E “The strongest memory is weaker than P the weakest ink.” PAGE 4 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER, 14, 1959. Leadership From Canada The report_on the increase in the average amount of strontium 90 in Canadian milk, as given by Mr. Mon- teith, the Minister of National Health and Welfare, need- create no alarm. But, as the Ottawa Citizen points out, it leaves no room for complacen- cy_either.. It reinforces the argu- ments in favor of a prohibition of nuclear tests, and it strengthens the proposal made to the United Nations ~by Mr. Green, Canada’s external af- fairs minister, for a world-wide study of radiation. } the average radioactive content im milk was 14.7 millionth curies per gram of calcium against 13.1 during the preceding six months. This is far short of even the lowest “maximum permissible level” of 67. And this figure, as the Minister pointed out, refers to lifetime consumption; that is, one would have to drink milk con- : ino ne HerioOg anvary ne -- throughout one’s lifetime to build up in one’s body a harmful concentra- . tion. C4 Yet the public mind is bound to remain uneasy even if nuclear tests are not resumed. The strontium 90 content in milk may .not be suffi- : cient to warrant construction of plants designed to remove the ma- terial (a successful method to do this has been developed by Canadian government scientists), but a sharp watch on the reported increase should be maintained. The Govern- ment should not hesitate to require the removal of strontium 90 if this seems at all necessary. Undoubtedly the increase through- out Canada is a direct result of nu- clear explosions set off last fall. No , tests have been reported since then; and the present temper of the great powers leads one to hope that this situation may continue indefinitely. But it is highly. desirable that the world-wide investigation into the ex- tent of radiation pollution of the at- mosphere -and of the soil, food and ‘other agricultural products, as pro- posed by Hon. Mr. Green, be launch- ed without delay. Many of the smal- ler powers are ready to co-sponsor Mr. Green’s resolution, and to fol- low Canada’s lead in this matter be- cause they know we haye no axe to grind. If the resolution came from a great power they might be suspicious as to its motives. Rocket Race Prospects How soon will the United States catch up, with Russia in the race to explore space? According to the New York Times, there is no knowledge- able official in Washington so rash as to give a flat answer. There are too many imponderables, such as the level of financial support and of- ficial interest at home and the rate of technological progress in the So- Viet Union. : The third anniversary of the space age a year from now, says the Times ‘writer, will probably see the United States still in second place; but -eigh- teen months to two years later it should match past spectacular feats by the Soviet Union and be hopefully pulling into the lead. If the U.S. is to _ be relegated to second place for at least ‘another year, it is because, quite literally, it does not have the thrust to move out front. Each Soviet feat In space—from the first man-made satellite launch- ed on Oct. 4, 1957 to the moon-loop- ping Lunik III—has tended to re- _ emphasize a basic and controlling fact in the space race. This that the. Soviet Union, with a four or five - year head start, possesses more powerful rockets and therefore is able to place bigger payloads in space th greater accuracy. Until the U.S. such rockets, it has litt® thing the U.S. scientists refuse to guess. This fact has political implications ‘which the American people are now for office, but “his administration must take responsibility for this hu- miliating drop to second place in Tocket development, and it will be surprising if its opponents will not make it a major issue in the next campaign. In history’s longer per- spective, it may rank as an even worse blunder—comparable to the Cham- berlain government’s unpreparedness after. Munich. In this case, let us hope, the. prize to be sought will not be world conquest but scientific gains, pure and simple. “A “England Belongs... Writing from London, Judith Ro- binson in the Toronto Telegram tells how effectively Prime Minister Mac- millan dealt with the Labor slogan, “England belongs to-you”, in his last television appearance in the British election campaign. We shall: let Ju- dith tell it in her own words: | _“He ended by picking up—Labor’s election slogan and returning it punc- tured and>shrunken. He liked the slogan, Mr. .Macmillan sail but it was not quite good enough because it was not quite true. - ‘England belongs tous all, yes, but England belongs to more than ourselves.’ *Then came the old words |__taining this Jevel_ofstrontium—99—| about England being jointly owned: a partnership of the living and the dead and those yet to be born. “ ‘England does not belong to us,’ Harold Macmillan said. ‘We are trustees, not owners.’ “A sound as of floating votes pul- ling for the shore filled the silence after that.” EDITORAL NOTES. The refugee ministry at Bonn reports that since the beginning of last year 108 members of the faculty of the University of Leipzig—half of them from the school of medicine— have fled into West Germany. This is one news item the Communist net- works won’t broadcast. * ¢ @& According to evidence pouring in- to the U.S. House subcommittee on legislative oversight, millions of Americans have been fooled and gul- led by TV quiz-show performances that were as phony as the fifth ace in a stacked pack. According to the Christian Science Monitor, this couldn’t have happened under the Canadian or British system, where there is state responsibility for main- taining competitive program stand- ards. » © © iL PUBLIC FORUM This column ts open to the discus sion by correspondents of question c. interest. The Guardian does, not neses sarily ex‘orse the opinion of corres pondents. INFORMATION SOUGHT Sir,—This writer would like to correspond with any of the de- cendants of. Mr. John MacKenzic | land his wife Catherine McLeod, | Wao came to this Iclard from ithe Isle of Skye in August 13839. Would like to know the name of the vessal, name of the captain and number on-board. These peo- ple each had brothers with them, but I wish to know the name of < sister of one of them who maerri- ed a Mr. MacSwain id Arzyl< Shore. Her granddaughter, Mrs. White is in Toronto. Only thre cf the grandsons now remzin of the old couple: Dr. A.D. MacKen- zie,, McGill Ave., Charlottetown; his brother, A.R. MacKcazie iz Hartsville and this writer. Thre- granddaughters are in the States. I am sure that someone can te!! me whose son Donald MacKonz! Of Wallace, N.S., was. Pleace g'vc" ithe name of the father, of the | Junction Road, (now Glen Valley |MacKenzies. He was a brothe- of the old immigrant. We wish to make up as mear as possible a complete record. A am Sir, etc., J.A. MACKENZIE Kensington. ORGANIZATION OF LOCAL 321 “A” SOURIS Sir, — Last April representa- jtives of the Canadian Brother- jhood of Railway Transport and ‘General Workers, visitgd Souris iwith the object of forming a loc- al. After making contact with some employees, it was decided to call a meeting of the workers | of Souris, to determine the ad- | visability of forming an organiza- tion of the employees of certain companies operating in Souris. fhe first meeting was held in the | Canadian Legion Hall at Souris with an attendance of some thirty | to thirty-five employees. After The editor of the Minonk (Illin- deesn’t make sense. Time and again them mixed up, too. So I give up. In the future when I send you our mis- sionary society write-up, please don’t print it.” : os * * An electronic brain, the size of an office desk, and located in Ottawa, will process all Federal income tax returns filed by Ontario wage own- ois) News Despatch received this , letter, which he published Without. | ceal be formed at Souris. comment: “Dear Editor Denson: | Every time I send you a write-up | about our missionary society meet- of the Province of Prince Edward ing, you get it all balled up so it | Island. All manner of questions | jand cons, .in connecticn with thi- I’ve sent in corrections, but you get |cTganization, and the question |were answered in a very capab!c ers next Spring. The new operation is described as a “pilot plant’; if successful, all returns from 29 dis- trict offices in Canada will be hand- led there. The first experiment will remove the tax return processing load from the 11 Ontario district taxation offices. More than 2,000,000 ratepayers or about 40 per cent of the Canadian total reside in Ontario. * * * The United Arab: Republic is still trying to argue that the Suez canal question must be settled as part of a general Arab-Israeli agree- ment. But the history of the Pales- ‘tine issue suggests no such thing. Nasser took the canal from the British and French; and he was sav- ed by the United Nations from suf- fering a serious military defeat— saved on the assumption that he would open the canal to the shipping of all nations. He haS refused to do so, and the loans he is now seeking frum the U.N. should be refused until Israel—like all other nations— ; some discussion by the represen- tatives of the C.B.R.T, and G.W. it was