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Morning Dilly (Founded In I887) Authorised us Second Clusu Mall. PM! 0m“ Departments “teams.

President, lzn A. Burnett; Vice-President, Wm. I Burueot; Sony-Trolls, (i. M. Burnett; Editor m: Managing Director, .I. R. Burnett; Assoclatc Ealwl.

Frank Walker.

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker flun- the Weakest Ink.‘

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER. l, 1948

Paging Mr. Bridges

Along with the welcome visit of Fisheries Min- ister Bridges comes an annoying rehash of the old misstatement about those so-called New Brunswick lobsters which were shipped olive last June to British Columbia as an experiment in propagation. The story, datelined Victoria, B.C. —-and once again unfortunately fathered by The Canadian Press—refers to these moluscs now as "famed Bay of Fundy lobsters." Actually they were obtained in Prince County, P. E. I. and sent to Saint John to be packed for shipment by air to the Pacific Coast. That is all the claim our New Brunswick neighbors have on them; yet they promptly labelled them theirs by adoption and are continuing to profit at our expense by the Canoda-viide publicity this venture in lob- ster transplanting has received.

Cannot the Minister do something about this at Ottawa? Pending the undertaking of more important matters, such as provision for improved boot harbors, new plants for handling, storing and distributing fish, etc., which our fishermen badly need, cannot he get this lobster story straightened out officially-hold a Commission of Inquiry on it, or something/ho that from now on the truth will be firmly established in the public mind? lt is insufferable to have these high-class Island natives referred to as coming from the Boy of Fundy.

Canada's llavai llesorve

The history of H. M.C.S. Queen Charlotte, which is running in three installments in The Guardian this week, is a reminder of the recruit- ing campaign now under way for the Naval Reserve. The officers and ratings of the Queen Charlotte played a splendid part in the war, as their record testifies. it is a motter of pride to our citizens that this fine naval training estab- lishment is being continued, and it should be regarded by the younger generation as a privil- ege as well as an opportunity to be taken od- vantage of.

Training in the Naval Reserve requires only two nights per week, with at least sixteen days’ pay for drills and full pay for all sea time. There is also the opportunity of having from two weeks to three months’ winter cruise with pay, which should appeal to any youngster of spirit.

We must keep up our naval strength in case of necessity, and it is from this angle that the appeal is being mode to parents to cooperate in the recruiting campaign now under way

Liberal Post Mertems

Liberal newspapers have been holding post mortems on the recent Federal by-elections and their findings are uniformly gloomy. There con- hot _l_lemmu_c_h_ room for doubt that the political horizon_ is darkening and sinking for the King ministry.

The Liberal Montreal Star says definitely that the polling in Pontiac, Porkdale and Port- age reflects popular dissatisfaction with the Government's retention of business controls and wartime taxation methods and levels.

The Liberal Toronto Star makes this sig- nificant comment: "Post-war reodiustments, including the necessity of high taxation, oper- ate against the present Government as they operated against Borden and Meighen Govern- ments after the First Great War."

The Windsor Star, independent Liberal, says the polling in these ridinqs indicates that the Government has lost the confidence of the elec- torate. To quote: "Results of two widely sep- arated by-elections can'be construed only as a further rebuke to the Government. Following the disastrous loss of Pontiac, Monday's voting should make the Liberals seriously take stock of the situation in Canada. It becomes more and more apparent that they have lost touch completely with the people."

The Financial Post, a trade paper under predominantly Liberal proprietorship, hos this to say about the three results: "Liberal de- feats in ll1E€cNiW0 by-elections and in the Sep- tember l6 Panfoc vote, where a traditionally Liberal seat was lost to on Independent, will in part be explained by public boredom with the long reign of the Liberal Administration. This 'time for o change’ psychology was recently re- flected in o Gallup Poll survey showing that Liberals held the favor of 45 per cent in Janu- ary, but only 4i per cent in September."

lllt iiall 0n lleali.

