PAGE FOUR - V THE GUARDIAN

Authorised as Second Uluu am Post Office Depuhncnt, Ottawa. The Island (iusrdln Pubiishlnl 00.

-resident and Alloclllo Editor. Inn A. Burnett. Aseocllh Editor. Frnnl Welter.

OIBCULATION "Coven Prince Edward Island uke the dew”

f'The Strongest Memory 15 Weaker Inn fhe Weakest Ink".

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 26. 1953

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challenge And Response

"In 1880 almost half our (Canadian) total employment was in farming; until 1940 a third was in agriculture; now only 1x5th."

In a speech notable for its optimism, Mr. W. R. Carroll made the above state-

lment which, on the face of it, is grounds for anything but optimism. Cities notor- iously do not even reproduce their own pop- ulation. They draw heavily on rural pop- ulations for their continued existence as well as to grow. A decline in rural pop- ulation in a very short time means the end of the growth of our great cities.

The shift in population from the coun- try to cities presents a Toynbean problem of challenge and response. The challenge is there. On whether we can meet it with an effective response depends the future course of civilization in this country at least. The challenge is to provide a way of life in the country which offers attractions at least equal to those of the city.

In this materialistic age that means first that incomes from the farm must be on a par with those possible in other walks of life. The era of cheap food which we be- came familiar with between the two world wars cannot be permitted to return. The amenities of modern life, electricity, trans- portation, education, entertainment and the rest must be equally available to the farm- er as to the city dweller.

The alternative is to have high priced food in short supply when the trek to the cities has gone on for a while. It would be better to accept the requirement of sound farm prices while it is still possible to pro- vide food in abundance.

Longer Productive Years

Addressing the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists at their recent meeting in London, Ontario, Dr. Hugh Mc- Alpine touched on a subject of vital inter- est to an increasing number of Canadian citizens. He urged a national program to deal satisfactorily with the problems of those who have reached the forced retire- ment age. He advocated an increase in the working-life span, particularly in view of the fact that man is now living longer. The working period is from 20 to 65. In .1900-the worker could expect three years after retirement. By 1975 he can expect 10 years after 65. ”Man's aim," said Dr. Mc- Alpine, "should be to add life to years, not just years to life." His statement recalls what Hon. M. F. Gregg, Federal Minister of Labor, told the Women's Canadian Club in Montreal, that the idea of forcibly retiring a worker at a specific age is archaic. How- ever, National Employment Service records show that 30 per cent of all registered unemployed are more than 45 and that 10 per cent are more than 65.

The London physician called for a more flexible employment system, geared to a person's capacity to work, not to his chron- ological age. His argument from econ- omics is that at present eight working per- sons are supporting one person over 65. Old age pensions and old age institutions, he said, are not the answer. The person over 60 must be permitted to produce, it he can. If he cannot produce then his leisure time must be made more enjoyable. Geriatrics, the 'etudy of old age, is doing a great deal to help him by a study of diet

in age.

Vlottost Woodlot on Earth

For the last three years, in a patch of woods in southern New Jersey, millions of gallons 'of water have hissed from gun-like spray nozzles as man-made rain. Strange changes have taken place. Where once was an ordinary scrub-oak woodlot, a jun- gle now grows. , ' Measured against world's record rains (Cherrapunji, India. was doused with 1,041 inches in 12 months, and averages 426 in- ches a" year), this spot: in New Jersey has the-wettest.-forest on earth, -the National

. c Society says. The region's nor-

-rcinfalfil 41 inches A year, but these ' have up to 1,200 inches

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in Cumberland and Salem Counties west of Atlantic City. Its cannery and freezing plant uses 12,000,000 gallons of wa er a day at the peak of the packing season. Dis- posing of so much water was a, serious problem. -

After trying various methods of purify- ing the outflow, the company had almost decided to invest a million,dollars in a biofilter installation-gravel beds in which vegetable scraps and other wastes -in the water would be consumed by bacteria.

Johns Hopkins University, however, has a laboratory for the study of climate at Seabrook Farms. As a last resort, the climatologists tried spraying the river of waste water back on the land, in hope that the ground'itself could be turned into a huge filter. The first tests in an unused open field of clover failed. The soil soak- ed up only so much water, then turned to soup. But when the spray nozzles were moved to the' edge of a patch of woods, an amazing thing happened. No matter how much water was sprayed into the woods, it was soaked up as fast as it fell-50 in- ches of man-made rain in ten hours, and since 1949 up to 100 feet of water a year in certain spots.

