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. rns GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN

MAY 6. 19-50

THE GUARDIAN

I Ilorssing Dally (Founded II III!) Authorised as Iloooud Clan Ilall Poul office i Dapartnnls Ottawa The Island Guardian uusllslslag Co. ldnor and III-nnslns on-om:-. J. a. nu-um Assorlato Editor, Frank Walter.

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

CBABLOTTETOWN. SATURDAY. MAY 6. 1950 A Great Success

The success of this year's Music Festival has eclipsed the most optimistic expecta- tions, and has placed this Province in the forefront musically. The adjudicators have been warm in their praise of individual per- formances and of the showing made gener- llly. and while they have mingled criticism with their commendation, as it was their ousiness to do. it is quite evident that they have been greatly impressed with the result. The enthusiasm and appreciation shown by the large audiences which attended every performance was also an inspiration to the contestants. No one could have imagined five years ago, when the movement was initiated by the Women's Institutes, that it would produce such phenomenal results in such a short time.

The organization of this year's festival entailed a tremendous amount of work, and all concerned in its success are to be warm- ly congratulated.

The lied shield campaign

Almost as famous today as the Red Cross is the Red Shield-symbol of the Sal- vation Army which is always on active service in its humanitarian warfare and whose front line extends across the globe. Its founder. General Booth, declared his guiding principle to be that "the first vital step in saving outcasts consists in making them feel that some decent human being cares enough for them to take an interest in t-he-question whether they are to rise or sink.” Today the Salvation Army keeps this doctrine as its fundamental creed. but it has broadened its activities to embrace other phases of social work, shaping its ob- jectives in each community to meet that particular community's needs. In doing so it budgets its expenditures with the most scrupulous care, and this fact is so widely recognized that its annual fund-raising ap- peals are regarded by business men and others as a gilt-edged investment in social service.

In this Province, the Red Shield cam- paign is scheduled to start on May 15 but in the meantime the special names commit- tee will go into action. starting next Mon- day, and it is to be hoped that the appeal will meet with the same prompt svd gener- ous response as in other years.

An Ill Wind

The Maritime Provinces and the West have long regarded the heavy freight rates on the long hauls across this country as being part of the penalty they have had to pay for Confederation. In building up this country to be a great nation there was a deliberate change-over from predominantly North and South trade over short hauls to the longer and much more costly East-West traffic.

The industries of Ontario and Quebec were built up to replace those of the United States as a source of supply and also to fill the growing requirements of a rapidly ex- panding frontier.

Now a new phase seems to be begin- ning. The Department of Industry of Manitoba has issued a review of its work last year, listing some remarkable figures on the growth of industry in that Province which just recently was almost wholly agri- cultural. The interesting point is that one of the factors which the Department cre- rllts with bringing about the development is the increase in freight rates.

Higher rates, it is explained, make it profitable for firms to operate closer to their selling place instead of shipping fin- ished goods from Ontario and Quebec.

Islanders a-re likely to view the possibil- ity with understandable doubt. We have not the expanding population of the West and it is unlikely that the trend to wide spread industrialization would be pronoun- ced. We are in a better position for more or less specialized production and require low freight rates to make the best of it.

EDITORIAL NOTES Tomorrow the 4th Sunday after Easter. 0 O O s

To make as good a showing in 1950 as in 1949, it will be necessary for the dealer to give closer supervision to his staff, says Hardware & Metal. "Sales people will have to be more aggressive and receive customers with greater courtesy. Too many sales peo- ple; lmitw too little about the merchandise

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known as the "Ambassador of Peace" on the continent bf Europe where he was popular with all classes. At home in England he was popular with all classes, also, but es- pecially with sportsmen as he followed with keen interest all forms of out-door sport, especially horse-racing. O O 0

Statistics, for what they are worth, show that the average English wife, spends more than three hours a week darning her hus- band's socks. That should convince even the Chancellor of the Exchequer that it is time for a new pair.

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Defence Minister Claxton's statement that Canadais Navy has more men at sea proportionately than either the R. N. or U. S. N. is decidedly gratifying. One of the principal problems of a fighting service is to maintain a high ratio of effective fight- ing men to total manpower.

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Nova Scotia's Dominion-aided land settle- ment scheme has splendid possibilities for the immigrants concerned and for the agri- cultural development of that Province. The unfortunate experiences after World War 1, however. should put 'a brake on any move to place families on marginal or sub,-man ginal land.

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The Canadian Legion's Memorial Day church parades tomorrow commemorate those who gave their lives, not in any ideal- istic spirit of making the world safe for democracy or of producing a land fit for heroes, but in the sober knowledge that they must meet the threat of barbarism what- ever the price in lives and happiness and treasure.

