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SATURDAY. DEC. 18. 1954
Atlantic Parliament
".'x'A'l'O is something new and exciting and revolutionary, the most -cnanengingf and constructive experiment in internauon-, al relations ever attempted.â These are the: words of Lord lsmay, secretary-Gen01'a1 Of the five-year-old North Atlantic 'l'llEa1.V 013 ganziation. "its overriding ooject," he add-- ed. "is to keep the peace."
security and pi-ogiess are the great aims of NATO. When the time comes that we know that we can resist any and every attack, the great driving force of unity can; be directed to raise standards of living by' social, economic and technical co-operation. This should be the fruit of the second five years of .VA'll0's existence. The first five; years have been devoted largely to build-i ing up organizations to defend liuropc and the North Atlantic ,
That the time has come to pay more attention to the economic fruits of unity is the theme of a declaration signed by 200 prominent citizens of eight of the 14 NATO countries and presented to the Council by Roy Thomson, a Canadian who has PUb' lishing interests in Canada, Britain and the United States. NATO did not create. the common interests of its member nations, but it is an instrument through which those countries can effectively act. They have done so in the common security. They can do so with equal effectiveness to im- prove their respective economies.
First things must come first, however. As long II the threat of aggression hangs over the world the first duty of NATO is to make it distinctly unprofitable for any na- tion or nations to turn greedy eyes UDOH the territory of members of the Atlantic Community. To achieve that, the member nations must contribute their appropriate share of men, money and materials to the
common protection. Oldest Methodist Church
As I rule there i nothing especially newsworthy in I church's appeal for funds with which to effect necessary repairs. It happens quite often and, usually, as is right and proper, meets with at least reasonable success; money spent on keeping church property in good repair is money well in- vested in the overall welfare of the commu- nity. But when the church happens to be one like old St. George's in Philadelphia the appeal stirs historical as well as social and religious interest. According to auth- enticated records St. George's is the mother church of Methodism in the United States and the oldest church building of that de- nomination. in continuous use, in the world.) It was built in 1769. a few years after the Wesley crusade. In its heyday it had a membership of about 4000; now, owing to population shifts common to all large cit- ies, it is down to less than 100. However,i
as one of the historical shrines of Americau it is visited annually by many thousands of tourists from many parts of the world.
It was at old St. George's that the first Methodist bishops were commissioned; it- was from there that the first circuit preach-, ers set out on courageous and dangerous adventures as they followed the VVestward trek of pioneer settlers. Although the present congregation is small in number the church. in its long history. was responsible; for the creation of 50 Methodist parishcsi and had a big share in the erection of al-i most 200 churches in Plastern L'nited States.
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Some time ago a meteorite was report- ed to have shot through the roof of an; Alabama home and struck a housewife, giv- ing her a distinction held by no other known human being. Most meteorites fall unseen. and the chunky imports from outer: space rarely strike man-made objects. Ac-l cording to the National Geographic Society.l there is no previous authenticated recordl of a meteorite hitting and injuring a per-' son. Historians discredit several stories of, death inflicted by "stones from heaven". mostly in the 16th and 17th ccnturics. Ono unverified report says more than a thou-l
sand stones fell near Milan, Italy. in l5ll.lpicicd, but according to a spokesman for killing birds. sheep and a Franciscan friar.,r the board on geographic names in Ottawa, The risk of being hit by a meteorite ap- Cape Breton is still an island. pears to be negligible. But these projectiles, tinue to enjoy this official status under the of iron and stone have been scaring people, precise definition of what constitutes an is- land. by reason of the Navigation Canal on the Cape Breton side of the causeway. preserve meteorites out of fear or rever-1 island is a body of land complgfely rounded by water. tinue to be there in a man-made ditch so 1110 cu-list authentic meteorite, of which: that ships may continue to use the short.
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out of their wits since the dawn of the hu-1 man mind. Ancient man had a tendency to,
once. The sacred stone built into the Kaaba' It Mecca supposedly came from the sky.l
portions If! still preserved. fell at Finals-' cut the strait originally afforded betweenv QIHQE, NI November 16, 1492, av the Atlantic and the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
learning that the bodies
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little more than a month after Columbus; discovered America. The first verified fall of a meteorite in the United States was witnessed by two Yale professors at Wes- ton. Connecticut, in 1807.
