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wick Fishermen’s Disaster Fund, of

which His Honour is patron. The

amount

was not stated, for it has

been the royal prerogative that on

the rare occasions when royal gifts are made they. are “‘buri ‘ total credited to “anonymous” - don-

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ors. Thus, the.amount :cannot even

be deduced by a check of the indiv-°

idual donations with a subtraction from the total. ba ¢ The reason for this is that the Royal Family, always in the lime- light, does not wish to be placed in a position where comparisons can

said to

be made of their

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be the

has made such a donation. in Can- ada, and possibly the first time for

any

cause outside the United King- ea. — : - As Premier Flemming said in

commenting on the news, “This is

‘touching evidence of the compassion ~ felt by the Queen and Prince Philip

on learning of the plight of 24 wid-

Gws and 83 children left destitute by~

the death of the 35 fermen in the

storm off Miramic

19.” It tion to half of

y on June will likewise be an inspira- greater public effort on be- the disaster victims. The

_ fund, apart from the royal gift, has

now risen to $175,000, but it will take a great deal more than this to

prevent

families It is

Queen

hardship to the stricken for any length of time.

announced that the

meet the widows of the

en at Point du Chene,- where she boards the yacht Britannia for Charlottetown..The 83 children will

also be

her: the

present. We shall welcome more heartily to Prince Ed-

ward Island for this act of royal kindness—an unscheduled incident in her tour which. will rank, among its most touching features. _

Farm Policy Objectives

What is the state of the Can- adian farm program? According to ’ Professor Ralph Campbell of the

Ontario

lead article in the ‘The Country Guide Mit might aptly

Agricultural College,-in a ‘rent issue of

be described as having “staggered

‘from crisis to crisis’ past thirty years. But what is even.

during the

more disturbing to his mind is that, if recent developments are any in-

dication, the staggering and the

crises are far from over.

Professor Campbell attacks par- ticularly the tendency of Canadian farm policy makers tobe preoccu- pied with the “things” involved in fqod. production rather than giving

proper

attention to the “people”

who produce the food. With hundreds of professional personnel working

on various research problems

of

production, there was, until 1958, only one trained rural sociologist working on the problem of the far-

mers and their families. Another

sociologist has. been added during

the past year; but the problems in’

this field are increasing, and are far

beyond

logists. The

benefits

‘the capacity of two socio- writer does not decry the of research programs tend-

ing to increase farm production, but. he points out that these benefits ac-

crue to

the nation in the form of

low-priced food,,.and perhaps even more important, in an army of @4si- ly assimilated ‘workers for non-farm

rr. Actually, this —is first time the Queen

price support program; (3)

ent policy research; (4) a price sup- port agency less closely related to the government, having somewhat

the Department of Finance, and

research economists.

. These are challenging _ state- ments j it is to be hoped, ‘will be’ given due consideration at Ottawa. It is too late for distfission on the subject during the present parliamentary session, but it should not be pigeonholed indefintely. It underlines the need for not only more facts by way of farm research, but of more clear thinking on the part of all parties concerned as to- what farm policy objectives should

be. | Heke Expert Opinion

employing at least a few competent

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“THe ‘Seriousness of the=threat~of inflation in Canada was emphasized by two authoritative ‘witnesses be- fore the Senate finance committee ' on June 24. These were Mr. James Muir, chairman and president of the Royal Bank of Canada, and Mr. J. Douglas Gibson, general manager/ cf ‘the Bank of Nova Scotia. Mr. Muir stressed the fact said the prob- lem was, in part, one of public education. Inflation can be contain- ed ahd stability guaranteed only if the government and the people of Canada aré willing to back the kind of monetary and fiscal poligy that can achieve these ends. Unless Can- adians have the “collective will” to. protect the value of their money, no remedial action by the monetary authorities can check the¥currency ., decline. Mr. Gilbson strongly indors- ed these statements, adding that government leadership in this con- nection is imperative. Their full statements, as reported in Hansard, should receive careful attention.

