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THE GUARDIAN"

Morning Dally (Founded in 1887'). Alflsorized as Beooad Clan Mall, Post. Office ' Department, Ottawa. helical. Ian A. Barnett; Vlae-“oaldeat. Wm. It. Burnett: Boom-Tron, G. M. Burnett; Editor and M8081"! Director. J. R. Burnett; Associate Editor, Frank Walker. \

"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than " the Weakest lnk."

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Government And The humanities

A writer in the London Spectator draws ot- tention to a sentence which caught his eye in Sir Harold Butler's new book, Peace or Power, and which appeared to throw a Hood of light on one aspect of international relationships. "The first Russian university," Mr. Butler ob- serves, "was not founded till i755".

The first colleges at Oxford und Cambridge were founded in i264 and i284, respectively, and in each case the university existed before the colleges. And many European universities, not- ably Bologna and Paris, were, of course. Old" than England's. When it is realized for how nany centuries the national tradition oF the Old Country was formed, and the personnel of its government provided, by tho universities-wild how largely, for that matter, they ore represent- ed on the Labor Front Bench in the British Commons today-the fact that higher learning in Russia is still less than two centuries old, will go seen in its full significance. The Spectator write concl-udes:

"|t is true that Russian universities pro- tluce scientists of the first order today, but gov- ernment is based on the humanities, not on science, and the hard fact is that in Russia a tradition of government determined by the wide outlook of the humanities has never been es- tablished. Nor is there so far any sign of it."

This is profoundly true, and it is some- thing which our own politicians and education its should not be permitted to forget.

Game Wardens

Volunteer sportsmen have been doing good work recently in assisting our Island "Huns" to weather severe snow conditions, thereby sup-ple- menting the work of Game Wardens and other officials concerned in the matter of game con- servation. lt may not be generally known that under Sec. l4 of the Game Act, i937, mended ln 1944, "all members of the Prince Edward island Fish and Game Association, all members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the chairman and secretary-treasurer of each School Board in the Province, are appointed Game Wardens, without pay, tfor tho enforce- ment of the provisions of this Act."

This measure provides for at least two- Game Wardens in every school district. Thev cannot, of course, be expected to devote much If their time to this duty without remuneration, and it has been suggested, in the event of the Government making more adequate provision for collection of distrct school taxes, that a small amount be allocated to the above named mem- bers of the school boards to act in their Game Warden capacities. This might require some amendment to the statute as it stands, which could be discussed at the forthcoming session If the Legislature.

Teaching Manners

The British Ministry of Labor is distributing a small book among its staff delicately pointing out the virtue o-f good manners and clear Eng- lish in the writing of letters to the public and of departmental minutes, reports The Manchester Guardian. "A patronizing- or condescending manner" is condemned, and a horrid example quoted—"lf you care to call at this address an officer will be pleased to grant you .on inter- view." ' "How much more welcome," suggests the booklet, "would be a letter in something like these terms: 'l have received your registration farm and would like you, if possible, to come for an interview in the near future, any day between ll and 12'."

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Noted in these columns recently was the pcssbility that Prime Minister Mackenzie King might pull another rabbit out of the hot before he retires definitely from the political scene, and get himself rcdraftcd for another term as lend~

ar. True, he has asked the Liberal Party to lsald a notional convention to select " new

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fl . do by any other person than Mr. King, that would have mean-t outright relinquishment of office. Bpt not so with our cagey Prime Minister. Ever-edu- tiaus, he did not at any time during his speech unequivocally or in effect announce his retire- menh. When the text of his remarks is studied, all he actually did was express a wish to retire, tampered coyly with the assurance that "be the sacrifice what it may,” he would not "knowing- ly shirk any responsibility which the needs of our times may seem to demand, and which l feel l am able to meet."

The Sydney Post-Record notes that the CBC news report on the night of the speech added no little to the confusion already created in Mr. King's speech, in flatly stating that "Mr. King announced his retirement and called a Notional Liberal Convbntian next summer to select a new Picador." But that is not what Mr. King said, nor

g ‘is he ta be hurried off the stage in such summary

fashion. As our Sydney contemporary con» sacrifice involved-on the port of his followers "Itleosth-beforehesteys ‘or quits thegqljgtlggl“ The crowning achievement of his career ll. bate! engineer a re-nemigation, which

"w" stably re m, or as- aobly accepted, as

up his post, and the natural reaction of his fol- "lowers will be to string along with him until they ‘find out. Thus Mr. King has achieved on- other quiet masterstroke. He has made it ex-

ence, or without the harrowing thought thdt by so doing the party. is being doomed to complete destruction.

