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Democratic Strength It is believed in Western diplomatic

-eircles that Premier Khrushchev _ wants the summit meeting—if there is to be one—held in the United ' §$tates, in order that he might do a

‘little political barnstorming across _ the country after\the meeting is over and fill in a few propaganda gaps left

by his colleague and fellow-conspira- tor, Anastas Mikoyan. It is reported

im Washington that the prospect is

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linked thé doctrines of law to the

‘being viewed gloomily by certain Gov-

ernment officials, including President Eisenhower himself.

If the report is true, the United States’ Government is in a bad way; indeed, it is facing a danger more serious than that occasioned by Rus- sia’s alleged possession of the inter- continental ballistic missile. The greatest weapon in the hand of Mr. Khrushchev is the knowledge—or the supposition—that American leaders are. afraid to let the people hear the Communist argument from the lips of fits chief protagonists.

Democratic institutions have noth- ing to fear from the lies and wiles of

‘men like Khrushchev, as long as they

are true to themselves and respectful of the good sense which, in general, characterizes the public conscience. It is unthinkable that any considerable segment of the American population ould be hoodwinked by the veneer of affability that Mr. Khrushchev would undoubtedly show on a cross country tour.

It would be a mistake, of course, to underestimate his political saga- city ; he is by all accounts a master of deceit and guile. But it is a much greater mistake to take it too serious- ly and to assume that 2 nation accus- tomed to freedom must at all times be insulated against every sling and ar- row of an outrageous doctrine. Demo- eracy should be able to stand secure in its own strength. Ht is, too, de- spite the doubts and misgivings of some of its leaders. ?

/ The Hospital Plan There is something to be ‘said for the suggestion made in the Commons by Opposition speakers that provision be made for deduction from taxable income of hospital bills paid by gov- ernments under the National Hospital Insurance Plan. The fact that Parlia- ment voted down the suggestion doesn’t necessarily mean that it is without merit; a top-heavy Parlia- ment can usually be depended upon to obey the edict of the party chiefs,

_ whether it be just or unjust. Per-

haps inno legislature in the free world is this more obvious than it is hh the Canadian Commons.

It is a, little difficult t¢ understand why persons covered by the Federal- Provincial plan should not be able to claim hospital bills as deductible ex- penses, while persons covered by pri-

_, vate plans are permitted to do so.

True, in the first case the bills are

paid by the governments, while in the _

gecond thev are paid by insurance companies. This, however, is a differ- ence without much substance. Gov- ernments don't “give” anybody any- thing, any more than insurance com- panies do. Before they can pay out they must take in; and it.a mistake to assume, as apparently Finance Minister Fleming assumes, that un- der the hospital plan everything is “free”.

It is a fine arrangement to be sure, and it will be of inestimable value to many Canadians. But it is being paid for by the people themselves, partly through direct levies in one form or another and partly through general taxes. This is something that should be kept in mind when the merits of the plan and its means of*support are being discussed.

Freedom's Charter

Sir Harold Anthony Caccia, the British Ambassador to the United States, spoke the other day at James- town in a meeting sponsored by the Virginia State Bar to mark the com- ing of English common law to what is \now the United States in 1607. He followed ‘the precedent of another Ambassador, Viscount Bryce, who in 1907 addressing the annual meeting uf the American Bar Association on the development of the common law,

For many egenerations now the Charter, glorified by generous error, has become the shield of liberty and the sword of outraged justice. To save the actual text on which the ancient anthem. of freedom stood so

“proudly inscribed, and to prevent it trom being defaced by tyranny, be- came for the British Government a duty which could await no delay even in the crushing anxieties brought by the first months of war.

In one of those inspired decisions which make the actions of govern- ments tolerable to sensitive minds, the British and American authorities agreed to find a place of refuge for Magna Carta in the same library that holds the American protest of the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson had never been a stranger in’ spirit to Runnymede. Now the library which has grown from his own books gave sanctuary to the charter of freedom.

Weather Phenomena

Over the last ten years specialists have noted a marked change in met- eorological phenomena. Generally speaking, the average temperature is rising both in the northern and south- ern hemispheres—a fact which fits in well with the observed melting of the Polar ice-caps.

But while the winters are getting warmer, the summers are now cooler. One result is that some of the fast- flowirig glaciers are extending their surface; but there are other con- sequences. In England, cricket clubs complain that their season grows shorter every year; fisheries experts have noted that the shoals of cod are tending to move northwards; and in the last few years the Great Salt Lake in Utah has dried up by half.

Ever since the presenf series of bad summers began, public opinion has put the blame on nuclear and thermo- nuclear explosions. Most meteorolog- ists, however, state that this accusat- ion is- completely groundless. They stress that it would take tremendous energy, exceeding anything man is capable of producing, to exert an in- fluence on the air circulation and the formation of anti-cyclones which lead to widespread weather disturbances.

