ree Soe Conrdian Chr Conrdian Coe Proce Eawird tsland Like the Dew Publisve* every weekday moramg at 165 Prince Stree Charwiteiown PE. ; by Thomson Newspapers Led. Frank Walker, Editer > Member Cened.an Van, wepaper Publishers 1030 West Georgia &., Vancouver By Carrier Chariottetown, Summerside 30e per weer : _ Provinces and Laited. States $12.00 per annum _- My .Meu elsewhere in P.E.1 £9.00 per annum Oe and United States $'2.09 per annum - the weakesi ink.” TUESDAY, SEPT. 22, 1959 «PAGE 4 A Boner Beyond Compare Hollywood hasn't won its fame | by being a centre of culture and good taste, but even there one would fmagine that something better than _ the filming of a can-can dance eould have been shown to the visit- ing boss of the Soviet Union. ; Mr. Khrushchev was,a guest at - the 20th Century-Fox movie lot on ~ Saturday, and there was an elabor- ate luncheon agtended by what a_ press despatch describes as the big- gest star turnout in memory. Sever- al of the stars, it is stated, “wrestled with their consciences about appear- ing” but most $f them were there, and this part éf the function went eff very well. But- the Communist leader was not slow ‘in registering his moral _ disapproval of the picture he was _* invited -to view in process of pro- duction. Hollywood actors do not usually work on Saturdays and the producing company, it is said, went to great additional expense to have ». them on the set for this oecasion. __ But Mr. Khruschev wasn’t pleased. _ Chorus girls kicking up their legs and skirts was not something that a man in his position should be taken eye YT ae Fy ee ee i : to see. “It was immoral,” he thun-—; dered. “Humanity’s face is more beautiful then her backside. ¢ Only people who are over-satiated like ~ guch things and similar pornography. A manff normal morals is not ih- terested in such things.” Here was a propaganda oppor- ‘tunity that Hollywood fubbed and the Soviet Premier took full advant- ace of. There’ must be pictures of serious import in current production at Hollywood, any one of which could have been shown more appropriately | to such a visitor. The stupidity of ~~ the people responsible for this incid- ent is beyond comprehension. It goes withont ‘saying that Mr. Khrushchev ds no saint; his morals have not pre- vented him from acting with ruth- less cruelty and aggression; but it was an insult to his intelligence to -——treat him to this kind of entertain- ment, and to imagine that he wouldn’t mount the moral rostrum and give it a blast that would be heard round the world. By this time, we imagine, his re- buke. to American movie producers and patrons has been translated into every known language. It will be: . moutherdsas ‘a. jucy morse! through- ot India, China and Arabia, not to speak of Russia and Communist Europe. If it were only Hollywood’s reputation that was at stake it wouldn't matter so much, but it will he interpreted as a symbol of Amer- fean degredation and goodness knows what. It is the kind of propaganda that was just made shrewd Mr. Khrushchev—handed to him on a plate, so to speak, by the movie moguls of-~a Christian civiliz- tion who spend millions‘in filming and advertising “The.Ten Command- ments” and other . great religious apectacies, and- then’ turn their geamv side in this fashion to the pagan world’s derisive gaze. CP.R. Application The Canadian Pacifie Railway has © applied to the Board of. Transport Commissioners for permission — to suspend passenger service between Winnipeg and Edmonton, and, what is more, the Winnipeg Free Press— that stdunch advocate of Western rights and __ privileges—argues strongly in favor of granting the application. : Much of the line in question dup- licates a fasterp.