PAGE FOUR THE GUARDIAN Authorised as Second cl-u Mill Poll 0"”- Department. Ottawa. The Inland Guardian Publlnhlnl C0- Edltor and Managing Director. In A Burnett. Anoclnu Editor. Fruit Walker. CIRCULATION "Coven Prince Edward llluad like III! MW" "Tho Itrongnl memory ll Wonk" "N"! the weakest ink". SATURDAY. DEC. 26, I953 GHABLOTTETUWN The Queen's Grace The late John Buchan, Lortll Tweeds- muir. preferred the old form "The Klngl-9 Grace" to the more modern ”His Maiesiy" in connection witll King George V. Even more suitable is it to Queen Elizabeth. the gracious sovereign lady of a Conlmonwcaltli which is nlade up of diverse peoples living in every climate who nevertheless feel a bond of brotllerhood. She is not even Queen of some members of the Common- wealth for the great family of which She is head contains republics, so that even the monarchial form of government is not es- sential to the mystic boild. . What is essential is the gracious per- sonality of the Head of the Commonwealth. The deeply felt but indefinable community that is the Commonwealth must have some focal point which will epitomi7.c a thousand feelings and reasons and show the reality of the familyggroup. In her message to her peoples and the world on Christmas day, the first since her Coronation. the Queen lnust have raised the hope in many breasts that an Elizabethan age is indeed dawning. Mankind has too long been weighed down by circumstances. The time has come for the daring spirit of man to challenge the wide seas of ignor- ance and fear and inhumanity. If the world does not respond to the challenge then the spirit of chivalry is indeed dead. God save the Queen! Christmas tin Monday It may well be that in future Christmas will always fall on a week-end. Next year it will be on Saturday, ill 1955 on Sunday and thereafter, if the World Calendar is adopted, Christmas will always be on a Monday. The reason for January 1, 1956 being a probable date for calendar reform being made effective is that at that time the old and the new calendars will coincide. There will be no shifting of dates or days of the week involved. This is a much simpler matter than the last calendar reform. When Gregory XIII reformed the calendar in 1582 it was neces- sary to drop ten days in order to start. the new calendar in accord with the sun. When .1-England finally got around to accepting the reform the number of days which had to he dropped had mounted to eleven. Some of the reasons for correcting the calendar are to make the several quarters and half years of equal length, which they are far from being at present. The 12 months will consist of identical quarters and cvcry month will have 26 weekdays plus cithcr four or five Sundays: the months of the quarter will have 31, 30 and 30 days and the first dayof each quarter will he a Sunday. The four quarters total 364 days so that it is necessary to insert an extra day at the end of the year and a second extra day at the end of the half-year in leap years to maintain tllc correct relation with the solar year. 'l'llcsc', it is proposed. will be desig- nated World Days and be treated as holi- days. The calendar is perpetual and prob- ably thc most. noticeable difference for most people will be the doing away with having a new calendar each years By the same token it means that it will no longer be necessary to work out new time-tables each year. lleria's Execution Those who have tears to shed over the fate of Lavrcnti Beria and his executed colleagues in Soviet Russia are probably few, if any; but the whole episode, staged at a time when Christendom is celebrating the most joyous festival of the year, strikes a jarring note that appears to have been "purposely planned. just as were all the steps in the farcical trials, the 'phony confes- sions, and the grim finale before the firing squad at Moscow on Wednesday. Soviet army leaders. it is said. never forgot the i l, i l l. lesson of 1936 when Stalin used the secret- police to purge the