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Mist. Laurent's-Tour

The best wishes of all our people will accompany Prime Minister St. Laurcnt as he leaves today on his six weeks' tour which

animals would be needed to supply the densely-populated Asian lands. China's

Iagricultural base is vegetable rather than

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animal.

Milk drunk by man sometimes comes from trees, however. Coconut ”milk" is one example. In addition, the Latin Amer-

ican tropics boast milk-giving "cow trees."-

Several different trees yield milky, nutri-

tious sap that is almost indistinguishable It can be drunk, used inf cooking, or even nlade into whipped cream. I

from true milk.

Venezuela has one species of milk tree. Brazil another. Versatile Brazilian tree

,milk, left for a time in the open air, can

will take him to the free centres of Europe;

and Asia and enable him to glean first- hand information on world problems alld affairs which may prove of inestimablc value, not only to Canada, but to the neigh- boring Rcpublic as wcll. No statesman in the western wol'ld is hotter equipped than Mr. St. L.aurcnt, by his own origins, cx- perience and ability, to uildcrtakr this task of inquiry, explanation and interpretation.

Canada and thc Fnitcd States arc not al-,

ways in ngrccnicnt on forcign pzilicy. of coursc. The Cailadian Govcrnlncnt has not

hesitatcd to voice its opposition in some

cases; but the two great nations of Amor- ica :l':rcc on all c.-1-cntial objectives, and in- ym-;gl,1y hm-o i-out-lletl, out of long ex- pericncc, satisfactory compromises wbcrc frictions have ariscn. '

In particular, as the Winnipeg Free Prcss points out. Mr. St. Lau- rent's visit to India is well timed. At the moment a great deal of mis-

understanding exists between the Indian and United States Governments concerning

proposed military assistance by ihe United.

States to Pakistan. Mr. Nehru has lom: been skeptical of United States' foreign pol- icy in general, has made no secret of his feelings and has nticmptcd to preserve, as faras possible. a neutral position in the world struggle. The Unitccl States regrets this neutral policy in Asia's most important democracy. No one so well as a Canadian can interpret the United Statcs to the (lis- tant nations of the Commonwealth, and that has always been Canada's natural role in the Commonwealth's evolution. One of the main purposes of Mr. St. Laurent's visit to India presumably is to give Mr. Nehru a dispassionate view of Canada's great neighbor and its policies. Without attempting the role of formal mediator, the Prime Minister may in this manner clear the road for a bcttcr understanding.

Milk From Many Sources

Bossy or Ros tarus. the dairy cow, dominates thc milk business in the Western World but in other rlimcs she has strong competition. The National Geographic So- ciety lists the following supply sources whicll, unlike vcqctable oils, offer no threat to our dairymcn on a commercial basis:

In the Arctic. half-wild reindeer herds give milk that Laplandcrs keep all winter in frozen chunks. Africa's Bcdouins and Somalis drink tbc swcrt milk of camels. Egypt's fcllahs. Indians and many East Asians milk watcr buffalo. Ass's milk has been drunk for countless ccnlurics. as has that of thc productive goat. Recently, medical rcscarcli has had need for mousc nilk. Several tliousattd mice are machine- znilked regularly lll Ncw York City. Tllcir total output of two quarts a year is valucd at Slt).0ti0 a quart. In South Africa on.' daredevil suitor won his lady only after nlilkini: a wild liotlrx-"s for his prospcctivc fathcr-in-law. W'nalc's milk coll-acted on Ainial-ctic vllaling ships and an.'ily'zc(i by British scientists v.'ns found far richcr ill fat and protein than co':."s milk but some- what fishy in odor. Chccsc has been madc from shecn's milk in Europe for tltousantls of years: Franco's Rouucfort blend of cwcIs milk. cured in caves, is world famous.

Central Asian tribcs. particularly lhc Kazakhs, long have drunk marc's milk, fresh or fcrmentcd in coltskin bags into a mildly alcoholic brcw called kuntiss. From kumiss is distilled airak, of brandy strength. Marco Polo was the first to describe the hard-riding Mongols' use of condensed mar-e's milk, dried to a paste that they could easily carry with them. Zebu cattle are widespread in India. Milk is obtain- ed from the Banteng of Southeast Asia. and from shaggy yaks in Tibet and the mountain country of thc Kirglliz peoples. Some tribes sprinkle yak's milk on their

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then be used as glue.

Absent-Minded Diplomat

Mr. MolotovIs attitude at the Big Four Conference reminds one of the story about a certain professor who went for a walk after the day's work was done. tered along until he came to a toll-bridge.

