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LJHARLlYPTETIIH/N. SATURDJIY, JAN. 21'. lit-If)

A Maritime Opportunity

Seldom has there been a better opportun- ity for joint action at Ottawa by our Maritime representatives than at the present session oi Parliament. There are pretty clear indication in the Speech Ii3f11 the Throne that this will lie the last sessicn before the general election, and Gcvernmcirts on suclr occasions are iii a more paternal frame of mind than at any other time. What we want in the Maritimes, however, is not paternalism but only a fair measure of r l justice and consideration with respect to lang- H . ~ i standing requirements. ~ r. , First and foremost so iar as this Province ' ' is concerned is an additional highway ferry to ' handle vehicular traffic at Borden, and also l ' more adequate facilities along this line at Wood Islands. Recent railway freight increases have underlined the necessity for these provisions, cs well as for the proposed West Prince ferry ser- vice. The handicaps that we accepted during the war and post-war years will no longer be tolerated by our farmers and shippers, who see tremen- dcus opportunities here for development under modern transportation conditions. Premier Jones estimates that cur truck traffic with the main- land could be expanded to ten times its present figure. Steamer traffic also could be greatly in- :reased, not only at Charlottetown and Suin- mcrside, but also at Georgetown, which could be utilized to great advantage as a winter port when our other terminals are icebound.

. lncl-usion of the Northumberland Strait

‘ ' water route as part of the Trans-Canada High-

way is another matter which has been in-clarsed

by all sections of the Maritime Provinces, and

which we should press for at Ottawa this ses-

sion. We should also be prepared to give whole-

hearted support to the demands from our sister

Provinces for the Chignecto Canal and the

_ bridging of the Strait of Canso. Included in the

i‘, farmer project is the prospect of a power de-

" velopment schema which might prove of great

, benefit to Prince Edward Island. There is also

‘ the projected development of hydro-electric err-

ergy from the Passamaquoddy tides, an under-

taking which has been revived at Washington,

as it is of direct importance to the State oi

Maine as well as to New Brunswick and the Mari- times generally.

These schemes for developing our power and transportation facilities will cost money, but the returns over a period of years will amply justify the expense. We have waited too long for them clreadypand in...tfhe mflflftflffjeHQOTQUIIIlQILILWPISOf jects involving many times the expenditure that would set the Maritime: on their feet, have been going forward in the more prosperous industrial Provinces. Only last Saturday it was announc- ed from Washington that "Canada has already put up more than one-third of the cold cosh the St. Lawrence saaway and power project would cost her. Figures prepared by the United States corps of engineers show the Dominion has spent $32,000,000 on facilities which would be a part of the proposed dual-purpose plan. Latest estimates are that Canada would have to contribute another $229,000,000, bringing her total share to S36l,000,000."

One could cite also the huge cost to Canad- ian taxpayers of the canal system developed in the interests of the Central Provinces, the millions that went into the Hudson Bay railway and pert oi Churchill, and other schemes oi staggering proportions, compared with which the cost of urgently needed projects in these Marr- time Provinces would be a bagatellc.

It is regrettable that at this important par- liamentcry session, Prince Edward Islaird lras but ans-half its Senate representation. More respon- . sibility thsreicre devolves upon our Hausa oi l Commons members and remaining Senators, oi

war-king energetiully and tirelessly, along wit-h

their colleagues from the other Maritime Pro-

__ yjjygcs, inwards tire objectives which, by cam

., men consent, are oi greatest importance and

urgency. Treusjzertatoii and power development

project; - t" re should be stressed on every

possible occozicir in such a manner as to leave no

recm for doubt as to our sincerity, sinalc-rirind- edncss and determination.

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Mr. S",'d:::y G. Dcbson, President of In Royal Bonk of Canada, had some things to say at the bank's eightieth annual meeting recently which the Ottawa Journal suggests sliould be studied diligently at Ottawa. This for example:

"There is nothing in our foreign trade pic- ture today about which we can afford to be com- placent. Our present peak of business is being maintained to a large extent by artificial res- piration in the form of credits from Canada and the United States. To realize our position we

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of our commerce -— and therefore of our stand-

v ard of living-if the Economic Recovery Program

and our own leans to Europe were suddenly cut off." '

Government departments keep telling how wonderful is our_trode (the figures, inciden- tally, in inflated dollar values), and how pros- perous we all are as a consequence. more helpful, far more reassuring, ii they told

. us what is being done, or whether anything is being done, to build our trade on a loss arti- ficial basis - ta prepare us for the time when ERP will be no more; its dollars no longer avail-r able to European countries _to buy goods from us. Mr. Dabson, thinking of what may happen when that day comes, says he has no cure for its possible consequences. But therrara other people whose business it is to have a cure, or to try to find one.

rrced only to consider what would be the state

It would be

Tomorrow, Fourth Sunday after Epiphany.

