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ll . \\ In The NalIonaI Interest
Discussing the doubtful future of Springhill, the Toronto Globe and Mail says the imperative thing for the nation is to ensure that the full- est possible use is made of the char- acter which the miners there have exemplified. “As far as possible,” it says, “work should be provided for them near the community to which
they have shown such great attach--
ment. A town which produces men like these ought not to be easily dis- solved.”
With this statement we are in em- phatic agreement. 'What irked Mari timers in the first Gordon Commis— sion report was the supercilious sug- gestion that miners or other work- men in depressed areas should have their way paid to other parts of Can- ada to find employment—presumably to the big industrial Provinces, to which we have exported far too much of our brains and brawn already. This fact may well have been in the mind of Mr. AR. Harrington, gen‘ eral manager of the Nova Scotia
Light and Power Company Limited, ‘
when he addressed the Atlantic Pro- vinces Economic Council at Halifax this week. “We should sell, not un- dersell, the Atlantic Provinces,” he said. The only way to sell the region to prospective industry is to boost its industrial potential. The Gordon Commission statement did incalcuable harm in this respect, however con- structive other sections of its re- port may have been. We are pleased to note that an influential Ontario paper such as the Globe and Mail takes no stock of it whatever.
“The focus now is on Springhill,” adds our Toronto contemporary, “but a similar situation applies in many other parts of the Maritime Provin- ces. Our history has repeatedly shown the rich human resources of the area, and the lack of opportunity for them to make their maximum contribution to the nation. This is a situation which, in the national interest, should be speedily righted. Springhill in par- ticular, and the Maritimes in general, should be given a chance to expand and develop along with the rest of Canada.”
That puts the situation in a nut- shell.
Rural Beautification
While the progress made under the Rural Beautification Society’s pro- gram in this Province is most gratify- ing, there is unfortunately more truth than poetry in Lieutenant Gov- ernor Hyndman’s complaint at the Society dinner about the still existing “ex esores” that need attention. His Honour referred to some unsightly structures in rural areas at which "one would feel like throwing a Molo- tov cocktail."
Improvement must. of course, come at a slower rate of progress than this; but let us hope that it will not be unduly delayed. L'nsightly struC' tnres are particularly an eyesore in those areas which have made the most progress generally in beautifi- cation. where they stand out in con- trast lo the disadvantage of all. Year by year, however, they are getting fewer. The Society’s campaign is bearing wonderful fruit, and we can look forward, as President Johnstone says, to a time when Prince Edward Island will haVe the most beautiful rural homes and properties in the entire nation. Premier Matheson be— lieves that we have already reached that enviable stage. But there is al- ways room for improvement, and we are a long way from that “satura- tion point” which the Premier men~ tioned as the Society's ultimate ob- jective.
GraCIous Invitation
The invitation from Governor Marvin of Georgia to a number of Springhill miners to convalesce in his State and at his expense was an- other in the long list of kindly ges- tures that have come the town’s nay since the latest mining disaster stitched an entire Continent.
Whether the imitation will he lcccptcd is not yet known. But some of the miners have been quot— ed as saying that, while they are
thankful and appreciative, they do not think they will go. This view is understandable. Springhill is their home. It is where most of their friends are; and doctors say that in general—there are exceptions, of course—the road to recovery is bet- ter travelled in familiar surround- ings among old friends and acquaint- ances.
Then, too, there is something about Georgia, its gentle climate not- withstanding, that might not be to the liking of Springhill men. On their home grounds they are accus- tomed for'one man to be regarded as good as another, whatever his colour or race, as long as he behaves like a man. In Georgia they would find half the population—more than that, in some sections—treated as underlings, third class citizens, simply because their faces happen to be black. To make matters worse, they would soon learn that Gover- nor Marvin wants it that way.
For all that, the invitation was a gracious one; and Governor Mar- vin and the people of Georgia are to be honoured for it.
