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Mamber Audit Bureau of Circylation. PAGE 6 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1962.

His Passing Mourned Few men in public life were held im higher esteem than-the Hon. George H. Barbour, whose sudden death on Tuesday evening, in the Benate Chamber of Parliament, just: after he had finished speaking on a government tion bill, has eome as a great shock to the people of this Province and to his colleagues at Ottawa. .

Though in his eighty-fourth year, Senator Barbour appeared to be in excellent health when he left home to attend to his federal duties on this occasion. Indeed, he could have passed for a man in his late sixties; and he told an inquiring friend, only _a few weeks ago, that he had seldom felt better in his life, His death, un- der such cireumstances, is a harrow-

dag reminder of the frailty of human exiatence.

It. recalls the somewhat similar circumstances’ attending the death of another beloved Island parliamen- tarian, Senator Jones, under whose regime as Pfemier of this Province Senator Barbour had served as minister of public works and high- ways, and with whom he had been on terms. of close personal friend- ship for many years.

Like Senator Jones, Senator Bar- hour entered politics fairly late in

~—Hfe, having previously served as” thief prohibition inspector and later ’ as a customs officer with marked ef- | ficiency and success. Since his first election to the Legisldture in 1935, he never suffered a political defeat. Nor had he occasion at* any time, so far as we recall, to indulge in parti- ‘wan attacks on opponents, or conduct himself in anything but a quiet, gentlemanly manner. His reputation for honesty and integrity had pre- ceded him in the House, and he con- firnfed it in all his subsequent words and actions. - Moreover, he showed outstand- ing administrative ability when he took over his portfolio in the Jones’ Government, Opponents soon

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homework, down to the minutest detail of his department, and steered clear of tangling with him in debate. New members, on both sides, found him extremely helpful and courteous in- dealing with their problems, and / the same applied to the public .at large. Senator Barbour was a gentle- man of high moral principles. By carrying these into politics he show- ed that the game can be played this way without loss of votes or detri- —ment-to-any legitimate party inter- ést, and thereby performed the most valuable service to which any man in publie life can aspire. We honor his memory today for this reason, as we mourn his passing and extend to his widow and family our sym- pathy in their bereavement.

_ Impressive Petition . Before making the fateful decis. fon to resume the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, Presi- dent Kennedy would do well to heed the warnings that have been sound- ed on this subject. Noteworthy is a petition’ sent to him by eminent _ titizens from many parts of the free including such figures of repute as Lord Boyd-Orr of- itain, M. Francois Mouriac of we, Gunnar Myrdal of Sweden, Al Schweitzer of Africa,

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against American missiles—perhaps

_ Ple and the rest of the world that

| day’s civic’ nominations poses the

‘by acclamation, to serve conscien-

“nad elected to keep the arms race going full tilt, straight toward the | inevitable nuclear collision. It would mean turning up the heat under the nuclear pressure cooker while rivet- ing the lid on. If the arms race con- tinues it will end in disaster. The. next step will bring armed satellites, space platforms and 1000-megaton bombs, equa! to one billiqn tons of TNT. This is, as C.P. Snow said, ‘not a risk but a certainty’.” Secondly, the petitioners say that ~ore nuclear tests are quite unnecessary and in support of this conclusion they cite the President's own stated views of August, 4931, in which he expressed confidence that the size of the U.S. nuclear wea- pons stockpile was wholly adequate for the defense of the U.S. and of the free world. One Dec. 10, 1961, the U.S. atomic energy commission said it was convinced by a study of the latest Russian nuclear tests that the balance of nuclear power still favored the United States. — The presidential advisors who favor more tests doubt that this U.S. lead will last long. The Rus- sians, they fear, may be nearing the ultimate break-through with de velopment of scientific defense

the long-sought anti-missile missile. But this argument doesn’t impress the petitioners. In answer to it they quote Dr. Hans A. Bethe, the President’s science advisor, as stat- ing, Jan. 6, 1962, that the invention of an effective defense against mis- sile attack is virtually hopeless. An attacker, Dr. Bethe is quoted as saying, can fill the skies with decoys > and thus launch, at one time, more missiles than any defense systen could cope with.

Finally the petitioners summa- rize their own views by quoting Mr. James J. Wadsworth, formerly a distinguished official and ambassa- dor of the state department: “Do we feel it worth while to emulate | Soviet brutality in order to be able to tell Congress, the American peo-

now we can kill people ten times over rather than nine times over?”

By Acclamation

As suggested in our news columns, the lack of competition in yester-

question whether this was due to satisfaction with the present ad- ministration or lethargy on the part of the voters. Something of both, it would appear,

The Mayor, Councillors and Water Commissioners are to be congratulated on the first count; but regardless of the good service they have rendered during the past two years, a contested election at this time would be more satisfactory - evidence of public interest in their activities.

There will be a double respon- sibility now, upon all those returned

tiously and with the humility pe: |

tribute of confidence from the elec torate. Having in mind the dangers inherent in the precedent thus established, we trust that. they will - take this admonition in good part.

