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Cour: Prince Edward Island LIlO the DOC Puhllzmln -very week-day morning at III Prince Itrul 'ti~mnn..:mwn. E’.E.l.. by the Thomson Conw“! 1M

In A. Burnett. Publisher and General HIIIII‘ hank Walker, Editor Ilember Canadian Daily Newrpaper Publishers Association Member of The Canadian Press Member Adult Bureau of Circulation! Brawn offices at Summeralde. Montague and Alberto! Represented Nationally hy' T”om|an NQWIPIPOH Advertising Service 61 King street West, Toronto. On. 640 Cathcart St.. Montreal 1030 West Georgia BL, Vancouvu M l'nn'wr Charlottetown, Summerslde 30¢ pea‘ week. Ry Maul elsewhere in P.E.I. $9.00 per annum. other Provinces and United States 512.00 per annum.

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Wailing Al Tormeniine

"Already. it has been reported, motorists travelling from the main- land have had to wait nine hours to find transportation, owing to the long line—up at Cape Tormentine, If this is the condition now, what will it be like when the tourist sea- son begins? The answer is that it will be the same as it was last sum- mer and for several years past- scores of cars waiting all day and, in many instances, all night._

This sort of thing should not be permitted» to go on indefinitely. The longer, we delay in presenting a unit- ed demand for additional ferry ser- vice, the worse the situation will be- come. Tired and angry visitors ar- riving at Tormentine are not going to feel any better when they are told that, if they can be patient for another ten years or so, their trans- portation annoyances will be at an end, or that if they don’t mind driv- ing another few hundred miles, they might possibly find a place on the Lord Selkirk at Caribou. Many of them are going to turn back in dis- ‘ gust, vowing never to come this way again; and who can blame them? Indeed, tourists in their hundreds have been doing that very thing sum- mer after summer.

' Nor is it for tourist traffic alone that we need improved service on the Northumberland Strait. Our own people travelling on business or pleasure, or shipping perishable pro- duts, have a right to speedy water transportation, so long as that is the only ldnd of transportation available. Being obliged to wait sev-

' eral hours at either terminal is an

imposition and an unwarranted dis- crlmination.'

The Atlantic Agency

The appointment of an Agent- General for the Atlantic Province: in London Wlll, no doubt, meet with general approval. There is no ques- tion but that our trade with the Unii.ed Kingdom, and perhaps in course of time with West European countries, will be stimulated,’ once the agency’s work is in full swing.

..-The primary reason behind the establishment of the agency was, of‘ course, the need for greater sales of Atlantic products in United King-

. dom markets. But we think that Mr.

Jamer struck another important note when‘ he told a group of government officials and businessmen in Char- lottetown that. “the first challenge to be faced by Atlantic House will be making the British and Euro- pean peoples realize that the Atlan- Provmces represent a buying re- gion by themselves”. This must con- tinue to be one of the principal func- tions of the agency. If we are to sell products to the United Kingdom in‘ largely increased quantities, we must be prepared to increase greatly our imports from that market. The fall- ing off of British purchases from Canada since the end of the im- mediate post-war period was the re- suit, mainly, of British shortage of Canadia dollars. That shortage is

i not quite as acute as it was a few

years back; but it is still an influen- tial factor in .British buying prac- tices. Another thing that needs to be Itressed is quality. A good product is the best advertisement any in- dgliflfyhtran display. This, of course, is a matter of great importance in my market; but, unfortunatelygit is not always regarded as such‘. The Ollie!‘ day a. fisheries official in New- f£‘\1lir:‘<ti1land stated that the salt fish t. Ha £200? from ‘the Atlantic area 0 9 Laiibbean lS a “d1sgrace".

Raies Reduction Appeal

“.15 (fXDectcd that when the Fed. eral Cabinet meets on Mondav there will hie an announcement with‘ regard '9. t 9 appeal by eight Provincial Governments to rescind the last two increases in freight rates given to the 1"3l1W?lYS by the Board of Trans- port Commissioners. The first in- crease———of four per cent-became effecl,i\'e on Jzmuary 1, i937; the second»-of 3.6 per cent---—was author-

ized by the Board last December

Hui! Has Been hen up by fie C8554 until May 1.,

In asking that; the increases he disallowed the provinces have a pow- erful case. They argue that the Can- adian Pacific Railway~used by the Transport Board as a “yardstick” in setting freight rates—was able to show a need for higher rates only by including as operating expenses money set aside to pay possible high- or corporation taxes in the future. The CPR has been allowed to set aside money out of current revenue for this purpose. In consequence, it has charged -the public in freight rates more for corporation tax than it actually pays-——or indeed may ever have to pay. ‘

The provinces agree~that to hold back money for this purposeis not wrong from the standpoint of ac- counting. But, they say, it should not be considered an operating ex- pense. They claim that shippers who use the railways today should have to pay (through freight rates) only those taxes that are levied today; they should not have to pay taxes

that may be levied years hence.‘ .They contend that if the tax over-

charge were',deducted from the rail- ways’ expenses, no ‘case could be made for higher freight rates; in fact, rates could and should be re- duced. '

That is an’ entirely fair and

‘reasonable argument. It is difficult

to see how, in the face of it, the Cabinet can do anything but wipe out the two most recent increases, as the provinceslhave requested.’

