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WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, If)“.

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Speed Limits

There have been complaints late- ly about the 50 mile per hour speed limit on the Trans-Canada Highway in this Province. It has been called “Silly” and “unrealistic”. The propos- ition has been adVanced that there should be a difference between the limit on the T.C.H. and that on other paved roads. . '

Our own opinion is that the com- plaints are very much in the nature of “much ado about nothing”. Statis- tics show two things; first, that, fast driving—and certainly driving be- ‘yond. 50 miles per hour is “fast”—is a major cause of accidents; second. that there are more accidents on im- proved roads ' than on poor ones—:— chiefly, of course, because most mot- orists drive faster on them. The fact that speeds beyond 50 miles are per! mitted on some American super-high- '

' ways is certainly no evidence in sup-

port of the plea that the practice be

permitted here; witness, the large >

number of accidents on these super— highways daily. There are very few persons using

the highways who have real need to

travel faster than 50 miles per hour. ' More often than not, it is the per— sOn who has plenty of time on his hands who likes to “show of ” by stepping on the gas. Those who do have a valid reason for travelling fas— ter than '50 'm.p.h ought to leaVe their cars in thd garage and take a plane. That would take them to their destinations in a hurry; and they ,

' would be sure not to create hazards

for anyonc also.

Corn|_sh Interlude I There may be more important news from the Old Country these days, but We like this story which comes from ‘ Liskcard, c roman Cornwall. It is about an Anglican vicar who was con?

started when a burly youth on the sidelines swore in front of the girls and threatened to “knock the vicar’s block off." The sixty-nine year old clergyman promptly marched ‘the youth outside, and accepted his chal- lengc. When the young man picked himself off the ground he learned the hard way that the vicar was a'fOrmer boxer and cricket star. . x This incident. happened 'on a Mon- day. On the following Thursday, there was a. knock at the vicar’s door. The youth came to apolOgize, and asked if he could become a member of the church club. On Friday the vicar re- commended the lad for membership—- and paid his first year’s subscription.

More Causeways?

The interest in causeways is evi- dently sprealding. A British Columbia, member wants the'Federal Govern- ment to consider building one to con- nect Vancouver Island with the main- land. Mr. J. W. Pickersgill has sug- gested that one be built to close the Strait of Belle Isle at the North West tip of Newfoundland. Before long, no dOubt, there will be other requests— all arising from the Federal Govern- ment’s decision td study the feasibil- ity of a causeway link between this Province and New Brunswick.

In these suggestions and others which might follow we in this Pro- vince have no direct interest. Our main hope is that the Federal ‘Gov- eminent will begin construction on the P.E.l.-NB. causeway ,without unnecessary delay—provided, course, the current survey show the project to be feasible. We hope, too, that any difficulty that can be over- come—even through the cost might be a little more than was at first es- timated—will not I be permitted to stand in the way. Whatever other projects of this kind may be consid- ered, we have every right to insist . on ours being given priority.

Concerning the proposal for, a causeWay across the Strait of Belle Isle, we recall that this was talked about many years ago, long bef01 Newfoundland entered Confedera- tion. At that time—if our memory is correct—expert opinion was that, although the bridge would probably keep Northwest and West coasts of Newfoundland free of Arctic ice the year round, it might make conditions on the East coast worse than they

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were before. There was even specul— ation that St. John’s Harbour might be ice-bound all winter and spring. That, probably, was the main rea- son why the causeway—or bridge— plan was dropped. Anything the. is likely to hurt St. John’s is almost certain to be laid aside—if there is any way to do it.

Mrg‘Pearson's Faux Pas

The leader of the Liberal party, the Hon. Lester Pearson should be more careful when he addresses the

House of Commons. His fornier lea--

der, the Right Honourable Louis St. Laurent, would never have commit- ted the faux pas that Mr. Pearson committed on Monday—either in or dot of the House.

