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. u39m-"''0N '. do I n t en. Glirom a gespiatch to I.lterI;it:nsnt "'3 WW" '4'” made some comparisons 'between In fact. we doubt if even Ceigui :::::. 2.-:2: serve We gm. 0 e:.::.:':: gr f.ii?l;i:.'...”i3:ii”i2:i1ii..?;.P.l' :23: ':i::.::;:;i"".:.::.-2:: ”' mm" "T 87" thuglasuc abmilt gaylgf - e "1 :dm::::S:: 01 vhf-ate. Downing Street. 15W son once made by the late George that Alberta's largest. city)liu ear; Total Net Paid 18.04! ma e necessaiy y ,e increas October, 1804. P. Graham, that delightful hu- wells north. south. west and gas;

"The state of the Militia in the different British North American Provinces having lately engaged

moi-ist who once played a com- manding role in sir Wilfred Laure Ierfs -cabinets and afterwards.

of it. Now all it needs to take the title away for once and for all is an oil well smack in um

fuel, but they can be thankful, at least,

meme!" um I". um" hn A uumm" that power failures have been eliminated

Associate Editor, Frail: Walker.

,hccomc the world's premier cotton

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

CHARLUTTETOWN. WEDNESDAY. JAN. 9. 1952

The Land That Time roigit

Almost unnoticed amid the clamour and strife of East and West a new nation has come into being in North Africa. Before long representatives of the sovereign King- dom of Libya will be taking their places in the political conclaves of mankind. Scene of bitter struggle between Rommel and Montgomery in the dark days of World War II, Mussolini's former Italian colony now stands recognized as a nation in its own right.

Libya today is a poor land of about a million inhabitants scattered over a terri- tory about as large as the province of British Columbia. What little statistical data regarding its resources is available re- cords that it has 90,000 camels and only 70,000 cattle. A primitive land, destined to be little more than a pawn in the game of international politics, Libyals future is not rosy.

It could be otherwise. For the Libya of the past was an exotic and exciting'placc, which attracted the attention of Rome's empire builders no less than it did Ii Duce's fascist hordes. Herodotus writes of it as "the populous country of the Nasamones", who used to hunt wild locusts, dry them in the sun. grind them up and sprinkle them on their milk as a choice beverage. Libya, too, harbourcd the ill-fated Psylli -who, when their water supply failed, marched out into the desert and were swallowed up by the sand. Here, too, was the home of the Lotus Eaters, who gathered sweet berries from which was made the wine they drank. History records Libya also as the place where dwelt the Machlyes, who held a year- ly festival at which all the maidens of the tribe wcredivided into two groups which fought each other with stones and staves. Further inland from the Mediterranean shore were even stranger people who were without name, others who saw no dreams, and still others whose language sounded like the squcaking of bats.

Only science can make Libya live again. For sovereignty without resources is as arid and worthless as the burning sands of the Sahara. V

curiouser And curlouser

In itself, a Reuters dispatch from Teh- ran is not surprising, although it shows Russia to be callously withholding promised and much needed sugar from lran until Iran supplies 1,200 tons of raw cotton to the Soviet Union. It might be simple, if rather hard hearted and unscrupulous busi- ncss practice.

When, however, that information is link- cd with previous Russian claims to have pro- riuccr, and to the further information that the Soviet Union has been shipping cotton for sale in the United States, the situation takes on another aspect. it is not stretch- ing imagination very t'ar to see these strangely assorted facts an attempt to strike at the American economy by flood- ing an already weak cotton market. Rus- sian economists. of course, put great rc- liancc upon the expected collapse of Am- erican prospcrity and the delay in its oc- currencc must have proved very embarrass- ing indeed to them. It would seem that the experts from beyond the Iron Curtain have decided that the giant needs a bit of :1 push before he will topple according to (Soviet) plan.

EDITORIAL NOTES

apart from unavoidable accident. 0 0 It

this date 1949.

ish nation.

won him a vast following. 0 O C

the N. S. Federation of Labour.

judice.

pened here.

