PAGE yous ,- THE GUARDIAN

Authorized on Second Clue Mull Post Olfiee Department, Ottawa. The Island Guardian Publishing Co.

President and Associate Editor, Inn A. Burnett. Asimrinte Editor. Frank Walker.

CIRCULATION "Covers Prince Edward Island like the dew'

"The strongest memory is weaker than the weakest ink".

.'SCl-lAAlIwI:(l:l"l'ET0ilIV. FRIDAY, JAN. 9, 1953

Let's Maintain This Lead

Mr. llaroid Clay may be regarded as the top-ranking authority on swine produc- tion in this country, and his highly en- eouragiiig review of the achievement of our llrinrc Edward Island breeders last year, published in yesterday's Guardian, will bet read with interest all across Canada. He: points out that we have improved our per-I i-enlarge of Grade A hogs from 35.0 in 19-ll l to close to 52.0 in 1952. Nova Scotia andl New Brunswick, the only other provincesl sliouin: any improvement. owe their suc- ccss to the general use of Island breeding: stock. in Advanced Registry we have" st-oi-eri even more conspicuously, and as” pointed out by Mr. Clay, many of the sowsl which have qualified in other areas carryi i-oiisiclemlilc island breeding. This achieve-; ment has been responsible for advertising! this Province across North America, as the source of the best bacon hogs in the world. 4

The i'e.-epoiisibility of maintaining this high reputation is the keynote of Mr,7 (Tlay”s article. lie warns against the temp-: tation. in a period of low prices, to permitl our key breeding stock to deteriorate inl quality. lie predicts that prices will ad-, vaiice in 1953. and it is interesting to note,l from a Canadian Press despatch issued sev-L eral hours after Mr. Clay's article was re- ceived, that prices in the Ontario stock- yards took an unexpected advance to thei highest level since the original support price, of 5126 was established last March. Thisl turn maybe temporary, but at least iti indicates how quickly the situation niay. change one way or the other. As Mr. Clayli emphasizes. however, market price is not; so much the limiting factor in profitable- hog production as the spread between the price of hogs and the price of feed. ”Wit'n hog prices giving promise of an advance, and with feed prices showing some decline,"I he says, ”it is quite possible, even very, probable, that pigs fed for shipment in then last. half of 1.053 may be profitably pro- riuced," To maintain the continent-wide prestige this Province now enjoys, it is ab- solutely essential that we "hold the line and in this way be prepared for the upswing which may take place sooner than we an- tieipnte."

Mission To Latin America

it in no wise diminishes the importance, of the trade mission headed by Hon. C. D. Howe to Latin America to recall that over the years there have been several official ind semi-official visits of this kind. The Caiiadiaii Government in conjunction with the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and the Canadian 1iIanufacturers' Association. sent a large delegation to Buenos Aires in

countries to be visited has been steadily rising. The aggregate value of trade in 1951 amounted -to S-104,000,000 compared with only .'627,000,000 in 1938, immediately prior to the Second World War. Canadian exports have risen in value from 5iS15,000,- 0O0 to .il166,000,000 during those 13 years. This increase shows how great are the pos- sibilities of the Latin American market for Canadian goods. It illustrates also how much can be accomplished by continuous and intelligent efforts to sell in that area.

The Official Figures

' The Bureau of Statistics in its fortlicoin- ing edition of the Canada Year Boot-: (1952-53) will give the first official figures of Canadian casualties in World War If. They are as follows:

Killed Wounded Navy 2,024 310 Air Force . 17,102 1,415 AI'm.v 51,661 42,043 53,396

Of the total killed, 9,631 were other than battle fatalities.

A total of 6,433 prisoners of war were repatriated of whom 1,018 had been wound- ed.

In World War I, more than 6tt,0tlii Canadians were killed, although the dura- tion of hostilities was briefer and fewer troops were engaged. The great bulk of the casualties in the First World War fell upon the infantry, whereas it will be noted that in the recent. war about four-fifths as many airmen as army ranks made the supreme sacrifice. A A

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EDITORIAL NOTES

For a time ponds and rivers are sheet-, ed with ice and almost bare of snow. Untill another storm or thaw. open air skating is' the order of the day.

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Those who have had to handle. pigsl know that they are prone to go in any but the expecteddirection. They will not be surprised at: what happened at the Ontario stoekyards. Everyone was predicting that when the support price was lowered from 5526 to 323 a hundredweight there would be a drop in the market price. Instead the first. two weeks of January saw prices rise to the highest point since last March.

