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-THE GUARDIAN

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MONDAY. ocronsfs. 1954

Problems oi Sovereignty

That a change from colonial status to full national independence does not neces- S3P1i)'.bring economic betterment is indi- cated in 3 i'9P0Ft from Jakarta. the capital

g of Indonesia, which shows that that coun- try's industrial and commercial sti'ength is going from bad to worse. In fact, several Concerns have announced in recent weeks that theyiare seriously thinking of going out.oi' business altogether. Included in the businesses which are unable to make ends

. meet are manufacturers of radios, bicycles, ironware, leather articles, and cigarettes. They blame their economic plight on the

. Government's lack of foreign exchange and

' its Practice Of granting licenses for import of luxury goods in preference to the raw materials needed in the factories.

The present Government of Indonesia headed by Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo,

rcame to power 3. little more than 3, yeaw figo on a pledge to hasten the ”nationa1jz- ing” of the country's political status and to Wipe Out ail vestiges of former Dutch con- trol. But, although the population has in. creased from 70 millions to 80 minions since the end of the Second World War, im- ports of the necessary raw materials have dwindled considerably with consequent un- employment and economic dislocation. The situation is so unsatisfactory that some in- fluential groups are beginning to lament the good old days” when the country was 9. Dutch colony. Mohammed Rum, leader of the Moslem opposition, following the ex- ample of opposition leaders everywhere, says that Government policy has failed completely. He adds that the great need is for more confidence on the part of for- eign investors in the country's economy, aided by a reduction in Governmental "red- tape.”

There may be some truth in Mr. Rum's complaint; but he, and Mr. Sastroamidjojo too, will find out in due course that sov- ereignty brings new problems as well as new privileges. .The right of self-govern- ment in Indonesia, as in other countries where political independence is a new pos- session, can be an aid to better living con- ditions, but Only when it is accompanied by.sound economic and political practices which are based on something stronger and more logical than mere bitterness towards former colonial status. The Indonesians, whether under the leadership of the pres- ent Premier or that of Mr. Rum, if and when he comes to office, would do well to retain all that was good about the Dutch way of doing things and incorporate it into their own plans for their country's future.

Hurricane Hunters

In storm season from June through No- vember, United States Navy and Air Force hurricane hunters may make more than 100 hair-raising flights into a tempest's "eye", the National Geographic Society says. It's been described as "riding a roller coaster on a rough track through a wind tunnel with cold water pouring down the neck." Few peacetime assignments match this job in hazard-or in usefulness. Death tolls show why it's more than worth the risk.

In 1928, for example, before the Joint Hurricane Warning System existed, an un- expected storm pushed a 12-foot wall of water over Lake Okeechobceis edge in southern Florida. Deaths totaled 1,836. But in 1949, when another hurricane fol- lowed virtually the same path across Flor-

2-ida with equal winds, only two persons '"were killed. Chief difference was enough -'warning for evacuation, . Granddaddie of all modern hurricanes. fin terms of physical destruction, was the 11938 storm that hit New England like a colossal electric shaver, felling forests in iswaths, chewing through cities, coating -Vermont farmhouses with sea spray. Its 'toll of about 600 lives ranks far from the highest, however. A! late as 1935, the ,Red Cross reported that major hurricanes 'were killing an averzige of 500 people each. 'In 1930, some 2,000 were killed in Santo 'Domingo. Thirty years before, Galveston, 35-Texas, was totally wrecked with 6,000 peo- v' pie killed in one storm. More than 100,000 , died as the result of I hurricane in India '-in 1876. A mature hurricane is a huge whirling platter of destruction and deluge, only a ,, few miles high but hundreds of miles across. ',"Its winds can surpass 150 miles per hour linear the center.. It can lift two billion '.-.tons of water vapor from the sea in 24 ' hours and dump it all back as rain. its en- ergy expend: itself It In estimated 500 trillion horsepower-the equivalent of sev-

thousnd atomic bombs exploding each

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second.

