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Authorlxcd as Second Clan Mill Pint om” Department, Ottawl. The Island Guardian Publishing Co.

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Editor llllil Mluulglng ')lrector, J. It. durnell Associate Editor. Frank Wllker. "The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink"

CHARLOTTETOVVN, THURSDAY. NOV. 23. 1950

ilitcil-illckers

The Boy Scouts Association in pointing out that Scouts do not "hitch-hike” except in an emergency are not adopting ally change in policy. Scouts have always recognized hitch-hiking for what it is, a form of begging, and have resolutely re- frained from adopting that easy method of travel.

It is one thing to be stranded acci- dentally and beg a lift of a passing motor- ist. Anyone could find himself under such a necessity. It is quite another matter. however, to set out on a journey with the cool expectation that someone else will pro- vide the means of travel.

Apart from the indignity of depending upon others there 1?: the fact that the im- position soon exhausts the friendly impulse of motorists, and results in the accidentally stranded wayiarcr being deprived of need- rd assistance.

Ma-trlmonial Forecasting

Back in the good old days the blushing maiden who wanted to know her matri- monial prospects went to the local fortune- teller, or teacup gazer for the answer. Now- adays there is no longer any need to have resort to such dubious sources of informa- tion. The staid and sedate Dominion Bu- reau of Statistics is now in the business of matrimonial forecasting.

Take the bachelor male in his sixties. What are his chances? Not so good, per- haps. as those of the fellow in his thirties. But the bridegroom chosen by the sex- agenarian will probably be pushing forty. Who says so? Why, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. The marrying male, says DBS, usually chooses a wife younger than himself, and the age differential tends to increase with the age of the bridegroom.

What about the husband-hunting young woman in Charlottetown? Will she marry someone from Swift Current, Saskatch- ewan, or a farmer from Kamloops, B.C.? Not likely! Her matrimonial fate is probably hiding furtively this very moment around the corner in Charlottetown. DBS has stacked up some pretty impressive sta- tistics based on a survey of marriages in Canada between 1931 and 1940 to prove the theory that proximity has a lot to do with marriage prospects.

It seems a pity that Canadians should be deprived of the piquancy of chance in matters matrimonial by DBS's thoroughly reliable research into the problem. Even more unfortunate is it that, apart froln depriving people of the fun of love's sweet dream, people should be made to pay in taxes for the information.

What Mao Wants

China's Communist leader Mao Tsa- tung has a lot of people guessing as to his intentions in Korea. Two possible answers suggest themselves. Either Mao is play- ing Moscowls game by keeping UN forces heavily committed in North Korea for a long time to come, or he wants a buffer- state set up between the Chinese frontier and free Korea. Either answer is more plausible than' to suppose that Mao wants an outright "hot war", although such a de- velopment in respect of China would prob- ably not be distasteful to Moscow.

Why should Mao want a buffer-state carved out of North Korea? There are several,reasons why such an objective should appear desirable in Chinese Com- munist eyes. First, such a state would keep UN and American troops away from China's frontier, and from the frontier of Russia as well. Expzments of the buffer- state school of power politics-are legion in Moscow.

A second objective would be to partial- ly discredit the UN victory over the Korean Reds. General MacAri;hur's successes ill Korea had already provoked doubts in a good many Asiatic minds as to Commun- ism's strength. Such an attitude, if allow- ed to grow unchecked, might quickly un- dermine Russian imperialism in Asia.

Yet another reason why Mao might want a bui'fer-state in North Korea is be- cause of the vast mineral and industrial potential of the area. Finally, a buffer- state would provide a good base of opera- ticn for a Communist underground move- ment intcnt on the overthrow of free Ko- nl. - That some deal along these lines will be proposed by the Chinese Reds when

' pt Lain Success seems cer-

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EDI IURIAL NUI ES We escaped, as usual, serious damage from the gale. O O O The local Little Theatre Guild deserves credit for aspiring to regional and perhaps national competition. 0

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That is a commendable move at Wins- ioe by the department of Adult Education. Training in dramatics for the rising gen- eration will enable them "to hear for them- selves as others hear them."

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The shortage in the quantity of butter in cold storage has resulted in a cent in- crease to the consumer and producer as well. A good deal more could be done in butter consumption by a well-conducted advertising campaign throughout the ur- ban centres.

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Pity the poor Islander, surrounded with prize cattle and poultry, with surpluses of potatoes, cranberries, eggs, butter and cheese, an abundance of fish of every kind, bank accounts at an all-time high and not enough work to do.

