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THE GUARDIAN, CHARLOTTETOWN;

THE Gunicninisi

i Alarming Dllily (Fnlllldlll ll i887) Authorized no rleuonil (‘liuir Dlull, Pun Office Department, Olluwu.

This hluuil (iuarllluu Publishing Cu. Editor uud llunullnl Director. J. B. Burnett. Anus-lute Editor, Frank Walker.

"Tire Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink."

CHARLOT"l‘ETO\\'N. SATURDAY. OCT. so. 1948

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Hallowe'en is an occasion for good, clean tun and its celebration in Charlottetown tonight (in lieu of Sunday night on which the anni- versary falls this year) will doubtless prove no exception. No one who remembers a happy childhood would for a minute wish it otherwise. Unfortunately there are some older boys and girls who have occasionally permitted their ex- uberance to run away with their sense of pro- priety and respect for the rights of others, and have committed acts of vandalism far which there is no excuse whatever.

in recent years there has been a great im- provement in Hallowe'en celebrations locally, His Worship Mayor MacDonald having set an excellent example by visiting the city schools and admonishing the children in a kindly and genial manner. The Kinsmen are also to be cam- mended for providing a programme of enter- tainment for the evening, and we understand that this custom will be followed on the present occasion. With the cooperation of parents and citizensvgenerally, the police should have no dif- ficulty in maintaining law and order. Masquerad- ers have permission to cut as many capers as they please, provided they keep within legal limits.

As we know it, Hallowe'en is a conglomera- tion of many ancient fates, centering about the harvest festival, which eventually were united into a Christian holiday. it is the prelude to All Saints Day, and it is well that its religious significance should not be lost sight of.

The ILS. Elections

Whatever the result. of the voting in the U. S. Presidential elections an Tuesday, one re- assuring fact is clear from the campaign utter- ances of both major party leaders: there will be no major change in United States foreign policy. in the words of a New York Times editorial, "This country will not vote itself back into the kind of isolationism that helped to produce the Second World War. lt will vote itself, no matter how the ballots are cast, ior the kind of outgoing, demo- cratic strategy that may, God willing, prevent a third World War."

The Times recalls that twenty-eight years ago, in the election of i920, there were millions at Americans who thought that the best way to settle America's relations with the rest of the world was to reduce those relations to tho lowest possible minimum. The country was rampantly isolationist. it had been disappointed ln the results of victory in a World War and had assumed that the best way to overcome these bad results was lo ignore them. This reaction might have taken place again after the Sec- ond World War. in actual fact it did not, and the campaign of i948 is a proof of that fact. Twenty-eight years of hard experience, includ- lng another World War, have educated the American people -— and that means members of both major parties.

Canada is interested in Tuesday's election results for other reasons, of course. A Republi- can -victory might mean substantial tariff changes, for one thing. But there is no question as to the continuance of the friendly relations now existing between both countries; no question, indeed, but that these relations will be still more firmly cemented in the near future, involving plans for mutual defense and for ca-ordinated activity in many fields. We look upon our Ameri- can neighbors as friends and kinsmen, inheri- tors of the same democratic traditions and motivated by the same ideals of justice, freedom and fair play. We have every reason to believe that this leeliiig is mutual, and that "the more we get together the happier we'll be." '

Function 0f Universities

The Alberta Real Estate Association has suggested that the University of Alberta include a course in real estate in its curriculum. The aim of this proposal, it is said, is to have ven- dors of real estate raised to the status of a pro- fessional society incorporated and regulated by law. To acquire membership, the prospective deal- er would have to possess a degree in real estate.

"Here" comments the Ottawa Journal, "is one further example of a great current miscon- ception: Tho false notion that a university is a technical or vocational training school, its task to train men in various trades or professions. A university is not that at all; and if we insist on making our universities that-we have gonb some distance in such direction already-we shall destroy their true function.

"A university, in essence, is, or should be, a school of liberal arts, devoted to cultural sub- jects only, its aim not to train men in any par

' ticular vocation or profession, but to train their

minds - not merely ta educate them, but to giva them as well understanding of what the ands of education should be.

l "It is true that most of our universities of- fer degrees in pure scienceand in applied sci- ence, that most of them have their schools of medicine and engineering. That does not alter the general proposition that universities cannot be mode more and more into vocational training schools without grave danger to their future, and to ours.

