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PAGE 4 WED., SEPTEMBER 22, 1965.

Nobody Home?

Mass demonstrations of the kind staged yesterday by the Athena rate- payers, provided they are orderly and cause no inconvenience t6 other peo- ple, are legitimate-under our democ- racy, and special care seems to have

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test march from. Victoria Park to the Provincial Building a model of its kind. There have been no. complaints on this score. Whether it has‘ done anything to strengthen the case against establishing a liquor store in the vicinity of the Athena regional high school in Summerside is an- other matter. But it has pointed up the fact that a respectable body of opinion has been outraged by this deal and that an explanation from the government. if it has one, is overdue. . _ ._ Some time ago, in this connection, _we quoted irom the Liquor Act to | * show that the ultimate responsibility for decisions of the Liquor Commis- sion rests with the Executive Council which appointed the commission per- sonnel. In its own interests, we think the government should ‘have given a forthright reply to the Athena rate- pavers in the first. place, and not al- lowed the issue to gather the mo- mentum it did.

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It made another mistake, we'sug- |

gest, in ignoring yesterday's demon- stration... Officially, it gave no evid- ence of either seeing or hearing what was taking place on its doorstep. The restraint which the demonstrators ex- ercised under this mark of.discourtesy was to their Credit.

The “government, of course, doesn’t have to give an accounting to protest groups of any kind. It will, however, be expected to do so- to the Legislature when it meets; and if the Opposition is on its toes it will not

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-~-¢ident, as; evidence -of «the “kind:-of thing that happens when __ political leaders get-too big for their--shoes, and too high and mighty to talk to the common people.

That would be “politics”? Sure! -

But the whole thing smacks pretty rankly of politics. and it is the. gov- ernment’s business to see that it doesn’t get into jams of this kind. Ignoring them when they do come to “a -head, as in this case, only post- pones the reckoning. oo

Love’s Labor Lost

“Duncan Gray cam here to woo. Ha, ha, the wooing o't!” The old ’ Scotch song was in-our mind as we read about the wooing of the Man-- itoba premier, Duff Roblin, by-his federal party chief and a lot-of oth- ers to run as a Tory ee bearer in- the coming federaf election and how finally.. when the bride was al- most broughtto the church doo

thought better of it. , “Maggie coost her head fu’ high, *d asklent and unco skeigh, gart _“ poor Duncan stand abeigh; ha, ha, the “wooing o’t!” But we'd better leave . that song for the Liberals to sing, if they can master the Burns idiom. It’s not a singing matter for the Conser- vatives who were banking on a dif-

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MPs—two-thirds of the Tory, Caucus —signed a telegram urging Mr. Rob- lin to run, and that he kept them dangling for days before giving his de- cision..-Mr. Diefenbaker paid him a

personal visit and they were photo-. | graphed. lovingly together.” Prem- |

fers Standfield and Robarts are said to have a dd ed their weight to the «.« influence behind the attempt to en-

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1 acceptance rumors were flying ; thick and-fast last weekend. The prem- ier himself held aloof, cancelling even his regular Friday morning press con- ‘ference and refusing to talk to news- men who called at his office or tele- phoned. A local radio station an- nounted that he would shortly issue a statement. confirming his federal political intentions.

There 1s no evidence. however, that the premier authorized any such statement. or that he ever got beyond. the point of saying he would consider the proposal.. He had heen urged to go to Ottawa several times before;

and his attitude had always been that-|~

he would do so only if he heard what he described as “the clear call of duty.” The call, when it finally came through this time, admonished him to stay where he was.

. Oh, well; some are now saying that perhaps he wouldn't have made the grade anyway. . He would be run- ning, they say, in a wealthy Winnipeg

riding where there were hard feel- a

ings over the tax impositions the Rob- lin governnient was obliged to intro- duce at the last session of the Man- itoba legislature. The Liberals have

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ceivablY they could have beaten him.

