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"The .:rongeat ma:nor,-la'-tveakea than the weakest: Ink."

international Magna cliarta .

The Washington talks between Prime Minister Churchill and President Eisen-.

hower have brought reaffirmation of the: principles of the Atlantic Charter and a. clear statement of the principles of inde-3 pendence as they apply to nations large and small. It is appropriate that it should have indicated the policy of both nations in ex-f ercising their own responsibilities that they' would continue to aim at full independencel for all countries whose peoples desire and are capable of sustaining an independent existence. ,

Outside their immediate responsibilities they will also uphold the principle of self-' government and will not be party to any' agreement which will confirm or prolong, the unwilling subordination of any coun-' try. They will seek to achieve unity for any nations now divided against their will, using free elections supervised by the Unit- ed Nations to achieve that purpose.

The statement issued Tuesday is a breath of freedom in a world in which that. aspiration is all but stifled. It is far from being a product of jingoism. In fact a, cardinal point is the desirability of a igen-J eral reduction in arms throughout the world.

The late President Roosevelt once said; that the "only thing we have to fear is fear". The same is true today. The two camps into which the world is divided be- have the way they do because of fear. The a.ctions which bring criticism and some-, times even hate are almost all motivated by fear of being placed at a disadvantage.

The message of the President and the Prime Minister is that the whole world should cast out fear and all the repression, waste and cruelty that goes with it.

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Income Tax and secrecy

The Supreme Court of Canada has, ruled unanimously that the courts can. compel the Government to produce income

This", comments the Ottawa Journal, seems right and sensible, and the only wonder is that the Government, which had appealed from a similar ruling by the British Colum- bia Court of Appeals, ever thought it had the right, or should have the right, to with- hold such evidence.

Mr. Justice Kellock, who handed down one of the Supreme Court's main findings, showed the impossibility of the Govern- ment's position when he said: "There are, cases where the public interest may be en- dangered by disclosing certain documents, such as diplomatic and defence papers. But there also is a public interest which says that an innocent man is not to be con- demned when his innocence can be proved."

And Mr. Justice Kellock added: "In the light of the Income Tax Act it would seem difficult to contend that any state secrecy

the class of documents here in question." No one should want income tax returns stripped of all secrecy, bared for the prying eyes of the curious, as happens in the U. S., adds The Journal. But to hold, as the Government held, that they must be held secret ,in all circumstances, .even in the circumstance of denying justice to a citi- zen, is shocking. to say the least-so shock- ing that it would beghard to imagine any Parliament in the British Commonwealth giving such a proposition legal sanction.

. Gram linl Smog

There are 12 million open fireplaces in Great Britain; or, rather, there were up to a couple of weeks ago. Since t.hen, accord- ing to an item in the London Daily Herald, the Ministry of Housing has begun a cam- paign to have the number reduced drastical- ly. 'l'he official moveis an attempt to com- bat the menace of smog, which last year,

git will be recalled, was blamed for many

? alone: '.a somewhat similar .condition' exists

in other industrial districts. The Govem- ment's view is that, while factories using coal for fuel are responsible for much of the smog, the doing away with fireplaces! '.W:)l.1ld be of some benefit. Anyway, fire- ;,places are expendable, the factories are

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'Britishers have no other means of keep-

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with smokeless appliances. furnish them, and open them to the public. It is thought,

smoke a fire can be they will get rid of their open grates promptly and willingly. British Parliamentarians are going to- have a big job on their hands; one much harder in every way than fighting an elec- tion or voting aye or nay in the Commons. It will be doubly hard, since they themselves will go at the task in a half-hearted. spirit, born of necessity" and not of conviction. For many centuries the British fireplace has been one of the symbols of the nation. Its main function has not been the distri- bution of heat although millions of

ing their houses warm -- but. rather, the

distribution of cheer and optimism, qualities 2

which are especially useful these days.

Health requirements cannot be ignored, I

however; and, if the Housing Ministry can prove the alleged coalition between smog and grates, it is hard to see how the latter can be kept from widespread demolition,

once the shock of tradition has lessened..'

