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CIRCULATION "Covers I'rinco Edward Island like the dew”

"rho Strongest Mommy is Woakov Hon tho Weakest ink". i;ualu.o'r'rl:'rowN, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 17, 1952

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Probably no one considered the matter when plans were being made for veterans' rehabilitation on their return from Second World War service, but the educational benefits provided by the Government have proved to be a good investment from the taxpayers' point of view. The Canadian Government's investment in veterans' ed- ucation should be returned in the form of increased tax payments by 1955, according to Dr. ll. W. Jamieson, superintendent of traininc.', in the Department of Veterans' Affairs.

The Fil.T,0(l0,0t)0 spent on training flows back to the Government in the form of in- come tax on the higher earnings of the men and women trained so that in the long run there is no burden imposed on the general taxpayer. At -the same time the increased earnings of the veterans who benefited by the training contribute to then own and their families' well being and add to the general prosperity of their community and nation.

There is a lesson to be learned here in the matter of expenditures on education generally. Dollars put into education and training are invested in our greatest natural resource, the Canadian people.

Voluntary x compensation

One of the most remarkable ..ansac- tions in human history, notes the Globe and Mail. is an agreement just reached between Western Germany and Israel. In settlement of "material claims”, the Bonn Republic has undertaken to pay the Jewish state 5B822,000,000 in goods. during the next twelve years.

The Jews, as a people, have a grievance against Germany which no cash consider- ation could redress. Chancellor Adenauer has recognized this. In the Bonn Parlia- ment a year ago he spoke of "the immeas- urable suffering that was brought to bear upon the Jews in Germany during the period of National Socialism" and "the un- speakable crimes perpetrated in the name of the German people." Jews and Germans alike have acknowledged that no monetary reparation could settle this score or expiate these crimes.

The payment actually to be made is de- scribed as compensation for material losses inflicted on Jews during the Nazi regime. Among the items: covered by the total, at least on paper, are Israel's expenditures in absorbing half a million immigrants from lands formerly under Nazi control and the value of Jewish assets confiscated by the

' Nazis. Is1'ael presented its claim to Ger- many as a whole. West Germany has re- sponded, in the terms stated. East Ger- many. the Communist zone, has taken no action.

. tary. World opinion certainly backed Israel's claim but neither the World Court nor any other tribunal has passed upon it or fixed the assessment. West Germany's payment may thus be called an act of contrition and penitence. which is something unusual in international relations.

More Production iioodod

Fish may be the food hope of world pop- ulations in the future. according t.o the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, as quoted in Market Bul- leting No. 6 of the Canadian Department of Fisheries.

FAO points out that world food sup- plies can be increased to a larger extent by expanding fish production than in any other way. it is estimated that the world's catch of fish and shellfish in 1949 was some 55 billion pounds, more than 23 pounds per head of world population. But there are wide variations in consumption-20 per cent of Ceylon's protein consumed came from fish "compared to about one per cent in India and 3 per cent in the United States.

Canada. one of .he ten great fishing nations in the world, has not yet sold this food to her people up to market possibil- ities; probably because of the hitherto abundance of all other foods. The total consumption of fish in Canada increased moderately in 1951 (product weight) from 250 million pounds in 1950 ind 230 million in 1949. Per capita consumption rose from 12.87 pounds in 1949 to 13.69 pounds in 1951. The chief rise was in canned fish

consumption which rose from 61 million uounds"in1949to65millionpoundsln1951.

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The point of special interest is that the. payment by the Bonn Republic is volun-e

More than 50 per cent of the world's fish catch is taken in Asia, about 15 per cent in North and Central America while the rest of the world, South America. Oceania and Africa account for only about 5 per cent. Ten countriesr(Japan, China, United States, Soviet Russia and satellites, Norway, United Kingdom, Canada, Spain, India and Western Germany) account for about 60 per cent of the total. '

In Canada, 1952 is expected to be less of a "seller's year" than 1951. The pro- duct of Canada's commercial fisheries in 1951 had a marketed value of about 3200 million, an increase of 3520 million over 1950.i Marketed value of Atlantic fisher- ies including Newfoundland was estimated at 5895 millions. The catch was slightly less than in 1951 but prices generally better. The catch in the Maritimes and Quebec was 705 million pounds, 31 million less than in 1950 due to low yield of cod, herring, hal- ibut and clam fisheries but prices paid fish- ermen were about 4 per cent better. Value of the fisheries at the fishermenls level was 3533 rnillion compared to 332.7 million in 1950.

