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spread over a three-year period, to assist in saving the 5,000 square miles of Resti-

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President and Associate Editor. Ian A. Burnett. Associate Editor. Frank Walker.

CIRCULATION "Coven Prince Edward Island like the dew”

gouche softwood areas threatened with devastation by the greatest enemy to this sylvan growth. The three partners will each pay an equal part of the total ex- penses.

The battle for preservation of the soft- woods, says the Moncton Times, might ap-

"The strongest memory is weaker than the weakest ink".

pear to some, in the amount of expendi- ture necessary, a costly one. Had not act- ion been initiated by the New Brunswick

CHABl.OTTETOWN, TUESDAY. MARCH 3, 1953

Government to combat the mass visitation

Welcome Legislators

Once more Charlottetown welcomes the Members of the Legislature assembling the 3rd session of the 47th General Assembly. It is 180 years since the first Legislature met in this Island and many changes, have tak- en place since then but throughout that time we have been able to find men ready to give up their private pursuits to devote time and effort to the business of the Prov- ince. On May 11th. by the way, the Hon. J. Walter Jones will have completed ten. years ,as Premier, a record equalled only by the Hon. W. W. Sullivan since Confeder-I

from all over the Province for

ation.

Many matters will come before the House and Federal election year. The report of the select committee on Parkdaie's water supply will no doubt be ready in a few days, as will that of the reform. Rural electrification is a perennial problem. The veterinary service has had crises To meet..abilities are that the outbreak will con-

in this Coronation

committee on electoral

of this devastating pest, however, resultant loss in trees laid waste could have run to a colossal sum. 1

Preparations have been going forward for the second aerial spraying of the in- fested forest lands. Operations will com- mence early in June, the most effective period for combatting the destructive pest. And this year more aeroplanes, specially equipped for the purpose, will participate. This years plan, according to Mr. B. W. Flieger, manager of Forest Protection Lim- ited, calls for the spraying of one million acres.

The threat to the softwoods is still formidable. But the initial attack on the "enemy" last spring has revealed that it is being effectively countered. Mr. Flieger

as has the Department of Education. Thetinue in 1953 over a large area.

setting up of a Provincial

offing.

preserving the archives of the Province.

A good deal of time will no doubt be allotted to the heavy spending Departments of Health and Welfare and Public Works and Highways. Both have been particular- The latter has

the advantage, of course, of being able to point. to the concrete result of its spending but in Health and Welfare it may some- Etimes be a generation before full benefits

ly active in the past year.

of some measures can be shown.

One thing certain about the present Ses- The Province will not be told, as was in- Despite increasing grants from the Federal Government un- agreements this Province is more likely to be increas-

sion. Alberta, that the end of Provincial lebtedness is in sight.

der the Dominion-Provincial

ing its indebtedness than paying it off.

r.3.Er?oFt7ir Luck

Four hundred Canadians in Westminster Abbey for the Coronation, notes the Ot- tawa Journal, will be evidence that hun- dreds of peers and their wives, many of them without personal claim to notable service to the state, have been displaced As might be expected, some peers have not liked their Coronation privileges being reduced and in a recent debate in the House of Lords some are reported to have been ”querulous" and asked assurances that the ballot for seats, by which good luck rather than dis- tinguished ancestry decided a place in the

from a hereditary privilege.

Abbey, had not been faked.

of government.

Iudworn Battle continued

our sister Province.

Protection Limited.

Canadian forested terrain.

museum has long been advocated but there is no indica- tion that any immediate action is in the It will be of interest, however, to learn something of the work being done in

They were told that the -Lord Chief . Justice of England himself, supervised by the Earl Marshal, drew the lots that'secur- ed seats for some peers and exclusion for others. Lord Salisbury, one of the Cecils who have had a hand in guiding affairs since the time of Queen Elizabeth I, told his fellow peers that the ballot was in full harmony with the fundamental prin- ciples which underlie the British system

Enlarged participation by the Federal Department of Resources in the second an- nual phase of "Operation Budworm" in the softwood stands of Restigouche Coun- ty, N. B., is being hailed appreciatively in Last year, when the big aerial spraying operation was inaugur- ated to combat the destructive infestation of the spruce budworm, the heaviest end of the financial outlay was borne jointly by the New Brunswick Department of Lands and Mines and the major forest in- dustrial concerns in the province, operat- ing under the chartered name of Forest

