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'JANUARY 3. 1952 '

THEIGUARDIAN

Authorised In Second Clue Mull Post Offics Department. Ottawa. The Island uuudlln Publishing Co. CIRCULATION '

l'otIl City Zone llntail Trading Zone All Others Total Net

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l'resldeiit and Associate Isdltbr, Inn A Burnett. Associate Editor. Fl-Ink Walker.

."1he Strongest Memory is Weaker Noon the Weakest Ink".

CHAllL(I'l'TETOWN.' THURSDAY. JAN. 1:19.52

Lot's Abolish Budget light!

in Ottawa from the time of Confeder- ation until the Year of 0ur.Lord A.D. 1951 Budget Night has been regarded by most people in the Capital as an appropriate and fitting occasion to appear, attired in dinner jacket, in the galleries of the House of Commons. Elsewhere in the country Bud- get Night was also the occasion for solemn- ity, for it was then that the ordinary man who pays the cost of government learned how far he would have to dig down in his pockets to meet taxes foi' the MK? lWe1V9 months. ,

Budget Night, with all its cherished memories, pleasant and otherwise, now ap- pears to have vanished into the limbo of events long since forgotten. For not only have "Baby Budgets" begun to sprout forth at all seasons of the year, but the very word "Budget" has become as phoney and suspect to most Canadian cars as the word "peace" when uttered by Moscow's Mr. Vishinsky.

The reason? Finance Minister Abbott's cmbarrassing error in calculating th: rev- enues which the Government expected to accrue from its programme of taxation, of course! For instead of the 330 million sur- plus forecast by Mr. Abbott last March, the first eight months of the present fiscal year show nearly d634 million.

The embarrassment occasioned by the surplus is not confined to Mr. Abbott and his Finance Department advisers. For it is shared by every taxpayer in the country who, had Mr. Abbott been a bit more ac- curate in his forecasting, would not have been so heavily taxed and, consequently, would have more money available to pay the post-Christmas bills.

Budget Night, viewed against the ex- perience of the last eight months, is little more than a mockery of the principles of sound finance upon which this countryls credit rests. It is a wonder that somebody hasn't already proposed that Budgets, so far as Ottawa is concerned, be abolished.

Jammeii Anchor

It might seem surprising that the sail- ing of a great liner such as the Queen Mary should be postponed 24 hours because of an anchor being "jammed in its hawse- pipe, incidentally delaying Prime Minister Churchill sailing for talks in Washington and Ottawa. The fact is that an anchor is very important, indeed to a sailor whether he be in a small boat or a great ship.

Engines can fail, steering machinery break down or visibility close in in narrow waters. In these and a multitude of other troubles it is with thankfulness that the master can "drop the hook" in the con- fidence that it will hold without dragging.

Perhaps almost as much as the com- pass itself the anchor enabled man to con- qucr the sea. When boats had to be pul- led up on the beach when not under way their size and build were severely limited. It is curious that the foul anchor, with its cable wound around the stock so that the flukes do not bite, should have become a symbol of nautical rank amongst seamen of almost every nationality. It is as though a collapsed parachute were to become a general symbol for airmen.

An impressive Ilooor-ii

To the widespread tributes paid to Pro- fessor Edgar Mclnnis, formerly of Char- lottetown, on his appointment as full-time president of the Canadian Institute of In- temational Affairs, the Ottawa Journal adds the following biographical details:

An artillery signalman in World War I, Professor Mcinnis went on from there to the University of Toronto and then to Ox- ford as in Rhodes scholar, winning the Jar- dine Prize in poetry at Toronto and the Newdigate prize at Oxford. He has taught history at Oberlin College, was visiting pro- fessor of Bowdoin College, attained the rank of professor at Toronto in 1949. (where he has taught for 20 years), has twice won the Governor's award for academic ----l10n- fiction, has published four books. including one six-volume histoyy of the wit which gained international praise. Bar fifteen years he has been irworker with the Insti- tute which he now heads; lie was chairman of the Canadian Deisgstlon to the Institute of Pacific Relations Conference at Strat-

--ford-on-Avon in 1947 and at Lucknow, In-

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dia. in 1950.

At 53, this is a truly impressive record. As the Journal adds, Professor Mclnnis will bring to his new post "a broad-minded approach that will keep things out of

finance, industry and business to recognize that they too have a responsibility to study international affairs and play a helpful part in the criticism and even formation of our foreign policy."