When SEabrook's project began, the spray area looked like any other wooded area on the coastal plain. Scattered under- brush, slender second-growth oak, and poi- son ivy grew in the sandy soil. Today, it is as if the woods cannot grow fast enough. Seeds germinate that would otherwise have been dormant. Small shrubs and vines twist together into a solid mat of green- ery. Through the jungle-woods run far larger than normal numbers of small an- imals such as wood mice.

Scientists studying the changes in plant and animals life have to hack their way through this outdoor laboratory with machetes. The U. S. Geological Survey is interested in the effects of the spraying on ground water level in the surrounding area. Seabrook Farms is trying to unravel the secret of why the woods will soak up so much water while open fields of the same soil will not. What had farming done to this soil? Can fieldcrops be improved with tremendous doses of water?

If a jungle can be grown in the woods. perhaps more peas, potatoes, beets and spinach might spring from earth soaked far beyond its normal saturation point. The possibility is being explored.

EDITORIAL NOTES

The port of Montreal has had a record season and in all likelihood the carry-over of grain and other products will result in a similar winter boom for Maritime ports.

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The Viking spirit is certainly not dead in Scandinavia. The flight of the "Arild Vikint" across the Arctic from Los Angeles to Copenhagen by way of Edmonton and Thule is in the best tradition of Eric the

The Maritime Recreation Centre in Montreal should prove a boon to Maritimers in that city. But what will become of the life of the city when Maritime function-:

are in progress?

A committee of the Legion in Summer- side is engaged in counting households in an effort to show that there is the neces- sary 2,000 for daily house-to-house mail de- livery. If the quality of civic spirit rath- er than mere numbers were the criterion there would be no doubt about the Prince County capital qualifying.

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Britain is now the second largest ex- porter of agricultural machinery in the world, and Canada the third, according to a report recently published for the Com- monwealth Economic Committee. After the United States with 51 per cent of total world exports, come Britain with 21 per cent, Canada with 12 per cent and Ger- many with 9 per cent.

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The R. C. A. F.'s Ground Observer Corps, -after some contradictory policy statements from Ottawa. is now in process of being organized locally. With the speed of modern aircraft the time permitted for reports to betransmitted and acted upon is very short indeed. To be of any use at all the Corps must be brought to a very, high state of efficiency.

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Sir Leander Star Jameson, M. D., Brit- ish colonial statesman, died this date 1917. After a breakdown" in London he! set up a successful practice in Kimberley. He used his influence with Lobengula to enable Cecil Rhodes to establish the British South African Company. The doctor was ap- pointed admlnlstrator .of Meshonaland. He checked e. Boerttrek and e.'Matabele in: vssion, conquering Matsbelelsnd instead. ill feted raid into the Transvaal led Wentueily to the Boer War. Later, as Premier, he did much to develop the re-

, , and, improve educstlori,

, THE GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN;

Still Waiting For A Green Light

Stuck like that liar gears now!

PUBLIC FORUM

This column is open to the discussion by wucspondents of questions of interest. The Guardian does not necessar- Ily endorse the opinion oI -.u. respondents.

FREEDOM

Sir-, It is a notable fact. that many people are jealous of what. they claim to be their rights. some drlvers. even yet, hog the road. It used to be common, but. fortun- ately, not so now. They were over jealous of their rights. They con- sidered lt. their right. to do as they pleased.

The live fence has been a fruit.- ful source of contention. between neighbours. In a charge I had some years ago, two men quarrelled over where the line should be. The stronger man got the other down. Along come the big son of the fal- len man and with a cant.-dog in his hands threatened to knock tn: brains out of his enemy if he did not let his father up. It might easily have been a tragedy. All over a few feet. of land. Jealousy for rights.

Many rebel against prohibition because they claim it. interferes with their freedom and they take pleasure in breaking the law as was the case with American pro- hlbltiion. Back before 1775 the British Government passed s. law forbidding Americans cutting down pine trees suitable for masts for man-of-war ships. Stralghtway the Americans went; out into the woods and cut. them all down. The law lntzerferrecl with their freedom. - Men claim the right to smoke and swear if they so wish, and they resent. any interference with their liberty.

This attitude toward freedom re- sults from a false interpretation of freedom. It is not as they think, an independent. virtue but a by- product, generated from' 3. life of service. We are born for each other. We cannot live without each other: and every act of ours must have regard for its effect. upon others. Our conduct, in every case. musi. be governed, not by our desire for freedom, but by its effect: upon the welfare of others. A good driver will never forget the welfare of others, rather than his own free- dom. Whether it man likes liquor or not. is not. the important point but what. will be the effect of his example upon others. More than half the young men who drink bs- gun from the example of older men. There we recall St. Paul's declara- tion: "I will eat no meat. (or I will take no drink) while the world standeth lost. I make my brother to stumble". Looked at in this light. drinking may be a sin, and it usually is. Swearing must be fudg- ed in the some way. Little children will swear like troopers because they learned the habit from their fathers.

