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While all that Premier Matheson | has said about the need_of refrain- ing from abuse and innuendo in the >) election campaign holds good, he is” . too experienced in politics to have argued that Mr. Shaw's aggressive

3 attitude in his opening speech was ___not perfectly in keeping with his role as leader of a party in Opposi-— tion. It is well to have any miscon-

ception on this point cleared-up. While the’ Legislature has been dissolved, the Government goes’ on,” and the position of the two party Jeaders in appealing for votes re- mains as before. The Government’s _— peoord is in issue, and the job of the | Premier and his candidates is to de- fend it. Mr. Shaw’s job, and that of his candidates, is to discredit it.

The Premier may—and undoubt-

edly will—bave further policies to announce; but the strength of their appeal will depend upon the ac- counting he gives of his stewardship during the past four years, since his

. Jast mandate. If he succeeds in that, __ the rest is easy. If he can be shown to have acted unfairly or unwisély, extravagantly or negligently, in his official capacity, or if his cabinet colleagues can be similarily convict- ed, it is the Conservative leader’s prime duty to see that this is done, and to press his charges as strongly and effectively as he can. His po-

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a triumph, in a way,’ for the policy consistently preached by the British Prime Minister, Mr. Macmillan. To make it more palat- ,able to those who suspect a dark’ ~ Communist plot-behind the whole ar- rangements, we note that in the ‘chorus of praise that the proposed visits called forth on both sides of the iron curtain, Communist China

four hours after the news broke, the brief Moscow announcement without. comment. — °

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The Newfoundland clection is a queer one in many respects. The

parties, for example, are holding;

no nominating conventions. The eaders just make. their own selec- tions and announce them as the candidates for the districts. The rank and file of the parties have no choice, as in other provinces, in

As explained by the Canadian Press, the Newfoundland system provides for district branches of the different parties in each —-constitu- ency. When an election comes along, a group of district party members, choose a candidate and submit his name to party headquarters at St. John’s. Party leaders then . mull over the names and select one as the district standard bearer. If only one name is submitted by the dis-

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Parliamentary Marathon

Arthur Blakely in the Montreal Gazette

The government is under pres- ; sure to rearrange the Parlia-| mentary schedule. Mahy M-P.’s ] and perhaps most, are firmly con-—

‘vinced that Parliamentary ses- |

sions should begin ia the fall. There is a reason.,;There are few things that Canadian Parlia- mentarians dislike more than to be trapped in a session which | reaches all. or most of the way | through the hot summer months. | Air conditioning has reached Ot- | tawa. But few M.P.’s regard this

secuting attorney, to whom the courts give wide latitude—always, of course, within proper bounds of decorum.

The Premier and his government, on the other hand, is on trial. He jas no reason to take the same at- titude as his opponents who have no responsibilities in office to account for. He must, regardless of his abil- ity or his record, fight largely a de- fensive campaign, and if he is wise

* he will welcome every opportunity of answering the points of criticism which his opponents raise. They too, of course, should have constructive policies to offer—Mr. Shaw indicat- ed that he was well aware of this in his opening speech and again in his address last night—but they must first of all breach the government de- fenses. Only then can they hope to persuade the electorate that it is time for a change.

This boils down to the fact that, from a government point of view, the quieter an election campaign is, the fewer the controversial issues raised and the politer the rival candidates are to each other, the better. From the Opposition point of view this would be equivalent to laying down their arms altogether, and conceding the election before it was fought. In doing so they might win encomiums

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would be false to their trust. They would have betrayed the people that

_nominated them and stultified the

whole purpose of our democratic

4 Zlectoral system. By all means, therefore, let us have neither abuse

nor innuendo; but let us also have

“ plenty of rousing salvos of criticism,

and good, sharp infighting. This is not a picnic, but a campaign.

Pitfalls And Prospects

Some commentators are not slow in pointing out that the Khrushchev trip to Washington may have its pit- falls. It may seem to be paying hon- or to a leader toward whom Ameri- - cans feel no such respect. There are many people in the United States— including many refugees from ty- ranny—who despise the Soviet lead- er and wish to show their sentiment.

. To protect him from violence will be |. no small problem in a free society which is not a police state. Others are pointing out that an agreement on the suspension of nuclear tests under satisfactory supervision, or an agreement on the status of Berlin, would be worth far more than any’ amount of visiting back and forth.

