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“Premier Roblin’s Victory The clear majority won by the

Conservatives under Premier Roblin

in Manitoba will insure stable gov-

ernment in that province for the next few years, and is naturally be- ing hailed as a great political vic- tory, both in Manitoba and at

Ottawa. Such indeed it is, compar-

able—as a Canadian Press report states—in effect; although not in ‘proportion, to Prime Minister Dief- enbaker’s victory in 1958 after first having been elected as a minority government leader. The CCF leader and one of his chief lieutenants have gone down to defeat, and seats have been won from eight Liberal Pro- gressives including four former cab- inet ministers. Those who profess to see evidence of a decline in the Diefenbaker Government’s popular- ity will certainly not find it here.

Mr. Roblin’s victory is all the more remarkable in that he is a

: comparative novice in practical poli-

tics, Only 41 years of age, he has been an M.L.A. for only ten years, Conservative leader for five years, and Premier for less than-a- year. The Liberal Progressive leader, Mr. Campbell, on the other hand, is a

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an M.L.A. for 37 years, a cabinet minister for 23 years and Premier ‘for 10. Evidently it was not due to inexperience or lack of ability that

. the Liberals lost out. Across Canada,

the results will be taken as pretty strong indorsement of Conservative policies generally.

Fine Church Building The pastor, members and friends of the First United Baptist Church in Charlottetown have indeed reason te rejoice, and to be congratulated upon, the magificent new church

- edifice which will be opened with impressive services of dedication,

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an adornment to the City, and a fine modern addition to our places of public worship. But it is more than that. It represents years of patient planning and sacrifice, inspired by a long tradition of devoted service to spiritual needs, and an abiding faith on the part of those now living in what the future has in store.

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~been steady progress throughout the

years, and rich dividends have ac-

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those engaged. Tomorrow’s ceremony is therefore not of local interest merely, but of importance to all con- cerned in the church’s work through- out this Province and Eastern Canada. —

Faulty Assumptions

There may or may not be need for investigation~~into~ Maritime liquor laws, but we question whether jt is the province of the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council to con- cern icself with the matter. It is said that the question + “liberalizing” “these laws has come up on several decasions and that’ APEC’s tourist zommittee has already given it con- sideration. Now we have the sug- gestion from Dr. Fisher, executive director of Canadian Tourist Indus- try, that APEC invite a “disting- uished Canadian” to make a study leading to new legislation, and ask Maritime politicians “keep ‘poljtics out of the matter.”

This ‘proposal has been called: “stimulating”, and perhaps in one

sense of the word, it is. But it is based on faulty assumptions. This newspaper campaigned for an end to the Prohibition farce in years gone “by, long before yhe present liquor law came into effect. We have con- sistently maintained that you can-

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erally recognized throughout the continent. But the extent to which liquor traffic should be reguiated,

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needed it is for our people to decide; and they will do that not on the basis of what suits tourists from other provinces, but on what is in keeping with. our owr habits, con- victions, and ways of life.

‘We question very much the as-

‘sumption implied in, Dr. Fisher’s

proposal that freer liquor would

bring more tourists of a desirable type to the Maritimes or anywhere else. In any case it is a poor way to settle a social problem by evaluating it in dollars and cents. And since it is, after all, a social problem, the handling of it by whatever govern- ment is in power is bound to be a political matter. No recommenda- tions by a person invited here by APEC to study the matter—how-

ever “distinguished” a Canadian he |

might be—would temove one iota of the responsibility from our public men for any resulting changes that might be made. °

Victoria Day

Victoria Day brings the first long holiday weekend of the summer sea- son, and as such will be welcomed by all classes. It is well to remember, however, that long weekends mean increased highway traffic hazards. According to an, estimate prepared by a national federation of insur- once companies, as many as 100 Canadians may. die on roads and highways during such periods—un- less motorists and pedestrians exert greater caution than has been their habit.

It is to be hoped that Monday’s holiday will not be marred by trag- edies of this kind. The same applies to boating and fishing accidents, which also, in the past, have taken

their toll.

EDITORIAL NOTES

The Guardian joins in extending warmest congratulations to Dr. R. J. MacDonald, who is observing. his 10lst birthday anniversary today. Long may he be with us to enjoy the

_affection and esteem in which he is

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A progress report on the world’s largest dairy farm has been issued by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. This cow colony with 21,000 head of cattle is not in Texas, or even in Calgary, but in India. The colony covers 3,250 acres and is located 20 miles outside Bombay.

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The Provincial Government has made an excellent choice in the ap- pointment of Mr. J. O. C. Campbell, Q.C., as counsel fo prepare the Island

brief for the Royal Commission on |

railway transportation and freight rates. His experience and ability shown in previous presentations are a guarantee that our interests will be well served in this instance.

