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Written by Marcus Van Steen, Halifax, the article notes the steady increase in trucks and cars carried

slowness, uncertainties and _inade- quacy of this transportation link have without doubt held up the pro- gress of the Island,” it says, citing specific disadvantages in this re- gard. The projected causeway would, so to speak, bring the 100,000 peo- ple of P.E.I. into the market-place as far as the producers of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia are con- cerned. It is also a matter of con- cern to all Canadian taxpayers. Em- phasizing this point, the writer says:

“The deficit in operating the rail and ear ferry service from Cape Tormentine to Borden has been in- creasing steadly over the years. In 1940 it amounted to $400,000. In 1955 it was $1.6 million, and this year it is estimated at $2 million. This is just operating deficit. Add- ing a reasonable depreciation on the

states. But new barriers continue to rise— and not the least is the stiffen- ing of opposition in the deep south in the last two years. No mass move

to integrate will come until the -

courts tear down all barriers—which is bound to be.a slow and cumber- some process.

For exttmple, North Carolina has

_ 322,000 Negro public school pupils.

But only one in each 20,000 is in a mixed classroom under the state’s pupil placement system. This is token compliance, but it saves the state

law from effecti a k for the time being. The courts ave been holding that N exhaust

all administrative remedies before seeking judicial recourse—and

southern officials have ways of mak- | ind administrative processes creep .

pretty slowly.

The Greek Spirit

Greece may be tiny compared to mighty Russia, but it refuses to be cowed by Moscow’s threats. Consider this terse response, as reported in the Athens News, to a Soviet note pro- testing that Greece was establishing guided missile bases at American re- quest:

“The Greek government has not yet occupied itself with the establish- ment of guided missile basés in Greece, nor has it taken any decision to accept or reject such bases.

two ferry boats and on the port

facilities at either end and we arrive

~at $3 million. Even-without allowing

for a continuation of the present rate of increase in the annual deficit, the miext 15 years will see us spend at least $50 million to provide the pre- sent inadequate transportation link with P.EI.” The writer estimates that_additional ferry service during this period would boost the cost by something like $12 million, which if anything is too modest a figure. He adds: :

“The causeway, on the other hand, would require little mainten- ance and would last indefinitely. In other words, it would pay for itself within 15 years, and in all the years after that Canada would be in pocket. If we take into consideration that the causeway will probably make the people of P.E.I. more pros- perous, and therefore more valuable as taxpayers, we shall probably come to the conclusion that the tax- payers of Canada cannot afford not

build the causeway. And anyone in the Maritime Provinces will agree that this is as sound a conclusion as

This article tells Prince Edward Islanders nothing new about the causeway, but it is of much value nevertheless. It should give readers in other Provinces, and particularly in Ontario, a better understanding

’ of our transportation needs, and of

the economic necessity of meeting them with vision and statesmanship.

.. After Five Years

It is now more than five years

since the U.S. Supreme Court’s de- cision on desegration of the schools. Some progress has been made, but integration is still far from a reality. Here is the score, as reviewed by Southern School News:

Of 2,909 biracial school districts in deep south and other border states, 802 have been desegregated. There are 8,597 school districts in the 17 southern and border states, of which 5,688 are not biracial. But of those $02 desegregated districts, 783 are in the border states — Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Okla- homa and West Virginia—and Texas. Only 19 districts nave been deseg- regated in the middie south—8 of 228 districts in Arkansas, 4 of 172 in North Carolina, 3 of 141 in Tennessee and 4 of 129 in Virginia.

In the deep southern states—Ala- pbama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina—not a single school district has been de- segregated. Dade county (Miami) in Florida has announced that it wil! desegregate one school this fall.

In at Southern School News

situations” in the

“However, if ever Greece decided

its decision would not depend on re- commendations—made from foreign quarters, but only on the needs of its national security, which, up to now, has been threatened many times from countries subjected to inter- national Communism.”

