OCTOBER‘ 4, 1949

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P. E. l. Hospital ladies Aid Meets

The monthly meeting of the 14d- lee’ Aid of the Prince Edward Is- und Hospital was held at the cundall Home on Monday after. ioon, October third.

Mrs.

Leiwh. the president, pre- Red

iided, end twenty-one members were present.

Several matters of iznportancc were discussed and various reports were presented. Mrs. Avard gave |, most interesting and instructive report on the Maritime Hospital Association meetings which she and Mrs. Leltch had attended as dele- |ates at Halifax in June.

The matter of raising money for n"; year was left in the hands o! lhB'WSyS and means committee. several excellent ideas were sug- gastcd "by the various members present, and it was decided to hold a rummage sale in November for the purpose of raising funds.

Attendedldeoting 0i 0. 0.‘: 0i Armoured Units lit (lamp Borden

LL-Col, A. W. Rogers, com- manding the Prince Edward Il- illlld Regiment (1'lth Reece) rc- uirned yesterday from the annual meeting of the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps Association held recently at Crimp Borden and at- londed by O.C.s of all Canadian Armoured units.

He was accompanied by Maj, J. T, Davies, DADME, representing the 21st Armoured Brigade and Capt. E. G. MacLeod, M.C. rep- resenting Eastern Command.

At Camp Borden. a cairn was unveiled by Gen. Sir Richard L. llcCreery, G.'C.B., K.B.E., D.S.O.. l\l.C., head of the United Kingdom military delegation to the United Nations, to the memory of the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps who gave their lives during the inst war.

After the unveiling, Gen Mc- (‘rcery took the salute at a March Past of all the Army and Air Force units at Camp Borden. He WA! accompanied on the stand by lion. Charles Foulkcs, Chief oi.’ the General Staff anrl Gen. Chris Vokes, G.O.C. Central Commend.

Gen. McCrcery, who took over command of the Eighth Army from General Montgomery, was the guest speaker at the annual moss dinner of the Association. llo spoke of the team-work of the British Commonwealth.

Resolutions were pasbed by the Association towards Corps im- provement and general milltafl’ policies.

llliTlii. MARITIME! f ‘ IIEATIIS 60c Per Insertion

BIRTHS

|0HNSTONE—At (‘minty Hospital on 194E), to Mr. Johnstone, Long River, a Barry Gordon, 9 lbs. 4 oz.

MacLEOD - At the Prince Bd- ward Island Hospital on Sept. 28, to Mr. and Mrs» Harold MacLeod mee Dorothy Robinson), Uigg, s son, Samuel Keir.

BECK - At the Prince Edward Is- land Hospital, on Sept. 39, 1049, to Mr. and Mrs, Preston Beck, City, n daughter. l0 lbs. l3 oz.

MARRIAGES

OSBORNE — MOORE -- In Old Davenport United Church. Toronto. September 3th, 1949. by Rlev. A. Ferry, John L. Osborne to Mrs. Afincs Moore. formerly of Char- lottetown.

liicLENNAN J- ACORN — At Trin- iiy Church. Charlottetown, on Sep- tember 23rd. 1949. by the Reverend H. E. D Ashiorcl, M. B. 3.. Miss ljmily Josephine Acorn to Mr. Arthur Lewis McLennan. both oi Wood Islands.

DEATHS

MORRISON-At the Montague Hospital, Sept. 26. Mr. Krmlelli .l_ Morrison, Albion Cross in his 79th your. Funeral \Vedncsd!!)'- Sept. 28. Interment Dundas Ceme- icry,

in MsiiTnzlAM

In loving memos: 9| "'7 h“ father and mother, Mr. and Mll- John n. Macleod, who owed away on October “ll. u“ “d February 22, 10M.

the Sept. 29th, and Mrs. Ralph

Prince

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Dear perentl, thou but loft Ill. Thy aufferingrlra now earl At the dear old house no longer flan we gather as bold"-

For our family tie la broken. Your heavenly orown la won;

Tour busy hands are millil- Your work on earth ll 5°!"-

1)" hum gflll ache with loneli-

tear:

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God alone ‘howa how you As it ende another 70"-

Ever remembered ll! "W" daughter, Inulao.

