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PAGE 6 THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1962

Canada And Cuba

Canada’s trade relations with Cuba, about which the Liberals at Ottawa are so concerned, doesn't seem to be worrying our American neighbors. In fact, according to a Washington correspondent for Canada’s leading Liberal newspaper, the Winnipeg Free Press, “in the highest reaches of the Kennedy ad- ministration there is a sensitive and prudent respect for Canadian opin- jon on the Cuban problem.” There is no wish to challenge Canada’s right to an independent opinion, no desire to start a campaign to bring Canada into harmony with the Or- ganization of American States which has ruled that Castro’s Cuba is in- compatible with the security of this hemisphere.

What, then, is all the furor about? According to the Free Press writer, even a casual criticism by a minor, American official is mag- nified into a bitter indictment of Canadian policy by some sections of the Canadian press. In some in- stances, statements by Americans without political influence of any kind have been placed on the front pages of Canadian papers as if these men were speaking for the Kennedy administration.

The official attitude of the Ken- nedy administration to Canada, in the context of the Cuban problem, can be stated with authority and without obscurity, says this corres- pondent. “The administration 1s ready to acknowledge with gratitude that none of Canada’s trade with Cuba has brought the Castro gov- ernment the goods and supplies which it most urgently needs. There has been no trade at all in strategic supplies and military equipment. Canada’s trade has the advantage of draining off Cuba’s limited dollar reserves, thus making it harder for the Castro goverument to finance its illicit trade in strategie mater- jals.”

This illicit trade with various eountries is causing more concern to the United States than anything done in the public trade with Can- ada. The United States recognizes that other governments may have ample reasons for refusing to follow the example of the U.S. in imposing a harsh boycott on Cuban trade. Washington is hoping, with the co- operation of other NATO members, to impose a decisive strain on the Castro regime; but this co-operation must be a voluntary and independ- ent act, since it would extend the NATO commitment beyond the present treaty obligation.

These are the facts,-and they offer no excuse whatever for the carping eriticism to which the Canadian government has been sub- Jected by political opponents on this issue.

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Computers For Farmers

Over the past fifty years farm- ers’ burdens have been considerably lightened by the use of more heavy equipment to till and plant their land and gather their crops. Soon another modern innovation—the electronic computer—may help the farmer’s it

position. It will plan his most pto- fitable crop combination for the year even before his ground is

symposium sponsored at New York, by the Inter-

nessmen Nave nad with this metnoa to help decide how much inventory to keep, how much of a product to make, where to ship it, how many men to hire, how much money to pay them and the like.

How does it work? The farmer would feed into the electronic sys- tem complete information about the number of acres available, the yield of his land, the number of possible crops (wheat, corn, alfalfa, soy- beans, for example), possible mar- ket prices, possible weather varia- tions, the number of employees available, and a statement of his financial assets. Within a half-hour, the computer would start printing out a plan telling the farmer what to plant for the most profit out of all the possibilities.

Similarly, animal reproduction and feeding could be computer- controlled. Tiny electronic devices implanted under the skin of an ani- mal would record such body data as temperature, metabolism rate and weight increase. This information, processed by a computer, would yield a printed report advising the farmer on the best feeding formula. Such devices are now being used to transmit information on animals in space satellites to earth-bound data processing and monitoring equip- ment.

Other possibilities are suggested. Products could be automatically processed, graded and packaged— on computer command. Egg pro- duction, for example, could be monitored continuously and eggs electronically graded, cleaned and packaged. Environment and feed could be varied to control production as the market indicated.

Already a number of university and other research farms in the United States are using computers as an aid to effective farm manage- ment. In addition, they have made their computer facilities available on a part-time basis to individual farmers. Outside the United States, at Oosterbeek, in the Netherlands, one such system is helping Dutch farmers to maintain the fertility of their lands by analyzing the data from chemically-tested soil samples. And on banana plantations in such Latin American countries as Colom- -bia, Costa Rica and Panama, IBM data processing installations are speeding up the varied administra- tive tasks connected with harvest- ing, ripening and shipping a very perishable commodity.

Predictions for the future are that farmers will be able to rent computer services from service bureaus, computer centres, farm management firms, banks and other institutions, thus solving the cost problem, which is the most serious obstacle at present.

Chinese Reds Irked

Premier Khrushchev, like other politicians of lesser note, is finding truth in the old maxim that you can’t please everybody, even your friends. His proposal for an 18- nation summit meeting seemed like good Communist propaganda; but his fellow-travellers in China don’t think so. “It will not accomplish anything,” comments Hong Kong’s official Chinese Communist news- paper, the New Evening Post, which adds: “The only way to ensure world peace is to uproot imperial- ism. Troops and arms are only tools o* war, and imperialism is the cause of it.

Other Chinese newspapers have interpreted Mr. Khrushchev’s pro- posal as a deliberate attempt to isolate Communist China, which is not one of the 18 nations that will negotiate at Geneva. The papers re- call that Chinese Communist Vice- Premier Chen Yi had said any dis- armament agreement without Com- munist China’s signature would not be valid.

