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CIIABI.0'I'.l'E'I'OWN. WEDNESDAY. JULY 19. 1950

Diesel Economy

"The complete dleselization of a section of the railroad. replacing steam locomotives may prove attractive in many cases." Mr. P. L. Mathewson. transportation engineer of the C. N. R.. is reported as saying and further that, "It is possible, at present fuel prices, to find territories or runs where the application of diesel locomotives will return annual gross savings up to 20 per cent on the capital invested.”

It is not indicated, of course, whether Prince Edward Island is such a territory, but complete dieselization is an accomplish- ed fact here and it is safe to assume that the resultant savings are substantial, con- sidering the removal of facilities for main- tenance, coal and ash handling, intermediate water stations and reduction in running costs.

If the experiment proves successful, rail transportation here should take on a new lease of life and more or less successfully meet the competition of highway and air traffic. The improvement should indeed be cumulative; the resulting increase in traffic further improving the economic position of the railway.

Unions are understandably wary of economies which seem to be partly at the expense of a reduced pay-roll but they seem to have grasped the truth that it is only by efficient and profitable operation that any- thing like full employment can be main- tained.

The Government's Dilemma

I'he Winnipeg Free Press, most influen- tial Liberal newspaper in this country. has been doing some serious stock-taking. Look- ing at events in Korea and other parts of Asia, and noting that Canadais military budget is, in relation to resources, "far be- low that of the United States and of other poorer nations," the Free Press says: "Any substantial increase in military spending could throw the budget into deficit over- night, if, in addition, the Government is to undertake other large expenditures, which are urged on all sides, we could quickly undermine the nation's finances. It will be necessary, therefore, to reconsider all spending plans in the light of a world situation much graver and much more cost- ly than the Government has yet realized or at least yet admitted."

The Free Press doesn't stop there. Point- ing to the truth that "none of our social reforms will be safe unless the free world as a whole is safe", that "military security must be the first priority of every tree gov- ernment," and that "to the calculation many calculations so blithely made in the last few years must be subordinated," it adds:

"In these circumstances the mistake of increasing the ordinary costs of govern- ment to their present level is all too clear. We suddenly encounter a world crisis with- out an extra cent of tax revenue to spend on defence, on aid in any form to our part- ners in collective security. There is none in the national budget because we have loaded it down with all the costs it can carry out of the present taxes."

Why did this happen? The Free Press says it happened because our Government at Ottawa preferred to serve the ends of party expediency. Thus: "It is now evident in retrospect . . . that the tax reductions of last year were premature and largely political in their purpose on the eve of an election. . . . But a more serious mistake than excesiiive tax reduction has been the continual increases in the nmning expenses of nearly all Government deplmnems which have forced Mr. Abbott to the de- featist conclusion that the ordinary budget cannot ever be cut below its P798?” 19V9l-"

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A few days ago the Yugoslav legotlon at Ottawa gave a cocktail party. Only 0!- blnet minister present was the Hon. Hum- phrey Mitchell. The Minister of National Defence was on a junket to Newfoundland. The-Prime Minister was ridins around Cal- goryinscow-boysuit. Reotofthegoverm mental top-brass were busy In V8340"! MW political fences.

Diplomatic re- sort of potter. whole affair is

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have led the Minister of Labour to give vent to his views about Canada and the Korean crisis.

Mr. Mitchell, it seems. talked more like an isolationist politician from the midwest United States than a member of a Govern- ment firmly committed to back up United Nations police action in the Far East. Canada, he is reported to have said, should keep out of the Korean mess at all costs.

It is true that neither Mr. Mitchell nor Marshal Tito likes Russian imperialism. It is equally true that Yugoslavia occupies a hot seat on the fringe of that imperialism in the Balkans. It may be that Mr. Mitchell was only trying to tell his Yugoslav hosts that Canada would not fight for Marshal Tito.

No matter what the circumstances, there, is something singularly odd about a Cana- dian cabinet minister going to a Yugoslav cocktail party, and something even odder about his giving vent to his views on the international situation. '

EDITORIAL NOTES

Canada exported 3100,000,000 worth of meat to the United States in 1949.

The world is not altogether off an even keel when South American republics such as Ecuador continue to stage revolts.

