VTTHE GUARDEIAN

"Covers Prince Edward Island Like the Dew‘

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Soil ciinservatloii

It is general practice to differentiate be- tween wasting resources and continuillg ones. between mining operations and crop- ping. It is indeed a vital distinction. When an oil field is used up or when a lead mine peters ollt mankind can only turn to other sources of supply, if any. Waterpower, how- ever, and agricultural production give their _\'icl(l year in and year out. If it were other- wise we would soon br. without ppwer from hydro and without food.

The latter, it goes without saying, is by far the more serious. It used to be thought that the world had almost limitless arable land awaiting the plow. The true situation is, however, far different. There is little land left to be cultivated that is really worth the effort. Mining the soil now de- voted to agriculture is a short cu‘. to world- wide hunger.

\\'e have just concluded publishing a svlles of excerpts from a report by the Prince Edward Island Branch of the Agri- cultural Institute of Canada on Soil Conser- ration and Related Problems. It shows 1'lcarl_\' that those who are best acquainted with the problems of erosion and depletion take a very serious view of the situation.

Many steps must be taken to preserve the fertility of the top six inches, large projects and little local practices. We need in feel about the soil as a trust of which we are temporary custodians, ill honour bound to turn it over intact to those who come after.

l-laving such an attitude. it is then ollr ,rc<pollsibility to learn how to carry it out, to study the present condition of the soil and the effect of various measures. Much has already been learned but more remains to be found out. We dare not shirk the re- sponsilnility of finding out and acting ac- cordingly.

Mars or on some or the smaller asteroids which run back and forth between that planet and neighbouring Jupiter. This would mean building a large number of garbage carrying rockets, but Professor Freeman is of ‘the opinion that this would present no great obstacle. .

of all, it would seem only -right and pro- per to settle the question of whether or not there are living beings of some sort on Mars or any of the other planets to which the wastes might be conveyed. If the an- swer to the question should turn out to be “yes", the inhabitants of these planets would /have every right to complain about being afflicted by a destructive force in the creation of which they.had no part. Cer- tainly it would be a very poor way for earth-man to inaugurate the new inter- planetary relationship.

All Exemplary citizen

The late Mr. James E. Harris was wide- ly known and esteemed, not only in his pro- fessional capacity, but_ in many fields of community enterprise. As an architect he designed many fine churches, hospitals and public buildings throughout the Province, and was an acknowledged authority on architectural history and design. He was also keenly interested in paintillg, poetry and music, and took a prominent part in promoting these activities as a vital part of our cultural heritage.

A veteran of the First World War, in which he served with the Royal Canadian Artillery, Mr. Harris was among the organ- izers of the Canadian Legion movement here, and did much to promote its interests and those of his fellow veterans. He served for many years on the board of trustees of the Prince Edward Island Hospital, and on numerous committees in connection with public health, education, and social welfare campaigns. Generous of his time, talent and means toward every worthy cause, he re- garded thesc contributions as an obligation of good citizenship which it was a privilege as well as ll duty to discharge.

Mr. Harris‘ memory will be cherished by thousands of friemls and acquaintances throughout the Maritime Provinces, with whom The Guardian joins in extending sin- cere sympathy to his bereaved widow and daughter.

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gppnrenzlv believe may won't need it to com: back on.—Moe:'c Jsril Times-I-lmild.

Alberta Ii.-sworn. Calgary up-'rtI. are worklnx toward another pro- duction peak. The land evidently is flowing with more than oil and Social credit. _

‘rho bucbpll sou-in getting into full Iwing. How coma ibnator Mccai-thy hasn't don» amamtng about the Cincinnati Reds?

The Square frying pan is adver- tised as more eff‘c'.ent. Now it only remains for Nature to produce the square egg.-—Edmor.:on Journal.

The tragic story of the Baltimore baby who strangled to death in his high chair while his mother made a '15-minute trip to the grocery store calls attention again to the fact that mothers have A full-time Job. Not only mutt: they care for their babies in every phy- sical sense—they must think for them—must foresee things which’ could lie dangerous—must lug them along to grocery stores it proper help is not available at home. It's A tough job, being mother. and the price for this high office is eternal vlgllance.—tCleve- land Plain Dealer). ‘

...Some of the heroes and hero- ines of history and romance are not. very bright examples for the young, if judged by modern stand- ards. Today they occupy honored places in school text books. mov- ing across the pages Ike dazzling, romantic ahadowa, but it is cer- tain that lf most. of them had lived in these days magistrates and probation officers would have been interested in them.

(SIS: Medicnl Features)

The mentally retarded person has been venerated .in some primitive societies and burned at. the stake in others. He has been celebrated in history, story and play as the “village half-wit", made the target. of Jokes, hidden away in back rooms, or locked up in institu- tlonn.

These attitudes have arisen very largely from ignornllce of the na- ture of mental backwal'dnc55. Now, however. the condition is recognised as a disease. like tuberculosis and diabetes, and not an a hopeless and often shameful blight. The trouble is not. governed by heredity as much as was once thought. This gives the encouraging possibility that prevention can play a bi role in its alllnlllation.

