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iixceroun THE GUARDIAN

Ilarnlng Dally (Founded ln H87) luthorlaed an Second Clan Mall, Pout Ofllca Department, Ottawa.

The Illnurl (iuarfllnn Publlahlng Co. Iilltor and hlanagln; Director, .1. It. Ilurnelt. Associate l-lilllur, Frank Walker.

"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink"

CIIARLOTTETOWN, TUESDAY, SEPT. l3, I949 The Worser Foe

Addressing the Anglican General Synod at ‘Halifax last week, Most Rev. Cyril F. Garbett, Archbishop of York, laid stress on a danger con- fronting Christian communities everywhere which is even more to be feared than Atheism. This foe is Secularism-"the worldly spirit which concerns itself only with the things which are seen and dismisses easily as fairy tales or as wishful thinking the claims of a supernatural re- ligion." This, His Grace predicted, "may prove to be in the long run the more deadly of the two foes which now attack Christianity."

This warning has been sounded many times, but is still timely. lt formed the theme of some af the most stirring passages in the epistles of St. Paul and in the works of the early Fathers. A century ago, it was denounced by Ruskin as the bane of the Victorian age — "this Nebu- chadnezzar curse," he called it, "which sends us ta grass like oxen, and seems to follow but too clcsely in the excess of the continuance of national power." How many of our so-called economic and social ills are not attributable to the same source? ln Ruskin's view — and Rus- kin might well be re-read and studied profitably on social questions today - this spirit of Secul- arism is more to be dreaded than war or sedition. lt is not easy to forget his scathing commentary on ll'S predominance in the commercial England of his day.

"Our large trading centres," he wrote, "bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic estab- lishments in which the roar of the millwheel and the crane takes the place of other devotional music; and in which the worship of Mammon and Moloch is conducted with a tender reverence and an exact propriety: the merchant rising to his Mammon matins with the self-denial of an anchorite, and expiating the frivolities into which he may be beguiled in the course of the day by late attendance at Mammon vespers."

‘Ruskin saw the same spirit at work on a wider scale. "The arrangement of the laws of a nation, so as to procure the greatest advantages to itself, and leave the smallest advantage to other nations," he wrote, "is not a part of the science of’ political economy, but merely a broad appli- cation of the science of fraud.” In his declining years, still battling with Secularism, he wrote these moving personal words: "Not a day of my life passes now to its sunset, without leaving me more doubtful of all our cherished contempts, and more earnest to discover what root there was for the stories of good men, which are now the mocker's treasure."

Democracy has no hope of survival against Communism or other materialistic systems if it loses faith in the Christian ideals which gave it birth. Awareness of this fact is all im- portant; yet this is the one note which seems to be lacking at the symposium of international conferences for the betterment of present world affairs.

Science ltnil Food Supplies

Science at present holds only half the answer to the problem of expanding the world's food supplies to meet the needs of a world popu- -lation of 2,300,000,000 growing by 20,000,000 a year, Sir John Russell said in his recent presi- dential address to the British Association at Newcastle-on-Tyne. The other half of the answer, he implied, lies in doing something about the "inefficiency" of men and plans — a problem for which science may have no solution.

Sir John pointed out that science was com- petent to address itself to the extension of the food production area—ot present something less than l0 per cent of the earth's surface. On the other hand, agriculture still lags behind the op- portunities science has to offer. Nevertheless, Sir John saw grounds for optimism in his world- wide view of the focd situation.

The British Association president was mind- ful of the momentous possibilities in scientific research, and declined to prophesy coming hun- ger. Science is waging a ceaseless war to har- ness hitherto marginal land to faod production. Large tracts of erstwhile infertile land are yield- ing their secrets to science, and the wheat belt which once stopped at about the line of l8-incl1 rainfall now stretches ta the l2 or l5 inch line. The utilizable grass belt has moved down to the I or l0 inch line. But the problem of marginal land, Sir John said, is administrative and politi- cal, and is to be solved only on the basis of wide-spread agrarian co-operation. He saw the best prospect for increasing world food produc- tion in the more intensive use of land already under cultivation.

ln Asia and Africa, Sir John pins his faith to a better fertilizer supply and more legumin- ous croppings, for a quick upward turn Ill food production. Experimental farms in India, he said, had twice the yield of the neighboring peas- ants, but the difficulty of "levelling up" was described as "enormous" —- partly scientific and partly psycho-sociological. Against peasant apathy in the East, he pitted wide educational programs and improved ways of applying scien- tific methods to the staple rice crop.

