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UIBFIILATION

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Total City Zone .. .. .. Retail Trading Zone. All other ... rotiil Net Paid .. Editor and Managing Director. J. R HIIPIIGN Associate Editor. Frank Walker

"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than fhe Weakest int.”

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C!lARLO'l"lil:I'li()WN IHIJRSDAY. AUGUST 31. 1950 O

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Many thousands of Canadians besides -he 165,000 railway employees directly iffected, will resume their normal occupa- tions today after two weeks of enforced dleness or of interruption to their accus- zomed labours. It has been a fortnight such is we hope never to pass through again .n this country. Every aspect of our na- tional economy has felt the blightirig effect if this strike. Under the emergency meas- ure finally passed last night, the workers will get at least as much as the final settle- ment offer of the railways on which nego- tiations foundered last Saturday night, and the union leaders express the hope thit with the appointment of a top-fliglit arbi- trator as proposed in the Act, it will be Jossible to arrive at a fair adjustment of iifficulties.

The Dominion Government has shown i lamentable lack of leadership in this crisis. The Prime Minister maintains that rie could not act before Parliament was zalled, despite the fact that his overwhelm- ing majority would ensure the passage of any reasonable emergency measure which his Government chose to adopt. The fact is, however, that the strike was brewing for months, and the date had been fixed several weeks in advance of the final break- down in negotiations. There was nothing to have prevented the Government from ob- taining parliamentary authority in ad- vance, and to have forestalled the crisis when it came. . '

Now that the strike is over, it is to be hoped that the disputants will approach the problem of settling their differences. in a chastened frame of mind. There has been perhaps too much high-handed talk on both sides. Important as are the organizations they represent, the overall interests of the country, which have taken the worst pun- lshment in this upheaval, are of far greater importance. -

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There is no victory in the railway strike. The people of Canada, through Parliament, have intervened to declare that the parties may not continue to carry their dispute to the length of industrial warfare with Can- ada's pantries and national security as

. their battleground.

In taking away the right to strike, la- bour's ultimate argument, Parliament as- sumes responsibility for providing a substi- tute by which employees of public utilities will be placed in a position no less favor- able than if they could strike against their employer without bringing down the whole structure of national life.

To find a satisfactory substitute will not be easy. Compulsory arbitration as it has been applied to date is far from satisfac- tory. Perhaps the example of an Italian strike of street car conductors provides the appropriate substitute for the country-wide tie.-up. They struck but continued to oper- ate their cars. They merely ceased to col- lect fares.

It would require legislation to compel railways to continue to provide services gratis during such a strike, but the parties would be put in a position to bargain real- lstically without bringing about a natioiiai calamity.

The Duncan iloport

It has been claimed repeatedly in some quarters, especially since the railway strike tieup of our carferry service, that the Dun- can Commission in 1926 had recommended that the ferry boats should not be operated by the Railway and if this recommendation had only been implemented the Department of Transport would now be operating the boats and we would have had nothing- to worry about on this score. '

Unfortunately this was not the case. Had the Duncan Commission so recommended,

i it would have been a strong argument for

Iuccessive Provincial Governments to use

in their represwtations at Ottawa and be- fpro the Transportation Commission. In- stead of making this recommendation -. which it should have done and failed to do, A the Duncan Commission in 1928 i-e:om- ,liiciIdcd.merely that the carferry service d.!'sliould not be -run as part of the Railway oped A I should be run'by the Rail- tlon under separate account II

pupugunont. . iiooiiiiiiindation, it is claimed, -4 ,. illdtrled out. when the l ' Ieul,undor.ihc-.con-

solidated Revenue Fund. That-did not help us very much, as recent events have dem- onstrated. It did not save the service from being shut down when the rail strike was called, and so far as it had any effect at all it proved a drawback to the Provincial Government and to Mr. Darby at Ottawa in urging that the Transport Department should take over the operation of the ser- viceiin this emergency. There was the Dun- can recommendation on file, insisting that the Railway and not the Gavemns it should run theservice, under a separate account. Our provincial, spokesmen had therefore to resort to other arguments, giv- ing the Duncan Report a wide berth.

