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Authorised on Second Clan Mull Pout ofiloo Department. Uflmru. The Island Guardian Publilhinl Co.

rresldenl and Auocialo Ediwr. Inn A Burnett, Associate Editor. Frank Walker.

CIRCULATION "Coven Prince Edward Island like the dew?

:'Thl Strongest Memory is Weaknr Ilion tho Weakest Ink".

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The personal contest between Gcnerall Eisenhower and Governor Stevenson for the American presidency, notes the Globe and Mail, has proved so lively and dra- matic that not much attention has been paid, at least in Canada, to the Congres- sional election going on at the same time What direction is taken by American pol- icy in the next few years, however, may depend almost as much on the calibre and make-up of the new Congress as on the quality and opinions of the man in the White liouse. An entirely new House of Representatives will be chosen today; the House has only a two-year term. In this branch of the national legislature, which can play a dominant role in taxing and spending policies, the Democrats have held 235 seats to the Republicans' 200 since the election of 1950. Thirty-five Senators are to be elected out of a total membership of ninety-six. The Republicans must hold all their present seats and capture three from the Democrats to have the barest possible Senate majority.

A curious feature of the campaign, from the Canadian point of view, is that sup- porters of General Eisenhower, confident of his personal triumph at the polls, are extremely doubtful if his party can win control of the Senate and not too sure about the House. It has happened twice since the Civil War that an incoming Pres- ident has faced a House in which his sup- porters were a minority. If history is any guide, the chances are that an Eisenhower

1 victory will mean a Republican House but this is not a certainty. As for the gaining of those three Democratic seats in the Sen- ate, the New York Times says that most impartial observers regard this as ”an al- most impossible task."

The conclusion is that if it turns out to be President Eisenhower, he will have to work with and rely on 8. Congressional coalition of men who happen to agree with him. But the same will be true of Mr. Stevenson if he is the victor. President Eisenhower would not have the backing of Republican isolationists in foreign policy but, as an offset, he could count on the lib- eral Democrats. President Stevenson would get little or no support from the south- ern Democrats in domestic policy buttlie could rely on liberal Republicans like Sen- ator Morse of Oregon.

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Libel And Slander in Britain

The developmenttof the law of libel took a curious twist at some early period. While the Common Law generally tended to evolve principles which could be applied to the changing nature of cases, the law of libel hardened into detailed rules and lists without very much in the way of unifying and life-giving principle. That has been very largely changed in Britain. by Lcver's ' bill which restores much of the fluidity of the rest of the Common Law to libel in Britain as the Defamation Act. did in this Province. The English bill goes further than our i own act. protecting fair comment but both are a vast improvement on the older state of the law.

While publishers of newspapers, books and magaziiies receive a reasonable amount of protection under the new law th'e own- ers and operators of radio stations are de- prived of the very preferred position they held when broadcast defamation was treat- ed as merely word of mouth slander. It is . now classed along with the more strictly 5 controlled subject of written or printed

libel.

Fire, War And Agrlciihuri

, v .,Communist'hordes smashing at key . V . Allied-held hills north of Chorwon in Cen-

. , tral- Korea bring the fire of war to a f ” ' - tumbled countryside where in time of peace I

fire has long been an important, if waste- ful, aid to agriculture. Instead of clearing his land by cutting trees and grubbing stumps, says the National Geographic So- ciety, the -Korean hill country farmer all too often merely fired the woods, then planted his crops of millet, barley, oats, hemp. and potatoes in the smoldering fields thus made. when the soil wore out after in few years, the farmer abandoned" the plot and erosion and - v

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prowled the original forests have long since fled. By way of contrast, lush rice pad- dies cover the floors of the valleys between the Chorwon hills, including the "White Horse Mountain" and "Arrowhead Ridge" of the eommuniques. This far north a fast- maturing variety of rice is planted. Only one crop per year is harvested as against two in the warmer south.

None of the mountains in the Chorwon battle zone stands higher than 2,000 feet, although steepness and craggy irregularit- ies make the hills appear twice their stature to soldiers fighting their way up under fire. Militarily, the elevations are import- ant to an invader striking down the long and comparatively easy Chorwon Depres- sion from the east coast port of Wonsan, since they command the valley floor. Twice in this conflict the Reds have secured the hills and gone on to Seoul along this route. traversed in bygone centuries by other Chinese and Mongolian invaders. Higher Korean mountains are those in the Red- held north, and the Diamond Mountains hugging the east coast. The latter, soaring to more than 4,000 feet, have long been famed for their scenery. They have been visited through the ages by countless va- cationcrs from Far Eastern countries, in- cluding pilgrims going to centuries-old Buddhist monasteries in the lofty fast- nesses.

