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eAci=._'r0ui_2_g_ ___ g THF. GUARDIAN

Morning Dally (Founded in 1887.. Authorized as Second Class Mail. Post Office ' Department, Ottawa. President. inn A. Burnett; Vice-President, Wm. f. Burnett; Sccy.-'l‘rcus., G. M. Burnett; Editor and Managing Director. J. it. Burnett; Associate Editor. Frank Walker.

T____*__*~_W_ .w W_.~_;~- "The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than

the Weakest Ink."

i‘ jiiili’. vials. 173, 1948M

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“Yesterday's Elections

A gratifying result of yesterday's civic elec-

tions was that d:spite the lack ol a Mayoralty _

butt-lg, there was a large turnout of voters and the contest was keen in most ul the Wards. Th1: is attributable in part at least to the otfortsla the Charlottetown Emmi cf Trade, in urging every elector to "gct out (incl vote."

. The Qnly twain; .b:rs cl the retiring Council who had been re-elccted as Councillors in 19413- Messrs. Dougan and LcPage—werc not in i113 running yesterday. Four of the eight memberS of the- last COiIHIIl, however-Messrs. COX. Farmer, Lowtlier and 5tewort~were re-elected yesterday; a fact WlllLll, taken in coiigunctien with Mayor Nlucllcnalilr. election by acclama- tion, establishes ii pretty good record for any outgoing Council H _

For the next [v.0 your; the "Old Guard will. with the M“,..-..l< costing vote, be iii u nia|orily. But there will also be four active newcomers- Messrs. Holland, O'Donnell, Doyle and Johnstone __to fill the role of the proverbial new brooms, and keep ccbwchs from accumulating as they are opt to do when; elective bodies become too firmly entrenched. g _

The some applies to the Water Commission, which will lirivc IWU new menu-Messrs. Bevan and Curran~on tli-c Board for the next two years, along with an experienced colleague in the person of Mr. Gillis. _ _ _

While congratulating yesterdays victors, it is

. but fitting to commend the efforts of all the

defeated candidates, three of whom; Messrs. MacDonald, Noonan and MacKinnon, failed in being re-elected. That is a common misfortune in elections, Provincial and Federal as well as municipal. Sometimes it happens for reasons which appear to have little or no connection with the services rendered by men in public office.

Gleziiiliness of Eggs,

Canadian farmers know that washing eggs to clean them is not a good practice, as it only helps to make the eggs go bad more quickly. ln- stead they rely upan the cleanliness of nests, and in this way avoid the penalty under the Canadian egg grading regulations which places washed eggs into Grade C at a loss of from l2 to 25 cents a dozen less than Grade A Large.

But this regulation is not nearly as se- vere cis the penalty which confronts the lrish farmer who washes his eggs. Back in 1941 the lrish Department of Agriculture introduced pen- alties of a fine of $40 for the first offence and an $80 fine and up to three months’ imprison- ment, or both, for the second offence. This drastic legislation quickly reduced the quantity of dirty eggs being produced, and curbed the attempts to wash them. Now dirty eggs receiv- ed from lrish producers average less than two per cent rind sometimes less than one per cent.

Hopeful Eciihomlc outlook

I947 was the most active peacetime year that Canada has ever experienced, and Canada's production ol goods and services was "signifi- cantly larger" in i947 than in 1946, states the Monthly Review of the Bank of Nova Scotia.

Production is still lagging considerably be- hind demand, and this factor, influenced also by the economic picture in the United States, where demands are still strong and no slackening op- peors in prospect, has contributed largely to the continued and increasing high cast of liv- ing. "Gcod crcps on the continent, and even more so in Europe, during the coming summer would represent the most constructive check to the price boom that could be hoped for," the Bank Reviev/ declares.

But Canadians are still asking considerably more of their country's capacity to produce than is reasonable to expect, says the Review. "All at tlie some time, we in Canada attempted to im- prove further our stawlard of living and to make up for the wariin: lack of outomcbiles, refrigerators and other durable goods: we dc- mandcd more new housing than ever before; we tried to replenish and build up rapidly our in- vlntories; we proceeded with projects and plans for expansion and improvement of plants, farms, find other physical assets on rin unparalleled scale; and we assisted our overseas customers by shipping a substantial portion of our exports to them on credit."

Generally, the Review believes, in spite of the excessive demands and rising prices, Can- ado l! facing up to the problems more realistic- ally tlianln the last twpfboani" years. Tlie ex- eltange-prablem i‘: nordiisuperable, and "the longer-term prospects for reducing our U. S. dol- lar deficit are in many ways quite favorable."

