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THURSDAY, JANUARY 20. 1955

The Elizabethan Party

fn an apparent effort to counteract the liberal tendencies which today characterize both major political parties in Britain-one almost as much as the other-a few right- wingers are reported to be laying the groundwork for a new grouping to be cal- led ”the Elizabethan Party". According to the chairman of the sponsoring committee, the move is being made because ”there are millions of men and women in Britain who are looking for an alternative to the present political set-up in this country."

It is not a new story. Dissatisfaction with existing political parties is a familiar feature of political life in every country where electors are free to express their opinions; indeed, it might almost be called democratic necessity. But, unless a new movement can manage to capturevor at least appeal strongly to-the public imag- ination, and retain it for a long'period of time. it is almost certain to find the going very. very hard. Not that there is no pre- cedent to give it courage: the Labour Party itself started out against seemingly formid- able odds; yet, in a few years, it was strong enough to dislodge the traditional Liberal Party from its historic fastnesses. It must be said. however, that the British Social- ists made their political debut at just the right time. The industrial revolution help- ed them along, and the new thought, which was not confined to any particular segment of society, was of tremendous assistance. The Elizabethans-all honour to them for putting their imaginations to work in selecting a name-do not appear to have any such lucky circumstance on their side. This is not to suggest that there is no possi- bility of their becoming an important group in British public life, but only that the way they have chosen is beset with many diffi- cultles.

Mr. Muir's Proposals

Canadals trade problems have been ac- centuated this year by increasing competi- tion in world markets. Some suggestions with a view to aiding Canadian traders in two serious difficulties they now encount- or were offered by Mr. James Muir, chair-

l man and president of the Royal Bank of Canada, at the bank's recent annual meet- ing. His recommendations are of a definite and practical nature and call for effective government action.

One trade difficulty, Mr. Muir points out, arises from the high price of the ( ma- dian dollar in international trade. This high price (which results not from a favorable trading balance but from the inflow of in- vestment capital into Canada) places Cana- dian exporters at a trading disadvantage from the very start. It means that Can- ada's customers have to pay more for Cana- dian goods, partly because they have to pay a premium on Canadian dollars.

porters are unable to supply their foreign customers with the long-term credit terms that their competitors are able to supply. European suppliers, with government sup- port, offer long-term financing to their customers in the world market, and Amer- ican export houses, in one form or another (notably through the Export-Import Bank of Washington) are able to do likewise. Mr. Muir urges that Canada fill these gaps with financing methr 's'that would be available to it. The Bank of Canada nowi regulates the rate of interest in Canada by, its open market operations in buying gov- ernment securities. It could also, Mr. Muir suggests. influence the exrhange rate of the Canadian dollar by purchasing U. S. dollars in the open market. The increase in the irnoney supply that might result need not be inconsistent with policy under present ffhusiness conditions. f; In the same way, he recommends that ”;the Canadian Government provide Cana- f5clian traders (through a corporation which aht might own wholly or in part) with the means of extending the long-term credit to C or customers that conditions of present petition demand. This type of credit - d- not conflict with the present oper- - tions of Canada's chartered banks, as it - - I- involve the power to discount ex- ' rt paper of longer temi than these banks n handle. was in his address at the Royal ,1: , '1 annual meeting last year that Mr. the establishment of: ,-i .iiIonsgrmsi1tet.nsmeumofex- .wGHtI1dIuIlnvoIhnmtuidu V d Gnodsk economic matur- ' livrmontln later Inch o It oltobllditd. The ad-

Another difficulty is that Canadian cx-i

llliuir ideserve the same serious considers-l

tion. They are advanced in the same be-

lief that "before we can be a great nation,

we must begin to act like one." Last, but by no means the least, among

his remarks was a word of warning. The-

redistribution of income through taxation,

Bi Carrier; Clnrlouotowu. Summcrsido usoo pu snnum Elsi desirable as it may seem, may b9COl'T1C 8

self-defeating policy. It is a policy that lmay become so concerned with redistribu- ition as to lose sight of the need to encour- lage production. If rewards dwindle under lthe oppression of taxes, effort is likely to ldwindle also. And Mr. Muir is convinced that the incentive to produce has been al- ready blunted.

