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THE GUARDIAN

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER H, 1954

on Six Fronts

The simultaneous opening on Saturday of the season on Hungarian partridge, pheasants, ducks, brant, geese, Wilson's snipe and woodcock means less concentra- tion of firepower than of yore. The ducks, no doubt will benefit, for in other years there must have been few guns that are used at all that were not directed at them on the opening day.

The hunters too will benefit to the ex- tent that competition will be less keen and it will be possible to change objective if con- ditions seem more suitable for hunting game other than called for in original plans. Some, however, will regret not being able to concentrate on one opening season at a time and being obliged to make a difficult choice of which to observe in first instance.

' It is a source of considerable surprise to many people that Prince Edward Island should be able to offer admirable sport for gun as well as rod. The numerous streams and marshes, however, plentiful food sup- ply and ease of travel make for better op- portunities of bagging game than are usually to be found even by going far from the haunts of man.

It is easy to go by car to within easy" walking distance of almost any point and farmlands with a certain amount of cover at frequent intervals are both attractive to game and pleasant for the sportsman and his dogs. Not a few enthusiasts from dis- tant points who have discovered the shoot- ing opportunities here make it a point to return year after year to enjoy the sport.

A clear Partnership

Every now and then some hot-headedl orator in Britain or the United States stands up to say that relations between the two countries are getting worse and worse

as time goes on. In fact, if the fulminations, that thunder across the Atlantic from time'

to time were to be taken seriously by re- sponsible political leaders in both countries, friendly diplomatic relations would be diffi- cult, if not impossible. Fortunately, however, those who are in a position to gauge the situation as it is, and not as it appears to vehement talkers on either side, are con- vinced that the values which unite the two peoples in fellowship are strong enough to weather the periodical storms that threat- en to divide them. In this connection ex- cerpts from an address delivered recently to the English Speaking Union in Minneap- olis, Minnesota, by the Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury. are of special interest.

"Between the United States and Great Britain,” said Dr. Fisher, "there is one of the clearest of partnerships already firmly established, one of the great bulwarks of the world. People tell us without ceasing that our relations are strained and that we dislike each other a great deal; I myself don't take this in the least seriously. I1: each nation there are people who like mak- ing our flesh creep. But the truth is quite different. Different though we are, we trust each other. Often if we differ over means we know that we are pursuing the same ends. those ends which I can describe best as broadly Christian; the duty in each and every society to respect one another, to respect one another's liberties, to respect one another's consciences. Why can we do this? Because of our understanding of what, is meant by responsible freedom."

The Archbishop then went on to give an illustration of the methods used in Com- munist controlled states to destroy the idea of responsible freedom: the recent arrest by Yugoslav authorities of Bishop Arsenije of the Serbian Orthodox Church and the sentence of imprisonment imposed upon him. "The only charge against Bishop Arsenije". said Do Fisher, "was opposition to the government; that in itself is no crime In a 'free society. There was nothing at his trial to show that he had been indulging in any criminal activities. It is indeed distress- ing that anyone could be sentenced on no objective-evidence in order to intimidate the Church and keep it in subservience to the state. This is not the behaviour of a civilized state and does a great disservice to freedom."

A Poor Pmcca . -

President Eisenhower has fumed down a request for higher tariffs on hand-blown glassware imports into the United States. The companies making the application claimed that increased; imports resulting from, Aoncccclonc were hurting their bullnch. Three members of the tariff comnilnien,,itI'eed with the companies Three mdilicrl disagreed. They felt that

chine-made glassware. ' The President accepted this second view and, in rejecting the application, had some advice for the applicants. He said he did not believe any change in duty could avoid the necessity of the domestic industries pre- paring to meet changes in industrial tech- niques and consumer preferences that are inescapable in a dynamic economy. He ad- vised the glass firms to find other special- ties or products which they could make and for which there is a profitable market in the United States. He declared: parable real benefit in my opinion. might offer some short-term relief.

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directed specifically towards the handblown glassware industry, it is applicable to in- dustries in this country as well. in point is the appeal before the Canadian

textiles. Speaking for the Canadian Fed- eration of Agriculture, its president, Mr. H. H. Hannam, points out that "thousands of farmers across Canada have been serious- ly affected by the loss of British markets for apples, cheese, bacon and other pro- ducts. . Other Canadian industries are also seeking to recover some of their form- er trade with Britain, but unless Britain is able to continue to sell us goods that she can produce and we can use, there is little hope of our regaining these markets.”