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At a Liberal rally in Toronto, a high official of the Party got up to announce that Ontario's educational system “is probably the worst in the world with the exception of the Belkian Congo.” “This,” remarks the Globe and Mail mildly, “suggests that the Provincial election cam- paign, after a slow start, is begin- ning to warm up a little.”

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According to “The Canadian Doc- tor’, while the average income of medical men in 1958 was uniformly high all over Canada, this varied from province to province. Analysis of income tax returns gives the fol- lowing approximation: Newfound- land $14,000; Prince Edward Island $9,800; Nova Scotia $11,700; New Brunswick $12,400; Quebec $11,000; Ontario $14,300; Manitoba $12,600; Saskatchewan $14,300; Alberta $12,600; British Columbia $15,000.

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“Don’t leave school,” the Nation- al Employment Services advises young people who may be tempted to sally forth into the world before completing high school courses. The reason for this warning is that, with

jobs less plentiful than they were a

couple of years ago, statistics show a “startling” relationship between unemployment and education. In short, the better the education, the better the chances of getting and keeping the jobs. ieSiees

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Access Routes To Berlin National Geographie Society

After a decade of periodic dis- putes over traflice between West Germany and isolated West Ber- lin, the problem is again due for an airing at the ‘Big Four” con- ference in Geneva.

Free access to the city was presumably assured at the end of World War II, when the United States, Russia, Britain, and

|_France divided Germany into oc-

cupation zones, and its capital into respective sectors. Under four-power agreements, specific air and overland corridors were set aside to permit passage to Berlin through Soviet-held East Germany.

Frem time to time, however, Russian authorities have tried to blockade or restrict such traf- fic. Now they demand a 10,000- foot ceiling on American air - craft. In the background looms the over-all question of the tréns- fer of control to East Germany, whose government the West does not recognize.

BAKER’S DOZEN

In use today are 13 lifelines that carry freight and travelers between the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin, says the National Geographic Society. Three are air corridors, four are railways, four are highways,

\ and two are canals.

On a map, the three air cor-

ridors across East Germany re- semble a giant direction arrow facing West Berlin. Three prongs —each 20 miles wide—stretch 160 miles southeast from Hamburg, 155 miles directly east from Han- over, and 270 miles northeast from Frenkfurt.

The rail and highway routes link West Berliners with cent- ers of trade and industry in all parts of Federal Germany. Ter- minal and main junction points are scattered from the busy nor- thern port of Hamburg to Helm- stedt, Frankfurt, and the Bava- rian city of Hof.

Barges on the inter-zonal canal systems take cargoes to and from West Berlin over the Ham- burg-Elbe River channel, and in- terlocking Midland waterways that reach from the Rhine in the far west to the Oder in the far east.

TWO KINDS OF CONTROLS

Strict regulations control traf- fic on all communication lanes.

come under special ‘ power treaties. On overl jour- neys, Allied military personnel and freight are checked at bor- der points by Soviet Army re- + presentatives. ~

Civilian travelers and goods are \cleared by East German author- ities under a trade agreement be-

British View On Fluoridation

From The Practitioner. A Medical Journal Published in the United Kingdom

No better exam=.e could be quoted of the incalculable harm that can be done by a small vo- cal minority, using as their am- unition quotations taken out of context, than the current cam- paign against fluoridation of wa- ter supplies ag a preventive agzinst dental caries. All the ev- idence points to this being both an efficient and a’ safe measure.

To take only two recent re- ports: in our March issue we quoted a report from Philadel- phia which showed that four years fluoridation of the public water supply had been followed by a decrease of nearly 50 per- cent in the caries rate in chil- dren, whilst in this issue we sum- merize a report from Maine show-

Roots And Dinner Knives

ing a reduction in the average number of decayed, missing and filled permanent teeth by more than half among the children aged 6 to 9 years.

So far as safety is concerned the position was admirably sum- med up by Professor Ernest Mat- thews in his review of ‘“Advan- ces in Dentistry’ last October: “For generations: communities in various parts of the world have been. using drinking water which contains fluorine in the recom- mended quantity and even five times as much but, as Hurry has shown in Sweden, apart from motiled enamel, no cases of “uo- rosis have been found among these people’. Further evidence in favour of the safety of the pro-

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Montreal Gazette

Rudyard Kipling writes of the gardeners who learn their work “with broken dinner knives.”

Anyone who has ever done any gardening will have memories ,of using some old household knibe, retired from use on the table, and given over as a tool for

tting out weeds. It is no mean

tirement, for all gardener's tools have something of the dig- nity of the work, with the bits of dried earth that cling to .them. They become part of what Kip- ling called, “the glory of the gar- den.”

