I-‘THE

GUARDIAN

“(oven Prince Edward Island Like the Dew”

Street.

Cliarlottr-town.

P. E. l.. by The Company Limited.

Thomson i

T‘ilIiIlIl' nml Slanagrr. Inn A. Burnett.

aolest members for the purpose. contractor naturally tried to maximize his own profits. the 1-iansard suffered a good P'Ii>1I<hed -\’=r.\' “Wk-do!’ mornlnz It 135 Prim" deal from economies. and its very life was

annually in danger.

Since a

Since each contract

was an annual one, and had to be decided

Associate Editor. Fr-nk V\'nl|u‘r- on by Parliament. the first few days of .l:iivich office: at Sunimerside. Montague an'l‘p\-N-V spssion "01-mally began “-in-mu‘ R

.\lberton. Autliorir-=d as Second Class Mail by‘ ' . Hansard. Private contractors used to

' the Post. Office Dr-pailnient. Ottawa. F.v (‘ai‘iici': Clitirlollctown. Sllnlnierslfie $15.00 per cover the first few days on speculation. just

in case the House decided to publish Hans-

-i-

i arnuni.

;"I‘lu- strong»:-ut.—nu-imor-_v |:‘wea7l;i"thnn

ifirlwzi rd lnstitiilc.

rangc plaiis dcvclopcd with a view to solv- ing this scrioiis prolilcni bcforc it is to late. It is not too inucli to say that \\Il(iii" futurc of our agricultural economy

.\li:-rc in 1". F.. 1. lnrcs and I’. S. A. $12.00 per annum.

The Soil Erosion Problem

l‘np0l‘i on soil lslnli cxccrpts piililishcrl sr~riall_v

$9.00. Other .r’ro\-

llul wI‘.1kPfl( Ink.”

tlic‘

dcpcnrls iipi-ii tlic ntlcnlion wc give to this‘

wrought by any and the warning sigiials are all in 3 very marked way. The Industrial and Council of Canadian

r\~:~r_v

about us.

:iibir~i'-t within the ncxt few _vi~ais. Histoi'_v, . "iTit"l‘t’i.< striking cvideiii-e of the rli-vastalioil ii“-S “°Um1'.V

. . . . l soil crosioii, but it is going on.’

‘ Development

a rd

for another year. In 1887 our Hansard was

taken over

by a Government printing office and since that time its existence has been assured.

From the beginning, It is to bc hopcd that as a l‘("<liii of tlic‘mt’|1l. PSPGCIBIIY tilt’ 0PP°5iti0"- Seem I0 conservation by the I‘l‘lll(‘e"I‘la\'9 been remarkably slow to grasp the .1 i,..am.h of ii... Ag.-icunui-ailpotentialities of the record as a sounding {mm which “a,-e [)e‘1n:iI)0Z<il'(i. or as a device for forcin -m Th‘. GU31-dj;-H1‘ iim.~.iernmciit into an admission of something. ,,,.;.i, s.,..\.,.y; “-in i... lmdm-13]‘-an and ion;.jl\'obody questions its value now. but for _vcars after Confederation leading M. P.‘s ., voiced scepticism about the Haiisard.

Livestock And The Map

members of Parlia-

-: the Gov-

The westward shift of population both in

and the

United States

changing the livestock marketing picture

Meat

Ti... _\-,...- \',,,-k 1-i,,.p,~ ...,.-.»..._; an 3.-.-p;i.‘Packei's in the second number of their let-

iiig arlicic on with the dust storms which are i)i0\\’lf‘lf.'} again in tlic \\'hcat Bell.

The iicwspaper's,

ketiiig is affected. . A few years ago practically the whole of

t"0l‘l't".<[inllfir‘lli (i(‘.\'t"l'iilf‘S R typical S(‘t‘l1€‘ in am’ surplus livestock production In

sin liil<‘&I.<I

(‘iiloiailo mile aftcr niiic the floiii'—like topsoil

in these tcrnis:

this mm,.,.,‘ m ,.m,,,9,_.m,.. tci make an interesting study of how mar-

the

--ism-‘\’\'est had to more eastward, either for ex- hasuport or for domestic consumption. At first

Non WM against {f,m,(,s1~,ke drimng sno“-Wit was live animals that were shipped but tcriring clown llic wires and snapping the 1339!‘ iii? Shipment Of dI‘t’S59d meats in- slaughter

pnlcs_'

liini «nit,

‘ The ni-coiiipiiiiyiiig pictures and

l’t‘<‘:lIi lllI‘lll(ll'i(’S oi"

hr-\,{'.‘ creascd and the giniilai‘ stock fell off. in Canada a substantial pro-

movemcnt of

am, §,,,,.m: ,..,.,,,.. _..,,m-S a2(‘_ A large pan . portion of the movement was for shipment

of the whcat crop in thc affected area has‘ 0\'t‘1‘S€35- To supply the requirements of the rap-

