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Oypee Mr. Douglas’ Visit

The visit at this time of Hon. T. C. Douglas, national leader of the New Democratic Party, is naturally not unconnected with political is- sues; but regardless of politics he is a welcome visitor at any time, and on this, his second visit since

. resigning as head of the Saskat- chewan CCF Government and step- ping into his new role as NDP leader, he will be seeing something

~ of our winter conditions at first hand, and getting a better per- spective of our transportation prob- lems generally.

In the wake of the departure of Mr. Hazen Argue from CCF-NDP ranks, Mr. Douglas’ campaign has attracted added interest. Conser- vatives make no secret of the fact that they would like to see him fight it out in Mr. Argue’s riding of Assiniboia—a wish which, no doubt, is fostered by the hope that they might split the vote to enable a Tory candidate to sneak in between them and leave both out in the cold. But Mr. Douglas is a wary strate- gist, and such a campaign, though possible, seems unlikely.

We don’t think for a moment that Mr. Douglas would be afraid of such a fight—he is as spunky an opponent as any man would care to tangle with—but such a contest would tie him down locally and re- strict his national campaigning. He may feel, also, that it would add to Mr. Argue’s stature as a politician in an unwarranted fashion. Mr. Douglas has been offered the nomination in three or four differ- ent Saskatchewan constituencies, and is said to have his eye primarily on the Regina seat. According to an Ottawa commentator, he is hold- ing back there out of deference to the man who ran in 1958 as CCF candidate and may want to try again. Mr. Douglas has stated he has no intention of squeezing him out or anybody else who wants to run.

In any case, his visit here will be to give support to his party’s local candidates and also to discuss issues of broader concern, as he did at the United Nations Club last evening. As one of Canada’s public figures, he possesses a comprehen- sive knowledge of all aspects of governing affairs in this country, and in many others too. Few speak- ers match him in his audience ap- peal, and we trust that full oppor- tunity will be taken of hearing him

* at all his public appearances in our ‘midst.

Disturbing Statements In speaking on the Draft Ad- @ress in the Legislature last week, Premier Shaw took occasion to re- fer to a speech given by the na- tional Liberal party leader, Mr. Pearson, at a recent federal nomi- nating convention in Quebec East. _ The Premier rightly pointed out that this speech is of concern to

_ our taxpayers in this province as wal as in other parts of Canada, _ @s indicative of Liberal policy trends. | Mr. Pearsen, in his Quebee ‘wpeech, explained what his party in- tended to do, if elected, in applying the principle of equalization to ‘ affairs. It would ‘ jized, an increase

permanent character once are well establish-

to such the federal gov- ernment would substitute a policy of “more leeway” to the provinces in the field of direct taxation. Already several of these joint programs could be abandoned “almost im- mediately”; others, not yet suffic- iently established, would be review- ed in this light every five years.

Such a system would not mean that the Liberal party would re- frain from bringing forward new joint programs in the future. It would mean, however, that “from now on, joint programs which re- quire a permanent and fairly regu- lar expenditure would not last any more than five years before being turned over entirely to the pro- vinces.”

Other aspects. of Mr. Pearson’s Quebee speech were noted by Prem- ier Shaw, such as his pledge “to give our country a distinctive Canadian flag” and to adopt “O Canada” as “our national anthem.” It was the Liberal leader’s proposals for serapping federal: contributions to the social security programs, however, that the Premier was most critical of. Such a scheme might be acceptable in the larger centrak provinces; but even with the ad- dition of equalization grants to keep provincial costs down, it would be

a disastrous policy for Prince -

Edward Island.

Premier Shaw read from the official text of Mr. Pearson’s re- marks to avoid the chance of them being misquoted. They are disturb- ing in their implications, to say the least. We simply could not afford to finance social security programs out of direct taxation here, and Mr. Pearson’s local supporters should lose no time in making him aware of this fact.

