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‘eras GUARDIAN
Morning Dally (founded In H81) Authorized uii Sen-um] Flinn “III, Pull UHIoO Department, Otluul. i The |lillllll| lluurdlau Publlllhln‘ (‘u Editor um! Managing Ulri-eli-r, J. R. llurnalt. Asset-Into Editor, Frinnk Walker.
”The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest ink"
‘km L‘HARLOTTE'I'OI\'.
Another “tiovchllst Defeat
MONDAY. DEC. l2, 1949
Socialism l‘t"1‘t‘l\'F‘(l another serious set- back in Saturday's defeat of the Labour Governiiit-iit 1n Australia. Coming on top of the Labour tlvfClll. 111 New Zealands gen- eral 11101-111111 tcn days earlier. 1111s leaves only 1111c surviving Labour regime-that of the Attlee Government in Great B1‘ll1:lIll-- throughout the British Commonwealth. Bri- tain's general election takes place next veal". :11irl Conservative hopes are high of achieving a slniilav victory under the vet- eran leadership of Mr. Churchill.
The Joining of the two Opposition forces I3; Anstralia-Jhose of the Liberals under FL Hon. R. G. Menzies and the Country Party under Hon. A. W. Faddeii—\vas a rontributing factor 111 ousting the 14-year 111d Socialist administration oii Saturday. But there was evidently a great deal 0f iiissatislaclion 111111 exorbitant taxes and other restrictions on free enterprise, and it ls this phase of the situation which will have its repercussion in other democracies.
Campaign For The Blind
A Province-wide campaign for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind Is being launc-hed today, in conjunction with similar campaigns 1n other Provinces. The contribution sought in this Province is rela- tively small. and there should be no diffi- culty in reaching the objective.
"this is one work which scarcely needs any recommendation other than the name for which the institution stands. Blindness ls one of the most dreaded of human a.f- flictions. but the facilities and services now available for aiding the blind to help them- selves can be used to great advantage. More ‘nelp by the public is urgently required at the present time. and the members of the committee organized to raise the necessary
' co-operation. We have no hesitancy in predicting that our citizens will support this pamnaign wholeheartedly’.
Parliaiiient Supreme Cvar Clocks
“e lhe 1n an age of machinery and _ Some would have it that it is a machine age. It. is necessary occasionally for man . to demonstrate his authority ovcr the me- hhanical servants he has created, and where can tihat demonstration be better made than in the House of Commons? In that body of men is represented the adult population of the land and the powers, rights and privileges of the House are em- bodied in the Speaker. lt is fitting, there- fore. that. although the lower chamber is equipped 1111111 clocks and most of the hon- ourable members certainly have watches, that it is not the clocks or watches that tell the members what time 1t is. A1; the rlose of an afternoon sitting these me- chanical assistants may indicate 5:30 or 6:30 but Mr. Speaker. with all the authority of his high office, declares, “l1 being ti grgltyck, 1 leave the chair."
Brltbh Market Prospocts
Of prime interest to Maritinzc produc- ‘ers at: the Dominion-Provincial farm con- ference which opens at Ottawa today will be the declaration of the British marketing policy for the coming year. According to the Financial Post, the one firm item is ‘cheese. The United Kingdom has reportedly
aorb all the Canadian surplus.
Brice will be purchased by the U. S.
is uncertain. contentious decision:
than wheat) in 1950? discussion is thir
millions for eggs; and $29 millions for bacon. purchases would have
mltment.
item is bacon. woil’t be enough the 1950 surplus. {the Post
If we are U. K.
allocated a definite sum for .1950 cheese buying on this ITOITlZlHEHt, sufficient to ab- lf Canada cannot supply all the U. K. needs, the bal-
Thc egg and bacon situation, however, These items awaitthe first how many dollars will Britain allot for Canadian foods (other The amount under ty to fifty million dollars. For 1949, the U. K. will spend about $62 millions on bacon. cheese and eggs; $17.5 $15 millions for cheese Total British been $95 millions if
Canada had been able to fill all her com-
Eggs are going to be in surplus next year. Even with token shipments to U. K. prices will be lower. But the most critical It now seems certain there U. K. dollars to absorb no matter what happens. draws the following conclusions: to again make a contract with (for a mailer quantity and at a
thotfthe 1949 rate of $36 per
U. S. bacon price is presently and tempor- arily below the 1949 Canada-U. K. contract price of $36. but there is no possibility of the U. K. offering the $36 price again in 1950.
