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

CHARLO'l'TE'l'0WN WEDNESDAY. MA) 10. I950

V An Honoured Visitor

The frieiidly relations existing betwcen Canada's two island Provinces will be furth er cemented this week as a result of the visit of Hon. .l. R. Chalker. Minister of Health for Newfoundland, who is scheduled to arrive here this evening and will spend Thursday in the Province. I-Its visit is the first stage of a tour during which the will extend a personal invitation to the various Premiers to attend ”Newfoundland Day" celebrations in St. John's on June 24.

The official greeting to Hon. Mr. Chalker will be given by Premier Jones and Hon. A. W. Matheson, Minister of Health and Wei- fare. in the Confederation Chamber tomor- row morning. when the Newfoundland in- vitation wiil be formally extended. Prior to this meeting Mr. Clialkei' will be receiv- ed at Government House. He will later visit His Worship the Mayor at the City H3”- snd at 1 p.m. will be the guest of the Exe- cutive Council at a private luncheon, after which he will make a brief tour of the Citv and other parts of the Province, before leav- ing by plane at 4:45 p.m.

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The Mary lloleste

The mystery of the Mary Celeste is revived in a Canadian Government Travel Bureau news letter. Launched as Amazon. the brigantine was built on Spencer s. Is- land, Minas Channel, Nova Scotia. Driven on the Cape Breton shore in a gale, she was bought and repaired by an American company, renamed Mary Celeste. In No- vember, 1872, she sailed from New York for Genoa. Aboard were 13 persons in- cluding the captain's wife and daughter.

Some weeks later, a British vessel sight- ed the brig steering an erratic course. Their hails unanswered, the puzzled British board- ed her. Not a person was to be found. All sail was set; not a rope out of place. Half- eaten meals were on the cabin table. The ashes in the galley stove were still warm. sewing being done by the captain's wife had been dropped by her seat. Only the ship's company. Papers and chronometcr were missing. There had been no storm, no fire, no looting by pirates, no leak. To this day the mystery remains unsolved.

An exchange recalls that during the last war a Canadian naval vessel in the English channel sighted an unidentified brigantine, a rare rig nowadays. Peering through his glasses the skipper said, "Wonder who She is?" His first officer, a bit of a wag, said, "Must be the Mary Celeste." Hearing of this. a Canadian correspondent included the story in a dispatch to his paper. And the censor. with a razor blade, carefully cut out the words "Mary Celeste."

If. S. customs Proposal

A bill designed to cut much of the red tape out of the American customs procedure is before Congress. it is regarded as an important step to enable doiliir-short coun- tries to sell more of their goods in the United Slates. While the Truman admin- istration is behind the measure and no stiff opposition is expected to develop, some Washington officials point out the legisla- tion has come down so late in the session it is doubtful whether Congress will pass it before midsummer adjournment unless Pics- ident Truman gives it a push.

A feature of the United States procedure that has given Canadian exporters many headaches. notes the Ottawa Citizen, has been the uncertainty in fixing the value on goods for duty purposes. The American ap- praiser has fixed the value for duty in ac- cordance with either the price the Cana- dian firm charges its American customer or the price at which the firm sells the same goods freely in Canada-whichever is high- er. When the appraiser was in doubt he might fix the value as the price common in the American market. This practice i1'.'.s caused endless delays and disputes. Trade experts in Ottawa say that under the new bill the invoice price to the American cus- tomer in most cases will decide at once the value on which the ad valorem duty will be levied.

'If and when the new bill passes, Cana- dians wlll be able to mail or express goods to friends across the border free of duty -up to S10 value. This will help persons sending presents and Americans who place small orders for regular delivery of Canadian other products they like to get

EDITORIAL NOTES

Ice-filled waters are a nuisance but probably very much preferable to fire or flood.

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The Maritimes this month have imported no fewer than 15 pedigreed Ayrshire cattle from Scotland.

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George Vancouver, English navigator. discoverer of the Pacific province and Island bearing his name, died this date. 1798.

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Charlottetown today welcomes the mem- bers of the Grand Orange Lodge and Grand Lodge, L.O.B.A., who are meeting here in annual convention.

Indian Mutiny broke out this date 1857. resulting in the annexing of India to the British Crown. It remained thus until re- cently when home rule was granted it un- der the U. N.

