FPAGE FOUR - THE GUARDIAN

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The remembrance of former days and departed friends is bitter sweet. In the case of those who died in war it can makci us sentimental or cynical, although it would be better if it made us resolved- Very few of the young men who died in the two world wars were seeking glory. In the Second World War in particular they went into it as into a dirty job which had to be done and which they did not feel they could leave to "the other fellow" to do.

They did not think, following the after- math of the First World War at any rate, that their fighting and sacrifice would solve the worlds problems. They had :1 simpler aim-to stop Hitler and all he stood for. They were content to leave to statesmen the problems of making this a better world in which to live. Their job was to see that the world as they knew it was not destroyed by a mad dictator who promised to set up a regime to last ”a thousand yeai's.f' ,

They did their part. In two vast strug-t gles aggression was stopped in its tracks. Today another generation has been called to stand ready to resist aggression from a new source. It cannot be expected thatl the new sacrifices will in themselves bring a solution of the world's difficulties but they must be made. Only by their courage are statesmen given chance after chance to find a solution. The red poppies we weal" today are reminders that we have been given a second chance and a third chance for a free world. They are also reminders

of the cost.

Airline competition

Since the end of the Second World War” competition in scheduled regional air ser- vices was ”virtually eliminated" reported Transport. Minister Cheverier to the con- vention of the Air Industries and Transport Association of Canada at Quebec. That was necessary, he explained, to enable oper- ators to build up regional business. "We now have considerably more twin-engine or larger transport aircraft in the hands of the commercial operators of this country than we had two years ago" claimed Mr. Chevrier.

The Government is now permitting a, limited amount of competition in scheduledi services, although Trans-Canada Air Lines continues to hold a monopoly" in trans-con- tinental traffic and the Government is giv- ing active encouragement to non-scheduled services, particularly in the development of the north.

It is probably inevitable that in a coun- try of as great distances as Canada that; air lines require to have their traffic pro- tected from competition in order to be able to provide all the services deemed neces- sary. It is noteworthy, however, that the Maritime Provinces have received decidedly improved air service since Maritime Cen- tral Airways was permitted to extend its operations, including some which replace schedules formerly the exclusive preserve of T. C. A.

At any rate monopoly is being gradually eliminated, albeit somewhat slowly, and we may hope that further extension of oper- ations by local operators will be allowed. The potential traffic under conditions of adequate service should be the criterion for deciding when the exclusive franchise en- joyed by Trans-Canada Air Lines and Can- adian Pacific Air Lines should be shared

with private operators.

TV And Tho coronation

, There'ls in strong popular' demand in , the United Kingdom that the whole cere- i many of next year's Coronation in West- minster Abbey be broadcast by television. Those who are opposed to this suggestion .-and they appear to include Prime Min- ister Cliqrchill-7-are dismissed as old fogics who are out of touch with the times and who do not grasp the fact that the Coron- sflon should be the occasion for a great ind spontaneous public dcrnonstrntion. But than in another side to the question. which is emphasized 'by a writer in the London clboorver so ilhtotntlng the peculiar and understood rule that thelMonai-chy

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,it, too, is against the spirit of the age.

the sharing by those who are present of a great spiritual act. Queen Victoria. may have had to hide sandwiches near the altar: peeresses may have to sustain themselves with stimulants through the long hours of the ceremony; there may even be some in the Abbey who do not share" in the act of dedication and who have come only for the spectacle- But the fact re- mains that ifthe spiritual character of the ceremony is denied, it might just as well be enacted in the circus arena at Olympia. It is recalled that no protests were made when the funeral service for George VI was not televised or filmed. Is the act of-ded- lcation at the Coronation ceremony any the less solemn? Those who wish the cere- mony to be televised have not yet answer- ed this point.

There are some, says the Obseiver writer, who think that the filming of the whole ceremony should have been banned as well as the televising of it. This might have seemed more logical; but, in fact, there is an essential difference between filming and television. Television takes peo- ple into the Abbey at the moment when the act of communion with God is being made. Films, seen after the ceremony, however, become historical records. Those seeing the film are not asked to share in the act.

