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The New Look
It is no secret that Mr. John Foster Dulles, United States’ Sec- retary of State, had hoped for a Liberal victory in the recent elect- —ion. Now, he says he looks for- ward to “continuing friendly re- lations” with the Canadian Govern- ment. Certainly, that hope is shared by the Canadian Government and, indeed, by all Canadians. It would be follyfor thetwo Governments to be on anything but the friendliest terms. Mr. Dulles, however, may as well get used to the idea that from now, on, at least during the life of the present Government, Canada is not going to be a virtual economic_ satellite of the United States. For one thing, there will be no repet- ition of Canada's losing trade with China or any other country because of displeasure in the State Depart- ment. The Canadian commitment to send no war’ materials to China, for example, will be honoured; but that does not mean that an Ameri- can subsidiary doing business in Canada will continue to take its orders, directly or indirectly, from the U.S. For another thing,‘ steps
_ will be taken to see that Canadian
raw materials, in so far as is pos- sible, are processed in this country for the benefit of Canadian industry I and not exported to the United States as a matter of routine.
Canadians will insist, ‘too, on greater financial participation in American industries doing business in Canada. American capital will be welcomed as hitherto, but it will not be permitted to dominate our na- tural resources.
These things were emphasized time and time again in the recent
campaign by the Prime‘ Mlinisfer‘
and his colleagues. The overwhel- ming vote of confidence given them leaves no doubt as to where public opinion stands with respect to Can- ada-United States relations.
A Sounder ‘View
Some political observers--in the United States as well as in Canada——- are “viewing with alarm” the pre- sent situation at Ottawa. They seem to fear that in electing only 49 candidates to Parliament the Liber- als are practically finished as a pol- itical power and that in electing 208 the Conservative Party is on the way“ to dictatorship. For example, Frank Swanson, columnist of the Ottawa Citizen, writes: “Canada is, closer to a one-party state than has ever been the case before”.
We do not share these gloomy views.'It is true that the Liberal Party has suffered a heavy blow. It is also true that the total op- position will be even weaker than its small numbers would indicate-,'in View of the defeat of stalwarts like Messrs. Sinclair, Gardiner, Marler, Coldwell and Knowles~—to mention the chief casualties. But, even so, there will be 57 members on the opposition benches and they will have able leadership. Moreover, among the new men a good deal of talent can be expected to develop. There is no reason at all why the Opposition should get fainthearted or cultivate a spirit of defeatism.
Nor should the Liberals get into the habit of thinking that their day is done. Less than ten years ago they were almost as strong as the Conservatives are no\v.. And, despite
their crushing defeat on March 31,
they still retained the confidence of '
about 36 per cent of the voters as against the Conservatives’, 54 per cent.
In this connection the Winnipeg Free Press says:
“If they consider the history of the past few years, Liberals will not find a better text than in the essays of Francis Bacon. ‘Prosperity doth best discover vice, but‘advcr- sity doth best discover virtue.’ Liber- alism in Canada has been stripped down to the point where the bone shows. Is there still, now that the
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of power have gone, good hard bone? Is there a firm skeleton of Liberal principle on which a new and healthy body of Liberal policy can be constructed? If there is, the Liberal party will in the long run have nothing to regret .. . The task of reconstruction will be hard, but ‘with a leader of Mr. Pearson’s stature it can be done. And the electorate that this year has given such confidence to Mr. Diefenbakel” will not stint its recognition of a future Liberal recovery. ‘The good "things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.’ They will be achieved, in time, if the Liberal party from to- day can think and act in the ‘spirit, that said, ‘I have known Defeat, and mocked it as we ranl’, ”
English In India‘
India appears to be moving to- ward what observers have long felt was inevitable—the decision that it . can’t just stop using the English language. '
In the first burst of’ patriotism after winning independence, the Indians declared in their constitu-
come the nation’s official language. English would go out the window. But time is proving that English is
P9311)’ the only common language India has.
