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PAoEioy3 THE GUARDIAN

-billithorlzed as Second Clan mu rm Offlco Department. Ottawl. - The island Guardian Publishing Co.

Editor and Mzuiagiiil Director. Inn .L Burnett. Anocliito Editor. Fruili Walker.

CIRCULATION "Covers Prince Edward Island like tho dew”

"The strongest memory is weaker than tho weakest inkl".

IIHARLOTTETOWN TUESDAY. SEPT. 8. 1952i

Eek To School

When told that he did not dress as smartly as he did twenty years tigo a man replied that it was strange, because he wore the same clothes. There are citizens who think that Charlottetown has good enough educational facilities because they are much the same as in their youth. This does not-7 apply, of course, to Prince of Wales College. and the Vocational School which are ad- ministered by the Provincial Government. Next year it will not apply to the City schools for the new junior composite high school should then be an accomplished fact.

At the present time, however. at the opening of the Fall tcrm, accommodation is far from adequate. The use of four nearby rooms in connection with Queenls Square School and two for Rochford Square will ease the situation slightly. The pro- posal in place two classes at Prince Street on half-time can only be considered an un- satisfactory stop-gap.

Even if the City were providing its school children with accommodation equal to that available to previous generations, which it is not, there would be small grounds for self-congratulation. Not until the accommodation provided is improved comparably with the general standard of- llving can we even claim to have done our minimum duty to todayls youngsters.

The children going off to school today will give. little thought to these matters. They will be concerned with the other youngsters who will be their classmates and with their own particular teacher. They

' will not be able to compare the lighting, space and facilities available to them with any standards. Parents and citizens, how- ever must make such comparisons and see to it that our children get it fair deal in education.

Diesel iiorn Frequencies

"' When diesel engines made their debut on freight hauls through Northern Ontario forests many fatalities were reported among the moose population. The siren call of the diesel engine horns brought the forest mon- archs to the railway tracks. challenging the right of way with the iron monsters. A learned explanation of this phenomenon has been advanced by Mr. Douglas Gordon, C. N. R. President. Speaking about diesel horns.. Mr. Gordon said:

"The devices should be capable of propa- gating sound waves covering the over-all- frequencies between 200 and 650 cycles per second. No two devices of a group should emit frequencies closer than 20 per cent of each other and at least one of the devices comprising the group should cover the fre- quencies between 400 and 650 cycles per second. The combined sound level should not be less than 105 decibels on the peri- phery of a circle 100 feet in radius."

"1 might add," Mr. Gordon said, ”that we have had reports from some animal lovers to the effect that during-the mating season the bull moose has mistaken the sound of the diesel klaxon for the vocal re- sponse of an amorous cow moose-with re- sults that have been disastrous to the male animal.

"Small wonder when the poor creature had to adjust itself to a combined sound level not less than l05 decibels on the peri- phery of a circle 100 feet in radius!"

.. crop control Weakness

Those -who count on compulsory acre- age cuts in the United States next year to . ease the pressure of surplus wheat, says the

'- Financial Post, are likely to find them-

selves badly fooled. Less acreage does not necessarily mean less wheat. Weather is n xmuch more important factor. With even 20'7n less acreage next. year. American farmers could still produce a great deal of wheat, perhaps more than this season.

' The only time Canada played with of- ficial crop control, the Post recalls, was during the last war. Most world markets were cut off and wheat was piling up so fast in Western Canada that all elevator space, temporary and permanent. was plug.- ged. Farmers had to store" great-quantities in improvised storage where there way risk ofvallsorts of damage. Ottawa put on

Acreage come down from tho nor- milllom to'21.5 millions. 4 .

acreage produced in 1946.

