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new approach to the problem. of keep-

-+-into-the-kind of feuding that leads to

is still a big hurdle to be cleared. Russia opposes the use of the United Nations in trying to bring world un- rest under control. It has demon- strated this in the case of Korea, Pal- -estine, Cyprus and the Congo.

| - & «Those Phony Bills — _An- article in Maclean's magazine examines the nation-wide’prcblem of

. $20.00 per + British Com

We seem to be ‘in for some labor trouble in Charlottetown, and it~; would be well for all concerned in |

the matter_to keep their heads. Wage | counterfeit bills that has grown up in thi vince ___ since the development of offset, print:

ing in 1959. Last year alone, IVs %

for many years, and with rising living ©

It could mark the beginning of a. | ing racial animosities from escalating |

war, Unfortunately, however, there |

See

WELL —MAYSE - BR- AH-

| CQULD You GET PART

| - WAY BACK IN THE BOTTLE F ;

-—.—vailing-in-other_parts_of the country. | _

- This is the normal procedure, and the

~ the protest: movement ng

costs the wage earners’ problem his: ~péen-accentuated:-It-is-also true-that— per capita income is lower here in other fields of activity than it is in most at least of the other provinces, and that-those engaged in our basic industries of farming and fishing have been particularly affected. One of the main reasons for governmental ef- forts‘in bringing more processing in- dustries to the province has been the hope of placing our main producers on a.more stable income basis. This in turn would put more money in circulation and would benefit both our urban and rural population. | In this connection it is worth noting the comment of one processing plant manager, that the “productivity of labor” here is less than half that of employees in the company’s U.S. plants, and that-if our economy is to advance, and our producers are to be competitive in sales prices and costs, : this problem must be faced and dealt with: =e It is worth remembering, too, that in construction activities locally the | police forces and the general public current uptrend has by no means | detect.the fake currency. Meanwhile, reached the “boom” proportions pre- | they say, the best way fo tell a counterfeit from a good bill is to ex: amine the Queen's portrait. A messy — hairdo or an unbecoming droop in the royal lip always--betrays the- phony bill. We don’t know why this should _be—the counterfeiters being so smart in solving the other-angles of their problem. But that’s what the author- ities sav and, pending more advice on

900. in_phony_bills passed out and

ed some $400,000 more before they had been distributed. The counter- feiting nucleus of Canada is Montreal and the current situation is so bad that 25 RCMP anti-counterfeiting: ex- perts are kept busy just in Quebec.

But at RCMP headquarters in Ot- tawa the counterfeiting squad is wor- ried that the worst is yet to come. A “series’-of bad bills that first appear- | ed two years ago and were judged to | be-the best ever produced in Canada is still flooding the urban areas.

The police say the fake $20s have improved with every reprinting. They are afraid that a master {ssue of these phony bills—perhaps more than $1,000,000—will appear for Expo 67, a counterfeiter’s paradise. Nothing to get panicky about, but certainly a matter of concern to all sections of the country.

The RCMP is busy working on a’

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Indeed, we can stand a good deal -more-of..it, for..our.—unemployment - _rate is still the lowest in all Canada. Even at the prevailing low wage rates _it has been difficult to provide full- } time employment for even ourskilled « workers. The chances seem brighter this season, and it would be regret- table indeed if they failed to material- ize for whatever reason. : The wage protest meetings organiz- ed in Charlottetown by a represen: — - tative of the Laborers’ International Union of North America have as their object, we understand, the gain- ing of recognition by the demonstrat- ing workers as a bargaining unit by their employers. No specific wage in- creases have been mentioned, but it is said that once the employers - recognize the unit and sign a paper to that effect the men will return to work and negotiations will begin as to what wage increases are to be made for the various trades.

~ a-hard look at"Her Majesty's features on the next 20:huck bills we get—if we get any so soon affer being clean- ed out by those income tax fellows.

