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Editor and Managing Director. J. ll. Burnett Associate Editor. Funk Walker

f'The Strongest Memory is Woolm Than the Weakest ink".

CHARLOTTETOWN. SATURDAY. JULY 21, 1951

The Blank Years

For Canadians the bleak years of life will now lie between the ages of sixteen and seventy. For, having been weaned on the baby bonus and promised the old age pension, the years between will stretch like a vast desert of time devoid of any oasis of government-providedl welfare. For fifty- four long years ordinary citizens must work, sweat and toil, to provide for the be- ginning and the end. All that exists to brighten the lean interlude in life will be a somewhat nebulous sense of gratitude, carefully nurtured by Ottawa, for past favors, coupled with a rather worried be- wilderment about the purchasing power of old age pensions when the qualifying num- ber of seventy years has been stacked up.

In the old days when it was still fash- ionable to provide for one's own security "through personal savings,.there was at least the comforting thought that if one did not survive long enough to enjoy the twilight of life, at least the fruits of one's saving would go to benefit the loved ones who remained. Now that taxes have made personal saving well-nigh impossible, and Ottawa has taken over the problem of old age, many a widow who in former times would have been comfortably provided for, will face the grim necessity of going to work the moment she loses her husband.

That is the trouble with government planners. A nice, cosy scheme of old age pensions and baby bonuses, dished out to all regardless of need, creates for the mid- die-aged a problem which they never be- fore, except in isolated cases, had to con- front. If pensions and baby bonuses were provided only for those who really needed assistance, it would still be possible for people to save enough to take care of the other emergencies of life, because taxes would be lower and nest-eggs could be ac- cumulated. -

Pollen Record

There are some things in which we car. be thankful for inefficiency. One of them is the "police record" or dossier which in some countries forever hangs over the head of anyone who runs afoul of the law, Even in the United States this particular weapon of the state against the individual is all too potent.

A lifelong resident of Boston recently applied for a taxi license and was prompt- ly haled into court on a charge of double- parking-in 1931!

As it happens, the would-be taxi driver was found not guilty, but in such a case as that the state is guilty of an enormity in even recalling the charge. It is to be hoped that our own law enforcement organ- ization shows a little less efficiency and a great deal more humanity.

A Serious TrendS

Noting the reports that several million pounds of New Zealand cheese are on the way to Canada, that eggs from Europe are being landed in Montreal and that several European countries, and possibly New Zealand, are offering butter here, the 0t tawa Journal sees in these developments :1 cause for serious concern.

"Couple these facts with a declining cheese and butter output in Canada, an egg shortage that is hard to understand, and it adds up to a situation that should make Canadians stop and think," says the Journal. "This country, which certainly should be able to produce all the food re- quired for home consumption, today finds it necessary to import basic foods. Just a few years ago we were exporting those same foods by the millions of pounds and dozens.

"It is difficult to find a. logical explan- ation for this state of affairs, and there is no indication that production here will im- prove to any great extent in the next few years. The impact of lrnported vegetable oils on our dairy industry has had an ef- fect but that is by no means the full story. It is something more fundamental.

"The most common reason given is the scarcity of farm help and the attraction of high wages in urban industry to'farmers and farm labor. There is no doubt but thlt high wages, plus the attraction or Ilsortcr hours and other incentives now common in industry, have not only drawn many men away from the forms but have had a tendency to make those who re-

Seeing the advantages and high rates of pay labor has obtained -has, without much doubt, caused many a farmer to decide to take things easier. What this can mean to all of us-including labor-is becoming ob- vious."

. EDITORIAL NOTES

Tomorrow, the 9th Sunday after Trin- ity. ' ,

Presidential elections will

Portugal tomorrow, July 22. O O G, H

be held in

Former Islanders returning after ten years' absence find many changes here. There are many highways in the Prov- ince where the visitor cannot even recon- cile the view with cherished memories. 0 O O The flooding of great rivers like the. Missouri and the Mississippi is very differ- ent from the effects of raging storm driven tides on the coast but the magnitude of the damage gives its own impressivcness to the slow rise of the muddy waters. U C I '

Now that old age pensions are to he paid to all our citizens of seventy years and over, what becomes of the liens which are being taken on pensions under the pne- sent system? Since the means test is be- ing abolished, the liens will have to go into

the discard too.

