A 'to treetit with the ill-concealed contempt .;., lt,ba.,e abownfor it in recent years, there is

qg will be merely a ueeess ex- , I

PAC-E FOUR

THE GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN

rue GUARDIAN

Authorised ea second Clare Mail Poet Office lleputment. Ottawa. The mum Guardian Pubtlablna co umuuurlon ' Iotal City Zone lletail Trading Zone All Others Total Net Paid

President and Auoclalo Editor, Inn A Burnett. Aaeociate Editor. Frank Walker.

1.461 8.420 . 861 .' 12.1 I 5

"The Strongest Memo 1 is Weaker Than the Weakest ink"

zenxnio-means sIfEa'x)-AYTJANEGT 195;: 1 Civic Affairs

The Civic Accounts show a debt increase, last year of some S236,114, bringing the net debt up to 32,390,653. This is the worst side of the picture, for, as the finance chairman, Coun. Prowse, pointed out in his report to the City Council last night, and as the auditors' statement corroborates, this increase was due mainly to capital ex- penditures and a large part of it represents assets recoverable in street and sidewalk' assessments. Moreover-and as evidencc' that the Council has practiced economy where it was possible-a surplus of some 3i6,177 is shown on current account.

The full details of civic expenditure are available in the auditors statements, and these along with other statements are cm- bodied in the annual City Report. Coun.- Prowse urged all citizens last night to pro- cure a copy of this report when it is print- ed, and study the whole picture for them- selves. In the meantime, the summaries ap- pearing in today's Guardian should be read carefully.

His Worship Mayor Stewart has given a comprehensive general report on the year's activities, which appears in full in todays issue. He stresses particularly the importance of the work of the Board of Assessors, whose findings will be imple- mented in a new tax structure which, he predicts, will enable the city to enjoy in- creased revenue at a lower tax rate. I,

On the other hand, due to increased operational costs, we may expect an in- crease in water rates shortly. A consider- able factor in this connection is what His Worship terms the enormous increase in electrical energy costs, which the Council views with alarm.

Among other things, His Worship noted the success of the parking meters and traf- fic lights in solving the traffic problem. and complimented Coun. Cox on his efforts in this matter.

It is evident from all the reports that a; great deal of work was done during the year, particularly in the streets depart- ment, and that a conscientious effort was made to give sound and stable administra- tion.

time enough to consider increasing the Chamber's membership when Senate reform becomes a real issue in Canadian politics. It evidently considers this a remote con- tingency under its present partisan setup.

EDIIURIAI. NUIES ,

Tomorrow, the third Sunday after

Epiphany.

The mild alarm at reports of Maine po- tatoes entering the markets of Central Can- ada is hardly warranted in a year of scar- city. Every bushel so shipped means one bushel less on the American home market.

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About the last public action of the re- tiring Governor-General was helping to put out a farmhouse fire near Ottawa. May he be equally successful in his new position in extinguishing the many smouldering na- tional conflagrntions both in Asia and Africa.

One thing about our new native-born Governor-General, he knows Canada intim- ately from Vancouver to the Atlantic and from the forty-eighth parallel to the Arctic, having covered all the territory in connec- tion with the Massey Commission of which he was chairman.

I

New Brunswick is getting some en- couragcment in its propolal to develop electricity from the 450-mile long St. John River. An international study reveals that three projects are feasible. Now it is large- ly a matter of determining whether it is also feasible to raise the necessary 55250,- 000.000.

Foundation Day, Australia. This date 1788 the first British settlement in Aus- tralia was made at Port Jackson, where Sydney now stands. It had been decided to settle United Empire Loyalists there with convicts to supply the labour. The U.E.L.'s settled elsewhere and the first set-

tlers were chiefly convicts. O O 0

The development of a method of making newsprint from sugar cane by a school op- erated by the Quebec Government is a very real contribution to world enlighten- ment. Despite its value, however, Quebec may well regret the assistance if the sugar- growing areas start producing paper on

their own.

