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Fair Warning To Poachers

As Hon. J. Angus MacLean pointed out in his address before the Fisheries Federation here this week, lobster fishing regulations .are designed to keep the supply at a level at' which the fisherman can continue to take lobsters and be assured of a decent standard .of living year after year. Illegal fish- ing -is detrimental to the industry and a. threat to the livelihood of everyone engaged legitimately in it. This racket, has reached alarm- ing proportions and the Minister pulled no punches indenouncing its practice in his own Province as well.

as in other areas. He has pledged .

his department to employ every means to stamp it out, and him- self personally to use his authority in prosecuting offenders as vigor- ously as the law will permit.

It is characteristic of Mr. Mac- Lean that he speaks‘ bluntly and gives fair warning of the course he intends tovpursuve. We believe. that his forthright statements will in themselves have some effect. At

any rate they merit the full support

of all concerned in the industry.

A Tragedy

It will be a tragedy for mankind if the current Geneva talks on the ending of nuclear tests do not result in some sort of agreement. It will be

' all the more distressing by reason

of the fact that the present wrang-

ling is on a matter of procedure; at

least, that is how it seems. . The West wants a control system to be set up first, to be followed by a ban on tests for an experimental period in which its workability

would be evaluated. The Soviet Un-.

ion wants announcement of the ban “for all time” to precede the set- ting up of control machinery.

. , Obviously, the West’s is the bet- ter plan. Apparently, it is founded on the premise that the Soviet Un- ion, once the ban were agreed upon, would be careless about control. But if the Russians are not sincere in seeking a ban—as would appear—- they could cheat just as well if a control plan were in operation as if it were not. They are hardly likely to be deterred from testing merely

3 because detection would be pos-

sible; and the West already knows when an explosion takes place any- where in the world.

Meanwhile, it really looks as though United States Secretary of State Dulles is not behaving in a way calculated to turn the Russians from their Stand. He told a news conference the other day that, in

his opinion, the Russians don’t really ,

want a ban on tests for the simple reason that they are “behind” the West in nuclear developments and are anxious to catch up. The as- sumption may or may not be valid; but certainly it is a poor way to try and influence Mr. Khrushchev to- wards a satisfactory compromise. 9

Wheat Agreement

Two outspoken critics of the pre- sent international wheat agree ment at. the Geneva conference, which is trying to draw up a new pact, are Charles F. Wilson, repre- senting Canada, and G. S. Bisop, British Under-Secretary of the Min- istry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries. .

Addressing delegates from 48 nations, Mr. Wilson. said that the present agreement is “defective” and that Canada wants “an agree- ment which will stimulate interna— tional movement of wheat”. “This”, he added, “would play a part in maintaining and expanding the. in- ternational movement of industrial products”.

Mr. Bishop said that Britain Would not be willing to sign a new pact “resembling the old one” and that the Congress’ main problem is world wide overproduction and a heavy surplus of wheat.

Britain. the. world‘s biggest porter of wheat products. is not a signatory to the present agreement, which “is probably one of the tea,-

im-

sons; why." the agreement seems to have been unsuccessful in its main purpose—the orderly marketing of wheat. On several occasions the Bri- tish have purchased wheat at prices not sanctioned by the agreement. It would seem that, by pooling their ideas, Canada and Britain ought to be able to introduce a plan satis- factory to all concerned. Canada is particularly interested in a workable arrangement, being one of the world’s leading wheat exporters. Unlike the United States, however, she is evidently not in a position to sell large quantities of the'product on long term credit arrangements. At least, that is what Government officials keep saying.

Delence Policies

' When the Conservatives were on the opposition side of the Com- mons they made a great ado over the criticisms of Canada’s de- fence policies voiced by a number of high ranking military officers. They were particularly insistent that the charges—which they be- lieved were justified—me inquired into by a Commons’ defence com. mittee. That was only, three years ago. , Now that the Conservatives are in office, the officers are still being

' critical of defence policies which,

admittedly, have not changed much since Mr. Diefenbaker became Prime Minister and Mr. Pearkes, Defence

Minister. Both of these gentlemen, it I

will be recalled, were loud in their

' denunciation of the Liberal Govern-

ment for refusing to have the char- ges aired in the Commons.

