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THE qaiiizpiAN. _ CHARLOTTEIOWN

iNOYEMBER 21. 1941

Authorised as Second Clan Mall. Post Offtoo Department. Ottawa. ' Proddent. Ian A. Burnett; Vice-President. Wm. R. Burnett; Seem-Tress" G. M. Burnett; Editor and Managing Director. J. R. Burnett; Aasoolato Editor. Frank Walker.

P I t THE GUAR DIAN §:'.'...i':.'.'.‘:::':%';.'i‘;" 2:;.:..1l:':?°.'..°.’ fir.“ "r G=""""'= ‘PM and while that conditioii exists so will the probil ’ B m w PUBLIC FORUM . Mo ' Dally (Founded 1n mo. 1..., M,_ Fwy", m, be“... the pmeflq," -"ItQS y Iy- nu collars n upon s. The following 1| the m: at nie

f'The Strongest Memo y is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink."

CHARLOTTETOWN, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 21, 1947

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- _ The Polio lilinlo

As Premier Jones takes full credit to the Provincial Government for the Polio Clinic in the Sanatorium, it is important that the public should know the whole story in order that credit may go to whom it is properly due.

ln i946 Prince Edward Island had the worst epidemic of Poliomyeletis or infant para- lysis in its history, when nearly eighty victims were stricken. Children generally formed the greatest number, but many adults were also victims. The medical and nursing profession did all in their power but it was upon the hos- pitals that the greatest burden fell, and upon tho three standard hospitals especially,- the Prince Edward island Hospital, the City Hos- pital and the Prince County Hospital.

These-hospitals had to supply accommoda- tion and nurses in great numbers, because the treatment of Polio in its first and acute stages ‘is an exhausting and tedious process and it is said that no other line of treatment will wear out and exhaust nurses in such short time. Confer- ences between the hospital managements, the Red Cross Society and the Public Health Depart- ment, where Dr. Keeping was doing, all in his power, finally led to a conference with the Pro- vincial Government. Tho Government passed an Order-in-Cauncil authorizing the Sanatorium Commission to deal with the problem.

Further conferences between the Sanatorium Commission, the medical staff at tho Sanatorium, Dr. Keeping, tho hospital doctors and the Red Cross resulted in the development of the splen- didly appointed and equipped Polio clinic now operating in the Sanatorium for the past year.

All interested parties were agreed on getting Dr. T. B. Acker, of Halifax, our Red Cross crippled children's specialist, to superintend the import- ant work of treatment, because this has been a major part of Dr. Acker's wonderfully successful work in dealing with tho crippling after-effects of Poliomyeletis. Dr. Acker brought a skilled and competent physiotherapist with him; the Rod Cross furnished another; Dr. Seaman under- took supervision of cases under Dr. Acker and. acted between Dr. Acker's visits. The greatest harmony and co-operation prevailed. Dr. Creel- man's wise counsel and successful management contributed much to the success being attained. Under careful and skilled treatment and with educational instruction introduced by Mr. Lloyd Show, Director of Education, those child vic- tims of the most crippling disease known are doing splendidly; and again we are all indebted

eta Dr. Acker who has spent much time and shown infinite patience over a period of twenty-two years in dealing with such cases.

Health problems being a Government re- Iponsibility, the Government paid the bills. For this, and this only, it is entitled to credit, and it would have been fairer and more praiseworthy an tho Premier's part if he had candidly stated

this fact.

Children and Sunday Schools.

Tho interesting proposal was mbde in Ottawa (says Tho Journal) by cRev. David l. Forsyth, gen- eral secretory of the Board of Christian Educa- tion af the United Church, that all Protestant churches in Canada should unite their effort! to overcome what Mr. Forsyth called the "frighten- iirg" problem of Christian education.

What he had particularly in mind was the problem of the‘ Sunday Schools-the United Church, he said, had lost i9 per cent of its Sun- day School enrollment between i934 and i942.

"That this is a real and urgent problem no ono will question, and it is by no means new. It can be simply stated. The normal Protestant child of four or five is thrilled by Sunday School and takes eager delight in the opening of this new field of knowledge. Unfortunately in, a great many cases that keen interest is not re- tained, and the same youngster a few years later is bored by Sunday School, goes unwillingly if at all, thus is deprived at a critical age of the good that comes of Christian associations and Christian education. And as the Sunday School is the natural stepping-stone to the young peo- ple's activities in the church itself such a child .nay be lost permanently to all religious connoc- tion.

"But to state the problem is far easier than to suggest the remedy. Many factors, of course, come into it; many; questions suggest themselves to the inquiring mind: Are teachers selected with sufficient care and are they ade- quately trained? Are the exercises graded ac- cording to the developing intelligence of the classes? ls an real effort made to preserve the interest of the beginner or do the Sunday Schools merely set out a dish of religion with- out much thought of its acceptance or rejection?