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We have become accustomed to aircraft from the Central Navigation School in Sum- merside,making such flights as the one, starting Sunday to Waco, Texas and basos' in Florida, Virginia, Maryland and Ohio, asl well as flights to England and over the” North Pole. Having the School here seem- ed to make Summerside very much the centre of things, a place on the map which will be lost when the School moves to. western Canada. '

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Napoleon Iii, Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, nephew of the Little Corporal, died this date 1873. He had been elected to the constituent assembly after the rev- olution of 1848 and then became President. He soon had control of the army and had filled almost every government post with his nominees. Despite many autocratic actions he tried to pose as a democrat. In

lilarch. 1931. when the Canadian pavilion .3” effort to renew his popularity he deg

at the British Empire Exhibition was open- crl. Visits were also made at that time to lruguay and Brazil. lion. James A. Mac-, Kiiinon. former Minister of Trade and Com-I merec. headed a trade mission to South America in 1041. and in February, 1946, he visited Mexico. Guatemala, El Salvador, lionduras, :'x'icai'agua. Costa Rica, Panamal

. and Colombia.

At present senior executives: of nu-i mcrous companies are travelling gwithl Mr. l-iowe, as are key civil servants inter-E estcd in ;:re.'i'.er trade being developed wilhg Latin America. They have goneuirmed with facts and figures. The statistics will present a picture of Canadas phenomenal industrial growth. The Government and private business spokesmen will speak of this countryls commercial aspirations. They will attract attention in Latin America to Canada as a possible market for the pro- ducts of those countries and as a source of supply of commodities which the -Latin Americans require. ' . Another indication of Canadas EPOWIHZ interest in Latin America was the appoint- ment recently of ambassadors to Colombia. Uruguay and Venezuela. One of the first functions of these officers will be to wel- come Mr. Howe and the trade mission. Canada now has diplomatic missions at nine capitals in Latin America. The countries to be visited by this latest trade mission are Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, -Haiti, Cuba and Mexico. They will be visited in that order. The mission will call at the capitel of each country and in addition will call at Sao Paulo in Brazil. It left; Ottawa Jam: 5 and iii scheduled to return on Feb. 10. Trade between Canada and the nine

clared war on Prussia but was beaten and retired to an estate in Kent. . O O O

The South African Government Inform- ation Office complains-that the following news item was widely carried recently in the Canadian Press: "Prime Minister Dan- iel Malan said tonight. the playing of the British anthem God Save The Queen' at the end of theatre and radio programmes violated South Africa's independent; status. He also condemned the flying of the Union Jack over public buildings. However, he told a political rally that his Government. had no intention of tforcing the issue.” This item, it is explained, was based on one passage of a long address which, ironically enough, had been delivered for the very purpose of increasing understandin between Afrikaans and English-speaking South Africans. What Dr. Malan in fact said about the Flag and Anthem was this: "As far as symbols areiconceriied, the dualism still persists. The use of Great Britain's national flag and National Anthem as if they were our own is obviously in conflict with our status of sovereign independence and equality with other members of the Commonwealth, including Great Britain. Britain would not think of adopting the na- tional fiag and anthem of another member of the Commonwealth as her own, and the continuance of the opposite usage in the case of South Africa certainly smacks of the old condition of subjection and racial superiority. There is certainly no intention of forcing the issue. Goodwill and toler- once, coupled" with the steady growth of a true South African national consciousness, must be given the opportunity to see what they can achieve."

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, 3 THE KILTS MY DELIGHT Wool from the mountain, dyes

from the vale

Loom in the clachan, peat tires bright;

To every strand of it some old t.-ile-

Oh the tartan kiit is my delight!

Went. to its spinnlng- brave songs of Lorn:

Its hues from the berry and herb were split,

Lilu of the forest mom

Are in his walking who wears the kllt!

and glee of

For prlcst nor clerk nor merchant

men.

Nor biders at home was the plent- ing pressed,

But. for the lcinsof those who ken

I-illl-wandering, offspring of the mist: ,

Wood-trackers, waders of wil-it streams, E

The world their pillow, their roof the .night.;

Who sleeps in tartan has high dreams.

Oh the kllt. of the I-Iighlands is niy delight!

I will put on me that gallant gear. Brave first garb of the human

mind.

Travel the moors and the hill of deer.

And feel on my body the kiss of the wind.

Be it melting heat or the driven sleet

Kings to. stand with or foes to fight.

Dance inlthe shenling. or death to meet, Oh the darling kllt is my delight!

-Neil Munro in Montreal Gazette.

Our Parlor Organ

(Ottawa Journal)

The countryman is not opposed to genuine progress, and readily concedes that television will be the major home entertainment. device for the imniediate future. No ques- tion aiboui. it, a man can learn things from television, It: is a cul- tural and educational medium. Af- ter one has watched ladies in tights stage a free-for-oil in a roller skating derby. or has vvatched the lady wrestlers piiiieh, kick and pull cacti Oi.ltPl”.': hair. he has no qualms about the pioneering quali- ties of modern womanklnd.