Canada is proving an exceptionally fine country in which to live these trying times in most other countries. tinuc so, notwithstanding the price we must pay in high taxation and high prices for what we buy and consume. 0 ' O O A price ceiling on potatoes in "the United States is probably a necessary sc- quel to the price support which American growers enjoyed last year. Canadian ex- porters, unfortunately, could not enjoy the full benefits of the latter but are equally subject" to the formcr. V

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U. N. aircraft are finding themselves outnumbered in air battles with the Reds. If Communist airfields could also be de-

fire the eventual cost in lives would prob-

ing to a too-hasty truce. - I O C

over the world. travel some 40 miles for air connection

of a province.

I U I

The old nursery rhyme of

fortunate financial status of the Country.

King's financial

don to try to restore the loss sustained.

O O O

Dumfries was conferred on him

don bookseller. the bookscllcr. the casket.

Probably the country with

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the

come to grief over the budget.

to coalitions.

and defeat is inevitable.

Tommy Handley, British comedian. died As Itma -("It's that man again”), the man to whom everything hap- pened, he typified the spirit of the Brit- His outrageous assurance and humorous, kindly and sincere personality

The P. E. I. Federation of Agriculture is to be congratulated on having as guest speaker Mr. Sydney Oram, President of Making a point of hearing other sides of economic problems is a good way to break down pre-

Citizens of Charlottetown can congrat- ulate Summerside on their new Federal building being ready to open Jan. 18, and also on the town spirit which enabled 'iem to back the project instead of throwing obstacles in the way as seems to have hap-

Long may it con-

Saint John is now glorying in its cs- tablishmcnt as an airport from and to which passengers and freight may be shipped all Hitherto it has had to

and that was not good enough for a pro- gressive city like the commercial capital

”lriumpty Dumpty" best illustrates the present un- Mother It has had "a great fall", and now all the King's Treasurers, and all the experts from over the Commonwealth are about to meet in Lon-

The silver casket and scroll presented to Sir James Barrie when the freedom of in 1924 have been returned to Dumfries by Major 0. Myrseth, who bought them from a Lon- It would be interesting to know how they came into possession of Sir James died childless, and had no direct heir to whom to bequeath

least stable government is that of France where it is just announced the latest coalitipn has There are so many parties in the country that it is hardly possible to get a majority for any government elected, and resort must be had When a crisis arises, the coalition usually fails, to stick together This should prove a warning to those in other countries, like

my attention. I have observed with satisfaction that in Prince Edward Island a Volunteer movement has arisen which reflects much credit on the loyalty and spirit of the inhabitants. On the other hand I learn that a Law exists among the statutes of the Island, which declares that the Militia shall not be called outl'except only in times of war. civil commotion or other sufficient emergency.'

"It appears that this enactment was passed simultaneously with the concession to the Legislature of Responsible Govemment. so that at the time when the in- haiiitants obtained exclusive pow- er to manage their own affairs. they inaugurated their career of self-government by depriving their Militia of the opportunity of be- coming an organized and efficient body.

"You will, I am sure, concur Willi me in the opinion that if, in time of peace, a community neg- lects those measures of precau- tion by which its independence against foreign aggression can be secured. its safety must be more than imperilled in time of war Her Majesty's Government are very de- sirous that no British Colony shall be left in this situation: and I wish that you would confer with the members of your C i1 with

affairs, as ,respects the Militia.

North America."

On Changing Your Mind

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'Royal Bank Monthly Letter) It seems somehow criminal to some people to change their minds. There is nothing wrong with tell- inr: people one thing today and Something else tomorrow: we Change. and the world changes. Many things which were true yea- tcrdav are not so today.

our that we have changed our nv-mion. indicating that we are wiser than we were. He is. indeed, a wise man who keeps his mind open so that he recognizes im- portant changes.

People with closed minds are

vcloped extensively under cover of a cease- nreiudlced in favour of yesterday's Then. high glory imitate;

thoughts. They resent having to question and re-examine their at-

ably be greater than any saved by agree- titudes and ideas: still more do

they resent it when others raise questions. Emerson dismissed such reople in this way: "A foolish con- sistcncy is the hobgoblin of little minds. adored by little statesmen and philosophers. and divines."

