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THE GUARDIAN

Morning Daily tlfuunded In H011) \ulhoriled in aevnnil (‘inn Milli. Punt Officn Ueuurtnivnt, Ottawa.

The llliitiii (iunrdlun Publishing Pa. Lilltnr and iluiiuglng Dim-tor, J. R. ilurnett. Atulnelnin liiiitnr, Frnnii Walker.

"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest ink"

CHARLOTTETUWHN. SATURDAY, DEC. 3i. i949

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ln a few short hours, we must cross another year's threshold and watch the Old Year l0ll0l' into the night. We shall [wart friends. though not reluctantly. 1f the Old Year did not fulfill our brightest expecta- tions. neither did it justify OLU‘ darkest fore- hgdings, We asked much 0f it. and it has not wholly failed us; the best of our hopes remain for the future.

“l-‘or iihf‘ a child. sent with a fluttering ilfliil.

To feel ills \\Zl_\ along a gusty night,

'\lan walks the world; again. and yet again.

'l‘li=~ lamp shall be by fits of passion slain;

But shall not. lie who sent him from the door itellgili the lump oncc more. and yet once more?“

"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour." This is a thought we might well take with us into 1950. It will be a troubled rear. of course. with Communism more mimpiiiit than ever and the debris of the last

ed: the Soviet blockade of Berlin has been

‘iiiedsimple Life

We tend to think of life as becoming more and more troinplicated, but it requires very little thought to discover that the op- posite is the case. On the farm, for in- stance, the transition from self-sufficiency to a commercial basis means that the farmer and his wife no longer produce or manu- facture the hundred and one articles 0f €\’9l‘_\'(l(l_\’ use. 'l‘ools, machinery, fencing, lumber. fertilizer, feed, foodstuffs, clothing and even entertainment are no longer home madefbtit obtained in exchange for money from a few cash crops. Individual life is thus simplified. while the sociarstruettire be- ronies coinplicntetl and our inter-depcitdence increases.

With this development, the social and political responsibility’ of the individual also grows, and the result should be that the av- erage individual would tend to take a greater part in community’ and national af- fairs than did his father. Failure to do so must inevitably lead to submission to the dictates of the few in an ever increasing proportion of ones zlffairs.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Festival oi Si. Sylvester. I

The report that noise may some day be

THE GUARlJiAN. May lie Bring Happiness

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UNION PRAYER. MEETINGS

Old

What appears to have been the Prayer Meeting in

Charlottetown was held one hun-

dred years ago this New Year’: advertising the meeting appeared in The Islander of Dec. 2s. 184a and reads aa fol-

Day. A notice

lows:

“A meeting for Prayer will (D.V.) be held in the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. on the Even- ing of Tuesday next, being New

Year's Day. to which Christians

are r; The National Rifle Association

of every denomination specLfuily invited. who are

opinion that such a meeting would be an appropriate commencement and tend to promote the observance of l John flf, 23 verse: ‘Thai we should be-

of the New Year.

lieve on the name of his son

Jesus Christ, and love one another

as he gave us commandment.’

"The exercises will be conducted

b)’ different Ministers. and will be commenced precisely at seven oclock.

"E. Botterell. S. '1‘. Rand. R.

MacNair. John Orlebar. R. N." Meetings of this kind were con- tinued as a New Year's Day cul- fom. as appears from subsequent newspaper notices. The announce-

ment. for the following year. from

the Royal Gazette of Dec. 24, 1950. reads:

"UNION PRAYER A HEEIFING

uECEMBER 31,

5i - Notes By The Way -

Tbere uaud to be an old sayingi

that iif one took care of the penies.

themselves, but. that is loo old- fashioncd to bother with nowa- days. it. has to be brought up to date. it sluufd read that if the Government takes care of the millions, the billion: will take care of themselves. If the Gov- ernment does not take care of the‘ millions, the taxpayers \\‘lii take care oi the billions. - Strat- iord Beacon-Herald.

in the U.S. claims that in he many years for which statistics were compiled none of its 200,000 members had accidenlally shot. anyone. A senior official of the Canadian Small Bore Association -— now the Canadian Civilian As- scciaLion of Marksman —- main- tains that for the l5 years he has been connected with it. not. one of this group has been responsible for an accidental killing. This revelation is highly significant. It obviously indicates that safety rules drilled into one on the tar- get range are observed in the bush. it gives the answer to how ac- cidents with firearms can be drastically reduced. -- Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph.