It is to be hoped that the scientists will yet find some way to get rid of the Smog Willi" out having to get rid of a cherished in- stitution at the same time.

EDITORIAL NOTl:S

The 25th anniversary of the discovery of penicillin was marked in London Tues- day when the Duke of Edinburgh present- ed the discoverer. Sir Alexander Fleming,' with a pair of silver George III tureens.

O O I

That milk cheques should be governed by the findings of government tester and the price established by a milk board were surprise proposals bya leading creamery operator to Island milk producers at a re- cent meeting. Apparently both suggestions

were well received.

The farmers, generally speaking, favors an "easy money" economy, requiring as he does large amounts of capital to operate. A difference of even one per cent in in- terest rates may make the difference be- tween being able to undertake operations profitably or otherwise. It is not surprising, therefore. that the Kings County Federa- tion of Agriculture should have made re- commendations on the matter.

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Canada produced 8,621,000 pounds of; wool last year, or 12 per cent more than in' 1952. The average price was 38.5 cents

1952. but away below the 74 cents receiv- ed in 1951. Total value of shorn wool last: year was 552,565,000. Last year Canada, produced 8.6 million pounds, exported 3.7i million pounds, and imported 63 million pounds. I Indium may be the 20th century Cinder- ella metal according to a press release from Trail, B. C. It is only one quarter as hard as lead, the popular soft metal. and was too rare to attract attention when discovered in 1863. It can be used to.lower the melt- lng point of solders, however, and has anti- seizure qualities when applied to bearings of high-speed engines. It is being used in some transitors, the tiny substitutes for radio tubes and also as an indicator in atomic piles since radioactivity can readily be induced in the metal;

.Ios'eph Chamberlain, British statesman, died this date 1914. Of well-to-do family, he made a fortune himself at an early age and retired from business in 1874 to de- vote his time to public life. As mayor of Birmingham he introduced is number of reforms and projects which caused. its pros- perity to rise very rapidly. He then entered national politics as a radical Liberal. He was very interested in the Empire and in- deed his policy was generally referred to

as imperialism. His ultimate defeat was due .

to his efforts to develop a system of im- perisl preference. 0 o 0 The legitimate theatre is generally eup- posed to be a place where culture is dis- pensed to all who will receive it. That does not mean, however, that theatre-goers are always on their belt behaviour. Some- times, sad to say. they indulge in all sorts of uncultured acts; such as hissing the players, for instance. This, indeed. is what happened within the cultured walls of the Civic Opera House in Chicago a couple of weeks ago. It was all over a very simple thing. too. The New York City Ballet Com- pany had billed the famed "Fil'e,blrd" num- ber, but when the curtain went up the an- nouncer made it known that a substitute, the less popular "Filling station". would be given in its place. Without waiting for

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an explanation, the audience broke out in .

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this column is open to the discussion by correspondents of questions of Interest. The Guardian doe: not neceasar- lly the opinion of correspondents

A HIKE FROM CH'TOWN

Sir.-This was sixty )'!Rl'5 530- Dr. George Leslie MacKay. the "Black Bearded Barbarian. l'IIl5' sionary of Formosa was to Speak in Zion Church. and Sandy SUP ling and I decided we would hear him. We had money (W U” "ii" trip into town. and we decided we would walk home. twenty-eizhh miles to New London. T

We listened to Dr. MacKay with great interest while he told of his work in Formosa. his great hospital. his schools and his mis- sion among the wild tribes of the mountains. His most interest- ing adventure was his marrying a Chinese woman. whom he brought 'to Canada. They landed in San Francisco. Because of the cm- hargo against Chinese women coming to the United States she was denied entrance. but after much negotiation with the Gov- ernment she was admitted.

It was a hot afternoon: the next day when we decided to! leave town. and I went into R saloon at the lower end of Queen! St., and asked for a bottle of

uff to make drinks on the way. the waiter mixed me A bottle of 20 per cent and charged me 31.00. I said "No! that's not. what I want. but something cheap and sour." His look at me said: "Get out. we have nothing here for you." and turned to another cus- tomer.

