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When people talk about the kind of storms we get nowadays they leave them- selves open for a horse laugh {mm us. nldtimors. specially if we work- ed on the 1'."iilway, battling drifts for weeks on end. “I bet Premier Shaw—-Who I notice had his 76th birthday yester- day-——-can remember that winter. though he was only a youngster at the time. Probably he helped his dad with the teams of horses that used to follow the engines to supply coal from the tops of the banks as the plows tried to ram their way through the snow. "Farrnt=rs coulrl look down the funnels of the engines. the banks were so high. They could sit on top of the telegraph poles and watch as the engines backed up about a mile and charged at the rate of about 40 miles an hour—making just about as much dint in the banks as to gain their own length. or maybe two lengths. There were no rotary plows then. of course! "Walter may remember than it took five weeks for the Tignish train to get to Charlottetown that "winter. and three weeks for the Charlottetown train to get to Fred- ericton. At. Watt’s cutting it took six men to relay the snow to the crest of the bank and all along the line there were armies of men-a thousand or more-—throwing snow with everything from spades to coal shovels. » “The engine crews got precious little sleep. and as for grub——one fellow told me he ate so much cheese on one trip that he has never touched the stuff since. They were nearly suffocated, too. with snow getting down the smokestack and into the ash pan. forcing them técrawl up on the tender for air. eman had to crawl on his stom- with a rake to clean it. One lductor got his toes frozen in baggage car and it took him 0 weeks to get back to Charlotte- n. travelling by sleigh." “‘You are old. Father William." e young man said. “but your mory's remarkably good. Can u tell me. pray. were there other 'nd winters as had as t:hat'.”’ ,‘ "Plenty of them." chortled the "but those were farther k. I mentioned this one because nted to bring my young friend - lter into the picture. somehow or{- other. A fine lad he was when I new him. and a fine man he's gsgwn to be today. Just in his pdttne, too. and him Premier and all. Off with you. now. while I write e. congratulating him on his ‘ birthday, and wishing him many if ‘ In cl" Nazi Treasure Hunt ‘ {For years there have been ru- ‘ of 3 secret Nazi Measure hoard on the bottom of the remote Lake Toplitl. in Austria. A German was drowned L government. set out to recover bodilfifl "9 *3” ‘‘“’"°‘'’ ~ ,-thus prevent tteeeim trorriic sounding equipment. Others have been conducting an under- water television probe. The hunt has taken two months and cost 2.1 million Austrian schil- lings (about $84,000.) It has involv- ed 11 divers and frogmcn as well as technical experts. but the only “treasure" recovered has been a pile of counterfeit British bank notes forged by the Nazis during World War Two. in an effort to harm Eng- land’s currency. That's disappointing. because the rumors were to the effect that the retreating Germans had (1 u m p e d three separate hoards into the deep- est part. of the lake. one of them comprising containers full of top- secret documents. These documents were said to include lists of accounts opened in Swiss banks by prominent Nazi leaders and valued at nearly $3 billion. It was said the accounts were due to expire after 20 years in 1964 when the money would be- come the property of the Swiss banks. A second cache was rumored to be 22 cases. each containing 22 pounds of gold._ It was the third cache. report- edly of forged British bills. that has come to light. Perhaps the others are there too. but the searchers have decided to call it quits for the pres- ent. Already the green-black waters are beginning to free7.e around the gloomy shores and heavy snow has fallen on the rocky, pine-covered mountain slopes. An uninviting place to winter in. The searchers were hampered, too. by underwater tree trunks. and thick. slimy. mud- covered fragments of weapons and military gear. Perhaps another try will be made. under more favorable conditions. Or it may be that the Austrians have decided to let Lake Tolpitz keep its secret. if it has any beyond what has already come to light. Period Extended There is still opportunity for em- ployers in this Province, and else- where. to take advantage of federal incentives to hire older workers. Labor Minister l\IacEachen has an- nounced that the program has been extended two months. to the end of March. 