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THE GUARDIAN

Morning Dally (Founded In 1M7) Authorized an Second Clan Mall, Poll Uffleo Department. ihruinn.

‘The lnlnml (iunrcllun Pulrllllllng Co. lldllnr nml llunuglng Ulrrrlur, J. It. lluruett. Asnnrlula lidltur, Frank Walker.

b-"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink"

‘GIARLOTTETOIVN. SATURDAY, DEC. 3. 1949

Bad Roads-And Worse

So far the weather has been remark- ably good for outdoor farm work and haul- ng. but, alas, the condition of not a few ‘if the roads is deplorable. Had a Cotiserva- ‘ive (lovcrtnncnt been in power, it would ‘iaw bccn inundated with complaints from ‘iii sorts and conditions of farmer, business men, ii_vgeill€‘1‘_\'»'lli\ deputations sitting on the lltJUY-SIGII of the Minister of Public Works leinandlng action. Apparently now the cont-- plaints comc chiefly to the newspaper of- fices. while the complainants are careful for ‘he most part to protest anonymously. Some residents in L7ormvall and vicinity have been ‘oud in their denounciations, and when asked why didn't they go to the Govern- ‘nent, (leclarcd it was useless, no attention being paid to previous protests. This is not as it should be. 'l'axpay'ers have a right to lw ltcard and their complaints heeded.

Since this was written The Guardian has

been advised that the Northumberland Fer- ries could still have been operating, to the general relief of exporters and travellers had the roads to and from Wood Islands been fit for trucks and cars to travel over. But they haven't been. Even the bus serv- ice was discontinued because of the unsatis- factory conditions; while autos and taxis generally have been undergoing grievous experiences getting there and back.

“Canada Standard"

The bill, now adopted by both Houses of Parliament, to establish a voluntary trade mark-to be known as “Canada Standard” or “C.S." should prove a most useful meas- ure. The complexities of trade standards of material, quality, and sizes cause endless confusion and loss. The specialist in a given field may know that “Fancy Quality” hap- pens to be a relatively low quality grade, or that “Jumbo" does not necessarily mean the largest size, but the ordinary citizen is usually in the dark as to the exact specifi- cations of the product he is buying. Cloth- ing sizes is another field where standardiza- tion should prove a boon. To be able to order clothing of any make with the assur- ance that sizes will be uniform would itself make the legislation worth while. We shall hear much of “Canada Standard". ____________.

The Judgment

"Saturday Night", which is usually in- clined to deal mildly with Liberal Govern- ment shortcomings, has the following final comment on the suppression of the flour milling combine report:

“The judgment by which the Govern- ment is condemned is this: they preferred the politically expedient to the legal course. Their arguments about the substance of the hit-Gregor report have no bearing here. Knowing the law they deliberately chose to flout it. Their choice may have helped them to win the election, and they do not repent of it. But they will find that there is a pen- alty attached even if it is long delayed.

“It is up to their followers even more than to their enemies to see that ministers are continually reminded of the seriousness of their offence. And their followers have a real interest in doing so, for the Govern- ment has jeopardized its most fragile and its most valuable possession-Abe public con- fidcnce. Nor should any Liberal minister SLlppOSQ that. the suspicion bred o1 the Mc- Gregor affair can be centred on Mr. Garson alone. it embraces every member of the Cabinet, and it centres on the head of-thc Government and his closest henchman, Mr.

C. D. Howe.”

improving Their Holdings

The annual report of the Canadian Farm Loan Board for the year ending March 31 last shows that in the Maritime Provinces, . farmers of Prince Edward Island contracted for the largest number and amount of loans in both first and second mortgage classifica- tions. The number of first mortgage loans approved was 72 and amounted in all to $141,250, while second mortgages totalled .17 and had an approved value of $9,400, the cumulative amount thus being $150,650.

New Brunswick farmers secured a total of 67 first mortgage loans valued at $139,- 500, with second mortgages numbering 15 and totalling $9,100, for a combined total of $148,700 in the past year. Nova Scotla agriculturallsts made much fewer loans in comparison, first mortgages only numbering 36 and having a total value of $74,500, while but four second mortgages were placed having a value of $1,900. The grand total ivaltieshtheneforo, wu $76,400. The biggest

l" g province of the nine was Salk- ' There. no fewer than B44 first

mortgage loans valued at $1,671,750 were] approved, while there were 384 second mortgages totalling in value $240,200, or a cumulative total of $1,911,950.

The report reveals an encouraging trend in the financial position of our agricultural- ists who own their properties. This is re- flected in the fact that, in marked contrast with the situation prevailing a few years ago when much of the money borrowed from the board was used to pay accumulated debts, the farmers contracting for board loans in the past fiscal year were, in ‘the greater proportion, doing so to purchase livestock and implements and to make im- provements to their holdings.

