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“The strongest memory is weaker than the weakest ink” THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1965.

On Strenuous Tour

The Rt. Hon. John G. Diefenbaker is a welcome visitor to our province today. He is taking in all three coun- ties in his political campaign as head of the Progressive Conservative Party, covering as much ground and seeing and talking to as many of our people as he can reach. By all ac- counts he is showing, at the age of 70, the same a and physical stamina he displayed in the past. He makes no pretense of not liking pol- itics and not revelling in a good pol- itical fight.

What he would relish most of all, we imagine, would be a showdown along the lines proposed by the Lib- eral Toronto Star’s Ottawa editor, Peter C. Newman, “that the two party leaders stop pursuing their separate crusades and engage e ach other in national debate.” But Prime Minister Pearson isn’t showing any desire to come down from his ivoty tower in this manner, and Mr. Dief- enbaker is going it alone.

. Not “alone”, however, in the sense his opponents anticipated when they sprung this unwanted election on the country, half way through Par-

--Jiament’s normal-term. It seemed, to

them, that the Tories were in al- most complete disarray. This was the time to smite them hip and thigh, while bemoaning publicly, of course, their fate as a once great national party! But somehow, this. Liberal manoeuver -misfired:—It-rallied to Dief’s support the ablest of those who had quarrelled and split with him. _Maybe; too, it taught them a lesson.

According to Mr.-Newman who wrote about the Diefenbaker Years under the nauseating title “Renegade in Power,” it was the Big Interest groups who regarded Dief as a ren- egade because he gave priority to the claims of the outlying provinces, east and west, which had been neglected under the long preceding period of Liberal rule. We know. this to have been the case in Prince Edward Is- land, at any rate; for our government

was in sore straits indeed until re

lief came through the Atlantic ad- justment grants which followed promptly on the election of the Con-

They say the Chief is making too many. promises in this campaign. They. say he’s inconsistent. They say he talks too much in high-sounding generalities. They say he indulges overmuch in recriminations, and that kind of thing. What is significant is that whatever he says, he seems to be the central figure in the ‘contest. His opponents just can’t take their minds off him. He irritates them by day, and haunts their dreams by night. Which just goes to show that whatever else he is, he’s still the champ when it comes to campaigning. It’s good to have him with us on this occasion!

Come Now, Mr. Martin! ‘When External Affairs Minister Paul Martin gets started on a popular subject, he really does let himself: go! We share to the full the enthusiasm he expressed at O'Leary the other

- might about our causeway project as

a@ major engineering achievement “which will do more to stimulate the economic growth of Prince Edward Island than anthing else since Con- federation.” We have, indeed, been preaching the same doctrine since its

| the House of Commons on Jan. 24,

| our claims in this regard.

of the then federal minister of pub-

| is entitled to share in—but not to . monopolize—the

“are now belatedly trying to placate

inception; but we confess that we are |

at a loss to understand why the work, when completed, should stand, in Mr.

Martin’s glowing words, “as a living |

monument to the efforts at Ottawa |

of Mr. MacNaught.” Of course, it was on his cabinet colleague's behalf that Mr. Martin was

_ speaking, and there is every reason to assume that our Island representa-

in the Pearson government ld do what-he could to speed the

each year to make their contribution

work along. But he had no part, that we know of, in initiating it, or in

championing it openly on the not in- |

frequent occasions when the going

was tough. The project was first proposed’ in

1956, by Neil A. Matheson, then Lib- eral member for Queens, following studies initiated under the Liberal government of Premier A. W. Mathe- son in this province at the suggestion

lic works, Hon. Robert Winters. The Commons first received assurance that surveys had established the. feasibility of the project and that. it would be undertaken, from Prime Minister Diefenbaker (April 17, 1962) who of course isn’t a Liberal and was therefore outside the periphery of Mr. Martin’s political encomiums. But he could have spared some of them for the other gentlemen above mention- ed, along with Mr. Pickersgill who was among the valued champions of

We mean no disparagement of Mr. ’ MacNaught in pointing out that if the causeway _is to be a “living monu- ment” to anyone, there are others with stronger claims to that distinc- tion. But surely there is no reason for talking in this manner at all! Both the major parties have contributed to this great undertaking, and each

credit. accruing therefrom, Mr. Martin’s zeal outran his discretion when he spoke as he did. ; Nor was he wisely — inspired in deriding the Conservative promise of $100 a month for pensioners as being “not a carefully worked out policy” but one “thought up between trains by Mr. Diefenbaker.” No one knows better than Mr. Martin that this plan was presented in the Ontario brief to the Senate-House pensions com- mitee last January, and was brushed aside for political reasons. It pro- posed to correct the inadequacies of the Canada Pension Plan by bring- ing everyone under its provisions through establishment of $25 as the minimum (in addition to the present $75) for all future pensioners.

Mr. Martin knows, too, that the pension fund could stand this be cause—at the insistence of Quebec—- the premiums were nearly doubled to produce, in addition to pension payments, a large capital fund for the use of the provincial governments. All the Conservatives propose is that some of this excess be used to in- crease the pensions of nearly: 2% million older people whom the: Lib- erals chose to forget, and whom they

on the basis of what Mr. Diefenbaker aptly calls “the means test—the meanest test of all.”