decided by vote that a All proceedings were conducted jin a very domocratic ‘and according to the Labor Ac‘ |- | were asked concerning the pros and satisfactory manner. I wish to make it clear, that in order to have our organization certified, it was necessary to have fifty per. cent plus one of the employees of any one company paid up members in gocd standing. We were not satisfied with such: a slim margin at that time, and decided to have a membership of seventy-five percent, in order 'to have a safe working majority. iand consequently no question as to certification. Needless to say it was difficult to comprehend the hostile atti- tude cf matiagement toward our movement. They attempted to set up within their companies, locals which would be under the jurisdiction of management, and attempted to set the monthly dues at one dollar. Had the compgnies attempted to set up a company union at any time previous, we would perhaps have accepted the move, but on the other hand when they attempted to organize after we had organized, we could only accept their move as a direct attempt on their part to discour- age,our desire to organize. Sure- ly no sane company would desire to take away from their employ- ees their just right to onganize within the law. ; Now I wish to point out that the C.B.R.T. and G.W: is a na- tional organization and one hund- red per cent Canadian. It has no connection whatsoever with any international organizations. We have in Canada today a un- ion which docs not constitute a Legal Organization, namely The Seafarers’ International Union. Simply for the right to. work his trade, a seaman required to pay seventy-five dol- lgrs for a permit to work. Frequently, seamen have had+ to purchase two of these a year. icf Britain's | finguished judges Although deal- ling with conditions in Britain, it iis of substantial significance to |} and monetary systems stem from menner, |* ther voice or vote, nor the right to attend meetings. Membership - has full access to the waterway. Hin addition. he pays four dollars OTTAWA REPORT Bank Of Canada Status THE SHADOW SPOILS THE SMILE By Patrick Nicholson It may surprise many Cana- dians to learn that in 1934 our Parliament ordained that the prime function of the Bank of | Canada should be to regulate roney and credit in the best in- terests of the eccnomic life of our country, end to use monetary pol- icy to level cut fluctuations: in employment_ard prices. Surely, many readers will pro test, it is the responsibility of the federal government to. mitigate the swiggs of the economic pen- culum, to give us the optimum steady prosperity in place of the alternation of boom end bust? Surely the supreme authority in pelicies tending to maximise jobs must be the federal government? Some functions. of the Bank msy be anachronistic today. What seemed to our Parliament to be apvropriate in 1934 may be unwise in today’s conditions of | clescr control of the national ec- | enomy in every country. NEW TIMES—NEW IDEAS Shou'd the Bank act as an in- dependent monetary master, free to operate as it sees fit? Or would it serve Canada better as an ex- tension of the Department cf Fi- nance, aiding the imolementation | cf the economic policies of the government? More up-to-date than those de liberations of Parliament a quar- ter of a century ago is the report en “The working of the Mone tary System’’, published last month by the Radcliffe Commit- tee in Britain. That revert re- flects two vears of study by some leading econowmists, industrialists and union leaders, under the chairmarsh'p cf a dis- us, because cur parliamer‘ary the British medel. The Radcliffe Committee does not envisege the central bank as an independent monetary rudder for the ship of state. On the con- per month plus any assessments which may be' imposed. (In 1953 ‘aesessments totalled forty dollars) However,. none of these pay- ments makes the seaman a mem- ber. Up to this point he has néi- is only granted at the discre\ion of S.1.U. officers and then, only after a man has held a permit for eighteen months, Only about one third of the §.I.U’s Cana- dian ‘‘membership” \are actually full members. From the above figures, we can see that even before a seaman: is considered’ for membership in the seafarers’, he must have paid a minimum of one hundred and sixty three dollars into the un- jon. Still, he has not finished pay- ing. When he is finally approved for membership, he must pay a ‘twenty-five dollar initiation fee as well. Now in contrast let us take into consideration the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Trans- port and General Workers. On filling our application cards we pay an initiation fee of three dol- lars, and furthermore we are not asked t6 pay any additional dues or fees until we have ob- tained a contract’ with manage- ment,’ and following such a. con- tract we will pay as monthly ducs three dollars ger month, end I may add that in seasonal employment we do\not have to pay any dues, unless our work- ing time is sixty hours or over. If under sixty hours the National Office will carry us through the unemployment period. Surely no- thing could be fairer. 