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THE GUARDIAN, CHARLOTTETOWN:

THE GUARDIAN

‘Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office x Department, Ottawa. ¥ The Island Guardian Publishing Co.

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Editor and Managing Director, lan A, Burnett, |

Associate Editor, Frank Walker.

' CIRCULATION “Covers Prince Edward Island like the dew”

“The strongest memory is weaker than the weakest ink”.

CHARLOTTETOWN ‘TUESDAY, DEC, 8, 1953 Newspaper Ownership

Guardian readers learn today of the changed proprietorship in this newspaper. From being owned by the sons of the late | Mr. J. R. Burnett, it now has the Thomson | Company Limited, Mr. Roy H. Thomson, | president, as owner. That the change in ownership will not mean any change in policy is assured by Mr. Thomson. Manage- | ment and staff remain in their present | capacities.

The change is indicative of the times. | At a very early date it was acrmal for | publishing, editing and printing to be in| the same hands but the task of producing | a newspaper has steadily grown more com- plex and it is rare today to find the func- tions combined. To a certain extent the new specialization is an advantage. It re- lieves the editor of some of the problems | which business must face. At the same time the publisher of several newspaper's must be well aware that the conditions of successful publication are exacting and that news coverage and editorial policy are! determined according to local conditions. To a_ surprising degree it is newspaper readers who make the newspaper. The dis- similarities between papers serving differ- ent communities is probably due in greater part to the difference in reader appeal than to any preference on the part of the pro- ducers.

The Guardian enjoys a particularly in- timate relationship with its readers fron Tignish to East Point. This has been a matter of pride and appreciation on the part of The Guardian management and staff and it is one which, we trust sin- cerely, will continue under the new setup. Certainly we can assure our readers that their interests will continue to be the touchstone of Guardian policy. It is hoped, indeed, that with improved equipment and facilities, a wider field of service will be open to this newspaper in matters affect-

ing the welfare and development of our) community and Province. American Comment Since 1952 Ottawa has lodged with |

Washington several increasingly sharp notes _ of protest against American trade discrim- ination. That this view is not confined to Canada is indicated in a recent article jn Barron's Weekly, a New York financial publication, which charges bluntly that the United States has been “waging surrepti- tious warfare against the Dominion in the sphere of foreign economic policy.”

“It is in agriculture,” says the New York publication, “that the good neighbor policy is being most sorely abused. Like other great dairy nations, Canada was hard hit by the blanket import quotas on but- ter, cheese and similar products imposed, by Secretary Brannan a few years ago Now the protectionists are drawing .a bead squarely on the Dominion's rural economy. For months they have been urging the De. partment of Agriculture to choke off the sale of Canadian rye in the U. S. market. As Senator Langer (R-N.D.) innocently pointed out, newly imposed wheat acreage restrictions have compelled the Dakota! farmers to switch to rye and other grains. this year: Steadfast so far in the matter of rye, agriculture has given way on oats. It has, in fact, been strongly urging that , strict quotas be imposed on this commodity, and such action is expected shortly.

“Still another blow against Canadian in- terests is currently under study by the! President's Agriculture Commission. That is the so-called two-price system for wheai, designed to replace existing price supports for this grain. Under it the American farmer would be guaranteed 100 per cent of parity for all wheat sold in this country for human consumption, over one-half af the total. So buttressed at home, he could then dump the remainder on the world market for whatever it would bring.

“This scheme might save the U. S. tax- payer some money, but it would be a dear- ly bought saving. For it would almost cer- tainly smash world wheat prices and in- flict great damage on other major wheat exporters, including ‘the Dominion of Can- ada. Should it be adopted, a pilgrimage to Ottawa by the entire administration would scarcely suffice to restore amity between the two nations.

“Fortunately, there remains a lot of good sense on both sides of the border, and there is still reason te hope that the com- mon cause will in the long run prevail over

‘to another will be achieved, in all likeli- /hood, without much difficulty

‘ed history.began. This will take time and)

on the clear realization that one era in U.S.-Canadian relations has ended, and ane)

Out The Same Door

other has begun.

“In the nineteenth century Anthony Trollope could with considerable justice say: ‘In going from the States into Canada one is struck by the feeling that he is going

from a richer country into a pvorer, and from a greater country into ane that is less.” That is scarcely true any longer. The Dominion now ranks among the Great Pow- ers of the Western World. As such it quite properly should command more Fespect and attention in Washington than it has been getting.”