Progress ls Slow

One of the unmistakable signs of the present age is impatience. This is especial- ly noticeable in the field of international relationships and in that of social advance. War, men first began to live in communities, is expected to disappear almost suddenly with the discovery of atomic power. And, be- cause the United Nations has not been able to enforce peace in a world which for many centuries has been geared to war, its critics say that it no longer serves any pur- pose. Racial discrimination, under-privil- ieged conditions, economic injustice, social insecurity, and all the other unpleasant facts which have helped to make up the ,human story, are expected to wither away in one or two generations under the pres- sure of scientific knowledge and widespread education. Apropos of this impatient ltrend, perhaps the following story will be of some interest and even some benefit:

Two frogs, having celebrated one

of

their national holidays a bit more jocultar-i

ply than wisely, decided to take a short cut across a swamp on their way home. How- ever, when balf-way across they made up ltheir minds to take a short, nap. As they were dozing off they saw a tortoise and lasked him if he would be good enough to lbring them a box of headache pills from the nearest dnig-store. He said he would lif they were not in too much of a hurry. So the frogs gave him a dollar and went to sleep. They slept for six months; and .when they woke up. there being no sign lof the tortoise, they began to think he had lstolen their money and run off. Just as they were in the middle of loud complaints about the untrustworthy character of tor- gtoises generally, they heard a slight rustle "in the grass and a voice which cried out petulantly: ”If that's the way you feel labout me you rzin go and get your own pills." But by this time the frogs had no need of medicine: for the headaches, which "had called for drastic treatment, had dis- appeared.

u The moral of the story is not that dras- tic and dramatic measures are never neces- sary if political and social progress is to be made, but that, i'c;:eii'dless of methods, real progress is sure to be slow and, some- times, imperceptible. Moreover, given a llittle rest and cooling-off treatment, some social ills might very well lose some of their alarming fealurcs, without being sub- jected to unduly scvcre allcviative meas- urcs.

EDITORIAL NOTES

President Eiscnliowcr inaugurated this date, 1933. J

l Russian buttcr production is to be ex- panded as much as 50 per cent by 1956 to

attain a goal of 1,300 million pounds at

year. Includcd in the plan is the build- iing of 730 dairy product plants, 100 urban milk depots, 16 milk canning factories, and 80 cold storage plants.

. 0 - , The total population of England and .Wales is now listed at 44,480,()00, repre- 'senting a 184,000 increase-mostly in the

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which has been the fashion ever since:

, New Guinea

National Geographic Society

l New Guiana, the island that time forgot, catches up with the world a little more each pasing year.

Explorers, prospectors, a e r ial mapniskers. missiomiries. agricul- tural experts and government. of- ficers are penetrating farther and farther into the Stone Age inter- ior of Australia: northern neigh- bor.

An island second only to Green- land in size, New Guinea is one of the least deicloped inhabited lands on earth. It is it place of wild mountains. eqilatorial rain forests, rare birds-ot-paradise and natives who have never seen white men or 1 metal implement. Much of in area has uncertain political status. Yet. investment in its fu- ture continues to grow.

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Oil geologists survey unexplored ranges by plane and helicopter. Hydroelectric sites and coffee plantations are being laid out in the remote headwaters of forbid-

ding rivers. Gold long has drawn adventurers, but. other minerals exist too: copper, bauxite, nickel.

perhaps uranium,

From headquarters in the is- land's southeastern sector, Papua, Australia ndminlsters the United Nations Trust. Territory of North- ilaiist. New Guinea. The Nether- lands holds western New Guinea, although for five years the young Republic of Indonesia has claimed that section under its own name of Irtan.

