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Authorised no second 0lIu Moll Poor Otfiu Doportmont. Ottnws Tho lolond Gnu-dlnn Publishing Co.

OIIUUIATION Total city zone -. 8.165 Iohll Trading Zono I.l-'o'- All Others -....... 823 Total Net PIIII ...... 13-9”

jldltor I.nd Managing Ulrootor, J. B. dnrnolt Auoolnto Editor, Front Wllkot. ',"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink"

UIILBLOTTETOWN TUESDAY. APRIL 8. 1851

our flaw Air Service

The people of the outlying sections of this Province have long had to endure a train service which would not be tolerated in any other part of Canada. This service 185 resulted in delaying mail deliveries as veil as freight and express, with the re- sult that mails are regularly twenty-four hours-and on Saturdays forty-eight hours -late in being delivered.

To remedy this situation for our West- ern Prince County subscribers, The Guar- dian has inaugurated an air service which will ensure prompt delivery of this news- paper on the morning of its publication, gthus placing all our readers between Mis- couche and Alberton and Tignlsh on a par with our city subscribers. If yesterday's inaugural deliveries prove a permanent success, it is hoped to extend the service to other sections requiring it.

In the meantime, we express our warm- est thanks to the Post Office and Trans- port Department authorities for their very satisfactory cooperation. Many commenda- tory remarks have already been received with regard to the service, which is not

"only a history-making one for this Prov- ince but we believe for all Canada, so far has the improvement effected is concerned.

Who Turns The Grlndstone?

When the provinces entered into "tax rental" agreements with Ottawa it was generally believed that the per caplta pay- ments from the Federal treasury would equalize the burden of providing provincial oublic services. The heavy tax revenues from the wealthy provinces of Central Canada would, it was believed, thus be tap- ped to help pay for schools, highways, pensions and other costly outlays in those provinces less able to afford them.

The trouble, of course, was that Ontario and Quebec declined to enter into tax rent- al agreements with Ottawa. For those provinces which did so, the inflationary policies of Federal finance have made the purchasing power of Federal subsidies much, less than what they were when the agree-

ments were made. Thus, while rimance Minister Abbott states that Fed al rev- enues have exceeded his estimates of

, twelve months ago by hundreds of millions of dollars, not a penny 0 this tax wind-

- fall is available to the Ir" vinces.

That is why provyrfcial governments are ready to resort tel the undesirable and of hidden or indirect to balance their budgets. ing upon any such untried ould be worth" the while of pro- thorities to estimate how much al revenue they might have receiv- d they not ”farmed out" some of , r most lucrative sources of revenue to Ottawa in return for annual subsidies which bear no relationship to the present 'value of the dollar and which -vary in amount only in terms of a gain in popula- "Lion.

Horizontal increases

In framing its recommendations for re- forms of the Canadian freight rate struc- ture, the Royal Commission on Transport- ation agrees with a basic contention bf the Maritime and Western Provinces that hori- zontal increases in rates "aggravate the disadvantage already suffered by long haul shippers and consignees." -

This was the subject of hot argument during the Ottawa hearings of the Com- mission. The railways showed not the slightest inclination to depart from the principle of a flat percentage increase across the board. On this subject, the C. N. R. submitted that "a horizontal in- crease is the only satisfactory method of dealing with general increase cases and of distributing the burden equitably." But

-the National system admitted such a flat increase could not be applied in practice to loll competitive rates (meaning largely in Ontario and Quebec). It also noted except- ions to the rule in the case of certain spec- ific commodities.

The only exceptions at present are

western grain and flour, governed by

Alstatutqondolsoooolandcoke.

'rheRoyIlCommission'Ii-eportreviews the history of-rate cues in Canada-moot of-whiehrooultedinchonguin on up- -wo!ddlroction--ondltooyohithiIcon- motion: ”llollowingWorld War II the

(of Transport Comrninionen) oeemo

from the revenue point of view and with- out considering the ability of different com- modities to bear the increases."

The report notes that the chief reason for the Board's failure to depart from "an almost rigid adherence to horizontal per- centage increases" was lack of information. "This isua situation which calls for reform."

