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THURSDAY, OCT.

14, 1954

Matter For Vigilance

Ilartford, Connecticut, has been one of S0ll(l mass of St. Pauls Cathedral. When

the few American cities which have man- aged to get along fairly well without hav-

ing in pay snhn-it-5 to their Councilmen, serious rival, as it turned out, but it was a Row mines a report that the present Coun- lhhg lime (l)'lhg- ll llllt-T9-1't3Cl Oh 8m0hE the til is seeking an amendment to the city's Western legloharles and 'h9 People Of the charter which would allow the mayor to beIl Eastern provinces even after the Emperor paid 813000 a year and the Councilmen S2000I Constantine had accepted the sign of the well; citizens will vote on the proposal on Cross in which he some ophoshion has ah-eady d;3.jSyfl1b0l of the state religion. The Emperor In a recent om;-131 hnhenn iheI Theodosius,,who had campaigned in Britain ,3 pi-1.: as a young man and must have seen the ,.,,h.1I,. fm,,m.,.d ,Zm,,pI noted that "he who London Mithraeum, finally issued the edict: serves as a Councilman should do so as an WhlCh act of civic duty for which he should l'e- ”lll1'0U8h0Uil the

Nov. 2. veloped.

Governmental Research In

stituie,

celve no financial remuneration."

The Sim-IV 1-(-news 3 question that haglMithreaum, built, it is believed, in the sec- bccn IIPINIIGCI off and on for many years: Ohfl C9hlUI'.V. Arc paid legislators on any level more ef'- .V8al'S Old When it was destroyed and the ficicnt, or less so, than those who sewe out Slalute of Mithras thrown into the rubble of a sense of duty? It is hard to say. Bu: from which it has just now been recovered.

Street, Chat l have been

certainly no one is naive enough to believe that a legislators usefulness to his country or to his particular community necessarily

increases in proportion to cmolument that may come

increments his way.

m mankind this Summer's meeting of It i5'World Council of Churches will have, it is

traders, buying slaves and precious metals, selling wine and oil. Shrines' of Mithras discovered at many stations I along the Danube and the Rhine, where the Roman legions and Germanic races ming- Iled. There are more shrines in Italy and around Rome, where the cult had its head- Iquarters. Late emperors encouraged the faith of the troops because it encouraged

loyalty to the Impe'rator. But all this meant: l

Ilittle to the early inhabitants of Britain,

who were faithful to their Celtic gods. Some photographs of the ruink of the

Mithraeum show in the background the

Ithe pagan shrine was new Mithraism was thought of as a rival of Christianity-not a

had conquered as the

the heathen whole world” he died in 395 AD. The

overturned temples sometime before London

was probably around 250

Extensive coverage

Whatever effect on the religious life of,

the

a simple matter of human nature that de-l 9Vld9hl that the Secular Press regarded ll

votion to duty cannot be bought with a 35 emlhehily h9WSW01'lhy- In some of the most difficult andlsome idea of the tremendous news coveragcl mo : glorious periods of British histoi-yjgiven the event we are taking the liberty 2-f -

inhers of the commons received no re. quoting from a recent issue of The Christ-

price.

me

Just to give

muneration of any kind, even for expenses. lah Cehhllly. 51 Well kh0Wh 3-hd Wldely read

In fact. this was the situation up to about American religious journal.

Even now they l barely enough to meet the essential costslAme1'iCa is already having,” reported The connected with their parliamentary duties. Century. ”C8h hardly h8Ve escaped the at- rxh one -;Iv()ps 10 yhn Bl'i1iSh parhampni in tention of any literate person. This is the; although .)l' cxll'aol'dinary interest of the press, whicli' course if a man is lucky enough to reach gave the Assembly coverage greater than cabinet rank he does fairly well, though Dy that given any other Convention ever held no means as well as the average industrial in this country, with the single exception;

forty years ago.

the hope of making money,

cxcclltivc.