IEDIIURIAL NUIES

Constitution Day in the United States. After four months of deliberation, the con- stitutional convention of 55 delegates at Philadelphia completed the constitution of the United States of America, 1787. ' O O 9

If the vastly more costly Don Jail in Toronto had not proved to be not escape proof, the Prince County Jail would cer- tainly have come in for a heavier share of criticism.

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Many people achieve fame by qualities Mr. Cyrus Ching. na- tive of Red Point in this Province, became one of the most important citizens of his adopted country by helping labour and management to be friends. His retirement at the age of 74 is the occasion for warm congratulations on a distinguished career. 0 O 0 All sorts of advice is given to aspiring orators. Lady ' Violet Bonham Carter, speaking on the BBC, quoted some unortho- dox early advice given her by Mr. Chur-” chill, one of the greatest orators Britain has ever known. He said: "What matters first and most is who you are. What mat- ters next is how you sayvit. What matters last and least is what you say." 0 O O The health insurance scheme for all Canada has not proved popular with the Provincial Governments. Only Alberta and Saskatchewan have recommended immed- iate adoption of the scheme. Apart from the merits of the scheme from the points of view of the public and the medical profes- sion, it probably means more expense to the Provinces and more power to the Fed-

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Keen interest is being taken in the Queen's County Plowing Match at Pownal today, which is being supplemented by sporting events and by the achievement day-programmes of the Garden Clubs of Mount Mellick and Pownal, and the Alex- ander Calf Club. A large crowd is antic- ipated and it is to be hoped that many local citizens as well "as those from rural areas will take the opportunity of attending.

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Inclusion of a Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachment in the Coronation pro- cession is under consideration, says the London Daily Telegraph. ”The Mounties' popularity here apart," says the English paper, ”their presence would be especially welcome because they are one of the few remaining mounted detachments. The Cav- alry of the Line, with their color and dash. will be greatly missed by those who remem- ber the past procession. At least one Do- minion, however, would be unable to send an escort of cavalry. There are only three police horses left in the whole of New

Zealand."

In 1857, notes the bulletin of the In- ternational Union for the Protection of Nature, a law to protect the Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) was pro- posed in the State of Ohio. A Commis- sion appointed by the Senate conducted an investigation, reporting as follows: "Won- derfully prolific, having the vast forests of the North as its breeding grounds, trav- elling hundreds of miles in search of food, it is here today and elsewhere tomorrow, and no' ordinary destruction can lessen them, or cause any to be missed from the myrlads that are yearly produced." No comment needs to be made on this reck- less prediction. The last surviving Pass- enger Pigeon died in captivity on Septem- ber 1,t19i-i. The disappearance of the species was due to their persecution by mankind, and to the destruction of their habitat. Other causes for the disappear- ance of the birds have been suggested, such as epidemics, parasites, or natural disast- ers, but the investigators of the Audubon

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Society refuse to, accept them.

THE GUARDIAN.

CHARLUPTETOWN

Disenchantmeht

Ewing goursei-F, deorn you can go-e right to work on our ploughing when you get back!

INSPIRATION .... If with light head erect I sing, Though all the muses lend their force. From my poor love of anything, The-verse is weak and shallow as its source.

But if with bended neck I grope

Listening behind me for my wit,

with faith superior to hope,

More anxious to keep back than forward it.

Making my soul accomplice there

Unto the flame my heart. hath lit,

Then will the verse forever wear.-

Time cannot. bend the line which God hath writ.

-Henry David Thoreau.

