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By elsewhere in P.E.L $9.00 -saPrevinces and United States $12.00 per annum

TUESDAY,’ JUNE 16, 1959

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Education First “The Federal Department of Lab- our is aiding in a campaign in which many parents will gladly cooperate. This is to convince their teenagers to, stay in school. Through anxious eyes, they watch their young man weigh the value of education against the. thoughts of work and the ready cash which is within easy grasp. To obtain a job, money and the things it will buy, and to gain a new measure of independence in what appears to be an adult world, all the boy has to do is make what he considers a small gacrifice—leave school. Too often the scales are tipped against education. Tt is shocking when we consider that, every year, thousands of young: Canadian men and women are will- ing to make this “small sacrifice”. Ac- cording to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics about 30 out of every hun- dred youngsters who enter school ob- tain their junior matriculation, and just 10, or 12 out of a hundred re- ceive their senior matriculation. Un- der the above conditions, of the 430,- 000 pupils who enrolled in grade one in all elementary schools in Canada in 1957 just 129,000 will obtain their junior matriculation and a mere 51,- 600 will successfully eomplete high school. It is true that some men and wo-

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men with comparatively little formal education hold high positions, but

they are usually self-educated, a pro- -

cess which sometimes involves great

personal sacrifice. Their number is

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‘diminishing, and they would be the first to admit that their road would haye been easier if they had more

formal education. Moreover, it is al-

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; mgst certain that when they are hir- ing, they give serious consideration to the applicant’s academic back-

A growing awareness of the need for:more education is reflected in in- dustry where educational standards over the past decade have been be- coming higher and higher. This trend 4s bound to continue. The job which is open today to the youngster with a grade 10 education may be closed. _tomiorrow to those at this level. Most “guceess stories in business and in- dustry have now one theme—the more education you have, the better eharice you have of securing perman- ent employment and of being pro- _moted. “Stay in school” may be just another “adult phrase” to a young person; but in the adult world in which he or she is about to enter, it may take on a new meaning as- sociated with regret. This is timely advice, and we pass it along in the hope that it will be pondered ser- fously by all concerned.

_ The Adjective Tax

There was once a government in this Province which was charged by its opponents with taxing every- thing tangible and intangible. That, of course, was an exaggeration. It has remained a bureaucrats’ dream which has never been quite realized, under any regime. But something approaching the intangible in tax impositions has been proposed in Cuba.

The finance minister, Senior Lopez Fresquet, proposed to charge Cubans a tax of $1 each time their names appeared on the seciety page of a newspaper, and $1 for every adjective used to describe them. One Havana paper retaliated slyly by describing the minister himself in a glowing, seven-adjective barrage and billing him $7. ‘

Wondering why a treasury boss was dallving with adjectives, the Ottawa Citizen did a bit of figuring based on random samples. of Amer- jean society pages and reached an Impressive conclusion. A similar tax in the United States, it found, would bring in about $340,000,000 a year.

But despite the magnitude of what the Cuban treasurer has un- covered, The Citizen is loath to agree with this method of profiting by it.

Words, it rightly feels—any words— |

should be free for the using. More- E like ‘other taxes, this levy of

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is to prevent the next regime from taxing adverbs, then prepositions, and finally nouns and verbs? Only oddities like gerundives and exple- tives would be exempt. i But there is no need to worry. It appears now that the Cuban min- |

A Good Approach

The Federal Department of Agri- culture has made an imaginative ap- proach to its embarrassing surplus pork problem. 70 millions pounds of this commodity are stored away in warehouses in various parts of the country, and it is not unlikely that under prevailing support prices the surplus may soon reach 100 million pounds. Disposal of this product on foreign markets, without .resort to wholesale dumping, is a difficult problem.

The Department has now tack- led the job of persuading Canadians to consume more pork. One million brochures, replete with timely tips on how to prepare succulent pork dishes, are being distributed . across the country. It is surprising what even a small per capita increase in home consumption would mean. in reducing the pork surplus, and there is no reason to doubt that this can be achieved by aggressive publicity methods. .

Our farmers will wish this cam- paign well, for it means a lot to them to have support prices maintained without undue drain on the federal treasury. The consumers, too, will benefit by tastier méals; and even the pigs won’t complain, for they will have been slaughtered anyway.

Water Safety Week

Were we describng our nation te a stranger, who could fail to mention the hundreds of beautiful lakes and rivers, the fishing, boating and swimming? But would we be so proud to mention the annual toll these waterways take of our.citizens’ lives?

Each year almost one thousand men, women and children, swimmers and non-swimmers both, drown in our provinces. This year promises to be no different. But the picture could be changed completely if we all co-oper-

‘ated to make our country wide awake

in the ways of water safety. For the sad fact is that most of these fatal accidents could have been prevented. They happened because people did not think, tried to show off or had just not learned the basie water safety rules.

What can be done about it? The Canadian Red Cross Society is point- ing the way to a safer summer with a determined campaign aimed at making everyone aware of the dang- ers in and around the water.

