race. rook" - , Tl-IE NGUARDIAN,

Authorised as Sccondgclnc Mull Post ome- Dcpartment, Ottawa. ' The Island Guardian Publishing Co.

President and Auocintc Editor, In A. In-non. Associate Editor. Frank Walker.

CIRCULATION "Coven Prince Edward island like the dew”

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

"6i7Ci?l-.6'r'i'i-i3i'IiTs7sf"iT()'.vFa

conservation

A forest climax prevails through large areas of the world: that is. the environ- mental condition of these regions, when not disturbed by human intervention, re- sults in the gradual expansion of the forest into non-forest areas, the forest itself re- maining in a state of equilibrium and tending to maintain itself thus as long as exterior causes do not modify the natural conditions of climate, soil and water sup- ply. Thus says the bulletin of the Inter- national Union for the Protection of Na- lure.

This paragraph. and it applies with force to Prince I-jdward Island where very heavy inroads liavv been made for pulp- wood, deals only with the exploitation of forests for economic purposes, and not with the widespread destruction resulting from the elimination of forests in the in- ierest of the extension of man's agricul- tural activitics. an extension which also has gone too far in this Province.

Moreover, the type of forest exploita- tion sufficicntly intensive to result in the improvement. or destruction .-of the areas .nvolved is particularly in question.

The world consumption of wood is con- stantly increasing. The production of

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provincial -and municipal governments.

-handouts and by ignoring heavy backlogs

the limited revenue sources available to

The net effects of the tax rental agree- ments are to increase Dominion revenues by tapping provincial revenue sources, and to disburse remaining balances in the form of grants to Provinces, which leaves them increasing uncertainty as to their financial status from year to year. The longer this type of revenue shuffling goes on the worse it gets. The expenditures must: be made on an increasing scale because they are necessary--at both provincial and munici- pal levels-to the development of the Dominion. But the Provinces must find the extra revenue from sources not ade- quately related to the taxable incomes arising from the development. And in the

perty owners, with many municipal bud- gets avoiding insolvency only by accepting

of civic services which cannot be financed by all available means, including heavier borrowing.

Municipalities all across Canada are feeling the pinch in this respect. The kind of readjustment which Ontario is seeking may not altogether suit requirements here, but.at least there seems 'no doubt that re- adjustment is becoming urgently necessary on the municipal level.

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EDITORIAL NOTES

Easter Monday. 0

The Summerside Board of Trade made

Bedeque had been discontinued and learn- ed that as the route had not been payingl it had been terminated. It is to be hoped that the run will be given another trial

sawn timber and wood-pulp continues to

increase in importance, but the demand fori

firewood is fortunately decreasing. New industries, however, are appearing which require wood as a raw material, thus dangerously increasing the total demand. The dilemma faced by governments, which is daily becoming more serious is; must they limit;.exploilation to conform with traditional methods of forest management, with a resulting production below present requirements, or must they, on the con- trary, allow the annual cutting to reach the level or requirements. at the risk of impoverishing forest resources for the fu- ture? '

Furnace Shell llama

A few lvocits ago Ottawa announced a rebate would be. given of the 10 per cent sales tax levied on gas and oil furnaces bought since September, 1951. This was as a result of a tax ruling which held the tax had been improperly collected. The furnaces were supposed to be tax exempt.

Naturally, purchasers of furnaces have been seeking the rebate. After all, they were the ones who paid thc tax. But they have encountered difficulty. According to the Windsor Star. some in the trade now argue there will be no rebate; that manufacturers have no rebate coming to them from the Government and cannot get it to pass along to the purchasers.