7 I would ask management to ponder the fact that we are not a little bunch of Hoffas or are we in any way connected with avy international movement, or Communist . ideas, But, on the other hand we are honest labor- ers striving within the law, to determine our own desti and working conditions within the law > on citizens of this 2 inion of Canada. I am Sir, etc. : D. F. CHEVERIE President, Local 321 “A”, Souris, \ trary, it insists that “‘the policies pursued by the central bank must be from first to last in harmony with those avowed and defended by Ministers of the Crown respon- sible to Parliament.” Monetary policy, asserts the committee, is part of the country’s economic policy as a whole, and must be planned as such. CHANGES INDICATED In other words, the Governor of a central bank should serve as a specialist adviser to his Minister ef Finance. But under the pres-. | ent system in Ottawa, the Gov- ernor ig entirely independent and meonetiry policy of the central bank is not co-ordinated by the government. How different from that ideal as outlined by the Radcliffe Re- port, and as long envied by many bankers and by politicians of all parties here, has been the lack ef harmonious co-operation be tween our governments and the Benk over the past five years. Many Liberals deplore what they regard as the damaging -~d unnecessary tight money policy imposed) by the Bark in 1955. r é |; Yet Bank Governor Coyne, re- i fusing to recognize anything less then “tighter” money as being tight,’ last year asserted in his annual report that “there has ne- ver been a tight money policy in Canada in the past 23 years”. Finance Minister Donald Flem- ing immediately rebuked him for his definition of tight money, which “differs from the meaning commenly attached to the exores- sion by the public’. Mr. Flem- ing added that “the government fully subscribes to a sound mon- ey policy, and in keeping with that view has sought deliberat- ely to bring about an easing of the tight money condition.” ‘ Transport Minister George Hees went further, accusing the Gov- érnor of political partisanship in last- year’s general election. He was reported as saying that the Governor’s report was ‘a be- loted attempt to help the Lib- eral Party”. Maybe the time has come for a serious review of the status of the Bank of Canada. For, in a democracy, the ultimate sanc- tion of a government shou'd be the vote of the people, not the decision of one appointed official. The Age Old Story Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. z- < é w oe ° ix) on their origin them, if yon have been unable to hear for a considerable length of time. Actually, you may have to re- learn certain sounds. No doubt you will be disturbed ty many background noises. You will hear too much. And much of what you don’t want to hear will be irritating to you at first, until you realize that—everyone hears the same background sounds. Like everyone else, you will, at first, have to concentrate on the sounds you want to hear, Ev- entually they will predominate. Ard, although your aid won't be able to block out what you Gon’t Want to hear, your mind will. Tuning a hearing aid is a maj- or problem for all those using one for the first time. DON’T HIDE AID Don't try to hide the fact that you have an aid. Instead, ask, your friends to help you adjust to the new device. Re- quest them to speak in normal voices so ®you can experiment with the sound controls in order to ‘adjust to the most complete range possible for each type of voice. ; I also suggest that you listen intently—really pay attention to what the speaker is saying. If you do, you'll probably hear and digest much more of what is be- ing said than most of us who have normal hearing... QUESTION AND ANSWER. R. S.: What is pityriasis and why is it hard to distinguish it from ring worm? What can be done for it? Answer: Pityriasis ‘is a self limited disease and usually dis- 2ppears in a weck or two. Ring- worm usually does not disappear taneously and requires treat- ment. r OUR YESTERDAYS (From the Guardian Files) TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Oct. 14, 1934) Col. U.G. Dawson and