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Sllpersnlnes In Tibet

When the Chinese Communists took Tibet under their “protection” they offered the Dalai Lama, the spiritual ruler of the " Forbidden Land, a British made I-lumber . Supersnipe car. For some reason or other

, the young man has not yet accepted the

' gift. Perhaps he feels that the great

v Buddha, whose reincarnation he is suppos-

' ed to be, would frown on any such product

' of Western civilization; or, since he doesn't

get around much anyway, he may feel no:

particular need of rapid transportation.

There is even a possibility that his indif-

ference is an outward sign of his inward

H displeasure over the unsought protection of, .5 the Communist invaders.

Whatever the reason. the Communists are not too well pleased about the situ- ation and recently they thought up a plan which they hope will change the young rulel"s mind. The plan was to give an identical car to the Panchen Lama, the second in command; to make sure that this second gift was not left in the dealer's garage on the Chinese side of the border they had it driven right up to Panchen's front door. Ten chances to one this strategy will work. Human nature being much the same the world over, the head Lama will hardly be content to walk when, he sees his assistant driving around in a' shiny new car.

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Trade With Britain

. Mr. James S. Duncan, chairman of the Dollar-Sterling Trade Council, has an- nounced an intensified campaign to step up trade between Canada and Britain. The H" purpose of this new drive, according to the ,; Ottawa Citizen, is to increase Canadian pur- chases of British goods so that Canada, in turn. may be able to sell more to Britain. It differs from past efforts of a similar kind. This time, there is a specific target. The Council’s plan is to transfer 7 per cent of Canadian imports from the United States to Britain, this figure represent- ing the proportion required to eliminate Britain's trade deficit with Canada, on the basis of last year's trade pattern.

The Council's 7 per cent implies the balancing of bilateral accounts. A better approach. argues The Citizen, is through multilateral trading. If, for example, Brit- ain happens to push up its sales to the U. S. rather than to Canada. this country would still feel the beneficial effects. Cana- dians, for their part, need not worry unduly that nearly 60 per cent of their total ex- ports happen to be going at present to the U. S. It is well to diversify as much as possible. and Canada's mercantile policy should be to sell goods in every place it can, but this country has no cause for alarm because the U. S.——in spite of some ; current difficulties—continues to be the big- ‘I gest market of all.

A Changing Pattern

The Economics Division of the Canada Department of Agriculture has recently cal- led attention to some of the changes which have been taking place in Canadian agri- culture, especially between the two census years, 1941 and 1951.

In 1951, there were 2.5 times as many trucks and tractors on farms as in 1941, and five times as many combines. Farm- ers usirig electricity had Increased from 117,000 to 336,000, while the consumption of electricity per farm customer had in- creased by about 65 per cent.

Total occupied farm land had increased ‘- about three per cent, but the number f farms dropped from 733,000 to 623,000. Today, therefore, the average size of farm is 279 acres. despite the very large number of quite small farms in Eastern Canada , and British Columbia. is In 1927, only 170,000 tons of commer- fertilizers were used in Canada, while . fl’ 1952 the tonnage was 769,000. Another ’ notable change is that the purchase of feed and need as a proportion of total fann expenses was 22.1 per cent in 1950 as com- pared with only 10.3 per cent in 1926. ‘In the province of Quebec the difference was between 16.1 per cent in the earlier year anrl.46.2 per cent in 1950. -While all these changes have been tak- -in; place, the farm population has decreas- qud u a proportion of the total. Between "131 and 1951 total Canadian population . from 11.5 million to 14 million, but dropped from 3.1 mil- . . orngorn 27.1 to 20.2 per

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The London, Eng., City Council recent- ly issued an edict forbidding tenants in a new housing development to keep pets; per- sons who defy the ban will be transfer- red to poorer accommodations elsewhere. This is certainly an example of the arbi- trary ways of modern bureaucracy and it is so regarded by the tenants concerned who have declared their intention to move out in a mass demonstration of anger and protest. Said one man: “I am prepared to go anywhere so long as I can keep my eat but I will not stay in any place where he is not welcome.”

