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CIIARLOTTETUWN THURSDAY. OCT. 12. 1950

A commonwealth Survey

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A valuable contribution to contemporary British history is made by "Public Affairs". national quarterly of the Institute of Public Affairs, Dalhousie University, in a re- cently published special issue. The edi- tion is a symposium on Commonwealth Affairs, the contributors being outstanding newspapermen and women from the various dominions and colonies, each of whom re- views the progress made during the past half century respectively in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, India. Ceylon, and South Africa. Special articles are also devoted to Gibralter, Malta and Malaya, the issue concluding with a comprehensive art- icle by the editor, Mr. C. F. Fraser, on the subject of Collective Bargaining.

Canada's place in the Commonwealth is dealt with by Mr. Arthur R. Ford. editor- in-chief of the London Free Press and Chancellor of the University of Western Ontario, who gives a most interesting ac- count of the relations of this Dominion to Great Britain and the rest of the Empire Brain-the beginning of the century.

This issue constitutes Volume XII, Num- ber 4, of "Public Affairs", which has de- veloped into a first-rate forum for the discussion of contemporary problems, both national and international, in politics, em- nomics, finance, industry and labor. It can be recommended to all interested in these subjects, both for its style and content.

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tractors Lack intelligence

Farm children undoubtedly play a much greater role in the family economy than any others. They contribute to the family prosperity although for income tax purposes they are regularly, listed as de- pendents. It must never be forgotten, how- ever, that they are children and the tasks expected of them must be selected accord- ingly.

The tractor is usually fairly simple in operation and quite young children can grasp the mechanics of its use. They are usually only too willing to do so. The tractor, however, is an enormously pow- erful machine. It is capable of doing a great amount of work, or devastating dam- age. In the hands of a child it can sud- denly change from a useful bit of farm machinery to a killer. A team of horses would be dangerous enough in very young hands, but they, at least, are likely to be sensible animals whogwill make up. for many deficiencies of their youthful driver.

The tractor is completely lacking in in- telligence and must be uninterruptedly con- trolled. The briefest inattention or con- fusion in the drivers seat can mean dis- aster-, perhaps to the driver himself. A strong sense of responsibility is essential for its safe operation and should not be expected at too tender an age.

Trouble In The Ancient colony

From Canada's tenth Province comes a pronouncement which marks the emergence of a new and ominous principle in party politics. The trouble, it seems, is that Mr Samuel Drover, member of the Newfound- land legislature for White Bay, was bold enough to express doubt as to the wisdom of some of Premier Smallwood's policies. Mr. Smallwood, without waiting for the

Legislature to meet, forthwith announced,

Mr. Drover's expulsion from the ranks of the Liberal Party.

It is the Newfoundland Premier's state- ment of the reason for his action that oc- casions most concern. "To denounce the Liberal government or to express doubt of its sincerlty," says Mr. Smallwo-ad. "is an inexcusable violation of party discipline."

Here, surely, is a new and dangerous principle which Premier Smallwc-od will in defending. Ordinary members of the Legislature, it wems, are no longer free to express even doubt con- cerning the wisdom of government policy without danger of expulsion. They must serve, if Mr.,Smallwood's words mean what they say, as rubber stamps for govern- ment policy, right or wrong."

, Newfoundlandcrs are noted for their sense of independence and integrity of pur- pose. It isosarncstiy toibe hoped tlist the people of White-Bay constituency. will man-

EDI IURIAI. NUI ES

' Mr. N. H. Jewell will now be giving "the gladhand" to customers at Prowse's, while the president is extending hospitality at Government House. '

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Russia does not want to fight so long as she can find Northern Korea and the Communist Chinese to fight for her, backed by Western fellow travellers.

Curfew law for children of the City is now in effect. This means they must all be off the streets immediately after the first evening show at the movies.

0 O 0

North Korea's announced determination to "fight to the death" sounds like yet an- other Communist steal irom their Nazi mentors.

I O I Milk producers, and consumers, seem likely to benefit by the Western farmer's misfortune in having frost-damaged grain, saleable only for feed. It is an ill wind that blows no good. 0 O O

I Churchill, on his recent visit to Copen- hagen, was greeted by the biggest crowd ever assembled there, also by some Com- munist demonstrators evidently anxious to prove that there is something rotten in the state of Denmark. 6" O I I We are now exclusively dieselized ex- cept for the heavy fall traffic when one or two of our old steam engines will have to be re-imported from Moncton. With eight- een diesels our ordinary rail service can be maintained at a considerable saving in op-

eration. Q 0 0

Councillors Cox and Stewart had excel- lent progressive reports of work accom- plished at the City Council meeting. Thcc iiulk of outside operations is on their shoulders and they gave an excellent ac- count of work done or in the act of com- pletion.