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Today the Income Tax collector in- flucnces everything, even Cupid. An end- of-the-year wedding means a sizeable re- duction in tax for most couples, and is very apt to outweigh even the attraction of a Julie wedding.

It is interesting to note that the win- ner of 513,175 for his Herefords at T0- ronto Winter Auction Sale is half an Is- lander. The mother of Mr. W. A. Craw- ford-Frost was the former Miss Constance Ings, whose home was at 1 Dundas Ave., now the nurses' residence of the Charlotte- town Hospital. Mrs. Crawford-Frost re- sides at the York Hotel, Calgary, Alta.

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Richard Hakluyt, English geographer and ecciesiastic, born this date 1616. He held several livings and became Archdea- con of Westminster. But he had studied navigation as a youth, and was intimate with Raleigh, Drake, Gilbert and others who had sailed to other lands. He follow- ed in their train in search of new lands, and was one of the first promoters of Virginia. His master work is "The Prin- cipal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation”, pub- lished in 1659-60.

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A contract for the Soviet Union to supply 800,000 tons of coarse grains to the United Kingdom is announced by the Brit- ish Ministry of Food. The contract signed in Moscow will take effect immediately and deliveries will begin soon. It is a normal commercial deal and not a trade agreement or barter arrangement. No British pro- ducts of any kind have been promised to the Soviet Union. Britain will pay ill sterling which the Soviet Union can use to buy rubber, cocoa and other products in the sterling area but the Soviet Union has not received any guarantee that such pro- ducts will not be placed on the list of pro- hibited exports to Iron Curtain countries. It is emphasized that the grain, represent- ing about 20 per cent of Britain's coarse grain imports for the year was an essen- tial import that would cost about 850,000,- 000 if purchased from the dollar area. The amount obtained was 200,000 tons less than last year, presumably because of the poor harvest in the Soviet satellite countries.

0 O 0 production on P. E. I. is holding steady. Receipts of puiiet eggs are light. Quality is good and demand continues strong. Although in some centres, prices have declined, quotations here have re- malned steady. Registered stations are quoting for ungraded eggs, delivered, Grade A Large 55-56, Medium 48, Puilets 39, Grade B 39, Grade C 25. Poultry prices are unchanged. Dealers are quoting pro- ducers for live poultry: chickens 6 pounds and up 33; capons 37; fowl 5 1-2 pounds and up 25. Paying prices for dressed poul- try are: chickens 5 pounds and up Grade Special 42, Grade 41; fowl 5 pounds and up Grade A 33, Grade- B 32. The prices quoted below are for Grade A Large.

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1950 1949 1984 Montreal .............. .. 58-581A-, 49-51 53-55 Toronto .... .. 55-56 49-50 51-52 Winnipeg .. 52 52 48 Vancouver .... .. 54 53 57 Edmonton . .. 55 55 54 Regina ......... .. 52 55 50 Charlottetown ...... .. 55 56 54-55 55-56

Weight of Live and Dressed Poultry at Registered Stations week ending Nov.4 Oct. 28 Oct"?!

Province lb. lb. lb. B. C. .................. .. 118,878 131,874 148,617 Alta. . 156,730 219,953 215,847

202,820 144,412 190,387 159,588 218,597 180,025 . 619,125 817,197 814,820 . . . . . . . 555,666 573,374 10,630 15,300 16,372

22,255 40,968 40,168 69,761 were

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Poaching loads only To A Fall

Notes From Another Island

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i. By "Anson"

LONDON, England:- Many of our customs and traditions are very old, some are new; some, old or new. are picturesque, exciting, up- llflirls. morale-building and gener- ally to be recommended both for what. they represent and for what they are as spectacles. Even if. of themselves, they serve no directly useful purpose they do no harm. On the contrary, if-like for inst- nnce the state Opening of Parlia- ment, when the King and Queen drive in 3 State Coach to West- minister. attended by their escort. of plumed cavalry, immaculate in full-dress paraphernalia and hard- ly less dignified than Royalty it.- self- if there is a bit of colou.r- ful pageantry it seems to gladden the hearts of all those who see it.

That's the sort. of custom that does no harm. It ties up traffic for a while, but there is always plenty of advance notice about such matters so that you can plan your Bffalrs well ahead and re- duce your chance of inconvenience to the minimum. Indeed, such an- vance information enables you tr. plan your affairs so cunningly that you can arrange some important. matter of business that makes it necessary for you to be in the neighbourhood of the Procession- quite by the merest coincidence. of course-at the very moment when it. passes by.