On the other side of the argument it 1952. To appreciate what this means. Cdll can be said, and justifiably, that the ”hon-I the roll of recent events whose press cover- with no financial age did not equal that given Evanston: The

our and duty” system,

rewards to make it attractive, would aut-:)- Democratic National Convention of matically disqualify many otherwise capable and all previous Conventions of both par- meansI ties.

This tions at San Francisco.

men-and womcn-whose

are meagre or actually non-existent.

receive

private

"One effect holding the Assembly in

of the Republican National Convention of

1952

The establishment of the United Na- The coronation of

in turn would be a tacit negation of the the British Queen. The inauguration of the.

dcmocralic principle.

a fool-proof arrangement will ever be found:I Peace Conferences at Berlin and G9I”lEV(I.:

but since in most instances some system ofIWarS in Korea and payment is now taken for granted-and, in? tests in Nevada and the Pacific."

rlccd, is necessary if the principle of equal rights is to be preserved-vigilance on theI I

part. of the electorate is

thing that will keep political fortune-hunt-lsoberest seaport In Eng,ImdI

about the only

Indo-China. Atomic .

EDITORIAL Notes

Bristol is officially reported to be the It must be

"S from wormmg their Way into positions sobering to recall that John Cabot set out

of trust and responsibility.

History Made Over

The London Economist recently drexw the attention of its readcls to a rIenlark- Occasion is shown on the Cover able revision of the Great bovlct l-.ncycl0- month-Q IN;-1Onal.V Rccipicllts of the latest. volume of l '

pnctlia.

the Great Soviet Encyclopaedia, it v ' ' ' s .' l I I I limo found enclosed in it a discreet plllll-I Hngem 40 years ago ,5 SIIOWHI

said,

crl slip. on which the Moscow state publish- vrs ”l'rv'ommcn(l" readers ”to remove pages '21 to Lil from Volume 5, and also the por-

trait bctwccn pages 22 and for which pages with new Noll. The pages should I)

23, in exchange text are sent to e cut out with

srismlzs or with a razor blade, the spine oi the book bcinc left intact so that the new

pages may bc stuck against

This. notes The Economist, rccnnmlcnrlntion to be treated ligltily by Qprirlg 1 I

it" is not .1

rmIvlmrlIv within the roach of the MVD, for the cnlry which is thus deleted for all time from tho knmvlcdcc of Soviet man is the long and laudatnry biography of the late Lavrcnti Bcria. and the portrait that must

now he piously burnt is his.

mares of George Orwcll's t

The night- 'l984" have be-

come a reality thirty years ahcad of time in the vast area between Saxony and Shang-

hai, and Bcria is already an ”unpcrs0n",5 . , .

the record of his career ”u

nfacts."

The SDIacIe vacated by the former First. Deputy Minister is to be filled with an in- leresting assortment of items, headed by a

photograph of a whale in the Bering Strait:

Mltllras In London

"In the second century

of the. Christian

era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth and the most civ-

ilized portion of mankind hclzan his "Decline and Fall," and

flourishing period that

dates, the ruins of which have come to lightl appearance of two 13.y,.Ia,-.01d ohm,-10 girls in the heart of London. But as a New York: given such notes about their cgnduct indi. Times wrllcr points out, the cult of Mithmslcates the strain which the practice meant little to the Britons of the second place on a child. Sending the notes by oth- nnd third centuries A. D. Mithraism wast er children amounts to forcing them to be- the religion of the Roman legions, who-come sneaks. Postal rates are not so high spread it rapidly through the whole of the-I that this threat to young people mustlbe

." Thus Gibbon

niolmnwnlal history of Rome's

it is from the Mlthraeum

II the influence of his father the admiral. He

this he dropped is that of sending notes home

Ifrom there in a flush of enthusiasm and discovered the North American continent.

I O O I A memorable picture of a memorable of this ”Cauada's Answer,"

Itlle painting by Norman Wilkinson of the convoy carrying the First. Canadian C0l'l- A featureI story on the history-making voyage is in-, clllded in the number.

