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were Prince Edward Island Like the new

. Published every week-day morning at 165 Prince Street ; Vblfltlnltm. P.E..l.. by the Thomson Company Ltd.

Ian A. Burnett, Publisher and General Manager Frank Walker. Editor _,v Member (lenadian Daily Newspaper . Publishers Association leather at The Canadian Press i Member Adult .Burean oi Circulation- :Mneb offices a! Summereldm Montague and Alberto: amounted Nationally byt Thomson Newspapm Advertising Service a K1” Street West. Toronto. om. 640 Cathcart St. Montreal 1030 West Georgia St. Vancouver Byparrler Charlottetown. Summerside‘soc per wet-J. By Mail elsewhere In P. .I. 39.00 per annum. otha Provinces and Unlimd States 812.00 per annum.

‘ raon i FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1953

;. Extra $8 Million

The Royal Commission appointed , to inquire into Newfoundland’s finan- cial position after eight years of'Con— ‘ federation has at last presented its report to the Federal Cabinet. This is the implementation of the famous

tion. The Commission’s Chairman was Chief Justice John MacNair of New Brunswick. Other members were Sir Albert Walsh, Chief Justice of Newfoundland, and Professor J.J. Deutcsh, a well known economist.

\ The report recommends that, re- troactive to April 1, 1957.-the Pro- vince be given a further $8 million annually “to enable it to continue pub- lic services at the levels and I stan- dards reached subsequent to the date of union, without resorting to taxa- tion more burdensome, having re- gard to capacity to pay, than that ob: .3 taining generally in the region come prising the Maritime Provinces of r Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and

"j , Prince Edward Islan .”

The report was received in. New-

: foundland with evident coolness. Pre‘ mier Smallwood called it “very dis- appointing” and expressed the hope

that the Federal Government “will

l,‘ ask Parliament to make this annual grant substantially larger than the"

the

1 cent, or $7,500,000

' foundland’s RV took this adjustment grant into ac- count. -

5‘ amount recommended by the Com- . mission"; while the St. John’s News,

an independent paper, has labelled the

i report “a sad, uninspiring document

which falls completely to fulfill the

L’ spirit of the Confederation agree- “ slant.” ' .

A special commission appointed by Newfoundland Government to‘ make representations to the Mac—

,Nair Commission had asked for the

sum of $17 million anrfilally. In the meantime, however, it will be recalled that at Premier Smallwood’s insis- tence Newfoundland received 30 per- ennually over a

i ll

. baker Government. Our share provin-‘ eially, u a resultof that four-way

‘ split, amounted. to only 10 per cent I and we have/been at a loss ever since

to understand how the figure was ar- rived at. Ithay well be that the. Mac- Nai-r Commission, in ' assessing'New- present. requirements.

At any rate, this Province has had

i the same quarrel with Ottawa for

many years that Newfoundland has

.had over the terms of Confederation,

though we were not fortunate enough

in having provision for a. Royal Com-

mission readjustment. If we had our rights, we should be receiving—tak- ing the Newfoundland grant as a mo— del—at least $2,000,000 a year over and above our present grants. Per— haps, however, we should claim an"- other million or so as compensation for our lack of big industry, such as

[Britain & The Middle East

Reference was made in these columns yesterday to British enter- prise in developing all resources in the Middle East, and to the benefits that have accrued to all concerned

not the whole story by any means.

Since the middle of the nineteenth century Britain has been the great- est single factor in fostering Mid- eastern progress in all her assistance taking many forms, including technical aid and advice, civil engineering works. banking. services, transport facilities and extensive locust control.

> The Middle East as a whole is heavily deficient in rainfall and a large part is dependent on rivers for water. ,Two-thirds or more of .1

Aden, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, as well as _ considerable portions of Sudan and Persia, are classified as ex- tremely arid or arid. British con- sultants, engineers .and contractors have planned and built most of the dams and barrages that conserve the Nile waters fur the irrigation of Egypt. and the irrigation and flood protection works that con- tain and regulate the Tigris and

~33, Euphrates rivers in Iraq.

Term 29 of the articles ,ofConfedera- ‘

four year period, of what was origin- ' , ally intended as a Maritime Provinces , ‘ adjustment grant from the Diefen-

Newfoundland has in fair abundance.

from these activities. But this is_

directions, -

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, 1. to 7' months. That’s from

Among other major projects for which they aregrcsponsible are the Sennar Dam in the Sudan, which made possible the Gezira cotton growing scheme—basis of the coun- try’s prosperity—and the Gebel Aulia Dam, also in Sudan. Between 1879 and 1937 the crop area in Egypt was thus increased from 4.7 million feddans to 8.3 million. (A feddan is equivalent to rather more than an English acre.)

