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MONDAY, DEC. 29, 1953
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Over-Zealous PaCIIists Anyone who has followed the career of the Rev. Michael Scott will be sorry to learn that he was obliged to spend Christmas in jail.
Mr. Scott, a Church of England clergyman, has devoted much of his life so far to championing the cause of coloured people throughout the world and especially the natives of South Africa, who have suffered so much from the Government’s policy of apartheid. For his activities there he was deported. He is now in Eng- land; and a few days ago he led a gro u p of 50 pacifists in protesting the erection of an American missile launching base. Refusing to promise to stay away from the base until their trial, after being arrested for attempting to interfere with work- men at the site, they were lodged in jail.
'There is an idealistic trait in pac- ifists like Mr. Scott and his fellow- agitators which calls forth some ad- miration. Doubtless, it takes courage to choose a jail sentence in prefer- ence to the giving up of one’s con- victions; and, of course, some of the’ brightest pages of history were writ- ten by men and women whose refusal to conform to popular causes subjec- ted them to abuse and, in some cases, persecution.
» In this case, however, though one feels sorry for Mr. Scott and his pac- ifistic associates, it is difficult to think of them as victims of injus- tice. In fact, it_would be easy to take the view that they “got what was coming to them”. They are in jail not because they are opposed to rearma- ment in general and to the setting up of missile bases in particular but simply because they attempted to in- terfere with workmen who are no more responsible for Britain’s de- fence policy than are the demonstra. tors themselves. If Mr. Scott and his friends believe that the British Gov- ernment is not doing all it might to preserve the peace—and they ob- VlOuBIy d0——~they' h a v e the right to try and change Government policy by democratic means. But interfer- ence with men at work in the line of duty is not one of those means.
Marketing Boar‘fds
One of the most controversial,
issues in agriculture during 1958 was marketing boards, reports the Country Guide. The results during the year were somewhat mixed. In February a vegetable marketing board was set up in Alberta follow- ing a plebiscite. but ran into con- siderable opposition during the summer from the processing com- panics.
During the year, plebiscites were held in both Alberta and Sask- atchewan in connection with the proposed establishment of egg mar keting boards. In Alberta the plan failed because those who voted for a board were only 41 per cent of the total number of registered pro- ducers. In Saskatchewan only a small proportion of eligible pro- ducers voted and not enough of these favored a board to be convinc- ing. ‘
On the other hand the Ontario hog marketing board, which has been on trial for 3 years, submitted to a vote in the summer as a result of increasing opposition. In this case the marketing plan received the confidence of more than two. thirds of those” voting and so was to be continued.
‘ Integrated farming was another live issue in 1958. As a 'result of capital scarcity on farms and lack of a steady supply of some farm products at the market place, pro- cessors, or other handlers, have embarked on arrangements with farmers whereby the handler guar- antees to take the finished product at predetermined prices, and at the same time provides some of the capital in tho form of food and actual stock. The farmer may give up some control over his produc— tion in rcturn for a more stanc in- come (for lbw? s largsl' nu- >l‘,:»'
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on the Importance and extent or the farmer's loss of sovereignty, and his eventual need for collective bargaining power, if and as the system becomes more widespread.
Presidential ConIUSIon
President Eisenhower opened a recent press conference by volunteer- ing a statement on the Berlin situa- tion. He attempted to give some‘his- tory. According to the Milwaukee Journal, one of his comments ran like this: '
“Well now, later, in July and August I think it was, in Potsdam, there was again the Russians—I be- lieve I said Germans before. I meant Russians, sorry—the British and Americans'meeting, and there was more specific detail agreed upon as to how Berlin should be divided and governed.” ,
A few moments later, in answer to a question on the division of Ber- lin, the President said: “But what I am getting a‘. is that then at Pots- dam they did consider all of the means of ingress which, so far as I know—PI never read all of the Pots- dam papers—but I assume it was done there.”
The President’s statement came two weeks after Secretary of State Dulles had held a press conference and discussed Berlin. Dulles, answer- ing the Russian claim that the divi- sion of Berlin had been agreed to at Potsdam, said this: “Now, the rights and statusof the Allies in Berlin and the responsibilities and obligations of the Soviet Union do not in any way whatsoever derive from the Potsdam agreements. Indeed, that subject... is not even mentioned in the Potsdam agreements.”