Human Rights

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The concluding paragraphs of an article by Dr. Charles Malik, of Lebanon, Chairman of the Com- mission of Human Rights of the United Nations is of interest as showing now our ideas of such rights have changed in recent years

Dr. Malik writes: .

A quiet revolution has occurred in the Commission on Human Rights since its esmmisnnieni. In the years 1946, 1947 and 1918 at.- tention was fastened for the most part: on what we now call civil and political rights. The archetype of what we were trying to ensure was freedom from discrimination and from arbitrary arrest, and free- dom of religion and speech. It never occurred to us that anything else was as important as these.

Today the emphasis has shifted. Economic, social and cultural rights have come to their own. and indeed with a vengeance. The paradigm w-- day is ”the adequate standard of living." There were three logical steps to this transition. The first is to say. the civil, political and per- sonal is primary. but the economic, social and cultural also has its place. The second is to move insen- slbly from this position to the view that both types of rights are equ- ally important. And the third ob- viously is to say, what is the use of the civil. political and personal it tho economic and social is not first guaranteed? Ergo, the social and economic is primary and more important. It is A fit topic for research to trace this develop- ment not only with respect to the Commission as A whole. but also with respect to individual members of the Commission who have par- ticipated tn this enterprise since its beginning.

We may characterize the revolu- tion As the uvcnvhelming of the end by the means, the personal and intellectual by the social. the whole- ness of life by its components. the integral unity (the soul) of.the in- dividual by endless factors. con- ditions. impulses, the perfect and actual by the imperfect and poten- tial, the dignity of freedom by the

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Armored cars seem to have the same fascination for the under- world that Spanish galleons once did for the pirates of the Spanish Main. If this keeps up, it will be safer to transport treasure in a shopping bag.- Edmonton Jour- nal.

Two hundred yours in calen- dar reform was sdopted in mg- lsnd and the Gregorian style adopted. Those who went to sleep on September 2, woke up on Sep- tember 1!, dates having been switched to eliminate the "Old Style" calendar accumulated er- ror of eleven days.-Ottawa Jour- nal '

There's I very simple way to make tourists stop in your town, even without I. Niagara Falls or s set. of quintuplets in your back- yard. Give them some convenient place where they can KN; a drink of good cold water and put. a sign over it: so they can see it from the highway. on hot days. after miles of narrow bridges, hairpin curves. back seat drivers and that lumpy feeling inside, there comes a timci when all the soft drinks, ice cream or "licenced hotel” signs on earth won't get. Horatio away from the wheel. But the lure of s good cold drink of water in some shady-spot would do the trick. The horses used to have water troughs. Yet few towns providethe same for man. if they did, it. might be that in time even local citizens would find the water good for them, too. -Financial Post.

Moloow Radio has claimed just about everything for Russia. In that nation everything is firstest and fastest, biggest and best,

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For so often ll ya out this brand, and drink this cup. ye- do shew the Lord's death till hr- come. Wherefore whosoever shall out this broad, and drink this cup of the lord. unworthily, shall be guilty. of the body And blood the Lord. -But; let; I mnn enm- lne himself, and so let him out of that bread, and drink of that clip.

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tual and spiritual grounds of life. The task is much harder than some people think, but stlvntion is com- ing and when it. comes it. will 'not be from the Commissioon or the United Nations, but. from the liv- lng institutions of the mind and spirit vigorously reaffirming their faith in truth, Justice and order. There are, 'then, 'ndependent. grounds of hope that the material- istic revolution will be arrested and

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states a news report, New Russians claim that people live longer in Russia than anywhere else in the world. There are now some 30,000 centenarlans in the soviet Union. We have only one comment: Don't. sing the blues to us, Russia! If people live. longer in the soviet Union than anywhere else, that's their tough luck. - Owen Sound Sun-Times.

One of these days, if business and the people keep moving to British Columbia, governments and prime ministers will have to pay more attention to us. It will take a long time, no doubt, for the weight of population and the weight of industry to shift. from the central provinces to the west- ern side of the mountains, but the shift is under way. Perhaps even finance will come to St. James street and Bay street . will find at second home on Howe and Fender.-Vancouver Province.

