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"Coven Prince Edward Island like the dew”
CIRCULATION
"The strongest memory in weaker than
CHARl'.OTTF.TOWN WEDNPISDAT, JULY 8. I955
Whether school children need more milk
the weakest ink".
or the school needs redecoration, the W0-
men's Institute is apt to be the body that
will not only notice the need but do some-
thing about it. In this Province the W. I. has added greatly to the opportunity of all to participate in music, drama and the arts
and crafts. In the full sense of the word
it is :1 great cultural force. Charlottetown welcomes the Prince lid- ward Island Women's institutes meeting for
their
40th anniversary.
The Women's lu-
stitutes are a power in the land because, they recognize. and act. upon the principic
that service is what counts.
west, claimed last month to have "persuad- ed” 12,800 peasants to go home. thousands of these had come from coastal provinces of Shantung and Kiangsu, hundreds of miles away.
These are samples of the normal vicissi-
, a living.
tildes of rural life in
fifths of the population
the peasant all sorts
.problems, as brought out in an official sur- ivey in the great southern province ' Kwangtung.
It is clear that the Communists” f attempt to solve the problem by distributing ,the landlords' estates among the peasants i has not succeeded. In some ways it has even imade matters temporarily worse. For one ,thing the amount of land allotted to each iadult, averaging under half an acre, is too ismall even for the Chinese farmers' tireless industry to provide a steady livelihood. Even in the management of that alloca- 'tion, the Communist regime has created for
Some the
China where four- look to the land for
of new perplexing
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crmncorrmows , I , orty Happy Years Together
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The survey emphasizes that the peas-
ants. particularly those of ”middle class", are. perpetually afraid of be-p ing elevated to the landlord class.
the
They
hesitate to hire needed labor or to lend money to poorer peasants for fear of being accused of exploiting them. Production suf-
Rccause they . fers because to produce more food than the
get things done their voice is heeded onifamily needs is to incur the suspicion of every level of government and in every being WPaiih.V - social activity.
The 320 institute branches in the Prov- ation.
Another grievance is the system of tax-
The peasants say that the officials
tnce are, in fact, Island womanhood, organ-iset them a certain arbitrary standard of
ized to provide a better and community, to widen their own contacts gardless of whether it can
and interests and generally to leave their not. Province a better place for living than they
found it.
Their success cannot readily be
measured but is shown by the improvement, in schools. homes and community life from China) for precipitating the flight to the towns. They are charged with ”command-
one end of the Province to the other. Of organizations to help farmers and,
they do a good job in finding markets, im-
but the Women's Institutes exist to improve;.
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life for their famiiytproduction and base the taxes on that re-
be reached or
The Peking ”People's Daily" sharply at- tacks the official agricultural organizations (of which there are 180,000 spread over
ism” (unwarrantable use of force), seizure
others make a living there are many andiof land and tools, and forcing farmers into agricultural co-operative groups as alstcp, proving agricultural practice and financing. towards the collectivization of the land. 4
The basic fact is that
. there is not,'
rural life and without them even the most enough land in China for the hundreds of prosperous farming community would be millions of her population.
poor
This year's "Operation Bndworm"
indeed.
iieTitIivEnTTa7E
in
New Brunswick has been successfully com-
pleted. It was carried out on a major scale,
by a fleet of no fewer than 77 special DDT- spraying planes on the pest-infested soft- wood areas of Rcstigouche, Madawaska, Gloucester, Victoria and Northumberland
Counties.
If in the final check this five-
week-long scientific attack against the dis- astrous spruce budworm invasion be found as highly effective as the first though less expansive operation last. year, then much will have been achieved in protecting the northern forests of our neighboring prov-
ince.
The spruce budworm has been a periodici invader of softwood stands
from this menace.
OVPF
a long
span of time, making its appearance every 20 to 25 years and in heavy concentration. Last year was the first time aerial spray- ing with a specially compounded DDT po-
tion was resorted to.
And these initial ef-
forts, the first major operation of its kind ever undertaken in Canada, proved high- ly effective, lowering measurably the mass
invasion.
perts, it will take two or three more years of extensive aerial spraying operations be-
fore the present army of attackers is finally,
eliminated. But their progressive decima-I
tlon annually is saving a large. proportion of softwoods growth from complete devasta-
lion.
The spruce budworm is a very small though, strangely. mighty forest dcspoilcr.
