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THE GUARDIAN

Authotlud II Second Clan Moll Post Office Department. Ottawa. The Island Guardian Publishing CO.

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CIIABLOTTETOWN. WEDNESDAY. JULY 1!. 1051

Marslllallll Reclamation

In Nova Scotia much rich land was long ago reclaimed from irlnundation by the tide and has been farmed for generations. The dikes, however, have steadily deterior- ated and many farmers were faced with be-

ing driven off the land or compelled to un- R

dertake a rebuilding programme at a cost quite beyond their individual means.

Government grants have been made available We assist these farmers to retain their property and, quite properly, this Province claimed and was conceded similar monetary benefits.

The situation is rather different here, however, and further consideration should be given to the way in which the funds should be made use of in this Province.

The organization known as Ducks Un- limited is undertaking a great project to provide feeding-grounds for the migratory waterfowl and it seems at least possible that something could be worked out that would assist in this work and at the same time make use of our proper claims on the Federal purse.

ccr Tares Among The Wheat

It must have been distressing to Agri- culture Minister Gardiner to discover that the S65 million wheat ”bonus" failed to achieve its political objective of assuring unwavering support for the tenets of Llil-- eralism in the Prairie Provinces. For, in a provincial bye-election in Mr. Gardinerls own province of Saskatchewan, the CCF'erL' have snatched a seat out from under Lib- cral noses.

Easterners may be i'orgiven'for not be- ing much interested in what happens in Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan. In this in- stance, however, the defeat of the Liberal candidate in a constituency which has long been a Liberal stronghold shows what may he expected when a Government embarks upon a policy of political appeasement.

Agriculture Minister Gardiner managed Io persuade a reluctant Parliament to "ap- pease" the Prairie wheat growers to the tune of S65 million for'losses allegedly suf- fered under the Anglo-Canadian wheat agreement. The trouble with appeasement is that those who are appeased are never satisfied. Instead of expressing their grat- itude to-Mr. Gardiner for his largesse at the taxpayers expense, the electors of Gra- velbourg responded to the invitation of the CCF candidate to express their discontent by voting out the Liberal candidate. This they did in no uncertain terms.

A Great Movement

Founded ill 1919 by the late Miss Eglan- tyne Jebb, the Save the Children Fund has to its credit is wonderful record of achieve- ment. The story of the development of this organization is told in a most interesting manner in a book published in London under the title, "The Right of the Child: a Chapter in Social History", by Edward Ful- ler, editor of "The World's Children", with a foreword by Countess Mountbatten of Burma and an introduction by Capt. L. H. Green, C.B.E.

Miss Jebb turned her back on the well-to- do life which was hers by birtll to look after the children in the famine areas of Europe, at first In the Balkans and then in the wide field opened by the First World War. The early supporters of the Fund came from leaders of the various churches -Protestant, Roman Catholic, Jewish-and later were to include such widely differing sects as the Society of Friends, the Theo- gophlsts. the Salvation Army and the Baha'i faith. Two years after its f lundatlon. the Fund had branches operating in all parts of the world.

In 1924. at the League of Nalicns As- lambly, Miss Jebb put forward her Declar- ation of the Rights of the Child, which was adopted, and in 1946, with further amend- ments, was reaffirmed bringing it into ac- cord with present-day conceptions of child welfare. Mr. Fuller's story gives intimate gmnpaes of the personalities behind the movement, which anticipated by SGVGPM ' government action in providing free milk In schools, etc. In 1932 the first emer lumy nursery schools were set up and by 31939 there were ten of these schools, most-

llyin the distressed areas: With the Second

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twcrld War, the establishment of junior , B which kept the children occupiedand 1' I ,1 during the blltz of, 1940-41 was be-

gun, to be developed in later years as a per- manent service.

Before the war had ended the Fund start- ed toplan for post-war relief of European war-victims and, within a few weeks of the end of the war, teams were at work in Greece, Yugoslavia, Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, Poland and Austria. Their work was a potent factor in starting post- war relief and rehabilitation in Europe and further afield, helping DPls as well as child- ren. Today the Fund is still expanding among refugees of all countries, and wher- ever there is work to be done in educating mothers in the best ways to care for and bring up their children. ,

Actively associated with this movement in Prince Edward Island is Mr. J. 0. Hynd- man, to whom The Guardian is indebted for a copy of Mr: Fuller's inspiring book.

