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The llow Year

With half a million Chinese and Korean Communists massed along the 38th parallel for an offensive that may fall at any day. the year 1951 will open ominously enough for the freedom-loving peoples of the world. We are passing through grave times, and the virtues in greatest demand throughout the New Year will be courage and fortitude-combined, let us hope, with statesmanship and vision of a high order on the part of our democratic leaders. We have come but to the half-way milestone of a century which seemed to promise a new era of machine-age pros- perity; and twice already it has been con- vulsed by wars such as man had never known before. All those patterns of liv- ing and ethics that were so comfortably assured up to the twilight of the Victor- ian age have been rudely broken. Old charts are meaningless and on the morn- ing of 1951 use have to accept the utter inadequacy of invention and material pro- gress by themselves. Have we the vision. the faith, to keep what the brain of man has invented from destroying his SP11'lt7 That is the clnillenge confronting Lls to- day. We can meet it only by a spiritual response, without which all our science and military virtues will be unavailing. Canada remains perhaps the brightest spot in the troubled world today. We still enjoy freedom of worship and ordered self- government, with an abundance of the luxuries as well as the necessities of life. Let us strive to remember that our re- sponsibilities are co-extensive with our blessings and opportunities. ' There is a famous P0931 by 011V9T Wendell I-lolmes, emphasizing the fflesson taught by the patient, toiling nautilis, ever passing on to a better environment of its own making, and ending in this in- spiring homily: Build thee more stately mansions, 0 my soul. As the swift seasons roll! Leave th,v low-vaulted past! ,

Let each new temple. nobler than the last.

Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast. Till thou at length art free.

Leaving illlne outgrown shell by life's unrest-ins

sea!

There could be no more appropriate New Year's thought than this. Every life should be a constant endeavour to build beyond the present. "If we are honest and do well," says Emerson, ”pi'esently our neat new pinfold will be too straight and low, will crack, will lean, will rot and vanish, and the immortal light, all young and joyful, million-orbed and coloured, will beam over the universe as on the first morning."

This is just a poetical way of saying that there is no resting place here, no ivory towers into which we can climb and watch life go by in ease and security. Sweat and effort, intensity and danger- these are inescapable, and are in truth the things that give our human drama all its moral style. It is how we meet the chal- lenges that confront us from day to day, and year to year, that counts. And if 1951 gives us few opportunities of resting on our cars, that may prove to be the greatest blessing we could have asked. Certainly it is not a matter for despair, but for renewed hope and confidence in seeking to advance a little nearer toward the realization of our noblest dreams.

Come what may, we take pleasure in extending to all our readers, young and old, our very best wishes for I happy and prosperous New Year.

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P. E. I. Farm Income Higher

Figures just released by the Bureau of Statistics. for the first nine months of 1950 show that while there has been a drop of 9300,000,000 in the total cash income re- ceived by Canada's farming population, Prince Edward Island registered an in- crease for. the same period, from 914,385.- OOO in 1949 to 514,770,000 this year. New Brunswick's total also advanced from 929,- 533,000 to 530,040,000, while Nova Scotials farm income was down slightly at 325,- 627,000 from 925,749,000 last year.

The Prince Edward Island figures would seem to indicate that despite the serious slump in the potato market, our farmers have cashed in successfully this year on their superior quality products in other directions. 1

The overall drop in farm income across Canada-from d1,799,000,000 in 1949 to

'81,467,000,000 this year-was due chiefly to the unseasonai autumn frost which hit

Xm bumper wheat crop in Qhe West, re-

ducing a big part of it to low-priced un- millable grades. Income from wheat was down 28 per cent from last year's 3328,- 200,000. Cash income from the sale of coarse grains also was below that of a year ago, due partially to the weather and deliveries. Government aid to the tune of 313,700,000 was paid to farmers in the drought-stricken areas of the Prairies dur- ing the 1950 nine-month period, compared

' with t9,200,000 last year..

Pax liomaniiml

Asian members of the U. N. have urged that the United States heed Red China's demands that the U. S. withdraw its troops from Korea, withdraw the Seventh Fleet from Formosa and stop its opposition to the seating of the Communist Chinese re- gime in the U. N.