It is useless trying to re-write the Re- port at this late'date, or to read other meanings into phrases which are .unfor- tunately all too clear in their implications. The Duncan Commissioners were evidently not gifted with prophecy. Their report had its shortcomings as well as its merits. it proved of value to the Maritime; in many ways' at the time; but on this subject of responsibility for our carferry operation, and at this particular time when we are seeking to drive that responsibility home, the less said about it the better.

EDI TORIAL NOTES

A few last licks of paint and s.raighten- ed palings may make the difference in de- ciding the Rural Beautification Contest.

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Even farmers have probably had all the rain they want until it is time to fill the wells for winter.

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Seven American railroad presidents have been commissioned colonels. Presum- ably they will rank alphabetically accord- ing to their names.

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The emergency session of the Legis- lature will have much to do in connection with the control of the Borden-Tormentine car ferries, even though the railway strike has been called pff.

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Job security being such a cardinal prin- ciple of union negotiation, President Donald Gordon should not be threatened with dis- charge for his part in the dispute.

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Bidding described as ”sensational" at Australian wool sales certainly does not pave the way for cheaper clothing in the

near future.

The welcome for H. M. S. Snipe, arriv- ing here this morning, will be the warmer for our own lads now receiving Old Coun- try hospitality.

The Bureau of Statistics reports that landings of sea fish during the first seven months of the year rose to 674,-041,000 pounds from 598,290,000 in the sameseven months of 1949. "The value increased to 532,974,000 from d27,118,000. On the At- lantic coast landings totalled 428,040,000 pounds, valued at 019,395,000, compared with 398,138,000 pounds at 016,996,000. O O 0

John Bunyan, English religious leader and writer, died this date 1688. He spent a careless boyhood, but it was gradually borne in upon him that he was extraordin- arily wicked, although he never seems to have lived an immoral life, swearing being his only vice. He was in prison oft for non-conformist preaching, and it was while in Bedford prison he wrote .”Grace Abound- ing to the Chief of Sinners." In 1678 ap- peared his ”Pilgrims' Progress". In 1680 he wrote "The Life and Death of Mr. Bad- man". He has more than fifty other works to his credit.

0 While this Province has suffered as bad- ly as any part of Canada during the strike, -one redeeming feature has been the distinct improvement in mail services east of Char- lottetown and west of Summerside. The postal trucks have done a better job than the railway has been doing in servicing these communities. They want like having to go back to the more leisurely methods of mail delivery which they have tolerated for so long. There is a lesson here for our railway management which they would be well advised to act upon. 0 O 0

Of all criticisms, the most foolish, writes Sir W. Beach Thomas, is that which la- ments that "such a thing is not natural." Quite a number of farmers at first refused to use the milking machine because it was against nature. It is in fact much nearer the natural process than the hand.-. of the milker, for the action is largely a sucking action as opposed to the mechanical manipulation of the fingers. In regard to harvesting, whether of grass or grain, any- thing which accelerates the process helps to defeat the worst enemy, the weather. The truscing devices, now growing-more. and more popular, save tons of bay, and soon. thanks to the harvester-thresher, we shall be absolved of the mclanc oly spectacle of the can of oat: sprouting l o greeiineco on

shock: or stock.

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FAR HORIZONS

His eyes held far horizons; n-a walled room

Could keep his restless mind coop.-d

up within it-

No loving woman. careful with her broom,

Could claim his heart. for every wistful minute

Was an adventure for his questing

Yielderlla-i open gate-way in the ,1 .

m (1, while frosty nights broad sky starred With strange. bright worlds wfho-sc dancing silver fed His dreams to face the long. lean days ahead.

-Pauline I-Iaviird in the New York Times.

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Hopeful Experiment

(Winnipeg Free Press)

It is commonly supposed in North America that the Republic of South Korea. while vital as a testing ground of collective secur- ity, is not really a member of the democratic community, know: little and cares little for demo- cratic ideals. This. however. is not the opinion which Mr. John Fos- ter Dulles, the chief Republican adviser of the United States State Department. brings back from South Korea. On the contrary, he asserts that before it was invaded by the North Communists South Korea was well along the road to workable democracy.

