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itUNEa 6. 1952

THE "GUARDIAN

Department. ottuwu. The Island Guardian Publuhlng Co.

rnsldont and Associate Editor. Ian A. Burnett. Alsoolals ldllor, lrunk Walker.

CIRCULATION tcovcn Prince Ifdwnrd Island like the dew"

ynfsmngm Memory as warm rm tho Weakest Ink". CIIARIDTTBTOWN, FRIDAY. JUNE 6. 1951

Safety Month Proclalnod

As will be noted by the Proclamation appearing elsewhere in today's issue, the month of June has been set aside this year by order of the Lieutenant Governor in Council for the purpose of highway safety observance. It is to be known as Safety Month, during which time "all persons are constrained to give heed to the safety of all citizens generally with special intention to those using the highways of the Prov- ince and to govern themselves accord- ingly."

This, of course, is just a way of em- phasizing the great importance of highway safety observance; it certainly does not mean that our citizens are not constrained to give heed to the safety of their fellow citizens at all times, twelve months in the year. June marks the beginning of the tourist season and is an opportune time in which to bring the subject forcibly to pub- lic attention. ' It is to be hoped, in the words of the Proclamation, that it will be given "paramount consideration by all the inhabitants of Prince Edward Island” and by our summer visitors as well.

Mood lit lievolt -

That staunch Liberal journal, the Win- nipeg Free Press, has been analyzing the recent Federal by-election results and the comments of several leading Liberal mem- hers in the Senate. It finds that the sov- creign political fact. just beginning to manifest itself fully, is the revulsion of the taxpayer against high taxes. Until last year or so the taxpayer lived in expecta- tion of early relief. As the new budget has made clear, no relief appears likely in the visible future. The realization of this fact

has deeply changed the climate of publicl

opinion. It has become interested in econ- omy again.

"At this very point, curiously enough," says the Free Press, "the Federal Govern- ment has abandoned the attempt made last year to reduce non-defence expenditures and is raising'its costs in all directions. This. it has found, is not a popular course. It will be even less popular when all tax- able persons in the lower brackets find their income taxes raised at midsummer. From now on. it is to be expected, the Gov- crnment and Parliament will find the Cana- dian people more sensitive to expenditures and taxes than they have been since the beginning of the last war. ,

"The Government can reduce its non-de- fence expenditures if it has the courage to do so-usually over the protest of the Op- position, which always cries for economy and increased spending simultaneously. At. least the Government should make sure that the budget is subjected to real scrutiny and it should welcome any discovery of waste, any chance to save money. Canada, like the United States, is now entering a period of second thoughts when these things will have an importance in practical politics which. unfortunately, they were not SW9" in recent years, when high taxes were con- sidered temporary."

Swing Away From Wheat

The swing to mixed farming since the end of World War One, induced by Soil

I" drifting and limited soil fertility, has been

pronounced in Western Canada. In the municipality of North Norfolk, Man- itoba, for instance, the proportion of cultivated land sown to wheat drovlmd

,from 43 per cent in 1916 to 20 per cent

in 1946, while the acreage in hay and pas- ture increased by 11 per cent, and that in! coarse grains by 5 per cent. Investment in the farms examined ranged from 37.753 on the smaller ones to 532.977 on the larg- est, and averaged 517.430 P6? 1'”m- A5 farms increased in size proportionate in- vestment ln' livestock decreased-from 31 per cent on small farms to 15 per cent on large ones. a

A- study was conducted by the Feds oral Department of Agriculture in the Mac- Gregor, Gladstone, Plumes area. where Soils are light textured and have need of binder and the fertilization of mixed farm- on maze about 70 per

or uum'nn.iuui'wai improved. Wheat as income producers. I " gs-lain:-undgeother crops first only 13 per-' cent of

legumes was 25 per cent on smaller farms

One quarter of the improved land, on aver- age, was in summerfallow. r

In the whole prairie region of western Canada some 356,500,000 acres are devoted to grain growing and only 3,300,000 acres to cultivated hay and pasture which are soil building crops. This is so even though soil fertility, and erosion, are becoming increas- ingly serious problems. Large areas in the west continue to practice "extractive" farming, without returning essential el- ements of fertility and improvement of soil texture.