-and. more, efficient service already_proyided by the Can- adian National. The company claims that the cost of operating two trains daily has been as high at $1.5 mil- lion a year and that revenues are only $826,000. A saving was achiev- ed early this year when the trains were converted from steam to diesel locomotion and costs were cut, on . annual basis, by $226,000; but the Jozs on the line, at about $500,000 a year, is still impressively large. “Here in Western Canada, where freight rate increases fall with such heavy impac® and are always re- ;' lene yy eppoded,” says the Free es S| “The strongesi memory is weaker than that all reasonable railway proposals for saving money be supported and ‘encouraged. The small number. of passengers who have used the Wia- nipeg-Edmonton service and who will be inconvenienced by its suspension are fur the most part people who will benefit in the jorge run from any measures which keep freight costs at a reasonable level. If railways are forced to maintain costly and un- |_economic services for the benefit of | a declining number of passengers, they cannot be, blamed for seeking _ compensatory revenues from. their freight operations.” This is not a popular view in some quarters, but it is a realistic one. In advocating it our Winnipeg con- ’ temporary is laying the ground more firmly for the case which the out- lying provinces, East and West. are hoping to make before a Royal Com-~ ‘mission, against the imposition of Press, “it 1s especially important horizontal freight rate increases which have proven-so costly to our farmers and_ shippers. in recent years. Canada’s Offer Prime Minister Diefenbaker has, for tlie” mo j@ht, taken the lead among free world spokesmen in re- plying to Premier Khrushchev’s dis- armament speech beforé the Unit- ed Nations. He has proposed an ex- change of Arctic inspection tours, inviting the Soviet leader to inspect the Canadian North and see for him- self if it isn’t being used for aggres- COMMUNIST IDEA OF AGGRESSION sive purposes; in return, © Mr. Khrushchev should let the West in- spect Soviet installations within the same latitudes. This is talking turkev—the kind of talk Mr. Khrushchev professes to like and in which he frequently in- dulges. He-has proclaimed his burn- ing desire for peace, a s that the whole world should disarm ' | i { + ee emma ee to order for | opportunity \ “thé Atlantic’ Provinces been in bet- in four years, keeping onlv police DITA ORO ti ahd Integrating tensifving its policy t integrate Canada’s Indians into our com- munity. The Honourable Ellen Fair- t-clough—as—Minister of Citizen- | of « educational ship and Immigration, is the Su- perintendent-General of Indian Affairs, It was in this capacity that last week she delivered the units with small arms for mainten- ance of internal order. Here is his of taking a concrete step in this direction—a test of good faith, equally fair to both sides. Rus- sia has been critical of Canada al- lowing the United States to use the Canadian Arctic for “aggressive” purposes. Now Mr. K. can verify or disprove these charges for himself, provided he makes the Soviet Arctic areas equally accessible to inspection. If this offer is accepted, it will | be very encouraging indeed. But as t ! Mr. ‘Diefenbaker “Canadian hopes should not be raised too high.” He has taken the right course’ in showing how strong the feeling for disarmament is in this country, and how ready we are for a showdown that will prove this to the Commun- ist world. Now it is their play. EDITORAL* NOTES Here’s a good reason from the Canadian Association of Optomet- rists: “Don’t let poor vision blur a bright future!” = says, s * The 14th issue of Canada Savings Bonds has been announced, on attrac- \ tive terms, by Finance Minister Flem- ing. The 1959 series will yield an. average of 4.98 per cent through the nine years to maturity in 1968, com- pared with an average interest rate of 4.19 per cent paid on the previous issue last year. The bonds, available in the same denominations as in the past, will go on sale for a month be- ginning October 13. * + 8 Commenting on the APEC an- nual meeting in) Fr week, the Financial Post, Toron says: “Rarely’in recent years have ‘dericton last ‘ + te ter position to have their arguments sympathetically heard. Getting it down to plain polities, there are three Conservative premiers _on the East Coast and Conservatives in power in Ottawa. This ean't ‘hurt the Atlantic cause. Further, these provinces now have concreté results to show in the attempt to lift themselves hy their own bootstraps. And success breeds success.” tenn ctepneenpmemneareennpesatisi Sesame arreann stn * * * Quebec’s new Premier, Mr. Sauve, has made a good start in his press relations. He made this state- ment at a recent-meeting with news- men: “Don’t ever