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I Furthermore, Mr. Kennedy said, if there is not a test ban agreement with the Soviet Union this year, then “perhaps the genie is out of the bottle and we will never get him back in.” In other words. the arms race will be uncontrollable. This statement almost coincided with the meeting between President Kennedy and ‘Prime Minister Pear- son at Hyannis Port last weekend, at which were “swept away”, accord- ing to a Canadian Press report, “the dark clouds of Canada-United States discord and a way opened for arm- ing Canadian Bomarcs and other weapons with nuclear warheads." A high US. official is reported as say- ing later: “We’re going to get the birds’ nests out of the Bomarcs." Getting the nuclear test genie back into the bottle strikes us as being vastly more important than getting the birds’ nests out of the Bomarcs. And the appalling thing is that the President of the United States is so pessimistic about the former prospect, however hopeful he may be about the latter. And since actions speak louder than words, we are even more perturbed about the fact that the United States is pre- paring to resume above-ground nuc- lear testing at Nevada this month. This action, according to a Wash- ington despatch, is in the nature of a calculated risk, based on the as- sumption that Russia will ignore it and continue to participate in the 17-nation test ban talks at Geneva, however dim the prospects for agreement may be. But this doesn’t jibe with the forecast about the genie and the bottle, which would seem to imply the likelihood of the Soviets stomping out of the confer- once, denouncing the US. for bomb- rottling, and announcing a new test series of their own. ' Whatever the Soviet intentions may be, President Kennedy’s words, and his government’s course "of action, seem likely to give aid and :icomfort to those who wish nothing mono than that the West cease at- ‘ ‘lllnptlng to work out an agreement III the test ban issue. The President jmy be feeling an understandable ‘ tion over the long-drawn-out inconclusive negotiations. but was a blunder in statesmanehlp A i ' i The Sludenl Problem show it on he has done. In spite of that well-known poet- ” population explosion, it may .{pfll be hard to believe that in ten macadamuldtrlpiothow . infinity eminent that took all 7 - history to achieve. Yet , " in: what is happening. With .4». serious m the united States as u: is in Canada. It will involve more expansion in educational facilities, more and better graduate schools to train the needed teachers and better salaries to keep them in the country. Also, it focuses more at- tention on the problem of utilizing to better advantage the facilities now available. This gives point to an article in the magazine section of the New York Times on the need for a re- vision of the university calendar if the universities of this. continent are going to make the best use of their facilities and, without exorbit- ant cost, be able to absorb the ris- ing tide of students which has been forecast for the next decade. Under this arrangement the ac- ademic year would run from Sept. 10 in the one year to August 10 in the next. There would be a three- week vacation period at the end of the first two terms and a four-week holiday at the end of the third. It would deny' students the financial rewards of summer employment, but this would be more than made up for through earlier graduation (and earlier earning ability) to pay. off loans. The system would enable stud- cuts to chop a year off the time now spent in taking a BA or a Bachelor of Science degree and would chal- lenge them to greater initiative in their work to achieve this desirable goal. At the same time, allowance would be made for slower learners who might not be able to keep up this accelerated pace. Not all educationists may agree that this is the best means of re- vising the university calendar. It may work better in some situations than in others. But the recom- mendations contained in the con- cept of a three-year term are at least worth careful study. Road Safety Recipe According to the Travellers In- surance Companies, an American organization, the principle canse of automobile accidents is not the car or the roadbut the person behind the wheel. The driver "passes" on a hill, drives after drinking, refuses to yield the right of way. pushes on when tired, or loans his car to a teen-ager unimpressed with the re- sponsibilities of driving. 