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. CHARLOTTETOWN

THE GUAHRDIAN

Department. Uttnwe. The bland Guardian Publishing Co.

Prelident Ind Auocllto Editor. inn A Burnett. Associate Editor. Frank Walker.

CIRCULATION ' "Covers Prince Edward island like the dew”

"The Strongest Memory Is Weaker Man the Weakest ink". :nAiu.o'r'rE1'owN, rnunsnar, sum-. 18, 1955 A iloutlne check , I

It was just a routine check of barns in: in area northeast of Toronto that resultedl in the capture of the Boyd gang after theyl iad been at large for a week. The two ietectives had no tip-off, no special infor- mation that the fugitives were likely to, oe in their area. They had not worked out an elaborate theory as to the whereabouts' of the three. 1

It must be a consolation to many indivi-, iluals doing a conscientious job despite its' routine nature that the spade work in this' :ase, as in many less spectacular, paid off. There are many like Detective-Sergeant Richardson and Bert Trotter who carry out orders which seem to hold little promise of r personal glory but which in combinati0nE with the efforts of their fellows, bring im-! portant results.

In almost every important field of mod-; crn living the experience of these men is repeated. We have very largely left behind the day of individual prowess but in its place there is faithful and intelligent co- ordination of effort which achieves results Impossible to the individual no matter how gifted.

Driver Training

A railway engineer must go through rigorous training and examination before operating his equipment on rails where there are other people to do much of the worrying about traffic. An air pilot is similarly trained and examined although' the heavens are large and chances of col-1 lision with other aircraft fairly remote. The car driver, however, must deal with far heavier traffic conditions. He gets little outside help in dealing with traffic yet it is. estimated that more than 50 per cent of Canadian drivers have never had driving tests.

Thg serious situation was taken note of at the annual meeting of the Chief Con- stables' Association of Canada held at Win- nipeg. The proposal was made that a Do- minion body be set up to control dj;ivers' tests according to one set of standards fromr coast to coast.- The desirability of such a move is apparent although there are many obstacles in the way. V

It would seem that an early step to- wards standardized driving techniques would he to make uniform the regulations govern- ing highway conduct and a standardizationl of highway markings.

The movement of cars and drivers from province to province can be expected to in- crease steadily. It is desirable that all those using the highways should qualify for their responsibility. It is also desirable, that the qualification should be for driving in provinces other than their own.

Prime Minister's Rebuke

in Vancouver a few days ago Mr. Stu

Laurent made a statement which should be noted in all parts of the nation. Open- ing a new law building at the University

of British Columbia, the Prime Ministcrl

said: "Legal education, like other forms of edlRcation, is and should remain within

provincial jurisdiction. But that does not mean that lawyers should have a provincial outlook. Nor does it mean that it is a good thing for lawyers, or for the admin- istration of justice in Canada, to.raise too high the boundary walls that divide the practice of the profession between the vari- ous provincial jurisdictions."

Undoubtedly, comments the Winnipeg Free Press, Mr. St. Laurent had in mind especially the "boundary wall" erected by the British Columbia legal profession against lawyers from other provinces. When a young man graduates from the law school of the British Columbia University he is charged a fee of 5500 for member- ship in the Law Society and the right to practice his profession. If, however, any lawyer goes to British Columbia from an- other province he must pay a fee-of 51,500 which, in the case of many young men, is a high boundary well indeed. The sole purpose of this lnterprovlnclal tariff in the legal profession" apparently is to keep as many Canadian lawyers as possible out of British Columbia, to maintain a kind of closed shop there and to regard Canadians

"This involves a principle going for be- yond til” f-legal profession," says our Win- nipeg contemporary. "In all provinces the

'absolute for all practi

' date 1709.

sional organizations and delegated to them actual powers of legislation, so far as their members are concerned. These organiza- tions lay down codes of behavior, fix: fees and enforce discipline, and such powers are purposes.

