THE GUARDIAN,

CHARIDTTETOWN

AUGUST 17, 1949

‘ THE GUARDIAN

Morning Daily (Founded In i687) Authorised lo Second (‘lino Mull, Poot Offieo Department, Ottawa.

Tho Iolniiri (‘iunrillun lfulrlluhllll Co. Idltar unrl Managing Director, J. It. lJurnelt. Armor-lulu tlilllor, Frank “hiker.

"Tho Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink"

CHARLOTTETOWN. WEDNESDAY, AUG. 17, 1949 Our Lohster Immigrants

A few ycars ago, Prince Edward Island lobsters were transported olive to the warm waters of the British Columbia coast, and this experiment in transplanting Atlantic crustaceans has been watched with scientific interest ever since. According to Fisheries Minister Mayhew, in a statement made last week in Winnipeg, our immigrant lobsters seem to be prospering so far. A few were released to roam the ocean floor and have been captured in traps now and then, ap- parently in good condition. But the experts are alarmed to observe that the creatures, while sur- viving themselves, do not breed, and unless they do so it will be impossible to establish a lobster factory.

The experts think that the temperature of tho water has something to do with it. They are soarching now for stretches of the ocean oft tho west coast of Vancouver Island, where the tem- perature, between 50 and 55 degrees, most close- ly resembles that of the lobster beds on the Atlantic. Here it is hoped the lobster will settle down in domestic life and raise a family. If he can be persuaded to do so, Canada will have a valuable new resource in the Pacific, and Brit- ish Columbians will be able to enjoy a rare Prince ‘Edward lsland delicacy.

Several times before the Canadian Govern- ment tried to introduce the lobster to the west- ern sea, never with success. On one occasion, af- ter experts had planned the project with the utmost core, workmen who released a shipment of live lobsters into coastal waters forgot to re- move the pegs placed in their claws to pre- vent them fighting on the train journey across the country. With their claws thus immobilized tho unfortunate immigrants soon perished. Even when this error was avoided subsequent attempts failed.

If the present experiment succeeds, it will write a new chapter in our fisheries history. The dwellers of British Columbia boast the finest crabs in the world and offer them as the height of hospitality to visitors, but the lobster must be imported, usually in cans, from the Atlantic.

World Rover Moot

‘High In tho mountains of central Norway, Z500 Boy Scouts from 35 nations gathered re- cently for the Fourth World Rover Moot. Their ten-day get-together began on August 2nd at Skjaak when the last of tho arrivals dropped their dusty packs following weeks of travel. They have come from nearly every corner of the

world: Z2 fez-topped Egyptians, youths from Lebanon with bedouin scones swirled around their necks, delegations from Africa's Gold

Coast,‘ from the Philippines and from Australia. Forty ltalian scouts on motorcycles arrived just before the opening day, following an exciting trip through Europe.

Tho comp site was ideal. Only a stone's throw from Galdhopiggen, Norway's highest peak, the area is a wild, moutainous reserve

where hiking, moutaineering, fishing, and the whole range of outdoor sports may be enjoyed in a grondoise setting. Col. J. S. Wilson, Direc- tor of the International Bureau, and Rev. B. L. Brekke, Norway's Scouting Chief, received co- operation from every quarter and a veritable city sprang up in the wild back country.

Complete with its own theatre, post office, exchange, and a 30-bed hospital, the camp centered a wide area of operations. Following orientation, the scouts divided into groups of ten on the basis of ability and with Norwegian guides set off on individual "expeditipns" into tho out-of-doors. To guard against mishaps o series of portable radio transmitters were set up in the surrounding area and a careful check was kept on the pioneering groups. Visitors chose their terrain. The Swiss group, for ex- ample, chose to hike along the water.."We have enough moutains at home,” they explained, "and we've heard so much about the fjords."

Norwegian Crown Prince Olav, in his address opening the Moot on August 2nd, recalled the tie of friendship which had brought representa- tives from 35 nations to this Norwegian moun- tain rendezvous for ten days of friendship, and praised the unity which has survived the past years of war. From August 8th to l0th world scouting leaders met for their‘ l2th International Conference at Elveseter, a short distanco from tho Moot headquarters.

Trans-Canada Highway

When Parliament meets next month it is to

be hoped that the Government will have some--

thing concrete to report in the way of progress in commencing the long-awaited Trans-Canada Highway project. Last March it was announced in tho Provincial Legislature by tho then Minis- ter of Highways, Hon. Mr. Barbour, that a start on this work was expected to ho made this sum- mer. However, difficulties developed in tho nego- tiations with tho Provinces and the matter was deferred until after tho federal general election. Thoro already oxist, in every Province but New- foundland, connecting stretches of provincial rood systomowhich form a theoretically contin- uous routo, but much more is required to meet tho demands of a Trans-Canada Highway.

