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Inn A Burnett. Walker.

rrosldenl. Ind t into Editor, Associate Editor. Frank

CIRCULATION "Coven Prince Edward Island

like the dew"

flho Strongest Memory 15 Woalm Than the Weakest Ink". FRIDAY. oczr. 3f15s'zT

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llailowe'en Observance

Witches, ghosts and goblins will no doubt be on their rounds tonight, to be appeased only with gifts of fruit or candy. It is no loss that attempts at divination of the fu- ture have long since been given up as part of the night's occupations. Instead there will be general merrymaking, parties for young and old and celebrations of various kinds.

For some years there has been little ser- ious damage done in the city or towns on Hallowe'en, although in smaller centres there have been the element who wore un- able to distinguish between fun and malic- ious damage. The Attorney General has published a warning against damage to property and it is to be hoped that those so lacking in respect for property will be de- terred from vandalism by knowledge that stem measures will be taken against them.

By and large the evening is a light- hearted one, particularly for the smaller folk. As the evening progresses so does the size of the perambuiating maskers. Every- one enjoys dressing up and the young in heart enjoys the visits of these quite un- recognizable young neighbours. Hallowe'en is children's night and the children should have every scope for good-natured enter- tainment. The limit is easily definable as, being the kind of fun that is harmless to themselves and others.

A Substantial Saving

Commenting with satisfaction on the Board of Transport Commissioners' rejec- tion of the railway application for an 8 per cent horizontal increase in freight rates, the Winnipeg Free Press estimates that this ruling has saved the public in the Western and Maritime Provinces forty million dol- lars annually. Its calculation is based on the fact that at the present level of freight rates, each 1 per cent increase in rates nets the railways 54,400,000 more revenue per year.

"The record of success since the post- war freight rate battle began ill October, 1946, is impressive,” says our Winnipeg contemporary. ”It is true that freight rates

lands. In another sense they can be used by governments to regulate travel. In ancient Rome a bearer of Cae.isar's "tractor- ium", the passport of its day, was entitled to special courtesies along the far-flung Roman roads. He could expect post horses at relay stations, rooms at inns and, when necessary, armed guards. The same court- esies were extended, to a degree. to bear- ers of the ”conducti nundinarum" of the Holy Roman Emperors.

Passports attained a more unpleasant aspect later. They were found useful to control displaced persons. Instead of facil- itating travel they could be used to bar entry to countries. In some police states they became weapons of the government, to be shown on demand. Revocation was a. serious penalty.

Use of passports greatly increased dur- ing World War I. They were essential for international travel, and they have remain- ed so, with the few exceptions of present relaxed regulations between neighboring states.

In addition to the abandonment of pass- ports for some European travel, they are not necessary to cross open borders such as that between the United States and Can- ada. Several Latin American nations have waived passport regulations, although some require travel cards as substitutes. Other Western Hemisphere states retain stringent regulation. l

Canada's Expansion

In his presidential address to the Cana- dian Chamber of Commerce convention in Toronto, Mr. Rene B. Perrault declared that at the end of 50 years of progress in Can- ada, "two and one-half times as many peo- ple are producing five times the volume of wealth in three-quarters of the working time." He believes that the Canadian econ- omy needs 30,000,000 people by 1975, and a glance at the pattern of capital develop- ment bears him out. But as he took occas- ion to emphasize, to reach this goal would require a continuing high level of immigra- tion.

New resources in natural wealth have been discovered since the war; new in- dustries have sprung up in many provinces; new services have been established, public and private, in transportation and other fields. Investments totalling billions of dol- lars have been made. The prospective growth of the country may be stunted un- less the -nation can provide a sizeable do- mestic market for the goods it is being equipped to produce.