The parlor organ belongs to a quieter. more flavorful era of our history. When a family could af- ford the magnificent Imperial Grand Organ at 550.95, it was a big event in the family's life, and satis- fied one of mother's long-cherished ambitions.

It was a. handsome affair elab- orately carved, willi bevelled mir- ror, land several fancy little shelves to hold diist-collectiiig brlc-a-brie. There were five octaves and four sets of reads, A 12 year older mem- orized the fnsciiiating names of the 16 stops; vox humaiui, viola. flute. bourdon. clarinet, comet. comet. echo. principal forte. dlaoawn forte. treble coupler. bass couple, cremonn. melodic. duiciann, principal and dinpason.

On it cold. star-lit. winter even- ing. it was heart-warming iii-id reas- suring as friends and family go- thered round the organ and mo- ther played the old. beloved femlllnr home songs imd.cherl.shed hymns. Voices were not trained but they were rich and true-and people sang because they loved to. Sep- ranos and altos. tenor and basses blended in Annie Laurie. Old Black Joe, Flow Gently sweet. Afton. sweet Home of Prayer, and when the Roll is culled Up Yonder. There were lively songs: There 15 e Tav- ern in the Town. Solomon Levi and The Bulldog on the Bank,

And when it grew into. Ilong I- bout nine thirty, the evening usu- ally concluded with that beloved favorite. God He with You Till We Meet. Again. And as in boy took his

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'I'iiI-. iangilsh language is a snare for the foreigner. As, for instance, the immortal sentence in a letter from a French girl whose brother was wearing a. plaster cast: "My brot.her'fell from his horse and broke his collar-bone and now he is plastered.” -Hamilton Specta- tor.

A firm in England has developed a mechanical sow which promises to greatly increase that country-is pork production. The device con- sists of a. long milk-filled case with fourteen artificial teats sticking out of the sides. An infra- red lamp keeps the piglets warm. Purpose of the device is to take over most. of a normal cow's eight- week nursing job, saving the mother pigls strength and fat so that she can have three instead of two litters a year. u Calgary Al- berlan.

A big part of the cost. of both

drinking and smoking is taxes... So far as we know there are no laws prohibiting a person from processing his own tobacco plants into tobacco ready for smoking, nor is he taxed on that tobacco. While the product. might be infer- ior, we wonder why more smok- ers don't try not only rolling but: growing their own. A tobacco of sorts might. even be grown in backyards in Calgary. The over- age smoker spends many times as much on clgarets as on potatoes. yet just. a. few square. feet would keep him in smokes for ll year. - Calgary Albertan. The child who forethoughtfully declared her intention of marry- ing some one with "lots of broth- ers and sisters," in order to pro- vide a supply of aunts and uncles, for their future children. recalls. the rather more selfish desire of the Due de Saint-Simon recorded in his Memoirs. "All this summer." he writes. "my mother was solely occupied in finding it good match for me. Some attempt was made to marry me to Mlle. De Royan. It would have been B. noble and rich marriage: but. I was alone, Mlle. dc Royau was an orphan, and I wished s father-in-low and a fam- ily upon whom I could lean." - Munchester Guardian.

The University of western 0n- tario with a total enrolment of 4,850 is responsible for the annual expenditure of t5.000,000 in Lon- don and the adjacent townships. Operating expenses of the univer- sity in 1952 were s2,3(5,646. The report estimates "on B. moat con- servative basls," that the faculty staff end student body occasion a gross expenditure of at least five millions. Post-graduate research brings money to London. In 1952 these grants totalled ssseooo of which 820,000 was spent in the Facility of Medicine. - London Free Press.

It is reported to us that I Iocll dog belonging to is local family committed something of an out- rage shortly before Christmas. This dog, while the family was out, managed to find three Christmas presents. yet to be delivered, in the -back of the house. The animal tore open and investigated all three packages. and found himself can- fronted with a choice of nutl. candy and cheese. To the eternal glory of the cheesemukerl of Leeds. it may be reported the: this dog passed up the nuts and candy, but consumed half of the top of the locally made ch!-eae. obviously a dog of taste, and discri.mlnetion.- -Brockville Recorder and Times.

Minister of Education W. J. Dunlop has agreed to give come financial auiatnnoe to the educa- tion of serlomly recorded chil- dren in Toronto. where I school for them is ornnized and operat- ed by I pnrentr council. We hope such assistance also will be pro-

vided for similar enterprises in other parts of Ontario. There is an organization in Windsor, of peo- ple closely interested in this prob- lem, the objective also being to help provide these children with education and training. Many of them can be taught: much. This certainly is something to be en- couraged. It is 0 great. solace to parents to know that all that can be done will be done. And, to the extent education helps such chil- dren becoming self-supporting in later life. it is of general advan- tage. Naturally, effective educa- tion can't be given easily or cheap- ly to children thus Afflicted. It is a heavy burden if parents have to bear the full load. That is why provincial help would be apprec- iated.-Windeor star.