Sir John would not attempt to forecast how much food the earth could ultimately be made to yield. The limit is set by the efficiency of the plant as a transformer of solar energy —

~ot present about five per cent, and reckoned ln

the amount of food produced, much less. An- other limit is the unusable nature of more than l0 per cent of the earth's surface. Still another is-that the» animal in agriculture can only can- vert from l0 to 25 per cent of its food to hu- man use in meat. Those limits arc challenges urlrlchfltlro agricultural scientists are vigorously 46GB I’. *

EDITORIAL NOTES

Quebec taken by Wolfe this date i759.

The appeal of ‘the. "Sally Ann" for funds needs no recommendation to veterans and others who have had any contract with its good works.

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This is Immunization Week. School children have already been immunized but younger ones are equally in need of protection.

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The proposal for a Provincial Museum has been revived. lt certainly is time such a project materialized, otherwise much of the Island's mementos will have been exported or otherwise

lost.

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Congratulations are in order for Miss Helen Jones, daughter of the Premier, who carried off premier honors in judging saddle horses at To- ronto Exhibition. lt is in the blood, and had only to be developed inficorlgerlial surroundings.

Prince Edward island's sea-girt National Park Wlll be duplicated on the Pacific if the Vancouver News-Herald has its way. The B. C. paper wants one established on the West side of Vancouver island.

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Accidents will happen, to aircraft as to other modes oftransport. Chances of passen- gers escaping lI1|UfY would be increased if it were the practice to have seats facing back so that the shock of a forced landing could be ab- sorbed by the whole seat rather than simply the safety belt.

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Robert Raikes, founder of Sunday Schools, born this date i735. He was proprietor of the Gloucester Journal, when, his attention having been called to neglected children, he started, in i780, with the backing of the Nev. Thomas Stack a Sunday School which proved so success- ful that the idea was taken up all over the country.

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Russians get very little news about this country. Pravda carried just l4 items about Can- adallast year, according to an exchange. Red Stars recent report that we are engaged in an armaments race and lll fact never did come off a war footing will, therefore, have little chance

of being disputed behind the iron curtain. I

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‘ Quebec Liberals are apparently not satisfied with Mr. George Marler as successor to Adelard Godbout as Party Leader. Mr. Godbout has been raised to the Senate and Mr. Marler was chosen by the members of the Legislature as Leader there. lt is now annauncd a special Liberal Con- vention Wlll be called the chief purpose of which Wlll be the choice of a permanent provincial Party leader.

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Kensington Junior Chamber of Commerce have initiative and enterprise as is shown in the success of their beautification scheme recently completed. lt is so much more satisfactory to adopt a policy and put it into effect than merely talking and "letting George do it"; more often than not George has "other fish to fry," and plan goes by the board. ln the case of Ken- sington, the Juniors did not rest content until their project was an accomplished fact.

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Too mdch importance cannot be attached to the suggestion of Mr. Mac'Nought's that when anything is wanted at or from Ottawa, only thoroughly qualified men or women should be on the delegation. The rule laid down in this connection by the late Premier Mathieson was (l) know definitely what you v/ant, (2) know what minister and deputy to approach (3) send him in advance a written statement of what is want- ed, (4) state clearly and concisely how the re- quest can be granted, i5) send on delegation only those thoroughly familiar with the proposal, and (6) not to leave Ottawa till the Minister and his deputy are convinced of the reasonableness of the proposition.

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Another campaign is being conducted by the King's Printer in an effort to encourage the public in subscribing to Hansard and other of- ficial papers, issued during each session of ‘Parliament. Although Canadians are taking more and more interest in politics, a great number still do not even know about Hansard. People should be brought to base their opinion on facts and, when it comes to judge the work being done by their representatives, l-lansard tops all sources of information. As a verbatim report of the pro- ccedings of the House of Commons, it provides with plain facts, offering little chance of misun- derstanding. 6,000,000 words per session, as an average, are registered in Hansard; it is pub- lished first, as daily issues mailed reg-ularly to all subscribers, as the session proceeds. All this for the amount of $3.00, no more. For full in- formation, just write to the King's Printer, Ot- tawa. .

