000 Bulgarians of
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S into Liberal ‘campaigning. Consider
‘ who told audiences in Montreal that *
..bul;\most of those remaining just
Tl_,l_‘_l.‘l«:lf~l’l_ origin after the nor. Some 8,500,000 Hindlls and Sikhs left what is now Pakistan for India and 6,500,- 000 Moslems left India for Pakistan- 0H'undreds of thousands of Vietnam- ese fled to South Vietnam in the lndo-China wars. The same thing happened in Korea.
There are others. And the amazing thing, as Mr. Rees points out, is that millions of these peoples‘ have be- come assimilated. The tragic thing is that millions of others have not been, or have failed to attain any- thing like the economic status they had before they became refugees.
. Unconvincing We see no reason to modify our comments on the absence of the Op- position members from the Legisla- ture on Thursday afternoon. The.
fact that three of them had other engagements, and that the remain- ing member, -Mr. Myers, was called ‘away’ to attend another meeting, does" not invalidate the fact that their prime duty was to be in their seats. The Throne Speech debate was in progress, and it is likely that one 0 at least of the Ministers of the Crown would have spoken had the House” not been adjourned. Mr. 0 Myferp has a better. excuse than his colleagfues, two of whom were at- tending a students’ mock parliament.‘ angl the other-—the Opposition leader ——a”‘ fat, stock: show.‘ Important as these actgyities are, it is not what they are paid todo when the House, is ‘in session. It was the Opposition leader’s duty to have made adequate provision for Opposition representa-* tion if he thpught his own absence was necessary. Instead of risinggto a question of privilege in protest. of the Guardian’s editorial and of the Government’s “trickery” ~ in Mr. Myers’ case, itwould -have been bet- -ter had he apologized to the House. His attitude /toward his responsible
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EDITORIAL" NOTES‘
' The, last word in clinics is the one opened in 0 Liverpool, Eng.,~ recently to help smokers overcome their de-1
sire for tobacco. The move was made , . by the Society of N on-Smokers in " response to “several hundred” lettprs
asking forphelp; 01 , . , ‘ C l ' 1 ‘Q. Q 0' l ’ Zackerie Muise and 0 Leonard D’Eon, both of Lower West Pubnico, N._S., have invented a. machine which '
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,0 0 , .1-11:15 :zmn0tes.;0 0 0 which, is . already""'bein_g iinstalledl in ’ several Nova 'Scotill.,_.fish processing: 0 .2 hp. elec- tric motor that gives" the. piston a pressure of about 7 tons.
A note of desperation has crept
Mr. Jean Lesage, a former minister,
if there had been a. Conservative Governments in ‘ Ottawa during the Suez crisis, “we/would be at war’ today” and “Canadian youths “would 0: be marching to war "today.” This is the Lesage version for‘Quebec con- surnptlon of the Liberal line heard elsewhere that Mr. Pearson is‘ Can- ada’se(and,the world’s) sole defender of peace. " 1 ‘I’, ta ‘ Q 0
The decline of heckling as an art is. deplored, with some..justice, by 0 the.Windsor Star. This decline has spread across many years, And. not only -are» there fewer hecklers left,
haven’t the ‘gift. The good heckler, as the Star remarks, isn’t clumsily boorish, as are so zmany imitators. He has a fast-working, incisive mind, and a flair for putting the most em- barrassing questions for observations in a,few colorful words. Some speak- ers czln beat them at their own game, but for lack of practice they’re likely to become a 1 disappearin breed,too. ’ l * ' iv 9
Despite attempts to gloss over the dispute, it is apparent that an order from China. for 1,000 Canadian-built automobiles was turned down at the behest of the United States’ State Department. As labour union offi- cials have pointed out, this is shind- rance to the Canadian economy, at a time when hundreds of automobile workers are unemployed because of slacknessin the industry. But this is not the worst aspect of the situation. The worst thing about is the fact that the US. State Department, through its influence with American companies which base subsidiaries in this country, can virtually control the Calladia.n export trade not only in a,u.tonlob.iles but in o!ecl;l'ical ap- Dll.«‘.ll’lC8S, chemic.a1s and hundreds of other products made by firms which are more or less under the domina-
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Ottawa: 836lmen and‘ women have submitted themslves as candidates for election to our
I federal House of Commons. Each
one of these candidates had to put up a deposit of $200. Any can-_ didate who does not receive at least half as many votes ‘as the
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This column 1:, open to the discus- sion by correspondents of question of
interest.’ The_Guardian does. not noses- _ sarily endorse the opinion of corn: ' pendants, . ~
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the-announcement of . the next.