I Hope For The Feeble-Minded

Science Information Service, London

one of the moat. promising ap- proaches is an operation which increases the flow of blood and oxygen to the brain. The two doc- tors who invented it report that about 35 per cent of the first 125 mcntaly retarded children on whom it was performed have shown im- provement. The results were partl- cularly gratlfying in patients who had also been suffering from con- vulsive seizures:

Surprising results have been lirlilcved in the field of nutrition. In one clinic, for instance. a “build- up" diet using iron and multiple vitamins, ‘including Vitamin B 1:‘. has produced marked unprove- ments. . , “Although no specific treatment has been discovered to ‘cure every case of mental retardation". say the experts. “there are many who

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Than petals from blown roses on

the grass,

Or niglit-dew: on still waters be-

tween‘ walls

of shadowy granite, lll si gleamhig

pass. Music that gentll llea.

Than tired eyelids lipon tired eyes; Music that brings silveet sleep from

the blissful

Here are cool mosses deep.

And t.hro' the moss the Men creep. And in the stream the long-leaved

flowers weep,

the craggy ledge the poppy hangs in sleep.

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reserv_oir now in co—u’rae of con:

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FROM THE LOTUS EATEBS

Ancient reputations diminish when modern rules of conduct are applied to the behavior of those who made them. One could hardly expect the public today to make a. heroine of I l6-year-old Cleopatra for making violent love to a 50-year-old Caesar whose reputation was known throughout Europe. There would ocrtalnly be a public jail sentence for Romeo for abducting 14-year-old Juliet, 1. teen-ager obviously in need of parental care. World opinion would be outraged it ii modern Paris -earl-led off a 12-year-old Helen of Troy to live with him in Sparta. Indeed, the law would step in and send Helen to it school for delinquent. glrla; Paris would be sent to jail on it serious charge and all the sympathy would be for Menclaua. History has twisted this and lika Romeo and Juliet made it glorious. pal- pltatlng romance instead of juve- nile delinquency. Or were the anci- cnts right; was it really romance and were these people adventurous and great, and have the rules of

muatc new that

er on the spirit

skies.

——Lord Tcltilyson.

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THE WAY- "

ml/.ern tuna: robbed life of it; atodt glo:r'.:ig oppo:tuz'.3t.es?—l-‘ro.r. dim-.‘lton lpectator.

Jiiouia by spooohunttho Gun.-1 Conference. the rival power: "- farther apart than avnr ‘on Koren’; :utu.:c. Why mt try pictures? ac. cording to til‘. ancient Chinese formula. one picture is with . t..‘louaa..d wo"da.

"Independent lone wolva" Ihg cannot turn to other: in time in stress are partlcnlai-ly pi-one -n r'.o. hot or bniblturate audict..‘.\:‘ Tin. was .-tated by Dr. Cordor. Bell, medical director of shadow Brook Foundation, in the March-April is. we of "Health" magazine. Dr. Bell in chairman of the Alcohol Scttlon of the Health League a.‘ Canada, publishers of the -magazine. "Ap- parently no human being was in, handed to be strong enough In stand-alone." Dr. Bell stator. "'11.. adult who cannot depend on otheg people will. undoubtedly be torn tense than those with satisfactory interdependent relationship. He is obs victim of uncomfortable Imo- tlonal mm which an not re. ltevcd by his own afforta. Dlnled the comfort from dependence on other people, he can learn to do. pend on chemicals. “When a per. son has learned to protect himself from the stresses of daily life with a chemical. he ll inclined to ma. aldcr hlmaell independent of other people. He really believe: that ho is strong enough to stand along. Finally the body becomes to ‘con- ditioned to receiving this chemical in the quantities required to ru- duce severe tension states that it begins to accept its presence as a ‘must’. At. this stage to be without alcohol will produce tension in itself, and an added feeling of physical need for alcohol is re- vived whenever it is taken. Dr. Bell concludes by atroaalng the im- portance of social re-orientation in clinical treatment. “The clinic", he says "should continue to recognize the need of each patient for ii feeling of security. In order to live happily without chemicals. he must now shift from a dependence I\l)on chemicals to a new dependent upon people. He must. begin ill a new way to participate in interde- pendent relationships. This funda. mental principle of treatment was first identified and then proven by Alcoholics Anonymous and mint always be kept. in mind by any clinic undertaking the rehabilitation of the alcohol or sedative ad-

diet."

The Age Old Story

Afterward Jon: flndotli him in the temple. and said unto him. Behold. tlinu art made wliola: tin no more. lost I worse thing comb unto thee.

EDITORIAL NOTES

The t’erm| "mental retardation’ or “feeble-mlndednesa" are com monly used in connection with wide variety of conditions whoa mliin feature L311 sub-normal lev l of intelligence. We can now i

can be helped to ii surprising de- gree. Something constructive can be done for every patient."

