ae | Che Guardian @ . un - anid then decided to hold the boost in “abeyance” until after our—provincial— oe provincss having Improved “to their ¥ . SHS af fey al<Liberal policy, either..under =~available in. the world.” ¢ t ¢ “the last federal election campaign and} .ftance..to__aged... pensioners_in.. need... aes a dts position in Confederation, if if could still‘be called that. a8 a fait Co Prince Edward Island like The Dew bg eas ‘ accompli. According to the Montreal W. J. Hancox, Publisher + "Wallace Weed Front Wola | Star, Mr. Johnson backed his sland-By ing Editor , Editor— “Publishedl every on day morning (except Sun- Ww! ; S day and statutory holidays) at 165 Prince Street, ecessary but hot necessa ie a- Charlottetown, P.E.I., by Thomson Newspapers Ltd. i ri : Fpar Branch offices at Summerside, Montague, Alberton “tism.” and Souris. 2 ‘Represented nationally-by Thomson Newspapers Advertising. Setvices:. 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If there is any_immediate changeover, the first éonferencerto be “affected would be the Victoria, talks on education later this month. How- ever, it is considered more likely that the issue will come to a head at the subsequent meeting of the Canadian taxation committee. ~ There is the*possibilit’. of course, , that’ Mr. Johnson will modify his “hard line” policy when faced: with - federal negotiators, and adopt a more conciliatory attitude. But here is where the separatist element that he year in’ U.S. monwealth. * Not. yer Je single copy.” > : Member Audit Bureau of Circulation. + PAGE 4 "TUESDAY, JUNE 7, Paging Mr. Pickersgill Transport Minister Pickersgill— the gentleman who boosted: our car ferry. rates after the federal election rassment to him. One ‘thing to_ Premier —Lesage's— _ | eredit is that he made no attempt to election, just in case—made a speech ha Pp over the weekend which we found of some'significance. We don't mean the part where he complained that some ‘soullible Liberals’ were unfortunate- oN Ty falling for Tory propaganda “that Prime Minister Pearson should retire: | for the good of Canada. We mean the | part about federal relations with the’ | |: tion. He ran with the same policy on. te Confederation issues he sought to ex- | plain to the rest of Canada in his tour of. the West last. fall. He told audiences repeatedly that. the only way for French Canadians to compete with the Anglo-Saxons—and remain ed. more prosperous and-more effec: ._tive. How far Sunday's i eaiitla reflect. a | pedudiation of this sound policy is not best position since Confederation,” that “full employment” had béen. achieved—and thatthe aged—had_re— ceived “the most generous pensions ~ factors’ involved. But that it did play a part in the government's defeat is “hardly” to be doubted; and- this- is-a- It occurred to us, when we hae this: quotation from his speech in_: “yesterday's Guardian, that the Con? ¢ servatives miss bet when they | | matter . whieh ery Canadian has ‘didn’t get Mr. Pickersgill.to speak | 2 "8 ed. here during the provincial etection | one ‘An Opportune Time a campaign. If there was one thing the local Liberals were complaining most ow - pu Hee crak loudly about it was our poor-federal- pa . cng i ---which made a perfect precision land- “relations, our lack of employment op- ae tat week I an eolets sustain a portunities and -the niggardly treat- 8 human explorer. That much at. least ment our old age pensrener ao re- Jhas been: verified by the aetonish oe ~ | success of the American moon-shot | which duplicated a similar feat by the ~ Russians’ Lunar IX four months ago.-4}" We may expect, from now on, the | moon race to proceed at an accelerat- ‘ed pace. What -is needed, more urgently than ever, is a joint Ameri- can-Soviet resolution governing | the “peaceful use of outer space. “~ Each country has now separately CCiv ing: On the fatter subject particllanly Mr; -Pickersgill—could “really have Feaightenel them out if he had let’ himself go as he did in Newfoundland “ori Saturday. He. could-have explained that their glib promise to pay ALL | old age pensioners $100 a month “in cooperation with the Canada Assis- tance, Plan’ was sheer poppycock; that this was a Conservative pledge in bar militarism or weaponry in