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_ respondent in today’s issue indicates that. there will be further delay in presenting the long-awaited report on the Northumberland Strait Cause- Way project. Mentioned also in the story -are the many contradictory _ promises we have received on this - sttbject—assurances from the Public _ Works Minister himself as_ well as from our own Island representa- tives, which we accepted in good faith and which have left us in a mood of sérious questioning. af - * Can it be that the propaganda now on foot in New Brunswick, spon- sored chiefly by a big oil magnate and ‘by the publisher of the Atlantic Advocate and Fredericton paper for priority for the Chegnecto. Canal scheme, has put a crimp in our Causeway campaign at Ottawa? We ask this because no other explanat- . jon seems to account for the dilat- oriness shown in reporting on the results— of the Causeway survey. There is no good reason why a pro- gress report, at least, should not have been forthcoming long ago. We were definitely promised this report + several weeks ago. Now we seem to be as far off as ever from getting any official information on the sub- _ ject.

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even more btedness” had his party been rned to power. This program included .tax cuts of some $400,000,000; plus special concessions to newly-weds, virtually free educat- ion for an army of’ university stud- ents, and huge works programs such as Atlantic and Western trunk high- - ways and a $60,000,000 rail branch to the Northwest Territories.

Just a year before that, it will be recalled, Mr. Pearson's party—in power for twenty-two years—was poohooing the need of any untoward expenditure or tax reductions, not-

that we were in for a period of above-normal unemployment. The change in tune came only after the party’s crushing defeat, and the Die- fenbaker Government’s election on> a spending program which included not only provision for unemployment, but an extra $100,000,000 over a four-year period for these Atlantic Provinces by way of an adjustment grant. a ¢

The Liberal leader has been blow- ing hot and cold on thjs subject of

government spending, for tax re- a

ductions on the scale that he advoc- ated in March, 1958, would. as surely have resulted in a depleted treasury and further borrowings as anything that the Conservatives have done. Moreover, we,note that his charges about inflation are not borne - out by the Canadian Federation 6f Mayors and Municipalities‘in their brief presented last week at Ottawa. This non-political organization com- mended the Diefenbaker Government “for the stand it has taken with respect to matters which could have exercised serious inflationary’ pres- sures on the general economy.”

Parolee Supervision

It is a tribute to our Provincial Welfare Department, and_particu- larly to its able deputy. minister,’ Brigadier Reid, that designated of- ficials of this branch of the provincial service have been invited to act as supervisors of prison parolees in this

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- TEAMWORK WORKS TWO WAYS

AT THE U.N.

Green's Right-Hand Man

By Patrick Nicholson |

The effective working leader of our representation at this 14th

_ session of the General Assembly

of the U.N. is a young lawyer and navy veteran sprung from roots deep in south-western On- tario.

Wallace B. Nesbitt; Queen's Counsel, and Member of Parlia- ment for Oxford Riding, has crowded. a lot of achievement into his young life, even with time out for war service. He was elected to Parliament in 1953, and—continuously since: he was

vyice.chairman of our

chie, to represent Canada on the important 7 First’ Committee, -or Political Committee, which has recently been thrashing out the delicate_tcpics of disarmament and the planned French atomic test in the Sahara.

Mr. Nesbitt usually lunches at a formal party, for between 12 and 20 guests, with delegates from other nations:

“Often one is sitting between pecole one has not been able to talk to much, if at all, before;~so then one gets a lot of good work