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A LIMITED SUPPLY of White Sewing Machines now available at Holman a, both stores.

TAB! OVER. NEW DUTIES .- The two new YMCA. secretaries, Mr. Fred Tyler, Gutkniie. Saskat- chewan, and Miss 1.1mm Gehrke, Deer, Alberta, commenced work at the local YMCA. yester- dlv morning. Both are graduates of the University of British Col- umbia, having recent], completed courses in social work at that in- stltution.

IBSTAUIANT ASS'N. MEETS -— The Prince Edward Island

Branch of the Canadian Iiestaur- Ent Association met Monday at the Blue Room of the Old Spain Restaurant. The president, Mrs. Milton Bell presided. in addition to the discussion of regular busi- ness, plans for the Fall activities were discussed.

APPLE DAY OCT. 28 - Boy Scout Apple Day will be held Saturday, October 29th, it was announced yesterday by Scout officials. It is hoped ‘this year to make the Apple Day Province- wlde and in this connection a committee will be set up next week to co-ordlnate the activities in preparation for the annual event. .

RETURNS FROM COURSE — Mi‘. Gordon Kerr, Boy Scout Field Commissioner for Prince Edward Island returned last night from a three months course in connection with Scout work. Mr. Kerr spent some time at Scout Headquarters, Ottawa, and qualified in the Can- adian Scouters Training Course at Dunrobin, Ont. He also studied ad- ministration and organization work u carried on by the Scout Assoc- iations in Windsor, London. Niag- ara, Hamilton, Saint John and Halifax. Following g short holiday, Mr. Kerr expects to take over his duties here.

WORK PBOGRIJSSING — Re- decoratlon of the interior of Si. Dunstan‘: Basilica is well over one- thlrd completed it was learned yea- terday. The painting is being done by Herman Wilks and Son, St. Stephen, N. 3.. who have 14 men employed several of whom are from Charlottetown. The eastern part of the edifice has been com- pleted leaving the sanctuary and main part to he done. The ceiling and walls are being painted dusky rose with the ribs being painted. grey. and embroiderings being done in golden color. .Mr. Wilks is personally painting the Stations of the Cross and has three com- pleted. ln commenting upon the architecture Mr. Wilks stated that it was American Gothic and the finest he had ever seen.

T0 ATTEND BYNOD -— Clergy of each Presbyterian pastoral charge on the Island together with representative elders of the re- spective con egatiorrs will attend the Synod o the Maritime Prov- inces of the Presbyterian Cl-iurcn which opens at St David's Church. Halifax, tonight. Rev. G. Carlyle Webster and Mr. A. A. MacDon- ald will sttend from the Zion Presbyterian Church. Charlotte- town and Rev. T.H.B. Somers and. Mr. D.A MacKlrnion will represent St. James Church. Clergymen attending from other Island charges include. Rev. Georle Cunningham. Alberton. Rev. Willis Young, Tyne Valley: Rev. Charles Carnegy. Summer- slde; Rev. James McGowan. Ker-is- ington; Rev. Donald Campbell. New London; Rev. Donald Nichol- son. Brookfieid: Rev. Dr. Qulgley. Belfast; Rev. Norman Young. Mon- tague and Rev. C. D. Henderson. Murray Harbour North.

iielails of National (LYLL Convention Program Revealed

SAINT.‘ JOHN’. N.B.. Oct. 3 — (OH-Some of the program details for the TlliilOflSl convention of the Catholic Women's League of Cm- ada were announced tonight by Mrs. WC. Fewinga, Saint John. national publicity oorwener.

