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FAGE 4 -_-ESEATURDAEY-,—APRIL’ E12, 1955

Unseemly Haste Whyylall the hurry in adjourning the Legislature? Why should the business this year, involving the vot- ing of over sixteen million dollars in expenditures, be rushed through with such unseemly haste in the last few days? Why have not more mem- bers of the Government spoken in the budget debate? There was prac- tically no legislation ready in the early days of the session; then there was an exceptionally long Easter re- cess and now a hectic week in which everything has been‘ rushed through at breakneck speed, with no chance given for proper study and consider- ation. Bills have been presented in such shape that they have had to be withdrawn by their promoters for amendment, and important matters which warranted discussion have been sidetracked altogether. The Op- position members have protested strongly over this uncalled-for pro- cedure, and they are certainly fully justified. With the biggest budget this year in the history of the Province, it was expected that the debate would he participated in by every minister of the Crown. This was customary iii the old days, when ministerial re- sponsibility was far less than it is today. Why have they shirked their duty on this occasion? We do not think this meets with the approval of even their own supporters in the House, though there has been pre- cious little criticism from that side. The public, at any rate, will certain- ly not take kindly to this frantic dis- play of energy in the dying hours of the session. They will wonder what is » behind it and whyiit was necessary; and if they put the‘worst'interpreta-. tion on it the Government will have only itself to blame.

Election Act Revision

are ahead of them. Exit Presiflefit Eiseriliower says he ‘‘nia.\’" 00019 to a different decision after the im- pending tests have been completed and “provided the scientists say that they have all the information they need”. Then, of course, the Russians will say that they must renew the testings in order to catch up with Americans. They will say also that the American decision to end the tests came too late, that it should have come when they, the Russians, first made the suggestion. After that, the Americans will have to make other tests in order to catch up with the Russians.

So it will go on-—-a vicious circle in madness. Meanwhile, the world is being poisoned by atomic radiation. That is one thing on which the scientists appear to agree, whilethey differ regarding the rapidity of the process.

Perennial Question

The President of the Federation ‘of Agriculture has referred to Day- light Saving Time as a “cursel” to the farmers of Prince Edward Island. With due respect to Mr. Waugh we are inclined to think that the word is a little out of place in the discus- sion of such a simple matter. For one thing, nothing is a “curse” which is not in existence. For anoth- er, even if Daylight Saving Time were the law, we cannot see that it would be a terrible calamity, though doubtless farmers in some instances and on some occasions would find it inconvenient, just as some other segments of the population find Standard Time inconvenient.

This question of a uniform time ' system is a perennial debating point for members of the Legislature. It may have its use as a little diver- sion from financial problems (which, thanks to a Conservative Govern- ment at Ottawa are notlquite as ir- ritating this year as they were in other years) ; but we cannot see ‘that it ‘serves any good ‘purpose. There is no "doubt that the citizens’ of Charlottetown and a. few other cen- tres would like to see‘ Daylight Sav- ing Time adopted as standard prac- tice for the Province. There is no doubt, either, that most of the rural areas are in favour of Standard . Time. Each side has its own argu- ments, some pertinent, .some trival. But if the matter were put to a re-

There has apparently been evidence of padded voters’ lists in the March 31 federal election as was the case in the election last June; but there was some of the usual’ con- fusion that can be found at the pol- ling booths. Greatest number of com- plaints were from people, many of them long-time residents of the community, who found their names has been left off the voters’ list.

As an exchange points out,’ re- vision of the Canada Elections Act would be a worth-while undertaking for the new government under Prime Minister Diefenbaker. The Prime Minister himself expressed the thought that election campaigns drag out over too long a period of time. I A Itart could be made in reducing the campaign to three of four weeks. In this age of rapid transportation and communication the issues of‘ an election -campaign can be adequately presented to the people. Municipal election campaigns are mainly con- fined to the one-week period be- tween nomination day and election day. They seem to work out ‘very well. Local candidates in general elections can cover the ground of their con- stituencies in two or'three weeks. There is no need for party leaders to engage in the sort of coast-to-coast marathon that featured the last election.

HO

O Vicious Circle

If the dispute between the Sov- let Union and the United States on the problem of nuclear tests were not so potentially tragic in its con- sequences, it would’ be funny.

The Russians have decided to slop the tests. At the same time they have signified their intention of re- Hewmsr them if the United States and Britain do not follow what they call their “good example”. This, of course, is a propaganda stunt, pure and simple. The fact that the decis- ion was made immediately after the Russians had completed a long ser- ies of tests and immediately before the Americans were due to start a new series shows conclusively that the action was intended as a diplo- matic thrust. Nevertheless, it is liavinga heavy impact on world opin- ion, especially in the so-called “un- cormvii.tl.ed" coiiiitrics,

Americans, for their part, have refused to stop the tests at this time, because they feel that the Russian:

ferendum it seems certain that the advocates of Standard Time would outvote the others by a large margin. This p"eponderance "of rural in- fluence is, of ‘course, what makes the Legislature decide on Standard Time, Spring after Spring.