US. Farm Program :

Growing opposition to the Kennedy administration’s-new farm bill is noted in the New York Times. The American Farm Bureau Feder- ation, with headquarters in Chi- cago, is planning meetings to “alert” farmers and consumers throughout the country and is in- tensifying its lobbying activities in Washington. This organization has a membership of 1,600, 000 families, and is the largest farm group in the country. Its efforts last year were instrumental in defeating the government’s proposal to give the Secretary of Agriculture more pow- er in initiating legislation to con- trol agricultural production in sur- plus supply, and its officials regard the new program as “even worse” than last year’s.

It is claimed that the new bill gives the Secretary the “power to club the farmer’s brains out’; that the referendums offered to dairy, wheat and feed grain farmers is a “mockery”, that for consumers. it would mean higher food prices in the long run because it would pre, vent competition, and that a “huge army of government supervisors” would be needed to enforce com- pliance. This year it is proposed to apply similar controls to livestock, fruit and vegetables.

Other farm organizations, such as the National Grange and Na- tional Farmers Union—considerably smaller than the Farm Bureau—are expected to support most of the Kennedy program. But the Farm Bureau opposition will be hard to lick. It controls a lot of votes, and it has a team of specialists at work in its Washington bureau, prepar-

ing data for the state and country”

bureaus throughout the country to make their views known to Congress. It will be interesting to watch the results. The program at this dis- tance would appear to be well fram- ed to cope with the surplus food problem, but its promoters have evidently failed in selling its ad- vantages to the country.

EDITORIAL NOTES

That report that the “last of the professional mourners” had died must have been wrong, says the Ottawa Journal. With an eye to a recent sensational event it claims that “old professional mourn- ers never die. They just join the Liberals.”

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Rt. Hon. Vincent Massey was one of the 10 distinguished Cana- dians honored by the Canada Coun- cil for outstanding work in the arts, humanities and social sciences. This was most fitting. One of the roles for which the former governor- general will be remembered is that of chairman of a royal commission whose recommendations led to the formation of the Canada Coukeil.

Scientists Try -

To Find Solution

‘NOTES BY THE WAY

Nuclear . Arms Policy

If he was talking about wea- pons in Canada, it may there be supposed that “nuclear

Mr. Diefenbaker

the missiles for which they are designed should ‘

hard to conceive of any other way in which Canadian forces could obtain nuclear warheads

one set comes from the mother and the other from the father. body contains along with a complete copy of the blueprint of the hereditary characteris- ties. This is fantastic because the fertilized ovum is destined to rey luce trillions of cells— all containing a message telling them what to do,

The hereditary plan or mold in the cell nucleus is desoxyri- bonucleic acid (DNA). It con- sists of intertwined strands con- taining molecules with chains of four protein units or bases.

OTTAWA FITNESS CAMPAIGN

OTTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson

A $200 Million Annual Business

One of the most consistent 1 critics of the Conservative gov- ernment is 54-year old Azellus | Denis, a Montreal lawyer who has sat in Parliament as a Lib- eral M.P. for exactly half his lifetime.

Mr. Denis’ favourite and only | target is Postmaster General W. M. Hamilton; his shafts concern inefficiencies and rob- beries in post offices, and what he evidently considers the child- like vanity of Postmaster Ham- {iiton.

The record of poor service and rising costs gives Mr. denis ample ammunition; but he has yet to strike the gold which lies in our Public Accounts, showing that pre-Hamilton surpluses of |

about $8 million, $10 million and $6 million in the years 1955-57 have dwindled sadlyt 0 become

SUMMERSIDE AFFAIRS | Sir,—Due to other more news-

worthy events which occurred at the last meeting of the Sum- merside town council the petl- tion on Mr. D.J, Mullin did not get the attention which it justly deserved.

The petition protested against the increase in the property qualification for mayor from $1,000,00 to $4,000.00 and for town councillors from $1,000.00 to $3,000.00,

I agree whole heartedly with the petitioners.

