PAGE FOUR THE GUARDIAN I Authorised as Second Cluo Mull Pull 0101:! Department. Ottawa. Tho Island Guardian nllblllllllll Co. Editor and Managing Director. In A. Burnett Associate Editor. Frank Walker. CIRCULATION "Covers Prince Edward Island like the dew" "Tho strongest memory is weaker than tho woukout Ink". CHABLOTTETOWN TUESDAY. NOV.ii. 1955 Attack on Mr. Pearson Hon. Lester Pearson, Minister of Ex- ternal Affairs, has been the target for crit- icism of a kind which will be resented by fair-minded people in this country of all political creeds. As noted by the Ottawa Citizen, Mr. Pearson has been detested by as if encrusted with diamonds, slate from Strathbogie in the next valley, and pine from the forests of Mar. The name Balmoral is from the Gaelic, meaning "majestic dwelling." Lying on the right bank of the Dee,,eight miles west of Ballater and at a height of 900 feet above the sea, it was originally the home of the Farquharsons of Inverey from whom it passed into the hands of Sir Rob-: iert Gordon before being acquired by the Royal Family. The parish church ofi Crathie lies a mile and a half to the west,l and about a mile further west stands Aber- geldie castle, another Highland royal resi- dencc, now used as a shooting lodge. lloino Saplens The chief study of mankind is man and I although great gaps remain in the knowl- edge he has been able to acquire about him- self the sum total of what has been learn- ll. S. isolationists and xenophobes for some years. Only recently, the Chicago Tribune attacked him because of his sensible inter- nationalist views. He helped found the Un- ited Nations, and has been a moving spirit in the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and of programs of international co-operation, such as the Col- ombo Plan. His anti-Communism has not consisted of reckless denunciation, but of constructive efforts to prevent war and to help remove the social and economic griev- ances on which Communism is nourished. Mr. Pearson has also, as a spokesman for a sovereign nation, quite properly been an outspoken critic of the tendency in Washington to make decisions binding on Canada without consulting Ottawa. With the exception of the most short-sighted na- tionalists, his program and personality have made him justly popular and respected in Ganada and the United States. Now a Mr. Victor Lasky, co-author of a book on the Alger Hiss case, has told a committee of the Women's National Repub- lican Club that Mr. Pearson "consistently ed is vast. So far as the emergence of man himself is concerned it has been gained by patient searching and the sharing of tiny scraps of information that have survived the ages. As archaeologists have re-dis- covered ancient civilizations by digging up iinnumerable fragments of their workman- ship, so the anthropologists have looked even more deeply into the past and al- tempted to reconstruct the steps by which man emerged from earlier species. i The task presents enormous difficulties and to the individual scientist there is small hope of monetary reward. Those who de- vote their lives to this pursuit of knowledge o , presumably do so because of the fascination. lof discovery. This makes it the more diffi-l mil to understand the hoax that has been ; perpetrated on the scientific world by ant English lawyer and amateur antiquary. Charles Dawson, over the years 1911 10' ,l9l3, ”discovered” various portions of a: skull, the Piltdown skull, in a Sussex gravel! pit. In 1938 Sir Arthur Keith unveiled a monument at Piltdown to mark the spot where the skull of the ”Earliest Briton" THE GUARDIAN. I CHARLOTTETOWN The Amazon "Ca.nan:'a.n economy wears askirt 1” cries c.A.c, president on. visit, The P "IndlA'l Ilroluocio position he- lwocn Communist Russia. and Bed Chins. maker it. imperative that we do something to old her if wawioh to retain her friendship. If she ' should join forces with her neigh- bours Weston Democracy would receive a blow from which it might never recover and, u we have been warned. time is running out. I We should not now". . This is an excerpt from a letter which came to me after the short. review of Dr. Keenleyside's "The Impending Crises" appeared in this column. in is certainly a well thought out statement. - There is no doubt that India occupies a strategic position, polit- ically as well as geographically. in the present invernationalsituatioii. Just what she would do in the event of war between Russia and the West. is a question which no one outside of India. seems able to answer. There is some indication that the Indians t.he'mse.lves are not quite clear on the stand they ,ivoiild take. At. the moment their official policy is what they choose to call "neutrality". They say they are neither pro-Communist nor pro-west, and