- lfDlIURlAL NOTES - c oundotian Day bfwfiiiistralia.

We are now experimenting on the use of whale meat as a feed for foxes. lt should prove satisfactory. The Oxford crew trained on it in lie-u of uncbtainable bcefsteok.

The generous response to the B. l. S. Fire Victims appeal is much appreciated, and to the credit of the community whose sympathy has been deeply aroused by thc tragedy.

Now that we have higher prices for the farmer, price control for the consumer, and tak- en a crack at Soviet Russia, all that remains to be done before an clc-ction is to re- duce taxes.

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A welcome change in military regulations permits hospitalized servicemen who are consid- ercd ‘hip-patients" to wear regular uniforms outside the hospital grounds. The many old soldiers who have been in the conspicuous hos- pital blue will appreciate the value of the change.

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Charlottetown social service workers have been discussing means of co-ordiinating their activities. The idea might well be extended to their financing. Adoption of the Communitv Chest or similar scheme would materially reduce the work of canvassing which always seems to fall on the same shoulders.

On page three of this issue is an invitation

_ to citizens not only to show their interest in

civic affairs, but to bring forward names of men who might possibly take a place in the Council. lt is in the interest of all that there should be a contest in every word, water commission and Mayoralty. The submission of a prospective can- didate or candidates for any of these offices may not induce rho man selected to nominate on February 4th, but slvpuld sufficienFinterest be indicated, it may be possible to convince him of his duty.

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,From "Messenger to Manager" is a fine record for Mr. J. M. Murlcy now about to re- tire from C. N. R. Telegraphs on pension. His regime hos been characterized by courtesy and expanion of service in the public interest. Hiis successor, Mr. Fraser, has been trained in a good school, and may be counted on to maintain the high reputation of the local Telegraph Offtice established by the late Mr. T. C. James and de- veloped by Mr. A. E. Morrison now retired and devoting his leisure to oil painting and other good work.

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According to the Canadian Press Dr. T. Cuyler Young, Associate Professor of Persian Language and History at Princeton University, declares the United Nations’ decision to partition Palestine was "morally indefensible", and "with- out doubt will lead to war in the Middle East." Dr. Young, who formerly was Public Affairs of- ficer at the United States Embassy in Teheran, said in an address to the Canadian Club, Tor- onto, that division of the Holy Land into Arab and Jewish states is "politically impracticable." "We are in for trouble. lt is there already. lt will get worse, and I don't doubt there will be war in the Middle East."

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"Chinese" Charles George Gordon, British soldier and administrator, died this date i885. During the Taiping rebellion in i860 he took command of some Chinese troops, trained them by European and American officers, till they be- came known as the "ever victorious"; the final suppression of the rebellion was duc to his lead- ership. He refused any pecuniary rewards from the Chinese Emperor; on return to England was given command of the Royal Engineers, and d9. voted his sparetime to philanthropy. Later was sent to the Sudan to organize the withdrawbl of the Egyptian gnrrisons in danger owing ta the Mahdi's rebcllion; was shut up in Khartum, and treachsrously killcrl two days before the qrriyql of the Wols:ley Rclief Force; "l om quite happy, thank Gad, and, like Lawrence, l have tried to do my duty."—P.S. in*his*las*t letter from Khortum.

Three years age, on January 26, i945, the l0th Infantry lirigradthof the 4th Canadian Arm- aurcd Division launched at Kapclschcvcer, in Holland, an attack which was tn produce some ‘of the bitterest fighting encountered by the Div- rsicn in World War ll. Object of the attack was to dislodge‘ a stubborn force of German troops strongly entrenched on an lsland in the Maras River. Previous attacks by Polish troops and Commandos had foiled to clear the-position. The 4th Division's attack, known as Operation Ele- phant, was ccrricd out by the Lincoln and Woll- and Regiment, The Algonquin Regiment, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada, The Lake Superior Regiment and supporting artillery and other formations. Conditions were anything but ideal and for days men engaged in the operation fought, lived and died in mud, snow and icy water as the battle raged over the dykes. To add to their discomforture, cold winter rain fell on the 29th and 30th, turning slit trenches into mudholes. The entire dyko was reported clear an January 3l, and the battle which had lasted five days came to on end. Both sides suf- fered heavy casualties. Somo~l35 enemy dead

enemy were captured and later reports revealed

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tremely difficultufor any pretenders to office to take over his duties with a comfortable consci-

