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THE GUARDIAN

Authorized as Second Class Mall P081 (""09 Department, Ottawa. The Island Guardian 1' lilishlnz ('0.

'ei'e'Si.iV;t-.l.a Associate Editor, Ian A. Burnett. Associate Editor. Frank Walker.

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"Covers Prince Edward Island like the dew”

"The strongest memory is weaker than the weakest ink".

”.ai-ARLOTTETOWN. MONDAY. ass. 12, 1953 cheddar Without his

Lovers of fine cheese will be deeply coli- cerned about the things Ontario cheese makers want to do to cheddar. The mak- ers are apparently under the impression that while sharp and crumbly cheese is necessary for export to Britain, a product can be more readily sold to Canadians if it is softer in texture and lacks the sharp flavour of fine old cheddar.

This threat to the nippiness of Calla- dian cheese should be nipped in the bud. It is bad enough that the cream cheeses and the smooth but tough and flavourless inno- vations should by improved packaging and marketing have replaced cheddar of char- acter from many tables. It will be the last straw if cheddar itself surrenders and as- sumes the bland rharacterlcssness of all too many forms of cheese offered to the long suffering public.

Instead cheddar should glory in its piquanry and the makers should extol its dry and cl'Llnibly texture. Put up in at- tractive packages, as is at long last being done, it would once more captivate palates

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tual defence-is not only a voluntary Cana- dian concession but a most necessary one. Canada has always depended on the United States to provide the major defence forces for this continent. By allowing U. S. plane: and radar to operate on our territory, we are assuring ourselves that those defence forces will be used to the utmost advant-

Flsheries ltesaarch

The annual market value of Canada'r fish catch is around 35200 million. But no one really knows the potential value of these resources. Year by year the scien- tists of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada are coming a little closei' to the answer. An under-nourished world should have a lively interest in what they find

The Board's scientists have done much to trace the effect of temperatures, salin- ity and currents on the movements and also the hatching of fish off the Atlantici Coast. They found that a poor catch does not always result from scarcity of fish; it may be caused by a population shift in- fluenced by changing temperatures and other factors. When for instance the! temperature preferences of given species are known, the chances of finding a good fishing ground in any year are enhanced. The gaining of this information is a slow process, but gradually the store of know- ledge is being increased. New techniques are developed as a result of experimental fishing with various types of gear. Thus the industry benefits. Last week's meet- ing of the Research Board at Ottawa re-

which have long become resigned to thel smooth and eharacteiless ”modcrn" cheesesl This is no time for cheddar to surrenderj

It should show fight as well as bite. I

School Building costs

'lhe Financial Post quotes front the Ot- tawa Journal the following news item of twenty-five years ago: "School trustees of Aylmer, Que. are borrowing 3350.000 to build a modern eight-room school, the debt to be repaid over a 30-year period." To build a modern eight-room school today. comments the Post, the Aylmcr

392730.000. Their fathers of 50 years ago would have got the job done with 5S10,000.

”()ne of the main reasons for the in- t-reasingly heavy school taxes," the Post maintains. ”is not all due, by any means, to inflated building dollars. Inflated ideas

of what we should have in a so-called 'mod-- We are not-

ern' school play a bigger role. satisfied with the plain building of a gen- eration or so ago and the plainer rooms and equipment. Now many think a school is too primitive unless it has an elaborate and expensive auditorium, a gymnasium and swimming pool. We have ibuses to bring the children to school and take them home. We have elaborate and special rooms filled with more elaborate equip- mom, to teach sewing. cooking and car- pentry, skills that children earlier in the century were expected to learn at home. is it any wonder that our school taxes have increased? And-is it paying off in better

-trustees , would have in get a loan of s2oo,00o to'

vealed further progress being made. Much remains to be learned about the

seafood resources of the world, but, so far . as is now known, Canada's coastal and in-

land waters contain one of the greatest of all concentrations of a valuable source of proteins. And. as the Ottawa Citizen points out, since lack of sufficient proteins is a cause of grave anxiety in many countries, what Canada can do to develop and con- serve its fisheries has more than national significance. '

EDITORIAL NOTE!

