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TUESDAY, DEC. '1. 1954

Federation county Meetings

The county meetings of the Federation of Agriculture this week are of critical im- portance in determining the future of farmi organization in the Province. Not only will they involve discussion of important ques- tions such as livestock grading and grass silage, as well as Federation activities, but they will result in the election of the dir- ectors of the Federation and thus deter- mine the nature of its policies and the vig- or with which they are pursued. g

It is important that there should be fulli and clear expression of farmers' opinionl and that the opinion so expressed should be reflected in the choice of directors. Only in that way can the Federation enjoy the confidence of the farmers a nd carry weight in its dealings with the Govern- ment and other authorities. it should not be possible to claim that the Federation does not represent typical rural opinion.

The meetings will have the advantage of access to the latest expert opinions on. the state of farming in Canada because they follow closely upon the Federal-Prove incial agricultural conference at Ottawa at which papers are presented on many as-1 pects of farming, particularly in its eco- nomic aspects. These are on the wholcp optimistic, but a number of weaknesses are? pointed out which will have to be consid-i ered by the individual farmer and his or- ganizations.

The Federation has no lack of actual and potential leadership. The wise policy of conducting leadership courses year by year, assures a considerable choice of represen- tatives capable of interpreting opinion and getting necessary business done with dis- patch. '

Royal Fair Exhibits

A greater measure of government sup- port to Island livestock exhibitors at the. Royal Winter Fair is suggested by Mr. W.- R. Shaw, former Deputy Minister of Agri- culture, in an interview appearing in to-. day's issue. The costs, Mr. Shaw points out, are excessive, and no one exhibitor can

. ' I afford the trip and meet the heavy lfllersl national competition. He also suggests that Royal Fair exhibits be chosen by a rep-, resentativc committee, and thus secure anl aggregate of the Island's best for the Fair.:

Certainly the advertisement value of; achieving top honors at the Royal is a mat- ter of Province-wide importance. Our 15- land exhibitors, despite the long and costly transportation handicap, have done surpris-1 mgly well in recent years in cattle, hogi; poultry and potato showings. Every 5UDP01'l the Government can give in this connection is well worth while. Mr. Shaw speaks from long experience and his recent visit to Tor- onto has impressed him, as it has done, other island agriculturists, with the impor- tance of planning well in advance for next , year's exhibition.

cheerful Economists

A cheerful blueprint has been drawn by the experts who serve the American Con- gressional Committee on the Economic Re- port and who have been at work on their, figures while the Congress has been other-Ii wise occupied on the hustings. The result- ing study attempts to forecast the state of the American economy between January .1,

,artificial enrichment of food. For the mil-

But,even if it is only equal to that predict- ed for the United States, the following changes may, according to some figures published in the Financial Post, be expect- ed: The Canadian population should rise by some 3.5 millions in the next decade. In- dustrial employment should increase by some 17 per cent and the recent fall in agricultural employment, due to farm mechanization, should flatten out.

Since there will be more producers and improved productive methods, the gross na- tional product should rise from its present level of about R24 billions to 3336 billions, an increase of 50 per cent. Consumei', spending will rise by some 60 per cent if iii keeps parallel to the expected American' rate. Capital investment will increase by? approximately the same rate. The worki week will decrease by about four hours.' Government spending, at the anticipated American rate, will rise by about 12 per cent but, with an increased population to carry it, per capita taxes will fall some? what.

Economists are the first to emphasise, that all such figures are illustrations of, what could happen, not predictions of what must happen. But, at least, the known and measurable facts do show the possibilities of the North American economy. They show the attainable wealth of the ordinary citizen within ten years-provided his af-i fairs, individual and collective, arc reason- ably managed, as they have not alwaysl been managed tip to now. l

Rice Ami Vitamins

Feeding the world, and particularly 800 million people in Asia, can be made a simpler problem by vitamin enriched rice, Dr. Robert R. Williams has told the Na- tional Academy of Sciences. His report fol- lows large scale tests in the Philippines.

These 800 million must depend on rice for 80 to 90 per cent of their food. Over- crowding of the land prevents diversifica- tion of diet. Yet rice has nutritional short- comings in part by the polishing process, which removes vitamin B1 and others.

For 35 cents a person a year, Dr. Wil- liams believes, rice could be so enriched with vitamins that it would improve the physical and mental health of most of Asia. He also advocates changes in milling methods and preparation of the food. But in that area there is a prejudice against

lions who hover on the verge of starvation much of the time, Dr. Williams' plan offers hope, especially since it does not involve cultivation of more land or attempts to in- crease production.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Playing ”hookey" is an expensive pas. time in an immediate sense today as well as in a long term sense. Some 11,800 fam- ily allowance cheques were docked during 1953 because of non-attendance at school.

Labour Minister Charles Daley of On- tario objects to the term "New Canadian" as applied to immigrants and thinks that they should be termed simply Canadians, There is, of course, the same objection to calling a married woman a bride but it will probably not prevent the use of the term in its proper context.

