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Pielldent and Associate Editor. Ian A. Burnett. Alaocliite Iliiitor. Frank Walker.

"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than

ilucid of styles. These works represent the final mastery over his medium of one of the greatest of all our English prose writers. They could be studied profitably from this standpoint as well as for their utilitarian value, though it is the latter quality which

- is attracting attention today.

An, anthology of gems could be com- piled from Ruskinls works bearing on many of our current problems. Is it not well for our world statesmen to be reminded, for example, that "the arrangements of the laws of a nation. so as to procure the great-

- the Weakest Ink". lest advantage to itself and leave the small- est advantage to other nations, is not a part of the science of political economy, but merely a broad application of the science lof fraud”? Are there not still centres of lindustrialism bearing, in Ruskin's words,

"very nearly the aspect of monastic estab-

CIlARLU'l"l'l:J'l'0WN. MONDAY. DEC. 10, 1951 I ..M....... ....-....M.-..

Tourist Paradise

It is not by accident that the influx of

tourists to this island Province grows great- . l i l l 91, year by year. what people on hohday lishmenfs, in which the mar of the mill-

iook for is something different. a change , Wheel and the crane takes the place of oth- from the-ll. 0l.cl-ma,-y surroundings, but withi endevotional music, and in which the wor- it provision for their pcisonal comfort and'Silil) Of Maiiimoii and M0i0Cii 15 C0i'idliCiCd frlendly relations with people. with a, tender reverence and an exact pro-

All this is provided by Prince Edwardi Pilieiy 7. l ' Island, mostly without conscious effortlbutl llii this 389 Of SCel3tiCiSiii. What better in part by well considered measures design.- allildOlC.iilElll the Ruskin credo: ”Not aday ed to add the final touch to our natural of my life passes now to its sunset, with- advamagcs as a tourist resort. . lout .leaving me more doubtful of all our

Care must be taken, however, that 1lllCl'li3l'lSiICd contempts. and more earnest to . ' - ' w s w i::g1lEgat1t:2d1tLi3ifsl1lof this Province. its rest-iof good men. which are now the mocker's ful charm, the contrast between our daily tI'CaSUi'C"? It Was Ruskin's belief that "to mes and mat. of the dwellel-5 in great cit- watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; leg, om. own gpocial way of doing things alldli.0 draw hard breath over ploughshare or the established rituals of public and privatespadc; to read, to think. to love. to hope, to Hm lpray-Htheselarc.the.things that make men

The”. is a deadly lendellcy for thcihappy . It is being in one's right place that tourist. trade itself to mold every (.'0fllflli.lll-tC0UTitS- A .fl0WOF '. hC Suggests. ":15 Oiiiy ity into the likeness of every other, be it lll'a group of singularly happy leaves . I l.-lorldal me New England States or the . Rediscovering Ruskin can be an exhil- Canadian Rockies. That tendency towards irating adventure in culture as. well as in uniformity must be resisted. The quallry of the way of social and economic research. service and comfort: demanded by visitorsl0ne need not be concerned as to. which of and Om. mm people must be maintained butlthese oblcctives is the more important. not Certainly, at the expense of substitutingoBoth can be pursued simultaneously.

standardized "tourist attractions; for Oiiil mm slowly developed characteris ics.

EDI IORIAL N01 E'S

Governor General Viscount Alexander .was born this date 1891. ”The last man off the beaches" at Dunkirk is one of the out- standing generals of the age, as well as a

highly popular Governor General. I I O

itfitiai Aid Refused

The campaign so ably conducted byj the; Canadian Teachers Federation foi Fe era financial aid to education below the un- jvcrsity level has failed for the time being at least. In answering a Parliamentai'y question on this point recently, Prime Min- ister St. Laurent said: "While I iiaVe the responsibility as head of the Governmen.t..I would have to ask my Colleagues to 10m

-” h ' ' fusing to consider such a re-I, fidtestwc m I0 I Chiirlottetown has all the earmarks of