EDIIURVINAL NOIES The gardeners dfi7lie Gulf are certainly

showing their mettle at the Maritime Win-

ter Fair.

Canada's posties, says the Montreal Gazette, will blossom forth next year in new grey uniforms not unlike those of the R. C. A. F. in colour, lighter in weight, and more serviceable. I It is. naturally, good news that Agri- culture Minister J. G. Gardiner has an- nounced the continuance of freight assist- ance on feed grains for another year. To obtain the full benefit of the policy, how- ever, its continuance should be announced for more than a single year at a time. 0 U I I

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Recruiting seems to be going ahead to the satisfaction of the Department of Na- tional Defence. Figures released indicate that the strength of the armed forces stood at 98,961 at the end of September which was the best recruiting month since last April.

There will be a very distinguished" gath- ering in Oxford next summer. Rhodes scholars from many parts of the world will gather there to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Cecil Rhodes and the 50th an- niversary of the founding of Rhodes schol- arships. The reunion takes place Jun? 29 to July 2.

In upholding its historical independ- ence, the House of Commons makes a prac- tice of having a bill of some kind read after hearing the Speech from the Throne and before getting down to work on settling an address in reply. The trend today is to do more and more real business before debat- ing the draft address. t

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Britain's first Food Flying Squad Con- voy for civil defence emergency feeding has been handed over to the Women's Volun- tary Services. It is fully equipped to pro- vide hot meals for the population of the North Midlands in the event of atom bomb attack. American civil defense authorities have been studying British methods of large

scale feeding during an emergency. 0 O 0

Restrictions on4Canadian meats are be- ing lifted. The U. K. Ministry of Food an- nounce that passengers arriving in the U.K. from Canada may now bring in up to 10 lbs. of uncooked meat for their personal or household use. Parcels of up to 22 lbs. of uncooked meat may also be sent from Can- ada to Britain as unsolicited gifts.

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Another "first" for British ll9I'0 engin- eering-the Rolls-Royce Conway by-pass engine-is claimed by the United Kingdom Information Office. Details of design and performance remain secret. In a by-pass engine only a proportion of the air is com- pressed and heated, the resultant lower velocity of jet discharge giving a higher propulsive efficiency and lower fuel con- sumption.

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Jakob Ludwig Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, German composer. died this date 1847. Of a wealthy and cultured family, he enjoyed magnificent vitality and capacity for work. Success came at the very start of his career. By the time he was twenty he had already produced his famous octet, three piano quartets, two Ionatu, two symphon- ies, and the "Midsummer Nightll Drum" overture, besides a host of songs. on open and many short pieces, Hll Iucoell con- tinued until his death at forty. He was. however. not notable for innovation. al- though his contribution to the of

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The haws cling to the thorn, Shrivelled and red:

The limbs long dead

Clutch at a leaf long torn--

It taps all day on the spikes

As the spume licks over the dikes.

The rccris crrak in the dawn By the dead pond:

Dry tongues respond

From grasses yellow and drawn; And ever scourged by the wind, The alders clatter and grind.

Vines furred with the frost String from Lhe wall; Their bones recall

Summer leaves long lost. Cricket and fly and bee And their low rnclcdy.

No bird walls to the waste

Of scentless snow.

Where streaming low

The steel-blue shadows haste: But through the hard night. The dead moon takes flight.

-Lloyd Roberts.

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Then departed Tnrsus, for tn seek Saul: when hn hiul found him, he brought. him unto Antioch. And it. came to pass. that 3 whole your they assembled themselves with the church. and taught much peo- ple. And the disciples were eul- lcd Christians first in Antioch.

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This column is open to the discussion by correspondent- of questions of interest. Tho (iunrdlnii does not. necessar- ily endnrsc the opinion of wuclpondenis. .

Mom: INFORSIVHIATION WANTED-

sir.-lt appears to me that our leaders of the Island Federation of Agriculture are not. too willing to tell the farmers why they re- fused to give moral support to those who were trying to build a public killing plant for livestock on P. E. Island. I wonder if they thought. this might hurt the farm- ers? Yet. again I always believed that opposition was the life of trade.

During 1. meeting of the Fed- eration in Decembc . 1951, ii: Charlottetown, Mr. Yeo. the pre- sident. accused me of making mis- statements to them About the Eskimo boat. Namely that he knew the boat was making money where- as I had stated it. was losing money Now the Government tell me they definitely lost money last. year. and after all they operated this boat. so where did Mr. Yeo yer. his information?

