PAGILFOUR THE GUARDIAN

Au(horir.ed as Second Cine Mail Poet Office Department. Ottawa. The island Guardian Publishing Co.

Editor uA:cl.Dl.anIgin; Director. In A Burnett. Auoclnta Editor. Frank Walker.

CIRCULATION "Cover: l'rince Edward Island like the dew”

"The strongest memory is weaker than the weakest ink".

CHABLOTTETOTVN MONDAY. DEC. 14, 1953

The tilirlslnias Spirit

the danger of overlooking the theme of Christmastide amid

which crowds its observance.

emphasis on peace and joy.

but to all humanity. By all means

red music and story. We must the

more suitable expression of

the greatest gift given to mankind,

?;lll And Knowledge

has not been completely scientific insight. Dr.

assumption which has been going

for man.

ization, there is a super-abundance knowledge; more, some would say,

be put to good use.

give it intelligent direction. ity.

moral and ethical character. Faith,

truth. is indivisible.

Potatoes As A Food

, Board:

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in their daily life. at the age of one year sho id receive

i 0-itlxslzep -- .:.g.

13 to 20 'l

Each year there are many who question: the manner in which the Christmas season is observed in this age and it is all to the good that it should be so. If everyone was complacent about the observance of such a festival there would be cause indeed for concern. It is wise and proper to point out central the detail

The detail is far from unimportant, how-it ever. The giving of gifts, the remembering of friends, the reunion of families, and the general spirit of festivity are thdroughly in keeping with the joyous season. They are as proper as the more direct way of cele- brating by services of worship with their

The fact is that to eliminate the social

aspects of Christmas would be to divorce

life from religion, a severance which no -s-A

one would intentionally advocate for it These are hard days for the heads or would meant the setting ”p of artificial government departments, particularly on

barriers in life which would deprive it of much richness. The Christmas message is not to mankind in a churchgoing capacity

let us be joyful in work and in recreation as well as in taking part in the great traditional celebrations of sac- indeed guard against replacing Christ with Santa Claus but it would be difficult to find a spirit of Christmas than that happy giver of gifts. He is and should be a vivid reminder of

The new president of Harvard Univers- ity. Dr. Nathan M. Pusey, says that lack of faith. not lack of knowledge, is respons. ible for most of the world's confusion. Com- ing from the head of a great university which in its long history, and especially in recent years, has given much scientific leadership to the world, the opinion is of

re than ordinary significance since it is an indication that spiritual awareness supplanted by

Pusey's statement should do good in another way, too, inasmuch as it will help to check the cheerful, though illogical, the rounds for a long time, that accumulation of knowledge is in itself a saving grace The plain fact is that in the area covered by what, for want of a bet- ter name, we choose to call Western Civil- of than canfhealthy respect for newspaper advertising Knowledge is power but it is not necessarily beneficent power. Nothing is so dangerous as knowledgo'advertisements in the daily papers on total which has no moral or spiritual foundationsi sales. to support it, unless it be a desire tori learning which has no vigorous faith to

The function of faith is not to put im- pcdimcnts in the way of the search for truth but to give it meaning. purpose, and vital-1

And it is just as necessary in educa- tion. politics, economics, peace promotion, and all the other involvcments of modern society, as it is in those things of purely: like

So much has been said about potatoes being fattening that people have lost sight of the fact that there are large groups in our population who have a real need for

3 this great energy-producing food. The fol- lowing data on the subject has been sup- '- plied by the P. E. 1. Potato Marketing

The Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics, United Sthtes Depart- ment of Agriculture, lists the weekly re- quirements of potatoes for different groups according to, age. sex, and general activity It shows that children

ounces of potatoes in week, w h increasing amoutlujuthey get older until they should be Ndeivlng 3 pounds, 8 ounces per week at the. one of 12. Boys from the age of years should increase the amount ,pounde'4ouncesto5pounde8 ; HQ doing heavy work should

--1 of potatoes per week. the - active. ouch as house- ocneulning 4 pounds 8

ounces per week.

