'F1it';zir0UR__ TIIE BIIAIILOTTETUWII GUARDIAN

Iorning Daily (Founded in 183.1) Authorised as Second Class Mail. Post Oilioo Department. Ottawa.

President. Ian A. Barnett; Vice-President, Wm It. Barnett; Seep-Tress" G. lll. Burnett; Editor and Managing Director, .l. B. Burnett; Associate Editor. Frank Walker.

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink."

FRIDAY, AUGUST l. 1947

Old Age Pensions

As intimated in yesterday's issue, the Pro- vincial Government has signed a new agreement with Ottawa regarding pensions for aged and blind persons. This will insure-to the ex- tent of $5.00 a month-a higher standard of living for these people. ln rhe circumstances, it cannot be said that either the Federal or Pro-_ vincial authorities have actcd with undue gen- crosity.

A Canadian Press survey shows that now all but three Provinces have accepted the Fed- eral proposal paving the way for this slightly increased security for the aged and blind. Under the new agreement, passed in the form of a bill at the recent session of Parliament, the Federal Government will pay up to 75 per cent of a $30- monthly maximum pension instead of 75 per cent up to $25 a month. The bill also lowers the qualification age for the blind from 40 years to 2l, thus adding thousands more to the total number of pensioners throughout Canada.

The three Provinces which have not yet ac- cepted the proposals arc Alberta, with a pension of $30 monthly; Saskatchewan, with a monthly pension of $33.75; and British Columbia, with a pension of $35 monthly.

Nova Scotio, Prince Edward lsland and New Brunswick have announced they will sign agreements with the Federal Government shortly. Some 35,000 pensioners are affected in the Mari. time Provinces area.

Quebec with an estimated 58,000 pension-

ers will have this total increased to about 65,000 and maximum monthly payments will be $30 in- stead of $25. _ Ontario accepted the proposals effective May I, increasing the maximum possible pens- ion to an individual from $28 a month to $40. Some 14,000 pensioners are situated there.

It was a great disappointment to the Prov- inces as well as to the pensioners that the Fed- eral Government did not assume a greater share of responsibility in the payment of old age pen- sicns. lnstead of doing this, it has virtually "passed the buck" to the Provinces, adopting an attiiude entirely at variance with the report of the Rowell-Sirois Commission, which is the auth- oritative finding on this and other subjects of Dominion-Provincial relations

The Price 0f yMllk

There are two sides to every question, but fow will deny that the following farmer's letter in a Cornwall, Ontario, exchange, presents one side very" convincingly:

"The price of milk seems to be your great worry now. And your solution for cheapening it is for the former to produce more of it.

"There are two ways I could do this. First, I could milk more cows. My wife and I could get up at 3:30 instead of 4:30 and care for twice tho number we are now milking. Or I could shake my three youngsters awake at 4:30 and make them help, only they are children and growing and need their sleep. Besides who wants to benefit by child labor?

"Second, I could buy a tractor and work my place better, buy o milking machine, a hay loader, a side delivery rake and hire a couple of men. That would mean a cash outlay of from $2,000 to $2,500, depending on the size of ma- chinery bought. Also a wage outlay of at least $I00 a month.

"And to what end? So that the men who make that machinery and who work forty hours a week and are continually striking for higher pay, can buy cheaper milk. Brother, do you see any green in my eye?"

The- llatlonal Parks

In the dying stages of the last session of Parliament, a bill making certain amendments to the National Parks Act was debated both in the Senate and House of Commons. Certain sections of this bill related to changes in bound- lries. By gift, some four acres of historic ground were added to Fort Beauseiour Park in the Mari- timcs. A section of land on the edge of Rid- ing Mountain Park in Manitoba was exchanged for a privately owned section well within it. Buf- folo Pork near Wainwright, from which the buf- falo wero removed about I940, was abolished al- together; but by a compensatory move, 24 square miles were added to Elk lsland Park, also in Alberta, for the benefit of the animals now liv- ing there.

Thus far the changes appeared reasonable enough on the whole, and one of the parks gain- ed by the addition of a small but historically valuable piece of ground. lut there were other alterations, and these were in a different cate- gory altogether.

- because it was claimed by the government that the lricnoso in the antelope population no longer made necessary u special domain for their protection, the Nemiskam Pork near Fore- most in southern Alberta was wiped out of ex- istence. _

Tho latter tract, said Mr. Howe, who as acting Minister of Minas and Resources was piloting tho bill through the Commons, was "un- suitable for notional park development." He applied the some phrase to a much greater withdrawal, the lopplng off of three parcels of land from Prince Albert Notional Pork in north- ern Saskatchewan, totalling 373 square miles. That was o folrly sizable fraction of the pork‘:

total area of some I,700 square miles.

