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hws as a “sure thing” the long- mooted causeway linking us with the mainland, and that a Conservative government would build it.. He bas- ed his statement on a letter he had received from an official in the Fed- eral Department of Rublic Works, advising him of the extensive sur-

that a report, including plan and de- sign along With estimated costs, would be made available by the end _ of March. When Premier Matheson pressed Mr. Bell to identify the source of his information, he named a Mr. Jephson, who we understand is executive assistant to the Public Works Minister.

We are, of course, aware that a full report is pending for presenta- * tion to Ottawa sometime before

March 31, and that high hopes are entertained that it will be favorable. The asurance received by Mr. Bell

this, though it is difficult, without studving the full text of the com- ‘Munication,* to say whether it amounts to a concrete guarantee that the causeway will be built. In view of the ‘mportance of the subject, we suggest that Mr. Bell table the letter in the Legislature. It is of prime interest to all our people, and certainly the House is entitled to évery bit of information that any of its members have received. In the meantime, however, we'‘see no reason for any slackening in the ‘campaign to obtain improved ferry transportation at Borden. The Throne Speech properly emphasized the fact that a‘new icebreaker is needed at once. Reasons Nave been given by the Federal Department of Transport for the failure of the C.G.S. “Saurel” to clear a channel . for our carferry “Prince Edward Is- land” between Port aux Basques and Borden; but at the same time: we learn, from an official railway re- lease, that of four Transport Depart- ment icebreakers operating in Gulf waters, one has been assigned. to the task of releasing a Danish freighter’on her way into the Gulf through Cabot Strait. This ship is trying to reach Quebec City, “the first ocean-going ship to attempt it in midwinter.” - Millions are being spent™this win- ter in a fruitless effort to keep _ the St. Lawrence waterway open. If the same enterprise were shown in meeting Prince Edward Island’s re- quirements, it would be fine. Which is the more importait? Our members, surely, can have no goubt on that score; and we’ trust that they are complaining very strongiy about the situation down here. It is fast shaping up into a Major emergency: There has been no indication as to.what the Federal Government proposes to do. We

should have a statement immediate. :

ly from the Minister on the flour ‘of the House of Commons.

. Inter-State Oyster War ? A 174-year-old oyster “war” between Maryland and Virginia over Potamac River fishing rights has entered a cold phase, according ta the New York Times. Maryland, jt seems, owns the entire river up to the low water mark on the Vir- ginia shore. This boundary was specified in the land grant from the British crown to the first’ Lord Baltimore.’ However, in 1785 a com- pact was signed by representatives _of both states, which gave Virginia fishing rights on the river. Later various conservation and control laws were passed. ‘ _.The main trouble lies in the fact that Virginia allows the dredging of oysters, while Maryland has de. clared this method illegal... Hand tonging only is permitted by Mary land law. Over the years there has been violence on the river as Maty land patrol boats arrested Virginia edredgers and had them tried in Maryland courts. . Fishermen and patrol officers have been shot. After a particularly Serious out- burat of river warfare in 1956, the -

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Maryland Assembly in 1957 voted to abrogate the 1785 compact. Vir- ginia declared this could not be done unilaterally, and the case was presented to the United States Supreme Court. The court asked -both states to attempt an out-of- court settlement, and is withholding ‘| any action while this is attempted.

The chances for approval of the compromise in Maryland have been dimmed by protests from watermen over a provision that would place regulation of the river_in the hands of a six-member commission. It

states, and its conservation - decrees could be nullified only by concur- rent action by both legislatures.

Foolish Argument It looks as though the British,

now in Geneva trying to work out a satisfactoy -formula for ending nuclear tests may as well pack up theit belongings and return to their respective homes. There ddéesn’f ap- pear to be a chance of the talks -coming to anything worthwhile. _

Premier Khrushchev says that the British and American insistence on control bases is merely a pretext to allow them to carry out spying and reconnaissance on Russian soil. “Now that they have encircled us with their military bases,” he told the Communist Party Congress, “the Western Powers want to es- tablish bases on our territory to be able, with the aid of that recon- naissance,. to pick the time to put their military bases in action against our country. And they want us to help them in the realization of these plans. Is not that a bit too much?”

Mr. Khrushchev admitted that under the control plan Soviet in- spectors would get the same rights in Britain and the United States as the West would have in the Soviet Union. But he brushed that aside by declaring that the. Soviet Union, un- like Britain and the United States, has no “war aims” and therefore does not need reconnaissance.

