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THE GUARDIAN

Publilhmf eicr.V Iertittay morning u in l'i:,-re siitel. Hint lotletovrn. F E I, by HM Thomson (Tuiiiplny Limiled. Ifinrn Frlnel Edwlrl llllll LII: Ibo Dew" attic: and Manager, III! A BurnuL Auoctate Editor, Frank Walker lratrtt utfut-.i ll sumnieistue. Moniaxue mo Alberlun Auiltoi ized an Second Class Mini by the Post Ollie: Depnrimeiil.

UIIIMI iih.iiIiilIt'lIhulI. Suliilnciltdl Ililll pet Allnuln ICLIP satin ltlhei viuunt-u um U S A M101” prr iinnum

trade and usury. . . . lie actively helped British imperialism by organizing and lead-

Rv (.rlllIt't. Inns in I" F) l . . .. :E....,.mE sword." "The strongest memory In weaker than

the weakest Ink." l 7'I"I'TtTSVlT:'I'.A.;0V. ltiy I954

commonwealth Relations lploits religious prejudices and the Britons were told by a former .-parlor to the L'llllNl SINGS lllal "19 ?'9l!I0""I tion of the lower to the upper class. . .' interests of ('oiiinionw'e.'-tlth poweis made it. Ulcall tltnl "8 ll0ll('.V OI Elfllllf-I ll 3'0”? would tinguish between the viewpoint of an of-I split and destroy the Commonwealth if ityfmal encyclopaed-la and that of the some; was ever Sltliltlitltld S0l'l”ll5l.V I0l' dcclslo” Rovernnient. The Indians, with full justice It littlllfl ll" llll?lt't'9lll'rllll0 I0 lltllll Ill? A-r'li'l" are vc1',V aiil:i'.V. The llintlu of Madras, re- ttlltl ll'tNIl't'll Itictiil)vl'.s'-" calling the disalibearancc of Mr. Beria front (me of the reasons for sir ,the pages of Russian history, notes mod-, Fraiiks' caution presumably is that in tse-l;m-meiy and accm-alely tn,-,1 H,-aspect for ob. cent I-European developments Britain first je,.m.(. tmm is not one 01 the Communisl avoided mittiiiciital comniilnieiits hccaust Vi,-mes." According to rcports from New she felt that she had to coitsider nlt3tllbttl5 Delhi, the government will voice its in- of the Cotittiitttlwcttllll Wli-J llllglll ll0l Wk? dignation officially to the Soviet ambas- kindly to stir-li tiiidertakiiigs in which tlicy gadOlt' M,-p Mikhail Mmshikov.

()lit et

ll,--,rl little or no voice. Stibseqtteiitly. rail.- ..i. than sop lllt- ttlttallllaliflll of lnuropc (Its-1 Basically strong int.--;i';ttn. the l'nited kitigdom entered -into

Despite damaged crops. tighter world markets. surplus supply and other problems. Canada's estimated farm cash income lot 1954 is still "a whacking two and a Ilalll billions". states Economist D. L. MacFar- plane of McGill's Macdonald College in a llengthy article in the Financial Post. This

estimate is less than the record income of last year. bttt better than in l9.')tl which tva: coiisidcrcd a very good year indeed.

: ”While farm industry is in the midst of

adjustments to lower prices which will like-;

rxtctisivw and long-tcrni engageniciits tr. imrticipzttc in l”.tti'tipm-iii defence and ee;ti.- otny.

The l)It'l is that ('an;tda. South All'lt';l I'akistan. Australian and other (”,onini'on- wealth nations have been entering into non- ('ommonw'cnlili arrangenietits for trade and tlctctirc. Imlli tlirotigli tlic I'tiitco Nation? and its stilttu-diiiate twgaiiiyatioiis and on a bilateral basis. Indeed wlienever circum- stances sccincd to a C(iniinotiti'ealth coun- try to twittitc it special agrecnient it was

p . t l I . ' . , , . ,) ., IV , inntl... ttn'tlw;,..itli, nftpn with little t-tnicet-it X34 cgntilimc rm tlh; new Hui ).(ah' .MLi Ihzilll the t'llllll't'n'.'ll or di.-'.:iplu'ot'aE of nt'ttrt' gfm 3.1 dl?C,m."Ll: 05' H119 Uzdwl. posmmli mpmbmVs' ag icu uie is s rong. ii e liist place