cial Government should get busy “-on immediately. Need we remind it that it ‘was elected as “the Party of _the Causeway”, definitely pledged to this undertaking? We hold our federal members equally responsible, for they supported the party candid- ates provincially, even though they did not specifically indorse its Cause- way pledges. If they had reason to believe that those pledges were worthless, it was their duty to have repudiated them in their speeches during the provincial campaign. “With our two governments in line, we were led to believe that this pro- ject would get the speediest and most favorable consideration that it was possible to give. Our people have a right now to know where they stand. We want the facts, the whole facts and noth- ing but the facts. If there is\a nig- ger in the woodpile we want to know that too. Premier Shaw is in Ottawa now. We trust that the Acting Pre- mier will wire him immediately to get in touch with our federal Cabinet member, Hon. Mr. MacLean, and de- Mand a showdown. This is more im- portant to us than the Conservative / Party Convention which is scheduled for next week, or the Grey Cup game at Toronto which the Premier plans attending on Saturday. Let him by } means see the game, but tackle this chore first. We're sick and tired @f the pussyfooting that has been _ =Mr. Pearson’s Charges | ~. With Parliament meeting in Jan- Wary, it was to be expected that the Opposition leader, Mr. Pearson, would be‘ active at this time. He has been visiting New Brunswick and Nova Seotia, but for some reason has neg- lected us in Prince Edward Island. - However, his speeches come to us, fi summary form, through the Can- = Press and we have been fol- lowing them with interest. + His major theme, we gather, was se Diefenbaker Government’s “tight ney” policy and record high intey- rates, which he attributed to eral expenditures, running far yond available revenues, resulting n borrowings which. greatly increas- the danger of inflation. There is no question, of course, about the Dorrowings and the deficit, #ut the t that these were consequences a recession which was makingNt- self felt even when the Liberals were lefeated in 1957, is nowhere appar- int in Mr. Pearson’s remarks. ' This is surprising because, only year, in his pre-election campaign

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nouncement in commenting, Tuesday night, on our comparatively favor- able record with regard to juvenile delinquency. This Province has -had no regional representative on the Parole Board, hence the need for designating responsible persons in this capacity. :

As explained by Mr. Edmison, supervision of this kind is designed to help a parolee make a normal transition from the regimented life of the prison to freedom of movement and decisions enjoyed by ordinary’ citizens. Thus he is not left to face his problems alone, and is much more likely to dgyelop into a_ useful and rrcgel Sh, ga gap tet of the com- munity. '

The parolee is expected to keep in touch regularly with his super- visor, to report to him as requiret,

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and to accept his counsel and guid- ance. The supervisor provides ser- | vice to the parolee without charge § and reports regularly to the Board on the parolee’s progress.

The files of the Parole Board con- tain many “success stories” of prison- ers who have made good, largely be-

way. Some have risen to places of more than average prominence in business and industry, others Mave gone on to graduate schools. Many are skilled workers in the construct- ion and mechanical trades. It is a work of rehabilitation that pays off morally and materially, and in which we should welcome the opportunity of being associated in this Province.

EDITORAL ‘NOTES »

More tariff tinkering at Ottawa. In the past, brake linings and clutch facings used on tractors, combines, threshers and other farm machinery have not been duitable. This has, naturally, meant some saving to far- mers. But henceforth, according to a directive that has reportedly come to’ light, brake linings and clutch facings will be’ subject to a duty of 25. per cent; and presumably an 11 per cent sales tax will be levied on top of that.

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Pravda has indicated . that this year’s Soviet grain crop is down

substantially from last year’s record

that hit several Soviet regions this year. The article, published Nov. 12, does not give the size of this year's grain crop. It- says only that the 1959 grain harvest “significantly, ex- ceeds” the average of the last five years. That average is given by Soviet sources as 113,200,000 metric

output of 141,200,000 tons. ,

délegation to the U.N: General Assembly ‘in 1957: - last year “he was chairman of our delegation to the Economic and Social Coun- cil of the.U.N. at Geneva, Swit- zerland. He served as Parlia- mentary Assistant to Foreign Minister Sidney Smith and now he is serving in the same cara- city to the late Dr. Smith's suc- cessor, Hon. Howard Green. “Wally” Nesbitt is credited with introducing the crew-cut to the U.N. This hair ‘style contri- butes to an appearance which, apart frem a slight heaviness caused by the sedentary routine and social cebligations of his 80- hour divlcmatic working week, belies even his 41 years. He cut a dashing figure in his neatly- pressed grey suit, enlivened with yellow lapel flower and vivid

Neshitt tartan tie, as he told me |

of the toils and satisfaction of a job which fev political cand dat- es foresee when they offer them- selves on the hustings.

