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"The strongest memory is weaker than the weakestlink."

THURSDAY. FEB. 14. I955

Up To The LegTslalure

In their brief before the Legislature the: spokesmen for the Federation of Agricul-l tiire called attention to the ”obvious flout-, ing" of the Uniform Time Act by the muni-I cipalities last summer, and recommendedN that the Government ”strive toward the maintenance” of the law in future. While? there was considerable discussion on othcri recommendations in the brief, the issue raised under the Uniform Time Act does not appear to have provoked much interest.

It is the Federation's view that in this small Province it is desirable to have but one time system, and that the majority of rural people favour Atlantic Standard Time. It is equally obvious, from the action of the municipalities last summer, that Daylight Time is preferred in our urban

centres, and that. the Act as it stands. call-.

ing for uniform time, is a dead letter so far as they are concerned.

There is a responsibility here for our legislators to face, much more important than determining the convenience, one way or another, of any section or group of com- munities. Has the law as it stands been flouted, and if so can this state of affairs continue without detriment to the prestige of our lawmakers and to law enforcement interests generally? It happens occasionally that laws defeat their purpose by being either too drastic or too ambiguous in their phraseology to be satisfactorily enforced; in which case they should be repealed or amended. In any event, it is not a matter about which any member of the House can afford to remain indifferent.

We know what happens in countries when laws fall into general disrepute; re- sponsible government collapses and some form of dictatorship takes its place. A little study of the subject should convince any- one that conditions of this kind do not arise overnight, but by a slow and almost imper- oeptiblc progress from one little irregular- ity to another, until the whole legislative system collapses. We are a long way from that fate in Prince Edward Island. but the danger signal is out. Our elected mem- bers should be the first to note its signifi- cance and take stock of their responsibili- dos.

A Slim Hope

A sub-committee of the United Nations Disarmament Commission is meeting soon it another attempt to bring about some measure of agreement in this important question; the hope is that a small group of experts from the major powers may be able to do what the full commission which con- vened last summer failed to accomplish. It seems clear, however, that the size of the deliberative body is of far less relevance to the chances of success than is the position of the Soviel leaders who, while they cry out for prohibition of nuclear weapons and drastic reduction in conventional arm- aments. are just as adamant as ever in their refusal to allow international control of any formula that might be worked out.

There had been a rumour a while back that this unreasonable stand might be sub- jected to a little flexibility---enough. at any rate. to warrant another try at settlement. But there has been no confirmation of this

in any of the major speeches made in Mos- ;

cow during the last two weeks, no hopeful hint in the Soviet press. and no encouraging

word from Communist spokesmen, in the.

United Nations or elsewhere: in short. the whole problem sccms to he just about where it was in the beginning. There is, of course, a possibility that when the sub-committee gets down to business something nonstruc- tive will be suggested by Soviet represent- atives. It will have to be something more substantial, however, than word of mouth protestations of good intentions. There has been an abundance of these all along: so many of them, indeed. that Western Gov- ernments are showing increasing weariness regarding them. Should this new confer- ence start out on the same sorry note that has featured previous efforts to put the idea of disarmament on a realistic and workable basis, we may expect it to be of short duration.

Camp Gagelown

Camp Gagetown's 287,000 acres makes it the biggest military landscape in Canada; yet according to the Fredericton Gleaner few if any New Brunswick natives, uniniti- ated by having been there before, could spot it correctly. This is because there are at least four Gage-towns In our sister Province:

aamown. l1wII'.Gasetovvn. Gtsetown Phr-

nd Gsgotown. The headquart- Kicainp is nowhere near my

"sent scores of visitors serenely down

lof the other, Gagetowns. Instead, Camp . gGagetown

townsite borders Oromocto, which is 20 miles from Gagetown. And at no point does the balsam perimeter of the camp area come within two miles of Gage- town.

Such geographical confusion already has the river. 40 miles out of their way looking for

this spectacular military establishment. By .

the time they arrive back at Oromocto to look over the main area of Camp Gage- town, their tempers are anything but dis- ciplined, which it seems would make for unfortunate army public relations.