Scientists are still unsure just how and why a hurricane begins. Somewhere in the hot, still doldrums, between the north- east and southeast trade winds, such trop- ical whiripools of air usually are born. And into such maelstroms fly wind-battered planes to learn each storm's force and di- rection, take meteorological readings in the "eye" itself, radio back the priceless data to the Warning Centre, and fight their way home again. Some day, such instruments as earthquake-reading

,over the hurricane hunters! job. iing used to track the great storms.

i the many.

Extending lladar chains

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ted States are planning a distant

built in the Canadian North beyond the Arctic Circle. third radar chain set up by the two govern- ments and the farthest north.

years ago and is largely completed and in

population and production areas. two-nation affair.

along the farthest extent of rail and truck supply routes. The McGill Fence is a coni- pletely Canadian effort.

ing long-range jet bombers.

driven, were capable of only 300.

ious hours provided by the system.

EDITORIAL NOTES

"Canadals Next 25 Years.” . . C

There is a world championship plowing match starting in Ireland todayf In Kil- larney all this week plowmen from Beigiuni, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Ger- many, Great Britain, Holland, Ireland, Nor- way, Pakistan, Sweden and the United States will strive for plowing supremacy.

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U. S. estimates of potato production this year are almost identical with average con- sumption figures. There is considerable doubt, however, about the keeping quali- ties of much of the crop and quotations for delivery in April and May are selling al most one cent a pound higher than those for shipment immediately.

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France and Britain are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Entente Cordiale which was largely brought about through the exertions of King Edward VII. Al- iii0'llZi1 originally merely a recognition of their respective interests in Egypt and SMorocco, the friendly relations so estab- l lished helped to see the two nations through

two world wars. 1 3 0 I 1

Bryan Waller Proctor, English poet, died this date 1874. A successful solicitor in London. he contributed to the l..itei'ary Gazette and made the acquaintance of Lamb. Leigh Hunt, Browning and Swin. bum. He wrote a biography of Lamb. Un- der the pseudonym of Barry Cornwall he produced a play, which was I failure, and "English Songs and other Smaller Poems" which is the principle reason for his being remembered.

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like many a farmer on the Canadian

prairies, Lord Clifford of Ugbrocke Park,

storage problem this fall. He harvested about fifty tons of graln- -most of it damp

it and store it. space, he thought of his mansion which was standing empty. ford live in another house nearby).. So, notes an exchange, the harvest now lies I

big old house. been removed and stored elsewhere. some of the lamest. pictures-of lord Clif- ford's ancestors-remain on the wslls, gIz- ing down Irlstocraticslly ma sadly on -this final indignity. ' J

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seismographs and long-range radar will be adequate to take Within 300 miles of the coast, radar already is' be- " But lfor greater distances and longer warnings, the task of first meeting the hurricanes still fails to the lonely few who stand guard for

A joint declaration by the two govern- ments has stated that Canada and the Uni- early warning (DEW) line of radar stations to be

The DEW line will be the

The first, or Pinetree Chain, which was begun four

operation, was built just north of Canadian It was a The second, the McGill Fence, is located somewhat farther north.

The need for a new line of warning sta- tions as far north as possible, notes the Montreal Gazette, is the result of the Sov- iet Union's remarkable progress in develop- The new Red bombers which were displayed on May Day of this year are judged capable of 600 miles an hour. Earlier Red bombers, propeller- This means that the amount of warning time provided by present systems has been cut in half. The new system of radar chains is designed to provide earlier warning of the approach of hostile planes across the north. However, it cannot function effectively as long as Canadian cities are neither equipped nor trained to take .advantage of the prec-

The Canadian Chamber of Commerce annual meeting opens in Halifax today. This ”parliament of business" which repre- sents some 700 Boards of Trade and Chain- bers of Commerce, will have as its theme,

Chudleigh, Devon, England, had a grain

-from his estate and hadinowhere to dry Casting around for suitable

(He and Lady Clif- foot deep in all the principal rooms of the

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Watch

( London

Standing on the gallery at the top of Big Ben, the whole of London stretches before you. The Thames winds away to Windsor and on I clear day you can see. the Round Tower of Windsor Castle. The question you ask yourself is: how were these great bells and the clock ever brought up this great height in days when there was no automatic lifting machinery? The answer is -by hand. A series of platforms were built and Big Ben was haul- ed up by hand from one to the next. But that belongs to the stormy story of Big Ben itself.

