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TUESDAY, FEB. 11, 1958

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Mr. Pearson's Pleclgesl When the last Parliament was in session, Liberal speakers viewed with grave alarm the huge expen- ditures undertaken by the Diefen- baker Government. They couldn’t see where the money was to come from and they predicted that the country’s economy would be wreck- ed by lavish outlays. Today the tune -has changed and the Liberal leader, Mr. Pearson,‘has gone all out in pled- ges to slash taxes by $400,000,000 a year and provide a big array of oth- ‘er concessions if his party is elected to power‘ on March 31. This program is offered as an alternative to the national works program instituted by the Conservatives, and Mr. Pear- son claims that it will be much more useful in alleviating unemployment. If taxes are so exoribitant today, Mr. Pearson will recall that they were even more burdensome last June, when the Liberals went to the, country with a bulging treasury. They refused to give to Canada’s provinces and municipalities adequ- ate revenues with which to perform their natural functions. This is where the shoe pinched in Prince Edward Island. Mr. Diefenbaker’s assurance of more generous tax-sharing terms, and of special consideration to the Atlantic Provinces, was met by the argument that the treasury simply couldn’t stand it. Now, it seems,-— after all the expenditures incurred in implementing Conservative cam-. paign pleges—it can stand being drained of another $400,000,000 pro- vided the Liberals are restored to office. It is all very confusing.

The reason given, of course, is the recession. But a. recession was pre- dicted by the St. Laurent Govern- rne_nt’s own economic advisers, and they did nothing about it. Wouldn’_t I. few of those tax cuts have been helpful then, in cushioning the situa- tion? Mr. Pearson doesn't deal with that phase of the question; but it leaves us wondering.

In The Deep’ South

Claud Cruell owns 100 ., acres down near Greenville, S.C. Some months ago a penniless tenant of his, who lived in a shack at the edge T ‘of CI'uell’s acres, had to go to a hos- pital where his wife lay sick. The tenant, Sherwood Turner, had no place to leave his small children. Cruell and his wife went to the Tur- ner shack to baby sit.

It was, notes the Milw’aukee Journal, a kindness and a neighborly thing to do. But by some South Carolinian standards it was all wrong. Cruell,, you see, is Negro. His poor tenants are white. A group of Ku Klux Klansmen took it upon themselves to teach Cruell a “lesson” ——a lesson for being uppity and aspir- ing to associate with and act as good as white folks. They went to the

' Turner shack, and beat Cruell un-

mercifully. \ , The klansmen were arrested. Four or them went before a deep south, all-white jury the other day. Two were found guilty of conspiracy and assault and battery, two with only conspiracy. A southern judge sentenced the leader to six years at hard labor, his chief sidekick to three years and the others to a year. ' Here southern justice did what justice should do. It’s ‘not a sign by any means that justice prevails throughout the south. But where it does it deserves notice.

Uphill Fight

As mentioned in these columns a few days ago, President Eisenhower is finding it difficult to find favour for a renewal of the Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act. Later reports reveal that the task might be even rnoredifficult that it appeared at first.

The chief proponent of the mea- sure is Democratic Senator Paul Douglas of Illinois. In a recent Sen- ate speech, Mr. Douglas stated that if the proposed legislation is not approved, the loss to the United States in political prestige in Europe is likely to be heavy: and even its military security might be jeopar-

dized to some extent.

Mr. Douglas’ argument is that, since the United States needs inter- mediate-range missile bases on European territory, the wisest thing would be to encourage expansion of trade with Eurpean countries in every way possible rather than decrease it by setting up high tariff barriers. These European countries are not too enthusiastic as it is about permitting missile bases on their soil; they are going to be less so if the United States persists in treating them unfairly, according to their point of view, in the matter of trade. Moreover, so Mr. Douglas believes, they are likely to turn to the Soviet Union for better trade deals-— which Soviet leaders are constantly urging upon them; in which case, of course, the whole system of Euro- ' pean-American co-operation would,- be subjected to great strain. 9'

In short, Mr. Douglas believes that the United States has much more to lose than gain by curtailing imports, especially from Europe. He maybe able to persuade the maj- ority of his colleagues to take the same view. But, according to re- ports, it is going to be an uphill fight all the-way.

