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The simultaneous announcements from Ottawa, London and Canberra that two- thirds of the Commonwealth forces will be withdrawn from Korea during the next few months follows logically from the earlier announcement that the United States is tak- ing out four of the six American divisions from that country.

It is more than four years since the in- vasion of the Republic of Korea and overi a year since the truce was signed on Julyi. 27. 1953. No final settlement of Korean, affairs has unfortunately been reached or, even seemed in prospect. It is unlikelyy however. that the maintenance of strongi United Nations forces in Korea would in my way hurry the matter of settlement.

The duties of the U. N. force are prin- cipally to see that truce terms are not too flagrantly flouted and generally to keep the peace. It would obviously require to, be very strongly reinforced to meet actuaii renewal of aggression? At the same time its reduction may well make the Republic of Korea hesitate to provoke the Com-, munists while relying on U. N. support against their reaction.

In any case it is cheering to have troops returning home rather than being sent abroad. Canada's armed forces consist largely of career servicemen but they have home ties no less than citizen soldiers. i

The withdrawal is far less significant, however, than the fact that the forces were sent in the first place. Korea marks the first success of joint action under the Uni- ted Nations. Like other examplei of fight- ing it may not have solved problems but, it most definitely stopped aggression in its' tracks. '

Speed Tits Piswl

This is the plowing-match season, and, -the Provincial contest today at Dundas, fol-i lowing the Queen's County matches at Millview last week, will likely be attend-, ed by large crowds from all parts of the, Island. In this agricultural Province no better competitive feature could be devis-' ed, and the fact that tractors are now re- placing the horse in many of these matches in no wise detracts from the interest and educational value of the events.

Plowing matches seem even to rantidated agricultural fairs in Prince ward Island. The contests in early days brought experts from other Provinces to the Island, but the Island competitors, with home - manufactured cquipm'ent, usually gave a good account of themselves. .The revival of these contests in recent years has been phenomenally successful. not only here but in Ontario and other Provinces” ,and they are now firmly established in pub-, Zlic favour. The younger generation par-i ' ticularly have shown great aptitude in the exacting performance required in matches of this kind, which have the advantage of ' being of practical utility wherever crops are

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.institute for nuclear studies. Libby was aware, of course, of the phen-i

for years the test of greatness. His time was 21 hours 15 minutes for a distance of about 19 miles. He later lost his life in the Niagara whirlpool.

The first woman to swim the Channel was the American Gertrude Ederle, who in 1926 broke all existing records by cros- sing in 14 hours 31 minutes. She has been followed by some 17 of her sex, among them our Winnie Roach. Florence Chad- wick, the only woman to swim the English

g Channel both ways, swam the 21-mile Cata-

lina channel in 13 hours 47 minutes, break- ing the record made by Torontols George Young in 1927. In 1947 the English Thomas Blower swam 25 miles from Ire- land to Scotland in 15 hours 25 minutes.

The distance record belongs to John Sigmund, who, aided by the river and with- out the handicap of cold and stormy water, swam 292 miles down the Mississippi in 89 hours 42 minutes. In 1938, Charlie Zim- mer, a legless swimmer, paddled 147 miles down the..Hudson from Albany to New York. Mrs. Myrtle Huddleston, of New York, holds the women's record for non- stop swimming, with a tinie of 87 hours 27 minutes. Her feat was performed in a tank and does not compare with those accom- plished in open water.

Vintage Rain

After it became more or less of a hu- man habit to set off atomic bombs scien- tists became vitally interested in radio- activity in the atmosphere. There have been dire warnings that radio-active dust encircling the globe could extinguish life as we know it. To lend force to these sombre reflections it was found that rainfall tested

after an atomic explosion was found to be

radio-active. ,

Cheering news, however, has been re- ceived from the University of Chicago's Dr. W.

omenon of radio-active rain. He was cur- ious, however, to know how much it has increased in recent years. Examining samples of water of known age, including vintage wines, he was able to determine that there has been no significant lncreasei in the past ten years. 1

Both the atomic bomb and cosmic rays in the atmosphere produce tritium atoms which have a half-life of 12.5 years. That is to say that they lose half their radio- activity that pcriod. It was possible to! calculate that the rain which went into the, old wines must have been about as radio? active as the rain which falls today.

