PAGE FOUR THE GUARDIAN

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President and Aslociaio Editor, Ian A. Burnett, Associate Editor. Frank Walker.

CIRCULATION "Covers Prince Edward Island like the dew”

"The strongest memory is weaker than the weakest ink”.

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. The Round Table, an English review de- M voted to Cdminonwealth affairs, suggests ' that the central problem of the coming (loronation can be epitomized thus: "In the sanctuary the crown set on the Queen's head is called the Crown of St. Edward; but she comes forth to her people wearing the Imperial State Crown.

"The purpose of the ceremony is the soleinn rcdedication of all the peoples of the Commonwealth to her person; that is, of seven independent nations, in each of which she is the head of society; of a great Asiatic Rhpllllilf, to whose citizens she is the sym- hol of their free association with their ln;ethr(-n round the globe; and of a large number of communities in tutelage, who look forward to progressive emancipation under her suzerainty."

The Round Table is only one of the newspapers and journals making a determ- ined effort to have the ancient rituals sol modified that they will reflect this present status of the Sovereign. One of the first to suggest a method by which the change could be made was Mr. John Grigg, writ- ing in the National English Review. I-Iis suggestion has been endorsed by The Round Table and by The Times.

Mr. Grigg pointed out that under the present arrangements some 800 peers and their wivespwill occupy seats in the two transepts immediately adjacent to the cen- tral space or "theatre" in the Abbey. If this space were vacated by all except those peers who are "qualified by public emin- once in addition to their peerage," it would then be possible for representatives from all "seven independent nations” to partici- pate in the Coronation.

The suggestion is, in the words of The

Times, "that the representatives should de- rlare their loyalty in their vernacular lan- guage. that they should carry the flag of

their country and leave it at the feet of the Queen. and that the banner-bearers of Eng- land, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, who already attend the Abbey, should par- ticipate in the ceremony on equal terms with the rest."

To compensate the peers for relinquish- ing their customary seats in the Abbey The Round Table suggests that an ancient cere- . mony which was suspended in 1881 be re- l 1 vived. This is the Enthronement in West- minstcr Hall; it legitimately concerns the

lnited Kingdom alone. The temporal lords "raise the Queen into a marble chair set upon the Queens Bench, her seat of just- ice This is the modern equivalent of the pre-Christian custom practiced by the Teu- tonic war-bands when they elevated at new chief upon a shield and carried him round the camp to show him to the warriors. The men and women in England who are suggesting these modifications (some of which are already being incorporated into the Coronation plans) are fully conscious of the "vast and venerable tradition which gives to the (Coronation) its hold on men's imagination." But they realize that the bonds, powerful though intangible, which bind together the British Commonwealth of Nations, have made that Commonwealth unique in the history of government, and they are anxious that these intangible bonds should be woven into the august ceremonies of the Coronation.

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can it Be Avoided?

A statement which is appalling when all its implications are considered was made at a recent meeting of the United States National Safety Commission. An official said in an address that one out of every three children on the continent now under five years of age would be the victim of a fatal accident before reaching 21 years of age, if the present rate is maintained.

There is only one answer to this state- ment, comments the Sherbrooke Record, and that is that by some means the sect- dent rate must be checked. At the present moment it is rising. Despite widespread propaganda, despite restrictive legislation, despite improved motor car efficiency and despite warning after warning, the terrific toll of life and limb on the highways in- creases.

Education of motorists appears to be the only- solution. Corrective measures serve a certain purpose, but until" the idea is , rooted in the mind of every driver

in the reduction of accident toll.

The official made another striking state- ment, and one which all interested in the improvement of traffic safety might take to heart. He said that 10 per cent of the dri- vers are responsible for all the traffic ac- cidents; that such accidents are a problem of human behavior. They are indeed, and reason suggests that such drivers should be removed from the road.

