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THE-G-UARDIAN

Authorized an Second Chin Mnll Post Office 1" Depnrtznant. Oknwn. The lnlnnd Gunrdlun rublinhlng Co.

Editor and Managing Director. Inn A. Burnett. Auoclnto Editor. Frank Walker.

CIRCULATION "Coven Prince Edward lslnnd like the dow"' "The strongest memory In weaker than the weakest ink". CHARLOTTETOWN FRIDAY. OCT. 9. 1953

P.0.VI. Recommendation i

Justicei,

The recommendation of Chief I Thane A. Campbell that Canadians who hadi been Prisoners-of-War be presumed to have, suffered hardship entitling them to com-' pensation writes success to the efforts of the National Council of Canadian Prison- ers of War. It is also a responsible judicial finding that no country holding Canadians, as Prisoners-of-War lived up to the Geneva: Convention. g :

The money to pay this compensation, if it is approved, and other claims that are successfully maintained before the War Claims Commission will come out of assets of ex-enemy countries held by 1'19 C3”3' dian Government. appear, are inadequate for all the claims

' garden, nibbling a carrot, sampling a turnip

These funds, it would!

that are expected to be made against them

so that it may well be that the increased,

will reduce: . . tthe most important occupation of man. The!

payments for physical hardship the amount available for compensation for financial losses.

No one, however, would argue that it should be otherwise. 'The Chief Commis-

been convinced of the hardships imposed in the various prison camps and it is not like--i ly that the individual prisoner would fall, to make out a case of hardship, althoughl it-would mean a great deal of effort and expense to prove each individual case.

The finding brings home vividly how far the nations had departed from inter-i national law in the Second World War. Many individuals have been punished forl atrocities and other breechcs but the pun-' ishment may well mean only that in future no country will dare to lose a war, no mat-, ter how desirable it might be to bring ill to an end. The whole question is one oil the utmost importance and will continue to. be until war itself is abolished.

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Back To Fundamentals

it, is interesting to note that the trend in higher education in the United States is again toward the fundamentals, with em- phasis once more on the humanities in pro- viding students with ll broad foundation in the chief fields of knowledge. Latest indi-V, cation of this trend is a sixty-page report prepared by the Yale University General Committee on Education. Undertaken by the president and eminent faculty members, of the University, the study has been in? process for the past year. It is reviewed in a recent issue of the New York Times,l from which we quote: I

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”The Yale report proposes, in effect, a,nien to whom Prime Minister St. Laurent in the

clean break with the existing undergrad-E

uate college program. The committee makes) this basic suggestion: Let us pay less at-

rollegc life and more to the major business, of the curriculum-developing educated.' critical-minded, sound-thinking men and womenp l

”The suggestions presented by the Yale; committee are radical. There are two pro- grams: the first, ii transitional one, to develop a stronger undergraduate course for the freshman and sophomore years; the second, a permanent plan that would re-I verse existing college patterns and return,l to a large degree. to the system used at" Oxford and Cambridge. The student would he treated as a thinking, independent in- dividual. His would be the responsibility to study. He would not be prodded, and pushed into an education nor be spoon fed.

"The Yale committee takes to task 'stu- dent immaturity' as expressed in over- emphasis upon extracurricular activities. The whole community of students finds its academic work secondary in comparison with such timportant' items as sports or the college newspaper. Not that these activi- ties are in themselves a sign of immaturity, the report hastens to explain. But: a major- ity of the students puts second things first V-and the effect of this type of student preoccupation is at times tboth insidious and cumulative'. immaturity is defined as a failure to recognize the importance of the work which stands at the centre of college life." -

The Yale plan comes as the climax of "a series of plans and studies, that hnve-np- penred periodically during the last decade by a number of leading” American universi- ties. .Ali-endy..-notes The .'I'lmq, "ln.the changes adopted at I-larval-d.-Princeton and

Iii-end. The un-

Colunibll, as well an other imtltu-Iiiiine of courtesy and consideration

is sometimes described as. the tcafetei-ia', system of education-in which one takes an educational dish here and another at the far end of the counter-appears to be on the way 'out. The 'late Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia described the free elec- tive system as a trabbit' program in which the student hopped about the educational

or stopping at the head of a cabbage. When- it was all over, would the student. come up with a well-balanced menu or would he get indigestion or suffer from malnutrition?"

