THE GUARDIAN. CHARIDTPEPOWN J.IlNUARYpp5,w1954 PAGE FOUR THE GUARDIAN Authorised ss second Clsss Msll not 011100 Department. Ottawa. The i-Inna ouualui Publishing co. Editor sud Managing Director. Inn A. lurnntt ,- nancially impossible to place other benefic- isries on a par with those receiving assist- ance as veterans. -----m-:--mm Pompeii Excavations Archeologists, digging at the ruins of Habit The Pass s: o A vlsrr -robs ing Scene bsorvsr NONAGENAEIAN Olin. this renowned Roman states- ””'”"" um" En” Wmm" Pom ii for 205 vears have succeeded in pg 95, - 'hf b ied lnss nmxhsvojoux-neon: iAlus.n(ci.rc.300Z.C.).'tooku,pt.he CngcuLA'1'ION uncovering one-half of t e amous ur Mwfawn 1,, ,,mm 9,, .g.. man, ,1 5,"; m M, mh nu son's greetings and birthday fslic- -sud bscsms proficient. in What "Covers Prince Edward llinnd like the dew” "Tho strongssi memory is weaker than tho weakest link”. CEABDOTTETOWN 'runsnn'. JAN- 5. 1954 7,g4.j:.m Fablans Resell Seventy Realizing that revolution simply means coming back to the place of conlmencement, a group of reformers organized seventy ,years ago with the object of socializing constitutional The Fabian Society has probably, society by education and action. city. Block by block the ancient metroplis is being cleared of the 20-foot-thick layer of volcanic ash and stbne that entombed it in A.D. 79, says the National Geographic Society. An army of 1.000 workers has, restored hundreds of private homes, shops.i temples, open-air theatres and public baths. Extensive bomb damage suffered during World War 1'1 has been repaired. But to complete excavation of the 145-acre set-, tlement, at least another 75 years will be required, the Italian government estimates. At the time of its burial, Pompeii was six centuries old. It was a flourishing com-1 itstlons to Mrs. Ohnriss Johnson who was born at Boughton Island on December 8. 155. That mssns, as anyone can no, that she is now 98 years old. '10 of these hsve been spent in her present horns, s fact which helps to support an old Georgetown claim that permanent residence in that town is. per ss, :4 reasonable guarantee of longs- by. Gsomgstovwurs oldest resident. s Mrs Mcxinnon, passed sway only a. few weeks ago st the ago of 109. Mrs. Johnson now occupies this of distinction and one honour. she will fill it with dig- nity. grace. and charm, all oi plus fssls that it would be difficult to D find anyone more deserving of ths language. Evenissrllsr than that the poet Sophocles was the same age when he produced his greatest work. Ohsucer was so (s good q. in those days) when he wrote his "Omtenbury Tales". um Goethe was well past. the four-score mark when he completed his glittering and immortal "Fs.ust". O I I Thou men. and others like them who could be mentioned, were, of course. not ordinary people; they were. human beings. just. the suns. They showed by example whst modern social scientists are as s new fashion, mmeiy. that old are does not necessarily imply mental and phy. sicsl inactivity. . had more influence on social reform lnl mercial center as well as a fashionable re- , , . . . , , r , .ld than. , p ' V . g V. ,whloh qualities will be accentuated I Britain and Olliei Pails 0f U9 N31 :SOll fol uealtlly Romans. Cicclo had a villa by I nvelyg cheery"; humour, Mrs. Jomnson. like most old any other group, although it was throughlat the foog of nearby Mount Vesuvius, The i - - - people. likes to pretend st she In the course of my latest visit, l5 I V”? 01d'l”hi0ned Der . She isn't, actually. In going about ha following ths usual but perhaps the trade unions that many of their DP0-lpopulation exceeded 25.000. In A.D. 63 the posed reforms were given sufficient impetus to be adopted. Named for Q. Fabius Niaxliillls. E9ll91'Rl-of furtller quakes, the Roman Senate at 01' the ”D913.l'9l”'.lfirst refused to appropriate restoration ly known as "Cunctator" city was razed by an earthquake. Scarcely a structure remained undamaged. Fearful i not ithought of asking Mrs. Johnson jif she would tell me to what she inttrtbuted Lille. However, before I got round ito it, she said: "All my life I have household tasks. doing a little guy. cloning in the summer, and read. ing a little in the long evenings, she is practising in her own quiet my the very latest principles of normal psychology as they comm-. old age. very sensible practice. I her long and pleasant ulever disliked anybody.” My ques- tion had been answered before it ,was asked. 