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THE GUARDIAN, CHARLOTTETOWN

JANUARY 26. 1954

Tube, GUARDI

Deparinient. Ottawa. The Island Gunrdiuii Publishing Co.

l duties, the clear fact is that the two nations A Niai'e doing more business together, to their Tlmutual advantage, than ever before and linore than ally other two nations in the world. And at the moment when the pro- ltectionalists on both sides of the border.are becoming articulate again, the American people are beginning to understand - - - limportance of the Canadian market better CiRCl,'LATn0N imam ever.-v

"0"" "'i'"'” '3'”""i mnnd me me dew" i The Bank letter adds that there is the ”T”'4'"S-"'"m for a further ex-

panor and Managing Director. Ian A. Burnett. Associate Editor, Frank Willi"-

i..J.. lbest of reasons to hope

ii, i i memor is weaker I p . The I rongifise weakegi ink" pansion of the trade on which the whole .. . 0”; T”,:"-A w'”,6T,,m!'lcc-oiloniy of Callada is largely based. But t.lHARl.t)TTl;'ll i . 4 - - - - 3-

-" it is just as well that all these facts, with their hopes and dangers, should be brought into the opcn alld candidly considered in

A Realistic Approach

Thn'l'1a0ilt'V for the Lmidililcc of ll1'cs'i- (lecisiolls. fci:r)i'tmEr11i:eiiiJiolvel' alid C0llgl'L'.Ss is notable fori its practical approach to the various prob- lems. It does not exprvss llll.V ('l)ll5l5l”'El illlll050llhl'. P-Vl'0lli l)9l'll'sli)5 "omgnmon ilk Automobile insurance companies are the fact that ihc lvnllfd siawji musl glmliiiaking a direct contribution to safe driv- a lead 5 keelllllg World "Ede m 3. heamlyling by lowering rates for accident-free stair. EV” ll?” ii is 1'15” mlphas”'.ed that drivers. The lower rates, proposed to be- other cotlnlllies lllllhl ills” ml” limo” Elf come effective after Fe'bruary 1, are sub- the l.'nlt0d Slalfs l'llll'l”l d0 lhls -loll alarm stantjal enough to attract new clients from

A 1'etiLlCll0ll lll lllliliv but gm(m:”.”.0.nc-the ranks of uninsured owners and oper. Spread over three )'0al'5v addlllg,llellblliiylalo.-s. While it may not be universally to aE1l'll"lllmml Pm? Summrt poilclehh m,C1ud' truc, it is true in gcncral that insured driv- illll 5Cl'ElllPll"-' (ll ill" Illlmlmiilonal llh0fl.llci's take fcwer chances, are more consider- Agreement; (the: ciliiiillu 05illel:1e:1l:”-:'l1:tIi:::' ” ate of others in doubtful cases of who "may can act” an o e refl 1' I I be right." lain cargoes be Carried in America” bottoms The lower rates, amounting to 20 per all add UP i0 3 S9"9l'al ll'eOl"g of ihe Chan" , cent for accident-free drivers during the iiels of ll'allC- l previous three years, are based in part upon

None Of ihe 5lll:'-805led.Ch"”g"5 can bela declining accident trend across Canada made without directly hurting someone and and in part upon a rational reclassification opposition 10 lhe Pllohosals will ”0 llollbt ,be of drivers by the insurance companies. Up 5ll'0hS- The msk M” be to Convince WHO now there have been four categories to dividuals ill"-ll lh9.l' Sllllld l0 Pellem m0m,lli'liich different rates are applicable. Under by the K9ll9l'ill 1ml3ll0Vemellt 1” iliade C?”'ithe new plan there will be seven, with all- ditions than they Will i059 by the lll0Pl)mglpropriate advantages to safe drivers with- of the particular restrictions in which theyym each Categoly have an ini9l'9Si- , "It should not bc overlooked," comments