If Mr. Yeo's statement. was cor- rect. why did the directors of the Federation send Mr. Lincoln Dew- ar. their secretary, to Ottawa to see if they could get u. subsidy for this host.

Mr. Dewar promised some I-3 weeks ego that. Mr. Yco yvould 1-nswar my former leturl sourd- ing this plant problem. To date I can only state .I never noticed on mower.

'If this statement. is not cor- rect. I'will gladly fake it. back, but I hsvc Always been led to believe that the Federation of Agricul- ture has to give monl support on behalf of anyone who in to

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Then in I difference between a man's approach to a leaking faucet and a woman's attitude to the some mechanical defect. A man. optimistic, hopes the leak will take up. that the drip will cease. As he listens to it in the quiet of the night, he ca almost. persuade himself that the drips are coming further apart. Any minute the leak may cease en- tirely. A woman, pessimistic, lis- tens to the some sound and is de- void of hope. To her the spaced tattoo of water drops hitting the sink tells off intervals as inex- orably as the ticking of a death clock. In her there is the certain- ty that it will never get. better.- Victoria Times.

From the sporting nnglc It is in be said that the man who can get within range and bring down a crow is proving his skill in much more generous proportion than he who shoots a partridge often standing on the ground at short range. The crow is wily. alert and difficult to follow. Often he can be seen only on the wing so that bringing him down im flight becomes a genuine accomplish- ment in marksmanship.- Port.

An indication of the high re- gard American farmers have for top Canadian cattle was evident. at; 1 sale of Holstein breeding stock in Toronto this week. Nine- teen of the 63 animals sold were purchased by buyers from across the border although they will not be allowed to take them home un- til the foot-and-mouth embargo is lifted The percentage taken by American buyers was about aver-

conslderably lower than in cent. years. -Ottawa Journal. .

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Possession of guns while they are off duty. In Erikland they aren't. armed even when on duty. The be- haviour of the men on duty in most cases in Canada is above reproach and there is no particul- Er danizer to any peaceful citizen 31'0"! 3- Run in the ,ousession of such a man. But when the con- stable goes off duty perhaps he should give up his gun. He is no longer subject to the strict police code. He is I private citizen. and

no private citizen should have a revolver in his possesoion.- Cal- gary Albertan.

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FEDERAL EXPENDI'l'UllES

"Among the items in the Do- minion Supplementary Estimates in which the Island is specially interested. we note that of S3900 for steam communication from Halifax to Murray llarbor mid Charlottetown. alternately, and the item of 31.500 ll voyage for five voyages of steamers from Prince Edward Island to Great Britain and back. Besides these, there is an item of 55,000 for the Sourls breakwater. The Government pro- pose to place a large quantity of brush and stone on the outside of this work. for the purpose of pro- tcctmg it against southerly gales, Under the last contract on this work El large quantity of loose stone was thrown over on the sea side, out last Fall's heavy gnles proved that Island stone is of little or no use unless some means is adopted to keep it in its place. From past experience in building on a sandy foundation. it is found that there is nothing equal to brush and stone in re-

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Whoever wins the United States Presidential election. the two prin- cipal candidates and their chief Bl.'i.tViSEl'8 will have I! lot to answer for. Between them they have made this election one of the worst. from the standpoint of political methods. in the annals of democracy. The charges and inventive epithets hurled from one to the other have been disgraceful in the-visxtreme. They cannot. have pleased any one but the enemies of ecponslble government.

y either side has seen fit to stoop to this foolish way of win- ning friends and influencing people is something very difficult to un- derstand, especially in View of the fact that both candidates are sup- posed to be men of high personal calibre. Moreover, they are ap- pealing to an electorate which is supposed to be generally intellig- ent and well informed.

At a time when there are In many important issues to be dis cussed and, if possible, resolved.

' it is a tragedy that. trivial inci-

dents and circumstances should have occupied so much time and energy. 0 0

For example. the Democrats have made I great. Ado About Eisenhower-'5 alleged support of Senator McCarthy. The fact. is that; the only relationship between the two is that both happen to be Republicans. Should the Re- publican candidate be elected there is hardly 9. chance in the world that McCarthy will have In ounce more influence in the Id- minlsmrutton than he has had under t.helDemocrat.ic regime. Similarly. and just as foolishly. the Republicans have harped on

once said I. favourable word for Alger I-liss who has been convicted of perjury. Stevenson's proved nothing except that like l great many other Americans in responsible positions he knew no- thing at. the time about Hlssfl Communist leanings. The Repub- lican charge that he was kindly disposed towards Communism in- fluence in the State Department is sheer nonsense.