EDITORIAL NOTES —

The Russians claim to have fotten ahead of the West again, this time in a field in which Can-. ada might well have been expected to take the lead. They report the invention of a snow-stamping machine that can lay down an Are- tic road at the rate of about 12 miles an hour. A vibrating attach-- ment on this ingenious device gues to work on snowdrifts and presses them into a compact road, level . enoegh for heavy trucks,

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erals hope to gain at Ottawa oy |

denouncing—as Mr. Paul] Martin did the other day—the Conservative program of assistance to winter works as “wholly inadequate” and “anaemic”. Mr. Martin spoke on an tem providing $40,000,000 for a

tribution to the program under which the Dominion pays up to half the labor costs involved by & municipality. This program has al- ready put in motion some $760,- 000,000 of municipal programs over | a four-year period, with 2,200

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United Kingdom Information Service

There has been, during the , past few weeks, a quite percep- | tible change in the attitude of thé Soviet Government on the “Berlin question” although not | a change in basic policy. The | Russian proposals for the future | status of West Berlin as a ‘“‘de- | militarised free city” have been restated in terms which have not differed in essentials

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three years ago. But there has been a noteworthy change in the | immediate tactical approach.

Until, roughly, the end of the | year, the immediate objective | seemed quite clear. It was to bring every possible pressure on the Western Powers to enter as soon as possible into a Berlin negotiation. There were thé re-

threats-—or-warnings=——grin, that all these calculations " tence

that unless the Western Powers.

showed willingness to negotiate, *

they would soon be confronted with the fait accompli of Soviet peace treaty with East Ger- many, and wih a Soviet claim

that this would automatically “terminate” all their rights with regard to Berlin. At the

sarne time there were sugges- tions that Soviet ‘patience’, though strained, was not yet exhausted; that if the Westetn Powers would show signs of willingness to negotiate, the threat of the “peace treaty” ‘would be, at any rate, suspend- ed. It would not be immediate- ly implemented.

The response of the Western Powers came as the result of | in |

the December meetings Paris, first of the four Foreign Ministers, then the whole NATO Council. It was, in effect, that an effort should be made,

for a negotiation.

SURPRISE REACTION That, one would have thought,

was precisely what the Soviet |

Government wished. One would have thought that its objective would be to push ahead with these preliminary moves, so that the negotiations proper (which it seemed to desire) could start as soon as possible. Rather surprisingly, however, the Western Ambassadors in Moscow had to report that the Russians appeared to be in no hurry at all. Instead of press- » as they had been pressing, for negotiations as soon as pos-—

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settlement: France and West Germany would be against any concession at all. Here would be a situation which could be ex- ploited to the full.

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were fallacious. There were still divergences between France and her allies on ques- tions of tactical approach. But on all essentials there was complete solidarity. If a negot- jation came now, the Soviet Un- jon would find itself confronted, not with a discordant and quar- relling ‘“West’’, but with a firm- ly united “West’’.

That being so, either the So- viet Union must itself be pre- pared to make substantial con- cessions in order to reach a set- tlement; or there would be a head-on collision. And that is something which, shrewdly and | wisely, Mr. Khrushchev has shown himself anxious to avoid ever since, three years ago, he

a “Berlin crisis.”

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NOT IRRESPONSIBLE

Sir,— In reply to letter re jail conditions I have nothing to re- mark on that subject but I will take the writer to task for the suggestion that Mr. Sharpe is just an innocent boy. What a sil- ly remark, Mr. Myers. So, just for the record, Mr. Sharpe is an intelligent, responsible young man who according to my un-

| derstanding is studying to be a |

| minister of the Gospel.

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| mark also that I have a very

poor opinion of the class of peo-

| ple who call our young men and women of today “teenagers”. Not so long ago I had five of

do not stop being teenagers un- | til they are well over twenty if they are attending school or col- lege). Today those brothers of mine are called World War II veterans. I am, Sir, ete.,

FRIEND OF YOUNG PEOPLE

SCHOOL PLANNING’. Sir,— I was very disappoint- ed and thoroughly disgusted to hear the results of the brief which was presented to the City | School Board by representatives | of Prince Street Home and School Association. This brief | requested that the present as- | sembly room. be made into +-three—classrooms gymnasium auditorium be built | adjoining the new building, ra- ther than the presently planned | four elassroom addition.

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ing Community centre for gym |} classes and other activities and | that the new West Kent School | have allowed extra measure- / ments to their auditorium plans after hearing of the inadequacy. | in Prince Street School. It would seem .that the Prince Street "School parents have been hand- ed the short end of the stick.

The idea was expressed at the last Prince Street Home and School meeting that we do not really need a larger gymnasium or auditorium an structor would be needed in the near future to carry out classes and this could’ not be afforded s training being ed more than ever in our cities across Canada and the United States it, seems to me that great strides will be taken in the next few years in this area of ediica- tion and.training and we should start being prepared for this by a regulation sized gym.

