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THE GUARDIAN

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"Tho Slrongcst Memory is Wcalm than the Weakest Ink"

CIIARLOTTETOWN. nwusoar. FEB. zifiéai ' Highway Service Proposals

The question of co-ordinnting bus, rail and truck transportation under railway management is dealt with in full in the brief submitted by C. N. R. Vice President Robin- son to the Provincial Government and in ti" 2 Governments reply, appearing in today's Guardian.

As indicated by Premier Jones, there tan be no question that the proposed sched- lles ulould mean a decided improvement in railway services in this Province. The Gov- ernment, however, is rightly concerned over the possibility of our eople becoming en- tirely dependent on C. . R. transportation, in the event of local bus and truck oper- ators withdrawing their services.

’[‘here is also the question of iurisdiction as between the Board of Transport Com- missloners and the Public Utilities Commis- sion ol' the Province, the Government being by no means convinced that, in the event of the proposed schedules resulting in the withdrawal of the present services. the sub- stituted schedules would remain subject to the provincial authority. The reference to a parallel case in Ontario, where this issue has been raised by the railways, is very much to the point.

Until this highly technical legal question is resolved, the Government does not feel justified in either accepting or rejecting the C. N. R. proposals. This leaves the next move up to the railway. An obvious way of meeting the difficulty. would be for the railway to make their own arrangements with the private bus and truck operators. This was suggested at the preliminary con- ference by the Government, but it does not appear to meet with railway approval.

Much as our shippers and citizens gener-

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local railway officials at all times, and the present desire of the higher officials to remedy matters, they are decidedly against returning to a condition of raillvay mono- poly over our transportation services. Nor do they want interference from_ any Fed- eral authority in the matter of our roads and highways. Improvement in railway services is much more likely to come through competition than monopoly, as we know from the sorry experience of every Government in this Province since Con- federation in fighting for our transportation rights. I

The Happy Warrior

The Windsor Star remarks that we are witnessing, albeit from a distance, a great warriors last campaign. Win or lose, it is most unlikely that Rt. Hon. Winston Chur- chiH, now seventy-five, will lead the Con-.

. servative Patty in another general election.

This grand old man of Britain, rejected by the British people in 1945 and, in a personal way. in earlier elections more than once during his 50-year political career, is waging a stalwart fight. Age has withered some of the energies of his youth and mid- dle age, but he has thrown himself into the campaign with all the energy he possesses. That is the only way he knows how to fight. Physically he may be weakened, but his spirit is unimpaired.

To date he has not exhibited much of the commanding eloquence that brought him renown. There have been relatively few perorations in his speeches which are peace- time counterparts of his famous wartime passages. This may be because domestic af- fairs never have had the appeal to his im- agination as have international affairs-—pa;f- ticularly during the years of the two World Wars. His emotions always have been more deeply stirred‘ by world problems, and his wondrous usage of words has been a com- bination of great intellectual and emotional Ingredients. And there can be little ques- tion but that his place in history will be de- cided as a world statesman rather than as an English politician.

If he wins this last campaign, he still will be a great influence in international af-

fmn. "If he fails,'he can devote the re-

mctnderof his years'to his writing and to hobbies. ‘ -From the viewpoint of poster- ltyrliil moctlmportsnt contribution in this period maybe his ‘wt-iting'thc of I. period in which he has played pm-amount part. -

vltatlon to visit here this summer and study the scientific production of certified po- tatoes..Mr. Mclvor has inhis constituency, a bachelor farmer who produces 750 bushels to the acre. ‘ - I O O ; The weatherman seemed to take sides with the.striking American. coal miners these last few days. The widespread sub- zero temperatures must have caused a worse hole in supplies than even the pro-' longed three-day week. ‘ O O O Hope springs eternal in the M.P.’s breast. There can have been few successful pro- moters of a Private Member's Bill at Ot- tawa in recent sessions, but still they try against pressure of Government business

and Opposition criticism. I

U.’ S. congressmen are considering whether Marshall Aid should be extended into its third year after 1952. By that time Britain will just be getting on her feet. Oth- er European countries will just be’ getting started on the road back. 0 O 0 Canadian servicemen are being allowed to enter Alaska without U. S. customs for- malities as being “distinguished foreign vis- itors"; With that acknowledgement, all. ranks of the Canadian army should be en- titled to a salute anywhere. I O

