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Editor and Manager. Ian A. Burnett. Associate Editor, Frank Walker.

"The strongest memory is weaker than

CHARLDTTETOH N. FRIDAY. MARCH 5. IDMV

"Covers Prince Edward Island like the dew"

ilepsrtment. littnwn.

CIRCULATION

the weakest ink".

The post-war Japanese took to the form of democratic government that was impos- ed upon them with such apparent enthusi- asm that a great many outsiders were of

the opinion true." course. been

As

maturity.

made even iv Fascist organtzaiioits. danger has been confined to small isolated

groups made

their teens and early twenties. little doubt. however. that at least some

the Fascist.

watching the movements of groups with interest and with a secret hope that they might political prestige.

Already,

ports, violent anti-American and pro-nation- alist demonstrations have occurred in vari-

ous parts of

fortunate. to put it mildly, if Japan were obliged to enter an era of internal conflicts between Communist and Fascist terrorists;

it would he should come

basis of mutual anti-foreign sentiment. This latter may be a more remote possibility than the other; but it is by no means out of the question. since Fascism and Com- munism have muclt in common. case. democracy in Japan would receive a

heavy blow,

Municipalities in Newfoundland

Local government in Canada is. by and large, a fairly well-established political in-

stitution. The incorporation of a new municipal unit no longer evokes widespread interest. An exception to this general

statement is

recent and rapid development of local gov- ernmeryt units in the Province of Newfound- land. exceeding the rate of a similar de- velopment in Prince Edward Island.

Until 1938 the only incorporated munici-

pality in the

Post, was the capital city of St. Johns. In that year the second municipality was in- corporated. the third in 1942, the fourth in 1943. From 1945 to 1952 over thirty ad- ditional municipalities were established. In

the absence provision of

become the responsibility of the Provincial

Government. grapliy. and

population was scattered through a large number of small settlements, provides :1 partial explanation for the somewhat late

development

The impetus for the expansion and de- velopment of municipal government in re- cent years has been provided partly by the

, shift in the character of settlement brought. about by changing economic conditions. i.e., population growth in some areas. result it has become increasingly difficult

It has not been all plain sailing. of

liberated munist coiispiracy has whatever attempts have been made to lead the nation along the road to full democratic Recently the situation has been

A New Danger

that it was ”too good to be in other countries that had

front Fascism, the Com- hindered seriously

orse by the emergence of neo- Thus far this new

tip chiefly of young people in There is of l leaders of pre-war years are these youth in time take on definite

according to authenticated re-

tlic country. It would be un-

a tragedy if the antagonists to eventual coalition on the

In either

perhaps a fatal one.

provided by the comparatively

Province. reports The Listening

of organized municipalities the municipal services had largely

Newfoundland's history, geo- the fact that the bulk of its

of municipal institutions.

Asa

1 est

tistics as quoted by Industry. disinclination towards reading.

CESE.

any of them.

parison with some other a low degree. bers of people who visit

evidence of it.

ments, would also tell a tale.

factual value.

tions.

one time.

shelves.

World Day of Prayer. 0 0 0

Granite City. an additional halpence.

O 0 I

moons in addition to the

could spread into space.

again passable.

bridge.

The

EDITOR-IAL NVOTES

This is not, of course, necessarily For every person in the land to be reading a library book at the same time the minimum requirement would be one book per head of population; but the reading index of any nation would certainly not be despicable where every person read a book as often, say, as once a month. were doite, a correspondingly smaller num- ber of books would be required. Reading habits comprise much more than a mere number of books. instance the man who, in the course of years. has amassed the comparatively mod- library of two hundred books. With these old favourites around him, he might be an avid reader and still not use services of a public library more than twice, in a year. On the opposite side of the page, we have the ”skimmer” who will borrow, five books every two weeks and, a matter, of hours after perusing them, be unable to: tell the title, the author or the contents of

If

Take

of

In

It would be interesting to pursue survey one step further and discover what percentage of this very small number books is in the hands of readers at any There always seems to be an enormous nuntbcr still remaining on