EDITORIAL NOTES

Newfoundland is to be congratulated on its new helicopter mail service. The suc- cess of the project will, of course, mean more general adoption and greatly improv- ed service for many out-of-the-way local- .ities.

Evidently the future distribution of "the loaves and fishes” at the Governments conti'ol is worrying some Liberals, hence a demand for a convention to nominate the new Leader when Premier Jones goes to the Senate.

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No one is very interested in mosquitoes and flies at this time of year, If, however, they are to be effectively controlled next summer it is necessary to make plans well in advance. The period when the mosquito in particular is especially vulnerable to!

control measures is very brief. 0 O O

The Canadian Legion has never asked that veterans be given government jobs for which they are not qualified, but the Sum- mcrside branch drew attention to an im- portant consideration last week. Unless jobs are advertised, qualified veterans cannot generally know of their being available.

The fact that Russian produced cotton is in Halifax on consignment to American interests is not in any way confirmation of Soviet claims to be growing more than India, Pakistan and Egypt combined. It will be remembered that Russia was dump- ing wheat on world markets at a time when famine was striking at home.

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Newfoundland is much more progres- sive in postal service operations than here in Prince Edward Island. Here it was left to private enterprise to initiate faster mail service; while in the Old Colony the new

by General Rockingham that "the Brigade has never lacked anything asked for- equipment, clothing, food, or anything else". What better testimonial could any Cabinet

Minister wish for?

Clement Richard Attlee. British states- man, was born this date 1883. He studied at Oxford and was called to the bar. He lectured on social science at the University of London and served in the army in the First World War. He has been a Labour M. P. for Limehouse since 1922 and Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1945 until a Conservative government was returned last year.

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The Saint John Telegraph Journal en- tcis a well justified protest against the pub- lication in London of a semi-official record of the Royal Visit. From the pictorial re- cord in question it would appear that the Royal Visit began at Washington and ended at Montreal, the rest of Canada, the Mari- times in particular, being practically ignor- ed. There has been too much of this sort !of thing, including the official moving pic- ture films recently shown in advance here.

Away in Cape Colony they are feeling, as elsewhere. the inroads of alcoholism upon women. An appeal has been made by Dr. K. Bremer, Minister of Health, for a national effort to combat alcoholism. Dr. A. S. Roux, lecturer in Psychology, de- clared the problem of inebriacy among women is becoming more serious. Intox- icants, he says, are dangerous enough to men-to women they are positively dis- estrous.

In the opinion of some. the Governor- General is the representative here of the Government In London that appointed him. Not so, Lord Alexander told the English Speaking Union in New York. "I am above party politics in the country to which I" am accredited, as our King is above party politics in the United Kingdom. xi have no connection at all with the government of the day in London. My official contacts and channels of communications are with Buckingham Palace only-the seat of His Majesty the King. I act on, and only with, the advice of my Canadian ministers". This stralghtens out the matter with the Amer- icans; It was well-known here.

academic cliches and yet challenge men of .

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BANK FACILITIES NI-ZIJDED "In so far as we are aware, we ure the only English community, numbering 70,000 souls. without ll bank, or a sufficient supply of un- doubted paper money. Two or three years use. we noticed in the Canadian papers that every inhab- itant of Montreal was represented by 136 of bank notes, whilst the good people of Charlottetown have none. We have seen 8 good deal of provincial banking, and are quite of opinion that there is an ample field lntthls Colony, not only for ii very considerable issue of treasury notes, but also for the operations of an incorporated Bank of discount, deposit and ex- change . . .

"That thc project of n Bank will be dlscountennnctd by merchants who do ii snug business on inde-

G0V9"lm9”t is inlmducing helimptef 59"” 3Z2?1?"ip.Z"a”.ii"1' Q".lZ....I'2”.. ””.'l-iii iii? 333”...”g".5”.J.?e'f?'”ixiseiaciiii ice. No wonder that province is going place the man with little or none are taken into account. Bill the ,ah(,ad' . nealrly 0!; the same lcvel.lNcvcr- failure to iieuch high thtargchs the ass. I ese merchants wil muin- .ho ld not bind us 0 e act

' ' . taln their pro-eminence in the ex- :3! uvcry real achievemenkt ill

i It took Defence Minism Caxton and ':.c..:n:::. e::.:..m:? .. . . i as a e r P -

Veterans Minister Lapointe a Journey all any om... class, 1; up, pnrflog some c,,u,,,mes have not done the way to Korea to hear complaints from "W9 1"?-lfestflfl l" "W ”5"”l"5"' all they could. We lllmice has . . , 1 t b ld merit o a Bank should bring smgwd very 39.91-ec,ably. And.

the boys on the flrmg lme (my 0 e to ""3 mum" b"'"" "l" L93” because the West is stronger. the

liiture, we certainly do not think that the capital should be less than i100.000, the institution to commence its issues when a cer- tain proportion is paid up.”