Winter Employment
A later 'report on the Federal Government plan to help municipal- ities provide winter employment in- dicates that it is by no means a cure for all unemployment ills. It is, however, a helpful measure. It will cover municipal roads, other than arterial; streets, sidewalks, water and storm sewers and parks— but not buildings of any kind.
It is helpful to remember, too, that the Federal 50 per cent par ticipation involves pay roll costs only. It is not intended to cover costs of materials.
To qualify for Federal aid, municipalities will have to meet cer- tain tests to ensure that projects undertaken are in addition to those which would be undertaken normal- ly, without Federal participation. Hiring men for snow removal, for example, will not qualify for aid. Burt clearing of debris to start a new city road—provided it had been planned for next summer—will be eligible.
It must be noted further that, while the plan does not involve Provincial aid, agreement of the Province, in each case, must be forthcoming. This is because the municipalities are the “creatures” of the Provinces, not of the Federal Government. The Labour Depart- ment hopes, however, that the Pro- vinces will lend a hand, so as to ease the burden of the municipal- ities.
I EDITORIAL NOTES
The. National Geographic Society has awarded its Hubbard Medal to Sir Vivian Fuchs, the British explor— er who led the first mainland cross- ing of Antarctica last spring. The m e d a1 commemorates Gardiner Greens Hubbard, the founder and first President of the famed Society. Admiral Robert E. Peary, Arctic ex— plorer, received the first award in 1906. g
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Revenue Minister Nowlan. speak- ing at the Century Year Founders' Day service of Mt. Allison Univer- sity, said that since the CBC. was started 25 years ago “broadcasting had done more than anything else to further adult education”. We think that the Minister was ex- aggerating the role of the CBC. in adult education, although there is no doubt that it has been a help in that important field.
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Hon. J. Angus MacLean received a rousing welcome at the fisheries meeting here last night, at which he dealt with the menace of illegal lob- ster fishing and the measures being taken to curb it. As Federal Minister of Fisheries there are many calls upon Mr. MacLean’s time and attention, but there is no doubt that he wel- comes every opportunity of visiting his own constituency. The success which he is making in his responsible position is a matter of gratification to all his friends and wellwishers.
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Digging “bloodworms” for bait from the beaches at Yarmouth, N .S. is big business. For seven months of the year it provides 200 men with a livelihood. Each worm is worth one cent. An average yield is 900 a day. Sometimes twice as many are harvest- ed. The worms are prized by salt Wafer anglers from Connecticut to Virginia. Fishermen pay 75 cents a dozen for them. They grow to a $129. of l to 8 inches in about ‘1 years TIIE‘Y are useless as bait in fresh \Hllel' fishing
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OTTAWA REPORT
Motor Car Statistics
By Patrick
The motor vehicle industry is the second most important in our economy, ranking beneath the construction industry only. It is not sunprising that there are many associations concerned with the manufacture, sale, use and service of the mighty automo- bile. It is no exaggeration to sug- gest that the success of one such body, the Federation of Automo¥
responsible for the need for an» other: the Canadian Highway Safety Conference.
The most active of these bod- ies is the Canadian Automobile Chamber of Commerce, which among other achievements has made this the best documented industry in Canada in respect to records and statistics. Some fig- ures recently released by this admirable body tell everything about your car, from assembly line to scrap heap, from the num- ber of new cars sold to the num- ber of deaths they cause. The only omission which I would like to see rectified is that there are no figures on the first-degree murders caused by drunken driv- ers.
PROVINCE BY PROVINCE ~
Did you know that the motor- ists in British Columbia are our worst served, with only one fill- ing station to every 171 motor vehicles? That little P.E.I. can do the tourist and the resident better, with one filling station to
Arctic Inspection Zone
By Ken Metheral Canadian Press Staff Writer
The Sovlct note to the United States on the prevention of sur- prise altar-ks may open the way to a fresh study of proposals for an Arctic inspection 701w -_ a proposal vetoed by Russia earlier this year. .
