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There are forecasts by "experts" that U. N. forces will be compelled to withdraw altogether from Korea in the face of num- bers which.the non-Communist world can- not match without seriously endangering other and more important frontiers.

It may well be so, although in the com- fort of an armchair it might seem that there is no reason why a beach-head could not be held at least to the depth of the range of naval guns stoutly backed by air power. Such a defeat, however, should it occur, would only be a measure of the temporary weakness of the United Nations. It would be far from the death-knell which Abyssirya proved for the League of Na- tions and which would have been duplicat- ed in 1950 had the U. N. come to terms with the forces of aggression instead of op- posing them.

Voluntarily Assumed Illsk

A Quebec Superior Court judge T135 ruled that an injured passenger cannot re- cover damages from the car owner when an accident occurred as a consequence of the driver being intoxicated.

The case was, of course, decided under the Quebec Civil Code but the principle has application under the common law and any appeal will be followed with interest in all the Provinces. The reasoning is that the intoxication of the driver involves a risk which is known to the passenger and voluntarily assumed by him, so that he has no legal recourse when the anticipated ac- cident and injury occur.

Legal rights apart, anyone entering a car with a drunken driver would seem to be positively asking for death or injury.

Lord lie-I:-tdlial Inaugjiratlons

Reading the C. P. report of the noisy reception of the new Lord Rec- tor of Glasgow University the unin- formed might receive the impression that these students were a lot of Bolshe- vists. Not at all. That is how they treat all their new Lord Rectors on their instal- lation, and have done so from time im- memorial. The election of a Lord Rector at a Scottish University, be it Edinburgh, Aberdeen or Glasgow, is in the most dem- ocratic form imaginable. The powers-that- be have no say in the matter. The under- graduates nominate their candidates, usual- ly well-known and distinguished public men. They hold meetings in their respective headquarters, which are raided as a matter of course by their opponents who attempt to replace them as speech-makers. When the final nominations are made there are hilarious proceedings in the college quad- rangle but no lethal weapon or material is permitted. The supporters of the respec- tive candidates may bespatter their oppon- ents with flour, rice, yellow ochre or other such harmless ”powder and shot", and then when the names have been duly posted, hostilities cease, and voting proceeds quiet- ly without interruption. When the result of the poll is announced there is again surging activity in the quadrangle, but this time all the students are doing the shout- ing and hurrahing in honour of the victor.

The committee in charge then reports to the Principal" the result of the ballot, -and he authorizes them to get in touch with the winner and to arrange for his inaugur- ation. When the new Lord Rector arrives, his first engagement is to lunch with the Lord Provost of the city or with the Prin- cipal of the University. It is then the unique privilege of the students, to unyoke the horses of theicarriage-and-pair in which the new Lord Rector is to drive, and to substitute man-power for horses (or auto- power, nowadays), long ropes being sub- stltuted, and off the new Lord Rector starts for his luncheon, by the longest possible route practicable. After luncheon he is conveyed similarly to the University for his inaugural. The students at this function are free and unrestrained, and may bespatter the members of the com- mittee in charge on. the platform, with the some kind of ammunition' as at election, but-"hands off" the Lord Rector. No one may dare to bespstter him, or inter- rupt his speech., The Lord Rector is then convey ck to his hotel the way he

. and the students disperse. To the no tic all this may betoken rowdyllm, . it in not so: it in youthful en- iet loose, and the spirit of the at pity--under civicwperviston, for tfb!dy'of- police accompanies every move-

EDITORIAL NOTES

This is supposed to be sub-zero month, but so far it has not lived up to its reputa- tion.

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The British egg industry is menaced by a growing outbreak of fowl pest which is depriving the meat-short country of about 100,000 eggs a week. Besides losing the eggs, farmers are having to kill off poul- rty-45,000 since November-in an effort

to combat the disease. 0 O

The lights are out again in London, not because of danger from the air, fortunate- ly, but because Britons are staying away from the job of coal-mining in multitudes. It is hard to blame them. Who would choose to work underground if a reason- ably good living is assured otherwise.

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While there is no sense in shouting peace when there is no peace, it is the part of wisdom to heed the warnings of war experts to be prepared for whatever may happen today or the day after today. We are living in strenuous times, and must ever keep our war-eye open for eventualities.

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The three Prairie Provinces will not be represented at the Board of Transport Commissioners' general freight rate hear- ing at Ottawa on the 15th. The up-hill battle has certainly been wearisome and perhaps the oil-induced boom makes high-

er freight rates seem more bearable. 0 O 0

Controls will certainly be with us if this country later finds it necessary to go all out in war effort. The controls will not increase over-all production, rather the reverse, but they will be required to divert man-power and materials from ordinary civilian channels.

