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4 NORSHORE SENTINEL Thursday, January 19, 1961 A GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO CORRECT BAD IMPRESSIONS GIVEN BY OTHERS Politics has been a man’s world since time immortal. There have been occasional assaults by the opposite sex upon the walls of civic and municipal government but they have usually been more memorable for the sparks they created rather than for accomplishment. Good examples are Mayor Charlotte Whitton of Ottawa, Port Arthur’s ex-mayor Eunice Wishart and Fort William’s chief magistrate last year, Katherine Seppala. All three are extrovert types who, unfortunately, add fuel to the be lief that women and politics, when mixed together, can provide a highly volatile and hard-to-handle problem. The question which must be asked is "Must all women who break the barrier into a man’s world be rabble-rousers and reformists who carry on the affairs of government with all the pilaver and showmanship of a three-ring circus? Must they enter office with the idea that, as a leader in the suffrage movement, their voice must rise above all others? In short, are there no women who can walk into public office and handle civic administration in a business-like manner? Today in the North Shore, two women have broken that barrier. Mrs. Inez McCuaig has won a seat on Schreiber council and Mrs. Betty Jeffrey has joined Nipigon council. Both are highly respected, intelligent women who have been noted for their interest in social and civic affairs. Both, we are sure, realize the importance their tenture in office and their attitude towards their responsibilities hold. They can help a great deal to mend the harm done to the suffrage movement by rabble-rousers by working cooperatively and gaining the respect of the citizens. Respect for ability is what the suffragette movement, so old and yet so young, has been aiming at. They can gain that respect only through sound business-like administration, not through loud ranting and colorful publicity. THE WEEKLIES SAY HOLD-THE-LINE It could be that recommendations brought down by arbitration boards on teachers’ salaries is the beginning of a hold-the-line policy throughout all phases of unemployment. . . Some steps have to be taken to level off costs which could be one of the reasons for country-wide unemployment.â€"Port Alberni (B.C.) West Coast Advocate. USUALLY BROKEN When the New Year is only a few days old . . . many of our New Year’s resolutions will be dead or dying. New Year’s resolutions, it seems, were made to be broken. Many of them are made fully! realising and expecting these! results.â€"Rosetown (Sask.) Journal. FULL MARKS It should be clearly understood that what is demanded of public officials is only that they keep the public informed. . .One may disagree profoundly with people in public office. That does not alter the fact that they deserve full appreciation for having offered themselves for service.â€"Trenton (Ont.) Trentonian. LOVE OF LAND With the world-wide emphasis on automation, it is heartening to see such a strong interest in the more fundamental aspects of human nature...a love of the land and what it can produce as well as the personal reward of having something done completely alone, whether it be the successful rearing of a calf or putting up a hem on a dress. (In praise of 4-H clubs) Salmon Arm (B.C.) Observer. REALISTIC READING We must not let the idea that the senior high school literature courses are a collection of smutty literary selections. All the .selections mentioned are generally considered to be top grade literature. They just happen to deal with life as it is, not as the Grimm brothers treated it. Melita (Man.) New Era. NORSHORE SENTINEL The Norshore Sentinel is published every Wednesday in Port Arthur. The Sentinel Office is located on Front St. in Nipigon, box 279. Phone 360. Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Dept. Ottawa. Charles D. McOuat, editor and publisher. Donald F. McOuat, advertising manager. YOUR M. P. REPORTS: By DOUGLAS FISHER, M.P. Shortly after I learned of the death of C.D. Howe, my phone began to ring with callers from eastern newspapers and radio stations, asking my reaction to his passing. Aside from the natural regret at any person’s death, it seemed even sadder to me because I have felt that Mr. Howe’s political reputation (which had soured somewhat in 1957) had evaporated or been transformed into a different type of reputation; and as such he was making a rapid comeback into the appreciation of Canadians as a whole. Mr. Howe was in politics and partisanship puts a blight on a man. Partisans of other parties build up a hatred or mistrust that even death does not dispell. For example, one can find many old-timers who still curse MacKenzie King. My own feeling was that Mr. Howe was escaping this fate. His achievements were being remembered much more than his more controversial role as a minister who became impatient with Parliament. If he had lived a few more years, I think he would have become Canada’s grand old man, to a degree as Mr. Churchill is in Britain. Some commentators have said that Mr. Howe’s place in Canadian history books is secure. As a teacher and user of Canadian history books, I have some doubts. It is amazing how few names survive after 50 or 60 or 70 years have passed. Do you know any other politician’s of Sir John A. MacDonald’s era, other than Cartier or Laurier? But forgetting this pedagogic caution, Mr. Howe’s position in history will not rest on his political ministry but on his administrative and executive ministry as a conceiver and developer of large industrial and trade projects. He created TCA, POLYMER and the atomic projects. He built up a conception of air-stations across Canada and supplied the key approval for the Seaway He was a nation-builder in an economic way. Critics have already said that he had the breaks. He never sat in a back-bench but went straight into a cabinet which was without any other businessman representation. He was a builder and the war came along to give him. his chance. In other words, they argue, Mr. Howe could hardly have missed being a success. In ten or fifteen years when more biographies are written we will be able to judge the fairness of these critics. I believe the times were fortunate for Mr. Howe, but even so, Canada was very fortunate to have him, and not someone less quick and sure. I first met Mr. Howe on the Friday night before the Monday of the election in 1957 We bumped into each other in the dark outside the TV station. I introduced myself and he chuckled rather grimly: "Well, on Monday night we’ll know whether it’s you or me in Port Arthur.” On the Monday night during the delirium of CCF enthusiasts around the TV station, Mr. Howe stumped in. He greeted me with: "Well, it was you!” I asked him what his immediate moves were going to be. He was full of pounce. "There are so damn many things I want to do. Now I’m quits with politics, I’m going to have the time of my life.” I knew he meant it, and this was only 2 hours after the polls closed. In other words, defeat rested lightly on his shoulders. There was no looking back regretfully. This is the mark, not only of the good loser, but of the active person. Last September, I met Mr. Howe for the last time. He told me that he owed me some thanks for the best three years he had ever had. If he hadn’t been defeated, politics would have worried him to the grave very soon. With a gay wave of his hand, he walked away with the words: "Montreal is a wonderful city.” So it is, and so is Port Arthur; and the three cities (add Ottawa) shared the career of a remarkably, lively Canadian. TIME TO ACT It is entirely wrong that Parliament should have to be called upon to intervene in special cases of labor disputes. Yet our modern society is one in which certain disputes cannot be permitted to reach the stage of a work stoppage.â€"Cochrane (Ont.) Northland Post. IRRIGATED LAND EDMONTON (CP)~ - Extension and completion of present and proposed irrigation projects such as the Bow and St. Mary project will give Alberta 200,000 more acres of irrigated land. The present total is 993,000