”This has gone on long enough," com- ments the Star. ”It, is up to Ottawa to clarify the situation once and. fol' l-Either there is a rebate, or there isn't. If there is. purchasers are entitled to it

though thcrc,may be no law to compel it, If there isnil, the tradcl

being given them. -retailers, wholesalers and manufacturer.-: -is put. in an unfair position. It resembles

the old-fashioned shell game, with every-'

one trying to find what shell holds the pea -in this instance, the rebate. This is too important an issue for the Government-- or anybody else----to play tricks with pur- chasers as the innocent victims." '"'

Fiscal Survey Proposed

Perhaps all the Provinces would benefit

by an early fiscal survey of the Dominion-

by a reconstituted economic committee. This is the proposal advanced by Premier Frost of Ontario and strongly supported by the Globe and Mail, which argues the need for a new definition of taxing juris- dictions and responsibility for expenditures as between the three levels of government. Without this reform. it predicts, Ottawa's spending budget will grow fatter and fat- ter, while the lesser governments are left in the position of adding their additional burdens on the same taxpayers.

The growing bulk of aggregate pro. vinclal budyts in Canada is approaching dangerous roportions, says our Toronto" contemporary. The major increases in every Province arise from the necessity of pro- viding services for expansion in every field from the production of raw material to the marketing of finished products -and the creation of new -residential areas. The big problem is to provide these services from

they

'all.i

and the public encouraged to support it. I O O

In Alberta a man dug carrots from his garden throughout the past winter- even lgrees below zero. lplaced 8. layer of straw over the carrot, zbeds just before freeze-up and the roots istayed fresh and juicy.

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Apparently Islanders and tourists will 1have to put up with only two ferries on ,the Wood Islands-Caribou route until the new boat is built by the Federal Govern- iment. Until that time present facilities will certainly may well be unable to carry all the traf-

fic offering. Q 0 O I

was declared invalid by the Supreme Court l”which did not have the interests 9f the lfarmers at heart" is unfair to our judi- ; cature. llaw and not according to the attitude of ijudges towards the parties. 0 0 I Traffic violation penalties are definite- ;ly a cost to the community as well as to lthe defaulting driver lrecently by Chief MacArthur, recently i when reviewing violations in Charlottetown ,for the past month. It is certainly far more desirable to safeguard life and pro- perty on the streets than collect fines for risking them.

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Statistics are notoriously misleading but census figures indicate that in Prince Edward Island the man is more apt to wear the pants in the family than else- where. At least the proportion of auto- imobiles owned, compared with vacuum lcleaners, is higher here than in the other

I Provinces.

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,l India and the United Nations have signed the largest technical assistance lagreement yet reached between the world organization and any single country, the UN has announced. The agreement provides for sending 20 experts to help India in a broad field of industrial development. No figures on the financing of the project i were mentionedf

Hon. A. W. Matheson appears to have been quite justified in pointing out in the Legislature last week that it was the Legis- lature as a body, and not the Government, which was responsible for disallowing the request of the City Council for higher val- uation on motor cars for taxation pur- poses. Members of the Government, of course, are also members of the Legis- lature, but in this case there was no ques- tion of Government policy involved.

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John Stow, English antlquary and chronlcler. died this date 1605. He was a London tailor who had a lifelong passion for antiquarianxesearch and the writing of history. Though honoured for his work, he remained poor, in fact received patents to take gifts from James 1. He is best reihembered for his "Survey of Lon- don". A new quill pen is still placed an- nually in the hand of his statue.

municipalities the entire onus falls on pro- '

THE GUARDIAN.

CHARDOTTETOWN

Nightmares

enquiries as to why the bus service to ---1:-m-:1

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when the temperature. was 45 de-, S,r,gMm Ruhamh sch,m,e;d It was quite simple. He ll-'rank's splendid articles on her

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be taxed to capacity, and the. Russian people

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Cases must be decided upon tlielmat

35 W35 Imlnted out irlr-al. He suffered deeply under

.cr-ntury and A half was the fore-

tits inntions and lrfdividllnis will have

PUBLIC FORUM

This column II open to thc discussion by um pendent: of questions of interest. The Guardian does not nccessar Ily cndoi-so the opinion of correspondents.