Newfoundiand's Health Minister J. R. Chalker arrives tonight to extend an invita- tion to the hospitality of his Province to our own Premier. Mutual feiicitations are the order of the day.

Reports continue that before long the Province will have at least the minimum cabinet representation. Our aim should be to send representatives to Ottawa of such a caliber that they must be included.

The Premier and the Government mem- ber for Queen's are at odds over the Party's potato warehouse policy, and the Premier has not poured oil on the troubled waters by practically telling Mr. Douglas to withdraw his adverse criticisms and apologize.

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Mr. Churchill is not to be left with cre- dit for originating the phrase which he used so effectively at the beginning of his war leadership, "I'm afraid.” wrote Hugh Wai- pole in the twenties as quoted by a con- temporary, "that I enjoy novel writing im- mensely. I say 'afraid' because novelists must sweat blood and tears, it seems. I would if I could, but I can't."

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Adding to his laureis. Rt. Hon. William Lyon Mackenzie King recently received the Grand Cross of Luxembourg for "great ser- vices" rendered to the tiny European duchy during the war. The presentation was made by Hugues Le Gallais, Luxembourg minister to Canada and the United States, in an in- vestiture at Laurier House, Mr. King's resi- dence. Mr. King, recovering from .pro- longed illness, was reported improving. He went for a drive last Sunday. the first time he has left his home since the turn of the

year.

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New records in all sorts of attainments are now almost of daily occurrence. Per- haps the most unique is that contained in the current issue of the British Medical Journal. It claims the first case on record of a man who cracked his Adam's Apple when he sneezed. The man, aged 44, had it violent sneezing attack. Something clicked in his neck. He felt pain. Two days later his voice became hoarse 'and he visited his doctor. An X-ray showed a fracture through the thyroid cartilage (Adam's Ap- pie).

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An extensive programme for the visit of Sir Basil Brooke, Prime Minister of North- crn Ireland and Lady Brooke, has been pre- pared. Sir Basil is primarily on a trade ex- pedition, but wants to see as much as pos- sible of Canada and its potentialities. Un- fortunately the itinerary is confined to On- tario and Quebec. Evidently, on the part of the Federal Government, the Maritimes are not worth cultivating. far less showing as prospects to distinguished and influential visitors.

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Time changes and so do ideas and cus- toms of travel. It is not so very long ago that for a member of a provincial govern- ment, or an official thereof, to travel to Ottawa, even on urgent government busi- ness, was more or less of a novelty. Today government members and civil servants hie themselves hither and thither at home and abroad as a matter of almost every day routine without occasioning the slightest concern on the part. of the taxpayer who pays the bill. At one time it was fondly hoped long distance phoning would obviate such personal missions, but, alas, it has just served to increase them. "Get to- gether" is the order of the day, and "hang thoexpense." SofsrutheMsrlttmcsare concerned unless thus trips are undertaken wowouldooonboloftoutofthoconfed .Irstion picture entirely; we have to be seen

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rm. column II open to the discussion by correspondents of questions Jl mterao . The Guardian does no: necessar- liy endorse the opinion of correspondents.

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Sir. - I read with some amuse- ment. the letter of a resident of Halifax which appeared in the May 5th issue.

The -writer is very much con-V

cerned oicr the illegal sale of liq- uor in this Province and Compares it with Ontario and Quebec where he says he never saw a drunk. Does the writer carry ll white cane? If he were around ille tav- erns and burs around midnight and saw the thriving business the taxis do carting the drunken men and women home. he would not. talk about excessive drinking in P. 13.1.

I feel sorry for men like the writer -who cannot get enough liq- uor legally to satisfy their thirst. but have to resort to the illegal use. and then have the colossal nerve to talk about excessive drinking.

Regarding the "five joints” in North Rustico which he referred to, I wouldn't argue against that, but being a life-long resident of that community I would say that I could not prove the existence of any such places. so we will have to take the writer's word for it as he seems to be quite familiar with such joints; and I will also say that if there are any such joints, they cater onl, to the riff-ruff and trash that come in here. The res- idents of North Rustico resent very much the reference made to their village and feel sure the good people of Tlgnlsh do also.