In the past decade of good moisture years the need for extending proper farm- ing practices and conservation methods has not seemed so urgent as when farms were blowing away in the drier 1930's. But if. as most of the experts seem to think,. an- other dry cycle is on its way, their worth will be quickly apparent, as will the wastage of poor practices and heavy grain cropping without returning anything to the soil.

EDITORIAL NOTES"

Mr. Tom B. Rees--Mission Service Saint Paul's tonight. I O O 0

By intervention in the inter-provincial bus jurisdiction case this Province may be a party to the last Canadian case to come before the Privy Council.

0 O C We are assured by Major Peake that the girls' pipe band at the Legion convention in Montreal was not a "stunt .band" in any sense, but an excellent musical organization led by a former Islander named Stewart. . U C 0

There must be something amiss in our religious life when both the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church and the chairman of the United Church at Ottawa declare we are merely nominal Christians, living in a surrounding of paganism.

U 0 I

Canadian military are coming back into the list of royal honours as evidenced by the names published yesterday. It was a mistake in the first instance, the Canadian parliament going'on record against Cana- dians participating in such signal recognit- ion by the head of the State.

0 O O

It'is not necessarily an offence to take a sun bath on one's own farm. No pros- ecution can ensue without the authority of the Provincial Attorney General, it has been ruled by the Quebec Supreme Court- in a case where a farmer was charged with nudism.

I G O

The cost of living is down four or five points except iniso far as potatoes are con- cerned. The farmers do not mind that, and hope that other of their produce will at- tain a worthwhile marketable value, in- cluding butter, cheese, dairy produce, butch- er meat and pork, not to mention live- stock generally.

0 O I

"D" Day, 1944. The. allied landings in Normandy began at 2 a.m. with mass air- borne paratroop landings, two American divisions, two British and one Canadian division further east to hold the left flank on the River Orne. Some 4,000 ships and thousands of smaller craft supported by more than 640 naval guns transported the troops.

O O 0

You can have too much even of "a good thing". declares Republican Eisen- hower, and asserts the Democrats have out- lived their usefulness as a government. He also animadverted on the Democratic cor- ruption and maladministration due, he claimed, to being too long in. office! He certainly opened his campaign for the Pres- idency in a fighting speech.

0 0 0

Both the Government and the House of Commons are evidently whole-heartedly behind President Donald Gordon in his herculean endeavour to put the C. N. R. on its financial feet. It is not often that the House exhibits its approval so demons- tratively as it did when Mr. Chevrler intro- duced his bill to reorganize the govern- ment-owned railway on a paying basis.

I O O

The House of Commons was discussing tax changes, Mr. Chester W. S. McLure (PC-Queen's) asked Finance MinisteraAb- bott what provision was made for the "sub aqua" farmer. The minister looked puzzled. What, he demanded, was a "tub aqua farm- er?" Mr. McLure patiently explained that it was oyster farming. It wasn't fishing, and had never been so regarded-at least not in Prince Edward Island. Mr. Abbott was certain that under. the act the sub aqua farmer would be treated exactly like any other fisherman. He was still dubious about the term. Mr. McLure protected. The Minister rose to make a further ex- planation. As he did so, he tipped over a tumbler of water on his desk, and was caught the cascade. "The" minister". declared Mr. Gordon Graydon (PC-Peel)

and about 18 per cent on the largest ones. .

There's A Remedyln Reach

PUBLIC FORUM

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This column is open to the discuuio by correspondent: of questions of interest. The Guardian does not fly endo the opinion of wrrcspondents.