space (particularly. ‘on the-moon) and to. keep space exploration -open..to all. The similarity of the proposals and - the short. space of tinie separating them encourage the world to believe that, in this matter, Mosco Washington are in full acco But welcome ‘as would i a space that it formed no part whatever of ,.. the Canada Assistance Plan or any “other, plan. His Liberal colleagues here, he could have reminded them, are in no-position to re-write policies for the Pearson government, and it is the fixed. belief of the Pearson gov- ernment that at $75 a month our aged. pensioners are the, most~gener- - pact supported by both the world ously tréated in the world. leaders in space exploration, its -im- However, provision under the Gan. le pact would be all the greater were ada Assistance Plan is being made this a jointly sponsored measure. This ‘in cooperation with the provinces and _|_ 18 What leading American newspapers after a good deal of pressure, to pro. 47@ Now tirging, and its importance vide for immediate financial assis- | ©" be appreciated. Given the causes a. of tension (particularly { in Viet, Nam) This. precisely, is what the Conserva- | which continue to dog American- Sov- tives promised to do and for which | aos -_ they were denounced as pikers by | Kind regulating outer-space would be . for partisan purposes. | & Strofig and helpful step | world peace. _ Farm Machinery Probe. their opponents. Mr. Pickersgill toward could have confirmed that this was all that could be promised truthfully, 7) and he could have enlarged on how shameful. it was for others to mis- lead our aged people on such a matter the decision, finally taken by the federal government, to hold an: in- quirv into-farm machinery ‘costs and to take action if it is found that these _ Costs are exorbitant. Dr. C.L. Barber: | head of the econdmics department of . But the Transport Minister didn't come our way, during the campaign, and his comments on this phase of it have yet to be heard. Perhaps our MPs could sound him out with some atlestions in the House of Commons. Sunday In Quebec Liberals are not the only ones w ‘assigned to conduct the inquiry and _| '@ answer two essential questions. | These questions can be Summed up 0 _ 48 follows: Are Canadian farmers are studying with some disquietutie Paving too much for their machinery the election. results in Quebec.Jf 4nd parts compared with farmers in could be worse, of course. The two , other countries’ What can J done . Small-separatist parties. failed. fo-win-~10 1nSure.ti.c.magt favorabfe «price? : ~any_seats-in-Sunday’s-electoral battle ,down to defeat. But between them . It is-recatied teat the Hot Mons-—-ag renin ire and committee of Com- lonization 4n-which- the Lesage regime went _they took 6.6 ‘per cenf of the. votes, — 4NSwers ir 1961, But recommenda- ‘cutting into. the Liberal vote for the tons’ nes “r eterialized. Dr. Barber's most part: They still may be a factor | Teport' has | behind his party. Queber would-pre- :has courted could prove an émbar- : match the UN’s quasi-separatist posi- |” __French_-was to become better-educat-— : ‘known. There were, of course, other | _called_ for United Nationsaction—toe—- | hospitals - iet relations, a joint resolution of this. | Of importance to all our farmers is 4 the University of Manitoba, has been _ ‘ned to get “the same WE musT BuILo BRiv6Ees | — MeNAmara, jconvinced he could read charac- | grouping.. Type OF Body Build Coat ago reper was | ter by. the shape of the nose. . Phrenologists later claimed they , could determine the’ personality ‘by feeling the- bumps on. the © skull. Palmists looked for life and love lines. These procedures: have: scientific basis and, when tested, ~ show a high percentage of er- ments, such as gallbladder dis- ease and tuberculosis, go ' with certain body builds. This method | of -classifieation _was. somewhat hit or miss until W.H. Sheldon | introduced” his somato-_type | Sheldon tabulated body builds three basic components were, ,| characterized_by-_.the fatness and” |fortunately was roundness~—of-— the endomorph, | the masculinity of the mesmor- ph, and the slenderness of the | jectomorph. There are no types; everyone _has some of each: component and it is this | fact