2 It isnlt long ago when this kind of 1 recipe for longevity-or for alwthing else for that matter - would have been regarded by knowing people as uttsr sentimen- tality without it shred of evidence to give it meaning, much less val- idity. Now. the psychologists are saying that they can't think of alwthing more conductive to good health and spirits than s charit- abls disposition. The historic dis- tinction between mind and mat- . to: has been virtually discarded .. land there is general agreement s- mong the specialists that what There are a lot of very old pea. pic on this Island: more. I believe, than l.n any other part of Can. ads. Let them not imagine for one moment that their day; or usefulness have gone. Out of their long and varied experiences, somg of which have been marked by lights and some by shadows, they have much to teach the rest of us. For them all I should like to take the liberty of quoting s few lines from s. poem written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow when he was an old man. "What. then? Shall we sit idly down and say The night hath come; it is no whose cautious policy Saved Rome fli0m funds. It later relented. and a new, even Hannibal. the Fabians repudiated all violentl mm-9 1uxu,.i,-ms (.11.. 1.05,. on the 5”... six. and sudden methods of reconstruction. I.cc-item years 1am; on a pm Av.L-ugi morning. mites and tFaCiS W91? lllell WPKDONSA They the final calamity struck. With a terrify- dealt. particularly with education, the drink,ing roar, Vesuvius erupted an enormous trade. holislilfl. aE-'l'l9UllUT9- f1'Wl0lZV anflcloud of flame and smoke. Burning lave. sanitary legislation. the poor lau. munici-lflowcd down the mountain's sliiiddcring sldv pal enterprises and socialist ieneis in gcn- A black blanket of ash enveloped Pompeii. eral. . l Trapped in their homes and in publicl l l -s PUBLIC FORUM 3 (ans 2. I. 1.) Many brilliant thinkers were attracted buildings. hundreds were smothered by to the Fabian Society and through it to poisonous gases. Others rushed into the the British Labour Party. A minority, butlstreets and were killed by falling rocks. highly vocal minority, of that party is re-,Mal1y were crushed to death as parlic-strick- I This coliilnn is open to the :7 0e& discussion by correspondents cruited from the believers in militant Com-len residents mobbed the city's exits. When goes on in the mind is often the longor m., rnunism. ithe skies cleared and Vesuvius quieted two! ':!u;lrl:i'i:::”"a'oe:'I:::”l:::'e.'::': e "omw 'A'””Tm5 key in the commion of 1,1,. body, Cut off from labour by the fail- lf may ll? Said i0fla.V lllat W9 are alkdays later. Survivors returned briefly i0 iiy endorse the opinion of moist WHEN 11' is FINISHED rmm the Royill Gazette. March Eizlisulilgelklrirftdflymiilvrvintil-tivteliemseltx - ulgixllziirmum M U m do socialists. It is merely a question of dc-,searcll for the 2.000 victims. Feeble at- t""”"l”"d"'"t wh 1” n 1;;-F Lb d ' 133,53 ,. I old. nor that the ycantmkemug or dare; vree. It would be hard to find anyone wholtem ts to raise the buried tov ' . m-- l G" ' M 1 ”' 3" we "D"”"5. ”" '"""” "W" W" always die young. It isn't quite Even the oldest tree some fruit 5 P i n weie soon 4 set on the night of the 17th inst. M ample M ch" It do” mm to my be”. Mrs. William Macksy. with an in- The war-stained buckler and the font six months old. left James bright blade by. For age is opportunity no less infer that s mind biased towards Than youth itself, though in sn- Later volcanic eruptions add- wlllsrhr UP voun couluiolsi goodwill is a great help to physi- would want to see roads. bridges and thepabandoned. post office operated as private concerns and ed new layers of ash and earth. Finally. S”, X nmember R day, when BL 451.1 m, remember than wh,.b1,,,,dy Bernnrdl Fmmh Rmn N”, Lon. 1 mm th d tl l dt, . l' -- r' -. '0" -' . -t. d.f l'l h..h'h. 1-" '3” ””””- in le other tan here are equal: fen el en the last vestiges of Pompeii dlsafipeal icli I had seen buried my deale5liwhaLP;;::ns' Wm" Mon - ni:;Iugr(l)rnne1l)', ox: Cn':laIieMwo(I;' S?" . o 0 Ana? me gvevning gwuigm gm” I ' y who uant to nationalize the land and all ed beneath rows of vines and greenery. 