Mr. Pearson was making the ac- cusation, 1when he committed his serious error, that Prime Minister Diefenbaker’s “vision” of a greater Canada had been stolen from the- .Liberal party. The accusation was. in itself, a trivial one, since “visions” are imaginative properties which cannot be monopolized by any pol- itical party. However, making it did not, perhaps, detract from the Liber- al leader’s prestige, except among the thoughtful, for some allowance is almost invariably made flor most

,. things said by a politician during the I

course of'a political speech. _

But Mr. Pearson was not content with generaliZations. He had to des- cend to particulars, never stopping to realize that particulars must be fool-proof, to carry conviction. And so he said that Resources Minister Hamilton had admitted “only a few daysago” that there was nothing new in the “vision” except a. speeding ‘up of the “Liberal plan on which it was based.” . .

Mr. Pearson appeared wholly un-

Iconconscious of the fact thalt this

statement of his, this descending into particulars, had not only not streng- thened his case but had immeasur— ably fortified that of the Conserva- tives‘. so, if it be admitted by all

concerned that the Liberals did hav" I

a plan based oil-“vision,” and even Mr. Pearson tacitly admits—as he did admit in this. speech—that the GonSérVatives had speeded up this Liberal plan based on “vision,” then

' there is not a voter in all Canada who

would not be forced to admit that.

everything'else being equal, the Con— , seryative party is the better party so , ~ gal-"fw , zpeopldare concerned. ducting a church youth club. Trouble , ' ‘ ' ~

as the; interests of the Canadian

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EDITCDRIAL NOTES

An- astronomer says that the sun is slowly increasing in size and brightness and that 'eventually it may become so hot that it will vapor- ize the'earth’s waters and destroy all life. Th‘ere is no immediate worry, however. The catasthrophe will not happen for another 3 billion years.

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A member of a scientific associa- tion says that high heels cause stoop- ing shOulders, a curved back and wrinkles on the face and are bad for the'health generally. It won’t do a bit of good. They will continue to be worn until some authority on good looks declares them to be uncomely— ss, of course, they are.

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When Julius Caesar’s army went to sea, it ate salted anchovies and oil- preserved tuna, and the officers took along their bathtubs. Terracotta jars and bathtubs from the bottom of the Tyrrhenian Sea have reVealed. these facts to scientists. The jars and tubs, as well as many other curious objects, were found recently in wrecked Ro- man ships on the oCean floor off Cor— sica and Sardinia and the coasts of Liguria and'Salerno. It was believed these car and sail boats dated back to .the first century before Christ, and were used by the Romans for quick transport to. the conquered‘ lands of France and England.

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“How do migrating fish navigate? This is a question whichcannot yet' be answered with any certainty. What

causes the comings and goings oft fish which make the earnings .of

fishermen so uncertain that the in- dustry remains quite primitive in‘ character? Fishermen Eire still hun- ters rather than farmers. Only .about one per cent of man’s food has 3 marine origin, yet acre per acre the sea is producing about as much or— ganic material as the land Until we understand the overturn of the oceans, the marine environment wil. remain a major biological frontier. It is premature to speculate about its ultimate potential. Certainly the pos- sible harvest is at least several times that being now realiZed and it 1113) be as much as one hundred times”.— Dr. Columbus 0. D. Iselin of the Woods Hole, Mass. Oceanographic In- stitution, in “Saturday Review”.

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This column is open to the discus- m‘on by correspondents of question of

, interest. The Guardian does not neses-

' car'in endorse the opinion of corres- pond‘ents.

FARMERS, WAKE UP!

Sir—Our new Price Stabiliza- tion Farm Board might just as well crawl into a hole and stay there when all they 'will offer a little better than a half a cent per pound for potatoes in July. They were a fair price for a short while. You can’t sell your crop in a few days. It certainly puts farmers in a class by themselves and the sooner they realize it and stick together, will they catch up. No other class of people

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nothing, scared of a little surplus. Much better a surplus than a scarcity. Half the world envys‘a country with a surplus of goods. Them are lots of diversion ptro~ gems that could be put into operation. No other farm opera- tion creates as much employment or puts as much money in cir- culation as potatoes, especially in P.E.lr

Some think the Soil Batik Policy in the United States is awful when half the world is hungry. We have it here—little farms going out of production all the time, grown upin bushes and Weeds, some taken over in larger units handy the payed highways. What better natural resources to look for than a good'farming community?

We have a graveyard full of (loop Boards and Farm Associations. They are gone but not forgotten. We should pro- fit from past experience in our new Marketing Board. One cent per hundred-weight should fin- ance it probty\well till. we feel the needfor more. We have lots of producers here capable of man- aging it. Get too smart a man at the head of it and you have a one-man board which isn’t good for long.