_war-g__coupted_o_n_thgg_battlefield while others lay ‘some "in the mud and in the water-filled fox- holes in which they had died. Only 35 of the

that approximately 65 enemy wounded were

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Tho year 1047 vras the third in succession to record an tn- crease in the Iillmlbfll‘ of deaths from accidents in the United States. fl: ls estimated that. there were about. 101,000 deaths from accidents tn the Yelir- i" 2.000 more than ln 1940. The 100.000 mark has been exceeded only four Limes before in the history of the country namely, in 193-5. 1936. 1937 and 1941. One bright. spot in the accident picture for 1947 ts n decrease 1n the number of fatalities from motor vehicle ao- cldents. Deaths from tlils cause apparently dropped from about 33.700 in 1946 to around 32.500 Ill 1047. This reduction ls all the more noteworthy inasmuch as l’. was accomplished dwpite an 1n- creased volume of motor vehicle traffic. which suggests that. the recently iutc-iisiflcrl program to prunrolo lilglnvny safely ls pro- rluclng concrete results. Each of the other major classes of accl- deute -home, occupational and publto (other than motor vehicle) -recorded increases in deaths lll 1017 as compared with 1046. Un- doubtedly. the higher death tall from ucz-ldeuts in the home was duo tn part to Llie largo number of children added Lo the popula tton because of the record-break- ing crop at bnhtrs born in re- cent years. Metropolitan Life Bulletin.

Mr. Attlee told this story re- cently: An American drove with an Englishman to Hyde Park and listened to at speaker clr-mamllm; the abolition of the Royal family, the church and the government. The Jsmertcan said: "I reckon theyll be pulling that fellow 1n- slde." But a policeman said. “would you mind stopping the engine of your our’? They can“. hear the speaker." “This? said Mr, Attlec, "is probably tho only country 1n t-lie world where this could happen." -- Reynolds News.

It is reported that. Australian housing exports uro investigating,

the [Jasslblllty of reviving the ancient. technique of bulldltll; houses with walls of rammed

earth, remarks The Niagara Falls Review. The method has been used la a limited scale lu various areas in Australia. The Common wealth Experimental Station at. Ryde, New South Wales, ls now working on plans to bring it into wider use. Special machinery has been devised to speed up pro auction and reduce the amount. of labor necessary. Tentative plans have been tirade to build a group of 100 of these houses in New south Wales.

There are comparatively few people in Soviet Russia aroused from their slumbers by a Jing- ling telephone bell and a voice which demanded that is text was needed right BAVBY. There are very few wrong numbers rung in Soviet Russia, very few com- rades apologize to other comrades for disturbing their slumber. Tnc reason rests in the fact. that there are very few comrades, who have telephones. Canada. ranks third among the world nations ln num- ber at telephones, having 16 for every hundred of population. The U. S. ls in first; position. with 22 for every 100 citizens, and Swe- den is second with 18 for every 100. Now Zealancl and Sivltzer- land tied in fourth place with 15. Soviet Russia has 1.500.000 telephones. according to statistics gathered by the American Tele- phone ancl Telegraph Company. and when set against that coun- try's huge population, gives a ratio of .71 for every 100 of popu- lation. This can be more simply stated by saying that. there n1‘. seven phones for every 1,000 Rus- slnns as against. 160 for every 1,000 Canadians. 'l‘he U. S. has more telephones than the vast. ol’ the worlrl combined. nnrl twlcP as many its the whole of Europe, int-hiding European and Asiatre Russia. Cnnadri has more phones tlmn South America and Afriru i-uurlilnccl. or more than Russia Poland and Czechoslovakia.

The amended coat-of-arnss of the Dime of Edinburgh, lssueil by the College of Arms, would ap- pear to seLLle any ryucstlou of we Duke's s-tulus. Before a Bucking- -ham Palace official stated. bruis- to the Royal wedding. that Plilii; 'Mourslbul.tcn would be a. Prince, but. would use the l.lt.le of Duke ol’ Edinburgh. there had been a great. deal of speculation as LU his future rnnlt. Two‘ features oi his new nrnis established hlm as is Prince. One ls the helmet wlilc-i SUPmOlllllS the design. 'I'hls ls shown full-faced luffrontee in heraldic tcrmluolagy-— a dlstlnc- tlon tvlllvll is seen only in the arms of Princes of the Blood Royal. The heraldic ~helmets of Peers of lower rank nre shown clextcr (facing right). The second point or significance 1s the coro- uct. ‘The design at this - with fleurs-clo-lys and crosses pattee nllcrnntcd - ls similar to that seen in the Dukeof Gloucestei-‘s arms. Normally this denotes the younger son of e. King. -London Dally Mull.

