after all, has lost much of its mercial and strategic importance by

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‘Mr, Maclean's Assurance

It is reassuring to learn, on the authority of Hon. J. Angus MacLean, that the Federal Government is not definitely committed to the plan of remodelling the old Scotia II for ser- vice on the Borden-Tormentine route, but is still seriously considering the possibility of acquiring the “Vaca- tionland”.

One difficulty the Government has to work under in projects of this kind, is that every official statement, pending final* decision, must be weighed very carefully. We did not know, for example, until Mr. Mac- Lean mentioned it casually, that en- gineers from the Federal Transport - Department had been in Michigan studying the “Vacationland” proposal and that two other experts, from the Canadian Maritime Commission, had been there last week making further detailed inquiry as to the seaworthi- ness of the boat for use in these waters. They were expected back at Ottawa over the weekend, to make their report.

Mr. MacLean has also given as- surance that the Provincial Govern- ment’s proposal for berthing the “Vacationland” without interfering with the present ferry schedules would be carefully studied.

We have urged upon the Minister the desirability of releasing full in- formation as to the steps being taken in this inquiry, both in the Federal Government’s interests and in ours. He reminded us that while it might

~be politically expedient to~-give de-—

tailed reports of everything going

on—as indicative of the Govern-

ment’s concern—it would not neces- sarily serve our best interests until the stage had been reached where definite action could be taken. He as- sured us that every effort would be made to provide the best service available, that no proposal would be left unexplored, and that he and his colleagues were receiving the fullest sympathy and support from the Transport Minister. |

Knowing Mr. MacLean as we do, we think that these statements should carry weight. We have spoken strongly in‘the past of the apparent indifference to our transportation needs at Ottawa, under both party ad- ministrations, and we may have occa-- sion to do so again. But at the present juncture there is little to be gained by recrimination, certainly not by partisan abuse. Whatever decision the Federal Government comes to in this matter, it will have to be on its own responsibility. It now has all the in- formation that we can supply locally, and all the arguments that we have been able to advance for prompt and satisfactory action.

The Panama Problem —

When Colonel Nasser arbitrarily took over the Suez Canal in violation of a written agreement with the United Kingdom, British interests y-ere seriously threatened. Our American neighbors, however, view- e! the mater with philospphical de- tachment. The British were remind- ed that colonialism was a thing of the past and that the canal, after all, was in Egypt. We wonder how these Job’s comforters will view the threat of a similar situation which has arisen in Panama‘ .

Recent developments in Panama are told in the current issue of For- eign Affairs by Martin Travis and James Watkins. An agreement ex- tending United States occupancy of certain defense bases was rejected by Panama in 1947. Panama inform- ed Britain in 1956 that it was titular sovereign in the Canal Zone despite the grant of certain rights to the United States. At a University of Panama conference in 1957, angry speakers insisted that the grant “in perpetuity” was inconsistent with the sovereignty of a nation. This de- rand has been mounting in recent months.

To avoid trouble, it ,is urged in the Foreign Affairs article that the U.S. should be working toward a new status for the Canal Zone, which, com-

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air networks, It is recalled that in 1945 President Truman proposed that the Panama canal and other waterways vital to maritime com- merce be placed under the United Nations. Travis and Watkins think this proposal should be revived. Whether it is wise or not, certainly serious thinking about the Panama situation is needed in Washington.

If not, ‘there will be more Panama

crises, and they may bring bigger headaches than the one recently staged by Cuban invaders.

- Toward Independence

A new nation may be in the making on tke southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. The Arab rulers of three sultanates, two emirates, and a sheikdom in Britain’s Aden Protectorate have approved a con- stitution setting up’a Federation of the Arab Emirates of the South. Britain has promised them eventual independence.

Aden’s’ inhabitants are bare- |

chested tribesmen who wear. knee- length blue cotton kilts. They rub

vegetable oil amd blue dye .on their |

lean chests and arms as a protection against the sun in er and the cold in winter. A well-dressed tribes- man is a walking arsenal: He car-

‘ries a rifle and a dagger, kept handy

in a,silver scabbard. A cartridge belt holds his ammunition. When visiting the Crown Colony of Aden, he must check his rifle and dagger with the authorities. It may make him feel somewhat undressed, but it reassures the British of his peace- ful intentions.