For our part, we do not believe that either time system acts, or would act, as -a grievous hardship on anybody. But, since the" Govern-._ ~ ment can only act in accordance with -the majority will of the Legislature, Standard Time it is and will remain. Like the laws of the Modes and Per- sians, it changeth not.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Cecil Warburton of Granchester, Eng. evidently‘ doesn't believe in governing his affairs cautiously. Re- cently he renewed a 7-year sub- scription to the local United Nations Association. fie is 104 years old-

‘i i 9 Malta has sent the State of Maine I 9. gift of lace. This isgin return for a chest of seafood sent to Malta last spring. These little things help 1 build up understanding and goodwill. What about the Island’s sending them a few cases of lobsters and a barrel or two of Malpeque oysters?

t 1 President Eisenhower says he would like to put a “psychological war expert” in the State Department. Mr. Dulles. who runs that particular show, says he doesn't want or need any psychologists around. It is safe to say that Mr. Eisenhower’s psycho- logical expert will have to be satis- — fied with a lesser post ' 1' ‘I 38 former members of Parlia- ment, defeated in the March elec- tion, are eligible for annual pen- sions of $3000. 26 of these were Lib- erals, 5 CCFers, 6 Social Creditors and 1 Independent. The way things were going Conservatives couldn’t even find one prospective. pension- er in their ranks. 5

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The director of the Uhited States Information Agency says that Americans should “grow up” and not get too excited about. reports that tIie'Uni1cd Slalos is losing the I""»lII"i's3.'cii1(Ia \\‘al‘. Yes‘, aiirl oflii-iaI< of the H.gP.l'l(.'}’ shoulri g_pi_. IVIIS)‘ and make sure that the United States does not lose it.

A SMOKE RINGS

UNITED KINGDOM OPINION

Political observers over here are finding a pareilslel between Diefenibaker’s victory and the win scored by the British Conser- vative party here half a dozen yeans back, Like Diefeniba.ker’s Conservatives the British Conser- vatives —— then under Sir Win- ston Churchill — caime‘into pow- er in 1950 on a slim margin. Like Diefeubaker, Churchill bided his iiime until time was ripe for a -fresh vote of confidence to gain 1 more worthwhile majority within months of getting ‘in. Now -the Press over here are unanimous in wishing the new Premier well. And they are pat- ting Canadians on the back for what they consture as sound and shrewd political thought. The Right-=Wing “Daily Telegraph," read by over a million of the mid- dle income bracket over here, says that one of the strongest fac- tors bringing Dlefenlbaker back —- or rather endomsing the main-

ago -— was the Canadians’ “sense of fair play."

‘Tlie.electors.’ goes on the Tel- egraph, ‘have preferred Mr. Diet- cnbaker‘s programme of public works, with i-ts imagi-naitive em- phasis on the development of Ca- nada’s vast untapped resources, to the ‘tax holiday’ by which Mr. Pearson proposed to release the spending-power so as to stimulate employment."

LIBERAL CONGRATULATIONS The more popular but una:vow- ed-ly Liberal newspaper congrat- ulates Canada and Diefenibaker.

A branch bank was opened re- cently at “The Place of the Brown Bear." This is Akil‘aV'lk (Eskiimo name) on the Macken- zie River, 1«20'm.iles north of the arctic circle in Canada's Nont-h- west Territories.

The Candaian Bank of Com- merce (Toronto) opened this northernmost bank on the conti- nent to meet growing needs of the area. Five yeans ago Akla- viik was a sleepy village sinking into the muskeg. Now it is a base for oil exploration, 2; center of reindeer herding and fur trad- ing, outpost of the DEW radar defense line and adminiistrative center of the western arctic. A $5 million airport. is being built.

Faibulous things are taking place in Canada's awakening north these days. Aklavik is ii symbol. Tremendous natural re- sources are being discovered. Men and machines are pouring in to work them.

UNTOLI) WEALTH

No one knows what wealth is

lbi-dden in Canada’s land of infin-

Following

Ohiiia’s recent adoption of a phonetic alphabet follows by more than 500 years a similar reform in Korea.

But ancient cultures fade slow- ly. Koreasgingenious alphabet. which is considered to be one of the most perfect phonetic sys- tems ever devised, has gained widespread use only since the end of World War,I«I. ‘

And China has no intention of abandoning its poetic, precise, in- credibly comp-lex system of ideo- graphs or characters. However, the use of a Latin alphabet will enable the translation of those thousands of characters into 26 letters known and accepted all over the wrold.