Thc noIo sols tho scalou earl- ier l-IaleA’N agl'ccmcnl, to hold I9(‘Illll('FlI lalks on the surprise at- Iack problem along similar lines to the murxccxasfnl chI'orcni-e of scienlisl: al (Jencva in Aug. on methods of controlling and super- visin: a suspension of nuclear weapons Icsls.
One of the mos! interesting feu— tnros of Russia's weekend com- municalon is that she accepts the inclusion of Canada as a member of the Western delega- tion at the talk 3 scheduled to open in Geneva altrtlhe beginning of next week.
MAJOR CONCESSION Diplomatic circles in London suggest this may indicate Russia now is willing to consider the vi- tal question of Arctic inspection in relation to the over-all problem of preventing surprise attacks. This w 0 ul d represent a ma- jor Russian concession. Last May she vetoed a United States reso- lution in the United Nations Se- curity Council calling for estab- lishment of an Arctic inspection zone to safeguard against the possibility of surprise attacks. Russian first accepted the idea of a technical conference to dis- cuss ways and means of prevent- ing surprise attacks on Sept. 15. But, in line with her desire for mutual inspection only in limited European areas, she suggested the talks be restricted to repre- sentatives of Russia. P o 1 a n d, Czechoslovakia and R o m a n i a from the East and the U n i t e d States, France, Belgium and Brit- ain from the West—an all-Euro- pean lineup except for the U.S.
BIG QUESTION
After consultations with her al- 1 lies. the U.S. on Oct. 10 proposed ‘
that tlIeWeslern delegation be made up of the U.S.. Britain, France, Canada and Italy. Rus- ia‘s latest note accepts this
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Dd you know that there is one highway accident for every 20 motor vehicles during the year, with one accident in four result- ing in death or injury to a hu- man being?
Saskatchewan, I was surprised to learn, has the longest mileage of roads of any province, nearly double the length of roads in the second most-waded province, Alberta. and more than double the 75,000 miles in Ontario.
Ontario has 12,000 miles of con- crete or bituminious roads to boast Canada’s longest total of paved roads; and Ontario’s 54,- 000 miles of crusflied stone or gravel surfaced roads is top in that category. Saskatchewan’s 134,000 miles of dirt roads is an easy winner in that class, while New Brunswick can boast by far the lowest total of unsurfa-ced roads, with only 8 miles in dirt.
Last year 33.230 workers were employed by the motor vehicle manufacturers; 21,471 worked in motor vehicle parts plants; 13,- 925 in the petroleum products industry; and 23-136 in the rub- ber products industry—all asso- ciated with the motor vehicle. TAXES AND PRICES
Some fligures are not specifi- cally listed by the Automobile Chamber of Commerce, but some calculations with my slide rule yield these interesting approxi- mations.
nuclear tests is part of an at- tempt by East and West to break the disarmament d e a d l o c k reached in London it the sum- mer of 1957 at a meeting of the United Nations disarmament sub- committee.
The big question is: Can tech— nical agreement, if and when reached, be translated into polit- cal agreement? This is the prob- lem facing the nuclear confer- ence in Geneva.
WIDE GULF REMAINS
Reports that Russia is to have control posts set HIP on her soil to enforce any test ban have raised hope for agreement. But there still remains a wide gulf in the thinking of delegates from the two sides of the Iron Curtain.
The East wants suspension un- dertaken as an isolated action. The West, mindful of Russia great preponderance in conven- tional arms, is insisting that sus pension should be linked to ‘he broader, more difficult problem of a general reduction in arma- merits.
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The average motor vehicle was
driven 8.177 miles last year: its petrol consumption averaged 12 milcs to the gallon (which makes my old Oldsmobile look like a petrol-economiserl )
Each vehicle owner paid an average of $100.56 in licence fees and gasoline tax to provincial governments during the year. The average new vehicle sold yielded $359 in sales tax and excise tax to the Federal Government.
