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Soviet Trade Offer

The Soviet Union has proposed increased trade with the United States which it believes would lead to the advantageous exchange of billions of dollars worth of goods and niaterials. There is good reason to

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believe that the offer is serious and .

that the Eisenhower Government is

cautiously considering it. Any change A

in US. trade policy toward ,Russia would have to be cautious. .

Ever since the Korean war the United States has severely limited its trade with the Soviet bloc. The theory behind the restrictions was simply stated a few years ago by Mr. Harold Stassen. They are in-

tended to “retard the build-up of’

Soviet war-making power.” Some lifongressmen would go further, arguing that anyitrade with Russia helps to_ strengthen a potential enemy and is therefore dangerous. But unfortunately the restrictions have not achieved their purpose.,It is now almost a year since the Soviet Union claimed to have successfully tested an intercontinental missile, while no such full-range test has yet been conducted in the United States. In_.a'ddition, the superior power of present Soviet rockets has been‘ vividly indicated by the contrast be- tween the ton-and-a-half Soviet earth satellite and the minuscule United States satellites placed in or- bit. Soviet progress in other military- scientific endeavor: is also plainly evident. U.S. trade restrictions may have hurt Russia but certainly not to the extent implied in Mr. Stassen’s statement.

P Moreover, the U.S. trade attitude toward Russia has long been a source of V discord in the Western alliance. has had to be watered down on successive occasions because Euro- pean countries no longer think it worthwhile to deprive themselves 0 this commerce. ‘

The Soviet offer comes at a, time p

when the United States is struggling with serious economic problems. People associate trade with peace and prosperity, and thls,zindeed, has been the theme of many American speeches. Can they afford to turn down business on a big scale when it comes knocking at the‘ door? It may well be that Washington is feeling its way towards a new policy in this respect; but no one is willing to say much until ‘the Government knows its own mind and has sounded out

‘ the intentions of its European allies.

Where The Money Goes

An American economist, noting that the average price of cars has gone up 50 per cent in ten years, has been investigating where the buyer's money goes. Average price for all makes of cars a decade ago was $1,- 888; today it is $2,833-—nearly $1,000 more. The prices quoted may be dif- ferent in Canala, but the spread be- twen the) two averages is approxim-

' ately the same. Where has the mon-

ey gone?

Wages, salaries, bonuses, fringe beriefits and commissions paid to em- ployees of manufacturers and dealers account for $916 of the $2,833 that a customer pays today for a new car. That is an increase of $385 over the $531 that went to the employees when a new car cost $1,888. Thus, more than one-third of the increase in price is due to increase in direct labor costs. The manufacturers bill for wages, salaries and fringe benefits 113.8 gone up by about $185, or more than 50 per cent during the decade. The dealer’s pay to salesmen, clerical help andthe men in the garage has increased about $200, and is now more than double that of 1948.

~ Automobile companies buy mater- ials for the car: they purchase many of its parts and accessories from oth- er manufacturers; they pay for nat- ional advertising. Dealers pay for transportation from the factory to the showroom and for local advertis- ing. For such goods and services, the cost comes to about $1,204 on the av- erage new car. Ten years ago, these goods and services accounted for , $748 of the purchase-price. The in- crease in cost in these elements, therefore, is $456, or not far from one

half of the rise In price over the 10- year period. Much of that increase in cost stems, in turn, from increases in wagesand salaries of the compan- ies producing raw materials, parts and accessories. Some is due to the fact that the present-day car is big- ger and more complex and, hence takes more material, more parts and more labor. I

Heaviest cost of materials is for steel. The amount of steel that went . into a 1948 car cost $99; today $172. Total profits of manufacturers and dealers are $161, compared -with $221, so that actually, according to the ec0nomist’s_figures we have quot- ed, the profit on a. caris less today than it was a decade ago. A

Garganluan Growth

Yesterday we referred to a. claim

that Russian horticulturists have pro- duced carrots three feet high and cab- bages five yards wide. This fantas- tic growth is attributed to use in the soil of a certain fungi called gibber- elins. Effects of this sort were report- ed in a conference. of biologists at Stanford. University in California last September; hence western hor- ticulturists do not discount the re- port from Moscow, though they doubt from their own experiments whether the 15-foot cabbage would make good slaw or soup. The fungus was first discoviered 25 years ago in Jap- an, where it caused some rice plants to grow extremely----and uselessly-—-- tall.

