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THURSDAY, FEB. 13. 195?;

The Civic Election

As anticipated, yesterday's civic election was keenly contested. The interest centered particularly on the Mayoralty contest, where the battle was between two veteran Councillors, Messrs. Johnstone and McCormac. Mr. Johnstone ' emerged as the winner, and is to be warmly congratulated upon this indorsation of his energetic policies as finance bhairrnan under the Stewart regime. There is no question but that he will

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discharge his duties as chief magis.-W

trate with the same conscientious- ness and ability. Congratulations are also due to Mr. McCormac for the vigorous competition he offered, as well as to the candidates for other offices who made the election so in- teresting. It speaks highly for the outgoing administration’s record that all the former Councillors in the ‘field, as well as the Water Commis- sioners, were returned.

The new Council gets away to a -good start, with a revenue surplus-

pf some $69,359 last year and a’

system of tax collections which seems to be working more efficiently than ever before. The overall debt, how- ‘ever, is increasing and“ there is prgent need for more revenue in

the near future. It is to be hoped that _

an equitable share of federal revenue ilnder the tax sharing agreements and new adjustment grant will be

obtainable, as well as increasefrom. 0

taxes on federal property in the City. ,_ We are on the eve of a new municipal era with the amalgama- -tion of Spring Park and Charlotte- town. We have no doubt but that the problems involved will be worked out satisfactorily, and that the merger will prove beneficial to the whole community. The prospects also seem to be _brigher for obtaining the long-

awaited civic airport runw'ayile'i“cten- ,

sion, which will mean _a great im- provement in modern transporta- tion facilities. '

It is hoped and expected that the Council will work harmoniously as well as energetically, for it is only in this way "that concrete results can be achieved.

Rise ln'Strontium

While the governments. of the Great Powers argue. back and forth on the issue of nuclear tests, stron- tium-90, the most deadly substance in radioactive fall-out, is slowly but surely threatening the human race. For the year ended June 30, 1957, nuclear explosions caused a 33 per cent increase in the “concentration of thepoison.

I ' This was the principal finding re-

ported by a team of scientists work- ing under the direction of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. The

'_, study, which took in all parts of the_

world except the Soviet Union and covered more than 1000 human bone" ti-samples, showed that the concentra- tion had risen much more rapidly in l the bones of children than in adults. , In children up to 4 years of age, it -. was ten times that found in adults %,of 20 and older. It is still only about

1-150th of the “maximum permis- A sible concentration” established .by iscientific authorities. However, the

report noted that “even if bomb tests were halted now the levels would rise to about'1-75th of the . maximum by the 1970’s. By the year 2000 it will have risen toll-5th, pro- vided, of course, tests are kept to the present levels”. . ' _ For some unexplained‘ reason, «~c_onditions are worse on the North .'American Continent than in any other area covered by the survey. In this connection the report states. L "It is noted that in 1956-57, the high- est values (a curious term for such as dangerous substance!) were found. in North America, while values in South America and Africa and Australia were about half this, with jthose in Europe in between”. Anoth- er interesting fact is that the con- centration is 15 per cent higher in ‘ e average female than in the verage male. “We do not think”, ie report concludes, “that the find-

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lngs of the bone study can be passed off as not worth worrying about, but we do not think either than the situation is critical at the present time.”

What the report does not men- tion is that, according to leading scientific opinion, the main bulk of radioactive substance from nu- clear explosions goes into the upper atmosphere where it may stay for many years. Eventually, however, it will come to earth to poison every- thing it touches.’ And, as the distin- guished editor of the Saturday Re- view pointed out in, a recent article on the subject, “you can’t’wash the skies”.

Deficit Financing

One. thing regarding the federal election can be said with certainty: whichever party wins it will be oblig- ed to budget for a sizable deficit in the next fiscal year.