The SUCCESS Of ill” Pl'0P053l5 would-mean l the Globe and Mail, "that there is also -"1 an enormous Salllllg for llle taxlsfayer m the favorable social significance in the new United States and lithe” muihmes and atlrates. That the public cost of litigation the same iinw l'l9l'mli fflhlfllllllil lTll"7h.mm"" . arising from hifliiu-a.l' crashes should be re- resembiinlz 8 ”ll8ill.ll'”-ll llhlllhll ”l”all"",l0,tluccti may be the least of these general b9 Euabllshedt This last may he the pimci benefits. One of the greatest will be the ciple difficully I0 0V9l'C0l'fll"-'- The Unite community's assurance that our increasing States has 133-9S9.d lhe .i3el:l0d of havmg to networks of fine highways are losing their protect "inlallt lllliu-il,l'l95 alld Should bafreputation as dcathtraps. Nevertheless, ready for something like free trade. .ME1ll.V there still will be accidents. The automobile other countries are 0nl.V how. embarking 0”.is still a dangerous machine. The onus on the Course Of DT0l9”ll0” which. the Umtedllicensing authorities is as great as ever to States has followed for generations. Weed out the in(,0mpetE,m,..

Safe Driving Rewarded

f G”E'.PL”l”'” EDITORIAL NOTES

India a republic. 1950.

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I-'oundation Day, Austilalia, i788.

Whatever faults or shortcomings may be ascribed to former President Harry S. Truman. no one will say that he has an unadaptable personality. Called to office in one of the very critical periods of Amer- ican history, he assumed the burdens of State with a chccrful vigor that astounded

In Saskatchewan farmers are using baled straw as a building material, par- his political friends and foes alike. If his licularlv for barns for livestock. Coatings place in history is not in the company or,of stucco and plaster will presumably pre- the very greafgand that is by no meansivent the stock from eating themselves out certain-he certainly will be remembered as 0f h0l-l-he and home and delel” the ?lll9Z0TlCill one who took to executive power and rc- ll'0il lmm bi0WiliE ihem down. sponsibility ”'-is to the manner born." ' ' i"

Now, back home in Independence, Mo., Charles George (Chinese) Gordon. the Mr. Truman has another adjustment to hero of. Khartoum, died this date, 1885. He make. This time it is from the light thatpioullht In ihe Crimea and then assisted the beats upon the prcsidcncy to the compal'a-,Chlh9S9 Emllire allalnst Russian agEl'9SSl0l'l- live isolation of ordinary citizenship. Ac-lAli0ll Vlllli0u-5 3PP0ihiTll0lllS. he Was Sent to wording to recent reports he is making it in ihe Sudan 10 0VaCu3i9 The Egyptian D0P' the same adaptable manner that charactcr- uialion Of the Sudan. hlldahgefed hY ihfl YE- med his sudd(.n mu 3,, the spat . or in,-wvolt of the Mahdi. He was surrounded at m',gh,.,., He is ,,.,.m,,z his m..m0i.-5; he iglKliartouni and killed after holding out for not at all homesick for the White liouse;IiiVe months. A relief party arrived two he does not miss the pomp and circum-lfi3.VS iaier. stance which silrroilndcd him for seven years.

Mr. Trlim;in's lncmoirs. whcn completed. ought, to bc lliglily lnlcrcsting and informa- tive reading. Mcanwhilc, his happy mali- ner, as he sci-s anolhcr in the place of authority which hc himself vacatcrl only a year ago, is prnvitling a vr-ry good prcfac-3. indeed to the story he is pulling dolvn 0.4, paper.

A confidential rcport on the Reserve Army is being studied by the Gcncral Staff: Prepared by the Conference of Defence As- sociations, its details were not revealed be- cause the association felt. that early release would do more harm than good. It may well bc, of course that Defence Minister Claxton will decide that, as with the Main- guy Commission rcport on the Navy, pub- lication will be in the best interest of the scrvlcc.

More Trade Or (Less?

