sensation of the moment politically, and that the statement which he plans to make today in the House of

Commons on the subject of his dra-

resignation will get headlines the country. :

_ | Nothing quite like this has hap- oa n Canadian politics that we ~ plés, of course, of members quitting - their party for one’reason or another,

and aligning. themselves with another party. Usually these members, were and the occasion of

represents “a small group of . thet indecisive, extremist and neutra- ist:people from the old CCF party,” ind since he hasn't been co-operat- ing at all in the new party's develop. ment, it Is just as well that he and ‘those who share his opinion should get out.

Perhaps these harsh terms are justified; we don't know. We had thought Mr. Argue was doing a good job as House leader of the party, but we were unaware of the recrimina- tions that must have been going on behind the scenes and are still in the dark as to whether it is Mr. Argue and those he represents, or the col- league with whom he no longer feels - that he can consort, that should be branded as deviationists.

Atlantic Projects J

It’s that man Pickersgill’ again. ‘The other day, in. the House of

“Commons, he raised the question of lat Atlantic Province Project “Commise hich was to have been —

ter of Finance, if the Govern-

had some doubt, said Mr. Speaker, as to the urgency of the question, having regard to the time when the promise was alleged to have been made. However, he had no doubt that the anawer waa out of order, as the honorable member of Bona- vista-Twillingate indicated.

That Was all; there wasn’t any more. So the 1957 promise is still. in the air. Mr, Fleming doesn’t ad- mit that he had ever heard tel! of it before, and it is not likely that he'll get round to examining it just because Mr, Pickersgill wants him to, He doesn’t like Mr. P.'s farfetch- ed interpretations of Conservative promises. In fact, one gets the im- pression that he doesn’t like Mr. P. period.

He's probably till convinced that it was Mr. P., and not himself, who put the partisan twist to the incident as recorded jn Hansard. The’ Speaker had ruled otherwise, but that was a lamentable lapse on Mr. Speaker's part. Not cricket, by Jove, considering the nuisance Mr. P. was making of himself to the

hs w on every subject under _| Whe aun, and the need for corrective i in keeping him in his

place! What's the House coming to, when a Minister of the Crown has "to be ruled out of order for telling « that man off!

But the Speaker’s ruling doesn’t get us any nearer to the answer to Mr. P.’s question. Perhaps he should have directed it to the Con- servative phalanx from the Atlan-

| te Provinces instead of Mr. Flem.

ing; but that would’t have been in

| order, either. He did the best he

could in the circumstances, and we hope he'll not be unduly discouraged by having drawn a blank.

The latest story making the London embassy rounds has Khrush- Chev agreeing to negotiate over

Berlin if the Western powers would _ admit that Adam and Eve were ‘Russian. President Kennedy, Gen-

eral de Gaulle and Prime Minister

Macmillan had their doubts, but

decided to ask Chancellor Adenauer

about it. “Of course they were Rus-

" sian,” Adenauer replied. “They were

born poor, with no house and noth.

ing to wear—and thought they; were

in Paradise.” ° * .

The Financial Post cites this evi- dence of the fact that Toronto is not} longer, as ft used to be, the most “Anglo-Saxon” city in Canada: A boy named John Ruggio, who came to Canada five years ago from Ger- many knowing almost no English, “won a recent public com- petition open to all high school stud- ents in Metropolitan Toronto. There were only four other studenta in the final round of the contest. Their

: Beste aad estan and Weihs. - :

_. Britain is taking a second look fat its magnanimous poliey of pro- sundry come from all f the earth to t.ke ee 's generosity. Under a new if aliens be-

TRAVELLING UNDER FULL SAIL OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson

Our statisticians have laid aside their red pencils, as the figures of our economic expan- sion during the final quarter of 1961 pour in, and show that we are moving into boom condi- tions.

called the Gross National Pro- ‘duct, This includes wages, sal- ary and pay of all “Canadians; corporation profits; rent and interest; farm income; inven- tory inerease; and capital con- sumption allowances.

Last year our Gross National in

first year in which our G.N.P. has exceeded

$36 billion. The Prudential Insurance | 6 Canadian head office | in Toronto, whose economists | are regarded here as being un- | excelled in forecasting, have | predicted a further jump of 7.3 in our C.N.P. this year. registers of our stores will tinkle merrily, as consumer spending jumps 5.25 per cent, | or by one and one-quarter billion | dollars, to a record total of $25,- include only | cent increase

a bam | statis- |

years. . _In 1961, compared to 1956, em- ployment was up by 8 per cent.

+ ¢ign-trade,

‘| not afford. Year after year from

But Labour Income Increased by 30 per cent, while Consumer “Spending likewise increased 30 per cent_over those five years, and so did Personal Savings.

