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Authorised as second CIIII Mull Put Office Department. ,0tt.IwI. The Island ' Publishing-Co.

President Ind Auoclou Editor, lIn A. Hornets Associate Editor. Frank Walker. CIRCULATION 'COVll'I Prince Edward Island like the dew"

f'TIio Strongest Memory is Weaker than the Weakest Ink".

CHARLO'fTETOWN. FRIDAY, DEC. 5, 1952

iiistrliiutlon or Powers

Cities and.,other municipalities derive their powers of government from the Pro- vince and consequently the powers and re- sponsibilities which Canada's constitution assigns to the Province is reflected in the municipalities. As these t.hings become more important and expensive in modern conditions the Provinces and their cre- atures the municipalities are faced with the necessity of finding more and more rev- enue. Unfortunately the sources of rev- enue are very strictly limited, being con- fined to direct taxation within the Prov- lnce.

At the meeting in Montreal of the ex- ecutive of the Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities this problem looms large. The president, Mayor A. J. Mason of Springhill, N. S., pointed out, for instance, that education is a headache for municipal leaders today. ”Constitutionally", he said, "it is a Provincial responsibility, but the fact remains that we are educating our people not to be citizens of Nova Scotia or Quebec alone, but citizens of Canada which definitely places a. moral obligation upon the Federal Government to pay to- wards this education."

His answer, however, is not the redis- tribution of . powers giving such things as education and hospitals to federal control, nor yet living on grants "from some gov- c-rnment over which we have not enough authority". Rather it is "a greater distri- bution of the financial returns of this coun- try”. I

This is the same problem that the Prov- inces have faced for a number of years and which Premier Angus L. Macdonald of Nova Scotia emphasized by telling Can- adians that we must decide whether or not we are to have a unitary form of govern- ment. The Provinces require to have rev- enues suitable for their responsibilities or else those responsibilities must be shifted to the shoulders of the central government.

All-Gaiiaiia liar ilriver Test.

One of the recommendations made by a coroner's jury at a recent inquest in Charlottetown was that the Provincial Government legislate for, and enforce. semi-annual vehicle inspection by specially equipped inspection service centres, and that consideration be given to the advis- ability of periodic driving tests.

In connection with the latter recom- mendation it is interesting to note.that standardization of driver training and li- censing throughout Canada is being urged by the Chief Constables Association. Com- menting on this proposal, the Edmonton Journal remarks: "National standards would be reasonable for an activity like motoring which is everywhere substantial- lv the same and which takes little or no account of provincial boundaries. They could be developed on a broad basis, taking advantage of the national fund of ideas and experience. The adoption of even compati- ably strict requirements for driver licens- ing across the country would discourage any tendency to be less careful away from home, simplify the job of law enforcement and make the licenses transferablei on change of residence from one Province to another." '

This is I. case where provincial co- ordination would pay big dividends. for there can scarcely be any flU95t10n 35 lo the value of such a system. if uniformly applied, in cutting down death and accident tolls onbur public highways. In the mean- time, however, each Province is faced with It; own responsibility in the matter and it is of prime importance, here as elsewhere, that action be taken. The coroner's jury "port above referred to links semi-annual vehicle inspection with periodic driving tests, and this would seem to be a logical approach to the problem, as the condition of a car and the aptitude or the driver

are equally important factors in reducing.

traffic accidents.

svmieI's Example

' An iiuisseatsthat the Cana- qpm might take I few lessons I: u r .4 lvm tim- cl miord ihnfssh

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Damage and fire-figh6ting costs for the 1951 period total S8,6-13,000. In the latter fig- ure, damage to soil, stream flow, wild life, recreational and other values is not in- cluded.

An increased public awareness of the waste caused by forest fires and an ingen- ious system of roads into forest lands have resulted in a tremendous reduction in for- est fire losses in Sweden. The forests in that nation comprise 56,000,000 acres and are distributed over nearly the entire area of 1,000 miles from north to south. Heavy woodlands edge close to the largest cities, and'the industrial conversion of the timber assets is a chief factoruin maintaining e.i- ployment and foreign trade.

Sweden, in 1951, had 671 forest fire outbreaks, compared to 4,529 in Canada. In Swedenls case, 373 of these fires were confined to less than a quarter of an acre. This was made possible through the ex- istence of the country's system of roads, which penetrate all wooded areas giving quick access to fire outbreaks. It reflects equally the public zeal in blocking fires before serious damage occurs.

The total Swedish area burned was only 1,701 acres, with an estimated value of b60,000 for the entire nation. This com- pares to Canada's figures for the same period of 896,428 acres and b8,643,000 in damages. The areas in Sweden burned over during the last six years varied be- tweep .02 per cent and .15 per cent of the nation's total forest domain.

