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PAGE 1 TL'EE‘DAY. OCTOBER 27. 1954.

Perish The Thought!

Opposition Leader )Iatheson has sounded the alarm that a provin- cial general election is in the offing. that Premier Shaw is “now at work at home on an election manifesto," that the contest will be held before Christmas and will be carried out under the old election legislation which was supplanted by a new election act last year which, how- ever, remains inopérative until duly proclaimed.

Acting Premier Stewart has denied that there is any basis for these statements. “If the Premier." he added. "is planning an election, he is doing it on his own. The last thought in the mind of the govern- ment is to have a 1964 election."

We don't know what was in Mr. Stewart‘s mind in suggesting, even as a remote possibility, that the Premier would be planning it “on his own.” The government is one and indivisible in matters of this kind, and we now have the Prem- ier's own assurance that “there will definitely be no election in 1964. and that's that.” For this relief. much thanks!

A general election at this timeI is about the last thing this province wants. As Mr. Stewart says, the government has been in power for only two years. and has three years to go. It is not customary, of course, to hold power for the full five-year period, but the electors have a right to expect that the November 10. 1962 mandate will be good for at least another two years.

Before dismissing Mr. Matheson as an idle rumor-manger, however, it is fitting to recall that he was alone in making similar predictions before the last election occurred. just a little over three years after the previous election of Sept. 1,

1959, which brought the Conser- vatives into office for five years. We were dumbfounded by the sudden calling of the 1962 election, and so was the public generally. There seemed no urgent reason for it, apart from the troubled affairs at Ottawa which brought about the prorogation of Parliament in the following February, 1963.

There is still less reason today for calling a snap election; and we trust that the idea is not only total- ly absent. from the government's mind at, this time, but that it will remain in a state of deep freeze for quite a while yet.

As for the "election manifesto" that Premier Shaw is suspected by Mr. Matheson of working on during his current well-earned holidays, may we express the hope that it is just a chapter in his memoirs that he is writing. His involvement in the pains of composition. which the Opposition leader got wind of some- how. could thus be explained satis- factorily, and the public mind set at rest.

leau ol Circilation.

Trade With Britain

The new Labor government in Britain is taking prompt measures to correct the country’s imbalance of payments abroad. What affects Canada particularly. are the import restrictions to be imposed through a series of surcharges, which—iron- ically—_ are along the lines of thorns imposed by Canada during her cur. rency exchange crisis two years ago. It is a relief to learn that at least two-thirds of our current trade with Britain will be unaffected.

This assurance comes from Prime Minister Pearson, after a cabinet. meeting at which the new British restri tione were discussed. The

exemplione for food and raw ma-

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fieriell cover most of our fade. Newsprint, however. will likely be included, and this will increase the portion of Canadian trade affected by 33 per cent, or about $305 million.

We have yet to learn how far the new British government will go in boosting Commonwealth trade to take the place of what might be gained by Britain entering the European Common Market. This political alternative would be em- barrassing for Canada at a time when—in the words of the Finan- cial Post—bur trading wagon “is firmly hitched to the multilateral GATT approach tempered by special moves to bring about a fundamental widening of Canadian markets in the United States.”

In proof of this, The Post cites Canada‘s increasing sales to the L'.S., which came to $3,900 million last year. This makes the near-by market of the US. four times as at- tractive as the British market and 10 times more important than the other Commonwealth markets.

This. of course, is one way of looking at it. There are other fact- ors involved in Commonwealth trade relations which could be just as im- portant as the overall volume fig- ures. Certainly so far as Britain is concerned. we have had no reason to complain of the preferential ad- vantages we have enjoyed.

Misquoted Again!

Like the policeman’s in the Gil- bert and Sullivan opera, the politic- ian‘s lot is not a happy one, especial- ly when he indulges in double—talk before newspaper people. Saskatche- wan's Premier Thatcher is an old political hand. and he should have thought of this before he sounded off at a press conference in Mont- real the other day, about Saskatche- wan's intention of considering union with the United States if Quebec withdraws from Confederation, as extremists in that province are clamoring for it to do.

Mr. Thatcher's warning got top billing in the press across Canada, which seems to have caused embar- rassment to his government collea- gues at home.