The convention will open Satur- day at Windsor. Onto and continue to Oct. i4 with the. president. Mrs. T. E. Durochcr, Windsor, presid-

ing.

James Cardinal MoGulcan will celebrate mass in the Assumption Church on Sunday. Oct. 9.111s gegslom also will be lttendefl W the nationali C.W.L. dirltor, O0- Adjutcc Bishop John C. Cody of London; Bishop John T. Kidd B! London and other members of the Catholic hierarchy in Canada.

At. the formal openins Bun!!! waning greetings will be extended 0.. behalf of mini-eh. state. Cliv- Province and Catholic group!- Moet of the business sessions will be held in St. Alphonsus Hall. and the convention will be addressed by leaders in Catholic Action. A wreath hwlll be placed at the cemtap .

The daily program will open with members assisting at mass in sev- eral Windsor churches. The social program lnoludea visits to Detroit m; points in Essex county. s tour oi an auwnobiie (Ford) factory. lunchcons, dinners and teas.

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Newfoundland Subject i Of Address By Dr. Shaw [llarrlnslon "In

Railway Nlharl Work Under Way

Preliminary work on the re-con- struction o!‘ the Railway Wharf is under way with the building of forms on the Bruce Stewart and Co. wharf for the casting of cori- crete piles which are to be used under the new Railway wharf shed. Dredging operations are also un. derway with one dredge working at the outer extremity 0n the eastern side of‘ the wharf.

Late delivery of material. it was learned. will limit the amount of construction to a minimum this fall. Concrete piles will be cast but it is not expected that they will be driven due to the lateness of the season. There are a few local men employed on the construction end of the Job. but it is not anticipated that many will be required this year.

There are about t5 men employ- ed iis the marine department of the wharf project. Most of them are from Borden, Tormentine and other nearby points and worked with the dredge at these ports all summer. Derrlcks and tugs are ex- pected shortly to supplement the dredge and two soows now employ- edand to speed up the work.

Imperial Oil Ltd. are also at work on the Railway Wharf digging out their pipe lines. About seven men are employed at this work.

The Canadian Dredge and Dock Company Ltd. has the contract for the estimated $75,000 project. The company's local representative Mr. V. S. Rice is in charge of the construction work.

The eastern facq of the wharf is to be reconstructed for a. length of sea feet. A heavy steel pile base will be laid, tendered with creosot- ed timber and finished with a semi-reinforced concrete parapet. The new warehouse will be s. frost proof structure 50 feet wide by 381 feet long.

OITY SOIIOOL llllilil)

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in the north part of the City.

Mayor: Before anything is done in any way the City Council re- quests that the Board deal through the council. l realize the necessity for new class-rooms. But elected bodies have to do the deciding for the people. Indeed I have been wondering whether we should not- have elected bodies of citizens to run the schools and tax the people separately for that purpose.

Mr. Baker stated that it was the considered opinion of the School Board that the accommodation was necessary.

Councillor Farmer felt that the policy of going ahead with a new building should be decided before agreeing to “preliminary sketches and the purchase of a site."

Mrs. MacDonald: The matter of going ahead with the preliminary sketch was approved 2 years ago. Time and time again the need has been pointed out for Community Centre facilities.

Coun. Beaton wondered how the Council could find out if the citi- zens wanted to nay higher taxes for such a school.

Mr. Baker: The Board has de- cided the need exists and we are responsible for the education of the City's children.

Reference was made to the Moncton High School and the Mayor stated that he believed Moncton got a giant of $100,000 from the Dominion on a vocation- al basis. "I believe we could also get a substantial grant. The City has got to do something. We are not living in New York and have got to be satisfied with something smaller." declared the Mayor,

Discussion continued regarding the possibility of using Provincial Government facilities, but it was pointed out they were not ade- quate nor available.

Mayor: Until we know what it's going to cost the City, we can't go ahead.

Dr. Lea: We've got to do some- thing or get out and let some- one else try.

