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THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1954

the added help of the new industrial and economic developments in Scotland, ex- pansion was rapid. The clatter of the looms grew louder, and by 1825 tartans were being exported in bulk to Europe and the Americas. There is documentary evi- dence of various patterns being exported to Montreal, Nova Scotia and Quebec be- tween 1810 and 18163 In June 1817, a

for iartans which they stated were "want- ed for the Charleston Market for Negroes." By 1818, Messrs. John Sommers, of Mid-. ' calder, were doing a considerable trade ex- porting tartans to Rio de Janleiro. In ad-

Alternatlves in Asia

A popular misconception regarding ap- parent Anglo-American differences con- cerning foreign policy in Asia is that two alternatives alone are in the offing. The one, for advocating: which British Foreign Secretary Anthony Edcn has been accused of ”appeascmcnt" is a broad system of general guarantees, backed by firm com- mitments on the part of all participating nations to resist aggression. The other is US Secretary of State Dulles' scheme for a tiglitly-lmil NATO-type defence pact.

A moment's reflection will suffice to show that these two proposals are not alternatives at all, but rather two aspects of the same policy. The United Kingdom view is that a Locarno-type of agreement to resist aggression has more chance of winning the support of potential allies in Asia than the Southeast Asia Treaty Or- ganization, popularly known as ”SEATO",

advocated by Washington.

The British proposal of a broad sys- tem of guarantees backed by firm commit- ments to resist aggression is designed to draw the teeth from the Chinese proposal, put forward by Chou En-lai at the open- wing of the Geneva conference, that the peace of Asia should be maintained solely by the Asian countries themselves, through "the assumption of mutual obligations." The real alternatives in Asia lie between .Chou En-lai's proposal, which has the bles- 3sing, not iinnaturally. of Moscow, and 'whatever version of Anglo-American policy -is finally adopted.

T --Village Pride

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I It is a curious characteristic of the .British that they can appear calm and al- gmost unconcerned in what appears to be la fearful calamity. yet some incident that .in itself appears insignificant, excites a ipublic commotion.

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islimbridge, in Gloucestershire, became fur- .ious with officialdom and withdrew from a icompetition for the cleanest and most tidy village in the country. The reason for ;the anger was the action of the county fhighways department which had sprayed ithe grass verges in the parish with select- ive weed killer.

' So intense is the pride in many English ;vi11ages, notes the Hamilton Spectator, that

E The other day the ancient village of"

dition to lengths of cloth of various setts, they were sending out cloaks of the Stuart,

Caledonia, Wellington, Robertson, and oth- 1' i er patterns, advising the weavers "to see '

lthat the Tartan in cases be well pressed land finished, but as to the durability of theufabric, if it look beautiful at first, this A is all the Brazilians care for and they like ichanges." The cloaks cost between 185 i and 255 each, the lowest priced being made

for seven and a quarter yards of tartan atli 1s 8d per yard. The lining cost 35, whilstl;

jthe balance represented the cost of mak- i ing!

The days of the tartan ”novelties" were I yet to come; the pink celluloid baby dressed i in kilt and glengarry was yet unborn. The New World was ignorant of the lowly pen- wiper and the exotic tartan rug in "an- cient" patterns-.-for export only.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Canada's hog population is up 16 per cent from June of last year, which, how- ever, was 23 per cent below the 1952 fig- lure. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics predicts that there will be a further in- .

crease before November. 0 O I

The instability of French governments is always a source of concern to her friends. In the case of Indo-China, how- ever, it seems to have been the trump card lwliich brought agreement within the time limit set by Premier Mendes-France.

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A Soviet force is approaching this coun- try. In contrast with other movement in this jet age. however, its rate of progress -,is almost negligible. Two scientific sta- ltions near the North Pole will probably take years to drift into Canadian territory. 0

The Salk anti-polio vaccine was noti tried in this Province. A report from iTexas, however. indicates that two chil- idren who had been given the vaccine have- been diagnosed as having polio. The vac-, .cinc may be valuable but it obviously does .not guarantee immunity.

