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CHABLOITETOWN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11. 1951

Remarkable Progress

A striking indication of the zeal with which the work of the Women's Institutes is being prosecuted was afforded at their annual convention yesterday, when it was announced that during the year twelve new Institute branches have been organiz- ed in Prince Edward Island. three have lieen reorganized. and none discontinued. This would be a splendid achievement for a newly formed movement; but the In- stitutes now are holding their thirty-eighti- annual meetings, and are evidently still in the full vigour of youth.

Rural school improvement is one of the prime objectives of the Institutes. They are now able to report that only sixty-six of the 550 rural schools in the Province. remain witliout new or renovated build- ings. This has been achieved through gen- erous Governnierrt assistance, which was also forthcoming in enabling, during the year, nearly one-half the rural schools to install septic toilets. Among numerous. other educational activities, the Institutes have established a jubilee endowment fund scholarship of S100. to be granted to the rural girl entering a home economics course at an accredited college with a view to taking a degree.

The Institutes also take a keen inter- est in rural beautification. in the music and drama festival movements, in handi- rraft C.xlill)llS, and indeed in every sub- iect touching upon community -welfare. Their continued progress is therefore a matter of satisfaction not only to them- selves, but to the entii'c Province which they are serving more and more effective- ly as time goes on.

Limited Objective

Those who see small prospect for settle- ment in Korea are in many cases con- fused as to the objectives of the United Nations in that country. It is certainly not an objective to overthrow Commun- ism. desirable as that might be from our own point of view. Still less is it a U. N. objective to impose any particular political or economic system on any nation.

What the fighting is about is to stop aggression. To protect any country from being overrun by powerful neighbours.

The simplicity of that objective is also its strength. There need be no argument about whether a people would be better off under one system or another. The U. N. merely tries to see to it that brute force or the threat of it is not substituted for the usages of international diplomacy. There is every reason to hope that the de- termined measures taken in Korea have suceeeded in their purpose.

What must be guarded against in the present negotiations, however, is an armistice which could be used by the enemy to strengthen nis fighting position while making no real effort to reach a st"lllCl'llClll. Clearly defined conditions arc- necessary and ready means of reconnais- sancc to make sure that the terms are be- ing observed.

Eye Advice

The Picsident of the British Medical Association, Dr. Sichel, who is honorary consulting ophthalmic surgeon, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town. says that the attitude of the public to the question of wearing glasses has altered remarkably during the last 30 years. When he be gan practice it was a matter of difficulty to persuade a comely young lady to disfigurc herself, even when the need for wearing spectacles was apparent. Today many of the fair sex are frankly disappointed when informed that glasses were unnecessary.

In his opinion spectacles should be pre- scribed for two reasons only: to correct defective vision and to relieve symptoms which could reasonably be attributed to errors of refraction. If this were accepted as a basic principle he is convinced that ii large percentage of the spectacles worn to- day would be unnecessary.

Dr. Sichei referred to the practice by women of plucking the eyebrows. "bet mc remind you," he said, "that Nature pro- vides the eyebrows for a specific purpose -namely, to divert the drops of perspir- ation which course down the forehead from entering the eyes. '-

"Another beauty sid extensively employ- ed in high society is the spplication of

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pigments of various kinds to the eyelashes, perhaps not quite so reprehensible an em- bellishment. This form of toilet is not without risk, and I have seen at least one pair of sparkling eyes' rendered perman- ently glazed and blinded as the result of innocent preparation for a social function.”

This is a case where ignorance of na- ture and her ways is not bliss.

EDITORIAL NOTES

The Women's Institutes. I O 0

Boat-race fans have their choice of

regattas today. I It will be a blessed relief to have School and adjoining streets hard surfaced. It will tend to relieve traffic on parallel streets as well.

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Summer camps and cottages are the goal of sweltering Islanders but visitors seem to find our breezes refreshing even in

the city.

Vega is the brightest star these sum- mer evenings but is far outshone by the planet Venus, rising late in the evening and even by the near-by Lyra. an early rising planet.

