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PAGE 4 SATURDAY. savanna 21. 1964.

Always Welcome, Jack!

As is usually the case with min- isterial visitations to these parts, politics is not entirely unassociated with the mission here of the Hon. J. W. Pickersgill at this time. He gave the Kings County Liberal As- sociation a rousing pep talk at Mon- tague last night. Whether or not there is a federal general election in the offing, it is good business to keep the party’s fences in order, and the Minister of Transport is too old a hand at the game not to ap- preciate the importance of this chore.

However, there are good reasons to welcome Mr. Pickersgill here on other grounds, at any time. He is a good friend of this province. And if he was more outspoken about the urgency of some of our needs when in Opposition than he is in his present position. that, too, is not unusual.

It is always easier to talk free- ly from the outside looking in than from the inside looking out. A cab- inet minister has to remember that he can’t speak on government policy without speaking for the govern- ment as a whole. He has to be cautious. too. about invading the sensitive fields of his colleagues in discussing matters outside his own bailiwick. This has a tendency to keep ministers more tongue-tied than when they were on the loose.

In Mr. Pickersgill’s case, we often wonder if he didn‘t enjoy himself more when he was perched on the Opposition bleachers, saying what he liked about how the game went, and how the team at hat was conducting itself. This. of course, is something that no politician in office would admit to. and only those endowed with a saving sense of humor would even allow it to cross their minds at odd moments.

This is a trait. as the Minister knows. that has to be sternly re- pressed in public. But we’re .speak- ing now about the other side of the hon. member for Bonavista Twil— lingate, which makes up half his charm; which we've sensed in our privileged moments of contact with him and which, we must confess. would endear him to us regardless of what brand of politics he es— poused.

In addition to his transport portfolio Mr. Pickersgill is also the cabinet minister responsible for the Atlantic Development Board. and on both counts. of course. his visit here, is important. We trust that he will have some encouraging neWs for us in both capacities. But in any case. it's a pleasure to have him with us. We only wish he could find time to drop around oftener. The welcome mat is always out.

Very Hush-Hush

Our confidential agent No. 001 at Ottawa advises us, from his hideout, that there are secret do- ings among the Liberals this week- end. Secret meetings, that is, at committee headquarters at which the higher-ups are being briefed on the Government's forthcoming elec- tion strategy.

We all very hush-hush. but our agent says there are five commit- tees involved—on policy, organiza- tion, constitution and party struct- ure, communications and publicity, and (Moe. Members of these com- mittefi are participating in separate meetings which began yesterday and will conclude today; and there WI! be two general meetings, also

In the event of an early election and in several instances—such as finance, no doubt—the role will be an important one indeed.

Each committee has two co- chairmen, one English-speaking and the other French-speaking. Mem- bership includes one delegate from each provincial organization, and from the Women’s Liberal Federa- tion. the Young Liberal Federation, the Canadian University Liberal Federation and the Federal Liberal caucus. The meetings were arrang- ed months ago, and have only now come to a head.

We wish we could say more about them, but our man's message —in code—trails off here. in a dis- turbing manner, the last words be- ing quite indecipherable. Can it be that he has been spotted and is now paying the price of his temer- ity? We have no one else to replace him. Yet we should like to give our readers more news, if possible, about these ominous goings-on.

If the worst comes to the worst, we may be able to get in touch with Social Credit L e a d e r Bob Thompson, who we see has return- ed from a secret mission to Africa. That was a Liberal assignment, but perhaps we could persuade him that there is a. humanitarian cause involved here, too. If he could for— ret out what has happened. to our man and get him off the hook, it would set our minds at rest and convince us that he really has those James Bond qualities that. External Affairs Minister Martin claims to have found in him.

Meantime we’ll keep hoping that another message comes through.

Another Milestone

It is encouraging to note that while the Soviet Union and the United States are at loggerhéads over many issues, they have come to an agreement on what the Soviet ambassador at Washington describ- ed as “a new milestone on the road towards a world of material abund- ance which can be developed in an atmosphere of peace.” The agree- ment was signed this week, and it pledges both nations to cooperate for the next two years in research on converting salt water into fresh.