Not long ago, almost any disease was considered virtually l-opeless.

itruction in the Royalty of Char. ltftteoown, escaped and flooded the quarry owned and worked by Mr. Thomas Campbell, of this city, and did damage which be estimated at

Spring weather and examinations go ill

*. llesertlng Farmers - ——— together. College students caught between

In this part‘of the world farm owners sometimes give lack of help as a reason for giving up or curtailing‘ their-.farm op- erations. In Communist Czechoslovakia, according to a report from West Germany, farmers are taking up other work for an exactly opposite reason: collective farms, the only kind permitted in that country, have so many men on them that they do not produce enough to make them econ- omically feasible for the group; conse- quently, so the report says, farmers are deserting in large numbers.

As always happens when internal (‘.0ll- ditions are tlnsatisfactol'y, the Communist leaders are blaming "enemy propaganda” for the wholesale defections; the complaint, liowever, is weakened by a directive froln the Party's Centr_al Committee to its dis- trict agents to go slowly in the matter of setting up new collectives in other branches of the country's economy.

contending forces are being tried as well as examined. 0 The controversy between Ottawa and Quebec about income tax does not,seem to be so much a constitutional issue as a public relations one. Each Government seems in- tent on convincing the taxpayer that it is the other's tax that goes on top. I I 0 It is a commonplace that. a better un- derstanding will help to make a success of marriage. A Florida health expert, how- ever. takes the stand that it is foot com- fort or otherwise that determines whether

a marriage stands or falls. 0 I 0

Fruit sales comprise only about one per cent of farm income in this Province‘. Nev- ertheless it is distinctly encouraging that revenue from this source should be on the increase. The possibilities of a fruit-grow-

It is well known that farmers, tradition- ally, are an independent and resourceful lot of men; they will take expert advice read- ily and. when occasion demands, they will join together voluntarily for common aims, but they do not take kindly to attempted bureaucratic control of their way of life.

ing industry have hardly been scratched. I O 0

Sir Gordon Richards, British jockey, was born this date 1904. His father was a miner in Shropshire and Richards learn- ed to ride pit ponies. He was apprenticed to I-Iartigan, the trainer and first raced in

the maior prevcntlble causes wl i a good deal of assurances: pr - natal environment. birth abnorm- alltlea. infection, chemical poison- ing and nutritional deficiencies. . . .

In regard to prenatal environ- ment. German measles is B signi- ficant factor. In 1943, ii group of Australian doctors found that a. number of mothers who hart devel- oped the disease durlng't.he first three months of pregnancy gave birth to children suffering from brain abnormalities and eye catar- acts. This finding was subsequent- ly confirmed in many other parts of the world.

other studies have disclosed a connection between mental retarda- tion and a substance in the blood- stream of the mother which is incompatible with the blood of the unborn child. some research- ers have found that reocifted X- rny, or radium, treatments during certainperloda of pregnancy may bring about damage to the unborn baby’: brain.

There are some dangerous fal- lacies about prenatal environment, such M that the marriage of first couaina produces mentally defective children. This is certainly not con- firmed by the studies of the Levin- Ion Foundation for the Mentally Retarded, in Chicago. While an oc- caslonal case of feeble-mindedness can be found in such offspring, people of unusual talent and in- telllgcnce are often born from there marriages.

once it. reached the brain. In the five years from 1936 to 1940. for instance, the death rate from abscesses of the brain at. a large American hospital was 80 per cent. That. however. was before the com- ing of the earth-mould antibiotics.

In the period from 1946 to 1960. hospital authorities have reported the death rate from the brain abscesses fell to 34 per cent — and most of these deaths were of pati- ents whose condition had not been recognised early enough. Both penicillin and streptomycin have helped to establish his record.

In recent years, a newer antl- biotic has also proven to be I powerful weapon against brain ab- scesses. This antibiotic, called bacitracln. is injected with strep- tomycin dlrectly into the abscess cavity. With such aid, the hospital authorities say, there has not been a single death which could be trac-I ed to the spreading of the infec- tion after treatmerll..—‘(sIS.)

Old Charlottetown

and P. I. 1.

From the Examiner, Dec. 13, 1388.

The Osborne House was, we understand, the first to receive a continuous supply of water from the waterworks. I

Mr. Simon Bolger, of the Queen House. has leased the Rankin Home

$10,000.

around town Just. Whltechapel terror, ‘Jack the Rip-

that. he is in the city and positively nightfall without an escort, while

lng.

deal of talk now about the

There in I good

per.’ Many timid women believe

refuse to leave their house after

others go about in fear and tremb- ling and some look carefully under the bed each night before retir-

Dogfish which prey on other fish on both Atlantic and Pacific shores are littoral sharks about three feet long.

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which includes both classical and modern

movements. We even jive in some num-

bers."

gland may cause A newborn child to develop cretlnlnn, a condition of arrested physical and mental d¢Ve10Dn‘III1t- lmlillred function of the pituitary gland it believed to

last evening, the following Patriarch: were elected office bear- era for ma: 0. P., W. _G. Gillespie; H. P., W. R. Boreliam: 8. W. John 5. Nelson; chappelle; P. 5., Robert D. Coffin: