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OCTOBER 3!. 1951”

aspect is equally disturbing. wz Dealing with this, Mr. Churchill spoke as follows: "The financial loss is most

grave and affects the whole of our position

Lessons From Europe In Community Progress

fWieYe'S just not a. vacant house

W W. mud Gummn Publlmn. Cm in the present dollar crisis. Now that the ' CIRCULATION Abadan refinery has passed out of our angwheye .5, haunt By Leo p, Mon.” . Total City Zone .... -- ' - a,-lo.-. hands we have to buy oil in dollars instead "Owada , ' part one (continued) not-II Tr-ullns Zone 3-:33, of in sterling. This means that at least 39' mu mm" Rmwed, ix ;:'mo':,::' Pjf" "gym no.9 S9300 millions have to be found every year MD ronssrnv POLICIES IN wmsrsnu minor:

by other forms of export and services. The

xresident and Associate Editor, Ian A. Burnett.

Associate Editor. Frank Walker.

"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than

the Weakest Ink".

' way of the Royal car by breaking through

CHARLOTTETOWN. WEDNESDAY. OCT. 81. I951

Mayorless Charlottetown

The judgment given yesterday by the Chief Justice has in it two things for the citizens of Charlottetown. This City has been without a Mayor since Declaration Day last May 4 when Mayor B. Earle lilac- Donald was returned as a member of the Legislative Assembly. Secondly the calling of a by-election being overdue it is far from certain that the City can legally have an Acting Mayor, at least until a move is made to hold the by-election when pre- sumably it would be proper to have an Acting lVl2iyor until a Mayor can be elected.

it is well that the situation has been clarified at this time, although it would have been better had it not occurred. If things had been allowed to drift, as prob- ably would have happened but for Mr. Farmer's petition. the question might have been decided by the Court in a case turn- ing on the legality of the City Council's proceedings, to the embarrassment and perhaps grave pecuniary loss of the party relying on the authority of a by-law or other act.

As Chief Justice Campbell emphasized In his judgment, municipal administration should be conducted strictly in accordance with the enabling statutory constitution, and any deviation from it incurs the risk of invalidating some proceedings of the governing body. This applies not only to municipalities. but all governing bodies. Apart from this fact, it is essential that the laws passed by our Legislatures and Parliament. be upheld, and most desirable that those in public office set an example in this respect. If this should lead to undue inconvenience, there is always the oppor- tunity under our democracy of amending or repealing the laws.

In this case, there was a doubt in the minds of many with respect to the real meaning of the relevant statute. The moral here is that our legislators should be more careful in framing their enactments, and avoid such costly ambiguities in fu- ture.

llallowe'en Festivities

The Kinsmen Club are again providing an enjoyable I-lallowc'en party for all chil- tlren of the city this evening, and there .vill also be other less numerously attend- ad entertainments in keeping with the sea- zon. Such festivities are to be warmly encouraged, and are perhaps the best way of insuring that mischief will not find work for idle hands to do. Certainly there should )8 no tolerance given to destruction of pro- Jerty or rowdyism in any shape or form.

In recent years we have been fortunate in this respect in our Hall0we'en celebra- lions, and it is to be hoped that tonight's Jbservance of the festival will be no ex- ception, and will have no sorry aftcrmaths in the Police Court. Parents can do much ny cautioning their children in this regard, and encouraging them to enjoy themselves in harmless ways.

Royal Welcome

Caiiadiziiis are rapidly losing the rep- utation of being somewhat reserved. The Royal tour has everywhere brought out an enthusiasm that would hardly have been suspected. Military formations and organ- izations turning out in a body may still ex- press their feelings in the traditional three disciplined cheers but the crowds who come from far and near to see Princess Eliz- abeth and the Duke give vent to a roar of welcome as stirring as it is unstudied.

The Welcome of the West was almost riotous and the vast numbers turning out

in Montreal must have been indeed im-.

presslve. In this smallest Province the numbers will be less but enthusiasm at least as great as on any part of the Cana- dian visit. We are not likely to block the

the lines but in loyal, friendly and enthus- -iastic welcome we will take second place to none.

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The Alarm Loss

The loss by the United Kingdom of Abadan oil was a leading issue in the Brit- ish election. The speeches brought out a V which has largely been overlooked Ighh Ildc of the Atlantic. Here there has been gust concern about the political

out like a lion but there should be.

today, though few probably care whether or no.

the cabinet, a plum which they well knew could only be accepted by submerging their corporal's guard of members in the Con- servative majority.

