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PAGE 4 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1965.

A Shocking Tragedy

Shocking indeed was’ the misfort- une which befell.a: Summerside fam- ilv in the early hours of yesterday morning when William Allen, janitor of the town hall and one of Summerside’s top baseball players in the 1930s. perished with four child- ren in a fire which destroyed their dwelling. Mrs. Allen, along with five other children, escaped with no ser- ious injuries, but one can imagine the shock and distress under which they are suffering.

The sympathy of all our people will go out to the bereaved wife and mother, her surviving children and other members of the family. As an- nounced by Mayor Key, _ practical steps have been taken in forming a committee of Summerside citizens to provide for the needs of the surviv-

ing, victims, and there is no doubt as |

to the support the committee will re- ceive from the community at large. Action, indeed, can speak louder than words at such times. We are all conscious of how inadequate words are to convey anything of the con- solation which can come only from a higher source. But it is fitting that we should give expression to them as a-token of our feelings and of our desire to do what is humanly possible to-lighten the burden of: grief:

The Hunger Front

Speaking at the plenary confer- ence of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome this week, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman expressed hope that the war against hunger can be won in 10 to 20 years. His statement was based on a study of changes in agri- culture in 26 developing nations, which showed “‘the startling fact that

some newly developing countries are |

already increasing their agricultural production at rates far higher than those ever achieved by the highly de-

-veloped nations—including my own.” —

That there was little room for complacency in this assurance, how- ever, was indicated by the confer- ence chairman, Canada’s Forestry Minister Maurice Sauve, who warned that the world’s battle against. hun- ger is in dire danger of being lost. Lack of communication betweef the “haves”, the “know-hows” and the “have-nots” has slowed the program, India was cited especially as being in grave need.

Admittedly monsoon rains were scant this year and Ameriean food aid,

also Canada’s Colombo grain -assist- |

ance may be necessary to meet this

shortage. But the concern of these |

lands and of the FAO should be to in- duce Indians and their own govern- ment to plan objectively for much

greater home production in spite of | | summer and fall, have stopped talk-

war and threat of war.

Britain, Canada and United States through FAO sponsorship are offering college training to Asians interested in assisting their government in food growing expansion. Inducing the gov- ernments to make use of. this offer _should be the first step. The sec- ond will be to supply funds: for con- struction of fertilizer plants and need-

ed power complexes to make them |

run. Canada may find it difficult to

have Colombo wheat available to don-

ate when there. is a ready cash market -

available; United States says its new food plan is reducing its grain sur- pluses. So gift wheat:must only be a temporary stop-gap. _

As Mr. Sauve says, there must be ready communication between the donor and recipent governments if the hunger war is not to be lost. The

use of food as a political pry must |

be dropped by the “have” lands; the exploitation by producers and food merchants in needy lands must be curbed; agriculture placed in top place, if FAO and the world is to

ae

If indeed agricultural changes show marked progress in favor of the

says, then failure to achieve victory on the hunger front would be all the more inexcusable. Thatit should fail through “lack of communication” in this age of rapid communication would be enough to make the angels weep. It would be a damning indict-

ment of human stupidity and inca- |

pacity. in a field of the utmost im- portance to mankind

Ontario Support

The London, Ontario, Free Press |

does a service to all of us in this area

_ by underlining, editorially,.the prob-

lem of Atlantic economics versus national geography as it was dis- cussed at the Atlantic premiers’ con- ference in Charlottetown on Monday. The problem the old Intercolonial Railway was built to resolve, notes the London paper, was that of pro- viding the Maritime provinces with the means of ready access to the major markets of Quebec and On- tario; and it presents itself today in

almost as accute form as it did in |

1864. The problem is accentuated now

| by the imminence of federal legisla-

tion that could result in increased

| railway freight rates and the aban-

donment of uneconomic area branch lines. For the Maritimes, this would

| further handicap its efforts to com- | pete in the lucrative Central Canada

markets. This bleak prospect has

| given rise to talk among the premiers ' of studying the possibility of estab- | lishing a free trade area with the {New England ‘states. The situation

“points up the price that Canadians must pay to remain Canadians, the geographical or regional difficulties that must be overcome to keep this country a political and -economic entity.”

More specifically in this instance,

| adds our Ontario contemporary, “it

demonstrates the imperative need for federal legislation to be tailored to meet the needs of the Atlantic prov- inces. The federal treasury by sub-

_Sidies must meet railway deficits in

the Maritimes to keep rail operations going, must by this meang enable Atlantic area products to compete on the all-Canadiah market.”