LONG WORKING DAY

By 9 each morning, he arrives at his office in Coenatian Mission to the U.N. on the 23th floor cf a new building on Third Avenue, conveniently near this U.N, headquarters. He two hours mapoing strategy with his colleagues and staff. Then at arcund 11 he comes to the U.N. bui'ding.°

Threugh the day, he may at- tend a plenary meeting of the Assembly, or committee meetings interlarded with private talks in the Delezates’ Lourge ‘where most of the real work is done.”

His position makes him an au- tomatic choice, along with Hon. Howard Green, and our ambassa- dor or” “permanent yrepresenta- tive,"’ Nova Scotia Charles* Rit-

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WIDE ROADS FOR SAFETY

Sir,—I was happy to. read your news story from Ottawa regard- ing four hundred.miles of paved roads that appeared recently in The Guardian, but then thé de- pressing thought occurred to me that these new paved roads would be the cause of many future ac. cidents.

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side, a feeling of nausea, faint- or -chilliness following a meal. Indigestion also might be a signal of gallstones. i movement of a large stone generally causes extreme pain.

radiate. It may be felt on both sides, in the right shoulder, the back and the abdomen. In the abdomen it will jump from one Side to the other.

The pain can be so intense that it will feel as though your back is broken and you will gol! in agony on the floor. A high fever and a chill usually accomany such an attack. : '

COULD BE FATAL

Now gallstones seldom causé death, but a rupture of the gall bladder could be fatal.

Contact a physician immediate- ly. He will come right away. but in the-meantime, ask him wheth- er he advises hot applications-to ease the pain. If he does, apply heat to the painful area by using a hot water bottle or hot towels.

The patient should be put to ‘bed, his clothing loosened or re- moved and he. should be given plenty of water.

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Cocktail parties are something else. “A frightful menace.” he calls them, ‘‘at which one sées the same old faces behind the same old. glasses in the same old places, and -there are long ears everywhere so one “cannot discuss sérious matters.”

Every delegation strives to en- tertsin its cclleagues, which means 82 prestige parties crowd- ed into about 65 working days. In addition many committee del- egations tender parties

“Last night I was invited to six |

parties,”’

Woodstock’s burgess. “‘And one

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blame can be placed on our nar- row, twisting paved roads. It is my belief that all. new paved roads built from now on should be at least thirty feet wide and wherever practical a partition in the centre to keep. cars. from crossing the line.

I have travelled over wide high. ways in Canada and the States and although the number of vehicles travelling was terrific, traffic seemed to move smoothly and safely. I believe that half as many miles of safe roads would be preferable to twice as

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hes the horrible feeling that a| little man with a little biack note- | book is necting those who attend; | Bow and be prepared for the in- so one’s absence is recorded, and | creased flow of traffie that is

resented as a snub - which one can ill afford - by the host nation.”

After the “frightful menace’’ compcunded of cheap tax - free divicmatic liquor from 6 - 8 p.m., Mr. Nerbditt’s routine is a formal dinner in black tie. or b2ck\ to the office. Although a_ theatre fan, he has only been ab!e to en- joy this oleasure so amo'y pro- vided here on about six occasions. S:tvrday and Sunday, it is again

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Mr. Nesbitt feels mogt grateful to his constituents, who under- stand his absence on duty, and taper cff their requests. Many can be effectively hand'ed by his secretary, Miss Mary Mark, at Woodstock: she sends abcut five more complex questions to New York each day.

This is the typical life of our M.P. delegates to the U.N.. for which a grateful country

M.Ps' stipend.

Belgian Statesman’s Warning

By Hareld Morrison

Canadian Press Staff Writer

Paul-Henri &paak has put his finger on what appears to be the real threat facing the North At- lantic alliance—the danger that peaceful coexistence between East and West may lead to grad- ual disintegration of the 15-coun- try defence pact. :

The NATO secretary-general 1s convinced peaceful ceexistence is slowly becoming a realty mainly because atomic developmen nd the alertness of both sides of the Iron Curtain have almost ruled out the possibility of any clear- cut military victory on either side.

