i’. OE FOUR

THE GUARDIAN, CHAKLUTITSTUWN

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NOVEMBER 17, .949

THE GUARDIAN

Morning Daily (Founded tn 1M1) Authorized an Eel-om! Clan Mail. Punt Ofllca llenarllnrnt, Ottawa.

The lnlnml Guardian Publlahlng Po. lflnillnr nml Managing Ulrn-tnr, J. R. llurnolt. Alnurlnia Editor, l-‘rnnlt Walker.

__"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest ink"

EIIARLUTTETOTVN. THURSDAY, NOV. l7. 1MB

island Figures Encouraging

Figures tabled in the House of Com- mons last week showed that hospital beds per L000 population in Prince Edward Is- hind increased from 6.86 on Dec. 31, 1943. to 11.02.’ on Dee. 3i. 1947. This was the larg- est int-lease shown by any Province, as will he seen from the following figures, repre- senting the dates above given in each case: Nova Srotia. 9.01: 9.72; New Brunswick. 7.68: 8.40; Quebec. 9.14: 8.81; Ontario. 8.88: 8.87; Manitoba, 9.85: 9.76; Saskatche- wan. 9.99: 10.81; Alberta, 10.49: 10.06; British Columbia. 10.39: 10.06. While Prince Edward Island had much the lowest num- ber of hospital beds per population of any Province in 1943, it had improved its posi- lion over that of New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario. by the end of 1947.

lion. Mr. Claxton. in tabling the figures. said that data for the years 1948 and 1949 were not yet available. He complained of a lack of uniformity in the reporting of hos- pital bed capacity. due to the varying stand- ards in use and to the difference in the in- ierpretation of the term “bed capacity” in the various Provinces and at different per- iods. Nevertheless, the above figures rep- resent a very substantial improvement in this Province. in which all interested in pub- lic health and welfare will derive satisfac- tion.

An Antiquarian Opportunity

Antiquarians are curious folk who seek out lost cities in the deserts of Asia Minor, patiently collect fragments of Roman pot- tery and ancient coins amid the bombed ruins of Coventry or of Exeter, or the last resting place of Dick Whittington in the lit- tle Church of St. Michael Royal in old Lon- rlon Tovm. Our own history is brief by comparison but for that very reason it is the more important to seek out and preserve the record of early colonial days. A singu- lar opportunity for such research will be presented when operations commence in the clearing of a site for the new Federal Build- ing in Charlottetown. Old buildings will be demolished and the foundations of older ones laid bare and excavated. Not a great deal can be expected to be found, but what is there of historical interest should be noted and. if possible, preserved.

Unfair Discrimination

In requesting the Government to remove the discriminatory 8 per cent sales tax on newsprint purchased by dailies, the Cana- dian Daily Newspapers Association points out that this tax does not now apply to comic books and magazines, including the Toronto Star Weekly, and even to salacious literature. Only those papers carrying "spot“ news-that is to say, the live news nl local. Canada-wide and international happenings from day to day which it is the most. important function of newspapers to disseminate. are penalized under this tax.

The Association in its brief points out that in the last ten years newspaper costs have risen 95 per cent if: respect to mech- nnicai labour. and 125 per cent in respect to newsprint costs. The result is that niany newspapers selling at five cents a copy arc not even meeting their newsprint bill.

TraIFigures Analyzed

The big gap between Canadian export and import statistics, based ‘on inflated prices, compared to actual physical volume is revealed in the review of foreign trade for 1948, just released by the Canadian Bureau of Statistics. _For the ten year period between 1938 and 1948. the Bureau review shows that exports had increased by 270 per cent in measure of today's dol- lar. But in real, physical volume, the ex- ports were only 73 per cent greater, In the same period. while imports rose by 290 per cent in today's dollar measure they in- creased only 81 per cent in "actual volume. "The real or physical volume of trade in comparison to 1938 has not quite doubled," says the review. "Nevertheless, an increase in the volume of trade of such proportions ir a decade is quite remarkable."