H....,ni..,.< .,..i,.,¢.- “vimi and njnigliirp m..ai.; i-dly increasing population in the western

ilF¢‘il ric‘:trn_\'cri, and even worse

lions !<llfitiI‘lli)' inipi'ovc. "\\'hy this rcpclition of the disastcrs of thc .\'iiictccn 'l‘liirties'."'

disaster

'half of the ‘Pacific Coast, ask; The ']‘imes_il‘(‘ElCIl farther and farther inland for sup-

western packers

continent, particularly on the

had to

"\\"\"(\ ....i ii... .\m..,-3,-3.1 Iipnpip siiffipielii-|DiiPS and at the same time the population requiring mm M Mk, ,,,.,.\.,.,,ii\-p nicasur:~s'.’ The an. more livestock for local consumption. Thus swpr woiilri §t»‘f‘lll to he clearly that the soil til? “Great Divide" or line of east-west eastward 3-l(if’qll.’«ll(‘. although presiiiiiably our present and the price -differential has practically _<i|~,n;ilii\n \\'(llli(i Ilf‘ worse if the slieltcr i)eii‘diS‘<iDp9a1‘ed. nnrl l‘r‘i;lIf‘(i conscrvritioii activity had not}

ly ii...-ii.-ii i\_\‘ tlic (lust storms and (‘Il‘(1llL}ilIS

f‘Ol‘l”«F‘l‘\‘aIirm work of the past has been in-,‘m0V9mPnt has

bccn licgiin after the soil calamities

dncarics n'_'0." ‘ Tho zirmi pi'l‘,\‘l"llii_\' worst hit sllffcreri country will have a full time job producing

<'oiiiimi'ntivcly little then, for it was mainlviall the livestock products which can be

gi'a7,ing

p;1jqf1i|'cri on thc range. the foorl nccris of

But subscqucntly thc war and post-war

pp;-inrls i17l\’f‘ r-aiiscrl prices to risv far above

thc lcvcl of thc .\'inctccn Tliirtics. conditions many

such

l'ndcr

absentee landlords

havr~ hccn oiicoiiragcrl to gamble for 01101‘-i nioiis profits by plowing up marginal land -‘Pt!('kif‘d W‘ ili‘00k Il‘0Ui. and tilt‘ more en-

for \"Ilf‘.'li plniitinrz.

(‘R3

All iwo,will become less eastern markets and

l of thc Rockies increased.

moved steadily

westerii and less of

this means that

livestock

EDITORIAL NOTES

'I‘0niorrow. Good l“i'iday.

ii factor in each section of the

miiiiti-_\' with rclalivcly few (‘aIli‘?|(‘0llSlinl€(‘i within a relatively short haul.

The: season opens today on trout. that is

Lgiiii .,.».-p_; at a tin1p.,‘IilllSiaSi'i(Y anglers will be wetting a line at

and in: iii:-rcnsiiig Ercatly the numbcr of Di‘3f‘ii<‘?‘ii." ""€"'.\’ ?‘('Ct‘-Ssiilit? SIFERDI and lake. cnltic pnsiiiiwi on reduced land. The dust

storms trwlny arc .\'aturc's reply to such ir--

rc<poiis‘ililr= gambling and land abuse.

tiw problcni iicarcr homc. l‘rinr~r~ I-“.dwnrd island farm ccoiiomy.

iii Thc

in tcrms

(ir‘v3<i;tii0l1 is going on on a smnlicr scale, but thc long-tci'm cffccts might hc cqtlaiil’

(iis:i:ti'oiI<.

Finlrl obscrvations havc shoivil

that thc tiiiclmcss of our surfacc soil. in

lilo virgin stntc, is aroiinrl cight inches.

nmrh of our cultivated land. ho\vcvci'. the ninrnzn tliickncss is around five inchcs. and

\-i~ry nftcn four inclics.

