148,000,000. Tho..upwu'd trend is due to

PAGE FOUR THE GUARDIAN

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frelldent and Associate Editor, In A. Burnett. Associate Editor, Frank Wllkel.

CIRCULATION "Covers Prince Edward Island like the dew”

"The strongest memory is weaker than the weakest ink".

CHABLOTTETOWN. FRIDAY. JAN. 2, 1953

Blueprint For Progress

The gospel of hard work and initiative has a strong advocate in Premier Jones, whose New Year's message, published in

lated is more than sufficient to meet the annual debt payment to the United States at the end of the month, and it is hoped that before long some of the controls on dollar imports may be lifted.

By the removal of eggs alone from the rationing system, a very substantial sav- ings will bc effected. The discontinuance of the subsidy to stabilize prices and the dispensing with a department engaged in applying the rationing system will result in a saving in expenditure of several million pounds.

EDITORIAL NOTES

It will be gratifying to farmers plagued

our Wedncsdayls issue, again emphasizes these cardinal economic virtues. The Premi- er has also taken the opportunity of re- peating his assertion that truck transporta- tion could restore all and more of the trade we formerly enjoyed by schooners if the Federal Government, whose responsibility it is, would provide adequate ferries across the Strait. Also, he suggests, they might subsidize freight steamer traffic in New- foundland and the North Shore of the St. Lawrence, under the terms of our Confed-l oration agreement. Our insular position, now regarded as a drawback, could then he turned to full advantage. The Gulf areas are the natural markets for this agricultural Province, and our prosperity years ago was predicated on the assumption that developments in water transport would he of immeasurable advantage to us in this connection.

As far back as 1827 an English news- paper, the London Courier, outlined pro- posals for establishing the headquarters of extensive Gulf steam trawler fisheries in Prince Edward Island. It foresaw also a great expansion in the agricultural trade of this lsland from the employment of steam- hoats in the carrying trade to and from Halifax, Newfoundland, Cape Breton. the Gut of Canso, along the Nova Scotia shore, Miramichi, Gaspc and up to Quebec. This forecast of a century and a quarter ago

'was on the way to fulfillment beforel we entered Confederation. The dominating in- fluence since that time has been the big Central Provinces, and the advantages we enjoyed as an Island have been turned, against us by undue concentration on rail, transportation to and from those Prov-l inc-es. The trade was supposed to be reci- procal, to compensate us for what we were sacrificing; but we all know that it hasn't worked out that way, particularly in re- cent years under the imposition of increas- ingly exorbitant freight rate charges. Those charges fail with undue severity upon us by reason of our lack of competitive trans- port facilities. Thus we are penalized both ways for the failure of the Dominion Gov- ernment to implement its Confederation ob- ligations.

A worthwhile objective for all our par- liamentarians during 1953 would be to em- phasize this fact, as Premier Jones has been doing at every opportunity. It is fraught with tremendous possibilities, but it is only by united action, and constant endeavor to obtain a remedy, that we can hope to achieve results.

Less Aiisterlty In Britain

it is pleasing to note, from an exchange, that more cheerful prospects in the living conditions of the British people than those- experienced in the past twelve years are' foreshadowed. Gradually the war restric- tions are being removed. The drastic sys- tem of food rationing is under review with the object of deciding what commodities may be restored to the free list. The first product to be do-rationed'will be eggs. One of the chief reasons for this is the difficulty of applying a system which ensures equit- able application. People living in the coun- try have practically a free supply while city dwellers, restricted in the quantity that they may purchase, have resorted to such an extent to the black market in eggs as to make the system almost unworkable.

Meat is the food product, largely be- cause of the shortage in supply, which has had to be doled out in such small portions as to make it impossible for a family, how- ever large, ever to see a joint appear on the table. It has been rationed in amounts of a few ounces per head. Under a new agreement with the Argentine Republic, a shipment of a quarter of a million tons is to be imported in the New Year and ad- ditional supplies are expected from other sources.