EDITORIAL NOTES

Foreign Minister Gromyko argues

_that Poland should have been repre-

sented at the Geneva conference, as the first victim of Nazi aggression. That, of course, is one way of put- ting it: But Poland, as the West re- members it, was the first victim of the pact made by Molotov and Rib- bentrop—the simultaneous victim of both Nazi Germany and Soviet Rus- sia. * * we

The Soviet Union has rehabilitated

_all of its chief literary renegades

except one— Nobel prize winner Boris Pasternak.Among the one-time outcasts returned to the fold by the first all-union Soviet Writers Con- gress in five years was a poetess, Margarita Alliger, who was elected to the secretariat of the congress, whom Khrushchev had _ personally denounced in 1957. Pasternak’s ab- sence underscored the fact that he still was ostracized. . * * * As several Western spokesmen

have pointed out bluntly to the So- | os : is ‘ ‘ ‘ : : i ertaking and it will be inter- viet delegation, it was Russia which | acting to note what expert opin-

single-handedly produced the crisis that led to the calling of the Geneva conference. Krushchev’s deadline of May 27 for handing control over access to East Berlin to the Ger- man Communists never has been withdrawn. As the date draws near it remains exceedingly improbable that the Russians will carry out their threat; but there does remain a possibility that they will fix a new deadline, or renew their threat in some other way. - ¥ * *

Plans are developing for the es-

tablishment at Princeton University

“of the “John Foster Dulles Library

of Diplomatic History.” The new building. will house ‘‘a collection of microfilm copies of official State Department documents relating to the six-year tenuré of Mr. Dulles as Secretary of State.” It will, more- over, be further enriched by a do- nation from the former Secretary comprising “personal papers cover- ing his diplomatic career of more than fifty’ years,” and constituting in the words of Dr. Robert E. Goheen, the university’s president, ‘one of the most meaningful gifts

\the Princeton Library has éver re-

ceived.”

EAST-WEST DUEL: ROUND ONE _

PUBLIC FORUM

interest. The Guardian does not seses sarily en‘orse the opinion of corres pondents

CAUSEWAY REPORT

Sir,—The report on the cause- way (as handed down by Hon. Mr. Green in the House of Commons seems to be based on a very mis- leading and unreal statement viz: that tidal conditions would cause

“to take up a position on this matter; |

| rents must find a meeting place

a variation of ten feet on either side of the fill.

Anyone familiar with tide con- ditions in Northumberland Strait knows that the flow and ebb is

governed by the waters entering | | in a house which stood near

or receding from either end of the Island. The result of the entrance is- that these two cur-

somewhere im the Straits. This meeting place is definitely loca- ted within a short distance of the preposed causeway.

It was wnainly on this account that the present ferry terminals were selected. Due to incoming meeting of tides, ice may tem- porarily close pack but the re- ceding tides moving in opposite directions as mighty giants quick- ly break up these conditions and make easy crossing possible within -the space of a very short time. How then can there be a build-up of ten feet of water on either side of the causeway when the waters coming in from both directions under natural force méet about this spot? The same is true of the ebb which must start in both directions simultan- eously.

As for the effect on land, shat. should not be a cause for worry. Tides have been washing these shores for ages and most of our Island is-.still here.

Knowing tidal action it would seem that a causeway would have little effect on its behaviour. Contrary to common’ belief in- coming tides do not rush from either end of. the strait as a -great wall of water but as more or less of an eddy following the shore lines and working towards the centre, or in other words at certain time in the tide there can be still water in mid strait with heavy currents along the shore liné or vice versa. There seems no good reason why this same tidal action would be changed by a causeway and there should be no cause to fear our disappearance through eros-

| conditions

ion. No doubt there will be further reports on other phases of this

jon will have to say on ice, icing and particularly on financing, etc. re I am, Sir, etc., CLOSE-BY OBSERVER Summerside, P.E.I.

TRUE STORY OF GREEN GABLES

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Sir,—I am writing you, not for the sake of being criticial or fault- finding, but to give you a little information on something I saw in the Tourist section of your papér on May 19th. I am en- closing a clipping of the part to which I refer.

~, First of all, I may say I work- ed along with others at Green Gables for the past nine years, and, from the beginning of those nine years, we have tried to find | out the true story of Green Ga- bles. This we were able to do, by conversing with the oldest resid- ents of Cavendish who knew Lucy Maud Montgomery well and went to the same school at the same time she did. We always told tour- ists the truth, as best we knew, and, where fiction came in, we explained that part too. ss.

It is quite a long story and may seem confusing to some, but to those who are interested and wish to ‘hear the story, it is not so confusing.