The significance of gibberelins or *

gibberellic acid may not lie so much in the size of the growth it induces in vegetables as in the ability to make them grow rapidly or in supposedly barren soil. The Russian scientists say that gibberelins “cut the veget- ation periodfrom months to weeks, making it possible to introduce farm crops in the extreme north and in deserts.” This could be extremely im- portant, not only to the Soviet Union

but to Canada and other countries’

which have territories in northern latitudes. ‘

EDITORIAL. .NOTES

Experiments have“. been going on in the United States in, the use of oral polio vaccine. However, Dr. Salk, discoverer of the Vaccine, says he is am ready at this time “to recommend the use of live lpoliovac-

cine for oral use”. 0 ‘

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President. Eisenhowenand Prime

Minister.Macmillan” did not compete, in a game of golf, after all ‘It.-seems ‘ that ,the Prime? Minister is not a golf '

enthusiast, although he plays when he is in Scotland,»as a matter of duty. Cricket is what he really likes and plays well. - -V» 4 *

Prime Minister Harold Macmillan “hopes and prays” that under Gener-

.al die Gaulle’s leadership France will

solve many of its problems. He didn’t mention it; but in all probability he hopes and prays that in attempting tosolve old problems the General will’ not create otherseven more formid- able. 7 5 4 4 ~1-

“Drive-up_ telephones” are being installed at a dozen busy _'Chicago street corners. The gadget is another Bell innovation which will doubtless earn a profit and the public gratitude as well. The. motorist can drive up, take the phone off the hook and dial right on the handset. He can relax in

» his car while he talks.

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It has often been said that Lloyd’s of London will insure against any- thing. A recent coverage was that on Princeton University’s class of ’38 to insure its reunion on the campus this weekend against rain. If it rains on Saturday, each of the 225 remain- ing members ‘of the class will receive a reimbursement of the $60 reunion fee from the insurance company.

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An American art dealer said on his return from a trip to Scotland that he had bought what is believed to be the only protrait of William Shakespeare painted in the great man's lifetime. He paid $420 for it, and he thinks it may be worth a million dollars. Somehow, that is a little hard to accept. It seems incred- ible that anybody in Scotland, of all places, could be_persuaded to close a deal like that. - p

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Mayor J ohnstone thinks that, as a result of representations made to the Federal Government by the Federa- tion of Mayors and Municipalities, “in the near future municipalities will get a better break in regard to their share‘ of the tax dollar”. Since that would mean that Federal and Provincial Governments would get‘ :5 little less of the coveted dollar, we are inclined to think that still fur- their negotiations are in prospect.

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By George Kitchen A Canadian Press Staff Wrllér

The growing threat of Soviet economic warfare has provided the dominant theme for the in- formal Washin.gto_n talks between President Eisenhower and. Prime Minister Macmillan.

The British prime minister is firmly convinced that the strug- gle between East and West is sh-ii‘tin-g rapidly from the military to the economic front.‘ He sees this development in recent Soviet trade overtures .to the United States and other nations of the free world. a « ~ ~

One of. the main. purposes of Macmillan's visit to North Amer- ica, informal though it is, has

been to bring this belief fiirmlyé

to the atttentiorl of the president and his aides -and, presumably, to give it equal stress when he

‘meets Prirme Ministetr Diefen-

baker and the Canadian cabinet in Ottawa later this week. ’

PREOCCUPATION OBVIOUS Macmi.1Ilan’s preoccupation with

the Soviet economic rt‘hr‘éat.h'asg

been apparent’ in speechesshe has delivered before Ame!‘-iicain uni- versities in the ‘last few days. In both cases he stressed the need for greater economic “interde- pendence” in the free world.

In, his talks with Eisenhower, Macmillan has gone farther. He has voiced the need for the free world to expand world trade by lowering tariff and other barriers

by seeing to it that‘ there are suf- ficient funds aV8.'i?1-H‘b*1l€ to finance a greater exchange of goods. _ He feels that steps must be taken to. increase the mobillity of the free'world’s money supply, to stimulate trade and hasten the building up of the undeveloped and have-not nations _,on the fringes of the Western‘ all-ianzce. Before ‘two world wars sapped her economic strength, Britain h»and1~ed this chore with little in- ternational fuss or bother. Her private bankers, skilled in the in-

, tricacies of international finance,

floated loans and extended cred- its without government interfer- ence or assistance. ' . BALANCE SHIFTS‘

Since then, the balance of

‘ monetary power has shifted from the sterling to the dollar bloc.

