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Evacuation liot Submission

The evacuation of United Nations forces from the I-lungnam beachhead was a bril- liantly successful operation but by no stretch of thc imagination could it be re- garded as it victory. Territory had to be surrcndcrrd in the face of ovcrwliclming -'upcr'.ority in numbers.

It is consoling that brave men were not cut off there to. be killed or taken prisoner. and that they remain as an ef- fective fighting force and have, in fact, been largely shifted to other fighting fronts.

His Majesty spoke for free menrand women the world over when he quoted John Bunyan. ”Whatever comes oigdoes not come. I will not be afraid."

Econmlc Growing Pains

In a recent Moscow speech Marshal Bulganin boastfully referred to the great strides made in Soviet production. Steel, pig iron. petroleum, coal, electric power, motor vehicles and other equipment essen- tial to the maintenance of huge standing military power all showed a striking rise.

Marshal Bulganin may have erred on the side of optimism. It would however be unwise to discount his figures too heavily. The important thing is to see that the pro- ductive capacity of the western democracies keeps pace with Moscow boasts. The re- sponsibility t'or seeing that Canada does not lag behind rests primarily with indus- try. So far as Canada's defence is con- cerned, this country's frontier lies in the lfactory.

As the frontier defences of the factory spring into action, certain painful economic consequences will inevitably follow. The dollar's purchasing power will decline. The demand for durable and consumer goods will rise as the labor force grows- This de- mand will be accelerated as more people recognize the declining purchasing power of cash savings and bonds. The only really effective control that will counterbalance the forces of inflation is the productive capacity of industry itself. For, so long as industry can produce the goods that people need at a price that people are able to pay, the spectre of scarcity which haunts all periods of inflation will be kept at bay.

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"Carrying coals to Newcastle" has for generations been a well-understood idiom of the English language. The sense of the phrase has always been taken to mean something extremely silly, such as hauling coal to a place long noted for its coal min- ing industry.

Newcastle's reputation for producing its own coal requirements was achieved, of course, in the days when coal mining was still a private enterprise. Today, in New- castle and elsewhere throughout the Un- ited Kingdom, coal mining is the business of the Covernmcrrt.""Planning has”'long been a tenet of that Governments political faith. Socialism demand; that people be- lieve in planning.

Britain'.-; Minister of Fuel is responsible for plannim: so far as the country's coal supply-is concerned. Right now he is plan- ning to import enough coal from abroad to keep thcpeoplc of Newcastle and other British towns warm throughout the winter.

Perhaps Britain's Fuel Minister will even buy some coal from the collieries of Nova Scotia. What is panting, however, is that the Fuel Minister does not say any- thing about lhc planned production of Brit- ish coal which was to keep everyone warm and happy in the United Kingdom.

MEDMGI immigrants

The announcement from The Hague and Ottawa that 10,000 more Dutch im migrants are coming to Canada in 1951 is hailed by the Ottawa Journal as a matter for satisfaction. These new settlers from The Netherlands, many of whom come in family groups. are the very best type of immigrant this country can secure.

Unlike many who desire to migrate to Canada from other lands, those from The Netherlands are by and large persons with a certain amount of financial backing and with a great desire to settleon land,,of. their own. It is land hunger and over- population of Dutch soil that makes migra- tion necessary for younger lofll. They

age and must have a certain amount of money to get settled here. Many are high- ly-trained agriculturists

”It'is this very desire to own land of their own, to get settled in Canada," says the Journal, "that has been the basic cause of criticism here. Canadian farmers are inclined to complain that these Dutch im- migrants are only anxious to learn the language, save sufficient for a payment on land of their own. then move on. Often a whole family will work solely with this end in view. Many families who came out right after the war are today well established on thriving farms.

"Another source of trouble has been that many of these Dutch families have gone to parts of the country where the climate and type of farming have not been what they were trained for. Naturally, when the opportunity came, they moved to a milder zone where more intensive farm- ing on Sill1lliCi' acreage was the rule. For that they can hardly be blamed. They come here with a definite goal and when conditions suit them they prove good work- ers and fine citizens."