A system of roads similar to that used in Sweden for the huge forest area of Can- ada might not -be practical, but at least it could be tried in sectors where fires are frequent. In any event, something must be done to greatly reduce the dam- age caused by forest fires.

EDITORIAL NOTES

It was the Carnegie Foundation, not the Rockefeller Foundation as stated yesterday, which aided in establishing the public lib- rary system in this Province. Both these great organizations have distributed grants

on a world-wide scale, and Canada has benefited on many occasions from their

bounty. O I O

The fact that Communist countries tend to resemble nothing so much as a gigantic prison does not prevent them from being very concerned about human liberty outside the Iron Curtain. The Communist symbol has changed with no change in cynicism, however, from the dove of Peace to Magna Carta.

Interest in royalty, and particularly the British Royal Family is keen in the United States. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother has given permission for the robes worn by Princess Elizabeth and Princess Mar- garet at the coronation of their father, King George VI, to be shown in the United States. They will be included in a collec- tion of representative coronation robes and regalia.

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There are approximately fifty per cent more Canadian students registered in eti- gineering courses than two years ago ac- cording to a survey by the Engineering Institute of Canada. The relative propor- tion of total registration in different courses. continues to show little change so that it is clear that the emphasis on en- gineering is a general trend rather than a one year or two year spurt.

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British nurses are keeping Canadian missions open in Labrador and Newfound- land. Tribute to British nurses, many of them from Scotland, now with the Grenfcll Medical Mission, has lately come from the American superintendent, Dr. Charles S. Curtis, C.B.E. Without these nurses, he writes, the mission stations scattered along Labrador and Northern Newfoundland would be closed, "as we have tried in vain to secure nurses from this province, the mainland and the United States."

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An Ottawa rumor that the garnlsheeing of wages of Federal Government employ- ees would be permitted under legislation to be introduced at the current. session of Parliament has been contradicted by Jus- tice Minister Garson. It was based on a statement in the Speech from the Throne intimatlng that a measure was to be sub- mitted "designed to place the Crown in substantially the same position as aiprlvatc person" with. respect to liability for acts committed by its servants for breach of duty arising out of the ownership or oc- cupation of property; and for. salvage of claims. "Exposingthe Crown to suit for the acts of itsservents (in, connection with breach of duty arising out of the owner- ship or occupation of property has nothing to do with the gamlsheeprocess at all." Mr. Garson explained; "and it is not the intention of th:,Government to introduce legillatlon permitting the garnisheeing of

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This column is open to the discussion by correspondent; of questions of lnterolt. The Guardian does not neceIIIr- lly endo the opinion of wi-respondents.

MARKETING BOARD FINANCING

Sir,-In your interesting editorial. "Federation of Agriculture", I noted especially this point: "In the matter of potato growers' licences, to. largely representative meeting of farmers has already endorsed the Federation's stand on the matter of financing the Potato Marketing Board by a system of licences, in- cludlng licences for the primary producer. It would seem that un- der the Federal constitution of this country no other practical method of finance is open to the Board."

While I well realize that there are fundamental differences in the marketing mechanics, as between the Potato Marketing Board in your Province,.,and the operating technique .ofgi1Ia Canadian Wheat Board. I am one of your readers who thoroughly endorses the in- creasing efforts of primary produc- ers to link themselves into market- ing organizations-preferably on a. cooperative sndfor commodity basis-and do for themselves what off-the-farm Canadians are only. too willing to do for them in the market-place and, of course, on a cost-plus operation level?

So, therefore, it occurs to me to suggest that once the decision to "act: like bi 'nessmen in this busi- ness world” has been arrived at by primary producers--not only in your famed fslInd,but. everywhere -away can be devised by which the inescapable financial burden can be carried; i.e.. on the collect- ive shoulders of the growers plus the intrinsic credit; strength of the commodity to be marketed.

I take the opportunity of quoting the following data. from the Wheat lBoai'd's annual report (1950-51) dealing with Administrative do General Expenses: "These amount- ed to 31,406,169, or .35 ofscentper bushel, on deliveries of 368,723,229 bushels." ,

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Through September in the Unit-y ed States an average of 99 per- sons were killed each day in traffic accidents. Just s little more csreleuness and the round hun- dmd would have been reached! -ottiiws Journal.

A: the local bank was about to close at 11 ii. in. last Saturday there sounded an alarming report. just like I gun-it was I sun. A small boy sitting on the seat pro- vided for customers inside the bank, fired a toy gun. and he ap- peared the least concerned of all present. --Rapid City, Manitoba. Reporter.

A woman who could not swim jumped into the ice-cold water of the Rideau River at Ottawa. and rescued her two-year-old s daugh- ter who had falen in. where the mother jumped in. the water was only four feet deep. But. she did not know that. Mother-love has no time to stop for calculations.- -IFOID William Telegraph Jour- na .

