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shrift they deserve,'and at the same time preserve the constitutional freedoms which Australia has inherited from the Mother Country.

Lessons From Europe In Community Progress

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President. and Associate Editor. Ian A. Burnett. Associate Editor, Frank Walker.

Canadian Council of Blue Cross plans from Alberta. Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and the other Atlantic Provinces. O O C High wool prices are cutting into Aus- tralian wheat acreage which presumably means a good many other higher prices to follow.

COMMIINISM IN ITALY

You may ask why there are house of ages. '

so many Communists in Italy If there was nothing also 1,, when the population is over 99 Paris but the Louvre. Paris would per cent Catholic. It is a con- draw to itself lovers of beauty fusing situation, but understand,- from every corner of the em-gh able when you look back a few For over two hundred and fifty years. The great bulk of the Com- years treasures and collections munist membership lists are not have been piling up here. The bclivers in or followers of Marxist Gallery of Apollo. one of the communism. During the last finest rooms in Europe. is cum. years of the war. after the fall of med with priceless gems - such Mussolini, and when Hitler was things as Napoleon's crowns, gh. threatening to march in with an- ring of St. Louis and a rellquary other dictatorship to control Italy. containing an arm of Charle- the Communists who were then magne. The sculptures of marble our friends and allies were smart figures of ancient and middle ages enough to take advantage of the stand majestic in the rooms um situation. They went in to the corridors of this world famous rural villages and parishes with museum.

f'The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink".

CIIARLOTTETOWN. FRIDAY. OCT. 5. 1851 The Pioneer's Demise

British radio exports to Canada in the first six months of 1951 were valued at i10,195,333, which is 39.4 per cent more than for the corresponding period last year;

an all-time record. 0

One of the consequences of the high cost of publication has been the steady dim- inuilon in newspapers. especially in the weekly field, throughout. Canada. News- print, ink and printing machinery of all kinds have risen in cost to be almost pro-

hibiilve, and newspapers unable to make The first complete printed English Bible the communist p,.og"m' md . , , their revenue equal their expenditure have was published this date 1535, probably at were then actually the only group A four of Paris would be in- no alternative but. to give up the ghost. Zurich. It was that of Miles Coverdale. a iiiiihi ,.Z.'.'.i.” .”335iil'ci.l gld 533533 syllltllafubhs villi": him Unfortunately this has happened to thei folio volume of highest bibliographical value termined leadership to protect Johnsnuskin called ppm: whiff them from.thc scourge of another precious piece of the Gothic

based on a Swiss-German edition. U 0 0

old and well established ”Pioneer" of Sum- nersidc. oriqinally published in Alberton by ihai stulwnrt pllilosopher, Mr. John L. MacKinnon. who later transferred his of-

dictatorship.

The people remembered well the wholesale doses of castor oil and the suffering that came to any- one who opposed Fascism. so they

architecture in northern Europe, and the Madeline which is model. led on the Maison Cureg the Romans built in Nimes. But the one which stands out the most

Setting a minimum price for P. E. I. and New Brunswick table stock potatoes as

fice of publication to the Prince County the two boards are considering in Monc- palged srouindnmthe Comnnlalhii gently 1111 3:11" hmgrlow ls Notre . . V - ea ers an new po ca ame. n e e of Paris. 1: capital. ion today involves fewer headaches than in party, They helped form local has been one of the great sights

of the city for many hundreds of years.

The first evening after arriving in Paris, the question was; what could we do out of a hundred dif- ferent choices? Like all stranger: on their first trip to Paris, we had heard a lot about the Follies

branches and groups in their own areas. They gained confidence in those leaders. and many of the professional and intellectual men in the local- districts too, helped to rally the people together.

Because they are a simple and uneducated people, many of them still believe that Communism

some years. It seems unlikely that any large-scale buying up of surplus should be needed.

Perhaps the best known editor of The Pioneer was the 1.110 Mr. John Pond, who successfully filled the offices of editor and reporter for a number of years, subse- quently retlrimz, to London. England. After several aticmpis to fill his shoes success-

Thc Bus and Truck operators who are protesting against the C. N. R. entering

Bergeres and

fully, the then directors of The Pioneer, of whom the laie Mr. Neil MacLe0d, K.C., was prcsiricni, sent. lo London to induce Mr. Pond to return. which he did. and re- mained in the editorial chair until his de- mise. Slnce then there have been several occupants of the chair, but The Pioneer had lost its appeal to ihe.majol'ity of its Prince C.'ounly readers. It is rumored that the late proprietor. Mr. Bergman, dropped at the rate of S10,000 a year in its pub- lication.