The proposals are not new but they are

based on the false assumption that the United States is intervening in Korea in- dividually whereas she is actually fulfill- ing her commitments to the United Na- tions and, as Trygve Lie has declared, the U. N. must not give up in Korea even though this determined stand risks in- volvement in a war with Communist China. A single surrender certainly would not bring peace. it would, rather, make an early war certain when further United States interests were threatened and when the U. N. had ceased to command any re- spect or support. A surrender policy would have to be complete surrender, leaving the world to be ruled by Commun- ist arms which would bring one'form of peace-a Pax Romanum.

EDITORIAL NOTES

The Jesuit Society founded this date 1534.

O Commencing Tuesday the price of The Guardian, in line with other newspapers, will be five cents, necessitated by the ad- vance in the price of newsprint, etc.

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Freight rates have been a major sub- ject of discussion all during 1950 but will certainly come in for their full quota of consideration in 1951 as well. I O O This year has not been outstandingly successful so far as immigration is con- cerned. The record, nevertheless, has served to stimulate official circles to take active steps to encourage much-needed im- migrants to come to this country. 0 I C

In this issue appears the annual review of harness'"li'orse racing from the pen of Col. D. A. MacKinnon, D.S.O., who regu- larly enllvens our Saturday edition by his popular Down The Back Stretch contribu- tion. There is no better informed writer on horse racing than he. and it is certain his review will be greatly appreciated.

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The Regulations Act comes into force on Monday. In addition to providing for the regular publication of Federal statu- tory regulations, -it is proposed that all draft regulations be first submitted to the Clerk of the Privy Council to assure a proper standard of draftsmanship. A per- usal of some regulations which have been put into effect in the past shows that the provision is highly desirable.

O O O

Rudyard Kipling, English poet and novelist, born in Bombay this date 1865. Educated at the United Service College, Westward Ho, England, he made use of his experiences there in his ”Stalky and Co.", a tale of schoolboy life. He after- wards went to India, and became a sub- editor of the Civil and Military Gazette of Lahore. Subsequently he travelled exten- sively before settling down in England as a voluminous writer of novels and poetry. He greatly extended the bounds of literary art by the introduction of strange exper- iences and new types of character and of novel forms of presentation. He was award- ed the Nobel prize for literature .in 1907.

D I 0

Eight years ago, in January 1942, the whole fighting strength of the Canadian Army Overseas was concentrated in Sus- sex, England. Here the Canadians found themselves responsible for some 80 miles of English coast, from east of Hastings to the Hampshire border, and including the valuable port of Newhaven and the pop- ulous borough of Brighton. As this area, with its good roads running north to Lon- don, was consldered the most likely place at which an invader would strike, the task of guarding the stretch of coast was no small one. In addition, there was ever the dan- ger of seaborne and airborne raids. As they watched the misty channel and lend- en English skies that winter, Canadians nourished hopes that if the enemy would not come to them, they could go to him where he waited, 50 miles away across the water. They little knew then just how long

they wouidhe forced to wait.

THE GUARDIAN, cnAiu.ojijrirrowN

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This column is open to tho dllcuulon by correspondent: of questions of interest. The Guardian doeouot necessar- "J and the opinion of correspondents.

'a"i-Fin'b'h'b'b'b'in'l:'bHn'iaFhFHu1n"i-'d'lJlnHu"lt. LONG HOLD-UP .

Sir, - This is the time of the year I like to use the trains. How-: ever, the Way things are done. at, times. on the P. E.I. Division of the C.N.R.. is annoying - if not more.I Yesterday we were coming along smartly from Summerside and it! looked as if we would get to Char- lottetown without unnecessary de-, lays. Instead we -were held uti Bi-adalbane about thirty minutes? waiting for a freight train. Whyl couldn't this freight train have been held at Hunter River to wait for us? This looks like poor railroading to me. It certainly shows lack of consideration for passengers. I am. sir, etc, TRAVELLER

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AT THE YEAR'S - PASSING

The old, old year

Slips out of sound, rolls into sil- CXICE

And is gone.

The past folds over it,

The ripples close . . .

As if the rose had never bloomed.

N0 bird had ever sung.

No dawn come up to tell the tale

of youth, No day of streaming wind tumbling cloud To lose itself in peace at dusk.

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and

so all this Being. tenuous andl frail . . . l

A tide lifting to a tideless shore, l

A sudden wind shaking:

A dream dreamt before dawning.

A sleeping

And a waking . . .

Dissolves into Infinity at last.

Now is the midnight with liope,

And quick with shadow-shapes of things to be:

The velvet wings that will be Joy

in dune Are stirui!-liiig in the chrysalls of

Lremulous

t e. The poppy's flame is wralmitd in the unfalien snow. And the faint glow From cold unwakened moi-no I5 but a. presage 0! the rose.