Tile Foolish Flsll

An Ontario exchange tells this story about a naturalist who divided an aquar- ium with a clear glass partition. He put a lusty bass in one section and minnows in the other. The bass would strike every time a minnow approached the glass par- tition. After three days of fruitless lung- ing, which netted him only bruises, he ceased his efforts and subsisted on the food that was dropped in.

Then the naturalist removed the glass partition. The minnows swam all around the bass, but he did not strike at a single one. He was thoroughly sold on the idea that business was bad.

The Moral: Take another shot at the glass partition. Maybe it isn't there any more.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Festival of St. John.

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Tomorrow, 1st Sunday after Christ-

mas-Holy Innocents.

Island farmers have much to thank the potato for this year as well as in 1951. As pointed out in Federation of Agriculture News, livestock returns saved their bacon the year before that, indicating the wisdom of not having one's eggs all in one basket.

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Today's issue contains a complete and authoritative review of harness horse racing in the Maritimes for the year 1952 by the undisputed dean of the game, Lt. Col. D. A. MacKinnon, D.S.O. This review is an annual feature to which racing fans look forward with great interest and apprecia- tion.

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Times have changed in transportation in this Province. A report from Bristol tells that only six railway passengers were travelling to Charlottetown on the Satur- day before Christmas, four of them being railway men on passes. Formerly the same train required fifteen coaches to handle the traffic.

The sympathy of the community will go out to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur King, High- land Avenue, on the death of their son Arthur Allison, from war wounds received in Korea. Manning the outposts of free- dom is not without cost. Of this we are all well aware, but we are more vividly ro- minded of the unselfish sacrifice of those at the "front" when the news from casualty lists strike close to home.

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The death of Mr. Walter S. Weeks came unexpectedly to many who knew him. A well known business man dealing in farm equipment he enjoyed many associations throughout the Province. His business re- flected his energy and drive. In his rather short career he witnessed a transformation in farming operations in this Province from the lowly dobbin era to that of a high de- gree of mechanization. 0

Charles Lamb, English essayist, died this date 1834. He wrote much of his school days in Christ's Hospital. He aug- mented his small income as an India House clerk by contributing to newspapers and periodicals. His successful "Tales From Shakespeare" brought a ready market for his work, the best of which was probably his "Essays of Elia." He was one of the most: beloved of men as he is of essayists. 0

One hundred years of free education in this Province certainly "does not make our educational system one hundred years be- hind the times. A process of continual adaption to changing conditions has kept the schools of this Island as up to date as finances permitted. The teachers, school boards and the Department are not resting on their laurels, however, but are trying to keep pace with the more rapidly changing conditions of today. '

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Delivery men who would carry both milk and bread were suggested to the On- tsrio Milk Distributors Association as a solution to the excessive cost of making deliveries; Another proposal is a three-a- week delivery scheme which would enable fewer drivers to serve a given number of customers. Also suggested were the can- ning of fresh milk and the use of adver- tising to push such products as buttermilk

, , that A is in charge of a potentially death-

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dueling machine; there can little hope

and cottage cheese.

THE GUARDIAN.

Re-Enter "The Villain.

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This column is open to the discussion by corrcsponlients of questions of interest. The (iimrdian iloc.-I not necessar- ily endorse the opinion of correspondents.

FOOD SUBSIDIES

Sir,-This reader has been at a, loss to understand the following contrasting items in the news from Ottawa, and doubtless other rural readers would be in the same fog concerning these twin items. The organized farmers a n n o u n c e d (through the Canadian Federa- tion) that: "The Federal Govern- ment's price support program in agriculture, for the six and one- half years from the fall of 1946 to March, 1952, has cost. the people of Canada. the very small sum of about '72 cents per capita. for the entire period....Thc net. cost of the entire program, as revealed by the annual report of the Agricult- ural Prices Support Board just issued, was 310,099,317-or about 12 cents per capita per year”. On the otner hand, the general news- columns indicate that: "Agricult- ural subsidies paid by the Federal Government amounted to b853,- 000,000 in the 12-year period cov- ering the 1939-l951 fiscal years according to :1 publication issued by the Federal Department. of Ag- riculturc."

