—~~hhs : lication of . all The Guardian | Covers Phince Edward leland Uke The Dew W. J. Hencex, Publisher Wallace Ward : Frank Walker Managing Editor Editor Published every week day morning (except Sur day and statutory holidays) at 165 Prince Street, | Charlottetown, P.E.1., by Thomson: Newspapers Ltd. Branch: offites. at Summerside; Montague, Alberton tnd Souris Represented nationally by Thomson Newspapers Advertising Services: Tordnto 425 University Ave. . Empire 3-8894; versity 65942; Western Office 1030 West Georgie Street. Vancouver MA 7037. Member Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers Association and The Canadian Press. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the Use for repub news dispatches in this paper tredited to it or to the Associated Press or Reuters anc also the loca’ news published herein. All right or republication of special’ disoatches here In also reserved. Subscription rate: . Not over 40c per week by~ carrier. on $12.00 # year by mai! on rural rovtes and areas not serviced by carrier. 3 $15.00 a» year off ‘Island and U.K, $20.06 per year in U.S. and elsewhere outside Britrsh Com — monwealth. Not over 19e sogie cepy., Member Audit Bureau ef Circulation. PAGE 4- SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1966. A Pettifogging Stall After more than four weeks of pressure in and out of the Commons . in favor of a boost in the flat-rate. . . $75-a-month old age pension, the Pearson government has come up with another of its cotifusing- for- mulas, guaranteeing, as it says, a total monthly pension of $105 with- out a means test or a needs test, but based on how much income the pen- sioners have from other sources. Increase won't be on a flat-rate basis; but our aged people will have to wait until next fall, when Parliament reassembles after the summer holl- days, to find out what it does mean. Opposition critics maintain that it’s | just a new name for the old discredit= ed means test, while government spokesman claim that it is not going to be as bad as all that. But it_re mains an enigma so far as the public | is concerned, and does nothing what- ever to ease the burden on needy “tolk at the present time. It has been intimated that the sup- - plementary payments, when they are _ eventually made, will cost $225 mil- lion at the start, but since they will be applicable only to those who re- r@ive no benefits from the Canada Pension Plan, they will disappear in time. On this basis. Stanley Knowles, Montreal 640 Cathcart Street_Uni_ [ srneoes the virtues of self- reliance, of “regeneration through one's own | efforts. " Inthe past,-it said, the Viet- ' names people have retied “mainly on their own strength, on their peo ois war. "-And the implication 1s thiat on this basis Jhey must continue. This word on Viet Nam came as China continued its purge of anti- .\Maoist elements and in the wake of reports that visits by foreign tourists this summer have been cancelled. Some observers have speculated that tourists are being banned because of troop moyements within. China; but experts find little or no evidence that \ the Chinese. war machine is being cranked up.-Al! indications are that China's continuing internal political difficulties are the reason: for. the tourist ban _ Vice-Premier and Culture Minister Lu Ting-yi is the latest official to be toppled in the. sweeping purge that is under way. He was head of the pro- | paganda department of the Chinese Communist Party’s Centfal Com- mittee. and quite a big shot. His downfall was made public in a man- ner typically Chinese--by making known the name of his successor ithout any reference to Mr. Lu him- self. Meanwhile the People’s Daily article on Viet Nam, issued hy the of- . ficial New China News Agency, ht to forestall Soviet criticism-of_ ——Fhis “ineome-test’? implies" that the | ( hina fot China's lack of effort in the war area. According to Peking, the “Khruschevian. revisionists” by at- |_tacking the policy of self-reliance are _ in fact “opposing the revolution.” Soviet aid, it declared, is but “‘sugar- coated poison” destined to give the Soviets a free hand in sabotaging the | revolutionary struggle of the people. These are melodious sounds to Western ears, but perhaps it would be better not to be too complacent holding “back-for-the-reasons given, but there is no guarantee that it will not abruptly switch to a more agres- sive policy, as it did in the Korean. about them. Peking may indeed be I" NDP, has pointed out that the peak . payments in the first year would mean an average increase of less than $15 a month—perhaps as low as.