In face of that kind of argument, what’ can rational men do? It is a marvel that they have put up with it as long as they have.

First Damage To Maritimes

Strong protest has been made by | the Nova Scotia minister of agricul- | ture, Hon. K.D. Haliburton, about the increase in the Lakehead price of wheat, which he regards as “the first adverse effects the Maritimes are getting from construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway.” (We can think of another,—the tying up of a whole fleet of government ice- breakers that are needed elsewhere

than in the-St. Lawrence.) Mr. Haliburton says: the Nova

Scotia Government has protested the wheat price boost “very vigorous- lv”, through the Maritimes Trans- portation Commission. Doubtless our own Provincial Government is doing likewise.

The increase in the Lakehead price, ordered by the Federal Wheat Marketing Board to offset transport- ation savings expected when ship- ments star* moving through the sea- way, would mean a substantial in- |. crease in the cost of fedds, in which '\’ wheat is an important element. Thie is where it hits our farm producers It is to be hoped that the protest will result in having this Board or- der cancelled as far as feed grains are concerned.

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Will the support price level on but- ter be chagged this year? The ques- tion was raised in. Parliament the other day, but Agriculture Minister Harkness declined to comment. He said he had not “heard” of any rumors of a change; but the support would be announced before the May 1 start of the dairy year. The pre sent support price, Montreal basis, is 64 cents a pound.

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Premier Smallwood is not to be in timidated by the International Work. ers of America (CLC) which has been causing labour trouble among Newfoundland’s 20,000 loggers. He : urges the loggers to send this or. ganization packing and form a unior of their own. He offers his service: “day and night” to bring this about. and suggests they might join with

€ provincial union. In that case he thought the men could be in thr camps within a few days, and that within a fortnight a working agree- ment could be signed betweep the new union and the company.

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UNO WHO’S OTTAWA VALENTINE

ON PARLIAMENT HILL

Facing Heavy Agenda

By Heath Macauarrie, M.P.

After the full ten days of de. bate. the address in reply to the Speech from the Throne was adopted by an overwhelming ma- jority. This, of course, was scarcely a surprising result con- sidering the party standing in the House of Commons. Many mem- bers from various parts of the country made their maiden

- speeches during the Throne

Speech debate. It is traaitional for members

to spend a good deal of time in eulogizing their constituencies as well as in discussing national po- litical issues. Like the Budget

‘debate, the Throne Speech debate

allows great latitude as to sub- ject matter, and in this session as in previous ones there was a wide range of items discussed. A number of members were de- sirous of taking part in this wide- ranging discussion but there was not sufficient time for them since the rules of the House allow only ten aays of debate.

With the Throne Speech item out of the way, the House set- tled down to a heavy agenda of major governméntal items. The first to be debated was the amendment to\the National Hous- ing Act which is designed to make it easier for Canadians to take advantage for this legislation. From all sides. of the House the Hon. Howard Green, Minister of Public Works, was warmly con- gratulated for this measure. It is fot often that the government

PUBLIC FORUM

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SEEKS PEN PAL

Sir,—I would like to correspond with an English speaking person in your Province. I am intrested’ in collecting and exchanging stamps as a hobby. I also will exchange post cards.

1 am Sir, etc. JOHN DRUSYNSKI 517 Punaa St. Kailua, Oahu, T. H. ‘Hawaiian Islands)

LOVE IN ACTION a

“Good Samaritan” lesson in kindness |

Sir.—T he story is a

where national or religious bar- |

riers are crossed.. The Jews in the first century or when this | story was told, despised every Geniile inciuding the Samaritans. Every one not a Jew. was call- ed a Gentile, which meant hea- then.

This superior attitude resemb- les our attitude now toward the coloured race. We know the sit- uation at restaurants. We read of the poor welcome to the high schools. We also read of Jewish Synagogues being bombed, as well as other acts of violence be- cause the Jews are a separate race.

What we call having bad luck, or living under a curse brings us back in the same book to where Abraham, the first Jew, was told by Jehovah, ‘I'll bless you and make you a blessing. Anyone who blesses you will be blessed, and whoever curses you will be cursed.’ Take Hitler for one example; also the Jew- ish refugees every day fleeing in hunger and rags from all the “Jron Curtain’ countries.