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If all our customs, or manifest.- atlons of tradition, were as stirring as that sort. of thing or as pictures- que as the dancing round the may- pole on May Day in the village, who but the most. bitter cynic would complain? Alas, all are not so, and one at. least-at any rate to my way of thnking-is absolute- ly barbaric.

If is certain Yorkshlreman by the name of Guy Fawkes, when he tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament on a November day in the year 1605, had known that he would be remembered annually thereafter In such a noisy fashion. to the exasperation of lovers of the quiet. life, to the terror of the nervous, and to the hysteria of our

Guy's plot, says my by the lighting of bonfires and by fireworks displays. Nice. quiet words that do- no justice to the occasion.

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Fireworks that make pretty pat- terns, floral designs and harmless decorative splutters, or that bring to multicoloured life carefully de- signed set-pieces are a. joy to be- hold. Rockets that soar heaven- wards and burst, at a safe height into a. shower of glittering, sparks, are fascinating to the most jaded eyes. But what. small boy is going to be content with such sissifled diversions when "Guy Fawkes Night." gives him the excuse to set, off dastardly contraption: that fizz excltlngly for at few warning seconds and then explode with a Bang the like of which himself probably never imagined possible? And all against a background, fore- ground and sideground of bonfires here. there and. apparently, every- where.

Ii; would not seem half so bad if these explosions were regulnrisesi to the immediate vicinity of ii bonfire, one could then note the presence of the flames on a wam- ing that there was an area to keep away from. But no, the innoncent bystander is safe neither nf. nor far away from I boncfire. He may stand and watch A flaming pyne. with its effigy of Guy Fawkes on top. with benevolent approval of such innocent childish fun un- til his benvclencn is rudely shat- tered by a loud exploson in the neighbourhood of his cont-toils. when n firework, probably I sup- er-Whiz-Bnng-Atomlc -Blockbuster type, has been crnftiiy placed by one of the innocent childish fun- stern.

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Or he may just. be walking lion; the street. trying to get home whilst he is still unscorred. when n furiously fining cylinder of gun- powder iands at his feet, where it has just been thrown by the small bcy across the road who looked for oil the world II if he were 1-In trylng unsuccessfully to melt coma butter in his mouth.

Eyes in all put: of the hood Into essential on this day of dlyl, A suspicious manner must. lilo be cultivcted. so that one In fnsi.nnI.l:: on the alert. if one sees children

running for that certainly n-reins

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Summerside's Museum Site

(Summerside Journal) ':The Summerslde Town Council a its last meeting put forth what llmlld appear to be an excellent Suggestion and more th n thaL a splendid offer to the

I , , verlvment ? 1111! Province. The offer is a ree gift of the valuable corner

properly on Summer Street adjac- ent io.Memorial Square,-where the residence of the late Captain J. S. Allen formerly stoodmas 3

site for the long-wanted and much talked about Provincial Museum.

Charlottetown. years ago, had the nucleus of a line museum-in the days when it boasted an Antl- quatrianusociety, with such far- seelng cltlgens in their day as the late John Macswain. John New. son, Lawrence W. Watson and others as its officers. They had Quite a collection of rare Island curios of the early days of this island in their quarters in the old Market Hall. After the society faded out by reason of the death of the older members and lack of interest on the part of younger persons to lake their place, the -various illstcrical objects housed in the market building myster- iously disappeared, and nobody seemed to know or care what had become of them.

With such a lack of interest as Charlottetown has in late years eyinced in this subject, it is only right that some other community should have a chance to take the initiative in this matter. and Sum- merside has many citizens who would be only too happy to dem- onstrate that they are really in- terested and would make a suc- ces of such an insti-tution.

Mayor Wedge and- the members of his Council are entitled to com- mendation for their foresight and enterprise in putting this proposi- tion before Premier Jonas. and in view of the lack of vision and co-opera-tion in Charlottetown, the Premier might do much worse than accept the Summerside of- fer.

of high-explosive, timed to deton- ate in a matter of seconds. Come to thing of it, one must. be in- stantly on the alert the moment. one sees children, running or not.

