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UHARLOTTETOWN FRIDAY, JAN. Ill, 1951 Fire Fighting Requirements

It is generally admitted that our City Fire Department is one of the most effic- ient volunteer organizations of its kind in Canada. Efficiency, however, can only be carried so far unless there is modern equip- ment availzlble with which to work. At Wednesday night's annual meeting of the Department, some of the urgent require- ments in this regard were 'pointed out. Specifically, the need is for a portable gen- erating lighting plant, not only to safe- guard the men from overhead high volt- age wires while working on the new alum- inum ladders, but also to facilitate the res- cue of persons from endangered buildings; a new fire alarm system with automatic air horn relucing the fire bell; a life net; wider doors, opening upwards, at the Fire Station to facilitate speedy exit of the fire

port-improvement of education in the dangers of drinking and driving and that such education should not be confined to problem' periods like Christmas and the New Year holiday. I-lere, apparently, sug- gests the Journal, is something on which liquor boards and highway departments might get together. One time when every driver could be reached with education ma- terial is when licences are renewed, but to public knowledge no attempt has ever been made to- use this golden opportunity.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Alas, the chief centre of attraction for many in the city and district has been the Weeks' murder trial, seating capacity in Court being at a premium.

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The city Fire Brigade know what they want to continue to provide an efficient service and have told the City Council so in plain terms.

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The railways' application for a further five per cent rate increase comes up to- day. The rail strike blew over. Now it is a matter of "raising the wind."

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The Federal Government intends lock- ing the stable door after the steed has been stolen. They admit 4,500,000 pounds of New Zealand butter but announce that in

life on A Boiler coaster

PUBLIC FURUM

This column in 0990 90 "'9 discussion by correspondent! of questions of interest. The Guardian doesnot ily endorse the opinion oi

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hot," says a heating expert - and former janitor. - Ottawa citizen.

A Winnipeg girl discovered 32 in a can of beans, which isn't so vcry surprising. as csnners have to keep down costs. and using a vwo-doi- liar bill-(worth about 90 cents) as a substitute for pork is sound economy.-Ottawa Citizen.

Sign hunting at the gate of a castle in Bsnwell, Somerset, Eng- land: "Phis cdstle was built in the late nineteenth century and is of no historical value whatever. Please remember that this Eng- lishman's castle is his home and do not intrude." - New Yorker.

A titled lady in England is fined 54 10s. for abetting poaching. She may count herself fortunate that she was not living 150 years ago when. according to Arthur Bryant in his newest book, her offense would have meant transportation to Botany Bay. or had she made any show of resistance to the game- keeper the penalty would have been the gallows. - Hamilton

Qulbblers are not likely to agree, but the average citizen who endeavors to keep this reasoning on a plane of common sense will pro-ba-bly support the opinion ex-

pressed by Magistrate Harry Bur-; vile with regard to the a-bilily of! a police officer to determine whe- l ther or not a motorist is under the His Worship

influence of liquor.

"Moot apartments" are kept too

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takes the view that the police. man who sees an alleged offend" st the scene of on accident, and who f.rom his wide expo:-lance with such incidents can therefore judse the driver's condition, is in a. position to give much more valu. able evidence than the person who may see the alleged offender some time later. The magistrate feels that a police officer in such circumstances is an expert. .. Hamilton Spectator.

Perhaps the world has not be- come quite so materialistic 5.- some of its critics maintain. The hue and cry raised over the then of the Stone of Scone hes pene. trated to all the four corners or 'the earth. The stone which was stolen Christmas Day from West. 'minster Albbey is the object of .. lsearoh involving some 8,000 police officers who have already put, in some thousands of hours of over- time work and who have used 200 gautomobiles burning 500 gallon; or gas an hour. All on the stone's jbehalf. Certainly the desperate -efforts being made to recover the Stone of Scone do not stem from considerations of a material na. ture. The vast attachment to the stone is purely sentimental and historical. The stone's material worth, at present building prices, is about thirty-five cents. -Brock. ville Recorder and Times.

The problem of municipal 1-ev. enues to match municipal i-espon. sibilities may not be evaded. Eith- er the province will have to as-

Rrom an account of the exper- ien'ce of Lieut. Colonel sleigh, "late of Her Majesty's 77th Regiment." in crossing by ice-boat from Tor-

, sume certain functions in their en. ltireiy, such. as. welfare or polic- ling or hospitalization of indigents, lor it will have to make available

future a government permit for imports

will be necessary. ' I O I

correspondents. BEAUTY'S PENNY G0. spend your penny. Beauty. when you will,

trucks, and a new pumper to replace the 1.aFrance equipment now twenty years old.