Commonwealth Plan When the Commonwealth Educ- ation Plan was first formulated as a result of the Commonwealth Educa- tion Conference at Oxford in 1959, it’ had as its objective a figure of 1,000 awards Which might be held at one time. “In the academic year 1964- 65 this objective was reached. The plan is now making a substantial con- tribution toward the _ educational _ needs of the Commonwealth and is, at the same time, an impressive ex- . ample of Commonwealth cooperation at work. ; However, as noted in the Winni- peg Free Press, there are still one or two areas in which there is room for improvement. One of these has to o with students from Africa‘and the est Indies. Students from. these areas have so far’ been able to make

the least use of the plani’s opportun- |

ities, although their educational needs are perhaps the greatest. Another is the fact that there is a need for awards at the undergraduate level while the plan is intended primarily for grad- uate students. ; ;

These are problems that are now being faced, with some initial suc- cess. The number of undergraduate awards, for example, while still low, . has been ,appreciably increased and the report of a year hence may show that this and other weak spots in the program have been stiffened up.

From a Canadian standpoint it is interesting to note that 93 students from this country have received awards and that 312 students from other parts of the Commonwealth, during the past academic year, stud- ied in Canada.

The results of. the plan, in terms of trained scholars; are now begin- ning to make themselves felt. With the attainment of the objective of 1,- 000 awards, -the plan-is now-in full operation; and at this level it can be anticipated that some . 400 scholars will return to their home countries

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ALL WOUND UP

OTTAWA REPORT By Patrick Nicholson Kidd's Treasure Still A Tempting Lure

The wits of a Scottish pirate,

now be fighting their last battle to protect the most mysterious treasure ever buried in fact or fiction. &

William, the son of a Scottish minister, Rev. Kidd, first went to sea as a boy in the 1660's.

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For nearly two centuries, d4reasure-hunters have sought

& oak chests stuffed with bars

ar popularly believed to have been buried in the Money Pit on tiny Oak Ln or

The trail leading to the -Mo- ney Pit started at London's Ty-

Nove

where criminals were hanged. Kidd was captured, and senten- ced to death for piracy and mur: der- With the jeers of the Lon- don crowd in his ears

Daniel McGinnis . decided to

. homestead on one of the 365

pretty little islands in Mahone Bay, named by the {ndians after the ‘‘Mahonnes”,; the spe- edy rakish pirate ships which a among its

' off short, and hanging from its

stump was a_ weather-worn ship's pulley.. ~The Indians’ tales of pirates flashed through Daniel’s mind. :

The pulley had been used to raise or lower heavy weights— perhaps pirates’ treasure - chests? A circular depression in the ground beneath the pulley euggested that a hole had been dug there. So Daniel started to

Our Yesterdays (From The Guardian Files)

TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO (October 28, 1940) ~

clinging stubbornly to the Met- axas Line, ng off Italian at- tacks on the ‘6 newest war- front. |

The Empress of Britain, proud flagship of Canada’s merchant

P.E.I. Women’s Liberal Associa- tion at a meeting of ‘that body in

Poole’s Hotel, Montague.

Hon. Milton Gregg, V.C-, Fed-

address:

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County Liberal Associa-

» at the Community Centre In Chatintiatown

_ eral Minister of Labor

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excavate. He burrowed thirty feet down into the heavy clay, but at every high tide his hole was flooded by sea water which mysteriously seeped in through channels. He was forced to give up his efforts. Over the next 170 years Oak Island lured many adventurers

tune was poured into the money pit, but not one Doubloon was extracted, although one treas- urehunter set up a drill which brought up pieces of oak and

Inthe summer of 1947, I vis- ited on what may be the world’s largest man-made gold mine.

To Restore

Port Royal, Jamaica, the “‘wickedest city in the world” during its heyday as a pirate

a deep-water pier also will built.

upon research of an expedition sponsored by the National Geo- graphic Society, the Smithson- ian Institution, and the Institute

| of Jamaica. The explorers draft-

ed the most accurate chart now

“| available of old Port Royal, and recovered vatuable

many arti- facts.

PIRATES AND MERCHANTS

. Link, deep-sea ex- > Ehpotggsne led the ex- pedition. In an article in the Na- Geographic, Marion Clay- Link, leader’s wife, de-

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“Do you beach?” Ia 5 year old Clara Hiltz.

“No, I play with Muffkins,”’ she replied, and pointed to a ginger kitten.

The search went on. Through the years it even lured a syndi- cate of : the late Presid- dent Roosevelt was a member. Only two months ago the six- year hunt by a Hamilton steel worker ended by himself and three companions being killed by gas in their pit 27 feet deep.

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he recover enough gold to en- chain London City?

The Castro Refugees

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transport far more refugees out of Cuba daily than the U.S. was prepared to accept. This infor- mation has been duly

Pirate City

with pirate loot—gold and silver bars, church plate, elaborately set jewels, rich - silks and bro- cades.

story buildings. Brick structures crowded , the streets, spreading edges of the sea,

“DEBAUCHED PEOPLE”

In the fateful year of 1602, Henry Morgan had been dead and buccaneers

June 7, 1692, a shuddér Port Royal. From the direction of the mountains came a hollow rumbling noise like distant thun- der—and a violent earthquake

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