However, [the present government is no'more inclined than its Liberal predecessor was to have the officers’ charges treated seriously. In fact, only the other day Defence Min- ister Pearkes said that General Mac- klin was talking “nonsense” when he charged that Canada’s defence policies were subservient to those of the United States—the very charge which in other days Con- servative spokesmen thought was worth looking into.

Just how sound are Canada’s de-‘

fence policies, anyway? Are they adequate for the times or are they outmoded? Are they costing much, more than, the nation can afford, or too little? Both General Macklin and General Simonds have had a long experience in military matters. Their opinions ought to be as valuable today as they were three years ago—valuable enough to warrant a full-scale inquiry. Yet,

too.

apparently, the Government doesn’t

think so. a .

EDITORIAL NOTES

The Quebec Liberal Federation has expelled Mayor Sarto Fournier of Montreal from membership. We don’t imagine that will cause M. Fournier much concern. For the moment, Liberal membership is far below what it used to be in political prestige. '

I O #

Dr. Frank MacKinnon’s re-elec- tion as president of the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council is a tribute to the marked ability he has shown in this capacity, and to his native Province as Well. Leader- ship in this organization is vital to our economic development, and its program now is at a crucial stage in its development. '

Q t it

It is reported that Dr. Charlotte Whitton, former Mayor of Ottawa, will represent the Government of Canada at the 9th International Conference of Social Work in Tokyo, Nov. 30—Dec. 6. Dr. George David- son, deputy minister of health and welfare, will also go along, but we are inclined to think he won’t have, opportunity to do much talking.

i ll O

No’ doubt the Government will give serious consideration to the re- quest of the Fisheries Federation for inclusion of main roads leading to all important fishing centres of the Province in its extensive road pav- ing program. The industry cannot thrive without good transportation facilities, and we doubt if this Pro- vince can thrive without using its fisheries to the fullest advantage.

, O t C

After a strike that lasted nearly three months, the Steel Company of Canada at Hamilton, Ont. and the United Steelworkers of America have agreed on a settlement. The settlement could just as well have been reached before the strike be- gan. It will tako the Company and the workers a long time to make up for lost production and lost wages.

, blast occurred at about 8.30 am.

~ office workers would have been

With the loéal' Income Tax office

of his nearby apartment, while

til I saw some of the outrageous

OTTAWA REPORT

WATCH OUT, MIGHTY PHRAOH!

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Headline News .

Y By Patrick

Ottawa: 'Dhe headline of th 9 week appeared in the Montreal “Gazette”, where it was an eye“ catcher placed whiimsically on the Social and Personal Page: Fair- clough departs Hanna”.

Gnavcr headlines of course cen— tred around the terrible disaster in Nova Scotia. But. overseas. the Canadian headline news was “Ot— tawa’s Mystery Eta-st". omnibu- ted by some knowledgeable of- ficials to a leakage of gas.

There was madly for the three dozen passersby who were. injured, and deep regret for the janitor who died of burns. But it was a blessed relief that the

on a Saturday, and not on a work ing day when casualties aniong

very numerous. Happy art that light casualty list. Ottawavns foughed at the humorous side,

being put out of action, and its records being scattered and des- troyed in part.

It was appropriate that the Minister who collects our taxes, Hon. Geonge N‘owelan. was gaz— ing rationally out of the window

speaking on the telephone. Sud- denly he saw what he decribed to me as “A ball of smoke. and flame. nlsinig fifty feet into the sky” above the temstorey office building housing «the Government Tax Department and Gover iment Health Department. PURPLE PAS‘SAGES

Reports of the blast cabled to newspapers around the world were so scarifying that they pre~ cipi'tated a flood of anxious cab- les and telephone calls from as flat away as Chicago, Paris, Lon- don and even Springhill. I was very puzzled by a cable asking “Are you safe?” from Paris, un-

Pueuc FORUM

This column is open to the discus-

sion by correspondents of question a.

interest. The Guardian does not neces-

sarily endorse the opinion it correl pondents.

SPRINGHILL’S FUTURE

Sin—Will Sipri-nghill’s lat e st coalamininlg disaster mean a new life for the grief-stricken people affected by the recent bump of No. 2 Colliery?

All through the years coal—min- ing has been the main industry of Springhill. The people h av e not the qualifications for o t h e 1‘ work. There is no other industry in the area. These are the com. ments we frequently hear.

