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Insurance There is still some uncertainty

_. about the provincial hospital insur-

‘ance plan, which will not be cleared ‘up until definite word is received ‘from Ottawa, accepting or rejecting

lative enactment. Certainly the plan thas not yet been rejected, as it has

- not yet been prepared for presenta-

tion to Ottawa; but the doubt per- ‘sists that without satisfactory assur-

_- ‘ance as to the number of subscribers

‘coming voluntarily under its provis- ‘ions, there will be difficulty in ob- taining federal sanction.

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on the bill, and were talked down. It ‘seems also to have been in the minds .of the officials of the Federal Hospi- ‘tal Services Commission who were ,here at the time. At their insistence the Government went through the

motions of moving a mandatory

‘clause to provide for collection of pre- ‘miums from certain employee groups. We say “went through the motions”, ‘because both the Premier and the ‘Health Minister were at pains to tpoint out that the clause was _ not :really necessary—that it was never *the intention to establish the plan on anything but a purely voluntary ba- sis, and that the sole purpose of the amendment was to forestall possible Objection at Ottawa, in which case the Legislature would have to be re- convened and the Act amended. On motion of a_ Liberal member, the

ouse then proceeded to throw the Mandatory clause out.

That is the situation, and now we 4o not really know where we stand. All will hope that Ottawa will accept the plan as proposed, and be satisfi- ed with Health Minister Bonnell’s as- surance that it will cover a large pro- portion of our people. In an interview yesterday, the Minister reaffirmed his conviction that all would be well, and that the plan would go into ef- fect by the first of October. But we must point out that if there is any hitch in the arrangements, it is here and not at Ottawa that the responsi- -bility will lie. We plainly have not taken the precaution suggested by the federal officials to insure the plan’s acceptance. .

Nevertheless, we are encouraged by the ‘Minister’s optimism, and by the plans announced by the, newly appointed Hospital Insurance Com- mission to sell the scheme’s advan- tages to our people on a very wide -gcale. The Minister believes that we should equal the 92 per cent cover- age in Oniario. If Ottawa can be con- vinced that there is a real prospect of achieving anything like this result,

‘the plan as provided for in the legis- «

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We want competition from the trucks, all right, but we are not get- ting enough of it. In the Central Provinces, where the competition is keener, these discriminatory rate boosts do not apply. What we need, of course, is a thorough overhanl of the whole freight rate structure, which. has penalized the outlying

“provinces to the point where our

economy, in the Atlantic Provinces

at least, is seriously threatened. The’

Transport Board was authorized ten years ago to make such an investi-

gation, and it has fallen down on the ©

job. The present Federal Govern- ment is pledged to undertake it, and is. appointing a Royal Commission

to.make the inquiry. In the mean-

time, the $20 million subsidy will re- leive the pressure brought about by the recent railway strike threat, and there will be no more horizontal rate increases until the question is settled.

If truckers would give the same competitive service here as they are giving in the Central Province, they would get the business. The railways are as free as any carrier to charge rates lower than the maximum al- lowed by the Transport Board, but their comparative freedom from com- petition enables them to charge us

all the traffic will bear. They have *

been doing that for years and get- ting away with it. The sooner an end is put to the racket the better.

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Mr. Pickersgill s Opus

When queried in Parliament the other day about something said by the late Mr. Mackenzie King, Mr. Pickersgill, M.P., made the intriguing reply: “I am not going to yield to the' Prime Minister’s invitation to scoop my own book by saying any- thing about what I may know about what Mr. King thought, because I hope that every hon. member some two or three years hence will buy the book.” To the Prime Minister's in- quiry as to “how long we shall have to wait?” Mr. Pickersgill replied: “It depends on how competently the business of this Parliament is done,

and how much leisure I can get to work on the book.”

It should be a dilly. The member for Bonavista-Twillingate served as a top-ranking official under Mr. King for many years—in, the External Af- fairs Department, as private secre- tary to the Prime Minister, as clerk of the Privy Council and as secretary to the Cabinet. He has knowledge of more secrets about the King regime than any man living. More than that, he is an uninhibited gentleman, and when he talks he says plenty. His contribution to the growing list of Mackenzie King biographies will not claim to be unbiased—at least we hope not, for we like Mr. Pickers- gill the way he is, unrepentantly an- ti-Tory, and we don’t want him to pull*his punches—but it will certainly make entertaining reading!

EDITORIAL NOTES

A report from Washington re-

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Ten years ago, Canada and eleven other nations situated a- round the basin of the North At- ‘lantic Ocean signed the North

ntic Treaty. Under Article

of that treaty, called ‘“‘The Canadian Clause’’ because Can- ada designed it and insisted upon its inclusion, the NATO lilies agreed to be allies rather than rivals in trade and economic -aat- ters. ‘

Ten years ago, Canada’s then Foreign Minister, Hon. L. B. Pearson who was the parent- apparent of the Canadian Cause, predicted that that clause would lead to the creation of an ec- onomic and perhaps even a pol- itical commonwealth of the Wes- tern World.

As this column has recently pointed out, Pearson's baby was left out in the cold, aband- oned by “~ parents and by its foster-parents in the other NATO governments, and murdered by neglect.

That economic and political commonwealth will never now stem from NATO. But the bril- laint idea behind the Canadian Clause, conceived ten years hbe- fore its time, is beginning to flow- er elsewhere, with Canada in- clucied out.

EUROPEAN FREE TRADE

As a first step, six nations in western Europe have formed themselves into the European Common Market. France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Ne- therlands and Luxembourg have set out on a voyage planned to make them an integrated econ- omic unit within fifteen. years. \With a joint population of day with tariffs already slashed ten per cent; with government aid and coordination in the wholesale modernization and replanning of their industrial and agricultural activities; they are on Their way to become a Uni- ted States of Western Europe. Their economic integration is far more than a mere customs or

tion of population; it will open up a huge market to produc- ers; it will encourage free cir- culation of capital and currency. ADVANTAGES FOR ALL |

These steps will bring in their train these advantages:

1. the creation of a basis for efficient mass production to sat- isfy the huge new mass mark- et.

2. an increase in productivity.

3. a reduction in costs, and hence lower living costs.

4. a greater variety and 2 im- proved quality in tae goods pro- duced.

5. a reduction of the possibil- ities of recession and virtual el- imination of unemployment.

6. a relocation of production units in the most efficient sites, in relation to raw materials, pow- er and transportation.

There will inevitably be a few cases of hardship caused by the replanning in the interests of all, but government aid will cush-

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jon any economic hardship, which at worst will only be temporary in nature,

One: .of. the great lessons for us in North America in this in- teresting European experiment is that its planners are aiming , at raising the living standards not by increasing wages but by de- creasing costs. Thus each fam- ily will become better off, not because father’s pay packet in- creases, but because mother’s groceteria bill decreases.

The European Common Mark- et is setting up, among the ne- tions who together form our sec- ond best customers, a self-suf- ficient economic unit resembling the United States of America. It may be across an ocean‘ and far away, but it is terrifyingly close to our pockets; are we going to be pushed to the wall in the toughening international trade race? Can we wfford to be a wallflower at this‘dance of the tariff-cutters? Just what is to be our role in the international cold war played on a continental and ideological scale, and just, how do we, the world greatest per capita exporting nation, fit into this rapidly developing new trade picture?

The Vital Zone

By Heath Macquarrie, M.P.

At 7 a.m. we went to the Brus- sels Heliport from which we set out to Bonn, and had our first opportunity to take a trip in a helicopter. This mode of travel is certainly quite different from the aeroplane now used in the commercial air-lines. You are placed in a very small area with one or two other passengers. You are out of contact with crew members, and have a feel~ ing of being very much on your own.

The manner in which a heli- copter takes off into flight is quite thrilling, but the real com- pensation comes from the fact that you fly low and have no obstructions of wings or motors to mar your view. of the land.

ages. We were even lucky enough to hear a group of singing school children. OLD WORLD CHARM

In arranging for our accom- modation, the Canadian Em- bassy had chosen a quaint little hotel overlooking the Rhine. The Schumberger Hof was not only a place of beauty, charm and at- mosphere, but the prices were mercifully low. It is recorded at the Schumberger Hof that it was the scese of the first meeting between Queen Victoria and her cousin, Prince Albert, who later became her husband and the Prince Consort of Britain.

It would be difficult to find a more beautiful spot for such a meeting of the young members

Way. ! But the onus is on us of justifying the course .we have followed.

Freight Rates Again The $20 million subsidy which the Diefenbaker Government is giv- ing as a temporary measure to off- set the inequity of horizontal freight

rate boosts is strongly opposed ‘by |

the Maritime Motor Transport As- |

sociation. Through its organ, “Truck Transport”, the Association says:

«“It will encourage the eight pro- vincial governments who have fought évery freight rate increase since the end of World War IJ—in many in- stances, before they knew the rail- ways’ case—to believe that ceaseless political furore will produce ever larger discriminatory hand-outs from the federal treasury in place of rail- way freight rate increases. In short, the taxpayers will pay for the ship- pers’ cost of doing business.”