"The legislaturc feel themselves incom- petent to deal with. some highly technical matters--the practice of medicine or en- gineering for example-but the legislatures never intended that the powers thus grant- ed to professional organizations should be used for purely commercial purposes, as they have. been used in the case of the British Columbia legal profession.

"All such organizations are the creation of some legislature by statute and the statute can always be altered or repealed if it is abused. The remedy for the situa- tion in British Columbia rests with its legis- lature, which so far has been deaf to all protests but may-heed the protest, of the Prime Minister. Other legislatures would be wise to consider where their constant and increasing delegation of statutory pow- ers to professional organizations and to of- ficial boards of various sorts is leading."

EDI IURIAI. NUI ES

Latin is a dead language but not a dead issue in education. A little of it seems useless, yet it is very hard indeed to profit by any advanced course without a prelim- inary grounding.

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China lost Port Arthur to the Japanese in 1894. It was briefly held by the Rus- sians before 1904 and now Russia shows no inclination to give up the important rail- way terminal even to her faithful Commun- ist ally, China.

The Federal civil service superannuation

provisions are expected to be amended at the session of Parliament commencing Nov.

20. Temporary civil servants and widows with children under 16 are expected to benefit.

Nothing succeeds like success, and the Queen's County Plowing Match Association proved this at Pownal yesterday. The weather man was on his best behaviour, the competitions were keen and the. large crowds in attendance had a thoroughly en- joyable time.

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The request of teachers that the course of studies be placed in the hands of school boards before the end of the school year re- flects to their credit. That they should want to become familiar with the curric- ulum reouirements during the summer

,months shows a zeal which should be en-

couraged. I Charlottetown's Federal Bliilding will probably be started next year-if the hold- up was truly a matter of steel. Mr. P. G. Wilmut, President of the Canadian Con- struction Association, speaking at their Maritime Regional Meeting, said, ”Increas- ed production gof steel will likely enable the granting of permits for certain types of buildings previous& denied steel." as b 0

Dr. Samuel Johnson, English lexico- grapher, critic and author, was born this He distinguished himself at Ox- ford for his classical learning and later took private pupils, including David Garrick. He turned to writing,' particularly for the "Gen- tleman's Magazine". He wrote poetry and a biography and for almost eight laboured on his "Dictionary". He wrote to pay for his mother's funeral. IS

"Rasselas” IHis greatest claim to fame, however, lthat of having inspired Boswell.

A most interesting development musical- ly is the school for rural church organists which is being held today at Kensington. At a similar school held recently at O'Leary, thirty-seven organists and assist- ants representing six denominations at- tended the afternoon session, with 200 choir singers in attendance at the evening session. The idea, as indicated in a news item in yesterday's Guardian, originated as an experiment at Kensington two years ago, when about a dozen rural orgsnists attended. So enthusiastic were the mem- bers that since then six schools have been held in the Province, attended by 115 or- ganists and over 600 choir singers.

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For over 30 years, the P. E. N. Club has been working on a world-wide scale to end the feeling of isolation which is such a drawback to a writer. P. 'E. N. (the let- ters stand for Poets, "Editors, Novelists) is

socistions which is constantly arranging personal contact between more and more writers in different countries. It also awards literary fellowships, and organizes or takes part in many international cultural activ- ities. In addition, P. E. N. keeps authors as well as the general public up-to-date on the

out the world, and arranges for the recip- r

legislatures have set up various profes-

rocal lntemetionel circulation of works;

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an international federation of writersf as-,

latest developments in literature throumlr

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lVILD HONEY SUCKLE

Fair flower, that dost so comely grow,

I-Ild in this silent, dull retreat,

Untouched thy honled blossoms blow,

Unseen thy litilc brniiclirs greet:

No roving foot shall crush thee here.

No busy hand provoke a tear.

By Nature's self in white arrayed,

She bade thee shun the vulgar eye,

And planted here the guardian shade.