All of which goes to prove that reforms in any direction can be dangerous when "they lose sight of first principles, and that so far as higher education is concerned: these first principles have changed little' with the years, despite the advances in" techniques and the sciences.

Emblem Of, Stability

Commenting on the plowing events in Ontario this week, .the Ottawa Journal says: "Tile champion plowmen who have come to Canada to compete in the inter- national plowing contest at Cobourg make us think of the everlasting verities. They were not interested in Canadian buildings or finances or statistics or foreign policy. They wanted to know about the soil. They turned the earth in their fingers and esti-, mated how it would plow and yield. l

"The cultivation of the soil remains

good earth is still our mother and when! Ingersoll wrote To plow is to pray' hc'

spoke for all the ages. Should the plow- O

sionervs recommendation means that he hasgman fall and the ground turn barren then,

more finally than under the stroke of the hydrogen bomb, does civilization die. I "An international plowing match rnay, be farming in its most exotic guise, but' the good plowman who loves the land andi glories in his skill is an emblem of faith and stability in a world where change hasl bred so many doubts. : g l

EDITORIAL NOTES

H. R. H. the Duke of Kent, born this

date, 1935. I O I

The speed-up of traffic over the Hills- borough Bridge by effecting control from the ends of the bridge itself rather than the? approaches will be appreciated by motor-l ists.g It is to be hoped, however, that the. interest being shown in the present struc-' ture does not mean that the building of ai new bridge or causeway is a matter fo:” the distant future.

. The Indian guards of prisoncl's-of-war; in Korea are having their troubles. Theyll could hardly have been helped by the rath- er unfortunate declaration that 'would not be used to maintain order. Theirs is a thankless task but a necessary one ifl the exchange of prisoners is to be proceed-! ed with.

O O ,0 , It was a group of air transportation

said that the world can no longer afford the luxury of hatred or even indifference.-

lThey, of course, are keenly aware that ev- '( tcntion to the extracurricular aspects ofgery country is only a matter of hours from -svtiw with the bavkwnrd coun-

any other. One and all must come to that same realization that the world is ouri neighbourhood. I O I 0

Alfred Dreyfus. son of a rich Jewish manufacturer in Paris and viciini of "The Dreyfus Affair" was born this date 1859. A young captain of artillery, he was at-, tached to the French general staff. He was tried by a court martial sitting in secret and convicted of delivering docu- menls to the German government. He was transported to Devil's Island. Through the activity of his family and friends, notably Emile Zola, it was proved that the prin- ciple evidence against him had been forged by the chief of the intelligence department.

Summerside's proposal to combine in one building facilities for skating, a youth cen. tre and agricultural exhibitions should go far towards easing the financial burden of building and maintaining facilities for each of these purposes; The generous offers of investment of Provincial and Town funds should make it attractive for the Summer- side,Ti-otting Association to go ahead with the project while at the same time the terms retain for the Town some control over how the facilities will be used.

Most accidents are not caused by drunken-drivers, hit-and-run drivers and other major violators! According to the president of the American Association of Motor Vehicle .Administrato'ra the greater number-of accidents are caused by "the fel- low who, when behind the wheel, loses all . for othern." There was a time when dis- couifteay was apt to mean death at sword's high-

-point. Today it means death on the

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gGUARDIAN; CHARLOTTETOWN

On Handling A Dragon

PUBLIC FORUM

This column in open to the discussion by correspondents of questions of Interest. The Guardian does not necessan ,

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NEWSPAPER ITEMS

ily endorse the opinion of From the Examiner, Nov. '1, correnpondcnu. 1879: we Mark Butcher is making nl FARMERS' PROBLEM splendid suite of furniture for, V

Sir. in the vernacular ”a iii! of this reader's hat" to your art-

rflitorial "The Thinker" (After Rodin) with its mental query: "How to put. cows on a five-flay week?"

