i? F-Unfortunaie Incident According to a Canadian Press story from Ottawa, an official-of the Dominion Observatory, near Victoria, B.C., has been reprimanded for de ecribing the United States Atlas space gatellite as “a rubbishy propaganda stunt.” This official, Mr. Argyle, had ‘expressed his personal view to a re- porter, and no doubt -he was remiss, in speaking so bluntly. Yet the point. he made—that the actual Atlas pay- load of less than 150 pounds was far behind the 3,000 pound payload of Russia’s Sputnik I]]—appears to be well founded. There appears also to have been gross exaggeration in the official stories from ‘WaShington, carried ‘by the Associated Press and the Canadian Press, as to the Atlas achievement. Even leading American news- Papers were fooled by this propaganda for a while, as evidenced in an editor- jal.from the Christian Science Moni-. ‘tor which we quote elsewhere on this page, and which was written by way of correction to statements previous- ly carried by the Monitor. While more . moderate in its language than Mr. Argyle, it fully substantiates his com- plaint as to the misleading compari- : gon made ‘in the Washington release. .In the cireumstances, we think that the “reprimand” incurred by Mr, Argyle should more properly have been given to those responsible for the misrepresentation, both in its @oncoction and its distribution. What- ever the motive, was the kind of propaganda that defeats its own pur- ‘Pose, and tends to throw doubt on every statement emanating from the same source. We could wish heartily that i had been otherwise—-that it had been Russian rather than Ameri- ean claims that called for correction in this case. But we must face facts, ‘and we must insist on naviay. § them from official sources. e Ironically, the Washington story broke just on the eve of the launch- ing of the Russian cosmic rocket, which is now in orbit round the sun. In this race for supremacy in the Space. age, our American neighbors May yet recover lost ground-and take the lead. But they will not do it by minimizing Communist achievements, or by exaggerating their own. Let us hope_that the-Monitor’s_rebuke_will. ] prove effective at Washington, and that we shall hear no more from Ot- tawa about Canadian, officials being “Peprimanded” for debunking false claims. N. S. Hospital Insurance: The Nova Scotia Hospital Insur- ence Plan has reportedly gotten away to a “smooth start,” with no more than the normal number of. admis- sions since it was introduced. on Jan- wary Ist. Crédit is given for this ac- hievement chiefly, to the Hospital Insurance Commission which con- ducted an extensive educational cam-. paign, informing the public just what te expect by way-of “free” hospital] services and warning against -at- tempts to, abuse the ew measure There is, ‘however, an ins f of beds and nursing personnel, And this problem is likely to be accentua- ted in the coming months. The. Pro2 Vincial Health Minister, Hon. R. A. Donahoe; has appealed to the public to use hospital services only in case of real riéed. “Those who are found 4 to have needlessly or - dishonestly taken advantage of the Plan,” he Warns, “may find, themselves person- ally responsible for their hospitaliza- tion costs in order that the rights of those for whom the Plan was design- ed may not be jeopardized.” The Plan offers in-patients beds and meals at the standard ward level, as well as necessary nursing service, laboratory, X-ray and other. specified Bingnostic | services that are medically necessary ; drugs and related prepara- tions when administered in hospital, use of operating room, case room and anaesthetic facilities, and any special treatment services available. Out- eight hours after an accident. Electrocardiograms are covered for in-patients, but not for out-patients. -except in emergencies. A large list of laboratory examinations, now free, will continue on the free list. Neither doctors’ bills nor ambul- ance services are covered by the Plan. Patients.are admitted only on appli- _cation of a doctor, and benefits couse ‘when the doctor indicates that’ hos- pital: care is no longer required, “OF the ‘Commission so ‘determines: Full hospital charges are made for routine ‘Workmen’s.Compensation Act are not eligible for the same services under “the Insurance Plan, This applies also to persons suffering from tuber- culosis or mental disease, who are al- ready provided for in most cases by the Province, There will likely be no at least. A 8-per-cent retail sales tax has been imposed to meet provincial ex- penditures under the Plan. An inten- sive publicity campaign to soften the blow has been relatively successful, heads about collection problems. ‘Twenty-six classes of articles are exempted under the tax, including rs, children’s clothing, fuels and gasoline, farm equipment ff other necessities, fishing boats, groceries | and newspapers. The 33-cent price for 20 cigarets has been boosted to 35 cents, and a5 per cent tax imposed on other tobacco products and liquor. 