THE GUARDIAN

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Press censorship on The ilise

The number of countries where news is censored or controlled at its source has ris- en steadily in the _vears following World War II to the point where press censorship is now more rampant than it \vas in 1938. the Unesco Courier reports in its current. issue on freedom of the Press. A graph shows that 50 countries were censoring news in 1932, as compared to 39 in 1948 and 45 in 1938. In 1952, foreign news- papers were banned in 18 countries, as against 14 countries in 1948 and 7 in 1938. The trend towards a tighter clamp on news does not apply, however, to all aspects of news gathering. Thus, according to the graph. orfly 13 countries barred foreign correspondents in 1952, as compared to 21 countries in 1948. This was still a far cry from the 1938 picture, when correspondents found borders closed only in six countries.

The delicate problem of press freedom and censorship is extensively reviewed in the Courier. the illustrated monthly mag- azine of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, by Dr. Salvador P. Lopez, chief of the Philippines delegation to the United Nations. Dr. Lo- pez's review is taken from his report to the U.N. on freedom of information. He points out that virtually every modern state declares, in its constitution, that ev- ery citizen may freely speak, write and publish his sentiments on all subjects . . . but there are differences in interpretation of this right.

"The basic human right to freedom of opinion and expression has become. in many parts of the world, ii casualty," states Dr. Lopez. "This is true in the authoritarian states, but even in other countries, this right is constantly menaced by the tendency to sacrifice freedom in the ostensible inter- est of defending freedom."

Elsewhere in the Courier, articles dis- cuss the mechanics of hewsgathering. the responsibility of the professional journalist. inequalities in the world's access to news (Europe, with 16.3 per cent of the world's population has 42.5 per cent of its news- paper circulation: Asia, with 52.8 of‘ the population has 21.4 per cent of the circula- tion). and a new service launched by French scientists to help reporters check the ac- curacy of science stories.

Tlie Flora Mocllonalil of Fact

A good deal of legend has gathered around the name of Flora MacDonald, the heroine who accompanied ’Bonnie Prince Charlie, during much of his wanderings in the Highlands disguised as the Irish spin- hing-maid. “Betty Burke". It is appropri- ate that the Edinburgh Scotsman should correct the record.

Reporting a paper delivered by the Rev. Donald MacKinnon before the Scot- tish Genealogy Society, the Scotsman re- veals that Flora MacDonald was not a mere peasant girl. In her blood flowed the aristocratic strain of the regal House of the Isles, founded by Somerled. And through the Argyll family she could trace her descent to the Scottish Royal House of Robert II. Little is known of her early life. except that she was well educated, could pla_v the spinet, and was a singer of Gaelic songs.

There was no love affair between Flora and Prince Charles during their brief as- sociation. Nor was her motive in helping the fugitive political — it was humanitar- ian. After her adventure she did not re- tire into obscurit.y, but married Allan Macdonald, younger of Kingsburgh, and went with him to North Carolina soon af- ter their meeting with Dr. Johnson and Boswell in 1773.

After many adventures they returned to Skye and Flora, who died in 1790, was buried at Kilmuir. As her shroud she wore one of the sheets in which the Prince had slept at Kingsburgh.

It may be added that I-‘lora had it di- rect connection with Nova Scotia, having spent a winter at Annapolis Royal, in fact which the late Anglia L. Macdonald com- memorated by unveiling ii monument in year or so before his death.

" One’ of the difficulties experienced by Weatei-n diplomat: in their dealings with Min" flflflfl-II the tendency of the let-

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not in not exact. ’_ f I Russian reaction to Ill‘ wington Churchill

at a meeting of a Conservative Party group. In the course of his speech the Prime Min-

ish-Russian relations should not improve in the near future; at least that was the gist of his remarks. There was nothing spec- tacular about the staiement. and the fact that it was made just after the Geneva Con-

nificance.

