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The pressing need for more .ac- commodation for the air force per- sonnel in Summerside was noted in Saturday’s Guardian. It is to be hop- ed indeed that arrangements will be completed to have additional living quarters constructed in the near fut- ure. Meanwhile, we have our own housing problem in Charlottetown where there has been no such in- flux of population and which is re- ceiving far too little attention from the civic authorities.
Few new homes are for rental; and the Council, for some years past, has unwisely permitted the de- molition of older houses which could be reconditioned as modern dwell- ings or apartment units, and the erection on their sites of large paved areas for filling stations, used car lots and other requirments for the motoring public. Necessary as these facilities are, it is not necessary that they should be given space in crowded residential areas, tenanted mainly by working people who find it more and more difficult to get accommodation elsewhere. They, purely, are as much entitled to the > protection of zoning laws as our more prosperous citizens. | ' If money can be obtained from Ottawa for a Confederation memor- jal, as has been suggested, it can also be obtained under the National Housing Act for a subsidized hous-_ ing scheme which would remedy the present situation. Many Canadian. cities have embarked on such a plan, providing homes on a rental basis that is relatively low by today’s stand- atds, but high enough to repay the capital cost of the projects.
We are not speaking here of “slum” rehabilitation,-but of provid- ing needed accommodation for people of modest means. The worst feature of the situation, as it exists, is that families with young children are the © chief sufferers. Property owners with\ dwellings or apartments to let can afford to be choosey because there are dozens of applicants for— every vacancy; and “children are so destructive, you know,” they simply
*t be allowed in. Dogs and cats are still- acceptable in most cases; but families who follow the biblical in- junction to “increase and multiply”, and. who contribute most of all to Canada’s future, do it at the risk of finding no roof over their heads.
vhere are communities in indust- Yial areas that are growing so rapidly that is practically impossible to cope with the housing scarcity. Summer- side, as above noted, has a special problem due to the increase in air force personnel. But can we say this of Charlottetown? The trouble here, it would seem, is of a different kind, and is due largely to our callous lack of concern. '
_ Air-Borne Education An experiment involving “air- borne educational television” was an- nounced recently in Chicago. A six-
state region, which is served by 13,- 000 schools and colleges and has a- total student population of 5,000,- 000, will be able to receive taped pro-~ grams transmitted from ground fac- ilities at Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana, re-telecast from a circling aircraft.
_ The flying station is expected to give television coverage to an area within a circle of 300 to 400 miles in diameter, reaching from Milwaukee and Detriot to Cincinnati and Louis- ville. It embraces part of Illinois, In- diana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin. The plane will fly at about 20,000 feet over north-central In- diana.
_ The program, which will try to bring oustanding teachers from across the United States to the stud- ents of the area, is designed to broad- en the curriculm of smaller schools by providing special instruction in foreign languages, advanced mathem- atics, science, art and music: It is certainly an ambitious project, and one which opens up broad possibili-
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educational advant- This is a technique which, unfort-
laudable purposes. Its propaganda value will not be lost sight of in tot- alitarian countries. Meanwhile, how- ever, its advantages educationally will be studied carefully, not only in the United States bu throughout : the wortd. e
Antarctic Thaw.
Perhaps Premier Khrushchev really meant. some of the things he said in his goodwill American tour. At any rate, the 12-nation Antarctic Conference in Washington has gotten - off to a good start, with Russia co- operating. A treaty putting the 6,000,- 000 square mile area of the Antarc- tic off limits in the cold war appears a definite possibility.
President Eisenhower first pro- posed such a pact in May, 1958. Since then, informal negotiations aimed at smoothing out differences have been under way. The Washing- ton conference opening indicates that the preliminary work has been well done.
The mood now is one of com- promise and accommodation. The United States and’ Russia have re- treated from early insistence that the Antarctic be internationalized. Brit- ain has dropped demands that all members of the United Nations be permitted to adhere to any treaty. There has been general approval of “the Australian proposal that, along the lines of the combined explorat- ion of the international geophysical year, a co-ordinated study be made of Antarctic resources and possibili- ties.
