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‘PAGE r003‘ THE GUARDIAN

Morning Daily tl-‘ounded 1n 1887i. Authorized no Second Class Mail, Post Olflco Départment. Ottawa.

President. lira A. Burnett; Vice-President. Wm. lo. Burnett; Seep-Treat“ (i. M. Burnett: Edllfll’ 11nd Mzmazin] Director. .1. It. Burnett; Associate Editor [Trunk Walker.

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

CIIARLOTTE/HHVN.‘YIIURSDAY, JAN. 15. 10-18 P. E. I. Leads Again

Prince Edward lsland farmers have reason

to congratulate themselves, for according to fig- ‘ ures cited by the iltt, Hon. James G. Gardiner, Federal Minister of Agriculture, their lielrl crops gross-ed 23 per cent more in value last your than in the preceding year, constituting the highest in- crease ol tiny Province in Cunridu Th: figures me give" by M, Gardiner n. m. urticlc in thc Commercial and Financial Review, I947, issued by the Montreal Gazette, The table shows the gross value of field crop production for 1946 and 1947 by Provinces, together with changes in value and in PJHTCIHTIQJS. Figures for 1947 are as reported in the first official estimate of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, based an average prices reczivcd by farmers from the bbginning of the crop year, Azzgust 1, to the end of November.

—-'1'nt;rl Ynlui-s (‘h-Ange Percent

1017 111-16 ln Yuluv Change P.l.',1. I 20,005,000 5 10,273,000 +8 3.732.000 +23 NS. '10 .i.un0 21,281,020 — 1.033.000 — 5 N. B. Ills‘ RG3 000 I1" 171.000 -l- 0.397.000 +20 Que. 1.3.._..>..0lIl) 1 10,072,000 +14 l)nL . !l,10‘1.lll50 I2lETq\)R74‘)00 21 . 8 “an llllilfllllll 1ll.'r'-l'i‘.‘.l(l0 -l- . 0.11 535k 3.".f1‘l01.!§00 SJIISJUJJCO — 8 193,000 — 3 Alta 261,311,000 208.565.1100 -- 4.003.000 —- 1 B. C 303229.000 28.738.000 + 1,491,000 + 5 Canada 1,‘.'S7,~ll'!.000 1,21S.135.000 ~Y- 130.307.1100 3

Scientific Research

The possibilities of scientific research in bringing new and important achievements in in- dustry, in agriculture and in medical science, are shown again in the year-end review of the Na- tional Research Council. The most interesting feature of the review is that dealing with atomic research at Chalk River where the council has five hundred scientists engaged, some of them of very high standing, and an equal number of skilled personnel. Work is being pressed "at top speed" to produce radioactive materials "for countless uses in medical and industrial re- search and in the search for the newer knowl- edge fundamental to scientific progress." For example, the study of the feeding and growth of plants, including wheat, is made easy by the use of radioactive materials which the plants are al" lowed to absorb and which become tracers through the plants and can be photographed. Radioactive materials are expected to bring numerous other discoveries in all fields of re- search.

Apart from atomic research, investigations

_ are proceeding into industrical processes, food chemistry, heating, textiles, rubber, construction work and many other matters. A low-cost radar let was designed, which made possible the blind navigation of a vessel through the entrances of Toronto harbor and the identification of every wharf within the harbor.

The manufacture of aircraft is receiving valuable assistance from aeronautics research, including the wind-tunnel testing of new oircrafl designs for Canadian firms.

Greater expansion of research, at govern- ment expense and by private industry, would be profitable to Canada, the Research Council ad- vises. Dr. C. J. Mackenzie, president of the council, reccntly syggcsted that at least one per cent of tho national income from produc- tion should bc spent on government and privatc research. That would be about $80,000,000 a year. Great Britain is now listening to thu scientists and is spending $400,000,000 m1 rc- scarch this year.