The explanation, in the Postls opinion, is quite simple. -When a farmer is ordered to. cut acreage from 100 to.75 acres with the firm understanding that he will be paid a high price for every bushel the 75 acres will produce, what does he do? Naturally, he takes the poorest 25 acres out of pro- duction and concentrates on the land which gives him the biggest yield. With a smal- ler acreage to prepare he is able to give it better attention, more cultivation and more fertilizer and thus again boost the yield. "The best laid schemes 0' mice an' men," as Plowman Burns observed, ”gang

Debunking Tiie Pigeon Legend

Researchers have now proved to their own satisfaction that mice do not really like cheese-they much prefer peanut but-i ter. More recently they have determined that cats should not eat mice because mice give them indigestion. But the pigeon legends seem to have fared worst of all at the hands of scientific investigators. Some

homing races actually had been riding much of the time on top of trains. , This incident, remarks an exchange. fishy eye on the direction of pigeons gen-, erally. Researchers at Cambridge and at U. S. universities have come to the con- clusion that, in spite of popular opinion, pigeons are loogans compared to many oth- er wild birds at finding their way home. Recent return flights in Britain, in which the very cream of the pigeon world took part. showed that 25 per cent of the birds get lost on the way. Moreover, if those who did get home had not been carefully trained, a lot more would probably wander off into the wild blue yonder thinking they were homeward bound.

Untrained wild birds did a lot better. They were sent thousands of miles in en- closed boxes. They flew back to their home territory. They were taken thousands of miles the long way round. They flew straight back. They were even given anaes- thetics to make sure they did not know where they were being taken. They flew back.

EDITORIAL NOTES

National Day of Malta. the George Cross Island. commemorating the success- ful defence by the Knights of St. John against the Turks in 1565.

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It's back to school for junior. and now mother can look forward to a vacation lasting at least four and a half hours a day.

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That politicians who vote for inflation- ary policies should have their salaries re- duced, pari passu with inflation, while al- lowing them to benefit from any fall in the cost of living in an interesting proposal endorsed by the organ 'of the Canadian Manufacturers Association. The practice, in this country at least, has been just the opposite.

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Emile Gaboriau, French writer of de- tective novels, died this date 1873. He be- gan by writing for the Parisian papers and became famous at once when his story ”LlAffair Lerouge" was published in 1866. He quickly wrote others: ”Le Crime d'Oi:ci- val", "Monsieur Lecoq", "Les Esclaves de Paris", "La Vie Infernale" and "L'Argent des Autres".

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All navies are interested in the displace- ment of their ships but the U. S. N. is also Iin process of determining the displacement

of its seamen. To determine how much of an individual tar's body weight is fat the Navy is immersing him in water and com-

A five per cent increase in milk produc- tion in Canada in the first six months of 1953 is reported by Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Total output amounted to 8,354 million. pounds as compared with 7,926 mil-

year. - June production was 2.115,000,0()0 up 6.5 per cent from the like months of 1952, and advance reports indicate another six per cent increase for July. -

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Off the west coast of Scotland. in the Outer Hebrides, 400 people who live on the small island of Bernera recently turned out in force to see the opening of a new bridge which now links their island to the much larger island of Lewis. Built of pre-stres- oed concrete girders the new bridge is the first of its type in Britain. The nine gird- ers; each of them 108 feet long and weigh- ing more, than fifty tons, are built of con- crete sections, strung together on metal cables. The cables are drawn taut by hy- droulic pressure until the beam is rigid. AIIOther,qmIn.nl-feotilre of the bridge -is

hoppoiioal .

that the carriage-way is not Mini!!!

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months ago it was discovered that a pigeon; 1 who was supposed to be a world-beater in, .

seems to have caused scientists to turn at '

lions in the corresponding period of last

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Back-To-dcliool Movement

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THE SIMPLON rAss'

. . . The brook and road

Were fellow-travellers in this gloomy strait

And with them did we Joumoy sev- eral hours

At a. slow pace. The immeasurable height

Of woods denying. never to be de- cnyed.

Tho stationary bluu of waterfalls,

And in the narrow rent. at every turn

Winds thwarting winds. bewildered and forlorn,

The torrents shooting from the clear blue sky.

The rocks that muttered close upon our ears.

Black drizzling crago that spake by the wayside

M if 1 voice were in them. the sick night

And Kidd! moopeot. of the raving Itream

The unfettered clouds and region of the Heavens, Tumult nnd peace, the and the light- Were all like workings of one mind. the features

Of the same face. blossoms upon

one tree;

Oharncters of the great Apocalypse, The types and Symbols of Eternity. or first. and last, and mum, and without end.

dnrkn es:

-William Wordsworth.