Thus reports the National Geo- graphic. Society, whic notes. that the Aden Protectorate sprawls over 112,000 square miles—an area the size of Arizona. It surrounds the 80- square-mile colony, with its capital of Aden, and stretches to the huge Arabian desert known as Rub’ al Khali or the “Empty Quarter.” In the west the Protectorate borders on Yemen; in the east it touches

| the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman.

A score of states having treaty re- lations with the British Government make up the protectorate. Under the treaties, the rulers agree to follow the advice of the British Governor of Aden. © °

The modern history of the Aden Protectorate began in the 16th cen- tury when parts of the western re- gion fell under Turkish domination. After the British occupied the penin- sulasula and town of Aden in 1839, - some neighboring chiefs entered into a protective treaty with the British Government. Others followed suit, and all had joined by the end of 1914. _

EDITORIAL NOTES

The Ontario Liberal Party has announced its election platform. It consists of revised liquor laws, a voluntary retirement scheme and aid ‘to small businesses. For some strange reason. there is no reference to re- duced taxes, the old standby.

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Now that a new Chief Justice has been named for Newfoundland the Provincial Govérnment can be expected to proclaim the Act that provides for a fourth judge. Premier Smallwood. refused to proclaim it before the Chief Justice had been appointed—we think rightly. For some timé, Prime Minister Diefen- baker held to the strange position that the Act should have been pro- claimed first.

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Hundreds of international con- ferences, some of them dealing with bitter disputes, have been held in Geneva over the years. In only one instance, notes the New York Times, has a dispute flared into physical violence. That was in the early 20’s when an Italian count attending some sort of meeting was slapped in

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The way in which wage nego- tiations are conducted nowadays, says the London Spectator, is rather like Touchstone’s description of a quarrel. The parties proceed in a series of well-defined «and predict- able stages from the Retort Cour- teous, through the Quip Modest, the Reply Churlish, the Reproof Valiant, the Countercheck Quarrelsome and the Lie with Circumstance. They oc- casionally reach the -Lie Direct, which is marked by a strike. More often, however, again like Touch- stone, neither dares to go past the Lie | tial, so they measure swords and rt with the honours more or less evenly divided, __

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INFORMATION SOUGHT

Sir,—Can any of your readers tell me anything about the woods- man-poet, Joe Scott, who lived and worked here in Maine dur- ing the early years of this cen- tury? I am writing a book about him. and since so many Is!and- ers came to Maine to work in the woods at this time T feel certain there must be some. who remember Scott or his songs. Where did he work and when? For whcm? What songs did he write? What kind of a man was he? And so on. A person who can send me even a gngle verse of one of his songs may well be supplying the very piece I need to complete part of the puzzle.

I will be coming up to Prince Edward Island in another month or so to see again some of the many friends I have made on previous trips when I was gath- ering material on Larry Gorman. I always enjoy my trips to the Island, and I hope I can look forward to meeting new friends through Joe Scott.

I am, Sir, etc., EDWARD D. 220 Stevens Hall University of Maine Orono, Maine, U.S.A.

WEST POINT FERRY SERVICE

Sir,—On Wednesday, May 13th a front page article entitled ‘New Use Suggested for Michigan Ferry’ mentioned the fact that the Summerside Town Council has endorsed a proposal that the Federal Government . purchase the ferry Vacationland for opera- tion between Summerside and Poimt du Chene, N.B.

One would think that such an austere body as the Summerside Town, Council would know that the ferry Vacationland, being built outside Canada, cannot be purchased and licensed by the Federal Government. For their information they should read the Shipping Act; and there are other reasons why the proposal to pur- chase a ferry for operation be- tween Summerside and Point du Chene is not feasible.

