PAGEFOUK -H THE GUARDIAN

as Second Class Idsu Post office Department. ottsws. The Island uusnliss Publishing (:0.

usstdsnt sod Auoclsto Editor, Isis A. Iiuroott. Assoolsto Editor, ll-snh Wsihsr.

CIICULATION "Coven Prince Edwsrd isisnd like the dew"

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CHABIDTTETOWN, FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1952

The report goes into the history of the medical health services in this Province from early days, and contains a vast amount of information and statistics, pre- pared under the capable direction of the Commission chairman, Dr. J. Harold Shaw. The Federal health grants programme, in connection with which the Commission was appointed in 1948, is outlined. A number of the Commission's earlier recommendations have already been implemented, but the matter of a health insurance plan was left in abeyance between the Federal and Pro- vincial Governments. It has now been fin- alized and presented to Ottawa for con- sideration.

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Tile late Mr. Iiiriiott

The sudden death about midnight last evening of Mr. J. R. Burnett, F.J.I., veteran editor and managing director of this news- paper, has come as a stunning blow to every member of The Guardian staff and will, we have no doubt, be deeply regretted throughout the City and Province. For over sixty years in active journalism, he was in daily attendance at his office, and performed his duties as usual yesterday, apparently in good health. His sudden pass- ing was due to a. heart attack.

A native of Aberdeen, Mr. Burnett came to this Province from Edinburgh to take over the management of The Guardian in 1912, and had since devoted himself whole- heartedly to building it up as a Provincial newspaper. He was also active as an elder of St. James Presbyterian Church, and took a special interest in the Boy Scout movement. being honoured a few years ago in this connection with the award of the Scouts' Medal of Merit.

As a. newspaper man Mr. Burnett lived by his frequently expressed philosophy: "The less an editor appears personally be- fore his reading public, the better for his influence on the community." This was the example set by Old Country newspapers with which he was associated in early life. Nevertheless, he was in close personal con- tact with public affairs and public men over a long period of years, and his advice and counsel were, sought on many occas- ions.

It is difficult to find words to comment on the close human relationship which ex- isted between Mr. Burnett and every mem-

EDITORIAL NOTES

The Excess Profit Tax is a thoroughly bad tax, much of it squeezed out of the wrong firms, by the wrong methods for the wrong reasons.

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Saskatchewan is evidently of the opin- ion that the electorate cannot have too much of a good thing, and thereupon rc- elects its C.C.F. government by an increas- ied majority.

grain crop, while in the Maritlmes the super-abundant rain is handicapping spring labours of our farmers. Nature's patron- age is seemingly ill-divided. O O O

Canada's forces are inadequate when measured against Britain's. If we were making proportionately the same effort as the British, we should have close to 300,- 000 men under arms. Actually, we have fewer than 100,000.

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uneconomical. Moreover, it would" not pro- vide for preventive medicine. This is an important feature of the Commission's pro- posal, as is also the provision for diagnos-

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PUBLIC FORUM

This column is open to tho discussion by correspondents of questions of interest. The Guardian does not necesssr-1 lly endorse the opinion of wlrcspondents.

AGAINST CRANK!

Sir,-Observer's recent compli- ment to cranks is absurb. Praising nranks is tantamount to condoning a negative and warped outlook on life; for this is the accepted con- notation of "crank" in the minds of the majority of unobscrvant Is- landers who are old-fashioned enough to call H. spade a spade.

Socrates, St. Paul. St. Francis of Assisi and Christ were certainly

Saturday is Air Force Day and the R. C. A. F. Station at Summerside will hold open house in the afternoon to wel-

her of The Guardian staff, and impossible at this time adequately to express the sense of loss which his death has occasion- ' ed. However, it can be said that he was mm” cl ' , , devotedlv attached to his family, to his spects to Canadas airmen and their fel- church, to his community and to his 10"- friends, and sought always to live "as in

' ," bt d d h's 11:;g1i:::te:o:v?:IEonsH:p::v:Iihgrsrubit rio try as 3 Source 9f 0” The cmtput M U' one could be long in his company w . realizing that these were indeed the guid- ing principles of his life.

The value of that life, we feel assured, is by no means cnded. Certainly Mr. Burnett's memory will live in the hearts of all his associates, a very precious possession. his example will be their surest guide and inspiration in the years to come.