feel you are im- posing on.us when exercising your duties because we appreciate the fact that you have to keep the -pub- lic informed. I am in a position to understand what you mean when you speak of co-operation since my father was a newspaperman all his life.” It is a good thing for all men in public life to realize that report- ers are exercising their duties in the publie interest when they seek in- formation. ¥ | ; \ ~temples. most significant declaratian. con : : = from any Cabinet Minister for very Many vears past. She was ad- dressing the Canadian Associa- tion of School Superintendents and Inspectors at Saskatoon “The Indian,” she said, “con- stitutes our country’s fastest- growing ethnic group. He has much to offer to our - society through his intellfgence, his know- | ledge and love of nature. his quiet humour, his kjndness, tolerance and patience.” “No longer is the Indian to be considered a depressed and help- less Canadian.” asserted M\r s. Fairclough with l cs a’ Canada’s Indians Patrick Nicholson The federal government is inf | Indian’s employment habits from his | conviction born of her re-} | seasonal occupations to steady, year-round work ensuring a more | Stable damily economy. The first |step in this is wider acquisition and trade quali- The success.of Canada's edu- cational integration \in this re- spect has already been _refilec- ted in the closing down of In- dian schools on some Reserves, where the children are able to attend the nearby municipal schools. Examples of this im clude the St. Clair Indian school | at Sarnia, the Parry Island Re- serve “School; the Moose Hide School in Dawson City. Over this growth decade, the | fications, said the Minister. | “Education js the key to a pro- | mising future for the Indians.” _ The Government's poliey is ta make school facilities available to every Indian child. But this | | objective is made. very hard by such factors as the remoteness| of some Reserves, the migratory | habits of northern Indian Bands, | jand especially by the fact that | our 165,000 Indiatis are spread | lover no less than 2.225 different | Reserves. This means that there are an average of 2'> children | in each grade on each Reserve. | |. This obviously poses almost | insuperable problems in the | provision of sufficient teachers | j; and adequate classrooms. One possible solution lies.--where geo- graphy permits. ' in encouraging | is rapidiy bearing fruit. Ten! | quadrupled. costs of- Indian education have the federal govern- $18.000.000 for ment is spending Loperation of Indian schools this year, including payments for In- dians attending imtegrated schools Today. 1.221 teachers in Indian schools are paid a salary aver- aging $4.500; ten years ago, only 383 teachers_were paid an aver- age of merely $1.980. And today there are also better-paid jobs a- vailable as ‘community teachers” and “‘community principals’ who double child education. with such projects as adult educaion, run- ning Four H clubs and Home- makers Clubs. and teaching. Lea dership courses. Kt was an encouraging picture of progress in Indian education She ‘was speaking | integrated schooling. This policy | Which Mrs. Fairclough described. Her modest account of ‘the Ad- cent visit to Indian Reserves in | years ago, only 1,406 Indian chil- i vances made in just that one sec- Western Canada where she went | dren were enrolled at provincial | tion of her Department can be to see for herself how the first | schools. Today. more than five | matched by similar progress else- Canadians are faring. She expres- | times that number are attending Where, pointing up the commonly sed herself as being very impres-. provincial of privte primary and heard Ottawa talk sed by steps now bemg taken to improve housing, schools, farms, reads, sanitation and employment opportunities. STEP UP SCHOOLING las high schools COST AND SCOPE SOAR | During the same decade, the ease in the number of Indian hildren attending school has been that Mrs. Fairclough is the best Minister of Citizenshp and Immigration known here for umber of a. years—a feather in ‘he cap of the weaker sex who will be de lighted to hear of this high ac- The Government is increasing over—50 per cent.to a total of | hievement by Canada's first wo- its assistance