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Wilson Barrett, English actor, died this idate 1904. He first appeared at Halifax in ;”East Lynne" in 1864. As manager of the Princess's Theatre he produced ”The Lights

: Glasgow firm called Wilson Stow dz Com- pany were writing to the weaving mills

accomodate seven children without

to attract eight children. -Edmon-

out every night now about the times they used to come in.-Sud-'3;-man Minister bury Star.

work is one of the biggest evils of the mddern economic system-St. Thomas Times-Journal.

muscles that have to do with the moving,of the human body. And most of then? aren't functioning when ll boy is called to get up for school.-Toron-to Star.

out the day says the American Aid Association.

lvoting by more than three to one

NOTES BY

A backyard swing designed to pushing or shoving is an ideal way

bon Journal. Times have changed! People gal

Gatting a week's pay for a dny'll

A doctor claims there are 520'

Rearing ability can vary through-

Hearing usually is l-teeneat. around '1 am. dulleat about I p.m. It declines for la. time right. after meals. Light exercise makes us hear better, but. hearing is dul- ler for a time after strenuous exer- cise. Today's Health.

The city of Moncton will gain an increase in population this year of more than 2.000 by reason of the decision of sunny Brae citizens

for incorporation with the railway Hub and the acceptance by Mone- ton ratepayers of this application

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usually are waiting at the door be- fore the last nail is driven. But the trend is here.-Halifax Chron- lcle-Herald.

Britain's new electric power plants will be powered by oil or by atomic power, aaye Geoffrey Lloyd. of Fuel and Power. A station now being built at Marchwood will be equipped with a dual-firing apparatus, coal or oil. There is plenty of coal in Britain but costs of ioperatlion make it more and more difficult to produce it. economically. Oil is coming into favorfaa it is in can- add. The coming of atomic power will enormously strengthen British industry as there is almost no hydro-electric power. Alao it. will save coal for household heating. la priority project in the United Kingdom.-London Free Press.

London is certainly becoming a cosmopolitan community. Latest evidence of this is the announce- ment that the Federated Moslem society of Canada and the United States is to meet here next year. The aeventy members of the local Moslcm community are expected to play host. to 1,000 co-religloniata. Not many of us may realize that we ihave a Moslem community, and we ;may be equally hazy about some of the thirty or more other rcligicuei bodies existing in the city-which is perhaps an index of our degree of

by a vote on Friday of 1156 to B8. The details of the amalgamation will be worked out. during the next; few months. -Amherst News and Sentinel.

An iceberg towering 275 feet above the waterline, which means about seven times that bulk is un-

i-cligious tolerance. -London Free Press.

-Who says young Canada is going to the dogs? Who says ynunz Canada has no ambition? At leaat ,one answer to the general charge ithnt "young people ain't what they . used to be” was given the other day at the Portage la Prairie plowing

Hay Made While The Sun Shined

K7oe&'&-ram

TOAD

on a level stone he siti, Buddha-wiae;

Peace entwinee hie blow. and knife Both his eyes.

There is dank primordial green In his cloak:

There are sounds, Pleistocene, In his croak.

Lineage. old as Pharaohs. Weights his lids;

His the land eons before The pyramids.

Why has nature been so kind, Profligaie To this creature without mind, Vertebrate? -Sylvia Auxier. -Sylvia Auxier. in the New York Time.

Old Charlottetown

and E11.

SCOTTISH GATHERING

"The first annual Scottish Gatli- ering under the auspices of the Caledonian Club, (previously known all the Highland Society) came off. according to announcement, at Government House grounds on Wednesday laat, and was, in point of numbers as well as in com- petition, management and financial success. a most creditable affair. Each of the Counties was well rep- resented, while Charlottetown sent forth 'her beauty and her ohivalry' to the Gathering, and held jubilee

The I Passing Scene By Qheerver ,FIPLING BlVIVAL'

Tell it not in cloth. Diibllah it not in the streets of Aakelou; but I read the other day where a Rus- sian literary critic expressed the opinion that the best Western poet of this century and, indeed. the only one 'who amounted to anything. was Mr. Rudyard Kip- ling. (Incidentally, two niiatakea, both minor ones, can be detected in the statement. Mr. Kipling win not a product. of this century, hav- ing been born in 1365 and having written at least some of his better known books before the turn of the century. Strictly speaking, he was not I. Westerner. having been born in India He did, of course, come from an English family and he was as British in his views and out- looke aa any man who every lived.)

It la interesting, though per- hope, to note that the R.uasian'a tribute comes at a time when some American critics are bringing Mr Kipling out for reappraisal, most of which appears to be ve favourable to that poet of Empire.

