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Labrador Boundary Ilspata 1 , "Once again," says the St. John's (New- I foundland) Telegram, "Premier Maurice Duplessis has asserted that he does not ac-' cept the findings of the Privy Council on,

l v THE GUARDIAN I ' puainau ovary not-an rnarnlnl at in Prince Street. cur loctotowl. P. I. 1.. by The Thomson Company Limited. "Conn Prfnea ldwarl Island Like the Dan” Editor and Manager. Ian A. Burnett. Associate Editor. Frank Walker

II; Observer WA1.DnN'l G

i ' .. 'l I The Passing Scene.

Branch offices at Summerside. Montague and Aibertoa. Author . ma assecond Class Haitian:-the Post Office Department, the ownership of Labrador. If we are, am 0;" hand,” "I" no ",1, mg no me.-,,,g,,.n,,, 0, mm reading the press report on his statementi month (the 9th. to be exact) Ind eternity in the clear water

of a pond?

We are so devoted to pattern that to deviate from it for on; moment. let alone two years, .5 worse than inconvenient; it is positively dangerous. The burden of 'rhoreau's song was: "Sim. plify” "Man has become the tom

tlfere appeared one of the great books of the age-"Walden" by Henry David Thoreau. It is a great book, partly because it was the product of a rare and rich iphlloaophy, but chiefly because it was written by a great man. Lika most books that have be-

Byh Car:-'iIar!:. Charlottetown. Summersida 315.00 per aanum. up w . . . - - eng I: I 8900. other Provinces and U. s. A. ll2.0o' to this effect fl-om Quebec correctly, he is

W mum. l again breathing fire and wants to upset the , unquestioned and unalterable decision of. the Privy Council made back in 1927." I l l

o-rIgestAmemor'yWia w:ak;rvthnn the weakest Ink."

SATURDAY. ALIGUST H. 1954

On the authority of an eminent geol-

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End of "fie Fair ogist, The Telegram states that the bound- I - . . ” - ' .. come classics. "Walden" had to at his tooli." he wrote. Alf that T ary line dispute can be settled in a s irit 5 ' T c - W” 'i I0" """' f "”"'”"t"" Wm mm " 1854 It is d”””'V The end of Old Home Week means that p T i ' i 0' m9'e- 59”” "' II"? '""I fmdi tn” "aw; and "M "Hy "'9 muiv , of sweet reasonableness. One good survey lng worth began to receive at but the very slave. many u ho came over to the Island for the. Mum menu" of ,,m,mm,,,,. Our complexities are making

fools of wise men: our complica-

.party could do the job in. seven or eight tions are driving us into wilder.

occasi d th 2 v - ' . , . , Stay 3)" SE9 is If: bzghiaiixaigfegoxilig weeks. The question of defining the line, leavin A ,t f. I I g . between Labrador and Quebec must be set;

R pm mm Miguel It has been tied in view of the fact that the line lsl

i:t"-bi : -. . . .. a "OS amped 0 "Como" Ihow Mm 19 hazy in the vicinity of No. 3 mine which 1

main over may see what the island looks . . . i like when the Sun is Shining and thelis smack across the presently considered

. -' height of land. Here the line must be meas- ' ” t t '. . . v I . . .iZl.ZZ2a.Tf.ZJ1.731511-.2?ZE.S”fi.ZZ3L ”2'li2i”7 W acwimv to. the W in of tire.

. 5 i . i question of royalties and taxes which will,

will thus get over the understandable im- be due the Newfoundland Government as l pressmn that it Yams here even betweeni the ore from the Newfoundland side startsi i showers. i .

The new all-slcel builrling, t'iUl)l)P(I the: flowing to market.

