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PAGE EUR THE GUARDIAN

Authorired no Second Club nun Post Office Depnrlrnonl. Ottawa. The Inland Guardian Publinialnu Co.

Editor and llluuzlng Director. In A. Burnett. Anoclnu Editor. Funk Wilker-

CIRCULATION "Coven Prince Edward Inland like the door"

"Tho strongest memory is weaker than the weakest ink”.

CHABLOTTETOWN MONDAY. OCT. :6, 1953 Preventable Blindness

According to the Canadian National In- ititute for the Blind, 50 per cent of all Jlindness is preventable and that organiza- zion, many of whose members have them- selves been deprived of sight, devotes con- siderable effort towards the saving of sight. Their efforts may well prevent some of those now being canvassed for aid from joining the ranks of the blind.

The major task of the Institute, of coui'se, is to assist those who have lost their sight in making necessary adjust- ments to life without that faculty, to con- vince one another of the fact that their re- maining faculties can be developed to com- pcnsate or more than compensate for the loss of one. Just as a civilian must be re-educated to the skills of military life or the soldier to those of peace-time living, those deprived of sight must be given the opportunity of learning to live and make A living in darkness.

The various programmes cost money, although little enough compared with mili- tary and educational budgets. In this Prov- ince the objective is STOOO to provide the services needed to enable 162 blind people to be self-supporting and give them some- thing like equal opportunities for recreation and self-improvement. If their efforts to prevent blindness saved even one person's sight he or she would consider the whole amount a worth-while investment.

-ilanada Pays Why-0,

Canada has paid the United States some S37,000,000 to cover the costs of maintain- ing Canadian Army units in the United States command in Korea, it is revealed in Ottawa. The payments are up to June of 1953, leaving the relatively short period be- tween then and the armistice to be account- ed for. ,

What the United States did was supply Canadian forces with ammunition, food, gasoline, medical services and various items of equipment. Canada, in turn, agreed to pay a per cliem rate per man. This rate was variable, but most recently it has been 155.28. It would have been an impossible task to make an exact footing for every man of the 14. nations whose force the United States was helping to supply. Thus the av- erage was used.

Canada, Ottawa reports, has been very much satisfied with the arrangement. At times there has been thought that the per diem per man seemed high, but every item received careful scrutiny by the Canadian Department of National Defence. And when a complaint could be justified. it was brought to the U. S. attention and prompt- ly remedied.

Part of the program involved training :if Canadian forces at U. S. Army bases. One of these was Fort Lewis, Wash., at the beginning of the war. In the light of the tremendous fighting by Canadians in Korea, this training was successful, to understate the case.

A Shared Inheritance

A bronze plaque was recently un- veiled at Edinburgh Castle by Hon. Angus I3. Macdonald, Premier of Nova Scotia. It marks the location where long ago King James VI of Scotland em- powered certain Scottish baronets to take polsesslon of lands in what was then ti. new colony and is today the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. The lands were here simply for the taking although they were the native hunting haunts of North American Indians. '

Today, notds the Sydney Post-Record, the story of the Nova Scotia barons seems more than anything else like a fragment of parchment from the past, having to do with feudal days and ways no longer figuring in the drama of Nova Scotian life. The lands so royally bestowed by a sovereign, upon his loyal liege lords,-were long since taken over the soli- from which they cut away the forest growth that

extended from the summits of the hills to the verge of the sea.

' now a plaque upon an ancient wall

I ,ccrnmemorates a picturesque episode of his-

" story that probably beguues the any more Scots in Scotland, who today i Scott; baronets by inheritance L Nova Scotian lands A mon- thcir iforbeors. ; ' u- jlnvelled at Edinburg And"thev token of more not-ovcntt thnt in fuel!

NW

ies," says the Post-Record. "What matters most are the ties that bind in the living moment and are expressed in the songs and stories shared in common by every day people on both sides of the Atlantic, who share together a Scottish inheritance not of land but of the spirit as well as of race."

