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THE GUA_RDlAN

Biaralng Daily (Founded la ll") Authorised in ties-unis Clan Mail. l-‘nas Department, Ottawa. The Inland llunrdlll Publishing Co. Idiom and Managing lliromiar. ii B. Burnout Annotate Edilnr, Frill Waller.

"TheStrongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakesf ink."

CHARLOTTETOHFN, Diesel Engines lirdered

lit is pleasing to note that at long last an order has been placed by the Canadian National lRailways with the Canadian General Electric Company for eighteen 72-ton Diesel-electric locomotives for general service in this Province. The company is a branch of a larger firm in the Un-ited States, which constructs the engines.

On the eve of a Dominion election, this an- nouncement was to be expected! It is not stated how long it will take to fill the order, and it is no credit to the Railway or the Dominion Gov- ernment that there should be any further delay at all. We all remember what happened to the other Diesels manufactured for this Province by a Canadian firm. They were no good, and had to be returned to the plant. We were misinformed in stating previously that this cost the taxpayers upwards of a million and a half daliars—the money was not paid. But so far as this Province is concerned it was a badly bungled affair. In- stead of having our service fully Dieselized as was promised two years ago, we are back at where we started. Why the new order was not placed immediately after the Canadian-built locomotives were found to be unsatisfactory, is the Sixty-Four Dollar question.

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FRIDAY, MAY 13, i949

Legislative Petition ignored

ft is to be hoped, as requested by our fish- ermen, that the Federal Government will recon- sider its refusal to purchase a portion of this year's East Coast fish pack, and thus relieve a situation which threatens to become very ser- rous.

This ls not a political issue, as was shown in our Legislature last session when a unanimous resolution was passed, urging the Fisheries Prices Support Board "to immediately put into action a plan of purchasing canned fish of the types purchased in I948, in order to give relief to fish- ermen and their families." The resolution con- tained eight "whereas's" and was moved by Mr. George E. Saville and supported by Messrs. Dougald‘ MacKinnon, R. R. Bell, F. C. Jiamsay, Hon. Dr. MacMilIan, Hon. H. H. Cox, R. L. Burge and C. W. Delaney. Mr. Saville pointed out thrd there was a good market in the United States for canned mackerel and expressed hope that there would not only be favorable action on the part of the Prices Support Board, but that the Federal Government would advertise the product on a wide scale, as they did canned lobsters some

years ago. , This resolution was passed last March and forwarded immediately to Ottawa in

the hope and expectation that it would be fa-

vorably considered. But, as the teachers said of

their salary petition to the Jones Government, it r "didn't even get to first base!"

lild Age Pensions

Many thousands of old-age or blind pen- sioners are doomed to disappointment when they receive their next pension cheques, says the Globe and Mail. As they were entitled to, they probably‘ took at face value the Federal Gov- ornmenVs announcement that their basic pen- sion was being increased by $10 a month. But the fact is that in many cases this will not apply.

The Federal Government, hastening to dis- miss Parliament, brought up in the closing days an amendment to the Old Age Pensions Act. lt provided that Ottawa would hereafter pay 75 ‘per cent of $40 a month in place of the previous $30, the Provinces to pay the remainder. That appeared to be good news for about 275,000 pen- sioners across Canada.

flat now it develops that many will not re- ceive this amount in lull. The reason is that their total allowable income from all sources has not been increased, lt still remains at $600 a year for single people, $l_,080 for the married, $l,200 for a pensioner whose married partner is blind and $1,320 if both husband and wife are blind.

When the pension stood at a maximum of $30 a month, or $360 a year, a single person, for example, could earn or receive an outside income of $240 a year without suffering any loss of pension. lt was reduced by as much as his outside income exceeded that figure. Now, with a $40 a month maximum pension, or $480 a year, his outside allowable income is‘ cut to $120 a year.

Among Canada's old people are thousands who, despite age or infirmity, have found ways and means to supplement their pensions. They now learn from the Government that no credit is to be given to them for this effort on their own behalf. On the contrary, the Government in effect penalized them for their industry. lt has lifted them up with one hand and pushed them down with the other. "They can get their $10 a month increase only by reducing their outside in- comes. ln any case, they are no better off than before in-their struggle to live at today's high prices. '

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Fundamental Problem

In the opinion of Mr. R. A. McEachorn, odi- tor of the Financial Post, speaking recently in Newfoundland, the fundamental problem fac- ing Canadians for the next decade or two is whether Canada will be able to maintain her present position of independence - a half-way house between Britain and America - or whether wo shall be pulled by tho realities of human nature and politifl much closer to the U. S., and perhaps into actual union.

