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"The strongest memory is weaker than the wellkelt Ink."

THURSDAY, 4, I954

indecisive Election

American Democrats, despite their suc- cesses in the ”off year” elections, cannot congratulate themselves that a trend has been established that will assure them of re-occupying the White House in two years time. Indeed the average loss by the Ad- ministration in such elections over the years is greater than that suffered by the Republican party at the present time.

Tile Administration of course, was never in jeopardy although the exceedingly im- portant chairmanships of Congressional for. In this country the Crown through its” representative would seek new advisors when the political complexion of Parlia-, ment changed. The President, however, is under no such obligation. He is his own Prime Minister and can retain a Cabinet which no longer commands a majority in Congress. a

It may well he that the predominance of lit-lnorrats will even make President Eisen- hower's task easier. The opposition to many of his measures, both domestic and foreign, stemmed from elements in his own, party. It is generally agreed, for instance, that Democrats will be more ready to vote funds for the various internatlc-nal com- mittments undertaken by the President and, also to support him as far as he is inclined to go in social measures. I

That is not to say that the election was really a victory for the President or his party. There were far too many losses of- governorships as well as seats for him to feel that he has been given an endorse- ment. PPPIIRDS the best. that. can be said of a decidedly indeterminate election is that McCarthyism played a minor role when the time came to vote rather than talk.

A Breathing Spell

The Cuban political structure may not be the most stable in the world: and there are some things about the popular attitude towards elections which seem to be lacking: in normal political sense. It seems that it takes a revolution or an excitable ”strong- man" coup to stir up any enthusiasm at all. This year's campaign, according to reports was so lacking in popular interest that neither of the Presidential candidates could persuade any nilmher of voters to come to- gether for a rally.

There is one provision about the Cuban election law, howevct, that might well be tried by other countries. This is the pl'O-i vision that gives a one-week breathing: spell between the last political speech and voting day. This means that voters can weigh the issues of the election and the. claims -of the candidates in an atmosphere free of slogans. pcttifogging appeals, and the catch-words of the dcmagogues. The idea is that in the quiet of retreat from political noise and bllister the voter is more likely to come to a reasonable and well considered judgment.

There is, indubitably, something to hr said for it. Election-eve campaigning is. lisllally. :1 hectic. and confused affair. In tifving to get in "the last word" each candi- dntn is tempted to throw discretion to the foilr winds: no man is at his best when he is tryinl: frantically to beat his opponent in one last fling at oratory. This, of course. would hc just as true with a cooling-off period as without it: but perhaps its effects would be less luguhrious. On the other side of the argtlnlent it could be said that there is a possibility that during the interim an occasional voter would forget some of the statements and promises that were made during the campaign; but on the whole. al- lowing for appropriate exceptions, that would not mean any great misfortune fol anybody.

ll Governmental Quandary

Rain-making is not yet among the exact sciences; but it is well on the way to that category. Already, gov- ernments ln various parts of the world where the normal rainfall is sometimes in- adequate to the needs of agriculture and conservation are considering legislation to - control the rnlnmnkers and their tech- niques. The drafting of such legislation is not as easy as it may seem; for, as in all

sibility of both good and ill effects.

of course. the objective in emergency, but, unless definite rules

zealous or rain-happy technician from keep

tor too generously, in Vl'll;L'n case one can-

1 amity would simply give place to another,

and the last state would be no better than the first. Then, too, what is go

od for one branch

of agriculture might be very bad for an-

other branch lll the same area. This diffi- culty arose this past summer in the State of Washington where both cherry growing

'and wheat farming are important to the

general economy. After a prolonged, but not disastrous, dry spell, the cherry grow- ers applied for the services of a rainmaker.

iThc wheat farmers, on the other hand, be-

committee was indeed a prize to be fought;

nunmcred 40 , make use of terminal facilities the change

ing quite satisfied with conditions as they were, opposed the application. It seems that the volume of rain necessary for good growth in cherries is far too much for pro per wheat development. circumstances, will be unable to understand why the Government of the State of Wash- ington found itself in a quandary of grave magnitude. It is just one more proof that

no one-not even a rainmaker-can please:

everybody.