And sent soft waters murmuring bl"

Thus quietly thy summer goes, Thy days declining to repose.

--Philip Freneau.

W5 ea-M-ass -sang-co-v,

lnue Age-Old storyl l

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If ya he rcpronrhml for the) name of (Ihrist. happy are ye: for the, spirit. of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part. he is glorified.

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Oh the night of September 2, 1152, the people of England pre-I

usual, wen'.'. to bed. when they

calender and many people in. bit. upset about it. They incl. ovenslcpt and it seemed lvious to them that in some sterious manner they had cheated out of 11 days of

lives and that probably the ernmcnt was to blame.

, All that had really happened

were

had

on- my- been their Gov-

years was that England had heiatedlyl

lncknowlcdged the obvious fact limit. for many years the calender had been out of step with the sun. As far back as 1582 Pope aclregory Xlll hrid ordered 10 days dropped from the calendar to” rectify a minute error in the Julian reckoning. But at that ltime the British Government. was 'in no mood to accept Papal ders, even if they did happen to Icoincide with the laws of nature. : The earth, as any school boy knows, circles the sun in approx- imately 365 1-4 days. To take care of the fraction. Sosigenes, who was Julius Caesar's astronomer, inserted an extra day in each leap year. This was a good arrange- ment but it was not precise; the ,solsr year is actually short. of tiles 1-4 days by 11 minutes 10 3-4 -seconds. By I582 this cumulative error hnd thrown the calendar 10 days out of season. The Gregorian calendar. simply put things-right.

Even when, in 1751, the issue was finally faced in England, and Lord Chesterfield introduced a Bill to amend the calendar. it met with stiff opposition from some die-herds. England, Argued the Duke of Newcastle. was I land of custom and ancient tre- dltlons which should not be light- ly cast aside in favor of new- fnngled ideas. But the customary courses of the stars and planets proved to be more ancient. still and more adamant, and the change was nlnde.

That was just 200 years no this month, and by the "some col- culeuon our clocks must now 'he about 3'1 1-2 hours slow. But per- haps it would be better to welt n- til the error builds up to I 3 round sum before we suln it-hgow things into confusion. '

NABIOWIST POINT

lhgisnd is 21 miles from the continent at its nearest point. but the north of scotlendle eoo miles distant.

sumnbiv no more exhausted thanl,

or-i

Proudly We Hail--.

- In the main, of course, it is much

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'f.NoiesMNl73); The Waxa

I In Nova scotla I hunter of iostl treasure comes up with doub- loons, which we had always been led to suppose were a Spanish 5W0'Phnts suit. - Stratford Bea- con-llerrald. ,

No people on earth are, better informed on gE.pgrophy than Americans, claims Dr. Grosvenor. president of the National Geogra- phic Society. That may be true, but we sometimes wish our cous- ins to the south would learn more about us than our geography. There are still too many of them who think the main job of the governor-general is to. collect taxes which we pay to Britain, for

example. - Cornwall Standard- Freeholder. Comedians in East Germany

are warned that they have become too funny in making audiences laugh at anti-Red jokes. Humour. particularly of a political nature. is an unwelcome quality for any one to have behind the Iron Cur- tain; the public entertainer who indulges in it is liable to laugh himself right into Slberia.-Ham- ilton Spectator.

The Vvhltehorse, Yukon, Star knew nothing about the Toronto

jail break when it printed the sc,,,p,,1.,,,,, .b.,,,, genus, appoint. and careful. patient planning. they suy- menu 10, her Children and then. had long ago cleared off the debt

story of the police mg the prisoner got away nsklng the constable if he guarded all exits. And the iceman's reply: "We think' must have left by one of the tranees."-Ottawa Journal.

inspector and hadl pol-' hel

en-

ischeduled to tumble into the

arose it was Semcmbcrl 14. Elcv- Strait of Cunso next Tuesday, willl 821 days had been -5lI'-lkm Off ihe,be cheered by Nova Scotlsns whol

ihave heen dreaming of the cause- ,way link for decades. The federal government has hardly been a iball of fire in this matter. But similar criticism cannot be dir- ected against it for delays in male- ing another Canadian dream come true-the St. Lawrence seaway.- Ottawu Citizen.