O O O I

The British aristocracy has, in effect, become the most democratic in the world The new DeBrett, annual "Who's Who" of Britainls aristocracy, shows the Labor gov- ernment last year created 16 peers-above the normal average over a long period of

years.

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Once more some 25,000 Canadians have made their way to the United States in a year. The movement today, however, causes less concern than a few years ago It is recognized that the movement is not one-way but that numerous highly educated and trained Americans are coming into this

country toshare in its development. O I O

"It has been and is our firm intention to see to it that if western Europe is at- tacked it will be defended-and not liber- ated." A stirring note is there 'struck by American State Secretary Dean Acheson. It is a challenge to the Western Hemisphere and should bring renewed hope and con- fidence to countries in the path of possible

aggression.

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Ottawa visitors en route. After enjoy- ing a visit on the mainland of Nova Scotia, a group of 14 members of a tour party from Ottawa will leave Halifax by Canadian National Railways for Cape Breton, where they will spend two days, then visit Truro, Sackville and Charlottetown for another two days. Following that they will visi' Moncton and Saint John. O O C At the Festival of Britain celebrations in Hereford Cathedral, the Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Tom Williams, read one of the lessons at the Farming Service, which was marked by a special ceremony in which the Bishop of Hereford blessed light farm implements, symbolizing the service to agriculture over the past 100 years, and also a modern plow and tractor given position before the chancel screen. ' o o a Values are turned upside down in war. The sea captain who would be loath to scrape the paint of his ship's side does not hesitate to ram an enemy submarine. "Safety First" isvexr-hanged for "get it done". It seems proper, therefore, that the Army should drop the term ”battIc accident" for "injured in action". Risks must be taken which would not ordinarily be justified and the resulting casualties are honourable wounds or death. 0 V 0 Deputy Agriculture Minister Walter R. Shaw has now doubts about the adequacy of our disease free potatoes to supply our market in the coming Fall. ”I have al- ready stated through thc Press my feeling", he says, "that the reduction may be a little too drastic, and we could very well find ourselves in a tight spot to supply market requirements during the coming season." If the price be all right the an- ticipated shortage will not matter so much. 0 O 0 Robert Burns, poet. died" this date 1796. it was at Mossgiel. says W. E. Hen- ley, that the enormous possibilities in Burns were revealed to Burns himself; as it was at Mossglel that he did nearly all his best work. The revelation once made he . . . wrote masterpiece after masterpiece. with a rapidity, an assurance, 3. command of means, a brilliancy which made his achievement one of the most remarkable in English letters: During this period were written "The Jolly Beggars", "Hallowe'en”, "Holy Willie's Prayer", ”The Holy Fair". "Scotch Drink", "Address to the Dell". the poems to "The Louse". "The Mouse", and "The Mountain Daisy", and many other

main, even the farm owners, dissatisfied,

gem of lmperlshable fun, satire, or song.

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This column is open to the discussion by correspondent: of questions of Interest. The Guardian does not My endorse the opinion of correspondents.

A DEBACLE 0!" DUST

Sir,-I attended I very credit-

able raclng meet at Covel'l.ea.d yesterday, sponsored by Mr. Willis who did everything he could to make his customers comfortable. and give them an enjoyable alt- ernoon by sprinkling the track to keep down dust. etc. These races should be a valu- able attraction for would-be tour- ists, etc., but I am sure that. any who were so unwary as to travel the highways in the immediate vicinity of Covc-head and the Na- tional Park, and endure the pur- galorial agonics of stifling clouds of dust, will never again return thither unless they are the most ardent race fans.

This is very unfair to Mr. Wil- lis and the horsemen who go to much trouble and expense to pro- vide our visitors with the enter- tainment of the Sport of Kings.

Can nothing be done to remedy this deplorable condition? Are there not a few bags of calcium chloride available for our island roads? is there no one in our Public Works Department. gifted with the least scintllla of initial.- ivc who could have seen that the approaches to Covehead were prevented from being obliterated by an impenetrable smog and dust?

Is our Tourist Brueau in the doldrums of inaction and despair to allow such an outrage against our summer visitors?

Are our National Park author- ities merely sunning themselves on the beautiful north side beach- es. when they would permit trav- ellers in this area. to be practic- ally choked lo death by swirling clouds of sand?

