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JPAGE SIXTEEN THE GUARDIAN

Authorised on Second Clnu Mull Post Office Department. Ollawn. The Inland Guardian Publinhinx Co.

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Editor and Managing Director. In A Burnett. Auoclato Editor. Frank Walker.

CIRCULATION "Coven PPIIICA Edward lllnnd like the dew"

"Tho Itrongost memory is weaker than the weakest ink".

CHAliLOTTl-'.'I'0WN SATURDAY. DEC. 19. 1.953

tihristmas tihoor

Music and colour and cheer characterizel a

the Christmas season, for it is traditionallyi a season and not a day on the calendar. This is the time when families are reunited and friendships are renewed. We hope that this Christmas Number of The Guardian will contribute to the general feeling of joy in the festive season. Many individuals have contributed to its pages, not least the merchants who serve the public throughout the year but who at Christmas make prodigious efforts to help everyone to get exactly the right gift that they have in mind.

Every community, large and small, is blossoming out in colourful lights and de- corations. Young and old feel a lift as they see the sights and feel the undercurrent of excitement. To the youngsters, of course,

it is the central point of the u hole year and so it should be. There were people who discouraged

Dickens in his efforts to make Christmas the joyous festival it should be. They are forgotten, however, and the "Christmas Carol" lives on and people everywhere re- joice that this is a glad occasion. The event that it celebrates is holy but the happiness occasioned is most properly spread through- out our family, business and social lives. There should indeed be joy unconfined.

Youthful Linguists

All American teacher and author has, observed that the average child between 4 and 6 years of age can learn to speak several languages simultaneously without interfering: with his ability to master his native tongue. At the same time Canada's National Research Council was told by Dr. Wilder Penfield. 0. M., that children under ten can learn two or three languages as easily as one. From the age of one to ten or fourteen the speech areas of the brain are in a highly receptive state.

These opinions suggest that our whole approach to the teaching of” languages re- quires to he altered. Perhaps something in the nature of educational foreign-lan- guage m'otion pictures could be provided to enable youngsters to hear and see sim- ple conversations and situations. Even be- fore they reached the usual school age they might well be able to take part in con- versation in several languages.

if the opinions are correct it is quite wrong to postpone the learning of lan- guages other than English until the higher grades. That delay, in fact, assures that a very considerable number of students will never know foreign languages as any- thing but a course which they took-in English.

The Berlin conference

The international spotlight now moves lrom Bermuda to Berlin. It is a consider- able achievement, notes a British com- mentator, to have induced the Russians at last to agree to come into a conference about Germany l'or the first time in six years, but that. is no more than the be- ginning. What is going to happen at the Four Power meeting in Berlin on January 4? That must. depend very largely on Mr. Molotov. The three Western Ministers" will go prepared to enter into serious negotia- tions for a settlement on Germany and for final conclusion of the long-delayed Aus- trian Treaty. Obviously these will be mat- ters on which it is impossible to com- promise. Obviously it will be impossible to agree to any arrangement which the Wat Germans would reject and refuse to implement. But all the same, if the Rus- sians come with the some serious inten- tion. it might prove possible to find some sort of module vivendi which would at any rate reduce tension and pave the way for a final settlement.

But if the Russians come with no in- tcntion of seriously trying to reach agree- ment on the German and Austrian ques- tions, but determine instead to force dis- cussion of all sorts of extraneous issues which they may hope will produce division and dlssenslon amongst the Western Pow- ers, then the Berlin Conference will be

Torcdopmad to the fate of the 1947 meet- ing: of the Council of Foreign Minlsterf "in Moscow and London. Both contingen-

in the various circumstances alc starting almost "at once, after which we can only wait and hope that the Bermuda Confer- ence will have fruitful results at Berlin. The three participating Goverrunents in

agreement about nature of NATO programs in what may be called the second phase of rearmament,- the phase in which the urgent high-speed rearmament of the past two or three years can be replaced by a steadier and less in- tensive program spread over a longer per- - iod.

he began to convalesce surgical operation his brain had been vis- ible. him about it." he said he always said I had no brains." The storyi is probably apocryphal. Nevertheless, itl contains a good moral.