No sooner had the speech been reported in Moscow than Tass, the official news agency. circulated a rumour to the effect that Sir Winston‘s conciliatory words indi-

ain and the United States in matters foreign policy. obvious reference to the United States Gov- ernment.

of

gressive aims and put their egotistical in- All

Britain and the United States will come to such violent disagreement on political ques- tions ahd answers that there will be no common will and strength with‘ which to re- sist aggression. It is the old strategy of “divide and conquer" \vliich has been used

age of an aggressor and to the woe of his intended victims. The Russians will learn, however, if they do not know it already, that it is a useless strategy in their deal- ings with the West. No doubt there are differences between Britain and the United States with respect to procedures and methods; these are to be expected and in the long run may prove helpful. But they will not disturb the common aims which receive their strength from a common un- derstanding of the nature and va‘-ue of pol- itical freedom.

Tlie Vigorous Dandelion

See the pretty dandelions, blooming ev- orywhere. Is there a finer yellow to be seen anywhere around? The answer, though not exactly responsive, in the opinion of the New York Times, is that the dandelion is a pest, a nuisance, an in- terloper and several other things. all pre- ceded by adjectives. Especially if the an- swerer is a man with a/cherished lawn.

People who like their lawns don't like

dandelions, though the fact remains that the dandelion flower, viewed dispassion- 3I9I.V. is as pretty as, say a calendula or an aster. Furthermore, the dandelion is good to eat, if you like cooked greens. Not as tasty as some things not half as good for you, perhaps, but good Spring fare, fully as tasty as rhubarb 01 a lot of other beneficial Spring herbs. ‘ The thing about the dandelion is that it. has so many offspring. How can so flimsy a little puff of down and so min- ute a seed possess such vitality? Let one beautiful dandelion go to seed at the far corner of your lawn today, and tomorrow you have dandelion all over the place.

The chicory you grow in your garden for a salad green isn't that proliferating. and chicory is a cousin of the dandelion. Several other salad greens are of the same family. and they don't take over the place even if you let them go to seed. You have to plant them and cultivate them and cod- die them.

. But not the dandelion. It will grow in a crack in a cement sidewalk. It will grow on an ash heap. Neither flood nor drought seems to discourage it. The lawn- mower merely provokes it to greater effort.

You fight dandelions all week-end, and late Monday afternoon there they are, pert as all get out, in full and gorgeous bloom, pretty as can be, thriving as only dande- lions can thrive in the face of adversity.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Viscouniess Nancy Witcher Astor, wife of Viscount Waldorf Astor of Clivedeh, first woman to sit in the British House of Commons, was born in Virginia this date 1879. She always has shown a keen inter- est in temperance movements and political affairs. In 1923 she published "My Two Countries".

Profits on each dollar of sales in Cana- dian manufacturing industry averaged 5.2 cents, according to figures prepared by the Canadian Manufacturers’ Associ lion. This was 0.2 cents better than 1952': Zrofits but 0.6 cents less than the 1951 figure. The figures are “after taxes". More than half the profit was retained for development and 2.3 cents paid out in ‘dividends.

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President Eisenhower has ordered army personnel not to testify before the Me- ‘Carthy Senate sub-committee about the role of White House and other Govern- ment officials in the conflict between the Army and the Committee. The hearings, consequently. are at it standstill but there may well be a test of strength between the executive and legislative branches. The President has the enormous advantage. however, that his fellow Senators are be- ginning to be fed up with McCarthy.

ister stated that he saw no reason why Brit-

ference convened was of no particular sig- ‘

cated increasing disagreement between Brit- ‘ At the same time, with an I

Tass berated “those ruling cir- ; cles in different countries that follow ag- _

terests before the prosperity of humanity." -

this is one more evidence of the ‘ hope of Communist leaders that in due time

more than once in the past to the ad\’ani- .

Some kick ‘ml tkazt DDT.’ Mow‘

PUBLIC FORUM

[his column in open to the diacunalon by cuueaponiientn of questions of interest. The Guardian does not necessar- ily endorse the opinion of wrreapondenta.

THI3 30-CALLED PLEBISCITE

Slr.—We note without much sur prise that the Marketing Board I: going to disallow any farmer in the Province to vote on the com- ing plebiscite unless he belongs to the Potato Marketing Board, which is brought about by paying in money and securing a grower": ii- cence. In other words only tliost who are in favor of ii Marketing Board are going to be allowed tc vote or have any any in it. Just what is our Government going tc do about this method of forcing things to their particular liking‘. will our Government stand back and see. our citizens who are not in favor of a Marketing Board. not allowed to have in say in a question which certainly concern: us all?

