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CIRCULATION "Covers Prinoof Edward Island like the dew”

"Tho strongest-memory is weaker than tho weakest. ink".

CHARLOTTETOWN TUESDAY. SEPT. 22. 1953

Freer Trade Suggested

A strong reminder of the need of modi- fying its restrictive trade policies is con- tained in the report of the International Monetary Fund, one of the United Nations special agencies which held its annual meeting at Washington recently. The re- port says that America should make sub- stantial modifications in its trade policies hoth for its own sake and for the sake of world economic stability.

"If there were substantial modifications in U. S. commercial policy such as tariff reductions," it says, "the simplification of tariff classifications and customs proced- ures, liberalization of agricultural quotas and of shipping policy, repeal of Buy American' legislation and the modification ofiother practices that at present discour- age efforts to expand beyond modest limits the markets in the United States for cer- tain imports-the payments position of the non-dollar world would be substantially strengthened, and the prospect of reducing or eventually eliminating restrictions on imports from the United States would be greatly improved."

What is particularly interesting, notes an exchange, is that the International Monetary Fund whose opinions have always verged on the ultra-conservative in econ- omic theory, and whose strictures on American policy have always been care- fully lenient. should now go still further and declare plainly that revision of Ameri- can commercial policy should no longer be considered as a matter for tough bilateral bargaining between America and other countries. '

The report admits that even the adop- tion by America of complete free trade would not by itself provide more than a partial solution of the world's dollar prob- lems. "But," it adds, "the efforts that are still necessary on the part of other coun- tries are likely to be more resolute and determined if their present fears that the entry of competitive goods into the Ameri- can market will be impeded can be al- layed."

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Forest Fire Losses

The extent of destruction wrought by forest fires is brought home in a bulletin of the Canadian Forestry Association which says that 1953 losses "will not he recover- ed for from fifty to one hundred fires, dur- ing which timef the public treasury to- gether with industry and employment must share the consequences."

In the past ten years Canada has lost twenty million acres of timber to fire, with an annual loss of almost 300 million cubic feet of raw material which. says the as- sociation, would furnish the bread and but- ter of 366,000 Canadian workers.

"Forest fires incinerate enough timber every summer to build 85,000 family bun- galows . . . do immeasurable damage to water-sheds of lakes and rivers, which are the source of hydro-electric power and the chief magnet of the tourist trade."

The great tragedy is that most of these fires should never have started. Only one in six begins through the accident of light- ning. The other five are the result of negligence - failure of the camper fully to extinguish his camp fire. Of ill? Sewer to take the necessary precautions in burn- ing off land.

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i Since the Liberals now have a new lease on federal office that could last four or five years. the possibility arises that all opposi- tion ln the Senate might literally die out. Commenting on -this situation, the Ottawa Citizen notes that only eight Progressive Conservatives remain in the upper house: the Liberals number 82, and there are 12 vacancies. By'the time of the next elec- ,tlon,.the Senate may have become valmost

completely 1 Liberal preserve. its prestige'

will approach the vanishing point if years of talk about reform lead only to a one- psrty monopoly-

There has been some speculation that Prime Minister St. Laurent may be plan- ning to spike criticism by appointing a number of opposltlorf representatives to the Senate. It is recalled thst in-it ore-election press conference Mr. st. ' t stated carefully not he would not this "before my " "0 Safely bscltfln office, how-

dignation at the farce in the upper housel

"But on what basis might the Prime Minister appoint senators from outside his, own party?," asks The Citizen. "If he chose them from the official opposition only, he could hardly be relied upon, as a matter of constitutional practice, to makel things really tough for the government. Moreover, the official opposition in the Commons would be weakened if some as- pirants to Senate seats began to curry favor with the government leader. Minor parties would have a real grievance, too.l and they could gain sympathy by pointing out that evidently the older parties differ-, ered very little. 3

"The Prime Minister might try to give the minor parties places in the Senate. But of the four provinces they govern at pres- ent, two have no Senate vacancies, and in a third the party in power has no represen- tation federally or in other provincial par- liaments. In any case, a tendency to make the Senate reflect provincial politics would be a radical innovation. Yet if thesc parties were given Senate seats in regions where they were 'weak, the Prime Minister would make himself unpopular with his own followers.

"Reform of the Senate cannot be left. to the discretion of the government leader. If the Liberals prove to have no better plan, 8. disgusted public may in the end be satisfied with nothing less than aboli- tion of the upper house."