AN IMPOSITION

Sir.-I would like to draw st- tention of malrman of the Street Committee, City Council, to is very unfair imposition upon pedestrians by those more fortunate who own or at least drive, motor cars. in no other city in Canada, I venture to say. is it more glarmgly done than in Charlottetown, and it goes on regularly without any attempt at correction. '1'he complaint has reference to the manner in which cars are parked along the streets. overlapping the sidewalk in many instances. the full width of the walk and in every case from a quarter to fifty percent.

If sidewalks of present dimen- sions are not- required for pedest- rian use why not. build t.hem nar- rower and save money on original cost and subsequent repairs?

Cars pull up for parking, and especially where curbs have been removed. tuck in their rear ends to protect against damage from path- ing motorists, but at the imfalr inconvenience of passers-by who have to weave in and out along an uneven frontage at their peril.

It is bad enough to get bumped onathe shoulder by upright. park- ing meters when one comes abreast with a couple of lady pedestrians. sdvaning arm in arm, and fail to break and fall in line at such crossings, without. at the same time skinning one's shins on pro- truding car bumper . Is there not some civic provision that can be applied to eliminate this menace to sidewalk traffic?

I am. sir. etc., A VICTIM.

PAYING FOR. TARIFFS

sir,-In my opinion the follow- ing from your Editorial Notes is right; on the target, and I'd like to be rich enough to have these few lines embossed in green-and- gold on a black background and hung in a onspicu-us spot in the business offices of Quebec-Ontario: "Canadian dairymeh need not be surprised at the lack of enthusi- ssm for their programme of price support by the proponndisis of the indu.st.rlnl provinces. The on- ure economy of these provinces was built up and is presently sup- ported by the system of tariffs designed not for government rev- enue but. as outright aids or subsi- dlen to the industries of these Provinces . . . .” of course my Pi-all-le' West is many I weary mils-let's call It 2.000-from your dynunlc Island home: but to indicate that this is still one "Dominion" and that P. E. I. ha ha copyrlgnlrbut should have friends-in the above pics. i suggest that we could supply a plaque of our own. to balance or "pair" with the above, thus: "Professor Norman Rogers. in a memorandum prepared for the Royal Commission lconomlc lb- quiry of Nova scotla. estimated the uuu-ncement in price! in the three Prairie Provinces owing to the tariff, in 1031. as -follows: Manitoba, 020,185,740: Bushwh- ewun. 020,228,335: Alberto l27.DOI.- IOO: I total" of 180,328,411? of which the major part must have fallen upon the farm population. The cost of the tariff to Western osnsds in the last so years is car- tolnly not. less than u.oou.ow.ooo.- Shake. podnerl And not because we are far apart. but in the hope wc do something about it! I an, Air. otc.. IORJE WISTIRNIIL Toronto, Ont. 1

Behold, now.

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THE TENT OF NOON

where the pageant of high June

Halts in the glowing noon

The trailing shadows rest on plain and hill: ,

The bannered hosts are still,

While over forest crown mountain head

The azure tent. is spread.

The song is hushed in every wood- land throat;

Movelcss the lilies float;

Even the ancient ever-murmurlng

sea. sighs only fltfully: The cattle drowse in the field- cornerls shade. Peace on the world.is laid.

It. is the hour when Natures curs.-

vsn, , That bears the pilgrim Man Across the desert of luncharted time To his for hope sublime nests in the green oasis of the year. As if the end drew near.

Ah. traveller. hast thou naught of thanks or praise

For these fleet halcyon days?

No courage to uplift. thee from despair

Born with the breath of prayer?

Then turn thee to the lilied field once more! ,

God stands in His tent door.

and

-Bliss Carmen.

Good Going

(The Times. London)

No one knows, perhaps, who first gave the advice to go while the going is good. Nor does it really matter, but it is good advice for all that. Thousands of people who have never seen Miss Jean- ette Altwegg and know little or

nothlng of figure skating will feel 3

a profound sense of- relief on hear- ing that she has decided to retire. she makes her how when o-tiptoe

at the ”' ” possible point. No more could be said of, her. as of bonnie Lesley.

she's gone like Alexander

To spread her conquests further.

