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{llnrnlng Dally (Founded In llllfl) Authorized an lit-rum] Clurm Mull, Punt Office Department, Ottawa.

The Ialniiil (luarillnn Publishing Cu. Editor niiil Managing Dir-error, J. It. Burnett. Austin-Into liilltnr, Frank Walker.

"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than

the Weakest lnk" CHARLOTTETOIVN. WEDNESDAY. SEPT. '1, I949 "“

The Welfare State

The Welfare State, with its tangle of red tape and its vast army of bureaucrats, and the democratic system of free competitive enter- prise, are incompatible, says the current issue of News Letter of the Chamber of Commerce. That some social services are good and neces- sary cannot be denied, but these should be the by-products of the wealth created by the pro- ductivity of the citizens and should not be re- garded as ends in themselves. Let us make it quite clear that we are building here a nation in an atmosphere of freedom in which the individual is given the opportunity to provide for himself and his family.

"There is some evidence that we are not hewing to this line now. In I937 there were 42,836 permanent and temporary Civil Service employees. in I947 this number had increased to I25,337. Already a start has been made to build an army of non-productive workers, and if we are to continue our march to progress, this backsliding must stop.

"Let us point to the fact that, despite the increase in the cost of living which, incidentally, was much less in this country than in many oth- ers, the average weekly salaries and wages of workers in Canada increased by a much greater percentage. Let us be proud of our achieve- ments, riot in any boastful spirit, but with a view to continuing the progress we have made. Insofar as possible let us protect ourselves against the miasma of fear which has beclouded the minds of so many in other parts of the world, so that we will find the positive, aggressive cinrl enterprising way to build for the future. In this way, and in this way only, we shall develop a self-reliant people, which is our best guarantee that the Twentieth Century will belong to Ca- nada." -

Alberta llll

According to Hon. Nathan E. Tanner, Al- berta's Minister of Lands and Mines, within five years Alberta's wells will be producing more than enough oil to meet the total Canadian con- sumption, or more than I00 million barrels a year. This will make Canada a net exporter of oil. Nevertheless, in view of the long haul it will still be more economical for Eastern Can- ada and British Columbia to bring their crude oil from South America and California by water. That is why, as fast as new Alberto wells are brought in, they are being choked back. There is not the economic market in Canada for their full output.

Mr. Tanner proposes a reciprocal arrange- ment so that Alberta's oil surplus will flow southward to the middle western United States, while oil from the eastern U. S. flows north to Ontario, Quebec and the Marltimes. This seems a more economic proposition than trying to ship Alberta oil all across the Dominion to compete with U. S. oil in the east. Only with the aid of quotas or tariffs could it displace U. S. oil there and that would make oil and gasoline more cost- ly. '

The U. 5., too, has good‘ reason to assist the development and expansion of Alberta's oil fields. Strategically situated as they are, they -could be vastly more useful than the oil of the Middle East to the U. S. in the event of war. Some idea of their importance may be judged from the fact that big oil companies, largely American, are spending $100 millions this year and will spend $l50 millions next year in their exploration. '

Oil, as Mr. Tanner proposes, is one product, produced in both countries, which could cross the 49th parallel both in the east and the west with benefit to the people of both Canada and the U. S. '

Political Parties

The Ottawa Journal suggests that in the light of the last Federal election results, there should be noifurther official recognition, either over the C.B.C. or in Parliament of "splinter parties." Pointing out that in a House of Com- mons of 262 seats the C.C.F. party returned only I3 members, the Social Credit party I0, the Journal concludes:

"For more than a decade Parliament has been providing special privileges, according special rights, to the C.C.F. and Social Credit groups—-recognizing, officially, a splinter-party system. Our traditional and legal procedure acknowledges but two parties, the Government party and the official opposition (the leader of the official opposition is paid); yet the Social Credit and CCF groups were treated as nation- al paities, their leaders and whips recognized, their members given special representation on select and standing committees, and Mr. Cold- well and Mr. Solon Low called on by the Speaker on all special occasions on terms of equality with the leaders of the Government and of the official opposition.