' At that time the federal authorities made a sizable contribution in providing the special DDT compound used to spray the pest and also assigned entomological experts to assist with the then biggest aerial extermination enterprise ever under- taken to counter a budworm invasion of Now the Min- later-of Resources has entered into full co- operative partnership with Forest Protec- tipn Limited in meeting the costs of op- erations. Hon. R. H. Winters has stated '.&t-Ottawa will make available S1,000,000,

EDITORIAL NOTES

to prosecution.

the opening of the House

bers had spare seats not been available.

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this year.

countries an opportunity to

Force and the United States Air Force.

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born this date 1853. dealer, schoolmaster and missionary,

tic seizure.

duced.

return of the meaty sausage that

Somba.

from one Province may have" to

to handle a case in

generally willing to grant

tlcular case.

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in the work of the Order.

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has described the 1952 operations as "most, gratifying" in the success attained, with the insects in the area then sprayed hav- ing been almost entirely exterminated. That is a good augury for this year's operations, although it has been pointed out the prob-3

Abolition of the radio receiving set ii-. cense fee does not become effective untill the beginning of the new fiscal year, which! still leaves unlicensed radio set owners open

It. is fortunate that the Confederation Chamber chairs have been returned before today. Unlike Members of the United Kingdom Parlia- ment. our Members insist upon each hav- ing a place to sit and there might have been objections from any non-sitting mem-

A party of 25 British air cadets will again visit Canada and the United States They will be the guests of the Air Cadet League of Canada and the U.S. Civil Air Patrol for two weeks in August. This cadet exchange, a goodwill scheme to give aviatidn-minded youths of different learn more about one another, is made possible by the airlifts provided by the Royal Canadian Air

Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter, was Successively an art he studied painting and became a leader of the "post-impressionists”. He was equally adept in dealing with still life, portraits or land- scapes but spent enormous energy in work- ing and would sometimes fall in an epilep- The work of his final days in an asylum is as great as anything he pro-

After 13 years of rationing. the people of the United Kingdom are being given a sausage that contains about 85 per cent meat instead of soybean meal and bread. It will cook on the griddle instead of swel- ling up to explode all over the kitchen. So grateful are the people in the U.K. for the one butcher staged a special preview, complete with a girl appropriately dubbed Miss New Sausage and a new song called the Sausage

The Canadian Bar Association is con-, cerned with the situation where a lawyer, pay a: transfer fee of as much as 31,500 in order another Province. Prince Edward Island has the lowest trans- fer fee with the provision, however, that it shall be increased in particular cases to the amount set by the Province from which the applicant is coming. Our Courts are the right of audience to an outside lawyer associated with a member of our own Bar in a par-

First Aid to the "injured means proper action by those on the spot until a doctor can be summoned. Widespread knowledge of First Aid is essential if accident vic- tims ere to be handled properly and it is the object of the St. John Ambulance As- sociation, the Priory in Canada of the Ven- erable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, to make such training available as widely as possible. It is to be hoped that the visit of Chief Commissioner W. J. Bennett leads to a stimulation of interest

In The Spotlight Again

Is there another Douglas Abbott axouwd P

PUBLIC FORUM

This column is open to the discussion by correspondents ; of questions of Interest. The I Guardian does not necessar-

lly endorse lilo opinion of correspondents.

HIGIHVAY FATALITIES

Sir.--Lately, I note from various sources that more people are ex- pressing concern over the safety of our highways. 1 feel a general alarm should be sounded to em- phaslze its seriousness.

Let. us look at some facts. Prince Edward Island with 23 deaths in 1951 due to motor vehicles had the highest fatality rate in Canada. 23.4 per 100,000 population. Sask- atchewan, another agricultural province, that year had 11.8 and all Canada averaged 19 per 100,000 population. Our 1952 record with the first fatality occurring. I be- lieve, in the month of June was worse. 26 killed. To date the 1953 record portends to be even more ghastly. Further our 1952 rate ap- plied to United States on a per capita basis would result in ap- proximately 40.000 deaths whereas in a recent. issue of this paper the 1952 deaths in U. S. by motor vehicle was stated as 37,500.

