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vlonweaith. Not over 7: per aingla copv Member Audit Bureau of Circulation. “The strongest memory is weaker Mal the werzlrefst ink" - The Brussels Conference

At Brussels, British and Com- mon Market ministers have headed into more L3.lk3 on Britain's appli- cation to join the 6-nation European trade alliance. Some indication of the complicated nature of the dis- cussions may be gathered from the fact that the conference promises to be a marathon session lasting to the beginning of August. Meanwhile. the Belgian foreign minister has submitted a new plan for European political union, which would include Britain. and which is in opposition to the French plan for an exclusive union between the six preseiii members. F‘ranrc. West Germany. Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxemburg.

This points up the fact that much more than trade is involved in this conference. We in Canada would seem to be much less concerned about the matter than Soviet Pre- mier Khrushchev, who sees it from the standpoint of growing European military strength and its contribut- ion to NATO defenses.

Since military power and the ability to produce advanced weapons in quantity depend upon economic strength. there is no doubt that the new Europe has an immense military potential. It would be much greater if this potential were coupled to political unity and stability and firmly tied into the Atlantic com- munity of which the 15-nation NATO alliance is the military framework.

A recent study prepared for the foreign relations committee of the U.S. Senate throws revealing light on this point. By 1970, the study shows, western Europe will have an estimated 380 million peo- ple. producing 31 per cent of the world's gross national product. The western hemisphere members of the Atlantic community. the United States and Canada, will have a com- bined population of 224 million and produce another 31 per cent of the world's product.

Russia and its European sate‘.- lltes by 1970 will have 360 million people. according to this study, and produce 21 per cent of the world’s output. China with 800 million peo- ple will have an estimated 2 per cent of the world product, while India with 500 million population will ac- count for another 2 per cent.

Thus it is clear that Europe is the key to free world supremacy. Hence the feeling of urgency behind President Kennedy's prop0S3l f°T 3 ‘etronger Atlantic partnership being developed, before Europe is really gfipable of going her own way as a third force and holding the balance of power in the world.

This is the stake involved, and it la a tremendous one. Even the major threat of _war with the Com- munist bloc may fade in the face of an Atlantic community so strong and unified that the folly of an attack on it. and the rewards of seeking normal trade and peaceful relations, win be evident even in Moscow.

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ll When the lP‘rdnch celebrated Iilaotille Dayan July 14 it was int?"-' ~trfi-uditlonal marmldr--wltli gullltary

to the grim prison-fortress known as the Bastille, the key that opened the gate to the French Revolution 172 years ago, on July 14, 1789.

The day after the Bastille fell. the key was given to the Marquis de Lafayette as he assumed com- mand of the Revolution’s military forces. In a letter to his former commanding officer, General Wash- ington. he wrote on March 17, 1790: “Give me leave, my dear gen- eral, to present you with a picture of the Bastille. just as it looked a few days after I ordered its demolition, with the main key of the fortress of despotism. It is a tribute which I owe as a son to my adopted father-—as an aide de camp to my general--as a missionary of liberty to its patriarch.”

Thomas Paine was in Paris and was entrusted to deliver the gifts to Washington. They were received with due expressions of appreciation. In a letter of thanks which he wrote to Lafayette on July 11, 1790, Wash- ington said he was sending a set of shoe buckles in return for the key. Washington was then in New York attending to the affairs of the new American government. He left New York for a stay at Mount Vernon in the middle of September, 1790, and it is assumed he brought Lafayette’s gifts with him. The key is now to be seen by hundreds of visitors at Mount Vernon each day.

The Last Link

Worth noting amid the spate of more sensational news is the fact that on July 30 the last link in the trans-Canada highway will be open to the public. and Canadians will at last be able to drive across their own country in comfort. The bar- riers will be taken down at the West- ern end of the 92-mile Rogers Pass route through the Rockies, which cuts 100 miles off the route from the

Pacific in prairie cities.

The new highway. 80 per cent of the way thriugh national parks, also eliminates what has been called “the world's longest detour." Until now motorists have had to drive north in their eastern journey a complete U-turn. and drive 45 miles to get back to within 40 miles of where they started from.

