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"The strongest memory-In-weaker than the wenlsut Ink."

WEDNESDAY. JULY, II. 1954

official Approval-

llcfcrclicc was made in these columns a short time ago to the current speculation as to whether Church leaders from behind the iron Curtain will be permitted to enter the United States next month for the pur- pose of attending the Second Assembly of the World Council of Churches which is to be held in Evanston, Illinois. Since then, acting on the appeal of Dr. Visser 't Hooft, General Secretary of the Council, the At- torney General of the United States on the recommendation of the State Department has approved the entry of the group. In- all, eleven delegates are involved, some ori all of whom are said to be more 0l' less sympathetic with the Communist political system although, so far as is known, none is a Communist Party member.

The State Department has issued a long, formal statement explaining its recom-' mendation. Following are some excerpts from it:

"It is felt'that the importance of thescy forthcoming meetings from a world-wide: religious polht of view is so great that this government should permit the attend- ance of all invited delegates who are ad- missiblc under the law, in the belief that they will give and receive a spiritual con- tribution which will serve the,cause of world Christianity.

"Freedom of religion has always been basic to our way of life. Clearly, the spiritual foundation on which the nation rests is too strong to be adversely affect- ed by any pro-Communist activities in which this small group of delegates from Communist dominated areas might attempt to engage.

"The other participants in these gather-

lonly fair that power should be distributed

1 acceptable prices.

000 horsepower. or twice as much as the total to be obtained from the New York- Ontario development at the international rapids on the St. Lawrence River.

A power development of this magni- tude, says the Gttawa Citizen. clearly transcends provincial interests, and should be considered almost a national project in scope. The growth of industry in the Mari- time Provinces, and especially the exploita- tion of minerals in the Bathurst, N. B., area, is being delayed through lack of power. Inter-provincial co-operation and agreement on the use of power is already recognized in principle through deals made by Ontario with Quebec and Manitoba, and through a recent federal-provincial confer- ence on atomic energy as a source of elec- tricity. The principle might well apply to potential power at Grand Falls, with sev- eral provinces sharing the benefits.

A major purpose of federal-provincial financial agreements in recent years has been to iron out disabilities laid on some provinces by the accident of geography. The distribution of power sites is one of these, as much as the favorable location with respect to markets and transport that the central provinces enjoy. It would seem

as widely as possible, from existing sites, at

Farmer" Drivers

The day has long passed when farmer, driving a horse and buggy or a cart, looked with distaste at the city dwel- ler roaring by in an automobile. Farmers rapidly became the most highly motorizedl section of the population simply because of necessity. "Accident Facts”, published by the National Safety Council in Chicago hints that they have not become out- standingly careful drivers.

Complete and detailed information is not available, the council admits, but reports from 16 American states show that 14 per cent of all drivers involved in fatal acci- dents in 3953 were farmers and farm lab- ourers. About one farmer in 1,000 was in- volved in a fatal motor vehicle accident last year, while for all other drivers in the United States the rate was about one in, 1,500. The rate for all other male drivers; was about one in 1,200.

Such statistics, admittedly, do not mean a great deal but it stands out plainly that

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An Interview

'of 14 I noticed in a large emporium

in Tl.lnbridge Wells 1: curiously melancholy figure: a. little old grey man, in clothes which bespoke the fashion of a time long past, examin- ing some hothouse grapes.

He looked as if he yearned for them but could not afford to buy them. His back was bent. his cyp- brows were enormous. s moustache drooped over his lips, and his spectacles were of the narrow, oval,

,gnld-rimmed kind favored by Schu- bert and Crippen. It was a figure

less from life than from comic iconographyl watched him move. from the grapes to the peaches. pick up the price-ticket, strnin hisi

it with a sigh. Then a command- Ding voice rang out: ”Rud! Rud! Rudyard!” , Rudyardl I had never heard of more than one man with that name. But. could this. I asked myself, he Kipling? Kipling the great. champ- ion of empire and nialtlal glory. the novelist of violent adventure and the poet. of barrack-room gai- lantry?

It was. I discovered that Kip- ling lived only a few miles away

"Surplus from the boss' garden.

By Maurice (lranston in London Calling

eyes to read it, and then replacelaa he added, not much financial icapltal. He hadlived frugally over

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was not. really so long as it seem- ed before Kipling said "Like to look at the garden?" I answered very eagerly: ”Oh yes, air".