"There is too much misunderstanding of this; too much of a tendency to confuse vocatioiial training with education-too much advance in overloading the curriculum of our universities with things that have no place in the curriculum of a university. One result already is an over- crowding of universities, threatening them with the dangapaf becoming merely production lines,

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educating no one at all.

"No one should be agginst vocational train- ing; in our world there is growing need for the specialist. But greater even than the need for the specialist is the need for the educated, lib- eral, balanced mind, and if we as a nation are to neglect that mind then ultimately we must be lost. The fate of Germany was an example of what can come to a nation whereeverybody is trcined and nobady educated."

EDITORIAL NOTES —

Tomorrow Hallowmas Eve. I I If i Tomorrow 23rd. Sunday after Trinity and 24th. after Pentecost. l‘ * k Q The question of the hour is, do witches dance on the Sabbath? I fl R Q After the earlier optimism of railway otfic- ials about the supply of refrigerator cars, a shortage now would seem to indicate that the cars that should have been available are in use

elsewhere. O I i i

The Liberal Leader, Rt. Hon. L. St. Laurent, really excelled his predecessor in his endeavor to sell his party and its achievements to the el- ectorate on Thursday night. What he left out will no doubt be inserted by the Hon. the Leader of the Opposition next week.

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Maine potato men are complaining that Canadian potatoes (presumably New Brunswick ones) are being labeled and sold as the product of Maine. This is a reversal of the general prac- tice which has long been to palm off Maine po- tatoes for those of Prince Edward island.

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Feodor Mikhailovitch Dostvievisky, Russian novelist born this date l82i, wrote very power- ful stories dealing with peasant life and social problems, his masterpiece being Crime and Pun- ishment of which there is an English translation. His works had great influence in Russia in de- velopment of Marxian principles and propaganda among the intellectuals.

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The dropping of the term "British" by the Commonwealth Prime Ministers has aroused a storm of protest, particularly, as might be ex- pected, New Zealand. The mava, however, opens '-'p all sorts of possibilities, for example, along the lines of Mr. Churchill's i940 offer of com- mon citizenship with France.

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The North Atlantic Alliance is rapidly be- coming a reality. With active military coopera- tion and standardize-flan of arms between the United States and Canada and the countries of the Brussels Alliance, Britain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg, western se- curity should be almost complete.

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lt is refreshing to have a voice of our avin, direct from the scene of the cold war, giving us information on the present crisis. The talk of Wing Commander McLean, D.F.C., of Lewis, to his comrades of the Legion on Thursday, brings' the subject more directly to our attention than do the views and theorizing of experts of whom we know nothing personally. From his own ob‘- servations he concludes the cold war will become a bloody war within the next two years. We must therefore be prepared.

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Miss Carrie Holman is right in asserting that g Lucy Maud Montgomery museum is no sub- stitute for a Prince Edward Island Museum in Charlottetown. This subject has been discussed time and time again, but we have had no Pro- vincial Government sufficiently historically inter- csted or competent to put the scheme into ef- fect. A people not familiar with their past have slight likelihood of being progressive, for they have practically no standard to measure them- selves by. A museum and an historical society aie u sine qua iron in every worthwhile community. Perhaps the Jones Government will come to the rescue of our reputation in this respect — it could be included as onc of the projects for mental health or education.

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The New Glasgow Evening News joins iii the agitation in support of the proposed win- ter ferry service between Georgetown and Pictou. It says: The Charlottetown Guardian, comment- ing on a recent meeting of the King's County (P. E. l.) Board of Trade on the question of estab- lishing a Georgetown-Pictou winter ferry ser- vice notes efforts are being made to get the support of Dr. Grant, M.P. for King's, and H. B. McCulloch, Pictou Member, to get the service started and make it a winter link between the two provinces. The News has commented favor- ably on this proposed ferry before, from the point of view of the value it would have in re- storing some port life to Pictou.