"For this condition of affairs there may have been some slight iustification some ten or five years ago, or some justification for it in the days, nearly 30 years ago, when the Progressive ‘Party sat in the House with 65 members. There can bs no justification for it in the new Parlia- rnont which will meet on September I5. The duty of tho Speaker in this Parliament - certainly his right -- ‘is to conform to the verdict of the electors, to return to the fundamentals laid down in looiichssnds standard work on our

rliilnonfoty procedure. Mr. Caldwell and Mr. gloo- ~ . because of their experience and dis-

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the whips of their followers should be accorded ~ no special recognition, and C.C.F. and Social Credit representatives should be select and standing committees not as sentatives of national parties but merely because of individual qualifications. "Such action, if taken, would' not merely help the efficiency of Parliament, avoid o great deal of over-lapping and delay; it something for stability of government, suppot the clear determination of the Canadian people not to have our Parliament fall into the condi- tion of the French or ltalion Chamber of Depu- ties or into the condition of the German Reich- Republic. groups and factions, with their cqnfuged conflicting ideologies, have been the curse of Europe. We think it is now the duty of all gav- ernment agencies and of Parliament itself to support the clearly-expressed decision of Canadian people that they do not want such With slender torches for her oer- evil to come in this country." i

EDITORIAL NOTES

A visitor confided the other clay thatlhe had never been in a city of churches and race horses to compare with Charlottetown.

1' '91 i

Queen Elizabeth-the Good Queen Bess — born this date I533. Under her reign were laid the foundations of our mighty British Empire, which is now in the throes of a crisis, dependent largely on the attitude of two western powers, U. S. A. and Canada, as to the outcome.

The Ottawa Journal is currently the idea of a cardboard or paper pop bottle as a substitute for the ubiquitous glass. We would certainly be a long step nearer Utopia if that come true.

The average car lasts twice as long and goes four times as for before scrapping as it did in I925, according to the Automobile Manu- facturers’ Association. ln I925 a car piled up 25,740 miles before it was retired after 6.5 years; by I947 it was running l03,000 miles in its l2.5 years of life. Although the number of cars‘ and trucks scrapped annually has increased since the war, I948, with I,980,000, was still well be- low the pre-war levels. The record year was 193i when 2,965,000 vehicles were junked. ' I I i

Britain has produced a machine which will probe into-and perhaps reveal — the atom's greatest secret: the structure and constitution of its own nucleus. This machine is the most powerful of the synchrotons which built in the United Kingdom for atomic research. it will be able to accelerate the electrons‘ en- ergy to the equivalent of I40 million volts, a voltage sufficiently high to remove many of the barriers hitherto limiting research. The scope will not necessarily be limited to x-ray genera- tion. lt is hoped to be able to extract the elec- tron beam produced and use it directly to ex- plore the structure of the atom.

U 3 1 If the Canadian Bar Association has its way there is likely to be an "easing off" of the restrictions in the Divorce Law. A report sub- mitted by Mr. Milvain, representing the Alberta branch of the Dominion-wide committee, the "growth of perjury and collusion" in divorce cases in Canada isia striking indication the di- vorce laws "are not keeping pace with'the de- velopment of social trends." many cases, where a married couple had been separated from each other for a long period of time, the present divorce grounds of divorce to adultery tended "to make for bad citizens instead of good ones." i "k ‘k

THE GUARDIAN,

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You thought 1t was a falling lest we heard; I knew lt was the summer's gypsy

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feet;

A sound so reticent It scarcely otlr- rod

The en- so sllll o message to re-

peat- "I l0. and lo, I make my going sweet." What wonder you should rnlu oo soft o word? You thought it was e falling leaf we heard; I knew lt was the Summer's gypsy eel: ‘

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vlce meet.

Tho golden-rod to coming; softer slurred

Midsummer noises like o note re-

plete

With hint of change; who told the mocking bird?

I knew it was the Summer's gypsy fee

You thought it was a felling leaf we heard.

r -Ka.rle Wilson Baker.

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boosting A TALE 0!‘ SBIPWIIEOK In 1115 Chief Justice Perci- l Stewart and family, en route here from Scotland, were wrecked off Cascumpec. The following account of their experience was given to Hon. Berij. Davies by a daughter of the Chief Justice, Miss Pene- lope Stewart, who subsequently

CHARLOTTETOWN ' Small World

ruoucii we can or»: riurilorut rue lluiziziroiles _ PATl-l WAS so FAR FROM us.-.

