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The Island Guardian Pubiishina Co. Ilitor and blsun|iu| Director, J. l. Burnett. Aoeoeiate Editor. Iraai Iaihat.

ls no reason why we should rush into it without careful consideration of the factors involved. llf there is any way of setting up and administer- ing a medical insurance plan without the Gov- ernment getting its whole hand in the pie, let us have it." '

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(‘The Strongest Memory is Weaker Thaa -, the Weakest ink."

ouannormrowu, SATURDAY, mu 2s, 194a Clean up week ends. I it i

Wo llavo litter Kinds, Too

Evidently the question of raisins vs. fish on the railway dining car menu has caused consid- erable discussion, not only in the Maritimes but in Ontario. The Toronto Telegram, quoting us, re- marks:

"Down in Charlottetown, the editor of The Guardian pretends to be furious because, at the behest of California raisin growers, the Canad- ian National Railways recently observed Raisin Week, featuring raisin puddings and other raisin dinners on its dining car menus. Why not a Ca- nadian Canned Fish Week? the P.E.l. ed-itor wants to know.

"llf a small can of lobster costs 89 cents in your neighborhood grocery store, how much would it cost on a diner? Pass the raisins!"

Without disparaging our fancy canned lob- lior, our suggestion was that high-class chefs should be capable of makin-g up delectable dishes from other Island canned fish products at no great expense. Pass the chicken haddie.’

The llld Tariff Racket

When the farmer asks for a price support or some form of federal assistance, angry pro- tests are heard from industrial centres and their representatives in Parliament, as if the treasury were being bled white by the tillers of the soil. One would imagine that these champions of free enterprise had never heard of tariffs. Yet it is because of tariff protection that they an so prosperous and powerful today. Very often it has been at the farmers’ expense, and in any case it is rarely the farmer that has benefited. A recent example cited by an exchange is the artificial boosting of tariffs against Belgian gloss when it threatened to undersell Canadian glass. This was done by computing the tariff on an artificial price, comparable to the Canadian wholesale price, rather than on the real price of the glass.

The U. S. too, despite the fine talk of some of its spokesmen, is maintaining a similar "in- visible tariff" against imports from Canada. Ac- cording to the Financial Post, hardly a dent has been made in this invisible wall which is made up of special quotas, arbitrary valuations, un- necessary quarantines, official red tape and, above a-ll, the apparently firm determination of many customs officials to keep out the other fel- law's goods by one way or another.

Specific examples ore quoted in the pub- lishedreportaf. a special joint committee of the Canadian and U. S. Chambers of Commerce. lt cited instances where Canadian goods that had paid the regular duty were blocked completely by new special valuations or long delaying tac- tics. This all adcl-s up to higher form costs on both sides of the line.

What It Means In Miles '

Savings to be achieved in the distances travelled by freighters carrying shipments to and‘ from many Maritime Provinces points when the Clrignecto Canal is built, are thus listed in the St. John Telegraph-Journal:

The figures represent the mileage (l) by the present route around Nova Scotio, and (Z) by the proposed canal:

Charlottetown to Saint John ...... 609 l79 Charlottetown to Boston .......... 708 485 C-hotham to Saint John mun“... 728 269 Dolhousie to Saint John ,.-_.,. .. 909 380 Dolhousie to Windsor , 360 Campbellton to Saint John ,_.,.... . 934 405 Richibucto to Saint John 658 l99 lltichibucto to Boston ........... 783 560 Hillsboro to Montreal .........,;,_-..'l,42l 857 Montreal to Saint John ..;,_.;......'l,323 945 Joggins to Charlottetown 681 83

Health Schemes

For over a decade now Norway and Den- mark have h-ad in operation a notion wide medi- cal insurance plan which seems to work without too much governmental solicitudc. ln Denmark every family is required to take out a policy with one of the five or six officially recognized health- insurance companies, these companies being privately owned and operated. lf a family has not o policy its members cannot qualify for an old age pension or for unemployment insurance. The doctor is given the number of the insurance policy and his bill goes straight to‘ the insurance company. Likewise when o person goes to hos- pital, that institution collects from the insurance company.