For the information of the Sum- merside Town Council and the general public, it should be known that we in West Prince have a duly incorporated company known

- as the West Point Ferries Limit-

ed. This company is stil! active and keenly interested in helping to solve the transportation prob- lem between Prince Edward Is- land and the mainland. It should be known also that there is no objection to a private company purchasing a foreign-built ship and putting..it into service. The Department ’ Transport would be forced to license a privately- owned boat if it will meet the ve- quirements of the Department of Marine Engineers«

When final surveys were made for car ferries b2iween Prince Edward Island and the mainland, West Point was ¢onsidered by many competent engineers as the most logical place for’ the P.E.I. terminus for this service. Even today there is controversy as to the most feasible location of the proposed Causeway. Sum- merside, in advocating Fif:een Point, is disregarding ice and tide conditions im that area, and also disregarding the fact that these conditions at West Point make ferry crossings much simpler. ce,

We have a very efficient sum- mer ferry service between Wood Islands and Caribou which was given to P.E.I. as a reward for providing Mr. Charles ,.Dunning with a safe seat since he was needed in the Cabinet.

If that is all it takes to get a ferry service operating, it should be known that we in Prince County, and especially West Prince, provided our very illus- trious leader, Mackenzie King, with a seat in the Federal Par- liament so that he could a leader of the Government at a time when he could not be elected

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The Geneva Package

Christian Service Monitor

In an obviously sincere effort make East-West negotiations over Berlin fruitful, Britain's fa- mous warrior, Lord Montgom- ery, has followed in Prime Mirister Macmillan's footsteps to Moscow and talked with Pre- mier Khrushchev. Having been asked by Mr. Khrushchev to ex- press his own views on certain aspects of the crisis, Lord Mont- gomefy report that he replied among other—things: —— “It would be a mistake to try to solve all the problems in one package deal; it is doubtful if there would ever be agreement by all concerned on the pack- age. Surely we_ should start slowly, take one point at a time and gradually remove suspicion and mistrust as we go along.” In saying this, Lord Montgom- ery took a position similar to that taken by Moscow on the eve of the conference and against the position already taken by the Westérn leaders. Publication of his views may confuse many people in the West as well as serve the opponents’ propaganda position. ‘ To be sure, the. so-called ‘‘pack-

Belgium’s Kina Baudouin

age” the West is offering at Ge- neva includes several problems that must be discussed on their own merts. The package repre- sents an effort to build a Western front broad enough to permit the West to utilize the strong points in its world position instead of just having to fall back on its weaker points.

Over and over again in the post-war years the Allies have considered piece-by-piece solu- tions and been driven back to a broader world strategy.

Of course big problems sincere- ly approached can better be tack led piece by piece, but not ne- cessarily in isolation from one another, and not necessarily in sequence but simply by “‘working parties” of experts with special assignments.

The Western package is an ef- fort to prevent the Soviets from imposing their choice of a: se- quence. It is indeed an effort to prevent Moscow from isolating the Berlin question, as Mr. Khrushchev made clear last fall that he intended to do, from oth- er German problems with which it is inevitably intertwined.

National Geographic Society

The official visit of Belgium’s voung King Baudouin to the Uni-

| tod States underscores the friend-

lv ties long maintained between the United States and the smal western European naticn.

In two world wars America’s sympathy went out to German- occupied, devastated Belg.um. The Allied fighting that raged there added such place names as Fianders and Ardennes to the American language.

In return, World War II gave Belgians a terse Yankee word “Nuts'’—the famous reply made by Majer General Anthony C. McAuliffe to a German demand for the surrender of surrounded, hard-pressed Bastogne. \

After the war, rebuilt Bastogne named the market square Place McAuliffe. Beside it stands the Nuts Museum which houses rel- ics of the stubborn resistance that he'd the city until relief

troops came. MEDIEVAL \SCENES Present<lay travelers find

Bo'gium a fascinating mixture of ultramodern enterprise and med- ieval pageantry and architecture, says the National Geographic So- ciet™.

Belgium is about the size of Maryland. Motorists can dr-ve in a few hours from the muscum city of Bruges, with its 700ycar-- old bell tower, to the busy port of Antwerp, which handles scme 40 mi¥ion tons ef cargo a year.