army. Now. in 1953, Malenkov has used the army to purge the secret police. Even the state prosecutor was an army man. The dictator's future will now depend soley on the army's con- tirrucd allegiance to him. In the day: of an- cient Rome. the emperors retained power by similar means. and paid the price in a precarious tenure which frequently result- But the Soviets have added it. macabre touch to the examples of history in their methods of obtaining "confessions" which are now part of normal procedure in Communist courts. Defendants are not brought to trial until these confessions have been obtained by the prosecution. In Beria's case, it is alleged that he was "an agent for thirty-four years with trans- Caucasian anti-Soviet organizations," one of them associated with British intelligence. Such an absurd accusation. if true, would reflect anything but credit upon the effi- ciency of the whole Soviet administration. Stalin must have been a fool to have been hoodwinked all these years by his own right-hand man, to whom he gave powerl of life and death over millions of Soviet; citizens and who used it-as every Russian knows--to send many to exile or deatll.l How many, the world will never know; butt the question must occur to the most un-l thinking party adherent that he may well' be among the next victims of the witch- hunt for traitors. The army itself will have; to develop its own secret police system,l with another Beria in the background fat-i ed perhaps to perish by the same means. - Where cunning and treachery are thel only props to power, purges and massacres: may be expected to follow each other at an' accelerated pace. If history is any guide: to the future, it can safely be predicted that the Soviet tyranny will collapse of its own inherent rottenness. In the meantime. however, its shadow stretches across one- fourth of the world's population, and it is armed with all the latest devices of science to pursue its sinister ends. ..................TAm. A Good Motto "I count only the hours that are serene" was the motto written over an old-sun dial in Venice. It would hardly be prac-' tical as a rigid rule of life for of coursel there are many things in the run of a. classical 'words which it would do us all good to take to heart. We may not be able to omit all fretful cares and worries from the calendaf of our days, but at least we can subordinate them to the things which are joyous and inspiring. Smiles are worth more than scowls any time and one bright gentle moment is better than a hundred vexed ones. Fears are annoying things: they do not need to be destructive things. The more one ponders them the more formidable they appear. The best way to put a bad fear to rout is by dwelling on a good hope. 1953 has had its share. perhaps more has many fine things to its credit and per- haps, on balance, the good has outweigh- ed the evil. At any rate this is much the better thought to take into the New Year. Turning to the sunny side of things a very good habit; like all good habits has to be kept in constant repair or its chief enemysin this case, persistent gloom -will wreck it. EDITORIAL N01 ES Boxing Day. 0 Festival of St. Stephen. first 0 O the Sunday after Tomorrow, Christmas. centres of the Atlantic Provinces. U 9 it The decision of the Ullitcd States to continue its contribution, at least on '4 reduced scale, to the Atlantic v.'o.ither ship service is to be welcomed. It is doubtful if the service could have hccn carried on without American participation. 0 I I The production picture in. Britain is encouraging indeed. The British people put up with austerity partly to permit the replacement of worn-out capital equip- ment and partly to contribute towards world security. Their self denial is now paying dividends. It must seem remarkable to the older should have become the leading Island sea product in volume and third in value, be- ing topped only by lobster (by a long way) and by oysters. That. however, is only one of many revolutionary changes taking place in our fishing industry. 