Chinese authorities apparently have concluded, as did a great Korean king of old, that cIiai‘a('- l(‘l' \\l‘IllIlfl i'r‘tai‘rIs niass‘ i=cIiii'a~ lion It aims i‘lIi‘l’: r-niirilei‘ Io Ilie

rIP,iT.154ih'I‘- val iiivirlerii ff(lIl1lllllilll'FI lion. ’l'e|r;'i'aiiliiii; Ill China. for u1sI.am~e. reqiiiires putting each

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Dieienboi ker’s Viclory

, By “Oii1ooker" Thomson Newspapers, London..I-England, Bureau

They read the situation In Can- ada in recent years as one in which bhe,_Liiberal _aidIm'mistratioii had permitted the Canadian econ- omy to fall under American fi- ina»nci-al domination.

But their compliment towards Diefembaker the man. is just a lit- tle back-handed. Looking back on the factors, its Ottawa correspon- dent-, John Bird, reported:

“There was also the emergence of a popular leader, John Die- fenibaketr. a colourful evangelist with an appeal like a political Billy Graham.” .

IJt’.s too bad, but the British al- ways look harder at anyone who. paist middle age, stubbornly re- tains hair, teeth, or waistline. CANNY SCOT

“The Scotsman," too, is caut- ions. “The Canadian people,” it comments, “has now li=bera:ted Diefenbakear from the frustrating position ( of minority govern- ment)‘. But lit adds:'

“But they may have over- done it, for experience here sug- gests that it is’ not good for a Government to have too great a. majority. They tend to become slaick while the Opposition lose heart. Tihere is everyiiiliinig to be‘ said for a working majority but an overwhelming victory like this almost eliminates criticism which has normally an important func- tion indemocracy." _

But it might be best to sign off with 1 commieinit from “The Times." They know it as “Aunt- ie Times" in the newspaper par- ish of Londons Fleet Str eel.

Ccinoidci’s For North

The Milwaukee Journal

ite variety -— “this enormous ter- rirtory encompassing the most massive range on the continent. a desert a million square miles in size, two fresh water seas such as big as Holland, an island lar- ger than Sweden, a river 2.600 miles long and more lakes than all the rest of the world put to- gether. "

Uranium. cobalt and silver have been found at Great Bear Lake, gold at Yellowknife. more uran- ium at Atihabaska, nickel at Ran- kin inlet, copper at Chibouga- mau, iron at Ungava. It is be- lieved that the world’s largest untapped body of lead and zinc lies along Great. Slave lake and the world’s largest uiiiapiped s-o_u~rce of iron ore at Ungava Bay. What may be the greatest untarpped SOIliI‘(‘,€ of oil lies ming- led with the mysterious tar sands of Aithafbaska - enough, some exiperts claim, to supply global needs for a century. STRENUOUS EFFORTS

The Canadian government is trying furiously to keep up with

Koreoi’si Exoimple

National Geographic Society

factor than the unknown genius of the Syro-Palestinian Semites who first conceived alpihaibet writ- ing, ilie Natinoal Geipgraphic So- ciety sayis. All true aihphaibe-ts — Greek, Latin. Rimic, Hebrew, A- raibic, Cyrillic (Slavic), Brahmi, and Korean — descend from it.

Korea's 24-letter alphabet is a striking cultural achievement in its own right. It is especially versatile and easily romarnized. The ‘word “foolib-all,” for exam- ple, can be transliteraled precise- ly into Korean. It would come out futolboru in Japanese. ‘

Development. of the alphabet did not happen overnigiht. The early Koreans had borrowed character writing from China, though it was difficult to learn and ill-suited for denoting sounds of the dissimilar Korean lan- EIIFIEP. Only zwholans had time In m_a.<lPr the Ideogrg.phg_ gave,- al 2IYP1’l1Dl.,< \\'Pl‘P made from the 7th In the lfiih ccnliiries: to con-

, lrive a simple sc1'iTpi.

King Sei-clioug. a \’l'lS‘¢-? ruler

Mankind has no greater bene- who fostered the idea of mova-

Once they called it “The 'Iih»uin- Once they called it “The 'Iihun- derer.” But it just doesn‘t seem to thunder much any more. The paper's editorial sums up the main effect likely to be fell. over here:

"The voice of Canada,’ it re- marks. “will agian be'ralsed with authority -in international coun- cils. It. may be expected to call for and suppont every policy that, while maintaiini-ng the Western cause, offers any hope of reduc- ing the hostility of east and west." I HOPES .