Are the R.C.M.P. incapable of making some plea for highway safety; in the face of driving hazards, where the visibility is reduced to a. matter of n few feet by the impervious slipstream o! every passing motorist.

is our Department of Agricult- ure unconscious of the damage to crops and the fair island verdue by a. saturation of fine dust part- icles in the breathing slomata of all plants?

In short. is there no Moses to lead us from this wilderness wherein we are lost? Couldn't our Health Department register some complaint re the threat of bron- chial dislemper, and dust.-born infections?

Yrs. we cannot. afford paved roads, and furthermore we don't need them, but surely somewhere is a still small voice which can ask fervently and receive s few paltry bags of calcium chloride which would have prevented this iniquitous injustice perpetrated againstpthose who ventured into the Covehead area on Wednesday.

Let us wake up. let: us demand action from our humble servants in executive positions. before the P. E. Island tourist is as extinct I species as the classical dodo or passenger pigeon, and every race track operator outside of Chor- lotletown is in the throes of bankruptcy.

There can be nothing but sym- pathy for Mr. Willis: there can be nothing but shame fell to think we would subject Visitor! to such an ordeal: there can be nothing but indignation against our ad- mlnistrative bodies.

I am, Sir. etc. A LOYAL PRINCE EDWARD ISLANDEB

July 19, 1951.

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Lift their paws

And sniff and savor in anticipa- tion

My green, defenseless garden in their jaws,

No doubts cr gloomy ru-.cs of con- duct nag them.

What is mine is theirs,

And the devil (which is human) take the hlndmost. Waddling out to lake the morn- ing air,

Critically they measure my neat harvest.

Many a morning, looking I've seen them. Delegations walking in my rows Dividing up my leafy world among em.

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-Bianca Bradbury.

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(Ann! P. E. I.)

"The doors of this fine church have been closed for the last eight weeks, and its interior has undergone a thorough and com- plete renovation. The appearance on entering is very striking and beautiful perhaps unsurpassed by anything to be seen in any Protestant. Church in the Lower Provinces. The spacious Gothic ceiling and walls have been fres- coed in imitation of stucco work. The groundwork of the ceiling lb oflo light blue. with moulding: of stone colour intersecting each other and forming panels, in the Gothlc style of architecture. Around the edges of these panels. and giving in them an elegant and finished appearance, leaves, imitation of Mosaic work, pointed. The mouldings. by use of light and shade, appear to stand out in relief and the mltres, where they intersect earn other. are so exquisitely shaded that the most practised eye would imagine them to be projecting from the flat surface. "A part which to us seemed more interesting and striking than any other, is that where the space between the two elliptic Mclles l3 Supposed to real. on the capital of a column. The capital '5 in l'N?l'BDcctive. and seem: to project square out from the walls, about eight inches. The panel. on the walls have on insular ap- pearance, and the shelf 31 9... lower part is so ducepuvo mm one is slmcst tempted to 1;” Upon it for support. The ground. work of rho walls is of none :;ie'9ul'TK1VlHl them A chaste and of Km applesrsnce. The front: bl 0 Ra erles. and the pews COW. match in colour. The vvalls. and the church. taken all Ogiinlet. 'ook superb. An ornn is the

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(Saint John Telegraph-Journal)

Miss Evelyn Henry. a Prince Edward Island girl. like: swim- ming. So it would appear, Ill on! rate, from the fact that she re- cently swam the Northumberland Strait from Cape Tormentlne. N. 3., to Borden. P. E. 1.. in eight- hours and iifur-three minutes. The ferry distance between those two points is nine miles. Miss Henri is estimated to have swum fifteen miles as a result. of strong tides preventing her from keeping to I straight course.

The Charlottetown Guardian says: "As for as could be learned here, it is the first time that Any- one has ever attempted the swim- ming of Northumberland Strait." This is passing strange. One would think that in all the years people have been too late to catch the ferry, there would have been at least one strong swimmer in I big enough hurry to get. to P.E.I. to do so under his own steam!

