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CHABLOTTETOWN. TRUILSDAY. JULY 20. 1950

Welcome Visitors

The civic welcome tendered the group of over fifty former Prince Edward Island- ers who arrived last evening from Western Canada for an extended holiday was one in which all sections of the Province will join most heartedly. The "Spud Island Special" which conveyed the travellers from many parts of Western Canada to the Maritimes was very largely composed of former Island- ers, and no doubt the forthcoming Old Home Week and Provincial Exhibition in Charlottetown was a strong attraction.

The tour, arranged specially by the C. N. P... gives opportunity for many happy family reunions, and it is to be hoped it will be made an annual event at this season. It will add much to the success of Old Home Week to have this large group of former Islanders in our midst, and if they have brought with them others who will be see- ing the Island for the first time, so much the better. Old Home Week now is so pop- ular that it is being promoted in other Provinces, but there is no place which can compete successfully with this Island in a celebration of this kind.

Parliament's Prerogative

Prime Minister St. Laurent informed a Liberal party gathering not long ago that the Opposition, in asking for more efficient and intelligent handling of the estimates, was guilty of the double crime of ”copying the American system" and of "seeking a place in the Govemment." "The latest Tory strategy to upset the election results and get a place for themselves in the Govern- ment," said Mr. St. Laurent, "is to attempt to turn everything over to parliamentary committees. . . . This is an idea copied from the American system where they do not have our form of responsible govern- ment."

Coming from so eminent a legal scholar as the Prime Minister, such an utterance is hard to credit. For the very practice which he decries as an undesirable American de- vice is an established part of the process of government in the United Kingdom. For not only does the Mother of Parliaments at Westminster insist upon an efficient and impartial Public Accounts committee, but almost invariably insists that its chairman be a member of the Opposition and prefer- ably someone with previous treasury exper- ience.

In suggesting that Opposition represen- tation on parliamentary committees is a subtle attempt to usurp the powers of gov- ernment, the Prime Minister displays a shocking ignorance of the very principles of responsible government. For a close scru- tiny of the affairs, fiscal and otherwise, of the Government, is not only the proper function but the bounden duty of Parlia- ment, and in particular of the Opposition.

The power of the purse has always been the ultimate sanction of Parliament. Mr. St. Laurent's remarks provide further evi- dence of a trend which seeks to reduce Parliament to the role of a mere rubber stamp for Government policy.

iron curtain of Exchange control

The number of immigrants entering Canada has declined sharply in recent months. Total arriving in the first five months of 1950 numbers only 5,351, a little more than half the number entering the country in the same period in 1949. The drop is due mainly to the fact that fewer

'people are able to leave the United King-

dom for Canada because of the rigid ex- change controls imposed by the socialist government of Mr. Attlee. O

The Canadian Government is studying ways of increasing the flow of British im- migrants into this country. At the same time, efforts are being made to persuade the United Kingdom Government to allow prospective settlers to bring more money with them than the 250 pounds presently permitted by the British exchange control authorities.

It is to be hoped that these efforts will succeed. Canada has long been the first choice of Britishers seeking to establish themselves abroad. And Canadians wel- comethestabilitysndserlousneseotpun pose which characterizes the British set- tier.

Solution to the problem is restoration - tyofcurrencles, notim- by the Canadian tex- of Ottswsls economic

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EDITORIAL

NOTES

With a new president and a new club- house, the Charlottetown Tennis Club should really be "on the ball."

Egg and poultrymen are becoming ad- vertising conscious. The hen was away ahead of them.

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Word from all over the Island in- dicates the expectation and realization of bumper crops-a buyer's harvest and a sell- er's market.

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Veterans of the last war are being asked by the powers-that-be if they are prepared to volunteer if called upon for service in the threatened Third World War.

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Morell has shown that the art of old time fiddling is far from lost, notwithstand- ing competition from radio, films and re- cordings.

