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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 29, 1954 .

2000 A. D.

The British Royal Society of Arts, now celebrating its bicentenary, has published the results of; competition sponsored by its official journal. The participants, in- cluding persons in all walks of life and from almost every corner of the globe, had been asked to make predictions regarding the state of the world in the year 2000 A.D. Among the many prophecies noted were these: I-iypnotism will be the chief medical weapon against disease and a very import- ant technique in education. Mail will be sent by rocket from England to Australia; there will be several deliveries both ways daily. No one will have to walk city streets. moving sidewalks twenty feet or so above. the ground will take care of that; automobile traffic will be out of sight: ele-; vated parking places will be common. Wood products will be common articles of food, especially in the United States, where soil depletion will have seriously limited ordin- ary agricultural activities; sea weed will be under extensive cultivation and in great demand as food. i

Electric lighting fixtures will have dis-l appeared; fluorescent walls will be the; standard system of illumination. It-will bei possible to render atomic bombs innocuousp iiundreds of miles from any given point;l but, as an added precaution, most of the great cities will be covered by shatter-i proof domes. Ireland will have ended. As a result of race mutation brought on by atomic radia-3 tion a new human species will have arriv-. ed on the earth. ApP81'9"tly. ii did 001; occur to anyone to suggest that by the yeari 2000 atomic war will have put an end to; the species already here: perhaps, in 3 neg" alive sort of way, that is the most encour-3 aging prophecy brought out by 1h9 C0m'p petition.

l Ari lncongruous Section l

An old law is not necessarily a good law. Inrleed one of the advantages of ap gmierai-i'evision of the Criminal Code, suchl as tiasxbeen going on for some time now, is that it. encourages a great many people to take a long look at provisions that gener- ally escape their notice. l

Chitty's Law Journal has been taking such a look at s. 642 of the old Code, which will be replaced .by s. 174 of the new. It: deals with ”found-ins” in gaming and other, disorderly houses who may be taken into custody and examined on oath before a

looked on as a sensitive indicator of com-i munity health status, fell to a record low ofi 35 per 1:000 of live births. This compares. with rates of,28.5 in the United States, 28.6l

in the United Kingdom, 23.8 in Australia, and 21.8 in New Zealand. For the country as a whole the two thirds reduction in the infant mortality rate since 1921 has means a saving of 335,000 lives.

More Canadians went to the altar in 1953 than in any year since 1946 when re- turning war veterans boosted the number of marriages to the all-time peak of 137,- 155. Total for the year 1953 was 130,837.

Since the war Canada has sustained a birth rate measurably higher than most other countries of comparable development. In 1953 it rose to 28.2 from 27.9 in 1952. and compared with 24.8 in New Zealand, 24.5 in the United States, 23.3 in Australia, 15.7 in the United Kingdom, and rates of less than 20 in most European countries.

Over 289,000 persons were added to the population in 1953 by natural increase (the excess of births over deaths), the rate per 1,000 of population reaching a new high of 19.6. Annual growth is now 2 1-2 times the figure of 15 years ago. Over 5 1-2 million persons have been added to the population by natural increase since 1921, or an annual

average of about 140,000 in the twenties,,

125.000 in the thirties, 204,000 in the fort- ies, and 273,000 since 1950.

EDITORIAL NOTES

It is not only archaeologists who must be alert for forged antiquities. The Depart- ment of National Health and Welfare is reported to have received an old family Bible in support, of an old age pension claim. The birth record. however, had been entered with a ball-point pen.

Interest is centered on the efforts of

National Assembly approve the admission

of West Germany into NATO and a west-l

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OTTAVVA REPORT By Airline I

By Patrick I BY AIRLINI-IR. TO PARIS

Writing this on my return from a liter-ai.y flying VlSiL to Paris, I am nupi..g Lna. I may Lhls vreei;

-..pei'l13pS UIIHSUQU Ci illllfli S llpflll 3 counts. w.Lh which we have very ciose tradition-a. l I cannot pretend that I am in any position to describe in de.aii-

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' P. E. I.'s Ben Rogers. , senior offic-al ;n External Alit1ll'S, promoted a bridge game. in which lne was joined by several enthusiasts including Doug Owen, once from