-The Islander. Doc. 27. 1850.

A New State Is Born

(Ottawa Jdurnnl)

One million Arabs received on Christmas Eve the present of a new and independent kingdom - Libya. Back in 1949 the United Na- tions adopted s resolution that. France and Britain would grant in- dependence to Libya not later than January 1. 1952, and the fulfilment. came Christmas Eve with fomial pm:-la.matlon.

This is the kind of Christmas news the world longs for. This is the kind of news that the United Na- tions was designed for and dearly than reiterated assertions of fall- would like to present to us rather lire here and disappointment there

There is something heartening l..i lhe outsider to see France and Britain, who had to fight so des- perately to rid the North All'lC.l desert of its Italian and German sqiiatters. taking the leading roles in turning back to the Arabs what would by other nations we know be regarded as the spoils of vict- ory.

Reuters reports that flags. slog- ans and hunting deck the smiling: face of war-torn Bengiizl. The new capital is n fliitter of national col- ors - orange. green and black, with .insct crescent and star-and green nalm leaves cover battered shop fronts and bomb-ruined rooftops 'L(mg live llbertyl" the Arabs are proclaiming.

It is 40 years that Libya has been under foreign domination. The It- alian regime was one of exploita- tion and sometimes oppression. the Allied post-war regime was one of assistance to restore social and eco- nomic llfe and toprepiire for prom- ised independence. Today the coun- try is free. and in March. the na- tional elections will declare a new pcmuliir government.

It. is a l announcement. as we have said: one that the dem-

ri-stlc world as s whole will wel- come. It must provoke wanderings in the minds of those peoples who are being fed the Russian imper- ialist propaganda t at only the soviet looks after 9 rights of iron. And it should bofs particu- larly embarrassing news item in the streets of nearby Cairo where the only news the Egyptians regard as fit to print is t. tuned up "news" .of the sins and perfldlss of Brit- sin.

IIIIIOP IITIIIS

scene at the close of the year 1951.

Realvproaress Made In World Affairs In I95I

By W. N. Iiwcr E When one looks at the world one's first thought. is that it is! curiously similar lo the scene all the end of 1950. Thcre has bzcni no dramatic or major change. The pessi-mists who-had foretold the. outbreak of 3. new world war liiivel been deceived. The optimists who hoped that the proposed meeting of the four foreign ministers would brings relaxation of the ten-I sion between the "two camps" have equally been dcccived. The "cold war" continues neither appreciably hotter nor appreci- ably colder. And on Korea, though there have been ceasefire talks, for six months, the "hot war" stilll goes on. Renrmamcnt has not rcnclicd the targets sat at the end of lasl.

danger of war has, though not as yet decisively. lessened. i Politically, the greatest advan- tage ls in Germany. We are very near now to the point. nl. w Western Germany will become nl free and equal member of the; community of free nations. And,. at the same time. the initiative in the movement for German unliyt has passed to the West. It is now a federal republic. which, with, United Nations support. makes. proposals which East Genrnan. Communists are afraid either to accept or to reject. The fear of a Communist East Germany over- runnln-g the West secms today the remnant of an ugly dream -- though it was real enough last. year. Today the only question is when and how the East. will be able join the free West. . . .

It is beyond question that in these twelve months the West. has grown stronger. It is harder, be- cause of the ever closer "iron cur- tain," to speak confidently of the Soviet. Empire. But such evidence in is available suggests that if is. if anything. weaker than a year ago. its military strength A even if it now possesses atom bombs - is probably not appreciably greater. Its armament production was iii- ready very near to ii tolerable peace time maximum. But there have been, through the year. indications of increasing inter- nal economic and political stresses, especially in the European satell- itc states. The weaknesses which are inherent in all dictatorship: are beginning to show themselves.