But savy what they will, the woo- ing was a-grand affair. Even in’ its failure it bespoke romance, and it | has left nothing for the scandal mong- | ers to lick their chops over. Not like some other episodes we can think of, of quite recent date, in which other political escutcheons got badly mes-

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Those Car. Prices

Speaking in Toronto the’ éther day, Finance Minister Gordon told an investment dealers’ organization that the Canada-U.S. auto tariff agree- ment ‘‘must result in lower car prices for Canadian consumers.” He add- " ed that-it could not fail “to lead to a | narrowing of the spread between car

prices in Canada and the United States.” The latter statement is likely to be substantiated. It is what the auto- mobile ‘presidents said when they | predicted that the differential. -be- tween U.S. and Canadian prices -~would eventually. narrow.- But they © also made clear that this narrowing precess will not take place because of the lowering of the price of Can- © adian cars. This was made clear last week. by W. R. Todgham, president _of Chrysler Canada Ltd., when he '. said he expects U.S. prices to in- crease while Canadian prices remain the same or become slightly higher. _ “The effect of the auto agreement | will be to narrow the price spread be- _ tween autos sold in the United States | and Canada,” Mr. Todgham, said. “But as for a drop in Canadian prices _—that.is definitely out.” 02s + —

Yet we have the Finance Minister asserting that the agreement MUST result in lower car prices to Cana- dians. What could he have meant by that? Did he imply that the govern-

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the dealers to lower their . prices? pre-election speech. eee

Mr. Gordon, of course, wasnot the

| first government member’ to commit ‘himself on this point.” Last May the House-of—Com | Industry Minister Drury that the governmefit was quite satisfied that

car_ptices would be driven down as ,

= Tesult of this deal. And indeed

4 there was reason to expect as much ©

when some Canadian cars were ‘ actually found to be selling bélow the

Canadian price -in--the -American | market. But the promised price re- duction hasn’t reached Canadian pur- chasers, and—Mr. Gordon to the con- trary notwithstanding—there ‘is prac- tically no hope now that it will.

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| dubious honor of having replaced Los 4 2°" their hearts must have been

Angeles as the per capita leader in automobile ownership. The situation | doesn’t call.for very- much jubilation.

It does, of course, reflect the pros- perity of the city. But according to | the Calgarv Herald, it also explains

“why motoring within this city tends |,to be such a heart-thudding, ’soul-

| shattering experience.”

Scotland has an acute housing | it with chacteristic vigor. It has adopt- | ed the Danish system of factory-built

components to accelerate construc-

list their Manitoba colleague. The | tion. A new factory at Livingston, a

Tory fold was believed to have séttled the matter, for Mr. Roblin was known to have doubts‘about Mr. Hees’ ‘suit- ability as a possible future Conser- wative leader, and the best way of stopping this from happening would . be for Mr. Roblin to join up himself.

parts: required for 1.100 housés to be sited in this mid-Scotland develop- | ment area. The factory is the first of three such mass-production units - scheduled to operate in Britain this year. ee ae

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GEOGRAPHICALLY Population

Geographic acts of life ac- count for the concentration of Canada’s 19,000,000 population along: a narrow east-west strip - adjoining our border with the United States. And the geogra- phic- population centre of Can- ada is moving a little further south at each decennial census.

According to a study under- taken by the, Ontario department of. economics and development, Canada's geographic population centre is-now located in the Parry South district, about, 145 milés due north of Toronto. Half of Canada’s’ population lives, therefore, either east or west of

it. Since the east-west dividing line runs right through the heart

about the vertical split.

Moreover Eastern and West- ern Canada based on this axis are growing evenly in popula- tion. The east-west dividing line is almost unchanged since the 1951 census.

However, the north- south boundary marker indicates the extent to which Canadians have ‘become the captives of their MOOR canes ed

The. imaginary meridian. {s more than three degrees-below the 49th parallel that forms the southern border, Prairie provin and British Columbia. People: liviing in this part of Canada reside north of

Can centre. ~% Also excluded are all of New-

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Calgary has achieved the-rather |

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foundland and Prince Edward |, ll and, part of Nova Scotia, most of New Brunswick, and of ‘course, the greater part of On- tario and Quebec.

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of metropolitan Toronto, there | isn’t much economic signifi¢ance .

