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Dr. Iiuang‘s Testimony
(‘ommilnist propagandists are fond of siiying that they are not against religion, as such. but only against politicilly mind- ed ccclcsiastics who identify religion with the capitzilislic systcni. They go LVEH furth- Pi‘ and .<;i_\' that in countries where they liziic pilllllt'Jll power freedom of religion is. ll\‘.~‘Lll‘i‘(l. 'l‘lic utter falsity of these claims has been proycii time and time again by (‘hi'lsti;iii li‘2|ilf‘l\ in every country where (‘oiiiiiiiiiiimi is in control. The latest wit- ness in llt‘£ll‘ lcstiniony against them is Dr. liuamz. formcr Bisliop of Yunkwel in South
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Di". lliizinz is now in the l"nited States irlicrc his lvonk "Now I Can Tell", whiciil sets forth his cxpcrieiices as a piisoner of‘ thc (‘oiiiimii.‘.P:s, was published a month or‘, so zico. .\t a llllii‘ll(‘0li held in his honour‘ on the diiy of thc book's ptihlicaticn he toiii. _illSl how little (‘oinniunist promises of free- dom are worth. ‘'In China in 1944 and 1.045", Dr. Huang said. “the Communists pi-oniiscd proteciioii of Church people and (‘hurl-li }if‘(i[)t‘l'i)' and freedom of religion. At thc same timcs firc wooden boxes were put up into which the names of persons suspccterl of oppositioii to the Government might be dropped, without the signatures of lhc at-cii.<ci's. My name was put in one of the lioxcs, and I was arrested".
Aftcr Dr. Huang had been subjected to c\'nry posslllli‘ humiliation and much physi- cal tormcnt a Communist official came to him with this proposal: “O teacher, if you are willing to come with us we will put all religions. including: the Moslem. under you.” There was, however, a little hitch in this sccmin_i:l_v gcncrous proposal; the bishop was to be permitted to do anything, except preach the Christian gospel. Not being willing to pay such ii price for freedom and powcr. Dr. Iluang was taker. back to prison where for several weeks he was obliged to stand with 19 others ill a small wooden cage. “I learned to sleep, stand-
ing," he says. When he was so ill" that thc (‘ommiinisls thought he was near death he was carried back to his own house. Later, having recovered a little
from his physical illness and injuries, he nianagcd, with the aid of a woman ‘truck who happened to he a Christian
tlrircr, From there he went
to escape into Burma. to the United States. _ u
"I do not rcszret my 9XD91'19“C§- D“ lliiang told his American audience, “it help- cd nic to understand human suffering. You do not appreciate freedom until deprived of it."
hdiicl-i|_iie~s;T:hions
\'iet Minh, the Communist dragon that swallowed Dicn Bien Phu, menaces not. just one but thrcc. Indochinese nations. For. as a l\‘ational Gcograpi'iic Society bulletin points out. Indochina today is R £<90El1‘3PhlC namc rather than a political entity. Actual- ly at stake are three quite distinct, virtual- ly inrlcpcnrlcnt countries-—\"iet Nani, Laos. and (‘:iiiiborlin.
M051 populous by far, \'iot Nam holds the richest prizes and already has seer. eight years of fighting. As a whole. lnd0- china's lhrcc States, mcmbcrs of the French 'f'nion, corcr a third more territory than France itsclf. Placed on the east coast of the I,'nitcd States. they would reach from Maine to Gcorizia and inland beyond me Appalacliians. '
Viet Nam has hccn described as t\vo baskets of rice hung from a shoulder pole of mountains. On the northern Red River delta around Hanoi. and in the far south on the plains of the Mekong River around Saigon, a majority of Viet Nam‘s.25.000.~ ‘iflfi people are crowded into rice,-rich low- lands. Between stretch the ions: Fuilged Annamcsc mountain ranl-’.6S- Viet Nam means “People of the South." It is a Chi- nese term. and from China. down the cen- turies. came much of Viet Nam':.: language. religion, and culfiire. Similarly Viet Minh. the Communists‘ name. means "Association of the People." Generally speaking. Viet Nam now holds the rice bowls and Viet Minh the limestone mountains and wild jungles. Most gravely threatened is the triangular Red River delta. With more than 1.400 people to the square mile, it is one of the world's most crowded areas.
