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THE GUARDIAN

Autborisol ss,Socoml Class Mall Post Otfioo Department. Ottawa.

The Island Guardian Publishing Co. CIRCULATION Total City Zono .... . Retail Trading Zeno All Others Total Net Paid

Editor and Managing Director. J. B. Burnett. Associate Editor, Frank Wslksr.

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

CHABLOTTETOWN. SATURDAY. AUG. 4, 1961. , iilg convention week

i A fitting prelude to Old Home Week activities later in the month will. be the two important conventions which will open simultaneously in Charlottetown on Monday. The Canadian Teachers' Feder- ation will hold their thirtieth annual con- ference herc, with delegates in attendance from coast to coast, while the Independent Order of Oddfellows will be holding their Grand Lodge sessions for the Maritime Provinces and Newfoundland.

The Oddfellows are ever-welcome guests. This year their convention will in- clude the first annual session of the De- partment Council of the Patriarch Militant I. O. O. F. as well as the 93rd annual ses- sion ofuthe Grand Lodge, the 59th Grand Encampment, and the 48th annual session of the Rebekah Assembly. -

For the Teachers Federation, the Pro- vinciai organization has arranged a fine program of tours to various parts of the -, Province as a supplement to the business sessions. The functions will include a Gov-

ernment dinner in Charlottetown on Tues- ;. day evening and a luncheon tendered by

the Town of Summerside on Friday. in . addition to the Federation delegates, there will be a visit here on Tuesday of Ontario scholarship students under the Eastern , Canada Educational Tours sponsored joint- , ly by the Toronto Board of Education and 7 the T. Baton Company. 1 This is the holiday season and Prince Edward Island at this time is unbeaten as - a. recreation centre. It is to be hoped that our visiting Oddfellows and educationists 1. will get the fullest measure of enjoyment .,out of their stay with us next week, and 34' go back refreshed in body and mind as well ” as stimulated to further efforts in their re- spective organizations.

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Air Training Scions

"As Englishmen by temperament, cir- I-geumstances and tradition have looked to the fses and established a great naval tradition, -5 so Canadians seem destined to take to the air. Air travel is as natural-and essential .to this great country as navigation to the ;'British Isles. In two world wars a tradit- Iion of air prowess has been well establish- and Canadians will find cause for pride ,-and satisfaction that it is proposed that ',once more this country is to provide train- 'ed flyers, this time for the purpose of pre- ;venting war and forestalling aggression.

In the nature of things we cannot main- tain in the threatened areas an army on . the scale of European or Asiatic countries i but we can contribute a modest military and

naval force while making what may well the a decisive contribution towards the air strength of the Atlantic Pact nations.

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Issues in Foreign Policy

When Parliament rcassembles in the autumn, foreign policy promises to occupy a. more prominent place in the minds of honourable me'mbersi than has been the case for some considerable time. Issues i'i Canadian foreign policy-, already complicat- ed by the increasingly stronger ties of in- dustrialism, commerce, and culture be- tween this country and the United States, are certain to become even more involved because of Washington's overtures aimed It 8. military alliance with Spain.

Statesmanship of the highest order will be required to reconcile the conflicting views of those who lean to the left in mat- ters of foreign policy with the supra-na- tionaiist element in the country who favor I tougher line in Canada's relations both with Washington and with London. The United States' alliance with the regime of General Franco at once recalls the difficult experiences of this country in maintaining roiations with the Vichy regime of France during World War II. The thorny prob- lem of extradition proceedings instituted by France, in the case of .Count de Bernonvillc,

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and Ottawa's reluctance to accede to French that the influence of the by is still a factor to be reck-

politicions will be quick to who "the Washington-Madrid slllancc for similar noun-on the part Altbdlllh lush szwlicy Will i lulu-pug.

izers, it is the sort of policy which would be deeply offensive to the majority of thoughtful Canadians.

