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CIIAIILOTTI-.'TOWN. WEDNESDAY. JUNE ll. 1955 Defending Alr Fields

The R. C. A. F. is not, of course. de- signed for the fighting of battles on land. it must necessarily depend upon the Army to conduct field operations to keep the tide” of battle from its installations when- ever possible. On the other hand in mod- ern warfare attacks may take place with great suddenness and relatively small en- emy forces might well take or destroy vital air fields before military forces could be brought up.

It is of the greatest importance, therefore, that the man-power actually-on the spot should be prepared to deal with any assault by an enemy force not dis- proportionate to their own numbers. At least they should be able to hold up such a raid until the arrival of reinforcements. , A valuable step in such -preparedness is the Ground Defence School which the R. C. A. F. will open at its station at Camp Borden, Ont., this month. It is not to be expected that airmen will become familiar with all the arts of ground operations, but when attacked they should be able to give a good account of themselves.

A Serious Problem

One Presbyterian minister amongst 250,- 000 people is the depressing figure on Northern Manitoba given to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. Other localities and other denom- inations may not be in quite such a bad way but the problem of finding sufficient recruits for the ministry seems to be com- mon to all. '

The teaching profession also. which was historically a clerical field, is suffering from a marked disinclination of young peo- ple to prepare themselves for its great tasks and very modest rewards. The story is the same whether we look around us in this country or at the United,-Kingdom.

The Weekly Scotsman carries an article by the Rev. L. J. A. Bell in ' which he quotes the declining numbers of students preparing themselves for the ministry, in- dicating that there are now ”exactly about one-third of the requirements to replace even the normal wastage." Mr. Bell points out that ministers' salaries have quite fail- ed to keep pace with the rising cost of liv- ing. A quite wealthy parish, for instance.” in an Edinburgh suburb provided its min- ister with i800 a year and a manse in 1901. In 1952 the salary had risen to f819. "Either they were being paid far too much at the turn of the century. or tile payment is hopelessly inadequate fifty years later."

The low-paid posts are even worse and. writes Mr. Bell, "If there were any 'plums' today, I do not know them. Level- ling-up and levelling-down have been pro- ceeding remorcelcssly. Fifty years ago,i salaries might range between 2150 and H500, but now the scale is much less, and of all the 2000-odd charges in the Church. the fingers of two hands might. suffice to count the few where the stipend crosses the 51000-mark.”

The picture is certainly no brighter here and such modest increases as have been adopted do not go very far towards rem- edying it.

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June Howlers

June andexamination papers inevitably mean -a new crop' of howlers. The latest picking, gathered over a wide area. by the Hamllton Spectator, shows some choice specimens of hybridization. ,

The student must have been a hitch- hiker who wrote: The Trojans T059 3 wooden' horse and said: "Beware the Greeks. asking for lifts." Another one stat- ed that Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock. The motto of the French revol- ution was given as "Liberty. Etllllmy and Fertility." Rome was overthrown by In in- vasiqn of'i-iuns Ind Osteopaths. William Tell wosithe man who shot In -IITOW while standing on his son's head. They gave William IV an impressive funeral; it took six stout men to carry the beer. ,

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his neck. To halt I. nosebleed, you Ihould stand on your head until your heart stops beating. Hygiene is that state of keeping clean when it is not necessary. One im- portant thing about the skeleton is that, if you once sit down without it, -you can't stand up again. Space between our bones is filled with mucilage.

As for biology, polyps are said to swim about the sea when they are young and when they get older they fasten themselves on their relations and live like that for the rest of their lives. Getting down to social behaviour. chivalryis described as the at- titude of a man toward .a strange woman -rather a shrewd definition at that.

EDI IORIAL NUI ES

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Returned youthful veterans had a cor- dial official welcome from both Charlotte- town and Summerside yesterday.

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The C. N. R. bus hearing in the City elicited a full and free expression of opin- ion both pro and con. Mr. Gaffney proved to have a complete mastery of the sub- ject in hand.

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The Very Rev. Dr. R. H. Strachan of Cambridge told the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church that fearless and intelligent preaching by its ministers is the method whereby the Church should seek to combat-the ideology of Communism.

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Mr. N. D. MacLean is to be congrat- ulated upon being re-elected president of the Maritime Association. This, together with his chairmanship of the P. E. I. Hos- pital, should keep him fully occupied in his spare time, of which he has not much, from

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One of Charlottetown's rising young business men is being laid to rest this afternoon at 2 p.m. Mr. J. Oscar Diamond had just laid the foundation of a successful enterprise' when carried away in the prime of life. We join in offering condolences to his bereaved wife and children.