I 1 This admonition comes from the Ottawal Journal: “Summerside, in P. E. 1., is cele- brating the inauguration of the dial phone system. Take it easy. You never know how many thumbs you have until you start doing your own dialing. Those pleasant- voiced operators weren't so bad, it seems to

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us. 9 Transport Minister Chevrier emphasized recently that the railways must be ‘free from financial difficulties to “ensure a healthy rail transportation system.” On the other hand there are countless industries which depend for their continued good health on receiving the benefits of low cost,

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To be or not to be, begun this spring, is under discussion at Ottawa in reference to our proposed new Federal Public Building. It is claimed that thoughoccupants have been given notice to quit by April 1, some of the owners have not yet had their claims for settlement adjusted. Delay in be- ginning building operations will affect the unemployment situation in our midst.

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Congratulations are in order to the Scoutmasters who have attained high recog- nition of their services from the Canadian Chief Scout, and the boys who have at- tained distinction and honors in connection with the Navy League essay awards. To. these there may be added Rev. Lawrence E. Toombs, who, though he has not yet con- cluded hls university post graduate career, has been appointed a professor in St. Ste- phen’s College, Edmonton.

O O 0 Sir Edward Williams Elgar, English musical composer, died this date 1934. Was professor of music at Birmingham Uni- versity. His more important compositions include overture “Froissart” (for Worcester ‘Festival 1890), suite, “Scenes from Bavarian Highlands", and short overture, “Lux Christi” 1896; he attracted wide notice with “Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf” given at the Northstaffordshire Festival in 1896; “Caractus” for Leeds Festival, song cycle, “Sea Pictures” for Norwich Festival; in 1900 came his finest work “The Dream of - Gerontius” Norwich Festival for which he was made Mus. Doc. of Cambridge; at a three days’ “Elgar Festival” at Covent Gardens his overture “In The South” was first heard. His other works include “The “Apostles" and “The Kingdom" oratorios. He was knighted in 1904, and received the Order of Merit in 1911. O

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Following drama festivals in the four‘ western provinces, the regional winners were named. British Columbia—The playl “Noah", presented by the Everyman The- atre of Vancouver. Alberta—Woi-kshop 14 of Calgary captured -top place with their] presentation of “The Rivals”. Saskatche-' wan—Thc Canadian Legion Players of Re- gina were named regional winners for theirl production of “Present Laughter.” Mani- toba-—“L’Avare", presented by Winnipeg's‘ Le Cerclc Molierc group, was the Manitoba winner. These regional winners will not.

final festival.

April Q. and. will be based on the report

of the adjudicator, Wrcy.

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‘core of him, he is as

necessarily be invited to compete in thcl Invitations will be ‘extended of it. by western Canada executive members ofl the D. D. F. when they meet in Calgary on’

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CHORUS FROM ‘POMPEY THE ' GREAT‘

Man .is a sacred city. built of ma,-. vel-lous earth.

Life was "lived xwbly hen to give this body birth.

something was in this brain anti in this eager hand.

Death is so dumb and blind, Death cannot und.erstand.

Death drifts the brain with dust and soils the young limbs‘

, glory,

Death makes women a, dream and men 3 travel'er'5 story; Death drives the lovely soul to

wander under the sky. Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die.

—J'oh.u Muafldld.

Keep Lord Alexander

(Ottawa Journal)

Reports persist that Prime Min- tater St. Laurent will ask Lord Alexander to stay in Canada for I second term. As already said in these columns, we trust the re- ports arc true.