At long last the partition of Pllellllt-'1' M00095-F1'anCe to have the French”? H-6 H9 We 50"” lnim-5””8 ””ulPort Arthur. now Mr. now-ais Dri-

ivate secretary.

l Strangest feature of such fast- lmoving east. or west journeys is the ,o'ifficulty of one's self to the vari- ous time zones. Six hours are gain-

approve the agreements butpit may well be ad x-ray tne collditioil at a coun-i,.d m. 105, ,be,,m,,, 0,,aw,, and

that the question of this country's ap- proval will not arise. 'i I 0

Premier Azhari came to power in the Sudan on a platform of union with Egypt but now advocates a more moderate meas- ure-a supreme council whose decisions would be reviewed by the parliaments of each country. The responsibilities of office have again. it would seem, tempered the vieixs of a politician.

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"The country produces not only wheat, l'.l'e and oats. It produces an even more valuable crop, namely, common sense." This is the comment of a French diplomat to German farmers, but it is as true in this country as in the Old World.' With all the differences between France and Germany, the farmers of each country have much the same attitudes towards their particular problems.

magistrate or justice of the peace. The old, . ,, ' ,

section says that if the magistrate finds

Canadian Indians are to be subject to

try where I visited the Capital alone .aii:l that ior no more than five idags. so let. us not. think or these Ircni.irks of nine as beuig "Inside iioi even "Paris with the

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lirl iiiteri; out merely a neirspapcr-i

linanls jottings alter what. proved .to be a must interesuiig experi- CHCG.

I was fortunate to be one of the tour scats made avail- able for newspapermcii. on the C. 5 airliner taking tlic Canadian dele- i ti the NATO conference. .n ,Paris before Ch..s.. zx. . tinrcn Cab- inet Ministers represented Canada.

Mr. L. B. Pearson. Minister of i,ExternaI Affairs; Mr. C. D. Howe. in his lcsscr role as Minister of

Defence Production: and Mr. Ralph Campney. Ministr" of Defeni-e.. Mr. Howe was already in Europe. on other business. The other two Min- isters and their staff of advisers

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lParis. so there was little demand ifor the R. C .A. Ffs excellent break- fast at 9 21.111. Paris time going. but i or. hunger for breakfast at New- foundland at 3 a.m. coming back.

i Shakespeare's Start tBBC Wt-ckly Survey) .

i ”lf you had lived in the reign of the first El;z.aLieth- instead oi the lsccond, and especially if you lived ,in a small country town like Strat- ,ford-on-Avon. one of the exciting things you would have looked for- iward to each suinincr would be the izrniing oi the s.rolln1g play- Icrs," i.a.d E. Frank Ciindiin. Head of the Dcpartnieni. of English at the College of Technology in Cai- dilf, in a BBC talk. such a com- pany came to Stratford in 1587. and young Will Shakespeare met. them. He was just twenty-three and with .three children and a wife older

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BABYLON The blue dusk ran between the streets: my love was winged . within my mind,

It hit today and yesterday and thrice a thousand years be- hind. '

Today nus past and dead for me, .for from today my feet had inn

Through thrice a thousand years to walk the ways of ancient Babylon.

On temple top and palace roof the burnished gold flung back the rays

Of a red sunset. that was dead and lost beyond a million days.

The tower of heaven turns darker blue, a starry sparkle now be- gins: '

The niystery and- magnificence, the

nrirind bcaiity and the sins

Come back to me. I walk beneath the shadowy multitude of lowers:

Within the gloom the fountain jets j its pallid mist in lily flowers. The waiters lull me and the scent of many gardens. and I tic:-ir Familiar voices. and the voice I love is whispering in my ear. Oh real as in a dream all this: and then a hand on mine 'is

' laid:

The wave of phantom time with- draws: and that. younf: Babiionian maid.

