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Morning Daily (Founded ln I887) lutbarlud in rim-nail Chen llall, Pout Ofllrl Department, Ottawa.

The Inland liunrdluii Jubllatilng Co. Idltov lllll blnnairlng lrlrwtnr, .l u Burnett. ' Lanna-late Editor, Frank Walker.

States.

"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than

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CHARLOTTETOWN, FRIDAY, DEC. 7H. 1918

llhristmas

This is the month and this the happy morn Wherein the Son of Heaven‘: eternal King, 0f wedded maid and virgin mother born. Our great redemption from above tlid bring; For so the holy sages once dld sing

That He our deadly furfclt should. rclcasc. And ivith Ilis Father work us a perpetual

peace.

ed to receive Marshall dollars, hough

and need of markets is increasing every day.

air-plane in i882, that Russian scientists in- vented the heliocopter, seaplane, jet-propelled plane, radio, the submarine, steam engine, roil- way locomotive, incandescent lamp, jenny, oil tanker, penicillin, caterpillar trac- tor, harvester, combine and adding machine. It would seem that Russia must have been a very advanced country under the Tzars.

That glorious form, that light insufferable,

And that far-beaming blaze of majesty.

Whcrevvith He wolit at Heaven's high couri- oil-table

To sit the midst of ‘Irinal ljiiity.

He laid aside; and, here with us to be,

l-‘orsook the courts of everlasting day.

And chose with us a darksouic house of mortal clay.

_ . EDITORIAL NOTES lt is a far journey both ill space and time

from the hills of old Judea to the high places cf our modern world; and we ourselves, products of a complex civilization, are for removed from those simple shepherds who looked with won- der an the glory of the first Christmas Day. Yet Sunday Firs, Sum“), one, Christmas and for us also the night is full of singing, and we S, Stephcnls- our

also may go in spirit to Bethlehem. For our i w x .~

hope and the hope of all mankind is based on Monday’ Boxing Day’ a Pwvin€iu| but no, a that love of which, as wc believe, we have here National holiday the chicf exemplar, in the form of the Child '- who once lay in a manger.

The old forms of ‘Christmas merrymaking are disparoged by moralists, though there is no question but that they have done much to strengthen homo ties and deepen the sense of family attachment. The pity is that so many who welcome the festivities of the season disre- gard the focts they are designed to commem- orate. Happily Christmas Day leads us to the

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Saturday, Christmas. it k

William Maikepeoce Thockery, British nove- list and humorist died this date i863. His best

known novel is Vanity Fair. i A‘ i

Dominion public servants, civil, military and

not as much as they have been asking. I I I U

Merchants have already had their Christ- mas wish come true with open roads for the busy season. Now skiers and toboggan enthu- siasts will be looking for snow to try out their

in response to it, can if they will rise to higher levels of inspiration and conduct. And when communities ore so influenced, the effect is like an atomic chain reaction, evoking corres-

yeais hence. At that point, unless we have fore- stalled it, we shall face an extremely grave sit- uation. We can forestall it by maintaining our overseas markets on the largest possible scale and by expanding our market in the United

Whatever we may do to build them up, our overseas markets will not be nearly large enoggih e chief of them, Britain, will be smaller by de- liberate government plan. We can hardly ex- pect the other fringe markets to be as large cs they are now, immediately after thgy have ceas- they

should grow later. Meanwhile our production

The Moscow magazine Round the World states that a Russian flew the first heavier-than-

spinning

air, should also be in cheerful mood as a result of their pay increases, albeit the amounts are

pending responses far and wide. "Time," as the saying is, "marches on"; but it is only to the spur of religious faith that it ever marches in the right direction. I

Bethlehem today, as on many occasions in the past, is beset by warring factions, and far removed indeed from the spirit of this holy sea- son. But it is the heart still of Christendom, the shrine of our highest loyalty, the mystical sym- bol of the appropriation of Jesus by every hu- man soul. That is its reality for us, and nothing else much matters.

1f Christ u. thousand times in Bethlehem be

born.

Yet till He‘: burn ln me my soul is all for-

lorn.

This homely verse goes to the root of the matter. lt provides as good a definition as we shall ever be able to find of the meaning of Christmas.

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Veterans Minister Gregg has pointed out that some 10,000 ex-service men will spend this Christmas in hospital. Thanks to the Legion and its friends it will be a happy time even for those in sick bed. "

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Of the Turner Fund of $20,552 collected for the benefit of the widow of Canon J. H. Turner, Anglican Arctic Missionary, who was accidentally killed last year, no less than $11,290, or more than half, was subscribed in Quebec and the Moritimes.