Eisenhower knows this perfectly well, but. he has tacitly approved the charge simply because some- one has told him it might. capture a few votes from his opponent. This is gutter type politics and there must be widespread distress over the fact that ii man like Eisenhower would have anything to do with it.

Neither McCarthy nor Qliss, thank the Lord, is running for the presidency, and it is a. pity that either 0 them should have been permitt to take up time that ought. to have been devoted to discussion of really relevant issues.

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It is. I. shame, too, that the Korean war, which has cost so much in American lives and treas- ure. has been used for partisan purposes. Every American knows that when President Truman or- dered Unlted States forces to in- tervene at. the first sign of definite Communist aggression in South Korea he did so with the full consent. of both parties in Con- gress. This was one clear instance of bi-partisan, policy which, to their credit be it said, Americans have always tried to sustain in times of real emergency.

As for ,the veiled promise of the Republicans that, if elected, Elu- enhower will be able to bring about I speedy end to the conflict, this. too. is nothing but. I vote- luring device, and not I. very astute one it would seem. Cer- tainly, if Mr. Eisenhower knows of any way to end the war in "peace and honour," as he has in- timated he does, it. is his plain duty to tell the American iGov- ernment. and the United Nations what. it. is right. now without a moment's delay. That. would be an act of real statesmnnship.

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FOOLISII POLITICAL METHOD!

the fact. that Governor Stevenson self is at present. the isolationist

action political weapon in the United

Rev. Andeas Magubiine, a native of

NOVEMBER '4, 1952

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grut deal of corruption in the present administration is, umm. tunately, not for wrong. Perhapr Mr. Truman has been responsible for some of it, and perhaps 5. hasn't. But. in any clue, sever, nor Stevenson ciu-mot. fairly 1,. held accountable for the aim of Mr. Truman, and it is he, not Truman, who is running for Pre. sldent this year.

Guilt. by association, immediam or remote, is not ii. democratic assumption. Its if ptlon u M. tional policy would certainly no; be in the best interests of rcspons. lble government:

The bad language, irresponsible charges. slanderous tnsinuntioiix and such like, are not. of course' practised exclusively by the Re.' publiccns. I think the record will show that Governor Stevenson himself has used more restraint than most. of the other principals but. even he has forgotten in; good manners on more than one occasion.

. . . As for, Truman, ha is an old hand at the unsavoury game. Th. fact; that he plays it skillfully and with good insight into the think. mg of A certain class of voter does not make it any less 1-reinou. in principle. His repeated charga that the Republican candidate is actually a. captive of reactionary isolationist; led by senator Taft is unfair, and no one knows this better than the President. No man who has been so prominent m world affairs as Eisenhower mu been could possibly advocate gyg. tematlc isolntlonlsm from tho problems of the democratic world. Further. there is no cubstantirri evidence that Senator Taft. him-

hc once was. For one thing, lsolctionism is not. now a, good

States. And, whatever else may be said about. Taft, he is undoubt. ly a shrewd politician. It; is air. ficult. to see Eisenhower u g "captive" of anybody. A nun who for many years has been occult- omed to command is not likely to become a. subordinate overnight. Again, the suggestion that a Re- publican victory would mean that organized Labour would ion the gains they have made in recent years is unadulterated nonunsu or, as the late President Roosevelt would have called it, 9. "picayun- ixh business". Labour is too strongly entrenched in the Amer- ican economy to fear my harmful pressure from either the whim House or Congress. Actually. any difference between the Democratic and Republican attitudes towards Labour Unions is one of metliozls. not. of basic policy. 0 C C

In this country as well u in the United States there is far too much irresponsible chatter in political debate. It. is probably un- profitable. It is certainly unseem- ly. Voters may at times find it amusing but it. does not help them to .form intelligent opinions on worth-while issues of the day. It is probably true to any that in this respect. the rank and file voters in any election are wiser than those who profess to be their teachers.

Within I few hours either Mr. Stevenson or Mr. Eisenhower Will have been elected President of tin United states of America. It is A high gift and A still higher re- sponsibility. It. is to be hoped that whoever wins the coveted post: will immediately return to good manners and A responsible attitude towards the issues with which he will be called upon to deal.

BRO1-'-H-liZR. FORM AFRICA BTAVANGER, Norway - (GP)-a

Zululand. brought greetings from the Zulu church to the lloth an- niversary of the Norwegian Mission

Society here. Tho Norwegian chairman recalled that the first Norwegian Missionary reached

publicims that there has been A South Africa. in 1844.

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