At a meeting of the Ministers of‘ “my Mendl‘ s” m“: o"? or u"

even to standing on her head b:-

the pounds would take care of‘

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will‘ Still covering lllfllly Part5 Oi Europe? d I l 1 the various Protest/ant Denotmin- $05} inlgrestilllqge pegsdgailigies Si»: iulpd m imvegdton; s; énugg‘: fir‘

.. . . - ' ' ‘ First Sun av ater Cirismis. aiiona in T i. ‘i > '- ""- “' "e l‘ "S a - ‘ “P5 “"~‘ “an e 5° ° l" "8 out, at least H1018 lldS D6911 3 Peglllmng 0i ' o . . ‘ maul}, raging-id limit“? giifalr Charles ltiendl, was press attache about some of the good things the {as}; of Setting world affairs in order. Meeting 10,. the promouon of to the British Embassy, was not Cahadians can do for themselves _ V _ _ ‘ , p circunlcisiol-L - l p _ _ W: Christian Un~ b h ‘d i s, only amous as a hos ess, ut wit! WhilOUi anv government under- lllP. i\\Jl'lll Alldllfll- TlelllY and the (‘Oullul . _ ‘ r ‘I l‘ James-s Chung‘ f,“ ewedgcsdav herseiif _an entertainer and did taking to do everything for then-i "barter fOl‘ “EJ310111 EUFOPE have D8911 Slgll- evenini; January 13L 1851' at '7 everything to divert her guests. ---.-ii great expense. -— Lethbridge

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fore the assembled comiplny. She has also been known to enter n room turning handsprlngs. Sh; wanted to make the stage her CJFCUI‘ and did in fact. go on the stage for a time, but, gave it up a; she did nut feel she was a success. Generally regarded as an Ameri- can, shc was in fact Canadian and came from Nova Scotla. Her maiden name was Elsie de Wolfe. llcr passion was decorating peg. pic's houses, for which she n. reivcfl very high fees. Many l gloomy Victorian interior was transformed by her magic touch to soruclliiiig gay and lovely. Her bathroom, which all her friends were taken to see, was a riot of (lolpliins and mermaids and mir- rors. lt cost her thousands. She spent 132.000 a year on flowers alone. Now, aged 82. she still lives in Paris in her fabulous home in Versailles. the Villa ‘Frianon. ~ London Recorder.

For yearn nuw the people of Canada have had dinned into their ears the superiority of the New Zealand Government in its manner of doing things. The CCF leader. Mr. Caldwell, never min- ed a chance to sing the praises of socialistic New Zealand. Now that the New Zealand Labor-So- cialist Government of Prime Miri- istrr Fraser has been defeated h) the people for whom he is ai-

Herald.

oclock. the bell to ring at quarter to seven."

and scientific organizations, January, and this year it comes on a Sunday. All right; but. what. day of the week did it come last. year? What. day will it be next. year? And the year after that! That's hard- er to answer! Arid wouldni it

used to operate engines indicates the exist- New Years alviays comes on 1st. ence of a source of power suspected only by

demagogucs.

m- surimce companies, association of raumadg bu,“ newpapers’ bus,“ mv-oo-c-ooon-oo-Q-ooeet-QI nesses, and important individuals -

in many fields of activity, not to mention educators in all fields of , This column is open to the teaching, each for the obvious bene- discussion by cu-lupondeutn

terminated; the United Nations General As- sembly has approved international control of Jerusalem, and sovereignty has been formal- ly transferred to 77,000,000 people compris- ing the United States of Indonesia. These