30 Per Cent Loss The United States Government has been taking stock of its position with respect to surplus farm pro- ducts. What it has discovered is not particularly encouraging, financially speaking. Fer the 16 months ended Oct. 31, disposal operations accounted for $4,207,000,000. That was what they cost the Federal Government. Re- ceipts from’ the sales amounted to only $2,956,000,000. Other price support expenses and income netted the Commodity Credit Corporation — the Federal agency that handles surpluses — $6 million between July .1, 19 and Oct. 31, 1958. Counting ‘this with the losses on surplus disposal, the total net loss realized on the price support pro- gram during that period was about $1,245,000,000 — about 30 per cent. Of the’ 16-month total, the report says, $3,459,000,000 worth of surplus products were actually moved into consumption at home and abroad during the fiscal year that ended last June 30. This was a drop from the record of $4,208,000,000 in commodi- ties moved in the prev ious fiscal een gr, i EDITORIAL, NOTES With a population of 92 million, “Japan is now the fifth most heavily populated country. in the world. !t ranks after Communist China, India, States, in that order. : s * si A bill to authorize paving the Al- can Highway will be introduced in the U.S. Congress sometime this month hy Democratic Senator’ Richard Neu- berg of Oregon. He estimates that the section of the road inside Canada will cost about $120 million. He suggests that each country pay half of ‘the amount needed. * * o Professor Charles Maclninis,’ ‘who is now touring Canada. in the inter- ests of the Royal Commonwealth So- ‘ciety for the Blind, was born in Cal- gary, Alberta. For many years he has been teaching at the University e is the author of sever- books. The Society of which he was ' the founder, has built more than 50 schools and training centres for the blind all over the Commonwealth. * * e It is not unusual for a woman to write a newspaper. column today, ; _ but it was 40 years ago, wheh Clara Jane Hallett started sending her copy, clearly written in longhand, to the Barnstable Patriot, Cape Cod. And, even though it is . no great distinction for a woman to write a regular column for a news- paper these days, Miss Hallett re-- journalists, for she passed the cen- tury mark last Sept. 18, and she’s still writing! Every Monday. morn- radiological examinations” as specified : by the Commission;>-X-ra treatment for cancer and hiya therapy facilities where available, also ponaaeary nursing services, and are ll to six-page column, still written in good clear longhand, arrives on ‘the desk ‘of? J. Robert Kershaw, the editor. And it’s a feature of the paper everybody peade, +... . checkups, Persons with disabilities -.eligible for hospital care under the. change in this policy for some time - but retailers ane still shaking their the Soviet’ Union and the United Le. /—~We_do not wish to detract mains way out ahead of her sister ing—regular as clockwork—her five- |—* ona cet aetna ———— GNFEl RENCE...“ ML ; wes we A a ee RESTLESS GUNS OTTAWA, REPORT “a May Visit Dawson City By Patrick Queen Elizabeth may follow the Trail of Ninety-Eight-by air when she visits. Canada this summer. The surprise and secret. high- light of her itinerary in the plan- | ning stages was a journey to Dawson City, once our largest | community west of Winnipeg, and today our most alluring museum | of pioneer glamour and roman- | tie folklore. + If this visit to the former cap- ital of the Yukon is confirmed, when the details of the Royal Tour are definitely announced— which may happen any day now | —we can take that as a sign) that this year, at long last, our | officials really intend to pay more than lip-service to the good | resolution to make a roya! tour | a real ‘‘meet-the-people’’ tour. I suppose that, as in any com | munity, there are, shirts in Daw- son City which might ome | stuffed if a demanding ‘oppor- tunity occurred. But there is cer- | tainly a highter proportion of | really soft shirts there than in most places in the world. It! could be that Queen Flizabeth | would meet the people on a! more henestiv informal basis | there than anywhere else in her | broad realms Once, in the-omalther heyday of the Gold Rush there was a miner who hired a real _ butler to look after him in his one- room shack out on the creeks But today there is. more bon- | homie than butlering there, as| Prime rime Minister John Diefenbak- —Per At the time the Atlas orhbited. this newspaper warned against complaceticy about the missile race.- We now: find to our discom- fort that we ourselves gave eredence to Sputnik-Atlas com- parisons which could feed ‘com- placency. From several sources | comes information supporting | the untavgrable comparison out- P Kined in “a. Jetter..on this page | from 4 physicist of sianding at | the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Earlier satellites had two sep- arate section$—the nose cone (containing instruments and generally called the—‘‘satellite’’) and the last stage of the rocket .which hurled the nose cone a- loft. In the latest American satel- | lite the two sections are joined and have a total weight of very nearly 4'2 tons. Unfortunately. of- | ficial announcements centered | on a comparison of this weight with. “the 1% tons of Sputnik 1 ae A ONLY. ONE PART But the 12 tons of the Sputnik comprise only ore part of the load the Soviet rocket launched in May. The last. stage of that rocket is estimated to have weighed about 3% gons. Com- paring the total- weight of \ts two sections with the one of Atlas gives a truer picture of their relative ‘ size. The “payload” comparison is still more unfay- otable to Atlas: Its instruments are said to weigh 150 pounds; Sputnik III's could reasonably run to 1,500. ee ate ain any way from the genuine ach- | ievement represented in the Atlas Jaunching. But we do feel it is vital that the people shauld | be accurately informed. And the | whole effect of the Atlas publici- ty has been to create the im- pression that the United States had closed the gap in the missile race and even gone ahead. This is an untrue and extremely dan- gerous view. Should it persist, the public and the coming Con- gress might fail to press for the greater effort which was clearly seen as urgent a year ago—and | erities to call Dawson City | son. Mrs , the . fanned into brilliant fire of revo Nicholson er discovered on his visit to the Yukon last Spptember. And for a really interesting, simple and in. | forma! stop-over on a coast-to-. coast tour of Canada. it woull> be impossible to find a better choice than dear, dead, dreamy and dramatic Dawson City. GHOSTS STILL~ LIVE It is fashionable but wrong. for a ghost town. Part of the appea! | of Dawson is not merely that it! was the scene of the world’s most | famous treasure hunt, but that / men and women who took part in-that costlyr and demanding gold pt gg alive in Daw-; and still panning for gold out on the creeks. It would not be an unreason- able guess that the proposal to take the Queen there hadi its or- igin in the pleasure and interest | * which our Prime Minister and Diefenbaker derived from their recent visit to that. still-| beating heart of the old Yukon. The Queen will find that hu | man beings live longer than the palaces made of green lumber. The storied dance halls and sa-| loons have nearly all burned! down or toppl over. The Red Feather saloon §till stands; but) its owner now sells old iron | stead of old Scotch. The Auili- torim still stands. rather totter- inglv. across the road from the derelict Post Office which leans more than Pisa’s Tower. But) even that scené of former revel- ry and carefree _spendi ing is not spective On Missiles i Christian Science Monitor ° sile development § supports the | report that 300 Russian long- | range missiles will be operation- al in from 12 to 18 months * We are hardly less concerned | about another phase of the blast- - boxes at the dance halls. Daily Shower A Good Tonic WANT to be a business's cess? Then take a shower every morning. , 2 HESS i - os As a real morning pepperupper, I suggest a combination basking type of bath and a shower. First, fill the tub