To steer a middle course in foreign pol- icy between the Scylla of leftist extrem- ists and the Charybdis of the extreme right will call for a unique measure of dis- cernment and discrimination on the part of the Canadian people.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Tomorrow, the 11th Sunday after Trin- ity. A1

Yesterday was the MacLeods' but today at Strathgartney will be gathering all the clans.

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Laws are made to be obeyed, and no one, unless a duly constituted court, has

the right to authorize exemptions. O O I

Every day may not be ideal vacation weather but we may at least be thankful that Islanders or their visitors never have to cope with hail storms which kill chickens,

of motor cars.

0 Some two thousand farm workers are expected to move into Ontario to help har- vest the crop there, many of them, unfor- tunately, can ill be spared from the farming

communities from which they come. O O I

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Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet, was born this date 1792. He was the poet of revolt, a reasoned and controlled revolt of the intellect and the spirit against the evil forces of the world and the gross domin- ation of materialism. 0 It is reassuring news that Prime Min- ister St. Laurent has learned to float. Float- ing demands, first and foremost, the ability to relax and a Prime Minister who cannot relax would certainly find the cares of of- fice too hard to bear for any length of time.

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Since the U. S. A. Congressional Com- mittee has killed the St. Lawrence Seaway bill, the Canadian authorities will only go ahead with the project as a last resort. It is a scheme that will benefit the United States more than Canada, and it would ap- pear foolishness to spend good Canadian

money for such a purpose. 0 I 0

It is not mere nostalgia that has caused regret that, the locomotive whistle should seemingly have vanished with steam motive power. It is all too easy for car drivers to confuse the diesel engine's horn with that of a bus or truck, sometimes a most dangerous mistake.

O The U. S. A. Office of Price Stabilization have issued a new pork ceiling, and said it will raise the butcher-shop price of most pork chops and pork masts by five or six cents a pound. The regulation fixesi a maximum ceiling of 52 cents a pound for loins delivered in Chicago by a seller who slaughters the hog or cuts the loin from a dressed hog he bought. The price varies slightly across the United States within the range of 51 to 52 cents, but will approach 54 cents in areas remote from livestock- growing centres because of the addition of freight and other charges.

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Some members of the Federal Par- liament are, unofficially, of opinion that the Government would be well advised to devote its steadily increasing unauthorized surplus to the relief of the old age pension expenditure. Some. time ago, Prime Min- ister St. Laurent and Health Minister Mar- tin made it clear that a special pensions tax would be imposed. I As the PM. put it in a recent broadcast: ". . . Everyone who can. will pay something into a special fund to help provide a pension without a means test as a matter of right in his old age." Latest reports indicate that what they have in mind is a social security tax of 115,- per cent payable by about 3,000,000 Canadians at tax exemption levels of S750 for single persons and double that for married taxpayers. On the basis of present economic conditions, this would raise an estimated 520.000.000- 0 O O

This is an invention that no doubt will be appreciated by more than music teach- ers. Muslc classes of the future may be conducted in almost complete silence through the use of one of Britain's newest inventions, the silent electronic organ. In- vented by Mr. N. Beiham, senior science master at the Mid-Essex Technical School. the organ can take up to 24 pupils at a time, each with a separate keyboard. Play- ers sre provided with headphones and the teacher, sitting at a console, can listen In or speak to any player, and the apparatus can play back any passages in which mis- takes have been made. The teacher can also connect pupils for duets, tsios or quartets. The idea of a silent electronic

the war whcn'hc was working on radar. HcwssgivcnsgrnntbythcUnivorIityof mention to arable him to put his ideolinto

break the legs of lambs or dent the tops .

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PUBLIC FORUM This column is open to the discussion by correspondents of questions of interest. Tho Guardian does not necessar- tly en the opinion of correspondents.