APPRECIATION

With the setting in of real winter weath-

. . - . make things much easier for every- tits that. would derive to them in

are Concrete Steps and hopeful portems, ei there 1s no longer the pioblem ‘of the one H New Yea“ always came on particular‘ igutllrélaf-‘ljflllgo: 52:61:“... 11.:

yimve,‘ through the eyes o; other n3. pedestrian-splashing car driver. but instead Slllildfiy? And Bil holidays would The World Calendarllassuch wide, u, mac," u" oplgmmhln o, We wish u» thank our nmny Poiicyholderg for m,“ 1pm,; is ‘he hHH-lnind one from rugged up “.ind_ tall on the same day of the week acceptance everywhere that it. is n _ turrewondenul patron." durum. "m m" “M. "mlrlug "Wm that m" 0mm‘

lions, Canada is perhaps the brightest spot in the world today. We have freedom of worship and ordered government; we have abundance of the luxuries as well as the necessities of life. with huge resources in farms and forests. oil and minerals, fisheries and industrial plants and development pro- tects of all kinds. We enjoy harmony at home and prestige abroad. Our Lies with our great neighbour to the South, in mat- ters of defense as well as in trade and com- merce, have never been more firmly cem- mted; and while currency difficulties and the setback in British agricultural purchases are causing some concern, these are pro- blems in which we hope to see some im- provement during the coming year.

perpetually.

They would. too. when we have The World Calendar. There is no reason against such a sensible ur- riangement; and all we need to do is to get this new method of keep- ing track of the passage of time put. into effect. ,

If you do not thiuli modern pro- gress demands this revision of our time system, ask your grandfather to tell you about a similar con- fusion existing before the adopt- lon of Standard Time Zones.

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wonder Congress hasn't: made it.

legal for the United States before] now. Prospects that. it will do so are improving all the time. A reso- lution for the changeover was in- troduced last; spring into the 81st Congress by Senator Estes Kefauv-

er of Tennessee, and referred to

the Senate Foreign Relations Con-

mittae.

The United Nations also has The World Calendar tinder considera- tion, as it is coming before the General Assembly at. its next reg- ular session in September 1950. In the meantime all Member Govern- ments of the United Nations have received detailed reports and are seriously studying the proposal, While seventeen governments have already given their approval in principle to The World Calendar, the RE)‘. 0f course, rests with the United States. This was plainly signified by the United Nations

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The twenty-five per cent reduction in steam powered passenger trains will cer- tainly conserve coal supplies. but at the cost of slowing the pare. of the industrial life of this country.

w-Q-wez-otkg c-"NQ ~11 14c FARM PRICES

to provide n complete Insurance service will not be relaxed.

The MJgement, Staff and Agency organization. Join in 0.:- tending to nil, the Season‘; (free-tings, "

Sin-In your feature column, "Among The Farmers", I observe that the Federation of Agriculture finds .. "markets arc unsettled, prices are dropplni and U. K. contracts are in a state o! conful- ion. . . However, We do not be- lieve there is any reason for Panic. Farm price: are again the first to drop; the main reason be- ing that; farmers are not organ- ized. but are depending on the Government or someone else to protect their interests. . ." (Guar- (iian, Dec, 24L ‘TilCfP is a lot in the above few 117108, unrl still more food for thought between them. It t; sin. ecrc-ly to be hoped that increas- ing numbers of our primary pro- ducers will

The P. E.’ l. industrial Corporations lvLV. Eskimo is temporarily on the run be- tween Halifax and St. Pierre. A few years ago for a Provincial Government vessel to have gone into that trade would have caused a sensation, pariictilarly among the rum running fraternity’.

iiYiiMiiN 8i G0. LIMITED

Our present calendar is complet- INSURANCE 513915 1872 ely out. of date. It: was inaugurated by Julius Caesar as long ago as 45 B. C. and adjusted by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 in order to rectify the errors in the Julian ar- rangement; that. had become in- creasingly apparent, These so-called Julian and Gregorian calendars were admirably suited to their day