I am, Sir, etc. ELDON DRUMMOND

Freetown, P.E.l. '

VACANT FARMS

Sir—«Your poignant, but factual and very realistic, editorial re- marks. on “Vacant Farms" caught this reader’s attentiomlnd if one may say so, gave me food for thought.

I noted the terse assertion; “There must be many thousands of acres of land lying idle on this Islan ,” and unreservedly support your conclusion "It is a shocking thing that good land should be idle, when over half of the world’s population are constantly on the verge of star- vation.” \

0n the other side of this ag— ricultural coin, however, -I have also noted, in my reading of re- cent ye'ars, the official estimate that there are approximately 150,000 fewer farms in‘ this wide fortunate, productive land of ours—veritany a material paradise in the eyes of the people your editorial refers to, and who are_ perpetually hungry. Obvious- ly the vast majority of these van- ished farms are still “in produc- tlon,” having been merged into today’s pattern of larger._ com- mercial farms. This technologi- cal “green revolution” has been referred to by all sorts of ex- perts, dealing with the economic health of Canada—and it seems

,to be accepted with a surprising— ly favorable unanimity in the opinion of executive leadership, at all levels. Maybe the fapt is fogged-up in terms of the market place and the apparent ease with which today‘s 580,000 Cana- dian farms can literally glut market-demand even- more so than in the “hungry 305" when there w e r e 730,000 “family farms” and nigh 7,000,000 fewer mouths around the nation’s din- nor-tables?

In closing, I would like to beam the following multi-million dollar question at your speedy urban readers: Who would have thought back in the years when we had merely 10,000,000 Canad- ians, that in 1958 some well~post- ed financial writer would feel free to say: “The fact is that agricultural income is no longer a major determinant in Canad- ian prosperity”? What is good for the family farm, it seems to me. can hardly avoid being good

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SPOIlNG TE SMILE OTTAWA REPORT

Awakening Notional Feeling ~ By Patrick Nicholson Special Correspondent for The Guardian

Ottawa: The awakening nation- al feellng in Canada is 'tardily spreading out of the fields of ideals into the more practiial needs of curreveryday life. For

years, Ottawa has been bathed in‘

outpounings of hot air demand- ing a “distinctive” national flag, for example. But throughout those same years, we have ignored, And indeed have been encouraged by successive governments to ignore the much more serious trespas- sings on our national sovereignty which have been costing us our heritage, mn- Wealth and even our jobs. -

While Ottawa hears all the va- pourings about a “distinctive” na- tional flag, we have heard hard- ly a voice raised in favour of creating a “dlstlncive” Canadian economy, or a “distinctive” Can- adieu automobile, or a “distinc- tive” Canadian labour movement. Our flag is at least distinctive in being repeated by no other nation on earth; our flag is not a branch plant and replica of any other flag; our flag is not designed and ruled and regula- ted and outnumbered by organ- ised “unions” in another country.

Recently there has been a stir- ring of our consciousness that our industry, in so far as indiv- idual plants are owned by US. parents and operated primarily in the interests of that foreign country, should be = “Canadian- is ”, we 'should own and con- trol our own industries and our own resources, and develop them for our own benefit and to pro- vide jobs for Canadians.

AND THE UNION BOSSES?

Now, at long last,'there is a stirring of resentment against do- mination of our labour unions b American bosses. *

This feeling reached a pea when the railway firemen were called out on strike against the Canadian Pacific Railway: a few hundred Cana ians being used, I am sorry to say, as pawns for the benefit of 90,000 railway fire- men in the U.S.

There are six million workers in Canada; about one million be- long to unions affiliated with our Labour Congress, of which prac- tically all are dominated by U.S. leaders and membership. Those one’ million workers, prompted largely by American conditions, often against their own wishes, have a disproportionate and dan- gerous influence on our whole ec- onomic picture. Aud many of

them understand and resent this, as is shown by a letter I have recently received from a rail worker in south-western. Ontario.