Now. from Saskatchewan, has come a statement from Deputy Premier A. H. Macdonald, blaming the newsmen once again for making the politician’s life so uncomfort- able. They didn’t wait, he com- plains. to hear Premier Thatcher’s full statement when they interview- ed him in the Quebec metropolis. The Premier, “pressed for comment about possible Saskatchewan action if Quebec withdrew,” said his prov- ince might join the US, all right. But they ran off to telephone the news to their papers before Mr. Thatcher had finished.

They didn‘t wait. it seems. to hear him add: “But don’t take me seriously I” .

That’s Deputy Premier Mac- donald‘s pat version of the affair, given more in sorrow than in anger. The Premier, apparently, was too overcome to make the explanation himself. How is it that every time a politician puts his foot in his mouth those newspaper johnnies have to report him all wrong!

Canada Savings Bonds

The indications are that the 19th series of Canada Savings Bonds, new on sale, is meeting with a good res- ponse from the public. Last year the bonds reached an all-time high sales record of $1,234.719,550. This year the campaign is envisioned as exceeding that total to set another new record. And why not? These bonds are well named. for they are a truly helpful and effective sav- ings device. And savings, of course. give stability to the individual and to the country.

The bonds are offered for sale at 100 per cent and can be obtained until mid-November in denomina- tions of $50, $100, $500. $1,000 and $5.000. Maturity of this series is ten years, and the interest rates are graduated over that period—4V2 per cent for each of the first two years, 5 per cent for each of the next five years and 51/2 per cent for each of the remaining years, or an annual average interest yield of 5 per cent if held to maturity. '

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OTTAWA REPORT By

Patrick Nicholson

Right Mon On Immigration Job

Hubert Bada'nai. Parliamen- I tary Secretary to the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, ls a happy example of the r i g ' t man in the right place on Par- liament Hill. Bert. as he is af- fectionately known to all )lPs, is himself an immigrant, born in Italy 69 years ago. Being a Canadian citizen by choice ra- ther than by birth, he has an acute sympathy for the one in every six residents of this coun-

try who are, like himself, for- eign born. The 1961 census showed that

2.844.263 of the 18,238,247 people in Canada were immigrants. Of these, no less than 258.071 were, like Bert. born in Italy. Out- numbered only by the 662.102 immigrants born in England, Italy topped Scotland. Germany. Russia and Poland —— in that order — as one of our six ma- ior sources of new Canadians.

MORE IMMIGRATION There are definite signs of more open door for desirable

PUBLIC FORUM

Thle column I: «pen to the discussion by correspondents a ten“. The Gun lln eerily endorse the oplulou of con-er pendente. All letters publllhed are aub- fleet to editing end condensation where necessary. Th enter into any corrrespondenco regard- Ieli’ers submitted.

ERROR AND OMISSION

Sir,— Now that the centennial anniversary of the Charlotte- town Conference of 1864. h 3 passed into history and the script of its attendant pagean- try put away for 50 years. if not a century, it seems expedient to record that certain features of the enactment of W.H. Pope's welcome to the visiting Canad- ian delegates in Charlottetown Harbour were marked in one instance by an error. and in an- other by what may be judged a regrettable omission.

In the first place, I think 1 am correct in writing that (the artist Rex Wood who painted the striking picture of the incident to illustrate the Confederation Life‘s calendar for 1963, to the contrary notwithstanding) none of W.H. Pope‘s descendants ever heard, nor do they believe. that their grandfather was distin- guished by a fiery red beard. Not one of us now living ever saw him. for he died in 1879. Bu; not one of us, too. ever heard our elders make such mention.

That he may have been of an auburn. or sandy, complexion. as was his nephew George Pope is possible but he was not a red- head. For many years I had in my possession a cabinet photo- graph of my grandfather taken in his prime. but of course in black and white, which gave no indication whatever that his hair was other than dark. My cousin germane. Ronnie Stewart, who possesses a remarkable knowl- edge of family and Island his- tory, fully concurs in this view

The omission to which I have made mention above, is that on the historic occasion when W H. Pope rowed out to SS. Queen Victoria to greet the delegates from Canada. also seem] in the skiff was his eldest son. Joseph. then a lad of 10. (See “Public

Servant". p. 15. Toronto. 1960). That the Island politician should have brought his boy along with him on this mission is not in it- self remarkable. But the fact that the led grew up to be John A.'s private secretary and prin- cipal biographer (until Profes- sor Donald Creighton'e definit- ive "John A. Macdonald" was published in 1952). is an inter- esting coincidence which merits being reme red. I am, Sir, etc.

