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he strongest memory is weaker than the weakest ink.”

wEDNE—snAY, Jan., 3, 1953

Why All The Polher?

It seems that nearly half _,the present session of Parliament so far has been taken up with scattered debate on the Government’s air de- fence plan with the United States. Some Opposition critics, finding little else in the Government’s leg- islative program to cavil at, seem determined to find something de- trimental to Canada’s sovereignty in the creation of a joint command at Colorado Springs. Defence Min-

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5 ister Pearkes, for his part, appears

to be a little hesitant about admit- ting the existence of the arrange- ment. It is difficult to understand, however, why this should be. If, to quote Mr. Pearkes, “fhere would be no opportunity to call Parlia-

_ ment when enemy planes were over

the country,” would it not be al-

most as difficult, if not quite so, to‘

obtain instructions from the Cabi- net or even from the Minister him- self? ' ._ As Leonard T. Stick, a Liberal member for a Newfoundland con- stituency, noted in the latest debate on-the question, it is doubtful that Canadians have the slightest inter- est. in who heads the joint com- mand, a Canadian or an American, “solong as ‘he is given full authority- to act quickly on his own without having to confer with either the Canadian or American-government.” Since, however, it is the defence of the North American. Continent that is involved, and not merely the de- fence of Canada, it is» reasonable to suppose that an American will continue to bear the responsibility.‘ General Partridge, the present com-

mander, already has full power to ,

act as he thinks best from the U.S. Defence Department. He should be given simiirar power I from Canada, if he has not been accorded ital- ready. The Canadian people‘ under stand that thoroughly; and there is no reasonat all why the Govern- ment should not come out openly and say so. This idea of leaving the commander powerless to take 'ac't-‘

ion, pending, instructions from the5

Cabinet or any individual _member' of it, is utterly senseless. Let-them agree beforehand what would con- stitute aggressive 'i-ntent and then leave the final decision to the joint command without reservation. In an. emergency a delay of only five min- . utes could mean disaster. , I I I If Russian planes ever do appear over Canada, bent on aggression, their crews are not going to keep their bombs inactive while some one in Colorado is trying to reach’ Mr. Pearkes or the Prime Minister by

telephone.

-1- Mr. Dulles &'Criiicism ’

“ Say what you like about U.S. Secretary 'of State Dulles, he can. take a lot of harsh criticism andihe stands up well undersfire. Demands for his resignation have come from many directions in recent months. A group of Congressmen, returning from a trip to Europe and the Mid- dle East, says he is “the best hated man in the world”. An American educator, now lecturing at Oxford University, says that “if Mr. Dulles were to resign tomorrow he would be making the greatest contribution to world peace that has ever been made by an American Secretary of

“States.” Emanuel Shinwell, promin-

ent Labourite and one-time, Minis- ter of Defence in the British Cabi- net, echoes this sentiment and adds that British Foreign Secretary Lloyd should follow Mr. Dulles in retirement “as guarantee of a fresh start in negotiations with the Soviet Union.” A P '

Indeed, it. has been 'a long time since anybody—except President Eisenhower, who always proceeds on the assumption that anyone ap- pointed by him must be above re- pr0ach—has had a good word to say for Mr. Dulles; and there is reason to believe that most of the free world Governments would re- joice if he were to step down and take it easy. Yet, there is no in- dication that Mr. Dulles plans to re- tire or even that he is at all wor-

ried about his unpopularity. He con- tinues to go his own way, “unde-

pressed by defeat and unelated by

triumph.” ‘

What is it that keeps a public figure from retiring long after his usefulness, in the opinion of his contemporaries, has faded? it cer- tainly isn’t money in Mr. Dul- les’ case. He is a wealthy man; and his income from his Wall Street business prior to his entering pub- lic life was many times greater than it has been during his period of of- fice. Nor can it be ambition, since he is an elderly» man; and the time is long since gone when he found pleasure in being in the world’s limelight. Short of the Presidency- which is out ifehis reach, he has en- joyed all the honour of place that anyppublic office could accord him. It must be that he is convinced he still has a great service-to render his country and the world, his cri- tics notwithstanding. He may be right, too. Only history will be able to revealwhether he is or not. And even hisory may be silent on the question. '

Raising Geese In Ungava

Eskimos living in Canada’s Arc- tic and sub-Arctic regions have ,no difficulty in securing bird-meat ‘when required; for those regions are the natural breeding grounds of sev- eral species of wild geese. This year, however, for some reason known to the Federal Department of Agricul-

‘ture, an attempt was made'to raise

geese in captivity, or partial-captiv-

- ity.