This is of special importance to underdeveloped countries in arid

zones of the world, and it was reached after meetings between American and Russian scientists

and officials at, Washington last July. It was understood to have arisen out of exchanges between President Johnson and former Premier Khrushchev. though at Wednesday’s signing ceremony at both capitals there was no mention of this. If Mr. K. was present in spirit, the new Kremlin authorities didn’t say so. But the fact that they OK’d the agreement is the import- ant thing.

Most encouraging in connection with the exchange of information which will now follow between Washington and Moscow, is the fact that the use of nuclear energy will be included in the desalting techniques. This had been an 'ob- stacle heretofore, Russia being loath to put its cards on the table with respect to nuclear development ac- tivities of any kind. Both nations now realize the value of coopera- tion. And in addition to the free exchange of information, there will also be exchange visits to American and Soviet research centres.

Truly, the world is moving into a broader concept of its respon- sibilities and opportunities.

Promoting Good Will

Next. year Charlottetown will have the opportunity of showing its hospitality to members of the Que- bec Union of Municipalities, and thereby of promoting good rela- tions between English and French Canada in a very practical way. This year, to 270 visiting Quebec mayors and their wives, Victoria, B.C., played host, and the three-day visit. just completed, proved a big success.

“We were received with open arms," said a spokesman for the Quebec body. “We never thought we would be so welcome and I can assure everyone that we return to our province as enthusiastic am- bassadors of co-operation.”

The Quebec Union has invited the Union of Biitish Columbia Municipalities to meet in Quebec next year. but. its own plans. as above noted, are for a 1965 meet- ing in the Cradle of Confedera- tion. It is a visit which all our citizem will welcome cordially.

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PREPARING FOR THE KENNEDY ROUND

OTTAWA REPORT By

From NATO Meeting To Political Success

Three girls. who were dele- gates to the “Young Political Leaders" conference of NATO nations at Paris six years ago. have begun to climb the politic- al ladder. Canada's Judy is- Marsh has won election to our federal parliament, and en honoured by appointment as Minister of Health and Welfare. Patsy Mink. of Hawaii, a prom- inent Kennedy girl, has just been elected to the US. on- . And Shirley Williams. a General Secretary Britain‘s Fabian Society. has reversed a Conservative maj- ority of over 4.000 in 1959 to 8 Labor majority of 3.385 last month to win a seal in the Brit- ish House of Commons.

FOR REMEMBRANCE

“If ye break faith with us who die. we shall not sleep, though poppies grow i anders fields."

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Once every year. and it was a good tradition. we all used to buy and wear a Flanders poppy to help the Canadian Legion— lest we forget, lest we forget.

But looking around the Housei of Commons on the afternoon) before its Armistice Day ho '- day. I noted that many had for-

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gotten.

Of the Party leaders. Liberal Prime Minister Mike Pearson. New Democrat Tommy Douglas and the Social Credit acting leader. Bud Olson. wore poppies. On the Cabinet benches. as well as Mr. Pearson the poppy - wearers were Postmaster Jack Nicholson. Veterans Affairs Minister Telllet. Industry Min- ister Bud Drury, Farm Minister Harry ans and Immigration Minister Tremblay. the Conservative front bench. Leon Balcer. Walter Dinsdale and Marcel Lambert —all veterans— wore poppies. On the back benches ‘a re handful of MP5 had not forgot- ten. and these included the good citizens whom one would expect not to break faith: Bert Badan- ai 'Fort William), Ernie Paa- coe Moose Jaw). Gord Aiken (Parry Sound). Ralph Cowan (Toronto). Marv Howe l Arthur, Ontario). Elston Cardiff (Hur- on), Tom Bel (Saint John), Ches Carter (Newfoundland), Jack Biz: (Athabaska) John Turner fMonlreaD. Ged Bald- win lPeace River). Erick Niel- son IYukon) and others.

FAMILY PARADOX

If your eyes were alert. per- haps you noted in the papers last week a brief news item un-

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mo-w ANNIVERSARY November 22, 1963 (On this day, in Dallas, Tex- as. John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of Ameri- ca, was shot to death).

Anniversaries are recaatings:

Memories remoulded, shining once again,

Or in their purple folds.

Holding renewed sorrow.

So this, your Day, Young Man! Brings the one blistering mom-

em; The silent speeding death. The silent epeedlng car. The silent medlcoa, The silent crowds, The silent Nation. The silent Woman. In her blood-stained

There is today too: The Silence of twin dentin. That holda the answers.

