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PAGE 4 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1965.

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Today's Byelections

With the party standing in the | Legislature now 17 Conservatives | against 11 Liberals. today’s byelec- | tions in Fifth Prince and First Kings | could not, in any case, mean a gov- ernment upset. The campaigning has been keen, nevertheless, and there ig reason to expect a large turnout of voters. This is as it should be. in justice to the candidates and in the interests of all concerned.

The contest in Prince may be the last in which the vote will be con- | fined to property owners under the existing Election Act. The new Act, passed at the 1963 legislative ses- sion, does away with the distinction

claimed before the next general pro- vincial election.

It is said that today’s results may | have a bearing on whether or not a general election will be called in the province this year. This reasoning is based on the supposition that if Con- servative candidates are returned, the Government may find it opportune to take the plunge. If not, it will bide its time, hoping to do so under more favorable auspices. This kind of political thinking is not uncommon, but there are other factors, surely, which should be taken into account.

In this case we trust that a more responsible view of its stewardship will be taken by the administration if its candidates are indorsed, and that it will go to the country when the public interests warrant it, and before. The last general provin- election was called in December, 1962. There seems no reason-why a h mandate should be required year, whichever way the cards. i ¥'s-contest.....

val of the idea of a political union

of the Atlantic Provinces at a confer- _

ce in Charlottetown last year, isn’t

g further at this time than to

ine the union of Nova Scotia

agd New Brunswick. He isn’t as

ch as prodding Prince Edward

. He may be waiting, it sug-

gests, to confront us with a fait ac-

compli, after which this. Province

could apply if it pleased for admis- sion

| That's the way we'd want it, with- any screws being applied. Mean- there has been an academic dis- ion of the matter at Sackville, Dr. Hugh Thorburn, of the politi- science staff of Queen’s Univer- and an authority on the politics New Brunswick, had some pertin- emt things to say on the subject. | Dr. Thorburn conceded that such | might help to stimulate reg- economic development. But on p basis of the two most frequently used reasons for union—economy in government and more effective rep- resentation—he would consider such

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four Atlantic Provinces, two are “over-represented” now in the House of Commons on the basis of popula- tion. We shouldn't have to give any

one guess as to where we fit in this

? oonenennennncendhom a Err fit en ce: = iat = | That Union Question

| leaders—from Sir John A. Macdon- | ald to Sir Robert Borden—were

| less-developed countries may increase

sister provinces unite if they wish, and let them leave the door open for us, and a candle in the window, in case we change our mind. That would be real friendly of them.

Temper, Mr. Pearson!

Prime Minister Pearson, blames the Conservative for much of the bad publicity his government is getting these days. That is what he told the Canadian University Liberal Federa- tion at its annual meeting in Ottawa on Saturday. He warned his hearers not to be deceived by “the headlines | of inquiries and alleged misdemean- | ors and all that kind of thing.”

Tory propaganda, he charged. “They're so bitterly divided among themselves you can be sure they will do everything they possibly can to take the public mind off their dif- ficulties by directing their charges however unfounded they may be, against us.”

A sad state of affairs, isn't it? Worse still. it seems the Tories have been able to induce such staunch Liberal newspapers as the Winnipeg Free Press, and such outstanding | Liberal journalists as Bruce Hut- chison, to sav snooty things about Mr. Pearson apshis government.

Only the other day, the Free Press warned the Prime Minister that he'd have to mend his ways and start cleaning up his cabinet. And this man Hutchison, how is he talk- ing in his widely read column? “The Liberal government,” he says in his latest to hand, “terribly damaged,

pretends to march ahead as if noth- ing had happened to it, like a man who limps on a broken leg, with a | glazed smile, and refuses to call a |

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And he compounds his offense | by comparing Mr. Pearson to “an un- | certain Hamlet when he ought to be | playing the King or, betters the Ace which prime ministers alone possess.”

The fact is that both the major parties, and their leaders, are coming in for a lot of justifiable criticism these days. If they paid more at- tention to it they would likely im- prove their batting average consid- erably. Trying to blame opponents, or the press, for the bad odor in which they stand is not getting them or their followers anywhere.