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The Admiralty must frequently feel that they are operating a three-ring cir- cus but now they have literally taken one to sea. A circus in trouble and stranded at Malta was carried to Sicily by R. N. LCT's when no other means of transport was available.

This has been Canada's biggest house- building year to date, according to Works Minister Winters. Bctwccn 1l0,00() and

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POTATO LOADING OPERATIONS

sir,-In reference to a news item appearing in The Guardian of De- cember 2, regarding the loading of a steamer with 70,025 bags of po- tatoes, it is alleged that this ship took on approximately 2765 bags more than could have been loaded in Charlottetown due to superior stevedoring.

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to point out that this is incorrect. As a m'-.ttei' of fact the steamer in question was or- dered to sea before loading opera- tions were completed due to weather conditions and being forc- ed on to double rates, and another ship being ready to begin operations as soon as weather permitted. If the steamer carried 2765 more b.”.g5 than her allotment it would mean that about 10,000 bags would be ruined on arrival in Jacksonville. It takes 20 tons of straw and about 8 tons of board dunnage to protect, a cargo of that size. The stowing, of cargo calls for specialized laborl and only trained stevedores can give satisfaction in this line ofj work. '

Mr. Roland MacDonald. president? of the Federation of Agriculture. stated that cargoes loaded in char- lottetown have arrived in the, Southern States in far better cnn-- dition than cargoes loaded else- Where. We have been shown tele- grams frcm Jacksonville. Florida. to the same effect. I have also been asked by Mr. Peppin, chief potato inspector, to convey his compliments to our men on their splendid work. Our Local loaded 20 ships in Charlottetown last fall and each and every one of them arrived at their destination in first class condition. In one case a steamer arrived in Clmrlottctown. partly loaded elsewhere, and had to be re-stowed here before WP could start. loading manner.

Where then is not proper super- vision and cargoes are loaded at ten cents per bag plus cost of gear, speed in loading becomes all tm-, portant. Simple arithmetic shows that 'l0,0(ll bags stowed at this, rate would amount. to 57,0303 Stevedoring costs would be roiighlyl 53,500, leaving a net profit of t-3.-i 500 plus cost of gear, straw and dunnagc. In another instant-e at steamer loaded 115 tons of potatoes at 32.100 using ten men for six hours at it cost of s45. leaving a net profit of S185. Still they coin-i plain of the high cost of loading potatoes in Prince Edward Islandy and that men are overpaid. i

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The case where two men were sentenced to two months for the theft of 115 evcrgreeii trccs as it tliiirly wziriiiilg to those Who make it an annual prac- tice to go out and steal their Christmas trees. -Owen Sound Sun-Times.

-We read that in Welland a wrestler was sent to jail for as-

wrestlers would have enough to do in grunting find groaning without taking their ire out on those who criticize them. After nil, that's part- ly v.-hat fans are fnr. 'St. Cathar- ineis Standard.

-A new dental d.i-Ill, driven by sound waves, eliminates heat, pres- sure and vibration. And what does it do for thnt very special pain. which suggests that the dentist has broken through into your Iniinoi-:.:il Soul and is scooping it out with

a live electric wire? -Pctcr- borough Examiner. A Russian newspaper calls

Churchill "t.wo-in('crl and treacher- ous". That. will not worry Sir Wins- ton. He would have been c(JllC6l'll- ed only if Pravada had prniscd him to the skies! And that after all was mild. Listen to one Adolf Hitler in l942: "Between Churchill and Cripps I have no hesitation in choosing. I prefer a hundred times the undisciplined swine who

is drunk eight. hours of every 24 to the Puritan." -Ottawa Journal!

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-The search for security is no mod-l em phenomenon, though it now is given emphasis in social lcgislzi-,1 tion, union contracts and other nr-I rangemerits. Possibly the primitive man also sought the most security his environment would allow; ..,; for instance, security from wild; animals or wild fellowmcn. It is. perhaps Cll:'lt7ll5 that some who think modern people pay too much, attention to security, thus dullingi their initiative. fail to remember

liinother type of security long recog-

nized. This is the security demand- cd for loans, mortgages, invest- ments. etc. It is apparciit in a wide variety of financial documents and deals. -Windsor Star.

and he was gratified also with the onllstmcnt of a numbcr rr-criilts."

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That. was A notnbla broadcast Louisiana doctors listened to the other day. when they tuned in to the amplified sounds of human brains. But. in its own way, and as a forecast for the future, this development had implications more disturbing than any lie detector test. The experiment, briefly, show- ed that sound brains purred like a well tuned motor. But. the other kind, which generally are associat- cd with persons who haven't. all their marbles, were loud and full of stuttcrs. -Windsor Star.

