pi nice Min tility Member Audit oie 0 Circulation PAGE 4 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1959. “Mr. Smallwood’ s Tribute - ~ Our Island representative in tne’ * Dominion Cabinet, Hon. J. Angus ‘MacLean, always speaks his mind. He visited Newfbundiand this week ’ in his capacity of Minister of Fish- ‘eries, and in his usual frank manner - cautioned Newfoundland fishermen against selling their product at one price despite.a wide variation in quality. We know about the danger of this practice in Prince Edward Is- land, both in the fishery and agricul- tural industries, and it was from ‘no ivory tower that the Minister lectured his audience in St. John’s. It was - the kind of advice that a man gives out of real concern for the interests of his auditors, not just to please them and win applause. ~ And lo and behold! Conservative ministers ar@ not popular in New- foundland ‘thése days—at least not - with Premier Joey Smallwood; yet at the same meeting at which Angus MacLean addressed the Federation of Fishermen, Mr. Smallwood des- “eribed him warmly as one of New- foundland’s “strongest friends.” The Premier hastened to add that this tribute was_meant “personally and ~ professionally—without political im-° plication.” & ‘We were in no doubt in this Pro- vince as to the success Mr. MacLean is making in his department, of his ability, forthrightness and sincerity. These are qualities which the New- foundland Premier evidently appreci- ates as much as we do, and-it is to | __hhis credit that he did not allow his | teud_with Ott be bhi from saying so in this case. While he spoke! without “political implication”, it is not too much to assume that Premier Smallwood will find it difficult to forget that Mr. acLean is a member of the Diefen- baker Government and has the Gov- ernnjent behind him in his policies for Newfoundland. It may even occur to him that his province may have other good friends in that ad- ministration whom he wots not of, and whom hé overlooked in his bull. Of excommunication! . ~~ At any rate, Mr. MacLean has achieved what all his colleagues fail- ed to do in winning Mr. Smallwood’s unqualified approval. As a goodwill ambassador he tops them all. Per- haps they should keep him at that job until he straighiens out the tang- led skein of his party’s relations with our sister Island partner in Confederation. “Religion In The U.S.S.R. . An accumulation of evidence sug- _ gests that the Soviet people are ex- periencing: what might be termed a religious reawakening of sorts. We recall that this view was expressed by Rev. J.S. Bonnell, D.D., on his return from visiting Russia a year or so ago. While we had every respect for Dr. Bonnell’s judgement, we felt that in this case the wish was’ father to the thought. However, the same opinion is expressed by a writer in the Christian Science Monitor, who cites from the Soviet press itseif increasing accounts of expression of religious beliefs by Soviet citizens, of pilgrimages. to holy places, of Soviet young people showing an in- terest in religion. This, after forty years’ work by an all-powerful atheistic government to bury the church, religion, theism, and the Bible, is truly remarkabie. According to official Soviet figures from the Embassy in Washington there are “more than 20,000 Rus- sian .orthodox parishes and 35,000 clergymen, and 69 monasteries and funneries with -5,009 monks and nuns in the U.S.S.R. There are also more than 1,240 Catholic churches, and more than 1,000 thosques, more than 5,400 Baptist houses of wor- ship and some 600 Protestant ’ Bhurches.” The current Soviet press attacks on religion not only show “overninent concern bht attest to the growing public interest in this mat- ° i their number was increasing. He still curious people in the U.S,S.R. ; «+ They hear talk about God, about saints, customs. They are interested . to see what is going on . . . So, im- -agine, if everyone visits church just once, with the number of young people in Moscow. The door) would creak from the coming and going.” , Undoubtedly, in the over-all pic- - ture of Russian life under Commun- ism such developments as mentioned are the éxception rather than the rule. But the fact that they occur, that they are seemingly on the in- crease, is interesting and could be : - important in any ideological shift _away from materialism. Encouraging Report Despite the many demands on the consumer in 1958, Canadians put a higher percentage of their income after taxes into life insurance and annuity premiums than in any. year since 1947. The 1958 figure was 3.7 per cent, the same as in 1946 and 1947. In 1952 the ratio fell to a low. of 3.2 per