0 0 James Stephens, Irish poet and novelist, died this date 1950. Born in Dublin, he was in sympathy with the Irish national- ists. Hls work combines realism with Cel- tic myth and legend. His original fairy stories, "The Crock of Gold", were publish- ed in 1912 and his collection of "Irish Fairy Tales" in 1923. Some of his later works were "The Charwoman's Daughter", ''In 0 ed in their own murder by a rival military favorite. . i the Land of Youth" and "Kings and the Moon". :A:j.C:........, THE GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN V Plenty VK' "g Ir3- (WRIST is i- M i ' A(j5AlIv fzqs Of A Good Thi ng ; azcrslvlslmg 25. 1953 The Passing Scene" By Observer , ANNUAL BIPOIT ON BABISTII I It is now more than I year hlpl I shouldn't ny thin, but 1 since Babette, the moat beautiful and charming kitten in the world, was brought by kind friends to our house. Shortly after her ar- rival I wrote an article entitled "Babette, Feline Philosopher" Since then I have had "periodical requests for something in I sim- ilar vein. I some mysterious man- ner known only to the feline in- telllgentsia Babette herself was quite aware of these requests. All summer long she has been beg- ging me to forget about political and philosophical matters long enough. as she puts it. "to write something about in really import- ant person," meaning, of course. herself. About a month ago I promised her a full column right. after Christmas, provided that mean- while she would resolve to be good. It has been hard for her lit times, for mischief is in her heart, but I must say she has been A good cat. No sharpening of claws on the antique furnl-, turc. no prowling around the' house at all hours of the night. no jumping up on the chinu cab- inets. Shc has eaten her porridge sampled the catnip, much to Sub. ett.c'x delight; somehow it. didn't seem to agree with me very well, and this year she can have it all. . - . Lest any reader should assume that Babette'a life is all fun. mis- chief, and catnip, I hasten to say that she has-many serious mom. ents. She will sit for as long as a half-hour at A time, pondering the weighty question: of im- world. Her formal education has been by no means neglected. amt I am glad to report that Sllc shows great promise. When Jim came here she appeared to have a predilection for Existentialism as propounded by Sartre. This troubled me a bit for I couldn't quite see how any such abstrusn philosophy could be of the slight- cst benefit to a cat, or to any. bqd else for that matter. Thou. th e was the possibility that some day she might ask me qu.-5. tions about it and I was afraldA in fact I was certain-that I wouldn't. know the answers. That would havt-.hcen very bad in. deed. for when a cat. really Ilka-g you she gets the silly notion that l The ha rpist year which are anything but serene andioareulng them to silence. and so these, too, may contain some things whichime are good. And yet there is a lesson in the-, than its share, of disquieting things but it, Souris is well on the way towards be-V coming one of the more important fishery, generation of fishermen that Irish Moss' wltliout complaining. drunk her you know everything. cod liver all without making In the last few months, mu;-ll faces, and behaved generally as to my rt-lief. she has been can. if she were in young lady just out,centrntlr.g on less provocativ- l 7; Notes Bx The Waxx. Qmwf 0V0"'0'll l5 "10 mllll lvhlnl that (as though to build A nest or crib causes that rundown feclinif. says for a young one). then disappear- It. noted doctor, The medical pro- on into the bllrrow for six days. lession may be overdoing its bid After that she began to emerge hands for popularity, cvery night with a voracious appe- -I-Iamiltoxl Spectator. tlte. only to hurry back to what (the expert! said) must be her young. There was great excite- ment at the zoo, for it is almost 'unheard of for A platypus :0 produce prozeny in captivity. So eventually they dug down and found-nothing but Penelope. We had our doubts right along.