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"The strongest memory is weaker than the weakest ink."

TUESDAY. DEC. 2. 1958.

-An Old Story!

In announcing the Federal Cabi- net’s decision not to block the 17 per cent freight rate increase awarded the railways by the Board of Transport Commissioners, Acting Prime Minister Howard Green of- fered a consolation prize of sorts to the eight provincial governments which 'had appealed to Ottawa to intervene. He agreed that there were “serious inequalities” in the rate structure and. saidlthat a; study would be undertaken “at once” to wdrk out measures to relieve these’ inequalities, including any that may be. aggravated- by the present in- crease; also that steps would be taken to set up “a suitable body” to review the general “field of rail- way problems and policy, including . “a comprehensive comideration of =, the railway freightrate problem." ' ,What’s, wrong with that? asks Arthur Blaker in the Montreal GlZét’te. Not a thing, he adds-— except that this very inatter,is al- ready under "investigation" and has been these ten years and more! , Here 8 the story» as Mr. Blaker it] in: dredged it up from forgot- " Luten records. It makes pretty shame-

: WM Mug: / .- I 01‘: April 7, 1948, the Hon. Hone! Qievrier, then Minister of resent-his placelin the’

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\ V.Commons”to. h'nnounce that the

Cabinet had Order'sdn-Coun- all PC. 1 “and not 1487 giving -. unset - is pertain the , government‘had made. It had taken into consideration that no general of freight rates had and it had

.g:«iuve . . .' Wem.@Re‘:fij'mm investi- gation with 'a' View to ‘pstabliShing ofeir and‘raamble rate structure Will, ‘under substantially similar circumstances and condi-

oll persons and localities so as to permit the freest possible exchange of commodities between the various and territories of Canada and the‘ exte'nsion of Canadian tilde, both foreign and dom 'c, ,1 having due regardi'to the n ' 'agriculture and dther basic ‘ ‘ tries”

~_ This investigation has dragged tin heels for a whole decade, and Is supposed to be still in progress. I Occasional interim reports have ' been issued; one of them as recent- ly as September, 1957. Others are ioupposed to follow. New hearings are Scheduled for next year. ' The Board, “with as much unflagging industry as other vital interests will permit”—as Mr. Blaker drily puts it—has no .set time in which to finish its job, but it is still nibbling away; “busy” all this while on the > same task which the Government now proposes to assign to a Cabinet committee plus a full board of in- wiry!

As an anticlimax, Mr. Blaker recalls that" in a TV appearance a few nights ago, Opposition Leader Lester Pearson appeared to be dimly aware that the Transport Board had some.sort of inquiry in hand dealing with the general freight rate structure. But he didn't know what, how or why, let alone if the ihvestigation had been com-

. pleted. His ignorance seems to have been! matched by all his parliamen- tary colleagues.

When it comes to raising rates to the disadvantage of these Atlan- flc Provinces, the Board can be de- pended upon to act with great ex- pedition. But on the tennyear-old chore that was given to it under Order in Council RC. 1487, of equalizing the rate structure, it has been a veritable Rip Van Winkle.

It is up to our representatives to put an end to this farce, or else resign in protest if the pledges now given are not implemented to the letter.

- 'tual' Self-interest. We- have seen

, lions, beeun in its application to .

Fight Against TB

A further achievement in the fight against tuberculosis ls report- cd from (‘hapcl llill. North (‘ai'o- lina. Officials of tho North Carolina SanatoriumSystem say they believe that a new vaccine called R-l will prove a safe and effective preven- tive of the disease among “high- risk” groups.

Dr. Stuart Willis, chief investi- gator on the project, said that the safety of the vaccine had been proved through extensive testing in 6,000 animals over a seven year period. Another specialist said that no tuberculosis cases had been found among 1,600 persons vac- cinated with R-l in 1954. The group has received tuberculin tests and chest X-Rays twice a year.

Thus does science go forward in a program which has achieved re- markable results in recent years but which has by no means remov- ed tuberculosis from the list of seri- ous diseases. It is for research of this kind, among other things, that money receivbd from Christmas Seal sales is used.‘ No public appeal is more deserving; and few public health programs have met with greater success. .

This Province has made especial- ly gOOd progress in this‘field in the

I last several years, A generous re- sponse to the current financial ap peai will help it maintain the good work. .