Several members rose to protest against the Nemiskam Park abolition and against the mutil- ations of Waterton and Prince Albert. Social Credit and C. C. F. MSIITIJGI‘: seemed to be part- ly reassured by statements to the effect that the ; provincial governments of Alberta and Saskatche- wan were in agreement with the move to turn these areas over to the provinces concerned. llut more difficult to convince were three of the Conservatives.

Most aroused of all was Mr. J. R. Mac-l Nicol of Davenport, who has made conservation- a lifetime interest. The minister's explanation: was that 340 of the 373 square miles being token | out of Prince Albert Park were needed for a muskrat project already in operation outside the park boundaries; while l0 square miles were be- ing added to an Indian reserve, and the remain- ing 23 would be available for agricultural settle- inent. The member for Davenport countered with arguments that ill: great expanses of

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muskeg "unsuitable for park purposes" were in

game; and, which was lo him an even more im- portant consideration, the denudation of forested land which mi ht follow would have a serious effect on the Montreal iiver watershed.

Other speakers made a case for leaving alone the Watcrton and Nemiskam Parks. With regard to the latter, there was no validity in the minister's claim that it was no longer needed. A day might very well arrive when the numbers of antelope or some other wild animal were once cgain reduced to the danger point, when the surrender of the park would prove to have been a big mistake.

- EDITORIAL NOTES -

Lammos Day (loaf mass) August I, when a loaf was offered as first-fruits.

Reduction of Britain's military strength will throw a greater burden on Canada's services and Canada's taxpayer.‘ The Battle of Minden this date I759, when the Prussians and British allies defeated the French, leading to the upbuilding of Germany as a military power dominating Europe.

In view of the disasterous explosions of ammonium nitrate in Texas City and in Brest farmers are apt to be a bit dubious about put- ting the stuff through o manure spreader.

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Visitors to the Cloutie Well at Culloden by their thousands toss in a coin and make o wish. After the hopeful ones have departed the canny Heelanders salvage the coin and use it for a hos- pital fund.

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Trade Union's success in getting wage in- creases in every direction may be the factor which will postpone indefinitely the recession predicted by the experts. k i

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Lloyds is sure getting it in losses through wreck of supply vessels-the Charlottetown, the Nascopie, and now the Neophyte. Hope the Abegweit reaches here safe and sound in due

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This Province cannot get calcium chloride‘ or oil to keep down road dust, and at the some time there is a lay-off of workers in the salt in- dustry in Amherst, because of the slump in the fishing industry. Perhaps some mutually ad- vantageous arrangement could be made.

New Brunswick now claims that its order for potatoes from the Argentine amounts to 340,000 crates instead of 320,000 crates orig- inally reported. Tho value is quoted as $800,- 000, with on additional $250,000 for crates to contain Il0 lbs., equal to 13,700 tons.

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Prime Minister Attlee received o vote of confidence from his Parliamentary supporters in caucus. But no sooner did the import of his speech to them leak out, than there was a gigan- tic tumble in quotations on the stock exchange. O Q Q i ‘

"Taking the volume of newspaper adver- tising as a fair reflex of the general situation, it is reasonable to assume (says the Sydney Post- Recard) that business across the Dominion as a whole, including production, trans ortation, the wholesale turnover and the retail rodasJis at the present time at least 25 per cent greater in volume,—and even more than that in value,— than it was a year ago."

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Cosmo dc Medicis,.iho elder, died at Flor- ence this date I464; was founde. of the family which flourished in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries. By commercial enterprise he acquired wealth comparable to that of kings, which enabled him to be the friend of the poor, to enrich his friends, to ornament his native city with superb edifices, and to call to Florence tlie Greek savants chased out of Constantinople. His counsels were during thirty years, the lows of the republic, and his benefactions its sole intrigues. Florence by commoii l. ' in- scribed his tomb with the noble legend: he Father of His Country," later applied to George Washington. ‘

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Ono of the more important items of legis- lation passed in the dying hours of Parliament was the approval by the Commons of-a Senate bill to amend tho Trust Companies Act in a number of respects. The changes will increase the maximum number of directors allowed such companies from 2I to 30 to increase geographi- cal ropresentatian; allow them to divide their cap- ‘ ital into shares of $10 each or any multiple of tint amount up to $100; extend the period for holding real estate from seven to l2 years; pro- scribe investment rules and permit the amount of the aggregate of borrowed money and that en- trusted to any company for investment to be l0

rather than seven timorlho amount of tho com-

Pfllifs unimpaired paid-up capitol and mom. in

at friendly strangers.