On Page 12 and 13 of the review it is shown that, in terms of a depreciated dol- lar or inflated prices, whichever term one prefers. Canadian exports rose from only $848.7 millions in 1939 to $3,110 millions in 1948; that is, 3.7 times or 270 per cent. But using the'1938 index of real, physical vol- ume as 100. exports rose to an index of 172.9 in 1948, that is 1.7 times or about 73 per cent.

The lame is true of imports-they rose

h -f,ront_,86v7.5 millions in 193s to szssss mil-

ltogoin1848latodlx'idol1ars. uuiuwas

times or by 290 per cent; but in real, phy- sical volumes, from the 1938 index of 100 to 181 in 1948; that is to only 1.8 times or by 81 per cent.

I:DITORIAL— NUIIIS

A distinguished visitor to Montreal this week will be Sir Andrew lllurray, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, who will be a guest at the Ottawa Press Club Ball on Saturday,

November 19.

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Provincial current" indebtedness is in- creasing all across the country according to a recent survey of the chartered banks. A year ago such bank borrowings amounted to $20,500,000, this year to $40.000.0tl(l.

O O O

Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, born this date 1887; Commander- in-Chief of the British Forces of Occupa- tion in Germany and British member of the Allied Control Council, Germany; later Chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1946, in which capacity he visited Charlottetoivn and

had a rousing reception. I

Reaping prosperitys harvest. Canadians have salted away almost. 537.000.000.000 in bank deposits—but the banks are not letting the money languish. They've lent $2.400,- 0O0,000 to provincial governments, churches, manufacturers. miners, farmers, fishermen, cities, school districts and others.

O I O

Indirect taxes have been in the news with demands in Parliament that the actual tax on cigarettes be shown on the tax stamp. It might make smokers think more about the cost of government to see that on a 39 cent package of cigarettes all but 13 cents is tax, Federal and Provincial. Even that 13 cents includes taxes in one

form or another.

Summcrside is faced with the perennial problem of municipalities everywhere, that of making a fair valuation of real property. Permitting valuations to get out of line is exactly the same as applying different tar; rates to different citizens, and the diffi- culties involved should not prevent the re- sponsible authorities from doing everything possible to achieve uniformity.

The survey of industrial hazards on the Island recently completed by Mr. John Red- fern, Chief Safety Engineer of the New Brunswick board, will give industry here its first equitable rate scales for workmeifs compensation. The initial rates now in force were necessarily arbitrary. in this case based on New Brunswick experience. Now each industry can. by its safety record, affect its future costs of compensation. I O O

Back to two auto plates. Quebec Prov- ince motor vehicles will carry two licence plates next year for the first time since the war. Premier Duplessis announced that restoration of the second plate was decided at a cabinet meeting. The Quebec plates will be blue with white numerals and will bear one fleur-dc-lis, provincial emblem adopted in 1947. Since the one-plate sys- tem took effect during the war to save steel. Quebec cars and trucks. like our own, have carried only a plate at the rear.

O I O

All Canadian doctors are not in agree- ment with the British Medical Journal's views on the danger of the “miracle" drug streptomycin. Dr. C. A. Wicks. superin; tendent of the Toronto Hospital for 'l'ubc"r- culosis, says that. Canadian doctors were aware of the dangers outlined in the article but the present practice of using smaller doses had cut down the after-effects which resulted earlier when bigger doses were used. Dr. Burke of the Royal Edward Laurentian hospital. declares that great strides in refining the antibiotics were tak- ing place now in North America. He cited dihydrostreptomycin, a version with two hydrogen atoms added, which produced an equally ¢ffective but less toxic effect. "This new version is even less likely to cause ‘eighth nerve'." he said. “Experiments are also being made with aureomycin. chloro- mycetin, and neomycin which show great promise."