$11 fof @aich pensioner: He has also . —————peinted out that the surplus in the old “ age pension fund-at-the end of last March was almost $217 million;-and— he quoted the finance department as : estimating that it would be $445 mil- lipn by the end of the current fiscal year. The government could thus in- stitute a flat-rate pension of $100 a month immediately and would have a. surplus left over. : But that, of course, would never opposition was right, and the govern- ment wrong, on an {issue of sharp con- war with results that nearly proved “ disastrous to Western hopes. Of Major Concern? State Secretary Judy LaMarsh an- nounced the other day, to a no-doubt breathless House, that the introduc- tion of trial color television programs in Canada will begin Sept. 1, a month earlier “than originally though not in the way the. Island phase of our causeway project was dealt with under this heading! The change, Miss LaMarsh said, had been requested. by broadcasting authorities and would allow color TV to be brought in with the advent of the fall - television programs. No doubt this will be a nice thing to have: but does it deserve the volve vast public and private ex- | penditures. for programming, for troversy in the last federal election | transmission and for receivers—and this score are still, apparently, a source ef resentment in high quar- ters. Basically the issue involves sé¢parating this old age pension boost’ from the provisions of the Canada Assistance Plan altogether, but the government. stubbornly refuses - te toncede this point. It prefers to deal i ambiguities, playing “a cat-and- mouse game with our pensioners fh the process, and-§oping that by stal- ling for time, something else in the way of an alibi will turn up. : The Hamilton Spectator, fependent paper. sums _ the an. in- situa- } | | i __...tampaign.The-Liberal-voteslost-on~ 4—Wwhat..of=theneed_for curbing-infla- - tion? How, we, wonder, can Finance Minister Sharp. reconcile it with the budgetary sermon he delivered on this theme not so long ago? By what planned. “Rescheduled,” you might call it, — | | a LONG HOT SUMMER - WORLD WHEAT PROBLEMS Plagued By Many Uncertain Hazards a Geb Lot Society Wheat fs being seeded or har- every month of the year. The planting of wheat is rela- tively simple; so is harvesting But the problems that occur , be- tween sowing and reaping: pla- gue farmers from North Amer- | fea to New Zealand. ‘ Frost and drought are ¢ stant threats. Hessian flies na infest young plants, grasshop- pers chew up a healthy stand. A bewildering. variety of diseases and fungi attack wheat— black | stem rust, stinking smut, take- all foot rot, tp name a few. Because of the hazards,-the Great Plains of North America are known as ‘‘next vear coiin- try.” A North Dakota wheat grower. said, ‘‘A farmer in-this- country just has to hope for the | best." | over a wider range also high in 1965: ecard. WINTER CROP DAMAGED | Drought and late frosts this year in Kansas have seriously damaged the all-important win | ter wheat crop. The U.S. depart- ment_of Agriculture recently es- timated that the 1966 winter ‘wheat harvest would be five per cent less than. last year's yield. The nation's entire wheat crop in 1966 is expected to total 1,- 235,000,000 bushels, a drop. of seven percent from 1965, but. still slightly above the 1960-64 aver- age. it filled. a near _ leading wheat | vested somewhere in the world even produce enough for its oun state did “not needs until 1873 when the super- ior Russian “Turkey red’’ var- iety was introduced. Today, several thousand varl | eties of wheat are grown around the world. They are bred for re- ag sistance to. diseases, high yield-. ‘proper maturity, | ing and baking qualities. and good-mill- Many hybrid wheats been created, but, have unlike corn, none has . been significant. Instead, wheat breeders select strains that ‘combine the good properties of It is a painstaking j process that requires from 12 to | the parents 