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At Ninety-Three

This community owes a debt it can never repay to such grand old family physicians as Dr. G. F. Dewar, who observed his ninety- third birthday anniversary here yes- terday. Though his practice for many years was one of the most ex- tensive in the Province, he seemed always to have time to spare for the humblest claimant upon his services. Never was he known tp fail in promp- tly answering a call if humanly possible—near or far, night or day.

That was before the days of public health clinics and social sec- urity funds. We do not know how many bills Dr. Dewar conveniently “forgot” to send out in necessitous cases, but we know that in many homes in this city and neighborhood,

, over a long period of years, he min-

istered to the sick and afflicted with little thought of monetary reward. His skill and devotion were matched only by his kindness and courtesy. His very presence in a sick room brought comfort, and “his wise, rare smile was sweet with certainties.” These amiable qualities he has car- ried with him into ripe old age, along with a lively interest in current af- fairs and in the personal problems of young people, whom he particularly likes and with whom hehas always been very popular. If he were given to moralizing he could say, with Rabbi Ben Ezra: “Grow old along with me, The best is yet to be, The last of life for which the first was made." But it is by examplethat Dr. Dewar's best preaching has been

done; and what an inspiration that.

has been to successive generations!

It is the hope of all his friends that he will enjoy many more anniversar- ies. in health and good spirits, in his well-earned retirement.

Shakespeare &,The Turk

Most of the speeches in the UN. General Assembly are so stilted and so lacking in imagination that it is refreshing to hear of something out of the ordinary, something of a classical nature.

Speaking in the debate on Cyp-

'rus, Fatim Rustu Zorlu, Foreign

Minister of Turkey, quoted from Shakespeare’s “Othello” in support of, his argument that the island should be divided into Greek and Turkish sections. “When we consider The importancy of Cyprus to the Turk ' And let ourselves again but understand That. as it more concerns the Turk than Rhodes, We must not think the Turk is so unskilful To leave that latest concerns him first.”

2?. Million Christmas Trees

In a Government booklet is the information that Canada’s 1958 crop of Christmas trees is placed at 22 million. Many will grace Cana- dian living rooms shortly but still more n ill be exported to the United States.

Three native species are most popular — the balsam fir with its shining glossy. leaves. the stocky white. spruce, and the Scotch pine. The fir is the most handsome but an abundance of sticky gum and the fact that its leaves shed.easily have made many Yuletide cele- brants turn to the drier and more durable Scotch pine. The spruce is always Christmas-like but its leaf- points are unpleasantly sharp.

Only in recent decades have Christmas trees become an indus- try. In earlier times they came chiefly from farmers‘ woodlots as most hereabouts still do. To this source has been added cultivated plantations of Christmas trees and so now more symmetrical and better-looking trees are grown close to the market or point of export.

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At first glance one would think it wasteful to cut down saplings from five to 10 feet high. Would it not be more profitable in the long run to let them grow for eventual use as lumber and pulpwood? The answer is that particularly in a plantation, the cutting of Christ- mas trees is really a thinning opera- tion, much like the thinning of rows of small vegetables in a back- yard garden.

Nehru Has Cow Trouble

Prime Minister Nehru of India is being threatened with a suit un- der the criminal procedure code for “outraging the religious feelings” of the Hindu community. Pandit Sita Ram Khemka, the would-be plaintiff, charges that Nehru said that “he looks up to the cow as he does to the horse.”

This equating horses with cows is outrageous to a devout Hindu. But the amazing thing is that Pandit Sita Ram has waited this long. Nehru has been known, in per- sonal conversation and in election speeches, to lament the role of the cow in India. The Indians, he has frequently charged, worship cows but let them starve to death. It would be more humane—and sen- sible—to care properly for them, get milkand other use from them, and forget the religious angle, Nehru believes.

India, it is said, has more cows per capita than the United States has automobiles. And most of them are useless. They don’t give milk. They get in everyone’s way. They eat up everything in sight. Yet many people are more disturbed when a cow is hit by a car than when a child quietly starves to death on a city street.

Pandit‘ Sita Ram personifies Nehru's problems in India. He has run against Nehru in elections. And, as Nehru has said, has confined his campaign to leading a cow about and repeating, over and over, “Ram. Ram, Ram." Ram is the foremost of the Hindu hero gods.