Chief Justice Campbell's address at the Dttawa convention of the Canadian Association of Tourist and Publicity Bureaus appears to have stirred up a good deal of interest. Many tourist comps, the Chief Justice pointed out, were shoddy, ramshackle places and a disgrace to the country; tawdry, inhospitable, down-ot- heel places which soek the American tourist The people who run. such "iolnts", declared the Chief Justice, should be "forced by low or shocked by public opinion" Into making such improvements as will bring the level of their equipment and service into line with that prevailing in the United States.

Commanding this statement in a leading editorial, the Ottawa Journal remarks:

_ "Nothing less will suffice if ‘tourism’ is to develop its full possibilities in this country. We have next door on enormous body of travel-coll-

_sc'loue Americans, with plenty of money to

lpollll. We have hers o substantial mileage of,

I pevsl reeds, fishing, hunting, lakes enll rivers,

unspoiled forests. Canada can become the va- cution-land of the continent, with profit to our- selves and pleasure to our guests-but only if the tourist goes home with memories of courte- ous service, of value received for money spent, of good meals and comfortable beds. ‘

"The American tourist is not o sucker. He does not mind paying good prices-—he is oc- customed to them, in fact-for good service, but he will kick as hard as anyone if charged an extortionate rate fo. a ramshackle cabin, a poor bed, meals badly cooked and served. Can- adian tourist comps may rob him once, but they will never have another chance, and it is not that way that a permanent and profitable busi- ness is built up. The tourist will remember surly waiters, a dirty cabin, badly-cooked food when all memory has faded of lovely sunsets and the cry of the locn over the moon-lit lake.

"There are a greot many tourist camps in Canada which charge reasonable prices for good service, but there are too many of the other sort. Clearly there must be more supervision of them, more regulation, and by licenses or in some other way the bad ones must be brought up to a higher standard. The tourist industry must not be put in peril by the selfishness and ignorance of those whose only thought is. to soak the stranger, whether an American or o fellow-Canadian. The Dominion Government has a tourist bureau, and all the provinces have org- anizations to encourage tourism. The state it- self thus has a responsibility for our visitors, to

commodated and are not gouged by unscrup- ulous comp-operators or resort owners. It is a responsibility that cannot be neglected without great less."

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— EDITORIAL NOTES —

All Saints Day.

Amherst Winter Fair‘ pfovides us with an- Kitlher Algveslgock chaapiciin cog IIILII, shown by Mr. ex oc mnon, eo ow roo. ll‘ d‘ ll‘ Ill The hollowed evening before the day set apart for revering the memories of all those saintly souls who have preceded us into the Be- yond, was reasonably well observed here. w x w a

Whot is the idea of Prime Minister King fixing the by-election in Quebec for two days before Christmas? Does he wish to anticipate, or substitute, Santa Claus in the constituency?

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Farmers are grateful for the efforts being mode to provide markets for their surplus stock via the starch factories, but are concerned about what is to become of their "culls" now that the factories will be otherwise supplied.

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Keen interest attaches to the visit of Hon. Mr. Bridges, Minister of Fisheries, who speaks at a public dinner function in The Charlotte- town tonight, which is being sponsored by the P. E. l. Fisheries Federation.

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New Brunswick is the first Province to con- clude a by-laterol agreement with the Federal Government over revenue collecting. Evidently it is along the lines suggested at the Dominion- Provincial Conference, though details have still to be ironed out.

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It could not have been realized by the powers-thot-be who arranged the C. N. R. ban- quet that so mony roilwayrnen and their fem- inine belongings would attend-hence the jam at the twelfth hour. Some 2l0 tickets were sold in advance, but some 300 actually attended, making undue demands on space and viands. But everyone was happy, and that is what counts.

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His Worship the Mayor was present at the successful C.N.R. banquet on Wednesday in three capacities, viz., on ex-roilwoy employee of six- teen years, as head of the municipality, and as representative of the Premier. Why the Pro- vincial Government was unrepresented directly at such an important function by, soy the At- torney-General, is mysterious, to say the least of it. Perhaps the Premier, as sometimes happens, forgot all about the engagement.