ONE IVORL-D 0!! --V

journey to Russia are very in- l(-resting. Mrs. Frank is a rui- tured lady and her humane feel- ing for it people long-suffering is quite understandable. Foreigners are highly privileged if there are indeed any who see the least traveled places in a" vast country where the heavens like an um- brella covering grey and empty spread out it seems into an etern- ity of space in all directions. Spengler called it the drowsy Inw-lying sky cnnnpy which made fatalisls. The destiny which Stalin had promised was far removed from what Dosloevskl had seen in his dreams. The latter's future state would have a moral basis and

l The comment that the Marketing Act would be held together by broth- '

crly love. Dostoevski was how- ever more than a dreamer. He knew that it was not the form df government that was In be condemned. VVhat mattered was any government should violate. human and moral ri hts; that father and son should be robbed of their peaceful homes and their fireside prayers: mil- lions of them to foil and starve and rot in inhumane bondage. Dostoevski did not live to wit- lwss the Soviet betrayal of his

the tsars and so unforseen was the magnitude, severity and de- pravity at Soviet prisons, unequal- led in the annals of history. Dos- lorvski was onr- of Russia's meat- :-st novelists. His fame was world- uirlo during thc third quarter of thr- 19th century. In 1866 was published his ('rimo and Punish- mrnt. Dnstoevski had studied forrlgn literature and particular- ly history and of course had read Grntius' writings. 3

Grotius was unusually talented. lie received his law degree when hr was 15 years old. Bctwccni 162:”) and 1631 was published in Paris his De Jnrr Belll ac I'ncII ion the Law of War and PPRt'cl. This was the first definitive text on mternaztlonol law and for a

most. authority consulted. One of fundamental tr-nets was that

In observe the rules of natural law in their relations to other nations and individuals and to one altollv-r if peace is to he pre- scrvcd. But a new order that Grnt.ins' view did not encompass was taking shape in the last years of the will century. After the First World War strong efforts were made to pre- vent. another war. After the Second World War the object was to make nkgressivc war A crime. Today, control of crime has hccomc a necessity of neigh- hnrly relations among nations. There are growing demands forl R sovereignty-in-lnw to deal with,

international crime. The ideal, presuppose: moral justice. The World Court and its successor,

the International Court. of Justice. hnvn moved toward but have not attain:-ti the necessary safe-guards In International relations.

During the First World War. Mr. Walter Llppmann was Uni-' ted Stair-A Assistant Secretary of War. Mr. Llppmnnn is n Hal-vnrdi; graduate, served on the editorial staff of the New York World from 1921 to 1931. and has writ- ten several books. In lull The Cold War (19l7)l Ind in his col- umn ln the New York Herald Tribune he develops a thesis that goon something like this:

Today we are our hfOiilOl"l keeper: world unity hnl made it so: wherever llbcrty II threaten- od our liberty is threatened. This throat cornea mainly from three sources:

(1) Countries wherein there In A one-party dictatorship and in which any other party in outlaw-

ed as a crime against the State.

POTTEWS Wl'lEEu

Held lightly in my hands, this sub- stance scams

The least, of all imagined things, to.be .

The stuff of which men fashion fragile clreanui-

How strange. this is the Sesame

To all that feeds the hunger un- fulfilled

Open

By bread. the man's need , self-expression; pure-distilled And tangible. the can read of impulses to splendor heart. This subslaiice.

inner urging of

For ponicthlng

doubting world

in his

can be anything . . . may

Bc everything! And slowly my hhnds start

To fashion beauty from this yield- ing clayig

-Bonnie Elizabeth Parker.

It does not matter that the great majority all the people do not. at their free will collaborate.

(2) Countries carrying out an aggressive policy in suppressing liberties and threatening world peace.

(3) Improper control of chem- ical and germ warfare, atomic and hydrogen bombs, and other unthought of horrors of warfare.

These threats must be regarded as criminal in their nature and so the responsibility Jar crime should be placed on individuals. Why should non-free citizens be penalized in any manner for crimes in which they did not freely collaborate?

