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Morning Dally (Founded tn I887) Authorized n Second Class Mall. Post Uffloo > Department, Ottawa Incident: Lleut. Col. W. Chuter S. McLuro View-Proficient: J. B. Burnett, F..I.l. Secretary: Uout. Col. D. A. Maelflnnou, 0.8.0. Idltor out! Managing Director: J. ll- Bllrnoll. F-J- l-

Anochte Editors: Frank Walker and Inn A. Burnett.

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

FRIDAY, JANUARY l8, 1946

Municipal Hospitals

In these days of socialization and commun- istic propaganda. private charity as well as private enterprise, scents to be ou the way out. The popular ixilicy scents to be to compel tlle State or the Municipality to foot the bill for everything from the cradle to the grave. and refrain iron touching the private pocket of

. the uidividutl. OI to allow the uaturtil love for hunlatliti" and regard for its tazliugs to have free scope.

A: our door, just over at lloncton. they are planning to run their hospital as a citv or City-aiiil-Coniii\ prilieet. cairicd Ill and inaiu- lziiilcd by wio=< publicly elected oodles. and if this be CQITIEJ into ‘effect. it will not be long before (lthrrr cities and towns, including our own, will follow suit. kcortling to tlle Saint lohn Telegriih/z-lollrnlll, everything is in fair way for Moncton iuunieipaliziiig its hospital.

The first step toward-s tltaking the Slouc- ton City fltspital a civic 0r municipally-oiviled institution was léllifill at the monthly meeting of the hospital lward of trustees. The institution has‘ been asking the City council to guarantee bonds for the erection of a new hospital to the amount of $800,000. .-\i the request of the council, the board passed a resolution stating that it “is ivilling that the number of trustees may be reduced and that the act and amend- men-ts thereto respecting the Moucton Hospital be amended in such a ntzinncr as the City Coun- cil may d-esre. if the City of Bloncton guaran- tees bonds to the amount 0f $800,000 for the construction cf a new ltospital."

Action now lies chiefly with the City Coun- cil which is expected to bring the matter before the Municipal Council of Westmorland-which is scheduled to meet at Dorchcster Ian. 22—with the intention of asking the county to be ioint guarantors of the amount subscribed. The County Councils of Kent and Albert will also be approached on the matter, it is believed, as citizens from these districts are admitted as patients and will continue to be Datients in the hospital.

It was pointed out during the discussion of this important. step that this amount would not cover the cost of the new nurses’ residence which would be needed with the increase in hos- pital facilities and services. The probable total cost, as mentioned in a plan drawn up a few years ago by Dr. A. I. Swanson, will be about $1,200,000.

If the city guarantees the bonds, it has been reported unofficially that it will appoint a hospital commission to govern the hospital in place of the present trustee board which is self-perpetuating and over which the city has little or no control. If the County Council also decide to back the bonds, they will have full representation on the commission, it was stat-

Many Research Chores

An organization which had iniicb to do with the ‘success of our huge egg shipments to Great Britain last year was the National Re- search Council. Among a multitude of other chores, the Council busied itself with improv- ing methods of preserving shell eggs by oiling them.’ The contract for shell eggs for Great Britain in I945 was 600,001. cases Specifica- tions for the ozling of eggs were drawn and applied. It was found that oils of higher vis- cosity than ordinarily used were better and that application could be made at room temperature. _ Dehydration studies were also carried out in milk, eggs. and in mixtures of these two. Of it dried sugar-egg mixture some twenty mil- lion pounds weir used in Great Britain in the lzalting trade hast year. Dried sugar egg retains its whipping power in sponge. Milk and egg tnixlttres ham: been used \\"lll suctcss as high protein foods III the treatment of amputation patients. About 90,000 pounds of such prepar- ations were .s'llll.'PL'd last year for use in over- seas military hospitals for this purpose,

1\ very concise review of the Research Council's lctizitles in I949 runs to 2o typed pages. Tilt"; cover such important things as invcstigtitioits in atomic energy, radar research. design and construction of a plywood taillcss aircraft which was ready for flight trials at the end of the ‘veal, and the development to the pilot-illant stage of a process for the produc- tiou of butvluie glycol from wheat.

Among trher things. a building research conference ti-vwewed the situation in the hous- ing and roiistiuclion field and laid plans for the co-ordintifion of studies and the initiation of practical SPlICIIICS for the improvement of housing in all its branches This work is be- ing closely integrated with the activities of the Department of Reconstruction. through the Scientific Research and Development branch of which the president 0f the National Research Council is director.

