atlas ate hee TRF A aaa lela so, ie Mitin ne e , \ The ’ the accomplishments of the Matheson administration and promising that the various projects will be con- tinued and expanded.. Progressive Conservatives are placing great. emphasis on the change in attitude by Ottawa to- wards the Atlantic Provinces and | Prince Edward Island in particular ‘since the Conservatives came to power. Hon. Angus MacLean has -been a particularly effective spokes- ‘man for this theme because his own ‘appointment as Minister of Fisheries represents a departure from the ‘previous government’s practice of ‘either having no cabinet minister from this province or of merely finding a safe seat here for a min- ister who needed it. There are no serious conflicts of principle between the parties, ex- cept possibly over the way in which the pay of teachers should be hand- led. Walter Shaw has undertaken to ..pay all teachers’ supplements from Provincial revenues; while the Lib- erals propose to go further with the policy of paying equalization grants which are intended largely to enable districts with relatively low tax resources to pay a supple- ment equal to that offered by wealthier districts. \Progressive Conservative atten- tion seems to be directed to prob- lems of agriculture to a greater de- gree than is Liberal comment. That is natura! enough where the leader is a specialist in agricultural prob- lems and he has no collegues who have yet had the opportunity of ex- ercising their talents in the many and varied fields of modern govern- ment. Advances In Eye Surgery Corneal grafting, to preserve or restore sight, is generally looked up- on as a very modern operation; but in fact the first successful corneal graft was performed as long ago as 1835 by an Irishman, S.L. Bigger. Speaking in a series of talks called ‘The Surgeon’ broadcast.in the BBC's General Overseas Service, Professor George I. Scott, who is professor of opthalmology at Edinburgh Univer- sity, explained how Bigger, while a prisoner of a wandering tribe of Arabs, operated upon a pet gazelle blinded by a corneal wound, by trans- planting the cornea from another ga- zelle which had recently died. \Ten day later his pet could see and the cornea remained clear. “Forty years were to elapse”. Pro- fessor Scott said, “before the real importance of this pioneer operation was to be recognized by Henry Power in London—that to be sucessful the donor material must be taken from an animal of the same species; only human cornea can be used for man. During recent years the technique of corneal grafting has reached nearer -\ and nearer to perfection ‘mainly be- cause we now have instruments of great precision which were not avail- able to our fathers”. Professor Scott went on to speak of advances in surgery for the re- 4 Provincial Flower Show This is the second day of the Pro- vincial Flower Show at-Summerside and it can well be seen that the ex- perts were right who have stated that Prince Edward Island is the best place in Canada for many types of flowers. . . For the eighth year in succession the Abegweit chapter of the I.0.D.E. _has sponsored the show. The chap- ter deserves great credit for giving growers to display their choice blooms and for the public to enjoy seeing them. ed by nature in flower growing, Can- adians everywhere are also enthusi- astic. Last year the people of this country spent nearly a million and a half dollars on flower-bulbs from the Netherlands, placing us amongst the highest per capita importers in the world. We thus shared in one of the old- est and most lucrative branches of Dutch agriculture, which now_em- ploys some 9,000 farmers on 20,000 acres of land. Canadian purchases of tulips, daf- fodils, hyacinths, lilies, dahlias, and other types of bulbs have been in- creasing over the years. This is part- ly from the increase in the Canad- ian population and living standards, *but also from the new Dutch pro- duction and selling techniques. While Prince Edward Island has contributed heavily to this Dutch in- dustry, and will no doubt contribute more in the near future, it is worth considering whether we should not also be on the selling end. Bermuda has made an industry for itself by supplying lilies to the Uni- ted States market, as the Nether- lands have on a much larger scale. This Province might well become the sources of supply of particular var- ieties of flowers which do exception- ally well here. At any rate it would be worth looking into. Anyone with half- an eye can see that the pro- duct would be equal fo the best. Deficiency Payments We cannot agree with the Letter Review that the Government at Ot- tawa is heading for serious trouble with deficiency payments for hogs. There is sound reason behind draw- ing a line between independent farm- ers and large producers. The farmer, if he is a good farmer, will