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More tourists than ever are on the move, which means that word of any unsatisfac- tory condition of travel or accommodation will spread the faster.

Distinguished and most welcome summer guests at the North Shore this week will be Hon. Angus Macdonald, Premier of Nova Scotia, and Mrs. Macdonald, who are due to arrive today.

0 O O In welcoming the advent of successful Islanders abroad on holiday bent,

Better lo'ed ye canna be-

Will ye no come back again?" is the sentiment in the hearts of all true Spuds.

0 O O

The Labour Protective Union are in the forefront of a movement for a marine slip at Charlottetown. It will serve a double purpose, provide means for repair of ships, and provide work for labour in the long off months of the year at the waterfront.

O O O

The Attorney-General is to be congratu- lated on his Departmentls stand against il- legal lotteries. Those who see nothing wrong with this method of raising funds should take steps to have the law amended. In the meantime it is right that it be en- forced.

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Francisco Petrarch, Italian poet and hu- manist, born this 'date 1304. One of the greatest poets of all times. His fame as a lyric poet rests on ”Conzoniere", sonnets to the mysterious Laura (whom he met in Avignon, and whose death he laments in his "In Morte di Madonna Laura", the lyrical story of one of the great loves of the worlds literature. Petrarch's influence on subsequent sonneteers was considerable.

The Little Theatre Guildls campaign for membership deserves every support, and that means joining by those who have the capacity or latent capacity to take part in the Guild's many activities. Apart from the fellowship which is perhaps the most rewarding feature for the active members, the contribution made by the Little Theatre movement to the cultural life of the city and Province places non-members very deeply in debt to this hard working and talented group. i

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Business conditions are likely to continue good through the end of 1950, a survey of industrial buyers in Canada and the U. S. shows. Mr. R. C. Swanton, chairman of the business survey committee of the National Association of Purchasing Agents, discussed the forecasts at the association's annual conference. Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, formerly chairman of the Council of Economic Advis- ers, questioned the soundness of liberal cre- dit policies which have spurred the boom in durable goods and housing.

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Six years ago, on July 20, 1944, a num- ber of German officers-some of them re- tired Generals-and a. few highly placed civilians, muffed a clever and audacious at- tempt to assassinate Adolph Hitler and overthrow the German High Command. A bomb, smuggled into a meeting between Hitler and his advisers, exploded almost at the feet of the Nazi ruler, killing or injur- ing a number of those present. Hitler, miraculously, escaped with only mlnorln- jurles. In the belief that their plot had suc- ceeded, the rebels attempted to seize the War Ministry, the General Staff and the command of the Berlin garrison. Again, their well laid plans failed. Hitler lost no time. Chief suspects in high quarters were seized and executed, and steps were im- medlately taken to carry out a purge of the army. Hitler took to the airwaves to lid- vlee his followers of his safety. At the some time he announced a number of new ap- Dolntmentr to replace the men he had had executed or removed: This done, he again crawled into the shell which had served to

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T HE GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN

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This column il open to the discussion by correspondent of questions of interest. The Guardian does nor necessar- ily endorse the opinion of wi-respondents.

CRAPAUD INCOEPOBATION

Sir.-After the severe scorching we received from Mr. Wotton in a recent issue of The Guardian we have finally screwed up our cour- age sufficiently to enable us to come forward and utter a feeble little chirp.

Since coming to live in Crspaud a few months ago we have attend- ed strictly to our own business. leaving other people quite free to attend to theirs. However. when irresponsible agitators get loose in a village and start advocating anything as insane as the incorp- oration of a small place like Crap- aud that is bound to involve the people in more and more taxation. this too is our business as it is the business of every property owner in Crapaud. incorporation involves taxation. Taxation follows incorporation just as surely and as naturally as the night follows the day. The opposition that has de- veloped and is still developing to this incorporation scheme appears to be a spontaneous uprising of a large number of the more thought- ful pecple of this community who are becoming aware of the den- ger that liu ahead.

