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' Authorised on Second chm nun rm Office Department. Ottawa. The Island Guardian Publishing Co. CIRCULATION ' total City zone lteull Trading zone All Others .. Total Net Enid

Editor and Managing Director, J. R. Burnett. Auoclnto Editor, Funk Walker.

f'Tho Strongest Memoryjs Weaker Than i the Weakest Ink".

CHARLOTTETOWN, TUESDAY, AUGUST ii. I951

The New Power llates

The feature about the new scale of electric rates published yesterday is than they represent the first overall revision of rates in this Province based on a carefully determined cost of service rendered. Be- fore going about making the rates. the Public Utilities Board took elaborate steps to establish a rate base.

The rates, themselves, are set accord- ing to that rate. base. each class of con- sumer paying the cost of the service ren- dered except in the case of the small rural consumer, who in spite of an increase in minimum charge from 1712.75 to 354 00 con- tinues to receive power below cost of pro- duction.

The overall picture is that the customer with a good "demand factor". i. e.. having a consistent load without extreme peaks. gets all his power at a reduced rate. while those whose demand is high for bFlC'. periods pay more. This is not true of the city Domestic Service, for which there is no demand charge under either the old or new rates. The basic city rate is slightly increased but with a reduction of one dollar a month which should; if anything. make for a smaller monthly light bill.

The heavy demand charges imposed on general service customers is designed to relieve the situation Ill which plant ca- pacity is fully used only during the months of December and January between the hours of 11 and Si p.m.

It means that a farmer can have as many articles of electrical equipment as he wishes without” paying any connected load charge. but must. exercise prudence in not using too many gadgets at one time, putting him in a higher bracket of sim- ultaneous demand. The new rate strut-turn

'nplies that demand meters will have

stalled for all customers whosr ceds 3 KW.

socialization Medicine

The British Socialist Government is at- tempting to come to terms with the Brit- ish Medical Association in the dispute over the rcmuncrznion of its membership. For many months. officials of the British Med- ical Association have been negotiating with the Ministry of I-lcalth for increased pay to" services under the socialized-medicine pro- gram. The doctors now get an annual fee of 332.50 per patient, with a maximum of 4,000 patients. This plan, they claim, does not bring them enough. Last week, thr- 20,000 physician-members of the health service (all but 1,000 of Britain's general practitioners) handed an ultimatum to Minister of Health Hilary A. Marquanci. Unless their demands for increased fee rates were submitted to arbitration by Sept". 25 they would resign in a body from the health plan. Now the Minister of Health has promised to rearrange rates so that doc- tors having fewer families or patients reg- istered with them will sharc with those who have a surplus, and the rate subject to arbitration.

Under Government Management

Agriculture. Minister Gardiner has do cided that not only will butter imports be necessary but that a board representing his Department should do the. importing and handle the distribution: This same board has been authorized to buy also unlimited quantities of Canadian-made butter. Whatever may be the special reasons that prompted the Government to re-enter the produce business, the Ottawa Journal maintains that the move is questionable In wartime when vast deals were negotiat- ed directly between governments it was likely right and proper that food buying and selling should be in the hands of Gov- ernment officials, but under normal circum- stances it was never intended in this coun- try that any Government board should supersede private enterprise and go into the business of handling such things as dairy produce. ,'

Mr. Gardiner's policy fails utterly to go! at the root of this problem. It will not provide a pound of extra milk or butte- from Canadian production, and to encour- age mo dairy production for all PUFPOSO” is one of the great needs in Canada today. Tho. Joumsl odds:

"For a multitude of reasons. but main-

"ji Iybecauoeofhlgh moat pricelmd lack of

help. the Canadian dairy industry- ” Wish once ranked as a bi: exporter, is

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today a sick industry. It is an industry plagued by lack of confidence in the future. To restore that confidence, to get the milk flowing again, should be the prime aim of the Government, not to start meddling with importing, buying and selling butter. Can- ada is on the verge of an over-all milk shortage unless confidence is soon restored through the industry from farmers up."