One drop of beauty left behind from all the flowing of that tldc,

The C' 5 is 3 slmml NM” Sm than himself was niakimz a poorn look:nvz with the self-same eyes.

airliner, built by Ctiiiadair at Mont- real and handed over to the Royal Canadian'A.r Force in 19.50 as a Lansport plane for government or- ficials, top-ranking Vl5ll.0ls and other Very Important Pei'sona;ias. lsometimes, as on this occasion, the lV.I.P.'s don't fillithe plane, and ltlien some flell'SpHpCl'lTlCll are cur-

mat the person exammed has mad? a tmei Royal Canadian Mounted Police jurisd"iction,ried to report the emit-

(llsclilmre he may certify to that effect andlbehind the wheel of cars or trucks as oncel

the person examined is then exempted from prosecution for any act of gaming in regard to which he has been Examined. Chitty'sf comment is that it looks very much likel legalized compounding of a felony.

The new Code does not leave it up to

they were when tempted to go cn the warpath. It does not make. any difference in this Province where the driving of all citizens is of interest to the Mounties but under a new ()rdcr-in-Council the R. C. M. P. will have jurisdiction over vehicular traf-

lhe magistrate m determine whether funl fic on roads in reserves other than Provin-

disclosure has been made but merely pro-i vidcs that the evidence will not be used against the person giving the testimony.

: cial highways.

Canada will again be the largest pro-

The C. 5. iiczitly (l-:cura.cd with irindow rurtains in the new R. C. A. F. tartan. has carried the Queen. ithen Princess Elizabeth. on her itour of Canada: it took Mr. St. yLaurent. around the world: and it ;has made mam flights carrying ministers or other high ranking lprrsons to V'F"'l:l1'!i0'l, l ind elsewhere, on the Na- Lion's busini. .

On this round trip to Paris, we spent 13 hours in the air on the loutbound journey. There were 13 .crew members and 13 passengers. The superstitious may be surpris-

Thp Objectionable feature of both is mm ducer of oil within the Commonwealth with they Vimale the principle that no personl an estimated production for 1954 of 12 1,f2l:laiem tllilln that we had an admir-

shall be taken into custody and detained without a charge being laid against him. Referring presumably to the old section, our learned contemporary says that it "is al- most legalized third degree." The fear is expressed that there may be if demand for such powers in respect of other offences. "If the right to arrest a person, hold him with- out being charged and examine him under oath is established as being a constitutional right, whether accompanied by an Hemp- tion from prosecution or not, then the very foundations upon which our system Of criminal justice is founded are in jeopardy."

New Health .Records

Proof that Canada is one of the world's healthiest nations is given in the official re- port of vital statistics for 1953, which re- cently became available. Previous records toppled as new marks were set for the rates for death, infant mortality, natural increase 'nnd other health indicators. a The new death-rate is an all-time low of 8.8 perv'1;000 of population. This places Canada well ahead of the United State: '(9.6), United Kingdom (11.4), France

112,13), an an impressive list of other nn-opiiln uitqammoriwnltli countries, in- Sweden. Switzerland.

million metric tons, according to This Week in Britain. Production is well above last years total production of 10,950,000 tons. Other important oil producers include Brit- t, ish Borneo, which supplied just under 5 mil- lion tons last year, and Trinidad with a 1953 total of almost 3 U2 million tons. India, Pakistan and the U. K. also produce smal- ler amounts of oil.

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The United Kingdom's first "breeder" pile, which will create more atomic fuel than it consumes, is soon to be built. at Dounreay in the North of Scotland. The dominant feature will be a steel sphere about 150 feet in diameter and 35 feet above the ground. A scale model of the 140-acre site with buildings and the reactor sphere was recently on view in London. It will generate electricity by producing steam to drive conventional machines

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This date, Dec. 29, 1851, the first Am- erican Y.M.C.A. was established in Boston, seven years after the movement was start- ed in England and five years before it reached Prince Edward Island. The corner- stone of the .old "Y" building in Charlotte- town, now used as D.V.A. offices, was laid on July 31, 1871, but prior to this the as- sociation was formed on New Year's Day. 1850; at a meeting in st. Paul's church

iuoclatlonoIluklndlnCanada. t .