Only the Last Die-d Day. That has no Anniversary.

Will bring the answer

To the surging Why Theme in m the free

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der “Deaths”: “in London. Enz- land. Montagu Porch. aged 87, stepfather of Sir Winston Chur- chill."

And if your mind was alert, you probably pondered—since Sir Winston Churchill will cele-

brate his 90th birthday on No- ‘

vember 30.

It is an unusual story. In .lan- uary. 1874. 20 year old Jennie Jerome of New York married 25 year old Lord Randolph Church- ill, son of the 7th Duke of Marl- borough. Her first child was born late that year and chris- tened “Winston”. Her husband died 2] years later. In 1918 Jen-

nie. then 64 years old. married‘ a

5 her third husband Montagu

Porch: she died three years aft- .

er the welding but her

survived her for 43 years.

DELICIOUS APPLES Prime Minister Pearson de-

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1 clared this to be. “Apple Month" lacross Canada. Dave Pugh and 1 Stuart Fleming. Conservative; MP5 for the Okanagan constitu-l lencies. distributed to Senators. { MP5 and the Press Gallery box- .es each containing one Red De— licious and on Golden Delicious apple from BC. orchards. . arson commented that . we eat fewer apples than do the ‘ people of other countries with ‘ similar living standards: he might have added that the old I ‘aphorism suggests that more i apples would help solve our ‘ twin national problems of two! few doctors and too much ill-l ;health. This year‘s apple cropf will be about one bushel for ev- l iery Canadian —— but instead ofl eating this wholesome food. wel are exporting much of it to thir- f ty-four countries only too gladl lto buy our cheap and cooking - ‘ ' free crop ,

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Photographing Snowflakes

National Geographic Society

The life of a snowflake fancier alternates rapidly between joy and despair.

The heavens drop an abund- ance of material. but happiness at catching a beautiful crystal

issolves into frustration if the flake melts before the camera can record its lacy structure.

Wilson A. (Snowflake) Bentley the Vermont farmer who spent years photographing snow cry- stals, philosophized: "Snowflak- es that fall to the earth do not

rish in vain... if the secret of their beauty is left. behind in microphotography."

Mr. Bentley. who died on a snowy December day 33 years ago in Jericho, Vermont. made some 6.000 microphotographs ut snowflakes. His pioneering stud— ies became a standard refer- ence for meteorologists.

SHED AS STUDIO

"Snowflake" Bentley worked in a shed on a hillside pasture. In the course of 50 winters. '1 t found that the best crystals oc- cur during general storms. with a west or north wind blowing and the barometer reading from 29.60 to 30.20 inches.

Across the world, a n o t h e r snowflake collector took many of his photographs in a laboratory He was Dr. Ukichiro Nakaya‘. a physics professor at Hokkaido University, Japan. During 25 years of work, Dr. Nakaya and his colleagues succeeded in dup- Hosting in a cold cbanber all the natural types of snow cry- stale.

Dr. Nakaya. Mr. Bently. and all other investigators found that no two snowflakes are exactly alike. Flakes can be austerel simple or fantastically complex. Many have classic slx- sided symmetry, but y can assume the shape of prisms. branc scan. needles. pyramids. dumb bells, or strange forms that de- velop when many crystals clue. to:- together.

Though the variety is infinite, all anoth-‘:ea 'rke one of than: basic form: hexagonal prisma- tic columns, thin hexagonal plat- s; and the familiar six-pointed

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The shape of a snow crystal ls largely determined by the hm- perature of the air in which it grows. Humidity plays a role, 00.

VAPOR FORMS SNOW Snowflakes are not men

JAIL DICEIVER

FLENSBURG. West Ge (CPl—An East German refugee, who abandoned his l7-yearold girl friend in East Berlin and

tried under charges of depriv- tan“;In Dorothea You of Dr free-

water. like hail and sleet. Cry- stals form in the atmosphere when watervapor solidifies on microscopic particles such as dust. These particles may mea- sure only five hundred-thous- andths of an inch in diameter

Crystals fall individually when the temperature is far be» low freezing. I t is warmer. however, the crystals may rol- lide and cling together as they tumble and flutter towards the earth.