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' south population halves: skirts | the northern suburbs of Montre- | al. | Nearly 100 years after Confed- eration, an experiment under- taken partly to satisfy the ex- pansionist aims of central Can-- | ada, half of the country’s popu- } lation still lives in an area that borders, the upper St. Lawrence and part of the Great Lakes and which at its northernmost point extends just 145 miles north of | Toronto. ; aes | Betweett 1951 and 1961, the | geographic population centre | has shifted 11 miles southward.

| Crime Goes

A frightening story was told by Québec Justice Minister | Claude Wagner to the recent In- | ternational Criminological Con- gress in Montreal. | . While Canada’s ulation in- creased by 3.9 pet cant, between “1961 and 1963; he stated, our

crime incréased by “32.3 per cent. This is an even worse progres- | sion than in the United States, L“where the crime rate rose 27 per } Cent between ]958: and 1962 while | the population was increasing seven per cent.

It backs up Mr. Wagner's ear- lier warning that 6rganized lerime has crossed the border tfrom the U.S. invade every | conceivable f of _ legitimate enterprise in his province. Mem- | bers of one criminal ring, he

said, were able to make off with $700,000 in a period of eight to | 10 months by practising: arson, | false bankruptcies and by bor- | rowing money fraudulently.

| CONFIRM TESTIMONY

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PUBLIC FORUM.

x This eciume ts open te the discussion by corresponden:s of questions ef im terest. Tne Guardian does not neces sarily endorse the opinion ef corres pendents. All letiers published are sab fect to editing and condensation where

necessary, “The Guardian 1s unable te

enter into any corrrespondence: regatd- ing tetiers submitted... I

THE MARCHERS

Sir,— No doubt the readers of this paper will see I am not a newspaper reporter but just an- other citizen standing on the street here in Charlottetown | writing these few lines after |. watching the marchers go by to

| the provincial- building. .The feet of some of the older marchers, seemed to be- heavy, | but from the smiles on their .fac-

light. I believe they have the right to this free expression in

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ens in this parade who haven't a child going to Athena High

I am glad I watched this dem- onstration from the sidelines when one considers it was so or- derly and will be beneficial to “the public and the government, or should be. Charlottetown, too, will benefit as the marchers likely bought their lunches in restaurants here and did some shopping in our stores while in town. This has been a big day for all these people and Charlot-

| tetown hasn't seen anything like |. it since Wayne! and Shuster were | here a few weeks ago. -

Sen eee * ually 100,000 people, will. turn out | there was rioting and even mur-

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| His findings confirm those of . the former commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, C.W. Harvison, who recently

gave strong testimony of the of police work in the two coun-

close ties between crimina 1 gangs in Canada and the United | States.

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The line separating north and |

A : ing South By contrast the actual geogra- | phic centre of Caanada is‘in the | Keewatin district of the North- west Territories where at the | last census there were two peo- ple per 100 square miles. Northern development still re- mains a vision. Provincially, On- | tarians haven't done much bet- ter in populating their northern areas. Ontario's geographic | population centre in. 10 years has moved north by just a cov- ple of Toronto-city blocks, re- flectinfg merely the rapid trend

towards suburban living in the~ | thoroughly with X-rays and oth- tering at the University of Bri- equal than can ordinary lay-

province's biggest city”

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| The soaring crime rate in the ‘U.S. moved President Johnson last month to establish a nation- | al crime commission to study all

aspects of crime and the acmin- istration of “justice. Canada | should co-operate closely «with the U.S.. »mmission, in view of | the concern shown at the federal | provincial conference over the | situation in Canada. DORION INQUIRY Prime Minister Pearson him- self initiated the conference's discussion on crime. The Dorion | Royal Commission had opened | his eyes to the penetration of the | criminal element into the fring- /es of Canadian politics. U.S. probers have disclosed | that the Mafia is active in a doz- en different sync’ cates, working |More or less harmoniously toge- | ther to exp’ it narcotics, count- | erfeiting, prostitution and a doz- en. other rackets.

It is from this source that ‘our | chief infection comes. And while , Such local measures as a prop-

posed “Canadian Interpol" are ‘not to be despised. the implica- ' tion is that a closer co-ordination

tries is desirable. é Like-disease, crime ignores in- ' ternational boundaries.