"It is not much to ask, that Protestant children should devote one hour each week (often nowadays for only ton months of tho your) to religion, spend that time in a religious atmos- photo. And if tho Sunday School as an institu- tion is declining tho fault rests not with the chil- rlron themselves but with parents, with Christian adults genorally, with tho church itself. Those aro the quarters where thoro must be searching of hearts and conscioncos.

"And those who deplore tho situation but rofuso themselves to do anything about it should b,o. tho last to criticiu the Sunday Schools. Com- potont toacliors do not grow on trees-they must bo pickod andtrainod, must bo ready to givo ope part of tlioir Sunday loisuro for tho couso, must have a deop and gonuino affection for ahjllm and eoncorn with their roligious, wol-

church."

EDI FORIAL NOTES _

Sixteen days till the election. I I I R

A million dollars to be spent an Moncton Airport, but nothing on a grain elevator for Charlottetown. , '

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The Royal Wedding. It was a magnificent service, ceremony and demonstration of Com- monwealth goodwill, loyalty and devotion. Only a ciiurl would sneer at it.

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Mrs. Sutherland was the first lady to enter the political campaign on behalf of her sex and party, and she has every reason to be proud of her accomplishment. .

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The air-conditioning plant being installed in Canada's House of Commons should prove a boon when both debate and the chamber tend to become heated. Apparently the Public Works Department does not anticipate similar condi- tions. in tho Senate.

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George Bernard Shaw is ninety-one and the greatest literary figure of his time when asked for a special massage to the i947 inter- national Ycuth Festival, he replied a little peev- ishly: "l am not a youth. . . l have nothing to say that l haven't already written. . Read my books-and leave mo to die in peace."

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The British Parliament met this date, i940, in Church House, Westminster, due to the bomb- ing of the House of Commons by the Nazis. ln the dire predicament and danger, the British never let up; they kept on then as now, resist- ing adversity and forging ahead to a new day of success and prosperity.

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ln Saskatchewan quantities of government- owned hay which are not well situated as feed reserves and cannot be economically moved for storage because of high freight costs, are now being offered for salc. Located in the northeast, this 1S being offered to needy larmers at the pur- chaae pricc of $l3 pier ton for lowland hay and $l6 for upland hay, with freight extra.

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"The word ‘spiv’ isn't a new one, (says Mr. Macdonald Hastings over BBC). l heard it used by the London police, long before the war, as a term to describe any underworld character. lts °llfllll$i l believe. date back to one of the Vag- cancy Acts of Victorian times which make ref- erenceto ‘Suspected Parsons and itinerant Vag-

rants’. The Police condensed the phrase down to its initials. And thus the word 'spiv' was born."

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_ James Hogg, "the Ettrick Shepherd", Scot- tish_ poet, died this date i835. His education was very meagre, and from the age of six till forty he was employed as a shepherd. He con- tributed poetry to local newspapers, and being introduced to Sir Walter Scott assisted him in the preparation of the third volume of Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. ln i8i3 he published The Queen's Wake, which showed he possessed genius of a high order. The Brownie of Bodsbeck, a Covenanting story and a faithful picture of Low- land peasant life is his best prose work:

O, love, love, love! Love is like a dizziness;

It winna let a poor body Gang about his business!

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The raising of Lieut. Louis Mountbatten to the Dukedom of Edinburgh with its Royal priv- ileges and designation, is what was to be expect- ed and desired. lt puts the new royal husband on a footing with the King's brothers, and on equallity with the heiress when precedents are at stake. The previous Duke was also a sailor, Admiral of the Fleet H. R. H. Prince Alfred, sec- ond son of Queen Victoria, and grand uncle of King George V. He succeeded as Duke of Saxe- Coburg, dying in i900. Having demitted his rights to British citizenship, the dukedom of Edinburgh returned to "cold storage" in the Royal family where it has rested till now.

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The Lancaster, N.B., Board of Trcde has voted in favour of permitting the manufacture and sale of margarine in Canada. The Canadidn Chamber of Commerce requested that its 455 member boards of trade and chambers of com- merce" take aiballot on the matter. The by- laws of the national organization provide that if replies from ot least 30 per cent of its mem- bers show a two-thirds ‘majority in favor of a proposal, that proposal is considerad adapted. Members of the_Lancaster board pointed out that Canada must import butter each year dur- ing the winter season and declared that the manufacture of margarine would alleviate this seasonal butter shortage.

