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Angola is expected to subject gal to one of the sharpest attacks

is still a great empire, and that: it can rule as it, likes over its subject colonies in Asia and Africa; simply doesn’t square with énlightened opin- ion in any part of the world. ~

In the Portuguese are now limited to Macao on the Chinese mainiand, and Timor in the Indone-

Ahan archipelago. In Africa, however, ‘their. possessions include Angola, Portuguese Guinea, |- | Cape Verde Islands and the. Islands tof Sao*Tome which, taken together,

Mozambique,

are 23 times the size of Portugal.

a ies over these colonial possessions is an anachronism today; and if Portu-

gal does quit the United Nations. in |

a huff, this will not stave off the inevitable demands for a change. .

When Portugal sought U.N. mem- bership in 1946, the Soviet Union vetoed the application and it did so every time the motion came up until 1955, when Portugal was_admitted in a deal that included a number of other. states. From the start it was

in trouble with ot her member na-

tions over- charges of repressive rule in Angola and Mozambique. The charges grow more. bitter as more African and Asian states gain entry to the world assembly. An inquiry group was, created last April after a bitter debate which: Portugal boycot- ted and, more recently, Portugal was condemned for refusing to give in- formation on non-self-governing ter- ritories, as required by the VU, N.

Charter. The vote was 90-3, with

only Portugal, South Africa and Spain voting against it. .

It is to be hoped that wiser coun- sels will prevail at Lisbon when the Angolo issue comes up again at the

| U.N, but there are no signs of this at

present.

From Pence To Cents . ___Since_as_far_back—as-1824-there

has been agitation in Britain to {

change its cumbersome currency system. - Recently, pressure has

grown, with business interests argu- | Ing mainly that a decirhal currency

be frittered away by

ot & guess as a certainty.

Portugal’s Attitude . Portugal is taking the loss of its

“Bmaill possessions on the coast of In- _ @la very badly. It was not enough that the Western powers condemn-

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, would simplify Britain's foreign dealings, Last.month the Chancellor oyd,

capitulated to thé-pressure, with re- servations. He said Britain would introduce the decimal system unless a new study showed the difficulties to be overwhelming.

The difficulties are already well known, The machine age has thoroughly locked Britain into its Present system. There are an estimat- ed-1,250,000 items of machinery in

and. pence—cash registers, calculating machines, petrol pumps,—even—elec=

tronic calculators—whieh have to be changed at a cost estimated at 000,000,

Under the change, however, in- ternational dealings would be immea- surably simplified; calculating ma- chinery would cost less to produce, and children would, it is claimed, learn their sums in money much faster than they do now.

EDITORIAL NOTES

It is encouraging to note that

Canada’s project enrolment of 4-H |

clubs continues to grow and reach-

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A tender “miew’’, two velvét- _ covered soft paws, and, a tiny . delicate tongue loving to lick up sweet milk— most children in this country would know what characterized by these terms. Children love to play with cats, they jump with joy, if cats play_with their glass marbles, but they will be as cruelly disappointed, when, Minka, their cat, does no longer want to play and withdraws ma- jestically. oe

Cats in western Germany, contrary to dogs for which tax

must be paid, will not be regis- tered. (Old chronicles report of

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century ago vanted to introduce

a cat tax —- the cats remained

victorious, and the tax was ab-

olished.) According to a recent | census their number is three

miltion. For each 18 inhabitants

in west Germany there is, one

“house tiger”, as they are call- ‘ed. But certainly many’ cats

that had been slumbering peace-

fully near a hot fire when the

count was made, have been

omitted.

MOST FAVORED PETS According to recent press re- ports cats are the most favour- ite pets. in the Federal Republic of Germany. A survey —of a | Frankfurt Institute indicates that 18-per cent of all house- | holds interviewed said that they

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\.FREIGHT ASSISTANCE

‘Sir,—Having read Mr. Gerald Hardy's recent letter. I heartily disagree with some of his com-

Regarding F.O.A. wanting the Government to help with freight on Western grain being brought into the province, Mr. Hardy

seems to think the Government should only pay freight on some products -we ship out of the pro- vince and also on high priced .machinery necessary in farm-

ing.