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That the wheels of true progress grind slowly. but grind exceeding sure, is the sort of consolation we have in considering: our financial relations with the Federal Government.

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The British Labour Government with a

40 leftist back benchers is still able to carry on simply because. they find it pre- ferable to bear the ills they know than risk flying to those they know not nf-- a general election.

I C John Churchill. First Duke of Marl- borough, ably assisted by Eugene of Savoie, defeated superior numbers of the French at Oudenarde this date 1708. "Corporal John" was long regarded as the greatest

commander England ever produced. ' O 0

Dust is unpopular with those who must use dirt roads but it may be some con- solation to reflect that without it the sky would appear black, rain would not fall, everything would drip moisture and most disconcerting charges of static electricity would build up to shock the unwary. O 0 O O The great oil developments in Alberta promised much in improving Canada's bal- ance of international payments but with Iran likely to be out of the producing field indefinitely, the finds in this country as- sume even higher importance. . O D ”On site" labour on the Trans-Canada Highway, largest construction project joint- ly undertaken by the Federal and Provin- cial Governments, amounts to 582,328 man days (8 hours) since the passing of t c Trans-Canada Highway Act. December 10t . 1949. To date a total of 37.204.884.19 has been paid to Provincial Governments on claims under the Act. C C Meat-starved Britain has exported 406 tons of steak and kidney pie and 623 tons of braised steak to Canada so far this year. Announcing this Food Minister Maurice Webb said that altogether 865 tons of meat had been exported to the Dominion. A Food Ministry spokesman said the amount exported would have made little difference to Britain's meat ration which amounts to 10 pence worth a week-a cut little larger than a match box.

Better late than never. Rudyard Kip- ling. the poet. took two years to Write four lines of poetry for the Sudburv branch of the Canadian Legion in the 1920's. As a result, the verse arrived too late for use on a memorial Cenotaph. It finally was "published" on two memorial cairns in 1939. At a recent meeting, how- ever, the Legion decided to carve it on a marble plaque to be hung in the memorial hall there.

The verse reads:

We. giving all, gained all.

Neither lament nor praise,

Only in all things recall

'Tis fear, not: death. that stays.

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A Senator told the Senate that social- ism has "started something that is going to give us quite a struggle before we stop it." The ”ldea of taking things away from people because you haven't got them was started in Great Britain by the Labor Gov- ernment." That had germinated the idea that the country is superior to the indiv- idual and could take things from him. And when that began free enterprise "flew out the window." "'l'iiat's what is keeping Saskatchewan from dcveio oil," said Senator Thomas Reid (L- ritish Colum- bin). "The oil companies are afraid of be- ing taken over."

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FROM SAMSON AGONISTES 0 how comely it is and how re- vivin-g

To the Spirits of Just men long opprest!

When God into the hands of their dellverer

Put invincible might

To quell the mighty of the Earth,

th' oppressor. he brute and boist'rous force of violent men Hardy and industrious in support

Tyrannlc power, but raging to pursue The righteous and all such as

honor Truth;

He all their ammunition

And feats of war defeats

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mind

And celestial vigour srm'd.

Their armorlcs and magazines contemns.

Renders them useless. while with winged expedition

swift as the lightning glance he executes

His errand on the wicked, who, siirpris'd.

Lose their defence distracted and amaz'd.

-John Milton (1608-'74).

Welcome Assura nces

fGlobe and Mail)

On Wednesday of this week bot h President Truman and Prime Minister Attlee gave ss- sursnces that a carmament is

still the order of the day. Mr. Truman, in his Fourth of July speech. warned his countrymen that the military strength of the Sovict Union will remain I threat to the world's peace even if the fighting ends in Korea. Mr. Attlcc. speaking in the British House of Commons. told ques- tioning members that his Gov- ernment had "no intention of relaxing our efforts to strengthen our defenses."

