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‘Li A Lesson In Charity We saw a blind man the other dfay dropping a coin into at Christ- mas (‘lieet pot on the sidewalk in front of a big department store in Cliarlottetown. A friend was guiding his hand over the opening 50 that he wouldn't miss it. Intent upon our own affairs we were about to pass bi’ without noticing the pot at all, but for this little incident. Shamefacedly we turned and did likewise, receiv- ing a friendly smile from the pot’s custodian which seemed to imply understanding of our momentary foigetfttliiess and appreciation of the fact that otir heart was. after all. in the right place.

The blind man by this time had moved away, whistling a cheery at-conipziniment to the tapping of his white cane and quite unaware of the lesson in Christian charity he had taught us.

The coin wasn’t much in itself- his or ottrs. it will take a lot of them to fill that big-bellied pot, and there are many similar pots that will re- qlllre to be filled. and filled again, before the needs of the needy are met this Christmastide by that wonderful organization of Good Samaritans we call the Salvation Army.

The Christmas Cheer pot is their idea of providing is basis for "equalization grants" to the have- nots at this season, without any of the bickering that accompanies fed- eral-provincial arrangements of this kind. No government subsidies are involved. No politics. No complaints about the distribution being unfair or about taxes going up if the con- tributions get. too big (they new-1' do, in this case.) Every dime. quar- ter and dollar bill counts, and there is always room in the pots for more. The money will go out as freely as it comes in, gathering dividends along the way, and somehow mak- ing richer both the givers and the receivers.

Widows‘ mites and blind men's offerings—these are what really make the Christmas Cheer pots per- form their miracles. But the point is that we can all join in. and catch

some of the glow that comes from participating. however casually, in the ritual that brings them to pass.

U.S.-Soviet Trade

One of the most perplexing decisions now confronting President Johnson is w h e t h e r to liberalize American trade policy with the So- viet Union and the Communist bloc. The possibility of modifying exist.- ing trade restrictions has received much attention since the late Presi- dent Kennedy gave approval, last October. to the sale of possibly $250 million worth of surplus American wheat to Russia. Certain adminis- tration officials are said to favor freer trade as one possible method of easing cold war tensions, but not all of them. The state department reportedly isiexploring possible con- sequences of such a step.

The question was brought to the fore it fewgdays ago when the Senate killed a. bill that would have pro- hibited the Export-Import Bank, or any other government agency, front financing commodity sales to Com- munist cour 01163 V1 extending guar- antees of private financing. The ac- tion elimiates a major hurdle In negotiations over the wheat aele to Russia. American grain exporters c o n t e n d that government-credit guarantees are easentlal for any deal.

Whether the wheat tmrioactton

lie. completed‘ or not, the subject of

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revived and is likely to be a lively topic in the months ahead. Exist- ing United States policy has been predominantly anti-trade. Legal re- strictions as well as strong opposi- tion in and outside Congress have resulted in little commercial ex- change with Communist countries other than Poland and Yugoslavia. This policy has long been a divisive factor in the Western al- liance. Britain. particularly, opposes it. The British maintain that trade with Russia is desirable. that it will make the Russians more amenable as they get more of the material comforts and that it will lessen the likelihood of aggressive Soviet poli- cies. Canada, in its wheat deals. has taken the same view. [‘here is hope now that. it will prevail at Washing- ton. The ultimate decision rests, of course, with the new President.

Scaring Off Robbers

Britain has been suffering a ser- ies of robberies, including some in which moncybags have been snatch- ed from messengers and paymasters. Now, an inventive genius has patent- ed a moneybag to discourage those activities.

When an y one snatches the moneybag from a carrier, a release in the handle immediately activates a compressed ‘air device insirle the bag. This emits a loud and steady whistle. At the same time, the bag handle depresses into the bag. pre- sumably clamping on the thief‘s hand. And three 12 foot telescoping

arms suddenly shoot out from the 1

bag in three directions, making the bag difficult to carry and all but impossible to take through a door or into a car.

This is all very well, but an American exchange suggests that the invention doesn't go far enough. It's only a. half-way job. What is needed. it says, is a tiny computer that would act while all the above was going on to produce a warrant for arrest and set bail.

Even at that, we doubt if it would completely discourage the g e n t r _v that makes a business of snatching moneybags. They’re a pretty inven- tive class of people themseves. They’ll be coming tip with some- thing to offset this compressed-air gadget; but they won’t be patenting it, and we shah”: know anything about it until we read of another big haul in which both messenger and moneybag will have disappeared into thin air.

