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It is encouraging to note the as- surance, from our four representa- tives in the House of Commons, that the Federal Government is tackling our ferfy transportation problem in

earnest. In a joint statement issued

yesterday, they indicate that™ the Government is considering three pro- posals: the possibility of obtaining an additional_boat elsewhere; a mil- lion and a half dollar program of major modification to the Scotia II; or the construction ofa new ferry, which would cost twice as much as the remodelling of the Scotia and which would not be ready until 1961 at the earliest.

It is disappointing to learn that the “Vacationland”, the Michigan boat to which reference was made in

_the Legislature, would require exten-

sive new docking facilities at Borden. In discussing this matter in the House last month, Premier Matheson said he was given to understand, in conversation with the Deputy Trans- port Minister at Ottawa, that the only problem was that concerning the foreign registry of the ship; and it was to this difficulty that Transport Minister Hees referred in a later communication with the Premier. He had, however, been informed by the captains of the ferries at Borden that the “Vacationland” could not be docked, either at Borden or Tormen- tine, with any degree of safety. This statement the Premier was inclined to discount, for reasons which he outlined in the debate. Built in 1952 and remodelled in 1955, the “Vaca- tionland” is about the same size as the “Abegweit” and he believed that with some slight alterations to the piers it could be used here.

Evidently this is not the case. In view of the importance of the mat- ter, we trust that full details of the negative report on the ‘“Vacation- land” will be made public. This the

» Federal Government should do in its

own interests, so as to absolve it

. completely from any further critic-

ism. In the meantime, let us hope that it will be prompt in seeking out an available boat elsewhere, in pre- ference to remodelling the old Scotia II, which, at best, would be a patch- work job.

The predicament we are now in

.4is a result of protracted delay in

giving consideration to our ferry re- quirements—a delay for which both party governments have been respon- sible. Let us hope that we have entered upon a new“and brighter chapter, and that there will be no further need for recrimination. Whatever the cost, we expect im- provement in the service as speedily as possible. And, of course, as our members have been at pains to point out, this “in no way indicates a lessening of interest in the causeway project,” which is the long-term solution to Ottawa’s headache and

, ours. \

Opportunity Knocking

It is to be hoped that full advan- tage will be taken of the new ship-

ping service to Newfoundland, Baf- |

fin Island and Labrador which has been made available by the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council.. As Dr. Frank MacKinnon explained in his address to the Charlottetown Board of Trade on Monday evening, this is the direct result of the recent APEC- sponsored trade visit to the Far

North. The speaker gave an inspiring

account of his own impressions of this trip and of the wonderful pros- pects for trade development there. “What the Western prairies have done for the Central Provinces and what the North West has done for Alberta, and British Columbia,” he said, “this last frontier of Canada will do for us in the Maritime Pro- ’ vinces.” :

The three areas of Goose Bay, Frobisher Bay and Harmon Field now have a population of about

s 40,000, and this will be greatly ex- * ‘panded within the next decade. At

present the Maritimes are getting only 5% per cent of a $100,000,000 annual business, and only one-eighth of the agricultural trade carried on.

Of special interest to this Province nN ,

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is the ready market for prime quality farm products.

Here, certainly, is opportunity knocking at the door, and no time is to be lost in making the necessary business contacts. One thing we must be prepared to do, of course, is guar- antee quality and continuity of supply. As Dr. MacKinnon emphasiz-

- bed, “it is not only ‘important that we

‘ get our share of the present market but that we be on the ground floor when the inevitable expansion takes place.” which he left. with his hearers, and

enthusiastic.

But this enthusiasm must be con- verted into action. Our Boards of Trade can serve a useful purpose in this connection, and so can our farm organizations. If Dr. MacKinnon can be spared from his other onerous duties, it would be an excellent idea to have him speak at various centres throughout the Province, giving, in his own dynamic words, this vision that he has caught of the Canadian North as our last frontier, and of the part that we can play in its amazing development.-*-

Uranium For Japan

By an agreement signed in Vienna last month, Japan became the first country to buy nuclear fuel for re- search purposes from the Intérna- tional Atomic Energy Agency, and the Agency assumed its major role as a supplier of such material for peaceful activities. Canada is par- ticularly interested in this project, for the uranium supplied is being furnished by this country free of charge to the Agency, as part of its contribution to the IAEA pro- gram.