THE CHARLOTTETOWN _ GUARDIAN

llotes By The Vlay

Remember when terrified hos-no; QIPITNG THE EARLY PATTERN

used to bolt. at the slxht of an auto. mobile? Well, now they have in tear down a blacknnltlf shop g1; the village of Springfield bong” ll interferes with the view of mag. orlsts.—Windsor Star.

As a result of the war and the

will have a record number 0f chil. dren at the school ages in m; 1950's. In fact, more than 5.000.000 children will probably be added to the elementary school populatlnn of our country within the next. dec- ade. The effect. of the recent r15; in the birth rate ls already not.- lceable in the lower grades of the schools. and it wlll be felt with increasing force in the years to come. —Metropolitan Life Bulle- tin. '

Young fathers and mothers who know only too well the high de- struction rate of babies‘ feeding bottles will welcome the ingenuity of the inventor who has designed a plastic bottle which can be throuin away after it is used once, at a cost. of about one cent a bot- tle, says The Boston Post. The young king or queen who rules mast households with chubby little hands is no respecter of glass bot-

tles nor of the expense entailed|

every time he or she sends one crashing to fragments on the floor.

There ls a certain festival at- mosphere about North Bay when tlie United States tourists begin to arrive in large numbers. They frankly enjoy themselves and their good humor is remarkably infec- tious. Native sans and daughters can spot them ln an instant and find themselves grinning amlably A favorite pastime around North Bay is to lry and distinguish the state from which tourists r-ome by their ac-

cents and many a surreptitious cop- per is dropped into parking meters

by citizens who see a "violation" sign rising beside an American car. -North Bay Nuggett.

The starlings have not yet be- gun to make nuisances of themsel-

ves, but nature-lovers have already had occasion to notice the increas-

ing degradations of crows. the black ugly birds which each year

do a great deal more harm than good, both from the farmers and tlie naturalists point. of view. NOW

would be a good time for naturalists. fish and game enthusiasts and urban and county otflclals to get. together to plan a sound campaign flgfllnsli both starlings and crows. The vile mess and the unholy racket of the starlings are still vivid memclfl“ from last summer and fall; every effort, should be made to prevent a repetition of the PWBUE- Ami anyone who has xvabched a CYBW rob nests. pillage H0195 and be 5

general nuisance will agree tl1at|

an nnti-strirling campaign (‘mild ygry wall be expanded to include s. drlve against. crows. - Wood- stock Sentinel-Review’.

The Fort William chamber of commerce passes on a story which carries n good Punch lll"! 0f 5'9"‘ ial interest ln this time of advfmfied

prices. In a letter from a lumber

house in the middle west. this ln- cldent was unfolded. “We hid l farmer ln the front office the other (lav after nineteen bundles of No. 1 ‘red cedar shingles. When he heard the price. $16-35 PET Wunei he didn't. quite blow off the roof. but be walked out. with marked in- dications of dIsaPlIFUYBI- "He W“ back an hour 01' so later, however, u» take the shingles. exala1nlns= “I've been thlnklnis- Seven veers ago it would have taken the PM" of a. hag to roof that. building, and it's still just one hog." —Port Wil- llam Times-Journal.

Frequently the word "bayonet? ll used when the reference is to a soldier, thus: “Three million bayo- nets line the border 0t Rurltanlaf or this or that. country can pro- duce so many "hayonets." Its a misnomer. says The WOOGBVJCK sentinel-Review. If the people W110 use the word want to talk about soldiers. the" they should say 5°- because the bayonet-MW eXlsl-S (my). [or pwo purposes: (a) l5 l pretty Loy for ceremonial parades. and (bl for opening cans. It might. be sala that the later spike model makes a very inefficient. can open- er, as Canadian troops ln the Sec- ond World War qulckly discovered. The o.d bladed type of bayonet had its uses, such as paring nails’ lop- plng small branches off trees and butchering cattle "killed hy enemy action." But it isn't likely that the people who talk about bayflfle“ lining the border are thinking a- long such utilitarian lines.

The modern homing pigeon must feel pretty frustrated. It. was bad enough when the telegraph ran him out of the stock market busi- ness and most. communications em- ployment. But the competition of telegraph, telephone and radio at. least was invisible, and the pigeon still could consider himself the fastest known means of getting a message in its orlalnal form from one point. to another. Even that couldn't last. Today a homing pig- eon with pride in his speed, seeing a man-made contraption shoot post. a dozen times his own pace, must feel like letting himself go into a flat spin and never coming out. ‘rhe speed record set by n Godar- fch pigeon was a1 1-2 miles per hour. A couple of days previously an American jet. plans had streak- ed through the sky at 623.8 miles per hour. What chance has a hard-

= working pigeon against competition

like that? — Sault. Ste. Marie Star. -i.,____ COTTON PAPER

The ear-Pest paper was made of action.

