shold .

Looking back over theyear 1959 in this Province and country, and forward to the futuré, we have good reason for thankfulness and con- Tidence. Compared with.a very large portion of.the world’s millions, we have been living a pampered exis- tence. We don’t, of course, think of ‘our problems in that manner, and we ‘worry at times as if we were on the Verge of disaster. We couldn’t live ’ ith a knowledge of all the world’s Wwoes besetting us continually, and forgetfulness of what we do know about these tragedies is, up toa point, &-favorable dispensation of provid- ence. But there are times when we thould give thought to such matters. ‘Our year-end stocktaking, of spir- ttual and material blessings, is sure-

ly such a time. ’

' Never before, as Canadians, were

wé, So much concerned in what has been going on in other parts of the world. The past decade involvéd us

in a hot war in Korea and a con-. tinuing-cold war that still easts its

Shadow over Europe and Asia. We

Are concerned about the threats of

Atomic war, the dominance of Soviet

Russia in the “race into space”, the

mergence of China as a menacing

pmmunist power, the recurrent

frictions among.our Western allies,

the increasing competition for world. . markets, and the problems of the

thave-not” nations which must be

solved if we ourselvés are to live in

ecurity. oe With the new year begins a new decade, more promising than the last msofar as the great problem of re- folving East-West conflicts is con- rerned. A few weeks ago Lieut. Gen-: éral E.L.M. Burns, chief of staff of’: the United Nations Truce Supervis- ion Organization in Palestine, was

riven a curiously new appointment

by the Canadian Government. He

Was appointed adviser on disarma-

ment for Canada. That may be an- ticipating events too optimistically,

it indicates the hopeful trend

of the times that is prevailing gen-

rally.

~In extending the traditional good vishes to all our readers on this oc-

sion, we are not unmindful of the

ympathy due to bereaved families to

Whom the absence of loved ones at

this time comes with special poign-

incy. To them, and to all of us, may

he New Year bring consolation and

meouragement sufficient to our

heeds, as we journey along the same broad highway of life:

"Travelling the dusty road till the light of the day is dim,

d sunset shows us spires away on the world’s rim.”

- Crime Prevention:

| According to~ the Journal of American Insurance more than two- thirds of all cars stolen are taken yy school-age youngsters. We do not know what the proportion is in Can- ida, but the moral of the Journal irticle, that car doors should be lock- id to prevent youngsters starting on i life of crime, is applicable here as yell as in the United States. -

There, it is stated, auto thefts have increased more than 70 per sent since 1950. Police records show hat some boys begin taking cars for “joy rides” when as ,young as 10 fears, but the réal problem begins at 3 or 14 and tapers off sharply after 7. Authori.ies who deal closely with luvenile auto thefts blame much of it on the casual attitude of the car- wning public. It is almost unvariably unlocked that get, stolen, many of them\with the keys left ianging in the ignition. Normal parking precautions: can little effective defense against he di ined, professional auto lief. Bul the large proportion of il-

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practice to follow at all times.

Khrushchev Came Through

If evén the Devil should get his due, surely Soviet Premier Khrush-

..chev is entitled to credit for this

act of kindness, reported from Chicago:

Mr. and Mrs. Paulius Leonas, of that city, fled Lithuania about 15 years ago, &s World War 11 ended. They had to ledve behind-a son and daughter, now 17 and 20 years old, re- spectively. The children stayed with their grandparents. Since then the Leonases have been asking the Soviet Union, which absorbed A.ithuania,. to let their children join them. Their pleas were rejected or ignored. They had about given up hope. —

But last September the Leonases —

went to Des Moines in an effort to plead with Khrushchev, passing

through on his tour of the country.

They met him at a time when he. seemed happiest with his whole trip.

’ They confronted him in the lobby of

his hotel. Mrs. Leonas sobbed out her pleas. And Khrushchev patted her on the shoulder, told her not to cry and on the spot ordered Foreign Minis- ter Gromkye te “take care of this

_ matter.” .

Khrushchev has been true to his word. Gromyko has taken care of the

matter. The children have been given

exit visas and will join their parents. A little thing?’ Well, it depends. And who are we to judge the motives that inspired it? Rather we should be inclined to say with Shakespeare: “How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty (Communist) world.”