One thing a gardener comes to learn is the strange world of roots. And a tangled, ret, ear- thy world it is. e

To those who look on things that grow, it is the outward and visible parts that gre known, the greenness of the stems, the spect- rum of the flowers, or the bark and branches of trees. But the world of roots is a world of its own, a hidden world of moisture

_ and darkness, where color has

little purpose, a remote not-hu- man world.

4- OLD PICTURES

Anyone who turns the pages of an old botanical book will often see how each plant is pictured whole, with fts ‘stem and flower, and the root that lies beneath. It is a little disturbing to see how the two parts are really the one plant. For while the upper portion that lives in the sun is vivid with color, the root is pal- lid, often of a white-like sort of brown or red. Yet in these roots

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feel their way Into the earth, among stones, and in the moist and nourishing places.

There may be a certain weird

far and deep, so that they may only slowly be drawn to the sur- face. They have an almost snake- like appearance.

The poet, Walter de la Mare, tells of seeing the roots of water- lilies; the contrast of their long and twisted strength with the white delicacy of the flower was astounding. . ; BODIAM CASTLE

He happened to visit Bodiam Castle at a time when they had drained the moat—a moat fam- ous for its waterlilies. There the roots lay exposed—‘‘great boa - constrictors of roots one didn’t usually see: it was quite ening.”’

strength to the great roots at the foot of old trees—roots that have heaved up the grass, and grasp the ground like huge fing- ers. For the world of roots may be an ancient one, with a far and immemorial growth.

The Scottish essayist, Alexan- der Smith, wrote in his book, “Dreamthorpe” in the 1870's, that trees are “the best anti- ques.”” There are cedars in Le- banon. that the axes of Solomon spared when he was busy build- ing the Temple, oaks in Sher- wood that heard the horn of Ro- bin Hood, beeches that gave shel- ter Shakespeare was a boy. D AND SILENT

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tween the two German states. It is carried out by lower gov- ernment officials in order to a- void the nonrecognition issue. ‘Over the years, check-point de- lays, stoppages, and excessive toll charges often served as a ‘barometer of East West relations. The most critical was the ‘Rus- sian blockade of 1948 that cut off land and water communica- tion with West Berlin. BERLIN AIRLIFT

The result was the Berlin Air- lift. For more than a year, Al- lied airmen on day-and-night sch- edules flew in more than 2,000, 000 tons of essential supplies— enough to keep the city going un- til normal traffic was resumed. A soaring concrete monument at Tempelhof Airport in the United States sector of Berlin stands in memory of the achievement.

Recent reports indicate that travelers and freight are moving briskly between West Germany and West Berlin. In 1958, 8,100,- 000 tons of goods reached the city from the West; 1,500,000 tons went in the reverse direction. Despite crisis headlines, tour- ist officials of West Berlin note that hotel registrations by for- eign visitors numbered 94,000 in 1958, compared with 78,000 in 1957

000 people came to West Berlin by car and bus from West Ger- many in 1958; 3,200,000 in 1957. Another miijlion arrived by air,

cedure is now forthcomfng in the form of a report submitted by the Royal Swedish Medica! Board of the Swedish Govern- ment; “In the opinion of the Board the enquiry carried out has shown that fluoridation ot public water supplies does not involve any demonstrable health hazards even in prolonged con- sumption of. the water."’

There will be many who wi echo the cri de coeur of a med’ ical officer of health in his re- cent annual report: ‘‘What in Heaven's name is preventing mil- lions of children in this country from being given what they des-

teeth from rotting? Believe it or not, it seems to bé a tiny min- ority of people, almost all’ of whom know next to nothing about the subject and have totally un- scientific minds’,

branches, and the leaves that the sun may be seen

glisten -|to this’ day. But beneath is their

other strength, the roots that have grown through centuries, spreading and probing into the

ence—a world which is as old as the outer world of the sun,

power to roots that have~growmr sia which Has its wii history of

reaching out to sources of strength. :

Yet not all trees can clutch the earth with a large and firm grasp, finding strength in the rich soil of grove or forest. There are the trees that grow almost in defiance on the slopes of moun- tains, amidst bare outcroppings of rock. Their roots must find nourishment by préssing through crevices and into shallow earth, in a wonder of persistence. Yet such trees’ have perhaps the greater grandeur.

RUSKIN QUOTED

John Ruskin looked upon the pines in the Alps as ‘“‘magnifi- cent. . .almost terrible.”

“You cannot reach them, can- not cry to them” he wrote;“— those trees never heard human voice; they are far above all sound but of the winds. No foé™ ever stirred fallen leaf of theirs. All comfortiess they stand, be- tween the two eternities of the Vacancy and the Rock; yet with such iron will, that the rock it- self looks bent and shattered be- side them—fragile, weak, incon- sistent, compared to their dark energy of delicate life, and mon- otony of enchanted pride;—un - numbered, unconquerable.”