Mr. Hannam is not indifferent to the present difficulties of the woollen textile in- dustry, but suggests that if national assist- ance is required to help it weather an emergency, this should be done in some other way than by cutting off imports and at the same time increasing clothing prices to some 15 million Canadians.

EDITORIAL NOTES

This year the Fish and Game meeting was not held on board the Abegweit. The

,Souris Board of Trade. however, is restor-

ing a nautical touch to meetings here by ar- ranging a trip in a dragger the day of its annual meeting.

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The opinion of an Island fish packer. originally from Iceland, that the Gulf of St. Lawrence probably has more herring than the North Sea augurs well for our fisheries. Until now there has been too much emphasis on the luxury products of our waters, valuable but also economically vulnerable. I ' O O 0 Employment for a blind person in Char- lottetown is being sought by the Prince Edward Island Advisory Board of the Cana- dian National Institute for the Blind. There should be a number of jobs available for one who has all faculties except that of sight. 0 O 0 The centenary of the birth of the founder of the Boys' Brigade, Sir William Alexander Smith, is being celebrated this year. The late King George VI may have been quoting Emerson, but more probably recalled his visit to this Province, when he said of him, "He builded better than he knew, for he started not only 'a great move- ment but one from which all our present widespread youth training was destined to spring.” 0

The tragic accident at Lachlne, Quebec, involving the death of two Charlottetown young ladies and serious injuries to 31 third, following hard upon the plane crash at Montreal in which another Charlottetown family was bereaved, has shocked all our citizens. The victims were young people. widely known and esteemed, with bright prospects of usefulness and happiness be- fore them. The sympathy of the commun- ity goes out to their sorrowing ones at this time.

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Henry Fielding, English noveligt, died this date 1754. Joumallst, dramatist, and lawyer, his chief contribution to literature lies in his development of the novel, a task which he shared with Richardson and De- foe. "Tom Jones" and "Joseph Andrews" are two of his outstanding works. He was both realist and romantic. His aim was to seem to make his characters think and he not infrequently succeeded. He also man- aged to introduce a note of humour into his attempt to depict life as lid saw it.

A tractor with a hydraulic system which does away with normal driving shaft and gear box, making controls so simple that anyone can learn to drive it in a few min-

Instltute of Agricultural Engineering Re- search Station, at.Siloe -near London, where it is undergoing exhaustive tests, reports This Week in Britain. The adaptation of the hydraulic system of propulsion to tree- torslcregctdeduancxpcrlmchtofthc first importance which may open the way

camefrom ma-

to a revolution in tractor. design ,

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"Added tariff protection offers no com- It This relief would, however, cloud the issues as to the industry's long-run needs. By post- poning the needed changes, it would tend also to discourage product and market re-

Although the President's address was

A case

Tariff Board for higher tariffs on woollen

utes, has been developed at the Nationaf

PUBLIC FORUM

Till column In open to the discus- 'clon by oorrclpondcntc of question: d Interact. The Guardian does not necessarily undone the opinion of correspondents.

WHO RE THE "WOULD-BE" ARM LEADERS?

Sir,-In your paper dated Oct- ober 6th, there appeared a letter giving the personal impressions of one of the onlookers at the farm- ers' meeting held at the Forum on Sept. 29th. The letter was signed "Sldeiiner." I too attended this meeting and wish to express a few thoughts in response to the above-mentioned letter.

In his second paragraph he sug- gests that this meeting did not in- dicate the true feeling of the po- tato growers in Prince Edward Island. I would suggest that this learned writer travel the country. call on potato producers. and ask their viewpoints. I am sure he'd change his ideas. He apparently suspects that the dealers are lead- ing the farm people. It is obvious that my learned friend cannot be accused of being a potato dealer, for if he had ever been one he would certainly know that dealers don't lead farm people. They couldn't if they would - farmers just can't be lead. especially by dealers - farmers do the lead-

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"Sideliner" makes it very clear that there were more than potato producers interested in the issue, He points out' that among those sufficiently interested to attend be- sides potato producers were - po- tato dealers, turnip dealers, cat- tle dealers. hog dealers. machin- cry dealers. representatives of 'usiness concerns, citizens of towns and cities. members of Par- liament, truckers, employees of dealers, wives and families of Board opponents, etc. He failed to men- tion clergymen ct II. in othe :- words he makes it abundantly clear that the acceptance of a compulsory selling agency by the farmers of P.E.I.. is extremely important to not only the farmers but to All the people of the Island. Such a varied attendance can have been for only one reason - they are anxious, even worried, out of fear that they will be the next to experience the broadening edge of the wedge of dictatorship.