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It is reported that H. M. C. S. Huron has been a most popular ship for drafts since being designated to sail for Korea on the 22nd. Naval morale and recruiting re- sults are kept high because it is known that the long months of training will be put to use in time of need. It would have been an effective stimulant to recruiting in the regular Army had it been similarly employed rather than sidestepped for a special force. -

Governor Dewey of New York differs from ex-President Hoover in declaring that the U. S. withdraw from the European and Asiatic mainlands and make the Western Hemisphere a defensive bastion against communism. ”Once again,” Dewey said, ”the call should be plain to free men every- where to band together and bravely live else they will fall apart and ignobly die." The U. S. must show the way in sacrifice, leadership and building of "overwhelming military force,” not only to win if. war should come but possibly to deter Red ag- gression. Dewey accused the Truman ad- ministration of permitting ”the mightiest force on earth, our naval, air and ground forces, to disintegrate." The Soviet Union, he said, has the world's largest land arm- ies and air force and ”vast power under the sea."

All that is happening in Korea and the East generally is not stopping the clock of progress and peaceful advancement. For instance, New Zealand has abolished her second chamber, being convinced that the law courts could provide sufficient check on over-hasty legislation, and save the trouble and expense of maintaining a body of men whose usefulness as active politicians has terminated. Again, a new self-governing Dominion in Africa is being developed. A conference of representatives of Northern and Southern Rhodesia, Nyasaland and Britain is for this purpose to be held in London in March. They are expected to discuss whether world conditions make it desirable to have one commonwealth state in Central Africa instead of three; and whether creation of such a state would relieve Britain of some of her financial and political responsibility and tend to strength- en the Commonwealth as a whole.

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In Wilmington, Del., dairies are selling milk concentrates and find it profitable. Henry l-luff, official of the Clover Dairy, which distributes the milk concentrate, says its flavor could not be distinguished from ordinary milk. This product is available in one-third quart and quart con- tainers. The smaller size, Mr. Huff states,

The concentrate was introduced on the dairy's routes on Nov. 1, but no surveys have been made as yet-to determine public reaction. But, Mr. Huff, daid, sales have been "gradually increasing." In Chicago, the Beatrice Foods Company reporh it was test-selling a concentrated chocolatlidrlnk in about 100 stores. The Bordon Company an it in experimenting with a new. form of concentrated milk, but does notsindicote

when the "product would be put on the mar- ket. -

is delivered on retail routes at 22 1-42 CEYIIS.”

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bringing her greater prosperity. wider liberties, larger responsibili-

too. but these. while they have annoyed us, have strengthened us. So. on the whole, we cannot com- plain. - Vancouver Province.

The only thing we dilliko about Christmas trees is that there are always many willing hands available for the trim- ming and decorating, there are few who will have any part of the dismantling and disposal of same. we think an effort should be made to popularize a "cletrimming of the tree" party. This would help to make a pleasure out of what is now a very doieful task. - Brock- .g ville Recorder and Times.

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to accumulate. What was the reason? was the Gulf stream shifting? Or as some maintained, were sun spots responsible? Or was the world just travelling through another of many weatheri cycles in the long passage of ttme?l Those who subscribe to the last theory could offer as one argu-

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5H5H5?i RIGHT KIND OF COURAGE

Sir, - "January 1951. Riesolved. Whatever comes or does nct. come I will not be afraid." (See Guardian cartoon, Jan. 3rd.). A splendid re- solve with which to begin 1951, pro- vided our courage springs from faith in God and not from mater- ial self-assurance. The cartoonist of course, leaves it an open ques- tion. Material resources. health, an assured living. the natural resources of the country, manpower, i ust- rlal potential, are importan and have their place and a certain de- pendence is to be placedin these material resources. but. away and above all there is faith in God as a ground of wu.ra.ge as we look into the future.

Standing back in 1960 u;l1o would have said that the Chinese Corn- munlsts would attack in Korea and threaten to drive out. the U.N. forces? It was thought; the war there would be about over by the year's end, and Korea would be a free and independent nation to the strengthening and glory of tlie Un- ited Nations. But. if God be God. and -we believe He is, we cannot doubt; but. that He has other plans for Karen.

We can all have our guess but no man knows what is coming in this year but God himself. He is in complete control of every event and in his own way. is managing all things through human agency, of course, in the interests of His king- dom. Falth in God and His good- ness is ultimately the only ground for a sane and dauntless courage. "They that trust in the lord shall be as Mount Zion which cannot be removed but abidetlh forever."

