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CIRCULATION

Rh! City -Zone ..... ........... IIHII Trldlng Zone All other

Associate Editor, Frank Walker

"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink."

cnauorrcrown SATURDAY, JULY 22. 1950 .?Z. ..-............ -1 ..-..... Accident Prevention

It is self evident that although compen- sation for injury is most valuable to wage earners and others, the prevention of acci- dents is an even greater service. Insurance benefits, whether paid by private companies or under the Workmen's Compensation Act, do not eliminate the loss of earning capa- city or cost of treatment. They merely dis- tribute the loss widely instead of allowing it to fall on the individual sufferer.

Advertisements published by the Work- men's Compensation Board callaemployersl attention to the necessity of eliminating hazards to safety on pain of being assessed at a higher rate or even of being restrained from carrying on operations until the dan- gerous conditions are remedied.

The provisions of the Act and Regula- tions are an expression of common sense and experience. Each industry sets its own rate by the number and size of claims of its employees, and it would be obviously un- fair that a particular firm should be allow- ed to increase the cost to the entire indus- try by permitting dangerous conditions to exist.

Moncton's Jubilee Moncton, with its modern airport,

sprawling railway shops and road connec- tions from all parts of the Maritime Prov- inces, is one of Canadals busiest centres. Next fortnight it will be busier than ever, when the city's Diamond Jubilee celebra- tions get under way.

Moncton's history goes back really to 1763, when the first settlers landed at what is now Hall's Creek to hew homes for them- selves out of the wilderness. It became in- corporated in pre-Confederation days as a bustling ship-building centre, but when this industry collapsed, Moncton became a ghost town. Confederation, however, em- phasized the districts value as a transporta- tion centre and later, when the railway shopsangi yards weregbuiltwthere, thertorwnls future was assured. In 1875 it was again incorporated and fifteen” years later. was granted full status as a city. Today, its 30,000 inhabitants are seeking room for further expansion, and the Diamond Jubilee celebrations will serve to advertise its pro- gress and development to all Canada.

The programme, which will continue from July 30 to August 12, will include non- denominational religious services, opening ceremonies, Maritime Firemen's Tourna- ment, water follies, vaudeville shows, opera, pageant and a parade of floats in addition to horse racing and other sports. It is an attractive schedule, and comes nicely as a prelude to our own Old Home Week and Provincial Exhibition which opens in Char- lottetown on August 14. These programmes should serve to complement each other, and draw larger numbers than ever before to the Maritimes at this season.

The Strachey "Plot"

When John Strachey was chosen by Prime Minister Attlee to fill the post of Minister of War in the British cabinet, grave misgivings were expressed by social- ists and Conservatives alike as to the wis- dom of the appointment. For Mr. Strachey is known to have been at one time an ar- dent supporter of communism, to which cir- cumstance his books bear unmistakeable if embarrassing testimony.

Recent developments suggest that those misgivings may have been better founded than Mr. Attlee once believed. For, in an address delivered in Colchester, England, War Minister Strachey was reported to have referred to the Schuman plan for the integration of the steel and coal industries of western Europe as a "plot".

Despatches from Moscow suggest that the Kremlin holds somewhat similar views about the Schuman plan. Called on the carpet by the Prime Minister, Mr. Strachey said he had been misrepresented, that the

, word "plot" referred not to the Schuman

plan, but to the tactics of the Opposition in the House of Commons in respect of it. Mr. Attlee accepted his War Minister's word, and the House accepted Mr. Attlee's. There the matter would have rested but for the

- fact that the Press Association produced the - manuscript from. which Mr. Strachey had

qioken. 1110 text of the manuscript left no roomfor doubt that Mr. Strachey had,

. in fact, described the Schuman plan itself

Md0apologiudtetbeHouuofCom- ibrhavlngmlsledhonoraiiiemembers.