Weighed against the cost of one dis- APHLUNG WASTE

The Age-Old Story

aptmug fire the expense involved in ob- Final day of the F'i'OVlllClal Agricultural Sir. - I hate gloomy surbyects: but In the zrave's darkness let the memme tl: Pmtilce E;m1B8r5d2. 1533?: lie the large cities, the free use of 7 ' - ' ' ' ' f 'nor con- Conference Federal and Provincial of- in this dark age one cannot always stamp be lost. 19 W W Y 5.P1t"8d , 1 51-19. iione or more tax fields in addition taming all this equipment 1S 0 ml , . -I h Nth choose a cheerful topic. we are The water still will bubble frcm ""'"9d mm 5”” W5 S ' -1-'-'-'l-'l- to property. adequate to carry the sidcrat-long The City Council, of C0u,.SL., flcials continue to demonstrate bf atd e wilder ogders if ClhSll.io:Ul'ag(e30l:xSnat1K-'1 A d At-heglhill, k th d in ..N0,m,,g ,5 mm-e surprising than Know ye no, mu '0 whom yel:Jl:iriden&."Ths;t Plglgblem ish admit. , - -' ' ' ' Va ' ' - ' e win 5. an m s . n rl me e mea ows . ' 5 Y 1 ICU . cause e r -

must keep a watchful eye on every item of evils of divided JU;1lS(llC.lilxOl;l can ketan Hale Wk. we we doomed w waste. we hr; grim”. wt 22:5 ?;,;l,::;,e wgxcgwgzt slgrtglngt mm yowuml mums to obey. Vince actually does not havepnoe expenditure; but firefighting equipment overcome ll tell l e W1 0 wor 0E9 161 have kissed the feel: of Mammon. Over the grass the daffodil; Wm times present. In an hour mere hills llEfV;i'I&: ye are! to giholm tygeggax fields to anocam -mat is the 1, ma g been regarded as 3 gilt-edged lS strong enough. "Now. boys". he says. if-lshten your shiver. , has been known R free expanse 0, 0 av. w 5' er of sn'un 0 ea anquestlon Ottawa must be made to as Z1 y. . . , belts, You are heading for a 20- The prlmroses with their pale water M six to eight mues In exp or of obe cnce unto rightcousness..,,,ccgn1zeg because the snuanon

insurance investment. Our firemen are the best judges of what is urgently needed In

The United States Government requires

cent dollar, but take it. It is what you have been wcrklng for." All along, prosperous people have been

beauty abound, The blackblrd be a lover and make

quiver With his glad singing the great

tent. and before another hour the

whole of that covered with enormous masses

been of

surface has

But God be thanked. that ye new

the servants of sin. but ye have the", obeyed from the heart that form of

will only get worse the longer is delay. - Toronto Globe

and Mail.

this I'95P9Ct- The Spotnghting and new 160'00O(000 gallons of industrial alcohol for putting their spare cash to selfish ml d t h d mocks and doctrine which was delivered you.l alarm System are particularly important, synthetic rubber and other purposes. Cana- uses instead of serving the King- so thszauili oi: grour:d;i H t l'c:).u-nfc1ae1n;ucse.be:g:C 9 gain; than made fife flronli pin, yel - 1 ' ' ' ' '11 be Droportionately dam of God. NW" they 3” paymg 3 e 9 Y m' l W 1 "” .. -... ' . came e '"V”' ” ” "' Nzxrn - rsrxrxn ven the earliest possible dlan Iequlrements W1 .. . . mutt r; , Our z..u.m towards New 9,, Wm. , n Md 9, 1 and ebygloul. Civic authorities high which should make distillery construc- 1,1-,5; sy3X11I”yEZo:.;V5i,r,eZ,, vTn;E1ssg(::,f:.1 Up in thee earth the great game Brunswick was resolved Upon by rho; things whereof yie aremnn: '1' P' MacPherson&son (301151 ' . . . . ' ill Irvin in cunse uence of the gale h do 1: H d g p . , . . ous war-waste. under compulsion. W , 80 On. p 8. It as ame . or is cn o .tlosl. M . cl mm Th. F. Another matter of Importance 15 the no” 3 Vety smmd pr0p05m0” may help to save us mm ma, (us, The coming of spring and the which had sprung up. and with il-inn is death. But now being; s:',;s "To;mA;s " ;