Prague Regional Trade Union Council, last July, recommended that Czech workers should accept the 48-hour week; that there should be severe punishment for absenteeism.

It almost looks as if Georgetown is to be» come industrialized despite itself. There will be disadvantages oi course. But one cannot make omelettes without breaking eggs.

President Truman's tender and Prime Miri- istcr St. Laurent's acceptance oi an invitation to visit Washington augurs well for the Good Neighbour policy of their respective predeces- sors.

ls it coming to this? According ta a state- ment by Sir Richard Gregory, leading British scientist, to a mothers’ clinic recently, that be- cause of the burden on the Notional Health Scr- vice, it may soon be necessary to obtain per- mission to have a baby.

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Canadian dairy farmers are beginning to inquire what the dcfry iarrners in Denmark and New Zealond have that they have not. Canad- ian Government is actually willing to pay more to outside producers for butter than Canadian farmers receive for theirs.

Modern man's propensity to scrawl is con- sidered a sufficiently serious matter for the U. N. to concern itself about. The international bureau oi education, a 46-country organization, has adopted a recommendation an the teach- ing of handwriting. A Norwegian architect with many unusual ideas, has one which would makeo greaterchange in the appearance of the average home than would almost any recent innovation. It is noth- ing less than getting rid of plaster ond letting the honest building material show. .

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The Provincial Government. with reference to the Children's Aid Society adopts the attitude of "Heaven helps those that help themselves." lf the Society raises money to enable them to carry on their most deserving charitable en- deavours, the Government will add to their fi- nancial resources.

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Mechanizatioir oi agriculture is one of the greatest technical, economic and sociological steps forward ever made by the human race, says The Letter-Review but it is extremely undes- sirable that the swing to mechanization should result, not from sound economic pressures, but from a clumsy and confused system of controls and subsidies.

The Prince Edward Island Law Society's in- terest in the restoration of the war damaged lirns of Courtris natural and creditable. The traditions of law, justice and service, for so long linked with that cradle of the profession, is the common inheritance of the Mother Country and every member nation of the Commonwealth.

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Much talk has been made of the idea of letting married personnel have their families with them. Officers have now been informed that, at Petowawa this Summer, they may have the use of tents. with no water supply, no floor, no cooking or messing facilities, for their wives and children. The idea is to improve service niorale_-—- but this is scarcely going to be the results, remarks The Letter-Review.

The statement of the Liberal candidate for Nicolet-Yomaska that o Canadian would soon assume the post oi Governor-General shows a rather narrow view lt would be more to the point if o Canadian were likely to be appointed to such a post in any Dominion. Ilut this may merely be o balloon indicating that the Rt. Hqr. ‘William Lyon Mackenzie King will round oif his remarkable political career by accepting the Governor-Gencrulship.

Field Marshal Earl Haigli ol llemersyde died this date I928; served in the Sudan and South African Wars; also in Great War I where he succeeded General Viscount French as Com- rnandcr-in-Chief oi the British forces in France, subsequently accepting the post of Allied Com- mand with General Foch. Made Field Marshal Ion. I, l9l7. In August I9I9 raised to an earl- dcm, received a gilt of $400,000, and the thanks of Parliament for his services in winning the victory over the Germans.

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Professor I. L. McDougall, in The Canadian Banker, provides a useful enlightening tabla, showing the I947 consumption of various goods,

as a percentage oi I937-39.