Ill news in the,Canudlan then- tre is the closing of Les Contpag. nons. French language Kfoup in Montreal which has for .some years been tie most distinguished of our native theatrical organiza-

Defence being associated with in. VB-S1011. enemy aircraft, and the crunch of falling bombs. Time for revised thinking. Western Cans. cilnn communities with Civil De- fence organizations established, and a degree of A training given. have a new sense of security. Civil Defence arrangements work when

pear; men and women trained for alr raid emergency find they can serve effectively in any emergency for thy know when to do, know where communications and trem-

-A shekeepurean ulnar who love up acting to study for the ministry. the Rev. Adrian I-I. Stephen. is leevlnl St. Outhbsrve, church. Glasgow, to take over the pulpit. of Knox Presbyterian church. Halifax, N. 5. Mr. Step. hen is the author of several plays and pngeentr and his hobby is the production of Shakespearean plays in the wen ur. With his wife

Health Minister MulhI,. ll- dreqlng a gathering of Young Liberals et.Alconquln Perk, me I wlseand true thing when he told them that hard work was the only real routes of Jooisl security. it ought. to be so plain that no one

The first truckloads of rock filhl

floods. fires or other hazards np- (5

port Are to be found. - Ottawa 2;":mc:"l3l5h:"o:,':ur;mi: '1”: Mum" visit to the graveyard. and road-

snd daughter he leaves for -Cnn- gin ngapwugvu 0:. d I . -- - 5 ' ' 210;, "” '"”"t.h "K m”""' once; it menu wisdom; in may .,,gg, also well i ire hope and strong-

evcr need say it. but evidently it must be repeated in these days when so many are looking for the Guy Way or it way to set some- one else to support them. A Pan Arthur News-Chronicle.

Persons living along the river. shore who intend building boat docks will be interested in a new type Of dock available now to the public. The new dock. which is in part removable during Winter months, has one great feature that is lacking in the old stone and wood structure. It is adjust- able to varying water levels. Pea. pie who have had experience with the older type of docks know all too well the problem posed by large annual variations in water levels.- Brockville Recorder and Times. '

There is an odd streak in the human makeup where animals are concerned. People, normally kind. are capable of thoughtless cruel- ty to the animals they refer to as their pets. of ordinarily h'umane impulses, they can be conscience less about 9. cat. A good-hem-ted family man, never known-to beat his. wife, will leave a dog locked in the basement while the family goes off on holidays. A mother,

daily milk intake. without com- punction. will abandon a cat at A beachaneglna Leader-Post.

Farmerr sons from Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritime: may be smitten with the fall fever, but ,hardly with the same roaming restlessness that comes over the prairie son. He remembers the vast fields, sweeping half is hun- dred miles with their golden sea ;of grain. The danger eomes in the way he stares idly into space, his

mind with the combines. He walk.-

lnto traffic, and gives up his J' A' Mgsu gun street car seat as they used to do 3A3M3TE'- 50119 03' 3” iln the old days, or forgets to wear 1 N0TA'"' Eu”

in tie with his shirt. The malady comes from having been too close to the land in his earlier days: too near the ripening grain and itoo much involved in the rugged fun of harvesting. - Pembroke Standard-Observer. ,

tlolns. Lack of money seems the JOHN P. NICHOLSON, LLB. 333-.T32-Jgiemfiliaxyd””S3.2ii.l; Old Ch I tletown """'”"" "” permanent, or this Important md y 33' 0 Collection - Money To Lean brilliant company. It is a sad (Ana 1!, z, 1, ) ' 00 Great George Street g1:l::g:1E'I1i81'ivh0It1 the position of 1.. - Chlrlottotown an .ea re on the home -m---e ----T--mm