The Conservatives have already embarked on a $250 million dollar public works program. This, added

to the tax reduction and other com-.

mitments authorized at the last ses- sion of Parliament, will do away with any hope of a surplus. Indeed, Finance Minister Fleming has stat- ed publicly that if the Government must choose between budgeting for a deficit and prolonged" large scale unemployment it will choose the former. Incidentally, it may be noted that the United States Government has adopted a similar "stand, despite a very large increase in defence spending. '

» The. Liberals, according to a statement made by Mr. Pearson a day or two ago, are prepared to go even further and cut ,taxes right and

left. A $400 million deficit may be

in their calculations. Evidently, gone are the days when “balancing the budget” was regarcfied as -the sine qua non of good government. Shall we h’ear before. the election is over that ‘one party .or the other has committed. itself to a policy of no taxation at all and much spend- ing?

There is, of course, every justifi-

cation for tax reductions in times

like the present. Anything that helps to stimulate business and re- lieve -unemployment is valuable. The little disturbing note "about the pre- sent situation " that the election .-promises to be ought on a single is- -sue; which 1 party can. _promise the

biggest tax reduction‘ and ‘at the

same time undertake to /spend the most money on public services? The

Conservatives, of course, have the.

advantage, since they have already done a good deal in both fields, while the Liberals’ main strength IS in promises.

EDITORIAL Noiss

A research organization in the United States is trying to find out why people save money. Evidently, they haven’t heard of the “rainy- day" theory.

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They do their voting leisurely in Communist China. A report from Peiping says that’ the election to fill 1200 seats in the People's Congress will begin early in May and con- tinue until late July.

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Japanese scientists have announc- ed that they have achieved then- monuclear fusion for “one-millionth of a second”. Breaking seconds up into millionths islalmost as. great an achievement as bringing about thermonuclear fusion. F

i O Q The French will find it very dif- ficult to justify the bombing of a,

. Tunisian town on the pretext that it

harboured Algerian rebels. The net result will be a further lowering of Western prestige in Africa and" Asia. The unfortunate incident has given the propaganda of the Communists «a great lift. * i O

In last week’s municipal elections in Poland, according to a Warsaw newspaper, the, electors ‘had “free- dom of choice”. It turns out that this “freedom”. meant only that voters could cross out the names of can- didates whom they did not favour. The ballot was still a one-party af- fair. ,

* ‘I’ O 475,000 babies were born in Can-

ada last year, an increase of 24,300 from 1956. On a percentage basis, the year’s rate was slightly below that of 1947, the record year. The greatest number of births was in Ontario, with 153,773. Quebec took second place, with 142,299. All Pro- vinces except Saskatchewan report- ed an increase. ~

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OTTAWA REPORT 1

First Indian Senator

By Patrick Nicholson Special Correspondent for The Guardian

Ottawa: Prime Minister John Diefenbaker made a unanimously applauded move when he appoin- ted the first Indian -to our Sen-

_ate, choosing Ak-ay-Na-Mika for

this honour.

“Many Guns", to use the tran- slation of his Black-foot Indian name, alias Jim Gladstone, is the 70 year old Chieftain of the Blood Indian band in Alberta. We have seen many honorary Indian chiefs in Parliament—Mr. Dief- 'enbaker is one himself—-but Mr. Gladstone is the first real Indian to sit in our federal parluament.

The choice of this first repres- entative of the first Canadians was no d-oubt a hard one. The In- dians of Alberta have a colour- ful an-d prou-d,history, but in terms of present Indian popula- tion, Alberta now ranks only sixth of our provinces. Its 15,715 In- dians exceed only the Indian po- pulation of each of our Atlantic Provinces.

Ontario is the home’ of more Indians than live in any other province. Had there been a vac- ancy for an Ontarian in the Sen- ate, it is’ very likely that the -Prime Minister would have .be- stowed that hon-our upon the man

.who is world-famous as Canada’s

ranking authority on mining re- search and development. That is Dr. Gilbert Monture, with affec- tion widely known as “Slim”, who

was born a full-blooded Iroquois‘ on the Six Nations Reserve sixty years, ago. , ECHO FROM HISTORY

Slim Monture is a great, great grandson of the famous.Jo~seph Brant, chief of the Mohawks and leader of the Six Nations, who

Canada at the time when the whitemen United Empire Loyal- is'ts also fled from tlie'Amerl- can revolution.