Press support of this kind can be of. value to our representatives in pressing Maritime transportation ‘ claims at Ottawa. It helps to mould public opinion in other. provinces where the importance of maintaining the objectives of the Maritime Freight Rates Act are but dimly un- derstood. The more of it we get,-the better chance we shall have of win- ning our point when Parliament gets down to discussing the provisions of the new railway bill. :

French Opinion --A-significant index to the progress of the Vietnam campaign has been a switch, in recent weeks, in the opin- ion of French military experts as to the outcome. In three leading French newspapers, these experts unite in

__ asserting that the U.S. can no longer

lose, America, théy point out, has economic strength, political determin- ation and—most important—o ve r- whelming firepower. The former widespread prediction that it would fail just as France did in 1954, they say, is not sound.

They note that in a single day of sorties recently, U.S. aircraft—ex- cluding B-52’s—dropped more bombs than did the French Air Force in

| the whole 56 days of the Battle of | | Dienbienphu.

Also that the North Vietnamese, their projected “third phase” of attack beaten back this

ing about imminent victory. ‘Now they, speak grimly of twenty years of “protracted warfare.”

It is interesting to speculate on the relationship Between this appar- ant swing-in-opinion and the French government’s practice of restraining~. newspapers from straying too far

_from the official line. Can President

de Gaulle, who has been highly criti- cal of U.S. activities on the Vietnam front, be undergoing a change of mind on the subject? In any case, as the Milwaukee Journal remarks rath- er drily: “It may not help us in the fight but at least it is welcome to find our ‘ally’ no longer comfortably

| predicting that we are-going to be

pushed into the sea.”

EDITORIAL NOTE

Mr. Pearson must be slowing down pretty badly. It took him only two weeks to form an ,entirely new cabinet after he was elected to suc- ceed the Diefenbaker administration on April 8,-1963. . This time he can’t even houseclean his old cabinet in two weeks, and wants at least anoth-

| oF fortnight before he can getstarted, on GARE ET ioe =

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| or on testimony from professio- | dental treatment they need. | mal witnesses.

NOW If We CAN JUST

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LINE-UP CHANGES FOR SECOND HALF

OTTAWA REPORT By Patrick Nicholson

_ Good Weather For Annual Conferences

to, cuses of the Conservative and

Congratulations. are due New Democratic parties.

the Royal Canadian Legion,

| which is celebrating ts 40th FAMILY COMPANY

birthday this week. he Justifiably one of he most gion was founded forty years | popular family restaurants in ago at a con‘ezence 0° - -- | Ottawa is that at the Green Val- tans’ organizations held in Win- | Jey Motor Court, situated be- nipeg. Its membership grew to ‘tween the Experimental Farm about 50,000 3 : and the campus of Carleton Uni- Two; by 1960 it was five times versity near the city’: southern that earlier figure; and it is- limits. The food meets a'relia-

still growing, having added an- ble standard of plain. excel- | Canada were 10 per cent higher |

other 25,000 member in the | past five years. The Legion | has served veterans well, by in- good, and the prices itially proposing much of the . are reasonable. Last Sunday I veterans’ legislation now on the noticed .there the New. carrying “This is

statute book. Staniey Knowles, CONFERENCE CAPITAL | &month old baby:

There's a thick coating of years ago I used to bring snow already on Parliament daughter here at the same age, Hill, and the sun shines from a he told me. Also happily enjoy-

lence, the three dining rooms are welcomingly pleasant, the service is

aast

clear bright blue sky through ting his family compeny was | Kei:h Davev, the wound- lic’i- |

the sparkling air to give «s | what Ottawans call ‘‘real con- , ference weather-’ . This week and next will see, among others | the 20th annual federal-proyin- cial tourist conference: the con- ference on Health services co sponsored by the unlikely team | ticles

of the" Canadian Cahmber of curvy nuds Commerce and the Canadian loss leaders. Labour Congress;, ‘the Air In- ing pithy comment on the. news? dustries Association; and of , Following hard on the 2-year course the Post - election cau--! Texas sentence for i

Four Cents A Year

Montreal Star

master-mind behind the Liber- al election campaign.

PLAYMATE PEARSON * exeels all

_ Ottawa has just begun fluori- | dent is reported to have spent

‘dating its. water supply, at a| 4 considerable sum of money

cost per person’ per year of four cents, or to be precise four and twenty - eight one - hundredths (4.28) cents. Then, children | ridation. Chemists say the fluor- born hereafter will be spared | ide ions are the same in water half or more of the tooth decay | to which fluorides are added they would have suffered from | and in water in which it is found if fluoridation had not been ad- | naturally. Health officials have opted, in their years of minor- | watched the results in tests. in ity, from birth to 21, for roughly | which fluorides have been add- one dollar. | ed to municipal water at a The question of fluoridating amd cranks have helped them, Montreal's water has -been con- | 42d in twenty years of obser- sidered from time to time but | vations, no sign has been found no action has been taken. Are | that any risk exists. Still, the there so few children here with | bogey survives. teeth needing attention that it Montreal’s stand on fluorida- would not be worth while? Have | tion would be hard to fathom in Montreal authorities some evi- | any case but it is made all the dence that leads them to doubt | harder to understand by the the claims made for fluorida- | fact that the city is ringed by tion? : : | municipalities in which the wa- There is widespread opposi- | ter is fluoridated. It would tion to fluoridation, but it is not | make sense only if all Montreal

based on statistical evidence, | residents were getting all the Is

ted, from fluoridated wate. The risk-is in ‘‘artificial” fluo-

An Ottawa resi- | that the case?