A survey was taken to deter- mine how many of our school children were enrolled in gym classes and only 35- of the total enrollment were members of the local Y. Many of our par- ents cannot afford to pay the necessary fees but these same

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others ruminate constantly on religion, biology, sex, or oth- er subjects

Some are bothered-to such an extent they cannot concentrate on their work because of ~un- pleasafit and strange thoughts. One middle-aged man was so ob- sessed with the importance of time he had to be doing some- thing to fill in every minute of his waking life. He was occup- ‘fed all day, either with thinking or acting, lest he losc a portion . of it. Time, in his opinion, should be saved as a valuable object.

Many obsessional acts have their own counter-obsession. The man mentioned — in his busyness— actually kept killing time in planning how to save it. Another felt compelled to pick up white stones in the road and throw them away. He. was then compelled to find the stones and bury them.

‘With many, the behavior pat- tern harms no one except the vietim. Mlustrations ean be found of persons being driven to perform a simple duty in a fashion bordering on a ritual: Some doubt the accuracy of all their calculations and must do them over and over again,

Others must read the news- paper from the first word to the last. They follow a set routine in eating, sleeping, and bath- ing.' It has to be done a certain Way or undue anxiety or appre- hension develops.

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NOTES BY THE WAY |

dance fad could be | “It’s deplorable that so many force for world peace. | people try to get something for Why should an enemy start a | nothing,” says a sociologist. Yes war when it seems reasonable to’ —and it's downright lamentable

alone, will twist itself to death? | doing so. — Woodstock Sentinel- —Calgary Herald. . | Review.

. | “If I give my daughter a large a thriving business selling OT aeey, whet have yee te olae

ger paintings by a chimpanzee, | in exchange?” Prospective Son. with proceeds going to the Cin- | in-Law‘I can give you a re cinnati zoo in which the artist ceipt."’ — Montreal Star.

have been + Sear ae Gt oh - | We are far less impressed If a million monkeys sat at a.| With news that Jacqueline Ken- million easels for a million edy again has been elected years, perhaps they could not | the world’s first lady of fashion, produce a Mona Lisa but | than the fact that she is a good

the national debt.—N wife, a good mother, a charming

a Tribune. me lady and a reali help to the Pre- a sident and to the natton. These

. , thirigs; it seems to us, are the

OUR YESTERDAYS things that really matter, —

Cleveland Plain Dealer.

[~The American Society for the | Prevention of Cruelty to Animals professeSto be baffled because more stray dogs have been re- ported over the past few years in Brooklyn thanin~any other New York borough. Perhaps.it’s been due to the wide popularity of that novel first published a

From the Guardian Files

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO} (Feb. 8, 1937)

Captain Archibald Campbell, Charlottetown-born head of Po- lice Station 14, Brighton, Mass., will be promoted to the bureau of Criminal Investigation; Bos- ton Police, at roll call tomor- row morning, it was announced Brooklyn.” — Hamilton Specta-

James Spencer Gregor, son of tor,

oa aa Mrs; Charles Gregor, rackley Beach, who is one of | the rep: tatives of the | After a year with Kennedy as federation Life Assurance Com- | President we feel that we are pany of London, Ont., sailed on | 0ing along in good hands, but the 19th « saeneey from ve. | that the ride is less stirring couver on “Empress | -

Asia” for Shanghai. where he | than it might be. We sleep well fms been transferred. He was of nights, but arise in the more

| nings with a lesser sense of na-

accompanied by Mrs. Gregor. | tional purpose than we ought te .

TEN YEARS AGO feel in times. as momentous as (Feb. 8, 1952) |

these. — Baltimore Sun. The appointment of Miss Phy- | lis Cuteliffe, as the Provincial The Age Old Story

Field Secretary for Canadian Girl Guides, was announced yes- And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and

terday. Miss- Cutcliffe, daughter |

of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Cutcliffe | great of this city will start her new du- shall be the peace of thy chil

psychoneurosis is not known. The obsessional person is said to be suffering from a ceasless | attempt to repress a dreaded | experience. Some help is deriv- ; ed from bringing this hidden | memory into the open.

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

HEED THE CALL Mrs. R. writes: busy with two small active boys

go to.the bathroom when I have the urge. Is this the reason why I have become constipated? REPLY

When a person fails te heed the call of nature, the reflex dies out gradually and constipa- tion ensues. You ought to set aside a specific time for this purpose and gradually reestab-

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lish the habit. Stop laxatives and eat more roughage, includ- ing fruits and vegetables.

INFLAMED UVEAE” TRACT G. B.B. writes: What is the chief cause of uveitis and what can be done to cure it? REPLY

of the eye, and consists of var- ious parts, including the color- ed iris that surrounds: the open- ing. Infection (uveitis) from bacteria‘ is the most common cause. if SA TODAY’S HEALTH _HINT—

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