* concerned with purchasing, and ad-
The Northern Market . _ The opportunity of developing a big market inthe North for our At- lantic products has been discussed _ on many occasions. Now would seem . to be the time for imaginative act- ~ fon: Emphasizing this point in his address before“the Agricultural In- stitute on Wednesday, Dr. Frank MacKinnon, president of the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council, warn- ed that “if we don’t get this market ~ ourselves in the next few months we won't get it at all.” The area is developing very quickly and other producing provinces have their eyes on its possibilities.
_Dr. MacKinnon announced that a group of APEC officials is leav-
__ing by air on April 10 for Goose |
Bay and Frobisher, taking with them a number of persons inter- ested in selling to the North, to- _ gether with products and displays. It is hoped to talk with those most
‘vertise the Atlantic Provinces and their products. Discussions have al< -ready~ been held with Ottawa au- thorities. Dr. MacKinnon advised those interested in selling. to write to the Department of. Northern Af- fairs and get on-the-lists for tenders
for suplying northern depots. "WE at
have becn told in Ottawa. that we can get in on this business,” he add-
“and that now is’ the time for our sellers to take the necessary . steps.”
It is hoped there will be prompt response to this proposal. Certainly it should have the full blessing and support of our Provincial Govern- ment, farm organizations and oth- * ers interested. The Northern mar- ket is there, growing by leaps and bounds. It will not come to us, and we shall have ourselves to blame if we lack the initiative in seeking it out and developing it on a basis "Of mutual advantage and profit.
Minnesota Farm Study
Of interest to Canadian farmers, who face similar problems, is a re- port recently submitted by the Minnesota Study Commission on
‘Agriculture which was set up by
Governor Orville L. Freeman to study the decline in rural farm population in the state. There was a drop in this population of 27 per cent between 1940 and 1957, ac- companied by marked plant expan- ' sion; and three major conclusions were drawn by the commission from the findings, as follows:
(1) The family farm is not being swallowed up by operators of large- scale agricultural units. (2). Farms
_Can grow larger than they are and still remain ip-the “family farm” category. (3) Family farms must,
turns. Cattle and hog feeders were "Most prosperous, followed by farmers
who raised their own cattle and —hogs,-grain farmers and dairy f:
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agriculture.” Representing 20 per
‘ cent of all farm families, some of
those operators pursue their way of life by choice, others because of temporary circumstances, and a _ third group because they lack poten- tial to improve their lot. These last people, the commission said, “are not a part of the farm problem; they are part. of a general social problem.” For them there is but one alternative, it was agreed: Leave the farm for some less exacting form of employment.
Community Concert Drive
Music lovers in this Province owe a great debt to the Community Con- cert Association, which year after year has brought some of the world’s most talented artists to our shores, in programs as exacting as any they
ve given in New York City or other great music centres. Our only lack has been adequate auditorium facil- ities, for which neither the Associa- tion nor the performers are respon- sible. It is not: too much to say that those who have regularly attended these recitals have benefited not only in entertainment, but in the greater pleasure which comes from develop- ing their faculties of critical appreci- ation in’the most. delightful, and the “ most universal, of all the arts.
For the coming season the Asso- ciation is including two outstanding attractions in, its concert series—the Hart House Orchestra undér Boyd Neel, and Les Grands Ballets Cag nadiens which has won high praise as a ballet troup. The membership drive is on this week, and it is hoped the patronage will be fully up to the high- water mark of otner years. Charlotte- town offers no substitute for this fine organization. Now is the time to give practical expression to our apprecia-. tion of its value to the community.
EDITORIAL NOTES
One amendment to the Fisheries Improvement Loans Act is being ac- cepted by the Federal Government. This will enable thore persons to borrow under the Act, which at present limits borrowers to fisher- men with a share in a fishing vesse] or a weir or fish-catching device.
The ferry William Carson ‘has been compensating this winter for those first inauspicious years of her career in Newfoundland - mainland “ service. Ir the face of almost unpre- cedented ice conditions, she has con- tinued to maintain a regular service. Without her, very little freight would have been brought this season to, Port
aux Basques. * * >
“Dre H. H. Hannam, President of the Canadian Federation of Agricul-
as a matter of fact, continue to grow in size if they are to *yield adequate incomes to their opera- tors. This.is because of the pressure of technological- “advance and the rather fixed minimum amount of Jabor available on family farms.
