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APRIL 25. 1949

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THE GUARDIAN. ‘Willi

CHARUOTTETOWN

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Thoughts For Our Time

By His Eminence Cardinal McGulgaa ‘ (“P798110 ~ -

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Nothing la more necessary for ngglfhy h-lanan society than the exercise 0i and respect for human authority. the ‘authority of man we,- mgn, Nothing seems more sub- ject to error whether by excess or detect. And m period of wee culture seems to have suffered so‘ much as our own from both ex- umles at oncfl.

Authority in pagan society was given to excess. 'I‘he authority oi m; father over children, oi master ovu- glave, of ruler over sulbiectwas gentiffllly considered to be unlimit-

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ohrlstianity tampered this pagan harshness. It taught that all hum- m authority derives from that of God which alone is unlimited. It taught that God is the‘ father of all and that all, whether child or par- ent, master or slave. sulbieot or ruler, must be treated with the r6- ‘pect. dug their dignity as sons of their conanon farther in heaven.

Power Grew. Excessive

With the barbarian invasion Christianity went baolt again to the task and once more its teach- ing took effect. For mediaeval ghrlstlans all human authority m; paternalistic, As was the father to the children in the Christian home. so was the teacher to the gtudent in the schools and uni- vgrsities, the master craftsman to the workers in the guilds. the lord w (he serfs in the feudal economy. the king to the subjects in the political realm. Individual abuses of authority did exist. for no hum- gn temporal order can boast or ex- pect that all its leaders will al- wgyg b9 perfect, nevertheleea the paternalistic conception domiintea ms the general exercise of auth- Qffly was the moat hlxnan that western culture hes known.

When the spirilhul and intellect- “; unity of Mediaeval Christendom war lroken up. attempt! W" made to esetrve the utility neces- gary for uman societies by the

essure of excessive human auth- ority. Authority in the family b9- eame sometimes fierce and often excessively proud, Authority in II“ guilds grew oppressive. despotic and reactionary. ‘The authority oi rulers became unlimited-the div- ing right of kings-and they were no longer vlcars of the people with the right to govern for the com- men welfare but holding directly from God the right to subject to their will the poovplfl III/i?" 9° mm‘-

This grasping oi unlimited power by human authority provoked a re- action in the name of human free- dctm, But the nmi oi human freedom was itself distorted b! the enm- of Liberalism.

m theory Liberalism mooleim the unlimited freedom of individ- uals. It makes of each abstract in- dividual and his opinion the will“ cf right and trulth. It offers to soc-

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lety no principle or unity. It is a practical denial of any real hum- an authority autfif pursued to its lotlical conclusion. would lead to anarchy and render human soc- iety le. it is a negative force. In practise it lasts only’ as long as its opposite. the pa-rtimllaf unlimited human authority it op- poses. Once the latter is over- thrown, Liberalism in practice giv- es way to some new foam oi un- limited poweiz.

Two Oppodte Enos-a

Western culture today is in grave danger of wasting away un- der the two opposite and erroneous tendencies: By excess to make human authority, the authority oi man over ma-n. unlimited; by de- fect to deny the real exercise oi and respect for proper human authority. In the economic order, as time went by, Liberalism opposed the despotism of the decedent guilds and decadent feudalism only to lead to the unlimited economic power of the few over the mam. These became the wage slaves of unrestrained capitalism. worioeis’ unions, opposing that unlimited power. today experience the dan- ger of a new unlimited power of union leaders.

Closely related to encouon-lic Ill-b- eralisxfl was that of the political order which opposed the unlimited power oi monarchs and oi a decad- ent nobility. But here the only re- sult was to create the new unlinnrlt- ed power of a monled class or that of a totalitarian state. The latter is eet up by a privileged class or race ea a laat resort, or by a revo- lotion ed the proletariat which shakes off the yoke of one privileg- ed elaes only to put on that of a new. absolute -‘ . the party leaders in the proletarian dictator- ship need proper authority,

Liloeralistic individualism. deny- ing any real authority of marl over man, is incapable of organising human societies in the economic or political orders, but neither would return to the paternalistic con- ception of authority ‘Stem proper for these orders today.