O O O

The recent building officials conference at Ottawa hoped that municipalities will avail themselves of the opportunity of the various building and safety codes for this country. There has already been consider- able study given these matters by Charlotte- town organizations, but wider public inter- est is essential to assure appropriate action.

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Of a world increase in gold production of 700,000 ounces over 1948, Canadals in- crease was no less than 545,000 ounces. It is certainly satisfactory from the exchange point of view, but it seems clear that other countries are putting relatively more effort into increasing the production of goods rather than the extraction of gold.

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The proposed fish meal factories at Souris and Hunter River. recalls that Georgetown was offered a similar factory under the Mathieson Government. That eastern capital at that time was hopeful of developing a large tourist trade by the erec- tion of summer cottages, and was afraid a fish factory would not be an added attrac- tion. They were mistaken in both respects. a modern fish refuse factory produces no objectionable odor, and the summer cottages did not materialize. Now Georgetown is in hopes that they are in line for the develop- ment of a coal distributing centre supplied by N. S. coal. Something should be done to restore the eastern capital to at least the prosperity it enjoyed in times past.

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Business conditions in Canada remain, says The Letter Review. at what is really a boom level, after making a complete re- covery from a recession that was scarcely to be noted, despite all the talk of unemploy- ment, and some real local pockets of men out of work. Retail sales in February were lO','2- over February 1949. Wholesale sales in February. 1950, were up 652- over Jan- uary l950. although no more than in Feb- ruary 1949. Prices have resumed their rise in many lines. For example, carpet manu- facturers point out that prices of carpet wool have gone up 60C&- in the last 10 months: are now 300'? of 1938; and that carpet prices have not yet come anywhere near reflecting this. Food prices showed a move upward in the latest C of L index; do not look like coming down very much, except for a seasonal fall.

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Of interest to us here in connection with our bus transport situation. Regulation of passenger traffic on New Brunswick high- ways is subject to control of the Legislature, the New Brunswick Appeal Court has ruled. Another effect of the judgment is that sec- tions of the provincial motor vehicle act prohibiting certain operations on the high- ways are within the jurisdiction of the Legislature, and that orders of the motor carrier board under the act are within the authprity of the board. The court decided in favor of SMT (Eastern) Ltd., the plain- tiff, against Israel Winner, of Lewiston, M-3., doing business under the name of Mackenzie Coach Lines. The New Brunswick Motor Carrier Board granted a licence to the de- Jendant last June. permitting him to oper- ate public motor buses through New Bruns- wick from Boston to Halifax and Glace Bay. N-. S. The order did not permit him to take on or discharge passengers or goods in New Brunswick. The defendant contended that such restrictions were beyond the pow-

or of the board and Legislature.

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LIFE AND DEATH

I thought of death beside lonely sea

That nzerlitt beyond the limit of my -s

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seeming the image of his mastery.

The semblance of his huge and gloomy might.

But. flnm beneath the sea. went the great earth.

with hsoxlaer bulk and adamantlne

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The watJr but a mantle for her i i.

That played about her fold on fold.

And life seemed like this dear fam- iliar shore Thai. stretched from the wet sands last. wavy crease. Beneath the sea's rc-mote sombre roar. To inland stillness and the wilds of peace. seemed triumphant only here and there; Life is the sovereign presence everywhere.

-Duncan Campbell Scott. )eo-to i Old Charlottetown :;.

(And 1'. E. I.) SP-BAKING FRANKLY

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From an, open letter addressed to His Excellency Lieutenant Gov- ernor Sir Henry Vere Huntley by the Hon. Joseph Pope. Speakcr of the Legislative Asemialy. Dec. 11, i846:

"It is well known in this Colony. thntgyour Excellency and the few parasites and hirelings who sur- round you. have endeavored to impress the public mind with a belief that the differences which have existed between your Ex- cellency and myself originated in private feeling. and not on public grounds. Had your Excellency stated that they "originated in my having refused, as a member of the House 0! Assembly. to take 52500 from the pockets of the peo- ple of this Island, for your private advantage. you would have stat- ed the true cause . . .

"The respect which should be felt for Her Majesty's Representa- tive. I think. cannot. during your Excellency's administration of the Government, be relied on as likely to afford support to your Excel- lency; but in the absence or want of it, it. will be felt a serious de- iriment to any one who would retain a seat in the Executive Council under your Excellency.