Cat lovers and pet lovers in all cate- gories the world over will give these doughty and loyal Londoners their full moral support. The private landlord who stipu-

lates “no pets” in his renting agreements_

is, of coui'se, within his rights; but, pre- sumably, this housing development in Lon- don was made possible by public funds, and

it is only right and proper that public senti- ? ment should have some say in its home-‘

making program. Anyway, no family which has owned a dog or a cat is going to aban-

don the little animal just because he or she , has been pronounced persona non grata by’

a group of officials a long way off. It will not be surprising if the weight of public opinion should compel the London Coun- cil to reconsider its unwise and uncharitable - decision which must have been made in haste and without counting the cost; this is done it can be assumed that this

until A’

particular housing development will have, plenty of vacancies. Chivalry is not yet‘, dead. t

EDITORIAL NOTES

Birthday of Her Majesty the Queen, 1926. l

The proposed Pacific pact against ag- gression in Southeast Asia may be known as SEATO or PATO for Southeast Asia Treaty Organization and Pacific Treaty Organization respectively. If it were cal- led the Pacific Nations no abbreviation or explanation would be needed.

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According to Science Information Serv- ice it is possible to predict the approximate adult height of a child. It will usually be twice the height of the boy or girl at the age of two. That seems an astonishingly early age to attain half one's growth even in a single direction.

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The announcement that H. M. the Queen_ Mother will pay a short visit to Ottawa 'illi November, following her stay at the White House, will be received with pleasure by Canadians everywhere. Many communities, would like to have her visit them but per-i haps even more desirable is the establish-l ment of a custom of brief and relatively frequent visits by members of the Royal

Family.

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Britain may soon be bringing more news- print from this country. A ship specially designed to carry Canadian newsprint was launched recently on the Clyde. The Bas- kerville is 8,900 tons deadweight and will carry a cargo of 6,000 tons. She has been designed to afford maximum stowage space for the reels of newsprint. She will travel between the St. Lawrence ports, Dalhousie and Newfoundland and London, hlanchcster

and Glasgow.

On Thursday some 50 Canadian organ- izations will be rcprescntcd at talks at Ot- tawa considering the position and prospects of practically every basic industry except mining. Our natural resources, together with our human resources, are the basis of the future and a thorough examination of development policies is long overdue. The past fifteen years has seen unexampled ex- ploitation and it is none too soon to take, a reckoning.

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Charlotte Bronte, novelist and poet, eld- est of the three literary members of her family, was born this date 1816. Brought up on the bleak Yorkshire moors, the children, particularly Charlotte, interested themselves in production of a juvenile magazine. In "Jane Eyre” she describes her school days and in "Villette” she re- cords her experience of Brussels where she studied not only the language but. the peo- ple. She wrote “Shirley” in an attempt to portray her sister Emily. It abounds in humour and is a delightful story.

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R.A.I-‘. squadron No. 5, associated with

the Canadian Corps in Europe in 1918, Will. be presented with ii standard at Wunstorf '

on April 24th, reports "This Wqak In Bri- tain”. The squadron's connection with Can- ada has been perpetuated by a Maple Leaf which appears in the squadron badge. After the First World War the squadron moved to Germany with the Canadian Corps and in 1919 returned to England. Since then it has seen service In llidia and Burma. It wardlsbanded in 1947 and reformed In

Ar’ris'i's Despair

PUBLIC FORUM

This column is open to the discussion by correspondents of questions of interest. The Guardian does not necessar- ily endorse the opinion of correspondents.

“'0()I)\'ll.Ll‘l .\[lI.LS POND

Sir,-—Mny I use your Forum in air attempt to reach the ears of "the Powers That Be", that they may make haste to save the pond at Woodville Mills. ti miles east of Cardigan. The dam broke weeks ago and although the Fitzpatricks have fought stubbornly to repair it they have not succeeded. Not only is a fisherman‘s paradise go- ing out to son but the bridge on the higliway is gradually being undermined.

