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The Canadian Press xs-exclusively'enlitled no the use up! repub llcaliOn of all news dispatches In credited to it or to Ihe Associeied Pless o ters, and also lo the local news published here In All rights on republicalion of special dispatches herein also reserved Subscription: rules: No! over 35¢ per week by carrier. . $11.00 a year by mail or rural rouies and even nol sen/Iced by carrier ' ‘ $14.00 a year oil Island and U.K. $20.00 per year or U.S. and elseuliere outside Brilish Com monweallh. : Nor over 7c per single copy. member Audit bureau oi Circulation. Edit 4 TUESDAY, pudenpnningisf. Conservative Victory The fresh mandate which the Shaw Government sought from the people of this Province was ac- coi-tled it yesterday, and it will now be able to carry on with its program of expansion on which it appealed chiefly for support. Bulking large in this program is resources de- velopment, for which the Govern- ment expects to receive $1,500,000 from Ottawa within the next three years, and which will include the establishment of more processing units, large and small, and the pro- vision of more jobs for our young people. This program, along with in- creased educational facilities, road building and agricultural develop- ment, was emphasized particularly in the Conservative campaign. There were specific pledges, too, with regard to the abolition of hos- pital insurance premiums, and the payment of compensation to grain growers unable to harvest Iheir crops because of wet weather. The Liberals set forth a temptinl! program of their own, and made 9. vigorous campaign on it. Though they failed to defeat the Govern- ment, they did succeed in cutting down its majority in the last House and will have a strong opposition contingent when the next session is called. Premier Shaw was undoubtedly the biggest asset the Conservatives had in their appeal to the voters. The zeal which he put into the campaign, after his recent serious illness, won the admiration even of opponents. He had a right to em- phasize, as he did, his achievements during his brief spell in office. Nor was it necessary for him to recall -——for it is well remembered—his outstanding career as Deputy Min- inter of Agriculture and his inti- mate association with our farmers and their problems in that connect- ion. Indeed, the Premier is on the way to becoming a “father image” to the younger generation in our rural areas. When he steps down, it, is an understatement to say that his place will be extremely hard to fill. Difficult. too. it will be to re- place Mr. McQuaid as Provincial Treasurer, whose defeat yesterday was the worst single casualty the Conservatives sustained. One good result of a quiet cam- paign is that there will be fewer recriminations to rankle in the minds of the participants. Now that it is over, let us hope that they will be forgotten altogether and: that our newly elected legislators, on both sides, will get down to the serious business of serving- their constituencies. ’ A Plea For Charity The Winnipeg Free Press ex- presses some concern at the way members of Parliament are getting a bad name these days as topers, playboys and general incompetents. Its reference is to the reports of travelling newspapermen, that Can- ada’s delegates to the NATO parlia- mentary conference in Paris knew little‘about the subjects discussed, end seemed more concerned with having e high old time. No doubt, scys the Free Press, some of the delegate. visited Perle night spots in the detriment of their work next day. But be there l h criticism former the! to handle their jobs properly and spend their time drinking and play- ing cards in some remote member's office. There are 265 members, and it would be surprising if there were not a few delinquents among them. “As for drinking and card- playing." says our Winnipeg con- temporary, “Mr. Pratt ’was a mem- ber of Parliament in which there were more than 200 government members. Apart from attending to the needs of their constituents. there was practically nothing for many backbenchers to do. Months would elapse between opportunities to make a speech. Committees in which they might be interested were, in many cases, filled. Not un- naturally they turned to other pur~ suits out of sheer boredom and frustration." The Free Press maintains that there is “much less of that sort of thing in Ottawa today where the House is fairly evenly divided and there is enough work to keep most members busy." This is a charitable way of looking at it, anyway; and at this pie-Christmas season who wants to be unduly censorious? Parliamentarians, like the rest of us. are human. Some have more frailties than others; but these shouldn’t, in the public mind, he allowed to hide the virtues of the many. And we shouldn’t need to be reminded that some