Hindi is a northern language, as 50 southern members of parliament recently pointed out. And it is only” one of almost a score of languages that are used by large numbers of Indians. Worse, Hindi is not develop- ed enough for modern use. At least he invented in Hindi to adapt it to cur- rent needs of education and admin- istration, to say nothing ofscience.
Facing facts, the Congress party recently admitted that English will have to be used beyond 1965, now only seven years away. The southern . members of parliament have offic- ally demanded that. English be con- sidered official at least until 1990. They feel that, having gone that far, English would inevitably re- main as the official language», and the patriotic drive for a purely In- dian language would diminish.
EDITORIAL NOTES
_.Saint Andrevy’_s "Presbyterian I of worship, is observing its 130th an- niversary. It is situated near Par-
liament Hill. ,_ 9 ¢ 3:
]9rita.in’s financial status is im-_ proving all the time. Her gold and dollar reserves rose by $231 million in March. This was the second lar- ‘ gest gain since October 1950. The largest was October of last year when a rise of $243 was recorded.
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Prime Minister Macmillan of Britain says that “war, happily, has become too dangerous. There are too many risks”. Let us hope that this time fear of the con- sequences will prevent war. It has never happened before. _
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A poll conducted, among teach- ers in one of the States revealed that they are as much opposed to a 12-month school year as are the pupils. Well, if the youngsters re- fuse to go in the summer months and the teachers refuse to teach, that just about settles the question.
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“The angel Gabriel nowhas an understudy-—-a side man. And when the last trumpet shall sound I am sure that W. C. Handy will be there—as a side man”.—Exaggerated ’ rhetoric by Representative the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell at the funeral service for W- C. Handy, “the father of the Blues”.
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Two Frenchmen fought a sword duel the other day. When one nicked the other’s arm he re- tired from the field and burst into tears. The combatants then em- braced each other, honour having been served. That’s chivalry. It may sound funny; but it is better than holding a grudge for years and years. -
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pulling contests are still held at fairs across the country, says the National Geographic Magazine. At a Pennsyl- vania fair, the winning pair of horses pulled a weight equivalent to 20.1 1 tons for a distance of 24 feet 51.4; I inches. The testing equipment in- i eluded pulleys, weights. and a heavy i truck held back by hydraulic brakes. I
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By Patrick
Records Set
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Special Correspondent for The Guardian
Ottawa: Now that the final fig-_ ures--of last week’s election are being compiled, it can be seen that countless new records of all kinds were set up.
The poll provided a bonanza for e v e ry interested amateur score-keeper and statistician.
Never before in our political history has a party leader suc- ceeded in doubling his parliamen- tary following twice within ten months. Yet the newly-elected Conservative leader, John Diet- enbaker, last June increased the strength of Conservatives in Par- liament from 51 members to 113; then last week he increased it a- gain fnom 113 to 209 members.
Of course we have never be- fore had two general elections so close to each other. But never in our history has a Party leader achieved such remarkable suc- cess in consecutive elections,
{In 1818, the Conservatives near- lydoubled their strength in Par- liament under the leadership of the great Sir John A. Macdonald; but at the following election they could only add two more seats to their impressive total. In 1935 the Liberals nearly doubled their pre- vious total, but in the following election they could add no more than 13 seats.
V0 CE OF THE WEST
M ny years ago this column described a then somewhat dis- regarded Conservative M.P. as “The Golden Voice of the Prair- ies.” He was the only Co rva- tive -returned from Saskatche-
wan, a Prince Albert lawyer nam- ed John Diefenbaker. Today that voice is not only the voice of the west, it is the voice of Can- ada. Virtually no other voice speaks for the west, where the voters have for the first time re- jected every single candidate of -the other Old Party. Never be- fore have either Conservatives or Liberals been entirely obliterat- ed west of the "Ontario Boundary. , And never before has any pol- itical party made a clean sweep of as many as four provinces. Yet last week the Conservatives won every seat in Nova Scotia, P.E.I., Manitoba and Alberta.