I O I r

President Truman has had resort to an Islander, Mr. Cyrus S. Ching, to make recommendations to the head of the new Economic Stabilization Agency about to be organized. For this purpose Mr. Ching will be allowed leave from his job as chair- man of the Conciliation Board for Labour and Management. 0 O 0

Elizabeth Fry, English social reformer, died this date 1845. She was the daughter of John Gurney of Earlham, head of a fam- ily of bankers; early in life she became in- terested in the "submerged tenth", and de- voted her energies and wealth to alleviat- ing their condition. She was the means of securing great improvements in the hos- pital system and in the treatment oi the in-

sane. o o o

An English firm has just exported to Canada several plants for converting sur- plus fish and fish offal into edible meal, chiefly for cattle food. The plants include 40-ton Ferramatic backing machines which break up the material fed into them and pass it to sterillsers for "cooking." The product appears from 44-ft. steam jacketed drying cylinders ready for grinding and bagging. These units are used for treating non-fatty white fish such as cod.

The break-down in railway labour ne- gotiations is not surprising in view of the fact that any concession offered limited the field in which the arbitrator is to work. Under the circumstances satisfactory ne- gotiation was impossible. Before com- pulsion is applied there should be some opportunity for tentative offers which, if not accepted, would not prejudice the party making them.

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Five timber wolf pups captured in Banff National Park, Alberta, and 24 chip- munks and eight raccoons caught in Geor- gian Bay National Park, 0nt., have been sent by the Federal Department of Re- sources and Development to the Royal Zoo- logical Society of Scotland at Edinburgh Zoo. Canadian wild-life stocks at Edin- burgh have fallen in recent years' and an effort is being made to augment them.

A party of Canadian students, rtlne men and one woman, have just been having an unusual holiday in Britain, doing social work in the East End of London. They were brought over by the Rev. "Tubby" Clayton of All Hallows by-the-Tower Church, London, and have been spending their summer vacation looking after buys and girls living in such districts cs Lime- houss, Poplsr, stspney and -Wspping. sov- srst of the students us-keen sportsmen sud, helped wltlisglftoftloo wprihof

piffot steam University, soon started

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GALLOW! more was s weasel lived in the su With allnhis family,

gun

And hung him up on s. tree. Where he swings in the wind and

the rain -,

In the sun and in the snow, Without pleasure. without pain on the dead oak tree bough.

There was u. crow who was no sleeper,

But a thief and a murderer

Till a very late hour; and this

keeper

Made him one of the things bhnt were.

To hang and flap in thr. rain and Win

d. In the sun and in the snow. There are no more sins to be sin-

ned On the dead oak tree bought.

There was a magpie. too.

Had a long tongue and a long tail; He could both talk and do-

But what did that avail?

He. too. flaps in the wind and rain Alongside weasel and crow. Without pleasure. without pain. on the dead oak tree bough.

And many other beasts

And birds. skin, bone mu feather, Have been taken from their feasts And hung up there together.

To swing and have endless leisure In the sun and in the snow. Without pain, without J .7, on the dead oak tree bough.

-Edward Thomas. Ring. a Ring 0' Roses

' (The Times. London)

Life for a starfish. said a re- cent broadcaster. is not a bed of roses. Being a kindly man. anxious to avoid depressing his listeners. he hastened to add that there are compensations for a starfish and triumphs of survival unattainable by the fittest of mortal men.

If, for instance, s crab bites off and eats four of its arms it can live to grow four new ones. and if it eats something poison- ous i-Lself it can match that my- thical nursery trick of throwing out the baby with the bath water. Poison and stomach containing It are together ejected and no harm done. All this is very nice for the starfish. but some listeners. emo- tionally allergic to the joys and sorrows of the rock pool, must have found their thoughts stray- ing inio deeper waters. For whom is life-for whom has life ever been-a bed of roses?

The bed of Procrustes may seem. today. to provide a nearer par- allel. That hospitable Greek had. it will be remembered, two beds. a short one into which he put his tail visitors, after lopping oif their superfluous inches, and I long one, where the little chaps, having been lengthened out to match reposed. Resting uneasily on the twin beds of cost of living that calls for a longer and longer income and rate of taxation that leaves the income shorter and shonter, the heir of all the ages. including two world wars and a turbulent interlude of peace, feels that never have so many had to put up with with so much.

ThesRussians are too well equip- ped with good tanks and the West Indians with good cricketers. There is seldom a seat in the train in the morning and a new suit costs as much as Sir Charles Cochran spent in happier days on dressing his star gentleman to appear with credit through a whole evening of regardless-ob expense revue. The time is out of joint and the cursed spite of it is that wise and well-meaning men, like President Truman. Mr. Attlee. Mr. Churchill. and the listener himself, inattentive to the tale of the starfish, sre not given the free hand they deserve in setting it all right. That causes for self-pity exist today and are beyond the control of the sufferer

is only too plain. What is over- looked is that in ages in which there seems, glancing back, every reason for general self-sailsfsc- tlon people found it necessary to invent excuses for pessimism.