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"No written record can do justice to the situation which confronted our troops in this area (South Beveland isthmus in Holland.) The bitterest kind of fighting followed." Thus writes Colonel C. P. Stacey about the heart-breaking battle to clear the port of Antwerp for the Allied Expeditionary force — four years ago this month. At the end of September, i944, the 2nd. Canadian Division had secured obridgehead aver the Albert Canal just east of Antwerp and were fighting for ground along the Antwerp-Turnhout Canal. The 5th. Canadian infantry Brigade, un- der command of Brigadier W. J. Megill, DSO, (now Deputy Chief of the General Staff, Ottawa) suffered very heavy‘casualties but pushed on through the mud ard water. On Oct. i3 of that year, the Black Watch lost every rifle company commander in the regiment in the one day. Ca- nadian veterans will long remember the bitter battle fcr the S:heidt. They fought ‘with stub- barnoss against increasing odds and mounting casualtiesjuntil, on Oct. i6, Field-Marshal Mont- gomery ordered a complete regrouping design- ed to bring larger forces to bear on the tre- mendously important task of freeing Antwerp as

a wintertime supply port

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SELKIRK AT VERNON RIVER

“Not being able to settle the situation of the lots till the survey- or has made more progress, 1 re- solved to return to Charlotte Town. Mr. Shaw remains (at Belfast) on account of some appearances of a contagious fever among the peo- ple; whatever may be Dr. McARs (McAulay's) medical acqulremenls he has not now leisure ta attend to the patients.

"Before setting out I agreed with the McMillans and McFee to build a long house 25 .\' 16, roofed so as to stand this \vinter—-for which they are to have £5 and promise to finish it in ten days. This is for a store house; the expense of these buildings depends in a great meas- ure on the timber being near or for — the spruce logs at a dist-

oxen it. would come to more. Here they are convenient.

"I went up Orwell Bay in a boat to Vernon River and had a glance of the upper part of Lot 57 where three or four settlers have taken possession of the best spots. Went up ta J. Laird’s in Vernon River, a Loyalist settler from Carolina who lent me a horse and agreed to show me the way to Charlotte Town. Four fine itosshire lads. itlacRaes, landed me, hauling the boat through the mud in true clan- nish style. I had been talking my best Gaelic, and divided my dinner with them, which seemed to have won their hearts.

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"For their encouragement I ex- plained to them part of what Laird told me of his situation. He be- gan here quite bare eight years zigo; has now 50 acres cleared, much upland hay, n good stock of cattle, nn orchard, a comfortable house and plenty of everything. He values his improvements at £400. ilc has 200 acres assigned him as a Loyalist under a bargain which was made between the Gov- ernment and the grantees of this Island, several of whom agreed to give up onc-fourth of their lots to be clividerl amo g the Refugees. gratuitously. Tiis they did with n view to peopling their neighborhood so as lo improve llic value of the rest of (ht- lot.

"Laird liud been formerly settled on another lot. but, after nine years, lt was discovered that by a mistake of the surveyor he was set down on a lat that was not. his o\vn. and lie was obliged to remove without receiving any compensation for his improvements. I-ic does not seem to be at an end of his troubles.‘ For the last year the Gov. (now proprietor of this general lot) brought an action of ejectment on an allegation of n similar error tho‘ Ld. says he holds a patent signed by the Gov. himself. The Ch. Justice however checked the proceedings and would not. allow the action (n proceed.

"Lalrrl alleges that. the Gov.‘s motive for this was because he had dunned him for a rent due for a farm which was let to the Gov. by an absentee proprietor (Loyal- ist also) who had appointed Mr. Laird his agent.-Mr. Throckmorter of Cherry Valley. This farm he has held 7 years; the rent promised £15 pant-i. and not £1 yet paid. Tho Gov. has now left it and every- thing gone-to ruin tho’ bound to keep it in repair. Thll is Laird’: acct; the farm, fences. &c., I llW as I passed and they are certainly in a shockingly neglected state. L. says the Gav. was always very friendly to him till he demanded the rent!

I O O

"This farm of 500 or 600 acres and 100 or 80 at least clear-n good house, orchard and mlll-l| the same that J. Stewart told mp was on sale and might be got for about £300~|t was offered by the proprie- tor for £500 F x C. It is now un- tenanted, and Laird offered the use of the housqduring winter for nothing, in order to keep it in re- pair.

-"Lalrd'e method of clearing. the usual one here, ll to cut down the trees in winter. burn them as they lie, which burns of! the branches and bushes, then the re- maining logs are plied and burnt more completely. This iii done in summer and a crop of wheat may

be sown with only harrowing. ll is more uauni. however. to bngin

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with potatoes ff the burning can be accomplished ln spring and then wheat, with which he sows grass seeds. After 5 or 6 years the stumps come out easier by half than at first, but it ls eight years beforc they are quite easy. Some- times obstinate roots of pine or hemlock remain even after that time.