EDITORIAL NOTES

Michael Faraday, English natumi phil- osopher, chemist and electrician, was born this date 1791. He managed to attend', some lectures of Sir Humphrey Davy and, devoted his spare time to scientific read-; ing and experiment. He became Davy'si assistant and continued his work in chem- istry and thetmanufactureof optical glass; His discoveries were very numerous in- deed.

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The announcement that "Anne oli Green Gables", first and best known novel of our own Lucy Maud Montgomery.l whose home at Cavendish is still intact, is to be broadcast in serial form by CBC will! be welcome news to young and old here and elsewhere. "Anne of Green has already been filmed, and the "Anne Books" have been translated into many other tongues. We are inclined to forget that one of the most popular writers of re- cent times was born, lived and worked in this Province and that many people would! never have heard" of this little island butt

for her heartwarming novels. 0 I C

"We might with advantage remember a, saying of Bernard Shaw,” advises Sir, Richard Livingstone on the BBC: ”Thoughl everybody nowadays seems to know the, X Y Z of everything, nobody knows I.I"tt.': A B C of anything." Bishop Berkeley put the same point rather differently: "What- ever the world thinks, he who hath not much meditated upon God, the human mind, and the supreme good, may possibly make a thriving earthworm, but will cer- itainly make a sorry patriot and a sorry statesman.' A nation should not be satis-' fied if its elite, however well trained other- wise, does not meditate on these things",

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' What is probably the world's first ex-l perimental peat-burning power station us-! ing gas turbines is to ,be built in Caithness at a cost of :E500,000. The plant will coll- sist of 2,000 kilowatts closed cycle gas,tul- bines, an oil burning turbine, a 750 kiln- watts upper cycle turbine. The establisli- ment of this peat-burning power unit in Caithness will be a great advance for Scot- land, for Scotland possesses no less than 600 million tons of peat in areas where the depth -accessibilities and other features make them suitable for utilization. It is clear, therefore, that should the creation of electrical power from peat prove en- tirely successful the question of fuel sup- plies should not worry the authorities for several centuries. O "The Legionary's" cover portrays mem- bers of the 48th Highlanders Company of the 1st Canadian Highland Battalion chang- ing guard at their barracks in Hanover, Germany. They form part of the 27th Brigade which is the subject of a feature article in this issue. There are 15 Reserve Force battalions represehted in the com- panies forming the 1st Canadian Highland Battalion, the 1st Canadian Rifle Battalion and the 1st Canadian Infantry Battalion, and the men of each company wear the shoulder flashes of their parent unit. The same principle was applied to Royal Cana- dian Artillery reserve force regiments. which combined to raise the batteries for the Brigade's field regiment. The R,C.D.'s provided the initial armoured support, with certain Reserve Force armoured corps regiments participating in providing the manpower. Engineers. Ordnance, signals, Inhlligence, Provost, Medical and Army vservlce Corps units are represented in the Brigade in a. manner similar to the In-

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Bearing One Another's Burdens.

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IIIINTING IVITII THE BOW AND ARROW

Sir.-.Tlirro stems in be consid- erable divergence of opinion about the following, viz-which is mol'e sportsmaiiiike and humans, the use of the bow or gun for lluiil.-, ing? A recent press item quoted

the Rev. I-larold T. Rog manager "1053 POWBTWI

alid field secretary of the Nova

Gables” Seoul sociely (or the p,-evmgion friends. He is scorned by foreigners

of Crueltv to Animals. as appeal- ing to all sportsmen entering the Plui'LllCC to refrain from using the bsw and arrow in hunting dees.

The Sl..Iohn's Evening Telegram. Newfoundland says:

"It has been announced that hunters of big game in the Prow- ince this season are permitted to use bows and arrows. What. is the object, unless it is to satisfy the whim of some of the stalkers? A more important question is why give permission to use a weapon which might wound an animal in a dozen places without dispatch- in: it? The purpose of the hunt- in: rrgulations is that the .tlaugll- ter of the animal will be effected i-ttii .1 minimum of suffering. That, too, is the aim of the genu- ' e. sp tsman. The use of the bow, and a "ow is not in accordaure with that. principle. and it is sug- gested that the Society (or the Protection of Animals might give its attention to the new regula- lc i "

Dr. Saxon Pope, big game huiit- er with the bow and arrow: 1.0.. grizzly bears ill the Rockies and

lllons in Africa, has this to say in

his book, "Hunting With the Bow and Arrow":

"We found from the very first that the arrow was more humane than the gun. Counting all hunt-

ers, for every animal brought home

with the gun, whether duck, quail or deer. at least two are hit and die in pain in the bush.