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Perhaps it is pure coincidence (a convenient word often attached to the unexplainable) and perhaps it innit. That the Americana ahould be rediscovering Mr. Kipling's literary genius and worth is not particularly surprising; after all

States for several years and be con- tributed a good deal in one way and another to British-American arnity. But that a Russian (pre- aumably a Communist) should go out of his way to praise him something not quite as easy to un- derstand. It would be hard to think of anything that Mr. Kipling

” more strenuously than the Marxist gospel on which mod- ern Communism is supposed to rest. It may be that, in speaking up for the poet whom the British of all political partlea revere very highly, the Russians, or some of them, are trying to prove that they and the British have one hero in common which the Americana do not share; but that view presupposes that the Russian critics are unaware of the poet's current revival in the U. s. A., a presupposition that is hardly warranted.

It could be that Mr. Kipling is to be given the dubious posthum- ous honour of being made a meet- ing point. for the Big Three. The more I think of this possible al- ternative, however, the more fool- ish it aeema. The Russian could have selected a thousand poets more suitable in every way for that experiment. , P0111595 a. few Russian intellect- uala a beginning to feel that the shrink ng of the British Empire was a bad thing for the world since it led. in a sort of devious way, to American aacendency in world af- faira. I suppose the almpleat thing to assume is that the Russian critic WM .llIBt speaking for himself without any political basis or in- mono in mind. In that case. the man probably is on the way to Siitlllleria by now. We must wish him we

It la. of course. true that Mr, Kipling was an imperialist in the old-fashioned sense of that word. Ilia poems are shot. through and

the Hon. Col. Gray gave a short address, after which Mrs. Dundaa distributed the prizes.

-The Vindicator, Aug. 24, 1354.

;,the great man lived in the United P

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through with faith in the supra meey of the'.Britiah Em . He believed in the devine right of the Anglo-Saxon to inherit the earth. It was not merely the political prerogative of the white man- preferably the Engllanwhita man -to conquer and civilian "the new caught, sullen peoples"; it was nu solemn heaven-sent duty to do so

No poetuwith the poaalble ex- ception of Homer, ever sang the

lam. The idea of disarming in order to encourage peace was, to him, a shame. In his view a. na- tion can hope for peace only when it la prepared for war It is a rather unpleaaant thought, to be sure, but there is sense In it. At any rate, that is the- position of

for war which everybody hopes will never come. 0 I I Yet, despite his imperialism, Mr. Kipling was a great democrat, too.

W In peace and in war he praised the

"common man", a. term now in diarepute but which. in Kiplingta time was in popular use. He had no grievance against hthe big brass general". but it was the "man in khaki kit who can handle men a bit" (that is to say, the sergeant) who was the hero of his soldier

oema. . Nor did he have anything against employers and the bosses of in- dustry, but his finest elilogiee were reserved for "the men like to gods that do the work for which they draw the wage". At the same

3 time it la clear that the idea. of

any one class of men lording over all other groups - whether employers or labour unions-was repugnant to Mr. Kipling.

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The imperialism which Mr. Kip- ling preached and which he loved may be gone for ever; certainly it is gone for this generation and the next But the farther it recedes be- low the horizon the easier it is for the student of history to reel- ise that it was not wholly a bed political and social phase. The Commonwealth of which lie dream- ed and the beginnings of which he lived to see is being assailed, as all democratic institutions are be- ing assailed, by -an imperialism more rigid and a thousand times more harmful than any that has gone before

Tile chief concern of the com- monwealth and of all free peoples is not the civlllzing of alien races but the preservation of whatever civilization that has been achieved. In that concern and in the min- aion that springs from it, Mr. Kip- ling'a imperialism, with its empha- sla on social justice, buttressed by law and order (though in practice. of course, it did not always work out that way), can bring to the new something needful and good from the old.

The Age Old Story

And it cum to in-. u hav- sat at meat in the house, behold, many publlcana and sinners cane and sat down with him and his disciples. And when the Pharlaeee saw It, they said unto his dieclplel. Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners? But when Jesus heard that. he sold unto

them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that III sick.