The above reminded me of R iflanagement-labor squabble re- ported in my farm paper, in which it was indicated that "the machines have to he hing. They don't fire, and people who operate them-i.c., the workers-may devise all sorts of plans for staggering the work in- to three shifts around the clock: but the essential principle is pro- ductivity, which involves getting away from the anti-social idea of working as little as possible for as many dollars as possiblc."J

It seems to me that something in the nature of the 8-hour day has been worked out on some of the co-operative, farms in Sash-. atehcwan? I cannot. recall eiiherl the mechanism or the results: but, if I remember accurately, all those "best.-laid schemes" by gen- ral consent of the members, be- came null and void, and bowed ht"f0rP the imperious decrees oft the Harvest? 1

Meanwhile, as V,l'l.'s pictorial, story makes very '('l(”llr, the rows, are not in the least impressed either with man's hurry, his de- mand for leisure plus going places, or his fear of abundance.

So, therefore, I have no answer

query directed at your readers by "The Thinker"-and yet, I think it would be in fine text.-theme for a cartoon, some lay. to show ll scene of today's North American Ahimriance, to-

trlcs, where, reportedly. 65 per cent. nf the human family "live intimately with hunger from birth to death”. depicting fear and nor- row on the faces of the people

in hoth areas. with the title: "Vale of Tears". 1 am, Sir, ctr. WESTERNER.

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I will extol thee, 0 Lord; for thou linsi; lifted me up, and but not made my foen to rejoice over me . . . 0 Lord. thou hut brought up my soul from the xnve: thou hut kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

Books Received

THE FIELDS OF HOME by Ralph Moody (in Canada by Mc- Leod, 335 pp. 84). The author of "Little Britches" writes for-old as well as young in this tale of 1 boy on A farm. It in easy to for- give the youthful' hero for his re- markable achlevements in restor- ing to cultivation n run-down New England farm because his grandfather is much harder on hil presumption than the reader could possibly be. The account of the taming of "the yells colt" in more convincing than that of human- lzini I far more ferocloul grand-

father. A FAI WIND HOME by Ruth Moore ( cLnod. Toronto, 312 pp.

83.75). Merchants and pirate: formerly belonged to the name p. feulon. In eighteenth century Boston It wan sometime: Iulpect. ed that they still did no. At any rate when the brother: Cnrnnvon were suspects of dealing: with ltlngoid the pint: they found it necessary to move north and net about building up I new shipping empire. One of the Elli: brother: actually win one of Rliuold-'1 cut- tlu-outs but did not rotoiir his ill- notten gold long enough to dis- credit , hoimty. The author's

real menace, which may be fol- lowld through numnrmu navont-t

Wildey Lodge. I.0.0.F'. The design:

meclianicai superintendent of the Railway, has kept run- .0nt,. to look after the construction: ill-”'of two locomotives which are all

and carving of the Noble CvNllIl'l'ElW'l'app(d like it bcggarrd chair, and other l5'- 0" M5 'h9”5d'ldtw”"d "mm" Mark Wright. foreman of Mr.'Of tattcrecl tanager and partridge Butcher's :

ceedingly appropriate and tast.cfui;i mid the upliolsteiting is brilliantl

chairs. by Mr.