They can \lose themselves in abbeys, castles, and cobbled

Hon. Mr. Ralston was needed as Minister of National Defense, he came to Prince County, and especially West Prince, to make sure he got in.

I, personally, sat in on con- versations between my father, A. J. Matheson who was then Pre- sident of the West Prince Liberal Association, and other members of the Executive when father was very outspoken in favour of

Ralston. A. J. Matheson was the’

prime mover in having Ralston elected in Prince County.

Therefore, in justice to Prince and especially West Prince, I think our justifiable de- mands should be considered, and a strong resolution be forwarded to the Federal Government that, if they will provide the necessary docking facilities between West Point and Buctouche, N.B., we will provide a ferry.

The 1% million dollars’ propos- ed expenditure on a condemned scow which is not seaworthy even on a pond in a heavy blow, will go a long way to providing the necessary facilities at West Point and Buctouche. ‘

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streets of Ghent, or visit the roaring steel mills, glass works, and gun factories ‘of Liege, the Pittsburgh of Belgium. The gun industry itself has five centuries behind it. The city’s Museum of Arms displays some 8,300 wea-

pons.

Brussels, the capital, is a met- ropolis of nearly a million people. As host for the World’s Fair last year, it offered all modern con- venfencés, including helicopter transport, to the miYions of visi- tors.

Yet there, too, huge glass-and- steel office buildings look down on old, sharp-gabled Flemish dwellings. In the city's\\broaa Grand‘Place, shiny new cars park against-a backdrop of or- nately gilded and statue-crown- ed structurers whose designs date from the 14th. to 17th, centuries,

Despite the evidence of an an- cient past, Belgium is actually younger as an independent nation than the United States. Its sov- ereignty was won from the Neth- erlands in 1830 by a secessionist revolt that united the French- speaking pecanle of the south with the Flemish-sveaking in- habitants in the north. -

The new state became a ‘“‘con- stitiutiona!, representative, and hereditary monarchy.’’ Its first king—elected ty the National Congress in 183l—was Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, uncle of Queen Victoria. ° :

Under the vigorous rule of Leo- pold II (1855-1909), Belgium ac- quired vast, fabudousiy rich Con- go holdings in Africa. With small- er, mandated Ruanda-Urundi, the Belgian Congo is nearly 80 times

the s'ze of the Eurcpean country._

Its mineral wealth includes cop- per, cobalt, industria] diamonds, tin, zinc, gold, and uranium. From the Congo's enormous uranium deposits came raw materials for the first atcmic bombs.

The present king, 28-year-old Baudouin, is the grandson of the third king of the Belgians, Abert I, who was much admired for his democratic ways, and leadersiip and courage during World War I. When he lost his life in a moun- tain-climbing accident in 1934, his son, Leopold III, succeeded to the throne.

Leopold Ill was severely crit- icized by many of his people for having surrendered to the Ger- man's overwaelming force in World War II. He abdicated in 1951 in favor of his son, Bau- douin ;

Tall, slim King Baudouin is one of the world’s most eli bach- elors. Though comsidered and retiring, he had entertained Ear- opean princesses in coveys, among them such ed po- tential brides a; Princess Birgitta of Sweden and Princess Marie Therese of Bourbon, Parma.

‘| WAGE WAR

[To Cope With Cockroaches

By Hérman N. Bundesen, M. D. AS WARMER weather

proaches each of you

ard plates. doctors, sticklers for that natural tran-

proved. Well, if they think it is even possible, that’s.encugh for me— and you.

So let’s map our battle strat- egy.

Best way of protecting your food and family from these pests is not to let cockroaches get into your home.

Shop only in roach-free stores. While you can’t always tell, of course, you can readily spot a store which isn’t kept as tidy and as clean as it should be. As an added precaution, check all incom'ng soda and other car- tons carefully, Inspect any wood- en cases or cardboard contain- ers that are brought into your home.

Clean up immediately after you have finished cating. Don’t leave any crumbs on the floor or tab- le. Be sure to remove any scraps from the drains, too. . COVER GARBAGE

Keep garbage in a covered con- tainer. Remove all garbage from your home at least once a day. The best idea is mot to leave any- thing in the household garbage can overnight.

