seen a steady diminution of their sheep

' ant sheep population with profit if labor

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East To Suez

The barrage of invective and the dclib-er-: ate provocation of "incidents" which for the, past few weeks have pinpointed Egypt as, the latest trouble zone in the Middle East' have done little or nothing to reveal the real cause for the unrest which now bedcvils that , unhappy land. Supcrficially it would seem; that Egypt was but the latest victim of the, new wave of intense nationalism which has; swept Asia and the Middle East since thcf end of World War II. In fact, however, the events in Egypt reflect rather a fear firmly, held by many of its citizens that the Suez: Canal under British control is an invitation, to the Soviet Union to attack. From this somewhat illogical pl'emisc is drawn the, equally fallacious conclusion that if the Bri-1 tish would only evacuate the Canal Zonc.l the menace of Soviet aggression, in so far as; Egypt is concerned, would miraculously vall- ish overnight.

Such is thc background against which the weak and corrupt Waft Government of Nahas Pasha now dismissed sought. to, justify its failure to suppress the terrorism, and violance which has flared up time and again in Egypt during the last few weeks. Indeed, it even serves the purpose of Nahas. Pasha to foment anti-British sentiment in, order to distract public attention from the, shortcomings of a regime which has done, nothing to alleviate the economic distress of a country where the distinction bctweelr rich and poor is still as appalling as it was, in the time of the Pharaohs. P Happily. the specious logic of Nahas, Pasha and his opportunist henchmen does not find universal support in more thought; ful Egyptian circles. Amr Pasha, who un-, til a few weeks ago held the post of Egyp-' tian Ambassador to London, has recently, had the moral courage to point to certain: definite advantages in the Anglo-Egyptian. treaty. Rifaat Bey, legal adviser to the: cabinet and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has expressed the view in an article in the Journal d'Egypte, that "even if Egypt and,

ii the Arab states were to declare their,

"frailty, they could not maintain it".

went with London are not lacking. T :h circunlstances, it would be uh-,1

Wortslghted to lay upon the Egyp-It

it large the blame for the events!

few weeks. Rather, it would,

:tter diplomacy to encourage the Jderate elements in the country in,

pectation that in the course of time;

ypt will once again have a government, .fficiently strong not to need to foment ex-f ernal difficulties in order to conceal its own l ineptitude. :

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Serious Wool Problem 5

The latest disastrous fires in Aus-, lralia reminds us that wool auctions in that, country have had to be deferred for the rea-ll son that expected wool shipments from thci sheep ranches have not reached the auc-l tion mart. 5 The reason given is that intense drought, and serious forest and range fires had cut? deeply into the wool clip during the past few; months. I A year ago, notes the Lcthbridgc llcr-, ald, wool prices were being paid in Australia? and New Zealand as high as 553.50 a pound.l This was on the basis of a par value for the, Australian pound which is near 552 a pound' Canadian. The result was that flocks were greatly increased, and now a drought. has struck. Drought is a terrible thing in Aus- tralia for hundreds of millions of acres of sheep range are in the dry interior where almost desert conditions prevail when mois- ture fails. Sheep have been known to die by the millions in drought periods. , The Australian wool clip reduction will; add to the worries of a world short of wool.- After the last war there was a trcmcndousi stockpile of wool, largely controlled by Bri-i taln. That stockpile has disappeared. Some areas have increased their sheep population but others, as is the case in Canada have

bands. Even high wool prices have not been enough to offset the reduction in sheep pop- ulation in many countries, including Canada.

Synthetic fibre manufacturers have been making the most. of the wool shortage but there continues a strong demand for wool which is irreplacable for many purposes. Cariadd. it is claimed. could triple its pre-

ha found to man the sheep ranches.

' the general election of 1949 did not ac-

Will There Be iierrylnanderlng?

The redistribution bill is likely to wipe out several parliamentary seats in Saskat- chewan, including those of three leading Pro- gressive Conservatives. Referring to this The Gazette says:

”The House of Commons that met after

curately represent the will of the people. No doubt there were many explanations for its anomalies. The splitting of the vote among several candidates in a constituency was certainly important. But it seems that the gerrymandering of scores of constituencies across the country was not without its in- tended effect. ,

"If the general election of 1949 be com- pared with that of 1945 it will be found that the Liberal Party (including the Indepen- dent Liberals) increased its total vote by. only four per cent. But it raised its mem- bership in the House from 125 to 193. As for the Progressive Conservatives, they in- creased their total vote by 1.3 per cent. But they saw their representation in the House; drop from 67 to 41. As for thc C.C.F. Party, it saw its total vote drop by N0 P” cent, but saw its rcpl'c.scntalion dI'0P from 23 to .12.