~ Great Train Mystery

Saskatoon Star-Phoenix

‘At last the secret is out! The | will grow more powerful, feed- truth has become known: our ing his own peception by the

ments has already led

| additional purchases

drilling a well in-his back yard | so that his family can be protec- |

belts have been discovered at | government’s-lack of it. The

our ankles.

The Russian press has made the public disclosure that the Great Train Robbery in Britain was 3 plot by the government to

get more money for the secret service

It won't be long before {t un masks our other dreadful see rets.

The Archbishop of Canterbury is really Hermione Gingold in disguise. The pubs of London ate all a fraud; the back rooms are opium dens where the dec- adent Englishman lies twisted in his pipe dreams, deluding h1 m- self that the Commonwealth ex- ists, that democracy isn’t @ myth and that there will one day be a balance of trade.

The Russians are stretching {t a bit far but our sense of humor prevents us from taking offense. No doubt there are a lot of Mus- covites laughing about it, too. Rather than doing us any harm, it does us good. The average Russian isn't the serf of Turgen- ev's day. He has removed him- self as well from the illiterate gullibility of Lenin’s era. By failing to recognize this, his leaders are . under-. estimating him. ‘

| time might even cOme when the | |.people rule. It would be then | that we could establish genuine

lines of communication, accept broader bases of mutual trust,

recognize co-existence as a fact |

not. a theory.

Sticks and stones may break our bones; but words can stil! make us laugh.

GETS CBC POST OTTAWA (OP)—Dorothy Mc- Cullum of Toronto has been ap- pointed the CBC’s business rep-

| resentative at New York, the | United Nations and Washington.

the corporetion announced Thursday. She has been acting representative eince last —Au- gust and succeeds Fergus Mu-

| trie who was named CBC rep-

resentative in London, Eng.

CUT VOTING AGE LONDON (Reuters) — The ruling Labor party Wednesday decided to Britain’: mi age for vot- ing from 21 to 18 years. An ail- party parliamentary conference

|now is reviewing, the whole

ho w~ parliament

a | House where a ‘reception was ‘held in his honour by Lieut. Gov-

AG oy » a

moves to cut —

smuggler Lucien Rivard, and

the electoral set-back for our

Prime Minister, the

issue contains a cartoon of a convicts

group of one number: “Bad

of their news, Pearson. You've just

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with blood disorders, eczema, and other forms of dermatitis. This is overcome by using a

| weaker vaccine when the skin is

been voted ‘Fink of the Month’.

NOT MADE IN CANADA During the first six months of

this year, record imports into

than last year. This is not a statistic we can be proud of, |

| and it is causing anxiety to our

economists. Its damage ot our Presi-

dent Johnson to take action, end

| jt may soon cali for seme un- | comfortable belt-tightening

by Ottawa- perhaps a repeat of the

post-war Liberal curbs on tou-

‘THAT CAR PACT AGAIN

More. than. - four-fifths of our | were

from. USA. The largest in | crease was in motor vehicle parts, while our imports of auto mobiles also ros “ary substar-

| tially. We paid USA: $453 mil- | | lion for these items in the first half of this year, contrasted to

$972 in the same period last . This is ammunition for crities of the hasty and ifl-con- sidered Canada-USA auto egree- _ ment, which the Liberal —

Our Yesterdays | (From The Guardian Files)

TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO) (November 27, 1940) Commencing this week, it was decided the North Nova Scotia

herst, N.S., would publish their |

arrogantly completed fore submitting it for parliame- | improvement. +

| caught

| Or radiation therapy.

BEER AND PREGNANCY

A reader writes: I would like to know if it is harmful to the unborn baby if the mother drinks beer while carrying. Could it cause the baby to be retarded or deformed? .

REPLY.

Beer in moderation is not harmful--and does not~cause de- formity or retardation. The main problem is calories and

weight. BY THE BUNCH N. K. writes: Is its-better to take vitamin A in carrots or cap- sules? REPLY

Natch— in carrots. However, |

diversify your meals by eating

other foods containing vitamin A, such as asparagus, broccoli, | cheese, eggs, ‘milk, liver, and |

prunes. HOUSING

C. C. writes: Is a wood house | of)

more ‘healthful than one stone or brick? # REPLY

No._In some_parts_of thecoun-—

try one material has advantag- es over another, but I doubt if

M. G. writes: Can a cold be from a cat?

REPLY No, because only man and

| monkeys can transmit the cold

virus.