As Others See It

It is always interesting to, get an

concern. This the Sherbrooke Daily Record supplies in an editorial com- ment..on the “rescheduling” of our causeway project. “Admittedly,” it

an overall plan to cut’back public works projects to ease the infla- tionary pressures on the construction

Some trades already” have their industry..But with the unemployment recognized unions here, and others, if | rate of 10.9 per cent compared with a they wish, —can—obtain_certification___national average of about three per. under the Industrial Relations Act. |- cent it would seem rather difficult to justify the reduction 6f any work that

one which a spokesman for the Build- ers Exchange insists should be follow- ed in this case. The employers, he adds, are willing to discuss wage | grievances with their employees at any time. but they have not been con- tacted in this case; and it is pointed out that the union Mr. Charlebois re- presents has no bargaining status whatsoever in this province. ~ This is a matter, surely,-which ean ' be adjusted without outside interven- tion and without. getting ‘“‘all con- struction tied up” as the leaders of have already succeeded in doing. Such methods should be a last and not a first resort in settling grievances of this Kits

For A Safer World

Prime Minister Pearson has long been an. advocate of establishing a permanent United Nations peace observation corps that could promptly be ordered into trouble spots. The idea has heen dormant for some vears

+ but it. was revived last week inoa study prepared for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. As a start, ‘Lord Caradon, British delegate to _the corps would be built around a | the UN, is not surprised that nations cadre of 50 specially trairfed officers | should bring their problems to the assigned to the United Nations Secre- world organization only after. they tariat. They would be supplemented hecome critical. “That's what we're on missions hv officers and men here for,” he savs. “Toosay there is provided. by individual nations. trouble in the United Nations’ is like

The study on which the recom- | ‘saying there is sickness in a hospital.”

ment.” : Note is taken of the fact that at the same time the government was an- nouncing the cuthack on the cause- way scheme it also indicated that work on the $90: million CBC headquarters | in Montreal would get under way without delay. This action will: be taken despite the fact that the con- struction industry.in. the..Montreal area is already experiencing difficul- ties with obtaining men and materials. ‘ “Of course,” adds the Sherbrooke paper drily, “the government has a handy answer. Those reactionaries | down on the Island apparently do not | want the causeway because they ‘voted out two former Liberal MPs shortly after the project was announc- ed. But the good guys in Montreal increased their Liberal representation when pledges were given to proceed with the CBC building...Then, of course, there are 22 good “guys in Montreal and only four bad guys in Prince Edward Island.”

EDITORIAL NOTE

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Canadians were bilkéd out 6f $50U,-

police in all parts of the country seiz-—

pamphlet that will ‘help both local |

the subject, it would pay us to take |

objective view of a matter of local |

says, “the cabinet decision is part of |

——Fhough—atomic—and—hydrogen

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OTTAWA REPORT By Patrick Nicholson

Can governments’ afford a {without much publicity. The universal service, or will taxes | price of steel recently has risen have to be raised yet further? | $200 per ton, and there has been The problem is raised by the a widespread uproar. But | | inability of many hospitals in |hamburger has risen by 30.

all parts of Quebec province to | cent; a pound, and onbody howls. |

| months Some suppliers will , . | | now only fill hospital orders on SENATORS TO RETIRE? | a CO De basse ThE” Cana: :)Twenty.---four~senators. listed. dian Credit Men's Association |in the new issue of theofficial | | wrote last November and again | Parliamentary Guide will be last month to Quebec's Minis- paves 75 years of age on 2nd |

ter of Health and Welfare, Eric ied That sete marks the oon | i) e year of grace within |

their lifetime appointmen.t | which they have the option of | retiring forthwith and drawing |

| Kierans, to warn him that un- | less he does something, ‘‘the | point will be reached very soon when Quebec hospitals will be short of food and drugs.” FOOD COSTS RISE

life, or continuing as members

ymous regular correspondent |— Tt in Sarnia, points out to me that | of age is Manitoba's Tom_ Cre--; food: costs~are quietly soaring ‘rar, who has announced he will