I O O O

- It is not really winter yet but garden- ers are thinking about spring. At any rate! Holland bulb growers are reminding thenr that it is time to plant tulips. daffodils, Ihyacinths, crocuses and snowdrops. The very names make one feel that winter is-l only an cpisodc, getting the land ready forl

O O I

I

There seems to be a certain amount of submarine warfare going on just now but it is strictly a matter of conflicting state- ments at four thousand miles. "American and Canadian naval authorities report sub- marine activity, presumably Russian, off -Ithese coasts and the official Soviet news agency Tass denies the allegation.

William Penn, Quaker founder of Penn- sylvania. was born this date 1644. He was imprisoned in the tower for publishing his non-conformlst views but released through

I inherited a claim against the Crown which was commuted for a grant of land in North America where he established a colony for persecuted rcligionists.

A practice which might with advantage

from school by the hand of pupils. The dis-

can

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"any gloup whether a. majority

iHSome'lhing F

-...i . I l : part funds from Canadian wheat

I "5... i . - 5 supplied to India. This project ,. i ' :; I I , '11 yield about 400,000 tons of

l 5;” Mg - Ihiad annually prevent a river I A . ' I la. c from flooding 'and generate enough or-is-'-.-r " "WW-W'”:” power to allow small industries to

orliwilhe Girls

PUBLIC FORUM

Thin eolamn la open to the chun- alon by correapoudenta of qneallona nl Iniereal. The Guardian don not necenarlly andune the eplnleu Io! correspondents.

MR. PRATTS LETTER

Sir,-I read with considerable interest, Mr. C. C. Pratt's letter but. am puzzled on three points raised in it.

Point 1: The letter in question contains the following statement "After all, this is I democracy and in a democracy it is unethical for or an influential minority to attempt, to impose its will on the rest of the people." '

I have always believed the theory of democracy was based on the right. of the majority to decide. In fact, Democracy is majority rule. True, majorities may not always be right, but unless we accept thel majority principle there would L";- pear to be no alternative, other than democratic anarchy.

Is Mr. Pratt attempting to pro-, mote an entirely new concept of democratic processes?

Point 2: Mr. Pratt states that any representation would have gotten more or better results with respect. to Federal assistance from Ottawllo

It isnlt likely that American President. The funeral of Stalin.,1, win he maned nm on Novem.

ber 22nd, 1050 than Premiers. J. Walter Jones and J. B. MacNair, the Honorable C. C. Baker, the

ll-Iona)-able Austin Taylor accom-

panied by Mr. E. D. Reid, Mr. D. A. MacDonald and others from New Brunswick were In Ottawa. seeking assistance for the industry. This delegation was promised nothing and received nothing. It was not until the spring of 1951 that the Potato Boards negotiated the "Starch Policy."

If Mr. Pratt is correct. in his as-

sertion then we must. conclude that

the above mentioned gentlemen did

not; constitute a "decent." rep- resentation. I Point 3: Mr. Pratt states that

the Potato Board is not a farmers organization. This statement. is puz- zling aa I have always believed that the Marketing Act was placed on the Statues in order to provide the producers of any product with control of marketing. Certainly the Act and any schemes set. up under it provide for the election by pro- ducero of Board members. If the Potato Board is not a. farmers organization. is it the instrument of the dealer, the Church, the Gov- ernment. or what? I am, Sir, etc. PUZZLED

Charlottetown.

WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS

Sir.-We 'nrt-. all thinking "in terms of the world. Tlze Commun- ists say the world needs Commun- ism and we live to give that In the whole world. No missionaries are as active and ardent as they are. Every one of ihtm is a mis- slonary to spread their idea. Be- fore long we will have a federal election, and the Conservatives will cry: Give way to the Con- servative party who can save this country from corruption and mis- government. Missionaries of the party will he going out In all dir- actions with the pnrt.vI cry, "Let the Conservatives save the coun- try!"