EDITORIAL NOTES

‘Tomorrow’. 2nd Stintlay tn Advent.

O Major General Brock Chisholm, whose latest bete noir is the human conscience, seems to aim at becoming the post war Shaw. The difference is that G. B. S. com- bined the systematic annihilation of popu- lar beliefs with a finishcd style and caustic humor.

O U

The Fisheries Department is to have a model kitchen in Ottawa to demonstrate new methods of cooking fish and to test thousands of fish recipes. That is approach- ing the industry's marketing problem from the right direction.

O Representatives of the Provincial Young Progressive Conservative Associations met in Ottawa yesterday with the Association's national executive to discuss plans for ex- pansion of the organization. A representa- tive of Newfoundland attended for the first time. He is Douglas Pinsent of St. John's.

I O I Reconstruction Minister Winter's warn- ing to home builders under the National Housing Act comes a bit late tor many. The minister explains that the statutory in- spection, which the owner must pay for, does not guarantee compliance with speci- fications, but merely notes the progress in construction.

O I

It is now t\venty'-fottr days since the death of City Councillor Holland. Under the law tSectioti 10 0f the City's Act: of Incorporation) His Worship the Mayor is required to fix a date for a by-election to be held not later than thirty days after the occurrence of any such vacancy in the. Council.

Nova Scotias Senator Quinn has at- tacked alleged price fixing practices by the buyer in the Maritime fish industry. It is an old complaint of fishermen that it is little use to divert a catch from one port to an- other because the price offered will usually be the same. Proving anything in the na- ture of a conspiracy is another matter.

O

Here is bad news for wives. Magistrate F. C. Gullen of Toronto ruled on Monday that a man who takes money from his wife can't be charged with theft unless the couple are legally separated. He dismissed a theft count against John Tunstead, 45, whose wifc had complained he stole her purse and $36 when he returned home after a month's ab-

581108.

R. L. Stevenson, British‘ novelist, essay- ist and poet, died this date 1894. A sufferer from T.B. he travelled extensively seeking health, settling ultimately at Samoa where he died. As a novelist he combined the finished style with powerful imagination and remarkable narrative faculty. l~lis itovels, essays and poems are known to most read- ers, juveniles, as well as adults. including as they do SllCll favourites as “'l‘rc-astlre Island", “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. liyrlc", “A Child's Garden of Verse."

I I I

The Doplrttnent of industry and Natural Resources ls making headway in develop- ment of the trade and commerce of the Province. Under the lion. Eugene Cullen it has taken a new lease of life, and is seeking to interest business men, apart from ordinary exporters, in taking advantage of the Department's facilities for letting the outside world learn of their business exist- ence, which is all to the good, for the more imports we can handle at a profit, the more exports are likely to ensue.

I O O

The Federal Government is going to take over the majority of‘ the 22 British Ad- miralty properties in St. John's, Nfld. De- fence Mlnister Claxton told the House of Commons that the Defence Department is still negotiating with representatives of the Admiralty. “We are not going to acquire all 22 properties in St. John's because some of them have already been disposed of to the Government of Newfoundland," said the

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LOVE THOU

THY LAND

Love thou thy land, with love far- brought From out the used Within the Present, but transfused 'l‘hro' future time by power of thought. ' .-

storied Past, and

But pamper not a hasty time, Nor feed with crude imaginings The herd, wild hearts and feeble wings

That. every sophlster can lime.

Deliver not the tasks of might To weakness, neither hitlr- the ray From those, not blind. who wait

for day,

Tho‘ sitting glrt with rlotibtftll light.

Make knowledge circle with the winds;

But lei: her herald, Reverence, fly Before her to whatever sky

Bear seed of men and growth of minds.

Watch what main-currents draw the years:

Cut Prejudice. against the grain: But gentle words are nhvays gain: Regard the weakness of thy peers:

Nor toil for title, place, or touch

Of pensions, neither rotint on praise:

it grows to guerdon after-days:

Nor deal in watch-words over- much:

Not clinging to some ancient saw; Not mastefd by some moderate

term; Not swift nor slow to change, but ‘rm: And in its seasons bring the law; Tharfrom Discussion’: llp may fall ‘ With Life, that, working strongly. binds— Set in all lights by many minds, To close the interests of all. For Nature also, cold and warm. And moist and dry, devising long. Thro‘ many agents making strong, hfatures the individual mind.

—Lord Tennyson tlBfIl-Slfi).

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‘l Notes From ii‘ Another Island s

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By “Anson?

LONDON, England -- Anybody writing about his own country for readers in another land might find himself at a (lisarlvzintuge unless he run take an objective view m’ things. This is Ihe time lo wish for the gift of "seeing ourselves as others see its," as the great. Scottish poet put it.

