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mm: 4 MONDAY. APRIL 5, 1934‘.

Mr. Gordon's Visit

Mr. Donald Gordon is no strang- er to Charlottetown. or indeed to any other part of Canada. for as President of the Canadian National Railways he has traversed the country many times from coast to coast. On his visit here this week. limvever. he is being accompanied by Mrs. Gordon. whom it is a priv- ilege indeed to welcome along with her distinguished husband. Cordial- l,v welcomed. also, will be Mr. H.(‘. Grayuton. Vice-president for the Atlantic Region.

The chief purpose of Mr. Gor- don's visit is to address the Cana- dian t'lub tomorrow evening. in re- sponsc to an invitation to which he has courteously given priority over

Circula‘lon.

other pressing business at this lime As intimated irl our news columns. however. he will hold a

press conference following his ar- rival this cvcning. and tomorrow will call lit‘llcially upon His Honor the. Lieutenant Governor. the Prem- ier. and the Mayor and City Couue cillors. He will also atlend a private luncheon. and will take the oppor- tunity of vi~iting the Confederation Chamber and making a tour of the new [Fathers of Confederation BIlllt’llllL’.

ch top executives have. a more. exacting ,toh than Mr. Gordon. and it is not surprising that on several occasions he has been the subiect. of criticism and heated controversy. in and out of Parliament. if he. weren‘t that kind of man he wouldn’t have qualified for his onerous re- cponsibilities in the first place. or have relainod the confidence of successrm l'odoral governments. of labor union leaders and of the pub- lic. generally. over so many years. He has proyon himself to be a man of tremendous driving power. whole- heartedly dcvotcd to his duties.

We have our own railway prob- lems in this prOvince. and there are. times when we have. not seen dye to eye with the Canadian Na- lional in the decisions made with re- gard to niceting them. But. we recognize that its officials have. other problem: to contend with. that 'hey are conscientious in their ef- forts to maintain adequate service- under trying conditions. and that Mr. Gordon": management the (NH ratm among the most of- tlcicnt transportation systems in The world.

“'0 salute him on this occasion as a ("arludmn of whom no are all

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proud.

Started With 12 Hens

Our farm readers will be interest.- ed in a summary we have receiv— rd of a recent BBC broadcast about. a small town in Yorkshire. with the strangc name of ll’lytholmroyd. This

town bi I'rlSi.’- one. of the biggest chicken-breeding organizations in the world. [,2 st. year it raised

thirty-three million chicks for egg production and exported them to many parts of the globe.

This huge industry was started by the managing director's father weaver—some half century ago with twelve. broody hens kept. in boxes in the. barnyard. He had turned to the. hobby in order to make money during a strike. and used to buy hatching eggs from local farmers. hatch them. and sell the chicks in the local market. When the strike was over he de- cided this might well be more pro- fitable than weaving.

Today the group has eight mod- ern hatcheries pinpointed around England. Scotland and Ireland and

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west Germay The one visited by the broadcaster "could have been mistaken for a hospital. with its white-riled walls. plastic ceilings. plastic-covered floors. flickering dials. push-button controls. green- coated workers. and ingenious hat.- ching rooms where the temperature is held stmdy at 100 degrees Fah- renheit. and every hour the trays with their thousands of eggs turn autoniuticnlly to stimulate the na- tural mm'umcnt of the hen on her nest."

The organization spends nearly Zorrooo pounds sterling a year on research illl(l employs over thirty graduate geneticists. A computer aids in rescurch into the best meth- ods of breeding newer and improv- cd chickens. Close liaison is kept with universities and other estab- lishments doing research in a sim- ilar field. and a. number of visitors spend zome months studying the scientific teachiques on the farm. At the time of the broadcast these included an Austrian. a German. an Indian and a Ghanaian.

A success story which serves as a reminder that the big industrial centres have no monopoly an en. IPI‘pl'isr‘. t‘l't‘ll in the field of mass production. and that it is not so much the opportunities we have that really count. as those we create for ourselves.

Quebec's Position

at last week’s federal— provincial conference. we suppose. cared to remind Premier Lesage of an incidcnt that occurred at. the hearing last month of Quebe‘s Roy- al Commission on Taxation. Les Club de Flcur-de-Lis contended be- fore the commission that the prov- vincc was suffering “discrimina- tion” at the hands of Ottawa; but the chairman of the commission, Mr. Belangcr. promptly took issue with this contention.