Clan MacKinnon will be to the fore next summer with the visit of their chief, Commander Arthur A. MacKinnon. He is assured of a hearty welcome here, the

most western of the Western Isles. 0 u 0 '

Colour is coming back to the Canadian Army, at least in the matter of headgear. It will be pleasant to see the colourful new berets but it would be even better for the Army's morale and popularity if the re- turn to colour were carried further.

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The ”Cutty Sark". last survivor of the famous tea clipper ships, is to be preserved in a dry berth at London, England, sim- ilar to that in which Nelson's "Victory" now rests at Portsmouth. A committee set up by the London County Council, on the initiative of the Duke of Edinburgh in 1951, has been studying the problems involved, and a site has been tentatively selected on

schooling and better citizenship?”

There is a great deal of truth inihc above statement. and school communities everywhere are feeling the pressure com- plainorl of.

Radar-Warning Stations

When the United States first proposed establishing radar stations in Canada at points which would serve as warning for strategic American cities. Ottawa made the stipulation that they must be manned by Canadians. But the amount of manpower which the R. C. A. F. was able to enlist for the purpose proved considerably less than would be needed. So Washington's original request, has been granted in full; the U.S.-built stations are being manned by l'. S. Air Force personnel as quickly as they are completed and put into operation. Other stations in Canada, built by Ottawa for the protection of Canadian cities, are being manned by R. C. A. F. radar crews.

This, notes the Montreal Gazette, is an excellent example'of the co-operation being developed by two natural military allies. Canada's original stand on the personnel arrangement was obviously an attempt to answer those who would criticize the agree- ment on a loss-of-sovereignty charge. The discovery that U. S. A. F. interceptor alr- craft had been given the right to fly over Canadian territory was recently attacked on the same grounds. This contention, argues The Gazette, is illogical. Canada and the United States are a geographical unit. An essential of modern air defence is early warning. As the Canadian North seems the potential path for attack on eith- er or both countries, it is essential that radar-warning stations be built as far north in Canada as is practical.

There is no loss of sovereignty involved.

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,the South Bank of the Thames to the west ,of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. O O O . Island farmers are as aware as any of the threat to the dairy industry and bal- ianced farming from substitutes for dairy products. They did not, however, blindly , follow the mistaken lead of the Nova Scotian farmers who advocated that all uses of vegetable oils except as butter substitutes be banned. There are a number of improper dairy substitutes, including margarine, but there are also a large number of purposes for which vegetable oils are used on their

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The Hillsborough Bridge has been con- demned for rail traffic and its present load limit even for trucks means that heavier trucks must seek an alternative route. The radar-controlled practice bombing run dur- ing which members of the R. C. A. F. were given a demonstration of American tech- nique, might well have been a little more realistic, resulting in a coup-de-grace for the bridge. kudos for the bombardiers, and a new bridge at federal expense for the people of Prince Edward Island.

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Thomas Hardy. English novelist and poet, died this date 1928. He studied ec- clesiastical architecture. He wished to be a poet and was a very good one but turned to writing superb novels to make a living. His most popular novel was "Tess of the D'Ubervilles", others being "Far From The Modding Cifiwd" and "The Return of the Native." "The Dynasts" is an interpreta- tion of the genius of England in the state- ly verse of which the great figures of the Napoleonic wars are re-created. Before his death at the age of 88 he had published five collections of poems, his fame increas- ing as time went on: T

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mechanic have each won 3215,000- a soccer swcepstake. Lay out mv Jodhpurs, Jeeves. I shan't he re. ,Dortlng at the garage anymore.- v (Windsor Star.)

In the iiveek:ifHevery married couple there comes a period of ltreedom, after they've raised their children and before they start raising their grandchildren.-(Wall Street Journal.) . , The strike that paralyzed tho American steel-works for several weeks last summer caused a straight loss of 19 million tons. The nfagazline Iron Age avers that all the strikes of workers since the end of the war, that is to say since 1045, have brought about a total loss of 46 million tons; that 15 the Cliuivalentnof the annual production of Russia and its satel- lites. The year ended with a. total 1 production "of 93,000,000 ions in the United States; it would have meant. 112,000,000 without the sum- mer strikes, or a record, The highest production of steel was l05,000.000 tons in 1951. Summing up. work is. always more pront- able. whatever be the inspiration 5 of the st.rlke- (Le Soleil.)

into Ute pay envelope even before it. is handed to the employe and,

HOLD TIIOU THE GOOD

How many it. father have 1' seen,

A sober man. iimong his boys,

Whose youth was full of foolish noise, '

Who wears his manhood hole and green;

And dare we to this fancy give. That had the wild oat not been

sown.