Even a small local thunderstorm would require almost as much energy a» that liberated by about fifteen hydrogen bombs. Scientists state that the average storm at sea is equal to the energy of hundreds or thousands of atomic explosions. To create‘a full- scale storm artificially one would

-have to let off atomic bombs almost every second!

EDITORIAL NOTES

The P.E.I. Musical Festival Associ- ation holds it annual. meeting at Prince of Wales College on Tuesday evening. In view of the phenomenal success achieved by the organization in our music festivals held in recent years, the attendance should be large and representative. Business of in- terest to all concerned with the move- ment will be transacted.

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The port of Quebec so far this

year has shown “far less activity” than in the,same perod last year and many stevedores are out of work, it is reported. This situation follows the opening of the St. Lawrence Sea-

way which has allowed ships that ©

previously could travel inland no fur- ther than Montreal to go on now to the Great Lakes.

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It was a fine gesture on the part of the Post Office Department to issue a special stamp in tribute to the world-wide organizations of rural women. Particular honor thus is ac- corded to the Canadian, Mrs. Adelaide Hoodless of Hamilton, who, in 1897,

' conceived the idea of women’s institu-

tes. From her idea came two Canad- ian bodies, the Women’s Institutes and the Cercles des Fermieres, whose combined membership of 142,000 is part of the world total of six million women organized. to build, through the home, a betier world order,

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OTTAWA REPORT _

* Prime Minister John Diefen- baker plunged the detonator to set off a dynamite blast symbol- izing the cemmencement of work on the South Saskatchewan Dam last month. ;

That was 3% years after he had first come to the Prairies. wheu as the sub-teen son of a home- steading family he had seen the sloughs filled to overflowing as late as August, with duck ano wildfowl everywhere in an area which did not anticipate the on- coming of drought. And it was 10 years after he had first come to Ottawa, as representative of the constituency of Lake Centre in which the dam ig sited.

But between those years had come the barren \times, when dust was piled high against the fences; when only the tumbling tumbleweed yielded a bumper crop; when, in the Prime M:nis- ter’s own words. darkened fields told the story of blasted hopes.

Then in 1940, Mr. Diefenbaker was elected to Parliament; and continuously in Ottawa ever <ince, the. “Golden Voice of the Prair- ies” fought for this irrigation project, which sould ensure that there would be less heartbreak and surer hope in future years in that courageously settled area an area which Captain Palliser proclaimed 100 years ago would never be suitable for settlement.

Every schoolboy today knows | that Holland ie a country created |

s only the best-known of the age-old efforts of the Dutch to _wrest land from the ocean and to protect themeelves against | floods

These efforts are stifl contin- uing, for Holland is extremely vulnerable to the attacks of her hereditary enemy, the sea. Most of the country is below sea level, and this area supports more than five million people.

Traditionally, the sea has had two great invasion routes: one in the north. now closed by the 20-mile-long Zudyer Zee dvke | with a huge fresh-waier lake, Lake Yssel, stretching behind i; and the other in the Zealand ts- land region of the southwest, where the Lek and the Waal | (branches of the Rhine), the Maas and the Scheldt rivers form a delta as they flow into the North Sea.

a dozen islands, the biggest and HALF A DOZEN. ISLANDS This region is formed by half,

| the best4cnown of which is Wal- |

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tragically shown n February, 1953. the dykes and de- were swept away. Government of the Nether-

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New Saskatchewan Dam

By Patrick Nicholson

Thus, to the Prime Minister it was a sentimental duty to jnitiate the construction of the 3 mile long dam, which will store the equivalent of nearly three drought years of rainfall, or irrigate the bitterly named and often dust- dry Palliser Triangle.

The former MP. for Lake Cen- tre obviously felt a pride ; but sensed an equity in the fact | that the irrigation dam and power | plant. half paid for by Canadians in other provinces, is the largest project yet initiated by his gov- ernment, dedicated to the p rc- osition that Canadains shou’d enjoy the benefit of full develop- ment of our natural resources.

staggering. It will be the largest of its kind in Canada, nearly the largest such dam in the world. It will create an artificial lake with a shoreline of 475 miles, offering attractive recreational prospecis as well as its utilitarian ends. It will use enough concrete to build a 2% mile super-highway from | Prince Albert to Regina. It wil! | use enough steel to girdle the world. And it has promp‘ed enough words to make the entire prairies into a dustbow!.