Since the beginning of the 20th century A New Order has been ushered into world affairs-it World Order the like of which was never known before. It. ill on order which imposes on in- tot-national law a task the like of which never occurred in the past. The growth nf science, industry and social relations on a ,world scale has brought mankind into one family of nations depending on the good-will of each of its members. With the atomic and hydrogen bombs and other ter- rlhle forces of nature which scl- encc will in the future unleash for men's use or destruction: with those terrible realities facing us God alone knows the outcome. Without. the moral factors that strengthen the fabric of world plans, One World planning will not avert Armageddon.

I am, Sir. etc., J. P. McCLOSKEY Cornwall, P. E. I.

V Old Charlottetown in, an r. I. I. 1

CANDl'DA'.l'E'S srxrmnuou

.From I letter signed Mungo MacFarlane, Five Mile House, to Mr. James Robertson, chairman of a meeung of elector: held on the 2nd May, 1842, appearing in the Colonial Herald, May 14 that year:

"In conformity with my verbal acceptance of the propositions made to me by the meeting of which you were Chairman, I have now to state. that I agree to stand at the ensuing Election as one of the Candidates for the First District of Queen's County -and I hereby take the Pledge, as contained in the Resolution: of that meeting.

"At the same time I must ob- serve, that if the liberal Candl- dates do not uniformly take the pledxc. I am not to be bound thereby; and this I do. n t as though I would assume the riv- liege of altering my conduct but because I think. if any 0 the liberal Candidates in to be received without being pledged, I have an equal right; for I must say, that it did not sound well to hear some in the last House boasting that they had not taken the pledge, and would not take it.

though they were as liberal as those who had. "In regard to myself, I thank

my Constituents for the mark of their confidence, in returning me last Election; but were I to con- sult merely my own feelings. I would not again come forward an a Candidate, knowing that, how- ever resolute I may be in adher- ing to the principles I profess. I have not troubled the House with many arguments in support of my views, and would not have often interposed. had there been less personalities in the debates than there were. As, however, my neighbours call on me, I will go: and if I cannot. say much in public, you shall find that I will vote right, which is. perhaps, more than can be said for some good speakers whom you had formerly sent."

(The pledge to which Mr. Mac- Fnrlane referred. and which he was "asked to take unequivocally. was couched in the following terms: "That if returned a Mom- ber of the House of Assembly of this Island. at the ensuing Elec- tion, I will use all my influence, and endeavour by every constitu- tlonal means in my power to re- dress the oppressive gricvancca which operate against Agricultur- istu of this Colony: that I will use my best endeavours to cause the Wilderness Lands of the Is- land to be disposed of as in the neighbouring British Colonies; and being fully convinced that an additional Assessment thereon will not effect the on. and long pray- ed for redress, I will oppose the same in Legislation. That. I will use my best efforts to cause the

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Aooonllng In 'nuabu count. thcjtnnhh cabinet is ptcpuing a proposal for A new luv which would provide free medical can for government. officials who long

ullrlcs,-Flnlcndin.

Almost lnurlahly Sunday weath- er gets batter during the day. when spring an-ivu. It is oftcn too bad for attending morning church ser- vice. but by three in the after- noon it has improved enough for golfing and pleasure .1-id-ing. -

The. highway: all your. round take 3. heavy toll in life. the deep dangerous wutcrs in the summer time takes a. big toll, too. what. has be V most appal- ling. however. ever since cold weather set in lut. Autumn. has been the loss of. life in fires all throughout Canada. The un- answerable question, it would seam, is what can be done about it? - St. Catharines Standard -Writer of I lcttor in the Tele- gram culls Cmudim football "aerial inns pong". The English game has also had its detractors. Sir Thomas Elyot. in the time of Henry VIII declared it "nothing but beastly fury and extreme vio- lence, whereof procccdeth mute

and sequcntly rnncour and malicedo remaync with them that be wounded." -- Toronto Tcle.