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of women industrially employed in the Old Country. More than seven million are now

force.

skirts came in some years ago has proved only too real. ladies' nether extremities as far as head-

individuals or groups walking on the high-

working people of this country must make and export at a rate of one million dollars more for every working day in a year. This is a dead loss which will directly af- fect our purchasing power abroad and the cost of living at home."

EDI l'0RIAL NUI ES

There is no tag about October going

0 O O I-lailowe'en in these sophisticated times has little of superstition but much of dress-

ing up. games and good things to eat. & O O

The season for Rainbow trout closes

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The British Liberals declined a seat in,

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Ever since the” First Great War there has been a steady increase in the number

Women contribute labour

in paid jobs in Britain. almost one-third of the nation's

One of the hazards predicted when long Motorists who could spot lights would reach have since found that

way are very much harder to see. 0 D 0

We worry. or rather we don't worry, about the national debt of Canada. The British National debt increased by 1119 (3350) million during the financial year 1950-51 to a total of iI25,922 (5S77,760) million, and is still "going strong", due to the international situation. , I O 0

Our equinoctical gale, so-called because it is supposed to prevail about the time of the equinoxes, was about a month late this year, but did not fail to do a consid- crablc amount of damage, including de- priving The Guardian of the necessary pow- er to run the paper off the press for al- most three hours. O O C

John Evelyn, English diarist, was born this date 1620. He was abroad for four years after the outbreak of the civil war. After the Restoration he received Govern- ment appointments. He wrote a number of works but is remembered for his famous "Diary" which shows the graver side of the royalist party with admirable force.

In these days of socialistic and state security projects, it is refreshing to have an old established business firm like R. T. Holman Ltd. luncheoning its Twenty-five Year Club, with an initial membership of almost twenty. It is a farther sign of the times to learn that the firm is establishing a pension scheme. which will not conflict with the old age pensions.

Let them all come! Professional and highly trained immigrants are steadily ar- riving in Canada to take up positions or to ,create new ones. Britain's professional lawn tennis champion, Derek Bocquet, his wife Pamela and their children are plan- ning to make their home in Hamilton, Ont., where he is to be squash and tennis pro at the Thistle Club. Mrs. Bocquet, the former Pamela Seaton, represented Glou- cestershire at squash, lawn tennis and hockey and, in 1936, she and her husband won the mixed doubles at the Junior Wim- bledon. Hamilton sports community is fortunate in securing them.

In a recent press statement Attomey- General J. W. Carmen of Saskatchewan called for re-establishment of Federal milk subsidies which, he charged, were discon- tinued in 1946 in contempt of parliament. Milk subsidies were paid to both producers and consumers during the war. In 1946, Mr. Corman said, the House of Commons in a majority resolution recommended their continuation, but after the House was ad- journed "the government passed an order in council abolishing the milk subsidy" which, he declared, "was done in contempt of Parliament." "The Ottawa cabinet has the power to provide for a milk subsidy, just as it is providing for steel and gold and other subsidies", the Saskatchewan attorney-general said. "The remedy should

to take wing for Houston. and found

dress. and the possessor of many

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Learning To Curlsy g f New Yorker)

Miss Eveline Mccullagh, a noted ballroom-dancing instructor of London and. pro tem, the Sham. rock Hotel, of Houston. is in town. fresh from a triumphant week in Washington. D.O.. where she coached a number of senators' wives and other ladies' slated to meet Princess Elizabeth on her vlslt to this country later this month in e curtsy suitable for meeting a princess. We had break- fast with her the other morning in the dining room of the Hotel Shelton, from which she is soon her to be a pink lady in a pink an oddity.

We asked Miss Mcc. whether there was any special trick to the curtsy, end she got up and execut- ed one or deep kneel, back straight - right in the dining room of the Shelton, to the astonish- ment of the other breakfasters. 'You have to do it exactly the proper way", she said. "You don't just bob up and down; you use certain muscles in your legs. I gen- erally teach it in three lessons. Properly done. it throws your head up and gives you e beautiful, reg- al, upright carriage. In teaching it, and in teaching ballroom dancing I make my pupils look utterly, ut- terly graceful. j

RE THE ROYAL TOUR

The Duke asked

The Aide, and

The Aide asked

de I-Iavlland:

"Could we have a canopy To guard the Royal head?- The Aide asked

de I-levilend.

de Haviland

said, "Certainly,

I'll go and tell

The men

Then

Before they go to lied.”

