-THE GUARDIAN

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WEDNESDAY. SEPT. 1, 1954

The Weakest Link

France has fallen again, this time with- out striking a blow. The European De- fence Community, if it survives at all, must strive to maintain a common front without the aid of French arms. The North At- lantic Treaty Organization, of course, sur- vives and may well prove a sufficient bar- rier to immediate threats of aggression. It cannot compare, however. in long term security with the unified forces of Europe itself which E.D.C. could have provided.

The United States and Canada are al- ready talking about withdrawal of forces from Korea and undoubtedly had been thinking in terms of eventual withdrawal from the European scene. This happy

- prospect would seem to be indefinitely post- poned unless indeed it were accepted as a

' surrender of Europe to Communism.

I The World Veteran has an explanation

,. of the lmpotency of France. The soldiers of two World Wars, exhausted by years of warfare, went back to their homes with one fixed idea: to hear nothing more about it.

Veteransi associations carefully refrain- ed from putting the reality of facts before their members, They did not tell them, "politics first", but ”above all, no politics" -politics abhorred, the cause of all evil, they took care not to direct the nation by taking an active part, leaving this to the mediocre and the incompetent.

, .There are, of course, other explana- tions, but there can be no doubt that had the French fighting man regarded the na- tion's business as his first concern the other difficulties would have been readily over- come and France today would be glorious and safe.

. Something New

During the long period of Greenlandls status as a Danish colony its inhabitants were accorded income-tax exemption. Now ,that the island has been made a constitu- ltional part of Denmark, and therefore en- titled to representation in parliament, the people have asked that the tax exemption provision be rescinded. A spokesman for the Greenland Council, a sort of Provincial Legislature, says that Greenlanders resent the special treatment they have been re- ceiving and desire to be treated like all other citizens of the kingdom.

In every ,country-except Greenland- -there are numbers of persons who complain of over-taxation; very little attention is paid to them. This is probably the first time in history that citizens of any com- munity have begged for additional tax bur- dens. It is something new for the sociolog- ists to ponder. If there is any interna- tional prize for gallantry over and beyond the call of duty in matters involving na- tional consciousness, tho. reenlanders sure- ly are entitled to it. ' l-

lloalers liot To 0” Potato dealers should ijt as brokers rather than buyers, was comment Of Mr. Lincoln Dewar in drawing attention to a typographical error in the report of the Provincial Board, Federation of Agri- culture. Paragraph three of the Boards statement should read:-

3. We are not concerned as to whom the selling agency sells the potatoes so long as returns to producers are maintained at the best possible level and that all possible stability is maintained in the market. Therefore we recommend that all Class "A" and Class ”B" dealers be given the right to sell potatoes for the agency to the domestic market in any part of Canada on a brokerage basis. We do not feel that

';potatoes should be sold back to Class "A" fund Class "B" dealers due to the possibil- ity of speculative buying, storing and sel- ling which could later upsct domestic prices and market conditions. By allowing Class

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for the selling agency it will permit all pos- sible markets to he developed. It will also provide dealers the opportunity of putting up a special quality and package which can be supplied the selling agency and arrange- ments made for sale to any special outlets which dealers may have. Also arrange- ments should be made to give dealers the financial advantages of these spwlll 53)” over established prices. We suggest thlt brokerage fees under this policy could be on a percentage basis as a means of pro- viding an incentive to procure the highest possible price.

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until they were sold to outside buyers. At the same time dealers would be able to supply markets using their own brands and packaging and pocket a profit on sales made at an advance over the price on the open market. The fact that they would net only a portion of that profit would be compensated in part at least by the fact that they would run no risk of loss.

Preserve Tho Pedestrian!

A Canadian Press item, datelined Ot- tawa, refers to an increase in motor vehicle registrations and observes that the pedes- trian seems to be disappearing in Canada.

We, who have long held the pedestrian to be one of the nation's craftiest and most courageous game animals, cannot accept this news lightly, argues the Welland Tri- bune. Nor, we fancy, will the many con- servation clubs and similar organizations dedicated to the preservation of wild life.