And there the matter rests, except for the fact that the whole democratic world now knows not only that Britain's Minister of War was once a communist, but also that he cannot be relied upon to tell the truth. It would be interesting to know by what process of logic Prime Minister Attlee finds himself able to tolerate one of Mr. Strach- ey's uncertain qualities at the helm of Bri- tain's Ministry of War.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Tomorrow, 7th Sunday after Trinity. I I I Hayfever is on the decline in Montreal as a result of the cityls five-year plan to eradicate ragweed-its immediate cause. I O 0 Next month Summerside Y's Men will play Donkey Baseball. The donkeys, let it be clearly understood, are to be imported. I I 0 Tomorrow the Salvation Army observes throughout the world as a day of prayer. Other Christian denominations will no doubt join the Salvationists in praying for a world in travail. I I I The Maritime Fertilizer Council which met here yesterday is to the soil what a medical society is to public health. The aim of each is the perfect health of its charges, but complete success would mean the end of its usefulness. I I I It used to be argued that wealth as well as manpower should be conscripted for na- tional defence. President Truman's propos- ed budget would indicate that wealth is to have a very low draft number in the United States. I O I This is the truly colourful age. In the past colour was rare and the prerogative of royalty and wealth. Today those in even the most modest circumstances need not lack an abundance of it in their homes an garments. ' I O I Banking was once a career offering slow promotion but with the compensation of security, including a pension at the end. Today, with the gap of the war years to be filled, banks everywhere are on the lookout for able youngsters to be slated for an early rise to positions of responsibility. I I I - A movement is on foot to start in Sep- tember an elocution or oratory class for young men to be held in the evenings at Prince of Wales College. It would deal mainly with how to i1old'one's”e'lf ii'i”addr'ess- ing an audience, and the emphasis to be placed on the use of good English. I I I

Napoleon II, Francois, Charles, Joseph, titular Emperor of the French, died this date 1832. He was the son of Napoleon I by his second wife, Marie Louise, Arch- duchess of Austria; he was created "King of Rome" at his birth. After his father's downfall he withdrew to the Austrian Court and lived as Duke of Reichstadt. Dramatist E. Rostand made him the hero of his play L'Aiglon in 1899.

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The joint industrial preparedness for na- tional defence in Great Britain, Canada and the United States has been moved a big step forward by agreement upon unifica- tion of standards of bolts and nuts. In the past, it has not been possible for American and English users of equipment to use Am- erican and English bolts and nuts inter- changeably in replacement parts required. This condition existed because wrenching clearances were not the same for both kinds of parts. Only minor modifications in Am- erican standards will be required to meet dimensions agreed upon by all three partici- pating countries. Canadian manufacturers obtain the most benefit, because in the past they have had to maintain parts stocks con- taining items from both British and Am- erican sources. Now they will need to maintain only one standard stock, except for obsoldscent items.

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It appears the British Government is strongly in favour of the federation of the British West Indies, but does not wish to force the pace for its accomplishment. Vis- count Hall, First Lord of the Admiralty, told the House of Lords it would not ”foist" federation on them. Nor would it encour- age federation so as to force or slow down constitutional progress of the largest in- dividual colonies to that of the slowest mem- bers. Lord Hall was speaking in a debate on a report made by a group called "The Standing Closer Association of the British Caribbean," which Colonial Secretary Creech Jones has recommended to the West Indian legislatures for "serious examination and discussion." The report of the associa- tion proposed linking all the West Indian colonies in a "British Caribbean Federa- tion." The federation would comprise Bar- bados, British Guiana, Britldi Honduras, Jamaica, Antigua, St. Kitta-Nevis, Montser- rat, Trinidad, Grenada, St. Vincent, St." Lu- cia and Dominica. One question that will immediately arise is whether the new Fed- eration will be in the sterling or dollar area.

the GUARDIAN. (THARIHTTETQWN

(And P E. I.) Q

THE HOLEY DOLLAR

The Minutes of the Executive Council of Sept. 22, 1813. contain all that is known officially of the origin of the Prince Edward Is- land "holey dollar". famous among coin collectors. Currency shortage under Lieutenant Governor Smith gave rise to the order recorded in the minutes, which reads as fol- lows:

"All Spanish milled Dollars (pillar and others) to pass for Five Shillings currency. agreeably to the Act of the General As- sembly. Spanish Dollars, limited to the number of One Thousand, to be cut at the Treasury. by having a circular piece taken out of the centre of each; the Dollar so cut to be issued from. and received at the Treasury as One Shilling cur- rency."