for young people and working men, run- ning up to almost 300 pounds per person rather than the 94 pounds which 'we are

told was the consumption last year. The figures are doubly interesting when we realize that our astounding increase in

population in the main is made up of chil- dren whose active life requires an increased use of potatoes rather than the declining consumption that exists today. Students of the situation tell us that this percentage of the population, covering the very active age classes, will continue to increase for many years. Every year will add a larger” number to the adolescent group between 10 and 20 which has particular need for an increasing supply of energy-producing foodl lsuch as potatoes. If the potato industryi could do one-tenth as good a job of in- forming parents of the need for this food for their children as commentators have done in advising overweight persons to cut down on potato consumption, we could putl per eapita consumption back to where it was 10 or 12 years ago.

This with the present population would require some 400 million bushels in the United States and 75 million bushels in Canada. At the same time it would as- sure the potato farmer a reasonable return on his investment instead of the heavy losses he is now sustaining at present price levels. .

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A Word For Department Heads

the national level. For some of them-we are thinking especially about the Prime Minister and the Minister for External Af- fairs-the strain at times must be almost unbearable. There are so many things in these out of joint times which call for im- mediate action. There is little or no op- portunity for calm and unhurried reflec- tion which in more leisurely days was nor- mal procedure. Often decisions have to be made literally on the spur of the moment. Delay, even of a few hours, is out of the question.

Then, too, many new things crop up for which there is no precedent to help in the building of judgment. Ordinary men find themselves faced with extraordinary tasks where average ability simply will not do. The old rules of diplomacy are no longer adequate to the requirements of world issues. Most of us, looking at things from the outside, see only the glamour and trappings of high places in government. We do not see the anxious thoughts, the over- strained nerves, the frayed tempers. and the fear of making wrong decisions. 311 05 which things are never far away from the men who occupy the high places. The wonder is not that now and then some heavily-burdened minister makes a mistake but that so many of them carry on as well as they do. Complaining about the govern- ment is a democratic right; fairness de- mands that it be exercised with restraint.

EDITORIAL NOT I58

New York m e r c h a n t s acquired a

'during the recent strike. They had never before been able to observe the effects of

O O I

l Canada will be represented at the bi-;

lcentenary celebration next year of thel lRoyal and Ancient Golf Club of St. An- drcw's, Scotland. A special series of

matches will take place there starting May 31, 1954. For a good many years the rules promulgated by St. Andrew's were accePi' ed by practically every golf authority in the world. The position, of course, was wholly unofficial and such rules require to be adopted by the organization concerned.

There will be no compulsory retiring age for Dominion civil servants after the lend of the year, according to a report in

the Ottawa Journal. Regulations are being drafted which permit retirement and pro- vide that those remaining in the service shall not improve their pension position. The new approach is certainly more intelli- gent nndhumane than the present rigid regulations which make it difficult to re- tain the services of highly qualified ltlff

members.

0 I I l

George Washington, first president of the U. S. A., died this date 1799. Sur- veyor, soldier and wealthy landowner. he was elected to the Virginia House of Bur- glasses and took an active interest in the disputes between the colonies and the Eng- lieh Crown. When civil war come he was selected commander-in-chief. Despite diffi- culties of men and supplies. faction, and treachery, he succeeded in maintaining the revolutionary cause. He was twice elect- ed president but declined a third term. -

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These figures indicate a suitable diet.

THE GUARDIAN. o CHARLOTTETOWN

1

Another Lure

PUBLIC FORUM

This column In open to he discussion by umreepondenta g

of queltionl of interest. The Guardian does not neeeenh . 'ily undo the opinion of l correspondent;

FARM LABOR HOURS

air,-We were sitting by the fireside, after e. very hard day with the men among the cattle and hogs on the farm. when our good wife. also reloading from her share of the work, reed from your well reported review of the iuue between the Island Telephone Company and its laborers.