I had that sort of tupporlunilyg if not, the gift, the other day. Threc of us were having a friendly chat —myself, and a Frenchman and a Roumanian. Well, he's not reall)’ I‘ Roumanlan, but he has lived $0 long in that Country that. ni- though he is a British citizen. most people who know hlm think of him us a Roumnnian.

The conversation got around to Christmas, and the Frenchman showed us some tiny candle which he had bought as decorations for a Christmas trec. “But, you know." don't dress a Christmas tree England the way they do on the continent. . ."

That started somethinf; B‘? "mi the Roumanlan~l'll call him that Ant once began to reminisce about life on the European continent. and that soon led to a series of comparisons between life in EH2-

he said, "they in

land and lifc on the continent, between the English people and to sit

Etiropenns, This was my cue out and listen, and to sec my 0W" countrymen "as others see us.‘ The Frenchman lacrnn by sum- marising things, Having travelled on the continent u X10011 dPul- 11° said, he was often asked what no thought was tho best country. H-- was tactful about that question and sold hc thought that other countries could learn .1 lot from England, which, l stipposc, was the kind of delicate phrase a Lruf‘ Frenchman would usv. c a o

The Ronmunian was rather more definite. tn- hrstisht 11w nroblgiji down to more pructicnl levels. PM“ hlmsclf, he stiid, he would rather “in; to gn hack tr; llotimnnin; but for his children's Sfllwdl" “mild not think of leaving Etigluntl.

I nsknci him why, In any other Ettroprxtn country, hr! cxpluinctl, when hi; children would not. be- have, he would threaten to cull n palir-r-msn and they were immed- iately nhemiicnt. "In livitiiflufl- ii 1 threaten to call n policeman. they laugh and say “Go ahead!" he said. That, to his why of think- lug, was not to imply that thc English policeman is n figure of fun, but simply that. children felt safe lierc.

This led the Frenchman to com- ment on what ho called the "in- herent dlsclplinc of Ihe English." Somehow, in some lndeflnable way, it seemed that, We know when to be silent, when to shout, “H1971 to be passive, and when to fight.

Then another thought struck hlm. "The English ore so terribly unemotlonal." he said. l-le referred to announcements which lie had heard on the BBC occasionally, calling for some missing, relative or other to go back home because some member of the family is dying. Some of these announce- ments say that Ihe person missing was heard of last say, two or three years ago, and the idea appalled the Frenchman's nature.

his family and not be heard of for all that. time?" he exclaimed.

H; became’ quite excited about this matter, and quoted a true story which happened in the war.

minister. "We are going to take over a majority of them. We are only going to use now those which are useful in peacetime, but we hope to develop one or two so that

they can be put into immediate use in the event of wan", -

He had been one of u party of soldiers in England, working in a tiny village. They had made friends with a woman who used to cook a meal for them each day.

and the village suffered damage

and casualties. ‘Next day, they

Willi to us the woman q uual,

"How can a man go away from .

One night there wu In air raid, t

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music in been so switched it on again.

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equally cookery. stated, "that's why cook."

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and remarked about the events of the night before. I O

The woman agreed that it was all very terrible, and, saying no more, began to prepare their usual meal, switching on the radio at the same time. A moment later n visitor told the soldiers that the woman's own son had been killed in tho air raid, The immediately switched off the radio, saying that there should not be house which had woman

the

bereaved. The

“Keep it on," she said.

u- Roumanlan told a story.

llc, it seemed, had been well-

frlends as he walked m the street. "But here," he said, "no one is pointed out, Nobody is noticed, not cven the Prime lVilnistr-r." And he told of the time he went to an exhibition in London, and how he‘ stnldr-nly saw n group of people chattering oyr-r one of the plays. ‘Thinking there would be something interesting "nlkerl

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over and found,

hlcnnwhilc our French

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"No imagination. .

they

The other chap didn't

unis

bother." He had

he discussion, All m. once

Frenchman

"The world keeps on going round-why should I try to make it stop?" The, Frenchman fell silent for n moment at the memory of it, and

dis-

lie in the ccntrc of the group, the King and Queen, inspecting something which have caught their

'0.

"And l." he reflected, "could have been an assassin. . . friend had found his tongue again, and began to forget the terrible Eng- lish lack of emotion at the thought. of what seemed to him to be an terrible lack of skill at he can't.

quite not that they can‘: cook," he argued, “it's just that they don't; theory that if only English cooks took their job seriously they would product- musterpleces of the cul- inary nrt. I think it was the idea of such masterpieces that finally broke I'll) I 1e Frenchman got up."I must be off." he exclaimed. and disappeared out thr- rloor. Perhaps he had suddenly remembered that his French wife was preparing something special. .

