PAGE FOUR THE GUARDIAN

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CIRCULATION

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"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest lnk".

CHARLOTTETOWN. FRIDAY. JUNE 29. 1951 Dangerous False Prophets

The so-called Canadian Peace Con- gress, headed by Dru J. C. Endicott whose activities have been exposed frequently in the press. is again active, this time with propaganda directed especially at the agri- cultural pcople of Canada. The circulars of this organization are flooding Prince Edward Island at the present time, and they are so plausible as to fool many people into thinking that we have no grounds for fight- ing in Korea, and that the real warmongers are our own politicians and military strat- cgists.

Accompanying the circular which has been received by leaders of our Ffll'lIlt'l's Federation. co-operative organizations and Women's Institutes is .1 proposed ”text foi radio speech" in which emphasis is placed on such czitcli-plirascs as "It doesn't seem to matter much which side is at fault. Shrapnel SIl'll(CS with equal certainty the patriot and the aggressor. . . You do not need to be for or against any political be- lief, any religious opinions; none of these things is in question"; and the recipients are urged on this false basis to sign a neace petition at once.

The reason why we are fighting in lio- rea can be simply stated. It is because WL gannot afford to take chances on another Munich Pact. Were Communist aggression allowed to prevail in Korea. it would be the signal for later acts of aggression l'l otlici iarts of the world. bringing on ei third world war as inevitably as our misguided cf- forts at appeasement of Nazi Germany Jrought on World War Two. -

The struggle in Korea has continued for a year. with bloodshed and great devast- ation it is true. Yet it. would be wrong to say that the peaceful aims of the Unitcd Nations have failed. There has been no armcd aggression by Communists else- where cxcept in Malaya and French Inde- China, and in both of these cases it pro- ceded that in Korea. There are. however. many danger spots in Iran, Yugoslavia and Western lzluropc wlicrc lhc aggressor Ill:-LV strike. lt,is imperative that we make it im- possible for him to do so with impunity. In the meantime. Communist peace pre- posals have been made and these are being considered seriously-nit. on the basis Of "peace at any price" but of world security.

"Peace at any price" is what the Endi- cott organization stands for. Its appeal is as old as humanity itself. and lllSIOl) is a tragic record of the fate of those nations and civilizations which succumbed to its blandishments. At this critical stage it is playing into the hands of an enemy more formidable than any in the past, wliose gospel is world revolution 'and whose aim-openly avowed-is to command the religious as well as political allegiance of its subjects and impose itself upon their souls as the supreme object of worship

Experimental -Farm

Charlottetown and the Province are fortunate in possessing the fine Exper- imental Farm north of the City. It has

grown in extent, manpower, equipmcnt and above all in the service which it renders to this predominantly agi'i?-iil1ui'al Island. The very cxpansivcncss of the Farm. ltowevcr. has tended to obscure it for the passer-by. It has too long kept its light under a buslicl That is now being changed and '-he orn- imental center gate. ri.-iing under the able supervision of Lt. Col. lg) W. Jolinstoiie. pro- vides a focus for the attention of way- farers- Their interest being thus aroused, many who would go their way ignoriir; the existence of this center of research arid agricultural instruction may now be expect- ed to investigate more closely to their own advantage and that of the community.

Frozen Fisli

The process of freezing fish has roach- ed the stage where customers find little if any difference between fish fresh from the sea and the frozen product. it is pointed out by the St. John's Evening Telegram.

The operator of a freezer in New York, told a group of visitors that the prejudicc against cold-storage fish had disappeared, that the process of freezing makes avail- able products from the sea that are high in quality and often low in price. This is I point to consider when meat prices are to high. -

"Some idea of the wide variety made available by means of refrigeration was

shown in an exhibit of herring from Britain. brook trout from Denmark, shrimps from Mexico and yellow pike from the Great Lakes. The fish, placed on deposit in the 'cold banks' by wholesalers, were distributed through refrigeration channels to the retail trade which were provided with storage facilities to maintain the low

' temperature of the products until they were

disposed of.”

EDITORIAL NOTES

Now the country boys and girls can join the refrain, ”No more teachers. - ." O I 0 Outside building decorations and flag- flying is the order of the day-they are all doing it. 0 The Canadian death rate from tuber- culosis has dropped 31 per cent in the last four years.

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Canadian horticulturzilists intend holding; a Salad Week to further the sales of veg- etables and fish.

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Lobster fishermen have only until Sal- urday to complete their early season's work. then no more Island lobster until the season opens on Northumbcrland Strait.

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A 30-voice male choir from St. Joseph's University, St. Joseph. N. B.. led by Rev Father Lcandrcu Brault. will be among the competitors in the Llangollcn, Wales, Inter national Eisteddfod in July.