We have received a copy of the first issue of the Times Weekly Review, Lon- don. This is a publication designed, in the first place, for English readers overseas. It will serve a very real need in giving news of events and opinion and interests in Brit- ain to people in the Dominions and Colon- ies and to friends in Europe and U. S. A.

and elsewhere in the world. 9 I C

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S-lloesn't Want More

An Ottawa columnist in the Vancouver, Daily Province points out that at present,l with a total population of 3,609,605, Brit- ish Columbia and the three Prairie Prov-, inces have a total of only 24 Senators-stx; t'rom mch Province. On the other hand; the four Maritime Provinces, with a total: population of only 1,606,012, boast a total- nf 30 Senators. Nova Scotia and New: Brunswick each having 10, P. E. 1. four and Newfoundland six. The remaining mem-y hers of the 102 Senate embrace 24 from! Ontario and 24 from Quebec. A fairer bal-i ance of parliamentary representation would he achieved, he argues, if the Western Provinces had their Senate quota boosted! by two from each Province. It would at; least be "a graceful gesture” towards cor-In rccting the present disproportion, he sapiently remarks. I

But The Province. editorially, pooh-i hoos the suggestion. "No doubt," it says, "to have eight more Senators to appoint would be most satisfactory to the party in power. There would be eight more plumsy to distribute. But what would this do for the country? It would have eight more Senatorial indemnities to discharge. And what would the benefit be? Can anybody name it?

As our Vancouver contemporary points out, the Senate was never intended to rep- resent populations, but Provinces. It was set up to be a protector of minorities. So, the little Provinces were supposed to have, relatively, greater representation than the larger.

"However," it adds, "all the old pur- poses for which the Senate was created seem to have vanished. It has not only lost prestige; it has virtually lost all rea- son for its continuance. It is merely a creature of the Government, and not a very useful creature at that. It isn't even dec- orative. And it knows its deficiencies, for it has dismissed them. While the Senate remains a fifth wheel on the Government coach and while the Government continues

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The electrification programme of this Province is limited, of course, by the factor of cost but it must be kept in mind as a long term goal that all power stations should be able to contribute to the general electrical supply and each community should be able to receive power from alternative sources. Towns on either side of the N.B.- N.S. border are showing the way.

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The newly inaugurated Community Planning Association is a step in the right direction. Had it been in'the field earlier it might have tended to prevent the long line of individual homes erected in the vicin- ity of settled towns and villages, which make it so.difficult to provide adequate water and sewage supplies and create com- munity centres. Laying out suitable areas for development is one of the important functions of such an association.

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Quebec has passed a law providing that a city councillor found disqualified by a first court of law must remain out of the coun- cil until an appeal decides otherwise. Sauce for the goose being equally sauce for the gander, mustn't those stores convicted of opening on religious holidays be compelled to remain closed on all such holidays until the outcome of the appeals be ascertained? And there is something like a thousand of them in Montreal charged with the offence.

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A movement is on foot in Parliamentary circles in Ottawa to provide two parlia- mentary sessions per annum. The reason, says the correspondent of The Gazette, is that every time there are two sessions, in- stead of one, payments to members rise from S6,000 a year to 510,000. It is a substitute for an increase in indemnities to which M. P.'s feel that they are entitled but which might, it is felt, encounter pub- lic criticism. Under Prime Minister St. Laurent the two-session-a-year pattern has become fairly well established. To date there have already been five sessions during the 21st Parliament. These opened on: Sept. 15, 1949; Feb. 16, 1950; Aug. 29, 1950; Feb. 14, 1951,-and Oct. 9, 1951." A sixth session is due in a. month or two. This is one eeseion more than was held during the entire four years of the 20th Parlia- I -

NEXT GOVERNOR- GENERAL, AND HENCE Folrru,

TOBE CANADIAN

THE SEAL FISHERY

An important source of income to the Island a century ago was the seal fishery. some of the dif- ficulties encountered in this indus- try were outlined in petitions pre- sented to the Legislature in March. 1345 by Messrs. Mackenzie and Mackie. of New London, merchants and ship owners, in which-they set forth-

"That. encouraged by an Act of the Colonial Legislature tfor the encouragement of the Seal and God

the month of April last, to fit out

of the burthen of 36 tons. new measurement, prosecuting the Seal Fishery;

"That the said vessel was prop- erly equipped and manned. accord- ing to the requisitions of the said Act. and provided with the neces- sary supplies of water and provis- ions for two months:

"That. she broke ground on the tenth of April, in the harbour of New London, but owing to the great accumulation of ice which tlucked up the said harbour, she was unable to get out until the sixteenth day of the said month:

"That after cruising for eight days among the ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. in tsearch of seals, they arrived off Cape North. on the coast of Cape Breton. when all tne crew, with the exception of one man. refused to continue the voyage. and demanded to be taken to Charlottetown;

"That the Captain and Mate at lyrst refused to yield to their dc- mnnds. and continued to cruise for one week longer: but thrn lindin-: it impracticable longer to ninnaze the said vessel. and the crew sti'l continuing refractory. the said Captain and Mate hr-coining alarm- ed for their own safety. as well as that of the vessel. on the first day of May consented to bear up for the Port of Charlottetown. where. alter encountering much dllll'Z8T. they arrived on the fourth of that rionth. having during the said vnvazc onlv taken one seal."