The philosophic person recogn- izes that if a thing is true you must accept it no matter how in- credible or unpalatable it may be. No real values are destroyed or impaired by learning the truth about them. The falslties and , nreiudices of the world are allergic to truth and will die if sufficiently extmsed to it.

In sir Henry Rider Haggai-d's fantastic story "She". truth was re- presented in the temple of K0: by a statue of a woman, leaning forward with poised wings. Her arms were outstretched like those of some woman about to embrace one she dearly loved. Her whole attitude was tenderly beseeching. Her face was thinly veiled. The inscription read: "Is there no man that will draw my veil and look ulmn m.v face. for it is very fair?" And Sir Richard Livingstone, vzrr-at scholar, set a. high and shin- ing prosneci: of truth in outlining the tasks of education in today's voiid: truth is "...that veracity wlrch does its best to tell the truth. the whole truth. and noth- in: but the truth; where it is un- certain. confesses to uncertainty: where it lacks knowledge. does not nrctend to it; which is candid and frank. takes no unfair advantage in argument. is careful not to mis- represent an opponent or to ignore the strength of his case and the weakness of its own."

when a man makes this sur- render to truth. he is for the first time in his life free - free from superstition. free from prejudice and free from dogmatism. He finds himself with a strange new pow- er, the power to discover. handle aud control facts. He can claim to be an educated man. He is ready to polish his mind against the mind of others in a poised way.

0 O O I

We do not know allthe answers to the questions about human life and destiny . . . we do realize that there is still very fer to go and

the view of remedying a state of I which has no parallel in British .

It is a sign of our vitality to N

SONG

Whether men do laugh or weep. Whether they do wake or sleep. Whether they die young or old. Whether they feel heat or cold; There is underneath the sun Nothing in true earnest done.

All our pride is but a jest:

one are worst and none are best; Grief and joy. and hope and fear. Play their pageants everywhere: Vain opinion all doth sway.

And the world is but a play.

Powers above in clouds do sit, Mocking our poor apish wit, That so lamely. with such state.

No iii can be felt but pain. All that happy men. disdain.

-Thomas Campion (1567-18l9).

Britain And A European Federal Organization

The Six-Power Paris Confer- ence on the proposal for a "Europ- ean Army" inside the framework of N.A.T.O. resulted. Isione had expected, in a compromise. It is not even now a complete compro- mise. There is to be another meet- ing this month but there seems good ground for hoping that at this further meeting of the Six Foreign Ministers sufficient agree- ment will be reached to enable the N.A.T.O. Council, meeting at Lisbon in February, to go ahead without further delay.

Conpromise was and still is inevitable. Because both the ex- perts who have been working throughout the year and the Min- isters who met in Paris last month have had two quite separ- ate and distinct objectives in mind. The first, and in the minds of some of them the real objective. was an immediate and rpractical one. It was to devise a plan which would make it possible to add Ger- man troops to the N.A.T.O. forces in Western Europmwithout re- creating a separate and in- dependent German Army under the control of a German General Staff and of the German govern- men .

mortal. invisible. the God. be honor Ind ll"! 1" "" tion at Beaufort in 1916. Back in and ever. Amen.

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ifiie Age-Old Story

Now unto the! King eternal. im- only wise

-2-T-j: earnestly and passionately ml” the Assembly which had been en- visaged in Paris as an organ of a new European defence system must "prepare the way towards I European federal or confederai political organisation." On the other hand. M. Van Zeeland has insisted that the purpose of the Belgian government is the crea- tion of a European Army on an efficient basis, and that no other considerations should be allowed to interfere with this fundamen- tal aim.

The outcome has naturally beenacompromise. All six govern- ments - France. Germany, Italy and the three Benelux countries -- are agreed that the immediate objective is to draft, sign and ratify a treaty which will provide the necessary framework for the creation of a "European Army" including German contingents. That done. the Assembly which will be part of this framework is to "study the creation of a Europ-V ean organisation of a federal or confederal character which would take the place when the time came of the organisation embodi- ed in this treaty." It seems a reasonable enough compromise; and it is certainly one which the UK. government can approve.