Money supply now is con- centrated in the United States, which lacks the financial finesse and economlclmowledlge devel- oped by Britain through her cen- turies-old role as the world’: No. 1 banker. _ International financing now must be handled through interna- tional agencies and institutions. Macmillan .recogn.izes this and for that reason would like to see the International Monetary Fund and similar international bodies strengthened to buttress» the free world’s a c o n- o mic defences against the Soviet threat.

THE ACADIANSOF P.E.|.

New Church Co‘nslrucl'ed

By J. Henri Blanchard, LL. D.

(Continued from yesterday) From St. Petefls Franquet re- inn of Madame Gent-il (three miles above the pre- sent Mount Stewart). Continuing his journey the next day he ar- rived at Sieur Nicolas Gauthier’s house (opposite what is now

Scotchrfiort) where the people gath-

ered to get his decision as to the site of the proposed church. He decided in fiavorof the north side of the river,, as people from Tra- cadie, six miles. distant, could come there instead of St. Peter’s. Moreover, Sieur Amand Bur gea-u, neighbour . of Gauthier’s had made a gift of land for a site, his orchard a site fior_ a priest's residence, and his gar- den for a cemetery. This,de«ci- sion was accelptcd unanimously and the people agreed to build the ‘church on the northern site. It was also agreed that a ferry should be kept up at the expense of both sides of the river, and Franquet promised to ask the Government to give a bell for the church. ‘

DEDICATED TO ST.—LOUIS This church was deedrlcate-d to St. Louis. Its first pastor was Abbe Perronnel, from 1752 to 1753. Father Perronnel fiell sick and had to retire. He lived with Father Jean Biscarat at St. Pe- ter’s for a year, and then had to

return to France. He was susc-'x_

ceeded at St. Louis by Father Pierre Cassie‘: who remained up to the Deportation of ‘1758.

(The large white marble cross wfhlch is visible from the high,- way at Scoticlrfort marks the resting place of Rev. Augustine MacDonald. It stands in the cen- ter of the old French cemetery. This cemetery was for many years used by the Scotch Catho- lic settlers who anrived at Scotch- fort in 1772.) ,

FIRST INTERMENT

Some eight months after Fran- quet’s visit, Sieur Joseph-Nicolas Gauthier died at his residence at “Belair” (Scotchfort), and was the first person to be buried in the cemetery of the parish of St. Louis.

The l:'ollo\Ni11»g‘ is the official re- cord in the ,parish register of Port. Lajoie; “On April 2. 1752, I officiated at the burial of Joseph- Nicolas (3au(.hi,er, of Belalr. on the North-East river. aged about 63 years. lie died yesterday, at ten o’clock at night. He was the husband of Marie Allain, a native

of Port Royal. Joseph-Nicolas Gauthier was a native of Roche- fort, France.” (Signed) Flatlher Patrice L gree.

From 19 e head of East River (Ifillsboro) Franquet returned to Port Lajoie. Here he set to work to make a chart of the harbour. He also prepared an elaborate plan for a strong fort on the site on which Fort ‘Amherst was built by Lord Rollo in 1758. This plan was drawn in accordanuce with the principles of scientific forti- fications of the time.

Similar plans were drawn by Colonel Fra-nquet for forts at St. Peter’s and Three Rivers. Those fine plans for fortifications drawn with such meticulous care by Col- onel Franquet, nerver rose in stone and mortar. They found a more peaceful resting place in the Archives of the Marine and Colonies in Paris.

(To be continued)

l 1 7234' BEYOND THE FARTHEST HILL

He put a curse on tempting roads, and wove The prairie sun with song of mea- dlUW lank . To hold her where the checkered willow grove Was all that broke th;e‘orn1pby slqv’s blue arc. But curse and woven song were fieefble chains, Not meant to shalcaklze down the soaring call That node a western wind on summer plains, _ or split her cans in the first red blast of flail. * She wal-ks where gulls are loud above the curl, I Of waves, where mountains arch in bold hallhrnoonsl; But, raw with discontent, she hears the skirl Of the call she knew when willows sang green tunes. No matter where she wind is shrill And shoulders her bcyoiid the farthest hill. Maribel Coleman Has~,k-in (In the New York Times).