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All the Scotsmeii, their wives and bairns, as well as many others had it great time attending the Prince Charlie picture at the Prince Edward last evening. The scenery and acting were superb.

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The new Dairy Products Act regulates inter-provincial trade in dairy products rather than the whole industry. As far as it goes. however, it maintains the high stami- ards of quality to which consuntcrs liau: long been accustomed.

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Mortgage loans approved under the supcrvision of Central Mortgage and Hous- ing Corporation increased more than 25 per cent in 1950 over the previous year. With the new restrictions on material and credit, however, it is almost certain that the trend is downward for the present year.

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The total Winnipeg vote seems to have droppcd to less than one-lialf that in the last General Election. The turn-out of voters here was astonishingly large by con- trast and the reasons should provide food for thought for thbsc planning future cam- paigns.

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Thomas l-leiiry liuxley. l-Jnglish scien- tist. died this date 1895. He was appointed assistant-surgeon to H. M. S. Rattlesnake and during a voyage to New Guinea wrote an important paper lending weight to the theory of evolution. I-lis ”Scientific Meni- oirs" runs to five volumes and he also published text books and controversial pa- pers. His passion was for "absolute ver- acity."

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"The Irish" in him was exhibited by Prime Minister St. Laurent in the House of Commons when he got into grips with Mr. Drew. Leader of the Opposition, over Mr I-lowc's war-spending patronage policy. In other days any serious reflection cast upon a member of the Government in his of- ficial capacity, would immediately have called for his resignation or. alternately, a royal commission to investigate-the charges.

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A warning that it would be ”foolish" to cut. back farm income through lower farm prices was sounded at the annual meeting of the National Independent Meat Packei':. Association by Carl H. Wilson, Washington economic analyst. "Farm income is the gear wheel of national income and the gear ratio is seven to one," Mr. Wilson said. "For every 31,000,000 of farm income, the country has consistently had -337,000,000 of national income for the past 25 years." he claimed.

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Official representatives of Canada's doc- tors, with an eye evidently on the spectre of State Medicine as seen in England and elsewhere. told Montreal reporters that "tert- ical care insurance should be available to everyone. that the state should pay where individuals could not. but. "people able to pay for their own medical care should not have it paid by the state and subsidized by the doctors." The General Council of the Canadian Medical Association also hold that. the General Practitioner was not be- ing given sufficient access to the educa- tional and scientific facilities of hospitals; decided that the rating of Canadian hos- pitals. carried out until now by the Am- erican College of Surgeons. will be taken over by Canadian medical men; and also decided to seek more Government aid to

fight arthritis.

rnc GUARDIAN. cHARi.ii1'ri-:rowN Too Freiiuont "it Visitor. of Late

I?

THIS RETIJRN

It uiis a. fitting time to come back home.

Too long my feel. bad wandered. and the 3835

Like wccds had grown us. shoulder high

between

fsaw it from the hilltop. saw through tears My ion-;-lost childhood in the

apple boughs.

And greening underneath stretch of sky

A willow I had planted beside the house.

Now I was turning had come

A long. long way was back again

that

home and 1

through time,

With all my heart had lost. The V -fariii lay there , Waiting in sunlight for inc. All

was plain more. aiirl nothing lost. oh. nothing now!

Once

I (lUl.'l2CllO(l my steps. and sud- denly. I declare.

Before I rc.1L-licii the quiet. hill- top's brow

The apple trees came running hall thc way.

And as I incl l.llPnl shamefully face to face.

They reached out bl0SSOl'nlll',X boughs that sun-itrencliz-(l day

And swunc me up lll tlirir forgiv- in-7 cmbrzicc. ,

-Dnnlcl Whitehead Hicky.

Lesson In Socialism

(A commcnt from Thomas J. Shcllet. teacher at Yonkers High School, Yonkcrs, N.Y.)

As a tcachcr in the public schools, I find that the Socialist- Communist idea of taking "from cacti according to his ability", and giving "to each according to his nccd" is now generally accepted without qucstion by most. of our pup;:.-2 In an effort. to explain the fallacy in this theory. I comclimca try this approach with my pupils:

When one of the brighter or harder-working pupils makes a grade of 95 on a test, I suggest thatl take away 20 points and give them to a studcnt who has made only 55 points on his test. Thus each would contribute ac- cording to his ability and-since both would have a parsing mark -each would receive according I0 his need.

After I linvr: juggltd the grades of all the other pupils in this fashion. the result is usually a "common ownership" grade of be- tween 75 and 80--tlfb mlnlmum needed for passing. or for surviv- al. Then I speculate with the pu- pils as to the probable results if I actually u--cd the socialistic the- ory for grading papers.