Early in June 35 goslingsof the Pilgrim breed were sent by air from Ottawa to Fort Chimo in the Ungava Bay region. An Eskimo was assigned to look_after them, For a period of three weeks the birds were kept in ‘the village and fed a luxurious diet of chick starter, mash, some native grass, caribou moss and other vegetation. They were then taken to False River, an area selected because

‘of its dog-free surroundings.,There,

they were put out on a grassy tidal flat and left to fend for themselves during the daytime. At night the

attendant herded them into an enclo- -

sure and fed them just a sprinkling of grain. . '

After being at False River in re- lative freedom for ten weeks, the birds were again brought back to

.Fort Chimo. By -that time the aver-

age ‘weight was 7.5 pounds. ‘Follow- ing grain feeding for another three ,

weeks, they averaged 11.3 pounds, _

with a few hardy ganders going over 13 pounds. Twenty of the birds were then killed and‘ distributed among the villagers. The remainder are being kept at Fort Chimo, where‘ studies regarding the best conditions for’ carrying them thorough the winter months vvill_ be made.‘

The only thing that the experi- A

ment proved, as far as one cansee, is that geese can be raised by Eski- mos at Ungava. Evidently, that is considered important by the Agri- culture Department.

EDITORIAL NOTES

A radio'technician .in the‘ States says he has made contact with moon dwellers. He did not "reveal what the . strangers had to say about earth-dwellers. It would probably be ‘unprintable, anyhow.

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Sir A. Verdon-Roe, the founder of A. V. Roe Ltd, died recently in Portsmouth, Eng, at the age of 80. It sounds incredible now; but when he approached the British War Of- fice in 1912, having produced the first enclosed airplane, he was told that the Government “saw no pos- sibility of using aeroplanes for war

, purposes.”

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There was some fear that a sec- ond epidemic _of Asian flu might- be more severe than the first. This I/1‘as not been the case in Japan where the second attack is now at its peak. It continues to be relatively , mild with a low mortality rate, ac- cording to a report from the World Health Organization. Y W Y I

The Ford Foundation, which comes to the aid of American educa- tional institutions whenever help is needed, has extended its munificence farther afield. A $1 million grant has been given to Oxford University, Britain's oldest seat of higher learn- ing, for the purpose of restoring some of the university’s twenty colleges which were. built with soft stone centuries ago. Another million dollar gift goes to Harvard for in- ternaticraél staidie-s programs. In all, gifts totaling nearly $14 million were allocated for the first quarter of 1958.

Good thing

brought us these imns~ sounds like magbc there's cattle , mstlin’ in these. .3 ,- herc. parts ~f 5?

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WESTERNASTYLE

Eorecdsiing Without Fear

Arthur Blakely In The Montreal Gazette

Sometimes or other duringthe 12 months that lie ahead, on at least one occasion:

Prime Minister John Diefenbak— er will intimate that a new gen- eral election must come sooner or later and -that, unless the 0p- position parties are careful, it may come sooner. rather than la- ter. " '

All political .panhies, claiming

to place great store by -the com- ‘

monsense of the electorate, will profess complete confidence .in the outcome of any test at the polls. ‘

Hon. Lester B. Pearson and Hon. Paul Martin will admit to having similar faith in the com- monsen'se of the voting delegates

'at the Liberal leadership conven-

tion. ,

After the convention, after mo- dest-references to the support given -them in their nespective leadership campaigns, they will pledge unswerving loyalty to each

- other and the cause of the Liber- . al Party.

In the meantime, Mr. ,Ches-ter V. Sampson will have disclosed thatphe is not a contender for this leadership, this being the re- sult of a misinterpretation of some ‘words attributed to him of which he will deny any and all knowledge. ‘

A prominent Liberal Member of Parliament will suggest that the time has come for a thor- ough - going reform of Parlia- ment.

An equally- prominent Social Crediter will indicate that, in his view, the’ time is ripe for '3 re- -form of Canada's monetary sys- tem.

Without regard for narrow con- siderations of party, the long - weekenders in the House of Com-

mons will coutinue to attend de- liberations only fnom Tuesday to Thursday of each week.

. OPPOSITION PARTIES

Opposition parties —— the Liber- als in panticular — will demand the latest unemployment totals.

