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THE GUARDIAN

Morning ‘Dilly (Founded In liltl7) lutlrurluil In Sci-um] Clan Mull, Pun Olileo Deirurtnn-nt, Ottawa.

The lnlniiil (iuurlllran flulilluhlng Co. lclllur and Jlunuglng Dlrerlur, J. R. lluruetl... Aswan-lulu Edltor, Frunls Walker.

"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest lnk“

CHARLOTTETOTVN. MONDAY. OCT. S, 1949

Air iiiii"i=iirif Changes

As reported in our news columns today the business of the Hughes Drug COIIIPMY hi" bee" sold by the proprietor, Mr. G. Gordon Hughes, to Mr. Earle C. Baker, who is to be warIulY °°'l‘ gratulated on his e-nterprise invacquifln9 ""5 well-known establishment, which is probably the oldest in Canada, and is certainly amllflll llleflwsl widely patronized in the Maritime Provinces- With the veteran pharmacist, Ma|or Bethune, as assistant manager and dispeflifll’. 0nd ‘(Uh ° ‘iighly competent staff, Mr. Bakerjstarts his new enterprise under excellent auspices, and hi5 many friends throughout the Province will wish him every success.

Mr. Hughes, who has so competently man- aged the business during the past two decades, intends lo visit Scotland later with the Canadian Curling Association members. In the meantime his services will be available to the new mand9e‘ merit in an advisory capacity.

Teamwork The Key-flats

A thought-provoking challenge was embodied in the address by Principal MacKinnon of Prince of Wales College before the Maritime Board of Trade members here last week. He cited the his- tory of other countries as revealing a fundamental weakness in the lack of co-operation in major fields of endeavor, particularly in the spheres of business, government and education. He showed how closer team-work in these fields could con- tribute enormously to the solution of many com- plicated pmblems facing Canada today. _To business men especially, it is a matter of prime concern to see that private enterprise does not fail in its responsibilities in this regard.

Principal MacKinnon disposes of the fallacy that the aims of higher education and sa-called practical training are antagonistic. Colleges, he emphasizes, have continually striven to combine the encouragement of scholarly thinking with an appreciation of the means of putting it to some useful purpose so that mechanical aptitude and practical ability will be accompanied by basic general education to train the student to think and to plan the place and purpose of his educa- tion. The two fields are complimentary, and re- quire and merit equal support and encouragement from governments and business leaders. We can- not do without technical proficiency, but it is still true that "where there is no vision the people perish." lt is essential that this dual obiective be kept constantly in mind.

llasty Price Increases

Fuel price increases which followed by a few days the devaluation of the Canadian dollar have not unnaturally raised public protests, says the Globe and Mail. Realizing that price increases on goods from the United States would be inevitable, consumers nevertheless had been led by past ex- perience of currency variations to expect a breathing space.

Three years ago, when the Canadian dollar was raised from its wartime discount to official parity with the United States dollar, the public was assured that this would mean cheaper goods from across the border. Business spokesmen echoed this assurance, but added that some time would elapse before the price cuts would be made. They explained that there were large sup- plies of goods in the distribution "pipelines" al- ready paid for.

The assumption has been that the some pat- tern would apply to the reverse situation. Recall- ing the I946 stockpile argument, the public logically assumed that business methods have not materially changed, and that there exist sup- olics of goods " ought some time ago." it reason- ad, for instance, that coal and oil supplies, which are subztantially transported by water, were now in storage in Canada. Nothing that has been sail in support of the higher coal, gasoline and lu:l oil prices either disputes or satisfies that be- licf.

"We believe the trade owes it not only to the public but to itself to explain its case fully, and to set forth the justification it has computed for the incrcases at this time," says our Toronto ccntcmpcrary. "Failing that, there can only be public discontent and suspicion. The country is happily free from most of the controls which won imposed in wartime, and it is a prime interest of business and industry to keep it free."

Autumnal Equinox

The custom of proclaiming the end of sum- mer with the arrival of thc autumnal equinox, notes the Fredericton Gleaner, survives all at- tacks upon it, though the weather gods seem never to have heard of such a rule. Sometimes they decree that summer shall coma to a close be- for the southing sun crosses the equator; in other years they lengthen summer's life considerably beyond the equinox.

