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SEAFORTH, Friday, January 8
A BENEFICIAL TOUR
'There will be lasting benefits to
Canada fro mthe world -girdling trip
which Prime Minister St. Laurent
will commence on February 4th.
-With his genius for meeting people
and his capacity to present Canada
i n the proper light among the peo-
ples of the countries he will visit, the
Prime Minister will make countless
friends for Canada.
But while undoubtedly he will de-
rive great pleasure from the contacts
he will make, it will .in no sense of
the word be a pleasure trip. The it-
inerary is such that it requires Mr:
St. Laurent to travel some 156 hours
or six and one-half days—in the air,
and two of his flights will take over
ten hours. -
The Ottawa Journal agrees any
,suggestion that this is a joy ride
jaunt is in error, and points out that
anyone who has travelled much by ,
plane knows well that life up in or
above the clouds is not exactly relax-
ation. There can be hours of smooth
soaring, bringing almost exhilara-
tion, but inevitably there are those
unpiredictable atmospheric conditions
when soaring is . not so smooth and
'bumps" 'make for less than repose.
"And Mr. St. Laurent," the Jour-
nal continues, "journeying in the
skies from one land or one continent
to another, can hardly have much
leisure between stops. For when the
Prime Minister of one country, on a
world goodwill tour, meets the Prime
Minister of • some other far country,
he can hardly say to him what one
Kentucky colonel is alleged to have
said to another, but must be prepar-
ed to talk about the far country's
past, present and future, •its prob-
lems and people.
"So Mr. Laurent, hopping between
Bonn and Rome, Rome and Karachi,
Karachi and New Delhi., and thence
en to Colombo, Ceylon, Indonesia,
Manila, Seoul, Tokyo and back across
the Pacific via Fiji and Honolulu,
will have a lot of homework on poli-
ties, economics a n d geography,
should almost be able to qualify when
he gets back for a job in External
Affairs."
The Prime Minister's tour will
mean he will be absent from -the
Commons fora month. While of
course this is regretted, it is some-
thing that could not be avoided, bear-
ing in mind weather conditions at
tether times of year in many of the
countries he proposes. visiting.
For Mr. St. Laurent the trip will
be hard, exacting and wearying, but
for Canakila, it will res4t: _ in far-
reaching benefits.
BELTS SAVE LIVES
The possibility that the day may
not be . far removed when the law
require motor cars to be equip-
ped with safety, belts is envisaged, as
the result of the manner safety belts
prevented deaths in a recent airplane
accident at Vancouver.
Discussing the matter, the Toronto
Daily Star has this to say:
"There is no doubt that this for. -
*mate result was due in large mea-
4ure to the fact that all those in•the
plane had' their safety 'belts securely
#,erred around them. Thus they
ere .saved from being mercilessly
d about inside the aircraft when
t thudded into the ground and was
pratically torn apart. The occu-
ants, shaken -up but suffering only
or hurts, were able to escape
ottgh the windows and holes in
e`fuselage, -
, Safety experts in both Canada
the Tiiii