If you have to venture out of doors on Guy Fawkes Night, its just too bad. If you havent, the

domestic pets, his conscience must'best thing to do-if not the only 5l""-fly NW0 Elven him much morelsensible thing-is to see hat y-iv; trouble than one assumes it did.jst,cck of beer or spirits is in good encyclo-.shape, lock the doors, shut. all paedia calmly, is ocmmemornl-ed'winrlows and turn up the radio.

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LOST DAYS

The lost days of my life until to-

day, What were they. could I see them on the street Lie as they fell? ears of wheat sown once for food but trodden

would they be

into clay?

Or golden coins squandered and still to pay?

Or drops of blood dabbling the guilty feet?

Or such spilt water as in dreams must. chest

The undying throats of Hell.

athirsi: alway? I do not see them here; but after

death God knows I know the faces I shall 596,

Each one is murdered self; with low last breath. "I am thyself L what, has thou

done to me?"

"And I-and I-thyself,"' (lo! each one saith.)

"And thou thyself to all eternity!"

-Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Old Charlottetown J I (And P. E. l.)

CITY SCALES AUCTIONED

b(&wh'i49.Di esioi

"The city weighing machine was yesterday let at public auction to the highest bidder and the pur- chaser was Mr. Daniel Bethune. who had it knocked down to him at 3. rent of ill for the ensuing year. In effect the lessee will pay only :6 for it, for by being the city welghar he escapes the payment of the duty of E5. With care and attention he ought to make A very good thing of it and we hope he will."

-Haszard's Gazette. Oct. I, 1856.

And above all, pray for heavy rain.

The funny thing about it. all Ls i

this. Nobody seems to have decid- ed if this annual November riot is to commemorate the fact that Mr. Fawkes failed to blow up the Houses of Parliament. or to revere his memcry for what seems a jolly good idea.

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El Notes By

We do not think that Western Canada in in any danger of Rus- sian invasion. Just think what would happen -to heavy soviet tanks if they ever hit some of our municlpal rcads .. Vlrden (Man) Empire-Advance.

No one should retire at night and keep windows locked. An open bed- room, even if it permits only a small smont. of flesh air inside the rcom, may be the means of s ing lives. Too often families leave burn- ers on at full blast. during the night. Monoxide fumes may permeate the house. oxygen may be cu. sumed by some types of heaters. Each winter there are tragedies which could have been avoided hail some air been permitted into the house while the occupants were sleeping. Boston Post.

That parents and teachers may get to know each other better. and through acquaintanceshlp and re- gular meetings contribute some- thing gainful to the schools of Cor- nor Brook. an effort will be made next Tuesday night to form this area's first Home and school as- sociation. The initial move will take the form cf 3. public meeting in the White House. Home and School work in Canada is being carried on in Canada by some 1.9-fl associat- ichs, all affiliated with the Can- adian Federation of Home and School, according to the report of the 12 annual ccnvcnl.lon, held at Vancouver, B. C. The Maritime Pro- vinces are strong believers in the efficacy of parent-teacher co-operat- ion, as is witnessed by the fact that there were 452 affiliated bodies in Nova Scotla. R3 in New Brunswick and eight in P. E. I. in 1949. Tctal membership of Home and school groups across Canada was listed as 133,286 in 1949. The first Parents

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Association was for d - . Scot!--In 1895. but zliiereanlliriliii did not come until 1927, when Novl Sections participated in 1

the Canadian Federation ciiaxiilimg and School at Toronto. -- westenrt

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I-llgh'as our respect is for 1,... keepers and their product. we .11, like artificial tlnkerllg Wth me; and production levels. Our econ. omy is in theory based on free en, terprise and regulated by me law

of supply and demand. We dis- trust in principle price- llllo and marketing controls, even ialiough prices are fixed and marketing schemes are operative an Inn

products of Canadian iiitliisiry and agriculture. Will xi hunev lllill"-

ketlng scheme in Ontnl'lo induce farmers to sow more ulfalla mg clover? Will it ilicrense produc- tion and preserve bees for the job of pollination? If honey prices an set at, say 25 cents a pound to lhg producer (a probable ret-.ul mice of 30-35), will the collsumers stop buying honey and thus kill an industry. despite marketln-; cm, trol efforts to revive it? The pm. of 25 cents was 300 per cent ill-he, than last. year. which ll0llPY-T)?0- ciucers found so black, no.-3? rim getting twice as much a pound a; they did in 1939. hlost food prices have not doubled or tripled, a, honey has done, since l939,pg;. erborough Examiner.

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