Strong Measures

A visiting policeman from the United Kingdom is reported to have been super- cilious about the fact that many Canadian policemen carry guns and a few have been known to use them under that were less than emergency.

Ili St. John's, Newfoundland, recalls The Printed Word, the civic police do not carry guns or other weapons. During the Second World War, however. St. John's, crowded with high-spirited servicemen and merchant seamen of many nations, was completely blacked out every night. The police were issued with short trtmcheons

which they wore in holsters buckled onto, their belts; the truncheons were referred to-

officially as "batons."

Shortly after the issue there was a minor riot along the waterfront and a pol- iceman was slugged with a beer bottle and sent to the hospital with a fractured skull At the trial of the servicemen involved the. Chief of Police was called to give evidence regarding general conditions in the town.

He said gravely that conditions were unsatisfactory; so unsatisfactory that he had felt justified in taking the unprecedent- ed step of issuing his men with batons.

"And furthermore," he said, bending ai stern gaze on the shuffling, hung-over altdl

thoroughly repentant prisoners at the bar,

"if there is any repetition of this incident,li-I to him for potatoes and sail H I

I shall order my men to use their batons.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Catches have been good

Both are very largely being capable of adap and way of life

Minister Sinclair. due to fishermen ing their technique modern requirements 0

. . . l According to a past. president of the :','5.,,,", National Dairy Council there is at least 0l1"l."l””'W W-'15 WP and I

common ground between Russians North Americans. Russians love ice cream. it is one of the few unrationed foods and

the Soviet people eat it C O O

Maritime Winter Fair and our farmers made a most creditable showing generally. Even more important, perhaps, is the out'- standing achievement of boys and

gross of agriculture in this Province. 5 O I

A history of Pictou county which will soon be off the press contains many anec- dotes which have surprising counterpartsi in the history of this Province. Archivisti George Maclaren's book refers, for instance, to the days when cars were permitted to operate only two days a week in Pictou.

county and ”the year of the mice." 0 O I

Prominently mentioned as a success0t' to the late Judge Lewis for the vacant Prince County Court judgeship is the Hon. Walter E. Darby, Attorney General and- Provincial Treasurer. Other names mell- iioned are those of Messrs. D. O. Stewar'.,'. R. S. Hinton, and Morley M. Bell, all hav- ing the professional status of Queen's

Counsel.

9 I I

If the proposed Wood Islands ferry can be redesigned to carry 60 cars instead of without interfering with its ability to

will be highly welcome. Even the prospect that it will mean a further delay in con- struction can be accepted philosophically in anticipation of the expanded service to

('f1l'I'lF.

C O 0

Will Rogers, American humorist, show- man and homespun philosopher, was born

other sciences. there is in this one the po.:-E 75 years ago. "All I know is what I read Justiin the papers.” enough precipitation to suit the occasion is,l fund of knowledge about human nature, any glVPl';1lIllI to yntlligsters he was a joy and in- and-spiration and his advice could be taken regulations canpbe devised and enforced. with advantage by those in places of re- there will be' nothing to prevent an over sponsibillty. He and Wiley Post were kil-

Thus he discounted his

led Aug. iii, 193.”; when the -latter's plane

Ti No one, in thei

circumstances i

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PUBLIC FORUM

TIIII column In upon to tho discu- nIoI by ..rrIIpoulInII of quullonn of Inland. The GIIAMIII: don not Iocunrlly undone III opinion of -onupnndznln.