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Your car will cost you more. Maximum in- crease on the standard sedan in such makes as Chevrolet, Ford, Plymouth and tho lower-criced Dodge likely will not exceed $200. Mr. Abbott's announcement was coupled with an immediate ban on import of cars manufactured in tho United States. These automobiles—Buick, Nash, Hudson, Kaiser, Frazer, Packard, Cadillac, Stude- baker and Willys, and the higher-priced Pontiac and Oldsmobile-will later b: ermitted to bo brought into the Dominion on a quota system not yet worked out. The present excise tax is i0 per cent of the wholesale value, regardless of price. The new tax, also based on wholesale price, takes this form: 25 per cent on the first SL200; 50 per cent on the next $780,’ 75 por cent on any amount over $2,000. For example: A car with o wholesale value of $1,200 will havo a tax of $300, compared to the previous tax of

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successful commercial

have a hard black shell enclosl

a white 011 kernel. This kernel con- tains up to 60 per cent of a cream- uolored all which has the quality and odor of linseed o1l. —Vuncou- ver Province.

After misadventures. one of those coke- veridlng machines has been rein-

ln a dime, a bottle slides from one slot and three cents change comes rrom another -or 1s supposed to. On the first. night's operation a youthful coke-fiend from the mall- ing room stepped up to the ma- chine and put, 1n his dime. He hit the jackpot! The machine whlrred and shook and bottles arid pennies started spewing out faster than he scald catch them. It was bargain night 1n the editorial rooms. For ciery dime you got. buck o. dozen bottles of coke and a dollar 1n pennies! Today tho machine stands hlfiflb and ashamed 1n a corner.- Vanoouver News Herald.

In General MscArthuravlew lt. 1s expedient to allow Japan to build up her export. trade. and to resume by degrees that commercial and cultural intercourse with other LAUGHS of which she is still depriv- ed. Britalru which originally play- ed an important and honorable part in aiding Japan to emerge from medieval obscurity, ls sincere- l)’ desirous of renewing hor form- er crlexidly relations and welcomes any opportunity offered by suit.- able relaxation of present restric- tions to re-estubllsh the flourish- ing commerce which for larig pro- moted the interests of both coun- tries. There 1s reason to believe that this desire 1s shared by the Japanese themselves and that gen- erous recognition by the United States Government of the paslllon which Brttaln formerly occupied 1n Japan would be widely welcomed. -Loridon Times.

Cornwall’: newest industry got. into production yesterday. and a very promising industry it 1s. too. Peebles Products Limited located fr. the former Stormorit Chemicals ‘plant here. plan to make a ivlde variety of products by processing n-hey. Probably the chief ot these will be milk sugar, used 1n the manufacture of penicillin. Stor- niont. Chemicals Limited. a Gov- ernment-owned plant. was estab- llFhCd here to produce one of the most. horrible weapons of modem warfare — perhaps the most hor- rible, before the advent of the atomic bomb. This was mustard gas. end ll: was a blessing that the fortunes of war never forced the plant. into full production- Peebles Products Limited, the post- war owners of the property. are bent. on providing the ingredient. for one of't.he great life-giving -.lrugs that modern science has pro- duced far the world. - Cornwall Standard-Freeholder.

Following tho example sot by the provincial capitol. many other cities 1n Ontario have inaugurat- ed “ciean-up" campaigns against. restaurants and other public eat- iiig-places wherein lnsanltary con- ditions exist. Not. the least impor- tant phase of this activity 1s thc stress that 1s being placed on the health and personal cleanliness ct those who take any part. 1n serving food to the public. Ap- parently, 1n some municipalities at. least, the work of health inspec- tors hes been somewhat perfunc- tory. Not only were kitchens and washrooms found to be ln a. filthy condition 1n certain restaurants. ‘cut 1t was revealed that. physical examinations of the personnel a1; regular intervals had been sadly neglected. People who est. meals 1n

ubllc eating-places are entitled to ome reasonableussurance that the trod has been prepared 1n a clean- ly manner. and that those who cook and serve 1t. wash their hands frequently. keep their finger-nails 1.18811, and generally observe the basic principles of sanitation.- Iart. Erie ‘limes-Review.

This lo not. the beat polllblo time for Americans to stage contests bo sce how much they can eat. It was not the best possible time for Mrs. Edna Lam-b of Maurice River. N. J.. to win u i100 bond at Atlantic City by eating 186 clams ln 30 initiates. as compared with the 144 which was the most her nearest rl- val. Mrs. Issy Welntraube, was able to get down. This contest was la better taste than 1f 1t had been held with beefsteak eaters. A clam does not. eat wheat. or corn. Stlli, such contests. at this time. are not 1n the very best taste. Moro can be said for the oyster-opening contest. 1n which Mrs. bomb, a professional oyster-opener. placed third 1n competition with flve men. Sea toad 1s a substitute for land food and lts consumption should ue encouraged. For Mrs. tomb her- seif one must. have sympathy. Clams nre good vlctuais - on the hrilt shell. steamed. ln chowder. and. as some of us strongly believe. ln stews. But we don't belfovo they

nulto a while. Or 1.0 Ur. Wein- tnub. olther. Their exploits on Sunday whllo the band played "By tho Sea." arid u thousand specta- tors cheered, must have cost. them

$120. A car valued at $1,500 will liavo a total

tax of $450-$300 on the first $1,200 and $i50 on tho remaining $300. '

an innocent delight which the rest of us can go on lhj0yln‘__ New ‘York Tiiuol.