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With the shortest Christmas holiday in years, Dec. 22 to Jan. 3, school children will be in a receptive frame of mind for calendar re- form. Proponents of a permanent calendar point out that holidays are always on the same day

"America was the frontier, as truly as the coun-

of the week, presumably Mondays with an extra Year Day and perhaps Leap Year Day also in- serted.

At this season we take pleasure in extend- ing to all our readers, young and old, at home and abroad, the time-honoured Yuletide greet- ing. While with us it's Merry Christmas, in the language of the Garden of Eden brought here by our early Highland settlers it was Noelaig Subliacli.’

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The Canadian Clothiers Association

Historic Associations

prices should spiral still further upward?

Newfoundland is like Sicily, another island, * Q

in that it embraces a great deal of history with- in narrow confines, says the New York Times. All the nations of Western Europe had an interest in this triangular bit of land, the landfall of sailors bound from Europe to the New World. Here the seamen of all nations found a base to

refresh their bodies and replenish their plus" income to prevent it from being spent children Wm, their Sleds and

supplies, and ris often happened, lo cs- unwisely. ' . . itiltesccitggloxfngtgybatltliyfgggggldllg:

cope privateers or pirates. The coast _ “who Nafim for the“ Wm,”

from cape Cod “Newfoundland had ms Con» LllldéSlgfik wosrthlnegirly_$hl_,400,|ll00lhos ILeen joys! r

mon destiny. Recorded voyages and explorations “Pm” m") cl)" '1" W" m l e “'5' l "°_° December. even in the era of years. One-third has been bought by farmers in "atomic" wonders. offers more

are few compared to the total of European od- venturers who at one time knew the devious coast of Maine, Nova Scotia and tlie great Gulf of St. Lawrence. What happened here through many years came under the head of business secrets. * Ship captains who found good spots for fish- p,_ pom’, the (rarefied oppone," or ing and trading with the Indians were the lost in the world to talk about it.

From the date of John Cabot's discovery of Newfoundland down to the American Revolution, nearly three centuries, one can say that there was o distinct Atlantic community. For the Eur- opean nations which faced the Western Ocean

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"Y DEYOIId "l8 All€gll€l1l€S WOS the ITOHIICI’ I01’ bg q Tong Thgye’; hgpg for con5gyyqfi§m_ Americans of o later period. When the break , ,, , came, a port only of the Western World cut political tier with Europe. But geography was not changed. That long arc of stepping-stones from New England, to Nova Scotia, to New; foundlond, to Greenland to Iceland and on ta the continent of Europe still stands as in the days of John Cabot. Down in Washington just now representatives of Western European nn- ‘ tions, the United States and Canada are devis- ing defenses of the great arc against forces little dreamed of in the great Age of Discovery.

Trade Situation

The Winnipeg Free Press calls attention to the fact that apart from our trade with the United States over half of our total exports are being financed by the Marshall Plan. That is to soy, over half the payment we receive for our goods shipped overseas comes in United States dol- lars which our customers have aecured os gifts or loans from the United States. Our prosperity today that’ rem on the Marshall Plan. The Marshall Plan will end less tlron four

toriol that Britain is "not exactly popular" i

loss of British markets

United States market

violently, it says.

is apt to

pre- dicts, among other things, that three out of four men will do without a vest and in all cases they'll pay five or ten percent more ‘for o new suit. Dress reformers should have tried that trick a long time ago. But what will men drop if

Finance Minister Abbott has called for in- creased savings and investment by Canadians ta m finance "a new and more dynamic period in our national development." The difficulty is to re- 'concile this with the policy of taking away "sur-

Canada and the United States while the remain- der was sent to all parts of the world. Scottish livestock enjoys world-wide renown for its high

the Hon, George Drew in Carleton, confessed in the campaign that what he had said twelve years ago, that labelled him as a Marxian, is not now his belief. Ho is now, apparently, a sort of watered-down Socialist like George Ber- nard Shaw. Maybe in another twelve years he'll be a sound Liberal, like Mr. St. Laurent and The Printed Word. And twelve years after that he’!