As for the medical fee, these are fixed by a national commission on which are represented the doctors, the insurance companies and the Government. Then the patient must pay 25 per cent. of the cos-t of medicine and 25 per cent. of the cost of glosses, dentures, and other medi- cal supplies. The 75 per cent. is made up by the insurance companies and the Government.

ln Norway the cover-all is a Government operated insurance company. The patient pays the doctor's fee, and then with the receipted bill collects from the insurance company. Ho himself pays ‘l0 per cent. of the bill, and tho entire cost of medicine and supplies. Dental ‘service, except for dentures and expensive bridge work, is coy‘- ered by the insurance. The insurance fee in both countries is small, and for families with income less than $2,000 a year, is less than $20. a year. So for as one can learn from the reports from Great Britain, the scheme than, although very popular, ls costing enormously more than was ilnticipoted and bids folr to be a crushing drain en Government time and budget. < "There seems little doubt" says the Winni- Jreas-"that Canada ls hooded for some ‘~ ‘p? andhtilot from the

of "lotions

Thirty more day: till election. Tomorrow Sunday offer Ascension. ‘l’ 11

Close to 50,000 acres of Canadian farm- land will be sprayed from the air with chemical dust this year. _ _

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The exceptionally fine picture "Johnny Belin- da", which has been running all this week to crowded houses at the Prince Edward Theatre, completes its engagement tonight, and no doubt there will be a repetition this afternoon and evening of the large audiences which thoroughly enjoyed the performance ‘to slate.

According to the president of the Nether- lands Agricultural Foundation the Low Coun- tries would like to send more immigrants —es- pecially farm labour, to Canada. lf they utilise our farmland as effectively‘ as they have done their own the gain would be this country's.

Because of financial difficulties, some min- isters of the Church of Scotland receiving only the minimum stipend of i400 per year are being forced to take up part-time work. ln some in- stances, their wives, too, are having to take part- time jobs. This was stated at a meeting of the Synod of Lothian and Tweeddale, in Edinburgh, when the report of the Maintenance of the Min- istry Committeo was presented.

I U U When the Royal Commission on Tronporto- tion starts its cross-country hearings at Winni- peg next week the matter of competitive rates as weI-l as maxim-um rates should be gone into. The practice of voluntarily cutting rates where there is truck competition may be sound business lpractice but it forces up the rates which are claimed to be necessary on non-competitive hauls. * * I

it hos just been discovered that an old-time vaudeville star, Flora Esmond died in a squalid flat in New York in object poverty, whereas, as a matter of fact she was worth at least $110,000.

‘The money had been deposited in various banks

while she was on tour and only small notes kept by her of what she had done with the money. The trustee appointed und-er her will put on on advertising campaign which brough-t results from the various banks.

I I in the first sixblmonths of the National Health Service, nearly as many mothers hav- ing babies at home had analgesic relief --"pain- less birth" treatment-as in the whole twelve months i947. The figures given by the Ministry of Health show that midwives employed by the local health authoritidr gove gas and air anal- gesia in over 40,000 home confinements during the six months, compared with 43,600 in the whole of i947. I it "i Though not unexpected, news of the death of ex-Mayor D. J. Riley will be learned with much regret throughout the Province. He was widely known and esteemed, and proved a very capable representative during his years of service as City Councillor, Chief Magistrate, and member of the City School Board. A life-long Liberal, he was a tower of strength to the party during his active years, and though himself defeated on the one occasion on which he sought political honors, he was instrumental in electing many other Liberal candidates to office. ~ i l l ‘I John Lubbock, lst Boron Avesbury, banker, politician, scientist and sociologist, died this date l9l3. He sat in Parliament for Moidstone, and then London University, of which he be- come vice-chancellor. l‘le was the author of sev- eral books, including Ants, Bees, and Wasps, Pleasures of Life, etc. Amon-g other measures ap- pertaining to the pleasures of life and the bet- terment of man he was instrumental in passing into law was the Bank Holid-ay Act of 187i, the first recognition which the "white collar" worker obtained of his right to call certain week days, in addition to Sundays, his own, and on which he could not be called lrpolr t2 work.

A drop in absenteeism, increased alertness of pupils and improvement in general health are revealed among many instances of direct health benefits to the school children of New Brunswick as a result of that province's school lunch pro- gram. These encouraging results of a program sponsored by the Nutrition Division of the New Brunswick Department of Health are revealed by the Bureau of Information and Tourist Travel of that province. Rufal schools in seven counties were included in the l948-49 program which got underway last fall, with two health department nutritionists and one from the Red Cross doing the organization work. This spring the three re- visited all schools in the counties concerned.