Are we to lead the world in this mad race with death? Shall our highways continue to be the most dangerous in Canada? Are our highway rules being properly en- forced? What further action is be- ing planned to remedy this very bad situation?

I feel our citizens must be made fully aware of this great menace. speed and alcohol are two great killers. Those offending in this re- spect. appear to be legion. It seems reasonable to demand such persist- ent: offenders be banned from further driving. The stopping and cautloning of all drivers com- mitting even minor offences should emphasize the need for all to know and heed the safety rules to a far greater extent than the publishing of them in our daily papers alone would do. I believe the public would gladly nccept. the inconvenience of more frequent check ups as a measure to improve highway safety.

A further proposal is the patrol- ling of tour paved highways by motor cycle. I believe several prov- inces patrol in this manner. The cost should be much leg and the coverage double or more with pres- ent. staff.

There must be many effective means to reduce it fatality rate so high as ours. I believe it is up to nur citizens to realize how danger- ous our highways now are. to unite in insisting on effective' measures and to co-operate in the objective of making Prince Edward Island highways the most accident. free in Canada l I am Sir. clc.

HIGHWAY USER. March 2. 1953

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On any roadfoutslde of town. I-low beautiful the color brown.

In seeds of apples. cut in halves. And satin coats of Jersey celvu. In Autumn weeds and summer

' dust!

In fence-rails stained with lichen rust,

In weathered wood of ham and

shed

And crispy crust of country-bread,

On any road. past. a cit

How often met with, but how pretty

The color brown sun-burned legs

or little boys and thinner” eggs,

In heulnuts and cat-tells, too.

In every old field. plowed anew.

In cones of pines and .dr and

spruce

And lmlli-girl's pig hill coming loose.

- -Elizabeth-Ellen Long.

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Economists keep telling us we can prevent inflation and avoid a depression. But they spoil it all by saying it will require intelligence and hard work.- Hamilton Spec- tutor.

What is it that makes a man risk his life to climb mountains? Is it prestige, the satisfaction of hnvinlt the strength. the skill and the courage. or the desire for fame itself? It is not. money. except that a victorious climber might write A book or go a-lecturing. - London Free Press.

Canadian and American mining circles must. be in a fever of spec- ulation over the announcement that a Canadian company -will undertake a waterpower survey in the Yukon on a site of enormous potentialities. It may well be that the Yukon within ten years or so will experience development put- ting the old Klondike days in the shade. -(Edmonton Journal.

We do not pretend to know how Ross Thatcher. COP M7? for Moose Jaw, ever become a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Fed- eratlon, still less how he remains one; but we hold Mr. Thatcher in very high regard. In the past few months, he has given voice to more good sense about the need for gen- uine economy in government than all the other members of the House of Commons put together.- Calgary Herald.

Just as everybody was going around congratulating themselves on a mild winter. the roof fell in. To the satisfaction of Quebeokers at least. Canada's climate proved over the week-end that it can pro- duce a first-class winter snow- storm, whether or not it really is growing milder as the years pass. or course, there are those who will sniff that the week-end blow was

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Age-Old Story

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And Jesus went forth. and saw 5 great multitude. and was In-.ivc(l with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick And strsightwny Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side. while he sent the multi- iudcs away . . . And when they were gone over. they came into the land of Genncsaret. And when the men of that place had knowl- edge of him, they sent out into all that country round about. and brought. unto him all that were diseased; and bcsought him that they rnlghc only touch the hem of his garment: and as muly as touched were made perfectly

nothing to the blizzards they re- member. Maybe lt. wasn't but there was plenty of snow flying about and landing where it needed shov- elllng just the same. Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph.

We hope that the removal of the tax on books will encourage Cana- dian publishers to experiment with new ideas in publication. We won- der. in particular, if it. would not be possible to cut. down the price of books by publishing more of them in paper covers. We do not mean the sort. of paper covers which are seen on the cheapest books; we mean the sort. of paper covers which French publishers have used for years, and in which they have brought out some beautiful books. After all. it. is not essential that 9. book be bound in cloth and cardboard; it. is lighter in -the hand without such n. casing. Mr. Abbott has taken one shackle off Canadian books; it is up to the publisher to remove others. -Pet- erborough Examiner.