Aberdonians are jubilant. about a cent increase in bus and tram fares in the By walking they now Sayeiare calling a niectiitg

Cl

In all the public libraries cf Canada there are only 6.8 million books or less than half a book per head of population. according toithe Dominion Bureau of Sta-

COH-

clusion generally drawn is that of a national

the

that

for

the

The chances are that the newspapers are right in their contention that, in com- nauons world, the reading of books in Canada is at But a survey on the num- cinemas, spend their evenings listening to the radio or watching television. would give better The rising circulation fig- ures of pulp and slick magazines and, in- cidentally..the newspaper weekly supple-

the

W ho

The attack should really be upon the quality of the reading material that is sel- ected rather than on the quantity. respect, the number of books in the public libraries make some effort to select for their shelves books having some literary or It. follows then. that if they require only half it book per head of pop- ulation. the reading tastes of the mass of our population are flowing in other direc-

that

the

of

the

re-

If the U. S. Army finds a new moon or lonc one with which mankind has been familiar it had bet- ter keep its discovery top secret. jumping is an earth-bound habit but it

aim-

Montague residents and others will soon I M elected mum 0, WP people,

have use of the new bridge until the ap- Now our Parliamentarians have . . . dipped into the treiisury chest preaches of the iempmaly Suucmre arP.4'llld helped themselves with beau-t

that traffic can soon again be diverted in order to allow completion of the perniancnl

Whatever else Sir Winston Churchill'-:!

for the Provincial Government to admin-.Government has done since taking office in consistently

istcr municipal services directly to larger. population centres.

The expansion and in-

creasing cost of these services has made it

necessary to provide for

their financing

through local taxation. principaly property

taxes which had hitherto been little llS0(i:m'ease

in Newfounrllanrl.

The recent and municipal government in Newfoundland hasl i I-lducationalists must bear in mind the

rapid organi7;ition - of

been accomplished in the face of not a few

difficulties.

In many cases newly elected . councils, facing the responsibilities of civic

office for the first tintc. have had to meet urgent demands for basic municipal services with the lintiicd finances pt'ovidcd by new

and relatively

undeveloped tax sources.

Added to this is the real difficulty provided by the absence of ii tradition of local gov- ernment which would enable citizens to un- derstand the objectives and functions of municipal government.

Despite these obstacles. residents of the newly incorporated municipalities have re- sponded to'the challenges presented by the

establishment Ordinary citizens rive come forward

of institutions.

in

municipal

sufficient numbers to assume the respons- ibilities of civic office for the first time. They have accepted the obligations impos-

tally.

' ed by local self-govemment with enthusiasm v and a willingness to face problems realist- In their efforts to discharge these

ncw responsibilities they can be assured of

and continuing interest of the

wit!!! of municipal Canada.

iNovember, 1951. it has been

successftil in improving the

,falling off.

curriculum.

resenting a Bible story.

the Garden of Eden."

fot

'eign ichange situation of the United Kingdom. 'After an initial drop shown in lquarter of 1952 there has been a steady in- in reserves shown to the , l.lanuary. i934, without a single quarterly it W" M, M, M

the

end

x

OX-

first

Oflrnt. and could not get it riiisu.

children they have to deal with and their general experience as well as the official The Associated Press, for in- stance. tells of a Sunday School teacher who asked the class to draw a picture rep- One effort showed three faces in A long sports car. represent- ing "the Lord driving Adam and Eve otit of

Pierre Simon. Marquis de French mathematician and

at least on a par with Newton.

ments still described in text books.

heat. electricity and magnetism. made important discoveries on tension and the velocity of sound.

Laplace, astronomer. died this date 1827. An obscure teacher of,My window 0pm"'"m H" autumn mathematics, he won renown in his profes-l ' sion and recognition as 8 scientific thinkerl He work- ed on problems of the solar system and the new science of heat. carrying out experi- His equation of the potential function is the most important single equation in the whole of modern physics. applying particularly to He also surface

1

PUBLIC FORUM

This column ll open in the discussion by wrrospondenu of questions of lnterest. The Guardian does not neeesnh - lly endorse the opinion of i

l correspondents.