The Summcrside Journal. the purchaser of The Pioneer, has recently lost. its pre- sident, Mr. A. R. Brennan. and a reorgan- ization llas taken place which includes the absorbing; of itsicontemporary The Pioneer. It is understood that Mr.' Elmer Murphy, for a number of years the successful man- ager of The Guardian Prince County office in Summerside, has been appointed editor of the reorganized publication. We wish him every sllccess. and the proprietors as well in their new undertaking.

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Danish selnlng

A Nov.-l Scotian fisherman is reported to be l'.'llx'll'lC! large hauls by a method which seems morc adapted to waters surrounding this Province than to Nova Scotia, a smooth bottom being required. In Ched- abucto. South of the Strait of Canso, Mor- rill Harris of Digby has been hauling in as much as ten thousand pounds of groundfish 21 day by the Danish scining method.

Expcrimcnts were first conducted at the Atlantic Fisheries Biological Station at St. Anrlrcu”s, N. B. along the lines de- veloped by Scandinavian and Scottish fish- ermen. The general idea is to surround an area wilh ai-mllt two miles of rope on the bottom with Fl not at the end and ”l'ounri-up" the fish by hauling the rope in on the anchored vessel.

The method would result in the taking of Fl wirlc vnriciy of groundfish which have been long neglccicri so far as this islands fishcrics are concerned. '

Australia's Verdict

Ausiralla's rcfercndum vole denying to Prime Minister Menzies the sweeping pow- ers sougllt by him to suppress Communism in that country is a significant re-affirma- ilon of faiih in the democratic process and the Rule of Law. For had the Australian Government gained the powers which it sought, the principles of the police state would have supcrceded the concept of in- dividual liberty protected by the widespread recognition accorded the Rule of Law, which safeguards the citizen against the ex- erclse of arbitrary power by the state.

What Mr. Menzies asked for was the power to dismiss from a government post or a trade union anyone designated by him as a Communist. Resort to the courts would have been denied to anyone so des- lgnated, and the evidence, collected by Aus- tralia's equivalent of the R.C.M.P., would have been secret and available to nobody except the Prime Minister.

In Australian eyes, the issue was clear. Dangerous as Communist infiltration of the civil service and the trade unions might be, the people preferred to meet the threat of Communism openly, rather than trust to government those police state powers need- ed to suppress it. The Communist issue now rests as the responsibility of individual Australians. Their decision in the recent referendurlf suggests pretty clearly that they will not fail to accord the Moscow- minded '

uatlng today at School. Summerslde, it might be just. as well if a count were made of the Prov- ince's historic cannon. claimed that His Honour the Lieutenant- Governor gave them one from in front of the Provincial Building.

sterling exchange rate. have a very considerable effect with the

earners are concerned it. means little

secretary of Transportation Association, in which he ex-

the truck business have in mind the pos-

sibllity of that organization obtaining a passenger bus service as well. may cntcr the truck business, but it re- quires a Government franchise to carry passengers.

Any one

With another class of navigators grad- No. 1 Air Navigation

An earlier class

Fair exchange is no robbery. Britain

has given France an order for 150 "Sea Venom" aircraft which will be used by the British Naval Airforce. been loaned four Britain for a period of four years. They have been given the names of "Suit:-me",

France has also submarines by Great

”Sybile".

'Saphir", ”Sircne"

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This Province is well represented on

the Maritimes' Board of Trade with Mr. Frank W. Curtis as president, Col. F. J. Storey. vice-president, Col. U. G. Dawson, now of Yarmouth, Messrs. A. Walthen Gaudet, R. S. Hinton, William Holmes, Robert Dawson, Shaw, and Paul Gallant as directors.

vice-president, and Cyril

The Food and Drugs Act and regula-

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tions are generally concerned with clim- inating impuritles but it is noteworthy that ”No person shall sell salt or free-running salt for table or general household use unless (a) such salt contains 0.01 per cent of potassium iodine, and (b) the presence of iodine is declared leglbly and conspicu- ously on the main panel of both the inner

and outer labels.''

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The drop in Britain's dollar business may precede a farther drop in the pound That is bound to

middle trading community, on the vote in theiforthcomlng election. So far as wage or nothing except that they will get less for home consumption. gl-lence Foreign Secre- tary Morrison's plea to practice more austerity. A drop from S230 to 352.40 is predicted.