1964. At the same time he announced a change in regula- tions so that these older workers will no longer have to exhaust their unemployment insurance benefits before being eligible under the plan. Officials here report that the reaction to the program has not been as encouraging as was hoped and expected. Surely this is not be- cause we are in the enviable posi- tion of having no older workers’ unemployment problem! The plan has been in operation now since November 1. Under it. Ottawa pays employers half of the monthly wage or $75. whichever is less. for un- employed persons over 45 who are given jobs. The worker must be kept on the job for at least three months and given an amount of training. This was one of the progressive measures introduced in the Gordon Budget, and was received with gen- eral app rova l. The Government would like to see more advantage taken of it, and has accordingly extended the period of its opera- tion. We feel that it is to be com- mended on its initiative in this re- gard; but as in other policies of this kind, success will depend on the amount of co-operation received from all concerned. EDITORIAL NOTES A French inventor has a machine which he says will put even an insomniac to sleep in no time. It looks like 3 television set. It gives off a light with a halo effect that expands and contracts. The monotony of watching it. he claims. will bring the sandman to anyone. 0 O U Present-day detergents cannot be decomposed in sewage plants. as soap can. There has been growing concern over the effect of this un- dissolved detergent upon fish and its seepage into drinking water sources. In West Germany the gov- ernment tackled this problem by enacting a law forcing detergent tnakers to change the moleciilar structure of their product so that it will be capable of being decom- posed by bacteria. Now a Gemini company has announced that it will have a “soft” detergent on the mar- ket by 1965. i if.’ . i-i£i.L.Yei2‘s ' GYM 5‘? ///'.. TRIM THE FAT BUT NOT THE MUSCLE OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson Record Oi Quebec Folk Handicraft Many Canadians are 2 o i n g to find beneath their Christmas tree a fascinating and inval- uable review of is newly - treas- ured part of our cultural inher- ltance. This is the book “The early furniture of French Can- ada“ by Jcan Palardy. publish- ed by Macmilians. Tins truly beautiful b o o k . lavishly illustrated with colour- ed plates. black and white pho- tographs and line drawi n g s . gives us the first and 8 very complete record of the origins. development and survivals of the distinctive folk ihandic r aft which once flourished e l on g the shores of the St. Lawrence. it has an added interest in that its publication has come at a time when eady Canadian pine furniture. and especially th at of Quebec. is attracting the in- terest of col ectors and museums. and is selling for rapidly rising prices. . . Palardy incident alt y traces the early social history of Quebec. describing how th 9 early settlers could brim! w i t h them from France nothing but a chest containing their clothes. Their first problems were to cope with the nature‘. dang er s found in their new country. the cold. and the possibility of an attack by in d 1 a n s. Wood- workers were among the crafts- men who came in those a a r l y . days. but their first conc ern was to b u l l d warm h o u scs. Later. they were able to begin making furniture. basing their designs on what. they remem- bered from their homes in the P re n c ‘h regions of Britta n y. ‘ Normandy and Picardy. FIRST SHIPMENTS The first recorded art-iv al of furniture was that brought by the governors. church dignitar- ies and the ladies who came to found hospitals and conve ii t s in 1640 or later. Before that. one nursing sister reported. “w begged it kindly priest to h a ve the goodness to send us a f e w tree branches on which to sleep. but they were so infested by caterpillars that we were com- pletely covered by them." Betwee n 1650 and 1750. the French provincial style of fur- nifiire peculiar to Q ebec. and made of the light Canadian woods white pine. butternut. and yellow birch. emerged. it was a simplification of the Louis XIII and Louis XV styles. is n d at first based on the principle "that each piece of furniture corresponds to a need and thal no piece of furniture is super- fluous." Polit-‘cal and economic ties with France were complet- ely cut by the English conquest. yet this traditional furnlt u r e flowered its betw e c ii i neat 1785 and 1820. "it. is touching.“ imuses Mr. Paiardy. “to think that the Canadian branch pro- duced its finest French flowe r after being lapped from the tree. DAMAGE AND LOSS Furniture of the early period is extremely rare now. Few pieces have survived the devas- tating firm and the acts of van- dalism "which could be called an old Canadian custom." So severe has been the toll of fires that there is now only one 17th century building in the whole of Quebec City which has esca- ped fire. But, through in search so thorough that it was aimost house - to - house. Mr. Palardy -has traced and catalogued and 1 l or indifferent. are part. of the 3 equipment of every normal hu- ' man being. The indifferent ones. such as the routine one follows in dressing. putting on the left or ; the right shoe first. shaving dif- [ ferent areas of the e in the I same order every day. may be | the most important. The actions ‘ become automatic and leave the mind free to pursue a train of thought. or more likely in th e early morning. to drift aimless- . ly. If one thought about e a c 5 routine action as it was perfor- .