the downward adjustments in prices and it.- -comes have been much slower and more orderly than experienced after World War I or after the 1929 crash. The chances are excellent that over the next few years ad-, justinents will continue to be moderate. I "The longs,-run future of Canadian agri- culture is pretty well asstu'cd by the very ipromising future of the Canadian economy as a whole. More and more our agriculture is being geared to the domestic market. "Thus we may avoid the boom and bust - cycles which in the past have been associ-I Huondation Report ated largely with the importance of foreign A round-up of academic opiiiicii on the markets to Canadian farmers. On the other stilncct of fluoridation of water supplies to hand Canadian fal-met-S have made ,-apm pt-at-ctit dental caries, has: been compiled progress over the last Ill years in mechan-I lty the I”ltioridalioti (7ommittee of the izing and adjusting their production prac- llcaltIil.ea,r1tic of Canada, and is being pl,lI)- tices. These are all to the good. The lished in brochure form. tPrairies, with the wheat price underwrit- At the request of the Canadian Federc.- ten by the Federal Government, with :4 tion of Mztyors and Municipalities tne modest crop insurance program, and with Health League. Cztttatl-Ts voluntaty associa-ithe growing industrialization of the region, tion in the field of health education and have ceased to be Canadals number one preventive medicine, last spring formed 3 economic problem," committee to investigate the pros and cons of fluoridation. This committee solicitcd the opinions of the heads of Departments of Preventive Medicine in every North Ameli- can university and college having such a department. It was the only suivey of '.'s kmd CWT L.mdmImkm' Th.u.rmSm.1 me lmf way to the Island capital after sufferin;,' gut? comniittce. sought opinions from uni-.h d m 8 versity authorities was that it believed aca-l envy Sea a M: ' tlcmic sotiit-cs would be the most likely to be free from political or cconomit pressure The sttlitiiissioii of the (.'liailoIIeIotvr and :-till he thortiuizlily familiai with I.lll..' City Council to the Provincial Government stihject of fliinrtrlatioii. presents detailed claims for additional rev- The siiznificant result of this round-up enue. The general picture, however, is that of fllllllltlll was that out of RI department of a municipality finding it necessary to hc;i(I.s who responded not one express;-d provide more and more expensive S0l'VlC?S himself as bciiig against fluoridation. Six-lwithout comparably cxnanding sources of pleaded insufficient knowledge of the sub-i tax revenue. incl. while the remaining 75 offered- straizlitlt-rwnrrl endorsements of the prin- ciple of flunridatioii as a means of reduc in; the incidence of dental caries without doini: any daniagc to the human organism The (':inndian publication of the repot!

It scents only fair. under the circum- st:-tiit-cs. that Britain should consider her- .-nltl free to (In liltcwi-e, On the other hand, there is much in hc gained by Common- wealth cnuntrics vrorking closely togethei and while no one can object to the partic- ular rlvwisioiis reaclicrl lay rtny other. it will be to the liencfit of all tlrtt, ivlicnever pos- sible, the interests of other Conimonwealtlt nations he regarded when hilateral agree- -wcnts are lining considered.

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EDITORIAL NOTES

1 Charlottetown's reputation as a ship re- pair port. will be enhanced by the speedy and satisfactory repair job on the Not- wegiitn freighter ”Gci'nia” which made IlLl'

The Archbishop of Yolk, Dr. Cyril Gar- I)CIl, hclieves that newspapers still set the pace for creating and influencing public lopinion. The press, he says, leaves a deep- er impression than either radio or television ntziilniiis a few revisions and additions The written word which can be read and the nrigjnill report, lt consists largely olp reread at leisure helps to form the opinion quotations from the letters of academic dc-I of the more intelligent citizens who will be- pai-tniotit heads on fluoridation. The Candi come leaders in their locality or in the na- dian Federation of Mayors and IVItinicipali- lion." ties has undertaken to distriliute 4l,tt0(l ' v()p'l(v,s of the p;u11phlet, , The N. R. HOIGI I-II MOhII'CElI, IITO Queen Elizabeth, will be managed by the soviet propaganda Back",-es Hilton Hotel group. according to R state.- H , ment by President, Donald Gordon. The The latest editionvof the Great S()VleIp1'200-l.O()m hotel Wm be ready for Ocwp Encyclopaedia is causing a peck of trouble: pancy in 1957 and by this agreement the for Mr. Molotov. With this official refergranway makes available mpg" knowledge ence work now available in foreign couit-iand important connections of this type hf tries. people in .ncizhb.0l'?ng lflfllll have hotel while retaining ownership and A major- been delving curiously into those articles m.0po,.”On of the Proms. which deal with India, Indian history and