All governments received $617, 428,000 in various taxes from road users. They paid out $886,382,000 for the construction and mainten-
ance of roads, ‘ighways and bridges. The average new car had a
factory price of $1.881; taxes a- mounting to $329 were levied by the Federal Government; and the retail price averaged $2.846. Over the past 13 years, the number of motor vehicles regis- tered in Canada has tripled—and the number of persons killed or injured in highway accidents in- volving motor vehicles has qua- drupled.
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By Herman N. Bundesen, M.D. SOMETIMES doctors find they are able to aid patients in un- suspected ways. Take the treatment of rheu- matoid arthritis and other rheu. matoid diseases for example. In many cases, a simple place- Ib0 tablet or injection can be even more so—-than regular med- i-cations. N0 HARM, NO GOOD
A placebo is an inert sub— stance which by all la.ws of medicine can do no harm 'and no good. Generally, placebos are used to test reaction of drugs by using the drugs on a specific numlber of persons and only placebos on the others. However, in a recent study of rheumatic patients it was found that the number which benefited from treatment with plain ordinary placebos was ap- proximately the same as the number favorably influenced by any or all of the methods of therapy reported in other stud- ies.
HELPED HALF
When placebo tablets were taken after each meal—the pa- tient didn‘t knon they were placebos, 0f course—they helped half of the 88 rheumatoid ar- thritis patients in the study. Moreover, this reported bene- ficial effect was maintained for more than six months in 12 per cent of the patients.
Now this benefit was not en- tirely subjective. True, there was a strong subjective element in the relief of tenderness and stiffness. But there was also less swelling in some cases and this was purely an objective improve- ment.
FAVORABLE REPORTS
These arthritis patients re- ported they could sleep better, eat better, had better bowel ac- tion and 'a feeling of general well-being while under treat. ment with placebos.
When the placebo tablets fall- ed to aid 39 of the patients, place— bo injections containing saline were administered. And 64 per cent of these patients reported this gave them relief.
OTHERS HELPED
Placebos also helped six per- sons with gouty arthritis, 10 with low back ache, 18 with bursitis and other shoulder ail- ments and 11 with psychalgia.
Now doctors also report a sec- ondary aid from oral meprobam-
relieve muscle stiffness and pain of rheumatic patients. Generally, we try to avoid side effects from drugs. In the meprobamate, the side effect of drowsiness actually may prove helpful in the management of pa-
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THURSDAY, NOV. 6
MINERS' DANCE
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Stopped by police in Florlssant,
Mo, in a 3--mile zone, a man re- ceived a summons for doing 42 miles an hour on his bicycle. Instead of a summons, he should have been given a meda1.——St. Tho-mas Times-Journal
OUR YESTERDAYS
(From The Guardian Files)
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Nov. 6, 1933) .
On Friday next a beautiful bronze tablet will be unveqlgldm:
‘ of Wales College, co - Idi‘dgfimg the service of graduatels and undergraduates of the Co- lege during the Great war. Hoiii W.J.P. MacMillan, Premier, W1 preside at the ceremony. Sag;- tor John MacLean wrll unveil be tablet, and the address Will e delivered by Chief Justice Mathe- son.
The annual meeting of the Pro- vincial Council of the Boy Scout: Association was held In the Boa
room of the City Hall last eve- ning. The President. Mr. J.R. Burnett, presided. Reports were received from Mr._ W. Warren, Provincial Commissroner and Mr R.C. Parent, Provincial Secretary Treasurer. The census showed. 152 active Scouts, ten Rover Squires seventy Cubs and tWenty-If on r
leaders.
TEN YEARS AGO (Nov. 6, 1948) A committee appointed almost
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QUESTION AND ANSWER M.T.: IIS Paraldaliyde harm- ful if taken over several years to induce sleep?
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Those not attending this meeting will be assumed not to be interested in, or engaged in. trucking to or from the U.S.A. .
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