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and other crops but. 1t would be too long to get In your paper.

But with all the fine things on lhe Island there ls one big lin- provement the Government could and should make ff they went tour- ists to continue to return year ef- ter year and that is the dry, red dusty roads. That was the only cry

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PUBLIC FORUM

This column ls open to the dtooulalon by correspondent- 0f questions of Interest. The Guardian does not eoanear- ' fly endorse the oplnlon 0|

married Mr. James MacNutt, of Malpeaue:

"My father chartered a brlg to bring us over; she was an English vessel with an English crew, and on board, besides our family and servants, several of my father's people who intended settling on

two townships granted him by the King, George III. We had made ample provision for ourselves, as far as food was concerned and added an additional supply of pork and oatmeal, sufficient to last two years.

"We embarked at Greenock and sailed down the beautiful Clyde to the ocean.

are being

never forget. “We left Scotland during

ther, during our voyage, was very- caprlcious; sometimes lt was fine. sometimes terrific beat over ancf around us, storms that made the timbers creek and the vessel lurch, besides filling

ness as well. At last, sometimeln the latter part of October, we made Cape Breton; then several clays later we reached Prince Edward Island. We learn-rd after that the Captain had made a mistake-l said thought he was on the south side‘, of the Island and It was on the north. l a . . "During the night a heavy gale sprang up, so heavy that lt drove the ship ashore and we had small hope of saving ourselves, but Pro- vidence was kind; by morning thel wind abated and the morning showed us a dreary shore with nothing but breakers raging along. the beach. The sea subsided, how- ever. and the seamen launched the, small boat. found a landing place where all were landed, with al

He said that in

laws restricting

13nd in Ihe Cfllofly. f0!‘ he hfidlwaxd Island where days were warm and nights cool under three and

Tourist Court I am going to drop

cellent food

Alkiwuih I W" "l? i Our vlslt to the Goverrmenit Bulld- ten years old, I fclt very lonelyimgs made more jnteregting by the on leaving our dear old Scotland. ‘young man Wm, “personality plus». the well beloved home that I shall Mung as our gums going am out theltpisisstiow elyery niche End v trig a types of s ores and be- Ia" “Eek l“ Juli“ 1775' The w°a'ilng served by courteous clerks and

“mm! ‘Wind llottetown Hospital and as a tourist

us with such a sense of loneliness “st Head _ quarters and homeslckneos and heart sick Hlmmd an 1e“

I when it, comes

Charlottetown

correspondents. .-r§>oo-&>oo§co-§-oo§/< 0.3

ENJOYED P. E. I. VACATION

of despair I heard from other visit- ors on the way home to the maln- land. Why shouldn't the rpiscls leading out of Charlottetown and Surrimerslde be either cement or blacktop and out out. that. dam- nablc red dust which seeps into your luggage no matter how hard you fry to keep lt out? The new Premier has done well with the Baby Bonus, 01a Age Pensions and other forms of relief-now why not eliminate the red, dusty roads and bring more and more tourists to your Garden of the Sea. In closing I want to compliment your people for the flne publicity furnished tourists and may I tell my friends they can hope for better and cleaner roads ln the near future. In closing I wish to inform you my Mother and Dad were born on The Island, the former at Desnble and the latter in Summerslde and I have hundreds of relatives scal- tered over P.E.I. Consequently. It is in a constructive mood that I write this letter. Some day I would like to get my pension and in the words of the poet. "Fold my tent llke the Arabs and silently

ed! away" (to Prince Edward Is- land).

Thanking your paper for this wee space and hoping to write "The Guardian" again and again before my demise,

Strap-Having recovered from our hot weather of Greater Boston after a. fine vacation on Prince Ed-

Iour blankets at the l-llghflelcl you o few lines.

The ride over on the carferry to Borden was most pleasant, particu- larly slrice the prices for the ex- have been lowered to the Island.

since my last trlp

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managers. Needing medical care one of our party was sent to the Char-

recelved treatment which could not have been received in the some manner in our city. Your Tour- cannot. be dup- in the country to helping the muddled tourist. saturday night in certainly brought out very smart and beautiful and wholesome young ladies.