THE HIGHWAY ROUTE

Sir,-Reference has been made at various times in your uteemed paper to d-ifificulties our Public Works engineers, and others. are encountering in locating a route for the Trans-Canada I-lighiway through the, hills of Strathgartney and New Haven.

It is an old saying, and s true one, that all things are possible to the willing mind, and I am of the opinion that if one-half of the money which is being wasted in that preposterous and crooked road, and the bungled bridge on the Crapaud by-pass. were uxd along with a little common sense, the T. C. H. from Bonshsw to Cornwall could follow the line of the old main road through Chur- chill and New Haven.

The First and Second Districts of Queen's, the two largest elect- oral districts in the Island, have also been by-passed, by not hav- ing a rcpresenta-tlve in the Jones Government. We are therefore de- prived of my voice whatever in the carrying out of this costly and important project: important to all who travel through our Province but especially important to us who will use it daily.

I am. Sir, etc.. W. I". ALAN STEWART Strathgartncy, P. E. I.

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From the Royal Gazette of Aug- ust 3, 1830:

The "Richard Smith." slum host, intended to ply on the East River of Pictou, between thrrown and the coal mines, is now in full cpemtion. Her engine (30 horse power). is sufficient to impel her to Charlottetown, and the Pictou Patriot hopes that it will not be long before she carries the mail thither.

Tho "James Peaks". from hence, for Plymouth, was lost. on the 10th July, on the island of Little Mlquelon, on the Newfound- land coast. having gone on shore in a thick fog, with the wind blowing strong at S.E. The pas- sengers, 16 in number, and the crew were safely landed.

Mr. R. Fates begs leave to in- form the inhabitants of Charlotte- town that, he intends to open I School the first week in August, in the Masonic Hall, at the house of Mr. N. Moi-qusnd, where he proposes to teach, the common ”rsnches of English literature. He will also touch, if requested, the Hebrew, Greek. Latin and French languages.

James Kelly. carrier of the Mall between Charlottetown and Three Rivers. announces that he will, during the Summer, drive A gig for the carriage of parcels and se- mmmodution of passengers, loav- mg the Ferry every Monday morning, at s quarter before 10 o'clock, and Three Rivers every Tuesday morning. at 3 o'clock.

John Costin and M. MuzNsill announce that they have lately

commenced in the Public line, in the house of Mr. Joseph Pippy, Queen's Street. where travellers can be well accommodated with boarding and lodging, and good stabling for ho:-sss, Sc."

Sunosbrissy announces-that in has removed "to that largo, coon- moolous, and pleasantly mama dwelling-house lately in the occu- pation of Fade ,Goff, loo. front- ing on Queon'p Square. when he has excellent uconislodsliol for boonlors. one cool smiling on horses.”

Melon. 2. In St. Orolx Dream. John

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28th Chief Of Clan MacLeod

'The' following article. which; appeared a few years ago in The Guardian. is reprinted as 9. mat-, ter of special interest at thisll time: ' Flora, Mrs. MacLeod of Mac-' Leod, of Dunvegon Castle. Isle of; Skye, became 38th. Chief of her. Clan on the death of her father-1 Sir Reginald MscI..eod of Mac- Leod, K.C.B. on August 20, 1935. 5 At that time s report was pre-i pared by a comlhitocc appointed by the Council of the Clan Mac- Leod Society. Edinburgh, with re- gard to the office of Chief of the Society some excerpts from this report follow: '

The Clan MacLeod (without en- tering upon sny question of prece-

dence) consists of two main branches, vlz.: ”Slol Tormod" (MacLeods of Dunvegsn) and