“Wider Horizons

The European Defence Community, commonly known as E. D. C., came into existence as a united effort on the part ot) a number of Western European nations to: protect themselves in the event of an at-, tack by Russian-led Communist forces. At | first and until recently it was a purely’ military alliance based on the old and well’! tested dogma that in unity is strength.

Now, however, E. D. C. is looking to-, wards wider horizons. If plans now being | formulated by representatives of the na- | tions involved are implemented there will | evolve eventually a political and economic | federation which may well turn out to be, the most significant development in Eu-| rope’s long and troubled history. Removal of trade restrictions and customs tarifts| and the free movement of goods and per- sons from one member of the community |

WORLD WAR I

or delay. ! More difficult will be the surrender of ancient rivalries and prejudices which | have plagued Europe ever since its record- ;

PUBLIC FORUM

9 This column is open to the J): Socts Corer

discussion by correspondents

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| Wednesday: “Mentally the Rt. Hon. fences. It was

‘ } ' Any one who thinks it is smart)

-—'to attend four consecutive sessionS the United Kingdom.

‘the vivacity of Lloyd George. Mr.’ wide magnitude, involving nations,

DECEMBER 8, 1953 . oe

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| A farm publication is offering a|they have a determi

' a rmi, $500 prize for the best design for | adjust themselves to ‘thelr t i a hen house, and this should cover} and to live in the habi ffm some of the minor fixtures any-/|like—Saint John Tele tat they way.—Hamilton Spectator, al. elegraph-Journ-

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May be a coincidence, but some; Is that of the narrow Christmas ties are | cheat, ee ee beats his about the same shape as the shoe-/| and on no provocation Be his toes, polishing cloths—Hamilton Specta-/ his muscles for onlooker an flexes tor. fraud. A N ers, really a - identifies that poseur pghiatist —Weather freaks as noted by| man,” mand ant the “he. The Ottawa Journal: “Newspaper | this judgement the “he hoax. By photographs this. week showed St.' not a fellow who insti aa Oi Catharines digging itself out of the} fies all obstacles, but perncts snow-drifts—St. Catharines, in the! boy trying to forget hi & mama's Niagara peach country—while Ot-| last word, obviously, ha Past. The tawa basked in mild temperatures.”| spoken on ‘this subje a not been There have been two snowfalls| psychiatrist's defe ct. Even the here during November and with] needs quite a eee ae finding probably more snow than fell all) “He-man's superiorit clarification, pre nT ONY en Tt would be the height | ed, “is built on @ conviche of futility and frivolity, too, to! inner negation of pa Wwity? a of try and tell whats’ coming be-,you imagine Pe ee Can't tween now and even after Easter.) Rocky Marciano stumbling over —St. Catharines Standard. | those words and asking: own me?”—Windsor Dail. , One cannot but love the man for, . foe Sar his gaiety, his wit, his vision and | When people speak from th his courage. It is not presumptuous | heart. they usually use simple but Dee eres at are e an eaey tee mitted into his “intimate circle’, |why she had divorced an En ie we are invited to watch his mind | diplomat, from ‘whom she had been at work and to share with him’ separated for eight year . the extraordinary variety and rich- | was withdrawn) feos his Faisnie ness of his experience. There has'in Russia, offers an exam never been a prime minister like sad she was “tired of belne eine him. He is a mixture of Palmer-| piece of the cold war.” To her t e ston and Peel shot through mer” | plec war was not just of ae

Herbert Morrison said of him on their governments, policies and de- { F i somethin, hi Gentlemen is a coalition in him-'shattered her personal lifes deprivs self.”—London Spectator. ing her of a husband. She was a helpless victim of the cold war, 1 " having been unable to go with her to get intoxicated should be asked husband when he was recalled to t Her only of Midland or Penetang Court . . «(guilt was that she had married a or court aoa ee in ns Ea man She loved. When thinking of \v nts ic a mo comes and'ta° cold war” it ds well always saults, thefts, br s and'tg remember the lives—and often broken bodies is alcohol over-in- the loves—of millions are directly dulgence. It isn't funny this affected by it—Windsor Dally Star.

a mechanical philosophy. His four essays on “Education” have been translated into

much patience on the part of the peoples: concerned, but it will have to be done be-| fore any federation that may be devised | /ean be expected to grow into a source of ‘common strength in peace as well as in

A century ago or even a generation ago this tampering with the causes of historical | feuds would have been impossible. Now, | the awareness of a common danger which | threatens not only their security but also their ability to survive at all as free na- tlons may be able to break down the last | barriers to a real and abiding unity. And ‘who knows? It may be the forerunner of leven bigger and better federations of the

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EDITORIAL NOTES

important matter with Scots and citizens of Dundee are determined that the lack of a clock in City Square will not cause the uncertainty that it did last’ year. Unde- terred by expense they have decided to fire a rocket at the stroke of midnight.

