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I'll BIIAIILIITTETIIWII GUARDIAN

_ . Ioralng Dally (Founded u. lat-ii Altliorlaod aa Second Class Mall. Post Ofllao Department. Ottawa.

Indium. Ian A. Barnett; vies-ruminant. Wm. a.

Barnett; Seep-Trees. G. M. Burnett; Editor and

Illllllng Director, .l. R. Barnett: Aasoolato Editor. Frank Walker.

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest lnk."

TUESDAY, AUGUST I2. 1947

Having A flood in...

All work and no ploy, we are told, makes Jack a dull boy. This week practically nobody works but farmers, and even they will have their day or days off to attend the Exhibition, so we should have few dullards in our midst. The week has opened magnificently as regards weather, and every one seems to be on the tiptoe of ex- pectation for full enjoyment midst old friends and old familiar places. lt is fine and exhilar- ating, too, to run across returning emigrants ac- companied by their children, and even children's children, proudly showing their offspring the won- dors and beauties of our Million Acre Farm. it ll worthwhile to be out on highways and by-ways to witness the joy and utmost satisfaction of those who are fortunate to be able to be with us i r Annual Old Home Week.

There is plenty to be seen and enjoyed here

this year, without the addition of outside attrac- tions. There is the never-fading beauty of our cenery, our miles of sandy beaches, our well- kept, prosperous farms, our refreshing tree-shad- ed city footpaths and artistic residences set in well-kept grounds; and above all our historic buildings and museum. To these this week was added the magnificent new world-wonder Cai Ferry Abegweit which had more than its full c plement of admiring visitors inspecting its magnificence.

lt is to be hoped everything will go well with our welcome tourists and holiday-makers, and that they will thoroughly enjoy their visits to the Exhibition and horse-racing as the piece do resistance.

To The Antarctic

A Norwegian-Sredish-British expedition to Antartic is being planned for the autumn and winter of 1948. From all three countries havo coma tho suggestion that it be hid by the Nor- wegian Polar flyer and scientist 071d former head of tho Norwegian Air Corps, General Hjalmar Ri- leer-Larsen. Since he is connected with the Scandinavian Airlines System in Stockholm l|'i the capacity of adviser, it may be impossible for him to accept. For the time being, how- ever, he has agreed to take charge of all the technical preparations. ~

It is planned to pick out four scientists from

each country - geographers, biologists, meter- alogists, and glaciologists. Planning of the venture is in the hands of tlaiis Ahlmann, pro- fessor of geography at» Stockholm University, who has led many Arctic expeditions and is known for his glaciological research. Professor Ahl- mann is now in the United States on a lecture t ur. o Because of Norway's great natural interests in the South Polar region, it is expected that she will carry the major port ot the expense. A 5,000-ton former German troop-ship, now be- longing to the Norwegian Navy and named the "Svalbard," will carry the erpcdifilill l0 cfilw" Princess Astrid Land, which will be the scien- tists' main working sphere.

___________ What Wiii Happen?

Tho world situation in which we here for tho most part, as yet, are merely onlookers de- serves more than passing notice in this our Old Home Week, for in the matter of civilization we appear to be at the parting of the ways. Should Britain lose out in her present struggle, which God forbid, it may be the beginning of the end of our Christian civilization.

Sir Alfred Ewing, then Principal of Glas- gow University, was in i932 President of the British Association for the Advancement of Sci- ence, and in the course of liis address at its 104th annual meeting, said:

"ln the present-day thinker's attitude to- wards what is called mechanical progress, we one conscious of a changed spirit. Admiration is tem- pared by criticism; complacency has given place to doubt; doubt is passing into alarm. There ls a sense of perplexity and frustration, as in l", who has gone q long way and finds he has taken the wrong turning. To go back is im- pessible: how shall he proceed? Where will he find himsel‘ if ho follows this path or that? Ari old exponent of applied mechanics may be ‘for- givon if he expresses something of the disil- lusion with which, now standing aside, he watches the sweeping pageant of discovery and invention in which he used to take unbounded delight. It is impossible iiot to ask". Whither does this tremendous procession tend? what, after all, is its goal? What its probable influence upon the future of the Human Race? _

The pageant itself is a modern affair. A ggntury ago it had barely taken form, and had acquired none bf the momentum which rather m", u; today, indirstriiil Revolution, as every- body knows, was of British origin; for a time llwl Island remained the Factory of the world But soon, as was ineyitablc, the change of_hab_it spread; and now every country, even China, is becoming more or less mechanized. The cornu- copia of tho engineer has been shaken over all

‘Slavery and Pl'0|)9flY--0I' the risk

tlro Earth, scattering everywiierean endovlmllll of previously unpossessed and, unimagined capo-I cities and powers; _