“Laird eccompnnled me on the road from his house to Cherry Val- ley, having lent me his horse, an excellent. stout. pony of the Cun- adlnn breed. We could not make out Charlotte Town. but about ten miles short of it turned off to Cnpln. Beere‘: at Cherry Valley where I got. quarters and set. off very early, reaching Cheriolte Town about breakfast time." --Lori.l SeikirlCs Diary, Monday, Aug. l5. 1803. “The Gov." evident- ly refers to Lieutenant Governor Fanning who held office 1786-1805.

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summer is over. the old cow said, And they'll shut me up Ln a draughty shed

To milk me by Iamplight in the cold

But I won't. give much for I em old. It's long ego that, I came here

Gay and slim as a woodland deer; It's long ego that I heard the roar Of Smith's white bull by the syca- more.

And now theta are bones where my flesh should be;

My backbone sags like an old roof tree.

And an apple snatched in a mom-

ent's frolic Is Just so many days of colic. I'm neither a Jersey not Holstein

ndw But only is faded sort of l. cow. My calves are veal and I hisd as lief

That I could lay me down as beef: Somehow. they always klii by halves.-

Why not take me when they take imy calves?

Birch turns yellow and sumac red I've seen this all before, she said Inn tired of the field and tired of . the shed.

There's no more grass, there's no more clover:

Summer ls over. summer is over.

-R0bert. Hflyer

AGGRESSIVE BLUEJAYS

A pair of bluejays has been known to rout, e cat by‘: series of at.- tacks in which one bird attracts the cat's attention while it's mate dives 1n to deliver a sharp peck.

YOUTHFUL SEAMAN

LONDON —~ (OP) —After David Farsey, l5, had been missing from home for s month, his father re- calved n postcard postmarked Le Havre. announcing that he was aboard a. rrhlp going to Australia.

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PUBLIC FORUM

This column ls open to the . discussion by correspondents .

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of questions of interest. Tbc (‘l Guardian does not ncceesiur- lly cndar the opinion or

correspondents. Q

lii-Qcc-xcomc/Q-eoéoa "CORN WEATHER"

Sin-I was attracted by those poetic lines cm your editorial page the other day. entitled “Corn Weather". especially the imagery in the words “While the hungry cities sleep". and the keen inquiry: "You fretful men who dwell in towns; ho\v can you tell what the weather should be?"

In the above connection. I well remember a general discussion on the vreather, between a group of "fretful" urban Canadians. One of’ them had loosely referred to a current; rainfall as "B. nuisance"- whereupon he was informed that. "in a land of perpetual sunshine, all of us would starve." Everyone laughed: but the lesson went home!

On the pavements. of course, there ls e. very general trend to accept the idea that man 1s at the controls. and that people are no’. so dependent as in earlier years upon the farms, forests, rivers? These basic natural resources are largely screened from "the eyes of the "fretful men who dwell in iOWHS". and we are inclined to think of them only occasionally, and to take them for granted. At the moment. in terms of hydra. urban Ontarians are getting a. sharp lesson in the school of ex- perience.

But I noted the following para- grirph in the report of a speech by Governor Dewey at Oklahoma Cit-y the other night. as reported in the columns of your distinguished New Y°Tk wmemliorary (The Times): "We shall soon be a nation of 150,000,000 Americans. We need to pay more and more careful atten- tion to maintaining and increasing our natural resources. By for the most. precious of all t-hese Vii-til needs ls our soil. Our farmers have done a magnificent Job in meeting every demand for food and fibre to win the war. to maintain the health of our people, and now to brill: aid and hope to s stricken world. 'I‘o meet the needs of our flowing population. We mugt pug every acre of our s0ii to its best productive use. We must maintain the fertility of the land \ve are now using, and tight with evcry- hill"! We have against erosion. plant diseases and destructive pests."

I am. Sir, eta, “NOT BREAD ALONE."

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Nobody axpeoil over to see Buo- sla going our way. The one hope ls that eventually she _mny decide to stay on her own side of the white line down the centre of (he highway. —— Sault Ste. Marie Star.

A lady In Harmony. N- 5-. b8! shot nine deer in 10 Y9"! l" h" buck yard. That's nice hunting; and isn't ll. amazing that in all that. lime she hasn't bugged B nelgillwl‘ by mistake! It's one for the book. ~0ttawa Citizen. -