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Authorized on Second cl-u Mall mm 0ffi:o- Department, Ottawa. The Island Guardian Publishing Co.

President and Associate Editor. Ian A. Burnett. Associate Editor. Fflllk Walker.

CIRCULATION "Coven Prince Edward Island like the dew"

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

CHABLOTTETOWN. SATURDAY. MAR. H. 1953

- Marketing Problems

, ' The potato industry in this Province has

. been facing the embarrassment of a too

bountiful crop. Because of last year's war-

city and strong demand during the fall there was a ready sale of Island potatoes, so much so that already we have shipped as many as in a normal year and the farmer has received an excellent return.

The pressure of large supplies, however,

broke the market despite the best efforts

of the Marketing Board.

The Federation of Agriculture this week showed that it is wholeheartedly behind the Board in its efforts to maintain order- ly marketing of potatoes and has asked for 2 action to provide a similar service in re- " spect to turnips as well as using the

Board's authority to enforce its regulations. The meeting favoured, as others have al- ready done, the Government requiring

f trucks and loaders to be licensed before ex-

porting these products.

5 ' The Board has had a difficult period and it is perhaps not surprising that the difficulty of enforcing minimum price reg- ulations should have induced some mem- bers to advocate a single marketing agency.

9 That, however, would do away with the

i Board's reason for being. There would be

no dealers to regulate and the sole market- ing agency would have to buy all the po-

. tatoes produced and find markets where it

' could. The meeting did not give any ap-

proval to this suggestion but lent its sup- port to the regulatory Marketing Board and noted with satisfaction that Ontario potato men consider such a Board as the

. best answer to their marketing problems.

1 It was, perhaps, unfortunate that the

Federation meeting was held at a critical

time in the marketing season but that fact

certainly gives emphasis to the solid sup- port which farmers are giving to the Mar- keting Board.

Basis of Education

A warning to ultra-modern education- 5 lsts was sounded recently by Rt. Hon. Vin- cent Massey in an address at the 75th con- vocation of the University of Western Ont- ario. Part. of the "great menace of civil- ization is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots of Western culture,” said the Governor-General. He mentioned as the three sources of West- em civilization the Greek pursuit of truth, the Roman devotion to discipline and the Judaic-Christian spiritual insight.

"In this mechanical age," comments the Windsor Star, ”great stress naturally is placed on education of men and.women to take their places in, and contribute to, the tremendous material progress which is be- ing made. But that is more akin to train- ing than to education in the real sense. A man may be a great engineer yet under- stand little of the moral, social' and cul- tural philosophies upon which our society is based.

"Bricks and stones and mortar, and their modern counterparts in the field of electronics, atomic energy and other pre- sent-day miracles, all are very important. But the, real progress of mankind derives from the mind, soul and spirit. Thoughts, and the motives which inspire them, still . , are--and always will be--the true test of - , man's development. Educating men to think still is more important than training them to do. Many of the world's problems of today stem from man's capacity to act having outrun his capacity to think."

Municipalities-hid-Sdldsnlax

The. Canadian Federation of Mayors

and Municipalities is urging that, before the

' present federal budget is adopted by Par- liament, the 10 per cent sales tax should be tefnoved from all civic purchases. In all earlier appeal the Federation argued thus: "Since 1928 the sales tax has not Imposed on the purchases of provincial V V, menta, or of any railway, commis- slim, boardof public utility operated by or miller the authority of a provincial govern- ,” mint. .-Inasmuch as municipalities, under . if Act, represent the delegated pow-

' the provincial governments. it would '1okical,from a constitutional view- the principle of exemption

" government." .

has also pointed out that tax base is restricted and itirgontly require addition-

erally-imposed taxes, or both.

The national government's position. hitherto, has been that provinces and pro- vincial boards and utilities are not taxed because the Crown ought not to tax the Crown. But Ottawa does not recognize a municipality as the Crown, although the local body exercises powers delegated to it by a senior government. '

The distinction, comments the Ottawa Citizen, is too legalistic to impress most laymen. What seems important is the ,principle that one government should not tax another, at any level. However, in the case of the federal sales tax there may be practical reasons why the present structure should remain undisturbed. Exemptions tend to undermine the tax base. and caus- the rate to be pushed up. They also open the door to abuses. as the record of the exemption granted, to purchases by all hos- pitals indicates. There would be a risk of a certain amount of ”chiselling" by individ- uals were municipalities across Canada al- lowed to buy all sorts of materials and sup- plies without sales tax.