. \ , ‘Ilia Federal Theatre Tax

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~ < “Otis war tor. which has served its purpose

Jnd which should now be cancelled by the Fed- oral Government, suggests a Vancouver ex- strange, is the "war emergency" 20 per cent tax

M eyi motion picture admissions.

tall was imposed early iii the war on _ ‘stlng-Yproviiiciolamusement fox. Con- Jialil- it eliurfulliy. throughout the war i? y or‘, Mien, but they‘ should" ‘ iipini to ,5 its rife peacetime. . ,i"uti tftail-iiietiiflr‘ ti) illinm

up“ ‘_ g ‘fiftieth mo. worried

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‘lic._-Tliey pledged not to increasb their admis- sion prices for a period of 12 months following withdrawal of the tax. The proposal was made

Exhibitors’ Association, representing 13,000 of the 1379 motion picture theatres in Canada, with an attendance of 4 1-2 million persons sacli ivcek.

Ottawa, which has not shown undue haste in removing its special war-imposed taxes, has moved in the right direction by reducing per- sonal income tax and by removing the 8 per cent sales tax on gas and electricity. The Fed- eral tax on theatre admissions should likewise be cancelled without delay-irrespective of the fact that municipalities and provinces may be await- ing around the corner to pick it up, as prov- inces did when the Federal authority abandoned the wartime tax on gasoline.

— EDITORIAL NOTES --

ln whatever direction the United Nations Organization turns it runs up against the some indispensible need -— on armed force to give effect to its decisions. The Palestine partition committee is facing the problem in an acute

form. O Q Q Q

Depressed conditions in Helffex as a re- sult of low freight rules to competing Ameri- can ports will be duplicated in the Moritimes generally if the award of the commission puts us at a further disadvantage ip shipping to Central and Western Canada.

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An exchange notes that the average Ameri- can income rose 47 per cent from 1939 to 1946 while the average non-American income fell by at leastone-third during the some period. Tak- ing into account the pre-war difference tlie present ratio between American and non-Am- erican income is given as 14.1 in favour of the average American.

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Mr. J. E. Gregoire, director of the Union des Electeurs Party, states that his party will pre- sent a candidate in each county in any forth- coming Quebec elections. He added that the organization was not affiliated with any other party.

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As is not unusual in political circles, Min- ister of Finance Abbott sometimes uses words in the opposite to usual sense. In reply to a question he denied that the government had mode a grant to the Canadian Association of Consumers. Tlie reply was "categorical," he de- clared, because "$15,000 liad been alloted to be spent on behalf of‘ thpt prganization."

Stocks of potatoes ore very low in many parts of Scotland and there is a tendency to blame. the farmers for holding back supplies for the higher price later in the winter. A spokes- man for the farmers, however, denies any such policy and blames the shortage on low stocks, cold weather which does not permit movement of potatoes and other transport difficulties.

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l-fldY 111M Grey, the "nine days‘ Queen" of England, beheaded this date i854. Tlie grand- daughter of Henry Vlll's sister, Mary, slie mar- ried Lord Guilford Derby, whose father, the Duke of Nortliumberlarid, influenced Ediward VI, who W05 rapidly failing in health, to nominate Lady Jone as his successor. On his death in 1553, slie came to the throne, but very reluctantly. Mean- while Mary, daughter of Henry Vll, rallied her supporters and caused Lady Jane and her hus- band to be thrown into the Tower; the Duke, of Northumberland was executed without delay, and the innocent Lady Grey and her husband were sent to the block svix weeks later.

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Mai-Gen. G. R, Pearkes, V.C., (PC-Nanci. mo) suggested in the Commons that imperial vet- erans of the First World War in Canada should be granted ‘pensions. "Those men came here and raised families and many of their suns and daughters had served in the Second World War," he said. "Those men have taken out citizen- ship papers. They are Canadians now and what does it matter whether they wore the maple leaf or not in the war. They are the men who made the Canadian stand at Yprcs possible. They are the men who took the brunt of the first enemy gas attack and some of the fiercest-of the ene- mies’ onslaughts."

The Government's contribution of $15,000 to the Women's Consumers League which raised ruc- tions ovcr the high cost of living, may have its origin in the discovery of the Government's own incompetency to deal with the situation. The more serious aspect of the Government's pro- posal for a committee on the cost of living is, says The Gazette, that it comes near to an od- missiqn of failure. In his defence of the pro- posal, Rt. Hon. J. L. Ilsley said that it was libped that the ‘committee would provide light for the Government, among others. But this is near to a confession that the Government, with all its od- visers, experts, clerks, investigators, legislators, tiles and documents is still sifting in a consid- erable degree of darkness. '

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United Kingdom farmers carried off prizes in a ploughing match against a team of Can- adian champions held in Yorkshire, January 30th. There were classes botli for tractor and for horse ploughing. Tlie manager of tlie Can- adian party, who is the President of the Ontario Plougliman’: Association, spoke of how de- lighted they have been with the trip. He soiii: "Tliere is no mistaking tli good this kind of thing does. Tlieu boys are going to take back with them a grand impression of the Old Coim- try. Everything they have seen has delighted them and lliey are going to talk plenty, about it when they get back home‘. This is tlie way for our countries to out Nfllfllih-IMIIXGIOIIQI of menileinj s jeii of wilt-end ‘ lit-lap tejkiiew ma,» its numbers." it is. sped that, tlis

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by the notional committee of the Motion Picture’

In the fled 1O months of 1N1 milk prices increased 70 percent During the some period flutd milk purchases 1n the Ottawa-Hull area dropped 1.870.000 quarts. or slx percent. and the fluid cream, ‘f1.- 280 quarts or more than seven per cent. + Ottawa Citizen.