"Among your first acts of fully -without referring to the sev- eral unconstitutional acts of sus- pending the laws of the Colony, and violating the Royal instruc- tlonsgby illegal dismissals of pub- lic officers -- was that of issuing your famous edict, prescribing every private member of society who should dare to partake of the hospitality of the Hon. Charles .Young. who, in the independent discharge of his Legislative duties, sought to obtain some information respecting the Government Farm. with a view of arresting an act of vandalism which was then in progress, and has since been con- summated by your Excellency. on the beautiful groves and orna- mental trees and shrubs on the Government grounds, with which the private funds and good taste of your predecessor in office. and his amiable lady, had adorned them. This system of prescription has been extended to all who dif- fered with your Excellency. either on public or private grounds; whilst in my own case you have even dared to call some of the first people of the Colony- to ac- count, because they have been seen conversing with me in the public streets.

"The act of your Excellency in withdrawing your patronage from all the public institutions of the Colony. and from the Central Agri- cultural Society in particular. be- cause you could not succeed in inducing them to coerce the House of Assembly into adding to your salary. and of affording you the means of converting a portion of the Government House into a Coach House. for which purposes you had used the Salon. has. I believe. been in part forgiven. as it resulted in transferring the patronage of the Society from yourself to His Royal Highness Prince Albert . . .

"A l'f'CCf1i act of your Excel- lency, in threatening to report to Ha Majesty's Government one of the highest officers of the Colony. and who is generally known to have been your best friend. be- cause he so far dared to exercise his undoubted right to become a subscriber to a public newspaper, the reputed editor of which had given you some supposed cause for offense - although the same individual had previously been received as a favourite guest at your table. introduced to the pub- lic at your parties. and was gen- erally reputed to be a relation or connection of your family - has induced people to treat your threats with the utmost contempt. and to lament that such acts of folly should be committed by Her Majesty's Representative.

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"But. Sir, from the lowest depth there is a lower: the fatal plunge was consummated when the Re- presentative of Her Majesty con- descendcd to chsnge the day for the meeting of the Executive Council from the second day of April (for which day the mem- bers had been summoned) to the first of April. being .AlI Fools DIV. - in order that I-ler Ms- iesiyls Representative and his luvenllo anociatos from the back stairs windows might have the gratification of seeing the speaker oi the House of Alembly wsylala by the Messenger of the Council. with s mlssivn. suspending bins

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Whistle While

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Is the tight Illlnst. taxation worthwhile? where Paul Revere pulled up that night, before the home of Isaac I-lull In Medlord. a parking meter now stands. -Do- troit News.

The day when man brought noth- ing into this world and took noth- ing out of it has. strictly speaking, gone. He still starts with nothing. but he leaves a mess of unpaid taxes for his family. - Poterbor- ough Examiner.

..Tho Village Of Scarsdale. N.!. is planning a new bui'dlng ordinance which would make it impossible to construct two homes in the same neighborhood inst look alike. This is a splendid ides. Many men have been disgraced for life and have been forced to leave a neighborhood when in the early hours of the morning they stumbled into a house that looked just like taheirs. but wasn't. -st. Thomas Journal.

Spring rains release the last patches of winter snow from grassy moorings in the fields They fill the brooks with rich, wholesome largh- ter and scrub the hillsides clean. In dale and wood they leave mirrored pools in which birds preen for spring debuts. Spring rains defrost the earth and reach deep beneath the surface of the ground to stir the early flower into bloom. They re- plenish wells, sprout the seed. and

Notes. By The V Wax ..

In flu Australian town or G", don. New Bouth Wales, 554 5...,” a nearly blind man. is helped W his walks by Gus. I seelng.ey, gander. Gurwas originally intend, ed for Sachs Christmas dinner tau years ago. Today he is sschs' con, stant companion. stay: by his my and honka a warning to tmmc, g -St. Thomas Times-Journal.

Cros. the American, continent 1,, train for 31.26. or buy 3 round. trip ticket or 32: Those were ch. new rates, effective April 16. ofrem by the PER. The same railroad nu. nounces that there will be rm trains daily in each direction coast to coast. It's no joke. This 1; the published tariff. You on check rates at the offices of Q" PER nt 24 Stat: Street, New York One thing though. Don't ax.-rum; that the PER. is the Pennsylvanis Railroad, for its not These init- ials stand for Panama Ral'roa,q which runs from Colon on the M. lantio Ocean to Panama City -on the Pacific Ocean news; the Isth. mus of Panama. The timetable shows the distances between 5:1. tlons add up to slightly less than 49 miles, across the American con. tinent.- Stratfcvd Beacon-Herald.