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— Alliance Accomplishments ~

Milwaukee Journal

;chers trained or given addition- al training; 600,000 agricultural loans made involving some 3,- 000,000 persons; 100 million peo- ple protected from malaria; 14 million school books circulated; | 13 million school children. and |

Since 1961 the United States | has spent $5 billion on the Al- | liance for Progress. Latin Am- erican countries -have contribut- ed money and effort, too. And | while there is constant argu- | ment over what it has accom- | plished, sume very material pro- | gress has heen made consider- ing the tremendous tasks to be done.

j Here are accomplishments re- | ported by the Agency for Inter- | national. Development:

cal units in operation or ready |

Bombs As Super Shovels National Geographic Society |

Nuclear explosives may start , to a million tons of TNT— carv- reshaping the world for human es a crater 3,200 feet across and benefit—not detriment— within | 690 feet deep. It moves 50 mil- | the next few years. | lion cubie yards of dirt at a cost

| conventional methods, the cost might run about $2 a cubie yard. Under the nuclear test ban

bomb blasts have inspired man with little but. terror, many at- omic engineers say the devices

S THE RUNAWAY GENI!

~ Quebec Hospital Costs And M

three million preschool children—_MP

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edicare

make his farewell speech “What I would try to do if were Prime Minister of .Cana- da’’ - next month before retir- ing. He will then be nearly 90 years old, but he is consider- ably younger than that in heart and mind. Two senators who coyly refrain from giving their birth date may well be over 75; Rupert Davies and Grattan O’-. Leary,-both—of..Ontario.. Prince Albert's Senator Boucher will be. 76; Canada’s first Indian se- nator, James ~Gladstone, 79; P.E.I.’s John Gladstone, 79; Quebee’s stormy Jeam Francois Poulidt, an institution on Par- liament Hill since 1924, will be 76. Senator Romuald © Bour-

a pension of $8,000 a year for que, appointed to the Senate to make a safe Liberal seat avail-

—_Constant_Reader”’, my_anon- | of the Senate in accordance with (able for Maurice Lamontagne, The senior senator in terms | will be qualified for the $8,000 a

‘year life pension after—a—scant

t 22 monhs- sertvice- in the Senate.

Senators appointed after June 2 Jast year will automati- eally retire, with $8,000 per year pension, from their $15,000 per year job when they reach “age

‘MPs HAVE REST

The House of Commons has

+adjourned—for_a—12-day__Faster..

holiday; civil ‘servants here had a 4day Easter week-end. But those who are the employers of sand bureaucrats alike, the

taxpayers of Canada, in gene- ral had one day off - if that. The. Commons is_ working longer hours now than in re- cent years, although they. do not sit through the late night ses-

‘sions to which our tougher fath-

ers and grandfathers were ac- customed. However, in the first 53 sitting days of this ses- sion, MPs filled 3.714 pages of Hansard. reports, a 20 per cent increase over the 3,062 pages which. they filled in the first 53 days last year. | In all that talk, MPs ploughed

through much of the housekeep- ing, such as spending estimates But they passed only one -piece of new Commons legislation in those 53 days; an emerge measure necessitated by their

__of-four_cents_a_cubic yard. With own dilatoriness, an act to ex- tend the time within which they |

must consider the proposed new electoral constituencies.

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Tonsilectomies Becomes Fewer

By Dr. Theodore R. Van Délien Tonsilectomy was the most

4+ common ‘surgical procedure in

1930. Today it far down the list because need for the operation is not so great. We know now that tonsils and aden- oids play a role in immunity and that removal does not lessen the chance of catching colds and “other respiratory infections; ~— The organs make up a part ef | the circle of. lymphoid , tis (Waldeyer’s the entrance to the throat and lungs from harmful bacteria and viruses. They tend to be en- larged during early childhood,