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The resumption of diplomatic relations between Britain and Iran is a very great gain. Many questions are outstanding be- tween the successors of Premier Mossadegh and the British Government but they could not even be effectively discussed until the long-standing diplomatic relationship was

resumed.

The Bermuda decision to accept Rus- sia's proposal for a four-power meeting of foreign ministers represents a considerable concession on the part of the United States. The proposed terms of meeting might well have determined Président Eisenhower to turn down the proposal. That he accepted is a clear indication of United States’ will for peace.

° * * Ottawa's Mayor Charlotte Whitton wants to put some regularity into the

gypsy-like existence of trailer dwellers. Her Worship is affronted that they do not settle down and pay taxes like good citi- zens. It can be said: in their favour, how- ever, that they add to the mobility of lab-

our, a factor which housing shortages ren-

ders particularly pressing. * * *

Sound Sun-Times celebrates that paper’s centennial December -2, 1953. The present editor and publishers are to be congratulat- ed both on the centennial edition and on the hundred years of newspaper publish- ing in which that paper matched and in- ‘deed led the development of the lake port from small town to thriving city. * * *

Herbert Spencer, English philosopher, died this date 1903. He early. showed a disregard of authority and a reliance upon his own reasoning powers. He was started on a philosophical career by his opposition to the views expressed in Lyell’s “Principles of Geology.” He wrote numerous works and collected his efforts in “A System of Synthetic Philosophy.” A product of the 19th. century, it is not surprising that he should have developed what is essentially

special interests. Such concord should rest

all the principle languages.

“Seeing-in” the New Year is a most ae

A 58-page special edition of the Owen ‘atmosphere

of questions of interest. The Guardian does net necessar-

ily endorse the opinion ol | correspondents.

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RAINBOWS

(Grade XII Science)

Sir,—I believe it was who described the rainbow “God's gorgeous- mantle of light” which He has dressed upon the} bone-work of science. Continuing) with “Grade XII Science”, I ob- served the latest beautiful rain- bow on Thursday evening, marking its colours and their order or ar- rangement, and, in support of my previous argument that “light and! sound”, are one and the samc} phenomenon and origin, differing) only in speed of vibration per sec- | ond—I should have said “sound, heat and light” are one and the! same phenomenon differing ou'y| in speed of vibration, increasing ftom audible, inaudible to visible. the yarious colour effects of light, I should like to add that I belleve the “bent ray” theory of the prism spectrum, to be in error, concluding that since each colour is the result of a different speed of vibration, the spectrum thus produced, is the result of the prismatic interference with the speed of the light waves. That is to say the “light waves or shatt waves” are slowed down as they pass through the graduated thick- nesses of glass, and finally appeer on the farther side of the prism, at various speeds corresponding to the various coloursy as explained

as!

in the “Light Theory (No. 1)” of Grade XII Science.

Grade XII Science makes this point, and shows “Light colours to be the result of short wave vibra- tions of different, speeds”, but it does not bridge the gap of rela- tion between light and sound waves, and speaks of “bent rays” rather than “lessend speed” for production of the spectrum, They say white light is a combination of all the colours, and is broken into its component parts by the prism, as a compound of some sort. I contend that “white light” is simply a very high speed of vibra- tion an the air, with correspond- ingly short waves, and that, upon passing through the prism, that speed is slowed down to various speeds, producing their correspond- ing colours, as they pass through the diverse thicknesses of glas:.

I believe further, that, if this speed of vibration continued to lower striking some medium, like the “closed or open pipe” in organs it would produce sound which continues to lower as the speed period lowers. Thunder, thus. could be the lowered speed of lightening vibration on the alr, instead of the “concussion of air into the supposed created vacuum”. The Icwered speed of vibration could be caused by the density of the or humidity clouds. Since we know that Hghtening

REST

O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes;

Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching, Earth:

Lie close around her; Jeave no room for mirth

With its harsh laughter, nor for sound of sighs.