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nnsr FALCONWOOD HOSPITAL Th” 014 "-;lTluT1 for Insane Persona; as it. was called before the name Fslconwood Hospital" was W09?-Ed. was built in 1879 on the Dresent site of the institution on the north bank ofvthe Hillsbm-. ough river. It was near to the old 'F'alcolwrood I-louse: once the seat of John Grubbe, E,q,,...1Me,g the residence of sir John Mac. donald while he remained, an in. Vtlild. upon the Island. In 1379 this building was crumbling to decay. To the left were the fields ""1 Heiidinds of the Model Farm. Contractors for the Asylum build. mg were Messrs. Mclniosh and Dewar. who had some trouble at first with the foundation. some- thinlz of at novelty in thlsfrovince

Sunken Treasure (New York Herald Tribune)

The two ships which divers have found and identified on the floor of Lake Champlain bring tn mind some of the most. vivid pages in American naval history. The Trum- bull, ii. 123-ton galley, mounting twelve guns up to eighteen-pound- era. was built at Skenesboro, on Lake Champlain. in 1776. The En- terprise. ll seventy-ton sloop. mounting twelve four-pounderswas captured from the British in 'the fall of i775 and. formed, with the schooner Royal Savage and the Ketch Liberty. the nucleus of the American squadron on Lake Cham- plain in the crucial years 1776 and 1777,

In the. naval armament race that followed the outbreak of the Am- erican Revolution the Americans were able to bring only fifteen or sixteen ships into action on Charm- plain water: before Oct. ll, 17769 when the first battle between ani American and A British fleet took place off Vnicour Island. The su-i perior British numbers carried the day. and moot. of the American ships were sunk or cspt.ured,though the Trumbull and the Enterprise es- caped. In the following year. as General Burgoyne advanced on Tl- conderogn and the whole Cham-, plain area seemed destined to fall into British hands. the two vessels. along with the remainder nf tho American lake squadron, were sac- rificed.

The possibliy nf recovering surli valuable relics after the lapse of 176 years should excite even the

most torpid imagination. Mr. J. H.

ta. Association. under whose auspices the exnlorutioiiweremade. has expressed the hope that the

G. Sill, director of the Fort Tlcon-I d

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Labour not for the meat which perlshetii, but for that meat which endurcth unto errrlastiiig life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for hi.i-ri hath God the Father sealed. . . . And this is the Father's will which hntii sent me, thnif of nll which he hath given me I should lose nothing. but should rnisw it up ngnln at. the lnst tiny. And this in this will of him that sent; me, that every one which seeth the Son, nnd believ- ntfh on him, mny have iwerlnstin life: nnd I will rninc him up I the inst; tiny. . .

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TON'BR.l'.DGE. England. 1OPl- Dozcns of villages in east Kent are petitioning for electricity scr- vlce. Big power cables calrviniz electricity to the cities pass through some villages still using oil lamps.

at the Champlain tercentenary, ll an interesting nnd inspiring place to visit. With the Trulnbiill and En- terprise riding at nnclmr off share, it should be irresistible.

If You're TIRED All. THE TIME

Everybody get: I bit nin-down now and then, tired-out. heuvy-headed. and nnybo bothered by t ' aches. Perhrps nothing Ieriously wrong. iual I temporary tori: condition roused by excess arid: and

"Beacon-Herald.

Va-iscls will be in condition in hr, raised and placed on view at they lake shore. Ticonderoga. which he-V gan undergoing restoration in 1909 .mm..m..m.....m...a...

ivutu. Thai'r the time to like Dodd'r Kidney Pills. Dodd'r Iiirnulnte "II kidneyl. and no hrlp ruiore their normal Action of "moving exceu acid: and wuler. Then

arin ” i lc " v' '

p . g ldspa ement tonnage with his hmmg a.pmmm' Wmch was W1

Weight in air. stalled by a Yiirmouth firm, Tm- . . . architects were Messrs Sterling

and H.iii'rlo. of Chlirlotietown.

The structure was of brick, the "domestic Gothic style." consisted of am ddmlnlrtrsmon building, 212 by 51 feet. with a wing for patients extending west- wardly from it I distance of 230 feet. From the administration building, 60 feet high. a tower rose to L diotanoe of 104 feet, ”oom- mandinz A fine view of the rivers. fields. woods. towns and flrmotesds of tho park-like country adjacent." The potion-to' oportmento were con- structed in three mu. each eon- uining two words nnd travel-aed by I corridor extending the whole length of thejving. At. the west too of the potlenw win: was a null hoopitoi. ioolouid from other opsrurionto. with riuroeo' room od- Jolning it.