.\lr. Bcl-mger pointed out that in 1963-64 Quebec received 28.6 per cent of federal contributions to joint federal-provincial programs. though only 35 per cent of the Can- adian population lives there. The province also received nearly one- half of all the federal government's equalization payments—42 per cent. This was not the short end of the stick.

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Quebec maintains. however, that it must have more, and Frontier Lesage intends to get it one way or another. Ho is preparing now to present his own budget, and he has hinted that he will raise “the spec- tra of double taxation" in Quebec if his government's demands for more tax revenues go unanswered. And he has made it clear that he will blame Ottawa if double taxation is announced in his budget speech.

What this means politically is not hard to spell out. In a Cana- dian Press despatch on Saturday it was noted that a break-away move- ment has developed within the pow- erful Quebec Liberal Federation, which provides most of the Quebec organization for the Federal Liber- als in elections. its withdrawal from the Liberal party of Canada could have, the federal group an unorganized nucleus in Quebec. which at present has 75 seats in the Commons.

A situation that could be loaded with trouble not only for the Liberal government. at Ottawa. but for the whole country.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Soviet scientists claim to have found—for what it is Worth—the coldest spot on earth. It is about. 260 miles from the South Pole in the direction of India. and it. has an average annual temperature of perhaps 76 degrees below zero. The scientists drew this conclusion af- ter measuring—via borings—the temperature of the Antarctic icecap there.

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Personal income taxes. it has been asserted for many years, are. lower in Canada than in the United States. But as pointed out in Letter Review. an Ontario publication. it does not matter what rates are lower; it is what dollars are paid as applying to the same person or size of family on each side of the border. Married people in (‘anada cannot combine their income for taxation purposes. They can in the U.S. In the US all other taxes can be deducted from taxable personal income. There is no income tax on interest. The list is a long one and

o‘ninth in process of building in l there is no similar list in Canada.

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“A BIT SOUTH or TEXAS

OlTAWA REPORT by Patrick Nicholson Working Now In Fuller Harmony

The most widely publicrzed friction within the Dict'cubaker cabinet in its latter days was the split bctnccn Dot'rltcc Min- islcr Douzlns liarkncss anti I’orolgn Minister Howard Green on the subject of nil-clear \vca- puns. .\Ir. llal'kncss urzcd the accptanco of nuclear warheads for vehicles already acquired. to pl‘.“.\'l(ll‘ thc host possible dc— tonce for (Mimi. and to honor our international commitments. Mr Green. nromlncnt in appeal- ing for nuclear disarmament on an international scale. wanted Canada to give a load.

Like so many of tlic hoadlin cd Dicfenbakcr crises, t.tis arose solely from the disastrous- ly incompetent public relations of thc whole l)lef(‘lllekPl‘ ap- parlilus.

There was notliin: inconsistent in the viewpoints of Messrs Harkness and Green. Mr. Hark nos was iiol opposed to the realistic and mdccd humanitar- ian aim of nuclear disarmam- onl. Ho merely insistcd that we should not stand naked and un. protected n a nuclcar-arvmcd world; that. tuttil international agrocnicnt on nuclear disarm- anicnt had born attained. we. like others should be preparcd to defend Olll'~ClV(‘S as offcc- t'voly as pos>iblc-and this on- talilcrl il‘lt" tompol‘ary posttion- ing of nuclear warheads for our orccs. .\lr. (lrccn. perhaps uri- realistically. argued that this stop would weaken his appeal. WHITE PAPER CLARITY

The recent publication of the Pearson Government‘s While Papcr on Doicucc shows clear- ly that our Dcparlmcnts of Eh- tielrnal Affairs and l‘tclcncc are

now working in complete has- many. and have arrived at “a defence policy which is not dissociated from foreign policy. yet has like 0bj(’(‘il\'(‘ of keep- ing the peace by supportin: collective defence measures to deter military aggression."

A would nuclear holocaust is _ unlikely. this White Paper tells us: u-t the advocates of World Government will welcome tlir hint that Canada take a first step in tihis direction by main- taining at the ready an appro-

priate contribution any rc- . quired international peace- kecping force raised by the

United Nations.