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An Ohio Judge has set. some sort. of precedent by refusing to excuse public school teachers from Jury duty. lie not only insists that having teachers on juries will be good for the courts; he also sug- gests that. it. will be good for the teachers. With the first premises it. is impossible to disagree. The system of justice stands or falls, in the last. analysis, on the jurors. Any move that tends to place edu- cated snd conscientious citizens in the line for jury service is bound to be a good one. The second point, likewise, seems well A teacher who is familiar with the workings of the courts from the viewpoint of the juror, ought to made a much more valuable in- utructor of youth than one who is not.-Guelph Mercury.

(STOW Old Charlottetown (And r. n. x. )

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"On Thursday last. the notice of Mr. James Gurnley. of Glass- iock settlement, Lot. 51. was at-

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his house. by an unusual noise among his pigs. On proceeding to the spot. he detected Bruir. playing havoc among them. There were four bears, in all; an old one and three sizeable cubs. At his appearance they made off into the woods. but were soon pursued by him and a few others, who suc- ceeded in killing the young ones. which had sought an asylum from their pursuers by climbing a tree. The old bear stood a brisk en- gagement and '. No less than eleven pigs had been killed by these voracious pork eaters during the present summer, be- longing to the people of this set.- tlement."

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-The Palladium. Bekvt. 25. 1843.

turbulence of desire. This is the materialistic revolution of the times. .

Three not altogether unrelated causes have brought about thh re- volution. First, the increasing im- Dlct of Mark and the mining per- sistence of the soviet representa- tives in harping upon their views. Second. the rise of tho ooonomlcslly and socially lcu dcvelopod, where the accent is for more on the mat- el-tsl and social than on the per- sonal and inner. And third. the sp- psrent unlmaginstivs halplsunou of the Western world In tho face of these two impacts.

What goes on in the Oommlulon is but I reflection of what son on in the wide world. Then is I un- enl disturbance of right order. It gill not in by ononco. or by half-

nttcdneg. of by surrendering bo- foro the storm, or by overlook-I ing its Juli claims, that order is I0i1IIinbcrlshtAd.butl7.vtuou- Junnatioa ofths oltjnollhtollos-I

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observer of the recent. controversy in respect to alternate routes pro- posed for the Trans-Canada High- way from Comwsli to Bonshaw, I beg to express through t.he Forum my firm convictions on this important matter.

I presume here that every in. tclllgent reader interested in this section of the Trans-Canada High- way will readily admit that there 3-18 Selle!!! important require- ments that should determine the general direction and particular locations of this section of high- way. as follows:

First: This section. like other sectlons of the highway should be of service to as many people as possible; - people not only of Prince Edward Island, but like- wise of all Canada. This require- ment. should be obvious when one remembers that it. is s Trans. Canada Highway.

Second: It should be the most direct and straightforward route that the various demands for the road will admit of.

Third: It should, likewise, be the most. economic route in re- spect to future and permanent service.

Fourth: It should be the most passable in respect. to grades. Fifth: It should be the safest. in respect to curves, deep ditches, and other danger points.

Sixth: It should avoid as much as possible ”' i of farms and villages.

Finally: The selected route should afford relief from present geographical disadvantages to as many localities as possible;-that is to say, disadvantages an ac- count. of river obstruction and Ions distance by roads to Char- lottetown and other shipping points--and similarly. disadvant- age in respect to doctors, clergy- men, etc. . Now I do not hesitate to chal- lenge all interested parties to make the closest and most. crit- ical examination of the latest. proposed and partly surveyed route (finally selected route. I believe) and allow them to see for them- selves if this route does not an- swer to the sum total of the store- said requirements away beyond any other route proposed or im- agined by the public. I mean, of course. the proposed and partly surveyed route from Cornwall via Meadow Bank, and thence across West. River. by a bridge to be newly constructed at or in the close vicinity of Westville; and thence, via New Dominion, Long Creek and finally New Argyle to Bonshaw. '