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A loyal address from the Church of Scotland was presented to the Queen at Buckingham Palace on Friday by a deputa- tion led by the Moderator of the General Assembly, the Right Rev. Dr. W. White Anderson. The Church of Scotland is one

of the bodies possessing the privilege of pre- P1,",

senting addresses to the Sovereign person- ally. 0 He must be a Communist. John Mal- colm Warner, 21, was charged at Coventry, England, with bringing a live Colorado beetle (potato bug) and a number of eggs home after a vacation in France. A police- man told the court that he had found them in a small plastic box in a taxi standing near Warner's home. Precautions against the bug.'said witness, cost the state 390,- 00() a year.

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Mr. Driscoll's retirement from the Gov- ernment service at the Experimental Sta- tion is another cxample of a man in his prime being laid off -a job of which he is an expert and while at the top of his effic- lency. The day may not be far distartt when seventy will be the Civil Service com- pulsory retiring age, and not sixty or sixty- five.

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O The Italian commander of Pantellaria surrendered this date 1943. The strongly fortified island was attacked simultaneous- ly with the final conquest of Tunisia. Be- ginning June 7. Wellingtons, Flying Fort- resses, cruisers and destroyers blasted the island. On June 10 there were 1500 sorties, followed by further naval bombardment and another great air raid. Troops were land- ed at midnight.

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The Federal government still is try- ing to collect from western farmers for seed grain distributed between 1886 and 1926. Resources Minister Winters said in the Commons that the seed-grain debt to- tals S4,973,625-the principal amounting to 51,767,618 and the interest to S3,206,307. The government spent b15,000 last year to collect 549,000. Several OPPOSMOH mem' bers urged that the debts be written off the records and save further expense.

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One of the oddities of the. recent by- election in the Quebec riding of Robervsl (says The Gazette) was the Conservatives. hard-pressed for French-language orators, tossed Toronto (PC-Eglington) into the fray on I full- time basis. Fleming's one of the few mem- ber: ofthel-lousewhooe mothertonguell English. yet rates as bllln;uIl. i-no French

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nonu: rnonucrloivs "The show of Island manufact-

erancc Hall on Wednesday last. we consider by far the best that has ever been made in this Col- ony. The speclmens of the hand- iwork of our fnrmers' wives and daughters, consisting of woolen and linen cloths, shawls. earth rugs. etc., were excellent. and afforded proof that there may be produced on the Island. of very superior quality. many of those articles which are now imported from Great Britain. The home- spun and flannel manufactured in the Colony are for more durable than any we import. These art- icles mlght be extensively man- ufactured. and there is no good reason why they should not con- stitute a very valuable export. We are aware that in England a ready

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"Thc horticultural productions were such as we believe no other country in North America could produce. Cauliflower. cabbage and pumpkins were to be seen of

' 1 dimensions - several of the latter weighing upwards of 1 cwt.-and onions. celery. beet root, parsnlps and carrots, well grown and of extraordinary size. The display of apples was limit- ed; there were, however. several very excellent varieties. Mr. Beer exhibited several bunches of very fine grapes. S

"Cast-steel axes and hay-forks were contributed by Mr. Elisha Weutherbe. of Lot 49. all very neatly finished. The same in- genlous mechanic also exhibited an improved reaping and sowing machine which has been pro- nounccd by competent judges to be superior of any of the Amer- ican lmportatlons. Iron ploughs. of Island manufacture. were also exhibited. -

"We were pleased to notice A large-contribution of very excel- lent baskets, made by Mr. Lane. of Dunstaffnagc. from the basket willow. Our friend Colonel Swa- bcy. we are happy to say. saw these baskets. and we feel assured that the old gentleman expor- ienced no little delight. as he re- flected an all that he had sold and written on the propriety of encouraging this important branch of manufacture. and dwelt in imagination upon the great hon- eflts which the Colony would be now enjoying. had its people. years ago. taken his advice, and on I large, scale planted the wil- low. and gone into the old trade of basket making. Baskets are very necessary articles in this po- tato-growing Island. and the soon- er some few people turn their attention to them the better."

-The Islander. Nov. 1. 1861.

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THE LOST ONES Somewhere is music from the lin- nctI' bll And through the sunny flower! the wee-wirul drone. , And whlta bulb of convolvuluron tho hills of diet may moke Ilicnt ringing, own . lllthor Ind thither by the wind of Ihowcrs. And Ioftuwhcro Ill tho wIndci-tn; birds hIvI flown: t.hI brown breath of Autumn 'ohlllI tho flowers. not whore Ito Ill the lovers of Ito - ' O llttlc twilltht Ibllt blown up tho wing. in tho mu ongoing in or "non. tho In on

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Fifty you-I In I moo counted it for righteousncas thIt he should swing I stick It I clrpet to knock the dust out of it. Nowadays. I mIn leaves the cu-pet to the vine- uum cleaner and awaits I little golf ball instead. -Toronto star.