London's Financial Times says in on edi-

Canada following the United Kingdom's reduc- tion of Canadian food imports in contracts for I949. "Yet, curiously enough the proposal to effect further cuts this year has apparently oc- casioned no ruffling of tempers," the paper says. "This no doubt is portly explained by a bet- ter understanding in Ottawa of the nature of the gravity of Britain's exchange problems. But it also suggests that the trend of Anglo-Canad- ian trade relations no longer occasions keen anxiety in the Dominion as it did o year ogo." The paper adds the warning suggestion that only a little probing is needed to sliaw the pre- sent situotion hos disadvantages and dangers for both countries. To Canada the prospective must be "matter of grave concern." The short-term switch to Un- ited States markets afoul: on easy solution but in the long run "it may prove an acute source of weakness." Long experience shows that the fluctuate

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PUBLIC FORlJM

This column la open to the discussion by correspondents o! question: of interest. The Guardian doea not necessar- lly endorse the opinion of correspondent;

Kareem-twosome‘ LONGEVITY CANDIDATES

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I would like to add one more name to your Longevity column. It ls Mrs W. Arthur Wrfght, Au- Kustlne Cove who is ln her 91st.

year.

1 am Sir, etc. D. W. MURPHY. Cape ‘Traverse.

AN APPRECIATION

SiI.——Al this Joyous season, I wish to express my gratitude to all llldlfilillllls and organization; who have so generously supported the 1948 annual Christmas tuber- culosis scat sale.

Thwah many individual contri- butions have not. yet. been receiv- ed, the response to the seal sale this year has so far surpassed our expectations.

In the midst of Qirlstmas joy, remember this. no home ts safe from tuberculosis until all homes are safe.

On behalf of the Prince Ed- ward Island Tuberculosis League, my sincere wish to the citizens of this Province 1s that they have a

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very merry Christmas and health and happiness during the coming year.

, I am, Sir. etc,

‘R. EARL TAYIJOIT. President P. E. I. T. B. League.

Charlottetown.

IN DECEDEER

Sir. -_- The upland, glade and has changed its robes ol’ faun and grceii to one of resplendent white- ness; only 1n the sheltered wood- lats has that early taste of "Old Man Whiter" lelt a streaky trace of fall. The now silent trees point their frozen fingers to a pale blue sky, like sentlnels; their foliage. once verdant, now lies snug, en- riching the breast of Mother Earth. and when the wind blows their branches rnsp discordant notes picked up from jubilant songsters, long since departed, whilst nesting in the summer season. The earth round their huge trunks lies numb and still, but not dead.

Across the wlllte expanse of field and fen sleep the myrlads of cells that make this earth. atom by atom; in a temporal rest, a- waiting to build for Nature more largely and more beautifully next year. The insects, when; are they? Passing through their cycle, like the strange brevity of man from birth till death. Then. too, 1n December, the swift chill babbling stream -be- comes sluggish as King Frost claims its surface for its own; and soon does stream, pond, river and lake, according to its expanse, be- come solid, glittering back the sun- light, liquidating all the summer traces of tlnkllng waters. babbling brooks and brimming rivers.

How about the days? Scareely does the sun rise than lb wanes into the long evening; leafless shadows dull the brightness of the snow and fade as twilight closes in. Over to the eastward, behind the hedgerow it seems, rises the orange moon to challenge all tlie stillness and blend her chilly beams with eairtlfs white robe below; and one by one, the stars becleck the sky as sparks burning from a midnight furnace. S0 this goes on. night after night. year after year. How small we are" this kingdom we call Mali. how small beside the realm of Nature!

December. too, -— dreary, cold and dead as ‘it may seem — comes low flitting the festive sea- son, Christmas. proclaiming the Nay-born. There too look for the

through Nature's changing atoms than ever we will have the science tc fathom. December, Lhe tenth n-onth of the old Roman year, was made by man; but man cannot ever, with all his present know- ledge. adorn the earth's surface with a blanket of chaste beauty as does an hour's snowfall, or can he

leave the intricate and delicate carvings on our window-panes, when you and I arise on this

Dumber morning. l am, Slr. ete., E. A. B. Cornwall, P. E. I.

T00 MUCH MONEY

Slr. - We learn that our Ot- taiwa government has had p. largf! surplus over. after managing the n nation's affairs for the last eight months - some slx or seven hun- dred mllllon dollars. Those who contribute most to such a favor- able balance. are each paying on rm income that may be as high as two mlllcns a year, or as low or lower than two thousand. There ls a minority group that 1s not taxable by reason of the meager- ncss of what they earn. But this unlaxable group may be paying from two to flve hundred dollars yearly on account of price infla- tlan. This money of theirs goes through the hands of the power- l'u1 capitalists. before u part of it reaches the Federal treasury un- der the name of aces; poflla. This large mrplus could be used to cut. down the national debt, or ln preparing for World War Three.