0n the other side of this picture, a safety research and education project at Teachers College, Colum- bia University, has come up with an interesting description of what makes a safe driver. Reviewing not only the driving habits but also the personal lives of more than 2,000 professional drivers with long no- accident records, it finds a pattern. Typically, such a driver is a family man, has been with the same com- pany 20 years or more, has his re- tirement planned, and is stable in temperament rather than aggres- sive. Riding with such drivers, the re- searchers concluded that they just don’t get into trouble because they look ahead, don’t take chances, drive smoothly, keep their attention on the road, and treat the other fellow with respect. This is a good recipe for road safety—in Canada as Well as in the United States. It’s probably the best method yet devised of keeping out of harm’s way behind the wheel. EDITORIAL NOTES The Manitoba city of Brandon offers further evidence of the bene- ficial results accruing from fluorida- tion of a. water supply. Brandon's water has been fluoridated since 1955. The percentage of childen in the six-to-eight age group without cavities in permanent teeth has risen from 32 per cent eight years ago to 74 per cent in 1962. t t C An old friend of The Guardian is Mr. R. G. Everson. of the public relations firm of Johnston, Everson and Charlesth Ltd., Montreal, who surely ranks among the best of Canada's modern poets and who has produced his latest collection of verse, entitled "Blind Man’s Holi- day.” Forty poems, reprinted from "Poetry", “Saturday Review" and other leading magazines, are in this collection, which is published by the Byercon Press, Toronto, with decorative drawings by Colin Ha- m Mr. Ever-on covers a choice field 0! experience in his poems. and they afford a good example of his akmod‘oroftsmanehip. PUBLIC FORUM Successt o p’c‘ksp A5 A09“ a... and "ALAS, MY POOR BROTHER OUTER SPACE MATE RIAL Meteorite Expedition To Australia The National Geographic Soc- iety has announced an expedi-l tion to Australia to study andl collect meteorites and the my-l storious tektites. ‘ The American Museum of-Na- l tural History and United States‘ National Museum also sponsorl the four - month search for what i scientists believe are the on I yl specimens of outer space mat-3 erial on earth. , The chunks of stone, metal,§ and glass that penetrate the atmosphere and crash to earth serve as reverse space probes,l showing scientists what man I may face in future space tra-i vc s. 2 8000 - MILE DESERT TREK r Dr. Brian R, Mason. Chain, man of the Department of Min- l eralogy at the American Mus-3 cum, and E.P. Henderson. cur- I ator of meteorites at the Na-g lional Museum of the Smithson-l, lan Institution, will comb Aus-l tralia's desert interior with sen- sitive mine detectors and a spe- cially outfitted. four - wheel - drive truck. j The 8000 - mile trek includes 1 B n u rk e. Milparinka, Marree. ‘ Alice Springs. Halls Creek. 5 Brooms, and Kalgoorlie — re-I mote regions where meteorites have never before been sought. : The search will take place dur- ing the cool, dry Australian win- ‘ Though meteorites fall an where. it is muc easier see . them in flat, desert areas, where l other rocks are rare. The arid climate and slow erosion rate. favors meteorite survival. ; The expedition will also study; the manv well-preserved meieor- : ite craters in Australia. A meteorite is simply a met ear that hits earth. Eight billion F meteors strike the earth's atmos- ; phere every day, but only five or l six reach ground. Intense heat} from air friction vaporizes alll but the largest. Only 109 meteor- ites have been discovered in Aus- tralia. while nearly six times as many are known in the United States. The origin of meteorites re. mains controversial, but they are known to be composed of iron al- loys. mainly nickel - iron. and stones made of silicate maf- erials. AIDS SPACE TRAVEL Studies of the composition of meteorites have helped scientists design reentry shields for space vehicles. Space explorers could breathe air made by heating meteorites they may find on the moon. Experiments by the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis- ‘l'lm cor-umo Io open to no dloeaoaloh by correapoodanfa of caution of la- forest. Tho Gllrdllll dooa col aoeoo oarily oodono tho onlqu of corroo publlohod on lab and condensation who" . Tho Guardlaa lo Iaablo u nfor Info aay urorroo regard. Ia. lotto" ahbmllfod. \ INTERESTED IN P.E.I. Sin-Please forgive my ru busy hours but I am a Japan- ese girl who is much interested in Prince Edward Ialand. I like the book of "Anne of Green Gables" very much. so I w i a a b o u t "Anne" and your Island. But here are no adequate materials. I would appreciate getting a detailed map of your Island. I shall be very much obliged to you you will Milli this let. for at the corner of your paper wpasothlaloftorioaclubor to a school principal. or teach- ers lien is my brief self-intro- duction- I am you of age and 1 lid to the lot grade at Nflhlml Upper Secondary Schoo Yours sincerely. NOBUE AKAJl Yamane, Sumlbo-cho, Nlibama City. thin, Japan. . society — has . leave Ottawa on May 17th for National Geographic News Bulletin tration showed that 100 pounds of stony meteorite, when “boll- ed" at intense heat. yield three to four pounds of life - giving ox- isotopes in meteorites can indi- cate cosmic ray intensity in re. gions between planets. just as ro- ckets obtain similar data be- tween the earth and moon. The National Gem-graphic ex- pedition hopes to learn m ore about tektites. the dark, glassy A New en. Measurements of radioactive! pebbles scattered over the globe, including southern Australia. Some scientists believe tektites