EDITORIAL NOTES

The Exhibition--Old. Home Week's

prime attraction.

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Judging by the heavy passenger traf- fic by sea, rail and air all means of travel lead to the Island. t

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The German Communist youth seem to differ mainly in name from Hitler Fas- cists. Their objective is the same, ttGerm- any over all", with the assistance of the

Soviets.

Greater New York has more than six times the population of Greater London, according to an Amcricar comparison. In this day and age it means six times the number of people who would prefer to be elsewhere should trouble occur.

Lord Louth. of St. Helier. Isle of Jer- sey, grandson of a Jersey barmaid, has farther enhanced the family nobility by marrying a plulnheris daughter. The family's motto is "Make haste slowly". His Lordship appropriately enough, arriv- cd late for his wedding at St. l-lelier or: Friday.

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The American House of Representatives un-American Activities committee has ex- tended its scope to besmirch a Canadian, to whom our own security authorities give an unqualified clean bill of health. The committee's methods were not attractive when applied to Amegan citizens and less so when it goes in for international witch- hufiling. "

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John Galsworthy. British playwright and novelist, was born this date 1867, died Jan- uary 31, 1933. His sequence of novels known as ”Thc Forsyte Saga" gives a de- tailed picture of upper middle-class society during the later Victorian and Edwardian eras, and tend to overshadow his work as a playwright. His short stories and essays are concerned with current social and moral questions and commentaries on the cxtravagancies of war time.

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The percentage of Scots speaking Gaelic has fallen from 2.67 in 1931 to 1.8 in 1951. This trend is revealed in 'the preliminary report on the 13th census of Scotland which has just been published. The number of people who speak Gaelic only is 2,652 com- pared with 6,716 in 1931. Less than 92.- 000 speak both Gaelic and English com- pared with 129,419 at the previous cen- sus. Only in the counties of Ross and Cromarty and Inve1'ness-shire are more than a quarter of the population still able to speak Gaelic.

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There are at; least lwo sides to ever; question. Ml'. Donald C. MacDonald, Na- tional Treasurer of the C.C.F. writing to the Gazette says "attempts to associate the C.C.F. with Marx are as pathetic as they are persistent. Consider the latest- CX8mP1P- The paragraph in Arthur Blake- ly's column dealing with the establishment of a new Socialist International is head- ed simply: Marx. Just how far off the beam the implications of that heading are may be judged from the disinterested ob- servation of the London Economist (July 7). Referring to the 'Aims and Tasks of Democratic Socialism', which were accept- ed unanimously by the 34 Socialist parties comprising the new International, the Economist describes them as 'a statement of principles in which the spirit of the Wcbbs and Keynes trample on the ghost "of Marx'."

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is chocolate milk as nutritious for chil- drcn as plain milk? That is the question that is agitating Montreal health author- ities in general and the Catholic School Commission in particular. Two years ago the Commission banned it for children at- tending their schools. This ycar the Catholic Students Social Welfare Bureau asked that the chocolate milk again be permillcd to he sold in the schools. In n letter to the commission the bureau said that the children did not drink more white milk when they could not get chocolate milk. instead they drank "pop" and sim- ilar soft drinks which were even less nu- tritious than chocolate milk. The commis- sioners were not sure that this was so. It was stated that pupils in 1947 drank 2,700 half-pints of milk and. chocolate milk. (ThercVwcrc no figures to show which was the more popular). Last year, when choc- olate milk was not available, they drank 2,050 half-pints of white milk. This, in the opinion of the commissioners, did not

indicate any serious swing to soft drinks.