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More good news for Norwegian housewives on August 8th when the Ministry of Supply an- nounced that fresh, dried, and condensed mi'k were removed from the ration. Cream as well as cheese of all kinds was put on the free list that some day. Milk production, which has in- creased steadily during the past year, is now seen sufficient to meet normal demrinds.‘ Should shortage arise in individual districts, however, local authorities will be able to set up a priority system, while dried milk plants will temporarily allocate first production ta industries using this raw material. Thirty-five percent whipping cream will soon appear, according to producers, who until now have limited cream fat content to l0 per cent. As anticipated, however, choose wholesalers could not keep pace with the first day's demands. Though lines of trucks waited in front of well stocked cheese warehouses crews could not get cheese to their retailers fast on- ough. With time to catch up following the first day, dealers were soon replenished, and custom- crs could walk in and order their choice for the

first time since ‘I940 — and no ration coupons.

.TI-IE GUARDIAN, CHARLOTTETOWN

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(From The Chronicle, a banking. insurance and finance journal published in Ottawa.) Recently the Prime Minister of Prince Edward Island caused some slight lifting of eyebrows in Central Canada by suggesting that the Maritime transportation prob- lem would be aided by the pur- chase of C.P.R. by the Govern- mcnt and the routing of the Trans-Canada highway through a Maritime corridor. The visitor who waits patiently at Cape Tormen- tine wharf for the next trip of the big new ferry to take him to the Island may realize for the first time that the Illarilimes has a transportation problem. Four trips a clay makes some long waits. In Charlottetown, we were told this Summer that the number of visitors to the Island was larger than ovor before. That is good news not only for the Islanders. but for Canadians. Many more of the latter should see this smallest of our provinces, historically the cradle of Confederation, currently in its pastoral setting, a place 0f charm and scene unique 1n Can- ada. Broad acres. fine crops. Lien).- l_v undulating country backed by the sen. and endless miles of su- perb and empty buachos- a wan- dorful holiday combination. It was good to find this year that. New Englnnders. not to mention cous- ins from more distant poinls 1n the States were penetrating this far. PEI. has been earning a good many U. S. dollars for Canada this

SUITIITIET. o 0 c

It is no small job for a com-l munily of perhaps less than IOODOO i people, scattered on a large island. 1 to provide for the tourist trade on modern lines. I‘. E. I. governments have done a good iqbflvllh Pal/Ml roads, and the DOlllllllflh Govern- ment. through the NalionabParks on the north shore 1s lending al l1and--in particular a Shore drive l just completed but. to be further extended along the cliffs 1n the (Tavcndish area. that sceni_cally_ if one of the best. things of its kind in eastern Canada. _ To stick to the highroads ls. hoavovcr. to miss a £000 5°31 "i the Island's charm and beauty. rnd elsewhere than an pavement. tho dust nuisance is very bad. n’)! l only that raised by pnssmg traffic but that raiscd by Island breeze‘. This pails alter a time. and 1n the interests of their tourist trade. 1t

is to be hoped that. Island govern- irrnls will go on extending Y0"! . by year their dustless roads. Thor.‘ is the difficulty and exponse_ of bringing grnvel for foundations. from the mainland. but “'1? Vim" ture la suggest that on a loaf!- ~- basis, continued investment nod roads will be well worth- llC. In lho meantime. there is much for the tourist to ‘see and in any Canada. of

W11 {l5 rnjny on. the Island as comparable district in with the added attraction

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This latter quality arises from the fact that nowdhat the fox- fnvming industry, 1n which _lha Island pioneered, has _been killed by the dictates of fashion, farmm; and fishing are the Islands e018 major industries. Well-tilled fields and well-kept. farmhousesIsuERCS- a high degree bolh of skill ‘and of comforl-in fact. B_ Widely spread reasonable prosperity. and satisfying living ponflitmns- i?“- Shaw, the provincial Deputy Mm- isler of Agriculture, in a recent article has described some of the basis of the Island's success and reputation in this can. in" E"- ir-rprise which this year sent 20 plane-loads of Island strawberries. 100,000 baskets In all, to distant urban markets; lriltlatlon of all’ transport. for milk, cream and livestock; the strictest health and sanitary regulations for delrying and beef stock and their products; concentration in pigs on one Vl- rlety and supplying of foundation stock lo every Province 1n Can- ada and a number of the Unlled States: a great increase in recent

lion and, of course. potatoes. lhe seed stock of which now Ioes to lhlrly Stale: of the Unlon, as well as all over Canada. and to

of Island agriculture. Mr. Show points out that expansion of trade depends to a great extent. on ex- pansion and improvement ln trans- portation services and a greater measure of publlcllyz-"our pro- gress in this respect has been one. tlrely too modest and conserva- five.”