Othcr o'.wious ovi-

(ir‘t1{'I"’2 of thc crosinn that has 0(‘(‘lil‘l‘f‘t'i in tlic ]l."<i. and is still taking placc, was pro- vir‘.-ri by thc rlcniidcrl and impovcrishori hill- sirlcs, and thc scvcrc c,iill_viiig in sonic locali-

tins. cniiscri by

‘matcri:ill_v.

every way.

rcct lwii-iiig on our farm prodiictivit_v. we rmilrl concr-ntratn on this prohinni as \\’c have rionc in the casc of bovinc tuberculosis -iwc might _vcl set an rwaninlc to all Canada in pi-ogrcssivc land rcliahililation. \\'c liavc thc cxncrls who can conduct the intcnsivc dctailcd Slll‘\'f‘_\'S rcquircd. and it is for our -farm nrg;ini7,ations and fa rmcrs gt-ncrally 1-. get lichiriri thc movcnicnt and ziipport, it in

It is lntci-ns-ling to note. from an articlc In a mainland cxchangc. that the Canadian Parliament was twenty ycars ahead of its British counterpart in putting out an of- ficinl Hansard publishcd and paid for un-4i der public nuspiccs.

Canada had no Hansard, not because the House didn't \\'ant one, but because tho members and the Government couldn't

make up their minds hmv to go about get- ting a good one. ports of the Ottawa Times were bound into books as a semi-official production, these were widely used.

Private contractors put out a Hiinsard for us from 1875 until 1887. commonly Ce- "nudlng the press gallery of some of its

Tlic most serious damage has been

thc slow i-umillativc action of

shoot l‘l'r»sir\li. which is usually not noti(-c- ahic ilntii on a(iv;iiicc(l yo,-u~lim| and crop pl'fl(Iil('Iil'lll has dccrcascri

stagc has bccii

Facts such as these. have a di- If

Canada's liaosaril

From 1887 to 1873

For a few yenrs the re-

and

l l I I

111 (‘

In Paris. .15 NATO nations arc working itowards freeing some of the prohibited ex- Thc .'\'.Il'if‘lliIlll‘{li lnstitiitc report briiigsports to Communist countries. The list. a long mic, is a fairly good barometer of thc intcrnational weather.

Thc wirlencd spread between A and B-1 hogs. from 40 cents to one dollar per him- drcdweight, in Regina, has been long de-

nt of brceding stock.

a more rcalistic relationship to the

HI?!

not

Oilimandcd by those interestcri in the improve- It also represents

final

rkct valiic of thc product. 0 O C It is wcll known that Montreallers do think highly of Toronto but the out.-

side limit seems to be a petition by a Mont-

lcg

inn affidavit

al entry. that

-rcal resident held in Albany, N. Y. for il- He is reported to have made he was threatened that

he “would not live 24 hours if he is in the Appar- cntly he has no such fear of any police in

custody of

Quohcc.

the Toronto police."

\.C.

The "Titanic" sank

this date

1912.

Striking an iceberg a glancing blow shortly before midnight on the third day of her lmaidcn voyage to New York, she stripped

off

her I)ii’i?. practically from

stem

to

stem and sank in less than three hours. Ncarly 1300 persons were drowned. of 2201 passengers only 711 were saved. As .1 result of her loss improvements were in- troriuccd in life-saving equipment and boat-

drill , routine.

h.v

Out

for passengers became a necessary

A demand for federal aid to education

increased payments to

niiiiiicipalities

has been made in the Upper Chamber by Senator John T. Haig. His proposal. says the Ottawa Citizen, helps to emphasize the desperate need for devoting more money to education, especially to the salaries of

teachers.

tinues throughout the country, prospect is that it will become greater as

school population rises.

Mid

For the teacher shortage con-

the

Among various ex-

pediente, resort is being had to immigra-

tlon.

Ontario has just announcrd a plan

to recruit perhaps 500 teachers in Britain, and the prrfiect is already under way.

is’

It The Geaier "Power

PUBLIC FORUM

l‘hle column In open to the

‘/w

tllacuollon liy correspondents

of question: of in rest. The THE DONKEY

Guardian does no necessar-

ll.v ondorln the 0l'il'|i0|'| 01 ‘When fishes flew and forest: unieepondenta. W313-d

And flga flew upon thorn. ‘Some moment when the moon wee blood Then surely I wu born;

CRETE

Slr.—Your P;I0i‘lBI of April i2

entitled "Laundry Lists Before‘ Homer” mould mien“ U!‘ H our With 1l’n0n§I.I‘0Ul head and sicken- echnol children learned certain "3 cry

And ears like errant. wings. The devil‘: walking parody on all four—footed things.

facts in their geography and his- tory lessons I think it would give

them a greater interest. in and wider vision of our historical -I-h, [,,m,.-‘d o.,i.],.w M gm ,5,-¢h_ h°""'3B9- Of ancient. crooked will;

For instance. the area of P.E.I. is 1184 square miles: length 110 miles; width 5 to 35 miles. That of Crete is. area 3235 square milea; length 160 miles; width 5 to 35 miles. We have more land fit fori agriculture. yet Crete .lllppDl‘I.! ii population of 438.230. while the census of 1941 gave our popula- tion aa 96.047. Why such 1 dif- ference?