Research. work for the Nayy. .\rmv and Air-continued

three services-— throughout

lllyf slackening basis towards the end of 'thc

wlll‘. Much .~i the work ‘undertaken for the

ccs as a war measuri- will be continued

irl-Jpacetilhe. but with ipyilustrial and com-

~ l . replications Io ct ilian rather than i y fcvtiiirements. 7*”

-' ‘National Research Council pas three

. filnctlons It operates laboratories. at the

[time eleven dffitlftiv across Canada. It

” fhcyear but. as was to be expected on a gridir-

Government, particularly those of National Pefence, Reconstruction and Supply The third Important function is in connection with the organizing and cO-ordfnaiing of national co- (HRH-five rtfiirhrdl programs in whzch various departments and organizations have an active interest.

Research activities must be maintained ‘on a steadily increasing scale if Canada is to go forward and llvlfl the place she has gained dur- mll the war .t.\ an industrial nation. A good pace was set in this direction during i945. Since 1939. the actual phvscal facilities of the Council have been widely extended The staffs of the laboratories have inc. eased fourfold; the direct peacetime budget of‘ under a million dollars has grown to nearly six millions and. in addition, the Council controls indirectly fur- ther expenditure of the same order 0f tnagni- tudc.

—I:Dl IURIAL NUI ES-

Our potatoes are being more discussed

‘than eaten Ill Ottawa these days. w v n:

The Legion has the first call on our poc- kets today — a pleasant outlay, iv =4- u 1t!

Three candidates are now in the field for Charlottetown Mayoralty, viz., llltssrs. Keith and Tom Rogers and Earle MacDonald.

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.\ proud intent called izp the society editor ofvthe local newspaper t0 report the hirtli of twins. 'lhe girl on the phone didn't quite Iiear, and asked. ‘Wilt you repeat that?" “Not if l can help it!" was the quick reply.

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Canada is progressing all -right when it thinks it can afford to pay at least $125,000 for a residence- for Prime Minister King. Of course, his successors would have the right of

occupancy as vrell.

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The United Kingdoms training school for Naval Air Artificer Ap- prentices, opened this month at Ar- broath, Angus. Scotland, ivrTll be dealing with young men regarded as the future technical brains of the maintenance personnel 0f Brit- ain's Naval Air Arm.

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first permanent

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Improved standards for new permanent houses have been laid down by Nlr. Aneurin Bevan, Britain's Minister of Health. A three- bedroom house for five people must now have a minimum range of 900 square feet-loo square feet more than was average in pre-war days. Other types of houses are to be on a

proportionate scale. 1K

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The Citizens’ Reception Committee and the Women's Naval Auxiliary are giving a. recep- tion and dance for Naval Veterans in the Sport- ing Club on Tuesday night. Here is their excuse: “When the Navy came home from the war there were no receptions, no bands playing and no streamers flying in greeting - - and there was a reason. We didn't come back in a group like the Army and Air Force did, but every train brought in a dozen or so matelots with their bags and hammocks and discharge chits. Friends and relatives may have been at the station to meet your train and the Red Cross Reception- ists were always there, but there was noth- ing in the way of a bang-up affair to say “Hello-welcome home—-and thanks for a grand job well done!" So now it is to be

done Tuesday.

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Regret will be felt, especially by many old- timers here, at the death of Senator Duncan McLean Marshall who was “an Islander by

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' adoption". He married a Charlottetown lady.

Miss Christina MacIsaac, and for long nursed an ambition ti become a member of Parlia- ment from here in the days when he organ- ized “The Patron of Industry Party". Sub- sequently he entered iournalism, devoting his talents to the development of agriculture on a scientific basis. He went to Alberta, where he became Minister of Agriculture. later he re- turned t0 his native province, Ontario, where he was elected to the Legislature there, becom- ing Minister of Agriculture in the Hepburn Government. In I938 he WEI: called to the Sen-

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Unless something is done soon to increase the facilities at Wood Islands we are going to be in a sad iam this coming summer. The freight and passenger traffic there has been increas- ing so rapidly that it is a physical linp0ssibil- ity t0 handle i: with the existing service, which must be doubled to meet the demands. The Northuinberlantl Ferries have had their orig- inal ship the Sankaty returned to them by the Government after war service as a mine-layer. and it is up to the people her; to see that the Company puts it into service for which it was originally intended. Now is the time to per- lulde the Government to take the necessary action so rliatthe Sankaty may be ready by the time the season opens. ‘