”It may be against the democratic spirit of the age to exclude the televiewers from the Abbey," concludes the article. ttBut this should not be taken as the final argument. For the whole paradox and part of the strength of the British Monarchy is that It preserves precisely those things which democracy in theory abhors and in practice cannot provide. That is the reason for its existence; .and the moment Monarchy be- comes indistinguishable from the democracy it heads and represents, it will have ceased to haveia function." ,

EDIIURIAL NUI ES

Remembrance Day 1914-1918, 1939-1945. 0 I C

It is all to the good that Trade Min- ister Howe and party will tour South Am- erica early next year. The term "barn- storming" applied to the expedition, how- ever, gives rise to some qualms. It is diff- icult to imagine Mr. Howe as an aerial gipsy-

A new name for H.M.S. Powerful will be required when that aircraft carrier re- places H.M.C.S. Magnificent in the Royal Canadian Navy- It would seem appropriate to re-name her after a Canadian mountain range, although seamen might recoil slight- ly at H.M.C.S. Rocky.

Most reports. of "the development of nuclear energy emphasize its probable high cost compared with other industrial sources of power. Dr. Gunnar Randers, director of the Norwegian-Dutch Institute of Nu- clear Research, however,,claims that in general the cost of power from atomic en- orgy is at least as cheap as other sources of power and maybe cheaper.

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Violet Vanbrugh, English actress, sis- ter of Dame Irene Vanbrugh. Like her sister, she sustained a number of roles with high distinction, among them being Queen Katharine in an all-star revival of ”Henry VIII" and Lady Fairfax in "The Knave of Diamonds". By command. of King Edward VII she played Portia at

lwindsor Castle. A notable film success

was her role in "Pygmalion." O O O

In Ireland long term plans for decen-'

tralisation are now being considered and the building of further industries in cities such as Cork, Limerick, Galwayj etc., will probably be encouraged in the future. In the city of Dublin the already top-heavy population has been increasing at a steady rate, so that considerable development is taking place in the surrounding areas, as well as a certain amount of reconstruction in the older parts of the city centre. 0 O I

Although the Island has had its fame spread abroad in many ways, the number of times it has been shown on the screens of commercial theatres from coast to coast has been few indeed. It is a pleasure there- fore to congratulate the National Film Board and its representative in the Prov- lnce, Mr. H. B. Chandler, M.A., B.L-S., on the filming and presentation of a short feature entitled "P. E. Iis Flying Farmer," the star of which is Mr. Elton Woodside of Clinton. In- addition to successfully op- erating a farm, Mr, Woodside has during the post number of, years done private and commercial flying from o. hangar and airstrip built on his own land. He has re- spondedto many calls for "mercy fllghti" and in conjunction with Paul's Flying Serv- ice assisted on many occasions with The Guardian six-lift to West Prince. It is one of three subjects in "the mini-em "E98 Witness No;-.ef4".slnwing.s,t,thI1 l V

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THE GllARDiAN. CgARLO1TE1lOWN

We Will Reiiiemlier The

Iiiscriptions "I (R. M. H. ill the

At many 1 war memorial service today across Canada the living are paying homage to the dead of two great. wars. On all or most. of the stone monuments and cenotaphs there is carved an inscription or two. There may be only 9. brief ”For God and Country", or, ”Lest We Forget", or a few lines from the Bible, or a verse from John McCi'ae's immortal ltln Flanders Fields". (Curiously enough, this last-named was first published in the humorous weekly, Punch) There have been few soldiers' memorials elected since the last. war and there have been few if any lines by poets of our time in- scribed on them. One wonders if any memorial war poetry has beer. written about the last war that compares with the best of Mc- Crae, or of Kipling.

Kipilng's consummate ability to write lines that deeply expressed ll. nation's sorrow over the loss of ii: men in battle is apparent on many monuments in Canada, and in other parts of the world. The poetry he wrote during the years 1914 to 1918 is a veritable mine for memorial inscriptions, and they still serve today. In the Me- morial Chamber in the Peace Tower there are four of them. His name does not appear there, and few people know who wrote them.

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The inscriptions in the Peace Tower are perhaps not as appro- priate now as the day they were carved there. Another war has intervened. The response to his lines may be stronger in. those who vividly remember the carnage of Canada's sons in the first great war. But that now seems Ions ago. And to the youngei generation war has become B more impersonal matter of mechanized, rather than of human, destruc- tion. Three of the inscriptions carved in the white stone of the Memor- ial Chamber are taken from Kip- llng's ”The Children", written in 1918. From the third verse is taken the line, "Not since her btrth' has our earth seen such worth loosed upon her". The fol- lowing lines are from the fourth verse:

"Nor was their agony brief,

once only imposed on them.