Just how tiny this insect is can be gleaned- from the fact that. 250 of them can bet
hatched on the underside of a single pinc
needle; and the productive process bringsl As an:
out swarms of them in fast. time.
example of their devastating capacity,
8
quarter-million of the budworms can swarm over one balsam fir and sap it to death in one. season:
Aerial
spraying is among
the fore-
most of inventive processes ever devised to achieve greater protection and conserva- tion of forests in North America. is highly gratifying that in New Brunswick its effectiveness has not only been revealed but with significantly beneficial results in valuable timberland: being saved.
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Famine In china
And it
Behind the Iron Curtain in Communist China famine is causing a serious population Commenting on the situation in a report in the London Observer, O. M. Green states that "even on the basis of the Com- munists' figures, which are almost certain- ly an under-statement. peasants who have abandoned their hits of land and wandered blindly to the cities must number some hun- dredl of thousands. In'Manchuria, 85,000 have drifted into the towns since early this year. Slanfu, capital of Shensi in the north-
shift.
llowever, according to the
ollow.
I C
has been officially
The people in the West
bring forth.
eluded commanding
war.
highly modern state.
DfYllZ',l'3l'lllIi0S.
zwili certainly result. N U
l every Canadian over
iment
EDITORIAL NOTES
Wood Islands opens son today and other regattas are soon to
earliest steam warship, putting down West African slave trade, and the Mexican After the visit of Perry's four ships Japan rapidly changed from a feudal to a
the boat racing sea-
At long last the British Columbia vote counted counted and the victory of Premier W. A. C. Bennett's Social Credit Party confirmed.
or almost
Coast Province must
be very patient indeed in waiting to see what their peculiar voting system is to
Commodore Matthew C. Perry entered Tokyo Bay to open Japan to Western trade this date 1853 after 250 years of isolation. Ilslis career in the United States Navy in-
the the
the ”Fulton",
With the United States considering lili- loading surplus foodstuffs to relieve want in various parts of the world and Com- munists in Eastern Europe doing likewise to ease tension, international politics takes on the appearance of rival It, should not be forgotten, however, that it takes far greater ability to give successfully titan to sell and unless wisdom is exercised more harm than good
"give-away"
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The M0 :1 month pensions payable int
70 were, as Parlia-
planned, to be self-supporting from a 2 per cent federal tax, 2 per cent corpora-
tion tax and 2 per cent personal income tax.
million, while receipts
general revenue.
graphic distribution of stance, is commented Features thus:
the colours of flowers.
However, during the 1952-53 fiscal year, ac- cording to Finance Minister Abbott's bud- -get, payments of these pensions out of the Old Age Security Fund amounted to 56324
from the three tax
sources total!d only 5224 million. The 3100 million deficit was covered by a loan from
Nature has some. curious aspects which science has not yet explained.
The geo- blue flowers, for in- upon by Unesco
It is a fact that there are very few blue flowers in tropical regions. On the other hand, many blue flowers, es- pecially campanulas, are found in regions where the atmosphere is particular- ly rich in ultra-violet rays. These facts are not explainable by the ordinary causes for
alpine
We do indeed have
a "Geography of Pigments”, but not of the chemical or climatic conditions which de- termine the presence of this or that pig- mentation. We are faced, therefore, with a statistical fact, whose explanation has thus far resisted simple explanation.
so-called ,
cfomfl
PUBLIC FORUM
This column is open to the discussion by conreapomicnt: of questions of interest. The Guardian does not necessar- lly endorse the opinion It! correspondents.
El.I'ICTl()NS Sir,-Elections. particularly gen- eral elections, are not of frequent occurrence and nowadays are dull and drab events. Time was when election contests were exciting and sometimes ent.crt.aining but. not now. In this push-button age candidates seem to be following the line of least. resistance. They hold no joint meetings as of yore. These meetings were sometimes lively and a bit exciting. The contestants really showed there was a battle on. They bandied words and even aimed at clo- qucnce though not always suc- cessful in hitting the mark; but even when they failed they at least tried which is more than they do now. The radio is their lack of all trades and they work it. with some abandon. We seldom see the speaker because he rarely makes a personal call: We just hear I distant voice. What. does the voice articulate? Why, it. says: "Vote only for our party because our party is your only hope. Keep us in and your troubles, if any. will be no more." The other side has its own appeal. "Put: us in, elect us and you will find out what real, holiest. efficient, benevolent government is. Our opponents, as you well know, are all fakera and charlatann." And so it goes. On the whole a sad and dreary per- formance.
I am, Sir. etc.. BYSTANDER. .Wood Islands.