By virtue oi a nomtai historical progress. the workers today claim I the right tn be treated as adults in

industry and the common people, ' the right to be treated as adults u. the political society, In both ord- ers the true democratic ideal oi authority seems to demand realiz- aticn.

This requires a zeal and positive authority to be exercised by the leaders and respected by the led in an organically unified society oi all the members of a given indruet- rial enterprise or e. given civil com- munity, It requires that all the members, whether directly or indir- ectly, have a voice in choosing the most qualified leaders. it requires that these leaders be l sponslfole to the whole group in their guidance of it for the welfare of all.

Meanwhile Liberalistic tendenc- iu are still playing havoc in the home and the school. Too many parents have relinquished proper parental authority over their child- ren. Toe many children have lost respect for the authority of their parents. At the same time the ex- ceases of progressive education are tandem-lining the authority oi the teacher in the school.

A democratic ideal of a/uthority is possible between admit and adult: it has no ace between adult and child. in e latter case authority is properly, nalturally and neces- sarily paternalistic. To treat child- ren as adults can only mean that the adults of the morrow will be but irresponsible children. and since irresponsible children can neither organize .nor preserve a truly hurrah society, the work oi organisation will be undertaken by equally irresponsible dictators and is sure to be inhuman. A society in ‘which the children do not learn

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to and respect for authority in the home and the school is headed for anarchy andihe brutally enforced obedience of slavery.

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urirur mas-ran Studio Night, fibril 27th, at Errvpire Theatre.

VAR/s. 204 Kent Street, head- quarters for C. I. L. Paints.

CONSERVATIVE RALLY at Hunter River hall tonight at S p.rn. IVES. JOHNSTOIVS LADIES WEAR-April Bargains — Suits. Coats, Dresses.

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CITY ‘IIAXES. - Flint Install- ment City oi Charlottetown Taxes mustbepaidby Awilsothorintu- est will be charged. '

nousalvlvng -. Why w“ about curtains? Have them dry cleaned at Rite-Way Cleaners sad finished to exact size on our new curtain stretcher, $1.00 p61‘ Pair.

CONDITION IMPROVE D - Friends of Mrs. John H. Hewett. Kent Sh. who was taken suddenly ill on ednesdqy last. will be pleased to learn that her condition now is m/uch improved. She is a patient at the Charlottetown Hospital,

CITY 0F CIIAIILOTTETOWN TAXES-Interest at the rate of 35% per month will be charged on City of Charlottetown first install- ment of taxes if not paid by April 30th_

SINED UNDER. GAME AOT - On Saturday morning a residm oi Garfield appeared before Btlpendi- ary Magistrate Gilbert A. Gaudet at Charlottetown charged with angling for trout out oi season. A fine of $20.0) and costs was iIhPNed and psld. Defendant was found by an RCLM. Police game patrol fishing illegally at Mwhemna Mill, Eld- on, on Good Friday.

S. D. U. OIDSING — DI‘. G.D. Steel, Principal of Prince of W016! College will address the graduatl!!! class oi St. Drunstarrs University at this year's Commencement Excr- ciaes on Monday. May 3. The largest class in the history oi Saint Dunstarfs will be rxelving their degrees at this year's con- vocation. Six young ladies are in- cluded in the class cf thirty eight. Ilt mum the first time that more than one young lady was a mem- ber of a St. Dtmstanh graduating class. ‘This yea-r. two sisters are members of the class. They are Evelyn and Phyllis I-Iession, of Charlottetown. Evelyn has been

‘rosen as class valedictorian. the first young lady in S.D.U. history to have such an honor.

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As mentioned once before in the treatment oi this pain, the patient while lying down day or hisht should try to keep his alone in line with his shoulders. not let the jloulders sag at any tize.

The best exercise of l la to de- velop the abdominal inuscla by bending exercises in which the lanees are kept airflow-bending “q trying to touch the toes, lying on the back and raising the legs to g pighi; mgle-and. finally, always standing and sitting tall. which carries the shoulders well book from the chest,

CHRONIC RIIEUMATISM AND ARTHRITIS

Sufferers from chronic rheuma tism and arthritis will find many helpful suggestions as to diet. heat. manage. and other aids in Dr. Barton's booklet entitled "Chronic Rheumatism and Arthritis." To ob- tain it. just send l0 cents and a 3- cent stamp. to cover cost of hand- ling and mailing. to The Bell Syndi- cate, in care oi this n r r - Poat Office Bax 99. Btatlfli G- NW York l9. N. Y-. and ask for W111‘ copy.