Growing iiiiarlottetowii

to exceed 16 million tons, against 9 million

to 24 million ions by O O

the end of 1952. .

England in Canada. His Sunday School

preciated feature in the Maritime Prov- inces.

That Charlottetown is glowing should be evident to anyone who is familiar with this Provincial capital. The emphasis giv-

. i ' t f ih C't H it gficlgr giwr H: 13:95. I if .331"), It is designed to produce sulphur from

efforts to draw attention to that fact. Yet "mural" 335 for Awmdpulp pmducti0" but the physio” boundary of the cm, has re, its contribution, to the Canadian sulphur mained unchanged since it consisted of far Supply Should 315” aid i" keeping up the

less than half its present population. production of fertmzers

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the incorporation of the city's suburbs un- der the Village Services Act but the re- sult has been mainly to bring home to the residents of those areas that it is not easy or inexpensive to provide the services which are necessary for a reasonable standard of living in a closely built up area. The fact is that the area necessary for city expansion should be taken into its boundaries before rather thain after de- velopment takes place. The community as a whole, and Charlottetown and its suburbs is one community, should be able to con- trol and direct development so that the cost of streets. drainage, water. schools and all the rest is kept down to reasonable

proportions. 8 In this Province our total population is not unduly large and it should not be too difficult, with ii little planning, to provide comfortable, healthful and inexpensive homes for our urban population.

Canada's first plant for the extraction of sulphur has been opened by the Shell

Frances (Fanny) Burney, English novel- ist, was born this date 1752. She never went to school but taught herself to read and write. Her first novel, planned while still in her teens, was "Evelina". It achiev- ed extraordinary success but her many oth- er works have little merit, perhaps because of the deadening effect of five years at court as Mistress of the Robes.

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Ontario's 300 cheese factories have ap- proved a blanket contract which confirms an agreement between the Federal govern-

Marketing Board establishing a floor price of 24 cents a pound for top grade cheese. The agreement under the provisions of the Federal

pound for No. 1 white, unwaxed cheese. . o 0 0 I

A "pep talk" by, a competent authori

what Mr. Lionel A. Fan largely attended dinner o Of particular interest in the report of the town Board of Trade.

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tizens who come to pay their re- beauty and

We are apt to overlook the Old Coun- of full humanness. Crankers they Kg were too inasmuch as each of them

ithout oil refineries rose by 75 per cent last year civilization, as n, were, and gent.

tons in 1950. It is hoped to raise output more human ma me;-ego;-9. mo.-.,

Congratulations are due to Rev. W. G. Pf0hlW10n- f0? 0XEmP1e- and I-logg on attaining his life-long ambition, ,, ordination as a priest in the Church of any person who. in his blindness.

by radio has for years been a much ap- words I suggest that

h Oil Company of Canada Ltd. in Alberta. Ciiarlotictowii.

ment and the Ontario Cheese Producers

Agricultural Products Marketing Act, is based on a guaranteed advance from the provincial government of 24 cents a

is refreshing and inspiring, and that is gave the WI dmerenily. It might have paid the Charlotte- He is President of Clmdn takes these Provincial Health Planning Commission, re the largest industrial concern in the Mari- tor publication yesterday, are the times, Dominion Steel and Coal Co. Ltd., proposals for medical insurance yet he was proud and envious of the rep- ' A utstion of this Province in connection with its perfection attainments in the val-,ious

not cranks. for theirs was an out- look of joy. of optimism, which can only come from 9. realization of the fulness of life, the power. goodness of God's creation. I should venture to call them "crankers' 'in as much as they were active. dynamic. human, while cranks are as s. rule grim. morose and the walking snththesls

animated the machines of their

into action movements. good and novel, which were to make men

saintly. Cranks, on the other hand, generally endorse some movement which is old and time-rejected,

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persists in caning evllzwhst God created and deemed good. In other we merely whisper. out of Christian charity. the prcsense of one who calls grass rod and wine (from God's grapcsi wicked-in stark defiance of earth's rolling. gay. green mantle and the appalling miracle of Csnu. 1 am. Sir. etc. "R-EALIST"