People sometimes nsk me how l decide what I'm going to write about in this column. Mostly the ideas "just come". Often they are horn out of some incident i hap-

(Aml P. I. L)

it Old Charlottetown

FIRST CIVIC BALLOTING

“For the first time in Gm- loitetowrfs municipal history the voting in a civic election was by ballot yesterday, and the new system worked mnoothly and mt- isfac-torily. Tlhose accustomed to the old order of things perhaps missed the usual hourly bulletins of the state of the polls and the result had lo be awaited at. ‘the final counting of the votes. As in Dominion elections this left. mat- ters uncertain to the lest and per- haps added something to the In-

knmvn once, in the Roumanian , city in which he lived. People Leffisit- Iiuuée "e" ‘uiim’ u“ Wullld point him out to their ‘* ° w“ ° brwgh‘ ‘°"° °‘"

provincial elections and the diayl of open voting will be past for- ever.

“The contests yesterday were keen. There was a three-cornered figh-t for the Mayoralty, the first in the history of the city; con- test in each Ward with two can- didates each in Wards One, Two and Three. three in Ward Four and six in Ward Five. There \vere five candidates for Wat/er Commissioners.

"The May-orally election was a signal victory for Charla Lyons oven‘ James Paton and S. A. Mac- Donald, Mr. Lyons having only 63 votes less than his two oppon- ents comlbined. Of the retiring Council the fou.r offering for re- election. Couns. John McKenna. D, J. Riley, Thus. Campbell and J. D. Taylor were each success- ful. R. H. Stems in Ward Ono put u/p a strong figlht and for a second time Councillor McKenna received a close call. Coun. Riley’ defeated Dr. Ledwell by 15 votes in Ward Two and in Ward Three Coun. Camp-bell was returned by a majority of 42 after polling one of the heaviest civic votes in the Ward for years. Dr. McLaughlin

8

Coun. Taylor as second. H. Brown was but 31 votes behind

Five resulted in the return of A. McLean, John McNevin and W

instalment almost wrote itself. Al

of chaps talking,

PROFESSIONAL CARDS

led the poll in Ward Four. with H.

Coun. Taylor. The battle in Ward

pen togsee or, hear about: some- times they arise out of the big news of the day. This particular

I hnd to do was listen to a couple

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Oliver Wendell Holmes once chided his law clerk for bceifing about the taxes he had to pay. “Do you like to pay taxes?" the young man asked mcredulously. "Yes, I do, young fellow,” Justice Holmes replied. “With taxes I ‘buy civilization." -— 'l‘he Washin-gton Post.

The fact. of greatest political significance in the voting was the decrease in ItilE CCF slrcn-gtlh in its Gull Lake stronghold w-herc in the past the crusading fervor of its party workers had scored a succession of triumphs. The CCF majority tumbled from 1,268 in 1948 to approximately 860. CCF strength as recorded in lhc vot- ing declined by 76G from i940,

W. Walker. the latter being the “baby" of the Council. W. F. Tid- marsh and W. K. lingers who ran on a "no canvass" basis, and George lVheatley, were defeated. “For Water Conunissioners Messrs. Charles McGiegor, S. W. Crmldbe and James MacDonald were elected. E. P. McCarron. o! last year's board, being defeated by about 100 votes. The auger was exceedingly close, each candi- date polling about 1,000 votes and there being 37 vote-s difference in the first three.

"The ballots, on the whols, were carefully written: out of 2,000 or more cast there being but 33 rc- jecled." -'I'he 1912.

Guardian, February l5,

DECEMBER 3, 1949

Th6 Way _

more Lha 1-‘ Liberal drécliiiecuuras other words Gull 222:"? a amg ' _ date. l-han cecrG:.,V,§,§§f,'““~ "Ml- or elections exhibited omb °f oth. ill-c ccr oainclidale,_gen- “hills er-Post. gm“ IMG-

great u . 359 votq, m Lake mm“ enthusiasm

An erosive force

of the American ,

for-ct? i5 i1 di$iZlSi5c(;g:}_W Thli disdain for h0nest industror has worn down, almost to Lhy- ll Lshinlg point, the craftqman- evfn‘ in his handiwork. n, has lzgnh pr-oplc at the mcrcv (,1 m; m‘ who. the cliatircs incrcasingl mm don't care how sloppgj‘, Hwiry f"- is performed, just so long if“? reap the monetary yen-am from ‘.7 1t is manifested in mounting m tmnm for the 5Dlritual values?“ The V9111’ real mental i-llEfapy ‘h’: come with the Senvsp or ha“ pififlfllléd a lob to the Very b: Basilio ability. — Cleveland Plain

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