MAURICE POPE

216 Manor Avenue.

unable to!) | ‘ son. Nearby is a snap of an um- I likely looking military figure, . hands thrust in pockets, woollen

would-be immigrants. and a warmer understanding for for- eign-born relations of Canadians whose admission is sought. This trend is being fostered keean by Mr. Badanai in his top p0... with Immigration In fact he is one of the growing number of advocates of a more positive drive to attract potential good citizens to populate Canada.

That an immigrant can in- deed prove a great asset to this country is clearly shown by the career of Bert Badanai himself. He settled in Fort William, raised a family of four children. built up a successful business of fering good jobs to Canadians. was elected as alderman for eight years, and another 'eight years as mayor, before winning election to the House of Com- mons in 1958.

An MP spends more time ‘u the Parliament Building than anywhere else, including his home. Most MPs impress their personality on their bleak office room here, and when I often vi- sit Bert in his office I can sense his popularity and industry.

His desk is piled with work; his secretary's typewriter never ceases its clacking; filing cabin- ets are jammed with correspon- dence with his well-cared-for constituents.

His souvenir-clad walls feature a photo of him chatting with a smiling Prime Minister Pear-

l Jersey hanging below his tunic, r and a familiar boyis grin

Ontario Liberal leader Andrew Thompson has taken university students to task for ’ their ivory towers and slam- ming politicians as an inferior breed. He told students that it is their duty when they graduate to take a hard look at politics and politicians.

Mr. Thompson is right in one

tlcians. In Britain, for exam le, it is worth a political leader’s clean white shirt to make a speech at a university. Even Prime Ministers have been egg- ed on with real eggs by rain- buncfious students. 1‘ Sad Thompson wastes his time preaching me- } turity to these college lads and lasses. For centuries. the bright-

spreéd across his face. This was 19 year old Corporal Pearson of the army medical corps, in Sal- onika in 1917. It was given Bert by Dr. Walter Hogarth of Fort William, who was serving in Mike's unit.

FAMED NORTH TO SOUTH

From Niagara Falls there is a photo of the Minister of Health. signed “To my colleague Bert Badanai, affectionately Judy La Mars " ere is a photo of Bert standing on the bridge of an ice- breaker deep in the Arctic, in~ scribed by the crew: “1!. Bad- anai MP, Champion of the North." A framed presentation certificate bears a coloured pho- to of Fort William’s City Hall “with cordial greetings from the Corporation." And significant- ly, there is a cartoon of a gov- ernment car park. crowded with sleek efficient new cars. but marred by a derelict Model T Ford emblazoned “Department of Immigration."

Recently I noticed a le t t e r from Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota. which adjoins Bert’s constituency just across that undefended border. Likely 5 00 n to be vice president of

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U.S.A., the senator wrote to Bert: “I am looking forward with pleasure to the honour or serving with our great president in helping to assure still fl n e r relations between our two great nations."

And Bert, the great new Can- adian. himself is helping to build our great nation greater by promoting a big inflow of skill-

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Young Egg-Heads

Hamilton Spectator

est adolescent minds of all lands have been noted for their love affair with iconoclasm. Pomposity has always been favorite target of the average student, which explains why most politicians dread on-t‘Je- campus sorties. '

The young will grow old, and that perhaps is a pity. The day

respect. University students are [ always comes when the inclined to rib and ridicule poli- * checked 20-year-old

student turns into a hardened man of affairs who views the would and its politicians with cynicism. Before he’s 21. though.

Thompson. the student is an idealist. and he always was and we . always will be. He ec- tually thinks politics would be better off with better politicians. What he should do is keep tl'iluk- ing that way when he grows up.

The parliamentary flag com- mittee was set up with a grand show of statesmanship on bola sides of the Commons. It was to deliberate calmly and wisely in strict secrecy. away from the Summer's glare of publicity.