He told me he had started fhis career as a journalist in India; land that he had started. what was ,more, when he was only 16. He thad been a reporter first, but by the time he was 20 he was already an editor. . ! In the intervals of producing iarticles he had written stories. All :thl- stories collected in his book ;Plzlin Tales From the Hills were 'wi'it.ten,in his teens. So that when the came to London at 24 to make ibis bid for fame he had 1 consider- able stock of literary capital; but.

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condition on a good road going at 60 or '10. is a thrilling experience. Drivers often plus use at that rate. I do not envy them. but I know they are enjoying it. and every year they seem to be going a little faster, and, going around the curves on two wheels. and then there are such fine filling stations. I remember when often I had to get gas from a drum by the gel- ion. and drain it through chamois leather.'

Yes. the modern car is I won- derful machine. It In bringing to the Island this summe relatives that have not met for many years. right across the oontinent, and not a flat. -

I remember on one trip we made down from Oshawa to E3. Island that white tape of our Model T. pulled out to 38 and the boys shouted: "let her go. Dad". Of course it was dovm hill. and yet on those trips at an average of twenty-five miles we hscl'grest times.

But an accident takes the joy out of driving, and one may be just as careful as he can be and yet. he may have an accident. I have a minister friend who was a very careful driver, but there met him on an Ontario highway a man who was unfittcd for driving and as a result my friend is crippled for the rest. of his life. The driver went to Jail and my friend and his wife went to hospital, and never after did he have the some pleas- ure in driving.

Not this year have I seen any signs of drunken driving, but I am always on the watch for cars off- side or wobbling. for as I see by the press reckless driving contin-

ues. Alcohol and gasoline don't mix. Each in its proper place is an ex- cellent liquid.but. when an attempt is made to coordinate them in a human brain they cause unspeak- able loss and sorrow, for which there is no excuse. I am, Sir. cm, W. I. GREEN. Stanley Bridge.

he found himself no longer poor. . . .

I- am sorry I cannot. remember: 'everything Kipling said id me, andi ll was too ignorant. to ask him the questions I wish now that I had. As it was. I asked him nothing; for having once broken through the barrier of shyness or antagon- ism or whatever it was. he talked

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THE UNIVERSAL ERONTIEB

Now that all peakes are conquered. and all seas

Foam and withdraw round man": victorious prow,

Little remains of earth's old mys-

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Parents of new babies donft worry so much about an eight hour day; they'll settle for an eight-hour night. -Toronto Star

with Jultlon going up at some colleges, education is almost an ex- pensive u ignorance. -Kitchener- Waterloo Record.

If you don't ears for the Idea of "peaceful existence", how would

you go for "simultaneous mutual annihilation"? -Decatur (IIL) Herald. -

'An fnourenco man says It In necessary to walk so miles to so- duoe body weight by one pound. nut sore feet could still be less try- ing than the diet needed to shed that pound." -Ottawa Journal.

The longest dey,of the year has penned but the opinion of many. especially those who celebrate too strenuously each week-end. is that every Monday is the longest day. -st. Thomas Times - Joumsl.

A wolf-whistle in Manchester. England. was found to have come from A gas meter with g mechan- ical defect. Over here those wolf sounds generally come from goo bags with mental defects.

-Windsor star.

one of the nicest compliments you can pay a man is to send him a letter marked "personal", which subtly suggests that he is so im- portant someone else normally open: his mail. -Edmonton - Joumal.

"A oookroech breeder In Don- caster. England, was evicted from his county-owned home because he refused to give up his pets." He took 500 of them with him. much to the satisfaction of the authorities."- St. Thomas Times - Journal.

The world bu always been able to survive crises which prob- ably seemed as final at the time as our present one, so we'll consider it A pleasure to be bored, if history will kindly go right on repeating itself. -Stratford Beacon-I-ferald.

snrracenin purpureo Linnaeus in to get official recognition as New foundl.and'e floral emblem. " reading was given in the House to a bill which designates the tongue- iwiailng flower, more commonly known as the "Pitcher Plant," as Newi'oundland's emblem. -st. John's News.

It has been suggested that a vacation spent at home gives Father a chance to become sc- Iiuainted with the children, but it is the experience of many dads that you never really get to know the little monsters until you have spent two weeks with them in a sedan. -Winnipeg 'n-mung

Women's recent interest in pastel and jeweled pipes to-match their ensembles may be only A fad. It may reflect their desire to play safe

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Dlonee got along witbo t. electricity, but how did tilsey.:n::

use without celophane tape or aeper towels? -Chicalo Dally ews. .

As A member of the Order of the Outer. Sir Winston Churchill receive: two decorations, one call. ed The George. and the other The Lesser George. The letter, we pr-g. sumo, is the George that everybody is so wining to let 'do it'. -Pete.-- borough namlner.

