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CIRCULATION ”Coven Prince Edwiud island like the dew"

f'The Strongest Memory is Weaker Then the Weakest ink".

CHABLOTTETOIVN. tVEDNESI).'ti', OCT. 13, I952

Signally Honoured

All our citizens will join in extending warmest" congratulatioiis to the Rev. Pat- rick McMahon, D.D., Rector of St. Dun- stan's Basilica, and the venerable Dr. Rod-

signal honours conferred upon them by His Holiness Pope Pius XII, as announced by His Excellency Bishop Boyle last evening. Rev. Dr. McMahon has been elevated to the dignity of Domcstle.Prelate with the title of Right Reverend Monsignor, while Dr.; MacDonald has been created a Papa 5 Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the, Great.

Monsignor Mcliiahon has had a note- worthy career as a scholar, parish priest, Chancellor of the Diocese of Charlottetown and Rector of St. Dunstan's Basilica, and his zeal and devotion to his duties have been no less marked than his ability and capacity for hard work and initiative. A1-I though a comparatively young man, his ex-, perience eminently qualifies him for thci honour bestowed upon him, and it is one, which reflects credit not only upon himself but upon the Catholic clergy and diocese of the Province.

In Dr. MacDonald, Prince Edward Island has one of the most outstanding practi- tioners of the Dominion, whose long record of service in his profession constitutes a unique record in this or any other country. He shares now with anotheijdistinguished Islander, Hon. Dr. W. J. P. MacMi1lan, the dignity of a Papal Knighthood, and it isi most gratifying that this high honour has been conferred while Dr. MacDonald is still actively engaged in his professional dutiesg Not only his fellow citizens at home and abroad. but medical colleagues in all parts of the English-speaking world, to whom he is known personally or by repute, will re-i joice with him on this occasion. '

The Korean Challenge

The tardiness with which the rehabilita- tion of Korea is proceeding was emphasized in an interview published in yesterdayls Guardian with a former Prince Edward Is-

lander, Mr. John S. Jenkins, who has justi

returned from a year's service ih that un- fortunate country with the United Nations Reconstruction Agency. The great difficulty. of" course, is that the military issue is still unsettled and that all other plans must be subordinated to this objective. The diff- iculty is fully realized, but at the same time it is essential that reconstruction be pro- ceeded with as speedily and as extensively as possible in the southern zone, if we are to avert complete economic collapse which would nullify all our efforts in this direc- lion.

Mr. Jenkins is a young man, still in his late twenties, but he has hit upon a cardinal issue in U. N. activities in Korea and else- where which tends too frequently to be for- gotten. This is the fact that we are en- gaged in an ideological as well as military warfare, and that our motives as well as actions are being subjected to the clos- est scrutiny. We cannot afford to deal with rehabilitation merely in terms of combat- ing Communism. On that level we are open to criticism for doing the very things the Communists have done for ulterior motives. We must prove the sincerity of our profes- sions by working dlsinterestedly along hi)- manitarian lincs. In doing so, of course, we shall be building up goodwill and confidence, and sewing our own ends as well; but we cannot safely reverse the process. "Seek first the kingdom of Heaven, and all these things shall be added," is a maxim of pro- found practical as well as spiritual wisdom. The challenge to United Nations leadership must eventually be faced on this high level, if it is to be metlsuccessfully at all. And time is running short. Korea is one of the testing grounds on which the issue even now is being decided, along with the strug- gle against armed aggression. It is well for us all to bear this in mind as we pre- pare to observe United Nations Day on Oc-

tober 24.

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Commenting on Finance Minister Ah- bott's address in Chariottetbwn last week, and Mail notes the Ministers that only two ways in f A . wane by.

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other was by an increase in productivity.

"On this latter point," says our Toronto contemporary, ”Mr. Abbott was perfectly right. An improvement in productivity would increase the revenue from present tax sources, and thus make it possible to lower the rate of taxation. But it is not enough to say that farmers and miners and factory workers should increase their pro- ductivity. Government employees should Indeed, they should make a greater effort in this direction than anybody else, since they are directly sup- ported by taxes. The fewer civil servants we have, and the more efficiently they work, the better the chance those taxes can be reduced.

