iP.A(;r. FOUR. . THE GUARDIAN

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' Editor and Managing Director. Ian I. Burnett- Anoelutc Editor. Frunk Wnllior.

CIRCULATION "Covers Prince Edward Island like the dew”

"Tho ltrdngost memory is weaker than the weakest Ink".

i CHAIil.()1'TF.TOWN SATURDAY. OCT. 24. 1953 II. II. Day

in the dark days of 1941 President Roosevelt proclaimed the ideal of the Four Freedoms for a war-sick world; Freedom

of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedoml from Want, and Freedom from Fear. Eight

Nations came iilto effect and mankind took a long first step towards the achievement of those freedoms.

First and foremost came the need for peace, for without peace the other aspil'a- tions must come to naught. The United Nations then had only five years before aggression broke out on June 25, 1950, a much shorter time than the League of Na- tions had to prepare for the invasion of ltianchuria ill 1931 and that of Abyssinia in 1935. This time, however, the nations stood behind the invaded country and for three years combined resources to halt ag- gression. son has been driven home to all nations which might be tempted to embark on a career of military expansion.

The other objectives, vital although secondary to the first, have been vigorous- ly pursued by means of various specialized agencies of the United Nations, including UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, which has undertaken ambitious programmes to help all nations attain their highest econ- omic and cultural level; the World Health Organization; the Food and Agriculture Organization; the United Nations Interna- tional Children's Emergency Fund and many others. All have worked for world- wide peace, justice and progress.

Although the United Nations is an or- ganization whose members are govern- ments, yet it is essential that the people of the nations should interest themselves in its activities and aid in carrying out its objectives. The United Nations Associa- tionln Canada, which is organizing a branch tin this Province, offers an oppor- tunity for such service to humanity.

challenge To Universities

So much nonsense has been talked about "modern" educational requirements that it is refreshing to read a recent address by His Excellency the Governor General, Rt. Hon. Vincent Massey, on the real challenge to our institutions of higher learning in this day and age. Speaking at the Uni- versity College Centenary in Toronto last week, His Excellency said in part: "Some one said recently .that universi- ties should teach the 'why' and allow life to teach the 'how'. The modern university has become much concerned with the 'how and nothing troubles the wise educationist more than this trendof today. This is often described as a scientific age. It would, per- haps, be more accurate to describe it as a .technlca1 age. Scientists, if we use that honorable term in its proper sense, are rel- atively few, but so important is their func- tion that the army of technicians who give practical expression to their researches, constantly increases in numbers, and tech- nological training must grow proportionate- ly. Technology has been defined, perhaps' a little ungencrously, as in long Greek name for a bag of tools.' But universities are primarily concerned not with the tools, ' so mucll as with the men and the womenl who use them.

promote all truly useful knowledge, I would!

like to suggest that the most useful knowl- edge to which any of us can attain, or strivegto attain, is a knowledge of the na-

central. Everything else hangs on it, and knowledge has, in the past, been associated with those studies which we call the hu- mknities. This monopoly has long been

llqlpllitics as some used to speak of pov- ,”about which, it is agreed, something i be done. The humanities are" not

of. kcjdchiic charity. They still . p trni-place as the studies understundhig of human

pped to the periphery trction, to be in clipped off altogether. the human heart and

me V fly. if not ex.clusively,'co T ed as luxuries, they'19

call 'practical' things.

experiments.

And we are prepar- I ed to discard the vision of the poet, the in- I sight of the philosopher, the imagination of the historian, and the reasoned faith of the theologian in favor of psychological analy- sis, statistical determination and scientific All these last are excellent

in themselves, but they are no substitutes. An analysis of the symptoms of life does

not necessarily give a meaning to life it-l 0

self.

"All the new trends to which I have

ferred, it may be said, are a part of the

whole climate of opinion.

The neglect of the humanities is doubtless not a cause, but

a symptom of an age yielding to the de-

lights of materialism. . .

. But any symptom

which aggravates the sickness as this one does, nlust be treated as a malady in its

own right.

The treatment is obvious.

