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calm and Managin Director. in A. um? i Assaciau Editor. rnaa Walker.

CIRCULATION

Mayor 1-Ioude's willingness to support

conscription, the Star points out, is limited in two iiespects. He would back it only "if needed"; , In, this his View does not differ materially from that of the majority of English-speaking Canadians. He himself to support such a policy only in a war against Communism.

pledges

Because of his outspoken opposition to

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A e A ti-airie expert Iarvthlt the chief cause of road accidents is the "me first" attitude of drivers. Everybody wants the right of way

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and regards the highway as having been built for his personal con- venience.

Here I recall a. lecture on "Road

towards self does not have to be cultivated. It comes ready made in somewhat the same" manner as freckles thpugh. of course. it is Behaviour" to which I listened in much more democratic than the lat. a big American city some seven o'r'ter. I do not claim any gym eight years ago. The speaker, I. well knowledge in i child psychology, known psychologist, remarked that but I have had enough to do with inihis opinion "96 out of every 100 children in a mofeuional way in "normal" drivers would delibera.te- conclude that selfishnua is one or ly kill someone on the highway if their innate characteristics. It: does they were sure that they theinsel- not always do harm and sometimes ves would suffer no harm and get it adds an extra touch of love. away with it." The 596 "almoi-- blenees. Just the same. those kind. mal" drivers were the ones who l.v.Iunl-3 Ind lrlndmotliers who exercised care and caution. Speak of seine particular child as 0 - - being "utterly unselfish" are more obviously charitable than resume in their appraisal.

Children have more talents in the art of diplomacy than an gen. ernlly recoimised and mid younger they are the more gifted in this respect they are likely to be. It 1,. not at all difficult for a five year old to make self interest look like altruism. much to the confusion of his doting relatives. They cam, help it. of course, any more than the relatively few can help hlVlll( freckles.

"Coven Prince Edward Inland like the 40" national registration and conscription for ' service within Canada, Mayor Houde was interned during the last war. His new out- look is seen as representing a distinct re- versal of thinking. An almost perennial mayor of Montreal for the last 25 years, and MP for Montreal Papineau in the last parliament, Mayor Houde must be regard- ed as a spokesman for Quebec French- Canadian opinion. In that sense, as the Star points to his pronouncement as sig-

nificant.

"The strongest memory is weaker than v the weakest Ink".

CHABLOTTETOWN TUESDAY. OCT. 21. I958

Strike Postponed .

Approval will be general at the decision )i the local branch of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers to post- pone strike 'action against the Island Tele- phone Company. The union has already received a favorable decision y arbitrators in their dispute. It was the opinion of the Public Utilities Commission that it still had the responsibility of deciding whether the increase recommended was warranted. That opinion has been confirmed by recent legis- lation. .

That it would have been a mistake ioi strike against the company while the com- pany was prevented by the supervisory com- mission from immediately granting the in- crease is obvious but it takes cool heads and good will sometimes to do the right thing even when its advantage can be dem- onstrated. The Electrical Workers have shown that they have a sense of responsi- bility. At the same time they make it quite clear that they reserve the right to strike should thcy be dissatisfied with con- ditions after the ruling of the Public Utili-

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EDITORIAL NOTES

His reasoning was a bit subtle and complex, as psychological arguments are apt to be, but the gist of his thesis was that once a man (or woman) got behind a wheel he was almost certain to revert to savagery. when a ques- tioner wanted to know what he would suggest as a remedy he re- plied (partly facetiously. no doubt): "Allow no one to drive except those who are in the fifty to sixty age group. Before fifty they "are too young to be well mannered and after sixty they arl too old." (In- cidentally. another question brought out the information that the lee- turer himself had just turned 60.) To tell the truth I was a little suprlsed at the 50-60 reference, for it is pretty generally supposed that it is when he is fn that general man may be expected to do

' ” ” things. Like smok- ing before breakfast, for example, or burning the candle at both ends.