running of the water, sundown not more than an hour mm, gm, gm," um and becom,

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. M I b motorists t . "'39? for greater co 9p.nratlO.n ky . traf: . " ' ' I . . "Sgt; What shall we Say 01 wmm, And the young things glad of the and a half off it would have been 5"-nut, to God, ye hue you, (run? ovgmyog-rs cyclists and all our citizens in eeplr-lg The dlscovery of a 52 bm m a can of Upengeyed waste that men and wombs darkness gone. dangerous to have remained out unto holiness, and the end cverinllt-l 157 QUEEN 51-. trucks. This has women pour down their throats? And me by We 191' Wm be 3 P5” MW 10118913 0” 0'-herwlse We Shwld 11'! m9- J r w

fic clear for the fire . been a perennial source of complaint by our firemen, whose efforts are handicapped by thoughtless people trying I0 T309 them 10 every fire, This practise is not tolerated in other cities, and there is no reason why it should be permitted here.

No Good Being Sorry

From time to time the Press records me death by fire of small children whom parents had left unattended at home, some- times only a very short time. A coroner's jury in Nova Scotia, reporting on the death of four tots declared, ”We strongly condemn the common practice of many parents leaving children of these ages alone in the house.”

”Safc at home" is a sadly misleading ' phrase. More accidents occur in the home than anywhere else and, incidentally, more in the kitchen than in any other part of 1he house.. We demand drastic punishment for anyone deliberately killing a fellow hu- man being, yet it makes little difference to 'the victim whether death came by ifltent or neglect. The remorse of the D?P50n 119' sponsible is probably greater in the latter case.

Report on Drunken Driving

Two experts named months ago by the

mQntario Liquor Control Board to study the

problem presented by the automobile driver who mixes liquor and gasoline have made a 72-page report. They went to Europe, to the U. S., and found that 28 nations had been sufficiently concerned over this prob- lem to do some work on it. But they have no final easy solution to offer. One thing they do make clear, says the Ottawa Journal, is that the problem of the Qdrinking driver-.is greater than official statistics would indicate. The difficulty of proving drunkenness in court and the reluct- ance of police to lay a serious charge in border-line cases accounts for this fact. Wisely too the experts point out that pass- ing laws is not the final answer, that well- enforced laws are a step in the right direc- tionbut fall short of a solution. The report has considerable to say about so-called scientific tests for drunkenness,

or to prove the amount of alcohol in the

blood. The best way. they claim. is 8 blood test but to make this wholly 00"- vmclng a veln.must be tapped, and here arises the question of violation of individ- ,ug1 rights, The less accurate breath test ,5, suggested as a compromise, one now

.-.-nwlagly uud in many American states. The ihxpem hioovpolnt out that 3 problem in

. - is.iaolr of a clear definition of the tion" and "under the influ-

beans by a Winnipeg girl has given rise to much speculation. It really seems to smack of graft. Somebody probably dipped into the wrong pork barrel by mistake. O I O The U. N. genocide convention has now received the necessary 27-state approval to bring it into effect although this country, the United States and Russia have not yet ratified it. Outlawed are "acts committed with intent to destroy in whole or in part a national, ethnical, racial or religious group." Wholesale extermination may no longer be practised with impunity even in an otherwise righteous cause. 0 I 0

Penny candy for the kiddies disappear- ed some time back, says The Gazette. Nick- el pop vanished during the war, but made a brief comeback until Mr. Abbottls baby budget threw a monkey wrench into the business. Bottlers have been holding out for months, but the pressure has been growing. One outfit in Winnipeg went to seven cents a couple of weeks ago. Others in the industry had to follow. to keep going. That made it unanimous in the West. It's a safe bet the tide will spread until nickel pop becomes dime pop everywhere.

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Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, English bar- rister, essayist and politician, born this date 1850, his centenary being celebrated in London a year ago. Was Liberal Sec- retary for Ireland, and under his regime, the Irish University Act, Irish Land Act, and Home Rule were carried. He subse- quently resigned as the result of the Dub- lin Rebellion of Easter 1916. Was elected Lord Rector of Glasgow University in 1911. A witty speaker noted for "birrellisms", as an essayist'he possessed a delightful style. Author of ”Obiter Dicta" (1st and 2nd series) .,”Men, Women and Books", ”l..ifc of Charlotte Bronte", "Studies of Hazlitt and Marvell", ”In the Name of the.Bod- leian", and "Frederick Locker-Lampson."