I think the F.0:A. would help the farmer very> greatly by helping pay the cost of freight on grain which is so necessary for live stock. Is not the farm- er with little or no land in as much need of help, as the man who owns a large acreage?

ernment on feed would benefit the great majority of the farm- ers in our Province. Beeause the ma) -of them simply have to buy . The margin of profit on farm produce is small. The present high cost of feed is most discouraging and if it continues we certainly. won't have so much to export. Farmers will not operate at a loss.

We certainly need to cut down the. cost of expensive farm ma- chinery and other things too, but to oppose the paying of freight on feed brought from the West is a very poor way in-

ful in getting help from the Government to pay freight on Western grain. Many of our farmers desperately need assistance if they-are going to

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IN 1962 . Sir,—We have crossed th | threshold of a hew year. It is | like a highway 365 ‘miles long, over which we have never tra- velled before, Therefore, we know nothing about its turns and its curves, its hills and hollows; and for thai reason we wilf have to watch for the sign- posts lest we go astray. Going

very costly ‘thing, especially if”

mind is set on reaching .a certain destination in ‘a given | time, and thaf -time may be very short. .

So it is with Life. For us in- dividually, the highway .of life may be long or it may be short. But be sure of this, it will have its crossroads w necessitate decisions. ~ The \question will arise. Which way shall I take?

Is it not‘extremely frustrating to find that one has for many | years travelled on the wrong road? The error causes many

stopped to read the directions | sure of myself. It.is well for us

| we do that, we will not have to | Say to ourselves, Oh, how differ- ent it might have been, if I had heeded the warning. - a4

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Can we take the ups in high? Yeu see, when we are getting along well, we may acquire a tendency toward self sufficency and that

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keep cats, while the numberof - those keeping dogs is only 16

per cent. Less peaceful, how- éver, than the ed home-~ pets are their _sisters,”" |

the ‘wild ‘cats, which are not cats that have-turned wild, that occasionally prowl the country after having gone astray, but genuine wild cats, which are a separate species...

Experts are not agreed ‘as to whether and in what manner the domestic cat has descended from the wild cat. German hunt- ers will not take issue to this query: for 75 years wild cats only rarely had appeared in their woods.

Although they are predatory animals, _w{1d_cats enjoy the protection of the German law. In recent times, however, it has been reported that wild cats, up to aver three feet long and one and a half feet high have occas- jonally been observed in desol- ate mountainous areas in Ger- many more frequently.

Wild cats prow! at night, with

wild cats have reappeared German woods, as has another predatory animal, the lynx, but also wolves and elks. The réa- son for this migration. to the west appears to be the deterior- ation in forestry control in east Germany.

Interesting, however, is also the change and attitude of hunt- ers to the wild cat. Wild cats are now under,the protection of the law, becausé they are very

harmless nowadays. Rarely wiil wild cats attack larger. animals, such as fawns; however gladly do they eat mice and rats.

most legendary standard work of the famous German zoologist, Alfred E. Brehm (1829’to 1884), however, gives quite another impression of the Wild Cat. With great care“Brehm had collected bits of experience and. evidence and quotes many interesting stories, from which one can see that .wild-cats once were rather hated animals in former times, highly dangerous, ready to at- tack, and tough fighters. -

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The response was dramatic; they became stronger with graduated daily exercises: and many were able to resume nor- mal activity’ So long as they obtained oxygen they did not need to breathe deeply and could get along without becom- ing short of breath—just like the miler.

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

WHERE ARE MY GLASSES? P. C. writes: My wife claims she can’t wear bifocals. This means a continual commotion around “the house, looking for “the right glasses. Is it true that e people can’t get used to ocals or is fhis belief buiit up in the mind? REPLY Yes to both questions. There is a possibility that your wife's bifocals do not fit properly or they do not meet her needs in

| rate, this is her problem, so let's be sensible until she begins to complain.

SPIROCHETAL INFECTION C. B. writes: Please write something about Weil's disease. . -REPLY This ts an acute epidemic di- sease of the liver, leading to

volved, and many victims bleed into the skin and mucous mem-

ed eyelids, and stiff neck. The causative agents of this disease (leptospirosis icterohemorrhag- ical) usually are transmitted by animals, particularly rodents.

