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Untimely Salary Grab

“Biulgctary oxpendit urcs h a v 0 been controlled, and deficit financing ,resorted to only in the interests of -our people as well as materially add- :ing capital works and projects that can best serve and expand our econ- omy.“ Thus declaimed the Provincial Treasurer in his budget specc it last Tuesday. On Friday evening. estimates calling for a fat increase .in Government members‘ salaries and Legislative indemnitics w e nt ithrough with little discussion and ~no objection by members on either side of the House.

This was putting the cart be- fore the horse, however. On Satur- day an operative amendment to the Legislative Assembly Act, increas-

'ing the indemnities. was brought

' into c o m m i t t e e. and Opposition

Leader Matheson rightly pointed

: out. that the bill should have been

brought in prior to the introduction

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In any case, he maintained that it was in op p o rt 11 n e at, this time. After acrimonious discussion, the amendment passed on a straight

party vote.

'3 The whole procedure was as : extraordinary, in its way, as were I the major amendments grafted onto the new '. were adopted on the same division

Election Act which

{ earlier in the week. in this case. I however, even a regular course of ', procedure would hardly have ex- ; cused the introduction of such a j measure at this session. “Deficit financing resorted to I only in the interests of our people” i is going to mean another huge debt 1 increase, plus higher gasoline and sales taxes. Surely, in the circum- ; stances, this jacking up of emolu- ments Could have waited. Such a ' raid on a depleted treasury is not what the taxpayers had a right to expect. it was conducted hastily to coincide with the first session of the present Assembly. so that by the time the next election comes round the taxpayers will have forgotten it. Well, perhaps they won't! The mem- ory will rankle, we predict, for a good long while.

The Fight Goes On

Two reports of encouragement to those who have fought the good fight for fluoridation in this com- munity have come to hand, one from the Health League of Canada, the other from a Washington news

bureau. They show how solidly the

movement is establishing itself in other countries, on both sides of the Atlantic.

The Health League report is to the effect that the British Govern- ment has agreed to indemnify any local authority against cost, direct or indirect, of legal action in con- nection with fluoridation of water supplies. A circular has been issued y the British Ministry of Health in amplification of the minister's recent statement made in Parlia- ment in conjunction with the Sec- retary of State for Scotland. It; sets forth his readiness to approve propose] of local health authori- ties for the addition of fluoride to water supplies “which are defic- ient in it naturally.”

In Parliament the minister, Mr. Enoch Powell, wee ehked if there is *eny medical reason why this treat- ment of water should not be made finimul. To this he replied that ,no such reason exists. At avenue-

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phasizd the safety, simplicity and cheapness of fluoridation and the dramatic improvement it effected in thedental health of children. From 60 to 70 local authorities have already expressed interest in this preventive health measure, and he believed the scheme would now go ahead quickly.

From Washington the report is that a new unit has been set up by the United States Public Health Service to help promote fluoridation of public drinking water. No pres- sure is to be exerted on the local authorities—this would be uncon- stitutional—but the Service is tak- ing the initiative “to the extent of fulfilling its responsibility to let it be known throughout the country that it. is in favor of fluoridation.”

Toward this end, the Service has created a fluoridation section of the disease control branch of its division of dental public health and resources. The section is designed “to bring together in one place existing fluoridation activities” and provides fur technical assistance to states and regions on “fluoridation education”. That is, the dissemina- tion of information and reports with respect, to fluoridation projects in various parts of the country.

As at Dec. 3], 1962. preliminary figures show 2,317 communities in the United States using fluoridated water supplies. serving a population of 43,757.874~—-a gain during the last two years of 349 communities and of 5,280,000 people. in addition. there are over l,900 communities with seven million people using water supplies having fluoride pres- ent in protective quantities since the beginning of time.