' ‘ bought l0 million rabbit feet. lost year, Lo bring them luck. The feet cost. from iii cents to five dollars each. One could be led to the eoncluslor that. the luckiest were the busi- ness men who marketed an.- charms. - Fort Williams Times- Journal.

Typleal ia the experience related by a. Reglnlan who visited 1n Min- neapolls last summer. Driving lnhl a filling station, his license plate attracted the attention of the at.- LCIIGSJIL. “Sasksticliewan- That's some plus in Canada, isn't it?" the attendant enquired. Assured that 1t was he asked. “Maybe you know my cousin Homer? He lives lrs s town called Ottawa." — Reg- lrm header-Past.

A social club to help London par- ents visit. their children in Canada and the United States is being organized by Mrs. Martha Flticliard s London mother. “When the clan zeta going". lsld Mrs. It'll-chard. "we shall hold weekly social fun- ctions to raise money which wlli g-o toward paying our members‘ passage across the Atlantic and helping them with their expenses on landlng." - Amherst News.

Tin famous Lloyd George's sou. his successor 1n the earldom. has arrived 1n the States on a lecture tour. He announces on landing that he has come to seek life, llberety and the pursuit of happi- neu which. he says, are not. ob- talnsble in Britain under the most. inefficient and incompetent Gov- ernment. slnoe the reign of this Stem-ts. Bright ladl He knows just how to introduce hlimaelf (flattery ’ri‘ everything) to the greatest cap- italist country on earth - Toronto Star.

Shortly lift the rall- rosds were nationalized, a house- wife wrote to the engineer of the 6J0 out of Hastings and asked 111m to toot his whistle as he passed her house 1n order to walr- en tier husband for work. Ker re- quest. has been granted. When socialism defends state owner- ship by saying slut the nation- alized enterprises will "belong to the people," 1t seems they are

Lenten Meditations (ham The Times)

lOPI BEGINS

Through tihe first proclamation o! the Christian message hope spread throultiout a world which was nearly hopeless. In that world men were bewildered; but these Christians were sure: men were suspicious; but. within the Church age-old barriers were sur- mounted; men were afraid; but. the Gospel bred generations for whom even death had no terror. Belief in a world to come gave new importance to behaviour 1n the present world.

St. Paul could tell his friends 1n Phllippl that. their citizenship was in heaven: in a place where other: proudly claimed the rank of Roman citizen they were to show their heavenly citizenship by living heavenly lives. The fear of fate and fortune by which the ancient. world was obsessed, the sense that: life was futile, were dlspelled- " of the blessed hope of everlasting life every mean task and every passing mo- merit possessed an eternal signi- flcsnee.

In the virorld oi’ today men are bewildered, suspicious, afraid. Haw can this be changed? The Bible says it. can be done by standing firm and looking. for encourage- ment t-o the scriptures. The world needs men who l-uwe this Bible view of life; whose citizenship 1s 1n heaven. There 1s no reason why the niunber of these should not be multiplied in the present day. Reformation theolOBY. Ren- aissance scholarship, and inspired literary skill once made England the nation of s book. Illltente men crowded to hear the Bible read aloud.

Scholarstslm proffers an under- standing of the Bible dented to the Puritans. Translators have put the New ‘testament lntio modern idiom: so that. ii. man can rend one of 5t. Paul‘: letters through _a sitting. discovering it to be a real letter written to a. llvlniv commun- ltv, and that the questions with which 1t deals are strikingly like those which men are asking to- day. The tools are available. The failure lles with those who not handle and use them.

;§ PUBllC FORUM y This eotilmn h ops ta- tho dine-Ion by serm- 1. apondenh - interest. The Charlottetown , Guardian iloea not measur- gglly endorse the opinion o!

w. respondents.

ready to llve up to their ,.

when some of the citizens take them literally — Kitchener-Water- loo Record.

"f wiah to express my humble gratitude for the supreme and ab- iding hapipin that has been brought into my life by the de- voted love and true comradeship of my darling wife” who ever since our- marriage ha: filled my heart with peaoe and sunshine, and whose utter trust, perfect understanding, true counsel and sure, tender sympathy have never once felled me nor weakened with the passing of’ years." -- From the will of Viscount Dee of Fsreham. who gave Chequers to the nation as an official country home for its Prime Ministers — London Dally Mall.

