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"THE GUARDIAN

Authorized as Second Clan hull Post. office Department. Ottawa. The Island Gunrillln Publishing Co.

Editor and Managing Director. fun A. Burnett. Aunclnto Edltnr. Frank Walker.

CIRCULATION "Cuber: l'i-liico Edward Island like the dew"

"Tho strongest memory is weaker their the weakest ink".

liHARI.()'l"I'li'l'0VVN SATURDAY. OCT. 31. 1953

Tile observance of Halloween has takeli many strange turns through the years. it is probably the one occasion when the spirit of the skeleton at the feast is given full play in this country. The stages by

which special services for the dead gave .

wlace to tales of the activity of spirits and these in turn to the playing of tricks which could be attributed to mischievous spirits -night nlake a fascinating study but today hve are faced with a condition, not a the- Jry."

The condition is that youngsters and others not so young expect to enjoy them- selves on Halloween by disguising them- selves and joining their fellows in a night. of frolic. All too often a lack of imagilia- tion causes the "fun" to turn in the direc- tion of vandalism. Fortunately, however, parents alid others are generally prepared to provide means of playing games and feasting. The Kinsmen are holding their usual great parties for the youngsters and dances and other amusements are available for older groups.

As usual the police will be on the look- out for any who mistake vandalism for good-natured fun and the Attorney-General has made it clear that damage to property will bring retribution. The warning is necessary because there are always the minority who either lack an appreciation of what constitutes fun or who are easily led by their fellows into foolish behaviour. For them the only answer is police action and the courts.

Miracle Drugs And Seafood

It was little thought when such modern drugs as aureomycin and terramycin were introduced that they would some day im- prove the quality of the seafood served from one corner of a continent to the other.

'Recent investigation, however, has proved that these antibiotics, used in the form of ice flakes, provide ii very superior method of preserving fish.

Dr. H. L. A. Tarr. American bactel'i- oiogist and authority on the biochemistry of fish, J. Boyd and H. M. Bissett made- these discoveries and also experimented with other promising methods of utilizing the antibiotics in the preservation of meat and fish.

Preservation is, of course, the prime difficulty of marketing sea food on a large scale. In recent years there have been notable advances made which have en- abled fish to be placed on the housewifels table many hundreds of miles frolii the seaboard. sometimes after being brought long distances from the fishing grounds. This further development promises to V9.81- ly increase the efficiency of preserving methods and will make the handling of in foods attractive to far more businessmen and their consumption welcomed by fami- lies everywhere. -

The sea provides the greatest reservoir of potential food supplies on earth. As the population increases it will become more and more important for obviously even pres- ent low standards of nutrition cannot be maintained without its aid.

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-petition, supervised by McGill, fol a prac-

sail with E men, 12 women, 16 children and a crew of 14.

She never reached the promised land, for complaints were made to the Lord Mayor of London which led him to con-, demn the enterprise and the Colonial Sec-' retary, Lord Stanley, suspended proceed-5 ings for the revival of the trritorial claims of the baronets. Later h described the scheme as "a bubble from the commence- ment”. 1 , 1 In 1848, after charges and counter-! charges, lawsuits and other activity, the1 Government was asked to make a con-; solidated grant of 2,500,000 acres of vacantl land in New Brunswick in lieu of all terri- torial claims. A petition of right and anl address to the'Queen were agreed upon in the following year, but no practical result was obtained. That, to all intents and pur- poses, was the end of the scheme.

There has been considerable Scottish immigration to this country but the baron- ets of Nova Scotia, although they retain the name and the prefix ”Sir”, had no part in actual colonisation.

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House of Tomorrow

That architecture, as far as it applies to homes for people of average means, is one of the neglected arts in this country was one of the findings, of the Massey commis- sion on arts. That is, perhaps, too sweep- ing an indictment in a country in which housing design is reasonably well adapted to varying conditions of climate, availabil-

cidedly varied population.

antiquated building laws play a larger part in determining construction than does the mind of the architect and in the Maritimes in particular the average home is construct- ed as to an immutable plan based on the principle that square rooms should be fit- ted into a square house, with a'roof suffici- ently pointed to make the whole proof against the weather.

A very good purpose should be served by a recently announced international com-

tical design for a Canadian house suitable for a young Canadian family of five-the parents and three children under 15. It is too nluch to hope that out of it will come a distinctively Canadian house type. But such a type is evolving and this com- petition should do much to aid its develop- ment on desirable lines.