' Simple Economic Law . . “There are reasons”, states the Toronto Globe and ’VMail, “why Canada. should buy, more' from Britain, and the most ‘obvious is the imbalance in our ‘ mutual trade" In‘ the first six months of this year, we sold $366,858,000 worth and bought $296,505,000 worth. That was an improvement over other (years, but, to quote the Toronto paper, “as long as we are taking one more dollar out of Britain than we ‘are spending there, we are by that much preventing Britain from expanding her purchases‘of Cana- dian goods. And we are not so rich in other markets that we can afford to lose this one”.

. The. whole concept of British- ‘ Canadian trade; it it is to come to built upon mu-

plenty' of evidence that the British would like to buy more Canadian products, although they are buying a large volume now; but, of' course, \ they cannotbe expected indefinitely to buy a great deal more than they can sell. This is a simple law of economics which no amount 'of goodwill—though that is important

. —can abrogate. The British have as.

much right to complain about the

dians have to complain about the imbalance in American trade.

EDITORIAL NOTES

A Formosan diplomat has warn- ed that the Communists might re- new aggression in Asia while the , Wéstern world is preoccupied with the latest crisis in Europe. He has g reason for his suspicion. In 1948-49 the Communists overran the Chinese mainland while the West was engaged in breaking a Soviet blockade of Berlin.

‘ at o It

If everything goes well, 19 rmonth-old Iven C. Kincheloe 0' Oakland, California, has his future mapped out for him. President ' Eisenhower has addremed a letter to “the President of the United States 1972-1976" asking that the boy be awarded 'an' appointment to

Springs, Colo. The boy’s father was

killed while testing an experimental

7-104 jet fighter. , a

O t

The demand for technical per- sonnel is, increasing year by year, and it is difficult to keep abreast of the expanding opportunities in this field. Last year the Engineer- ing Institute of Canada launched a valuable publication, aimed at faci- litating contact between young graduate engineers and those who may require their services, and to be used as a guide for those who are in the process of selecting their courses. It proved highly success- ful, and a second edition has now been issued, containing a wealth of information on the subject. Agri- cultural engineering, we note, takes first place in the series of twenty articles. all prepared by specialists

in their field.

imbalance in Canadian trade as Cana- .-

the Air Force Academy in Colorado '

"LET’S TALK PEACE” -

OTTAWA REPORT

An Interesting

Parallel '

By Patrick Nicholson

I An interesting parallel has been

' pointed out between our country

and our southern neighbour. where President Eisenhower on" his Republican followers in th: “Grand Old Party” were handed such a severe rebuff by the vet- ers at last month's elections.

“Rout of G.O.P. cheers must federal employees" pronounced a big black headline in the influen— tial Chicago “Daily Tribune” over a story relating Washington's re- action io the electoral triumph of the Democratic Party.

“While it may come as a' sur- prise to the rest of the' nation. joy rather than'sorroiw wreathes the faces of most federal work

,ers—hig‘h and low—as a remit oi

the root suffered by the Repu‘ iican Party at the polls.” sair the Tribune. “Most federal off ciais and workers had a har’ time concealing their juibilani with the election results. This i

PUBLIC FORUM

This column in open to the discus

lion by correspondents of question c.

Interest. The Guardian does not near.-

llrily endorse the opinion «1 corner pondents.

THAT RAILWAY WHISTLE

Sir,—For several months now the whistle at the Railway Yard shop has been silent and many people ask us why it is not blow ing as usual. Making inquiry. we have learned that when making

changeovers at the shop the old.

whistle was shelved for the time and then not brought back to its duties. Scores of people near and far depended on that whistle in the morning. at ten to eight its warning blow and again at 5 pm Children playing at noon timi-

heard the old whistle and knew .t~

was time to eat. We all waited for its ten to one blast to hurry back to work. How many of us set our old cocks by that whistle.

Wit the old Town Clock gone forever, let us bring the railway whistle back into operation. There is still a railway here and there are hundreds of us who work for the railway and scores of other places. who trusted that old whistle to be on time. I am sure I speak for us all when I say we need the railway whistle back again at the shops and I am sure It won't cost the Railway a for— tune to have it blow again at its usual regular hours. (‘ome on. those of you who stopped the old whistle. and get her tooling again as we come around the mountain for Christmas!

I am. Sir. etc. WALTER A. O'BRIEN Charlottetown.

EDUCATION

Sir,—Why is it that with all our schools the dumbest students get into university mostly and the talented ones are overlooked com- pleicly?

The answer is that most leach- ers place a higher value upon pretty writing and primary arts than on the gift-arts of rhetoric. etc. Gifted ch"dren arc neglccii‘ul of primary arts due to the "‘gii‘i of art" in their make-

ip.