For the pedestrian has long provided capital sport for millions of motor nimrods

across the length and breadth of this fair T

nation. Every effort should be made to ensure that he does not join the ranks of those extinct or near-extinct species, such as the buffalo and the passenger pigeon, now found only in books or on closely-con- trolled game preserves.

Well we remember the oldsters gather- g-

ing about the living room and spinning tall tales of memorable expeditions after this wily prey. Of course the pedestrians that got away were always the biggest and fast- est ones. The one regret was always that the government sternly forbade the hang- ing of trophies.

Pedestrians are native to the larger cities but many are also found in smaller centres and occasionally one even ventures into open country. Their habitat is the in- tersection but to add sport to the pursuit they often pop up unexpectedly in the mid- dle of a block.

Photographs usually depict .the pe- destrian as a slightly dishevelled creature, particularly the male of the species. He is also usually seen wearing a startled expres- sion and has large eyes, wide open as though in fright. This is characteristic.

Preservation of the pedestrian will probably involve tried-and-proven methods but we would suggest that hunting seasons be immediately and stringently restricted.

Let's preserve some sport for our chil- dren.

EDITORIAL NOTES

The potato may well prove a competi- tor to the ice cream cone and hot dog as a snack where large.numbers of people con- gregate. At any rate National Geographic carries a picture of a young lady attend- ing the Pennsylvania state fair and obvious- ly enjoying a baked potato.

I O O

The amphibious character of the Royal Canadian Navy is illustrated in appoint- ments to H.M.C.S. Buckingham, the mod- ernized frigate which will be based at Cornwallis for training purposes. The first lieutenant is Lt.-Cmdr. Donald William Knex who was recently in command of'the 31st Support Air Group, based at Summer- side, P. E. I. The August number of the Crowsnest has an account of the provis- ion being made for new entry training.

0 I O '

The well-known opinion of the law at- tributed to Sam Weller would seem to be justified in the case of the Alberta farmer who sold his topsoil. It was held that the purchase price was a capital gain and not subject to tax. soil was from a proposed highway, but as a general rule the practice should be regard- ed as contrary to public policy.

0 O 0

Sir Richard Steele, Irish man of letters, died this date 1729.' He was born in Dub- lin but was educated in London, being a fellow pupil of Addison at Charterhouse. After some care-free years as a guards- man, he became a most energetic writer, producing a number of plays and founding the Tatler and the Spectator. Both of these papers were at first very largely the product of his own pen.

I I D

The threat of fire is one of the chief concerns of fliers who must make a forced landing. Turning off the ignition is con- sidered essentlal before the plane touches the ground. The same peril faces those in- yolved in highway accidents, as was il- lustrated in ghastly fashion in Mexico. Thirty-five bus passengers were uninjured when their vehicle overturned but all per- ished when one passenger struck a match to look for his luggage.

' I I O

Lump sums should be paid to munici- palities by Federal and Provincial Govern- ments for police and fire protection sug- gests Guy Vanier, a delegate from Mont- real to the conference of the Canadian Fed- eration of Mayors and Municipalities. It cannot be denied that the senior Govem- ments are receiving an increasingly high proportion of the tax dollar compared with the municipalities although the latter are

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This onlumn is upon to the discus- nlon by . uupondents of question: of Interest. The Guardian does not necessarily endorse the opinion of correspondents.

AGRICULTURAL & INDUSTRIAL

Sir,-I am all in favor of what is generally tcnnecl "industrial de- centralization", so, therefore, was well pleased with that story in the news columns last week, in which the experts report a tendency a- mong industrialists. in planning expansion. to choose the smaller population centres. I think the general welfare of the nation it- self will be served by a deliberate policy of distributing the people of this growing land more evenly than has been the custom in earlier years.

The farmers would be early and obvious beneficiaries of this new industrial principle Which, in due season. would show up in terms of wider home markets; lower freight costs, as a consequence of literally bringing their customers closer to the sources of food and fiber, and the mouths nearer to the fields.