Mrs. Dawson were the guests of hon cur on Friday evening at the home of the Colonel’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Dawson, Be- deque, when the citizens of Be deque and neighbouring commun- ities gathe-ed to bid them .fare- well and «od luck on the eve of their @evarture to Charlotte- town where they will in future reside, The S.S. Gaspesia, which safl- ed Friday morning for Anticosti Island, put back into port at Summerside due to the severe storm. The S.S. Eviva, with 60 puncheons cf molasses for Sunr merside, is taking shelter in Pic- tou Harbour until the storm a- bates. ' TEN YEARS AGO (Oct 14, 1949) The first meeting of the ad- visory board of the Maritime Di- vision of the Canadian Institute for the Blind was hejd at the Charlottetown Hotel last night. Mr. G.F. Foster, manager of the Charlottetown, presided. Present at the meeting were Mayor B. Earle MacDonald, Col. A. Rog- ers, Lorne Noonan, Leg F. Mac- Donald and Judge St. Clair Trainor, : The recently formed Montague Lions Club is slated to hold its charter night on Monday, Oct- ober 17, at the Curling Club. Dis- WHY DO TEENAGE MARRIAGES FAIL? This question {s of growing importance as \ “A more and more Canadian youngsters rush into marriage. How can they be helped to a suc- cessful life partnership? Read the important article in this week’s Star Weckly. Debentures a \ e om | % Canada Permanent \ Debentures FOR TERMS ‘OF 1 TO 5 YEARS bearer in arfounts of $100 and upwards. Authorized for the investment of trust funds. - Call or write for Debenture folder. CANADA PERMANENT \ MORTGAGE CORPORA HYNDMAN & COMPANY LIMITED Charlottetown, Summerside and Montague, P.E.I. “Over a Century of Service to Canadians”, \ issued in registered form or payable to ON Saint John, N. B. ioallliilieciaaiieinet gn z REE i R —o If a bird appears to stop for breath,. that is in the character of its song or the kind of notes it produces,and no- body—not even an ornithologist or a singer—can detect the mys- tery behind the bird’s song.”— The Listener, BBC Almost every day — as the squabble over integration con- tinues—new indications appear that the American Civil War was enly half-won. That war was ini- tiated over the slavery issue, but fought (according to Abraham Lincoln himself) for the main purpose of preserving the Union. The Union, has been preserved, but the slavery issue lingers.— Vancouver: Province Fishermen in Newfoundland wa- ters have noted that young sea- gulls are rarely seen this year. The scarcity could be the result of starvation, says L.M. Tuck, federal wildlife biologist at St. john’s. Last year there was a high mortality rate among young gulls caused apparently by the failure of caplin and squid to put in the usual appearances in the sea off Newfoundland. The fed- eral biolagist believes the same thing would have happened this year.—Cape Breton Post Egyptian. ‘ president. Nasser’s changeable political affiliations are responsible for sending 60 Arab students to Canada instead of Russia. With the United Arab republic and the Kremljn on the outs just now, ideological pres- sure in the Russian universities was not acceptable, Canadian un- iversitites came to the rescue. Each: offered to take vhat Arabs they could place and their re presentatives are now-in Cairo assigning the students. This should give Canada a chance to reveal our Western type of de- mocracy to the visitors.—London Free Press MAXIMS He who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client. trict Governor Salter Innis will present the charter to the Mon- sored by the Moncton Club, a4 THE EASTERN TRUST COMPANY 154 Richmond Street BRANCHES: ACROSS CANADA hie : tague Club which is being spon- Pe an Oe man nonchalantly . an expensive restaurant, sat at the first vacant table, unwr. a package and laid _sandwich before him, and rea over to. the carafe and pour- ed himself a glass of water. The mana; ruched over to re- monstrate with him. ‘‘Who are you?” he was asked. “I’m the manager,” he replied. “J the man I want to see,” the charac- ter told him. Why isn’t the or- chestra playing” — Vancouver | Sun ‘ Fe It has often been suggested that we should live dangerously. . The man who wants to live that way is already half sick of his. life. Nor is there anything orig- inal in danger. Every mcuse lives in the utmost danger from the moment it cpens its baby eyes~- until the moment ib closes them forever. Every lamb and rebbit and little gray goat lives all its life within instant reach of vicl- ent death: and, after all, is there anything in the world braver than a flea? It will bite anything.—. 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