The Rogers Pass Highway fol- lows the route of the Canadian Pacific Railway. but where it de- viates near the -Connaught Tunnel it reaches 4.500 feet high into an area that was first tried by the railroad builders and then aban- doned. after the deaths of 236 rail- road men in thirty years of work there. The conditions are such that the highway cost $2,000,000 a mile in some stretches.

The Province of British Columbia expects great benefits from the completion of the new highway. Buses across the province have cut. twelve hours from their schedule to Alberta, and motels and service stations have been built along the route. Five years ago only 3,500 miles of the province's 24,000 miles of road were hardtop. and many were quagmires.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Up to now, only horse-drawn vehicles and’ tractors have been al- lowed on the island of Sark, Chan-

ment voted to allow an electrically- propelled invalid chair for the use of the Dame of Sark, Mrs. Sybil Hathaway, who is 78. I . O O O The annual International Bag- pipe Festival at Brest this year will

most exciting and vivid folklore gatherings in Europe. Some 3,000 pipers and dancers will be on hand from as far away as Bulgaria, Hungary, Norway and Portugal. The news item says nothing about Scotland, but surely it will be rep- resented too. . O I 0

To qualify for the U.S. astro- nauts’ special insignia—-e shooting star superimposed on the shield of the aviator’s wings--a pilot must ' fly—beyrmd an altitude of fifty miles. Four pilots-Alan Shepard, Virgil Criasom. John Glenn and /Scott Carpentm-—-received their _ wings-after flights in Mercury space

Robert White, 88, became the fifth to qualify and the first in a winged _¢ra:ft:‘. In an experimental rocket - plane. launched from a bomber at

1 lg ,,§5,000 feet over Nevada. he flew

to I record altitude of 58.7 miles.

nel Island. But recently its Parlia-‘

take place Aug. 2-5, in one of the‘

capsules. Lasirweek Air Force Major ' ‘

we cuff ¢,ius1’_I6NoR$ If MY Mona

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JACK AND THE BEANSTALK

QUARTER ON THE FLOOR

A Visit To The Royal Mint

One of the pleasures of living in Ottawa is to observe, during

the working day. groups of tour- i

ists going on tours of inspec- tion the local resident never gets around to making. A Jour- nal man decided he must join a party going through the Roy- al Canadian Mint and makes re- port as follows:

“On the telephone I was offer- ed a choice of times at which tours were made. chose one and was told to present myself at the gate five minutes ahead_ of time and pick up a pass. There was a lineup at the gate‘. The man ahead of me hadn‘t phon- ed. He was given a slip of pap-

Ottawa Journal

3 er with the Mint telephone num- l her on it -— CE6-3132 — and directed to go and phone. “Inside we signed our passes and gave them to a guard, then waited in the lobby which is decorated with pictures of ‘Ot- tawa City. Canada Wcst (Late Bytownl drawn from nature by I. Whitefield‘, and cases contain- lng large plaster molds of coin designs. coins in various stag- es of the making from blank disk to final product with faces stamped, edges raised and bur- red, ore samples and a speci- men rough gold ingot and fine gold bar. on both of which a

PUBLIC

FORUM

VISITORS‘ COMPLAINT

Sir. — As first-time visitors to Prince Edward Island, we read the material given to us by Tou- rist Information Bureau people on the mainland. on the ferry and on the Island. We also talk- ed to them.

Evidently we did not read carefully enough. Certainly we re not told enough. What learned the hard way —- after three days roaming the Island and looking for ourselves —- is that you have some wonderful assets which are, relatively. neglected, as far as information for tour- ists is concerned.

Because of that neglect. more than an opportunity for goodwill is being overlooked. Ill will is being generated. We know. e experienced it. Other tourists we’ve spoken to say the same. This is what we mean:

We came to P.E.I. as camp- ers. The campgrounda we heard about were in your National Parks. Like nearly every camper, especially those from the States. we headed directly for Cavendish and Stanhope. At both we found two disappoint- ments. No sites were available. And the sites were dismaying- ly close, tent peg to tent peg.

At both Cavendish and Stan-

hope, long lines of cars were ‘

wanting for tea become av il- able. One attendant at Caven- dlah. who was quietly courteous at the end of what must have been a long and trying day. pointed to cars at the head of

had been

the line and

waiting there for nine hours! When we asked where else we

might go, we were told there

was an overflow area for cam-

pers about five miles down, but

it was already We looked at it, and it was.