A telegram has been received by The Guardian from Mr. John Magee, executive the Canadian Automotive

presses appreciation of "your very fair treatment of our case" with respect to C. N. R. truck transport operations. "We are not aiming tour bullets at or criticising

The Guardian for making straight business deal with C.N.R.," Mr. Magee states. "Per- fectly legitimate under present Provincial

trucking regulatlons.' O

A dozen British boys and girls, univers- ity students, have given their holidays vol- untarily to the task of helping to reinstall the municipal library of Dunkerque, which was badly damaged and burned during the battle of Dunkerque. These young stu- dents belong to the British Association of the United Nations. In accepting to work for nothing .to help put the collections of books in order and classify the library,

these British students have followed the example. of their young Danish comrades who worked voluntarily last summer to help restore the minority in the country theshort (Msnche). France.

library at Valognes

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PLOIIGHING MATCH & FAIR

'Several reports of oldtime ploughing matches have appeared in this column. These nmu,-hes lncreasted steadily in popularity and were developed along with cattle shows." On Sept. 25, 1349, '11? Royal Agricultural Society Plollzhing match was held at the

rm of the president, l-ion. W. Swabcy. on the Prlncctown Road. about. a mile from Cllnrlolfetown, and on the following day the So- cieiyis livestock show took place on the Market Square in Char- lottetown. Both events were large- ly attended and appear to have created much interest.

The plowing! match had sixteen contestants. and was divided into two classes. The first class in- cluded those ploughmcn who had carried away first prizes on form- er occasions; the second was open to all except previous first prize winners. In the first class the Prize of E4 was awarded--to John Ferguson, of East. River. after. in the opinion of the judges, ”a very sharp contest with ridge No. 5," which was the ridge ploughed by James Moffatt. ,f New Glasgow. In the second c ss the first prize of 53 went to James Laird. jr.. New Glasgow. with Alcxandcr Laird. jr., New Glasgow. second. and Alcxandcr Scott. East River. third. The regulations of the So- ciety did not. permit anyone to compete for the premiums unless he was a subscriber thcrclo (lit three shillings per year) or a son or servant of a subscriber.

In the cattle show, an import- ed Ayrshire hull owned by Judge Petefs was of outstanding quality. The cows were chiefly of the Dur- ham breed. One Galloway cow. imported by Judge Pctcrs. and a fine cow from Cumberland. N.S.. owned by William Hyde. Elliott River. were cxhlbitcd. Mehtlon is also made of a fine 17 months old hull. :1 cross bctwccn Durham and Ayrshire. owned and bred by Hon. C. llcnslr-y.

A rlt-cidcd improvement exhibit. nf coils nnd fillies was noted, "duo in great measure in the servircs of the blood horse Snlndin. imported in the V98!” 1845. nnd the Clydesdale horse Columbus. imporicrl in the year 1839, by the Society, by means of Legislative grnnts."

A number of prize sheep were purchased at the fair. A Leicester rum, imported from England by the Society, was bought by Calli- Cumborlnnd for I8. and two Snuthdown rams by Mr. C. Has- zard and Judge Peters for if; 105. and f5 10:. respectively. First prize for the best entire horse. any age. went. to A. Mclsasc, Lot 50. and for the best mare to Mal- colmv Darrach, Dog River.

A drill machine for sowing tur- nips. construcied by Jamel Ch”5' fie, New Glasgow. was examined by the committee. and received a

in the

premium of forty ”' """Kl- A winnowiniz Machine. of a novel construction. manufactured by

fsaac Howatf. of St. Eleanorls. was inspected. and ordered to be retained in the Society's store un- ill a trial could be made of its efficiency.

The fair was followed by l farmcrs' dinner held at the Prince Edward Hotel, at which the prizes were distributed.

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AUTUMNAL CHANT

The feathers of thegwlllow

Are half M then grown yellow Above the swcllirl stream; And ragged are t a bushes. Andrrusty grown the rushes, And wild the cloudpd gleam.

The thistle now is older. I-Iis stalk begins to moulder. His head is whiis as snow; The branches all are borer. The llnnells born is rarer.

The robin plpeth now.

-ltlchard Watson Diana.

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Walter Brown. who runs a tav- ern down at Ilford in the beauti- ful county of Sussex in England. has just been fined 20 pounds for slipping extra water into his whis- ky before he sold it. The whisky Mr. Brown bought for his pub had been liberally water- ed before he got it. and that was no crime. And yet. when he did exactly the same thing. he was hauled into court and fined for doing something that had sudden- ly become "to the prejudice of the cusiomer." Calgary Herald.

