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THE GUARDIAN

Authorized as Second Clan Mull Post Office Depu-lmcni. Ottawa. The Island Gulrdinn Publishing Co.

President and Anocinio Editor. in: A. Burnett.

, Associate Editor. Funk Wllker.

CIRCULATION "Cover: Prlnco Edward Island like the dew”

to U. S. producers.

Measuring the gap which has 'to be breached, Mr. Siichter finds that it is the difference between U. S. exports running at

2519 billions yearly and U. S. imports (dlill

billions) plus' U. S. investments abroad (about 581.5 billions a year). Jssuming

rnr. , GUARDIAE, 7HARl..OT'iflj2T()-M1151. Follow Your Nose

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that aid is to be replaced by trade, it fol-. ' '

lows that the U. S. -must accept an ad-l

"Tho strongest memory is weaker than the weakest ink".

CHAIILOTTETOWN. SATURDAY, JAN. 31, I953

':smEt?sfAid uiiads” '

When Transport Minister Chevrier was in Charlottetown he saw the need of a longer runway for the airport and indicat- ed that the Government would favour the proposal provided its feasibility was con- firmed by a survey. Engineers made a survey and reported favourably on the project. It was with some surprise, there- fore, and considerable disappointment that Islanders discovered that no provision had been made in the main estimates for making a start.

It may well be and it is certainly to be hoped that the omission was because the final decision came too late for the amount to be included. If that is the case a re- minder would be in order to assure the matter not being overlooked in the prepar- ation of supplementary estimates. If no formal decision has been reached there is all the more reason to impress the poli- ticians with the importance which better air communications have for this Province.

There is a profound contrast in the way in which the town of Montague received the news that the appropriation for its Federal building is only S75,000 with the passive way in which Charlottetown took the news that for the Federal building in

the Provincial capital there was only the nominal revote of lli50,000. In Montague l i there was an immediate citizens' meeting to

u . employment. b j much of this programme will find favour with a traditionally high tariff Administra- tion. outcome, as are all the free nations, for it is undoubtedly one which concerns world peace and stability as well as American in- terests.

protest the inadequacy of the provision. In Charlottetown there was nothing.

It is time that Charlottetown citizens learned to work together for Federal pro- jects. Charlottetown needs and is entitled to such things as a Naval barracks, arm- nuries. airfield and administration building but will never get them so long as there is division in making representations to Ot- tawa.

:00 Much speed

"I was unable to stop in time." How many times, notes an exchange, do police hear this when investigating Winter ac"-v cidents? About 85 per ccnt of the time, it is estimated. Both provincial and city police stress the fact that drivers do not take into consideration the state of the roads. What can be considered a safe speed on clcar pavement, or what can be consid- ered a safe speed on certain types of snow- covered roads, is decidedly dangerous under other Winter conditions.

The great majority of accidents in the Winter are not due to faulty signalling, wrong turns, speeding (in the usual sense of the word), or any of the other'many and varied reasons for accidents. They are caused simply because of the fact that the cars arc going just a little too fast for safety on. icy roads.

7.5. mm Proud? .

Writing in the current number of the Atlantic Monthly. Mr. Sumner H. Siichter, a noted Harvard economist, asserts that the Democrats, despite a S35 billion invest- ment in U. S. foreign aid, failed to erect an adequate cconomic foundation for the national policy of unifying the free nations in a common defence against Communism. I He poses the question: Lari the Republicans. ff with their traditional protectionist proclivi- j- ties, succeed where their political rivals have failed? If the new Administration falls to measure up, other nations will cer- iainly resort to the policy of cutting still further their purchases from dollar areas. But this will hurt them industrially, dis- rupt the defence effort, open fresh oppor- tunities to the Russians to lure away U. S. 'ailies with offers of East-West trade.

Mr. Siichter finds that the U. S.- still maintains more" than 3500 duties, hundreds in excess of 25 per cent ad valorem, hun- dreds more between 15 and 20 per cent.

-Even the powerful automobile -industry has the benefit of a 10 per cent tariff against

Weak competitors. The effective protection accorded its powerful Canadian offshoot is eyen more impressive. Then there is the nlatter of -uncertain, cumbersome customs In the absence of corrective .l,&I,lItio,n-the Senate failed to not last v House had-passed a bill- trode is frequently "strangled . . . ftlpe". to employ a recent descrip- cw York Times. A third

"uccpc clause” in the providing for the I-tdinuiniou .12; the Tariff. throat .of serious injury

quate. step by step. European borrowing powerj would increase; industrial needs be met. No longer would Western Europe be attracted

book. The U. S. would also reap rich gains. Wholesome competition would increase pro- ductive efficiency. With aid no necessary, taxes could be reduced with con- sumption standards rising accordingly. By maintaining a high level of exports, the U. S. would end a grave threat of future un-

morrow for New York. They may or may

bassadorslof goodwill O

cussion in the House of Commons seems to be concerned with assuring that increases

'-early age, he tried teaching but disliked it

ditional 554.5 billions of imports annuallyf But this is only about two per cent of net U. S. annual output. There must be, he, -argues, at least two or three per cent of that output which is produced at costs ex- ceeding those of foreign producers. Recom- mending practical steps, he urges that Con- gress should first, by resolution. proclaim that it is the national policy to buy as much as the U. S. sells, less the amounts invest- ed or extended as foreign .aid. The escape clause should then be modified to ensure. that "serious injury" will not be found; where the absolute sales volume of U. S." firms has not declined, where U. S. pro- ducers still control half the domestic mar- ket or where they can shift to other indus- tries without serious loss. Upon the Tar- iff Commission would fall the responsibility of checking the export-import trend, lower- ing duties where necessary to the achieve- ment of, balance and so ensuring realiza- tion of the declared national policy.