If the writer had some of the nice things about. our vlllsge - our church and school, the centres of attractions; our beautiful harbor overlooking the Gulf: the most beautiful scenery you could find anywhere; our fac- tories at this time of year teem- ing with lobsteo-s; the wsterfronts humming with activity; our people always ready with 8. smile and I. kind word. but instead he chose to be as unchrtsttanllke and degrad- ing as he could.

As for the "old maids", we have wry few here, but I don't wonder at the other Provinces having so many with men of the n-rltei-'s calibre. and as for CHIS. we have them too but with a much higher mentality.

We are proud of our community as it is, and if the writer does not like our lnverriless and bai-less Province. let him stay in his own back yard.

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PROHIBITION COMING BACK?

Sir. - Does anybody care? When we see liquor manufacturing and distributing agencies being estab- lished all over the Province in close proxlinity to our schools, and our churches and our homes. we say oh, l.l1at's all right. That. is one of the factors associated with our Temiperance programme by which we hope to clvillze and so- cialize and Chrlstiantze the liquor traffic. We work out a nice set. of rules and regulations and give them 2. nice sounding name and get 3, lot of nice people to express their approval. and than we sit back and watch the results. When the question of what. we shall teach our young people about eat- ing and drinking is considered. we consult the brewers and distillers but overlook the homes and schools and the churches.

when we find a fine piece of mechanical equipment Sn'lB.5I'ie(I to pieces on the roadside by a drunk- en driver we say that is just an- other factor in our tcinperance education programme. and we guess we will have to make our roads a little wider. What about making our laws is little wider so that people who need alcohol to keep them fit and companlonabie will not he allowed to operate high powered equipment on roads that are provided for the benefit and convenience of the public.

The whole trouble with our pre- sent. day civilization is that it. has (CBSCKI to be civilized. Intellectiisl development. has come to 5 stand- still, Mass education is putting the control of affairs more and more into the hands of the masses. Neither in education. nor in gov- ernment. nor in society have we enough men big enough to opcr- ate the plant that the wisdom of our ancestors have handed down to us. Of our attributes physical, mental and spiritual, the physical is in the "driver's seat". The ps- ltlon attained by alcohol in our so-called civilization is I. measure of our intellectual and spiritual growth or decoy.

when we consider the huge sums of money being wasted on beverage alcohol and the little being spent on education and other necessities we begin to wonder whether our democratic system of government is worth the money we are paying for it or whether it is entitled to the loyalty extended to it. The liquor traffic can destroy our dem- ocratic system. The inauguration of Prohlbl on A national scale would save Qmocrucy and would prove the way for on cm of pfog. perity such as the world has never knmvn.

I am. Btr, etc.. VERNON CROGKIFIT York. P.E.I.

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On Being A Family In

(Royal Bank of Canada Letter)

No father is expected to

the whole weight at the family problems. By coming between his children and all suffering a father makes them infantile. His job is not to be a buffer between the fam- ily and trouble, but to help his fam- ily command it. He has an import- ant. Job outside the family. to be a good citizen, bearing his share of social responsibility. i Fathers should not use the fam- ily as an excuse for not doing the things they would like to do. or feel they should do. A qulip by Fran- cis Bacon is often quoted by men in need of such an excuse: "He that hath a wt”e and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enter- prises.” ,

News

EBB TIDE

(The Sailor": Gnvc st. Clo-oose. ' Vancouver Island)

Out of the wInds' and the waves

rlo out of the loud foam. He has put. in to a great quiet And a. still home.

Here he may lie so use and won- dei-

Why the old slilp waits.

And hark for the surge and the strong thunder

Of the full Straits.

And look for the fishing fleet at momln

8. Shadows like lost souls. Slide through the fog where the seats warning Betray the shoals.

This izcneralizzittion. must be ac- cepted with caution. Countless men who would otherwise have led ordinary lives have been inspired into greatness by their wives and children. And, by the way, Bacon was merely repeating what wag said! by the melancholy Greek

Philosopher Lucian In the second

19"?-Dry. It takes a nandy excu e' for :1 long time to die.