Whatever Mr. Eisenhower may have been reading lately it evidently hasn't been post-war Berlin his-
: tory—or his own Secretary of State.
Hay Waters
The ‘fCountry Guide” reports the development of- yet another mechanical aid to agriculture. It is a. machine that takes hay from the Windrow and presses it into wafers or pellets.
These wafers can be ' handled mechaniCally and reduire only half as much storage space as bales. They measure up to 4 inches in dia- meter and about 2 inches thick. Experimental ., research has shown that dairy calves and cows ate more hay when it wasted in wafer form and that beef cattle and sheep made better growth and flattened faster on them. It was noticed, however, that when dairy cows were fed the wafers, the ~fat con- tent of their milk was likely to de- cline slightly.
The machine, which is still in the experimental stage, takes cured hay from the windrow andfwithout grinding, hammers it under 6,000 lbs. pressure as a continuous tube of pressed hay in wafer or biscuit form. The wafers are delivered from the machine into a trailing self-unloading wagon, from where they can be put in storage.
EDITORIAL NOTES
DOSCO says that although two new mills will be built in Montreal, Sydney will remain “the c e n t r e of company operations”. Sydney .resi- dents may be excused for not being quite able to understand this sort of reasoning.
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The Wildlife Division estimates that 5,000 moose will be killed in Newaundland during the current big game season. Sounds like a lot of moose. It was not enough to satisfy conservation officials, however, who were hoping that 6,000 or more would be killed. The animals are in~ creasing faster than the food supply.
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An Ottawa report'states that con- sideration is being given to the establishment of a prison farm near Springhill, N. S. It is to be hoped
' that this is not the best suggestion
that will be forthcoming from the
‘ Federal and Nova Scotia Govern-
ments. It would be a poor substitute for an'industrial undertaking. in fact, it is hard to see how it would benefit Springhill residents at all.
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the complex economic situation,
Menoced By Inflation
By Patrick Nicholson
At this Christmas season, not allithe bells are jing‘inig. There is also a pertinent jaugle of an alarm bell. ringing more lusts. tently than at any other time in our history.
A survey reveals that, in re-
cent newspapor editorials, th e
word “inflation” has appeared thrice for every two mentions of “Yuletide.”
Inflation is not the only .prob- lem facing you and me and Prime Minister John Diode-choker today; perhaps too few of us regard it as our most immediate problem; But the dwindling value of our decaying dollar, which is brought by inflation, thrusts itself into a lead rolc in every one of our do- mestic and international dramas today: war throats, trade res/trio. tions, undeveloped areas, unem- ployment, disease, taxation and so on. ‘
Our cost of living, as measur- ed by the official “Consumer Price Index,” has risen five points since the‘Consorvative Gov. ernment t o o k office eight e e n months ago. It had risen a like amount in the preceding twelve months. Prior to that. it had re main-ed virtually steady for four and one - half years, after a re- cord twelve point leap prompted by the outbreak of the Korean War. That matched the twelve point leap in 1948, at the height of the postwar boom. Yet sight. ficantly. it rose only three points in the four finial: free - spending years of World War Two, when prices and wages were strictly regulated by the Government.
'DO YOU REALLY CARE?
The remote - sounding “Con . su‘mer Prince Index" can be re- ported as rising without making you hot under the collar. Would you be equally disinterested if, nearly every month, your boss were to tell you that your wages had been cut? Yet that is the real meaning every time the monthly calculations by the Bur- eau of Statistics reveals a rise in. the C. P. I.
Suppose your pay packet is slightly higher than the cross - Canada industrial average, per «
"haps $75 per week. In the past
two years, it has had six dollars looped off its purchasing power, a dime one month, a quarter ano- ther. Perhaps you how not natic. ed this, but your wife is made painfully aware of it when she does the markotin-g for your fam-' ily.
Did you take out life insur . ancc' after the war, as so many returnod‘ servicemen did. chuck- ing off their uniforms and assum- in 1, family responsibilities? The hard - earned dollars which you saved in Ithose early years look pretty sickly today, because the insurance protection which yo u then considered satisfactory for your wife and children has had forty cents in the dollar chiselled off it by inflation. That insur - ance protection, planned to care for your widow and fatherless children in case of need, will now care for them and feed them, for less than eight months in th e year.