Farm Safety Week —

The Canadian Council on 4-H Clubs, together with other leading national f organizations, has indorsed the \program of National Farm Safety, Week which will be observed in Canada and the United States from July 19-25. The purpose of the week is to focus attention on farm safety and to stimulate action and interest in, the preventior of ac- cidents.

While farm and _ farm home safety projects are not new in 4-H, extension representatives and local leaders have been handicapped in the further development of 4-H ‘gafety through the lack of informa- tion and statistics. Accordingly, the results of farm safety surveys pre- sently being conducted and pro-

_ grams such as National Farm Safety Week will prove invaluable to every- one associated with farm accident

i prevention.

EDITORIAL NOTES _..In the 1956 US. _ presidential elections, only 60.40 percent of elig- ible Americans voted. The other day, in Hawaii, 85 percent of the 174,000 eligible voters—people of Hawaian, Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Portu-

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They call ‘ft -“the Modicine Hat Trick." But it is not just a trick. Anything that can preserve a community from a fatal traf- fic accident for four and a@ half years is nearer to being a mir- acle. I is worthy of reverence.

It is true, of course, that Med- icine Hat in Alberta does not face the heavy traffic of larger cities. Yet no other city in North Am- population of 23,000 or_over can show any such _re- cord. :

More than this, the physical layout of the city itself makes the streets very hazardous dur- ing advéise weather conditions. Hills are steep and streets are narrow. The business section is small in relation to the popula- tion, so that there is a concen- tration of vehicles and pedest- rians within one area. The num- ber of vehicles .is high—one to every two persons. During these four and a half years in Med& cine Hat the number of vehicles has grown with the population. INTERESTING PART

If Medicine Hat just happened to achieve this record, with no particular effort or explanation, it would still be remarkable enough. But Medicine Hat has been able, through the exertion of the whole community, to create an aimosphere in which a fatal accident was unlikely ‘to happen.

This is the interesting part. As day after day passed without a fatality, the people in~ Medicine Hat became nervous, in the right

and rockets, the balloon is far from obsolete. Huge, high-flying balloons are exploring the edge of space and sending back val. uable gata on astrophysics, astro- nomy, meteorology, and aero- medicine

To study cosmic rays, the U.S. Navy plans to launch over the Pacific next . winter two of. the largest balloons ever made. Each will hold almost 10 million cubic feet of- helium.

120,000 FEET . The giant plastic bags are de-

the sky carrying 700-pound stacks of photographic plates in airtight

the plates will leave trails on the film, which can be studied to ob- tain clues to their energy and origin. Scietitists hope to record ravs with forces of 10,000 billion electron volts.

The experiment ts part of the extensive space research pro- gram carried on by the Office of Naval Research’ in its Skyhook and Strato-Lah projects. On Nov.

guese and American descent—troop-

ed to the voting booths. There is a | moral here, about democracy, but

we should hate to point it up. It -

could apply: to Canada, as well.

- * om ' Credit union assets_in Canada increased 21.7 per cent during 1958, “pushing them _-over’ the $1 billion mark for the first time, according to the 1959 Credit Union Yearbook just released by the Credit Union National Association. The’ increase

-empleyment at such times when

these workers are in greatest de- mand. From the standpoint of the

nation, tributes

agricultural research con- very effectively to national

development, and is~completely in harmony with a policy of economic development, especially one stress- ing jndustrialization. But it is unfair to charge the government” reseaich budget which produces these results

ter shares with other consumers in

times the size of the $46 million in- crease reported in 1957. Total credit union” assets reached an all-time high of _$1,019,248,672. (Assets in P.E. Island $1,463,657). Savings. in- creased $169,010,809 or 21.8 ‘per cent during the year, while outstand- ing loans increased only $105,937,- 395. (21,2 per cent.) Total savings amounted to $943,872,970, . outstand- ing loans to $605;918,655, or 64 per

cent of savings,

tures of the

ember 8, 1956, Lieutenant Com- manders Malcolm D. Ross and M. Lee Lewis ‘rode to 76,000 feet in a pressurized: aluminuni gon- dolfi beneath\ a Strato-Lab bal- loon. The flight broke the altitude record for a manned balloon set 21 years earlier by Army Cap- tains Albert W. Stevens and Orvil eA. Anderson in the famous Ex- plorer IT. PIONEER FLIGHT

The—pioneer 1935 flight—spon. sored by. the National Geographic Society and the United States

Corps— It brought back important infor- mation on cosmic rays, distribu- tion of ozone in the upper atmo-

reached 72,395 feet..

of $182,225,691 was almost four | sphere,

; the spectra and brightness of*the sui, characteristics of the air above 70,000 ‘feet, and high- altitude radio transmission.

