~ Vexatious Food Problem : _ No one can blame the Federal Government for-trying to~ get rid-of farm surpluses abroad. Indeed, it is its duty to do so, But a report tabled by Agriculture’ Minister Harkness in the House of Commons the otHer day raises some disquiet- ‘Ing questions. Cheese Avhich cost the Government at least 34 cents < has been sold to the Unite
Shan for 29 cents; skim milk, ;
which cost between 12 and 17 cent: “a pound, has been sold to Europe and to South and Central American countries at prices ranging fiom- three to nine cents; eggs, which cost 40 cents a dozen, have ‘been’sold tc Venezuela for 26 cents; and so on. It is hard to escape the criticism that this method’ of marketing con- stitutes dumping. One of the strong- est sources of irritation in Canadian- American relations is the dumping by the United States of its farm surpluses, including wheat; Canada has protested vigorously against this practice because in some foreign
markets it has resulted in a curtail- ,|
ment of Canadian wheat sales. Hows much weight will our protests carry in future when it is known that we have been doing thé same thing? The United States economy is largely self-contained. Its ‘exports, though vital to certain industries, are only about 8 per cent of the national product. Hence, if foreign nations retaliate against American dumping practices by restricting American imports, the damage “ would be less serious than in Can-
ada’s case, ree 4 _@ur whole economy been. built
upon the sale of our products abroad. ’ And seldom have exports been more important to Canada than they are today when the nation is carrying a large deficit in its foreign trade. We have no doubt that this question is giving serious Concern the Canadien ‘Government, as fi should be giving to our farmers and other’ exporters of basic commod-- {ties, It helps us to understand the importance of the Washington con- ference which opened this week oh a departmental level, to prepare material for consideration’ at a ministerial meeting on May 5. Call- ed by President Eisenhower with ‘the warm approval of 7 Minis. ter Diefenbaker, -this “Food for Pea conference will attempt a ig tng to the problem of making better use of the free world’s agricultural ‘abundance. Its name in- ’ dicates its humanitarian purpose. If it helps to solve the vexatious dump- -{ng problem it will have proved to be a measure of self-preservation as ell.-
US. & Daylight Time ‘We were surprised to learn, from -gn article in the New York Timer the other day, that Daylight Saving ; ‘Time is still just as controversial an issue in the United States‘as it has been here. This, of course, does no! . prove or {lisprove its advantages" | but we had heard so many references to Prince Edward Island and Al- berta being “out of step” with the times on this question, that we had thought ‘we were lagging behind the whole continent. : Not so, according to- The Times Twelve of the fifty U.S. states scorn Daylight Time altogether, These are Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska North Carolina, Oregon, Sputh Car- lina, Utah and Wyoming) As, for . the remainder of the states, there - are variations of Daylight practices in sixteen of those which do have it In California, Nevada ard. Indiana Daylight Time will extend only t Sept. 27, not a _ month later, as in - New York. In Tilinois, about 80 per cent of the“poputatioir agreed’ tow . gerve it. Rural areas were. divided, gome remaining on. Standard, some . on Daylight to Sept. 27. The Senate week sought, to bring order from - aos by decreeing Daylight for all,
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only part way, from June 1 to Sept. 6. In New. Mexico, Los Alamos
\County alone sets :its science ‘clocks ahead; and in ly the -north- east part of te (Cleveland,
_ Akron, etc.) does so. Pennsylvania is all mixed up, being partly on Day- light (Philadelphia, Pittsburgh; etc.) - partly on Standard and partly short- erm Daylight. In Virginia, only those, counties near the District of Columbia observe it, and in West Virginia, the large cities of Charles- ton and Huntington don’t, while other sections do. ;
* Sunday Anniversary
Battle of ~ the Atlantic Sunday will be observed Fae Canada on ‘May 3, in memory. of those who, served and those who gave their lives at sea in the Second World War. Church parades and special ser- vices will be held in naval commands and_establishments,_from_.coast _ tc coast, and im ships at sea, com- memorating the long and bitter battle for control, of the North Atlantic. In the winning of this’ battle, Can- ‘ adian ships and men played a major May 3 will also mark the open- ing of Navy Week under the aus- pices of the Navy League of Can- ada. Royal Canadian Sea Cadets will be on parade during the week,
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Cadet Corps, has - sponsored Navy eek for the past 20 years, its aim being to focus attention on mari- time affairs and importance of the the sea to Canada's security. In pre- vious years, Navy Week was held in the fall, but this year has been - advanced to coincide with Battle o’ Atlantic Sunday. The decision was ‘well taken, for the Iague‘has play- ed an important part in defense activities in both Worlé Wars’
“EDITORIAL NOTES
Hon. Michael Starr, Federal Min- ister of Labour, seema-to be the right man in the right place. He has been warmly complimented, even by. Op- position members in the House of Commons, on his efforts~ftn avert-* ing the threatened CNR firemen’s
strike.