Granting all this, the fact remains that before agreemerit can be reach- ed, some of the mutual suspicion that bedevils international relations must be removed. Visits can help. And this is not a private summit confer-

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frict party branch, it would most likely be chosen. When there is plenty of time prior to an election, party leaders usually call a conven- tion in the regular manner and sel- ect candidates for the different rid- ings. But in calling the election for August 20 Premier Smallwood hasn’t left time even for that. —

His concern for Newfoundland rights at Ottawa doesn’t, it seems, extend to voters’ rights at home. He has made party supporters just rub- her stamps for their party leaders, himself included. It is hard to dis-

tinguish this kind of “democracy” from the sham electoral practices in Communist countries. There, of | course, there is but one party and ene set of candidates to vote for. But isn’t that, also, what Mr. Small- | wood is driving at? He warts, op- position to his feud with Diefen- baker elimirtated entirely. Two op- ponents in the Legislature were two too many, and so the Province—in dire need of more money, according to the Premier—is put to the un- necessary expense and confusion of, this farcical election.

EDITORIAL NOTES

When Mr. Khrushchev visits Wash- ington in September, it will not be the first time he and President Eisen- hower will have met. Their paths crossed in 1955 at the ill-fated sum- mit meeting in Geneva. The Soviet Premier then was Nikolai Bulganin but Khrushchev was powerful even ! then, as first secretary of the Com- munist party. :

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Many friends of all denominations will mourn the loss of the Rev. A.L. Herrell, whose death occurred in the Charlottetown Hospital on Wednes- day. A former teacher at St. Dun- ‘stan’s University and assistant at the Basilica Parish, Father Herrell held pastorates in several parts of the Province before his retirement in | 1945. Since then he resided at the Sacred Heart Home and mingled freely with our citizehs, among whom he was held in the greatest esteem and affection.

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The National Film Board of Can- ada has released its production “Royal River”, a 30-minute colour film that tells how the Queen of Canada, accompanied by Prince Philip, journeyed up the St. Law- rence River to join President Eisen- kower in opening the St. Lawrence Seaway. The “Britannia” was the Queen’s home afloat, and much of “Royal River” was filmed aboard the “Britannia” so that as well as on ‘the formal occasions, the Queen ie seen at home as she relaxed and enjoyed her progress through her realm of Canade. —

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Sessions of Parliament that have persisted into July and Aug- ust have become commonplace, the inevitable result of adhering to a custom or tradition that was designed to serve a Parliament with a much smaller volume of public business«than is now trans- acted.

Since Confederation, gov- ernments have tended to arrange | matters in such a way as to bring Parliament into session soon after the beginning of the year. January has been the fav- | ored month.

WORKED WELL FIRST

In the beginning, this worked well. Legislative programs were remarkably light by today’s stan- dards. And during the first Par- liament (1867-72), two sessions which began on Feb. on April 14 and May 12. Two oth- ers which began in mid-April

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happen any morre.

The last time that Ottawa ex- perimented with a spring-time session such as those held in the early post - Confederation years was the first session of Canada’s 2th Parliament. [It began on) May 12. But prorogation wasn't achieved until Sept. 6:

Shoving the opening date back | to early January will no longer | do the trick. The 1955 session of Parliament opened on Jan. 7. | Parliament closed its doors 140.

1956 session set an all - time re- | cord. It began Jan. 10. The end | came (there were 152 sitting days) on Aug. 14.

The only sessions started after the turn of the year in recent Parliaments that have been pro-|

rogued before the arrival of hot | weather have been those cut short by dissolution and an election.

OLD IDEA

The fall session idea isn’t e) new one. In fact, the first ses- | sion of the first Parliament open- | ed on Nov. 6, 1867 and came to

}an end on May 2 in the fol- |

lowing year.

Proponents of the fall session argue that if Parliament were cormened in the late autumn, | Government and opposition! could complete their preliminary | skirmishing before the Christmas | adjournment. With the Throne

| Speech debate out of the way, |

Parliament could get down to |

three months in length just don’t! business when the session re-

opened in January.

As has been noted. one fall ses- sion has been held since the Con- servatives came into office, in 1957. But there is no reason to believe that this is because Mr. Diefenbaker is a fall session ad- vocate. In that case, he was und- erstandably anxious to get one session finished with all possible speed in order to have an elec- tion for the purpose of securing a strong Parliamentary major- ity while the political climate EXPERIMENTED

The last Prime Minister who experimented deliberately with

L. S. St. Laurent. He was responsible for five ses- sions that began in the autumn

“T'months—six if a short special

session be counted. By and large, the experiments worked well. One of these sessions, which opened on Nov. 12, 1953 did, it is true, persist until June. 26 of the fol- lowing year. But June is gen- erally regarded as a good work- ing month for Parliamentary pur- Poses.