While the number of persons employed rose 8 per cent, our industrial productivity rose by nearly double that figure, or 15 per cent, indicatihg that the out- put per individual Canadian rose by an amount approximate- ly equivalent te 2% extra hours werk per worker per week. TRADE PICTURE

One of the most significant improvements over- the past five years has been in our for-

The Frightening Fifties will long be remembered as the time when Canadians went on a spending spree buying foreign consumer goods which we could

the end of the war, we spent more and more money in other countries.

When John Diefenbaker be- came Prime Minister im 1957, our deficit in foreign trade was one of his first targets for cor- rection. In 1956, we had sold ex- ports totalling $4.8 billion, but we had purchased imports val- ved at $5.5 billion, thus going

approximately three quarters of | a billion dollars in debt to for- |

Overall Picture Viewed Optimistically —

eign ‘ countries, predominantly U.B.A. But year after year the pali-

cies of .the Conservative Gov-

ernment corrected this. We did | “not reduce our imports; we did

not deprive ourselves of Florida oranges, or U.S, textiles, or lit- tle European cars, or dumped foreign magazines, or Scotch whisky. But we boosted our ex- ports, and this has been espec- ially true in the past year when Trade Minister George Hees has set our salesmen on fire

with his Trade Promotion driv- |

es. In the result, our jmports were held down to a modest increase so that they totalled only $5.7 billion in the last twelve month period reported; and our boom- ing exports had just caught up, to total exactly the same figure and thus to balance our foreign

trade picture which is a really | remarkable achiovren by Co nada, and something which we |

is) that we have done it painlessly, |

had to do. The great thing

and not by means of govern- ment restrictions.

The figures covering Canada's |

progress between 1956 and 1961, coupled with our outleok fer 1962, make up a very rosy pie- ture.

“The Letter Killeth”’

Montreal Star

The U. K. government last, year made it a rule that no one | should get a raise in pay. So when postal workers informed the Postmaster General that they felt, a raise was.coming to not that I wouldn't like to,-I aa | sure you, but, you see, the rule | .. -" And they said, “Yes, of |

separate ways hegan planning | to. give him his fill of rules.

Plasma For S ace Trips

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liquid, or a ps. a substance so t its atoms have violent-

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In contrast

Since January 1, rule-obser- vance has been conspicuously

more meticulous, Everything is |

the book

. Postmen one letter

done by.

painstaking Measure parce.s. rather than trust to rough-and-

ready guesswork, telephone op-

| erators cheerfully oblige by look-

And the mails pile up, and switchboards blaze like Christ- mas trees.

Exceptions to the rule that

most of the public think the

whole thing rather funny, the

eg ' People’s League Defence nitrogen. Solar cells convert the teed pe Ge 1

town last night. He will remain here until Monday with 4is me- above the | ther. Archbishop McGuigaw will "| inauguration of Archbishop Me Tanson in Moncton, .

if they are too narrow or cal not close properly, the sounds change (murmurs). This occurs when valves are scarred oe an infection such as rheuma fever (rheumatic heart die | @ase) or are deformed as a re- | sult of a development defect | prior to birth (congenital heart disease). | There are many other causes of heart disease, but those in- volving the coronary arteries, muscles, and valves constitute more than 95 per cent of car diac disorders. At the turn of the century most medical men dia- gnosed all ailments of the pump- | ing apparatus simply as heart disease, They made no attempt | to determine the type, cause, and severity of the affliction, Heart disease was like a death sentence; many patients were afraid to move, lest it spell dis- aster.

Times have changes. The re- cent trend toward pooling. our

knowledge against the number one cause of death is be to pay off. This is the aim your heart association.

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

TODAY’S HEALTH HINT~...

A warm climate is a boon to victims of heart and lung dis- orders.

OUR YESTERDAYS

From the Guardian Files

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Feb. 20, 1937)

Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Gordon of | Charlottetown who have been staying at Annarono House, Cra- ven Hill Gardens, London, since last October, left last week for a trip through Germany, Italy, and the Eastern Mediterranean. | They will return to London for the Coronation and will sail for Montyeal in time to attend thes, McGill - University commence- ment, when their daughter will | receive her degree.

Archibishop J. C. McGuigan of Toronto arrived in Charlotte-

| TEN YEARS AGO (Feb. 20, 1953) In a further-discussion of the

proper management of woodlots in the province, Frank Gaudet,

} } |

fie it

|

| appeared to testify that

The Government estimates as = give notice of construc-

history—and the Na- will rise in its

i

new Library should be

The Nation

al Library Journal ry | am outstanding building, one of

| the show places of Ottawa. It | Will reflect this country's atti.

| tude towards all the ideals which .

a library serves. The Library will command one of the prime

- | sites in the city, and be a key

to the development of Welling- ton Street. It should be an ar- | ehitectural gem, exciting, bold, | = in keeping with its surround-

Another Afr

ican Problem

Milwaukee Journal

Belgium is about to free anoth- er colonial territory, Ruanda- Uns et tna

oc K- ed between Tanganyika and the they eame te when war broke the tribes of

Bahutus. The former to . make permanent their in- ance over their more numerous | neighbors before ind ce |

Last September a United Na- |

tions supervised election was held setting up separate govern- ments in the two areas. A UN

commission has informed the os assembly that Ruanda Aetermined to become a re-

people are strongly against po- litical union, Belgian admin

the |

ftrators say that however sensi- ble such union might look on per the tribal and political oe | ferences between the two make it impossible. The best that can | be hoped is for eventual econ- | omic co-operation.