We did check one private campground near stanhope, but here, too, altes seemed to us so close that. for ourselves. It would seem crowded.

We f rented a cabin at nightfall and the next day be- gan to look around, toward the eat. We made a atartling dis-

covery. .

There were lovely Provincial Ounpgmunde, some than on beautiful beaches. many of

been told about them? Or the family from Desien. Ooanactt cut. on their first camping trip

and their first Vldt flo P.E.I.T ' klllfl

children a n 1 where

All men, we are sure, would have been del tedvrltli charm of am , or tile use.

the quiet vtaclal C

‘ We’ve thought back to lwhether we ourselves are at I fault. To some extent we are. I I The Tourist Information Bur- ‘ i eau people did say the National I Park sites were fined. Provincial Parks are listed in the folder “Camp Sites in Prince Edward Island." issued by the P.E.I. Travel Bureau. But evi- dently tliis isn’t enough. If we were the only ones’, sure, we could be exceptionally thick- headed. But all those other peo- ple were missing it too.

The answer is probably as simple as this: tell us. Let your Tourist‘ Information Bureau peo- ple tell campers not only that National Park sites are filled. but let us know, specifically, about the other choices.‘

Have the National Park people go beyond courtesy in turning us away to let us know about the uncrowded Provincial parka. Its attitude not only to recrea- tion ln P.E.I. which is at stake. for these people but in Canada as a whole.

We don't want in SW8 like wrong impression. The Nation- al Parks. apart from ‘the camp- grounds. are lovely, But P.E.I. is beautiful elsewhere. too. For

bea iful

us. the most so far is Basin Head. east of Sou-

ria. Were taking the liberty of dropping you these overlong

-a because we you'd wantusto.Ailso. aseditm-sof -3; “Guide to

Campsites,” published by C. S. I-Iammond td.. Maolewoorl. N.J., we also try to keep the viewpoint of all campers In

mind. I am. Sir, sincerely, BEIlNAl§)‘SACKS Mexico Lane, . Mahopac, New York.

MY ROOM MATE

S l r.-Eurizhcr information about a friend about whom we wrote recently in this paper: We new loan that be is. the young- est: of a large family of boya—ell born in Germany. Our friend was brought to Montreal at the age of nine or ten. As a young man he enlisted in the Canadian Regiment to fight in No doubt his relatives were ao- tively engaged raider “Kaiser Wilhelm.’ Between the two world war: he served as an engineer wlfh the Merchant Marine (Call-

and imprisoned until the end of the war.

Every day we see proof that a prison cell in war time was not a bed of roses. Four years ago he waraa active man. to- dayheisaolreiplesatlratashe watches me fold my napkin he tries on do the same but

success. an wife and dren visit him often at the An

leaden color peeped out through the gilded surface. "TOUCH NOTHING"

"With passes_in hand a guide called about 10 of us into a group, warned us we must touch nothing, promised a 10-year-old boy he would show him ‘how to make money fast’ and led on.

“Our guide pointed out bars of copper and nickel, then coiled strips of silver about three inch- es wide and as thick as a quar- ter. One of these strips was be- ing fed into a machine that stamped out a stream of coin blanks. The noise of the mach- ine blottcd out the guide‘s com- mentary. The next machine was raising the edges of blank 25-

. cent pieces. The guide showed us ;a sample blank with its edge

raised. It was still -too noisy to hear what he said.

“Then we saw a machine stamping 10-cent pieces, both sides at once. one die hitting from above and one from below. The coins trickled out a spout into little pots.

"In the next room we could hear our guide at last and he explained that the little brass instrument in front of us w a s weighing quarters and feeding them into one of three slots: one for those more than three grams overweight. one for those more than three grams under- weight. and one. for the accep- table ones in between. He said only one in a hundred was und- er or over e right weight.

A man putting a handful of quarters into a tray dropped one on the floor and didn't pick it up. He didn't seem to hear the member of our party who shout-. ed to tell him be had dropped it.