are chips off the moon fragments of a long - lost explod- l ed planet. Others say they were formed on earth. Space - a g e research h a s meant such an increased de- mand for meteorite specimens that the supply is dwindling. The current expedition hopes to re« plenish the much-needed maf- erial. Trend Guelph Mercury A new status symbol — one l of the outgrowths of the devel- ' opments of Britain's affluent come into being. The proper thing today for peo- ple who have achieved a com- | forlable standard of wealth and l wish to impress their fellow-cit- , izens is to have a thatched cot- age in the country, in one of the delightful and quiet villages of rural England. his new trend. which is be- ing taken up avidly by large numbers of the newly-rich, has brought new life to the ancient . and dying art of thatching. All over England. the coun- 1 try thatchers are working full ‘~ ‘ quire country home — and they time and much overtime, to keep pace with the demand for l thatch-roofed cottages. people who have bought cot- tages to have them renovated are having to wait as long three months to have the roofs re-coverd. One of the interesting side ef- l fects of this sudden change in style is that all the thatchers are joining up in the National Federation of Master Thatcher-s, which despite its name. on the w p a national organization. So many villages are taking on a new look as more and more people are seeking to ac- must be thatched cottages. Important Study Cape Breton Post Canada's chief electoral offi- cer, Nelson Castonguay, wllll Australia to spend three weeks studying the Australian system for the redistribution of parlia- mentary ridings. In view of the Impending re- . distribution of Canada's 263 to deral constituencies, or rldlngs. and in view of t e Australian system having been proposed for Canada, this will be an im- portant study. Mr. Castonguay‘a trip to Australia has been re- quested by the Government. For some 60 years. redis- tribution in Australia has been the task of an independent non- partisan commlssion. as con trusted with the Canadian sys- tem of Parliament handling re- distribution. The trouble with the Cana- dian system is that it always brings accusations of unfairness 1 the redistribution inasmuch as the majority party . to arrange ; its own 1 in power is tempted to particular advantage. That the temptation has been yielded to repeatedly. has been obvious. Canadian redistribution, based on the population chang- es shown ln the 1 census ll overdue. It should have been completed before the April 8th election. It would be better now, however. to wait a little longer to allow time for estab- lishing a fairer. nonpartisan aye em. Although not part of his pre- sent assignment, Mr. Caston- guay probably will give his at- tention also to the Australian system of a permanent votera' list, which has been urged for Canada. The Canadian list now is prqaared by apecial enumer- a'tora at the time of each elec- on. Hardships Face Writers Ottawa Journal Anyone who has ideas of writ- ing a book—and there are men folk who hold that obsession should consider the plight of au- thors, both in Canada and in Bri- tain. C a u a d ian authors f o r years have been complain in a about the difficulties they face. nd there la no question but that those difficulties are very real. Now Britain's Society of Auth- rcpoflh that time out of five on of its members earn less th a a $30 a week from writing. that is scarcely a munlficlent sum. In- , opa from keeping the wolf from the door. if is doubt- ful that it will buy very much paper and typewriter ribbons- rovidod that the audm baa U m m is that in Britain there are more book being published now than mt before. ad anions are buying however, la in arm pap. aback edition. and moon no at very roducod royalties. Thus, it la not a very encour- aging picture to before a Mint. In some ways. this may be the way great . Those that come only from the desire to earn money rarely are commendable books. Rarely do hey last. Unfortunately. our materialis- tic oundarda lend to Jud e the earnhga they ac- crue, oa daough the bank were line only wot-Mlle book in the world today. a. ATTACK CHIN E8! , JAKARTA (Reuters) — Six persona were killed in may riotinl loot week of the port of Tonal, central Java, and at Bandung, welt Java. the of- ficial Indonesian uowa agency Amara said Tuesday. Four por- aooa died in tho Togo] rioting on Monday and two were electro- cutod in Bandung Friday when ahofl c down overhead wires. The riot- m in Toni doatroyod Chicano . including :77 void- clea. and ransacked a military ammunition depot and. govern- mcut food 3331mm“ to tilt . atoroa brood III! as t ed on can a moaorcycloa and a dealt-w were .. l s medanl. m6 of Bandung, I am, Sal- O norm ransacked In fact; they are so busy, that many‘ was . confined to one area, now it is l to becoming really . Transplanting Of Tooth Germ Said Possible By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dalian Can a completely developed tooth be removed from one per- con and transplanted in the gum same of another person? This procedure rarely in