Most of us would say to elim- inate the chance of a |urp’us by easing the tax payer. But before adopting the latter plan, we should look around to ate lf any human

THE aux FARMER MUSES r0 IDS MULE

gleni ‘mpercewed “We we slepk- Tllie fnrmei~ of the taxes shook his

lllllid "The levy oii these bleak Judelm ‘hills

Will hardly pay the scribes their salt 531d bread-

Olcl Charlottetown (Ant! P. I. I.)

A CH RISTMAS DINNER

Oii Christmas Day, 1900, British Columbia must have seemed very remote, yet even then Prince Ed- ward Islanders had found their way there in considerable numbers, and niziny of them gathered that day at the British Columbia Hotel at Greenwood and staged a happy Isl- and Christmas reuiiloii. Some of them llvcil in Greenwood. some come from Phoenix; some were

Help on more woodl-the wind ls chill;

But let lt whlatle as it will,

We'll keep our Christmas merry atlll.

Each age has deemed the newborn year

The flttelt time for festal cheer. Even, heathen yet. the savage Dane At Iol more deep the mead dld drain;

High on the beach his gelleys drew, And feasted all hlu pirate crew; Then in his low and pine-built hull. Where shields and axes decked the wall, .

They gorged upon the half-dressed steer;

Cnroused in- seas of sable beer; While round, tn brutal Jest. were thrown

The half-gnawed rlb and marrow- bone;

Or listened all. in grim delight, While Scalds yelled out the joys of

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8 t. Then forth 1n frenzy would they hle. While wildly-loose their red locks

fly.

And. dancing round the blazing pile. They make such barbarous mirth the while

M but Iflllht to the mind recall The boisterous Joys of Odln’| hall.

Arid well our Christian sires of old

Loved when the year its course had rolled

And brought bllthe Christmas back again

With all lts hospitable train. Domestic and rellgloue rite

Gave honour to the holy night; On Christmas eve the bells were . "ma:

0n Christmas eve the mass ""182

Th" only nllbt. 1n all the year, Saw the atoled priest the chalice

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The damsel donned her klrtle sheen;

The hall was dressed with holly

green; F orthzgo the wood dld merrymen T0 Esther in the mistletoe.

Christmas in the Olden Time

From "Marmion": by Sir Walfer Scott

And l-lerorl‘s hands are deep in Caesar's tllls. w

ilds, others were seekers of for-

tune ln the uttermost parts of

Where nothings happened sliiee the days of Lot.

Nor ever will, save maybe to the sheep."

That night. as lnto Bethlehem he rode. '

His mule grew tense, then he be- came aware

0f fs-lnt far music. like an heralds

e upper ulr.

Uneasy now, he missed din-

at the gate?

the inn

—-Earl Bird.

ad And some strange light suffused the

the tavern

What means this crowd. all silent

Then noted from the courtyard of

A lantern in the stable burning late.

The" Opened wide the barons hall

wuiidcrcrs from the surrounding T" “SS8, tenant Se“. and aw

Power laid his rod of rule aside: And Ceremony doffed her pride.

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The lord, underogatlng, m". The vulgar game of “post and pa], ~- An hailed with uncontrolled dellghi And general voice, the happy night’ That to the cottage, as the crown Brought tidings of salvation dowri,

The fire, with well- rlQd i , Dlled. )1 o” m“

Went roaring up the chimney wide.‘

'I'he huge hall-table's oaken face l

Scrubbed tlll it shone, the 33y}! grace,

Bore then upon its mustve been]

No mark to part the squire from 1011i. '

Then was brought brawn,

By old blue-coated serving-mun;

Then the grlrn hour's-head frownsq on h h

Crested with bays and roggmu-y

Well can the green-garbed ranger tell

How, when, and where the monster

Ill the lusty

fell,

What dogs before till death n; tore,

And all the batting of the boar.

The wassall round. in Iood brawl bowls,

Garplshcd with ribbons, trowll.

There the huge llrloln rocked; hug

blithely

by Plum-porridge stood and Chrlltma; le‘

D . Nor failed old Scotland to produce At such high-tide, her lavory goon‘ Then came the merrfmaakers in. And cgrols roared with bllthesomd In; lf unmelodlous was the long, lt was a hearty note, and strong. Who lists may tn their humming see Traces of ancient mystery; White skirts supplied the marque;-