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New England fishermen have not yet realized that the regular supply of fresh fil- lets from this country is creating a new and very wide market for fish products. Thinking in terms of a small and rigid mar-

ket they are anxious to exclude competition. . C O O

In case any of my readers should be ready by now to putsne down .. a virtual child traducer, I hasten to suggest that selfishness is my in itself, an undesirable trait. In: deed. without it a child would be sorely handicapped from the dsy ,0 ::l:ll:TVa:ilgnlnV:huie:lt lit ''km to mt

c a generally .1. lowed to be the "first law of iia. ture. And no,leea an authority than Shakespeare stated that "sell. love is not so vile a sin as self.

Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet and professor of English literature, died this date 1938. His poetry is complex and gen- erally dramatic in form. It expresses a metaphysical sense of life,.with something of the energy of life itself. ”Deborah" is a tragedy of an attempt to shape life which falls. -”Phoenix" expresses the shock of the actual world coming upon a group of ro-

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PUBLIC FORUM There is no doubt that this "me

led to the public by the various utilities.

'ihcir' colonies of bees have been destroyed

. rest .0! the. Dominion. ,

. lnTthe.event'of a conflict with Communist

ties Commission.

One feature of the law here seems to be unique. The question of wages and working conditions must be argued before the same authority as those of rates charg-

Probably nowhere else is there such a di- rect link between the two sides of public utility operation. C

You can't Win

From out of the Tennessee hills comes this remarkable story of a fool saved from his own folly. The New York Times re- ports that an exceedingly conscientious and pious farmer, looking for a wife, turned away from all the gentle-natured, complai- sant maidens of the countryside and took the meanest and most contentious woman he could find.

Asked to explain his peculiar choice, the religious farmer said that life was run- ning too smoothly for him and he felt that he needed to have some cross to bear, some- thing that would act as a scourge to keep him humble and contriie. A shrewish wife, he thought would supply the deficiency.

But the farmer reckoned not with the siubborness of woman-kind. His wife learn- ed his odd reason for marrying her and, greatly offended, decided to revenge her- self upon her humbling inate. She accord- ingly bccamc the most agreeable and duti- ful of all wives.

"No man can use me for ii pack horse to carry him into heaven," she declared.

Farmers And ilses

A group of apiarisis in New York State are suing the Department of ASI'iCl11t"l'e for unstaitcd damages because the depart- ment has been spraying the land with D. D. T. in a campaign against tent caterpillars and gypsy moths, the result being that

weakened.

Nearly everyone likes honey and knows that it is manufactured by bccs, but. says.- ilie St. Thomas Times-Journal, it is not sufficiently realized that honey bees play a vital part in, food production. If these bees became extinct there would be very little beef or pork, and nearly all vegetables .vould disappear. Wind plays some part in he pollination of thegfodder animals eat and in the growth of legumes, but the 1liiln source of pollination is the bee. Were .t not for this, our diet would have to con- sist of the kind of food the people of China have where -there are no bees-rice. millet, fish and fowl. Nature co-operates by mak- Eng flowers colorful or perfumed. ihereby attracting bees to the ovules.

Mayer llsade on conscription

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. The Toronto Star sees it as (sign of increasing national unity that Mayor Camil- ilen Ivmude of Montreal is ready to support conscription should it be needed in. a fight against Communism. Compulsory military overseas service has long been one of the chief divisive issues between Quebec and the V Mayor Houde told the Canadian Club in London, Ontario, that

I ' he was "prepared to wage a very . s to saw in Quebec."

' - tinarrosral in the

,. I t of relations between French- " V5 and those of pi-lush

mantles.

Charges that Canadian schools have 'in- cluded too many ”frills" such as swimming pools are repudiated by the Canadian Edu- cation Associaiion, backed by the result of a survey made by that organization. It was found that out of some thirty thousand elementary and secondary schools in Can- ada only 36 have swimming pools, one of them in a school for handicapped children.

There are many reasons given for the non-supply of goods or services. In this part of the world th explanation is apt to be that there is not sufficient demand for the article or service in question. It is otherwise at Paddington Station of the nationalized British railways, according to the Letter Review. There an attendant explained that waffles are no longer serv- ed because, "Too many people Wanted

them."