The kitchen appliances people are making excellent progress. They have produced a. kitchen cob. met the doors of which open and close with the wave of the hand. and before long. no doubt. the homemaker will be able to sit. in the living room and do her kitchen work by pointing at pushbuttonn -Peterborough Examiner.

Canadians consumed e. value at 3521.000.000 in liquor in 1952. ac- cording to recent statistics. This is five times the amount of 22 years ago and e 590,000,000 increase from 1951. when we hear people grumb- ling about the high costs of essen- tial products. and then remember the amount spent on liquor, one id tempted to think many Canadians have more money than brains.

Windsor Daily Star.

In 1 contest Just completed at Arms. France. all that the com- petitors hsd to do was to eat. every- thing placed before them, which in France is not supposed to be a difficult chore. The winner of this unusual contest was a M. Andre Pollaert, a butcher by profession and hence a man who might be expect- ed to appreciate food. or at. least food prices. The meal that M. Poli- aert polished off is too lengthy to be detailed here. but it included such visnds as hors d'oeuvree. soup, chicken, chicken pie. duck, steak, ham, chees. salad, tarts and cookies, 311 I000-!11PBnIed by appropriate vegetables and wines. -New York Herald Tribune.

A great thirst came upon David Bronstein, one of the Russian chess masters playing I U. 8. team in the international match held at New York's Roosevelt Hotel the other day. He asked for a drink: "A glass of lemon Juice." one of the Americans tried to correct him and said:: "You mean a glass of

lemonade--lemons, water and sugars.

Mr. Bi-onsteln repeated his order: "A glass of lemon juice." It took nine large lemons to fill o. glue. The man from Moscow downed it, neat. Then he went. on with his game. -New York Times.

Indium is a metal which Canada has in abundance. The only rea- son it does not figure in our na- tional resources is that no use for the material has been found which comes close to absorbing the avail-

- . ie in ings as vleil as the American 1390? ' . I , , g ,, general, will be in 8 P05ItI0" to judge by! more farnmrs than mmfarmers are m" ;:l?lV'E:I:?ma:Is1'(:InLeI'?;tbzitgdffgge hoefl:re:Iillxlh'epl:ii1rR:::(d' .';'.'-gel? ten 13:: save :,f,re1"wmCh mu the ,,,,,.d,,,,;c ""1" I0 15 definitely determined 11519 '"gP;Y- T139 Cigl5011dmdh:itn' l I i the conduct of these delegates whether voived in fatal highway accidents. There ghunned the publicb gazed hie hlrm more closellly. 1 reelizllid that. ,,.w', .1low, :V..l::3c".:i.erlnclii;::xiuoci-miiriiwyeItxfdhm: rigged: of :2; X33110: Iggnagzs of in.-' , - i - ' t metimes to be oserve n e are was rea y a muc more ' . l I they come here as churchmen OF 85 P1'0D3' are those. F110 In” mamtam that the xsizighborhood. (somehow I expect- sympathetic one than I had thought For though we measure and dissect the 01337" cyde I135 C0319 1"" mum ” Tnut Bnmh C"1"mb13' ' II ' 1 d t i l' tic farmer-driver does not handle his car or k lik I an Arm t. flrt. 1 a lded as th r the stars t""'- "'4 Wm"! We-5 I" tum T'"”""”' "9" be "if ""W”"9P” , , gandists for an aggress ve an ma eria IS. i ed him. to too e anl Ilkl nnk y a n ad d is . h mm :2 And mm W was yet we gm” ing back toward the rugged plo- of the metal. which in rather rm ; l phnogmihv fundamemany hostile to 1-ehg. truck as carefully as the non-fa-rmer; or Eiafggggditsralggflshglergfi) ed 9 Iftlrlagzheronkticd :1 "size 3 . I aha" bnnd - nee, (0,. pionurm, Wm. the com. as cbminerd-al. A; trsflhii is refined . t , - . - .- s -- - 4 - ' cob pipe. -Washington Pan, as B. ypro uct rom ezlnc smelt- ' mus faith." fhat I19 (I095 m5 d”V"lE ulfdfr Commons soon afterwards I found I knew i have said he spoke without. Few grilgngtnglmwekd "I" 103" era there. Indium is so son that it . in winch less elaborate pmwslon for Safety someone who knew Mr. and Mrs. a show of modesty; in fact he Th” wan the Mae” from I hemp .As oloee no can be estimated, in almogf, nke chewing gum. ex- is made than in and around the Cities Kipling, and I begged her to take spoke of his early work and early be” mad therle are 500,000,000 children in the plains The Cornwall Btandgy-d-IF;-ee. I l Task F". Mond.'gFrance V I I ' me to see them I am not what. fame rather as an unsuccessful - Ivoid. And according to the di- holder, 11, lg oneqgunh u hug u 0 "g A simpler explanation, however, is that she thought, but she agreed. Ind End lmhtippy man might relate the gsmnton Ag Comma. in the gleocnzr-g;jIllle(;ltI1o::lth;clte1x:ltI::t: 3lNnId- lead. Stratford Beacon-Herold.