It

is for the universities now so to use their

their universal function.

years ago today the charter of the United traditional freedom that they may resume They should not

necessarily cut off or curtail any useful ac- tivity. They should rather strive to redress the balance, to restore a true" perspective, to define with clarity and firmness what are the essential values in education as dis-

tinct from training."

Surplus Animal Fats

Animal byproducts, notes

the

Wall

Street Journal, are mired ill a price slump

thatis shutting processing plants.

Besides meat, farm animals yield such

It I5 t0 be 1101395 that the Ie5"major products as shoemaking hides, soap-

making tallow and meat scraps, an import- ant livestock-feed ingredient. Lately over 45 of the rendering plants that produce these things have closed their doors be-

cause of depressed prices.

Most of these

have been small, high-cost plants in rural

E reas . -

Tallow sells in the Chicago market at just over four cents a pound, a penny-un- der a year ago and only about one-sixth

of the 1947 peak.

It has suffered severely from the rise of synthetic soaps, which dont use tallow. Meat scraps containing 50 per cent pro- tein were worth about b115 a ton a year

ago; they now bring as little

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385.

They've had keen rivalry from other feed

materials.

And a leading grade of hides

is priced at 16 cents a pound, against 18 cents a year ago and 44 cents at the 1951

pinnacle. petition of synthetic materials.

Hides have also felt the com-

Renderers are pushing research to un-

cover new outlets for their products.

One

already found is the use of animal fats

to enrich livestock feed.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Tomorrow, the 21st Sunday after Trin-

ity, 22nd after Pentecost.

An international conference ill London has agreed on a uniform musical specifying that the note A in the treble clef shall be 440 cycles a second. agreements -have been attempted pin the past but are usually spoiled by musicians tuning to a higher pitch in order to obtain

a "brighter" effect. 1 I O

pitch,

Such

Very serious indeed is the statement of the Hon.-Eugene P. Cullen in the House that lobster poaching was spreading. The lobster industry regularly takes practically all the lobsters of legal size each year, so that poaching results in a serious loss to

law-abiding fishermen.

When under-sized

lobsters are taken it also means anlover-all

loss to the industry. C U .

The treaty of Westphalia, ending the Thirty Years' War was signed at Munster this date 1648. The Holy Roman Empire failed in its attempt to renew its control

over the German states.

Gustavus Adul-

phus, King of Sweden, had done much to

lweakcn the Hapsburgs, as had the Dutch. --1; A unjve,-my exist, to preserve and Dutch and Swiss independence was recog-

JTHE GUARDIAN. cllhltnorrarowlu

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This column is open to the discussion by correspondent- of question: of interest. The Guardian does not accuser- liy cnduroo the opinion of correspondents.

RECKLESS DRIVING

sir,-There was in Hebrew King who was notorious for his fast driving. He was 3 big, pclwerful fellow, known far and wide over Judah and Israel, and greatly feared. one day a wat.chma.n. studio; on his tower, east. of the Jordan valley, saw it driver coming in a. unr-chariot, horses galloping with thundering noise that could be heard a mile away. Some one asked: "Who is that coming?" The watch replied: "The driving is like that of Jehu for he driveth furi- ously." Jehu was well known for his mad driving. Before that he had probably killed several people and among them a little boy who had strayed from his parents onto than-oul. In his pride as King he was showing off as one way of making an impression. It was not his business to guard nzalnst kil- ling people on the road. They ought to keep out of Ms way.

Speed is one way to make an im- pression. It makes the whole country-side stand and look, and ask: "Who is that who passed at seventy miles." He gets his name up. People talk about him and they hear of the crash. some one is killed, perhaps more than one. It gets into the papers and then ev- erybody is talking and saying: "It. is just what. I expected."

A driver with it couple of drinks under his belt. always drives fast- er. Drink has blunted his judg- ment, impaired hls eyesight, and given him I reckless mind. Cau- tion ls thrown to the winds. He abandons himself to the exhilira- tion stirring in his brain; and he forgets he is driving a car with others aboard and passing others on the road. Alcohol always does that. It makes people reckless. I once heard of an East Indian, contemplating the murder of the man who had stolen something from him. I .found him yvalking back and forth on the road with his outlast, waiting for his man to appear. He had taken drink to make him brave. He was not him- self at all. i coaxed him to give me his cutlatss and go away home. It probably saved his neck. Alcohol does that; and right now inside of car drivers it is doing a great deal of damage to life and property.