Coliseum, proved its worth in enabling thei purglgersmigitii ffgvatother pmb(;emS' alsodlr , , may nee a roun

judging of livestock to be carrlcd on in - - .. Comfort Whatever the heavens might be. table discussion between officials of New-

At this moment the book is prob- ably more in demand than at any other time in its century of life; he" Where. unlike Thoreau's perhaps because Thore.u'l wt,-. case, we have no hut for sheltcr mm! outlook Suppl!” many and no fires for -warmth. ltlmrs things which this generation sore- "lie hiltufen in Whiifh Spirit and W need; upecmly the yum; 01 mind are uppermost, is gradually calm reflection as a mental anti- heihl hl'i'-iiilhi i-ihder the damn. do" to our .1,,.m. ",4 1”", ation of mechanical forces. o a 0 Against all this-much less ap. -rhornu Wu one of those "re parent a century ago than now-- souls-rarer now. perhaps, than Thoreau Pi'0t95iC'd 5iF9'iii0USi.i'. in 1854-who know how to live Yft JOYDUSIY. Bil! he was not without worrying themselves into Collie"! With lsshiiiliz what he nervous prostration over the de- heiieyed 10 he Preliidiclal to tails of making a living. "if one mill” Poiehtili greatness; h:g luv” gimp”, ma wtnlygi he was the voice of positive afflrma. wrote. "to maintain oneself on U011 Of the right and true. How this earth is not a hardship but desperately we need in these a pastime." He has been called mlkeshiit MY! 10 take to hem "history's most notable lndivi- words like these: duallst"; perhaps he deserves the "Drive I nail home and clinch ml, Ind perhaps he doemig, but it so faithfully that you can Wake

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and will be remedied whenever possible.

doing. It was also a welcome refuge for those caught wzuidcring about the grounris in the frequent sudden showers. its excel- lent light and spaciousness gave the ii iusion the open air.

, ties concerned.

lfoundland and Quebec. The Telegram argues, can be settled quitcl amicably and for the benefit of both par-,i "If there must be a new- " survey team to settle the boundary in the regions where the present demarcation is

would not be fair, in view of the envisaged

These problems,

One can read the signs of the

certainly no man of his day was more socially conscious.

There is nothing to substantiate the hasty view, quite commonly held, that he withdrew from so- ciety because he did not like fel- lowship; the real reason for his withdrawal was that he rejected

alone" in contentment is he really

up in the night and think of your work with satisfactlon- 3 work at which you would not hq ashamed to invoke the Mun. Every nail driven should be at another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on tn; work."

Th Cl" t ' t . . .. m.e.yilSf.?;i..?.2?...? ii?..”5”E;2ilfl”SSiSketChyv let it member mi :i.'."i."::.ii' .".::::.:. ma. , ' effort to give people the best possible horse the Quebec dminerai department, lone tfro;n Along A Country Road . h a ghrleat (gal i;fnado,d aim about A? l , ' . . . , C I on f l racing, agricultural exhibition and enter- our Own an an gee ogls t -h ioiiawn -INNS” ,',',c,',t.,.". ;:.n Iaevable to --in-I ? fol g g. l I

tainment possible. The size of the crowds attending suggests one useful improvement,

repercussions for one province or the other Augus, No to be given the sole responsibility of settling isiowina. fresh tzreen hues in leaves

season along a country road in longer

does one see'

New York Times

History is still being made on the

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Fathers. St. Augustine is remem-

fitted to contribute grace and up- lift to society. He believed also that. before a man can exercise

IN rnz nails or om

however. Guide bars encouraging patrons of i (I k b” h d - v i l' - i c th . . , .. V . . th IL. rt . .,, map es an oa s, no es an 51,9 M amlem camnge, where on tiered where a ong in. 0 ar - 1 ,1 ,h h must to form a single line in front of ticket win- 9; ""20 antblssue 1 i , be;f,h”'h A ,. ,. much history lies buried in the rut)- azlnian naval and military iigureu fmgff p':;I.':,l;f., y'exp'e,.,e,,c, Ev-lni: 3:36 gidp-um” 0W t at L3 Pad” 5 90'” "8 W0 is ill” WI” ' ""13" "9 ble. Last SundaY'l report mm if ””"m"i . . . the inner bleuinl that lizhts up peeminz years of sorrow

claws and entrance gates would make it easier to control the crowds and certainly would be a help to elderly people or those with children.