SUGAR BEET AREA Production of sulgarr beats is a major agricultural item in the

goes the

A darnzage to property particularly

’Besides the loss of hay lahd

SOUR YESTERDAYS

(From The Guardian Files)

_ TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO ' (June 12, 1933)

_The enforcement of the by-laws having to do with the running at‘ large of dogs. on the streets was given considerable discussion at the regular meeting of the City Council held last night. llt was stated that the dogs had become a nuisance» and were infliciting

to newly planted flower beds. It was proposed. hat the by-law be strictly enforc d so that no dogs would be permitted to run about except on -a leash. '

During the _'thuI1der storm which passed over the western part of the province on Friday last, a large barn owned by Jos- eph Lecllair, Sumlme-rside, was destroyed with all its contents.

grain, Mr. LeCla.ir also lost sev- en cows and a horse. It is under- stood there was no insurance cov- erage.

TEN YEARS AGO (June 12, 1948)

The kitchen of the Bellevue Ho- tel at_Tigndsh was gutted by fire yesterday aflternoon, but further damage‘ to the two and a half

TV Tensions & Nail Biting

By Herman N. Bundescn, M. D. TELEVISION may cause fin- gernail biting.

While TV is not a general cause of nail biting, it is a fac- tor in some cases.

In many instances, nail bit-

ing is an indication of inner restlessness.

Now it is extremely difficult for active youngsters to sit

quietly for any length of time. You just can’t expect a child to adopt adult stand-ardls of be- havior.

EMOTIONAL STRAIN Compelling a youngster to “sit still” and watch a television show that is filled with excit- ing scenes (distressing scenes are even worse) which he does not understand will very likely place him under considerable emotional stnain. And it is pre- cisely at such times that many youngsters begin biting their fiingern.ails.

Children can encounter the same situations in a movie theater, of course, but this oc- curs rather inlfrequentllry. Tele- vision, on the other hand, is universal e v e n in g entertain- ment.

If the youngster must quiet- ly view‘ puzzling adult shows each evening, he is placed under an inner tension that satimulates growth of the fingernail biting habit. ’ ' - SOLUTION OF PROBLEM

Obviously, the solution to this particular phase of the problem is to permit the kids to watch shows they like, or to let them do something else while you are enigrossed in an adu-lit program.

A child is not likely to de- velop any nervous halbits if his

peaceful and he is not placed under any great strain. And whether you think so or not, being quiet and watching a‘ TV program he doesn’t like is a‘ real strain for any youugs-ter. Most parents, I’m‘ afraid, try to manage their children too thoroughly.’ Keep a check on him for sa-£ety’s sake, of course, but give him enough freedlom so he can carry out some of his

by the quick action of the Tig- nish firemen. The fire is believ- ed to have started in the base- ment under the kitchen. Loss is estimated at $3,000, partly cov- ered by insurance.

grazph operator in Summerside, left Monday morning for Hali- llax where he will enter the C.

an automatic operator. He is be- ing replaced in Sumimerside by Mr. Ralph B. Schurmian, a for- mer Summerside man, who was last stationed in Inverness, N. S.

MAXIMS

Prayer is thepeace of our spir- it, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of our recollection, the sea of our meditation, -the

young life is kept happy and-

Mr. Blair Johnston, local tele-

N.R. Telegraph office there as

A furniture maker says he 03”‘ not understand why any 1101119 has an uncomfortable chair in it.

Apparently he has no relatives. —London Free Press

We should alwa:Y5 1469!) in mind that it is better to exchange mis- sives than missiles.——E«dmonton Journal

A three-fingered menace that makes an annual appearance is sneaking up in woods, along shorelines, around cottages and in many other places in thls d'1S- trilc-t. It is poison ivy, and its ar- rival means trouble, both for I390- ple and the plant.-—Owe.n Sound Sun-Times -

. In recent years another hazard has been added to the long list already facing the motorist. This is deer. Last year according '00 an official count, 552 deer were killed on Ontario highways alone with the average cost of repairs to cars estimated at $135 per veh- icle.—-F‘inanc.i°al Post .

