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A Strange Thlng

A curious thing about human nature is its predilection for bad news. At least, that is what one is forced to conclude from the promin-‘ ence accorded strife and turmoil, while peaceful doings go almost un- heeded.

‘ Take, for example, the stir

in

“certain places in the Southern States over integration of the

schools. The headlines proclaim VlO-' lence and lawlessness at Little Rock ‘ and a few other places; but there is

hardly any mention at all of other

communities where integration is

proceeding quietly. Yet, those places

far outnumber the others. In almost

\ every State— every State except

Florida, according to a late report—J schools in whole counties have been

integrated or partially integrated

over a number of years. '

'In many of ‘these places—per- hapswin, all of them—the idea is not particularly liked. But sane people, realizing that integration" was inevitable sooner or later, have: submitted to court rulings and, in some instances, have taken it upon themseIVes without waiting for a court order. In almost every in- stance, no great social difficulty has resulted. Integration‘is now ac- cepted as a matter of course. '

Again, consider the racial dis- turbances in fie or two English cities. Here, too, it is the hot-head- ed, fascist-led troublemakers who > have been accorded prominence, while the districts where Negroes, and whites mingle freely without friction of any seriouskind' are practically ' left out of the 'vnews'.

But it must be remembered that ‘

there "are - over 100, ‘ ‘ West LIn- dians in Britain at the moment, not people, fromxvarious “in fine

4 a few hundreds at.any._‘fime have; been involved ‘ in; state disorl ders. H A) .I,

[Perhaps we would do well to dramatize peace and order a little more than 'we havelbeen in

haps, nobody would bother to, read the news. It’s a strange thing, isn’t; alt? - '

JUnior‘Red Cross

Last year members. of the Can- adian Junior Red Cross contribut- ed pennies, nickels and dimes to the amountof $50,863 fer the .Fund for,Internaltional Help and Under- standing, by Which children in less fortunate lands are given the means i to .help themselves in various pro- jects. ‘ r The money wasused topurchase such things as sewing machines and ‘ carpentry tools for youhgsters in Ceylon; laboratory equipment for 22 schools in Korea; and occupation- al therapy equipment for crippled children in various other countries.

Back in’1,955, a recent report notes Canadian Junior Red Cross' groups provided a number of farm animals, farm equipment and hous- ing materials for a community of

orphaned boys in Korea. Today ; * , I Muskle having defeated the. Repub- " lican incumbent Frederick G. Payne

these boys are practically se f-suf- ficient with a thriving pro uotiVe farm that is growing all the; time. , This is the time of 'yehr. with ' the schools just Opening, that Jun-V ior Red Cross branches are prepar- ing for new service and enrolling new members. It estimated that from Newfoundland to British Co-

lumbia during the first two weeks A

of September morethan 11/; million students will have, enrolled in 39,- 000 branches. ' I ' ' Thus does Red Cross go forward in one of its important branches, of humanitarian service and in pro- moting international goodwill

Radiation Precautions

Concerned with public mishappre- hensions in regard to radiation x-ray programs, the medical section of the O n t a r 1' o Tuberculosis Association formed a special study committee last year to explore the situation.

As reported in the bulletin of the College of General Practice, their con- clusions are, that chest x-rays are in- l

,' liament for

Aeration. However, there are times

' little too far. I v

- Atlantic Provinces, because.‘ the

Newfoundland needs them to main- exisiins' sérvices”-z

Commonwealth: and no more Nova Scotia and New

‘ isting services” and to meet current; ‘= expenses from mouth to month? In : fact, we feel free to say that; without the habit of doing. But then, per-'1‘“ £11859 grants, the Provmce would commitments for very, long“

' projects. Furthermore,“ we rather

- at Nice,'; France,

dispensible in the diagnosis and . treatment of chest diseases. In the past ten years sixty percent of the active pulmonary tuberculosis cases were uncovered in the minimal stage.

Mass surveys have been. the means of protecting large numbers of people from becoming infected and developing active clinical tuberculosis disease.

It is recognized, however, that every effort should be made to elimin; ate' unnecessary radiation. Modern chest x-ray techniques can reduce the radiation dose to an extremely low level. The average annual 'dose rep,- resents less than 1-25,000th of the thirty-year cumulative dose recogniz- ed as a reasonable upper limit.

All mass survey ,x-ray machines

were found to have been properly equipped to eliminate unnecessary ra- diation, as were all miniature x-ray units in health centres and hospitals.