that offers a conve nient ' way of rating the individual. The | characteristics are graded from_| one to seven and the well balan- | _|eed individual ends up with a score of 3-4-3. The®-faty lady at the circus is listed 8 seven in: endomorphy and one. i the other * factors, coming out “with a score of 7-1-1, 2-7 The endomorph with his--soft, "spherical physique enjoys good food and company, finds it easy is greedy for affection, to relax, and wants to live and Jet We. | He falls-asleep easily and hard to exicte or arouse but ae not endowed . with a good gallbladder. His ob- esity also encourages the © ail- BRIDGE ON THE: RIVER KY YW rockets with nuclear war- —Arthur;— tou and Oakville,-and kil or wound every resident in all five cities, the appalling casuajty toll would be ratéd a national | est census figures, 156,084 men, women and children would-be jlled or injured. But the total almost exactly matches the total:of 155,050 men. women and children who were killed or injured on-our highway ‘during 1965. ‘Instead of treat- ing that as a national disaster deral government is now quibb- ling about whether it Power to curb teportedly dan- “gerous features ~—in—the—wi on our highways. The Dominion Bureau of. Sta- | tistics ‘has just released the traf- fic accident statistics for the fourth quarter of last year. Fin- al official figures. for_the whole year are not yet, available. but | | I have compiled the” unofficial | Nicholson statistics by totalling the four. quarterly reports. . “WOULD SWAMP” “HOWPITALS | ' The total: injured on our high | ways during 1965 was 150,156. This number: is greater than | excepting the Prairies: The other seven provinces have a total of 149,022 beds im public | of “which 10 percent | at any one time’ are filled with | accident victims; this total is | insufficient to treat the nation- | al traffic toll in the - admittedly hospitalized at the same time. But this comparison is. eloquent.. The cost of property damage must be an incomplete figure, | as no totals for. Quebec are yet available. But Quebec: suffer: ed slightly more accidents than | .. Ontario, so I use that figure ae ' an estimate. On this basis, we ==gee -that--theproperty = “cost of} | highway accidents was aero} ximately $206,000,000. ‘huge figure is more than. suffi- per month throughout the year to every old. age pensioner now | dependent solely ‘ipon the $75 | cient to pay an additional $30 | 1 | | per month: government pension 4 --|. Those are startling figures. In” | general they show an all round increase of about 10 percent over the year 1964. If they con- tinue. to grow at this rate, the | traffic toll in 1970 will .be equi-, | valent to killing or wounding the entire. population of a big city the size of Ottawa or Cal- | gary or Winnipeg. | These figures explain why, | after Canada’s years of ostrich- like neglect, of this ‘national | scandal, the yoifmg Conserva- tive MP’ Howard Grafftey is get- ting results from his campaign for national enlightenment and government action. POPULAR LOBBY ~ Incidentally Mr. Grafftey ing from readers of ‘‘Ottawa | Report’’ letters fand lists of sig- natures support. of his‘ “tar ee ae and inspired b my column on this topic on Tae tk vary 12. -This, he believes, con- stitutes the: largest write - in pop- | ular lobby ever seen on. Parlia- ment Hill. Looking at the figures for .in- dividual provinces, we see that -) been called for as soon as * '" 1965 Quebec again led the parade of shame with 130,144 ac- ' disaster. “According to the lat-~ -which—must~be=curbed—the=fe has the’ eapons— which prove lethal or injurious ‘could be accommodated in- all - the beds in all our public hos- | pitals in all provinces together unlikely - event that all were” This | _ OTTAWA REPORT By. Patrick Nicholson __ Highway Toll Reaches callie, ciple 262 avcidents,. Saskatchewan 19, heads were to hit Oshawa, Port. 257 and P.E.I- al sage i high: “In Quebec there were 39,109 ae- -Prinee—Albert,—-Pentie-—er—-than—in—1964— [ The' toll of deaths rose te 1,- /611 in Ontario; in Quebec it drop- /ped from 1,581 td 1,537 in Sask- |atchewan from 232 to: 224; in_ Pa from 34 to 25—But- in B. C. it. soared from 393 to 500. | However all these provinces suf- fered an: increased total of