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fluid milk H’! Radios fill‘: Boots and shars . I30 Pickles 2'16 Passenger corn I56 ltr-er 273 Chewing gum I80 (‘inoculate bars 282 Canned soups IBI Ice cream 258 Sada biscuits I95 machines Z55 Coffee 210 Domestic wnrihlng Marmalade 211i Refrigerators - . 235 Cigarettes 219 Jams and jellies 23f

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ls there anything more magical in the num- ber 9 than in 7 which used to be the favourite numeral in this respect? "A. K. -L." writes The Times London: "Chancing to look up some birth- dates of famous men of the eighteenth century, I found that 200 years ago, and in each ai the two following decades, a strangely large num- ber of them were born in a year ending, like this year, with a '9'. Here they are:—I749, Charles James Fox, Mirabeau, Jenner, Goethe; I759, Pitt, Wilberforce, Burns, Schiller; I769, Napoleon, Wellington, Castlereagh, Ney, Soult, Lannes, and Sir Thomas Lawrence. The series sums to begin again in I799, which year saw the birth of Balzac, Pushkin, and (probably) Heine; and in I809 Gladstone, Tennyson, Darwin, Abrahani Lincoln, and Mendelssohn were born. lut I leave it to somebody else to purses ro- searches further" '

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A THOROUGH EXAMINATION

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PUBLIC FORUM .

This column to open to the discussion by correspondents of questions of interest. The Guardian does not necelsu- tly endorse the opinion of w. respondents.

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REV. DONALD .\fcDONALD'5 WORKS

_ 511'._— One of the mQ-fit fitter-est.- iirg figures in Prince Fkiwaj-d 1g. land church history is the Rev. Donald McDonald 11783-18371 who was ordained a nliflistei- or the Church of Scotland in 18.16 and conic to Prince Edward Island in 1826. He built fourteen churches, registered the baptism nf Lwo thousand two hundred children and had five thousand followers to whcnr hc ‘was spiritual father. He was the author of several books "A ‘Prentice on the Holy Orrlinam-e uf Baptism", 1M5, pub- lished in Charlottetown; "The Subjects of ‘he Mtllenium", 184e, Charlottetown: "Hymns by the Rev. Donald hint-Donald and Eld- ers", 1835 edition. 1840 edition: "Plnn of Salvation“. i874: and "TIHHYIS It)‘ the Rev. Donald Mac- Donald and illlrltrs", undated edi- tiori pubiishrcl rrftrr his death.

A vOpy o’ r~r.rh of the above is wanted for an important Uni/er-

P. E. I. Premier Commended

i Halifax Chronlcle-Heraldi A leader of farming 1n this Pro- vince has just drawn attention to a letter appearing in a Nova Scotla newspaper in vrhieh reference Ls made to "vote-batting politicians. such as Premier Jones of P.E.I.“ As we have said so often. abuse is not. argument and no cause is advanced by excesses in language. It is pretty rough to call a man like the Hon. J. Walter Jones a "vote-baiting politician" as part of the “pro-margarine" campaign. Mr. Jones is Government. leader in a small Province that. is largely agricultural and. naturally enough, his first concern is for the wel- fare of agriculture 1n the Prince

Edward Island economy. He. is. moreover, a successful — indeed, an internationally recognized —-

stockmaii and farmer in his own right. He doesn't need polities or the emoluments of politics; if his Government were defeated to- morrow‘. he could go back exclusive- ly ta his farming and stock-raising and likely be much better off personally.

For our awn part, we are rather» proud that. the Marlttmes ran pro- duce men like J. Waiter Jones. men who can hold their own in any company of farmers and stock- men anywhere. We need more ttke them. A tot. more.

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"A ISCQFIIDIICIII Sketch of the Latr- Rcv. Dmalri MaoDsnaid" by

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HEALTH & IVIJLFARE

Cairaclnis National Health Week starts today. White local conditions are still Int‘ short of satisfactory, tirey would appear to ‘compare favorably with the situation de- scribed below. from a statement by Mr, CD. Rankin on complet- ing his census-taking of Charlotte- Torvn and Royalty one hundred year's ago this year: _

"In procuring the materials for the preceding statistics, Nuisances orifne under my notice that were of an extremely repulsive chor- acter, and must inevitably engen- der and propagate disuse. I have seen many families in extrema destitution of the means of sub- sistence, living tn places resemb- ttna Pig Styes more than the dwellings of human beings. The squalid misery of many residing tn the beck Streets, Lanes and At- teyir. and the tm-purtty of the etr they inhale. must. prove very tn- jurious to the health of the com- munity tn general. The» u: the most prominent purptcuterl to which I consider it my duty to rm- ect public attention."