that of course is Dossi-ble. Should general war ibreatk out that position almost ,certainly would become untenable. lclrcumstanoec, would compel them it-0 decide one way or the other 1and it. can, I think. be assumed ,that; their decision would be based -on -Wllal: they considered best. for India, not on ideological grounds, 1 Indian position in the Common- livealth in not at. all similar to our town. It. could be said with some PUBLIC FORUM This column is open to the discussion by correspondents of questions of interest. Thu (iuardluii does not necessar- ily endorse the opinion of l correspondents. GRADE XII SCIENCE 7&39c&QO&1 x;Notes By The Waxf. -On her hundroth birthday a lady gave as a reason for her longevity that in her youiigier days she never walked the floor with her babies, never washed dishes and never did the laundry or cook- ing. She assigned those duties to her husband who died at 58. of discovery of 8. pair of lcatlier scanties. rc-scmbling the lower half are estimated to be old. of Britain should have had their jiruzh that. she is both in the Com.monwea.lt.h and out of it. Whether her ties with the rest. of us will strengilhen or deteriorate as time goes on remains to be seen. Again, that probably will depend on what. Indians regard to be in their own national interest. The kind of sentiment that binds ourselves and the 'Aust.raliar.s and the New Zealanders to the Crown is clearly non-existent. The fact. is that political devei. opments in India in recent years have no historical precedent. by which the historians might be able to form considered opinions of the From Old London comes word of a Bikini bathing suit. which 1,900 years That the Roman inhabitants form of burlesque complete -with sabotaged" efforts to disclose Soviet in- trigue in Washington and Ottawa. By in- was found. covery and others such as the On the evidence of that dis- "Peking Sir.-Students of Grade XII might. be interested in the follow- ing discussion on the relations of, Farmer's Advocate. Much greater attention should the usual costume. is no particular news. But itis too bad we have lost the secret of making leather that would' last nearly 2,000 years. course these developments are like. l.i'gt.o take in the future. The only things the lustorisns have to go 1935 -m..g NOVEMBER 24, assing Scene lay Observer INDIAIB POSITION ing of East-Wow tension. India-3 period of transition from a de. pendent State or 9. collection 0; sum to full aovcnelgntyy .dd,.,,- quite a. number of problems-some of them very pressing one-c-m those which already were hitting hard at the gates of Free worm democracy. Moat. political observers whn have any real knowledge or the Indian question appear to be con- fident that eventually-India. will emeltlti 113 9- great. democratic power. Meanwhile. all sorts ng things could happen, and gome 0. these things could prove to be sources of annoyance to the deg liberotiozic and desires of the Free World. About the best, ..pp,,e,,u,. that can be hoped for is that ml din will not, as my correspondm, puts it, "join forces with hp. neighbours". The Induan statesmen whom W hear about and whose speeches M, read in the newspapers app”, ,0 be men (and women) of consldey, able ability and shrewdness It seems unlikely that they would allow tihemaelves to be taken in by Communist propaganda which we may be sure, is L&mlLlj1g mm; "every hour on the hour". am India is a vast. country who,-,9 teeming millions are beset by hem. racial and religious tensions. Those who are tryinrx to bring he; ff, political maturity and st.a.bllit,,, face not onh' the problems usually associated with statccraft but other problems whose roots go back 2 long. long way. And it should e noted that Orientals genera”,- llke to recall that. historically, Communism is a product. of West- ern civilization. Doubtlecs the anti-Communist powers are doing everything pmc. ticable to aid India in her ham uphill fight. to achieve both pom. ical and economic stability the one belna lmfpomlble wlflioult the other. Such amistanoe is good busi. ness for theinselves as well as A good advertisement for the delim- CFEUC Wily. Whether or not am am the west 9311 Give will ensure the "friendship" of India is an. other matter Exchanging mum.”