The improvement in the sterling bal- ances, prdvided this continues, may enable the existing restrictions on imports to be lightened. The gold and dollar reserves rose in September by i'.5,000,000, by 1230,- ()00,000 in October and in November by

by the Government to I I ' to in .,tho. coonomic situ-

by lack of help that experiments at the Falconwood Farm with standard upright silos, the trench variety and enclosures running around the sides of the barn, the last named, which also do away with much of the work of feeding, proved the most" satisfactory. O 0 I

Buildings close to the highway provide a headache for the Department of Pub- lic Works. They cause snow to collect where it is least wanted and present a problem when widening of the road is proposed. Besides being a nuisance it is, of course, against the law to build close to the highway.

The Department of Public Works and Highways has disclaimed responsibility for determining when the ice is safe for traf- fic. The greater danger involved with cars5 as compared with sleighs and the more open winters now being experienced are reasonsl given for the Departments washing its hands of the highways over salt water.

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- Our neighbouring Provinces may well.” be amazed that we are engaged in a search for, of all things, rock. The finding of suitable rock for fill for the Hillsborough causeway, it is claimed by the experts, would greatly reduce the cost of building and maintaining that link as compared with the cost of building a suitable bridge. The precise location of the bridge or causeway will largely determine the route of some 44 miles of the Trans-Canada Highway.

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General James Wolfe, English soldier, was born this date 1727. He fought at Dettingen and helped Cumberland to put down the Stuart uprising in '45. In the Seven Years War he had charge of oper- ations in America under Amherst. He cap- tured Louisbourg in July 1758 and was giv- en command of the expedition against Que- bec. After a twelve weeks siege and on the second" assault, a surprise move in which he placed an army on the Plains of Abraham undetected, the French defend- ers were defeated. Both Wolfe and Mont- calm were killed in the battle.

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The Shaw Savill liner, Gothic, will be chartered for use by the Queen during the Commonwealth tour a year from now. The Gothic (15,902 tons and built in 1943) was to have carried the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh on their tour of Australia and New Zealand which was interrupted by the death of King" George VI. The Queen and the Duke” of Edinburgh will leave England in December, 1953. They will spend most of January, 1954, in New Zealand before visiting Australia where they will remain until early in April. They will visit Ceylon

on the journey home. ' 0 C I

Mr. Thomas Johnston in ”Memories". describes for the first time an event which occurred before the entry of the United States into World War II. A dinner in Glasgow at the conclusion of the visit by Mr. Harry Hopkins was attended by Mr. Churchill and Mr. Johnston. No indication had been given during the visit of the in- tentions of the United States. Mr. John- ston, who had formed a bond of under- standing with Mr. Hopkins on discovering that his grandmother had been born in the Scottish town of Auchterarder, assured President Roosevelt's confidential represent- ative that the gathering was informal and confidential, and invited him to address the company. Mr. Johnston recalls that Mr. Hopkins said something like this: "Mr. Chairman. I am not making speeches over here. I 'am reporting what I see to Mr. Roosevelt. But now that I am here and on my feet perhaps I might say in the language of the old book to which my grandmother from Auchterarder, and no doubt your grandmother too, Mr. Chairman, paid so much attention, that (and here Hopkins paused and looked straight down the table at Churchill) 'Wheresoever thou goest we go, and where thou lodgest we lodge, thy people shall be our people, ,thy God, our God, even unto the end'." Hopkins sat down in silence. Mr. Johnston writes: "Churchlll'o.c!yes, welled up in tears. Here was the first-news that the United gstateo was throwing ltstvuightt.-upon .theKA!ll9!d,

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Old Charlottetown (And r. I. 1.)

WINTER SPORT

"The Tandem Club-who have been cutting their fandangos through the streets of Charlotte- town every day for several months past-were socrely amazed at the ap- pearance of an opposition on Tues- day last. A number of young Me- chanics-gay, rollicking devil-may- care sort of fellows-had ten or a dozen sleighs. with a pair of horse.- in each-tastefully bedecked with pink ribbons, and paraded the streets with a fine accompaniment of music. The horses were not all perhaps, of the highest breed, but some of them were, nevertheless. showy bits of blood, and cantor- ed away in such adrnlrahle spirit, as if they were determined to show that the Huntley Club shouldn't have all the sport their own way."