The conclusion is, therefore, that as tuberculosis continues to be a ma- jor public problem, chest x-ray pro- grams iShOUId be continued. As a gen- 'eral policy, however, in the absence of

specific reasons, such examination is v ‘

seldom indicated more often than once“ every five years. A number of particular classifications are mention- ’ ed where more frequent x-ray is jus- tified. ‘ l . EXTstlng Servnces

, Whatever political faults Mr.. J. W. Pickersgill, member of Par-

Bonavista-Twillingate,

may have, there is no denying that

he, is an able spokesman for New-

foundland in the Opposition. He

never misses an opportunity to state. Why, in' his opinion, his "Province

should receive special favours from - Ottawa under the rterms of confed-

when he carries his argurhents a

For instance, in urging the Fed-I eral Cabinet to make an interim payment to Newfoundland of $8 mil- lionélpending further study of the Mac. air Commissions report,. Mr. Pickersgill said that “it’s no use claiming that Newfdundland can get along under grants made "to all the

'r Provinces rare their grams , for improvements. while

We" also say bxaétly aunt the

Brunswick. But as far as this Pro-

concerned, it certainly needs the Federal grants to “_‘maintain vex-

nbt be able to *honourits existing let alone embark on new an. expensive

suspect that the5.'other two Maritime Provinces are in ’a somewhat similar situation. , ’

EDITORIAL nous

Cancer campaign officials are 'preparing' for the annual canvass for funds. As hitherto, our people ' can be expected to respond gener- ously. Nothing ' is more important in the whole field of public health. \ a: a: . a: :1:

Congratulations to Sir Winston and ’Lady Churchill on the occas- sion of their 50th wedding anniver- sary which they celebrated recently ’ where ‘Sir Win- ‘ ston-spends most of his time these] days. “- I l

4: as - a: . .

For the first time in its history as a State, Maine has elected a De- mocratic Senator, former Governpr

.by a substantial majority. It cer- tainly gives the Democrats a renew-r ed hope to carry the nation in the November national elections

a: a: s ,4:

The Charlottetown City Council having approved fluoridation of the city’s drinking water, 'it now re- mains for'the Water Commissioners to make plans for implementing this public health measure. It, will cost some $2,500 a year, but if the sys- tem is as valuable as health au- thorities believe it to be, the money will be well spent indeed.

. alt * a: ale

Thereis only one iron bridge left in the United States. It crosses the Walloomsa River at Bennington, Vt. It is 30 feet long. The Smith- sonian Institution has suggested that it be put on display at an en- gineering exhibition planned for 1960. Around the turn of the cen- tury there were hundreds of such

MlDD’LE EAST

IBUSY STREET,

OTTAWA REPORT

\

Ottawa — Big Bob McCleave, , the Conservative M.P. from Hal-

. ifax, had the last word to say

on the always contentious sub- ject of divorce-lbyJParliamen-t. “Kangaroo justice; kangaroo courts,” he exclaimed, as he left the Commons Chamber in dis- gust at the end of the last .Prl— vate Membens hour available for considenaltiou of the victim- ised spouses’ pleas for . relief. Bdb MoCleave’s complaint was that Arnold Peters, .C.C.F. mem- her from Kilkland Lake, was deliberately “talking ‘ out” one divorce case. Mr. Peters ignored interjected, requests by George Mollraith, Liberal from Ottawa, and Bob McCleave that, having

.- expressed his own opinion, he

should not take the law into his .xvvn h Ms; by dimming. but should flease and leave the. House elf-{Commons time vote on the di— ._ vorce should be gnautedi ‘ ‘ ' “Lani not saying I am op-; to it, but Ihave some ’more remarks which 'I wollld':l'\e to make at the next sitting,” re- sponded argumentative .A-mold. Of course, everyone else in the ‘ Chamber knew that that was the final day, and there would be a next pitting. SUPERI‘ICIAL MILL ‘ Three hundred and twenty-fiv applications for divorce were heard in the past session of parli- ament. Six of these were reject- ed by the Senate; one was “talk- ed ou”. in the Commons; all

the rest were granted. Apart Parliamen’ro

It Is many years since com- mons conunittees have made as big a splash as they have at this session of Parliament.

In the past, committees have

v dug up a lot of new habits through questioning of witnesses. But they have seldom employed these facts to make strong criticisms of and recommendations to glov- . ernmenlt departments. This is largely due to the com- -' mllttee system itself. The party. in office has a majority on com- mittees just as it has in the Clum- mous ifiSelf. And it usually is not considered politically astute to bite the hand that helped elect you an MP in‘the first place.

Consequently, it is not likely that lhe'Plroglressive Conservative membens‘ on the public accounts committee would have delved into the construction costs of the national printing bureau with such relish if this construction ‘ prognam had been undertaken by

- a Conservative instead of a Lib-

eral ' (administration.

0n the other hand, political considerations didn’t scam to stay the hard hand of the esti- mates committee.