My- friend suggests that there seemed to be an organized at- tempt to discredit Board speak- ers. Nonsensc and poppycock! From where I sat, the reverse seemed to be the case. The presi- dent of the Dcalerls Association was not given sbit better hearing than was Mr. MacDonald in his first address. Had the latter not attenuated -to make a s e c 0 nd speech when given the opportunity of rebuttal. I feel sure he would have been heard. My friend need not have been surprised that the crowd was a little noisy - cer- tainly Mr. Roland MacDonald ex- pected noise and confusion as in- dicated in his opening remarks. After all. the issue at stake was a very bitter one. Farmers just are not told what they must do

I The opening of

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OTTAWA REPORT

Colombo Plan Conference

meeting of the fourteen Colombo Plan nations went off to schedule in little Bylown-on-the-Ottawa. And as you will have read in the papers, Prime Minister St. Laurent made a fine speech of encourage- ment and welcome to the delegates. and they all replied what a beauti- ful and generous country Canada

If it had been one of those Ind- ian Summer days which we remem- ber imiu childhood, the flags of the fourteen nations would have made a brave chow fluttering from their gleaming white flagpoles specially erected outside the Par- liament Buildings. As it was. the visitors and the tenants of Diplo- matlc Row and Mr. and Mrs. "Something - in - the - Govern- in.-exit" hardly noticed the soggy flags hanging dejectly. as they hustled inside out of the gnzy drizzle of our Eskimo Fall.

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Robert O'Donnell. the man who plays the electric piano which claps the Carillon of bells in our Peace Tower, tunefully rendered the National Anthems of the 14 nations. Some of these were rather hard to hear around the Main Entrance, owing to the rival chorus of noisy arrivals and chugging de- partures of the products of Oshawa and Windsor. And there was a little confusion about "0 Canada", between Canadians recognising it as our anthem and Americans who boast that they have taken it over because they have to "stand on guard for Canada" since we lack sufficient volunteer soldiers to guard our own chores.

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Inside the Commons Chamber. Cabinet Ministers and officials of the 14 nations took their places: so did representatives of associated and observer nations. Various men and women in their glad raga who had come to see the show filled up the rest. of the floor space. where the C.C.F. and Social Credit members of Parliament usually sit. and the banana-belt of Parliament in the south-west cor- ner where some of the leasi.-at- tending Liberals keep their desks. Up above the Diplomatic Gallery and Official and Public Galleries were all full of cightceers, with Rene Beaudoln. Speaker of the Commons. for once looking on rather than officiating.

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some of the Asian delegates found the Chamber pleasantly warm and reminiscent of their cub- tropical homelanlls. It was the hottest day of the year in there. This was nothing to do with the weather, which is unashamedly and continuoucly throwing the book at us. Th! heat was artificial. cup- plled by the Canadian 3i0ldCIllr in; Corporation and paid for by you the taxpayers. Twenty televis- ion lamps poured half I sun-power of heat. and light onto the blinking and peraplrlng officials.

This was the biggest conference

even by I so-called repr t-live of their own organization. Even the Government does not dictate- it does what is willed by the peo- ple. If it tried otherwise it would noisily, perhaps bolstcroualy. be removed from power and the peo- plctc wlshcc would m'eVI11- My friend hcughtily suggests that compulsion is something we meet with every day. Q. 1.. the laws regulating traffic. I-lo mllh also have listed the Ten Com- mcndmentc - I suspect he knows them. Certainly, there are some things we are compelled to do and somcjwc are compelled not to do. Neverthelesc, we have not yet reached the point where we are all compelled to believe in the some forms of glllyllon. nor pare we c polled to our men or fishucncttorccodourmiiku another. We have certain frcodomc -we but a definite choice as to ,ilvc..bow we live. how up our chlldrolI.,whc- the:-uwc grow potcloci for cu- cumbers-cr nice but came. .Arc we to lose any cup of our free- dome? 'l'tur-Ion of one could readily to to lcu IIQI VII! - . 0! wukietr not fooled Th law did. on the well before .020 largo If- C " "was not for continued

freedom just or they'll do again whcnl called upon to vote in Nov- ember.