TODAY’S HEALTH HINT— Weight loss should not exceed

¢wo pounds a week when dieting. (NOTE: All correspondence

| Highlanders stationed at Am-) te Dr. Van Dellen should be

addressed te: Dr. Theodore

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| Prosperity ia when people ‘buy things they can't afford.

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| Recession is when they stop do- | luck?’ asked the waytarer Magazine.

“Why are you

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Africa's white

have

rightist government

| ment unready for rule.

he new coup in the Congo can be expected to bring grim comfort to Premier Ian Smith's

ment. by President Kenneth | Kaunda of Zambia that the Congo action is sad. Zambia, | | with the Congo on he~ rorh | and white-ruled Rhodesia on her | south, feels there is already too | much {legality in Africa said | Kaunda. - Smith maintains his action | Was constitutional and backs

- this with a legal argument. He

| can claim that Thursday’s coup makes a mockery of legality in the Congo since it upsets a new | | constitution promulgated only | ; Aug. 1.

| The legal complexities of the | | Congo in its short history of in-

New Coup In The Congo .

Canadian Press Staff Writer

| that had been brewing

Diogenes was hooking for an

| Bonest man in Toronto. “What

Qh pretty fair,"’ replied Diogenes. “Tl stil have my lantern.” Vancouver Sun.

Bi : Now he has announced his in- tention to rule for five years, He has a reputation for moder- ation and some observers, per- haps grasping at constitutional straws, believe he might hand over power before that.

It is possible, these observers feel, that the presidential fight een Kasavubu and former pre Moise Tshombe would have plunged the Congo back inte

| the turmoil that wracked three- | quarters of the country only last

year. Mobutu may have taken a constitutionally-illegal action to avert a greater evil.

POWERFUL POST

Another — and simpler — ex- planation is that the presidency has become more attractive to ambitious men than it formerly was. Under the new onstitu- tion, the presidency's power is enhanced at the expense of the premiership.

The new system, in the com- paratively primitive sphere of the Congo, gives more power to the president than the French to Gen,

constitution gives

| dependence from Belgium —) Charles de Gaulle.

| since 1960—are hard to follow | and this is the second coup |

| staged by Gen: Joseph Mobutu, |

3%56,_.who.....overthrew.....Pre=!4-nt. ae Kasavubu, 58, Thure-

The president can appoint and dismiss premiers without a min- isterial counter - signature as had been required under the

old basic law worked out with

Belgium: ;

|

__ Tourist Spending At Home

| Victoria Daily Times

Another unpleasant jolt for ; Canada’s balance of payments | deficit with the United States is | going to show up when the 1965 figures on tourist spending are calculated, according to a, re-. port at the annual meeting of the Canadian Tourist Associa- | tion in Hamilton... !

President Johnson's plea

exchange by holidaying at home has. been effective, the meeting was told, that their

| down by about $10 000,000 this | year. |

own newspaper— @ mimeogra- Van Dellen, co Chicage Trib- | to reach $250,000 000. . | It's quite obvious from these |

the Charlottetown Guardian, | Lieut. Graham MacLeod of the | Halifax Chronicle, and L. Cpl. | D.W. Andrews of the Amberst News, were to be connected

with the paper. h

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Mr. Albert Dinnis, veteran the last Great War and secre- |

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sev- eral months, left this morning en toute to Newfoundland. He has been appointed supervisor in the

TEN YEARS AGO | (November 27, 1955)

| His Honour Lieut. Governor:

ceremony

ertior and Mrs. T.W.L. Prowse. |

Call us for programs,

busi- All

club bulletins, ness letterheads. work guaranteed.

GUARDIAN - PATRIOT |

CENTRAL PRINTERY Phone 4-8506 —

| phed weekly. Lieut. Bill Burnett | une, Chicago, Mlinois.)

Charlottetown to:

Montreal Moncton

Halifax

- Saint John

« Sydney | 3 | Corner Brook i}, Toronto

__,From 1959 to 1963. American | | visitors spent an average of

figures that Canadians could hardly be described as ‘‘stay-at- homes."’ This has a very serious impact on the country’s balance of-payments situation.

The solution, ideally would be

not to discourage Canadian tra- | vel abroad through currency re-

striction and other means, but

Americans to conserve foreign | to attract more people to Cana- | da to help redress the balance.

At the same time a strong “See

Canada First'’ domestic adver-

spending-in-this-country-will be tisement campaign —might— not be amiss under .the circumsta- neces.

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