The present manned balloon attitude record is 101,516 feet, set in August, 1957, by Air Force Major G. Simons, who saw the sun set as a bright white disk and rise with a green flash across the horizon.

Other recent scientific achieve- ments by balloon flights:

1. Solar photographs-of unpre- cedented. sharpness were taken from 80,000 feet. At that height, only three per cent of the earth’ sun and ether celes.

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gondolas. Cosmic rays striking.

Studying Cosmic Rays

. signed to soar 120,000° feet into |,

The Miracle At Medicine Hat

The Gazette, Montreal

sense. No one driving there could bear the public disgrace that would have been his, if he were to be the means of breaking t record. as 8 :

As the number of deathiess days increased, so did the pres- sure against traffic offenders. As one citizen of Medicine Hat -put it: “If I caused a fatal accident in Medicine Hat, but did not get burt myself, I am afraid the peo- ple_would shoot me down any- A HARD THING

The people mizht not quite do that. But “breaking so long and good a record would be a hard thing for anyone to have in his memory, or on his conscience, for the rest of his life. He would be a very distinguished citizen, im a very wrong way.

As might be expected, the ab- sence of fatalities has also been

accompanied by a decline in traf- |

fic accidents of all kinds. When accidents do occur, they tend to be less serious.

As a member of the Safety Council says: “Our drivers are aware that they are working on quite a traffic record, and I think it- is slowing them down. “They are still bumping, but they are |

not hitting hard and smashing | “where. It is the right kind of ten-

things up.” , The’ police are aware that a crop of new. young drivers ap- pedr' ‘every year. Here_is a po- tential threat to Medicine Hat's record.. The about from school to school, giv-

a

tial bodies. 2. Two Navy scientist, rode into the édge of a cumulus cloud

in an effort to determine whether |

generation of electricity or for- mation of rain comes first in thunderstorms.

3. A flight to 116,000 feet brought back the~ photographic track of a helium nucleus con- taining 10 times more energy than an atomic particle in an ex- ploding atomic bomb.

4. A balloon carried a rocket

police have “gone |

ing talks on safe driving. They are also on the look-out for young drivers who have the wrong aitti- tudes. Sgt. W. McKenzie, head of the Traffic Department, says: “We catch up with young bed attitude fellows. They are the ones we wam particularly — and they are the ones we are get- ting.”” -

By and large there is not Much that is new in Medicine Hat's accident prevention meth- ods. Most of them are tried by other communities. What has made the difference is the psy- chology of safety created by that long clean record.

LESSON FOR ALL c

Here is the achievement and here the Too many traffic accidents are caused because people have come to regard as inevitable, a sort of price that must be paid for the advantages of the motor age. Moreover, where traffic records are bad, the whole standard of driving tends to sag. Such a community may lose. ‘‘tone”’ in driving care | and courtesy.

But in Medicine Hat the o’fend- er would stand in terrible isola- | tion. No motorist causing a death | could find a protectiive coloring from the number of other offend— ers.

The thing that has made the difference in Medicine Hat could make a great difference else-

-gior — the tension of safety.

This is not “the MediicineHat Trick.” It is the Medicine Hat miracle And the miracle has been caused by something very ,ike a prayer.

100,000 feet. up, then: launched it for a flight of at least 2,700 miles into space.

5. “A weather balloon carrying a radio transmitter was into the éye of a hurricane to track the path of the storm.

