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FRIDAY. OCT. 29, 1954 ,

Maritime Show Window

The Maritime Winter Fair-which opens at Amherst tomorrow and runs until the following Saturday promises to be bigger and better than ever. Truly the show win- dow of Maritime agriculture, it draws the very best of livestock and fieldcrop exhibit.- from these llroviiices.

llrincc lidward Island, as the most heav- ily agricultural of the Maritime Provinces. has always taken an important and cred- itable part in promoting the Winter Fair. Particularly iii the years since the Provin- cial lzlxhibition was moved to an earlier date, Island farmers have tended to dis- play their products where they will thus be comparecl not only with those of other local groucrs but those from our neighborin: Pioviiiccs.

We are inclined to expect a very high proportion of winning entries in the potat- classes and better in other competition than would be expected on a straight pro-, portional basis. Competition is keen at Amherst. however, and while the winners” are entitled to warm congratulations, run- ners up have seldom any reason to feel ashamed of their entries.

Special sailings of the earferry have been arranged to enable Islanders to attendi daily and nightly shows and yet manage to return home the same night, or at any;

rate in the small hours. There will hei plenty of entertainment as well as keenl rivalry to make attendance well worth?

while.

it Foolish Mistake I

Visiting the Soviet Union apparently is becoming a habit with an increasing ber of Britishers. It will be recalled that a group of business men started the fash-i ion early last Spring. This group was fol-! lowed by former Prime Minister Attlee and an assortment of Labour Party bigwigsxi

The latest group to 5'0 behind the Curmi” should begin with the most proficient st: give value for money

was made up of parliamentarians from the three political parties, led by Lord Coler-' nine, a Conservative peer. Such visits can-i not do any harm and they may do some good. It is clear, however, that the Sovietl

authorities have gone out of their way to without becoming more ready to take 0,, Wm be used ; i ' - l l '

immess me Visitors gthflt frlendshllq the responsibilities of life. The appeal ofl

.'with Russia is more to Britain's advantage ; the movement is to the sense of adventulg

than is that country's co-operation with the United States. For instance, when Mikhail Tarasov, deputy chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, was saying fare- well to the latest delegation he referred to what he called "the British and Sovicti pcoples' love of peace." In his reply Lord' Coleraine reminded the Soviet official thatg love of peace was not exclusive to Russia and Britain but was shared by all other countries, including the United States.

In making this brief but significant. comment Lord Coleraine rendered a servicr-.i not only to the alliance between Britalnl and the United States but to the cause of the entire free world. The Communist rulers of Russia and her partners must given to understand that, while Britain is anxious to come to a reasonable and hoii-, curable understanding with the Soviet bloc, there is no possibility of a serious break inl 'Anglo-American solidarity which remains the chief safeguard against the aggressive designs of international Communism. The parliamentarians hour-long talk with Pre-l mier lilalenkov is not to be disparaged. It; is possible that it will help in a small way to ease the pressure of world tension; but its importance in the cause of world peace is not to be compared with the many yearsf of careful and co-operative planning by British and American leaders. The Rus- sians are making a foolish mistake if they: imagine for one moment that soft wordsi for Britain and harsh ones for her chief ally will advance their political strategy one iota.

Lessons From Disaster

Forty bridges and an uncounted number of culverts were washed out by Hurricanc-I Hazel in the Toronto area, and the Globe and Mail states that in many cases this was due to faulty engineering judgment! The bridges in many cases were located

where it was cheapest to build them, unit

where they should have been. "Bridges are not dams." says our Tor- onto contemporary; "and they should ob-

p works.

of water to pass under them. The urgency with which they are being repaired suggests that we shall have to have another flood

, next spring to make sure the changes are

made. ttMuch the same stricture might be made

. with respect to road design. In innumerable icases. it became apparent. that very little ti” attention had been given to hydraulics in

laying out the grades of the road, and in locating culverts and waterways. Even where they were rightly placed, the stupid economy with which they were construct- ed left them so much too small that they might just as well not have been there at all.

"The inadequacy of the bridges and drainage facilities, the unscientific design of road grades, reveal a basic weakness of approach in planning these forms of public It is obvious that no general use is made of the knowledge of the geographer, the physiographer, and the hydrologist by our public works bodies. These skills are well developed in our universities and agri- cultural colleges, but graduates find diffi- culty in getting employment in Canada. Thr useful application of their abilities in rela- tion to the matters under discussion would last week have saved many times their salaries over a whole lifetime."

Apple Day

On Saturday Boy Scouts and Wolf Cubs will be selling Prince Edward Island Mac- Intosh apples throughout the Province. Boy Scout ”Apple Day" has become an in- stitution as successive generations youngsters help to finance the movement to which they belong and at the same time acquaint the public with the quality of fruit produced here.