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It has been suggested in European diplomatic circles that Britain and Egypt. have been at loggerheads
- for several years might find a new
amity ‘in the Communist threat to lraq,, which pleases neither Britain ~nor . Egypt. Stranger things have happened in international politics. .* * . : : _ For the-first’ time in. its history the Ayrshire Cattle Association of _Engiand and Wales has. a .woman “chairman—Mrs. M. K. Andersop,— owner of the Blockfield herd. in. Sussex.-Mrs. Anderson, who farms 600 acres, was owner of the winner ‘of the supreme championship at the 1954 London Dairy Show. : * * s In a radical departure from tra- dition, Rhodes Scholars in their third year at Oxford University will | be allowed to marry and retain their scholarships. This the first modifi- cation of the regulation on marriae except for a pu..-.ar change that permitted married veterans to be selected in 1946-47-48. wae
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public seed control service, will soon
mark its 75th anniversary. In honor
7 of the jubilee, the International Seed
12th ay, July 6-11, immediately following the’ large Norwegian Agricultural Jub ilee Exposition. About 150 delegates from 30 nations are expected to par- ticipate in the 6-day convention? Afterwards, there will be a 4-day excutsjon to agricultural districts in
Testing Association will hold i
West and East Norway ~-——__’
DRESSING FOR THE SUMMIT
OTTAWA-REPORT
Jarvis An
The Ottawa story about the sewing footman has _ reverbera- ted around the world.
It concerned the famous need- lepoint carpet, eight feet square, which was sewn by our late
PUBLIC FORUM.
interest. The Guerdian does not neses sarily en“orse the opinion ef corres
pondents.
and in many communities Sea Cade!
establishments “will hold “open |, HOSPITAL CONDITIONS
house.” , @ir,—On Aprit 27, the Hon. The Navy League, which admin- part, Maat Tout ote tite
isters the Royal Canadian Sea | lature in connection with the;
Public Buildings committee. Here is the truth about the whole thing: \ si
During the last session of the Legislature I was appointed on the Public Buildings Committee. I found on the third floor in the men’s division at Riverside Hos- pital, overcrowded conditions. I madé a request to the chairman of the Committee to take enough | patients out.of this ward and | use one of the bedrooms for a | rest room or recreational room because the patients are shut
d The Royal Carpet
By Patrick Nicholson
‘earpet has repeatedly won his --ed-the carpet to be removed from
-| Curtains. Attendants are ordered
| gallery visitors never see the car- | pet. Jarvis was reported as sug-
out of their bed s during the
day and shut the corridor The chairman id my reques . was rea: and he woul put it in t report. We, the Members of Committee were asked to sign a stenciled paper
before the report was completed Befote I signed I had the assur- ance from the chairman, Mr. Joseph Campbell, that my re- quest would be in the report when it was brought’ into the
House It just wasn't there. I re alized I had been thle-crossed Since the ended I we’
out to see what had been don they are taking enough beds o1 of a certain room in the morning | to be used during the day and put back at mght for sleepin; quarters. Surely since the. com pletion of the adjoining nev Hillsborough Hospital at a cos' of a million and a half dollars these conditions should not exis’ As very little use is made of th: second floor in the new Hospital. ‘why shouldn't some of these patients be housed there as they are still human beings and should be treated as such. I feel
report last year. ~ I am, Sir, etc. FRANK MYERS, M.L.A.
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HOSPITAL. INSURANCE
. ro Kecently there appeared in these columns two letters, one » from an Alberton farmer and the other a Tignish non-farmer, “I presume two good Liberals’’, cri- ticizing “my stand in favor of a sales tax, rather than direct con- tribution for the financing of our hospital insurance. And as time rolls oh we can all see the folly of trying to fiance-under any oth- er system. It is true Ontario has the cash contribution system but we must remember that 95 per cent of Ontario people work in industry where their fees can be deducted from\ their pay enve- _ lopes. This is what the tiniohs call the “check off.’ Our Province is al- together different. Nearly every ‘person is on his own. When Ottawa needed a 10 per cent ‘sales tax for reven and our local government a 17 ceni gas- tax, they didn't leave it to the ‘ people to pay or not to pay. They were too wise for that. So why all this fussing and fuming’ over _ the needed revenue. *. What we need in‘our lecal gov- ernment is one man, say Hon. ‘Dr. Bonnell, with the strength’ of a‘lion to do the job and the pride of & peacock to do a little boast-. ing, especially with a sales tax -that will take us all in 100 per cent. Let_us remember that the chief promoter of Hospital In- surance was none other than
'*one of the ugliest cities in the
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9 Cy tae” 7: — | would need at least thirty thous- : ' | and good Samaritans to care for
‘have 30 per cent that will fail to
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Queen Mary, and subsequently presented to. the people of Can- ada by the Imperial Order_of Daughters of the Empire. Under the former Liberal Government, this carpet was placed on per- manent exhibitiof in our Nation- al*Gallery. . :
Since Alan Jarvis was appoin- ted Director of the Gallery, the
unfiatiering attentién. He order-
the display box where it was on view, and to be hidden behind
to open the curtains if a visitor asks to see the carpet, and then draw them close-again. Most
‘gesting that if any lady of the 10.D.E. wished to see the car- pet, she should be charged twen- ty-five cents. a 1.0.D.E. GIFT HUMBLED Jarvis appears to delight in uttering comments like _ this, which infuriate his targets. Here are some others. On wives who enjoy painting as a hobby: ‘‘there are too many women who paint piffling, fiddling bloody little things which are really needle- point. Parliament discussed his comment that Saint John,. the port and pride of New Brunswick, is
world.”” The portrait of Queen Elizabeth, painted by Pietro An- nigoni, he called “an inartistic effigy’ and he refused to accom- modate it in our National Gal- lery; the Liberal Government
an M.-P. and a great Liberal of whom we are all proud, both Lib- erals and Tories.-His policy Was 100 per cent coverage or noth- ing. Nothing cheap about his
nish tried to say all our mach- fertilizer and live stock feed would be taxed. This is only talk. We farmers shall pay our tax similar to, our
wn people with no special pri- vileges.
Again. my Alberton friend says this about all those that fail to pay their dues of $24 or $48 per year, ‘‘that no consideration must be given to those people when in need or seeking hospital care.”’ In this case, I presume, P.E.I.
those persons lying sick at our hospital doors. Remember the words, ‘‘No .consideration- what- ever.”’ I predict unde& the pre- sent voluntary system we shall
pay up their dues.
Oh yes, I was told not to talk about Premier Smallwood of New- foundiand the way he ‘decerti- fied the International Woodwork- ers Union. According to official information, those men ate bo-
| footman echoes round the world.
| justified in. challenging whether
premptly snubbed him by selec- ting the portrait for reproduction on a Commemorative Postage Stamp, which will be issued hext month. Everyone will sympathize with his own .domestic hard- ships, which no doubt prompted his charge that ‘“‘most. Canadian food tastes like Kleenéx’.
The 1.0.D.E., which had col- lected some $100000 to outbid U. S. purchasers and to acquire this object of Queenly labour for Can- ada, were mad, and they loudly said so. But Jarvis refused to remove the curtains.
As the storm waxed last month, Jarvis stoked it up by assert- ‘ing that the carpet anyhow was not the work of the Queen, as had been popularly believed. She employed ‘‘footmen, and other pa- lace personnel’ to help her sew the-carpet, he charged. In fact, even one of his friends had loaned a Versatije / Jeeves to pinch-sew for the“Queen. ““\
The fairy story of the sewing
DENIED BY THE TRUTH “Every stitch on that carpet was done by Queen Mary her- self,"” came the angry denial from England's Dowager Marchioness of Reading, who had been chair- man of the organization which disposed of the carpet for the Queen. The Queen, said Lady Reading, expressed her wish that every stitch on the carpet should be her own work, and her's alone. This denial of the footman can- ard was written as a letter to the editor of ‘‘The Times’’ news- paper in England. Jarvis hand- ed out a copy of the letter here, to correct what he called ‘‘the unfortunate mininformation ” which he had disseminated about the carpet. ~\ The Queen> who was artistical- ly talented and very well inform- ed on certain art forms, was also a keen neediewoman and tapest- ry worker. She ‘made this car- pet and presented it to be sold | to assist Britain's post-war drive to earn dollars by export trade. The carpet may not be uni- versally admired as a work of art; its place, as primarily a royal souvenir, might be more appropriate in the National Mu- seum. But fifty or one hundred years hence, it will certainly be worth more than many. of the paintings now being bought for the Gallery, which one irate Ot- tawa matron dismisses as “‘Jar- 7ivis’ pet blobs of modern art’. And since the government a cided several years ago that { Gallery was the place where the carpet should be exhibited, its generous donors, the 1.0.D.E. are
the Director should_now stir up ‘an international: incident“ by.chal- lenging what they regard as a national institution. 2
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By Joseph
If Field Marshal Viscount
logna and beans three times daily had poor camping quarters and. worked a ten hour day. They re- ceived little more than half the hourly pay that similar workers received in. other. Canadian pro- | vinces. r Unions are necessary as I pointed. out in a former letter. When they had no unions. they | were paid 10 cents an hotr. But | it is true-in many cases they are demanding excessive salar- ies .and excessive’ power behind | them.,.Our policy—and I mean) our Federal Government—n eed not attempt to bust their unions but to provide strength enough to settle strikes through Labour Relations .Boards that will just for all concerned. What have we governments for if they can’t setile strikes, and the sooner they show some strength the bet- ter as unions are becoming over- balanced with power. To me it | is cheap for governments to al- low strikes to last three to twelve | months.. This represents a noel jor weakness in our Democracy . I am, Sir, etc. i HARRY PRIDHAM Alberton; PEL ~
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Moscow reports indicate that the celebrated soldier has duly impressed Premier Khrushchev, who took the unusual step- of agreeing to meet ‘“Monty”— travelling as a private citizen— two-days in a row. *———
And Montgomery seemed to be | handling himself saying he and Khrushchev were -overing “everything."’