Typos 0f Education

Ccinmrfirq on o community drive for facil- itics fcr more t::hnIcal training, the Winnipeg Free Prrrs observes: "By all means let us have the best thrit exfizrlcnc: can provide and Oh Lord deliver us from confusing the best with the acquir- ing of gaclgcis. Giv:n all this, and acknowledg- ing the inrpcrftmc: of providing a technical cclu cation for llrcz: who have neither academic in-- herest ncr ccacrmic capacity, CfCll in the midst cf our Cfllil‘, 3'1 lotus rcmembcr that therd is an overall philosophy of education which, if an- visioned, will do much to assure us a tense of proportion."

Our Winnipeg cenhmporary goes on to suggest "to all who have taken upon themselves thc heavy trust of educators," that they read an article from the pen of Sir Richard Livingstone in a recent ‘Atlantic Monthly. Sir Richard under the title "inequality in Education" points out that this is rather more difficult to avoid than easy orations indicate. There is the fact that nature's endowments acre inexorably unequal, and the further facP that no nation can escape en- tirely from its past.

Education's dangers at this time are the twin mdnaces of evasion and pretense. lt is quit: true that there is cultural training in vocational studies, but to quote Sir Richard: "lt is a wholly different cultural training from one which intro- duces thc pupil to the great masters of thought and imagination, helps him towards seeing the world through their eyes, and gives him at least a glimpse of the highest levels reached by the human mind; and it will not help education to confuse the two, or to fancy that one can replace

I ~ the other or l: in any way equivalent."

Tliore ll obrood today (comments the Free Pros ones again) "in the ovarian and prehm ronlu, o continent which discourses upon‘ giving Oforyolrlld his chance to attain to thou educa- llgnllllelflitl forwltlchhoilable. . .andin deform of PM m» 0f dossier n we"

‘receiving congratulations from the

that all attainments are equal. There is ,"

truth in this contention to make it arguabl and there is more than enough falsehood to run the imminent risk of sacrificing the first rate by accepting lower intellectual and cultural levels and making these the criteria. . , lt is quite true that democracy is learning and must learn further respect for personality. But that does not mean shaming »the possessor of ten talents into using only one lest he be consider- ed ostentatious in the society of the one talented. The ten talented is not developing and using these talents for himself alone. Indeed, upon their use depends niuch of the happiness and usefulness of the one talented. By all means let us have our technical school as well built, staffed and organized as our best efforts can make it. But let us not pause there- To con- sider it, whatever its quantitative claims, as of equal quality with the further reaches of aca- demic education for those who can profit by such education, is to pretend as truth, what history ""5 Yellwlfdly uml solemnly denied."

— EDITORIAL NOTES - lt is to be hoped the failure of the firm sup- plying stone for the Tormcntine new ferry wharf is not going to delay that all important project. fi i i i

The Province is once more represented by Mr. J. Gordon MacDonald 0n the directorate of thc Canadian Rctail Federation.

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lt was expected the Legislature would be summoned for February 2, but the various de- partments claim theycannot have their reports ready for so early a date.

Revenue Minister McCann's recen-t utter- ance on farmers who have not been paying in- come tox is full of foreboding. "There has not been a loss," he is reported to have said, "but a deferrment of payment."

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Prime Minister Mackenzie King will address a Liberal Party dinner lfl Ottawa on Z0th in connection with meetings of the National Ad- visory Council of the National Liberal Federa- tion being held ther_e Jan. t9, 20 and 21.

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The Income Tax Department at Ottawa is still without a deputy minister due to the resigna- tion a few months ago of Mr. Frank H. Brown. The Prime Minister has advised inquirers that an appointment will be made "shortly."

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English politics are sometimes confusing to the uninitiated. The intelligent foreigner for instance, is apt to look quite unwarrantablylwise when informed that N10 official title of the chief Government Whip is Patronage Secretary to the treasury.

i! "A fi I h We have had many. plans for increased ousing accommodation in Charlottetown and "llfellllllq has always prevented their adoption. lt rs to be hoped that the plan now before the City Councilwill not meet the fate of its pre. clccessors.