P.E.I. started its career as a province of the Dominion of Can- ada by,giv-ing the Liberals ta clean sweep in 1874. Our Garden- Island Province repeated this in 1887, 1921, 1935 and 1940. Last year and this year P.E.I. gave the Conservatives their first sweeps there. ‘
Saskatchewan has once given a party a sweep, relaurni-ng suppor- ters of the Conservative Unionist Government from all its then 16 ridings in 1917. Last week it _a- gain returned 16 Conservatives, -but it now has one more riding which returned C.C. Ferl-Iazen Argue.
Allbernta ‘ came nearest to a sweep in 1935, when the virile new Social Credit group won 16 of its 18 seats, the two old partiesj, each capturing one sea-t. ’
Manitoba was never swept be- fore; but Nova Scotia has been
Oldest Living Things
,Nal:ional Geographic Society
Federal protection is b ein g sought for the world's oldest known living things.
The Memhuselahs, bristleconc pine frees up to 4,600 years old. live at high altitudes in the White Mountains of California, east of San‘ Francisco near the Nevada border. Their great age was an- nounced in the current National Geographic Magazine.
The United States Forest Ser- vice, which administers the tract as part of -the Inyo National For-
tected area, closed to mining or lui ibering, and guarded from van- dals. SOUVENIR HUNTERS Conservationists fear that cur- iosity seekers might damage the trees in taking souvenirs. The trees are kept safe for the mo- ment by heavy snow in the moun- tain area. The Forest Service ex-
pects to have the tract set aside before the snow melts and travel becomes possible. ,
Joseph —-T. Radel, supervisor of the Inyo Forest, has suggested that the tract be dedicated as a memorial to the late Dr. Edmund Schulman, who determined the ages of the trees.
Finding the trees was the cul- mination of a 20-year search by Dr. Schulman, a dendronhronolo- gist with the laboratory of Tree- Ring Research and associate professor at the University of Ari- zona. He worked to learn more -about the climate of the prehistor- ic American West.
It has long been known that tree rings, each representing a year of growth, are wider in wet years than in dry. National Geographic expeditions in the l920’s correlated ring patterns in living trees with those cut down by Indians centuries ago. This
Horror On
The Loose
Montreal Star
On three different occasions U.l S. planes have- accidentally "drop- ped atom bombs, once on Bri- tish soil, once off the coast of the United States and once in South Carolina. A raging discussion is now going on in England over the , use of nuclear weapons, and these serious mishaps will heat it still further. Officialdom pooh-: poohs the serious nature of such accidents. The bombs, it is said, are harmless until triggered andi it was just bad luck that some‘. TNT exploded when the bom-bi hit in the little town of Florence. i
There is not much re-assurance ; in these official brush-offs. It isi being pointed out. for instance,i that desperate efforts are beinga made to locate the bomb dropped i off-shore lest its outer casing rust in the ocean and release a large; amount of radioactive materiall into the sea. So far it has not been found.
Doubtless the Russians too have had similar mishaps. They are presumably inevitable ‘vhen large-scale training programs and manoeuvres are being incessant- ly carried out. Loaded bombers fly ('nnslantl_V over Canadian soil‘ too. and. by the law of averages. one of these "harniless" bombs,
will land on us one of these days. The public disquiet will not be quelled by official assurances that everything is quite all right.
The fact is that, now that man- kind has discovered the ultimate weapon, the general risks are enormously increased. It will not matter much to a city if an H- bomb is dropped on it accidental- ly or on purpose. The effect on the population will be identical.
This of course points up the im- portance of the endless discus- sions between the Americans and the Russians on the general sub- ject of disarmament and effec- tive control. The wind having been sown, the whirlwind is now in process of being reaped, and the world lives in mortal fear so long as these weapons are loose. The fear will become greater as more and more nations equip themselves with the instruments of mass destruction.
All that can be said of the dis- armament talks is that they are endless. They are certainly get- ting nowhere. Each side ls so scared of the other getting an advantage out of a deal that the negotiations continue truillcssly and the weapons themselves pile up.