Oddly enough, scientists paid little at- tention to meteorites for many years. Scien- tific collections of meteorites did not begin in earnest until after 1803 when a large shower at Laigie. France. convinced men of were extra-ten restrial. Even now, meteoritics is a new science. . i
The origin of meteorites is still contro- versial. Generally, they are believed to be lumps from an exploded planet or perhaps two that collided. A meteorite is simply a meteor that hits the earth. Both are ob- jects from space that hurtle into the earth's atmosphere, often leaving a luminous trail. The meteorite survives its spectacular jour- ney without being consumed. Astronomers estimate that hundreds of millions of meteors pepper the earth's atmosphere each
day. and several millions are big enough
to form visible displays. Most are heated to incandescence by friction with the air and consumed. Relatively few reach this planet. Although countless numbers must have hit the earth since it was formed. not more than 1,700 have been found. Of these, only 683 falls were seen. The largest now
ion public display was found in Greenland
in 1895 by Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, the Arctic explorer who discovered the North Pole. The 36 1-'2-ton specimen is preserved in New York's Hayden Planetar-
EDITORIAL NOTES
Tomorrow, the 4th Sunday in Advent. O O 0 Birthday of Prince William of Glouces- ter, 1941.
Toronto, apparently. will stand for just about anything in their city fathers, except hospitality.
Princess Margaret will use the royal yacht âBritannia" for her tour of the Brit- ish islands of the Caribbean. The last duty of the yacht in this connection will be to take the Princess from Jamaica on Febru- ary 24th to the Bahamas, where she will arrive on February 26th.
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Between Christmas and the New Year young farmeis will be preparing to carry out the resolution to become better and more efficient in their calling- During that week they will be attending a short course to help them become better farmers and
citizens.
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The Kremlin note to France threaten- ing to cancel the mutual aid pact is all one with the immediate objective of all aspects of foreign policy at the moment. To pre- vent the ratification of the pacts leading to Western European Union is the all-import- ant aim of Soviet foreign policy.
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Heneage Finch. first Earl of Notting- ham. Lord Chancellor of England. died this date 1682. He held aloof from politics until the Restoration, concentrating on the prac- tice of law. Thereaher he rose rapidly and is sometimes referred to as the "father of equity." It was he who contributed the
of Titus Oates.
The Canadian Bar may be making im- portant contributions in future in the fields!
rate a legal research committee has beem formcd by the Canadian Bar Association. It has the advantage of working'on two systems of law existing side by side and mutually influencing one another in a fed-' ernl state unlike that in which each origin- ated.
it is not always necessary to under- stand a process in order to make use of it. Iowa State College has found a method of concentrating and freezing milk which can be converted to a whole milk product tasting exactly the same as the original. In the process the milk is pasteurized for 16 seconds at 180 degrees, homogenized, vacuum evaporated and pasteurized a sec- ond time in the same way before being plac- ed in containers and frozen. The profes- sors do not understand why, but believe; the two pasteurization: are the reason for retaining the milk flavour.
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Mayor Allan Rush of London, Ontario, is credited with a sug- gestion for irsproving Canada's election machinery. Mi: Rush ap- parently believes that greater voter interest would be aroused if muni- cipal. provincial and federal elec- tions were all held at the one time. With such an opportunity of making his vote count for some- thing the elector would be more likely to exercise his franchise and go to the polling booth and choose all his representatives at one fell swoop.
Since municipal voters do not like long terms for their councils. the Mayor thinks it. would be healthier if federal and prov- incial terms were reduced and the great over-all vote taken more frequently than every four or five years. Another feature of the new system would be elections set at
I fixed date by statute, and not as
now by the will of the governing
party.
it is not hard to see that Mayor Rush's scheme bears a striking resemblance to the clcction pro- cedures in the United States, where voters cast ballots for congress- men. governors. state legislators. municipal officials, as well as
sheriffs, judges, and a variety of other posts, dency every four years.
including me presi- ln the United States there are no âsnap elections" which are so much of I bugbear to Canadian parties in opposition. The American voter knows that the first. Tuesday af- ter the first Monday of November is the time for going to the polls. and on this day every four years the highest office in the land is voted on. In Canada elections may be called three, four, or five yea after I government takes office. indeed they might. be held even sooner, depending upon the cab- inet.'l choice. For the House of Commons and most provincial Leg- islatures the term is five years but it is seldom that elections are more than four years apart. It is generally considered I defvea-tlst Resture to hold onto office for the full legal term.