(The above account, taken from an old newlpnper file, is particu- larly intereulng in its reference to Sir John A. Mncdonlidu reridenco It Faiconwood Home. This occur- red in the your 1870. sir John. whllo in the Council Chamber of Parliament. was stricken on May 6 with n nlinono compini t and

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ad. On Jun 1. Iomowhnt recov- ered, ho was able to in transfer- rod to the spukeru chambers. on tho following day, write: his

, lir looovh Pops. "he was Iufficlontiy wolf to leave for Princo Edward Island. whore the

at the time was the indirect steam.

for many day: could not be mov-

On the 22nd of September he re- turned in Ottawa, amid the at?-

clanialions of ti whole people, who o

welcomed him as one risen from the. d:-nd.")

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In brooou compleud tho cum .

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I.Notes By The Wayx. T

It used to be hnrd to keep the ed an extra dollar for every 5., kids out of the old swimming halo. they are mulctecl. A dollar fine Now all you have to do in let the , tax, in also assessed for each '33.; air out and roll it up. - Strstford sentence. It 1 presumed the idea ,was sold by the gentle procegs 0, ,convincing citizens that such fines

Curiously, the dawdier in often , or taxes, would result in safer di-lv.' astonished and sometimes indlg- lng, but it is doubtful if there will nant. to. be told he is B. cause of I be fewer traffic violations, or pm, many highway deaths. He believes, naps it should be said, fewer pro. quite wrongly, that he is A very safe secutions for traffic violation: driver. -Edmonton Journal. , -Winnipeg T;-ibum.

e l Tlillt. people living along the nun-l -1-ME M" not Mm m ny shores of the Mediterraneanlswrlu in the "cam eleogag 32' are the most addicted to gestlculot- Imign, It wu too dull an sffan ing while talking in further demon- 1 But he” is 3 Story which comps Smlied 'bY mi? i0”0Wl"g lV9mi"3 from Vancouver which we are al. posted in street cars in Algiers: ”lt , sued is authentic. John G. Diet-

is forbidden to speak to the con- lenbakex. spoke in Vancouver on bk

ductor, who must use both hands I - , to drive." --Pour Tous.. Lausanne.'gaghfgagmofgaiervxziiggniuigiksrhil TTTT Ford automobile dealer. He mad. 5 Bxtlftliglguhtsgtgoiigeln cgizttiyhheacii; "ch" long mm nlmmmg mm” for the use of -wigs. Even today the ducuon to my weaken As he "5 speaker of the Hell of Commons running out it was apparent mm and some other hig -placed Eng- he could not mum of the "mm M lishmen are required by traditionlihe spe&ker'h:le was fairly gum” to wear the long, while powderedl or bmnh L Dlemnbak" mm" variety often shown in the history '52" was hurriedly dining out "' books. Although popular for a long Dem” and 5 sheet of paper Wm” time the periwig reached some sort "the speaker suddenly brightened of zenith in the elgliteentli century. iHa had it In E burst M oratory h" But here's a modern development wound up Ladies and gmueme” wms or perhaps more Mcumleu; .1 want to introduce to You our dis- toupee: now come under the scopclungmshed guest speaker of u" of liaiihnai health lnsuriuire in cvenlnm Mr' John studebnknu England nnd cost. onlv til The for-l -A" R F' in London Free Pm? mar price was 5221 which meant. ni limited use of the zidornments. Now demand is so brisk that 200 unem- ployed wig makers have been cali- ed back to practice their trade.l --Kansas City Star.

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' (lave Your ("otiieo l DRY CLEANED

Down in California. where almost ; everyone drives an automobile, ltl

PRESSED ONLY

was decided to give high school rtu- 3;

dents A course in driving before

they graduated. It was necessary

to provide cars so that boys and

girls can be given actual experience g

behind a wheel on the highways. (ILEANERS i This costs ll lot of money and here DIAL 7387

is how the plan is financed: All violators of traffic law no charg-

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