While the Commission shows itself in full accord with the protesting Provinces in this regard, it does not follow them in all their proposals for reform. The rem- edy, says the Commission, "is in the hands of the railways themselves." They should make studies of their traffic and present the results, in the greatest detail, to the Transport Board when applying for rate increases in future. They should give special attention to long haul traffic and to rates on basic commodities. The report adds:

"But if the railways do not approach the task in this way, it ought to be the duty of the Board to see that they do so."

The question arises, who is to see that the Board does its duty in this regard?

EDITORIAL Notes

"The man in the street” is thinking seriously of his future rent increases which sooner or later may land him there. '0 o o In 1950, 1,556 employees of the income tax division were laid off as part of the Government's economy drive. 0 O 0 Elections and extensive road work have long been closely linked, and the present contest is no exception. to 0 Added to the cost of living is now the doubling of the one cent postage on third- ciass mail, and the increase in parcel post and registration rates. 0 O The potato starch subsidy is most time- ly and welcome to farmers worried about the effect of the surplus spuds, and not un- welcome nor untimely for Government can- didates. I

The Teachers' Federation annual con- vention was no doubt appreciated by mem- bers but probably no less so than by the pupils who returned to work yesterday after the usual Easter and convention hol- idays.

O A Government artist has prepared a preliminary model of a crane to adorn a large stone inside the entrance to the Fed- eral Parliament Buildings, Ottawa. A good guess is that it will be more generally ta- -kdn to be another of the species that is so honoured, the stork.

The anticipated sales tax would come as a boon and a blessing to the Provincial Government with its steadily increasing ex- penditure. Merchants and storekeepers on the other hand generally resent being cal- led upon to absorb such a tax, or to pass it on to their customers.

Washington Irving, American author, was born in New York this date 1783. He visited Europe for two years and on his return wrote the ”Salmagundi" papers in 1806 and three years later published ”Knickerbocker's History of New York," its quaint humour and feiicitious style at once rendering him famous on both sides of the Atlantic. He joined his brother's firm in 1810 but on its failure in 1818, Irv- ing turned to his pen for support. His "Bracebridge Hill" is a delightful study of

old English manners.

The natural gas product of Alberta is much more worthwhile than for heating and lighting. The Minister of Industry there told the lggislature that such by- products as propane, butane, hydrogen sul- phide-and wet gasoline would be removed before export, leaving only the residual natural gas to be shipped through any pipeline. This was his answer to opposition charges that these by-products, in event of Alberta exporting gas, would be used to establish petro-chemical industries outside of the province and prevent them from be- ing set up in Alberta.

Problem drinkers in the United States cause 4,350 fatal accidents yearly, are ob- sent about 29,000,000 working days and cost management S2,000,000,000, Dr. Ralph Henderson. of Yale School of Alcohol Studies, declared in addressing a meeting of the executive branch of the committee on alcoholism of the American Association of Industrial Physicians and Surgeons in Toronto. Dr. Henderson, in charge of the industrial section of the Yale studies, said that there one 2,060,000 problem drinkers regularly employed in the U. S. He said alcoholism causes more trouble to manage- ment than any other known disease, includ- ing heart diooooe, and that the industrial physlcianlomuch more aware of the

drinker-'o problems, and what to do about

PUBLIC FORUM

'.l:hi.I column to opon to Ibo -Ilsounlon by ooruopondonlo of question of lntonot. Tho Gnu-dion dooo not neonat- ' tly onooru tho opinion of oorroopondonb.

GOOD AGAINST EVIL

Sir,-I met a member of the A.A. group quite recently. Having known him from boyhood. I ask- ed him how the battle was go- ing. And although the wind was blowing cold on the street I stood for 10 minutes to hear of his religious experience, in de- feating his enemy. He told of his moderate drinking. until fin- ally, to be denied it was to act- ually cry for it like a baby. Told of his rescue by the group, of the prayer he repeats each morning "as soon as my feet strike the floor-God Almighty, keep me one more day from al- cohol", and other petitions. Told of what he has done in the sav- ing of others.

He admitted that he was simp- ly an instrument in God's hand. and that when calling at a home where the children were in rags. he would perhaps be met with a volley of abuse. But by appealing to his "Higher Power" and telling the victim. "You are coming with me in just one hour," why the overcoat went on and the surren- der was made.