Some growers have been almos. ruined because of the drastic rul- ings of the Marketing Board 'I'hey'i-r. even suing for damages in the courts. Others have stopped growing potatou altogether. The\ refuse to be slaves to this market- ing scheme with all its nosirums They don't fancy being put into a cage and chirruped at through I.l'l( wires by a few men who obviously know so much that there iii noth- ing left for anyone else to know.

Most growers prefer to be Il‘E( men, free to sell when they like tc whom they like and take wha' they can get for them. But theat- growers are not going to be al- lowed to vote. Only those who favor it are going to be allowed in say. The idea of selling potatoes ll‘ll'0il|Il\ a Marketing Board we: as sound asleep M a hibernating hear until I-Ion. Jimmy Gardinei came down here on it visit pecul- iar to politicians. Jimmy had jus written out a cheque for iiixty-fivc million dollars to the wheat grow- ing voters of his own coiistiiiiency. which worked out according to plan in the next election. Oui potato growers felt that if Jimmy could find sixty-five million dollars for the voters of his constituency that he should be able to spare a few million for the potato growers of our own little Province.

when faced with the request, knowing that many farmers are always standing with their mouths wide open ready to swallow any new nostrum that comes along Jimmy just. smiled and told these growers all you need is it Market- ing Board and your troubles will be over. And these farmers awai- lowed the dope, bait, hook. line, sinker and all, and Jimmy Gard- iner went back to Ottawa wearing the biggest. amlle he ever were in his long political carecr. and these farmers have been dumping their potatoea along the beaches ever since.

We are all citizens of this Prov- ince and the growing and market- ing of potatoes concerns us all. whether we pay in to a Marketing Board scheme or not. so let us all have a chance for a any in this important question. '

I am, sir. et.c.. LDUIB W. PEARSON.

\ The Age Old Story

And God anld, Let no main man in our image. after our ltkanoaa: and let them have dominion over the flair of the sea, and over the fmvl of the air. and ever the cot- lle. and over all the earth. qllld over every drooping uiing um enema upon the earth. Be and one man in lab own flange. in the but of God created In hill male and female «noted be than ....Anil and our every min; I t he tut mode. and. behold, it very good. -

TIMMINI. Ont. (OP)--An 11- man committee vru elected hen: Monday to flaht the dl**ribu"a'v v nlactoua literature In t.hla district. The corrlnlltea will seek guidance from lcbtfll eu..ne:-L. ‘a on canal»

%enco’ %e&l'Gmw'z

In blows the loitering air of spring. scarcely a-blow, a-blow, a lively

gas. it makes the aecret life-cells ring And quicken. while the blood-waves

pass. _ Floss nothingneas, we feel it cling. R.calle.——silent as space, unseen as

glass Unluatred softer than the weakest.

Such air can enter nostrils, sudden as light.

The eye. fair words the ear. or flight.

The nerve-knot. or your unexpected

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My startled heart. Down from above,

Or from the south. or flowered west,

Or from the oceaned east. or here. Blown first by spring. this air poe- eesaed

By spring is Ah! so lithe this year. The curtain files before this won-

der. Talk inst. Speak swift before the heart‘: asunder.

——Gene Derwood.

Locating Heering

(Edinburgh Scotsman)

Echo-sounding recordings, made by a passenger vessel between Aberdeen and Lerwlcit, are to be broadcast. regularly on the drifter waveband to help fishermen lo loc- ate herring shoals. During the past few years the SS St. Clair, owned by the North of Scotland. Orkney and Shetland Shipping Co, Ltd., has at the re- quest. of the acientists of the Scot.- tish Home Department Marine Laboratory. been making echo- sounding recordings whilst on pas- sage aorosa Aberdeen and Lerwlck. Information obtained about her- -.-mg ahonla has been passed on by the captain to interested flshei-men and has proved to be of material ASSISIIHDQ to them.

The Herring Industry Board con- sldered that. even greater benefit would be derived from these regu- lar echo-soundings if information about the size and location of shoals could be transmitted to the fisher- men immediately it became avail- able. so they asked the shipping company whether they would al- low the board to have I. suitable. radio telephone installed aboard the St. Clair.