Wet snowflakes often merge to produce extra-large clusters. Platterxvhapcd masses of wet snow. reputedly as long as foot- balls. wobbled down from the gray sky over Fort Keogh, Mon- tana, in 1887.

Once it settles on the ground. a snowflake gradually loses its crystalline shape and becomes an ice granule. Then it mainly interests small children. 'skiere —and snow shovelers.

Somewhere in the United Na- tions‘ files there must be a box score of complaints made by israel and Syria about one an- other as a result of fighting. Even the secretariat. we imag- ine, will be hard put to it to say what the standing is, which as- tion is the more frequent ag- gressor. which is responsible for guyt particular shooting inci-

en .

So it is with the current com- plaints: SyriaI says Israel fired first; Israel retorts that Syria fired first on its settlements ln the valley below the heights above the Sea of Galilee. The Security Council will doubtless await a report from the emis- tice commission on the spot be- fore adopting another resolution to which neither Israel rior Syrla

biblical times. When Baashn was king of Israel, Asa, the king of Judah conspired with

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attack "So Benhadad

hearkcned unto king Asia. and

rent the captains of the hosts

which he had against the cities

«1); Israel, and smote lion and a ..

The same area was fought over before the armistice of 1948 and it has been contention between Syria and Israel ever since.

There is no solution to this quarrel short of a readjustment of boundaries whlo‘i nether dds would b. m “I‘srael nil! m narrow northern area when valley tlementa lie in the shadow the Syrian helm. m incl! new new.

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Would-Be. Superman

By Dr. Theodore R. Van Dolle- Distur-bed, interpersonal rela» tionships, especially in marital partners. often result in bizarre behavior by either or both. Capt. Bernard H. Wittenberg reports in the American Journal of Pay- chiatry the case history of a ser- geant who gratified his uncon- scious emotional needs by car- rying on a fabrication about working on a space project. The tall tales lasted six years. When he told his wife the truth. she went to pieces. As a boy. he was left to him- self. and read voraciously. King Arthur was his particular hero. Later. he had five year; of col- lege (but no degree) and was washed out of officer's candid- ate school because of poor sch- olastic performance. He mar- ried a woman with a master‘s degree in education. She tend- ed to be critical of his ability to rise in the world. She criticized his upbringing, took over the family finances. and insisted that she was "smarter" than he. This woman became pregnant and went to her parents' home in a distant city to await the baby, While she was away, the sergeant went to the movies several nights a week. and. on the day of her return. he didn't want to miss a picture he had planned on seeing. He told ‘ilS wife he couldn't spend the eve- ning with her because he was working on a secret project in space. Through the years. he weaved a science fiction tale about his job that could have be- come a best seller. His “smart” wife swallowed it all— that he had orbited not only the moon but Mars and Venus. The ser- geant finally ran out of ideas. or his conscience bothered him. But when he tried to convince his wife that the whole thing had been imaginary. she refused to believe it. He consulted the psychiatric service. saying he fear ' ' had become mentally ill because of his big lie. Dr. Wit- tenberg likens the situation to an imposter and his audience; unless the audience responds. the charlalan fails He said this woman “supported. sustained. and nourished her husband‘s imposture and was herself sup- ported. suslained. and nourish- cd by it. The intensity of her

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impostiire is betrayed by her psychotic regression when be r husband shed his space facade."

i We can only hope the sergeant

will stick to reality and leave the super~ achievements to th e scientists. DROPSY DURING PREGNANCY M. E. writes: What would cause swelling of the entire body in a pregnant woman? PLY toxemia of pregnancy leads to an elevation of blo pressure and a dropsical condi- tion This woman should see her physician at once. BRAIN DETERIORATION P. W. C. writes: What are the symptoms of deterioration of the brain? REPLY Loss of memory and judg- ment, inability to concentrate. disturbances in talking. and loss of the finer muscular skills. PINWORMS IN ADULTS Mrs. HF. writes: Is it safe for an adult with spastic colon in lake pinworm medic ne R

LY Yes, and there is a possibility the medicine might help the spastic colon by reducing irrita-

tion. BREATHING DIFI-‘ICUL’I'IES A. K. writes: What are th e symptoms of emphysema? REPLY