Thus from a thousand Spanish silver dollars were made a thous- and shilling pieces and a thous- and five-shilling pieces. Island currency. But it proved easier for the Treasury to multiply money in this manner than to keep unauth- orized persons from doing like- wise. Accordingly on May 7, 1814. at a meeting of Council. the fol- lowing minute was made:

"The circumstance of sundry fraudulent and unprincipled per- sons having presumed to cut num- bers of Dollars. in imitation of those issued:-'f-rom the Treasury: and to circulate the same, being brought before Vthe Board. His Ex- cellency, with the advice of the Board, was pleased to order that a proclamation be issued, stating: That any person or persons who shall be discovered to be guilty of such fraud. and high misdemean- our, shall be prosecuted to the ul- most rigour of the law; and fur- ther stating, that no cut Dollars will be received at the Treasury but such as have been issued from thence."

As a subsequent Council meet- ing, June .14, 1814, the Treasurer was ordered to issue the following notice without delay, to be printed and circulated throughout the Is- land:

"Public notice is hereby given, that I am ready to receive cut Dol- lars. and pieces issued from the Treasury, in consequence of His Excellency the Lieutenant Gov- ernoi-'s proclamation of 24th Sept- ember. 1813, at the rates for which they were issued, and for which purpose attendance will be given at the Court House every Wed- nesday and Saturday, from ten to twelve in the forenoon, until fur- ther notice. Robert Gray, Treas- urer."

the Minutes of Council appears un- der date of August 2. 1814, order- ing : notice to be isued. stating that "the Treasurer's attendance at the Court House. for the purpose 75! exchanging cut Dollars for others, will be discontinued after Wednesday. the 28th September next."

Thus far the official record. Leg- end has it that a canny Charlotte- town shopkeeper, Blrnie by name. discovering that the centre disc had been punched too large and was therefore worth more than a shilling as bullion, collected a goodly supply of these coins and shipped them to London to be melted down. But the ship was never heard from again: and it is supposed that these relics of the Island's unique experiment in our- rency reform lle somewhere in the depths of the Atlantic.

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Refrigeration

SALES and SERVICE Repairs To All Makes

MOTORS

Rewinding and Repairs

ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE Bepairl Pellet Electric PEONE 1464

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Notes From i Another Island

. By "Anson"

LONDON. !:ngland.- Ever since the Labour Party was returned to power at our General Election

this year the Conservatives have

done their best to bring about the

Government's downfall by proper Parliamentary tactics. Time and time again the Socialists have just

managed to maintain their author-

ity in closely contested "divisions," a defeat at many of which may have caused a new Government to

be called for. since the Members of Parlia- ment.-on both sides-are, of

course. the elected representatives of the people of this country it-

may have seemed that the whole

nation was in a state of permanent turmoil; split, indeed. from top 00 bottom. How significant it was. therefore. to see that when real danger threatened in the form of hostilities in Korea, the Parlia- mentary ranks were closed. and the policy which the Government de- cided upon was at. once supported by the Opposition.

No truce, this, between the part- ies. The Government wlll surely be challenged again on any issue which the opposition feels demands a challenge. even whilst the fight- ing in Korea continues. but here surely was a. demonstration of a nation solidly of one opinion about what. is ID be done in a situation of national danger. opinions might differ about the best way of doing what. is to be done but the object

.lve is the same.

This difference of opinion about the means to the end may. and undoubtedly will. cause llvelv scenes in Parliament. but when promised support to the United Nations in resisting Korean aggression, he did not have long to wait to know that he had spoken for the whole country-or as near as makes little difference-and not just for him- self or his own party.

What of the Korean war itself. and what of its impact on us of this island? It seems to me that most. of us are simply doing what comes naturally and, in the ab- sence of instructions to the con-

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what else is there to do? Every- body knows that the situation is fraught with peril. but there have been perilous sltugtiona before; who is to say that his one is worse than others we have knovm? If it is it won't do anybody any good to fret about it.

one is reminded of the Govem- ment sponsored posters which used to appear on our walls during the dark days of World War II. They bore a slogan telling us all to "EE- MENEBER YOU'RE BRI'I'I.SI'I-AND KEEP CODL." If the words them- selves helped us to keep calm, I don't know. At least they became quite well known more as a joke than anything; a joke which. in- cidentally, was revived somewhat lronically during the bitter winter of three years ago when we were ice-bound. short of everything we needed to keep us warm. and the exhortation of would-be humour- ists to us to remember we were British and to keep cool seemed anything but funny.