Then we took

the road. trust- ina to neighbors for drinks, of which we had many. We had never travelled that way before and took the road that led us down to the Dlckleson Mills at New Glasgow. It was then about midnight and the fellow we woke up put his head out the up-stgair window and snarled: "What-d-you want?" I said humbly. "we are lost and want to -know our way to Stanley Bridge.” He said: "Go back to the highway and keep on till you come to the village of New Glasgow then turn up the big hill and keep on for six miles and you'll come' to Stanley Bridge." We were travelling in- 'cognito,and did not wish to be identified. Near the bridge in young man dodged into the ditch as he passed us. We concluded he had been -seeing his girl and did not wish to be identified. at that hour of the morning.

How vividly thatvtrip of long ago has been Impressed upon my memory! It brings back nothing but pleasant memories.

I am. Sir. atc..

. W. I. GREEN Stanley Bridge. ,

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DIUIOII AT ' LAIOI

from an,Act paaaod at the bee- alon of the General Assembly. April. IN:

"Whereas it has become a sub- leet of just and l complaint that peuonl, dried. in the Jail of Ghariottoftown for Dbbrara kept within such clam limits as an- dangbrthoir health, and aggravate um-aly their misfortunes; for re- mbdy whereof,

."le it enacted by the Lieutenant '

Governa. council and Assembly, ,t-hut tuhtrl shall In future b0 lllllitl

andrulu for the Jail at ohaitlottm a

,town. within which limit; per.- aone in custody for Debt, giving good and sufficient security a- gainst escape from or going with- out such limits. shall be at liberty

NOTES BY

P. bly science knows what it's about when it talks about get, ting energy from sunlight. In or- dlnary experience. however, focus-

aing the sun's rays on a hammock

is the surest my to discourage energy. -Edirnnton Journal.

A man soon learns those day! what his wife cares about hlin when she chose: him out to the garden to be among the moa- quitoes. -Moose Jaw Times- Herald.

Since some packers parsiat in wrapping bacon in red-striped cel- lophane. many shoppers are in self-defence opening the packages for a peek. Those who want plenty of fat have the least to complain about. But those who prefer the lean have learned to distrust the enhanced impression of meatlness given by the stripes. The practice of putting a thumb nail through the cellophane is most unsanitary, and yet the buyer has a right to know what bacon she bringing home. -Ottaw Citizen.

It would be interesting to know how many persons, who profess to abominate capital punishment. would react if n loved wife or child these murderers? There have been many cases of brutal rape mur- ders recently in which old women and children have died horribly. What. except deat.h..-should be the portion of these murderers? How would we feel. if the only punish- ment for the multiple sadistic mur- tier of our wife and family were punishablelonly with life imprison- ment? Usually about lb years. -- Sault Ste. Marie Star.

Cornwall township has taken A progressive step in planning to introduce a by-law designed to control the setting up of trailer homes. The township: action Items directly from the large number of trailer homes new in use both in the urban and rural part: of the township. Township authorities point out that most of the owners of these trallerfare violating existing zoning regula- tlons which provide that such housing units must be set up in trailer parks. or camps. In addi- tion. township nut critics are con- cerned whether tr ller home own- are are complying with Depart- ment of Health regulations con- cerning sewage and WWO! sar- vlcu. Main idea. behind the pro- posed trailer home by-law is to make provision for orderly de- velopment of trailer parks. --From Cornwall Standard.

NIGIH. (OH. silver, copper, ole" moat certainly have their place. but when it comes to valuable metals there is nothing to top this columblum, of which there are apparently huge quantities on the Manltou Islands and under Lake Nlpiulng. A recent report to the in ” i of the United States

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compiled by I l0VEmm9nv'lPD0ll1'v- ed commission after a thoroulh study, placed columblum at the top of the scarce metal list. Cur- rent price being paid by the U. s. gavemmsnt la 33.40 per pound for columblum contained in a fifty per cent concentrate. The total value of the columblum already known to be present in the Lake Nipissing find is 32'l0.000.000. This figure would Jump to -the half billion dollar mark with five more holes to outline the depth of on to the 1.000-foot level. -tlorth Bay Nugset.