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SEIIIOR. IIIISIOALE

NOTII DLMI ACADEMY

0n Thursday. April M. at l-il PM. The Senior Made Students of

‘Not-re Dame Academy will enter-

tain , all. friends and ail In- terested in muale with a program Illollmrod by the Notre Dame Alumnae.

‘In the Light of the naiabow" will he a colorful feature of the evening’ ‘entertainment.

Aflmiedon fee .508.

GEORGE DREW’! Saint John speec‘ re-broadcaat over CFCY Tuesday night beginning at 8 p, m. Standard time.

OWING T0 THE FUNERAL of the late William Nicholson, Weeks Coal Yards will be closed this afternoon.

HEAR GEORGE DBEWM Saint John speech over CFCY Tuesday night, commencing at 8 p.m. Stand- ard Time.

CURTAINS — Have your curtains dry cleaned and finished at Rite. Way Cleaners. $1.00 per Pro- DBIIY finished to exact s .

TWO FLIGHTS weekly to the Magdalen Islands. P. O. Phone Maritime Central Airways Limited Phone 2061 or 540.

W. C. B. APPOINTMENTS -— Mcssrs. Ross McEwerl and Jerome Gillis, Charlottetown, have been appointed members of the Work- men’s Compensation Board, oi which Mr. Horace Wright. former menliber without portfolio in the Jones Government, was recen/tly alp- pointed chairman.

ORGANIZATION PLANS Plans for the organisation oi a Young Progressive Conservative As- sociation on a Province-wide basis are under way and a meeting in this connection will be held in Charlottetown shortly. it was an- nounced over the weekend by Mr. Welthen Gaudet, Provincial press relations officer.

ISLAND RHODES SCIIOLAR RETIBES - 'Fhe alumni News of Dalhousie University reports that Mr. Everett Fraser tiArts i907. Dal- housie). Dean of the Law School of the University of Minnesota since 1520, has retired from than. position, From Brince of Wales College he went to Dalhousie. thence to Harv- mfd, graduating in 1910. He then taught in George Washington Uni-

versity until 1917, going to the University of Minnesota in that year, and subsequently becoming Dean of the law School. I-Le has

written extensively on legal sub- jects; was President oi the Ameri- can Association of Law Schools and has taken a leading part in legal education scuth'of the border, Mrs. Fraser (Dois MacKay) is also a graduate of Dalhousle. Dr. Fraser is a native of North Lake in King's County.

Troop and Pack colours and the King's colours of 3rd Charlottetown Group were dedicated alt St. James Kirk yesterday morning and pre- sented by the minister the Rev_ T. 1L8. Barriers. The Scouts, led by Scoutmcster Lynn Burnett and the Cubs, by Ommaster Sterling Walk- er paraded to and from the morn- ing service. Provincial Commiss- ioner 11.0. Parent and Mrs. Par- ent. Field f‘ misaioner George Anderson and members of the group committee of the 3rd Char- lottetown (Kirk) Group attended the presentation.

The colour party consisted of the King's Colour carried by Cfiib Paul Weaiherby, escorted by Oufcs Jim- mie White and John Field-ind: ti"! ‘Hoop Colour carried by Scout Neils Hansen. escorted by Scouts Ian Taylor and David MacDonald and the Pack Colour‘ carried by 0111b Alex Murchison, escorted by Cub! Peter MacNutt and non Taylor-

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After the impressive service and puma g Buy 8001K Thflfllfl B8410 was presented by the scoutmaster on behalf of the ‘H009 W Mill E- Llilian McKenzie. ‘Mus. Dec. in recognition of her training of the boys in singlet.

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By Chief Inapeotor Sydney a. Birch, late of Scotland Yard.

The bravest girl I ever know was a British secret agent. - I met her the only time my duties at Scotland Yard! Fingerprint Department took me into that twilight world of in- ternational espionage iult before the last war.

I shall always remember her. She had forgotten more about courage than many soldiers ever learn on the battlefield.