Whoever it was thought of Alex- ander sc Governor General in the first place had 1 stroke of inspira- tion; it was something to secure for Rldeau Hall the man who, in the opinion of some, was the finest soldier of World War II. Yet. the thlni mlsht have turned out in- differently, or even badly; great soldiers often are too stiff, some- times too stuffy.

Neither stiff nor stuffy has been Alexander. Just the contrary. Gra- Clmls. simple, a sportsman to the much at home with the common crowd as Wm‘ Pomp and circumstance;

‘makes himself liked by people ha

cause he shows clearly likes them.

Alexander has removed a lot. of the protocol cobwebs from Itldenu "*3": has let the fresh air into it; this without diminishing its dig. nlty. His interest in things and in l'J€‘0l>le has been genuine, not ex. hlbltlunlsm. As a consequence’ we think it true to any that not in 3 generation has any Governor Gen. eral had more of respect and .1. fectlon. ' -

The world being what it is, and the Commonwealth and Cunutlz-1 being what they are, u is worn, Something to have such a GE»;- ernor General, and if It be possible V-0 him: on to him, let‘: do it,

Some there are who think that

that he

[the Governor General should be a

Canadian, this that we might my

‘ourselves of the "last vestiges of

colonialism." We wonder how wise they are: or how patriotic or Cs "' 7 A Canadian as Gov- ernor General wa could have;

lthere is no legal nor other bar to

it. But it ever We do decide to have one, then in the name of common Ienlc let's have him for tea more sensible than that he would rld In of the "vestiges of colonialism." Precisely what. "colon. tsltlm" mum, in this day and un- Efl“°fl. or I! applied to Ccnudl. "I W Gxllfllll state. we don't for the life of us know, though we

lwlth an inferiority complex mu.

qucrcdlng u "nationalism." An um-ultctlc, unworthy, foolish mood. it’: about tlmc we were rid

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Pbbl M. I'U|< U.Vl

This column I: open In the discussion by correspondent: of question: of interact. flu Guardian does not neonat-

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..... ccpoudeuu Sir,—Wb.l1c call-lnz on I friend here reomtlvy I noticed an article by Captain John Read in you: is- suo of the 17th in which he gives his version of how the Memo Polo came to be beached on the North Shore of P. E. 1.. and vdmich seems reasonable enough to any one who has settled in square-rigged ships; but he ovarlooloed two things the Captain of the Marco Polo might: have tried. to save his ship. it. seems he was not acqualin-ted with the North Shore line of the Island. and therefore he should have Llgmaltled for 3 pilot who could have piloted him into some port or harbor for shelter; and as I. last. resort. if he could not obtain a pilot, when he found himself getting in shallow water he could have let go both alnoh-orc, which mum have ,hc_lad ha off share un- til the wind drifted. I am. sir, etc. J. H. DOUCE'I'l'E chalk River, Ont., ('-Fonnerlvy of P. E. I.)

MARCO POLO AGAIN

Beaverbrook's Advice

(Globe and Mail)

Lord Beaverbrook is on sound ground when he writes in his Lon- don Dully Express: -

"The Canadian economic Iitul- tlon can only be satisfied if Bri- tain in her strength, remains the market for Empire produce, on which Canada's farmers depend al- together. . . Canadians have come to realize this to the fullest ex- tent by reason of the very coo- nomlc troubles by which Britain has been beset for the past five yours of Socialist rule.”

An unfortunate combination of circumstances, in addition to Bri- tain‘; economic troubles, has con- trlbuted to the situation which Lord Beaverbrook notes. some of these circumstances have been made in Canndu—speclflcally by our own Government. Our own myopic tinkering with unco-ordln- ated and often mutually destruc- ltlve controls has made worse a situation which was bad enough by reason of Britain‘: postwar Jhorlflfle of dollars.