There is, suggests The Citizen. an alter- native approach. The federal government might make an annual grant .to each municipality in rough compensation for the amount of sales tax paid. Precedents can be found. The government pays a grant to cities in lieu of taxes on its own pro- perty; and it also makes a grant to the City of Ottawa with respect to diplomatic residences and offices, the property of oth- er countries, which cannot be taxed.

EDITORIAL NOIES Tomorrow, 4th Sunday in Lent. O O O

This weather makes one wonder whether we are having a late winter or an early spring.

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The Island contingent to the Coronation is growing daily. There are, however, a number of official representatives to be named, both government and military. With the number of private citizens also planning to attend, the Province should be

well represented. I

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The various farm meetings showed a ,healthy state of affairs. It is not always ex- pected that people should see eye to eye on contentious questions. It is important, however, that there is opportunity for free expression of opinion and mutual respect

of views.

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Several years ago the City Police and R. C. M. P. joined forces in a check-up of cars on City streets. This included brakes, lights, horn and general condition of the automobile. A quiet street was selected for this quick inspection. Each car cleared was given an OK sticker. The idea might with advantage be tried again this Spring. ! O 0 The increase in potato shipmentis crossing at Borden from 327 carloads in February, 1952 to 682 last month is a reminder that the present relatively depressed potato mar- ket did not prevent farmers from getting high prices for the bulk of their large crop. It is not unlikely farm revenue will actual- ly be greater than from the soaring prices at the end of the last crop year. I O O

Decidedly depressing is the possibility mentioned by the C.O. of the R.C.A.F. Sta- tion, Summerside, that the present special- ist navigation'course may be the last con- ducted at the station. The numbers 'of air- men may, of course, be kept up with the change to operational status but Summer- side's unique position in North America

will be no more.

Karl Heinrich Marx, founder of rev- olutionary socialism, died this date 1883. A German, he wds converted to Socialism in Paris, where also he met Engels, his life- long partner and friend. Expelled from France, he made his permanent home in London. There he and Engels published the "Communist Manifesto" in 1847. In 1873 appeared the first volume of "Cap- ital." A number of other works were pub- lished posthumously.

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The biggest factor in U. S. economy is that country's large and rapidly growing population. Directing attention to this fact, General Robert E. Wood, Chairman of Sears-Roebuck, points out that U. S. pop- ulation has increased by 2.5 million in each of the last three years. If this continues, U. S. will have 175 million people by 1960. The significance of such growth, as seen by General Wood: "It means that the factories of the United States have a con- tinuously increasing outlet for their goods; thab there is no over-production, but that capacity will have to be increased. It means that within ten years, the old problem of farm surpluses will disappear. with the pos- sible exception of wheat and tobacco." As pointed out by The Printed Word, the long term prospects in Canada are equally'fav-

out-able to the farmer.

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This column in open to the discussion by correspondent: of questions of interest. The Guardian does not necessar- ily endorse the opinion of turrespondents.

'ron.u"s QUESTION ' '

Sir.-Everyone has it on his lips. "Whither 5 o v i e t Intentions?" Where nre we to get a safe answer? Men like Churchill. Eisenhower and others who have sources of in- formaton closed to all but. high State officials, when they advise the public can be relied upon to indicate with fair accuracy in what direction the needle points. At the best it is like a shake of the dice: now you have it and now you have not. You know the old adage about the best laid plans of mice and men. Barely a month ago the lion. Mr. St. Laurent, Winston Churchill and other men high in State and Church were saying that the world situation looked brighter than it had a year ago. Then came Stalin's sudden illness and death and Malenkov, and the needle took a sharp dive in the opposite dir- ection.

One thing you may be Mr. Vishlnsky will never agree with you. If you say "This is a table." he will say ”No,it.lsa chair.” This form of dialectic is drilled into every young communist, to be used by him as a trick to confuse lizs opponent. You cannot. argue with a man like that. I'd prefer to be u dumb oyster. There is a saying that if you tell a. he often enough you will come to believe it. Vlferder. the German philosopher. tellslus that when Schiller or Fichte lectured -at the university of Jena the less the student of philosophy understood lthe louder he applauded. Hitler in his "Main Kempt" said that she bigger the lie insistently repeated the better chance it had of being believed. All of which are forms of mental and moral dishonesty.