It was to remove the is 3 use

from partisan politics and pro- duce a design that could be ac cepted ln dignity by Parliament and the country. That was how it was going to be, that wee. Before the members of the committee were even named, Opposition Leader John Dtefeu- baker was making plain his feel- ings of triumph over Prime Minister Lester Pearson. Before the cmmlttee had held its first

meeting. Mr. Pearson we: on television predicting that it would choose a design with e

maple leaf motif. And now, as the co been the critical moment decision, some member I revealed both the tentatively fe- vored design and its standing. Liberals. NDP led Social Ore. an in favor. five Conservative- eol'ldly lulu-t.

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Foding Stotesmanship

Globe and Mail. Toronto

fereuce being that e dlstlngulsh- ed name in Canadian er! hil- tory has been invoked. The de- sign submitted by Mr. A.Y. Jackson, however, in much the “me u the trl-leef pennant proposed by Mr. Pearson. Fur- thermore. it is not the design Mr. Jackson would really like.

The leaves should he thinks, indeed whlc he thought Iym lcelly about to fell. What this eeenutnammntwhthel the

to switch the blue bet-I vertical to horizontal and put I wave in them. the five Tome won't play. The committee bu tekentofbehllln.webope in dismy , end with firm molve to new it: mute lion. I

FIND ANCIENT [AL PERTH. Scotleud (CP) - A ueoltthtc brie] mound, a rarity of (u , he: been mauled here by e mp of students from Idem Unlvaefty. enl item: found in the mound have been dated to moo and mm 8.6.

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Correspondence,

From Readers

By Dr. Theodore R. Van Belle:

Several months ago I wrote on intertrigo (chafing) and receiv- ed a raft of suggestions from readers who had obtained pellet from this troublesome skin inl- tation. The majority were help- ed by applying ointmeuts of va- rious types (ranging from zinc oxide to antifungal products) plus meticulous cleanliness. A few felt that talcum powder made the condition worse: one woman swears by cornstarch. Another avoids the disorder by refraining from soap; still an other was helped with a germi- cidal soap. .

Several mentioned that all de- partment stores carry garments designed to prevent rubbing of the inner surfaces of the legs One woman stopped friction by wearing a long-legged pantie girdle. Heavy women seemed to be bothered more than others: those who reduced were more likely to be cured.

Recently I quoted from an ar- ticle in which the author attri- buted to an archbishop of Bos- ton a statement found in the Old Testament: “Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom" (10th verse, 111th Psalm). I am hap- py to report that readers of health columns also are Bible readers. Many letters came to set us straight.

M. S. wrote: “With all due re- spect to the archbishop, he quoted directly from the Torah, the morning prayer after wash- ing the hands." . . writes: “Your quotation was apropos-- but then, isn’t Scripture always applicable? The statement from Proverbs 1:7 can be put to use concerning health and various pursuits." I.W. thinks I should have known that the s ayi ng came from Proverbs 9:10, and GB. says the words are found in Psalms 111:10. The comment I like best came from L.S., who wrote: “Odd as it may seem, the same words have been attri- buted to the late King David."

.W. writes: "I had a sore on my finger that was slow in heat- ing. Then last fall I helped pick up apples from a hedge apple tree in our yard. W0u.d you be- lieve it—in no time the sore healed. Man’s downfall came about throu the apple. Wouldn‘t it be wonderful if the same fruit could help heal man? This may be the whim of an old lady. but I thought it was worth passing on to you."

You may be “an old lady" but your inquiring mind shows you are not sitting back and letting the world go by. The fly in the ointment is that a hedge apple is not an apple. If anything, it is more like an orange. -

GOL‘D . . writes: Do you know anything about the radioactive gold treatment of arthritis? REPLY

Colloidal gold is used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthri- tis. But there is no reason to use the radioactive form unless pain stems from a malignancy that stimulates arthritis.

FLAVORFUL E. C. writes: Are extra large taste buds on the tongue a cause for alarm?

No. Be thankful for the extra flavor. Enlarged taste buds work as well as. if not better, than those of normal stze. TODAY'S HEALTH HINT—

Dancing is good exercise.

NOTES BY. THE WAW

Some inspirational speakers are always claiming that there is plenty of r oom at the top. What they should add in that thereieno room to at down there. —- Columbus Jour- nal - Republican.