In Other Times

We now take it for granted that

New Year’s Day should fall on the

1st of January, and the suggestion of any other date would seem ridiculous. But it is all a matter of custom. The ancient Egyptians, Phoenicians and Persians began their year on Sept- ember 21, but Caesar by the adoption of the Julian calendar postponed it te January 1. The Jews have always reckoned their civil year from the first day of the month of Tishri (Sept. 6-Oct. 5) but their ecclesiastical year begins at the spring equinox (March 21). The 25th of March was the usual date among Christian peoples in mediaeval times. At the Norman Con- quest, owing, it is believed, to the

‘coincidence of: his coronation being

arranged for that date, William the Conqueror ordered that the year

should start on the Ist of January.

But later England began her year with the rest of Christendom on the 25th of March.

The Gregorian calendar (1582), which restored the 1st of January to its position as New Year’s Day, was accepted by all Roman Catholic countries at once; by Germany, Den- mark and Sweden about 1700; but not until 1751 by England.

EDITORIAL NOTES

A hopeful marketing sign for the new year is the reduced railway rates, effective January 10, on tur- nips and seed potatoes destined for eastern United States points. Our shippers should note Hon. Mr. Ros- siter’s warning that now more than ever must strict attention be paid to quality of shipments. nt?

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This has been a year of impres- sive scientific achievements. We were reading about them the other day when, by chance, we came aé¢ross this excerpt from a letter written by Henry Adams to a friend in the year 1862. For a moment we had the startling feeling that Henry wag

.looking over our shoulder when he

wrote: “Man has mounted science

and is now run way with it. I firmly believe ‘that before many centuries

more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have in- vented will be beyond: his strength to control. Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power and the human race may com- mit suicide by blowing up the world.”

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Canada’s

Opportunity

By Patrick

We have arrived at a cross- road offering us a vivid example of the good sense of the saying: “If you cannot beat them, join

Can we beat the new mass : aoe uaAT v ime has come for Canada ore the possible advantag- a free trade association of North Atlantic nations, a t the economie vis- the “‘Canadian Clause” of

N 5 : “No vision less than this will do,”” Hon. Lester B. Pearson as-

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years truer. Canada might” provide the in- itiative and the amalgam need-

ed to weld into one huge free!

U.S.A. and Canada. Britain we know is willing to discuss this with us. me

This step would mean that all tariffs—with some negotiated exceptions — between all four groups would be progressively eliminated over the next several years. This would open ye to our primary products and our manufactured goods a favoured entry into a mass market of over 450 million: consumers.

It would also accelerate the change—from small sales at a high profit margin to large scal- es at a small profit margin — which automation is bringing all over the industrialised world, as surely as mechanization brought the change from handferafting.

The resultant cheaper prices would stretch out the purchasing power of our earnings. just as they would permit all consumers in that huge market to afford many articles now priced beyond their means. This huge demand for the amenities of the age of automation would increase the number of jobs in industry.

Our abundant minerals would

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AT THE YEAR’S PASSING

The old year

Slips out of sound, rolls into silence

And is gone.

The past folds over it,

The ripples close... .

As if the rose had never bloomed,

No bird had- ever .sung, ag

No dawn come up to tell the tal of youth;

No day of streaming wind and tumbling cloud ~

To lose itself in peace at dusk.

So all this Being, tenuous and tion 3. 6;

A tide lifting to a tideless shore,

A sudden wind shaking;

A dream = before dawning.

A sleepin

And a little waking...

Dissolves itself into infinity at last.

Now is the midnight tremulous with hope,

And quick with shadow-shapes of things to be;

The velvet wings that will be

joy in June

Are stirring in the chrysalis of time,

The poppy’s flame is wrapped in thé unfallen snow,’

And the faint glow

From cold unawakened morns

Is but.a presage of the rose.

The misic of the bells comes clear;

A passing anda birth...

How strange that what the dark- ness takes .