of our great- est parliamentarians of the past—- whom we dignify now with the name of statesmen—weren’t pre- ciser saints when it came to shun- ning the alurements of the flesh. New “Home” For Bach We note from a recent news re- lease from West Berlin that even Johann Sebastian Bach is subject to the harsh facts of a divided Germany, and that more than 200 years after the death of this tower- ing genius in the realm of sacred music the plan of issuing a com- plete edition of his life work is en- dangered by political animosities. The two large Bach Institutes in Leipzig and East Berlin are no longer accessible to western music- ologists; they have ceased to exist as independent institutions, and have been degraded by the Com- munists to the rank of mere ar- chives. Endeavors hdve been made for some time in Western Germany to establish comprehensive archives and a research institute closely connected with them, which would concentrate on scientific study of the work and life of the composer. Ten years ago the spadework was commenced at the university city of Goettingen, in Lower Saxony, and recently a new research centre devoted to Bach’s work has been commissioned there. One of the main tasks facing this centre is a new and complete edition of Bach’s works. Twenty volumes have already been com- pleted. Musicologists all over the world have enthusiastically wel- comed this edition, which is precise- ly modelled on the engravings of the first edition, and also contains less well-known pieces for organ and piano. Another ten volumes will be edited and published during the next few years, including sev- eral volumes devoted to Bach’s instrumental music. * Music circles express the hope that. perhaps, one day, through the agency of this comprehensive new institute, a connection might be reestablished with the Leipzig archives, for it is there that very important music scores and first editions are filed. At present, how- ever, the prospect is about on a par with the chances of obtaining a nuclear test ban agreement at the Geneva conference table. EDITORIAL NOTE L We haven’t reached this stage- yet, but in the United States elect- Iion campaigning in becoming so costly that it endangers democracy. Political parties become debt rid- den and thus dependent upon large individual contributors and organi- zations which too often have axes to grind. This is the finding of the Citizens’ Research Foundation of Princetown University, which has just completed a report on the financing of the 1960 U.S. election. If in estimated that $175 million wetnp‘ent by all pertiee If; all levels. The corresponding figures for 1952 end 1950 was $140 million and $155 million. A major factor in the cost today} it is emphasized, in the in- M nu of television. \ ’ .. . / WHY 4/65”? THE BACK-SEAT DRIVERS OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson The Cost Of Getting Into Parliament How much does it cost to get elected to Parliament? And is it a profitable financial transac- tion'.’ These two questions have been raised in the wake of a te- deral general election once again. as the required reports by candidates are made avail- able in the House of Commons. ; 1.015 men and women enter- ed their names as candidates in last June‘s election. So far ap- proximately four out of five among them have complied with the law in reporting how much [was spent in their respective bids to get elected. 196 candi- dates have not yet submitted the report required by law: these included. as the N.D.P. spokesman Stanley Knowles was quick to point out in the Com- mons, two defeated Conserva- ' Eldon Woolliams, the Conser- 5 vative MP. for Bow River, Al- * berta. recently gave Parliament details of the total sum spent by all the candidates in each of the elections 1949. 1953. 1957 and 1958. The totals for this year's éelection are not yet available. . y The 1957 election was the cost- tliesl, totalling $3,398,302 for Li- } berals. Conservatives. Social } Credit and CCF candidates. But the following year. the Conserva- i tives expended the highest indi- ’ vidual total for any one party, , namely $1,874,083 1 These figures represent just i the total which candidates them- } selves list as having spent. Some , candidates fail to observe th e ’ law. and refrain from filing their 3 expenses; some candidates, it i is widely presumed, do not file 10“ the Conservatives For example. In his interest- ing survey of “The Canadian General Election of 1957", Pro- fcssor John Mcisel estimates ‘ that the Conservative central of- } fice spent “about $1,700,000“ and that the total cost of the Con- servativo campaign was “pro- :‘bably between three and three 1 and a half million dollars." And . he adds that the “activities and consequently the costs of the‘ slope accompanies request.) much grander scale than those lLibernl campaign were on t t h e . party probably spent two to ‘ three times as much as its main rivals." That would place the Liberal costs at between $7 and $10 millions. 