' Likewise, the pension provi - sions for your old age and your savings,‘onoe adjudged satisfac- tory to you-r needs, now will fill those needs for only part of each year, and thanks to inflation you will either burden your grown-up children or go hungry for the balance of each year.
WHAT CAN “THEY” DO?
A pnime cause of this heart - less, destructive inflation is t h e repeated demand for higher wag- es, which in turn pushes prices up. As The Queen said to Alice, in the topsy - turvy world of “Through the Looking Glass,” "it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.”
Each of us, understand-ably in our ignorance, tries to keep ahead of the price spiral by seeking wage increases. These, we hope, will offset the decreased pur- chasing power of each dollar we earn, but the increases themsel- ves bring about that decrease. In this short-sighted and greedy lack of restraint, in this economic civil war, theunion leaders are very
year our governments have been perhaps even more to blame, for
not explaining in simple language
Tests Ot'Fluoridotion
By Thomas R. Henry North American Newspaper Alliance
Some of the opposition to fluor- idation of water supplies as a dental-health measure can be dismissed out of hand as popPY- cock. For instance the argument that the campaign is playing into the hands of our enemies by giv- ing them the means to poison us all, as if it were a simple matter for them to increase the quantity of fluorides used from pounds of carloads. For instance, the argu- ment that because fluorides are ingredients of some poisons, fluoridation amounts to “shoveh ling poison into our drinkiig water".
Some has a basis that is fairly rational, the View that fluorida- tion is a step whose effects are unpredictable in some possibly- important ways. One answer to this is the area whose water nat- urally contains fluorine in the re- commended proportion of one part or so per million. and whose residents' teeth are the sounder, an dtheir physical condition in othe respects none the worse. for using it.
Our forefathers all drank fluor- idated water, according to Ontar- io‘s Minister of Health, and we credit them with being better physical specimens than oursel- ves. With time, fluoride content has dropped, like the salubrious
balance of minerals in cultivated I soil. But for what the information I
is worth, our inheritance from1 ruggcd forebears must include. then, fa‘milarity with fluorides. More pertinent information.
of course is the fact that rcsidcnis in an area where the water is naturally IliIol‘ldafCIl have far lira‘I'n or than tho-H? In Areas ‘é‘llELE the carer 2.! “pure”
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and that the difference disappears in an area of the second type when fluorides are added to the drinking water for a few years. All‘ the evidence points in the same direction so consistently as to make it illogical to hesitate a- bout acting on it, especially when the cost is such a trifling consid- eration.
much to blame. But year by'
and telling each and all of us what is needed to fight and best this grave national problem.
Meanwhile, using inflation as the fuse to the big bang which will win ,the Cold War for them tho Communist countries are let- ting our own stupidity thus set the stage. When we have ruined our currency, they will deliver th e economic knock - out blow, which will, cripple international trade in the free world, and then destroy our, prosperity and our way of life, without the use of a single hydrogen bomb.
Are wa really as dumb as that? Our government is asking itse‘f whether we are sufficiently adult to be grateful to it, if it should
give us the unpleasant medicine which‘alone can cure Our fatal economic disease.
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Dark Circles & Their Cause
By Herman N. Bundescn, M. D.
DARK circles under the eyes are unbecoming. Except for us- ing cosmetics, there isn’t much, as a rule, you can do about them.
Actually those have only an indirect bearing on your health, although many per- sons firmly believe they are the result of illness or fatigue. THIN SI'IN
The skin under the eyelids, you sec. is very thin. There is little fatty tissue, but there are numerous large veins just under the surface of the skin. Your blood. therefore, shows through the thin skin easily, giving off a darker appearance than the surrounding area.
llf older members of your fam- ily have, or have had, these dark circles, there is a possibil- ity that you might have them too. As one groWs older, the darken- ed area becomes not only more obvious, but also more perman- enrt.
MELANIN DEPOSIT
Some doctors believe that units is caused by a greater deposit of melanin, the dark pigment un- der the eyes, as well as by the usual advancing age and the natural anatomy of the acres, which I dis- cussed before.
Auy circulatory disturbance, of course, probably will accentuate the discoloration.