Writing in the New York Times. Mr. Dulles says he found the Re- public ”a healthy society.” When he was there, a few days before the northern invasion, the second national election had just been held. Over 80 per cent. of the elig- ible voters had gone to the polls. There were vigorous contests for all parliamentary seats and a ma)- ority of the representatives elec- ted were independent of the rul- ing Syngman Rhee Party. "That." says Mr. Dulles. "proved the re- ality of political freedom and dis- proved the allegations of 'political terrorism.' " I

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The South Korean economy, Mr. Dulles adds. was rapidly improv- ing. Extensive land reforms were under way. Where 70 per cent. of the farm families were tenants when Korea was liberated from Japan. today 55 per cent. of them own their own land and by plans scheduled for this summerp90 per cent. would have become owners. An extensive programme of pub- no education was under way in which women were taking I sur- prisingly large part.

"All in all," Mr. Dulles writes. "the Republic of Korea was con- ducting a promising experiment in democracy. That was the opin- ion ofthe United States embassy

United Nations Korean Commis-

dlplomntlc corps. The British min- ister, now unhnpplly a prisoner. told in that he had seen in many parts f the world experiments in

progress as rapid and solid as tlill being made by the Republic of Korea." -

good to know that in defending Korean territory for

United Nations Ire dofendinh a people who themselves have mer-

fullut co-oper.tion of the free world. it is saddcnlng to think that the only tiny ujinont of the Northern Asiatic mainland when

has of: foreign dlctnlcritilp.

movement of loath tow ' domocncy in one -of In tutor which um-od ilogprcuiil duolutlon. 'rh;."Pooplc'u homo-.

'zIc!oIf' cnnnoth comm 0- Iltocfocy iIy,Iiotr side.

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Then said the prophet hianusss THE Houses; AND on UP, Y6 H0nseMw--- --

in Korea, of tlieimemiiers of the slon and of the members of the

the development of self-govcrm merit. Never, be said, had be seen

Mr. Dulles' conclusions are both heartening and melancholy. It is

the highest. military and political reasons the ited by their own progress the democracy in: struck -dowil rooh boon overrun by tho hardc- Rd-on

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When thou shall make Hi: soul an offering for sin. He shall see His seed. He shall prolong Hf: days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. He shall see of the travail of Hi: soul. and shall be satisfied: by His knowledge shill My righteous servant justl- fy many; for he shall bear their iniquitles. Therefore will I divide Him a portion with the great; and He shall divide the spoil with the strong.

soul That mapactlgallenge shouted '3a9&q9p4ag,eD&oQ?v For throughthe treadmill-year his I Behindmyg. Ipliucslctetr-ofldncez a small Old charhnletown Yet. hgvmitfasgathalf-content; halt. 1' "ind P E. I.) J That ghlgllgdmtgmggg in his own PATREE FUND backyard "A Sheriff's meeting was held at

the Court House on Thursday. Chief Justice Hodgson being called upon to preside. The chairman stated the object of the meeting. which was to raise funds for the relief of the widows and orphans of the soldiers, sailors and marines. who had fallen in battle in the present Crimea war. or may yet die in their country's service before the establishment -of peace: and in doing so the honourable and learn- ed chairman paid an eloquent tri- bute to the valour and achievement of the allied forces at sebastopol. "The following local committee was nominated for the purpose of acting tn conjunction with His Ex- cellency, thc Lieutenant Governor, who has been appointed by the Royal Commission a Commissioner in aid of the Patriotic Fund, for opening a subscription list to re- celve contributions to such Fund, and for remitting the same as soon as practicable to London: - The Hon. chief Justice, Commander orlcbmr, Hon. Captain Swabey, the Rev. Mr. Snodgraas. Rev. Mr. Phel- an, I-Ion. Charles Young, Henry Haszard. Esq.. Theophllus Des- brisay, Esq.. the Rev. Mr. Lloyd, the Rev. Mr. Mchdurray, Hon. .1. Picton Bccte."

WITNESSES ARIIESTED

BERLIN. Aug. 30 -(Reuteis) - The East German Peoples police today arrested about 20 leading preachers of the Jehovah's Wit.- nesses sect in the Soviet. sector of Berlin and in the Soviet zone of Genmany. The arrests followed an East Berlin press campaign against the sect. which the Communists oi - lege in in "cover orglinizat.-on foi- American agent: trying to sow dia- ciofd in the Exit. German Repub- i c." .

MANILA. Aug. 22-(AP)-A II. 3. Air alllorce spokesman said today authorities are investigating the smuggling of t500,000 worth of nor- cotlca into the Philippines in cask- ets containing the bodies of Americ- an second World War dead. The spokesman said the Air Force has detained a U. S. army officer in connection with the investigation.