Ottawa Centennial This is Ottawa’s centenary year. Actually the Dominion capital came into existence on December 31, 1857. When Queen Victoria ended _ the wrangle between the cities in Upper and Lower Canada—Toronto and Kingston, Montreal and Quebec——by proclaiming Ottawa as the capital, one of the reasons advanced to the Queen in its favor was that it was sufficiently far from the Canada- U.S. border to be reasonably safe from invasion. One American news- paper remarked that “the invaders ‘would probably be lost in the woods trying to find it.” ,1 Now, after 100 years, Americans appear to have less ‘difficulty in find- ing Ottawa thando Canadians. That at least is the complaint voiced in an Ontario exchange, which notes the numberof Canadians who have never seen their national capital but have visited Washington and returned with reels" of moving pictures as souvenirs. '

It is hoped the trend will be re- versed this year. Ottawa is a beauti- ful city, not only for itsimposing buildings on Parliament, ‘Hill and miles of‘ artificial parkland drive- ways, butfor its natural setting- the.Ottawa River, the Rideau Canal, and the deep blue of the towering Laurentians across the river; in Que- bec. Canadians should certainly visit and discover for themselves their country’s capital It cannot be done in a day, nor in two; but a week spend in the city and its environs

__ would be found to be most rewarding.

EDITORIAL NOTES

A “stable” government may not necessarily be a “good” government; but it is certain that before a.govern- ment can hope to carry out its re- sponsibilities well it must have a

reasonable measure of stability.

it 1' it Are there any unused lighthouses

for sale in these parts‘? A woman ad- vertized in a London newspaper for one. She said she doesn’tVcare where it is situated, so long as it isn’t too far from land. She wants to “get

away from it all” but not so’ far

away that she couldn’t‘ get back should she change her mind. 1 s 1: «A» 1: The officials of at least one Can- adian town are a little dubious about the future stability of the Canadian dollar. The town council of Saanich, B.-C. recently decided to ' purchase $90,000 worth of American cur- rency to protect itself against the possibility of the U.S. dollar’s selling for a premium later this year. * t t I \ L A Canadian educator says that “before anything can be done about solving the problems of education a thorough study should be made to ascertain exactly what these prob- lems are”. Is it possible that any problem in education remains in- hiding after all the publicity and re- search that have been devoted to the subject in recent years?

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nominations.

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Implemented Promises

By Patrick

Nicholson

Special Correspondent for The Guardian

OTTAWA: When the Queen of Canada opened our 23rd Parlia- ment on a Monday after on last October, she read a ._ sch pre- pared for her by her First Min-

program to be laid before that new Parliament.

Now less than four months lat- er, that Prime Minister, the Right Hon. John Diefenbaker, can look back with deserved satisfaction at the complete fulfilment of that program.

The Throne Speech lis‘.:(i eight major proposals, designed to eep the eight principal prom- ises which won ,Mr. Diefenbaker nationwide support in his elec- tion campaign last Spring. To- day, after whirlwind goyernment activity, -those eight proposals are on our Statute Book, to benefit deserving secions of our popula- tion and needy areas of our Country.

Civil service eyes here have been opened wide -in those her- tic four months. For never be- fore have they seen Ministers work such long hours on so many days in the week in their De- partments; nor Parliament sit so many extra hours and extra days -for the week after week.

The V Qvueen’s description of

these eight objectives, and the steps of the Diefenbaker govern- ment to implement them, were as follows:

1. “To improve the lot of the senior members of our society.”

Parliament raised the Old Age Pension for $46 per month to $55.

2. “To increase the payments to be made under the Old Age Assistance Act, the "lind Pen- sions Act, and the Disabled Per- sons Act."

Parliament increased these ben-

efits to 55 per month, and also

raised the ceilings of allowable other income.

3.“ To increase the scale of War Veterans Allowances, and to enlarge the groups to whom they are paid.”

Parliament increased cenféln allowances, and included addition al classes of veterans, widows and orphans as beneficiaries. '

4. “To enact a measure to pro- vide greater stability in the pric-

es of agricultural products, in or-

der to assume t’ the farmers of Canada a fair sh-are of the na- tional income.”

Parliament passed Bill to es- tablish guaranteed p ice: for ag- ricultural commodities. ’

5. “To permit ;rairi'ie'f»armers

Make Way

For Youth! ,

Judith Robinson in The Toronto Telegram

0ttawa— A thing that sticks in memory about the end of the 23rd. Parliament was the way youth was in at the death and enjoy- ing every minute of it.