Ottawa. has I. lot of nerve mg for free parking privileges when it is annually side-stepping tax payment on its vast proper- ties here. The value of Federal holdings here exceeds s40.000,000. and if Ottawa paid taxes like any- one else it. would contribute around 81,800,000 9. year to the city treasurer. And yet the Gov- ernment won't put a nickel in its parking meter. -- Vancouver Prov- ince.

A salt Lake City business inIn. tired of paying 31.25 ii day for ger- eiie space for his car, met the problem by taking advantage of I downtown department store's of- fer of free parking with any :2 purchase Now he parks in the store's parking lot, buys I. 32 necktie or some other haberdn.ih- ery he needs and goes to work. That way, he figures he's getting I :2 necktie for only seventy-five .. wall street Journal.

Brother llill Ind father had done ll. good job in the fields. The vegetable pit was well filled. Two sides of beef and plenty of pork hung in the shed. sister Mary's hens were laying well. Yet if John- ny did not bring in any wood for the cook-stove. mother couldn't cook and everybody had I poor meal including Johnny. when coal miners, or members of any. other group of I national family refuse to do their job, no matter how righteous they may feel their course 'of action is. everybody suf- fers-lncluding the quitters.-Fort William Times-Journal.

Mir. Justice liinmon thinks there should be some penalty for people who take the marriage

vow too lightly. The principals in the divorce Iult. which roused his Inger were both 20. She was get- ting her second divorce, The man Ippoured to have shown not the slightest regard for the responsi- bilities of I husband. Most people are likely to agree with ,tho Judge thst somet.h1ng.should be done. But what? Tokbo I penalty there must be I. crime. Is it I; crimtrto be thoughtlenfind selfish And if young people no thoughtless Ind selfish. who made them that way? --Vancouver Sun.

It is no offence under the crisp- inIl code to give I fictitious mine to I police officer or Iiiyoiio also union done for purposes of fraud. This, i-enemy. in win: o. u. is. xsy. deputy Ittornoy-genersi -for llsnltoln, hu told both u-imlnsls Ind lsw-Ibiding people of this province. According to the Inc - ey-nnonlh dopsrunont there-Ire two Ixooxnloiu about the use of fIlunIiaII.ItiI"i1luIl in-poi--, -pcti-sting s from. suit. under I city bylaw. in resisutlnl tor a room in I, hotel or rooi-Iinr house.

iii: drunk and diaoi-do-lg. or ini- casting I dliturbsnco. or dieing found in I tumbling house. It, is

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A newly wed Italian pllr stunt.-

ed their undying affection for one

another by arriving at their hon- eymoon destination linked by a small golden chain. The couple said this was I permanent arrange- ment, to ensure they stay close for life. Quite apart from the prsctibillty of going through life chained to one another, we doubt whether this is I idea. Chains have an unfortunate con- notation. when one thinks of be- ing chained, one immediately Il- so thinks of how one might get rid of them. We believe the invis- ible chains of matrimony In much more lasting than material ones of steel, or even of gold. Also, there might be I temptation of one or the other to filch the chain and hock itl -Windsor Star.

Old Charlottetown

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DESTIIUCTIVE FIRE

"About 9 o'clock on Tuesday morning. the alarm of fire re- souncled through the Town, and a few moments served to inform the. inhabitants that the beautiful building owned and occupied by Mrs. Weymouth, in Kent Street, had become a prey to the devour- ing element. With extraordinary rapidity.'the flames forced a pas- sage through the roof and back parts of the building. and immed- iately extended to the adjoining emises, in the right and occu- pancy of Mr. John Scott, coach maker. Engines, firemen, soldiers, and other inhabitants made every exertion in their power to arrest the progress of the fire, but it gained such an endency in the interior of the buildings that ev- cry effort to extinguish it proved fruitless.

"In about one hour after the fire had communicated with it. the house owned by Mr. Scott was I heap of ruins, Mrs. Way- mouth's property burned with less speed. but with equal certainty of its entire destruction. It men- ifested I soi-t.of reluctant obed- ience to the power of the resist- less element; and more than two hours expired before one of the hsndsomest edifices in Kent Street presented no trace of its beauty and magnificence. It was an ele- gantly flnlshed house-built in the best style of architecture, and the industry which accumulated the means to erect it, and the taste that prompted its adornment, re- flected the highest credit on the owner. . . . Mrs. Weymouth's property was insured for half its value in the Alliance Office-the house for 5350, and the furniture. which was nearly all saved, for i150, Halifax currency.

"We regret to have to add that Mr. Thomas Dodd, butcher, had one of his legs severely fractur- ed, and win otherwise much in- jured. by the falling of I chlm. ney of one of thotburned houses." -The Psilullum. March 10, 1845.