Their Proper Place As we recall having said before, | the Globe and Mail was one of the first Tory papers to go anti-Diefen- baker before the last federal elec- tion. It is still deploring his leader- | ship. That hasn’t prevented it from blasting the Tory MPs and senators who boycotted the parliamentary caucus which Mr. Diefenbaker called last week, and which gave him a vote The GM maintains that as leader, Mr. Diefenbaker had an unquestion- able right to call a caucus at any time

‘Premier Robichaud; who sparked there choseHe may have expected the |

vote he received, with which to con- front. Saturday’s meeting of the party’s national executive. But that was no excuse for his critics to stay away; on the contrary, they had a | special obligation to be present, to argue their case, and be counted. In failing to do so, says the Toronto paper, they quit the battlefield and discredited themselves. “Public opinion,” it adds, “will not fail to note that, while Mr. Diefenbaker is ready and eager to fight for his position, his enemies ap- pear unwilling or afraid to face him | in the proper party forum.” | It is worth noting, in this con- | nection, that the party’s first six

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chosen by the caucus with no con- | vention called. And in practical terms, the authority of the caucus is still considerable since the party leader must have the confidence of the men he leads in the Commons. That is where party strength is de- termined, regardless of what any party organization has to say outside the House.

EDITORIAL NOTES. .

Only 121 cases of polio were list- ed in the United States last year. Ten years ago there were as many as 40,000 cases in a year. We haven’t seen the corresponding figures for Canada, but they too would doubtless show the striking progress that med- ical science has achieved in this field.

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According to the UN Secretary- General, the increase in population in. the less-developed regions is pri- marily responsible for the estimate that the world’s population may near- ly double in the next 40 years. Dur-

ing this period the population of the

to about two and one-half times its present size.

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Tory Chief; Not a Wolf MP Asserts |

“WHAT BIG TEETH YOU HAVE, GRANDMA”

OTTAWA REPORT By

Patrick Nicholson

In a tecent column I describ- ed an analysis recéntly made of the votes in the 1963 election

This showed that 2] per cent. of the registered voters did not use their ballot. Of the approx- imately four-fifths of electors who did go to the polls, 42 per cent voted for Liberal candidat- es, 33 per cent voted for Conser- vative candidates, 13 per cent for New Democrats and 12 per | cent voted for Social Crediters. |

I mentioned that 1,184,340 Can- | adians voted for the 97 victorious Conservative candidates: the | other 1,407,374 who voted for un- successful Conservative candid- ates are not represented in the - caucus of present. Conservative MPs. : Neg

There has been a sharp de- cline in the Conservative vote in | the last two elections. The total Tory vote of 3,911,195 in 1958 | dwindled to 2,867,553 in 1962, and down further to 2,591,614 in 1963.

WHAT THE POLLS SAY Relevant to the mathematics

- of the electoral polls—now near-

ly two years old—is the more | recent sampling by the unoffic- ial opinion polls.

The latest review by .the Can- adian Inetitute’ of? _Opin- ion showed that,

L tral support. |

This columa ts open to thé ‘discussie: by corresponden’s of questions of i> | terest. The Guardian dees vot uetes |’ sarily endorse the epinion ef corres pendenis. All letters published are sab ject to editing and cendensation where | mecessary, The Guardian is unable te enter inte any corrrespondence regard | ing

letsers submitted.

| A CHALLENGE TO PARLIAMENT

Sir\—After reading that warn- ing in the Guardian, February 5th, I was prompted to write these few lines. The warning has gone forth. What will Par- liament do about it? It is useless to lock the stable after the horse is stolen. Now is the time to act.

I am, Sir, etc., W.D. JOHNSTON |

Our Yesterdays

(From the Guardian Files)

TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO (February 9, 1940)

Destruction of two German submarines—one of which was believed to have sunk the Can- adian Pacific freighter Beaver- burn—by a single destroyer of His Majesty's Navy was proud- ly announced by the Admiralty in London tonight.

The directors of the Northum- berland Ferries Ltd., Messrs. R. E. Mutch, George Tweedy and D.F. Archibald left by plane this morning from Halifax to in- spect the car ferry “Sankaty” which arrived in that port re- cently,

TEN YEARS AGO (February 9%, 1955)

Basil Phillips, now .a student at Acadia College, Wolfeville, received one of the highest marks yet given in the instro- mental classes at the Halifax Musical Festival.