Brant built the first Protestant church in Ontario; the city of

he even visited England to plead 3 the cause of the welfare ‘of Can- adian Indians before the King. Four generat’on_s later, Slim Monture interested himself not only in the cause of Indian wel- fare, but also in Canadian wel- fare, and especially in the wel- fare of our already, immense, but, he believes, potentially more im- ’mense mineral riches. A veteran of World War I, Slim

as a mining engineer. He then jo‘ned the federal department of Mines. He worked there for more than 30 years, ending as Chief of the Mineral Resources Divi- sion. ‘ His immense knowledge and ability in the ‘mineral field was

valuable to his country and to its allies during World War II,

National Geographic Society

The Sphinx Gets A Facial

There's nothing inscrutable a- ‘bout the Sphinx’s present smile. The 4,500-year-old lady is getting a facial. Egyptian Department of Antiquities recently began clean- ing.and restoring the magnificent monument-—an object of specula- tion, admiration, and mutilation since prehistoric times.

This is not the first time that the mysterious guardian \of the pyramids has needed urgent care. King Thutmose IV’ ordered re- pairs some 3,500 years ago. It has received beauty treatments several times in the 19th and 20th centuries.

By and large, however, the colossus with a human head- and lion’s ‘body has admirably wen- thered the erosion of old age and sand.

RIDDLE or THE spnmx _ ecrets are locked behind the

_Sphinx’s mask of serene authori-

ty. When was it sculptured? By whom? And what does it repres- ent? All of these questions are part of the so-called Riddle of the Sphinx.

The recumbent figure—66 feet high and 240 feet long—gazes across the Nile Valley from a niche in a rock plateau near the Pyramids at Giza. It is possible that workers, in quarrying blocks for the Great Pyramid, left a core of rock that inspired an un- known artist to create the Sphinx.

Though the Sphinx is referred to as “she,” it is believed to be a stone portrait of King Khafre (26th century B.C.), the builder of the Second Pyramid.

It was a work of genius. The huge eyes, the broad sensitive mouth, and high cheekbones im- part a strange, wise charm that -has awed poets and writers throughout the ages. Sophocles wrote of-the “Sphinx with her enigma.” Emerson said, “She broods upon the world.”

“He who created it,” wrote novelist Robert Ilitcheiis, “look- ed beyond Egypt, beyond the life of man. He grasped the con- ception of Eternity, and realized the nothingness of Time, and he rendered it in stone.”

The face was carefully car» d and framed in a stylized wig. But the lion’s body, which con- noted royal guardianship, was crudely blocked out. Evidence in- dicates it was overlaid with plas- ter and painted.

The Sphinx’s probable purpose

as a royal portrait was finally

-Kingdom, beginning 1570 B.C., it was identified with the sun god and worshiped as “Horus in the Horizon."

ENGULFED BY SAND

As centuries passed, waves of desert sand piled against the Sphinx. A red granite slab be- tween its paws tells a legend of the XVIIIth dynasty. On a hot day before Thurmose became King, he supposedly rested in the shade of the partly engulfed form The Sphinx spoke to him, say- ing, “I shall make thee Pharaoh if thou wilt dig me out of the sand.” ,

In addition to excavating, Thut- mose probably mended portions of the damaged form with blocks of iimestone. Other repairs were made in the Ptolemaic and Ro- man periods.

Centuries of wind-blown sand ravaged the giant figure. It suf- fered drastically at the hands of fanatic Moslems who abhored images in any form. The Mame- lukes took practice pot-shots at the Sphinx, to the eternal detri- ment of its complexion.

With modern plastic surgery, however, the Sphinx seems fit

. for many more genturies.

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TREES IN WINTER

The leaves have fled,

The leaves have fled,

But the embroidered branches of i the trees

Are etched with beauty,

And one sees ,

The sunset softly red;

A‘nd far-off shining wastes. Where the big 1'?" ball descends, As the short-lived daylight ends In deeperrng shadows,

Not “bare ruined choirs."

But twigs 0-f frosted silver

Like ir:".ed lyres.

—-Dorothy S-pnoule in the Montreal Star.

The Age Old Story

Blessed are they which are per- secuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of hea-

forgotten. In the time of the New

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brought his loyalist-redmen to.

Brantford is named for him; and-

-Monture graduated from Queens.

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when he was appo’-nted Canadian executive officer to the combined Resources and Production Board in Washington. That tongue-twis-

_ting title means that this job was

to represent Canada in the alloca- tion of strategic minerals. ?5/s1/s-ti$$$$$ /

U.N. AND WORLD FAME... ..