llural Electrification on The Prairies

By the end of 1953, electricity wili.be in use on approximately 80,000 prairie farms, or something less than one-third of the total., These include approximately 39,- 000 farms in Manitoba, 18,000 in Saskatch- ewan, and 23,500 in Alberta. Though slow to begin, progress in all three provinces at the present time is reasonably satisfactory. Saskatchewan was the last to initiate a rural electrification program, but is aiming at approximately 6,500 new farm services per year. Alberta is electrifying farms at

in three more years, both provinces will ap- proximate Manitoba's present total. "Experience with rural electrification has been much the same everywhere," says The Country Guide. "Preliminary estimates of the amount of electricity used are soon outrun. The tendency is to use about two- thirds of the total kilowatt hours, in the home, and the balance for productive.farm enterprises. Evidence is accumulating, how-' ever, that these proportions might well be reversed in the course of time, especially in areas of diversified agriculture. Elec- trical energy on Canadian farms is low-cost labor. As such, it is an economical method of reducing the amount of back work in farfning, while at the same time adding materially to the comfort and convenience of farm living. For a natural force which not even the physicists seem to fully un- derstand, it possesses one outstanding vir- tue not always creditable to human beings: it improves on acquaintance, and as its versatility is more fully appreciated.”

In Canada since the close of World War II the production of electrical energy, -in terms of kilowatt hours, has increased by more than 50 per cent, according to a re- cent business review by the Banklof Mont- real. At the end of 1952 there was develop- ed generating capacity amountingto 15.7 million horsepower, or more than one horsepower for each Canadian. While our gross national production in 1938-39 dollars was increasing from 339.3 billion in 1045, to lS11.5 billion in 1952, our electrical pow- er production was going up from 40.1 bil- lion kilowatt hours to 61.7 billion kwh.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Today-the R. C. A. F. Station at Sum- merside goes operational. No sudden change will be observed because of its alt- ered status but already changes have com- menced and will- be carried further. The advantages of location and weather which helped Training Command to maintain a very high standard of instruction will con- tinue to benefit training and operational work of Maritime Air Command and the Fleet Air Arm.

Georges Jaques Danton. "the Titan of the French Revolution," was bornthisldate 1759. A prosperous Parisian lawyer, he took little part in the early stages of the Revolution but in 1792 was appointed min- ister of justice. From then his personality looms large in events. He founded the Cor-

of the original members of the Committee of Public Safety and in 1793 created the revolutionary tribunal. a body which a year later ordered his execution.

Rebinding of the Book of Kells, the finest of the Irish illuminated manuscripts which consists of a copy of the Four Gos- pels written in Latin about the year 800, will probably be completed by the middle of next month, according to an Irish gov- ernment release. By then the original single volume, comprising 340 leaves, will have become four distinct volumes which will, of course, be kept carefully together as a unit. Each volume will contain one of the four Gospels. The first volume (St. Matthew) will comprise about 128 leaves; St. Mark will have 50; St. Luke about 100; and St. John about 50.

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' The Speaker of the South African As- sembly has given a ruling on the type of discussion on the Courts that could take place in Parliament. He ruled thatialthough the House had to accept the correctness of the decisions of the courts of law, the Gov- 'ernment of the day might introduce legis- lation to vary the consequences of these decisions. When such legislation was before it, Parliament had to. take cognisance of the decisions concerned and members could freely discuss their consequences. They could not, however, question thetcorrectnell or equity of such decisions. It would acorn that the South African Parliament accepts the same principles on this matter as do

the United States. although

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PUBLIC FORUM

Thin column in open to the dlocuulon by wrrupondentr of queltlono of interest. The Guardian does not necelllh fly and tho opinion of oorrenpondentn.

ROCKY POINT FERRY

Sir,-Now, at last it has hap- pened! What has been dreaded and feared for some time by the Rocky Point residents is now a grim reality. I

When the ferry Falrview went aground on Friday morning last off Pnoli's wharf and subsequent- ly developed A serious leak with of course no immediate prospect of n resumption of service. the South Shore and Rocky P0111: people as well I! those in ad- jacent districts were left com- pletely istranded with no alterna- tive nuw but to make their way as best they can ever a twenty- five mile stretch of groadg to transact their business in Char- lottetown. A portion of this road is now under construction as part of the Trans-Canada Highway and might become almost impassable should heavy and sustained 1811 rains occur. ,

Not all ah equipped with late model cars or trucks which can be depended on to make this long trip over an indefinite period.

Some even have to depend on "old Dobbin" at times. and as one luckless resident of Rocky Point (caught on the Fairview Frlda,V morning with A horse and truck

wagon) can testify. me "ill around the road IS. one that neither horse nor driver would

care to repeat.