The autumnal equinox occurred on the 23rd. The center of the solar disk was then exactly on celestial equator and directly over the tarristrial equator at a point in the Indian Ocean not far cart of tho British African colony of Kenya, where of course the hour was noon by "apparent," or oundial time. For a few days the duration of sun- light and darkness would be equal at all place! lnytlis world, except ot the poles, just as it was

at the vernal equinox in March.

For astronomers meanings. Not only ls arr equinox one of the two time: in the year when the sun cmm the aqua- tor, going north or south, but it is one of tho

into ln the sky whore than crossings talio place.

., _.| vornai equinox ls in the cggstcllgflon of

tho word equinox has two»

Pisces (zodical sign of Aries); the autumnal equi- nox is in the constellation of Virgo (sign of Libra.)

Hipparchus, "the father of astronomy," made an interesting discovery regarding th-e equinoxes about l20 B. C. He found that the sun's apparent motion was not uniform, since it took I86 days to pass from the vernal equinox to the autumnal, but only I79 days to return to the vernal. In other wards, spring and summer combined are about seven days longer than autumn and win- ter. Since he believed, as did everybody else in his day, that the sun~travelled about the earth in a circular orbit, it was natural to conclude that the earth must be off ccntcr-that the sun had an eccentric orbit.

A Worthy Cause

The annual drive for funds in aid of the Pro- testant Orphanage opens this morning, and it is hoped that the response, as in other years, will be both prompt and generous.

The Orphanage has had a record number of children for this season of the year, and, with living expenses at an all-time high, the need for a generous response to this appeal is urgent..All our citizens are aware of the great work which institutions of this kind are accomplishing, and the surprise is not that they should require to ap- peal annmlly for public support, but that they are able to get aloiq so efficiently on such mod- est budgets. The work has been a labour of love to those actively cngogcd in it, and our citizens now have an opportunity of showing their interest and appreciation in a practical way.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Appeal for orphans. l’ I .

The Boards of Trade representatives who visited here last week must have been staggered at the history, law, statistics, economics and geopolitics allowed to fall upon their defenceless heads.

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It may more or less accurately be said that September now gone came in like a lion "tourist- ly" speaking, and went out also like a lion with Board of Trade, Chamber of Commerce and Transportation Commissioners, speaking.

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Everyone, but Scruges, approves of the Gov- ernment providing a permanent home for suc- cessive Prime Ministers. Mr. Mackenzie King en- joyed such a convenience through the courtesy and kindness of his patroness the late Lady Laur- ier. ' t t

The Canadian Congress of Labour meets all this week in Ottawa to consider housing, employ- ment, wages, prices, health insurance, unemploy- ment insurance, political action and social secur- ity. So familiar do most of these topics sound that the matter of political action by the con- gress seems almost superfluous.

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The proposal of Mr. J. J. Smith, M. P. for abolition of petition of right procedure in suing the Crown was coldly received by the Minister of Justice. Government participation in what was once the field of private business has gone to very great lengths and it becomes an ever greater in- justice that it should only be subject to suit with the consent of the Attorney General.

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William Morris, British poet, artist and so- cialist, dicd this date i896. Educated at Oxford he became an architect and painter, then an author. He was associated in art with Borne-Jones, Ford Madon Brown, and Rossetti. His works in- clude The Defence of Guinevere, The Life and Death of Jason, The Earthly Paradise, Poems by the Way. He established an artistic printery where he produced much fine, artistic book work. His socialism was aesthetic; poverty, to him, meant lack of pictures and artistic joys.

First woman President of the Royal College of Obstetricians is Professor Hilda Norah Lloyd, who follows Sir William Gillicitt. Sir William at- tended Princess Elizabeth when Prince Charles was born. Hc did not stand for re-election as President of the College. Mrs. Lloyd defeated two powerful male rivals - Dr. James Wyatt, consult- ant at St. Thomas’ Hospital and Dr. Gilbert Stra- chan of Cardiff, Fifty-eight years old, Mrs. Lloyd, tall with graying hair, is Professor of Obstetrics at Birmingham University. She is one of the busiest childbirth specialists and worncn surgeons in the United Kingdom.