Offices: Charlottetown - Summon-side — Montague

Agents Throughout The Province

The C. N. R. makes an tinfortunatc

in this PFOVlHCB. With an increase Of t t f 1W0 I d _ M T glligteilafafgxut gt?!‘ ncigopiiéozidenseticies- ?1€C‘X"f1il/l;.,f§;£7l3ll9l‘&i. Trygve Lie. on qmtemem andl-‘Izggelr totlxelralipge . . - - . - . . s ar or ..> a eci 'lll our ari ime - a 2 : - , - - m 91 R 111011011 and a half (b11315 l" the S1055 ‘v t) g They're as old-fashioned and ante- “Congress has already received “m5 wgmllzalm"! Md "w" rural

coal supply. and making that. an excuse for cutting clown our already attenuated train services. Evidently this was done at the in- stance of the old directorate. and before the m" are n t , u 1 m h “d . V. . ,' O C 8, new tinder Ml‘. ltonzilrl Cordon i101 their oar 5nd,, ,1; Mound q“... Wei afd 2i in, all have a hard time remembering BDc-clal events. when they came in previous years, when they'll come this year or the next. Industry and government. waste millions of dol- lars annually through the vagaries of our present; outmoded time sys- tem. In fact. it is a costly burden to all levels of society. . . -

leaders, who speak in their name. .Only this morning I read the following paragraph at. the break.

dated in this advanced era as driving down Broadway in a sur- rey with a fringe on top.

The trouble with our present calendar is that. the quarters of the

the draft . . . to authorize the grlesidtelpt of the United States to a e e nci-essary meas es f the adoption of the Worilld Cale:f;{:5t labia!” (imengnifirmauml t’; dal‘ n 1.1 i. 1960.1: t. . °" °° °"‘° ‘ "m" ° miss upoiiuiiiisriaraii. it viiiioiifcif W“ *1°°-°°°-°°° l" the "We °t ilitate iiilt‘ adoption of the reform "l" P'°d“°“°" l" °""“l° 1°‘ through“ me world}. 1950 was predicted yesterday by a a 0 lévgricuilture Minister Kennedy. sincnusn m,’ 1 u“ b ith armers having to pay more ble to make iii’; Ehanogoiier Join i 1°‘ ‘he thing‘ ‘My ha" i~° b“? date 1t has become necessary “and getting less for the products set. 1 January 1953 (the next. avall- i ti“? Se“ they“ “mm 97mm“ nble date when both the Gregorian ("ml u’ “l” “xterm he 551d?“ and the World Calendars agree) as lT°r°m° Gmbe “m! Mam- ‘ the logical time for inauguration Tl‘°"* ‘"5 a W‘ f" " """‘ of the reform. This allows the lat- hmakhlslflablei Belle“? m“ WM" ‘N. pun or 1950 and the year 1951 l assure you that full advantage

value of our field crops this year. and with many other evidences of progress agricul- turally, the future can be faced with a full measure of confidence. We may look for- ward to participating more and more in the advantages of Confederation. and of suffer- ing less and less from the drawbacks conse- quent upon our instilar position. An aggres- sive drive for the transportation and other improveineiits we require should be launch- etl early in the new year, and made effective by united and unreiiiitiitiz: effort on the part

STEP OlIT IN STYLE

John llflvcliffc. English religious reform- er. died this (late i384. lie was a fellow and master of Balliol College, Oxford, and was a [lower iii Oxford before he was known to the outside world; he challenged the su-

. . . B l . preinacy of the Pope, and in 1.579 iaubhshed econ‘ “g mo" and mm w“

pf ,-1]] 1‘t_‘)]1(f(1|‘||(1(l_ sclous of the inconveniences im- for United Nations‘ approval, the"- “'6! ("ken °f if, and it “'8! m0!“- . . . "D9 Officiq Repiq" (leulal-ilqg the Kingg to posed by our present calendar bv giving nations a. full ear for “Mamy mmcmt 1° 9'9"?“ ewry‘ lii our imii private lives during H349 " ' ' e" ' peglflg have im- some time nu...’ rmfycamon _ _ 1m _ _ {m one, time speaking at mice; but the

be above the Pope's jurisdiction. l~le trans- lated the Bible and organized a body of poor priests who spread his teaching throughout the land. A revolt followed, but he him- self was uiiniolesterl. iinrl died iii Lutter- worth as stated.