Particularly in the West is a sparse pop- ,ulation becoming a handicap. At. a cost tthat may reach 3,100,000,000. a steel pipe- line is being laid through the Yeilowhead Pass to link Edmonton and Vancouver. It

have advanced 69.8 per cent in tour succes- sive increases of 21 per cent, 20 per cent, 12 per cent and 4.5 per cent. The calcula- tion is made by taking pre-1946 rates at 100 and pyramiding each increase. All four were of the iniquitous horizontal pe icentage var- icty. But even so, through he efforts of counsel and auditors; as set. forth in the

written judgments of the Board, further in--I

creases aggregating fiil98,000,000 per annum (apart from the 8 per cent now rejected) have been prevented. To this total another 910,000,000 must now be added. To have saved the people some 35238 millions per an- num in railway charges is no mean per-

formance." i As noted by the Free Press, the peo-

ple and industries of Central Canada arcf

protected by water,-highway and interna- tional rail competition. The Canadian rail- ways simply cannot raise freight rates in Central Canada on vast quantities of freight because if they did they would lose the business to other carriers. Hence the elo- quent fact that. throughout the numerous post-war freight rate cases, Ontario and Quebec alone among the provinces have not even bothered to be represented before the

Transport Board.

l Eased Passport Rules

Several European countries recently have applied international scissors to travel- entangling red tape. They are curtailing the need for passports. Most notable ex- amples this year, observes the National Geographic Society, is the action of Greece and Turkey, ancient enemies now allied in a common cause. No longer do Greeks or Turks require passports to cross their na- tlons' mutual borders. Another outstanding ending of restrictions has been achieved by Denmark, Norway, Sweden, -and Finland.

nations, in the shadow of the Iron

.Curtain. have abandoned passports for mu- that travel. Numerous other countries, not- ably in Western Europe, have abandoned visas for temporary travel. but passports are still necessary. A visa amounts to a permit to enter and remain in a state. It

is stamped in mpdssport by a consular ot- boforoihe traveler reaches the nation

Ire of ancient they serve to

will be justified only if British Columbia's ipresent economic expansion continues. Nat- iural gas could be piped from the Peace River area down through British Columbia, too. and a pipeline project has been author- ized by the Board of Transport Commis- sioners. But, says the Vancouver Province, ,”the B. C. market is not considered large enough, at present at any rate, to carry 'the huge capital cost."

EDIIURIAL NUI ES

I-lallowmass Eve. Hallowe'en.

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Both revenues and expenditures of the ,ten provincial governments are expected to be well over the thousand million dollar mark, expenditures being more above it than revenues. Twenty years ago the fig- ures were well below the two hundred mil- lion mark, although the balance was on

the same side then as now. D I O

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The sovereign's Christmas Day message has become a tradition since it was begun by King George V. It is essentially. how- ever, a personal contact and one which a successor in office must find difficult to as- sume. Her Majestyls decision to carry on the custom could not have been easy, but was certainly made far less difficult by her Royal father's decision to continue the practice begun by his father.

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Either the two older political parties have swung towards state paternalism or the C. C. F. has deserted distinctively social- lstic policies. There is much that is both admirable and controversial in the resolu- tions adopted ht Kensington but it would not have been a particularly great surprise if the entire programme had been put for- ward by the Liberal or "Progressive Cpn-

senvative parties. 0

Sir George Hubert Wilkins, Australian explorer; naturalist and aeronautical photo- grapher, was born this date .1888. He served In the Australian Fl g Corps in the First World War and la er as official photographer. He commanded four Arctic expeditions, one to the Antarctic and flew from Deception Island across Graham Land in 1928-29. His works include: "Flying -In The Arctic", "Undiscovered Australia",

- rs in foreign

"Under The North Pole".

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PUBLIC FORUM

. This column is open to the discussion by wuospondents of questions of interest. The Guardian does not: IIBCCHIIF lly endorse the opinion of uureapondcnts.

coonrnsv APPRECIATE!)

Sir.-I wish to express on be- half of several friends and myself appreciation of the al- most universal courtesy, gener- osity and helpfulness of the farm- ers of Prince Edward Island. We have, for three years, shot in various parts of the Island. With one exception we were most kindly and helpfully received. If, you can find space, I do wish you would publish this little apprecia- tion of the Americans who so en- joy shooting at the Island. I am. Sir, etc. F. VAN WYCK MASON. Colonel U.S.A. LRet.) Baltimore. Md.

