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Our Farm Edition
It is many years now since The Guardian produced its first Farm Edition, and we are pleased today to
~~ be able to present what is undoubted- ly one of the most comprehensive and most attractive issues of this kind with which we have been associated. Attention has been given to past as well as present farming activities, for of no industry can it more truly be said that the present is the product
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' , . “theid”. The sailor said he did not be- lieve Gaelic was a language at all and if it was, it was “a devil of a lan- guage.” He was mildly warned that
such language must not be used in |
court. \
Gaelic was next heard of in Novem- ber, 1934, when Dr. Egon Kisch. a well-known Czechoslovak scholar and Communist, jumped ashore at Mel- him to Australia, in defiance of a Cus- toms department ban.on his landing. proceedings were start- because of his phenomenal knowledge of European tongues, the ‘officials were in serious difficulty ov- er a test language. Finally, encourag- ed by what had happend in Bunbury seven years earlier, they chose Gaelic. Kisch failed in the test, but he ap- pealed successfully to the Australian High Court, which ruled that Gaelic was not a language within the re- quirements of the 1901 Act, but a “patois or dialect”! Subsequently another language was found and used
______what was once this Island wilderness,
in large measure to the sturdy pion- eers who carved homesteads out of
and whose descendants are among our most progressive farmers today.
a Much, too, we owe to the efforts,
over a long period of years, of our |
agricultural experts in both the pro- vincial and federal fields, and parti- cularly of those associated with the Charlottetown Experimental Farm, whose golden anniversary is being ‘celebrated on Monday.
We mentioned past and present, but the future is still more important, and our prospects and possibilities, as reviewed in today’s issue, will doubt-
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for Kiseh s deportation in 1935. |
This is but a summary of the story, as given in fuller detail in a letter to the Globe and Mail, ‘Toronto, by- Mr.
H.B. Laing, of West Australia—the |
language teacher who had set the Gaelic test in the Bunbury incident. It is highly entertaining; but many of our readers will feel, with us, that that .High Court judge who confused Gaelic with patois was a woeful ig- noramus. He should be deported him- self!
Low Death Rate.
While Canada’s birth rate declined last year, and the marriage rate was
less be read with particular interest. The cooperation received from farm officials, advertisers and others in the production of the issue is greatly appreciated.
The Gaelic Test
Until two months ago, Australia for 58 years had controlled immi- gration- bythe unique method of a language dictation test. If an unde- sirable immigrant attempted to en- ter the country, he was read a pas- sage in a language unknown to him, to be copied without error. If he fail- ed, admission was denied. A new Im- migration Act, abolishing dictation tests for unwanted aliens, has now
come into operation; but the old Act
will live in memory, if only for the picturesque role which Gaelic played in its enforcement.
This happened first in the port of Bunbury in Western Australia in 1927, when three colored seamen de- serted their ship while it was loading a cargo required for the South Afri- can railways. They were arrested and escorted back, but they refused to go on board and were lodged in the town jaif. The local Customs officer receiv- ed strict orders from Canberra that deportation proceedings via dictation test must be attended to without de- lay. No linguist himself, he applied to the Bunbury high school where, at the time, three foreign languages were taught—French, German and Latin.
“~ -Latin was rejected because it was not a “spoken” tongue. German was not considered safe because the men, as residents of South Africa, almost certainly knew Dutch which is fairly closely related to German. French was
, immediately discarded because the
’ Customs Department had information that one of the men had lived for some years in Mauritius, where French is spoken. Hebrew and Arabic, of which the language teacher had some knowledge, were rejected be- cause they were Asian tongues, and the Customs officer and the teacher were of opinion that they were re- stricted under the Act to a European language.
When it seemed that an impasse had been reached, the teacher, a South Uist Hebridean, said' he knew Scottish Gaelic. The Customs officer had barely heard of it, and wanted to know if it was a queer sort of English dialect. He was informed that Gaelic was a separate and independent lan- guage, spoken by about 100,000 peo- ple in Scotland and Eastern Canada and possessing a history and litera- ture going back over 1,000 years. Having learned further that it was usegl by these people every day in or- dinary conversation and business, he decided for it there and then.
The test was held that evening in the Police chambers in Bunbury, and the result was as anticipated—failure for all three Cape boys. Next morning they were formally tried in the local courthouse and convicted of being un- desirable aliens, to be deported forth- with. One of.the men, the ex-Mauri- tian, made a determined attempt to
pass, but the dictation expert could
the lowest since 1936, there was x03,
cord natural increase in the popula-— tion. This was due to the fact that our death rate (7.9 for each 1,000 po- pulation) was the lowest in history. It was, indeed, one of the lowest in the world and compares with 9.5 in the United States and 11.7 in Eng- land and Wales. As a result, the na- tural increase (which takes into ac-
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LOOK AND LIVE
Fresh Trouble In Laos
By Ed Strong Canadian Press Staff Writer
three-power United Nations com- mission for Laos a year ago, China and North Viet Nam have led an insistent chorus demand- ing its recall.