Thq music of clear:

A passing and n birth . . .

How strange that what. the dark- ness takes

The darkness gives:

Courage and faith to keep the heart

And like a white light burn

throughout the days.

the bells comes

The mists lift long enough to show

a star . . . The young year with a shout strides underneath the lintel Like a laughing boy.

-William Whitney.

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The Age-Old Story

For the love of atrial constrain- eth us; because we thus Judge, that if one died for all. then were all dead: and that he died for all. that

they which live should not hence- forth llvo unto themselves. but un- to him which died for them. and rose again. Wt benufortli know we no man after the flesh: yen, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth lmow we him no more. Therefore if any man be in Christ. lie is a new creature: old Jlilnn Ire puma away; behold, all things are be- come now.

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Agricultural Review

(Canadian Bank or Commerce)

Canadian agriculture faces a major problem today in adjustment. to changing market conditions says the current issue of The Canadian Bank of Commerce Monthly coni- mercial Letter. From 1940 to 19-19 markets and prices were fairly well assured. Developing dollar short- ages, however, led the sterling area to restrict imports from dollar countries in 1940 and 1950.

The United Kingdom, one of the largest markets for Canada's agri- cultural produce, narrowed imports to bacon. cheese, eggs and wheat last year and further reduced the-lll this year. A recession in Canadian agricultural prices set. in as a result: prices declined until January 1950 but since then the trend has re- versed and prices are new about at 1948 levels.

U O O

In the process of adjustment cer-

tain nltematlve courses of action were open to the farming segment of Canada's economy. One of these. reduced production, requires time to become effective, but has been achieved this year to some extent by reducing certain acreages. Growing conditions, however, frequently off- set or magnify the effect of acreage ad-justments. Thus, in 1950 a slight shift in acreage from wheat to coarse grains. due to B. feed shortage fol- lowing the 1949 harvest, resulted in a substantially increased supply of feed grains as severe August frosts not only reduced the wheat crop to 3 point well below earlier expectatloii but so lowered the grade of a very large part that it can only be used as feed.

The course grain crops, which were not so hard hit, together nlth this feed wheat. will. therefore pro- vide the largest feed grain supply since. 1944.

' O O 0

The expansion of other was a second alternative. But. for this to be effective, prices of Can- adian agricultural products must be kept at competitive levels. The ac- tive demand in the United States made it possible to expand markets there. Cattle and dressed meat.

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1 - (And 1-. B. l.) wraarnsn DIARY

The following weather diary for the year 1831 is republished from an old issue of Haszardks Gazette:

Jan. 1: Ploughing-soft weather - a dull day.

Jan. 13 and 14: Freezing very hard.

Jan. 15: The ice on the finisher- ough was crossed by foot passen- gers.

Jan. 20: Horses, 1irst'time this winter, crossed the Hillsborough on the ice.

Jan. 22: Very heavy snow storm.

Feb. 3: House of Assembly met.

March 14: Horses crossed the l-Iillsborough on the ice, -for the last time.

March 11: This was the last

day people crossed on foot.

March 1'7: St. Patrick's The ferry-boat crossed.

April 5: The I-liilsborough was quite clear of ice.

April 18: Two Brigs arrived one, Nelson's from the West In- dies, and the other, Peake's from Plymouth - the earliest arrivals ever known here.

April 19: Commenced ploughing.

April 21 and 22: Very cold - a little snow.

May 9: sowed wheat.

May 27: Put out manure.

Aug. 16: Commenced hacrvest.

Oct. 26: Commenced digging potatoes.

Day.

fcrmed a substantial part of the in- crease. and apple shipments to that country now exceed those to the United Kingdom. In the first eight months of 1960 agricultural exports to the United States were about 556 million above those for the same period last. year. A decline in exports to the United Kingdom and ot-her countries, however, re- sulted in a drop in total exports of agricultural produce of :67 million.

