@112 @nm'rlicm Covers Prince Edward Island Line The W . Hancox, pUbIIEI‘lBI’ Dew Burton Lewis trunk Walker Executive Editor um Published every week da/ memoir; (except Sun- day: and statutory I'lnlidaysl at loS Prince Stree. Charlottetown. P.E.I.. by Thomson Newspapcn Ltd. Branch office: at Survimeraide, MontoguE, Alber- ton and Scum. Represented nationally by Thommn Ni‘m'pal’lf'l’l Advertising Serwces, Toronto, 425 Uiiivcrslly Ava. Emp'ra 3'5394; Montreal. 04ft Cathiavt Street University c.5942. Wcsiern Oflue, 1030 that Georgia Street. Vancouver i’llA 7037? Member Canadian Daily Newspaper Potatshrrs Association and The Canadian Press. The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use for repub- lication of all new dispatch“ this paper credited to it nr tn t'cs Ausowatrd Fri; or Rider! In and also to the local new". p'lhlishccl hpicm All rights or vcmibhrauon of special dispatmr; hue. In also rcscrvrd. SL‘l’Wfrlf‘liOV'I rate: Not over 35.: per week by cariiei. 1-12.00 a near by mail or rural route: incl are. by carrier. “5.00 a year off bland a"rl H K. 3:“ 00 per in 115- and elsewhere mus (in. B'lliftll Com not SFVVIC‘O‘ Not over 7r. mulls Copy Member Await Bureau a (-muahon. PAGE 4 —_..' """"""""" ‘ ‘ Much Left Obscure We. trust that Premier Shaw is justified in his hope, that, this Prov- ince “'lll benefit from the. proposed study of the interrelated problems of taxation and expenditure by fed- eral und pix-vincial governments as announced by Prime, Minister Pear- .son at the. close of last week's feder- al-provmciul conference. This in~ quiry. understand. will differ from the current t‘artcr Royal (font- : .zt udy in}: the feder. \\'P mission which i a] tax sti‘uciiirc. and from Ihc var- ious provincial commissions which are delving into the same problem on another level. It will in effect he a continuum coiiiiniticc of tlic con. ference and he made up of cabinct ministert. We are .~I‘lll iii the dark. howcvcr. as fur Premier Lesage is prepared to go along with this pro- posal. According to one report he made. clPur—us Mr. Pearsen failed to (Io—that (.liinhcc has not agreed to take part in it. but. only to think about l’al-(ll‘lf: part ll'l It. This is one. of the many ambi- guities that we had occasion to com- plain of in law» imek‘: official coni- munique. It left too much to the ini- ln hi'iw agination. As. noted by the Toronto Globe and Mail. nobody. the. minister; and their aide: who actual- ly sat in on the. conference. knows what happened at all. The. press. as always. was barred. What in- formation it got during the discus- sions sketchy. Sometime: mnfiised and sometimes: (Ollfl‘lftlll'l- \Vhile this. conference ting. in at Ottawa. report. and did report. Parliament's SHNP was. second—hand, was; sit- Parliament “as s:e.‘..:io'n The press was free In wandering rlirri ssions on topics of minor import—w“ ho was responsible for the. Fommons having to meet on Good Friday. whether t‘l\'ll scr- ‘.'diit..; .hoiiirl he paid a boiiiir. for being bilingual: whether an MP should be. givci'i a free flight to Cyprus. But the press: could not report. iii any dciiiilcd or accurate sense. thc imnicusuroblv more im- portant di.-cussions going on at Quebec City. "One. of fhr- issiies taken up there." add. our Toronto Contem- porary. 'l.‘~‘ rnough. in itself. to drive great hole; in (Ionfcderation—the demands of the provinces. especial- ly Ql.lf?lif‘i‘. for more money to meet. their con: titutional responsibilities. Should not ('anadians be permitted to know. through their press. who said what :ian stood where on this vital isslic'."' This ruise; the question of how the proposed tax structure commit- tee report will be dealt with. Will this also he submitted to a tightly- closed cont‘crcncc. and discussed in Secret? I‘rcsumably so. But sure- li' it is time. in view of the import- ance, thcse fcdcraI-provincial gather- ings have assumed. that they be made. as open to the public as Par- liament itself. A Great Soldier The. late General Douglas Muc- Arthur was the. son of a general. and showed outstanding military talent at