It. reminds me of the passage- "As many as received Him to them He gave power". For the word power, substvute grace. or if, you wish, the word, dynamite. in the case of this Christian worker.

I understand that the A. A. membership in the Mnritlmes has grown to 5,000. And statistics show that in the United States there are 50 million drinkers. three million excessive drinkers nnd three-quarter of a million al- coholics. Quite a vast army. Walking in single file six feet npsrt, two miles per hour ,24 hours per day. the alcoholics would require 17 days to pass a given point. So this is the sit- uatlon. But in spite of this, we read the writings of n few, who with the pen. boost the habit of moderate drinking. I can not say whether this is done for money or not. At any rate it is assist- ing the "big interests" with their cunningiy contrived advertise- ments,

I am, Sir, etc. I. A. MacKENZIE. Kensington. P.E.1'.

BUILDING PROPER ROADS

Sir.-I l-ive on a. road that has two soft spots in it. Those bad spots have interfered with con- tinuous traffic for a greater part of the winter - and every win- ter. With proper material. equip- ment. and a road foreman who is a. road builder these spots could have been made passable in a matter of hours. As for the rest of the road, it could have been kept smooth and as fast as I race track all winter, if this were desirable. In summer. when road building is largely a routine matter and presents no technical difficulties. road sup- ervisors are buzzing around like butterflies in a cabbage patch, but in winter when roadmaking be- comes an exact science you wouldn't know that there was 3 road supervisor in the country. As in matter of fact they are not in the country. They are for the most part in the towns.

Building a. Trans-Canada High- way seems to have gone to our heads. A Trans-Canada Highway is I good investment for tourists. for business executives and for politicians who wish to ride the crest of the wave, but when it comes to getting produce to mar. ket or getting a doctor it doesn't answer the purpose,

The new model method of road building is to watch the ther- m0m9l43l'. and when the mercury rises or drops so many degrees to declare the road closed to heavy traffic. The exact number of days lost from work in per-suing this course should be carefully observed. and farmers should be fccompensed for losses sustained. There is lots of money with which to recompense farmers in the West.

Trying to farm with mechanical devices that don't suit this planet has put the farmers in the posi- tion where they have to guarantee John L. Lewis and his labourers S150 I month retiring allowance after 20 years service. Just how long farmers can survive is I problem for I chartered Ic- countant.

There is I tumor in circulation that there is I road building mote- riol that will stand the rigors of our climate. If there is let. us use it, and bring this road building tragedy to on end.

I I'm, Sir. otc.. VERNON Cl-'tOCK!.'I'l.'

MONTREAL. April 2-(CP)- Lady Steele, widow of Sir Som- uel Benfleld Steele. founder of the Northwest Mounted Police. died yesterday. aged 91. She was born at Voudroull, Que, and was the great-granddaughter of the last MI:-quio do Lotbinloro.

GRAND RAPIDS. Mlch.. April 2--(AP)-Sonoto Arthur H. VIn-

fortsblo week-end. his plfyulclm reported today but the serious- ness of his condition remained unchonged. I-fe hu been grovoly ill since I rolopu rob. 3.

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Q Old Charlottetown

5 (And P. E. I.) w "The Packet from Pletou on Saturday, instead of bringing the Halifax mall, brought back the bags she carried from hence on Wednesday. The mistake was discovered until the bag reached the Pcsl. office. It may be easily imagined that the disappointment was keenly felt; and in order to remedy the evil as far as possible. the Packet was immediately des- patched back to Pictou for the right bsg. Yesterday she again re- turned without it. as the Pictou Postmaster had served the good folks of Halifax precisely as he had done ourselves. by returning them their own bag.

"Now, if this had been the only occasion of the kind. it might have passed without remark: but, as precisely the same thing happen- ed last summer, and 35 one Of the Halifax papers recently intimated that for two weeks successively the Prince Edward Island papers had not arrivpd. although the Postmaster at Charlottetown is ready to make an affadavlt that they were regularly forwarded to

THE WRONG BAG

call upon the Deputy Postmaster General to lcok into the matter." -Prince Edward Island Regis- tcr, Aug. 11. 1329. - '

Journey To The North

(Ottawa Joumel)

Northbound Canada geese have appeared in Alberta, honking on their way to re-assure us that Spring is on the way. 'Ilhus ap- pears again the annual miracle of courage and endurance. Despite the sanctuaries so greatly pub- licized, and the game laws the Provinces attempt to enforce, the truth is that the dangerous life of the migrating goose ever be- comes more hazardous; even the airplane has been turned sgainst them and the barren-land lakes where once they could rest in safety have come within range of hunters who can skip a thousand miles in a few hours.

