PAGE FOUR THE GUARDIAN

llarnlng Dally (Founded In IBM)

Authorised u llorond Clan Mall, Pun Olfloo Department, Olsnwn. The Island qluurdlnn Puhlluhlnl Co. Idltm and Managing Ills-velar. J ls. Darnell-

Annrlnto Erlllur, Frank Waller.

"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Thal

the Weakest Ink.‘ CIIARLOTTETOWN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1949

Bus And Garterry Services

How buses are hampered in their inter-pro- vincial operations by "a strange anomaly" which exists at the carferry terminals at Borden and Torrnentine is discussed in the brief submitted to the Royal Commission on Transportation on behalf of the Prince Edward lsland Government.

The piers at both terminals, it is pointed out, are part of the King's Vhighway, built under this Province's Confederation pact with Canada. Nevertheless each bus using ‘one oi l’llCI'.‘ picrs must pay to the Canadian Nation- ol Raiiways the sum of $l.50 for each time it uses the pier. While the carferry is a contract- ual obligation cf Canada, the free road to it is closcd to buses by a turnstile levy of $l.50 per bus. "Not far r:moved," the brief comments, "from the days of turnpike trusts!"

tlcr d:es the lack of co-operation stop tlicre. The Railway does riot recognize bus sched- u -_, nor will it permit the carriage of buses on the carlsrry save on very occasional and excep- tional circumstances. The bus must discharge its passengers at the carferry, on one side of the Strait, while another bus picks them up after the nine mile crossing has been made. Regardless of weather conditions, bus passengers must walk on board the ferry via the automobile ramp, bag and baggage, a distance of about one hundred yards, and down again after the crossing; all this under our ”efficient and continuous com- munication" Confederation pact. Yet a provis- ion for carriage of a bus complete with passen- gers across the Strait on the carferry, if made by the railway, would displace only one freight car.

We have no Sunday trains on Prince Edward lsland, while there is a daily bus connection. Furthermore, a bus or air connection from Manc- ton or Sackville is the only method of reaching this Province in 24 hours from Boston to Man- treal, except for some two months of the year.

"Admittedly," says the brief, "the bus com- panies operate in competition with the railway; but such competition should surely not be per- m-itted to enure to the Province's disadvantage. Some form of co-operation might well be for- mulated which would be reflected in savings to both the competing services."

This is one of many instances cited to show how railway administration adversely af- fects the use of the carferry service as an in- strument of national policy and why it should be taken out of railway hands altogether and made a public utility administered either by a department of Government or an independent Ferry Commission.

Barter lleal Mlscarrles

Barter deals are subject to serious miscar- riages, as was instanced by an Ottawa official recently. He explained that, while Canada had not embarked on any governmental barter ar- rangements, she had made it possible for some private industries to do so. One of the deals completed was by a barter of British Col- umbia apples lor Brazilian oranges, with the British Columbia apple growers acting as the importers of the oranges and assuming all the risks.

lt had all the appearances of a profitable arrangement. British Columbia apples began ap- pearing on the Brazilian market and Brazilian oranges went on sale in Canada. But the apple growers did not reckon on the prospect of falling prices cf United States oranges. These prices soon fell to a level where they under-cut the price of the Brazilian oranges. ln order to dis- pose of the quantity of Brazilian oranges for which thev had contracted the apple growers had to scll them at a price that represented a sharp loss.

This experience, comments an exchange, shows what can happen when the rigidity of a barter contract runs into the flexibility of a free market. Fortunately for the people of Canada as a whole it did not hurt them because their Government was not a partner in the deal. They benefited by getting oranges at a cheap price. But suppose the Government had been one of the principals in the arrangement, as is the case in Britain's barter trading. One of two results would have occur-red. Either the Government would have had to absorb the loss, or in order to prevent a loss, it would have had to bar the entry of the cheap oranges from the United States. In either event the people of Canada would have suffered. Under the first alternative they would have had to make up the loss out of their taxes. Under the second, as consumers, they would have been denied the opportunity to save a little money in their orange-buying budgets.

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India is having its share of troubles. Naive N-ationalists who felt that all their difficulties would be ended when the British left are hav- ing their ‘yes opened. The Congress Party it- self is shaking with internal troubles and ex- ternal pressure.

The New York Times reports charges of corruption in high places, black-marketing, nepotism and sharp commercial dealings. In former princely states there are charges that tho new Government is incompetent.