;;S)iol Torqull" (MacLeods of Lew-

Thc Chiefs of the MscLeods of Dunvegan. under the particular name of the Chief for the time being, are variously described in the Privy Council Records and Acts of Scots Parliament, and other documents, as "of Dunveg- an", "of Harris", "of Cilenelg",, "Laird of Dunvegan',' "Laird of MacI.eod". "of that Ilk". The Chief of the MocLeods of Dunvegsn is commonly known. according to Highland custom and usage, as "Mscbeod of MacLeod”. or "MscLeod". There is ample evidence of Arms borne by the Chiefs of the Mac- Lcods of Dunvegan for centuries before. lnlt the first matriculation of Arms in the Court of the Lord Lyon was in 1753 by the 19th Chief (in corrected order. the 22nd Chief), the Arms thus matricu- lated being designated as the Arms of "Norman MscLcod of that Ilk". 0 C I

There is record in the reposit- ories It Dunvegsn Castle of the Arms in 1784 of, General Norman Macbeod of MacLeod. the 23rd Chief of the MacLeods of Dun- vegan, being the Arms of "Nor- msnMacLeod of Mu:Leod". These Arms were the Arms borne by Norman Msgnus, the 26th. Chief, who was the immediately preced- ing Chief of the Clan society, and were mstzrlcuisted by him in the Court of the Lord Lyon in 1928, being the Arms of "Norman Msgnus Macuod of Mscbeod. Es- quire. in the Island of Skye." These Arms, on his death in 1929, succeeded by his next brother, then became the Arms of Sh- Reglnsld, the 2'Ith. Chief. and the late Chief of the clan Society.

Flora. Mn. Mscteod of Mac- Lcod. is tho ” ' and successor of Sir Reginald Mscuod ofMu:- Lood. x.o3.. the 27th. Chief of tho Mwuods of Dunvegsn, and the lots chief of the Society, in the Land of Mscuod, embracing the Lands and Castle of Dunn- gun, and the owner thereof. and she is in right of the Family Arms. being the Arms as known in 1184, and matriculated in 1928. Those Arms, but without that Great. which is inapplicable in the casc of I fsmolo successor, have boon matriculated in her person in the Court of the Lord Lyon us the Arms of 'T'loro, Mistress Mac- Lood, in tho 0.1 Skye."

The Rev. Oonon Roderick chor- los Msclnod of Iqscuod. who was the youngest son of the 25th. Chief of tho uubeods of Dun- voun, and the brother of the 3th. snd mu. Ohlsfs, died in um. canon llsolasod survived his brother, Norman Mllnul. tho lath chief. but prodoooued his brother Sir lugtnold. the mp. Chief, and he would have been the succeed- ing chief of tho Mocuods of Dunvogsn had he survived the into chief. The only son of canon Mscuod. and who was the im- mediate mole representative. in

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GUARDIAN." CHIARLOTTETOWN Poorly Tinod Remarks

The skuri , pipes. men!

THE ECHOING GREEN

The Sun does arise,

And make happy the skies;

The many bells ring

To welcome the Spring;

The Skylark and thrush

The birds of the bush.

Sing louder around

To the bells' cheerful sound. , While our sports shall be seen on the echoing Green

Old John. with white hair. Does laugh away care, Sitting under the oak, Among the old folk.

They laugh at our play, And soon they will say:

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If Notes By

It says in the news um. "olviar is now cheaper than spring lamb." What we'd rather know is what spring lamb is cheaper than, if anything. - Ottawa Citizen.

It is roportod in the eastern press that the Communist party is about to drop Tim Buck. Is president. The oho sure thing about any such move would be that the communists in making a change would hope for greater succc.ss'1n deceiving the public. In more ways than one it would be a case of passing the Buck. - Win- nipeg Free Press.

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"To gather a pound of honey, s bee flies bpproximstely 20,000 miles.” It Just goes to show that a. bee hasn't us much knowledge as you think; otherwise, instead of all that expensive air travel it would buss the corner" grocery, where they have more honey than they know what to do wlth.- Ot- tsws Citizen.