The petitioners also set. fnrtli- "That they were in the month of April last, induced to fit out and cquin another schooner. called the 'Aipha'. of the burthen of forty- seven rrvzistcr ions. new measure- ment, for the exclusive purpose of prosecuting the Seal Fishery: "That. the said schooner having not out of port. continued at sea in the prosecution of the scal.llsh- cry for the space of seven weeks and upwards. and having then on l)Cill”lI ninety-six seals, nnd being dziven throulzli stress of weather to the coast of Newfoundland. near the port of St. Johns. and the said seals being then in A rapidly decaying state and the master tcinz apprehensive. if he at- tempted to return to this lalanul uiih them. that the said seals. be- fore he could accomplish the voy- age hither. would have become ill- together valueleu. proceeded to the inert of st. John's aforesaid. and then and there landed and dispos- ed of the said seals. and shortly thereafter returned to this Island. w'Ih the said vessel. which was much injured by the said voyage: -"That the proceeds of the sale of mid seals did not realize more than 528 15:. 6d.. being a sum barely sufficient to pay the ex- penses of the vessel while in New- foundland:

"That the petitioners applied to the Govemor-in-Council. in Sep- tember last, for tonnage and other bountlee on said vessel. and ob- tained the tonnage bounty thereon. but did not succeed in obtaining any bounty on the catch of seals. the some not having been landed on this Island.”

DIG

A Puerto Rico hurricane in 1928 registered wind velocity of no miles an bouinbefore the measur- ine device collapsed.

IIGGIST IIETIOIITI The largest. meteorite ever found.

weighing over to tone. was discov- ered in eouthveet -Africa some

STORM A,

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l-'isheries'. they were induced, in a schooner called the tCaledonia',

for the purpose of

A Door Opens

Who mag one

kdear- ittieEgbert Jag be Governor-General!

Beth" P"3'5P9cIs For a sergeant- major E

WILD DUCK

As the shadow of the earth upon the moon So is the shadow of the wild duok's

wings Across the rough brown stubble as it clings To the winter fields of sodden grain. The noon 1: fading thinly into evening rains, Dragging the webs of cloud across the sky the shadows merge and darkly dih- But still the warmth of breast and wing remains.

Until

While shreds of day an in the ragged sky

The wild duck broken cry;

Then into wisps of night. he dumb- ly creeps . . .

The dripping marsh in wings of silence sleeps.

Lislenl and you shall faintly hear again

The beat of a warm heart in the quiet rain,

calls his lonely,

-Dorothy Trail.

Newsp pers Necessary For Prayer

Rev. J. M. Simpson in The Scotsman

Toward the beginning of last century. there was a minister at l-laddlngton named Chalmers. one Saturday night. when the London coach that brought the mails was late. he sent out his little maid four or five times to see if the newspapers had not yet arrived.

When there was still no word of the coach, and the old minister was anxiously pacing to and fro. one of his daughters said. "I de- clare, father. a body would think you couldn't preach tomorrow un- less you got. your newspaper."

"My woman," he replied. "I could preach well enough without the newspaper, but 1 cannc pray."

This is an aspect of prayer that bears thinking of. How vague and woolly and unlnfonned our prayers often are! How prone we are to re- gard God as an excuse for think- ingi lnstead of thinking things out to a logical conclusion. and then asking for further enlightenment and guidance. we make some in- definite petition and leave the rest to Him.

We are passing through difficult times. The world needs the min- lstry of intercession. But it is well to lemember that behind all true prayer there is real, hard thinking.

And so, when we begin to con- sider the needs of the world. it. is wise to dig out as much inform- ation about these need: an is poe- sible,

Before asking God to do earne- thlng about the multitude: who languish in concentration camp and labour colony on the other side of the Iron Curtain. it might be wise to think of the plight of the under-privileged who look to us for protection. By all means pray for the dispossessed. where- ever they are, but a little previous thought may sunent immediate action. possible ways of -helphg practically.

And if behind true prayer there is hard thinking. may we not nay that such ' thinking is akin prayer. That in why the good min- later of I-lnddlneton grew reetlve at the non-eppeareuu. of the mail coach on the Saturday ennine.