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Parliament has a great deal of business be- fore it when it resumes shortly. If the means of 599M019 "P PYK-‘Cfiflliflgs are not more effective ""5" HWY WW8 before Christmas members may yet. have cause to be thankful for the air con- ditroning equipm¢nr_

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The flflfllyscs or the Chief Justice of thc cases of prisoners in the Charlottetown jail shows conclusively that drink is mostly the‘ caTise of qr. rests and detontrons. The question nature‘ "fist-WT Will's Ift bootleg or vendor's "medicines", an l’ t e ormcr what are the police doing in detection at the source, and if the latter what is the Government doin t .' _ Prohibition? Q o en orce our so called

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Rlghl RC“: Mlmslgllfif MczKenzie will be d h hosts of passe t h h‘; at St. Dunstan's. Apart altogdliliigr fibmhanhdii scholastic success in his quarter-of-a-century at that “M”: °l “Qlll 0nd learning he has long

b ' ., - rfigflprrzfiggczized as on. of the intellectuals of

graduates who have

e w a n

The “"351 “lqgfistion is that the Ci , ,' _ ry re. ma" ggilllluflfij P"'ld'"_9r “ml. when the lease of hr H1 ‘g9 “fieYf "film-t, Set up headquarters e us s.rylcc. Certain ptop-grfy owners and City Councillors deem it unwise to sacri. fice the present cent in rent and taxes for the prospective dollar later on when the City d9. velops north and west as it is rapidl doin n o w l y '9'

d. d Hcnry Dupre Lobouchcre, English journalist,

‘c “'5 duledmz; alter leaving university he entered the diplomatic service, but left- ir 1-0 take up pDllllCS} was Daily News correspondent '" PW dunno the §i=9= 1370-1: founded Trutlr a wcckly society iournal in 1876 which was soc-l cessful in the exposure of a numbbr of social financial and administrative scandals; he was’ M. P. re. Midd-lesex 1867-8, and for Northampton 1880-1905; was a member of the Jomieson Raid Commission in 1896. '

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The "One World" ideal is on the shell for the time being due to‘ the failure of the West- ern powers to find any ground for common action with Russia. Efforts must now be directed to organizing the non-Russian world and to defin- ing its boundaries so as to reduce to a mini- mum the sources of friction until such time as the Soviet will be ‘prepared to‘ participate.

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The pitioble plight of the people in England due to weather conditions is beyond description. Drought in summer, floods in winter leave them high and dry and water enveloped alternately with little prospect of reaping crop; or ointm- ploughing. Surely the call of the Rod Cross and similar agencies for help to tho suffer-m wlll receive o still more hearty response from thou who have ond- lo qiaro. i

THE ovrusoleu- <?HAR!-°TT§T_Q_WN

-llctos.By The Way-g

The outstanding political lender of the Sikhs predicts war between India and Pakistan in six months or a year. There may 1k an ele- ment of wishful thinking 1n this. The Sikhs. as o. minority group un- der umbltlaus political leadership, are a warlike people with dreams of autonomy. They have been more completely smered than any other group of Indla-Puklstuit boundar- ies, and have played a dominant role 1n some of the worst commun- al "disturbances" siurseqirent to pnvlillvm. His statement will not. 1101p the more responsible Hindu nntl Moslenr leaders in their cf

it was not intended to.— Chrlsllan

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Prices And

Price Cunlrul .

(Sydney Post-Record)

It. Li not surprising to hear many say 1n these days of rlslng prlees that price controls should be re- inrposed. ‘the demagogic pregg and one so-called “people's party." the are prominent 1n the agitation for the restoration of these controls. Significantly en-

ough, they make no mention of restoration of wage controls, vvhlen 1s inevitable if price controls are Lu return, or" of higher taxes, which‘ ure inevitable if price controls are to be restored by subsidies, which ls the only method.