Dooth of In Amt.-ricI lunotorirt fcllowipg I collision of two can It I city street intersection in the early hours of Saturday morning snapped I string of 2.135 consecu- tive doys in which Cornwall rc- mllned free of I fatal tnffic Ic- cldent. Prior to Saturday there had not been I fatal traffic mis- hap in Cornwall proper since Ap- ril 19. 1949. - Cornwall standard- E-reehold i

In St Andrew's Chun.-I1.. Barrie, services are held each sabbath in English and Duch. the latter for the benefit of immigrants from Holland. This is no exception. In several parts of Ontario, United, Presbyterian or other denomina- tions hIvc made their churches available for Dutch or one: immi- rran to hold services. It is a fine ample of religious co-opern- tlon. and friendliness to new clti. sens. -. Windsor star.

Plrentl of In eleven-ycIr-old 505'. liking the evening off, engag- ed I sitter of long standing, or sit- tins. who arrived after his charge's usual. bed time. settled down in the living room with 5 book,

The Potato Problem

(Ottawa Citizen)

Just over I century ago a potato famine led to one of the greatest migrations in history. That was when late blight devastated the irish potato crop.

Today, I whole continent is in the grip of another shortage of this essential vegetable. It has led to fantastically high priced. the like or which have not been known - except in remote plnces- in modern times. Many have rend yarns by Jack London and others of the Klondike days when the po- tato wII virtually worth its weight in gold: miners suffered from die- tary deficiencies: Ind having or not having pototoes might mean not.- uolly the difference between life or death. No such Ilorming pros- pect; faces CInIdtInI in 1952. be- cause there Ire Ilt.cmItivcs to fall back on. but it is serious enough just. the some.

Reductions of Icrcpgo Iccom- pulled by unfIvorIblo weather In the cIuIes of the oontinentol shortage. PIrmers in both CIm.do. Ind the United sum found other crops offered them more Ittnctlvc returns. Indi Ictod Now t.hIt pric Irc Iky high. there Ira signs of I. swing bIck to potato p. ductlon - in tho lfuitlmes. at any rItc--though it is too csrly to judge the extent of the trend. -

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he said. and explained that he'd been siting for the five-year-old son of I neighbor.-New Yorker.

During In electricity fsllurc the Puppy belonging to Mrs. Florence Hitch. of Cowper Road. Hunting. don. ran off with her wallet. coh- taming 549 she had saved for her husband's tombstone. Afterward; no trace of it could be found. A Week 13"” i-he PUPPY became stuck under the bath. Mrs. Hitch re- leased him, and there beside him, where heihsd hidden it, was the wallet. with the money intact. -- London Dslly Mail.

PM-III Illve been prcpucd for In ll--Story buildlns as Vancouver's main public library. As univermiii lerlslatlve Ind other public lnstl. tutlons in various parts of the world have taken to skyscrapers. a library is not to be criticized for thus going modern and functional. The Drojected library will cost, :3 million. one provision city build. 111: authorities should insist on be- fore the Ltbrory Board is permit. ted to proceed. That is motor park- lnx facilities adequate to the build- ing.-vnncouver News-Herald.

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Thc mutcr of the British IteIm- ship Queen Anne has reported to the Admiralty that the Dunn; Rocks. I smlll group in the nanny. In Islands. northeast of Luzon in the Pacific Ocean. have turned in- to a. large volcano. The report states that where Jormerly there were three rocks about 200, 215 and 370 in height. there now appears I single formation of about coo feet in height and surmounted by I crater. from which dense volumes of steam and smoke Ire erupting. In April. 1900. clouds of s steam were men coming from the Iran and it is Issumcd that the three rocks shown on the chart were part of I. collapsed crater of a volcano, which has new raw- Penred.-London Times.

The Age-Old Story

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Peanuts No Doubt

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In the House of Commons the othcr day they were ” ' the eItlmIteI of tho Dcpntment of hnmport, and in pIrtlculIr In Item of 854.700 for the operation Ind mIlntcnIncI of five private railway corn for tho ms of the Governor General. the Prime Min.

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himself I orsnk Ho moms of course. ithIt he ll I crInk in In things can

toxlutlng liquors. not tint ho is one in I gencnl Icnse.