l O ‘I Ten years ago, on November 15, 1939. Canadian Military Headquarters was organ- ized and opened "for business" in London, England. . . Eight years ago, on Novem- ber 16, 1941, two Canadian battalions and auxiliary troops arrived at Hong Kon aboard the troopship “Awateu ‘. Six years ago this month, as winter set in. Cana- dian troops were fighting heroically as part of the British Eighth Army in Italy. On November 20, the Eighth secured control of the Lower Sangro River after a fierce battle. At that time, too. we ivere pasting Europe with everything we had and on the 21st, 775 Allied bombers paid a visit to Berlin. . Five years ago this month Canadian troops battling alongside their allies in Northwest Europe were closing in on Ger- many. On the 28th November the Chaudiere Regiment crossed the borders of that coun-

try—the first Canadian troops into Germany sinw the Great War 1914-18.

THE LAST U.-\\S

The l'ils£€i leanes of the syramoie Lie at lasi cn the \al‘.ey floor-- By the autumn wind swept to and fro

Like ghosLs 1n a tale of long ago Shallow and clrzi" the Carmel glides Where the will: "s rircnp r n its \'lll’.‘~ walled sides.

The bracken-rui l5 red en ihr lull: The pines stand brooding. sombre and still:

Gray are the cliffs. and the vmtcrs

SP8)‘. Where the seagulls dip to the sea- boru spray. Sad Novembrz". lady of rain. sends the gocse-siveage cvrr again.

Wilder now. for the vex-time's birth. Falls the sunight Over the earth; Kildces call irun the fields where llC ‘I

The handling blaclebizrls follow the plow‘;

Bustling ptplzu- and brittle weed Whisptr low lo ihe rner-rrcd.

Days depurtin‘: iiixPl‘ and siihl Stars come soon to the quiet sky; Buried voiccs. intimate. strange. i Cry it} body and scul cf Change: Beauty. eernal fugitive.

Seeks the home that. we cannot give.

v -i;r-tirge Stertn’:

speed» n-qpooqp-oo-Q-n 9 Old Charlottetown (And r. r. l.)

MARKET HOUSE REPAIRS Complaints about the condition of public buildings in Charlotte- town were not less infrequent in early local newupzrpers ih.-n they are today. The folltnvlng excerpt from n letter appearing ill the Colonial Herald of March lti. lllllil. refers to the old woodrn Round Market House. built with colon-

Quecn Square for upwards of hnlf a century:

"It is but a few years since th" Charlottetown‘ Market House was built—and a very costly building il. was; about two years since. it underwent a thorough repair. and if it remains any longer than the ensuing Spring without painL. it will scarcely be worth painting at all. Before anything else is done. however. the pillars should be so firmly fixed as to be no longer liable to fall upon any ani- mals that may be fastened there- io. and there ought in be hooks driven in them. for fasteninl bridies tn. Al present. a person is in danger. in going round the Market House. of these pillars falling upon him. as they are not fastened at all at thr- bottom. resting onlv on a small stone nn more fit for the purpose than n cobblei-‘s lapstnne.

"Dire plan I would suggest is. that the stalls be annually let b,’ auction lo the highest bidder. by which mean: a sufficient sum might be raised to defray all the ordinary expenses of the market. Had this plan been adopted at the opening of the market. it would by this time have paid off the amount of its first cost. as well as the clerk's yearly salary: but it is not ton late yet. and if now done. the few jobs l hav: mentioned as being necessary milht be paid‘ for in this way.“

ilur House Must Withstand liutilns All" Pllfiill!

The ilge-Uld Story i Q

Ceaocteooccictooeoctoctao.stooges

Then they that feared the Lorri spoke often one to another; and {the Lord hearkened ilIIfl heard ii; ,nnd n hook of remembrance wzvi , uritien before lllm, for them that ‘i feared the Loni and that. thought upon llis name. Anti they shnll he Mine. sayeth the Lord of hosts. in that (lay when I make up My jewels; and uill spare them. as n man sparr-ih his own non that. servcth him.

Vishinsky’: Claims iOttnuTnm Ci-tizenl

Tile claims advanced by Mr.