in converting the 38.836 in the school year just | man Cabinet Minister. Changed From Kipling’s Time | National Geographic Society Katmandu, capital of the one- time hermit kingdom of Nepal, gradually is shaking off centur- ies of isolation. - The United States soon will es- | tablish an embassy there, and tourists are encouraged to visit the once-forbidden city. A few years’ ago, automobiles had to be literally carried over a rugged trail by. porters. on a spectacularly scenic 72-mile modern highway threading over the Siwalik Range, the National Geegraphie Society says. are being constructed in the the capital, and other airfields ,An all - weather airport serves the* capital, and other airfields | are being - constructed in mountainous country ed between Tibet and India. ROMANCE LINGERS In ches, Katmandu retains much of the romantic atmosphere that led Rudyard Kipling to the are the facts of Katmandu.” The many-towered city, which was founded in A.D. 723, rises from the 4,500-foot-high Valley of “Katmandu. The—jagged, snowy Himalavas lift abruptly some 50 miles away. Irrigated fields of rich black earth and terraced slopes spread from the Nepalese capital. Katmandu means “wooden tem- ple’’—an appropriate name, for some 350 temples stand in the city. Bells clang and huge drums thud in the shrines almost con- tinuously. ‘ Tier upon tier of elaborately carved wooden pagodas cap the The official religion is Hinduism, but miany_ residents are Buddhists. Lord Buddha was bern not for from Katmandu, and some of the shrines there honor him. Towering over all the temples is a white needlelike spire near- ly 200 feet high. The ornamental structure is the famous ‘folly’ of Prime Minister Ghim Sen Thapa, who built it in the 1830's to “amaze the populace.” Another landmark is a 1,500- room palace supposedly modeled. after the Winter alace in Len- ingrad. It- now houses federal of- fices. Many smaller white stucco palaces and public buildings bor- der wide, hard-surfaced streets in the government area. A. broad grassy parade ground is in the | | have already been accomplished. | center of Katmandu. Commercial streets are wnar- row with everhanging buildings Now | motorists can drive to Katmandu | sandwich- | spite of these modern tou- , write, | ‘And the wildest dreams of Kew | [jutting over the passageways The city men wear pointed cloth caps, Jong shirts which al- most reach their knees, jodhpur- like trousers, and felt slippers. Katmandu women wear saris. The capital normally houses Treatment Of Minor Injuries aii a x § H Z rat a aT zg Eg: minor ones, lily treated at home a few simple procedures. First, # is ly impor- tant to rest the injured muscle. Applying heat with a hot water bag. heating pad, or even hot towels will help bring relief. Gent- le rubbing of the affected area probably will help by stimulating circulation. Remember always to rub up ward on the affected area. This helps return-the blood flowing. through the veins to the heart. Since massage sen the muscles, a little gentle mas- saging might he of some value. As for bruises, they usually are caused by a blow whic breaks the small blood vessels of the tissues immediately under the skin. Blood from these broken ves- sels oozes into the tissues, thus causing discoloration and _ swell- ing. A black eye is a good examp- le of this. QUICK ACTION : Quick action {nm many cases will prevent beth swelling and discoloration. Applying ice or very cold cloths may prevent both and ease the~pain as well. But, a bruise, as you well know, isn't really a serious prob- lem, particularly if — as usu- ally is the case—the skin is not broken. QUESTION AND ANSWER Mrs. W G. N.: IT have a duo denal ulcer and twe doctors nave, told me to stay om a. ‘sen- sible diet.” Could you give me: seme sug- cele f | The condition flares up from time to time. Answer: In general, an ulcer diet is a bland diet. avoiding un- uncooked fruits and vecetables: cearse vegetables, such as cabbage. and cauliflower; fried foods and rich gravies Often, . frequent small meals bare better than three large meals. |Milk is often .advised between meak. i Much depends upon the type land severity of thé ulcer and i gestions as to what I may eat? | i very smal! error. Meinaidihinmsmratmsans-cnbimsiedine tin ahokiminkcometintsce ot Ce geen oe Se Eo ee ee ee To ane ese Oe ee. a ‘ a mt rs New supposin’ the men in the control tower nad sent Nikita’s Plane to the moon too!