Vietnamese defcndcrs, aided by the French. have ringed the delta and Hanoi with hundreds of strong points. Here may be fought the next KY9“ MW’. 88 ‘hi-' Viet Minh, under Moscow-trained Ho Chi Minh,-switches its infiltrating hit-and-run
tactic: to outright assault. West. of the
mountain spine. Laos and Cambodia. are lands of differing peoples and cultures, more closely related to Thailand, Burma, and ancient India than to Viet Nam with its Chinese influences.
Laos, ofttimes called the “Land of a Million Elephants", is a kingdom of Thai tribes who speak the same language as
northern Siamese. Peaceful, unhurried, and :-
natiirally friendly, they number little more than a million: Laos, twice the size Pennsylvania, has only half as many iii-
habitants as Pittsburgh's metropolitan’ area. " Their king is named Sisavang Vong. Viet ~ Minh forces invaded Laos in 1953, but were ;
stopped by French troops flown to the royal Communists /3 control today chiefly a slice of northeast- 5 ern Laos just across the border from Dien 5
capital of Luang Prabang.
Bien Phil.
Cambodia, the southern kingdom water- ed by the Mekong River and facing the Gulf of Siam, has had almost no trouble with Communist rebels so far.
the magnificent tempted city of Angkor. Today they number about 3,750,000. lnd0china's crisis lies partially in the fact that six times as many people live in Viet I\'am, with its two rice bowls, as ir. Laos and Cambodia combined. Should Viet Nam fall, its two neighboring States would find it increasingly difficult to stand alone.
The Great Prerogative Writs
Counsel for a New Brunswick service station operators‘ association has applied for a writ of certiorari to obtain a review of an appellate decision which failed to en- force an early-closing by-law. The bar of that Province has long been noted for its ready use of the great prerogative writs of habcas corpus, certiorari, prohibition, man- damus, quo warranto, and ne exeat regno, although in fact they are common to all Provinces having the Common Law tra- dition.
Their purpose was to provide for super- intendence over the due observance of the law by officials and others. No one, high or low, could .exercise official powers with- out having to answer for sins of omission or commission. Those who neglected their duty and those who overstepped their authority found that the Courts could step in and insist that right he done.
The simplification of the rules of prac- tice in the courts, together with a consid- erable broadening of the statutory right of appeal have made it possible to obtain most of the remedies ordinarily required with- out resort to what are apt to be consider- ed antique proceedings. What is given by statute, however, can be taken away by statute and it. is not unknown for an in- dividual suffering injustice to be deprived of the modern methods of redress.
The old prerogative writs remain the means by which the Courts can enquire into the legality of almost any official act. They are a safeguard against the possible abuse of power and the New Brunswick bar does a valuable service in keeping alive the tra- dition of resorting to their use.
EDITORIAL NOTES
Birthday of H. M. the Queen. I
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Secretary of State Dulles is far from being a Churchill but there is effectiveness
in his phrase about Communists dragging their feet at Geneva while intensifying thei"
war effort in Indo-China.
The army is counting largely on the C. W. A. C. reserve to do much lit its anti- aircraft, work. according to Lt.-Gen. Guy Simonds, chief of general staff. The reg- ular army employs men to do many tasks which in case of emergency must. be taken over by women. _
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Legislation is before Parliament to give effect to the Dominion-Provincial agree- ment to leave control of inter-provincial highway traffic to provincial transport boards. For the time being, at least, there will be no Federal system of highways but the situa ion can be changed by simple act
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Charles John I-luffan Dickens, English novelist, died this date 1870. His father, a navy pay clerk, was improvident and spent two years in ii debtors’ prison, a period which made it mark upon the son but also furnished him with it first hand acquaintance with ii life of poverty. The young Dickens spent a year in a solicitors‘ office and then became a parliamentary reporter. By the age of 22 he was tum- lng out work of creative genius, sketches of contemporary manners, and was com- missioned to write ii series of sporting nov- els of humorous character. The project fell through and instead he created the im- mortal "Pickwick Papers.” He wrote many and varied works but left “The Mystery of Edwin Drood" unfinished.
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K Cambodians are Khmer peoples, descended from the ’ civilization that built, over 1,000 years ago, .
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I'M: column in open to the discussion by curresponilenhi of questions of Interest. The Gunrilinn tloea not ncccssiir- ily endorse the opinion of correspond:-iits.
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Sir.~I was impresscii with that frontpagc story in your May 29 issue, giving the l).B.S. I‘SllTll-'|l.l"’ representing growers’ intention. to plant potatoes this year.