EDITORIAL NOTES

The city of Rome celebrated its 2711th armlversiary recentlyi. We remind anyone who may have for- gotten its orgin that it was founded by Romulus and Remus, sons of the god Mars. That, at least, is what tradition maintains; and we have no desire to quarrel with such a force- ful authority.

a t 1- g ' The Chicago Art Institute has refused to exhibit Sir Winston Chur- chill’s paintings on the ground that

, they are “amateurish.” It isn’t«likely

that the great man will feel too bad- ly about it. After all, they have been welcomed in places just as important as the Chicago _Art' Inst- itute.‘Besides,. he spent many pleas- ant hours creatlng fche_m.‘. ‘ A _ ~e t a

Mr. John Wintermyer, the newly elected Liberal leader 'in0ntario,. says he will give his heart and mind

"to promote a winning cause". It is a ’

laudable way to begin=his. task, of course; but, considering, the strength of the Conservative Government.-tin Ontario and bearing in ‘mind there- cent Conservative victory in Ontario on the Federal level, it would seem that Mr. Wintermyer has assumed a heavy burden, at least as far as the next Provincial election is concerned.

Q i Q

The report of the Canadian Trade Mission which visited Britain in November and December last -year has ‘ now been published. Among other things, it completely disposes of the idea, prevalent in some quar- ters, that British industry "is back- ward and unproductive. It makes clear that since the war the United Kingdom has undergone a veritable industrial revolution. She is now in a position to supply Canada’s require- ments in a wide range of commod- ities which at present we buy mainly from the US. , l

we .1 c A Brief and to the point was Pre-

mier Flem.-ming’s reply to Oppos- ,

ition allegations in the New Bruns- wick Legislature that he had used the “migration theme" of the Gor-

don Report to political advantage. '

“May I say I shall always continue to oppose, publicly and with the ut- most strength at my command,” he said, “any proposal or recommenda- tion which suggests acceptance of a principle that people should move out of their homes in these Atlantic Provinces.”

Q t 1

Prince Wan, the President of the Conference on the Law of the Sea, says he sees no hope of any agree- ment on the controversial question of territorial waters. He thinks it would be wise to give up the idea now and try again in four or five months time. Perhaps he hopes that by then the glow of a friendly “sum- mit.” meeting will have gone around the world, leading to harmony on all fronts. There's nothing like being optimistic in such matters, but at the moment it seems that any rm- liance on summit anmy ,-03,3 old-fashioned wishful thinking.

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THE PICH HITTER

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UNITED KINGDOM . REPORT

Give 8. Take In British Budget

1 By “0nlooker” Thomson Newspapers, London, England, Bureau .

My wife can now ‘buy her lip- stick much cheaper than last week, and she is beginning to point out the faults in our wash- ing machine because she lmows only too well mat the price of these monsters has been cut by as much as ten dollars in eighby.

She would like a new electric iron —— and this, too, is cheaper over here from now on. But if a shopping bag «to put it in, she would find it more exipenisive. And if I, on my part, were driven to drink by her shop- ping spree I .could get high on 27 cents a. bottle cheaper than Icould have done at Christmas.

llf I got dnumlk, had a row with her, mot divorced, and had to buy her a house so that wecoulld live apart, the process would now cost -me $42.00 less in ‘house-Ibuying le- gal fees. But then I'd be living on a ,shoestring., And you know something? Suddenly the price of shoestrln-gs has gone up.

All this is the result of the an- nual bud-get over here, just. in- troduced-'in the House of Oom- mrons. It is a give with-one-hand, take- wil:l'i-axmbher alflfwair that has raised little enthusiasm. HALF-HEAIRTEI) .

There has been a half-hea-rted attempt to ration-alise the pur- chase-tax set-up which was in- tnovdulcesd in Britain during the war’ as a “wwanbime , measure.” It's been a long war, and it isn't over yet.

Since 1945, opposition to it has been growing. And while most re- alise that it could not now be completely abolished as a tax-

raiser, most now want in its place a sales tax of a certain

fixed percentage. -

As it stands, the pure-h-a.se-lax struc-tune over here is still slight- ly coc-keyed. You pay 30 per cent tax on a garden seat, and 60 per cent on -a cosmetic. For every pipe an Englishman buys to smoke‘ or such a third of the price goes to the Government.