Kilt amt Trews
(London Free Press) Senior officers in the Canadian Army should not wear the kilt. Nor should they appear in tartan
lrews, These inimitable adorn- menls for the well-huiit, neat-le-.:- gerl soldier are reserved for l'P
menial officers. Once an officer rises above the rank of Lieuten- ant-Colnnel he becomes A general plist officer and should not appear in anything that. him with a regimental unit. i Army headquarters has notifierl senior officers who have been wearing this colorful Scottish ap- parel that they are in fault. if is not expected, however, that even headquarters will go out. and summarily strip the kill or the trevvs from the stalwarts who spout. them. certainly not from Brigadier Rocklnlzham. ll manly figure if ever there. was one. who wore his kiit and trans in Korea. There is precedent for this canny dislnclinailon of headquart- ers to press the matter too far. The Imperial Army has rulings, but for fear of A Scot-
ment. We have ever understand that an officer should be dressed for the particular service in which he is engaged. In peace. or in war what is more appropriate for in man in A Scottish regiment than the kill. and the trews? if lenlor officers are, de facto, "to be rob- bed of this privilege. so much the worse for them and for the army. for this is the rntment. of fighting men.
Canadian senior officers have been told "in private" that they are "out. of line." Their reactions and replies are strictly hush-hulh. So be it. We have imagination. we know how soldiers have the happy facility of expressing their thoughts in glmty. eplgnmmnuc style, and in dream: we hear the brief staccato syllables in which these heroic. sonic brushed off the petty provocation; of bureaucrats.
Had we nur way. Generals should no clad in the garb of the mountains. We have a notion that the General with the Itance. and so on. would he with us. It's .1 hnnny tviress.
1! limited :1 group of
',ischeduled dcepwater competitions.
would irlcntlu,
almilari
tish revolt, refrains from enforce-I
Ocean Yachts Race Three Times In '53
(National Geographic News)
Ocean racing sailorrren, as ded- End to bleak Fastnet Rock off the
sportsmen lmountain climbers, put. to sea thisi lsummer in three major bluewater: rclassics -- the jaunt down the At-,- lantic coast from Newport to An- napolis, the cold ancl windy Fastnct off England, and the long trade-i
California's sunny shore. These ocean racing
solely for glory and trophies quently worth less than a spare spinnaker, reports the National. Geographic Society. More than nnyl others, they are. the custodians of the windjammer tradition that bade fair to die when commercial sail vanished from the open seas.
Decpwater yachtsmen started to pick up the torch before the last flashing Yankee clipper and lum- bering round-the-Horn grain car- rler had succumbed to the econ-1 omtc competition of steam. Princes of Europe were racing in sailing yachts around the beginning of the 19th century, while well-to-do A- mericans were emulating them in increasing numbers after the Civil War.
The first truly long-distance yacht race took place in 1866 when the big American schooners Vesta. Henrietta and Fieetwing crossedl the Atlantic from Sandy Hook to
Cowes. English yachting center. James Gordon Bennett's Hen- rietta. won.
In 1870. the English schooner
lcambria beat an American coun- lterpart, Dauntless, from Ireland ,to Sandy Hook. There was another two-boat race, America to Ireland, in 1887. But: in 1905 came what still ranks as the greatest bluewatcr race. Eleven sail yachts set out from this country for England to win a cup donated by the German Kaiser. The schooner Atlantic won and set a record never since equal- led by I. sailing yacht. - 3,014 miles ,in 12 days, 4 hours, 1 minute, 19 seconds.
i The American ocean classics --, the Bermuda and the Honolulu-I
are the oldest of all regularly!
Instltuted in 1908, they have been continued, with lapses, ever since. 0 O O
i sailed annually at. first, they are: inmv btenuiais. In the odd years: ihetween Bermudas, which start. nifi iNewport, R. I., the East. Coast fleet that: been sailing down from New-. ipori to the Chesapeake Capes, thenl llup the Chesapeake Bay to Anna-. polls. Some. yachtsmen consideri lthls n coastal rather than an occnni 'race. , I A few have the same opinion ofl lthe more highly regarded Faiitnet, which is a round trip from Eng-i land's Channel Coast past. Land'tI,
ldeck. Yachts under 40 feet.
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as,south tip of Ireland. Land is never
far, with plenty of harbors of re- fuge that. have upon occasion come in handy. The contest dates back to 1925.
Transoccanic races are not regu- lnriy scheduled, but there have
wind reach out to Honolulu from,bcen a number of them. Among the nnore famous since 1905 have been
men imdlthe longest. ever held,
women undergo grueling hardships .VaChi- Contest, from San FYEHCHCO rm-'to Tahiti; the 1928 thrash to Sun-
the four-
tander, Spain, from Gravcsend Bay; the 1931 Newport to Ply- mouth, England; and the Newport to Bergen, Norway, in 1935.