cent. Back in 1928, how-: ever, it was 4.4 per cent. These figures, based on the bus- iness of life insurance companies in *}-. Canada, are among the many report- ed in the fifth edition of “Canadian Life Insurance Facts” prepared by | the Canadian Lifé Insurance Officers Association and now off the press. The average size of ordinary life insurance policies purchased during 1958 was $6,250, according to the Fact Book, and the average size of ordinary policy owned, at the end of the year was $3,590. Altogether, life insurance in force with the com- panies covered an estimated eight million policyholders in Canada for hearly $39 billion of protection at the start of this year. The payment of benefits continu- ed at a record pace in 1958, with $463 million being paid to Canadian families through their life insurance and annuity programs. Of this total, a “believers” in the country, or that— passed it off this’ way: “There a in seeing, in looking in the church— Lid ,, ; Vj (fp, You “WHY LOOK UNDER THE HOOD?” ZL VM) LETUS Take FOR a Rive aes Beaverbrook On Bennett By Patrick Nicholson : The most famous person rais- al in New Brunswick has writ- ter the first literary epitaph of that province's best-known native son; an epitaph which is an authoritative footncte to history. . William Maxwell Aitken was born in- Maple, Ontario, in 1879,. Before he could walk, he was moved by his Scottish-born fath- er, a Presbyicrian minister, to Newcastle, New Brunswick. To- Gay he is Baron Beaverbrook of Leaverbrook. New Brunswick. When young Max (Aitken -was ten years old, he first mét Rich- ard Bedford Bennett,.a native of nearby Hopewell, N.B., and ten years his senior. A _ friendship flourished and developed first into a business co-operation, and Jater into a joint political crus/ ade; it endured until- broken by Benngt's death 60 years later. In a labour of love, and a vivid | $164 million was paid in death bene- -ee fits and the rest—nearly two-thirds of the total—went to living policy- holders in the form of matured en- dowments, annuities, disability ‘pay- ments, policy dividends and cash values. The net. rate of interest earned on the invested assests of Canadian life insurance companies was, 4.66 per cent in 1958. The 1958 rate was the highest since the general de- cline of interest returns in the early thirties. In the rate was 6.1. per cent—typical of the high rates earned through the 1920’s. EDITORAL NOTES "4 correspondent in today’s issue points out that 100 small homes are needed in Charlottetown, and that municipalities elsewhere are grap- pling successfully with their housing problem. This would. be a fine ob- jective for us to reach before celebrat-:-|— ing the Confederation centenary. * s * In an effort to cut down highway accidents the Ontario Department of Transport is streamlining its sys- _ tem of driver licensing by abolishing private examiners, who are paid- from the fees they collect. This sys- tem invites abuses. In its place is \being substituted compulsory ex- amination by fulltime civil servants. * * * Some fat political plums are still . hanging on the trees at Ottawa. They include six vacant senatorships and 15 parliamentay” secretaryships.. Also vacant are the well-paid jobs of Queen’s Printer, auditor-general, and director of the National Art Gallery. The position of sergeant-at-arms in the House of Commons is also due to be vacated soon, while that of the assistant is still vacant. So is the position of parliamentary librarian. Good pickings here for deserving democrats. It comes as a surprise to learn ‘that the British House of Commons does not own the chamber where it meets. Nor, for that matter, is it otherwise with the House of Lords. These two venerable assemb- lies conduct their deliberations i the precincts of the Palace of Wes«- minister, which belongs to the Sover- eign. Lords and Commons-have thus been occupying their quarters by royal grace, not by legal title. Now, ‘a number of MPs are pressing for the transfer of the Palace's owner- ship to Parliament itself, ’ { . , er lore’s assessment of our history, Lord Beaverbrook has described these “sixty years of intimate personal relationsnip” in a = .