DEALERS MEETI NG

Sir.-I was pleased to be pre- sent It the,potato dealers meet- ing in Alberton last night, Nov

n'umbe,r present I would say titer.- were one hundred dealers and about twenty-five or thirty furni- ers present, including myself, to hear Mr. E. D. Reid of Charlotte- town and Mr. Buchanan of On- tario defend competition in thz

and prices! firm for fishermen, according to Fisheries'

toll

winter and summer.l

ililnia. Nov. 2nd. Island potatoes and pigs dominated the-

girls: from the 4-H clubs of Prince Edward Is,”

land. It aiigurs wcll t'or the continued pro-I

lng-the lriiflclbl channels open too l0llg' crashed in Alaska.

marketing of our potatoes rather than the co-operative way.

Tile speakers were given I per- fect hearing. In answe,l to s ques- tion from the audience as to lio.v they, the dealers. knew when thij

price of potatoes was advancing. Mr. Reid said one thing ll? thought was la good guide was

the number of inquiries coming Rennie phoned the other morning and said had a car load of potatoes I.) move and asked him the, pricu Mr. Reid said he could pay : nickel more that morning as It? from the inquiries from the day before that he would he SHIP in paying that. Mr. Reid did not. say if he bought. the car-or not -'

Mr. Ralph him

nor did he say whether or not I Ralph advanced the price to ill? growers to that extent. From

here an we are just. wondering. The chairman. Mr. Frank Bry- his opening remarks nil- hose present that this and tlinl. noi one would he told to sit down. i do not think that advice was no- ccssary for no one seemed in clined to get up and st-c-mt-,d' quite content to sit and listen. i I am. Sir. l-tc., W. B. MCLELIAN

2nd. By a rough estimate of the:

iv i

' be misled by substitutes." -Har.-.li-

D MORE rHAAa(mI(fxigaN65l oWcV...,

PossiblepUni:oreseen7 Developments

i NOTES.BY

l FIr too mnny people no re- ifusing to acknowledge the first lrulc of economics -- the lower the yprice. the bigger the market. the - greater the sale. the more the em- 'ployment - Midland Free Press- Herald.

A tobacco heiress. already one of the richest women in the world. has been willed Sl00.000 more by her half-brother. He probably; didn't want little sister to 80' broke. Sydney Post-Record.

There hII been 1 lot of com- ment in the past about Canadians being Americanized. With all the capital and people coming to this country from the U. s.. it may be a case of Americans becoming Carl- adlantzed. But who can tell the difference. -Oshawa Daily Tim05 Gazette.

Scientists aboard I New England fishing schooner claim to be the

THE WAY

Bnntford Expositor: It lIn'l necessarily true that because Kenora has a proportionately high- er hospitalization rate than any other place. it is the unhealthlest place in Ontario. The beds might be softer, or the nurses prettier.

GBl-antford Expositor.

It has become Increasingly fash- ionable. and probably rightly so, to stress other methods than corporal punishment for cl e a l i n g with juvenile offenders. But, as Police Chief Walter Mulligan told a ser- vice club this week, there comes a point where only the birch or a good caning will make any impres- sion nn the worst of the young hooligans. - Vancouver Province.

In our mail wu an ndvertlnlnz brochure for an English maga- zine. After challenging our ig- norance with the word "l-low Muscular Is a Mushroom?" it went. on to tell us that "i.he re-

rirst persons ever to have reached the magnetic north pole. This is not to be conlused with the 1.191)- zraphic pole, which now should have a sign nailed to it rczldlngzi "The old original north pole. drm'tI

ton Spectator.

In the end, the guiding prln ciplc in choosing a profession i. not whctlier one can become rici and famous in it, but whether on" will be happy in it. The man wht hates his work. or is indifferent ta it, will never give of his best; he cheats himself, he cheats his cm- ploycr. and in a wide sense. he ch e a t s society his whole life through. However humble the task, if a man is happy in performing it. he has found satisfaction ill living. -- Hamilton Spectator.