'.l”he' Gnu-d' " in

glories of battle with more enthus- .

the Free world today; preparing.

der water. has been sighted off Conception Bay, on Newfoundlands east coast. This is another case of

in honour of the event. There were also several visitors from Nova scotia and New Brunswick. Among

this high-handed application of weed killer of London" and ”The Silver King." In

d I ht t. 18.9, h d d "Th q, f th C matches when Gerald Lyttle. 14. is looke upon as owniig p . . . r s d . i uns or mg. 0 e pro uce e sign 0 e os .”

year-old Grade VIII boy of High Bluff, Man., won both the Mani-

. , g . . . i m- - g I I. E while Its effects me Celtam m mm the !v3:ntl:dn:hl:jrT,l biwethiisiig vljismunglloha and the. Western Canada i-ilIetllatt.esi"t wleigecognlized tlllic editor boon it would be these hot days if Pmwmg Ch'""p'"”5mp5- H9 W" D e i 0 " eegup ' ' '

immaculate verges and the village's chance

of victory. The' Council for the Preservation of

Rural England was reported to be "deeply

is ry of Agriculture had appointed a com-

ittee to inquire into its effects and. was advising the Department of Highways to "proceed cautiously" until the committee's findings were announced. In the mean- time the village of Slirnbridge is conduct- ing itself with, dignified aloofncss.

A Great Scottish Export A During the last quarter of the eight- eenth century there was born a new in-

Efalkirk, and they were wrapped up in a

r The question: "When is a tartan not tartan?" has aroused heated argument Oimlnany years. The repeal of the "Dis- i

in; Act", which had forbidden the use

The forthcoming autumn general elec- tion in the Northwest Territories will no! ,doubt focus a good deal of attention upon that fast-developing part of the country.i

concerned" about the weed killer. The Min- Sooner or later the more inhabited areas or Walter Yu.sl.. the Em-yclopaedia Britannlcata editor-in-chief, eddies-

will have to be accorded provincial status.

it were sitting in Lake St. Cldlr,l

,away from the shipping lanca. - .Windaor Daily Star.

Department of Higher Criticism.

sing the annual library symposium

,a.l Kent State University. Kent,i Ohio:

"Most of my reading today

The principle of ministerial responsibil. is done in bed and I prefer a light.-l

ity was upheld in Britain when the Min- ister of Agriculture resigned because of-I ifcials of his department decided to make a model farm of ii requisitioned propertyi instead of returnmg it to the original own-i ers. He probably had never heard of the, laffair but very properly assumed full re- sponsibility.

i year 556 permit teachers had to be licens-

lssued, but the teacher shortage is still the most pressing problem facing the Mani- toba Department of Education.

iweight book, because if I do go to lalecp

and the lightweight boolcl fails to fall on my CllP5L it doesnt wake me up."-New York Herald- Tribune.

If nature had not stopped in,

ireports 3. Tucker Abbott. a Slliliih-l aonian Institute biologist. the l'.0l'ld

mlght. long ago have been ovar-

ilald with oysters. Abbott say: that

there is one species. common on the Pacific coast. that lays as

reports that the offspring of a

the trained young people it needs

The news that Sydney to about to get. its first poet-war epertment building la significant of a gradual change in the housing llablta of Nova Bcotiana. Until a few years ago an apartment house was el-

lit. what is called the plow capital of Manitoba, on the Harold Bat- fora farm which has been in the snme family for three generations. - Lethbridge Herald.

Recently we heard of a photograph- er who makes many ocean crou- iiigs by air, and at various times has tried to get a good picture of the Grernland icecap, over which he frequently passed. Always heavy cloud or bad weather frustrated him. Finally a day caliie when he could look from his plane upon the awesome majesty of the Greenland peaks thrusting their jagged apireai of rock thousands of feet. above a mile-thick layer of glacial ice. At- mospheric conditions wrre perfect for a solar picture. But. he didn't have ll. bit of lllm in his camera. Assuming conditions would be bad again. he had used the last of his film on pictures of himself before

"The Highland pipe music on this occasion was very much admired, as were also the running and leap- ing of Mr. A. 'W. Fraser. This gentleman hails from East Point. but was formerly a resident of Antigoniah. I-Ila dancing of the Gillie Callum. or sword Dance. drew forth the hearty plaudits of the spectators. and a compliment- ary speech from Hill Excellency the Lieutenant Governor. I-Ila graceful running and leaping were also highly complimented. and although not aucceaaful in the foot. race. owing. as he considered, to want of fair play, in being pushed or someway interfered with, yet he is prepared to run any man in Prince Edward Island over the same ground for 5:20. In feats of strenctii a Mr. Frederick Horne aurpaaaed ll competit s. and wall a general favorite with the crowd.