produce ou. a fairly stable basis, year after year and the deficiency payment will help to keep him in business over a series of bad years. There is practically no limit to the increase. in production by large-scale breeders, however, if they can be guaranteed a margin of profit. A gen- eral price support policy would prob- ably involve us in all the grief that the Letter Review forsees. It might seriously disrupt world markets. It might worry United States and induce them to seek re- Canada from effectively protesting against American dumping of surplus production on world markets. The deficiency payment scheme, on | the contrary, will certainly not re- sult in great overproduction year af- ter year. On the contrary, it will give stability to both production and markets because there can be no years when prices fall so low that the farmer generally will get out of swine production. Such a develop- mentment would, of course, result in a sudden climb in price, followed in this opportunity for Island flower Although this Island is so favour-. taliatary measures. It might stop. OTTAWA REPORT HORNETS NEST AT THE PICNIC New Cabinet Members By. Patrick Nicholson “Well, your. batting average was good-en th2t.”’ smiled Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, greet- ing about twenty waiting jour- nalists as he ended speculation by leading his two newly-appointed Cabinet colleagues to Government House last Wednesday. Speculation had pinpointed Tor- onto’s David Walker as the pro- bable new Minister of Public Works. He was the Cabinet's most brilliant available reinforce ment. Considered by his fellow- lawyers as one of Ontario's lead- ing counsel, his natural post would be as Minister of Justice—if that were vacant. This would be jus- tified on professional grounds, and also- so that his high qualities could be placed more generally at the service of the Prime Min- ister. There must be a danger that routine administrative work could bog him down in a min- istry such as Public Works. The new minister from the pro- vince of Auebec had been less unanimously foreseen as M0 n- treal’s Pierre Sevigny. Noel Doir- on was favoured by some tips- ters, not without grounds. Colon- el Sevigny’s portfolio as Associate ' of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in action? More certainly, no na- tion's two Defence Ministers have ever before both been honoured Minister of National Defence sur- prised many here, although his | gallant war record and his Que- | bec origin make him a_politi- cal natural for that Giceteioas | —as was suggested in this col- umn as long ago as last Novem- ber, and again subsequently. YOUNGER CABINET Students of statistics may be | interested to know that the re- by the award of the highest mil- itary decoration of other coun- tries; but not by their homeiand. Hon. George Pearkes, who ser- ved with the Mounted Rifles and the Princess Pat's, won the Vic- toria Cross in World War I. Hon. Pierre Sevigny, serving with the Royal Canadian Artillery, the Polish won Cross of Valour signation of the grand-daddy of | in World War Il. the Cabinet, Hon. J.M. Macdon- nell.nearing his 75th birthday, coupled with the appointment. of S-year old David Walker and 41- year-old Pierre Sevigny, reduces by 19 months the average ace of the Cabinet, which now be- comes 53 years and 5 months. Today we have no less than ten Ministers under the age of 530 years. Hon. George Pearkes, at 71, Is the oldest Minister. After Veter- ans Affairs Minister Brooks, the Prime Minister, who will cele brate his 64th birthday on Sept- ember 18, is the third oldest min- ister; yet he looks today more fit and durable than at any time since he was elected to’ the lead- ership of his party. With Col. Sevigny’s appoint- ment, Canada establishes a re- cord of which the nation can par- adoxically be both proud and a- shamed at the same time. Surely no country has ever be- fore had two ministers heading | it Defence Department, both of | WE NEED AN ORDER Canada, of course, has no ord- er or Decoration with which our government can decorate those who serve our country with out- standing gallantry in action, or with exceptional devotion else - where. At a time when a lot of yackety yacking is heard, demanding “a distinctive national flag’’, a stron- ger blow for Canadianism could and should be struck by the crea- tion and distribution of a distinc- tive Canadian Order, with var- ious degrees to reward military or civil merit. It is certainly a hell of a si- tuation when a nation has two Cabinet Ministers, both of whom dared death in the face of the enemy for their country, yet to both of whom “Thank you’’ had to be said by other countries because their homeland has no means of expressing hr,~ grati- tude to her own citizens That lack is truly a national | whom had earned the equivalent | distinction. PUBLIC FORUM a standard of living equal to any. This is a capital investment that eventually will not cost the taxpayer one cent when the sav- ings that will obtain from the eli- mination of five expensive and THE COMING ELECTION Sir,—While we are not being en- tertained as in oldtime pre-elec- tion activities, by joint public meetings with their acrimonious and sometimes offensive repartee, nevertheless we have our ears as- saulted, with claims and count- erclaims, affirmations and den- ials, from T.V., radio and Press. It should behoove everyone whose mental processes are not de- pendent on such pressures to con- sider first what is best for P. E. Island in general and next his or her own county in that order be- fore casting a vote. In the past our revenues have derived from two sources, — the soil and the sea. We were confin- ed to these essential but prosaic activities by the lack of natural endowments. We had, neither min- erals nor oil; we were and still are considered the poor relative in this group of federated provinc- es called Canada. We have agitated and begged our-representatives, under b oth Liberal and Conservative re- gimes to strive without ceasing to impress the powers at Ottawa of the imperative and immediate need for a Causeway. We must be fair and state that the project was first advanced by Mr. Neil Matheson and later endorsed by the present Premier Hon. Alex Matheson. agenda if at all practical. We pre fer to accept this assurance rather than insinuations by Senator Grant and others evidently inspir- ed by political expediency, to the effect that this project is being quietly shelved. In consideration of the aboye it would seem to be sensible pro- cedure and good business to line up our local government with that now presiding at Ottawa, and ineffectual boats, will accrue. When we add to this the tolls that will be collected from the thousand percent increase in traf- fie on the Causeway, it will not require extensive mental gym- nastics to see that this project will not only be sélf-supporting in contrast to the boats, but that it ~will show us a profit that will re- deem the bond issue that will be sold to underwrite this work. enlarged department will be es- expect better results regarding this project than we have had from its predecessor. :Tourism or the tourist trade is our other great potential in addition to our fertile soil and productive seas. Notwithstanding the ambivalence that still exists in some smal! cen- ters on the Island when consid- ering this project, a little tion will show that the benefits fo every man, woman and child in this Province will far outweigh any local inconvenience that might obtain. When we get the Causeway, an the department will be published im papers all over Canada and the U. S., showing the unrivailed beaches, warm coastal waters, Let us get rid of the” antiquated and dessicated idea that we are mot big enough to warrant the ex- penditure of so much money, and keep ever before us the fact that the integrity of an honorable na- tion,is involved, and that we must thave this means of transportation in order that this integrity may not be dishonored, and the fact that our dollars joined that of oth- er Canadians, in making rich the larger provinces that would now | deny us. The Hon. Alex with the best of intentions has failed to im- press Ottawa even when his own party was in Power there. Let us give Walter the next four years "| at least, to prove his worth. Let the Conservative Party have the opportunity to prove that they are in very fact the embodiment of their slogan ‘the party of the Causeway.” stream and deep sea fishing in \ I : am, Sir, ete., om mie Prove. C. C. PRATT The special flavor, — the best St: Peters ° in the world, — of our northern | — ~ a - . eyes were busy car- moment on the TV your brain. Even while you ate, your eyes Of possibly even more interest ie another test in which the eye movements of some 70 per- soms were observed while they were asleep. Small electrodes were attached to their eyelids and scientists stood by to observe them. Occasionally the scientists awakened the subjects and ques- tioned them. They found that the individuals in this group dreamed az long as two hours during the night. EYES MOVED During these dreams, the sub- jects’ eyes moved as though wat- ching scenes on a screen. When they dreamed of climbing and other vertical action, their eyes moved up and down. Dreams of horizontal scenes brought sidewise movements and when the subjects dreamed they were viewmg- something far away their eyes were fixed in the gaze position. Thus, even though you are resting, your eyes may not be. QUESTION AND ANSWER A Reader: Is it always advis- able to have piles removed surgically and if meglected, do piles become cancerous? Answer: If causing symptoms such as pain and bleeding, hemorrhoids (piles) may some- times be successfully treated by fi ai i He Hi h i l ill i r | i git iii Ht i ‘ FEE E g F é g fF : i 3 Breet bu 38 z stk Zé | : are BES i & - And the humidity that clings Hke clothes (!),— } After the heat, and the long + “ prayed-for rain an zit nip 5 Ht F g oe ; i z i i z 5 ee gh wages. mean higher prices for manufactured goods; including farm machin- ery and equipment. It has not yet been possible to reconcile these contrary objectives.