' Canada d nris almost entirely on hor ex- port.trad'o,'a Mgrifoln fivrayshboos o big mi IT ICU l‘ a '5 lflniarlreffor game's lawn; " grnvadqgor ~ "rn s o »a serious and conti shrink-

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age in our sales to Britain. ln addition, war shortages are ending everywhere, and the proba- bility is that one of these years the U. S. will weary of well-doing and will end its aid to Eur- opean countries.

lf and when we reach that situation, Mr. McEochern predicts, Canada will be in a bad spot. We shall be laced with a serious decline in our prosperity and, in our standard of liv- ing. lf-thot happens, it is certain that the cry for union with the U. S. will go up.

"That," Mr. McEachern added, "is some- thing we don't want. But it is going to be a supreme test of our national intelligence and of the statesmonship of our leaders to maintain conditions favorable to prosperity, and to create the ltrua national unity indispensable to our sur- viva ."

The Financial Post editor may be unduly pessimistic regarding the British market. As in- dicated recently by Mr. Noel-Baker, the Seq-e. tary of State for Commonwealth Relations, Brit- ain in spite of present difficulties is still main- taining a high level of purchases from Canada. l-mports for the twelve months ending June this year will total nearly $700 millions. They con- sist of wheat, bacon, timber, eggs and raw ma- terials of many kinds. It was explained to Can- ada's Trade and Commerce Minister, Mr. Howe, that Britain's desire to purchase more Canadian goods was limited only by the difficulty of pay- ment, and that that difficulty could most quick- ly be relieved by an increase in the purchase of British goods by dollar countries. The president of Britain's Board of Trade has left for Canada to further the export drive to this country and Mr. Howe has given assurance that the Canadian Government will give every support.

.1, EDITORIAL NU] ES L

_ Friday the thirteenth, when men find ra- tional excuses for doing it some other time.

The Berlin blockadd is. now history but the contest with Soviet Russia it is merely a change of fronts.

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The Federal Government has now the fish- ermenvas well as the farmers to reckon with in providing outlets for produce.

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The lron Curtain was supplemented last week-by the radio curtain when Britain and the United States pooled 6l short-wave transmitters io carry their news broadcasts to the Soviet Un- ion against an estimated 100 Russian jamming ‘STUHOHS. '

Cooking over a hot stove ls going to be as obsolete as carrying pails of water when the el- ectronic oven comes on the market. The United States Navy is experimenting with such a high frequency gadget. lt reduces cooking time from hours to minutes without itself becoming even warm.

The Canadian Cancer Society and its presi- dent, Dr. W. J. P. MacMillan, O. B. E. can look back on a year of great advances in the strug- gle against that disease. Much has been learned by science but its general application is a cost- ly undertaking Iii which every man and wgmqn should contribute.

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The Winnipeg Free Press reminds us that the foreign policy of any~democracy can be strong and successful only if it is non-porn. san. lt is necessary in foreign affairs that a consistent policy be followed whqtever party or policies may be currently in favour on the home

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v A big, untapped market in the men's cloth- mg trades eXlSfS, according to a report releas- ed by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the S. Department of Agriculture. Only four men ill ten own a Summer-weight suit, 47 per cent do not own pajamas, and 35 per cent have never worn sports suits. The one category in which all men are provided is underwear. The report states that the industry has a long way l° 9° 7° WI" "W" Over f0 the use of rayon fa-

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Alfred, Viscount Milner, English statesman and administrator, died this date i925. Began his diplomatic career as under-secretary for finance in Egypt; then became chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, followed by the gov- ernarship of the Cape of Good Hope l897-l90l. This began a long period of service in South Africa which carried him through the Boer War. He retired in i905, but re-entered politics as a member of the War Cabinet in i916 with the portfolio of Secretary of State for the colonies. He did outstanding work in the reorganization of Britain's relation with Egypt, the fruit of which was reaped in connection with Great Wy- l'l, and the recent situation in Palestine.

I I _ Juvenile delinquency is a symptom of an immature society, Dr. Douglas .l. Wilson told menvbers of the Lions Club of Montreal at luncheon in the Mount Royal Hotel. Dr. Wil- son said that the maior responsibility for de- linquent children rested with parents and teach- ers. ‘While most teachers are underpaid l know of cases where they are greatly overpaid," he said. "A teacher's main iob is not to teach mathematics and reading and spelling but to realize that he is instrumental in moulding char- acter and personality. That is the primary func- tion."