The Closing of tho door on this sourcera boom-tlownl. It is true that part of the of revenue for the publicly supportedlC0”5ii'li?ti0ii 18 made necessary by Unfortun- schools. says the Globe and Mail, leaves Lin-lgtelaccideliii Pill m0St 0i it 15 iieilliiiled by touched the problem of uneven educational usmess f'g"1at'V9l-V Euriiing at iii? Seams-

- ' rious Provinces o -. 33:13:"ngcggigggaigeawialld responslblllty Prime Minister St. Laurent ”dares to of pmpcmv taxpayers. but a number 0flhope"tha.t there will be no world war. Hls other burdens, such as welfare and i'elief,lh0Pf'5 1'95 in Caflada aiid the Noiliii Atlantic impose a weight not contemplated when the nations musterlng the necessary strength to original division of tax fields was made atv9pP059 3331135510” mid it bemg the” UiiiieCS- the time of Confederation. In their own Sary 10 make me .01? Elia: 5ii"3iigiii- sphere, the same stringency is being felt byi the Provinces. The amount of direct fl-l

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?tai1:SCliaS1 dt tC::lrC:)tE,:dt;: Tes0ul.geS.:fOl" rate adjustment, and were told by the

Direct gilzanls to the Schools from thClChief Commissioner to go to. the railways Dominion Government might afford a teni-for ad?u?tmemv and the” if Hwy were porary headroom in educational expenditure, Fol Sa"Sf”'d i" 3” to the Bilard for 3 heal" but they would merely delay the reckonin';.' " which must be faced. The question of re-,

.. . - - Much misinformation has been current v f i : ibilities and reallocation of l ialisximfididslLihmkisscliiiig with modern condit-labout the effects of DDT mid 0th" msed-'

ions and needs is one of the most urgentiicides 0" a"imalS' 3 Very impomam 5ub'

problems facing the nation. But the hap-iject indeed m the farmel" NOW G0V9m'

hazard lorry-built wclfarc Program whichimcm toxicologists in Ottawa are Ilooking the Fe'dera1 tcovemmem has undertaken -lS,foi' correct answers, with the assistance of (omplicating and making more extreme theian assortment of white ram

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f :1 i" . It is creating com- , l l

miiiisdfihisotososilichonlargc expenditures that: In London Pamamem '5 10 "we've 3 they are becoming the justification for the'tW0 m0mhs' Christmas hondayi t0 enable

Um” mas issue ls faced. arm-ms our-lloll has been delayed because the amount Toronto Comompomry, the needs" of thelof intended legislation came down too late munldpamies Cannot be met by the Pmvl for the committees to handle properly. "Be inces, nor can the needs of the Provinces prepared '5 3 good motto for gwemments

be met for the same reason Statutory as we” as Boy Scouts' grants, such as eight of the Provinces are . ' now receiving from the Dominion, temporizc with but do not solve the problem.

Toniglil new Canadians are being enter- tained at a Christmas party by Charlotte- townls Canadian Citizenship Council. Christ- mas carols more than almost anything

lbring home the brotherhood of man. O I O

From pillar to post. The shippers went to the Board of Transport Commissioners

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That is a good move on the part of Mr. C. IE. Shaw of the Fruit and Vegetable In- spcction Department to investigate instanter reports of inferior quality in potatoes and turnips intended for export. In the past our export market was made to suffer by ill-designed parties passing on to purchasers produce of an inferior grade. Our market has the right to be properly protected from

such practices and abuse. 0 O 0

Back To iiuskin

It is interesting to find among the num- erous more modern references on economic and social reform given in Mr. Leo Mac-

”Isaac's current articles. the note: "Ruskin, John: 'Unto This Last'." Ruskin is being rediscovered today. as a political economist far ahead of his time. His art criticisms. on

Cotton and linen handkerchief makers plan to regain their market lost to aggres-

e do not destroy the discover what root there was for the stories .