And watch for the deg-p.:os liner climbing

Out of the bright West.

with it salmon-sky and her wake shining

Like a tei-n's breast.-

And never know he is done QVCY , , , with the old se3'.s pride. A person wishing to become Borne from tho nght and lite full liwyer. doctor, engineer. nurse. nr endeavour tiacher must gate sever i '

On an ebb tide. etudy and train.-i-2. Whean iteizsnlzg - 0 marriage. we have been - -Marjorie Plckthall 300"! A.m....Am... ljnled 30 thinking no preparation V9-ooeoog-co-Qoeaooc ;-Irtlyeegif-:.:!otnl'leat wa have to do 15 y .1 2 ac ve, pop the

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tie down to l" f bll , (Mid 9- 5- 1-) A change i: tldladgg pldie. During the past; few years we have woken.

Notes By

when Sir Wnldion tmlthcrl asked the Prime Minister whether he would undertake to read A book called "British socialism is Des- troying British Freedom". if it were sent. to him Mr Attlee replied: "The amount or time I can give to works of fiction is extremely ll.mlt- ed.” - London New. Statesman.

wood arches which will roof the main entrance nuildtng on the site of the main Exhibition of the Festi- val. As the largest stream of visi- tors will enter the site through this building, the wooden arches will be the first impression of the exhi-

Red River Floods

(Winnipeg Free Press)

when s mountain river floods. it more to I. climax, overwhelms its banks and pours through the land. It. is exclttm and dangerous but it lacks the inexorable quality. the tearing persistence of s prairie streaxn breaking its hands.

Here in Winnipeg. the flood is old news. It has been brewing for weeks in the piled up snow and the soggy ground. It has predicted its course day alter day. "There is no huny." it seems to say, "No matter what. you do. your turn 1: coming."

And so it has been for inmy days. First the tovims in Minnesota and North Dakota, then those of 5out.he.rn Manitoba. sllwsys draw- ing new strength from its side-

cury streams tlho names of which no

so lovely as their behaviour to outrogsous-Bols do Sioux. Wild Rice. sheyenne. Goose and snake Park and Pemlbins.

Till these play the some game. clawing at the loose soil which contains them. ripping up the dasdrwood and spinning it on its course; all the time mocking at these same prairies which n few weeks from now will be searching the sky for clouds and praying quietly tlhst the rains will come to help the crops; 31.0133.

In Karsss the dust is blowing across the plains. Here the prairie is submerged.

.From the west and east. the waters are pouring in to help the Red: yet there is no violence. It oozes rather than pours; filters and creeps. csrx-yin; with it silt and flloh. rt laps around the walls of houses. then infiltrates. wash- ing across the floors and crawling up the walls. But never hurrying.

becoming 1 parent.

Then, the noisy period past, the children develop into animated question marks (For 15 to la years they dlplay insatiable curiosity and on inclination to argue. These are part of their education, and the parent who snubs their curiosity is shii-king his duty.

It is not always a comfortable situation. because ometimcs the parent Just does not know the answers. That. need not be disas- trous unless the child finds his Ipsrerit blufftng. It Is for better to say: "I don't know, but let's find out " The weak or thoughtless per- son will end 1 debate by the more

61 up to the idea that a little learning makes mairliygs likely to succeed-. and certainly it

TELEGRAPH SERVICE

t'li. ives us sincere leasure to be ablge to inform our rzaders that "egg? In brmgmg uP 3 33m”!!- directions have been sent on from umm” 3" Emily UVIHE has the competent authority at New 5:5 besmnmg "1 90””! 31935. when York to have the Electric Telc- Ile child 199-I'M EMBED ry facts graph between Charlottetown and mm” hygiem and W330 mlnlIC- that City. pm mm proper work, merit. but the best work is done in mg order, H, paimcr, Egg” agcnl, Orly adult years. There are facili- for the Company. has received I 95 10" 5WdY "1 We'll 3"-Y End in directions to have it done this Willy smaller centres. The task is Fall. if it can be done for the 13 corwlnce young people) um sum limited. The present company 1-lmtnlnz is worthwlille because more (New York. Newfoundland and mioyirnent can be had in married London Telegraph Company) is Wife 1" the! BDIIPOR0-h it prepared. formrd of alincst half-a-dozen i P8l'9nth00d is a. job for the persons. among the wealthiest sturdy. It can be rather rough go- cilizcns in New York. dig. Young children love to (risks