Some Middle East countries pos- sess no oil, or revenue from the tran- sit of oil, and are seriously deficient in other resources. The United King- dom Government has in recent years provided substantial assist- ance to two of these—Jordan and Libya—for economic development.“ Jordan has received about £75 mil- lion, excluding military and budget-3 ary assistance; and under the Anglo- Libyan-Treaty of 1953 about £195 million in economic aid has been provided to Libya over a five-your period. V .

British banks have been respon- sible for developing a netvmrk of banking services thruughout the Mid- east and providing credit facilities. The British cotton industry has

sponsored the expansion of cotton

growing and the Sudan has become thé second largest supplier of raw cotton to the British market. Again,

British consulting engineers were,

at the beginning of 1958, responsible

for the design and supervision of '

works in Iraq with an estimated value of over £90 million. The re-

! cently formed Middle East. Industrial

Projects Corporation to promote

economic expansibn in the area in-.

eludes 14 leading 'United Kingdom industrial and banking concerns. Through the British Middle'East

[Development Division, the United '0

Kingdom Government for Several years has been making available free of charge the services of ex- ports, and, when requested, under- taking surveys and providing ad- vice on development projects. More recently, under the Baghdad Pact, it is assisting in Other forms of

. technical training—notany in the acreatcion of a nuclear centre‘ ‘ Baghdad—’—thc only chain the Middle

,at

East—401' which it provided

- equipment assistance.

This-is an record, and one that is certainly relevant ‘to any “summit” discussion on Brit- 321’s position in thc Middle East to-

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EDITORIAL Noni. A scientific report reveals that a mosquito has an aVerage life of from months too'long. '

¥ a» to ,

The Russians started off their an; ‘

nouncemerit of recOgnition. of the‘new government .of‘rlraq in..-this manner:

“‘The government of the USSR, being ,

invariably guided by the principle of the self—determination of nations .... ..” Invariably, that is, except in Hun- gary, Estonia, .Lativa. Lithuania,

East Germany, Poland, Czecho-Slo-

vakia, Rumania, Bulgaria and Al- bania! _ 4 o «o N ow they’re even “baptizing” peo- ple into the Communist faith. Some

' time ago, Communist East Germany

introduced an atheist ceremony called

“Jugendweihe (Youth Dedication) for

teen—agers, to take the place of Christian confirmation. Since then it has replaced baptism with a similar act known as Kindesweihe (Child’s Dedication) “in order to conform with the wishes of wide circles of the

population,” as the official party pa—

per puts it. t o _

The joint committee on the Li- brary of Parliament is having a. memorandum prepared to let mem- bers know what "services the library can provide for them when they look for speeches. The committee agrees that many of them don’t seem to know how to make use of a reference li—' brary. Judging" from some of the speeches that get into Hansard, com— ments the Ottawa Citizen drily, this is a reasonable deduction.

e e- e .

Why all the fear about facing the Soviet dictator in summit talks? Have the Western powers forgotten that free discussion is one of the great bulwarks of democracy? Wherever it has flourished, democ— racy has spread; where it has been curtailed, tyranny has raised its head. Oldtime champions of democracy—Lin Britain, France, United States and Canadamwould welcome the op pol'lunity of facing a dozen Khrushx chevs in verbal battle, and what is more, would put them lgncminiously to rout.

.soribes inmselt as a “child of , mood of most of the peopled his "

' goo should Silt ‘ in the same. school.

‘ HOW FAR?

"South where the exulting Faubus

.

- Hriterest. The'Guardian does not nesesu _ eerily endorse

and my opinion in that regard

information to put into their -

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FALSE AlARM

.1 BlOW Al Integration.

By Joseph,

MacSween

Canadian Press Staff Writer

The. white talk of shamans have,.ln'effect, thumbed their col- lective nose at President Eliseo.~ hower on the issue of school in: ingration. . . .

That seems to be the meaning of the landslide victory of Gov- ernor Orval Faubus in the Ar- kansas preferential —— a victory that assures the Dem- ' Walt of a third term the heav~ ily Democratic state.