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The findings are reassuring on the pointi that mankind has not set in motion forces which have changed the character of the, atmosphere and upper air. Great as are the results of the explosions to date they have not changed the world we live in any more than man-made works have changed

ithe level of the sea.

EDITORIAL NOTES of Britain. 1940.

End of the Battle 0 D

The opening of the new Fe ing in Montague today is an historic oc- casion. It is significant of the remarkable

progress made by that town and an lndi-,i

cation of the confidence of Federal authori- ties of greater things to come. 0 I O

The Cancer campaign is under way in Charlottetown. the first returns being due tonight. The work of the Society is three-

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i POTATO BLUES

A Garden of Friendship

By Ilenth Mncqunrrle

The other day a large group of -Canadians and Americans met to- gether for a business meeting at on the border be-

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Sirf '- Akner appeared in (ihltEIf)3:r?iCeillEl5yii1ng0 countries. The oc- Gualman slgmd by J0 L” DCMH caslon was the twenty-fifth annual

on September 9. regarding his - a (ma! peace strongly urged Potato Board which i '(i.:::;1ng iI):1c&hea,ll3tc,.rg1etauoceedmgs Will be of no benefit. to -Islandimmughout were given E b1,m, 90”” Kmwem who is 30””; '70 tional flavor; two national an- my Mi" M”D”m”d and his big thems were sung, presiding officers staff? Has the money got to C0nlE'w".e No 3,165,, Spenkersp om

out of the farmers" potatoes toltmm each Mae of the border, P3-3' them their 531ari"- iwidmii The International Peace Garden, down a job which is unnecessary”, located on the Canadian - Ameri- 011 mil 5013” 15131157 icnn border equidistant from the Now they are trying to tell !Rr- Atlantic and the Pacific and only "1975 WW" I0 5611 Wei? POW"-09-Si thirty miles from the exact center and what they should set for of the North American continent '.hcm, and pay them whenever, comprises nearly tweiity-tliree hun- acres of rich prairie and for-

they feel like it. Between the po- dred mm bugs and the potato pools and est. land. Manitoba and North the blight, the potato industry will' Dakota donated the extensive pro-

in the years since, have 'li.)LlI.l0l'l5 to its develop- largcr grants have

soon be on the rocks. So far as ai perty and. Potato Board trying to keep fill) ill3'tCt" ronti price up is concerned, it will be'I'n6n1v. Much

deral Build-iwas incorrect.

of no use as it is supply and de-, mand that rules the market. 50' my idea is that it. would be better for the potato growers if the Board, would keep out of it alto- gether. l

I am. Sir, etc-., ,

Canoe Cove.

MR. DEVVAHHS LETTER

sir, - I am surprised at Mr. Dew-ar's letter of Sept. 9, as I did not think he would stoop to per- aonallties. The potato question is. large, but the point of ii'ii:ii'i"iidBlr ing myself is very much away from the question at stake.

Mr. Dewar trys to leave the lin- pression that everything I said but he has not marked any statement of mine as false and I challenge him to do, so. He has caught on to his col-, league's methods of sidestc-ppingi the issue, but is not as clever ati carrying it out. i

Sept. 2, which I presume is the meeting he refers to. Everyone knows that a group of potato growers got together, planned the meeting, and that a committee of three was selected to take charge

POTATO GROWER, and

and regional govcriiments the Gar-

lvarious organizations have under-

come from Washington and Ottawa with the American Congress ap- propriating one hundred thousand dollars in 1950 and a. like amount in 1954. The Canadian Parliament. ill lfl-I9 commenced making annual zrants of fiftccn thciisnnd dollars but has reduced this to ten thous-

Despite the grants from national

den still iclies primarily on private individuals nnd organizations for its major support and inspiration.

taken long-range proJect.s.for the beautification of the Garden; among these are the I.O.D.E., the Order of the Eastern Star, Wo- men's Institutes in Canada, the Federated Countrywomen of Am- erica, the Business and Profes- sional Women's Clubs and Cham-

the sunken gardens, reflecting pools, and cascades of this central area there has been an ambitious program of planting trees, shrubs. and flowers until the garden is now renowned far and wide for its beauty. In 1953 over thirty thousand visitors came to this lovely spot in the heart of the con- tinent. O I