They fall to get alicnllon for several reasons. Teachers know only the primary arts of reading and writing and do not recognize :hctorival ability Students are failed and never get to college he- oause they neglect their spelling and writing. This is a responsibil- ity of the teacher and it happens in university as well as in high school.

A New Brunswick papcr of ma- triculation put this question: Give five methods for buildinr: a para- graph and illuster one. This. by the way. came up indii‘cctly at the Ottawa conference.

The dumb siudcnt who would attempt to answer Illh qui‘siion and did a non! job of primary \‘.'i'lIIil;_' “PHI to university 'I‘hc In-

iclligcni criiricni. rcmzn nu: the IOOIISIlans «if the F|ll(‘\llllrl was ‘allcd for izrizwwwc SN‘ u ha! I menu'

It may be noted Ina: a para

I administration." continued {Tribune “It is known that son

because the bulk of the 225.00‘ federal employes in the capii' owe their jobs to the Demacra Supporters of the Democrat have been entrenched in pom _ making posts in government d pariments. Many of these ha» been working underground for int Democrats." . WHAT CHICAGO SAYS

This clipping came to me Iron Gene Griffin, the Oin‘oago Tri bune‘s triple prize-winning for eign correspondent, who has been

reporting Canadian news for his .

paper over the past twelve years. He’had read my recent column, describing the difficulties of our present government in its role-

tionships with top civil servants-

who display an improper poli- tical bias against their masters. So he sent me the clipping. with his note attached saiy'ing: “Tin situation of Democratic civil ser vice termites undonmining the Re- publican administration in Wash- ignion may have a parallel on Ottawa.” ‘

The parallel is very close in deed. In both decades of uninter- ruped rule by one party: in both countries, the other party is now in office; in both countries, the present administration, duly elet ted by a substantial majority r‘

'llhe voters. is having its polioii

frustrated by a "Fifth Column within the civil service. which i working—entirely improperly—f the overthrow of the advmini traiion. \

“A prominent Republican i‘r cenily confided that many pol icy workers in the governmei are doing their best to derail Ill lb

1 government empioyos are repoi ‘ing to the Democratic Nations

Committee." SHOULD BE IMPARTIAL

“In thcir 30 years of powci the Democrats had put almo: 2,500,000 persons on the fedcr: payroll. Virtually every one these were deserving Democrat These Democrat supporters we' most careful not to commit ovei

acts which might cut them of). the payroll. They were able u.‘

speed or slow operations“ And they were able to ' lluence pol- icy because they supplied dot: on which policy was built.” “Many of these considered them

V selves contributors to the Demo-

cratic victory last Tuesday, which is why they wre unable to hide their joy."

In a democratic country like Canada 01‘ U.S.. civil servants are the employes of the taxpayers. They are hired to assist the gov- ernment-selected by those taxpay- ers—to put its policies into effect. Civil servants should make them— selves the unquestioning servants of the government, impartial. obedient and conscientious. Civil servants should never so con-

iduot themselves .that they can. has now in Washington, “consid-

I i

oficn ‘

I

I

“er themselves contributors" any party’s electoral victoy. AS IN WASHINGTON

As in Washington. 90 per cent of the civil service was put on the taxpayers payroll by a gov- ernment~the fonmcr Liberal ad- ministration~which was in pow- er for two decades. It picked es— pecially for the top jobs people

to

graph is a little story within a dory. It has harmony. unity. bal~ once. rhythm. force and resultant. It has five stops like-any drama or story: introduction. rising ac- 'liill. climax. falling action and conclusion. if the paragraph is

‘ thoi‘i the rising’ action and falling

I

nciion may hc omitted and one ‘1‘no may contain the rest.

There are as many methods of :iultint: the paragraph together as HA‘I'K‘ arc pools :n the world, mul- "Illlf’f‘l by thi‘ whims of such pools. .nul‘iplicd by tho hundreds of var- ich I'l'llllwllllt‘I‘l‘x lll'l' lb." nocl may Wish to month Thr‘ licld Is unlimited.

l air: \1‘

MI

I‘ ERIN CUS'I‘AIA ‘

buniillel side

,vants—-and their junior:

who are now able, lil * their op~ posite numbers in Washington, to “seed or slow‘ operations and to influence policy", and that is just what they are doing here.