- Christlan Science Monitor. lira...-2: THE AFTEKTONE spreads her along the strings An Okluhomn auctioneer was und unconscious in bed from gas. Must. have talked in his sleep, -Hamilton Spectwtor mules music that she wave, The oboe-to sings 'Among the fcrny violins: tilc flutcsi , With throstlc sweetness flee the l threat of drums jup the harmonic zenith. and then To be extinguished no the trumpet comes Out of the forest sounding R filial The promise that atomic power Its just around the carrier will ,mean much, it where the corner is there in not just a big hole. -Moose Jaw Times-Herald. It has been evident for many .yenrs that if the Atlantic Provinces Arconlinz to figures mumuncwllarc to become more prosperous m-nistcr the members of the Canadian family call. All but. the hnrp as through hwy Brimms hmnh ' ""919 Imam cost of state medical insurance is of ' I , . ? . . provinces there must be in much lcumboaan ahecgmd and Can” but I Still Slckenlnlh - Hnmllton SD00-lgreater degree of co-operation and or M ralm note I There ll something prufounllly. sufficient to be an important 3h""l ll" '"C9"l political unit. But in unity there l””l"””l Pl ' mu” "as? )" Smfks is strength, There have been dis- holm, in which a Swedish count cusmom from Mme to mm. bug not That. still eluded tht-nl, pulsating dimmshmmg - car As in the dark a Jewel may en- l mare . ' dared to pav about W5 in - One ray of light we did not know ll” or . - . V in the legislative halls of the prov- was there. :j:m”n": Ylzlrgi?”5rm5kydAb'h”glYHillces. about political union of the 'T'h ” ” s l” ”""-V "55, " jl"Maritim(-s." Although desirable -Rcbcrt H1lll'er.IplOf1:d””gl0l W”rf'l'l”d”g hm” ."f,',lronl nlmost any Point. of view it. gas-I O R OOIIS W1 1 . ' lls doubtful that such can be lhls cigaret, thereby inflicting pain- bums on 10 at his Iachieved-at least not in the fore- Mon Cmmdians have secable future. Therefore the only always had me ideaqnsmml by effective alternative is co-operation Iromantlc novels and I-lollywoo(l.”l me d9VBl0Pmelllv Ol 319 79' I l,n1qyj(-5...thgL sgpinl gaum,-ings 01 sources of the four provinces. It is .. 41... European ,ml,;my were mznfor this purpose that the Atlantic 'nified and formal affairs-minuctsiPl'DVlllCl'5 Economic Council is pro- lmd deep bows and all that sortuposed. When organized and fully tloning an effective organisation of -m-- of thing. It is A shock to fin-'1: that kind should be of incstlmablc "W9 5'9 happy that. we fan at the lords and ladies exploding bal- Llst announce the suppression oflloong in each aim-rs facgs this long l5-ill(C(.l of rebellion. tllc the party winding up in fame of which nl2t.V almost expect Human beings seem to be dis-I to rival lp historical renown the iressingly alike. those days. whrth- 7"9ll1?l”8l3l" SIICSO til llliililfflllfi. liver one encounters them on Skirll ll-rmlnatorl in the conviction ofvnow or in Burke's Peerage.-Ed-' threc daring llislurhcrs of the monmn Journal, puhlic peace nt the late l'lSSl7.(Wi .. held at. Georgetown. Our readers, "(I"plopp pl.-.1! a""m::;ull;'- ll" l'il'Fl1Rl'cll irhcxperts. These platypl-or slloulll , . arrowlng nccoun. we 5 v - g 7.. . . 0l the hnnsinxs. drawinlzs MillreCk0&l'lin:lall':l1r:)ll:i:i::letfll:hllll1lY9sml)q'l0 linfl I 8005 bmklmlih 0' 'i”"l9l”l"K5 Wlllcll Krncrnlly Si:-:pnradox. Unpredictable too. Takclh3""”5 "”k" in ”m' ”5l”'"' nalizc the suppression of ' And even in the wild depths of , I g g SllCll,"Pcnelope-wllo. with her mate. I , clvll convulsions lli rnunlrics less Cecil, lives 3: the gmnx zon some ll"0PlCHl All'lCR llle Vlll5l9 Wm" ' ' tom drums have grown old and llnpplly sltliatc than Illls-and wc,llme ago Penelope dug herself ll; , had prepared several rcnnls nlltunncl in the ground, pr(1(lrI9d(Irllwnl'nr Bllfl lll0.V "P0 YI0l- 501"! T0- Wll nancr. '0 print off in the to carry eucalyptus leaves into it l"'l'"3"l- Th?” MP. 110 young peo- rilcapcst and most. approved form.' pic learning to beat them. We the dying speeches of those wllosnl , must admit. that. sending messages it-gasnns, slrnlcgpnqqand 51",”, ,,,..,.