ground.-London Free Press. 0”) NEWSPAPERS J. S. TCYICT

A,,wm.",,."y we "mm 0' Ch" "Few things are more interestw OPTOMITBIBT

in: than to look over a file of old newspapers. It.cnrrles us back to walk the streets of our fathers and grandfathers. my, even overhear their quarrels, and observe their skes; to re- chisel the early and half-worn in-I scriptions in our memories and on facts which took place before our ey; " mature we never fully understood, makes us learned in local genealogies, rebuilds bulld- inge which are now old. projects and fomie institutions long since in their maturity or decline, and

in; the inscriptions on the tomb- stone. The marriage register ex- plain: political. religious, - and commercial alliances as thrh - tory of families. The births re- veal the secrets of lndler use. The advertisements resuscitate old mine. and show how some-families have risen in the world, endoth- ere gone down. The fuhionnble d explains many cases of de- ely. The political. do utment let:

up , then mm. for it. ehowl the word march of ti-uu:,end cnlblu us to take a lengthened survey of ti; fgrgnu tofd that Jtrovldenoe w o ' I pu own i e. from their seats, and excluding: of low degree."

to see their movements in politics and trade,

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years since I first made acquaint- knee with this Island, and I have never been sorry for it. In the in- terim I have done a good deal of travelling in other parts of the world. and only,sbout half of the. time has been spent in actual rest- dence here. still, I think I can claim to have lair knowledge of the Island's seographlcsl features, its advantages and disadvantages -as a place to live. and the con- dltlons under which many of our people spend their days and years. My opinion is no better than that of anyone else but, for Whal- it. is worth. I would say that P. E. I., all things considered, is as good a' place so any for people who want to live with I reasonable measure of contentment. And that after all is the most. any of us can expect from my earthly condition or en- vlronment. We may dream .all we like about ideal dwelling places. and the dream itself is not without its value and grace. but we know that the ultimate in contentment is always afar off. only in the cheap- est kind of fiction does nnyong ev- er clasp it. in his hands and cry. "Eureka!"

. Recently I have done a bit of travelling right here at home and I hope to do more before Indian summer gives place to "the varied story of the autumn." MW brief wanderings back and forth have A esdy given me a clearer picture of life as it is lived on this Island.

the some as life anywhere else, for people are much alike wherever you find them. Human hopes and aspirations do not. change noticeably from one geographical area to another. The "lights and shadows" that brighten or depress them are, basically, 'of somewlhnt the same forms and textures the world over. and they are influenced by similar forces. Men are brothers in other respects besides the purely physical one. And yet there are diversities in all things that make up the human story. one of the most revealing talks I have had was with is seventy- five year old farmer and his wife. who seemed to me to represent something very fine in our Island society. They both show signs of contin- uous work, but. work. I am sure, that has been leavened. through the fifty years they have been on their farm, with cheerfulness and is simple, quiet dignity. I could see in their faces and I could detect in their voices the kind of courage that has overcome many difficult- ies and solved many problems. This is the sort of a use that goes unsung. but it. is nevertheless. the real basic strength of this prov- ince.

0 The story that this couple had to tell is one that could probably be told by many others in similar circumstances. More than fifty years ago they had taken ave; their farm which in the man's own words "was mortgaged right. up to the hilt." By hard work and plenty of it. by mutual sacrifices

and raised I family of five while

The Passing Scene

A FARM, I-E031.

It ii now. upwards. of twenty All of the children had been 1,,"

sE.jPTEMBERx 13, 1

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through school and 1., now have their own no or parts of the world I 1 old homestead. Up ,,,'”nD;fm 31:. younsest son has remained um: them and he -appears to be I m sober young man. ' Much to his psrents' over. his heart is not rii.gri:..',;f;' and he longs to be on his My ,3 what he believes to be better 0,: portunitles for making 3 1mm when he does so he will probably other line 0,

do well in some work.