Old Charlottetown

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suntan 3.

-,And so we have come to the monmh when "the hounds of spring are on Winter-'s traces” There is still plenty of winter ” i for the hot. weather addicts and the cold weather slanderere to specu- late mbout. Indeed. there are those who will tell you ruefully that this year's winter is yet to come and that the movwlees January and February that have posed into history were simply playful harb- ingars of the coldest and latest spring on record.

It may turn out that way. or it may not. Nothing is more pre- carious for the layman than anticipating the oharaoter of any pin-tzicular season, and even the experts are wrong as often as they are right. This is as it should be. It would not do at all for finite man to be able to tell beforehand exactly what. to expect in the way of infinite things. There must al- ways be same measure of un- certainty in the things of life, else what would happen to our instinc- tive yearning for the adventurous and mysterious? It would be a tragic day for the human race if ever the tflme should come when Nature's plans and expectations could all be put down in little charts and diagrams.

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Vifhatever Miamh may bring in the way of wealher. its essential message is that "the shadows and WIHCLV places, the lisp of leaves 8-ndrlpnle or rain". which it will 1nCV1l-ably bring. are preludes, per- haps long drawn out ones, to a future that will unfold the bwt Md bright-est Pages in the varied book of Nature. '

Winter may linger a while longer soon it. will have lost: its power to dominate. It. will have to give place to the soflmm of earth and sun Already the light 18 beginning to win and the night to lose in the eternal struggle that has been going on since it was first said: "Phc evening and the morning were iihe first. day!" The "full streams and ripe grasses" are still in the distance. but they are on the way. Mhrch says so. and March knows. It has had much experience in the mysteries of the before and after.

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In the long arm when the god of war was adored above all oifhers. March, named for the god himself. was 'nhe first month in the year. Quite ritt.in8l.v. too. Since then it has been removed to third place. A concession. no doubt. to the IEWWIM: feeling that war is not the mightiest and most compelling force in the Life of the world.

The Passing Scene

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like, Much will rdtaln R; mm. lust as it is. for it has many .5. soclehwns with .w.h.lch Men lug nothing whatever to do. The my. NI VIIBQ, gnd nnnhu my witmowe and hm; hm, nlohts and mellow morning; the first awakening of tiny rivulete, resdyandeagerfcraspalngum giumlzer of mirth; the return M

e mt winged maeugq-3 9;-om tropical 1EIldl,'1'Wp1Df, no dgubt to find thins: Just as they 1... them in the autumn; the gfgdull 0908!!!! of the buds and the my running of sweemeu from the ample tree. These are pictures um belong to Mismh alone. No money. by my other name could show them so well.

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M15 Mnrfellow once wrote a Poem entitled "me Poet's oai. endar." In it each month is re- presented ns speaking in its awn beihal-f. This is the testimony or March: "I Max-tlus aml Once first and now the third! lead the you was my .9. pointed place: A mortal dioposseued me 1;, ,

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And set. there Janus win, 9,, double face. . Hence I make war on all the hu. man race I shake the . nicanes: I flood the rivers and their banks efface, And drown the fin-Ins and hamlet; with mylrains". i

'citaies with my hm-.

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It isn't quite proper, I know. to question anything that March msv say about itself through such '. mliabie interpreter. but I oar. not but think that the tests. maony given here is a hit ERIg. Bmieti The cameo of March Winds is, of course, proverbial, but with respect to violence I ftmcv that the November gales are jusr as mischievous. perhaps more so. For one thing, however Nllazroh may bluster. the soothing influence of wing soon catches up with it something that oannd be said for the rampage: or autzumn.

As for "drowned farms" which March boasted about to Mr. Iona- feilow. tlhe sibualrlon is not always as bad as tfhnt. More. often than not. March's rains do nothing more terrible than provide drink for tih-lrsty land. salvation, mu destruction, is in its heart.

We are hold that some day in the not distant future the calendar will be renewed from top to bottom. Personally, I lkme the renewal will be delayed until such time as war has become obsolete and numbered among the useless relics of man's immaturity. Then Mlarch will stand on its own merits and its own grandeur. free of the historical chain that has bound it to a heathen god that. delighted in violence and plunder.