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THE GUARDIAN

Morning Dally (Founded in i887) Authorised on tier-am] Clan Sluil, Pout Office Department, Ottawa. Thrhlnnd Unnrdlun Publishing Co. Editor and Managing Director. J. if. Bnrnolri

Associate Editor, Frunk Walker

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

THURSDAY, JUNE M, 1948

CHMILOTTETOWN.

workable Temperance Legislation

The question ot issue in the plebiscite VOW on Monday can be put in plain and simple terms. it is to decide upon the most workable tom-per- ance measure to combat the liquor evil. Wheth- er or not total prohibition would achieve this re.- sult is not a practical question inasmuch asthis consummation, however devoutly to be desired, is humanly impossible. This was the stand taken by The Guardian as far back as i927, when a general provincial election was fought on the issue, and won by the Liberal Party which stood pledged to i0O per cent enforcement of the Pro- hibition Act. 'l'\vo years later, on the floor of the Legislature, the Premier who had led the Liberal and Prohibition forces to victory had to confess that after his utmost efforts, the low was still being floured on on alarming sca-le. He compared the situation to o checker game, with the bootleggers usually a move ahead.

The Guardian prior to the i927 campaign was approached by the Temperance Alliance for a statement of its views with regard to an im- proved temperance measure. This request wa.

~comiplied with, and a copy of The Guardian pro-

posals was also submitted to the then leader of the Government, Premier Stewart. ln the twenty- one years which have passed since that time, The Guardian proposals have come of age; and it is ironical to re-flect that after so many viciss- itudes, and so much personal abuse and recrim- ination, they have largely become embodied in Liberal legislation now before the electors to be ratified under the name of the New Temperance Act. A: Milton remarked long ago, "Truthnev- or came into the world but to the ignominy of him that brought her forth, till time hath washed and salted the infant, declared her legitimate, and churched the father of his young Minerva."

Briefly, The Guardian in i927 pointed out that the system of doctors‘ prescriptions was un- satisfactory, ethically, morally and socially. From 80 to 90 per cent of "scripts" issued under the law (not the "Cullen Amendment" but the old Prohibition Act) were for refreshment rather than medicinal purposes. Leading members of the medical profession maintained, reasonably enough, that it was unfair to expect them to con- tirvue to be the channels through which the Gov- ernment should exercise control of the liquor traffic. As on alternative, The Guardian pro- posed that tho following improvements and safeguards be enacted:

l. ln each district a justice of the peace or other duly authorized person of standing undre- oponslbllity be empowered to issue for one year permits, including twelve monthly coupons, each coupon to be good for a specified quantity of liquor.

2. No pcrmif. shall be issued to anyone under twenty-five years of age.

3. No coupon shall be good for any month other than that. for which il. is printed.

4. The permit shall be duly numbered pnd nign -‘ in duplicate. by the party to whom it. is granted. and ihe- duplicate shall be ecnl. to the vendor.

S. Each monthly coupon used shall hr signed by the. grantee, nnil it shall he the iluly of lhc vendor to compare this signature with the orig- inal before fulfilling order.

6. Each bottle or container of liquor issued nhnll have affixed thcrcon life vcntlork label with lhn official nurnbcr of lhc grantee‘: pcrmit. and the month to which ll. refers.

7. Pcrmils shall not be transferable and shall be liable to be cancelled should if. be proved to the satisfaction oi the Prohibition Commisaion that. the grantee has bccn guilty of drunkenness. neglect of wife and fnmily. or has hccomc by habit. and repute an irllcr or prnfligale person. ,

8. The Prohibition Commission shall be the mole and final court of appeal in such mailers. and the evidence on which they base their decision dull be confidential.

9. A registration fee, of say. two dollars. shall be pay-able for the yearly permit.

10. Thai pcmillics for violations of the law or regulations shall be materially increased and cn- forccment strengthened and maintained.

On several occasions since i927 we have recalled the above proposals, as representing our considered vicws on this troublesome question. Many sincere prohibitionists who took issue with us have now modified their opinions, though oth- ers, quite evidently, have not. In any case, tho question has now fortunately become detached can be discussed and decided purely upcn its merits. Let us hope that on Monday the vote will be large and con- clusive, and that it will be dictated by sincerity and common sense. '

Premier Jones Tells Them

iPerh-ops a Rotary Convention was not the proper place at which to air our transportation grievances against the Dominion Government. Premier Jones may have mistimed his forthright statements at the Convention opening on Tues- day morning. That, however, is after all a minor matter compared with the fact that lie had the intestinal stamina to say what he thought on a subject about which, quite properly, he hail been thinking and worrying a great deal. His denunciation of the disgraceful lack of facilities at Tormentine, of the failure to provide on aux- iliary car ferry and of transportation conditions generally compared with time prevailing in the Control Provinces when millions of dollars of the flilllli produced in this Province an expended Initially, is on old story to us but it may have bill new and oven startling to many of his honors. ‘ ' Certainly it will have provided food ‘for NIllfiO rho Novrfonndland ilslogum. This