Nor are signs lacking to suggest that relations between the two poles ofthe Communist. axis are far from what Moscow had dem- cd or hoped. There is no rift, nor any sign of impending rifttin the alliance. But ii. is an alliance. not a subsei-vlence. And every now and again Peking makes quiet but unmistakable gestures of in- dependence.

The methods of the transition. the need for stability and secur-, lty as well as for independence, have brought conflict in the past. They are. unhopplly. still a cans. for conflict. But when conflicts lPl'll1il from a clash of immediate pollcles,not. from a clash ofultlm- ate purposes. they should be solu- sble. That ll why. however ugly 1931 may have been, I am not unhopeful. either as regards Egypt or Persia. for 1962. '

And so, on the whole. however pessimistic lthe prevailing mood may be. I would any that looking back on the past 12 months. the intcrnltionsi situation has not dzt-crlorlted but has definitely if

5ll(lllvlY. improved. The outlook is

dark as it seemed s yelr ago. It

c.A!KJ.ARY-- I ) - A new Anglican Bishop Cslury wllll be elected some time in Febru- ary .l.o succeed llshop H. R. But. who retired '16 the Illl"lJfid.

lpeot s few yeorsiionce. 1961 may

may even be that. soon in retrbi;

lTlic stars are glittering in the

galaxy lllns marshalled its innumerable

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not s bright one but It is not so

Ae is.

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TIIE WINTER. GALAXY

frosty sky. Frequent. as pebbles sou-coast; And o'er the vault the cloud-like

on a broad

a. , Alive all heaven seems! with won- drous glow

Tcnfold rcfulgent every star ap- pears, As if some wide. celestial gale did . blow, And .thrlcn illumc the ever-kindled spheres.

Orbs, wlih glad orbs rejoicing. burning, beam.

Ray-crowiied, with lsmbenl. lustre in their zones.

Till o'er the blue. bespnngled

. spaces lseem

Angels and great. sroliangels on their thrones:

A host. divine. whose eyes are sparkling gems,

And forms more bright. than dia- mond diadems.

-Charles ii:-avyscge

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llow excellent is thy lovli-igb kindness, 0 God! therefore the children of men put their trust under "ll! shadow of thy Will!"- Tlii-y shall be Ibundnntly satisfied with the fitness of thy house: iiml thou shalt mnlia them drink of the river of thy .' w- 1'0! with the is the of life: in thy light shnll we Ice light.

u Tu'-'1'-P-'u5

What. No Vest?

(Winnipeg Free Press)

A survey recently completed by the U.8. Department of Agricul- ture. as it studied the future pros- pects of wool. suggests that the v.-curing of vests by men-It least by men in the United States-is on the way out. Among the men ques- tlimed, 52 percent declared they did not want vests with their year- ;-n.ind suits, 37 percent said they did. and the remaining 11 percent. cxuiessed no preference.

This is not A trend to be accept.- ecl lightly. no matter what reasons nrc advanced for its 6... ' l The fact. that vests make no nes- thetlc contribution - and it ll wlzlent they do not - is not suf- ficient cause to condemn them. Neither is the further fact that they have a somewhat shsckllng ef- fect. on their wearers. serving to pi-rnetuste the traditional sull.-of- mnll motif in male uppni-ei.

Such points. indeed. are more side issues. wholly ignoring the grant functions performed by vests. their real meaning. Surely, before thought can be given their shon- donment, there is need to find an- sworii to questions such as those;

Where will the vcstless man carry his pencils. pen. pocket comb. nail ':llr, cigarette llizhtcr, pipe rumor. and sundry similar essential gad- gets?

so long A! society clings to the idea that men should keep their siuipendsrs braces or gollusel cov- crril up. how can 1 man without I test. accomplish this snd still work in his shirt sleeves? ,

with these points in mind. it. is evident that the idea of shedding qnrments - of reducing the num- ber of wenrablssvorn - is some- thing many men will resist, or luv! to the women with their manifest special talent for that sort of thing

The meuui-u of freedom gained by discarding the vest is clearly no satisfactory compensation at all for -loss of the carrying capacity of four pockets which are ordinarily called upon to bear their peak -load.