The design and manufacture of plastic wontact lenses and all- plastic artificial eyes are the ven- ture of George Lucien Dorlmont. a. veteran and optometrist at. Victoria. B. C. Darlmont. was an honor graduate of the College of (Jptometry at the University of Toronto in 1938. winning the gold medal scholarship. He started dab- bllng 1n making contact lenses in 1942-71. and later directed his research toward alllplastlc eyes. Discharged tn 1945. Darlmont soon had his work on the market. He makes eyes to order for patients right on the premises. — Veterans Affairs. '

0n sandy shores and islets of sasknfeiiewim lakes the families of droll-loolrlug white pellcans are hatched-preferably on islands. for tiiie surrounding water provides protection from hungry coyotes and foxes. So bare of feathers are ‘the nestling: for many days that. ease of severe sunburn are not uncom- mon. These birds with their enor- mous orange-colored bills and feet to match are of extslnely ancient lineage, as their grotesque appearance sugiests. It has been claimed. indeed that they soared over Western Canaan before the Rocky Mountains ere born in stupendous upheavals, and that. they were contemporary with the long-vsnldhed Dinosaurs. — Royal Ontario Museum News.

Whore are the folks who long for s lood old-fashioned Winter. when the snow comer early and sflflllfll right through wqthaub any January thaw? Let. them stand up and be counted-if they can let. sway from s lief: stove long enough. wutmi Ontario fill certainly had a “nail. old-fashion- eiLWlnter“ this time. And most of us are bellnnlns forget s bit first! of it. We know that it 1s on. brisk, ntlmulstln; climate ttist makes us the flnepuprtsndlns folk we are. We recall that 1s- tisbltarits of suimlsrdlmei m likely u. grow sl loft so their weather. But all the some eudugh ls enoidi It: the youngsters who ski s Iklflfhillllyib! perfectrwsuttier. Ontario's “banana ma" seldom infra-ifs _’l1t0llw‘l;0;

uoisl Ofloffildlfl es or sports out of doors as 1t has

lfeltes ‘diirfnl, the lat -twe months. 1m

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M’ v WEST RIVER. BIIDGI

Sir, - May I through your valu- able paper draw attention to the letter appearing some time ago ln The Guardian under the head- lng "West River Bridge". If ever there was a needed improvement and actual necessity it ls the above named bridge and I hasten to commend "Optimist" for the inter- esl: shown, although I am sure the residents of Rocky Point. ‘Falrvlew. South Shore and Cumberland re- gret the attitude of the said writ- er in taking such a short. sighted view of the whole situation. In s democracy such a! we live in, we are ever minded to be good citiz-

,ens, and one of the fundamentals

of good citizenship is to work 1n the best interests of every one (not just a favored few) so that all may enjoy equal" opportunities. In connection with the pioposed West, River Bridge our first. cori- slderatlon must be that we work for the bridge and secondly that it be built, in a place where it will served the best interests of the majOrlty of the people concerned, and how lt would profit Prince Edward Island in general.

The proposed bridge will cost many thousands of dollars, and iu it cannot be shifted at the whim of an individual or community. 1t must be pub- where lt. will serve the greatest number of people. And that ls undoubtedly crossing the West River frcirn Smith's Point to York Point. At. this site the chonribl ls very nsrrciw. Moreover "Optimist." might. llist as wel drive down the south side‘ of the West. River as the north side. A bridle at this site would serve all the people from Victoria to Rocky Point on both roads.

As well n; serving the interests of the firmer and fisherman. I bridge at this point would give s great boost to the tourist industry. The North Shore has its advant- ages with its surf bathing and sandy beach. but. many, especially those with children, prefer a place where there is safer bathing and where they can enjoy the quiet shady spots of 111g picturesque South shore. 11ers too the water -l| warmer and the season longer.

There are in this ares some en- tbrprlslng cltlzem of Charlotte- town who undertook to improve tourist; facilities in this district and in fact spent a lot. of money. but unfortunately the whole thing fell through on account of trans- portation difficulties. I am reliably informed that st. the present time there ls a site available st. Rocky Point for a modern zunlner hotel 1f and when there ls a bridge st Hflflw PNflfl'

There are treat possibilities in ttils part of the Province but. noth- tn: can be accomplished until such time u there ls better transport- ation facilities than at present. But. 1 reiterate. s brld g st West- vllle would not solve e problem. If such an idea were ever conceiv- ed and brought to bear. who! would It. mean lo the people‘ of Rocky Point snd- t-h Silos‘? Just‘ this. about m ty miles added to‘ the rs t ' fbstofimtttisa