(,iprise only a few square miles. whlle,hy drum boats through the jungle: h ful : laristocrnts. fellow- gl Od Charlottetown g - l NAUFRAGE REBELLION (And P. E. I.) and walue to the four provinces.eMonc- C0llrl- ton Transcript. It'll the same everywhere. Many nl the old craft: and trades are dying out bec'ause young people are not troubling to learn how to use them. There are fewer and lfewnr spinning wheels in country lkitchens, and it's getting harder us has fmleal the of finishing school, matters; right now she is wading In fact she has been so wpn- through Plato's Dialogues. Sin derfully good that more than must be enjoying them for. just once I have been A little worried before her pre-Christmas lobrielv about her. However. she assured began. I came upon her in pm me the other day that she never act of tearing it leaf out of Re. felt better in her life. "But," she public: Book 6. added as an nftertllought. "I wish It is quite it while sincr :11: Christmas would hurry up and gave up the idea of attaining come!" Just what she meant by proficiency in typing. I don't that I don't llnow and she. blame her for that: I have been wouldn't. elaborate on it. One ll5lllR A typewriter, man and boy, thing I have learned about rats for upwards of forty years and since Babette mine is that thcyl haven't got beyond the peck. don't elaborate on anything. Thrv ing stage. like to keep you guessing and, If you guess worngly. as I often do. they laugh with give. I am it little disturbed about her un-Democratic manner. Her own noble ancestry is unquestlan. ed hut I can't see that that en- liitlcs her to treat cats of dif. fcrcnt background with disdain That is exactly what. she does She won't even exchange meows with any creature whole parents were not listed in Who's Who. We are hoping that this nntl-so- clnl trait will wear off in dun coursc. hilt Baht-Ito is now at. most two years old and it. is limr she adopted herself to the social lfashlon. I 0 Let. no one imagine that a cat is incapable of laughter. That. is one of the gravest libels ever published. The other night. for instance. I wu telling Babette about something I read in a mag- azine to the effect that. speaking generally, dogs arc more intelli- gent than cats. "Wllorver wrotr that." she said, "was either a fool or n knavc." Then she laugh- ed so heartily that I wondered if the had broken into the catnip which we had put away for her Christmas present. Speaking of Cllrisimlls presents we asked her in week or so ago what she wanted this year. "Two things especially." she told us. ".1 mechanical mouse and a dollar's worth of catnip all tied up in I pretty ribbon." I had been sce- rctly hoping that she would have n mechanical mouse on her list for she got one last year and we all had A lot of fun with it. Per- PROFESSIONAL A. Wulthen Guudct. LLB. BABBISTER. EOLICITOR. nu. Phillipa Jllillling ul Grafton Street Money to Loan Collection Chas. R. McQuuid BA. BARRISTEB. s(Il.l(llT0fI, NOTARY. Ictc. Eutorn Trust nulliiing CBABI.0'l".lT.TtlVI'N n .-rederlc A. Large. 9.9 Burl-later. sollcllo . Notary Royal Built of Canada Building Charlottetown. P. B. I. noun on city and rum Properties MacPhoc & Iruinor II. I. Dlu.PIlIllEa EA. Q0. E. SOMEIILED TRAINOB. B.A hrrlaun. Eur. "Tl. J. Maison. li.o. i TORONTO. (GP)-Toronto pollcr swooped down on an office party in an auto-wrecking firm early Wednesday, arresting the owner on a charge of permitting drunken- 'nesa and 13 other persons as found- ins. Officer: said it was the start of a stiff police crackdown to en- force warnings by the Ontario liquor control board that drinklnk parties in offices are illegal, even at Christmas. CARDS .:.......:..