The present U. S. floor price is pretty close to the $30 figure. l1 is also due to rise each month until at least April l, by reason of statutory reqnireiue11ts_ under the parity price system. 'l‘l1c equivalent U. S. parity price iii hlarch would be about $33 after figuring (iiffereiicc in exchange, etc. if the 90% purity is continued by Con- gress after April l, the price would 11love even higher during tlic summer.
EDITORIAL NUlIéS
Pictou County's welcome to a party of SE1 Estonian D. Pfs is in the best tradition of Highland hostiitality’. Tilltl Canadian friendliness.
O Who would refuse to give blood to re- store a friend to health? By being a donor now, we can be sure that when the need arises. blood will be immedizitcl_v available.
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Nowadays our Provincial lylinlsters and officials spend a considerable part of the year in Otta1va. Why not do 11s Quebec does‘. lease a suite of rooms by the year
at the Chateau?
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The annual Dominion-Provincial Agri- cultural Conference opens in Ottawa. today. The findings of the conference should give farmers a reasonably good idea of what is in store for them for the next twelve months.
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St. Dunstaifs Lliiiversity debaters scored again on Friday night. out-arguing a New Brunswick University Law School team. Let us hope there 1s not a bad omen in the fact that the defeated side based their case partly on the P. E. I. Government's brief before the 'I‘raiisportation Commission. I I I Top U. S. customs officials have been instructed to expedite customs decisions and strive for tiiiiformity of application at the various ports of entry. a step towards re- moving the “invisible tariffs" which has long made the policy of protection s11 ef- fective in blocking imports. n a v ,
Stuffing the ballot box is not a modern habit; it seems. “Fhemistocles, who persuad- ed the ancient Athenians 1o trust to their “wooden walls" against the might of Persia, was later ostracized for his pains. _Now' an American scientist has discovered that more than 5O of the ostraka inscribed with his name have identical llilll(l\\'l‘lill1fI scratched
on them.
l1. ls understood the 'l.0.0.F. intend dis- posing of their building on Richmond St. The Patriot, whose lease expires in the near future, occupies the ground floor. In view of the prices obtained 111 connection with the sale of property’ for the new Fed- eral Building, the Oddfellows expect at least $60,000, the building having entrances from both Richmond and Sydnev Sts. O O Q
Disasters such as that of the S. S. Noronic inevitably lead 10 increaized precau- tions against. their particular cause, and the commission investigating that holocaust has made the expected recommendations. One of them. how-ever. the proposed installation of automatic sprinkler systems, would seem to substitute lhc danger of zicrirlenhil flood- ing for that of fire.
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At Suffold England, children arc filling their spare-time gathering acorns for the British forestry commission. 'l‘l1c boys get threepence (four cents) a pound for the acorns, from which the commission is grow- ing thousands of seedling tiaks for Britain's future forests. 'l‘l1c plan is for hardwood belts surrounding evergreen forests as pro- tection against foreign fires.
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Austerity with a vengeancr. A United Kingdom Bus Company. commendably dol- lar-conscious, initiated the use of buses equipped with plumbing, buffet. service. and steward, hoping these services on 1l1e l1igh- way might please American tourists. Bus company must now pay the heavy licensu fee levied on trucks for carrying "goods or burden." The “goods" carried are. cups and saucers in the buffet.