HIGHLY ILICTIIITID

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The Facts About British Policy 1n l he Middle East rBy GTEWKFI

In the last week or two there has gone around ‘the world n strange picture of British policy in Palcctinc and the Middle East.

published at Cli"l‘~ ‘It tins been deliberately drawn and jdeliberntely circulated

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out’ 0r all 0f llw jspociflc political ends. It is. .in mmmll" C111" jfnt-L, unrecognizable as n earl-nt-

ure. Yet tt to being widely accfpl- ed as an accurate portrait.

The British government is bo- havtirg, ever Siltve the nr-andute ended, blotted the Arab states to fight. Of hav- Ing, in spite of truce terms, lib- supptted them with arms and munitions. It. ‘s accused of deliberately planning to extend the Palestine fighting into "realhrvar- [fare ta which British ships, pianos and troops try to weigh the wai- against. Israel". That last, by the way. from a usually quite respon- sible New York paper.

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Mr. Eben. Israel delegate at Lake Success, ctrarges Britain with "threatening

Israel" and with "creating an art.- lflctal ertsts on the eve of armis- ‘tice negotiations", I reflect that -Mr. than‘: attack has an obvious "purpose; and that. he wisely re- frained from making such accus- ations tn the 'Securtty Council. But when I read. entn tn on Arn- ertean paper, the suggestion that Britain ls "trrytlti to Impose her awn terms of settlement In Pol- eating merely to weaken Israel" I rub my ayes tn bewilderment.

Let u: check these charges against the facts. The first, concern eta and encouragement to Arab states. As regards materiel aid. it ts eblolutely definite that. since the Oounctt’: resolution of May Nth no war material of any ktnd ha: been lupptted by Britain to my of the Arab stolen: that In spite of treaty obligation: tn the cue 0! lIYDt and Trarujordln. The Oounctl recoluttan was rellrded n overrtdlni the treaty obligations. Nor have any Britten officers or personnel taken part tn Arab op- erntlanir.

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THE CAMISARDS we u-ayeued "m Lhe print of olden wars.

Yct nli the ltutd was Brem-

Anri love we found. and 9'53"‘- where fire and Will‘ had been.

They pass and sumle. the children of the isword- I No more the sword the)’ ‘I'll-fid- And 0. how deep the corn Along the battlefield! —R. L. Stevenson.

was insistent British advice which Induced the Arabs, then confident of suvCess, to accept the Berna- dotto truce, which they feared, not without good reason, would give Israel time for a formidable tn- crease in its armaments. A381" and again, Arab governments have been warned that they could not. hope for success by arms. And if, at last, they are facing hard facts and are ready for an armistice; t1 is in part. because they have at lasLh-ealized the wisdom of those warnings.

Second. the charge of threaten- ing Israel and of trying to pro- voke an extension of the war. Again it Is thr- veiy converse of the facts. In December. there sud- denly appeared real danger that the war might spread. The Israelis overnight denounced the truce. resumed “freedom of action" and struck successfully at. the Egypt- ians in the south. The momentum of the offensive carried them to, and across, tire border. There was great excitement in Tel Aviv. The possibility of a serious tnvas‘on. both of Egypt and Transjordan. was something which must reckoned with. And if it bod oc- curred then. either there would be conflict between Britain and Is- rael. or Britain must flagrantly re- pirdlate treaty obligations - with disastrous repercussions upon all alliances am’ security pacts tn ""5711 she is a partner. The etear w ta prevent such a clash, to prevent any possibility or the wru- spreading. was to aive the Israel government plain warning. That. was done partly through the Un- ited States government. partly by symboticat but unmistakable troop movements. It was no threat. It certainly was it warning. And it served the purpose.

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And more their Il-s immediate purpose. It made armistice negot. iations possible. Ilbr on the on; hand, the Egyptians. feallsing that they had only been saved from Invasion by the British gesture. Wfle "my to cease fighting. On the other hand, the Israelis, un- derstandlng that they could go no

further without intolerable risk, were bqually ready. It is for anyone who will to

ortttctze British policy in detail. I can do it myself. I often do, I never knew ri complicated military 0r diplomatic operation which eauld not. be a0 crtttetzed and 4mm ‘rirrhtlv. "To en- t: human". And