"With the arrow it is different. Practically none are lost in our hunts. A strange phenomenon is seen in larger animals; they are easier to kill with an arrow, than small ones. An, arrow wound is cleancut. Tile pain is no greater with the arrow than with the bul- lot. It is also futile to propliesy the future of the bow and arrow As an implement. of the chose. to use it seems to hold a place unique for falmess. And those who think the bullet is more certain and hu- mane than the arrow have no ac- curate knowledge on which to base their comparison. Our experience has proved the contrary to be the clue.” s According to the st. John's Eve- ning Telegram, there must. be a. strange sort of deer in Newfound- land. which might be wounded in it dozen places without being dis- patched. I ask, where would the deer be-while being wounded in s dozen places? '

It is certainly more sportsman- llke to hunt with the bow than the gun. It is a toss-up whether the bow or sun is more humane. These are two modes of the lame thing-permissible murder.

I sm Blr, et.c.. MICHAEL. J. BYRNES. Iona. Queens County,

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Our dream of heachcombln; on a Pacific isle, with beautiful brown girls dancing about in grass skirts, has been shattered by Queen salote of Tonga. going to Scotland and collecting a length of tweed for a suit.-Ottawa Journal, .

-A scientist, a doctor, I manu- facturer who attends an inter- national conference and only speaks and understands his own languages and assumes it is ade- quale because his country is the on earth makes enemies and alienate: potential even while he may be envied. be cause his manolingualism interpreted as provincial placency or as a manifestation of "American imperialism".-I-I. Peyrc in Saturday Review.

An authority on gardening once told a group of flower lovers that there are 50,000 pounds of soil workers to each acre of ground. These are also called the soil population. some of these workers are worm, but there are also 9. great many minute bodies so small as to be invisible to the naked eye. They keep the soil healthy. and they are fed in many ways by nature. The picture is that of It highly active process going on continually in the earth beneath our feet.-Vancouver News I-lerald.

The art of pickling is to secure the right blend, not too strong E flavor. not too sour, not too sweet. and certainly not too flat. But that is nnl all, The cucumbers should be selected from the most.

A CYPBIAN VVOMAN

Greek Folk Song

Under dusky laurel leaf, Scarlet loaf of zone,

I lie prone, who have known All a woman knows.

Love and grief and molherhcocl. Fame and mhith and acom-- These are all shall befall

Any woman born.

Jewel-laden are my hanth Tall my stone above. Do not. weep that I sleep Who was wise in love.

when I walk, it shadow gray Through gray ,

I am glad. who have had

All that life can tell.

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favored corner of the garden; the tomatoes lifted from the vine that stands squarely in the morning sun. In any case. the true pickle is one that brings it pang of sum- mer's memories to the table in the weeks of winter. whether it is dill or sweet. a mustard or tomato re- llsh. The best of all, one would say, are the long cucumber slices that come dripping from the stone crock. bearing just a suspicion of garlic.-St. John Telegraph Journ- al.

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UNION OF THE COLONIES

"Within it few weeks from the present time, in New Brunswick, Nova Scotla or Prince Edward Is- land, there will be assembled as number of gentlemen, consisting nf members of the Legislatures of the several Provinces. for the purpose of discussing the expediency of uniting these Colonies under one Government. Prince Edward Island will take part. in this movement, at the request of Nova scotis. "The subject of a. Union of the Maritime Provinces. at the present time, appears to attract but little

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SEPTEMBER 22.

"1953

The Pass

When one tires (and who doesn't?) of the prablemssand events that make the headlines of the present, it. is refreshing to take I look into the past s.nd see what the newsworthy events were in the middle of the last century. Recently I have been looking over a leather bound volume of magazines dated from late 1858 to early 1800. From the many thous- ands of news items and articles contained therein I have selected at random just enough to show that ours is not only generation that has had problems and done great things. The problems of 1858- 80 were not the some as our: of course, and the events, from our point of view, were not so fraught with urgency, The periodicals of the time, however, treated them with respect, and sometimes with awe.

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One piece of news, important enough to warrant several inches of space, reported that "3. firm in New York has made a profit of 100 thousand dollars by manu- facturing steel hoops for ladies. The emphasis was not on the steel hoops - these had already been established 1;: favour - but on the profit. In those days apparent- ly, a manufacturing profit of such a. vast sum was so unusual as to warrant special. and not altogether favourable, mention in a fashion- able magazlne. Incidentally, many of the cartoons in the volume had to do with "hoops" which seem to have provided much merriment for the masculine branch of society.