The Young Progressive Conser- vatives who descended on Ottawa last Friday to have themselves a convention also had themselves a a ball; By Saturday they were all over town. But they never got very far from Parliament Hill without hurrying back. It was their magnet and they could not keep away.

They swarmed around and through it, yoo-hooing to friends half a corridor away, queuing for a turn in the galleries, descend- ing like polite but hungry locusts on dining room and cafeteria, rushing back to‘the registration desk at the hotel to make sure they weren’t missing anything and surging uphill to the House to queue outside gallery doors again.

SCARED STIFF

-‘The gallery philosopher. after a day of it, went and hid behind the pile of antique newspapers that masks the entrance to his private cubbyhole. He couldn’t take them any more, he said. Those kids had him scared stiff and if he was a politician he’d be ten times as scared_ as that.

“What kind of politician? Any kind,” the gallery philosopher said. “Grit, Tory and Splinter, they’re all doomed. All those eager-young faces turned towards the heights. All those T, bright young eyes, .with the pure light of $10,000 a year shining in every pair.

“Ah youth, youth," the gallery philosopher said. “If I was. an elected representative of the peo- ple, my palms would be sweating tonight, for I'd know those young

and I’d feel their hot breath down my neck. ,

“Grit or Tory makes no diff- drence,” the gallery philosopher said. “These kids want the seats and they‘re going to get them too, make no mistake about it. These aren’t any junior cheer-captains; for established politicians. These; are tiger cubs that got their first; taste if blood last June and liked l it. These are a pack of hungry‘ young hounds who‘ve made their first k-ill.

“The hunt is up," the gallery? philosopher said, “ and any aging states-man who is not quite sure he can run fast enough to keep ahead of it had better quit now' before it runs right over him.

“Elderly politicians have had it

easy around here for a long time.” the gallery philosopher said, “but that time is over. If they’ve poli- tical sense they’ll all be shiver- ing tonight Grit and Tory and Splinter like somebody was walk- ing on their graves, Walking, did I say? Trampling. Galloping.”

On the way to sleep when work was done Satruday 2 a.m. hotel

corridors echoed the gallery phil-=

osopher’s meaning. Into each one the sound of political discussion

~ poured through transoms on wav-

es of loud young voices. And be- fore an unwilling elder could wake to the certainty of another day full of them, there they all were at it again.

All but one who had forsaken politics momentarily to lool: for a friend. .

Pliyllis,. . .. he bellowed up and down the corridor. Phyllis where are you? What room you in Phy- llis?

Muffled by partitions a high young voice came through.

Here, Phyllis said. Where you? FULL OF PEP

Boots clumped the corridor and the bellow resumed ‘farther along. Phyllis can come in oh all right I’ll tell you from here. I’ve been down and registered us both and got our badges and I’ve had breakfast and I’ve telephoned Art Maloney and we can have two tickets for the gallery and it starts at eleven so you'd better hurry up. How soon you be ready? ...Gees I’ve been up hours. I couldn’t sleep.

She couldn’t sleep either Phyl- lis was understood to say. She was too excited. If the bellow would go downstairs and wait where he re- gistered them she’d be right down. Was there time for breakfast?

The bellow allowed there might be if she hurried. Hadn’t much time though. Had to go to Malon- ey’s office in the Parliament Buildings to pick up those tick- ets and it started at eleven.

What time was it now, Phyllis enquired. The bellow replied that it was pretty nearly quarter past eight so she’d better get a mobe on. Can’t wait forever, the bellow warned.

Ah, youth. Or aw, shut up, de- pending on the number of hours of sleep. But you can see what the gallery philosopher meant.

MAXIMS

. THAT :CRAZYl M|XED- UP CULTURE

'than four months, is one on

‘ set a new low mark since 1934,

to receive cash advances for grain stored on farms.’

Farmers who have harvested grain, which cannot be accep- ted by the overcorwded eleva- tors, yet who need cash to tide them over, may not. draw ad- vances of up to $3,000 on the se- curity of their undr";vered crops.

6. “As an immediate start upon a program of "mm. extensive de- velopment in the Atlantic Prov- inces, to authorise, in joint ac- tion with provincial g:-~erm.ients, the creation of facilities for the production and ‘transmission of cheaper electric power in those provinces."