1 To these figures must be add- 1‘ ed the cost to the federal tax- Epayer for handling the ballot. live candidates. one of whom [ their complete total expenditure i including the preparation of Va— has since been appointed a , judge, and the other has been ap- pointed to the Senate. ,, No less than 22 of these can- didates expended over $20,000 each in their bids to obtain a job which pays $10,000 a year but costs anything from $8,000 a year up. In other words. those candidates were each paying in excess of $20,000 in an endea- vour to gain a position worth at most $2.000 per year after ex- penses. for a maximum of five ' years. Crazy? HIGH PRICED LOSS Real Caouettte, the fircbrand~ spellbipdcr who leads the Social Credit party in Quebec, was a prime target for the Liberals. Their candidate charged with the job of beating Caouette and keeping him out of Parliament was Denis Pilon. He did not suc- ceed in his mission. but he earn- ed a transitory fame by being the most lavish spender in the whole of Canada, acoording to those incomplete figures. He spent $29,274 to get waffled. just 1 over ten times what Real Caou- ette spent to beat him. Our Yesterday’s (From the Guardian Files) TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO December 11, 1937 The great contrast in modern passenger equipment as com- pared with the early days of railroading was commented upon by one of Moncton's old- est citizens. and native of Try- on, P.E.l. Mr. Paul Lea, who is 91 years of age. When the first of the new air-conditioned d ay coaches arrived in Moncton yes- terday, as part of the consist of the eastbound Ocean Limited of the Canadian National Rail- ways operating between Mono- ton and Halifax. A panel discussion on Inter- national Goodwill was held at the Sunday evening song ser- vice in Zion Church. Speakers were Stewart Leigh, Willuim H. Trulnor and Frank Storey. Geo- rge Hurt was discussion leader. Rev. G.C. Webster emphasized the church's role and closed the meeting with benediction. TEN YEARS AGO ember II, 1952 Mr. Charles Hunt, C.M.G. of St. John's. cwfoundlund. a: past director of Rotary Interna- llonal and former District Gov- ernor. was guest speaker at a dinner meeting of the locnl Ro- fury Club held at the Charlotte- town Hotel last evening. The meeting, which was designed prime nor to Inter- national Dlreclor, Percy W. Tut. nor, was of by over 100 Raterlunc. Ottawa. Dec. 1] - (CPI Two young Canadian farmers, one from Prince Edward Island and the other from Manitoba, have won scholarships entitling thcoune in United Klug- Hermen Arman enbm'o, Mop. They will sandy II. the Nuf- field rendition. ' intentionally. there are undisclosed and enor- : mous expenditures by each Par- ? ty organisation. perhaps by accident or perhaps : But inaddition to these totals. ‘ ters‘ lists. And we see that a T General Election has risen in lamund 515 million in 1949 laround $23 million in 1958. and perhaps $26 million this year. ’Alibi Time’ By Joseph N The UN. Macs“ 'een Canadian Press Staff Writer One delegate remarked that 4, “alibi time" has once again ar- ‘rived at the United Nations—— the time when many countries Ideliver intricate legal reasons i for refusing to pay their share 'of peace-keeping costs. Observers feel that some of these countries merely develop imposing and involved legal ar- guments to justify their politi- cal positions rather than to d - ‘fend principles in which they 1 l l really believe. Burma's U Thant, in one of his first acts as full-fledged secretary-general, warned that ‘the UN cannot survive as an effec t i v e instrument unless . members lay aside their differ- ences and help pay the 5130,- 000,000 peace-keeping deficit in The Congo and the Middle East. PROSPECTS DIM But prospects remained dlm‘; ‘ and ‘ when the Sovret Union France announced they will pay nothing toward the $10 e~month Congo effort. It remained to be seen whether there would be any change of heart among the some 0 other countries— out of total UN membership of 110- whlch are delinquent on Congo payments. 