EDITORIAL NOTES

Festival of St. John- O 0 Three days off duty in succession, the stores must be excused for not observing the usual half-holiday this week. 0 O I There were a few unfortunate accidents here over the week-end, but on the whole

we escaped wonderfully. I

I Felicitations to Hon. Thomas Vincent Grant, M-D., C.lll., Montague, P. E. I., 74 Saturday.

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”The thing" has been revealed in all its horror, that Christmas present which

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Lady Banting, now visiting her mother at Newcastle, N. B., is being welcomed back to the Maritimes after teaching for two years at the University of Hong Kong Med- ical Centre.

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Schools being on holiday, it is too soon to learn whether pupils will back up their aversion to homework by producing copies of the Ontario Royal Commission's report. O

The production of steel wire is up and that of wire fencing down from a year ago, a typical example of the changing emphasis of our no longer peacetime economy.

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A faster anndimore powerful version of the De Havilland Comet, the worlds first jet airliner, is being planned. De Havilland Ghost jet engines will be replaced by a more powerful British jets. The new Comet will be for the longer world stages.

It has taken a. lohg series of boxing fatalities to bring it about, but the propos- ed adoption of head harness by the Na- tional Boxing Association of the United States should be almost as long a step in the right direction as was the abolition of bare knuckle prize fighting.

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The recent communication and power disrupting storm illustrates the desirability of alternate routing for message and electricity. A grid system covering the Is- land with every power installation con- tributing but not isolated seems to be the long-range goal.

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The old Levis Ferries have changed hands, Mr. Armand Ruelette, Montreal, having acquired control from the previous president, Mr. Edgar Cote, Quebec. It is the intention to add an additional steamer this coming year, making a fleet of four steamers.

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Charles Lamb, English essayist, died this date 1834. One of the most lovable characters in English literature, his essays, written in a unique indescribable style, mingling quaintness and delicacy, humour and pathos. He ranks high also as a liter- ary critic. He never married but devoted his life to his insane sister Mary.

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Canada's proposed health insurance plan will lead to socialized medicine, Dr. Emile Biain, professor of ophthalomology at the University of Montreal, stated at a dinner of St. Mary's College Graduates Club at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Dr. Blain said it would be difficult to conceive of an enterprise such as health insurance which would not lead to socialized medicine.

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In Washington this story was getting chuckles around the state departmept on Christmas Eve- During the Atlantic (hun- ciimeeting at Brussels early last week, For- eign Secretary Ernest Bevin of Brltaincal- led State Secretary Dean Acheson to one side. "If they suck you, laddie," Bevin to

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the Canadian air training scheme in a modified way now, that. you are soon to have the R, A. F. back

have'aiready arrived. I suppposc, of course, that the air station there will remain mostly R. C. A.-F.. with R. A. F. men just being at- tached for a period for training: and as there has been no mention of Charlottetown in the scheme of things. I take it: the former R. A. F. camp will not. be re-opened?

Very likely, oi course. it wouid be in fl way a serious inconvenience, to say the least. of it, to Charlotte- town to have such another large

skirts once more. since the original site. I recall, is new used for hous- ing purposes, and the need for space for that is hard.ly' likely to diminish in any way. Strangely enough our latest neighbours here in Beckenharn-a young family -who moved in to the house next. to ours at the beginning of June-- have also some connectkn with P. til. I.. in that the mun of the house, a Mr. Aldwinckle, also spem some time in R. A. F. service in P. E. 1. during the war. He was not, however, so long there as myself. being then on a training course at Summerslde (1942). and as he had no leave from there he tells me he had very little time to get about and see anything of the rest of the island. He was there only in the summer months and the other night when we were talking of cm service experience in Canada and looking over some- of the photo- graphs 1 took at. various places there he was quite surprised to see how severe the P. E. I. winter could be, particularly when I showed him

in Northumberland Straits.

We are. I must say, very fortun- ate in these neighbours. They are rather younger than ourselves and are in fact. the only young people near by with whom we have much contact, Also as they have two lit- tle girls. one cider and the cthev younger than Angela they make fine playmates for her, and luckily all of them get. along famously.to- gather.