Drinking boys are not. the only speeders, and there is no need of it. very, very rarely to there any need of driving at more than forty. It is relaxing to drive along through

nized by the treaty, which also marks the this beautiful country at A lePsuxe- beginning of French hegemony in Europe.

Frenchmen and others have been cele-

ture and mBaninR Of lift This must be brating the 150th anniversary of the death . . of the man who introduced the potato into 853115 meaning and DUFP0-Se fI'0m It SUCH that country. Antoine-Augustin Parmentier risked violence from the populace by his ex- periments but now a plaque has been dedi- V I ' cated to his memory in the Court of Hon- 5ll1e8U0n9dv and "0 dwbl Wm? SW19 F93" our in the Invalldes. A speaker at the N A; H I :fBut whatever the vehicle u ad I thi k ceremony noted that 8 cross with the to- ) - " 1 -if v " 'matolhas now produced a potato growing , . ve now too long been speaking of the above ground,

The announced withdrawal of the Un-

ited States from providing 11 of the 25 ,shlps which man the ten North Atlantic ,Ocean Weather Stations almost certainly ans the end of that operation which has ntrlbuted to weather knowledge 46. Since weather moves generally east- jwardly the service is of value totthe Un- ited states only for air operations abroad.

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ly speed and enjoy one's self and let others share the pleasure. Why hurry, as many do. as though they don't expect to live much llonger. It is no goqtf sign of well- mannered people.

In other provinces in Canada and especially in the U. 5., the govern- ments are making the best possible highways, rubbing out the curves, and removing every possible cause of accident. and yet accidents oc- cult; .in spite of all that is being done to make that road safe. Thg straighter the road and the bet- ter the bed, the greater the speed.

England to be sold in Canada "can do ninety of one hundred miles. We but better become men and women of sound Judgment before those cars come here, or we are

heading for more kcuble. 1 un, Sir, etc. W. I. GREEN.

....;l.; Bridge. '

The move is unfortunate, however. because on this continent it is desirable to-increase the amount of weather infdrmslion from I other Iourcu including Russia.

1IowrIIlIJ'of'llcsakInh.klngiol man. when he um um soul :nl,wuroeonreiclhlo

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14 Notes Bx

Once you have children. you might as well edit those His and Hers towels to read Theirs.-l-iamll- ton Spectator.

We would be more interested In this advice about how to invest our Eavings if theytd explain where to get -the savings.--Brandon Sun.

A new era of exploration has begun on Cape Breton Island. The serial survey now underway at the island south of latitude 46

The Migrants

- I (New York Timon.

The birds gather for migration, restless and gregarious,'busy but nowhere hear so full of song as they were three months ago. In a pasture beside a woodland are at. least two dozen fllckersnwhich we do not: often think of as flock birds. Down the road is n congra- gatlon of mblns. High overhead. riding the thermal: bovepthe ridges, are half iv. dozen hawks put- ting on an aerial dfsplay that makes one catch his breath in wonder. Restless, all of them, with the inner urge that will soon send them southward.

We know relatively little about migration. We have charted cer- tain flight patterns. and timed the average travel. We know about when each species starts south, and we know roughly how far they go and how long they stay. Nlghtwatchers are now taking a flight census which will probably add new knowledge. But. when all the available knowledge is totaled up .great. areas of mystery re- main Even cuch I simple question as why a few robins fall to ml- grate each year is still unanswered so is the question of whether the migrants follow food or daylight or temperature.