‘But the Belgian statesman, who reported to NATO legislators in Washington last week, is equally convinced that Russia can switch from friendship to cold war to hot war at a-moment’s notice whenever it is to her advantage to do so.

To let down the Western guard during a period of peaceful co- existence might prove to be mil- itary suicide. And yet at a time when NATO commanders are crying for more equipment and men, there is thought in, Washing- ton: and elsewhere that perhaps the burden of European defence costs might be switched more to

, Paris, Bonn and London than to

Washington and Ottawa,

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“Look out,” says Spaak, “T know the Western world wel! enough to know the moment pu>- lic opinion has a true or false feeling that the danger of war is

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Will be to cut’ down drastié¢ally on the military effort. This is un- deniably a problem which is be- fore us and a danger which is staring us in the. face.”

The problem of NATO {s that it was born out of Western fear of a Communist attack. It visu2l- ized greater economic co - operation among the NATO powers, but a decade of experience has shown it was mainly in the military field that NATO flourished and this because of great fin2ncial support by the United States.

The fear of Communist inva- sion was the “cement” binding the NATO members together. Now with the advent of peaceful coexistence, the West suddenly finds itself—as Spaak stated—in a period of hesitation and vacil- jation. x

NATO may need a new reason for existence. The thought that it may provide the seed of a broad economic alliance apparently has only limited support itnside the

alliance. Also given limited sup- |.

port is the suggestion by Spaak that NATO should spread itself a bit, to encompass the problems of underdeveloped areas in Af- rica. ; ' Says Spaak: “Economic na- tionalism is today the last refuge of all self-interests and of all illusions.”*

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breast than in the other.’

Does this mean that it is: na- tural and the glands are starting to develop or is there something wrong”?

Answer: Although this may be a normal conditicn it may’ also be caused by a tumor or some other disturbance.

She should be examined by your doctor.

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EDMONTON (CP) — Legisla- tion making labor unions legal entities subject to suit in addition to existing lezal sanctions is

Builders’ Exchange Council to the Alberta government. The brief is one of several by labor and man- agement groups to the Alberta government which is reviewing its labor legislation.

In The Steps Of Peron

Globe and Mail, Toronto

Premier Fidel Castro's address to the Naticnal Labor Congress in Havana this weck was one of ugliest orations which has ever been heard in the Western Hemisvhere. It was a raw, un- restrained call for violence and terrorism which should destroy the last illusions his own pecple or outsiders may have held about the “‘liberator”’ of Cuba.

The Premier's theme was that the Cvban revelution was threat- ened by a conspiracy of “vested

criminals” in Cuda, and could be:

saved only by drastic measures. He announced. that the workers and peasants weuld be ar! to fight ‘foreign intervention” or any attempt at\counter - revolu- tion.

He assured his audience that the special military courts which executed hundreds of real or supposed supporters of General Batista last winter, and which were récently reconstituted, would soon start work on a new hatch of political prisoners,

DEATH PENALTY

The penalty for those convicted of counter - revolutionary acti- vity would be death and confis- cation of property. Theré was also a hint of a\new punishment for dissenters — forced labor in draining swamps, presumably the Cuban equivalent of the concen- tration camp. :

Significantly, Dr. Castro gave special attention to the press. He singled out the three leading dailies in Havana Prensa Libre, Avante, and Diario de la Marina, the last named the oldest, and best - known news- paper in the nation,

These three have persisted in criticizing Government policies, despite abuse and threats. The Premier called on the people to boycott them and also any firm which advertised in their, pages. HM this was done, he was confident

he left little doubt that if they failed to wither, other measures would be used.

ECHOES OF HITLER

There are obvious echoes of Hitler and Mussolini in all this. Yet the comparison that springs to mind is with another famous “atin: American ruler, former President Juan Domingo Peron of Argentina. The parallels are nu- merous and deadly.