Then, of course. there are Mul- pcaue oysters, lobsters and other onrl things that come from the stand waters. All we eaaaurgest O

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A Long Time Ago

(Hamilton Spectator)

The other day in Wyoming n group of scientists came across traces of a campsite that ivas probably used between five and twelve thousand years before Christ. Crude tools, delicately fashioned fllnls and charred bones under drifting desert sands hinted of the Yuma, n. namndic group that disappeared centuries ago ~ rc- mofc- ancestors of the latter-day North American Indians,

Bu! these are only a few more fragments of a story no one can put together, and the path of the first men out of central Asia across what ls now Siberia and Alaska, deep into South America, is lost in lho mlsls of centuries. Those who hnvo studied the evi- dance are sure only that the civil- izations of tho Americas wore ns long-lived as those of Roma and Greece and that man has been on this continent for at lcnst 25.000 years and perhaps 200,000 _v0ars.

Ncvcr prolific, the North Am- erican Indian achieved nothing like the architecture and knowledge or mathematics and astronomy that the Mayrms and Incas revonlorl when the Spaniard found, conquer- ed them 21ml tool: lhoii" treasure. For lnslnnco in tho day of their greatest power lho Iroquois had only 4,000 nrnrrlors, and lhose—— due largely to ivondorful mllilnry and political organization — wore able tn terrorize all tribes from Quebec tn the Cnralinns nnrl from the Far \‘Vost in the Atlantic shores.

There ls n theory that in the trek from the Alnsknn country down through hundreds of years these possible descendants of migrating Tnrtnrs from the stop- nc-s of Central Asia left the less hardy and Ingenious behind and with their most adventurous van- uuards built up the fnntnstlc cul- litres of Yucatan and Peru.

The infinitesimal pieces of a massive puzzle only rarely camc- to light. They leave the hig ques- tions unanswered, They only show in their mule testimony that mnn on this oonlineht ls not of a "new world," but of one deep in the pit of timc~surging through great northern forests in thr-‘shouls nf forgotten wars; leaving the halls of kings to he devoured by tho jungles of Gunlomnln, nnrl show- ‘ng those wonderful irrigation aut- linos that turned the slopes of

‘(he Andre: ln oultlvallon of flaw-y

rrs nnrl fonrls that the world no well knows now.

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SYDNEY. Australia - (GP) —- Pralcssor V.A. Bailey wnntvs to make his own aurora nustralls, lo the northern ‘.1r~mls-p.l1r~1"o‘s aurora borealis. He claims that n strong vertical radio beam hurled into the outer atmos- phero will produce an artificial aurora, and plans to make the ex- periment. from Armldalo, New South Wales.

11: BABIES DAILY

MANILA -- (Reuters) —- An av- Crage of 114 babies during the first six months of the year. have been bcrfdatly ln Manila according to municipal statistics. Of this num- lJBI‘, an average o1 five babies daily were born to unwed mothers.

A gamut ls the sob of eight. notes ln a. musical scale which forms an octave.

is that more Canadians see the Island for themselves. They will be charmed with what they see, comfortably housed and very well

LITTLE PONDS

The little ponds are bright and clear

And salt of brink;

And after twlllghc when the deer

Come dawn lo drink,

And 1n their mirrors, coldly pure The moon t: shown,

The moon, each little pond ls sure Loves it. alone.

Let. not. the little ponds be told That every night On countless ponds as clear and cold Their moon ls bright!

They do nor. guess that such things BIB For good or lll- _ The strange high ways of moon and stnrs;- And still, and still,

When hushed feet cross the beaver- lke

And stars are strewn,

Each little pond. Endymion-like.

"Enfolds the moon.

-Arlhur Gullerman

g0 Old Charlottetown

(And P. I. L)

FERRY SERVICE COMPLAINT

From the correspondence col- umns of Th- Islander newspaper, July so, 134s:

"Will some persons please ln- form me whether the Ferry-boot has any stated hours for her al- ternate landing at the three dlf- ferent Wharves on the town side? I assure you it is anything but gratifying, ln returning from town, with medicine for n sick wife, to ho obliged, after going the whole length of the Queen's Wharf in search of n Ferry-boat, and after looking among vessels for a quar- ter of an hour, to see it starting out lnto the stream from another wharf, and thus lose the passage, rind wnlt for another boat; or should I see the boat at Pownal Street Wharf, after I have lug- god two bushels of salt. on my back to the end of the other, it. ls no pleasant thing to shoulder lt ngnin, and carry lt at least a quarter of a mlle before I get l!‘ off ngnlm-and worst of all, lf the boat has gone before I get there.— Publlco, Lot 49."

SCOURGE ABATES The death rate from influenza ln

Cnniidn has fallen 81 per cont during the past 20 years.

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