The Mayor's scheme would cer- tainly prevent government from taking advantage of the power of dissolution to call elections to suit. their own purpose and catch the But there is no excuse for any, political party not being ready for an election. since the government of the day has always had the advantage of setting the date and could hardly be expected to give first priority to the convenience of the parties trying to drive it from power. It is up to the Opposition to keep its organization in constant readiness for an electoral contest whether it comes in winter, spring, sumnwr or fall.
But apart from the icalities of the situation. the Lon- don mayor's suggestion is con- stitutionally out of the question for Canada. Unlike the American our system of government has the ex- ecutive (cabinet) at all times re- sponsible to the Legislature, and by an adverse vote the House of Commons could bring down a gov- ernment, as could the provincial legislatures. Although rigid party discipline and heavy majorities keep this constitutional function almost hidden. it is nevertheless the cornerstone of our edifice of responsible government.
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While the House of Commons or provincial Legislature is thus vest- ed with the power of destroying lhc administration of the moment by A majority vote. the executive is given a prerogative which pre- vents it from becoming a puny insirunicnt living in daily terror of destruction by the legislators. This power is the right. of the Prime Minister to recommend dis- solution to the titular head of gov- ernment, the Governor, by whom new elections are then called. This important executive power is prac-
tically lacking in France and gun:
for to explain the reckless abandon with which the National Assembly votes cabinets out of officc.
It would require a profound iml fundamental chanae in our cun-
stitution before Mayor RuIh's plan
could be adopted, and of such an zscl. If he would look-It the voting statistics tbs Mayor might and
impractical Suggestion
By Heath Macquarrie
that, even with their omnibus sys- tem. the American voters do not turn out in great numbers. The proportion of Canadian electors ex- ercising their franchise is far higher than their southern neigh- bors. It. is atherefore difficult to find much in favor of adopting the American system or discarding our own methods which have work- ed reasonably satisfactorily for a good mam years.
i Problems In Heckling
tCleveland Plain Dealer)
Until quite recently the heckling of political speakers frequently enlivened campaigns for public office. it was an institution both on this continent and in Britain, signifying free speech. even though it was generally of I disoourtoous variety.
The object of tho heckler. of course, was to ask I question or make I statement that would em- barrass the speaker. But a speaker who was fast with I quip could frequently turn the heckler'.s ques- tion to his own advantage. There are still some Clevelandera living who heard Tom L. Johnson invite hecklers to share the platform with him and it was always the heck- lers who wound up tongue-tied, embarrassed and tho object of jeers. s
Heckling. however, was some- times I hazardous pastime. It was not something for the Cas- par Milquetoast type of individual to undertake. A successful heckler had to be aggressive, somewhat belligerent and endowed with am- ple vocal chords. And he always took I chance of getting a punch on the nose from some partisan spectator who was equally bel- ligerent and aggressive.
It. is somewhat disappointing.
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"Excessive drinking at Christmas tide is going out. Perhaps om rea- son is, that the stuff which is now sold doesn't give Joy or pleasance either in the drinking. or in the drunkenness. or after the drunken- ness is past. Another reason is that most. men have now too much ra- spect. for themselves to make them- selves lower than the beasts. oven for I day. Certainly nothing can be more unseemly than drunken- ness at. Christmas."
--The Examiner. Dec. 23. 1882.
therefore. to read about a heckler who couldn't take it. A San Fran- cisco shipyard wurker has sued Vice-president Nixon for 3150.000. he was falsely imprisoned (held down in his seat )and assaulted (tossed out on his ear) when he tried to heckle Nixon at I cam- paign meeting in San Mateo.
What is politics coming to. we wonder when hecklen In so allay that they sue for damages when they voluntarily take the cal- culated risk of heckling and being more or less damaged?
And what has happened to me fine art of heckling, which seems to be dying out in this generation?