—Ottawa Journal In. his. autobiography. Mark Twain concluded a tirade against a publisher, who had ence swind- led him outrageouly, on a note of forgiveness. “He has been dead a quarter of a century now Twain wrote. “I feel only com- passion for him, and if I could waukee Journal The oldest fully-identified ship, the Swedes claim, is King Gus- tavus Adolphus’ ‘“‘Vasa,”’ which sank in Stockholm harbor in 1628. It has just been raised by pump- ing out pontoons from which hea- vy wires had been run under the hull through tunnels made by water jets. It is a relic of the days of Swedish wars on the Con- tinent.—Ottawa Citizen. ence. Today the public can drop in and get a condupted tcz>. Lz t month a Russian dropped in at toria Island in the North West , Territories and was shown around like anyo&e else.—Sudbury Star and silly lot. They entertained themselves in the evening by sit- ting around a fire and ing. songs full of all kinds of nor sense. But what do we do but turm.on the radio.or television and listen to moronic singing com- merc®als? Maybe we haven't ad- vanced so far, after all.—Brant- ord Expositor Indiscriminate. commutation of the death sentence is a bad prac- tice, sdvs Lord Parker ef Wadd- ington, the Lord Chief Justice of England here for the bar con- vention and getting a number of | things off his chest that he can- not say at home. He refers to Ottawa's recent habit of com- muting most hanging sentences, a habit which Mr. Justice Man- | son of dhe BC Supreme Court also deplores.”’And there is a good deal in what their lordships say. —Vancouver Province i and Miss Mary Shea. R.N., pre- viously on the staff of the Char- | | lottetown Hospital for sometime, left yesterday for Port Chester, New York, where they have ac- cepted positions on the staff of ithe United Hospital. | likelihood of a blow-out. A tight NOTES BY THE WAY — the: main DEW line site on Vic e cestors. as being a eave crude grip on the wheel is the first es- — sential when this flash peril strikes, emphasizes the Ontario Safety eague Drivers who steer the top of the wheel while the left hand holds on to the roof, are badly placed to prevent the , swerve and roll-over that is too often the tragic result of a blow- out at speed .—Ontario Safety Lea- gue we MAXIMS A helping word to one tn, troub- le is often like a switch on a rail- road track—but one inch/between wreck and smooth-rolling pros- | perity. Prairie,Populators Problem M.W. in the Winnipeg Free Press | By the measure of population | Manitoba and Saskatchewan con- | tinue to grow — at a snail's pace. | The latest estimates released by j the Dominion Bureau of Statis- tics. indicate that, in the six | ‘months ending July 1, Manitoba | gained’ about 8.000, Saskatche- | wan about 7.000 people. For the! full 12 months the yearly incre. | | ments would be, respectively, 16,- | 000 and 14.000 j | These are modest ficures when! compared with similar est mates for Ontario . (162.000), Quebec (112.000) and Alberta - (33.000) But they are much hetter than the 1940s when Sask- | atchewan suffered an absolute i loss of pépulation so great thaf | even —now,—after—a—decade. and a half of comparative prosper ity, the population is greater by | only 7,000 than it was 18 years ago \ ESTIMATES ONLY It must be emphasized that the DBS fizurés are estimates. ; The basic statistics, the numbers | fof births and deaths, admit of But the gains | 'from immigration are reckoned from the declared intentions of immigrants on landing. These. of those of |your doctor fs in the best posi- | course. are subject to change tion to advise you. -INSECT VISITOR i It glances along my fingers, A silvery splinter-shape, And statue-still jt lingers In a papery banded cape | With frail wings neatly folded, 7 | Moveless and- unafraid. ; and open drains. The byways are | 150.000 persons, but it bulged with | Strangely it might be molded lined with bazaars. | CROWDS THRONG STREETS ed. itinerant: holy men wander _about with a detached air: schol | ars decipher old inscriptions on the temples; Gurkha soldiers | from the Nepalese hills stro the | streets; hill women in voluminous red skirts carry loads of wood | jinte the city. a half-million when the youthful new. monarch. Mehendra, was dra promulgated a democratic constitution, and the nation’s first parliamentary elections were held in the ;spring of 1959. The new parliament: recently convened in Katmandu--on a day chosen by court astrologers as auspicious Newfoundlan hie aiand St. John's, Newfoundland Daily News. | Most of us, when w Newfoundland, think omy of the | iskand in which We Tive. abrador | was once known as a depéndency. | _Today it is regarded more as a | } rich but bleak and isolated annex. | But there are things in pregress in Labrador today in the farth- est. reaches of Labrador, which should make us proud to think of Newfoundland as a province rath- er than an island. } What the future holds for Lab rador is more than any man can say today. A few short years ago we thought\of it only as a coast of many harbours in which our fishermen, in a few brief weeks of summer, could reap a rich har | best of cod. But few fishermen go | to the Labrador coast in these times. The past may nat be fin- ished but the future has a bright- er and different aspect. The power resources are im- mense. Moreover they have reach- ed the stage where production waits only on custdmers. From the Hamilton River’ watershed six million horsepower can be produced in stages at an aston- ishingly low cost. There remains the matter of long-distance trans- mission which is ceasing to be a problem. Perhaps the first’ de- velopment will be required to meet the needs of the great iron project at Carol Lake. But in time, in the industrial heart of Canada, low-cost Labrador pow- er will turn the: wheels of Canad- ian industry. EMPHASIS ON IRON But the emphasis is today on iron. What has already been ach- ieved staggers the imagination. One has only to fly over ‘the route of the Quebee North Shore and Labrador Railway to discover what prodigies of executive cour) | age and engineering achievement At Schefferville, just across the speak of!in a barren region where grass will not grow, there exists today a town that has heen built on Lab- rador iron. Only one-third of its current production rate of 12 mil- lion tons comes from the Xew- foundiand side. That is nevertheless an im- portant content. Out of Scheffer- ville every day run 8 trains. each of 125 cars drawn by four diesel locomotives, carrying a_ daily total of 80.000 tons~of iron ore along 356 miles of track to the shipping point at Seven Islands. These are impressive figures At Schefferville, a community of about 4.000 people. are to be found all the comforts the. mod- ern society can ask. Good homes, zood schools, churches, recrea- tion centres, good society and a healthy life CAROL LAKE Further south, about 120 miles as the train goes, the houndary bulges deep into Quebec. follow- ing the height of land. There, at Carol Lake, 42 mile from the main line in a westerly direction, a great new iron empire is in process of construction. Scheffer- ville is in Quebec. Carol Lake is well within Newfoundland. The ore from the north is ur cover that, through beneficiation, this low-grade dre could be econ omically converted info high- grade iron concentrates. At Car- ol Lake some 500 people are now building a new industry and a new community, thanks to the enterprise and vision and _per- haps the courage of the men who control the destinies of the Iron Ore Company of Canada. = Three years from now six mil- lion tons a year of bheneficiated ore will leave Carol by the rail- Way. spur to the main line and on to Seven ‘Islands. , Between now and then, tremendons things must be done. For a while many me@ Newfoundland border im Quebec,i will be needed for constcuction | Of marble or of jade. The streets are always crowd- | crowned in 1954. King Mahen-, But fueled with what dark power 1959, 22,100 children were born |} It skims into air again, | More like a flving flower Than kin to the breed of men! ' As soon could we unravel What life for this thote may be, As vovage to Crux or travel To ancient Galilee. N —Stanton A. Coblentz, in the New York Times. OUR YESTERDAYS (From the Guardian Files) TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Sept. 22, 1934) At a special