with warm to almost hot water. as it Was. The stage where the Floradoras of the Yukon danced the.CanCan now bears the grim | text: “Go ye hence, and sin no more” which, as one distinguish- ed visitor commented, cannot -have been part of the -original decorations. THE FOUR HCNDRED Dawson onée housed 50,000 gold-hungry prospectors and their hangers-on. Today Dawson is home to a mere 400 adults, many of them “Old Timers’, some of them proud members of the “Yukon Order of Pioneers’, and al! of them more proud to | belong to Datwson than if they were numbered among New York's famous “Four Hundred’. Some Dawsonites, those that remain of Robert Service's ‘moil- ers for gold."’ still own claims on the gold creeks and live in ca- bins there. Others wear store clothes and use church I Bat among the most memor- able meetings of her six weeks’ | tour of Canada, there will be talks with ‘“‘Jerusalem Joe’ and ‘Biack Mike’’ Wenage. who were part of the great Yukon Gold) Rush: talks with “Zume’’ Cor- bett, once the bride for whom three lonely gold-miners gamb- | let; talks with Alex Adams, who | } came to the Yukon to entertain | the rich miners with his stage) dancing. and who tells of $30- perdottle parties in the select Maybe too the Queen will thrill to the accounts of the even richer strikes being made near Daw- son today. by oil prospectors And we can be sure that what- ever memories the Queen -takes | away from Dawson, stuffed-shir- ted protocol will not "be among them. confidence in American missile _eapability is a good thing. But building on @ false foundation is never good. Exaggerated claims can create a dangerous false confidence, And when the exag | gerations are expose. distrust results—at home and = abroad. Such weaknesses characterize totalitarian manipulation of in-| | ating energetically. | to try again. He now had support | him as a-‘““Communist brigand.” -their only began the financing and age Of Cuba. This proved important. | Many | figure to many,’ and idealist who | Off of Atlas publicity. We cannot | formation. Reasonable require- prove that there was a deliberate | ments of military secrecy give effort to deceive in official state-| even free governments control ments about the Atlas. But cer-| of much information. This fact tainly they created a misiead-| redoubles the need for scrupul- ing impression and we saw no} ous avoidance of any effort to official effort to correct it propagandize their own people. Some may argue that treating Only truth 1 serve freedom. / . ® “ Castro’s Achievement » By William L. Ryan Associated Press, Havana ‘Fidel Castro tista army's Moncada barracks forged Cuba's | popular revolution in the hot} | flame of hatred for a dictator. After five vears of bitter re- verses and frustrations, the rebel | chieftain succeeded even when the-outside world may haye been | justifiesi in believing that vet an- other disastrous failure was star ing him in the face: What brought about this swift change in thefortunes of the! bearded young, man of 32 who darted from: the mountains of | eastern Cuba to-push dictator | president Fulgencio Batista into climactic debacle of New Year's Day? PROVED MORE STUBBORN Basically it was a matter. of) two strong personalities locked in | a stubborn struggle. Castro) proved the stronger and more: stubborn of the two, but he could | not have done it if Batista bad | not helped defeat himself. Graft and corruption have’ marked Cuban regimes for years. A repressive and often wantonly cruel dictatorial regime produc ed- glowing resentment which Castro lution. Castro. accomplished - his goal | by persistently nakging, harass- | ing and -baiting Batista into long series pf furiously rash acts. These led inevitably to Batista’s downfall and nious flight to the protecting arms of a fellow dictator in the rn na Repub- in Santiage de Cuba. Oriente Province in eastern € uba | | where the rebel leader was born. That attack failed. Castro was captured and sentencel to years in prison. Then Batista made a miscal- culation. Realizing the bitterness he had created among those Cub- capital of | Santiago -15' with hidden arms. in other provinces numbered 8,- 000-to 10,000. It was enough for | ans who dreamed of a respect-| able form of constitutional demo- | eracy, he proclaimed an amnesty | for political prisoners. Castro, among those set free, went to Mexico to plot with fel-— low Cuban exiles against ‘Batista. NOT ENOUGH Batista: failed to legalize him- “self. The opposition withdrew amt | he remained unopposed. He re-| mained an unconstitutional ruler. Not all the showy public works he planned, not all the handsome roads he built, not all the foreign could overshadow two facts: Cubans were ruled by a dic- tator who gave no freedoms: and Batista’s followers and family amassed ‘fortunes at public ex- pense. On Dec. 2, 1956, Castro landed in Oriente Province from Mexico with 8] of his Cuban exile fol- lowers. Batista forces wiped out all but Castro and 11 others. Batista considered the threat over. But Castro, with his hand- ful of ragged refugees, hid out in the rugged Maestra Mountains, }~ MANY TESTS “Not anly does the Atlas satel- lite compare unfavorably with Sputnik HT; there ts accumula- ting ‘evidence that the Soviet has tested many more rockets than has the United States. Its’ ou lead in several aspects. of mis- adit lie. STARTED AT 277 Castro's long uphill and seem- | ingly ee crusade began July 26, 1953—and his movement from then on was named for that date. Then as a yqung lawyer of ~~? he led an attack on the Be- wen their confidence. They at- tracted new followers. Little by litte, a trickle of ‘arms and am- munition seeped in by séa. SECOND TRY « By the spring of 1957 Castro, with about 500 men, was | | investment he attracted to Cuba | | _ civihans so drain out the water quickly, Then turn the shower to mod- erately warm and stand under it for a minute or two. Finally, turn the water to cool, get a good dousing and then rub yourself dry briskly with a thick towel. BRIGHTER OUTLOOK No matter what the weather is outside, I think you will have a much brighter outlook after a morning ‘bath and shower such as _this. Even in cold weather this com- bination will help make -you feel warm and cozy. A cool skin, remember, helps keep the bodyywarm. We wan to keep the body heat inside where it will keep things oper- And don't worry about catch- ing cold if you go outside after in Havana for his sabotage and harassment campaign. But many setbacks lay ahead. First, ]00 of his supporters were wiped out in a daring at- tack on the presidential palace in | Havana after penetrating all the way to Batista’s private apart- ment. Calls for revolutionary strikes throughout Cuba failed, one after another. By September of 1987 re had about 1.000 er around him. Batista fed ot ‘| man now inare bioyce nthe ie i F z : AlieLt women 35 at the mountains will not. themselves for another 10 He | million’. years, — St. Catherines a : A blind man and o The paralyzed man sits liv front and steers, while the blind man takes the ‘rear seat and pedals. fast or slow according to the in- structions of. his companion. Pol- ce say they are the safest com- bination on the road.—Corriere Della Serra, Milan Certainly the content af Wes- “tere: ideology is likely to be al- ered greatly in coming years by the tremendous impact of the Communist rem, If we don't want to be the dark about much of ads eee against the unknown to preserve our free way of life—we should equip our- selves for. accurate study of the rival system ‘and for accurate interedurse with its people.—Van-" couver Province East Germany is on sput- nik binge. Communist “authori- ties have cautioned against over- doing tribute te Russian ‘“‘scien- tific. supremacy” by naming. ev- erything from new gardening ‘mplements to necklace charms “sputnik.”” The Leipzig trade fair, it was pointed oit, listed 325 separate items by a “sputnik’’ trade mark. It is ridiculous for example, Red authorities said, to name a mouth organ “Sputnik.” —Volksgeitung Leipzig. taking a bath. That's a lot of nonsense. QUESTION AND ANSWER T.. L.: What is the choice of treatment for patients with gas-. tric’ cancer? Answer: At present, the treat- ment for all patients'with can- cer in any site is limited to sur- gical or radiation therapy. ; However, it is reported that the only adequate treatment for pa- tients with gastric lesions is sur- gical therapy, since these lesions do not respond to irradiation. The Age Old Story With ene mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lerd Jesus Christ. : SONG AT MIDNIGHT What, sound as soft as snowfall In the United States rich exiled Cuban politicians. all enemies of | Batista. took notice. Castro was hope of going home. They smuggling of arms to the Oriente. | Castro was soon strong enough to send