Domestic consumption has ab- sorbed increased supplies of cer- tain ocmmoditles. but per capitu use of others, such as eggs, cheese and meat, has declined from levels reached during the war due to high

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Suspension Of Marshall Aid

LONDON by Cable. December 13:-The Chanceller of the Ex- Cheqi-IEI”. Mr. Hugh Gnitskell, read in the Commons the following statement by the U. s. A. and the U. K. Governments:

After discussion: between the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr. William L. Batt. the Minis. 19" in charge of the European Co-operation Administration Mis- HWI to the U- K. the Govern- ments of the U. S. A. and the U K-. have agreed to the sus- Denslon of Marshall Aid to the U.- K. from the 1st of January 19:31. In reaching this decision, the Governments have been guid- ed by two considerations. First. the economic recovery of Britain and the Sterling area as a whole has made such good progress that the dollar deficit has in re- cent months disappeared - an achievement which. coming early in the third year of a four-year PTOKTBHI. is I source of profound satisfaction to both Governments. S9C0hd1)'. the defence program of the U.S.A. which includes the mutual defence aid program, will MW impose new and heavier de- mands upon. her economy. The total of allotments of aid to the U. K. for the six months. ended December 31st. 1950, will remain at 3l75.000.000 of which Sl50.000.000 represents conditional aid matching equal sterling grants made by the U. K. to the other countries in the Organization for European Economic Co-operation through the European Payments Union. The U. K. will continue to draw upon these and previous allotments of aid until they are exhausted. G ds and services so financed will therefore be reach- ing Britain for some months to come. In all. since the beginning of Marshall Aid, the U. K. has been allotted &2.694.3 millions.

"The U. K. will remain a full Participant in O.E.E.O. and E.P.U. Certain E.C.A. programs. in par- ticular those for fostering over- seas development, for the produc- tion of scarce materials. and for the interchange of technical knowledge to encourage higher productivity, will be maintained. The U. K. will continue to be eligible for assistance under these programs and the Economic Co-

prices at the conmmer level. Govermnent aid has been extend- ed to agriculture through E. price- support program and through measures to facilitate the market- ing of Canadian farm produce.

DECEMBER :19, 1950

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In to get early by, for closing date F '- 16

people to mini W-'i"1'P1e. setting the for local delivery a: R1130 these official: e lieve that the PoctpO1l)f1ii::e let. be. C0nVe)' a letter from one ,..,'."'3; Calgary to, another in ..,,,.u,,,,,,

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exhortation. ly conclude Just being

the public will ' , that the Post Ofllogemig . Silly. and will decide to ignore the whole exhortation The Job of the Post Office is 10' collect and deliver mail as ex- peditiously as possible. It is en. titled to give advice to the pub. lic on ways in which the public can help to render the service more efficient. But this ought to be done much more tactfully and sensibly than the Post Office does it 90W; Bird. in particular, the advice it thinks advisable to give ought to sound like advice, and not like peremptory instrucliona, -Calgary Herald. ;

operation Agreement between the Governments of the U. K. and mg U. S. A. will remain in force for the time being.

"The two Governments are not Yet in 8 POSlti9n to assess the ultimate economic impact, of their mutual defence efforts, and the "-WPGMIOII of E.R.P. allotments to the U.K. will in no way affect the arrangements now being worked out in N.A.T.0. for the assessment and distribution of the burden of the defence program: of its members.

"The Wliiension of aid under E.R.P. does not mean that the recovery of the British economy 15 C0mDlete or that the financial resources of the sterling area an adequate. Both Governments re- Coznize that part of the improve. ment in the position" of the step- ilng area is due to external fac- tors which may well be temper. ary. Furthermore. new difficul- ties and burdens are certain to fall upon the British economy and the balance of payments in 1951 as a result of the increased de- fence progrsm and impact of higher raw material prices and prospective shortages. This under- standing. therefore. provides for the suspension. and not the ter- mination, of E.R.P. aid and for reconsideration if n e c e s s a ry. Nevertheless. the extent of re- covery already achleved denion- strates alike the immense value of E.R.P. and the success of the effort: of the British people to meet and overcome the grave problems they have had to face.

"The U.S.A. Government. is es- pecially plensed to see so prom- inent an example of the success of E.R..P. at this early date.

"His Majesty; Government de- sires to express on behalf of the whole nation its deepest gratitude, to the Government and people of the U.S.A. for their unprecedented generosity In giving freely to Bri- tain at a critical moment in his- tory the means to regain liar economic independence and pow- or."

The Chancellor added "I am sure the whole House will give its warm approval to the senti- ments expressed in the last para- graph.

"We are not an emotional poo- ple and we are not Nlways very articulate. But these characteris- tics should not be allowed to tilde the very real and profound sense of gratitude we feel towards the American people, not only for the materlal help they have given ill but also for the spirit of under- standing and friendship in which

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