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THE GUA-RDlAN'

THE GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN

EDITORIAL Notes

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Into The Breech

Canada's participation in the United Nations' resistance to aggression has not been marked by heroics, but at the same time it is far from being something to be ashamed of. At the year's end units of all three fighting services are, committcri in the Korean area.

We have been remiss in allowing the fighting machine built up from 1939 to 1945 to disintegrate ih pell mell demobilization. For that, however, all must accept the blame. Neither the Government nor any po- litical party raised a voice for the main- tenance of the armed forces on anything like a wartime scale.

The rebuilding of a fighting machine has been undertaken with considerable re- luctance but as rapidly as conditions seem to permit.

Inverted Pyramid

The importance of a basic. industry is strikingly illustrated under almost labor- atory conditions by the little community of Rapid Blanc, deep in the Quebec bush.

Most people would regard an industry which employed 12 men as being very small potatoes indeed. Yet look at the record. Mount Blanc exists for one purpose only, as it is described in a recent Canadian Press story. One dozen men are required to work on a big hydro project there. For the rest, it might just as well be virgin wilderness. Yet Mount Blanc is today a model community of no fewer than 350 in- habitants who are housed in neat brick, two-storey homes.

The twelve essential workers have their families They require carpenters, plumb- ers, repair meh, school teachers, police, merchants and firemen to maintain them and all have their families, and all require services so that a community of the size stated has grown up about the twelve men whose work is essential.

The lesson is obvious to any commun- ity which wishes to grow. Encourage the establishment of industries, no matter how small and all the rest will be added to make a bigger and better community, in the ratio of something like thirty to one.

Railway liates

As expected, the railways reacted promptly to Mr. Justice Kellock's wage award. Their application for an immediate 5 per cent increase in general freight rates followed by only two days his award of a 3-cent-per-hour wage increase to the non- operating unions. This award brings to 7 cents the increase gained by the employees sinceiseptember 1 and it is to compensate themselves partially for the increased costs involved that the railways are now asking for higher freight rates.

The railways are also asking for a deferred increase of an unspecified amount in freight rates. This, too, is a direct con- sequence of the Kellock award since it is to cover the cost of instituting the 40-hour week, which under the award will take ef- fect next June 1. This cost will be much greater than that of the 7-cent increase in wages: thus when the railways do present their deferred claim in specific terms, they will obviously ask for a freight rate in- crease much higher than the 5 per cent now being sought.

,This is the point which must be borne in mind in connection with the present 5 per cent application. It should, of course. be scanned most closely and critically by the Provincial Governments who, since 1946, have made themselves the guardians of the public interest in this regard.

It must never be forgotten that if granted, this increase will confront the public with its fifth freight rate increase since the spring of 1948. The first, effec- tive in March of that year, was for 21 per cent; the second, effective in September, 1949, was for 8 per cent; the third, effective in March. 1950, was for 7.4 per cent, and the fourth, effective in May, 1950, was, for 3.4 per cent. v

As the increase in each case is expressed II a percentage of the existing rate, the cumulative more since the spring of 1948, has been sl ghtly over 45 per cent. It the present application is granted. it will bring the cumulative increase since that

film: to-more than 52 per cent. The actual

The second fire of London broke out this date 1940.

Christmas saw the Island fortunately unscathed by a toll of serious accidents. May the New Year safety record be as satisfactory.

The thermometer and official weather reports serve a very useful purpose at least in letting us know that the weather is not really as bad as the impression it makes.

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1951 will come 13 hours earlier to troops in Korea than to this Province. For half a day they will be living in what is next year to those at home.

It is well that it was only after Christ- mas was past that a buyer was reported as comparing Nova Scotian Christmas trees invidiously with those of New Brunswick. A short time earlier such remarks would have stirred a tempest.

The past half-century followed upon the Victorian Age which saw the idea of Em- pire grow and develop into that of Com- monwealth. The twentieth century, for all its setbacks, saw the gradual development of international orgzinization on a global scale.