Old Home Week is Prince Edward Is- land's big family party and it is pleasant to have friends and relatives come over for the fun. We are glad they could come and hope that they will return again. The things that inconvenience them distress us

Another centennial

In addition to the St. Dunstan'a cen- tennial another educational milestone is being celebrated this year in the Mari- tlmes. This is the 100th anniversary of the opening of the "Academy for Females" at Mount Allison Academy-the first lad-

er and valuable timber stands still to be the gupfenlly popular assayed, the value of the northern domain MW" 5”'a"8em9"i5- hi” there 15

sticky, dusty and moist, the eighth

own as 5 centre of indu5tryr with 3-ddi' month weaves its anciently-ordain- tlonal mineral lodes, undeveloped waterpow- ed Paiiem into the Year's annual

carpet. Nature never took any of lessons in

appealing beauty in roadside ar-

is becoming more apparent to the man in rangementg of blue chicory, Queen the street.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Tomorrow, the 9th Sunday after "Prin- ity; Assumption.

Anne's lace and bee balm. A sin- gle spangled butterfly on a tall spike of weed is a picture more poignantly beautiful than any painted by man: hand.

Sumac is lighting its wine-red candles and fields of maturing corn lift stiff golden tassels to sun and, stars. Choke cherries dangle gleam- ing clusters of fruit and wild

Tomorrow, the fourth birthday of Prin- blackberries are laden Wm, jmcy

cess Anne.

Japan surrendered bringing the Second World War to a close. history or me glong 3

berries. One of these days as you travel to the village you will see the first fir;-red leaves of Autumn on a branc of swamp maple. date' 1945' One” can, if he will, read the country road, for each turning year rep- resents a cycle of birth and growth,

The United States Air Force is studying maturity and death to many species

human reactions in spaceship conditions.

of plants.

Tunis told how Premier Mendes- France. arrivins by plane from Paris, drove over to the site of ancient Carthage, where Bey Sidi Mohammad el-Amin has his sum- mer palace, and there made the of- fer of internal autonomy for the French protectorate. The Bey, the dispatch noted with a rare touch Oi local color, lives "in gold and tapestriecl splendor." Then all the richness which fancy has Daihieif has not vanished from Carthage. ii the "tapesti-led splendor" includes rich hangings of Tyriim purple ii would satisfy the demands of his- torical fitness. The Bey at once set about getting together it new Cal)- inet to consider the French peace offer, and the world was 'glad to know that it was not to be a iicarthaginlan peace."

"The gold and ta-pestried splen- dor" of the Bay's palace, fine as it is, may be no finer than the pal- ace of Queen Dido, which we know from Aeneaa' visit to Carthage 35 reported by Virgil. Dido led Aeneas

The one Carthaginian the world has never forgotten is Hannibal. son at I-lamilcar Bax-ca. .And he is remembered. despite his great mil- itary exploits. for what he failed to do. rather than for what he did. He failed to turn the course of Western civilization by oonquering Rome. The Romans of the Second Punic War set a noble example for inter tunes. They refused to give in to a terrible enemy. After the disas- ter of Cannae-much worse than Pearl Harbor-when the surviving Consul led a few atragglens back to Rome, the Senate went out in a body to meet him. They did not order him to face an invutigation. They thanked him "because he had not deapaired. of the republic."

OH Clta rlotieiown

I aoar.as.”f

the dark and silent hours. 0 O O

Thoreau was no "escapist", in the modern sense of that much over-used word, afraid to face up to the facts of daily living: on the contrary. it was a desire to learn what these facts were that led him into the woods. "I went," he wrote, "because I wished to live deliberately, to find out the essential facts of life. and see if I could not learn what it had to teach. and not. when I came to die, to discover that I had not lived; to drive life into a corner and reduce it to its lowest terms, and if it proved to be mean. why then to get the whole meanness of it and publish it to the world; or, if it were sublime. to know it by experience and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion."

Whatever else Thoreau found in the course of his sojourn, he cer- tainly found that life is sublime! chiefly because he had the ability

By a smile repaid.

Now the charms of gold. Spells of pride and fashion, Bid them say good morrow To the best-loved maid.

Through the forests wild. o'er the mountains lonely, They were never weary Honour to pursue:

If the damsel smiled

Once in seven years only. All their wanderings dreary Ample guei-don knew.