We stopped for two hours to re- hlucl at Gander. the aerial cross- roads of the North Atlantic, which is also Canada's aerial front door. I noticed that travellers could buy at. the news-iitand there only one Canadian daily paper, and that ii Newfoundland stripling about 30 hours old: Ii. flunk on service and prestige by which Gander does Canada no credit.

On the return journey. we buck- ed strong headwinds and detour- ed for south via the Azores, so we spent. 18 hours in the air. We land- ed st 10 p.m. at. the American air base in the Azores to refuel. The temperature was about '10. flowers were blooming, and I0, I imagine. was the liquor business. I noticed in the PK there that a well-known brand of Canadian rye whinkyiwu selling for 329 per case of twelve 40-ounce bottles: and in cue you have never seen 1 gallon bottle. there are several such on sale there for 86.50 each filled with brandy.

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. On both these Atlantic crossings, we spent. a night on the plane. sleep was inevitably little and fit- ful. Hon. "Mike" Pelrson evidently nu trouble getting any sleep at nil on such flights. and this must be a severe handicap to him in the important work he must dost Journeyt: end. '

Mr. Cnmpney. like an experienced traveller changed into uiippcn for comfort, and wandered around the piano looking like an amilblo teddy bear, almost totally encased in Va huge fluffy blue sweater. I-fin por- sonll secretary. Vnncouvei-'1 non Ker. seemed to be. the but ur- sleeper; close second to him unis Moose Jaw boy. now Tomato "less" In: correspondent, Bob Taylor. An- other Home Jovian nunpapcrmlvn. .Vic-Inckia of the Winnipeg Pro: Pun, .wu lam -lucky and buried aliinnfl in batch Ind IMJIHIQ

i.ving as a. country school-master. He longed to get away from the ,small country town into the great world and welcomed Lord Leicester's iplayers eagerly.

"Tiiere were five full acting mem- bers, with boy appreiitices to play the women's parts," said Candlin. iThe second-in-command was a iwclshman callcd Augustine Phillips. ,iiho had all the fire and enthusiasm for the trua,Cclt. "1ii a small re- iperiory company like this. 'one man ,in his time plays many parts' - llbesides acting." he said. "It was iPhillipts special job to see that the

lthe Governor General or cabinet-3C501'5 SOL H19 Oolistitnt SUPDW 01

new plays they needed. He com-

Londonwmissioned the playwrights. saw to

lthe licensing of new plays and lchose the piece to be performs-d each day. Phillips was. in fact. the one man in the company to whom it new recruit who fancied himself as a bit of a writer would naturally turn for advice and encourage- ment," It is not absolutely certain that it was Phillips who persuaded Shakespeare to join the players and take up writing for the theatre. for little definite is known about Shake- speare's early life. but the facts point. that way. It was May 183'? when Leicester's players visited stratford and in the autumn of the following year Shakespeare, who disappeared in the meantime, was in London attached to the company and batching up old play: for them. "Exactly seven years later - the normal time for an apprenticeship

master player. to full membership of the company. One of the earliest editors of the play: tells us shake- apeare began hi: theatrical cares: as promptei-'s assistant - and U1: Pr.0mpter'n chief was Augustine Phillips. 0 O 0

”It looks pretty conclusive. doesn't. it?" said Candlln. "If so, we have here the man who gave Shakespeare his first start. in the theatre; the man, that is who dil- covcred Shakespeare." Phillipa was on the lookout for a promising young man who could write too, for in thou nun oompetiti was keen and a troupe had to hold the public interest or go under. Their great rivlll. The Ad.miul'l Plnver hnd jut signed on young Christopher Marlowe. newly down from Cambridge, who was turning out fine swashbuckling stuff for their main: actor. ldwua Allsyn. Wu it too much to babe that the bright. young Iohoollmltu from Stntfonf mfghtdo tho umnwnow triumphantly right the plan were in taking him Along." and cand- lin. "Tho titles of the plan he wrou for than in the next. few yuan ring down tho autumn like a tnimpot-cal: from the temple of

inertia: , Juli inarnbu'r.ofIIioau-

- Shakespeare was admitted as no

and here in Ireland at my , sldc, ' Oh light oiii- life in Bxibylon. but Babylon has taken wings. rwhile we are in the i-aim

things. -6. W. Russell

noon; IN TV

LONDON (CF) - Television set sales in Britain were the highcst on record in September. Reports for that month 10 sets were sold on the instal- ment pla.n.

