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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2. 1955

"Days Of Lorne”

It is a function of historians to dem- onstrate that culture and ideas can be traced back beyond the claims of latteri, day "originators" and that function has: been well performed by W. Stewart Mac- Nutt in his account of the Governor-Gen- eralship of the scion of Clan Campbell and; son-in-law of Queen Victoria.

”Days of Lorne", published by the Bmnswick Press, gives a cross section of Canadian history in the period of 1878- 1883. as it were through the eyes of the Marquis of Lorne The Professor of His- tory at the University of New Brunswick, nnd native of Charlottetown, has made good use of the papers of the Duke of Argyle which were lent from the collec- tion of manuscripts at Inveraray Castle.-

The development of this country's na- tionhood is traced in the extraordinarily brief but important period of the sojourn of the Marquise and Princess Louise Al- berta. From his landing at Halifax and encountering not one but two constitu- tional crises on the journey to the Capital, to his insistance that a successor be nam- ed before the end of his term to avoid having the administration devolve upon the commander of the garrison at Halifax, Lorne's career was intimately bound up with the forces that were building a na- tion.

We read of Canada's first diplomat, Sir Alexander Gait, and the problems of developing foreign policy that would not merely be acquiescence in the plans of the British Foreign Office: the beginnings of treaty-makingpower: the acceptance of a High Commissioner at Westminster, whom Lorne wished to be forthrightly termed a "resident minister."

It was the peak period of Maritime shipping, when the people of these Prov- inces. with more than a ton of shipping afloat for every individual of the popula- tion. were the most seagoing people in the world.

It was also the period of the building of the C. P. R., helped not a little by the Governor-General's press agentry in per- sonally financing and organizing a tour by British journalists that brought a new realization to Britain of the wealth and prospects of this country.

In Quebec he frequently recalled that the Norman-French of Canada were re- lated by blood to the Norman-French who were responsible for the greatness of Eng- land.

In the fields of applied and fine arts he founded the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and the Royal Society of Canada and wrote letters to learned societies in Austria, Prussia. Switzerland, France and Russia, expounding Sir Sandford Flem- ming's brilliant idea of Standard Time.

it is not surprising to Islanders that Mr. Mat-.Nutt deals iucidiy and with pre- cise knowledge with military affairs.

Puzziing

One fact that emerged with undoubted clarity from the Conference of SEATO powers in Bangkok is the difference of opinion between the British and United

Matsu and a few other small islands just off the China coast, which the National-

Eden, is that these islands should be evac- uated by Chlang Kai-shek's garrisons and given over to the Communist regime. Mr. Dulles. on the other hand, repeated the

they should be kept from

not say outright that the United States would help Nationalist forces to retain thin. in the almost certain event of a Cdnnunlat attack.

ferred to these disputedlslands in a speech

There. too, he am I an to what the United States dd. I anytiilnzpbo defendithe areas,

-able for the expedition-

States Governments over the status of

lsts now hold and which the Communists . have threatened to "liberate". The Brit- 7 ish position, as stated by Sir Anthony

official American view that the islands are

important to the defence of Formosa and At Premier Matheson's request, the new the Pescadores. The inference is that train service between Montreal and Char- falllng into lottetown to be inaugurated on April 24 will

Communist hands. The puzzling thing Iioutl the situation is that Mr. Dulles did

It will be mailed that'Mr. Dulles re-

hedollvemdontheeveofhlndepartune. 1!!

audience with im-

his part, appears to believe that the Sev- enth Fleet will keep the Communists" out of Matsu. Perhaps that is the under- standing; and, for some reason not stated, the Communists are to be kept guessing in the matter. ll that be the case, it is a curious departure from United States pol- icy with respect to Formosa and to the withdrawal from the Tachens, a policy

which told the whole world just what the A

fleet was prepared to do and the exact number of ships, planes, and men avail-

Civii Defense Plans

The emphasis placed by the Prince Ed- ward Island Women's Institutes on the need for an adequate civil defense pro gramme is underlined by reports emanat- ing from this week's conference of Cana-

dian doctors and defense experts at Arn- i

prior. Ontario. The dreadful possibilities of a hydrogen bomb attack are being dis-

cussed at this conference. as well as of t- attacks by a "germ cloud" which could . fell man and beast alike or ruin the coun- l

try's crops.

with the danger will involve national co- ordination of the most detailed and com- prehensive kind. Every community will require to play its part, and every citi- zen should be made familiar with his or her responsibilities in this connection. Doubtless we shall hear more on the sub- ject from Government members in the Legislature, as to the progress already made and the objectives so far as this Province is concerned. But the import- ance of the matter cannot be over-em- phasized. The Women's Institutes are rightly keeping it in the forefront, at least until there is a lessening in world tension, of which there are no evident signs at present.