Like Dr. Castro, President Peron came to power as a reformer, overthrowing an unpcepular re- gime. Once in the saddle, how- up the same sort of power, ex- ever, he established a_ dictator ship of his own, resting partly _ the army, partly on captive trade _ unions, armed militia drawn from the rabble of Buenos Aires — the famous “descamisados” or “‘shirt- less ones.”’ Dr. Castro is building

wielding peasants.

President Peron disposed of critics and opponents by arbit- Tary arrest and imprisonment. Dr. Castro does the same, except that his methods are rougher; he has shed more blood in 10 months than the Argentine dictator did in 10 years.

The Age Old Story

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Discussing . tennis techni- ques, .a stout bald man panted. “My. brain immediately “barks out a command to my body. ‘Run forward, but fast!’ it says.

“Start right now! Drop the ball gracefully over the net and then walk back slowly’.”” “‘And then what happens?” he was asked. +13.).An then,” replied the stout man,. “my body says, ‘Who

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WATER OF NIGHT

The birds of evening are dark against the west.

Sharp on the ash-rose ‘sky

Swift wings rise and fall as the wild. ducks fly

To thé water of night, the pool where the flock will rest.

The sedge is high, and the water of night is still,

A smal! wind wanders in

And out among the reeds. And -now the thin

Horn of the new moon tips above the hill.

In the darkening sky only one Star’is_ bright:

And a lone and

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—Silence Buck Bellows In the Christian Science Monitor

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| The pictures of the far side | of the moon taken by the Soviet | heen satellite are bound ‘to be intriguing and exciting if only because they give a glimpse of scenes upen which. no human eve has ever gazed. It is only a glimose, and a hazy one at that, for photography in outer space is an undertaking new to man, and undoubtedly he will improve upon it as time goes on.

But the mere fact that the pictures were taken, and were clear enough to show discernible features of the hidden lunar sur- face, represents a remarkable feat.

Moscow's description of the technique. with a “special com- mand” system turning the satel-| lite’s lens toward the meon, and the films automatically develop ed. and fixed aboard the vehicle before radio transmission back to earth, would seem to indicate an aceemplishment almost as fan- tastic as the space voyage itself.

MORE EVIDENCE

It is one more evidence, if any were needed, of the continuing superiority of the Soviet space pregram to our own.

That superiority, _incidentally, seems likely to. be commemor-

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OUR YESTERDAYS

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last night. It was explained that the amcunt of federal relief money is not sufficient to meet the needs for this winter, and that method would make

A. J. Ashford, of the firm of Anning and Cobb, London, Eng- land, accompanied by their Cana- dian representative, A. -Levin, Toronto, are in Charlottefown at present. Interviewed with respect to fur prospects for the coming

year, Mr. Ashford said that al- ~

though there was considerable demand, there would be a de cline in prices...

TEN YEARS AGO (Nov. 26, 1949)

Linking R.C.M.P. stations on Prince Edward Island with those on the mainland, the completion of a radio police network is be- ing held up_ temporarily due to a strike at the electrical plant. The outside equipment for five stations has been completed at Charlottetown, i Borden, Souris and Montague.

Cantello, 20, received a badly bruised leg: and frost: bite efter” being pinned under a tractor for sent resting comfortably at the Souris Hospital. The accident oc- curred when the tractor he was

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devised names which are being given to the craters and peaks that have been discovered on the far side of the moon.

The names of the features on the near side avere selected by

the scientists of many nations over many centuries, for the de- tails of the moon were brought gradually into human ken as as- tronomical instruments gradually improved.

ALL TO THEMSELVES

Now, however, the Russians have the view all to themselves, and are picking the names ac- cordingly. They have even set up a special commission of the U.S.-

‘S.R. Academy of Sciences to pur+

sue the task. The names they have already conferred include Moscow Sea, Soviet Mountains, Tsiolkovsky Hill, Lomonosov Hill and Joliot-Curie Crater.

‘There is no denying that the Russians have earned the right to name as they will. nor is there any begrudging them their exer- cise of it. If we had got there first we would have done the same. But we didn’t, and our failure to do so may yet be re. flected in fields more important than lunar nomenclature.

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