Since the early days of ocean racing, the trend has been toward smaller ships, which if properly designed. can be as safe as the biggest. Top limit for the Bermuda, for example, is just. over 70 feet on can race. in this carefully supervised event.
gmOi(lCi1arlollelown . (And Y. I. I.)
l'2XTitA()Rl)lNAltl' PASSAGE
"About 6 o'clock this morning. the Boat Charles, Hubbard, Mas- ter, arrived from Pictou (whether she was despaiched on Wednesday last, for the express purpose) with the first August mail from Eng- land. Our latest dates are to the 4th instant. . . . It will hardly be credited, that the ti-Iibernla'. on her last. trip, ran the distance from illalifax to Liverpool in In hour less than nine days! Noth- ing can exceed the astonishment with which her nrrival was hall- etl; and we find the I.ondon and provincial papers nil speaking of her late voyage, not only as the most extraordinary run ever yet made, but us almost. surpassing credibility.”
-(lnionini Ilr-raid, Aug. 19. 1843.
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Two ladies who nn 1. fine res- taurant in an upstate resort closed it last season and are not reopen- ing it this year. "summer visitors have changed: one lady said. "They haven't time to eat in I nice rea- taurant: and to walt'untll I decent meal is ready. All they want is I hamburger and they tell you: ”We are in It hurry-we still have 250 miles to drive before night." To- day most of the vncntionilta on the highways are just: hamburger tour- ists. They won't stop anywhere for more than 3. half hour." - W. C. White. N.Y. Herald Tribune.
Bird: seem to be dumb dodoen. A while back there was A tale go- in: the rounds about a flock of gulls- near one of the Florida ports. For many years this flock of gulls fed on the lcavings from the fish- ing boats. After 9. while fish be- came scarce in those particular water: and tr- fishing fleet mov- ed away. As a result many of the birds starved to death - the gulls had forgotten how to fish for themselves. So went the story. Now there is a new bird story. This one involves a blackbird and I nine-year-old school girl in Cali- fornia. A baby blackbtrd fell from took it home and cared for it. The birdlet: throve as A result of good care. In time it became a full fledged bird and full-fledged member of the family as well. The story goes on to say that the blackbird has adjust.- ed itself to family life and all is going well - except for one thing. The little bcnefactrcss has to cut up its worms on 9. plate, "other- wise the poor bird would starve.” so ends the story. If birds forget that easily from one generation to the next, small wonder dodoes, passenger pigeons, trumpeter swam have wandered off and got lost.-Winnipeg Tribune.
Considerable fuel will be added to the ancient controversy over whether art. imitates life or vice versa by the news that Canada is building 3. genuine flying saucer. It was high time that Iomebody was building I. flying saucer; peo- pic have been seeing them for so long that it: has become necessary to invent them. Canada's flying saucer, of course. is a seriously in- tended device; it is a. jet: plane embodying new principles in revo- lutionizing established air con- cepts. The tmmddiate reaction of the common man, however, is
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JULY 8. 1953
The Waxx.
likely to be one of satisfaction that a genuine saucer is on an Wly at last. The Martian, or pg;-- hapa it was the Venualuu. uemga IO far ahead of u: in the new gun moat earthmen were beginning ta feel a little embarrassed. Canaan). Saucer. which bears the name, 0- mega. is an honest. effort. If it. succeeds. saucers overhead may become so commonplace that pm. pie won't: even look. at them unless they carry cups. They may even have to swoop down upon Marl to stir up any real excitement -New York Herald Tribune.
Tint the day is but when young Canadians inevitably turn to the United States for opportunitlu and remuneration is further illustrated by the case of John L. Kask who is resigning an important post in Washington to become Canaan director of fisheries research. Mr Kuk was born in Alberta and, be- coming a fisheries expert. joined the U. 5. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1-lo, became an american citizen. He to welcome back in his native land... Toronto Telegram. ,
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I STRANGE CALL
The hen is hiding her out away, Brown. warm one by precious one, Away from tame straw, away from the house,
Under wild bougha, under the sun
She slips like a shadow through the grass.
She goes like I. partridge light of tee,
Her eyes are drops of the sun, her
slim
Body is like an adder: flow.
Her comb is turning to firewood.
Her legs to hard scales of the thorm,
She is sinking in silence of the woods.
Her Wilding mind is a unicornk.
The owl or the hawk may be tho end
And feather: blowing down the wind.
The garruloua hens that she has known
Agree and cackle that she has sinned.
But for A little she in flame And the ancient feathery, wonder.
Sister to partridge and the quail. A little chick of the white high thunder.
-Robert. F. Trlstram Coffin in the
quiet.
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