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A ralaonfo Pcniomcot, in A FEATURED ARTICLE on

'00 onto omctlf--1 um i. making a contribution to the l- mutoel"

,sAvS "-- staunch supporters racetrack, can discuss both

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This column is open to the discussion by correspondent! of questions of interest. The Guardian doennof. neceouh 1:

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AN EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE

Sir. - From His Eminence card- inal McGulzan's "Thoughts for our Time", appearing in The Guardian 1 quote: "It is the great challenge of today to centre education in God." What. other challenge so in- sistently calls teacher of young people? The whole world longs for peace, Nothing could help so much to bring that blessed state as God- centred teaching of young people.

A change could be wrought for peace through the children in one generation 11 teachers as a body were so minded. Hitler and his ageiits bent the child mind of Germany into Nazism in one gen- eration. "Let. us command the schools. Let. us get the children" they said and they got. them. The Soviet agents are following the same method and all Russia is be- coming Communist through the schools.

Why should not we who believe in the democratic way of life which after all aims to be the christian way, not teach our children what. we ourselves bellevel. It can be done and quite naturally with no theological bias whatever. I know a teacher, brought up in a Chriss- ian home and to whom the christ- ian spirit was as natural as her own breath. she took charge of I 'school of 25 pupils, about one half of whom were Roman Catholics. It was not an easy school. The picvious teacher was glad to leave, man though he was. There were older boys and girls and. they prac- tised some very bad habits, one of which was the frequent use of foul language. There were other habits too that spoiled the school. In three years” time of patient painstaking affectionate teaching, that young woman gave that school a new spirit and I new ideal of educa- tlon. she never preached. but just is touch here and ii. touch thereto!

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London and Windsor are the first Ontario cities to enter into specific :greomeu.s with Quecn's'Park and Federal authorities for extensive new housing projects to be under- written by the Dominion and Pro- vincial Gvoernlncnts. By these agreements the Dominion and On- turlo will put up the money for the pupchasc of land suitable 'for the houses and the two governments will likewise finance the cost of all services and roadways within the areas but the cost. of bringing water and sewer services to the edge of the projects will be borne by the local municipalities. other municlpalitles. Guelph. Kingston and Ottawa are ' now negotiating for similar housing projects.-From Toronto Telegram.

The garbage collector: union at Hamilton is reported to have put. on 3 blockade of the civic dump. so that no private citizens can dispose of their garbage by carrying it there in their own vehicles. This seems to be one of those highly pro- vocative union actions which fire- quently crop up in strike disorders.

private citizen, who has every right in his own way and in his own time to safeguard the health of his household. In doing so, the citi- zen is not trying to break the strike, but acting for his own pro- tection. On the surface it may ap- pear to be a small thing. but it has the ingredients of violence.-From st. Catherine's Standard.

Tlu-on Busllnn girl: living In the soviet sector of Berlin had I and experience not long ago. stores in the West Berlin area conducted a sale of much-wanted women's cloth- ing. The three glirls bought 20 pairs of nylon stockings. but they return- ed three days later with the stock- mas, and asked for their money back, explaining "We have been told we cannot keep them." The girls told a store executive that soviet headquarters had issued an order forbidding Russian women to wear Western-style clothes and nylons because such articles "are not wor- thy of Soviet womanhood." It add- ed. "Our own Soviet-produced clothes are far superior anyway." Soviet authorities in Berlin admit- ted that is "routine" order had been issued on the subjct of dress for army families. British authorities commented that it was purely a soviet domestic matter. For the

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three Russian girls. dressed in drab

- 639.: y m l! I sruy clothes. it wis a crisis. looked willfully It the gem” women who were buying immmg

Every day. the postman bring to Queen Mai-y's home letters from all sorts of unknown men and W0, men who write to her about um, personal joys and troubles-, ubou, their babies. their sewing, met, household woiiriei. their pension problems-:let.ers that start. sti-aim off "Dear Queen Mary, 1 know you will like to hear that . . and W . on. and she does like to hear. pm i a letter goes back saying 5o,.c,od, frey Talbot. (Halifax Ohronlclg. Herald). . ;