Beyond question many of these gifts_oro bonofits to Man, making Life fuller, wider, healthier, richer in comforts and interests, and in such happiness as material things can pro- rnoto. But we are actually awaro that the err-- ginoor's gifts have been and may be griovously abused. In some tllero is potential tragedy as woii as piosont burden. Man was ethically un- proparod for so groat a bounty. In tho slow

evolutioii of morals ho is still unfit for tho tro- inendous responsibility if-gntqjlg, Th, command of Nature has been put into his hands before ho knows how to command himself." These moving wards propound a

all our hearts; and they are words spoken with

authority. is the new sorial driving-power of ln--

diistrialism and Democracy to be employed iii the great constructive task of organizing Westernized World into a commercial society in, which the new forces may find free play to workl on a world-wide scale tor the benefit of Mankind?! Or are we going to turn into a power to our own

destruction by putting its unprecedentedly pow-

erful "drive" into a number of ancient anti-

social institutions-into War and Tribalism and

of turning

these once not wholly leihal vehicles of evil into

veritable Juggernaut-cars? This is the latter-

day problem of our Western Civilization in its

inward spiritual essence.

Fifteen years after Sir Alfred's words were uttered we are face to face with the problem, and must anxiously wonder what will happen Christian civilization should Britain fail in her iierculean effort to solve it.

_- EDITORIAL NOTES —

The lnmans and McLures, as well as the Whites, seem to have jumped the gun on Old Home Week. Each of these families mustered more than a hundred for their reunions.

A collision with a sea-gull in California l" illfrflwled WW Slowly l-hrvllsh

forced an Australian plane to land for repairs. it is understood that the bird also made a forced landing. Q I I fi

Government leaders must have been some- what surprised to be criticised by cigar-smok- ing Mr. Churchill for fritteriiig away the loan on American films and tobacco.

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Official communiques from Paraguay kept reporting how government troops were encirc- ling and mopping up rebels until at last the rebels announce that the cabinet has fled from the capital Asuncio.

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The Abegweit will not go on its route regu- larly ifor sometime yet. As its crew get better acquainted with the new set up, it will slip into the course from time to time, leaving the old Prince Edward to carry the bulk of the traffic for sometime yet.

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The sudden passing hence of Hon. Mr. Bridges, Minister of Fisheries, will be deeply and sincerely regretted by many here who know him intimately and admired his many fine qiialities of head and heart. He was a "big man" in every sense of the term.

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The grave closes today over the remains of one of our oldest and most respected business men, Mr. William Pearden, of Messrs. Stanley, Show and Pearden. ,He was everlastingly dili- gent in business, not taking much part in public life, but always keeping in close touch with those who did.

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It seems Fredericton mav have parking met- ers in the near future. Following a demonstra- tion of the operation of meters to the city coun- cil the matter was referred to the administra- tion of justice committee for further investiga- tion. The police commission is reported favor- ably disposed toward the installation of parking

meters. i i t t

Mr. G. B. Whiteside and Mr. W. R. Shaw rep- resented the Island local of the Agricultural ln- stitute of Canada at the Maritime meeting in Perth, N. B. Need for publicity for soil con- version measures was stressed at the meeting. No one would deny that if we lost the top six inches of P. E. l. there would not be much left of value.

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In Saint John, two enterprising burglars pleaded guilty to stealing 5,900 pennies-from the Model Shows Penny Arcade and were re- manded for sentences. They were picked up by two Constables who were suspicious of them as they walked along the streets in the early morning, one of them carrying a gas mask, which on investigation proved to be laden with

copper coins. I R i i

Letter-press printing, so far as Europe is concerned, invented by Johannes Gutenberg this date 1437 while he was employed by L. J. Costez at Haarlem; his first types were of wood, but later he used lead and tin; printing from move- able type was practised in China about the 12th century, while books were printed in Korean by means of moveable type of clay or wood in the early 13th Century. The first Latin Biblo was printed at Mainz in I455.

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Some profits for the C. l‘. R.l At the Rail- way Freight Rate inquiry Col. Currie told the board that between the end of 1939 and the end of I946: I. The C. P. R.’s net current assets-a "significant" itom-liad increased by $42,000,- 000 to the highest in the companyfs history. Z. lts investment value went up by $71,600,000. 3. It reduced its funded debt by $144,800,000. 4. it increased its reserves by $139,000,000. 5. its profit and loss balance-accumulated surpluses -—went up by $127,700,000. 6. The C. P. il.'s holdings of Consolidated Mining and Smelting stock, carried an its accounts at a book value of $17,000,000, had a quoted market value of $146,- 000,000 at the_end of 1946, compared with $80,- 000,000 at the end of 1939. 7. The C. P. ll. paid dividends of $81,700,000 during the seven years under review. 8. The quoted market valuo of tho C. P. R.'s outstanding shares increased by $140,700,000 during the period. (Commis- sioner .l. A. Stonemon pointed out that their market voluo was still a long way from tho original par cost). 9. Net C P. l1. iricoino for 1946 alter all fixed charges had been not, though $9,000,009 less than the six-year war

_ __ question the moment are which has been striiggiiiig to find expression in plating one of the incongruous but

a into court on charges of

THE - CHARLOTITETOYVN G_IJ_A§1_)_I_A_I_‘3

liotiis By Tho Way

The people of Pennsylvania at sadly contem.