The prospect of the imminent lifting of the Berlin blockade and the possibility of a reason- able settlement of the problem of the establish- ment of a government for Germany, are giving rise to conjecture as to subsequent develop- ments in the field of relations between Russia and her satellite states on the one hand, and tho Western powers on the other. Most infom- od observers appear to believe that the resolu- tion ol tho difficulties in Germany will open the way to the lifting of at least some of the trade barriers now existing between East and West, and hence, eventually to tho betterment of mu- tual understanding nnd the brightening of chan-

cu for lasting peace.

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OLD FIBHBBMAN

Daily he homes here to the shrunk- en pool,

Made secret by its wind-guard of old pine,

To amoke his pipe and lolwo- by the oool .

Sweet water. like Time's druant. with his line.

Even a child would know no fish are left.

For streams like men may fall on

clays,

Yer he still lingers where his Joy ram swift.

As n. trout. leaping . . . dusty rays

Of afternoon lla golden on the

Now the

land

And the tall dusts creeps nearer from the wood.

Apd there he sf/COPS, the old rod in his hand ‘

For one last Lry before he goes for

good.

‘me line floats out-though not. to water f

But m- upon the days when he was young.

__'1‘_ Morris Longstreth.

i‘ Old Charlottetown

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LOUISBUBG BBLIO

An unusual ceremony and one of much historical interest took place irflfronr of the Provincial Building on November 9, 1901, when the unveiling of a cannon from a French frigate sunk-in the de- fense of bouisburg in 1758 and re- covered in 1900, brought together a great. assemblage of interested citizens. The gun, much eroded by its long immersion in the ocean. is still to be seen on its carriage in Queen Square gardens. It was placed there, with an appropriate inscription, by the Natural History and Antiquarian Society of Prince Edward ‘Island.

Mr. John Newson, the president of the Society, presided at. the ceremony, the unveiling being per- formed by Hls Honour Peter A. lVlacIntyri-e, Lieutenant Governor. Many excellent addresses were de- livered by prominent citizens. among them being Prof. Arsenauit

of Prince of Wales College. His Worship lVfayor Warburton, Dr. Alexander Anderson. principal of

Prince of Wales College. and Rev. P. C. Gauthier. D.D., Vice-Rector of St. Damian's College and :1 descendant of the early Acadlan settlers.

Memo For Candidates

lvLElMO FOR- OANDIDATBJS .

(CBC News Letter)

Wilrh the dissolution of Pallam- ent. and the calling of n federal election, all the political fronts have blazed into activity. The party leaders are starting the Lre- zlltional series of campaign tours. And the air is filled Willi 13181855 and counter charges olancd at. de-- vcloplng "an election issue." In many constituencies candidates have already been chosen.

From here in we shall be de- luged with plabform oratory. good. bad and indifferent. We are now condemned to gaze upon portraits of candidates (who have been va- riously advised to look sincere. to look resolute. to appear friendly, to resemble the common man. et-c.. etc.) in street. cars, on posters and billboards. in newspapers and else- where. we shall be able to hear them on our radios at almost all hours of t-he any or night. In short. we, the electorate, will be the sought after and Lhe pursued until we shall have performed our nil-important duty on election clay. And now. while there ls yo! time. would seem lo be the propitious moment to advise our candidates what. we would like them to say and haw we would like them to act.

Here are some of the things that most Canadians would like you. Mr. Political Candidate, lo keep ln mind:

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l. Don't. consider us all ccmplele fools. we are thinking now_of political promises. fif you stand for increased sor‘sl services-increased old age pensions. increased family allowances. increased subsidies. guaranteed prices, and the rest.- by rill means say so. But please do not insult our intelligence by indicating that you will provide all these ihlngs and lower taxes foo.

2. Don! drive wedges between various sections of our economy. If you are talking io labour. don't run down the farmer. the invest- or and the businessman. Do You!‘ best lo make each group aware um; Qnll] through partnership can we develop ns we should.

a. Don't above all make political capital out of sectional, racial or religious differences.

4. Do point out. that you will sch to the but of your rblury in the interests of Canada and Coa- ndlans er a whole.

5. Do promise to do your best in see that government ls run on sound bvslnesrs lines. with a min- imum of wssie.

n. Do promise ia use Win influ- ence to see that t-he funot-lon of government ls restricted to that of governing. .

There are a lol d dot-ails that could be filled in. but o candidate who campaigned on a platforni such as that outlined abovo might be surprised to and horrr mueb support would be forthcoming.

If honest men can be persuaded to run in seals Canadian constit- usnay,

than other i. lap equal, the voters can liquid: upon to sleet them.