A Royal Dutch airliner head- ed across the Atlantic with 2,200 aboard. That’s right

has risen to 47 per cent; Conser- vative support has dropped slightly to 32 per cent: while 12 per cent would vote New Demo- cratic and nine per cent would support the Social Credit Party. But these are the percentages only of those Canadians who, when asked, had a definite op- inion as to how they would vote if an immediate election were held. A surprisingly large and therefore very significant, group of 30 per cent of those asked said that they did not know how they would vote, having no pref- erence for any political party. | Another recent nationwide sur- | vey cross-checked very accurat- |

ely: the relative popularity, of |

the four parties, but discovered an even larger group of unde- | cided voters.

If we average fliese two polls, and apply that average to the | total electorate of almost exact- ly 10,000,000 voters, we make an astonishing discovery.

HOW YOU WOULD VOTE

Today 3,100,000 would vote Liberal— in contrast to the 3,- 293.790 who actually voted Lib- eral in 1963; 2,000,000 would vote Conservative, sharply reduced

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“ Parhamentarians have been | asked by the’ government | to present themselves in morn- | ing-coatsand striped trousggs.at.. the official ceremonies which will mark the raising of the new Canadian flag.

The hope, rather forlorn: it would appear, is that it will be remembered as one of the great moments of Canadian his- tory; one, perhaps, which would warrant a composite picture in the Charlottetown tradition, and, naturally, be called ‘The Fathers of The Flag.”’

The date, February 15. On that day the Red Ensign will be hauled down on land and sea; in its place will appear the maple leaf flag.

On the same day, the White Ensign will disappear from Her Majesty’s ships of the | Royal Canadian Navy. Ironical- ly, the new flag has no assoc- iation with royalty nor, more's the pity. with the Royal Navy.

All is not yet lost, however, the Canadian Naval Association hopes. Sunday, in Toronto, the directors of the CNA, agreed to ask Defence Minister Hellyer to reverse his ensign stand. , What they propose, essentially, |

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May Bring

London Free Press

Safety features in automobil- es, like seat-belts which are now almost universal, have been in- troduced all too slowly when it |

is considered that the automo- | hausts, safety tires and rims bile has been a part of our lives | and most important of all,

for half a century. Car makers have been to admit that they are turning out a po- tentially lethal object which, to date, has taken more than a mil- lion lives, and kills more than

thousand persons in North

A a alone every year. It taken constant pres- sure from consumers’ organiza-

tions, safety officials and gov- — plus competitive ad- — to achieve such ad-

r as -have been made. pressure, which may prove irresistible, is now being

ied. a cars it will buv in 1967, the U.S .Government has laid down a list of 17 features it would like to see as standard

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equipment. These include pas- |

harnesses, padded dash instrument

Halifax ‘Mail Star *

White Ensign Proposal

| ficiency is not detected

| cellent

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lron Supply Of The Body

DeGaulle’s New Proposals

By Carman Cumming Canadian Press Staff Writer »

| Once again, Charles de Gaulle

as talking about the shape of

By Dr. Theodore R. Van Delien has jolted world diplomacy to | things to come—and possibly

A 40-year-old New York City

woman writes: ‘“‘Im always tir- |

ed, nervous, and short of breath. In addition, my hands and feet tingle and feel numb. Our phy- sician says | am healthy except for a borderline anemia. | feel better when he gives me iron tablets but it doesn't make sense. How can borderline an-

| emia cause al! this trouble?”

In the past, most physicians

| would agree with this woman,

ptovided she had iron deficien- cy anemia. This is understand- able because in other types of anemia, the blood count and hemoglobin (iron content of blood) are very low before sym- ptoms develop.

Why is iron deficiency anemi: so different? We now know th the blood count does not tell the whole story. Considerable iron is stored in bone marrow in a form easily converted into hem oglobin in the blood.

Let us assume that our New |

Yorker loses a certain amount of iron in her menstrual flow. In addition, her diet lacks iron because she prefers salads and dainty sandwiches to meat. In time, the percentage of iron in her system wanes but this de- in “the blood until the reserve supply in the bone marrow is depleted. Special studies have shown that when the quantity of iron in these depots is exhausted, the response to iron tablets is ex- Victims of anemia be- come peppy and are relieved of | headache, dizziness, and ner- vousness.

the bottom of its striped pants.