And there are some crazy off- shoots to the business. Get a glass vase and call it a flower-jar over here and you pay tax. But if the shop-keeper labels it "celery jar" it is tax-free.

CHANGE OF BEAT

some 2000 odd (some of them‘ very odd) jou:rnal\isis -from all over the world have just returned to their home towns from Brus- sols, where the 1958 World Exhi- bition opened. I found myself a- mong the scrambling 2000 for a few days to have a look at the show. Ill‘. only an hour by plane from London.

The Belgiivanvs themselves have spent something like $185 million on the show. The Russia-nus, deter- mined to do-everything better than anybody, have poured $53‘/2 million into their etlfonts. And they have made it big —— but pon- derous — in the process.

Although the King of the Bel- gians has now opened the show, it will be weeks yet before the whole works are finished. Most unlfiontuina-be are tihh Freneclh - strikles have held up their show and it not be until June that they open. Spain, too, is in a bit of 'a tizzy. They have a superb looking pavilion, but all they had in it when I visited it were two comely senorit-as who said just one word when I asked them when the paciiion would be ready

A Parliamentary

Problem

Arthur Blakely in the Montreal Gazette

P ri m e ll/Iiniister Diefenbakecr has on his hands a parliamentary problem of some m~agai~tude.

A-n over-enthusiastic electorate returned a grand total of 208 Con- 265-member House of Commons — many more than are needed to give the Gov- ernment a secure, over all majority. "

In point of fact, thefull-time services of no more than 75 Con- servative M.P.‘s will «be needed to check the two small hands of Opposition members —‘ ‘49 Liber- als and eight OCF’ers. These, in constant aetiteizdance. would be nu- merous enough to man the Speak- er's chair, out-vote the Opposition whenever the chips were down, and still have 16 voting M.P.'s to spare. '

Just how are the 133 other Con- serva-fives -to be kept busy? This is the Gover-nmen-t’s -pa-rl-iamenb any problem. And it's a more im- portant one -than might be susp- posed.

The 133 extras are. by» and lar newcomers to Pavrliaiment. Most. will be here for the first time. Others will have only ‘the excer- i-enlce (if, -the short, one-session Parliament which wals dissowlived‘ in Februay to guide them. And this isn't much.

YOUNG AND ARDENT

Most of them are young men. In the Conservative landslide of March 31, the accent was on youth. Almost all of tlherm are aim- bitiiouus with a -tendency to be im- patient. A good many of the youinlgsterns who .arrived for the first time in the wake of last June's general elec-til-oun seemed to have talent to go with the aim- hition. The same, presumably, will be true of the new contin- gent. Possession of ambition and talent, if the experience of past Parliaments is any guide. increas- es the tendency towards impal- ience.

And it's a fair bet that some mighty fine talent arriving in Parliament thanks to this land- slide will linger, unnoticed. on (‘nn.\m'\';iIi\'e liackhcnr-hos In r

In rrmr‘. 'l‘l1.=iI \\n\ the Lil» crnl exp!‘ ienrjr a‘ier the election

_\'r‘.'-I l“:

l 01 1949, when they elected 190i

M.P.‘s to the Commons.

Most. of the Conservative rook- ies will arrive in Ottawa, in the words of'an observer of three de- cades ago, “vhurning with zeal to inaugurate political l-iberation.’

They will be rudely dlisiillu«sion— ed. Oppos-i-tlion momlbeus, new and old alike, will be as busy as one- armed rpapenlirangers. They will be waging open vwarfa-re on the Gov- ernment, warning of its flaws, ask-ing pointed questions. search- ing for weak spots, moving a- mendments, -and -pouncinog on any evidence of d‘is-sension.

There -will he -more tihan enough work to keep all of them busy, were they twice as numerous as they all act-ua-lly be.

EXCESS BAGG-AGE

The 133 Conservatives will ifend be be excess baggage. 'l‘hey w-on’i be encouraged to engage in speech-making. Replies from the G-overnament. benches -to Opposi- tion criticism will come, by and large. from front benchens, Par-

liamentary assistants -and (‘.a.bi—l

net Ministers. The Government won’t welcome -any speech, how- ever, excellent it promises Ito be, over and above the number re- quired to deal with the cnitic.i‘s«m. When an opportunity for oratory -arises. few of the 208 Conserva- tives will 'be called and even few- er will be chosen. If the 208 PC‘s were to speak as often as the average Opposition M.P.. the ses- sion would be prolonged indef- initely. ‘

In -the past, most. mom-heirs of top-hieavy goviernimenlt m-a,iori=tii-es

.you can be -informative land on-

have had little to do «but sit on their hands and listen. or attend to correspondence -and constitu-l ency business. And this hasn't, been enough. in their f-rustra-lion. such majorities have tended fol become nothing but huge pro-Go- ‘ vernment c-hcering sections, ready ' to roar down an oppiso»i«tioni«st ati the drop of the hat. And this has, in other days, encouraged critics l0 Shea k of a Government's “trained seals." MORE (‘OMMl'l"I‘|‘Il"..‘<

The C".n'<(-‘t'\'ia1\'er. lll’llll:llP‘ lha: then, inlcnrl in in! in [algal effectively wiLh this problem by

The ,. word was that old faithful “Manama.” CANADA'S SHOW

Canada's -show-house was -alimosl. ready when I saw it. it. is neat and compact, and gives a good in- dication of life back home.

