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THE GUARDIAN

Authorized on Second Class Mall Poet Offiea Department. Ottawa. The Island Guardian Publishing Co.

CIRCULATION Total City Zone .. ..........................................a 3.10.: Retail Trading Zoil 3,451 All Others ;-. rout Net Paid ,, rum

Editor and Managing Director. J. II. Burnett

Aaaociata Editor. Frank Walker

"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink".

CHARLOTTETOWN, THURSDAY, JULY 19. 1951

Encouraging Figures

One of the objects of the annual lllCCt- iilgs of the Maritime Fire Chiefs who are in session this week in Summerside, is to discuss the latest techniques in tire fight- ing and prevention and exchange experi- ences with a view to improving the al- ready admirable service our volunteer fire brigades are giving in every Maritime com- munity. Summerside has the honour of entertaining them this year, but the cor- dial welcome extended by Mayor Wedge was expressive of the feelings of all our Is- land citizens.

It is encouraging to note change that the trend of fire losses in Canada this year is definitely downward. For the five months from January 1 to May 31, I951, losses resulting from fires across the Dominion totalled 523,817,030. which sum is also inclusive of S2,900,00(i to cover unreported losses. That total is considerably less than half the fire losses in the comparable period of 1950, when the figure was 358,579,315, or a major reduction of S34,762,285. Likewise for the month of May last a very substantial drop was registered, the figure having fallen to 553,002,00(l for all Canada, including an estimated 3500.000 for unrcportcd losses. compared with 385,473,600 for May, 1950.

Much of the credit for this improvement goes to our organized fire fighters, who are on the job not only when needed but are in the forefront in the educational campaigns which have been carried on to bring about a greater realization of the grave dangers of fire and the need fol

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fllllllllfll Vigilance in preventing outbreaks. '

Income Tax noligers Beware

If )'QLi'x'e worked out a way to avoic paying income tax, or have helped some- one else to do the same, think again, says The Gazette. The Department of National Revenue is launching its biggest drive in decades to locate and deal with tax-evarl- 915- Th0 Sl0l'.V here is that professional nleli-medical doctors, lawyers, dentists- are a special target. This despite the fact that Revenue Minister lvIcCann is himself R Sufgcon and physician. Dr. McCann has Dromised Cabinet 9. much more vigorous campaign against tax-dodgers than hereto- fore. And he gives this warning: "1 should like to take this opportunity to warn those Dersons who have guilty consciences to come forward while they can and straighten out their affairs. In this regard I should like to direct a particular warning to those who collaborate with tax-evaders in the carrying out of schemes of tax fraud. l'hcre are few instances in which an im- portant tax fraud can be committed by a taxpayer without the advice and assistance of somebody else." Word from file depart- ment is that prosecutions will be pushed more vigorously when cvasions are do- iccferl.

Why Prices Are lilgi

'l'hcrc is nothing mysterious or inex- plicable. says the finance committee of the Canadian Senate, in the forces of inflation now gripping this and other nations. All the ingredients of this process are known. can be identified and could lead only to the present result. The report, written by Senator T. A. Crerar, explains why and how Canada has been debasing Il.S dollar and destroying the savings of the people, aswell as the steps necessary to arrest this steady drive toward higher prices.

The last war, like all great wars, ro- sultcd in a huge expansion of the money supply as governments everywhere. unable or unwilling to finance out of revenues and the borrowing of real savings, created new money out'of thin air. At the same time the needs of war drained a large part of the supply of available goods out of civil- ian consumption. There being more money to bid in the market for lessgoods, prices were bound to rise. Though the rise was postponed and disguised by state controls, it was none the less inevitable. The Crerar report adds that since the war the financial policies followed by government were not always wisely directed to bring this lurking menace under effective control.