It has been very hard in under- stand the continued 1ndiHCF0HC0 of the present Premier to repeal.- ed urglngs to have the Trans- Cnnada Highway come

lottetown treniendously, and even- tually brlng the benefit of a.bus service which would esPi'Ch'ill.V accommodate those not fortunate enough to own their own means of transportation. I g ' We feel sure that. the niaJ0F1l.V of right-thlnklnlz people it-Kurd " road through their section as :1 completely feasible and dcsirahlt project. Surely this catastroplgr M me 1:5”-View will arouse pu- llc opinion to such an extent. HIM the Government can no longer ignore the wishes and lust Claims of these long-suffering residents of the South Shore. ,

In the meantime. "19 hi” We can hope .for is the doubtful ser- vice of a small motonboat on the Rocky Point run. UMI1 5"" "ll" becomes too hazardous as tbhe weather grows coldtr "mi '99 91 gins to form on the harbor.

1 , Si etc. 0 t '"" r sciuu. New Dominion.

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pl AUTUMN cannon I I There ll Aomethlng ln.i.he autum

Touch of manner, hint of mood: And my heart is like a. rhyme

Iluke me like I cry of buglen,golng.by, , And my lonely qlrlt thrills To see the ff-only utera like make tupon the hills.

There in something in October lets the glpoy blood utir;

We must riu Ahd follow her;

when from every hill and flame

sbo coin and cello cub voubond tynonio. '

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.

Visitors to the Port of London are usually impreued by the vast scale of the undertaking and often astonished at the complexity of life behind the dock cater; but even those who spend their work- ing lives in dockland may be sur- prised when confronted by some of the more unusal operations which the specialists any out.

some of these peculiar rites cloak-their real natures under commonplace name: while others are labelled with strange technical jargon.

chairing and chaining. sticking and stabbing have no cloak-and- dagger significance, but denote pro- cesses carried out on everyday corn- moditles for purely bcneficent. ends. Such terms as shocking and making overtnkers, on the other hand. suggest esoteric mysteries understood only by the initiated.

The wine and spirit trade. one of the oldest and most tradition- bound in the Port, is thick with mysteries and technical '"cant.' When the cooper taps cask: to test by ear their full and sound con- dition, very much as the railway wheel-tapper works, he is "sound- ing out." When he pours or pumps liquor from one cask to another the operation goes by the technical name of "racking."

"Finlng and bagging the lees" might be worth trying on A "quiz" tenm.' Finlng is the processiof treating -wine with R. preparation usually based on islnglass which has the effect of precipitating the srspcnded impurities, leaving the wine fine And bright, "Begging the the lees" simply means putting the precipitated dress into a,oone- shaped bag for the last of the wine to Iiraln out.

The expressions of "fortlfying" nnd "brandylng" mav convey to the layman an unduley rose im- nresslan of life in the wine vaults. it should be made clear that they refer to operations carried out on the liquor and not,the consumer.

The Schedule of Rates and Charges makes mention of color- ing. sweetnlng and tasting, These terms mean just-what they say, for the wines and spirits Aregsome- times artlflcally colored and sweet- ened on the merchant's instruct- ions. and tasting orders are issued for sampling purposes.

On the other hand, coloring cig- ars means something quite differ- ent. Here there is no question of adding pigment. but. rather of sorting the cigars to their differ- ant shades of color which ranges from claro (light) to dolorada rtrom the Spanish word coiouredi. manning dark. '

The connection between lengths of heavy iron chain and the vin- i.er'A trade may seem remote. but the "chaining" of cask; in often carried out. It consists of cleaning on the inside of the empty cooks by ailing them up and down with a chain inside in order to scour the stoves and heading. .

"shooklnn" cash is the operat- ion of taking the hoops off. rep- amting the stave: and pieces of ” ” - and packing them All up into a neat bundle. This saves shipping space and is commonly carried out. on Annoy butts There are normally Ihippod full of mar- ry from Spain and sent. back Ahooked five times before they are considered to have earned honour- Ablo retirlmont to Bcotllnd for use ll mm ontnlnern.