‘ med. the process of dressing i would take one at least twice as f long and the final result might ; be less satisfactory. The chains of bad habits. most peopie will agree. must be brok- en. This only requires will pow- er. The word "only" is invariab- , ly inserted in that sentence by 1 those who have been successful . in giving up smoking or drink- ‘I lng or staying up too late. Those ; who are still in the chains may i l hlth often photographed the b e st rema-inintg pieces. a e e m a likely that. espec- ially as automation ensures a revival of craftsmanship. many of these sturdy and attractlv e pieces will now be reproduced. Mr. Paiardy pliilosophi z e I limit the lure of ephemeral fash- ions and the rejection of the past contributed to the loss of a French Canadian identity and obscured Quebec's distinctive character. Social history is re- flected in furniture. and a study of this could “overcome today's French C a n e d i e n inferior- ity complex." suggests the au- thor of this very remarkable book. The Chciins Oi Habit The Printed Word Habits of all kinds. good. bad i well believe that the word mak- es the sentence a derploreible un- det-statement. There is one aid to acquire- ment of the necessary wiil pow- er. If one analyzes the habit one wishes to break it will usually be found associated with a good or innocent habit: if the fl 1' s t cigarette of the day is associat- ed with the breakfast cup of cof- fee. one can omit the coffee and the craving for the cigarette will vanish. The habit of watching ose old westerns may be con- quered by immersion in a good 0 . Altering good or lndiffere n t habits may return unexpected rewards. If one is accustomed to going to iunch at one o'clock. for example. one will meet the same persons at the club or restaurant every clay. Alter the lime to half an hour earlier or later e n d one wl-li see a whole new set of friends or acquaintances whose lives are bound by a different chain. supposedly pernicious domina- tion. the Sudan. far from being So is a country divided. or th in t ought to be divided. Sudan and live mainly in in e norlhem half. The people in the southern half of the country are negroes. These aoutherners compfaln that the ruling Arabic elements are oppressora. Specifically. the Arab Sudanese marry their wo- men. expel tiheir Cai.hollc mis- , alonaries. enforce Moslem teach-L ing-— and the use of Arabic-—iind TheRocid To Asia Mantra Sometimes history chases its own tall. as witness the diploma- tic drift of France back toward South-East Asia. It is not quite ten years yet since the fall of Deinbienphu sealed the defeat of France in Indo- China war -— the longest war in the twentieth century- which cost France 100.000 deed or missing and. in money. twice what she received in aid under the Marshall plan. That war began in 1066. when the Vletmlnli. organised by the Communists in china in 1941 under the leaderehb of Ho Ci- miisli and later encouraged by use Japanese. struck at French. The Chinese Comm-unleta, it were soon to become the ef- fectlve government of all China except the island of Formosa. provided a base. lime and ed- vlce for the invaders. July 1904. tree a staggering blow to he . by far. than the failure iii Algeria was to prove later. it was at the very roots of the political demoraiizetion which letfeveetudlyeetbeltuehden elatae t tit F T o e out-iii Republic and the . ‘M Arab. Indeed accession of General de Gaulle to power. ow that some de Gaulle is trying to establish a line of com- munlcation with China. primar- but in- Y or purposes of trade. evitably leading in the end to con . France. in fact. is seeking to return to the Asia from which the was chased a decade ago. At the same time that de Gaul- le is melting overtures to Clilne. one of the statics til the former {Edgy-"tibia it making overtures Cambodia. neutralized by the Geneva Treaty and left pretty much alone by the Cormnutileta since. has suddenly asked the United States to cence‘. its $30,- milllon-e-year aid program and get out. and has let it be known that it would like France to help make up the loss by send- ing teachers. I! ma ésilltary equipment it China has promised an -"ll-out support if the Cambodian need it. with the Americans goo-. Gee It Ieally be actual. -...oef l Feud in The Sudan ! Chatham Daily News Free from the white man's lmonopolize al‘. the worthwhile government jobs. As far back as 1955. there was a terrestrial paradise. seems to l a mutiny by southern troops. At have more difficulties than ever. f that time. though. the country far as metal elements go. it . was still under Anglo- Egyptian rule. and the trouble was con- tained. The Arabic Somalis rule the l I Since November. 