My. friend states that under. the present system the farmer is com. pclled to sell to thd dealer, and take whatever that dealer glvcc. I-low wrong can I man be? A farmer can roll to any one of many dealer's or to his local co- operative. If he thinks he is not being treated fairly, he can cell his potctoer to the some people that tie denier cells to or. if he has real reason to complain. he has the law court: where he can lay his complaint. What more protoc- tlon can c man ask for? Under the system proposed at the meet- ing he wouldaell to the P.E.i., Po- tato Marketing Board and take what the Board corn to pay when the Board ecu fit. He could also be told when to move his poutoci. whether or not it would be con- vcclaut fcr,hlIn ,fo, do,co at the

time.

In closing I would like to any that I am Wm ed that ,".I - lincr'c",vMv olf Iubjoct e have been so compctolyrcvcfccd in tho chant-line lo! the routing especially when the inning win no .

' I am. Sir etc. -

.ran:ndat roncvcn.

North Milton.

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By Patrick Nicholson the important to gather in Ottawa since the NATO

meeting three year: Ago; it was the first such important international conference here to - get. the full treatment by television. This un- happy unveillng of what TV will mean to us was perhaps even more significant than Mr. St. Laurentfs suggestion that we must help Asia raise her standard of living or else face the H-bomb.

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Gone was the pomp of internat- ional diplomacy. Everyone waited expectantly in their places, like at the school play in the church hall. Then a clerk from the 0.3.0. walked over to the Prime Minister and showed him his watch, point- ing to exactly eleven o'clock. The PM. rose and started to make his speech of welcome. Then the door was ceremonlcusly opened, and the real star of the show was wheeled in, A robot monster with two blinking red. -eyes and three ugly round glass mouths and I sin- ister black coil of entrails hanging behind it.

For nearly an

ed it out under probably got u. 24 from the

the lamps and hour headache glare. Lending

was a. gang of camera-monkeys from the C.B.C. in their short- sleeves.

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. We have indeed travelled I. long

way from gmciounccc to good-

graciouness, from the fine uniforms and beautiful women of the Con- rowc of sweating officials sitting before the my-eyed robot. If this is the for the

grass of Vienna to the

new diplomacy. I'm all horse and buggy days.

In the cool damp air outside, 1

hour Cabinet Ministers and high officials sweat-

c less distinguished air to the conference

Ilcgmd The .c-in-hm.

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Nico and a half tons of new money have none into circulation in Cu-mic. but II yet we b.Ivcn't noticed any list to starboard in our panu pocket. -Windsor D Bl-I13 , I Ccncdluu planting tulips should know it in 400 years since they cp- pcucd intbc Wutom world, being tpkcntnluropcintbcuth century unbcucdor to the the Magnificent of- the Ottoman jmplrc. For un- known centuries before they flour- ished in Ttirkcy. -Ottawa Journal.

-The belt Canadian flmllloc today have ..An English ..butlcr, French wince, Bwiu clocks, Irish linen, English chlncf Old,Woxld paintings. Indian teak furniture, South American cmeraldl. African dlunondl, Ruulcn vodka, and cm.

adian dollars. -London Pi-cc Preu. ” For-more throughout N o r t in

America undoubtedly will be happy to know that agricultural scientists have found ways of using radio waves to test the frcthneu of one. of mechanically recording strength, of on shells and of dia- ccvering cracks by electronic "listening". The experts, however. have not yet been able to find a gadget that will measure the curl- ouc growth that scenic to take place in so many eggs between the time they are bought from the farmers as "mediums" and sold to the housewife as "large". -Saturday Night.

old Dobbin cvmng his long

to choo pwcy the flies on he grazed along I barbed wire fence. The hooked barbs caught the tail and as Dobbin moved off, he had to forfeit several long hairs. The gentle uphyrc played with the long horse hair. It wasn't long before a sparrow flow by and bad the mic- fortune to have the hair catch him about the neck. After two or three jerks and a couple of feeble flips life faded Awly. This sounds like I tell awry-but it's the truth-the fellow saw it happen. -Glcnboro Mnn.. Gazette. .