}-published book simply entitl- ed “Friénds”’. SMEARED To Canadians, the name R.B. Bennett arouses painful memor- ‘cs of the darkest yoars — econ- omically — through which our country ever passed. The disast- er stemmed from the world ec enomic slump, heralded by the New York stock market crash on 29th. October 1929, exactly nine inonths before worried Ganadians ejected the Liberal government, and summoned ihe Conservativ- vs under R.B. Bennett to help them ride the storm. Folklore has tried to smear .Bennett as the man whe caused the world- | wide slump and the protracted reg drought Which aggravat- i. * Bennett succeeded in saving lus own countfy in that deadly season of peril,” writes the ex- perienced and wordly-wise Lord Leaverbrock. ‘“‘He gave supreme leadership in the face of disaster He carried out unprecenented grievous damage which would. have been inflicted upon the whole financial structure of the coun:ry. In truth, I am convinc- ed that no other man but Bennett would have had the courage to auide the shattered fortunes of Canada. It may be difficult for some of his crities to appreciate and understand this high praise. but my claim will be justified wuen the papers relating to the Canadian fnancial crisis, that have been given into my keer _ iti, are made available to the public in 1967, 20 years after the death of Bennett."’ , VISION OF PROSPERITY. - The kernel of this book is the iong account of the visionary but I-fated Empire free trade crus- t ede. It was planned jointly by bennett in ‘Canada and_ Beaver- brook in Britain, and hed -U years. ahead of its time. It was -damaged_by-Mackenzie King's in-} with the U.S. It was wrecked British Prime Minister Bald- win's fear of a tax on forcign food, to give preference to Can- adian and other Commonwégith farmers. In a dramatic closing chapter, ‘he author . describes how the taree great foes, Bennett,’ King and Baldwin, died within three years cf one another. Baldwin was already execrated by the justly indignant British mob which he had betrayed by ignor- tag the imminence of war; King io be ridiculed by public jokes end disparaged by historians; but Bennett to grow in stature v7nen. seen in thé perspective of history. The Beaverbrook-Bennett cru cade, although the author does not mention ths, is perhaps near- er realization today than ever smagined by its leaders. Britain tecently offered to “Canada the free trade union which she had rejected when it was proposed by Bennett in 1932; and Britain ‘s already a member of a Eur- opean common market which seems destined ultimately to comprise the whole British Com- monwealth and English-speaking Yemedial measures, thus -aveiding world as well as western Europe. Disarmament Prospects The Canadian Press The success of the United Na- tions resolution on disarmament regotiated by Vasily V. Kuznet- sov of the Soviet Union and Henry Oabot Ledge of the United states gives hope of some pro- sress on the peaceful uses of outer snace. The Russians, riding hig. oa ane prestige of mvon mi=z+iles and Vremier Khrushchev’s evitesse Lotimeey, have. been plavirg a “Raping sole at the 14:h General Assemly, It's likely they'll try to cominue. Kuznetsov took the initiative on the disarmament. proposal and upparentiy made some fairly worthwhile concgssions, .in phras- ing at Ieact.+to get unanimous agreement. - ‘The Russians really inis one.” said one diplomat. “They didn't want anything to go *rong.”’ e : : wanted AGAINST SIN j True, the reselution reads along the lines of the proverbial injunc- ‘10n 2gainst-sin. which is all the move reason people aren't sccf- ting at it. No one was scoffing, either, at Khrushchev’s plan for total dis- armament within four years. That wuld have sounded like mock- ing peace. ; it would have been equally fool- ish to dismiss lightly the Soviet call for an international confer- cace of scientists to swap exper fences in exploring outer space, 4 especially in view of Russia’s feats out there: ge let it be known that he q s lccting for more private Iks with Kuznetsov. leading oo- servers to believe that he was hoping to reach an accord as sgreeable, or nearty $0; as tn one on disarmament. £SSENTIAL POINTS A working paper was drawn up 4 permanént body to encourage me peaceful uses of outer space. . But. the working paver left blank the crucial question of the membership of an outer svace body—the issue on which East- West negotiations foundered last session. - The Soviet Union, Poland and Czechos!ovakia were placed.on a tumrcrery 13 - nation committee eta seed. by the General “As- -emb'y last December. However, the three Soviet bloc mémbers woyesited the group on _ the- ground that it had a Western ma- -lovity, and they were joined by radia and the Uniied Arab Repub- ie. \ Other members of that commit- lee are Argentina Australia, Bel- gkium, Brazil, Britain, Canada, France, Iran, Italy, Japan, Mex- ico, Sweden and the nited States. _ WON PARITY Canada, among cther countries, has been trying to work out a formula that the Russians would accept. The Russians won parity on the 10 - nation disarmament committee that will begin work in Geneva early next year, but that body was éstablished outside the UN, and few—éf any—Wes‘ern na- tions are willing to grant the So viet bloc parity on any similar committee within the UN. ft is believed that on the outer- space issue the Russians—eager to bring their initiative to a suc- cessful conclusion—ar e in a mooa ta negotiate. the member ship problem without demands of parity. That might be enough to get the show on the road. MAXIMS Error will through a crack, while truth will stick in a door. *ontaining the essential points of @ resolution for establishment of , way. 7 PUBLIC FORUM interest. The Guardian does not reses sarily eu‘orse the opinion of cerres pondents. =~ HALLOWE’EN ACTIVITIES Sir.