Easter broke here crips and clear. The cockeyed weather of the year’s first three months ,—- snow and dampness coming spas- modically—went slowly. and when, for instance, I took a train ride to England's West Country earlier this week I could help re- ca-liling the poet Browning's gush- ing words “Oh to be in England now that April’s here.” In Eng- lands green countryside, neat and green, you can see what‘he meant. ‘

Britain’s politicians have just over a week away from the Hous- es of Par-ii-ament over Easter- time, and as I reported a couple of weeks back when they do re- lmm they will be plunged into the Budget.

There are hopes growing for a fair budget over here, especially as It has just been reported that Britains gold and dollar reserves jumped by over $221 million dur- ing Mar-cih. It is the sixth month iruintiin-g that Britain's balance sheet has shown an addition in- stead of a sufotraction, and the balance is now greater than at any time snice 1954.

But the more moderal.e- mind- ed are insisting that ii takes more than this. particular swal- low to make a siiimnier. They go halfway to optimism, though, by thinking ilhat the Budget due in a few days will be an “as you were" affair and that perhaps in six months time another Budget will be introduced to give a few concessions. Could ‘be. . .

developments. To complete topo- graphic and geological mapping. it has turned to survey by heli- copter. New airports are being; "built. rail and water facilities ex- tended and improved. There is serious talk of a second trans- Canada highway, far to the north oi‘ the one now being built. A nef- work of n-orthern roads would be built around this.

It is a fascinating era that is ahead in Canada. The mood nad tempo are reminiscent of the thril- ling days when the United States was conquering its west. Ameri- cans would be wise to watch. en- courage and help this develop- ment. Wrllat benefits our good friends and neighbors will also benefit us.

ble metal type 50 years before it was known in Europe. was dis- tressed because his people could not enjoy literature and other ad- vantages of reading and wri-ting.

Finally he gathered Kore-a's brightest scholars. erected a building for iihem to work in. and set them the task of inveriti-ng a Simple alaphalbe-t. After three years of intense labor, their al- phaibet —— On-mun —— was official- ly int-roduced to the Korean peo- ple October 9, 1446.

A HYBRID ALPHABET

Originally it included ll vowels -— one is seldom used today -- taken from the simplest strokes of ancient Chinese seals. The .14 consonants were simiplicaiions of Tibetan consonants of Sanskrit derivation.

A Korean encyclopedia of 1770 said of the letters: “'I‘«he average person can learn them in a few hours, and lthere is no limit to the variety of use: the sound of the wind, the cart-kling/of fwnls and the braking of dogs ~ all can be expressed.”

K0rea"s upper classes. howev- er, did not approve of the new syislem. They re;.'a.rded Oiimiin as Vlilflar and l’PilISF('i Io ll=.\'(:‘ ii.

Nonellieless Oniniiii kept stub- ‘hoi'nl.v aim». .-K“ in tales. folk lore. and songs irr-1*-= written. in the easy alphabet. When Chris-

tian missionaries started coming: ,

to Korea after 1882, the.Bible was

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6 By Herman N. Bundesen. M.D.:

MOST babies these days a rel born in hospitals, where the lat- est medical advances are avail- able to insure the safety of both mother and child.

But mothers-to-be should take advantage of our P1“€59nI- m“;d?‘ cazl knowledge long before its, time for the baby 90 Chef‘-I‘ ”"} Every exipectanl. mother should be under the care of a compe‘ tent physician.

Regular examination by 8 0°C’ for may prevent serious disap- pointments for you future moth- em. _ _

For one thing. by examining cervical mucus smears W9 03311 often tell when ii patient is lik- ely to abort. Two successive neg- ative smears are usually an In- dication of ii perfectly normal pregnancy. I _ I

While postive smeans in them- selves don’t always mean an im- pending abortion. they do mean that the expectant mother should

be watched closely by her I1‘hY- sician. DEFINITE ACTION NEEDED

If a positive smear is colllpled 3

with a history of previous abor- tions, psyohoneurosis, or A poor fetal or obstetrii history. the?‘ it is usually aid-visaible to take de- finite action to save the baby.

In many, many cases, the use of progesterone helps to save ba- bies who otherwise probably would never be born. In A study of the effectievness of this tyipe of therapy. only one abortion oc- curred in a group of 22 women treated with progesterone.

In this panti-cular study, the Pa- tients were started on 100 mg. per day of ‘oral progesterone. Th-is dosage w a s continued through the 28th week of preg- nancy if the weekly smears be- came negative. ‘

DOSAGE INCREASED

If the smears .con'tinued to,be positive, the dosage was increas- ed by 25 mg. per day until the proper daily dosage was deter- mined. If. by the fourth week of treatment, the smears were siiill posiltive, 100 mg. of intra- muscular progesterone ln oil was given twice weekly in addition to the oral dosage.