In dealing with the development of Minnesota -agriculture from 1939 .to 1957, the. commission came up with some grim economic facts as well as some optimistic ones. Per capita farm income has been shrink- ing over the period, for example, while urban income has been steadi- ly rising. While total number of farms shrank by 14 per cent in 1944-54, large-scale farms increas- _ed by 2,000, family farms decreased by the same total, and small farms vanished at the rate of 2,400 a year. Meantime, however, in _ per- centage terms, family farms’ rose in importance. Nearly 60 per cent’ of all farms in 1944 were family farms, and this percentage had ‘risen, ten years later, to 67. This’ figure, it is noted, was considerably . higher than for the United States - as a whole. :
Consistent with the out-tren? in rural farm poulation, the commis- sion found a declining number of farm operators in the state. Other
ture, is in favour of freer internatien- al trade. He thinks, however, that protéetion of such things as fruits, vegetables and poultry isa good thing. Commenting on this, the Lon- don Free Press recalls the old story of the Scottish fishermen who be- lieved in free trade for everything ex- cept herring. \ > o s
Usually, conservation officials call for less hunting as a means of preserving a certain species. Not so in Nova Scotia, with respect to deer. There, an official of the Lands and Forests Department has urged hunters to “hunt and hunt hard”. He explained that if hunters reduc! ed the herd sufficiently, food plants may increase enough to provide a productive herd and food on which the herd may increase.
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The Russians virtually threaten- ed to occupy Iran iif that country signed a defence agreement with the United States. Well, the treaty has been signed and delivered—and still there is no sign of a Russian invasion. It was evidently a bluff. Perhaps other Russian threats are bluffs, too, including theone re- garding West Berlin. However, | Western Governments are wise in
findings indicated that 32 per cent
not counting on it.
“Nearly 35,000 families, with
IN THE FOREIGN MARKETS RACE Ss
OTTAWA . REPORT
“We must populate or perish.” That blunt assertion was made by John Diefenbaker two years ago, when he was Leader of the
PUBLIC FORUM
uM This column is open
CATS AND LEGISLATORS .
‘ Sir,-There seems to be so
much talk concerning the appar- ent levity and shallowness and frivolity in the local House dur- ing the past few weeks, that I thought perhaps\it might be wise to point out that although there appears to be little in the way of seriousness displayed, neverthe- less some of the matters may really involve issues of some import. Moreover there is much precedent for this type of demon- stration.
Many people were particularly interested in the discussions a- bout the cat. A headline in one of the smaller newspapers more or less featured this discussion. Per- haps the few words from Alice’s adventure in Wonderland might be a propos, although I am sure nobody would like to apply them to the present Legislature.
“Would you tell.me which way T ought to go from here?”
“That depends a good deal on
‘where you wamt to go”, said the
Cat
“I don’t much are where—” said Alice. : “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go”, said the Cat.
If our people think that. our Legisl&tors are not givinz the ac-
voters would feel they should, I think they would do well to re- member similar circumstances have arisen in other Parliaments. In fact a few years ago in the House of Commons in London, t Government found itself faced with almost a crisis as a result of a series of searching questions by Captain L.P.S. Orr, Member of Parliament for Down (South) —the following is quoted from Hansard, the official record. Sub- ject — Maintenance Allowances for Cats.
“Captain Orr asked the As- sistant Postmaster-General when the allowance payable for the maintenance of cats in his De- partment was last raised; what is: the total amount involved; what is the present rate per cat in Northern Ireland; and how this compares with the rate in Lon- don? :
Mr. Gammans: ‘‘There is, I am afraid a certain amount of indus- trial chaos in the Post Office cat world. Allowances vary in dif. ferent places, possibly according to the alleged efficjency of the animals and other factors. It has proved impossible to organize any scheme for payment by re- sult or output bonus. These ser- vants of the State are, however, frequently unreliable, capricious in their duties and’tiable”to pro- longed -absentecism.
-“‘My honourable and gallant Friend has been misinformed re- garding the—difference between rates for cats in Northern Ire- land and other parts of the Unit- ed Kingdom, There are no Post Office cats in Northern Ireland. Except for the cats at post Office Headquarters’ who got the spec- ial allowance a few years ago, presumably for prestige reasons, there has been a geperal- wage freeze since July 1918, but there have been no complaints.”
Captain Orr: “How does my honourable Friend account for the fact that no allowances are payable for cats in Northern Ire- land.”
Mr. Gammans: “There are no cats.in Northern Irejand, I pre- sume, because there are no mice in the post office buildings.” .
Captain Orr: “In view of the un-
satisfactory nature af the reply
count of themselves, which the.
The Immigration Door
By Patrick Nicholson
Opposition in our Parliament. He explained that Canada must increase its population through immigration, if we are to hold —let alone to develop and bene- fit from—our natural wealth.