—Win- nipeg Free Press 2 Great Orb, ten months we love your rays, : We seek and greet your face with praise, —But please remember F To temper Your fierce fiery blaze In July and August days, -¢ ce © Dee xial Septem- sun, i é j 3 : i Yes, usually we love the > But 0 Sole Mio, it can be over —Christine L. Henderson and their heirs.—Ottawa Citizen | in the Christian Science Monitor FRANKLY SPEAKING by Freedom At the last Federal-Provincial conference held in injections. In many cases surg- ery is the best and surest form of | treatment. . Piles do not, as a rule, become | cancerous, but a careful examin- | ation for cancer higher up must | always be made'‘in every case of rectal bleeding. ‘ GUR YESTERDAYS (From the Guardian Files) TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (August 26, 1934) While assisting in the transfer of a ferris wheel from the Mid- way to the railway station early Saturday morning, Mr. Joseph Kenslow received severe injuries which necessitated his removal to the P.E.I. Hospital. Mr. Kenslow fell from the top of the truck and several pieces of equipment drop- ped upon him. Representing the Summerside | Golf Club at the Senior Golf Meet being held at Digby, N.S. this week were Messrs R.C. Holman; H.T. Holman, J. Leroy Holman | land W.J. Witney. They left on Saturday morning and intend to call at Port Elgin, N.B. enroute TEN YEARS AGO (August 26, 1949) Before a distinguished company im the Confederation Chamber yesterday afternoon, an historic ceremony marked the unveiling of three bronze plaques under the auspices of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Can- Ottawa, all the provinces, and that means Prince Eq.— ward Island too, were told that they would not get any - more money from the federal treasury until the country was able to reduce its deficit and show a surplus. Fin- ance Minister Fleming was the man who made this announcement. And did you ‘know that the Ottawa government long before-and ever since the conference has been and still is showing a monthly deficit of many millions of © dollars? run them for us”. ment in the House. Mr. Bell, the leader of the Opposition at the last ~ session of the Legislature said, “We are getting te the point where we are liable to be told by Ottawa that we are getting as much as they can give and if we can’t run our own affairs, they will send someone down to Perhaps Mr. Bell was allowed to gaze into the Ottawa . crystal ball for a little\while when he made that state- — And did you know that in spite of this information ~ that is now on record at Ottawa and is well-known to the leader of the Party here, Mr. Shaw persists in tell- - ing the people that he is going to get money from Ot- tawa to pay teachers’ supplements ?, Did you ever think what this 1d cost the federal treasury if Quebec and Ontario or, for that matter all the other provinces, were to insist on the same thing . « » Do you think they would get it? Mr. Bell, who we believe was speaking for his Party during the last session of the House seems to ada. The plaques commemorated the lives and works of Sir Louis | H. Davies, Sir Joseph Pope* and | Robert Harris, C.M.G., R.C.A. | It was announced’ yesterday by Mr, A.S. Hopkins, chairman of the essay Committee of the Sum- merside Board of Trade that Miss Carmella Arsenault, Grade 9 of the Dalton School, Yignish, w2s the winner ‘of the first prize of $50.00 for the best essay entitled “Canadian Heritage” sponsored by the Board. | because everyone knows that paved highways are very think the province has enough or too much. pavement. He said, “I am afraid we will soon have to cal! a halt, (Advt.) costly to maintain.” IF YOUR GUARDIAN IS LATE... OR MISSED turn by another spurt of high produc- tion and tumbling prices. The deficiency payment plan means that the farmer will be able to go about his business of raising the best pigs he knows how, on the How: there dissention vagal s fruits and vegetables will be pub- in their ranks, im both Kings and Prince Counties, re the prac- | licized, and the hospitality and ticability of the proposal, with the result that the lack of unani- mity gave Ottawa a good excuse for ignoring it. We have now plac- ed our trust in the mew Conser- moval of cataract. Removal of a ca- taractus lens from within the eye had first been described by Daviel, eye surgeon to