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LOSS REGRETTED
Of the Opposition giants who fell in last week's election, the greatest regret is undoubtedly and justifiably felt for the C.-C.F. leader, M. J. Caldwell; and felt among his opponents of all par-
ties. A L Mr. Goldwell is one of our most sincere politicians and most de- voted respecters of our democra- tic parliamentary system. By in- clination, he is a left-wing Liber- al. He might well have been Lib- eral Prime Minister of Canda in his time, had he not-many years ago formed the opinion that the so-called Gardiner Liberal ma- chine in Saskatchewan was. de- trimental to the democratic sys- tem as he saw it, and hence de- voted his political life to oppos- ing it. '
This English-born school teach- er has just past his 69th birthday. His health has been delicate since he suffered a heart attack last year, and he tires easily. His elec- toral defeait deprives his party of his leadership in Parliament, but it seems certain that he would ,have resigned in any case at the regular, two-yearly meeting of his party, scheduled for late July in Montreal. Possibly‘ Mr. Tommy Douglas, now premier of Saskat- chewan, will succeed Mr. Cold- well as national leader; mean- while the leadership of the C.-C.F. parliamentary group will fall up- on Hazen Argue, the senior sur- vivor. or V-ancouver’s Harold Winch who has had long exper- ience of provincial politics.
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By Herman N. Bundesen, M.D.
THIS is a good time to start thinking about poison ivy and a good time to start doing some- thing about it, too.
Leaves of the young poison ivy plant are tender durir early spring, so that it is easier to kill the plant with chemicals.
WHITE. FRUIT
You can identify poison ivy in “threes.” The berry-like fruit of the plant is white. Other ivy plants, the nonpoisonous kind, have blackish purple berries and leaves which are clustered in growths of fives.
To get rid of the poisonous plants near your home -— they grow just about anywhere—you can place a light, layer of cal- cium chlorate over the entire plant and its roots. , Or, if you wish, you can use some of the newer chemicals to spray the ivy away. Among chem- icals which will destroy ivy are Ammalte-X and 2, 4-D plus 2,4, 5-T.
POWERFUL CHEMICAL
If there are no other plants around which you want to pro- tect, you can use an even more powerful chemical, 2,4, 5-D. These chemicals not only de- stroy the leaves and tops of the plants, but the roots as well. Another method of destroying the plants is to dig them up and pull out all the roots. This meth- od, however, should be used only in the late fall or winter, when the plants are inactive. Even then you must wear heavy lea- the!‘ gloves and be careful not to leave any parts of your body ex- posed to the plant.
BURY IT DEEPLY
Once you have killed the plant, there still is one more rc ~:.u- tion you must take. Pul it out and bury it deeply. Don't burn it. The smoke from a burning poison ivy plant sometimes is just as hazardous as the plant it- self.
The smoke could infect sever- al of your neighbors. I'm afraid you wouldn’t be the most popu- lar person in the‘ community af- ter they found out who was re- spousible. It's a little early in the year to give you advice on how to treat poison ivy. I'm sure you would forget my recommenda- tions by the time you might have use for them. But I'll discuss this subject very thoroughly when the weather gets a little warmer. QUESTION AND ANSW"-‘R T.F.: Do eléctric shock treat- ments for mental illness injure the memory? Answer: The memory is some- times slighbly altered by shock treatments. However, if they are needed, this should be no bar against taking them.
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Human nature is what makes a man always remember the fel-
low who did him a dirty trick, and forget the ones who did him a favor.——Calgary Albertan
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The books wait — those silent, faithful, patient books lThey have waited for you long-
er than Penelope for Ulys- ses. While the TV screen shouts, drawls, wrangles, Launches bullets, lassos, posses. dragnets.