Yishinsky on behalf of iiic Russian - h

atomic energy program may be dismissed ns propaganda. "We inc raining mountains." said Mr. \'i- shinsky. "we are irrigating (le- seris: we are cutting through the jungle and the tundra." His claims parallel those of the Russian news despaich. a few days ago, that atomic equipment has been used for blasting in the Llrnl nnd Cau- Ifiliilllil moutziins and to divert tin: headwaters of the Oh mid the rivers for irrigation pur- The rlnim involved a lico- oi‘ a mere deer;

Yenisci i post-s".

crnphirnl discrepancy ilflfltl miles or so, hut what

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‘my, '§' ' ‘V, ;”';9'3"Q" " "o; i1 "jkigiw l PuBLiC FORUM i,’ this column is open to the (} discussion by correspondents l of questions of lnterelt. The Guardian does not necessar-

ily endorse the opinion of

i correspondent . .

E-Gfiiifiéo“

Sir. The diSSfliiSillPilDll with llhe leadership of the l’. C. Purly .whirh has been felt and privately grxpresserl for a considerable time n-ns bound to come to the surface sooner or later. it finally exploded ‘iii iile P. C. meeting hciri recently lin Charlottetown. and tin- deton- ation was quite ziudihle. P. C. leaders have ll(‘t"fl very unfortun- ,.'ite since 1045. R. B. Bennett. saw

iln that. His leadership was clear- (lisastrous to the party. It. is

true he illtained power at a very lunfuvorable time hut so did F. l). llioosevelt, Yet Roosevelt weathered lihe storm very ntlroitly willie Ben- ‘hell's defeat was overwhelming. lit was inevitable, because hr- had |donc little or nothing tn prevent ' Roosevelt look care he would be re-elrrteri and he was.

Ai that meeting delegates were iindliznnnt. because n provincial convention which hnd been prom- iseti-harl not been called as prom- ised and they expressed their feel- ings very plninl_v, They had been

|rleceived by the upper stratum of iihcir own party and they resented k askhvin. \\’hn were tho "traitors" in this “hm thgfl-zisc, the dcrclvr-rs or the deceiv-

1‘ . hm ‘lmdonfl, (omm, [NIT The antuver is obvious. An- llSfililllS T‘ ' ' -

, . -flillf‘l' i-aus of dis lezisurr- was the Iml explosions nf atomic chem)‘ p p

that matter when propaganda is

served? Whni Mr. lilo v.nrltl in

\’islun.<i\'_v believe is

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_. Notes By The Way

Born of war-time strides in mu- blle communications. the twn-ivay" radio for cabs tins spread so rap- idly in the United States that to- day, four years after its first t- on an experimental basis. it. l.“ b»- ing used in one-third of lllc lltl- tionfls taxis. Records of the Federal Communications Commission show "that the taxi industry lms; in-.e..l.- Cd nearly $33,000,000 in 2.703 d; - patching systems to brin’: 5.3.000 cribs quickly to home. office, [Ti- tnurant or other point of call. - Ncw York Herald Tfihlillr-

“is end dairy Pmducts

.' ' . e l1 . land are ideal fol-c gait]? ram? ‘iii the lakeheutl territory, A; t?“ "l u‘ation_of the three tnsmnsxilir expanding demands for inqd m" duct". will stimulate our 1 m industry. It is gugd armilii reventunlly we hall i, ent on lnlpOllZiLlOllSImiObintraal!‘

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(leniunrl. F‘ 1, Journal. m “Imhm “mes-

from L5,‘: increuw

l In 18.10. condition!

itlmt llir- ex [flan

lblfiil in humbling: distill“

nnlv about 40 “curs. Br i947 w Poplin: in the National own”- Vital Statistics. this fllllre hd risen to 156.3 years. ln other word“ uithln four generations the 5' DBCiflilOll of life had risen T about 27 years, or by (“o um.’ 110st of the grliu in expgaatlu" ;~l life has been made under a“ l50 for white males and under i’ C?) for white females. Fllfillétmpplge- these gains increase both 55mm

ly and relatively as one m“, figures from these higher u bark in birth 'l‘hus. a white?" hwy born in 1941 ma an ” prcltllion of life at birth o; 95d vrnirs, or f‘ yrars more than i3,