There was no further to go. she had won,t.ho championship of her own country, of Europe, and of the world, and these feats she has now c0llllll ted with her Olympic Gold Medal. Naming could add I single brick to her four-square tower, but sooner or later some- thing might have chipped one off it to spoil. even if ever so little. its triumphant symmetry. Now, when the going was supremely good. was the moment to go. . '

I O O -

it is now twenty-two years. a year before Miss Altwegg was born; since another unconquered champion made a similarly wise decision in also Mr. Bobby Jones won the Amateur and open Golf Championships. both of our coun- try and his own. and left his rec- ord for later generations to try vslnly to equal. surpass it. they never could. His Boswell. that all- mlnblc writer the late Mr. 0. B. xeelsr, coined for his achievement that phrase "rho lmproxnoblo quadrilateral," and Miss Altwouu supporters scam to bs- fully on- titled to borrow it for her four- fold triumph. To tours from the field of victory at the an of twenty-one may seem regrettable, and indeed the world of skating will obviously be the poorer with- out. her-,, but it must. be remembr- od how fierce is that strain, mental

so well u pilyliclhuof competition IIIWI

on Olympian 3:03.11

Old Charlottetown (And 2. 1. x. y

IN THE WEST!

"Under the heading: some 'baney' lads from the 'land of hen-ings'. the Daily ruunltobsn, published in Emerson, Man., has the following complimentary note: The editorial den was enlivened this morning by the advent of a party of good-looking Prince Ed- ward Islanderr, to wit, Messrs. Wm. C. Hobkirk, D. A. McDonald, Alfred Beer, C. H. Coles and D. A. McQueen, all of Charlottetown They have some to make their fortunes here, and we trust they will succeed. Previous to their departure from the Island the quintette of immigrants were given a farewell dinner by their frisndsf The Manltoban also quotes a few of the verses composed by Finlay Mcrlelll. Esq.. on the departure of these young gentlemen."

-The Examiner, April 20, 1883.

Americans say, a great competitor. but the will to win must be sated at last. It is pleasant to think of her as not retired from the ice but disporting herself upon it, care- free, with no thoughts of points or judgcs. her only ambition to en- joy herself.

Robin Hood

(The Llstner)

Mr. W. 1-l'.'Ws1ker. I. Yorkshire antlquary. has recently worked over some old records in the royal household accounts of Edward If (they were first noted 100 years ago) and he has discovered some entries in the Court Rolls of the Manor of Wakefield which seem m throw light on the old legends He has demonstrated, with a fair degrcc of probability, that a. cer- tain Robert Hood of Wakefield wlresponds neatly with the out- law described in the oldest version of the legend, that is. the ballad callod "A Lytell Gents of Robin ood." Our man was born about 1285, the son of Adam Hood. I for- ester, and lived in the town of Wakefield from 1318 onwards. In will he married a certain Matilda, and in 132': took part in the rebel- lion of Thomas. Earl of Lsncast , against King Edward II. After the Earl's defeat. Robert was en ' .. and iwtlmly suppose) took to the lrcenwood.

one episode in the boiled tells how the King come to Nottinglum and decided to reconcile the bold outlaw. He visited him in disguise. exchanging buffets with him in a boxing match. shared his feast of stolen venison. and persuaded him to come to Court. But not for long. Robin signed to return to the lroenwood. slipped away. and re- sumed his lawless life for two and twenty years.

And there, sure enough, in the rccords is the account of the pm. has of Edward 11 through the north country. He travelled all around Yorkshire. enforcing the Forest Laws, and some to Not- linkhun in November 1823. After thst -- for six months - the nuns of Robert Hodo uppelrs as one of the king's yeomcn-porters at Westminster. In December. 1324. as it says in the household scoounu, Robert would work no more. one feature of this tale, that bears the stamp of truth. is the character of tho Kink. lldward If loved low company. I-lid thil VII Jill! H10 kind of think he would now done.

from admit. for the present. that Roburt.liJoo.d of Wakefield it

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The Windsor Star says is "peculiarly Then what about the folk who call Toronto "Tronns." "Bnnferd," vwindsor "Wlnssr." and Canada "Clans" and address their public remarks to "lays and gunmen?" - Brantford nrpuitor.