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The hero of William L. Shlrer's "The Traitor," is an American car- respondent in Berlin who returns home and goes on a lecture tour. Mr. Shirer was himself an Ameri- can correspondent in Berlin who returned home and went on lec- ture tours. So when Mr. Shlrer says of his hero, "In all his travels from coast to coast, Jack never saw an American male reading a book." it seems reasonable to as- sume that this was Mr. Shlrer's own experience. Jack. subbing for Mr. Shlrer, also broods over the fact that "few- Americans were aware that America was the -last among the ten leading nations in the per caplla purchase of books." What a market! - Saturday Re- view.

It may not be generally ap- preciated that the movement of 665 people out of the worst slum areas in St. John's to new mod- crn housing units in asuperior environment is an nlmost phe- nomenal nchlevement. That is not so much because the physical ef- fort involved was so great or the cost so high, although without lhe co-operation of Federal and Provincial governments it could not have been done, but because for once a construhilve idea has

been determlnedly pressed for- ward in the face of many ob- stacles. Now a start has been

made and the Council has agreed i.o order the demolition of many other condemned houses with the promise of the Welfare Depart- ment to help in the re-housing of their inhabitants. The slums.

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in other words. are on their way out. But there is still a long dis- tance to go to remodel St. Johns

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and eliminate them.-St. John's (Nfld.) News.

If is surely time to consider whether it is reasonable to ask Royalty to undertake these crowded exhausting tours (as the

tour of Princess Elizabeth in Can- ada). In the Commonwealth. Brit- ain is only pl-lmus inter pares. The King is as much King of Aus- tralia as of the United Kingdom. The crown is the symbol of our unity. what if the King or his heir-apparent periodically resided for some months out of Britain in another Commonwealth country? Thestrain of hectic visits would be avoided and the sense of Com- monwealth partnership might be enhanced. The idea has been moot- ed before now. The Canadian pro- gram suggests that it deserves to be considered afresh. --Plymouth iliing.) Herald.

. That was a nice gesture last week when the Conservative Pre- mler of Ontario. Leslie Frost, in- vitcd the Liberal Premier of Nova Scotla, Angus Macdonald. to sit on the floor of the On- iario Legislature. And It was an equally nice gesture when Angus Macdonald, he of the Scotch Highland blood. which invariably means chivalry, not only accept- ed graciously but sat among the Conservatives and stood up to speak nice words about Onlario. A wholesome thing. an incident like this: wholesome b it shows that while divisions exist among us and our politics some- times seem bitter there continues to be with us a spirit of good comradcshlp. that we are not yet cursed by the ideological hates which reach down to personal relationships and bring havoc to so much of the world. Well that we should have dissents and dis- agreements, with vigor in debat- ing them. But such good demo- cratic things we can have with- out making differences of opin- ion a cause for hatred. or with- out loss of respect or even affec- tion for our political opponents. -Ottawa Journal.

. Looking Back

(The Times, London).

A small gathering at Boscobel last week celebrated the escape of Charles If after his defeat at the battle of Worcester. Three days before another small gathering at Worcester had remembered with gratitude Cromwell's victory over Charles - a victory which, Mr. Isaac Foot claimed. determined the future of the world. ceremon- ies such as these are as much a part of the English scene as the pageant at the village fete.

The poetry of history, says Dr. Trevelyan, lies in the fact that: "once on this earth. ohm on this familiar spot of ground. walked other man and women. as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts. swayed- by their own passions. but now all gone. one generation vanishing after another. gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone like a ghost at cock crow."

The pilgrims who travelled last week to Worcester and Boeoobel have sensed the poetry of history. Centenarian - and teroentariea ought to be celebrated: they rescue history from the bookshelves. and bring our ancestors back to color- ful life - "not mere creatures of

fiction and imagination. but warm-blooded realities even as we are." .

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It is right, too, that the cham- pions of the Royalist and Puritan causes today should -- with pea- sionate and unfsianod oonvlotlon revive the controversies of the seventeenth century. These are not

our political institutions were not all that was changed by the events of those dramatic -twenty nan. from mo fir loco.

dead issues: theyaare a part of us. you

ent people - thinking differently, feeling differently - if Oromwell's lronsides had not won their crush- lng victories at Marston Moor and Naseby. and if Charles had not es- caped from Worcester to return nine years later as king. (What a tragedy it might have been if not he but his brother, James II had been restored to the throne in 1660.)

Both the Puritan Revolution and the Restoration were steps for- ward in the deyelopment of Eng- lish Parllmentary government. The strength of the British con- stitution has not been the separa- tion of powers but the "unit of will," to use a p are of Polard. "as expressed by t Crown in Parlllunerlt." and in this sense the Restoration was a return to nor-