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EDITORIAL NOTES In 1950 Scottish shipyards delivered 200,000 gross registered tons of new ships to overseas owners. t I 9

It is hard to tell these evenings wheth- er a ring around the moon indicates rain to come, or forest fires ravaging wood- lands far away.

O I 0 Swimming classes are the order of the day in numerous centers. The water is so warm at present that even the longest in- structional periods can hardly chill the instructors, much less their enthusiasm. o 0 at , Unlike Toronto, Charlottetown did not find it necessary to spend S900 testing sample parking meters for resisting ex- treme heat, cold, rain, sleet, dust and tinkering. But then climate and dispos- itions are milder here. 0 9- D Present indications are that Their Royal Highnesses will visit this Province almost at the end of their tour. First impres- sions are, of course, lasting but it is to be hoped that final ones also may he remem- bered with pleasure. I O! O O This country cannot accept reslgnedly the process of dropping back from our position as an important food supplier to the United Kingdom. Supplies are still needed and we have in the past. shown our ability to produce. It is a question of working out the right policies to re- vive that mutually beneficial relationship. O I 0 Miss Lily Pavey, 34, of London, Eng- land, has staggered the world of music by inventing and patenting the first type- writer that can type music in all the com- plexities of six octaves.' Said an official of Britain's Musician's Union: "It may revolutionize the music-writing world." 0 O I Dr. William Gilbert Grace, famous English cricketer, was born this date 1848 In 1868 he scored 100 twice in one great match, an achievement he later repeated on three occasions. "in his more than forty years in first-class cricket his highest score was 400 not out against twenty-two of Grimsby. O Q I

Recently, the Trade Unions Congress in Britain submitted a meat-marketing plan to the British Government which would provide for public ownership of both home and imported meat supplies, except at the retail stage. The plan calls for a Meat

Commission to control all importing. slaughtering and wholesaling. O O I

In the second of the Harewood estate sales at auction, ordered by Lord Hare- wood, brother-in-law of the King, to meet heavy death duties, 59 lots of farms and small-holdings comprising 5,500 acres with a rent roll of about 128,000, realized i269.- 400. The sale of 7,600 acres a year ago fetched lE256,000. '

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Canadals Elgar Junior Girls' Choir ar- rived at Southampton last week. After a tour of England the girls will travel to Glasgow on August 12. Dumferline on the 16th and Edinburgh on the 18th." One of the singers is 12-year-old Sheila Palmer, of Vancouver, whose mother comes from Dundee. Sheila has won first-class hon- ours as a pianist at the Toronto Con- servatory of Music.

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Here are some curious British farminp. records reported by the Farmer and Stock- breeder Year Book, 1951: "Old Billy", a. 62-year-old horse, 1932; a pig three yards, eight inches long by four feet eight and a half inches high, that weighed 1,410 pounds live weight, 1774; a large white sow that farrowed 385 pigs in 22 litters, including 65 pigs in three litters within 12 months: 98 lambs from 40 ewes at one lambing, 1927; nine heifers in succession from .3 Guernsey cow and the same number from c Shorthom cow; a calf that weighed 150 pounds at birth from a crossbred cow, 1945; and a Jersey cow that gave Ill

pounds of milk daily after 18 years eon- tlnuous lactation. ' ,

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011 day! like this one ask: what fe in for,

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The splashes that lit 1 seabirds make. Pp W Speak life rich with contentment to the core; The long. soft seal um roll and V Plunge and break Fill the bright day with sound; . lapsed league: of shore Glimmer till alzht grown dim where the waves shake High plumes of brlghtneu. Why can't all men have A place like this to make their lives more brave Here where each clean wave the other rolls?- Why must the crowded city crush their souls? -Harry Kemp, in York Times.

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OUTDOOR PARTY

"A few of our idle citizens made off with a barrel of beer fronl the warehouse of James Duncan & Co. on Saturday night. They repaired to Victoria Park with their booty. and were having a good time over It when they were interrupted by the appearance of a few policeman who, after some hard running, succeeded in ar- resting slx of the party."