UNDILWATII Wlllllt

The fountain pan was invented not

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In Saskatchewan

(St. John Telegraph Journal) ' The appointment of a five-man fish prices support board has just been announced at Ottawa. This

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Public owner-ship of the genera- tion and transmission of electrical energy. like public owncrship of highways and the postal and tele-

bpost-war boom in births, the U5_ phone systems. has long been rec-

lognlzed ‘In Canada as the most sensible and efficient method of handling such facilities t.» give the the utmost service. 1x515 15 5n by virtue of the fact that power is a monopolistic enterprise. saskatch- ‘ewan's acceptance o! the principle ‘dates back to 1929, when the Saskat- chewan Pciwer Ccmmlsslon commen- ced operations

Conditions prevailing in the 110-7101" ileld ‘In the provlnro during 1926 anc‘. 192'! aroused alarm in many people's minds. Prior to that time, electrical energy 1n Saskatq chewan was generated largely in, plants 00111611 by local mtlnittipal ‘bodies. But during ilicsi» years pri-

lvate "interests. took um. rim‘ steps in buying franchises and lbuildlng distribution ll: cs. This

led to passage of legislation in the provincial hausewhich made can- strucllon of all power llizs-s subject to government approval and in- spection the first government‘ control over’ power 1n tlie prcvln-l ,ce's history‘.

l Franchises were acqured by var- ious companies 1n several sections of the province. The Northern Light and Power Company was granted franchises on t-‘ie CPR.

is n step in the right direction, and is taken none too soon, because fish prices have been sagging late- 1y and the whole industry is in

New Brunswfckers will be pleas- ed thnt the support board has fi- nally been set. up. But; they will definitely not be pleased by its‘ composition. On it. are two Nova l scotlans, two British Colombians,‘ and one member from Quebec. New Brunswick is left without repre-r sentatton, and this seems to be an astounding oversight.

Our fisheries in terms of produc- tion value and number of men

speak for Nova Scotla, New Bruns-

employed. rank third in Canada. led only by British Columbia and Nova Scotla. Quebec runs a poor fourth, with annual output worth about. half as much as that of New Brunswick. Yet Quebec ls repre- sented, and New Brunswick is not! The unfairness of this ls even more striking when it is considered that in big rich Quebec. fishing ls an insignificant branch of economic activity, whereas in small New Brunswick it. ls of major import- ance to the provincial economy. Presumably, federal authorities were under the erroneous impres- slon that. when they named tnvo Nova Scotlans these men would

wick ~and Prince Edward Island. Ottawa has a bad habit of lump- lnr: us together as the "Mnritlmes"

a highly unsettled condition. l

Highroad and

Glory

Highway and

Seeking stlll the

mgm-qgd and lvyroad and llttlol

paths betrween. Those were made through the dusk and dawn

‘for faring

little meadows green. lovely in the morning for the d!" to look 011°"-

l Wheat field. and cairn field. Ind,

Highway and byway. and little roads that. lend.

Where adventure beckons ta-r bo- yond the bill.

Where the little breclel murmur beauty’: creed. l

And the ma,“ branches bend to bea.it/y's will.

byroad and lllilfl lanes that dare. I

Duck of hEIfliUCk forest. green of}

wonderland glade.

l put)“, c1 peace and quiet where thail

heart. may share of the noon sur. healing shade-

bslm of:

byway. across the weather.

po-wi. the shining rivers, past tlde_

brimming streams. mfigtf slopes- where the heart. may anther

w. dreams. i

nRabiria Monkmnn in ’l‘nronta Dally Star.

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Wpilll Ind bookkeeping HELEN GIDDBN Telephone IISO-l

Alri- No. L Oonnsllht Apt;

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NEIL W. HIGGINS CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT Currie Building Charlottetown Tel. I636 P.O. Box 45‘)

J. A. McGUIGAN, IA NOTARY. no. annals-ran. SOLICITOI comm; BUILDING

PALMER 8r HASLAM A. l. HASLAM. B.A., LLB. ' BARRISTER. ETC. Bast of Nona Sootia Chambq Charlottetown. lll. MONEY TO LOAN

A“ me, 80mm harvggts of H5 rich. ovoooooeowwveoeooo-o-ono-o

H. R. DOANE 8r CO. Chartered Accountants 53 Grafton Street

‘main line by such

and treating us as though we were one unit lnstead of three separate and distinct provinces, each with its own special problems and con- dltlons.

It ls time to enlighten the pow-

cwns as Indian Head. Wolseiey and Grenfell. ‘these were rater taken over by ‘Midwest Utilities Limited, which later became (Mnadlazi Utilities