It could be, o( course. that migration itself is nowhere near as complex a matter as we think. Birds are inhabitants of a big world, at home in the air. which has no insurmountable barriers. It may be that a bird's world is like a farmer's farm, except vastly larger. When n fal1ner's uppc: pasture thins out he moves his cows to the lower pasture for a season. It's really -notx much more complex for a flock of robtns to move from New York to Virginia or the Carolinas. They don't, have to pack luggage or make reserva- tions or send the dog to a kennel. They just up and go. And a good many of them see to be making

I see the newest can yloduced in l

up their minds just. now to do Just t.hut.' V residue of my yours. I III I shall

not see the. Lord, even t t-. Lord in the land of the living: Lnhnll behold man no more with the In-

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will accomplish as much in I matter of three week: or so as otherwise would require years of work on the ground in determin- ing the mineral potential of the region.-Sydney Post-Record.

Though Cnnudo, Is I rcistivcly small power, it has an important role to play in the great. political problems pending between. Asia. and the Western world. The Asiatic peoples hold against Canada few of the prejudice: nourlsed through some two cen- tures against larger Western na- tions. The Canadian Prime Min- lster will be received throughout non-C- mmunlst Asia. as 1. friend and in Canada's historic role, as an interpreter between foreigners and North America, especially if, in the meantime, his government has completed agroasonable trad- ing bargain with Japan.-Winnipeg Free Press.

A historic conference was held in Bangkok, Thailand, when fifty delegates from twenty nations laid plans for combntting malaria in Asia, the home of one-quarter of the world's popuiltlon. It was the first Asia-wide conference cal- led by the World Health Organiza- tion, to deal with Asia's number one public health problem. The conference adopted recommenda- tions calling for establishment of permanent malaria control facili- ties by each of the participating governments, and for the co-ordl- nation of such efforts between countries and regions where the disease is a majorvproblem. With the assistance of the World Health Organization, it is easier to con- duct such in program than ever before in mankindls history.-Ton onto Star. ..

Old Charlottetown Ilnd P. I. Li

SPEEDY PASSAGE

"The bark 'Undine'. Klckhsm, Master, from Liverpool, with goods to the Hon. James C. Pope and others, arrived .here on Thursdav morning last, in the unprecedent- ed short passage of nlngteen days. This vessel is intended its in freight ship between this port. and Liverpool, and as this in her first passage out, we congratulate her owner-Mr. Pope-on her very successful and speedy voyage. The 'Undine' has on board, besides it large quimtlty of goods, four Clydesdale stud horses, three bulls, and some nine or ten rams, imported by the Royal Agricul- tural Soclcty. The horses look. ex- ceedingly well, and so also do the bulls and rams. The whole of the stock shipped, with the exception of two rams, came out nfe."

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-The Islander. Oct. 21. 1864.

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l ” . A noted liycluatrlst love that iulless people give up their desire for "speed and more speed" there will be no ced of the hydrogen bomb to dc: y life on the earth, He predicts that It. the row we are gains another hundred years or so will see the decline and fall of the human species. An addition-

appearance. Of course, ther; is a possibility that the hydrogen bomb won't. wait. nearly as long as that, not have 1 chance to self. I It's a gloomy view. to be sure, but. there may be something in it. Certainly the manic for speed is one of the distinguishing mun of our time. And, apparently, there is no way to satisfy it. I O O

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'Ilhe aeroplane that does not travel faster than sound is rapidly becoming obsolete. As for automo- biles, some engineers are already talking about a. normal speed of two hundred miles per hour. Others are on record as saying that in fifty years or less the steam en- gine will be I. thing of the past. on account of its extremely low speed potential. '

Genius is now briskly engaged in thinking up rocket. cars, rocket locomotives. and rocket ships. One technolcglst, whose scientific cur- iosity is balanced by I good some of humour. says that the day ll not far off when walking even as for as the nearest mall-box will be unnecessary exertion. There will be a rocket gadget for all the little chores of the day.

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It. is not only in truuopcetntion, however. that men is rapidly full- lnz victim to his insatiable craze for speed. There is scarcely I department. of life where the pro- cess to not apparent. The philoso- pher who said that "the wont sin is to be evcrluttncly in a. hurry, for that destroys both soul and body" was never taken too ser- iously, but up to a few years ago he was grudgingly accorded. 0. cer- tain lncuun of relpect. Now, he