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Regattas and swimming competitions bring lovers of the out-of-doors to the sea- side from distant parts. There should be a crowd today at Murray Harbour Tea Party'

and Boat Races. I

The cleanliness and neatness noted by Mr. R. C. Parent at the Boy Scout camp, site at Point Prim, Camp Buchan, could; well be imitated by all other holiday-makers visiting our beauty spots.

U. S. Congress is of the same mind as it was in 1811 when Josiah Tumey de- clared "amicably if we can, violently if we must." and Henry Clay in 1813, "peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must." But not peace at any price.

The ban on export of British Columbia poultry to the other provinces because of "Newcastle disease", will have little effect on the other provinces, as little from the United States via British Columbia reaches their markets.

The proposal mooted at Lake Success that a volunteer international legion be raised is probably mentioned only in order to be immediately dropped. Only the na- tional states today have the means of rais- lng and maintaining armed forces, the U. N. itself having difficulty in even establish- ing its own security guard.

Lotteries are illegal, but have been toler- ated here without let or hindrance as a con- venient way of raising money for charitable and other purposes. The Government has now stepped in, and announces that after September 1st measures will be taken to enforce the lottery law and prosecute violators.

Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquess of Dufferin and.Ava, Governor-General of Canada (1872-78), visited Charlottetown this date 1873, welcoming Prince Edward Island into Confederation. It fell to him during his term of office, to deal with the difficult questions connected with the "Pa- cific Scandal" charges, and he handled these questions with much tact and judgment. In 1876 he visited British Columbia, and by his able diplomacy succeeded in allaying in that province the growing discontent with Con- federation. A facile and eloquent speaker, he achieved great popularity in Canada.

Egg prices on July 18 this year and previous years. The prices quoted below are for Grade A Large. At Montreal and Toronto the prices are those at which graded shipments are selling to wholesalers. At other points quotations are prices to shippers for ungraded eggs.

1950 1949 1948 Montreal ..... 50-51 63-64 51-52 Toronto ........48-49 65 Winnipeg 38 44 43 Vancouver....... 48 49 44 Edmonton 39 45 42 Regins..... 38 44 43 Charlottetown 43 53 4254-43

Weight of Live and Dressed Poultry of Registered Stations week ending Julyl June 24 June 17 Province lb. lb. lb. C. 166.002 151.084 Alta. .. 74,680 79,890 85,072 0,011 14,378 7,342

Man. 95.975 128,957 1l8,5M Ont. 636,400 851,635 Que. 362.393 N.B. 37 28,452 2,129. 3,913 13,331 P.E.I..n-...o'uo neohter

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discussion by curreepondento of questions of interest. The

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ANH&hN5V NH'- "LAKE 01' SHINING VVATER"

Sir.-Many hundreds of dollars are spent every year telling peo- ple living abroad about the m:inyi

ing in this column in few days: ago. and signing her letter "Dorls A. Moore". tells in a very candid way about conditions as they were when she arrived here, While per-, haps some of her complaints were I a little overdrawn. much of what- she said was true, in particular. about Charlottetown where no restrooms were to be found, only those to which there was no ac- cess. I She tells of her effort; to visit "Green Cables" and to see "the house in which the author lived and around which she wove her story of Ann." It may shock Doris A. Moore. and many other tourists ' as well. to be told that the real "Green Gables" fell in ruins years ago, and that the only house left standing on P. E. Island that the noted writer had occupied as a home. and where she was born. at Clifton Corner. has been sold in front of the Law Courts Building in Charlottetown by order of the Government. Tourists are shown a body of water at Cavendish. and told it is the "Lake of Shining Water" described in "Ann of Green Gables". Mr. James l...l Campbell of Park Corner very kindly allowed your correspondent to make a copy of the statement which X append herewith: "To whom it may concern:- "This is to certify that the pond at Park Corner. commonly known as Campbell's Pond. was the body of water I had in mind when I described the 'Lake of Shining Water" in 'Ann of Green Gables'-- L. M. Montgomery." ' Mr. Campbell has the original of above, every word of it in the author's own handwriting. I am. Sir. etc. OBSERVER.

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Treodmlightly here. for here, 'tls sa .

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ground,

Where now his tiny bones are laid

No more in lone and leafless groves, .