Mr. Edward Andrew Collard, ossociote_edi- tor of Montreal Gazette, has been giving the Gyro Club there some information on how a morning newspaper is run. He described some of the problems arising from the necessity of making rapid decisions under the pressure of deadlines and outlinedsome of the mechanical problems involved in producing each edition of a morning newspaper. He pointed out that tho difficulties arose from the way in which each doy brings new problems of its own. Mr. Collard emphasized that constructive criticism of a newspaper is always helpful. But criticism from those who claim to have been misquoted or mil- reprasentsd often arises from the fact that have been reported only too accurate , he |o' . it is sometimes found that criticism o the press is not directed to the press at all, bot tokss the form of public attacks mode by those ‘who are often for from having o. free press as their reol objective. Anyone desiring good press re- eoald, he sold, follow s simple female they foolish db f

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the English. England was. there- fore. the source of the best apple dmnpllngs in the world." -- Lord Biedisloe to the House of lords.)

How all» in these days of dlpsent

To find we are still a world leader!

It soothes with a sense on content

The harassed and dubious reader.

Prestige has been pipped in some spheres. '

With prlrobloms One constantly grep- P 98.

But take it as law from the Peers

We have the best dumplings and QPPW.

Would Moscow agree‘! Perhaps not.

If dumplings we sent for attention

They'd probably spurns the whole lot

As a fonmallst, bourgeois invention; They might even invoke Lake Suc-

cess ~ And start a new series o! wrrsngies. Our dumplings, we freely confess. Should not be exposed to such tangles

No-itakin: our lead from the lords.

We just insist manly but sweetly That here is a. dish that affords An insular triumph completely; Here fame and our flag use set fair Beyond any crushinzs 0a crump-

lingo- Go search the whole world, ii’ you

care, You cannot beat England for dumplings. nLuclo, in the bdancirester Guardian.

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Old Charlottetown (an r. s. I.)

nrnmn nnonmuons" Under on Act pooled at the 182"!

session of the General Assembly, Town and Royalty of Charlotte-

tlces of the Peace authorized "by and with the advice of His Ma- lestys Council, from time to time. as there shall be occasion, to

sorts of meal and flour, fit and proper to make the different sorts of Bread which shall be allowed to

Royalty, shall, frorn time to time, sell at the mills, warehouses, or markets within the said Town and Royalty." Under this statute specific Welihts were established for penny- hnlf-penny, three-penny, six-penny and shilling loaves offered for sale. The loaves had to be marked in Roman characters with the initial letters of the baker's name. Market clerks were obliged togvislt every bakery at least one day in every week, and to "search, view, weigh and try" all bread found therein. Any bread found deficient or im- properly marked was to be "seized and difillosed of to poor persons." The quality of the product was rigidly prescribed under the follow- ing section: "No preparation of damaged or musty flour, or ingredi- ents or mixture whatsoever, (ex- cept the genuine meal or flour Whlfih ouxht to be Put therein, and common salt, pure water, eggs,

ven as shall be allowed to be put therein by the Justices which shell sec the Asslze) shall be put into or ln anywise used in making dough or any bread to be sold or as or for leaven to ferment any dough, or on any other account in the trade of making bread, on pain that every person other than n servant or Journeyman who shall knowingly offend in the premises. and be convicted thereof by con- fession or the oath of one witness before any Justice of the Peace, shall forfeit and pay not more than Three Pounds, nor less than Forty Shillings. or shall be cam- mltted to the Gaol of Charlotte- Town for any time not exceeding fourteen days, nor less than seven days. from the time of such com- mliment, as such Justice shall think fit; and lf any servant or journeyman shnli knowingly offend and be convicted as aforesaid, he

Shillings, nor less than Twenty Shillings, or shall be committed as aforesaid: and it shell be lawful for the Justice before whom any such offender shall be convicted, out of the money forfeited. when recover- ed, to cause the offendernr name and offence to be published in

,, fice of navel research, which ls in- an Asslze of Bread within the terested , which animals T°wn l w“ “iab1l‘h°d~ and Jus- themselves to extremes of heat and cold. -— New York Times.

not be perfect, but they appreciate cause the prices which the several that y; freedom o’ the press_one of the fundamentals of our British liberties-is to be maintained they have a great responsibility to their be made wmfln the Bald T°wn and reading public in the accurate, un- biased presentation of news. Caldwell’: attack ls either based on his lack of knowledge of the situa- tion, or is a deliberate attempt to misrepresent the papers of Canada because editorially they do not alree with the views of his party and himself. -- London Free Press.

one in his old age who has been unable to build up a sufficient re- tirement fund of his own. are cierzymen. These men spend their lives in good works, usually at remuneration for below what their capabilities would earn other walks have many calls upon them [or charitable purposes. sible for most of them to enough to provide age. entitled to sgend their last years in ‘ ‘ ecency, rather than milk‘ yea“ and harm’ °r we“ 1”‘ in impoverished circumstances. --