The West has always replied that conditions in the primitive little country did not warrant a new meeting of the commission, on which Canada, India and Po-
count only births and deaths, and-ex=—{-tend—share—memboership. ‘The
cludes immigration figures) rose to 334,917 from 332,514 in the previous years.
This low death rate record is indeed a matter for satisfaction, regardless , of its impact on population figures. It is one of the standards by which a civilization is judged, for it implies progress in public health measures that are of the greatest importance to any nation.. -
The Bureau of Statistics report, from which the above figures are tak- en, notes that Newfoundland had the highest birth rate last year of any province—33.8 births in each 1,000 population—followed by Alberta at 30.7.and Quebec at 29. But the birth rate in the far north was even high- er: 47.3 in the Northwest Territories and 36.4 in the Yukon. Birth rates in other provinces: Prince Edward Is- land 25.8; Nova Scotia 26.6; New Brunswick 28.4; Ontario 23.3; Mani- toba 24.9; Saskatchewan 26.9; Bri- tish Columbia 25.6.
EDITORIAL NOTES
Staff officers numbering about 60 are now learning how to operate mo- bile defense columns at the Canadian Army Staff College, Kingston. Civil defense operation will pass into the Army’s hands on September 1 and these men will be the nucleus that will direct civil defense work if there is a nuclear attack.
. * = A youthful musician has been drawing loud acclaim at the Na- tional Jazz Festival at Fregene, Italy,..and is no doubt quite plea» ed that he is applauded not for his name and resemblance to his father, but for his “Italian blues.” His name? Romano Mussolini, youngest con of the late unlamented Fascist dictator. s * s
“Fame”, said Milton, “is no plant that grows on mortal soil.” Possibly not, but it grows in Madame Tus- saud’s waxworks gallery in London, England, where two new faces have been added in recent weeks. They are those of Christian Herter, U.S. secretary of state, and Ingemar Jo- hansson, heavyweight boxing cham- pion of the world.
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The Eisenhower administration, which favored repeal of the 22nd amendment barring a President from serving more than\ two four-year terms, has changed its position. At- torney General Rogers, in a letter .to the Senate subcommittee on consti- tutional amendments, says that the amendment has had “too short a per- iod of time fairly to test its efficacy.”
e thinks it wise to “defer any legis-
tive action in regard to the amend-
Canadian government has sup- ported this view, although India has given increasing support to the Communist demands.
The recent outbreak of fighting between government troops and the guerrilla forces of the Com- munist Pathet Lao, which under- mines the Western case, can scarcely be regarded as coinci- dental, particularly since the hos- tilities broke out in two provinces
tlese to the North Viet Nam bor-
Ger.
Bach side has freely accused the other of violating the 1956 Geneva agreement that ended French rule in Indochina and brought Laos into being, together with its sister states of Cambodia
and Viet Nam.
tently armed and supplied the Pathet Lao and have worked con- stantly towards the establishment of a Communist dictatorship. In return, the anti-Communist has been attacked ‘or abandoning its pledged neu- trality in favor of the West, for interning Pathet Lao were absorbed into the Lactian army and for postponing elec- tions scheduled for next Decem-
ber
While reports of the fighting
Summer Night
Ottawa Journal
On farm house porches rocking chairs move slowly and rhythmic- ally these quiet pleasant evenings as the sun drops nearer the hor- izon and gray shadows push down the eastern slopes of hills. It is pleasant to sit and watch light fade and to feel the brooding tran quallity of the countryside. Grad- ually the heat lessens; slowly the sounds of night begin to be heard.
There is a pageant in the sky as the sun drops behind the mountain rim. Colors flame brief- ly and then fade into grays, purples and blues. Dusk deepens while crickets fiddle in the as- ter bed and robins call from the old orchard behind the barn.
darkness. A nighthawk booms a- bove the garden; from the pas- ture, the soft tinkling of cowbelle is pleasant music, Fireflies stage their ballet over the lawn and the glowing phosphorescence a- gainst the blackness is red writ- ing on the black page of night.
‘There is something distinctive about a July night. It is usually the only full month of the year when a man can enjoy his porch each evening. Early June has cool nights; late August brings it is good to relax and watch night mer’s night in the seventh month, first touch of Fall. But on a Sum.
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Softly now, the breeze | Gently rustles the silv’ry leaves. White+throa ted sparrows sweetly
spring.
was a sentence of certain death.
| And farther still the landscape |
A tiny farm house lies below Beneath the shade of weeping wil- low
green ; Rolls upward. from a placil stream,
are contradictory there is a pos sibility that the Communists have decided to postpone a showdown, in view of the forchcoming Khrushchev-Bisenhower tallss.