If your offspring suddenly doub- les up and lets loud groans and moms roll from his gasping mouth don't throw up your hands in dis- may and make reservations for an on ndectomy oli st once. He (or she) may have an attack of up- pcndicltls. Then again the little dear may Just have been over in- dulging in green apples, which are very plentiful on the wild apple trees just as they are in the "tame" varieties. Then too there is s plen- tiful supply of green plums; which also seem to have an attraction for even the but fed y ungste. at this time of the year. The appeal or green fruit is an oddity. hard to explain. It doesn't look nice. It hasn't. A nice taste... But it seems to be nice to eat nonethe- less. It is a. failing which has been common to the various genera- lions down through the years. .In fact. perhaps it can be traced back to Adam and that first historically mentioned apple. Perhaps it is worthwhile warning the boys and sh-ls about the dangers. But we

the Drocession (headed by the Chief's own piper) made its way and over the graves of the Mac- Crimmons, who must have often made and music here. One of the leading pipers of Scotland. Pipe Major Robert Reid. had travelled by air specially from Glasgow to play a. Piobslreschd at the Chief's grave. The mourners listened while the sad and besutifu: notes of "The Lunent for the children" composed by Patrick Mor Mac- crimmon nearly three hundred years ago. went out on the sum- mer breeu, and Pipe Major Reid can rarely have played the la- ment better than he did by the grave of Sir Reginald XXVI! of

isuch. such were the joys When we all. girls and boys, In our youth time were seen on the echoing Green!

Till the little ones, weary.

No more can be merry;

The Sun docs descend.

And our sports have an end. Round the laps of their mothers Many sisters and brothers,

Like birds in their nest.

Are ready for rest,

And sport no more seen

On the darkening Green.

-William Blake (1757-.1921).

the next generation, of the Mac- Leods cf Dunvegsn. viz., Llcut. cnant Ian Breac MscI.eod. Royal Highlanders (Black Watch)-was killed in 1915 in World War I. O 0 0

The committee expressed use): as being aware, and fully sensible ol the claims of the male repre- sentative in Australia of the "MacLeods of '1'alls'ker" to be the male reprcsentstive of the "Mac- Lcods of Dunvegsn", as orlglngt- Inc from the 18th. Chief, from 1595 to 1626 of the MscLeods of Dunvegsn (sir Roderick MscLeod ox Dunvcgon, alias Harris) in the time of King James VI. but the title "MacLeod of MacLeod" sp- pears to pertain to ownership of the Lands of MscLeod, embracing the Lands and Castle of Dunn- Em. and right of the Family Arms of the MacLeods of Dunvegsrl under the description "of Mn. Leod". and the matter of what is now the male representation. and in whose person, of the Mac- Leods of Dunvegsn, through dc. scent. from a former ancestor of the "MscLeods of Dunvegsn" and the "MscLeods of Taiisker" does not appear to,srlse in the present connection.

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The following description of the burial of the present Chief's fath- er. Sir Reginald Msclbeod of Mac- Leod. appearing in 1935 tin the "obsn Times": ,

"MscLcod's Tables were wreath- ed in soft mist that rose and fell on the light morning sin. and the moon of Skye were purple with heather in all the glory of its bloom, when tho remains of Msouod xxvn. Chief of the Ciln. were laid to rest. in tho burying grounds at Kllmuir. be- side tho blue waters of Loch Dun. vclln. Msclaod was tho msio representative in tho direct. line of a family who have lived in their strong cut.lo' of Dunvonn from the time when the Isle of Skye was Norwegian territory.