Inistural result-s of writing laws for , tho benefit of trade pressure groups rather than the public at. largo. Two distrymeti have been baled selling cream which, of all things, was too rich in butterfat. One. a mis- creant who had sold cream con- taining 38 percent. butterfot, plead- ed guilty to violating a law which said he shouldn't. have given hi; customers more than 34 percent, butterfal for the price he was charging. He was fined s35 and promised never to be so good to his customers ngaln. The other, accused of exceeding the butter- fnt llmll. by t.wo percent. dented the heinous crime and his ruse ls awaiting the result of a. special laboratory test ordered by the Judge. _ Denver Post.

A hundred and seventy-seven years ago this month, when Cap- tain Cook was careenlng his ves- sel the Endeavour for repairs in Queensland. a scared seamen rushed up to his officer and told him that he had seen the devil. "It was," he said. "about the alzo of a one-gallon cagg lkgg). and very much like one. It was g5 black as the devil, and had wings; indeed. I took it. for the devil, or I might. easily have catch?! it.

the grass." This was the first. op- Dearnnce in Australian records cf the so-called flying fox; actually a large dog-faced bat with a wlniz- span of 4 1-2 feet. and shrunken legs with bird-like claws. There

rlininu berm-e the spread of set. tlement. — Manchester Guardian.

Beauty la free. It is In the per- petual ‘possession of all who can see or feel. It is present by day and by night. in the near and tri the most. remote corner of the universe. It. needs only ta be re- cognlzed to be possessed. and car- ried as is memory tn the heart. Beauty ls not. to be plucked or gathered, like a flower that irvllts when detached from the stalk. l‘. ti" part of the universe, and yet. lri the domain of ev ryone. —Vic- tarla Colonist. '

Just what the White House did in the matter of bathing unnll the Administration of Andrew Jackson. is a matter of conjec- ture. Jackson, elected to the pres;- dency in 1828, vvns the first. oc- cupant of the White House to enjoy running water in kitchen and shoiver. The preceding riff dozen presidents must have be-n o.’ stern stuff. lt was not. un‘il the thirteenth president ocrupied the White House that a bath was installed —dlll‘lng Millard F“.l'-_ mores term ending in 1853. Phi: White House had one bathtub during the next forty years. i

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1894 Grover Cleveland ilil37-l90fii

having been the twenty-second

president. demanded a second

bathtub when he became the! country's twenLv-fourth president.

-I\"ew York Sun.

Saskatchewan ranchers‘ arf\-n. in posting standing rewards for the arrest and conviction of ca:- tle rustiers provides an interest- ing reminder that much of West- ern Canada still is pioneer coun- try, although the 01d "wlid west." ls gone, says The Edmonton Jour- rial. Present day rustlers do not face the prospect of being bang- ed to the nearest tree if caught. hut posting standing rewards of $100 indicates ranchers feel the need for vigilance in protecting their stock. The money may bring tn information that will assist the police in rounding up the thieves. Stockmen admit rustling has de- creased following the postwar boom in black market beef. But they clslm enough livestock still is stolen to warrant the payment of rewards for capture of the thieves. The Canadian scboolboys idea of a rustler probably req sires revision, for the modern cattle thief usually has a truck in whlgb be ships stolen livestock across the border. He no longer appears on a pinto cowpony, driving his stolen cattle before him.

There Ia an old English proverb which says. "Good swimmers are oftenest drowned." At the risk o! trisul-blng tho intelligence of our readers we will interpret this paradox thus: "People who think they are good swimmers run tool- lsh risks." The really good swim- mers —t.he champions-never take risks; they never show off. they never tax their powers to the tu'l- est. and they have is great. respect for, strange water. For people whose ability is no more than average, we think it. is better to any to themselves and to others. "No. I'm not really a good swim- mer." As tn every holiday eeaiirn. we have reported a great. many drowning: already this year. and the swimming season is here. People have forgotten how raid, how treacherous. how weedy our liskos can be. and they hrivo realized boo late that their swim- ming prowess was less than they though-t. 'l‘hey have drowned. and often they have ’ ed the lives of others who have tried to save them. Don't tell yoursoJ that you are a good swimmer std take risks. Bo content- to call your- self o. bod swimmer and enlay yourself tn safety.- Peter-borough Examiner

manor: - rorf- Wino moi--

flvlfdgo 0f $34,000,000, was almost four times tho avorago at the four pro-war years and al-

most fivo timos the 1931-35 avorage.