No doubt it will be difficult to select top winners in such a contest for the housing requirements, of this country are regional rather than national. It may well be that it will be found necessary to give more prominence to the "honorary mention" run- ners-up than to the overall winners.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Holiowmas Eve; Hallowe'eii.

O 0 O Tomorrow, the 22nd Sunday after Trin- ity, Allisaints. ' '

A number of questions and answers on pool marketing of potatoes is contained in this issue. They will prove interesting and perhaps clarify the procedure and regula-

tions to be followed.

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The week-long Maritime Winter Fair is under way at Amherst. Islanders are tak- ing a great interest in the -Fair" and will no doubt make a good showing in pota- toes, livestock and square dancing.

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Today is Boy Scout Apple Day. The youngsters are out to help raise the funds to keep their own organization going and expanding. They are doing their part. Ii: is up to the public to see that their efforts

are succcssflll.

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The story of the creation of the Baroncts of Nova Scotia before 1638 is fairly familial. Not so well known, however, is the fact that some two hundred years later an ambitious scheme was undertaken to revive the objects of the order. The story is told in the Week- ly Scotsman in connection with the recent. visit of Premier Angus L. Maddoilald.

A bad harvest in the Highlands in 1835 had led to widespread distress and one Richard Brown took up the claim of the various orders of baronets to something more substantial than fancy styles, insignia, and coat-of-arms. The British-American Association for Emigration and Colonlsatioil was formed with the two-fold objective of promoting emigration and establishing the rights and managing the properties of the

xbaronets who should join it.

This was to be achieved "by .4 transfer of the surplus population of the Kingdom upon a national scale, and by an Infusion of capital into them as shall lead l') on immediate and wide development of their lnexliuustable resources." The Duke of Ar-

", you made president and Sir Allan

mp-rio,h Chief Commissioner in Canada. ' it: were entered into for 443,594

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In October, 1342, the good . --lay. in the Thames ready to

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I That poiiomyeiitis will become a disease lof the past. within ten years is the highly ychcering prediction of" a speaker at a imedicai convention in southern Ontario. A vaccine discovered in Pittsburgh and the culture of polio virus in Toronto, he claims, will spell the end of that dread disease. it D O

The Manitoba flood relief fund has turn- ed over .lil,48.3,511 to the newly formed Canadian disaster relief fund. The money was the residue of 959,244,224 raised in 1950 to help victims of the Red River Valley flood. This generous act will be appreci- ated in that this money can be used for disaster relief in any part. of- Canada.

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Cosmo Gordon Lang, English archbishop, was born this date 1864. Son of the prin- cipal of Aberdeen University and sometime moderator of the Church of Scotland, he became a law student in London. Social work in the East End drew him to the Church as a vocation and he soon became recognized as one of the great preachers of his day. He was the only Archbishop of York to become Archbishop of Canter- bury. The abdication of King Edward VIII made his position extremely difficult. He

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This column In open to the dltouulnn by correspondent: of question: of interest. The Guardian does not necessar- ily endorse the opinion of con-eapondentn.

BOY SCOUT APPLE DAY

Bir, - Twenty-six years ago members of the Canadian Horti- cultural Council nlld nfficials of the Boy Scouts Association had an historic meeting. From the dis- cussicn which took place, Boy Scout Apple Day had its begin- ning. The organized street selling of apples by Scouts has proved it.-

good turn project which creates valuable tpublicity for Canadian apple growers. and at the same time contributes substantially to local Scouting finances. An Apple Day is 9. special klnit of tag day. Not. only does each purchaser receive ll. tag, but a choice apple as well. The reason for this is that. Scouts are not supposed to beg. but must. always give reasonable value for money received. Apple Day in Charlottetown, and in towns and villages throughout P. E. Island, will be held on Sat- urday, Oct. 31 (Halloween Day) scouts and Cubs will be out early selling apples on the streets and fi-con'door to door. This is the one special day of the year when Scouts themselves work to raise funds for their organization. The funds are earmarked for Camps and Jamborees. Only Island grown McIntosh ap- ples will be said. This is the world's finest dessert apple, when 8. Scout: or a Cub ap- proaches you to buy an apple, how much should you pay? This is a matter for you to decide, but I would like to suggest a minimum of ten cents, and as much more as you feel you can afford. Two things must be remembered: the Scout Association must first. buy the apples”lit regular market

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was on the old mare, Grass turned bitter, Sky n-glare,

And gnata like thoughts, And thoughts like gnnts, Everywhere.

Her underlip

Hung pendulous wide.

