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CIRCULATION "Coven Prince Edward Island like the dew"

"The strongest memory is woalur than tho weakest ink”.

CHARLOTTETOWN THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1953 From The Western isles

Landing in Sydney next Tuesday, the Chief of the MacKinnons comes on to Charlottetown the same day and will be guest of honour at. a dinner and at the Scottish Games at Montague the next day- ”Clan MacKinnon Day” of the Caledonian Club of Prince Edward Island. Later the Chief, Commander Arthur Avalon I Mac- Kinnon of MacKinnon, R.N., will open the 15th annual Gaelic Mod at St. Anns on August 15th.

The MacKinnons, like the Clans Gregor, Grant, MacNab, MacAulay, MacPhee and MacQuarrie, trace their descent from A1- pine, King of Scotland, who wrested that land from the Picts about 834 A.D. All seven clans wear a slip of Scotch pine as a badge. After Bannockburn they were given wide lands by Robert the Bruce, in- eluding parts of Skye which thereafter was regarded as the home of the clan. All was lost, as the chroniclers say, but honour after the clan was out in 1715 and 1745 and the chief gave shelter to the fugitive Pre- , tender.

' In their prosperity the MacKinnon chiefs i .' A were Marshals of the Lord of the Isles and occupied Findanus Castle, now known as MacKinnon Castle, in Skye. They were hereditary custodians of the Standards of Weights and Measures, Governors of the Castles and Masters of the Household in ,- what was practically an island kingdom. l Many a story is told of the exploits i of the various chief and their clansmen, of battle and plunder, but also of peace for they were long associated with Iona. Many abbots in the monastry were of the clan, of whom the last was the most famous, Abbot John-Ian MacKinnon. His tomb is the stateliest in that burial isle of kings. In this Province the MacKinnons claim to be second in number only to the Mac- ' Donalds, a claim difficult to prove, but cer- tainly they have played their part well in ' Island history, in government, law, educa- "tion, sport and military affairs. The Mac-

Islanders honour the MacKinnons.

Polio Knowledge Growing

It is reassuring to note that no new cases of poliomyelitis have been reported this year in Prince Edward Island, despite the prevalence of this dreaded disease else- where. The danger, however, is always present, and as yet no vaccine has been de- veloped which can promise immunity from it. Progress is being made, however, in defeating the paralytic effects of polio in- fection, and in this connection the follow- ing comments from the Canadian Medical Association Journal will be read with in- terest.

The Journal's article charts the pro- gress that polio research is making. First, analysis and identification of different types of polio virus have been greatly simplified by the tissue method of virus culture, a method which was first developed in 1939. Before 1939, the virus had to be adapted for use and observation in monkeys; today, it can be artificially grown in preserved tissue, where observation is considerably easier.

Besides identification of the three types of virus themselvds, the most important re- search is into the nature of the antibodies which defeat the polio virus. These anti- bodies are present in the blood of most peo- ples in the world but they are so tiny as to be almost impossible to discover or study. It 'is' in the study of these anti- bodies that the hope for an anti-paralysis serum centres.

Experiments with preparations contain- ing these antibodies already indicate that they may make possible the elimination of the paralytic effects of polio.

Progress in such difficult research is . understandably slow. But the Journal's

article indicates that the' first long steps toward an eventual conquest of the dread disease. or at least of its consequences, have been completed.

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At Farnborough, in Hampshire, rc- seprch work in now going on at a new laboratory built forthe BrltiqhAir Min- Istry. Scientists there are studying the effects of extremes of climate. finding out how air crews and their equipment re-

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humidity, and high winds. Mr. Valentine Selsey visited the laboratory and London Calling reports his findings.

It is here that the doctors of the Insti- tute of Radiation and Medicine carry out their experiments. It is here that they can create, at will, any kind of climatic con- ditions from excessive cold to excessive heat. This is done through complicated system of coolers, electric heaters, and driers. The humidity of the air can be regulated by injecting steam, and a large revolving fan can produce winds up to thirty or forty miles an hour. All this can be controlled and checked from a cen- tral panel.

When Mr. Selsey went into the research chamber the temperature was 120 degrees Fahrenheit.' The doctors were testing a new type of air-ventilated suit for the Royal Air Force. The problem was to find something which would give comfort to fighter pilots, sitting in their aircraft, wait- ing on the tropical airfields. The idea of this particular suit is to pump cool air under the pilot's clothes: mere protection against the sun is not enough. And it is a curious fact that the more clothes the pilot wears over his air-ventilated suit the cooler he will be.