Over 100 miners were killed during the explosion of 1891 which took place in the mine. 39 were killed during the explosion of Nov. 1, 1956. Now the recent ex- plosion proves that no good will ever come of the mine. It is a death trap. The mine is not pro- fitable and the physical condi. tions are poor. The minens are taking their lives in their own hands if they work under such hazardous conditions. Surely now, without any hesitation, the mine will clOse. Compensation may be received by each widolw whose husband was killed dinning the re- cent explosion. But no matter how much money she will receive it will never make up for the loss of her loved one.

Th 9 Government slould, in some way. provide work for the miners so that they will be able to live less peril'u-s lives. When wives see their husbands go off to work they won't have to won- der if it will be the last time.

Recently a miner was asked

if he would ever work in the mine again. He said. “Yes. I guess it’s in our blood." Many

people adjust themselves to dif- ferent work and ways of living. Consequently. they become \ery happy and successful. T‘hcsc un- fortunate people should get the necessary means from the Gov- ernment to start a new life.

I am Sir. etc,

WILLIAM PINEAU

Nicholson

new: reports printed in some for- eign papers. Typical were these, all exaggerated.

"An explosion demolished the ill-story Income Tax office.” “Dc- zens of people left homeless.” “Explosion heand for miles." “Police said it might have been a bomb.” “Buildings oblilemted”

C.B.C. PAYROLL

T h e _ Canadian Broadcasting Corporation pays an average“ of $288 per programme flat motes sional Canadian talent on its pro- grams, according to figures in its latest report, I wonder how many taxpayers Willi be deligh— bed by the news that it cost them nearly ten times that sulm, “$2.500,boseciustonehrief appearance by an amateur en- tertainer from another country. Lady Doc-ker has won headlinm for various activties, including her ownership of a gold-plated automobile and her expulsion from his Principality by Grace Kelly’s husband for insulting the flag of Monaco. These, are rather

exotic happenings by Canadian standards, and hardly such as to qualify this guest on a TV show as worth all that cash. HOME INTEREST

.I know a\magiiciam living in onan whose story might have been of greater human interest to Oanadiam televiewers. and he certainly could have used that kind of money. He happens to earn. for his year’s work in an Ottawa store, exactly what the 0.3.0. paid rich Lady Docker for her brief appearance. And for her brief appearance. And. he keeps his wife and five small children on that. money. He re- ceives no family allowances be cause he is a recent immigrant. As I said, he is a Wel- fare experhs who figure out cal- ory requirements and llamily bud- gets would assert that he achiev- es the impossible. Hie not complain; on the contrary. he is eternally grateful that he was per- mitted to enter this country of ours, to bring up his young fam» ily in surroundings of opportun— ity and freedom such as do not exist in his ea-sbem European homeland. But the fact remains that he is perihmu'ing what many Canadians would assent is im- possible, in keeping seven human beings on $50 per week.

. Back To Siolinism

, By Ed Simon . Canadian Press Staff Writer

The hue and cry over Boris Pais- ternalk’s Nobel Prize is hitting Russia where it hurts.

Ever since lthe bad old days of Josef Stalin, Soviet propaganda has worked hard and not unsuc- cessfully to rectalpt‘ ne b‘he sympa— thies of W e s t e r n intellectuals whose initial attraction to the texlttbook communism of Marx and Lenin had been alienated by the old dictator's repellent meth- ods of putting it into practice.

Since Stalin's death the Bills- slans had been Ibusy repairing the damage. The West was given a chance to admire the incompar- able Bolshoi Ballet, the fabulous violin playing of David Oishrak‘h, the dynamic performance of pi~ anist Emil Gilels.

DEMOLISl-IED PICTURE

A crack Russian hockey team toured Canada and banned non- political praise. Other Russian athletes made their mark at the Olympic Games and in world soc- cer tournaments. Their scientists mingled on llriendtly «terms at in- ternational conifer ices, (their bus- inessmen entertained visit- ing Western delegations and their agricultural experts toured Am- erican fanms.

All these contacts helped llo de— molish the picture of the Soviet

citizen 18,3 blindly obedient pup. pet. whose movements were vigore ouslly controlled from the Krem- lin. In his place appeared a hu- man being, Oateusibly no differ- ent from his opposite number in the West.