"Apple Day" is typical of Boy Scout thought in all fields. The resourcefulness of the boys thus in helping to carry the general expenses of the Scout and Cub programmes as well as the financing of their own particular troop or pack is to be admired. They know that the funds re- ceived will be used to promote camping. training and participation in such events as the World Jamboree which will be held in Canada next year.

Scouting is a game, but a game which brings out the best in each and every par- ticipant. The first Chief Scout always in- slsted that when competition was carried on, a relatively small portion of the pro- gramme being competitive, elimination

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that those needing practice got the mos of it rather than merely looking on while the more successful boys continued to the finals.

No boy can take part in Scout activity

in boys but the product is good citizenship.

EDITORIAL NOTES n and St. Jude.

Festival of St. Simo O O O

The health of Canada's armed forces is

now the joint concern of the authoriticz. "gm 3 ininimum of ten ccnis and C

and the Canadian Medical Association. The first meeting has been held of thc Cana- dian Armed Forces Medical Consultive Group, composed of distinguished special- ists, with the purpose of keeping Canadian servicemen fit. It will seek recommenda- tions from physicians in private prrictic.-. public health and research. I O O

A modern thriller or rather a series of them is provided by the crash of two Comets, the world's first jet airliner, tilt recovery of 70 per cent of the wreckage by

lthe Royal Navy and the testing of a larg-zp

number of theories of how the accidents

lhappcncd. It now appears that the aircrafli

disintegrated when stress fIC(lI' .1 cabin window became too great for metal weak- ened by "fatigue". The next slcp, of course. is to find the cause of such fatigue and means of eliminating the danger. O

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John Locke, English philosopher, died this date 1704. He held appointments un- der Shaftesbury but during the periods when his patron was out of office he pub- lished a quantity of philosophical work, in- cluding his famous ”Essuy Concerning Hu- man Understanding" and the "Letter of Toleration". The Letter urges that there should be no disability attached to religious thought. a freedom which was achieved in England largely due to I.ocke's advocacy.

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The Chlgnecto canal issue is anything but new. In the course of a previous effort to have it proceeded with a Guardian cor respondent recalled that in the eighteenth century the proprietor of Lots 35 and 347 anticipated the canal and made provision for extending its benefits by linking Bed- ford Bay with the Hillsborough River, -3

ltruct the watercourse as little as possible. distance of about two miles between tide

Instead, the repeated story of the flood was water and

tide water. In a letter in our

that the bridge held up the water until it issue of Oct. 28. 1931 it is pointed out that developed irresistible force and swept the Capt. John MacDonald of Gienaiadale in

obsticleouray. In any rebuilding of these granting long term leases reserved two brldhifit h obvious that they should be chains of land on each side of the canal

to permit I much larger volume site.

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Soon Find Out

This column in upon to the linens- Ilun hy eornupondenlu of quuiions of Interest. The Gunnllnn dou not ucunrily endoru nu opinion of connpondenlo.

BOY SCOUT APPLE DAY i

Sir.--Saturday. Octobcr 30th is iBoy Scout Applc Day in Prince Edward Island. It is also llal-

loween and a day for lots of fun and good cheer. On behalf of the Cubs. Scouts and Leaders, I ask. the co-operation of all citizens in making this the best Apple Day

, yet. V I - .

What is an Apple Day' It is the, one day in each year when Cubs. Scouts. Rovers, Scouters and As- sociation officials work together to raise funds for Scouting through the sale of apples. It has been con- tinuously used in Prince Edward Island and across Canada for more than twenty years.

It is an established policy of .Scouting that Scouts do not beg ibut, in some way. endeavour to rcccivcd. Hence. instead of having an ord- linary tag day (which is forbidden, iby rule 16 Policy Organization and; lRulcs) Scouts hold an "Apple Day" and say "Thank You" for! each donation by giving the donorp a delicious apple. In our case only,

E. Island Mclnlush Red apples.

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What will the funds be used for . All of it is earmarked for camping and to assist Island Scouts to at- tend the World Jamboree tn be, held in Canada at Niagara-on-lhc- lLake next August. We hope to send forty boys from P. E: Islandl Ito this wonderful gathering of Scouts from more than fifty coun- tries.