First. the highly productive pu- pils-and they are always a min- ority in school as well as in life- would soon lose all incentive for prodiiicinpz. Why strive to make a high grade it part of it is taken from you by "authority" and given to someone else?

Second, the less productive pu- pils-a majority in school as else- where-would. for A time. be re- llevcd of the necessity to study or to produce. This syttcm would continue until the high producers had sunk-or had been driven down-to the level of the lower producers. At that point. in order for anyone to survive. the "auth. orily" would have no alternative but to begin a system of compul- sory labor and punishment: again-it even the low producers.

Finally I return the discussion to the ideas of freedom and an- terprise-the market ,- whcre each person has freedom of choice. and is rcsponatble for his own decisions and welfare. Grott- fyingly enough. most of my pupil: then understand what I mean when I explain that socialism- even in a democracy-will event.- ually result in living-death for all except the "authorities" and I few of thcir favorite lackcys.

Soviet Note On Japanese Peace Treaty

(3)! W. W. EWER)

The new Soviet. note about the Japanese peace treaty can be in- tcrprctcd and is being intei-prcteal in two completely different ways. There are some who see in it a proposal which would break the deadlock on procedure which lies existed since the Moscow confer- ence of 1947. There are others who regard it as a rcafflrnintion of the Soviet. position which cre- ated that deadlock. And certainly there are passages in the note which seem to support both these contradictory views.

Let. me explain. In Moscow. in 1947. Molotov insisted that the procedure agreed on at Potsdam for the preparation of the Europ- ean pence treaties must be fol. lowed also in the case of the Jup- anese treaty. The preparation of the treaty must be done by the Foreign Ministers of the great powers in a council of Foreign Ministers. The other Allies uould only come into the picture after- wards in a wider conference. which would discuss a draft al- ready accepted and approved un- animously by the members or the council.

This the Western powers refused to accept. They did not. CUllSl('lN' that the Potsdam agreement. about the making of European treaties should be binding in the case of Japan. The method had not proved particularly efficient in the case of the European trentlcs of 1946. And indeed, their fear: that it might simply produce deadlock and delay were to be confirmed by the experience of the Austrian Treaty.

The Foreign Ministers and their deputies have spent four years in falling to agree upon a draft for Austria. Moreover, there was an exceedingly strong case for ad- mitting countries like Australia and New Zcaland--which had borne A large part of the brunt of the fighting against Japan for more than three years before Rus- sia entered the war - to every stage of the work of preparing it pcace treaty. They had, in fact, been given assurances that they would participate in the work at every stage.

But Molotov was adamant. He would not have anything to do with any treaty-making which did not begin with a meeting of a council of Foreign Ministers com- posed of the U.S.A.. the U.K.. the Soviet. Union and China.

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This deadlock has lasted for four years. Now comes the new Soviet. proposal. There is one pas- sngc tn the note which declares. "A peace conference must. be call- ed in order to examine the exist- ing drafts of the peace ti-entywltli Japan, in July or August 1951. coiislstlng of representatives of all states whose armed forces took part: in the war against Japan." Now that. at first sight. certainly looks as if the Soviet Government had abandoned its old attitude and was now prepared to accept. the Western thesis that all the ante: who had taken part in the fighting must. take part. from the beginning in the pence-making.

But.-that is only one passage. The note has to be taken as it whole and, in another passage, It says: "The preparation of the peace treaty with Japan is en- trusted to four countries-the U. s.A., the Soviet Union. Great Bri- tain and China" and that. this "calla for the convening of ii council of Foreign Ministers con- sisting of representatives of those four countries."

Which is the soviet. Government. really p. ' . a council or a conference? It seems to be doing both at once. And the only ex- planation I can see for this curl- oua behaviour is that Moscow hopes that. by Itlll insisting on it! f ” for a " it will make sure its proposal is rejected. whereupon it will about to the world that the Western allies have rejected, a generous concession Such tortuous thinking to not un- familiar.

The Soviet. Govei-nmentla views.

about Japanese defence and secur- ity afar the treaty is aimed and

the occupation ended are unlike-

ii Old Charlottetown

iAnd P. E. I.)