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vory question of the treatment afforded the Mori- time Provinces-and particularly Prince Edward lsland—under Confederation was capitalized on in the “first Newfoundland referendum by the anti- Conifederotionists. If Premier Jones‘ words should provide thenrwith further ammunition on this point, the bio-me lies with Ottawa and not with him. ’ 4 ' The unvarnished truth about the injustice meted out to the less-favored Provinces in this Dominion needs to be shouted from the rooftops. Too long have our political leddeis been discreet and silent, particularly when their own party government was in powe-r at Ottawa. We have criticized Premier Jones himself in this connec- tion on other occasions, and we should bi: inconsistent indeed if we ilid not roundly com- mend him when he shows evidence of sterner mettle.

- EDITORIAL NOTES -

Feast of St. John the Baptist.

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Four more days till the Plebiscito. i i fi i

The Liberals are mending their local fences in view of on early, or later, election. . i i’ i i

The late train service from Moncton is nothing new, being merely o resumption of the Summer service to which we have been accustom- ed. fi i O O

Premier Jones is nothing if not spectacular. His warning to Newfoundland was of the cate- gory of practical politics rather than political pussy-footing.

R i i I The fivedoy week for Ottawa civil servants is not to be, according to on official announce- ment. instead four o'clock closing will take ef- fect as soon as the House rises, and continue until Labour Day. i ‘I i

It is one thing being on active political C.C.F.'er, quite another describing in writing what you mean thereby. Mrs. Strum, M.P., wrote a thesis at Carleton College on social security, and got back her paper marked merely pass with the proverbial asterisk and o professional query. "What is the factual bosis for this?"

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Evidently British Columbia is anticipating the abolition of the Federal Soles Tox by im- posing o Provincial one. it is another example of the perpetuity of taxation in one form or an- other. No sooner did the Federal Government wipe out the Amusement Tox than the Provincial authorities grabbed it for themselves.

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The Battle of Bonnockburn fought this date i3l4, when Robert the Bruce by strategy de- footed the English and laid the foundation of Scottish national independence, which was porti- olly lost by the Union of Parliaments under Queen Anne in i707, and which the present Duke of Montrose and his Scottish Notional Party are endeavouring to have restored.

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Today's general election in Saskatchewan i; the first in which iS-year-olds ho-ve had the vote, although they have already voted in time by. elections. A more serious innovation has been that civil servants have been permitted, some soy required, to fake port in the campaigning. Presumably for the benefit of the less well inform- ed eleclfllflle. party affiliation of candidates ap- pears on the ballot.

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Mr. Louis Brithaupt, the Liberal M.P. who led a delegation to beard Mr. Mackenzie King in his den, seems to have received the brush-off from a master hand. Leaving the P.M.'s presence Ill a glow of seeming success he appears in My; met the Press before doubts began to arise as to the substance of impressions. The result was h.s prediction of an early end to Canadian "auster- I .

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The Ottawa Journal is surprised to discover that farming is not a simple mode of life that anyone can take up with "the will to do o little manual labour." What brings this discovery to its attention is a report that a recent study of a group of Ontario forms reveals on average in- Yeilmelll‘ 0i $5,000 or about $133 p-er acre. The farmer IS a business man with a heavy invest- ment to protect and a complicated business tc run. I I i I

The controversy among livestock breeders as to whether a beast should b-o iudged by its looks or, more scientifically, by its records and measurements was touched off recently by a Dutch dairy cattle expert, Professor Hagodorn. Hagodorn told British formers to select only on Performance, but as the Director-General of the National Agricultural Advisory Service, Profes~ sor J. A. Scott-Watson, pointed out in a talk in the BBC's Overseas series "'On the Land" there were several snags about a scheme of breeding based exclusively on production rcords. First, Professor Scott-Watson said, with dairy cattle much depended on the skill of the man who fed and tended them; then even if the former stand- ardized tire conditions under which the can histories were recorded, as the Danes were doing, he would not know how the cattle would milk on better or‘ poorer pastures, with more or less in- fensive feeding or with more or less skilled man- agement. But he warned farmers. about going to the other extreme and judging by looks only. "Atom time our Beef Shorthorn man wcnl rather ‘mad about families,“ he went on. "A good heif- er might be worth a hundred pounds if she hap- pened to be a lroodliookl, or again, four hun- dred if ‘she happened to be a Lavender. You might as well argue that the Sinltlis on a family of strong men, or that a chap called Speedy is worth backing for the hundred yards, or that

anybody called Plumrnor is apt lo forgot his tools." ~

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-llotes By The Way-i

One of the lhorlelt and bell. de- finitions of n free country was given by Mr. Churchill at the re- cent. Hague conference on Europ- ean Union: "We welcome any oaun- try where the people own the gov- ernment. and not the government the people." — Winnipeg Free Press,