French Premier Mendes-France, now that the agreement has been won, at a price, for 1 cease-fire in Indo-China, will doubtless turn his attention to the no less urgent task of his countryls economic prob- lems. Lagging production, inflation and high prices, and an ever-worsening trade picture, combine to make France, in the economic sense, the sick man of Europe.

Useful not only to Mendes-France, but to political leaders in other countries con- fronted with similar, if somewhat less acute problems, is a report just completed by the eminent French economist and industrial- isi, Roger Nathan. M. Nathan heads a commission appointed by the French Gov- ernment to investigate the causes of the high prices and unsatisfactory production which have so long plagued that country's economy.

The Nathan commissionls findings are not without point, even for Canada. In essence, those findings are that France, in a legitimate effort to raise living standards and provide a greater measure of economic security for the people, chose the wrong economic means to achieve those ends. Social security costs, through taxation, coupled with organized labor's demands for ever-higher wages and shorter working hours. caused prices to rise and hampered output to the point, where French goods were no longer able to compete with the products of foreign industry either at home or abroad.

The consequences of placing the em- phasis upon economic security rather than productivity has been industrial stagnation in which living standards, rather then im- ' pmve. have actually declined. To correct this situation will constitute in test of M. Mendel;-France's political genius greater even than that of Geneva.

Labrador Punt Pmlbliltlu

A study of me power possibilities at Grand Falls. Labrador, ill being made by the British Newfoundland Corporation, a company founded by British bankers. The potentialities already known stir the imag- ination, and offer a chhllenge which, if , met, could solve the power problems of the ' llleritime Provinces and Ontario for many yarn to come. According to General Mc-

been interested in the

there are simply more farmers who drive than other groups and that the statistics represent the numerical highway popula- tion rather than lts relative tendency to get involved in accidents.

EDITORIAL NOTES Canada's decision to serve on the Indo-, ,Chinese truce commission is a favorable' augury, not because of Canadian participa- tion, but because the authorities must be satisfied that the cease-fire arrangements are practical.

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Canada's larger universities and col- leges, helped by Government grants, made .a small profit collectively according to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. It is sat- isfactory that our colleges are not going in the red financially but it is to be devoutly hoped that they are showing a much great- er profit than indicated by balance sheets.

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A senior official of the British Min- istry of Health says that talk of the A- bomb has not affected people's mental health as much as having a mother-in-law oversiay a visit to the home. It is the old story of heroism being called forth by the prospect of disaster and petty annoyances

evoking irritation.

Consumer credit in Canada has drop- ped substantially from the figure it -stood at a year ago but is still more than double what it was in 1950. Canadians, it seems, have been making their position more liquid which means that they may be ready to spend more heavily whenever they feel that conditions warrant.

Maximillen Marie Isidore Robesplerre, French revolutionary leader, died this date 1794. An advocate, he was a deputy in the States-General which the king was forced to assemble. He became a leader of the extremist Jacobin club and was elected to the National Convention which proclaimed the French Republic. He help- ed to create the Revolutionary Tribunal and the Committee of Public Safety which became the real ruler of France and insti- tuted the reign of terror. He, A himself, however, became a victim and was guillo-

a visit was srranged. .

My mend and intermediary, a kindly woman of mature years. warned me not to be too eager. We would not be the only visitors, and we were by no means sure, she said, to be received by Mr. Kipling himself. He was a very busy man, and often of an after- noon he retired to his study to work.

Kipling appeared. at TIMI- tentatively in the background, look- ing in his tweed: at once more shabby and more undistinguished than he seemed in the shop. I-le peered through those inaesthetic spectacles in a dazed. uncomPl'9- hending, and not at all welcoming way. But his formidable wife swept past him to greet us. and he was left. swaying like a small boat. ilii the wash of n mlllionalre's yacht. It was when Mrs. Kipling had' mustered the ladies together and urged them into another room that I found myself the only male guest alone with Kipling. I was ouddenw ly very shy. Perhaps he was shy. too. I averted my eyes, and stood there, silent, unhappy, and awk- ward, clutching the proverbial esp in my hand.