We fully agree with the neces- sity of keeping the fire fighting equipment of this place in good order. The hose was ruined before I came here, having been used for other purposes than fire fighting. We were told. and by one of Mr. Wotton's henchmen, that the old worn-out hose was not renewed because the committee in charge attempted to levy an unfelr tax of 510 a head on the people irrespect- ive cf size of income. if our op- position to this incorporation scheme has disrupted the whole fire lighting system of Crnpaud and disturbed the peace and tran- quility of this place as charged by Mr. Wottcn. we feel it would be equally absurd to charge the people of South Korea with the trouble there. On the contrary. as recently as last Saturday we saw the Crapsud are fighting equip- ment doing servlce at a barn fire in Victoria.

It seems to me a most extraor- dinary situatlon to incorporate a small village in order to purchase a short piece of fire hose. Nor do we think it necessary to incorpo- rate in order that all may share fairly in the necessary village ex- penses. We do not agree either that a committee appointed to look after this work would necessarily prove more efficient under incor- poration.

We are greatly surprised at the type of men here who have fallen for this thing. particularly the farmers on whom this will bear most heavily. We are notisreatly disturbed about the immediate future. The alarming thing we see about it is that once incorporated it is in perpetuity. Al for ll W6 know there is no way out.

Now in regard to light. If there is one thing more than any other that Mr. Wotton needs it is light. We think the merchants or other business men of this vilue in their own interests might in!!!” some outside lights. This added to the pruent number of FPWIN lights we think would take care of that situation quite nicely Wilh- out incorporation. '

The remedy for the congestion of ti-mic that Mr. Walton com- plains of here lies we think with the parties who bencdt by this in- flux of people. We feel there could be no objection to Er. WOHOIN generous friends 'who are willlnl to supply free parking space if end when this place is lncorP0l" sled. doing so without incorporat- ion. We think Mr. Wotion respon- sible in quite a measure for this congestion of traffic. There is lit- tle doubt that I large number of people come in here to Crsvllld on Saturday nights for the ex- press purpose of still!!! I MOD Il- him.

"The more they gazed the more

the wonder grew

That one small head could carry

sll he knew."

Mr. Walter: makes much of the fact that we are incorporated un- der the Village service Act. not like the poor people of Reusing- ion and Borden who are under fhe ordinary Town Act. It is true that under the governing set here there is s protecting clause that makes it necessary for the cilia-

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money san be expended. Mr. Wot- ton knows. but failed to point out in his letter. that at a public meet. mg held here in Crapaud the Hon, Mr. Cullen in answer to s ques. tl0n by myself admitted the pos- libility of the deletion of this clause if the cummlnloners desired more money than the citizens were W111!-H! to vote. Remove this pro- tecting clsuse from the Act and you have left exactly the same Act that Mr. Wotton bemoans the Poor people of Kensington and Borden to be suffering under. The governing Act here is cop- ied from s Nova Scotia Act. I am enclosing a brief clipping from in Nova Scotis weekly, paper dated March 23. 1950. which deals with the we situation in a small incor- porated town in that Province. and which reads as follows:

"At a special meeting of the Town Council, held Monday, the tax rate for the year 1950 was struck at 36.25 per sl00.00 of as- sesment. This is a reduction of .25 over the 1949 rate. which was sd.50 per 3100.00 assessment."

Thls same little papar..thmugh the many years we have taken it has frequently given comparative tax rates of other small incorpo- rated towns in the Province. The story with all of them is very similar. This small Nova Scotia town contains at least three or four times as many people as we have here in Crspsud. With three or four times fewer people, with this protective clause removed. and over a like period of time we think it a fair assumption that the taxes here could quite easily be three or four times greater than those in that town.

These taxes are comparable to a rolling snowball. The further it goes the larger it gets. And the larger it gets the faster it goes. We would very much dislike to see the children of Crapaud left a legacy of an abomination of heavy or uncontrollable taxation.