-The Examiner, June 25, 1877

Laurler's Testament (Toronto Telegram)

In October of 1916 Sir Wilfred Laurler addressed a rally in the Winter Gardens at London, Ont., accompanied by N. W. Rowell, George P. Garham, Charles Mur- phy, Charles Hyman and other Liberal stalwarts. It was reckoned 3. very successful affair, though London a few months afterward elected a Unionist and left the Laurler candidate at home. The gathering was sponsored by the then newly organized Young Lib- erals to whom the old chieftain dclivcrcd a special message he call- ed his "last testament." Curiously, this passage has been attributed to Sir Wilfrid upon an occasion in 1918, when he again ad- dressed a London meeting. It is so dated in Dr. 0. D. Skelton's Life

and Letters of Laurier. and has

been cited repeatedly in news. Paper articles. The Toronto Liberal newspapaer quoted it the other day 35 "Sl)0ken in November of 1918." A member of The Evening Tele- gram staff who took in shorthand the whole of Sir Wilfrid's 1916 speech, including the "last. testa- ment,” potnts out. that the leader

-would be most unlikely to use pre-

cisely the same pen-oration in the same city on a second occasion. especially at a meeting not this time sponsored by the Young Lib- eljals. In any case. the passage is not found in newspaper reports of the 1918 meeting, and it certainly was delivered at the Winter Gar- dens in 1916. Incidentally, the shorthand report is somewhat dif- ferent from the one so often quoted. Admirers of Sir Wilfrid's oratory may prefer It. He said.

,"A.fler many years of public life in Canada, I must give you A safe guide. an un-failing light for your guidance. Faith is better than doubt, and love better than hate. Banish doubt. Banish hate. Lelr your souls ever be-fixed upon high impulses, strengthened by gener- ous thoughts. Be adamant against me haughty, be kind and gentle no the weak. In good report and ill, in victory and defeat. let your soul: be guided by strong faith and in- spiration, that you may rise to still greater and greater heights."

Books Received CCII CANADIAN INCOME TAX ACT. 17th edition, consoli- dated to adjournment of Parlia- ment June 30. 1951. 321 pix. 32.50. For sheer concentrated informa- tion on Income Tax, past. and present, this annual reference book is most valuable. Those wanting to know quickly what the Act says. and said, can find it here with a minimum of efforts. There is no, attempt, of-course, to argue meanings or precedents but the employee can check readily his position on per dlem travel- ling allowance. union dues, auto costs and other matters. The gentleman farmer, for instance. can find what. the net says about his farm losses. That, after all. is nn indlspenslble preliminary to

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St. Matthew's Day

(The Printed Word)

The Hon. Douglas Abbott has deen called the greatest tax-eollec- for since St. Matthew. it is a dubious comment, for students of the Bible will recall that publi- cans, the tux - collectors of the Roman Empire, were not highly regarded. The biblical phrase. "publieans and sinners," Is so fam- iliar that one can hardly think of one class without being reminded of the other. The compliment. for what it is worth, should be, shared by Hon J. J. McCann, since it is his department that has the duty of collection.

In fairness to St. Matthew, it should be recalled that upon his conversion he immediately left the receipt of custom. No such drastic sign of repentance has yet been re- ported from Ottawa.

The unpopulatity of St. Matthew and his fellow-publicans was part- ly due to the system of tax-farmlns in vogue in their time. The public- an: paid a fixed rent for the privil- ege of collecting the imperial re- venue and all that they collected above that rent and their expenses was profit. Those who paid the taxes naturally accused the publlcans of inhumanity, while the luxury of the publiean was in sufficient con- trast with the poverty of many of his victims to support the accusa- tlon.

Although the tax-farming system

.is no longer used, the unpopularity

of the tax-gatherer remains. No one accuses Mr. Abbott, Mr. Mecann or their agents of personally pro- fiting from their trade of extor- tion, but public demonstrations of affection for them are lacking. Like other prejudices, that against tax-collectors E unreason- able, particularly in a day when so many citizens are living wholly or partly on the avails of taxation. No one who accepts the baby bonus or an old-age pension should des- plse the humble instrument that makes the largesse available. What. would be the fate of the civil ser- vant: in other departments If the Department of National Revenue were not on the job? Travelling ex- penses to Torquay. payment for the mistakes of Mr. Gardiner, balanc- ing the books of the C.l3.C.-all lore dependent on the efficiency and zeal of Mr. Abbott, Mr. McCann and their minions.