But the International Peace Gar- dcn is meant to be far more than a tourist attraction or Just another beautiful park. It symbolizes the friendship and goodwill which has marked Canadian-American relar tions ever since the close of the reluctant war of 1812-13. At the fo- cal point of the garden between the two national flags there stands a cairn upon which is inscribed s solemn pledge that the two pso- ples shall never take up arms against one another.

and the United States is purely academic, and much after-dinner oratory has been given over to laudation of the long undefended frontier between our countries. But. in these tense. uncertain days when American leadership is challenged and her motives su.spect,'Canadinn.s can testify that their great neigh- bor has not been n bellicose, war- mongering power. As Prime Min- ister St. Laurent said in New Delhi, Canada knows the United States better than any other country, and our long history of peaceful co- existence with it far more power- ful state give the lie to those who would portray the Amei-icsns' ss

notch: on his I'll-ll son with dents in his tenders.

Girl bdblss tors boy babies,

dbury Dally Stir

pioneers was cities so cont airports. Pronibr Nehru est phrase of those weeks thus: to co-existence is co-desti'uctlon.' If yo you can't do without it. borough Examiner.

people every total of some

by the United Nations C on Population. There from seventy nations have been

needs of the peoples of the globe. --Saint John Telegraph-Journal

t with the present-dly. vuuy In

' creased opportunities for education on the one hand, and the very low number of grammatical encum- brances in English on the other. there is no excuse for anyone to language incorrectly. The d English should be

speak the criteria of goo

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CHERRY VALLEY

-Inuit. Ste. Marie Stu.

nsnnlly talk he- stntlstlcs tall in. It doesn't seem fair - ut- tlnx both the first and the last word. -Bu

The only thing wrong with the that they located the oundedly for from the -Hamilton spectator.

trained the loos- international "The only alternative

u can't do with co-existence. -Patei--

The population of the world II increasing at the rate of 100.000 twenty-four hours, I 66,500,000 every YOU'- At. this rate the present total of about 2,500,000,000 will be dmlbled in less than a century. These are staggering figuresl They lmdeme the main problems studied in Rome onference scientists

looking into the rapidly expanding

"cherry Valley settlement, Lot. 50. was named after the nearby estate of Captain Joseph Beers, n Loyalist settler. tJoseph Beers. en-

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-lissldllno plsnssrwhoplt husgrs.nd-

srsxnnisttcsljocunoy and i

nsss to the our. Good opposed to the mythical standard lnglinb. is thus well within me reach of all Canadians, or lny ugh" 'xu;gu;::' the language. g-Winnipeg

With the IIIIOI on. on ; cg”, night, anyone can make out thg blotch of light which is the And,-0, mods gsiuy. nearly two million lightnyears from ours. The-oh,”-V, er will see it. of course, as if V" nearly two million you; .30 though it is the nearest using 3; our own. It is hud to decide which are the more remarkable: the enor- mous dlstance to this galaxy ma its own immensity; or the eye which can see it so far away and the mind which has discovered it. makeup. -Edmonton Journal

At n time when ong reviews an number of new enterprises created by the industrial expansion, it jg well to remember that such an expansion has to be paid for. The money is derived from these re. investments which would otherwise be distributed among the stock- holders or in other savings in- vestments. The thought that these investments provide work should dissipate any resentment toward stockholders who receive Ihelr modcet dividends. If they had re. fused to lend their money, as M, their entire right. in a free countrv, the expansion of factories, which created 84,000 new openings in 1952 and 28.(X)0 in 1953, would have been impossible. -Le Saieil, Quebec.

The,Age Old Story

Fur none of those thing. win,-h thou shalt suffer: behold, thq devil shnll out some of you into Prison. that ye mly be tried; mg yo shall have ti-lbulstlon ten days: be thou faithful unto death, mg I will give thee n crown of life.

Any talk of war between Canada ll

sign, Kings Rangers,' is one of the signatories to a testimony Dubliiht ed in the New York Royal Gazette. March 5, 1708. and dated Island of St. John, Nov. 30, I7, pointing out to Loyalists the eligibility of Prince Edward Island as s place to repair to.