After reading items such as the clipping enclosed, and other literature with the same idea printed by the Tourist Bureau and distributed to many thousands of people each year, it is little won- der that thousands of people each summer enter the doors at

OTTAWA REPORT oe Cigars, Cops And Robbers

By Patrick Nicholsoa

Dr. Rynard’s suggestion that a this column hinted was im- women should smoke cigars | plicit in his budget speech, has

raised the good-natured storm “And this is the home of Lucy

which—to be frank—was not un- Maud Montgomery!"’. Immedia- | foreseen. tely they have to be told: “N@,| qy.5; i this is not her home. This is the | inc ecemme io, taneee tae house she wrote about,” and $0 | ter from Mrs. Grace Dunning, of on. Orillia, where Tory M-.P. Dr. P. Lucy Maud Montgomery was| Bg Rynard also makes his home. born at Clifton, New London. Her| yr; Dunning suggests that mother died when she was &| “our favourite doctor” should be baby, and she was brought to/ honoured by the cigar compan- Cavendish to live with her ma-

ies, which should i ternal grand-parents, who lived | for him: a Reaana hades

(His and Hers)"’. She herself hi where Cavendish School now | ne (?) et heciad. a sleds

oo oa poets hen ee on the theme that “each woman Gobies, Teo ahi at that fe | should smoke a big fat smelly

was on the side of the road near- | cigar’’—which is a far cry from est Green Gables, and had to be | ‘M@ Cigarette-shaped cigar sug- moved to the other side of the | gested by this column—and she road when the park was formed. | 4Sks whether any may, when his The folk, who built Green | work is through, and his thoughts Gables and lived there till no‘ }-stray-to women as they often do, so many years ago, were rel-| could enjoy lips that constantly atives of Lucy. Maud and she | chew—a beat-up old smelly ci- and her grandmother — visited | gar? : there a great deal and when! hat is a convincing argument one reads her story “Anne of | from Orillia—almost. If female Green Gables”, you are lead to ;

; -- | lips must smoke, I personally gees! ply vay oe os if | would sooner they. were alive

Her books are so real — | Chewing a cigarillo, than dead the sound of the breakers at the | ‘™mortalizing the dangers of cig- beach, and the revolving light, | 2r™ettes—which is the message Or- which may still be seen in the | illia’s favourite doctor was per- evenings up at the corner ser- | haps hinting at. vice station—and yet we have to| COPS AND ROBBERS keep in’ mind fiction runs through | The subject of U.S. Cops who it all. | are also robbers proved to be |, Lucy Maud Montgomery cared | 2nother topic popular with many for her grand-parents in their | Teaders. This column referred to last days and her grandmother | the evil practice in certain U.S. passed away in 1911. Within a | communities, whereby cars with year she married the minister | out-of-town licences are picked up who preached in the Cavendish | and their drivers charged, while Presbyterian Church and they mo- | cars with local licences are not ved to Ontario. * old home on | stopped. This practice relates es- the Mayfield road was torn down, | pecially to a group of cars all and, when Lucy Maud came back | driving faster than permitted by to Cavendish to visit, it was to| the local speed limitations, and Green Gables she came. When | it is especially prevalent in those she passed away in 1942, her re- | areas where cop and magisttate mains were brought to Green Ga- | automatically get a cut in any bles. fine thus mulcted from the trav-

I know some will try and make | eller. people believe that Green Gables| Desmond Lonergan of Quebec is just an old house that was | City writes to warn me that this hauled to that spot. This could | Practice is not unknown: inside not be further from the truth. Canada, and he suggests that mo-

Now, I hope I have explained | ‘orists. should travel between to you what I meant to do at | Cornwall, Ontario, and Kingston, the beginning of my letter. The | Ontario, on the U.S. side of the page in your paper on Anne of | ‘iver, to avoid certain of the in- Green Gablés-with the two lovely | tervening riverside communities pictures of the house and the | in Ontario where “the greatest of plaque from the monument were | all highwaymen set traps for un- just fine; but this little misin- suspecting and reasonable motor- formed idea, yet so important. | ists’. Thanks for the warning, and should not be. going into the | for your wishes that I enjoy a hands of thousands of people | Safe, pleasant journey whenever each year. \ I travel any distance:

As we meet with both tourists} Another reader who writes to and our local people, we have | me on this same topic is Hon. C. learned that many of the tour-|C. Williams, Minister of Labour ists have read more of our Ts- | in the Saskatchewan Government. land authoress’ stories and are | Mr. Williams kindly sent me the more interested in the Green Ga- | interesting details of an occasion bles setting than are the major- | when the Fire Commissioner and ity of our own people. Deputy Fire Commissioner of that

I am, Sir, ete., province, were both singled out

‘MRS. WILFRED PICKERING. | of a convoy of cars with local

Kensington, P.E.I. licences in the state of Michigan.