Our policy of dealing with the war debt of Britain to us also had '1: distinct effect toward worsening our expert situation. Beginning in 1943, the United Kingdom 11:: been repaying non-interest bearing war debts to us at an accelerated rate. The total in 1942 was 87(1).- 000.000. For the three years of 1946-48, lncluclve, repayments to-

Old Charlottetown (And r. E. 1.)

MARKET ACCOMMODATION

"A stranger on entering Queen's Square, and comparing our cost- ly Colonial Building with the Market House. must feel surpris- ed that the representatives of a purely agricultural people should provide such splendid accom- codation for themselves, and ‘leave the sledges of their con- 'stituents to be ‘preyed upon by . hungry cows. and themselves, their wives and daughters, to market their produce without accommoda- l tion or shelter, exposed to drench- ling rains and inclement blasts. In .short. our Market House is I ‘disgrace to both the Island and [its capital, and seems likely to 'continue so, unless some move is made in the matter . . .

“The present Post Office might be made the north wing of 1 building to extend towards Stamp- er’: corner. where another build- ing of similar architecture, form- ing the south wing, would make an excellent warehouse for the Agricultural Society. The space between would cflord ample mu- ket accommodation. The rear of the building should. like the Mar- ket House in other places, have 1 colounde. under w cl: cuts could be backed Inlnct a plat- form. A space further back of sufficient size should be enclosu- ed within which casts or cloth might. be drawn up. A large cel- lar. extending under the whole of the building, would form an cz- cellent bonded warehouse for the Excise Department. while the whole space above the market could be convened into a Town Hall. affording ample room for public meetings, agricultural shows, industrial exhibitions, are. Such is I short and imperfect outline of what your committee consider the market accommoda- tions for the farming population of this Island should be."

—B.eport of the Agricultural

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If research workers are about to endow the average man with the capacity for greater longevity. it is time that the philosophers and the cducatloulsts «provided with quality of mind to endure this long experience in the flesh. and with vacations and hobbies to appear and satisfy this restless and inquiring faculty. -— London Free Press.

George, the bi; male 851130 I‘ the Zoo, Regents’ Park, died last week of old age. He was seven- teen. Bought in Kenya in 1935. George was seventeen feet tall. Rcenlly he had been showing signs of age, and for a few days before his death had not seemed very well, but he became serloiis- ly ill only just before he died. He remained in the Zoo throughout the war and appeared quite un- concerned at the bombing.-—l..on~ don Times. ~

Government Inoopcn seem ‘to be having themselves a time these days, judging from I num- ber of news items picked at run- dom. For instance, in magistrateb court at. St. Catharines, 0111., the other day an 89-year-old man was charged with failing to file in- come tax forms. The income tax people did not even bother to show up in court to present the case for the Crown. Defence couuul promptly termed this "an abuse of the processes of the court." but the magistrate refus- ed to dismiss the charge. Now the aged man must take the trip to count once more, until auto- crats of the income tax branch decide to honor the court with their presence. — Shexbrooko Be- cord.

Even in the larger cities, there an abandoned churches. Many of thcsc originally were situated near the centre of the commun- ity. Industrial or commercial areas developed around them. People moved farther out, and didn't. want to come downtown. Some churches became surround- ell by slum or other undesirable conditions. As cltlu continue to grow. the process which has taken place in rural Ontario will be. and is being, duplicated in cities.‘ The problem then arises as to the disposition of the property. - Windsor Star.