I am not making the mistake of misjudging the level of the higher up Communists intelligence. They are master minds in international adroltness. The higher-up with all his limitations. his twsted ethics. his negation of all that the Christ- ian holds dearest, can make us

sure of.

feel that which cuts deeply: the adoption of our weaknesses, our failures. and our sins as his

weapons in his struggle for power. He wants to make it. come true that "the evil men do lives after them while the good is oft. interred with our bones." Above all he has a. fixed aim and he knows what he is aiming at. when he cups with Satan he uses a short spoon. Take any of these top leaders at random. say Molotov: you can bet your Sunday hoota tn t he has studied every known fa m of Com- munist or Servile State that has existed-studied them for pointers. Why? He's awake and knows that history is one of the greatest ways to discover the connections between cause and effect. Like causesbrlng like effects is an axiom as old as the hills. Mr. Molotov never gets beyond the secondary cause. Here he falls down and takes a. nap. never dreaming that he has taken a road that leads to nothing more or less than an utterly impractlc-f able utoplan scheme. while the Communist Movement is setting up the very things-imperialism and capitalism-it set out to destroy he wildly blesses and approves the progreza of its msslon :0 destruct- ion. Mr. Molotov is not just. funda- mental enough. The psychic world he worship: is a world of strong men and noisy machinery. I um. an-. etc. J. P. MCODOSKEY Ohnrlotictown

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Between us two. of course, there cannot be

The possibility of ownership.

I should as soon aspire to own the sea

Or claim possession of the fish that

its mysterious dlmness. darkly free.

A; call you mine; while you. with proper pride.

Would. never condescend to own- ing me.

Since self-possession keeps you

satisfied

This being so. you need not heal- talc

Througrh fear of my presuming, should you care To make mv home your own, and

contemplate

My hearthfire of an evening, while we share

The quiet understanding that

perfects A good relationship. in all respects.

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And in the second year of the reign of Ncbuchadnezzar Nebu- chadnezzar dreamed dreams. Then Arioch brought In .Danlel before the king In haste. and said thus unto him. I have found a man of the captives of Judah that will make known unto the king the In- terpretation .. . Thou. 0 king, saw- test, and l chair! a great Image. This great Image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. This image's bead was of fine gold. his breast and his arms of silver. his belly and his thighs of brass, his legs of iron, his feel. part of iron and part of clay. Thou nawcsi. till that a. stone was cut. out without hands. which smote the Image upon his feet that were of Iron and clay. and brake them to pieces. Then was the iron. the clay, the bring, the silver, and the gold. bro- ken to pieces together, and be- came like the chaff of the lum- mer threnhlngfloors; and the wind curled them away. that no place was, found for them: and. the stone that smote the Image be- came I. grant. mountain. and filled the whole earth . .. And after thee shall arise another kingdom infer- lor to thee, and another third kingdom of brass. which shall bear rule over all the earth. And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as Iron And In the days of thele kings shall the God of heaven let up it kingdom. which shall never be destroyed. -

Old Charlottetown and r. I. i. )

EARLY LAND SETTLEMENT

"A correspondent has favored us with an authenticated copy of a document. which. old as it is, will be new to most of our readers, namely, 9. despaich received by the late Governor Fanning in 1802, from Lord Hobart, then Secretary of State for the Colonies. rela- tive to the demands of the Gov- ernment; for cpiit rent, and the escheating the lands in this Island liable ,to forfeiture. Garblcd ex- tracts of Athls despatch we have occasionally seen, published no doubt to serve a particular pur- pose, but here we have it entire, and truly a most important docu- ment. it. is at the present mom- ent.

"It appears that the neglected and improved state of the Island had been brought under the notice of government, by the humble and dutiful representations of the House of Assembly, prior to 1802. and the result. I the application was com- munlca d to the Governor in the despatch referred to. No unnecess- ary delay took place in passing an Escheat Bill, as we find that in the following April it was trans- mitted to England for the Royal allowance.

"The proprietors. who. it may be believed, had not been inatten- tive spectatcrrs of what. was going forward. saw that there was no time to be lost. They could not help seeing, that if the Act went into operation. the game was all up with them. They knew that there was hardly a. township in the Island that had the number of settlers required by the grants im- der which they claimed. A large amount of the quit. rent, too. would. if the truth were stated, have also to be paid. one thing. however. was in their favour - the Governor was 5 large proprie- tor himself -and upon that they seem to have founded their hopes.

How they contrived to stifle the bill, and evade the payment of the quit: rent, has been hitherto a mystery. But. the dark veil which has so long shrouded their pro-

ceedings is now about to be with- -

drawn. According to our corres- pondent. a statement was transmit- ted to the Government purporting to be a correct account. of the number of acres settled and un- settled at the commencement of 1803, by which it was made to appear that even at. that day twenty-six Townships were wholly nnd twenty-five partially settled, making the number of acres actu- ally occupied in 1803. exclusive of the Towns and Royalties. 848,000 or nearly half the Island. What a. monstrous fabrication!