And the scene of the exploit which brought her to my notice? London, gay capital with its busy streets and carefree peacetime crowds. It was in this setting that Miss X, as I shall call. her, trapped s gang of Russian spies.

Much of what happened is still secret. To the detectives of the Special Branch who watched her like guardian angels during the days of her greatest danger, Miss X was a slender girl with dainty ankles and honey-blonde hair, who walked ligllt-heartedly. seemingly unaware of discreet men in over- coat; who stirred at street corners as she passed:

To the Military Intelligence De- partment at the War Office she was a secret agent, assigned to a dan- gerous mission.

To her mother and brothers in the old English manor house where she spent her childhood she was an embarrassing pause in tea-time con- versation-the daughter who “seem- ed to have got mixed up with some dreadful Communists in London."

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For ahe bore the burden of many who risk their lives silently for their country-not even her ‘love ones must know.

Miss X loved England. Just as fiercely and with equal purpose as the master spy against whom she battled loved Russia. He was dark. distinguished. suave, with graying temples and good suits. A reader of poetry and a dreamer of revolt under high scarlet banners. I will call him George, although that was not his real name.

After 10 years’ fervent service to the Communist International in Britain, he was chosen at the age of 32, to go in 1924 to India to stir sedition.

The followers he gathered were convicted in Mearut in 1925 for con- spiring against the King-Emperor. But not George. Ruthless shadow- men stepped in to effect his escape. Back l_n England. he got a job at Woolwlch Arsenal in hl| traderof engineer. For three years he tried to spread unrest until, in 1928, the authorities dismissed him, amid protests from indignant British working-men who thought a col- league was being ‘victimized.

George travelled to attend an advance course in anarchy at the Lenin Communist School, Moscow.

I learned that among the sub- jects he was taught was a primer course ln finger-prints as a means of identification, types of materials upon which they were most‘ easily detectable, and the use of chemical powders to bring up prints on docu- merits.

He was armed with all the knowledge that Russia's forensic scientists could give him on how to use fingerprints as a. weapon of offence without being caught by them.

Yet he was caught by them. He made his mistake-as even the cleverert men do.

Scotland Yard raised watchful eyebrows when he returned two years later. His life had changed. He no longer worked, but seemed to have an income. with cash to spare for printing secretly a small magazine which tried to spread sedi- tion in the British armed forces. ThetBrltlsh Secret Service noted -'\II this too, and "Miss X"-—ltlil in her teens-quietly ioined the organ- ization of which George was a mem- ber.

After a while the comrades no longer lowered their voices in her presence. Keys and documents were left around.

So Miss X lit a tiny candle of light in that dark red kitchen. By 1934 the magazine which sought to spread unrest among the troops was flopping. George turned to organizing small. maicontcnt Com- munist groups in East London fac- torlea.

Miss X seemed to share his pride

when the Kremlin appointed him chief of a Communist espionage sys- tem in Britain. He celebrated by publishing an illegal booklet, dedi- cated this time to creating unrest among defence workers. When rm unfortunate accident r-ccurrrd to stockpiles of the booklet. HA5 t: seemed as upset as anyone. The quiet Miss X was seldom for from George. One can only imag- ine the courage that went into her seven years of patient work be- fore ehe finally trapped him. Fur- tive phone calls-then blank-faced innocence as yot another Commun- ist plot failed? 8n emissary in!!!‘ cepted; a message undelivered, while the organization hunted for the betrayer. ,

In February, 1931, George asked her to rent a furnished flat for the organization in Holland-read. I

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diary of those dangerou- days. from reports amullled to the authorities by Miss X.

"October 11: Photographic ap- paratus (listed) arrived. October I3: Another meeting. G. (her code name for George) and a Mr. and Mrs. 5., who spoke French. October 18: Mr. and Mra. S. experimented 3% hours. photographing maps of

London Underground. G. very iumvyi’ ‘ Nervous Plotters Slipped-Up

Nervous the consplrato a may have been. But they were not careful enough. 0n certain photo- graphic developing dishes. the wo- man known as Mrs. S, left finger- prints.

They did not match any in our collection at Scotland Yard.

The flat was put under night and day watch by our Special Branch men. We saw Mrs. S. enter, carry- lng a package.

Inside. she unwrapped a large blueprint. She told Miss X it was to be photographed in sections, and would need 42 exposures.