Wildfowl Refuges

Of interest to conservationists on this side of the Atlantic is the outcome of a conference of the Natural N at ure Conservancy and International Wildlife Research Bureau, held recently in Scotland. Plans are now on foot for the es- tablishment of a network of wild- fowl refuges stretching a c r o s s Europe.

The vi-‘cal link will be Loch Levon in Scotland, one of the finest wild- fowl reserves on the European con- tinent. Between the estuaries of the rivers Forth and Tay. the area at- tracts thousands of Pinkfooted and Grey-lag geese every fall. and many Canada Geese and Greenland Whites.

Representatives from 20 coun- tries came to the conference to dis- cuss measures of conserving wild- fowl. Naturalists. sportsmen, scien- tists and government officials ex- changed information about bird movements between countries. As a basis for future operations. a survey was made of conservation measures. existing and projected refuges and legal safeguards. ‘

EDITORIAL NOTES

The United Church Observer, pondering over book circulation in Edmonton libraries, has discovered that westerners read four times as many “mysteri¢-as" as “westerns.” On the other hand, it noticed in Ber- lin, that centre of mystery and in- trigue. that crowds line up before I cowboy picture.

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Fisheries M i n i s t e r Robichaud aaya the Government is making no surrender in its intention to estab- lish a 12-mile fishing limit off Cana- dian coasts. There were reports froth Washington to the contrary—that. both External Affairs Minister Mar- tin and Mr. Robichaud had indicat- or! they were willing trvrecognize traditional U.S. fishing rights inside the new limit "into perpetiiit_v." It is Srltlfyinz to note that this is not the case.

VIEW OF ST. PETRS

BAY

(_)l'_TAWA REPORT by

Patrick Nicholson

Pleasant Bonus For Federal Civil Servants

llow many llt)ll(ltI_\’S do you have each year‘.

Probiibly not as many as are etijoycd by your “humble and obcdictit servaiits“ who are paid by you as a taxpaycr—tlie civil S(‘l‘\'.'llllS of tho fodcra-l govern- ment.

Tlivy have just l‘L‘(‘£‘l\'(‘(‘l a very plczistiiit Cliristitizis bonus which few or no other Canadians will enjoy. in the form of two addi- tional lioli<‘a_vs with pay announ- end for the coining festive sca-

Filll.

The offit-ial statcnicnt from the Office of the Prime Minis- ter states: “The Prime Minister has announced that, following (‘iibinet (‘OllFlllIElll()ll, Thursday, l)c(-cmlim-2i:. 1963. and Thurs-y day. .l:iiiii:it'y 2. I964. are pro- claimcrl as liolidays for the fed- eral public .<ci'viN=."

STATYTORY HOLIDAYS

There are a number of public holidays wliicli Parliament has pi‘ot-lziiiiictl by Act as “a day to he lIl‘t.\‘t‘i‘\‘(‘(‘l as a holiday." But Pat-lianicrit does not specifical- ly state how those holidays are to he observed. nor that they are. each and every one to be rated as a holiday with pay for every Canarlian.'l‘licrc are also cer- tain days which are traditional- ly observed as holidays. or are proclaimed by other levels of govcrtimcnt. For instance, “Civ- ic }{olida_v", the first Monday in August. “as initially the crea- tion of various municipal gov- ernments; and this is now obser- ved by the federal government in that it gives aholiday with pay to the federal civil servants on that day.

Other days in the year vrhich are observed as -holidays by the civil service are Ne wl Year's Day. Good Friday, East-1 er Monday, The Queen's Birth-; day. Dominion Day. Labour Day. '1‘hanksgiving Day. Re-

« mcmbrance Day and Christmas

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A_ one-day holiday which falls’; in midweek. especially in the summer season of cottage life.

PUBLIC FORUM

This f‘.I)lIlfl’|lI is open to the discussion‘ by cnrrospiindenis of questions of In tr-ri-st. The Guardian does not neces- sarily riidorsc tl ' on of corres- pfliidi-iits. All lr-tic-rs published are sub- ji-rt to editing and rontlc-nitatlon where nl't"!$.'i.'Il’,V‘_ The Guardian la unable to r Into any aorrrrspondenco I¢|II'd- lug lrtii-rs siiltrnlylerl. ~

SIDEWALKS AGAIN Sir.-—’I‘he comments by Miss Gail Rcddcn which appeared in the Charlottetown Patriot. De- cember 7th., re the condition of our sidewalks was indeed very timely. However, we wonder it Miss Retlden knows that ou r Gity officials are unable to en- f0I‘('(‘ this law. which she quot- ed and wliicli is still on the books. We have never been able to find out the reason. Pctrliaps.since Miss Redden is not a born native, she may be able to get the answer. Th e celebration of our Centennial ‘Year is just around llhe‘ corner, which is the anniversatiy of our entrance into C o n fe deration when we all had the idea t h at “hereafter all would be peach- es and cream". The young wom- an who fell on Kent street on Friday last. and who is now reat- lng comfortably (7) in the hos- pltal will have reason to feel that someone, somewhere along the line, neglected their respons- ibility.