Yea, party government is neces-

sary but It does not save the country from crime and other forms of unrlghteouaness. Thor-'. must be spiritual power. Jesus

knew what the world needed when he said: "Go ye into all the world and give. the gospel to every creature." In 1846 John Caddie went. out from this Island to Aneltyum. an inland of the South Seas, one "of the most hope- less spots. spiritually. on thin earth. when he went there was not one Christian. nothing but crime-and wargfand after fulfil- ling hit tnlulen. himself and hi: brave wife for 30 years. not one heathen -wu left and the moral life of cm Ilium was such that lift, and property were as safe a.. anvwhere in Canada.

Wherever the faoepel has tone it In the statutory. whether I0 I- Alrlea of Inlttflltl and women an changed Into truthful and t s pic. I have seen this change take place. men and wo- men who had Men untrurtwortiiv

Western Empire. With the legions went thel perpetuated.

Ibqcemlnj truthful and honest. I have been eutprlud and delighted

I NOTES BY

"If you don't know anything good to say about your fellow man, don't talk." was the advice given us by a person who rarely has anything to say. - Kingston Whig-Standard.

One of the least welcome de- velopments in furniture is a new desk with a foam rubber top. This, it is feared. will permit in- divlduals who like to perch on other people's desks to be com- fortable as well as nonchalant.- Edmonton Journal.

A township In Muskoka has gone into the Christmas tree business on its own and one of the results is that land formerly worth SI an acre now commands 315 per. So it is easy to see that the munici- pality can win both ways. including the taxes. - Porth Arthur News- Chronicle.

Rubber roads have been laid down in Connecticut. and Mass- achusetts, and 15 other states have put down test installations. Will the day came when all roads are made of rubber? If so, comfort- able riding will have an entirely new meaning. - St. Catharincs Standard.

Charged with assault causing bodily harm, a Waterloo man fail-, ed to appear in court. The com-I plainant turned up, however. and announced that the case was set- tled. He had accepted 025 from the accused to drop the charge, and he produced a receipt. Then he

the ff ?oe&' Gazer

ON LOVE

0. what is love but the bee with the clover,

The passion of plunder.

TheIglvmg, the taking, I

The ecstasy wild and the testing asundex-C

And then all is over;

But. somewhere the honey is hid in

the hive

And love to the lover is more than the passion.

For beautv is stored in some can-

quialte fashion

To b.- eaten in tnankfulneas, all- ence and tears

On the bread of the desolate years.

-Duncan Campbell Scott.

at the transformation.

Another important thing about this Christian character: it hangs together. The man not only he- comes truthful and honest but no achleves self-control. In a moral sense he can be, trusted and this in a heathen land means a very great deal.

In 1942 Dr. Henry P. Van Dusen made. at trip through our foreign mission flclds to find out for him- self the value of our mission work. He was particularly struck with the work he found in the Pacific Islands, and the result is a book entitled "They Found the Church There", speaking for the American soldiers. Eighty years before this a ship, the St. Paul, was wrecked on Russel Island in the South Seas. They were brought ashore by -the Papuama but eventually every one of those three, hundred sailors wu eaten by the aavuges. But in the, last. war Captain Brown was shot down on that Island and hid in the bush from the Japanese. He fell asleep and as dawn 'brokc he heard a voice calling softly. "Mr. Bro I Mr. Brown"! The Papuan h d found his llfc-bcl'. He rt-ached'far hla automatic and peered through the bushes. "Ar: ther-, any Japs around?" he uk- ed. He was reassured by the na- tive with a pat on the shoulder. Jacob was A native teacher of the Anglican mission and spoke good English. The file:-'3 head was bandaged. he wan fed and clrcd for till he was picked up by an Australian plane and canted to Port Moresby. The soldiers c.ill those follows: "The fuzzy-wuzzv angels", and thus the world over wherever the jewel come: it work: a change in human life that Jesus wants to are to the ends of the world.