The need for these declarations was clenr. If a ceasefire is ar- ranged in Korea and a satisfac- tory settlement follows. the free nations will be strongly inclined to chicken their preparedness drive. They are not accustomed to spending their substances on armaments in time of peace. They are not enamored of mili- tary strength for its own sake. They will be tempted to do some wishful thinking and persuade themselves that a successful con- cluslon to the Korean incident guarantees peace: i.n our time.

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Korea has certainly proved. for the first time in history. that the collective security sys- tem can he made to work. The response to the United Nations call to arms. while for from un- animous and in some cases log- gard and inadequate. was per haps strong enough to convince the Communist bloc that the Western nations rnesn' business when they say they will resist aggression.

it is reasonable enough in hope that Korea has had this salutary effect in the Kremlin. To act on this hope ll if it were a certainty would be mad- ness. It would be playing the Soviet. game. Undoubtedly one reason why the Russians called for peace in Korea was the rapid growth in Western strength; They are expectant that poses in Koren will bring s let-down in the Western :ffr:rt..

Mr. Truman. who has the gift of knowing what the ordinary man is thinking. must have seis- sed that '-its people are lookin:! for an early return to normsl living and spending. He showed judgment in timing his stst.-:- ment that thrdanger to Western security and the need for re- srmnment no or great as over. Mr. Mtlee said in effect the some thing and psrhsps in even more trying polttlosl circum- stances: for several of his Min-

"Musicologist"-Ughl

In tidying up the business of the

last week the Parliamentary As- sistsntto the Minister for Ex- ternal Affairs found himself be-' ing asked to define s word that. on first hearing must sound un-: parliamentary. ”What," asked Mr.. Mobure. the Member for Queen's,, "is the meaning of the wordl 'musicologist' in a press release of: the Department of External Af-'. fairs under today's date?"

Mr. Lesnge. the Parliamentary Assistant who was pinch-hitting for the Minister, said he would find out and report later in the day. The House waited. Plowm- sbly bresthlessly. and in between two items of Nstionsl Revenue estimates Mr. Lessge sandwiched the answer. "Musicologlst" thus gets into l-lnnsard between one item reading. "To provide for the purchase and transportation to Yugoslavia of relief supplies. 545,- 000," and Item 322 which is not otherwise Identified.

The Member for Queen's had complained that the word was not to be found in "either of the two volumes of the Oxford diction- sry." (It was s ssfe assumption. anyway, that it wasn't in one of them.) The Parliamentary Assist- ant, or some bright person in his office, win a more diligent re- searcher. for in Webster's he turn- ed up, not "muslcologisl." but the word it. derives from. Now Web- ster finds immortality in Hansard, thus:

"Musicology: music as a branch or knowledge or field of investi- gation, especially historical study of musical documents. Investigat- ion of sources. gathering and or- gonlzntlon of neglected data, etc." A question having been asked in Parliament. and dutifully answer- ed, the House passed on to other business. But might it not profit- a.bly have canted this investigat- ion I. little farther? Might. it not have ssked why an employee of the Department of External M- foirs permitted himself. nr was permitted. to use a word like "muslcologlst"? Webster. with dubious taste, allowed it. The Ox- ford. with finer sensibilities. spurn- ed it. If we were I student. of music we should very much resent being called s muslrologlst. We should feel like the little girl who cried when someone told her she had progenitors. It sounds like something pretty awful.

WOMAN EXECUTIVE

Mrs. Eleanor Rooseiklt served as finance chairman of the New York Democratic Committee from 1924 to 1928.

ntlon is not wholly convincing. in the light of what Mr. Attlec's

colleagues actually said. but ut least it show: that the ruling group in the Lsbor Gover 9

is firmly committed to the arms program. -

What Mr. Truman says for the United States and Mr. Attics says for Britain holds true. of course, for Canada. Indeed it an- plles with sdditlonal force here because this country's resrmn-

House preparatory to adjournment A

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"H- Surveying vessel Gul- nare. Lnptuin Bayfleld, arrived here on Saturday last. The Gul- nare has been engaged for several years past. by directions of the Lords of the Admiralty, in making a survey of the Gulph of St. Law- rence. She sailed again on Tues- dll.V lust for Quebec. and will re- turn hither. we understand. in June next. when a survey of this and neighbouring coasts will be commenced. and which it is ex- pected will fake several years to complete. during which time the families of the officers will re- side at. Charlottetown. where the vessel will be laid up during thc winter months."