It also shows that Faubus, a 48-year-old mountain boy who de-

termine," Well imderstands the

state on‘ whether white and ,Ne— I together

It draunaltizes the bitter opposi- tion to integration . not only in Arkansas but throughout the

tie a hero. I

How far will popularity cairn-y Faubuc? His enemies fear he will gain dictatorial power w‘irllhinAr- houses and continue to defy the fedemall Iii hope heiwrill be the leader of a

“PUBLIC FORUM

This column is open to the discus- Jiim by correspondents of question of

the opinion of corres- pondentl.

e

‘ BEFORE AND AFTER.

Sir,—-In my last letter I stated in effect that the reckless prom- ises of Mr. Diefenbaker and his" Tory candidates accounted for the election of most of them:

has not changed. .

In that letter I was dealing with the assurances given to the farmers of Prince Edward Island that potatoes were covered by the Price Support Act, and that farmers would henceforth know in advancelthe lowest price they wouly receive for their potatoes.

Well, we have just [witnessed another typical case in the House of Commons. Previous to the June 10th election, Mr. William Hamil- ton, the member for Notre Dame de Grace, denounced in the House and throughout the country'the “one mail -a day” delivery in ur- ban centers, claiming that the extra‘ expense of two deliveries a day would be trivial;

To witness the contortions of Mr. Hamilton on these occasions might suggest to the ordinary citizen that he could be a famous mail assorter, exaspt. for the fact that much of the stuff he was slinging around would be‘ liable to land in the wrong mall bag.

The same Mr. Hamilton is now Post Master General of Canada and he, formerly the fierce critic of the one daily‘mail delivery in urban centers, very meekly an- nounces in the House of Com- mons that few people except, or want, the mail main to call more than once a day, and as it would mean an extra expense of over six million dollars a year, he has decided that two deliveries a day are not warranted, and that one delivery -a day is sufficient—and that is the way it will remain as far as he is concerned.

There is no doubt that well planned promises to suit, the needs of every constituency in Canada have ‘ resulted in the greatest political landslide in Can- adian history. ~ '

I am, sir, etc., THOS. V. GRANT Senate Chambers ' Ottawa, July 30, 1958.

GOOD» SUGGESTIONS

Sir,~~I wish to commend Sen- ator Elsie Inman on her recent address with regard to the advis— ability of having a National Park for King’s County in this Pro— vince. Also her suggestion to have the many historical happenings in said County during the Colonial rpgimes or France and England marked by bronze tablets, is most commendable.

. am, Sir, etc...

KENNETH BRUCE STEWART

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Bedeque, REL

resurgent ‘statcs' right move- ment. They even talk about him heading a'thlird party in the pres- idential elections in 1960.

Fraubus excited worldwide crit- icism when he .used national guardsmen—alocal militia—to keep nine Negro children out of Little Rock’s Geutmal High School last fall in defiance of the U.S. Su- preme Court which on May 17, 1954 ordered that school integra. tion should proceed with all delib-i crate speed throughout the south-y em states. I ’

And the Arkansas voters now have shown that they are resent— ful of Eisenhower’s action in using federal troops to torce ad— mission of the pupils into Central. COOLING PERIOD

Contml Bligh, which graduated its first Negro student this year. is a legal battleground still and Eaubus gained ammunition by a

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recent court decision.

U.S. District Judge Harry J. Lomley, 74, on June 21 ordered a ‘21/2-year suspension of integration at the school on the alppeal of the Little .Rock School Board, which pleaded that teaching was being disrupted by disorders.

Significantly. o'b s e r v e rs re— ported that moderates and even integrationlsts in Little Rock were relieved at the delay, hoping it: would give antagonisms a chance to cool. The judge, himself refer- red to ra‘cooling-off MAY ACT AGAIN -

The U.S. Supreme Count re- fused to intervene and the Na- tional Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People’s appeal now is before three judges of the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis, Mo., where it will'be heard Aug. 4.

The NAACP says Lemley over- stepped his constitutional power.

Faubus has indicated that if things are the some at Central High next September — in other words, if Negro students return— he might call out soldiems again “to preserve peace and order."

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-EDINBURGH -’- Thane is a boom in the The gay colors of Scotland halve been well on parade during the recent sum shine tour of the British Royal family through‘the Lowlands of Scotland. . I

Now, from an expert on the killt and the tartan, comes fresh evidence of .a world-wife boom in the Scottish national dress. More and more foreign nations are favoring the tartan for both male and female wear.

There are now, it is reckoned.- something like 800 tantans when you talke into consideration mo- dern colors, old colors and mut— ed colors.

Many people forget that. in ad» dition to the many clan tartans there are regimental tar-tans. fa- mily tartans amid ddstriot tartans.

Today bamboo is worn all over the world.