“Ulric’ | i |She hath no questions, she hat! | earnestly discussed, session after ses-

no replies, : Hushed in and curtained with a b'czecs

1 dearth Of all 1 of birth; With ome that is almost Para- dais2, Darkness more clear than noon- day holdeth her, Silence more musical than any) song; | Even her very heart has ceased ules

to stir:

Until the morning of Eternity

Her rest shall not begin nor end, but be;

And when she wakes she will no‘ think it long.

—Christina Rossetti.

is always followed by thunder and that loudness or audibility is al- ways increased when something solid like trees or houses are struck, and that heat, often fire, results from such from the contact, de- pendng upon the material and conduvtivity of bthe object, we can only conclude that “light” is the highest “visible” vibration to us, and, being intercepted, it is slowed down to heat period. Again all this fits in with the theory of “Resistance and Spark” production in electricity, and seems also to fit well with the “longer wave"

‘theory of air vibration and its reinforcements in the “open or closed pipe (organs or wind in-

struments producing music).”

The “lens” and the focussing end divergence of light rays, with the varied rcsults likewise sup- port the thedry, and correspond to the reinforcement or enriched quality of sound in the organ pipes, of much lower speed period. All students know of the sound film and the method of transforming light into sound.

Again, the various colours of flame resulting from various com- bustible chemicals indicate various speeds of vibrations of molecules which, doubtless, correspond to the various speeds of affinity ‘or activity) for oxygen. Young” ladies and gentlemen of this ycar’s science, in lab. work, already will have discovered the phenomena of the biue flame, the yellow, the orange, and the familiar white, variant to red, which I suggest could be traceable to and _ correspondent with the varied degrees of activity ot different chemicals. Try them, if you haven't. I've had three years of Jab. Didn't take science at DOS so I forget which has which, now.

Then, if scund, heat and light

have one and the same. origin, you will be inclined to ask its

“od y fr E . herairom pheno ed upon the discussion, still re-

“The question of allowing counsel \to prisoners charged with criminal ‘offenses, which has so long oc- |cupied the attention of legislators land philosophers in other countries, and upon the expediency of which the greatest statesmen of the age have differed in opinion—a ‘ ques- tion wihch has been frequently and \ |sion in the British Parliament, and notwithstanding the talent and the leloquence which have been lavish-

mains undecided—this important question, we say, was settled in our House of Assembly on Friday even- ing, by granting the affirmative of the proposition, after a discus- sion which lasted exactly four min- and a half, by a stop watch.” --Royal Gazette, March 3, 1835.

;drunkenness. It is costing us a lot) of money and a lot of lives. Police | costs are skyrocketing. Jails are jammed. Mental hospitals are over- ‘taxed. And you and JI, the aver- | age Mr. and Mrs. Citizen who don't get drunk, are paying the bills for this provincial spree —Midland Free , Press. |

Humans are zealous in their attempts to swim channels, to | climb mountains, break speed re-| cords and reach outer space. Birds and animals rarely do things which are not motivated by instinct and the basic rules of survival. A bird flies across a river simply to get to the other side. If nature gives them a speed of flight superior to their fellows, they leave it at that. We} have no knowledge of one species | of birds or animals competing with | others for the distinction of being | faster or stronger. They use their | strength and speed to catch their

‘an island province,, lies in the fact

One of the advantages of being

that, since visitors have time on their hands during their inward and outward journeys, they are often quite willing to spend those i periods in answering questionnaires, Some 7,600 visitors to Prince Fd- ward Island did so during the summer of 1952. As a result those in charge of the tourist industry of the Island now understand better than ever how visitors to the pro- vince fee] about the amenities to be found there—or which are need- ed there. They learned, for instance, that more than half the visitors were making their first trip to Prince Edward Island;ethat it was the natural beauty of the province which had attracted them for the most part, and that loafing and swimming were the recreations which the majority most enjoyed. —Halifax Chronicle Herald,

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For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.

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source. For that, I go to the Great Creator of the Universe, God, who as Milton reminds us, seb the spheres in Heaven's harmony— the motions of the earth, and the pianets—the work of an Almighty Hand, producing regular motion— vibration, long waves, short waves high speed periods and low— re- sulting in light, heat, sound and life supporting earth. . This then accounts for our visual, as well as auditory sense of har- mony. Just as various speeds ot

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Milton, if you recall, talks more about the harmonies of the si- verse than any other poet of which I have so far learned. He was un- usually “harmony conscious”, men- tloning at, time@ the rhythm of dancing—Remember that calls to light-hearted souls who fall into the rhythm of music or regular recurrence vibration— and like it.

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