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PAGE 6 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1962. Federation Brief

In the brief presented to the Legislature yesterday by the Fed- eration of Agriculture it was noted that this was the nineteenth occas- fon in which an annual presenta- tion of this kind had been made. From the start, this practice has paid off in better understanding be- tween our farm groups represent- ed in the Federation, and our law- makers elected fo conduct the Prov- ince’s business in the Legislature. Occasionally the Federation recom- mendations have given rise to sharp controversy, but on the whole they have been presented with such log- fe and moderation that they have re- ceived the commendation of mem~- bers on both sides of the House.

Successive governments have adopted various proposals which the Federation has brought to their attention in this way. In all cases, we believe, the proposais have been given careful consideration, as com- ing from a body best qualified to speak in the interests of our major industry. We have no doubt that the attention given to yesterday’s brief will prove no exception. In its analysis of the problems facing our farming community, and in its con- structive suggestions for improve- ment, it is one of the most import- ant briefs ever presented to the House, and it would challenge at- tention in any case, regardless of ita origin.

Chiefly the brief dealt with the financial position of our farmers, with marketing problems, potato problems, and cattle production. As a corollary to the farmer’s financial problems attention was directed to the need of providing adequate cap- Htal for the operation and develop-

ment of economic farm units. Long term credit arrangements, the ap- pointment of a commission to study Island marketing with a view to giv- ing the farmer more bargaining power, and the elimination of “car- pet bagging” methods in handling potato exports, were among the policies suggested. In this connec- tion ft was emphasized that unless a fresh and adequate infusién of eapital is made available, many good farm units will go out of operation in the next few years.

Red China Threatens

One of the important things too often overlooked in the American effort to keep Red China out of the United Nations, and the Russian attempts to have it included, is the fact that nobody knows whether Peking wants to accept a seat or not. As matters stand today the Com- munist Chinese, outspokenly dedic- ated to the overthrow of capitalism, are operating free of all restraint from either free world or Commu- nist direction. Communism, as prac- ticed by the Chinese, has little re- semblance to the Communism now being preached and practiced by Premier Khrushchev.

In Russia the people, grown weary of too many years of aus- ferity, are seeking some of the re- wards they have been promised Bince they were told to arise and themselves of their chains.

is a feeling that the chains are still clanking. The younger q ition, who have grown up : knowing the slavery of the pzars, are not taking kindly to sparse helpings of the good things of life

mecessary to spend time making butter. This can be taken from-the capitalists with the guns.

What is worrying students of the world situation is the known fact that atomic and hydrogen bombs are no longer secret. Scientists know how they are constructed. Materials are available to every nation. China has the scientific know-how to con- struct these bombs. It also has the desire. Unlike America and Russia it mouths no platitudes that any military power it develops is to maintain peace. Chinese Reds preach

| the theory that the only way Com-

munism and capitalism can co-exist is to slaughter the capitalists.

Knowing these things the Unit- ed States is showing an apparent unawareness of the dangef. As one American newspaper comments editorially: “This country had bet- ter begin learning to think in terms of Red China’s threat just as it has learned to recognize the Soviet threat. And to understand what we're up against requires a far bet- ter knowledge of Red China than we have been permitted to have. The American attitude has been largely that of the ostrich—head in the sand. We'd better get ourselves into a position to judge what’s com- ing.”

When, and if, Red China is ad- mitted to the United Nations the world will keep right on turning. What could conceivably happen is that the present two-power tug- of-war between Washington and Moscow could spread out into a three-way fight with the Peking Reds who have no use at all for United States capitalism and are growing disillusioned with Commu- nism as practised by Russia. The Western nations appear to have no plan to meet such a contingency, as they prepare now to discuss dis- armament at a world conference at which Red China is excluded.

Education Week

Appropriately, this year’s an- nouncement for Education Week is based on a quotation from Sif Richard Livingstone: “Men must learn to earn a living, to be good members of a society, to understand the meaning of the phrase ‘the good life’; and education must help them to achieve these three ends.” In a democratie society it becomes in- creasingly apparent that education, in a very real sense, is the measure of a nation.