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work appears which desctlbes India's Intel

actionary teachings of Gandhism: hailingl front the Banya caste, which engaged in

-ing an Indian sanitary unit which servetll the British army in its invasion in the land; of the Zulus. destroying them with fire anrll

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Naturally it is most difficult to dis!

Indian personalities. The result is noted in the Winnipeg Free Press. Mr. Molotov would 11", Suez Canal was ,,p,m,d this dang normally welcome such a display of inter- "1369. est; he has of late directed his best efforts have been constructed her-Ore

towards attracting India into it benevolen'lNap0ie0n tried to have it bum. and fraternal order of western-hntingt1354' de Msseps founded an Asiatic states. It turns out, unfortunately. company which did the job Wm. the up. that the Moscow encyclopaedists, reared in mm-at of an international C(,mm1ss;m,,

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wno nous 0l'R THINKING?

Sir.--The people who do our thiiikiinz rule us. In the hoiiic. the mic who does the thinklllll l'l)l953l sometimes it is the wife. sometlmfs the man. I knew ii couple of mis- sionaires, both well educated and good people. The wife made all the decisions. .lohn would go to Mis- sion Council and acquiesce in the decisions: next Council Joh-n Would return with it changed mmd Imd upset the decisions he had V0lCCl for. The madam did It.

This state. of I aflaii V serious as ivhcii it is carried intg politics. Our country is g0VP1llE

bv the minority who think. The ;;i'andfathers, dead and gonelfor ninny years. have done the think- ing of .1 great mi-ny OI 01"” VOICIS4 "He was a good Liberal and so must 1 lip" "Tlicse Tories." he mutters. "me all misfits" Political prejudice power in this country. M . - ptit. up with all kinds of indignities and losses, not only from brewerst and tralIiL'.:(rs, but from manu-' i'IICIlll'Cl'S who pile up mllllol” 9'-l

exerts greiit

me mmpnse 0, pmrm. peep”, Thjg.alit Canftdianism. by the grace andl

. t niciiied class. it is said. help fill the chests of the old line llarties in. paymcnt for favoured l6Kl5l3ll0"- and this age-old political p'.'9lll0'tC3, of the voter keeps such I. govern-p ment in power. It looks altci all as; tliouglt money rules this country. It certainly is not the strufZElIn'-I farmer who rules It. He D935 the market price for what he buys HM mites ivliat he gets for hi.-ipproducc. and caniiot. ask any qll65l.l0nS.'

Pi-eititiice is It had state of mind” and n-ny be very bad. Stalin was xii very able man as zi niler, and might, have helped to make Russia rce.lI.V' great. among the nations; but his preludirc i-tuned him He was sol obsessed with the Marxist idea. that lie did not hesitate

to coin-t niil murder in its behalf; and this is the chief thing that is wrong with Communism. Their end .Iu5LI' fies their means. and their means may be anything, lyltiiz. promisc- brrakiim or murder. Thry havt Il1l'(1I'.'it morality to the winds. for thc ...t . of their net irlrn. A prejtidiccd person is one who can't see the two sides of A question. -He ltuiips in A conclusion regarding the point that suits him. and hi5 mind is all at. one side like the, handle of it Jllll, V There are only about six m'.llion

boiia tide Communists in Rtissia. TIN! rest nrc slaves of the great Idea, and within the accredited

nutmbershlp there is it small min- orlly who iiilc. They do the thlitk- ing. This state. of itffalrs Is what makes it so very difficult to deal with Russia. The West has to deal. not with Russia bin win) that small hndy lit. the centre, filled to the ears with prejudice.