An Awful Sca re

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A mouse. so we are told, can frighten an elephant. There may be something to it. for the wealthy, powerful Canadian Broadcastllig Corporation has been terrified half to death by Canadsis frowsy little Communist Party. The CBC had made elaboi-ale preparations for a two-hour pro- ductlon-in the Ukrainian lan-

kov's opera "May Night. "which is based on it story of Nikolai Gogol. it saw no harm in the fact that the two Nikolals' were Russians, Neither did anybody else. Even senator Joseph Mccsi-thy would concede that it is within the bounds of patriotism to mid the One! novels. and listen to the other's music. -

But Ill of I suddenmjugg two weeks before the scheduled per- formance-Grandms CBC dig. covers that 1952 was the centenary Of Siosois death; and thst the Communists were taking advant- age of the occssion to whoop him "9 M s Pf0P0nent of R.ussls-Uk- ranisn unanimity. At this, Gunny let out s piercing sci-esm, leaped On I chair. and announced that

controversy within Vs section of the population of emails." The CDC might hsve managed

no sttsxitlon iy nobody in quaint charac- im mioullr. or-if it insisted on taking thorn ssriously-it might HIV! Prefscod the lnrfornisncs with s statement giving them the luck of its hand. But being I tun. WWI old lady. it did nsithrr. It imitrlnto s e, um csllod off

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An Ontario msgistrsia is re- ported ss ssylng that the penalties for sn sccusod person should be de- termined in accordance with his economic position. Thus, we sup- pose. is 810,000-a-year man, accus- ed of murder would be hanged. while a 32.000-s-year man in the same trouble would get off with a reduced charge of manslaughter and I couple of years. Strange things - and minds - come in the surface. these days. - Ottawa Journal.

Is not Parliament going ahead rather rapidly with this business of making new crimes out of things that have not hitherto been, crim- lnai? It has now enacted that per- jury exists whenever s person has sworn to one statement at one time and to a contradiction of that statement at another time, and that the Crown shall not have to prove the falsity of either state- ment: one of them must be ii lie. and therefore one of them-and it does not matter which-must be perjury. We fancy that if this were 5 good way of dealing with per- jury, some older and more exper- ienced lswgivers than those now running the Canadian Parliament would have discovered it. one of its effects is obviously to put a strong pressure on B. witness not in change his evidence, even thquizh he may know that he com-

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l . I WILD DUCK

Twilight, Red in the West. Dimness. A glow on the wood; The teams plod home to rest. The wild duck comes to glean. O souls not understood.

What a wild cry in the pool: What things have the farm ducks

seen

That they cry so-huddle and cry? Only the soul that goes

Eager. Eager. Flying-

Over the globe of the moon, Over the wood ihat glows, Wings linked, necks astraln.

A rush and a wild crying;

A cry of the long pain

In the reeds of a steel lagoon In is land that no man knows.

-John Msseflcld.

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POST 0l"l'lCll EXACTION

"The functionsry who rules the roost at the Post Office Depart- ment in Halifax has, recently giv- en orders to Mr. Owen. Postmaster of this place, to exact the some posisgo upon all papers sent through the hands of the mall carriers, so that which is' re- quired to be paid upon papers . ' '. mailed st the office. Publishers sro therefore obliged to pay for pspers going to settle- ments where there sxlst,no Post Offices, snd run the risk of hov-

subscribsrs. This is certainly ll bars-faced proceeding on the part of the Deputy Post. Master Gen- ersl: and-if contlnusdpwlll crests, we trust. such s storm of indigna- tion snd contumely as will teach

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mltted perjury in the original tu- tlrnony.-Toronw Saturday Night.

Freedom of speech is perhaps the most dangerous of all free- doms, for it is not impossible to make vicious and destmciive ideas superficially attractive. But if we are free. we must have the cour- age and the common sense to use dangerous things intelligently . . it is easier at first to deny free- dom than to accept its responsibil- mm. but such a denial destroys the mind and will of s democratic nation and at last destroys demo- cracy itself by rendering the na- tion unfit for freedom. Canada has shown beyond any doubt that her people are fit to be free in the fullest sense-free to silt and se- lect among all teachings and modes of thought.-Patel-borough Exam. iner.

Among the many excellent facil- ities of the Montreal harbor some- thing is still lacking. Provision should be made for disposal of tank flushing and other waste oil from oil burning vessels. As things stand. this goes into the river to contribute a major share to the pollution which is progressive- ly smothering the st. Lawrence.

the river's bottom, preventing the development of organisms pi-Ovid- ing food for fishes and purlficg. tion for the water. And oil depog- its are a threat not only to fish. but to waterfowl and furbesring animals as well. in some harbors this condition is handled by barges into which the waste is pumped into a sump-ii. pit or reservoir which keeps the waste from con- Laminating the watery Montregl Gazette.

