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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 22, 1954

f Colombo Plan Meetings

The 50 experts from 14 countries who

are now in Ottawa are preparing for the

Oct. 4 meeting ,of the Consultative Com-

mittee of the Colombo Plan, a body com-

posed mainly of cabinet ministers of the

various countries which participate in the

A plan. Originated in 1950, the Colombo

Plan is essentially an attempt to rational-

ize the many efforts being made to de-

velop the economy of the countries of south and southeast Asia.

The Plan has its aspect of contributed aid but the fact that this country's contribu-

- tion to date totals only o102,000,000 out of the 56,000,000,000 of the overall project is sufficient indication that more self-help than outside assistance is involved. It was in conception a Commonwealth idea but other countries have been welcomed to par- ticipate, notably the United States.

The Consultative Committee is concern- ed with capital investment for the most part -and meets annually. Another aspect Of the Plan. perhaps equally important, is that of technical assistance which is super- vised by the Colombo Plan Council for Technical Co-operation. The director of that authority will be present at the meet- ings of the Consultative Committee.

The field of interest of the plan is ex- traordinarily wide, nothing less than the economy of its members. Canadals part is largely the provision of materials and the training of technical experts. Almost half of our capital contribution has been allocat- ed to India for locomotives, hydro-electric schemes, buses, trucks, copper and alum- inum. Wheat was provided on the under- standing that the proceeds of its sale would be used for development purposes. Pak- istan received most of the remainder of the Canadian contribution and Ceylon about 36,- 000,000. Various projects, of course, can-

I not he proceeded with at the same rate I and some are necessarily postponed al-

; though they will eventually make an im-

portant contribution to the economy of that part of the world.

Papal counsel

His Holiness Pope Plus the Twelfth is I noted for his wise and practical advice to groups privileged to be received in audi- ence. A recent instance of his deep and abiding concern for human welfare was his address to 500 physicians from all parts of the world who were in Rome attending the 1 third International Poliomyelitis Confer- ence. After showing the physicians that he is well versed in the new methods which are being tried in efforts to control the dread disease, His Holiness reminded them . that the re-establishment of the patients psychological balance is as important as physical care. He also took the oppor- tunity of bringing to their attention the place of religion in the treatment of dis- ease. "It is important," he said, "not to forget that religion is one of the most energetic forces in' any moral endeavour and that it includes as particularly effective factors not only faith in a higher life but also the conviction that suffering is useful in supernatural perspective of redemption." At the same time he chalkanged the physic- ians to make full use of their vocation. "What the sick expect of you," said His Holiness, "is not only perfect professional competence but also a complete under- standing of man, of the spiritual condi- tions of his life."

Medical scientists these days agree on the propositionhwhich Christian theology has always maintained-that religion and psychology are potent factors in the treat- ment of physical ills. In this they will be greatly encouraged by the counsel of a man who is at once a great spiritual leader and a great humanitarian, and who keeps abreast of scientific research and discover- in in fields which concern the physical mental wellbeing of the human family.

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.'l'he Manitoba government is reported to be ready to set up an independent com- mission to carry out the next redistribu- tion of seats in the legislature. Redistribu- tion, notes the Ottawa Citizen. has been a

y question in Manitoba for a good many years, and especially in the post-war period the advocates of reform have zeal- ously promoted the commission plan.

i Hitherto, the government has insisted that s leglslativtcommlttee is just as com- petent to redraw constituency boundarl as any outsidhhody, The trouble is that the legiIllt1V.I::&'liflM&'iI too intimately coneuudts'lsolsipsrdsI.1t 1ustisn'tln hunsnnannubrsmdfibetbodnfdlyby

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real or imagined disadvantage. so long as it was left in the hands of the members themselves, periodic redistribution in Mani- toba resulted in gross inequities. Although some concessions have been made in re- cent years, the city of Winnipeg is still badly under-represented. There are wide disparities in population as between one rural constituency and another, and a group of so-called "pocket boroughs" in the southwest corner of the province has long been notorious.