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This is from the Montreal Gazette: ”Chester S. McLure, the veteran Prince Edward Island Progressive Conservative, is reputed to be closer to the succulent shell- fish residing off the coasts of his Island than any other. lLove', says Shakespeare, and perhaps Mr. McLure as well, 'may transform me to an oyster'."

A Reuters bulletin from Frankfort, Ger- many, says: Hessian authorities feared legal tangles when they found a justice of the peace in a county hamlet was using a stamp dating back to the time of Emperor William II, before the First World War. They ordered him to get a new stamp, in spite of his protests that he liked the old one because it reminded him of the "good old days."

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Liverpool Advance, Nova Scotia's lead- ing weekly, under the editorship of Mr. C. L. Day, had another monster issue of 22 pages on December 21st. It was packed full of live news, seasonable articles, and pun- gent editorials, not to mention advertise- ments galore. It is a distinct advantage for a wide-awake newspaper to adjoin a newsprint mill when an extensive issue like this is contemplated.

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Hydrographers originally "tied in" New- foundland with Canadian surveys by the headlights of a car on Cape Smokey on Cape Breton Island. so it would seem that a microwave telephone and telegraph con- nection with the tenth Province would be practical, as has been proved here. Pre- sent cable connections are so unsatisfac- tory that many messages must be routed through New York.

William Ewart Gladstone, British states- man born this date 1809. He entered pub- lic life as a Conservative, but later became a Free Trader, and joined the Liberal Party of which he was the leader for the greater part of his life, and Prime Minister for the fourth time. He was a brilliant depart- mental head, a magnificent party leader and orator, and recognized as ”the greatest member of the greatest assembly the world has ever seen."-

There are certain Ottawa circles (says Montreal Gazette) which will tell you there is a lot.more than meets the eye in the ex- tension of Viscount Alexander's term as Governor-General. I-Ieihas, in the past sev- eral weeks, been working in extremely close collaboration with the Defence Department, and the presence of one of the Empire's top military leaders in Canada at a time like this is not a thing to be overlooked. There is the strong possibility of an important story breaking from Ottawa in the next few days that will clarify things.

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The recently published Russian Ency- clopedia says: "The theoretic possibility of obtaining atomic energy through the syn- thesis of helium from hydrogen has trem- endous importance, because it opens a new and far richer source of raw material for production of atomic energy." Asserting that United States "imperialists" -were try- lng to use "the theoretical possibility of a hydrogen bomb" as a diplomatic weapon, the article expressed complete confidence that just as use of the atom bomb had failed as a diplomatic weapon so would hydrogen diplomacy fall. Pointing out how an ordinary atom bomb can be employed to create the extremely high temperature needed to ignite a hydrogen bomb the article noted that "the effectiveness OITIIB

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A PRAYER. IN DARKNESS

This much. 0 heaven-if I should

brood or rave.

Pity me not: but let the world be fed,

Yes, in my madness if I strike me dead.

Heed you the grass that grows upon my grave.

If I dare snarl between this sun

and sod.

whlmper and clamor. give me grace to own.

In sun and min and fruit in sea- son shown, .

The shining silence of bhe scorn of God.

Thank God the stars'nre set be- yond my power.

lf I must travail in a night of wrath;

Thank God my tears will never vcx a moth,

Nor any curse of mine out down a flower.

Men say the sun was darkened;

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Thought it beat. brightly. even on- Calvary:

And He that hung upon the Tor- turlng Tree

Heard all the crickets singing. and was glad.

-G. K. Chesterton.

I Was Just Thinking

(Sandy Todd in Weekly Scotsmun)

The international situation ought to be cleared up any day now. The United Nations General Assembly is getting down to it at Flushing Meadow; an international Tariff Congress has gone into 3 huddle at

Torquay; and an Intemetional Laundry Association has been formed.