an carly age. Aft or com- manding a division in the First World War he became. the youngest major general in the. American army. But. this was only the. be- ginning of a career that. brought him world renown and placed the whole. free world in his debt for the. magnificent leadership he gave to allied forces in the Pacific during the Second World War. and later during the outbreak of the Korean conflict. ' I A growing divergence of views between him and President Tru- man's administration led to his dis- missal a: commander of UN. de- fending forces in Korea: but he re- ceived a tumultuous welcome on his ['ptuni home and continued to hold the csiccm and admiration of his couiitrynicii. It is noteworthy that Mr. 'l‘rumuu was one. of the first to pay li'll‘lllP to General Mac- Arthur following the announcement of his doth in Washington. as one who gum of himself with excep- tional strength and valor and who will hc rciiinuilicrcd "as one of the iti'cui niilii..iv men of our time." l‘ltl» i. ‘hc consensus of opinion evei-yxvlici'c. Rut perhaps the most touching that have been rccoiwd .‘ll‘f‘ those which have come from Japan. where a whole nation is n'iourniiic‘ the passing of its war- time, conqueror. General MacArthur headed the Allied delegation which signed the Japanese surrender aboard the battleship "Missouri" on Sept. ‘3. ltllfi: and thereafter. for more than five years. he supewis- ed reconstruction and demo- critiization the country. This wonderful achievement in- deed. of which military history af- fords few parallels. World Health Day This day has been set for recall- ing the aciivitics of the. World Health tli'_u':iiiiz:itioii. known as WHO. .‘lll .igcncy of the United Na- tions. which operates a network of information on disease centres and Flllllllll‘h iucmhcr countries with protective facts. so that. health con- ditions at point. at which plunes or PH;~SCH£€I‘S touch is known. The iriinoriuncc of these efforts 5: underlined by the fact. that today in (‘anada \ie are hours—not days or weeks—aimy from lands where ll'lt’l‘P are :ill the dist—"rises we have fniig‘ht and coiiqiici'cd by our own high health and high hygiene stand- ards. Smallpox. yellow fever. typhus. plague are all endemic or in raging tributes the Ill. “‘21: H cvcry epidemics in some countries that once. were storybook-distant from (‘anada until the advcnt of that flight. \I’Hf‘l does inure than act as a detective spotting dis- ease carrir'is HI all ports of entry. It: vast ruiiiificniions include fig-ht- agency in ing those di-u'a.-:es on their own grounds. Malaria. for instance. is being fought through intensive campaigns against mosquitoes. Hor- rifying diseases with strange names. that kill or niuini or cripple the na- tives. are. hattch by the WHO doc.- tors ..iid scientists --di.<cu.:cs that could. iindoi' i‘ci'tuiii conditions. find their way f'uuiidu unless they are wiped out on their home ground. Thi: _\‘F‘.’ll. “oild Health Day is roiicciitratii'c' a menace wi t h which wc are. more. familiar—tuber- culosis. mice Canada's greatest kill- er. and still a foo to be treated with iiiii'luguiiig vigiluiicc. “The Real Solution" Advocates of a year-round calen- dar for Canadian universities have found another champion in the per- .son of William Thomson. director of Canada‘s National Employment Service. fit (Ill Speukii’u: iii Winnipcg last week. Mr. Thompson pointed out that the. problem of finding summer employ- ment for ‘iiversity students is he.