Music Festival Week

Music festivals are one of the most popular features of the enter- tainment year, so far as Prince Edward islanders are concerned. This week‘s will be the l8th annual festival of this kind, and we can re- call that from the very start the movement was a big success. Much credit for this, of course, went. to the devoted people who organized it. Their enthusiasm was catching; but there was something about the idea itself that fired the imagina- tion of our people. The program was a modest one at first, but it has been expanded and developed and it can now be claimed, with justice, that we have the largest provincial music festival, per capita, in all Canada.

The performances open this morning in Summerside, Montague and at. four different location in Charlottetown and will continue throughout, the week, with morning, afternoon and evening sessions. A busy week for all concerned! The services of top-ranking adjudicators have been obtained. There is a large list of competitors, and there is no doubt that the audiences will be large and appreciative.

Festivals of this kind have im— portant cultural as well as entertain- ment value. They give music stu- dents the kind of encouragement that is needed, and provide an out- let for community activity of the highest order.

Voting Electronically

The electronic age has caught up with the time honored procedure of voting. At least it has in Omaha, where a card becomes the ballot and the computer will replace the count- ing boards when the electors go to the polls on April 23. The purpose of the experiment is to find out; if there is a swifter, more accurate and less expensive method of hand- ling elections than manual counting.

It was necessary for the Omaha legislature to pass a law makin g possible the test. The issue before the Voters will be an easy-to-handle one—namly, should the ceiling of the state university levy be doubled to four mills. The voters will'mark an X in either the “yes” or “no” squares on a postcard size card on which the proposal is printed.

The computers will process the cards to determine how many “yes” and “no” Votes have been cast and what questionable cards should be flipped out for a man ual check. Then a printer will turn out the re- eulta of 800 cards. a minute. sub- total counts will be handed to the press every 30 minutes. After the count the 35,000 to 40,000 ballots will be locked in a vault for a year, so that if a dispute developele men- uei recount can be made.

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OTTAWA REPORT by

Patrick Nicholson

Condo’s Servicemen And Their Votes

Where do our servicemen come from. and what are their politics?

From Brasshat to buck pri- vate, we can get some interest- ing sidelights on them by study- ing the services vote in the election. v

The latest count shows a to- tal of 124.165 Canadians under arms. Of these, 52.497 are in the R.C.A.F.. or "C.A.R.C." as it is known in French-Canada; 50.255 in the Army: and 21,414 in the Royal Canadian N a vy.

Those servicemen. and the wives of those who are married. were entitled to vote at the Ser- vice polls, from April 1 to April 6. Veterans in hospitals operat- ed by the Department of Vel- erans Affairs could also vote in those polls. The rest of us, of course. voted on Election Day, April 8, unless we chose to take advantage of the advance polls‘ 3 Week or so earlier.

HOW MANY WIVES?

No exact figures of cnl'ran— chised wives are available. We can learn that the Air Brigade in Europe has 15,403 dependants i overseas, but this figure includ- es children. We also know that the Army has around 9.500 de- pendants overseas, also includ- ing children.

But the total Services elector- ate, including members of the three armed services, plus the wives of married men. plus those hospitalized veterans, was estimated at 141.210.

A very low 68 per cent of those voted, compared to more than 78 per cent of the civilian elec- torate which marked ballot pa-

pers. A total of 96.359 "service"

cent went to Liberal candidates, 20 per cent to Conservatives. 5 per cent to Social Crediters. and 4 per cent to NDP candidates. In the civilian vote. those per centages were 41 for the Lib-

endoru the opinio nu pondente. All Iellere published are Ilb ice: to edifice and condennlion where eeceuery. The Guerrilla le unable 1e .ter Into eny correepondenee regard- Ieg leilen enbmltl .

CAR LICENSE FEE

Sin—1 received yesterday. (April 17) my operator's license to drive a motor car until March 31st, 1964. For this i paid two dollars, although i understand a number of island citizens are licensed to drive for half this amount. An explanation of this

doidde standard would I am sure be. as Hazel would say, "A Doozer"

I received on March filth. e

April 9011. would have to operate a motor cm- illegaily between April 9th and yesterday, Come to think of it. i couldn't an my road has

April 9th. . .etc., NEIL C. MneDONALD, Kensington, P.E.I.