ac- |cidents. In.Ontario it‘ was 60,- ~cidents; in B.C. “T1574; aah : weight. The mesomorph has large bones and a_ well developed heart: and circulatory system. | ~-|He-is-the—athletie—-type;—full—ot— energy, adventurous, and extro- vertive. When in trouble, .he and’ night throughout the year. “in Sask- atchewan 6,778 and im. P. BE. I. 608: While Ontario sittered propor- 'tionately the largest increase in | ithe number ‘of accidents, .the | roll of dead and injured in B. Cc, jis the highest in' any of these | tive provinces im proportion to ‘Population. | 917..or.. A every 8!2 minutes day Thanks to some untoward hap- penings during the judical in- quiry—into_the-Munsinger affair, the old argument about restrict- ing the right of the press to re- port nublic proceedings is being _ raised anew. ‘In the House of Commons MP Andrew Brewin of the, NDP has~ _concocted a private member's — bill Which would prevent publica- tion of ‘‘any defamatory matter | disclosed at or during the course | of - an-irquiryr-tiniess-such-evi+ dence or matter is relevant to” | the ‘matter under inquiry and | would be admissible © in a court of Jaw.” This comes on the heels of. re- ers should be prevented from re- -| porting preliminary hearings in | magistrates courts. ' Neither idea would de much good and would probably. do a considerable amount.of harm. No responsible editor will deny | that a problem. of fairsess to, ims | dividvais exists in both: prelim. inary hearinge and judical in- mal functioning of the press is | treating the symptoms ‘without. | making a. proper. diagnos! —.of the disease. | UNFORTUNATE. Mr Brewin's bill follows the Jelease -By.. ‘Spence a lengthy RCMP docu- ment concerning Gerda Miun- singer which contained a Teport that- fermer Prime | Minister -One of the familiar sights in | the spring in this area is the sugar house with the. smoke twirling up through the leafless | trees. It is a sight which cat- ches the eve and interest of | many visitors. . But often, for natives the annual Jitual goes by unnoticed. 4 It seems ‘too, thht the product | resulting from this unique nat- ural harvest are ignored by Ca- nadians. A _ story from Ottawa | points out that Canadians pro. | | duce some 20,000,000 gallons of maple syrup every year but’ consume on the average of only | : i Whe ounces of. maple products | tells me that ‘he is still receiv- | Halt the crop is ex- a ally. | be d. I |’ With no queen of their own, many United States citizens feel a bit deprived despite: their anti- royalist tradition. $o, unconscously,' they adopt Queen Press And Buble ‘Hamilton Spectator cent suggestions that newspap-- quirites, but inhibiting the nor-- Mr. Justice Wishart. = Suen’ sKin — Christian, Science Monitor perhaps. ! John Diefenbaker . once told her she .was doing a public service © -by—offering—solaceto- Associate—| , Defence Minister Pierre Sevin- | ny This was a scandalous, scur- | rilous thing and-it should never have entered -the public -domain, but the fault was not the news-- papers’ - “Mr. Brewin would allow ‘the presiding commissioner at any inquiry to decide on the spur of | ; the* moment and at his conven- | “jencewhat~should= be published” and what. should not be publish- | _ed, even though members of the public were allowed to sit throu- gh_ the sessions. THE SAME REASONING ~~ | This.is the same: reasoning , that is cften applied to prelimin- ary hearings.’ Let the public at- | tend if it wishes but prevent the | press from, reaching a wider! world. It is_a pernicious doctrine ‘and it should be stopped” in its ances «“The Spectator does not for one moment suggest that the press | has special rights. It does et have, and should not have, any rights or privileges peculiar -to itself as an institution. the re- -porter, the photographer, and > the edi‘or, have no rights what- | soever except those that accrue to any citi in a democratic © ones and the newspaperman is | entitled to them. They include, | foremost, the eal s right to informed, ; - Patridtic Diet Montreal Gazette : | “tt 1s an industry that is root-<! ed in our past, The Indians — ‘aught. the first European set- tlers how to tap the trees. Fren- | ia Triple Crown winner. ch priests mentioned the fact | to their superiors in’ the mid-, ' seventeenth .century-_The first” record of*maple.syrup_ and si- | gar production. is dated 1706. | | The Ruidelines, so to speak, have been there for centuries. But has the potential been ful- ly -exploited? Canadians pride ‘theniselves | in’ wearing a. maple leaf.. It is.