They will suggest that it is a curious coincidence, at the very least, that when -the Conservativ- es were las-t in office in 1935, there‘ was another and even more serious economic" recession.

They will be charged, in turn, with being prophets of gloom, doom and, indeed, blue 1‘-uin, to- tally lacking in faith in Canada's manifest ’destiny.

Labor Minister Michael Starr will hint that unemployment is little, if any, more serious than that of'the winter of 1953-54_ when

the Liberals. (remember them?)

were in power.

Finance Minister David M. Fle- ming will decline, none too pol- itely, an invitation to discuss in Parliament the British offer to establish an Anglo-Canadian free

trade area, together with Ottawa’:

private reaction to same.

An obscure Conservtaive back- benclier will-‘be detected in the very ‘act of reading -a speech from a prepared text.-

Trade Minister Gordon Church- -ill will be reticent about the Fed- eral Govern-ment’s plans., if any, to increase two-way trade be- tween Oanada and Communist China.

Ex-Social Cerdit Leader Jdhn Blackmore will-reveal, to the consternation of legislative bodies

here and abroad, that the real’

menace to world peace and the security of the free world comes from the international bankers working» hand-in-glove with the cunning’ansd completely unscrup-

Mr. St. Loiureni’s Decision

Ottawa Journal

Mr, Louis St. Laurent, prepar- ing to put off his armor as the Liberal Party’s leader, was re- ported as telling his Quebec East constituents that he will never-

theless be a candidate for Par-

liament in the next federal elec- tion.

The Journal hopes this is true. ’ The House of Commons, with

all its faults, has an instinct for

character, judges character .by good tests, and hears Mr. St. Laurent. with respect. Men with large reputations, with eloquence that could sway crowds in other arenas, have often failed signal- ly to gain the “ear” of the House. A Laurier could do this by the grace and beauty of his speech, a Meighen command it by sheer lucidity, a Fielding win its re- spect by clarity and knowledge, but the mere ‘bombastic rhetor-

ician. has never more than tem- porarily gained its applause. It is not the least testimony for Mr. St. Laurent that without any of the orator’s tricks or arts he-has won full command of the House’: attention.

Mr. St. Laurent’s political phil- osophy is not easy to define. I-Ie calls himself a “Liberal” and once spoke of liberalism with,a small “l” as well as Liberalism with a big “I9.” but studying his speeches and ways one is com- pelled to wonder whether he ev- er felt himself close‘to the mas- ses or much understood those modern social waves and ideas which now influence all of our parties — somehow one gets the impression that all these ques- tions of’ social reform, of labor, housing, health, .have aroused in him only a detached benevolent

Icebergs Of Spcice

By John’ Barbour .- Associated Press, New York

Those comets that blaze fiery trails across our skies may not really be on fire at all. In fact, they may be icebergs of space. And pretty dirty icebregs, at that.

At any ‘rate, that’s the theory fathered and propounded by Dr.. Fred C. Whipple, director of the Smithsonian astrophysicial ob- servatory in Cambridge, Mass.

With Russia’s Spu-tniks draw- ing attention to the heavens above, more and more questions are being asked about comets and probably more and more comets will be seen.

Three were reported visible to the naked eye last year.

A layman’s chances of discov- ering a comet are pretty good if he has a telescope. And, if you see one, astronomers want to hear about it. They’d like to‘ know more about these wander- crs of the solar system. COLLECTION OF GASES

Whipple’s “dirty ic e b e 1' g

'theory" was formulated only re- _cently. It goes like this:

Comets are a collection of frozen gases. ice and bits of spatial dust, dirt and meteors. They form far out in space, mil-

lions of miles from the sun. The bases freeze and collect

more celestial debris. Moving

through space, they gather speed as they hear the sun and the pull of gravity increases.

At the same" time, su btle changes begin tooccur a-s the frozen nucleus of the comet warms up. The gases vaporize some-hwat and become fluores- cent in the rays of the sun. The dust of the nucleus reflects the light of the sun, too.

As it first appears to us on earth, the nucleus (or head) looks like a bright point of light —a little star. Then, as it moves faster and more gases vaporize, the tail appears, a thin stream of fluorescent gases and dust.