The Chicago Tribune assert that many civil servants in Wasl ington are working undergroui‘. for the Democrats and agains the Republican administration Without naming names, I can as- sert that some senior civil sex whorr they influence—are new in Of tawa‘ improperly drawing their

they should more appropriately be on the payroll of the masters for whom they are clandestiner working, namely the Liberal Par—

saiaries from the taxpayers, when,

l Medical Test I May Save Life

Hold Up 3 Trains

By Herman N. Bundesen. MI). IN MOST places, now just a- bout everything you buy is given rigid tests before it is put on the market.

The steel that goes into your home and auto is tested f or strength. the car itself is given innumerable tests. The material

. in your clothing, the cosmetics

you use. the food you eat and the milk and other beverages you drink are all tested in the la- boraitory.

SAFETY ASSURE!)

Both the manuch and the retailior want to be sure that everything they sell to you is perfectly safe from (Mary stand- mint.

All these tests are important to your general welfare. But none is more important than a lab oratory test to check your health. FEAR LAB TEST

Most of you wouldn’t think buying this or that article unless It bears a certain seal of ap- proval you have come to recognize as reliable. Yet. when a doctor suggests a lab test to determine whether you have a specific ailment, many of you cringe in fright.

Lab tests don’t hurt and they might save your life. They can tell us many things we can't de- termine in an ordinary physical

r examination.

AID T0 DIAGNOSIS

An electrocardiogram. for ex- ample, can measure the electri- cal impulses of the heart. This is a tremendous aid in helm us make, a diagnosis of certain heart conditions. , .

An electroencephalogram helps establish the presence of certain brain disorders.

The roentgenbg-ram. or X-ray, usually shows whether any bones have been broken, wheth- er the heart is enlarged or who rher tubercule or cancer may be present.

CHECKING BLOOD

Blood tests are useful to do ternune the present of RH an- tibodies in the blood in the case of pregnancy- and to establish the blood type if a transfusion is needed.

Serology. or the study of blood ‘oe'rum, can tell us many things. Is might indicate the presence of such diseases as typhoid fev- er. infectious mononucleosis or syphilis.

IMPORTANT ROLE

Laboratory examination of the

stool also plays an unportaot

ty.

A proposal has been put be- fore Justice Minister Davie Ful-

the law should be amended ’to limit newspaper coverage of pre-

liminary court. haulings- Swell “

move could have only one rc- su-it, the serious infringement o‘~ the public‘s right to news abou‘ the courts and the enforcemen‘ of law. lit Should be firmly re sisted' at Ottawa. .

The group in question is a com mitiee of the Canadian Bar Aa- sociaitioo, the conference of com- missioners on uniformity in leg- islation. Iits recommendation i that reports of preliminary new h1g5 should not disclose any ad mission or confession. or thi fact that an accused Ipenson had made a confession. 'Ilhis has been referred to the Justice Minister

for a possible amendment to the

Criminal Code. THEIR VIEWS ‘

In the view of this group such an amendment would elinllnate prejudice against an accused per son and help ensure a fair tnial

Those who hold this view— which occasionallgl turns up ir legal circles when a speciacuia' crime has caught public utter

,tion—rarcly face the full implé

cation in It. The impl‘i-caitloni that jurlas are not to be tmrste:

1because of something they' ma}

have read in the newspapers. Are trial juries so perverse that they

ton by'a group of “Wm M;

medicine. It may reveal the pre—

_ Do Lawyers Trust Juries?

Toronto Telegram »

~reoch a verdict. not by the weiflu of evidence put before them'by learned counsel but by informa- tion picked up in other ways? Possibly the traditional respect for the jury system. on which the democratic system of justice is based, has weakened among law- yers. Even .so. the rig! of to- dress em in the provision for

The Department a Justice, how ever, need not be gtnded' , by guesswork. If there is prehrdice‘ creeping into the Canadian jury system, then it would be proper to mice steps to claim ‘ to it. Pre- judice in trusts, as a result of publicity given to preliminary hearings may be subjected to I simple test: When, have the Can- adian courts failed to see that justice is done? ' ‘

Restriction of pubiic infom- tion about the arrest and trial of an accused person can never safeguard such a, person‘s right to a fair trial, for the simple reason that the presence of the 111ch directly or fill-rough the press at a court insuring is in itself the basic protection a nd guarantee of a fair ‘riial. Restric- tion of ’c information could therefore lead only by reirogres sion to evil conditions that MCI prevailed in the courts but hap- pily. through the democratic de- via‘q-ziment of trial procedures Land the jury system, long since disappeared in a free society.