~ fiphase of the “Pearson for Peace» program” whicih alppearpddn Sal!-..
-urgd-ay’s paper. This article had lilo
, deal with a s-ixdweeks tax holiday
forthe majority of Canadians. ‘ This great diplomat has come up with another “boner,” who on-
, 157 a few weeks ago 'condeunjned
the Conservative party for its ac-' tions in, slicing taxes and govern- ment spending; “Lester 13.” now proposes a 25 per cent ta,x"slash retroactive to Jan. 1,, 1958, and later, tax deductions are to be re-‘ sumed on the new lower tax scale. I May I ask, where ‘ll/Ir. Pearson proposes to ‘get the money for 10,000 scholarships and bursaries, not to ;mention the money for the university" ‘student loan fund, interest firee, until one year after graduation? _ 'It was very gratifying, if noth-
“ ing else, to see Mr. Pearson, who’
criticized the Conservatives’ ac-
, tion of cutting the Excise tax
from 10 to 7.per cent, now propos- ing to do away with ll: altogether. The diplomat who moved an a- mendment saying “Since the bud- get is no longer in balance, rev-
are rising. . . His Ex0cel1enlcy’s advisers should, in the opinion of this House, submit their resigna- tion forthlwit'h” '— which is quot- ed from page 3520 of Hanlsard -- has now proposed greater s-lashes in taxes and billionsof dolllarsl for universities to make worse the ‘declination’ of revenue he claim- ’ ed to be present. ,
Words cannot be found toiox-‘ press the interpretation of ‘the ad. the Liberals placed‘ Saturday which read in part; “Which partly or which leadership is best equip- ped to usefC‘anad»a’s influence for the cause of peace? Is it then a case of whom to trust -3-Mr. Diofenlbaker the politician’, or Mr. -' Pearson the statesman, the clip- lomat, the master of negotia- tion, etc,” Is this not (to .any per- son let alone theloglician) a con- tradiction within itself? Here we stand ready to elect ‘a political party and who should we elect but the politician? Of what use would we make of the diplomat in the po1ilticlian’s shoes? Did it ever occur to the Liberals that Mr. Diefenbakeris much more the statesman than Mr. Pearson?
We all‘ congratulate Mr. Pear-
, son for his winning ‘the. Nobel
Prize, but does this mean be con- trols the world? Peace has no Dari. in‘ this camzpaign and any- one foolish enough to think it has. cannot truly be expressing logical thought. ]if on the other hand, Mr. Pearson is still the great diplomat the Liberals claim him to be, why. isn’t he in Moscow instead pf Dag Harnmerskjold? I am sure the U.N. wouldnft object if he is lhaltp great’. The Nobel Prize is 3. high. honour but there are higher honours. sllcll. as galli-
ing the confld , of the Na- tion as Mr. D .,.enbaker did. I am, Sir, etc.,
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Lost Deposits In l957 6 \/ .
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winner in his »constitueni:yv will- forfeit that deposit. _
The purpose of this practice is to discourage -crackpots Who have no serious chance‘ of being elected as Members of Parlia- ment. The risk ‘of losing does not keep. out all candidates whose hopes are fiorlorn, but it does keep them to a minimum.’ . 7.
In the 1957 general election, there were 862 candidates. Of these, the surprisingly large num- ber of .342 forfeited their deposit. This brought a little windfall of $63,400 to, the federal ‘treasury, but it was a drop in the bucket
compared to the cost of, handling 1 .Ilfl1f&"-=.03lfia:l5l;0ns;'.lI\’.l1i15,l1, was xpprc. H ' tlran‘ one.’ hundred
though. somewhat impr”cssed,, b3‘z,—jf£i-g““’
times ..lf’haf
In‘ 1957, the oandidal;eslinc1ud- ed 365 Liberals; Official Liberals that is, one competing for each
of that 265 seats in the House of. .