Stretchiiig some 1,500 miles from end to end, the great. island on ;the map resembles a prehistoric Vbird hovering between Australia and the Philippines, its misshapen beak open to snap at the Moluc- cas, Celt-bes, and Borneo.

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i A Portuguese ship first sighted New Guinea in 1527. A Spaniard named it in 1545, largely because the people peeking from shore seem:-d' to resemble those of IGllln8B in Africa halfway around the world. Gradually the Dutch came, then the Germans and Brit- Fish, and in World War II, the

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I The Age Old Story

For ye sliall go out. with Joy. and he led forth with peace: tho mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing. and all the trees of the field shall clap their minds.

Catching Up

Japanese.

General MacArthur's forces used New Guinea as a springboard back to the Philippines. They gave it a glimpse of mechsnlwd bases, air and sea armadas, and all the ac- tivities of global war. when the soldiers departed. they left many buildings and materials behind. Now, dark Papuan boys pedal furiously on their bicycles out of bhe Stone Age, as it were. In Netherlands New Guinea, MacAr- thur's old base of Bollandls has bt',C0.me a modem and model town of 10,000 inhabitants. At Sorong. an oil refinery produces an esti- mated 4,600 barrels a day, Biak island has a naval station and s new airfield.

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In United Nations 'I'ei-ritory within the last two years, more than 13,000 square miles have been explored for the first time by patrols. The coastal ports of Lee and Msdnng are bustling. In- land, entire 'European communit- ies have been planted by air-the buildings, cars, trucks, people. Engineers now are striving to hack A highway over the Birmsrck Range.

A million natives, spesklnghun- dreds of languages. ttlling remote cultivated valleys and warring among themselves, inhabit. New

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GRACE BY ASSOOIATIDN

Those who are fond of cats, I have observed,

I-lave usually a. certain quiet grace

with motions pleasantly relaxed and curved.

Not angular and awkward; with no trace

Of jerkyrhesltations such as mai-

The gesturesof high-tension people who

Find cats unneceasa. y, are

Uninterested in the things they do. And I have noticed, also, that the mind Of one who is a cat's associate Lacks the rigidity I often find In people who refuse to contem-

und who

plate

The swift. dexterity and supple power

That. any cat; can teach. at any hour.

-Jane Merchant.

Guinea. They are heartily disin- terested in any progress that en- tails either change or work.

But us they gradually give up their stone axes and primitive artifacts for more modern tools, New Guinea. faces a certain future of change.

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R HIRJCED STATE

Bolivia in South America was re- duccd from 900,000 square miles to about 404.000 square miles by past wars.

over-6.3-age bracket-during the last fiscal

year. The number of children under 14

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NOTES BY

Porlnpl the best test of good manners is being able to put up with bad ones. -Toronto Btu.

No one knows the an of the human nee, but at all events it should be old enough to know bet- ter. -lldxnonton Journal

'1'luu's no use Dntendingjo be other than Oapadians, But let's be our best. solves. Good food, courte- ous trestrnent. Good mods-don't let. us forget them - and reason- able prices. These are things we can offer our friends across the border without. trying. And they should prove our best; advertise- ment. if we only knew it." -Vsn- couvor Sun.

The new venture in our midst. is taking shape through solid invest- ment. by public-spirited men. with efforts directed toward goals at ad- ditional employment in Sydney provided by small new industries that SIDCO will assist. in establish- ing here. our sights are being train- ed on what is obtainable and at- tainable. Wo are going to hear a great deal more about it.-some- thing new in the light of the sun arising on our Atlantic horimn- a. new Cape Breton saga in the making. -Sydney Post Record.