The darkness gives;

Courage and faith td keep the heart

And like a white light . burn throughout the days.

enjoy increased demand. Our great sources of hydro-electric power, adjacent to our minerals and easily accessable and - fabri- cation near the source of supply, thus bringing more jobs to Can- ada. Puce op heet

Nor participation in any larg- er free trade area might be re- sisted by some isolationist lab- our unions and some small man- ufacturers, who are afraid of “cheap foreign labour’. But this negative attitude in the face of immense opportunities is un- realistic, and unworthy of our boasted pioneering spirit.

Productivity, as well as wages, determines the price of labour. Our workers, unlike ,cheap for- eign labour, are assisted by im- mense mechanization and abund- ant low-cost power.

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A growing number of observers | has swung over to the belief that the new tension-around Iraq is

the picture of a desperate dicta- tor promoting an artificial crisis to stave off a real one at home.

Iraq's current conflict with neighboring Iran over an issue that most thought was settled 20 years ago probably will blow dver without serious shooting.

But ‘it, is the latest in a series of events that can be interpreted as a deliberate attempt by Iraqi Premier Abdel Karim Kassem to lose friends abroad in a bid to influence people at home.

The crucial day for Kassem is Jan. 6—the date he promised to restore ‘‘normal political activ- ity” in Iraq. It may be that by provoking an atmosphere of cri- sis, Kassem hopes to justify re- tention of real control in his own hands. ;

The Iraqi premier long ago sacrificed any possibility of better relations with his Arab neighbors —King.. Hussein's Jordan and President Nasser’s United Arab Republic of Egypt and Syria. _The result was that he became the focal point of one of the most vicious propaganda battles ever waged by Arab brother against brother. :

More and more Kassem relied

Montreal A Bermudian skin-diving ex- pert who, in 1955, discovered a rich treasure trove of emeralds and gold in the battered hull of Spanish galleop, raised much ex- citement last summer by locat- ing what local historians believe is the sunken Spanish treasure sbip ‘*Vigo.” Wreddy Tucker, and his part- ners Donald and Robert Clan-

cluding such : pieces-of-eight, several gold nug- gets and a 40-inch-long gold chain,

Examination of the coins‘ point

per worker per hour. The typical worker in Asia, paid about 11° cents an hour but fabricating en- tirel by hand, could complain that cheap Canadian mechaniza- tion is unfair competition.

Our factories would need to be enlarged and re-equipped, or in some cases converted to other industries; our workers would need to accept all the productivi- ty advantages of automation. During the ten years or so over which tariffs would be gragually reduced, any temporary hard- ship would be alleviated by gov- ernment retraining programs and planned aid to plants.

Only through such a widescale alliance can the western ¢con- maintain our Cold War defences, to help the underdeveloped. coun- tries, and to fight the Russian threat now switched to the econ- omic battlefield. Khrushchev has warned us: “ ‘Peaceful co-exis- tence’ means the economic, s0- cial and‘ ideological war which we must wage until we achieve the worldwide triumph of com- munism.”

As Prime Minister John Dief- enbaker has said: “Canadians cannot ignore changes in the trading pattern’. His Government cannot shun the responsibility to. study thorough- ly the economic factors and trade developments and interna- tional responsibilities which must

provide the answer to the urgent

New Trouble In Iraq

By Dave Oancia Canadian Press Staff Writer

| strongest opposition to the Com-

Diving Among

question: ‘‘Whither Canada?”

on Communists to help wunder- write his power. The Communist motive undoubtedly is to keep the premier in power until the time is ripe for them to take over.

. If normal political activity is restored next week, the way would be cleared for a ‘‘constitu- tional’ takeover by the Reds. Their highly - organized cadres throughout the country could al- most certainly be relied on to engineer a Communist victory through the~polis;-

ARMY DIVIDED The National Democrats—the

munists—are firmly entrenched in Kassem's cabinet but are viewed as extremely weak at the popular level. The army too, is reported to be divided.

Kassem may, at least for a little while, be seeking ways to play one side against the other, until-a way can be found out of the impasse.

But~some Middle Eastern ex- perts now question whether Kas- sem is capable of maintaining such delicate manoeuvres. The impression given is that the at- tempt to shoot him down in the “Baghdad streets and his sub- sequent convalescence seriously shook his self-confidence, nerve and strength of will.