And on tho loft flank tho Communists are waiting to cash in on chaos. Nehru, who spent a large part of his life in jail, is being assailed as an imperial tlunkey because he fails to swal- ‘low the Moscow lino. lose, a brother of the

"wnon who wont om to tho Joooiion, m o Cot- tltta lay-election vrltli Communist old.

Th! new loaders of India have many ad-

mirable qualities, and have already shown much political adroitness. But they are going to need all their ability to meet the storms which face their country.

JEDITORIAL NOTES! Newfoundland’: surplus of $5,000,000 for the first three months as a Province ldoks good, but the experience of nine provinces indicates that it will be short-lived.

i ‘i I A great responsibility rests on those charg- ed with presenting the Island's case before the Royal Co-mmission on Transportation, and it seems to have been honourably discharged to date. i‘ l‘ I His Worship the Mayor was not exaggerat- ing when he told the City Council that there was no prettier or better kept City in Canada than Charlottetown. That is the opinion expressed by mast travelled people who include Charlotte- town in their itinerary. it i‘

Something of a revolution in the marketing of potatoes may be expected because of a new process developed in Chicago. The Wall Street Journal reports that a method of treating pealed potatoes permits them to be kept for several days without refrigeration.

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ln London, Sir Stafford Cripps had to face his people with harsh truths. lf railway wages rise, if health services continue to be used at the present rate, if nationalization of the steel industry shacks enterprise to a standstill, the economic life of Britain will crash for the lack of dollar exchange in export trading.“

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At long last the ‘kiss has received sanction from a health authority. The lllinois Public Health Messenger refutes the charge that it is a menace to health. Actually, kissing is, says that authority, "a pleasant greeting -- an agr_ee- able salutotion and a boon to the mental health of mankind." Strange how science gradually re- cognizes popular experience.

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Jock Cade, English rebel, died this date i450. He marched an l_.ondon with 20,000 men, and after def-eating a force sent against him by Henry Vl entered the city. His triumph was short lived. Driven out of London by the citi- zcns, his followers dispersed, leaving him in the lurch, and he became a wanderer; was captured, and died of wounds previously received.

A gentleman from Montreal who has not been here for nine years, is enthusiastic over the improvement in that time in our tourist fa- cilities. He was especially impressed by the num- ber of splendidly equipped restaurants in the City and vicinity; and said it delighted him and his family to v-isit each of them and enjoy the hospitality offered. That is the sort of commen- dation that helps to keep us up to the mark.

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This year, October 10th to be exact, is the 75th anniversary of the Universal Postal Union, the "Parliament of the Post", and all member countries haveagreed to commemorate it by means of special issues of stamps. Since then world government has been extended to a great niany particular subjects, such as the drug traf- fic, the Red Cross and health, so that it is not so much a question of its establishment as its extension.

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American defence supply planning has tok- en a new turn since last summer. The Emergency Powers Act, instead of being passed by Con. gress on a contingency basis, is merely kept ready for Congressional _approval. New versions of the draft act must give much less power to the Security Resources Board and the programme of phantom orders" has been sharply curtailed.

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"Every man his own prescriber" is evidently the objective of Britain's Labour legislation. A new National Formulary, approved by the Brit- ish Ministry of Health for use under the Nation- al Health Service, has come into operation in the United Kingdom. Containing a comprehen- sive list of up-to-date prescriptions, it has been specially compiled by a joint committee of the British Medical Association and the Pharma- ceutical Society, with the help of specialists in all branches of medicine. lt is designed to meet the needs of all sections of Britain's National Health Service. The Formulary lists in conven- ient form for doctors over S00 prescriptions in what might be described as medical "shorthand." Instead of writing out a full prescription, all the doctor need do is to give a title from the For mulary. This is sufficient for the chemist to identify the full ingredients required. Doctors taking part in the Health Service are not re- stricted to the use of the medicines set out in the Formulary.

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Certain judges, magistrates and high rank business men in England have been accusing schoolmasters of turning out delinquent illiter- ates. A London school principal, Mr. Harry Meigh, does not take this lying down. As president of the National Association of Schoolmasters, ad- dressing the annual conference he said Government figures showed that 98 per cent of school chil- dren were free from any imputation of delin- quency. War office records showed that 98 per cent of the men called up for National Service did not require special educational treatment as illiterate-s. He charged that "conditions in many schools as regards to sanitation, lighting and heating are deplorable. How could any- thing but the perpetuation of slum mentality be expected from the child from,tho slum home who spends his life in the slum school? Unless drastic action is taken there is little hope that the sup- ply of spivs and drones will fall." There was no substitute for the three Rs taught under the pro- per conditions-fancy theories notwithstanding. Teachers should not shrinli from corporal pun- ishment until satisfied that their pupils had learned to control themselves.