The wounded, the war-spent, the

sick received no exemption:

Being cured they returned and

endured and achieved our ex- - emptlon". And from the next verse of the same poem these lines are taken: "The flesh we had nursed from the first in all cleonness was given ' .

To corruption unveiled and as- sailed by the malice of Heav- en".

The other Kipling inscription in the Memorial Chamber is from his poem "The verdicts" (Jutland) I916:

"They are too near to be great. But our children shall understand when and how our fate Was changed, and by when

hand”. i

Inscriptions from the work of two Canadian poets are also in the Memorial Chamber. There are the lines by Mcorae beginning, "To you from falling hands we throw the torch";

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The other selection is by n. poet who is comparatively unknown and deserves no other claim to literary time. For many years the luthorship was a. mystery; even the architect who chose the lines could not reciill their origin. It. was not until recently, and after much diligent searching by I lute officer in the Department of Na- tional Defence that the Author- ship wu uncovered. The pool.

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himself did not clolm the honor for many years, and. indeed de- rived some enjoyment out of the

publicised dttsmpil to trace him.

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A FEW COMMENTS

My knowledge of practical pou- tics on any level is extremely lim- ited. About. all I know is what. I read in the papers and what little 1 have been able to.acqulrc by way of general observation over I numbe .of years. Anything hav- ing to do with social relations has always . interested me and, of course. political affairs in my country-in any democratic coun- try. that is-are full of social in- terest. For this reason. and be- cause I have lived in, various parts of the United States for quite I. few years, I venture,to offer a few simple comments on the results of the recent election

1 The Passing Scene ,

By Observer

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ON THE RESULTS

tlfied is o question that could be debated almost: endlessly. but it may be assumed that it had at good deal to do with the results of the election. Various Republi- can speakers harped on it con. stantly during the course of the campaign and promised, if elected, to press for I. change i the alt. uation. From now on w may ex. peci: to hear louder and more in- sistent demands for more men, more equipment and more money from all the nations which are ic- presented in Korea. This is bound to have repercussions in the whole free world. How serious these will be rem.ains to be seen. 0 O

n Memoriam" Oilnwa Citizen)

He was I Welshman named John t Ceredlgion Jones, who was born in 1883, and died at Chapleau, Out, on August 19, 1947. The

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ABSOLUTION

The anguish of the earth absolves

which has started 3. new era. in American life. Just what. this new era. will mean to the United States and to the world-for no mil 01 the world will be totally unaffected- only future historilms will be able to reveal. But perhaps there are from any common bond which some fairly obvious implications both sides like to feel-exists in which may be considered at this their mutual relationship. Actual- ume. ly, although many British news- . o o papers made no secret of their To basin with. it isn't likely bias towards the Democratic Par- that. the new President when he W. the new United States Idmin- assume, om” W111 make any istration ought to have more in drastic changes in America": at- common with the Churchill Gov- tltude to world affairs. The United ernment than the Truman admin- smteag in its own interest, 15 so istration had. At least that would deeply involved in lnvirnational be the natural thing to suppose palms, mm, 1; wouid be 1n1poa- were it not for the fact that, in sible for any President to erect our day and under present world any considerable isolation barriers condition-S.lu'BCllCB1 Dulmts mean! even it he should be inclined that more than political tradition: and

United States Britain and the will in all

relations with Commonwealth probability remain friendly. The .oelf interest of Americans and the Republican Party itself will assure thamupart

-way, and there is nothing to sug- historical alliances.