establishment, are ex-

with the choicest. plush. y

Nov. 10: Mr. Alexander Sti-onach.,

gone to Kingston. I

be made there for the P. E. Islmidl Railway. i At a meeting of the medicali staff of the Charlottetowii Hos- pital, held on Saturday, it was re-! solved that the sick poor receive- advicc and medicine free of cliargem as out.-door patients, each day be- tween the hours of 10 and lit o'clock. l Nov. 12: "They robbed me, Al nor liard-working woman. of my. gin, the dirty blackguards." said an oldf woman passing along the east end of Grafton Street, last night. Our informant on ques- tioning her on the matter. learn- ed that she had been returning.to her liontn. at. the east. end. after working all day. and had with her a pint of "Old Tom." While passing one of the street corners she was set. upon by two roughs, who seized her gin and ran off. A public meeting of the in- habitants of Breadnibane and vicinity was held on Tuesday last. to take into consideration the best methods of detecting the person or persons who faoniously set: fire to the mills, dwelling house and barns of John Gillis. on the morn- ing of October 31st... and the mills and dwelling house of Charles Murray, the warehouse and dwel- ling house of Charles Stewart, at an early hour on the morning of Tuesday. 4th inst. The meeting. being largely attended, showed how the feelings of the people were aroused in the matter. A subscrip- tion list was opened and the sum of 8300 was subscribed, to be of- fered na I reward for such in- formation as will lead to the de- tection and conviction of the of- fenders.

Automobile Insurance

(Windsor star)

What is described as a detail study of insurance company prac- tices. and their effect on auto- mobile insurance cosh, has been ordered by Mr. T. D. MacDonald. federal combines investigator. It is purely a fact-finding inquiry. No violation of nntl-combines laws is Inspected.

This cm be I useful investigat-

ion, as much for the companies concerned as for their patrons. They have mutual rights to the best, in service: And with auto- mobile insurance -premium ply- menia mounting Annually. some qualified overseei-thip of that ner- vioo in in order. ' Ottawa report: any the Jnquia wan opened following complaint: that some of the practices ment- ioned mny have led to increasing contn. Whatever the facts of the matter. there can be no better time to It them straight.

Ivlqnnoo ofjnpld expansion of automobile Insurance in provided

figure: showing that between 1 51 and 1052 premiums increased from Qi0ll,300.000 tb 0i8'I,'l00,000, while olalnn were hioimting from 005.000.000 to t76.5N,000.

Yet these deiallli will raise in mnhy oueatlonn as they can ami- wer. They show that while claims were increasing by lll.s00,000. fpromiumo went up 831400.000. If thou figure: are rellab guides. an that wide spread an in-

mututu hull of union inytiilnn union tam ll u wanna to

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OCTOBER. . . . Here was October, here Was ruddy October. the old liar- V9SiCl'.

sachem in a coat

athers,

Scattering lack-o-lanterns where

To give the field-mice pumpkin- colored moons.

His red clay pipe had trailed across the land

Staining the trees with colors of

the sumach:

west, south. north, the cere-

monial fume

and enchanted as the soul of

air

Drlftcd its incense.

Incense of the wild.

Incense-. of earth fulfilled. ready to

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A Red Ihock-worker in Him- gary is reported to be turning out his 1937 output. But. we'll bet he's infill waiting for his 1954, 1055. and 1956 vacations.-Windsor Star. '

Dr. Charles Kettering. long chief of General Motors research. says he' doesn't want experienced men in his laboratory, ,because experi- enced' men are always telling him things can't be done. He prefers youngsters who don't know things can't: be done: they go ahead and do them. As he says, man's great- est. fault is his automatic resistance to change.-Toledo Blade.

, Research canted out by the Flu- ish biologist , Prof. Erkki Halme indicates that the secretion of zinc in cancer patients is less than for healthy individuals. Experiments on white mice have borne out the theory that zinc may have an im'- portant bearing on the growth of cancer. Professor llalme believe: that tests be has developed may be used to detect cancer.-Finlandia