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When one enters that put of the Universe which belongs prima- rily to poets one must: tread carefully for to most of us it is unfamiliar ground. The cities. woods, and gardens which are the natural preservesof the poet. are not quite like the cities, woods. and gardens the rest. of us know about. They were built by I spec- ial class of architects and .build- ers out of the gleems of visions and the glories of dreams.

Perhaps there is no one among us who at some time or other has not lamented the fact that life as we see it is very far from what, ideally. it. was intended to be. For most of us the lament is as fares we can go. perhaps as far as we are willing to go. The poet goes beyond it to imaginative fulfillment. and in the process produces thefpoem, - the lyric, the ballad. the love song, the

Most of it. often all of it, is al- legory. pure and simple. No mat- ter. If it is good poetry and not mere rhyming of words, it. some- how cnvlnces the reader that myth is akin to history and fable to truth.

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The Passing Scene - by Ohsoriker PQITI A! PERSON!

llldzemeni: on their virt. failings. This would se-eiiimt.o”i,: I bit unfair. If we are to weep; and profit by the products of their Kilnlluls. the least we can do is to- throw I kindly -veil ovu- whatever DDPCIIS to be inconsis. tent with that izenius. Coleridge for instance, has a. xigm to bet re-called. for the leadership h. gave to I great literary revival. not for the fact that in his dot- Ige he became addicted to an alien mysticism, and other thing. even worse , which befogged hi, mind. Again. Poe was no less a, poet of worth because more or. ten than was good for him in imbidod to much. The flesh at poets. like that of all other mor- tals. is sometimes much weaker than their spirits. Even the Ivory Tower can be invaded by distmcg. his forces from without. 0 O U

Nor are all poets aux; attitudes to the world outalil: own. some of the great ones of the put (Pope is often quoted M an example) injected their own personalities into their worn Others strove hard to retain thi purjly objective view. It has been set that Thomas Gray (ems lame and. in fact, fame did not catch up with him until Iom. years after he made rendezvous with the Dark Angel.

Greek philosopher, thought and said. By which he probably meant that the best literature has been concerned with things that do not change. for Plato's chief in- terest was with the changelsss and unchangeable patterns of life. The most obvious illustration of this is found, of course, in Sheke- ipearo. The chnr in his plays are real living people who. in the main. are very much It home in their world. They est Ind drink. fight, do,things. that are sometimes noble and some- times ignoblo. They speak truth and they speak falsehood. They play and work. make good plans and bad ones, and finally die in substance. just like ourselves. And yet, in each there is some trace of that eternal comblnIt- ion which makes life what it is, I mixture of the attainable and the unattainable. the practical and the ideal, the uncertainties of the here and now and the hope of the there and then. Neither the best. not the worst. nor yet. Inythlg in between "on the misty flats". in the characters of any great poet or dramatist. is sl- together missing from the com- mon patterns of ina.n's living. Neither the one not the other is always obvious, but I skilled re- searcher lnto hidden motives and psychic desires would probably have lttle difficulty in finding I. measure of good, badfand indif- icrpnt. I O I .

We cannot. tell what s poet is like from his poetry any more than we can tell the ethical Its- tus of I carpenter from the kind of work he is able to do. All we Isk of I carpenter or a mason or I. bricklayer is that he do I good Job and earn his wage.

When it comes to poets. how- ever,, almost everybody feels com- petent snd culled upon to sit in

Shakespeare himself wss no liq in the streets of his home can He was sppsrently Iespectgd ., I. men of parts-and some worldly substance, but. it was some tinu after he laid down his quill thu men began to warm themselves .3 the unquenchsble fire of his genius. Wrote Matthew Arnold: "And thou, who didst the star: and sunbeums know, Dldst. walk on earth unguessed Io, Better sol" 0

It is supposed by some that poets, especially the major one have Ilwsys been loth to numb any discord in their ranks. Th. record does. not say so, however. They have had their internal squsbbles just like all other unions and guilds. Byron once said that he wished Coleridge would stay some long enough ”to explain mi explanation" in matters of mys- tlcism. The pugnaclous Ben John- son. in discussing a. contemporary, said that he should have been hanged long ago. He himself We; by all accounts the most. boin. bastic dramatist of all time. ban that did not keep him from chirp- ing Shakespeare with conceit.

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A popular opinion regard poets of acknowledged worth that they are incurnbly eccen in their personal mannerisms. was my privilege a few years to attend I lecture given by one of the really distinguished poe of. present day America, and must say his manners and ap- pearance were anything but when is usually described as eccentric. Except for his pronounced shy. ness he might have been taken to! 3 well dressed Rota:-lsn or 1 prosperous farmer on holiday. A a matter of fact he was at th time the operator of quite 4 spacious farm in Connecticut, an: that was about the only ti-iingvh said about himself.

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