I am. Sir. etc.

, W. I. GREEN. Stanley Bridge.

DANGEROUS DRIVING

Sir,-Lf a man gets drunk, picks up a gun and shoots one of his fellow men, everyone gets excited and calls it murder. Put this same man in charge of an automobile, in his same condition. and when he kills someone in this manner, nctbody worries too much about it. In the one ease, he in all prob- ability will hang. In the other, he will be dined and lectured. If he is sent to prison it will be for a very comparatively short time. What's wrong, and where?

Not long ago a drunken taxi driv- er killed four people in one of the larger American cities. Brought up before a judge. this same judge who was supposed to be an edu- coted man, sentenced this man who had snuffed out four human lives in as many seconds, to thirty days in jail! I wonder if this judge sleaps well at night?

In some cases, a heavy fine is thrown at the guilty party. But. the guilty party may be a million- aire, and three or four thousand dollars is, to him, what. to t-he aver- age man is five dollars. Has this man been punished for his mis- deed? '

Stiff sentences are handed out for burglary, robbery and many lesser crimes. Yet when the time comes to hand out a just punishment to a. man who robbed another of his life. because of his carelessness and complete disre- gard for the safety of others, we fall down terribly. are fanclal. and the , nlshmem (in nine cases out of ten) an insult to any man or woman with an ounce of decency in them. Those who have the power seem to ignore this ever growing menace. and ostrich like. bury their heads in the sands of neglect.

In this regard, certainly. the punishment does not fit the crime.

whereas It most definitely should! ' I.Im, Sir, etc, Cornwall, P.E.l.

TKEMIBS WIIITIIEI IN 1061?

sirz- The harrowing experi- ences of many fmnere who have become too much addicted to the growing of potatoes, and depend- ent upon that crop u ) means of livoiyhood, will no doubt cause them to hold conferences with cool: other on the pros of the industry. before making that decision for the your tool, but nine when out of too it will be safe to abide by one'a own judge- ment rather than listen to others. That mythical "They" who are

given credit for .tlxo annual phophesy that "This in tho your to

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ed more upon hunch than on sound reasoning, have done more damage to farmers in the past than can ever be redeemed and given to the industry. a discolored optic not actually deserved it stmer methods had been followed.

There will conceivably be a measure of retrenchment in potato growing this year. by those who have already sold at a. loss, as well as others, still loaded down and unable to dispose of their holdings to any better advantage. But to what other line of agricultural activity will the farmer turn his attention asreplacement of the job now being discarded? Naturally we suggest, increased livestock production. and theoretically that may be the answer.

It will probably be argued some- thing like this. "Parts of the world are now at war. and recruiting of armies is engaging attention in oi-s most every country." "Production of armaments in preparation for a possible third world war is going on at an ever Increasing pace." "Tremendous military and indust- rial consuming centers are thus being created for the products of the farm, of which livestock is chief." "Depleted man power on the form may be unable to cope with production demands and the resulting scarcity will assure high- er prices and bigger profits." "For years to come. no matter wlmt the outccrne of present international negotiations may be. H. demand for livestock and associated products will continue. etc." That may be the trend of reasoning. and it may sound most alluring when in the form of argument, or on paper. but there are other factors that lead to logical questioning and frank answering.

It may well be asked what pos- ition Island farmers occupy with regard to opportunities such as outlined. and if they exist. Are they situated so they can take full advantage? The answer definitely is. They are not. Are Island farm- ers at a disadvantage as compared with farmers elsewhere in Canada. and why? Island farmers are handicapped in .man,v respects as compared with agricultural addicts elsewhere. Some of the causes are of outside origin and beyond local control, while others are directly due to faulty local leadership.

The- chief impediment to engag- ins in a program of expanded livestock production is a glaring example. The reference is in re- spect to a potential if not certain scarcity of livestock feeds this coming summer. obtainable at a price that will give some assurance of a margin of profit after feeding. Without some promising induce- ment on this point. livestock pro- duction on a greater scale than at present would be hazardous indeed and a gamble equal to that which brought about the present potato debacle.

Reference to "faulty local leader- ship" is based upon observation over a. course of years. It. has been odd to observe, but equally patent to behold that in the main, aid to farmers conslebed chiefly in giving a hand in time of emergencies rather than in spending a dollar in taking precautions that would prevent the occurence of these periodic calamities. Had this ap- posite course been adopted, to the end that adequate feed supplies would always be available to the livestock producers of the Prov- ince at e reB.s0nal)l'e cost, farmers could capitalize upon present at- trnctive production opportunities to very p-ofltable advantage.

