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Politics & The Press

The Commons has passed the government bill increasing old age pensions to $65 a month from $55, effective Feb. 1, thus putting an the fine— art of campaigning was. displayed with almost unprecedented gusto on both sides of the House. But every fasue now will be loaded with politi- ‘eal implications, and it will be to ~-the press gallery rather than to Mr. Speaker that the oratorical blasts Will be directed, It is through this gallery that the streams of hot air must pass to reach the public; for few voters read the official Hansard reports but all scan the newspapers. As the general election date nears they are being scanned more closely

ever.

» And when the bell rifgs and the - @ampaign gets down to brass knuck- les, there'll be no substitute for

@ugging it out on the public plat-

form, That way, when the leaders

and the rank and file candidates out and campaign from plat- to platform in direct personal appeals to the voters, they get their pitch into the press, where it counts If there was any doubt, on this

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tried in @ few byelections since, but it didn't go over, as the Conserva-

the NDP and Leeds to the Liberals. By the time Ontario's “little general election” came along it was reaiiz- ed that this take-it-easy-type of campaigning wouldn’t dé, It was tov im 1, too indirect. Chiefly it wouldn’t get the candidates into their hometown and regional news- papers,

The federal MPs, watching close- ly, have been busy since in the privacy of their offices and collec- tively in their party caucuses: with post-mortems of that Ontario cam- paign, and planning for the federal campaign soon to come. According to our Ottawa informant, it will not be in the studios of the show buisi- ness world that this campaign will be fought, but back on the old stamping ground once more—face to face with the people who mark the ballots,

Moscow And Heusinger |

We haven't heard much lately about Moscow's demand that Gener- al Heusinger, chairman of NATO's military standing committee in | Washington, be turned over for trial as a war criminal. The demand has been. dismissed at Washington as a “crude and ludicrous propaganda exercise,” and the rest of West Ger- many’s allies seem to agree with this characterization. But that isn’t likely to prevent the Soviets from pressing the matter. They have found “crude and ludicrous” propaganda to work effectively before.

So far as is known, the NATO military chairman was never . on any of the many lists of war crimin- als compiled by the Allies and as- sociated powers of World. War- II, including the Soviet Union. Yet he was Hitler’s chief of operations for several years and a General Staff colleague of two of the German gen- . erals, Keital and: Jodi, who were hanged after the Nuremberg war- crimes trials. Heusinger, however, was never actually a member of the . Nazi Party, and he seems to have confined himself strictly to the role

HERE WE GO AGAIN

BERLIN REPORT by Patrick Nicholson | Mr. Pickersgill And The Flag Issue.

Many mature observers here regard it as “tragic that Liberal Spokesman Jack Pickersgill is advocating the abandonment of the Union Jack. ‘‘Dis-union Jack’! Pickergill is warping pol- ities by trying to make Cana- dians treat this essentially na-

tional issue as a sectional polit- ical issue.

His bone of contention con- cerns the historical and unalter- erable fact that it was under variously the flags of France and England that Canada was first settled, and then expand-

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JAIL CONDITIONS Sir,—-I was pledsantly sur-

prised to read the letter in your

edition of February 7th which is signed ‘“Immates of Queens

gcore, it was dissipated in the five recent Ontario byelections, The re- guits there re-confirmed: what pol- fticians say they knew all along—. that in “selling” the political mar- ket, the local daily newspaper is absolutely indispensable.

_. SECOND THOUGHTS—T his point is made convincingly by an Ottawa Journal gallery. reporter; who recalls that for a time since the 1957 and 1958 federal campaigns there was something of a disposition to regard television as a sort of political magic lantern. It was so easy; 80 comfortable and cozy. Not @ great deal of work efther. “Just » write a short speech, even a 80-sec-

‘ond plig—depending on how much _ Money you wanted, or could:afford

of military strategist. Nevertheless, there is a taint on all the generals who labored for Hitler, whatever their personal re- cords have been. Communist propa-- ganda was served by the choice of this man to rebuild the West Ger. : man Army. It: was served even bet- ter by Chanceilor Adenauer’s reten- tion, against all arguments, of Dr. Hans Globke as the State Secretary m the Chancellery. Dr. Globke was co-signer of the legal interpretation of the Nazi's Nuremberg racial laws that were used as the basic excuse ' for prosecuting and persecuting the Jews. ; But, to come back to General fleusinger, the Communist charge against him as a war criminal has its ironic aspect. It was

to blow—and then show your-hand-" - Some features on the living room @ereen, speak your piece, and sit back and watch the votes rol] in!” ' ‘That way, some‘of the politicians for a while seemed to think, the warm, intimate TV studio could be ' @ubstituted for the cold, impersonal echool or church hall. '

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ago that:he was being invited. to - Moscow as an honored guest of the Soviet Army leaders!