There are, of course, a good many “taxpayers” in the eight provinces referred to, and most of them have intelligence enough to know that

shippers’ costs of doing business” are reflected in the price of every- thing they have to buy. In this Pro- ¥ince most of our shippers are farm-

ers and fishermen, who get hit com-' _ dng and going when freight rates are

boosted. According to “‘Truck Trans-

” the eight .provincial govern- ments “want it both ways. They want ithe competition from the trucks, On top of that, they want the railways subsidized from the public treasury |”

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A man to be pitied in connection with Newfoundland’s labour troub- les is the Hon. W. J. Browne, the Province’s representative in the Cabinet. Mr. Browne, naturally enough, wants to retain his post and, therefore, does not feel like going against the Prime Minister’s denun- ciation of Premier Smallwood’s handling of. the strike. On the other hand, he has political sense enough to know that Mr. Smallwood has pub- lic backing for his stand. Therefore, Mr. Browne is hesitant about coming out boldly on the side of the Prime Minister. It is an uncomfortable posi- tion for any man to be in.

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Speaking of farm surplus pro- blertts, United States’ Secretary of Agriculture Benson told an audience at Cornell University that-“to act as though there is no limit to what the Federal Treasury can spend is an opening to the destruction of private enterprise.” ‘He might have. added that it is an opening to national bankruptcy. The trouble is that poli- tical parties, in election campaigns, encourages voters in the belief that there is no limit to what Govern- ments can spend. The victorious party then spends the next four

years—or whatever the period of of- »

fice is—in trying to convince the public that its promises. were mis- understood. Panes

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tariff union; it is a step towards their political federation.

Yet fifteen years azo they were fighting each other. As soon as the great rival steel and coal industries of western Europe were co-ordinated and enabled to work together peacefully, the cen- turies - long rivalry between France and Germany vanished, proving that it is not mankind that makes wars, it is industrial companies.

The chief purpose of the} Common Market is to compel a | rationalization of industrial de- velopment; to force moderniza- tion of plants, greater specializa- tion of production, and better division of labour.

“In addition to these steps, the Common Market will foster a gradual removal of tariff bar- riers between its member na- tions; it will permit free migra-

PUBLIC FORUM

This column is open to the discus sion by correspondents, of question c.

interest. The Guardian’ does not neses sarily «s*orse the opinion of corres , Pondents.

EMBALMING

Sir,—Why do not the people. of this Island protest against em- balming? It is a game going on among undertakers to make money. You cannot find it in your Bible, one book we should all go by. If the’ body of 4 man or woman is kept in a cool room it will.not spoil or change colour. Of course, we will Bet no pain when we are dead, but thoughts of this in yourself and those you leave behind you trouble all of us. Let us die and bury as in days past. Don’t do any butcher- ing on any human being as is done on pork, but let\us get to- gether and call meetings on this sub, and banish it forever.

I am, Sir, etc.,

scape below. We enjoyed this trip perhaps more than any other | part of our airborne travel. The portions of Belgium and Ger many over which we flew are very beautiful in summer with rich vegetation, many ancient ci- ties and lovely river valleys. CITY OF CHARM

Bonn is itself a city of charm, rich in beauty and history. It has long been famous as the birthplace of Beethoven, and his home is still preserved and is visited by thousands of pecole every year. Bonn is the capital of the West German Republic the seat of its Government, and place of residence of the Chan- cellor and President. Yet as a capital it seems to be somewhat temporary.

This, of c_urse is not surpris- ing since it is only a few years in that- role.' Government build- ings are very new and modern. The Bunderhaus which is the seat of the two Chambers of the Par- liament, the Bundarath and Bun- derstag, is one of those function- al buildings which seems to be quite out of place in a city with such deep historic roots as Bonn. More typical were the market places which we had a chance to visit in narrow streets and charming squares, it was not ‘difficult to recapture the atmos- paere which must have sur- rounded early German figures like the great Beethoven.

Whatever else had to be done the sail on the Rhine was one thing which could nét be omitted. The tightness of our schedule limited us to the short run from Bonn to Linz and back again af- ter an hour in that quaint city. For hundreds of years the beau- ty of the Rhine has been des- cribed in poetry and music, and seeing it as we did on a beauti- ful summer day, we had no difficulty in sharing the thrill and enthusiasm which has found ex- pression in the hearts of count-

ALEX MacKAY New Haven, P.E.L .

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ot the two Royal Houses. Our] the,German—people,—_whose—re-

hotel was actually outside the city of Bonn in Bad Godsburg.