King Louis XV of France, he said, but in his operation the cataract had had to be left to A LABOUR VIEW Sir,—At this time many criti- MAXIMS cisms are being directed at the) rt t abour in this| ft ts a great blunder in the Seman: alts r | pursuit of happiness not to know It cannot be generally known | when we have it. that this Province has one of the best Trade Union Acts in this DIAL 6561 and a paper will:be delivered right to your door. see motels and cabins financed by longterm federal loans, spring- ing up along paved highways, with electric power available and been as a result, able to not only mature before it could be removed, | most economical scale for his own | vative regime to present our case t ak arity incis- | Contiguous to our beaches. We.| Country. Certain it is that our | agree with us, but to so present 1 by which time the patient was al- | facilities, and will be in pocket in wee a lacs ted tau to | Will see restaurants. and hotels| co-workers in the neighboring | our case before the Government Special delivery service available between 8:30 most blind. The method used today | the long run. hope for unanimity in our repre- | OPening up and establishing mar-| provinces, and the workers them-/ and the Legislature, that the a.m. to 9:00 a.m. if your paper, is late — or bled the operation to be perfor? sentation, and for consequent and | kts for out produce. We will see | selves would be happy indeed to| representatives of the rural popu- ena pe: : pertorm- EDITORI AL NOTES prompt oan ults a floating, seasonal population in| have as good an act. lation also are in agreement. missed. ed as soon as the patient was unable Under the terme ef Conledere buntrets of thousands invade our | . Our ae is good 2 wont Hate aati toeget aise, oe \ ‘ : : \ em as Ww 0 e n. . Barie Ma . to carry out his normal occupation. A second Canadian Conference on | tion we were promised uninter~ wee Gar aa ean oe is protected by the act, and acting for the Minister during his Permanent | where Boards have been appoint- | unfortunate absence from the last For the Fastest in Town, call rupted communication with the mainland. In this modern age, uninterrupted communication does not mean sitting for hours | on end waiting for passage in one of the boats. Hon. Mr. Harkness and his good wife could tell us something about this type of an- ed to care for matters that are referred to them in the field of | labour, such appointments are equally representative of. both. Organized Labour here has year by year been courteously re- ceived by the Government, our requests have been carefully Education is being planned, probably in 1962. The February, 1958~confer- ence was successful in enlisting the interests of groups representing business, industry, labour, veterans population double in a decade, clearing and occupying our de serted farms. We will see our farmers emancipated from play- ing nursemaid to a herd of pigs at no profit and engaged in truck gardening (and tobacco growing In Britain, cataract accounted for more than forty per cent of blindness in those over seventy years, and in - @ world containing an increasing number of ‘elderly people, more and session \of the House, got for us some of the most important sta- tues, which now appear on the statute books for .the Depart- ment. ‘ Management, organized work- ers, and the unorganized workers 2 : should make a long and careful more would require the operation. | and women’s organizations as well as ; idly). We will . | Great changes in post-operative man- | those specifically linked with educa- " talete' a sovereign state aane used eulelterenned over | Studied, and much of obr legisla-| study in this regard, so that de DIAL 6561 __ agement made old age itself no bar | tion. The new conference should have | *upposed to possess integrity. We | out paved. roads across our | Consideration he tei. lage ke conte | ‘ th e tion. £ cannot be denied the Causeway | Causeway to the markets of the : eq . mig. regretted. * to the_ opera’ a firm foundation of public support without a breach of integrity. world im refrigerated trucks, giv- Pe a - the ae lam, eg ; Today the o of the patient | on which to base {ts efforts to de-. As L hes in a on ee ing as a age return which will| sure, to the fact thet the Miaiter Labour Representative. 173 Great George St. > Charlottetown covered for y we have had assurance re | enable us our young ‘men | \ understands . erhood ’s Slogan: maintain the goodwill of those whom were only twenty-four | termine what education is and should sie Sat. teiieeeniae idewanatie | ot Gaete allaed ame sada eamee |r and the mat -_—— oe ands ve jena iogna aa inset rt apes | we no ay. was—io tis ae or. ot Dal hours, he ig oS allowed out of be. ss tha the Causeway. r from the viewpoint of beth “Management and Labour, and bas s a ~ <i»