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A GARDEN soivo

Here in this scquesterd close Bloom the hyacinth and rose, ere beslde the modest stock F_ *unts the flaring hollytiocls: 1-. e, without. is pang, one sees E iks, conditions, and degrees.

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All the seasons run ihelr race In this quiet resting-place; Peach and apricot and fig Here will ripen and grow big; Here is store and over-plus,»- More had not Alclnousl

Here. In alleys cool and green, Far ahead the ttu-u-sh is seen; Here along the southern wall Keeps the bee his festival;

All is quiet else-afar

Sounds of toll and turmoil are.

Here be shadows large and long; Here be spaces meet for song; Glam. 0 Borden-god, Lhat I,

Now that none profane is nigh,- Now that mood and moment

pleas - Find the fair Plerldesl

—H9"1'y Austin Dobson.

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SCHOOL TRUSTEES’ DUTIES

"The duties and responsibilities of school trustees are Important; but It Is to be regretted that many who assume them are chargeable Wllh l1 highly culpable breach of trust. Although they are not In- vested with powers to remedy the $9.11! evils that Impalr the bene- fits of our schools-viz: the Irregu- lar attendance of the scholars, the inadequate supply of suitable books, and the consequent insufficiency In Instruction and discipline — yet they might, In almost every in- stance, without much personal sacrifice, remove other grievances of which teachers justly complain.

“Apathy an the part of those who OURlII io cherish rind exemplify an ardent Interest in our schools, must sveriken the zeal and impair the usefulness of the teacher. When the condition of the school-house ls neglected. a splrlt of indifference ls engendered in the minds of the children, who become disre- spectful towards the master, as tic- meets with no sympathy from those who should sustain him In his authority. Whereas, if teachers were encouraged In their arduous duties hy the cn-opr-rntlnn of flie trustees rind the patrons. the ef- fects of their fostering Influence would he armors-m In rm- school- house, hy respect and coriflrlencr towards the teacher, by n spirit. of subordination and doclllty, secur- ing success to the school, and cll the benefits of instruction’ to the scholars.

"If meetings were held In the several districts for consultation and discussion of subjects connect- ed wlth our common schools, for the delivery of lectures; and for reading portions of reportsion the educational improvements In other countries. more enlightened and elc- vaterl views of mental culture would prevail, and a deeper Inter- est would be awakened In all classes in the community."

—-Fram the annual report, 1849, of John Arbuckle. visitor of district schools for Prince County.

Maritime Union Proposal

(Ottawa Clllzen)

Premier Joseph Smallwood‘s crus- ade to merge Nova Scatla, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland into one Marl- fime province ls not likely to meet the success that attended his cam- paign to bring Newfoundland Into Confederation. Some l0 years ago the Rowell-Slrals commission on Dominion-Provincial relations In- vestlgated the Idcn of unltlng the three Maritime Provinces. Its ex- ports crime to the conclusion that. the defects of the plan outweighed Its advantages. They found also that. the scheme was not acceptable to any of the Provinces Involved.

The view ls held today by men who have studied the Marltlmes slt- untlon although It is agreed that the Inclusion of Newfoundland, If that were possible. would Increase the benefits that might accrue. Superfi- clally It would‘ seem that reducing the number of lieutenant gover- nors, legislatures, cabinets and gov- ernment, departments, would effect .1 greet financial saving. But the amount. that would thus be saved ls not Impressive In relation to the total cost of the present four systems or of the single govern- ment that would rake over should the plan be ndopled‘.

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It seems to be agreed that In the event of Marltlme unlon, many of the offices now maintained at the various provincial capitals would have to be retained as regional ad- mlnlstrntlve agencies. This would Involve the servlces of supervisors, Inspectors and similar officials whose salarles and travelllng ex- penses would go n long way to off- set other savings, The accepted con- clusion appears to be that the cost of a single government would just about equal the expense af the pre- sent four provincial administra- tlons.