A demand for more pay and shorter hours now is ill-timed in any country. It is especially so as for no this e.srlcultural province is concerned. We are amazed that the I, B. E. W. should send. such a poorly in-formed mm regarding actual conditions as Mr. Tracey to a Province composed entirely of farmers and fishers and those vnhoee living depends on them. When he stated that Ontario farmers did not work even 9. five- ddy week because of "being snow- bound in winter when they did no- thing", he displayed incomparable ignorance of conditions on any good form. Higher wages in other avenues of labor, and low prices on the farm. make it impossible for the farmer to employ suffic- ient help to give him any leisure. if a storm day comes he has A backlog of indoor work dammding his undivided attention. Good farmers who produce the food necessary to keep Mr. Tracey and his kind talking, have their busi- est. ,sea.eon during the winter months, feeding cattle and hogs, keeping stables cleen. hauling ma- nure. etc. during the day and in the evenings and nights, keeping accounts and doing their best to balance budgets.

Telephone and other workers lived on or standard of equality with farmers in this Province with wages as they are now, and farm and food prices fifty per cent higher. Roasts that formerly sold for 79 cents are now 39. T-bone steak, formerly 55 ccmts is now 46. Potatoes are forty-five cents per bushel. The farmer is getting a little less than nothing for his

Wild Bill Hickok

(M. w. in the Winnipeg rm Press)

In the affair of Wiidnill Hiokox. it can only be said that President Eisenhower has been ecurvil-y surv- ed by the ohroniclers of the wild. wild West. Mr. Hiaox was mur- dered st. Deadwood, Dakota. Terri- tory on August 2. -1076. Mr. Eisen- hower reeunected. him for the worthiest of purposes on Novem- ber 24 of this year.

The President 'hBl.l been invited by the Fuel B'rlth Anti-Defu.m:- oion league to address I meeting in Washington and chose this oc- cuion to deliver 9. very timely waming against. chemcter nuke- slnatlon. The theme appeared to lend itself sxhnirably to Mr. Eis- enhower's favorite technique of drawing on the lore of his boy- hood days in A-bllerne. Kansas. Be- mlnding his audience that Wild Bill, a famous scout. and sharp- shooter, had been for 9. long time marshal there. he said: "If you donit. know about him, read your Westerns more.'

There followed this paragraph: ”Now that town had a code. and I was raised as a. boy to prize that code It. was: 'Meet. anyone face to face with whom you disagree. You could not sneak up on him from behind, do any damage to him without suffering the penalty of an outraged citizen. If you met him face to face and book the some risk he did. you could get

away with almost. anything, as long as the bullet was in the front."

Possibly what. the President had in mind when he spoke of "West- erns" were the old-fashioned pa- per-covesed dime novels about frontier daring and romantic ree- cues of threatened ladies riding the Pony Express. But newemen, dutifully responding to the Presi- dentls urgings, made the mistake of consulting the more modern chroniclers, with results which will surprise none acquainted with his torians and their ways. (

From its first dip into "West- erns", the Washington Post comes up with this description of Mr. I-lickox. He was, according to the author, Mr. Bruce Nelson, "a no- torious gambler and gunman". al- though it. is conceded that "this

work in the potato held, and any farmer or dealer who could make money on cattle on last. years dropping market, would be Einstein t-u-med economist. Just. wh-.v should the farmer be asked to slave endless hours on the farm in all kinds of weather for seven days a week, while other labor asks a five day week and more pay? should all farmers stop work for six months it would be I. for greater calamity than ll telephone strike. We have every svmrpathy for the march after sufficient leisure to develop our cultural and social life. But this must. include the farmer. He is entitled to equality at least. He is the real essential of all economy.