Farmers' Meetings

Nowadays important farm meetings may be held at any time during iihe year and the oldtime annual ”Farmers' Week" has perhaps lost something of the interest attaching to its proceedings. But the im- portance of these meetings, individually and as 1 group, has by no means diminish- ed.

The Dairymen's Association meeting.

which is scheduled for today, is the fifty- sixth annual meeting of this organization, one of the most important in the Province. Tomorrow morning, afternoon and evening will be taken up with meetings of the sheep and swine breeders' organizations, the Cen- tral Farmers Institute, and the Federation gf Agriculture respectively. There a r e many problems to be discussed, dealing not only with production problems but with processing, packaging, transportation and marketing in keeping with modern requires ments and opportunities. The meetings are being held while the Legislature is in session, but i-t is to be hoped that our rural representatives will find opportunity of participating in them to some extent at least '

EDITORIAL NOTES

The World Health Organization reports. that there are 999 ways of departing this life, Any day now we may expect to hear that the Russians, who claim superiority in all things, have discovered one more, to make it an even thousand.

O O I

The correspondent from Hamilton. Ont., who lamented the vanishing of the ”Island Blue" is not alone in his regrets. It was, indeed, a prince of the potato kingdom; it is doubtful that anything now in vogue can take its place.

0 O

The report that liquor sales for the Province in 1954 were down 3339.000 from the year before will be good news for those who believe that reduced liquor con- sumption means a social improvement. it will be something quite different for those who think of the matter only in terms of

Provincial revenue. 0

provide sleeping car connection with the "Ocean Limited," thus saving several hours on the run to Montreal and providing a more convenient hour of departure from this end. The cooperation of the Canadian

will be generally appreciated. 0 O 0

Hon. Mr. Macxlnnon POM 05'-'l'V9-d tribute in the Legislature the other day to

Defense plans on a scale commensurate l

National Railways in making this change m

iiltiiewcoiiier To The Race

THE DAILY VICTORY

LENTEN MEDITATION

From the Columns of The Times. London

The message of the Bible is two- fold, for it is concerned at once with what God has done for man and with what man is called upon to do in return.

These are not to be pitted against each other. as though what God has done makes it unnecessary for man to do anything, or as though man can be self-sufficient and does not stand in need God's action on his behalf. The two needs are equally necessary, the indicative of God's grace and the imperative of man's obliga- tion; what God does liberates man, so that he may act in freedom and responsibility. And when he faints in the discharge of his duty. he is heartened and strengthened in he returns afresh in faith to the divine event whose potency re- mains unimpaired by his defection. This lnterconnexlon of the divine and the human can be traced through the Bible, stage by stage.

Thus, in the Old icstament. the memory of the divine deliverance at the Exodus has to be trans- lated new in each generation into the language of present gratitude and steadfast loyalty. The Ten Commandments are misunderstood when they an read merely as a series of precepts and prohibition; what they require and forbid has lngeach case its ground in the gracious act by which this people was brought out from the house of bondage. Nor is it Iufficlent that Israel should make a return to God for what she has received from him; the immense debt she contracted at the Exodus is best repaid in the coin of service to one's neighbour.

in the Gospels, the message of Jesus is first of what God has done, and only thereafter of what man must do. The Kin dom is at hand. and men are caied upon

power. The exacting demands he makes in the Sermon on the Mount are prefaced by the Beatitudes as the revelation of God as he waits to bestow his blessing on those who need him and seek him. That man should forgive even his enemies is not a heroine virtue he is to take upon himself: it is the spontaneous response he makes

of to the prior fact. that God has for-

given him. A: the treatment of

his children by the earthly father -

mirrors what God does for men, so men are to be perfect as their Father in heaven is perfect. When Jesus bids his disciples repudiate the world's standard of greatness, he can do so only because he has first demonstrated in his own per- 81?: what God's standard. are

e.