1 Both Russia and France turned down Thant‘s plea that all UN members accept the ad- visory opinion of the W0 Court that peace-keeplng costs are a legitimate levy under the UN charter. Thant based his plea on the '1 D- As counterfeiting is In ancient though not an honorable art. bo- gus paper money is probably here to stay. But it is surprising to learn that the quantity of It In Canada has lately increased fourfold. According to George 13. Mc- Clellan. deputy commissioner of the RCMP, the amount recov- ered (meaning spotted In circu- lation or found In the hands of luwbreeken) rose from $192,464 In 1000 to 8201.07 1061 to “$545 in the first ten muthl of 1982. , Maybe it Just happened (In: low pounced on ‘ article rlghl after t printed large batches. But the flgurec bear out McClellun'e slalom! that counterfeiting ls becoming eesler. The services of a skll- in! but dlshonesl engraver, he required. bedded in It a nemw-peper-thln .000.000- “time - honored tradition whereby each principal organ of the United Nations respects and upholds the views. resolu- Elions.and decisions of the oth- :ers, in their special fields of l competence." France said the World Court ‘llself had been careful to re- call thnt the founding fathers of the UN in the court supreme authority for interpreting the UN charter. ‘ The UN was no “super- statc” and assessments by the General Assembly for The: Congo operation were blnding ionly on countries which ap- .proved the operation — which lFrnnce did not. France, how- ;evcr, will apparently continue isupport o the UN Emergency . Force in the Middle East, which The Soviet position differs in i that it abstained on creation of UNEF but voted for The Congo force. Russia maintains the as- :sembly’did not have the right |to ci-eate UNEF and that both llhe establishment of the force 8 1 and assessments to pay for t lure the duty of the Security r Council. . Although Russsia originally ap- ; proved The Congo force. it con- :tends that the late secretary- general Dag Hammarskjold il- legally decided whut countries should serve in lt—ugain the duty of the Security Council— lhus putting the whole affair on an illegal basis. The Fast And Phony Buck Flucnclel Poll sliver of metal. This device 1: sold to have driven the count- erfelters out of business. Prevention of crime, as the RCMP chief says, Is better than cure. Here II I simple method of preventing one form of antl- soclel depredetlou. Footnote: Anlbody accepting a counterfell bill is stuck with he loss. There is no redress.) NIWSON momma. cost. for the whole country. from 3 to 1945 did not assign, Encephalitis Seen On Wane By Dr. Theodore R. Von Delleu THE FLORIDA encephalitis. epidemic has been on the de- cline since Aug. and. for practical purposes. was over by the end of October. According to an official Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) report, there were 455 cases during the period from July 1 to Oct. 22 but only 137 were confirmed by laboratory tests and 73 had pre- sumptive laboratory confirm- ation. Not every statistic had the disease. This is a common situation whenever an epidemic receives widespread publicity. Physl- cians and public health authori- ties don't take chances. They keep suspects under surveil- lance; during this period, these people are carried on the ros- ter as having the disease so that the total number appears much greater than it is. Th true extent ofjhe epidemic be- lcomes known after the fir lburns out and the statistics can :be sifted from the ashes. i More than 630 birds were col- }lected by the Tampa bay re- ‘gional encephalitis laboratory and 157 showed evidence of a irecent or past infection with the :St. Louis encephalitis virus. the |causative micro-organism in ‘the human epidemic. But offl- cials were unable to blame a islngle species of bird as the most likely source of the infec- lfion. The laboratory also exam- ined 12.000 mosquitoes (another 12,000 were sent to the com- municable disease center labor- atories in Atlanta). Only 17 vir- ses were obtained. The public health department expects to maintain a close watch of the Tampa bay area for several years. They will study the blood of domestic and wild birds and mosquitoes for evidence of the t. Louis virus. The project will include a study of migration patterns of the birds that sojourn in-thut part of the country. Such sur- veillance is good insurance that there will not be a repetition of ilhis cpidcmic. Up to 1.500 cases of encepha- jlilis are rcnorted annually from all parts of the country. This 'docs not constitute an epidemic ‘so long as the disease is not lconcentrated in a single area. I (Dr. Van Dellcn will answer questions on medical topics stamped. sclf - addressed enve- —. rs ONE-SIDED SWEATING J.M.C. writes: During warm weather the left side of my body Isweats but the right side re- mains dry. Can you tell me why? REPLY No, because this type of prob- lem requires considerable study and testing. It may represent Ian inherent absence of sweat glands in certain areas or a dis- Erdcr in the nervous system. OLD VITAMINS S.A. Writes: A friend’s hus- band dicd 112’ years ago. H always took a lot of vitamins and there are at least eight bottles left. which have remain- ed in the refrigerator. She would like to take them and wonders if they are still Useful. I They should be good, assum- ing the bottles have been scaled and the vitamins have not dis- integrated. MIDDLE AGE .l.W. writes: My sister and I argue about what. is