It's no consolation at all to

busted budgets to have the Do-

ureeu of Statistch

say them was no change in the

cost of living in Ottawa during August,

A pemuouhleweytochurch one Sunday morning felt im- pelled to admonish a group of boys whom he found playing marbles. "Boys, boys." he cr- ied. “you shouldn't be playing marbles today. Don't you know first Sunday's 1 day of reef?’ "Yes, sir," rep one lad. re- epectfully. constituting himself spokesman for the group. "We know it, but we ain’t tired!" —- Gulf Reporter.

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There on two Huh I! peopb in this country— those who have new cars and all the latest ep- pllauces, and those who any cash.-- Galt Reporter.

By the time e fuller gets to greener pastures. he can't c b the fence. -— Mid-Coun- try Times.

We are reminded by Electro- nic: magazine that it all began “years ago. and time has brought so many improvements that the world's first “brain”. an internally programmed in. gital computer born in 1950 and used by the national bureau of standards to help design the first H-bomb. is iced. “Too old to keep up with th e

" says Electr- onics. pointing out that today's world s larger problems which can be solved only by compu rs with faster speed; and bigger “memories”, — Portland Oregonian.

Pressing Housing Needs

Montreal Star

The need of an adequate inte- grated housing policy for the country is something so far al most completely ignored at the three levels of government On- ly in Ontario have firm steps

it taken to end overlapping between municipalities and province. There, in consequence, even greater use ' ad.- ln the years ahead of all the provisions of the National Hou- sing Act to provide adequate accommodation for those other- wise forced to live in substand- ard dwellings.

Ottawa has shown its willing- ness to provide generous assis- tance for all phases of urban re- newal projects. Even at that. administration of the assistance is something that is a part time job for one minister. The logic that brings housing within the sphere of the postmaster-gener- al is rather baffling. But at least housing does have some cabin- et attention at the federal level. In Quebec it has none.

It was strange that it was up to a representative of the' Yu-

kon. rather than'some one from

a metropolitan area, to raise the issue of national housing in the House of Commons. Eric Nielsen put his finger on the ma- jor weakness when he said there was so much fragmentation of authority that an “inability to make decisions, overlapping and confusion" were inevitable re- sults. Certainly the recent re- port detailing the need for four million new or rehabilitated dwellings. including a million units within the public housing field, should be enough to spur other governments to face the problem as Ontario now is.

Shockineg little has been done to raise housing standards in this province. Periodically there are rumblings that we are be- ing discriminated against by the federal treasury. This is rather difficult to accept, h0wever. It ll much easier to believe that we haven't been getting the as- sistance going elsewhere pri- marily because we haven't ask- ed for it.

Roy Gunter’s Assignment

Christian Science Monitor

Hardly had he hung up his coat in the British Labor Minte- try than Laborlte Ray Gunter found himself confronting the challenge of an unauthorized dockers’ walkout. This is the kind of strike that could spread throughout the ports of Britain and throw an ironic sldelight on the new Prime Minister’s pro- grams for bringing Britain out of its foreign trade deficit and into the front ranks of world competition.

Among the British themselves it will cause no real surprise. British workers do not automa- tically cooperate with 3 Labor government. Workers are aware that any British Govern- ment must show itself more de- voted to national than to special interests if it is to stay In pow- er.

Usually the Labor Party has held office by such a narrow ma- jority as to feel this need keen- ly. This time it is ruling with a majority of only four out of 830

parliamentary seats. But there are other, more basic reason. why the workers and 3 Labor government do not Identify themselves with one another.

A big part of the Labor Party is formed by its trade union sup- porters. It includes. however. lu- tellectuals and many 0 er peo ple. notably the religious nou- couformists, Methodists, and non - Church of England Protes- tants who took such a historic role in founding the party.

In appointing Mr. Gunter as his Labor Minister. Mr_. Wilson drew on the right-wing, the mo derate or more conservative seo- tlon of his party. He chose moreover a man known for fun firmness in dealing with obstre~ porous elements in the unions.

Mr. Gunter’s is a hard assign- ment for a union man. as he himself is. His swift interven- tion in the dockers' dispute indi- cates he is going to do what in needed, in any case.

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