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EASTERN FARM SOCIETY

At St. Andrew's Point on July 13, 1831, an adjourned meetlnx of farmers and other inhabitants of Three Rivers (Georgetown) and Murray Harbour was held, which proved of much subsequent im- portance to all concerned. It re- sulted in the organization of the Eastern Agricultural Society. Mr. John Wightman was elected pres- ident. with the following execu-l tlve officers: Vice Presidents.' James Richards. Esq.. Alexander MacDonald: Committee, Gsvm McLure, Donald Dewar. George Aitken, Sr.. James Bell. Donald Campbell; joint secretaries and treasurers, Joseph Wightman. -- L. Lewellin. ' The rules and regulations drawn. up at this organization meeting contain some interesting feu re...) The Society pledged itself to "la:-: bar to procure for the former a remuneratlng market for his surplus grain produce, by estab- lishing a permanent grain trada with Britain." It also undertook "to form n Repository of Models of useful labor-saving. and other implements and machines," and lo endeavor, as far as funds permit- ted. "more especially to facilitate! the general introduction of Win- nowlng Machines, or Grain Fan-l ncrs, Chaff-cutters. and Scarifiers -and the establishment of' n Farm:-rs' Library, for circulation among its members." i Each member on admission was, obliged to pay the sum of five shillings, and the like sum year- ly thereafter on the first day of January. One general meeting was to be held yearly on the last Wednesday in January, the com-, mittee being required to meet on' the first Thursday of each month. i

Among other things the Society undertook to "exert itself to dif- fuse in the Old Country such 1-. knowledge of the superior agri- cultural advantages of this Col- on.i'. as shall induce to come among us farmers of capital, who now go elsewhere. from ignor- ance of the capabilities of our soil," also to endeavour to set ''In strict. union with the Central Agricultural Society, and give its firm suppoit to every :: "tilt may have I tendency to mature the chief, if not the only hope of this Colony-its agricul- ture."

The organization successfully under the of Lieutenant Governor Young. and paved the way for many nlzricullural reforms in the east- crn part of the Province.

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CORN WEATHER

I am the corn. Listen to me.

How can you men who dwell .11 towns

Know bwiiat the weather ought to 6.

Give me an ardent sun. pursuing Dawn mists while my tuse.ed

ranks Rustle and bow to the south winds wooing; Greet with L hymn of thanks The splendid heat of the summer

noon. sung to the locuztln nrclent. tune.

An I he in the arms of the sultry n-zht,

My roots spread wide and deep.

And the pulse of my growth is

This Is The children's llour

Big Ben Catches Cold

(London Correspondent, Ottawa

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inc Age-Old Storyg

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book telling Canadians what to do in the event of an atomic bomb nt- tnck on this country. the Federal Health Department "wants it to

get us wide a distribution as pos. slble." There are, any: on Ot. tows. deapntch, the ten-cent.

book can be secured from the King's Printer and from provincial and municipal civil defence au- thorities. if the aim were to secure is strictly limited sale, ihafis the film Way 10 so about it. The over- age householder has only the fog- gleat ideas about who and where the King's Printer is, and even fog- gler ideas about who or where his civil defence authorities are. Add to that the bother of inserting :- dime in 3 letter. a practice on which the Postmaster - General! Department officially frowns, and the public is going to stay away from this booklet in droves. what is wrong with news-stand sales? That is the medium any private publisher of such a booklet would naturally seek. and if financially able would promote it with post- ers and other encouragement. -- Toronlo Globe and Mail

It must be true. as Finance. Minister Abbott assures us. that inflation is a worldwide phenomen- on. How else to explain the news from Scotland? A new 5 pound note -purple instead of white -is being issued there. "Scottish bonkers said then-new notes would wear better.” The meaning of this is unmistakable. The old notes were being circulated so rapidly -and, we may assume. treated so carelessly that they couldn't. stand the stiff. New, more durable ones are to be substituted. so fades the glory that was Glasgow. the grandeur that was Galoshiels. There was a time (economists may deny it, but the world knows it is

loving finally got out I guide-ua now - not even an

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According 1.. ,, crrllckct is mostly w it: flannel: an and A minimum of :,::,:f;00n gel. the playing field. It is .,.u'g fur is still not considered gogd mt " (although the Australian Wm smashing that tradition) is "5 and yell and make rude W" about the oppouuon or mreemarh hires. It is better played sir!" to murmur

bar M ncerned ,,i,h'

the "011. fielder "Drop it I;:aw1,:,C,:f.t."'I1f It I et has earned a rcpiutall mm North America. for .. Ce,lm?lnhxn gfvnrotloaustnesa, this is pamy it ult. To those familia. .