Old Charlottetown (And r. 2. x. )

EXHIBITION REPORT i

"The Commissioners appointed to manage the Provincial Exhib- ition of 1830, judging from the number and excellence of the en- tries to the live stock and imple- ment departments, and of the other exhibits usually placed in and about the Drill Shed, consid- er that the Exhibition was. at least. equal to any of its predec- essors . . . At present, however, many important branches of do- mestic manufacture are passed over, while for others. as well as for live stock and many descrip- tions of farm produce, the prizes the Commissioners have been able to offer are quite out of pro- portion to the value and impor- tance of the exhibits,

"The appropriation for the Ex- hibition in 1880 was only 51,000. and it was found no easy matter to draw up a prize list, not exceed- ing that amount. leaving the con- tingencies of the Exhibition, and the payment of the secretary, to be provided for by entrance fees on live stock. an money taken at. the doors. Fortunately the wenthrr on both days was all that could be desired; but the Com; missioners could not avoid feeling that, had it proved unfavorable, not only would a. debt of several hundred dollars have been in-

curred.. but the Exhibition would have been a failure. "The Commissioners, therefore,

suggeaigthat a. piece of land in the immediate vicinity .of Charlotte- town should be acquired and de- voted to Exhibition purposes. Up- on it should be erected. as time and means admit. buildings of I permanent character. At present the most pressing need is felt for buildings to accommodate live stock. Until other and more pres- sing wants are provided for. the Drill shed might serve nearly the same purpose as at present, an a hall for general exhibits. in which the opening ceremony might be held. . . The accounts submitted by the commissioners show I amuli faiance of 939.91 in their favor, which it I: intended to devote to I grain show to he held on Tuesday. the 12th April."

-The Examiner. March 10. 1801.

Ilia Age-olii Story

HOWOBOOBOOQOOCQ

Wherefore sooln: we also are computed about with no great: cloud of witnesses, let us lay aids each weight. and the sin which doth so cull beset us, and let us run with ones the nu that is not before us.

WlB:'DON. mu. out. 201--(Ari -Irho notion Colleu seinnoloilcnl 050611719-017 Uvotted two earth- lllllhs team out "vsry strong" some 1,150 mun south of Boston.

I Night Of Spoo

(National "

ks 8. Goblins

' News Illullslln)

Halloween holds way across the Christian world both as a child- ren's night of delight and masq- uerade and as I. solemn religious observance. But in the tangled history of this strange holiday, it was not always so.

When youthful goblins in gar- goyle masks race through autumn's leaves and bonfires blaze in the dark, centuries fall away to a time of grim pagan rites well doc- umented by anthropollgista,

Long before Christendom in Europe set. aside November 1 as Allhallows, or All Saints' Day,and the night. before as a hallowed eve, primitive peoples had marked a. day corresponding to Halloween as a time for placating the spirits of the dead. To them it was the

Hopscotch

(Manchester Guardian)

Hopscotch courts (and a. mic): for baby cycles). proposed in a Colchester scheme. give official approval. perhaps for the first time to an ancient game. Nobody seems to know how old the game of hopscotch is. It was certainly played -in the days of Greece and Rome, and the line of several an- cient "beds" (scotches or shallow cuts) are said to be seen scored on the pavement of the Forum. The variety of the game some- times played in England under the name "round hopscotch" is almost identical with 3. game described by Pliny as being played by the boys of his day. In the days when hopscotch was more popular than it. is now near- ly every town had its own un- written regulations. and even Lon- don, as it grew. had many variat- ions. A bit of china or a bit of slate was used there, but in the Black Counlry the "hop-flags" were made of glass. They were us- ually supplied by fathers working in the glasshouse: and were made in their spare time from any odd- ment of glass that happened to be handy. Much smoother than either slate or wood. they required more skill in the game, as much skill with the foot perhaps, as was required with the hand by the

winter. 0 O 0 On that night Samhain, Lord of the Dead. supposedly gathered all

upon death, and sent them on to their final resting place.