In this way, illness, either acute or chronic, can be a factor in the dark circle problem. Men- struation and the latter part of pregnancy can also, at times, be factors.
What about all this talk you may have heard since you were a child to t e effect that dark circles resul from fatigue or emotional strain!
RELIABLE REPORTS V
Well, we doctors have hoard it, too. Moreover, reliable persons have reported development of dark circles Under the eyes dur- ing just such situations.
Some doctors have studied the matter and have come up with what seems to me a sensible cx- plonation. They con-tend that fati- gue and emotional stress quite naturally produce a pale and was skin. The darkness under the ey- es. consequently, is accentuated. USE MAKE-UP
What can you do to hide these .
annoying discolorations? Generally. they can be blend- ed with the rental the face pret- ty well by using “make-up" bas- es and other pigmented products.
discolorations '
changes that accompany
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Banks are like bathing suits: It’s wit-at you put in them that counts—Brandon Sun
The neighbor who is always bragging about how the cold win- ters on the farm built his Charo actor, is the one who has the car motor running all during breakfast so the hauler Will be working for the ride to the Titties—Winnipeg Tribune
‘ 7115 K W THE SEASONS Four seasons fill the measure of the year; ' There are four seasons in the mind of man:
He has his lusty Spring, fancy clear
Takes in all beauty with an easy span:
He has his Summer, when lux- uriously
Spring’s honied cud of youthful thought he loves
To rumiu-ate, and by such dream- ing high
is nearest unto heaven: quiet coves ‘
His soul has in its Autumn, when his wings
He furleth close; contented so to look
On mists in idleness—to let fair things
Pass by unheeded as s thrash. bold brook.
He has his Winter too of pale misfeature,
Or else he would forego his mor-
~‘ tal nature. ‘
When
—_John Keats.
Beauty experts tell me that of. ten two of the “maikorup” shs‘d-
es are noedied to do the lob cor:
rectly. They advise a light studs for the area under the eyes a d a darker shade for the rest of t a Face. There are also make-up pro ducts available especially for such situations. I ' QUESTION AND ANSWER
W. L. 13.: What comes core- bral spasms and is there any diet that will help to avoid them?
A n 5w 0 r: If by “cerebral spasms” you refer to spasms of the arteries- of the brain, the cause may be high blood pres. sure, allergy or the utoriul chain. 333 of aging.
If you carelessly run in“, ‘ sharp point. . .you get hurt. T123 Ontario Department of Tramp“ is adapting this simple mind?! to legislate more safety into our streets and highways. The pen_ alty that drivers will draw for not keeping clear of the pom 1' .. .sussenslon of driving privil.‘ ages. It’s going to hurt' Dim ly.-—Strstford Beacon-Herald
The Age Old Story
I came not to call the right. sous but sinners to repentance.
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OUR YESTERDAYS
Whom The Guardian Flies)
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Dec. 29, 1933) Appointment of George D, De. Blois as Lieu-tenant Governor of Prince Edward Island was oifi. cially announced following a ca. bidet meeting tod'aY- He succeeds Hon. Charles Dalton who died early this month. The new Lieu. ten It Governor will probably be sworn in on Tuesday next. in the Executive Council Chamber by
Chief Justice Mathieson.
A very serious fire occurred early yesterday afternoon at Sou. rls West when the large new born of Mr. Thomas chkham was buman to the ground. me barn, 110 feet by 36 feet, was one of the largest and must , modem in the area. Loss is (95- r timatcd at $5,000 with insurance of $1,700.
TEN YEARS AGO (Dec. 29, 1948) A special meeting was called last night in Charlottetown of the Potato Shippers Advisory Coun- cil to meet with Rand H. Ma~ theson, Manager of the Maritime Transportation Commission, for the purpose of discussing the gen. oral freight zoning rates exist. ing on PEI. The meeting de- cided to submit an application im- ' the establishment of .one zone in P,E.I. '
John D. Pearse of Toronto has been appointed as Boys’ and Phy- . sicmi 'locreltary in the new Y. M.C.A. Building, It was an-noun- ' cod yesterday by the Y.M.C.A. Board of Directors. Mr. Pea-m will arrive in Charlottetown "by January lst and will immedia- tely undertake his duties.
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