TROUT FISHING SEASON

Sir.-As all signs point loan early spring I feel that. the powers- llmt-lw should bcsllr tliciiiselvcsl to have Ottawa oliange iltc upon-l mg of our trout. fishing season.l from April 15th to April lst.

Unfortunately our trout. have not. heard of the so-called "Pro- gressive Education" with the re- sult. that. they are still doingl their own thinking (page Mr. Dewey: so that. guided by their natural instinct. they complete the "cycle" of returning to the sea, the instant. that. the "icy, chill" leaves the fresh water. Theft- return to lleallh-gllllllg salt uatei-l is very necessary, as it repairs the: damage done by their being in fresh water all winter, thus cn-i; nbling them to rebuild strong vlg-. orous bodies. so neress.-iry, uhen the trout rctuins to the llfliiflt iiaier. there to again begin the' title of propagtiiiiig tlicir kiiiil. l

My many years of observation. have caused me to fix the date of the return of the trout to the head. waters as. at the first. full moon, tide in July. I am advised that the Fish and Game Association

for next! week. Members should come in. large numbers to this meeting

and make known their wishes.

. I am. Sir, cic., , y JOSEPH FRANCIS.' Cltarlot.tctown.

Iillll.-ll. MAIL El:RIllERS

Sir,-As 3 reader of The Guar- vli.m for many ycars I recall fl lot. of letters drawing the atten- tion of our members of Parliiiinent lall over Canada to their duties

It is "7 b9 h0Ped- h0W9V9Vv tiful raises in salary. Electors f-lllipcrifll War

over the Dominion contributed tof my lhhlii this iiicrensc. The Gov- ernment. has nlsri raised postage rates on first class miill, and slipped an extra cent on post. rards which will take it lot of lick-. g. 1 , Last year, Just. before the elect-1 .ion, they pass:-ti mi somn bait. to the rural m.-ill coiiriers. telling them that beginning with It cer-

tain month their raise would come into effect: than after the election was over they started

thrm

notifying thn majority of suffici-

that they were rcccivinq

cent. got. it, but the Postmaster General. Why was this not. brought.- tn it vote and dccidcrl by R ma-i jority for or against it. instead ofl being left to one man in the Gov- ernmcnt?

Our Island membnrs should all got. together and see whnt. can be done in the way of getting it misr- for our rural mnil couriers in this Province. I would like VPf'V much to draw this matter to the F

Maybe five pri-

7ZeM...:f&9 t7oe&'fGma

ETERNAL llvEAl'TY

night.

In vain I watchtd for sleep to visit me:

How should sleep dull mine ears, and dim my sight.

Whn saw the stars. and listen'd to the non?

Ah, how the City of our God is

fiiir!

if. without. sea. and stories: though it be.

For joy of the majestic beauty there.

mourn the Ictl. -Lionel Johnson (1861-1002.)

,for the liberation of our i:ounir.v.i

Old Ch rloileiown uni 2. L i.)

God ,, ,.,,,l EARLY nun-:smNo MILL

mocked: for whatsoever 1 mauii soweth. that shall he also riuIp.i Fr?” P "W" "I "'9 '”"f""ll Fm. ha that sowed, W M! nahniit-cling of gthe Central Agricul- shall at H", Huh ,3”, corrupunn; It-ral Society, hclil gal Charlotte- but. he one noiveth to the Spirit Wjfvn Janlmfy 4- 13311

shall of the Spirit. reap life ever- mfgfeenbly W I 5996181 order of

Be not deceived;

lasting. last general meeting. your

committee have imported from Ml-Pnl-10” 0l the Pflmf Mll'll5lPF..S'.coilanrl s Threshing Mill, adapt- I-ion. Louis St. Latireitt, and tlie-on to go Olillf'l' with one or two

