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_ THE CHARLOTTETOWN

GUARDIAN

TIIE i oiuuiiorrciowii GUARDIAN

Morning Dally (Founded In I887) Authorized as Second Class Mall. Post Office Department. Ottawa.

President. [an A. Burnett; Vice-l resident. Win. B. Burnett; Sccy.-Tri:us.. G. M. Burnett; Editor and Managing Director. .1. B. Burnett; Associate Editor,

Frank Walker.

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

FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 194']

Newfoundland Trade

lt is rightly a matter of satisfaction to the Provincial Government that we have greatly in- creased our trade with Newfoundland in recent years. The same can be said with respect to reciprocal trade generally between Canada and the Ancient Colony. Since the outbreak of war and in 1945-6 the combined total trade tran- sacted between the two countries was five times greater than it was in 1938-39. Newfoundland was Canada's seventh best customer in 1944 and since 1935 has been included among Canada's ten leading export markets. Imports forthcom- ing from Canada in the fiscal year 1945-46 were valued at more than $41,000,000 and in tho previous year at $43,000,000.

Nawfaundland's exports to Canada increas- cd progressively throughout the war and in the fiscal year 1945-46 the total of domestic ex- ports and re-exports was more than $9,000,000. Canada is normally Newfoundland's third best customer following the United Kingdom and the United States. The fact that Canada is the leading world producer of fish and by-products, pulp and paper and minerals, which constitute the bulk of Newfoundland's exports, presents a definite obstacle to any marked expansion in the volume of Newfoundland‘: exports to Can- ada; nevertheless Newfoundland's fishery ex- ports to Canada have risen considerably in rec- ent years.

The Atlantic Guardian, from which the fore- going figures aro taken, has the following com- plaint to register:

”Newfoundlanders have a much wider knowledge of Canada and the problems of the country than Canadians have of Newfoundland. The country is well serviced with Canadian newspapers and periodicals and Press despatches but there is very little interchange in this sphere. Several thousand Canadian men and women were stationed in Newfoundland during tho war and gained first-hand knowledge of the country and its people. There is still, however, much to be accomplished before there is a gen- oral knowledge throughout Canada of New- foundland's' problems."

This is'no doubt very true. It is a condi- tion which is being remedied in this Province through the efforts of our able Newfoundland agent, Mr. Agnew. I

Unemployment Insurance Fund

Unemployment insurance was the first recommendation of the Sirois Commission to be adopted. Tho Commission reported in May, 1940, and the Dominion Government, with ap- proval of the provinces, forthwith brought for- ward in parliament a resolution amending the B. N. A. Act, giving to Ottawa the necessary jurisdiction, Legislation followed promptly and the Commission was speedily organized.

But few, not excepting the Royal Commis- sioners whose report was the signal for action, could have anticipated what has follflwcd- The latest report on the finances of the insurance fund, iust to hand, shows a balance of $343,- 868,572.09. The net intake of the commission in October, last, was $6,049.337-99- Ctllllllbtl‘ tions from employers and employees totalled $6,585,574.37. The government's contribution was $1,317,073.09. The commission earned $606,170.31 on investments. Benefit payments were $2,459,480.38. _

The measure of this huge fund which has now been accumulated, largely out of insurance payments, will be clearer if it is recalled that the total direct relief payments made by the Dominion treasury from 1930 to 1938, inclusive, the years of the greatest depression of modern times, was $337,506,000. There is, therefore, presently in the insurance fund more money than Ottawa spent throughout the depression on dir~ oct relief.

Immigration

Speaking in Vancouver the other day, Rt. Hon. James G. Gardiner, Ministzr of Agricul- ture, advocated a wide-open-door immigration policy, and expressed tho view that Canada could do with another 10,000,000 to 12,000,000 peo- ple, and prosper greatly by reason of the increase. But unfortunately Mr. Gardiner, like other Min- isters in the King Cabinet, speaks only for himself when he discusses questions of great national import. Mr. King's office, an Ottawa exchange says, has no comment to make with re- spect to Mr. Gardiner's statement. Clearly it has no comment to make because it has no policy to announce.

Notwithstanding this lack of policy with

. rospoct to immigration, tho inrush of now settlers int Canada from Europe, and especially from tho nitod Kingdom, promises to be so great during 1947'as to tax to tho utmost the facil- ltios which exist for handling it. During tho war, immigration dried up almost completely bocauso those who wished to come and would hovo come normally to Canada were prevent- od after 1939. Last yoar whon tho rogulptions woro broodonod to admit tho near rolativos of

rsaas olroady horo and in a position to caro or tho newcomers, on abnormal flow of appli- will"! hooon to po- m» all of Canada's

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. t; ‘tostrictlons at a rapid and fighting rots. In addition to tho citizens, tho regulations

sow permit tho admission into Canada of agri- culturists from Europe when their financial re- sources are sufficient to enable them to settle on farms. Immigrants, of course, have to pass ‘medical inspections and must havo satisfactory moral records. In the caso of poisons from tho British Isles, they are admitted whether they have relatives here or not, and whether they are farmers or not, provided only they have the noc- essary financial resources to insure that they will bo able to make their own way as new citi- zens. Immigration even from these sources will crowd Canada's ocean gateways through the whole of 1947. After that preparations shall have to be well in hand to cope with the deluge. Now is the time for the planning.