The 50 cents a head Mr. Wotton seems so perturbed about losing will be paid by the Government. if at all. only after the people of Crepaud have contributed of their own funds towards certain ser- vices. '

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INDIAN MUTINY RELIEF

”Al a public meeting of the in- halbitants of Queen's County con- vened by High Sheriff D. Mclsaac in the Court House in the Colonial Building on the 13th instant. a subscription list was opened in aid

. of the European victims of the

diabolical outrages perpetrated in the mutiny in Bengal. The fol- lowing committee was appointed to open a correspondence with the central committee of the Indian Relief Fund in London: l-Ions. James Warburton. Col. Swsbey and Joseph Hensley; C. R. Coker. G. W. DeBlois. Stephen Swsbey. T. H. Hsvllsnd. Thomu DesBrlssy and J. Rlgg. Esqs."

-People's Journal. Oct. 18. 1857

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TEE MOWING

This is the voice of high miasum. more heat.

The rnsping vibrant clsniour sons and shrlils

o'er all the mendowy range of shadeless hills.

As'"li "(host of glanficlcsdieilfdal.

The cymbals of their wings with tireless feet.

or brazen grasshoppers with m. umphsnt note

From the long swath proclsimcd the fate that smote

no clover and timothy-tops and mcadowsweet.

The crying knives glide on; the

green swath lies. And all noon long the sun, with

chemlc ray. Seals up each cordial essence in Th its "cell.

at the dusky

winter's day. The spirit of June. here prlsoned

by his spell, May cheer the herds with pu-

ture-memories.

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Canned Pofa toes

(Windsor Star) The canned potatoes now issuing from a processing plant in Essex

There is another item we feel sure has not been overlooked by Mr. Woiton although be neglected to mention it in his letter. This is the salary that is attached to the office of secretary of thcCom- misslonevrs when appointed. This money if spent for the purchase of fire fighting equipment we think would be much more profitably used.

There is I very strong tendency for matters of this sort to fall in- to the hands of a certain class of people who are much more pro- gressive thsn wise when it comes to the expenditure of funds that belong to other people.

Mr. Wotton was certainly un- fortunate in his choice of s slmlle when be likened the people of Crspsud who failed to agree with him to drones in the hive. We are sure your readers. end per- tlculsrly the ones living in Crop- sud, will not fail to appreciate the humor of this coming from Mr. Wotton. .

We would warn residents of other I-nsll villages in this Pro- vince sgslnst rushing into this in- corporation scheme unedviscdlyu has been done hero in Crspsud. "if in doubt don't do it." Beware of glib tongued agitators. Espec- lslly svold any who have nothing of a useful nature to occupy their tlmc; masquerading under a clock of patriotism and good citizenship, sod with probably an sxe of their own to grind.

We think sufficient has now been said to fully clsrify the issue. We will not willingly enter into a prolonged controversy with any

one.

We wish to thank you, sit. for your courtesy in allowing usspsce to express onnvlcws in your valu-

able paper. I am. Sir. etc.

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mm um: was received ......;:w the nutter of the Crepsud pleb- a

County may mark the beginning of one of our more important Can- adian industries. More than that, if it proves successful it will be a notable step in the feeding of In often hungry world.

The potato is one of the more important srticlu of diet. In any comparative test of basic food- stufb it will rank close to wheat. Yet the palate is in s strict sense a highly perishable prod t a feet which limits its usefulnss as a world source of food.

While it keeps ressonsbly well through the fell and winter months under good storage conditions, it tends to become withered and soft as spring approaches. The old sup- ply bsrcly meets the new crop.

A cnnned potato that will retain its quality indefinitely csn bridgep

.snd nobody minds.-Film actress

Notes By It's s tremendous sdvslltlle to

be I blonds. A blonds can say any- thing - even thosilliest things-

Celeste Helm.