“It is essential that a na- tion's diplomacy bc backed up by adequate and flexible mili- tary forces to permit participa- l

lion in collective sci-urin an peace-keeping. and to be ready for crises should they arise.‘

says the White Paper. The proud degree of readiness of Canada‘s forces was underlined by Prime Minister Pearson potently

: when he confided to a hand-pick-

ed Liberal audience that "when l we decided to send the first small advance contingent to Cyprus. they were off with half

ran hour of the order being given." The rangc of potential con-

'fllf‘l extends from the possibili-

Simple Fainting Is Less Frequent

By Dr. Theodore It. VenDellelI Simple fainting is now less frequent in women than it was It the turn of the century. why. most physi-

cians say it no longer is fashion- able, Our young ladies are har- dier and less emotional than were their great - grand- mothers: also. theyare not trus-

sOd mm.

The ordinary faint is a reflex reaction involving the circula- tion. It usually follows an emo- tional upheaval. fright. severe pain. or extreme exhaustion. The sensation may take place on getting out of bed for the firs t time after an opera- tion or a prolonged illness.

Men often faint at the sight of blood or when given a hypo- dermic injection. Women may do so when forced to stand in a warm. crowded. and poorly ventilated r o o m more when tired or exasperated.

The victim feels weak. turns pale. becomes nauseated. swal- lows re atedly. and often breaks out In a cold sweat. He may pass out unless he can lie down immediately or sit with

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the head below the level of the

sten the victim's clothing. ' ope n the windows, and give a whiff of spirits of ammonia. He come to within a few moments . but remains shaky. Don‘t douse ‘ him with water. Reserve thisl remedy for t h o s e who utilize fainting as an escape mechan-

ism 0r are 0 v e rcome by the ‘ Beatles. . Ordinary fainting seldom IS :

associated with complete loss of consciousness. Varying de-l grees of impaired unconscious- ness are experienced. whichl are described as izzi n e s s. . faintness, lightlieadedncss. or a : drunk feeling. Longer periods! of unconsciousness stem from heart attacks. breathholding inl young children, and strokes.

Epilepsy is suspected when unconsciousness is preceded by I a convulsion and lasts longer than a few minutes. Minor epi-

ty of all-out thermonuclear war, ‘

throumi large-scale limited war. to insurrection. guerillla act- ivity and political the White Paper says, that of these. in the probability. nuclear and major non-nuclear war are 9 least likely provided the balance of deterrence is maintained. "Since thc war Canada's arm- ed forces have been increasing- ly engaged in peace—keeping,r operations mostly under the

' auspices of the United Natlons,..

These operations have varied in size and scope."

They range. explains White Paper. from mixed tary observer teams in Kash- mir. Palestine, Lebanon and Yemen. to large-scale fightimz contingonts under U.N. com~ m-and like our Korea brigade. “Canadian military rsorme have participated in virtually all of the operations conducted by the United Nations." 'llhat is a proud record. made possible by the trust and respect in which we are held by all na- tions on both sides of Ilhe Iron

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* Curtain as well as in the emerg-

ing continents.

Time is a factor in the suc- cess of such ' and this is a valid proposed unification of our de- fcncc forces.

Outlook

Winnipeg F

Two recent. by-elections in the. Republic of Ireland have given Scan Le-

the prime. minister.

PUBLIC

FORUM

FOR WORTHY USES

Sir.—l rcccnlly noticed in your papers a very interesting article on tho Red Cross Life Saving Refresher Course pill on

at the \'.\li‘.\ swimming pool. Ono llf‘m that I believe should In of .litorcst ll llu‘ :J‘llf‘l‘f-ll nub- lit" IS that both the Rod (‘ross and the YMCA obtain their prin- cipal support on Prince Edward Island ll'IIiTl Pl'll‘H‘f‘ Edward ls~ land United Fund and that when the United \pocal canvasmr makes his or hr‘r solicitation. II. is for worthy use: sur‘h as this.

am. Sir. Nix. Al..'\.\' H. IIOIAIAN YIce-Prmrrlout PEI United Fund.

SEALING REGULATIONS

Sir.— In Time magazine of March 27th. Thomson Newspap- ers have a full page advertise-

ment with the following contain- ‘ ed therein: “.\ newspaper‘s first ‘

function is to inform: its sec-0nd, to comment But above all. a newspaper is charged with the

rf‘SPOllSlhlllly of presenting to its ‘

readers an accurate and fair picture of evf‘nls as they hap- pen. All Thomson ncwspapcrs accept. this rcsnonslhility humb- ly and smccrcly.‘ The Guardian. as of the Thomson organization If! my opinion has fulfilled this re-

sponsibility humbly and sincer~.

ely With a few exceptions. One of these exceptions is your odi- Iorial of March Ruth with regard to regulating the sealing indus-

few isolated cases where inhu- man methods of slaughtering are used in slaughter houses.