In recent years, he has repres-'

exited Canada br worked for the

° United Nations or for World Or-

igagnizations on i n n u m e r ab 1 e

boards and missions dealing with

mineral development.

Now, honoured as an Officer of lihe.BI'ilZiSh Empire by the govern- ment, as an honorary Doct-or of Science by the University of Wes- tern Ontario, he has retired from the civil service, and is working for the United Nations.

Canada's mining industry has _lacked an able and influential

‘friend in Parliament since Rod-

ney Adamson, the Conservative M.P. from Toronto, was killed in the Moose Jaw air disaster three years ago. The appointment of Dr. Monture to the Senate would fill that void as well as pay tri- bute to his race.“ Even more, it would bring the whole mining in- dustry confidently behind spec- tacular program of northern de- velopment which is shaping up as the keystone of the Diefen- «baker Government’s national plan

of Canadian riches for Canadians. I

A OUR YESTERDAYS

(From -The Guardian Files)

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Feb. 13. 1933)

A committee was appointed at the regular meeting of the City Council last evening to interview the local Government with a view to gaining permission to aid the unemployed‘by providing labour, wages for which would be paid in money now used for direct re- lief. It was reported that $9,403.45 had been paid out indirect re- lief during the past six months.

.The spacious dwelling of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Duffy of Sham- rock was destroyed by fire Sun- day while the family was away at church. The fire was first no-

ticed by the hired man who on

investigation found the upstairs -

all ,ablaze. Only a .few small household items were saved.

TEN YEARS AGO (Feb. 13, 1948)

The Provincial Government has purchased the old Y.M.C.A. build- ing on Richmond Street, it was learned last evening. The build- ing, temponarily occupied by the local offices of Veterans‘ Affairs, will be renovated to provide ac- commodation for several Provin- cial Government offices which have not sufficient room in their present quarters.

St. Dunstan’s College won its third consecutive intercollegiate debate last night by defeating St. Mary‘s College, Halifax. The de- bate was held in the Queen Sq., Auditorium ‘before a large aud- ience. The Judges were A. Wal- then Gaudet, Arthur Peake, and ,D.F. Tierney.

blood vessels, alcohol

For Buerger’s I Disecise Victims

By Herman N. Bundesen. M.D. WHILE we doctors absolutely forbid a victim of Buerger s dlSt- ease to smoke at all, this doesn mean we‘ deny him all pleasures. In most instances, we urge him to take one or two highballs or cocktails each day, preferably before the evening meal. INFLAMMATORY PROCESS . Buerger’s disease _is an in- flammatory process in ‘the blood vessels with clots which even- tually‘ may lead to complete clos- ing of the vessels. _

While smoking constricts. the dilates them. Therefore, alcohol gener- ally should be used accord..ig to your doctor’s recommenda- tions during the acute pain pro- duced by the disease and high- balls are advised after the acute stage has passed. The sedative

-effect often is very striking.

VARIOUS EXERCISES

There are also various exer- cises you can perform to in- crease circulation. I’ve told you about them in previous columns. But even while resting, you can aid circulation in the af-

‘ fected limb.

When resting in a chair or when lying down, place the af- fected leg or arm confortably on a level about four or five inches below the level of th heart. ‘ This gives gravity a chance to help the blood through the arter- ies. At the same time, your af- fected limb is not low enough to hamper return of the blood through the involved veins. N0 HEAT « . _ As a rule, the doctor usually a d v i s e s against using heat lamps, hot water bags and the like to apply heat to the limb. The heat from these cannot be diffused adequately since the blood in affected arms and legs flows much too slowly. There- fore, such heat applications may produce a serious burn. It's highly important for a victim of Buerger’s disease to avoid any type of injury to the limb that is giving him trouble. OSCILLATING BED . An oscillating bed might be helpful. And your doctor, has a variety of drugs at his disposal

Sympathectomy, an operation to out certain nerves to reduce blood vessel spasms, might be performed. '

But whatever treatment is re- quired, the real hero in conquer- ing any case of Buerger’s disease is not the doctor, but the victim himself. He has to give up

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