Pwdheey. Iiowevcrl tentative.

sppalr so 1 year of change for the better. But to that so to ovoi-yd

must bu added that all-important

E I "Notes i In Aiutnllo I mu: discharged from Penn-idgo not outside, with gifts foi-.liIs pair. nice touch of sentiment in surely. But the guards caught. the ohiip on his Wly

reverse. - Ottawa Journal.

understood is how correct spelling is taught.-or whether it is nol. taught Iii all. but merely lisp-

often doesn't. happen. Among my onerous tasks is that of reading I certain number of articles (by no means all) submitted for publica- tion in this journal. Many of the writers are obviously cultured. Yet when it comes in spelling they are on the level of the average third-form boy or a little ,lower. Here is some orthography (or is it clcography) from one article I have just been sizing up: Apal- llns. unhygcnic. comparltlvc. deli- cnsles. accompsniement, con- sclensious. mesnncsses. These variants on the normal are part of the fruit of a university educa- tion. How is their author to learn? - London Spectator.

The American civil defence of- fort. is in danger of boggixig down on man's reluctance to make himself look silly. Take Yonkers. A year ago Yonkers set up an auxiliary police force as part. of the civil defence program. Its members have been training as- siduously ever since. Arm bands and badges identified them no auxiliary police and .they were quite satisfied with these distinc-

unlforms - ii white helmet. bluue coveralls, white belt and short. white leggings. Everything seems to have been hunky dory until one of them caught sight. Oi him- self ln ii mirror. Self-preservm tion thrust civil dcfencer aside. strong men who never blanched at donning dlnky lodge uniforms drew the line at "costumes fit for clrcus clowns, storm troopers and space Datrolincn." It's a solemn thought that men would rather face an atom bomb than fiica their fellow-men looking ridiculous. Montreal star.

student nurses at 1 Toronto hospital minds of oldtlmers through the promotion of ii box social at to holiday dance for the staff. We would ncsltnie to guess how many rural romances were born in the contents of on attractively wrap- ped liinch a couple of generations ngc. By the same token we

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broke into the pines. from the A that who out were not touched by this bit of Christmas spirit. They said it was I one olzjsil-breskinz. even if in

one Thing I have never quite

pens. The trouble is that if. so

aroused memories in lhe'

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would not: venture to say how many romances were wrecked by "1 llnwll 2 auctioneer. ' '1-in young lades of the community vied'with-sub other in the quality gt the "vit.ltl1ea" tmnotgent into tbs ox. II W6 ll 5 wpgpp . The finished product might bonus simple square parcel or on elo. bonito hea.' shaped box libsrslly beciecked with i-lbboned love. knots. There was no identifies-. t..on'on the box and they young ladys name would be inside. on ili- night of the "box social" gr, the community hail. the attached and unattached males would tum out en masse and seek to outbid each other as the auctioneer put each box up for sale. The lucky man would pay his money and llllmcdlalvelil Open his purchase to find out the name of his pnrtmir for the evening. - Sudbury Star.

In M8 1'" ' broulouls, which have become part of sh. pattern of the holiday season for lll"u0ll3. the Kill: invariably leaves his listeners with some- thins to think about. This ye3r'5 message was no exception. Speak. ing of the peoples of the com. rzionwealth, His Majesty said; we do not. all, think alike, or course. We are such a. large fam- ily of nations that this would be difficult. We each have our own ideas. but we have come to learn that differences of opinion are not the some as quarrels . . . 1: there is anything. that we can of. fer to the world today, pemap; lg is the example of tolerance and understanding . . . . " It is per. fectly true that the membe. of the Commonwealth do not all think alike, any more than neigh- bors llvlng on the same street. all

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another, but they refrain from trampling down other fellowls hedge or breaking his windows. it still mains for the inhabitants of larger neighborhood. the modern world. to lcnrn that they don't. need to go in for window-breaking either, even though they mgy have different "ways or life." Ottawa Citizen. , A reader his suit us the fol- lowing item. which he copied from Salary Stabilization Regulation Number 3. it is what the U. s. Federal Government called I "de- friltion." It reads: "As used in this regulation. the term (h) Tim- ployei" includes a corporation .cwned or controlled by the em- ploying corporation or owning or controlllng the employing cor- partition, and a corporation owned or controlled by the corporation

tlve marks. Recently. however. "link ll - some ll9l8hb0l'5. in- Yonkers decided to put them into deem Ill "03 ml” 3313' VR5l- Bl- fection l' orig

the from re- s

which owns or controls the em- ploying corporiitlon." - Tulsa Tribune.

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