The objective Royal Institute of International Affairs in London has issued an information paper on Canada called "Springs of Cana- dian Power" (Oxford University Press, Toronto) with a - cool assessment. of the future of this nation. Through these careful phrases shine the greatness that is to be if this country is govern- ed with wiisdom, blessed withpeace and remains strong in confidence. By the end of the century she should be a. major power, this ex- pectation based on "the probable consequences in the material sphere of the industrial develop- ment. now taking place. and also on the increasing part slfe has played in world affairs during the

last twenty-five years."-Ottawa Journal. Diplomacy. when dealing with

critical world issues, is a serious business. We sometimes think more success would attend it if there were I greater play of good humor. Two unexpected bits of humor did develop at the United Nations, though not in the formal discus- sions. United Kingdom Secretary of State Selwyn Lloyd asked what he thought of n. speemi by Andrei Y. Vishinsky. The erudite and pre- cise Cambridge-educated Briton rcpled: "If I may use the idiom of the be-hop, 'dig that broken record'.'' And when Mr. Visliinaky was asked whom he favored in the World Series, he answered: "it is it very great. event. but I cannot interfere in the internal affairs of the United States." If there were more such interludes around the United Nations the atmosphere would be more pleasant and possib- ly more productive. If a man in in good humor--even a diplomatr-

OCTOBER, 9, 1953

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'. xNotes The Waxz.

people who snarl at each other in gmlltl-Bl-Y manner.-Windsor Dally

- T0 -Whit Kali-I. "Bounty In truth, truth beauty, that is all ye know On Birth. And all ya need to know." And in the various ages through. out the course of h'uinim-develop- ment: there has been a reputable science of aesthetics. which ha- found application in more than one field "of practice. But it. ha-a been left for the modern age, with its ruthless processes of com- mercialization, to tum the cult, or the science, of beauty into a lucrative business, a business 3" big that today the commercial en- couragement of beauty ranks as one of our major industries. Beauty industry now ranges over a wide field of employment. from the more ordinary hairdresser to the more exotic facial specialist; it calls ontthe services of 9. wide variety of technicians. from the trades range from the ”couturiei-" (as against the more functional dress-maker) to the jeweller. Financially it represents a busi- ness which in the cosmetics sec- tion alone can measure its turn- over in hundreds of millions cf dollars annually.-Halifax Chronicle Herald.

in these days. when- the repeal- ed, and successful, effort to medical science is directed coli- sisteritly towards the lengthening of the span of human 'life. it is somewhat. surprising to find I member of the faculty of Mccllll University suggesting that "in short: but enjoyable life can sometime: be better than B. long boring one". The argument appears to assume that the only guarantee of enjoy- ment in life consists in activity. while boredom in .the inevitable lot of the life in which such physical activity is precluded. If this is a true reading of the argu- ment, then it presents a. danger of thought which is all too prev- alent. in these times; the danger of that philosophy which has been called "activism". Only by doing. runs this creed .only by immersing ourselves more and more fully, in the multifarious activities of our society, can we really live. The thinker, the dreamer, the idealist - these are no molt than half alive. Beyond doubt there is much that is true and valuable in the idea of activity as the expression of the full life; the best of Christ- fan philosophy has nlwnyn lnnllted with the Apostle Jame: ti-iat"Fn.ith without works is dead". But to emphasize the value of the works to the exclusion of the more con-v iemplative side of life, to insist; that: only in action, rather than in contemplation, can enjoyment be found-that is grossly to under- estimate both the power: and the

he's apt to be more agreeable It's difficult to reach agreement among

sleep

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All winter, underneath a frozen star.

-Stephen Vincent Benet.

come ant outgo warranted? Quest- ions of that nature inevitably will be asked, and the inquiry can prnve (F disprove them. Automobile insurance is provided by a great: number of companies. represented in ii general way by several associations. It could be that for their own long-range good they need better integration, of the kind that governmental super- vision over rates would provide.

sonsnsodd that bank nndumall loan company interest ratel, rail- way rates, and file rates charged by various utilities should be fixed by official action, while automobile insurance remains be- yond such control. They should receive their answer, one way or the other, when Mr. completes his study. Motor vehicle insurance in bi: business now and irievltably will get bigger. That. is all to the good, for the greater the number of insured drivers, the greater the financial nrotcctlnn. In this ex- panslon the companies which maintain the lowest possible rates should not be compromised by a few others that may believe freedom from restrictions in freedom from overcharge.

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