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Coronel naval battle off Chile this date l9l4 when Admiral Crodock and crew of H. M. S. Good Hope went down with their ship togeth- er with the Monmouth in o fight with the Ger- man squadron under Von Spree. The British fleet later made up on the German attackers at Falkland Islands and administered severe retribution, the Scharnhorst, flying Von Spree's flag, together with the Gneissenau and Leip-

vzig being sunk by Admiral Sturdie's squadron,

just eight days otter Coronel. , I a a w

Last week at Toynbee Holl in London's East End the Children's Theatre-under the general management of the Glyndebourne Opera Company-opencd a second season of_ plays specially performed for audiences of sfzhool- children only. James Bridie's "To ios and the Angel" is now proving as popular with children as the adaptation of "David Copperfield" was in the first season. When "Tobias" hos been shown to all London's council school children over eleven it will tour the provinces. A special technidue is adopted to "put across" living act- ors to children normally accustomed only to the cinema. -

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"Remember," Mr. George Miller, advertis- ing expert, New York, told advertising execu- tives in Montreal, "what we sell is never what the customer buys. The customer does not, for instance, buy an automobile-he buys life, lib- erty, social prestige and the pursuit of the op- posite sex." Therefore, Mr. Miller continued, it is the job of the copy writer to judge which of the four instincts con be brought into ploy in connection with the sale of any article and base his copy on that, or those, instincts. Advertis- ing oll automobile on the 'basis of the attrac- tion for the opposite sex which it gives the potential customer is, he said, second use of the sci‘ instinct to give "llovoring” to adver-

tising copy. . ,

see that they are decently and courteously ac-i

THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

lliotes By n» Way

l Tim“! lays she ll ready to fight. ~01: five minutes‘ MAIN. In an atomic lwar that would ‘cc three minutes

after the war ls over. -Kitchener ‘Record.

A Jet-maimed automobile with q @1119": speed c! hizher than 100 m p.h ,_.sc'lmd.s like the rrlloet dan- gerous innovation since the scar. it?!‘ "J8 0n a ncov floor-waxing job, "Winnipeg Tribune.

It used lo be that u lucky man murricd a good (Yd-K, Bus it doesn't matter so much now there being little or nothing good for a good cock to cook onylway _(mr;wa, Citizen.

Back in lsllshrrrey talked about “Hanging the Kaiser" and it seems now that if they had done 1mg that, they mlzh: IZEVC st-aved oft gm latest conflict. -—Lc-ndon Free

r855

Merriam of the film Indus , fife P9D0rtcd to be getting ex- tremely wieary oi the scandals and divorces of film stars. The mag. nates are several reels behind the Iublic in arriving at that state of feeling. ~Guelp1 b/Iemuyy,

Old stmel. our: are being convert- ed into homes. Mother can always pull the bell-cord and tell Rather where he gets oft. ~Ortnwa Even- ing Citizen.

Hollywood decrees that. the “Ideal starlet" is just over 2'2 years old, five fee-t. five inches tall, blue- eyed with 34 bust 34 1-2 hips and 24 n-aist We razher hoped some- ouze vrou-ld ask whether she could act. ---Wi-nds0r Star.

One thing that's going t» be nlc about. svinter on the farm is the shortage of sunlmcr visitors. -Saslr- atchewan Star-Phoenix

No one will dlspulc the estimate that Asncrlcan women use o. total of 2,375 tocns of rouge each year. Seeing is believing. —St. Thomas Times-Journ e1 .

Mr. Cordell Hull's plea for world peace from ‘he sir-k bc-l does him credit and would do the would more 800d if, for instance the Russian masses had any chance to hear it. —Tononto Telegram.

The report tllul Prime Minister Stalin might VISIL the United States aznd Canada. appears to have been a trifle premature. At that. such e. trip might. do somebody good. —-Brotltford Ebrpcsltclr.

Emily Post complains that get- ting lhe bride's lathe: properly dressed is often one of the mast nerve-wrecking wedding jobs. Pro- he-bly the old boy feels that when he has footed all the bills corn- plete nakedness ls the only garb which suits his financial position. -Pelerborouigh Examiner.

The idea of citizen participation in the community ill basic to any

the tribe ls an age-old institution. Many of the nveakrresses of our pre- sent political organization springs from the fact that. we many of the citizens regard the nation as something altogether apart from themselves, and perhaps identified with a government with which they have no particular sympathy.