Plans formulated four years ago leading to such: desirable ob- jective were scuttled in favor of a

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Old ch3"0uel0Wn tern agofsouthgrn New Brl"el:l'igIilI?(l!.k' (Ana 9, E. 1.) had A Winter in which there was

almost no show. This is described in diaries of the first English- spealdng traders at Saint John.- Snint. John Telegraph-Journal.

HARBOUR IN JANUARY

"During the period of upwards of thirty years, which the writer has passed in Prince Edward Is- land. he has never before seen the harbour open so late as the 8th of January. the day on which he is writing this article. It was in the year 1828. we think, that two vessels arrived in Charlotte- town harbour on the 5th day of January, one from Antigua, the other fvrom Halifax. In this year, 1855, two vessels arrived in the same harbour on the '1th of Janu- ary, and this, we think, will 'be the latest on record.

t'It is perfectly well ascertained that the different harhou-s in the Island were formerly closed by ice at a much earlier period than they are at the present day, but we have no data by which to as- certain that this fact, is indica- tive of any great. change of tem- parature in the seasons. one rea- son for the earlier closing of the waters by frost. arose, we take it, from their being more sheltered

The present ulendlr is chang- nble and irregular. It is .1 nuts- ance to the ordinary man, and, more important, it makes diffi- culties in keeping business records and making comparisons. How can one month's production be! compared with another when the months begin on different. days: and have different; lengths? Even. if the months are of equal length. one may have four Sundays and the other five. Unequal months cause headaches in calculating wages and salaries. interest, in- nurance, rent, pensions. Calendar reform has been before the Con- gress af the U. S. and the United Nations. It missed a big oppor- tunlty in 1950, which started with a Sunday. It is not too early to start preparations for a change in 1956. which will be the next year that begins on a Sunday. - The Financial Post.

The neck: of Commons rules on

of Britain's House matters of

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... Thomas Erskine May put tlleinuu in n "'rreat.lse on the low, pm. ilesea. Proceedings and Usage 0; Parliament.” -a work kept up :4 data by clerks of the House. Lag;

klne May" was published. mu, epithets had been added to en. banned list. They were: ”choat"; "not 3 damned one of you op. poeite; "stool plgeons', and "bag. card". - The New York Times.

The year Just opened may

the promise and radiance of othe, years. It may seem dark with un. ,certainty and the menace of ag. gression. But granted the uncer- tainty and menace, it is still 3 year of great promise. There have been other periods when the rug. ure seemed hopeless. For exampig compare the present with the ttm. of Galba, described by Tacitus as follows: "We are entering upon the history of I period rich in disaster, gloomy with Watspgreng with seditions and savage in very hours of peace. There was

ldefilement of sacred rights, qhlclujg.

ezies in high places, the sea was crowded with exiles, island rocks were drenched with murder C an was one delirium of hate and ter. ror. slaves were bribed to beam, their masters. freed men their patrons. He who had no enemy was destroyed by his ddends." Winnipeg Free Press.

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UPON ECKINGTON BRIDGE

Mon shall outlast his battles. They have swept Avon from Noseby Field to Seven

Ham, And Evesham's dedicated stone:

have step'p'd

Down to the dust. with Montforta oriflamme. a

Nor the red tear nor the reflected tower ,

Abldes; but yet these eloquent grooves remain.

Worn in the sandstone ptlmpel

hour by hour

By laboring box-gemen where the; shifted ropes.

E'en so shall man turn back from violent h0p('S T To Adam's cheer, and toil witii

than they now are. It is astonish- ing how much wider the rivers, as they are called - being in

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reality arms of the son us, since their banks have been de- nuded of trees. to what they must have been when in a auto of na- ture.

"Even in our recollection, the bank known as the site of the old windmill has been diminished by

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optometrist ' Eyes examined, glance fitted Corner Kent as Queen Sis. Office Phone 1956-House 1018

several yards, by the operation of Money to loan Collection

the frost and the encroachment

of the tide. The forest must have

flourished on many parts of the ' banks of the river, where there is Jglm P, NicI'loIsOlI, now nothing save an expanse of water at high tide." I-L... -H d'

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Breihern. I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those thin which are behind, and , '-' forth lhio those things which up before. I press toward the mu: m- ihe prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Lei. us therefore, 3! min? is be perfect. be thus minded: and If in any thing yo be oiherwlse minded. God shall neveni even this unto you.

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pendent upon the hand to mouth M35 Wiley of a generation ago with all its uncertainty of con- tinuity and excessive purchasing costs. It is time somebod made even a belated move. I am. Sir, etc. .1. A. Gnlins

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