FORWARDF/D LETTER

on half of Mr. William B letlve to the relocation of the

erais. 33 for the Conservatives, 12 for the Socreds and 14 for the N

That pattern repeats the ex- perience of r e c e n t elections, when the service vote has been proportionately more in favour of the Liberal Party than the general average of Canadians.

Where do on r servicemen come from.

Nearly one - third of the ser- vice vote was applied to con- stituencies in Ontario. 30,751 service voters claimed that pro- vince as their home. Next came Nova Smile with 15,607 about half the Ontario total Then 13,028 from Quebec: 10.821 from B.C.: 7,196 from Alberta; 5.702 from New Brunswick; 4.- 980 from Manitoba; 4,629 from Saskatchewan: 1.860 from New- foundland: and 1.543 from

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.In . proportion to population.

the cross - Canada figure shows that 0.5 per cent of the popula- . very

tion, or 1 ana- dians, is in the armed forces. Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alber-

ta and Manitoba each exactly match this national average; with 0.5 per cent of their respec- tive populations in the services. Nova Scotia leads the parade. with 2.1 per cent of its popula- tion in uniform — no doubt most- ly in the Navy; little Prince Ed- ward Island is a close and loyal second, with 1.5 per cent in uni- form: ew Brunswick has 1.0 per cent: and B.C. has 0.7 per cent. Only two provinces fall b e l o w the national average; Newfoundland has 0.4 per cent of its population serving, and Quebec 0.2 per cent.

The total strength of Canada's armed forces - now 124,166 at an all - time peacetime re- cord hlgh figure.

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UK. Pushes Nuclear Power

Aims 0! Industry. Inndon

Visiting England’s West Coun- . the Duke of Edinburgh of- ficially opened the first nuclear power station at Berkeley. Gloucestershire. while through a closed - circuit television net- work, a second nuclear power station w a 5 simultaneously op- ened at Bradwell. on the Tham- es estuary, in Essex.

Although both have been in commission since last year. these official openings by the Duke will make people realize that Britain is really in the nu- clear age of the domestic front.

In Britain the position is this. There is an atomic energy au- thority largely concerned wit research, or getting research done; there is also the Central Electricity Generating B o a r d which is responsible to r supp- lies. Between lhese two govern-

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ment organizations is the free enterprise industry w hic h is asked to pioneer and build Bri- tain's nuclear power stations. It has been a costly business for free enterprise.

Nevertheless, Britain is now pioneering in n u c l e a r power plant construction, with c on- tracis in italy and Japan. and other: are on the way.

The two nuclear stations offi- cially opened this month W. e r e built for the Central Electricity Generating B o a r d by the Nu-

clear Power Group who are also

building two further stations in the United Kingdom. at Dun- geness, K e n t, and Oldb u r y, Gloucestershire, and one at. La- tina, Italy, Europe's largest nu- clear station (200 MW), which is expected to produce electri-

Most Epileptic: Are Discovered — Before Age 20

By Dr. Theodore R. Van Belle- THE MAJORITY of epilep- tics develop the disease before the age of an. The cause ll elu- sive but, thanks to modern drugs. moat victims of the die- ease can lead a normal life. Un- der good medical care, 50 per cent are entirely free of seiz- ures and in 30 to 35 per cent convulsions are fairly well con- tro . But the situation may be dif- ferent with those who get the disease in adulthood. The con« vulsions may be the first warn- ing of a brain tumor. malfor- mation of a blood vessel. or other serious disorder of th e brain. The seizure may a symptom of a cerebral disease and treating the symptom with- out trying to find the cause re- presents wishful thinking.

The' anti - convulsent drugs may work for a short time but if a tumor is responsible, the condition is likely to get worse. Furthermore. the victim may be spared needless paralysis and possible death if the lesion is removed in time.