1958. Gener- al I-brahim Abboud has been mil- itary dlctator of the entire coun- most of these exiles speak Eng- ‘ lish and are Christians. Some of . them justify the armed revolt. which they cl aim is by no means crushed. and which seeks position is not too happy. Pan- American congresses have brushed aside their complaints. largely be- cause taking the side of Southern Sudan -would jeopardize t it e i r hope unity between Negro Uganda and Ethiopia have been rounding up rebel refugees and handing them over to the Sudan authorities. ti-at as e itiitider boat. accepting thousands of fleeing tribeemen. ' Israel is naturally interested in any issue that ml t separate lcsl Ali-tea brothers. e elonariea in the south (most of whom have been expelled). These international rip pie I apart. almost every African or Alrlcen- involved is doing its best to pretend that the revolt in the southern tidett never lied. PLAN MARINELAND by a famous Florida marine- lznil. ' Leisure Time Can Be Boost By Dr. Theodore R. Vait_Dellee Time spent doing nothing is not necessarily wasted. titer we use it listening to music. wet- chinz TV. reading. painting. or jusb daydreaming. This is well to remember during the next two weeks of our holiday sea- son. Once the mad rush is over. sit down. relax. and recharge those batteries. Leisure time is wasted when undirected. poorly onganized. or done at the expense of house- work. homework. or r e 1 it let- chores. Everyone d e a e r vee some freedom to do as he pleas- es. The shorter working hours and labor- saving devices allow more leisure time. and the man of tomorrow ought to learn to use it wisely and for creative purposes. healthy concept mes from accomplishment. Work creates the tension th leisure relieves. This should be incorporated into our basic phil- osophy. There is disagreement. however. where leisure ends and laziness begins. In my opinion. all leisure and no work comes 0 se. The adult with nothing to do in -his spare time a lost soul. quite the opposite of the man or woman with is hobby. A m B it who knows how to work with -tools. for example. has an en- grossing diversion; he can spend hours to years on projects that bring pride and joy. New worlds are opened to men and women who go for photo- graphy. painting. gardening or astronomy. This is well to re- member when considering Chris- tmas gifts for adults. Education- al toys for children are popular. Why not consider comparable presents for dad and mother that will encourage mental or physi- cal activity for the months to follow? Most adults thrive on several hobbies. and this is the time to get them intere ed. BOWLING AFTER CORONARY I. A. writes: I am a truck driv- er of 50 and got out of the hospi- tal two weeks ago after a heart attack. Is it all right to go bowl- ing? REPLY There is no harm in bowling after the heart has recovered. This type of recreation is one of the best. for heart patients be- cause it offers a minimal amount of exertion and excite- nt OPEN SPINE P. H. writes: If one child is l born with spina bifida. are oth- or children in the family likely I to come into the world with this defect? 3 is REPLY This is a congenital rather than a hereditary malformation. It consists of a developmental gap or defeat in the vertebrae through wih ic h the spinal con- tents may protrude. Our Yesterdays (From the Guardian Files)‘ TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO (December 21. 1938) MONTREAL. Dec. 21 iCPl—- Miss Mercy Iiaines Ball. grand- daughter of Hon. George Colcs. a Father of Confederation. died here today. She was a native of Charlottetown. Miss Bell was head of a school for young chil- dren at Windsor. N.S.. before coming to Montreal, where she conducted a slmliar school. Burton Trerlce. former pilot with Canadian Airways. s e n t greetings to the staff here and at Moncton by radiogi-am from a polar expedition he is with in the Antarctic. Pilot Trerice was with Canadian Airways h e r e during the summer of 1936, and flew on the Charlottetown- Sum- merside- Moncton run. i TEN YEARS AGO 1 (December 21. 1953) . OTTAWA iCP)— A 10-year-old - boy. pulling a wire plug linked to ' Christmas tree lights, acciden- l tally started a two- alarm $80.- 000 blue that threatened to de- stroy a half-century-old separ- ate echool‘in Lowertown. 0t- l tawa. Firemen battled the fire r more than an hour before controlling the flames. "Let us follow in the greatl procession of the Wise Men and 3 Hi to manager of the ‘ Christ -Child. swelling the throng -’ until His cause becomes estab- ' lished among men". said Rev. l A. Frank Macbean of Trinity ‘ United Church in concluding his Christmas address fore the Rotary Club here yesteniey. PAIUCIIED PAKISTAN A prolonged drought in 1968 forced more than SL000 Pakis- tanis to abandon their homes in search of food and water. <‘-‘-.