My correspondent criticises the practice .of union membership and the payment of union dues being a conditibn of employment, with- out all members receiving a bal- lot to Vote on such conditions. The fact that union assessments are not cont-milled by the mem- bers makes it difficult for true Canadian unions to obtain certif- ication, he adds, although a large percentage of Canadians wish to join such Canadian unions. '

Workers, he says, do not re- ceive a referendum ballot slip to vote on election of officers; some unions count the non-cast ballots in determining results. RULED FROM U.S.A.

“We Canadia‘n‘workers can do very little to change this, 'be- cause these conditions are insti- tuted at conventions in the U.S.A.

.Where American representatives

are larger in numbers. Members may be expelled very easily from

some unions, and this frightens.

workers from standing up for principles they believe in, be- cause they may be expelled, and then they automatically lose their job, and that means no pay check."

This correspondent goes on to urge that every effort should be made to assist in promoting log— islation that would make it nec- essary‘jor unions to conduct a referendum vote on election of officers at all levels. This. me- thod should also be employed when enforcing conditions. To date, government has apparently taken little note of appeals from independent Canadian unions, that sdemocnaitic methods should be in- stituted in labour unions opera- tingin Canada, such as Canad- ian self-rule' and a genuine 100 percent and secret vote on all important issues such as elec- tions, conditions of membership and strike action.

My correspondent makes out a very strong case.,But he of course presents only one side; there may be «other sides. It is however hard to believe that a convincing case can be presented for domination by foreigners, in some distant foreign city over workers in plants in our own cit- ites in Canada. Maybe this sen- timent for a “distinctive” Cana- dian labour movement will now

rightly spread.

THE ACADIANS OF P.E.l. The Deportation

. By J. Henri Blanchard. LL.D.

(Continlicd from yesterday)

During the summer of 1758, a fleet of transports carrying troops from England arrived in Hall- fax and from there they carried the troops to Louisburg. On the reduction of that fortress, 19 of these transports were sent to Isle St.-Jean to carry the inhabitants to France. Among these trans— ports there were the following:

The “Duke William” which was the largest, the “Violet,” “The Hin ”, ‘The Parnassus” (lost in the Gut of Canso, as was Cap- tain Moore’s vessel) the “Narcis- sus” (it was stranded also in the Gut). The passengers got ashore and the next day, they were picked up by the “Duke Wil- liam” most of these were lost later at sea

Several of the other transports were damaged on the coast of Cape Breton. The names of the following captains have been pre- served: Captains Moor-e, Nicholls, Wilson, Bond, Henry, Beaton, Dobson, Saggett, Whitby, Kelsey and Pyke. EMBARKED 0N TRANSPORTS

With a great abundance of stock, the transports left he Gut of Canso on November 25, 1753.

for Canada! Yours truly, “WE ARE SEVEN”.

Wroxeter, Out.

All the captains agreed to make the best of their way to France with the people,- and not go tc Louisburg, as it was a very hard time of the year to beat upon the coast.

The work of gathering the in- habitants and placing them a: board the ships continued through the month of October. Captain Hay, agent for the transports sent to port Lajoie, refused to allow any of them to go to Mal- peque to intercept those who were escaping to Quebec.

On October 29, Lord Rollo re- ported that 1,500 had been em- barked. On November 5, Admir- al Durell reported that 2,000 had been embarked in 16 transports. On November 6, Governor Whit- more writing to Pitt, reported 2,200 were embarked, but "that Colonel Rollo, much against his will, had been obliged to leave the inhabitants of a whole par- ish behind, as they lived at a distant part of the Island about 100 miles by land.” l’l‘his was the parish of Malpeque.)

DR HARVEY QUOTED

Dr. D.C. Harvey, in his “The French Regime in Prince Ed- ward Islan ” as follows:

“From the records both French

and English, it is impossible to decide as to the total number de-

ported. In addition to the 2.000,

at page 197 writes1

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Worried About

Circulation?

By Herman N. Bundesen, M. D.

NEWSPAPER editors aren’t the only ones worried a b o ut circulation. ,

While reading, my mail the other day, I was amazed to dis- cover that so many persons seem to have troubles with their own circulation, or at least think they do. '

ARTERY NARROWS

Chronic obstruction in the peri- pheral arteries is the cause of poor body circulation in the hands. arms, feet and legs. This obstruction is result of a nar- rowing of the artery’s inner walls .by a slow build-up of deposits ‘of cholesterol, calcium and other substances.