| have so many respiratory infec-

tions (and not the reverse). Each infection encourages the body to manufacture protective antibodies which explains why respiratory disorders are le common with advancing ~ The process backfires occasion- ally and symptoms ensue that are clearly referrable to the ton- sils or adenoids. When this hap- pens, they should be removed. What are the indications for ‘surgery? Removal is advised lead to

chronic nasal obstruction with

mouth breathing, restless sleep, and a light nasality of the voice. Many of these children develop the typical adenoid ap-

ee TS upper lip, eyes, ope 5 promonence

Tonsilectomy ‘and adenoidec-

-fections or fluctuant hearing loss. Repeated attacks of tonsil- itis or quinsy ‘sore throat are an indication as well as _ definite proof that the individual is ‘a dip- theria carrier.

Removing these organs may be helpful when neck glands have been swollen, for s ome

| time’ Some physicians-also sug-

gest the procedure when_a def-

attacks of tonsilitis and bouts of arthritis, rheumatic fever, as- thma, or iritis of the eye. These indications are rare.

Tonsil and adenoid removal Is

ments in technique and anesth-

gery) and lifting it out. ADHESIONS R. S. writes: Can adhesions become cancerous? Two years ago I underwent a gastrectomy. Now I have pain in the left side of my stomach. ; REPLY No. X-rays should be made to determine whether adhesions are blocking the intestine, or whether a new ulcer developed where the stomach was connect- ed to the intestine. ” BREAST SIZE M.W. writes: Is it cancer when a 14- year-old girl has -breat-one or two. inches larger on PLY

is an abnormally large breast but let this girl. mature before coming to this conclusion. Mean- while she should be examined to,

mor exists. TAGGED NECK . Mrs. H. K. writes: Should skin tags on the neck be removed? eo REPLY = Only when the lesions are un- sightly or located in areas that are easily irritated. : LIKES CRUELTY P.-8.-writes: Is_masochism a medical problem? ‘ - REPLY

Yes, because psychiatric care is needed. “ TODAY'S HEALTH HINT— ~ Brush teeth after meals.

(NOTE: All correspondence te Dr. Van Dellen should be addressed to: Dr. Theodore Van Dellen, co Chicago Trib-

TEST NUCLEAR WEAPON WASHINGTON (AP)—A _ nu- clear test of low intermediate |

| yield, which means a blast force |

equal to between 20,000 and | 200,000. tons of TNT, was con- |

|ducted underground Thursday

at the Atomic Energy Commis- ‘sion’s Nevada test site, the

|

AEC announced. It was the 13th announced .weapons-related test | of the year. oF

, tissue |. ring) that guards”

pearance— pinching of the nose, |

| tomy also__are inorder .-when-| for the child has recurrent ear in-

inite relationship exists between |

esia. One of the latest procedur- | es is freezing the tonsil (eryosur- |

_Not. necessarily. Gynecomastia. i

determine whether a cyst or tu-”

une, Chicago, Illinois.) |that-have come and gone— the | critical years in the life of Can-

“jone of the hardest tasks in this

would p.ro.vide extensive employ- |

can now be safely used for a wide variety of beneficial tasks. The Atomic Energy Commis- sion has established that a fair- lv_neat trench can be dug: hy set- ting off a chain of explosions. The Commission has also deve- loped nuclear ‘explosivés that produce relatively little radioac- tivity: It -is seeking to -reduce these levels still further. Enormous jobs await nuclear explosives, if they can he used safely and legally. In fact, the bigger the job. the. greater the saving over conventional blast- ing techniques. A one-megaton nuclear explosive equivatent

Our Yesterdays

+4From The Guardian Files)

TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO (April 15, 1941) +—+-German_troops smashing deep into the Allied left and = centfe

| on the northern Grecian hattle |

front reached the—western_outlet | of Siatista Pass. } IL.