successful as, intime, the roots are absorbed and the tooth fella out even though it appeared to have taken hold. 0n the other hand, it is pos- sible to remove and topical a healthy tooth germ which takes root like a seed and grows into a norm! tooth. The germ forms in the gum long before birth and la the forerunner of the tooth. But the germ must transplanted immediately be- cause it is extremely sensitive to lack of blood and nourish- ment. It takes the so two six months to erupt into a firm- ly embedded tooth. This type of replantatlon has been done in several dental cli- nics, according to Denta Ab- stracts. The technlic is tricky and it is difficult to predict when it will work. A two to three year follow-up by a group of Czechoslovakian d e n t l 5 ts showed it was most successful in children and less so in ad- ults. It worked in 30 per cent of 25 patients in one group and was unsuccessful in 42 per cent In the remainder, the results were fair. Cancer is not a single disease and no ones knows. how many different kinds there are. Ac- cording to Dr. George E. Moore of Buffalo, N.Y.. there are at least 100 varieties. Our ignor- ance along this line stems from the fact that each is derived from a single cell and the body contains a wide variety of cells. The mother cancer cell mul- tiplies and. in time. there are many offspring. There is noth- ing to prevent some of these new cancer cells from mutat- ing, which changes them from their original type. This is one of the arguments used by those who believe that a patient with 1 cancer does not have one but l several malignancies of the m l same general type. Cancers are difficult to clas- sify according to site or origin and cause. Most of fhe,respon- l sible agents are not known. If there were a single cause we might be able to find a single magic curative ~ drug. M e a n- while. we must rely upon early detection, followed by surgery or radiation. LIVER AND HEART HS. writes: Is it safe for . a person with heart trouble to out liver? I hear it is high in cholesterol. REPLY Liver contains almost as ’ much cholesterol as butter and l American cheese but much less I than egg yolk. There is no need to be concerned if your blood cholesterol level is not elevated. HIATUS MEANS 'GAP B.M.K. writes: How did the I medical profession arrive ‘ the name for this type of hern- l l8. l REPLY The stomach forces its way upward through the hiatus (op- eningl of the diaphragm. This is the area in the diaphragm 1‘ where the esophagus passes . through to the stomach. ‘ CIRCULATION l J.B. writes: Does the blood go around in circles or does it come back in the same chan- l nels? REPLY In a circle, as Harvey demon- l strated in the 17th century. The blood goes to the tissues via the arteries and capillaries and returns to the heart by way of l’ the veins. , ICE FOR BURNS ‘ W.W. writes: Is immersing a l burned finger in cold water im- mediately the best treatment? l I Yes, because cold water 3 o o t h es the burned area. I Ice water is preferred: keep l the lesion chilled until pain sub- ides. TODAY'S HEALTH HINT- Overweight? Acquire new cat- ing habits. Our Yesterday’s (From the Guardian Files) TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO M 15.1930 The program of the Overseas Education League for this sum- mer includes a tour of 83 day: through France, Gemmv Czechoslovakia. England and Scotland at a cost of $375. sail- ing J uuc 25: and another through France, Germany, En- gland and Scotland for 58 days at the cost of $330. for students under 19 years of ago. Dr. John E. Andrew. who has been for the past your resident surgical officer of the Kent and ex Hospital, Wells, Kent, England, aloe Registrar ,of the Radium Clinic for the cancer in Kent and firebox, ls’ lea shortly for Edidnu‘gh to do poet praduale work for a year. TEN YEARS AGO May II. I!!! Vancouver. (CP) - With a broad Pic. Arthur Baker bent down and patted the con- crcte lamac at Vancouver'a Se a d and to Ho straightened and than omllcd at L-Cpl Paul Ducal. the other Canadian to reach f on the m of sick and wmmd - od prisoners of war in Rome. 0?) -- Prime Illn- announced that May 15 ’ m Canada as unusual.» Dov. "EM! year as our national oaomic development aad-aoour Ermine world. Caua on have come to know each other better,” a. m acid. , ‘aion of Negroes will put ‘Wores BY Newt’soppofaoadnotouoo Minister Paul Myer baa It'll- odthathoin fence program an the former Conservative gov- ernment. This should make a nice contrast to the hot and flab- by look he took a month ago.