— EDITORIAL NOTES -

Fredericton, N. 8., must greatly admire its Mayor, Mr. Ray T. Forbes, for it has just re- elected him for his seventh consecutive term.

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Plenty money on hand in the banks. Sav- ings on deposit in Canada's chartered banks at Nov. 30 last amounted to $3,460,146,000 against $3,476,73l,000 at Oct. 31 and $2,816,218,000 at Nov. 30, I945, the chartered bank statement for November showed. Call loans in Canada amount-- ed to $116,856,000 at Nov. 30 as against $97,- 289,000 at Oot. 31 and $238,515,000 I Nov. 30, 1945.

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"Canada a nation", now finds it necessary to let other nations know of its separate exist- ence. External Affairs Minister St. Laurent predicts that "before very long" Canada will have diplomatic representation in the capitals of every maior country in the world. He said that through the expansion in diplomatic serv- ice Canada was preparing herself to fulfill the growing responsibilities in world affairs that she had accepted as a modern state.

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Montreal store managers expect no ap- preciable change in instalment plan buying thr_ough relaxation of consumer credit regula- tions, effective now, it is learned. Present credit rulings, introduced during the war, de- cree thqt for instalment purchases, the custom- er must pay a third down with minimum month- ly payments of $5 and a maximum of 10 months to pay on purchases of less than $500. For clothing, maximum time allowed for deferred payment purchases was six months.

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lt may be said of Mr. F. W. Hyndinan's tenure of office as President of the Charlotte- town Board of Trade that it succeeded in on- abling that very necessary and useful organiza- tion to regain its feet. It had been-slipping, slip- ping to a condition of a quarterly feed when Mr. Hyndman was elected President. Today it has so far recovered that it should not be long before

a-it can afford a permanent secretary and organ-

ization to keep tabs on the business interests of both City and Province.

Distinguished Canadian citizens may again be appointed Honorary Colonels of Army regi- ments according to a new ruling handed down by Army Headquarters and announced at .Ot- tawa recenfly. Two such appointments in Brit- ish Columbia have recently been made public. They are the appointments to the honorary rank of lieutenant colonel of the Hon. C. A. Banks, Lieut.-Governor of British Columbia, in the Can- adian Scottish Regiment; lace, Esq., president of the Durrard Dry Dock Company, Vancouver, in the 13th Armoured Regiment, (British Columbia Regimeiitl- 50111 units are Reserve forge iegiitrents.

The ver,y valuable, independent report of the Civic Finances Committee of the Charlotte- town Board of Trade is both timely and welcome, and will, we are sure be appreciated by the City Council and all right-thinking citizens having the best interests of the city at heart. It is a law of business as well of nature that we must go forward or go back, there is no such thing as standing still, and though we have been mak- ing some advance recently, it has not been suf- ficient to qualify us to be included among the most progressive communities in the newly des- ignated nation. The Board of Trade Commit- tee, all outstanding business men, have given us a lead it will be a big mistake if we do not lol-

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First Earl Lloyd George of Carnarvon born this date 1863; was a stormy petrel of politics in his early years, but latterly won front rank among Liberal members, and at the time of Great War l when things were not going well with the Allies, a coalition of Liberals, Con- servatives and Labour parties was formed with him as Prime Minister. He roused tho peoplo to renewed offorts, and ultimately succeeded in overthrowing the Kaiser. Later Lloyd George got at loggerheads with his party, and formed _a separate organization, which succeeded _|n el-ecting,sorne four members to tho House, viz., himself, his son, his daughter, and ono other. Ha was raised to an Earldom in 1944, and died soon after, his heir boing his eldest son, a con- sulting engineer in* London. ~

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Quebec is going ahead in rapid paco with tho introduction and development of now in- dustrios. Supporting his recent public affirma- tion that at loast 1,000 new industries had boon established in tho Province of _Quoboc_in the last two years, Hon. Paul Beauliou, Minister of Trade and Commerce, has shown nowspapormon a list of more than 2,500 now establishments, each with a description of tho goodsboing manu- factured or to bo manufactured. lt is noted that around 1,000 industries have been established in tho littlo contros of tho province, whoroas more than 1,500 others aro located in such cities as Montreal, Quebec, Verdun, Throo Rivers, Sher- broolio, Oiitromant, Lachine, Wostmoiint, Shaw- ‘inigon F Ils, Chicoutimi, St. tlyacintho, Valloy- fiold, Joan, Granby, Sorel, Cop do la Mado- loino, oliotto, Thotford Mines, Arvida, Loris. Druminandvillo, GrantPMon, Longueuil, livioro du Loop, St. Lambert, and in towns such as

Jonquioro, St. Joronio, Victoriavillo, Konogami, lirnouslri, Farnham. Cowansvillo and olsowhoro.