One cou fill pager wlthide- Aorlptlona of All the ni:ronn-Iound-

' in: operations performed on cukn

by the Authority: mama. Flau- fng, ulmr-hooking, driving and lllnjlna-up no the every Ac- tivltiu in the nhadowy of the wine vnuite. some; it In -to say that the cooper driven or tight.- onr up the hoop: on I'll-Dlllldllr can. octave. ploo,or.boubood And then fine the hooprln petition by harbouring In con Jr ,

nu.rAIuI' Ilka-3.-niupnd, ,

An operation

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Odd Operations

by J. P. Jones V('l'he P. L. A. Monthly)

on the practice which has long been classed as luegai.

spirituous liquors, however, do not have a monopoly of interest- ing operations. Indeed, many com- nodlties, especially finegoods,hAve their peculiar processes and mys- teries. Few outside the ranks of those who handle leaf tobacco know what is meant by making an overtaker. An overtaker is A small subsidiary package made up from part of the parent bale or hogshead. The tobacco packed in the overtaker usualy consists of I selection of leaf which is thrown off as being not quite up to the perfect condition. of the original. Specialists in all the .arts and sciences Are often accused of hid- in: the nature of their activities under a misleading jargon. the tobacco man, garbling, implies just the opposite to .i.he commonplace meaning of the word. Garbllng tobacco in not a mixing-up process but the sep- arating of the damaged leaf from the sound. In this use of the word the tobacco man is correct and the man in the street is wrong, for garble is derived from an Arabic word meaning to gift or separate.

When the contents of A chest of tea are turned out for taring iWPiiZhing the empty chest) or bulking (mixinlz the contents of A number of chests to ensure a uniform parcel), some difficulty may be experienced in packing all the tea back into the chest. The tea may then have to be "trad. den in" and the surprising spec- tacle may be witnessed of A gang of men, with their feet covered with cloths, treading down the tea with A rhythmical stamping movement. To lend colour to this strange rite. the men have the picturesque habit of donning funny hats made of tinfoil for the core- mony. As far as is known the Attention of the Folk Dance So- ciety has not been drawn to this performance. -

Turing or finding this weight nf the empty package is. generally speakinz. a commonplace atlon. but when it is applied to Clxars it is carried in an amazing degree of precision not usually as. sociated with a docker”s work. It may and often does involve the weighing of straw nfbuthpleces and small squares of tissue paper on an apoi.liecary's scale to one thousandth of A pound And the subsequent conversion of the three places iof decimals to pounds and ounces. When-it is realised that to do this it is first ry la

.r;Note's Bx ' .

lnmontu that educational TV pro- lronu are making little-headway. May we ruuent that they trime- sentinz An hour of no sound And no picture during which "the kids "can read a. book?-Hamilton spec-

i Forty years An it wn unusnnl to rec an Adult person who had lboen born in the West. It was A country of people who had come from the East And the south and from overseas to nuke new homes here. Forty years has made a considerable difference. Western- born pie today probably out- number those who come from other parts and the young settlers of forty years Ago are new elderly men And women.-Red Deer Advocnte.

People have I univorui dislike for snoops, but there is widespread acclaim for the policy at work in Sudbury, Ont, where A group of seventy-five "T-Men" Act through- out the city as traffic violation

. A ........m;. in nu oniua suufmen

oqroneiz .. 26. 1952

The Wax.L”

in A vital new spirit,

the country.-Hnmllto um" r. , '

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Connornblp in usually IQ3oclau with Xvnr-time when it is an u; hnppypnecesalty, but I" town Cour all in Britain has introduced i pence-time An original form . this control--it has decided , censor cemetery cpitaphs. in though, at first glance. this lna seem high-handed and An m trualan into the most ncred an solemn privacy of the family there is some justification for 11 In many cemeteries. partlculari very old cries, epitaph: are oftei the subject of mirth, which is un, seemly in such surroundings. un. til I. few years ago there was A; epitaph in I. Christian cemeten in Cnwnpore, India, which read "In memory of the Rev. --a- accidentally shot by his watch. man.” Below was added: "well done then good And faithful sery. ant." Although it was nearly .

century old. it was obliterated my

spotters. They Are anonymous safety-minded citizens who have volunteered to keep their eyes open for reckless driving. Since

ntcd. traffic deaths in sudbury

rent.-st. John Telegraph Journal.

Dr. Boyd Noel, new dean of Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music, ha: been deplorlng the lack of theatres in Canada. in which full-Acnlo opera: could be per- formed. Ho observed that Canada. in turning out hundreds of fine young artists every year. that audiences Are ready And waiting but because of A lack of Airltnblc J "M for performance the Artists take their talents else- where. Dr. Neel'a observations are familiar to Almost every Canadian because major Canadian cities face thin problem. It in proof that

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er timber placed on top of it.