- coitnnioditlu for spiritual onq hut no seemed to w , well thus far. ork mmcmu” This of course is no anlnat. any sort of aui5t:riig'ol:n;i:;l, as it concerns India or any othm. ference, Mr. Lasky tried to raise doubts about Mr. Pearson's loyalty. "The method is by now well tried in: the U. S.." says our Ottawa contcrnpoI'aF.V "The America Firsters evidently find that they can intimidate opponents by raising the cry of disloyalty, or of bad security risk,' which has come to mean almost any- one who dissents from the lunatic fringe of the Republican Party. With so many ex-Communists as their chief source of in- formation, it is hardly surprising that these people should use Communist tactics --the smear, the implied guilt by associa- tion, the inference of disloyalty-against patriotic citizens who happen to be inde- Man", the Javan skull and the more ques- tionable African and American discoveries, it was concluded that a number of races of man-like creatures lived anywllefe from 200,000 to 1,000,000 years ago and that from one of them, undetermined, modern man descended. What the discovery that the Piltdown Man was a hoax will do to such theories is difficult to say. Where the total amount of evidence was so light the effect of one item being false may have been great "ls deed. For forty years the perpetration of a hoax may have caused scientists to go off on false trails. The late amateur ar- chaeologist's reward was not in money and country. Democracy needg 3,11 hm. outward and visible signs or 1,, good intentions it. can mug”; by arelstataments which are made from time to time by Indian po- litical and social leaders. These are not very reliable for the sim. ple reason that Indian thin-king does not IQHOW the normal wen. em pattern. The old oouplec "East. is we nnd West; is west and never the twaiii shall meet." may not be Quite as r-evealixig now as it used to be. for of course East. and west do meet at a good many points, but it is still important enough to confuse Western thinkers when they try to read the Indian story. There are plenty of people in both Great. Britain and the United States and no doubt in other Colmt-rles. too, who feel that In- dia's complete independence came in little too soon. As it. happened, this historical development coin. light 10 50Und- , (be given to the education of girls Our Grade XII science texts and Wu”; wo,m,n' Dr. N. A. Macg I?” U5 that We Que-W0" M Smlndvlkenzie. president of the University W5 C3059 and "Wdium M ”"Vel-lcf British Columbia, said Saturday. is settled, and indeed, we slioulllt--For," he added, --Mmough the in, be quite dumb in this age of radios,!dependem role of women has been ct.c., if we could not. follow the ex-lbechmcany wtabl-mhel, om. cul. l-1llmMl0nS 01 "W5Ve5 and Vlbmfltuife is far from developing to the lion! DI Rudlble Soulld -"nd M5-full the tnlenks and contributions FEDIJOGUCUOH5 "V97 di5”l"C9-" of women." Dr. Mackenzie made But, going farther they tfll U5 his comment in the course of a that an exact. conclusion as to thclsmdy on educamn prepared 10,. transition of light-means and merl- degively befme --Canada-5 Tome,-. lum, has not yet. been reached by,mwr- c0n,(e,.e,,,Ce' He is R former SClenC8- . ,president of the University of New There are two theories advanced,iB;-m.5wick' ,, Quebec Canadian the first of which is, that. likelpx-(.55 sound, light travels in waves setl up by vibrations in 3, medium tl'iat.1T'G”TWT.m T-t "could" be air. but 10? the l3Ct,speed of sound per second, but he that it passes through a vacuum!5;.ys ngm travels M m, speed or while sound does not. The wavel135,3oo miles per sec. (sound new theory for llizht ls. also. countc-r- fers to audiblllty of vibrationl. lfl acted by evidence that sound tra- he had given me mp speed M We've never had brogues like that. -London Free Press these days. A decision avhlch may well have It fundamental bearing on Can- ada's future is expected soon fmm the Alberta Government which has before it two applica- tions for the export from that province of natural gas. One ap- plicant aeeks to build a pipe- line from the Alberta gas fields to Eastern Canada. by an all- -Canadiaii route. The plan of the other is to build from the gas fields to Emerson. Manitoba, and thence into the United States mar- ket, with ultimate extensioii of the line into Ontario. --Montreal Btar. But as is written, Eye mu. m" mm MP on heard. neither have entered into the heart of man. the things which God inn. prepared for them that love him. But (Iild hath revealed them unto III by his spirit....Now we have received. not the spirit of th. world, but the spirit which Is of God; that we might know H19 thlnn that are freely given 1.. "These people do great, harm to their; country. What is the rest of the free world to think when so many influential Americans, even if they do belong to the crackpot set, adopt. methods different only in degree from those of the Communists? The present shifty investigations' in Washington, so largely inspired by partisan :motives and the desire of self-seekers for publicity, cannot. help but damage United States prestige as a leader of the free world." Balmoral centenary This fall marks the centenary of Bal- moral Castle, Queen Elizabethls holiday home in the Scottish