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Oflica

en.lfe has been the least. vocal. the

And we are right - and

soft-opoken ex-theological student was one of the more personable

moot. poorly ovngsnlzed and ill re- presented. He is waking up. He lnow has access to world. opinion through the latest media. He is furn-lshi-ng his own dynamic for Drogres. It may be through time and co-operation that. he will be able to occupy I. chair at home long enough to develop the electo- Dmia. common to most armchair advisers who invade our peaceful if poor Province to create unrest -and economic imbalance. I am, sir, eta, C. O. P!'t.A'I'1'.

and le.w-abiding of tlhe "many mur- derous characters who then passed as tberow on the frontier.” I O C

This ll hardly Ln L ' i be- ginning but worse follows. "Moot of his alleged 2'1 killings had been accomplished in the service of the law as a. frontier marshal; but the evidence indicates that he was no more averse than the neon. dee- pendo to shooting a. man in one beek to satisfy his own personal pique or whim. It is only in Hol- lywood moviu that. famous gun-

ing by confronting them in the town streets. Actually the repu- tatsione of virtually all the famous killer: in the West were made by Quite other means. A common practice was to hide in a dark alley. after first screwing up one's courage with whiskey. and then shoot the victim in the back." Feeling himself. perm-ups. 1 bit. oovnetz-mined by the code of Abil- ene. Mr. Hickok finally arrived in Deadwood Gulch. where other no- tables, including Poker Alice. Bed- rock Tom, California Jack and Calamity Jane had already estab- lished N.-eidence. ' O 0

Here something of a polltlual issue developed when certain per- sons, discontented with the status quo. omposed to experiment with new- angled notions of law and order. They had, of course, an obvious candidate for marshal in Mr. I-Xlukox. More conservative Deodvwoodians responded to this challenge by hiring a. Mr. Jack Mocall to discourage Mr. I-llckox's candidacy.

From Mr. Neleon'e account. it. would eppeer that Mr. Mocai-l thereupon conformed meticulously with "common pmcl.ice".. After first fortifyi-ng himself in prescrib- ed fashion. he entered No. 10 Sal- oon, found Mr. Hiokox seated with his back to the door and shot him through the but of the skull. The evidence suggests that Mr. McCall's intervention in c,.u1;h politics was sustained by public

Jill? these politically -

frontier code,

lat. Pei.er'a, P. 3.1.

YES

We have

Income Protection,

Medical, Surgical, and

lloepltellzetlen Insurance: Plans here to explain then: to you

e-let youwith

Why Gamble when you en have security with

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men gave their enemies fair ws.rn- -

5891110. is i-hit. following the fu. "9111. Mr. McCall was tried by n 07 lf0ld-.m-lners and that ' citlnem duly -equated him. It is true thnt.Federel authorities efterwuds intervened, and that Mr. May," protesting the violation of his will stltutlonal rights. was retried and hanged. But. um detail. involving notions of justice pgcuuar w the "m" 59”-led Mione. is obviously in-elevmt. to the question of the

511011 evilodee were of course i fuhlon

IL Notes By

An old-'t.imer in the one who end remember when the coffee grinder was on the kitchen well.-(cab ury Aiberten).

llrakil in in the market. for wind. mills from Canada. And with for- lia.mem. assembled, bmther. we've got. some dend-ies!-(Ottawa Cic- fun).

A psychiatrist says conceit is I form of mental disease. If so, it's a. strange ailment that exhiluptee the patient. and makes his neo- ciates sick. - (Kitchener-Waterloo Record).

A new departure was made in the treatment of sexual crimes in Alberta. when Mr. Justice Wilson sentenced an aroused to "indeter- minate" imprisonment. on e mor- ale charge. The mm was con- victed of offence: involving two young girls. Psychiatrists who eat- ,amlne.d him testified he was a Hpsychqpath of the criminal sexual ltytpe". The Judge accordingly sm- lienced him to six years impris- onment in the penitentiary, and ,further directed that he mould be kept in detention at the pleasure -of the minister of iustice. Thvie pmeans. in effect. that he will not I

be released until the authorities are satisfied that his perverted tendencies have been corrected. and that he is no longer I. danger to the public.-(Edmonton Jour- lnal).

i Because their elimele is now- ing steadily wumerr. G. ' nden are turnlngflrom hunting to sheep- herdlng and fishing for their live- ii-hood. Twenty thousand sheep now graze on Greenland's south coast. The mixed nkimo-Eurow em Greenlenden today are expert ca-where of one cod appearing oi! the coast in substantial numbers. Now packing houses and freezing plants have been built. some 10,-

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Plant. the seed and watch it grow,

And flower, and fruit. But never know

The secret. hounded in the shell

Of that intinrlteelmnl cell

Which. bumtinc into two. and four.