"At noon, in clear brtlht um- shine. 9. gorvico was held outside the Csstle.Ind before the mourn. on set out for the burial ground, a mile and s half distant, Mr. Seton Gordon of Ui7POr Duntulrn plum on the pipes by special re- quest Lhe Lamont of Rory Ma, 5 Mooorlmmon composition which is believed to data from the seven. toonth century. During that; tut journey the remains of the van. ersbls chief were borne by niuyn of clsnsmsn and friends who were anxious to my I lost tribute to the Chiefs mom ,. on an blue vision of tho loch two yachts rode at anchor, their casino at

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"The passing of MacLeod leav- es a blank which cannot be filled in the Isle of Skye. The disting- uished figure of the Chief wsssn integral part of the island life. At the Skye Gathering. at the Faill, at any local ceilldh Ol con- cert. he was unfailingly present. The welfare of Skye was near his heart. However weary he was after A long day at the City in London he would ask the visitor from the west. how things fared in Ellesn s Cheo. 4

"To Flora Mrs. MocLcod of Mscbeod, whose love and devo- tlon for her father was on inspi- ration to many, the true sympa- thy of the people is extended, and the prayer that she may be long spared to carry on the good work:

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doubt it. - Owen Sound Times. sun"

Dr. Ralph lunciuo. Nobel pun prize winner, is being mgnuomd as a. possible United States ambag. sdor to Moscow. As a Negro, D, Bu.nche's value in this post woukj be valuable. But even more impor. cant than that, Dr. Bunche pf-gm himself a. brilliant, tactful diplo. mat when in 1943 he brought, 1,, rael and the Arab League counlrie; together to conclude an armistice If he could do that, he might we," ceed in Moscow where other diplo. mats have failed.-Ottawa Citizen

There is the morning gag-du, and the evening garden. The morn. ing garden belongs to the women You see them, in housed:-us 0,. dungarees, straw hot or sunbon. not. doing fine weeding in the rows, or picking beans, or cutting lettuce for the day's salad. The evening garden belongs to the men. You see the men there am, thetr day's work is done, mm ,, wheel hot or a hand hoe, or with nothing, but a pipe and an 31,- 0, pride and contentment. But ho... ever you see these gardens. 0, whenever, they are 9. 8Iii5I)'ing sight; for the garden that is gm; clean and green in mid-July is the garden of someone who loves mg land and all the green things 1; grows.-New York Times.

The court of the Bank of 2",. land has issued a handsomely 11. lustrated and wittily written bro. chure. telling the story of th, Bank's development "over two and a. half centuries . . . tn a, typically British way into something quifg different from what it was to sum with." The brochure is designed for Festival visitors to the city but one suspects that some of the lidailghts in it - such as why the bank".- mess: lgers wear pink tall-foals (they are in the private servants livery of the first governor) or the reason for the wind-vsne in the court-room (which is there 1.. forecast arrival of sailing ships in the Port of London and with it the probable variation in the day's de. mand for money) will be new -,5 some of those visitors' hosts. London Econmist.

For some . nfotbomsbio room people thrown together on long sea Voyages get a sort of roma.nu; fever which seems only to be cured by marriage. Then ' the firm:

the ship can marry them. It used to be so on the old wlndisxnmer: which were very long on flat

now dates from 1914 when an in- ternational convention of the bi: Msrltlsnc powers, held in London put a stop to all that. 11: produced the Merchant Shipping conven- tion act which provides that a

ry this notice: "Masters are re- minded thst they have no power to perform the marriage ceremony on board their ship, and if such a ceremony is performed by them the marriage is not a legal one." -- Brandon Sun. '

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The Age-Old Story

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And God said, not than be I flrmamcnt in the midst of the waters. and let it divide tho wot- on from the waters. And God made the flrmsmcnt. and divided

of her illustrious father. whose name was known and .especu:d throughout the world." l

Quito frequently you read of by WINDSTOBM.

policy on dwelling and contents.

by Windstorm. Falling Aircraft.

S1.000.00 for three years.

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This extends the policy to include loss from 'dsmags caused

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The cost of all this extra protection is only 20 cents per Ask for any further details desired.

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Agents throughout the Province

cotui-Lars msunnncsi ssnvrcn:

the waters which were under the finnsmcnt from the waters which were above the flrmnment: and it was so.

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great damage done to properly If your home is in-

Explosion. Hall, Lightning dam-

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