7il'lt”-"fl 1 did” ll'hl5”9 but I 53” i i "Rock of Ages Cleft for Me"; and . . i g g other instruments of production. Many of More than 1.300 years later, in 1a94.lwallml the floor back and forth our reforms such as childrens allowances. a group of men laying a water conduitlMy courage returned Ind I W5 ' v v - . . - 'ablc to take up my work and go Old all? P6051005 lmllld hill? been Wfldld .stumbled onto the llllns. The blanket ofiom Tm is a my Wham we gm”. ed by our ancestors as socialistic as wouldlvolcanic ash that destroyed Pompeii harilly llecd courage, fl day when we government enterprises such as the C.N.R.,also preserved it. Works of art and sci-l::10l;”J1h?f”nfX:sE”:cfe lvyiiafpezggzi or the C.B.C. ences and objects of everyday life lvereland scam. Truth lies trampled in miraculously intact. Organized excavation,'W' 3””t:”?m5”d EV); s”"ghr':)t.:l; . V , .. upon L e rolle. very l 1 Operations uele begun in 1148 by Cllarlcsl,,,a,, and ,.-om” ,5 praying (0,! III of Naples. Early treasures retrieved DOM? but Peace (1095 "Oi 60""-l - We catch at straws of hope. We . . . . . 7 . Th? proper treatment of veterans bwfrom tlle.llllllS uele lemmed to the Ikaplcswe We mm mm, on we Open me Govemment is not the 50),! nor eveniNatlonal Muscum or sold to private collec- sea. far from land. Waichmx 101' I . itors. In recent times the prlcless al'ticles'i””i A cloud M” m the hom'u"'l the principal reason for the existence oft 1 ' ” ' ”land H. wind the next moment dis- the Gamma” Legion hm It Certainly is alhave been left ill their original positiol1s.l5ip;.i.e.; the cloud, It used to be thought that. rs- gsrdless of the physlcsl condition, when 1 person reached '15 or 80 it was perilous to do anything more strenuous than rocking buck and forth in a sof'ly cushioned chair. As for intellectual activities of H . any kind, these were out of the Ingglr ":3 :3” 7".',lg:l,:'ariZoh;lf 53:? question. Crestive, uork. physlcsl with his wife oflPo-rtsiie Lot 33 lo, menuh W” only for the young left their soil-in-law's th return and vigomu. No one could lam to their own house distant about 3"y"hm”g' much 19" tench ”'"y' three hundred yards. About half mmlzv 3"” he "ad reabhed ml” Vuyy the and mum, 30. mm. score and ion. After that. to the pletely bewildered. from the viol- l9W W110 Bot Wymld ”- me mu” ence of the tempest. A dispute '13 bl” lfid.-l68iliJ-it having arisen between them as to Juli: h0W lid I11 8'-lfikd in "N3 Ihe road they were pursuing. Mrs. first place is difficult to un- Macarthur sat down, with a rug derstand: a look at the records mu; "yin, up In .u,,-. for gum. shows that there have always selves s good foiuidstion sgslnst over her, and was found unin- jured next morning. The old man been people who combined gcn- the time to come, that they may was destined never to reach alive. It would appear that the unfor- tunate woman had lost her way. as. on search being made, she was found next morning in a field within seventy yards of her own house. with her infant lying in her bosom, both quite dead. .V Purchased our wreaths of harvest and ripe ears; Whose empty hand, whose empty hearts. whose tears In this Gethsemane Ransomed the days to he. --Marjorie L. C. Pickthali. too. when the Jew fel.l among theives on the Jerloo road that the Levite, after examillulg him saw he didn't belong to his kinship and felt. that lie was justified by passing on. The priest did like- wise; he thought his office too dignified to help a man in need; ,but the Samaritan who was even an enemy to the Jews, moved with s. heart of love for suffer- ing humanity, instantly rendered The sky is filled with stars. in- visible by dsy." Chsrgc them that are rich in this world. that they be not high- mlndsd. nor trust in uncsrtsln riches, but in the living God. who glvoth us richly sll thing! to en- Joy; that they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute. willing to communi- Leglon Olilsctlves rl What a ionic to our courage and Pompeii has developed into one olr major concern of that organization. The treatrnent of veterans is also of concern to the general public and it is of interest to note the particular changes in policy or practice which are being advocated by the Legion. The basic attitude which the Legion wants to see adopted is that the social as- sistance glven free to old people, children. the blind and others should not be a measure of the maximum assistance to be "cm" given to veterans who have done far more 0”” of the