There are other research chambers a.t I-larnborough. In one of them Mr. Selsey saw a tall, silver-painted cylinder with a man standing up to his shoulders in warm water. The human guinea-pigs are the doc- tors themselves, and the doctor in the cyl- inder was checking the internal heat-re- sistance of his own body to warmish water. Two members of a bomber crew, baling out over a tropical swamp, might have to put up with a similar ordeal.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Shades of Scottish border raiders! Equador has charged that Peruvian border guards have been stealing cattle and driving them over the border. There must be some Scots blood in the South American

republics.

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Last year poultry producers sold 339.2 million pounds oftpoultry meat and, in ad- dition, consumed 66.1 "million pounds at home. The combined total of the amount consumed and sold was worth 32166260,- 000.

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The Dominion Bureau of Statistics cal- culates that 341,522,000 dozen eggs, worth 3134,226,000 were disposed of in. Canada last year. Producers used 54.5 million dozen eggs for food, while 9 million dozen were used for hatching, leaving 267.7 mil-

lion dozen marketed.

D. Rockefeller. Once upon a time there was a community that received unusual good fortune, so the people of the com- munity met and passed a resolution to take up a collection. The next day they met again and decided that the collection should be for the poor and, meeting the third day, they decided they wereuthe poor. 0 O O England's Scotland Yard has warned American tourists to beware of some par- ticularly fine counterfeit S100 bills that may be offered to them in London. The plates were made by the Nazis during World War II for the dual purpose of pay- ing spies and depreciating American cur- rency. Somebody recently has got hold of the plates and is printing new bills. O O O A report from the Natural History Museum at Chicago recently intimated that farmers tilled the soil of what is now the United States as long as 4,500 years ago. A cave in New Mexico provided ex- ceptionally well preserved material believ- ed to date back to about 3,000 B.C. Some of the 38,000 cobs of corn found were be- lieved to represent the most primitive and perhaps the oldest ever found. 0 O O p The Privy Council has confirmed the judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada that an agreement between the C.P.R. and the City of Winnipeg, exempting the rail- way from city taxes, is binding upon the city. This law suit began in 1948 when the city decided to test the validity of the 1881 agreement by assessing the C. P. R. for realty and business tax. The C. P. R. refused to pay and justified its refusal by the.agreement of 1881 which at that time was ratified by the Manitoba legilature. 0 O 0 Sir Alan Francis Brooke, Viscount Alan- brook, British soldier, was born this date 1883. He served in France from 1914 to 1918, was later Army Instructor and Di- rector of Military Training for the War Of-

the Second World War he commanded the Sam!!! Army Corps. B. E. F, became Commander-in-Cliiefjlome Forces and was from 1941-1946 Chief of Imperial General staff. A field marshal in 1944. -I

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ISLAND SCOUTS AT JAMBOREE

Sir.mI am y. former resident of Indian River. Prince Edward 15- land, now living in st. Laurent, I suburb of Montreal. ,

Since coming to this part of the country, I joined the Boy scouts Association, first as 3. Scout, years ago, and now as a. Leader. It is about scouting that write.

I have just returned from Ot- tawa where I visited the Jamboree at the Connaught. Rangu. While there I visited the contingent of Scouts from-Prince Edward Island and was over-joyed to meet and speak to five scouts from Ken- slngton. It was like being home again talking with them about the people who were once my near neighbors.

It is wonderful that such an or- ganization like the. Boy Scouts brings together boys and young men (and older men. too) from all parts of the nation and makes them one in n brotherhood. -

Boys and young men, abiding by a common promise and law. work- ing and playing together, honour- bound to be friendly as well as to be honest, will in future years forge stronger links to ensure Canadian unity, and they will have such a love for their native land. that Canada need never fear losing that which this nation needs more t-hn anytihlng: "Cnnsdiai1ism” a feeling that this is our own country. and no other place is quite as good: at the same time, understanding peoples of other no- tinns.

Prince Edward Island can well be proud of her representatives at the Jamboree, and judging bv those boys, Scouting must be strong in their home Province.

I am, Sir. etc. RAYMOND J. MacDONALD. Assistant socutmaster. Fatima Troop. Montreal

THAT DEFECTIVE TIE-ROD

Sir,-In The Guardian of the 6th I read: "You can really trust an auto these days. Mechanically they are pretty safe." True, but here

so the human factor comes in. An expert motor mechanic told me recently of two cases in which he warned the owners that their tie-rods were badly worn and should be replaced. They were in a hurry and would return soon for the needed repair. In these two cases t-he cars went out of control. in one case in the village where people, some children. were on the road. Fortunately, no one was hurt. The other car went out of con- trol on the middle of a bridge over a deep valley. I.f the car had been going as fast as usual she might have gone through the railing with fatal results. other garage men, I suppose, could tell a similar story. In June of this year, I was told, s fatal accident occurred on one of our roads from this very cause.