- coming more difficult each year. This. he said. is occasioned by the fact that university enrolment. steadily on the increase and that summer jobs looked for by students are usually in the semi-skilled or unskilled categories. where there is already a surplus of applicants. is The answer. he suggested. may lie partly in lax-free loans to uni- versity studcnts: but the real solu- tion hc for the universities to operate. on a year-round basis fin his words. to carry on an 11-month semester). "The universities won't like. this." he added. “but they could cut the four-year course. to three years"——to the advantage of the students the economy as a whole. EDITORIAL NOTE The. Financial Post. Toronto. de- votes a friendly editorial to our ('on- federation anniversary activities in Prince Edward Island this year. adding the hope that "when 1967 rolls around. the rest of the coun- try will match its enthusiasm for remembering Canadian history and Canadian heroes" would a nd _._ ___¥—,_._ 4 .4 MAN OVERBOARD OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick NICI‘IOISOn Corny Frocas On Parliament Hill A5 A sequel to my account of What your SIHJMM .1 year .VIPs did in Parliament on Good l-‘ri- day. today I “III \IHIH you mainly in their own words. what they did on lflzistcr Mon- 3y tficr two hours of normal trivia an unusually bitter round of uuucumnohle endear- mpnfs \\.‘l~ lnlli‘llf‘f’l off by \lr. ‘ n t e f enbakci' inappropriawa i during a debate on agricuL tiirP "The only reason we were brought back here is that the. (lovcrumcnt and particiilurly ihc lliiiisicr of .IllNllf’f‘ ‘.\1l‘. Fa- vrciiu found ihcmsclves in an impmohlc ltiNlllflll the Min- Net of Justice moved that we \ll on Good Friday." said Mr. wish "to cover thin: entirely so would he no misunder- staiirlui: l :ctcr to Hansard." he continued. dcnvin: his own arcumcni by disclosinz: “ui'hcre ' . be following appear: Mr. Favir iii Q n r a kcr. m ‘ nrrlcr tn avoid IlFH'lt‘l: to Kit on Home :ivc unanimous consent to arijourmu: until \ionday. \lai'ch 30 \fr. Nugent IA Tory .\f l‘." ‘Rcfused . ' Hi: irrelci :1 n v' c to auricul- lui'e provoked fi'cqiicnt inter- lcciions One uucrriiptrr. Ar- nold Peters nf Kirkland Lake. he termed "unctiiouc." Ano- ihcr. Frank Howard of Skcena. ‘atheist" inot triip, Howard .l CORRECTIONS Stanley Knowles. the \\'iiiiii- pegger who is House Leader for the NDP. charged that Mr. D. "indulged in a display this afternoon that lcannot let pass w i t It 0 u t putting the record straight. if anyone reads care- fully what was said. it he very clear that Mr far from g to force House to sit on Good Friday. was doing his best to help the House avoid sitting on Good Friday. As one \\ h o is i a po- sition to know what went on. I refuse to let Mr. Favrcau be blamed falsely as he was Ibis afternoon by thin Di. When I heard him IMr. Di twisting the words of Favreau.. I could hardly believe my ears. said Ml‘. ‘ f wan at the time of the that way. But he bounces up and down like a little lack-in- the A box and has nothing to con- tribute " But he “as not talking Mr. D. It was Gordon Churchill. an lie was referring to Tommy Douglas. leader of the NDP. As aptist Minister. and as Premier of Saskatche- Battle of Normandy and after. to him the derogatory and suggestive crack about gunpowder was ' inappropriate and un - Easter- like. CORN FOR $18.00" Churchill got his come - up- . pancc when Frank Howard said: “l think it confirms why . be was fired from the position of .'\Ir. Knowles as an experienced ‘ parliamentarian is authoritat. \‘e. and as a United Church Minister is trustworthy: 11c thus c lo a red MnFavreau of the charge which "as the. Leader of the Opposition iMr. I‘lf did. IS to accuse him of something which is the very opposite of what he tried to do. and is a performance not worthy of the Rt. Hon. gentleman who was formerly prime minister of this country." Another Winnipeg criticised "the toy the man who was tel l in g us about toy - soldering. and 1 said then that if he had smelled MP then soldier ~- BC. he said was a self - stylcd gunpowder he would not talk SOURIS EAST MIRACLE . Were it mosquito season this 5112A l‘tid ynii ever hear Ieli of a miracle" No doubt ynu‘ have! But rare indeed are you I i who have seen a miracle unfold before your naked eyes. You will notice that I used the term rarc which describes to a T the situation which l plan to splash ‘ before your eyes in this column. First. camc the forccast snow and blowing snow. then came. the blocked roads all over PET. ~bringin: all traffic to a stand- still. then came the fine days. “Plcasc nnic line as there wcrr more finc days than stormy days this winter. "On those spe- cial days of grace lfine dayst. snow-plows large. mcdium. small. dilapidated. broken down. stuck. and out of fuel wcrc sprawling over the highways; sorry. I should say highway be cause there appears to be only one main highway leading cast from Souris. At this point I should explain myself a bit more fully and say cast of Souris thcrc is one main i highway with many public roads leading from this highway. and believe it or not there are homes on such public roads which are inhabited by human beings; that‘s not so strange, eh'.’ Let us hit the road. namely the one better known from Syl'..- corner to MacKinnon‘a point for example. This road was never opened properly land I tinder- linc propcrlyi all winter long un- I til April 2. 1964 Was this just i an afterthought April fool'.’ Or‘ did such a move spark off a real i honest to goodness Maybe this great road openlnlz ‘ effort. signified the coming of ‘ spring: sorry boys. but the cal- endar said the first day of spring ‘ was last month. but better late I than never. eh! Granted the people who open- ed the highways did work hard, and we give them due credit. But when it comcs to the road in question we don‘t give one ounce of credit because this road was nothing but a beaten down rabbit-path all vvintcr and on dif- , ferent occasions we contemplat- t ed digging a funnel. l Once in a blue moon yellow l bird. namely the snowplow, would stagger down the roadl with its wing high 1 lll'. miracle? : WWW, , win: would be an advantage in killiii: those insects—but it was still winter. I bet in the driver's eyes and the Wing served as a visor the sun wast t The filling in let driveways. . smashing of milk stands. floor- ing of mail boxes and killing of cats we can tolerate on our pub- lic road (please note canl. But when we look across at our ncl- glibnur. ll am not referring to Nova Scolial and see their drive- way plowed clcan around then house for no earthly reason at all. we wonder why the drag. Drag is a slang term that we the forgotten people of the un- plnucd road use. What about our school bllb that was hung high and dry at Syl‘s corner morning after moi ning'.’ Too bad there wasn't Minister of Tra do it is a shame to see a former member of the cabinet try to twist and distort the facts so as to leave a false impression of what went on " It remained for R N Tliomp- f son. leader of the Social Credit. j Party. in a statesmanlike way to urge MPs to refrain from "making public spectacles of ourselves and o the H and to thank Mr. Knowles for doing a service to the House by making co rt a In matters clear." All this corny fracas was 11'» relevant to the subject under de- . bate Your 518.0(th a your MP5 ‘ ad been asked to examine the . estimates of the Department of Agriculture point neatly highlighted by the witty Colin Cameron of \‘an a i m o. who asked "whether corn has any- thing to do with agriculture?" Our Yesterdays (From the Guardian Files) TWENTY - FIVE Y .ARS AGO mm" 7. 1939) Supplementing thc list of awards of special scholarships. fellowships and studentships rc- ccntly published. the National Research Council announces the . awarding ofa bursary to C.. I hllill-m cafeteria aboard the bus 2 just in case the snowplow driv- ers and boss dld by sheer acct dont see the school bus stuck. Then they could have a cup of coffee. a liquid which they con- sumed in large quantities while our road remained blocked. What. are we hoping for by our beefing? Not another miracle this time next year we hope. but just a bit of recognition. Pos- sihly next year some of o u: modern inventors might come up with some sort. of magnetic. spray that can be sprinkled on the snow to help haul down the wing of yellow bird thus widen- lng our public road. Again this might not work and we'll be back to the walking .i'outlne. All ages walked out - famed blocked road this year. young and old alike. even a lady I in her teenaizc eighties plunch down this great unknown man. In closing we have one rc ' Acadian Entomological _Soclety Riley of Summerside. Dalhousie University physical chemistry student. The Evening