Coun. Lowther asked which was really responsible to provide the accommod ‘ion, the City or the Board.

Referring to the Act, it was pointed out that the Board could go ahead in any event.

The Mayor: We just hlVIlW Un- ough money in the pot.

The necessity for v cational {raining was stressed by Mr. Baker who pointed out that older pupllg were just “wasting their time" at academic aubjecta when they should be learning n trade.

A number of councillors agreed and Coun. Beeton felt that "there was nothing left for the Council but to follow along."

Coun. Farmer made n strong bid to try vocational training in some central location "to feel the way." It was discovered, however, that such an idea would not relieve the congestion in the schools.

Th, Mayor stated that he knew men who were proud of their mgn School in Moncton. ‘We've been diily-dallying about this thing for quite a while. The time n" come when we must do some- thinl-

Coun. Farmer: When you lee the coats of a High School it will scare the wits out of the tex-

ayer. And the Mayor appointed the three-man committee.

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ticuler vocation. A New High School with ite varied courses - Acedemic and Vocational - would allow a larger number of students to continue their high school ed- ucation without depending on oth- er schools er collages for e certif-

ieata of notification. At pellet

"We in Prince Edward Blind are best able to interpret the peo- ple of Newfoundland to the rest of Canada, and the relationship of the new Province to Canada will probably be cemented by our

ector of Education, in his ass to Rotsrians at their luncheon yesterday, With the addition of a tenth Province, Canada has not only added to her territory and resour- ces, but also 320,000 scattered over 1,300 settlements located in a thin strip bordering the 7.000 miles of coast. There are few roads, said the speaker, and the chief means of travel is by boat. For this rea- son the people of Newfoundland are strong lndivldualists who cling to their customs and traditions. in Newfoundland may be found dialects such as Somerset, Irish brozue, Yorkshire, spoken with even greater purity than in the old country. The reason is that they have been cut off to such an extent that their language has not been altered by outside influ- ences. Not only the language but their viewpoint, customs, philos-

ilarly preserved.

The lQYItlty of the people Newfoundland to their religion, said Dr. Shaw, is the result of generations of fishermen and sea- men risking their lives daily in the surrounding waters. It was the fisheries which first attracted the

chants who looked upon the 1g. land as a great ship moored close to the fishing grounds for their personal convenience.

Onerous Lawl

The fishing admlrals saw to it that nothing was done in the way of settlement. Laws were passed to prevent any attempt _at agric- ulture. One law made it a pun- ishable offence to plant seeds in Newfoundland. The purpose of this was of course to prevent sailors desertlng the ships and being able to live without fishing.

Another law with the same pose made it an offence to build e house with e chimney, The fish- ing companies wanted their men to live in shacks during the warm fishing season, then return with

pins,

nlzing people passing along

lng the headland,

of the fishery inspectors.

very different meanings from the same words here, he For example the word "abroad" means apart. He had watched a Newfoundlander working on his car. "Somethings wrong with the carburetor, I guess I'll have to take it abroad".

Cites Experiences

Another time Prof. Shaw and his wife had been invited to a musicals in the town hall. The night of the performance arrived, and it was raining very heavily. He called the friend who had in- vited him to find out if the af- fair would be held. His host re- piled that they were ‘putting lt off", and he thankfully settled himself for a comfortable evening at home. The next day his host asked him why he had not shown up at the concert, "But you told ma they were putting it. off." "Sure they put it off, ands very fine en- tertainment it was too." Dr. Shaw then realized that "off" means the opposite to the accepted meaning here.

At the conclusion of his talk Dr. Shaw with the assistance of Mr. Stanley MacInnis of the National Film Board played a recording "The Squid Jigging Ground", the words and music of which were composed by Mr. All. Scammell of Newfoundland. The original poem was included in a small volume of his writings titled "Songs of New- foundland".