"A great-grandson. Mr. Geo. W. H. Beers, of Charlottetown. writes: iwhsn he first came to this Prov- ince he was stationed at ii fort- at. the mouth of what is now kncwn as Charlotetown liarboui-.' Here is small garrison was stationed, he being either in command or sec- ond ln command. This was about the year 1788. Later he was given a. grant. of land in s place known by the French as Marguerite and vhlch he named Cherry Valley. It consisted of 1.000 or 1.500 acres

and here in 1785 he built a two- story old English style of house.

are of pine and show no sign of decay. Cherry Valley was the name of the place in one of the New England states th The Beers came

they came from in Devonshire was called Cherry Valley.' Lord Selkirk lodged a night at Cherry Valley in 1003."

-Place-Names of Prince Edward Island, Ottawa. 1025.

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the ruthless imperialists of the modern world.

It is to bethopcd that the In- ternational Peace Garden and the lofty ideals it symbolizes will be- come an inspiration to an over-

bcrs of Commerce.

Leading experts in National Parks from both Canada and the United States have worked out a niastcr plan for the development

"11 willmxgt go mu). the ”,”5m 01 l of a formal area which when com- ” P” EWW9” m"""E3 5" plated will rival some of the great

classical parks of Europe. The six . units of the elaborate formal area ,are to be so constructed that the ;lllI.llillili.iClll1i boundary will form ,the center of each and both sides will be identical. In addition to

widening group of people in all parts of our two countries, and that the genuine senttmcnt it rcprc-, sents will be expressed on the; broader stage of international rcla- i tionships.

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Contact us for nny wlrlnz lob from installing I switch

This house stands intact and ,in- habited to this day. Its timbers

at he came from. from Devonshire. England, and I think the place

Tho Innls of g llovn lsoIIn't. . Personal Security Program Isoo s you "saving 'll 1 goal ls roach PSP works like magic-psrtittl-i Isrly if you find it hard toissvc . . . gusronuu your beneficiary the full amount of your savings goal even. if you die before. you brush saving it. Ask for psi-ticulsrs and

free copy of PSP booklet at your nesrcst&nkofNovs Scotubnnclh

ling to Mr. Dewar. nniinous in wanting such boards.

universal. It is an enduring reminder, not only that man must earn his bread by the sweat of his brow, but that in compensa- tion there shall be an untailingreward in earth's bounty. It was in the assurance that ”scedtime and harvest shall not fail,";

. . . . that our pioneer forebears toiled valiantly from clay to day, earning the tribute paid them by a later Island poet in lines which, lare well worth recalling at this season: i They rust In peace beneath the sod their

tolling hands have won; I These fruitful fields, so green and broad, proclaim their work well done. And we, who hear the lighter part, shrill keep this legend in our heart,

Of these whose race is run:

"The Axe. the Bible. and the Plow, have mails our nation mighty now."

Historic Swims

The achievement of 16-year-old Marilyn Bell in swimming Lake Ontario ' prompted the Toronto Telegram to search ;:;the records for similar resounding exploits. " The most famous distance swimmer in his- tory, it finds, was 8 youth who swam for love. Leander, who lived near the Hellca- pont, loved Hero, I priestess ofiAphi-odite, and swam the 2 U2 mile strait every night .i to meet her. One night, when the guiding light In a tower went out, he was drowned, 7; and Hero, finding his body, threw herself 2 into the water to share his fate. The story E was ii favorite with poets, and Byron later E3 swam the straits. better known as the Dar-

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A new method of pickling sheepskins has been developed in New Zealand. It

iwas found that skins pickled with only the,

normal'concentration of acid did not be- come water soluble. It was necessary, however, to treat the sheepskins with fungicide to prevent mould growth which would normally have been inhibited by-the acid. I lsambard Kingdom Brunei, engineer, died this date 1859, eight days after his "Great Eastern" started on its first voyage. He studied at Paris and Portsmouth, built a number of remarkable suspension bridges and the first steamboat to make regular voyages between Britain and America. That was the "Great Western". The "Great Eastem", however, was his most ambitious work, planned with Scott Russell, and It was: the greatest ship In existence in its time.

"Only the Canadians seem likely to ar-

Such is the comment of the London Econ- omist on Foreign Secretary Eden's pro- posals which will be presented at a meet- ing in Paris. "The French are isolated and suspicious", it is explained: "the Germans

and their European partners in the Low Countries are vexed and apprehensive for the European idea; the Americans are close to exasperation; and the British are gloomy

Captain Webb. who swam the English ln.,.1575- 31!! Mile that L9-.-ins

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-, dnnelles, at the same place. if The man who brought marathon swim- . Smlng into modern favor was the English