As it looks now, a treaty would ban military use of the Antartic, freeze territorial claims and provide that the area be open to all parties for exploration and research. There may even be clauses providing for. | international inspection. This may open up the way to agreements else- where. If a cold war “thaw” can start in the Antarctic, it could spread anywhere! re
A Myth Exploded
One result of the British general election has been to explode the myth about the importance of television campaigning. The Labor members ap- peared to be coming smartly down the homestretch, nosing out the lag- ging Conservatives because they | were “smarter” on TV. While the Tories had been using it just to make statements and speeches, Labor had the wit to take the advice of profess- ional producers, making full use of their gadgets and “props”; wasn’t that the way they sold cough drops and soap? So they cashed in on “the terrific impact of TV” which, until
unately ean be exploited for less |
recently, we heard so much about in Canada. ;
The Ottawa Journal quotes one of the leaders, Mr. Ness Edwards, for- mer Labor Postmaster General, to this effect: “Television has ‘at last counterbalanced the newspaper bias against Labor ... It (the swing) has been mainly due to the fact that on the greatest mass media of the century Labor has had equal facili- ties to state its case.”
But the electors didn’t rise to the bait. The “greatest: mass media of the century”, plus Labor's way of using it, turned out to be not nearly as effective as the crusading plat- form oratory of the Keir Hardies, MacDonalds and Snowdens long be- fore TV was born.
EDITORAL NOTES
How much milk must a cow pro- duce to show a reasonable profit for its owner? Officials of the Can- adian Department of Agriculture have beén studying this question. They have: found the break-even point for a 20-cow herd, where the operator receives five per cent in- terest on his investment and $220 a month) for labor, requires the pro- duction of: 10,500 Ibs. per cow. This was determined in a study involving herds at the Experimental Project Farms at Duncan, Nanaimo and Courtenay, B.C.
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200 white-faced sheep from Al- _berta are being imported to New- foundland ‘and will be used in an experiment designed to improve local herds. These sheep were recommend- ed to the Newfoundland government after a federal agricultural survey of a decline in Canada’s sheep rais- ing industry. If the results of two " years’ grazing are favorable, they will form the basis of a new sheep raising policy in our sister Province. The. Alberta sheep produce twice as much fleece as their Newfoundland counterparts, and they have a favor- able tendency to flock together which
makes them easier to tend
OTTAWA REPORT
- A Research
Champion
By Patrick Nicholson
“Russia's moon rockets are not
just an ingenious bid for. pres- |
tige; they are the manifestations
of a formidable advance in teeh-
nology.” : The speaker was Britain's man-
“ »ho-is-always-right, Sir Winston
Churchill. The occasion was the feundation of
as a 20th Century addition to the 800 years old University of Cam- bridge—perhaps symbolic of the reed to keep on ‘adding to our educational facilities.
Two days earlier, Britains Prime Minister, Harold Macmil- lan, had set up a new govern- ment department, a Ministry of Scientific and Technological De- velopment, and had appointed as its first head the brilliant Con- servativé Party chairman, Quin- tin McGarel Hogg, Viscount Hail- sham.
Six thousand miles away; in Saskatoon, the new president of that university, Dr. John Spinks, declared that we must now add a fourth to the traditional “Three Rs” of education. As well as read- ivg, ‘riting and ‘rithmetic, today's needs now call also for research said Dr. Spinks.
Those three events all point to the need. for more research in.
{our modern world; all received lines; all happened this Fall.
PROPHET UNHONOURED How come, then, that our world
did little heed nor long remem-
ber words to the same effect
+ speken-six—years—ago-in_our Par-_
liament?
The great titan among the lum- bering Liberal leadership, Clar- ence Howe, rose on ‘that occas- ion to introduce some legislative changes related to our National Research Council. “They do not cnange in any fundamental way the principles and procedures which, have guided the council over the years.”” Howe explain- | ed with evident pride.
That remark stung the David from Sarnia into challenging the Goliath of Government. Up jump- ed Joseph Murphy, the Conser-
effectively appealled to the vot- crs to ‘‘get that man off my back"’. He moved an amendment
more effectively providing for the promotion and acceleration of re- search in Canada.
the accolade of newspaper head-.
BURYING THE HATCHET
Murphy made his far-sighted proposal five years before Sput- nik the First soared into the hea- vens to stun the Free World. It was So many years ahead of the thinking of our government that the docile Liberal majority duti- | fully. permitted it to expire.