The UN's Astan and African representatives are demanding | political union. They insist that

Neither Ruanda nor Urundi | has qualifications for

| ent nationhood. But neither had | many of the other nations that | now sit in the UN. And isn’t it | Strange that the African-Asian group that calls so firmly for self determination

should be insisting that the peo- ples of Ruanda and Urundi be overruled and forced inte a un- fon that they say they don't

is- | want?

Da

Decision of the federal gov- ernment to enact into law some of the recommendations of the O'Leary Commission on Publi- cations should be a matter of concern to Canadians. The bill would place an import handicap on foreign magazines which

Ta

Tf the government can limit

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Galt Reporter

ere? . pers and magazines. As one daily newspaper ‘we are ed to this, owing to the te freedom of expression . which may be lurking somewhere be- hind the proposed move, ; It seems to be generally ad- mitted that Canadian magazin- es are having a struggle to exist. It is possible that mag-

policy outlined by the O'Leary Commission but is it worth it to | endanger our basic freedoms by so doing?

There is another factor which has not been mentioned. If the

and television stations? The ad- vertising messages on U.S. sta- tions are broadcast across this be the next ones to ask special consideration?

| was cagey. He would have to ex- Heart Research amine the assertion made by the Pays Dividends honorable gentleman, he said stern- Ves oe “en "ihe heart 8 interpretation anything w may have heen said by or on be- Heat" waa we' do half of Progressive Conservative ’ lage clumb, members." He had found the hon- serub the floors; orable member's tion of pono‘ eye Be ' what he called promises to be “far- (| fright or excitement. ms fetched in many cases.” However, a oe ae nae ° . h = he would draw his attention to the sowreee ) Capital Punishment = : “ “ Most of us think of the heart : s : fact that the Government “has em eS eee Gtawe Cities oe fit to the Atlantic Provinces—" Here for years. and yearn wihest eee wae oe | Eee tor ede aa _ some honorable members shouted C0 ae 6 ree, the Church of | ity A society cane “Order”, but Mr. Fleming con'inaed o fae Sin ee Se pe ee ' « ; con . ® to and at < -~“than any government in Canada's — nh ee eS leaders ta tase whet car ; SS ee: ————--_-] The heart is like any other a Bince there is : This brought from Mr. Pickera- muscle. It receives its nourisl- | ment, or its ee ttre abolition Raa are .. the | gill a complaint on the. point of or- -} (actos and sat. from the Sead 20: | Seneeegtn foere, marke, on mw | sete, © cannet be angned Seat Bs der. His inquiry, hé submitted, was "| it passes through the four cham | paign to capital punish- | @ murderer in order to safe ~ made without any adornments bers. eee ment in ee —— ooeneay. The. ac. whatsoever; a simple tion about toris and coronary | the F sgunent wetahty | rether teaw Semien and Uae Ge a premiey’ tants Same the 1957 Revateths-he wnt’ some enough te prevail against the gradation stemming frem this — | election The minister didn’t seem forms of heart disease. The | arguments in favor of abolition. | action by society must be shared ' Of The WwW. ; aon the promise was made, and ane eae eae ani. ae cat tees poe oo nh aren ©. Ae Parting wWeys - oe advocates of capital | H ture hat it ee 3 of what Mr. had proceeded to make an irrele- eee aida auaiane of the bd , has yet to be prov. | is, oelerm ‘s ae bal P pad ; : that vant statement. " left ventricle which pumps ed sound. In areas where capi- | be stopped. Progress ~ toward Hagen Argue’s announcement t. Mr. Fleming h interjected blood into the arterial system. | tal punishment has been abolish- | abolition has been made in Brite he has quit the New Democratic . me Aare er ~ Four valves guard the en- | ¢d by law, as ip Michigan, or by | ain in recent years and, to a Padi may hes on that party's for- that he had made “a non-political | trance and exit of the two ven- | Custom, as in Belgium, the | lesser degree, in Canada. The tunes in the coming federal election, | Te*ponse to & political question,” at- Makes typical sounds ant poo | 12 afeas that have retained cap. Tessltion passod by the Chure , ter which Mr, Speaker took over. He |. "| se8 through these openings, and | tal punishment, and in OF | Oe ieee ae a

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