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Conditions during 1951 which will af- fect all Canadian businesses cannot be an- ticipated, Mr. Homer Dufresne, president of the Shoe Manufacturers' Association of Canada, says in a year-end statement from the association. added, are being decided now in -many world capitals and on the battlefronts and Canadian industry must simply be pre- pared to adapt itself to whatever -these conditions may be. "Should there be, as a result of world development, serious de- mands for military footwear in Canada, the Canadian shoe industry is well-equipped and organized to. sdpply them without en- dangering civilian supplles," Mr. Dufresne said. Naturally, this is not.the kind of business the shoe industry seeks, but its representatives, and those of the leather and other allied industries, have already offered their full co-operation to the gov- ernment, through the Hon. C. D. Howe,

Minister of Trade and Commerce.

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These condltions,"lie'

Beverage alcohol does no real good as every doctor will tell you. Peo- ple who feel they have to pep themselves up with alcohol to be- come livelier guests at 5. dinner party can't have as much brains as they are supposed to have. The moderate drinkers in Canada last- yeer consumed sl,600,000 worth of drink per day; and here in this little Province over S5300 per day. 'Ilhese figures would be unbelievable were they not spelled out in the financial records of one Govern- ment snd of these amounts the al- coholics have spent comparatively little. They haven't got it to spend. The moderates did the spending. They say, "The money is cur own and we can do what we like with it." Your own to waste? I wonder. In view of so many ood causes crying out for funds. 5 hools and colleges, works of charity and mercy. here in this country and among backward people. the fact that sane and responsible people slhouid waste so much money upon what helps neither physique nor intelligence is a great. shame and, in the judgment of God must. be is punishable crime. This waste is filling the pockets of a class of men who do not care a. hoot for Gcd or country. Let us hope, sin- cerely, for better things from the people who can "drink or leave it alone." I am Sir. etc., W. I. GREIEN Stanley Bridge. 13.2.1.

CAN WE WIN?

Sir. - several of our leading statesunen have been saying that war is not inevitable which means that it can be avoided it wise meas- ures are used.

The U. N. delegates are using all the firmness and tact. that they can muster up. Some of them are ask- lngrus to prayrfor -t.hem,- -which shows that they believe with the Psalmist. that "Unless the Lord keep the city, the watchman watcheth in vain". And they have found guidance in the petty details of private affairs when they "oom- mltted their. ways unto the Lord and He brought it to pass when they trusted in Him." other deleg- ates have not asked to he prayed for. But. they need prayer just as much. The best prayer that we chn offer for them is, that they all be constrained to see God's guidance for themselves in this crisis.

our God is a God of peace. not of war. we do not ask Him to come over to our side. But -we wish to be. and we believe that we are. on His side. our enemies are also His en- emies. Listcn to the sworn state- ment of W. Z. Foster, head cf the ggrnlmunist party in the United states: "When a communist. heads the Government of the 11.5.. and that day will come just as study as the sun rises, it will be a soviet government. and behind it will stand the Red Army to enforce the diet- atorship of the proletariat" Also to the words of V. I. Lenin - "Give us the child for eight years and it will be c Bolshevik for ever". And again by Foster -. "our teachers must write new text books and to- wrlto history from the Marxiln viewlpoint."

Let every praying father and mother ask the question - who in ton years from now will be direct- ingthcfute ofourchildrcoand grandchildren? Pray! Why not! Did prayer not save our smiles at the gates of Paris in 1017! who saved us at Dunkirk in 10401 The same God stands ready to troop us out of war entirely, if In give aim

of the glory In the lover's kiss that makes the old couple's story.

-John Masetleld.

"I Was Just Thinking"

' (Sandy Todd in Weekly Scots-

man) My ornithological friends may be interested in a further report

on my observations of bird be- haviour. The subjects of the study are two blue-tits and an unspeci- fied number of sparrows. It has been my practice for some time to hang a partly-shell- ed walnut outside a window to provide the blue-tits with the vitamlns they need in the whiter months. My generosity is not ral- together disinterested, for I must. confess that I get. a great deal of pleasure out of watching the an- tics of these acrobats of the bird world. The man on the flying tra- peze is an amateur compared with the blue-tit that cnn hang upside, down from 9. piece of string and drill the inside of a walnut. The point. of the story is that the local sparrows are intensely interested in these daily perfor- mances. They watch the show from ringside seats on a branch.of a tree. When the acrobat flies away, they try to emulate his dur- ing feats. Somehow, they never quite get the hang of it, and back they go to their perch, where they sit. asking each other: "How the dlckens does the bllghter do it?" or chirps to that effect.

I am continuing my observation. and 1 hope to be able to startle