Golng out to East. Royalty to vis- fo relatives I had the pleasure of going through your National ‘Park and enjoying a dip in the flne beach there. Can see Improvements -X ' ' " ' - - ‘ 1 3 higéhi] argilnce my lust visit in "

. p lctoria. Haimpden, De- Sable, South Melville, where I call- g ed on more relatives I saw some _ changes In roads sf-noe my last vls- » ;.;.;.;.r.~.-.;. '

I am, Bit. etc. LINTON W. SILLIIGIR. 549 Pleasant Street, * Maiden. 48. Mass.

With joy shell yo draw water nut of the wells of salvation.

I would go ori and on and write so much in the high praise of ‘The Island for its beautiful scenery and healthy looking fields of potatoes, wheat, oats. turnips. buckwheat

o CALLINGTON, Cornwall, Eng- land — (C?) — When part of I

The London Daily Graphic tells this one: Six tubercular men of Twickenham, Middlesex, were told by doctors that they had only six months to live. So they set out together to see as much as they could of the world. That was 24 years ago. The other day, the sole survivor, A. E. Darl- ing, turned up hale and hearty at Port Elizabeth, -South Africa, after covering i28,000 miles most- ly on foot. Of the others he said that one was shot by a South American bandit, one died of exposure in Tibet, a tiger kill-ed one in India, an- other died fighting a leopard in East Africa, and the fifth died in a Johannesburg car crash.

While racing and gambling are occupying time, attention and money, the following bulle- tin from the Associated Press of last Wednesday may contain a moral: Frederick Poll handed out a free lesson .today on how to 9° blmkluPl- h" told the bankruptcy receiver he owned a horse- u jumper-for eight years. its keep and training cost him £5,000 ($20,000) from I939 to I947. Year after year he bet on the nag and year after year the bookies loved him. it never won a race. Came a day at the Wincanloll Truck l" I947 when the beast appeared to be a cinch. Poll bet £50. Half way around the cours-e his horse refused to hop over the hurdle. So Poll swore off betting. The next day the horse won at odds of I4 to I.

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A great deal ‘has been written about the merits of the late Senator Ian Mackenzie, biit hardly any mention of perhaps, his chief charac- teristic,‘ viz., his sturdy independence. He had a mind of his own, and refused to have opinions and so called ffconvictions“ thrust upon him

stock of provisions, clothing, etc. The men made a great fire and we passed the night in the woods. with, it is needless to say, the most gloomy apprehensions.

“When morning broke the wind arose to a perfect hurricane ac- companied with snow, and then we learned that the ship had bro- ken to pieces: not a vestlge re- mained. What made our position more desolate, was the fact that the ground was covered with snow, and the provisions we had would only last a week. -

"We all thought that the break- ing up of the ship was the final touch to our misfortunes. but It turned out to be the saving of u: all, for as the wind blew In its fury It drifted upon the shore pieces of the wreck, with parts of the rigging and sells together with cask; of beef. pork, oatmeal and flour. How we thanked God for our deliverance, and how cheer- fully the men secured the material that had. practically speaking. sav- ed our lives! .

"The next day they went to work and built two camps, two large ones, one for our family and attendants, the other for the ship's company and emigrants. Both camps were _ covered with the ship's sails which effectively pro- tected uc from the wind, rain and snow, and the hard frost of the long winter. Here we remained for months. learning absolute"- nothlng of our position, although my brothers, at different times, penetrated into the forest In the expectation of discovering an ln- habltant: but t e frost was so severe and the snow so deep. thrt they could only travel a short dis- tance from camp.

"About mid-winter we were sun-

iwoode. So my father engaged our Indian, for the purpose of taking him to Charlottetown.

"Then five monfhs were spent ,In that dreary solitude before tho cry of the wild goose announced the advent of Spring. A couple of weeks after the first. cry of the wild goose, true to his pro- mise, the Indian made his appear- ance with his canoe, which had ‘been laid up about a mile from 01ft" camp, Then my father pro- ceeded with hlm through the nar- row passage of water, protected from the sea by n range of sand banks heading from Cascumpec to Maipeque harbour, .