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R. M. writes: What causes Bang's disease in cajtle?

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This is an infe¢tion, now cail ed brucelia abortus. It was nam- ed originally. after Dr. Ivar Bang, a Scandanavian ‘who de- scribed the-disease, in which cows lose their young. The hu man form of the disorder is call- ed brucellosis, ~

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Monsieur Ducroq, the invent- or, has accepted the job of creating an electronic page - turner for Salvador Dali's forith- coming book on the apocalypse. The book will weigh 250 pounds, and the price for the single copy

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‘Earth’s Shape Defined -

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Ever since Magellan proved that the earth is round, scien- tists have been trying to prove hitn slightly wrong. ,

As early as the 5th century, B.C., the. Greek philosopher_Par- menides conceived -of the planet as a sphere. Newton noted its. ir-

regularities in shape. Subse- '

generations were taught

quent that the earth is an oblate sphe- |

roid. an object flattened a little at the Poles. ~ Scientists learned, -during the

International Geophysical Year |

in 1957-58, that the earth -is somewhat pear-shaped. Recent

calculations by the Smithsonian |

Astrophysical Laboratory indi- = that it is a bit lopsided as well, . :

If the éarth should be sliced in half at the Equator, a bulge would show in the Atlantic just off eastern’ Brazil. ‘Thus the earth is now considered an irre- gular ellipsoid with three axes. 41.8 MILES WIDER The imperfections are minor, the earth’ c equatorial circle, 24,- 902.29: miles, is only 41.84 miles longer than the circumference from pole to pole. To an observ- er on the moon, the earth would appear as sleekly perfect as a

- Knowledge of the earth's pre- cise shape is intensely impor-

itant in the age of missiles and

satellites. Deviations affect the

‘force of gravity, thus the motion

and course vehicles. “ie Z The earth is not only asymme- trical; its crust is wrinkled into mountains and valleys both on land and in the sea. . Moreover, the earth's contours are slowly but constantly chang- ing. Scarifinavia is rising _ for.

instance, . a com-

pensation for the region’s de-

pression in the last Ice Age. development of new types

of orbiting space

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OUR YESTERDAYS.

ed voyage around—the--world, | made the first continuous, cir cumferential profile by _meas-- ‘uring the pull of gravity as it | glided elong...Navy hydrograph- ers are continuing the work be- | gun by Triton to obtain similar continuous gravity records all over the world. | DISCOUNTED EARLY Ancient peoples generally re- garded the world as a flat disk surrounded by water. This con- | cept began to change i | Gretce’s golden age when the | inquiring minds of p E }and mathematicians noted | meaningful phenomena: the | disappearance first.of a shi»'s | hull beyond the horizon; the cire | cular shape cast by the earth on the moon during an eclipse; the alteration in the heaven’s ap-

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faster than conventional .

| pearance as one travels from _

| place to place. The savants con- | cluded that the earth must be @ | sphere.

| On this assumption, Eratosth- : | enes (276-194 B.C.) made -the

| the earth's circumference. His figure in stadia, which have no | modern equivalent, is reckoned | by some authorities to be the re- | markably accurate equivalent of 24,500 miles. The man-on-the-street, how. ever, did not really believe the earth was-round until

orers had actually sailed it. | And it was Newton (1642-1727)

| who advanced the theory that

| the revolving planet must be

larger in its equatorial zone be cause of centrifugal force.

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Glanaary 16, 1982) | ‘Refrigeration space ,

A second recent emergency : Through rates from point of

flight to transport a person to origin to St. John’s, Nfid. Ip

hospital by the “Flying’ Farm- | connection with C.N.R. .

er”, Mr. Elton — tT Route. your shipments

evening. In. response toa phone | NC. 'S/§° to Se’ Jenene

call, Mr, Woodside flew trom| “ S/S ‘ St

his farm at Margate to South :

‘Rustico. where he picked up ;

Mrs. F."Peters. Shortly after

Mrs. Peters’ arrival at City

hospital a baby girl was bora. .

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