In 1957, a year dominated in immigration policy largely by the former Liberal Government? 382,164 immigrants came to Can- ada. That was by far the largest total achieved in nearly half a ‘century. Even a‘ total of 200,000 had not been \attained in any previous year since 1913, when a record 400,870 immigrants enter- ed Canada.
In 1958, thes first year when Mr. Diefenbaker had the power to implement his- belief, he set- tled for perishing. Immigration was slashed by more than half, to a mere 124,851 settlers, about three times our normal yearly loss by emigration.
Last year we admitted less than ohe immigrant for each hundred old Canadians. In con- trast, of every hundred residents celebrating Christmas in Canada in 1913, five had arrived since the prévious Christmas.
THE DAYS OF GUTS
The years before the outbreak of World War One were our Golden Decade of Immigration. “The men in sheepskin coats” constituted the most colourful element in that courageous flood which settled our empty prairies, building their own sod shacks and seeking no welfare aid from the state. Between 1901 and 1911, the population of Saskatchewan and Alberta was more than quin- tupled, and nobody let out the gutless squawk that a hard-work- inng immigrant had put him out of his job. ‘
In those days, the aim of Can- adians was to have our empty spaces filled, and the aim of im- migrants was, as now, to work hard to make good. Canada benefitted, But today, many peo- ple want to slam our Immigra- tion Door, despite the assertion by economists that immigration raises consumption and creates more jobs than new workers; and despite the discovery” by Australia that a young country can comfortably absorb an im- migrant flow equal to four per cent of its population each year.
During an interesting * e on Immigration last ,» Many M.P.s protested against some as- pect cf our slammed door policy. One glaring example was the re- port of .the steady rise in the length of the waiting list of would-be immigrants from Italy. That country supplies. more im- migrants than any oéther last yea the first time any country other than Britain or the U. $8. has achieved that place of hon- our. Yet the present Italian waiting list will take two years and three months to be admit- ted at “present rates.
WE MUST CHOOSE
World population has doubled In the past century and will double again in the next forty years. This immense increase {s exerting pressure for the full utilization of all empty but: hab- {table land areas, especially
I propose to raise this matter again."?
Apparently the Government survived this crisis and it would be obviously unwise to pass judgment on such matters. How- ever, the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland did make some com- ments.
“We're all mad here”, said the Cheshire Cat; ‘I'm mad. You’re mad.”
“How do you Know I’m mad?” said Alice, ‘
“You must be’, said the Cat, “or you wouldn't have come here’’.
. Pam, Sir, etc., CAT FANCIER.
(P.S.: It might be pointed out that whether or not the above quoted debate had anything to do with it,’ the well known cat, ‘Peter’, Who has guarded the Home Office for some years, re- cently. received a sizeable in-
-| crease in salary from one. shil-
ling. six pence to two shillings six pence a week.)
\years ago, that we must popul-
rromance which for many years
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-great cities of the world. It was
agricultural land where food can be produced. John Diefeabaker was correct when he said, two
ate or perish; today as Prime Minister, he has the obligation to initiate policies which will save Cangda from perishing.
Againstf this background, a timely and far-sighted plea for an agricultural revival, especi- ally for” immigrants, was made in Parliament by Hubert Bad- anai, Liberal M.P. from Fort William and himself an immi- grant from Italy.
He referred to the small dairy farmer and truck farmer in his Lakehead __ district, , operating what by prairie standards are small pieces of land, yet mak- ing their living wholly under those difficult conditions. Such farmers, he rightly urged, need the temporary help of loans to cone machinery and stock in
at and in similar areas whére the terrain is more rugged and the ctmate less kindly than elsewhere.
“An important aspect of the small farm,’ Mr. Badanai argu- ed, “is that a farm is a good place to bring up a large fam- ily. A lot of people are entering Canada as infmigrants, so let us start a number of small farms where there is plenty of room and fresh air, which is an ideal environment in which to raise
May Lead Tot To Disaster —
By Herman N, Bundesea, M. D.
NEVER teli your children that any medicine is candy.
While it might help you in ad- ministering medicine tn ore o- two occasions, it can easi'y Isac to a great deal of trouble, pos-
? ; y 4 overdoses of aspirin. And the vast majority.of these cases of aspirin peisoning can be attributed to the use of the flavored children’s variety. — :
Of course, these colored and coated aspirin tablets have a de- finite value, I don’t. think there is any qpestion that kids take them more readily than they would unflavored aspirin.
It’s when thé youngsters get to thinking of these aspirin: tab- lets as Candy that trouble aris- es. : . WHO’S: TO BLAME?