The geese in truth are a miracle of survival. and, besides, a mir- acle in detenmnation.

Aggressive hunters. armed wil.h repeating rifles, were able to de- fllect the normal movements of the Prairie buffalo before the last. free animals were dropped in mass slnughtcrs. The great stupid beasts at last came to the con- clusion IJIIC paiihs their ancestors had followed no longer were safe and they took different courses. The geese are smarter but they have not changed their migration routes to any important degree. Naturally. they no longer rest on lakes surrounded by buildings or relax their vigilance no matter how distant their nesting places. But the flying arrow-heads point- ed Noni.-h and the elfin cries from the distant skies were sights and sounds familiar to those who lived in Canada before the white man come.

We see and hear the great birds pass and dull is the heart that does not feel the tug of emo- iion. I passing satisfaction in the thought of freedom. of swift. flying Idventuro in far lands, in the some of the continuity. strength and beauty of nature. There may be. also. the thought that monklnd has done little enough to ensure the preserva- tion of sights Ind sounds he loves

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Pictou, we think it is our duty to'

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- FARE IVELI4

When I lie where shades of dark- 1195!

shall no more sssall mine eyes, Nor the ruin make lameniation when the wind sighs;

How will fare the world whose

wonder

Was the very proof of me? Memory fades, must the remem- ; bered

Perlshing be?

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Oh. when this my dust surrenders tliand, foot, lip. to dust aguin. .Mny these loved and loving faces :Piessc- other men!

'May the rusting harvest hedgerow ,Still the Traveller's Joy entwine, ,And as happy children gather :Posles once mine.

Look thy last on all things lovely. Every hour. Let no night

Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight

Thou hast paid thy utmost bless-

r Ins: Since that all things thou wouldst praise 'Beauty took from those who loved them In other days.

-Walter de in Mars.

The Canso Strait

(Sydney Post-Record)

Beats all how many people would have men labor to create waterways where none are avail- able but would go to great expense .t.o abolish a natural waterway. Cases in point. are the proposed Chignecto Canal and the foolish idea of filling instead of bridging the Strait of Canso.

The creative forces that formed North America, tied Nova Bcotla proper to the mainland by an -isthmus between the Bay of Fun- dy and Northumbei-land strait. that is to say between Fundy's up- per reach, Chignecto Bay and Bale .Verte of the Strait. Ever since the coming of the white man this land-bridge or natural causeway has been deplored as a barrier to water transport between Fundy Inc! the St. Lawrence.

Al. the other end of this pro- vince where the land narrows and the Strait of Canso makes an island of Cape Breton, there are those who never cease lamenting that the division is water instead of an isthmus. People with so perverse an aversion to living on an island might feel more home in the middle of Saskatch- ewan where the land seems illim- itable and the farmers pray for rain.

True. Csnso is a wrltcrwoy that can and will be bridged without interfering with navlgstionlhrough the strait, but those who never are satisfied with leaving geography as they find her. would throw a causeway barricade across the strait. They would flatten the hills in their forested beauty Ind dump them into the sea.

If Como had been In isthmus instead of I strait it is certoin there would have been I hulls- bsloo to get I canal dug there so that ships wouldn't have to sail all the way around Cope Breton and through Cabot Strait in order to reach the st. Lowrance.

At one time it even woo proposed

T right well. The geese hove saved themselves Ind we wish them godspeed on their needy journeys.

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I Notes By

It Ill dopoads on tho port of Cnnodo you cum from whether the wheat den! poyoff woo I told on the Fedenl treuury or I mess- ly insult to the farmers. The whole sorry moss is In unhappy oomplo of what con hoppen when govern- ments decide to go into trading Ind all e toxpoyers Ire tho vic- tims of it.-(Bt. John's News.)