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LANDLORDS' COMPLAINTS

The Tenants Compensation Act. 1871. was he subject of many complaints y the landed pro- prietors of this Colony. The other side of the story, emphasizing the tenants' grievances. has been.glv- en frequently in this column. If is but fair to point out that the

landlords also felt that their case had justification. The fol- lowing excerpts are from. A

memorial addressed to Lord Kim- berley, Secretary. of State, by Robert Bruce Stewart, James F. Montgomery, Henry C. and John Douse, John and Alfred Winsloe, John A. MacDonell and William Cundall, Esqs.:

"On the estate of one of your memorlallsts, inherited from his late father, there were at one time several tenancies at will, but, the -tenants having for twenty years been enabled to evade the action of both common and statute law by means of open and violent resistance to the officers of the law, or by other means, at length by possession for twenty years, without either having paid rent or being evicted for non- payment, the said tenants by the peculiar administration or oper- ation of the law in this Colony, had ecome practically the own- ers ' e facto' of the lands, to the great loss and detriment of the real owners 'de ;lure', the law which In practice had been pow- erless and useless on behalf of the landlord suddenly becoming abundantly powerful and strong on behalf of the dishonest ten- ant.

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"The tenants in this Colony are under much more favorable cir- cumstsnces than in Great Britain or Ireland; the burdens of rates and taxes fall comparatively very lightly upon them, the only really onerous and oppressive tax being exclusively born by the propri- etors.-namely. the land assess- ment. upon their unproductive wil- derness land. an svowedly penal tax levied for the express purpose of wrestlng their property from them.

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"it is a' fact that the am year's produce frequently pays the entire labour or cost I of

chopping, piling and burning the forest, previously grown upon the land: to say nothing of the fire- wood sold at is good price. Drain- ing is as yet almost wholly un- known and is not-generally re- quisite in this Colony. the soil being in general a light loam Very easily Wffkfdost little cost.

"Although many forms have in- creased In value since the com- mencement of the existing leases hy the lapse of time, and them. creased value of all property, nevertheless a farm cleared by the tenant of all its valuable tim- ber and firewood and lmpoverisht

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snlmsls that can utilize it. at I reason-ble level. thus prevent- If the control is unbalanced by

men, the plagues can be terribly destructive.--Sylve, ,

Mr. Drew offers to pay for e one-way ticket. to any Canadian Commie: and pinks who would Journey to the other side of the "iron curtain" and (this is en fin. portant. condition) only there. But of course there will: be no takers. Try to persuade one of'- such peo- ple to quit the safety and security of life in Canada for the doubtful blessing of A Red state! wttaws Journal.

Ten years !go on eight-yeah old boy was hit by a car and hurl- ed 40 feet. through the air. Ten years later he was'the Phantom Sniper who faced three charges of attempted murder and seven counts of huusebreaking in Toron- to the' result of mental illness -' -i hy the traffic accident. The story began with 9. traffic accident. Up to that time the boy was just like any other normal youngster.-Suclbury Star.

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The difference between I hush pilot and the "taxi route" airline pilot. lies not so much in the man as in the different work methods.

Airline operators from all over Canada met in convention in Quebec. where airline operators

and bush operators sat down to mull over the shortage of from 5(1) to 1.000 pilots. The men from the airlines said the pilots were paid from 312,000 to sl4,000 a year

flying career. Bush operators said they faced no shortage as yet, and said a number of pilots from the big airlines were constantly seek- in

ABANDONED ACRES

Time brings too many changes. Is it well

That this house once 9. honeycomb

of Joy

should be in ruins and the rafters tel -

Their story to the wind? Once girl and boy

Ran through these rooms and laughter like 1 scale

Qt liquid crystal swept this tangled glen: -

Here in the red barn stands the empty pail, -

The hsyrlck was not filled with hay

.again.

What gypsy longings drove them down the world

Seeking some useless fortune in a for

strange country that they left be- hind these peai-led

And dewy fields? Oh that some ruby star

Might lead them back and so by their return

Put older in the mill, cream in the churn.

-Harold Vinal in the Soionce Monitor.

Christian

of much less value than It would be if it were at this present time in its natural condition of forest land. . .