This may sound familiar. Per- haps you have heard some preach- er quote it. Possibly you have heard some philosophlzer (not to be con- fused with a philosopher) refer to it. Here it is: "I expect to pass through this world but, once; any good thing, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow-creature. let. me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way N Who wrote it, or said it? xperts in the field call it the torphan quotation," and think so much of it that they sometimes put the "0" and the "Q" in capital letters. It has been variously at- tributed to the Emperor Marcus Aurelius (it has an authentic sound lllCl'Cl. Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Carlyle (most unlikely). Jfiscpli Addison, and others. But

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are vanity, and the work in the time of their visitation they shsll perish. The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the rod of hi: In- heritance: The Lord of hosts to his IIQIIIC. '

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Prior to Ohlnrc uemingly huty conversion to Communism that country had been under the stern. and benevolent. hood of Confusion- ism for more than twenty centuries. There was no spot in the national life untouched or undirected by its good ethic: nnd upright f morals. One would have thought that this fact would have hindered the new movement from the West; actually. it seems to have helped it. along. No force-political, social, economic, or military-could hace made any inroads into Chinese society with- out first coming , to a satisfactory settlement with the all -powerful philosophy.

What was it, then, that brought about the almost sudden surrend- er of Oonfusianisin to Communism or, perhaps more accurately, the integration of the two? Perhaps the explanation is not as difficult as was at first thought.

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one thing that seems clear is that the pressure of Communism on China's national philosophy was not, as is the case in the West. a. matter of a materialistic way of life being brought to bear on the precepts, if not the practices, of an' established religion. Confusianism is not a religion in the common sense of that word. It is highly moral in its teachings-many of which found expression in Christ- ianity-nnd its ethics for allphases of life from the peasantry to the ruling classes are of the very high-

est standards.

For all that, Confusianism is ii purely materialistic system. Its scope does not go beyond the

boundaries of this earth. The "other-worldly" teachings. which form such a large part; of Christ- ianity and some other historic re- ligions, have little or no place in it. Confucius himself apparently be- lieved in the existence of God and that in some extraordinary circum-

stnnces men might. come into per- sonal relationship with Him, but neither of these beliefs had much practical bearing on the system

God was so remote from men that

the qualities required in order to

worship Him were so high and ex-

alted as to be virtually unobtaln-

able. "Only the sage," said Can-

fucius," can sacrifice to God."

The ordinary people were not ex-

pected to worry nbout such mat-

ters, nor was it fitting that they

or weary spiritual beings," they were admonished. Confucianism possesses an abundance of moral theology for man's guidance in this life, but very little dogmatic theology to guide him in his search for knowledge of God. That was not repudiated, however;it was simply considered to be far remov- ed from normal human intelligence. Moi-ally, Confucianism is as differ- ent from Marxism as white is from black or day from night: but they do have this materialistic concept in common. one is based on im- peccable morals. and the other on no morals at nil: but the "this- worldly” philosophy is a common

possession.

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Then, again, Confuslanlam. like Communism. is a totalitarian sys- tem. Without too much trouble and without any undue concession on either side. one could be made to fit in with the other very nicely. Chinese society always has been based on two strong props: the peasantry, which includes about 907a of the population. and the intel- lectual elite which always has as- sumed political control on I mat- ter of course. That was the situa-

tion in the old days; that is the situation now. The peasants never had much

siiy in government: in fact, it tenet of Confucianism forbids any such

should. "Do not take liberties with i

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lit in authority." it reads. "should not busy themselves with affair; of government. That means um they should let the scholars, who usually are the politicians, do lhgizv thinking for them. This, of course was I ready-made instrument ,0; the new political order.

It in feuonable to assume that member. of the Confusion hier- archy care little about political names and labels, so long as up. iultng power respects the uncle”; essentials. One of these is that the peasants must. be free to work thijlf own small holdings, perhaps just a few square feet; the other is that scholars must. continue to Occupv government posts of authority. '

Communism of the Soviet Varletv includes collective ownership oi land. It is significant that this has made very little headway in China. There is reason to believe ma, should the present rulers allow mg Russians to persuade them to pm. ceed vigorously with the collectin- aystem, the new regime will go mil faster than it come in.

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Here. some students of Chinese history believe, has the surest, and perhaps only hope of China's event- ual release from political assocri. tlon with intcrmtional Coiniiiuii. ism. The Soviet lenders, while they have not been able to exterminate religion from Russia, clearly have succeeded in reducing di-astlcallv religious influence over the ('0llllli. ry's affairs. In China, it st-ein.-. Confuslanlsm is as strong a.-. t-v,v.;- and no official attempt has been made to curb it.

Again, while soviet leaders have turned their backs on I'Pll'.'l0ll, their Chinese countcrpni-is vtiilm,,i exception, so reports sav, :ii-cilir.:. ing to the ancient bt'.'llf!Lli, iillllcl ii, of course, it is evident that thcv are not practising them with ani- degree of fervour. But Cominurrsmi, by its very nature, can brook nu riviil in any State where it. CFtlllf:- to dwell. Sooner or lair-r lllPl'r -, almost certain to be trouble in tween the two philnsopiiics wh-tn their common agreements will in- be strong enough to settle Wllllfvlt conflict.

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Three hundred years no Whose was the scholar thumb That browned your pages so?

Athens is never dumb To any laughter-lover Loosing your mottled cover

Yet, Aristophanes, For me your voice is mingled with some old BChOlBl"a wheczr,

Whose English doublet tinglrd, While his weak body shook With merriment for this book.

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