Rotai-ians W.W. Reid and Ches- ter Shaw were joint chairmen. Guests included Rotarians Mel Cunningham, Red Deer. M56118. Carl Young, Riverhead. Long Il- land, and Dunstan MacOormao, St. John's, Newfoundland; also Mr. George Cushman, Rlverhead, Long island.

only one pupil out of ev_ery three completes Grade X. "(b) Our present schools are very overcrowded which results in: "(l) Oversized classes - pupils in these classes do not get the et- tention they should. (2) Classes are now held basements, and on the fourth floor. This condition ls molt un- desirable from the points of view of firs, ventilation, and proper heating. "(ll One of our schools found it necessary to stagger clela room hours to accommodate younger pupils - afternoon claalel. This procedure has caused many oom- plnlntl from parents.

"a new High school would re- lieve this conlflstiomlhlll rmvid-

ceived numerous requests

iste steps be taken to iin

with: - “ (a) Preliminary sketch pins. ((b))

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people," said Dr. LW. ‘Shaw, Dir-,

ophv. and humour, have been slm-,

attention of the West Coast mer-'

continued.

ing additional clue room Ipeee in the elementary schools for the in-

’ numb: of upuupill seekirgg admission eec succ ve year. e chm“ ‘m, pr."nflqn. t9. "p19- Board of School Truckee have re-_ “nun; g“ 5mm“;

citizen groupl. asking that lmliM-l W". W! officials at llcGiii University were educational facilities in this Oifiqhgflg [or something extra in We hereby request the concurrence accommodation for a university of the City Council to primed student recently. mo student is

lllolghliors Aid

lWlth Potato ltrop

An act of ftiendlhip and good malgbborllncla that few districts can rival was performed by the citizens of Harrington district yes- terday when they picked the po- tato crop of a neighbor who is sick in hospital. The crop totalled ‘seven acres. Yesterday morning 54 of the neighbors started the dig- ,glng operations. By five o'clock -last night all potatoes had been picked and stowed away in the ‘ cellar.

PIIIYATLIAEMBERS

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of the illue.

C. C. F., Social Credit and most

Progressive Conservative members ‘voted for the resolution.

Mr. Knowles’ resolution was the first of a lengthy series placed on the order paper by private mem- hers who in past sessions have had little opportunity to discuss their pet. legislative projects be.

,cause of Government business. Under House rules, Mcndayg, Wednesday and Thursdays are supposed to be devoted to private

embers’ business. In the war years and since, lhe Government has parsed special motions giving Government business precedence. No such motion has been intro. duced this session.

At Night Session I , At the night sitting members discussed a. resolution, sponsored by Angus Maclnnis (Cor _ Van- couver East), which called for D0- mlnion-Provinciel co-operntlon on the formulation of a country-wide social-security program,

Health Minister Martin said the question of a contributory old-age pension program will be discussed lat the forcomlng Dominion-Prov- incial conference on constitutional anatters. Under the constitution the Government now has not the power to inaugurate g, contribut- ory program.

I-le promised that the Dominion

l

W!‘ iwill continue to co-operste with

‘the Provinces on health and so- ,cial security matters and he hop- ‘ed that "before too many months" ,the oo-operatlon will be marked by "good results."

the 8ND! l" Wlhtfll‘. 30th R1959‘ In reviving the pensions issue. laws were broken to some extcnt.| Tho wooden chimney, peculiar D0119]; n; pgngiqn Newfoundland, was made of hol- sporadic strikes in 1918 and the low logs held together by wooden Winnipeg general strike of 1919.

Mr. Knowles explained that the rights followed

C.P.l-‘t. employees who partici-

Some may recall. Dr. Shaw saidypated in the strike were rehired, living in the country and i-ecqg- but they were not reinstated in the their pension rights. Those who mad by the horses they dfgyQ 3° were more than 4O were denied 1g was 1n Newg°und1and_ Everyone participation in a pension plan. knew everyone else by their boatJ If they saw a. strange boat round- down would come the wooden chimney for fear