It must be discouraging, com- ments an exchange, to be faced with the terrific problem of raising 370,000,000 people by their boot- straps while being forced to com- pete for support with a cow.

EDITORIAL NOTES

The Maritime Electric Company has the right idea concerning the destruction of trees that present a hazard to lighting operations— whenever a tree is cut down, plant another of a suitable variety in its place.

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British Government officials are said to be disturbed about the grow- ing number of unemployed. The figure stands at about 530,000. By current Canadian standards, that is not a bad showing. Approximately the same number are without work in this country, which has much less than half the population of Britain.

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The two Federal by-elections in this country on Monday next are of considerable interest. Both seats were won by Conservatives in the last general election. Should either of them go Liberal—or CCF—now, it will be an indication that the Conservative wave has passed its peak.

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'A news report says that “de Gaulle’s grip on the French Govern- ment is tightened” by the election of one of his supporters as Speaker of the Assembly. There is nothing particularly startling about that. General de Gaulle will not only have a tight grip on the Assembly and Government He will dominate both. In fact, the Assembly under the Fifth Republic is not much more than a rubber stamp for the Presi- dent. I

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It seems that only passengers with plenty of time on their hands can afford to take passage on the "William Carson” on the North Sydney-Port Aux Basques run. On several occasions the vessel has had to heave to outside the Newfound- land port for several hours; and last week she was more than two days making the trip which usually takes about 8 hours. It is reported that the captain is under orders not to

attempt entering the harbour when the ',\iI'|l '.I'II‘('lI: 1.31:)Illlleihlwl'll'llll' or more. Skippers of former ships on tln- si-Iin-c \\ULtItI lltt\t: Ignored

such a lilth Iii-cue.

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MR. PIEFENbAKEK WAS GIVEN A SIX-

BLOWGUN AND A SUPPLY OF PoIGON-TIPDED PARTS

NEWS REPORT FROM ’fité PM; WORLO‘EIUR

BY MALAYAN TRtbbSMEN

‘1‘ FEET— LONG

ADIEF THE CHIEF---NEW VERSION 7

OTTAWA REPORT Notional Aviation Policy

By Patrick Nicholson .

Canada will be ready and eag- er to take full advantage of the Jet Age.

The traveller's need. thr‘ en- gineer's deed, and above all the Government's lead have bone. ficiently coincided to overcome the disruptive and constrainingr

PUBLIC FORUM '

This column to open in the discus

ion by correspondents of question C.

Interest. The Guardian does not nee»

nrily endorse the opinion of corros pondents.

influence of distance in our na- tional life. ‘

Our national aviation policy also aims at attaining another objective, more profitable than the earnings of a transportation utility and more far-sighted than the convenience of speedier travel. This is, to add the import— ant norflh~south dimension to our country; thus unlocking the rich- es in our Arctic treasure chest, and at the same time proclaim- ing to the world that we are sov- erign of‘ those “few acres of snow" of newly great strategic and economic importance.

Prime Minister John Diefen- baker won overwhelming support at the polls largely by firing the voters’ imagination with his "vision" of northern develop- ment, by the allure of his word

A CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE

Sir,——There has been a num- ber of controversial issues be- fore the public eye of late; the marketing of potatoes, Labor Unionism, Hospital‘ Insurance.

the effect of nuclear tests on plume Of our Sleeping beauty the weather pattern, and last or a Tomlin“ bgmg awaketled but not the least, controversial by 1‘15 own Pm)“ Cmmmg

kiss.

But that awakening can only be achieved through the aero- plane. ‘ AIRCRAFT ESSENTIAL

An earlier pnlzme minister had the vision to link the tiny scat- tered communities of British Nonth America by means of an east-west transcontinental rail of steel. The fulfillment of that vis- ion created Canada as it is to day, but it involved the diffi- cult feats of crossing the mus- keg north of Lake Superior, and penetrating the Rocky Mountains. Distance, terrain and climate would pose insupenable barriers to opening up our Northland in a similar manner. Only the aer- oplane, capable of soaring above

“Daylight Saving Time".

From our experience with Day- light Saving Time in the past, I am compelled to say that it has been a source of much annoy- ance, inconvenience and difficul- ties, and very confining to the travelling public. Where I am located I have many opportun- ities to get the views of the strangers as well as our own people on this question.