mst Problems "3 fa" PV9-fl' for their country than merely living in h',dent Aurlel of France was Premier Laniel's It is also advocated that allowances be pairliom”. l” wslqni 11 is ml S”ri”'i5i”3 mm. latter the difficulty of his own election he to the dependent children of War Veteran, . g Allowance. recipients; that the value of per-l deillded "M to accept the Premlerls ms”? na on. Italy's greatest attractions. Vesuvius still casts a constant shadow over the restored city. and arclleologisls. fear it may one day undo their work. The l volcano has erupted from time to time, but there has been no modern catastrophe com- fparable to Pompeii. EEEORIAL N01 ES qulsltes. such as wood cut on his woodlot . . . and milk and eggs from his own stock should not reduce the W.V.A.: that First Far better than 1-..(.,.,,( ,,m,m1S fnrlt World War veterans who served in Eng-Lquotas on fish imports is the latest pro-I Second World War. had been no previous adopted children of :hould qualify for two parents. Treatment regulations should permit a land but not in France or Belgium be envlposal by Massachusetts senators, titled tn W.V.A. as are veterans of theithe money collected from tariffs on fishery for an allowance; pensions of dependent parents be increased to 51100 a month for one and 3125 a month It is that lproducts. some twelve million dollars. It is proposed that disability pensions: allocated to research and promotirin for the be granted to veterans who were declared? industry. physically fit on cnllstmcnt, and who subse- quently suffered disability of which there. record; disability pensioners: I O O The blanket of silcnce which envelopes the interview of American :ultllorilics with thaHMr. Gouzcnko will do no harm so far as iproviding enliizhtenment to the investigat- ling committee is concerned. It may, how- lever, prove a disappointment to anyone lmore interested in publicity than informa- tion. that thc'. sliding scale of payment by veterans whose . . . income is in excess of that now permissible but is not high enough to pay the costs at full rates. The Legion advocates that the period during which re-establishment credits for the Second World War be extended to 1960; that the benefits of the Educational As- sistance Act he made available to orphans seeking vocational training as they seeking uni- are now available to those versity training and that the Veteran Land Act administration make direct interested in the veterans Own Home" programme. All of these proposals call for the ex- penditure of public funds and must neces- sarily he carefully studied before adoption. It should be agreed by all fair minded citi- zens. however, that the assistance given the veteran and his dependenti is on a dif- ferent basis from the social security offer- ed to the population as a whole and should not be restricted because it might be fl-' tained at a high level. or ..o Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, British Antarctic explorer, died this date 1922. Born in county Kildare, Ireland, in 1874, he was third lieutenant in an Antarctic expedition in 1901. He commanded furth- cr similar expeditions in 1908-9, 191.4-16, war of Antarctica. off South Georgia. His works: loans to the Story of Shac.kleton's Last" Expedition. "Build Your ' ' ' The streamlining of United States tax laws means a substantial saving to taxpay- ers both in money and in effort. Even greater reductions are needed, according to an Dlglish economist, for the purpose of American authorities take the view that other factors, including social security benefits and high incomes, will enable production to be main- stimulatlng the economy, but and in 1921 for a proposed three-year tour He died aboard the "Quest" include "The Heart of the Antarctic". and "South": same people are! I often think of old Caleb at 85 years asking for that mountain where the giant sons of Anak lived. By the help of God he was going to route out and posses their land. At 40 yeais of age he with Joshua brought in s. minority report urg- ing Israel to go right up and pos- ssss the land and was stoned for his pains. And now at 35 years he has not lost his courage. We think too, of sir Winston Churchill. at 79 proposing to go alone to Rus- sls to talk face to face with Malenkov that keeper of the den of lions. Where do those men get their courage that seems to rise head and shoulders above all ordinary? They believe in s God who rules the universe. and rules it in mercy and love. There He sits upon His throne, the Almighty. He sees every tear that falls. He hears every cry that ascends but He sees far beyond to the day when men shall live in peace and goodwill, and dominate the earth. somehow, all this evil and con- fusion is working out the divine .revcaled in Jesus. '1-Every Christian heal-L lPS'lllFS to that. "We kllowl that all things work together tori. good". I am, sir. etc. W. I. GRE'ENl Bridge. , Stanley THE PRICE OF PEAOI Sir.