"If better access to the U. S. market for the industries in which Canada has natural advantages is not fortlicoming," says the monthly review of the Bank of Nova Scotia, "it is almost inevitable that political pres-

Tlic cage cgg-laying system-recognized by British poultry experts as the most efficient method of egg production-is now lleiulz adopted by egg producers in Canada, Holland, Denmark, Switzerland and the sures in Canada for increased protectionlwest Indies. Features of the cages, sup- will gather strength . . . The tendencywpiied in multiples of six, are easy erection, might well be to deV0i0P m0l'9 fllVCFSifl0(i in foolproof trough system for watering, and but less efficient industrics in Canada he-cleanliness. Winners of several agricultural hind Efldud infill lll'0ll?Ciillll- iawards, the cages are to be exhibited at

"No one who knows the liislory of Can-lthis yr.-nr's British Industries Fair. ads or the climate of its politics can doubt ' ' the truth of that statement. Prolcctivc poli- ,C0mpai'lS0nS with existing pipelines in- cies in the United States have always becirdicate that the Trans-Canada natural gas answered by the same sort of policies ln.pipe will be the biggest and longest in the Canada, with great damage to the business world. The Big Inch line, from Texas .to of bothsnations. Under Mr. Cordell Hull'slNew York is 1,381 miles long, 24 inches in reciprocal trade agreements policy of thclriiamcter. The Little Big Inch, connecting

gnlneteen-thirties North America has beenhhe same points, is 1,475 miles Iong and 20

emerging steadily from it long period of inches in diameter. The Inter-provincial impoverishment. ltlPipeline, from Alberta to Sarnia, is 1,765 SWIM be tragic indeed if this course were miles long, 30 inches in diameter at start, new reversed. . down to 16 inches at finish. Trans-Canada tile plnpricks of American ugri- will be 2,240 miles long when finished, and auutint restrictions and Canadian dumping either so or as inches in diameter.

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Colours For '54

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PUBLIC FORUM

This eolum: In oveigotohtlag

. n :iui1ui::fi,i'iinsyofwinmreIt. Tho Gun-dlsn does not econ I fly endorse the oplllllm ” eorrellpondenu.

RETREAT mom LEARNING

six,-Perhaps the most. HD9010" mphlgm yet. to be advanced hY apologists for ”PT0Ell?55lVl3m” 1” education is the brazen Ciali'nhitii'3t ii. is more democratic than tia- ditionslism." It is 1 human en- clericy to try to rationalize even one's most indefensible action!- In Nazis parlance, Hitler never enslaved 3 country: he Ill,-9l9lY placed it under his "benizll 39' mafhm, in pedagogical spheres. the halter-skelter fliihlv imlll ll" tellectuality and culture. is labpeiv-I led tldemocratic" and scientific. All sensible people Weuld 0P'-um favor of the extension of 28 privileges of f. E004 ed”"”0l:0 if the hot polloi. Modern eduoa hn. however, went. off the beam w an

they decided. in their "””."c nmniscience, that such I flung could not. be done without re-

- yin. and nlinost (ii'Ji!l2i:ls?1&in:en:ti:caEf0n. Therefore. on the strength of an unwarrant- ed assumption. llltty D"""ded w break with the past-

The experience acciiniulated through millennia of liliflallslnll effort was thrown overboard VHS so much bunkum. The are” lll5'

ciplines were eupei-oi-inuated.p I'- W” their belief that conditions were 90

in I. democratic world different. as to render all former standards obsolete and required! re-orientation of the Whole Sul"-"ll set-up. The luminaries of 3'95- teryear were only half lit in com- purison with the star of the first magnitude that illumined the present day educational world f John Dewey. True, 1),:-wcy diillii. believe in God..he didnt helicve in good and evil; neither did he believe in abeolutes. But he an- precmeci the lmP0l'il"lCe of "l”"' lcir stunts" and ftinkerliig unob- bles" on the currlcillum of life- ndjustmeiit” education. .-'lllll ill” was more useful than rellKl0ll- 9' Latin, in this practical workm- day world.

Pgdsgogue: resent the that progressive edlication is I "i-etreat. from. if'.ill'iTll"iK- HOW else could they quaill.V the lol- lowing remarks that I professor of education addressed to I lIllll'lulll"' student in English. applyinlr. I0? it teachlnz WSWOHI "El'nDhll5l5”" subject. matter and knowledge Iii it are out-dated, because we donl teach subject matter, we teach children." He also stressed "de-

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.- The tumult. of 7:1-y--fretted mind Gives me eiopreuion of Is kind: But it is faulty, harsh. rim plnln -

My work has the incompetence of pain.