A SUPEESCRIPTION

Look in my face: my name is Might-have been;

I am also called No-more, Too- late, Farewell;

Unto thine ear I hold the dead- sea shell

Cast up thy Life's foam-fretted feet between: .

Unto thine eyes the glass where that is seen

Which had Life's form and IIove's, but by my spell

Is now 3. shaken shadow intoler-

able,

Of ultimate t.hlngs unuttered the frail screen.

Mark me. how still I am! should there dart.

One moment through thy soul the soft surprise

Of that winged Peace which lulls

But

column back about page in. -T. D.

which magnifies with X-rays

-The Palladium, Feb. 22. 1845. at

f. Notes By if

It is true that even before atom- ic fission and airplanes and petro- leum, there were wars. although at the moment. we can't imagine why. - Winnipeg Tribune.

Kingston Whig an it doesnli consider a Hollywood divorce newsworthy unless it's secured during the honeymoon. We don't consider them news at any time. but occasionally one slips in as a 3-line filler, at the bottom of a

F. in Ottawa Journal.

A new type of X-my miuoscopc in- stead of light and is claimed to have great potentialities in inedi- cal research has had its first trials the Cavendish Laboratory. Cambridge. It was built. by Dr. V. E. oosslett, physics lecturer . in charge of the electro-microscopic section at the laboratory, in con- nection with Ottawa physicist Dr. W. S. Nixon who has been fur- thering his studies in England.-

U. K. Information.

In intematioxmlly - controlled Tangier, a United States consular court has sentenced on American to H. penitentiary term for com- plicity in the ramming and board- ing of -a Dutch motorship. The piracy that used to harass trade along the Bax-bery Coast is not. unknown today, it seems. But its special object, as this case indi- cates is the hijacking of American cigarettes. According to tales from this region. not a few adventurers find it highly profitable to buy a. shlpload of cigarettes at Tangier and sell them to smuzzlers off the coast of a. country like ltaly.-Ot- tawa Citizen.

A despaich from Tokyo reports that John L. Lewis has sent a cheque for 810,000 in support of the sixty-day-old nation-wide strike of Japan's Federation of Coal Miners Union. The chair-

the breath of sighs..- Then shalt thou see me smile. and turn apart.

-Dnntc Gtibrirl

ROSSCLIL:

What IfStalI'n Means ll'?;

(Ottawa Journal)

Nothing is easier than to pick holes in the statements which Stalin sent to the New York Times" James Reston. But. when the last hole has been picked, and after Stalin has been told (as President.- elect. Eisenhower has told him through John Foster Dulles) that it he wants to talk peace he should use "diplomatic or United Nations channels of communications", does not something, remain? Does there not remain the possibility that Stu- ltn this time could be in earnest, that there does exist at last some hope or chance for betterment which no standing or protocol nor habit "of scepticism should be per- mitted to destroy?

One of the tragedies of our world. it would seam, is that the heads of its divided atatu seem unable to talk directly to one another. as will Ohurchill and Truman and Eisen- hower next: month. Thus instead of direct communication between Sta- lin and Eisenhower. or between Churchill and Stalin, we have endless speeches by spokesman or other re- presentatives of various govern- ments. plus propaganda blast: from all sides. In such processes. faith and hope give way increasingly to cynicism and scepticism; we come to the impossible belief that the enemy is all black and we are all white. that all the devils are on one side and all the angels on the other. Ind that consequently there ianobope of trust oroompromluor ureoment of my sort: that the int wgd in with damltr.

nut our ,world H totiuurvive. if we on not to drift helplessly into the limb of dltruotian”. would be mung I i bhvl tilt.-int bottoyioq our ve,s,1(neo ,'.-l'9- Mtwiroiini nmlhslon .2 Mi WA

side.

lovicta lire beyond regeneration. Em

ltklln'lIIlftcl'Mbl0 ,o(rvonIm; pom

man of the Japanese miners' union announced receipt of the cheque just as the Japanese government had called for Si. fifty-day suspen- sion of the strike. Just why John L. Lewis should interfere in such a situation does not seem very

clear. The money he is sending over'there has come out of the American consumers who have

had to pay more for coal because of the unwarranted increases in wages granted American coal

peace, that every word on his lips must. be 9. lie?

sometime, somewhere at. some point. the world is going to talk peace; with somebody breaking the chains of distrust and cynicism and starting with bold faith the thing that will lend to understand- ing, or to greater hope for it. It we believe this then what could be wrong or lost. by Eisbnhower or Churchlll or somebody else of com- pnrable authority now addressing Stalin directly with words such as these: "We would welcome a meet- ing with you to discuss in good folthtan ending of the War in more: and the about

in; between your country and ours?"