15 years just to create one ac- ceptable new variety. And the job never ends. “New races of rust can be es- jablished faster than we now can produce wheat varieties which resist the rust,’’ explained a Canadian plant scientist. But wheat breeders, like farmers, one jump ahead -of disease and insects - Pension Portability Toronto Telegram It is hoped that the agreement signed between Ottawa an d tability of civil servants’ pen- sions, will be a forerunner of ‘similar arrangements with,-oth- er provinces. The step taken was long over: — due. From now on, tt meang that. an employee of the Ontario Gov- | ‘ernmentwho decides to accept a federal jot will not have to | | sacrifice his provincial pension. He will be able to “ake it with | him: Conversely, job will not lose’ his jeune 8 ts..His pension will be trans- to anot tion for quite some time, “ts the | first of its kind & Canada. The it were taken by the Robarts ; Government. — Several other provinces are eres sounding Ottawa out a similar arrangement. The Federal Government has incic-~ ated a willingness to co-operate -Eventually, there likely wit!1 ‘be portability of civil servants’ ‘pensions not only between all jthe provinces and Ottawa, but | between the provinces. themsel- ves. a Soden’ civil This woul be a _good move. It ito have Arteriosclerosis of government "employes to switch jurisdiction in an_ef- Wheat fs probably cultivated. ferred from Ottawa to Queen's (fort to improve himself, should than any other crop. It grows at 10.10 j feet in the highlands of Ethtio- | pla_and below sea eotedmpertatValley of Californta—* level inthe | Wheat thrives within the Arctic i i ; { reasoning does a matter of this kind . take precedence over the -needs for éducation,, for housing, for adequate old age pensions. not to speak of the essentials of a medicare program and the ironing out of regional inequali- | ties? tion up in this manner: “Whatever — the reasons behind the Liberals’. stall the facts are their failure to give these needy old folk an incréased monthly i income in times of a national economic boom for almost every one aise will live to haunt them. Their Insistence on munning their own show in their own good time is the type of Hettiness the public is growing ac- qustomed to expect from them, It 4s Yery remindful of the days when a powerful Liberal majority ran rough- shod over Parliament and indicates that while the power in numbers has gone, the arrogance remains.” Peking Holding Back In the peculiar jargon of Com- ~ munism, Peking has indicated that it glans no major new involvement in Viet Nam_ despite the escalated. American war effort. This is how a statement in- the Peking People’s Kong, and it is important news in- feed, if it can he depended upon. For the greatest hazard involved In recent has “In the TV induatey itself,” com- ments the Fredericton Gleaner on this point, “‘we have a lopsided pro- gress, in which the technical side has far outstripped the aesthetic and artistic. With the revelatiofis we have recently had of the utter chaos that at present prevails in both manage- ment and production circles of the CBC, together,with the feud between them, the mind . boggles at the thought of viewing what’ they ar. likely to pradiice in the. near fut in. technicolor.” . But not rhe bureaucratic mind’ Not ‘the governmental mind! It’s to be | color television or bust; come the fall. | The broadcastii.z authorities - have | requested it in the name of progress, and who are we to-question the. wis- dom of the timing? Mere taxpayers, who. ought to know by now that our place is in the bleachers and that our views on such matters are too puerile + -to be given second thought. EDITORIAL NOTE } : hours are required per + remains a mystery ie 7 Circle. and in the tropics.