The Duke nudged

The Princess,

And pointed to

The canopy;

The Duke said.

"Better. eh?”

And nodded his head "Nobody," he said.

Smiling at her

Tenderly.

"Nobody," he said.

As he looked through

The canopy,

"Nobody.

My darling.

could call ml

A fussy man

BUT

I did want. e. canopy to guard

the Royal head!"

(Apblogies to l.. A. Milne) - lyce Coutts in the Globe and Mail).

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3 The Age-old story

-2 ;. &.5V .1 Io yo not unequally yoked to- gether with unbelievers: for what fellowship bath righteousness with unrighteousneaaf and what com- munion hath light with dark- neuf . . . Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye sev- arate. saith the Lord. and touch not the unclean thing: and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you. and ye shall be my sons and daughters, Ipllh the Lord Almighty.

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DRIJIUIILLIE. Alta. - (OP) - lire chief William Clutcrson said "Now he seen everything" after a bias was extinguished on the roof of the rallwiy water tank at nearby Rosedalc.

Hempatoad, nulaud -

Hllllli. (OP) - While waiting for a church to be built in a new neighborhood

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A coat. of arms for freedom has been suggested in the United States by F. P. Whltehalr. Under- Secretary of the Navy. lle pro- poses dropping lions, unicorns and the conventional backgrounds of heraldry and replacing thorn with the torch of educutlon, the scales of justice. the wheel. sheafs of grain and clasped hands. Nice symbols, but. no prettier. -Ottawa Journal.

Fllsherles Minister Mayhew did of. think much of serving mutton ops and kidneys to Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip at. Vancouver's civic luncheon nnd didn't. mind saying so. "They shotlld have served BC salmon or something like that." Mr. May- hew's criticism underlines our failure to develop some distinct- ively British Columbian dish, not only for our Royal Visitors but for the tourists who annually come in their thousands from other parts

of the continent. - Vancouver Province. The "mystique" that enables

peoples accustomed to monarchy to regard their sovereign with a mixture of personal affection and offlclnl respect is something which those of us who elect the head of our Government every four years cannot hope to cxper- lence. We have no such flesh-and- blood symbol of unity and con- tinuity as the British Royal Farm- lly personifies to its for-flung subjects. What. we can, and what most of us do, acknowlcdge is that. under a. constitutional monarchy, the nations over which Princess Elizabeth will in all hu- man likelihood somedny rule, are Just as free and democratic as we are under our republic. - Detroit Free Press.

The cables report the death in England or the fourth Marquis of Bristol, who retired from the Royal Navy 40 years ago with the rank of Rear Admiral and had lived in retirement at Bury St. Edmunde since that time. That was just matter-of-fact obituary material which overlooked the things that made lord Bristol a person of consequence. He had A horror. we read elsewhere. of stu- tomobiles, and until the years crept up on him (he died at 08) he was often to be seen coasting downhill into Bury St. Edmunds on his bicycle with his feet on the handle-bars. Before world War I Lord Bristol launched a cam- paign agninst what he called the excessive charges of men's tailors, said his wife had made him a suit which cost under 314. Other times he would buy ready-made cloth- ing which his wife would alter to fit him. Bristol was more than simply a marrquis. He was a full- fledged eccentric. of whom we have too few in this standardized

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When a motorist kills someone, he is almost certain to be prose- cuted unless the tragedy was ob- viously due to the carelessness of the victim. only a small per- centage of people are, killed in that way, and in almost every case the driver is sent 'for trial. But in the case of shooting fatali- ties it is the exception and not the rule to prosecute the hunter

When travelling in Europe, es-

pecially from Italy up north and through scendlnevin, them are two things that strike you very forcibly. The first, after having, for a few months lived and talked with people from the remote and undeveloped colonies of Africa, India. and Eastern Asia; the tre- mendous progress that was made in Western Europe following the spread of Christianity is astound- ing. People became civilized, God- fesring and educated according to the standards of those days and as a result have been making scientific progress ever since. ' The second one. is the appear- ance of the special care of their forestry areas. I shall only at.- tempt to describe in general the controls and accepted programs of reforestretion that are followed in those countries. In France, parts of eastern Holland, Germany and Scandinavia, there are different regulations, but the program is similar. Because of the crowded population and the value they put on land, waste just cannot be per- mitted. No marsh will lie idle, if it is at all possible to drain it level it off and plant it out in trees.