TELLING CRITICISM * l

lit had a bigmajority of Con- servative members as well and these memberv’s for the most part _offered for ‘more telling criti-

cisms of the defence and de- f e n c e production departments

than opposition MPs. “ The mlimartes committee sel- dom, if‘ever, made reference to the fact that it was inquiring into policies put into force for the most part by the former Libeuall gov- ernment. lit simply let fly.

Less than a month after the. committee recommended more integration of the a n c il 1 a r y branches of the armed forces, Defence Minister Pearkers an- nounced unification of the med- ical and chaplain services.

The defence department had already had such action under consideration but there seems little doubt that the committee lit a fire under it.

MOST CRUCIAL ISSUE

The committee also tackled the most crucial issue facing the government today: whether to or- der into production the super- sonic CF-105 interceptor at an es

bridges around the country.” I

donated three-year cost of some

' Divorce By Parliament . ‘ " ' By Patrick Nicholson ' Special Correspondent For The Guardian

from seven instituted by New- iouudlauders, the divorce pro- ceedings were all related to Que- bec couples. ,

Year after year we‘hear the same arguments against the in dignity and injustice of senators serving as ‘ part-time, honorary, untrained divorce court judges; -Irt inflicts an indignity upon our Parloment, often results in gross bravest ‘of justice, that our federal legislators shwld thus be forced to rush inwhere provincial premiers fear to tread. It is re- cognised that the madority of, Quebec residents are Roman Can tholics, whose church does not countenance divorce. But it is hard to rationalise the next pro- cess thinking out hum-an free- doms‘ and»;pmviucial rights Quebec, which adl‘fi that there- fore we: will not omens: file avumority» or religions. to permit divorce. Many, ‘ if not

most, of these Quebec divorce"

cases involve people of} ink faith. _ I Adultery, is the only ground reco gnised' by Parliament as just- ifying the granting of a divorce. This results in the existence of a strange Occupation in the city of’ Montreal, Where a handful of citizens ‘.‘investigagte” to carp their weekly wages. Specialtnaining, smartness and even good eyesight are evidently not necessary for success in that vocation. Evidence is seldom more than circumstantial, and in one case an investigator repeat- edly identified the plaintiff as the

the Jew

Committees

By Dave McIntos . Canadian Press

$2,000,000.000.

This question involves not only money, itself enough to curl the hair of any finance minister. But on it hinges the whole future of Canada’s defence effort. Obvi. ously, if the government decides to go ahead with the program ,it won’t be able to afford other

“scarlet woman” whom he had

to ad in supposedly compromis- ing circumstances with the re- spondent. Yet the senator acting as chairman, himself no less than filteen years past normal indust- Irial refinement age, declared that the investigator was obvious- 1y stupid, mixed-up and nervous, and he recommended the grant- ing of a divorce on that evidence of ,“adultery” with the lawfully wedded spouse.

[WHO PAYS WHAT?

In the case which Mr. Peters. talked out, four investigators for- ced their way into a lady’s house in the early evening, and found a man resting on The bed of the son of the house, fully dressed, after tubing an aspirin for his headache. Is that even circum- stantial evidence of anything just- ifying a divorce? , .

A divoroeHbyiP'arliameut nor mally costs $210 in parliamentary fees, phi: an average of $300 for fees in lawyers and investigators, and other minor items; But what has disturbed some people here ,recently is the talk of other and mderdhecounter payments ex-

, :“There’ is a toll-gate on the divorce for borderline cases," ’ is this unsubstantiated Change. Worse, a plaintiff for a divorce reported as saying when her .tongue hadbeen loosen; ed by usual process, that she hild paid substantial, sums“ to two/ parliamentarians to Muence the treatment of hell- “petition for re- lief.” - - '

Such talk is probably based more'on bitterness and suffering than on fiact,‘ but it is disturbing that it is heard. The way to end it of course is to put the gov- ernmeut back to governing, and keep adultery out of parliament.

submarines.

The committee advised that Canada never again embark on such an expensive program—CF- 105 development will have cost $400,000,000 by next March 31—- [without obtaining some NATO agreement for the sharing of costs.

The big government majority in the Commons has given the Conservative backabeucher little opportunity to show his ability as an MP. But he has used the com-

need-ed weapons systems, such as anti-aircraft missiles and atomic

Chionp Kai—Slick Gains

By Ed sn'non.

Ohiang - shek’s‘ shrewd gamble in committing substan-

tial fighting forces to the inde-l

fonsilble bastions of Quemoy and Mlaltsu is bringing painful pres— sure to bear on the, most vulner- able point of United States for- eign policy.

Chiang’s long-term survival de- pends solely on continuation of the U.S. policy of regaining him as China’s legitimate ruler, a fic- tion which has been viewed by other members of the Western alliance with an increasingly jaundiced eye.