-The_ grain does best, however; in tem perate regions where annual rainfall is between 12 and ‘35 tn- ches In some parts of the world. primitive peoples still scratch the soil with wooden tools and harvest wheat with sickles. In the United States and {Canada. however. wheat prodiiction is so mechanized that only three man acre. compared with 50 hours a cen- tury ago. 7 ORIGIN A MYSTERY Wheat is a grass of the genus- Triticum, but its precise origin It probably: was one of the first cereal crops grown by man. Archeologists have found carbonized ‘grains of wheat in the. pre-historic lake dwellings of “Switzerland and in Turkish ruins 6.000 years old. Wheat production evolved very | slowly until the 19th century. when great improvements in seed, machinery,. and eu ture were made. Kansas,-now the - Our Yesterdays i (From The Guardian a: TWENTY . FIVE YEARS AGO : (July 16, 1941) Germany's armored _ troops now have ‘Tteached the’ Smolensk area 90 miles east of battle-scar- red Vitebsk and 230 miles from Moscow on the road to the So- viet capital The Canadian (Active) Army, will issue a call ‘‘very shortly” for §.500_women for its new aux thary corps, Defence Minister Ralston said at a press confer- ence > | Evervone wants to know hew to— figure out the stock market. Here's itv, Manuel F. Cohen, chairman of: the US. securities and exchange com misstom, gave ff out moan rnierview and didn’t charge a cent for it~ Daily is being interpreted in Hong a sure tip from a recognized author. - tion of Agriculturegrrived— TEN YFARS AGO (July i, 1956) Lincoly _Dewat Pro secTe- Federa- mr. J fary of the vincial the Island by plane from gg * to, where he participated ‘in panel discussion aver the ar TV network ark. . The agreement, under negotia- a better position be: offered to Guelph When Northern Affairs Minis- | ter Arthur’ Laing suggested Cay adians seek opportunity in the north, he could hardly have ex- pected the response that came. Already he has received more than 200 letters from Canadians anxious and willing to tackle the - north. He also received a lot of telephone calls. A report from the department says the letters and calls came from all parts of. Canada and that a minority are from starry- eyed youngsters, their heads fill- ed with get-rich- quick. visions. Many of the letters are ‘from young couples eager for adven- ture, but able about what they mat have th face in Canada’s forbidding north country. A number were from couples 35 years of age and older -Tt is encouraging to think that there are so many people Teady ‘to give up the comforts of ‘an af- | fluent society - in exchange for | Go North; Young obviously knowledge- | him. -Man!—228 oe bujlding a new life in the north. As Mr Laing noted, wrong with Canadians’ pioneer blood,- young or old. It just, he said, needs stirring once while It proves also, we should think that there are a -good many peo- ple who feel the price they have to pay for the softer life in the i\larger centres is not worth the | candle. This is not to say it will | ‘necessarily be any easier in the north, but the struggle ought to be more a physical one that will not exact such a-heavy toll on ;one’s nerves and peace of mind. |; Anyway, Mr. Laing rang the ‘northern bell and now he is go- ing to have to answer the re- sponse. We hope he will be able to come through with-jobs for all jthe -eager people. who are capable of making a contribu- tion to Canada’s northern grow- ‘th and development. It is a kind ‘of contribution Canada _urgeritly ineeds Men As In a news story. published by an eastern newspaper. dealing with the role of men in Canad- ian hospitals, the heading asks nursing profession?’’ The story brings out a-situation not realiz- ed_ publicly that women’ nurses are, resenting the Intrusion of men into their domain Some. of them just don't ltke the idea of males as nurses _-Here we have an interesting fllustration -of social confl i -t. Many women are eager to dem- | onstrate their equatity with meg} io _the world of -industry and commerce. Yet.*some —of_ them fight against the entrance of 08 —rrates—inte what “WAS HOOT SET ed a woman's world, 1 The assistant director of the Callece of Nurses in Ontarie ‘re cently elected first wire presi dent of the Registered N u rses | — neere is much to be said Nurses Fort William Times-Journal ,endous relief if we could aban- don the fiction that women make better nurses than, men,” he | says. “Are men getting. a fair deal in | © In considering the—controver sy, we can go back to Florence |; Nightingale, probably the first army nurse“ The woman's touch has always heen associated with fending the wounded and the si¢k Before that,’ for centuries, the term nursing has been re- plated to-the mother feeding her: | child. Nursing has been assoc- jiated with cuddling: a background, in fa the name of our Against -such- w of changing lf men are to he admitted to the fask of. administering tn the sick, the suggestian that “Nurs es should henceforth be called “Doacteh's Alde,”” has merit A merican—bombing, operations ‘The —-Ringtme Bros —RBarnum and} | Se tater ot -Ombarin Albert. 