Druid soothsayers of ancient runes in rings of stones. such as the great circle at Stonehenge in Wiltshire. and Ireland gathered on windy hilltops around huge fires.

Human sacrifices were offered in grisly rituals. In strange straw cages built in the shape of giants or animals. criminals of the tribe were confined. These were set anre, and the victims roasted alive.

Although the Roman conquerors outlawed these horrible sacrifices, the Druid beliefs persisted in oth- er forms. Block cats were long thought to embody I evil witches. Even in the Middle Ages in Eu- rope. such cats were burned alive on Halloween.

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Belief in witches can be traced to the ancient Egyptians. Testament. In Ch.rist.lanlty's bat- tle to wipe out witchcraft. ghastly executions took place, surviving to the witch killings of Puritan New England in the late 1600's.

Masks have been i ml with manls dealings with the spirits. both friendly and malevolent, since ancient times. The Jack-oh lantern, however. has a double meaning. It. makes a. weird and shadow-casting spook, but also it is carved from a. symbol of the fruitful harvest, which has been connected with Halloween since the Roman feasts to Pomona. god- dess of the harvest.

Ireland's imaginative folklore, from which stems much of Amet- lca's Halloween galcty, tells one story of the Jack-o'-lantern. It seems that I. stingy and lll-t.cm- pared man named Jack was bar- red from heaven for his misdeeds. and from hell because of pranks he mid played on the devil. Thus he was condemned endlessly to walk the earth carrying a lighted lantern. n soul without a testing

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fathers playing shove-halfpenny in the local pub.

Attention

Re Concentrates

The difference in price Between Oll- coke Meat and Fishmool is approximately 550 per ton. (Oilcuko is a chief source of vegetable protein - Fishmool is o chief source of animal protein). A cheap concen- trate 'con be made by using more b of tho cheaper vegetable protein. Quaker Ful-O- Pop docs not'socrifico quality for pricuuso a concentrate with a good proportion of ' Animal protein--it pays! i

, 5.. ouuim rut-'o-I-opp ooneonlrolos from your local Ouoltor Ful-O-Pop doctor.

place until the day of Judgment.

Farmers

and of the years. the beginning of

the souls of those who had been confined to the bodies of animals

Gaul and Britain recited magic

The Celts of Scotland

and witches are mentioned in the Old

thd Crossroads was and It least. had the beauty of Simplicity. But it is probable the survivors look more attractive to the tourist of today than the orig- inals did to the occupants of yes- terday when too much fresh air lesked in mornings and not enough after those pot-bellied ' stoves really worlued up enthusiasm. Christian Science Monitor.

Seventy-five yours with s tale. phone gvos the Mewburn family of Hamilton the Canadian - and probably the world - record for unbroken telephone service. Major- General the Hon. 3. C. Miewburn, the present subscriber, recalls that when he was a. boy the ram. lly's first telephone was installed by Prof. Melville Bell. father of the inventor. That: was in August of 1877 - only eighteen months after Alexander Graham Bell was first granted I. patent for his t.elephone.- Telephone News.

It was hes:-fouls: to learn from no less an authority than Nikolai A. Mlkhailov, secretary of the Young Communist League in Bus- sia, that the young people- some of them that; is-are influenced by religion. Mlkhailov denounced the "alien influence." of course. But we know that it exists from his speech at the 10th congress of the Communist party in Moscow. The religious aspirations of man are so essential to his nature that the soviet. will never wholly remove them.-Boston Post.

In the when so

not-too-distant future. energy may be in gen- eral use or house heating. and electric power my be "broad- cast" into homes much in the of radio and television signals today. firemen may use supersonic waves to light A blaze. The "fire department of the fu- ture" will consist of at seil-pro- polled generator. a bank of oscil- lator vacuum tubes. and a dish- shaped antenna like s radar search screen, all of which will project L supersonic frequency onto a blue and extinguish it.-New York Journal of Commerce.