History has many facets. A phase of Nova Scoua history for from negligible and indeed important. by every count of what makes history wonh recording, is being recorded by Helen Creighton of Dartmouth. with her recording machine she goes about the province gathering the cherished songs of by-gone days, collecting the folk-lore of the peo- ple of our rugged coasts, and in so doing saves for posterity values that really are priceless. Ourselves and those yet. to come are pro- foundly lndebted to Helen Creigh- ton for a service worth beyond any- thing she possibly could be paid for her dedication. A service she per- forms, we can be certain, far more for the love and devotion she ex- presses in doing it then for any re- munerstion'it. brings to her. This is something one felt about this plat- riotic lady in seeing a picture of her recently in this newspaper re- cording I folk-song by s woman at Ohebucto Head. The songs of our fishing villages. farming ham- lets and mines. thus will continue to be heard. They will not perish, but be sung again in years ahead when thou whose songs Helen

Creighton recorded have gone their way as all must, along the mysteri- Ous courses that lead away from

THE WAY

Flv. more important words: cl am proud of you.” Four most lm- portnst words: "What is your opin- ion." Three most important wgus; "If you please". Two most. import. ant. words: "Thank You.

beast

important word: "1". -Kitchen" Record.

A turkey, naturally dfggggd

mu boneless, would be 9. veri- table godsend. And, if Dame Na. turn could be cajolod into stuffing it. and adding a few oysters as well. so much the better. For the researcher, here as elsewhere, it 1. a matter of irnaglnation as wen gtwtindustry. -Regina Leader.

We never catch up. despite pm. digious expenditures-indeed the tendency is to fall farther behind the parade. Many passenger cars are being made up to 9. foot longer in their newest and shlnleat dis. pensatlons and we read of an ex- perimental "car of the future" that is a foot. wider than current models. Already the added length means that fewer vehicles than in the past can be accommodated in street parking spaces or in lots and build- lngs provided for fee-parking, ma longer cars clearly and to the con. gestlon in the roads-to widen can by a foot would be to make useless most of our present. vast highway; system. return it. to the horse and buggy. -Ottawa Journal.

-1! would seem incumbent upon automobile manufacturers to view every car coming off the assembly line as though it may be involved in a. crash, and to design it with that assumption in mind. Preac- cupstion with the design of hood: and tail lights should give way to a. greater concern with the cancer and interior of the car, where. after all, its occupants are." The increasing horsepower of motor can is looked upon by many as In invi- tation to danger. Statistics show that. speed is the responsible factor in many accidents and the question asked whether -there will hove to be a. iillil. ...i .l1E horsepower of can to be used for passenger purposes. Automobiles have been I blessing in many ways. They have changed entirely our way of living. People are better informed because they can travel so easily from place to place and the realm of business and social possibilitiu has been

right that we should accept. these benefits only at the cost. of mm: deaths. Anything and everything possible should be done to reduce

earthly destiny. -Sydney Post- Record.

the toll of highway accidents and fatalitlu. -Welland Tribune.

eluding a fine lot of

BIG SHOE SALE

Join the Crowds going to the 35 Per Cent Discount

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Ladies five-day Shoe Sale now on. Also Ili-

Greb and Ritchie Boots. and Shoes. At 158i Queen St.

Men's John Palmer.

lalso increased, but the remainder of the 'population decreased by 2(l,()()0.

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A signal tribute has been paid to the Scout movement by the United States am- bassador to Canada. lion. R. Douglas Stew- art. Speaking recently in Montreal, Mr. Stewart said that no single movement can do more for world understanding than Scouting, and that "nothing can happen to North America" if the movement continues to prosper with membership of scouts and adults who guide them ever increasing"

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Protection of sea-fowl is one thing: re- moving an important article of food from isolated settlers is quite another. This lat- ter, in the opinion of one of Newfound- land's M.P.'s, is the effect of the current federal ban on the shootingof "turs" in that province. For 300 years fishermen in out of the way places have been shooting- theu succulent birds without, apparently, musing any serious depletion in their num- bers. Now, I the ruling remain, they musteluiergivowtlietrti-sdltionolsouroe, of fresh mes:--oqnclslly h tho winin- monthb-or resort to poaching, h wind:

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