Having paid his toll he inquired: "How much will it be for the horse?" "What llorsc, sir?", asked the bridge keeper. "I

don't see any horse!" "I beg your pardon," said the professor, "I thought for the mo- ment I was on horseback." To make the story even more interesting it is related that the professor had never been on horse-

back in his life. y

Mr. Molotov, like Messrs. Eden, Dulles, and Bidault, came to Berlin to discuss the unification of Germany and an Austrian peace treaty. The meeting had only just got under way, however, when he began talking about the wonderful blessings which would come to the world if only Red China were invited to the conference table. When pressed for all explanation of this seemingly pointless suggestion the poor man seemed more confused than ever as to the purpose of the meeting.

Putting aside for the moment the pos- sibility of downright knavery-a possibil-

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a plain case of serious absent-mindednessf It would seem. therefore. that the sooner the Kremlin removes Mr. Molotov from his post, or at least provides him with op-; portunity for intensive memory tralning,t the better it will be for all concerned. The office of Foreign Minister, even of the

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THE GUARl)iAN

Preliminary Examination

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THE BETTER PART

0 world. thou chooeeat not the bet- ter partl

It. is not wisdom in he only W'lSP,

And on the inward vision close thc

eyes. But. it is wisdom to believe the rt .

ha . Columbus found a world, and had

no Chan 240 persons, whereas Yellowknife, comldemble I u t Save one that mu. deciplm-on in N-W-T-- has 40-,0”? for the "59 01, whether a Brlltigh mreiiie orovtizi the skies. "mil 75 lnh3b1ia"l'5- '" T9r0"i9 American rifle should be adopted

Aliblioanfa for offlcen' training. on the Fleet Air Arm are lndig-I 1 nant because they were asked who wrote Peter Pan. but it seems reas- I

enable that they should know as much as possible about this famed pioneer of flight.-Winnipeg Tri- bunc.

For Montreal. with 5.000 taxi- cabs. the Canadian title in that respect has been claimed. Ridicul- ous! That in one text for aboutl

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Russian Variety' is goo important to be 0C, To trust the soul's invincible sur- T0ilIiZlIRm- I

cupied by a man who finds it impossible to remember the nature of his official appoint-I ments from one day to another. There is no telling what a man like that might

think up next.

The Power of Truth One hundred Italian poet and writer died. The great

event of his life was that he had been imprisoned for ten years because he was

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a contributor of dramatic criticism to nl

suspect publication and had joined a more active friend in membership in a secret so- ciety aimed against the Austrian Empire.

Silvio Pellico wrote a little book about his imprisonment. It contained no denunci- ation of conditions, no call to revolt, no railing at tyranny. It was in fact the book of a devout man. It described many peo- pies-judges, fellow prisoners and jailers- as his friends, as if, in the words of Unesco writer George Fradier, closed to him a real fraternity existing among men of such different situations."

From the prison in Venice, Pellico re- membered cspecially Zanzc. the daughter of the jailer. He wrote with tenderness of Schiller, an old keeper In the fortress of Spielberg. whose goodness he detected despite the harshness required by his occupation.

The little book, ”My Prisons" became famous throughout Europe and readers evcrywltcrc shed tears for the gentle Silvio. Thc Austrian authorities, however, regard- ed it as highly dangerous, as indeed it was. Its very simplicity and lack of invective denounccd oppression as no tirades about the rights of man could have done.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Independence Day, Ceylon. O I O

The United States now feels that the general defense buildup, and recovery among the Western Alliance partners, has reached the stage where the other mem- bers (including Canada) should carry more fof the load. As a result, sharp reductions

are being made in manpower and conven--

.tional weapons for the armed forces, en- pabllng President Eisenhower to present a

foreheads to bring good fortune during it I nearly balanced budget to Congress.

tourney. I Milk is a factor i natives of Uganda in Africa.

form the dominant class, higher than cropl1805. farmers. The Bahlmn. or ruling caste, rig-

my adheres to a diet of milk and beef. Royal milkmnida tend cows owned by the Htaml. or king: Europeans seldom view ,8u-mllkinp. and the milk always is carried gun house with great ceremony.

MI. and Korea, on the other

i n social position among Hcrdsmen novelist. was born at Manchester this date

William Harrison Ainsworth, historical

He was educated as a solicitor but met many literary and musical people, marrying one of them. He devoted the rest of his life to literature and journalism. His first and probably most successful novel was "Rookwood". the hero of which was Dick Turpin, a hlghwaymnn whose ad- ventures with his more Black Bess became

little milk. Millions of paetuxelegendary.

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misc L all his science and his only art. Our knowledge is I torch of smoky pine

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dread.

Bid, then. the tender light of faith to shine

By which alone the mortal heart is

divine.

-George Santaynna.