The answer to the latter quel- tion, we guess, is radio and tale- vision. When I speaker has a certain amount of time allotted to him on I network program. Ind has prepared I speech tailored for the occlsion, it is considered un- sportsmanlike to interrupt him be- cause if he takes time to answer the heckler he is liable to be cut. off the Iir before he finishes his speech.
Maybe the solution is for speak- ers to arrange in advance to be interrupted by professional heck- lers and to slot sufficient, time to
answer them.
NOTES BY
A: result. of an accident near Ila baseball stadium. in which I pedestrian was fatally injured. I motorist. has been charged with dangerous driving. Aged seventy. he has told police he had been operating I motor vehicle for forty- one years and never possessed I driver's license - thought his oI.r owner's permit. entitled him to drive. -Toronto Telegram.
Eighteen months after I one- legged man had left his spare false leg wit.h his landlady in lieu of rent, it was stated It Somerset Quarter Sessionllat. Taunton last week, he re-entered the house to reclaim the limb, because the leg he was wearing was causing him pain and needed repairing. He did not find the limb, but he was discovered in I bedroom by one of the tenants and the police were called. The man was acquit- ed on I charge of breaking and entering with intent to steal. - London Times.
Material love B I In-Inga uul mysterious thing. as witness the case in England where two moth- ers whose babies were I â billy switched in I hospital nursery were persuaded only with great difficulty to claim their own off- spring. For five weeks each mo- ther clung to the wrong baby even after blood test: had proved con- clusively that each was mothering the other's child. Only I one-day trial period, insisted on by the un- happy fathers in the case. brought about I change of attitude. All of which raises I question: does a mother love I baby because it is her own flesh and blood or just. because It is a baby, helpless, cuddly and appealing? And why, when she has the wrong infant. will she still want to retain it? W0 leave the answers to wiler heads. - London Free Press.
Exhaust pipes may sully be- come clogged from mud. or even ice and snow - Ind in old model cars it. seems easier for the poison- ,nus fumes to seep through the floor hoards and take their dead- ly tnll before the occupants are aware of what is happening. About the only way of making sure of not being I victim of this type of silent dcrth is for persons not to remain in pa-lied ccrs wi.n the mo.a- runn." and the windows closed. The simple act of turning
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off the motor. or opening the win- dow I few inches. may result in I slight cold - but it could also mean the diHerence of life or death. - Brookvlllo Recorder and Times.
Approximudy llfleon yuan ago the manager of the Hotel D'Angie- term in Copenhagen, Denmark,
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..nu..y wincn nan been extraordin- arny eminent. in the world of science. AS a biologist and physicist L13 nus lew peers and. according to an accounts. no superiors. He knows a great. deal. too. about the needs, me achievements, and the irustrntions of 20m century society, and he has a particular knowledge at the tensions and pressures which are at. work in the so-coiled "backward" areas of the world. This latter knowledge Dr. Hux- ley acquired in a very practical way during his term of office as Di- rector-General of the United Na- tions Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Besides all this, he is held in high and wide respect for his humanitarian ap- proach to those world problems which need moral as well as scien- tific and political attention. I C I
When. therefore. Dr. Huxley comes out with what he calls the outlines of a new religion. as he did in I recent speech. he will have many attentive listeners the world over. Incidentally, in looking over that speech one does not get. the impression that Dr. Huxley is an anti-traditionalist in the com- mon sense of that. name; on the contrary. one gathers that he has an intelligent. and. in some ro- spectl, I profound reverence for the old religion. especially Chris- tianity. Moreover, he seems to be- lieve that. up to the present they have been adequate for main: need. Dr. Huxley'a main assumption seems to be that. these religions will not be discarded as outworn relics. but. absorbed in the new thought which this scientific age had made necessary and, indeed. inevitable. In his address he refers to certain well known developments which he believes prepared the way for things which are to come by way of I new Enlightenment. Prominent. among these are the physics rev- olution Iot. in motion by Sir Isaac Newton in the putter part. of the 17th century and. of course. the Darwinian contemporary "psycho- social" revolution which. he claims. "has expanded the knowledcs of man and his affairs." 0 O O
In development of that thought Dr. Huxley goes on to say: "This age is the first to have is reason- ably full knowledge of its destiny; therefore, we (the scientists) have the immense responsibility and equally the opportunity to found the core of the new religion I am sure will emerge."