Attor four years or research 1' United Kingdom research team has found what. 1s believed to be o substitute for linseed oll, an import that now costs Britain largo sums. Tho and of the long search came when a woody vine. growing 1n the jungle 1n tho British terrltorlu of Sierra Deane. Nigeria. and other parts of tropical West. Africa. was analyzed. Scientists call 1t tetrocsrpldlum conophorum. The soods of the vino

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stalled 1n our city room. You put‘

will seem good to Mrs. Lamb torn

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tutored. ‘flu Chorlottotowri Guardian dooo not amour- lly endorlo tho opinion of respondents

riuumi Allowances

Sup-Referring to the letter which Mr. Barnard, of Toronto, had 1n this column on Nov. 19th. I would soy that perhaps 1f Mr. Bernard had o larger family, he might not consider the family al- lowance as charity, as ho calls 11.; and not being o. rlbh man. he would not have to worry about income tax, but gladly take the extra thlrty-flvo or forty dollars a month, and 1n those times of rising prices. bo very glad to get

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doubt Mr. Bernard sees some abuses of this money. for Toronto wlth its taverns and

cocktail bars on almost. overy cor- ner. 1s a for cry from our own P. I. 1., which has none of these.

I om for too busy washing. scrubbing and cooking to be very, bothered about politics, but 1f tho giving of family. allowances vru tho only good the Ldborsl leaders did, they are to bo coni- msndod for 11:. And 1f Mr. Bernard does natllke the way our coun- try is run, why stay?

I am. Sir. etc. A MOTHER OI‘ EIGHT. North Rustlco.

TH! GILEEKS BEARING PRESENTS

Sir. -- "Tlmeo Danuo ot dorium ferontes". This Latin passage from Virgil was quoted by a lawyer 1n opposition to our farmer Premier on the floor of the House of As- sembiy during the last. session. In- stantly came tlie reply from our farmer Premier, that moans. "I fear tho Greeks 1f they bring a present". and he went on bo argue that the passage was correctly quoted. but wrongly applied by his opponent. Rlghly or wrongly. it must. have been rather agreeable for the farmers of our Province to observe that a man of their awn class. a real hand and held farm- er, could hold his awn 1n a "little Latin" contest with a lawyer. riot- withstanding that they had re- cently been saturated with the idea that a little Latin 1n our pub- lla schools was worse than use- less; 1n fact. that. 1t was the cause of all our educational ills. and to a great extent our economic ills also.

“I fear the Greeks bearing a present". Not lnsptly could the quotation be applied during the past summer by any member of His Majesty's royal apposition. who observed the personnel of the road workers throughout the Pro- vince. For 1t can scarcely be denied that never 1n the history of our Province has a Government so generally ignored the good old straightforward party rule of giv- ing all or mostly all of the road jabs to supporters of the Gov- ernment as the Jones Govern- ment has ignored it, In every dis- trict throughout the Province. Grit and Tory could be seen work- ing together like brothers. wh'ch of course in many cases they were. or at least forty-second cousins to one another. This looks good on the surface of 1t, But. "Tlrneo Danua et dons ferentes"._

I am. Sir, 010., "OLD TIMER"

THE- NEWFOUNDLAND TRADE Sir-No trading arrangement

would be of much benefit unless on the cue side there were people who desired to secure goods and on the other side those who were willing to provide the goods, but even when such conditions exist ll: does riot fallow that. nothing further is needed to make the ar- rang it a success.

‘The Federal Government. whose duty 1h ls to promote trade and commerce, finds that. 1t. is neces- sary to have trade agents. trade commissioners and so forth all over the world to promote trade and the bringing of customers and shippers together and providing the ecessary services.‘ It, 1s a common but. true saying tho‘ "trade 1s the life-blood of a country." It has always been a cardinal point 1n Liberal policies to greatly enlarge trading facilit- ies and the record shows that 1n this respect success has followed their efforts.

Now what. about the Newfound- land market? It has existed for a long number of years. f ro- member when the Block Dlocnonil Lino had Charlottetown as a port o! eall on the way from Montreal to Newfoundland and at. that time Oarveli Bras. were the chief exporters; but fom orio cause and another the redo foil off. the steamers no longer called hero. npd this 1s where the Jones Gov- ernment entered into tho picture. ‘Mr. Jones. our farmer Premier, knew of the great possibilities of the Newfoundland market. Ho bo- como interested. Ho helped 1n ro-