SELF-ANALYSIS

I ...i. consumed with a slow fire.

For riglvteouanes is my d08iYO1

Tbwords that good (ml I cannot whip my will.

I am I tlalrjnd home ilhlf. sibs upon I hi .

I desire virtue, though I love her not-

I have no faith in her when she is

t:

I feor't?hal she wll bind and make me slave

And send me song-less to the eullcn grave.

I am like u men who fear: to take I wife,

And fret: his soul with wnntmie all his life. .

with rich. unholy food: I stuff my

now; when I Iln sick. man I btiieve in w.

-Afinl Wlokhufn.

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We used to know them as "sins" but the younger genention calls them "experiences."-larsndori sun.

Briton says there is I blonde ghoiit. in his house who wears lip- stick. Radio advertisers can hardly wait. to find out what brand the uses.-Hamilton spectator.

A sociologist states that most nf our troubles are dun to the fact that nowadays "families don't Plunge into things so at unit.” He may be encouraged by bhe news that n. Boston motile-r. fmier and son have been arrested for an armored car robbery. -Edmonton Jnumnl.

A friend back in Paris after four years. incsutiously chose on uri- familiar restaurant, The meal was terrible, and he called the waiter to complain. Yes, the waiter agreed. the food was awful. Why not try the llttli-, place across the road? My friend asked why the waiter was so sure it was good. "Because I own it," he replied. "rhis." he shrugged lit. his surroundings, " is where I find my cIISmmeTS,'' .. London New sfatesriian.

Pig pens near Wsllulebiu-3 have been raided and nine pigs weighing about severity-five puonds apiece taken. Police have asked farmers in take better care of their porcinc herds. What. We would like to know

mocriicy in the classroom", saying that because she had an extreme- ly good record in her English courses: she was apt to be impati- ent and undemoc utic with slow learners. The obvious. inference from the professor's remarks in that halo-baked teachers are preferred to top-riotcherii.

Are the unsuspecting niasseii being led towards that woeful fate ldescrlbed by Schiller when he says: "The violent destruction of the human race by war will only be more dramatic, It will not. be more fatal than its gradual de- llciiy us its arts and sciences slow- jly fossilize or peter out. in an lovei-whelmlng flood of feeble- l mlndedneae."

I am, sir, et.o.. W. J. EN'R.1GH"I'

Charlottetown.

LIQUOR. ADVERTISING '

Sir,-Quite recently. In one of our Island papers, I. writer went to much pains to convince us that. the newspapers in this Province should be asked to carry adver- tisements of rum, brandy and gin. He uld we were very un- fair to those publishers who de- pend eo much for profit. on the ads that they carry. Besides he maintained that we sell 1 com- modity that we believe is neces- sary and good and then hinder the sale by choking off Idvertif- ins. s

This fellow is not so dumb so he pretend: to be. He knows. as we all know, that. the present "Temperance" Act. wu pulled for the purpose of supplying the cravings of a. small minority, who were put to :..w..venienoo in get- ting liquor and some more Just using moonshine stuff.

I like to be fair to our legisla- tors who built not "better than they knew", but "worse than they expected." They did not predict. the increased demand that would result from doing iiwsy with cer- tain iilndersnces to the nonunion of beversge alcohol. Neither did they in their blindness see the injury resulting from having ll- quor kept on the pantry shelf where it. is I put. of the family menu. It is it worse situation than having the head of the house stagger in after drinking moon- shine nround the corner.

Bocisl drinking Among the new generation of boys and girls is our problem. Why advertise more? we hum reed of the "delusion that nukes people believe s lie."

The Waxx. I

is how anyone can heft s seventy- five pound hog and keep him from i-ending the wekkin with his fear- some screams, Did they use chloro- form? To swipe 3 live hog-in sil- ence-must surely be the dei-flier crf of the art of rustling, -Lon- don Free Press.