| a national emblem and it now flies high from Canberra to Cal-. gary. But apparently. there \Jeaf and the tree, Eppears, the Queen {s related to. Alice. Just last’ month Lawrence Tanner, librarian- of Westmins- | ter Abbey, ‘found the uscript that links the: original Alice andthe 13th “Karl: of ‘Strathmore, whe Was an ancestor of royalty. This a fourth , cousin twice . Femoved of Eliza- This may not be much of. a the 12th Earl of Strathmore married George Washington's cotisin Mary. Does “that make Alice a kin of the fa- | it's all foo involved. Why not say sim- cans will continue tp feel much i ito be reckoned with, under a Union Possible ‘is to be hoped that — cidents. Ontario was-a close se- giizabeth TI of Englang! and ot evidence of. a family ~ Nationale government which is pledg- iS Meares hat it says. “cond with 128,462. BR, Crhad 40,- on call her simply “the Queen" ed to demand 100 per cent of income |. -, The Nationa’ Farm Union, wants‘an EYES GOUGED OUT "Now thaits Hidin or oee " : , ay i A ba U | 0 uqies of gen- taxes and death dufies and map out. ~ especially look taken: at trade- ae ee oo _calogists, a more substantial tie Makes Alice “Liddell t 5 s Y SSC V j pacticas Wow ‘ ane acker gouged out the eyes A’_ is established. ese have ri ae a if e rey nt a clint 2 in Pract wants, too, an in special policethan for the Santa ed (what had previdisly (tN beth II. ae n Quebec that would se up two equa vestigation af thy possibility of reduc- Fe Railroad in its Pueblo yards cnly supposed) that the Queen _ ~polittcal_partners—a French nation — ing costs te. ~.ndardizing equipment coheed Floyd L. Widup waf and George Washington were bond, but wait... and-an English nation. parts \ ; ah Canadian: Federa- reported in serious condition. cousins. Sixth cousins twice te. e Cana Doctors replaced his eyeballs in moved, that’ is, thanks to a The nationalist line was strongly tion of A: ‘ure and other, farm ‘Neir sockets and said it- would ‘common ancestor who Was a - emphasized by Mr. Johnson, the UN’ ‘organizatic he a fev. days before they could — Virginian. ther. of his country? Oh, ! alse- be heard. Cet- deterniine whether -he— will re- Another gZenedalogicals . find it leader, in issuing what amounted to:a tainly ey n> advantage should. be Kain his sight. Officersarrested seerhs to bring the’ Queen close _ply_that—related \ i falling call_to separatists. Creditistec tapheg nportunite of probing - aan wha told them. he to Americans. Alice in Wonder ‘aca ‘ “ at r ...“discontented’’ Liberals to get. ' this matt me in . V! ‘Sate niental hospital. - - v ies caped (a _month ago from—a—land_is-claimed_by United Stat. and—satisfactorily. 1 gi, co Upjited—stat as youth ab by British Now,. it Pg as—Britonsdo—about_theQuee: Even if for no practical reason. +e vigorous-tiving. (that you are taking too much -society,.But. those fights are big... Francis Herbert Maclean kd the* |eame aquadron. | Donald B. Moore of Pownal, 1s and 'W. MacLeod of K in- | quite. a difference between the ross, ak cecaivad the degree | | organized the visit, agd the prin. of Bachelor of Divinity at the | Ccipal of the college were all an- ee a: “the Gordon Divinity. must_‘'do something."" This im- | |poses a hardship on his heart |and blood pressure, which even- | tually give-way under-thestrain— The ectomorph is thin, fragile, | loves privacy, and is an sen | vert. Many Yack poise and confi: idence. The nervous system is | + too“highly developed and asap result the physiological reactions jare- fast. These persons are | alert, jittery, apprehensive, and | sleep poorly; they “suffer from | ; skin disorders, violent head | -leolds; and. frequent sore throats | Many: are hyopchondriacs. IT’S CONTROLABLE —-¥..