After all, recreation in or on the water is like any other game. It has its own rules. If one does not know and follow these rules he can expect to be a loser. But a loser in this game never has a chance to play | again. Now is the time to make sure we know the rules.

EDITORIAL NOTES

To worthily commemorate Her Majesty’s visit, the Canadian Govern- ment will provide a million dollars to establish the “Queen Elizabeth II Fund for Research Into Children’s

Diseases.”

With the western grain crop now in the critical month of June, drought is a threat in many parts of Saskatch- ewan, although the neighboring pro- vinces of Alberta and Manitoba ap- pear to be better off in the matter of moisture at the moment. But in the prairie region as a whole moisture conditions are’ reported below normal.

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Ottawa reports indicate that Can- ada’s next governor-general, like Hon. Mr. Massey, will be a Canadian—and probably a French-speaking Canad- ian. Likely choices mentioned are Major General George P. Vanier, of Montreal, and Jean Desy, who retired last year after four years as Ambass- ador to France.

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About 80 Conservative M.P.’s are reported to be seeking appointment as parliamentary secretaries. These jobs, 16 in number, will pay $4,000 a year on top of the sessional indemnity of $10,000 and are intended to provide general assistance to busy cabinet ministers. A bill providing. for them was brought in this session and now needs only royal assent to become law. They are not a new departure;

+ they were created by the Liberals un-

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ON PARLIAMENT HILL

for Prince Edward Island on Parliament Hill. The Hon. Mr. Hees made the announcement that a new carferry is being built for service between Borden and Cape Tormentine. He pointed

of the Department that this boat would be ready some time in 1961.

The growing needs of our ferry service have been very much in the minds of all Island M.P.’s ever since we arrived at Ottawa and there have been many dis-

Transport and others involved in the question.

When it was authoritatively learned that the Vacationland was not suitable, we were ail determined to press for a new

agreeing to provide us with a te press forward with the survey on the causeway’'s feasibility. As a very. practical and sound administrator of the finances of the country, the Minister of Tran- sport has given consideration to

: the use of the new ferry in an-

other place should the causeway be built. This is an important matter and shows a serious re- _ for the needs of our prov. nce. ‘ HOSPITAL INSURANCE

On Friday also my colleague,

the health plan and the state which negotations had reached between the Province and the Dominion. Later in the day when the Minister of Public Works’

“estimates were before the House

there was considerable discussion on the causeway in which Island Members participated. The House had agreed to sit beyond 6.00 o'clock and under cumstances: no Member would be excused for making long speeches. Therefore, our contribu- tions were brief. Mr. Green point- ed out that there was nothing in his original statement which should cause discouragement. The House decided to pass an- other $250,000 expenditure to con- tinue this survey. This means a

the Diefenbaker Government took office. It is, of course, impossible to predict the date when a cause- way might be built but it is per. fectly clear that the Government is taking the whole matter very seriously, as is right and proper in an engineering project which is without parallet in the North American continent and indeed perhaps in the whole world:

COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES

H one looks at the Order Pa- per of the House of Commons he will soon discover that Members

PUBLIC FORUM

This column is open to the discus

sion by eorrespondents of question ¢.

interest. The Guardian does not neses

sarily en“orse the opinion ef corres pondents.

LAKEWOOD LODGE

Sir,—Now that it has been an- nounced that the Provincial Gov- ernment will give a luncheon par- ty at Lakewood Lodge, Grand Tracadie, during the visit of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and His Royal Highness Printe Philip to our shores, the following may be of interest to our people.

Lakewood Lodge was built for the late Colonel Orr, a carpet manufacturer of Ohio during the 1890's. At the death of her hus- band Mrs. Orr sold the said sum- mer residence to two former Is- landers,. Mr. Brown and Mr. Bryenton. In the Spring of 1923 the property was bought by the late Hon. George D. DeBlois. Down the years it has been one of the show places of the Pro- vince. j

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new boat even while continuing |

Dr. Phillips, made inquiry about |

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total of $610,000 provided since |

New Car Ferry Assured

By Heath Macquarrie, M.P. Friday, June 5, was a big day | are required to make careful di- |

vision of their time. On some days as many as seven commil- | eee are in session. Some. of these, sit while the House is sitting and | quite often more than one com- ; mittee is sitting at a given time,

| and an M.P. may have member- | Ship on both committees. | The stormiest committee in this session has been that on Indus- | trial Relations. There has been a running battle between Liber- al Paul Martin and Committee Chairman Hardy Small. Mr. Small has wielded his gavel and made use of his stentorian voice 'to silence Mr. Martin. Mr. Mar- tin. on his part, has lead several | walkouts of the Liberal members of the committee.

degree of contribution. The argu-

| ments around this measure illus- trate the old truth that someone has to pay.

M benefits are to be paid out to ‘people, some system must be de- | vised to bring forth the revenue.