There are persons who are never casy unless they are putting your books and papers in order - that is according to their notions of the matter - and hiding things. lest they should be lost, where

Old Charlottetown .

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From The Examiner, Nov. 21. 82: i

The prominent Ie it ll firm of Hodgson dz McLeod has been dis- solved. Hon. Neil McLeod has open- ed out opposite the Post Office, in the room lately occupied by the

reform Club, and has also estab- lished in branch office at Summer- side, in thelbuilding occupied by the Merchants Bank of Halifax. Mr. Hudgson retains the old office of, the late firm in both Charlottelowni and Summerside. R

Mr. A. C. Dennis. of theifirm of Dorsey & Goff :55 Co.. Charlotte- town Boot and Shoe Factory, start- ed yesterday on a tour of the Is- land to take the winter and spring orders. He took with him a large; and splendid lot of samples, Ihcl firm's own manufacture. x

At the special general meeting of the shareholders of the B Ink of Nova Scotll, held at Halifax yester- day. -resolutions in favour of amni- gamatlon with the Union Bank of

. E. Island were unanimously pas- sed. and full powers were granted to the directors to consumate the matter without I further meeting of shareholders.

The Cherry Valley Post Office is now It McDonald's store. The late postmIster, Mr. Angus Mcbcllnn, being too old to attend to his duties, resigned. We think the Govern- ment ahould allow the small pit- tance he received as pontmuler to continue. in compensation for the length of years he so faithfully served the public.

The Age Old Story

In the bulnnln (lod crested tho huvon and tho earth . . . And God nw every thing that He Ind mode, Ind. behold. ll wu very good.

NEEDS DONOR!

ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CF) -He'd Crou officials reported the blood bank here was "alarmingly low." All average of eight, to 10 donors in day, they said. Iuppllcd only half

wither the owner nor anybody else can find them. If anything is left where you want it, it is called little. There is a pedantry in houscwifery, as well as in the gravest concerns. - Sydney Post- Record.

Tlu-. unfailing regularity which poachers are nabbed and fined heavily for hunting in the Cape Breton Highlands National Park. should not escape attention. There has been enough example nf what happens to poachers on the federal domain to warn the irresponsible. The warning word should penetrate the heads nf even those contemptuous of the law. Certainly this newspaper passes the word along in news items that repeatedly tell of utifl fines imposed in the Magistrate's Court. National Parks everywhere in Canada are wild life sanctuar- ies for bird and beast. - Sydney Post-Record.

A Florida. man In In Jail. his son is in the doghouse. and the family car is in the garage because the boy was caught exceeding the speed limit. Zebcdcc Wilson was jailed in default of a 8100 bond when he was convicted of contri- huting to the delinquency of I minor by sending his fifteen year- old son on an errand in an auto when the boy did not have n driv- ing license. Police caught the boy doing sixty miles an hour in the family car. His father was unable to post the S100 bond after the situation had been unravelled in court. - Saint John Telegraph- Journal.

Slolnoch ulcer: hue been pre- dominantly I mule malady. Many of us know several men suffering from them. but it in relatively rare to meet I wnmnli who in I victim of this aggravating illness. A mediml antltoriiy reports. however, more women now are having this trouble. He attributes it to women going out to work in competitive field: where the tensions Ind pru- sures are heavy. Stomach ulcers are In occupational hnurd for those who work constantly under heavy persure. That. is why persons in some vocations are more suscept-, -ble in them than are individuals who are under less tension. It. is quite n nstursl result that when women occupy jobs where the nervous stlaln is great there should be I higher incidence among the fem-

with

the requirements

ale pcpulstlon

-Windsor sin I

putecl champion weight.-lifter of the fungus world is the Inky Toadstool of Baslngbroke which, some years ago. heaved an 83- pound paving stone out of I bed of ceinelli.." -Kingston Whig- Standard.