Apart entirely from the inter- esting fact that, Ilf.‘(‘0l(llllK to the
estimates, there slmiiio he .’f-t,.'l(l0 acres sown to potatoes in your island as against a follllilfllll pctato-sown area on the (fami-
dian Prairies nudging 46,500 acres
I noted that, under noim. wea- ther conditions, we could iare I 1954 Canadian p of a t o crop
amounting to (52.7 million bushels; to he coniiiistrd with .1 pii.~sihl.'- U. S. potato crop of 347 million bushels this same year.
The feature which strikcs thi.- reader as curious, to say the least.
is that with more than l!‘li times our population, our .‘\l‘ll(‘l"lC:lil neighbors grow not much moic
than five times our potato bush clage yet, according lu my l'f‘£‘ttl- ing, the so-called “surplus potato hqadaclie" is getting the spotlight as A potential danger south of the l.nc.
It 5f‘l‘ff\! to me that thrre is logic and Pt‘OfI0n\Il’ priidr-ni-c in those closing words of the IlIl0\"'
feature article, (‘\illf'd from an analysis of the above DES fig- ures on "groivr-r.=' intentions to
plant potatoes this ciirrcnt year", and which (‘€‘liillI\l_\' mcrii the stufly of the |.i'iiii:ir_v pro(liii'ci"- immediately concerned: "It is sull- gcsted that growers analy'1.e thesi- figures before committing tlicm-
selves to loo large an acreage, hrnvily fertilized." Apparently, in terms of yoiii
potatoes as in our prriiric whoa’. quality has tcmplcd lmih groups of growers to put too many egg; in ii mingle basket. l-lowevcr. there iii one lispcct in which the ‘balance’ of advantage moves dc- finitcly to the side of thc wlicni growers — l.e.. in the lll:Ill(‘l" of storability. This is I \'lll'|l fl|lit‘l‘- cnlinl. On the other hand, I feel that the laboratory and the re- search workers should he put, to work on the indilstrinli'/.niioi\ of the potato into new iiscs and iii- edible tonnage. This -‘is the ‘cs- rape hatch’. I think it should he somebody‘: business to build it! I am. Sir, rtrx.
\\'ESTl-IRNER DRINK Jr 'l‘HE CHURCH MEMBER
Sir.—Drliik in strict niodcratior. would not be harmful but iiic trouble is it so often runs into -x- ceas. Here in Canada there are 53.- 000 alcoholics. find one cannot. know what he will turn out to b: except through experience. I llV€J two years in the home of ii maxi whole fnther was a medical doctox, I. moderate drinker. His son Charlie began early and ultimately became an iiicohollc. His wife, ii iiplend;d woman, left him, and then Charlie went quite to the dogs, It was In thousand pliies. for Charlie had fine qualities, I. rciii good-hearted fellow. Fortunately, they had no children.
The liquor traffic is too largely supported by church members. one moderate drinking church member especially an elder ,1; worth a great deal to the traffic. The interest: are saying, "If only we can get the men of influence in the church we will line no difficulty in getting the boys." 1 know u vllllge where the father: drank moderately, most of them church members. In each family one or more sons followed the fcther'A eumple. But through drink aiouwr came, In one cue the son fnlled in business. In an- other A non committed suicide. in another A home broke up and div- orce followed.
Juua loved people, and yearned for their ulvnion, well the danger: that beset. the path of young people he warned "who- ever causes one who believes in me to go astray it were better for him that 1 milistone were hanged About hit neck and be cut. into the in." Let it never be ntd of us that we coined one of Jesus‘ own to go astray!
I vim. Sir. ctr. W. I. GREEN
such as nine days for the Speech
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A committee of the Commons is understood to have worked out. certain rules and procedures to shorten Pai'iianient‘.s sessions. Two of the proposed changes it is said, \\'ill be (It I limit of 30 iiiiiiutcs for speeches tthe present limit. is 40 minutes) and 12> set. periods for debate on certain n1..-asuies,
from the Throne and eight. days for the budget. Now there can be no doubt that
sarily long, and equally no doubt that uiiixcccssarily long sessioiis diminish public interest in Parlia- mcnt. which in A bad thing. But The Journal ventures to suggest that when it. comes to tinkering witll Parliament, with its rulcs, procedures and privileges, the Comnlolls should move with cau- linn. . . .
A popular indictment. of parlia- mentary institutions is that. they are "inefficient", that they involve too much talk, that they do not "got things done on time“. This indictment. we used to hear per- sistently in the heyday of Muse- liiii and Hitler. These gentlemen, we were told, were hacking their way through checks and balances. H(‘l‘l' Hitler prosperiiig Germany because he could use push-buttons. lll'lfl Signor Mussolini. using the sonic short.-cut. methods, making the trains run on time.