The soil, left barren, scarce had grown

The grain by which it man may live!

or, if we hold the doctrine sound

-For life outliving heats of youth,

Yet. who would preach it as a truth

To those that eddy round and round?

Hold thou the good: define it well;

For fear divine Philosophy

Should push beyond her mark, and be

Procuress to the Lords of Hell.

-Lord Tennyson.

EDOOOOQOOCVDO Notes From

Another Island by "Anson"

LONDON. i5ngland:-

The old year slipped away quite QUIEUY. and 1953 entered full of hope but with ears cocked for any fresh alarums that might sound. That, alas, is the way of things in this present. age; the hope which "springs eternal in the human breast" is as stout a prop as ever but, it seems. gone are the days when one could couple hope with anything like an assurance that it would not. be dashed by events.

even caution is not. always a. vir- tue-we cannot. escape the uncom- fortable feeling that we would all be caught up in a. tide of circum- stance and swept. along towards a calamity in spite of all our efforts.

Not. that. there is despair in our hearts, Nor is there fear. But who can fail to be aware of the uncer- tainty of the future and the razor edge on which our fortunes are balanced. "Crisis" is a word that has been painfully prominent in our vocabulary these past. few years, and he is a rash man who would forecast. its fall into disuse during the next. twelve months.

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The international situation re- mains tense; sparks fly here and there on the earth's surface, and with the world in its present in- flammable state we know that isn't. good, Our foreign af'i'airs of state are in capable hands, we know. and yet....We also know that af- fairs have it way of getting out. of control despite the most. careful handling.

And at home we are still far from out of the austerity wood. True it. may be that we have grounds for optimism in this sphere. but. we need no Churchil- lian rhetoricto convince us that any slackening of effort. would be disastrous. No slnckenlllg, indeed. On the contrary. we were warned some time ago that an increase in our exertions was going to be re- quired in the future. Our national livelihood still depends on our ex- ports, and in the face of competi- tion in the world's markets we must. produce more and better goods than our rivals; and we must. get them delivered quickly to the buyers.

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A sombre note. then. on which to address ourselves to the New Year, but all is not solemnlty. This, after all. is cur stlon Year, and the not with which plans for the great. event are going forward indicate: that although the future has its problem and it: uncer- talntlu. at least we feel we have 5 future. A future as (rent. or per- haps even greater, than any part. of our past, for much is being made of the prospects of this new Elizabethan Age, and its opportu-

nities for A resurgence of mine at

However cautious we may be-and-

Nalo Streamlined

(Ottawa Citizen)

The North Atlantic Council may seem to have held A. brief and in some respects inconclusive meet- ing in Parts. But. as now organ- ized, the Council is in permanent session. Cabinet ministers are sup- posed to attend ,a.t. least three times a year, and their presence lends weight to ll. session. In their absence, however, the Council meets weekly, or ofoener, to carry on the business of the North At.- lantlc Treaty Organization.

NATO's organization has been developed according to the dictates of ex-pcrience. Ministers of de- fence, finance, and foreign af- fairs used to meet: separately, un- til Canada. suggested that since their work was interdependent they should meet. together. So at. 0t.- tawa in the fall of 1951 the Coun- cil was a kind of international cabinet. But at. Rome, in Novem- ber. all the ministers and their staffs made an unwieldy gathering of several hundred. At Lisbon ear- iy this year a. streamlining was recommended.

The Financial and Economic Board, the Defence Production Board, and the Council of Dep- uties, were abolished. In their place, NATO established at Paris I permanent. North Atlantic Coun- cil, served by it secretariat. Mr. A. D. P. Hecney represents Can- ada on the Council, with the rank of an amba.ssadoi'. The secretary- general, Lord Ismsy, serves as the Councils deputy chairman. In ad- dition, NATO has its military or- ganization. is shipping board. and a petroleum committee.