Quite A loniz article elaborated on the evils of snuff chewing by women (not "ladies" as the author was careful to point out). It all started when a merchant in Cin- cinnati reported that he said two hundred pounds of snuff to wo- men in the course of a month.- strangely, the writer of the article dealt chiefly with what he called the "economic waste" of such a practice. He touched on the "moral cleiellction", too. but only in- cldentally.

A great fuss was on in England because Little Agnes, the winner of the race for the Durham Handl- cap, had been given "half a gal- lon of good. strong beer" for the occasion. This time, however, the alarm was more moral than economic. Whether the change of venue had anything to do with It is not clear, but it seems like- ly.

In the scientific world there was excitement over the first horse railway to be tried out in Chicago. In the opinion of the editor 'the operation had been so successful that others would likely be pro- jected ln the near future, The "success" was indicated by a re- cent report which mentioned is pro- fit. of nearly 3100 a day.

This was the era when private carriages were crowding E. thouifh not dften killing people on - the highways which. incidentally, were of plain mud for the most part,

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York alone, the report said. there were not less than twenty-thousand csrrlsxes. 'I"hero was an editorial comment that "traffic congestion in the city is getting out of hand."

A specially big headline pro. claimed the incredible tidings that M. Oolhrd, a French phot0I'1'l.pher, had discovered a method of tak. ing pictures at night "I don't be. have it!" was the blunt comment of a well known picture taker in Boston.

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A leading article extol; the "magnificent idea of yoking the steam giant to the plough, mu, dispensing with horses and turn. ing cattle out to grhssl" The Lrticls goes on to say that while most people would scoff at such a pos- slbillty the idea had already been tried out in England with some measure of success, although a few minor details had yet to be warkgd out. "This". the article concludes. "will inaugurate a new era. and is an event of the lghest. import. anoe", ,

A New York physician had re. cently come out with the view "NI3 A Person who washes his (or her) hair regularly is not liable to disease. "All very well", com. ments the editor, "but what about the person who is bald-headed?"

A, sombre note was sounded in a report that "in the ten years ending with 1858 not less than thirteen Atlantic steamers were lost, with 3000 persons. which worn out at about 1 passenger in every 100 carried". "so. perhaps". wrote the editor, "we may have to go back to the sailing ship after all Prosress is not always necessarily for the better"

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In the State nf Maine much In. dignatlons was being expreued go. wards the members of the Legisla- ture who had passed or bill to boost their stipends from 100 to 150 dollars annually. "Outrageous!" was the editorial comment. There was an item from Delaware which said that a woman had been sold in Georgetown (Delaware. -not P. E. I.) for the sum of seven dollars and a spaniel. And out in California is man who had knocked his wife senseless with a broom- stick borrowed from I neighbour was fined 15 dollars; 5 for susult and I0 for malicious damage to a neighbour's property (the broom- stick)

There were no ,'I'rade Union troubles of any consequence, but in Toronto-of all places it dozen "maid servants" quit work because they were not allowed to have tea parties twice a week.

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In the religious world Brigham Young, who had just been elevated to the Mormon hierarchy, charged the more prosperous saints with' using their surplus grain for mak- ing whiskey instead of giving it. to the poor.

The doctrine of the Trsnsmlgi-a- tlon of Souls, the theory that after leaving this world human souls enter the bodies of animals. was a "red-hot" controversial subject

although some engineers had already experimented with gravel. In New

with a number of noted divine: taking part pro and con.

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attention among our neighbors. Their Press scarcely ever alludes to it. In this Island. however. the newspapers generally have declared against it, and it Is seldom that one meets, among our agrlculturlsts, a mail who will listen to anything in favour of ii proposition which would deprive this Colony of its existence as a separate Govern- ment. In our Legislature. although the matter was not fully dis- cussed. the question submitted by the Government on the subject being simply, whether we should comply with the request of Nova Bcotla to send delegates to confer with the delegates of that Province on the subject, It was evident that the proposition to 'give up our constitution' had few adherents - the only mem- ber, we believe, who urged any arguments in favour of the Union was the Colonial Secretary , . . "The Union of the North Ameri- can Possessl . on the Atlantic board at least. we simply regard as it matter of time. The Cavem- ment of Canada has already be- come all but an impossibility; and

, we should think that the statu-

man of that great Province must see that they cannot much longer contlnue as they are -that they must seek in il repeal of the Union of Upper and Lower Oansda, or in further Union I. remedy for these causes which now prevent the fonmstlon of a Govemmsnt. possessing any elements of stability."

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