Drew. risilnrscs. it cost L22 1-ls. Gd. ster-

li. effects C0l.ll'l6l's all over Cun- ling, and in now being creclcd in ada. Just. recently I read a lot. of Mr. William Dockendorff's barn. debating on the forty-hour week and is expected to be in Active they are putting through for post operation in A few days. When- office clerks. I would like to know ever its capabilities are fully as- how the Postmaster General is "'”l'lRlllNl- it Will he will l!.V Duh- iyyjng to save money in this V.-my, lic auctltiii, subject to the inspec- and still having to put on extra 13”" "l W”'5"'"5 W110 may be de- help. s:rous of making models of the I am. Sir, etc..

machine . . . ONE WHO HAS DRIVEN RURAL "The secretary (Mr. Peter Mac- MAIL

gcwanl said he had hoped to have Sumnirrsidr, R. R.

Opposition Leader. Mr.

;fl.i-cn able in iiitike .1 fiivoriiblc rc- lpnrt on the Tlircsiiing lilill, but the i?'.ilP of the ire and uinicr roads ,pi'cvs-iiti-rl it being got over to ' i" l.lii. Dockenrinrff's until A few Si ,-A , d bi-. ' in Time N:th?ilr1l;tidsIt1l(iereol;re fznllilggidays 52"! H9 1”" ”s""d "mt The Netlierlunds tlicrc fIll' i;r'ivc -the mpchxn-K would improve or huh of many thousands of (:;llIZll.llaflii::f: 2,7,1ih!,i:,::.,amggfn,i,Tif(::eV,m; s.ui(liers who gave their lives inih -, ' i ' . . ' P ' 1 c gncn lhn public icsprcling ii. an it mumtzl - fl;-.i)OISC'(I of. lie felt. uncicr inany ' MT;-taking mu opportunity 'olni.igatrnns to Mr. Dockendorff for mm? '0 Ion In Gui”. m dmw Tm. the assistance he had rendered in wmwmnnl to " IniSu'ndcrsLaniu";: lflrl imiltvr, nnd for the time find iliat llilS arisen front lime to llllluiillnllalp-I10,ha?d mwmpd M 1L H" i connection with the caring of mm H ium make Fmends 1" -(hmadmn KHWM In MW Nmhu. some degree. by ll'ir('.vllll1R out. all lands, the building of cemcterlezt.:;::P:L:1(:n,,:i?fore the mmmne 1' and the creating of tombstones. i -.,s.,.ig,& During thr- war The Ncthnrl.-iiitis we nnd lvI.'ll'k Twain so precise in NOD10 rnnsidr-rvri it. an honour lnlli-is figiirestlii-ii. ii's hiird to believe lrok alter ulliul war srnvcs bullhim. Mai-k says tiiai he "counted ill; tllirplilxtxiaulor; crsfmrirsr lhundred iknd thirty-six differ- ? "1 PF 3 F ' I -' en inds of ew England weath- -iim l.00k OVFVF l-ll.” llsk-4 Slnceicr inside of twenty-four hours." that time they have exercised thel what wondtrful drops of Msg

ALLIED WAR GRAVIJS

I-'s'”""l'"l d"V""”" fin” "V" l" 'h" (loin have fallen from the lips of

extensive work of building the H .:t , ,

ccnictr-rics, of tending the fzruvcs ,,.:,::lrdg:.gmm,?1De .X.,hm.i1.i,i and of erecting the tombstones for new of absurdity w den mp 1 H” 20900 "mnme" "1 H" mm" iicinl ii-cathernian the poypulag go.-