But among those words are the pious hopes’ that the Dam should bring a more stable prosperity

te the whole province and hence to Canada, and in the Prime Min-

Holland’s Delta Plan

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ope’s greatest ports, must have free access to the sea. for the

| heavy ocean traffic would find 1

inconvenient to have to negotiate a system of locks through the dyk- es. The “Delta Plan’ therefore does not shut off the mouth of

| the Wester Schelde leading to Ant- werp, and of the Nieuwe Water-

weg leading to Rotterdam. But all other outlets to the sea will be closed by dykes, the bigger ones equipped with sluices and liftdocks to allow vessels to pass. These main dykes (‘on which roads. will be constructed) are true dams backed by a secondary system of dukes behind them to compensate for the absence of the tides and avoid disturbances created by a spate of fresh water from the rivers.

LAST PROBLEMS This jast problem was particu-

\ larly difficult to solve. A way had |

to be found of dealing with the extra surface water wich in wet weather surges down the Maas, Lek and the Wee’. Wicn the currents in the River Noord ,and the Nieuwe Waterweg (be- | tween Rotterdam and the Hook | of Holand) become too swift, the

| other channels. A dam equipped with seventeen locks ts being built in the Haringvliet between the islands of Voorne and Goeree.

rest This system will be particularly

useful when the rivers are swol- len by rains or filled with floes in the r.

_The da ‘g com- pletion. Its locks, nearly 200- feet wide, have been built with the help of circular caissons which are kept free of sea-water by pumps. All the sections of this dam are capable of standing up to any; storm.

The advantages of this Delta Plan are obvious. In the first place, it will provide permanent provinces of the Netherlands, Sec- provincees of the Netherlands, Se- owdly, the enormous quantities of fresh water contained in the new reservoirs will ehable far- mers to cultivate land which pre- viously lay fallow owing to its high degree of salinity.

ROADS ON DYKES

And, finally,' the buildin, of soads on the dykes will do much to end the isolation of the area and encourage settlement in the sparsely-populated islands, there- by changing the economic and so- cial Wife of the delia. It is hoped that major industrial centres will

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When the dam is completed, the | first of the half-million acres of | {surrounding farmland wili be | jlush with water gushing down canals, instead of oniy with scatiered raindrops. Wha: will this assured water supply really mean’? To learn the answers as they may be ten years hence, I | spoke to Judge Haroid Poupe of Moose Jaw, who was the first ipresident of the Saskatchewan | River Developntent Association. Farmiand now worth only $30 |

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when irrigated; the yield —of—$15 of crops per acre from dryland | farming could rise to $400 when artificial watering permiis as | many as three crops of alfalfa jeach year; ideal irrigation of ;some 90 acres in each 640 acre section of farmland would per- mit diversi‘ication and ba'anced farming. with livestock and mix- ed crops. Gone will be the days when it took 3 acres ofg dusty rangeland to support one head of cattle.

On the basis of these interest- ing speculations by Juage Pope we see that the incveased +'eld, of all the planned irrigation area could excced the $184.000.000 cost of the dam in one good year. And the stable farm economy, coupl- ed with the industrial potential of the 200.000 horsepower of new | hydro-electric supply could speed prosperity on the cross-Canada lstandard for our hitherto most | neglected province.

oe established in Zealand if the dykes can be used, for example, to furnish hydro-electric power. Thus the struggle of the Neth- erlands against the sea has ent- ered a new phase. The wo>\ on the Delta Plan, begun in 1955, is | | going ahead on schedule and the | last dam will be completed by | 1978. ScienuistNhave predicted a general sinking of the land in)

this northwestern corner of Eur | ope in about a hundred years: | time: but Dutch engineers , are not- intimidated by this threat. On the contrary, they hav decid- ed to face up to it boldly and to take preventive steps against the sea. At the same time, the Dela Plan will give Zealand new | importance in the economy of | the Netherlands and in that of the | European community.

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the previousty listed injuries, you can give him ai] the water he wants. Make him_ mp it slowly.

Hot tea and coffee are all ight, too, especially if the vic- ‘im is cold. But brandy and whisky may do a lot more harm than-good. So it’s better not to use them.

QUESTION AND ANSWER

Mrs. M.E.S.: My daughter con- stantly uses a chewing gum |ax- ative. I feel that this is too severe and could cause cancer.

Am I correct in thinking this?

Answer: Constant use of any laxative ts undesirable and shouid be avoided. However, there is no convincing evidence to connect the use of laxativs with cancer.

The flowing-flooding of the sea. Is fixed in its own fluidity.

| Forever eroding the rocky shelf,

Only the set is time itself.

That once pumped salt through ali life's veins, :

though withdrawing, till remains.

The eternal source which struck life re

Suffers in us a true sea-change.

Not\ moving forever like the sea meaningless immortality.

Life ere it learns just what # is

Must perish in earth's paralysis.

—Carleton Drewry In The New York Times

Spuds With

Senator Ralph Horner, of Sask- atchewan, is something of an ex- pert on the art of cogking po- tatoes. But like most exPerts now- adays, he tends to specialize— potatoes with their jackets on.