Manitobals intended experiment with an independent commission on redistribution Will be followed with interest elsewhere, and nowhere more than in the Parliament of Canada. For the federal redistribution system is also archaic. It completely lacks scientific method, and it leads, as Mr. C. G. Power of Quebec South has. pointed out, to "an unseemly, undignified and utterly con- fusing scramble fot personal or political ad- vantage." .

The Potato's New llolo

The potato may not -be the most glam- orous thing that grows, but there is no Question about its usefulness. In all civil- ized countries it is a staple article of food

tion to the general economy. Now comes

the American Chemical Society that it promises to help in the building of atomic bombs and, presumably, in developing atomic power for industrial uses if and when the threat of war subsides enough to permit peaceful use of the atom on a large scale. Everybody knows by now that uran- ium is the metal which makes atomic pow- er possible. It is found in phosphate rock;, the difficulty hitherto has been to extracth it economically.

This is where the potato comes in. Its by-product, starch, is composed of carbon and hydrogen molecules bound together in "chains." In these chains there are elec- trically active atoms called ”polyelectro- lytes" which from now on, so the chemists say, will be used to extract the uranium from the rock. Like all other teclmiques developed by nuclear physicists, the meth- ods to be used are, of course, complicated and understood only by the scientists them- selves. The thing that will interest most people is the elevation of a popular and in- expensive article of food to a place of polit- ical and military prominence.

EDITORIAL NOTES Zealand, 1907.

Dominion Day, New 0 O

The difficulties being experienced "by governments in disposing of agricultural surpluses without depressing the markets would seem to indicate that whether or not price supports help farm prosperity, they certainly help the consumer to have cheap food on a long term basis.

Conservation means money in the poc- ket of fishermen, it has been proved in the Pacific. Conservation usually strikes the individual fisherman as reducing his take but a conservation programme on the Pacific coast, U.S. and Canadian, has in 31 years meant increased catches, higher in- comes, a stabilized industry and a stead- ily rising prosperity.

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Next week the attraction at the Forum will be a presentation and discussion of the proposed potato marketing policy of the Potato Board, sponsored by the Federa- tion of Agriculture. There will be no lack of interest in the meeting. It is difficult to see, however, how any great number. of speakers can be heard.

Participation by citizens and firms is es- sential to the full success of Charlotte- town's centennial celebrations. The com- mittee headed by Frank Storey has energy and imagination. Probably no one could be chosen more hard working than General Manager Walthen Gaudet, but they need the help of large numbers of private in- dividuals to make the event truly memor- able. ' P

Boulogne-sur-Mer was entered by Cana- dian troops this date 1944. The seaport town had suffered severely and presented a scene of destruction. to the incoming troops. The last centre of German resist- ance was in the citadel, an old French fort which the Germans had rearmed. The at- tack was part of the general advance which eifpelled German troops from France and made the Rhine the new battle line.

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Summerside is concerned about the relative disuse of the R. C. A. F. Station. there. It seems unlikely, however, that the present reduction in strength will be per- manent. The United States has shown by its proposal to build a chain of artificial islands that the Atlantic coast is of primd defensive concern. The Canadian Govern- ment no doubt appreciates the value of is-

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NIGHT JOURNEY THROUGH FOG

lost in a silver dream. the 539- Wlth muffled steps companions me On paths familiar to my feet, Drenched in the scent of meadow- sweet.

Psst hidden trees that drip grey tears,

pagt, gudden ghostly pssturebars,

Through valleys when on nothins browse

Phantasmal forms that once were cows.

Anonymous, amorphous. Df0lld-

1 move. a cloud within a cloud.

Whatever peace your heart has won, ,

Wait. for me now, who come alone.

Mist-clothed and slippered with the

ew Groping a'ci-oss dim fields to You-' A tryst that must already seem only a. dream within a dream.

-Frances I-ligginson Savage in the Montreal Gazette.