Odr political leaders are at their wits end in their efforts to bring peace. They do not know that the Jew holds the key. He is once again on the “Jericho Road.’ wounded and half dead. We cannot _merely give a look and pass by; but in our language, lift him into our car, get him to the nearest hospital and hand the secretary at the wicket a blank cheque. P

I am Sir, etc. _J. A. MACKENZLE

Kensington

receives such bouquets but = it would be unlikely that anyone would oppose government aia to housing.

HOUSING PROGRAM

In its present campaign again- st unemployment, which exists in certain areas of the country ‘al- though, happily, Prince Edward Island figures are most encourag- ing’, the government has decid- ed to push vigorously efforts such as the housing program. It would appear that these efforts have met with considerable success, and in the view of qualified econ- omists it would seem that we have passed the crisis as far as our economic recession is con- cerned. There is no use in deny- ing that problems still exist. Such an attituae would be naive and unrealistic. but it would be equally unrealistic and unfair not to acknowledge the improve- ments which have come.

They have come in Canada. and in the United states and Britain as well, and these great economic movements are not con- fined to one country alone. So in timate is the pattern of economic coordination that a recession in one part of the rid is bound to bring Stn A ei in anoth- er. The same thing occurred “n the ‘20's and ‘30's, although to hear some people talk the Domin- ion of Canada was unique in its economic privations. DIFFERENT TODAY

Happily, today the situation is quite different from that of the ‘30's. Then there was a general s'ackening of economic activity and every phase of business life hit the botoom. Today we are in

| an expanding-economy and while

there are spots of unemployment every other aspect of our econ- omy is moving upward., Indeed, we have a situation in which in- flation and recession - usually contradictory concepts - appear to march hand in hand. Finance Minister Fleming's when he went to introduce the estimates the other day. reveal an appreciation of this fact. While projecting the greatest feaeral expenditure in the history of Canada of Six Billion Dollars, he pointed out significant savings in the operation of the govern. ment, savings resulting from ef- ficiency and economy of bureau- cracy.

Today I had a rare opportunity to attend a luncheon given in honour of Mayor Willy Brandt of West Berlin sponsored by the NATO Parliamentary Association of which I have the honour to be an executive officer. THRILLING EXPERIENCE

It was a thrilling experience to hear this man speak about the

statements |

| ed .when the spokesmen of the

problems and trials through which his great city. has passed. His

record as a fighter for freedom is impressive. In 1933. he left Germany when he saw what Hit- ler stood for. He went to Nor- way, married a Norwegian girl. and served in the military fore- es of that brave little. country. Today he stood before us as the spokesman of one of the great cities of the West, standing in an exposed and dangerous posi- tion behind the so-called Iron Curtain, and in the very midst of all the dangerous eddies and currents of the East-West Cold War.

Mayor Bramit saia the people of Berlin have no weapons but the right to live and work and a good set of nerves. He declar- ed that’ Berlin belongs to the Free World. He pointed with pride to his city whichNs_t a show-window of the Western World although a few short years ago it stood in a desert of rubble and ruins. Berlin lies about one hundred miles behind the Iron Curtain, but it hag regained its ancient glory. It is a leading in- dustrial centre, and the major university town of Germany. It wants to remain free.

As Mayor Brandt said, “We did not go through the terrible ex- perience of Hitler only to bear the burden of another dictator- ship." Speaking in flawless Eng- lush, the Berlin miayor said, ‘We will never be brought to our knees." He called for patience, unity and flexibility in the acute, and intense problems which face us today.

SIGN OF THE TIMES

It is a sign of the times that Canaaa is playing host to the mayor of the city of Berlin. Gone are the days when we can sit back and watch developments in the international field. Today we are committed to full scale action on behalf of our NATO allies. and this includes’ West Germany. and the embattled city of Berlin. Today there is no -part of the world in which Canaa may claim to be disinterested.

In Indo-China. in the Middle East and elsewhere, members of the Canadian military forces are doing police duty. Indeed, our country has more police forces in action on behalf of world peace that any other country in the world. I ,may say that I. for one, am proud of the role which our country is playing in the in- ternational field.

At the United Nations, where I had the opportunity to serve as a delegate of Canada, I saw the position of esteen ia which we are held, and I was deeply mov-

various countries of the world turned to Canada for leadership believing that because of our great wealth an! lack of personal ambitions we could be trusted to play a major role.