Even in Washington, where the emotional impact of heavy Amer- ican casualties in Korean War had fanned hostility against the Peilpinlg regime, it appeared pos- sible that the passage of time might make it politically fea- sible to reach some kind of un- derstanding with the Communists. ISSUE FORCED

More and more Western powers were swinging toward support for admission of Red China to the United Nations and relaxation of the barriers that prevented them from trading with the Commun— ists. Meanwhile, Mao TseAtunlg’s government was content to let Chiang wither away ill Formosa, a comfortable 100 miles from the mainland, and let nature take its course.

Reinforcement of the National- ist garrisons a-t Quemoy and Matsu, close to Mao‘s borders, served the double purpose of stir- ring up trouble with the Commu— nists and provoking them into makingllhe first move. It also left President Eisenhower and State Secretary Dulles in serious trouble with their allies.

The West is generally agreed

mitbee for this purpose to the full- est extenlt and 'with good effect.

Canadian Press

that the Natiohali‘sts should not be sacrificed in any agreement recognizing the Peiping regime and that any Communist attempt at forcible seizure of Formosa should be resisted. But the U.S. stands alone in its apparentde- termination to back in holding his offshore ases. WHICH FRIENDS? ' '

Even Britain, with an offshore stake on her own in Hong Kong, has been cool to the Quemoy ad- venture. While the, government has remained silent, the press has been unanimous and em- phatic in its demands that the Nationalists ‘be persuaded to withdraw their troops.

The announcement of U.S. wil- linguess to negotiate with the Communists at Warsaw muses a little optimism among British newspapers although The Daily Telegraph, a Conservative sup-_ porter, suggests possible settle- merit on the basis of a withdrawal from Quemoy and Mutsu in ex- change for Communist guaran- tees not to attack Formosa.

A n o t h e r Conservative news- paper, The Scotsman, devastat- ingly disposes of one of the chief arguments in favor of all - out American support of Chiralng~ that failure to do so would dis- heanten friends of the U.S. in Asia. The Edinburgh papers re- torts:

“One can only ask, which friends?"

MAXIMS

After you have sought over the wide world, you learn that hap- piness is to be found only in you own home. '

, state in which the sleeper is eas-

Slee'p Hos Many Stages

By Herman N. Bundescn. M.I). .“I WAS so tired last night that I fell asleep as scones my head touched the pillow.” ’ Most of you," I dare say, have made this statement to friends a one time or another. Yet I doubt that it was quite accur- ate. Even without intending to, you probably exaggerated a blt. SLEEP IS, GRADUAL '

Sleep as a rule, just doesnit cime that suddenly. In fact, It comes gradually and varies 1n depth. Besides, all of your body doesn’t fall asleep at the same time. '

‘,Sle.ep actually consists of eight dilifereut' levels. It ranges from the relaxed, yet wide-awake level to a very deep sleep. Generally, we say a‘ person is asleep when he reaches the sixth level, gal- though real sleep may come to- ward the lower part of the fifth level. V —'. , DREAMY, STATE '

The fifth level is a dreamlike ‘

ily awakened. The sixth level is classified as “light sleep.”

Your various organs and sen~ ses fall asleep at different times, first one and then another. As for the organs, the' large mus-l cles of the back, legs and arms quiet down first. Then the smal- ler muscles, such as those of the hands and feet, go. to sleep. Fin~ ally, the smallest muscles, the eyebrows, lips and eyelids, be- come quiet. l

The senses‘ also fall asleep in turn with the power to effect conscious movement, the sense of smell being the first to relax. Then vision, hearing the sense of touch go to sleep in that order. - ‘ ,

What causes us to sleep at all' has been quite a mystery to doctors for a long time. One theory is that the brain, or. per- haps only a limited area of it, suffers a reduction in the blood supply. I IT EXPLAINS WHY

If this is true, it would help explain why we feel sleepy after a large meal (blood is diverted from the brain to aid the diges- tive process) and why we be- come drowsy in front of a fire or in a tub of warm water (blood again is diverted to fill blood ves- sels expanded by the heat). There has been much talk re-‘ cently about whether a person canlearn anything while asleep. Some , investigators seport that perhaps some knowledge can be gained with special teaching pro- cedunes/ while a person is a drowsy state, but that learning while in a deep sleep is' prac- tically unpo’ ssible. . ‘ QUESTION AND ANSWER 'BJS.T.: I am 67 aud‘have re- cently lost my sense of taste and smell.- What ,can I do? ' Answer: It. is not uncommo‘ n for people to lose Their sense of taste and smell as they become olderrlln most cases this loss is permanent and it is not possible via correct it.