‘To increase the property qua- Mfication as suggested {s highly undemocratic and is a present day practice and goes back to the thinking which | prevailed one hundred years

ago. During the recent election campaign numerous complaints to the effect that re was a dearth of candidates available for the office of may- for town councillors. proposed amendment passes the candidates available will be materially reduced in number and further similar amendments could limit the choice to a much smaller group. Another important develop- ment should not be forgotten and that is that more and more of the real estate in the town is nds of cor-

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BARBED HUMOUR

Mr. Denis threw one of his ty- | pical curves at Mr, Hamilton on | the later’s birthday last week. | Wishing him the happiest birth- day ever, he added: “His work is very burdensome, involving as it does extensive travelling, scooter driving, pen nib chang- ing, and so forth, For his own good I wish him a long, healthy from politics after the next el-

ection.” To which Mr. Hi | ton replied ambiguously: “I presume my very existence

proves that there is something | that sometimes comes from playing post office, But in spite of those motor scooters, and the replacement of steel nibs with ball-points; | and in spite of higher wage bills | largely caused by huge addi- tions to the army of letter-car- iers; the service deteriorates. And in spite of a 20 per cent in- crease in revenue during his four years as postmaster, a $6 million surplus on post office op- erations has sunk into a $5 mil- lion los:

The time of letter deliveries makes it very clear that Mr. Hamilton does not seek to emu- late Shakespeare's Puck, who said “I'll put a girdle round it the earth in forty minut- Nor does he match Cosmo-

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In Northern Rhodesia

By Carol Kennedy Canadian Press Staff Writer

new constitution for Northern Rhodesia, announced in London Wednesday by Colo- nial Secretary Reginald Maud- ling, makes it possible for Negro Nationalists to govern the copper-rich member of the Central African Federation. But the system of cross-vot- ing embedded in the proposals is designed to ensure truly multi-racial support for what- ever government is elected. So it looks as though Federation | Prime Minister Sir Roy Welen- | sky's fears for an extremist government may not be justi-

fied. On the other hand, the Na-

OUR YESTERDAYS |

From the Guardian Files

curling rinks are playing this) week at the Toronto Granite Club in the eleventh annual Macdon- | ald Brier ikard round-robin |

| me a letter which had taken 64

The order in which these bases are arranged determines how the 20 different proteins (amino acids) outside the nucleus will

be arranged.

The trick is how to relay the genetic message to these pro- teins. It is here that the second chemical, rebonucleic acid (RNA), enters the picture. Mol- ecules ‘of RNA are sent out by

|A into the cell where they pick up the amino acids. These form the proteins that control the metabolism of the cell.

The question is, how does RNA know which amino acid to select? The code is the answer. ‘This is highly technical but centers about the arrangement

ost office to fly a letter from | of the four bases that are strung England, both delivered at the | along the backbones of the RNA same time as that Ottawa tor-| and DNA molecules. It is @ toise which moved at one-half | matching process and when- millionth of Glenn's speed, or | ever three bases out of four fit less than two feet per minute. | perfectly, the genes go into ac- AS CANADA GROWS tion and development proceeds,

Our Post Office today is a} (Dr. Van Dellen will answer $200 million annual business, | questions on medical topics if seven times the size it was a| stamped, self-addressed enve- quarter of a century ago. Ty-| pically today postal service in Toronto costs $17 million a year and in Montreal $16 million, | these two cities alone exceeding | the annual $30 million cost of the whole of Canada in 1936.

Mr. Denis is an assiduous collector of complaints about the Post Office. Recently we have heard his plea that an ef- | fort be made to deliver Easter | Greetings in time, in contrast to | many Christmas greetings Montreal which were delayed. We heard his criticism that 6,000 letters lay forgotten in a collection box for two weeks. But Postmaster Hamilton neverthe- less reports that there has been a steady decrease in the num- ber of public complaints about I service over the past

naut Glenn, who girdled the eaath in 89 minutes.

in fact the Hamilton delivery service this morning brought

hours to travel one mile across Ottawa, slower than the U.S. post office took to carry a letter from New York, or the British

lope accompanies request.)