None of this, concedes The Gleaner, was 3

the army's intention when the place was named some 18 months ago. Instead the armyis name-choosing department must

lhave been at its most high-minded. Camp E Gagetown and all the other Gagetowns were - named for the illustrious old British Gen- f cral Thomas Gage, the fellow who as Gov- .

ernor of Massachusetts did his unpleasant .duty enforcing the act which precipitated ithe Boston Tea Party and set off the Am- ierican War of Independence All this honor lto the onetime commander of British forces lin America indicates deep historical per- lspectivc and a commendable sense of tra- Vdition. but the practical effect is confusion to the point of absurdity.

Camp Oromocto or Camp Sunbury are leuphonious names which would head off traffic confusion. and incidentally be inof- fensive to sensitive U. S. tourists. "Unless the name is changed now," argues our Fred- ericton contemporary. "the army will have initiated an error which is the father to a long future history of errors of incalculablc cost in time. money. effort and chagrin.”

EDITORIAL NOTES

The London Daily Express hopes Can- ada will soon be making hydrogen bombs. No one need have any doubt on that score. Not only Canada but every nation on the face of the earth will get around to it in due time.

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A Peiping radio report makes much of the fact that the Mayor of that city, Mr. Peng Chen, has just been re-elected for the third consecutive term, by secret ballot. Mr. Peng's victory would be a bit more impres- sive if other parties besides the Communists had been permitted to enter candidates.

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Among the questions now being circulat- ed to its members by a county Federation of Agriculture in Ontario is this one: ”Do you think a farmer is entitled to 8 profit?" We may be wrong about this; but our guess ,is that the ayes will have it by a substantial majority. O

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It won't be long, say the scientists. be- fore green vegetables. the chief source of solar energy for human beings, will be un- necessary, for the reason that the required lkenergy will be extracted from sunlight di- -rectly. They do not suggest. however, any

-adequate substitute for gardening itself.

Every place has its drawbacks: but it is 'obvious that this winter we on this Island ,have been more fortunate, weather-wise, than almost any other area in the North Temperate Zone While blizzards have howled fiercely on both sides of the Atlan- tic. we have not yet had a major storm. And Spring is just around the corner. I O O O The director of the American Civil De- ifcnce Administration says that atomic war with its accompanying radioactive fall-out would not mean the end of the world. That may be. although there are many atomic experts who say otherwise. Anyway. to be lon the safe side, it would be bettcr not to put it to the test.

Ex-Premier Mlilenkov must be feeling sad enough these days. It was bad enough to be forced to resign for self-admitted in- competence: it is worse to have to follow the road to the Department of Electricity taken years ago by one of his luckless pre- decessors--Rhykof-who ended up before a firing squad on charges of treason and

maladministration.

Aberdeen still holds its reputation for thrift. Saving figures for the third quarter of 1954 show that on an average the citi- zens of the granite city saved more than those anywhere else in Scotland or England. Average savings during the three months per head of population was '18 shillings and eightpence. England's best was Hull, yet it was five shillings and fourpence below the Aberdeen figure. .

The remarkable contribution to the tourist traffic of Scotland by the author of the Waverley Novels is one of the points

Posisiblhe ”

Medically . Speaking,

BACKACHE. A COMMON AND PAINFUL COMPLAINT

Probably all of you have had bachaches. or at least will have them in the future. And because this ailment is so common. many ' of you simply neglect backaches unless they are extremely severe.

Actually. you don't have to suf- fer, for seldom is there a case where doctors are unable to re- lieve the pain.

Cause of Backache

Perhaps the most usual cause of a backache is some disturbance of the connective tissues of your back, that is. the ligaments. These ligaments hold together the bones and also the supporting tis- sues of the muscles.

Sometimes a pain in your back may be brought on by an injury, a sudden strain. twisting or even by sneezing. If you get a more strenuous job, you might also de- velop a pain in the lower part of your back.

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-democracy to live peaceably to- gether in the world we may move on to a tougher ing dog lovers. garden fancier: and parents of small children to share the same block without feuding.

does not,cut as much ice as once he did. The movies, the funnies. and television like to represent him as a comic, ineffectual fig- ure. seriously adjure him to train his wife for widowhood. because the medical profession promises her that she will survive him by at least four years. busy assuring women that they are stronger, wiser and more enduring than men. And in those mirrors of modern mythology e the magazine advertisements -

tamed by injections of hydi'ocorti- sone directly into the affected area.

well-known

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The insurance companies

Scientists are

Hydrocortisone is a form of the product, cortisone,

Bad. Posture

Poor posture. or weak or broken your entire center of gravity so far off that you will get a backache as your back muscles strain to maintain your body's equilibrium. a backache may be due to infections. particu- larly those caused by viruses. In

arches. may throw

In some instances.

which had been used in the treat- ment of arthritis.