It. all began in 1834 when the old Houses of Parliament were burnt down. Ninety-seven archi- tects then sent in 400 designs for I new Parliament. Mr. Charles Barry. later Sir Charles, was chos- en for the job and his design provided for I clock tower. In 1844 he was granted permission to put. in I suitable clock and this clock was to be I really great affair.

The Astronomer-Royal laid down certain conditions and specifica- tions, and twotenders were sub- mitted. that of E. J. Dent being-. sccepted in May. 1852. 'As a re- feree to see that the unuual con- ditions were compiled with an ad- judicator was appointed to act with the Astronomer-Royal. This adjudicator was an eminent bar- rister named Edmund Denison. who combined in knowledge of law with that of mathematics, clocks. bells, astronomy. and arch- lllccture. Eventually this work was carried out by Denison alone.

E. .1. Dent did not live to sec lhe completion of the clock. lie dicd in 1353. and the clock was finished in 1854 under the direc- tion ot his stepson, Frederick. The tower was not ready. however, and for four years the clock tick- ed in the factory that had been specially built for its manufac- tiire.

With the excitement. of build- ing the clock no one had remem- bered about the bells. A fourteen- ton bell had been specified, but such an enormous bell hind never before been cast In Britain. Thc four quarlcr bells could be cast quite easily in London. but the big one hurl to he made in the north at Stockton-on-Tr-,es. Then they made it too big-sixteen tons -and it. had to go by sea. A great storm blew up and with such in heavy caign the vessel nearly fnumlercd. However, the bell wa- finnlly delivered in. London anzl hoisted on n cal.-gallows in West- minster Palace Yard for testing. For I long time it was struck with a hammer to bring out the tone. Then suddenly it groanenl, rracked. and collapsed. It had to be taken away and broken up.

A new bell was cast almost per- fectly, not quite fourteen tons, but

with the intended note E. The ycnr was now 1858. and Ill L0"- rlnn was out to see lhe bell

brought in triumph to )Vestmln- ster. It came on I cart drawn by sixteen white horses with the U1- lon Flag flying above it. the streets filled with cheering people The first bell had been christen- ed Big Ben Ifter the Commis- siom-,r of Works, I big man nam- ed Sir Benjnmln Hall. This name wss handed down to its successor.

In Big Ben H was hoisted up The clock wu assembled and then-terrible mm-climax -- it

would not go. Londm. assisted by a cartoon In Punch had I good lsugh, but Donison more determlned than ever to see his clock I success. He found the trouble in the hnnds of the clock. They were too heavy, so hm.- hId mm: from l.ubulIi- copper new sets of minute hands, the hour funds being found unsuc- tory. On llfny 31. 1859. live your: after the clock had be6n com- pletsd.'Il began its service from Big Ben tows:-. . '

The cioek'I troubles were yet. over. however. After two months it beams Iilanl. Th-

bcll Big In wu oi-Ickcd. that minor IgIln- being too honvy. final of bringing, the lull down to uchf groundl IgIln' may cut twee chips from it in otCOI' to Insiyu an mom. Lam It was decided to curry on with

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Big Ben's Centennial

Calling)

throughout the world is I cracked voice. At. first it was unpopular. Some called it 'the hoarse, gong- llke roar of I brazen fiend.' and from time to time efforts have been made to have Big Ben re- moved and replaced by I wholv: bell. But this is never likely to happen. Big Ben's voice, though imperfect, is too well known, too full of history and memories, to be taken away now.

Big Ben has survived amazing- ly all sorts of trials since. Stop- pngcs have been caused by work- men's ladders resting in the wrong place, and during the great freeze of the, winter of 1946-47 the cold caused the chiming of one of the quarter bells to stop. In Aug- ust, 1949, about fifty starlings settled on the minute hand and made it four-and-a-half minutes slow. But the clock's closest call occurred on May 10, 1941. when I bomb landed on roof of the House of Commons and destroyed the chamber. Something also hit the belfry and the glass of the dials was shattered. Yet this amazing clock continued to strike only one and I half seconds be- hind Greenwich.