Tho Federal Government is reportedly will- lng to contribute up to $200,000,000 or approxi- matoly half tho ortimatod cost. Apart from tho physical construction of hard-surfaco roads to span tho deficient oroas, howovor, thore are other problomo lnvolrod. Those include tho settlement of how tho funds aro to bo distributed with odo-

_ qooto safeguards as to p or expenditure and

otandopdl, without In Itglng on tho re- ' ~ lotlari_of_ tho. Profiting ovor high- olooioqoootloo hon troglnoos

with modest financial resources for road-build- ing, such as Prince Edward Island, will bobble to shoulder their share of the cost.

Another tangled aspect which appears no closer to solution, says an Ottawa exchange, ls that of the selection of routes for the highway through the various provinces. Especially in Al» berto and Ontario, there is still controversy as to whether the ultimate designated route should follow a northern, southern or central line. Set- tlement of these arguments will also require, of course, agreement between the provinces as to where their sections of the road are to join at provincial borders. The declared federal policy of leaving route selection and control of out- lays for the road to the provinces, contributes little toward generally acceptable agreement on the overall route.

From the standpoints of defence, tourist traffic ond social and commercial communica- tion between different sections of Canada, there is little dispute as to the desirability of an all- Canadian highway route from Atlantic to Pacific. But there is dispute as to how and where it is to be built, and a number of obstacles in this connection remain to be overcome.

EDITORIAL NOTES Old Homo Woe? Th. Provincial Exhibitibn. More cars than ievef llgre from everywhere.

It is difficult to be altogether pessimistic about the state of the world when the berry sea- son runs into the corn-on-the cob time.

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Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, died this date I786. An opportunist, o philosopher despot, a great administrator, cynical, selfish, in- dustrious, tolerant, Frederick made his country the first of German states. He left upon Prussian policy a trail of unscrupu-lousness which reach- ed its acme of evil in the plotting and conduct of the First and Second Great Wars.

I P A’

Why should any one seek to bomb an Ontario farm from the air? It could not have been Sol- viets, and would not be Yankees, therefore the only conclusion to arrive at is that some On- tarians or Qucbeckers must have gone berserk.

Premier Smallwodd, ‘anuold newspaper man who "knows his anions", seems to have discov- ed that this Provmce's administration is run on the PFIHCIPIGSI of horse-trading or horse fancying. He gained this insight by sitting in with the Pro- vincial Government.

i I fi Islanders are always aware of the numbers who have left these shores to achieve fame and fortune elsewhere. During Old Home Week, however, we have unusual opportunities for see- ing many of them ond recalling outstanding in- stances. I D i Canadian radio may have difficulty defend- ing all its programmes against the charges of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada but then the Architectual Institute would probably have even more difficulty in defending somo of the construction, and lack of it, in this country. I I I

It is always heartening to hear of and from successful Islanders abroad. The talk at Rotary by Mr. Ernest S. Macdonald, President of the Bank of Manhattan, here on vocation was entertaining and enlightening, recalling the old days when his father was a leading merchant and public-spirited citizen in our midst.

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A survey of graduate students at tho Uni- versity of Michigan reveals, to no one’: surprise, that the American teachers and others taking courses there know very littlo about this country. Tho fault is very largely our own. We do not dramatize things Canadian, either for our own people or for our neighbou s.

U I I Staffing tho Dominion (or is it Canadian Government) Civil Service is no longer a hit and miss proposition. The C. S. Commission has for the last three years followed tho example of big business and sought out recruits in the uni- versities for summer and permanent employ- ment. A Canadian Press report indicates that there are l,200 such temporary employees this year, 400 more than last summer. D i I

The Times, London, reports: ‘There is talk of attempts to cultivate the Canadian blueberry on the peat soil of Scotland whoro other crops have failed and, indeed fifty plants have crossed the Atlantic to be used in such an experiment. They have dono so well that already tho Scots are talking about tho creation of a now Industry which will put to useful servico thousands of acres of peaty soil upon which nothing elso of value will grow."

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It is well that short shift was givon by tho Royal-Commission on Arts and Sciences to tho demand of tho Canadian Citizenship Council for an "unbiased and factual history" of this coun- try. It was not tho reason given by tho Com- mission, but a standard official history for all Canadian schools would soon produce a gonor- ation of Canadians who had lost all Itnowlodgo of their own local history and had vory littlo interest in the necessarily sliotchy and arbit- rary outlino of Canadian history.