Whether it be taxes, tariffs or contributions—iike the one discus- | sed—the eventual source is the pocketbook of the taxpayer. | BROADCASTING COMMITTEE

Another interesting committee, of which I am_a member, is the | Special Committee on Broadcast- ‘ing. This committee has had | many meetings and while not as stormy as the Industrial Rela- tions Committee it has, never- lthe less brought forward some i fairly sharp expressions of op- inion. For the first time in its | history, the Canadian Broadcast- ing corporation has been asked te divulge information on finan- cial details of ite sponsored pro- grams.

Up to now the C.B.C. has al- ways argued that revealing such information would put it in a bad position relative to its competi- | tors. The Hon. George Nowlan, a member of the committee, ar- gued along these lines last Tues- but the committee did not follow his advice and voted il to 9 to order the C.B.C. to pro-

Many members of the commit- tee, especially those from Que- bec, have been deeply concerned and sharply criticial about a re- cent C.B.C. program dealing with the life of Mother D’Youville.

timates Committee has aming the Civil Service Commis- sion. The Committee on laneous Private its work which part in dealing with divorce of which there seems te be al-

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Also the are likely to undergo a change. They will be sore and become much fuller than usual. If any of vou women no- tice such a change, a closer ex- amination is called for. P4y. par- ticular attention to the area a- round the nipple. If this is darker than it ordinarily is, it might in- dicate pregnancy.

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And of course. the traditional | “morning sickness,” if also pres- ent, just about settles the ques- tion.

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The Canadian trade mission which visited the West Indies Federation last January, under auspices of the Canadian Cham- ber of Commerce, has issued a

report. Here in rela-

QUESTION AND ANSWER A Worried Friend: I have a

eyes. 1 this is true. how long will | she be able to see?

Answer: Cataracts develop at cessful in restoring vision in these viduals. Surgery is usually suc- different rates in different indi- cases, even in very old people.

continuing with success and ap- | proval. in. his new field of en- deavor. i

When the Prime Minister an- |

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Neither the Dominion Govern- Leader and seemed to know the tions were discarded and only

ment nor any other government | has any magic source of funds.

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er dav, the enthusiastic recept- ion from every corner of the House was absolutely heart- warming. Mr. Green responded | in the same spirit. It was one of those instances which marks the House of Commons at its best. Political and partisan considera-

personal values and ational goals were considered by the

aay, there is an old Russian say- ing that at a distance it is diffi- cult to tell a sheep from a wolf.

That particular proverb may or not be inchided im. Khrush-

ment of Singapore.

In the superchanged political atmosphere of the island it is not surprising that Lee Kuan Yew’s People’s Action Party should have been labelled Communist by its opponents. Lee, who heatedly denies the charge, was equally uninhibited in dealing with his adversaries during’ the election

did the same in Ghana, world didn’t come to an end when. he became prime minister.

FEAR OF COMMUNISM

‘ The fear that Singapore's pre- dominantly Chinese population may turn te communism has

' aH look forward te his career | parliamentarians of the country. Si ‘s Future © ingapore's Future By Ed Simon ' anadian Press Staff Writer Ae Nikita Khrushchev would | monwealth.

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Lee's reputation for cleverness will be sorely tested in his efforts to overcome the fears of his mainland neighbors. The negotia- tions will require a degree of subtlety that was singularly lack- ing in his electioneering.

But the problem works both ways. The staunchly anti-Com- munist government of Malaya can scarcely ignore the probabil- ity that rejection of Lee's over- tures would play into the hands of the island's political extre- mists.

After years of guerrilla war- fare with Communists on the mainland, the Malayans are not anxious to contribute to the es- tablishment of a Communist bas- tion across a few miles of water.

AMBASSADOR ARRIVES

MADRID (AP)—Jean Bruchesi, new Canadian ambassador to Spain, arrived Monday by train from Italy via Barcelona. Bru- chesi, who succeeds Ambassador Leon Mayrand, is to present his credentials to Gen. Franco, Span- ish chief of state, shortly.

NEWSPAPER WOMAN WED

RED BANK, N.J. (CP)—Mrs. Charlotte Murphy, president of the Fort William, Ont., Times- Journa, and James Vincent Igoe of Newark, N.J., were married here Thursday, June 11, at St.

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Yoel Corner

REDWOOD GROVE

I ask you now to listen te silence,

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Listen. To hear, wu must tread mosses,

Smooth, minute stars—be Mover under green fragarance

Where no wind stirs, Where no shadowed bird sings.

Here. only the noon sun shines briefly

Into cupped fingers. Reach out

I tell you now that in this place,

For these few moments,

You may hear silence, hold it

Like a solidness,

\Know peace—

A purity of quiet, filtered light.

—Gertrude May Luts in the Christian Science Monitor,

(June 16, 1934) Laura Peters, little six year

TEN YEARS AGO

(Jane 16, 1949) Applications from 3% Boy Scouts to attend the first Cana- dian Jamboree near Ottawa, July

contingent will be Fred Driscoil, Scout Leader, and Douglas Har- dy, Assistant Scqimaster, O’- |

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The new pastor of Central Street’ Christian Church, Sum-

son, was inducted last evening into his new charge at a most impressive ceremony conducted by Rev. M.D. Dunbar of Central

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