Her ears twitched buck.

Her dusty hide I Heaved with her heavy bl'esiIhin;i And her eyes rolled ominously

To one side. "T

The mule colt. lay

In trampled grass, Slick-tailed, long-cared. Beapeaklng the ass

Carried so long in her body, Born in travail and sweat- Allen. ulna.

But staggering To unsteady feet The mule colt fumble: An unknown teat; And the old mare relaxes and

sighs, Finding any motherhood Moat sweet.

-Elizabeth Coataworth.

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Fioiii Ancient

Halloween - nut.unin's annual vigil against. spooks and evil spirit: - owes much of its colorful cou- tumlng and imagery to Europe's ancient. Celts and Romans.

To the Druids, members of ii Celtic religious order in Fralice. England, and Ireland, can be attri- buted most of I-lallow'en's super- stitions and beliefs, says the Na- tional Geographic Society. Even its traditional colors - gold and black - stem from this strange October 31 marked both the year's and summer's end for the Druids. Ga.t.he.rlng' before great bonfires, they mourned the pas- sing of the golden Sun God and sought to appease his dark con- queror, Samhaili, Lord of the Dead.

On Hallowc'en night - the eve of Samhain - the Lord of Death supposedly gathered the souls of all those who had been confined to the bodies of animals upon death and sent. them on in their final resting place. The Druids be- lieved that the dead ntoned for their sins by residing in animal bodies. . .

Black cats were considered es- pecially desirable abodes. In later centuries, however. they were thought to embody only evil witches. i o Cells of Scotland and Ireland gathered on windy hilltops around

HaIIowe'en Imagery Stems

Pagan Rites

(Na tioiinl Geographic News)

fires built to ward off ghosts that hovered in the shadows. I-lumiui sacrifices were offered in grisly nltulils. In mouse straw oozes built. in the shape of giants or animals, criminals of the tribe were confined. The cases were set. Ii- iire. Roman conquerors later out- lawed the practices.

Masks. a prime part of every American youngstei-'5 H.silow'en costume. have been associated with man's dealings with the spirits, both friendly and malevo- lent, since Egyptian times.

The lack-o'-lantern. however. has 9. double meaning. It. makes a. weird and shadow-casting spook. but also it: is carved from a sym- bol of the fruitful harvest which has been connected with Hallowlen

-since the Roman fbasts to Pomona

goddess of fruits and seeds.

The Romans honored,Pomona with nuts and applu, chief token

of their winter store. Tcday same delicacies are coveted

"trick or treat" praiiksters.

A dozen centuries ago Christ- ian church leaders in Europe sought to supplant the paganism of ancient autumn festivals with more enlightened cust.oms.'Novem- ber 1 was established as All Saints' or Allhallows Day. The 'night pro- cedlng this feetlvalbf worship - Ailhallows Eve provided the name of the popular but unoffic- ial october 81 holiday -- Hallowe'- en.

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prices, and then buy tags, cans. pay for advertising. etc. so that each apple costs somewhere in the vicinity of three cents before it. is ready for street sale, It ll person pays only five cents for an apple, as was formerly the custom, his contribution to the work of the Boy Scout. Association is only two cents and you will agree that, lie- money values, . hrge contribu- v:oi't.hy organiza-

tion for such a tion. when you contribute to Apple Day on Saturday, you help to pro- mote an Island industry and to provide funds for youth training. Be in generous as you can. I am. Sir, et.c., R. C. PARENT Superb tendent. Experimental Station.

Old Charlottetown (And I. 1. 1.)

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SNAKE! AT MORELL

"A young man was ploughing I piece of land for Mr. Kelly of this neighborhood. when he came upon ii. nest. of about 100 snakes. They

had three hples just. below where the plough ran. and young Muc- Donuld stepped on the snakes be- fore he noticed them. The sight of so many snake.s' heads sticking up out of the holes was too much.toi: him, and he loudly called on Kelly for assistance. Kelly, thinking then: was something wrong, had the pres- ence of mind to take the, hoe, with which he was working at the time, with him, and after examin- ing the snakes some time, began operations and quickly despatched them." . '

-King's County Advertiser, Dec. ll, 1879.

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OCTOBER 31,

.1 The .Pas.si'ng Scene

By Observer CONCERNING ANTAGONIBT - COBBELATIVIO

In a world that had no trouble of pain or disarray of any kind (if such a world can be imagined) the outward marks of good con- duct; would be visible everywhere; but there would b.. no moral goodness. Morality implies free- dom of choice and. of course, in" a static society such as a trouble- fcee and painless world would in- dicate there would be no choosing to do.