”In his letter dated New York. a noise. and they are given to mov- i5th November. the vice-president ii: violently about. The parent says: "rho Company have never Who is f0l'eVer saying. "Quictlyl”, entertained the idea of abandon- ought to have made inquiries about mg their Telegraph lines in P. E. the real nature of children before island. On the coiitrary. it was my expectation to have completed the main lines in Newfoundland. to have laid the cable from thence i to Cape Breton. and to connect. the I latter place with your Island, this autumn: in which event, the cable from Cape Traverse to Cape Tarmcntine would have been re- paired. The shortness of the Ian- son for prosecuting the work in Newfoundland, and some dlsap-t poinhncnt in sending an agent to England to order the cable in due season. have, altogether. prevent-; ed the consummation of the work this year. Consequently. I did not go to your Island. to do the ne- casary repairs in that place; but, in order to accommodate our good friends, and the public. I have telegraphed to you. to have the; cable relsid. and the line put. in; order. provided it can be dooev within the limit!

A "Mr. Palmer is endeavoring slit in his power to accomplish this! desirable object. slthou h so late; In the season. L. P. W. sBriuy.' End. the owner of the steam in - ket Indy Lo Marchsnlf. has very generously offered the use of this- steamer free of expense, to tow a vessel across the Gulf provided Mir. Palmer can succeed in getting the ctble on board I vessel for that purpose." V-Hssurd's Gazette, Nov. 3. 1854. Mg

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tint Ila huh oolnnllltsd hull be mentioned unto him: be I: done out which Is Inn-fol and right. If the wicked turn from Ills wicked- ness sud do this which Is llwlul Ind right. he shall live thereby.

An Ohio sun was arrested , re- cently for stealing so slabs of bacon from s truck. 'l':m.'ll teach him not

to take sides! A Peterbcrough Ix- smlner. ,

mo” senses that s grown-up who has to

of authority, but the child

stand on his dignity like that must be u. person of short ststiire.

MAY 10. C 1950

The Way -

bitten by the majority of the peo'. ple. - st. Oatherlncs Standard.

Edmonton winter users have lieu, so accustomed to the use of meter. -they appeared here more than forty years ago - that they can hardly understand objections to them. Where water has to be m. tered. purified and pumped. 11, 1; almost IICCESSBLV to meter it, -131,

The British Columbia L;mb r- . men's Association has L1kJlres;:tt:ld'"'m"a" lmumnlt 47 tons of Douglas fir to e s - B k m . t val of Britain, 1951. This timber cm's'; Vbyfw ans '3; 1:3- will be turned into laminated -lie

ibelleve it is time the people 0; B1-ockvilie dldsnne thinking aim. their future. Unless Brockvlilc de. cldes to make an intensive effort to obtain a fair share of his new de. velopment. oulr mill rate could so...- out of sight This year 67.5 -next year? ? ? - Biockville Recorder and Times.

Here in. the city the rivers course is nearly run. Ahead iu identity will be swallowed In th. viutness of Lake Winnipeg. Tim. is running out. Here. too, 3 mass 03 machinery and organization eon. fronts it. with new problems .. d-ykes which climb as it cl pumps which pace its invasion

And so it stops dividing its my.

ers. leaving some to press and pmd the earth until a weakness appears, lying around the cup.

works like the seige of some ancient city. There is lots of time. The 4.. fenders must stay; the booty 1. rich. Hem it may not emuli bug it can nturote. winning one house and than another-.. .

EVEFY Conquest is a tragedy, Move out. abandon. gr. guy Dhrues which weakll describe ruin and dest.:uct.l.on.. The head. lines toll of ghost. tmrns bug towns on men and women ma children. the sick and the old. Weeks must: pass before they cu; return. Meanwhile they are with neighbors and friends or stnnggu, their homes In the keeping of ill. river and when they see then; again the brand of the Red. will by on them.

Back into the past of this coun. try. the river has been at one! the making and the urlusktng at the valley. It has brought the set. tiers and expelled them; it nu carried their possessions and dc- stroyed them: encouraged them to build along its banks and then. .1 intervals, ruined their handiwork

But as often as it has hurt. I has helped.

Its story is the history of the prairies for many years and its legends for many more. The gun and trees feeding on its moisture have gathered man and animal for centuries.

This year of 150, the Red ins conspired against its friends. it has allied itself to the weather. The wind is blowing. The brlnill prairie sky has been pointed out for one of sombre grey. In the records of the Red; 1950 will take its tplace. Thousands have been

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