NEW TROUBLE SPOT
But the events of the last few deys have established that Laos must be included with Berlin, Quemoy and the Arabian penin- sula among the world's trouble spots and that Canada’s high hopes of sharing in the success- - | ful conclusion of a ‘supervised peace” have not yet been ful- filled,
The Laotian- government com tinues to oppose the recall of the three-power commission as a vio- lation of its sovereignty But it is clear that Laos would be powerless to resist an all-out Communist bid for power.
A British proposal for the dis- patch of United Nations observ- ers to the country may prove ac- ceptable to the Laotians. But it is unlikely that a permanent s0- lution will be found far short of the Eisenhower-Khrushchev level.
Kinnon, President of the Caledon- ian Club, Dean Shaw gave an in- teresting talk on the history of the Society and its efforts to pre- serve the Gaelic language.
Sgt. Douglas Heath, who is in charge of the R.C.M.P. detach- ment at Summerside, has been transferred to Ottawa and will leave on Saturday. Sgt. Heath has been with the force for the past nineteen years, most of which has been spent in this province. His successor has not yet bees
SUBSTITUTE INSULIN
Now we can take insulin from the pancreas of animals and sub- stitute it for human insulin.
We can contro] it if we can de- tect itt. Unfortunately, a great
easy to diagnose the disease. Simply by checking a sample of urine, your own family phyician can determine if it contains sug- ar. If it does, he will draw a lit- tle blood for a sugar test. Ths will prove conclusively whether or not you have diabetes.
While is found in all groups, it most preva! ane those over 40. And there is no doubt that overweight is a contributing factor, partiiularly
for those in middle life.
SYMPTOMS OF DIABETES Once again I would like to re mind you of the symptoms of dia- betes; increased appetite, loss of } weight ,weakness, dry ooo irri- tability, frequent urinati un- due thirst, leg pains and foot ul- cers.
if you have some or all of these complaints, better see your doctor right away.
QUESTION AND ANSWER
polio and was cured, but shortly afterward I developed asthma. F is so severe that I am.a ner- vous wreck from the coughing. Could the polio have brought on
L.L.: Severral years ago I had | ;
The valiey’s filled with twilight peace,
The day’s hot rays begin to cease A magic dream is woven fine
And scented with the pungent pine. = This Haven now te tase onc | / DRUMSTIOR still i! , The sun is half behind the hill. §CE CREAM CONE A rustic ease falls on the land, ‘ot the FREEZER Content and rest are hand in Wad end Sesked hand.
— Bert Foster,| Buy Perfection Charlottetown.
ATTENTION
"OLD HOME WEEK”. POULTRY EXHIBITORS
Please do not bring your poultry exhibits in until Monday. They will be accepted until 12 o’clock noon.
this asthma pag sy oe to h is condition? es Outtnartig: there is no | connection between ‘polio and as- , thma. The latter is often a man- ifestation of allergy and is ag gravated by emotional and ner- ‘yous factors. You should have a | thorough medical examination | with alsengy tests if necessary- Much can be done by your
named.
IF YOUR GUARDIAN
Chimney swifts wheel and circle, dive and climb as they stage their evening aerial circus; then as darkness thickens, the birds set- tle twittering io the house chim- ney. A whippoorwill starts its eve- ning concert from the wall along the pasture lane and the plaintive repetitive calls blend with the
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OUR YESTERDAYS
(From the Guardian Files)
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (August 8, 1934)
Rev. A.R. Pyke of Montague, has accepted a call to the Lewis- ville Baptist Church, it was an- nounced last evening, ‘and will as- sume his pastoral duties there on the first Sunday in October. Rev. Mr. Pyke, a native of Sydney Mines, NS., has served in sev- eral pastorates throughout the Maritimes.
Mayor Lidstone of Summerside has rented his store on Water Street to Stedman Bros. of Tor- onto, who propose to open a store on the same line as Woolworth’s. Extensive alterations are being made providing work for a con- siderable number of men. It is expected the store will be ready to open next week.
TRANSLATOR NEEDED
Sir,—This is an=appeal being made to any of your readers who know the German language, to give some voluntary assistance in translating and replying to letters written in German by adopted refugees.
These people are non-Germans, who were stranded in Germany after the last war, many highly educated and victims of Hitler’s
TEN YEARS AGO (August 8, 1949) - « Dean Neil Shaw, Secretary of the Gaelic Society of Scotland, was guest speaker at the Char- lottetown Rotary Club yesterday, Introduced by Mr. William Mac-
slave labour and concentration camps. Suffering from T.B. they are unable to work and no coun- try will take them in. For twelve years they have been for- gotten D.P.’s eking out a bare subsistence under the kindly ministrations of German wel- fare workers and a small grant from the United Nations, Following the example of other Canadian groups in B.C. and Ot- tawa, women of the Anglican W.A. of P.E.1. have decided to adopt a small number of these Displaced Persons but find that those chosen for us cannot speak English as they come from Lit-
huania, Yugoslavia, ete. All however speak German. The adoption simply consists of |
friendly interest and correspond- | ence and the sending of little gifts from time to time—surely
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