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"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink"

CHARLOTTETOWN, snwnmv, one. 2. iosom

Always 'l'lie Unexpected

There has been a good deal of pessim- ism expressed since Chinese Communist forces made their spectacular entry into the Korean war and also a regrettable ten- dency to look for a scapegoat to blame for the resulting reverses.

On the brighter side is the fact that Communist China has not dared to official- ly commit itself to attacking the U. N. forces but maintains the fiction that it is independent volunteers who are flinging themselves into the battle. In effect it may not seem to make much difference but China can alwayslwithdraw those same forces without the loss of ”face" which an unsuccessful campaign would entail.

The rctrcat of U. N. forces in the face of the sudden onslaught should have sur- prised no one. Modern war always con- sists of one side or the other being at the receiving end of powerful blows, and the answer is not to stand up to them whenever and wherever they may fall, but to sur- vive and in turn strike with similar sur- prise and greater power.

In addition, the retreat from the Man- churian border gives the U. N. air arm a field for operations which it was earlier denied because of lack of authority to carry on operations in Chinese territory.

The tlonstltiitlonal Gonforoim

At the close of the second plenary ses- sion of the Constitutional Conference in Ottawa, Prime Minister St. Laurent, sens- ing a feeling of frustration on the part of newsmen with the press release issued when the session concluded, remarked whimsically that, had there been a press release following the deliberations at Runnymede that led to Magna Carta, it would have said merely that the Bishops and King John had had a full and frank discussion of the proper relations between the Crown and his subjects and had arriv- ed at conclusions that, it was felt, would be beneficial.

The deliberations at Runnymede turn- ed out to be distinctly beneficial. The question that arises, however, is whether Mr. St. Laurent's parallel is entirely sound. For the deliberations at Ottawa are not, unless the Prime Minister is under a se- rious misapprehension, discussions be- tween the Crown and his subjects. Rather, they are deliberations between representa- tives of the Government of Canada which is sovereign in some matters, and repre- sentatives of the Governments of the Prov- inces, which are sovereign in other mat- ters.

Nor was the Press the only disappointed party because of the extreme secrecy of "the proceedings. Premier Angus L. Mac- donald of Nova Scotia was disappointed too. Disappointed because, as he said to the Press afterwards, he made proposals which he believed would offer a solution to the thorny problem of Dominion-Provincial rc- lations, only to have them "tabled for con- sideration."

The people of Canada were surely en- titled to know what these proposals were. and why the Federal representatives found them inacceptable. By the same token they were entitled to know how the pro- posals made by Premier Jones were re- ceived, particularly in connection with his demand for El restatement of the provisions contained in the Constitutioi aid i3i)'.'e;i by the Federal Minister of Transport dur- ing the railway tieup, respecting the main- tenance of adequate and continuous means of communication between this Island and the mainland.

The "Conference resumes at the Federal capital next week. and it is to be hoped that on this occasion the fullest and frankest publicity will be given to the proceedings. After all, it is the people who are most vitally concernedin these efforts to rebuild Canada's constitutional foundations.

Tribute To Islander

The following editorial tribute to a dis- tinguished, Prince Edward Islander, the late Mr. James Ewen Matthews, M.P. for Bran- don, Manitoba, appeared In the Winnipeg Free Press:

- "Such was Mr. Matthew's character that although he never. aspired to or at-

Qltgrqat influence forgood-"in the councils .. party. on occasion

main a good party man. He understood the party system and never looked for per- fection. His own influence was always against party patronage and unwarranted party advantage.

"Understanding the party system, Mr. Matthews' chief activity was in the caucus and among his colleagues - the private members. It is well known that he carried more weight with the party caucus than almost any other private member. His judgment was sound and his motive al- ways was to serve the public rather than any private interest. Mr. Matthews never hesitated, within the party, to oppose the Government. On the notable occasion in the fall of 1945 when the Manitoba Liberal members successfully resisted their own Government in the matter of increasing the tariff on pipes and tubes, Mr. Matthews, along with Mr. Ralph Maybank, provided the leadership. In making representation to the Cabinet, Mr. Maybank led off and Mr. Matthews summed up."