With ruffled wing and faded brcos .

I-Ils friendless. homeless spirit

roves;

Gone to the world where birds are blesscdl

Where never eat glides o'er the

Irfeen. or schoolboyb giant. form is seen: But Love. and Joy, and smiling

spring Inspire their little souls to sing. -Samuel Rogers 117m-1850)

Books Received

11!!) Ll'l'I'LE PRINCESSES by Marion Crawford (George J. Mc- Leod Limited. Toronto, 314 pp. and photographs. 33.50). This Intimate story of the education of the Hair Presumptive and her vivacious sis- ter by "Crowfle." their Scottish born governess and friend. is dedi- cated "to the people of America with tho fervent hope that our in- tion may come ever closer to- gether in fllllllll understanding and sympathy." To Conodlono who can claim that they are our Prin- cesses, the book has the charm of I delightful and amusing family record. '

LONDON-(CF)-A I2-year-old Dublin-born women was outed at London's Marlborough lined court to have had no schooling of oil. was unable to read or write and could not tell the time.

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Gm'd"" do” N" "we"-F iiion that the golden age of dip-

attractions Prince Edward Island Eject. rises to the great tradition, has for tourists. One of them wrli- . blending indignation with the an-

A Bug and A Note

(Winnipeg Free Press) Banish to limbo the absurd no-

lomacy has faded into -atomic murk. True enough, most of the notes which pass between gov- ernmenis in these latter days are workaday jobs, tiresome reading better unread. but now and again some craftsman in a foreign of- fice. inspired by an unusual sub-

clent courtesies of the diplomatic art. A note of this order was re- ucnily handed to the Czechoslovak Foreign Office by the United States Embassy in Prague. it read: ”The American Embasy pre- sents is compliments etc. . . . and has the honor to make the follow- ing observations with reference to the potato bug. . "To the extent that the pota bug represents a Czechoslovakian domestic problem. it is not a mat- ter of concern to the American

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VOLUNTEER FORCE LAGGING

"Lord Panmure regrets to ob- serve that so little has yet been done toward the organization of an efficient Volunteer Force in Prince Edward Island . .. when the troops were withdrawn from the island. Her Majcstyls Govern- ment. with I view to encouraging the formation of a Volunteer Force, allowed the local authorities to select any articles then in store which could be of use to them. and subsequently. at their request, sent out new arms and gave them use of the entire Barrack furnit- ure. It is not, therefore. from any want of li'berality on the part of Her Majesty's Government that the progress of enrollment has been so slow; and His Lordship can only attribute it to the cause as- signed by the Lieutenant Govern- or. namely, 'thc apathy of the community in all that relates to

Embassy. which nevertheless ex- presses its sympathy over the damage to Czechoslovak agricul- tural production caused by the in- sect in question.

"To the extent however that ef- forts have been made . . . to con- nect the United States with the presence of the potato bug in this country. the matter is of legitim- ale interest to the American Em- bassy. which declares that allega- tions to the effect that the United States encourages the depredations of the potato bug in Czechoslovak- ia. or that the United States has sought clandestinely to introduce the potato bug into Czechoslov- akia. are false and preposterous. "The Embassy ventures to sug- gest the inherent unsuitabrility of the potato bug (Doryphora de- cemlineata) as an instrument of national policy. The Embassy doubts whether the potato bug. even in its most voracious phase. could nibble effectively at the fab- ric of friendship uniting the Czechoslovak and the American people."

It seems rather ii pity that Dory- hora decemllrieata. munching lacidly away at vegetables, should lack the imaginative capacity to appreciate the dignity of his new status as the subject of high level cxchanges between polite and im- polite governments.

- BUILD NEW CAPITAL CANBERRA - (OP) - A new town is to be built at a cost. of E5.000.000 612,000,000) to replace Rabaul as the capital of Austra- lian New Guinea. The decision to abandon the capital was made af- ter a violent eruption of the near- by "mother" voloano but the Sec- ond World War delayed action.

A FISII LOCATED.

GRXMBIBY. England .- (OP) - Tests are being made by on East England firm of equipment which will aid fishermen not only to locate fish deep in the seas, but also to identify their species. It. is in the "Hush Hush" stage of development.