both baseball and cricket in with ter game has one defe;-g guilt. can be lvretty mnddenin" if every six balls (some ,”,Iuds lu- rcvolutlonaries have exlenqedwiell to elgm uballs) the whole .”"' changes over, and the may M leld terrupted. The players do not in" briskly to their new poshlons trot saunter, with the digiiiw Kb": their cricketing fol-bears rnadim tradition. sun cricket can b.' ' exciting spectacle (rice an principles are grasped. -3-;,,,,,. periods of furious action of 1?. m Stopping suspense, as a 'Lcamerin' gedly bat les against the tlOCkog- get the ne essary runs to am, 0 brilliant catches, of drives vo' M boundary. of deadly how”, '1" slumping. Incidentally, others "ll lhmlght well enough or mckyml borrow one of its phrases their io trick." which means taking pig:

gllgxcvtsf it:nlcll7i;i.e,e success” ball” 1

SHIRTS

true) when the Scots, so far as -

Toiule GeiI1?l1uarl'iisa1)Blg Ben the ".1-.-wk-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-m.-la.-.-5-.-.-one-. Clmllillnll their money "P1d15'- n LAUNDERE" wot,” Public Clock Nu'm,be,. I did not circulate it at all. A bnnk- To One. is "Gross Benjamin"; to um All Lord God. behold, thou note, or even I. piece of silver. foll- PERFECTION French he is "Bees; Ben". Bni hm made Ihe heaven and the ing into Scottish hands knew noth- Big Ben ,5 not ,.mn,, ,, clock 3. north by thy treat mix? Illxd lng from then on but pence, per- all. The clock is officially called 9"3:f'W',0"lh njlmmfnllhee "9 ' fact peace. Never again would it R"-E -.wAY "The Great Westminster Clock". wh, ,'jfh”;; .2; '1 "I my W"; see the hush light of day. That and Big Ben is the giant boll d c, in I .6 1; Eh . V n time. It would aeem.1s over. The Cu” which chimes me hours, w,,,gh. gm :il"""md”m hlfrliuh fluid Scots are throwing their money NERS mg as much ,5 mo double. -- . ' around with the same llghthearb Phone 2387

amon other men and hunt Inudo

dccker buses and named after i? ' h d 9d 00nl59mP3 35 the T953 of I15- Sir Benjamin Hall. First, Com- "me ” '"""c' ”' "l ' " "y' Whr-1': n pound? What": five mission” for works 1., 1553 when ,. d ? Nothing would surprise

the clock was erected.

The bell itself is cracked-not surprising when that it is struck by a four hun- dredweight hammer 000 times a year. remains accurate fih though there were times during ' the war when. shaken and blast- ed by near-by bombs, he inclined to be lamcpcramcntal. euflcrs

his timing within A

Big Ben

minutes.

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the earthquake, or always the fire, you can erect an t wall by means of Insurance.

too. in hard weather there has sometimes been a dull. nasal tone to his chimes. separately caused. by the hardening of a piece of rubber from which the hammer rebounded, with the result that the clapper did not rebound quickly enough. This was due to the cold weather and the rem ccly has been to replace this "buffer" with one of special rubber-immune to Arctic tem- peratures.

one considers

nearly 57,- Ycar by year i0

of a second.

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from colds

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In the miiist of Success you may suffer Disaster

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While the hungry clue: sleep. Out. of the fertile womb of earth

1 bring the golden ears to birth. so I hear your complaints with ac-

pure delight I

rlulve glee.

You fretful men who dwell in towns.

How can you tell what. the weather should be?

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