And yot. if he wcc, there iI no touch in the world y he should nuke the confession with the least hint of Ipology.foI he would be in excellent compuiy. The foot. is. Is Iny serious student of the humIn story must. know. that Io- cIllcd cranks have alwIyI been in the forefront of progress. Indeed. without them it lI difficult to Ice how the human race could have mIdo any IdvIncc It Ill. Turn where you like.-to plnlosophv, religion. Irt, science, Ind you will find the crInk hIrd It work while the worshippers of the ordlnIry Inc! the followers of the status quo slumbercd or slept. From the rising up of the sun to the going down of the same it has IlwIyI been he who hu given original- ity. nest, Ind spice to the In of

living. 0 C 0 Recently I have been renewing Ioqustnt with soci-Itcs, that

grant. mm of whom Plsto wrote "he no in deIth the noblest. in life the wisest. Ind most. just." There was I crank, if pnyonc In fact, the only reIl charge against him wu that he was not content to let things Ilonc II they wore. His ideas of right Ind wrong Ilmply did not conform to the prcvItl- lng fashion. although for many 'ccnt;urles now they have been Ic- corded Ilmoct oracular respect. No one observed the moral lows of hlI country more scrupulously than he. 1-its "crnnkincss" lay in his desire to see them infused with the breath of life, while nis critics were content to regard them as cold, lifeless statutes, r..OIlVCDlEl1b but not absolute. "I shall not chInzc my ways", he said, "though I die I thousand deaths”. For this stubbornness he was forced to drink the hemlock. What In lncurablec rInk this mild-mannered man turned out to i

More than 400 years later there appeared in the established Heb- raic trsdltion Inother man just Is cranky Is Socrates. or even more so. His name was Poul. I-its conversion to Christianity wasnot in itself especially alarming to his erstwhile colleagues. Had he been content to put new patches on In old garment, to mix I bit of Christian idealism with the old established traditions, he "would undoubtedly have saved himself I lot of trouble. but it is safe to say that. Christianity would never have become I world religion.

Here, too. the law was deeply involved. To most of-the teachers of the dIy the letter of the law was what. mnttered. To Paul, the letter. that is to say, pure legal- "i,8fh;"l'll'elnt "nothing in itself. i"rhe spirit." he sold. "glvcth life." Once more I mIn was regarded with suspicion Ind accounted In eccentric. not because he despised the lIw (there is no evidence that he ever did that) but because he wanted to see it put to use for the betterment of.mu.m..

Going bIck quite I way before Pauli: time. what was the Hebrew prophets but cronkn Always A-

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mo:-Il Ind Iplrituol insight . could not root so long II 1n1'u.:i:.i shun, morIl dlsIrrIy, inteuemmi Itunstlon. were Illowed so keep God's people from reaching our, 1., their true destiny. Then. I; now Icc wu the rcol enemy of rlzhtcousncu which Ilono can unit I nItlon, Ind secularism 15 never put to rout by fearful men It in the innovator, the advent: urcr, tho mm who likes to live dmgorously Ind explore for him. self whot lies beyond the mount. IinI (the crank, if you like) W," is Iblo to breathe new life inn the bud, dry bones of ietharg. Ind complacency. '

"Por zton'I nice I will not hon. my Pelee. Ind for Jerusalem's Inc 1 will not rest. until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness." Whot I heroic vision t.hIt mIn hIdl How desperately we need thnt kind of I vision to. dIyl And yet. we can be reason. Ibly certain thIt. the man wlm uw thIt vision Ind who tried with Ill his might to bring it. to reslity was considered I crank Ind I fsnstic.

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whItever labels Chl'ist.ians mm, beIr. Ill will agree that Joni-. Wesley deserves an honoured place in the story of religion. Whatever his Illllivl Ind limitations. no one will deny that he earned a seat: Imong the prophets of history. Nevertheless. his stout opposition to Ilavery in any form. his in. slstcnoo on nobility of the soul in. stud of rank Ind position, hu stern. uncomprom preaching of room fighteousncss in I dav when such a thing was practically unheard of. his uncensing attack,- on ecclesiastical parochiallsm, his habit of linking sound economic principles, with the Christian gos- pel. his costigatlon of I11 sorts of sham in Ill sorts of places. in- cluding the Churches.-all these things proclaimed him to be the outstondtng incurable crank of his gencrstlon. '

Several centuries before Wesley: time. Inothcr cl-Ink walked tho highways Ind bywIyI of life in the person of St. Francis of Assisi, whom one historian has called "the John Wesley of the lath century, whom thc Church did not cast. out". While other monks were content toil-cod their office: in solitude and to pray for tho souls of man, this one went out of his wIy to become acquainted with poverty and misery in order n he said. "that the bodies oi men might be helped to, salvation so well Is their .souls."

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This is I newspaper article. not I sermon, and yet it may not be amiss to point out. that the noblest Person who ever walked the com- mon wIyI was. during his life- time. looked upon as a crank and I fanItic. His own kindred thought he was out of his mind. As for the historians of that. per- iod. they regarded him as a tent- porsry nuisance, hardly worth mentioning in their stories.

Even his closest friends finally Irrivcd It the conclusion that his cause was much too visionary in have any reasonable chance of success. At ny rate. we are told that when t e going got; really rough "they Ill forsook him and fled". Later. apparently. thr-v came to themselves, but It the time his fanaticism must ha": seemed impractical and unbear-

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