-| This is a familiar name and re-

calls memories of a meeting twenty years ago between Adolph Hitler and Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister.

Just across the river on a mountain top on the west bank we saw the hotel at which the two leaders heki their meeting. It was from this conference that Chamberlain returned to London | deeply fearful that war was upon his nation and the whole of Eur- ope. Soon after, however, a short reprieve was gained at the Mun- ich Conference.

GRIM MEMORIES 2

In Germany it is difficult to blot out the memories of the not too distant past. The young man who drove us with such effic- iency and courtesy throughout the city was once probably a sol- dier in the German army,, and certainly many of the people whom we met in public places had been members or supporters of the Nazi Party. In the long passage of history it was but yesterday when all the efforts of our own country. and of our friends ;were directed to the des- truction, or the annihilation of Germany. But history is ironic and the efforts to knock out this great State were immediately followed by energetic steps to restore it to health, and it is not unlikely that the same air- craft which renJered destruction:

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fort was in the direction of re- storing the economy of the Fed- eral German Republic, and la- ter came the move to arm the West Germans and bring them into the NATO Alliance. CANADIANS ON DUTY

Today Canadian servicemen are on duty in West Germany, and our country is pledged to come to the aid of this nation if it should be attacked. Twice in’ a generation were our countries sworn enemies. Today we are committed allies. Now the decis- ion has been taken not only to arm West Germany, but to make available the more mod- ern and deadlier type of weapon which has come into production in this modern nuclear ago.

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(From the Guardian Files) TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

Association since 1915. Mr. Leigh- tizer’s appointment is effective as

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da” sea rescue near Isaac’s Har- bour Light, NS., somé two months ago, is busy with his crew fitting out the #on “Win- nie Ann” at the Marine Wharf. The five Lunenburg seamen ar- rived in Charlottetown last eve- ning and are already at work preparing the ship. dip- lomats. We had a delightful dim Mr. Herbert H. Cox, son of| ner at his house in Cologne, Mr. and Mrs. H.H. Cox, Morell, | and had a most useful talk with has been appointed general man-/| him in the Embassy. Noting the ager of Malarctic Gold Mines in | great. fondness which Germans Halet, Quebec, one of the larg-| seem to have for potatoes, I est producing gold mines in Can- | jokingly ‘inquired of the Ambas ada. The 39-year old Islander sador if he might develop for us has won rapid promotion since | a market for the P.E.I. potato; he entered the employ of the/ He offered no assurances on this ‘ but di the

ful to think of. Germany, the defeated enemy, has become the great prize for

The people of West Germany for re-unification, and

Eastern area have the same feel- ings. But after fourteen years Germany is still divided. The Peace Treaty has not yet been signed and its capital city stands dangerously within the Commun- ist orbit; a bright fire of free- dom in a vast dark desert of political subjugation.

The most hopeful possibility in the present crises is that some over-all settlement of the Ger- man question may be achieved. The Rapacki Plan and the sug- gestions of Kennan would bring about an arms-free area in the center of Europe which would in- clude both Germanies. There are many who believe that such a situation might reduce tension between the major Powers and remove various frictions and con- tact which have explosive and dangerous possibilities.

Whether this will come is a matter of uncertainty. But what- ever is in-store, the people of

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cord in modern times has not been such as to bring cheer to} the heart of fr. ,om-loving peo- ple. What is the answer? It would seem to be that we have no alternative but to trust the West Germans and certainly un- der their present leaders they would appear to have proven their case and their qualifica- tions for membership in the group of nations standing guard for the kind of western freedom we

the great plan of life. Shall man degree be antagonistic and a destroyer of God forbid such a condition.

2 From the fellowshig and- commingling atoms life results. In their harmony and ever newness of existence. It is radiance, is consummation: it is life iteslf.

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Whatever we may think of the German political development, there can be no doubt about the tremendous progress in the econ- omic field. One has to be in this country only a short time to receive the impression of engr- mous vitality and vigour. e wheels seem to turn at a rapid pace with the bustling traffic of the Rhine, with the railroads, the production figures in the fac- tories, the expansion of export trade, are all signs of one of the most dynamic economic re- coveries in modern times.

This German nation, with its ancient capital Berlin separated from it by 110 miles and with twenty million of its people be- hind the Communist barricade, has .nevertheless become an in- dustrial giant, and the recovery of Germany is a great tri to the energy and anwition of its people. Although it should not be forgcetten that their release from d_fence commitments and the assistance of their former en- emtes, has had much to do with this great success story. AGAINST MANY ODDS ‘

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