And eight-ee.o'h penfect. as be-

fore-

Repeats the sequence till the root

And stem produce the bud and

fruit And. safe within that fruit, the seed

Against another eeseonls need.

Do not. search to probe or noon The intricate omniscient plui.

No hand may feel, no eye may see The pulsing vitnl enemy.

which from femilhr things -- as

soil. And sun. and min - with patient toll Performs an alchany whose. power can change a seed into a. flown.

How long, without. hunllity, Shall men trust. ingenuity

To thwart extinction - with

wheel. An atom. on. oil and steel? How long, before his pride oun-

- cede 'I'heeeeretdvweile....withlna need.

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-Jessie wllmnre Mu:-ton in the New York Times.

in the old Pony nxpren book: which no doubt contributed for more than i obroniclee to the ethics of present.-dey Abilene. 1But it is clear that Mr. Eisen- hower will have to be much more careful in his attempts to refsshion the needing habits of his audience.

DECEMBER 14. 1953

The Wax 1..

9001'-W50!-Mntooeuedumi

mu. hr Bnunly yw Fear, aumpuan. 1:. is 1 drutic. oi,."m,,,;

for the 2.000 Greenland.” mm of. whan live in the lolitlvvieet oi the Danish island. Once mm people lived entirely by the har- Donn and spear, nerwhsls,

11117! per Dene . nuslly. Now the seal hexusnhzll followed the cold water nor-thwarde and the kill in down to two 101 each inhabiiont.- (National Geo: graphic Bulletin). ' g

unar.n.x.)

ma runmuo annoy

"As the Water Works projgcg for Charlottetown is now fairly under way, a few words about the Pump. inc station would not be out of place. The contract hlvlng been awarded to W. H. Fraser, nq,, ii, commenced the work of excavation about the first week in May 1:... and was grog:-east... very favorably. for about three weeks when the Worklnt Dirty struck 3 mrtng or such magnitude that it nearly caused the works to stop; in fact . there was such a flow of Water" that many of the knowingonu predicted that the well would never be sunk to the depth required. But die contractor, despite the opinions of the would-be wise onq, at once saw the difficulties and, heedlm of expenses, immediately sent in Boston and secured the services of a gentleman who has made this particular work a study for more than I quarter of a century. A few dsys ago, Mr. Fyfleld. arrived, and at. once went to work, and in a very short time had the well thoroughly secured and the watt-r under control.

"From that time the work went on steadily: the desired object wee accomplished and the foundation stone of the pumping wells was successfully laid on the 17th last. Mr. Fraser lost. no time, but at. once set: on bricklayer: and mesons, increased the number of laborers, and has at the persent time no less than from fifty to sixty hsndx employed. The stone and brirk work has progressed so rapidlv that citizens and strangers who visit. the wells are really astonish- ed. and the false prophet: actually hang their heads. Mr. I":-uer me also reached the required depth of a second well, and. should no mis- hap occur, it. will commence to be walled in a few days."

..'rhe Examiner. July 21, 1858.

Then Paul stood up. and beckon- ing with his hand. Mid. Men of Israel. and ye that four God. xiv" nndlenoe. The God of this people of Israel chose our fnthdi. Hid enlted the people when they dwelt .. u in the land of mm!- uul with In high arm. brought he then out of it.

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PROFESSIONAL ICARDS

opinion. 'Mr. Nelson denounces es

"romantic flubdub" the tale that

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have held I-fieokoii in high :3 Pdm" & Hi”"m

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