This Swim have finally produced a wristwatch alarm clock. Accord- ing to Lo Sulsee. Geneva newspap- er, Swiss technicians have bee-n trying for 50 years to accomplish the feat. One manufacturer who began research five years ago has now started production of the ivafeh. It. is reported lo make as much noise as a regular alarm clock because of a sound box built. on the principle of the violin —New York Times.

Whoa Mnmollnl came to power with n. small group of fascists in 1822, some Italian Liberals accept- ed cablnet office under him. They were soon liquidated. When Hitler came to power in 1933, some Lib- erals gave him qualified support. They ivecre got. rid of when it. sult- ed tlltlei-‘s convenience. The hast. German in high political pOSlLlOD who was not. a Nazi was Chancellor H1ndenburg—no Liberal. Even he had to toe the Nazi line, and on his death Hitler took his office. as Gotbwsld has now taken Benes’ ol- floc. History has its lessons. but. we learn them a hard way. - Peter- borough Examiner.

We loo no reuon why squirrels should not. rejoloe when they see their enemies, the dogs, under tire for their depredatloru. We do. however, object. most. strenuously to the action of one black-coated and black-hearted rascal in our neighborhood. This member of the squirrel clan (we hope and trust m outcast. from his own com- munity) has acquired the knack of lifting the lids off garbage cans. He than scatters the contents hith- er and yon and sleips gleefully a- way, inking s wicked delight la the certainty that. some poor, in- nocent pup will be blamed for the unholy mess. -Owen Sound Sun- Times.

The lnndon theatrogoero will shortly have an ' opportunity o. seeing what. kind of acting ls of- fered to citizens of other parts. There is lo be an eight weeks’ Brit.- Lsh Repertory Theatre Festival at. the 8t. Jnmes’ Theatre starting this week. The repertory companies of Liverpool, Sheffield, Birmingham, and Bristol are each to be seen for Lwo weeks- ‘ln plays which are thought. to typify their work+"'l‘he Cherry Orchard”, "The Broctes". "The Rivals" (in modern dress, for some reason), and "Hamlet", The theatres of Liverpool and Bir- mingham have had almost. 40 years as leaders of the repertory. -Man- chesler Guardian.

Workers at adjoining duke were puzzled the other day when they noticed two strange lists of figures on a sheet of paper on Lhe desk of one of their number. The fig- ures, they were told, were part. of a methodical and determined method of cutting down the num- ber of clgarets smoked. For exam- ple, it. was explained that? the five times of day listed in column one represented live cigarets smoked. On the second day. represented by column two, a similar number had been smoked. but. the schedule ran l0 minutes behind that of the first day. The plan is that by widening the time lapses between cignrets every day. the total will soon drop to four, then three. etc. until theoretically the total will drop to zero clgarels a day. — Calgary Al- bar-tan.

Frcfh military experts estimate that. in case of war the Russians- could reach the Cllannel in seven days-two to the Rhine. two to cross the Rhine, l.\vo to Paris, one more to the Channel. But. if pro-

vided with military equipment from the United States. Franco could be prepared in two months. with ex- lstlng trained reserves. to hold the, line against. invasion for six months. This estimate lies behind Foreign Minister Bldaultfs insis- tsnce that France mus-t. have Am- erican military support before the western powers proceed with the agreements on Germany. wnlcn are capable of precipitating a crisis with Russia. Meanwhile, de Gaulle ls saying privately that. it's absurd to expect the United States to pro- vide full military equipment as long as French Communists, such as Jollot-Curle, hold positions of confidence in the government. - Newsweek Magazine.

A young businessman we know is l keen and extremely good golf- er. Home time no he was trans- ferred to the New York office of n. Canadian firm. After a long hunt he found o house in a small town about. an hour's train ride from Manhattan. We saw him the other day and asked him how his golf was. Ruefully he sold he wasn't able to ploy very often. There was a not-too-mvogger club near his home. but the membership cost. $000 and annual duel were $360 a year. A frlenofhnd given him a guest cord once or twice. but. green feel were $5. a day. After a round in which the only available caddy hid "carried double". wishing. to do the right. tlilil be bu! enquir- ed of the caddy molten u to suit- able ‘remuneration. “Oh," llill thI caddy mum casually. “live on ab: dollars audit. to he enough.” Our friend aid that. while. his mm wumaiihbimerthanttliadoem in Canada, what. with nuns: housekeeping costs. commuting boo what-not, he wasn't any misc than wt at homo, when

could _ t._ any rntoofford -_lo pip! plf. - Toronto Plasmid 70st.