On the other hand, I'm not sure if the opposite stream, by reason of a mechanized agriculture, and permitting fewer farms and larger farms to take care of the food needs of off-the-farm Canadians should be accorded the same en- thusiastic policy green light. Fact is I haven't the economic experi- ence upon which to build a con- clusion. One of your national ad- vertisers compresses the data into a neat paragraph thus: "In the few years since 1939, the revolution in farming practice involving more effective tillage techniques and new and faster ways of harvesting, has enabled over 570.000 farm workers to Join the ranks of industry - helpinz to make Canada one of the great industrial, as well as one of the great agricultural nations of the world." (M-I-I).

Clearly, Jack Canuck is going places, but the tempo sometimes makes me wonder about his agri- cultural heartbeat.

I am. Sir, etc.

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Conscience

Christopher Biiiflpp in the Guelph Mercury Conscience is of three slrong, weak and these, the

kinds, medium. Of medium is the most

frequently found.

A medium mu-rlonrc allows you to tune in on n baseball game on ran;-v or trlr-vision, but. at the same time. tells you that you shouldn't ho doing it.

it lets you follow the game tuning by inning, but rrizninds you

that you should be muting letters, or reading the hook borrowed from the library, or out watering the flowers.

A mcdiu.n can-.l;rvr.ro permits you to say to yourself that the game is dragging nnd you will tune out at the end of the third inning; but, when the inning is over, does not stop you from lin- gcring on into the fourth in see what the next batters will do.

Meanwhile, as you linger on to see what the next batters will do, your medium conscience will be reminding you that you are not going to accomplish much in life this way, as people who waste valuable time tuning in on base. ball games cannot well be count- ed on to'perform important dut- let. ,

But just as you are on the point of dempnstrallng your strength of character by leaping out of your chair. your medium conscience steps in to suggest that you are making mountains nu't of mole hills, that tasks about the house can easily wait and there is no good reason why you should not hang on at least long enough to see what happens in the lucky Ieventh.

Thus it medium conscience al- low: you to indulge yourself but denies you full enjoyment of your Indulgence. How nice it would be to have a conscience so strong that you would not be tempted Into wasting time or else to get mo per cent pleasure out of want- ing time by having practically no conscience at all.

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NOTES BY

He brought with him a note from his mother, explaining that he was an exceptionally sensitive child. "It is not really necessary to chas- tise him," the note said. "It would be better to give the boy in the next seat. a good slap and so frigh- ten him." -London. England Her- aid.

Five Javelin triangular-wing all- weather fighters will give a dis- play of high speed formation fly- ing at the British Aircraft Con- structors Show which opens at Farnborough, Hampshire, on Sept 6. The world's first twin-Jet delta- winged aircraft, the Javelin is also regarded as the most power- ful sll-wenther fighter. It is like- ly to be the first British aircraft to carry the newly developed air- to-air guided missiles. -"This Week In Britain".

In connection with studies by the National Institute of oceano- graphy of the seasonal changes in the speed and direction of ocean currents which may carry all patches to the sea shore, a second batch of drift cards in plastic en- velopes was dropped early in May in the Atlantic Ocean by RCAF Coastal Command. The first card to be received was picked up on the southwest coast of Iceland having drifted some 320 miles at a speed of at least seven miles per day; since then others have been found in Iceland and a. few on the north-west coast. of Ire land and in France.

-Port of London Magazine.

It is gratifying to know that the Hudson Bay 'E.skimos who saved the life of a lost young white boy whom they tracked down, are to be rewarded. When the Eskimos, searching Flaherty Island, came upon the mark of a shoe heel - they wear no shoes - they fol- lowed tin trail to John Banks. son of the president of the mining company operating there. The father. Douglas Banks, says he will reward the trackers with glfs of rifles ahd pipes. No present would be more appreciated or engender better feelings between the Eski- mo and the white invader of his historic territories. -- London Free Press.