Commons. There were also 356
official, Conservative candidates;
162 CC. candidates, and 114
Social Credit candidates. Inad- dition, there were 27 Indepen- dent 0Liberals. of , whom 21 lost their deposit; “ 0 indepen- dent 'Conserva,:tives,‘ of whom 5 lost their deposit; ‘11 Labour- Progressive or Communist candi- dates, all of whom lost their re-_ posit; 14 “Independents” with no stated party affiliation, of whom 9 lost their deposit; and 7 miscel- laneous independents tagged with some label other than Liberal or
Conservative (of whom 5 lost their.
deposit. BIG PARTY LOSSES 1 5 The C. C. F. ran candidates in
all ten province, and in all ten.
provinces some C. C. E. candi- -dates lost their deposits. Al1__22 candidates in Quebec lost their $200, and so did 47 of their 60 candidates in Ontraio. Altogether
113 of the 162 C. C. F. candidates 0
left $200 behind.‘
The Social Credit group met its ,Water1oo in the 1957 election, when its attempted invasion of the East cost it dear in money and prestige, a» defeat from which it will probably never re- cover. Every candidate east of the Manitoba border lost his de- posit, including 38 in Ontario.
No Liberal candidate in Que- bec and the Marltimes lost his deposit. But there were casualties ln'0ntario and all the western provinces. 23 out of 85 candidates in Ontario, and 13 out of 22 can- didates in B. C. failing to poll half as many votes asethe win- ner. illhese were the two worst provinces fior Liberal hopes.
The Conservatives numbered 56 candidates who lost their de- posits; 11 more than the Liberals suffered. Quebec was their worst province, where .24 out of. 68 candidates failed to make that particular grade. 4 out of 6 can- didates in Newfoundland repre- sented their ‘highest percentage rejection by the voters, and 9 out of 17 in Alberta their next‘ worse.
In numbers of votes received, the Liberals outstripped the Con- servatives in Quebec, by receiv- ing 1,116,028 votes to 562,133 for the Conservatives. But outside French Canada, the Conserva- tives got the support of -12 per cent of those who voted while the Liberals got only 34 per cent. NOW FOR THIS YEAR
There will be both a Conserva- tive and a Liberal candidate in each of the 265 contests this year. There will be 169 C. C. F. candi- dates. seven more than last year. Bul; the Socreds will only run 82 candidates compared to 114 last year.
The biggest sllrprlss of this election so far has been the num- ber of slitting Liberals who are not running again. These total 16 of the‘106 previous Liberal M. P5,
of whom no less than 9 are in
Quebec. Two of these have un- derstandably retired on account of age, being over 70. But-‘four of the retiring Quebec members. are: only 50 ‘or younger; 1 how- ever it is perhaps significant that these haveall now qualified for the parliamentary pension. by sitting‘ in three parliaments. It
l has alsocaused surprise that
onlyone of the nine Liberal Cab- inet Ministens who were defeated in 1957 is attempting to make in come-back this year; this is Hon.
gPaul1 Hellyer, the 34 year old re-‘
presentative of '1‘oronto-Daven- port in "two parliaments. The others have scattered to business and other occupations, and are apparently taking no art in the election. Mr. Gregg as a job with the United Nations in Bag- dad; M_-r. ”Winters has trebled his income by becoming .a_ director of companies; Mr. C. D.
,‘concentratil;lg' on business;
oral others have gonefback to
legal practiceg But seven“ meni-
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lip cancer is successful in from
. velopment of a cancerous lesion.
Where Time ls Vital Foctor‘ ’
SOME tylpes of cancer are _ e- latively -easy to cu_I'e-jprovldlllg treatment is begun in time.’
Persons with cancer of the face or 1igp,.for example have an ex- cellent chance of being Camille" tely cured. In fact, the outlook for victims of this type of can- cer is more favorable than that 1 of platienlts with any other W139-
Percentages of cores for basal cell cancer range between _91 and 96 per cent, while treatment of
65 to 80 per cent of the cases. SHOULD BE HIGHER
Yet these figures should he even higher. Far too many persons fail to obtain treatment because a le- sion on the face or lip does not hurt and appears harmless. . ,
I would like to emphasize once more that pain is not an early sylmlpltom of cancer. 0
In many instances, lghe dentist is the first one to notice ‘a can- cerous or precancerous lesion. _He can help save a life by referring
sicians for immediate treatment.
ned persons, with little pigmen- taltion, who are constantly expos- ed to the wind ahd sun. - - OTHER IRRITANTS‘ , _ .