Rudyard Kipling, English poet and novel- ist, died this date I936; was newspaper man in India until i889, when he settled in England, producing IIOWlS and poems at an unusually rapid rate, and of more than ordinary high quality; he greatly extended the bounds of literary art, says a biography, by the introduc-

tion of strange experiences and new types of

characters and of novel forms of PERM? tion; perhaps his chief characteristic is his ver- satility, his subjects ranging from animals and children to the sophisticated products of mod- ern society, and from native life in India to slum life in London; he shows an absolute command of style in all it| resources; as a poet his’ mastery of versificatior. is complete. and telly‘ modern poets have so well caught the bal- ladlnotel-he w!» awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in i997:

Mun a bear in most relations, worm and sav-

‘ age otherwise,

‘an propounds negotiations, man accepts the ~ compromise. y, “ _ - . fiery rarely will he squarely pu logic of

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NoteeBy The Way

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A U- MINI Mlllfi l.n Mo:- wW. Orlanl All! Ion, finds that “Morgen/i ehlldi-en m ust. ‘ lllll! ours. Common lo Ic mglit have Indicated that cone uzlnn, but It Iii fl "mmfllfll one for all that, and l! everyone on both alder will rec- ognize the fact, It may save a wealth of complications In the future-Brlntford Expositor, .

An lmprnvllll fioehnl . structlna "W: e’ u" lghlefuorlscdlei- Ivrlbed by Prof. . L. Bragg and A. R. Stokes of the Cavendish Ln- boratory Cambrld o, ln Nature. Pfévlollily. the grl of luch Ien es had been made by uaIng-pinho es In a square array, with 40 pinholes‘ to the centimeter. This reduced fuzzy lmaxer. often spoil further by dust. The new method ls to use small lenses embossed on the surface of a sheet of transparent plastic and to cover the rest of the sheet with a taper mask. ‘The minute lenses (0. centlmetei In diameter, 0.5 centimeter In focal length) form lmazes which tare sharper and more uniform than those formed by the pinhole method. ._ s

If Is curious to note that Ralph Waldo Emerson, "t e Sage of can. cord," who foresaw o many things, foresaw atomic energy also ar-d It Is Interesting to note that his confident optimism made hlm cer- tain that it would mean the end of war. In a lecture on The For- tune of the Republic. delivered l.n the Old South Church on March 30. 1878, he spoke these words: “Our sleepy civilization. Is very scornful about bows and arrows and reckons Greeks and Romans llttle better than Indians and bow- and-arrow times. As if the earth, water, gases, lights and ciilorlc have not a million energies, the discovery of any one of which could change of the art of war again, and put an end to war by the extermfnatlng forces men can appIy.—Morltrt-al Gazette.

Fear causes most people to launch the smoking habit. They are afraid they will not be thought "big" or important. This is especially true of teen-lagers who long to be thought older than their years. But what about women, and many men, who start the tobaccn hablt after they are grown? Again It Is fear that makes them kee suck- lng on their cigarettes tll the original distaste has been over come and a habit developed. They are afraid of being different from the herd. Tobacco doesn't anesthe- tize your judgment like whisky, but It does for your mlnd slightly as regards mental multiplication or another flne cerebral funrtinris. It costs enough to pay your In- surance premiums or buv a small farm, so financially It Isn't IVBG. -Dr. George W. Crane in Chicago Daily News.

A ker at ii meeting of the OLiav/u Authors‘ Association com- plained that "Canadian publishers are entirely unsympathetlc toward Canadian poets." We should say their attitude is riot unsympathetic but ls based on the very practlctfl ground that books are made to be sold and If a ubllsher, on his ex- perience and udgment, believes a certain collection of poems would riot attract buyers he can hardly be expected to spend his compunys money on printing ltnPoets may hate to admit It, but if they are wrltlng for the public their pro- duce comes under the old economic law of supply and demand a_s much as though they were growing po- tatoes or making mouse traps. The publisher, if not the poet, has to reco nize that fact If he wants to cont ue In busniess. Printers have to be gold, paper costs money. and a boo the people_wlll not buy holds a dim place in any Ilst 0! assets-Ottawa Journal.