Japan is buying three tons of na- tural uranium for use in a low pow- er research reactor, and special safe- guards are being drawn up by the IAEA to ensure that the fuel, and any fissionable material produced from it, shall not be used in such a way as to further any military pur- pose. These safeguards will include the submission by Japan of regular reports, and the periodic visits of IAEA representatives to Japan.

The material will be ready for de- livery to Japan within three months of the entry into force of the agree- ment between Canada and the IAEA. Truly we—and Japan—have come a long way since August, 1945, when the dreadful effects of atomic bombs were first felt at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the nuclear age was ominously ushered in.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Those slow Britishers again. An export order to supply Yugoslavia with £3,700,000 of agricultural mac- hinery has been secured by a firm in, war-battered Coventry, England. The order is for 5,000 tractors and a wide range of implements, acces- sories and spare parts. All the trac- tors will be fitted with engines made in Peterborough, England. Deliveries are to start at once and the order will be completed within twelve

months. * - 7

The U. S. House of Representa-

tives has passed legislation to create a 24-member Congressional Commit-

tee to act as “liaison” with the Cana-

dian Parliament.’ If approved by the Senate, the group will work with a similar Canadian group at the legis- lative level on common problems and interests. It follows up a Canadian- American meeting.-in Washington

last January. ™ * *

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One of the more reassuring as-

‘ pects of the Dulles-to-Herter change- «

over at the U.S. State Department has been the performance of Mr. Dulles at the meeting confirming him as foreign policy adviser to President Eisenhower. Mr. Dulles is reported to have warned his successor, Secre- tary of State Herter, against “inter- lopers” between him and the Presi- dent—and then to have added that he, Mr. Dulles, would take care him- self not to be an interloper. ~ * .*

An American Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Stephen Bayne, Bishop of Olympia, Wash., has been named by the Arch- bishop of Canterbury executive offi- cer of the world-wide Anglican Com- munion. This is a new post created at last year's Lambeth Conference. The main responsibility of Bishop Bayne will be the administration of the communion’s central planning organization for missionary work around the world and the consulta- tive body of Lambeth, an interim agency that functions between the decennial Lambeth Conferences. Bishop Bayne will live in London.

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THE PINCH HITTER

OTTAWA REPORT

An unwritten headline was the most newsworthy item in an otherwise undistinguished Budget debate.

“Women should only smoke ci- gars.””

That sensational advice was the headline news which, although, unreported and although unspok- en in those words, lay behind the thoughtful speech delivered by Dr. P.B. Rynard, the surgeon and physician who presents Orillia in our House of Commons.

Dr. Rynard spoke of Finance Minister Fleming's increase of the excise tax on cigarettes by two cents per package.

cause that would serve as an added deterrent."’ He was, of course, speaking medically and not fiscally. He was not advoca- ting higher taxes as such. The clue, which few of his listeners picked up,. was that word “de- terrent’’. As a doctor, he explain- ed to me afterwards, he would welcome any step which \ would deter Canadians from _ cutting short their lives by heavy smok- ing of cigarettes. TOO HOT

Tobacco, he explained to me, burns with the greatest heat when in contact with paper, such as a cigarette wrapper. This heat is probably intensified by the salt- petre or other ingredient with

“IT am not sure that this in- | crease should not have been grea- declared the Doctor, “be-

An Added Deterrent

By Patrick Nicholson

which the wrapper is impregna- ted to keep it smouldering. When tobacco burns at such a high temperature, the heat creates a dangerous rosin, which is a can- cer-producing factor.

The danger lies in the temper- ature at which the tobacco is burned; it has nothing to do with the temperature at which the to- bacco smoke enters the human body, so the use of a long cig- arette holder—which cools the smoke—does not eliminate the danger. Some filters may reduce the quantity of the carcinogenic rosin which is carried into the

body by the smoke.