The Galleons

Gazette

that apparently spots hulks pas- sed over by other divers. His 1955 discovery was hailed as “‘the most important underwater ‘find’ of the century in: the Western Hemisphere.” ‘

Here in North America we are too prone, amid our preoccupa- tions with the present, to forget how relatively close to us lies the age of the Atlantic explorers and conquerors. Now, one more of the ocean's secrets is brought to light, to teach us the lesson anew. .

The Age Old Story

And when his ‘isciples James and John saw this, they. said, Lord, wilt thou that we coth- mand fire ‘to come down from "heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? ~

WELSH FORTRESS Conway Castle in north Wales,

with its eight great towers, was built by Edward I in the ith

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others without showing any ob- vious effects. Medically speak- ing, however, we generally say a person is under the influence of aleohol when the alcoholic con- tent of the blood is .15 per cent. * Alcohol gives you a feeling of well-being and elation because it dilates the blood vessels, thus sending a greater amount of blood throughout your body. Since your brain maintains an enor- mous circulation of blood, it also is affected.

SOME TIPS Now, for a couple of tips for

‘Take a nap before you go out partying. Alcohol will have less \ effect upon you if you are calm and rested. . Eat a good meal before you leave home. Alcohol absorption a in the stomach.

QUESTION AND ANNWER

Mrs. J. J.: Must one avoid cer- tain foods after a gall bladder operation? :

Answer: Follow your doctor’s advice. He may advise reduc- tion in fats and roughage for a while.

OUR YESTERDAYS

” (From the Guardian Files)

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO (Dee. 31, 1934)

At an adjourned meeting of the Summerside Town Council held last night, Mayor Lidstone presiding, the final bilis for the year were passed, amounting to $5,789.78. Unpaid bills amounting to $7,624.20 were passed on mo- tion of Councillor Bell, seconded by Councillor Bishop. On motion it was decided that Mr. Gilbert would be hired to look after the horse and fire department at $12.00 per week.

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ey were surprised to discover an unexploded bomb there. The sex-.

son to report it—Le Provencal, Marseilles

To dispel any en the question, a horse high- way traffic. This may 0 Sur- prise to the legal prof , but we think many laymen must have tossed restlessly in their beds, wondering. In fact, a Palmerston man was fined in a Guelph court the other day for béing drunk in charge of a horse, fined $50 with the option of spending 15 days in

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The Langua

Many national flags eonsist of two or three strips of color, var- iously arranged. How many. peo- ple appreciate that, in many cases, the colors themselves are supposed to bear symbolic mean- ings, distinct from the national significance of their pattern or eombination? 'GHANA’S- FLAG - Ghana's flag has stripés of red, yellow and green; as it is one of the most recently devised, many people may recall that the red is intended to commemorate those who worked for the coun- try’s independence, yellow. for and green for its farms and forests.

This is perhaps the most log- ical arrangement, except Bolivia’s red, yellow, and green (not re- corded here), which stands for her animal, mineral, and vege- ‘table resources respectively. In Italy, green, white, and red are

taken to represent, faith, hope, and charity.

Manchester

ge Of Flags are for valor, purity, and fidel-

ity. India’s saffron, white, and green have been defined Radakrishnan

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Liberia’s red, white and blue

The Young People of the Uni- ted Church Eastern Presbyterian Union held a winter sch in Trinity United Church, Charlotte- town, last week. Two courses were given, one on Worship by Rev. E.H. Ramsay, and Mater- ials and Methods by Rev. Her- man Campbell.

TEN YEARS AGO (Dec. 31, 1949)

On Wednesday evening the power launch ‘“‘The Lazy Mar- iner’’ which had been moored at the end of the Marine~ wharf, broke loose during the heavy | gale and drifted to the opposite shore where it is now beached on Holman’s Island. An attempt was made yesterday to free the boat but it was unsuccessful. A further attempt will be made at high tide today.

Six hundred and ninety-five persons are registered as unem- ployed at the Unemployment In- surance Office at Summerside, which serves all of Prince Coun- ty. Of this number, 550 were males and 145 females. Thus num- ber is about 200 greater than last year.

COAL SHAFTS A depth of 4000 to 5,000 feet fs considered the maximum at which coal can be profitably mined in Britain.

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