——-I'.Dl1d0n Free Puss.

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A dangerous word is creeping beck into popular speech. It. shoruld be banished to Devil's Isl-and. If we are not very careful it will land us all in a, p ‘l; of ucuble The word i5 “inevitable? You hear 1t from breakfast. to bedtime. Too frequenty and lc<r=ely in the past l‘. has appeared cven in these columns Inflation is considered "inevitable". S')')l;l.i1Sm is “inevit- able". A United Nauons breakdown is "inevitable". Worst of all, war is “inevitable " ‘This, in plain language is defe-ltism It ls also L-alderdash. ARcglnu Leader-Post.

Toronionians are seriously de- bating wheiherqor not SCIrOOI leach- crs slzculd be laclmitte/l to smclzc in public On= of these days these dear people are going to get the shack of their‘ lives. when they find out. that SCJUOI teachers also , ri ink, sleep, marry and raise

'1‘ ‘ like orchary pggpli.‘ Woodstock Senlincl-Revkrw‘.

Military Rifle Associations recent- ly fcrmc-d in settlemews served by ‘Royal Canadim Signals Radio sm- tlsns in the Pio-‘lltwcsl ‘Territories, allracled Wide-spread lrleresl dur- ing the summer months in mun small crut of the way settlements vlrerc chief diver-sons have been horseshoe pitching or fishing jaunt-a. As the number ot Army personnel in these settlements is usually small local ell/Aims have been granted charter membership. Even then. total mclnbcrshln in many settlements barely total half a doz- en men. -encl sometimes, women -.F‘r~ederictorl Gleaner.

British goods are cheaper in Saskatchewan when they are brought in through Hudson's Bay, rattler than through east coast ports, the Saskatchewan povemment. has proved by a recent feel case. 'I‘tle ‘difference in cost ls due to differ- ence in roll cnezgee frown the ports

intends now lo use the Boy route whenever feasible, and is urging western firms lo do hm some, to get cheaper sends for the people of the western provinces. —Ot.t.- em Oltiun.

Figures recently made uvullsbis at National Defence l-lceltquarters reveal that u o: the 5th F“ ‘ 719.046 Canadian Anny personnel trove been returned ovezseu since Ill-l: Day. ‘The jjruree nleo etlonr that 562B oer-vice dependents have been movod from tile United King- dom tc 081M116? surface vessel and I10 by ulr this total suns 41,000 dependents recalls-d Counts In

. Lcrd Kelvin only a first sic-p.

sort. of government, Initiation. into 050991

Y “you are “he only mm llhhl has

u, the province. The government»

The Centenary of Professor William Thomson Lord Kelven

(By Peter Esslemont. Author of "It's Corning Yeo--_ Pioneer of s. Better Would")

IinNovember 1M6 Wil'ia.m Phcm- Elm. at the age of twenty-two, started his duties as Professor of Natural Phibosophy o: Glasgow University. Thai date marks the

cncamcnt of a. new era in science.

William Thommn was bcrn in Belfast. in 18% Hie father, James ‘Ilhomson, was Professor of Mathe- matics ln Glasgow University

Two sans -— William and his elder brother James ——ilk6WIS<t be- came professors In Glasgow Uni- versity. Willi-sun, at. the age of twelve had a krlnwledge of French. Greek, 14min and mgrlc bu-l withnl enjoyed athletic sports was n good oarsman and had u life-long pass- ion for music and the sea.

Ficr fifty-litres years. William ‘Ihotnsam occupied the Chair of Natural Philosophy wit-h distinc- tion and seldom if ever, has a pro- fessor done more to demonstrate the practicability of harnessing mtrural forces for the use of man

He was creuic-d u Knight. in 1866. and received the title 0f Lord Kelvin in 1892.