Much can be said about Day- light Saving Time, both pro and con, and much has been saidin the past. Yet no remedy has been found. Why? Simply be- cause the problem has not been tackled in the right manner. An issue of this nature requires tact, patience, wisdom and love. The term “love” may seem foreign

And so today we see the ef- forts of the appropriate govern- ment departments bent unflag- gingly toward the speedy imrx'e- mentation of our national airport plan.

This program does not com- prise solely such important shop- window work as the consu'uction of a bigger and better air ter- minal building at Montreal’s in- ternational airport.

JETS AT HITCHINGPOST

It aims at the provision of a fully-equipped airport, a “depot” of the Jet Age, to serve, every community which can use air transportation. It includes the in stalliation of the latest electronic navigational aids which will ex- pand Canada’s airways.

But more significantly, is, pro- vides for the take over and loper- ation of airstrips constructed in our Arctic by the Americans. And it envisages federal grants ’oward the creation of new air- fields, wherever these may be needed for the development of our natural resources, and for the convenience of isolated com- munities such as will spring up in our Northland.

While this government policy takes advantage of the arrival of the Jet Age, the invaluable old transportation system of the past century‘ has been increasingly superseded. .

Automobiles now carry an es- timated 90 per cent of inter-city travellers. while buses ou-trank trains three to one in transporting the non-motorists. Trucks are pro gressively eroding—pom _ to our national disadvantage—the shontuhavul freight business pre- viously enjoyed by our railways.

Within the next twenty years, the familiar green-curtatned sleeping car and the seilgnZ-orilal parlour chair, symbols of long- :iistance rail travel, will virtual- y disappear.

But within that same period

he aeroplaneTspeeding indepen-

ice floe and mountain. independ: ent of winter freeze-up and soft- ; ened permafrost, could carry man and materials at any time of the year between our empty

to many, regarding this matter of time, Daylight Saving or other- wise, or in fact, any secular mat- ter asfar as that is concerned. I am not ashamed to stand with St. Paul and his words, found in

the 13th verse of the 13th chapter “the” mmmum‘t‘es‘

high Arctic and our establisth

icntly of a permanent way ex- tensively laid over cleared ter- aiin and through man-made cut-

;ngs —— will have become the .‘vorkhorse of rich new provinces in our Northland. -

of his first epistle to the Corin- thians. ,

In all matters of a controver- sial nature we do well, when we

Mocmillon’s

By Ed

person. It does not hurt us, but it will increase our strength. That may be a bit hard to believe, yet it is true. Criticism in order to be a helpful thing must be accompanied by something con- structive. It may be in the form of a suggestion or something else. May I offer one here?

We have many organizations throughout Canada—many Boards of Trade, many women's organ- izations—not the least among them, the Women’s Institutes. Now. we have a long winter a- head of us, and it will be a good time to deal with this matter. I confess, that I do not know what the attitude of our Govern- ments-—Federal and Provincial— is on this issue. I am not against the hodge-podge way in which it was in effect across Canada in the past years.

I am not unmind‘ful of our farm- ers regarding this matter. They are the backbone of our economy and they should receive due con- sideration. It may be, that the man who operates a farm could arrive at an understanding with his helpers as to tie hour of starting work in the morning and the time to quit in the evening. There are many mornings during Summer, when there is heavy dew to contend with. In hay-making and harvest time, you cannot work at either hay or grain much before 8 am. or even later; but there is always other work to

Britain's flappable pre55 has been thrown into a high state of excitement by an unflaP'Pa'ble prime minister.

When Prime Minister Macmil- ian playfully hinted to the oppo- sition in the Commons this week hat the next general election "may be sooner than you think." several newspapers were galvan- ized into a series of calculations designed to show that the election would be held in February or March.

The remark, made while Mac- millan was experiencing consid‘ arable difficulty dealing with questions resurrecting the Suez, Canal crisis of two years agol was the reddest of red herrings.l It is a measure of the prime min- ‘ ister's political acumen that al- most without exception the listen. ing journalists set off in full cry. SUEZ FORGOTTEN

The next day the politically-pd ‘ent Suez question was almost 'ost in the wetter of excited elec- ’ion pnognostications.