Pi-ejutlicc in the chtirch is per-t ttaps worst of all. Many good people are more loyal to their denomination than they are to Jesus, They do not seem to realize how specific He was in regard to the relnttnn that should exist. be- tween His followers. Again and again lie comes back to that. point In order that His people might, feel its absolute necessity. "That. ye might. love one another M I have loved you," He says. Religion is the deepest. principle in human life, and if we are rlizht. there. we will be right. most likely, all along the line.

inch itect believes it has some as- sentlal doctrine that must. be pre- served. itnd that. is most. likely true: but we all have enough essential truth in common upon which to build A church thiit would have the spiritual power that she doen not. now have, and then she could belr effective testimony before the world. Jutua was thinking eerloualy of this when he said. "By this shall all men know that ye ll'l'. My

1 itm ,8lr, ntc., W. I. GREEN

The Age Old Story

the age of Stalin. are unreliable guides Ill! Britain and p,-Ame are m-imlpai sgockhoi.-1.: vat. If Iliou criau nmr know-V

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Attack On is-17r.kTMassey

tOttawa J0ll2'Il8l)

Saluiday Night, it Toronto week- ly perloclit-al. distinguishes itself in is current issue by a savage critic- ism of the Ct.'.'erxior General. Iilr. Massey, it agrees in a long and bitter lending editorial, performs his social duties ”with proper if

I135 SODIC SUCCESS "I'll. RIlIIlCl'IIlL', Oil .1 ratified intellectual level", but he is "grey and remote" and as Lhc Queen's representat.ii'e in Canada is "a dismal flop".

In sporting teims R verbal assault on the Governor General is the equivalent of shooting a sitting duck, because neither the Sovereign nor a representative of the Sover- eign is free to indulge In public argument. and coiiLrovei'sy. In these circumstances The JOLITIIRI venture: to say a word nr two, not as sprn - iiig Itll His Excellency, of txiurse. but as it matter of eleniciitary fair- ness.

It. is simply not. true that Mi", Massey has proved a failure at Ridcau Hall.

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Oil the ('tlIlllfi'Il.l' The Jouiiial is

been won over by the fact he has displayed. by his broad and Vl!',Il-

dlgnity with which he has met the social obligations of his office. by the and the aid he has given to a great variety of moveiiients. causes. 0l'l1aIllZilI.IOIl5 and aspctls in our national life. And most Canadians. we are quite sure, take it as it compliment, and a right and pro. pcr thing. that the Governor Gen- eral should speak to them from that intellectual level which ir- ritates Saturday Night into its dis- play of bad maiiners.

Mr. Massey is by no means "re- mote". Quietly bashful, he goes out of his way to meet and talk with men and women in all walks at life; they find that he can "speak their lanizuagc” and that he tinder- strtnds their problems; they ms. cover as lndivltluals that he is "5. good Canadian", who knows and is proud of his native land.

To supplement. this iiiiportnnt qualification for his office Mr. Mas- scyts long experience, in London as Callalllall Hlzll Commissioner has rlchlv equipped him to intex-pt--i the Crowii to our people. to under. stand and expound its vital role its the Commniiwritltli and Empire. to . the Olil World with the hopes and ninbit.niis of the New.

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That. is the case of Mr. Massey as it personality. Beyond it is the brnader Issue: whether R prcsum. ably responsible ptibllcation can justify itself to its own and the public conscience for sharp criti- clsm of the official hand of the state on such trivial grounds. No- body queatlons the rizht of Satur-

unileriitand the fear of the Lord, filtlflllld the knowledge of God.

interest he has displayed in:

l f A! ..f"" I Woe&' Qwzee iro AN ATiii.i;'ri; iiriisu rouse

lThe time you won your town the NICE

",'l'lIlI dignity", as its spcecli-inaltei'”t we CIl.lll"C(I you through the market-

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.M:tn and bov stood t-heeriniz by. And home we brought you shoulder- i high.

iToday. the road all runners come. .lSlioulder-high we bring you home. .And set you at your threshold ,- down.

l'l.'ow-iisman of ii stiller town.

sm.-tit lad. to slip betimea away In-nm fields where glory does no:

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And Elllly tlt(7ll'.'II the laurel grows -It withers quicker than the i rose. . .

i so set, before its eccliou fade. The fleet foot. on the sill of shade. And hold to the low lintcl up

Nrlte still-defcnded challenge-cup.

