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THE GUARDIAN

Moi-run; may‘ (Founded in 1am. Alli-bottled u Second Clue Mall, Yoet Office Department. Ottawa.

President. Ill A» Burnett; Vice-President. Was. I.- Burnett; SeBL-Tfcll, G. M. Barnett; Editor and Managing Director, J. R. Burnett; Aleoolate Editor, Frank Walker.

”The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than i‘ the Weakest Ink."

CHARLOTTETO\VN SATURDAY, FEB. l4, 1948 The Late lllr. S. ll. lllaoLeoil

There were few, if any, better known and more highly respected citizens of Charlottetown than Mr. S. A. MacLeod who entered into rest at the Prince Edward lsland Hospital yesterday. He had attained a ripe old age, and kept active in business, philanithrophy and public affairs to the end. Indeed, almost the last act of his well spent life, was van endeavour to straighten out a matter in which he felt a political wrong had been done to a fellow citizen. That was char- acteristic of "S. A." People naturally drifted toward him for advice, comfort and as- sistance in all sorts of trouble, dilemma and enterprise. He ‘had a wise head, e shrewd in- telligence, and could always be depended upon to act in the best interests of all concerned. He will be missed by hundreds who looked upon him as their guide, philosopher and frind.

Mr. MacLeod was an ideal citizen in Busi- ness, Church and State. The firm which he, with Messrs. Moore, Gordon and Stewart started over half a century ago, has attained the posi- tion of being one of the leading houses of its kind, not only in the lsland, but in the Meri- time Provinces. "Moore and McLeod Ltd."». has become synonymous with "Charlottetown? stand- ard of quality and service." And Mr. MacLeod has been its fore-front. He always’ took a keen interest in the development of the community, and ever kept in the forefront its claims for con- sideration by the powers-that-be in Ottawa. A staunch Liberal in politics, he nevertheless co- operated wholeheartedly with his political oppon- ents when the interests of the City or Province were at stake. His watchwords in public affairs were "caution and persistence", being firmly con- vinced by knowledge and experience that more is to be gained by reason and courage than by threats and high pressure. Elsewhere in this is- sue is given an enlightening outline of hiscar- eer. His name, and especiallyrhis initials "S.A.", will long be remembered and his memory cher- ished by the many who had the pleasure of his acquaintanceship, and especially by the fewer who enjoyed his inestimable friendship and fel- lowship. Big-hearted, high-souled, an ideal man of affairs, he no-w rests from his labours of love, enterprise and‘ devotion to duty.

Denounced Unanimously

One thing which does not appear to have been brought out in the press reports of the recent convention of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture was the Federation's unanimous condemnation of the King Government's price cdntrol policies.

To begin with, feeling was strong that the farmer is being blamed for higher living costs. As many members of the Federation pointed out, the farmer's products are almost the only ones that are now being sold at controlled prices. The recent increases in food prices were not due to action by the farm community; and the Fed- eration was instructed to begin a nation-wide campaign to acquaint the people of Canada with this fact. This, of course, is something the Gov- crnment itself should have done, through its hordes of officials. lt looks as if the farmer were being deliberately made "the goat."

More important, however, was l'he opposi- tion registered by the Federation to having what it termed "arbitrary controls" imposed upon farm products. lt branded such controls, in the absence of a general price policy, as discrimina- tion against the farm-erf There was reportedly no difference of opinion on this issue between the eastern and western members of the Fed- eration. Tlzey were united in their criticism of government policy.

These resolutions were passed after the Federation had heard Mr. Gardiner, the Min- ister of Agriculture, explain that these controls were being maintained in the interests of a price control policy. His hearers wanted to know why the policy should not be truly national; why other Canadians should not be asked to share the burden of keeping down prices. The farmer seemed to have exclusive responsibility in this field; and his reward was lower returns for his products.

In a statement of policy the organized dairy farmers of Canada declared: "lf price controls are to be imposed on food products of which they are the primary producers, dairy farmers in- sist that controls be placed on all factois ent- erihg into their costs."

Taking an even broader sweep, another res- olution, dealing with pricp controls and livestock production, warned: "This meeting of the Cona- dian Federation of Agriculture strongly protests the reiniposltion of further» price controls of live- stock and livestock products, unless these are accompanied by a policy of overall control of the prices of those goods and services which con- stitute the farmer's production com."