meeting of. the City | Council vesterday afternoon, fol i lowing the opening of tenders for permanent street construction, it was decided that all street work under the unemployment relief plan be done by the City En- proceed with the construction of sidewalks and storm sewers. ' WH. Tidmarsh was re-elected president of the P.E.1. Fish and Game Association at the = an- nual meefing held last evening in the Board of Trade rooms, Other officers include Vice-President, FE. Irgs; Secretary, 1.G. MacFadyen; Executive, Sam Crockett, P. Tur- Frank Fraser, W.A. Jenkins, Oli ver Harper, Stanley Matheson, TEN YEARS AGO (Sept. 22, 1949) The first potato boat of the sea- son, an early arrival, ‘ at the Marine Wharf, Summerside, yesterday morning. A U.S. Army transport, the FS-230, she is load- ing, 2,425 barrels of potatoes sup- plied by Simmons and \MacFar- will, go to the US. Air Force bases in Labrador and Baffinland. work thereafter, the aperation Will resolve itself into a demand for about a thousand highly skill ed workers who are prepared to be empire-builders and (6 adjust themselves to a good,life in the wilderness. reaping the rewards that go with it. gineer, and he was instructed to | ner, J.D. Jenkins, R.E. Mutch, Roland Meikle, A.W. Hyndman, | D.A. MacKinnon, RE: (Spillet, | lane, Summerside. The shipment | Miss Georgine Trainor, R. N., © -_ 1 Similarly inter provincial | | movements (fram which the two | | provinces have been net losers) | are reckoned: from family allow- | ance statistics which may be misleading. Jt is to be hoped that | DBS has erred on the side of pes: | simism for in fact, the situation, | as indicated by the latest esti- mates, is more disquieting than it | appears at sight. | A province with a healthy econ- | omy ought to show substantial | gains from ‘two sources, the na- | lural increase of the population | measured by the excess of births | over deaths and the excess of new- comers over persons leaving to | establish: new homes elsewhere. | IN MANITOBA In the vear first ending June 1, in Manitoba: 7:500 deaths were recorded: the net. gain was thus 14,600, But 3.900! immi: gave Manitoba as their destination: If te: | destination | viously there is still a strong out- | The it were not for losses te other provinces and probably te the United States the population increase should thus have been 18,- 500 instead of about 16.000. This suggests either that the provinee‘is still failing to hold its own young people or else that it is getting an even smaller pro- portion of immigrants to Cam ada than the tiny fraction indi- cated by the official figures. The truth probably is that Manitoba is losing more native-born Caa dians than it is gaining and com- pensating for this loss by hold- ing some immigrants—but fewer than is generally supposed... The case of Sascsichewan is even clearer. In the .same 12- month period the excess of births | over deaths in the wheat province was 17.10 although the total es- timated population increase was omiv about 14.000. Immigrants naming Saskatchewan as i number 2,400. ward moyement from Sasrkatche- wan whith is not being offset by the flow of newcomers. READY EXPLANATION In the 1940s there was a ready explanation for this loss: it was the delayed price ‘of a decade of drought and depression. Once people. hecame financially able to move, they left the prairies for other homes This movement was, of course, intensified by the acreultural.. revolution brought about by greater mechanization. But these factors have now, presumably, ‘spent their force. trouble today is not that Manitoba and Saskatchewan are badly off: it is rather that the central provinces are sufficiently better off to serve as great mag- nets attracting not _ immr grants but also people f the prairies and from the Maritimes. In this inter-provincial compe tition for people, the problem facing Manitoba and Saskatche- wan is not merely to provide ‘ new, soundly-based industries and | consequent job opportunities; it is to do so at an accelerating rate.’ good ' food sets the mood 4 / _ @ as 2ay- * iD wo ‘ eee GETTER MEALS BUILD BETTER FAMILIES eonpe020e0000000008008°0 ~~ DIAL Special delivery service missed. IF YOUR GUARDIAN | IS LATE... 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