Highlands. The origi- nal castle, set in the grandeur of wooded hills, and the 11,000 acres estate were pui- chascd by Queen Victoria and Prince Al- hert. The castle, however, was too small for the Royal nceds. and a new building was erected. Queen Victoria presided at .the laying of the foundation stone of the new castle just one hundred years ago. Lettice Milne Rae, a descendant of the architect who de- signed the -new castle, relates in London Calling that it was never Prince Albertls intention that Balmoral Castle should be regarded as a palace. He wished it to be simply a Highland shooting-lodge, a place for quiet and ielaxation and the enjoy- ment of outdoor sports. In the evenings, when he came back from the hills after a day's sport, he would take pencil and paper and sketch his dream. He drew the tur- rets and the arches of the doors: he plan- ned the windows and the roofs. The ome- mental woodwork of the interior was de- signed by the Prince himself, and was carved in Aberdeen. The architectural design was entrusted to William Smith, the city architect of Aberdeen. William Smith had lately suc- ceeded hla father. John Smith, in the same office. Both men thus had close associa- tion with Balmoral as it was John Smith who twenty-three years before had made the alterations to the old fifteenth-century house. "Scots baronial architecture in a modified form was the style adopted for the new cutie, which was-built entirely of local ma- ldfllllt. from the Balmoral estate, silver- ,"-hlllitg Ipukles in the sunshine -. s pendent-minded. l . London. it is obvious that it will not be in the gratitude of his fellow man either. ,- EDITORIAL NOTES It was Russian "quality rigging supplied at very low cost" that enabled the Royal Navy to defeat the Spanish Armada in 1588. according to a Soviet magazine art- icle. There may be something in the story. "Give us the tools and we will finish the job," has a distinctly Elizabethan ring. V O 0 New Canadian Army dress regulations ' require all officers to wear Sam Browne ibelts with service dress and summer trop- ical worsted uniform. Both officers and men will in future wear their insignia of rank on raincoats, an innovation that should prevent many a faux pas. I O 0 C The efforts of the Canadian l-'edcration of Mayors and Municipalities to obtain ad- ditional revenue in lieu of taxes on Federal propertydeserve success and in fact. the Government has already indicated that the matter will receive sympathetic consider- ation. While civic expenditures have ex- panded the main source of civic revenue, real estate, has lagged as a source of rev- enue compared with income tax and other Federal sources. The Maritimes' deposits of lead, zinc, silver, iron and pyrites ore are the largest in North America and should form the basis for a big-chemical industry in New Brunswick, accordingto the Premier of that Province. Prince Edward Island, mean- while, is sitting in the centre of develop- ments in Newfoundland, Labrador, New Brunswick and Cape Breton, besides being in. a direct line between New York and If the Island economy does not prosper it will be our own fault. O O O . Laurence Sterne, British humorist, was born this date 1713. Curate of Coxwold, he called his house there "Shandy Hall". "Trlstram Shandy" was an early effort in novel writing and is a tangled mass of nar- rative, reflection and digression. His later works, such as "A Sentimental Journey", show a perfect sureness of touch and econ- omy of expression, producing fine shades of meaning and having a finished polish. He made the novel an autonomous form of art vels around corners uliile light does not, -hence, shadows. , The first question that hits me' in these arguments is: Does sound travel around corners-or through them? Audible sound has :1 com-, parativcly low speed of vibrationl and ”could” fnll into period withl various materials passing into the air reinforced, or weakened ac-I cording to the material, or thrown back as an echo. Is not this the basic theory of acoustics in build-l lngs? "Light". however, pi-oducerlo by a much higher speed of vibra- tion, certainly could not be hcardl by the human ear. and certainly. could not. vibrate in pcrindlwitlit materials that transmit. or inter-l cept "sound'. As to thr variiuntu it. seems quite reasonable that, sound, on the nthcr hand. at. a lowo speed of vibration (audiblci could. not. vibrate in period with exist in the vacuum. We are now boiled down to the question that. science of Grade XII leaves unanswered, or rather tells us that the answer to it. has not been found: In there another med- mm of a frail sort.-frailcr than air -in the vacuum. after the air is rc- moved?-Wc shall have to leave that question to Einstein. Even if I had the brain to work it. out. I have neither lab. nor book, at hand to prove it.