Should it require 21 cents. or in 3-4 per cent, to get: A dozen Grade A Large eggs from the former produccrto the city con- sumer? Egg prices have dropped latgl and producers have been won ering. In Edmonton the pro- ducere have been wondering. In Edmonton the producer gets 34 cents a dozen for Grade A Large. the wholesalers are charging 44 cents to retailers, and the retailers are charging 55 cents to consum- ers. We suppose if eggs dropped to 21 cents to consumers the produc- ers would have to give them away in order that the costs or whole- saling and retailing might be paid. We're wondering if we're not: going, R. little bit crazy in this matter of food servicing costs. -Lethbridge Herald.

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ASSENT WITHIIELD

From 9. despatch to Lieutenant. Governor Sir Charles A. Fitzroy from Lord Russell, Colonial Secre- tary, Downing street, London, Oct 13, 1840:

"An Act passed by the Legisla- ture of Prince Edward: Island. No. 542 in the records of this office. to authorize the erection of I building near Charlottetown an an Asylum for insane persons and oher subjects of charlt,'. and pro- vide for the future maintenance of the some) places the Lunatic Asy- lum under the core of ten trustees, all of whom, with the exception of the Chief Justice. must be mmbcrs of the Legislature, and six of whom must be members of the Home ,0! Assembly, selected by that body. To these trustees are committed ver- ious administrative powers.

"Her Majesty's Government cun- not be parties to encroachment: of this kind. on the rule: which should separate from each other t.he functions of the Executive Government and than of the Legislative bodies. society It. In-ge is without any real uid effective security for the right. discharge of administrative duties, especially when connected with 0. peciinlnry trust, when such duties and trust. are assumed by the members of the popula branch of the Legislature.

"The Royal ueent will. therefore. not be given to this Act. until the management of this Asylum be trnnlferred. by a supplementary Act, from the Legbhtlve bodies to the ltxecurvu Guvei-nment of the IA- lnnd.” '

COMPLIBTE VISUAL rmmaonou AND ANNALYSI5 -

G. F. HUTCHESON

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lamp and climbed the etiiirs to his

seemed ufe, friendly end secure.

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In Glen Morlpton, near Conund- croc. two rough stones on the riv- er bank mark the grave of Rod- erick MacKenzle, whose brave deed haa.won him a place among the immortals.

Roderick was one of the Prince's bodyguard. After Culloden, when those of the Jacobitea who had escaped the sword had scattered and were in hiding, our hero was in Glen Moriston, perhaps at. the time when Prince Charles Edward was in the safe-keeping of" the Seven Men of Glen Moriston in Uaimh, Rualridh IIB. Selig, Cave of Roderick the Hunter, high up in Colre Dho.

These were dark days for the people of Glen Morlston. Cumber- land": soldiers mercilessly ravag- ed the glen, killing old and young, and in is. contemporary account it is said that the "militia. from the Isl of Skye" (it. will be remem- be ed that. the MacLeods were hostile to the Jacobites) were urg-

ed by their officers to plunder the glen when the Earl of London, ac- companied by MacLeod and Sir Alexander MacDonald of sleet. passed through Glen Morlston with their followers some little time after Culloden. All this time I reward of 23ll,000 was offered for the capture of the Prince, alive or dead. , U 0 O

Roderick MacKenzle we: the Prince's double, and when a. party of soldiers found him in hiding t:heir joy must. have been great at the thought. of the reward which would be theirs. MacKenzie, no doubt hearing their excited shouts that. they had found the royal fug- itive and seeing that escape was hopeless, refused to surrender and fought. determinedly against odds. When he tell he had the courage and the presence of mind to say, almost. with his dying breath, "Alas, you have slain your Prince." The soldiers severed -.his head, which

laiid at. Fort. Augustus. An officer of the Fort. Augustus garrison, no doubt by Cumber- landts orders, approached MacDon- ald of Klngsburgh, who was a prisoner there. and very earnestly asked him whether he would recog- nise the Princes head if he saw it. Klngsburgh mate answer, "I would know the head very well, provided it; be on the ho ." The officer then said. "What. if the head he not upon the body?" "In that case, sir," replied Kingsburgh. "I will not. pretend to know anything about. it.” Realizing that Kings- burgh would not. identiy the head if it. was brought to him, the of- ficer did not trouble him further. But. the Duke of Cumberland, ap- parently having satisfled himself that the head was indeed that of the Prince, made D. hurried depart- ure for London to acquaint. the authorities there of the good news, taking with him the head. Rich- ard Morison, one of the Prince's servants, was brought to London from Carllsle, where he lay under sentence of death, to identify the head. He was 'unable to travel immediately, through illness, and when at last he arrived the head was beyond recognition. , There is no doubt that Roderick