That the imperative of duty has its origins and justification in the indicative of God's action as ap- pfohendcd by faith is perhaps brought out most clearly in St. Paul. If it is first recognized that the Christian is what he in by God's grace, that he has nothing he has not. received. St. vPIlIi'I conception of the Christian life can be summed up in the maxim "Become what thou art!" The fact that Christ was once crucified and rose again must not be allowed to degenerate into a mere piece of ancient history; it needs to be continually reintroduced into the present as the disciple dies to the old self and rises again to a new life with God.

The Christian has received the Spirit; therefore he must live by the Spirit. The powers of such an ethic lies in in paradoxical char- acter. The good life is no struggle to maintain oust: ground; it is an entry upon a victory that has been won already yet needs to be won

to receive it and to live by its

afresh each day.

Commonwealth Co-operation

Written by Dr. Nicholas Manser

gh. Smuts Professor of the His-

tory of. the British Commonwealth at Cambridge Unlversily, England, for the United Kingdom Information Service.

Before 1939 the Commonvu.-ith of Nations was composed of a lineup of self-go crnlng states pre- dominantly Brit sh in origin and exclusively European in govern- ment. Since the war this group. diminished by the secession of the republic of lrcland. has been ch- larged by the addition of three, Asian members. lndla. Pakistan and Ceylon. i

in themselves these changes in composition make the years 1947- 1949 landmarks as important in Commonwealth history as i931. which witnessed the enactment of the Statute of Westminster, and. 1867, the year of the British North America Act, to which the origins of the contcmpo any Common- wealth were traced in March 1954 by the Prime Minister of Pakis- tan in opening the Commonwealth Relations Conference at Lahore.

Some of the consequences of the changes in composition that trans- formed thc British Common- wealth of pro-wnr days into the multl-racial Commonwealth we know today are already apparent, at least in outline. The con- ventlonal characteristics of the Statute of Westminster Common- wealth. if I may I0 describe it. were the equality of status. the free association and the common allegiance of tho dominion: to the

000

acceptance

war, Commonwealth has less unl- formity and greater variety in its forms of membership. This greater variety is symbolized by the sep- arate titles with which the Queen was invested in each of her realms.

Constitutional variety reflects the new variety in Commonwealth nicnibcrship. Same have feared lest this new variety shuuld lesson the will to ("iv-u,;C”:.lle. This is not a fr.-ir to he llzhtly (llsrcgaildcd. The cnlzxr me of U1." Cnmmvn- wcr-ith has undoubtedly hrnu-'ht wltii it new problems. Unity is S0l'lIOllill',l which cannot be pre- sumed. That is not. I think, so much bccar-.r the newer anti the older members of the Comman- wcalth are of different mrial origins and inlicrlt different cul- tures, as because of the differences in their recent experiences.

The attitude of the older mem- bers of the Commonwealth to world affairs is most deeply in- fluenced by their bitter experi- ence in the 31': by repressing memories of the well-nigh dis-

a d tuna. , pei-fences have come the great volution in United Kin

iitwnim

AFTER EVENING MILKING Tail swinging like a walking stick to lop A timothy. and casually chewing

Kllm. The Jersey amblu from stripping. Kltte lap quick

Ill

Pearls from the gran. tongue around each gem- 100811!

Like Dickens meandering in F I. a novel done. Leaving the render to h. Critic

ERGO .

Mock the familiar waddle. Above his den

Behind the silo (part of In farm- yard pump.

but wild and with strange gm) the woodchuck stands

Observing the old cow move whore shadows grip

Our pasture. Sky, the mightier strnnlor, stun:

The farm to drowsiness and hav- inl bmllllll

Dark to the world. triumphantly in bright.

-R. G. Even-son in tho Atlantic Monthly.

Alaskan Scouts (Canadian Pun)

Kuplnn watch on what noes on in Russia an d a little known but valuod ot-

ganlzati -the E 0 Scouts of the Alaskan National Guard. Their area in tin Dlnmodc island up utride the border between Aixka and the Soviet Union-Little Dio- mode in the United sum. Big Dio- made across I in of water ln Siberia.