Aiiaela, now two years and three months old, is right: out of the baby stage now. runs about with the zreatcst. vigour all day long, and has grown quite a chzittcrbcx in her cwn way. Just. how fast she seems to "grow up" in fact. we ren- llse most. of all from the necessity for already having her fixed up for school. so great; is the demand for places in reasonably good schools in this area-especially where girls are concerned-that we have even nr-;v had to b:ok her for her pre- paratory school. one just a few minutes bus run from here which she will enter in September 195'! when just 4. We were only just. in time too to get. her bockerl that far ahead. For two years she will there for half a day only, and then attend all day until she is ll. so she is now fixed up at. least until then. all gclng smoothly.

Here in London, as you no doubt know, attempts go on to obtain in- creased supplies of newsprint; but there seems little hope of increas- ing the allocation at all just now- in fact. by all accounts our papers will be lucky to avoid reduction to just; four pages again within the next: few months. The price of n0wsprifff:'here too is expected to reach 550 per ion by the spring As usual. it is the small-circulation provincial papers. especially the weeklles, that feel the pinch of all thisgand some of them may have to cease publication nttogeuier it costs so much higher. With the biz- ger concerns. however. and the nat- ionals, increased advertising rates and in some cases increased selling price. have so for kept the" proprio- tors from feeling any notable cut in profits-some have in fact increas- ed their profits-and as 1 result t.hc only real hardship of all this so for an editorial staffs has been to im- pcse complet lack of scope and slow down all promotion and re- curltment. to the prcfeosion in o molt diaoourulng (union.

The other neat Preu problem for Britain these days in whether or not I Prela Council will be brought into being; and though neither proprietors. manuomenti nor editorial men have any (rut ontbuntumior. the for-.3 few who on I-potty"

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Sir,-I notice. from the revival of,

'01 a male. As every dog breeder iknows, it. is always the male dog

with you in P. E. I. at Summerslde,I and possibly some ct their nu:nbs.-rl

service establishment on its out-I

pictures of the ice and icebreakei-'

York Township has reached the onclusi that "a dog"! 8 dos. 10! all that". and reduced the licence fees for female dogs. Most. muni- clpalittes have a higher charge for female dogs, and it; seems rather a silly 'ica when it is realized that

a female dog's claws are not more destructive in a garden than those

that is always wandering around the streets. For the greater part of the year a female dog is strictly in home-lover and never wanders liar afield. - Regina Leader-Post.

The University of Alberials pro- fessor of entomology. Dr. E. H. Strickland, was telling a city club the other day about ”one of na- ture's mysteries" - the existence of tropical insects and animals in the Alberta area just east; of Medi- clne Hat. In the Cypress Hills there, Dr. Strickland said, he had 'found a variety of scorpions, ter- mites, tropical wasps. horned tends and u kangaroo rat. Just to prove, lthe point, he displayed a live. iscorpion caught in Medicine Hat. Dr. Strickland offered a scientific theory as a possible explanation lot this oddity in temperate Can-, Jada, but .perhaps Rudyard Kip-

ling: had the answer when he de- .scribed the Alberta hot. spot as having "all hell for a basement..'

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"We have not received 9. Mnilt ,since Saturday last, owing to the ice on the Straits not being suf-, .ficiently strong to curry the Couriers and their boats. Several attempts have been made from this lslde to reach Cope Tormentlne. ibut have failed. In one or two in- stances the Couriers htivebeen out for hours. and have been obligcd' to return. , ;

"Where is the Georgetown Pack- et? Could she not have been en-, gaged to take a Mail or two to, and from Pictou? The English Mail despatched this week will not, in all probability, reach Hall- lfax on Friday afternoon next, 'time for the Steamer. At this sea- 'son of the year this is it serious matter.” l 3 -The Islander, Dec". 18, 1868. ,

concerned with politics than zjournulists the feeling is that i.L'l-l less the Press very soon fcrms.one' of its own volition something much! worse than they would like will be: ,forced upon us all by Government: action and we'll have to "like it or! ilump it". As I still find time to take an active part: in the affairs of thcl institute cf Journalists, and will be, serving on its rational council af- ter the New Year, the effect; of all these developments onv Journalists both staff and men anrlv freelances, is something I'm likely; to he a good deal concerned with: in the next few months. so one; way and another, I always keep busy. and don't have time to have "worries these days.

Again. with warmest regards and wishing all of you at P. E. l. and elsewhere in Canada, all the veryl best.

.1. M. nussnv,

I Am sir. Etc. Beckenhnm. Kent, Dec, 5 1950. I

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Perhaps the "fauna" were not trapped by the hills. but. came up from below! - Edmonton Journal.

"Excessive commercialisation of Christmas and the premature ap- pearance" of Santa. Claus in Edinburgh stores have been criti- cized by the education committee of Edinburgh Town Council. The Rev. Edwin S. Towill said: "I think it is a travesty of the real mean- ing of Christmas that our big stores in Princes Street should set up good old time-honored Santa Clots two months before Christ- mas." Chrlstmas customs, he thought, should be kept. within the Christmas season. If they were extended outside the season. the whole meaning of would go. - Edinburgh Scotsman.

It is a good thing for Canada that. Canadians like I Norman Smith of The Ottawa. Journal can leave their home duties for a time and get around the world, when they bring back as intelligent a. re- port of it as Mr. Smith has been iv:-iriging to the Canadian Clubs of Eastern cities. We like Mr. Smith's accent. on the theme that people who have very little of this world's goods must have a faith. a mystic- ism, to make up for their lack. That. is a theme which is capable of bring reversed; the poor peo- ples of the Orient may possibly think that we, the rich nations of the West, are but inadequately compensated by our riches for the faith, the mysticism. which those riches have taken from us. - Tor- onto Saturday,.Nlght.

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SNOW-BOUND

The old familiar sights of ours

Took marvellous shapes; atrarxe domes and lowers

Rose up where sty or corn-crib stood,

or garden wall. or belt: of wood:

A smooth white mound the brush- pile showed,

A fenceless drift what once was

ion The bridle-post an old man sat With loose-flung coat and high cooket. hat: , The it-Ell-curb had BI Chinese roof; And even the long sweep, high

aloof. In its slant splendor, seemed to of Plsa's leaning miracle. -John Greenleof Whittier.

LONDON, Dec. 26 - (Reuterg) - The Russian academician Lev Berg. 75. president of the Soviet Geographical Society and a pro- fcssor of Leningrad University, died Monday, Toss reported to. day. Two years ago Berg staked Soviet claims to Antarctic ter- ritory in a series of articles in Soviet periodicals.

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A New Age

Of: the evening of Jan. 22, 1901, n portly. bearded man dispatched a telegram from Osborne Home, the royal .esldence on the Isle of Wlsht. to the Lord Mayor of London.

"My dear mother, the has jult. passed away. . . ,' Victoria was den .

Her death may be taken as the first of the great new: clone; of the pan, half-century.

Any backward glance at news must always waver between fading banners of single breaks and the ions trend: of life and hublia reported - often uncon- sciously and by implication - in 3059! 1' Columns. on lnlide pages. Betw en what was known then and what we know now. But Vic. torlo's death stands up as 3 story that will not. fade.

Not because it was unexpected- death is inevitable. Not because. in itself. it could alter A way of life. But because it remains a. milestone in time. The end of an era. The beginning of an age. Tell in the lint 50 year: of thin new ale. the world gave to war. It is almost impossible to men- WT9 V-he lmliace of news in war- time against the atoriel we call Brent." in period; of peace. Suf- ferlnx. sacrifice. heroism. death by VWIHICO. mlke the news that pull: the helflltflnll of humanity. But. in wartime the example. of these are muitiplledih thousand times. They beecome the usual. And so, only the sweep and clash of fleet: and 31111195. in Which these things are dramatized en mane, stand out: the tide-turning stand of armies along the Marne or at El Mamet": the entry of another neutral: the thundering guns at Jutland. And of course. to those concerned. the casualty lists. . , . By any standard. the clashes of fleets and armies murmhead the list 0! great news stories of 1900- 1950.