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Egg prices on August ll this your and pro- vious years. Tho prices quotod bolow aro for Grade A Largo. At Voncouvor, Montroal and To- ronto tho prices aro thoso at which graded ship- monts arosolling to w-Iiolosolors. Atcothor points quotations are. prices to shippers for ungradod eggs. '

I949 I948 I947 Montreal ._ 63-64 60 58-59 Toronto .. . 61-62 60 57-58 Winnipog . . 54 52 39-41 Vancouver ,. . . 6l 5B 37 Edmonton ,. . . .. . .. 50 47-50 36 Rogina .. . .....,_... 52 $0 37 Wflllllit!!! lo- ----‘.9-5l “HI $7.23.‘.

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CHILDREN LOVE A PASTUBE

A chlld should have is pasture for hlo roaming.

For children need the leaping strength of rock-

And children llourlsh under birch- tree swinging

And loam to talk tho language wlld things talk.

A boy child moves through pos- tures, running

And sklrnmlng over tender little things-

But, oh. a glrl child wlll respond with wonder -

To ro-blrvs egg and gleam o! blue- blr~d's wings,

A glrl chlld will find beauty in the moglc

OI’ plne tree shadows on the old slane wall-

Ah, there Is strength and beauty for B. child ln pasture.

And chlldren love a pasture, most of all.

-Mary Adams In the New York Times.

Old Charlottetown f (And r. r. r.)

CRANBERRY LIGHTHOUSE

The lighthouse on Cranberry Is- land, near the entrance to the Gut of Canso, In Nova Scotla, was officially recognized ns being “beneficial to the shipping rind commerce of Ihls Island" rind as fur back as 1827 an Act was pas- sed, levying an the master of every registered vessel sailing from this Province n duty of two pence per ton, to be applied towards the support of the Cranberry light- house. Commissioners were up- polnted to ascertain and settle the role-able proportion of the cx- pcnse of the sold lighthouse to be paid by this Island, and also "to correspond, generally, with the Commissioners of Lights In the neighboring Colonies.“

TheTGolden Month

(Vancouver News-Herald) Same months of the year have each their own prevailing color; and the color of August ls golden,

Not yellow, which ls lliln rinrl fihflflF-but golden, like the light sec-n through amber glass; the

rlcb mellow color of the opulent month of maturity.

This ls the crest of summer, the lovely fulfilment of earth. All that came before led up to this, the month that Is the color of honey and golden wlnc. The alr ls pour- orl full of pure llrzht nnrl lient, the lzround is saturated with the sun. On bush and vlne the leaves are thinner, their green becoming yel- lnwep rind translucent so that. they seem to give out niznln the sunlight they have absorbed. The fields are full of the sweet, clean smell of dried grass and clover. Wherever a beam shines Into n darkened place lt Comeg alive wlth llttle dancing motes of gold. The theme song of August ls sung in bass, and Its chorlsters, loo, are golden: the bright-banded wasps and pollen-powdered bees that drone endlessly In and out among branch nnrl blossom. Inrlus- trlnus as they are, they work without haste or confusion, as If they go about their business In a shining and singing dream.

That dream ls on us all In Aug- ust: wo move softly, we breathe deeply or fearing to break lts spell, lest we see summer melt away from around us before It's time.

Science 8. Communism

(Manchester Guardian)

The repudiation of who! the rest of the world knows as scien- llflc method and the rejection of the appeal to fact which the new "party llne" has imposed an Rus- slan biologists may seem to most. people very much of a Russian riffalr and no concern of ours. The world ls the poorer for the de- struction of a m-ent organization of original work ln the field of genctlcs which, under Soviet dir- ection, had played o notable part In the development of "bourgeois" science.

Dr. Julian Huxley, who has been contributing ta "Nature" a well documented analysis of the oltua- tlon, describes It. as creating a breach In the world unity of science which has no modern por- nllel; but. though he calls for o new professlon of sclentlflc faith rind n world-wide affirmation o! the rights and duties of science and scientists, partly for Its own sake and partly In the hope that lt may have some Influence on Russia. It In without much confl- dence ln dlrzenregulss.

Qulte apart from rsny hope of Influencing Russia, Dr. Huxley In- sists that there ore Issues of prln- clple at otake which the world of science cannot afford to neg- lect, If they are clearly grasped and the conclusions from them resolutely drown he thinks the battle of Soviet genetic: "will not have been fought ond lost ln voln."