middle age. say the lalc forties and she says past 00. What Is your Minion? REPLY Middle age should begin at ‘30. unless you happen to be 30. But definitions vary and many laccept the range from 30 to 70. BRAIN FREEZING N.W. writes: Are any of the new freezing technics for brain ‘ ’ailments of value in epilepsy? ' REPLY No. because the cause of ep— idcpsy centers around abnor- mal brain waves. The freezing {lechnic ls most useful in condi- ‘lions such as parkinsonlsm, in 3 is 4 i l l ,which the irratating focus lwell localzcd in an area of the - ram. ITODAY'S HEALTH HINT— Be prepared for fire. HEAVILY WOODED Canada‘s forests over In area of 1.700.000 square miles, of which nearly half is econom- ically Inacccssible. O. K. Tire \ I For town and country Driviu NEW TREADg 750-14 9.95 each ' With Recapable 'h're Lifetime Rood Hazard Guarantee Tine All sizes of new Snow Available. do Genet-Illlecu'lclreellglmm .11.. [IGMDQM'IMIIL owl! aim mmmmumm. ELECTRIC l NOTES BY THE WAY People who feel Ill should ul- weys consul u checklist. They may die all the lame. t a least they will die with the cor- rect diagnosis. —- Welland Tri- bune. '. I One of the remap mature people learn less than young people Is that they are willing to risk less. They don't like fail- ure. But learning is a risky bus- iness. If you want to keep on learning. you must be willing to keep on risking failure, all your life. — Think Magazine. Kentucky ll concluding put. ting I tax on baloney. What are they trying to do? Do they want to fix things so that only I bil- lionaire can run for office In that state? - Memphis Com- Iuerclul Appeal. A Peterborough high school teacher discussing Australia asked his students if they knew anything about that countrys “What, In fact, comed from another country," came the reply. — Peterborough Examiner. fl Return To ’Porodse’ Manchester Gunrdleu The islanders from Tristan da Cunha, after a year in England have expressed an apparently un- animous desire to go home. Taken at its face value. th I 8 Is an acrld comment on life In 20th century Britain—end per- haps on the British climate. They are not ungrateful for their rescue and for the help given them here. But they — the older people particularly—- find life here complex n worrying. They dream of the bleak familiar landscape and the austere familiar life to which they were bred. With a deep uncalculhtlng desire, they want to go home. But what is home going to be like? The survey party which visited the island this autumn —wit islanders among ' members — reported serious da- mage done by the volcanic a. .- e. m | eruption which drove the people rut. FISH DESTROYED It has destroyed the fish can- ning factory which was their mainstay for trade with the out- er world. t has overrun the beaches from which their fish- lng boats sailed, and another anchorage needs to be found. or made. Many of the cattle and poultry have survived, but near- ly all the sheep have been kill- ed by dogs run wlld. To re-es- tablish the life they knew will be an uphill task, even if the British government does what It can to make good the dam- 086- Nor are there only physical difficulties to be overcome. They want to go back to the island and the island life. But they cannot go back to a time when ey knew no other life. That may not trouble the old- er people, whose brief‘ glimpse of our world has only strength- ened their love for Trlstan. SECOND THOUGHTS The younger men and women, many of whom have found work here and begun to cope success- fully with the problems en- countered. may not side with their elders, whether out of conviction. or loyalty. or a tra- dition of family discipline. Will they have second thoughts be- fore or after the time for a fin- al decision comes? ( It seems un- likely that a return can be made until next autumn. early summer on the island.) But if they waver, and fall out, what chance has com- munity of elders and of young children to re-create the life for the sake of which they have returned? It should really be for the younger adults to say what is to be done: for it is on them that the burden of rebuilding Tristan society will fall. Poles Know Forming ‘ Chrlstleu Science Monitor Most all the Cpmmunist count- ries are having trouble feeding themselves, Marx had seen a lot of downtrodden city workers but he clearly didn’t know much about farming. en Red China's "great leap for-war " ended ln chagrln, Mao Tse-tung began trying to get workers back on to the land. Soviet Premier Khrushchev has just acknowledged that if Rus- sian agriculture is to make much eadway It must have some- what greater allocations of ma- terials for far implements. In Poland, Communist Party leader Gomulka now take even more realistic stand which certainly will be noticed in the Marxist bloc (or blocs). 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