The Department of Highways has been alerted but no satis- factory response has come. May- be the tourist personnel and dis- ciples of Isaac Walton will use their influence to get some action. l‘ound home the niaxinis, “A stitch in time saves nine", “Penny wise; pound foolish" and “The battle was lost—all for the sake of a

horse-shoe nail". Hurry! I-furry‘ llllrry‘. Save our pnndi I am, Sir. clc., K. M. GO!-‘F. l‘(.R. 1, Cardigan.

_iuonaL '1-mcnnvo TN SCHOOLS

'Sir,—In the Guardian of April llth there appcilred an editorial on this subject. I had twenty _veiii's experience among schools where on each day about half-an-hour was given to this teaching, based on Bible lessons. No denomination- al doctrines were taught. no effort made to bring the pupils into any particular church. This leaching had a good effect upon the school. smoothing the discipline and de- veloping character. Every day in the school life situations would arise giving opportunity for this teaclililg.

But this question presents dif- ficultles. can effective moral teach- in; be given without bringing in religion? Can this subject be taught. as any other, such as arithmetic, quite apart from re- ligion? This is doubtful. The source and power of morality is belief in a righteous and loving supreme pow- er we call God. It is this belief that gives substance nd power to moral teaching. The en Commandments conlaili the essence of this teaching and in the Old Testament these are represented as coming straight from God. This is what gives the code authority. “'0 cannot flout these commands without repudiat- lng God. ,

Hcrf! is the difficulty: Can a teacher who does not believe in R righteous and loving God teach moral principles? I have seen it done. but it is not effective. But the teacher who believes this and with heart and soul puts himself into his teaching it is effective in the lif:- of the school. I have seen it and I kno it. is true.

Rell ion has been largely ban- ned from our schools, but if we were not such sticklera for doctrine we might well agree to a course of Bible leaching. Here is plenty of good whnlcsomemoral teaching to be got from the Bible, such as Ilia. aarmnn on't.he Mount. and the Ten Commandments, that every one could agree upon. It would help to redeem our schools from the mat- erialism that our prrment system is cultivating. Some teachers would

use the course to teach special doctrines. would they? I am. sir, etc.. W. I. GREEN

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RAILWAY EXTENSION

"We understand that the Govern- ment lntend extending the rail- way line from the Roundhouse, Charlottetown, across the Me- Mlllan property and down the steam Navigation Company’: Wharf. The line would have been extended some inontha ago, but no amicable agreement an to the land damage: could be arrived at between the Railway Department and the land owners. The only

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l A Secrecy In Politics

(Winnipeg Free Press)

Mr. Herbert Morrison, 1 British statesman who should be the last to need it, has lately learned a useful lesson in dernocracy. He has denounced the newspapers for printing news ot the secret caucus of ‘the Labor Party and aeefs to consider this almost a high crime - gainst the state itself. For this ex- traordinary doctrine he has been rebuked by the press, from The London Times to the radical New Statesman and Nation.

As Mr_ John Plckenglli, Can- adian Secretary of State, observed in recent speech, there is a legi- timate place for secrecy in our sys- tem of government. The proceed- lngs of Cabinets must be secret, indeed all Cabinet Ministers are solemnly sworn to secrecy, because a Cabinet, though often disagree- ing, must finally accept a policy and present it unanimously to Par- liament and public. or otherwise the whole structure of Cabinet soliciarlty necessarily will collapse.

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But Mr. Pickersgili admits that the newspapers are quite entitled, if they can, to secure news about Cabinet proceedings and disagree- ments. And assuredly there is and can be no protection for the acc- recy of Party caucuses. Their business is legitimate public news if the newspapers can discover it.