The news from Korea is studied well as it comes in. The war is very real to those with relatives in the Navy who are fighting out there. and an uncomfortable pot- entiality to others who have some- body nest in the other services in the Far East. It is a matter of great concern to all those who are in uniform themselves. wherever they may be, doing their oerlod of National Sendce training for the recruit quickly learns that the "exigencies of the Service" can be very awkward once he is in.

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There are also many millions of us who, having spent up to six or seven years of our lives in one or other of the services during one- world war. are not especially anx- ious to have another dose. But we don't delude ourselves if we are still of military age. We know well enough that if the fire in Korea spreads to other parts of the world we shall be in it again whether ave like it or not.

As in previous time: when things have looked unpleasant. there are grim Jokes about shaking the moths out of our old uniforms: this may seem to be a sort of fatallsm. but in fact it is probablv a reflection of the ,iokers' wishful thought that it will not come to that in the end. And if the some joke is often heard, it is only be-

MOST EVERY DAY

the newspapers report that Fire has destroyed a Home or Busi-

ness premises. a car victim sues for 510,000, or more. Burglar:

make 35.000 haul. a travel or other accident has happened caus- ing serious injury or death. Adequate Insurance is the only pro- tection against serious losses from such hazards.

We have excellent facilities for effecting all classes of insurance.

Insurance Since 1872. Cfmloteetown - Summon '

Agents Throughout The Province

cause we are rather a nation of wishful thinkers. .

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- Monhgne

DidyoueverthinkhowblgaJobltwonIdbe.if youhadtogotoworkendrebuildandrefnnlshyonr home? Compare that cost with the cost of modern Gomprehenaive Fire Insurance!

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1 Island

1950

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JULY 1?.

Few things please us more than seeing bureaucrats knocked down to size. and that is exactly what. has happened at Summerside. Prlnce Edward Island. where a magistrate has not only refused to enforce regulations made by I provincial bureaucracy, but has also given that bureaucracy a pub- lic tongue-lashing for making them in the first place. If Canada had more magistrates like Magistrate R. S. Hinton, this would be a far better country to live in.

Two years ago. Prince Edward threw prohibition over- board. and enacted I law called the Temperance Act. which pro- vides for government control and sale of liquor. It is administered by a three-mm board called the Temperance 'Commission, which has power. under the act, to make such regulations as it may deem necessary. These regulations do not need to be passed by the Leg- islative Assembly: they are pass- ed by order-in-cou.ncil. and it was by this method that the Temper- ance Commisslon put shaving lo- tion under the same heading, and thus under the same restrictions, as liquor.

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On March ll. I950. the play be- gen. That day. two members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Po- lice marched into a chain store at Summerside. and demanded one bottle of Top Hat bay rum, and one bottle each of the various af- ter-shave lotlom stocked by the store - Aqua Velvs. Palmolive, Woodburyis, Colgatds. etc. Analyz- ing it, they found the bay rum's alcoholic content was 55 per cent: the alcoholic content of the vari- ous after-shave lotions ranged from 4; to 57 per cent.

Accordingly. the store's entire stock of bay rum and after-shave lotion was seized. and the pro- prietors were charged with hav- ing liquor illegally in their pos-

session. Being a corporation. they

were liable under the act to a fine of not less than 31,000. But being a corporation, they also had money enough and courage enough to fight back. They pleaded not guilty and last week at Summerside. Magistrate Hinton upheld them by dismissing the charge.

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Explaining .his decision. the magistrate said the Crown wit- nesses had not proven that the lo- tions seized were liquor. as db fined in the Temperance Act. There was no evidence. he said, as to the taste of the lotions. or whether they were, in fact. cap- able of human consumption. Both the Temperance Act of March, 1948, and the regulations of Oct- ober, l948. specified preparations which could be used as a bever- age or as the ingredient of any beverage. He asked:

"Are alcoholic liquids. which all contain A high Percentage of alco- hol. to be included as liquor with- in the meaning of the Temper-

-ance Act? I think not. These liq-

uids. though drinkable. capable of human consumption, and usable as a beverage in the sense that they

- are pourable down a human throat

and subject to being consumed by swallowing. are not beverages in the fair meaning of the word."