-THE GUARDIAN. (II-IARLOTTETOWNL

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which he was- most highly rated in his day, and which abound in passages of beauty and gorgeous imagery, have proved less en- during than his simply worded economic utterances.

But the simplicity of Ruskin is deceptive. Actually, the social gospel which he.pi'o- claimed in "Unto This Last", "Time and Tide”, and "Sesame and Lilies", is the cumming-up of a lifetime of thought and gxperience, compoegd in the purest and most

sive promotion of paper hankies. Women, who buy 60 per cent of all hankies, will be urged to use them more as specialized fashion accessories. Examples: llace-trim- med ones look prettier peeping out of a handbag; it's more lady-like to use ii. red kerchlef to wipe off lipstick. Men will be prompted to build a handkerchief ward- ivbe to match ties or shirts; fashion will frown on breast-pocket use of three white points for every occasion. '

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Part Three

CONSUMERS” AND

Consumers co-operatives stores, which are run efficiently and placed in strategic centers. are a necessary and important factor in

from the provincial point of view? Here, we now have a central or- ganization established by. and ser- vicing, all the co-operatives on Prince Edward Island. Our central organization is linked with "Mari- time Co-operatlve Berv1ces' (Moncto ) which is doing its share to get into the manufacturing and processing field, when and wher- ever necessary.

This Island "central" is market- ing moat. farm and fish products and could be delegated as B cent- ral selling agency for one or more of the main products in the Pro- vince. It can be developed into a big business. But. in the Provin- cial field. considering all phases of the movement, there in room for more co-ordination. There is much pimping to be done and room for directors of our central co-opei-at- fires to do more directing and aa- eume more responsibility.

In order to get directors to take this responsibility seriously. one Ceiitrul Board should have con- trol over every phase of the co- operative movement. be paid for their work and for any extra dut- feii they may be asked to perform. There must be some prestige to this and, in order to

ion-one-geeuis-2-we 1,-6.-r - ll Old Charlottetown

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NEGLECTED THOROUGHFARE

"While the improvements that have lately been made are appar- ent in most of our streets and ap- proaches, there is one great. thor- cughfare leading into the city, which appears, in ii. most unac- countable manner, to have escaped the notice even of our vigilant Mayor. I refer to the St. Pctcr':i Road; and if evidence in proof of the contrast between the neglected state of that part of the city as compared with others were re- quired. those of our citizens who attended the funeral of the Hon. Patrick Walker, this morning, will be fully prepared to give it. For instead of having the benefit of a wooden sidewalk. or plankway. from the Cemetery into the city- as the people should have-we were compelled, on our return. to wend our way.ankle-deep. in mud. at the imminent risk of losing not only our india-rubbers, but our boots. How the resident inhabit- ants ln that section of the town have borne this discomfort so long. is a subject of astonishment to every one who has occasion to travel that way."

-Fi-cm a letter appearing The Examiner of Dec. 1, 1877.

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To Command Britain'sl”

Mediterranean Fleet

(Tom Pocock in the Daily Mail, London)

Among the dry lists of promo- ticns and retirements put out by Britain's Admiralty recently was iii statement that Vice-Admiral Em-ll Mountbatten of Burma is to be- come Commander-in-Chief. Medi- terranean Fleet, as from May next year.

To the Royal Navy this meant that one of,Brit:iiii's most brilliant sea-officers had moved up into the top bracket-and into a command that is vital for the defence of the Commonwealth and the free world as ii whole. To Mountbatten him-

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A North Bay coronei-in Jury. in- vestigating ii. hunting fatality, has recommended that it be made ii criminal offence for any person to give a firearm to a juvenile or -permit. use of a firearm by I juv- enile without adult supervision. And surely such a proposal is neither ,more nor less than simple common sense.--Sault Daily Star.