Notoriety has its compensations. The people of Waterloo, for in- stance, didn’t enjoy .t.he-mselves particularly when they found they were snowbound for more than two weeks, but now they are get.- tlng quite a kick out of the ex- perience us they read about them- selves in the numerous newspap- ers which reported on their plight. The same goes for many of the

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Way _ ’ \ people of Southern Alberta. cold has been lnnoying, but that we're almost. used to 1: M.“ getting quite I morbid thrill gm of. it. Remember the Winter 1 1919-50? Why, srangcl-, 1 can ,3 member how -even the icicl- shlvered. -— Lethbridga }1m,1d_°‘-5

The Canadian Broaden Corporation carried an We,“ radio broadcast the other mgr: in which two Labor Party sup. porters and two Opposition pan’

= Eflllled in debate. '11,“ debate was on the subject or u. clallsm and nationalization undu, the Labor government and W... prepared specially for bmadm, to Canada and the United State; Canadian listeners were gem, what surprised at the chum made by the Socialist support,“ who dwelt at some length on 1}“ "splendid recovery" under H“ Labor regime. They were ,m__ prised because the govemmm, -spokesmen never made Q“ slightest reference to the 3.1“, ance given under the Mam,” Aid Plan by the United State; 9, to the aid-given by Canada‘ __ Sudbury Star.

The now

The Alberta Llbcnl Associations decision to ask for 3 camdm 1188. "free from the national 11,. or emblem of any other nation! —in other words, without the un. ion Jack — is frankly incgmpr. hensible. Hit.he.rto. the ammo‘ for abolition of the Union Jack from our flag has come mm}, from voluble groups in Quebec That is Quebec’: own busing. and it must. do u it pleases. But it is no reason why convention: meeting in Calgary, in an nu which is as solidly Anglo-Saxon ll any region in -the count, should insult us with this mud,-,' talk about national feelings whlu; obviously. they do not begin 9. understand. — Calzary Herald.

lvcr’clocp in an Id-fuhlout fea1.her- bed‘! Youngsters 1;}; days probably never heard such I thing. But time was h the earlier days before central heat, spring-filled ma cider-down or electric blankctu, when the feather bed was delum for Winner sleeping. That‘: when. the big houses of yesteryear. thou with 18-foot ceilings dorwustalx and 13-footers upstairs. were but- cd by on old woodburner in In living-room with a "drum" on the pipe running into the up- staim to furnish the only heat in the sleeping region. That's when the sleeping rooms were actually ‘I sort of polar region. Tlufl when feather bed: had real util- ity. Now that all these tandanp led new heating appliances and beds have come into being. the feather bed is on the way to tote the dodo.-Lothbrldgc Herald.

PROFESSIONAL CARDS

3. 131-1. . . , D. I. IIATEIISON, l..II.. LO. Attorney: If law [DANS ON CITY AND ILII PROPERTIES I50 llcbmoncl St. Olilrloflatown. P.l.l

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Soolcrty. for the year “ _, 30th March, 1854. METERS WELL FED BRANDON. Mun. — (OP) -

Parklng meter: on Brandon streets were fed 1.400.000 coins dlurlng the 17-month period ending December 31, 1940. The coin: totalled up to a revenue of 02l.'ltVl.

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tailed $257.000.0UJ. which compar- ed with an estimated export of bacon and eggs by us to Britain, on I cub bails, of $249,000,000.

it Wu during that period that Britain’: dollar shortage became very acute, resulting eventually In last you‘: complete ion of our bncon and on contracts. In than three year: our policy of "enh- on-thc-ban-cl',' for both debt ro- puymhntc and these two food items Wukcncd Bx-min’: dollar polltl by around half a Milton dollcu. M‘t.lIc beginning of this your Britain had an unpaid was debt cc to in of about 83304- cm. is in -collecting that amount won d union the hold of chm two food mm: In the Bri- tllh market without causing I tremor in Canada’: flnuncl|l.Ilt- uctlon. _

The lcnonc ofthc put five years. if con-cctly road. nu-sly must have Ihown both cannula‘ and the United Kingdom ‘that our coo- rlomtcl‘ In complementary to‘ tho extent that cash in nlcntial on be ‘needed In ‘dither: pollclcc ‘should colours , chic‘ it-lulu --hoods, 0”’-1.‘:-ll

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