"But the number of civil servants is not diminishing, or even remaining steady. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reported last week that on March 31, 1952, Canadals civil service stood at its highest point in history. There were 131,646 civil servants on that date-7,066 more than on the same date a year before; 16,000 more than there were at the peak of the war; almost three times

not the slightestidoubt that the process has continued since then; and that March 31, 1953, will find the civil service in the neigh- borhood of 140,000.

"This suggests a severe inflation in the cost of government. We have too many civil servants, and the more there are, the less productive they will be. The second"! condition is the direct and inevitable corise.-. quence of the first. If we had fewer CiVli servants, they would begmore productive. And being more productive, they could-

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'Minister of irrlustaj and Natural Resource; states he be- lieve; blueberry lndustrg could be developed :1; a point parallel that of the Seed potato iridustrg 3

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and should-be better paid. But as things stand, we have a great and growing army of them, gobbling up tax money at a rate of close to M00 million a year. Because of that, and because of all the other Govern- mental expenditures, we have a tax level that discourages production in every field: and so we have a sort of vicious circle. It is true, as Mr. Abbott says, that higher PTO- duction could bring down the present level of taxes. It is equally true that the pre- sent level of taxes is one of the big factors pi-eventing higher production." c'oiiJuAt NUll:S International Che-c-lit-Union Day is the 16th but in this Province it is being ob- served three days starting yesterday. The Credit Unions have taught their members the principles of banking and are probably responsible for having taught the chartered

banks a thing or two about people. 0 O 0

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A new term has been coined in the United States to describe the people who do not think enough of their democracy to register as voters in the November pres- idential election. The term Lanovocs is an abbreviated form for ”lazy, non-voting cit- izens" and is being prominently displayed ion posters and in publicity efforts design- led to get the people to the polls.

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Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet, was bornn !this date 1686. From wig-maker he be- lcame a publisher through reading his own poetry to the Jacobite "Easy Club". He published much charming, if not greatyma- terial including "Fables and Tales", "A ,Tale of Three Bonnets”, "The Tea-table iMiscellany" and "The Gentle Shepherd”. iMost notable of his pieces, perhaps, are well to Loehaber." O

”'Bessy Bell" and "Fare

1 e o ' Visitors to this Province after an ab- lsence of some years are impressed by the improvement in farm homes. There are few conveniences of city, life today which cannot be made available in the country. No one would begrudge the farmer these attributes of modern living but in the pro- cess we are losing the farmer type. In a crowd today it is scarcely possible to dis- tinguish between city and country dwellers. Q 0 I

There are many forms of democratic government of which responsible govern- ment is only one. Its basis is the selection of the members of the executive from the leading party in the legislature and the res- ignation of the government at any time that it is not able to depend upon a major- ity in the legislature. Quite different is the American system by which the President is elected and may appoint his administration without regard for the wishes of Congress. Our friends to the south have a democratic system but not Responsible Government.

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What constitutes a "Building of Special Architecture or Historic Interest" seems to be as much a problem as what" art consists of. A British workman has expressed sur- prise at his century old cottage being so listed although it was built simply by roof- ing over the cartway, between twovother dwellings. "Now", he wrote to the London Daily Telegraph, "I have just been advis- ed (on Form HB 15) that the Minister of Housing and Local Government, has includ- ed thls precious gem of Victorian mediocrity on the list of Buildings of special Architec- ture or Historical Interest. I suppose it in tube handed down to posterity as an ex- ample of how not to build 1 house."

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"TATER PICKIN' "

Back bent in pain- Never straighten it again: Half the vertebra out.- Rest cracked. no doubt. Llnlment: not much help: One rub one yelp.

Lost my enthusiasm.- Tummy one big chasm Pockets heavy with clay. Quitting time years away. Stumble on two pegs That once were legs. Stop for 9. drink-

Get another bad kink.

Six o'clock. I wash,

But. on, my gosh,

Hope I am able I

To reach the table!

Bath waters so red g Thought I had bled!

Into bed-groan-then Off goes Big Ben.