MAN-WHO’S-ALWAYS-RIGHT Mr. Murphy had plugged his request for government leader- ship in research before then; he jhas plugged it since: he is still | plugging it. He has always been
Heasreds— ss We suffer*grievously from the ‘fact that so many of our indus- jtries are poor relations of rich /US. companies, who hog all the expenditure and direction of research work for themselves. Mr
| vative M.P. about whom Howe in- |
te kill the Howe motion, and in- | stead to set up a parliamentary | committee to consider means of |
Murphy's plea is for more e- search work in Canada, for gov- |ernment'aid and leadership in re- search, and for the training of {more _ potential -researchers | through more - science teaching. | That two Canadian Prime Min- isters have considered this pro- |posal not worth examination has | killed the idea in Canada to date;
}that two British Prime Ministers. jin the past week have endorsed and implemented a similar pro- posal suggests that ‘‘Research”’ Murphy is right, just as ‘“‘Lamp-
rey’ Murphy, “Pollution” Mur- | phy, “Brazil’’ Murphy, ‘Polymer’ |, Murphy and ‘“‘Resources’’ Mur- vny were right too.
Khrushchev And DeGau!
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By Ed Simon \ Canadian Press Staff Writer Paradoxically, it is the Rus} In the view of ‘some British ob
sians who are in the best posi- tion to budge President de Gaulle from his reluctance. to partici- pate in an early summit meet-
i ing.
For a number of reasons, the French‘president has consistently
| sought to delay the summit _talks
while Britain, with growing sup- port from the United States, has worked to accelerate them.
De Gaulle is anxious to take his seat at the conference table cu terms of apparent equality with his allies, ~~
TEST BOMB FIRST He wants to postpone the talks
| until after what British foreign | otfice experts wryly refer to as
“his Guy Fawkes day’’—the first French test of a nuckar weapon. And he would like to work in Fremier ‘ Khrushchev’s visit to Paris, to ,establish personal con- tect with the Russian leader sim- ilar President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Macmillan.
If he chooses, Khrushchev can use the second item in de Gaulle’s time-table as a lever to ply him loose from his insistence
-| en dclaying summit negotiations. until the spring. -
He. has accepted the general's invitation to visit Paris but, the date has not been set. It would be easy for Khrushchev to estab- lish the possibility that de Gaulle’s eontinued hesitation te go to the summit could lead to a series of humiliating delays in Khrushchev’s departure for France,
to that already shared by |
servers, Russian pressure on de
ful portent for East-West amity | Since the Second World War.
In the past, whenever Russian | Summit overtures produced West- ern. disagreements, the Soviet Union has been content to make the propaganda point that any i delay in ending the cold” war is \the fault of the West. In conse- ‘quence, some Westerners have doubted that the Russians sin- cerely want a conference.
DELAY HARMFUL? Britain, although sympathetic | with de Gaulle’s desire to build
up French prestige, emphatically |
|disagrees with his view that a
|few months’ delay would not jhafm summit prospects. The | British government wants to
| proceed before any new interna- |tional incidents mar the present | favorable atmosphere.
In this regard, the attitude of Communist China. gives cause for British concern. In spite of Khrushchev’s_ visit to Peking, tnere is no evidence that the | Chinese government shares his |apparent enthusiasm for ending | East-West tensions. A sudden out- bréak at Quemoy or some other Far Eastern trouble spot could ciange the entire picture.
Despite the confusion created by de Gaulle’s announcement about holding a summit confer- ence next spring, the British still hepe for a summit conference in December or early January. And they are banking on Khrushchev to help make it possible.
Exploring Etruscan Tombs
New York Times
Archeologists are using ingeni- ous new techniques to explore tombs of the ancient Etruscans, who ruled Italy for centuries be- fore the. Romans rose to power.
Remains of the mighty Etrus- can civilization are seattered in profusion through central Italy. Scientists estimate that at least 1,000 Etruscan tombs are buried
,at a ‘single site, Tarquinia. But
studying them was frustrating, because they were not easy to ,ocate and excavators frequently found they had been looted.
Now science has answers to these problems geophysicist Carlo M. Lerici, vice president et —Milan~ Polytechnic’s Lexici Foundation, reports in the Sep- tember National Geographig, Magazine. |
Crypts can be located through aerial photography, which re, veals telltale scattering of Ston- €; and variations in the texture of grasses. Under favorable con- Gitions the ohotographs aifford™al-
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most an X-ray view of features invisible from the ground.
PINPOINTING A TOMB
To pinpoint a tomb, once acf- ial photography has revealed its hiding place, scientists have test- eG another technique, based on the fact that the earth conducts electricity in varying degree, de- rending on the nature of the soil and underground irregularities.
The location of hidden rocks, walls, terraces, roads and tombs can be determined by sending an clectrical current through tne ground to measure its resistivity.