I DI IURIAL NUIE&

Tomorrow, first Sunday in Advent. O O 0 With today's meat and cattle prices the Shorthorn Breeders who meet this evening are generally regarded as the plutocrats among farmers. O O O Summerside is rather unsympatheticab ly twitting the City Council here for its late beginning in seeking to sponsor a Provincial Museum movement. It is saying: "What monkey see monkey do." I O I The famous phrase of the late Premier Mackenzie King with reference to Conscrip- tion may be altered to suit President Truman: "Atomic bombs if necessary, but not necessarily atomic bombing." O O O

Circumstances alter cases. Districts where much road work had been done were not quite so pleased when the recent wet weather played havoc with the relatively soft roadbed.

I I 0

Now that a Liberal candidate is in the field, the Opposition can make their own choice with a knowledge of who they are up against. and the Liberals have a week or so of grace to patch up their machine before general campaigning begins.

I 0 O

The Spanish salt for potatoes proposal is far from being wholly desirable. Al- though removing some 30,000 bags of pota- toes from the market would be a distinct advantage, barter deals are transactions with very strong strings attaclfled.

I I 0

They are taking war prospects serious- ly in Britain. Recruits to the British Armed Forces (all services) numbered 15,000 for the quarter ended September 30th-an in- crease of nearly 5,000 over the previous quarter. In September, R. A. F. and Army recruiting figuresialmost doubled those for August. g 0 o o

Hernando Cortes, Spanish soldier of for- tune, died this date 1547. He assisted in the conquest of Cuba, the colonizing of Mexico, and founding of Vera Cruz: was for a time worshipped as a god by subjects of Montezuma, Emperor of Mexico; he devel- oped mining and agricultural interests, in course of which he discovered Lower Cal- ifornia in 1536. He was grasping and cruel, but with military genius and initia- tive Cobtes proved an important builder of Spain's colonial empire, since fallen to the

ground. 0 O 0

Well worth consideration was the em- phasis placed by Chief Justice Campbell at the St. Andrew's Day dinner on the cul- tural valuc of Gaelic. and the success of the Gaelic Summer School and Modicar- ried on by the Gaelic Foundation of Nova Scotia at St. Ann's, Cape Breton. The Chief Justice suggested the establishment of a similar institution for this Province. If a summer school could not be estab- lished here, some consideration might be given to an extension of the Nova Scotia Gaelic School by having the instructors from- Cape Breton come to the Island and conduct classes. I

I I O

A group of 10 of our MP's who plan- ned a flying trip to the Orient to exam- ine "trade possibilities" have had their nation quashed by General MacArthur, says the Ottawa Journal. The General let it be known that with a war on his hands he didn't have time for non-official mis- sions. Good for MacArthur! A group of MP7: on a trade mission to the Orient at this time would mean about as much for Canadlan trade as a similar mission to Mars. And, anyway, many must be begin- ning to believe that one thing wrong with the world today is that there are too many "minions"; too many quasi-official bodies

, dsbulncm,1v.outIrokon. buImfdulntiI.'.lh-on in un-

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it 1': E if '.z:H'-!.'ln'.'i-'l-5! :'5'-5'i-SJ-'-'o'u'-'uH.'-lg NATION.-ILIZATION OF LIQUOR

sir. - It. seems to be agreed that our new Temperance Act needs to be re-examined. In 15 (2) (d) the Act states: "A special permit on the prescribed form may be grant- ed when authorized by the legu- lotions. entitling the applicant to purchase liquor for the purpose named in the permit and in accord- ance with the terms and provisions of the permit and of this Act. and the regulations." This special per- mit is very indefinite. we judge. purposely so. and its resulting ex- cesses tend to destroy the Act.

In the last twenty-five years our population has increased 3'? per- cent. Drinking has increased 350 psr cent. and RE. island in these last. years is drinking its share of this excess. I never go to town but I see men staggering and gibberlng about the streets. one day last week I saw as many as six men who needed some one to take care of them.

Government control does not scive the problem. In our Federa- tion meeting recently. there was some discussion of the "national- ization of the liquor traffic". This question has been discussed in temperance federations and church courts for several years, There are two sides to the question and we find gocd and gifted men on both sides. In any case. "nationalization" would be only a temporary mrsasure but it could not be worse than the present. laws unless. indeed, its financial advantages made it it per- manent. fixture in our political and economic system.

It might be a dangerous experi- ment. It has -been stated that the profits would be used as scclal ben- efits of one type or another: but who could be sure but that if a lot of money flowed in from the liquor traffic general revenue -would not get the major pcrtlon?