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the very splendid reference you have made in regard to the ubusu to the “Abegweitfi by certuln un- couth people, and 1 do not. believe these people are 11.1.1.1) the Island. The warning which you have glven wlll no doubt result in much good, and lt may save somebody from a bill of costs because we fully .nt.end to prosecute ." we have to resort to 1t for the protection 01 this ship which we are all so proud I am. Sir. etc. all‘. JOHNSTON Vice-president. and General Manager Canadian National Railways. Moneton. Jan. 24.

SKYE PIONEER EPISODE

Sh". -,l was very interested by your "Old Charlottetown" column regarding the early Scottish set- tlers ln The Guardian o! January 3. 1048. You mentioned three sh.ps that, arrived 1n Charlottetown ln

1803 Wllll the Selkirk settlers, mostly from Skye. The writer attended the 100

years’ anniversary 1n 1906, a] the lLnding o; the settlers of the ship “Polly” nntl they were supposed to he tic-air where the crovvrl gath- crerl that day, near Holiday's Wharf, Orwell Bay. 1 have been told that at. one time on the voyage out, the ships were ln a storm and one of those ships became separated and was chased by a British warship wanllng re- rnllls. My informant tells me that when they saw her comlnfi. sus- pecting whet. she wanted, they Slknfllefl "Smallpox Aboardl" The Captain. whose name was Murch- ison. was supposed to have settled at. Point; Prim a few years after with his faintly. Iavould be very grateful l1 you could inform me as to the truth of this story. I am. Sir. etc.,

WILLIAM MoLEOD

Master ltlnfiner Couglilan, BC.

(MacQueen. whose "Skye Plon- ocrs and The Island" ls regarded as authoritative, makes no refer- ence to this interesting episode. Peril ps some of our readers can abligi. - Ed. G.)

"ALL CANADIANS SHOULD FEED EUROPE"

sin-Farm forum people in the Morltlmes were nearly unanimous In stating that. we should see our food surpluses go to feeding Europe. But they put a few teeth in the deal. Firstly they stated em- pl-inticully all the Canadian people should stand the brunt of the gift. not. the farmer alone. This could be accomplished through our Can- adian Government, by having them make all purchases at r.- prlce above the cost of production. and we all share the cost: through taxation. 0r. if preferred, pay subsidies on all agricultural products for export. Secondly, ftrmors ln general con- sidered we should accept more 1n goods from Britain and Europe rather than insisting on monetary exchange.

Jlcswever, most forums confided that. if the Marshall plan were to go through, a lot of our agricul- tural surplus troubles would‘ be over.

The question of opening the American market for agricultural produce met. with general disap- proval. Approximately 90 or the reports indicated it. would only benefit farmers temporarily, but would in the long yun be dis- aslrous. It would meet with op- position by the Arrwrlonn farmer. the Canadian consumer and the European consumer. The latter. in the opinion of moat groups, would likely have to pay a lot higher or starve and under present con- rlltlons sovere- hunger would likely br- the inevitable result.

Al. farm forum meetings‘ of January 19th MLrWme people un- anlmously approved the adoption of a Dominion Markeblnfl -Aet. I-‘nrmors should have the right they said, through organizations, to reantrol the marketing o! their own products and must have per- missive legislation ln order to sup- port that organizations. Unan- imously elso, they contended, that such a marketing scheme as pra- poseri by the Canadian Federation of Agricutilro was democratic and

just. ,

To legislate for our "rights is .a democratic privilege as farmers and is citizens. snlrl the Nowporl, forum in Prince Edward Island. which vory well summarized the thoughts of their affiliated discussion groups.

A summary of the effects as out- lnerl by Maritime meetings ls briefly, besides controlling Inter- provincial and export trade such a Marketing Board would tend to automatically eliminate . such un- TIECBBBNW trudlnfl as the selling of B. C. apples in the Marltlmes, would control speculation and exportation as well aa encourage quality pm- ductlon.

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LP. MCIBAAO Sees-eta ,1 Marltilsna Farm Forum.

EDUCATION IN’ KLCOIIOL

8lr,-Tha‘ enclosed article gives the course in alcohol 1n British Columbia schools, which Ioes into wetstton‘ at. the beginning of the next school term.

WUh Prtnoe Isdnvsrd Island’! growing ailments, and alcohol the treatment. it. may be necessary to educate the publlo not. to abuse the drug. As I an: an Islander st present enjoying this wonder- ful ol-lnsete summer and