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' Canada’s police chiefs are get- | Parliament urging them to vote |

ting hot under their uniform ‘col- |lars because the government won't hang the killers they catch. JT

At their annual convention in | Niagara Falls, the Canadian As- sociation of Police Chiefs heard | from their president that it was ‘time. the government stopped

commuting death sentences of convicted murderers | “It is quite evident.” said

| Chief Elmer Steeves of Moncton, N.B., ‘“‘that the government— and this applies also to the pre- vious administration in Ottawa —pays far more attention to the sisters who are constantly | interceding for dangerous crim- | inals than they do to those who are responsible for maintaini law and order.”

| MORE LOBBYING?

Chief Steeves wants the Asso- ciation to break its ‘‘long-estab- ished policy of' keeping out of politics” and try to pressure the governinent into getting the gal- lows operating again “in de- fence of our rights and the rights of our good citizens.”

Just how the policé chiefs could

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ready submitted briefs to Parua ~ ment in favor of hanging (tte, last one using distorted statis- tics'in an attempt to prove the murder rate rises when hang- git es . It doesn’t). Pol- | ice chiefs ha~e appeared in cap- ital punishment debates. Letters , have been sent to members of.

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| for the death penatty There is nothing wrong with this. Police chiefs are entitled | te lobby the same way as any other pressure group in this | country. But they ought not to pretend they have been silent. SUPPORTING ABOLITION It may be the chiefs believe had better come out mo-e the open in Je‘ence of hang- while there is still time | More and more nations, states and public budies ave suppor:ing abolition.

Parliament has been promised an opportunity to decide the question in a free vote. This has persuaded the cabine* that there | should be no more hangings until the issue is settled.

Hf the chi2fs wid curb th?'r

more months at the longest, the people of Canada—not the sob sisters — will decide w het her hanging is a unique deterrent to murder.

Until then, the chiefs might do wel! to concentrate their efforts* on catching criminals and leave their punishment up to the rest of us.

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| any such alarm clock as that madam,'t said the shopkeeper. “We keep just the ordinary kind that will wake the whole*fam-

caused by a Var- micro-organisms are in- transmitted. |

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' sect- diseacts are noted. | notin had every reason to hope

The clustering of several cas- ; | that this time he would oust the es.of leukemia in a Chicago sub- Christian Democrats or at least

amass so many votes that Er-

feat of the Socialist regime in Norway and now with failure of Willy Brandt's Social Demo- crats to grasp the prize in West Germany.

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sibility. San ey AS aoe pee even chance of winning. The Mosquitoes are said-to carry

thmor cells from one hamster to Were large. -

another. This is noted in the lab- TIMES PROSPEROUS

| oratory and represents a direct But somehow Brandt's image

penned — cancer fo @ sus did not penetrate. West German

ba : These observa-~ prosperity seemed to have

oo a! up an — new thrust into the background. the

+vista in the- cancer: field. :. }impact of the Berlin wall and

FREQUENCY ; the issue of German reunifica-

Mrs. G. writes: My 12-year- tion. West Germans still yearn

old daughter has to go to the for an end to the artificial bar-

bathroom frequently— at least rier between the two halves of

Laren, feret a < The doctor their old country, but-they seem

says cause is nervous more concerned at the moment

sion. Her kidneys and bladder about getting more cars,- more

And the for- |

crowds attending his meeting |

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Erhard sensed this more than his contestants and even more than his party colleague and predecessor, Konrad Adenauer

to stir up criticism of ‘the dis. armament policies of the Unitec | States, Britain and’ Canada. He | also seemed more in tune with j:'the views of French President 'de Gaulle.

| But Erhard sang a different | song, a sort of lullaby of strong

North -Atlantie--relations;—-while

| whisper: ing o a possible new | Atlantic - to - the - Urals se. curity proposal that might find acceptance in Moscow and help reunite West Germany Communist ruled East Ger- | Many. In fact, one of his first

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| moves after the election was to °

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| ship Karl Carstens, the No |}man in his foreign ministry, to

| Moscow where he undoubtedly _

will feel out the possibilities of a meeting between Erhard and Soviet Premier Alexel Kosygin.