Of the three, I think the last has as good a chance as any ironing out the difficulties that are always cropping up between nations. Of late there has been for too much amateur washing of dirty ltnen at. lntemotlonal .con- lerences. Now it is to be taken in hand by people who really know their job.

It is unwise, however, to too optimistic. Other international irganlsatlons which have begun like the International Laundry Association. with n fanfare of trumpets, have let us down badly. I don't know, for instance, if the I. L A. is really global in its

scope. Does its membership include representatives from behind the Iron Curtain? I doubt

it, for those was no report of any delegation walking out of the first conference held in London.

It would be interesting to know how the men of the Kremlin and the ordinary citizens of the Soviet Union manage the simple. everyday affairs of life, such as mnlntalnlng a supply of clean collars. Perhaps they have I Flvc-Year lan for that, too.

But. wh ther the International Laundry Association is truly global or not, it is deserving of every encouragement. May it always present a united as well as a still front to the world!

If there is any dirty linen washed at the International Trade and Tariff Congress at Torquuy, the public are not likely to hear much about it for quite a long time. when delegates of 40 nations, rep- resenting four-fifths of the world's trade, get together in a delightful resort like Torqupy, anything can happen.' When they are not sun- bathing (save the mark) they will be plunging into the deep waters of economics and morg- lng with yards of statistics which will eventually decide what you and I will pay for something that we cm't afford.

But. we, the public, don't un- dentand anything about such mat- tara. After the experts have been in secret conference for several months, we will be told Just. so

The Attlee - Truman Meeting

By Sebastian Ilnffncr

Perhaps the most. important IS- pcct of Mr. At.tlee's visit to Presi- dent Truman was stated in a little- noted sentence of Mr. Att1ee's short interim report to Parliament im- medlately after his return. "I felt glad," Mr. Attlee said, "that. our meeting was one more in the ser- ies of meetings held between the President of the United states and the Prime Minister of Great Brit- ain. I also felt how important it. was to maintain this continuity be- cause such meetings serve not on- ly our mutual interests but the in- terests of the whole world."

This refers, of course, to the reg- ular meetings-reinforced by p copious personal correspondence and by frequent transatlantic tele- phone conversatlons - which had taken place between President Ro9sevelt and Mr. Churchill dur- ing the years 1941 to 1945. At that time, this intimate top-level llais-l on had created a relationship be- tween America and Britain to which there is no complete parallel in international relations anywhere. It went far beyond ll. mere ulllance.

It enabled the two great maritime democratic workd Powers, while maintaining tihelr full internal and coiistitutlonal individuality and separation, to act in world affairs as if their Power were one. It made it possible for them to dis- cuss intimately and informally prob- lems and differences, not only as they arose but before they arose, and to compose and settle them, not by bargaining but by reasoning from it common viewpoint.

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After a solitary visit of Mr. Atlee, together with the late Mr. Mac- Kenzlc King, then Prime Minister of Canada, to Washington in Nov- ember. 1945, this unique relation- ship between the President of the United States and the Prime Min- lster of Great Britain was allowed to lapse. Now it has been con- sciously resumed, and it is to be hoped that it will be maintained as long as the basic interests and

at 'ldeals which Britain and America

have in common need defending in a world still for from settled peace.

The events of the past. years, and of the present crisis in particular. have shown that nothing else can quite replace this intimate and continuous meeting of minds of

be the heads of Government. Nobody

can say that British-American co- operation during the past five years has not been as close and friendly as constant diplomatic and offic- lal interchanges and frequent meetings of Foreign Ministers of international Conferences or at the United Nations came make it.