IIIGIII EDUCATION

Full-time enrolment of under- graduates in Canadian universities and college was about 00,000 in

the organization of a Miliiia'.

"If, however. there is no pros- pecl. of an efficient Force being speedily raised. Lord Panmure conceives that the allied Wml which the arms and stores were granted not having been attain- ed. they should be returned to the military authorities. with a view to their being brought away or said. But before coming to any final decision on this matter. His Lordship would wish to be furn- ished with a report from the Lieutenant Governor. showinz the number of which the Militia is at present composed. the state of dis- cipline into which they have been brought. and whether any good grounds exist for supposinil 9331 active steps will be taken for in- creasing the efficiency of the Force. .

-Despaich from the War Office. London. to the colonial Secretory. 22nd Jan. 1858.

WALLINGFORD. Berkshire. Eng,-(CP)-immortal to the resi- dents of Wallingford are the names of F0. J. A. Wilding and Sgt. J. F. Andrew. In 1944 they stayed with o crippled bomb-laden plane to prevent it from crashlnx on the town. Both were killed- Now grateful townsfolk have nam- ed two streets on I new houslnll estate after them-Wlldlnz R035 and Andrew Road.

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! Notes By

01:) pics for cleaning up the (Thousand) islands seems to have gone in vain. instead of finding more tidier spots. we must admit that some of the more secluded io- londs in the St. Lawrence are ev- ery bit as bad as a junk help. Dried up orange peels. bread and candy wrapplngs. pop bottles. to mention but a few. are never I" pretty sight in come upon - but they still remain and probably will continue as long as slovenly pio- nlckers infest the islands.-Broclh ville Recorder and Times.

Neither "The Maple Leaf" nor "0 Canada" is as good a piece of music as "God Save the King". Countless musicians. Beethoven and Haydn among them. have ad- mired the dignity and simplicity of that tune. The U. S. liked it well enough to steal it and fit it out with a set of words suited to the purposes of a republic. From time to time there is agitation for a Canadian national anthem. We will do a great deal of experimenting and rejecting before we find any- thing ihat equals "God Save the King." - Pcterborough Examiner.

A warning to the insllgotors of such atrocities" as the shooting of defenseless prisoners is contained in the fate of the German and Jap- anese war criminals. Military men were hanged after the last war for crimes they committed or permit- ted ori the battlefield. and our gov- ernment must make it unmistak- ably clc-ar Lhai these pcnaliies will be invoked again. Perhaps it too much to hope that even this grim warning will wholly succeed in altering Lhe North Koreans pat- tern of warfare. for those who have launched this war care little for the rules of battle and loss for hu- man life. The only sure way we can teach them the value of both is by decisive and speedy victory. - New York Herald Tribune.

A home bulldrrs' association in the United States claims there are 248 hidden taxes lurking in the purchase of every house. How that compares with Canada, it would be difficult to dcierminc.

.But we can be sure that we have enough on our side of the border.l

This association stated that in. taxes constitute 32.000 or one-fifth. of the sale price. The sales tax im-

posed in Canada on all materials; used in constructing a house is at cost which did not enter the fin-i ancial picture years ago. Thus noti all the blame for the jump in the, price of homes can be placed on; higher wages and higher material

prices. - Fort William Times-

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SCOTTISH STONES I

Abroaih flags and grey flag- stones and grey and olive shales are found almost exclusively lni Forfarshire. Scotland. i

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The Way

A storekeeper in New Mexico is offering I town for sole. It in. cludes on hotel, theatre building and several store buildings. 1: 1; the town of Mogollon. once I tin-iv. ing mining community of 3,009 in, hobitanls. but now down to a pop, ulltion of five. A few weeks ago it was reported that Burl Ives. popuis and prosperous banad singer. was looking for a town to buy. Whether he would be inter. esied in Mogollon may be doubt- ed. In any event. be attached in his offer I. condition that the town he purchased must be willing in have its name changed to lves. -town. There is also a syndicate with headquarters in Moscow which has diown great interest in ilflernational real estate lately. i Any sellers to it should be warn. ed. however. that payment prob- ably would be made in rubles. possibly in bullets, and that not only the name but the characters of the community would be chang- ed completely. - Christian Science Monitor.