"On the other hand. the value of a farm has frequently been in- creased by the direct act of the proprietor in opening roads, mak- ing "bridges, assistance to schools and 'churches, etc. One of your memorisllsts has at his own cost made more than twenty miles of roads upon his property with many bridges thereon; to which must be added the remission of many years of rent by your mem- orlsllsts. which remission has en- abled the tenants to improve their holdings by "so much the more than they could otherwise have done.

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"In some instances the pro- prletors of large tracts .of town- ship lands in this Colony have leased portions of them for 999 years at a rent of one shilling per acre per snnum. these lands belnz in general beck lands, re- mote from markets. This circum- stance can have no weight with regard to such portions of their lands as. for various reasons, they thought fit to lease for short per- iods, snd more especially as such short leases have almost Invari- ably sllowed the tenant to enjoy the use of his holding for a cer- tain time at u peppercorn rent, and afterwards at is gradually in. creasing rent; such any term: be- ing accorded for the express pur. Dose of cnsbllnl the tenant to make improvements, few or none

Not. freedom to do as one likes. but. service, was a great. word with Jesus. He was ever rubbing it into his followers. "The greatest ser- vant." Jesus said, "is the greatest man". What foot-washing r, d all his teaching. It shocked the dis- ciples but they had to be teught until they learned they could be great. man! Is it the hardest lesson we have to learn? Very mm: it is. I am sir. etc

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g uncut with them after they weerled of the "taxi-driver routine." --Sudbury Star.

stick-up men must dread find- ing : woman standing guard be- side I. cash register. They never can be sure how she'll react, or with what. An example of this im- ponderable turned up in England the other day, when 9. masked would-be thief walked into I store and with his best snarl said: "This is a holdup." "Don't be sil- ly," snapped the woman in charge. as she purled busily. "I will stick these knitting needles into you." The holdup man and his three companions did about the only thing they could do under the circumstances. They fled. shortly before that. A woman in an A- mei-lcan city dealt similarly with a. comparable situation. "Hand over your money," ordered the ..m.:..:...m.....m twenty years, and many of them being for ninety-nine years. . . . Many holders of such leases have entered upon the land without a single pound of capital, and from the cultivation of such land have

Any More thnt becomes om- masked mm, -1 Mn ,,,,,.. ly abundant immediately becomes ' e ready source of food and is giv- en special attention by all other Such bslsnoes tend to keep all species

log "plagues" of insects or rodents.

and allowed to work about 85 cm Past hours 9. month. This was not cnough to attract young men to s Canadians should be pinned

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illlcd. "Now clear out of The sbsshecl bandit clgued d"-Wink Ifulte a. breeze no he ,,

Then is simple I clsion. at Victoria mzoh hldid dc;

"”h001" In DI-rliamcnts dure for the benefit gembers in BC'e new lies about of them

..h.e5mnen... Ind nu . here ful of getting tangled up in ful: of procedure, E. K. Deneck, clerk of the House. has consented 1 teach the "fledglings" how ,0 km” on good terms with Mr. speak"? This is all to the good. Even vgf eran members often get tangled up in procedural wrsngles. New, comers can easily be outmanoeu. vred if they don't know the pawn. mentary ropes. It might be 3 good thing if even some of the old- timers took a "refresher course" with "Professor" De8eck. .. vmh couver Province.

In one Ontario township. 11.. local Junior Farmers' organiza- tion has repainted all the rum mail boxes and re-lettered 111. names of the owners. It's a ram. paign that we hope will spread, The entrances to many fine (arm homes and imposing country es. tales are spoiled by dingy and d;. lapidatecl mail boxes. Anmm and somewhat similar campaign that deserves a pat on the bafk i. that of the Ontario Historical Hu- mane society. This organization is endeavoring to mark those farms that have been in the same family for over a. century with a special plaque. In these days of bustle and change it is well to note where the roots of s family enterprise go back without inter- ruption to pioneer days. --F;nan-

W Droce. of "1-gone" 1-esiaiazure,

with s New York Times article on the UN Assembly's President Les- ter B. Pearson. For Canadians, this Assembly , meeting will be closely watched, for one of our own is at the helm. It would be 1 great tribute to Pearson's efforts for world peace if some miracles could be worked. But we cannot expect; the impossible. Frequent- ly, Americans misinterpret this country. But the Times article in- dictates that that paper under- stands us and our best known eon. Summing up Ccada's attitude to ward the U. S. they use Pesrsonl own words: "We hope that in Washington they appreciate hm ing neighbors who are happy to tell them frankly and in the Am- erican idiom when they are Rain: off the rails in their lntemetionsl policies." It could not have been better put.--Financial Post.

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