This is an evil traffic. Alcohol is a poison. It is immoral to have it told as a beverage. There is only one way in which to deal with this problem. Will llquor be allowed to continue until ccndltlons become so bad. accidents increasing to such an extent, drunkenness and disor- derly conduct becoming such 8 menace and a nuisance in the com- munity that people will revolt and a plebiscite will bring back Fro- hlbiticn? If it comes again it will come to stay. -

I am. sir. etc. W.I. GREEN Stanley Bridge.

FIRST SNOW The far-off leafless forests slowly el '

yi d

To the thick-driving snow. A little willie

And night shall darken down. In shouting file

The woodsmen's carts go by me homcward-wheeled

Past the thin fading stubbles, half

concealed,

golden-gray. sowed softly

through with snow.

Where the last ploughman follows still his now.

Turning black furrows through the whitening field.

For off the village lamps begin to gleam, . Fast drives the snow, and no man comes this way: The hills grow wintry white. and bleak winds moon About the naked uplands. I alone Am neither sad. nor shelterloas. nor gray, wrapped round with thought. con- tent to watch and dream. -Archibald Lampman.

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Among the petitions presented to the legislative Assembly in 1843 was one from Mr. Thomas Irwin, praying for a grant ”suf- flcient to pay for the publica- tion of such a primary book as may enable him to convey the elementary principles of educa- tion to the Aborigines of this Col- ony in their native language."

This petition was referred to I special committee which reported that "they had examined the work prepared by Mr. Irwin. upon which, in the opinion of your committee, he must have bestowed

Parking Meters

(Montreal Gazette)

The phone rang recently while an article of this series was being written, and a man who has dc- voted some time, to research on the project asked "What. about parking meters”?

Well what about them?

They must. be used only where necessary, they must. be well pub- liclzed, they must. be carefully purchased, they must: be kept in

operation. the parkng regulat- ions must be rigidly enforced, and the collections must. be

carefully controlled.

In the United States, where parking meters are used in well over 500 cities. motorists like meters because they find it is easier to get a parking space in crowded areas. They feel that

considerable mental labour; but, from their ignorance of the ion-1 guage in which it is written, they

are incompetent to judge of its merits." I The report added that the -

members of the Board of Educa-- tion were in a similar quandary. but that the Rt. Rev. B. D. Mac-' Donald, Bishop of Charlottetown, in a certificate accompanying Mr.l Irwin's petition, had lndoirsed that work as being serviceable "as an elementary book to instruct and convey sound and moral educa- tion to the hitherto too-much neg- lected Micmac Tribe."

The report quoted Mir. Irwin as stating "that if his manuscripts were printed, he would willingly devote twelve months gratis to the instruction of the Indians: and that he feels convinced, from his experience of their aptitude to learn, that in the course of that period he would be enabled to convey such instruction to some of them as to render them competent to teach others."

Mr. Irwin's estimate of the cost of publishing the manuscripts was about 2100. The committee, "from the uncertainty they labour under. as to the merits of the work in question, and also from the limit- ed number of Indians that usual- ly reside on this Island." deemed it: lnexpedient. to recommend this expenditure, "particularly as it has been intimated that books of a similar nature have been print- ed in the neighbouring Provinces."

The committee confessed to having "no means at present of ascertaining the truth of such statements; but should such prove to be the case, then books of the nature required might be obtain- ed at a much less expense than the publishing of Mr. m-wln's work would cost the Colony." However. "as the said work might be of service to the Indians of Nova Scotia. where they are much more numerous than in this Island," the committee felt. free to recom- mend "that Mr. Irwin submit his manuscripts to the examination of the commssioner on Indian at. fairs in that Province.” As a rider the report added that a grant might be made to defray his ex- penses to Halifax, "four the pur. pose of enabling him to submit his work. if he should be so in. cllned. to the sold Commission". No grant for this purpose, how. ever. appears to have been made.

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with meters the available space is equally distributed. They do not have to compete with all-day par- kers for space.

Merchants like meters because their customers like them, and because they get. increased carry-home trade which reduces delivery costs.

Taxpayers like meters because they contribute to the city cof-

tors and help to keep the tax- rate down. ,

Properly installed tained meters have strated an ability to:

(3) Make enforcement of park- tng regulations easier,

lb) Aid in the allocation of limited parking space,

(c) Provide revenue.

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To get results they must be treated as devices for the use of parking space. Meters installed solely to produce reve- nue have not been successful.