Not being in contact with pap- er, tobacco burns at a lower tem- perature when packed into a pipe or rolled into a cigar. This does not create the killing rosin, so medical circles believe that pipe- smokers and cigar addicts do not contract lung cancer from the factor which kills so many cig- arette smokers.

Dr. Rynard, who smokes only the occasional cigar himself, told me that the proportion of deaths from lung cancer is rising, es- pecially among women who are becoming as heavy cigarette

| smokers as men.

The conclusion which I sensed to be written between the lines, although not spelled out, in the Doctor's speech was simply this: there is no need to cut out to bacco, but it would be prudent

to switch from cigarettes to pipes

or cigars.

More dramatically, his mes- sage is this: ‘“‘Women should only smoke cigars.”

THE WISE DUTCH GIRLS

Now before even the most charmingly feminine of the Doc-

free to you, but well worth the five bucks which a visit to your doctor would cost—let us think of the mild little cigarillos, or cibarette-sized cigars, which are already so popular in the United States. Let us think of the women of the Netherlands, who have so long wisely been cigar smokers.

And above all, let us think of the women, and the men, who perhaps first notice a persistent cold, then perhaps appear to be suffering from virus pneumonia, and finally learn too late that they have come face to face with that merciless and painful killer, cancer of the lung.

There is as yet no scientific data concerning the extent of the danger of cigarettes, any more than there is about those similar carcinogenes, diesel oil fumes and industrial chemical fumes. Nor is there a fixed dan- ger level in cigarette smoking which applies equally to every person; some are more suscep- tible than others, some are for- tunately entirely immune.

But the message was here, a red flag in the middle of that unexpected scene, a Budget de- bate.

“If even one Canadain saves his life after reading my speech I shall be happy that I spoke those words,"’ Doctor Rynard told me.

Ever since they lost the last general<iection, the Liberals have been looking for ways and means of winning the next one.

They have been accused, ‘at times, of giving a rather dull performance in the House of Commons. But in some measure, at least, this has been due to a deliberate policy of watching. waiting and hoping for a new is- sue to arise.

“We are waiting,” for Liberal strategists have been in the hab- it of saying, ‘‘for the Government to make its first major mistake.”

Past experience has indicated that an opposition stands to gain remarkably little by starting right after an election, to challen ge the government anew on polic ies for which the government has just received a mandate.

Anyway. the Liberals now be. lieve that the period of watching and. waiting is at an end.

FIRST SERIOUS ERROR

The _Diefenbaker Government they are persuaded, has commit ted its first serious error—on: which could be exploited to ad vantage in the next electior whnever it comes.

Prime Minister Diefenbaker slipped badly, they think, in re- fusing bluntly to give special federal aid to Newfoundland under the terms of union, past 1962. This opinion is not the ex- clusive property of the Liberals. for that matter. There ‘are Con- servative M.P.’s, especially from Maritime ridings, who agree fundamentally with the position which the Government took, but who entertain grave doubts about the way in which that position was announced and explained on a kind of take-it-or-leave it basis.

But while the Conservatives who have mental reservations a- bout Ottawa’s stand ‘n the mat- ter are being scrupplously care. ful to do nothing designed to in crease the Government's difficul ties in this regard. the same can not be said, of course, of the de lighted Liberals. They are work ing hard to turn the Governments difficulties in Newfoundland to their advantage.

PLUGGING / WAY They have contrived a cam- Paign to keep the Newfoundiand

The Search For The Key

Arthur Blakely In The Montreal Gazette

liament and the public. Scarcely a day has passed since the Prime Minister issued his pronounce- ment on the %erms .of the final settlement with Newfoundland under the terms of union that some Liberal hasn't raised the issue in some form or other.

They ask questions which, as a rule, the Government is reluctant to answer. They demand the production of letters and other documents. And “hey make speeches.

To date, by the exercise of con- siderable ingenuity, they show no evidence of running out of raw material for questions, no- tices of motion for the production of documents and speeches. Just how long they can hammer away at the Newfoundland issue is a -matter of conjecture. But if; as expected, the next general elec- tion is still three or three and a half years in-the future, they have a long way to go.