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How A poet came to be is described by James Kirkup, the poet, speaking in a EEC programme. "I -remember that as a child I wanted to be a great film star. then a veiitriloquist, an actor, an explorer and a musician. None of these ambitions were realised. Then one evening I suddenly wrote a long piece of blank verse, and I decided to be a poet. It had so many ad" vantages: I needed no expensive equip- ment, no private lessons, and I could do it sitting down."

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Dr. Errol S. Notting. V.S., B.V.Sc., D.V.M., whose death occurred yesterday. was well and favourably known throughout the Province. For over 30 years he serv- ed with the Health of Animals Division, De- partment of Agriculture. retiring as senior officer two years ago. However his services were much in demand and he carried on a small private animal practice. He .served in the First Great War and rose to the rank of major. His passing will be learn-

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'ed with deep regret and sympathy extend-

ed the family.

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More emphasis on leadership training programs and membership training were the highlights of a fall planning cbnference of the Junior Chamber of Commerce held in Fredericton. It was also decided to break the Maritime region into geographical di- visions to foster co-operation of neighbor- ing groups. This appears a logical move for it is only through co-operation and sym- pathetic understanding of one another's problems that the Maritimes can fully take advantage of the claim that the ”20th cen-

tury belongs to Canada". 0

The lack of good roads to foster com- mercial communications is not peculiar to

a young couniry'like Canada. Only re- I

cently angry industrialistsiwere prodding the government to get Britain's roads in order. The campaigners found is powerful new", ally in the Duke of Edinburgh who stated at a London motor show: "Our roads are 'among the world's most congested and confused. Congested roads are not only a

danger to life-and limbo-they are slowly,

stifling commercial commuiilcatisns.” All this serves to point up the fact that plan-

ners of our main arteries should be'men of "NIH. vision and that construction should be such as to meet problems not immediately ap-

parent in our own age.

This column Is open to the discussion by correspondents of questions of interest. The Guardian does not necessar- ily endorse the opinion of correspondents.

FREEDOM and CAPTIVITY

sir,--Maybe this business of first oppressing children in class and then easing up on them bit by bit as recommended by a recent cor- respondent works. It doesn't necessarily follow that it is good for anyone other than the teacher.

In the fashion prescribed a child may well be prepared for R totalitarian stats-. First. complete subjugation. Then a doling out of little freedoms which belonged to him from the beginning. but hav- ing been forgotton are readily ac- cepted as "gifts". The benevolent dictator hands out more rewards to those who show loyalty. And so it 20661 . 'nie wild ittle animal soon sets in the habit of captivity. Even when offered freedom he may stay around by choice. Pity the creature, with no fight left, should he have to return to an earlier environment and enter the struggle to exist.

As the human becomes an adult he is let out of the cage and must set his course. If he has the iii- clination, he can keep on a fsafe" path through life. allowing himself to be caught and tamed. .i0inll1E a submissive and colourless mass blindly following whatever voice of authority there be.

Please don't think I have any- thing agalnst a tcnclicr keeping a jump ahead of his class. But if more children read the Public Forum they would be a lot smarter than from reading comic books.

I am, Sir, etc. "GASTRIC"

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sir, his looks was kind o' hard to forget.

He was a spare man.

An old farmer.

Everything was all right. you knmv.

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man iii. all-

Not in no ways:

Thin-faced. long-necked:

And a swcllin' kind of a thick Zip like.

"And he was a jolly old fellow- always cheerful:

He wasn't so high but the boys could talk to him their own ways.

While I was servin' at the Hospital

He'd come in and say, 'You. look nice in here.'

Praise us up, you know.

And he'd bend over and talk to the

boys- And held talk so good to 'em - so close-

That's why I call him a farmer. I don't mean that eveiytshing about him wasn't all right, you understand, " lt'a Just - well. 1 was a farmer. And he was my neighbour, my. body's neighbour. guess even you young folks would a' liked him."

--Witter Bynner.

but when the morning was new emu. leads led on an slaorer but the IBM knew not that It was .