Now one day's caprice Weighs down years of smiling, Youthful hearts are rovers, Love is bought and sold; Fortuneis gifts may cease, Love is less beguiling:

Wiser were the lovers

In the days of old.

-Thomas Love Peacock (1705-item

The Age Old" Story

- . Th it h b ' t' .. .. ,' :99, 9011939 1" Caliadal-1 The anmversgry This seems rather like the old military immelranorialalsf aestrbnlbgfiid ";I:,ac;”Vv':,1,,fl,fl"f,:i,d 1:fn”;ff;g Mlcmrrony scnoou lip distiiarutigh tlrtwleen 1eiai;:n:i-iii- " ails on August 17 an an attractive is- - - - - all concerning a single grass or , ""9 eh 9 "W P - ”

1 ' D R dl habit of flghtmg the last war over agam'.flower he would indeed know what i'he,:p1teh”d”;aiiIs P;'t11"c91l' Wgllziwlfng 'The necessity of having fixed rare gift from heaven. Critics And God rememhcrid Noah.

toriaal pamph et, prepared by r. aymon ,The reactions of non-humans may well be God and man is. It would be well igiaiiiquet ecomlm gym pimp Em. and stationary schools appears ev- who lnvsliisktmon hceaillnvguhl':t(1na8'o ,,,,,, ,,,,.,y ,,,.,,,K tmngg W, M, . . m A - .

Clare Archibald, has been issued for the occasion. The establishment of the institu- tion was the result of a meeting of Wes- leyan ministers of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, and sev- eral lay members of the church, held at Sackville in the summer of 1847, when it was decided that "an Academy for Fe-

, mentary government will be in an ' , h M, 1, ,1 1d ,1 school removed to another part of .. males, similar to the one in existence for towel, atmosphere. K t V N Of'rehV&XIila:tl2rbIl5Eor::i:'::::eIiLi';Q(i1O;,7:5 tSI::y"lVwnhlCwW1l;e."B1'lAugf;eti1e:nn msTilfm5:' d a;I;holt)t&li (:5: ar:Ieno:t;m:3 dlelg,:ne.i;l- the other sex, was 8. necessity. But there 0 l taken me, by the govemmem for gglzrligidtgmlafeilaargd tliiarxiltgiiatzttgdag obviatgd ::r:”;::g:1l Iggclig Shag caves and wear skins. it certainly Were m3"Y dimC”me3- A" elabmate Wen" A feature of the Red Cross life saving W: g;i;P9:'n5& iiligedwilgf tikhee 13:5 p,,,,e,5o, F,,,,E,,,,,g,, 0, s,M,,5,,d tionary tfolr atcertain number of 3,,,':,';,t,",,:o dnecncl'eIl;'t i.'35s"i.'i"".?tli2i.' A" Fwtlnhl A U , . . ears, ( - iii! Pmgrhmme had to be aba”d0"ed M courses is that the more widely the training lh.d 1,,,,,ed ,,mcm, 0; the ,,,m,,,,,, University. g',,,e,, dimfff. ,,f;”' ,1:c,f,';,:,”,0I"b;' the invention I and industry of ZOVo DISCOUNT For the final destruction of chosen by ,w,,,,h,,.d,, of me male mankind otfer.' Not only better. on many of their

account of the prevalence of cholera in St. John and its neighborhood." Transporta-

tion also was a problem. Since in 1854 the. Sta only piece of railway between Halifax and'who find themselves in difficulties,

St. John was from Halifax to Truro, travel to Sackville had to be made by vessel or by open coach.

more important in the era of space travel.

Next week the Commonwealth Parlia-Agnes 0, hem and Soul mentary Association begins a 10-day meet-l -j-is ing in Kenya. plagued by Mau Mau, there is little danger that discussions on the problems of parlia-

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. The announcement will It sometimes took sevemllwelcomed that railway unions and compan- 't-iovn. The Government ordered ' days to go, for example, from Windsor, N.HeS have agreed to resume

S. via boat to Parrsboro. The railway from . Starting Monday morning.

Meeting in

, for all men to walk a country road in August. In the serenity of the season and the peace of oui-of- doors, one can recharge the bat-

Rights Of The Citizen

(Ottawa Journal) The case of Crichel Down con- ivory tinues to disturb the even course

the country I

is spread the less likely it is that emergen- 01 Asriwiiuie "med W 5'3" ” lcies will arise. y out of trouble as well as to help those ggilem

A lo its original owner on the

, ,u..: Swimmers h3V9 iehrned to ground that it might be needed at

future date for an experi- l farm.