Magistrate I-Iin.tod went on to S!!! "It is indeed a shocking thing to realize that every person in this Province in possession of a bottle of shaving lotion may be charged Wm? IIBVIHK Illelal Possession of Hillier. And it is all the more shocking to realize that this be- came law by virtue of a regulation of a commission. enacted without benefit of discussion by the mem- bers of the Legislature."

Here is the hub of the matter. Whether Aqua Velva. bay rum and the like are alcoholic beverages. is not of any great importance. What is important is the way in which the Temperance Commission pro- nounced them such: and having pronounced them such. had the lmpudence to send Mounted Po- lice around seizing them- from storekeepers. and dragging those

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(From the Calguy Herald)

storekeepers into court. and threat- ening them with enormous lines. 0 e e '

We had expected to see the shaving lotion case quite widow discussed in the Canadian pager; But so far only one. to our know-I ledge..has taken it up. This is The Ottawa Journal, which quite right. ly remarks: "What. we see here is an abrogation by the Legisla. lure of its duties and responsibil. ities. We see a body not elected by the people, and with no direct re. sponsibility to the people, gjypn the power to create laws and to use the legal machinery of the province for their enforcement. lo punish those who break these commission-made rules."

The Journal goes on to say: itThis is a dangerous tendency. by no means confined to Prince Ed. ward Island, and needs to be re. sisted by those who believe in parliamentary government."

True. but how are they Supposed to do the resisting? If the legzsla. tors tamely bow down to gove;-n. ment by order-in-council, that :5 to say. non-parliamentary govern. ment. how can the people be (X. pected to oppose it? Behind ev.-av order-in-council is the full force of the police, and in most cases. the courts.

In any event. we do not believe the majority of Canadians either understand. or care, what is Imp. pening to parliamentary govern. ment. They have become accus- tomed to being governed by or- der-in-council: and their leaders, in turn. have become accuslomcrl to governing by order-in-coun:;'. Parliament is in eclipse. and 111213 liberty is in eclipse. Do the people wish it so? If they dont, they show precious little evidence of it.

IN AN OLD BARN

Tons upon tons fragrant hay

O'erbrims the mow: time-warped eaves.

Up to the rafters where the spider weaves,

Though few files wander hissscr- luded way.

Through a high chink one lonnlv golden ray,

Wherelr: the dust is dancing, slants unstlrred.

In the dry hush light are heard,

Of winter-hidden mice at furtivc

play.

Far down, the cattle in their sha- dowed stalls,

Nose-deep in clover fodder's mea- dow scent, ,

Forget the snows that whelm their pasture streams.

The frost that bites the world be- yond their walls.

Warm housed. they dream of sum- mer, well content

In day-long contemplation of their dreams.

the brown-green

beyond the

some rustlings

Asir Chas. G. D. Roberts

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will The Age-Old Story

Judge not that ye be not judged. For with what Judgment ye Judge, ye shall be Judged; and with what measure ye mate. it shall be mea- sured to you again.

LIGHTED LANES

MONTREAL - (OP) - Clt.V councillor Max Selgler is ram- palgnlng here for lights in city lanes. Seigler says he believes that better lighting at the roar of homes. commercial and Ind'1str '1: premises would not only help re- duce crime. but would actually

prevent night marauders from car- rying out. their robbery pIfli'lS.

PROFESSIONAL CARDS

John P. Nicholson. LLB.

BABBISTER, SOLICITOB. Ito.

in Prince 80., Ch'tow-n PHONE use

Dr. A. L. Maelseee

DENTIST Dental K-lay

GLORIA BUILDINO I'll Grafton St.

Phone III

A. Well-hen Gander. LL.B. '

I J. S. TAYLOR

Optometrist Eyes examined, glasses lit- led

Caner Kent 5. Queen Sis Office Plume I950-llnure lIli.'l

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The Shaving Lotion Case :

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