Tariffs protect any Important industries. but the American con- sumer pays the bill, whether it is to protect the tum industry, the safety pin industry or the cheese

lion if he can avoid it. of course. but the costs of no cornpetitl are considerable, and they should b3 taken fully into account as the de- mand for protection grows. If cv- cry producer is to be protected we must build an iron curtain of our own -- and it would prevent export: as surely as imports.- Woshlngton Post. '

A pro-war project of an inter- national peacc garden in the Thousand Islands section of the st. Lawrence River might well be revived. as Mr. Gsorgr Fulford. member for Leeds, suggested in the House of Commons. Such ' parks give visible form to the friendship that exists between Canada and the United states, are helpful in giving lessons in citizenship and good neighborllness to children and adults of both nations, and are among the most worthwhile re- creation schemes that could bC.dC1 vised. -Ottawa citizen.

Murcil Tsillon is a ref

character, a man who delights in unconventional travel. The other day Mnrcil passed through Brock- ville on foot. pulling a small lug- gage wagon. This cheerful French Canadian had already walked all the way from Montreal and was bound for the city of Windsor; I walking tour of some 5” miles. Here is I man who is not in u hur- ry, and that's rather nlquc these days. Monsieur Tuillon of 36 years and 130 pounds averages about 10 miles a day with his wagon and is

Tile Age-Old story g

Jesus had made an end of com- manding his twelve disciples. he departed thence to teach and to

Canada quite content to reach free of dlulectsfi

Brontford Tun

industry. No one wants competl- t

And it: came to pass. when

G his desuna.

tlon in Windsor b th July. -Brockvllls y ' 1”” ” GI. I

Recorder and I

--.. "Printer is a title of long in. dltlon, having been in comm n circulation at least since the six. uonthcemury. Lately the gun. ion has boen,to home men more by their functlonas with Siznllmen onfumen, ounnen and supper,” no system has not quite um. cnided t0 "3 Wdiclltconcluslon 31. t ' there would seem to us no hum in having Brslnmen- for in. lntelllloncs gorps. Puller. for me Dentll 001118 (or should it now 1.. PIUIIOII7). and perhaps 5 Boom or two in the Pay Corps (which in the private soldier's vlcw mm at ter Guardian. menu" Many of us work too hard at en. Joylng ourselves. when we have finished a day's gainful work or. 5” "ill On I Prosun of other-lwm-k ammitwu, meetings, 5-poi-Lg Ind pastimes which send us to bed ex. haustcd. B-om many of these pur. suits we derive no real pleasure 3: ll Upon many committees we sit merely in order to oblige friends who in return sit. on oommmm to oblige us. we engage in things which we do not really care about in order to win reputations u "good citizens." would not many of us be better off to choose one or two things that give us true satin. fnction.,and confine our enema, to those? We may be busy at pm. eat. but are we happy? -- Peter. borough Examiner In Lake Superior the eels has-g made their appearance but in np- puently much smaller number: than in Lake Huron and Georgian Bay. The News-chronicle was talk. ing to a north shore fisherman a few days ago. Asked about his work he said catches were much below those of a few years ago. Asked further if eels were to blame he seemed disinclined to put gll tho . ' 'llty on them. He had seen a few wounds on trout taken in the nets that indicated the fish had been attacked by the pun- sltes but he had never seen any of them. It was his opinion the eels. if on the fish when netted in deep water, released their hold as they were drawn toward the surface, possibly by change in temperature or water pressure. - Port Arthur

preach in their cities.

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M. Alison Former. QC. B.A., LLB. Barrister and Solicitor

Bank ofcommerco Building Charlottetown

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