In forestry lots of those coun- tries. generally speaking, it would be quite impossible to start a fire. In all areas there are definite for- cetry regulations, but the system varies from country to country and province to province. In some areas, there is state control and supervision of the forests under the county engineer and his staff. Here a farmer must farm his for- est and cannot cut a stand of lum- ber or trees without first having consulted and obtained permission from the person in control. In some other areas those powers. controls and responsibilities are delegated to the "county forestry committee" of the farmers them- selves.

! O c This is usually a special com- mittee of the cooperative market- ing organization or of the Farm- er's Union. In those places, that committee or organization has field men who advise and help the for-

for manslaughter, or the careless discharge of firearms. Instead, he seems to get more sympathy than the deceased. The commonest fet- nllties are firing into a bush where some movement has been seen, as-I suming that the movement was, caused by a deer. without maklngj sure that it was :1 deer, so eager are hunters to get their deer. "Poor fellow." says official opin- ion. meaning the fool who fired the shot, "he will be punishedl enough by remembering what he has done." But official opinion does not adopt that attitude in the case of a. motorist. He must stand trial. -- St. Thomas Times- Journal.

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NEW GLASGOW SETTLEMENT

One of the early writers about Prince Edward Island was John Mecgregor, whose "Observations on Emigration in North America" contained references to this Island and who subsequently published the following letter, which throws an interesting light on the settle- ment of New Glasgow:

"Edinburgh, Scotland. 114th February, 1829.

"My dear Sir,-

"I was much gratified on ob- serving such a proof of the flour- ishing condition of the settlement of New Glasgow, in Prince Ed- ward Island, as that of your no- tlcing in your Sketches of our American Colonies.

"To secure a foundation to that Settlement. I encouraged and guarded the first settlers, until they had marked out and possess- ed the grounds accordlng to the notions with which they had left their native soil, and to secure its existence and prosperity after- wards. I supplied their wants so for as to enable them to labour on the land, without working for oth- ers. and, by this measure. to make them feel attached to it as their own. Afterwards, I advanced ne- cessaries to them, not exceeding altogether the value of their im- provtments.

"W. E. Mccormack."

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est. owners. slaughtering of the forests is not tolerated; an organ- ized thinning program is usually mapped out. and before thinning out his wood lot, or any section of it. the farmer must. consult with the local forestry field map. This is an accepted practice because people have found that it pays. Those field men are usually con- nected with. or are managers of the marketing organization and help in the procuring of seedlings and saplings for planting out the cleared areas.

In most provinces of Germany, a person must plant three new trees for every one that he cuts down, and this must. be done with- in a certain specified time. But there is little compulsion required now; it is an accepted and profit- able practice. After chopping in an area, the first thing to do once the lumber is removed, is to haul out and clean up the tops of all trees and any rubbish that is ly- ing around and burn it; in an open space. This keeps the woods clean. removes the fire hazards and allows the young trees room to grow properly.

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sometimes. especially in. the case of oaks or pines. ilCl'mlSSl0ll is given (and it is a profitable pro- cedure). to cut eway all the trees in an area. Within two years af- ter this is done. this whole area is cleaned up with bulldozers and heavy machinery. levelled off, and once the turf has started to pro- vide shelter, the areo is seeded out again. This is the job of the we- men in Finland.ond in most coun- tries now the practice is to plant out mixed trees. Spruce similar to Canadian spruce is the most pop- ular in the north countries but they also grow great. quantities of oak and pine. White birch, too. grows naturally.

We -stopped and had a chat with a group of aged women in Finland who were planting pine seedlings. Those eight neighbouring ladies worked together at this work ev- ery afternoon in the spring months. until the planting was done on each of their farms. They felt it their responsibility and a very important. job. After I snap- pcd a picture of them in their heavy trousers and top costs with bandon around their heads. some with a spade, and others behind with the baskets of pine seedlings. they smiled and said they enjoyed the fresh air and exercise and