' I I O importing doctors. the R. C. A. F. reports that. the service had recruited 13 doctors in the United Kingdom as a “stop-gap measure" to fill a temporary shortage here. In addition the R. C. A. F. has recruited about 25 other officers to till specialist positions, and “under 90 airmen." Both officers and ‘airmen were recruited from the U. K. during 1948 and this year. "It can be by no means described as a re- crult campaign," the Air Force spokesman said. Majority of the officers and men were taken on Air Force strength as a result of enquiries made in England. -In the case of a number of doctors, they had been contacted
A spokesman for
THE GUARDIAN.
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THE HERMIT
What. moves that lonely man is not the boc-rn
Of waves that break against the cllfi so strong;
Nor roar of thunder. travelling voice Is caught by rocks that carry fai-
when that
along.
‘Tis not thc groan of ortli IlTP 1n
_ 11s prime. -
When lightning strikes its solid heart to dust.
Noi- frozen pond when, méltcd by the sun.
11. suddenly doth break 11s s-iaarkling crust.
What moves that man 1s when the blind bat taps His window where he sits alone at
night; 0r when the small bird sound:- like some great beast. Among the dead. dry IPBW"? :11 fraLi and light:
tOr when the moths on his nlg-bt- pillow beat.
Such heavy blows tie fears Iheyl‘. ' break his bones:
Or when n mouse inside the papered
walls. Comes like a Llger crunching through the stones.
-—V1'. H. Davies
Old Charlottetown 1m r. n. 1.1
LARAMORFS SCHOOL
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UHARLUTTETUWN - C‘ Your Clft List 2-.
01-1, name's s- » —» $1111- wowei YOUR BLOOD MAY save A LIFE.’ "
tMoiitreal Stari 'l‘l1c habit of collecting is as as mankind rind gvoivg lii variety 11ml m ns we sometimes think
ui futility as man devises more and‘
more colicctable things. ‘There was a story the other day in the news- papers about a man who had the biggest collection ("in the world" of coursci of paper match books,_ 1111111 which . . . .! l
l1 has. however. remained for a correspondent of the English pcr- iodicul John O'Loiidon to come up, with what. must surely be some-j thing unique in this line of endea-t vor. He has been gathering up split‘ iiiliiiitivcs. and quotes 501110 sell ccted ones in his letter.
‘To the literary purist of another- tlay the splitting of an infinitive: 11:1.< regarded as a soleclsm no less gross. than eating peas from a knife: 11-01111! be considered in the best. $001M circles. It. lust. wasn't. done.’ B111. thc awful part, of it 1s that it. w as done. and done by some of the very top-flight literary giants u! their day. as witness; Kipling’; score in the collection is three. "to graciously feign." "to neatly and; (‘XlWllV replace." and "to effect.- ivelv block."
'l‘-~o much might. not perhaps bu, expected of Kipling. but when we learn that Hardy wrote “to mere- ly walk.“ “to sensibly dimintshfl "to deliberately tease" and “to, privately deposit." the sky dark-' ens. And when you 11nd htacaulny, with a "to fully zippreciate" to his (list-radii. the "well of English un-l tlcfylcd" is muddled from one. ofl its purest sources. Perhaps Lewis Caroll shouldn't. count. Even syn- tax may go jahberworky". But. "lull even so much ns mention" cannot. be overlooked. 1
Poets also iriay be n law unto themselves. But our collector nabs Browning. no loss. 1n something that. is poetic licence 111 lilo worst sense. o1 the word. and the. cream of his catch.
"To presently next. morn 111. break of day.
tion of Youth in Reading. Writ- ing, &c.. in the House lately oc- cupied by Mr. Rankin. in Pownal and hopes by assiduitv and a1.- share of public patronage. "He. also purposes opening an Evening School. intended rhiofly for the instruction 111' Females in writing; which may suit the con- venience of such. whose avttcalinns prevent their altrnrliiig a Day School. lfours from half past 4 till 6 p.m. Terms 5s per inonl-li, "NB. Needlework 1.1112111 by Mrs. Laramorr." -Prince Edward 191‘. June ‘.24. 13$».