"If labor costs rise," says the report, "without an equivalent .increase in pro- duction per unit of labor, these increased eosts are almost always added to the cost

cost of living had increased 82 per cent in the last twelve years. The geneial index for wages stood at 225.5 for April, 1951, compared with 100 in 1939." in other words, wages on average had risen much more than prices but, lacking an equivalent increase in production per man-hour, were bound to drag prices up with them. As the Senate committee was writing its re- port another wage-price spiral was getting under way in many industries throughout the country.

The solution of the problem, the com- mittee concludes, can be found only in a combination of measures. Productivity- the output of the average mall-hour of

needed for defence and for their own pur- poses. The Canadian people must curb their demand for goods when defence re- quires a substantial fraction of them. Peo- ple also should save as much money as possible - that is, postpone their demand for goods until later on when more goods are available; but in fact the rate of sav- ings has been falling alarmingly. Finally governments, apart from the requirements of defence, should hold down their ex- penditures on current account and drastic- ally restrict their capital investments, since all this spending competes with the con- sumer. for goods.

EDITORIAL NOTES

A cure for high- blood pressure is to ”rest and be thankful." I tt C I It was game of that 51-year-old mother with her 12-year-old son to hitch-hike from Kelowna, B.C., to Halifax, to compete with the ”Herring Choker Special” and visit her relatives in Halifax. But it is thereturn journey that will take it out of them. Iv O O

The U. S. A. was among the first to break diplomatic relations with Franco Spain, and the last to resume them. Now she wishes to out-do Britain. France, the Netherlands, etc., in her haste to collabor- ate with that generalissimo governed re- public.

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The condition of the weather here may be gauged by the complaint of an amateul gardener that he had invested in a garden hose at the beginning of the season, and had not yet had an opportunity, or excuse. for using it-gsunshine and rain alternating making artificial watering unnecessary.

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The first women's rights convention was: held this date 1848 at Seneca Falls, N. Y. Leading figures were Mrs. Elizab-itli Cody Stanton, Martha C. Wright and Lucretia Mott. In England women's suffrage, as :1 public question, dates from 186:) when John Stuart Mill put it: in his election address.

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The estimated New England potato crop is down 20 per cent from last year accord- ing to United States Government figures. The acreage has been reduced by 22 per cent or by 45 per cent below the ten-year average for 1940-49. Despite the lack of support prices the prospect would seem to be reasonably favourable.

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With Japan soon to be admitted to the circle of friendly nations. memories of low- cost Japanese products are worrying the rest of the world. Before such bcncfifs as the "most favoured nation" clause are extended to that countiy's products - it would be prudent to observe her marketing policies.

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Deputy Postmaster-General Turnbull not noted for saying too much; indeed there is the story of an official who waited upon him to complain that a certain scheme would not work. Replied the Deputy: "You have taken half an hour to tell me it would not work. I'll give you five minutes to tell me how it could be worked." At Regina the other day at a conference of the Saskatchewan board of the Canadian Postmasters Association, Mr. Turnbull said that Toronto postal employees "think that if they make enough trouble they can club their way into the things they want. I have a stubborn streak and will not be clubbed," he said.' "Loud talking and over- ambitious people" had captured the as- sociation in Torbnto.

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Following the Judgcs in boost of sal- aries come the Deputy Ministws. Salaries. of 12 Federal Deputy Ministers have been increased to 013,500 from 512,000 a year. Among the Deputy Ministers receiving the increases are: Maj.-Gen. E. L. M. Burns. Veterans Affairs; J. C. Lessard, Transport.

Deputy Postmaster-General; David Sim, Customs and Excise; Dr. George Davidson, Welfare; Dr. G. D. W. Cameron, Health; More Boyer, Mines and Technical Sur- veys: Arthur MaeNiimara, Labor; Stewait Bates, Fisheries; and C91. I..gval Fgrtlef.

of goods or services, and thus in effect are inflationary. As at the end of May the

Immigration.

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work-must be increased, whicii means that Canadians must work harder and more efficiently to produce the goods

TH E GUARDIAN. CHA RL()T'IlETOWN

EVERYONE? so ergo T9 555 US -AHEM- I Do HOPE Tiiewag NOT MISTAKING US FOR THE HELP wire iTl-lE HAWNG.