”L'nconstitutional praclicc establishes ai certain degree of public tolcrancc. But -the iolcration of abuses in democratic institu- tions cultivatcs cynicism at the expense of faith. It. is not good enough in Canada, or in any democratic country. This is an time when no democracy can afford to make itself incapable of logical defence by, the gerrymandering of constituencies".

EDITORIAL N01 ES

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Tile L'.l(. Parliament rcasscmbles today.

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Something seems to be troubling the coli- science of Senator Grant. should he worry about the effect of the re- storation of the slow train mail service? ,

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It is not announced what title the Gov-i ernor-General will adopt as an Earl, buti automatically his son and heir will become

, i otherwise why ,

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. - o , I . . ,Lord Alexander the title of his viscountc). duties. hut the benefit to the clii- V , t ' izcns will, we are sure, more than,the difficulties of getting 3 decl-i,la.:e them from native Canadian!-

Canadians generally will bc pleased that Prime Minister St. Laurent favors the dc-, signation "Royal Mail” and the cyphcr GR.j Tourists also may get a thrill out of secingi the outward trappings of Canadian con-3

st itutional monarchy. !

I O 0 Sir Frcdcrick l-lymcn Cowcn. musical, conductor and composer, was born this date, at Kingston, Jamaica. His works include, oratorios, operas, symphonies, centatas. ov-'

dred songs. His ballads, ”The Better Land" and "The Children's Home", won great pop-- ularity.

dian and American dollar has its disadvant-I ages as well as its advantages. It is highly: satisfactory when we have anything to sell across the border to know approximately! in advance what it will bring us. On the- other hand, as in the case of the grain growers, when contracts are entered into on the basis of the exchange rate of the Am-; erican dollar, there is liable to be a loss? when the two currencies reach par. O 0 iv , A solcnm warning. Sir Robert Bruccl Lockhart, writer. diplomatist, former Un-', dcr-Secretary at Britain's Foreign Office, published on the eve of Burns anniversary :1 book entitled ”The Whisky of Scotland in Fact. and Story", which includes this prediction: "Unless the Scots themselves continue as a race of whisky-drinkers, in the end the art. of making whisky in Scot- land will be so changed and altered that the claim to describing it as 'Scotch' will disappear."

What was formerly the Eastern King's County Board of Trade is now known as the Souris Board of Trade. but this change in name does not imply any limitation of its membership and interests to the town of Souris. It was made for the purpose of avoiding confusion with the King's County Board of Trade, which meets at Mon- tague. As will be noted in the advertise- ment of the Souris Board's annual meet- ing tomorrow afternoon, rural members are particularly invited to attend.

The Quebec Legislative Assembly has unanimously approved a bill to oust Coun- cillor Harry Binder from the City Council of Montreal without" further ado. The bill provides for the provisional ousting of any person who usurps office after a Superior Court ruling that he is not qualified to be councillor because of a conviction for a criminal offence. Binder has clung to his

,'The City Court of

THE GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN

Sitting Pretty

2;-t-'(5 L op in-JR J -1'-l to -- .14 V w it Old Lliarlolieimvn V mm: 1-. la I.) . .- I (.'-ITY (70L'R'l' 1 P e l "The Lcgisluturc this scllsoni huvc abolished the old Small Debt Court of this city, and created in new one in its place, to be named! the City ofi Cl1iil'i0l.l('lf)Wll.' The former juris- diction is incrcnscd to eighty dol- lllrs. The proceedings are greallyl simplified, and will be similar tol those in the County Courts. The Judge of the Court is the Stipen- diary Magislrnlc. This will som -- what. incrense this gentlemnns,

compensate him for any additional lnhour." ' -The Examiner, Aug. 22, 1878.;

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J A? 31.. Weed 6-mm I-'li0M Wrur Loss OF THE EURYDICE"

, g . ' ' ,The5 say who saw one sea-corpse indications Of 3 (195,,-0 foy a mp.,crtules and the settings of over two hun- Com

That he was mould,

Every inch a tar,

Of the best we boast seamen are.

of lovely munly '

i . v, ,l.ook, from forelock down to f : The equalizing of the value of the Cana-ll - n O0

9.

Slrunlz b.v duty is strained to beauty,

And russct-of-morning-skinned.

With the sun, salt. and whirllnz rind. V

Oh! hislnimble fllir.'el's. his gnarled r p.

8 Leagues. leagues of seamanship Slumber in his forsaken Bones, and will not, woken.

will not

-Gerard Hopkilis.

Which Comes First

(Sydney Post Record)

The Ottawa Journal says: "Be- tween Levis and Quebec City there is a splendid ferry service, but in these grandiose days it isn't good enough. Now there is talk of Spending 818,090,000 on a traffic tunnel under the St. Lawrence to link the two cities."

N05 Only that. The Journal might have mentioned the com- bined railway and highway bridge spanningihe St. Lawrence River only a short distance above the City of Quebec.

With its excellent ferry ser-

vice and its great. bridge, Quobcc already is ably served. The ferry boats ply constantly across the river to and from "Quebec and" Levis. it is service far ahead of what we get at the Strait of Can- so. All this raises ii question. Which Will be made first. the Quebec- Levls Tunnel or the Cause Cause- way with its linking bridge across the Canso channel of navigation? It's a pertinent question.

The pressing need for an ade- quate Canto crossing has stared Canada in the face for genera- tions. How long will the appeal for the less needed Quebec-Levis Tunnel stare Ottawa in the face before the engineers are ordered to get. busy on that job?

Cape Breton island doesn't be- grudge Quebec any good fortune it may gain but Cape Breton does most urgently assert that first things indeed do come first. From the viewpoint of national defence and national self-interest as well as the Just interest of Nova Scotla. it's as plain as a pike-staff that the strait of Can- to crossing is of paramount im-

scai while waiting the results of his lip- peal from the Superior Court to the Court of l(ing's Bench. and the appeal from court to court was estimated to take two years. Now the Councillor is suspended until his

porlancc.

The male narwhalc, similar to the porpoise. has a spiral horn of pure ivory from six in iiifeei

final appeal is announced.

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We regretted as mm:h as one the fact. that North Bay and the meeting of the Princess and ihc quints were left out of the National Film Board's lengthy and well-screened version or the Royal tour. The meeting with the, quints was one of the highlights of; the trip, in our opinion, but the Film Board chose LU ignore it. Ai North Bay Nugget. I

any- I

In one of th-e-sessions at White House William slim

thej Field Marshal Siri was commenting on

sien to use either the new Ameri- i can automatic rifle or the new; British automatic as the standard --lfle for the North Atlantic Treaty nations. "I suppose what, we shall do." he re.narked sarcas- tically. ”is to compromise on an inferior bastnrdized riile whichi is half British and half Amen-' can." "Field Mnrshal" replied Mri Churchill, "moderate your lan-i glzagc. Remember that l myself am half British and half Ameri- can." - J. B. Rcstor. in New Yorkil Times. .

A diplomat whom Lethbrldge an-d Southern Alberta and all can-E

like Sir Alexander cluuerbuclci British High Commissioner at Oi-i iawa, is now dean of Ottawa's dip-, lomatic corps. This man Clutter-

huck is one of the best good rcla-j tians builders that Britain ever, sent to Canada. Really. some in-l ducement should be held out to make him a permanent resident. of Canada. We wonder if Ottawa has ever considered asking him to take over Lord Alexanders job at Ri- dcou Hall. He and his good wife would meet what is expected of the occupants of the gubernatorial mansion. -Lethbridge Herald.

As pnoposed by an Inter-Con:-. monwealth Univer.s.tics Confer-I ence in Madras. the achievement of common policies among institu- tions of higher learning would he of mutual benefit. It would facili- tate the recognition of degrees, the work of research and the ex- chalige of teachers and students. Thr conference, an unnual affair since its 1918 meeting at Oxford may have opened a new chapter in Commonwealth co-operation. It was attended by representatives lrom lndlli. Pakistan. Britain ,C.-lllnda. Australia, New Zealand, .south Africa, Hong Kong and the Gold Coast. - Ottawa Citizen.

It does not take superhuman

presclence to predict the opentnil of the Soviet Union's third tele- vision station. in Kiev will be

made the occasion for much pro- pngands jubilation. Tons of paper and ink and hundreds if not thousands of hours of radio time will be devoted to this new ”proof" 0'7 lhe Superiority of Soviet science. the genius of the Russian people etc. Before the deluge begins, how. ever. three footnotes are in order. First the station was supposed to be completed under the Fourth Five-Year Plan before moi. so it is at least a year late. second. that game plan called also for a fourth TV station to be opened in SVerdl0V,k. but that still remains for the uturs. Third, this "us- cadent bourgeois country" (our u, S. A.) ha! 108 television stations without benefit of socialism, econ. olnlc planning. or even "mug in. vincible genius of comrade stal. ill." -New York Times.