gram

We urge Alderman not to dis- continuc the City Oouncil broad. cutc inuugrusted this week by two local radio stations. Not. yet. Our csson for wishing the broad- casts to continue is the very one that Aldermen give for proposing to stop them. Aldcrmcn who listen to the taped recordings are horrifi- ed to learn how dull and repetit-

Fishciy Reserve: to be thrown open, for the use of all British fishermen, reserving the equitable claim thereto to such u have made improvement: on the same; and the wrongs done to the Loy- allsts of this Island I will en- deavour to remedy; and lastly will preserve unimpaired, as re- gnrds the qualifications of Elec- ortl and Candidates, the popular right of Representation in Colon- ial Parliament, as now establish- ed by Law.")

The Age-Old Story

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Know yo not. that so many of us as were hsptlzed into Jesus Christ were baptised into his death? . . . Now it we be dead with Christ. we hollavo that we shall also live with him: know- ing that Christ hcing raised from the dead dleth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died. he died unto sin once: but in that ho liveth, he livoth unto God. Likewise reckon yo also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but nllvo unto God through locus Christ

ii xhlotes .BytThe Waxr.

have been dissatisfied with their um

loin their mcgun , . Aldermen certainly i:...i5”,ii,, iiiafl "10 V0?-ill! rulio Illdlence to mm out Whit. really go” on M C,

run. It might cure some 0; ,,,',i - ' ml bumbling it ,...,c,, councillor knew thc: his om,

contributions to mtecnul; we-.5" be broadcast. To the extent iii: my improvement: could be non... the radio stations could claim ' have done c public .,n.,ce i” Vancouver sun ' "I ...Thc ac. Thoh.i:s- d ,

srlnes editors appeal:-ntos:,'”,?li:;i dulged in some unltcur beeolo . luv summer, and with "mi! amazing results. Their ram; .5; -9eDamtely' announced findm

are identical, to wit: ".A.bou;';,R,' 000 bees must. visit at least at aoo.ooo flowers in the com... 0, ; dly to produce a pound of hour" The "about." ma --.; ,,u,.. ml-

indicate that an. some poi... ,,, H" cmivuhtloii the count became lrkm some and they threw in . M, 0; guesswork-but it. only make. ,-M

coincidence all the more remuk.

able. - T. D. F. in Ottawa Citizen

Ah. Spring! What if Richard Gnrnctt did My back in 1876-and what if it's still true- that Zhg weather "gets through more but. ness in spring than in my on-,5,- lellon; in VP-Till I have counted one hundred and thiftyuglx mg. ferent kinds of weather inside of twenty-dour hours"? What it Henry Van Dykc noted gloomily that. "the first day of spring in one thing, and the first spring day is another; the difference bg. twccn them is sometimes u nug- u 1 month?" Throw Bsrtlctth Familiar Quotations out the win- dow. Let it rain, let. it sleet, let. it mow. It-'8 Sllflntv---Hamlltoll spectator

It is claimed, by those who are supposed to know, that the reason women park cars so poorly is be. cause they are all bound up by tight articles of attire, and have dlfficultydn turning around. The other day. while walking Along Russell street, cut, a woman in I car (did not know her) asked us if we would watch" and guide her whlle she parked. She said: "if I get another dent in 3 fender I'll be afraid to go home. My hus- band will go completely mm." Should be stated that men often park cars poorly, too. and cannot blame it on tight. attire - just inefficiency. -- ismlohs Falls Re- cord-Newa ..

If the con; spar:-ow'c con; in soon lost. among the other voices of spring, for 3 little while it alone lifts the heart. and he who has taken it in and allowed the notes to play through his mind possesses I thing that cannot. be seen, handled weighed or measur- ed, and yet. has value beyond price. Omithologista, in an effort to givt this music more substance, have attempted to write down the notes in 3 form intended to be morn understandable. and they have even recorded this spurrowu song so that it. can be played back at. will. But. none of this has managed to destroy the simple beauty of that small voice or to make it less valuable; it is still fragile and at the same time lndstructiblc. -

our Lord.

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