I The Money Market

(The Royal Bank of Canada) I

, The money market, like any. iother market, is essentially a ,means by which buy us and scllcrs Iizet together. To define what we mean by the special kind of market called the money market we have only to answer the questions tl) I "Who nre the l)li)'(l'S lill'l scllers?": and (2) "What. do they buy and I sell?" i As one might expect, the liuyel-si

"misery had dlS- . and sellers in ally money inarkctI1o3t,and 4

I are primarily financial institutions. I,The great. London moncy mtirkcl, of which Walter Bfi':fll'?.l. wrote :n I”l..ombnrd Street," runs strti of tit the Bank of Enszlantl: :2) the join:-

ful private banks along with lhc 1di'acount houses and hill brokers: (0 the large mercantile houses with money to lend from time to .tlmc: and 45) lhc stock cxclumge. some analysis would exclude the llzank of England. or any central; tbank, as properly "outside that market" tie, the ni.-irkct for blllshl Ialong with the mercantile houses land the stock cxulmnxzcs whose ', activity in the money market is in- I termittent. t In Canada no such complicated torganlzation could be anticipated tfm many yeius, In Canada, buyers and sellers will consist. primarily oil the chartered banks plus invest-. mcnt dealers and brokers. (Cor-, poi-ations and other investors would, operate in the money market; through these intermediaries.) what. is bought and sold will be primarily Treasury Bills and other short-. term government securities. I The money market is essentially a market in quick asset as here. . defined: The quick assets of banks, include Bank of Canada aunencyu deposits with the Bank of Canada, and short-term government secur- tiles: for other corporations the-oe omens represent, for the most. part balances with chartered banks and short.-term government securities Any lmpi-ovement. in our moneyt market would reaultingreatcr one In oonverltilnggovomment securities. pinto cash and vice vci-en, and in rmnkina quick nucta more fluid. This would tend to facilitate the quick flow of money to those need- lnq cam and hevim quick naetr. fi.e.. short-tenn governments) to Iell. with the flow coming from those with aurplm funds and wish- ing to purchase similar income- anming assets to hold for a short way the money

- Y mat-tum capital. to reduce the cost of doing busi- hen. Any steps towards this goal of increased mzbllity v-Hi h-'-1 cm- adian business generally and im- provd our overall abiiliv to com- pete in the world merket. especial- lly vdth countries that row have more fully develcparl money mar- km than we have-here in Canada.

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In some buaineoa schools, typlngi students are now set to copying ”A quick movement of 'the enemy could jeopardize six gunboats," in-

liszhts tlw lmtliwnr but one stem of "Now is the time for nlli Cm” Drdlmm

zood men txi come to the aid of.

war than politics. - Edmonton Journal. I

A time girl .:;. leading her little

led - veal's a o I - , . 3.1 3" 0b5CUN Unto thc thinking of the though! bmulelx blindgmldem to me movies. I A policeman was puzzled and ask-

ed if anything was the matter. "Has he hurt. his eyes?" "Oh, no," answered the girl. "We do this every Saturday when it's this sun-

iny. He keeps his eyes shut until twe gel. to the movies. then when. Stat”. Brim". France. Camdnm

we get. in. he opens his eyes andl finds seats for us in the dark." -Wall street. Journal.

The Dutch farmers have finally” won their battle agtiiiist. the scan The last. broken dike which was. torn apart. in the floods last. win-i tcr has been repaired. A year M10! the North Sea burst. through scorer.I of dikes and swept: over 130 vil- lzuzes. one thousand 800 persons: drowned, 50,000 head of cattle were 00-thousand acres of land flooded. Recently. while Queen Juliana of the Netherlands watch- ed, the last broken dike was re-! paired: '1"l1:- job is not yet. finish-I rd. for the Dutch farmers must let

m0d9Si stock banks: (3) thc more powcr- ,.m M the M... ...m,e, Mm gave;-.l,

mg some of t.

heir farm land. With- i in A short. '

tim.e however. it. is expected the land will once ngntnt e ready for farming.-Bulletin of, International Federation of AEI;'l' t culture Producers. I

In addition to acting as patron-

of the Medical Ball the other . .,.

night, Dr. Wilder Penfield gave it, '-

nubiic address before the; Old Charlottetown Aesculnpian Society of the Unlver-j -

.-ity of Ottawa. His fame as I (AM 7- 3- 1-l

brain specialist is sufficient dis- tinction for. any one man. but seemingly it. encourages his admir- or: to expect. him to shine in other ways, too. Dr. Penfleld rose admir- ably to the social occasion, and in his address he proved himself an urbane speaker with a thoulthlw ful message. Indeed, his versatility demonstrated the main point he wished to make-that hnrrl mental work and specialization are not enough: that, the most useful minds are curious. adaptable. and rational, as well no industrious. - Ottawa Citizen.