But one problem remained: bow to determine whether a tomb was worth excavating or not, Too often archeologists labored long end hard only to b& disappointed try an empty ‘crypt. Finally they ait upon the idea of using a spec- jaily tnade :power drill to bore a _small test hole fifteen to twenty feet deep. They cout then lower a tiny camera and ss flash
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‘o photograph the interior of the tomb.
They improved further on this technique by making an earth periscope equipped with a power- ful light. With this they can in- spect a tomb without waiting to have pictures developed. | With these new methods, arch- ledlogists have investigated 850 tombs -at Tarquinia and 500 at Cerveteri, another Etruscan site. | They were disheartened at the |way tombs have been rifled by ‘clandestine diggers in both an- | cient and recent times. The early itomb robbers sought only jewel- ty and precious metals. Pre- | sent-day. plunderers take almost anything.
Despite vandals, art works of
junusual beauty have survived. One newly discovered fresco, ex- ecuted during the second half of the sixth century B. C., shows charioteers whipping up wildeyed horses. Athletes run, jump, and hurl the discus. The unknown ar- tist is considered one of the best | Etruria ever produced. The Etruscans flourished from labout the eighth century, B, C. until the Romans overwhelmed, ‘them sometime between the |fourth century B.C. and the be- |vinning of the Christian Era. At ithe height of their power, twelve | Etrusean city - states ruled much of Italy frong’ south of Pompeii 'to the Po Valley:
God Gunn
INCIDENTAL INTELLIGENCE
Before that squirrel scalloped the ground
Between two trees, to get from the one
To the other, virtually flat,
the terrain was
No hillock of grass, monticle:
No bush, no. break, breach or abutment,
No a of chicory notably thick.
Merely by landng from are to are
no littlest
has broken The black of earth. All over. the park.
His conduct's, converting areas to patterns Of passage, ricocheting your. eye's fiber which is spun
by nature. }
innovating nature,
This has action assuredly has no intent To change the world and its wat- chers, But ‘merely To happen: this livens the leap of it ornament. ‘ —Norma Farber
right, but he has always been
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The modern parental rationali- zation that “I do not want my child to be-inhibited,”’ might eas- ily lead to over-permissiveness the parent, according to Dr. Segenreich. This, he says, might
ignore authority and result social maladjustment and misbe- havior.
Children, he explains, bring lit- tle pre - determined behavior into this world. And a child: best learns the social role of behav- ior by imitation: and identifica- tion within the atmosphere of love and security of the family, the church and schools.
Too many parents, Dr. Segen- reich says, are concerned with the behavior itself and fail to de- termine the underlying causes. Some of these causes he says, are:
DISOBEDIENCE Usually stems from lack of firmness or consistency by parents. The parent often identifies the child with his own childhood, then treats him as he would like to have been treated, even though this may be improper.
STEALING Often results from a need for attention and interest, an effort to obtain grati- fication for oneself.
This act demands parenta! dis- pleasure and firm insistence that it will not be tolerated.
Among lovers of ‘tion are the Bluebell Railway servation Society’s 400 members. They are buying from British Railways a 4'% miles stretch of disused track in the county of Sussex where they ¢ run steam trains to their hearts’ content.—U:K. Information
The tusk of an elephant which, according to experts, 14 feet tall, has been British Columbia. The timated to be 500,000 years old. ordinary elephant today is ei feet tall. They did things big way in British Columbia even in those days.—Ottawa Citizen
An. East. German. -farmer brought his five cows across the border, when he, his wife, and their two children fled from Com- munist rule. When it comes to seeking freedom it’s a matter of elementary economics to bring your livestock with you, if you" can manage it.—Cape Breton Post
We're getting pushed around too much in this electronic, jet-pro- pelled age. There are the big, awkward cards us€d-for cheques and order blanks which do not fit any ordinary, household-var- iety envelope and bear the surly order “Do Not Fold’’. Apparent- | ly we are to change our stationery. ;to accommodate a machine. There are the cigarette mach- ines which make us pay two cents more for our cigarettes simply because it is inconvenient | for the machine to give pennies
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“Fyrumbrella” is the fancy neme given to a very service able device recently designed to enable firemen to stay close to an exceedingly hot fire. The new gadget is made of a tough non- burnable glass cloth with an al- uminized surface that reflects 9 percent. of the heat away. Fire- men place the hose nozzle through ahole in the five square feet of c'oth, and look through eye ports while they fight the fire.—The Press
Whether it will be allowed for general use because of licensing laws and other hindrances is not clear, but currently on exhibition in London is a vending machine for whisky. Somewhat similar to the usual cigaret machine and designed for use in bars, theat- ers or railway stations, where its presence during rush hours would undoubtedly prove a boon, the ma- chine delivers packages contain-
ing sufficient beverage for two
| in change.—Vancouver Sun
In Praise Of
RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME’ — Often:this is a case
We are not opinionated, dog- matic, or stubborn. In spite of | what wife, teenage daughters and
dr'@ks.—Manchester Guardian
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Pumpkin Pie
travel the low road, a perspica- cious countryman asks, when the
The child feels rejected or un- wanted.