At I tune when Csnodn II upend- ing and planning to spend extru- ordlnory amounts for defence, the come project has more thnn or- dinary importance. such I. trons- portatlon link between the main- land and Cape Brotcn's industrial and military centers has n. vital place in the Canadian defence scheme. steel and coal are priority materials in any defence program; and the importance of Sydney Harbor as I naval base and in con- voy assembly port was clearly dem- onstrated during World War II.- (Halifax Chronicle-Herald.)

It will come Is I pleuont sur- prise to citizens that Monitobars flood cost. will be considerably low- er than was estimated at the spec- ial legislative session last fall At that time it was estimated that the total flood expenditures, apart from diking. would be 323 millions, 9. large part. of which would be recoverable from the Federal Gov- ernment. Revisecl estimates in February, however. have reduced

to throw I blockade across Little Bras d'Or, with its bright and cheerful current of sea. water. Il- though nothing would be simpler than to bridge it adequately. The rights of the fishermen. however. headed off that nonsense. There is a. virtue in the unfettered flow of the tide.

The Strait of Canso is an im- portant shortcut for water com- merce between the St Lawrence ports and the West Indies. It is I channel of ocean trade. a na- tional waterway of the Dominion of Canada. Yet advocates of 9. causeway argue that its construc- tion would provide a harbor there. What for?

Cape Ereton's really necessary harbors are where the Creator placed them, It the Sydney.:.I.ouis- burg, etc.. except where they are needed and not at the upper end of this island where they are not needed. A bridge will be built across Canso without interfering with navigation, spanning securely the unhindered progres of the

'APRIL' 3. 1951'

The Way it

tho estimate to 819.7 million. To cover what it bu expended so fol (3152 luiuions). the Province bu received 012.6 millions from an Fedornl Government. In regard 1; the us millions flood oxpenditurl still required. Mr. Oompboll in con- fident thot further help will be forthcoming from Ottown in lip! with assurances given by the son- ior Government last you-.--(Win nipeg Free Press.)

The incroooo In Prince ldword Island Grade A hogs from at to 52 per cent in the post to years while the Csnodlsn Ivoroge hll remained It 37 per cent. is one of the most outstanding Ichievementl in Canadian livestock history. Is- land hogs qualifying for Advanced Registry or now beginning to number nesly as many as th- totsl for all the rest of Csnodx combined. - (Amherst News)

when I delegation lourneyoa

from the st. John River Countie to Ottawa. to seek Federal Ild fo: the financially distressed potalr industry of New Brunswick, it: members lunched in the restouront in the Parliament Building. Fest- ured on the menu were new pots- toeswhich had entered Csnndo. duty free from the United states. New potatoes always move north in March. where they on welcom- ed by the more affluent consumers even though they may be inferior- in quality to old potatoes that are in storage. While they are bought by people who would otherwise buy Canadian potatoes. the turnover is not great enough, to hurt our farmers much. This is true, too. of the Canadian potatoes exported to the United states.-(Saint John Telegraph-Journal.)

Copltol goln is made when I I sells for 81.50 I share of s I which he bought for a dollar. it is made when a man sells I house, bought in 1939 for 53,500, for, 81,- 000. (Thst is a. hundred percent capital gain and, big as it is. quit! common among people of low or well as medium incomes.) Capital gain is made when I houscwifi sells I dining room set. bought lot can during the depression It I! auction sale, for s40 in this year of inflated value. Capitol gain I! made when I prospector dlscoven oil and gets paid for it '- ndsomo ly. It is made when I person buy: a. bond for 3100 and sells it on I rising market for 8105.-(Peter

tide.

borough Exominer.)

PROFESSIONAL CARDS

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Barristers. Solicitors. etc. R. R. BELL. K.C. D. L, MATHIESON, Ll...B.. K.C.

G. R. FOSTER. LLB.

Loam on City and Form

Properties.

150 Richmond Street Charlottetown. P. E. I.

FREDERIC A. LARGE. KI CC

Barrister. Solicitor. Notary Royal Bank of Canada Building Charlottetown. P E. I. LOANS ON CITY AND FARM PROPERTIES

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A.W. MATIIEBON. L0. A.li. PEAIIE. l.A., LI. 3. Borrlstoto. Ito. collootiono - Money to boon Io Grout George Street chuiottetown

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Dr. W. R. Carson

S A. Wolfhon candor. LL.B.

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