-I may say I was very pleas- , i ed to read in your editorial of, General Mamhall's warning of ribs need of many of the uoi'lu.s'Hl”id population, a need of great neces- sity must be filled siss we may , loose forever nations thst are still i friendly to us. Did it not shook us .to find China.becoms our bit- 'ter enemy even more than the Korean ws.r itself? 1 surely with all the knowledge and education we posses today it shouldn't be an imvoliblo thing to point out the chief cause of this break in relationship with this great country. 0 General Msrshsil hlmsslf says in spiritual regeneration which would re-establish s feeling of good faith among men generally and especially those who no dis- coursgsd in life with low ston- dsrds of llvlu. ' Why is it that MI Ohrlstlsn Church hss never sccmtsd the challenge of Ohrist to bob food and clothe those undsrprivilsged people? In fact whsn we rsslise the little we have done in nearly two thousand years it b no won- der they hsvs asst us oiif snd ac- cepted something they how not):- ing about. The ad sud New Testament teaches very clearly that we are our brother's keeper. we know what God ssksd Osln when his brother was missing. We know the most important thing today ls' ....m )f'm llrst aid. Yes and did not Christ as recorded in Matthew 25th chap- ter. tell us that for neglecting to care for the sick, hungry naked etc, we would never see the Kingdom of God? And the work and teachings of the apostles was to this end. James, and chap- ter. declsrcs faith without good work is dead. Why is it we wor- ship the birth of Christ but go very little further, especially when it comes to those foreign nations? The truth is we're going to suffer for our selfishness. Christ was called the Prince of Pipes, and is. But we have regarded His word lightly. We preferred, rather than send them of our surpluses of food, to build iarmamerits to force them to stay as they are. hungry and starving. Yes. Canada spends 50 cents at every dollar in taxes on arms- iyments in a time of peace. This Iis the price or punishment for lnot regarding His Oommsndnlerns. We needn't become so haughty militarily u to think God is dead or that He does not punish na- tions for sin. Here's a true story about Germany. lest we might imagine God is asleep. Hitler told his Nazi troops the momlng of the invasion of Brussels. that they were about to make history for Germany, for one thousand yesrs. Yes. they made history for this period it is true, but for shame and contempt. as Belgium was a neutral. Hitler again proclaimed he would own the Urk.l-Linc. snd the great agricultural riches of was stumps, about a quarter of a mile off. nesdsy last, on the body of John found dead among the "An Inquest was held on Wed- lus with old age. A few instances: lay hold on eternal llfa PROFESSIONAL CARDS Blanchard, laborer, who was found lying on the street on the night of the 17th, and conveyed home. and shortly after died. from tht effects of exposure to the clemency of the weather." A punishment is meted out. For Germany's sin of unbollef and disobedience she is split wide open and Russia, remember, will never surrender her eastern sec- tion unless through another warl which would mean a civil war for, Germany. I Now in through Christian chsrity. even through means or the United Na- tions along with other gifts. thatl we mnw hold India. It was good news to read that one Anglicanl clergyman sdfvised Ottawa to spare some of our surplus wheat to those needy souls. Of course we must not go all out on the social side. Salvation by faith in Christ without. money and without price is ii glorious "" Montague. closing there is hope 1 A H. J. Msbon. R.O. Optometrist P. I I. - Phone 891 MZeiT.?oTi. mu. 3. Nicholson A. W. MATEZBON. 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