Governments of course, tend to take a cynical view of the oper-

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that it matters little when ses- sions of Parliament start, spring, winter or fall, that they will last until the Opposition wearies, finally. of talk and the hot wea- ther. And they regard the sum- mer heat as having done much to keep the sessions as short as they have been in recent years.

Mountains Honor Longfellow

National Geographic Society

A “new"’ mountain range will soon appear on maps of the Uni- ted States.

The Legislature and Governor | of Maine lave approved the)! name ‘Longfellow Mountains of

Maine” nF section of the great Apj'diaNhian range which lies within the Pine Tree State. | The name commemorates Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, a native son whe became one of Ameri- ica’s best loved poets.

The Longfellow Mountains form a link in the vast Appalachian chain which reaches from Can- ada’s Gaspe Peninsula and New Brunswick, 1,600 milés southwest- ward to central Alabama, the Na. tional Geographic Society says. The heavily forested mountains once barred westward expansion of the American colonies, but now they abound with hikers, mountain ¢limbers, and vacation- ists.

SHICKSHOCKS TO SMOKIES The Appalachians include such well-known ranges as the Allesh- enies, running from Pennsylvania to Southwest Virginia; Catskills of New York State; and the Shick- shocks of Quebec. Curiously, lo- cal names run the scale of color

from white to black. The White Mountains of New Hampshire be- come, in Vermont, the Green Mountains. The Blue Ridge Moun- tains, running from Pennsylvania to Georgia, have a spur in wes- fern North Carolina known as the Black Mountains. The Great Smokies rise on the North Caro- lina-Tennessee border.

The famed Appalachian Trail. a skyline path for hikers, meana- |

PUBLIC FORUM

This column te open te the discus

sion by correspondents of question c.

tmterest. The Guardian does not resem

sarily en‘orse the opinion ef corres pondents.

PLEBISCITE SUGGESTED

Sir.—_Now we are to have an election, why not have a picabis- che at the same time to settle once and for all the contentious matter of Daylight Saving .Time? As things’ stand now we do not know if the majority favor Day- light or Standard time. Hoping

Fairlie in Tne Daily Mail bear

this qatier will be settled now. I am, Sr, ec*., EARL D. eee Charlotictowa,

ers from Georgia to Maine. Start- ing at Mount Oglethorpe, which commands ;the distant lights or Atlanta, a hiker may “hay foot- straw foot’ for 2,000 miles to Maine's Mount Katahdin, where Canada beckons on the hori- zon.

Solid-granite Katahdin, rising 5 268 feet, is the highest mountain in Maine and the monarch of the Longfellows. Much of it is bare,

for sliding rock has stripped its sides in places. Near the summit only lichen and a few dwarfish , plants gain a foothold.

POET OF “HIAWATHA”

The woodsoving poet of “‘Hia- watha’’ and “Evangeline” was born in Portland, Maine, in 1807, and spent his childhood in the beautiffail seaport. At 15 he enter- ed Bowdoin College at Bruns wick. His success in getting his poems publishéd by a Boston newspaper encouraged him to! forego p'ans to become a lawyer or a Unitarian minister. He re-

solved to be a. man of letters.

Longfeliow graduated in the same class as Nathaniel Haw- thorne. For a time, the young poet taught modern languages at Bowdoin, then accepted a pro-

fessorship at Harvard. Tragedy:

struck when a match ignited his wife's dress and she burned to death. The grieving writer de- dicated the rest of his life to work, turning out the poems and transhations that made him fam- ous. Critics have not always dealt kindly with Longfellow, who died in 1882, but the American people have taken him to their hearts. His verses are known even to those who never read poetry, through such lines as: “Listen, my children, and you shall hear.. Under the spreading chestnut

tree...I shot an arrow into the

air. . Sail on, O Ship \of State! | phe river, timeless, leisurely, un-

..-Footprints in the sands of time.”

His warm philosophy was sum- med up in the famous ‘Psalm of Life’’: aoe “Not enjayment, and not sorrow Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow, Finds ug farther than today.”

Gloomy

Minority View

By Ed. Stmon

Canadian Press Staff Writer

A solitary British columnist, ; swimming against the tide of popular and press opinion, takes @n apprehensive view of the forthcoming Khrushchev - Eisen- hower talks.