Crete was the celitre of the Minoan Empire supposed to have been founded by King Minos about 3000 B.C. Ila period of great. power and prosperity was between 2200-

Starvo. scourge. deride me: I sin ti

umb. I keep my secret still.

Fools! For I also had my hour; One far fierce hour and sweet;

There was a shout. about. my ears, And palms before my feet.

-0. K. Chesterton.

sponsible for this condition. The man who operate: the plough in not. as far as I know the men to be blamed. He is subject to the orders he gets from the man high-

M25 B.C. Crete, the sea base of er up 1. strong lh ln.s.o racy, w s elt- ‘ . listed in lileal‘(’I'1l.ri'e roadwlaya of The “flu” °! hI°°k'“' up

gateways in the manner described and so isolating the people so af- fected. Maybe. for all I know. the approved and authorized method .nf operating mowplougha in this lProvince. If so it should be im- iniediately condemned and aban- doned. If it. is not. the general and

ling: manned the Cretan ahlpd. 't‘:f:f‘;‘1iu:;‘d}::‘“:1"(*:m”‘e'i_‘e';“"_d

mu u the hum“-n ‘mom J" method and that. better

T b . i t. i. th I .

*.*:.':.‘:'°:.::‘*.::::.:: :‘.‘“.i‘.f’.'...“°.fifl. m m I they themselves took comrnandisn of the sea. These eople are known ' in early history pas the Achaenni"m°V° “ii” the d‘t° °‘ my 1”‘ barbarians. They are the early‘t“' fathers of the Hellenic or Greek’ Civilization.

The Minoan powcr dCCilliCli rap- idly between 1125-1125. The first Communist Governnicnt recorded in history wall set. up in Crete, about 1300 BC. This fatal political‘.

. . 9 , ;)IJIAel'lti1m.:(l)‘riiet?tT‘fiN|Tli‘ica“i?ii1cruirkaijfiIwand “I d C‘ 3‘ MMIDONALD to have influenced Plato in his‘, "I" 5'

"RPDLlbIl('." In the eyes of the — enlightened Greeks the Crctaiisi became despised nicrcernaiies. their chni-ai~.tcr a b_v\\m‘d for all evil and wi:-kr-ilncs.s. Even in Chris- tian Apostolic t.ime the unsavory reputation clung to thcm: hence ii‘ saying attributed to Epimenirlcs is

world traffic at the time and had the first known naval power. When! the Minoan: took possession of the’ Greek peninsula there were in the hinterland ii people who retained their independ:-iii-e. These people mixed freely with the Mlnnaiis, learned the letter’: arts. u hire-

I must depend on spring weather now to do

advanced years I am too old to idn this r-hare. but. I am not too iold to know that injustice has been done.

I am. Sir, etc..

‘Have Your Clothes DRY CLEANED

_ ”,”'°“ “"°" CLEANERS

Dial 7387

SNOWPLOW COMPLAINT

Sir,—-This is a plain uiivnriiishcd tale about the snowplniigtfs op-fw oration. I live on that part. of. Gray’: Road which is about the, same width as it was when it was first opened, which is to say, that it is very narrow. Well uxv izat:--l way ha! been completely blocked all winter from the time when the; Government snowplough first went through the road and it is‘ still blocked up to the present da_v.i that lit April 12. This morning I

MEN'S HATS

Spruce up for Easter in I snappy new

measured the depth of the snow

and found it. to be 15 inches so‘ MAI-I-ORV that no vehicles can pass through‘ the gateway to the road and right

now the mow is of I lean depth at

then srnny time since the lnow-.

plough made in first trip. After, 8

.

every trip of that plough I was obliged to shovel out I path mm‘ my gateway to II)!’ narrow strip of road made by the plough. then turn around and clear away the‘

or the latest

snow from around and below the

mailbox. The snow bank extended four to five feet. beyond the mall- ‘t box and every time the mall came ~ the mailman Illd to get off his , 5 Ivehlcle to mu-h the box. and lie '

still in forced to do no.

I wrote to the Minister of High‘- won on April 2 atatlnx the above flctl and asked him to send down the plough to clear a passage throueh my gateway. He never replied hy word or dead. 1 there-

liim too late in the season. Noti

quoted by St. Paul in his Epistle PRESSED ONLY ELECTR[cAL to Titiis: "One of thcnisolrcs. even I N

A prophet of their own, said. "rhn at APPL A 0E5 Cretans are always liars, evil

beasts, slow b(‘iil('$'." ; Rrpairs

I am. Sir. etc, 4 ..