: that Mr. Eisenhower is no in- If we can depend It all on Ra- gleliied. publicnn criticism, during the put M tho um. mm, the "one feiv yoars, that the Truman od- wondvv concept, wmch me late ministration, especially the Stato President Roosevelt did so much Department. was "t00 loft" with to inculcate in American thinking Communism. We may CXPECE A may be in for some modification stiffening of the new government! here and there. For it cannot be attitude toward Russia and that denied um. traditionally, the Re- Power's aggressive pollclu and L Lu ,, party has been morg practices, there will be renewed nationalistic than the Democrats. and more vigorous 630"! to MP0 The Taft influence, which has out the 811988!-'1 Communist influ- never been exnctly one.wm-idly, ence in American affairs. Person- may not be in any way decisive, ally. I should not expect Senator but it would be wrong to assume Mccurlhy to have much direct that." the new iidmlnstration will hand 1n- Policy maklns but the"

1 be altogether unaffected by it. As its no doubt: Jhal 1118 Extreme

time goes on I should expect to rlsht-wins manner will be Just on see I. gradual reduction "of aid to evident in the future I-5 it 11!! Europe, for example. This will been in the Dust-

, trampings of many conquests, they

poem titled "The Returning Sol- dier", may be best described as doggerel. One verse, however, has considerable merit and it is from this verse that the last two lines were chosen for the inscription,- "Down the old road. alone he re- appears

His promised word he keeps; Ali's well for over there among his peers

A happy warrior sleeps".

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When the citizens of Sault Ste. Marie planned their memorial they asked Rudyard Kipling to write an epitaph. It appeared on the manu- ment when it was unveiled in September, 1924, and represents an invocation from the war dead in France: "From little towns in ii. far land we came, To save our atlam By little sleep, And trust those things we won to you to keep". l This verse recalls to mind a5 speech made almost 30 years agu' in France at the iinvelllng of the Canadian Cross of Sacrifice at Vlmy Ridge. The following words are from what has been called Canada's Gettysburg Address. and were spoken by the then Prime Minister. One doubts, however. that any Canadian school child has been made to memorize them, though some day that may come pass. "Here in the heart. of Europe we meet. to unveil a. memorial to our country's dead. In earth which has resounded to the drums and

honor

E2 towns, in a far land, we

rest in the quiet. of God's acre with the brave of all the world. At. death they sheathed in their henrLs the sword of devotion, and now from the cit-stricken fields they hold aloft its cross of sacri- fice, mutely beckoning those who would share in their immortality. No words can add to their fame, nor so long as gratitude holds a place in men's hearts can our for- getfulness be suffered to detract from their renown". C O 0

Sudbury, Ont, erected its war memorial in 1928. Kipling, when he was asked to write 9. verse for it agreed, but added that such things could not be produced automatically, not. by him, at any rate. After some delay he sent. to the Sudbury committee responsible for I suitable inscription the fol- lowing verse: "We, giving all, gained all; Neither lament us nor praise; only, in all things recall,

It is fear, not. death, that stays"

This was as good. at least as

in a world

our eyes 'Till beauty shines in all that we can see. War is our scourge; made us wise, And, lighting for our freedom, we are free. Horror of wounds and anger at the

yci: war has

foe,

And loss of things desired; all those must. pass.

We are the happy legion, for we know

Time's but ii golden wind that shakes the grass.

There was an hour when we were loth to part.

From life we longed to share no less than others.

Now, having claimed this heritage of heart,

What. need we more, my comrades and my brothers?

-Siegfried Sassoon.

WOW”-DC Old Charlottetown (And r. s. 1. )

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Ed'EiEn a pBE'in-iiIi?iEiTicd by a. local citizen, Dr. R. H. Arthur, who later explained that the verse

"They braced their belts about them And crossed. in ships, the sea. They fought, and found six feet cg ground And led for you and me.”

Eight years after these lines were carved on the Sudbury mem- orial. 12. W. Kai-rold pointed out in his "Diary of Our Own Pepys", that they were taken. with a few changes, from ll poem written by one of England's most pessimistic poets. A. E. Housman. It appears in his "Last Poems". where the last two lines of the selection orig-

trenchant. as could be hoped for, surely. But. Kipling was too late, In the enntime the committee

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not mean a. withdrawal from Eu-

Indeed, while many hard things

rope," asgmance in my sense have been said about "McCarthy- but, to be specific. it will probably ism" from all sides of the political mean that the Atlantic Pact. coun- fences. the fiery Iemktor Showed tries will have to depend more aurprlslns atrenizth in the election and more on their own resources record!- ln men and money. Perhaps that will be A good thing for all con- . corned. American money and 5119- Clmdiann generally u-o won- plies will mu traverse the Atlan- derlns what euect-I the Revubllcm tic but not, 1 think, in the muni- landslide will have on Unmd ncent. fashion of recent years. States relutiom With mil Wuh-

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