Mole vnr o-'mlnslI are being set free in Germany, including one responsible for deaths of Cana- dian prisoners of war. If this keeps on. it. won't be long until all those convicted of these crimes will have been released. excepting perhaps a. very few of the major ones. one purpose of the war crimm trials was to punish these criminals for their offences. Another was to set an example which would be a de- terrent. in case of outer wars, to those who might commit such out- rages. The punishments are being shortened and, by that fact. the deterrent purpose of the Wwar crimes trials has been minimized. missions, for instance, won't wor- ry much about beliag sent to jail

17. Notes Bx .

The Little Red Schoolhouse It picturesque

OCTOBER 31, 1952

The Wax 4

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Dilly Star.

Quito apart In an 5","

IIIIY be doing ti? pubnc he; smoke is a. great expeme.

local smoke inspector, J, Mm or, has estimated tin; fish pterson as much or ex 1'3. launder-in , 1;

int. window clesi1lng?uaeb,imi"i cleaning and car lwnshlng Tn: means smog is costing v.;,.,.,,,"” people about 53,000,000 ever V” months. We bare : smoke coin 12 bi'-lsw and a. squad of smoke 0! spectora. but neither has been sh? to cope with the unhealthy c ' mark that hangs over Vancoiimy Surely it this smoke is costing” 53-000.000 I year we can afford "5 greater effort to get. rid of it xi fact, we" can't word not :5 n rid of it.-Vancouver Provinces”

some Pena River district 1"... 3:, bar; rather their grainflelug nu attacked by hem, ,' "wild horses". The animals wol hi"? to be stopped. undoubted)!-I yet we suspect many will feel 5011))- sympathy for the animals, a; well asmftisx; the men. Nowadays, horse, H081! be blamed for tam, i0 the hills and forming ..-.5 bands to perpetuate their specjl In domestic life. after all, this are being more and more replaced by machines. and human bun , are becoming altogether too long.) of biting into a haunch of mm If these conditions continue an: horse sense means anythlng'1)ob bin and friends may well go buy; to nnlturo in increasing numb," u tmo goes on. .. Journal). jmmomon

It th, Our r . smoke coesgts '5 39 I yen-

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THE SOUTH WIND GONE

Where with sweet summer did tho south wind go

W110 b1'0U8ht; the scent. of clever btossomln

The birds that in the maples used to sing,

Long noons of August. waves below, Murmur-ed the and loved songs we used to know?

when tho

The little cricket with its fiddly string

Who scraped for pleasure, : wild merry thing.

Is silent now and covered with the snow.

Gray winter calls his sled and soon

must ride.

The withered ice is melting in the hillar i

Wsrmgd fby the sun s yellow but.

er

Crawls from its chrysalis, umm-1. ing w e

Now opened nails, then drift: off is

the hills..- I feel the south wind, hear . mum

for outrages if they have the idea

PROFESSIONAL CARDS

cry. -Beulah May.

M. Albon Former. O.C.

B.A.. LLB. Barrister Ind Solicitor Bank of Commerce Building Charlottetown Money to Loln

Gouda! & Haszurd

GILBEBT A. GAUDET. B.A., LLB.

Barrister: and solicitors Money to Donn

Canadian Bank of coinmem Bldg.

MucPI1ee 8: Trainer 8. F. MMPHEE. B.A.. Q.C. B. SOMEBLED TBAINOR, B.A.

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Frederic A. Largo. 9.0. Barrister. Solicitor, Notary Royal Bank.of Csnsds Building Charlottetown, P. E. I. Loans on City and Farm

W. J. P. MocMillun.

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H. A. MocMillon

MD. 205 Kent Street - Phone 52!

Office Hours: 1:30 - 4:00 - 6:30 - I130 and by appointment.

Motheson. Paulie 8: - Nicholson A. W. MATEESON. Q-0. A. B. PEAKE. B.A.. LLB. JOHN P. NICHOLSON. LLB.

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rhllupu Jullding n1 Grafton street Money to Lon: Collection

Polmor & Hoslom

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