I THE "l'NlCORN" IN PORT

"No small excitciiiciit was cro- utcd licre )0Sl0l'(lEl)' by the ar- rival of the iL?nicorn'. one of Mr Cun2iril's Sj)lL'll(lI(l Steamers. iii- tciidctl. we uiitlcrstaml, to ply be- tween Piclcu and Quebec. Tn: occurrence was quite llrl0XrIt'L'lCi'l, as we had rcccivcd no p'rci'ioi.s intimzition of her t!)llllll1.; licrr. As she ilzisiictl up in tlic wlizirf. she presented a most aniiiizitiiig . and noble spectacle-her decks crowded with troops gave it niz-irtinl app:-nrnncc to IIIP scene. such as we are not every day favoured with. ,It luriictl out that she llfltl on board .1 ilclnclinvrtt of the Stli Rt-ginicnt. sent to rc- Iicvc the riclncliiiiciit of the .”i7:li. which had liccn stationed here for the past twelve iiionihs, and which. we unzlcrstniirl, has lost, during its stay in this town. from dczith iiiitl (lcscrtion. .-it lrast one- fourlli of its Oflfllllill iiumhcr. "Mll('ll as we were struck with hr-i' nnliln hcnrlng. as she made her mpiri iippro.-icli. we cnnfbss we were still more thunilcrstruck at the splendor of the h'tcnmcr's i'i- tcriiiil (lci-orntioiis. I-Jvcigv fncllilv. cniisistrni witli the iiiniiitcnniice of nrrlcr. was iifforiicd to the numtr- nus pnrlirs who croivtlctl on board. and soon filled her elegant and spacious saloon. Among the coin- puny. embracing till the rank. beauty fllltl fiisliion of Charlotte- town. wn observed the Right l-Ion. llin Collntcss of Westniorlnnii. who expressed herself highly grat- ificri at the nnimnting spectacle. It was much regretted that His Excellency Sir Cliiirlcs and Lady Mary Fit7.Roy were not present-- they liaving left town' the thy previous for Tlircef Rivers." -Colonial Herald. June 20, 1840.

".Fn'n'u'u'u'uP-'-'u' '- '-'u'u'b'kKC-'P'. I

inc Age-Old Story '

'in'u9-'-'n'-'u'-'o'n'-'n'u'oWn'o'-'f-Pf-N-P. The Lord will perfect; that whlcli conccrncth me: thy mercy. 0 Lord. cndurcth for ever: for- iiakke not lho works of thine own hands.

ly to be accepted either by the U s.A. or the U.K. or the Pacific Domlnions or. probably. by any country except. those of the Sov- iet-Chincse bloc.

They are set. out at great length. But they amount. to this. Occu- pation forces must. be immediately withdrawn. Japan must be kept permanently dtsai-med. And she must. be debari-ed by the treaty from entering tiito any sort. of de- fensive alliance. That would mean that Japan would be left com- pletely defenceless. face to face with two heavily armed powers as her immediate neighbours. she would be, on a larger scale. verv much in the position in which South Korea was left when the American occupation force was wtthdrawn in lil-til. The parallel in only too suggestive.

My point is that between pro- posals of this kind and anything which the other Alltea could ac- cept. there to an almost certainly uubrldgcnhle gulf and that, there- fore. a conference to which the Russians came in order to put for- wgfd such proposals would be TUiCd00TnC-' to failure. In fact. it would seem to matterllltle wheth- er the procedure in by conference or by council. In either case n

deadlock in certain.

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840.00 and up

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. I)l'.N'l'ls'l' Dental 8- My

CILOIIIA BUILDING I'll Grafton It.

JUNE 29. 1951

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A horse bit the hand of : Flor- ida motorist. But at least. the horse wasn't. biting the hand that fed tt.- (London Free Press)

Outside the Federal Guuernment most critics of the new Indian Act felt that the new legislation. for all its improvements. left Canada behind the United states in its program for developing the native peoples. But the senate either thought the bill perfect. or paid no at ' to discussion that arose throughout the country. A few days ago, its revision was return- ed to the House of common: for concurrence ln amendments, and upon questioning by opposition members. Mr. Walter Harris. the minister of immigration and citiz- enship. elucidated as follows: "There are three amendments. The first is the insertion of a comma. The second is the sub- stitution of the word 'or' for 'and' The third is to strike out an iin- necessary 'that'." Nobody was moved to pursue the matter fur- ther. - (Ottawa citizen.)

The pessimist: who cry that there is no longer great opportun- ity for young men in Canada are confounded by the appointments announced by R. W. Diamond. vice-president. and general manag- er of Consolidated Mining and smelting Co. of Canada Ltd. Mr. Diamond has selected three ad- ministrative assistants to help him run the huge plant at. Trail and without exception these three men started near the bottom of the ladder. The three-J. Bryden. J H. Salter and Dr. D. P. Suther- land-can have had little idea of their future with the compam when they first entered its ser- vice. Mr. Bi-yden started as a laborer tn the silver refinery in 1925 and Mr. Salter began in 193-! in the smcltcr yard gang. Dr. Sutherland made his start with the company as a research client- ist in 1939. These men have work- ed their way to the top by capa- city and hard work.- (Vancouver Province.)