But. this has not. been--quite en- ough. Tliough on many lntemat- tonal issues Britain and America have put up a. common front. and though differences have always been approached in the friend- liest. manner and usually been ove come, there has been lacking that community in thinking and plan- ning ahead on the broadest lines of political world strategy which existed in the times of the Roose- velt.-Churchlll partnership. As a result. there has developed a dif- ferent approach to Far Eastern questions. and the danger that the two Powers would differ on the fundamental appreciation of. say, the respective importance of Eur- ope and the for East. or of the con- dltlons in which the atom bomb might or might not be used.

It is the nature of these very broad and fundamental policies that they are rarely coincident with any acute diplomatic issue of the kind that is dealt with in diplom- atic routine business. They consc- qucntly elude the normal diplom- atic approach. Real unity about them can only be established at the source of decision: and such 1171191 must. needs be flexible. and

much u it is good for us to know. changed days. surely. from the time when everybody who, hit! the lust smattering of political econo- my could upstate at. gun length

on on vs. It-oc 0, when the variant tyro of u " ooklor" could tie up n politi-

cal candidate in knots with 3 few questions about Tariff imam. Yet. that don when elector-I know what they talking about at 1 Gone:

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Old Charlottetown 6 WESTERN MAIL ROUTE "The mail will be made up this evening at the Post Office. and dispatched tomorrow morning, for the first time, by the western route to Cape Tormentine. At that place 3 runner is employed, at the expense of this Government, to carry -it. to Amherst, from whence it will be .forwarded to Halifax, etc.. by the regular post man. The mall destined for this Island will be forwarded, during the winter, by the same route." --- Prince Edward Island Register, Dec. 16, l82'l.

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Taxation Prospects (The Letter Review)

As in taxation, difflcullty is that the present system of taxation has proved totally inadequate to check inflationary pressure. Even with a balanced Budget, and before the adml slon of necessity for heavy mill y expenditures, price levels were still rising steadily in Can- ada. with no interruption in sight. Th-us. the present system of taxation is demonstrably not a.nti-inIlatlon- ary.

If heavier taxes are to come, as seems quite certain, they should be quite different from the present ones. Progressive taxation at high rates on large incomes, and tax- ation of corporations, are, of course, very inflationary. They will have to be abandoned for more widespread taxation. affecting the mass of the nation. '

Since polltlcul difficulties exist in selling this story to the public, it seems probable that first step will be to increase taxes on the present basis, which will mean more infla- tionary than anti-inflationary effect. That will ultimately mean much severer taxation than is abso- lutely necessary on the income of

the masses.

Admittedly, present inflationary pressures do not arise from the ex- isting type of taxation. This merely adds to them. There is also the question of monetary policy. Ottawa thinking has moved in the direction of higher interest rates. but by no means to the necessary extent. In- terest rstes must be allowed to rise sharply, and the Bank of Canada must. stop buying Government bonds in order to maintain parity. Since most Government bonds are quite short maturity, nothing very

consist; in I constant stream of joint thinking and reasoning rath- er than in any cut.-and-dried agreement.

If this is borne in mind, it will be seen that the seemingly so gen- eral communique issued after the meeting says a great. deal more than appears on the surface. The meeting has not settled every single difference that had developed be- tween America and Britain over the last. year. But it has set that common stream of hlnklng flow- ing again; ll; has made sure that all the single questions which have become controversial-r ”'

of the People's Government. of China, Formosa. negotiation in Korea, the character of the At.- lnntlc Defence force, the question of raw material allocation -will again be appr k ” in

were not able to compare. couldn't produce an station wagon Job. Times.

In Toronto on annoyed woman. splashed by a careless motorist. book the on licence n- and complained to the police. The latter, investigating. arrested the driver 0 a charge of cor theft. It is n to be assumed that all splashera are thieves. but most of them oerf.a.l;nly are clreiels dolta and it would be better for all con- cerned. perhaps, if they were car- less.-Brantford Expositor.