HARDY RABBITS BURY ST. EDMUNDS. England (CP) wwild rabbits, thought to have been decimated by myxoma- tosis, are reappcaring in disused

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holder and turned out to be an excellent business man who was soon makingibig money out of theatre shares and other invest- ments. Within ten years of leaving his home town he bought up the largest house in the place and set up u a gentleman with I! family cont of.ai-ms and when he retired from the stage in 1612 he was a comparatively wealthy man. These players had all gone now and the world had forgotten Them but the plays that Shakespeare wrote, and they first acted. were not. forgotten and had gone round the world and became part. of the common herit- age of humanity. Every year in Strstford the flag: of all nations were unfurled on Shakespeare! bii-thdwr April 23. "It. is surely fllttlng.” elk! Omdlln in conclusion, 't.bst among them should be found in I. place of honour the Red Dra- gon of Wales, in memory of the Welsh player. Augustine Phillips, who discovered Shakespeare and zigiuzht him the foundations of hi:

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There are many definition; of democracy. but the one we like best is the one which refers to de- mocracy as the measure of the free- dom of its humblest. citizens.

-Niagara Full: Review.

.-Intelligence sources in Paris re- port; the main Communist, spy school in Europe has just been moved from Prpgue to an East Ber- lin suburb. The school is run by a Russian officer and gives soviet espionage agents from various parts of the world eight. weeks' train- ing. --Newsweek Magazine.

The U. 8. Sub Department hu just ducked ii. tough problem pitch- ed its way by the Portuguese Gov- ernment. Portugal asked the U. 5. to mediate its bitter dispute with Nehru over the small Portuguese colonies in India. Washington pas- sed the buck to Britain on grounds Britain is Portugal's oldest ally and is. like India, a member of the British Commonwealth. -News- week Magazine.

Questions have been asked in the British House of Commons about the cost of royal tours-specifically about the visit. of Princess Margaret to the West Ii-idiea.in February. No more than politicians can mem- bers of the Royal family please everybody. If they travel it costs L00 much; if they don't. travel they are neglecting their responsibilities to our far-flung peoples. It is a nice problem in public relations which the Queen and her family and advisers no doubt will handle wth their customaiy tact.

-Ottawa Journal.

For those who have reached the age of discretion-let's label that 50 years-the prospects of handling the controls of a. jet. propelled plane are almost .non-existent.. Such discreet ones. then. may find their interest caught by as new plane being produced in the United states, one that can fly as slow as 11 miles per hour. The manu- facturer claims for it that it can drift into ll landing space no big- ger than a fair-size lawn. The sec- ret of the plane's construction is said to be the downward half circle in the wing on each side of the fuselage. A flight at 11 miles per hour might make the trip from Fort William to Winnipeg just: a little tedious, but it might make active aviation Just. 1 little bit

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-The Roman philosopher and statuman, Cicero, said ft. 2,000 year. ago, and it's still true today. The "six mistakes of man" are: 1. The delusion that individual a.dvnnt-e- ment. is made by crushing others; 2. The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corected; 3. Insistlng that a thing is impossible becauseiwe cannot; accomplish ft; 4. Refusing to set aside trlval preferences; 5. Neglect. lng development and refinement of the mind. and not acquiring the habit of reading and study; a. M. tempting to compel other persons to believe and live as we do.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record.

France has sometimes been port. rayed as a. nation of old people, robbed of the virility of more than two generations of young manhood by two world wars. A recent state- ment. by the Service d'Infoi'mation Friixicais, Ottawa, which tells of the school situation, is therefore, quite reassuring. It. adds further to the hopes among friends of France which have been raised by their premier. Mendes-France. inn; year, the release says. 160.000 prim. ary school teachers and 20.000 sec. ondary school teachers will be en- trusted with the training of seven million school children. H But the Teachers' Union estimates that titres thousand more teachers are neces- sary for all the posts to be filled.

- --Welland Tribune

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