I am, Slr. etc..

W. I. GREEN Stanley hrldu

l From The

THE WA.Y I

learned he had made himself liable to prosecution. Said Magistrate Kirkpatrick: "Nobody uses my court as a means of getting money out of people." He ordered the complainant to return the money and proceed with the charge. - Toronto Telegram.

The autumn garden In all the autumn colors is beautiful to be- hold. The chrysanthemums are at their pride. The hybrid tee. roses are still producing blooms. These things did not happen entirely of themselves. Nature, of course, has done its part. But a lot is the re- sult of the sweat of the brow of the gardeners during the heat of the slimmer. The gardeners have fought a valiant uphill battle. They have hauled water by the gallon to keep things alive during periods of drought. They have sprayed and dusted to hold down the pests. They have pr;.ned and fertilized -Guelph Mercury.

Old Charlottetown

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Canada'a contribution: to the Colombo Plan are net at :25 mil- lion annually for capital aid plus 3400.000 for technical assistance. Since .the plan was Inaugurated four years ago, Canadian contribu- tions have totalled approximately 3102 million. Worked out on a per caplta annual basis - 81.70 per person per year - this is not a particularly impressive figure. But the total is a sizable one and Canadians should be interested in what is being done with their money.

A complete picture of Canadian activity is contained in the 1954 Progress Report of the plan which has been compiled over the past few weeks. The report was mlttee at lta 1954 conference at Ottawa last week.

So far, Canada's capital assist.- ance has been restricted to In- din, Pakistan and Ceylon. It may be that this aid will some day be extended to take in other Asian na- tions. If it is, it will have to be spread thinner unless the Canadian government decides to increase its annual contribution to the plan.

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To India has gone: 53,000,000 worth of electrical equipment for the Mayuraskshl power and ir- rigatlon project In West Bengal. and 315 million assistance in local costs to be financed from counter-

be set up in the area; 54,500,000 worth of trucks, buses and auto- motive equipment for the Bombay State Road Transport Corporation; 50 locomotive boilers valued at 02,- 080,000 to the Chlttaranjan Loco- motive Works; 120 steam locomo- tives worth 321 million to Indian Railways; 51,200,000 worth of elec- trical equlpment for the Umtru hydro-electric scheme in Assam. along with 32,100,000 assistance in local costs to be financed from counterpart funds from the provis- ion of copper and aluminum. Pakistan has received: 05,500,000 worth of equipment and engineer- ing services for a cement plant at Thal in the Northwest Punjab; 11 53,000,000 aerial resources survey of the country. Geologists are now examining the most promising areas and it is hoped that the sur- vey will result in a complete map- ping of mineral and other re- sources; 0200.000 towards an ex- perimental farm at Thai; s2.800,- 000 worth of railway ties; three aircraft worth 3178.000 to form the nucleus of a pest-control service set up under the advice of the Food and Agriculture Organiza- tion of the United Nations; s8.900.- 000 worth of equipment and en- gineering services for the Warsak hydro-electric project In the Pesha- war region of Northwest Pakistan. and 310 million assistance in local costs financed from counterpart

plied by Canada: 32,000,000 worth

OLD CHARLOTTETOWN

Examiner, July 24.

Mr. K. C. Hind, snn nf Prnfessorl,

Hind of Windsor, and brother 0!- the last Rector of Georgetown, hasl hecn Enllaged as organist andl choirmaster of St. Peter's Church.i and also as assistant master of the school. Mr. Hind has just fin-l lshed his collegiate c o u r e e at Windsor University. and is prepar- ing for the ministry of the church.

The beautiful nursery of -Mr. John G. Eckstadt is now In full bloom. and has been today called the St. Vincent de Paul Nursery. Mr. Eckstadt is one of the leading pillars of St. Vincent de Paul So- ciety, of this city. and he has placed a box for the poor in his nursery. When visitors Inspect the flowers, he gently reminds them that they can do something for the poor by throwing a few cents in his box. The Society in in receipt of ten or twelve dollar: in this manner. and hence the name of St. Vincent de Paul Nursery.