Auxuiary of Trin- ily United (‘hurch held their Easter meeting at the Mrs, George Mccklc. with the president. Mrs. Davies in the chair, The Easter program was in charge of Mrs. Fred Wollon. TEN YEARS AGO (April 7. I954) The annual mecting of the will open a two-day sessuon of discussions at Birch Court. with Mr. FM. Cannon presiding. Mr. Reg Howard. speaking on "Canada and the Investment. Dealer." was guest speaker the regular monthly meeting of St. Paul‘s Men's Association held in the parish hall. home of ‘ CLEAR CONTROL POINTS BERLIN tAPi Two us. army convoys. totalling 81 v0 hicles. arrived in West Berlin from West Germany Monday ll a routine movement of troopl. Tbe convoys cleared .without hitch the. Soviet control paint] on the no - mile Autobahn stretch that passes through Communist territory. the U.S. Army reported. i prevented tc about ' quest. Please. don't travel down . our newly widened road of Apri. 2. 1964 as this road lii like sacred cow of India—You must not kill lt. But come to visit Ila in summer when it is a rea- treat to see our astounding scen- ic beauty. Until then we remain: Yours truly everyone and any- body from Syl‘s Corner to Mac- ‘ Kinnon's Point Road. And if you want a single indi- vldual to have a rebuttle willi— m. Slr. etc. ANGUS MacPHEE flouri- tut. ICE CUBE MAKERS ATTENTION: SERVICE STA- TION. MOTEL. HOTEL Ind RESTAURANT OPERATORS. famous Frigidaire Ice Maker. from 50 to 500 lbs Storey Electric Ltd. Dial 4-7341 V actually. Syphilis Creates Medical Paradox By Dr. Theodore R. VmDelleu for the medical profession. We have excellent methods of detecting the condition. but the number of new cases continues to mount. The statistics in pub- lic health departments cannot be considered new 1' a l e be- cause up to 90 per cent of these infections are not reported. The family physician protects the patient. This is understand- I able because of the stigma of guilt. sex. and fear involved in acquiring the disease. The chief objection to this form of secrecy is that the person who transmit- ted the infection rem a i ii; at large and is rec to pass it along to others. This may one of the major reasons syphilis is on the rise. The antibiotics such as peni- cillin. erythromycln. and tetra- cycline have proved effective in early syphilis. The 19 - year experience of Dr_ F. .l. G. .lef— feriss of England is note- worthy. He n e ver has known an early case that did not. res- pond to 2.4 million units of pen- fctllln whe it given over an eight - more. there never has been a relapse. On the other hand. re- lapse may occur after a period of time. stressing the import- ance of follow - up blood tests. .lf signs or symptoms of disease recur. this does necessarily rcpre s e n t a relapse; reinfection may be re- why the not true sponsible. This situation is common among the sexually promiscuous. Prior to the discovery that penicillin curcd syphilis. the victim was treated at weekly intervals for three to fl ve years. Relapses were rare du- ring thal lime. presumably be- cause the prolonged lrculmcnt with the arsenicals and bismuih manifestations of reinfection. This does not happen following the eight—day penicillin treatment. Conse- quently. more and more indivl~ ‘ duals are having “relapses” heinfections. SLIDING HERNIA Mrs. L. W. writes: What. Is do 9 for a sliding esophagus? Eat small meals. low in fut. Avoid food three 9 bedtime. sleep with the upper half of the body elevated. and reduce. if obese. Your physician may wish to prescribe a sedative or an anti. spasmodic. The term "sli. ding" is used because the her- nia slips up into the chest, es- pecially when sleeping. Today’s Health Hint A relative humidity of fippm~ ximately 45 per cent keeps the home confortable. day period. Further-‘ for this type of hernia tdiaphr- ‘ Ortiz: As the world brudlleuly watches the Modem! We between Moscow Peking. replete with awesome pin-nee : like "expanaitmlsm and Mortal golsm." “ ' Men M- tionalism" and the more fam- iliar "Ma mm-Iamusm.” I may seem to the average Weat- ern observer ( or boungeola alp- ltalisi lackeyt there