‘COALITION CONTINUES

Of course, Erhard did not achieve an_ outright majority. | He still will have to rule with the support of the smal] Free Democratic party. But the vote means a continuation of Ger- ‘man stability; linked to a-mod- erate foreign policy that should enhance West Germany's value in the North Atlantic alliance.

As for Brandt, his political |future now is in doubt. Some | European’ observers are ques- tioning whether Brandt will jas be his party's candidate in the 1969 election.

Nervousness ~is one of the _™ost comon origins of this | “ condition..No doubt your physic. | ‘fan came to this conclusion aft- er investigating the problem

are in good condition. ~ Marks For

~ REPLY Science undergratuates regis-

tish Columbia this fall have been

- SARCOMA forewarned about the courses

= C TT writes: How dose | and professors they may meet.

ma differ from other cas The science undergraduate so-

aaa? . ciety has prepared a 72-page

fa REPLY .| booklet entitled the Black and Sarcoma is a form of cancer

| that originates in cells of meso- ‘8 of 2:000 students. ‘dermal tissue such as is found Students who may have been lin bone, cartilage, blood ves Planning to take a certain bac; ' sels, kidneys, sex organs, con- | nective tis-ue, and the lympha- Ddoklet that the professor's lec- | ties. Many sarcomas that deve. ‘ures are “inadequate and out lop in these areas are highly ‘of date, as if they had been pre- | malignant. pared years ago and dusted off OBSTRUCTED STOMACH ¢Véry year.” , G. D. writes: My six-week-old A seophysics professor's tea- baby was operated on for pylor- Ching is summed up:- “Boring ‘je stenosis two weeks-ago and is 4nd lethargic. : ? gaining weight and looking bet- Of "133: professors: rated, » 33 | ter. Do babies with this disorder | Were described as excellent and “grow to be healthy children? 88 above average, 5 _ REPLY - We question the usefulness of Yes, as surgery cures the de such a survey and the predicate. fect, leaving a normal stomach. upon which it is founded. How

CONVULSIONS AFTER much, one wonders, is the pro- INJURY duct of pereonal affinities. ovo

B. T. writes: What {s trauma. | ‘livities and personality factors? - tie epilepsy? Are students qualified to pass

REPLY such judgments and issue such |. A condition in which convul- sions develop after injury to the brain. | TODAY’S HEALTH : HINT— Wear well-fitted shoes and ais

| er tests.

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Our Yesterdays

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| TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO |

| (September 22, 1940) Two hundred and ninety-three

/ persons, including 87 _children

seeking haven in Canada from |

horrors, of. war, perished when a |

| German submarine torpedoed |

| their -ship without warning while |

it was riding an Atlantic .storm

600 miles from land. One hun ,

| dred and thirteen survivors of

_the 406 person aboard the Mon-

| treal-bound ship sere landed at

| a northern port by a British war-

| ship after somehow living

| through many hours of tossing

| about by giant seas, chilled by

hail and drenched by rain.

Give The United Way

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| terian Church. The service was |

| Mrs. Daniel L. Rice,

| conducted by the pastor, Rev. -h: ‘ _

| Carlyle Webster. “3—Kroehler Platform Rocker

I, TEN YEARS AGO | Mr. Mike Campbell, 15 Birchwood St. (September 22, 1955) 4 O Set of Table

| Maj.-Gen. Eduardo Lonardi, a) | longtime foe of Peronism, emer-

. Mrs. Emmett Flood,

as provisional president today, | flying here from Cordoba where he helped mastermind the. four- day revolt that ousted Juan Per- on.

Mrs. Vernon Bol was a pointed Srey eB the Nurse’s Association recently to replace Miss Muriel. Archi- +4 bald who is now secretary regise trar of the Nurses Association in New ‘Brunswick. Mrs. Bol ger, the former Helen Curran, is a |

Mr. W. Leonard, c/o

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teriology course are told in the |

| indictments when they are pre- |

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Professors?

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“ of men must be met and. work- Blue Review, based on the poll-.|

| ed with during their lifetime’

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