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Aa the birthplace of the I dus- trlrsl revolution and the fre en-

terprise system, Britain changed the

economic face of the world. The Labor party, now in office. plans a vast new nationalization program. The results of Britain's trend to- ward socialism are incnlculablv. and may well influence world his- tory as profoundly as did the de- velopment. of capitalism ln the Uni- ted Kingdom. — Ottawa Citizen.

Tho newspapers oi’ Canada may not be perfect, but they appreciate that if freedom of the press-wane of the fundamentals of our British libertles—is to be maintained they have a great responsibility to their reading public in the accurate, un- biased presentation of nevus. Mr. Caldwell‘: attack is either hosed on iris lack of knowledge of the situa- flcn, or is a deliberate attempt to misrepresent the papers of Cairndn because editorially they do not agree with the views of his party and himself. -— London Free Press.

A St. Catharine; b alnessrnan.

- who likes to take a jaunt over the

river an his Wednesday afternoon off, not to smuggle bui. just for the change, tells of a couple of inal- dents he witnessed on the way home. One chap was bulging al. the seams, his coat buttoned up. The customs inspector unbuitonerl him and out fell dhree or four car- tons of cigarettes. \Vhat it cost him to have the presumption to think that customs inspectors were actually blind deponent knowelh not. Another incident did not have quite such a sad denouemeni. A Si. Catharlnes negro lrad two bol- ties of liquor on the bus seal. He was told to get off for inspection by customs. Ha got off, left the whisky on the soot, came back and resumed his seal: the bullies were right. where he loft them. ~- Si. Catharlnes Standard,

Among the 10 Japanese-Cans- dlans who have been granted lic- ences for commercial fishing an ilrc Pacific Coast, following [he 8-year ban which WfiS llficd April i. is ‘Ihisuro "Buck" Suzuki. 33-year-old former sergeant-major in tho Cann- dlan Active Army. Suzuki served with distinction in the Canadian Army, with tho Malaya Command. His parents are naturalized Cann- dlans and his wife was horn In Canada. At the beginning of the Pacific war they were all summar- ily shifted la Ontario. Whiin hr- was at war, Sgt. Suzuki's Fraser. Valley farm was sold by tho cus- todian of enemy properties. rm 0f- ficlai who seems lo have br-cn at‘- countahie to rrn one, for $1.963, upon which legal fees were charged. There was a $3.000 insurance pol- icy covering tire house, and Suzuki snys he can prnve it was \v0rllr $4,000. Now Suzuki is living with

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his wfe and children on rs tiny boat on the Fraser river. —- Van- couver News-Herald. , In New York there la a "Home for Homeless Boys". One of the activities of-fhls institution is to collect plants and bulbs that peo- ple are discarding, take them to the garden belonging to the insti- tution end in due course to lend bouquets from the garden to shut- s. A notice in a New York news- paper informs those who are about to throw avray plants and bulbs that if. instead, they will call a give-n number, a messenger will be sent to lake the unwanted things away. It is said that, at this sen- son of the year soon after Easter. literally thousands of plants and bulbs are just. thrown out: and when we come to think of it that is probably no exaggeration. ii may not be a serious form of waste. unless all waste is regarded as seri- ous an principle: but it. does sug- gest that it may well be that! here is something worth salvaging and recovering for the pleasure of those

who appreciate the jay flowers bring. -— Spin: John Telegraph- Journal.

Bomb! have begun raining into kitchens. sickrooms, greenhouses and other peacenble places. Mil- lions more are coming. These will destroy insects, germs and offen- slve odors-and do quite a number of other chores. They are "aerosol bambs"—small steel or aluminum cans that. at the touch of n button emit under pressure ultra-fine sprays of insecticides, deodorant: or what do you need, Developed dur. in; lire war to ward off malaria- carrylrig mosquito; in the tropics, aerosols already have gone far lo displace old-style spray guns. Manu- facturers estimate seven million were sold last year-a figure they hope to treble in 19-19. A score or more makers in the field are bus- lly devising a myriad of new can» ucd sprays designed to kill moths and cold germs, polish furniture, shampoo rugs and oven paint the porch chairs. Drawbacks to tire "bombs" first marketed were that they were bombs indeed-in weight. shape and cast. They had to be made of heavy metal to contain the hlRlr pressures under which the con- fonts were ihen kcpt~and hence cost $3 or $4 apiece at retail. with refills $2 each. But now producers have developed levy-pressure sprays which can he hold in light cans soiling for hrrlf as much. —~ Wall Siroai Journal.