never amount to anything. Actually this is a form of injury even more serious than:

he former conference are now in entire the future shape and

Praise iiottor Than consuro ;

A young man whose skull was fractured; the result of an accident was told when'; that during thc'

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”Please write to my father and tell to his doctor, ”for

Parents who would never harm theiri children in any physical manner think noth- ing of telling them they are stupid and will

the physical sort because usually it does notl heal so readily. A child who hears about his faults and deficiencies day after day is almost certain eventually to lose the self-', confidence and buoyant energy which are so valuable in the building of character and in the development of a well-balanced per- sonality. There is, of course, a place for

every child must learn to meet it. sense, however, is it as helpful as an oc- casional word of praise even when the child's achievements are small and seeming- ly unimportant.

EDITORIAL NOT ES Tomorrow, the 4th Sunday in Advent, the Sunday before Christmas.

0 O 0 Christmas parties are the order of the day. There are of course, parties through- out the year but somehow they do not ap- proach in gaiety those being held at this

SEEISOIT.

The Salvation Army bell sounds cheer- fully through the wintry air and the money dropped in the Christmas pail sounds a similarly cheerful note for many to whom Christmas might otherwise be bleak.

I

The present situation of Canada's Mel- chant Navy, if it can still be so called, is far from satisfactory. The Government's stand prevents much of our present ship- ping from being sold abroad but there is no indication that an efficient and profitable merchant fleet will be developed. 0 I 0

Visitors to Britain are famihar with the incentive to buy provided by the system of making purchases tax-free for tourists. The proposal of the Canadian Exportersi Association to adopt a similar practice here might well indeed bring in an additional .l;2,000,000,000 in sales as claimed.

Although placing only third in number7 of telephones and in number of telephones per hundred persons, Canada has again led the world in the average number of calls placed per person. Canadians averaged 388.7 calls compared with 382.1 for Americans and 360.1 for Icelanders. When there is a phone at hand it seems that Canadians are determined to use it. 0 0

Joseph Mallord William Turner, English landscape painter, died this date 1851. He was the son of a barber and his early edu- cation was much neglected. He entered the Royal Academy School, however, and later had the good fortune to study in the home of Sir Joshua Reynolds. lrle travel- led a good deal but spent most of his life in London. He visited Scotland in order to illustrate a new edition of Scott's poems.

Beautification of the roads as desired by the Community Planning Association requires a different approach from that of years ago. The pleasant, tree and flower- bordered country roads have given place to wide and built-up highways with plenty of clearance. It is the distant view that must now be taken into consideration, particular- ly as modern speeds make it difficult to pay attention to anything close to the high- way. '

That the Soviet Union is entitled to assurances against aggression after what

of armament, consideration of "preventive war" and general uncertainty can be traced very largely to tears of aggression. It cannot be sufficiently emphasized that the measures being taken by the North Atlantic

, by, mfthe'l'h Pow- w.h?teltneoshould lllcetaken

Community are defensive and have aggres- Ilve motive.

censure for that, too, is a part of life and 3:: In no '

ult.., the question of the annexation of our Government to that of Nova. Scotis. was discussed by the Prince- tmm Royalty Debating Against the idea. of the annexation nearly the spoke, and :11 Voted. It wan argued that in the cases of Cape Breton and Ireland we have sufficient proof or -the evil tendency of such a meas- ure; since the irlhabltanul of both these places are loud in their clam- oura for the repeal of the existing unions. and neither of them is thriving us it would under an in-

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ANNEXATION DISCUSSED

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"on Thursday evening. the lath

Society. whole of the Boclety

ternal Government and domestic Legislature because deprived of a fair participation in the rights and privileges of the const.it.ut.ioln; and a. similar measure would involve uo

"contemporary

," There ilsiian average of ten decagect -teeth per ch in this area?-states Dr. B. J. 0' Meaxa. "Sodium fluoride in drinking water would reduce bg two-thirds the amoumtlot-' oteca.g.'

THE. Gl.lARDiAN. Vclig.RLo'rTsTowlg:

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'1; Notes, By The Waxl.

A little running of Clnadlun poetry is making its first appear- ance in print with "tho flddlehead" which sets forth form fl-om Fredericton, New Bruns- wick. It is not exactly "the fiddle- heud's" first appearance in form. The Bliss Camlnn Poetry society, whose home is in Freder- icton hu for some time been pub- lishing in that name in mlmeo- graphed form it little magazine- almost a pamphlet.-of poem: con- tributed by ltu members. With the suspension from publication of Verne" one of Can- ada's very few publications devoted to Canadian poetry (to our shame be it said) the publishers of "the fiddlehead" their very best. to make up the loss.

have decided to

-Montreal Star

in conventional

any

except for size, and the artist had sketoher from them most. attract- ively: 3 tall, Gredt-god. type of man

haired woman was gracefully wear-

ing the other. women often are

Hers, 310.95.

do last summer was a success.

tar and it can be traced

The Passing. Scene

By Observer

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INDIFFEIIENCE AND

"Organized haste will nve you and panic will destroy you." This terse statement appears in an ad- dress on civil Defence delivered by President Hunhower at I meeting of American mayors. The Idvlce It contains is Just do vul- uoblo for Canadian: :3 for Amer- icon;

From time to time reports have appeared in the press of both countries that the situation with respect to civil defence is not. as satisfactory us it ought to be. Officially. many measures have been introduced and they are be- ing improved upon daily. The "bottleneck" seems to be' in the attitude of the public and. of course. no measures, however tech- nlcaily efficient. will be of very much value llnleas their efficiency can be matched by populu inter. eat. and co-operation.

It is I. fact that, despite appeals, urging: and warnings that have come from civil defence officials and others, there is still. a good deal of indifference in this mat- mainly to psychological factors. To begin With. a lot of people seem unable to distinguish between defensive measures and offensive ones. This idea. is all-nlllar to to that hur- boured by the man who refuses to take out. life insurance because he believes that in some myster- ious manner this sort of protection would shorten his life, and, by the woman who refuses to take an umbrella A-long because that would

'16 rain.

partly psychological and partly

was wearing one, and a small, curly

As history shows. persuaded by subtly different routes of reason- ing which can't always be fnthomed by mere men. Occasionally a. man is found who takes these subtle differences into account. Our hab- erdaaher is one of these rare beings. At: the bottom of his ad he had priced the shirts thualy: l-Ila. 811.00.

-Christian Science Monitor

Tho mllch-talked-about Shake!- pearean Festival at Stratford, Ont.. and because of this it in quite natural that it should be tried 3 second

in similar consequences.

"They also maintained, that the

We wontnttompl to explain this.

time. The committee is already at. work, preparing a. progrun of plays

people in Toronto believe that Halifax will take the brunt,

rlongst. the distinguished Leglalatl-l'e

she suffered at Hitler's hands is the view .. J -- of Prime Minister Churchill. The piling up it T

reduction of our representation, probably to 7, and these a very small minority in the Legislature, and also nearly unlnfluelntlal :-

of Nova scotia. would be nearly equal to depriving us of our rep- resentation altogether. and would place us completely at. the mercy of Nova Scotlana. who would appropriate our resources in t.hQ own use, impose severe penalties upon us to advance their internal improvement, and fill our public offices with natives of that country, to the neglect. of. our own inhab- itants, and in the prejudice of justice; that consequently our roads and bridges would be neglected, our harbours without wharves. our schools unprovlded fnr. and every part of our internal improve- mont. hindered.

"They furthermore argued, that the laws of Nova Scotti: were in many cases unsuitable to our cir- cumstances. and in others oppres- sive,-such, for instance. as the Poor Laws and the Statute Lwbrllr Law. And as the climax of all the. evils attendant on such a nleasm-c, they mentioned the ruinous con- sequence to result from the loss to the Island of the present Civil List. paid by the Home Govern- ment, as well as a large pan. of our own resources expended in H paying officers who would then no; longer exist in the Island; togethorl with the entire loss of the annual! expenditure of married zzentlrnlelrl at. present. residing in the Island, who would immediately, in thel event of the oupposd union wltlll Nova Scotla. abandon it." 1 -The Palladium, May 2, l3-l4.i

The Age Old Story

Behold, the tiny: come, niih the Lord, that I will I-Ilse unto David a righteous Branch, and I King nlnll reign and prosper. and unit execute judgment. and justice in the earth. In his days Judah llholl be saved. and Israel IIIIII dwell ufcly:

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The spent and maimed among: God szrnnt you find one face there You loved when all was young.

-Charles Kingsley.

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at least as entertaining as but year. being better. In its first year, the festi- val's survival depended on its in- itial popularity-and to some de- gree the enthusiasm of its finan- ., .. But from now on its survival sticks to its aims. It is not intention to permit the re- a chnrlvari for the masses. but that it serious standard be malntallled for all those who would reach to- ward it in the interests nf A de-

--Saint John Telegraph Journal

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people in Halifax are reasonably sure that Montreal will come first. This in n psychologlcl trait. as old as the human race. may hit. my neighbour's house but it isn't likely to hit mine.

almost certanly be an nvltaton O O

cont.ribut.lng factor

Another

gang: '” 1- is the fact. that I!- thuo for Americans and Canadians have been able to defend them- selves on soil for from home. Our knowledge of atomic weapons not- withstanding, we are unable to grasp the full implications of the atomic age. Our knowledge tells us that in the event. of another world war no place on this earth would be safe from attack. For all that, we like to dwell in the illusion that, somehow, "it. won”. happen here". This is a plain cue of the wish being tattle: to the thought. Incidentally. psychiatrists any that this mental attitude is one of the very com- mon obstacles in the why of treat- ment: for various forms of neurotic instability.

'I'heln again, there is the com- fortoble view that attack. if and when it comes, will by-pus cer- tain centres and areas. The man living in Boston, for example be- lieved that New York will be the main target. The New Yorker thinks it will be Detroit or San Francisco. Ton chances to one,

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that in the event of an atomic ... tack or any other kind of I . attack there are . which would be by-passed for .13.: simple ” no great. military importance. Ar. cording to tho asmmprlon . island would be comp-.u-3 safe. 'Unfol'tunst.ely, however, M. sumptions which look very .-.,-... on paper sometimes have andnn. noylng hablt- of COIlIClill'lflinL: -1.. theorists. The truth is ghafm modern warfare every plug. M of direct or indirect milltarv ru- portnnce It. ought not to bk: 1.... gotten that. while the forms ..g the Nazi blitz was directed at Lon. don and other big cities, R gt-N; many bombs were dropped, by 5” sign or accident, towns countryside. beforehand what. a l'ut-bless pg. grcssor would do in circumstance. bomb meant for Halifax, let m 853'. Could Very easily as 3 rag”); of in little mlscalculatlon fall on Charlottetown or Souris cr nish.

There is still another psj-ch..l.(.. lcal factor-1 which doubtless is posing a pm... lem for civil defence autliorlllcs. This is the attitude that. in Ylnvv of newer bombs, nothing that rrzr. lane could possibly do would l-. of any practical be-ncflt. state of mind had prevailed in England in 1940 Hitler would Im- vxon the war there and then. Amt this ded-uctlon does not of its validity by reason of ru- fact that atomic bombs would 5.

than anything that fell over I. don. This is, of course. vc-rv t , but it must be rt:-rnembel'e:i 'i"4t defensive measures and dntcul.-. devices also have lmderlznne iii?- ms-ndous improvement.

Obviously. what defence militar- ltlea in this country and in the United States are trying to :1. in to build up in the minds n' all citizens now a need for what Ur Elsenhower calls "organized llastl” which would go A long way to- wards preventing panic in thr tu- tnlre, should war break out un- expoctedly.

No one in any position nt en- sponsibility is suggesting that u -l is inevitable. Everybody who road: the papers or listens to the rarlm knows that it is Defence. or that. part. of it. which directly concerns the civilian pop- ulation, is nothing more and mill- ing insurance One thing is certain. can amount to anyrhlntz Worth- while public indlfferences in in: various forms will have to be

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