In spite of all cautions. lessons, and accidents there are still some fool drivers on the road. men who take risks and break the laws, of safe driving. They seem to be un- able to learn. I once cut in be- tween two cars and ltoostmes17.00. It happened that the man I nar- rowly passed was if police inspec- tor, pl white man, and he felt he had to do his duty. It was a cheap lesson. Never again! I have leam- ed. But. some people cannot learn. A pity they cannot be eliminated from our roads.

But. this case of the defective tie-rod, or other parts is rather different. It is 3. case of putting off to s more .convenient time. Right here, I could preach to ser- mon cn the sin 011' neglect. but an intelligent driver has no such need. All he needs is a higher re- gard for his own life and that of other people.

I am, Sir. etc, W. I. GREEN Stanley Bridge.

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He turned it hsndsprlng down the country lane. t

Accelerating both his speed and 1051.

And I caught hands mer once again .

And tumbled down the long be- side the boy.

We saw the selisomc the selfsame trees,

And both cartwheeled into a patch of thistle:

And rose and brushed the prlckles from our knees

And tried the some thing over, matching whistles.

scuffed knees and whistles in the country sir '

And frogs and ferns along the grassy truck , .

And none to know I am beside him there-

Who in this hour have turned the

slow years back.

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A young man who wrote in love letter at 12 o'clock the other night and read it the following day at. noun has made an appointment with a psychiatrist to ask him how to cope with a split person- ality.-Kingston Whig-Standard.

It is not good news officially from Ottawa. Immigration to this Dominion is down hy 27 per cent in five months. Canada can well absorb 250.000 newcomers a year and for years to come. Increased population is the solid solution of many a problem of lodny.--St. Catharines Standard. r

If there's any immutable law of nature it's the one about things balancing out in the end. One of the coldest and wettest Springs in memory ended the day hcfore the Calgary Stampede started, and then the weather was perhaps the warmest nnd sunniest and driest- for Stampede Week, in memory. Weather-wise it was A perfect week, utterly perfect. Calgary has had similar spells of fine weather. In fact they used to be the rule rather than the exception. So it wasn't the weather that intrigued us so much, but the timing of it. eCalgary Albertan.

The show was ulmost. lost III the carnival of coronation, but when London's gallerygners filial- ly got around to it, they came in droves. Instead of the familiar thorny abstractions, one of Lon- don's most advance-guard galler- ies last week was exhibiting Bl primitive carvings that were as fresh and clean as a clover. The artists: Eskimo tribcsmen from Canada's vast Arctic territories, showing their work in Europe for the first time. The Eskimo srupturcs look- ed strikingly modern. Yet where most. modems can only II')' to imitate the power of primitive art -the caricature-like simpllilrntlon, the economic, almost childlike use of detailethe Eskimo sculptors showed a force that set their work apart from the most sophisticated studio products. Without even

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” u ing by flickering lamps in their igloos, and using only the simp- lest tools on bone, ivory and the green, grey or black rocks of their Arctic home, the Eskimos told of what they knew": the dull strength of a musk ox, its heavy hand lowered on thick shoulders; the rubbery, spreading massive- 11055 of n sunning seal; the grace- ful curves of an otlcr's sleek burly.-Timc.

Old-timers, whosliked their In so strong you could "taste the weed" in it, might be jarred to learn that Canadians are turning more and more to coffee. Coffee consump- tion per capita has increased about ninefold since the turn of the cen- tury. and imports of the been that cheers currently are at the mte of about 100,000,000 pounds annually. We are still far behind our neigh-

bors. the Americans. as coffee drinkers, for the reason we have not lost our taste for tea. Coffee

is an around-the-clock beverage for most Americans, whereas on this side of the border, its use is restricted mostlylto the morning hours. In view of the sales pro- grams io swing Americans to tea. the tea-coffee drinking habits of our two countries may veer closer in conformity in the years ahead. some things can't be hurried, and this seems to be one of them. - Windsor Star.