LIBERAL SPARK

The sparkplug, of the Liberal campaign, as might be expected, is the Hon. J.W. Pickersgill, the ex-civil servant who was adopted by Newfoundland and Premier Snallwood and given a secure hav- en in the constituency of Bonavis- ta-Twillingate. Mr. Pickersgill wasn’t at all pleased by Opposi- tion Leader Pearson's critical view of Mr. Smallwood’s Labor legislation. But the new row over the financial settlement has al-

The Age Old Story

If any man will come after Me, let Him deny himself

COSMOPOLITAN FORCE

AUCKLAND, N.Z. (CP)—When recruiting started for a battalion to replace the New Zealand unit now~serving in Malaya, applica- tions were received from English- men, Australians, two Germans, a Dutehman and a Chinese. “We also had inquiries from New Zealanders,” said a recruiting

sergeant. \

“MAXIMS

problem constantly before Par-

Respect is what we owe; leve, what we give.

most hidden ¢hat issue from view There is some reason to belie-

ve that Prime Minister Diefen- baker may be wondering if: Ot- tawa’s position was a little too rigid. In a recent telecast, he wem out of his way to express re- gret that “some misunderstand- ing’’ and to promise that such differences would be resolved in a spirit of “understanding, com- monsense and compromise.’’ So some conciliatory gestures may be in the planning stage.

But in the meantime, the Lib- erals. are still: plugging away, convinced that they have New- foundiand solidly with them for a good many years and that other Maritime areas may be sympe- thetic.

About 27 per cent of the con- tact wearers are teenagers or in their preteen years.

The reasons listed by adoles- cents for wearing contacts are:

1. Vanity, which is present to a much stronger degree in teenagers than in adults.

2. Emotions — vanity borders on the emotional.

3. They think removal of spec- tacles will make them more s0- cially acceptable.

4. They want to see well.

5. They want to participate in athletics on’a par with others.

6. They see adults using these lenses. Se ADAPT QUICKL

Teenagers seem to adapt to contact lenses more quickly than adults. Generally, this is ex- plained by, their ability to accept changes more easily and their strong determination to hide their eve defects.

Basically, many persons who wear contact lenses are extro- verts. Practitioners report that introverted patients usually de velop marked out-going charac- teristics within the first six months after being fitted for con- tacts.

QUESTION AND ANSWER

Cc. E. S.: What are the symp- toms of a diabetic?

Answer: There are many sym- ptoms, including frequency of urination, thirst, weight loss, and itching.

OUR YESTERDAYS

(From the Guardian Files)

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (April 29, 1934)

Mrs. D.M. Gass, of Chariotte- town, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H.B. MacCulloch, has had’ a picture accepted at Montreal at the art exhibition of the Mon- treal Artists Association. Mrs. Gass studied art from the famous artist Dumont in New York and more recently at Margaree, N-S. his summer residence.

Mr. D.O. Stewart was re-elec- ted president of the Summerside Tennis Club at the annual meet- ing held Friday evening. Mr. Eric MacKay was elected vice-presi- dent and Mr. A.E. Harris, sec- retary+reasurer.

TEN YEARS AGO (April 29, 1949)

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With his own fellow-countrymen and the rest of the world looking on, Christian A. Herter this week meets the first great test of his abilities as secretary of state— the American foreign minister.

Now firmly established in the job once held by ailing John Foster Dulles, he arrives in Paris by air today and to try to co ordinate with the foreign minis- ters of Britain and France Allied strategy for the forthcoming East-West talks on Berlin and the future of Germany.

His first task will be to help hammer out some acceptable de- gree of unity among the Western big three—Britain, France and the United States — before they meet with the Eastern ministers in Geneva May 11 in critical talks that may lead to a summer

: ing.

Thé degree of\success the West hopes to achieve at Geneva may well depend upon how well Herter and his British and French allies do their job at Paris.

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Herter’s First Task

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and France’s Foreign Minister

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