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Crerar Scholarships

V? '.””-T ; (Winnipeg Free Press) :L;..l.,. l The provision of overseas schol- larships has been generally and rightly regarded as an excellent means of fostering international understanding and goodwill. A new and rather striking experiment. made possible by the will of the late Mr. James P, Crerar; ii native of Plctou. Nova Scotia. is now an- nounced. Its avowed purpose is (1 strengthen the already close ties

TO A Fkll.-1.Vli Wlicii we wcr.e,'-Idlers loitering rllls.

The need of human low. we lit.- tle noted:

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Our love was nature: and th.-- between Canada and Scotland. ilczice VIIIZII. floated Mr. Crerar. who belonged to n 0n filln wlultc and dwelt well known Nova scotiaii family, To swgeotn aIcCcor(li Sisubdur-d gu tr-ilnjlghecli hlls Cdm;-catttion it Caggg; t V - . V - - I", e scioo an 9 es co eize. o OM sE::I3l:f11;d o::r':”5: , d lln the vicinity of Edinburgh. prior l l1c'1rl :(:ICl'0t OM ml" ' M” I to entering the employment of the Tlmy wlisnlv doafmg dswd not ,Bank of Montreal. Somewhat later wmfh domed" t he obtained a C0llll'OIling iiitcre::t

in n Denlson. Texas street. car sys- tem and. after managing it. with But MW 1 - , some success. disposed of it prof- ,,.,,, ,,,f',',',dg; mm '10” ”""" ltably. The First World War found

lat man is more than half eflmm with Commlssiamd mrlk In nature's grcasurc ,thc 38th battalion. He served with

of ma. fa”. Beau”. much no me credit overseas, won the French ' Medaille d'Honneur and rctilrneri

And ours the urfknouii JO). which knowing kills.

can SCE. Of that sweet music which no to reside until recently in Ottawa. car can measure; ' Scotland has long been famous And now the streams may sing for her educational institutions and

for olhers' plcllsuac. The hills slccp on in their iiily.

Mr. Crcrar was apparently anxlou' to ensure that various young Can- adians of the present gcneratioli lshould enjoy in their time the ad- " Ul'l'll9.l' Cvlcridsl-jvantages which had been afforded . '”””m"”' him in earlier years. The Crerar Ilfl-GCIS Alcohol lscholai-ships. of the approximate value of 3900 annually. are the re- (winnipeg Free pressv lsult. Approved candidates are to sew”; conclusions are e5iab.'spend four years at Cargllfleld and ll.-lied in the report. by Mr. Wal- four at Fettes Collelzc. ter 0. Meme. of the Lincoln mu. This clearly opens masznlllcent lanai Life 1n5u,-mm, company. -,,..opportunltles for what. is offered is the effects of alcohol on haliltuollthe prospect of a first class edu- :.iid casual drinkers. The study cation at these Scottish institu- was conducted objectively with ..'l-. tlons. The selection grill be based Menge being interested solely in not purely on academic standing the use of alcohol IVS it. affects 1.1- but on general merit as is the case surancc risks. with the Rhodes scholarships. It As expected. the statistical sur- is to be expected that the' stand- vey revealed that the death rate unis set by the three trustees -

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is much worse among "spree Mr. John Stevenson and Col. A.F drinkers" than among "sor:i..lll Duguld, D.s.O. of Ottawa. Mr. drinkers." Even in the latter cas:. Robert Fleming of Toronto. all

the mortality rate is higher than norm.-il. But. it established the un- expected concluslon that "Liv: ielative mortality is highest at '71-: younger ages for all .types of hab- its cases, and decreases stcadty with advancing age. This is direct.- ly contrary to the usual practtw of accepting habits cases at 'ne ynun-zer ages on ii more liberal tests."