As is usual in such cases, the LIME POLICY NEEDED tourists were arrested and fined, Sir,—I guess we are not using

the local drivers were not. near enough lime on our Island A recent edition of a U.S. mag- farms. For better hay and grass

There are a few tropical spe- cies that are occasionally found in this country: and their bite is poisonous.

The black widow spider, on the other hand, is always a creature to be dreaded. It can be deadly. A full - grown black widow, sometimes called the shoebutton or the hourglass spider, is a glos- sy black spider with a red or yellowish hourglass-shaped mark on the abdomen.

There are drugs available to counteract the poison of its bite, but only a doctor can adminis- ter them properly. So it is highly important to get anyone bitten by a black widow spider to a doctor as quickly as possible. Scorpions. are ‘rather repulsive- looking creatures, too. They look something like lizards. and are sometimes found in the vacation areas of the southwestern Unit- ed States and in Mexico. SIMILAR TO CRAYFISH

They have long tails and pin- chers, similar to those of crayfish in front. They dan’t bite, they sting, with a whiplash of their tails. Even the harmless varié- ties pack a real punch.

Again some varieties of scor- pions can be deadly.

While a wet pack of baking soda can be used to provide im- mediate relief, I strongly recom- mend taking the victim to a doc- tor in a hurry.

QUESTION AND ANSWER

Mrs. J.H.: What is the differ- ence in the symptoms of colitis and cancer of the bowels.

Answer: These symptoms may be very similar. It is best to consult a physician.

being handed out to a Hamilton, Ontario, business man in the state of Georgia—treatment which has led to an exchange of dinploma- tic notes between Ottawa —and- Washington. The U.S. law enforce ment officer involved in| that case has a record of pistol-whip- ping motorists whom he stopped on a traffic charge. This column has suggested the lewd and suggestive eletwents and the brutal and crime-glorify- ing episodes, should be forced off our Canadian «broadcasting “entertainments’’. Mrs. Alice Bie- ber of Pembroke is one of sev- eral readers who have endorsed this proposal. She deplores the manner in which TV and other media are filling our children’s minds with evil influences which nullify the good implanted by our churches and schools. : And she explains that, with her’ two girls and one boy, she en- joys relaxation at such wholesome activities as camping, skating and gardening: “We have no Since my comments were writ- ten, a storm has rent the pro- vince of Quebec over a C.B.C. presentation centred round Marie d'Youville, who founded the Grey Nuns or Sisters of “Charity order. On the very evening when she was beatified by the Catholic Church in Rome, the C.B.C. de- picted her as a lewd, wanton, de- generate woman, little better than ‘a prostitute, as one Quebec Ca- tholic disgustedly commented to me. That is oneside of the pic- ture; the other side is the mod- ern trend which makes even w White into a-blood-curdling ear story, unfit for small children to see on the screen. Justice Minister Davie Fulton has long crusaded against ob- scenity in literature. As the fa- ther of three small girls, he must be aware of the froblem facing parents who permit their chil- dren to be “entertained’’ by cer- tain cinema or TV programes. Here surely is a field wherein a Cabinet Minister can exercise his influence for good.

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I was wondering if Mr. Mathe- sou in making up his new plat- form for the future Island gov- ernment would consider some such a policy.

Also there seems to be a great scary of men to repair our farm ings. You have to go to the big companies. in town which is very costly. If thére were a few men to engineér the job, many farmers and would do the work ;

If these suggestions appeal to lyou, consult! your representative. The doors are always open in the Matheson government.

I am, Sir, etc., ELDON DRUMMOND

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the long heavy seas rolling— still as floated ice, rising, falling, now on the top of the terrible

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