-:- Gaudct & Huszurd GILBERT A. GAUDET. B.A.. LLB. Barristers Ind solicitor: Money to Loan Canadian Bank of Commerce Blair. Boll. Muthlcson 8: Foster Barristers. Solicitors. Eta B. II. BELL. 1-3.0. (3. II. FOSTEII. LLB. loam on City and Elm Properties no Richmond street Charlottetown. P.l'2.l. Mathcson. Peaks 8: Nicholson A. W. MATKIBON. Q0. A. H. PEAIE. B.A.. LLB. JOHN P. NICHOLSON. LLB- Barrlatcn. Etc. Collections - Money Do boll I75 Grafton Street Palmer 8: Huslom A. J. HASLADI. B.A-. LLB. so long disturbed the s1umbcr.;:ik1'ural one can comprise 50 or is the most primitive means of 0DWlll0h4l' 3"...lu,,. Egg, of all up. aid .,,,1;(1g Md ,l,,,,.n,u.rs more square miles. An instance talking to the next. village, but Mont-IIIIC. P. I: I. sum M No" scan. chambers within, and um "hQ(Vn((wp pm.'cited is that of Hastillgs-l-lrolitenac,lwe are amused at how the Bcllllan "mm 8” chlrgoupgown, p, 3, L plrictnrs wilhnui the bounds of m”Easltcl'n Ortlitaarso. whlchlls 100lCango information centre ldn Llon- - Mommy -to LOAN t e Island Prince l-jam,-(1, w m 8! 0m; an mics wde, in- don explains the new tron 2 "et- :e----:-mv-m4 lmusv Mg our ,,.mlm.;' hnw,.,.,,f:'cludlng 49 different. townships. Itltz-rs sent by mail have more Dfo W. R. CCISOII Gofdcn E. MacMi"gn' lm ,,..m,l,,,1d um, Q,.nm,,,,,,,,R 0,, obviously is mole difficult for rllglnmor than tom-tom messages." CHIIOPBACTOB this occasion, RS notllim! nlu.-plmember to adequately represent al- Saint John Telegraph Journal. Palmer Grululh B.A.. LL.”-g srrlou: orcurrcrl than ll"-N. afyconslliuency of that size than new - - -----A----a cnABLO'I'l'l:TOWN 3533151-Em gouon-on, am. ,lhr offrlltlcrs lnilc sl lcmrllci ll.-uionc which is fewer blocks in length Dial 643: 201 Prince St '5. Pl-""3. st, - Charlottetown 'lng sentenced in mm m,,,,.h-5 ;m. and widlllumn Hn3t)ng5-Frontengg- j DIAL M” nmonment each. in the common,l3 in miles. That in why rural rld- M. Alb." F.mf' Q,c, -.--.A--w-e--- Jail Raf, tzie-Ctgrgelttrilt-ykp. lfr;g;s.;by,c.t;r1r;mc:;1lconunt. have had N s ;h LLB. J, A, Mcsuigdll - -;:::;;1rr:r: .....t".::.::l . l ---w -- -e------ -----m-- -wm'- "- Consmue-my :::.:;:.?.:.:.2'. .mtr.. ""' .ff.?:2".l.;..l::. . - . n c ar 0 Boundaries of an independent tribunal rnthncrl For this In the emu eh-t ya "0"" "' ”"" than 5. political committee. lll09"l l'?0m ""5 P ' ' "in we should love one unothu. . (Windsor Star) A parllnmcntliry committee. all the request of Hon. C. G. Power, is. to consider the whole question of, federal constituencies, to see if,- aome better method cannot be; found to determine their bound-, Arlen. At present redistribution: are -made by a. committee of the com- mons, with all the political im- plications that course involves. Often there are suggestions of gerrymandering and, in the push, there have been many reasons for! such suggestions. But. the fault is, not entirely that of the party in lpowcr which hu A majority on the lredlatrlbutlon committee. very fre- quently the final outcome is I re- llllt of agreements, tacit. or other- wise. between politicians of the vuloua parties. Conservative mem- bers, for instance. might agree to certain changes if certain constitu- encies in which they are primarily interested are left. alone. Mr. Power: prinaal point is that many mnotltionetcl. normally union and, have a far larger pop- ulation than omen. usually rural. This in true. and it can mean that two rural votes are worth as much as three urban ones in the election of a membe . That. at first sight, , TO OUR MANY POLICY-HOLDERS throughout the Province and beyond, we extend the Season's Greetings and best wishes for Happiness, Peace and Prosperity in the New Year. llYtiIiMAli & en. mi. The Oldest Insurance Agency In Prince Edward Island Offices: CHAIIAITTITOWN - IUMMEIIIIII 0 MONTAGUI Byron J. Grant. 0.0. OITOMETIIHI III lent Shoot Phone I1 (Opposite Bonn Kohl) J. Ilmcr Blanchard. B.A. BARRISTER. SOLICITOR. NOTARY. Em , Allison M. Glllis. LL3- lu Queen St. -- Phone 4234 BA'll..I.lK 50”O".o.g tn in II ' st. - cm-lotmown J. 5. 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