Big Ben In its hundred wonder- ful years has become much more than I clock. A mystique has grown up around it. To the, peo- ple of the Commonwealth it has a special meaning. It has been called their signature tune. Like

a girdle round the, family of na- tions. bringing them closer to- gether. I constant and appealing link.

The Minister's Vests

(Ottawa Journal)

The Prime Minister turned up recently wearing a colored vest and this was the first break in the overcast of the dark clothing of Prime Ministers which has hung over Parliament Hill since Confed- eration. Mr. King was never with- out. his starched cuffs Ind the clothing to match and Mr. Bennett felt half-dressed without I stiff Collar: sir Wilfred Laurier prefer- red his long dark Prince Albert coat and if Sir John A. Mncdonnld had bright ties to match his bright words we never heard of the . , ,If the modern ministers would accept Mr. st. Lriurenlfl lead and vie with each other in the Idem- ment of gay vests. they would It.- tract in flattering amount. of public attention, far more than they would ever gain by introducing the best. piece of legislation in history.

It takes ll man of parts to wear a colored vest to good advantage and nothing is so silly I: I lean scullion with colored cloth flut- tering about his ribs. But the Prime Minister has men Ibout. him who are," well, not. lean. 5n salmon or pink or cherry they would, we swear. be magnificent for the color cameras about the-council table.

ARUNDEL. lngllnd (GP)-Sam Knight, '73, and I-fury Marsh, 71, built I two-storey house in this Sussex town "Just for something to do." They stsrted building last May.

the Crown itself. its voice throws 1382

. ing I hundred feet. long which has

cownau. Music There is a bell Iround the neck of

the cow,

Around the neck of the int cow in the line

who climbs the sloping hillside pasture now.

Tied to this music the cow begins to climb.

And bell notes spill on grass Ind

berry vine, Bell notes sail out put bush Ind pasture wire Into the road, into the human ear. The cat bird singing in the uncut

bay

Cuts off his song. or if he flies Iway

The sound of wings in lost Igslnst the sound

Of tinkling cowbell music dancing down

The cowpath, down the hillside

everywhere Into the loveLv listening valley sir.

-Elizabeth Jane Astley in The Christian Science Monitor.

Old Charlottetown

IndP.l.L

MILLS AND FACTOR!!! From The Examiner, Sept. 11.

i "Among the latest uupi-oveme is in dsirying introduced here are the cheese factories. There are, so fIr, but three on the Island-one It York. one at Cornwall. and one in Lot 49; but they are certain to be- come more common . . .

"crapaud is well supplied with excellent mills, having no less than four viz.: Collewg. Sl.urdy's LIird's. and liowstils. They. are all supplied with French Burrs and other appliances for turning out first-class flour. Messrs. Collett and Hawaii. have saw and carding mills fitted up in the most Ippi-oved manner with clrculu Ind other saws. Mr. Bradford Howntt, whose mill property is It Ci-apnud Corner. is building a fine substantial new house. and Mi-. Coliett is putting up I rather mysterious new build-

been dubbed the Station House.

"Besides Mr. l-Iowst.t's mill property. there are It CrIpsud corner two blacksmith shops, two harness shops. two tailors, two shoe- maker: and I steam carriage fuc- mry. The thriving village of Hamp- ton, about two miles east of Crap- nud Corner, contains two forges, an agricultural implement factory. and a tanncry."

The Age Old Story

Let this mind be in you, which wu Ilsa In Christ Jesus.

EASILY RECOGNIZED The haddock, an important At- lantic food fish, is mnrkcd by I black line lengthwise Ilong -its side.

Charlottetown.

39 September. I954.

position vnlu till his bosons

Department of Public Works & Highways Province of Prince Edward Island

NOTICE

- Effective immodiafol , one mile of ifho Trans Canada Highway CORNER towards CORNWALL will be clos- ed to traffic, until further notice. for con- . sfrucfion and curing of concrete pavsrnoni.

oousALo Macl(lNNON. Minister of Public Works 8: Highways.