Hardball is generally usumed to be on the decline in Canada, for reasons which seem plausible enough. Yet. there never was A time when American big league scouts were signing more young Canadian ballplayers to contracts. If we have fewer players in rela- tion to population. it's fair to con- clude they're a cluster type. The Detroit Tigers alone now have seven Canadians under farm club con- tracts. while the eighth, Reno Bcrtoia of Windsor, is on the Tig- er roster. The latest Tiger find. incidentally. is It 1'7-year-old pitch. er. Morley Macfarlane of Brandon. Man. -Windsor star.

.The Foreign ministers of the nine powers. who met in Paris to discuss the rearmament. of West Germany, sensibly accepted In Italian suggestion to give the en- larged Brussels Alliance 3 new name. The defensive alliance bringing West Germany and Italy into partnership with Britnin, France, Belgium. The Netherlands and Luxembourg, now has the name Western European Union. The new name was adopted quickly in order to destroy another label that newspapers and officials have been sticking on the alliance - ”Bruto" for Brussels Treaty Or- ganization. Italy's representatives at the conference. Ambassador Manllo Brosio, pointed out to his colleagues that Bruto in Italian means ugly. The conference couldn't get rid of that name in

too great I htlrry - Sydney Post- I

Record.

Appu-cntly the snfell plus in the world today is in the air. At least this is the canclusino which we have reached after I study of statistics referring to both Iir and auto travel. This surprising flct came to light as we studied the statistics, that scheduled commer- cial operations in Canada emerged with I remarkably cleIn IIIIO. During the year 1963 CInIdiIn carriers flew more than 985,000.- 000 passenger miles on domestic and international services with only one passenger fatality. This would be equivalent to sending one globe-trotting passenger Iround the equator once I day. every day of his life. until he presumably. dropped deldr from exhaustion or old In lame time in his I031-d year. On the other hand the mo- torlm continued to slay Ind in- jure themselvu Ind other! It I remlrkable rate. - St. Cntherlml Standard. '

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Everybody remember: the :0- folclng that took Disco in tho Poralgn Offices of the well back in 1048 when the news came that a Communist Yugoslavia had brok- In with Soviet Russia. The official Ruuian version was that Mu-shIl Tito hld been expelled from the Comlnform because he was I Oom- munixt only outwardly; his renl sympathies were with the "capit- alists and wurmongers" of the West. Belgrade had another story: The break had come because Mos- cow had tried to make economic and political vaasala out of the Yugoslsva.

Regardless of which version was nearer to the truth-if. indeed, there was tiny truth in either-the West had reason to rejoice, or so it seemed. Yugoslavia in of great strategic importance in the Med- ltazi-anean; its domination by Russia would seriously hamper flee world defences in that region. More important that the military angle, however, was the political one. If Yugoslavia. a. Communist country. could talk roughly to the Russians and get away with it, perhaps in time other countries would find the courage to do the same thing. It was the first-and, thus far, the only--break in Com- munist solidarity.

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tivitlea over than the Western allies began to pour hundreds of millions of dollars into Yugo- 5laVlll'5 military and economic machine, most of it. coming from the United States. Marshal Tito be- came a great man overnight. True, he was still ll. Communist but he was no longer of the Moscow var- iety: and that was what. counted at the time. In clue course the Marshall was invited to London where he wu wined Ind dined and, DPElumably. shown almost every- thing there was to see in Britain's arsenal. Here was a man who had defied the Russian bear with lm. punlty; nothing was too good for in.