Mr. John Foster Dulles, who will be Eisenhower: Secretary of State, says that if, Stalin "hu concrete proposals to make to the new Id- mlniotration other it tutu office. they will be seriously and sympathe- tically received".

What. would be terribly wrong with a few "concrete proponlo"

iTllIe WaxL

bx-instlnc , of good will, peace l.l'ld undentuid-

miners. So well he might, for in 1951 he levied a special assessment. upon his own coal miners that brought into the Lewis treasury S9(:t00.000 in one 'lump.-Boston P .

Tnxcd as they are the English people have lost all taste for sav- ing. As it matter of fact. what is the pom; i.n putting money aside if the State grabs the whole of it. or almost? Unfortunately in Can- ada a number of politicians want us. in our turn to take the left hand turning, that toward social- Lsm. If they were going to exper- ience more complete and definite successes in their projects than they have so far - for they have got nothing but checks - we also would not be long in spending more and saving less, much. less. because we would be more heavily taxed than we are now and would lose all incentive to save.--Mom treal Mlatln.

Two truck drivers. through open windows drove their trucks side by side along Queen Elizabeth Highway while a long line of traffic piled up behind,-have made the news Whie ti. glaring case, their Bcftlons are by no means so very unusual. There are a number of truck drivers who regularly disregard the rights of others just as these two. Fortunately they are not numerous. Most truck drivers. We believe, are courteous and careful. The audacity of the few, however. leads many to think such proced- ure is the rule with all such rather than the exception.-Owen Sound Sun-Times.

A grandson of Anthony T"-""9! pointed out to us that the .new Dominion Bureau of Statistic! Building stands on 'runney's Pu- ture and not, as was stated On the cover of the ivovember News, on 'I'unny's Pasture. Anthony Cody of the Department of Labor re- members when the PHSWN held animals owned by his horse-fan- cm. ma very Irish grandfather Tunney. Sections of it were rented to other people in different parts of Ottawa for their cows. and it was 3, great. spot for picnics. 1109' fires and such. James Tunney. A son of the original owner. SW1 lives across the street from the Pasture and there never Pu. been any doubt about f-he "9 in ”” name. Sorry. -Civil service News.

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5 ' ,. ' ' 1 . The Passing Scene lfy Dblervw ' A PEAR l A well known statesman, nys faith may be there is in us In that the peoples-of the world are some measure of fear concerning inn 3 state oicfear as they enter the inevitable end to all worldly ;l053. It is ewsad commentary on desires and hopes. But, mo, we mltl-20th century civilisation but are afraid of life. Probably" not,

i no one will doubt its accuracy. We lull know what. the man had in c 'mlnd and, certainly, fear of war 11 and its inevitable dire consequen-

the most. into it.

one person in ten thousand 1,

apable of getting th : fe or, for that mattfazxmcgf p:ltl'tt1:: often when, we

ces to all parties involved is ever ought to be shouting the pm”,

present with us. g

No competent observer of the iiiternational scene expects that ,any of the major powers will de- 'libera.tely provoke world conflict lthis year. But many are of the gopinlon that some chance incident might possibly set the world ablaze which, of course, would amount to the same thing. While the moral

change very noticeably from one generation to another, it must be said that wars are not as easily started now as they used to be. the former readiness to fight "at the drop of a hot", as the old say- ing goes. seems to be well on the way to extinction. This may in- tilcate good sense rather than moral righteousness but, whatever it is, I think it must be placed to the credit of an era which in most things is not particularly creditable. -

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Not a year passes but numbers of books dealing with fear come from the publishing houses. Al- most always they turn out to be best-sellers for the simple reason that practically everybody is in- terested ln a remedy for fear. While many of these books ap- pear to deal with symptoms rather than causes some of them really i

bu

of living we find the sad dirgea of

Employers fear the B.tt'M'xl.w the utlnhde unions, 58 H8 9 t. - . sltlon, mes” among Po influence of so-called capitalists.

lme and energy.

ourselves Singing melancholy.