In Canada alone there are 20 kilted regiments, besides hund-1 reds of pipe bands. Every new pipe band anywhere in the globe means a new boost to the tartan. BAGPIPES TO PORTUGAL

The Portuguese Alir Force re- cently imported bagpipes. So did the Ceyl-onese Navy. Both are ongauizlng pipe bands. The Sing- apore Police have very good pipe bands. So has the Vajinavudh College in Bangkok.

The cost of the tartan and the bagpipes is ‘no 'longer providing an obstacle. A reasonably good set of bagpipes costs in the re glen of $90. .

Scots themselves are no longer selfish when it comes to sharing out the use of their national in- strument and their native cloth. They realize that in this modern age, the tartan and the bagpipes have become truly intennatioual. Itlsnowregardedasamark of respect for other nations to use them.

Follchl‘s of Robeni. Burns. the Scottish poet. are disappointed that no special Burns stamp is to be issued to commemorate the approaching bicentenalry the poet’s birth. It will be a great world occasion.

BURNS STAMP

‘ There have been hints how— ever that the British Post Of- ilice may mark the event in ano— ther way. The Postmaster-Gener- al is considering what mange- ments might possibly be made for a special franking of letters to commemorate the bicenten— ary. '

May patriotic Scots had hoped that a commercial Robert Burns stamp might have been printed for the occasion.

A major‘factor in the Govern— ment deciding against a special stamp was, undoubtedly the tear of creating a major precedent for similar events in the future.

The tourist season is in full swing in Scotland. And with it, has come a brand ~ new idea in tourist aid!

Canadian. American and (.fnnv ‘

finental tourists visiting Edie» burgh can now pick up a tele- phone, dial a special number ~«

a Sco‘ls Getting Results- . i

« 'Wnflfidng Julienne-ii Aster ,

and. hey, presto. they have with- in an hour a personal escort who will show them round the town.

These tourist - sides will take

shopping, sightseelng, tour- ing the countryside — or danc- ing. . ,Othens are expectant moun- taineering, angling. mid Millim- Allofthemwillhelpyouohoose the best spots for souvemrs‘ .

The service is the brain wave of a city business woman. She employs a staff of young men and'glirls who are mainly students of languages at the university. They can speak French, German, Italian or Spanish.

The service costs the tourist an‘ average of $3 an hour. It is cheap at the price.

Talking of the tartan and the pipes, the streets of Moscow will soon be echoing to the stirring sounds of the Scottish bagpipes. FLYING TO RUSSIA

A famous Scottish pipe band, winner of the world‘s champion- ship for the second year runnm‘ ’ g, is flying to Russia next month on a cultural visit. The band is the Shotts and Dykehead Caledon-

rlsa group, which has now held the ' '

world title four times in 10 years.

The pipers, gaily - attired in tartan, ought to make a grand sight as they march down the main streets of the Russian Cap- italin the August sunshine. , ‘

A group of unidenglnaduates from Glasgow Univensity have been spending pant of the sum- mer vacation on the uninhabited Island of North Rona. off the North of Scotland. ‘

The island 50 miles from the nearest land, is completely out off from the mainland. -

The students have been living under Ca’l’llVlalS on a peninsula at the south-west tip of the island. Rare birds are being studied as well as flower and animal life.

Island of Rona was inhab- ited fur more than .a thousand years. Its archaeological remains have never been properly ex~ amined.

Br Herman Blinds-sen. MD. y‘il’ITHIN another few Week‘s- many youngsters across the can lion will] be entering klnrlegyul‘len or first grade 501‘ the first. time. D! your youngsler is one of them. naturally you are a hat anxious about how he will take to school~and how the school will]. take to him. PAIRENT’S MISTAKE

Your particular child. I am sure. is a very bright. youngster. No doubt you want him to gel. off to a good start. And for this reason you are apt to make the same mistake many, many par— ents make dull-mg the month or so before school begins.

Don't try to cram him flullllmf knowledge as thoth he were about to take a college enam- inarllion. Teaching a child to count to ten. or even to recite the al- phabet. in unnecessary.

llt‘ls true that many live and six - year - odds can print their names when they first enter class. But maybe your child can’t.

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So what. LEARNS IN SCHOOL

He is going to school to learn. And he will loam. more readily and more-thoroughly under the guidance of a trained teacher than under Mom or Pop's tute- lage, no matter what the par- ents’ education may have been.

Yet the temptation is great to try to give a youngster .a head about by teaching him‘t-o read be- fore he onions school. And this is a perfectly natural tendency. since reading ability is closely associated with any child’s ad- vance in school.