But the world was to discover that this business of hacking through checks and balances, of dispensing with talk and dissent. was not all that it was criickcd up to be— that too often it. meant hacking through human lives and values. And so today we are not so sure of these push- button methods; have learned that. in the long run, rcgzirdlesa of frustrations and inconveniences, the business of allowing men to speak and of compelling other men to answer is a pretty good way of doing things.
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That being ii lesson of cxpci'i- cnce, should we not be wary of tinkering with such a. system? Of doing anything that might limit the freedom of men in Parliament to call for redraw of grievances, to check the pretensions and some- times the conceits of ministers. and to continue their historic duty of auditing the Queen‘; estimates? Parliament is and should be 3 sort. of "safety valve" for the voicing of opinion «right or wrong) in the constituencies.
It is the belief fit The Journal, which has watched Parliament ii long time, that long speeches and debates are not the chief reason for uniicce-ssarlly long sessions, but. rather the failure of Govern-
in.:*nt.5 to organize Parliament’: business. There in no reason whatsoever
why meiuurea mentioned in the Speech from the Throne should not be placed before the House within in week or 10 day: of their announcement. Actufilly—-and this has happened under all govern- ment5— such meuurcs are de- layed for months, and, in Addi- tlon, there Are other measures not mentioned in the Speech from the Throne which come even later. As
Parliament‘: sessions are ufl1lcCe5- '
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a result the House goes on debating a particular piece of business— miirking time. as it wei'e—bccause the Government has placed noth- ing else before it.
We think that. this weaknes, the failure of the Government to organize its legislation, is what should be dealt with if Parliament's work is to be made more efficient and its sessions shortened.
Old Charlottetown
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The Presbyterian. July.3, 1884: Mr. Mccourt has resui-ried the publication of The Advertiser. not in Georgetown, however, but in this city.
We are informed that Mr. M. W. Murphy, teacher, Millcove, shot A Falcon last. Friday evening, which measured four feet. from tip to tip. This is an extremely rare bird on the Island. Prof. Earle. vrho in in the best. position to know. says flint it is but the third which has been shot during the past eighteen years.
Messrs. Michael Egan and Angus Desfioches, who had the contract for taking down the old Fire Bell and putting up the new, have suc- ceufully and satisfactorily per- formed the work. The new ball is a breat improvement on the old. but many think it is not the thing yet.
Mr. Arthur Newberry has return- cd from Halitax, where he went to procure, if possible, a person skilled in horticulture to take charge of our contemplated pub. llc garden. He was successful in obtaining a gardener, George Fletcher. Who is now actively at work.
The Age Old Story
And David my servlnt aha‘! lu- klrlt over them; And they All shall luvs one shepherd: they I'll" also walk In my Judgments. And ohiierve my iitatutea, and do them.
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The but after dinner speaker in the one who prepares hi: speech is carefully as he would if he thought some one was going to be listening. —-Hamilton spectator.
Giving vent to bad temper when you feel it is a way of avoiding high blood pressure. any: a. medi- cal columnist. Yes. but what about the high blood pressure it causes in other people? —Petcrborough Examiner.
'l'Alloyrnnd. who was Napoleon‘! foreign minister, once defined I diplomat I: "A man who never targets a woman‘: anniversary, but never remembers her age." ——-Hamilton Spectator.
The British nroidcuting Cor- poration has a new type of mobile TV camera which it calls the “Roving Eye". It is said to be quite in success. Many E husband with the same sort of equipment has found it costly. Cornwall Standard - Freeholder.
The EdIllI)|Il'|Il Evening Tele- graph tells the story of a sailor who was being shown by a land- lubber how to put. a battleship into a bottle. "That's nothing". the s:iilor said. after seeing the trick, “You should try getting in bottle into ii battleship!" —l~iamilt.on Spectator.
In Georgia A jeweler named Kay paid $500 for it budgie named Jo.,'o. JoJo's job was to repeat the store slogan, "It's okay to owe Kay." All went. well for a time but then the blidizie switched to "It's okay to own Jo.ln." Evidently the rascal thinks of going in business for himself. ~'I‘. W. Jones in Toronto Star. 4
In your little drilling Aufferlng from TV teeth? The British Den- tal Association has warned par- enta that. children have the habit of \\'.'ll.f'llilig television with their heads in their hands. When they get excited they press harder and hagdcr. The pressure may cause the teeth to go out of proper align- mcnt. The cure should not. be too difficult. Turn off the television set, firmly and bravely. and boot. the little angcls out into the sun- shine where they belong! And in the evening make them sit. without. any support. for their heads ex- cept their necks. That's what necks are for. —Clcvcland Plain Dealer.