Now. with the chorus of dentin: cialiion that greeted the award of the Nobel Poise for literature to Pasternak, the Russians. .ar e right back where they started. COMMITTEE’S TAC'I‘

Mindiwa of the controversial na- ture of Pastemak's novel. Doctor Zhlivago, the prize committee had tactfully specified his poetry as the object of the award. llf the Soviet audiotimies had chosen ho follow the lead from Stockholm, the 68—year-old author could have accepted his award without em- banrassment.

‘ They couldn't atlford to take the chance. D o c t o r Zhivago had- never «been published .in Russia. But the book challenged some of the most treasured concepts of the Communist state. It was a threat that could not be ignored.

The unanimous bitterness of Pasternak‘is fellow-writers in as- sailing their colleagues and in ac- cusing the [prize committee of po- litical motives has effectively turned the clock back to the Stalin era.

OUR YESTERDAYS

(From The Guardian Files)

TWENTYJ‘IVE YEARS AGO (Nov. 7. 1933)

Work has been started on Green Street, Summerside, und- er h‘he Government project to re. lieve unemployment. The school property is located on this street. llt was paved from Central Street to Summer Street a year or two ago, and its now to be paved as far as Spring Street. Otiher in- tersections are to be done which will link up the main paved streets.

Great interest was taken- in yesterday’s opening of the P.E.I. Fox Show. at the Provincial Ex- hibition Grounds. Mr. George E.

Calllbeck judged the exhibits. At

the evening banquet addresses were given by Premier MacMil» lan. Hon. G. Shelton Sharpe. His Wonship Mayor Stewart and Hon. WJM. Lea. TEN YEARS AGO (Nov. 7 .1948)

A train derailment that put five cars. loaded with potatoes off the track two miles west of Free- town, completely demolishing two of them, occurred about five o'- clock Saturday afternoon hclld up traffic on the line until lwclivo noon yesterday. ll is he- lievcd that the accident was can» ed by a defective truck under MW of the refrigerator cars.

and.

the top potato laurels pt the Mar- itime Winter Fair at Amherst last Saturday, when the Grand Championship was won by th e Green Mountain exhibit of Frank Murphy. Carleton Siding. First. prize also went to the lnish Cob- bler exhibit of Alton Raynor. Howlen.

New Approach

To Sclerosis

Ry HERMAN N. BUNDSEN.

By Herman N. Bundsen. M.D.

SCIENTISTS are taking a new line of investigation in their search for the cause and cure of multiple sclerosis. They are checking the possible mole mm, herpes simplex. a very common virus. might play in the. MS pic- lure.

Such an investigation was sug- gested recently by a Cincinati physician, Dr. Albert E. Slalblin. at a meeting of the medical advisory board of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

THIRTY~ONE PROJECTS I

There are already many lines of investgation of the exact na- ture and cause of MS. In fact. the National Society alone 'lllS sponsoring 31 such projects at the present time.

But Dr. S‘thlvn'! suggestion is important because the, herpes simplex virus is so extremely

’ common that most persons are.

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Generally. how- ever. it: causes an Acute skin in» flammation.

PROGRESSIVE DISEASE . Now of course not everyone in- »fected by it contracts multiple sclerosis. a chronic and usually progressive disease of the central nervous system—the. brain and the spinal cord. And apparently not all multiple sclerosis patints are infected with the herpes V1- rus.

Then why the interest in her- pes simplex as far as multiple sclemsizs is concerned?

Well, Dr. Sabin found the same. incidence of Antibodies for the herpes virus—83 per cent—in two groups to whom he gave sera

on 47 healthily adults and 47 per— mm diagnosed as having multiple calm, sis.

SAME THEORY

Dr Sabin its not the first to sug- gest the possibility that MS is caused by a virus. but his Work did help to bring it to public at.- tention. Others. too. have advanc- ed this theory from time 00 time. More are other theories, too. One is that MS is caused by al- lergy; another that it is caused

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r i diets and sti . ficliibollc or vascular disturban- ces might be to blame. Thus far. none of these theories has been rroborated; SIERTAIN PROPERTIES . In order for a virus to qualify as the main cause of MS it would have to possess these properties. It would have to be ciamliyzf “ r in one nerv - lying dormant ed m t- ed bouts of activity, and it would have. to attack the glial cells which regulate formation myo— limsheatlh. a substance. which sur- rounds the nerve fibers of the centnall nervous system and which degnenates in cases of multiple