0IJ3UoEl'llI. England - (OP) -Leslie James. 00. went to hoe- pitel suspecting he had .1:-eeture but x-rays showed no injury. Ten minutes later he was back in hoe- pitel with a real injury. on the weywey home he had slipped and woken a let,

LANGLEY. Darlene ..' Profeuor O. 0, Drew of University is supplying free drinks to volunteer motorists as part of I test to determine how much

dangerous.

The Age-Old Story .

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This I any therefore. and tceHf1 in the lord, that ye henceforth walk not an other Genldlee walk, in the vanity of their mind, hav- ing the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God t ' the lmonlwe that in in them. because of the blind- neae of their heart. . . But ye have not eo learned Clu-let; if no be that ye. have heard him. and have been taught by him. la the truth in in Jeeue. that ye put off concerning the former convent- tlon the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful luete; and be renewed in the aplrlt of your mind: and that ye put on the new man. which after God la created in righteousness and true bounces.

Books Received

WINDS OF MORNING by I-LL. Davie (George J. McLeod. Ltd.. Toronto rep. 344 on. 54.25). This is the eort of book about the Am- erican northwest that should be, but seldom is, written about Cen- ada. The tale is of life and death in the gMiddic Columbia. River country. It is told through Amos Clark, a human and likeable cher- iff's assistant who finds himself the companion and escort of an oil! herdsmamhclping him to move his horses into open country. Old Hendricks. the horse herder re- members the days of early settle- ment. and can recount the trials. successes and failures of them all. He seems to be an ancestor of n goodly number of the present gen- eration and is none.-too proud of the fact. There is an element. of mystery running throughout the adventures of the oddly escorted pair but the real story is of the land and the pioneer and their descendants who peopled it.

CANADA

PROVINCE OF

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

IN THE PROBATE COURT The 3rd Day of January AJ). 1052. In Re Estate of WILLIAM MATH- ESON. late of Pleasant Grove in Queen's County in the said Province. formerly of Vnlleyfleld in King's County in said Prov- ince, Retired farmer. deceased. testate.

To the Sheriff of the County of Queen's County or any Con- stable or literate person within said County

GREETING:

WHEREAS upon reading the petition on file of Malcolm Role of Valleyficld eforeeeld. Farmer. role Executor named in the will of the above-named. he praying that a citation may be issued for the purpose hereinafter eet forth: You are therefore hereby-required to cite ell peuonl interested in the said Estate to be and ap- pear before the Judge present at a Probate Court to be held in the Court House in Charlottetown in Queen's County. in the said Prov- ince. on Thurlflay the 7th day of February next coming. at the hour of eleven o'clock for-enoon of the same day to show cause If any they can why the Accounts of the raid Estate ehould not be peeled and the Estate friend as prayed for in ma petition and on motion of Malcolm Mel-flnnon. EI- qulre. Proctor for said Petitioner. And it is hereby ordered that a true copy hereof lbe forthwith published In some newspaper in Charlottetown aforesaid once in each week for at lent four eon-

” Iecutlve weeks from the data here-

of and that a true copy hereof be forthwith posted in the follow- ing -, public place! , reepectively,

, in the hall of, the Court House in Charlottetown aforesaid. at or near the store of clerk Bree. in llontaeue in Klnre County aloreeeld, end at or near Volley- fleld Int school In Valleyfield in more County afereeeld. eo thlt all persons interested in the acid Estate ee aforesaid may have due notice thereof.

WITNESS Hie Honour Herold Leonard Palmer. Judge .of the raid Probate Court at Charlotte- town eforeeeid. the dry end year first above writtenr-

By the Court.

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( Sed.) M. ELIZABETH WRIGHT. Registrar.

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also helped. - Ottawa Citizen.

Postmaster-General” Mr. to the effect that the title Mail". is no longer in use,

tcr advised to seek in the postal trying. for quaintly nationalistic are) to disturb a traditional and (to tourists as well as nntlvesi at-

vme - Brantford Expositor. The London I-(-I-able which up-

newspaper says that In English and mathematics professor casts" a. machine operated which will create tunes That word "forecasts" puzzles us. After listening to the radio and the juke box if has been our fin- presaion that such a machine had long ago been constructed and was in full operation. Are we to believe that someone sits down and deliberately composes those things that come to our cars? oursusplclon that the machine already exists is heightened by

man who operated the thing had

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