Fnncolui Sum. who in 18. graduated from a Paris High school last. year and because she did irell in literiatui-e decided to write ii novel. When she completed it, she sent it to Julliaril. the publish- era. Ten days later she received a letter telling her the novel had been accepted. It tells the story of
a girl who tries to prevent her widowed father from rcmarrying. She succeeds, but uiiivmingly
causes the death of the woman she did not want. as stepmother. ’I'he novel is entitled Bonjour, Trislesscl (Good Morning, Sad- ness!) —f-familton spectator.
Absent-nylndedncsii is an Af- Illction often associated scleiitlsts. professors. philosophers and the like, but seldom with pick- pockets—-perhaps because they can- not afford it. At. least, that seems to be the conclusion cniphaslzcd in the case of M. Lefevre. of Char- leroi, Belgium. Lcfcvrc entered ii home where ii party was going on and “llfted" A wallet from in proa- perous-looklng gent. Hearing n commotion just. as he was about to leave he threw away what. he thought. to be the stolen wallet. Instead it was his own blllfold. which contained his name, pic- ture and address. This niistake is now costing Lefevrc eight months in jail. —Syd.sveii.skn Dagbladct, Maimoe.
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A familiar figure in Briuiii 1,, not seen so often nowndny;,'1.m number. have been declining aim, the turn of the century. The in,-. rel organ grinder, once a common. place. is now A rarity and the lag; of the organ builders died 13,, year. Many complain that the few street. singer: who have survived can't sing anyway. It. seems that the age of the “bu.sker" — Engmh slang for I street entertainer _ is almost over. —}-lamilton Spec. tutor
speaking of spelling, you M.‘ good if you can do this one without. ll bobble: “Beside I. cemetery ngar the seminary sat an embarrassed pe_d_cller and n harassed cobblcr. gazing M the symmetry of ,, gnawing on a. desiccated potato and lady's ankle with unparalleled ecstasy.” when ii college profes- sor dictated that to 208 stuiicnu not it one scored perfect. The liver: age was five errors. —Atlania Constitution.
A committee of Mclitluter L'ni. varsity faculty members has been appointed by G. P. Gilmour. pi-es. idem. to study the cause and sug. gest ii remedy for the high miure rate among first year sLudcxit.i_ More than 30 percent of the first. year science students at Mf:Mastcr
failcci this year. Dr. Gllnlollr ".-
vealed Tiiursday. Failure rat: 1“ first-year arts was about 21 per. cent... about the same as in prg. vious years. In the engineering course, the failure rate was as high as in the science course. _'ro. ronto Globe and Mail.
when Dr. ChArleA W. Mayo .3. sumed hiA post as an alternate delegate of the United State; to the UN General Assembly, in found it difficult to dissociate his medical background from his new post. One day, he was watt-liiiig intently as a fellow delegate doll- vercd ai speech. when it. was over, Dr. Mayo approached the speaker and said: "Speaking As A dale. gate, permit me to congratulate you on your speech. Speaking ii: A doctor, however, I should say that you are running 3 temperature of 103 iind ought to be in bed."
—E. E. Edgar in Winnipeg Tribune. '
This in by way of L congrItuh- tory pat on the massive back or 3 Greyhound bus. New York licence 38-80-CA, which we followed through the Aldershot. 50 . nllle zone the other day at precisely 30 miles an hour. ‘We might not been so struck by its good be- havior if ii few hours earllei, tra- velling the same 30-mile zone in the opposite direction, we had not been overtaken by two demea- tlc buses unveiling at. by the most conservative estimate, more than 45 miles an hour — and this on a stretch of densely populated high- way on which the provincial police are trying to crack down speeding. —l»-famtlton Spectator.
SONG FROM CYMIIELINIS Fear no more the heat 0' the sun. Nor the furioua winter‘: rage.-‘.
Thou thy wordly task has dour Home are gone and tareii flu’
wages: Golden lads and girls all must. As Chimney-sweepers. come to dual.
Fear no more the frown o‘ the great; Thou art. past. the t_\-i'ant's siroxe; Care no more to clothe And eat; To thee the reed is as the oak:
The sceptre, learning. phyaic, must.
All follow this and come to dust. —Willlam Shakesprnre.
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