- More Than Hollow Words President Johnson’: can for an and to the cold wet may he more than hollow words. Untlitnkable as such relaxa- seemed a few clear that the live-and-let-live reins . Meanwhile there art promising pointers for those w take a rosy ew. . "inside stories" ptblished in a r of - pean newspapers an that Russia's Nikita Khruehdiev and the late president John F. Ken- nedy lied been much closer to basic le- agreement on some sues. including possibly the fu- ture many. an most people think. WEST WARY Cold-war habits die hard. The The Soviet Union is still a one- party a with total power vested in a tiandfuf of men. Nevertheless. the easiest of diplomats will admit. that there is a change in the international climate. a new feel in the air. As astute a man as Sir Fits- roy Maclean. British Conserve- tlve Member of Parliament and former diplomat who knows Russia intimately. said recently - « I month-long tour ‘of the soviet Union last. summer.‘ this seemed a cover for aggressive act one, KENNEDY POPULAR A letter I received this week they take it greatly to heart." the letter says. - “They go into the facts of Mr. Kennedy‘: private life. they go over his decency and cour- age. they talk of how he saved is men after his motor-ton pedo boat went down war. they feel a deep sense of shame for what has happened." Shirt Collars Attached - « i Naval Headquarters has ap- proved the introduction of drip- dry shirts with attached collars for officers. ‘men and Wrens in the RCN. This is not as big as changing from salt to steam but it is an event not to ass over lightly. If there was one part of naval dress landlubbers admired it was the while collar and immaculate Mack tie of the navy men in blue uniform. The Navy stood aside from the atro- cities in tics and the gyratlons in collars civilians have had to endure and contrived to have its men look like gentlemen on aid occasions. Perhaps they will continue to but with shirt.-s. collars attached. they will lose the discipline of studs. Finding a stud. getting it‘. through a starched collar. and placing a neat tie knot over it have been enough to beat it civ- ilian in the quiet of his ow it home. Seagoing officers. we are to think. accomplished all this on corvettes dancing about the Atlantic. We learn from the Navy mag- azine Crowcnesl. that it has be- come increasingly difficult to produce shirts wilzli detached co’.- rs and iiliese colliitira. when at sea. created in laundry problem. The problem. we assume. was that sometimes an officer had a shirt but no collar. is just this side of nud.ty." Tlie in- troduction of the new shirt will be gradual." says Orawmeet. and we are glad that in the elec- tronic age the Navy is not being hustled in-to change. Studs. like ‘hearts of oak. deserve the diz- nlty of slow retirement. To Speak Of Youth Cape Breton Post in recalling one‘s own youth. it must be confessed that th years between 12 and 20 seem the hardest in recollection. There i was the big build-up in energy. zeal and imagination and seem- ingly no place to express it de- cently. The parents seemed oblivious of what was happening to th :- maturing son. or. to whatever degree they were aware. it made them impatient and appar- ently scornful. yet each parent was a good person. One had ceased to be a boy but wasn't yet a man. It was a time in which one felt terribly alone. You may wonder wh y alone. when persons of one’: .age were in the school. The alonencss was because of no- body with whom to share the in- dividual interest in reading and music. or if so. no vocal bridge was found on which to cross. Since growing old this writer is much aware that between him and the people today call- ed "teen-sgers" is a chasm that cannot be crossed. One remem- bers vividly the condition of growing from child to man, but nothing is possible now except a 9797372-sizisenistetatstsouamsteiaisi SllNTil SAYS MEANS MORE. A gift from ARCI-IE!‘ 8: MecDONALD LTD. Furniture is a long lasting silent sympathy of having been th Let it be known that one re- spects the teenagers for the promise of their beings and their humanity even when they put coins in the juke box to produce those horrible sounds. At their age. one was awaken- ing to the glories of Mozart and Beethoven. music one a beard without comprehending. since babyltood. All of a sudden. one day when the mother was playing Moonlight sonata on the home piano. the teenage boy he- came aware r is first time of tonal beauty. it was rather similar to the blinding exper- ience of Paul in journeying be- tween Jerusalem and Damas- ln rec ollectioa are once. 0 I: In As a child. one had cried loud- ly in indignation. to draw atten- tion. This time. when the melo- dious thoughts of Beethoven were struck from the piano. one hurried to the kitchen to wipe tears from the eyes. before any- body could notice. BASIC ECONOMY Coffee. tea. sisal and pyrelh- rum flowers processed for in- secticides form the basis of Kenya's economy. gift to beappreciated every day of the year. So why not drop around TO- DAY and see the hundreds of gift items in stock. AND ALL AT PRICES YOU WILL LIKE. Phone 894-6305 Sail to Europe at bargain prices! It's Thrift Season now aboard Holland-America's “Happy - Ships” Trevei to Europe sL.s;v_, during ‘rum ago- eon and enjoy genes-one eevtege. 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