A Bill was passed enabling the federal government to lend the cost of power plants and trans- mission lines. _

7. “To ensure that those work-

ing in industries under Federal jurisdiction, will receive annual vacations with pay." , A new Bill provides one week’s vacation with-pay after one year of employment, r ‘‘.l two weeks -after two years, in such indus- tires. ,

8. “Changes in certa«.in"of -the taxing statues will be submitted for your approval.” . As a first instalment on his election promises to »reduce tax- ation, in the absence of the op- portunity to present a full an- naul budget, Mr. Diefenbaker’s government raised the income tax exemptions for children and dependents, and also reduced the excise tax on automobiles.

That record, achieved in less

which any new government would’ be entitled to look back with sat- isfaotion. It, has won for Prime Minister Diefenbaker the priva- tely-‘expressed admimtion of his publicly hostile fellow. poliiticians.

OUR YESTERDAYS

(From The Guardian Files)

, TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO ‘ (Feb. 11, 1933)

The fieasibility of establishing a radio broadcasting station in Truro, as prop::ed by station CFCY, Charlottetown, is to be in- Vestigated by the_Truro Board if Tr-ade. When the matter came iefiore the Board at its annual meeting, it was felt that no def- inite reply could be made until the proposal had been thoroughly considered.

llt is planned to reconstruct the dam of -the lVI-aritirne Electric Company on the Montague Riv- er. The dam, built several years ago,_ was recently swept away. During the interim the -area will be supplid by e1ec‘"icity direct from the plant in Charlottetown.

TEN YEARS AGO

(Feb. ‘I1, 1948) Temperatures in Charlottetown Tuesday morning-16 below zero.

it was reported from the Experi- mental St-ation yesterday. On Jan- nary 1"-. 1934, the temperature re- gistered a cold 22 below, and on February 17 registered 21 below. The intervening years have had only 14 below and that on only two occasiorn.

Re-opening of the RCAF Air Navigation School is to take place late in March of this year when the first navig ‘Zen co: ;e in the DOSt-W-ar plan is scheduled to be- gin. Ground instruction only is to be given at the school at pre. sent bu-t eventual p1ans"call for a complete air navigation cen- tre. .

VICAR’S IDEA HALIFAX, England (CP)\ Bosses should call their workers by their Christian names to ere. , élte “a.h8Dl-W family atmosphere” in their firms, says Ven. Eric Treacy, Anglican archdeacon of Halifax.

GRATEFUL PRESENT LONDON (CF) ~ A Kalldyan silver tray made in the shape of Ceylon has been presented to the

relief measures it undertook dur-

You cannot escape the respon-

l sibility of tomorrow by evading it . l today.

i Ceylon.

ing recent Ceylon floods. The pres- entation was made at Colombo,

Royal Navy in recognition of the =

Mcike Annuoil Cancer Checkup

I By Herman N. Bundescn, M- D-

EVERY year. some 230,000 Americans die of cancer. I is tstimated that at least 75.000 of

these victims can be saved if

0n]y they will act in time. Many, many cases of early can-

: car as 1 have so often pointed : out,’ can be cured if they are dis- , covered and treated early.

ANNUAL CI-IECKUP

The best way I know to dis- cover cancer early lS for every- one to have a complete physical checkup at least once_ a yea1'- An annual health audit is as sound. if not more so , than an annual

k d't. baiiny agubh examination should

‘include special care to detect

signs of cancer. Cancer can at- tack any part of the body, S0 3 thorough examination of every possible site is essential for early detection.

IMPORTANT STEPS . Here, then, is a list of 22 im- portant steps which should be included in any head-to-toe physi-

, cal examination you have. I sug- ? gest you take it along. You can

then see how your doctor checks you when you go for your next physical.

1. A careful comprehensive case history.

2. Examination of the skin.

3. Examination of the eyes.

4. Examination of the aural cavity.

5. Examination of the nasal cavity.

6. Examination of the lips and mouth.

CAREFUL CHECK

7. A careful check by the phy- sician’s trained fingers of the neck, including the thyroid gland. 8. Examination of the heart and lungs.

men. 10. Examination of the,back, in- cluding the" kidney area.

11. In the male, inspection of the external genitalia.

12. In the female, a meticulous examination of the breast.

13. In the female, inspection of the genitalia.

14. Direct visualization of the cervix by the speculum exami- nation. _