P.R. writes: Why do some Persons get goose pimples and others don't? REPLY

Goose flesh is a normal occurrence when the skin is chilled or stroked or during cer- tain emotional disturbances, Some individuals are more sen- | sitive than others and develop the phenomenon more easily. The bumps are formed by con- | traction of the muscles surroun- | ding the skin capillaries, Their attached ends protrude and | Produce the familiar goose | e |

sh. NO SALT WITH CORTISONE |

A.D. writes: Why is salt not permitted when taking corti- sone? My doctor is giving me this medicine for bronchial as- thma,

REPLY | Because cortisone encourages the retention of salt and fluid | in the tissues, ‘leading to pufti- |

) and gain in |

Waterlogging by limiting the

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tionalists | themselves, led by Kenneth Kaunda, are sure to feel the new proposals do not go far enough in their favor.

couraged salt in-

SORE BACK C.M.C. writes: Would an obese man with arthritis of the spine get relief by reducing? REPL’

ida’ t reaction was it they “dodget he issue” of electing @ representative North- ern Rhodesian government for some 2,500,000 Negroes and only 77,000 whites in the protector- ate.

The nub of the constitution, and the issue that has provoked @ year-long controversy, is the block of 15 “National” seats,

ast Providing the excess weight is creating a strain the back. m

NICOTINE AND

fied and the lower roll of 15, elected by the Negro voters. MULTI-RACIAL APPEAL ‘To gain one of these National seats, a candidate will have to get at least 10 per cent of the

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wi ause, as Mr. Dietenbaker said, this’ country does not want to do anything to hurt yent negotiations.

In the Commons y ys Mr. Diefenbaker did little to clarify the government's posi- tion, merely adding that nu- clear weapons in Canada would have to be under joint U.S.-Can- ada control—a policy stated be- | over Canada’s nuclear weapons fore. policy, which appears on the

But he also said in Edmonton | surface at least to be one ot ace = oe en a4 quiring and storing nuclear arms be. made available within half- | While maintaining the fiction an-hour, that there was | that the country does not have some credence to this report. | these weapons.

Question Of Lotteries Montreal Gazette

South Wales decided to operate a lottery, But only about one- third of the receipts remains for charitable purposes.

OTHER CHANGES

What happens to the rest of the money? The prizes have to take the most of it, in order to provide the needed lure. The rest goes for administration, What this means, in practice, is that the publie has to pay three dollars—or more—in order to get one dollar for public rev. enue (apart from the extremely few members of the public who may be prize-winners.)

It fw argued, of course, that people are gambling anyway. It would be as well if their gambling were directed to a properly managed government lottery, instead of in other di- Tections.

But this leaves im uncertainty the question whether a lottery sponsored by a government does not give to the spirit of gamble ing itself anew and wider stimulus. Those who may least afford to take the risk may have fresh encouragement to risk the most.

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It only adds to the confusion

The hope that a public lottery would provide the answer to the problem of raising public reven- ue has been a persistent one. Over the years proposals have been made that a lottery would provide the funds for such var- ied elfare projects, a subway, or municipal revenues, The experience of those gov- ernments that have established | lotteries in other countries has not been encouraging. From the ry point of view, lotter- Jes have proved to be poor ways ofr France sus- pended its state lotteries in 1998, after operating them for five years. It had found that only 3% per cent of the total receipts remained to enrich the

OTHER LOTTERIES

Experience with other lotter- Jes, though showing a higher Proportion of receipts, {s still

remarkable for how much the lotteries cost in proportion to the results. In the famous Irish Sweepstakes, for example, only about 20 per cent of the money received actually goes in aid of the hospitals of Ireland.

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