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HISTORIC BELL

"There is R bell, says the Quebec Chronicle. on board the bsrquo tMoseile', of Charlottetown. P.E.I., Capt. Daniel Csrew, now discharg- ing cargo in Quebec. which could tell a strange tale. As the account goes, it was sent from Rome to the Roman Catholic Chapel in Louis- burg, Cape Breton. in the sixteenth century. when the Britlst attacked

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1 have Just been looking over one of those voluminous Nu: York sundgy papers which make You wonder how in the world the pulp mm; manage to fill all their or- ders. Nobody could read one of them thoroughly even if he had nothing else to do the whole week. My own plan is to take 5. little of each section and trust to luck that I haven't missed onythtnz import- am. This is risky. I know. for it often happens in any newspaper that some of the more "meaty" items are far removed from the main journalistic thoroughfares but, having plenty of other things on my mind, it is the best I can do.

On the front page of the issue referred to above were great head- lines regarding the Korean war. iriternational disputes. and the current struggle for power among the Kremlin politicians. A little farther down on the same page were reports of a couple of rather gruesome tragedies nearer home: This, of course. is the sort of thing we are used to. Anything dltierent would be a real cause for general astonishment. some think- ing people say itlwould be real cause for general dismay as well.

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Over on page 69, almost hidden among the impediments of a. de- psrtment store advertisement, was a little item "captioned "Neighbours Sign Pact". It was a very small indeed, and only by the most remote chance would anyone run into it. Of the marw millions who would likely read that pu- tlcular edition, probably no more than three or four hundred would notice it at all. By the time they resell page 59 most readers are bordering on pernicious ennui and, therefore, not likely to be inter- ested in the goingson of neigh- bours more than a thousand miles away. The locale of the pact, tn- cldenlally, is in Nebraska.

The more I I0hink of it, the more I am of the opinion that caption writers are among the un- sung heroes of modern journalism. If this heading had been simply "Sign Pact", I would probably have

Louisburg, the capitol of the col- ony under French rule, the bell with a number of other valuables was thrown into the sea. At the commencement of the present century, during a raging storm, the bell was cast up again, and fright- ened the fishermen by ringing n- mong the rocks during the night. From thence it went to Antigonish, N. S. ,:u1d was placed in the tow- er of the old Roman Catholic chapel there. when a large new church was built, the old bell, with all the metal fittings, was sold to a Plclou tinman, from whom Capt. carcw bought it. It is under 15 inches in height. 12 or l3 inches across the mouth, and has a beautiful sound. It bears the fol- lowing inscription: 's Nlcalcsys Fran co I ED Pavia . . .-; Solde- salbador Loremo Ano ED t 1674."

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paid. no attention to it. for poets are common enough. It was the word "neighbours" that mode may sit up and take notice.. Neigh. bours don't usually go In for sign- ing formal pacts. 0 0 O

The gist of the item was that twelve families living for from the beaten track have entered into an agreement (1) not to gossip about one another. (2) not to take ad. vantage of one another in any way. (8) to live together pelcably and quietly.

The event was given all the red tape treatment possible. The docu- ment was drawn In the best ome- lal manner. signed by each mem. ber of the little group. and a copy delivered to each signatory. And, to make sure that history doesn't forget the unusual event. a copy was ceremoniously deposited in the archives of the County Seat.

It would be unfair and very fool- ish to chide the editor of the sun- day paper or his make-up slot! for the prominence given international quarrels and the obscure place so- corded the peaceful pact. They did the logical thing. Had they done otherwise they would have per. plexed millions of their readers who might be expected to have much interest in world tensions and little or none at. all in any- thing that might be attempted by a dozen simple minded families on a back road in Nebraska.

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I happened to be present a few years ago at a lecture on ”World Morals" given by I. philosopher of some note. He gave it as his opin- ion, much to the dismay of his listeners, as I recall, that war: would in all probability remain the vogue so long as there are any human beings left on theearth.

He argued that. while most. people imagine they desire peace. in reality (that is to say, deep down in their essential consciousness) they love violence and discord. To a. member of the audience (him- self a philosopher) who asked: "Is not modern man wise enough to see the folly, to say onthing of thl wickedness, of war?" he replied, "Man is actually the most: stupid of all animals". Then he went on to give quite a. lot of instances of man's stupidity.

It's a. sickening philosophy. to be sure, and it is contrary to the con- cept of man's destiny as taught by Christianity and, indeed. by allthc great religions of history. It may be that in the course of events it will remain for little groups like the twelve Nebraskans to show the world that a philosophy of despair is both needless and impractical.

Front page enthusiasts the world over will say that the little pact. is Joomed from the start. They-may be right. They certainly have the evidence of history on their side But the fact. that twelve people anywhere these days could even think up such an idea. and dresi it in garments of importance is in itself an encouraging sign. At

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