."A copy of this document has been sent up for insertion by the same correspondent, and side by side with it he has placed the statistical account. of the Island taken in 1327, a. quarter of a. cen- tury afterwatrda, by order of the Legislature, at which time it was

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T he Passing Scene

MARCH". 14. 1953

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evolved.

"If we had a change of govern- mznt things would be better". I friend suggested to me the other day, We happened to be talking about tun low prices which farmers are sew , for their potatoes, cat- tle, u!.cl other products. I really don't. know enough about the situa- ilon either to agree or disagree with my friend's observation. It set me thinking. however, about many things. one of than being the popular concept that seems to prevail with respect in the func- tlons of governments generally.

Apparently. they are given 3 measure -of both credit and blame which they do not always deserve. When things go right. it's the government that is praised. when things go wrong. it's the govern- ment that is blamed. So far I haven't heard anyone blame the government either in Charlotte- town or Ottawa for last. years heavy snows or praise it for the good winter We have had this year. but I am expecting to hear some- thing of the sort any day now.

All of which leads me to the conclusion that we have gone a lone way from the original concept of government as a groun whose 801a function was to make lawn fpr

the community. .

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In the very early days of the life of man there was nrbbablv no government at all in the sense we understand the term todav. Anarchy. which one eminent his- torian has called "the best. form of government." was probably the norm in the days of man's priml. tive innocency. And, so long as everybody was willing and able to do the right. thing. law: were pre- suma-blv unneccsary.

It should be stated. of course. that anarchy as a. philosophical idea. and anarchy as a weapon of violent men in modern times are entirely different things. The time. if it EV" existed. when "no govern- ment." was feasible did 'nnt last long. for the lnnocency of human life was short-lived.

The earllwt form of organized Zovernment of which hlatorv gives 3113' Tefmd was the nattrlarchal system. The head of the family ruled in absolute power and authority. His will was law. There was no appeal from it. Even today there are certain primitive tribes in Various parts of the world who live under the patriarchal system but. so far as we know. they are not making much contribution to zood mvemment on, the world level. The time may come when they will. There is no telling what the future may bring.

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As society became more complex the family became less and less the centre of law a.n'tl order. and new forms of government gradually

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changes and ndnvptatloriil, ha,;Y:rb11u the ollgarchlc (rule by me I " monarchic, and democratic 911" first his had quite an 1mp'm., is place in the story of man. but at? day there is only one sui-vivi - instance of it that 1. cg my nflf wwwwe- mac 1- .....:. Union and its dependencies. I

instance is more academic girhe realv amce "the NEW" becomc miII1l

Practice, one an ' -. . For an macngglemsurggietsidtgal. monarchlc system has ceased 1:9 exist except in a few -Small 5, t 41 but it lasted ll long time and 2-”: a large Portion of the earn. m

record was someti .. I” sometimes bad. Itsmehistfdi-is sand cessor. the limited monarchy ,(f,"i of the British Realms) heist as near .to the democratlii ideal of government as if world has yet been privileged

see. To be strlctl . must. be said that tiicrnccclii:l;'o,.l,'. been A pure democracy t,,.,,,.'.1. exercised by the people direcll except perhapa in the ancient stai of Athens and that for onw E brief period of time. The Anicricwa "town-meeting", where mumir" districts in some states decide (heal: fiscal policies and appoint, ,1”? local officials in open forum come! very close to it. re influence hm,-f ever. is much restricted and ii, is gradually giving place to the nor.- gllil ,rel1ubllc' idea, government y representatives. . I O C

It 26 mteresti to the beginning Hg: .ii""?..'.?.2i1,", government the chief function W.” that of making laws for the -chi. duct. or the community. E(;cn(;m"- co-operation in the way of pubpc gervlca -, mmuv t1'3n5P0rtation.

ealth services. etc. .- was a. later d"ei”l-7m9m- T0d8Y it seems to have. almost eclipsed the Original functions, so much. so that govern. ments are elected mainly on me strength of their undertakings to improve and extend economic and social services. Hardly any n. tentlon l5 paid to their ability or inclination to make good laws.

I strongly suspect that the cur- rent session of our own Leglslatu;-pl for example, will be justified or condemned in public opinion mt by any laws that might be mm. or amended but by the amount of mmey that is voted or not voted. as the case may be, for pub”,-, services of one kind and another.

There 1!. of course, a connection b3W96Tl 800d laws and adequata public services. but the two lune. hum of government are not by 9-U.V means indentlcal. And I can- not believe that popular confusion ill the matter is a particularly good thins. There must surely be as much need for -wise and intelligent laws as for the best public &E'l'VlCI'S that money can buy.

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