You, can’t blame a child for wanting to eat candy. So, whe is to blame if he climbs up to the medicine cabinet and steals a bottle of those pretty colored “candies?” .
The answer is plain—you are.
Fortunately, quick action by parents and doctors saves victims of aspirin poisoning. Still, several hundred tots are killed each year by overdoses. In fact, aspirin poisoning is Blam- ed for one out of every eight ac- cidental deaths among children in this coumiry.
In Illinois alone, we had more than 150-cases of aspirin poison- ing among children under the age of five last year.
These of you who are parents ‘owe it to your children—and to yourselves—to take every pre- caution possible.
For one thing, let the young- ster khow it is aspirin and not candy that he is taking. Stress the fact that he tekes it only Wen he does not feel well. LOCK UP MEDICINE
Keep aspirin ard, all types of medicine locked sa‘ely in a cabi- net or drawer. There is no such thing as placing something out of a child’s reach unl¢$s it is under lock and key. :
No child under the age of five | 1% grains of aspirine every four hours. Even this should be ad- ministered only. upen the ad- vice of a physician.
If your youngster does take an overdose, call your doctor and make the child vomit immediate- ly to empty stomach. QUESTION AND ANSWER
Mrs. H. A.: I am a woman of 530 and have been tinting my hair for 20 years. My hair is get- ting thinner and the back of niy head is nearly bald. What can I do?
Answer: It is possiile that the hair tints you have been using may be injuring your hair. Oa the other hand, its gradual loss may be a perfectly natural oc- currence. Very little can be done to restore lost hair. You might consult a skin specialist.
children, whose worth to Canada transcends any consideration of | small assistance in the way of a loan.” '
That plea by Mr. Badanai was aimed to help existing small farmers, and to point the- way for land-hungry immigrants, who with such aid would help to pop- ulate the empty stretches of our ten provinces as well as those promised eleventh and _ twelfth provinces.
It is true; it {ts urgent: wi must populate, or perish.
MAXIMS Poverty Is not Garreeiee in
itself, but only when it comes from id'e~ess, intemperance, ex- travagarc?—and folly. _
RED, TERRORIST KILLED
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaya (Reuters)+Siu Mah, a leeder of Malaya’s dwindling band of Com- munist tc>rorists, has been killed by British troops, it was am nounced Monday.
VISIT TO. FRANCE
A Land Of Contrasts -
By Heath Macquarrie,
At the close of the conference in London, we left for a quick trip to some..of the countries in the NATO alliance. This, of cour: | se, had to be a very short tour since the meetings in Switzer- land were little over a week% away. ‘ J
Our first call was to France, that ancient land of glory and
was the sworn enemy of England but in our time has on more than one occasion sep shoulder to shoulder with Britain as a friend and ally. We left London's great new airport and in Bbout an Airways plane landed us in Paris’ Le Bourget tertpinal. Paris has been destribed as the City of Light. We arrived in the morning, of course, but the great metropolis was beautiful in the brilliant sunlight. Paris,
nearly three million peocle, has long been regarded as one of the
the ancient and glorious capital of the French monarchy, a cen- tre for the development of the arts, and, of course, it has long reigned supreme in the field of fashions and in the culitary realm. ARCH OF TRIUMPH
The hotel at which we‘ were lodged was but a stone's throw from the Arch of , Triumph: which recalls the great victories of Napoleon I and contains the tomb of France’s Unknown Sol- dier of World War I. An elevator carries visitors to the top of the arch, and from this vantage point one has a magnificent view of the city. Prominent in the sky- line is the famed Eiffel Tower which stands nearly 1,000 feet high. (When it was erected it was the tallest structure in the world but has long' since been “overshadowed).
om the Place de l'Etoile
where the great areh stands, the beautiful Avenue des -Champs- Elysees extends in beauty and a Walk up this famed ‘thoroughfare was naturally next on our agenda.
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Some of the loveliest buildings in the world are found in this great city. Indeed, the richmess of Renaissance architecture is quite unforgettable. The Tuiler- ies Garden's, the Place de la concord, Notre Dame Cathedral,
theon are but some of the sights which meet the eye of the visitor
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TRIP’ TO VERSAILLES \ i
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I had always longed to see the great palace whese construction dates back to the 17th cen tury. Many years ago it was vi- vidly described by one of the greatest teachers under whom I have ever sat... Professor Henri Blanchard of Prince of Wales College. How thrilling it was to see this magnificent and ornate structure into which the labour of thousands and the treasure of a nation had been poured. in
the affluent days of French gran- ;
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