Once roaches do get into your home, you are going to have trouble getting them out, but these tps might help:

Spray all expesed areas and potential breeding unds- with a good non-toxic bug repellent. Use plaster or plastic putty to fill all cracks behind basebaords and door frames.

QUESTION AND ANSWER

Mrs. E. C< Laxatives have be- come a habit with me and I would like to know if there is a diet that would help correct con- stipation? : Answer: A diet containing rou- ghage, suca as raw fruits and vegetables, bran and prune juice might also be helpful.

OUR YESTERDAYS |

(From the Guardian Files)

TWENTY - FIVE YEARS A (May 18, 1934)

There was a large representa- tion of prominent farmers from the surrounding district of Sum- merside at a dinner given by the Summerside Board of Trade last night x the Queen Hotel. The meeting was called with the idea of forming an agricultural] com- mittee of the Summerside Board of Trade to foster better co-op eration between the tradesmen and the farmers. i

The work of grading Fitzroy Street west in preparation for the asphalt surfacing has been completed and about thirty work- men were engaged yesterday on Sydney Street where the grad- |ing was completed and a begin- ning made on the laying of the curb. Grading is also complet- ed on Brighton Road and North River Road.

TEN YEARS AGO (May 18, 1949) With 82 extra men employed, bringing the total number of workmen to over 13%, work on the city streets and sidewalks together with forestry work from the Prince Edward Island Hos- pital out, is proceeding at the fastest pace in the city’s his- tory. Given fine weather the street patching program should he completed in about ten days.

Mr. N..D. MacLean was re-el- ected president of the P.E.I. Hos- pital Board of Trustees at their 66th annual meeting held at the nurses’ residence last night. Mr. kK. A. Cudmore was re-elected vice-president and Andrew Likely secretary.

MAXIMS

It is with books as with men; a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost im the multitude.

NEW FLIGHT TO MOSCOW LONDON (AP) — A British European Airways Viscount took off from London Airport Thurs- day to start Britain’s first regu- lar air link with Moscow. There will be service every Thursday and Sunday.

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more young law-breakers. Wives work in order to increase the family income and are not lik- ely to be persuaded to stay at home. The only other remedy is supervision of children by per- sonnel provided by the commun- ity, a weak and never ade-

Press

When Sir Winston Churchill was born, in 1874, the world’s navies were powered by sail, the world’s armées were powered by horses, the first practical auto- mobile was a generation awey and a trans-Atlantic visit, for the few who could afford it, wes an event i two or three mcnths to complete.

On Monday, Sir Winston left London Airport in the morning to attend a quiet family dinner with President Eisenhower and Mrs. Eisenhower in Washington in the evening. He flew by Com- et jet airliner. ;

Sir Winston has been properly ca‘led the ‘‘man of the century,” the most outstanding figure of the past 60 years. In his pre-emin- ence as a makcr—and as a his- torian—of world affairs, he is un- ique. :

He is unique, too in the man- ner in which his life has included all of the vast changes which have taken place during that long and varied life. In 1898, at Om- durman, he was a cavalrymen, wielding sabre and pistol in the battle for the Sudan. In the early years of this century, he was bat- tling on the hustings in Britain for better working conditions for the working man. Immediately preceding the First World War, he oversaw the conversion of the\ Royal Navy from ‘steam to ofl power.

Before that war ended, he had successfully championed the de -velopment of the tank, which broke the deadlock of trench war- fare. Then he lifted his gifted vision to the skies; in the years immediately following the First World War, he gave Churchillian approval to the new domain of the air by faking \flying lessons

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‘ Sir Winston's flight this week : a =e as a demon- stration of the amazingly swift technical progress that has oc- | curred during one lifetime. It ig also a signal lesson in living.” ~

Churchill is renowned for his remarkable vigor and alertness. He is remarkably interesting, be- cause he has always remained remarkably interested.

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Sir Winston is now checking the advantages of jet flight.

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