A frequent co is lumbago, or pain in the lumbar muscles. Usually a special diet, massage and applications of heat will re- lieve this painful condition. I think your doctor will advise you to limit your diet to milk and cereals. or at least put you on ii diet without meat until the symptoms are gone. A lot of water will be good

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this case. the pain usually comes on suddenly. accompanied by a mild fever. and is spread over the lower part of your back.

About two weeks of rest in bed will usually relieve this condition.

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SCHOOL UNIT NO. 1

Sir.-- On reading. the Hon. Kier Clark's speech in the P7655 regarding School Unit No. l. I would like to point out a few of his remarks that I know he has been badly misinformed.on. Mr. Clark states that meetings were held in the Unit Area to determine whether we should enter the Unit or not. also that these meetings largely endors- ed the idea of amalgamation. This is not so. as being an active member of this Community I know of no such meeting. We were just told that as from Dec. 9th 1949 we were now a part of School Unit No. I. Is this de- mocracy? From that time we have not had a school meeting to which we could go and voice our opin- ion regardlng the matters of education over children. This also was done over our heads. Mr. Clark states that the argu- ment of the people of Parkdnle regarding sewage and water is not a strong enough one. Would Mr. Clark care to be drinking contaminated water which a goodly number of the people of Psrkdale have done; which day and daily continues to be contaminated? This matter, on the sfrength or our surveyor's figures. could be rectified by the use of the money which is now going out of our district towards the upkeep of School Unit No. l. with little or no increased cost to our taxpayers. Mr. Clark points out the great educational progress in the Unit area. if this were true why then are so many parents sending their children from this district to Charlottetown, schools to be educated at an increased cost to themselves. Amalgamation of sch may be all right in some places but urban and rural areas certainly do not mixland I am pleased to see that for the first time since Dec. 9th 1949 we are in have an opportunity of voicing our opin- ion as taxpayers in School Unit No. 1 by means of a plebiscite. I am. Sir, euz. NORMAN SIIERRAN

PUBLIC FORUM l

Parkdalc

We .5? ?oe. Fwvm

THE ANATDMIST

Hr many a crcnliirc did anato- inizc. g Almost unpenpling water. air. and

land.

Beasts. fishcs. liirds. snails. cater- pillars. flics.

Wcrc laid full low by his relent- lcss hand.

That oil with gory crimson was

i (listained:

Hc many a dog destroyed, and many a cat.

Of l'l(-as his bed. of frogs the marshes drained.

Could lcllcn if a mile were lean or fat.

And read it lcclurc o'er the an- trails nf a gust.

-Mark Akensidc I 1721-I770).

ENERGY SOURCE

Lard. 100 per cent fat. is a great energy source containing 4.000 cal- ories per pound. '

Refrigeration Repairs To All Makes

APPLIANCES SALES & SERVICE Rewinding and Repairs

Boards placed under your mat- tress will keep it from sagging and keep your back straight. Ap- plying heat to the area by hot

for you. too.

causes of backache: and what to do for them in tomorrow's column.

QUESTION AND ANSWER

an intestinal inflanunation?

I'll tell you more about the

K .G.: Would an X-ray reveal

Answer: As a rule, X-ray exam-

Developments OTTAWAREPORT An Awesome Subject

By Patrick Nicholson

In Ottawa civil defence experts and nuclear scientists here are discussing wth considerable awe the super H-bomb now being de- veloped by the United States. and no doubt also by Russia.

The community of our national capital here consists of about one quarter of a million people. These live.in the city of Ottawa, in the suburb of Hull across on the Quebec shore of the Ottawa riv- er. and in the town of Eastview on Ottawa's eastern limits. This whole built up area is contained in a circle ten miles in diamet-

to -1

One super H-bomb exploded on Ottawa's Capital Hill would. in the words of one scientist. "leave very few survivors in that Great- er Ottawa area".