It is proposed to hold 4: Coin versazione and Flower Festival on Thursday. the 3rd of August. In the Drill Shed. to promote the es- tablishing of a Reformatory and Industrial School. On that occasion it is intended to form I! committee of gentlemen to devise the best means for providing a suitable building for the Institution, and will at a later day wait upon the Gov-I crnment with a view to securing- an annual grant for its mainten- ance. '

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of equipment and services to a hydro-electric project in the Pun-

Canada's Contribution

funds from the sale of wheat sup- -

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Free Prue)

Ital aid to the Ganges-Kobadal project in East Pakistan whlcl. will restore fertility to a million. acres of land now out of produc tion through a change in the course of the Ganges. Canadz would provide a thermal powei plant and engineering services estimated at 31,800,000. Other pro- jects being considered are provis- ion of hydro-electric equlpmenl for an irrigation project in West Parklstan and electrical equip- ment and material for A powe: transmission llnl; In East Pakls tan.

Ceylon has received only about 56,000,000 in aid from Canada in date, compared with nearly S49 million to India and S38 million to Pakistan. Assistance to Ceylon has covered: 51,407,000 worth of equipment for a pilot fisheries plant. to enable Ceylon to build a cold storage fish plant and to make ngcessary fishing equipment avail. a le; 3800.000 towards the Mutwal flsheies harbor; s970.000 worth of agricultural equipment and paw- er lines for development of the Gal Oya Valley; 5650.000 to assist rural road development; diesel locomotives and railway ties worth 01,125,000; s225,000 towards agri. cultural maintenance workshops, 3500.000 towards construction of and equipment for a school of practical technology; 3185.000 worth of drain- age and irrigation equipment; 5400.000 for the development of Colombo Port; 5206.000 worth of telecommunications equipment for Colombo airport.

In addition to expenditures on capital assistance Canada has set. aside nearly 52,400,000 In the past four years for technical assistance to Asian members of the plan. Training has been provided for 202 students from Celyon. India, Indonesia. Malaya, Pakistan, Singa- pore and Thailand. Most of the trainees have concentrated on agriculture, engineering and medi- cine; but others have received training in education, Industrial management. police administra- tion, aviation. co-operative market- ing and film production.

Since 1950 a total of 52 experts in agriculture, forestry, co-qpera- tives, education, pure and applied science, fisheries, medicine and public health have gone from Can- ada to Cambodia, Ceylon India, Malaya. North Borneo anh Pakis- tan.

Canadian technical asslstancr money will provide equipment for biological control laboratoriel in India and Pakistan; equipment for the agricultural faculty at the University of Ceylon: and equip ment and tools for a tractor train- ing school in Pakistan.

The Age Old Story

0 Lord God of hosts. who II I strong Lord like unto thee? or to thy fnithfulnesa round about thee? . . The heavens are thine. the earth also In thine: as for the world and the fulneu thereof. thou hast founded them . . . . Thou host. a. mighty arm: strong in thy hand.

Canada is also considering cap-

and high In thy right hand . . .

MISS JESS

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Rush your potato entry to the Maritime Winter Fair, Amherst. Entries close October 15th.

Get your share of splendid prizes. Fair prizes there are many special prizes. Maritime Grand Champion Seed Section -'- 5125 offered by

ship - S75 offered by International Fertilizer Com- any Limited. Maritime Grand Champion and Reservt

contributed substantial sums for special prizes:

SEED POTAIOES (approximately 5275)

Associated Shippers Incorporated. The Island Fertilizer Co. Ltd.

Simmons and MacFarlane Rohn &ItI-Ines "Dlthane"

TABLESIOCK SECTION (0270) The Island Fertilizer Co. Ltd. The P. E. I. Bag Co. Ltd.

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Besides the Reserve Grand Champion-

will recelye expensive wal-

Edward Island firms have

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