‘TGIF

Very few outsiders knnw that til-- future or Northwestern Ontu o? will be linked closely with a ulture. Tell that tn the aver Canadian and he will blink eyes in surprise. As n matter nf truth. many residents of this rec- lion of Ontario do not fully renllzt‘ the agricultural potentialities n1‘ the three districts. As one spear:- er pointed out last week, there me 1.000 square miles of excellent farm land to the north and east of the iakehead which have not been touched yet. Moreover. that land requires only l6 percent cleav- anca before it is l\'Ol'l(i"fl. In the Rainy River district, farm produce

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production is going ahenil by ion baby of i550. For while lama.“ and bounds. The erection of m the corresponding ficure for other elevator near Rainy Rh“! jvns 71v“ ypnr.“ 1H1, so

Mzrcuiei‘ than lint for W50. ropolitan Life Bulletin,

is just further proof of the llthilllrt‘ in grain growing. Shipments of

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‘ _ ‘_ ‘I H _ nliiTWliDlQili nf Angus hint-Lean. the in‘ "“|“'*"'"| "s" mm‘ w “In irlefenied rnntiiriiite in the election ,nf inst June. For my own pal" lr\\'t"l'_\‘i|llIl]Z l have heard about |llmi election lends to confirm the

as high exislosne is. used for bins!- in: in (Tunntin. The force lhni binslcil tho Iirnri nut of ‘iiiroshiltn

(‘Jill s-tirely blast nuny n ridge in tlv- Urziis. Ail that ("an he said for Mi‘.

Yishinskjr is that he is putting n coorl suprr-siriirliire of proimznnrln nn one of the obvious and ric- montnry aspects of atomic energy. ‘Htg American niumii" explosion Ill New hlexieo in 15145 sllggcsicti iiinl fission would hr- :\ new lndustrmi explosive, except ihnt nrflnne i< likely to think ihnt n $2.l'l0fl.000.00i hnmli is file cheapest \v:\_v in move

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The United Sinies has now been trapped by its policy of atomic secrecy. Elvin: Mr, Vishinskgv th~ opportunity to loss inln the voiil of public ignorance of atomic en- ergy hi5 sensational claims that ‘the atom is already n servant of Russian happiness nnd welfare. it. may make the Americans. the Bri- tish and the Cnnndluns look like pikers, but only to the unthink- ing person.

_But it is a serious mailer that. n5 n result of the stifling secrecy which the United Slnies has maintained on atomic energy. there is no informed public opinion 1o appraise Mr. Vishlnskys claims. Ii’ ihern were, the man in the street would say illui Russia must he short of dynamite- tn use pree- lnus plutonium tn binst. n river rhnnnel. nnd prohnbLv he would hr- righf. Canada iuid no (llfficuliy in diverting the Suguenny River ,intn lhe Shlpshuiv power plant during the wnr, and it ls still cheaper to do a ioh like ilmf with conventional earth-moving nnrl rock-blasting equipment.

‘it is only because atomic enr-rgj: hns been nn American top sorrel for sn long that the nvernsc litr- nnn will be impressed by the Vish- lnsky claims. Aside from military purposes. the real target of atomic research is to produce industrial power. Canada will have an ntomlr power plant operating in less than five years from now. Bul it will be many years before isueh a plant ran h» lmnstrurterl In displace central power station: of

lri-porl. that ho got n very shablx: ,nn<i n very reprehensible deal. This report is so widespread and general ihni ii must he regarded

as something more than mere ru- mor. Such lms been the treatment lnf 1| true patriot and a gallant I soldier. I Someone suggested ihnt ballots lhe liS/‘(i in determine the fnie of li'f‘l‘ifllll resolutions of confidence.