I was invited to take part in a panel discussion on this sub- ject at Ottawa University one evening recently. Under the chair- manship of Dean Gibson, of Carle- ton College, the panel consisted of Dr. Karl Stern, the brilliant Austrian psychiatrist who wrote the books ”Pillar of Fire" and "The Third Revolution"; Dr Lou Voyvodie. a well known physicist working with the National Re- search Council here, and myself.

The subject was "Fear in an Atomic Age".

I questioned whether the aver- age Canadian has sufficient know- ledge of the destruction which would be caused by this new bomb to be aware of the fear which it should inspire.

REMEMBER COLOGNE?

About thirteen years ago, the Canadian and British air forces based in Britain launched history's first "One Thousand Bombe a" raid. On that night. those heavy bombers each dropped one bomb containing one ton of T. N. T. high explosive on that German city. The heart of Cologne was puiverised as no oity had ever been shattered before. That de- struction was wrought with one thousand tons of high explos- ive.

Now suppose that raids on an equal scale were to be carried out on Ottawa or Vancouver or Quebec City. for example. every single night for one hundred and sixty five years. What would be left of that city? It would have sufferd sixty -thousand raids. each as severe as that one raid on Cologne. Such desruction is un-

plosive power of just one of these dreadful new bombs. But of course

water bottles or heating pads will probably speed recovery and ease the pain. Injection Help Recently. it has been found that quick relief from pain may be oh-

ination will not reveal intestinal inflammation. However. it may show that the bowel is contracted. or that there are defects in the bowel wall which may be signs

THE -WAY

it is uaualb Mother who k

resented as dishing out wise”!

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vicc. receiving the long-dlsg i telephone call and choosing dilflbhu bl! y PNIIIEE-gain.

ill! llgnlly tomb-stone. hpmr, Examiner.

"Oh. IO." said the old l "you donlt understand. wahd'l' first married you t.h.tiik that ,5: body has ever loved as you M When you have been married - few years you realize that yo. love one another more than 9.. E But it is onw when you are 33' ting old that you know what io.,,' really is. Isn't unit so?" .5, added timiing to her husbam He cleared his throat. "oh, ya. he agreed. "If a fellow can only stick it that long." -Montregj Star.

Observation of dwellers in span, ment blocks indicate that man of them have no feeling of my. sponsibility whatsoever. This bg lief gains support from the Cause of the Montreal fire. A lighted cigaret or cignrets. dumped with other waste into a wooden gar. base chute, has been established as the cause. Sheer thoughllm. ness. perhaps even stupiciin. on the part of someone lies .1 tin root of this outbreak. The hm answer seems to be to make it impossible for so many people to share residence undei one roof To accomplish that, it is neces: sary to think in terms of deco-ntrg. lizatlon. There is plenty of mm within easy access to all on,- malor cities to spread population more thinly, and if the argu- ment is extended further, It will be seen that decentralization of industry will serve to reduce on pressure on the metropolitan areas which is already reaching a dangerous stage. It is recognized that existing conditions cannot be changed too easily. but limkmg to the future it would seem un. wise to continue to follow in. course of the past which has led to the current unsatisfsctnrv m. uation. -Quebec Chronicle -

that infections are present.

Telegraph.

that -bomb would wreak its havoc

in one second instead of being spread out on every night for nearly two centuries.

Damage in the nIuaOl.HldlDK area would be so heavy that firefight- ing and rescue squads could not be relied upon unless they were based more than one hundred miles away.

The after-effects of this bomb would be almost as terrible as the explosion itself. The fall-out of radioactive particles. for ex- ample. would cnuse many casual- ties. just as it killed fishermen on the unauit ”v named Japanese fishing boat, "The Fortunate Dra- gon", after thetli-bomb test in the Pacific. This fall-out would contaminate the earni and vegeta- tion and cause fatal injury as much as eighty miles down wind.

LINGERING DANGER

Then there would be the Inger- lng danger of contamination from elements made radioactive by the explosion itself. One of these leth- al by-produ . for example. cal- led Carbon 14. has a half-life of 5,600 years. That means that, had one of these bombs been explod- ed on, say, Vancouver 3.600 years before the birth of our Saviour. the site of Vancouver would still be radioactively lethal today.