Now there is an immense "spread" as between the above brace of "farm subsidy" pictures? As most of the fog-or smog-has been dissipated by the following clean-cut. editorial in my farm paper, I beg the privilege of bringing the core of it. to the no- tice of other readers, who may still be as hungry for the facts- as between the CFAls diminutive 310 million and Agriculture Min- lstcr Gardincr's massive s853 mil- lion as I was, up to yesterday:

"Obviously, Mr. Gardiner was referring to the millions of dollars that were paid in consumer subsi- dies to hold the price ceiling in- tact during the period of wartime conl.rols...It. was a determined policy of the Government at. that time to keep food prices low-s. point made abundantly clear by the then Minister of Finance, the Hon. J. L. Ilsley, who said: 'sub- sidies are paid when there is no other way of insuring adequate supplies for the consumer of. prices permitted by the price ceiling. It. should be realized clearly that the subsidies are being paid in the in- terests o the consumer".

"It was unkind of Mr. Gardiner to rub salt on a. raw sore, for agriculture looks back on those wartime controls and consumer- subsidles without either joy or gratitude". - (Farmer's Advocate).

I am, Sir, etc, FAIR. PLAY.

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soldier whose living standards are

More than 2.000 United States. soldiers in West. Germany are' Spending more than one million dollars to fly home to the United States for the Christmas holidays. service in an army of occupation -although Allied forces in Ger- many are not referred to as arm- ies of occupation-is always an unattractive assignment. But. A

as favorable as those of the Amer. ican soldier abroad overseas can find compensations. The plsnel and modern aviation and a high rate of pay take some of the old pains and grouches out. of soldier- inll- - London Free Press.

The exasperated State of North Carolina sat down and figured out just. how much it cost to replace

York Times' round-up of

By The Wayx. 3

"Ike" and his wife "Mamie" are C0”5l3””.S' in the headlines. can- "0t escape them for at least four years. The in-formality of Amerl. 95"” l5 35'-0"i5h1nK - one wonders

sometimes if it isn't overdone, if

8. little more dignity and remcence in the discussion of their national leaders would not be a good Lhlng, -Ottawa Journal.

g The inclusion of an uuclg interplanetary travel in The

on New winter resorts is not inappropriate. After all, the llayden Planetarian al- ready has a waiting list of 25,000 applicants for pasage on the first

ders, looking at palm trees

the pictures of sheltering bathing would be

nature's treasury and no steward

rocket to the moon. But. one won- 1

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take the view that the less said about winter the better. The only thing we can do is endure it as best. weimay and hope -for" the spring. This view I cannot agree with and it seems that my love for wintry winds and snows in- creases yesr by year. And I am

to treat. with scorn or even with indifference that which the Crest- or has clothed with such shining splendour.

Yesterday I walked a mile or so across the fields and around the edge of the woods and every stop of the way I was L cious of melody all around me. Not; gm- mer melody, to be sure, but some- thing, in its own way, just. as ex- hilarating. "With what: glory comes and goes the year!" said Mr. Longfellow, and certainly winter has its full share of the glory that springs from the varied seasom

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The very austerity of it. is in it- self something for which to be thankful. It. is a. symbol of the fundamental seriousness of life that cannot. be A duced to playful nothlngness. But winter's face shows other things besides auster- ity. It has a sweetness and charm which no time of the year can surpass.

In the woods, where once green vines clung tenaclously. there are now icicles so pure and white "so as no fuller on earth can whiten them”. The trees look much the same as they did at midsummer, though perhaps not quite asgreen, but. they do not. dance and sing as they did then. Another homily, it seems to me, to the eliect that, both galety and solemnlty are in- gradients in the good life. They seem forest: and wait in reverent- ial pexpectsncy of that which Will be again. For winter preserves; it. never destroys. It. takes the organ- isms of the forest-the little ones and the big ones-under protec- tion: it. does not kill them. It holds in trust. many things from

was ever more faithful. In due time, perhaps in March, certainly not later than April, it. will sur- render its trusteeshlp. and Nature will say, "Well done!" 0 O I