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authority. And then [hgy an put on the dlfllng room table. -Kitch- ener Record.

A: the common cold still afflicts 94 P" 09m of the populace, what. ihas anyone to suggest. other than louder commercials and a tablet that attacks it five ways’! —|Winnl- peg Tribune.

_ Dlsooncertlng for those who cher- ish the art of the theatre in Can- ada. is the fact that among the crowded Ottawa audiences who ap- plauded Hamlet and The Merchant of ‘Venice. Elven by Mr. Donald W01!" mold his English company "Ii-fly Bldfily folk had never before seen a firstlclasg professional com- tifl-ny act Shakespeare. -Otta/wa Citizen. -J__

Cllllll Wilton are not the only 01198 who sometime; forget that the foundation stock of Oar-wig and the United Suites ls not the some. Into the latter poured many streams ——<>°mD'd-i'able to our Continental European inunigratlon — but no mllor currents. Here we have had two, one going back to France, the other to the British Isles. There ls nothing to compare with ohose two dominant divisions 1n the United States racial background. and the gradual merger of the two produce not Americans but Canadians. -- Flnanclal Poet.

With the elevation of General Marshall to the office of secretary of state, no fe-wer than five at the posts most airttical to the relations of this country with the rest of the world will be held by professional soldiers, products of the old army discipline. training and outlook. General Bedell Smith In Moscow. General MlcArt-hur Ln Tokyo. Gen- eral Clay In Berlin and General Clark In Vienna supply our most important direct. contacts with Soviet. Russia. A sixth high diplo- matic post, that of Ambassador to Belgium. I; held by a. vice-axlmirai Alan G. Kirk, while there are one or two other generals among the heads o! the minor missions. -New York Herald-‘Itibune.

When tho war ended, It: woo freely

would. make great and rePld 84"!"- es in safety. Radius- equipment would render aircraft virtually in- dependent. of weather conditions. A spate qf recent ar disaster; has ggruggd questlcmo to form in the minds of many. Layman are asking why radar has not done the won- derful things expected of it. The answer ls that. for some reason. this miracle equipment has not. yet been generally Installed. Evm In official circles. a demand is uisins for H“ investigation as to why 1111! 991"’ in making the devices available is taking place. Some explanation seems due the public. Radar will not entirely wipe out the “tlairds of storms. ico and foB. but l! "W19 undoubtedly have prevented some of the crashes that; have been tak- lng too many lives. If there is a reasonable explanatitvn as to WW it has riot come into more $911681 use. it should be ziveii- —Wliid=°'

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PUBLIC FORUM

This column ls open to tho rllocuoolon by qirro- opoadonto of questions of ‘Interest. Tho Charlottetown Guardian docs not iiocoolar- uy endorse tho opinion of correspondents.

ART ‘ CENTRES

SIr,—In regard to the tiroposed Community Arts" and Crafts cen- lres, the history of this develop- ment. in education dates back some sixty years to Franz Clzok. a pio- neer in modern art. teaching. Cizek studied pt the Vienna Academy of Arts for nine years previous to 1894. As an art. teacher his interest" in children prompted him to en- courage them to learn to use mat.- erials of the crafts as freely a: their natures directed them. Ho was amazed at the way youngsters, unconscious of technical difficul- ties and unh-ampered by inhibitions, would take pencil or brush and rup- idly make pictures. He observed their Industry and the similarity of the results achieved through In- divIduaI effort by children in cor- responding stages of mental de- velopment. He‘ became convinced that (l) All children draw and de- sign from mental pictures which follow definite psycho-logical laws relating ta experience and tempera- ment. t2) Children find in such creative work an outlet for their inherent urge for expression and by so doing build self confidence.

In hls classes he encouraged his pupils to work freely and imagina- tively from their own experience. The success of his teaching was reco-gnlzed not only in his native Vienna but in many European countries. Soon after tin-i first World War his work and his meth- ods became internationally known B! a result of the sending of exlil- bitions of hls pupils’ work through- out the world. These exhibitions were responsible for a new atti- tude IOW-‘Ird tho efforts of children in art and a realization of its Im- Dvrllnce in the development of the child mind.