Bright lights, flowers. It u g e buildings. etc., etc. are well and good as far as they go but are not the lives and limbs of our people of much more value than these? Granted, that part of the blame rests with the household-

ers. business men, p roperty owners and even professional men who refuse to’ take a shovel in hand and clean off th ctr walks after a snow storm there- by eliminating the icy condition that is bound to follow. If this ll not done, then let our City ‘offl- clals put a law on the books that can be enforced and see that it is enforced.

We hear it said so often: "This is the Age of Progress". some

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. ROSE G. RYAN,

A Sidewalk Casualty Cliarlollclowii.

is less valuable than a day which can be tacked onto a week-end. So certain of these holidays are now sensibly arranged to fall on a Monday, regardless of the spe-

cific date of the event each hon- ours. For exampl “The Queen’s Birt.l1day" honours

Queen Victoria. who was born on 24th May 1819. But now this occasion is, very conveniently. marked by a holiday not on 24th May each year. but on " th e; Monday immediately before 25th‘ May." Similarly, Labour Day is‘ always the first Monday in Sep- tember, and Thanksgiving Day is the second Monday in Octob- r.

SICK AND SUNNY HOLIDAYS

The federal civil service is en- titled to 15 idays with pay each year. As it works a 5- day week, that means that each civil servant receives three weeks holiday per year.

A rather untisual provision covers for days absent through illness. The entitlement. in one and a quarter days of paid sick leave for each month of service, and this is cumiila-l

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tive. Thus each civil servant is entitled. as a right, to 15 days of absence with pay every year on grounds of illness, or three full weeiks per year.

As this is cumulative. it can, if not otherwise fully utilized. be taken in the form of early re- tirement on full pay. If a, civil servant is away sick for three days or longer, a medical certi- ficate is required.

But absence of one day or two days requiires no such doctor's certificate. and may tlierefore be based upon the flimsiest of “medical" reasons. In fact a civ- il servant could be "sick" just as, in the old joke. the office- boy's grandmother used to “die" whenever a mid-week sport i n 2 event or the lure of fi.<li‘ItE calls the labourer from his viiieiyard.

This is not to allege that this happens; it is just that the terms of employment are very gener- ous in this respect. And this is especially true of the provision whereby the entitlcnioiit can he carried over from year to year lf not previously COIlSllIll(‘d.

The Bolivian Crisis

By Canadian

Jobs, security and hunger appear to be at the roots of the current Bolivian crisis-—not the export of revolution by Fidel Castro's Cuba.

Resting high on the Andes Mountains. Bolivia has a his- tory studded with irlots and rev- olution. There have been bloody battles staged by right-wingers and left-wingers. The country has been ruled. in fact, by an uneasy coalition of extremists.

while Communists may have taken advantage of the current desperate economic sit- uation, the heart of the crisis is the prospect before many workers of unemployment or of such low-paying work that hun- ger cannot be appeascd.

Bolivia’s problem is that it lives mainly on its tln earn- ings. In recent. times earnings from world sales have plunged

Our Yesterdays

(From the Guardian Flleat

TWENTY - I-‘IVE YEARS AGO (December 11, 1938) SAINT JOHN. N.B. Dec. 11- (CP)— William SJ-I. Crawford, of Saint John. was awarded the 1939 Brunswick Rhodes Scholar- ship at a meeting of the selec- tion committee. Saturday. M 1'. Crawford is a fourth year stu- dent at Mount Allison Univer-

sity.

J. Gerald Kelly. Charlottetown educated at West K and Prince of Wales College, has just been elevated to the High Court of Ontario. as Judge, by the Prime Minister of Canada.

TEN YEARS AGO. (December 11. 195!)

Rev. J.R. Carson. minister of the Presbyterian Church In Swift Current. Sask.. and formerly of Charlottetown. P.E.I., was the main speaker at the Remem- brance Day service. The Swift Current Sun quoted Mr. Car- son’: address in full.