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NE IN A HUNDRED

“We watched a dark young man watch a stream of copper-s, four or five abreast, flow by on a belt in front of him. He snap- ped up a bent one and put it on the edge of his machine be- side two others that had bits gauged out of them. About one in a hundred is spoiled. our

guide told us. ‘When you get used to it the damaged ones at you.‘

jump right out

"In th room were two machines that count coina into canvas bags by weight. Our guide said that all coins were checked in and out of every stage by weight. ‘In this build- lnag they always know where everything is‘, he said.

“Wondering why then they didn't pick up that quarter that fell on the floor. we returned to the lobby, received our paaaea back to be given to the guard at the gate. and departed. a father telling his young son they had better hurry if they wanted to be on time to ‘see the Main- tlas ride'."

Reader Seems

Misinformecl

By Dr. Theodore B. Van Dellen SOME days I feel inadequate. “Dear . Van Dellen," writes li‘.N.' from New Rochelle. N.Y. ‘Tm surprised that you don’t know the cause of cancer. There is no doubt it is caused by dis- eaaed chickens. Barnyard fowl eat anything that comes th e t :- way and do us more harm than

we consciously Iealiae.” Everyone is entitled his opinion but I love to eat chicken do so our

reader waa not content to stop with this information and added:

“Just recently I wrote to the mental hygiene department and suggested the use of ice cream as a mental soother and the « or- ganlzatlon is enthusiastic abeut lta possibilities. I explained to them that mental problems are the equivalent of mental fever. just as physical ailments have fever which present themselves on the thermometer. Foo d for thought-not found in medical textbooks." .

So true—about the textbooks. that la. The term mental lever la rather catching, considering

A New York City reader writes. “On Jan. 31 your article was headed ‘Genius and Insan- ity Have Nothing in Common,’ This is a false statement. Obses- alon with one idea, pursuit, or action is common in insanity. The genius llkewirse is obsessed usually in one field, because of talent, interest, or bent."

We could spend the rest of this column arguing with this read- er but we suggest he look up the word “obsession." He might find that persons in all walks of life and various degrees of intel- ligence have obsessions.

I might disagree with the ti- tle (which was not mine) by say- ing g insane do have things in common. T it e y have two eyes. shiver when cold and become hungry when dinner time rolls around.

(Dr. Van Dellen will answer questions on medical topics if stamped. self-addressed enve- ope accompanies requcstl.

SCALP PSORIASIS

M.M.L. writes: My husband has psoriasis on his scalp. which is very itchy. He washes his hair with mange soap, which seems to help a little. Is t h e re anything we can use to control or cure this condition?

REPLY

There are many different oint- ments and solutions but the ma- jority are messy. Coal mar oint- ments and ul-raviolet are the

st combinations. Tar sensitiz- es the skiu to ultraviolet. which must be remembered when pro- ducts containing tar are used on exposed areas during the sum- mer. Send s t a m p e ri. self-ad- dressed envelope for leaflet on

psoriasis. ARTERY SPASM L.G.L. writes: Is a cerebral spasm due to damage of the

brain? REPLY

Not as a rule. The muscular walls of the blood vessels in re under the control of the nervous system. A brain artery is likely to go into spasm following per-

iods of stress, emotional up- eav or excitement. Chemical changes may do the

same. Local brain damage also irritates the artery and might bring on spasm. ANIMAL GALL BLADDERS . S.D. w rite s: Do anlma have a gall bladder? REPL Some do. It Is absent in .t he horse, deer, and rat but is pre- sent in cattle, sheep, dogs, cats, and mice. Some species of ani- mals never devciop gall-stones. VITAMIN B12 SUPERIOR L.R.- writes: Can pernicious ~ anemia be rel-filved by diet. ‘I’

Yes, with tons of liver. It is easier to take a shot of vitamin B12 every three or four weeks. TODAY'S HEALTH HINT —

Open fires should always be screened.

OUR YESTERDAYS

(From the Guardian Fllea)

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (July 28. 1937)

had been in poor health foi- sev- eral months.

At a meeting of the P. E. I.

KIGHER LIVING 0081‘!

WASHINGTON tAP)—Unlted states living costs edged up in June to another record. largely because of higher food .m-Ices. especially coat of restaurant meals. The labor d t announced Wednesday its con- aumers price index nae. one- tanthofonepercentfolosj Per cent of M7-R base period. This means that the value of the dollar in markets is about five cents less