Circulation managers of news- papers say it is getting harder and harder to find carrier boys and keep them on the job. This is as most disturbing bit of news. What. will the banks and the big corpo- rations do for presidents and board chairmen in the year 2000 if the crop of newspaper arrier boys withers away 'now? here will the country turn for elder states- men? How can there be big shots if they cannot refer to the time when they ran a paper route? The answer could be that if young people and older people in Canada refuse to do the common tasks on their climb to greater thlngs.t.herc wont be so many greater things. for them or the country.-The Printed Word.

The fact is plalnful (of student ignorance of things Canadian and Canadian history). How to explain '? Can it be that. in teaching. the teachers do not take into ac- count enough Canadian realities and the problems of the present times? Intellectual culture, clas- sical liumiinlties-all that is very well, but we must keep in mind the undeniable fact that the pro- fessors must equip young Canad- ions for a life to be lived in the 20th century. However it may be.

knots with all her guns firing: Mountbatten was one of the few to survive.

Soon afterwiirds Winston Ciiur- chill sent for the brisk young cap- tain and put, him in charge of a new organisation called Combined Operations. With the acting rank of Vice-Admiral and the honorary

sclf it meant that his clicrishcdl naval career had at last caught upi with his unsought career as it gen- eral and a statcsmaii. i,

Louis Francis Albert Vlcto:'Nich-I olas Mountbatten was born Si? years ago. Lit Windsor. in South- ern England. His father was Ad- miral of the Fleet Prince Louis of Biittenburg. who was First Sen Lord in 1914. Like his father, Louis went into the Royal Navy. But with his strong family ties with the Royal Family-he is a great grandson of Queen Victoria- a quietly conventional career was out of the question. The Prince of Wales was one of his firmesi friends and together they made two tours of the Commonwealth in the battle-cruiser Renown.

It was soon after this that Mountbatten married Edwina Ash- ley. the intelligent. and beautiful daughter of Lord Mount Temple. They became one of.i.lic most fa- mous iind striking couples in the London of the X9208. But the sparkling social life of the post- World War I years claimed little of Mouni.biitten'e time and less of hlq thoughts. As ii. promising young lieutenant he was special- ising in naval radio and soon be- came one of the Navy's top com- munications experts.

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In 1934 Mountbatten met. the other great eiithusium of his nav- al career-the destroyer. His first command was the little destroyer Daring and he tested the exhilar- ation of standing on his own bridge with the wind screaming and the spray stinging his face so the little ship cut. through the use at top speed.

when World War II broke out Mountbiitten was I captain. in command of the new destroyer Kelly Ind of the nth Destroyer Fiotille. I-ie wu soon in action Ind in December. 1039. the Kelly was mined Ind Mountbatten bi-ought,hls wounded Ihip back to part. though she was luff full of

ranks of Lieutenant-Geiieral and Air Marshal, Mountbatten launch- ed Commando raids on the coasts of German-occupied Europe and helped to plan the great combined cpcriitions of the Allledgcouiiteiw offensivcs. It was he who fostered such great ideas as the Mulberry artificial harbours. the "Pluto" petrol pipeline under the English Channel and landing craft which could fire 8. salvo of more than 1,000 rockets. 1 0 I

In August. 1943. Mouni.batteii's name was in the headlines across the world. Churchill had picked him for the primarily military task of Commander - in - C h l e 1. South East Asia. The campaign in Burma was long and hard. Brit- ish. Indian. African and Gnurka soldiers fought through dense jun- gle to keep the Japanese out of India and throw them out of Bur- ma. Again Mountbatten sprung I aiirprlse on his enemies. He insti- tuted tlie offensive-by-air. whole divisions were flown into jungle clearings Ind the Japanese, It- tncked on all sides, thrown into confusion.

Mountbatten expected to return after the war from the temporary rank of Admiral to that of Reor- Admii-Il. But. first he had I job to do Is 9. Itetesman. Mr. Attlee. then Prime Minister. asked him to become the last Viceroy of In- dlii. There Mountbatten contrib- uted much to the Imootlineu of the transfer ofpower to the leId- ers of India and Pakictan.