A party of agricultural engine- ers, headed by W.W. Nichols of the Maritime Marahland Rehab- ilitation Administration. head- quarters at Amherst, has been busy during the past week sur- veying the Hurry I-‘airm, recent.. ly purchased by the Experimen-

tal Station.

Harold Morrison Press Staff Writer

far below the cost of produc- tion. In former times tin barons tended to exploit the miners. Now the ahoe is on the other foot. With the mines national- ized, onganized workers tend to demand more from their new boss, the governnicnt, than the mines can produce. Efficiency experts have warned that un- less inflated work forces are trimmed and the mines re- stored to a profitable basis. the whole Bolivian economy may collapse.

In fact, the Bolivian govern ment now is teetering at the edge of bankruptcy. Without U.S. handouts. it would be un- able to pay its bills.

But many miners do not want to be shifted from their jobs; they do not want to be moved f r o in familiar surroundings. They are fighting to maintain ts way of life that cannot sustain them. Featherbedding is re- ported rampant in some Boliv- ian mlnes. but workers resist change.

It is in this environment. rag- ing poverty and raging tempers high on the Andes, that the tin workers seized 21 hostages, in- cluding four Canadians and four Americans, to be held un- til the Bolivian government re- leases two jailed left-wing un- ion leaders.

In one of his first moves in the foreign field, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson offered sup- -port to the Bolivian administra- tion headed by President Vic- tor Paz. Johnson based his sup- port on the contention that the four Americans were “kid- napped" and this is “indefen- atble."

WORKERS’ ULTIMATUM

Now there is talk of it work- ers’ uiltmatum and the threat

at the hostages may be American authorities _do not believe this wll-I happen. They believe the hostages will be released elim-tty.

B that won't end the crisis. The pangs of hunger will still be there. Children with hunger- swollaai stomachs will still wim- der the streets.

Some major operation is re- quired to restore confidence in Bolivia's future. Until that con- fidence is restored. local Com- munists are likely to take ev- ery advantage of the hopeless- neas'of the people.

Anginoil Pains In Cold Winds

By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dellen

Winter weather and angina pectoris do not mix. victims of this It ea rt condition develop chest pain much sooner when walking on an extremely cold, windy day than at other times. Chill air cause reflex con- striction of the coronary arter- ies. putting an additional load on the heart.

Anglnal pain develops even when the individual is warmly clothed, with only the face ex- posed. Most persons breathe through the mouth when bucking is cold wind. thus losing the air- warming effect of nasal breath- ing. For this reason, those witn coronary artery disease ought to avoid wintry blasts; if they must go out. they should walk slowly and protect the nose and mouth with a seat! or heated mask. ‘

Distress is felt beneath th e breastbone in the area covered roughly by the necktie. It varies from mild to severe and tends to be dull rather than sharp, stabbing, or knlfelike.

me liken the sensation to a constriction as though th ere were a band or vise around the chest; others refer to it as a feeling of tightness. pressure, burning. or boring.

Discomfort is brought on by exertion or excitement and is relieved in less than three min- utea by rest or relaxation. Walking after a full meal hast- ens the attack in much the same way as does the cold. Some notice angina after going less than one block. whereas they are able to walk four blocks when the weather is plea- sant or the stomach is empty.

Nitroglycerin brings prompt relief. Studies with a new iso- tope (rubldium- 84) demonstrate that the effect of nitroglycerin on the flow of blood through the coronary arteries is different in normal and in cardiac patients. The flow in normal persons in- creases 50 to 150 per cent, but in those with angina it is raised 300 to 1,000 per cent.

NOTES BY

THE WAY‘

An adult is a person who had stopped growing at both ends and started to grow In the mid- dle.— Sarnla Observer.

A thief nabbed in Illlnols IIIII seven women’: watches. Where beta now. it won't make much difference what time it is.—Win- dsor Star.

Now it la claimed that mocce. sins and sandals produce flat feet. At that, they might help some teenagers to settle down. —-Chatham News.

Is It beyond the wit of man to devise some sort of hat th at would protect a pollcemaifs ears from freezing while he ects traffic on a bitter morning? A .policeman‘s lot may not be a happy one but he shouldn't have to be more uncomfortable than

A friend warns that light wui spoil dandelion wine. Keep it in the dark if you have a lot of dl'0P-in friends.-— Gait Reporter.

It b fortunate Indeed Hi at modern weapons systems cost as much asythey do. for otherw‘se it is entirely possible that no arms limitations would e v e [- take place.— Physicist Ralph La-pp.