We also believe that consistent exposurlr to some chemical ir- ritants such as petroleum. 0081- tar and lead arsenlate also lfle0lDS_ cause skin, cancer” A _
An irregular tooth, poorly fit- ting dentures and frequent lup- biting cause chronic irritation which 'mva»y,1‘at times, speed do-,
»Most victims of cancer of the hip or. face are white males .0116!‘ the age of .40. Most common form of intra-oralgcancer is carcinoma of the lower lip. Women, however’, ,probably are more frequently at- fected‘by0caI.1'ceI' of the 11191961‘ UP-0 FIRST EV_IDENCE= _ _
Inmany cases,_the first evi- dence of cancer will be _a Small» persistelit blister onthe hp. Some
blisters ‘heal during the winter and ulcerate lnthe summer. 1 Basal cell ca«rci~n‘olrnas‘ gene!“ ally are lesions on the skin of the scalp, the nose, eyelids. chit}. cheeks or forehead. Usually, this type of lesion appears as a- no- dule which ulcerates and then cruists as it develops slowly. _ 0 The prognosis for the malt}?- ity of these cases, as 1 have said, is very good if‘ proper steps are taken early enough. with surgery or
areas. QUESTION A101) ANSWER. , ’P.A.: A cousin of mine-has tu-
contagious? ~ _ — Answer: Usually tulberculos: of
-mibted to another person.
. Cabinet were still. in Parliament in the last session. and are run- ning again. 1 , 2
drink, or whatsoever ‘ye do. do all
patients with these lesions to nhy- ,
Generally cancer of the lip and 0 face is found in dry, t‘hin-sk»1n-
patients have reported that such .
X-ray we can» generally cure cancer in these?
the kidney is not readily tranls- ,
bers of the 1953-1957 st. Laurent,
The Age Old Story,
Whether gtnereiti-é‘ ye‘ eat; or
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Journal 0 ‘__,__M__¢m“____g_ OUR YESTERDAYS (From The Guardian Files)
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
(March 25. 1933)
Al; the Convocation to be held
on the 7th of April of the Pres-
byterian College, Montrga}. the
Degree of Doctor of Divinity is
to be conferred_ upon Rev.‘ R.
Moorhead Legatel B.D.. lVI‘in1St€1‘
who will be presented for the dye-. gree by Hon. Dr. CY1"1{S M_3CM11’- laln, Professor of Elngllsll 111 W3‘ Gill University. 0
Miss Cassie McKay. P051 M15‘ tress, at Midgell, Kings County. has tendered her resignation, be- cause of 11001‘ health. to take ef‘ foot on or belore June 1st. The Post Office has been in her house for over fifty years, and she has
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, 0 roads will. be discontinued by tn}, ' Provincial Government. Hon G. . Barbour, Minister of Highwgysj‘ ‘
have to do it themselves.
0 SWHAT °A0B,OiUT THIS? 1
Electors - do not be again deceived. Here are the ‘ 1 j undisputable facts! Public works that would have r been undertaken or completed elm 1957 had a Liberal government been 111- Office as follows: Point wall . ..-g.-- ~ ~ ~ - - aloe - _ggggo-g-concave . l 0 Montague ,l°€[l3ll’! 0 -.--go:-z--.-«co-l Nflfth Lake eXte1lSi0.n iglg I 0 1-, 0.0 u o 0.‘
berculosis flhe ‘kid,ney_ ;[s E A Quay Wall 9 o 9 gr; I’! O I as I Q n .
What then has the Kings County reprwcntative , . received from Mr. Dicfenbaker out of his one .0 billion dollar public works
0 voTE'.KlCKHAM Font KINGS
A lmbby has been described as the hard work a man ‘wouldn't (1,, for a living. —- St. Catherine; Standard. ‘
been in charge of the office since 1886. , TEN YEARS AGO (March 25, 1948)
A resolution in the Provincial, Legislature yesterday that the Fisheries Prices Support Board“ be requested to purchase canned 7 fish on P.E.I. when these, fish,‘ are available and processed and kept in storage for relief purp0s;‘_ es or for the supplying of the an- t.icipated_requ«ests from relief agl" encies, wasunanimously adopted_
The policy of playing men 00, turn out to shovel snow on ruraf
said farmers were no longer pay. ing land or road taxes, and he would insist that if they want their roads broken in winter they win."
A Conservative ad, inserted Kings County" Conservative Association, enum- erates Public Works 0 Program for Kings .00., and states’ if iyour member. can achieve this muchin. V 8 months-with what,‘
can he do in 4 years
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” $24,000 . $00,000‘. .0 $43,000 $31,000 $23.00!».
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