—_I am advised that in the past years policing on-Hallowe’en | night presented a thorny prob- lem to ourselves and the other police organizaticns in this Pro- virce. Much to my pleasure this pas: October 3lst was a quiet one, with only isolated acts of vandalism being’ reported. The inclement weather and our patrols did much in discouraging the unruly, but I firmly believe that your editorials and news items touching on this matter did a great service to the public and lightened our burden. . -I take this opportunity: to ‘con- 2 | if Hi T z i i i [ | | | Z s : E zE i il ° 5 ann TT. E ° ; Fi | Z i ay EF H you to eat This, at least, is what happens when the ventromedial hypotha- lamus is functioning properly. Certain diseases or low blood sugar might cause a malfunction. Usually, though, when the ap- Ppestat gets out of order it is be cause of deliberate or habitual overeating.. OVEREATING RESPONSIBLE I think many of us have over- eaten on purpose on a few occa- sions. We become angry at someone or something and soothe our feelings by eating too much. Often a child will eat more than he should simply~to please a nag- ging mother. : If such heavy eating is con- tinued, either deliberately o> be- cause of habit, the appetite-re- gulating devicé becomes adjust- ed to a higher than normal level. Thus, you have to eat more than you actually need to satisfy your appetite and as a result you be- come overweight. , QUESTION AND ANSWER Mrs. W. T:: Is it advisable for a woman of 55 to have a vein operation?, My. veins are espec- ially bad at the ankles. Answer: Vein operations are necessary in certain types of vein trouble. Your doctor can advise |on the OBC program “The f Ee: ate EsEee jsut rarae. ath Fee sere > e track, a radiation de- tector picks up a signal from the cobalt and sets the signal me- chanism in action.—Japan News The record of the Diefenbaker Government has not been remark-, ,able for its free trading policies. True, there was that Canadian trade mission to the United King- dom, when all the talk was of i Canadian purchases . It is no longer con good taste to mention that ven- ture in Ottawa, for the fact is that nothing worthwhile came of it.—Montreal Star Every word of God is pure; he fhe Age Old Story | Part. of God's: creative plan. ~ Decking streams and country roadways 7 Laughing. winds blow through the hollows With a wild and merry shout. Shaking trees along the river Tossing all their leaves abot. ~ Drifting leaves are rich in beauty Emblems of humanity. Spreading glory of the autumn For the whole wide world to see, Peace reigns in the fertile va'leyg aa Where there’s hope and joy for all. ’ While beyond the hills and mea * dows Painted leaves of autumn fall. Nature gives the way-worn drif- i : : Peace of soul, if he believes In the Lord of life and glory Giver of the Autumn leaves. is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. , Blanche ‘Judson Summerside. : Political Persuaders Montreal Star tato practice? Or is it an - ciation of men united by bt their desire for power? Has 2 political party a duty to cate and to lead the people. should it merely follow me in their every thought Lad. been decided long ago un- til we heard Mr. Alistair Grossart, - of Progressive ' Conservative Headquariers, speaking last week educational campaign with re- gard to Hallowe'en in the years to follow. ° »- J am, Sir, ete.. « A,-E. MeNBIL, Inspector Commanding “L’’ Division Royal Canadian Mounted Prlice URGENT HOUSING NEED Sir.