The books wait, Their words shealthed their dia- logues folded, Their painted background-s read- eid for the protagonist; The Chorus of Elders clustered for their entrance, Mouthing beneath their breath, forelhandedly rehearsing, The strophes, the anbistrophes, the stasimons; The ‘actors, holding‘ their masks, inside the skene, Listening for their cues, eager, But so patient. Having waited centuries. Centuries——for you to hear them. Even the testy Oedipus fleeing an old prophecy, Even the plotting hate. of 0lytem- nestra, Even the Eumenides, those fur- \ies of Orestes’ self-reproach, Even the finst judgment of the Areopagus Must wati (for you!). Even King Agamemnon waits, Aill homeward hopes held leash- ed, the boat becialrned Out on the dark blue shield at - the Aegean. Even the beacon pyres To signal home the fall of Troy, Their faggots laid on every tow- ering mount From Ida to the Lemn-tan Rock on Kit1hlairon’s height, Must W‘8‘1I2. The watchers waiting to llglhlt their beacons till , The b°0k by you, is opened. and We WDNIS» by you, are read. 0 scanner of the TV screen, Come set these plays in motion (And measure well thosexcowboys here, stretched on ‘
tragedies). Aes‘chy1-us, Sophocles, Eruripes Wait for you. The books wait. —Adelaide Fitzpatrick in the Christian Science Monitor.
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“calendar” proved that Peublo Bonito in New Mexico was built about 800 years before Columbus discovered the New World. LONGER RECORDS NEEDED But longer records were need- ed fior research ‘into earlier cli- -matic periods. Securing. the West for old trees, Dr. Sclhulman and his associates gradually pushed '-back the tree-ring diary. During last year's research, a rumor led them to a grove of bristlecones that shattered all age recordls, Seventeen of the trees, Dir, Sclhulimaan wrote in National
yeans odd. One is over 4,600.
These gnarled and shattered trees of the altitudes deposed the handsome California sequoi-as of the lowlands as the oldest living things known. The most venera- ble seq-uoi-as, including the famed General Sherman Tree, are about 3,500 years old.
Dr. Sc-hulman did not have to cut down the bristlecones to de- termine their ages. He used a
about as thick as a lead pencil. trees; resin healed the wounds. a heart attack in January, as the
story of his discoveries was be- ing Prepared for pulblicaztion.
The Age Old Story
For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them ‘that fear him.
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Suing for divorce on grounds L i ed the replies her husband gave her on four occasions when she asked what he wanted for his , birthday. He replied: 1. A. di. . vorce, 2. 50,000 tons of caustic 5 soda. 3. A statue of King George the Third. 4. A su<bmarir\e. Deny. ing the petition,‘ the court held, that the husband s_ humour might , have been eccentric but it wasn’t cruel. Let us hope this marriage , finally will be a SI1C’C€‘S‘S.—Cape ' Breton Post
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(From The Guardian Files)
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (April 8, 1933)
A more aggressive effort to ad. . , vertise Sum-merside as a residen- * ', tial and tourist centre was de. termined upon a meeting of the ,, Summerside Board of Trade held" "I last evening. Mr. B. W. Robinsnn' } presided. Plans for co-operation»- with the Tourist Association were “"4 discussed and active programs I for the T o u r i st and Publicity Committee were outlined.
Mr. L. W. Roper, District Live-‘ stock Promoter, Dominion D-em,‘ partment of Agriculture, has re--.~.-f turned from Newfoundland where he was investigating possibilities‘ of a market for Island cattle. .9- While in Newfoundland Mr. Rap. er delivered an address descrlb- _'.-. ing in.detail the live ‘stock Indus. try of P.E.I.
TEN YEARS AGO (Aprils, 1948) ,., The hearing on the Island Tele- ' _ ‘ phone Company's application for increased rates for the Charlotte- ’ town exchange was adjourned- sine die yesterday evening for .-.4 judgment. Judge C. St. Clair“ T-rainor, Chairman of the Board .; of Public Utilities, presided. Rep.=.~_.: resentatives for. both the Com."-~'u, Ipany and the City were present ' . to present their cases before the '3: Board.
The Provincial Government is“? understood to have appointed a’ ‘I Prolhilbition )-Commission yester day comprising Messers Bennet‘ 5» Haywood, Conway, as Chairman: ‘ Munroe Bruce Valleyfield, and Peter Holland, Charlottetown. It is expected the appointments will receive the approval of the Lieu- tenant Governor today. .
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