EDITORIAL NOTES

It must have been embarrassing for the U.S. Army Secretary, Elvis J. Stahr Jr—a former university Ppresident—to have one of his speeches censured on a point of eemantics, Mr. Stahr had written: “The Soviet Union has for many years deprived its citizens: of the necessities of life . , .” The censor coldly pointed out that even a Rus- sian citizen wouldn't exist for too long without the necessities of life.

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It ts reported from New York City that at'a busy intersection peds . were allowed to walk swanchwise. - This is done in Canadian cities. too but the words. take some explain- ing. “Peds”—you've guessed it?—is traffic engineerese for pedestrians. “Swanchwise” js a little more dif- ficult; it means crossing in any direction when all traffic comes to

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semble very closely those of a provincial government employ- ee with whom I am acquainted. The only criticism I have of this style is that the writer says that the windows were broken by ‘inmates” and that theorders (cleaning) are carried out ‘‘by the prisoners themselves’. suggest that it would be much more realistic if he had said “we'! broke the windows and that the orders are carried out by “us’’, otherwise someone might think that the letter was written by someone who is rot an inmate.-1 am not saying that such is the case but just trying to be helpful.

One of the perplexing things about that letter is that the writ- er states that the young men of the Youth Parliament did not examine the toilets. Yet it seems strange that they were able to so accurately describe the con-

by Frank Myers, M.L.A. in his letter of February 5th.

The writer points out that I was never in the cell block (in order to see its condition I pre- sume). With fervent prayers of thankfulness I admit this is so, but it is not necessary to get hit over the head with a skunk to realize they exist.

I have, however, been in the jail office which is kept immacu- lately clean. Last December I was there when a prisoner was

brought in from the cell block

and he was about to sit on the cot in this office. The assistant jailer promptly stopped him shouting “You are not going to bring those bugs from the cell block into this office’ or words to that effect.

No, I have never seen these bugs but I have seen clear skin- ned young boys enter this jail and have seen their swollen and disfigured faces and necks a week later. Mr. Myers states

that I was remiss in my duties |

in not reporting this to the San- itary Officer. I did report it to a representative of the Attorney- General's office. 1 have never thought of reporting it to the Sanitary Officer because I am told he has never inspected the jail. It might be a good idea if he did and sent a copy of each

follow the example set by the Prince County Jail its blankets dry cleaned after one pirsoners it through,with them and before they are

by another. It is a dreadful thing

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fect us or our families. }

This having been done per- | haps we should give some | thought about how the situation | | might be improved instead of

thinking what we are going to | write in this column, I know that

I for one have no intention of | getting involved in any long de- | bates on the subject.

Before closing I wish to com- pliment the Attorney-General and his Deputy Mr. McGuigan. I know that they are sincere in wishing to make the prisoners’ life a better one and they will achieve this if they establish the new prison farm and éear down | the structure now being used. «

I am, Sir, etce., ° ALLISON GILLIS, Charlottetown.

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| INTRIGUED BY LETTER Sir, — I am rather intrigued to learn by your issue of Febru- | ary 7th, that the Queen's County

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ed, unified and finally accorded | full independence.

There is a substantial body of Canadian sentiment and history attaching to France and Bri- tain, and this is exemplified by the presence of the Fleur-de- Lis and the Union Jack on our Canadian Flag. This flag was accorded official status as the emblem of Canada by the form- er Liberal Prime Minister, Mac-

| Kenzie King.

WHAT IS “DISTINCTIVE”? But the shibboleth is heard ia

| our land that Canada requires a

“distinctive” national flag, which is a meaningless phrase since our not be mistaken for the flag of any other nation. It is of course sim- ilar in design, but not in appear- ance, to the flags of Australia and New Zealand, which also have the Union Jack in the first quarter; but they both have blue grounds in place of Cana- da’s red ground, and both have their own symbols in place of our coat of arms in the fly. Every time our Governor General leaves his official res- idence here, the first thing like- ly to catch his eye is the flag of the Republic of South Africa, flying outside that country’s Embassy opposite the gate-hou- se of Government House. Al- though South Africa is a repub- lic, and no longer even a mem- ber of the Commonwealth, its

| flag proudly incorporates the

Union Jack as a symbol of its unalterable past history and development. This may well make our wise French-Canad-

eral_wonder. at. the antics.of “The Bed-sheet Boys", who recently drap- ed a government building here with a bed-sheet, part dyed red, on which was sewn~ the register- ed trade mark of a foreign

ally enjoyed at any time a so- journ under such favourable | conditions, I have undoubtedly been misinformed mot only by | the representatives of the Boy's Parliament but by the public at large who, I believe, have always | considered confinement of ‘this nature to be quite undesireable. Although we sometimes’ as- sume that inmates in these in- stitutions are likely to be of low educational standards, I would consider the writer of the letter referred to as being of a very | high order indeed, especially in | view of the fact that this com- | plete letter would have had to be | written under rather trying cir- | cumstances, neither a chair to | sit upom nor a table to write | upon, being available.