lam in agreement with the‘ fact flint there should be some ' regulations in hunting seals. hilt ;

before regulations are implc-y mcutcd all facts should be; brought to light in order that

the seal industry he safe-guard-

The scaling industry has an unlimited potential for PEI. and at this particular time of year when high unemployment prevails. There is more po'cn- tial in the sealing industry than hunting seals. There is also the possibility that a procession plant could be established in' PEI to cure the pelts and make use of the by-products such as oil and flippers. Such an industry would do much for our economy at this time of

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e In closing. it is my contention I that the SPCA in compiling a‘ full record for presentation ml the federal government on Ibis matter should present all thel facts without prejudice. t I am. Sir. etc.

JOSEPH G. GALLANT

l Sourls, P.E.l.

a member ;

PRINCE OF WALES COLLEGE ' g to a

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Str.— am appealtn ll former graduates of Prince of .Wales College to rally to thc‘

‘ every way they can. Here is an .

try with the llllf“ "Should Be i Rozulated". My contention Is that The

Guardian was mismformed be- cause seals arc not being skin- nerl alive. Being mlsinformed. you were unable to comment in

your editorial with the respon-‘ ‘ ‘ ment. and all who are in a posi- i

sibility of presenting an accur- ate and fair picture of the situa- lion. Seals are killed in much the same manner as one would but- cher a cow, They are first club- bed unconscious and

thereafter. The writer admits that there may have been a few isolated cases where seals have

‘ our educational system by

support of their Alma Mater in ‘t opportunity for them to pro- l mote its interests. and thus en- hance its value to our fertikI lit- tle Province. fertile in produc-' tion of fine men and women down through years: fertile in its production of live stock and its cm .

Let us promote the interests of

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gently requesting our Govern-l tion to do so. to set In motion i as soon as possible the machin- i cry that will bring Prince of

' Wales College up to the slnlus . . of a University. Oh. yes. it will

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been aklnned alive. I feel sure . that the SPCA has also on file I | Montana. P11. i

mean more expenditure. But let I us not. be fluid to Invest, for it . will pay in the long run. . I am. Sir. etc. W.D. JOHNSTON

, of Eamon de Valera has

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mass. a stronger hand over the affairs of his country.

The minority government Mr. Lemass inherited upon the re- tircmcnl from the premiership not been substantially strengthened

; in numbers by the byelections.

in which the seat for Cork City was retained by an increased majority and the seat for Kil- are was removed from the hands of Labor. but the weak- ness of the Fine Gael opposition indicates that the ruling Flean- na Fail will be able to hold on until the general election that must be held in I966.

The byelection victories have been seen as a vote of confiden- ce in Mr. Lcmass‘s leadership. Observers feel that. he is now the leader of the government in his own right and no longer sim- ply Mr. de Valera‘s successor.

Mr. Lcmass's government re- ('cntly launched a new program of economic expansion to run un- til 1970 and has been successful in effecting a 12 per cent in- crease in wages and salaries. Both moves are bound to be popular in economically troubl- orl Ireland and Mr. Lemass. fac- ed with an opposition in the Dal! that. seems short of firm policies of its own. can probably look for ward to a majority in the next. general election and a term of office sufficient to see the re- building of Ireland through.

His task. however. is formid- able. He must. increase employ. ment opportunities in Ireland be- fore he can stop the disastrous drain of manpower that in the last. century and a half but de- creased the Irish population from close to nine million to less than three.

His government has. in the past few years. been successful In attracting increasing amounts of foreign investment— chiefly from America and Germany— and new industries have been established. The revived ship hutldlng industry at Cork may yet pose a serious threat to the

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lepsy (petil mall is best des- l cribed as a blackout. The per- E.son seldom falls and often car- ries on what e v e r he is doing l during the brief period of uncon- ' sciousness. DILATLNG THE PUPILS

.l. S. writes: Why must peo- ple with glaucoma avoid bella- . donna'.’

REPLY .

Because belladonna. an atro- pine derivative. aggravates the condition by dilating the pupils. . This increases the pressure of. fluid within the eyeball. whicht in tui'n may damage the retina l

and lead to blindness. Ephed-i rine. benzedrine, and cocaine' also are contra - indicated in

glaucoma for the same reason. ARID TEAR GLANDS

S. M_ writes: I have not cried since I started taking pills for . high blood pressure. Could the medicine be responsible? My nostrils and throat are dry as my eyes.