The problems and Interests of the four Provinces are so dlverlr- that they require a flexIbllIty of policy, and administration which ll much more readily achieved under separate governments than under one. In a number of matters of lo- cnl and provincial scope there Is ol- ready friction between some the Maritime Provinces. It ls gen- erally felt that such differences In needs and viewpoint would make the effective and harmonious oper- atlon of a central government ex- ceedlngly dlfttfulz,

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Mr. Srnallwood nrguel that one

strong province of 1.5000!) people would uors o lrOlI-If Influence or

CHARLOTTETOWN

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Pre-Peeled Potatoes (By Thomas Callahan In Wall Street Journal)

You'll soon be able to buy al- ready-peeled potatoes that will keep several days without. refrigeration. These skinned spuds will lilr the national market, at least for res- taurants, by the end of the year. They're already In use In Chicago eateries. Smaller bags will come along later for the home market. "A secret treating solution that‘: harmless, colorless and tasteless does the trick." explains Claude Miller. president of the newly-form- eri Miller's Pre-Pared Potato Co. The treated potatoes won't. discolor or deteriorate if kept at normal room temperature for several days; they'll last miich longer In the re- frigerator. Ordinarily potatoes start

natlonril and international pollcles than four smaller provincial en- lilies. This view is not accepted by some Mnriflmers In Ottawa who have considered the matter. Their contention Is that the Impact of the four Provinces acting together on matters of common Interest ls at least as potent as would be the. representations of one larger Pro- vlnce.

In addition It ls now possible-Jn fact it ls the practice-for any or two of the Mnritlmes Provinces to make their oflwn representations when their Interests conflict with flint: of the others. This would sear- cely be practicable under one legis- lative unlon.

Above all It Is said that unlon ls riot feasible. The four Provinces would have to give up their present capitals In favor of some such cen- tral city as Moncton or Amherst. If ls thought that there is little likelihood of getting an agreement on such a sacrifice-or that the people of the different provinces would be willing to submerge their Individual interests In order to es- tablish a union of doubtful value.

turning black shortly after they're peeled. '

To restaurant owners this can mean the end of potato peeling ma- chines nnd the labor and time spent removing eyes and skins. To the housewife It can mean less work at the kitchen sink.

"We've cut potato casts 25 per cent. to 30 per cent In our restaur- ants where the peeled potatoes are used," says a spokesman for sever- nl stores in Chicago which have been using them for the past four months.

The treated spuds come either sliced for French fries or whole for boiling. A GO-pound moisture-proof bng of them costs $6. The same po- tatoes unpeeled in a IOU-pound sack sell for $5.25. Mr. Miller says sur- veys indicate unpecled potatoes have about 40% waste-peels, eyes and rat.

Acceptance has been so rapid In this area that franchises for the process are now being developed In Philadelphia, Cleveland, Detroit. Wichita, Kansas City, Mllwaukce, Si. Paul, Minneapolis, Los Arigeles and St. Louis. "By the cnrl of the year, peeled potatoes will be avail- able in every mnjor city In the country." Mr. Miller says,

Earlier this year, the company tcsferlthe sale of peeled potatoes to thr- houseivife. The spurts were treated and put up in five-pound moisture-proof bags selling for 59 cents. At that time comparable un- peelerl potatoes were selling”, _10 pounds for 69 cents. Housewives

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i The Age-Old Story i

FTIO UUGUOQODOUUUOT

Who ls he that candemnelh? It ls Christ that died. yea. rather that Is rlscn again. who Is even at the right hand of God. who

also makelh Intercession for us.

Queen Sir-set

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Ono been much of the frailltleo, idiosyncrasies and ornerlnell of hu- man belngl. One also, thank good- ness, flnde plenty of examples of the Innate goodness of mankind. At Hotel DIeu Hospltal hero a llttle boy Is seriously lll. He must have someone with film constantly. He ls a son of a fireman, and other firemen are providing a watch over the lad. They do it on their own time, arid In rotation. They do It as volunteers, ladly, to save ttielr colleague the tlnuous watch by nurses. Such Instances as thls ere a good antidote for cynlclsm. -— Windsor Star. ,

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On n triangular blltsad alto In Isllngtan, dead men's money has been put to better use than some of the testatora intended. Leaf Sat-

Hause, the first block of flats In Landon to Include special accom- modation for old people. The en- terprise Is the work of the Trus- teesof the London Parochial Charl- tles, who administer the consolidat- ed charities of parishes In the City of London under is scheme made In 1883 for the better use of a large number of obsolete bequests. Isle- den House has model flats on the ground floor for forty old people and larger flats for families on the floors above. The old people use a common dining hall for one cooked meal a day and get other meals themselves In kitchenette: designed with real Imagination to suit the needs of the aged. Every flat has central beating, an elec- trlc clock, a bullt-In loudspeaker glvlng a choice of the three BBC programs, a refrigerator bullt In n!

were given n guarantee: If one po- tato spoiled wlthln n. week, It was to be returned and another five pounds received free. In a six-week fest, no potatoes were returned and