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You Work

(Ottawa Journal)

Mr. W. A. Brown. as a senior of- ficlal in the Agriculture depart- ment. wanted more eggs for Brit.- ain tn the war years. As director of the Poultry Marketing and Pro- duction Services. he set out on a campaign of education to encour- age poultry owners to increase the production of their flocks. His campaign showed imagination. seal and good humor. He did not mind those ignorant of the ways of chickens being amused by some advice which the poultry raisers knew to be useful. There was. for instance, his suggestion that the farmer should always ap- proach the chicken house whistling a pleasant tune, thus giving the birds warning of his approach and saving them from the nerve-wrnclb lng experience of having the door flung open when they did not ex- pect it. The nervous chicken does not lay and those given the Brown treatment were peaceful, indust- rious. good producers.

Mr. Brown has been. above all. an enthusiast, right from the day in 191.1 when he turned down promising offers to act as an in- structor in agricultural schook; to become a. poultry specialist in the Agriculture department. A few days ago he received a presentat- ion before going to retirement and his colleagues delighted in doing mm honor. Mr. Brown made his job s unmade; thousands of Brit.- ish homes in wartime had eggs or egg powder to fortify their diets because of the work he did. Per- haps none could wish a better memorial in his hour of retire- ment than the memory that he whlstled as he worked.

from his seat at the board; or in other words. making an April Fool of him . . .

"Under the rule of your Excel- lency. property has decreased in value; that harmony which form- erly existed in society in this small Colony has been invaded and broken up; public improvements have been obstructed. and the character and credit of this 1:- lnnd has been assailed. whilst your Excellency has fostered and en- couraged sn invasion. by the Leg- islative Council. of one of the most important rights of the representa- tives of the people. Your Solici- tor General is the first to move for the rejecting of the Bill grant- ing : supply to Her Majesty for the public service; and by way of terminating the last eventful ses- sion of the Legislature. the repre- sentatives of the people are pub- licly insulted by your Excellency. in your closing speech. it may with much truth be asserted, that you have not one real friend left in the Colony: there are a few who pity you. but whose sympathy

ment; there are also a few 'wai'.ers upon Providence' who are ever ready to pander to those in au - orily. but they are without infl - once. and will dcscri. you in the hour of need . . .

"From a review of all the cir- cumstances and in deference to what I consider to be the public opinion of the people of this is- land as regards your Excellency'.s administration of your Govern- ment. ! feel it my duty to tender your Excellency my resignation of my seat as I member of Her Ma- jesty's Executive Council."

SECURITY

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will only obstruct your Govern- .

(Owen Sound Sun-Times)

Lately we have been viewing with alarm the tendency to make fishing tackle more and more dead- ly and more and more surefire- lf indeed anything connected with a sport so uncertain as fishing can ever be said to be sure-fire.

But just look at some of the angling items that have been com- ing out lately. A pistol-like device that will shoot a plug or a baited hook far beyond normal casting range; nearly invisible nylon lines of incredible tensile strength: lures that glow in the dark and lures that emit sccnls like shrimps, worms and other fish delicacies: glass-fibre casting rods that are 100 per cent, unbreakable; artificial insects that look more realistic than the real thing. and now the latest-a spring operated hook that works like a steel trap.

This inhuman gadget. an im- portation from Finland. has al- ready turned up in Northern On- tario. and. quite properly, efforts are being made to have it out- lowed as far as sport fishing is concerned.

According to descriptions. these

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tions to such a cold-blooded tool are manifold. but one of the chief ones must surely be that under- sized fish could not be released alive to grow larger and wiser after making a normal juvenile error of judgment.

However. on purely ethical grounds. these spring hooks

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enough sense to keep his mouth shut. he doesn't get into trouble. labor which is so obvious in that state- ment of fact!) But every fish Is surely entitled to the old tenta- tive hlbble (in the case of bait) or the odd false rise (in the case of a fly or other This is purely a sporting propo- slilon. It is eminently fair to the fish. and these nibbles and false rises are what keep the

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philosophical, bursts of streamslde profanity. But to use a device that would make every tentative touch of the lure sure and sudden death for s only mildly inquisitive fish would be the direct antithesis of all sportsmanship. Those Pin- nish hooks would place fishing on

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the bsown grass Tiny singing rlvulets they send racing to the sea, and they rinse and rerinse the roads thoroughly. - Christsln science Monitor.

The Age-Old Story

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Bo ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless Is doves.

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TORONTO. May 3 - (CF) - Two gunmen who robbed a laur. dry-truck driver today of sl.1.'.a escaped after firing three shots at a man who chased them. L Lasowsky. the driver. said the may took a briefcase containing the Towel Supply Company payroll and his days collections. Hymic Boot ran out of a repair shop and chased them. The man carrying the

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briefcase fired three shots at Boot interesting for the angler-even as he rounded . cornen 300' "mm" may m”-V prmmke ""' dropped to the ground for protec-

tion. No one was injured.

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