Theoretically, Macmillan can “all a general election any time 'ietween now and May. 1960. .I‘hen the Conservative govern- tnent's five-year term empires.

But a number of factors. mainly economic, make it highly 'Inlikely he will give serious con- sideration to a late winter or early spring appeal to the coun- ‘rv.

Red Herring

Simon

Canadian Press Staff Writer

A more important factor, and one much in the minds of gov- ernment strategists, is the unem- ployment problem: The number \f Britons out of work is close to he 550.000 mark ~ high by Brit- 5h standards—and government -xperts predict the figure will in- :‘ease to more than 600.000 bv he end of February ‘JPTURN XPECTED

The government hopes that rec- nt pump-priming measures will :egin to bolster the country‘s in-

‘rnal economy in the spring. But , has been told by its economic ‘ lvisers that the effect of the‘

teasures will probably not be .Iown before the summer.

Unless the economists are owed unduly pessimistic about 19 speed of recovery, the gov- :nment may well delay a deci- .on about the election until late one or early July. The summer )liday lull then would put the ate off at least until September.

The Age Old Story

My soul, wait thou only upon lod: for my expectation is from lim.

DRY AREA Annual rainfall in the Punjab area of Pakistan averages only about 10 inches.

Important To Baby’s Health

By Herman N. Bundesen M.

A NEW mother generally 15 much more considerate of her baby's welfare than she is of her own.

Now this is very understand- able and even laudable. But to a certain extent it also may be a great mistake.

Your baby’s health, you must realize, depends really upon your own health. This is particu- larly true if you are nursm-g. INSUFFICIENT MILK .

For one thing, if you are tired and worn out you may not be able to produce enough milk for your baby. I

Therefore, it is essential to get at least eight hours sleep each night and about an hours rest some time during the day. This additional daytime nap IS particularly important as 10 n g as your baby still arouses you from your sleep for an early morning feeding.

SHORT RESTS

To help preserve your enengy, and to make sure you get ample rest, doctors as a rule suggest that, if it is at all possible, you lie down for 10 to 15 minutes be- tween each household ohore, and this includes caring for the baby.

Eating some fruit or drinking some milk along about the middle of the morning and again in mzd- afternoon may help prevent you from becoming overtired.

GET HELP

As a rule, the best way of con.- aerving your strength and y o u 1' breast milk supply probably is to get someone in to «help you dur- ing the first month. or month and a half, that you are home. Not only will this permit you to take over your household chores gra- dually, but it will allow you to enjoy your new baby more.

Your doctor probably will cau-

NOTES BY THE

A discouraging bit of news for

r is the autopsy report on :ngllaerg: trout found dead—pos- sibly of old age — in a Wyommg lake. Its stomach was found to contain a large ball of fish Lne, several lead sinkers, threesom- ners, one swivel, one minnow hook and two regular hooks—— ‘mute tokens of many success- ful encounters with man—Globe

and Mail

tion you against doing ’ much a n y w a y, especially climbing stairs, for the first week or ten

days. GET OUTDOORS

I suggest that you get outdoors a little every day “boom” he permits it. Fresh an Is im- portant to your general heal- t'h. Besides, it will do a kiwi: hel pick up your spirits. ' .

Iphave listed the foods wluoh nursing mothers should have veral times in the past, so won't go into that here.

But I do want to emphasize that a good diet is extremely Im- portant to all you nursing moth- ers, and to your babies as well. You need the foods that any healthy adult needs. But you need more of them.

QUESTION AND ANSWER

C. Y.: What causes an unusual- ly large uterus in a woman 51 years of age? Thorough examina- tion disclosed positively no tu- mors or other diseases.

Answer: There are a number of conditions besides tumors which may uce an enlarged uterus in a 1-year-old woman. The degree of enlangemem would be an important diagnostde point.

A thorough examination, in- cluding perhaps ditaguostwc curet- tage (scraping), is necessary to arrive at a definite diagnoms.

Bottle Concerning Teeth.

Cape Breton Post

The controversy over whether Charlottetown water will be fluor- idated will be decided by the city’s ratepayers soon. It will be a mercy for the teeth of the Charlottetown juveniles if the outcome is an affirmative maj- ority.