The Age.-on Story

For we that are in this taber- nacle do groan. being burdened: not for that wo would be un- clothed. but clothed upon. that mortality might be swallowed up of life. Now he thst hsth wrought us for tho selfssme thing is God. who also hath given unto us the enrnest of the Spirit. Therefore we are always confident. knowing that. whilst: we are at home in the body. we are absent from the Lord. . . We are confident. I say. and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the lord. Wherefore hence- forth Imow we no man after the flesh: yes. though we hsvo known Christ after the flesh. yet now henceforth know we him no more. Therefore if any man be in Christ, in is s new creature: old things behold, all

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The esrliest recorded lglsl tlon rennin": m mum in allies 'sa. wsrd Island wss in the year 1833. in the reign of William IV. At that time an Act was by the Legislature suthorixing the erection of an ssylum for the in. line. and other charities. In the some year an Act was puud to Pi'9V9m "10 importation of infec- tious disesses into the Island. and their spread. An official bearing

the title "Health Officer" was Ililiointed st this time. Further legislation. relating chieny go

ssylums. was enacted in 1840. 1842 and um. ,

In the year 1851 legislation wss snscted constituting bonds of health. Provision was made for the establishing of hospitals, with Dsrticular reference to tho trest- ment of infectious diseases. It was required that the health officer of the province should be sp- pointcd by the i'..leut.ensnt.-Gover- nor. Inc! on Msy 1st. 1861, Dr. W. 1-1. I-lohkirk was appointed.

Little progress was made. how- ever, in implementing the legiglg- tion. The occurrence of several small epidemics of smallpox dug. ing the following ten yesrs served. HOWGVEF. to arouse. public opinion and resulted in the passing of . Vaccination Act in 1862, under the terms of which superintendents of vaccination were to be nppointed,

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With the entrance of Prince Id- wsrd Island into Confederstion in 1873 the Federal Government ss- sumed responsibility for msritimo quarantine, and for the Iuporvig. ion of sanitation of ships and other common carriers. Qugnn- tins hospitals were built and maintained at Charlottetown snd sourls.

The assumption of these rs- sponslbilltles by the Federsi Gov- ernment, however, did not consti- tute a stimulus to the organist.- tlon of public health by the Pro- vince. although legislation con. tainlng references to matters of health was passed in 1872, 1889, 1886 and 1887. In 1896 an Act was passed providing for the edu- cstlon of the desf and dumb. It was not until 1908 thst sn Act entitled "The Public Health Act of Prince Edward Island" was passed to provide for s rovinciiil board and to authoriu: the for- mation of local boards of health throughout the province.

By this legislation the areas of local boards were related in s general way to the townships. It provided for the ' tment of a chief health officer who would serve also as chief superintendent of vaccination. This law remain- ed in force, with some smend- ments, until 1927, when the pre- sent and more comprehensive Act ,csms into force. 0 O

The present public health or- ganiza” is in large menu a the result of the work of those who have been interested for many years.ln the problem of tubercu- losis. It will be recalled that the excellent sanatorium provision throughout Canada has been the result of the early efforts of the Canadian Tuberculosis Association create public interest and, through private philanthropy, to provide accommodation for the treatment of cases.

The work resulted in the forma- tion of an Anti-Tuberculosis soci- ety in the Province in 1900. un- der the presidency of Judge ritz- gcrsld. Almost all the efforts for improvement of public health dur- ing the following twenty years can be traced to the work of the pub- llc-spirited cltisens orgsnlud in the Anti-Tuberculosis society and in various other sgencies.

In the following year, under the presidency of Dr. Mscnsughlsn, branches of the Anti-Tuberculosis society were formed in the dif- ferent counties. The increasing interest resulted in the organisa- tion of local societies. seversl of the counties being divided into sections. An elective centrsl or- ganlutlon was maintained. Anti- tuberculosls literature was distrib- uted throughout tho province. and lectures were held in many" cen- tres. The movement was heartily received by the public snd the foundations were laid for public support of s. provincial health program.