There are very few rules for a comet to follow. One inescap- able law is that it must revolve around the sun. Some pass close to the sun some pass far away. FANTASTIC SIZE -

Comets move in elongated el- lipses. some of fantastic size. It is estimated that the orbit of a comet sighted in 1864 now is so long it may be more than 2,000,-

Iulous Turko-Mongolians.

The Government will be faced with demands that work proceed immediately with respect to (-a). The South Saskatchewan Dam and Irrigation Project; (b) the Qing- neoto Canal; (c) the Prince Ed- ward Island Causeway; (d). the Passamaquoddy Tidal Power Pro-. ject and (9) other special. and expensive projects of special in- terest to (1) the Maritimes, (2) The Central Provinces and (3) the. Western Provinces.

The Government will give ap- propriate assurance that each of these projects is being subjected to the most careful study and that further information which may make it possible to proceed with the project can -be expected in the very near future and, in any a- vent, in due course. _

MORE ronncgsrs

A responsible Member of Cabi- net will disclose that they found things in “a terrible mess” when they took over responsibility ,for -governmentxfmm.-the Liberals.

Adistiuguished Liberal will re- veal that his party found the 0p- positipn in frightful state at a- bout the same -time.

Reform of the Senate, resolute- ly ‘promised by the Conservatives, will not be achieved in 1958.

Prime Minister Diefenbaker will announce that he's been giving the whole difficult question some thought with a View to possible action at some future time.

CCF Leader M. J. Coldwell will deny that his party has any vest- ed interest in depressions, reces- sions or other forms of economic disaster as a means of securing federal office.

The Prime Minister will an».

_nounce that dexterous use of slide rule and adding machine have se- cured for him the information that Opposition M.P.’s have ask- ed no fewer than 1,397 nonsensi- cal questions which should have been placed on the order paper, if allowed at all, this delaying serious -parliamentary business by the equivalent of 81/5 sitting days. To no good purpose. ‘

Parliament will witness, even noisier political warfare than ev- er before in its history with the possible exception of the pipeline year, 1956. Anyway, it will top 1957. Which was a noisy one in- deed.

interest. .

Yet whatever Mr. St. Laurent’s political limitations, it is impos- sible not to like and respect him. Few men with a big part in pol- itics and parliament in recent

years have been so free of van-.

ity, of guile, of demogogy and

V cheap, ambition.

To have him_ continue in har- ness, his counsel available to his successor, should be good for all of us. . ’

000 years, befofe it returns.

About 50 comets are known to have orbital periods of less than 100 yeags. Ha1ley’s spectacular comet, which took up most of -the southwestern sky when it ap- peared to the naked eye in 1910, is expected to show up again about 1985. Its tail was so long that the head appeared in some places in early morning while the tail was still visible to other parts of the earth the preceding eve- ning.

Some comets are highly. un- usual.

The comet of 1744 had six tails in a great fan. The Great Comet of 1843 had a tail 200,000,000 miles long.

The head of a comet may be 30,000 miles in diameter or it may be 1,000,000. Some comets 10 times as large as the earth have been seen.

ESCAPE POLAND

LONDON (Reuters)——T11e wife of Dr. Jerzy Nowinski, Polish rocket expert granted political asylum in the United States, de- scribed Monday how she sent a two-word cable to tell her hus- band she was safely out of Poland. The message was sim- ply “greetings — Maria.” But it

=let Nowinski know that his wife,

Maria, and daughter, Kristina, had reached London.

you a b o ut the -various foods which comprise a good breakfast. But to_ refresh your memory, your breakfast should consist of:

By Herman N. Bundesen. M. D.

healthy, comfortable (lay at home and at work is to get up early enough to give you plenty of time to do everything that has to be done. I

That includes a fresh -up show- er breakfast. Gulping a doughnut and a cup of coffee and running off to catch the train or bus for the office is a horrible way to begin a day.

GOOD BREAKFAST

or a bowl of whole-grain cereal, or both, if you have the appetite for them; a slice of toast with butter, and a” glass of milk or hot choclate. ~

wish, but drink it in addition to a glass of milk.

INCREASES EFFIGIENCY

breakfast will increase your ef- ficiency. You won’t be so anxious to get away‘from the office for lunch.

before leaving the house—- brush , your teeth.

it is best to brush your teeth af- ter you eat. In fact, it should be

probably won’t get a chance to perform this task. after lunch, so

Don't skimp’ On Breakfast

The big secret of planning a

and a leisurely, adequate

Frequently in the past I’ve told

Fruit juice or raw fruit; an egg