The company the equipment has stalled.

consented. and now been in-

REVENGII AVENGED

OTTAWA. ‘(CP)— A Montreal man, Joseph Egoshen. was sen- tenced to five years in Kingston penitentiary Monday for burniniz 1 dairy barn at Burriti's Rapids industrial form April 29. causing $20,000 damage. Egnshen fold the court he burned the building for revenge because he had been

Old Charlottetown

and P. I. X. BURNING THE REGISTER

The following excerpts from the P. E. Island Register of March 19, 1828. record the aftermath of election proceedings at the Court House in Charlottetown, which the editor of The Register (James Douglas Haszard) had criticized in a previous issue as being of a very rowdy nature: ‘ “Having crossed the ice from Chliiey Point (where the election finals were held) in a carriage drawn by four horses, the success- ful mlldldalt’, (Mr. Nelson) was met. by ii crowd of people, several of them in one horse vehicles. aa- rembled to grace his triumph... At last. having paraded through all the principal streets. the whole mass. made a hall. in front. of our office; and while we expected nothing else than three cheers for ‘The Liberty of the Press‘, we were doomed to witness a very different ceremony, namely, the burning of The Register of last week, as holocaust to the wounded feelings and offended dignity of the moi). of “hose many-headed majesty we had failed to speak in terms suf- ficiently respectful in our account of the scenes which characterized the three first days of the election. "It is usual. we believe. on such occasions, for the common hang- man to act as high priest, but that functionary not being forth- coming. a Mr. T. Robinson con- dcscended to officlnte, and it must be allowed. that. he acquitted him- self in a. manner worthy of the office. It was a sad sight not- withstanding its childiahncss, and after the blaze. when we beheld nothing but the sparkling ashes. and the thin. black wavering oi the smoke of annihilation and obll. vion, it may be supposed that we felt many in pang for our lll-stnr- 1-eu progeny. When we recovered oui-selves the pageant had swept past; and on looking out, the only living creature we saw in the street, was a aolitary aaa. the rest having all passed on.

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icatlona of aaiacioua literature.

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‘ NOTES BY

And then there’: the man who complains that his wife has the last word even at 3crabble.—-l-lnmll-

ton Spectator.

—When we aealiae how difficult it. is to keep neighborhood affair: because of line fences.

we get an inkling of what goes on in United Nations. —Farmer‘e Advocate.

A aouthern woman was shot by her husband. whose only explana- tion was that he didn't feel well. It‘s getting to be that people think any kind of ailment can be cured

E by taking shots.—Hamllt.on specta-

tor

—Shouid the Six Nations Indiana be looking for a name to give the Governor General, Mr. Massey,

;when they adopt him into the - tribes on June 30. they might con-

sider something that translate as

’ Big Chief Spellbinder. for he’: a

mighty man in a pow-\vow.—Brant.- ford Expositor.

A blazer. nut‘: the thin:-‘ll seems all organizations are going in for the wearing of blazers. with crests. Latut proposal ill for mem- bers of city council to wear them when attending civic functions or conventlona. The city crest. would be prominently displayed.--North Bay Nugget.

...1i, in" an Amer-Ic\:an aenae of what is prosperity to call the cur- ln businu: a recession.

graph Cn. reflects the “pinch" by announcement it. installed “only" 400,000 new telephones in the

' first three months of this year.

In the same period last year it put. in a little over 100.000 phones more. By contrast all Mexico has only 312,000 phones in aervice, and Cllllildli. has 3,350.000.—Philadelphla Bulletin.

A Tenneaue farmer. tired of watching people toss whisky bot- tles and beer cans on his property, where cattle cut their feel; on glaaa. retaliated by gathering about 250 of the bottles. and smashing them a quarter mile strip of the road. "The durndest sight you ever saw." remarked the patrolman who charged the farmer with malicious mlscliief.—At.laiit., Constitution.

with Increasing intoroat nntlona are looking to the sen around them. to supply them with many of the necessities and luxuriea of life. And there is evidence that marine har- vests may prove an profitable to the fishermen of the future aa land crops have been to the farm- er. It has been predicted that rea- weed may provide many a lonely outpost of Scotland with a major industry. New experiments over there have been undertaken to find new usu for marine vegetation. Already it has proved it: worth as a vegetable, as a jelly. as cattle fod-

“ der and fertilizer. has even been

made into bread and has been em- ployed in the production of iodine and potassium. From seaweeds al-