Public interest in education is not, of course, a one-week affair only. But the marking of one week each year as Education Week helps stimulate interest on a national scale, and draws attention to the in- creasing significance of education in today’s world and to the faet that, while its administration in Canada is a provincial concern, its importance is national.

It has long been the contention of the Teachers Federation, and other educational bodies, that Ot- tawa should assume more respon- sibility in this matter. Grants to raise the general standards of educa- tion throughout Canada have been proposed, but we hear less about them now than we did a few years ago. Why federal responsibility should be recognized in the matter of technical and vocational training, but not in academic studies is some- thing we could never understand. If the quotation given above from Sir Richard Livingstone means any- thing at all, it means that the three aims of education are equally of national concern. Perhaps we shail hear something on this subjeet from the Canadian Conference on Education, which is winding up its four-day session today in Montreal.

EDITORIAL NOTES

It is pleasing to note that the Federal Government has now ar- ranged to have recipients of war veteran’s allowances, aged 70 and over, receive the full amount of the recent $10 increase in old age and Wind pensions. Previously it had been the practice to include old age pensions as part of the income sup ject to the means test under the War Veterans Allowance Act. Now the regulations have been changed to exempt last month’s old age pen- sions increase from the income ceil- ing, and veterans will be placed, as they should be, on a par with other aged pensioners in benefiting from the higher pension rate. No refer-

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OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson

Mr. Pickersgill’s Misquotation Charge

When a politician's tongue runs embarrassingly away from his Party line, he customarily howls in anguish “I was mas. quoted.” |

Hon. J. W. Pickersgill, a Lib- | eral M.P. from Newfoundland, | was recently reported as urg- | ing before a Quebec audience that Canada should have two national flags: one containing the Union Jack and the other not.

Mr. P. had put his foot in his mouth, When he returned to Ot- tawa he was prompted - per- haps by the strategy plan- | ners of the J.iberal Party - to amend his unhappy utterance.

“Judging by press and rad- fo reports, I did not express clearly the position I took on the flag,” he confessed. But the uniformity of ear-witness re-

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opinion of corres | published are «ub condensation where necessary. The Guardian is unable te enter into any correspondence regard ing letters submitted.

CONTRAST IN SPEAKERS

ir, — On the evening Tues- day, Feb, 27, there appeared on the| TV program “Inquiry,” David Walker, Minister of Pub- lic Works in the Diefenbaker Government, together with sev- eral newspaper men, If t Diefenbaker Government wish- es to meet defeat at the very next election then I would sug- gest he be placed on TV upon every occasion possible.

After listening to Mr. Walker endeavoring to monopolize the entire time of the program, with his recital of all the good works of Tory Governmeat at Ottawa, together with his refu- | sal to accept the professed non- | political questioning of Michael Barkway, his rude mannerisms, his pronounced egotistical atti- tude toward questions asked, his self-righteousness and his apparent desire to belittle oth- ers, his claim of one hundred | per cent right in all undertak- | ings, every run a home run with no errors and the Canadian pub- lie lovingly awaiting the oppor-

brought to mind similar action but never placed upon the TV screen of the late St. Laurent Government of a few years back, ‘and, we all remember what hap- pened to that group.

Recently we had ister, one who visited us son, and to whom we listened with interest; a quiet but force- ful speaker. I rel joward Green, Minister of External Af- fairs, in the Diefenbaker ernment, who through his —

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had expressed clearly - al- though perhaps not cleverly - his position.

only deal with what he actually does say. DIS-UNION JACK This column deplored Mr. P's attempt to make the essentially nationwide interest of Canada’s flag into a sectional political is- sue. It likened to the teen-age guilt complex, which hides in the woodshed to smoke, P's suggestion that we should see at home a national flag ex- | cluding the Union Jack, but use a different flag including the Union Jack in other Common- wealth countries, | As part of his tidying-up process, Mr. P. then wrote a let- | ter to the editor of this paper, | asserting that my + comments | | | |

“contained a complete misrep- resentation of something was supposed to have said.”