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Mr. Rcnnic Pcrraiilt, Montreal guest speaker at the Bcard of Trade dinner, did well to empha- size the necessity far initiative and aggression if the Maritime: are to attain the position to which we are entitled in Confederation. lndividlll and cooperrtive efforts here will bring forth much better and riper fruit than what the honourable and respected Mr. Howe once described as "con- stant yapping" in Parliament. lf the rest of Ca- nada see that we ourselves are aggressive and progressive they will be more inclined through their representatives in Parliament to see that we get the encouragement and assistance we deserve from whatever party in power. But we have to prove that we know definitely what we want, why, and how it can be accomplished.

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Entry of the trucking industry into the Royal Commission on Transportation has been an- nounced by the Canadian Automotive Transporta- tion Association. Tha C.A.T.A. embraces 5,000 trucking firms in a federation of provincial truck- ing associations. "The Association is entering the national transportation inquiry in order to acquaint the Commission with the importance of truck transportation in the manufacturing agri- cultural, forest, and mining industries-of Cun- ada," states John Magee, C.A.T.A. executive n- crctary and director of Public Relations. "We will also reply to proposals regarding highway tram- port which have been made ta the Conrmi slon by our competitors, the railways. We raga than proposals as grossly inimical to the national in- temt and we intend to demonstrate to the Com-

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A IIYMN

O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter,

Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb ul, The swords of scorn divide, Take not. thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.

Fmm n11 that terror teaches, From lies of tongue and pg“, From all the easy speech"

That comfort cruel men,

Frciirn sale and profanatlon

Of honour and the sword,

“(m1 5169i) and from damnation, Deliver us, good Lord!

Tie in a living tether

The prince and priest and chi-all. Bind all our lives together. Smite us and save u; all;

In ire and eiiuitation

Afiame with faith, and free. Lift‘ up a living nation,

A smile sword to thee.

—G. K. Chesterton.

Clearing House

(Winnipeg Free Press)

As producers of one of (hr) world's big cxportable surplus ivhcai crops, Canadians will have marr- than n passing interest iii 1hr.- proposal made recently by ex- ports of the Food rind Agriculture Ortznnlzatlon of the United Na- tions. _

The proposal is for the estab iishmont of an International Com- ninrlily Clearing House aimed at channelling agricultural surpluses from the dollar to the non-dollar countries. Although it would have» ll ciijiilaiization of 55.0000 millions. ilio member nations would be ask- rri in subscribe nnly 20 per- cent of this immediately.

Onw- thls money was put up. ilir~ clearing house would then be lililf‘ in proceed with its Plane for disposing of whatever large-s I surpluses might develop.

Accordln)! to the Deputy Direc- tor General of FAO, Sir Herbert BWYMUPI‘, the clearing house would have three main functions. Ii would buy and sell ilitlea

'Time And Equinoxes

(New York Times)

Dflys shorten touard the length 01 night and that astronomical moment we call the autumnal equinox approaches. Summer ls about ti: end, officially, and out. umn to arrive, though it is diffi. cult to understand just why two minutes difference in the length °f daylight and darkness should milrk "19 f-‘lltmge of seasons.

The truth is that it doesn't, ex- cept on the calendar and in the minds of those who must have matters tallied .ip and tidied into columns of figures.

Yet the turning earth, the fixlly of the stars and the rhythm of sun and moon are among tho most ancient of man's mathemati- cal constants.

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But Y0" 08h be reasonably sure that the first, man to record (he equinoxes was not the one who dlvlded ll"! dfly into hours anrl minutes and seconds. He was in no such haste that he needed Chfllfllhg to minute fractions of time.

He must have watched the crim- son creep along the leaves of a

maple tree, about this time of year. He must have seen the spider nets gleam silver and

crystal in the morning dew, and the redtop grass turn the hills to bronze.

I-Ie must have tasted fox grapes ripe, and held the rcrldened apple in his hands. And, being a man who could sec- as well ns calculate. he certainly knew that autumn l; too deeply rooted in this orrrfh m b9 "med by lhe slurs and ri flick- urlng shadow of daylight,

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Ana nun chutenrth his son. so the Lord thy God cliaatcnelh thee.