Can't. move a muscle Without a tussle.

Next year, by gum,

I'll wise up, some-

lf l'm found pickln', Give me e klckin'.

--S. Barlow Bird. Freetown. P. E. I. t

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POST oriucn EXACTION

"The furictionary who 'rules the roost at the Post office Depart- ment ln Halifax. has recently giv- en orders to Mr. Owen, Postmas- ter of this place, to exact the same P051888 upon all papers sent through the hands of the mail couriers, as that which is required to be paid upon papers regularly mailed at the office. Publishers are therefore obliged to pay for pap- ers going to settlements where there exist no Post Offices and run

7. Notes Bx

That plowing match for the heads of municipalities seems to have stirred up about as much jealousy and hard feeling as the Olympic games themselves. - ot- tawa. Journal.

A Paris newspaper rcportl that France plans is weak Germany. Many French politicians should be well qualified for the task - they have managed to keep France in that state for a long time now.-Hamilton Spectator.

something called the Food Ind

Agriculture Organization has coined the word "efru," which means "emergency food reserve

unit." Now why not call it ifemer. Kency rations." and avoid coming a word which sounds like a ming- ling of belch and sneeze? -Peter- borough Examiner.

Thieves seem to find easy pick. lnss in air-planes. Just recently -Wmebody carted off nearly half a ton of said being trans-shipped by TCA. Now 8. bundle of s5o,ooo in currency was the loot from n

Pan-American machine flying from Miami to Peru. - Ottawa Journal.

Al; Sandwich. Ontario, I few days 8:0. a. man was sentenced to 15 years for handling a loaded gun in a. careless manner. Besides be- in a. reminder of the importance of care in the handling of fire- arms it might. also be applied to the handling of motor cars which, handled carelessly, are as danger- OUS 5-5 8un6.- Port Arthur News-. Chronicle.

We like to make , ourselves known as the Pacific playground. the city where you can play golf

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proud of the fact that one out pick up a capsule of dope at Gran- ville and Hastings almost as cas- ually as you can buy I: package of ?h9WmB sumf- Vancouver Prov- il'iCC.

One of the features of life in London. England, that amazes e driver from this continent is the facility with which traffic moves in that great; city, even on its nar- row streets, with hardly ever I finger touched by a. horn. It is poulble to spend many days in London without ever hearing 1 horn honked. And there are few dented fenders in evidence to in- dicate that horns might have been honked more frequently to good effect.- Winnipeg Tribune.

Twenty-five experienced con- stables from Northern Ireland will be welcome additions to Edmon- ton'e understaffed force, though the necessity of going abroad for men may be regretted. The men from the Royal Ulster Constabul- ary in Belfast, due to arrive in the city in November, will be the second group of reinforcements to come from the Old Country. Last March, thirteen Scots joined the force. - Edmonton Journal.

If there is In incentive to save. the average man will save. It is nonsense to suggest that the gov- ernment must tax Canadians to the limit to prevent them running hog wild with their money and sending the cost of living up 20 notches. If we are encouraged .to place our surplus cash with in- vestment corporations those cor- porations will have many more millions to invest in development of Canadian resources. We won't have to accept foreign capital as

the year 'round. the municipal garden where you can pick roses at Christmas. We" are

"the next best. thing." - Vancou- ver Province. ,,

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the risk of having the money re- funded by their subseribers. This is certainly 'a bare-faced proceed- ing on the part of the Deputy Post

will create, we trust, such 'a storm of indignation and contumely as will teach him the folly and fruit- lessness of so arbitrary and pre- sumptuous an exaction."

-The Palladium, Mriy 2, 1844.

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OCTOBER 15, 1

When the history of our time is written up it will almost certainly be described as an era. of unrest en dissatisfaction. For perhaps never before has the human race been in such 1. state of mental and spiritual confusion. some of this, of course. is due to ”ala.rums and excursions" in world political affairs. when people are not quite sure what to expect from day to day. as is the situation as present. it. is only natural that they should be Jittery and nervous.