Little Dlomcdo island h tho clog, on port to Red ttritory. But the area in which the scouts live and work stretches for almost 5,000 miles along the bleak, rocky cout- llne and islands facing out over aullen seas and ice toward Siberia.

The Eskimo scouts (actually some of them an Indiana) an probably the only members of a reserve-type organization who are always on active duty without be- ing called up. What th do in their dnily work-hunting, Tbhlnu. trap- ping-fita perfectly the mission they would have if on constant army duty.

If there in a stranger in their- land. they are almost certain to lnow about it. Perhaps they see him. Or perhaps than an only telltale signs-footprintl. marks on a beach where a boat has landed, or the attitude of nu-voua game. whose eyes and ears are even

astrous consequences of appease- meal. and by their resolve that Mku shall not be main

From those ex- re- and

more sensitive than those of an I Eskimo. .

HVIADE FOR JOB The Eskimo has a natural and

or too often. that he gets all the food he needs.

your home quiet and

Medically

Speaking Ilennaa N. Bandeau. ll. v TREATING lNFAN'I"I OOIJC

Few babiaa escape attacks of colic durlnl the first couple of

. months of their lives.

Although these attacks usually disappear about the third month.

” ahnsd apparently cause a baby up

ting harm. they an extranely uncomfortable. Usually. parents can help prevent at least some attacks and relieve the baby's

- pain when he does suffer from

colic.

The exact. cause of colic is not known. but there are some theo- lies about it.

i Pnuibh Cause:

For instance. many doctors be- lieve colic is due to an abdominal pain brought on by underfeedlng. overfeedlng or gas in the bowel. Others think it usually occurs in

r nervous, tense babies whose moth-

ers probably are nervous and en- ily upset. It might also be caused by some food to which your baby

, is sensitive.

An attack of colic can usually

3 be recognized by the way the baby

acts. He will begin to cry sudden- ly. He will draw up his arms and legs and then push them out vigor- ously. The muscles in his abdomen become stiff or rigid.

Might Hold Breath

As the infant cries. he might also hold his breath. Both his face and body will become-red. and his hands and feet. will become cold and clammy .lie will stop crying for a few minutes and then begin again.

Much of his suffering can prob- ably be prevented by following these simple rules:

Don't. feed your baby too much However. be sure

Don't get him too excited, upe- clally whonthe cats. ,

Be an calm as possible. Avoid all unnecess , noise and keep ceful. Pick the baby up slowly and gently. Don't startle him. and don't handle him unnecessarily. Keep his room well ventilated. Don't keep it brightly lighted.

If the baby is bothered by colic, you can relieve the acute pain

on: .

Glvehlm an enema or a lup- politory to help him get rid of any gas in hip bowel.

Help hlm belch by holding him closely. and nearly erect. over your shoulder. thus making pres- sure against his abdomen. Pat him gently on his back.

Place him on his stomach in his bed. Have him lie on something warm, such as a warm flannel cloth or a hot water bag partially filled with warm, not hot. water. Be sure whatever you use is not hot enough to burn his skin.

If necessary. your doctor might prescribe -" ' like t ' which relax spasm of the stomach. Don't, however, give your young- ster any medicines unless your doctor advises them.

QUESTION AND ANSWER

ll. 8.: What can I do to remove moles from my neck? I have one about the size of my thumb.

Answer: Moles should be remov- ed only by I physician, prefer- ably : Ikln specialist or surgeon. Certain types of moles should be left alone. and the physician will determine whether or not i- ' is advisable in your can.

Diomode. American Eskimo: could give an almost hour-by-hour report on the movement of their neigh- bors on Big Dlomedc. whom they watch by telescope.

Scout: say there isn't much ml- grntlon or travel between Soviet and American territory now. They do not say there is none. A few Yelrl I80 fishing and hunting par- ties of Eskimos often crossed the

boundary.

Alaska's Eskimos had other vill- tors from Asia 15 years ago. In 1910. they reported to the territor- ial government that a Japanese survey party had landed at one point. looked over the country and people and left. This was more than a year before Japan declared war and succeeded in gaining a foothold in the Aleutian chain.