From the long-range viewpoint. the dllfif cow is one of the most important factors in soil conserva- tion and fertility maintenance. The cow. since horses have almost passed out of the picture. is prob- ably the heaviest consumer of hay. and hay is a soil” coiiserver and soil builder. it is n speclned crop for one year out of every three or four in any long-range crop pro- gram. The pasture field from the cow gains sustenance. and is one of nature's heat soil restorers Thus it might be deduced that dalrylng and its decline is serious

not only as it affects its direct

products but because it is impor- tant. to the natural resources. to nzxxed farming and our very we," of life. The real change that has come about is the swing from lig- ricllltural areas to industrial areas. lvlilch has increased rather than

(iv.-cl'c-nscd reliance on the dairy '

industry. The problem must be faced from the viewpoint of this Cililllc. - (Woodstock Sentinel - Re- new.)

immigrants do not course. That doesn't

Ill they

jobs. mean

jobs going wllllnlt

It means. in most cases. which otherwise would be begging. mimigrants are to accept many WW5 of V9” which many Can-adtons do not wish to take. They can't be choos- ers. They get. started at some job work hard and do well, in most in- stances. A Windsor star.

Formal start of:irillirII ”lW"' tions at Ivry in the Lmlrentlans north of Montreal. for titanium provides another example of scen- ic beauties und vacationing facili- ties being sacrificed on the altar of industrial progress. lvry is locat- ed almost In the geographical

can for that matter have cone to 09"”? W M”"””l'5 ””'”me "cu"

tlon land. -Financial Times Embarrassing lylI03l'lllhk'-3' 9" iors still continue to turn up. and the most. amusing of the lntbst crop has Just appellred in the carefully edited New York Times. Naturally it wasn't. amusing to the Times which has run a tight HF tie correction confessing 811- 1'' l-.ad started out to say. in a news story that the victim of n noz- ging "did not report the incident until last Wedneday because he was afraid." But gremlins took over at this point, and the sen- ll-nce appeared as: "Although Mr- Tyson was flogged on the nlzht Of December 1. he did not report. the incident until lust Wednesday he- cnuse he was a fraud." H. L. MacPherson in Windsor star.

The results of an experiment currently being conducted in Sas- katchewan may affect the driving pi.blic's opinion of parking meters Recently a row of parking meters

on one of the city's main streets was equipped with electric plugs. when motorists deposit their

coins, they are provided not only with pnrklng space but with an electric outlet in which they plug in their heater cords.,Sincc their cnr engines are being kept warm while they are standing. Saska- toon motorlsts can comfortably assume that they will have no dif- ficulty starting them, no matter how wintry the weather. How well this scheme will work out remains to be seen. Certainly. the idea. he- hind it,- that parking meters should be made to serve azpurpose other than that of fattening the civic purse-seems sound and al- together admirable. In Saskatoon. the open-mouthed meters must look ll little 'lus objectionable than they do in other cities. -ot- tawa Citizen.

"Oh, well. ignorance is hllu." said a man to lie the other day apropos of something or other. How often does one near that glib misquotaiion used as an excuse for a blunder, for an error in Judg- ment or worse? "whim ignorance is bliss." the poet has written, "'ii: folly to be wise." The operative word. of course. is "where" but even its addition does not make sgund logic out of an assertion t at can at best have but an oc- casional and fleeting truth. There are higher aspirations for the hu- man soul than a state of bliss in the Earthly sense. But we go on repeating "ignorance is bliss" and we sometimes believe it. one dic- tonary defines ignorance. with ad- mirable brevity. as "lack of know- ledge." in some realms or philog. ophy in the soft.-hued rmy world of romanticism the aphorlsm may have some application. but in mg challenging world in which we live today. 'tis folly indeed to think that ignorance is bliss. Calgary Albertan.

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. down the Halifax shore.

'fz-est last night.

JANUARY 29. 1952

(Continued from yesterday's Guardian) .

'-'Jednesda,. 26th January: It mined and thawed a good deal last. night. blowing heavily from the S. and 8.12. This morning the wind veered to the W. and N.W.. weath-

ing. The postman driving his wag- gun. A good deal of the ice up the river going out. this morning with the N.W. wind. Fine day to come A little frost. in the evening but none af- ter ten o'clock. During the night it not quite calm.

Thursday. 27th January: The morning was as calm. bright and beautiful as a morning in May. By ten ll light warm air came from the south. The streets very muddy, people getting out their carts and uaggons again. Archy in Char- lottetown with a sleigh and will have a task getting home with it. A light southerly air continued until 5 o'clock when it. hauled round to the N. W. and continued so all nifzht. Wind light and night fine w:th very little frost. Not suffic- lent to make ice to cnrrv n person even on the small puddles.