Early Island Industries

P. E. Island Historical Society

Did you know of the early in dustry in this Province?

The census of 1861 shows that there were 80.856 ‘nhabitants on the Island and that many of the people were engaged in trades and industries that have now vanished from the local scene.

There were 14] grist mills, 46 carding ‘mills, 176 sawmills, 9 fulling and dressing mills. 55 tanneries. Thé cloth manufactur- ed. but not fulled, in that year fo- talled 303,676 yards. Cloth full- ed, 122,940 yards. The tanneries produced 143,803 pounds of leath- er; Mr. J. L. Curran has ‘donat- ed a set of the tools used in pro- cessing hides to leather. There were 48 lime kilns at work, prin- cipally in the western part of the province, and these proauced 22.- 821 barrels of lime in 1861.

Under the swamps and barrens of Prince County lay beds of brick clay of glacial origin. These gave material for brick: kilns that in 1861. produced 1.331.000 bricks. There were some potter- vies in the old days too. The Lily Pond on the local Experi- mental Farm was forthed by the

removal of clay used in a pot- tery, once owned by the Hornby family, that was situated abeut three hundred yaras to the north on a lane-which has all but dis- appeared now-known as Pottery Lane.

Taking it altogether, the Island was almost self-sufficient in the 1800's. Probably its manufactur- es lacked the fine finish desired. today, but they were not filmsy, and lasted longer. The leather produced on the Island gave em- ployment to the shoemaker. the harnessmaker, and the saadle- maker; the wool of the large sheep population (107,242 in 1861) was made into cloth and benefit- ted the tailor, he dressmaker and the merchant. Two suits were all a man needed, one for working. and “Sabbath Blacks.”

The fisheries were important too, and there were 89 [ishing es- | tablishments recorded in 1861. These produced 22,000 barrels of herrings and gasperaux, 7,000 barrels of mackerel, 39,000 quin- tals of codfish, and 17,000 gal- lons of fish-oils. ;

None Immune From Attack

barbers

point NOT STRENUOUS | Generally, we think of hard Physical labor as a contributing cause of heart trouble. While bar- tenders and barbers-m u st spend long hours on their feet. their work is not physically strenuous. On the other hand, you might expect farm workers to have a high rate of heart trouble. Yet, despite the obvious physi- ical strain of their work, these persons, as a. group, probably are about as free of heart trouble as you can get. NEGROES LESS SUBJECT As a group, Negroes also have plenty of hard work. But, again, they are not as subject to heart attacks as are white persons. All of which would seem to in- dicate pretty clearly that heart trouble strikes the fellow whé works at a lathe or a work bench or stands behind a bar just about as often and as hard as it does the businessman who is worried more about his taxes and his competitors’ products than any- thing else.

However, there are a couple of additional points to be consid- ered.

WEIGHT HANDICAP

We know that stout persons are more likely to suffer heart trouble than are persons of nor- mal weight or those are underweight. We know also that the older a person gets the more susceptible he -becomes to heart attacks.

Coronary thrombosis, for ex- ample, strikes more persons be- tween the ages of 45 and 70 than any other age group.

And since it generally takes quite a few years for a man to become an executive, a politi- cal leader, a professional man or a businessman, and since these persons generally add a few ex- tra pounds along the way, they are fairly good candidates for heart attacks. No one, however, is immune.

QUESTION AND ANSWER

N.N.: What are the symptoms of fungus in the blood stream?

Answer: Fungus infections us- ually attack the skin but may also get into the blood stream. A fungus infection of the blood stream may cause pus and de cayed tissue which may, in turn,

been 5 fies a red-eyed greeting. But ‘in the

OUR YESTERDAYS

(From The Guardian Files)

TWENTY—FIVE YEARS AGO (Feb. 14, 1934)

majority of 349 over his oppon- “ent Ex-Mayor W. S. Stewart. Oth- ers elected included, A. A. Hen- nessey, M. W. Reardon, H. F Vaniderstine, B. Roy Holman, bert Rattray, P. W. Turner, Ja- mes E. Blanchard and Arthur H. MacDougall.

On-the evening of February se- cond, the young ladies of Tignisb assembled at the home of Mrs. A..R. Shea where they held a surprise shower for Miss Irene Burke on the eve of her marri- age to Mr. John Cameron, Ma? ager of the Provincial Bank of Tignish, Miss Edith Bernard read the address and the accom- panying verses were read by Miss Vida Shea.