By far the greater part of this confusion goes much deeper than the fear of war and its potential consequences. It is, in fact, more in man himself than in his en- vironment. It is a tragic thing that, while ,mnn has unrcvelled msny of the secrets of the Uni- veree end se'em to be well on the way to eventual mastery of nat- ural forces, he is "just as far away as ever from mastery of himself. To put it another way, spiritual learning and achievement have not by any means kept pace; with development in material things. This circumstance is so obvious to any serious student of contem- pory life that it needs no elabora- tion. At the moment the.sociolog- late and practitioners in other branches of science are working on the problem with might and main. and the hope is that in dueitlme some way may be found out of this spiritual morass into which the human IB.n'ill.Y has tumbled.

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symptom of this current dis- order in the life of man can be seen on every hand. Notwithstand- ing all the time-saving devices that have appeared in recent years, the average min (using the term in the ordinarily accepted sense) appears to be busier and busier all the time. The more gadgets he has at his disposal, the less time he seems to have for himself. And, when he does man- age to have an hour or so to spare, more often than not he is uncertain what. to do with it.

The idea. that pleasure is the greatest good is by all accounts widely held. Strangely, however, those who may to practice this hedonistic philosophy seldom ap- pear to get. much satisfaction out of it. Excess of pleasure can be one of the most boring things in human experience. Many, many people have found it so since the old Biblical philosopher summed it up this way:

'1 said in my heart, Go to now. I will prove thee with mii-th;. therefore enjoy pleasure . . . Whet- soever mine eyes desired I kept not from them; I withheld not my heart. from any joy. Then I looked....snd, behold, all was vanity and vcxatlon of spirit. and there was no profit. under the

In our search for the b&c in material things we have discarded many of the old values which stood our forefathers so well. In NV! break-down of old institutions. with nothing very rugged or sub- stantial to take their places, we have tended to create ideological vacuums that are potential sources of all sorts of social and moral perils. Like the man in the par- able we are often in the habit of walking through dry places, seek- ing rest and finding none.

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The Passing

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-SOCIAL DISORDER I .'.l'I-IE ECUMENI

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ovei-,the life of men. Some at them are of modem man's own making. Others have been formed lf)l'0l;1th18,i)0i'ic causes which go nil. .? tvtnbeilltlti” 3' .i””""' mg. 86 than ere and there the 5

through and we can .5: brrligiii spots which give us cheer. One or these is the so-called ecumenim idea. It is being tried out. with some little hope of success in both the political and reiigiom spheres. It is important in . practical sense for. of course, biz. ter divisions are always harmful 30 Society. It is also important in a. philosophical sense for ideas es everyone knows, are -' mm". Powerful

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The uniting of all the nation; in a common goal is still sn un. "allied Baal; but there is no doubt. that it is being attempted in 5 30F10l-I3 WHY. Perhaps for the am time in history. The fact. that the United Nations Organization, 1. SW1 5- E01118 concern in spltg of eVeI'Ythlng that has happened mm, its inception ll. very few years ago is proof that the world brother: hood concept has taken root. 1; is at least possible that it may Iran and flourish.

e are n so much him c days that we are disposed cyo 3:5: little patience with slowly moving systems. And yet history plainly teaches that all great movement. for good have proceeded slowly, There are no short cuts when bi"; ism! are being unfolded. After many centuries of feuds and ten. sions among nations and races it ought not to be expected that they can be resolved in . few

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O 0' In the sphere of religion men are belatedly coming to the re- alizetlon that. the things which divide Christian people are not nearly so important as the things which unite them. No doubt, the Great. World Church of which the prophets have dreamed is u long way off. but it appears to be com- mg 3 bit nearer as the years go by and'it may yet. come to ful- fillment. Here, too, as in the po. mica! sphere. world federation is as yet. not. much more than a. dream. Many obstacles remain in the way but, somehow, they do not appear quite so formidable 55 they did only 5. few decades ago. It can be argued that, even if ii. were possible for Christian people to find a way around the many differences which now divide them, any union that might ensue would still leave untouched more than This argument. while genuine enough, is not, I think. I. conclusive one. for the Christian pressure on world affairs is far heavier than any statistical ratio may seem to indi- cute.