Finally, conference endorsed this res- olution ae a general statement of its attitude on price control: ‘Resolved that the Canadian Federation of ‘Agriculture protest emphatically

_' egginst the rniinifest iniusrice of the recently announced policy of the Federal government oi

siii ing out nialar‘ agiicultiirolproductr for the re-nipooitloii of ceiling prices, without the ie-. _in 4n ‘a general‘ poll ' ofprioe control." f- Kpeciahwriterof the- lnril Free Press he , p conference ceilel "PM" itthe ‘ ' lheiieefrlng wesenygulde, then the l inoy-"reeressured that echoes l i ' , , w In‘;

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_ Scout-Guido Week

The week‘ of February_15-22 is being ob- served across Canada as Boy Scout-Girl Guide Week, and in thisProvince, as elsewhere, an op- propriate programme is being arranged to bring the activities of both these splendid organiza- tions before the public. _

The three major factors in the life of any young person are the church, the home, and the school. it has been well said that the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides Associations contribute a unifying action, bringing these into a progres- sive and integrated programme of spiritual, moral, mental and physical development. Scout- ing and Guiding a-lso make their contributions to international understanding because they are two world-wide organizations with a membership of some five million boys and two and one-half million girls in some seventy countries. They break down barriersof class, creed and race, and they are both non-political and non-denomina- tional.

"Training to serve Canada" is the motto of the 165 boys and girls who will participate in the 165,000 boys and girls who, under the lead- ership of some 12,500 volunteer workers, wil-I participate in this country's observance of Scout- Guide Week. lt is hoped that parents and oth- ers will cooperdte by showing their personal inter- est in the movement. This ie the best form ef encouragement. ~

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Valentine Day. i fl The icebreqkers ore trying to open up the St. Lawrence early this year but the weather man will, as usual, have final soy in the matter. I I l‘ ‘I The most serious threat in Greece this win- ter is not guerillas but inflation which constant- ly threatens to destroy all basis of government. i '* i i

Webster, Macdonald, Paton, White, Mac- Leod--the old guard of the Caledonian Club, they ore a‘ wearin’ awa‘.

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These are days when agricultural constitu- encies should keep a sharp eye on their repre- sentatives, as_ well as on the membe s for the urban constituencies, lest they slacken in the fight. for the protfctifn ‘of ‘butter production.

So many provincial bureaucrats now that twocdditional buildings-old Bank of N. S. and the old Y.M.C.A.-—have been acquired for the overflow. Similarly with the Federal Depart- ments—-Sterns' new laundry tap floor has been secured to accommodate the steadily growing Income Tax staff. '

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The government in the person of its fin- ancial agent the Bank of Canada seems to be taking inflation here very calmly, perhaps be- cause every iump in the cost of living in ef- fect is a reduction in the national debt. With the cost of living index say at 150 it means that for every three pigs the government borrowed in war time it has only to repay the lender two.

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Canadian shipping has. fallen off drastically this season. In Halifax shipping is almost at a standstill and in Vancouver it‘ is estimated that this year shipping will be only one third as great as ldst year. This reflects the world-wide scar- city of dollars and may well beaemediéd by the success of the Marshall Plan. .

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To the curlers, Burns’ farewell:

Farewell d-ear Friend! may guid luck hit you,

And, mang her favourites admit you!

If o'er Detroction shore to smit you,

May none believe him!

And ony De'il that thinks to get you,

Good Lord, deceive him! i‘ R W i

It was bound to come. Radio advertising men are said to be nervously eyeing the "radio interrupter" whereby radio listeners can rid themselves of "commercials" with the press of a chair-side button; The new gadget is a vest- pocket size, rectangular plastic box with two but- tons on it and a lengthywire that can be attach- ed to the electrical plug-in part of the radio set. Press one button and the radio is cut off for 30 seconds; press another and the cut-off lasts for a minute and a half to take care of the longer advertising messages. A big department store in Toronto sold out a large l. nsignment in one day. The maker claims he can't keep up with the demand although he is making 10,000 a day.

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Mr. S. A. MacLeod‘s death recolle the fact that he was one of six Prince Edward Islanders who in 1899 narrowly escaped a watery grave near the Skerry Vaie Rock, off the Hebrides, on the west coast of Scotland. They were pass- engers on the S. S. Labrador when their ship was wrecked on this treacherous rock, and were saved almost by miracle. Only two lsland survivors of this catastrophe now remain, Messrs. John A. MacLaren and W. A. Huestis. The others were the late Messrs. W. W. Stanley, L. E. Proviso, Charles E. Leigh and Mr. MacLeod. All were merchants of Charlottetown on their way to the London market to purchase stock for their firms.