Final Volume Of RAF History Published

(united Kingdom Information Office)

The achievement of Allied sir supremacy and its essential con- tribution to final hi.st.orY is W theme of the third and final vol,- ume of the history of Brit-alns Royal Air Force in World War II. The work of the late Hilary St George Saunders, it begins with I survey of the combined Ang1o-Am- erican air assault against German)" in the year before D Day, and con- tinues with the story of the al.- operatlons in support. of the land- ings in Normandy. the liberation of France and the Low Countries. and the Airborne Forces at Arn- hem. After a description in some detail of the flying bomb and rocket. offensive, it then follows the advance of the Allied armies up to the Rhine.

The book tells of the air operat- ions over the Balkans. the last stages of the campaign in Ilafy. the invasion of Germany and me shattering air attacks against Ger- man oil and transport which led to the end of the war in Europe. The final chapters deal with the lam: fight for the recovery of Burma and with the ultimate Collapse of Japan. The work concludes with. u review and assessment of the entire United Kingdom air effort through- out the six years of war. lnc'udir' ltd growth in terms of men and equipment and what its nchl';v:- menfs cost. in casualties and losszs.

The volume, published by Her Majesty's stationery Office. is generously illustrated with photo- graphs, maps and diagrams-33 of which are in colour. The append- ices include details of the organiz- ation of home and overseas com- mands, orders of Battle. an analysis of the total number of German and Italian submarlnts destroyed by the Allied Air Forces. and performance data of United Kingdom and enemy operational aircraft.

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The first volume of the series. "The Fight at Odds", is by Denis Richards. II: is the story of the fight against-German ascendancy. taken from the first stlf-rings of rearmamcnt. to approximately the close of 1941. The second volume. "The Fight Avslls", is written

It marks the gradual turn to the offensive after the revenue suffu- ed in the huddle nut and the Far East in into 1941 and 1042.

In compiling these histories. Saunders and Richards have made skilful use of letters and diaries, combat reports and other personal material to give I graphic quality to the stay. . .

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History's Big Lie (Hamilton Spectator)

In the In Memoriam Column of The Times of London for Aug. 23, appearing modestly between notices for George Parker and H e n r y Prendergast, is the following:

worth. Aug. 22. 1485, there fell, fighting bravely. Richard III of England, king, statesman, soldier. gentleman. Deeply mourned.

'From distant shores, pale dusty

ghost, One grain of sand salutes your memoryl' "

Perhaps nowhere but in Britain where reverence for history is in- born could a person be found to remember. as this anonymous one does, year by year, a king who fell in battle almost five centuries ago. As for The Times. in its long his- tory it has experienced all the vagaries of human behaviour so that it will accept almost any- thing, providing it is not down- right ill-bred

There are. however. especial rea- sons why a person should be moved to remember Richard III. There are fqw characters in his- tory who have been so un- deservedly, so brilliantly and so persistently maligned by posterity as he. Shakespeare's play is, of course, responsible for perpetuating the" slander and for making poor Richard one of the most loathesoine creatures in drama. The play makes Richard a cunning, ruth- less cripple, devoid of mercy and principle. who assassinated his friends and murdered his two young nephews in the Tower. while Henry is shown as the handsome deliverer saving the English from tyranny.

The truth was different. Richard was brave and generous, a just and able administrator whose only fault was that he was the rightful heir to the throne and stood in the way of the would-be usurper Henry and his ambitious mother. Mar- garet Beaufort.

Richard was treacherously de- serted on the field of Bosworth by the Stanley family. He was over- whelmed and slaughtered. his crown falling from his head and rolling under a hawthorn bush, where it was found by a private soldier. Richard's body, stripped by robbers. was flung naked across a horse and borne like a com- mon fclon's into York. Th good liurgesses of that city secretly entered into their records: "This day our good King Richard was piteously slain and murdered to the great heaviness of this city." Then Henry clamped on the censorship and began to accuse his pre- dcccssor of his own crimes: in technique still familiar in the world.

Henry's hatchet man, Morton, be- came Archbishop of Canterbury and preached the ”villalny" of Richard. it was he that built up the edifice of calumny. A page in Morton's service. who later be- came the famous Sir Thomas More. heard the story, believed it. and wrote a "biography" of Rich- ard. It was from this work that Shakespeare took his plot. and school history books took their "facts."