But whereas many nations are taking the whole thing very ser- iously. the Ca-n-aduians are li-ke the British. Both take the line that

tertainving at the some time.

Unlike the British, thousgh, the Canadian affair is tot-aisly govern- mental. The British have a pay- ilion where industrial firms have bought space.

IMPRESSIONS

I was over at Brusseil-s for just. three days -before the show open- ed. Among my snapshot impres- sions:

A meeting with a Russian inter- preter \who :showed me a model of Russia's Sputnik _ land the ar- gument we had when she came across with the line: "Every young person in ‘R-ussi-a wants -to be the first to travel into space."

The way the Americans seem to take everything the Russians have done as -a personal afrfront.

The chaos before the opening, when «a Belgian oviificrial told me: “As a matter of faxc-t. we oniliy ex- pected albourt 600 journa.l:i<sts herre. But 2000 -- well!"

The huge centre-piece, the At- omium, towering high above the show.

The hehcoptem towering high- er -— they even have a "be1i.port“ on the ,ex»hi-bititm‘s 500-acre site.

The way the cafe-keepers in Brussels have just. upped their pri- ces in a quiet cont of way -— a franc here, I couple of francs there. . . . ‘ .

A-nud. finaalnly. -~ the expression of -complete disinterest on the face of -the Arab cnaftsmuah who was prepanimg a mosaic on the Moroc- can pavilion. All the nations of the world were around -- amd he couldnm. have cared less.

estalbliishvinig as many Parliamen-

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, heredity doesn't play 1. the cancer p1C.U1F9- , E are that it does. but not ln the

cause of death. Who can be sure

{Smell Role ' For Heredity

Herman N. Bundcsen. M- 1‘-

MANY of you who are feadmi

this column are carrying 3 5”‘ cret burden -- d , You are afraid. you are doome .

a burden of fear-

to die of cancer. because .V0l“'_l father, mother. sister or brothel died of this disease. You. you will inherit. or already 3V’ inherited cancer. _ '

Well, let me pm this '0“ " -rest. right now. HAS SMALL‘ PAtRTte1] you that ' O .

Im not going apmm Indications proportion that most of you probably believe. . ‘ As with some otherldiseascs. heredity sometimes influences development of some cancers. However studies show that in- stancea where heredity plays 3 mucal part ln’ development of cancer are relatively rare. VARIETY OF FACTORS

Now we are pretty sure that a variety of factors influence de- velopment of cancer. We know what some of them are, but. ‘of course. not all of them. _

Heredity might a predis- osing factor, It might hclP S9-l~ the‘ stage for development of cancer. but we don’t believe that- it is an actual cause. And If 1'6 16 a predisposing factor ‘it appar- ently is so only in limited types of cancer. V

You have heard reports. lm sure. that cancer “runs in 8 family": that several members of one family have been stricken with the disease.

Well. cancer kills about 250.000 Americans every year. In that number there are bound to be some relatives. .

What about the diseam havmil killed several generations in the same family? Only recently has the diagon-sis of cancer become reliable on a wide enough f_1‘°_“t to establish cancer as a definite

ofreports made 30, 40 and 50 years ago? . CERTAIN TYPES . _ Experiments with animals in- dicate that certain types of can- cer might be hereditary - in an- imals. so fan‘ as humans- are con- cerned. hnwever, the role heredi- ty plays in cancer appears to be so small that it should be no cause for. worry. - QUESTION AND ANSWER ' A. B.: I have pyorrhea. How should I have it treated? Answer: Usually .a person suf- fering from pyorrhea should have his dentist scale the teeth to remove any tartar and other deposits that accumulate be- tween the teeth around the gum lining. Surgical treatment may -be helpful.- ,_ You should brush your teeth at least twice a day, as well as masage the gums.

OUR YESTERDAYS

(From The Guardian Files)

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (April 26, 1933)

Resolutions requesting the rail- way management to operate spe- cial Saturday excursions on the Murray I-Iarbour.Branch at half- fares; to hold the Murray Har- bour and Eastern trains in _Char- 'lotte.town until the present sched- uled hour of departure each day till l'0&dlS are fit for travel and the using by the railway of such equipment that would compete with automobiles and buses, were 1. adopted by the Board of Trade last evening.