—I regret that many of your fine editorials receive no comment from the citizens of Charlotietown. A short time ago you wrote on housing ccenditions ard shertly afterward there appeared a fur- ther editor'al in The Patriot— both seemingly ignored. This is a problem and a pressing one, but it is being met and solved in other cities. The first need is to provide housing for young married people without fanfare and regimenta- tion—not beautifully landscaped ground\ that have no privacy, but rather small cotteges with the old ¢ fashionej] backyards and fences, since féncts make for good neigh- pours. These homes could “be built with only the kitchen and bath- rocm finished, permitting the young owner the pleasure of ad- ding to the value of his own pro- perty. In some areas today there are communities solely for couples who are retired, small comovact accommodaticns permitting them to live comfortably ~ on. their snrunken incemes and to enjcy the fellowshin of friends in their own age group. Cubby holes for young mar- ried couples, ins‘ifutions and im- personal boarding houses for their parent:, are mot signs of progress but a refusal to shoulder our re- spon-ibilities. We necd 100 small homes. Who will build ‘‘hém? aeeee I am, Sir, etc., VERNON D. CURRIE ¥ ° gratulate and thank. you and| you after an examination of your staff for. a big step in the | your condition. right direction. The pen is . ' “(From the ‘Guardian Files) TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Nov. 5, 1934) , The Daughters of the Empire Post-graduate scholarship for the Province of Prince Edward Is- land for 1935-1936 has been award- ed to Mr. Hazen Wigmore. B.A., son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wigmore of Grahams Road. Mr. Wigmore is a graduate of Mount Allison University and is at pre- sent a member. of the staff of Prince of Wales College; Char- lottetown. Rev. L.B. Campbell announced from the pulpit of Trinity United Church, Summerside, on Sunday that he had accepted a cal! of the United Church at Sydney, December Ist to teke up the pas- torate of that church. Rev. Mr. Campbell has served this pas- torate at Summerside for the past three years. TEN YEARS AGO (Nov. 5, 1949) Miss Betty King, winner of the Provincial Junior Farmers’ pub- lie speaking contest last season and Miss Miriam Waye. St. P ters, will represent Prince Ed- ward = in the rural youth public spe. competition at the Maritime Winter Fair next Tuesday afternoon. A committee to consider ways and means of erecting a new ar- tificial ice rink and possibly a ,community centre in Summer- side was appointed at a public meeting held in the Town Hall J last night and was attended by a large number. The committee. in- cides Dr. -H.E. Clark, T.De Mor- rison, Dr. J.C. Simpson, D. 0. Stewart and organization repre- ‘Charlicttetown. sentatives. King Cotton has not lost his throne to synthetic fibers. Cotton captured 65.9 per cent of the textile market in 1958. The ancient, fibér has made a steady comebatk from a slump that fol- lowed the introduction of syn- t etics like rayon. Cotton is high- 'y regarded for comfort, strength and wear resistance. : The United Staies is the world’s leading producer of cotton. Amer- ican cotton also dominates from 30 to 50 per cent of the ‘export. market. The Soviet Union and Yndia rank -second :and third in total production, but most of their cotton is used for home consumption. 5,000 YEARS OLD The ancestral plats of Gossy- pium hirsutum grew wild in the warmer parts of Asia, Africa, ana South America. Cotton was pro- bably first flomesticated in the Indus Valley’ of India about 5,000 years ago. The earliest known re ference to the plant appears in a Hindu Rig-Veda hymn written lo centuries before the birth of Christ From India, \knowledge_of cot- ton cultivation ‘spread to China r ~ Cotton Still Is King National Geographic Society and Abyssinia. Although Julius Csesar covered the Roman For- um with cotton awnings, the fi- her was not widely used in Eur- -ope until the industrial revolu- tion of the 19th century. In the New World, cotton grow- ing originated some 3,000 years #go on the west coast of South America, .The weaving and de- coration of cotton became a fine art in Peru, and the beauty oi pre-Columbian fabrics has never been surpassed. Columbus . believed he -had reached India because he founa’ cotton in the Bahama Islands. English colonists in Virginia 1n- troduced the plant from the West Indies. After the invention of the cotton gin in 1793, cotton became ‘he pillar of the South's economy. For more than 100 years, tae coastal South grew Sea Islana cotton, a form with an excep- tionally long fiber, or staple. it is nearly as soft as silk and muca. more durable. The long stapie variety is used in the manufac- ture of the finest cotton fabrics. LEADS IN PRODUCTION When the boll weéevil all but wiped out American long staple. and westward to Persia, Arabia, . cotton, Egypt aud Pera became N.S. and would be leaving 2>out : “tnat motivation research helps | gram _ offered a debate on the morality and efficacy of what is known as motivation research. This is the new science by which salesmen can