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CHARLOTFETOWN.

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This column is open to the n b! correspon- donil of questions of interest The l" arlottotovm Guardian -_ doernof. necesianrlly ’ M‘ tho opinion of correspond-g onto. l?

TEACHER. GUIDANCE

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Sin-Apparently the Department. of Education does not approve of n. simple, inexpensive method of very necessary teacher guidance. because two years ago it. maintain- ed llml. it. did not have sufficient staff to provide it.

Now to examine the reason giv- en, "not sufficient staff.” The preparing for printing and mailing when completed would not. occupy the full time of one individual, but. possibly the additional work could

not. be done by the staff at Lhatl

time. , - However, it. bu been annoumed recently that it is planned to in- crease the personnel of tho De- partment. by appointing six teach- er-asslslanls. It ivas also an- nounced that. their duties would be

to go from school to school giving ‘

guidance for one week to young inexperienced teachers, apparently this is to be a substitute for the printed guidance being suggested.

How inconsistent. 1f one week of guidance con justify such action. then why have students spend the greater part of one year, at con- siderable cost, taking teacher train- ing? Or instead of having six glorified teachers spending all their zime travelling about the country, why not. em-ploy one of them for one week at; the close. of teacher training to give this guidance or instruction to all at the some time. in this way the teachers would at least receive the guidance before beginning to teach instead of near

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FBOM “THYBBI!”

Soon_will the high midsummer 90ml)! 001119 Oh;

'41 Soon will the musk car-notions

break and swell,

shell we have gold-dusted ‘snnpdragon.

Sweet-William with hi! homel)’ cottage smell.

And stocks 1n fragrant blow;

Rose; that. down the alleys shine -afar,

And open jasmine-muffled lnltlcel. And groups under the dreaming garden-trees,

And the full moon and the while evening star . . . .

' -Ma.tthew Arnold.

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Old Charlottetown run “r. r. 1.)

WHEAT FROM VERMONT

"On Thursday last we were shown by Mr. Alex Smflliwood some fine heads of two new kinds of wheat. grown on the farm of Mr. Bovyer, Lot. 4.8. The head of one kind is bald, and ls called ‘De- fiance,’ the other ls bearded and Ls called the ‘Champlain. Mr. Smollwood obtained one pound of the reed of each kind lut, you, from the Stole of Vermont. It was sowed ln land prepared ln the or- dinary wiiy for wheat, and the two pounds gave the extraordinary yield of four bushels clean wheat. Some of the heads were six inches in length." - Island Argus. Sep- tember, i878.

INVASION ANNOUNCEMENT

MOSCOW. June 22 —(AP)—The Communist Party n. aspaper Pravda

and your, l5 1 will explain later. [Milne this seventh wnlvemrv o!

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dltlonal employee could not. be “aid will)’ "the 5°Vl°l 99°F" 5"

added so that he might part time preparing and mailing simple, inexpensive guidance, yet‘ six can be employed costly sncl less effective manner.

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Spend ,now winning victory after victory

0n the front of peaceful labor."

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LONDON, Juno 38—(-Reut.ers)—

i in previous letters made it. clear EH1 Mmmhbaffe“ 0’ Bum‘ ml" that some experienced teachers are l Pd mm?“ i" N°Yth°1i 51'1"“

lust as incompetent. as are some inexperienced teachers and while- the printed guidance would reach all teachers at the some time. it is simple to determine when these glorified teachers will have reach- ed all.

They will each spend one week guiding some teacher, that. is, l. total of nix teachers will receive guidance each week, or there being 40 weeks in each school year, n; grand total of 240 teachers will receive guidance each school year.

Therefore, there being approxim- ately 500 rural teachers in thel Province. not more than one-half the teachers will receive guidance during each school year. Of the fortunate half, a few will receive it early in the term. others at. or near the close. What. benefit will it. be to pupils who have had an incompetent teacher most of s. term. for the teacher to receive guidance during the last weeks of the term? What. folly!

It. will likely be proclaimed that_ these teacher-assistants are only“ to be trouble-shooters. that. ls. they will be sent. to assist teach- ers who are havlnit difficulty ar- ranging work. cbc. ‘if so. who is to determine that such assistance ls needed: the teacher in such n situation seldom realizes it. herself. Then who will make the osll 1:? the assistance? Nearly half the tenn will have passed before the supervisor has called an all teach- ers. and I have made it clear in previous letters that they seldom discover inefficient teaching.