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Lament. For Scotland
Ihloiitreal Start Scotland has compromised with her conscience; shc has fllflllulullfill the faith of her fathers; she has trafficked i-sitli Apollyon and Dc- triived n weakness unworlliv o1 Bannockburn and 1110 CO\E‘llfll'1l9l"4. l1". othrr ivords. the Roynl and Ancient. Golf Cluh at. S1. Andrews has actually approved n new code of rules with the "l1o11e“ I"Ilt’lpt‘" mark youii that the amended "uric 11-111 be the precursor Q1 11 szet. nf rules agreeable. in both St Andrews and the United States Golf Assort- ation.
There are rules in the venerable. code that. impose an awful strain upon the conscience. to say nn. ihlrig of the vocabulary. ant-l 11. may be a softer age must. he spared such temptations. 13111., 11k.- 1111- course Itself. there were the rules and you played 11, with them. as they were. You shouldn't. get intn the rough and lay yourself unnlay- able lies without. getting what was coming 1.0 you on the score card. And if. playing with steelshafted clubs. you were struck by light. rilng. the survivors should, surely be satisfied to put. it down as a rub o’ the green. take an extra one on the nl eteenth and not, expect some panty-ivalat. rule to permit. them to walk off in the middle or the match for fear of a 1111.11- thlng like sudden death.
“It's no meant to be." the his- toric reply 0f n grizzled Scots caddy to the remark of i1 harassed novice
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Street. adjoining Mr. John D0.\'l°'5- is literary atomic. fission. But. If
Brow-hing and nil the rest, of them could get ziwav with it. and still survive to be admired and looked up to. we should worry. that golf was n. "funny 111111111 always. we had thought. apply in principle Io the hoar and often horrible rules that. governed 11. lt was "no meant" in be easy. either.
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The crowded Netherlands have an over-population problem. Ac- cording to a correspondent of the London Observer and this news- paper. that tiny countrys leaders are seriously concerned about 1t. The Dutch birth rate, highest 1n Europe next to Italy's, ls 30.3 per thousand: the death rate o1’ 7.4 ls the lowest in the world; and the lite expectancy of a Dutch infant i." 67 years. These facts testify to the robust. health and high stand- ards of the Netherlands people; but one of their leading citizens says that pauperlsm threatens them 11 they do not. find an outlet. The change. lii their relations 11111.11 1n- duiiesia has barred the way to the favourite destination u! Dutch immigrants.
Holland's problem ls obviously Canadals opportunity. This country, it. is trite, 1s foreign while Indonesia was still home or an extension o! home. like India to Englishmen and Scots. In’ Indonesia the Dutch settler kept. the citizenship and language he was born with. where- 21S iii Canada, if lic wants to make 11111 lite here. 11c has to change
lbutli. But this has been no obstacle
1.0 a substantial movement. of Dutch people w Canada 1n the past". and none have proved better citizens of the adopted land. More of them will be here soon l! Ottawa's lm.m1- gration authorities, now raised Lo llle sliitus of i=1 Department. on their 111111, are alive to opportunities.
011 Ulopias
tbrom a Study of History. by Arnold J. Toynbeci The social insects rose to their present. social heights, and coma 1n a. permanent. standstill at: those altitudes. many millions of years before Homo Saplens began
to emerge above the mean level o! the rank and file of the Vertebrate Utoplas.
Order. And as tor the they are static not. only as u matter or fact but. ex hypothesis.
DECEMBER 12, 1949
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-. Notes By
-hc new: that the Alberta llro- grcssivc Conservatives inland to re-enter the provincial political field will be warmly 1vclcoincd by all, regardless of party. who are concerned about ordcrcd and stable government. Politically. Alberta has suffered for too lung from the fact. l-hal tlicrc is nu opposition in the Legislature which is able to make its weight fell. ‘Phere are two opposition partics in the Legislature — if you dis- count the independent Social (Irr- ililrrs. One is the CCF. \\'i\l(.\\1 in other provinces as well as this. has _been decisively rejected by the electorate as an acceptable al- ternative; the other is tlic Liberal party, which shows nu signs of gaining enough strength at. 1hr polls to form a truly effective up- position. What is needed is an- other force. which will begin now on the arduous job of convincing Alberta voters that Social Credit is not the only political party in existence. That JOI.) has fallen. by default, to the Progressive Con- servatives. — Calgary Herald.