guerrillas into Las Villas Province, lying across the waist in Batista’s forces were eager to defect CIVILIANS KILLED js | Batista now-macde-another-mis-+_ The _steeple's twelve-domed mid- | take, sending planes and tanks to | batter rebel positions in, the city, mercilessly, without regard for Many were killed in this first big battle of the revolu- | tion. ia Castro became a glamorous fought the tyrant and-helped the “oppressed> Bre Midsummer 1958 brought the pact of Caracas, a crucial tura- ing point. Representatives of about 15 anti-Batista organiza- tions in Cuba -met to sign’ an agreement supporting Castro. Castro hecame strong enough to simpose taxes on the sugar indus- ‘try. Abread, Cuban. exiles col- lected hundrels of thousands of dollars, Castro already has a sort of mobile government controlling most of Oriente and isolating BUILT. FIFTH COLUMN In Havana rebels patiently built a fifth column 5,000 strong Castro's force , in the New’ York Times have I heard? The sound, berhaps, latch Too faint for alien ears to catch; The click of tongue that kills a word of sullen Before the word is there: The churning hiss a wind would) make { On clutching leaves a docile rake | Has cornered with excessive care But .now, suspended in the air- night cry! It fails to drown the clinging sigh That swims in stillness on the stair: ~ George Murray foie PT "we must hear as well as we may tee news ‘that Russians have. agreed to se guitars in return fer £10,000 worth. of razor blades. In this Particular swap, the suspicion that Russia is getting the better | of the hargain refuses to be stif- led. Ten thousand cheap guitars placed in the ‘hands of militant youth, which has adopted the in- strument as its*symbol and its favorite, represept an awful lot of noise. — Tames Weekly Re- view lon. *” -OUR YESTERDAYS (From The Guardian Files). TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Jan. 6, 1934) Mr. Ralph Parsons, Winnipeg Fur Trade Commissioner of the Hudson's Bay Company, is pay- -ing a visit to the Province. Mr. ‘Parsons reports a -genera! im- ‘the points of volume received, quality of products and prices paid. He was unwilling, however; to make any statement with re gard to market prospects, state - ing that there were toe many ‘in- fluences existing at the present time. - A serious fire took place at Hampton Corner on Thursday night when the large general store of Morrison and Co. was completely destroyed by fire. Neighbors gathered and worked strenuously im zero weather te save the other buildings. The to- tal loss. including building and stock, is estimated between $.- 000 and $5,000. TEN YEARS AGO (Jan. 6, 1949) A meeting of the Public Ut- ities Board was held in O'Leary Wednesday. Trainor, L.B. ae and W. R. Brennan were p to meet with the resiients of O'Leary; Knutsford and adjoining areas to . discuss the application from the Champion Electric Co. for a re- of discontinuing the service. Wing Commander _G.R.F. Gross whose appointment to command the R.C.A.F_ station. Summer- side. was announced last October, arrived in Summerside last eve- ning to assume command. He succeeds Squadron Leader W.C. Langstaff. who has been, com- manding officer at Summerside for the past two years, andi who now leaves to take up duties at Ottawa. : MAXIMS . Hf it is not right, do not ‘if it is not true, de not de it; say it, [| I ' Hii; well as a legal right \|||| moderate speed; il DRIVE EFULLY. This aim i will bring ‘eliel from HI homes. LP HYNDMAN i hard-hitting guerrilla warfare. Castro baited Batista into his final big mistake. The 26th of July forces drove deep into Santa Clara. The rebels made it appear they intended to occupy its cities. Batista always boasted he could crush the rebels in an open | fight. He gambled, throwing everything he had into a payoff offensive in Las Villas. A bitter battle raged through Christmas week. Government announce. merits made it appear that the rebels at last were on. the run— and indeed the rebels themselves conceded setbacks. HAD TO WIN Castro could afford to lose and retreat, but Batista hai to win quickly or sacrifice support ‘in- side his own military establish- ment. Casualties sustained in an offensive battle could be enorm- ous. Suddenly Batista decided that while he might hold on for some ime. the rebels would never give up. With each mistake, he made enemies. 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