The advances in meal. prices, an-

nounced n. week irgo, nre of CUllTaD encouraging v for price controls, and give, an forts toward cooperation. But, their l},

the latest campaign

ipotus to Llia demagoglo cry. Even

Science Mom" for.

’l‘he high cost of new motor cars have promoted the business o1 stealing and bootlegglng. It ls up parently qutto a big racket 1n the East where the larger cltleii pro- vlde greater opportunity. Cars are stolen ln Montreal and sold in ‘Toronto, or viee versa. eta, alto. repainting, grinding out serial numbers and other disguising. Legitimate used car dealers are among those tricked. You don't get your money back 1f you buy a car ivhicli the other fellow trad no right. to sell. Neither are Port Ar- thur and Fort Wllllam too small, nor so remote from Winnipeg on the west. or Toronto and Montreal on the east that; stolen ears can- not be driven in here, “Caveat emptor" is an old principle of law. It means let the buyer beware. A- mong other things, deal only with established firms or people whom you know well enough to trust.- Port Arthur News-Chronicle.

Do you know that ants and upid- l

er: sing? That termites whistle, That flies scream, and that weav- 11: clatter and bang when boring wheat: grains? They do, declares a scientific writer ln the Washing- ton Post. We dent hear them be- cause human ears are not. attun- ea to these sounds, but. lf science continues to progress we may yet. tuna in on an~ant orchestra, or listen Lo the rush of sap 1n the Lres. Magnified powerfully, prnc- I tic-ally nothing is soundless. Not even the alr, nor a blade of grass growing. Our ears naturally em- brace about. eleven octaves, the scientist points out. Music embraces seven. The cry of u bat. ls sold to be an octave higher than the chirp of a sparrow. Ant. music is shrlller still. The microphone Ls picking up sounds never heard be- fore, opening up to human ears a world of research as suddenly

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before these latest advances, many of which can only be explained by rank profiteerltig. the demngaguer. trad the encouragement of a Gallup

Poll “d1soovery" that, "lf a. refer- endum were held ln Canada today the vote would be three to one ‘n favor of restoring price controls."

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Indeed. the poll, published De-

camber 20. found that 76 per cent of Lhosc it Yes, to its proposition. per cent. said No, the remaining 10 per cent. being undecided, or tau confused to guess. But. what. was the question?

had questioned said Only 14

Do you think the Government

‘should put price controls on again or not?

Just that. which 1s tantamount

to asking: Would you like to get rich‘? Who would like to have a state where prices cannot rise beyond a fix- ed level while they remain free to earn as much as their efforts and talents permit. what Mr. Caldwell and the other (lemagogues would have the people

wouldn't? Everyone

This 1s precisely

rcileve can happen. It the Gallup had put the question pro- icriy, and if the demagogues would

state their demand honestly, ttiLs is how 1t would read:

Do you think the Government

should put price controls on again and restore the ceilings on wages?

1t just. 1s not possible to have

one without the other. To be sure Mr. pretend that 1t ls. And to bolster‘ the argument they will cite what

Caldwell and _compony wlll

ias happened in Britain and ring

in that magic word "subs1d1zatlon.” But there are several factors which invalidate the argument, ineludlri: the fact. that Britons are rationed on everything that 1s and taxed as never; before, bath an their incomes and on consumer goods which are unratloned. I I O

subsidized

Significantly, when tho pullers

asked w-hether price controls were

fatliomable as the world the mlero- scope opened up to the human eyes.

-Gue1ph Mercury.

Ar o blueprint for recovery thle (Attlee) program would seem to indicate an “all-out." effort. Actual- ly, it can be that or it can fail considerably short of 1t, depending upon the manner la which it. 1S followed through. "Targets" do not, themselves. solve any problems. as

_Iuut-1a pawn, mot;

we have unhapplly seen in Brit- ain's case during the past two years. Moreover, when one turns to such a vital area as eoal pro- duction and notes that the tlvc- day week 1s to be maintained un- der the program, modlflecl only to the extent of asking the miners lo work, for a limited period, "an extra half hour. a day" one won- ders haw austere the new auster- ity plan really 1s going to be. How- ever, this is no time far pveludg- ments. There Ls a realism in this plan of which there was little evi- dence as recently as a ntonth ago. And there is a new courage in the declaration of Mr. Attlee that, wlille "the chain of events start.- ed by Secretary Marshall's speech wiil lead to further help for the recovery of the 01d World, \ve can not. and will not. base our plans on that. assumption." --- New Yuri: Times.