Col. Ralston, minister of

| defence, arrived at Summerside |

in the course of a tour of inspec- tion of Maritime defence estab- lishments i TEN YEARS AGO | (April 15, 1956) 1) was announced that the Nova Scotia Department of Edu- | cation was lending Major C.1.N. _ MacLeod to the P.E.I. Festival |. to judge the Scotch dancing, pip- | ing and singing.

|

General. Omar Bradley said that if the United States should hecome involved «sin a third world war, “it would start with ,an attack on the United States. very much like the last started at Pearl Harbor.”

|

war,

treaty, the United States must | | have Soviet agreement before it |ean use a nuclear device that | might scatter radiation across an international boundary.

Some officials believe the Russians will agree when they have a project of their own that . requires United States consent.

Many authorities think -that_ nuclear explosives can be safe- ly employed, but others are con- cerned about the unknowns in- volved*in certain types of blast- | ing, such..as that. of .wet_tropic--- al earth. The political impact .of, | atomic explosives also raises | questions. :

NEW PANAMA CANAL

| Atomic energy experts consid:

er that it would be technically

| feasible to dig a new Central | American -canal_with—thermon-- | uclear devices.

Atomic explosives can also...

__ dredge. harbors, remove rapids rivers, cut’ channels to link the ocean with certain helow- sea- level regions -in deserts, and di- vert rivers! into parched areas.

When set off in the ground, a © thermonucléar device releases ' almost all its energy at once, creating such fantastic heat that the soil is votalized. A huge bub- hle of gas bursts upward, hurl ing out millions of tons of shat texed rock and pulverized earth The blast expends itself almost ~ entirely at the site, though some -energy continues Onward as a, seismic wave. When the dust settles, a huge cavity reinains.

The hydrogen bomb became a. reality on November |. 1952 Possibilities for its peaceful use began to he discussed during the Suez Canal crisis four years later, When aephysieist proposed using H-bombs to dig a new can-

‘that prevent navigation on big |

HEY FELLOWS -- -

I've Got A Job!

"THAVE MY OWN NEWSPAPER BUSINESS HERE'S HOW1 GOT IT -- -

»

Dad was always telling me about when he was a boy and had

a newspaper route.

low he learned - - -

To make and save money; To sell and keep records,

So----

I dropped in to see the Carrier Supervisor at the Guardian and Evening Patriot office and found I had the same oppor- tunity as Dad. Now I have a route near homé and find the Carriers are a swell bunch of fellows, all anxious to sueceed_ :

in thir. first business venture.

The Carrier Supervisor has some new routes opening up and heeds more boys. Come on in and see him. Join the team and

To work with people and fellow carriers —

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enjoy the fun of having your own business,

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"NOTES BY THE WAY

“Why do you go on the bal- cony. when I sing? Don’t you like to hear me?’’ ‘‘It.isn’t that I want the neighbors to see that I’m not beating my wife." ——

Hamilton Spectator:

“The doctor said he'd have me on my feet in two weeks.” “And did he?” ‘Sure. I've had to sell my automobile.”’ Tofonto Star. ;

Bet you didn't know that the | ancient Mayans divided the year into 16. 20. day months named pop, ou, zip, zoc, ceh, mac, kankin, moan, pax kayab and cunks. — Guelph Mercury.

concert. The conductor was leading the orchestra and direc- ting the soprano soloist as well: Willie was greatly interested. 4$Apther, why is that man sHak-

asked. ‘‘Hush, he is not shak- ing his stick at her.” ~'Then what is she screaming for?” — Montreal Star. —

ents of studied

| The tactic is not a new one

| for tbe big Texan who likes to |

| keep: his options secret and who in his third year as:president | remains head and shouldets the | dominant figure_here or in the | political hinterlands.

MAY STUB TOE | He may yet stub his toe dis- astrously as the late president Kennedy ‘did in the abortive Bay of Pics invasion of Cuba. Opportunities certainly abound. But President Johnson re- mains, by all the srsual volitical omens..a man with a hefty edge in public support even if the | initial gless and fervor are | worn. Widely loved he is not, but--his-political_sagacity_is _re- spected ® Sccinatha sna. hike mbaa nace x

On Viet Nam, that probably means staying on even if the retime in the south—due to current trouble or later—asks the United States to decamp.