Wlndsor Star.

son, the sterling is busy adding ta his unpapularity by nesting in any rOral mailbox into which he can find entrance. will half flii one of boxes in e day. They favor older models that had a opening, supposed to be covered‘ with e metal flap. Time and hard usage has IUCCEEI-icii in the cover from the letter opening from most mall boxes of this type. Just why a galvanized sheet iron box should be attractive as a place to bring up a family of little birds, we don't know, but these starlings never pass up n mailbox of the type that suits them. — Cornwall Standard-Freeholder.

which thrive in the icy waters of the Fer North—ore going to be dropped by Dr. John Field of the Stanford University into Califor- nian waters as warm as those of the Pacific Ocean. To an Arctic cod that's hot water. The cod prob- ably will die, but Dr. Field hopes not. 1f they live they may be adapted to the warmer waters by slow degrees. Dr. Field has been studying Arctic cod and other fish and cold-blooded animals for the of-

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removing

The demand for the mainten-

ance of freedom of enterprise and ma" “men n“ ml,“ ma“ Fmlly initiative does not rule out social security advancement for the peo- ple, but it does make progress in that direction sounder secure. piovment. insurance. etc. are here to stay because tiroy are based on general taxation and consent of the.

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some newspaper which printed in the said Town or Roy-

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0h biota our Gall. ya people, and make the voice of lib prehe be heard: which heideih ‘our soul eufferefb not our feet to he moved.

“FULL UP" FOB ITAMIIDE

GATOARY, Msy I’! -- (OP) ._ Hotels have had "full up" out for a month. Behave camps. New residentmhave been asked to even their homes to tour- ists sttendinrr the famous Oslaary Bilmbedo July ll-id for which a record number of visitors is J!-

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people, and ere not financed by‘ seizure of profits. The ossumptlo..,~ which hen proved false in England,

that workers will do their best for

a iovernment and will shlrk for a

private employer, ls actually e slur‘ on the millions of conscientious, men and women who produce] goods. — Sherbraoke Record.

Arterial highways, wish: re-' qulrernents, sites for perks and, schools, industrial areal. shopplns| centres end residential districts, ell come within the purview of, the ex- perienced town planner. In other‘, countries the advantages of town‘ planning have been indubitabiyj demonstrated. Residents of Welland end the surrounding ores should consider themselves fortunate therol are some citizens in their midst sufficiently enterprising to . initiate a comprehensive plan for develop- ment of the district. Welland snd| its suburbs can become one of the; most attractive communities in the province if today's leaders in civic affairs have the foresight and the wisdom to lay the foundations for s desirable and acceptable official plan. - Welland-Port Giborne Re- view. v I

Isliof in the eseeiloaee of am- llli workmanship will have suffer- ed no decline as s result of an sn- naunooment from indi spoils

which toils how a Britistrbulllt illiii moo ear m established forw- l

three new distance and speed re- cords. In the process the stock car —a four-cylinder convertible-broke ten records that had stood for twenty years. English’ craftsman- shlp in high-priced automobiles has for years been a by-ward in the in- dustry. but there has been e ten- dency to decry British achievements in the lower brackets production line. The results of the Indian- apolis tests should do much to re- store confidence in the slogan, Careful workmen- shlp still has e place in a world where speed in production has be- come on all too dominant factor. -— Vlctorln Times.

“Buy British."

In a sense long words are, per- haps, like long pants. Everyone who knows long words is proud to employ them. Just es a growing boy delights in his first pair of long trousers. They are held to be n mark of maturity, ln the one l“. stance intellectual. in the other physical. Yet both can be, and often are, uncomfortable. For ex- ample, The Evenlng Citizen pub- llshed n letter a few days ago in which the word "macroscopically," meaning visible to the naked eye, was used. Unfortunately, the word appeared in print as “microscopic- ally." Had the simpler phrase been written in the first place, the error could never have occurred. It must confuse people to speak of "palingenesls," w h e n "revival" would take less space and be more readily comprehended. It may be only an innocent vanity 'to lay "obscuration" when "entrenty" would do the job equally well, or "terglversatlon" w h e n changing one’: political party or principles is meant. But this elegant conceit should be indulged thrlftily. Its extravagant use is tough on one‘! friends. Not that short words are not subject to typographical errors in the newspapers. “Jab" can only too easily become "job" and “roil" can become “role". But at least the reader, and the editor, could tell what the word was intended to be in the first place. With the poly- syllable words, probably the rend- er, and certainly the editor, con- not.-—Ottnwn Citizen.