The arrogance of senior depart- mental officials ln the matter was what provoked intense public re-i he generanylsentment, when the case bccamel

- - an inquiry into the affairs by Sir negotlatlOns;A.l(.tlc..' Clark, whose report. criti- It is trite butlcized the conduct. or five officials 'including the Permanent. Commis-

St. John to Point du Cherie was not com- i true that agreement must be reached s0me.,s1omr of Crown Llmds.

fpletedpuntii AJugustt, 18t6O;Sitkw:als io:eg:ditime and it is much better that it should W1: mt,'l'LeeeveeSr;;net;1l1ehxsM(i)r;i?t:r not n. my mm m,,. repumwn and ttkllie sametkldndaf elelmentafry books, rom ainsec unc ion 0 ac vi e - - ftef. -- 3 -' F i ' gave us a comm n n b the 9 KT” 95 "8 Oh 0 I imi- ;be before 8 stnke than a 0 mm y " formlty in the method of teaching QUALITY AND VALUE

cember 1870, and from Truro to Amherst in November, 1872.

.cepting fully the doctrine of min- ': "Ti responsibility for the deeds

The famed Niagara Peninsula is threat- or his subordinates. His two pariiu.

mentary secretaries offered their

Education of women at Mount Allisonjelled by expandmg urbamzauo" and I"' ,-mgnguong, which the Prime

falls into two main periods; the first last-

dustrialization. Many people in Ontario are Mlnjgfgr

declined to committee set up by Sir Winston

accept. A

ing for 82 years, 1854-1986, when a Uni. concerned about the fact that expansion Ohurchm no review the mam” O,

versity girls' residence was established; the

seems to be concentrating on the rich fruit 3,,

Andrew Clark recommended

the transfer to other duties of one

second for 18 years, when all authorityiiiihd3- A C0iieCtl0h Of 0Pihi0ll by the C0h' O, the omdm concerned W, M and responsibility were vested in the presi-; 59i'V3tl0" Comic” Of Ontario 5h0W5i 1! Sell" action in the cm of the others.

dent of the University. The Female Aca-Ii 91711 iiwhrehess Of the Dmhiem but d095 not note. indicate that anything is being done about the B,.,,,,h mm .m,,” mm m

demy of earlier days achieved a worthy record. One of its first three grad- it- uates in 1857 became the wife of President Allison. A later student, Grace Annie Lock- hart, was the first woman in the British Empire to receive a university Bachelor's degree. Musical culture has been a feat- ure of the Institution and its Memorial

Library contains, among other things, disc ,.,.., ,.,,,,,,,,., n ,, we ,,.,,,,.,, MC... Carthage to civilization was u no. om”, .t xmcs gh..,w.,. . and” tape recordings of the voices of over and Open t” the commerce M the wmdt any that the civil servant should Roman Mi'icI- the mm of the naval air station nur 12-? iii. . Besides its commercial value, however, it 5..., conmntiy in mind gm; tn. inborn of tht early christian Nova Bcotla.

200 distinguished poets and dramatists, as well as hundreds of recorded folk songs and ballads.

It is of Interest to note that of the four

It is forty years ago the Panama Canal was first opened. Al- report of

antees that the canal

tomorrow

and Pacific.

Manchester Guardian "regrettable lapse" of

But the thinks this

"great record as the disinterested instrument of government" will that long be remembered, and it sug-

gests that this paragraph from the the Prime Minister's committee " will probably become

though constructed by and under the con- compmmy re-dmg ,0, CM, M, trol of the United States, the treaty with nuts":

"In present times the interests

the Republic of Panama specifically guar- of the pm” mm" are mama should be neutral to a great extent by the actions of