The Idea that we on this con- tinent and Britain must. stand together is not I now one. Its truth. however, was demonstrated in World Wars I and II. and will -be in the event of another. Back in 1852. a famous British preacher, Rev. F. W. Robertson. wrote: "How devoutly it is to be hoped that in the coming conflict of the nations, America and England will stand side by side. instead of op- posite; for, if not, it will be all over with the cause of liberty. for some centuries at least. The con- queror ln the strife will then be a military power, and must per- force cruch the peoples under I tyrtumy." Insert the world "Com- munist" in that last sentence and

terrible will happen to the bond market as a result.

This programme of common sense is not yet fully accepted at Ottawa. but there is considerable hope that there will be further: moves in this desirable direction, especially as the Government finds itself forced into even higher military expenditures than have yet been imdei-taken.

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Disturbing are remarks from various Ottawa sources, to the effect that there must be a drastic reduction of both public and private capital investment. There are ovi- dently still some people in Ottawa who believe that this country can operate, an a long term basis under the rigid planning of bureaucrats. Great argument in the U. 5.. Can- ada and Britain, against sensible fiscal and monetary measures to stop inflation is that they are not "politically possible."

Two other choices exist. One is to fall to make the Government expenditures needed to preserve the nation. The other is to let these expenditures result in explosive tn- flatlon. Is either of these politically

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applicable to 1952 Windsor sun. than an T A Dutch editor Dr. , Hot.-ven. has give.n'sound(;nd"coY:;l. agoous advice to the lliwspapers 0! this continent. Interviewed at Lake Success. where he is U N high commissioner for refugees. he declared: "You can live up u.' W9 dankers 01 your time withgm :y:'”;'"mPe-Fhi3JPS. too, the log. er e le . ' Oytvltrwa. Citizen.” the dangers'

Those who count th

in barber shops as soar:-331,1. ed time now have a new reason for passing by the striped Wk The price of a haircut in (on. Manhattan barber ahops Ls gun"; W to 31.25. which, it is to be sup. posed. does not include tip, 51...... brushing off by the brush-off man Or 9-0! of the other b3l'beri1,x concomitants. As yet, Iiouvevc: the customer is not required to provide his own shears. towels or motive power for his chair, 0,. even 10 sweep up in his vicinity, Thus the entire time spent in barber chairs may continue to be given over to contemplation of one's image in the mirror, to.- which no extra charge is made. - New York Herald Tribune.

A Montreal man is being hm by police on 21 charges of false motences. It seems that this dog. tnrdly fellow has (says peter. borough Examiner) been fleecing lawyers. He is alleged to have gone about soliciting orders for ran European law books, to have tak. on down payments and not to have delivered the goods. Elever. lawyers and ten notarles have suffered from this fellow's mach- inations. I-Ielgh-ho! Gentlemen ol the bar have been known from time to time as wolves in sheep".- clothing, but it is the first impres- sive indication we have had that they have wool for fleecing. Cer. talnly the situation is unusual; isn't. it usually the lawyers who wield the shears? Well, God is said to tamper the wind to the shorn lamb. so we shall expect the lawyer-lambs not to be left in the cold by the courts. At least they still have their legitimate voices. and not bleats. to pleat: their own cases. On the other hand. a fellow clever enough tn fleece 11 lawyers should be able to match wits in a court before only one maglsbrate and against one

possible? Not. for long.

prosecuting attorney.

JROFESSIONAL CARDS

Dr. W. ll. Carson

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J. A. Mcfiuiqan BAREISTER, soucrron, nee. NOTARY, arc. mnnrsrim. soucn-on CURIZII-3 nurmnuvo Adjoining North American Hotel

M. Albun Former B.A.. LL. 3. MONEY 1'0 LOAN Charlottetown, P. l.l.

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agreed Joint. world strategy, in which every single issue falls into its proper place. It has thereby changed the

whole atmosphere and "tone" of British-Amarlcln lotions and policy, and it has already had an immediate and notable effect in the dying-down of those mutual misunderstandings and public polcrnlcs which had become so marked in the last week or two

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