9 sera | heen the possibility of hringing Red | -market has anne up in the past and oe ee ~ alee es Weds a ne ay Waa ceay DANGER 1S UNIQUE rt : v v a? au ; 3 wre'™men + china directly into the conflict. it has gone down in the past.1 think | its circus tour which thrilled | obstacle fo having more’ me if | ha arazu Nicaragua, earning treavion Mao Psetting it will continue to move up and down | millions of youdgsters and | the. profession is tradition—the is, the world’s only fresh watet ~ p L > * — aGpsi— gees etely cura | concept that _a_ nurse Shutld—be— home — of swordtish gad mam f+ —insviration,-the Peking payer. | from time to time in the future. ' er of the ‘Tod a-woman,- “It would be a trem- jeating sharks | AS ’ ‘Fand | surgery € be passed and a piece of the tu- * ears the re- | sponse proves there is nothing in ay modern profession in hospitals j Ditticult Swallowing - By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen A middle-aged. man _— sought |medical advice because of diffi- rculty in swallowing. Questionin reyealed that for a year he had been unable to eat such foods as hard rolls, meat, and. raw cel- ery and carrots. He voluntarily restricted himself to a soft diet lately. encountered trouble swallowing bland foods and liq- uids. What was wrong? ee | two days the cause of his dis- tress became obvious; he nad | an obstruction of the esophagus | (gullet) which proved to a malignant lesion. No one knows the origin of this type of tumor- Irritation is suspected and some authorities believe that the precursor is | the drjaking of strong liquors, in much the same: way as smok- ing is blamed for lung cancer. physician indicated that liquor drinkers exhibited an increasing disposition to the development of esophageal cancer, and in Curacao in the Dutch West In- dies, this form of qancer is the most common malignancy found among the inhabitants. The con- dition is not common in the Uni- jted_States;vital staisics for | 1965 esimated 5,400 deaths, or |1.8 per cent of the 300,000 can- cer casualties. X-ray examination demonstra- tes the obstruction. Usually, when barium is swallowed, it drops readily into the stomach but when the tube is partially blocked: the material remains in the esophagus and seeps slowly throf&h the barrier. Because . | less than half of all obstructions— are not malignant, it is wise to ke_ certain before undergoing The esophagoscope can mor is removed and sent to the [laboratory for’ biopsy. When jeancer cells are fqund, the best | treatmeft is surgery, although in seme cases X-ray treatments have been used successfully —Cancer Is curable when treat | months, including Canada — led early: it never cures itself | and invariably destroys if allow- led the right of way CRANKY MAN LM. writes: Would age have anything to do with a man of 42 | being. cross and irritable? REPLY “No. If this type of personality {s not natural to him he may be ill._overtired. worried. or upto his neck in responsibilities Per- sistent irritability is a signal to have a thorough physical exam- More than 20 years - ago, one | | NOTES BY THE WAY in | } Two Lrishmen had landed the United States and had taken | a room in seaside hotel. To | their surprise, they were attack-! ed by mosquitoes, an insect new to them. That night as they turned’ out the light and crawi- ed under the sheets, : flies flitted in the window. “‘lt's no use,”’ one groaned to the oth- er, “they've come back with lanterns lookin’ for us.’’ —Mon- treal Star. two fire- | ° Spring is here, and through the | open windows of a mellow even. ing one can hear the tires /cry- {ing out the age-old cry of youth and mental deficiency. | Cai. gary Herald. . You may soon overhear this man speaking to girl: “I'm sorry I can't recall your name, but ‘your knees are familiar.”". —— _| Guelph Mercury. Thant’s Gancament Likely — By Arch MacKenzie U_ Thant- is only the third secretary’ - general the United Nations has had—and the first | non-European—and he may also~ be the first to retire after one | five-year term next November. It {is becoming increasing! | plain that Thant's opposition to the American position in Viet. Nam is the reason for his | anticipated decision. ; Canadian Press Staff Writer _ [received last tn ‘Washington ts somewhat that” persist symbolic of the strafned relations “with the Us. That was before ‘Thant ‘pressed. ‘deep regret’ at ‘the US. decision to step up bomb. ing in- North Viet Nam—in a war which Thant has. called “one of the most barbarous . .., in history.” \© US. President—Johnson does pp NoT TALK not heed ‘Mmuch+of Thant's s¢°+—Johnson, as is his habit at vice but the United States, other times in mid-June ‘suddenly in. major powers and even the So- viet Union seem to be agreed that Thant should sfay on Good men are -hard -to find, and perhaps especially now when the UN seems to be back in the doldrums as a_ world | force for peace and understand- ing after the brief. triumph in settling the Indian - Pakistan! war, TRAVELLED WIDELY In any event, Thant has been —extensively, calls in recent months on Presi- dent de Gaulle—of-France,who, while no great admirer of ‘the UN, sees eye to eve with-Thant on a number of things Moscow this summer his fourth visit there, and this will complete visits to all the big UN powers in- the last six The manner in which he was | Sensible |earried Thant | for vited all UN heads of missions to a White House reception and to Washington the event by special jet. plane and limousine But the president, mindful ‘of Thant’s persistent, message that a stop to the bombing of -North Viet Nam ts the first essential for peace in Viet Nam, did not talk to him personally but left the job to State Secretary: Dean Rusk a conversation which ant described later as informal and, {f:1 may Say so, ;casuat** Thant's views on admitting Communist China to the UN--. or at least. making. that possi- “very” e éven if China refuses to fon the UN—also runs contrary ‘o the continued US. poliev : The betting in: Washington jw against the Burmese sage ‘man’s agcepting a second te as matters now stand, Decision Montreal Star The first Canadian heavy wat- | er installation’ being under con- struction on Cape Breton Island, conventionally the last place i _all-Canada to be selected as,.a site for the second would be Cape. Breton Island That sort of situation is a breach‘of a . kind ination and take stock of the of natural law of public admin- commercially }are optimists who. try to stay | Situations of life. BLEEDING GROWTH P J. K. writes: For 10 vears 1 ' have had keratosis over both The lesions bleed. This problem was taken care of sur- gically when it involved my face--le. The economy of the Mari- pendent on. availability of sup. and left hand. Could the procé-~ time -'provin needs stimulat- plies of heavy wafer, -The pro- dure "be used on my ears? jing. very seriously, and here is’ jects now on foat will producea *. REPLY \4@ project which may well form substantial surplus. above our Yes, or with radium: These |the nucleus of considerable de- own needs ‘ eee they bleed ; DIVERTICULOSIS AR. writes: ‘When person Al TENTION FARMERS - has diverticulosis, does up in an X-ray? REPLY This is the only way, to diag- nose the condition. The barium enema is preferred because the | material gets into the small sacs ‘and look like clusters of grapes | when viewed on the film CAN BE PAINL ESS _ P I. W, writes: Is it possible of the. _it show gs without istration; aH parts of the coun- try should have roughly equal reason to entertain friendly thoughts about government Byt if it-was an unexpected de- cision, it was also commendab- nema me [FOV VIEL Ve yy. SF ats 1a ve a R. C. Barwise 245 Elm Ave. 394-416 "seems: Weed Spray and Insecticides Now - - - velopment because of the avalt-' ability of electric power It wae also logical im another way, it the Cape Breton water is unusually rich. for some unstat- ed. reason, in deuterium, the form of hydrogen which must be concentrated to make heavy wa- ter In a roundabout way, this is of | interest the. Canadian ur- to anium miners and designers of ~ nuclear reactors Sale of instal- lations of Canadian design will be to some extent,-maturally, de- Buy Your SHELL. 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