Mr. Menge's report showed tliai automobile accidents, among users of alcohol under 30 accounted for First, he said. there is the "toe."- lltilrly one-third of the dcatns agar who does not kliow how in among policy holders in this Ii:-',drlnk." Then he reacnes the stage group. For all ages combined, theiv.-hen "he thinks he can drink but report adds. deaths caused by al'can't." Third. he finally observe: types of accidents were twice tlieI"reasonable caution when no

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graduates of Fcttcs college, will be ,high and that the results will re- flect. deserved credit upon the en- terprise.

Mr. R. J. Campbell. asslstnnl. vice- presldcnt of the Continental As- surance Company. drew a distinct- ion betwecn the "social drinker” and the ”pai.hologlc drinker." He emphasized, particularly, the prob- lem of the very young drlnke.-.

normal and suiclfle and homicide drinks. with age comes the tend- WPY" RPDl'0X1malCl.V llmcs- ency to slow down physically and lI0l”mEI- it. use caution in action"

1" Commenting Upon this report, Generalizations about driiiklnz

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Welcome Back, Visiting Sons Ami iiaugiitorsi

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PIJJBSUASIVE ADVERTISING

From an announcement headed "Devonport Brewery and Distil- lery". inserted by James H. Down.

Devanport Lodge. in the Royal Gazette of Jan. 18, 831: "The Subscriber, ving availed

himself of the opportunity afford- ed by his late visit to the United States, of selecting and importing to this Island the remaining part of the necessary apparatus for carrying on the above Brew- cry and Distillery. in full and extensive operation, fondly antic- ipates, ihnt the superiority of his Still (which was construe ed by Mr. John Benson of the city of New York. who is considered to be one of the best Mechanic: in the line. in the United States) will prove an efficient benefit to the Island in general, and the Agriculturists in particular: that it will, in ii great measure. su- pcrcede the present pernicious practice of importing large quant- ities of deleterious Liquor, called Rum.

"To the lnsalubrity of that exotic composition may be fairly attributed Five-Eiglitlil of the causes and effects of our local complaints and imiiladies, whether mental. physical. or pecuniary: and the Subscriber trusts, that the mellifluous and entire Aqua- vitne which will be produced from his Brewery, and the dc- licious Nectar which will be con- tinually emanating and transpar- ently flowlng from his Still, will

prove complete antidotes to the above mentioned evils, speedy rcstoratives to the convalescent,

and preventatives to the incant- ious.

"In addition to their real value. they will be made from the agri- cultural productions of the Col- ony. whlcn must necessarily en- hance the value. and secure a ready market for grain. They will assist in retaining the small quantity of coin now in circula- tion on the Island. within her own power. and prevent it from falling into the hands of our rivals. In exchange for Wheat. Bnrlcy or Oats, he will give one- half of their price in Cash, and the remainder out of his well-ael- ected and general assortment of European, India and American Goods and Merchandlze."

have to be made with reserve. for there are great personal variai.ior..s that. must be taken into account before anything like ii '- report. can be presented. But this latest survey. prepared under the

impartial auspices of an insur- ance company, contains enough material to justify the assertior.

that the age of caution in the use of alcohol cannot. come too soon

on Tuesday. July' 24111.

E. P. Murphy, Public Works; Charles st'ein,. Undersecretary of State; Walter Turnbullf

(:2. more Grocery corner.

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NOTICE

Two double head Traffic Lights have been Installed at the intersection of Elm Avenue. Great George and Eusion Streets. Tiiese Iigiits will go into official operation

Vehicles approaching inis intersection will stop on the Red light and will proceed when line iiglii changes to the green. For general information as to these Ilgiin. vehicles coming into the City on Elm Avenue will be guid- ed by the light on the soutiieosr corner of Great George Street. Vehicles proceeding euslwurdiy on Euston Street I will be guided by this some light on the southeast corner

of Great George Street. Vehicles proceeding west on Euston Smut will be guided by the ligiii oi the Cudinore Grocery corner. Vehicles proceeding nortliwurdly on Great George Street will be guided by the Iigiii on file