m""w"Jth WM 3"” me” hvesliief tint, he alone known what. he

contribution of the lni-iisvzflklng about Gravrs Cnininissinii isj mm” l”'"ph?'5 mme in many nut. I am afraid. always rcnli'I.cd,h””ld53 5(""" l'315f- 59”"? 5USD91iCl. in Canada. and it is to their ct.i::;;l sgmflloiilcr our spirits. I met forts that I wish to draw ntten- 0 19 5"5PCn5l0ll SP0 "10 lion. On its side The Neiherlsndslolher clay. Flor ween before our Government, only as a small token meeting the sun had remained be- es: gmmudn, ling prP5(.'Ili.Pd in,hind pct clouds. showing itself pi.-rpe!tlity thedland on which-I thtcpboui. once A week for an hour or ccme cries an graves are si iia - tin, ed. . l After ii shake-limids and nhearty The Netherlands people foster 5mj1(g he rmmrkcd that sunny the memory of Czinadirin war fivflfiiflayg Wm-E most hopeful when rind, on Rcmenibinnce Dnys. our, mnnkmd was in Em. kmd M de. children often lay flowcrs on lllP.”l-lun1". i griivcs. However, I wish in iiiakcl 1 - - . it rlnnr that the niitsianriinfz ii'oiil(i”J0;j(.1,r1I” :,,.kx1?i:l,,::se9t:er::,gAbe,::(: ir the niiiintcnance and care nf,”ed,zed lmhmchm Comrade mad the cemeteries has been perform-.me om (mlrmus mu I ea-NV re;

The

h'l 1 ”.l w. Cu'.l- . ;(:Iil'iiiIlS'Sl1f:ll. n"I!h.:-l1Comniirssidii1il:: mm this dozier” pamdy M Prndi serves. in all fairness. ilir hi)-l”Oh' mime P0”-U119. SINY dame,

iv-eciniion and gratitude wliirh a.-l Why Lease me. Wli.ll a moment": so often wrongly withheld from, Tl-FvllI1n.l' flame? ti cni. ien Wllell your glory makes me I thought your readers mlghii shout. 'How nice". he interested to know these fiictsl Presto! My joys are melted like I Am. Sir. 4-lc.. North River ice". A. H. .l. l.0VlNl(. My .1 1 , Netherlands Amhassntlor, H youprzicmrn g:l"me:;:ln ;:mim:l: WHXS ilet. behind A heavy wt (1 storm. n I am, Sir. et.c., MINOR. SAXON. Comwsll. P. E.I.

Ottawa. WEATHERAPREIECTS Sir,-Why is it we rheumaticai have n "chronic anxiety about the weather?" Always before it hnp- , pens its advance agent. has iii-I International Folk Song ieuiy invaded our bones. Youi don't. have to be rheumatic, how- ever. or neurotic either to be I

(BBC Loiidon Lelten That. the folk soniu of Scotland

l Men shall not. miss the state, not

iveather prophet. Weather proph- ets evidently "tire town by nature." Wait. Mason tells us that even 'l'I'hc statesman throws his shoul- ders biick'ond stnlghteno out his tie: and says. 'My friends unless it ruins. the weather will be dry'. And when the thought into our brains has peroolated through. we common people nod our hendsand loudly cry. 'I-low t.ruel'"

Madox Ford (Ah, there's I true prophet) offl-iiindedly eiiys: "Sometimes wind and sometimes

run. Then the sun comes back again; sometime: rain and sometimes

ma-.v.

Goodness. how we'd like to know Why t.i: i:':3.:hcr nlters so." if Mr. Ford speaks offhondedly

"F" Very similar to those of Japan W” I aurnmlnz discovery recent- ly made by Marie Blocornbe of the BBC's recorded p rog r g m m M. library. She recenty attended an international conference on folk music held at Binrrltz and several of the people she met there came to visit. her nfterwariis in London.

Amongst them were two do- pnneaa delegates who turned up at. Broadcasting House one day and naked if she would play them come records of British folk music. Miss siocombe. 'who in an expext. in this field. searched through the 330': extensive libnry. extracted longs - from several parts of the United Kingdom and played them for the visitors.

she was not altogether surpris-

"sleepinx outdoor will our- lruomnin." says I physician. so will sleeping indoors.-Kingston Whig-standard. , Ford jokes are much more of s rarity these days than they were when Henry Ford woo promoting

t-ii when the Japanese said that some of the Gaelic records from Ireland had a familiar ring be- cause the melodic form and style of singing of Gaelic foik,mualc still found in the rcmoter parts of the United Kingdom seems to have an affinity with the older forms of true folk music found the world over. But. she was astonished by their comme ts when she played some recordings of worksongs from the islands of the Outer Hebrides. in particular 5. "wsulklng" song in Gaelic.