are only two kinds of communism. This is not so. There are three and Canada has the third It might be called don't-chunge . horses - in-tbe «middle of llhe iatream-ism a the indicatimu ‘ am that it will outlive the other r two. Canadians will note. with . something akin to affection. that Q be ‘ Mr. Tim Buck and Mr. Leslie ; Morris. have been reelected to . .thcir posts at the head of tb Communist Part ada. ‘. after 40 years of leading It. Now 40 years is a long time in ‘- the history of communism. It i period littered with Two Syrian highways. worn thin over the centuries by the thread of Crusaders. camel car- avans. and now by s. are getting a ski-million faceliftlng. Bulldozcrs. graders. a d mcnt mixch will lay new pave- ment to speed modern-day traf- fic through one of the world's . oldcst inhabited regions. The fresh paving will stretch 225 mil- cs from Damascus to Aleppo. lhcn extend 100 miles cast from Aleppo to Raqqab. Because Syria lies on the land bridge linking Asia. Africa. and Europe. traders. warriors. and rc‘ligioiis leaders have long criss- crossed the region with new - idczis. cultures. and faiths. GOES TO PARADISE 'l‘lic Damascus-Aleppo road. Syria's principal ll()l‘lll- south trunk route. begins in the capil- nl city of 491.398. Supposedly . founded by Noah's grandson al- I fer the Great Flood. Damascus blends broad boulevards and narrow bazaars. llstin y shops . glitter with bright brass trays. I gold and silver filigree. and box- cs inlaid with ivory, The city gave its name to the reversible ‘ figured fabric. damask. The prophet Moliammcd re- portedly refused to pass through Damascus's gates into the city. saying. "A man may not enter paradise twice. and I prefer to await the immortal paradise." Starting north. the highway runs through a fertile and heav- ily populated oasis surrounding the city. The road from now servos a considerable num- ber of suburban industrial es- s such ‘ “paradise” i In Canada ml Mall. Toronto “I” u WI smut 110‘, w, Malcolm. Molotov a n d Eula-bin. M W of com- munism bu drifted and about ed as Stalin. Tito. Moo Tee- tunz. Kibmahcilwv and other: their lndlvldml ver- the 'e m in . by s v I achieved a kind of We which must make it the enVy of the of the Oommvnbt world. Communism is not manent. i was thought to be. sure of stability can be achiev- ed by accurate assessment of those brands which are "in" and those which are “out”. Mr. Buck and Mr, Mamie have been told in the clearest femis by their followers: "We will never bury you." It could limp- pen only in a decadent diamo- cratic state. Syria’s Oldest Roads National Geographic Society lablishments such as petroleum refineries. sugar mills. and food processing plants. Enrou-te to Aleppo. the high- wa. sea extensive agricul- tural flatlands which produce one-third of Syria's cotton. wheat. and barley. and nearly all its sugar eels. This area was once the "bread basket” of the Roman Empire. The road crosses the serpen- tine Oronfcs River at Hamath. a picturesque town situated in a lush river valley below the wind- swept lains. Giant water wheels. built by the Romans. . continue to supply water for the ; town and nearby orchards. T ; loo-foot- high. moss- covered ' wheels provide power for grist. mills. ' swimmers sometimes squeaking paddles to the top and dive off. The main road ends at Aleppo. Syria's largest city. Camel car- avans still trail into the import- ant trading center with pistach- io nuts from Turkey. rugs from Persia. camel hides fromJeh- j 52 . and coffee from Mocha. 1 Licorice grows wild 3 Ion g Aleppo roadsides. The dried roots of the perennial plant are processed into extracts for the black candy sticks and for indus- trial use The Aleppo - Raqqab road. though shorter and less import- ant than the Damascus road. nevertheless transports staple food crops. grains. and cotton from the agricultural regions of eastern Syria to Aleppo. At the peak of the harvest season. 3: 000 trucks and can roll across f the road daily. Infection. the world. Against Tuberculosis. 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