As the London Economist obser- ves. Mr. Morrison's rather bad- tempered and childish complaints “have served only to remind the public of the dangerous extension of caucus rule on both silica of the House at Commons . The press has a duty to throw the clearest. light. it can on the regret- table process of secret di.sa5‘l'¢€- menta, secretly arrived at, through which his and his opponents‘ Party juntas now fumble towards the policies that they present to the public as the only true course of reason and light. The whole in- clcient. ended in an embarrassing anti-climax for Labor, with the National Executive solemnly put. ting out ii. statement reaffirming that its meetings are ‘private and confldental.' This was news to no- body. On the conrtary. it 18 '41! main criticism of both Party machines that at ‘private and con- fidental' meetirlzl important issues of public are not only being discus- sed but decided.“

The most dlstulbing modern trend in the British parliamentary system of government, as trans- planted to Canada. is the decline in the powers of Parliament—¢M>9- cially notable in Canada. because no adequate Opposition or altema- tlvc Goverlimcm. has existed here for many years. The real centre of

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take the land required and leave the question of damages to be decided by the Exchequer Court of Canada. This caused some delay. But now a plan and description of the land required for the extenllon has been registered in the office of the Registrar of Deeds, which vents the land in e Government; and the track wll. no doubt, be laid with- out any further delay. The extension will be of great convenience to our merchants and shippers. who will be enabled to ship without the necessity of carting their good: from the freight house to the wharf." -—'rhe Examiner. Dec. O, 1008.

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We really felt quite young until the slick, new chick at the office called us "dad".-—Brandon Sun.

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People are like matches: their

they flare up they loa bead|.—Edmonton .1 l.

The man with a onL~t.-rack mind alwayl thinks he has the rlght-of- way.—St. Thomas Times-Journal.

A nnrvoy conducted by a beauty expert seem: to Indicate the men prefer women a little on the plump side. A little mayonnaise with the lettuce, please.-—St. Cath- arinea Standard.

Remember vvbon—!ou'd meet I car every six or seven miles on the highway, gentlemen raised their lids to ladies, the ladies did not smoke. people walked to work, Spring was an adventure, the things you bought had quality. young men were glad to start at the foot of the ladder. we made our own ice cream. and we could do a full day‘: work, and Home Sweet Home meant just that. - Lcndon Free Press.

Churchill II brave, articulate, brilliant. He has also been pitiless. He is believed, for Instance, to have been deeply worried, but dry-eyed, about the Gallipoll dis- aster of the First Great War and the ruins of Coventry almost three decades later. To have been otherwise might‘ have impaired the delicately ruthless mechanism of leadership at a crucial moment. But now for him the crucial mo- ment of action has passed and “the greatest living Englishman" has found the time and softness to weep for us all. It may be ironic. It could be too late. But it not lnglorlous.—Vancouver Sun.

Ihrkan all those whom excess

zvolrdupols has induced to see the doctor, and from him to re- ceive a diet! Tune an ear to a

word of advice. Listen to what Dr. Irvine I-1. Page, heart special- ist of Cleveland, had to say re- cently in Chicago. "I think a lot of doctors say casually to a patient that he should take this or that diet, without realizing what a big job going on a diet is." And he warns against diets which are too restrictive in salt. They may prove to be emotionally up- setting unlela carefully handled. Finally, says this cardiologist, doc- tors ought to try certain "po- tentially upsetting" diets themsel- ves before prescribing them for patients. This seems like going too far.—London Free Press.

WIIOOPING CRANE! SIGHTED

SABKATOON. (CP)— Three of the 24 whooping cranes known to exist were aighted Friday at two Saskatchewan points 100 miles

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vvec:lesdsy.,liprnz1‘.fi1a_si’; THE WAY

If you analyse human , you will be amazed how much of

_ it is the work of men who wanted

to see what was on the other side of the hlll—or on the other side of an ocean, or on the other side of a generally accepted idea. 1: there had not been men in Eu- rope drawn by the lure of the un- known across the horizon, this con- tinent would still belong to the Indiana. If beyond-the-hill had not drawn men's minds, we should have no science, no industry. no political growth, precious little philosophy; life for us would be as primitive as for the aborlgina Ill the jungle. What’: on the oth- er aide of the hill? Adventure, and knowledge and growth, and progi-ess—and always another hill beckoning with its mystery.—from an editorial‘ for young people, Hamilton Spectator.