The old house is still male .,,, the hundred acres are still produc- tive. "But", the old man told ,,,, with s pardonsble tremor in M, voice, "the time has come when in must sell.”

It was easy to tell that this 1,,

l" or them mes in am.

the last thing he and his vi-gr, would want to do. Necessity, no, choice, will send them from the place they love with all up),

hearts and souls to in place when they will resign tliemselvcs to boredom and drearlness. Tinn- pensions and perhaps a few (mum they have managed to save W111 keep them from want. but thgy will in no sense provide the m. urlty which the old home has sym. bollzcd for so long.

. - 0 The whole situation seemed in me to be so wrong, unjust. ma unnecessary. My first thought wu one of hostility towards the eon who would allow such an unhappy ending to an heroic story of llv. mg. surely. I thought to myself, the boy could carry on somehow, It least while the old people ere still living. He has e thousand- fold better start. than his father had and it is safe to say he would never have to face the same crit- ical problems. On further consideration I he. gun to see that my first Judg. ment was mistaken and I could realize something that was going on in the son's mind, too. It was clear that he lacked no respect and affection for the old folks. when I asked him if he did not like farm work he replied. "No. I wish I did." And I am sure he Wu reluctantly telling the truth about msomc hnys inherit. :1 love for that kind of life and some do not. For those who do there can be noth- ing more rewarding in the things that make life worth llvlnf. F0? those who 0 not. there is no ro- mance, no adventure, no sense of vocation in it. It is useless for A man to tie himself to any?-M1139” which the aspirations of his heart find no response. That makes for drudgery which sape the life of the soul.

I-low shall we account lnr mu strange likes and dislikes. Wlmw? do they come and why? one man. born and raised on the red E8!-it longs for I small apartment in s city block. The eight hour day if his idea of good living. Another. born and raised near hot DEW ment, wonders if Fortune will am he kimr enough to present him with "9. nice little place in thl country" where he will be able in eee the sun, hear the music of ill! woods, and put his hands in soft eartah. That he believes, would be heaven enough. It is all very

they were doing it.

PROFESSIONAL

CARDS

Gender 3. Ho-szurd

GILBERT A. GAUDET. B.A.. LLB

Barristers Ind Solicitors Money to Loan

Clnldlln Bank of Commerce Bid:

Currie Building

Murlioson. Peaks & ' Nicholson A. W. MATEESON, Q13. A. H. PEAKE, B.A.. LLB.

Eyes Examined. GlneeI'l'm.ed Comer Ksnqsnrl Queen Stu. Office Phone IQM-House 1018

A. Wulthen Guudof. LLB.

BARRISTER. BOLICITOR. Elli.

Phllllpl Julldlng 111 Grafton street Money to Log" (tnlicrtion

Dr. W. R. Cursor

CHIROPRACTOB Palmer Grndunto CHARLOTTETOWHV Phone I072 201 Prim-a 3' ....

Bell. Muthieson &

Foster Barristers, Solicitors. E10 R. B. BELL. 0-5-

I). L. MAT!-IIESON. i.L.n.. 0-0- G. n. rosrun. LLB- Loune on City and Vim" Properties 150 Richmond Strrrt

Charlottetown. 1'-E-1-7 lg.

MucPI1ee & Trainer n. F. MacPll.EE. B-A-v 0-” r. somsnmn mnmon. M-,

Bnrrletcrs. Eli-.. H?

&c.

Frodoric.A. Large. 9.6.

Barrister. Sollellor. Notary Bank of Canada lulldlu Charlottetown. P. .1. . loans on City ind rll ' rromrlfeo

Allison M. Gillie. LI..I.

Palmer & Hosldm

' A. J. 'nALAM. n-A-- W” , Bu-rleoer. E90-, M" Bank of Nova Scotls Lhlm cimioeeewwn. P. Fig i - MONEY 1'0 LOA 2'

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