And round that early-laureled head

any peopielcmlvztlced that most of those ulm Will flock to gaze the .strengt.hle5a I ';looked upon his zippozntnicnt with, lsomethlng short of enthusiasm have,

dead. iiiid unwithered on lt.s curl: izarland briefer than it girl's.

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-A, E. Housman.

Old Charlottetown

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t I "Mcssrs. Taylor Bros.. having lcompleted their contracts promptly on time. the new rink building on Fiuroy Street was handed over to the directors on the 10th inst. The lrink will be open for skating til tllt(' weather permits) on Christmas Day. The extras are now being put in. The building will be furnished throughout. with every regard for ,tl:c comfort and convenience of its jpalroiis. The fine Band of the 82nd lBaltalion has been secured for the ls:-:tsti:i, and will discourse sweet lmtisic on Monday and Thursday levcninlts and on Saturday after- nouns of each week. The price of tickets has been fixed at 83 for IPIIICS and 53 for gentlemen: fam- ily of three or more will be allowed a discount of N5 per cent."

The Examiner. Dec. 12. I888.

day Nlizht. to criticize the Queen lnr Mr. Massey or any .v-but the just: it m:tl:cs of that right is some- illlllllz else.

Let none think Mr. Massey": tank was an easy one. as the first: cm- adinn to fill an office no delicately adjusted between the government land people of Canada and their lsovereigii-a post largely cere- monial but capable ton, as some of his predecessors found, of I. lofty quality of public service.

It is no more than justice to His Excellency to say that he has not failed; that. on the contrary those in R good position to Judge speak of his regime as an out.:t.andIngqper- sonnl success.

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3; Observer A DIITUIIING REPORT

A report. ncently releued in the United Staten will be dlsturblnm to any the least. to the leaders, and Indeed Do all citizens. of the free nations. The report is the reeault of an extensive survey con- ducted by the New York Times of the nlxtlve scientific strength of the Soviet Union and the United States.

It is genenlly believed-at tenet. it has been believed all :- long-t.hztt. while the Rumlana might be able to build up bigger armies than the free nations. they would remain much weaker In technological and l ” trial po- tential. The Times report indic- ates that this represents very dan- gerous thinking; in fact. if some- thing is not done about it very soon, it will not be long before the free world will find itself far III the rear. scientifically.

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The fact: show that. while in the soviet. Union the number of qualified tectinlclans and englneeis is increasing by leaps and bounds every year. an exactly opposite sit.- uatlon is developing, or has al- ready developed in the United states. (The situation in some other free nations. notably Bri- tain and Canada. is a little bet- ter, but not good enough to over- come the soviet advantage.)

Here are a few figures: In 1950 American universities graduated approximately 50,000 engineers in all categories; this year the num- ber was only 20,000. In the Soviet Union, on the other hand. 28,000 qualified engineers came from the school: in 1950; this year the num- her was almost. doubled-55.000. This means that the Soviet Union is currently producing more than 2&5 times as many engineers as the United States. In addition, Red Clilna ls graduating more than 29,000 annually. and lists 14 util- versltles and 39 industrial schools which strcs scientific studies al- most exclusively.

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. As for engineering students now in various phases of training the figures. in round numbers, are as follows: United States, 150,000: soviet. Union. 300.000. There are now approximately 1000 intermedi- ate technical training schools in the United States with an enroll- ment of 50,000; the Soviet Un- ion has 3700 with about 1,600,000 technicians in intermediate train- lng.

In the Soviet Union scientific in. struction begins very early in the elemeritary schools; iiiatlieniatics. chemistry. Physiu, and other 11'- labed subjects, are required 1" every phase of education. In the United States they are often op- lmnal- There. the High Schools, which of course are the diner sources of supply for advanced training in engineering and all other scientific sublecu. are be- comma lean and less helpful all the time. In the last. two or three years. the report indicates, there was I drop of almost. son". in the iiumbei' of college graduates qual- ified to teach High School science.