One of the papers described Mr. Khrushchev’s proposal as a “slap at Communist China’s face.” Which is worse, in its implications, than the shoe-brandishing exhibition he put on at the United Nations As- sembly in his wrathful attack on Western democracy.

EDITORIAL NOTES

AP y told an amusing story the other day about a well-meaning woman who rushed up to him after a speech and gushed: “Why, congressman, your speech was superfltous, just superfluous.” “Why, thank you,” replied the embarrassed speaker. “I’m thinking of having it publish- ed posthumously.” “Oh, wonderfal.” the lady exclaimed, “and the sooner the better,”

“TO BE OR NOT TO BE” COLORFUL PAST RECALLED

ele uN | id a“ The Twilight Of “Golden Goa

National Geographie News Bulletin Hindus there as well. “We all | General's summer palace sits go to one another's feasts here,” | with its le verandas and love- a Goan explained. On the same | ly gardens. day, Villiers visited festivals of |

In a timely report to the Na- tional Geographic Society, the famous sea captain Alan Vil- liers describes the twilight of the Portuguese empire in India.

Writing not long before the In- dian invasion, Captain Villiers id, “Goa and Damao and Diu, stand today a resplendent and | colorful monument to the glor- ies of the past, small spots in the limitless and picturesque | East, rich in the history and triumphs of another age.” India now has taken over the enclaves, and the age has end- ed. Ceptain Villiers, in his ac- count, pictured the three frag- ments on India’s west coast as already dusted with the “pollen of change” — pervasive grit from new iron mines. IRON-ORE DHOWS

Looking out from his hotel balcony one morning in the cap-

own mountains called

villages. i Ghats in the east, palm-fringed

“All these villages were wel kept — models of cleanlines the captain reported to National Geographic officers. “The vil- lages of Goa are the basis of Goan life and, though Goans wander the world, they remain attached for life to the commun- ities where they were born. Lands are held by the commun- ity, and the paddy-fields are communal property. A villag- er's share is reserved to family even though the might be away for years.” VARIED VILLAGES |

“I went on many trips to Goa's villages and towns. I vis- ited the fishing village of Calan-

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and Mandovi weaving their wide

ind ridges of the distant hill paddy - fields and mangrove swamps, jungle, farmlands, rocky hills, and well laidout vil- lages and towns.

Villiers crossed the Gulf of Cambay to Diu, the small is- land off the southern tip of the Kathiawar Peninsula. Though once called the “Gibralter of the Orient,” it fell quickly to In- dian troops.

“A huge fortress of stone, blended to the color of the yel- low cliff it sits upon, faces

gute with its noble beach

ital, Nova Goa (Pangim), Vil- | Jovely shelving sands, where In- | square to the sea, and this liers saw the wide, blue Man- | dians from Bombay used to supported by lesser forts,” v’ dovi River flowing from great | love to come in the hot season; | Hers wrote. “In the old days

hills east of the city.

“The peaks of twenty white lateen sails broke the horizon,” | he wrote. ‘They were adrift upon the surface of the water like sailing swans, not like man- made things |, and it was with some surprise that I re- called that they were iron-ore dhows, their prosaic job to bring down the iron and ores from the mines in the inter-

Margao, with the best bazaar in | all of Goa, stocked with fine | silverwork; Tivim, with its beautiful riverside church;

these forts must have been pri tically impregnable.”

Fishing is the main business of Diu, and Villiers observe cholim, with the cashew-n ut | “fishermen drying their night's plant near by; Ponda, where | catch strung on ropes along the Goa makes its own matches to | beach, more fishermen landing defeat the Indian embargo; Be- | their catch, and a great fishing tim, with its shady sacred tree; | fleet working in the roadstead and Cabo, where the Governor- ' off Diu.”

who is alone or cannot speak the language may have difficul- ty in finding it.

‘The traveler

about consulting phy- sician or going to a foreign hos- pital. This is the chance he must take. It is better to seck medical care than to try to get home without treatment.

We are asked frequently what medicines to take w!

Mexico or Europe. The ques- tion of vaccines also comes Some are required by jaw whereas others may be

able because of the it

‘One of my patients insisted upon having his appendix

examina- tion is suggested for those plan- ning to go to distant lands. Min- or abnormalities or potential trouble makers can be detected and corrected. A copy of all findings and tests should be packaged in the luggage— just in case.

Meanwhile, the individual is immunized against diseases

prevalent

it in the areas where be plans to

e travel. Prophylactic °

should be obtained t avoid infections for which we

ts malaria and certain sulfona- les and amebicides for dysen-

tery. What are the drugs that ought to be brought along for relief of minor illnesses? Tie list includes aspirin or APC tablets for pain,

estion, along with nasal drops, antihistaminics, and a simple laxative.

Include also a sedative and a

Flying over Goa’s 1,400 square | motion sickness remedy such

the ‘three religions in different | miles, Villers saw “the dark| as Dramamine, Mareziue, or the | Bonine. A cold remedy suca as |

Trianimic or Ornade and an an-

beaches washed by the Arabian | tibiotic for infections may be Sea, the two great rivers Zuarl | useful.