— Victoriu Colonial. , clover. but Cali!!! Ber , THE” WAY A I,“ m M ' ‘ had I iota-root ‘Nobnah farm-r. 86. l ball of atriug 43% miles long. 1.: '13:: hm littbl: people care a m n: lb _ Windsor Star. ends meet. A Criticol 8! Harold era-icon Canadian Preu Staff Writer Riots in Birmingham have forced President Kennedy to dispatch federal troops to the vicinity of the troubled Ala- bama industrial city, but the hope in Washington is that the troops may never have to bo lent into the city itself. e federal soldiers are to serve as a warning, mainly to white aegmgatiouista, that fur- ther bombings or brutal reprehe- a troops on city streets, with the possible consequence that white man may fight white man over the Negro—just as they did more than a century ago. Birmingham is by no means the last frontier of the segrega- tionist. the White Supremacy Council, the Ku Klux Klan Other cities in the south are known to be marked for Negro passive demonstrations later: Albany and Atlanta, Ga.: Nash- ville, Tenn.; New Orleans. La., and Jackson, Miss. WORST CITY But a federal civil commission official says mingham is the worst of the lot. A modest integration program —-mainly to allow the Negro to sit at the white man's lunch counter and use his bathroom in downtown stores—has been loudly condemned by Birming- am~ Police Commissioner Eu. gene (Bull) Connor. ‘ Newspapers in many northern l states have expressed anger at this man, claiming his violent rights Bir- ‘ turn to Malcolm X. The blood- , Situation .mpNegl-o attitude has done encourage th hooded white bomber, the torch? carrier and the hi hi- hi ’ . mt. S r ing or The American Negro he. travelled a long way in his lip; t for full recognition in the U3; Complete integration is a myth} As is the case in Washington” ll nabs when the Negro inva'e" the city. But the Negro has Jug use of public facilities and theft! are no whispering sneers' of nigger" when the Negro alts beside the white man at‘lho downtown lunch counter. Birmingham represents the other end of the line. It is a measure of the Negro's strength that he dares challenge Bull Connor and others of that city. GATHERS STRENGTH But the Negro has shown he no longer is the cowed servant of the past. When the home of a Negro leader and a Negro mo- ,‘ tel were bombed, Negroes un- leashed a night of fury against 4 white policemen. ' ' Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. preaches passive dem. onstrations, Malcolm X of the Black Muslims preaches death to the white man. King undoubt- edly is aware if his philosophy , does not succeed. more rcstle=s . and impatient Negroes may ' a»--- V7, shed that could follow might read like another passage from the tragic US. Civil War. Warhead Montreal Prime Minister Pearson's go- vernment may face a problem of timing in carrying out its de- cision to acquire nuclear war- heads for the Canadian armed forces. There can. certainly, be no question but that the warheads will be brought into Canada un- der or agreement signed with the United States. Mr. Pearson is so firmly committed to this policy that he could not change his mind without imperlllng the future of his Government and, possibly. the unity of his party. Yet while his promises com- mit him to acquiring the war- heads, his political position im- pels him to move carefully. For although he is very‘ close to aving a majority in the House of Commons, it is possi- l for a combination of the other parties to defeat him. GDih‘iculry The New Democratic Party would vote against nuclear war heads. Social Credit would pro- bably also vote against them, although it is possible there might be abstentions. Some Conservatives might abstain, or: might even vote with the Gov-. crnment on this issue. But their action could be nullified by sim- ' liar action on the part of Li-: berals who are opposed to lhe. warheads. ‘ If the nuclear issue .must: come to a vote in the Commons, . Mr. Pearson will want this lo ' happen at a time when his gn- : vernment is likely to survive.- Bul Mr. Pearson must dcs‘u‘el even more than survival on this : issue. He would not want in risk an angry debate or a wry owe vote that would once again make nuclear weapons on im- passioned public issue. The SnOOpers The Printed Word A question that must puzzle more than one city - dweller is: What information of value does a credit association hope to' get when one of its c'lerks phones I householder to inquire about the reliability of one of his neigh- ors? In _a village or s in all town, where everyone knows everything and perhaps a little more about everybody else, some interesting facts and a good deal of spicy scandal might be un- e . if the rson ques- tioned would talk. In a city, where one can live across th 9 road from a neighbor for years without even learning his name. he cannot be expected to know anything about his moral or flu- ancial character and if there is no reason for sharing his knowedge with a total stranger who has no right to it. In a different class is the man who asks for information about a former employee. He has a right to check on the employee's exclusive at STEAD’S New Nylon Seamless Support Stockings for log fatigue while for nurses m... do... 5 95..., STEAD'S “Foot Free LWay Radio Service" liquor." He did not get the 1an _______________...‘ references. and if a former em- ployer has been given as one: questions about reliability. cap-. ability and general character arm in order and deserve a truthful: answer. , It must always be recognized: that the former employer would: not be given as a reference if . his late employee did not believe a that the report given would be: favorable. 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