ANNIVERSARY BOOK

TORONTO, — (C?) -- Rev, Dr, Kenneth J. Beacon. secretary of the United Church's committee

for missionary education. has irrrit- ten a book outiininz the ES-frrggr. old history of the United Churgh of Canada. It is being publlghgd in‘ connection with the 25th an. niversary of the church.

in order to stabilize prices. It would coordinate negotiations of international commodity agree-

menls; and finally, it would aim to scnd surpluses into consump- tion rather than encourage the crop-restrictive practices of the past O l I O

Sir Herbert admitted that in order to get surpluses into some consuming areas, It would prob- Bbly be necessary to introduce a two-price and even perhaps a three-price system. But the prob- lem must be faced realistically. The alternative to an international clearing house with ‘its two-price System was is return to disastrous nationalistic restrictive devices and the wholesale dumping of sur- pluses.

These, he said, would nullify the imports-now bsinl made to stabilize currencies, lllmulgflq m. ternatlonnl investment and oxplnd freer multllatlral trade.

I" "Wort o! his lrllilhont about tho need for moving lur- pluoas into consumption, Sir flar- berc pointed out that quite» a from the economic dlmlla w iota they do to the world at. IarIO-‘tho reltrlctlvo practices are malty In themselves. He aid that the $.- 000 millions of capital urged for

,Ioubls the runs which the Uni

the rclearlng house was only kl

States alone had spent from 1939 to 1941 in restricting agricultural production.

The proposal. which was drawn "l? by six economic experts, will I0 before the November session of tlie- FAO Council. It will decide whether or not to adopt it B (i the further dlncunion of the p n ‘at that time lhould he illuminat- fll. '

It will be recalled that a some- what similar proposal framed by IAO in its earlier years failed to obtain the support of the member nations, particularly of the im- WIIQPI- They tend to regard two I'll“ Iyltems as ache-mes to raise Prices to the custorriarfpnylng the higher of the two prion. There- fflfé. because this latest policy la 591M brought forward ls no rea- "II for Iiioimins that it wiii fare

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THE MAGDALEN ISLANDS

"Little. We believe. is known of the actual state uf the Magdalen Islands, although in our immedi. ate neighborhood, being only 4T miles distant from East Point. . These Islands contain a population of about 1,000 inhabitants, amongst whom there ls not a single magis- trate, or even constable, to take (‘Otlnizunce of their affairs. . . . Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin is thi: sols proprietor. and we are inform- ed l-hul I10! one of the inhabitants possesses anything like a formal or lcpnl deedof the land he 0g. cupivs.

"VPry few people in Lower Canada. we suspect, are aware that the Magdalen Islands are an appendage of that Government, rinii form a part of the County of Que-bro, which is however- the lruili; but their distance from the scat of government is an in- convcniency severely felt by the inhabitants in many respects, and particularly in the difficulty there exists in procuring registers for the smriil vessels, in which they prosecute the seal and cod fish- eries. ,

"In order to remedy this evil. the inhabitants, we understand. have in contemplation to petition His lllrijc-styk.‘ Government to be unnexoil to the Government of this Isiund, which we haye no doubt will meet with due atten- tion in the proper place. Among other benefits which would accrue to them on the success of this

tlclpating in the extension of dlir fishing lnws to their settlements. Ac present there exists no regu- lullons among them — indeed a more neglected spot, we venture to any, is not to be found in His Mnjosfyiis riomlnlons."

~~Prlnco Edward Idland Regis- lcr, June 17, I825. .

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That nuns of putting the bll ones on top and the little one: underneath in the plumflraflket ll hoary with ale. A Beamsville man had to pay $25 finc- and $11 00515. u; n government inspector submit- bed his evidence, having eXflmlhed 42 baskets no less. Cflniumers who might have been gypped in buying these plums would have condemned the entire fruit. EFOW- ing industry in the Niagara Pen- insula. Life's like that. —— St. Catharine; Standard.

In the brief period since the end of the war. the aver-sine ""181" of life (the expectation of life at birth) of the industrial population of the United Slates lius increas- ed by about two years. In T943 the average reached the all-time high of 67.16 years. according l0 the experience of the industrial policy-holders of the lifefraPiilllla" Life Insurance Company- L“! year was the fifth in SUMO-filo" to record a rise in ionuqvlll’; "1 fact, except for the war yet" 1943- the average length of life has been increasing continuously Since I930. In less than two decades. the improvement has amount"! l0 "t" years. Since 1911-1912 when this series on the longevity of the in- dugtrigi population was started. 20% years have been added to the expectation of life at birth. Metropolitan Life Bulletin-