-Colonial Herald. Sept. 5. 1840. Captain (afterwards Admiral) Buy- ficld later became a well-known figure in Charlottetown. where he resided from 1841 until his death in 1885., The monument. on Queen Square. erected some years ago by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. commemorate: his work in the Admiralty Sur- vcy Service. Bayfleld Street also perpetuates his mime locally.

Jaunt By Jet

An R. C. A. F. T-33 jet trainer based at Chatham has made I complete tour of the Maritime Provinces in forty-five minutes. reaching a top speed of 650 miles per hour and attaining s height of 37,000 feet. We have never claimed to be as big as Texas. but we never realized that the Marl- tlme Provinces are so small. How- ever. a forty-five minute tour leaves little time to admire grandeur of the st. John River or the beauty of the Bras d'Or Lakes. to hook o salmon in the Miramlchi or to bathe in the Northumber- land Strait. to bask in Atlantic breezes or to absorb the atmos- phere of historic sites.

A forty-five minute tour of these provinces is about es en- lightening and thrilling as a good look at s map. Travelling st. 650 miles per hour seven miles up in the sky is more like a trip to the Moon than it is a tour of the Maritime Provinces.

.. . JULY 11. 1951

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Whst sll governments should seven freight. trains of so on", . resins is that every pension paid memorsble occulon was .5. from the public purse is supposedllaunchins. as well it. might. be. Th; to represent so much food, clothingfrime Minister and Mr. Howe sem snd shelter. and that when its telegams of congratulation, am purchssing power goes down, goV- the Minister of Transport. M, ernments sre pensllzlng the pen-.chevrler, and the Deputy Mink: sinners. Of course. in "hard t.tmes",ter of Public Works. Mr. E. p when prices In low, the fixed- Murphy, were on hsnd to pro: income pensioner profits, but whst.nounce eulogtea. Here. sll Agreed every pensioner would prefer is was a milestone; Canada was bacl: thst. the purchasing power of his in 3 new era of building Ship-. pension should be constant.- Ecl- Genius and driving power bchlml monton Journal. fit all was Scott Mlsener. veteran 0,

the Great. Lakes. who built .1... Brent Ship and owns it and can sail it himself. or have it sailed by 1... son, and who. refusing to yield to ,the conquering years. plans Oillrr and still greater Canadiaii-hum ships for his fleet. of Colonial Steamships. and says that "when

Time wss, swsy back in pre-Con- federation days and later, when Csnsdisns built some of the finest ships in the world, the old "square- rllzers" and "tall ships" that poets made immortal, in verse at any rate. snd which Nova scours skippers sailed to all the seven an 18-hour day begins to the m, sass. Curie steam, Canadian yards'I'll think about retiring." There 3.-' feu silent. snd as the old "tau those who lament that the davs of ships" became but I brave mem- romance are over. that all the 1,, ory. the business of building shlps;('llVldtl8llStS are in their gx-gm... passed to the British islands. As Scott Mlseiier shouts back ..?' lste Is 1913. when the Ognadlanlumphontly; at an age when m " Parliament was debstlng whether-'men call it a day he builds on we ourselves could build the be-iblssest shill. plans on others 1,?” ginning of is small navy. it was EH. restores Canada to a Winston Churchill, then First Lordlwhllill ions ago she held n-..? if? of the Admiralty. who put it oni-Ottawa Journal. I Jd"" paper thst a worship could not be- built here becsuse such bulldlng' required s crane that must lift so many tons. Time marched on. andi Canada, remembermg her old pride; of wooden ships, of A day when, 1:: Trlliht build them to match the

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