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TIIEN AND NOW

There was a time when the days

were long enough.

Long and slow. as the cuisine of frogs in the pond.

Now like a dandelion fluff

They are blown by nckle winds to a far beyond.

They were ample then as the spreading arms of the live- oaks.

As the voices of workers in unend- ing rise and fall. -

As the slow-turning spoken

in the wheels of the cane-carts that moved in a leisurely crawl.

In that time the days were as small eternlties. T

with excursions by river and road. and long afternoons

Under the liveoak ti-cu,

While the rose garden drowned to mockingbird tunes.)

Then there was time, deliberate hours to know

And to come at the heart and the kernel of life. the hunk

of protitleaa hurry let go -

Soothlng and slow as the humming of locusts at dusk.

And now if any return he will and , but these.

of the men and their way of life.

. and who can lay why, There remain but the llvcook tree: And the hum of the loculta ringing around the sky.

-Mary B. Wall, in the Montreal

I NEW EASE

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A heads .of sum and alien-

,dou not concern nee irell; Indeed.-all pa:-tlu -and-molt ot.tbol'newspapora-.aeam to" have welcomed the get-together of the Foreign llfnistern,-. The question that is botlierlnl the British people -who. did it hnveto mean Sir Win-

ston'a.1lylng to. Washington. in- stead. of President's Eisenhower's Jaondonf

coming to

In part this is. a matter of courtesy. The .Pr'lme,Mlnister is an old man: However physically active and mentally alert he may happen to beat -the moment. the fact yemalns that it fsnot long since he'-hind a serious illness; a trip like. the present one cannot be Ianythlng 'but fatiguing. Presi- dent. Eisenhower...' on the other hand. is a comparatively young man-and in. robuat health; It would have been easy enough for him to have flown, to London a , of com-se..tlia meeting might uat as well have. been held there as in

Washington. . I

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This, however, is only half the story. e other half is political. TheiBrltish people simply don't like the idea of their Government leaders rushing off to the United States" 'every time there is a lit- tle dispute between the two allies: it looksin little too much as if the British were mainly respon- sible for -the internal disagree- ments. One cannot help feeling that if this particular issue had arisen in Mr. "Roosevelt's time the meeting would have been fheld neltherdn .Washington nor in Lon- don but in some "neutral" spot. probably in mid-ocean.

It would be good pastime to speculate on where most of the blame" lien for t.hla'rathei- serious rift between Britain and the Uni- ted Stntes: good pastime. but ut- terly fruitleu. Probably. it isn't a matter of blame at all but one, of different temperaments. The American political tempo .- ment, on the whole. may be cal- led pragmatic, in the sense that any crisis -the South East Asia situation. for instance - is like- ly to be viewed in its effect on present policies and strategy.

The long term view is not as popular in the United States as it is in Britain. for the very sim- ple reason that the United States. as a great world power, is so much younger than Britain. The way of youth and adolescence is to be impetuous and unduly ex- cited over what happen: right now. The way of age and maturity is to be cautious. sometimes over

cautious. O O 0

Whatever may be said about Mr. Eisenhower as ?resldent. there is nodcnylng his reat qualities of military leaders . I think it was Prime Minister urchlll himself (it may have been some one else) who once referred to General Eisenhower as the "greatest soi- dier since .NapoIeon." Certainly. he has proved himself one of historyis most outstanding mili- tary strateglsts. And it is well known that a great soldier. al- most necessarily, is governed largely by the pragmatic temper. His job. usually. is to do what needs to be done in the present (win a war. for instance) without bothering himse” with long term possibilities or implications. T

Prime Minister Churchill and Foreign Minister Eden are just as anxious to atop further aggression

Inf nonsense to think anything else.

in Asia or elsewhere as art the Preside t and his Secretary of Staten es; itwouldbe the height s The differences of opinion are in methods only; they do npt con- cern bed,-rock pi-lnciplela.