It isn't. easy for I non-specialist in scientific mysticism to follow the blueprints for this bravo new order that Dr. Huxley has in mind. To msko matters more difficult. he seems to have left. out. many details which would seem to be important. But. it is clear that the biologists will be the prophets and that tho psychologists, the pay- chiatrists, the psycho-analysts. and other specialists in related fields, will in time constitute I sort of hereditary priestly order. Presum- ably, though he does not. say so, the nuclear physicists will form tho Iupnome hierarchy.
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WM: incoming respect for Dr. I-luxlcyls intellectual integrity and vast scientific knowledge, it is dif- ficult. not to be dubious and a little amazed at. his statement that "this use it the first to have had a reasonably full knowledge of its destiny." This doesn't. appear to be historically accurate. If history teaches anything at all about mat- ters of this kind it. surely is that every age that has left any record
through the unsuse cu knowiengg became a aisnncr. possibility. '
Another thing - important, one would suppose - that Dr. Huxley leaves out at his thinking, 0. 3, any rate out. of his plans, 13 mm the historical religions, espmauy the Christian religion, have en, dured and survived every concm, sole "revolution" and philosopmm cmmse. without being weakened in any serious manner. In fact, in. record shows that religion has .4. ways flourished in adversity. In chief weakness 'haI come from comfort and ease.
Dr. Huxley does not seem 5, have timed his announcement, re. garding a. new religion based on science. with scientific preciuon. for nothing is clearer than uni many of the so-called "intellectual" difficulties concerning tn; ohmâ. inn religion-and. no doubt. othu religions as welt--have someho, vanished in recent yearl. One can scarcely pick up a. literary mag, zine these dayi without. reading some serious thinker is turning to what. the late Professor Dl.lNu0y (whose eminence in science wn very great) called the "frog, springs of faith," that is go 5,, to revealed religion. And if, m,,,,' that they are doing um um", they can no lonaor mm. to science to bring them and their neighbon to the promised land. In tug, science itself is not sum of it. premises from one d.Iy ho Inothq. EVE?! day brings it: own canin- dictions as well Is it own 41,. covarles.
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And Jesus returned in tho pawn of the Spirit. into Galileo: Ind Ihl! went. out I fame of him through all the region round Ihom. AM ha taught In their synagogues, hung glorified of all.
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CAIRO (Reuters)-'f'ho Egyptian revolution command council Mon- day commuted to life imprison- ment. with hard labor the death sentences passed on five members of the Moslem Brotherhood Sua- day by the People's Tribunal.
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has believed that it knew 3. great deal about it "superior" destiny.
The one use which has been confused above all others is the atomic threatened one in which we are now living and which the scientists themselves, for good or ill. put. in the historical calandar. other sizes had their troubles. no doubt. very serious ones; but it was
choice, he will not let expense stand in the way. - Guelph Mer- cury.
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beclme enthusiastic Ibout kangaroo tlll soup and laid in scores of cans of it, imported from Australia at considerable expense. Over the course of years, not one soul asked for genuine kangaroo tail soup at the Hotel D'Angletei-re. The manager was embarrassed. Two weeks ago Emperior Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, visiting Cop- enhagen, sent word to the Hotel D'Anglel.erre that he wished to give I banquet for King Frederik and Queen Ingrid and eighty other guests. But he insisted on having genuine kangaroo tail soup served. was that possible? Why. of couse. replied the manager, who was probably the happiest hotel man in the world at the moment. -New York Herald Tribune.
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I" , cl few,, llvelo mark their 100th birthday. And fewer still do so with mental facul- ties functioning fairly close to normal. Evidently West Germany has something to boast about when it can produce 70 centsnarlans. Then Ire M other persons who have their 100th birthday next year. Down the age scale in I population of 47,500,000 there are 17,500 Germans between 90 Ind 99, and nearly 500,000 between 80 Ind 90. These elderly people mt. only were able to get. around the usual "deathtrlps" in life but managed to survive the severe bombing raids in the last war. - Kâ h Waterloo Record.
The woman who run the Ilouo deserves I break once in I while. What. better way to give it to her than by taking her out to dinner? By so doing she will be relieved of the burden of planning. order-
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