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the rig-ht.Ile of His ship. ind ye shall find. They voast -therefore, and paw

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The way things are shaping up in Canada we've got to get more schools for less money.

i -Farmer's Advocate

In the past husbands and wives have used the epitaphs to record private opinions of their marriage partner which they dared not ex- press in life. lends have record- ed for posterity the failings of the departed. while others, lacking a sense of the English language, have created unconscious humour in epitaph form. one cannot re- gret the passing of such epltapha as: "He was always so neat and clean: He served at sea in a sub- marine," which spring. no doubt. from a genuine desire to pay trib- ute to the virtue and courage of a departed relative, but which, in later years, are the subject of un- fortunate ridicule.

-Hamilton Spirctator

Alfons Seldenham of Munich is credited with having dreamed up ll. novel device to cut down drunken driving. The gadget con- sists of an alcohol meter attached to the dashboard of a car and wired into the electrical system. Before a driver is able to start his car, he must breathe into the met- or. If his breath is so powerful with alcohol that the meter is violently activated. the car will not start. If the meter registers only a mild degree of alcohol, the car will start but the gadget will keep the car from going more than 35 ml'les an hour. The invention seems to be pretty good. But we wonder if it would be sharp enough to do its" job in spite of chloro- phyll pills. and the more ancient camouflage of cloves or the more desperate one of onions,

-Winnipeg Tribune

Maybe "Dominion" is out of fashion; maybe "Royal" is out of fashion. But is "Canadian?" The Canadian Broadcasting Corpora- tion seems to think so. Except at starting-un time in the morning and shutting-down time at night, it now announces itself simply by "This is the C.B.C."-a set of initials which already stand for among other things. Oanadian Bread Company and Canadian Business College and which could just as easily stand for Conscl'- dated Broadcasters of Chicago.

The Q. B. C.'s shyness about lndcntiiy might not be so irritat- ing if the material between stai- inn-bmaks were readily indent- lflable as Canadian. But it seems inexcusable when the theme son: of the show immediatelv preceding the national news-a s-how broad- cast from tho capital of Canada. no less-is "Take Me Back To Colorado." - -Hamilton Spectator

draw it for the multitude of fishes. Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Pe- ter, It Isgthe Lord.

INOIES Bo);-..The Way.t

-Jrliers is something particu- arly heart-warming in a news item from Transcona telling how fellow- workers rallied to the aid of :i O. N. R. shopmsn who was strick- en with polio last July. Mike Gennlck was building a. new home for his wife and 'young daughter when afflicted. His friends not only raised the money to purchase ma- terials but. in their spare time completed the four-room home. The house-warrnlng will have to be delayed. however, Mike as yet can only remain out of an iron lung for three minutes daily, but there is an encouraging report that he is steadily improving.

' -Winnipeg Tribune

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From The Islander. Sept. 28. 1864: We have not. for many years.

been blessed with such a har- vest as we are now gathering. It is computed that the yield. of wheat and cats is at least one- fourth. if not one-fifth, in ex- cess of last year. and the quant- ity sown was unusually large. The potato crop also promises well. We are pleased to report that the Normal school notwithstanding the efforts in certain quarters to cast odium upon it, fully retains its popularity. The number of stu- denis preparing themselves for the office of teacher is 2'1. and there are upwards of -26 others attend-

iing Mr. Webster's department. be-

sides 48 under Miss MaoKinnonla care. making the total number of pupils in attendance about ioo. We are glad to learn that the Amallpox patients at Long Creek are progressing favorably. McLean's house-converted mu: an hospital -being considered too close to the highway, a temporary building has been erected on the rear of Mac- Conne1l's farm. Every precaution has been taken. and no expense spared to prevent the spread of the disease, and we hope with success. A A branch of the North British and Mercantile Insurance Company has Just been established in Char- lottetown. Every information will be given to parties desirous of in- suring. by G. W. Dealois, Esq, a- gent, at his office,,west end of Grafton street. I It was rumored in town yester- day that a Confedemte privaieer was lying in the harbour of Pug- wash, Nova Bootia. We are in- clined to disbelieve the -99 t as all sorts of rumours are con- stantly afloat relative to American

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