The truth could not be told until after the death of Elizabeth I, the last of the Tudor dynasty. But even when it was available, the public preferred the untruth; it was more dramatic.

"Plantagenet - At Battle Bos- 1

Old Charlottetown and r. 1 1. SHOAL or WHALES From the Royal Gazette, Dec. 21, 840:

Three persons of the name of Mo- Kinnon. of Goose River. Lot 43. and two named McDonald. of Fox River, accompanied by three other young men, saw a large shoal of whales in about five fsthoms of water, off Goose River, when they put off in two boats equipped with pltchforks and axes. The fish keeping constantly on the surface of the water. they succeeded in wounding one. which made im- mediately for the shore, the whole body following after him-,' until they got into the surf. when the parties fell upon them with their weapons and despatched them.

Alex. MacDonald, .1. P., St. Mur- gai-et's, advertises for sale, at Goose River, 2,000 gallons of whale oil. "It is well manufactured, hav- ing been rendered under the su- perintendencc of a person who served three years on board a whale ship in the South Seas."

Boy's Chore

(Boston Herald)

As a countryman snaps a switch and watches the magic of electri- city make yellow butter from white cream in a small glass con- tainer sitting on the kitchen coun- ter, he occasionally wonders when and where churns were invented.

Butter making has a long and honorable history.

In the Old Farmer's Almanack of 1889 it states: "A delicate and fine-flavored butter may be made by simply wrapping the cream in: napkin or clean cloth, and burying it a foot deep or so in the earth, from 12 to 14 hours. The experi- ment has been repeatedly tried with complete success. The but- ter will come out sweet and pal- stable."

There sre citizens of mature years and recognized dignity who remember the tedious chore of churning half a century ago. The cedar cylinder churn sat on a table or on a bench in the back kitchen.

On a beautiful Spring day when a boy ought to be down on the creek or exploring the woodland.

it was dlszouraging to keep cranking at a batch of cream that csntankemusly refused to

"come". Mother was always par- ticular to have the cream just the right degree of ripeness and just the right temperature,-but butter-making can be an obstin- ate and unpredictable affair.

A lad listened closely for the change in music. At first the cream slashed and f easily

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electricity. -and some wives could glvghlm a mighty good argument. . -Kitchens: Record.

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rim any who him on house

and moved out of range of grind- ing gun and exhsustsmells.-Moose Jaw 'nmes-Herald.

nu cuwll-.n dollar is an in be the strongestfln the world. In spscialty is lifting of mortklttl and debts. -Port Arthur News- Ohronlcla

A numb" of people lndlato till! thsy are acting on the spur of the moment when actually they have thought about what they were go- ing to do for a long period of time. -st. Thomas Times-Journal.

Science believes it finally has learned why cats like catnip. That. settled, it can advance to the more important problem centering on the partisllty of ducks for water.

-Windsor Daily star.

scientists have been told their country has spun 40 degrees clockwise in the past 150.000.000 years. We take that as I sign of British stability. Even in the past 15 years I lot. of countries have just spun. Period.-Windsor Daily Star.

Royal Dutch Airlines says It has found monkeys travelling by plane "must be spoken to from time to time to keep them from quarrel- ling with one another." Quick- est way to get them to stop. probably, is to remind them that they'll be mistaken for human passengers if they keel? UP the” bickering.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Home bright Ontario economist hss worked out the value of s farmer's wife at something around 389,000 in 40 years, providing she is conscientious and l" uni-rloul. A Westemer puts it somewhat high- er and works it out at 8173.473 for the average wife. 81'!!! 01' like a. few dollars. This puts it at some- thing more than 84,000 a year. We suspect this bit of information is going to put a few ideas into the heads of farmers' wives. -Nanton. Alta.-News.