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The House of Commons has given third reading to a bill which considerably restricts the freedom of the press in reporting court proceedings. It provides that a newspaper or: radio ac- count of a preliminary hearing, published before has been discharged or the trial concluded, may not disclose any admission or .confession mad by the accused. f

This legislation has a superfi- celal appearance of fairness. It is intended to protect accused per- sons and assure them a fair trial. There is-no doubt that sen- sational reporting of judicial pro- ieedings—as carried on frequent- ly in the United States and -too frequently in Canada—can create public prejudice against a de-

fendant; which may affect the |

members of the jury who ulti- mately try hiim. This newspaper has frequently denounced such “trials by headlines.’’ Neverthe- less, the present legislation, in

attempting to chack the prac-

tice, has tilted the balance dan- every far in the other direc- on. PUBLIC SAFEGUARD

Against the right of an accused to an impartial trial must_al- ways be set the right of the citi- zens generally to know what is

going on in the courts._For--een-.

turies, publicity;“has been rec- nized as one of the great safe guards of an honest and reason- able administration of justice. That is why court hearings, with a few special exceptions, are open to the public, and why

the—proceedings -are a'lowed_ to} be reported by the press. “Jus- |

the accused -

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tice must not only be done,” says an old maxim, “it must be seen to be done.”

Any measure which erodes this prince "'e of an open administra-

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In short, use your brains more, your muscles less but use them both.

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cess work for your heart.

? Generally, your ideal weight ts about what you weighed at the age of 25.

9. Learn to Handle- emotional stress. Remember, help is usual- ly available. Worries, - tensions and fears will prevent you from relaxing properly when you want to rest. ;

These nine rules are “musts” for those with heart disease. I think ‘they are also good rules for even the healthiest individuals.

It’s just common sense to do things the. easiest wav vossible. QUESTION AND ANSWER

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OUR YESTERDAYS (From the Guardian Files)

(July 16, 1934)

About 50 acres of bush, with scme standing ti . were des- t-eyed in a fire ‘which has been burning since last Friday about

_| a mile south-east ‘of Eldon. Most

of the timber destroyed was on the farm of Stewart McWilliams Damage ywas* also done to the property of Joseph ‘ph Dixon. A ditch was dug between Eldon and the scene of the fire in order to check the’ spread of the flames.

The July session of the Sup- reme Court opens tomorrow mordag at Georgetown, with his Lordship, Mr. Justice Saun- ders on the bench. - There is only one appeal case to come before the court and it is ex- Pectedthat the traditional pair

| of white gloves will be presen- pounds. Excess weight means ex- | :

ted ts J—ustice Saunders.

TEN YEARS AGO (July 16, 1949)

No decision has been _reached in the matter of the location of the proposed new naval barracks struction will depend on what ar- rangements can be made respec- for Charlottetown, and its con- ting suitability of possible sites, Hon. Brooke Claxton, Minister of National Defense, said last night. The Minister arrived in Char- lottetown from Summerside last night.

the erection of' 150 housing units at the Summerise Air Station has been let to the Bayside Construc- tion Co. Ltd. of Campbellton, N.

Answer: Low blood pressure may be perfectly normal. Unless exaggerated, it produces no | . It may also occur in fatigue states, low thyroid acti- | vity, some heart conditions or, following an infectioon such as influenza. a Your doctor {fs in the best posi- titn to advise you of its signifi- cance in your case.

with suspicion. If the press is not permitted to publish key portions of .the evidence given at preli- minary trings, how is the pub- li¢ ‘to know if these hearings are being properly conducted? How can it be ‘sure that individuals are not being committed for trai on flimsy evidence, or, converse- ly, that persons with influence

| are not being discharged even

when the case against them is strong? There is nothing like suppression of evidence to breed rumors and scandals. COURT’S DISERTION Publication of any admission or confession should be at the dir- cretion of the court. If the court is competent to judge whether the accused be dismissed or sent to trial, it is competent to decide

ness to him and to the prosecu- tion. In relation to this discre- tionary power, the courts al- ready have an effective weapon aga news reports, headlines or picturés which actually create and jeopardize his right to ‘a fair trial. It is to start contempt of court proceedings against the publication responsible, and its

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