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You hear of thorn often. 'l‘hcy are on evcrlonos lips. Go where you wlll, enter" any sphere 0f ne- tivlty and you wlll lirar them dis- missed. They have been called, Th; Mysterloirs “'1‘ha_v." Recall recon‘. conversations. Perhaps you wlll re member some of the phrases used. ‘Why don't THEY do something about, it?" "Why dont THEY ueL?" "What are THEY thinking about?‘ The mysterious “Tl1ey" are blamed for everything that goes wrong. And who are THEY? Jesus said - “But; whereunlo shall I- llken this generation? It ls like unto chil- dren sitting in the market and calling to their fellows, and saying. .We have piped unto you, and y.- huvc not danced; we have mourn- ed unto you,‘ and ye have nos lamented." “They“ are the carp- lng erltlr-s! 13y their method of talking to the wrong person, things go unreported to those ln author- ity. By fnlllng to take the lnltla- tlve. the tide of wrong-doings sweeps on unchecked. By aide-step ping aetlon in an emergency. the unfortunate occurs. and there talk- ers rlt. back and whlne, “Why don't. they do something!" From now on, let 1t be “Why Don't We Do Something?" "What are WE chink- lng about?” "Wny don't. WE ACT?" Then, by the help of God. we shall see something doing tn our pri- vate and public lives. and 1n the world at large. Remember, the mysterious "They" are no longer a mystery. WE stand revealed. - Malor Marlon Neill (Buperlnten dent Ottawa Grace Hospital) tn the War Cry.

Cur there be any relationship between the decline ln church at- tendance pf which so many con; gronttona complain and the foe. that PIWI or route in mmv of those lrutldtngl are anything but com- fortable. This fr particularly true of older churches, of which there are so many 1n this long-moo fished part otvtho country The odllllld ‘a

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isibly unexplainable, prices whleh increases the public demand for prlre controls. Controls only tack the symptoms of inflation anti do not. effect a cure. In fact. they can make the cure more remote. but ‘when consumers prices jumping pound ovefrnlght it 1s not. surpris- lng that. they demand preventive |'1(.l.l01't by the governmenln,

favored even it they meant. "ln- creased taxes," the yes dropped co 44 per cent. Some Canadians, at. least, learned during the war that subsidies are but another term for taxes. And incidentally one of the reasons why rlslng prices have been such a squeeze on the household budget, is that the Government made no effort to return to the taxpayers that portion of their taxes which ll; collected to pay subsidies and which it. has stopped

paying.

It. is this unexplained. and pas- run up in

the reimposltlon of at.-

see meat hwenty cents a

But there are even more than

wage ceilings and extra taxation to be considered in the restoration 1f prlee controls. There ls the not 1n- slgnlfleant task of assembling zhe nzachlncry capable of freezing both

vages (the Provinces being svilllng)

nllLl prices and keeping them et- feetively frozen. lrlotit- incentive af the war emer- genes, cry could be extremely dlffloult. ll not. impossible. Lacking that 1n-

Laclclng the pa-

nssembly of that. machin-

entlve fllld adequate machinery,

price control could result. only 111 n flouvislilng even the domagagues must know.

black market. This

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The word gospel formerly rmeunt

good story or glad lldlngs. ,-_,_, , ,.,-....___

any way, are as hard and unylela lrrg as There was, moreover, no attempt on the part of the builder's to eon

form to the shape of the humar. body. their regular appearances 1n church must Purltanloal stuff to withstand sues.