Miss Henry has not won any fancy prizes or flaring headlines for her feat. but she has demon- strated that she is one Prince Edward Islander who doesn't have to worry about ferry service across the strait. She doesn't even need s. canoe. .m-::-A---Z--Z?-m

make the Brick of the most desirable places we have seen in which to worship. Our Methodist friends seem to have gone back further than the primitive Methodists. and to have caught some of th-.- spirlt of David when he was moved to build a magnificent house for the Lord. The im- provements were made by Messrs. Bottanl and llusca, frcsco paint- ers, ably assisted by Thomas Alley. Esq. Messrs. W. Dodd. F. W. Moore and Lemuel Poole were the committee who collected the money necessary to carry out these marked improvements.

The Church was re-opened yes- terday. It has sitting: for about sixteen hundred persons, and will. if crowded. hold two thousand. Every seat was filled. . . We may remsrk that the choir, under the leadership of Mr. Nathaniel Mitch- ell, is decidedly the but in the Province."

-The Examiner. July 23. 1877.

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salvation is near to come. and my r-lglrtoousnou to be revruled.

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Mlnlcoallwlllbcuthlugof H10 Pill. Iccordlnl to fashion ex- PQW. u it is the new "Poodle Cloth" that will be Ill the rage next. Full or women strive to "look like dogs." To look like a bio. than do: seem: to be the very ultn in the never-too-sane fashion world. And it will be the husbands who are made to feel like dogs if they dont come across with this latest thing in Winter costs when the little wo- man says the word.-lBrockvllle Recorder and Times).

Most people living in rural areas near busy highways are careful to walk towards approaching motor vehicles on the some side or the road and at the edge of the road. They bring up their children to do likewise, and, in consequence. country children tend to show more common sense in traffic than city children. They know they can't argue with cars mov- in; at speeds or 40 and 50' miles per hour.-(saint. John Telegraph- Journal).

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JULY 21. 1951

In Spoken thl consldorationais GGIKIIOWTI” buebull ' tho” mune'V5

for the tour ire when

decisions ' t the horirlbeyuziril The Washington city apparently has reached the conclusion mm, beneath the blue costs the men don for their duties but hum." hearts. The news stories do not state why these figures-so often the despised and rejected at mer -have been singled out for honor. but it is conceivable that spo' kane has come to realize up truth of Burns' famous quotatlm. about a man being a man, for ; thab-even if he's I blseball um. pire. Extended A little further in. sentiment. might cure some of thin ills of the world. It might, evm, reflect an appreciation for human dignity among people who speak such foreign tongues as the um. plres use. it could be an exam”, of an amended application of Prey sident Truman's famous "Four Four". Yet I there is a chilling Lhoughl. in the procedure. As om courtesy, tho umpires will be gjym

breakfast in bed. For what 51-. they being fnttencd?-(vino,-1:, Times).

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A. Wulthen Gander. LL.B. i

IABBISTEII. SOLICITOR. Eu. Philllpo Building Ill Grafton Street

Money In boon Collection

J. A. McGuigun

IAIIRISTEI. SOLICITOR; Ito

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FREDERIC A. LARGE. K. C.

Barrister. Solicitor. Notary Royal Bank of Canada Building Charlottetown. P E. I. LOANS ON CITY AND FARM PROPERTIES

Boll. Mutlricson & Foster

Barristers. Solicitors. R. R. BELL. K.C. D. L MATHIESON. Ll..B.. K.C. G. R. FOSTER. LL.B Loam on City and Farm Properties. 150 Richmond Street Charlottetown. P. E. I.

etc.

Guuder 8: Huszurd GILBERT A. GAUDIT. B. A., LL ll Bur-rluero and solicitor-I Money to Lou:

Canadian Bank of Commerce BM;

MucPlIee & Trainer

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Joseph R. MucMillun. LL.B. i

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Dr. W. R. Carson

Chiropractor Pnlrnu Gnduuto ' CIIARLOTTETOWN en Prince st. Phone 1071

Clrus. R. Mc9uuld .

B. A. BARRISTEIK, SOLICITOR

NOTARY. Etc-. Euterr. Trust Building CHARLOTTETOWN Phouc I71!

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llr. John E. Stems VETERINARY SURGEON

Phone 129 ' 28! Formal St. Dfflco flours By Appointment

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M. Albun Furrner B. A., LL. I. MONEY 1'0 LOAN ' Charlottetown. P. E. I.

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OPTOMIIYRIST PHONE 2872

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