That boring exercise contain- | ed an amazing phrase: “A mis- representation of something 1 | was supposed to have said.” That double doubt admits the baselessness of his accusation. He may not have intended to say that Canada should have two flags, one with and the oth- | er without the Union Jack; but | he did. Two flags, just as we | have two languages, he clari- fied

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Let us compare the two ver- sions, “Mr. ed,

Pickersgill recommend- | this column wrote, ‘first, |

A Hunt For

National Geographic Society

Reports of gorgeous red-hair- | ed mermaids frolicking in the | Irish Sea sparked: a mermaid | hunt, not long ago, off the Bri- tish Isle of Man, Though no fish- tailed maidens Were found, the quest attested to the appeal

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Today, no one really believes |

in the existence of mermaids, | Lon ac- | fishermen made these creatures by stitching the top part of a

once they were widely cepted, albeit exotic, members of marine fauna. Mermaids | were regularly “sighted” by ex- plorers, sailors, and travelers from chilly Newfoundland | palm-studded tropic isles. | Christopher Columbus and Henry Hudson gave detailed re of thelr encounters with mermaids, and in 1560 seven such creatures were reported | netted off the cdast of Ceylon. | A physician dissected the seven, | the story goes, and said they were exactly like humans.

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Coughing is desirable in these cases and should not be inhibit- ed unless it is excessive, inter- fers with sleep, or adds to the irritation.

re are many excellent cough mixtures but the essen- tial ingredient must be a drug

is the old reliable but news synthetic nonnarcotie products are available. Tablets and loz- enges that moisten or anesthe- tize the back of the throat also help deaden the cough reflex. (Dr. Van Dellen will answer questions on medical topics if stamped, self-addressed enve- lope accompanies request.)

the choice of a flag on which would appear the Union Jack, to represent Canada in Britain and the other countries of the Com- monwealth. Second, he recom- mended the adoption of a dis- tinetive flag, without any emb- Jem of dependence, to represent Canada across the country and at the United Nations.”

NO DIFFERENCE

Mr. Pickersgill's correction (?) was summarised in these words: “When I was asked if that would mean two flags, I said, | yes, one distincitive for Can- | ada and one containing the Un- | fon Jack for our association in the Commonwealth.”” |

Mr. P's embarrassment is understandable; but not his | complaint that he was “misrep- | resented” by this column, His anguish more likely stems not

SCALP CYST G. P. writes: I have had a sebaceous cyst on my scalp for years. It became abscessed and the it, Now it has grown . Ts theee no cure for this

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Yes — surgery. It is a simple overation that is done under @ local anesthetic. Hospitalization is not necessary and the only disagreeable feature is the wearing of a bandage for a week or 10 days. The operation should be done after the infee- tion subsides.

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ANNUAL CHECKUPS

Mrs, V. writes: How often do men and women need check- ups?

but from my deduction that “dis Union Jack Pickersgill's gestion savours of the wood-shed guilt complex.”

Probably he expected that

I would feel properly chastened ey \Sreed ? 50, oe | and corrected by his letter ap-| Preferably during the P| pearing in print in so many pa. | aaa P scad Pachtocee thee pers carrying this “Ottawa Re | rn eon een a ee made so port.” But in my opinion such often in younger persons, Every frequent and generally ground- | fy to six years Is often enough less eriticism of the responsible | Serena ‘rene press by embarrassed politl- | Conaition and type of wor K. cians of all a aa a Many women consult a gynecol- firm rebuttal by those attack- i ed, There are octasions of detib- | °F" (VY veer from age.¥6 on. erate misquotation and mi presentation no doubt; but as | the sentences quoted above show, this column did correctly report the proposal for two national lags of da, one including and the other excluding the Un-