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Pigs 4 , The, Guardian

The first British Commonwenith Division hu colebrntsd is third birthday. It hII spam. I 0 whole of in brief but glorious cucsri

Korea, and the, governments of the United Kingdom, Caiada. Austnlln Ind New Zeslarid will soon hIve, to settle its future. It had no pIrIllel nor precedent in Impei-iIl or Commonwealth his- tory. but.under Major General (now Lieutenant General Sir James) Cassels and his two suc- ceuors, both drawn from the Bri- tish Army, It has made its own high traditions.

But it was partly accidental that the Commonwealth contribu- tions to the Korean task force three years ago were neither too large nor too small to justify the new division. The query now, with clrcu tances changing, is whe- ther it is going to be allowed to disintegrate.

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The division proper was lately some 18.000 strong. roughly' half of its men coming from the Un- itcd Kingdom. CInIdI provides the second largest contingent-one infantry brigade, I. Iqusdron of Royal Canadian Dragoons, Ind I regiment of artillery. Australia has sent two battalions and an important part of the divisional engineer regiment; New Zeslsnd is represented by I regiment of artillery.

The governments concerned In now ailhnrd pressed for military

under United NItionI comnnnd in-

The Commoriweallh Division

(Londoii TIIIGI) 'i

mInpower..They have topexsmlna

two Iepu-Ito questions. . I . Commonweslth division 1uItlflIble now? And, if It. in, II Koran the only possible place for lls employment? Plainly I Koi-ear commitment will remain for sum: tlms to come. though presumably the Commonwealth forces, ilk. those of the United States, wlu 0. somewhat tbs months pass. But what of the Commonwealth Division; as such? Ought it not to be brought more closely into touch with the de- fence srrangements on the south- east Asian mainland, now or in the early future? .' n I O I i'

reduced In

Government is bound to card: special weight. It is one thing to semi Canadian troops to serve in Korea. It the request of the Un- ited 'NItlons, Ind another ft agree. to their employment with

between Hanoi and Singapore. Cnnsdlan representation in division is important: its loly, might be I mortal blow. ' ' Then ll I general desire that the Commonwealth Division shnll continue. Is In active link be tween peoples and armies. And. since all its three divisional com- manders have come from the. Un-- ited Kingdom. it is much to on hoped that Msjor General Mur-

ray's successor may be found from the Canadian or the Au trsllun army. I

I NOTES BY

Autumn Ihowen In more ef- fective than hurricanes but they get no publicity.-Guelph Mercury.

no new president of Brazil collects stuffed InimIlI. in con- ti-Ist to the mljority of govern- ment leaders who find themselves surrounded by stuffed shirts.- Hsmllton Spectator.

We like Mr. Bell's telephone company, but why. oh why, does it persist in using those mov- able poles that chose, Ind wreck innocent cars?-Chsthsm News.

An Interior decanter Iuyl homo is Is comfortable In its furniture. Every man should buy his wife a comfortable couch for him to sprawl on.-Quebec Ch'ronicle-Tele- graph.

11 I gl.rl's name into be given to sve,ry hurricane that come! along from now on. Iooner or ist- er someone in gain! 10 b0 031' ban-used by In ever-narrowing choice of names.-Fort William Times-Journal.

Many of the comics In funn- less in themselves except for the bad grammar which is not much worse than some, children hear It home all the time. There is, how- ever, another kind of comic which certainly could hardly come under the heading of "good readlniz". in fact should never even be classed as reading material. -- Listowcl Banner.

The United Kingdom Labor KW- ernment was embarrassed by I peanut growing project in Africa when the peanuts did not STOW- Now the Conservative government is embarrassed by its program

for growing more pigs at home being so successful that farms are overloaded and bacon factories can't handle any more.-Ottawa Journal. -

No hanknble security

1. Phone or stop in.

THE WAY

Connecticut Ind Mnunohulefll have definitely adopted rubbst roads, and 15 other states hsvt made experimental lnstIllItionI.-4 Chnthsm Daily Ne,ws. .

Latin motto on his desk. Trans- lated, it says "Speak softly, but carry I big stick." Strictly for da- fence, we presume.-Fort William Times-Journal.

The fellow whose wife, in final! courting. wrote in his Iutogrlph book, "Yours 'l.il Niagara falls". since Niagara started falling.- Portland Oregonian.

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