The bombshell this time is the | | French president's suggestion the world’s five nuclear powers sit down at Geneva and talk about how to restore the equili- , | brium of the United Nations.

De Gaulle also suggests the nuclear powers decide how the UN should be run while the other 110 members sit outside in the cold, waiting and wonder- |

ing.

HIDDEN MOTIVES?

On the fact of it, the audacity of the idea tops anything that hc. come out of Paris since Na- poleon decided to take on the Russians.

But with de Gaulle. as with icebergs, a good deal lies below the surface.

In this case, the sub-surface motivations already are the sub- ject of intense speculation at the UN itself.

It is conceded de Gaulle !s fully aware of the attitudes of both Peking and Washington; that he doesn't expect quick ac- ceptance of his proposal any more than he did in the case of his 1963 idea of nei ‘ralizing

| Southeast Asia

Rather, the president is seen

A Dallas ‘physician recently calculated that the iron deposits of normal men average 819 mg.. whereas those of women are only 254 mg. Hé conducted tests | on several volunteers in which th iron stores were completely

| depleted and an obvious anemia

from the 2,591,614 who Conservative two years ago: the New Democrat vote would

slump from 1,037,857 to 800,000 before iron deposits in the bone some fe. Marrow returned

cent extravagant NDP claims of | These people took 110 mg. of

—thus contradicting

sweeping gains in an election;

eu Big Stake. In The, Undecided. Vote...

existed.. Iron tablets were given when this stage was reached

d._the.hemoglobin, content of Fe Seed ts or erat the UStAT: voted a short time

But the medicine had to be |

continued for four to six months |

to normal.

iron per day but only 3 to 6 mg. |

Hamilton

The recent Incident in Saigon , when Buddhist rioters looted and burned the United States In- formation Agency library makes one wonder why buildings of this particular agency have been the target for 40 attacks in the last 11 years

According to authorities of the libraries and cultural cen- | tres represent symbols of the United States and are usually located near the centre of a city, a convenient spot to which agi- tators can direct rioting mobs.

As part of its foreign aid pro- gram the United States govern- |

and the Socred vote— for both were absorbed to make up the | ment maintains 172 libraries and

wings of the movement— would total 600,000 compared to the 1963 total of 940,703.

deficit. SOLE WART W. writes: What

Mrs will

But the number of registered , happen if I disregard treatment

electors who would not vote at all would soar astonishingly to about 3,500,000. a huge increase

of plantar warts? REPLY Nothing, if you refer to the |

upon the 2,105,924 who failed to usual wart on the sole. The ma- |

vote in 1963

jority are so painful most vic- |

In other words, the number of tims want them and the cause

Canadians who are undecided as to which political party they would vote for—or perhaps who

corrected. NERVE DEAFNESS

F. S. writes: Can anything be

are just disgusted with all our done to retard deafness caused political shenanigans—- are so by deterioration of the hearing

| numerous today that, if they

plumped for any one party— even for an entirely new party —they, as the largest group of electors. could swing the elec-

nerve? REPLY Possibly. Vitamin B complex | or niacin is worth trying. Mean- while consult an ear specialist .

tion to the candidates of their. for a hearing aid or advice of |

choice That is a big stake to play for. It should make both the Liber-

lip reading SALT WATER BATHS M. T. writes: Ha person is

als and the Conservatives think on a reducing diet, will weight

seriously

|

is that the White Ensign be re tained, the only concession to the government‘’s flag policy being | the- itution.of the maple! leaf design for the Union Jack | in the upper canton next to the | staff

The Canadian Naval Assoclia- tion has twenty - seven mem- ber clubs, from coast to coast, with a total membership of about 4.900 veterans of all! ranks. Despite the curious stand of a dissenting director, who maintained that any flag with the cross of St. George in it has colonialism in it, too, the Association will have the heart- felt support, not only of the ma- jority of its members, but of | the great body of Canadians who | deplore the deliberate sever- ance of tangible, hallowed ties with a nation that could produce a Winston Churchill.