Every one's experience with hu- man nature varies. some people reach advanced years still retain- ing a buoyant faith in humanity, while others become cynical, shrewd or just plain cautious as a result of unhappy experiences. An English woman, who obviously re- ialned somr faith in human na- ture, is running a hotel in a bean; lful West of Britain resort where there are no fixed charges and the guests nre expected to pay what. they think their holiday is worth. we venture to think that the re- action of the majority to this pro- position will be the same as our own - "She will be robbed.” It would be pleasing to report. that this ttustfulness had been reward- ed by every one paying a fair price. but it. happens that the experi- ment. has not yet been in opera- tion long enough to prove any- thing definite nbout human nature. When it does. the findings are certain to be much more valuable than the public oplninn polls, for here is a test where the two quali- ties of gratitude and justice are inextricably mixed, and the purse is vitally affected. - Hamilton Spectator.

THE WAY

Fortunately, ' foresaw that mankind would develop this pen- chant for sunburn and equipped us with enough layers of skin to peel all summer. -Winnipeg Tri- bune.

It now seems pretty well sunb- lished that Soviet enllhe design- ers are working hard on 9. rocket engine for space travel. A proto- type under construction is I big liquid-fuel engine with a thrust of 264,000 pounds. This is equal to more than twentxy-six powerful Jet plane engines. -Newsweek.

Opportunity never fall: to knock at the door of thou who know what. they want. and have diligent- Iy prepared themselves for the day, while for the ones who dream but do not work there remains the feeble satisfaction of blaming "bad luck." -From an editorial for Young People, Hamilton Specta- tor.

Worries can grind no down. Very often, too. they are I waste of time. A University of Wisconsin study of worries and four: shows that 40 percent are about things that never happen: 30 percent are about things past. help; 22 percent.

eight percent for those reuly worth bothering about. Probably it won't help much to lose sleep over them -Kitchener-Waterloo Record.

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LIVESTOCK FAIR From the report of the annual

general meeting of the Central Agricultural Society, held at. the Wellington Hotel, Charlottetown, Jan. 8, 1840:

"Your committee, sensible of the great advantages resulting from the establishment of Fairs in the Old Country for the sale of all descriptions of live stock and agri- cultural produce, gave public notice that one would be held in Char- lottet ..n, on Wednesday the sec- ond day of October last, and ac- cordingly they provided all neces- sary accommodation for the public free of charge. Your committee have much pleasure in stating that the results of the Fair far exceed- ed their most sanguine expecta- tion, as it was computed that not less than 3000 persons from all parts of the country including sev- eral visitors from the neighboring Provinces were assembled on the occasion. Much real business was transacted and very many cattle and other live stock exchanged

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UITAWA REPORT

Wlio killed our tourist trade? in the post-mortaem question worri- ing the government-paid ulumon hero whose Job it is to cell can- ada, through their promotional work in the Canadian Travel Bureau. Of greater anxiety of course is the problem whether our tourist trade can be revived.

”The tourist trade is all shot: in finished." well: one prominent Ottawa hotel manager. Nearly one

every summer week-end, and that

in his hostelry in wnrtimeb last travel-restricted summer, 1945. Tourism is one of our most im- portant oouroes of United States dollars. Last. year our eunlnal. from American visiting us. were ;aaa,aoo,ooo. This was equival- ent to I. aim; boost In our sales

at om,ooo.ooo was our largest in- dividual export to our neighbour. It. was more gun the O2'l1.000.00o which we as ed by all our ex- ports of agricultural and veget- able products to the States. These figures reveal the importance to us of those U. 8. dollars which our fish-full lakes. our cool sum- mer nights, our scenery, our "dif- ferent.-neu” and our welcome earn from U. B. taounsta.

Tourism Not Growing

But the anxiety arises from the lack of growth in our tourist earn- ings. In 1951. the total fell slight.- ly below 1950; in 1952 it fell slight- ly below 1061. Last. year it rose slightly. Meanwhile Canadians visit.- ing the States last. year outepent Americans visiting Canada. We left behind 330'I.800,000 in the States, which was nearly double our tour- ist. expenditure of uo4,ooo,ooo there in ma. The balance of tourist ex- penditure ncross the border has swung from one hundred million dollars in our favour in 1949, to one quarter of that in our dis- favour last year.