In the first place this proposed route passes through an aggrega- tion of as densely inhabited, pros- perous, and productive farming districts as one can find on our Island Province. It lies. in fact. from Cornwall to the River, along the general direction of tits old Wcstvillc Ferry route over which, during several former generations, residents living all the way from Desable to New Dominion passed on their way to "Town"; and no other proposed route from Corn- wall to Bonshaw is at once so di- rect and level, nor so free from blind curves, deep ditches. and other dangerous points. This route is also by far the one that admits of the least bisccting of farms and villages. There is, in fact, no vil- lage that will need to be bisected. And as for farm, while two or more may have to be crossed from New Dominion to Long Creek, from this point on by New Argyle, only one or two need be, and in each case only a small fraction is separated from the main farm. In regard to the economic ss- pect of a new West River bridge is quite true that on first thought it might appear as a strong argument against its con- struction. But on s more careful consideration of it. the cost of building this bridge will sink into comparative insiznillcance in com- psrlson with the multitudes of

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people it will sci-"v and distant future? liiiduif ,'f””' into absolute inslgnificance ..l."” viewed in the light. of what E" enuc it will save by provldm 1?" the elimination in early 3 or and early winter of the enormously costly ferry M, Point---I fmv by the Way never did. and never will 1- full satisfaction to the peoples if is intended to serve, notwlthstundt in; its" enorlrlnous cost. ' inn 3'. W en it: comes question of at ordlng rellezmgrg: Present seogra hical disadvantages. to as many localities as pom.” the argument for the Westvilie route is simply overwhelm; . cOIIi'2li.I5lvI:2 Rocky Point Cumggiy land. Fairview, Nine Mile Creek- New Dominion, Long Creek Cane. Cove, Rice Point. New Argyle an; Argyle shore wlll- all more or less be relieved Io! their present dis. advantage. and most of them mu be relieved immensely. Curiously enough. or perhaps n... Uflllil enough. our friends on the north side of West River fail

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Westviile route. A year or tw- ago, for instance, I listened to . representative group over tn". discussing the topic of the Tram

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Eon-shaw. and arguing strongl; against the need of what they termcd, "a new and expensive ridge across West; River." I took occasion to point out to them um great distance folks away to rm. south had to travel, often on very bad and crooked roads, on their way to Charlot.t.et.own and other railway centres before they could be on equal advantage with in. residents of Churchill. New Haven Clyde River, etc. "Weill wt..." about that?"-one of the speaker; hotly rejoined; "haven't. they the same roads they always may Why all the howling now?" Shades of Old Erin!

I do not think I need ldvsncs any further arguments to prove my case. I may add. however. to what. I have already said, that 1 fall to see. why relief of dlaad. vantage to residents on the south side of West. River should result in serious disadvantages to their fel. low-citizens on the north side of it. It is true, no doubt. the new Westvllle route will divert the bulk of the heavy traffic from the old route-a consummation devout- ly to be wished for, one would think. by the peace-loving folk who live along the old route. In fact. the people who live along the new route will gladly leave them the heavy traffic, and most. of the light traffic too, provided only they themselves get the shorter and better route to Charlottetown via Westville Bridge. And as for the argument-tliat.,the new route will divert much business from point.- along the old route. this argument.

weakens materially when one thinks of how little substantial business will accrue from swift

speeding trucks and cars along either route. Even in the case of garages and gas stations a republ- tion for high class service will continue to,divert. old customers to the old approved stands. "Let a man," says the American phi!- osopher Emerson, "make a mouse trap better than any other man can make it. and the world will make is beaten track to his door." Oh you'll take the high road. and I'll take the low road.

And I'll be in Bonshaw afore ; yet

As for lighter passenger cars. I believe the traffic in these will lw foivgciicralioiis to come fairly di- vided betwcen the old high road and new low one, and more eu- pecially so during the summer tourist season; for judged from I purely scenic and historically ro- mantic viewpoint the old Chur- chill-Strathgari.ncy route will Sllll stand unsurpassed and unrivalicri.

I am, Sir. etc.,

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