The elderly man who uh,-up from kissing the Bible in cm... 5,, l cause the physical act was offen- sive to him had warrant for my distaste. He meant no offence he said, but everyone who gave ',,,,. dence put his or her lips to this particular copy of the smmum . and he deemed it "unsanitary", H; l was right. The custom is one um might well have been altered in since. There are iiltemative form; of taking the math but for the ma. Jority of people appearing in com the injunction still is: "Kiss me 1 Bible". Normally all grown individ- uals are particular about when . they put their mouths. and obvloug. . ly a volume whose covers are kissed by all and sundry, year in 3nd year out. is repelling to such inti- macy. some people avoid the con. tact by kissing their own thumb; while holding the Book. and mum wink at the evasion. The com, should be able to go one better. lg should be permissible for B wltngg to swear by the Bible instead of ill. eriilly on its covers. --Victoria Col. oniit.

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HROFESSIQNAL CARDS

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A. W. MATIIESON. K.C. A.II. PEAKE. B.A.. LL. B. . Barristers. etc. Collcctlonu .- Money to Loan 90 Great George trcet. Charlottetown

MccPhee & Irainor !i.l'. MmcPl-IEE, B. A.. .K.C. E. SOMERLED TRAINOB. B. A. Barristers, Etc.

Chas. R. McQuuld

B. A. BABRISTEB. SOLICITOR, NOTARY. El.c., Eastern Trust Building CIIARLOTTETOWN Phone 1711

high moral pr' ',' as arose. Above all, she lived her teaching and 't.l'ial: better life im- parted itself to her pupils. Teachers with simple faith in God, a sense of responsibility for the highest welfare of each pupil and 3 great faith in the possibil- ities of children could put. our ed- ucational system up on is new level and make Canada 3 great power for peace in this frightened world. I am. sir, etc.. w.I. GREEN Stanley Bridge.

WNITSVIIJE. Wales. Aus- 22 --(Reuters)- Thomas Moore. 6'!- year-old retired miner. tonight re- turned to the mine when he had once worked, said "cheerio" to an old friend, then plunged in his death down a. 900-foot shaft. Be- hind him at the pithend he left is note which said "If you go to my home you will find my wife dead." Police broke into his house and found Mrs. Moore's buttered body.

MEETING

Palmer & I-loslum A. J. HASLAM. B.A.. LL11 , Barrister. Etc. Bank of Nova sooth uiuiiberl ' Charlottetown. P.E.l. MONEY T0 LOAN

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BABRISTEB. SOLICITOB. E

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Boll 8: Mal-liioson BARIIISTERS. SOLICITORS. M. ILE. BELL. M. L.A.

D.L. MATHIESON. L. L. 3.. IA).

Attorney: at Law; LOANS ON CITY AND FARM PROPERTIES 150 Richmond st. ct ioiuiown, r. E. i.

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Joseph ll. McicMillun, LL.i.

BAERISTEII, SOLICITOR. Etc 75 Queen Street PHONE 7'16 Money to Loin Collection

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B. A., l.L.Il. BARRISTER. SOLICITOR, Etc. MONEY To LOAN Charlottetown. P. E. I.

Dr. W. R'. Carson Chiropractor Palmer Graduate CnAR.l.0'rTE'l'OWN 201 Prince Sh Phone loll

A. Wulfhen Guudet. LL.B.

IARRISTER. SOLICITOR. lite. Phillip: Building 111 Grafton Street Money to Loan Collection.

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GILBERT A. GAUDET. E. A., LLB Bll'l'llleI'l and sollclto Money to Loon Canadian Bank of Commerce Bid!- Charlottetown

Frederic A. Loirqe. I(.C. BARRISTER. SOLICITOB. NOTARY Royal Bank of Canada Chamber! Charlottetown, P. E. I. , Successor to George J. Tweedy. It.C. Tooinlu Bldg. 165 Queen at

J. A. McGulgan

NOTARY, ETC. BARRISTER. SOLICITOR CUIIBIE BUILDING '

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A meeting of all memberd which includes contract . . . Complete Wm”! Analysis holders of 1935 and all patrons, including Debenture Pun" and Refraction glolders sinceofthat time is called for above date for ””"”' ”'''V- 133. Kent S;

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"Authorizing the directors to proceed to register m'lo":'lA3'I-I”! lit-Nu Ch””0"9l0W"

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