Snow can be an inconvenience at. times. In fact, when aroused to its fullest. possible intensity, it can render useless all the mech- ines of man's devising. But, in its quiet moments. and these far out- number the vlolent. ones, it be- stows 3 sense of beauty which few other natural phenomena can give A sense of wonderment, too. It. is impossible to watch the flakes ailing leisurely one by one with- out contemplating the mysteries of the unknowable. Science can ex- plain it all, no doubt, what it is

There are people, I know, who really twinkled,

glad it is so for I should not want

DECEMBER gz. W195;

The" Passing I Scene

Observer

A KIND WORD FOR. WINTER

the moonbeams

milled, and the pretty snow flue,

came down joyously from Heaven. One remembers the words of

Walt Whitman:

"When I heard the learned astrun. omer,

When the proofs, the figures, wen ranged in columns before me,

when I was shown the charts and disgrsxns, to add, divide. and measure them,

When I. sitting, heard the, astron- omer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture room,

How soon. unaccountable, 1 b9.

came tired and sick,

Till rising and gliding out. I won.

dared off by myself

In the mystical moist night-sh-,

and from time to time

Looked up in perfect silence at

the stars",

0 O The well meaning but unkind critics of winter will tell you that it is undoubtedly the most severe and harsh of all the seasons. To prove their point they will cits blizzard, cold, heavy snows that disrupt transportation and that brings all sorts of bad tidings.

True. very true. The hand of win-

fer can lie heavily on man's com-

fort. and case. Which of the seas- ons does not?

Spring is the symbol of man's

will to live. Nature's resurrection

to new and abundant life will never cease to inspire and heal the heart. of man. But Spring is not always kind. Often it bring:

floods that devastate as well u

the gentle rains that bless. sum-

mer itself, when Nature is pre- sumably at its best, has bean known to burn and pillage.

Drought, one of man's chief en-

elmes, can turn the long summer

dsys into melancholy discontent

"The varied story" of the autumn

includes the long, shrill, ruthless

gates that strike terror into the heart of the mariner far from the haven where he would be.

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I expect the truth of the mat- ter ls that winter, like other ex- periences, is able both to glsdden and to harrsss our hearts; to bring a measure of contentment to those who will receive it. and, at the same time, to encourage the res lessness that seems to be part and parcel of our nature.

The freedom that by and by

will reappear with Spring will be

all the more cheerful because for

3. season it. was subjected to cer-

tain limitations. Many of life's

values are like that.

I never walk in the woods when

snow is on the ground without

feeling new admiration for that cheeky little fellow, the Chickadee.

While his summer friends, many

of them much bigger than he. fly

to warmer places at the first sign

highway signs, that has been mal- treated by the public. Turned out, to be a quarter of :1 million dol- lars a year out of i,axpayers' pock-

space when it's

Journal.

beauties. why anyone saving for a future trip out into

parts of this planet now.- Ottawa

and why. .But. after all the ex- planations there is still that sense of oneness which the finite feels with the infinite and for which no

so pleasant on

eta. Among leading forms of mal- treatment were: Shooting of holes through signs by deer hunters who got no deer. Doodllng hy bright guys who liked in change the words or figures. Theft by col- lege students who thought it. was funny to decorate their rooms with signs saying: "Soft Shoulder." -New York Herald Tribune.

Probably the most. embarrassing case of switched pictures .hap- pened to a Texas daily. As told by Roberrt; Casey in his "Such inter- esting People" the newspaper pub- lished on the same day two pic- tures of the same size. one of an old ice house which had been torn down and one of the mayor's wife who had died. Under the picture of the mayor's wife when the paper came off the press was f.hc caption "Old eyesore removed at last." - Woodstock Sentinel-Re- view.