-nothing by way of tools except. an ancient. copy of original ”Noah Webster" abridged. However. I rope I can be PM” doned for venturing the theory that what. we generally call a "vacuum" in never a "complete" vacuum. There is likely to T9' main, always. in it, in minute quantity of air. and air is elastic, it does not. retain its volume, and might produce, expanded. ll. frail medium that. while it. could not vibrate in period with the low speed of audible sound. takes the period of the "short. wave" vibra- tion of light. that carries it through the vacuum (so called) or, perhaps. as science suggests, there is another medium called (ether) trailer than air, present in the vacuum . . It is generally known. of course. by musicians that harmonies and dincoi-do depend upon the coin- cidence of periodic vibration. C 256 and C 512 separated by 1 octave. give reinforced quality of sound. but are harmonious. The pitch is not raised though the quality is reinforced. Also that the higher the pitch of varied vibrations the less audible the round. I believe you already see my argument in brief: Lishi is simply a higher spceil of vibration than sound. and its period being no high. it is inaudible to the human ear. producing heat. that is transform- ed into energy of light. As the nei-inri of vibration rises. the wave length shortens producing (1) sound. (2) heat. 13) light; and higher periods of iibratlon are re- sponsive to frailer mediums--H we and the dominant branch of literatum. , at. present. estimate frailty. Noah does not (iv: ms the g fillylpleasuice and well being, medium so fmll all mlifhl Dolslbly with concordant. sound.or music. sound travel per second, we might. have done some inaccurate calcula- tions by comparing the ratios of the speeds. but I do not think it. could mean much because. the huirxtn ear varies in its ability to interpret. sounds. and sound varies in pitch with vlbraton. So lets lcave out the mathematics-unless ”you" wish to continue it thus. 1 For, the following steps in de- ductive reasoning are merely a conclusive argument in favour of my personal reaction to harmony in colour and sound (colour in the spectrum, not pigment, though the reaction is the slime for both). I have been asking myself why in- harmonious colour combinatioiis disturb me in exactly the same manner as discords in sound or, music. and harmonious combina-t lions of colour give a feeling of equally I decided there must be it close- existent relation between llglit (colour) and sound. Remembering my Grade XII scieiicnuvhich iii the limit. of my "scientific" studies so far. I lined up the following data. But. knowing the weaknesses of human reason. I am submitting this discussion. not for your ac- ceptance. but for your criticism. and. I sincerely hope that some better mind will dissect my argu- ment and point. out its flaws (ex- cepting. of course, that we do not know by what. medium light; passes through the vacuum). Light. and Sound Similarities and llelollona (1) Both light and sound travel through space. (1) The highly sensitive human reacts in the same wily towards dir- cord and harmony in colour as in sound (colour in a constituent of night). l (3) Seven colours of the spect- rum-scven notes of the scale. (4) Light at various wave lengths produces (prism) the '1 colours of the spectrum, Alpha. Beta, Gamma rays, ultra violet rays, etc. etc. , (5) Sounds are audible to the human ear only up to n certain pitch of vibration at which they become inaudible. (known). (8) speed and motion produce heat. ttnownt. Extreme speeds pro- duce both heat. and light. (1) Wave lengths depend upon speed of vibration. (ll) Light travels much faster than sound. I (9) Light transformed to sound reaction in the sound film. (lo) Reinforced vibrations sound reproductions. (ll) sound travels around cor- ners-?-? or through opaque ob- jects--but. it has been proved that various types of material react variously on the audlbllity of sound to the human ear, increas- ing or uimlniching. according to the response to vibration. (Acous- tics). in I am, sir .et.c.. cided roughly with the heighten- us of God. V 74a .f&o: ?oe&i'&um TH E QUIET MIND When all is done and said, In the end thus shall you find. I-fe most of all doth bathe in bliss 'i'iizii. hath ll. quiet. mind: And. clear from worldly cares. To deem can be content The sweetest time in all his life In thinking to be spent . . . Companion none is like Unto the mind alone; For many have been harmed by speech. Thmugh thinking. few or none. Fear oftentimes rctalneth words. But. makes not thought to cease: And helamspeaks best. that hath the s I When for to hold his peace. 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