It to o question of tho sclentlflc movement for tho first time be- coming fully conscious of Ito so- clal functions and of tho equal Importance of oclentlflc autonomy ond of the rights ond dutleo of science In relation to society. The recent Soviet nctlon he regards ns only nri extreme ond exaggerat- ed manifestation of o general olt- uotlon—-the fomlllar trend towards centralization and is greater organ- lzntlan of ooclety. ‘

It Iii not only In Russian that on offlclol oclentlflc pollcy must be expected, and accepted. Govern- ment fundo are everywhere llkoly to cover tho motor colt of salon- tlflc work ond government agen- cleo rnuot take o largo port In Ito direction. Men of oclerico would themselves be tho flrot to agree that the govornmori; should hove n ocleritlflc policy, but they rriuot

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policy and government direction

can be accepted. - - o - In drawing up this new Bill of Rights (and duties) for the scien- tist, Dr, Huxley urges the Royiil Society to trike the lciicl, in col- laboration, first, with lllf‘ British Association unrl others, iillll n1 n later stage with the relevant. in- ternational organizations. At. llll? head of n rough uxlrkius! tigcnrlfl he would place the demand that no government should pronounce in nny wny an the truth or ful- sily of fncls, laws, or lhcorics, or press for their acceptance or re- jection, nor must. it subordinate the standards of scientific truth to religious, philosophical, or po- litical ortlindoxics. This, with n second point about the special characteristics of science as n universal activity. dopi-ndlnr: lnrtzcly for ils results on full freedom of cammunlcrillon and the mutual testing of con- clusions, suggests a brisis for un- nrilmous riszreomont rit lr-nst flui- slrlc the Soviet zone: nail WP m" agree with Dr. Huxley lllftl. It might be no waste of time even should it full In lmmcillrile in- fluence elsewhere.

Atomic Information

(London Spocialnri The reasons for illf‘ fullest nnrl frankest co-opernlion bcl\vocn_ the Unltcrl States and Great Britain In nll the operations lr-urlinr: t0 ill!‘ production nf atomic bombs nrc cogent and comprehensive. Within the American control is llio lnrlivfil. deposlt of skill nnrl equipment for the production of the bomb. "nll wllhln the British control, In the Belgian Conga, Is the largest (it-- posit of uranium, without. which the bomb cannot. be mniln nt nll. There ls rm complete monopoly on either side. The British Gov- ernment announced siome sixteen months ago lhrit. It intended tn produce bombs, and the Amcrl- can Government can nblnin n cer- triln amount of urnnlum ln Canada nnrl elsewhere. Bu! clearly com- mon sense [minis lo a joint effort rather than separate projects. Mill- tary considerations lend In tho some direction. Whether bombs are prdrluccrl In America and kept there, or whether they nre pm- rluced and kept here, or whether they are produced In one place and kept In the other, quick net- lon, whether In offence or defence, requires the most complete llalson.

It goes wlthnut saying that scientists on both sides of the At- lnntlc can only employ their skill and energy to the best rirlvnnt- nge If they have common access to nll Information. And If there is izcnulne unity between Brllnln and the United Slnlcs ln the defence of common inlucs then there ls certainly no room for misunder- standing at this vllnl polnt, Nor, despite the cloud of rumors which arose after the Blrilr House meet- lng recently at which President Truman consulted hls closest rid- vlsern on ntnmlc matters, ls there nny public slgn of a serious quar- rel.

The story that the Brltlsh ou- thorltleo were bargaining for more American help In the manufacture of bombs here In return for a new contract for Congo uranium (the old one expires this year), ls ‘O0 crude to be true. Brltlsh offici- olo In Washington have repeated- ly denied thnt there lo any such

atomic bombs here, or the Am- erican Government so set 0n guarding its share of knowledge that nny serious difference be- tween them can long endure.

. The Age-Old Story blm

He was monlfcstcd to take away our sins.

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CHARGED vvmi murmurs

LONDON, Aug. 15—(CP)—MH- Nora Tierney, 29. IOd-W “m5 charged Wllll the murder aflhree- your-old Marlon Wnrrl, whose bloody and battered laorly WAS found Iu n bombed-out house Snt- urrlny. Mrs. Tierney formerly lived next door tn Ibo slnln child. Mo‘;

Ion linrl been missing for hours before l\(‘t‘ mutllntcrl bod)’ \\'ris discovered. ‘There was no

evidence that the vhllrl llflll 59F" sexually attacked but he trend was bashed In.

ARGENTINE wmznr

n“; Argentine lvllnlslry of AIZTI" Cilllllff‘ on June l asked BWOWPWS tn increase Lhc wheat nareage now being seeded l0 about l7 mlllllm ncrcs. This would bring the ncerage back to me 1940-44 leveLallhough sllll not. up in DTYJVFI!‘ "Vfrflliflfi- Lnsi y'enr's imofflclol acreage l5 placed at 13.5 million acres. Grmvcrs mi that lin- price would have to be higher than trhe 81-86 pm bushel set for the 1948-49 crop it ma, lnrrmsed ncrcnrze ls to be ohinlned. - NEW DELHI -- iCPi —- Excise minlslcrs of the Indian provinces and slates have decided that the consumption of opium. except for medical nnrl scientific purposes, should be slapped as anon no pos-

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