In the U. S. Congress, there pts recurring whispers of re-

But the president has got everything he wanted on Viet Nam and does not appear con- cerned at_a more routine leg-"

ing his stick at the lady?” he |

A fellow in the barber chatr was telling, how he cured his wife of roe, me a careless manner. . to keep in mind”, he said, “that if she should” have an accident, the | papers would print not only her name but her age as well."” — Greendale Village Life.

| When ‘orbiting the earth for | 330-hours, an astronaut will age |a thousandth of a second less ‘than a man on earth, says a scientist. Of course, there will still be some cowards who will say they don't .mind growing old at the normal rate. — Ed. monton Journal. ‘

| John Culberston tells about

_ Mother took Willie to his fitabe the carpenter who-was apply-

| ing for Canadian citizenship.

He answered the court's ques-

tions all right until the judge - asked, ‘‘Could---you- become

Prime Minister of Canada?” “No, I couldn't,” said ap- . plicant. “Why not?” ‘“You please excuse,” explained the carpenter, ‘‘but I am very busy now repairing houses." —Van- couver Sun.

Johnson Plays It Cool. eS ae

fewer voices saying_a tax {n-'

| with plenty of room to pick ip | seats in the house of Repre- —gentatives-and.Senate, are cau- tious about seeking to capitalize yet on inflation or the war for November’s elections. Tradi- | tionally, they should score gains —but they have™tlong way to go. =. | There are signs the liberals /remain disenchanted with John- son, and labor, but where else can they go. Even Senator | Robert Kennedy, new darling of . the liberals, basically takes little issue with most Johnsdn- ian policy and it is assumed he won't be available until 1972 at the earliest. y sei | Foreign affairs observers: complain Johnson hasn't gone abroad—except to. Canada and | Mexico on short hops. The pres- ident’s answer seems to be that if world leaders want to see him - they can come to Washington. They do. :

Americans - find little fault | with the U.S. attitude to France |} and President de Gaulle over | NATO. To most de Gaulle is motivated. by anti-Americanism. _ “LPTLE~ LOVE. LOST

Even- with the press, that profession once called Wash- ington’s fourth branch of gov- ernment after the executive,. ’ legislative and judicial, an un- easy truce exists, although not

Gulliver was fascinated by the spectacle of the Lilliputians. For he marvelled that men could be- a so very small.

central Government of Casada has no cause to weep at | its dwindling power, or to mourn ithat it is becoming a shadow of | what it once-was. The spectacle ‘it has presented over the years

ada— has brought it down to its present low estate.

If it were only conscious. of what it has done to itself, and if it were only striving to recover its self-esteem, and to reclaim the confidence of the Canadian

ople, then it could be said, at east, that it- was attempting

way the game ha to raise taxes, cut spe or | Press Secretary Bill Moyers has both to ease inflationary pres-- said: 3 _gures._Now_he_professes.to_see_|_'‘They are not called for the | price imcreases. slowing, espe- | convenience of the press but for cially in foods, and there are | the president and the public.” e rs De STA ee eS The Lilliputians —- Montreal Gazette

That sitting of Parllament was, But at the very time when re- a tacle. But fas- |habilitation is urgent there. ; cinating only-in the sense‘ it comes

fous outgushing of frantic boast and foolish word, the rant and the venom, the hate of person for person,: the vengeance long- nourished, the passion for de-, _ struction. These are once more in the ascendancy. They have become the order of the day. They have the priority, brush- ing all other things aside.

The er is that the —indif- ference and Yidicule of Parlia- ment. by the nation will doom it. The hope is that the anger of the nation will yet save it. For no nation, longing for maturity, can rest content with Lilliputian leaders and legislators. The time will have to come when enough will be quite enough. As Gulliver said, the Lilliputians

world— the task of rehabilita- | tion. |

| knife.”’

were in much —pain— when they saw him ‘‘take out his pen--

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