-Q-_writes:—Do—you-consider— 2 ‘alcoholism: curable? REPLY Let us say that, like diabetes, it is controllable. There are num- | jerous” treatment plans but no | ;one specific method is effective’ in all cases. Mrs. MB. writes: Ie opera- | tion essential in cancer of the larynx? REPLY. - Mirgery is one costed aE | treatment; - irradiation ‘with X- ‘ray or radium is another. ALKALINE. URINE... . B. R. writes: Is an alpine lta serious? REPLY ‘It may be an _ indication No. baking soda or other alkali. COD LIVER OIL 0.E. writes: Does cod ofl ‘contain any vitamins? REPLY S It’s -chockful of vitamins A | TODAY’S HEALTH HINT— .. Emotional balance promotes tranquility. (NOTE: All correspondence to Dr. Van Dellen should be addressed to:.Dr. Theodore “Van Dellen, co oe Trib- une, Chicago, Illinois.) Our Yesterda 's “(From .The Guardian F TWENTY - FIVE YEARS. ae (June 7, 1941) Bob Feller hurled a four- hit, liver 2-0 triumph over Philadelphia _ Athletics for his 12th victory of | the Indians’ 31 victories so far | this season. He has been beaten ony: ee Whirlaway won the Belmont Stakes yesterday, having —al- ready won the Kentucky Derby | ,and the Preakness, to make him TEN YEARS AGO (June 7, 1956) | Among the 508 top Air Cadets’* from across the country who | training awards provided by the | Air Cadet League of Canada and | | ithe RCAF were Keir Costain |the Charlottetown Squadron and , | commencement e ises held nie “School “in / Wenham, Mase, on. June. 4th | last: SI) a rors. We know that some ail- ‘the other quietly replied. — Montreal Star © {vr coat.” into three main types. The | | many “Says ‘at six minutes) | obviously like to forget it. ‘The ‘couple, Peter and Helen. Kroe- | | Ser, each serving 20 years for | British press ,and° part of the. i when a_party of Soviet lecturers | Britain— Mr, Brooke led a sim- "NOTES BY THE WAY. en An oak bank ‘account re- miajns. an. empty bank account ° re you figure by | new math or the old. kind.: —- Windsor S‘ar. Ath” Fate tion one lady ‘aid to another. “I _ don't kndw what's the. matter with that tall “man Over there. He was: so vat | ‘no + tentive a while ago, but now he | won't even come near me.” “Perhaps he saw me come in’!.~ my husband’’. “I certainly don't understand” said the irate husband: ‘‘Here we are with the wolf at the door ‘and yot come up with anew “That's simple’, the | wife replied, “T let him in last night." — Vancouver’ ‘Sun. Secretary to olfioe mahager: | “L've taken all-the criticism of | | my work that I'm going to take! | eee grade-school How do you spell ‘quit'?"- G'obe and Mail. ” Passenger (asked the — stew- ardess as he boarded the plane): May I smoke my cigar in here? Stewardess: Well, we ‘Jeave ‘ic -to your discretion. You may smoke if you don’t annoy the lady passengers. Passeng- er: Then I won't smoke: I'd much rather annoy the lady pas-_ sengeri. — on Mercury. ° “He's * < @ | The newiyweds were honey. eateledetie + in Sf j they walked arm in arm along the beach, the young groom look- | ed_poeticaily.out to sea and cried sno! “Roll on,~thou deep and dark «. blue ‘ocean. roll on!’ His bride | Bazed at the water for a mom-, ‘ent then gasped in awed tones, “Oh,- Jimmy, you're wonderful ‘It's doing itt’ Journal. ~ If preserif“trends continue, within a few years every Carta- ‘dian will own two aiitomobiles | and have lost his. licence .t eo” drive. — Calgary Herald. be : Cassius Ciay might have tréu- ble in the army. If. he says,“ am. the. greatest,"’ he is: likely to be charged with impersona-- ting a second ‘lieutenant. —Galt- | Reporier. tence: try- | ing to get over the concept of | distances to -her-pupils, asked | them Whether they lived close | or: fae away from’ the school. | She received, a number of ans-' | wers, but the one she liked best, was from the young moppet who told her, ‘‘{ think I must live ie close because every time |I come home, my mother says ‘Good grief, are you home a|- ready?” — Montreal star. oe Erowning: Paradox | James_Hi. Gray in The Windsor Star While eastern Canadian atten- tion has been focussed lately on the evils of bankruptcy racket- eering, two stories in widely sep- | 7 . ao cast a new _light-on what. might-| ; be caued the “evils of non-bank- | ruptcy racketeering.” - In. tne Winnipeg Tribune, a strong: armed finance company collector was quoted as telling a debor that the only way he could -avoid-paying- would-be to-go “on welfare and stay there for the | rest of his life. — A series of articles in the Ed- “/monton * Journal” “revealed that. in Alberta at least’ welfare has become a permanent deb- ) ter’s prison for literally thous- -ands-of—-citizens-who--have—lost— their jobs following- garnishee of | their wages The figures quoted | by the | ; Edmonton Journal are outstand- ing—Alberta is paying more than $18,000,000 a year to sup- port de facto. bankrptg on wel- fare. It €8timates there are 5,000 in Alberta | and: -1,000_in Edmon- l viar jobs because of garnishee orders. If such figures can be sub- | welfare department say they can it is surely a crowning paradox that. when employers are crying ‘for labor, ‘when wages are high- _er than—ever—before—thousands— | are boxed into ‘a do-it-yourself . ’ | debtor’s jail and there is no way out for as far ahead as they can see. Perhaps the wéirdest anomaly “is this; they could go bankrpt, | elear- the ~state-and-start-over-as~— productive members of ‘society but they cant afford to. It costs $400 in Alberta in court and leg- must be deposited in advance. | There is no way out for the deb- | tors. Some of these people are crooks; s0 me are stupid, some are the victims of bad luck, some cannot resist -bar- gains offered at easy terms, but alf,are the product of today's _ ton aloe who cannot hold reg- | super-easy credit system. Something To Moo About? _Ottawa City folk: who find it- a little | hard to believe that milk actual- Journal at atmospheric with a continua “pressure and rhythm, thus ly comes frem a cow can. al- | taking into account the natural ways take comfort in the know- | ledge trat--at—least—a “machine-—" is used to extract it. Now a German company has come up with a new machine milking. process. which should | bring added ‘comfort to. the cow: ee “It’s called the ‘‘hydroplus | system’ and a report from Ge-~ it. increases’ milk y’eld to five per cent while cut- | ting milkin= time (estimated by about a quarter. The system. ‘operates reflexes of the cow.’ 1—-The—report—says 2,000,000 test | milkings were carried out and | all results including cows’ re- tive.” (Nobody got kicked?) All_in aul, it.is hailed as.q ‘‘sere ' sational development, * but doe . .n’t blame the cows for not jump= ang up and down with excite- “ment. Particularly if“ it’ means they | have to eat five per cerft more aoa | every day to make up for the | extra m'lk yield. Eating grass is hard work, we would imagine The Other Cheek Winnipeg Free Press. The case of Gerald Brooke, the British lecturer in Russian who is now doing hard labor in a Soviet prison “camp remains” ‘an issue that continues to troub- Je Angio-Soviet relations: The British government would Soviet government, having found out that. they cannot exchange ‘Mr Brooke for the American espionage in Britain, continues- |to behave in the usual tolalitar- | ian fashion in wrecking the life | of this promising young man. In_ these circumstances ‘the British ° public were outraged in English was allowed to enter j ilar group of British teachers of ’ L-Russian when. he was arrested Moscow on charges of having | smuggied anti- Communist prop- ‘aganda into Russia. To heap in-: | sult on injury the Russian party * then assigned to Mrr. Brooke’ S‘own college. A meeting of teachers in the college voted against the visit, ‘and. letters of protest -were sent | in several directions. Only a few | teachers. volunteered ‘to teach |the Russians. But the foreign of .fice, the British Council, whick* some British newspapers are very angry, calling the visit factlese, and saying.the time had come for the British to de- Yale, who was arrested: under: similar, cir- cumstances“and released-a week Kennedy's insistence, © being “recalled; ‘and- i -ean forthright methods are be- ing compared with British pus. syfooting. All this will not help the un- fortunate Mr Brooke, now breaking stones on a starvation diet in the harsh climate of Si- beria. again’ iP COMMERCIAL APRN LU Let ae ta our let- terheads, “heads, broc: Il is for’ all y ole eo, needs. GUARDIAN-PATRIOT CENTRAL _PRINTERY Edmonton monstraie and protest. The case _ of Prot. Barghoorn of later upon the. late oes ; xious that the .visit. shoul success: Wit the tite oaes Arar fair of Mr. Brooke forgotten. PHONE 4-8506 The teachers, the eonens and x again al fees to go bankrupt. And it ——