The duties of Second secre- tunes are to enlist First score- tsrles and to direct 'i'hl.rd secre- tnries.- Aiisi':rslfs's Official Ges- etiae.

--s The highest legsl speed limit we know of in this country is that of seventy m.p.b. on the Pennsyl- vs.nis Turnpike. -Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Any inclination to turn Quebec into a spam or , Portugal within the confines of this Dominion will split the country with s fury that will not shots for centuries. Quebec. which hss prospered un- der tolerance, must learn that Canada's freedom of religion and civil liberty does not stop at her boundaries. - Peter-borough Ebr- smlner.

Those who defy decorum and sit comfortably with feet up on desks will be gratified to hear that the practice has been approv- ed by a member of the medical profession. The doctor ntends that the position is beneficial to blood flow in the legs. and he points out that women who very seldom sit with feet up have much more trouble with varicose veins than do men who are inveterate followers of the feet-on-desk schocl of thought. Give us more doctors who can Justify our weak- nesses.-Brockville Recorder and Times.

Stephen Trenh. Thornhlll sculptor, who came to Canada 20 years ago as a Hungarian immi- grant, has won a nation-wide con- test, and 31,000. for the design which will appear on Canada's 1951 " '. His comment is: ”It feels good to know that I have done something for Canada be- cause Canada has done A lot for me. This is 3. great country which gives an opportunity to all immi- grants. It should indicate there is a place in Canada for foreign- born peoples." The fact is that Canada has had little trouble with its foreign-born peoples. The ac- tions of one sect of the Doukho- bors cnly serve to emphasize the unususlncss of their special case. On the other hand Canada has gained many industrial and cul- tural skills from the non-British immigrants who have come to our shores and made their homes among us. Each nation has its own virtues. its own accomplish- ments. They can all be woven use- fully into the Canadian tapestry. -Toronto star. ,

....We are pl foundly grateful to the Savile Row tailors for their klndly advice about how to wear

JULY " 20. 1950

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time that the second day we wear I suit it gets to lock as if it had been slept in - as indeed it some. times has. This. Ssvlle Row ex, plains. is not becsuse it isn't good -1u' Just about the best that my little can buy-it's because the suit isn't getting enough rest. Ap. psrently, when we sleep in it. we msy be resting but the suit isn't. It had never occurred to us um clothing needed rest, just like peg. pie. But. yes; saviie Row says ., eult needs seven days rest after one wearing. "You don't," say, this arbiter elcgantlsrum. "see the King wearing the same old blug serge every day." No, indeed. and when we get to be king we're go, lng to have eight suits so that each can rest fcr seven days be. tween wesrlngs. It's all very sun. pic: all you have to do is my. eight suits that the moths haven't got at. - Montreal Star.

If one of these Inlllllncnnblq busy bees that go about asking questions for the poll organiza. tlon were to enquire of most of us what affliction keeps most peo. ple away from work for short periods, the answer would-. zen to one -be the common cold. 1. would be wrong. At least (hf Health League of Canada says 5; and it ought to know; because, among its many activities, it doe. some polling of its own. The Health League says that sunburn causes more absenteeism than anything else and cites a reccrd of 50,000 workers absent from work on an average day during mg war from this cause alone. Every week-end, particularly during July and August. a multitude of peopig are out storing up t.rcuble- some of it pretty acute -- for at least several days to come, by exposing their uncovered bodies (or the greater part of them) to the full strength of the undiluted sunrays often for hours at a time. Take it In small doses. says the Health League. a few minutes at n time until the skin begins to develop its own protective coat of tan.-Mon. tr-cal star.

HARBOUR CRASH

DURBAN. South Africa. July 19-(Reuters) - Angle” timing from a pier at the entrance of Durban Harbour today saw in. 5.000-ton British freighter Inver- bank crash head-on into one or the concrete caisson: which form, ed part of the port's wartime sub. marine defences. The vessel's star- board side forwnrd was damagnd,

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