We expect nothing to come of it, however. The government which summarily rejected the protests of the 266,000 member strong Royal Canadian Legion in the Red Ensign issue, is not likely to do more than acknow- ledge the views of the Canadian | Naval Association on the White Ensign.

Safer Cars

temper Velgats ond se ihitts bu: and gear electric windshield wipers and washers, pollution- reducing ex-

a | dual- braking system now offer- led on only two American- built | cars, Add these up and they sound | lke the safety engineer's dream come true. Since governments are important customers— aside | from the legislative powers im- | plicit in such requests—it is pro- | bable that we'll all be driving fn- finitely safer cars a of years from naw. But that will ‘be only half the

| safety battle; the really vital part will still remain with leg- | {slaters who are more concer- ned with licence fees and taxes than with the m task. of driver educa-

tion. GUNS ‘FROM ITALY

_! Canadians bought almost 1,300 Italian-made shotguns in 1963— most came from the Venice and Brescia areas where their man-

ufacture is a centuries-old tradi- to»

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be’ ‘lost faster if she bathes in epsom salts every night?

a REPLY

No, because epsom salts are |

pun notabsorbed through the - skin | ; and the solution is no more effi- | | cient than ordinary water.

59 reading rooms in 87 countries all over the world

Many books in these libraries are printed in both the local lan-’|

Burned Libraries

shaking up international pat- terns that appear to him t@ be

| hardening in an unsatisfactory

way

DOUBLE WARNING

De Gaulle’s proposal seemed to some at the UN to be a sort of double-barrelled warning

First, he was telling the UN it couldn't e: pect much French support until the, restoration of big-power supremacy in peace- keeping operations

Second, he was saying the big powers can't. settle anything among themselves—such as dis- armament until Peking and Paris are given a full vay. De

| Gaulle doesn't like to see prob-

lems settled over his head by Washington and Moscow.

The French president also seemed to be accentuating the idea his cou..try should act as a bridge or a balance between East and West.

This would fit with France's earlier recognition of Peking and with the disclosure Wednesday

‘|. formal talks are going on in

Paris between the Communist North Vietnamese and _ the American-backed South Vietna- mese.

To some, de Gaulle will ap- pear to be,rushing in where an- gels fear to tread. But no one in the West disputes things are going badly at the UN, in South Viet Nam and on the question

of rapprochement with China. Some fresh ideas may be wel-

comed

Spectator

guage and in English and they are considered to be one of the most powerful influences abroad

established by the United States Inm-many of these under-de-

veloped countries the USIA U- brary is the only one where basic reference informatlof “éan

sonris becaiise: + heed ria port mine pale amg ies

Destructive and discouraging as these attacks have been the USIA is determined to rebuild and restock the libraries The mere fact that its buildings have been attacked and the contents destroyed should be an encour- agement to the project's back- ers

Recognition of the danger, from agitators, ls a sure sign the libraries are doing the job intended for them.

Downright Revolutionary

Financial Post _ ,

That all Quebec” children, French and English, should be_ taught the same version of Caf- .adian history is recomménded in the secand report_ef the Par- ent Commission ef Education.

It was the~same able and epoch-makihg commission that proposed, in an earlier report, the creation, for the first time, of a Quebec Department of Ed- ucation. This was done

Of all subjects of study, not excluding literature, _ political science and economics, history ~ does most to mold the student's attitudes to the community he

| will live in. It would be a trium- | ph for goodwill and national un-

ity if all Quebec children, not to mention.the children. of other. provinces, absorbed .the same

amount of, let us say, the Bat-

tle-of Quebec or the Confedera- fion debates. But at first blush this looks like a Utopian sch- eme.

Even the English and the Scots, who have lived side by side on reasonably good terms for many centuries, get differ- ent slants on some _ famous events. And as for the English and the Irish—well, compare what their historiatis say about Oliver Cromwell

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MALAYAN CURFEW LIFTED

KUALA LUMPUR Dusk-to-dawn curfew on sections o: the

coast as precautions

(Reuters) imposed Malayan

against

posible Indonesian ralds were

lifted Monday.

CN travel bargains

Charlottetown to:

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Sackville

Moncton:

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