He recently discovered, he told the Senate Special Committee on Land Use, that in. Las Vegas ev- eryone potatoes for breakfast. ‘The potatoes were baked in their skins and they are kept warm uptil required. Cook- ing them that way, very lit- tle grease.was used and they were just delightful. :

“I remember when I was bat- ching it, I scrubbed the potatoes well and boiled them,” he con- tinued. “Now a lot of women won't believe this. For example, you are in a hurry for the next meal, and if you have some of these boiled potatoes you can heat them in a hurry by setting them on the fire for a few sec- onds and then put them on the table and no one can tell that they were not freshly boiled po- tatoes."

Packing them in mud and bury-

ing them in the red embers of a |

dying bonfire is something most folks in the 40-and-up bracket will remember. The temptation was always to hau) them out and eat them before»they -were cooked right through, but they had a full, rich flavor.

en preparations can a importam. Try splitting a baked or jacket - bolied an 5. criss-crossing the steaming, white fluffy interior with a knife and generously , spreading with but- ter, when the butter has dowed

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down into the crevasses, sprinkle with salt and pepper and dig in. Another treatment for the baked potato is to cut in a hole in the top, scoop out the pulp, mix with butter, salt and pepper and return to the jacket. Top this with a sprinkling of grated Canadian cheese and reheat briefly. There is, indeed, something to be said for spuds in their jackets.

OUR YESTERDAYS

(From the Guardian Files)

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (June 8, 1934) Apparently unaware that a train was approaching, Mr. H. Alfred Robertson, Southport, drove his truck into the front part of a locomotive at Glover's Main Road Crossing, Mount Stewart, yesterday morning. The train was moving at a slow rate, and Mr. Robertson escaped with a broken arm and lacerations. | The truck was considerably dam-

aged.

Dr. F.C. Bell, Vancouver. who has been in the city the past two days inspecting local hospitals for the American College of Surgeons has completed his work here and states that hospital facilities here compare favorably with other cities. The results of the inspec- tion will be embodied in re- ports to the college. and hospi tals will be graded by a board of the college.

ministration and treatment centre | is anticipated at Falconwood Hos- pital, it was stated last night by Dr. A.J. Murchison, medical sup- erintendent. The centre will have all modern methods of diag- nosis and treatment for the care of the mentally ill. During the past year, resid@nces have been completed for the male and fe- male nursing staffs and also a new residence for the medical

superintendent.

No natural resource ia’. inex- haustible. This truism was again brought home in the case of Can- ada’s fisheries, when the respon- sible minister in the federal gov- ernment, Hon. J. Angus Mac- Lean, in an address at Montreal this week pointed out that only recently has the limitation of this sea resource been fully realiz- ed. And this. unfortunately, by ali too few persons. His was a message worthy of carefu. con- sideration by every Canadian, more so by the entire fishing in- dustry.

Oddly enough, # is the tremen- Gous . strides made in _ recent years in the scientific harvesting of fish which have to a large extent created the problem to which Mr. MacLean has referred. Here is another example of in- genuity resulting in such a high degree of efficincy that man can very possibly destroy that which he is attempting to develop and

of today can indeed track down and catch fish—with the aid of research data, biological informa- thon and technical epparatus—so efficiently that if, as Mr. Mac-

MAXIMS

Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard

promote. The modern fishing fleet} }-€ ES

Times-Herald

A small boy had menting with the family “ak Dad,” he ng

it apart and put again—and I’ve a profit of three tubes and a condenser.” Reporter

Some men, like good wine, improve with age. Such a man

been said

,|is Mr. John Bracken, educator,

politician, farmer and latterly plain citizen, who has labored mightily and well for his fellow-

Bracken has capped his career —he will be 76 this summer —with

collaborating with a ald

In Copenhagen tfe Philips Ra- dio Company workers shared & prize of 200 kroner ($30) for m- venting a felt hammer to bang television sets. Previousiy

A Montreal man claimed ing powers on the basis of being the seven son of a seventh

wer as could be imagined: But he found ‘victims. The other day, the faker was senfenced to a year in jail for defrauding two fame ilies of money- after convincing them he had special healing pow- ers.—Cape Breton Post

Their Preservation Vital

Moncton Transcript

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Lean warns, careful control and management is not exercised, the entire industry could conceivably be very seriously threatened.

This word of advice from @ men eminently qualified to ex- press an opinion on the matter must be taken to heart, espec- jially in this province. Fishing is, in New Brunswick, an industry of paramount importance. If it is to remain so, then every indiv- idual concerned must consider % his personal responsibility to see that the valuable crop in which he has a vital economic stake is in no way abused.

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