Man's ion; utrauh ID WNW" the centuries has taullht. him certain basic truths. One in nm. the things he needs dont come to him on a -plate. He ll an earner, it responsible citizen; "something for nothing" ha: I dub- ious ring. It. offends hil moral tradition. He is happier. and more comfortable. when what. he gets accrues to him through his own honest effort. "The Lord help! thou that help theuiulvcu" em- bodies a sound business proposi- tion. on earth or anywhere else. Put. the idea. another way and in iioundneao stand: out even more clearly. Why should any mm help another man who won't. even try to help himself? God's infinite mercy condone: much in the way of human w aknen and folly. But. In the God-and-man relationship, itmayboaoundbuoineutogotao the old more rather than play fast. and loose with "the hidden boundary between God's patience

- reading. Yes,

' ll pl more comfortably situated wnuldi

Pnd His wrath."-Regina Leader. Post.

T2? , Machines, a dispatch from Wash. lngton states, have been invented which not only can read. but also can write down-and to a limited extent, understand-what they're but can they rcad their oun writing? Woodstack Sentinel-Review.

Around there years no there was

as an infantry picc' to be stand- ardized among the North Atlantic Treaty forces. British arms makers had developed I .28-caliber semi- automatic rifle to displace the long-used Lee-Enflcld .303. Ameri- cxperts had im- .30-caliber Gal-arid. to

proved the

Void of mystery and the party" Just. another sign um, M t . p . h , tpeoplc are worrying more about avecizizn ey Mm. am'chcd' m" m)

emerged. Instead. sir Winston Churchill now has an- nounced that the British Govern- ment. is going to ndopt n Belgian-I designed .30 caliber self-loading rifle, and the Canadian Govern- ment. which favored the American model, is following Belgian gun, A gas-operated auto- matic. uscs 20-cart-ridge magazines of the ammunition recently nclopt-i ed as standard by the Unltrdl and Belgium. - Christian Science- Monitor. It

On the third try. an R.C.A.F. "merrv plane" has reached a starv- ing Eskimo settlement at Perry River. 1,150 miles north of Edmon- trm. It carried more than it ton. of buffalo meat and rolled outs- for the 12 Eskimo families and their sled dogs. It will tide the settlement over until better tlmcs.,

lit for the airplane. and the lm-j proved means of communication? which brought word of the nkilrns. plight. they would have died: lust, so many nameless: victims of it stern and merciless Arctic. Thatl both technical developments wercl combined with humanitarian feel-i ings. and relief dispatched, makes: easing rescue story. Cnnadlnnsi

poi, have it otherwise, whatever the cont.-Windsor Daily Star.

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MALPIQUE PIONEER.

The following item was taken from the diary of the into R. A. Sl.e4wai'i. of l-Iamilton, not ill.

"April 30-1872-ihrdllbald Mac- Kay, died this day in the Diet. year of his age. The deceased was the oldzet. inhabitant of this local- ity. perhaps tthc oldest. native of this Ialnnd which in his youthful flfiyll was a wilderness without oivumhee. schools, mills or roads.

"He was present when the first sermon was presumed in Mnhaque. at. King street. Point, under the lhlde of a blanket. He could vividly dacribe the dangers and pl-ivI.t.tono endured in the coion,v-- He was the son of Neil Macxsy who en-ilgraud fmrn Oamtpbeilton, Scotland in the your rm.-

Bleucd be the God and Father of'our Lorri Jesus Christ.

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FEBRUARY 4, 1954

The Passing Scene

By Observer THE VIEWS OF ISOCEATES

Just. what do we mean when we speak of an educated psrson? Even the top-notch cduca rs, to My nothing of lesser ones. 0 not. always give the same answer to the question. Everybody believes there is some connection between academic attainments and educa- tion. but hardly anyone would claim that-the two are identical. Education must. mean something more than accumulation of know- ledge and skills.

The Athenian philosopher Isocrates, writing in the year 4001 B. 0. had this to stay: "Whom, then do I call educated? Those who control circumstances instead of being mastered by them; these who meet. .511 occasions manfuily and act. in accordance with intel- ligent thinking; those who are hon-x ourable ln all dealings, who treat good-naturedly persons and things that are disoxreeable".

If this opinion had been writ.- ten uy thirty or forty years ago. one would hesitate to bring it up;: almost certainly it would be label-I led "old-fashioned". Because it was written more than 2000 years ago. and because for some reason there is general respect for all the philosophers of that. period, there ll no harm in giving it brief ox- amlnation.

I do not happen to have much biographical material about this man Iaocratca. The little I do have would seem to indicate that he was one of the very great teach- ers of his day. Certainly, if he poseeesed all the qualifications which are outlined in the passage quoted. he must have been one of a very aeleot. circle indeed The more likely supposition is that. like moat. other mortals in- cluding the philosophers, Isocrates did not uid could not practice what he preaetiod. Or. it may be that he was thinking of the ideal education and not. of the kind that he knew and with which he had to work in his classes of philosophy.