The British attitude on both

forward. through it

.infant and grew up and was edu-

rThe main difference between our climates." Graham told them in London. "is that we keep ours in- side." -Ottawa Journal. l

Visitors to Westminster Hospit- sl at Christmas were ,. zlecl by small brooches woxn by some of the nurses on their uniforms. Each brooch was the same, made of gold and studded with dia- monds, with the initials of the King and Queen engraved on a small crown. These brooches were the Christmas presents the King had given to those nurses from the hospital who attended him during his illness. it was the Kings wish they should be worn on their uni- forms. "From A Window In Fleet street.", Ottawa Journal.

Calgary, which still thinks it is Canada's Oil Capital, is going to have to look to its lnurels now that Edmonton is almost com-

Canads. Born in London in 1890. he was taken to New Zealand as an

cated there as a dentist. He didn't like the profession so he chucked it Ind went to Mexico at 23 to fight for Pancho Villa. when World War I broke out he worked his way to Britain and got a commis- sion ss lieutenant-commander in the Royal Naval Division. He he- came "the hero of the Dardanclles" by making a twc-hour swim at Gallipoli in 1915 to light decoy flares to deceive the Turks about an intended landing. He won his VC, however. for gallantry in ac-

Brltaln after the war. he tried twice to swim the Channel and got once within 600 yards of the opposite shore before war injuries made him quit.

In World War II New Zealand chose him to command its over- seas forces. He maintained his rep- utation for always being in the thick of the battle - and he was wounded ten times doing it. Freyberg at 81 is tall, athletic and vigorous. He also possesses. in the Auckland Star's words. "all the dignity and ability"-demanded by the vice-regal post.

We suggest that "Fighting Frey- berg" would be an excellent choice for Canada when Viscount Alex- ander leaves Rideau Hall. We sug- gest that Ottawa find out if he'd be willing to come when New Zea- land gives him his liberty.

center Q! the city. And we doum if anyone would be too Burp;-lggd if that happened. Edmonton Journal.

'A sure way to cause a panic 1,, rail circles on this continent would be to order all lines to use only their own freight cars and lmmeo. lately return all foreign cquipmgm to whom it belongs. in one train alone, there are dozens of differ: em. rail cars. at. Thom” Times-Journal.

Ottawa's first baby of 1952 er. rived on the scene at one mlnuu, after midnight. At Hamilton the winner made it only nine minute; late. Even that time, however was not good enough to best tum speedy infants of Toronto and Windsor, who finished in g and heat at one second flat. It is ob. vious that the official timers will have to be more precise in the u. cording of these New Year baby contests. Clearly. they must aban. don the old-fashioned Wlfch which registers merely seconds in. stead of fractions thereof. A 0;. tawa Citizen.

Wliat; happened to London'- New Year whistles and sirens? 19, has ever been our custom hero to wclcrme the New Year. not only by the ringing of church bells but by brave sslutation of factory whistles and sirens. This year the New Year came virtually un- heralded in this respect. The only sounds we heard were a few bells - not many - a very . mes. gre tootlng of automobile horns, and s. few shotguns. This is not in the true and honest tradition. We trust that next year we shall do better. -- London Free Press.

Edmonton Journal says it's tllf. ficult to pick up a paper without learning that "intellectuals" are on the warpath somewhere. and it wonders just what is the meaning of the word. Well, as we under. stand it, the common or garden variety of "intellectual" is one who claims to know more than anybody else about things nobody else wants to know about and wouldnit understand if he did want to know about them. which he doesn't on account of being too busy trying to keep up with the cost of living. Or something like that. - Ottawa. Citizen.

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We ask Ottawa to consider ep- pcinting Lord Freyberg, V0, to succeed Viscount Alexander as Governor-General of Canada.

Within a few months Lord Frey- l.-erg will complete 9. term as Gov- e-.-nor-General of New zealand af- ter an extension from five to six years. He is the first New Zealand- er to hold that office and he's made a brilliant success of it. He's so popular that the Auckland IN.z.) star says the government has "no such obvious and nation- ally acceptable New zealander" to