TEN YEARS AGO (Feb. 14, 1949)

The first meeting of the Sum- merside Town Council since the Civic Election was held last evening with His Worship, Mayor J. F. Arnett in the chair. The following appointments were made, assessors, J. B. Wood and Hugh F. Morrison. Fire Depart- ment, Chief W. B. MacNeill, as- sistant chief, Claude T. Kenny: secretary-treasurer, George Hogg.

A total of 27 N. C. O.’s and gunners of the 26th L.- A. A. from Souris, Montague and Char- lottetown have left for training at Picton, Ontario. Preceding the main body, two N. C. O. instruc- tors, L. Hillier and L. J. Paquet, with Sgt. D. A. Moreside, left Friday to instruct in the L. A. A.

produce ulcers and abscesses.

he long Greek- Turkish dispute over Cyprus highlights a week of progress in Britain's efforts to smooth the path of her colonies toward self- rule. :

As representatives of the two national groupings of the Cypriot population, the Greeks and Turks. had to overcome difficulties largely of their own making. Militant statements out of Ath- ens and Ankara had played a big part in fanning the flames of wiolence on the Mediterranean is- land for the last 4% years.

Britain had made numerous attempts to médiate between her NATO partners but it was evident from the outset that no third party* could bring peace to Cyp- rus until] their rulers were ready, to renounce the cheap political dividend of their ringing appeals to nationalistic sentiments. at home in favor of a common sense solution.

APPEAR. CONTENT

The loss of British lives in the fighting has mate most Britons aware of the impracticability of retaining control of the island against the wish of its inhabi- tants. All but a small imperial- ist minority appear content with the guaranteed retention: of Brit- ish military bases in the pro- posed republic.

Meanwhile,. Colonial Secretary

| Alan Lennox - Boyd, whose duties °

Will be considerably lightened if Cyprus ceases to be a trouble- spot, has been speeding the po- litical development of colonial territories elsewhere.

Twice within three days he has announced constitutional reforms designed to bring a British col-, ony closer to independence.

Both British Somaliland, which won: the right to elect a majority of the members of its legislative council, and the new Western Aden Federation have been sub- ject to outside oressure. BRITISH OFFER

British Somaliland. a 68,000- square - mile ternjtory in the northeast corner, of Africa, was growing restless at the approach- ing indepehdence of its neighbor. the former Italian colony of So- malia, due to emerge from Uni ted Nations trusteeship in. 1960 Britain has offered its colony a choice of self-government or union with the new state.

The six component units of the

Religion and education appear

Mediation In Cyprus

By Ed Symon

recruit course.

to the full force of Arab national- ism from the neighboring state of Yemen, a recent recruit to Gama! Abdel Nasser’s United Arab Republic. All are governed by Arab rulers who have signed

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other, “we took them from you | all right, but you can't say we've. them.”"—Ottawa Journal the candle at both ends. - is a mildly reckless way of break- e. It's gem

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last couple of weeks staying awake has become a marathon trick something like goldfish-swal- lowing or flagpole sitting in their heyday. One of the rules for this _ sort of thing is that the stunt must be something perfectly use- inni Tribune

the Dean of Westminster Abbey, the celebrated scholar, Dr. A. P. Stanley, to write an article for them. The article arfived. But no one could make it out. Tact- fully as possible, it was returned - to Dean Stanley for clarification. After a considerable passage of time, the Dean suggested that ~ they forget about it. He himself had been doing his best. to make it out, but had failed. Perhaps the mechanical reporters had to come.—Montreal Gazette 7

The Age Old Story ,

In the last days, scoffers, and saying, where is the promise of His coming.

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I recall, @s a child, the ring of ~ his axe

In the deep of the wood. Time leaves its tracks. t

In the snow of the mind; | still =

can see &

Him chopping the limbs from a>. fallen tree. 3

He could read both Latin and Greek. His bread a Was come by harder than know- — ~~ ledge, no doubt: ; Wisdom ‘was something that never wore out. ;

Many a hearth, when I was a

boy, : Was kindled from logs that he ~ split, with joy : Was honest labor and hard-earn- . ed dreams— The ashes are strewn, but the © | fire still gleams. |

—John Robert Quinn, ~ * In the Montreal Star.

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