Meticrnich, gloomily surveying the early part of the nineteenth century into which fate had pitched him. wished that he had been born in 1900. He lived to be 36, and so, had he been grani- ed his desire. he would now have the first half of the twentieth cen- tury behlnd him and snother 30 and more years of it to face. it is s beautiful thought of so via- tage it reactionary figure.

This is the classic ' of A man discontented with his own time, but it is a common kind of escapism. encountued even in apparently halcyon periods of his- tory. Urge to bolt from the pre- sent ioto past or future is match- ed by s singular cspscity, notice- able in every gcnerstiou, for nos- in: out contemporu, encsnics of mental poses and quiet. Gosss told how his fstbcr, finding the servants indulging in Christian pudding on the appropriate feast day - oi which he dlssprov- cd-bars off to tbs dustbin tbs "idclstrous confectionery." --

such a storm in the tcscup of bigotry is lsughsbls only to those who lsok imaginative sympsiby with their sncsstors. This mutiny in his kitchen upset Gosss ons msypbe sum. as much as. he bssu sllvs Jodsy. be ,wouid have been distressed by the in- vssion of Korea. Then is no rbyuis or rssson in the things first m to worry I ut.

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"It strikes us that in Upper Can- ads the farming is slovenly and bad, and that with a better sys- tem the average per acre might be doubled. Nevertheless. that Pro- vince with her 32 bushels of grain per head is becoming rich and powerful. Our acreage average is about the same as that of Upper Canada. but we raise only half the average (18 bushels per head). Here we have the reason why this Col- ony is a poor country . . .

"nrofessor Johnston got himself into bad odor in New Brunswick by remarking upon the indolence of her agricultural population, which he ungsllantly extended to the farmers' wives. The medi- cine, if bitter. is wholesome. and we doubt not will produce salutary effects. Our farmers spend too much of their time in dswdllng and frolicking; but let them remember. that the 3UlJ91'i0l' Prosperity of Upper Can- ada originates in, and depends up-

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Who is like unto thee, 0 Lord, Imnt the rods? who is like um, glorious in holiness. fearful in Pulses, doing wonder-sf...'l'hou in thy mercy hsst led forth the people which thou but redeemed; thou lisst guided them in thy llfellllli unto thy holy habitation.

on. her farmers labouring twice as hard.

"The iollowins table exhibits the comparative agricultural indus- try of the several Districts of this Island, to the nearest bushel of grain. omitting fractions, per hem of the inhabitants. We hsszard little in conjccturing that the comfort of the people. in every District, will bear a considerable relation to the proportion of grain raised: V

lst Queen's. 23 bill: (in: Prince. 20 bus.; lst Kings, 20 hus,; 3;.-1 Queen's, is hus.; 2nd Ki.ng's, 13 bus.: 2nd Prince, 17 bus.; am: Queen's, to bus.; arc Kings, 14 bus.; 1st Prince. 11 bus." -The Islander, Nov. 12, 1352.

is better knows or more

.oc'ro'aEa -. 12. .1950

it Notes By The Ontario . Do i. of Health has brought in very rigid regulations covering lb! operation of restaurants. not only governing the physical requirements .of the sstsblishnicnt but also dssliux with the pg;-o0nnOl. Those reguls- tions touch upon such things as -cut fingers and open sores, sud other hcslth requirements. They are on aimed at preventing the spread of disease. - Budbury Star.

Fisherman's encounters with wholes on the New Brunswick ' and Nova Scott: coasts this season brings to mind the fact that ii cen- tury ago this part of the country had a sizable whaling fleet. While the sea mammoths do venture occasion- ally into our own waters such as the Bay of Fundy - besked whales. right whales. finbuck whales. blue whales. hump-backed whales and other species '- they have never been numerous around these ports that it was worth while to hunt them. Instead, Maritime whaling ships sailed half way around the globe to scan the south Pacific for their big game. saint John's whal- ing hey-day lasted from 1838 to 1850. In 1837. when the trade was at its peak, this city had the lug- est group of whalers in the Mari- time region -- seven. vessels. five of them operated by the Mechs.uics' Whale-Fishing Company. - Saint John Telegraph-Journal.

For two years now Chsrlcs Chil- ton. 38-year-old Cocknu, has ting- led the spine of England's radio lis- teners with startling stories of the wild and woolly West: of gun shot and sagebrush, buffalo and tornado, flap Jacks and chaps. His scripts were so realistic that authorities in Tombstone, Arizona, appointed him an honorary marshal. Chilton hsd A slight deficiency that might

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