Not everyone can take drugs

blue ways down from the spurs | of this nature so consult your

physician beforehand. it is well to remember that medicines may prove heavy aad bulky. Avoid liquid products for this reason and because of the dan- ger of spilling.

(Dr. Van Dellen will answer questions on medical topics if stamped, self-addressed enve- lope accompanies request.)

YACKETY-YAK L. 0. writes: I was a quiet-as- a-mouse person for years but now, at 43, can't stop talking, I'm losing my friends and my husband's love berause of this. I can't help myself and wonder if a psychiatrist could help me? EPLY

Possibly, but a psychiatrist will charge for listening.

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summitry than the American public and that Brit- ish authorities traditionally ploy summitry more skilfully

than their American cousins,

further pro- | gress. |The suggestion in Macmil- |

Jan's use of the words “further progress” is interpreted in merican quarters as indicat ing that Macmillan—like Ken- | nedy—would want to see some

The Age Old Story! And wisdom and knowledge

shall be the stability of thy

times, and. strength of salva-

h ‘ The Summit Proposal By Harold Morrison Canadian Press Staff Writer

While shades of difference tial progress made before have turned up in the replies | summitry begins.

of Britain and the United States But Macmillan goes on to to the Soviet summit appeal, | suggest that progress or dead- American authorities maintain | lock may arise “fairly soon’* the differences are minor and 18 outline that the Anglo-American lead- | their Proposais. ers remain in basic accord. That seems to tie him down te

mit a circum. stances.

Kenn velopments would make a sum-

it before sune 1, but the word “useful” would ’indi- cate he has reservations about the circumstances under which he would attend.

OUR YESTERDAYS Fro

ym the Guardian Files

TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGo (March 1, 1937)

Under the auspices of “The Willing Circle of the King’s Dau-

ters” of Trimity United Church, a very interesting and informative lecture or travelo- gue, was delivered last evening by . Edwin Johnstone. His subject was “My trip to Vimy". He gave a graphic description of his pilgrimage to Vimy, with 6000 Canadians.

Miss Ruth Robinson of Augus- tine Cove has left to join her friends, the family of Professor Earle McPhee of Toronto, on a trip to London, England. She ex. pects to remain in England for at least three years. Miss Rob- inson was accompanied by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J, Robinson as far as Halifax, from which port the party is sailing Sunday night.

TEN YEARS AGO (March 1, 1952)

A message bringing home to all present the principles of Kingsmenship was delivered last night by W.H. (Bill) Bure den, Governor of District No. 7, as he spoke at the annual Foun- der's Night dinner of the local Kinsman Club at The Charlotte town, Accompanied by his wife the Governor received a royal welcome from the local club

| members.

It was fun on the hillside last night as the Young People of Central Christian Church gath- ered for a full two hours of to bogganing at Tea Hill. The ace tion packed: evening not only provided splendid entertainment but they returned home spirit ually and physically strengthen ed. Supper was served in ¢ church hall,

Choose a man’s career

in the

for to the waiting pot-bellied tramp steamers at Mormugao, the port downriver.”

Villiers observed a sailor try- | ing fruitlessly to wash the iron ore stain from his craft. “This dark brown stain,” he wrote, “was characteristic of Pangim and much of Goa, where even the streets seem paved with iron ore, and the stuff is blasted | dug, bored, and shoveled from a hundred hills.”

Villiers said of the capital: “Pangim's well-made _ streets were lined with good shops, | some of them like miniature de- partment stores, others with in- ner sanctums where you could | buy (and surprisingly cheap- ly) the richest silks of the Orient or the loeliest materials from France.” |

COLORFUL STREETS

“In the streets,” he continued “wandered mariners of a dozen different nationalities, landed from the steamers in the road.

steads or alongside at Mormug- 20. early mornings, ‘com- muters’ crowded off the ferry | into the city. They were always

led by hordes of school children,

Pe igs we wm | Sate called Konkani, but | Pcties volution

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Berlin’s Air Corridors

Ottawa Citizen

The Soviet Union, which has , started buzzing planes flying at levels below 7,000 feet in the air corridors to West Berlin is, for the moment, engaged only in a minor harassment. But it | may become more serious.

If the buzzing by Russian figh- ter aircraft continues, the West may introduce fighter planes of its own into the corridors. A pilot on either side with a loose trigger finger could start

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the same grounds as Russian rights in East Berlin or East Germany: these rights are the result of the war and the defeat of Nazi Germany. Russia can | no more expect the to re- | linquish these rights unilateral- ly than {t expects to relinquish its own rights in East Germany.

The new Russian harassment comes at a time when there are

cold war. They are all the more puzzling because of that. His

Russia demands exclusive rights to the corridors below the | ent and other 7,000 foot level negotiations that much more dif-

ficult to carry out. As for the West, it will of

course continue to remain firm, ‘maintaining its rights in accord- the

reasons, it is often necessary for Western transport aircraft to fly at the low levels. The Rus- sian demand is aimed at re- | stricting air traffic between Berlin and the West. | West has pointed out to Moscow that its right to the air based on precisely

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