Old C harlottetown

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FIRST ADMIIIALTY COURT

"This day the Court: of Vice Ad- miralty of this Island, for the trial of of-fences comlrnitited on the high sees, for the appoint- ment. of which 3 Commission was recently received from England, was opened for the first time. His Honour the President. the Chief Justice, the Honorablee Ambrose Lane, John at-ecken, John Bpen- cerl Smith, George Richard Good- man, and the Colonial secretary, having taken their seats on the bench. were sworn in as Commis- sioners. The Commlssion constitut- ing the Court, and the Oomml.s- sloris of the different officers, were then read. and I Grand Jury em- panelled, of which George Dairy-

mplc. E-9q.. was appointed the foreman.

"The Chief Justice in his charge to the Grand Jury re-

marked, that by the common law of England, which was in force in this country. no offence was cog- nlzable unless committed within the bounds of some country. Of- fences commltted on tlhe high ecu were imciently tried be- fore A single Judge. for that purpose, who, in his own person, exercised the functions, not only of a Judge, but of the Grand and Petit. Jury. This however hav- ing been found incompatible wit.h the spirit of English jurisprudence. s'st.at.ut.e was passed as for back as the time of Henry VIII, for

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Now that the big night. hu come and golie perhaps 3. non- Scotsman may be allowed to men- tion the great. ms-.n's name. I wouldn't go so far as the Ameri- can poet. Whittier who was quoted as saying that Robert Burns be- longed to Scotland no more than to the rest of the world: there are too many Scotsmen around me aiidl have, been told that the Scotch version of anger is .'i fear- ful thing.

I would, however, agree with another American authority who stated that "no other writer of his times has so strong 3 hold on the affections of the world". Partial evidence of that is the fact that even people who (like myself) find the Burns dialect heavy going read his poetry over and over and, ap- parently, get. a great deal out of it

It. was said of I. distinzuislied poet-naturalist that he was the onlyperson in the world who could make literature out of a. cow. so far as I have been able to deter- mine from any reading I have done Burns was the only poet who could make literature out of ii louse and I. treat. classic out of I mouse. Neither creature is gener- ally credited with being a natural source of inspiration.

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one of Bu.rn.s' biograpliere wrote that in his opinion the poet's greatest power lay in the fact that he started life as I plouglhmsn. ("Plowman" is quite alright in common talk, but it must be ”ploughman" when one is speak- ing or writing about Burns.) How- ever that may be, it is true that almost everything he wrote shows clone kinship with homely and enrizhly things. If he had not been is plough-man, or at least. engaged in some kind of farming, it is not likely that he would have been so familiar as in fact he was with the songs and ballads of the countryside. And it was these songs and ballads which formed the skeleton of tlhe great body of poetry he created. Then. too, his work in the fields helped him to see and understand the joys and the hopes and the tribulations of the common people, something which always has been considered

a great. aid to the writing of poetry. especially of the Burns W90

The poet Lowell. in describing in one of his poems s trip he had made by train lI'OI.ll'id the Scot- tish countryside, mentioned it fel- low-passenger who brought up the name of Burns:

"He spoke of Burns: m-en rude and much

The Passing Scene

By observer '1'!!! l'l..OllG!IMAN POE?

of one .

Whose heart was made of mlmy' simple stun,

As homespun as their own.

And when he read. they 'IOI'Wiu'd

leaned Drinking with thirsty heute um

ears Hts brook-like songs whom glen never weaned From humble smiles and tears". . . .

The fact that Jan. 25 sometime. is called "Scotch night" seems to imply that Burns is unlversslly regarded as Scotlimdis greamz son. This gives him It speclgj place among poets. While Shake. speare takes the highest. place in English literature, not even iii; greatest admirer would think of him as being the historic retire. seiitative of England's greatness, In the United Statics Vl'a.shingi,an or Lincoln, not Lowell, I-folmu. Whittier, Longfellow. would can forth the most patriotic fervour,

The mystery is not. made any clearer by the inescapable fact or history that. military genius, Cour- age, passion for liberty, alwsyu have characterized the Scottish race, The Scots themselves. being by nature a modest. people, down talk much about the martial and political glories of their not. But these are all in the history boon; there's nothing secret about the-rn. James Anthony Fl-oude, the min. ant English historian, sold: "11 we eafoept the Alvhenions Lnd flu Jews, no people so few in number have scored so deep I. mark in the world's history as the Scots have clone. No people have if. greater right to be proud of their blood”,