-On the same a little boy from with his father. They had similar view. The boy had never seen a large lsks be- fore. He had never seen larze

floor" was the West. a

boats, for he came from a dry area. He watched them all day Monday. When he wak-

ened Tuesday morning he hurried to the window. A fairly heavy fos lay over the harbor that day. The boats could be seen only as dim

shapes through it. He . was surprised. "My. dnddv 1' hi aid, "those boats kick up an

lwful lot. of dust!"-Fergus News- Record. I

Goldoyss In goldsyos whether they come from Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba. or Lake Claire in far north Alberta. Cloldeyes are a fish which, when,smokcd, are a. dell- caey about which Winnipeg has been saving for long.yesrs. Win- nlpeggers call them Winnipeg gold- eyes, of course. and gain a. lot of free publicity thereby. But Alber- ta, which hssgeverythlng. has now come up with a lake where gold- eyss are flourishing. It is said that Lake Claire, which is in the Wood Buffalo Park at the south end of Lake Athabasca, produced in six weeks last spring s. catch the equal of anything that ever came out of Lake Winnipeg where, for some unexplained reason, the gold- eyes seem to have taken a pow- der. -Lethbrldge Herald.

speed means butter will come any sooner."

Then, at last. when I lad was growing desperate, the music deepened. Instead of the loose gurgling, slop, slop, the tune ab- ruptly chsnged. Fat globules joined; large scrpggy blobs of but- ter formed. The butter had "come".

When mother said, "Thank you, son. I'll do the restf. a boy's flagging spirits revived with mir- aculous speed and he and Shep, with fish pole and can of bait. hustled for the crack to attend to a really important task.

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- loud accidents is I Sunday Iftcmooz lIID- -Gait Repong,

'.l'lu old-fubionod man who am. thought the world owed him a liv- lug hi! I. son who wants the politic- ians to deliver it with a pengion.

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clouds upon which he meg ,,,l'I,f tel notations, Dr. Rolf Alexander hu dramatized his psnongi pm. osopby of "creative "real m". 13; Alexander, a physician an author who has come to Canada from New zuland, has evolved s theory that the brain ungupgcged powers of energy transmission, and an unused capacity for raising human existence above the mater. islistic level. In a general way, .3 least, few will question nu con- tentfcn. -Ottawa Citizen.

Bowl Illllllnos con- tain descriptions of a newly-invent. ed vehicle called a ”rhlhocero:," specially designed for rough going- It is a tank-like machine Whosg chief features are enormous, hollow slumlnum wheels. equipped with rubber treads. With these it can negotlsts 65-degree slopes and run over sand, mud and swamps. When it reaches I river or other water. way. the hollow. wheels give lg enough buoyancy to be used an a. boat. Now at last it win 1;. possible to travel by Alberta high. ways from Edmonton to Jasper. and perhaps even to the Peace river. -Edmonton Journal

Knnsuntlvnow, auocm. member of the soviet Ami. emy of sciences, deplores the fact that there are still in Russia sums who believe in'God. In a Moscow Radio address. he called for . 'flght. agalnt. 'rellglous supersti- Lions and prejudices." Another Russian has complained that church-going is increasing in Russia. These things echo the well- established fact. that materialistic Communism has failed to give the Russian people what they need, in terms of spiritual satisfac- tion. Actually there is less food per esplta in Russia today than there was under the last of the Cssrs. -London Free Press.

"rho days'when RCMP con. stables, alone or in pairs, were landed at far northern posts and left. in almost complete isolation for a year or two. no longer are the only official activities in those latitudes. An Ottawa report tells of the landing of hundreds of tons of supplies for weather sta- tions in Arctic areas. Planes and helicopters aided in the operation And of course excellent radio com- munlcstion is maintained between those stations and the outside. The new developments will write their own chapters of courage and endurance. But the lone Mounties, stretching their meagre supplies through 3 second year because the Summer relief ship could not reach them. will long be remem- bered for the big job they did when the going really was tough." Windsor Daily Star.

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Wherefore henceforth know In no man after the flesh: yea. thouxh we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. Therefore If any ml" be in Christ, be is a new creature: old things are ruled way: be- bolll. all things us become new.

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