Children's Art Centres which are now being developed in maiiy coun- tries are an extension of the pic-n- eer work done by Cizck many years ago.

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COMMUNITY ARTS AND

CRAFTS CENTRE COMMITTEE

CARDINAL VON GALEN

Sin-I am engaged In collecting material an the life and works of his Eminence Clemens August Car- dinal von Galen, late Bishop of Muenster, Crermay. with a view, to writing a biography of this great Prelale whose heroic defense of the rights of God and of the Church Ba well as of the dignity of the hu- man personality deserves to be rc-, membered with admiration and- with gratitude.

It is my ha-pe that Chaplains. members of the various relief nlldl economic missions and soldiers who knew the Cardinal during and after the closing days of the war will share with me their know-- ledge of his personality and cori- victions. I would be pleased evep to hear from those who did not know his Eminence but who do know persons who have Einrl con- tact with him. It would help great. ly If I could secure the nnines and

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Mounting railroad costs have caus- ed one United States mad 101W?‘ pule tho cost of sounding locomotive whistles. says The 3L 3119mm‘ Times-Journal. The sicusilcieiis found that. one of those “tCOI-ltw-l" amt." whistles the evil-Tl“? 591ml“ at every level crossinfl 85 hls “Fm rumbles through the COI-l-Iluyilde and which takes UP Will 111° “r three seconds of’ time. costs the road about one-third of a. cent._ The 10m" onw when m; engineer wants clearance on a 518ml 111;; ‘s dflawry in (upping green. COh a little more. Fiflufl“! 13h“ 1e whisne is guunded every mile or s0. the cost of operating the toot in the ITO-mile run on any 1156:‘? roads beiiween St. Thomas and B dsor would be abmlli 4° cell's‘ Bu‘ afithat they are cheap. 119mm" they servo as a warning and help sliced “P serfiu‘ And Lhfletblmflgfisd smtnd s0 romantic. and so may mg, The railway flflmd?" ' but. most of us don't can a hoot I01" the cost. Let 'em toot.

The countryman to mild]? Inter: g5ted In academic discuss ans hrccs garding pumpkins and Stlllflmé 1t Increases his P1189511 1°‘ u n original Inhabitants of the no lia- to know that. the Red Mmmclénd "ted both, along with bea u“ corn. When it: comes to Pllllggflh pic versus squash there ls m: is H ‘new A5 good p; 511110.51! 139 made comfillll- 11111119151“ 11x66 a thing um set; It. aaP-Yl- t l‘ deeper. richer. sweeter flavor In _ pumpkin p19, The flesh at s Yell"! sugar or 311831‘ Sweet. as it. I; mm:- time; called. has a POW" °l 111"‘ ‘ m‘ gnu‘ g glorious. hannoriiaiars enema. with “um, swat, clnn - man, allsptce. nutmel "d "19"" Men of calm riidsmmt i "It" "I" pei-Ience will vote unhesltatlsilly for pumpkin pie, If given a choice. Thoro ll. ono must admit, loos un- utlmity of opinion when it will" to the best. method of eating ll- Mon agree that It rntlet. be thick and juicy; that cooks of dimmin- lflOn odd o little maple iyriin 1° enhance the superb flavor. 8mm men state dogrnatlcolly that the pie must. be well chilled ma accom- pqgtlod by g cup of hot. heartening coffee: others tntronoilcntly main-

addrosses of persons. now zesidciit. in Germany, who are known to hive been associated with him at various times during his career.

No item ls too small or insignifi- cant to be useful in giving mc- l comprehensive knowledge of the Cardinal's life nnri work. Therefore I rim hoping that no one who does know persons who were (‘lose to the Cardinal will fail to get. in touch with me merely because lie feels that what, he does happen to know mi-rzlit not be very helpful

I am, Sir, etrx.

BRENDAN A. FINN

37 Pennsylvania Avenue Somerviile so. Massachusetts.

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‘ OFTOMETRISTS

I . “Spoclaltots In tho fit.- ting of glasses for o - correction of ocular do- foeto.” i \ ll Grafton §troot

B. R. HOLMAN, President.

i i PROGRESSIVE ooiisriiiiiiiia GIIII-IIEIITIIIII

of tho 3rd District of Queen's to nominato candi- dates to contest the next General Provincial Elec- tion will bo held in the Legion Hall,*Charlattotown, at 1:30 PM. sharp on Friday, January 31st. '

Poll Chairman will ploaso hold mootings appoint fivo delegates from each Poll to attend.

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Partition of Palestine

(Globe and Mail)

London reports, not officially con- firmed, say that. the British Govern- ment has decided to propose the partition of Palestine. It is some months since the first story to this effect came from Britain. The latest. version of it is that Foreign Sec- retary Bevin and Colonial Secre- tary Crcech-Jones are agreed on the principle of partition.