Thai hope was that in due time, when his repentance was complete, he would renounce Communism altogether and throw in his lot, without equlvocatlon, with the West. Meanwhile, the words be. tween Moscow and Belgrade wax- ed hotter and hotter. Stalin call- ed Tito I "Fascist dog". Tito re- Diied by calling Stalin I. "thief, murderer. and coward". For a time it. looked as if the Russian Mm! might. go into Yugoslavia and put an end to Tito! loud talk; but for some reason. never dis- closed. this did not happen. Perhaps the Russians were I little afraid of the possible reac- tion of the West to any such move; Pefhlpa they had other reasons. Anyway. Tito let it be known that no one in Yugoslavia was afraid of Russian soldiers. Let them come; they would go back sadder and wiser men. The quarrclling con- tinned with vehemeiwe and. a few months ago. Tito confirmed his anti-Russian stand and his friend- ship for the West. by signing a mutual defence pact. with Greece and Turkey. This was hailed in the West as another victory. It would not be long before Yugo- slavia ecame an important part of NATO. V.

Thai. mushiy. was the situation up' to just a few weeks ago. Then, suddenly, there came annoying rumours that. all was not well. It. seems that Marshal Tito had stated in a public address that Yugoslavia would never join NATD

The Passing Scene

3: Oboervor

No sooner were the formal fe.-l- w

Page 4 The Gullrdlan

OB HOAX?

Russian "friends". Nothing muc was bond after that untu gm? this week when I l-other lsbourgd meeting was sent. from Belgrade to Moscow. "The liberation of Bel. grade by the joint sacrifices of the Red Army and our own Ilghtgx-;"' read the tree!-ins. "14 Rain; to in A symbol of the fntemity of the Yugoslav and the Soviet peopleg"

Not to be outdone in grace and courtesy, a Soviet official recalled ll message sent by Stalin to Tim in October 1944: "The Red Army, together with the People's Liber- ation Army. with stupendous hem. ism. liberated Belgrade". what does it. all mean. Well one of these days we shall be getting the of. ftclal Western lnI.CI1JlVeI.atior,- Meanwhile, one might make a few speculations.

One thing we may be sum 1; does not mean is that Maxmal Tito will ever be I great and strong ally of the West. The "next voice" may indicate that after 51. years of estrangement. from Mos. cow he has arrived at the con. cluston that YuaoalI.via'l best. in. tereat: lie in a. ralppmchemem with the Cominfoml. He may be. lieve now that the quarrel was a mistake, that Yugoslavia! cut. turul and racial ties with Russia ale stronger, despite the tempo;-My defection. than any relationship that might be developed with the

est. -

The Russian leaders. quite u;,.

derstalidably, are anxious to break up. before it get: well under way, any Balkan alliance that might prove to be ta-oiiblegomeg and ii ,, possible they offered Tito enmjgh Lo,make it worth his while in come back to the fold. In short, the new affection which Rumlall. and Yugoslavians - their leader; thnt. is-have acquired for on. another may be simply A mllltai-3 expedient. On the other hand It may tun, out to be the culmination of tiir greatest diplomatic and military hoax in history. This would mean. of course. that there never nu any break between Moscow Ind Belgrade, that the whole thing was s colossal trick to entice Am. ericali dollars and military sup- plies into Yugoslavia, all for tin eventual use of the C0nl.I'l'lllllls conspirators. Time will ml) tin story; and it may be told soon. Al the moment it does not promise in be very pleasant reading for tin- West.

EITTLE THING!

Little things. that run Ind quail. And die, in silence and despair! Little tliillgs. that tight. and fall And fall, orl sea. and earth. and -Ill' All trapped and frightened llI.i.ll things. The mouse. prayer! As we forgive those done to us -The lamb, the llnnet, and hare- Forgive us all our treapusea. Little creatures, everywhere!

-Tunes Stevens

the coney, hear mi

ill!

ISRAEL COTTON

V The Republic of Israel harvested its first commercial cotton ('l'flI' from an experimental 740 acre:

Or any-ciher alliance aimed at his

POTATO GROWEIIS

The. Agricultural Products Co-operative Marketing Act is not intended to be the means of providing a subsidy.

. It is unlikely that it will ever again pro- vide an initial payment large enough to cause cl loss to rllefederul treasury.

P. E. I. POTATO AND TUBNIP DEALERS ASSOCIATION

in 1954.

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