It is surely a new-fangled and false notion, a professor argues, that the public ever has an obli- gation to purchase goods. The

of the market euconomly, he says, is that a willing buyer and will- ing seller must meet. If _17he;I'e’s any duty involved, in his opinion it’s on the part of the seller to offer a wanted commodity at an att-ralc-tive price.—Financial Post

A. hunter. from Cleveland “could=n’t stand” the scrams of a ibe-ar he had wounded with a bow and arrow in the North Bay area; so he got his fine and put it out of its misery. He says he will never hunt bears with such a weapon again. That is some gain. But what must bother a number of people is-' just why bowaand-arrolvv enthusrlasivs are li- censed to hunt game at.all._ Sur- ely guhpowd«er can be cruel en- ough.—'I‘oronto Globe and Mail '

own ideas. ’ ‘ KEEP HIM BUSY ‘ To prevent development of the nail biting habit, be sure your youngster keeps actively busy. Best thing is to givim something to do with his hands.

Keep his nails in good condi- tion, short and smooth and with no bangnails. Then ‘there is less temptation for biting. For little girlis, you might try putting a little polish on the nails. This gives them pride» in» their nails and might prevent’ the nail biting. , QUESTION AND ANSWER

Mrs. D. P.:. Is it true that older mothers have a greater tendency to give birth to twins?

Answer: The records show that there is a. slightly higher proportion of twins born to . older mothers.

The Age Old Story

Is the Lord’s hand waxed short? ‘Thou shalt see now whe-

storey main hotel was prevented

rest of our cares, and the calm of our tempest.

ther‘ my word shall come to pass unto thee or not. 9

classical and still correct theory‘

NOTES BY THE WAY

When a little boy arrived home from school his mother asked him if he had been a good buy-_ “Sure I was good in school to- day”, he replied. “How much trouble can you get into stand. lng in a co1'ner?”—-Ottawa Jour-

.nal

There was a time when the

Salvation Army had to fight pm only against the devil but against- skeptical and sometimes violevn. fly critical public opinion. It can now concesntrate its energies 3,1. most entirely on the devil; thg rest of us have been pretty wen won over, and even those who are inclined to. take the devil‘ with a grain of salt are glad 110‘, help the Army in its cheerful and heroic struggle.—WinnipQg Free Press

It is sobering to think that man’s brain-power has advanced little, if at all, in the Last 200,000 years, According to Professor‘ William F. Albrlght, professor of. Semitic languages at Johns Hop.‘ kins University, there have beefi‘

no spectacular changes in that,

time; in fact he says, any ffhalf there have been are insignificant‘ when compared to the mental im. provement in domesticated am. msa.l-s.—-Edmonton Journal

We Canadians are apt to thin]:

V of our nation, particularly the» Prairies, as being a country of

huge farms and that, overseas, farms are tiny by comparigsou. Yet appearances, can be deceiv- ing. In England there are some huge estaltes, even if they be (ii. vidcd into smaller individual farms. For instance, 3,300 acrei of the Lord Tollemache estate recently were sold to Lord Le- verhulme. This large chunk com-, prised only one-third of the es-_ ltavte.-—Windsor Star 5 ‘

Aftbr an the Iinkind things that have been said about the sack dress for women it appears that

.men are to be directed backtd

bags. From London, headquarters of the sartorial world for men,

‘as Paris is for woman, comes word that belbbottomed trousersj are being unreeled. Oddly enough]

they were popular back in the days when something similar to the sack veiled the ferrlihiua form. ‘So we go round round. But there is the conso‘-is lation that bell-botrtomed -trons;-t. ers have not hurt the populaif-T ity of sa~ilors.—-London Free Press.

Many of_us must feel a twinge when Mr. Vincent ‘Mas-. sey hits on one of his favorite themes, the llact that we don't know enough about our own past.

It seems that it is only in re--_

cent years that history has em-. erged from its academic’ cocoon of colletes and learned societies, and begun to hold the imagina- tion of the less scholalry public. It l1-as'n’l: emerged far enough. The progesss it has made is lar- gely due to ‘such men as His Ex- cellency, with his persistent plea that we open the textbooks of to- day that are so far superior to the one which bored us as chil- dren.-—Montre‘al Star

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