I The Age Old Story

For when we were yet without; strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for I l'I,,hI0l0I.ll man will one die: yet paodventure for I good man some would oven dare to do But God commandeth his love toward us. In that. while we won yet sinners. (‘ht-tut. died for us.

Old Charlottetown

and P. I. I. MEMORIAL TABLET

"A Marble 'Ilnblet. to the memory of the late Iileutenaxit Governor Young waa erected in at. Paul’: Church, Charlottetown. in the course of last. week. and forms one of its principal ornaments. This monument. of departed worth was executed by Sir Francis Ghent- rey. and lo certatnly A beautiful piece of sculpture. The devices are n likeness of the deceased, his crest, and a sheathed sword thrust through a wreath. The following is the inscription:

"Sacred to the memory of Lt. Colonel Blr Aretaii William Young, Knt. He served in Ireland as I Captain in the 13th Rest. of In- fantry during the Rebellion of 1739. In Egypt he fought. in the ever memorable Actions of the 8th, 13th, and 21. March 1801: Ho after-' wards served In the Mediterranean. Spain, Portugal. and the West. Indies, and was engaged in the Battles of Vimeira. the Douro. Talavera, Bueaco. Sobrel. and Redlnhe. and woe present at the siege of Badajoz. the taking of Ollvenze. and the capture of Gouda- loupe. After a long and painful ill- neas. which he bare with Christian fortitude and resignation. he closed his earthly career as Lieutenant

The” W" 1719"” 0' |"°‘V 1° Governor of Prince Edward Island.

on the let. of December. 1835, aged 58 years. His gallant: conduct as n Soldier. his fearless integrity as

the Work which of-.ii Civil Ruler. and his mild and ficialdnm neglected to do, At anyiammbla (.h,mCi,,., M ,. hugbanch 3,

Refrigeration

SALES 81 SERVICE Repairs To All Makes

MOTORS

Rewinding and Repairs

Palmer Electric

Phones AMI MM

All the new Spring Styles and Shades

JACK caemiion

"The Store For Men"

‘rife Gnu-aim wimp-iay. April 15."1m

The first three days of this week have been difficult one: for me; they alwlya ere. Sometime before these observations appear I have to decide where to go on the morn- trig of the 15th and the decision will be governed almost. entirely by road conditions; these. in turn. are controlled by weather condi- tions and the Honourable Dougalil Mcxinnon.

Ordinarily I have nothing what- ever agelnat. our Minister of High- ways. but in April my thoughts concerning him are dark and zlowerlng. For two years or more I have been trying to get. him to devote more money to the roads leading to the good fishing spots. even if it. means neglecting the main highways; but. alas. he hunt paid the slightest atten- tion to my representations. To make matters worse, he laughs every time I mention the subject.

It. is a well known fact. that the but fishing places are always I long way from the main roads; perhaps that is what. makes them that way. At. the moment. my chief interest is in getting to a certain

whether I get: there or not. Well. I can tell him right now that he need not. expect 1 vote from me in the next election. . . . But why talk about such com- monplnoo things an votel at I time like this? What I was going to say when mother thought. came along and diverted me was that by 5 o'clock Thursday morning, Dqo volente. regardless of the weather or road conditions. I shall be at some piece with rod and line in hand. Jult. when I don't. know at the moment. Every year the places available are getting fewer and fewer. some thoughtful peo-. ple ny it will be only a matter of‘ time. probably two or three years. when all the better dame end stream: will be under laws: the only free onoe will be those that are choked and rendered useless by polution. Incidentally. this mat- ter of pollution does not. appear to be |et.t.ln¢ the attention it. do- serve: from Provincial authorities. Almon everybody in talking about it but I haven't. heard of anyone doing much to correct 1!. . . .

I have all it before and I now any it ueln-1 hiovr y no way tooaexetroiitooi-leotoeflyon the 15th of April. especially, :4 seem: likely this year, when one haa to break ice to make contact. with water. The meticulous pur- leta. who record belt fishing at

father. and A friend, insure him the respect and esteem of all who knew him. The remembrance of his virtues and hi: affection in fondly cheriahed by hi: afflicted widow and children. who have caused this Tablet to be erected.‘

any time and under any conditloria, R

The Passing. Scene

By Observer HIE-OPENING DAY THOUGHTS

as one of the unperdonable line. tell me that this attitude of mine is merely a psychological cloak to cover my plebeian fishing habits.