This brings up a subject which a. 19th century philosopher was in the habit of calling "Antagonist- Correlat.ivea". At first glance the combination does not seem to make sense, correlative: are words or things which have mutual re- lationships. "Either" and "Or" are good exampla in words; "Heat" and "Warint.h" would do for ex- amples in things.

And yet no further thought one is vied to the conclusion that life as we know it has much to do with "Antagonist - Correlutlves" Apparently there must. be ii con- trast. to every sensation of plea,- sure if pleasure is to have any practical meaning or, indeed, any existence. The enjoyment of good food and drink would he unthink- able in the absence of hunger and thirst.

I O O The negative thing called dark- ness is essential to the positive thing called light Bright aunshlne can be properly appreciated only in 1 climate where it may rain -for days at in time. If there were no strong Winds, what: we call calm -weather would go lmhceded Cold. we are. told, is the absence of heat. Its possibility is also neces- sary to the warmth that one feels before an open fire. In fact. the word "warmth" is in common usage only in temperate zones. It is seldom heard in the tropics for the simple reason that there it has little meaning. There is noth- ing to give it contrast. value. We often hear it said that only those who have been obliged to endure sickness appreciate good health. The saying is true, for only those who have known sickness are in 3 position to know what. good health really means, The permanently healthy have no real understanding of ti. 0 O I

We are told that. at sea level every square inch of our bodies is subject to approximately fifteen pounds of atmospheric pressure That adds up to quite a. heavy burden put, nominally, we are tot- ally unconscious of it," As soon. however, as we leave the norm -andlstart to .climb a hill, the gradual decrease in pressure makes us uncomfortable. So it means that the saying "it all depends on what. you are used to" has de- finite scientific foundation.

Colour is something else that is deeply lnvloved in this law, as- suming of course that it is a law. If there were no drab colours the bright ones would be meaningless And if everything in the world

PROFESSION

were of one-hue that would 5. the same as none at all. For see. lng is a. state of mind, and on. state of mind needs another un. like it to make it. meaningful.

So with hea.ring.lIf. ever aim, we were born, is. loud -Incessang clanging had sounded in our ears, unbroken by any softer sound, iii. effect on our ml da would be the Home as we now experience by absolute silence. It is the con. trust between nne sound and an. other-the high and low, ch. shrill and the soft.-that glvc-,1 reality to any of them.

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People who live in quiet stir-

roundlnga are apt. to pity the D... son who ever since his birth ha: been obliged to live on I noisy corner In ii large clto'- Actually, '9. person in a situation like that is not. aware of incessant noise. Only vvhenhe finds himself in tho noiseless country-side docs up, former clatter begin to work on his consciousness and often strangely, the contrast gives mg; to it. touch of noatallgla. The youngsters who were gem during the air raids were oppress. ed by the quietness of their new surroundings and wanted to gig back. From their point of View the new life was abnormal nnrt, therefoir, uninteresting.

Tile Hebrews who had been taken by force to Babylon "sat. down and wept" when they re. membered the freedom they had enjoyed at. home. It. was only when they had tasted the bitterness of bondage that they could nppm-i. ate their former blessings.

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I was led to these random thoughts by ii little item tucked away in H. corner of a newspaper which quoted a certain professnr of" history as saying that "de- mocracy will contilllle to be both. ered by various irritants. Thou, help to keep the democratic idea alive."

The inference. of course. ill that without. something to provide con- trast democracy would not flinc- tlon well if. indeed, it could exist at all. I suppose by the same rea- soning peace would be under some ' sort of obllization to war. It is all very confusing and we must: hope that in these two important area: of human experience the law M if. he a lawi of "Aiit:l:onist-Cm- relatives" willsomehow be obviated Failing that. the prospect for per- manent pence, in the sense in understand the term, is not grind.

PROVINCETOVVN. Mass, (AP) -The body of an unidentified man, apparently a fisherman. was brought here Monday by the fish- ing vessel Charlotte G, which hauled it up in nets. It was lashed to a piece of mast and boom. Police are checking on whether it. may be the body of Arild I-llmsen. skipper of the fish- ing boat Pat-Er-Glo which ran! in a gale last. April.

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Allison M. Gillis. LL.B. BARIIISTER. SOLICITOR. Etc. ISO Illclimonil St. - Charlottetown

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DENTIST Dental K-Buy ULOBIA BUILDING I19 Grlfton St. Phone tin

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