As far back as 1938 the question of parking meter: was brought to the notice of the Cty of Montreal. In that year. in answer to I ques- tionnaire from Toronto, as to what Montreal thought of park- ing meters, the following answer was sent to the Queen City:

"We received from the makers of Park-0-Meters printed litera- ture about this innovation. which was fairly heralded by the local newspapers, but the matter was not given further consideration, and not a single request was re- ceived from the public to the effect that it should be adopted in our City."

The parking meter is not I

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solution to the traffic problem. This has been demonstrated in cities where it has been estab-

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Tho llydro Inanogouuit II St. Thomas has finally reached the crnoluslon that Canadian squirrel: are just as tough as Indian fakl-rs. For the second time this your a squirrel jumped from a nearby building to a high tension power line, causing an lndustrii shut- down, despite an "anti-oqurrcl" barrier of .apike-studded planks. It an Indian fnklr can lie with his bare back on a "spike mattress" there is no reason why a Canadian squirrel with. his padded feet can- not hop along the spikes in a plank. If squirrels can chuckle,

but it may have sufficient good points to recommend a trial in some areas where half-hour and hour parking could thus bring revenue to the city.

Many of the down-town streets. of course, are so nanrow that there just. isn't. any space, even for rent. On those streets, and they are in the majority, there must be no parking at all of any kind, it the traffic is to flow at anywhere near normal speed.

And there is the question of law enforcement. At the present time. a high percentage of motorists. perhaps 30 per cent. park their cars in no parking areas; and as high as 50 per cent. ovei-stay the advertised parking limit. some

of them receive traffic tickets. A great number do not. If parking meters were instal-

led it would not be worth the trouble and expense. unless the regulations governing them were rigidly enforced.

In one Ontario town recently. the writer stopped in a metered parking area and wont to put I coin in the motor. The mater was broken. A constable who happ- ened to be pas-.ln was apprised of the situation. "The meter is broken." he was told. "Many of them are," was his cryptic re- jolnder.

And one more parking meter story.

The writer happened into a small town in Northern Quebec recently.

The town is very small. The number of cars in it is very lim- lted.

But. its streets (both of them) are dotted with parking meters. The revenue. we'll warrant, isn't great. The only two cars parked

on the main street were care- fully parkcd in non-metered zones.

The only car using I met.-er

r" i one from Montreal. Yes, parking meters have their good points. if properly installed

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5330! encounter man-made tempt: to outwit their agility and their ingenuity. Farmers try mun methods of keeping squirrels (mi. of the granules in wooden ham, -- Sudbury Star. '

An you among he ligiu.u,, , ed patients of denial and med'l::; offices. or of beauty parlors and barber shops, who lift and depm with magar I If you are, the,- you are the person for whom gm general public has been looking You're the reason why the medi. cal doctors. the dentists, the beau, tlclans and tonsorlai parlor open. tors seldom produce 5 piece 0, reading matter until it is a mom, old. They discovered a long my back that in current magazine 0, one containing long stories, 11'” , way of disappearing. The month- old reading matter lasts much longer. A: for comic books, they have to be really old to last long The current comics walk out 1;; short order. They may help to keep the attention of the yOung mks from what is to come while um awalt -their turn, but they are not diverted from the comics no mat. ter what happens and the comic book leaves with them. - Prince

Albert Herald. Henry George Burnett. who died in St. Thomas on Sunday,

aged eighty-four. was one of the few men who can be said to have pulled the King's leg. The royal personage was not king at um time. but Duke of York who be. came King George V later. Sea. man Barnett was in H.!tl.s Thrush more than sixty years ago and one of the crew was Mjd. shipman Duke of York, then mak- ing his first voyage after grad. uating from Dartmouth College for training naval officers. On such occasions it is usual to have a bit of fun with the greenhorns and in the melee several ordinary acumen , 4 -' the Duke and car- ried him around the ship by the arms and legs. Seaman Barnett had hold of one of his legs. The Duke took the frolic in good part. and as he afterwards told Mr. Barnett in Buckingham Palace, it was "I happy ship". I naval expression for a ship where there was a fine cam- aradcrie. About twenty years ago Mr. Barnett. visited his relatives in England, and as one old shipmate to another, wrote to King George V. said he would like to meet him. The King invited Barnett to com: to' the palace at a Certain firm and day. and as he subsequenily told a Times-Journal representa- tive, King George and he had it

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