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The Fall of Singapore took place this date i942, after a week of fighting being forced to surrender, terms being signed by lritlsfi and lap-leaders. A conisderable part of the Brit- ish and Australian forces got away, but the Jops claimed they had taken 60,000 Imperial troops. Changes in the British war cabinet weiethen announced, Lord Beaveibrook going out and Sir Stafford Crip s going in. The laps’ alrforce ran, riot in the ast, attacking the Al- lled possessions in all. directions. President Roosevelt announced the Americans would soon have the initiative in the East and revealed that the combatant ships based at Pearl Harbour only tliiae4-Tyrore_ pennanenrlyvpur eut of action. by

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large-footed women In Britain are said tio be "tortured" through

lack of suitable shoes. We have alnvays thought women wear un- suitable shoes so they can say, sf- ter e hard day's shopping. "M! feet. are killing me."— door Btar. ,

Seven bay: in Nuulmo, B. 0., convicted of theft, are sentenced to ettendfiunduy school twice monthly for a year. One wonders how much good attendance oy compulsion will do them, and what the unpaid teachers will think of it. - Ottawa Journal.

This liuelnese of e. fuel supply for Canada. 1s not some problem that has Just arisen. It has been with us from the beginning, grow- ing more and more acute with the years. We are told that we have vast coal and all resources; coal 1n the east. and west, and all in Alberta; but nothing effective no.1 been done to bring the'caal m central Oonada, and the oil re- sources remain undeveloped. -Oi.- taw-a Journal.

Au e matter of interest. we print herewith an English translation of the new national anthem of In- dla:

The finest country in the world ts our India.

We are its nlghtingales, it. to our roeegarden;

The highest tnountaln-renge, neighbor of the sky,

Is our sentry and our protector; In its lop play thousands of rivers Which make of ll. a garden that is the envy pf the world; Religion does not teach us to bear enmity towards one another, We are Indians and our country is Indla..— Peterborough EX- aminer. '

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Sitting behind the steering wheel of a motor vehicle has the peculiar effect upon o. great man; people of making them imagine that. they are something superhu- man. They will attempt t») do things which, ff they were specie.- tors of such on exhibition of driv- lng, they would condemn with the strongest. language at their command. These people are hon- est, reputable citizens. They would not wilfully transgress any of Liv" laws of the realm. They would no more try to get. a position in a hockey ticket lineup ahead of those who had been waiting than they would snatch a nickel off, u. Sunday collegtloi) plate, but crof- flc laws and regulation; are in s separate class. —Moose Ja/w Times Herald. .

Housekeeping wives do not get. their pictures on the sports page, grasping a bosom and wearing a jaunty bonnet-well, not often. They view a broom with distaste. Brooms spell work, not. play, Yol. haw valiantly, how effectively wives wield them. If they do H.1- pen to tell of it, they do rarer, congratulated; but seldom do the; have e. chance to mention their ac- compllsliment and so consistently do they keep the basement. claim that. the results of -t.helr exertions too frequently pass unnoticed, Ana it does not begin or end with the btlsemenl. nor even with cleaning the houseiThcre are fro meals, the children, the mending, the marketing and a score of other things. When they clean the base- ment. it. is an extra; So who an we men to bragt- Saint Jami

Mendelssohn‘: position at the centenary of his death may not find him placed alongside Bach and Handel as some of his con- temporaries in this country con- fldeiitiy imagined it. would; but it is likely that the shade of Mendel- ssohn is not. dissatisfied with the niche that. time, the best of critics, has discovered fai- him. Some of the centenary reviews of his art. have repeated the old story abou" the curse and handicap of m.» good fortune and haw Schubert wrote his songs out. of his misery. A genius 1s also at liberty to com- pose out. of his happiness or poise of disposition. Mendelssohn was a genius, and he invented a tempo all his own, and brought to li-e scherzo rm inimitable fanclfulness. Suffering and hardship would hav: been rejected by his temperament. The style that is the man emerge; from the character which finds its shape in the cradle. —Fran: The Manchester Guardian.