J. A. FULLERTON. ' - cny cm.

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JULY 19, 1951

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Recent report: of how success- fully nylon fur is being used by members of the Air Force in Arc- tic service need' not presently alarm any owner: of royal pastel mink coats. Nor are ermine capes or oven sable scarts likely soon to lose cute. But. this new fur. made from nylon and other labor- atory developed fibers, promises a saving to the taxpayer, as it costs only a fifth as much as the real wolf and mouton skins, now in short supply. which have hereto- fore been used to line Arctic fllel-s' jackets and hoods.-(Washington Post).

The term "Royal Mail" is made obsolete only by the font Office department itself. Postmaster General Rinfret; has let his de- partment bury the phrase by the

, wording of Bill 322. It made "Roy-

al Mail" obsolete by the very ser- vice it now gives. It. would be a dis- grace as the word to call ' pos- tal service which Canadians are getting today "Royal Milli." The only thing that could possibly be called regal about today's mall is the Post Office department's nu- toci-etic disregard of the public. It In time to bring the service back toa condition where it will warrant the name "Royal Mail." and to put officials into the department who will make it Royal in fact. and in mime.- Peterborough Examiner.

Two diplomats vanished without a trace from the British Foreign Office. Now two American diplo- mats are euipended from the state Department. The investigation about them relates to "security" rather than to "loyalty" but it will seem to most people difficult to draw the line between them. If a maxi secrets and is careless of them, at what point; does the care- lessness denote a lack of loyalty? The news from Washington will start the witch-hunting of Senator Mccorthy all over agaiii. Bu: sober-minded observers will prob- ably come to the conclusion that the state Department is able to keep its house in order without his help. Neither of the two men now suspended were major targets of the Senator's attack. though one of them had been mentioned by him. The Mccei-thy charges in the main collapsed miserably when subjected to scruutlny.-(Montreal tar). I

Butterflies are among the most. interesting of the earth's insects: the name "'leplclopt.ern" means

lle- ahnll be well with him:

SCBIY-Winged. and refers to in. fact. that scales on the wings a,". flattened. Butterflies fly by ,1; while many moths prefer the uarknesu. Perhaps you have no. ticed that butterflies at rest liol. their wings erect, while moths foul theirs against their bodies. Ther- are some 700 species of butlerflie; in North Amerlcii and the 111. span of most is complete in abgui a fortnight. One of the spectiic. ular'lifc cycles of the insect worm is concerned with Monarch but. tarflles. They gather in 1&1-gl, flocks in the Fall and fly to in; southland; they return in jaif spring or early Summer. It is X, handsome butterfly in its coat of I blended, rich browns, glowing chestnut reds. deep yellows and soft creams. It is easily ldemm. able by the double row of cream, white dots around the wing mar. gins. The male has a small black patch on a vein on the upper 51.1,. of each rear wing. The IOUT-Cl't'ld life is interesting and one that can be easily watched through mg phases of egg, caterpillar or larva, pupa and adult. butterfly, The egg ,about the size of a pin head, ,1 Jlllld on the underside of a milk. 1 weed leaf; in five days it luau,-11,3, linto an ari-estliig black, white and poi-arige striped caterpillar approx. Jmately an inch long. For 15 clay, lthe caterpillar feeds on the milk. lwecd; then as 11. pupa it builds Hg lclirysalils or COCOOH-8. beautifiu, I-jade-green. silk covering with ,, gold-dotted rim. In 10 days ,. newborn butterfly emerges and the wings expand with amazing rapidity. If you want it thrilllniz,

oddly-stirring experience. watch A cocoon as the Monarch Ctlnjnc forth. Within an hour or two it will spread its wings and fly away In Summer sunshine the Monarchs are like dancing flowers. As onr thinks of the long migration and stutldles the magnificent: colorliiz he can understand why the ploii- eers gave the folklore name, Mon. arch, to this insect which uses the