chants have elven mipty brandy boxes ‘.0 be used as window flower boxer a, poem-ate Wimbledon bar-

are four sperles-grey-headed. recejva spectacled, black. and red; and 1 gm sjr, em"

they can be disastrous to or- [L |.-_ ‘VREN, (Mu) chords and gardens. They have 12 Fflversham m‘

been recorded in flights of 200.000 whjtehaj] my

from only one "camp"; some chjngfm-(L

flanks have been estimated to mndon’ E4

contain a million. They are rle- __

PUBLIC FORUM

This oolaaiss la oposi to tho iltocalton by oars-w apoiideata or questions o! Tho f‘ '

Guardian dooo aot aooexr- lly ersdoroo tho opinion of wrrooponslolah.

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WOULD -BE IMMIGRANTS

Sin-This is is most. unconven- tional letter. I'll admit. The fact is, my husband and I are most. anx- ious to settle in P.E.I. and would like to know something of the life there. Can any of your readers help us by supplying the informa- tion? ’

Our only knowledge of PsE. I. is from the l... M. Montgomery "Anne" books which ls not much, but it appealed to us enormously. My husband is a sheet-metal worker, but. is very keen to take up farm- ing. Would a farm prove self-sup- prxttng for us two adults and our two little daughters. Anne aged eight and Lxrsley aged three years and could we buy a farm and home on P.E.I.? Our capital would be n- baut £2,000 ($8,000). Is there water, sanitation and electricity? And a- bout. how far would the children have to go to school? At. present. Anne has to go about one-half a mile and midday lunch ls provid- ed. How is the standard of educa- tion? Would we be welcome there? or would we stt11 be newcomers ten years hence?

I hope you are not feeling over- whelmed with all these questions. and if someone could please spare the time to answer them, we should be very, very grateful, and I pro- mise to answer any replies that. 1

IITG HVRAY TR AFFIC

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LOCUST SONG

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This f; the voice of summer; pause

ora t

In the day's long beat. vmlle tihe farmer listens to it.

Shtlll and monotonous. see. it has put him to sleep

Adler lunch on the porch where he watched from the distance his sheep.

Arid blii hand relaxed on the stone,

and the blade of bls scythe Rested itself on the side of tiho

house. and a. Buzzed noisily near ‘ shaggy ann. While his mastlff snapped. too hot to do the thing harm.

fly and lit on his

'I‘t1ls is the throaty voloe, the drill- ing song.

July sound and August. torpld and ripened and tang,

lri-to September it goes while the suimacs redden,

A-nd Lbe corn stands shocked, and the late bees’ board ls leoden.

But now ls the locust‘: time to flll

tho arr

Wlth his insistent praise that days are fair.

—A.lmis Roberts Glordan in New York Herald-Tribune.

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Old Charlottetown: iruiii not;

SETTLEMENT OF ORWELL

It ls believed that the first. set- tlers on the Orwell River werel the Macdougails and John Currie, all of whom book up land an tile north bank. They were soon tol- lowed, in 1818, by the Macdon- aids from Srotrchfort, who nod received their grant several yelrs

Sim-Let drivers and pedestrians beware. Seeing the text of Gov- ernor Bciilartfs admirable address an "highway safety," and an ac-| count of an unfortunate accident‘ in the some edition of the Morn- ' in; Guardian was a sad coincid-

EH06.

It would appear to this writer that the onus of safety‘ and self-

earlier.

On their way to their new home they blazed a trail from Head of Vernon River through Uigg to Orwell cross-roads, there- by establishing the course of the present Utgg road. Others soon followed and when ln 1821 the whole territory from Orwell bridge to Kinross was taken up

preservation is "equally incumbent‘

on the driver of a motor véhlClfij and an the pedestrian. also on‘ the driver of a horse-drawn veh-I lcle. Tlmy all should beware ' "Contributory negligence" ls muchl in evidence in a great many cases.

One of the greatest single frict- ors causing liss of life or serious injury ls too much speed in miss-i mg standinz busses and motor. z-nrs. A reckless. high hazard driver and a careless. thoughtless pedestrian crossing behind ar in

front of a staridinc bus nr car, means disaster. Driving to the "Common Danger" ior words to

that effect.» seems to be tno men-i

cial. capable of too many inter-. pretatlons; if there was a specific . rate proscribed the efiect irould