maniputate or take ravantage of the subconscious tlement in human nature. Mr. Grossart was not on the side of ihe angels. RESEARCH TECHNIQUES Starting with the fairly innocu- ous statement ‘Research into iintling out, what is the will of the people is an essential func- tion of a politica: party,”” he went on to say, “Then to carry on that research—keep in constant iouch with the peopk, with their’ desires, their hopes, their aspira- “yons—so that these can be trans- lated into the kind of action which is largely legislative and execu- tive action the people want ‘sic;. ‘he use of research techniques of all kinds—I would think from tne Gallup Poll to perhaps the viher extreme, depth motivation research—the use of these tech- iiques is in my opinion a very acod way to take some of the ttaphazardness out of this, the fulfilling of the function of the political party.” Mr. Grossart seems to say that ihe desires, hopes, and aspirations of the people are constantly to govern their representatives; that tne function of a political party is to facilitate that result; and in fulfilling such a function. RURKE’S WORDS This view can best be answer- -d in the immortal words of Ea- mund Burke, who, when speeking 10 the electors of Bristol in 1774, admitted that “it ought to be the happiness and glory of a repre- the world’s chief..exporters cf quality. cotton. However, a sup- erior strain of this, type, Se Supima, hes been. develcpe: “tn. der irrigation in ‘the Arizona ac- sert. Ninety per cent of American cotton is now of the upland short staple type. Texas is the leading cotton state, with California anu M'isissippi following. Irrigatioa ts turning the Southwest into a major -eotton area. The United States Government lias imposed strict acreage con- ‘rols on cotton growing, but the yield per acre has increased. Ma- chine picking is catching up with hand picking. The American cotton crop av- crages about 15 million bales a year. Most is sold-to domestic mills, and the rest is exported to Japan, Britain and other Eure- pean nations. Men's shirts are the most important single. pro- duct of the cotton textile indus- ‘try, Japan buys more raw Améri- can cotton than any other nation. . fhe also leads the world in ex- porting finished cotton goods. In- expensive Japanese textiles pro- sentative to live in the strictest and the most unreserved com- raunication with his constituents. heir wishes ought to have great weight with.him; their opinions high respect; their business um remitted attention.” : “But,”’ and this is the funda- mental -qualification which Mr. Grossart has overlooked, “his unbiased opinion,. his mature judgment, his enlightened con: science, he oug-xt not to sacti- fice. . .to© amy man. . .your re industry ‘only but. his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serv- It is typical. of Mr. Grossart’s views that he refers to the will of the people. If government were a mere matter of will, then undoubtedly his views would be correct. “But,” as Burke said, matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination; and whdt sort of reason is that in which the determination precedes the discussion, in which one set of men deliberate and another de cide, and where those who form the conclusion are. . .distant from those who hear the argument?” THE SOFT SELL It has ‘the glory and good fortune Canada that hereto- fore her’ political parties have veen associations of men of con viction sceking to explain their beliefs in order to win support. It would be tragic if this tradi- tion were to be: replaced by the concept of a political party as a huckstering organization seek- ing a soft sell. In the past our statesmen have aeld their principles so firmly that they would resign rather than compromis, them. Are we now coming to the day in which neliticians do not know what their principles are until they have read the latest Gallup Poll? More ominous still is the re ierence to motivation research. cf logic and have entered un- avashedly into the sphere’ of the irrational. It is but a step from studying human fears and anxe- ‘'ss to manipulating them. union, the closest correspondence, . presentative owes you, not his - | ng-you_if he saerifices-it_to-your— _opinion." “government and legislation are > ¢ - For here we have left the realm ~ TOR 20 manufacturers. ee LLL BAKING SODA vide stiff competition. for aah can products, this week's Star LOOK WHAT THEY'VE DONE TO THE ‘60 CARS! Compare them all, big. small, convertibles, station wagoris. Read the impartial analysis in Weekly. on a damp cloth and wipe over all surfaces. To sweeten ice trays, wash in warm soda solution. Soda is recommended by leading