Parents should make the child aware that he really is “wanted.
SCHOOL PHOBIAS — Usually caused “by -anxieties in a child. These are only aggravated by hostile attitudes of the parents.
It is best to be patient, assist the child to return to schoo] and to monitor his attendance.
QUESTION AND ANSWER
Mrs. E. S.: What does a can- cer look like when it starts and what color is it? :
Answer: Cancer has no speci- fic color since its appearance de- pends upon its location, type and extent. Any area which continues to grow, bleeds readily or fails to heal is suspicious and should be examined by your doctor.
- OUR YESTERDAYS ©
(From the Guardian Files)
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Oct. 26, 1934) Leslie Trainor, potato
Mr. J.
from death yesterday morning when his car was struck by a
town on the crossing at the east of Emerald thrown in the ditch and comple- tely demolished. Mr. Trainor was miraculously unhurt although suf- — from shock.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Walker were given a reception by their friends and neighbors in their lovely new home at the nerth east section of the town. Mr. and Mrs. Walker were presented with a lovely gift in token of the esteem in, which they are held in the community. Refreshments were served following an evening of Bridge.
TEN YEARS AGO
manager of the Central Co-oper- ative store in Charlottetown at a
Howatt is a former farmer and fox that the
night. Mr store keeper, rancher. It is expected
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will not be opened this season by the proprietor. Earle MacDonald, it has been learned. Mr. MacDon- 4 ald stated that the amount of dam- age done to the rink during the past year has been so extensive that it is not considered profit- able to open the rink this year. However, he was
to operate the rink.
_ The Age Old Story
The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and
him,
TIME OFF FOR BLOOD MONTREAL (CP) — Inmates Pat nearby ‘St. Vincent de Paul penitentiary Wednesday said their record flood donations to the Red Cross should be worth a lit- tle time off their sentences. An article in Pen-O-Rama, maga-
commissioner of penitentiaries in Ottawa asking him to try to get “a certain remission of time for \.fhe men have never refused to give blood to the Red Cross.”
MAXIMS
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in the Christian Science Monies | heart.
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inspector, had a narrow escape |
west bound train frém Charlotte- |
station. the car was |
(Oct. 26, 1949) An East Rovalty business man, Brent Howatt, was appointed |
directors meeting he'd in the ec- | operative services office Monday .
store will open about December
The Crystal Rink, Summerside,
prepared to | consider any reasonable proposal | made by anyone else who wished
he knoweth them that trust in
zine published by the prisoners | said a letter had been sent to the |
Light 1s sown for the righte- |
sons May “laim, a man can be definite without being obstinate. The pumpkin is one of the best gifts of Indian agriculture, and | time was a half century ago, | when solid farmers took pride in 'a big heap of golden pumpkins | against the south side of their | barns come October. | Some of the old variety names are good reading: Golden Cus- tard Black Sugar, Cocozelle, China Alphabet, Sweet Cheese, Buble Gramma, Nantucket Pie, | Winter Luxury. Black Zucchini, Indiana Cornfield, Michigan | Mammoth, Dunkhard, Yum Yum | and Illinois Beauty. : | An intelligent citizen has noth- |ing against a good squash pie. He can do full justice when con- fronted with a wedge. But why
Greenleaf Whittier asked, “Wha calls back the past like a ric’ pumpkin pie?’’
A pumpkin is good for Hallowe’- en, but the pumpkin's happiest contribution is in a correctly-con- cocted pie. There is something about the flavor and texture that elevates it above the squash, It is one of those intangibles dif- ficult to describe, but recognized by those who are discriminating.
A pumpkin pie needs plenty of cream and the right amalgama- tion of cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves. Give a man a quar- ter of this type of pie, after his
‘| fried potatoes, ham bread n’ but-
ter’ pickles, hot biscuits. with grape jelly, plus a cup of honest coffee, and he knows it has bees
a day of good living.
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