' U. S. rellioedi are making all sorts of efforts to improve pass- enger service and attract more publla good will. Fine; and we think we can suggest. one service improvement whlch~ wouldn't. cost. any railroad a. dl e and would make a big hit wit. the travelling public. Here 4t ls: Whenever a train is materially delayed in tne daytime or at any waking hour of the night, why not. have the ouii- ductoi- announce the reason for bl!‘ delay and the best available guess as to how much time the tram fs going oo lose altogether. Why this practice has never been unl- versiilly adopted on American ruli- road n dime and would make e big tilt with the travelling public Here it ls: Whenever e. train is materially delayed in the duyilmo or at any waking hour of the night, why not have the conduc- tor announce the reason for the delay and the best available guess u to how much time the tram ta- golng tn lose altogether. Why this preotioe nu never been universal- ly adopted on Arnerloen railroads. we don't know: but it never he... The usual procedure lo far the trefnrnen to let the passengers eueu whet/e holding thlnpe up. end to telltbem nothing specific.

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Lenten Meditations (Prom The Times)

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To discover the right. belance between. individual liberty and th. restraidls on that. liberty which the community may justifiably impose constitutes s major pall- tlonl problem. .

The same problem ulees in the

international field through the clash between the claims of na- tional sovereignty that. the de- monda imposed by member Lip of large groups like the United Nations. In personal life, it. arises as a tension between tn- dfvldual freedom of choice, and the limitations imposed upon that freedom by low. iiuitnnn or divine. Freedom, to be worth anythl; must. always be mibjeot. to limita- tions. If. must be freedom to be something, or to do emnethfng, and the definition of this "some- t-tilsig" itself limits the range of freedom. There are few things more boring. and in the end more exhausting, than being entirely free to do anythlng you like. In every art, 1n ever-y sport, spontaneity comes from mastery, and mastery from patient obedi- ence to the lows of the activity concerned. On the road, freedom of movement for the traffic de- pends an obedience ta the High- way Code. In social intercourse, ease comes from the observance of the rul of common courtesy. In religious terms. this truth was expressed neatly by the author of the 119th Psalm, when he said, "I will walk at liberty, for I seek thy commandments."

Al: first. the two ideas-freedom of movement and patient observ- ance of God's laws-seem incom- palible, but deeper thought shows that. the first ls dependent on the second. The only freedom worth a man's having is to be. what he ls made for, to fill in the plan sketched out for him by l. Cre- ator's providence. '

Gad’s law ls mediated to men tn various ways. Even the law of the land may reflect it in a. dim and. imperfect way. The Ten Commandments, in spite of ana- chronlsms, still provide useful sign-posts in the field of human relationships. The highest. law known to Christians 1s “the law of Christ,“ and that ls fulfilled. according la the Bible, by bearing one another! burdens. ‘This ls well described by St. James as "the perfect law of liberty."

Cardinal McGuigaifs Plea

(Toronto Globe and Mall)

Cardinal McGulgafis request to Roman Catholics that they abstain frcm alcoholic beverages during the Lenten season ls n serious ex- pression of pastoral concern over the gipwlng moral laxity of society. l-Iis Eminence, of course, limits his exhartations to those of his own faith. Nevertheless, by the very terms of his letter, read from Catholic pulpits last Sunday, he indicates ll deep anxiety about the deterioration of bclnavior generally.

The Cardinal docs rici. make a pica for prohibition. The Catholic Church also holds that: greed. laz- iness, vanity, as well as drunken- ness, are sinful. Indeed, there have hcezi civilizations which destroyed themselves by abuses’ other than the oiic to vilhlch he refers, Bu! it happens that. bevcrago alcohol, even if not held by the Catholic Church as an evil in itself, has be- come today, through uninhibited use, the symbol 9f flcshiy over"- lndulgence. Abstinence for the next. forty days, Cardinal McGuigari, therefore, feels, “will harm no one." Instead, "it will rcrnove from their lives tlial. which may easily be the cause of ruin both tcimporal and eternal. 1i. rwlli provide an op- portunity for performing many acls of self-denial and reparation for the sins of intamperance so prevalent today."

While the mutter of acceding to the Cardinal's request ls purely one concerning the Catholic lay- mun and his bancclence, others would find it profitable to ponder its meaning. There will be some who will excuse themselves he- cause they have no use for alco- hol; that it does not enter their lives. This, however, while the in- stance is given, ls not alone the moral.

We are fast approaching the time when it will be too late to read- just. our sense of values. The world today is wracked with materialism running unchecked. Whether this takes the form of is desire for power over others, or en excessive lensing for hllflan comfort, imab- tore not. Each Christian, it seems, has his qwn definition of Christ- ianity, too often whittled to suit his own convenience, But what- ever is hold up as theldeal, mod- eration in all things ls the first re- qulslte.