One could go on cataloging peculiar dock jobs-polishing cof- fee, rummaging And restowlng western, cutting and starting grain and no on, but enough for now. For those And many other oper- ations there is Always A special- ist in the Port of London Author- ity's staff, whether sorting fore- man, cooper, sampler or one of those Anything but unskilled docle labourer: who can perform the

the T-Mm system was innugur- .

hnvo been out by eighty-five per I'

decency: cake.-Hamilton spec. ,tai.or. ,

Old Charlottetown (And r. 2. x.)

FIRE FIGHTING UNDER DIFFICULTIIS

won Saturday evening About 1

o'clock the fire bell rang for ward

. This was not correct as Life rm

wan in Ward 3,-an old. uninhabi-

od tenement on the north side of

Hliinborouch Street, north of Hills- borough squue. owned by Mr. Paul Paoll. alarm was given there were no fire engines on hand. A tank in Mr. Lemuel PhliipI' kitchen was ruorted to, and buckets, on the old plnn, were handed from in: tuik to the tenement. on fire. 'I'hlr helped to subdue th; cnme the old Tremont. hand engine, which did some work. The Rollo steam engine wn quartered At Quit-k':

could no t.ime..In fact it had to be repaired at the pump before it could walk. The Sllaby fire engine was station- ed At nlnew pump on the south west. corner of Hillsborouzh Square.

For some time after the

flames. Then

umrp. Prince Street, but rho not to work for I long

"After A. long time the covering

mysteries with skill And dupntch "filo Ago iliii story ii

A: soon A: they were come to so.1...a, they our 1 fire of colic. Speaking of there. and fish laid thereon, and

was out It the ride of the pump to let the nose down. ,H.A.vinz thus succeeded after much hacking with an old axe At. the plank, the suc- tion hoae were lowered, and with I few. ntrokes of the engine. this pump was lucked do-y..1I'lm1, the sllsby wu despntchcd to Quirln pump. By this time the Hook and Ladder Company's hand engine and the bucket: fortunately had the fire under control. It. was ex-

opcr- ,

broad.....Tbis In now the third time that Joan Allowed himself to his dincipleo, Aflor flint ho was risen from the dead. ....x

tlnguinhed before I! o'clock. The house was lowly gutted."

pkoressionuat CARDS

-The Examiner, Dec. 22. 181!

MncPhoo & Trainer II. F. lInr.PIlI.tE. I!.A.. QC. E. SOMZEIILED TRAINOB. ILA.

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' B.A., LLB. lnrrinfor and solicitor

Bnnk of Commerce Building Ci: lottotown Money to Donn

Gordon E. MucMiilan. BoAo. LLo'og -'

nanwrsn, souorron. cu. 154 Prince st. Chnrlottetmvn, mar. 52: '

A. Wnifhon Gander. I.L.B.

BAIBISTEB. COLICITOB. nu. Phillipe Juildlng ll! Grafton Street Money to loan Collection

remove the cigar builds and un- wrap tlie tissue paper and, after the faring, to rewrap the cigar” in its tissue foil and carefully SUD, the band on again, the full

preclated.

Slmpllnx. again. can be A very Ordinary Affair but there Are some unusual refinement: in the oper- ation. It reaches the very peak of prtlrtry when high-trade Turk. lsh tobacco leaf samples Are tied in precisely echelonned array. Many commodities are sampled with An "iron" of hollow section, but some parcels of raw opium are unique in having samples bor- ed out with A brace And bit. '

Timber. too, has it: odd oper- ntlom. A merchnnt may give an order to have his round i' log "chaired." A piece in than lawn off the end of the log to a -depth of About six to twelve inches on an to expose the grain and figure of the wood for better inspection. The niche cut in the end of the log then hu A rough rolembllnco to A chair.

,1: in seem strange thnt A mer- chAnt'I ould ever want his tim- ber Aunlk. but there In n lnld-down charge for this service. The ex- plnnntlon in that certain tlmborn. ouch ll pitch pine. keep butin the water And large quantities are stored for ion: period: in thrfoivn of rnftrflontlng in the dock. To overcome til: dindvnoulo of hov- inptho llil, rlido of.tho wood wet while the upper side in dry and soluble to develop Iurfnoo crn he owner may ccnridor it” incur:-in the expense of hurt

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delicacy of the process can be ap- .

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Frederic A. Large. 9.6.

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