It almost seems proper to sug- gest that a week be set aside as ItBe-Kind-to-Tax-Collectors week" Oh well. one day anyway. St. Mal- thew's Day is September 21.

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Wesley Memorial Garden

("Scrutator” in the London Spectator)

Charles Wesley wrote over 16,500 hymns (so it is said: I suppose they have been counted), includ- lng many of the most notable in the English language, lived and died a membe of the Church of England, and was buried in Mary- lebone Churchyard. That was in 1788. and a plain tombstone was erected over his grave.

That. was subsequently replaced by an obelisk, which in the course of time suffered much from neg- lect. and later from war damage. Now, owing to the demolition of Marylebone Chapel and some street-wldening operations, 0. large piece of the old graveyard has been made available for conversion into fl. memorial garden, in the centre or which the Wesley obelisk will be erected.

All this is welcome news. Opin- ions will necessarily differ as to which is the greatest of Charles Wesley's hymns. Most Methodists, I fancy, would any "Come, (. thou Traveller unknown," and I would not dissent.

Yet when it comes to comparing that with "Jesus, Lover of my soul" (to be sung. essentially, to "Aberystw'yth"), it is clear how unfruitful comparison often is.

. . . Visit Well Timed (Financial Post)

H. R. H. Princess Elisabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh will be welcomed on this continent as am- bassadors of goodwill, as her par- ents were ln 1939. The years have brought la. change of attitudes in the relations between the U. 8. and Britain. In 1939 there was I. large and active isolationist bloc ill the U. S. carefully nurtured by Nazi organizations, and the Com- munists. The result of the isolat- lonists' activities was an Intense distrust of the British, as petmlc who would drag the U. 5. into war to save British investments.

Twelve years later the situation in somewhat reversed. Today we bear little isolationist clamor from the U. S. Pearl Harbour. Bataan, lwo Jlma, and Seoul have under- lined the "one world" lesson very

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You cannot fool the water llllu with daylight or any other time. They work by the sun, coming out in the morninz and retiring to root In the evening. They retire early. gLe.t.tlng their beauty sleep and .. glamorous next day. -Windsor Star. -41.

With so much moisture-or so dang much rain, if you want to be vulgar about it-the farmer is having trouble saving his hay. But does this matter, in the modem scheme of things? Tractors eat gasoline-and that ain't hayi- tottaws Citizen).

The Korean WI! did not start. because the South Koreans were provocatively strong but because they were lnvltlngly weak. The North Koreans and thelr- Russian sponsors believed that South Ko- rea would fall easily to one swift drive-as It very nearly did. Had they known that they would have to fight I United Nations force, led by America. they would al- most certainly not have attacked. The fruit of easy-going unprepar- edneu in South Korea has been a year of bitter and costly war.- (The Observer, London).

Time was when Canadians could be proud of their postal service. Now there is little or nothing even to be satisfied with. when a busi- ness envelope is mailed In the

bought time for the,U. S. A. to learn that the leadership of the free world depends on the Ameri- cans. ' ..

In Britain today, contrarywlse there is considerable dislike and distrust of the Americans. Led by the New statesman and Nation an influential section of public opin- ion continually carps at all things American. This dislike was in- tensified when it was believed that General MacArthur was trying to drag Britain into 1 war against China. pp

The free world understands that men are free to dltfex in debate and have the right to thrash out questions of public policy. But it is sheer fully for the people of these two great powers. Britain and the U. S. A. to foster false ideas about each other

The visit of their Royal High- nesses will help to make manifest the great. amount of goodwill that exists between Britain. Canada a d the U. S. A. The visit is takl g

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ta and in not dellvei-Int:-l)w&1;:m"i real until two day: 1.1,"-.wmf'm' holiday interfering in the w B then obviously it In um. somegga should "pull up mg .ocu.. Cedy toinly. if the Post Office mm. ff justify a. four-cent stamp on '4' letter it should be able to 31., bef tar service than n two-.-my t” for a letter from Toronto nu Montreal. Or else It should "to the franchise to the bus com FIVE ies. They manage to get Lhngyi -(Montreal Financial Times; 31''