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larged glands. OUR YESTERDAYS
(Frem the Guardian Files)
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS \ (May %, 1934)
Mr. Crilly Lea was elec pre- sident of the Summerside Sea Gulls, A.F.C. at a meetingyheld last night. Other officer include vice-president, Eldon Mann; se- cretary-treasurer, R. Phillipson; coach, D.J. Heath; Captain T Poole; vice-captain, Mac Steele.
Good progress is reported by the committee in charge of the library campaign for the purpose of enabling Charlottetown to take advantage of the Carnegie de monstration library. The money will be ised to purchase the ne- cessary equipment, after which
» | 4,000 books will be placed in the
library free of cost by the Car- négie eee i
TEN YEARS AGO “(May 1, 1949) - Two new appointments to the medical staff of .the Provincial
‘Sanatorium have been filled by
two overseas doctors, Dr. Ken-. neth Ian MacLeod, Leith, Scot- land, and Dr. Cecil F. O'Riley from Ireland. The announce - ment was\made by Dr. P. A.
‘Creelman, superintengent of the
sanatorium and director of T.B. control of the province.
#ine weather and a scarcity—of bait along some parts of the south shores, marked the open- ing of the lobster- fishing season on Saturday ‘morning. Five o’- clock saw the fishermen off to the groundy, Most of the gear is now out. First catches are ex- pected to come this morning around 10 o'clock.
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more impact except that many of Montgomery's criticisms al- ready were familiar from his re- cemt book on. the Second World
public service and entertainment, the program was regarded as a distinct success, and Montgom-
very was efective. Says the New York Times television critic: : “(It) was an extraordinary, vision program — utterly
Things weren't so happy-in Lon-+{-ati
ton officialdom, where the For- ‘ign Office was said to be’ aghast “an hour-lomg Montgomery in- “rview. televised in the United — and Canada Wednesday “ONDON WORRIES ‘— - One London newspaper said the ilkative war leader's comments vould. ‘‘madden the ‘average American.” In New-York, the in- terview stirred much interest. al- though no “maddened” reaction was apparent—mot right away, anyway.
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Recent studies of the decom- posed fragments of a bronze ob- ject in the Greek National mus- eum suggest that ancient tech-
nology must be radically reasses-
sed. Reliably dated from the first
century B.C., the fragments are‘|-
nothing less than the remains of a complex mechanical computer. —Scientific American
as he added: © .
“I, of course, suffer from both. I don’t mind. I rather enjoy “it, actually.” :
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He didn’t win recruits to his American fan club when, in enu- merating Britain’s qualifications for leadership. said:
“It’s a question of Wisdom, and | you've got ‘to remember that in handling world problems the Brit- ish have the experience of—cen- turies3 the U.S., has the exper- ienee of decades and I would say that you have quite a bit to learn.” ?
Montgomery said the peoples-of Europe are inclined to distrust both Britons and: Americans—the Americans because they waited a time before entering either of the world wars. ry In case of a new “‘rough-house” in Europe, “American blood must be shed on the first day.” ;
“They (the Europeans) often said that to me, and said—well, I quite agree, and guarantee
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peculiar facé, And translated from a quiet star Into your own wild tongue These words with which I launch. , the - air And that the wind carries with- out care To you, finder, like a falling song.
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