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The Premier of has said a pointed and 1111101)." thing about Cl\'iI servants. lii former times. as Mr. lllacdoiialtl phrased it. "civil servants clearly understood their functions 1n carry out the policies of gov- ernments. nnd not attempt 1n formulaic them." But. “unifor- tunately". ‘as the premier added. "this is being forgotten today.“ It is the duty of government, 14; ('01-. mulate public policy; it is the duty of civil servants to carry 1t out. Mr. Macdonald was 1vcll within the truth when he absolved Nova
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Sootials civil servants from this tendency. which. it allowed In continue. could be disastrou; 111
our democratic system of govern- ment. Any examples we have
that work of English genius 1131111 has given this whole genre of liter- ature lis modern Western name- an lnvlnclbly stable equilibrium is the Supreme social aim to which all other social values are Sllbor- gnated. and It need be sacrific-
The Way -
SECII‘ uf it in this proviime m‘ be passed over as the exggpuoni Proving a rule. But they; ha, D99" Plcmy of i1. elsewhere, p411. ticularly in the Federal field. Anc‘ the practice should be stopped Civil servants are not rasponsiblv dn-cclly to Ihc public. The regpon siblc public representative: U, those elected by the public _ Halifax Chronicle-Herald. I
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‘The Llnioii of South Africa l“; 1111~ llllrllvlrllilt: distinction of i,“ 111g 1111c of 11w few govamnlentl tnilsiilz: the Soviet bloc 1m‘ eq1;i\o1:1ill_v to flout recommend; lions of the General Assembly o.
1111.» UN. 'l'lii'cc times in the 3-11 “if?” .\'c: s. 11in Union of 3:11,, Africa ignored the recom-
mendation of the General Assam. bly ‘that it submit a trusteeshi; plan for South-West Africa 11111 former German colony which 11111 UlllOll ltas governed as a Leagu- iif Nations mandate since 193p EYPY)’ OlllCI mandate which h.“ not achieved actual independence has been placed under the trus- tceship system. But 1.11; Unto.‘ of South Africa has not only e011. sisluilly refused ‘.11 (‘o-operate -. » 11111.; a lrusleesl-iip, 1.... this year has gone so far as ‘.11 refuse even to submit report; on 1h: administration of the tcrri» 101')‘. lii fact. the Pretoria Gov- ernment has informed the UN that 11 considers South _ W511 Africa an integral part of ti" Union. Whatever the validity o1 the Unions position. it is c1511 that it will accept no further sug- gestions regarding the govern. merit of the territory (mm u“ UN. Therefore, a resolution ha; tic-en ofifered 1n the Trusteeshi; Committee, where this whole mat. ter is now being discussed, to 55,1 the World Court to determine u." status of South-West Africa and tho international obligations 111 the Union in respect 1o [L QM. the basic legal question 1| settled, the General ASSGIITDLV‘! recon-r menrlatlon may carry groggy wright. In any case there is very little else on this question that the UN can now do. — New York Times.
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For these fictitious descriptions of imaginary human societies that have never existed are really pro- grammes o! action masquerading in the disguise of descriptive soci- ology; and the action which they are intended to evoke 1s the "peg- glng.“ at. u certain social level. of an actual society WlllCh has broken down and has entered upon a decline that. must end 1n a fall unless the downward movement can bc artificially arrested.
To arrest i1 downvtard movement 1s the. utmost to which a Utopia. can aspire. since Utoptas seldom begin to bc written in any society until after its members have lost the expectation and ambition of making further progress and have bccn eoived by adversity into b€- ing content. 1t they con succeed in 11011111111 the ground which has been
B111 111111. 0 Lord. Thou nrt. our Father; we. are tho clay. nnd Thou our potter: and we urn nll the work of Thine. linml.
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