How much should I give for an apple? The answer is as much as vuu would like but may I sug-'

more if you can afford it. If you t c only five cents. as some have done in the past. remember that you are actually contr c cent to the Scout funds. That is all that is left after paying for, the ripples and other expenses. l The success nf this Annie Day .mcans much to the Cubs and, Scouts as it means camping and

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Sir. etc. II. C. PARENT. Prnvnicial Coniinissioner. ,

Old Charlottetown

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l A PROSPEROLIS YEAR

"The Irzide of P Ii. li;'zinrI I863 was highly prosperrvus. prt)(IllCC represents A v c r y iarllc -item in the sum total of exports. There were shipped from the is- iland 1,450,430 bushels of oats, 403.- 122 bushels barley, 74,959 bushels potatoes. and 201 tons of oatmeal. The Controller also includes amnntl 'agricultural products' t'XD0FlNI- 15,068 qulnlals nf dry fish and 7.- 570 barrels of pickled fish. Char- lottetown, of course. is the great port of shipment, about one-third of the exports being from there: but Bedeque. Georgetown. New London and Colvllle Bay are very important point: in this respect There is nothing in the return to show to what countries these grains have been exported. The table of values of exports. however. rep- resents that f.lfl6,'l38 worth. ster- ling. or one-half the whole. was sent to the United States.

"The shipbuilding of the Island has also assumed large proportions. Last year 100 vessels were built. equal to 24,901 tons, old measure- ment. This is the largest amount ever set afloat. in one year on the Island. The average per year for the last. 34 years has been 70 vessels. H.934 tons."

.-Halifax Chronicle, Oct. 16, 1884.

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0 . PUBLIC FORUM i OTTAWA REPORT

New World Calendar

By m'riu(.k

0TTAWA:- Nature gave Man three clocks by which the passage of time can be measured: now the United Nations plan to give Man at long last a national calen- dar which fits these clocks.

Nature's three time periods are first. the sun's apparent rotation around our earth, which we call the day: second, the moon's ditto,

and third. ..c apparent circuit of the sun among the fixed stars, which is the year.

As none of these periods is an exact multiple of the others. Na- ture's clocks cannot be converted into exact and regular calendar measurements. So we use an ap- proximately accuratc calendar, which is called the Julian Calendar because it was devised some 2,- 000 years ago when Julius was the Caesar of Rome. This makes the year 11 minutes too long. The error was corrected by Pope Gre- gory XIII 372 years ago.

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This Julian-Gregorian calendar

today gives us fourteen variations of calendar years; twenty-eight different kinds of months: quarters and months which cannot be com- pared with each other statistically because they contain varying numbers of working days: and dates falling on different and hard- to-calculate days of the week each year. This makes impossible de- mands upon our memory. is a statist.ician's nightmare. and is neither perfect not desirable in the eyes of anyone but the calen- dar-makcrs who can sell hundreds of millions of copies of a new cal- ndar each year. But now we appear to be on the verge of adopting an entirely new calendar which would i: rect I ost. if not all. of the nco' nvenicnces of the Julian-Gregorian system.

The proposed new World Calen- Jar consists of twelve months. The first, fourth, seventh and tenth have .11 days: the rest all have :i(l days. There are the same num- her or working days in every month; every quarter consists of 91 days: the :l6.'it.h day in each )'D1Il' is pl.-miicd as an undated lini- versal hnlidny called Wm-ldsday, falling between Saturday 30th De- ccmbcr and Sunday 1st January every year. Every fourth year would as now be a Leap Year. containing an extra Worldsday holi- day falling between Saturday 30th June and SLllli.IEly. lft. July.

Advantages of the p r op o s e d ld Calendar are that every date would fall on the some weekday ev- cry year: new calendars would therefore not be required each year; commerce would experience directly comparable w o r k I n 1 months; people would know the weekday upon which their birth- days. anniversaries and holidays would fall -- for example. Christ- mas Day would always be on I

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presumably be regularly celebrated on Monday 2nd July; Vlctoi-In Day. 24th May. would appropriately for summer-coitage-openers a I w a y s be a Friday. Women born on 31st. of March, May, August or Decem- ber would be delighted by being able to say truthfully that they are younger than they really are, because they would never.ngaln celebrate a birthday - these dates would be abolished.

The World Calendar Association sponsoring this reform has mar- shalled some impressive support. In Canada this includes the La- bour Congresses. the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the Cana- dian Manufacturers Association and other groups. India, plagued by the use of Hindu. Moslem and Christian calendars. officially sub- mitted the proposal to the July meeting of the United Nations Ec- onomic and Social Council; this body unanimously agreed that it should be considered by member governments. and even Russia re- frained from vetoing this motion. stating that in her opinion the new calendar should be adopted with- out delay. So now the U. N. has officially submitted the proposal to the Canadian and other gov- ernments, and also to about 40 non-members, for immediate con- sideration and recommendations.

No doubt our government will instruct officials to marshall all the facts. Parliament should also be asked to discuss it. as being the only practicable method of as- certaining the popular wish; if not

introduced by the Government. some private Member will tainly raise the subject. There Is

port for this national new calen- dar. which might go into effect as soon as 151. January 1956.