But when an exhaustive ex- amination fails to uncover a cause, the individual is treated with one of the same remedies used in childhood epilepsy. A group oi 51 such men and wo- men were studied by two Eng- lish physicians. All had devel- oped epilepsy after age 25. Fol- low-up examinations s h o w e d that 14 had residual brain dam- age or scars from previous in- fections or injuries. There was indirect evidence of propable damage in 30 others. but. in the majority the cause was not known. On the othe hand. 20 had ex- perienced a severe emotional disturbance before the first sel- zure. One woman had a convul- sion half an hour after learning that her mother-in-law had veloped a serious illness: an- other. eight weeks after the death of her husband: and still another on the day she was ar- rested by the Gestapo. Many had become depressed prior to a seizure. In two, the episodes followed retirement and one man had his first convulsion on the day of retirement. after Working 45 years with the same

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There is no way to prove whether these emotional upsets triggered the attacks of epilep- sy but we now the emotionally disturbed epileptic is difficult to treat.

CARRYING SCHOOLBOOKS Jane writes: day I lug four textbooks. purse, and other supplies 1V2 miles each way to an school. The total weight is pounds. I’m 15 years old, 5 feet 1 inch tall. My- arms and back tell me this is too heavy a load. Have you any sugg%slion§?

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I always have understood this is why high school girls have boy friends.

ASPIRIN AND BLEEDING

M.B. writes: I've heard that

taking aspirin causes bleeding

in the stomach of some people.

Can the drug also cause bleed-

ing in the nose and other areas? EPL

Yes. especially if aspirin al- fects the blood coagulation. I now of several instances of nosebleed caused by taking this drug.

GRADUAL REDUCTION

M . R. writes: I have a pro- ject in mind which involves los~ ing 50 pounds in six months. Do you think this is possible and safe?

REPLY Yes—and sensible. But don't

get discouraged if the weight is ‘ Dr

not shed as planned.

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notes BY THE WAY——

Women ere meterin- except in fiction; There they are .eolved in the int chepter.-— Station! Bacon-Herald.

The cl deeen’t vote has no licence to criticize. but the number of unilcenced critic's gets bluer every year. -— Cel- gary Herald.

“Now tell me,” said the re- porter to the man who was cele- brating his 90th birthday. “what would you do if you could live your life all over again?" There was a long silence during which the nonagenarlan appeared to be deep in . “Well,” he said finally. “I think i would part my hair in the middle."— Hamllton Spectator.

Cuba has turned into a politi- cal setback for President Ken- nedy. Fear of nuclear war is likely to force him to remain a ’captive target of political sniping.

The way in which the sensi- tive alliance between Kennedy and the Cuban exile leaders was allowed to collapse is an indi- cation of the president's wili~ ingneSS to sacrifice some politi- cal advantage for the sake of preventing war in the Carib- bean that could bring a nuclear exchange with ' .

The claim of Jose Miro Car- dona, former leader of the ex- iles, that Kennedy's policies give Cuban Premier Castro “ab- solute immunity" in the execu- tion of Soviet Premier Khrush- chev's designs in the western hemisphere likely will provide the Republican party with a lot of ammunition against the ad- ministration.

Because Miro is a foreigner. it is not likely his claims would by themselves cut much ice

Our Yesierdo ’s

(From the Guardian Files) TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO April 22. 1938

The April issue of "College Times". organ of the Prince of Wales College students, has made its appearance. in addi- tion to the customary features. editorial. poetical, etc., tit ere are some amusing sketches in dramatic form. The issue re- flects credit on Miss Jean Mac- Donald. editor - in - chief, and her competent staff.

, Two Maritime men have been I appointed to command a steam- l er operating in southern service. Claude Martin. form-er superin- tendent of the Halifax Tow Boat Company. and E. M. Ma- lone, son of Rev. C-anon Malone of Charlottetown, P. E. I. have been appointed as Master and First Officer respectively, of the steamer Southern Lady.

TEN YEARS AGO April 22, 1953

Kiwanis and Kiddies combin- ed effectively last evening at Prince of Wales College auditor- ium in a well-balanced variety show which had for its objec- tive the raising of funds for the “kiddies wading pool” in Vic- toria Park.