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ii The Age-Old story 0

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And they runs to Jericho: and as he went. out of Jericho with his disciples and 9. great. number of people, blind Bartimssus, the son of Tlmssus, sat by the highway side bogging. And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me , . . . And Jesus stood still. and commlnded him to be called. And they called the blind man, saying unto him, Bs'of good comfort, rise; he calleth thee . . . . And Jesus ans- wered and said unto him. What wilt thou that I should do unto thee? The blind man said unto him, Lord. that I might. receive my sllht. And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole Ami immediately he received his

Scientists have perfected the spansule. This is a medical cup- sule with a built-in "time bomb." The patient swallows the span- sule which releases the medicine a dose at a time. If the patient re- quires ll. dose every hour or every two hours. the spansule gives it. to him automatically and intentional-

sclentlflc language is adequate.

There are times when one wish- es that one could dispense with scientific thought altogether and recapture something of the first years of life when one had no dif-

of chili, he elects to stay where he is and see it. through. Whether he is wise or foolish, who can say? At any rate he seems cheerful

enough. So far as I am concerned

he is the hero of the woodlands.

The porcupine, found in most forest regions of Canada, does not hibernate and is active through-

iiculty in believing that the stars

out the winter.

PROFESSIONAL CARDS

ly. This eliminates the 'ty of to nurse waking a patient several times during the night and day to give him his medicine. Nurses probably will boycott the span- sule claiming that it takes one of the few joys out if their hard lives. -Detroit. Free Press.

Old Charlottetown uuui r. I. L )

WINTER NAVIGATION

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"Mr. E. W. Sewell, of tNorthern Light! fame, is pressing upon the attention of the Dominion Govern- ment. a scheme, by the adoption of which he contends that the River St. Lawrence can be navigated as for inwards as the City of Quebec. It would be a grand thing for Canada if Mr. Sewell's views in re- gard to this project are cnriect.

Marheson. Peaks & Nicholson A. W. MATIIESON, Q.C. A. ll. PEAKE, B.A., LLB.

JOHN P. NICHOLSON, LLB. Barristers, Etc. Collections - Money To Loan 90 Great George Street Charlottetown

MucPhee & Trainer II. F. MICPHEE. B.A.. Q.C. E. SOMEBLED TBAINOB. B.A.

Barristers. Etc

Palmer & Huslum

” A. J. HASLAM. B.A.. LLB.

Barrister, Etc.

Bank of Nova Scotla Chamber-

Chlrlottebown. P. E. L MONEY T0 LOAN

But, as Mr, Sewell is - of :1 very sanguine temperament. we have not. much faith in his declar- ations on this head. The public know how for Mr. Sewell was as-

Allison M. Gillis. LLB.

BARIIISTER. SOLICITOR. Etc.

tray in his calculations r , the 'Northern Light.'.s' capacity for breaking through green ice in the Strait. So wide of the mark was he in regard to this matter that he has since been looked upon as a visionary characer. It is just possi- ble, however, that there may be some truth in Mr. Sewell'.s theory. It the Government. deem the pro- ject worthy of attcntloh, they will,

night. and followed Jesus in the way.

no doubt. give it. consideration." -'I'he Examiner. March 7, mill.

WINTER SCHOLARS

Sometimes our csxjeless city in its sleep

Is taken by a snow storm unaware '

And wakes like some old giant in a snare

To find its eager pace slowed to a creep.

The buses and the streetcars, like

last. sheep.

Huddle in drifts and give up in despair

And strong men may at. home, afraid to dare

The mounting fury of the bliz- zsrdls sweep.

But. not the children! Off they go to schoolt-

Rebels pint-size, who cheerlly ignore

The stormy conquer-or's attempted

rule. . The world of learning walls with

all its lore

And no mere wintry blast can hope to cool

The int c to learn that; two and i make tour.

-Bert. Penny in the Christian

omm: mAm.o1"rIr.'rowN

science Monitor.

'ro loun MANY in 1-omcv - nonmans

Throughout the Province and beyond. we extend the Seasonls Greetings and best; wishes for Happiness,

Peace and Prosperity in the New Year.

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