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CYST PAIN J. B. writes: Will heat relieve the pain of pilonidal cyst? REPLY

Pain {s relieved temporarily by lancing the infected cyst, to allow pus to escape. Permanent

jon Jack. relief is obtained by complete removal, preferably after the 'e infection has subsided, Mermaids inact Glad

J. K. writes: From time to time T get pain of the tongue | muscles which feels like cramp. ing. Have you ev ot anything Ike this?

village of Bu ror in hand people. After

¥ ‘Yes. Cramping can occur King” and plunged in- any muscle, including those to the sea, leaving Bude without | the tongue. its mermaid. In the 1870's, stuffed mer-| TODAY'S HEALTH HINT— maids could be examined in| Uncertainty and fear lead don coffee houses. Japanese | weariness. ‘

OUR YESTERDAYS From the Guardian Files

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‘major rail lines and their noa- operating employees have col- lapsed and a dispute between enginemen and management re- mains unsettled.

pon auy enterprise. Changes occur and companies must keep up with them if they are to stay solvent, People cannot be paid for jobs that no longer exist, What the unions are demanding is recog- nition and approval of the dan- gerous practice of “featherbed- ding.” But the rails and the uniocs cannot see eye to eye, The next step is go before a conciliation board. If the past is any criter- jon, one side will accept the 's findings, the other side will not. Then will come the

There is an afr of unreality about this whole situation. Rail- roading is a sick industry in Canada. The railroads are los- ing money. They are retiring’ rapidly from their tradutional passenger business while their competitors—airlines,

icks— are making sensational

gains.

Railroading is an industry with its back to the wail, fight ing for its very life. This is no time for the railways and their workers to indulge in crippling | strike bogey with the whole mat- internal disputes. ter thrust again into the lap of

Particularly unrealistic is the | the Federal Government. It the non-operating | looks like the mixture as before.

He Doesn‘t Fade Away

‘Montreal Star “rm out of business now and | claim that the resime was can do what I like and say what | “quite preferable” to the pre-

Communist Chiang Kai - shek

government, and that “I believe

there should be one China, not

two, and that China is the one

which has its government in ‘king.

I like, and I rather enjoy it.” So spake Field Marshal the

mein in May, 1960, during one of his frequent Canadian visits.

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Unfortunately, not everyone | He was back in China again last October as the personal ing what he likes. | guest of Mao tung (‘a

In fact he in extraordinary | faculty for irritation, | On that occasion in 1960 he was on his way to Communist | China, where he was to pro- |

great guy") and reported sol- emnly that he had not seen a single case of malnutrition. Over the last couple of years the Field Marshal has delivered | himself, loudly and publicly, of

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His latest proclamation on the subject of other people's busl- ness came from Durban, South Africa:

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on the limbs “It the black’ people Of monarch oaks. The squirrel’s tes ee ae feu 2 re A Suen Gao empty, whitely | t€ Whites of South Africa—then ‘overbrims; ‘ | I shall draw my sword and | He scoops’ and & | come and help you myself.” To

which he added: “No division | between the whites here is per- taken by | missible.

Your children must all go te school together. You must be bilingual.” aceite, | This is not calculated to fos- And draws and nibbles, nibbles | tet love for Britain either in the

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and is fed. is March: his hoard is | both English - speaking and Af- qi ikaner people in South Africa, iting grackles, | any more than his remarks he must forage. ut China promoted goodwill

Does he consider every acorn | in the United States. | There would, we suspect, be

drawn Is one less kernel left in win- | @ Sigh of relief in the Western storage?

ter storage’ countries if Viscount Montgom- Has he, as they have, some built- | ery did what most other British in assurance field marshals —slowly f ‘That snow of March is snow of | away, dozing in their seats in brief Pe | peo House of Lords, keeping =| Howes. | quiet on matters removed from in the Christian Science Monitor. | the science of war.

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