The objections raised by Henry

heavily on the belief, long cher- ished by the old isolationist wing in the midwestern United States, that no right-minded democratic statesman is a match for the ruthless cunning of a dictator.

But Fairlie drives his point home shrewdly and painfully by drawing a parallel with a. pre- vious occasion when top-level ne- gotiations were widely and en- thusiast\cally clelaimed:

“Didn't we and our fathers do exactly the same on that famous day when Neville Chamberlain announced that he had broucht back peace with honor from Ger- many?”

WEAKENS CASE

* Having invited disquieting com- parisons between Chamberlain and Eicenhower, the columrist— a consistent foe of summit di-

plemacv—oroceeds lo weaken bis

case by carrying # to Mogical extremes

As additional evidence of what he considers topevel fiascos, be cites Yialta and Tehran, where Josef Stalin ‘ran rings around” Minister | Churchill, and Prime Minister Macmillan’s excursion to Greece and Turkey last year and to Moscow in February.

Here Fairlie is on shakier ground. The post-war summit conferences, whatever their lim- itations, gave birth to the United Nations, which remains the world’s best hope of establishing permanent machinery for the peaceful settlement of interna- tional disputes.

Fairlie’s argument that United States intervention, rather than Macmillan's activities, was re- sponsible for settling Britain's dispute with Greece and Turkey

is open to argument, as is the:

columnist’s contention that the

prime minister's trip to Moscow

‘created a deadlock,”

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During the weight maintenance period 3,664 calories per day was allowed.

This 24-day diet, 18-day-off | schedule was maintained for a total of 107 days. The results — a mean loss of 24.8 pounds. -

EVERYTHING DECREASED And as the weights decreased, the maintenance - requirements also dropped until, at the end of daily calorie needs had dropped to | 3,177. '

At the conclusion of the pro- gram, Dr. Young surveyed those who had participated. The vast majority said they preferred this step-wise reducing plan and found it: much easir to main- tain than th usual continuous dieting schedule.

Sounds good to me, too.

QUESTION AND ANSWER

Mrs. H. J.: What causes vari- cose veins? Is there anything I can use to control the itching and spread fo varicose eczema?

Answer: Varicose veins are caused by obstructions to the veins through infection of clots, and by defective valves in the veins.

The control of the eczema de- pends chiefly upon control of the varicosities by such measures as elastic support, injections, lige- tions or surgical stripping.

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for each mile over the regula- tion Mimit. This is to say 4 man driving at 70 miles an hour on a highway designated 50 would have his driving licence suspended for 20 weeks. That should “‘larn” them.—St. Thomas Times-Journal

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he stepped up to it, a number of young boys were standing around laughing at the beaten up car.

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To last, and crops are partial to this land.

—Fanny DeGroot Hastings in the N.Y. Herald Tribune

OUR YESTERDAYS

(From the Guardian Files)

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (August 7, 1934) ‘

Mr. R.S. Lea of Montreal, of the firm of R.S. and W.S. Lea, internationally known engineers, is at present visiting his broth- er Hon. W.M. Lea and Mrs. Lea, Victoria. Besides many other eigineering interests, Mr.

failed to accomplish anything of significance. The most ardent of his political opponents could scarcely accuse him of playing a role comparable to Chambe lain’s at Munich. .

In this light, ré - examination of Fairlie’s comparison between Munich and the impending ex- change of visits between Kiarush- chev and Eisenhower raises the question whether there is any similarity between the circum- stances or -the participants.

M Khrashchey is a dictator, he is not a dictator whose principal aim is military conquest. And if Eisenhower seeks the peace of the world, he has given no sign

that be wante « at any price

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And most amazing of all—this fmprovement was maintained in eases where doctors’ observations were continued over a period of many months!

In fact, results were so thorough

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Slowest Oxes ‘at Lunenburg) Best Liniment for Man and Beast, World's Fastest Racing Ship (Biluenose) and Sportiest Tuna (Westport). In Cape Breton is shown where John Cabot landed, where the first airplane flew (just a slight exaggeration); and where General Wolfe “Worked Out”. This island is labelled‘ ‘Mostly Scotch” and is a gentle jibe at Prince Edward Islanf’s. liquor Tegulations, the province across the strait is marked ‘Very Little

tion “Confederation started here,” the information “‘No Hay Rever” -amnd ‘“World’s Fastest Harness Horses”. Even Sable Island has its acclaim as the World’s Biggest Ships’ Graveyard and in the bay of Chaleur is the World’s Only Phantom Ship.

- Alh those Maritimers, and their

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