The Council is not set. above gov- ernments, but acts on their in- structions. The full scope of its authority, however. and its rela- tionship to the military Standing Group at Washington, are only now being defined. Lord Ismay has pointed out. that. during NATO's autumn maneuvers around Den- mark some risk of needless provo- cation was run. As a result, the Council may be autlmrized to pass on the political aspects of military plans in the future.

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Be so therefore perfect. even as your Father which is in heaven II perfect. least of the glory of the days of the first Elizabeth.

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The glory that is to be sought. in the twelitleth century may be (ill: ferent. in many ways from that. of the sixteenth. It may be harder to find in this more competitive era and in a world that may be spanned by air in almost. its few days as Drake took years when he became the first Englishman to

new honours are to be gained at all-and they say hhere is always room at the top-we should in- deed be poor in spirit. if we could not contemplate applying ourselves to the task now, of all times, at. the opening of this year of the new Elizabeth's crowning.

MANY WATERFALLB

Tens of thousands of water- falls are scattered over the earth, hundreds of them of considerable magnitude.

' iimioivrhnr MINERAL

More suit. is used in the manu- facture of chemicals in the Unit- ed states than any other mater- lei.

COMPLETE VISUAL REFRACTION AND. ANNALYSIS G. F. HUTCHESON

'ssoN Optometrists

53 Grafton Street

Old Charlottetown (And I. I. In I

CONSOLIDATING THE LAWS

House of Assembly, Feb. 16. 1832: "In order to get. through the business of the House, it. seemed to be the opinion of a. majority of the members that it. would be ad- vlsable to call in some legal as- sistance, in order that the various Acts bearing upon the some sub- ject might be carefully collated and condensed.and a well digested abridgment. of the Statute Book compiled, in place of the present confused mass called the Statutes of Prince Edward Island. It. was thought by some that the assist- ance of a professional man might be useful in . preparing and draugliting the Bills which would be required for this purpose. ”Thls proposal was however warmly opposed by others, not only on the score of expense, but as being degrading to the 41-louse, to have it. supposed that their own members were not. perfectly com- petent to the task-and the con- solidation of the Small Debt. Acts was triumphantly referred to as proof of what members could ac- complish when they ect. seriously to work.

"It; was argued in favour of the plan of employing 3. Law Clerk, that it. would tend to shorten the Session, and thereby avoid the ex- pense attendant upon thc prolong- ation of the sittings of the House. which cosL the country about Eighteen Pounds a day-whereas if 3 Lalw Clark were employed for the remainder of the Session, it. was said. the expense would not exceed Twenty-five Pounds. and it might be a means of shortening the Session by two or three weeks.

"It. was urged also that there was only one professional man in the House. (Mr. Blnns) and that it. was reasonable to suppose that his powers were already suffic- iently taxed. as he had undertaken to consolidate and amend all the Acts upon the Statute Book re- lating to the Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence of the country. and the fees and practice of the Supreme Court. and their officers. Mr. Binns, however. put. an end to the discussion, by voluntarily undertakling the consolidation of all the other Acts which require consolidation. This he thought he would be able to do during the adjournment. notwithstanding the sitting of the Supreme Court, in which, he believed,he was engaged in almost every cause. He would, in all probability, have to consult the learned Chief Justice. and he expected much assistance from the Attorney General, Mr. Palmer, and other gentlemen of the Bar, as well as from his brother Commis- sioner for revising the laws, the Solicitor General-but. he would make no charge whatever--he would leave it. all to the consid- eration of the House."

circumnavigate the globe. But. if .

A committee under Mr. Blnns' chairmanship was appointed to deal with the matter.

AFRICA AREA Africa is about three times the area of Europe, and is surrounded by seal; on all sides.

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on the other side, they tax the employer to a point. that he often wonders whether he had better not quite simply close the doors of his cstablisliment and enjoy a little rut. far from the hullabaloo which today represents the man- C

aver. Some day-but it will er- haps be much too late-it will be realized that the income tax has given 5. fatal blow to the spirit of