These pines clinging to their far ledges on the mountainside long way from the gardener brings to

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Along about here some of you are going to ask:,

“But what about pain near the heart? Doesn't physical exertion Cause such \pain?”’ ee answer is a qualified ‘“May-

“| MANY CAUSES

Sudden pain in the heart re- gion—can-be the result of many causes, many of which have no- thing to do with heart disease.

However, in the case of diseas- ed arteries, such pain may_ be connected with exertion. DISEASED ARTERIES

Exertion itself will not \ cause disease in the arteries which sup- Ply blood to the heart muscle. But if these arteries already are diseased, physical effort may cause pain in the heart region. ‘Any frequent or prolonged pain in this area, of course, is a signal to see your doctor.

QUESTION AND ANSWER

Mrs. A. T.: Could you inform me what causes _a bitter taste in my mouth? I am a woman of 50. and in fine health otherwise.

Answer: There may be various causes for a bitter taste, such as bad teeth, faulty dentures, sinus trouble or upset stomach. BR is best to consult your family phy- sician. :

OUR YESTERDAYS

(From the Guardian Files)

-y TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (May 16, 1934) J Word has been received of serious injury sustained by Rev. Arthur D. Matheson, formerly of Dundas, in the course of his Mis- sionary activities in India. Rev. Mr. Matheson, who is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. A.D. Mathegon. Dundas, has been engaged in the missionary field in India for the past twelve years.

Prominent horsemen from all parts of the Province met on ruesday evening in the office a for the purpose of forming a rac- “Doc"’ MacPherson, Summerside ing club. George Callbeck was elected president; Willard Kelly. vice-president; and F.J.E. Wright secretary.

TEN. YEARS AGO (May 16, 1949) Eight pilots graduated from a

at the RCAF Station, Summer- side, on Friday and were pre- sented with certificates at the Commanding Officer’s Parade. On Monday’morning a new course will begin, this time for navi- gators. Each course is approx- imately four months. There will be ei¢ht R.C.A.F. Navigators and one Navy officer on the new course. -

Red Cross First Aid cert'ficates were presented to sixty students in the Tcecher Tra‘-ing Denvart- ment at Prince _of Wales College on Saturday afternoon. Mrs. E. M. Bagnall, president of the Red Cross first aid committee. pre- sided. Speakers included Dr. L. W. Shaw, Deputy Minister of Ed- ucation, and Dr. W.J.P. Mac- Millan, past president of the Red Cross.

MAXIMS

A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception te the human race.

WARM WEATHER CONTINUES

LONDON (Reuters)—Britain’s warm weather wave continued Thursday with a forecast that it would run into the weekend Whit- sun holiday. Bright sunshine and a cloudless sky covered most of the country for the seventh suc- cessive day. The temperature was in the 70s.

NOTABLE DAM The Tignes dam on the Isere River in France, one of the world's great power dams,.is 592 feet higher. :

But all are part of the same life of Nature’s growth, which rea- ches outwafds toward sun and space, while reaching downward into silence and the dark. and d-awing such differing nutriments

for the wish and struggle to life.

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Aunt Nellie: “Well, Bobby, did you see Santa Claus last Christ- mas?’ Bobby: No, auntie. was too dark to see him, but I heard what he said when he knocked his toe against the bed- post.”"—Windsor Star.

There was a time, within the memory of many of us, the well to-do could afford rive an automobile. We may

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‘Booth Corner

FROM A BRIDGE

Here at the edge

The village, variously steepled, Rises above its replica. . .

That phantom structure, calm, unpeopled.

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Hinged as a shell, in duplicate,

The unsubstantial faces matter,

Each with its own identity...

The one of stone, the one of wat- er. ‘

Thus, what we are by only half a red by another reckon- See the steeples of our jm Forever lost, forever beckoning! —Sarah Litsey in the New York Times

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Nobody of fashion or ambition wants to live on a street. Avenu- es are more grand, drives more distinguished, roads more ro mantic, crescents more pictufe- sque, and places more casual. But a street? Merely a paved road.—Ottawa Journal

As jobs get bigger and mers important so do their titles. gentlemen who used to be only _premiers are now “Prime Min- isters of the Province’, and at least one former provincial treas- urer is ‘Minister of Finance pf- the Province’’.—Ottawa Journal

FIRST PHASE COMPLETE

MONTREAL (CP)—Trans-Can ada Air Lines has taken delivery of its 51st-Viscount aircraft, come. pleting the first phase‘ of a $57, 000,000 re-equipment: program be- gun almost five years ago. The airline expects to possess. the world’s first all - turbine powered international air fleet by 1961 when it will also be flying pure jet Douglas DC-8s and Vickers Vanguards.

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