The lrrlrnedlale business of a pro- fexor- to instruct. his pupils in knowledge of his subjcct-was to

Lcrrd Kelvin realised that. we were the heirs to all the ages. All the ‘wonders of norm-e that man had already discovered were cc-lly e (limp in t-he med-n of lrnowlege. I-Ie was never content with what. was already known

“Whcln we wanpreherld the vast- ness of the dimensions of that part of mention of ‘NILIOh we know o. little and yet consider what on III- flnitesimal portion this is of the whole universe, truw insignificant a being we must feel that. mun is. and how grateful ought we to be that. God should still be mindful of him and visit him mad for the gifts end constant; care beotcwed on him byttleolcunmofllll. . .sowlll he. . be led tluougr. nature tc nature's God "

This spun-t. o! ‘reverence was the key to Kelvin’: teaching. ‘Ilhe pow- elr of hat/inc were suibjecl: 0o lalw— 1c find the law directing natural energy was a, first conditions of it's use in the service of hum. Accur- ate dxservatldon and endless ex-

pcrllm c were necessary to discov- er these lo/wls. Title young mcfesmr applied

nletrtlods of original r search, en- caulnaglng rm, students to experi- ment and observe phenomena foa- themselves. He enlisted their as- sistant and oo-cperutlan in forums scientific ianovrledttc be Wmlilwl use, His ideas were ee large as his subject. In a lecture to his ‘st/ud- ent he said: "A unlversitry is u place that fits some men for mak- ing a livelihood and makes life [rena- worth living for all men"; and again: “A strong rccommcnda- tlon roi- the may of natural phil- y arises fmnl the imlrlortarlce of it's results in improving t/he personal conditions of mankind".

He found xicnce not antagonistic but. helpful to religion

The infinitely small and the In- finitely great he e008?" l" Sill-Id!’ xvlth equal diligence. His studies strengthened his awe and rever- ence for the Crculor of the infinite wonders of the Universe

H15 fifty-three wars Professor- strip was a magnificent exzmsple o; m", helm uunea into plmctlc- al aohie-vesnerlts

When asked for u DP-Del‘ 0" Mariners’ Compass, he had first to examine it He found it faulty. especjgly on 0031c} iron vessels. vtllere iron and outline Vlbnlum‘ disturbed lb’: action. Kelvin in-. vented a superior ccmpllss on new principles. His lilventicns to help navigation were numerous and im- portant. . including l, Sounder.

In the field ct Electricity the proverb ‘One sowr-th and another Iéflpexllf is strikingly illustrated. Sir Isaac Newton laid the found-m- ums or moilcm scientific know- ledge and resvrucll. Beniamln Franklin discovered elcctrlclzy I11 lightning Farrndoy discovered 9M1 the electric spark could create — light, —povl'er- ilc-ut. Kelvin ever nckn:uviedg~e_ his debthlo Farra- clay but. Faraday solo of one of Kclvirfs achievements: "I Bflvt? you this machine as a-n mfonunycu have brought it ind‘. a fllflm _

During A ieswrl on EICCMICHY. Kelvin saw a student sireplnq. He make him wily, gm question “What l». Electricity?“ "1 did know Sh‘. but I've forgo-den" was the refill!- “What a. pity" said Lard Kevin.

ever known and now y'all hnv- for- gotten, when. e pl-ly! Whot a 113W "

Kelvinfls most outstanding ach- ievement. was his contribution to tlhe success ct tne laying of the Atlamic Gable» a tasl; of unpre- cedented difficulty urld extent. There the varied qualities of his genius found a worthy field. The power-s o; g, prophet. and dreamer, the knowledge of the science of elec- mrfclty, the lnvrntlve faculty in overcoming unforeseen difficulties. business aptitude tn securing sull- eble apparatus, flnance end 89n- gml efficiency - ir. every branch of the great undertaking Kcivltfs advice and mlwrce proved inval- uuble.

‘that seventy patents were token cur m pnnmt his Inventions giver 30mg Idea of the variety and ex- tent of Kelvin’; contribution lo scientific usefulness These Pil- qm yielded ll handsome income whldt m attain-Iv txeegfllclyegl; lnveetlgstbtll IIWIW ‘m in the applications at electricity to the service of mun. n gm "may him t0 lndsllge his Mn] 1o;- the no, and teat. in sells-r lllcttee many o! hi» "\- "msgq; u; ‘so navigation.