TWILIGHT

Silent are the woods. and the dim green boughs are

Hushed in the twilight: yonder, in the path through

The Ipple orchard. in n tired plough-boy

Calling the cows home.

A bright. white star bllnlu, the

pale moon rounds, but Still the red. livid wreckage of the sunset Smouldcrs in burn: on The misty hill-top.

Ghostly it grows. and duker. the burning

into smoke. gusty oaks Are A !IICT1lL army of phantoms throng-

amoky fire, and

ndu and now the

ng. A land of shadows.

Monday; Dominion Day would al- ways be on a Sunday as would

-John Muellod.

gdeposit In the ballot box. TIIE PRIZES ABE:-

3-silver Casserole.

muke the drawing.

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LUCKY, CUSTOMERS

FOR OUR BIG

86th ANNIVERSARY SALE

Each visitor to our store is entitled to 3 ballot to

1-Chest of 1881 Rogers Silver. 2-Bnlovs IWI-ist Watch.

At closing time Nov. 6th I prominent citizen will '

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NOTES BY

Molt secret: no hard to keep. but none" more than a man's opin- ion of hinaelf -Brandon Bun.

Wile driven will put the Ilcohol in their radiators of their can soon and nowhere else. -Ningai-s. Folk Review.

Remember the old hotel near the station when the trains kept. you awake III night? Well, it has been replaced by I motel on the high- way where the cars and truolu keep you awake. -St. Cathar- ines Standard.

Whooping cough took I heavy toll in Canada last. year. There were 134 deaths-but this record needs to be compared to the large number of cum, 9.387. reported. Quebec had the unenvioble distinc- tion of leading in this category. with 3.920 cuea and 69 deaths. On- time had 1,670 cases-but only 12 deaths. Puzzlixu is the record of Newfoundland, with only can casas but with nine of thorn ending in death. -St. Cathiulneo Stand- and.

There are ocouions when per- sons no interested in some item in the newspaper but cannot. spam the time to read it immediately. They will nuke the request to all and sundry to save the paper for them. A paper that is being "sav- ed" in in grave jeopardy. It would seem that the very fact. that it has a special value increases the hazard. A paper that is being saved may be on the living room table at one minute; the next minute it will have disappeared. Such 0- paper will be used to wrap up the garbage. It will be unamb- od up to put at the bus of logs in the laying of an open fire. Guelph Mercury . '

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' boards and dopnrtments of education make frequent men- tion of the shortage of teachers. Now we see that in Vancouver the British Columbia department is preparing to do something about the situation. There is estimated that some 900 replacements are needed nnnuuly to maintain the stuff of 4.300 tewhen, But the umber of students und

teacher training falls for short of the requirement. ”Puture teach- er clubs" are being organized in the high schools of Vancouver. and the aim will be to atitiract. more graduates into the teaching profession. There can be no ques- tion but that some venture of this nature will pmduoe additional can- didates for the profession. Guelph Mercury.

THE WAY I

A writer an nothing 1; mo" valuable than time. But how in . fellow going to save it or get. tin bank to take it as collateral? Port Arthur News-Chronicle.

Take history. for example. Fig. mes leased recently by the educo. lion department show that lasi July's mati-lculants made an over. use of 51.8 in history. --Freder. icton Gleaner.

Good news from. co-operation among the four Atlantic provinces already can be seen. Last week's meeting in Halifax of education authorities is a case in point, Among the things discussed was the improvement. jointly of the stand. did: of text books. It should be possible to bring about noteworthy changes which will make we study of those subjects, heretofore regarded as dull by students, at. tractlve to them.

Freedom of speech cu: in. (up. oouraged and thwarted but not permanently denied to I. peoplg determined to speak their own minds. This is something um gm-. man people need to bear In mind when confronted with the new; that more than thirty East. Ger. mans have been arrested for pub- liclty declaring that the recent East German elections were "a fraud", There is no amount. of force to keep them thinking the Commu. nlst method. of elections in a. fraud if they have reason for thinking so. And what people think has a. way of making itself heard in spite of every despotic effort to pre- vent it. being said. And in the end the truth finally is dlscovu-ed. -Sydney Post Record.

When Itnnzers clone to town to live they may be introduced by ll. letter from n friend asking than kindness be shown them. One can. not disregard such a letter, of course. One wants to play every attention to the friend of 3,1;-und- But. the friend who wrote the lat- ter mightihave realized that life is complicated enough as it is. Thg friend might have taken into ac. count the difficulty in finding a free day for showing kmnneg. which calls for time and effort and planning. It demands a. day in which no other duties are being performed. It. may involve getting Wgether a group of neighbom in introduce to the stranger. It may require the engaging of someone to help cook and help serve, 13 may result in learning that an person sought is booked up for weeks to come. Cvan.-on.-or

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