m; three 1.5-.“ - _ _ j thought, I liked best. rim this way: 1.93.4’ 1955p- L: fomgfilifj wlcfiié""Mr. Kennedy should have addedz‘ Calendar into operation.‘ Tin-ea l and "W" Wm b9 1"" lilmoooimo years’ advance notice is neressarv 1° s farm °rd°rs m" "l" pwduvlfi so m“ u“. changeover m“ m,‘ of the factories, mills and stores.’ instituted with a minimum of con- I tam Si" m‘ fusion. LOOKING AHEAD. So £1101? ll. is, It; is high time we’ *r—~*-*—————-

adjust our calendar to fit: thei_"3‘.0.t2f<i finn03332828$mfi needs of our day. We have the i6 perfect answer to all our time - l3.‘ ‘ " |llff0llzlltiil1i in, 'l‘he World Calendar. i f.

s o c put into effect; by '- 1956. it will have to be legalized ) during the coming two yegrg, u“; Now in the twelfth month, that earlier the better. Ami why should , iii the month of Adar, on the if. not be? There will be no dislo- ' thirteenth day of the name, when cation of civil life. lffum rglendgf the King‘; commandment and his chaos we have the opportunity m decree drew near in be put in ex- move peacefully and orderly Into ocution, in the day that the on- caleiidar-hannony. it ls to be hop- 0min; of H10 Jew; hoped to have cd nothing will lm-Jodc the estab- lwlvfil‘ 0"" "IBM. (tliuulh It; was

been giving thought. to n means of correcting these (iliiblliilCS with the result that. tliey iire almost unanimously behind one proposal for a new and stable calendar - - ‘Fhc World Calendar.

The persctual World Calendar of if! months and equal quarters is the ideal solution. This new rale-i- dar will be the same 12 months we now have with the same nzinicr. and in the same or- tlcr. but it will have four equal quarters ouch year with exactly the same number of day's. The first day of each quarter will always be a Sunday. the lust a Saturday; and in each month there will always be 26 Weekdays plus Sundays. ‘The leap-year adjustment is taken cure 0i by placinr an extra day at. the end of the first. half of the year.

there have been disappointments, perhaps tragedies; but there have been happincsses also, and consolations. if we could sec them. the causes are manifold for looking with bright faces to the future.

To all our readers. young and old. at home Zillfi abroad. we extend our very best wishes for a 1iovous and prosperous New Xenia

Q I Q At the start. of a New Your we look back only to see what. we have with which to face the future. We look zihead to see what we intend lo try lo do with it. Look- ing bu<zk most of us here have much to be thankful for-an uniquely fine succession of. seasons, Winter. Spring, Suiniiiei", Fall, all l(lt'.‘.'1i, and conipziring favourably’ with those

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Farm Support Prices

in a reccntizirtitvle Mr. Gilbert McMillan. president. of the. Dairy Farmers of Canada. u rites: “lf there were the slightest indica-

not been reduced, that average wage levels are today higher than ever before and that

' consumers in Canada can afford to pay fair

‘pasty: their thud.

by them and her memory ever held dear. The funeral takes place today from her late

home on Grafton St. to the family burying iground at Sherwood.

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Here eye: do regard you In Etemity’: ctillneu; Here 1| Ill fullnm,

Ye have. to rout-d you: work. and desvnlr not!"

-O\:Lvh‘| translation.

ilOl] that other groups were prepared to ac- within living incinoigv. "There have been onemycurs hiali¢il1a=ii~_is_1u.-t.iiie Slim!) lishment of the nrw World cine... turned m w. contrary. um the

tiept cuts which would decrease the farmer's good crops and fishing, good prices, good u e "ex “Z fus- and ML iii. iii; Qslltiitlfliyvfifllllfhigfniligfieigwiigf Illlelm muslin. “or "mm m“

costs perhaps he (the farmer) would be prc- employment, good health without epidemic This proposed civil World Cllln- tng: and the whole world will be

pared to meet. them. But what have we?" of any kind. and good feelings generally d“ h” hm‘ endms“! l’? m“ benemed- ,

ilir. llicll/lillziii goes on to list recent de- within the Province. A Province where