Finally Mountbatten returned to the Nevy Ind I lower rank. From 1948 to 1910 he commended I cruiser squadron in the Ii(edii.erIn- mean and then, moving up toVli'.e- Admiral, ohurpened the NIvy'a supply Ind trlneport system 45 Fourth an Lord It the Admiralty. . And now he is to return to the MedlfCi'l'IliOln.l.Hll Fleet will be I strong one, hie respoulibllitm en- ormous. At fit. he in II active ll moot men of 21 Ind he has I

mm Ind her u deck was

Insh. A year lIi.er Kelly will hit Ind lank on one Itebined at. 32

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Notes By The Way I.

the experiment that has just taken taken place at McGill has been terribly revealing. No doubt it. could be repeated in other sur- roundings iind similar conclusions would be arrived at.-Montreal Matlii.

The people of Newfoundland don't like Canadian postage stamps, those which have such ar- tlstic and picturesque vignettes which ornament with eclat. on our letters and parcels. Since their entry into confederation they content themselves regretfullywith insipid stamps, with no particular distinction which the Postal De- partment puts out year after year without. displaying the least inter- est. Newfoundland newspaper: de- plore it and draw attention to the poor publicity which the emission of stamps obtains for our country abroad . . . Moreover occasions have not been lacking for their publica- tion (of more attractive stamps). The Department has let: them slip (as for example the third centen- ary of the Canadian martyrs) on some futile pretext whereas France publishes stamps that commemor- ate the memorials of founders of treligous) orders. rellgaus ceremon- ies and the nation's great gain”, Le Solell. Quebec.

Time was when the wind.iam- mer! ii?” Sydney and Melbourne for England laden with the new wheat crop or the new wool crop and vied for the honor of beimz the first to reach Liverpool. It wasnt a question then of how many days to make the Voyage but of how many months and weeks. Next year Canadian Pacific Air Llnes will put into commlgsio out 0. Vancouver two jet-powered Comets which will carry passeng. ers to Australia or New Zealand "03 in days. Weeks or months but in hours. Twenty haurs' flying time is th expected speed for the 1”"? P301 0 1100- No wonder we say the world is shrinking. The months the wlndjammers took to cross the Pacincor the Red River cart took to -cross our waste", Plains have shrunk to g mug" of ii few hours It the most. If only the world's peoples could be brought together in peace in mg same way as distance has been all but obliterated! What a wonder. fiil thiniz this could bel-Leth. bridge Herald.

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SEXTONS EPITAPH (From "Ding Dmg Bell")

Thus be the label of Jacob Todd.

Sexton now in the land of Nod.

Digging he lived. and digging died

Pick, mattock. spade. Ind naught beside.

Here oft Ii. evening he would sit Tlredlzvlth his toll, and proud of

Watchirig the pretty Robin flit. Now slumber: he In deep I! they lie bedded for the Judgment Day.

-wIlter do lo MI:-e.

Ilia Ago-old story

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I Illl the Lord, Iriil there II none else, there In no Coil bellde inc.

For Men's Clothing Tint Fits

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make right and proper decisions. they must have a complete picture of activities both on the business and social phases of the move- ment.

The duties of directors should be to decide on policy. judge the eiflclency of the staff; but not concern themselves with small de- tails. When ii meeting is called. there should be no question about any director attending, and when directors do come in they should have time to discuss fully all the pioblema and policies that arise. They should have facilities to in- veetlgato any special problems and new proposals. This means than by having too many directors or boards of directors, the essential efficiency or prestige is not pos- Iible.

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Would it not, then. be possible to amalgamate the administration and the work of the "Co-operative Union" and the "Island Cc-opcr- ative Services" so that one central board of directors could supervise all phases of the movement? This would involve special departments for supervision and auditing. edu- cation. etc. It would be operated so that local co-operatives would pay for the services received. Thus the embarrassing and im- practlcaleystem of collecting mem- bership fees would be eventually eliminated. The education depart- ment of the central would be re- sponsible for directing the educa- tional work which should be more technlciil than social. more for staff and officials than for the general membership.