With the present high rate of rent demanded in many of our Charlottetown dwellings, I would forecast a long waiting list of applicants for this popu- lar resort, just as soon as space

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noisy respiration, or fullness in

the throat on swallowing or breathing. -

Rheumatoid —- is a gen-

tim seldom feels up to par, los- es appetite, and develops anem- ia.-Involvement of the larynx is new to me but a group of New York City physicians found def- inite evidence of arthritic chang- | es in this area in several vic-.| tims of rheumatoid arthritis.

An autopsy study was done on the vocal cords of eight pa- tients who had. suffered from rheumatoid. arthritis. The joint surfaces of seven were damag- ed by an inflammatory process similar to that of rheumatoid arthritis: Autopsies on persons | who never had arthritis failed

The cricoarytenoid joint is too difficult to visualize except through a special mirror exam- ‘ ination (laryngoscope). When a group of 64 individuals with arthritis were ex- amined in this way, 17 (27 per cent) had joint: changes in the lawynx. Of these, 13 had defin- ite complaints. :

‘There is no specific remedy for an arthritic voice box ex- cept to treat the basic disease process. Aspirin and the use of gold or one of the steroids such as cortisone relieves distress. Heat to the neck also may help. The general condition of the in- dividual also must be strength- ened through a balanced diet, extra vitamins, ample sleep. and a careful program of phys!- cal activity.

(Dr. Van Dellen will answer questions on medical topics if stamped, self-addressed enve- lope accompanies request.)

WALKING CRAMPS

E. H. D. writes: I'm 65 years old and always was a healthy man; could walk miles without fatigue. Now, when I walk : two blocks, the calves in my legs stiffen and ache. After I rest a while I can go on for two more blocks. What causes this diffi-

culty? REPLY “

Poor circulation. In intermit- ent claudication (cramping) pain develops in the calf of the leg after walking a block or two | and is relieved by resting a few

moments. See your physician

on how to remedy the condi- tion.

| NOTES BY THE WAY

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OUR YESTERDAYS

From the Guardian Files

TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO (February 9, 1937)

A special train will run to the Western Capital tonight, to con- vey the “Abbies” and their fans, to the Crystal Rink, Sum- merside, where they will engage in a return “hockey night’.

Miss Leila Worthy,3 Elm Avenue, will be presented with an honorary associate certifi- cate and badge from the Royal Life Saving Society, according to an announcement made by Mr. Mark Veary of Montreal, honorary treasurer. The society has deemed it fitt- ing to award this ate to Miss Worthy for -services,

energy and ability to further the welfare work of the society.

“TEN YEARS AGO

(February 9, 1952) _

The “Fun Fair’ sponsored by the Knights of Columbus in aid of the Boys Camp, opened at the Holy Name Hall last evening, The ‘‘Lads and Lassies’’ provid- ed fine entertainment with their bag - pipe music, Scotch songs and Highland dances. The aud- jence was particularly pleased with the efforts of these young performers.

Believed to be the first time presented here, the Canadian Forces Decoration has — been awarded to W.O. 1 Eugene G. Lewis, Regimental Sergeant Ma- jor of 2ist Armored Brigade Headquarters. here. The award to W.O. 1 Lewis was based on his 12 years service with the Re- serve Army Force, and his ex- So record during that per-

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- LUMPY JAW D. C. writes: How does actin- | omycocis start? Does it affect | the glands around the neck? Can it be cured? : REPLY This infection begins usually | as a painful swelling of the jaw that comes to a head and rup-. tures through several small openings. The diséase often ex- tends into the lung and_ intes- tine. Involvement of the glands

the disease. Cure or marked im- provement follows the use of penicillin or the tetracycline groups of drugs. . TODAY’S HEALTH HINT—

“The difference between reck- | less and wreckless driving is. alertness.”

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laerian-Conflict

No one underestimates the grave risks President de Gaulle’s government must face in pushing through his pfogram of decolonization for the terri-

There still appear to be some divisions within the ranks of the Algerian ‘“‘provisional govern- ment” over the desirability of accepting de Gaulle’s terms of settlement.

The right - wing secret army organization which claims much support in Algeria’s major cities

an assessment of the prob- able danger posed by right-wing extremists. .

The secret talks apparently have produced agreement on controversial matters as citizenship, the big Mers-El-Ke- bir naval base, military .and economic co - operation.

It is on the latter three items that there appears to be some division of opinion within the Algerian leadership. 3 ~ A small but powerful segment is in favor of prosecuting the rebellion to what they feel is its bitter and logical end—the crea- tion of an independent Algeria completely separate from France.

Most of the leaders, however, are believed to feel that co-op- eration with de Gaulle’s gov- ernment now is essential if transition to statehood is to be achieved with a minimum of further bloodshed.

The Age Old Story

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