In our normal political ma

business relatlonshl s fear altogether absent. D is nu" government: and governments tem- now the people will react to any particular policy. Indeed, fear 0; Public opinion mot. to be conjuggd with Ircspect for public opinion) atmosphere of the world does not had frequently been to blame for stagnant, leadership.

People distrugt

uninspiring political In industry fear is everywhere, trade unions. notwith-

stlll distrust and fear the

. . .. There must be very ievfpeupl. normal intelligence today who not in their better moments

fear the impact. of gross material. ism on our way of life. everybody will agree we can get away from the notion that B. man's life does in fact. can. slot. of the things he happens to possess there can be no permanent Wlbilliy or even meaning to such civilization as we have achieved. 1 am thinking here not of the dis- tinctively religious affairs of life

Almost that unlesa

t of everything we do with our In theory we

and are therefore

but whether they fearful afterwards to question.

War fear is, of peclally tormenting

mal picture, that they come into

fear. The little child alone. As he gets

ulsr, as their companions.

Teen-agers of ten

places upon us. We

go down to the root: of the trouble Thousands of people read them

not by any means the only kind of fear that plagues us. We might say, without overdrawlnx the dia-

conscious life be the time they go out of it, human beings are troubled, and in some cases cslptivated. by the spectre of

may wear off. Then, other fears, more terrible than the first, take its place. Most. children of school age are afraid. for example, that they are not. so bright. or so ath- letic or, in some instances, so class mates and In other words, they fear inadequacy. real or imagined.

ure of responsibility, and no won. der, since their elders n.re,gener- ally inclined to fear it still ' I-Iavingi reached physical maturity most of us fear the demands that responsibility for making 0. living

at ease in the present and the iuture is full of uncertainty, or so

have come to realize that "the life is more than meat and tho body more than rslment" but when it comes to particular cases involving ourselves as individuals we seem afraid to put. our faith in values higher than the material ones to the test. Somehow the material appears more tangible, more easily handled than the spit. itual. The things that are seem much safer than the things that might be: And. so it. goes all down the line.

of some value.

are any less than before is

course. an es- thlng but it is

from the time

some time ago I was to

' an intelligent man about various is afraid to be things and I happened to ask him a. bit. older this if he had read a. certain well known classic in literature. 1-fad I felt he was incapable of appreci- ating such 3 book I should not have brought. thevmntter up but- I knew very well that he could have read it with pleasure and prom, "No", he said, "I haven't; I'm afraid it would be too much my mc." Here was fear again in (me of its more formidable aspects, fear of a. little extra. intellectual effort. Because I knew him wen and had a. great deal of respect for him I suggested that he should take a chance. There was nothing het. could lose. o.nyw:iy,- iIt"Luf;je'a out that he did take a chance and some time after our first talk he volunteered the inftmnatlon thn

POP-

fear any meas-

more.

RIB XIGVEI quite

We fear in look beyond the mountains and to step into the unknown, but while we remain in the low. unadventuroua places, loneliness and a sense of the un- imaginative make us afraid. We are never quite content in the routine. humdrum things of me and often our souls cry out for new opportunities, new experien. ces, and new objectives. For all that. we afraid to explore new paths that might or might not bring us into more pleumt ma more satisfying situations. The shallow waters are unprodxulvg but fear and dread keep us from ' launching out into the deep. ms. trust, the blood brother of fear, often keeps us from experiences

be

It pe

the treasures of the sent.

we believe. the book he had feared would be too much for him had, in net, Riven him it new insight into his own business, which happens to

farming.

Of course! New insights are :11. Ways waiting to be embraced. New intellectual delights are eve; walt- ing for new minds to share them.

is only fear that keeps many ople from helping themselves to past. and pre-

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Mark well. 0 Job. heat-ken unto me: hold thy pence, and I will spank. '

End refresh ill.

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