Foreign countries, Mr. Siichter suggests, would thus be able to lift restrictions. Their dollar reserves would become more ade- Convertibility could be achieved

by the commercial bait on the Communist

longer

It remains to be seen how

Canada is vitally interested in the

EDITTDPIAL NOTES

Tomorrow, Septuagesima. I O O

The Maritime Flying Curlers are off to-

not show championship form but as am-

they will be tops.

O I There is'probably no other group so ill-

paid by the Federal Government or its alter

egos as the rural mail couriers. The dis-

for them be on an cquiiable basis. , O G 0 Applying the fruit and vegetable re- quirements to the retail trade should be an advantage to both merchants and their cus- tomers. Price differences for various grades will require less explaining when the grades are indicated and the customer will be more readily able to choose the grade to suit requirements. I Franz Schubert, Austrian composer, was born this date 1797. Musical from an

and turned to music. Publishers, however, did not recognize him until his friends had twenty songs published at their own ex- pense. His industry was phenomenal, for although he died at thirty-one, he left more music than almost any other master. Yet he earned barely enough to lead a modest, if bohemian existence. He projected the classical school of Haydn and Mozart into

the Romantic period.

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'A second attempt to have capital pun- ishment abolished in Canada is to be made in the Commons by Mr. Ross Thatcher, C.C.F. member for Moose Jaw. The pro- posed legislation would substitute life im- prisonment for hanging. A similar bill was introduced by Mr. Thatcher. in 1950. It was debated twice, but no vote was ever

taken on it.

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The phenomenal growth of the truck- ing industry in Canada is a direct result of increasing demands for improved service in recent years. Since 1940 the number of motor trucks registered in Canada has ris- en from 247,634 to 731,637--an increase of approximately 178 percent; Monthly re- ports for 1952 indicate that the growth is continuing. Nowhere has trucking's speed and adaptability been better exemplified than in agriculture. Field crops, feeds, milk and fruit produce, livestock, poultry and eggs have to be "shipped frequently and rapidly. Milk truck pickups have revolution- dalry.induItry”by giving Iervioe to individual forms and dglrieanroday more than 95 perrcontkof the country's milk is carried by trucks. .

iinue the affairs of the Water and Sew- erage points of raised nnd I feel. the public and Commisionerx, as well ns myself. that this criticism

ceded that water and services should be made available within reasonable limits, even the necessary extension might not be immediately profitable, it is

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JANUARY 31. 19

The Passing -Scene .i .

By Observer

DB.lSCHWElsTZEE AND Ill! KIND i

It is easy enough to my that this It is not only in medicine md nge is given over to the worship surgery that Dr. Schweitzer is car. of Materialism and may people do FY1138 On 0115 01 the treat. mis- say it over and over again. What is aionary assignments of oil. tlmg,

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more, they can find much evidence to support their contention. Turn where one will, one can see signs of a. materialistic philosophy win- nlng converts all along the line. some say it is just 3. phase. a fashion, a. fad. that will pass in due time and be replaced by a spirtuul outlook on life stronger and better than ever. There is certainly plenty of historical evidence to warrant this hopeful view, for the story of humanity is a story of passing phases in behaviour and thought. Meanwhile. as the pressure of materigllsm lies heavily on human life, it is refreshing and encourag- ing to note some very notable ex- ceptions to the popular trend. There are many men and women whose lives repudiate the "every man for himself" view of life. And perhaps the greatest living example in this respect is Albert Schweitzer who has been called "the outstanding man of the 20th century". It is an imposing title but I fancy that very few students of contemporary men and events will say it is an exu- gerntcd one.

Dr, Schweitzer is an old man now (almost 80) but he is still doing what he has been doing for more than forty years, bringing physical. mental, and spiritual healing to one of the most primitive tribes in one of the dark areas of the world. He went; to French Equatorial Africa in 1913 and, except for a few brief intermission: for the purpose of

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PUBLIC FORUM

This column in open to the discussion by wrrespondenu of questions of interest, The Guardian does not necessar- ily endorse the opinion of correspondents.

SUMMERSIDE WATER CODIDIISSION Sir, it is not my wish to ion- my correspondence about

but certain have been in fairness to

Commission, criticism

should he answered. For example. while it is con- sewerage

if

claimed that the decisions to make such extensions is the duty of the Town Council and not the Commission. This is misleading as the true fact is the Commission must decide whether or not any proposed extension is reasonably needed and is feasible. If they decide in favor of the project and the estimated cost exceeds. the amount they can expend on any one project then they submit the proposition to the Town Council, along with estimated cost and re- quest the approval of the neces- sary cxpcnzliture-The Water Sew- crngt: Act gives the Commission full control of the Vi'ater and Scwcrngc Sysicm.

Exception is taken to the fact that the meclings of the commis- sion 'arc not upon in the public. The answer in this is that Utility Commissions do not hold public meetings but are responsible to the governing bodies be they Federal. Provincial or municipal.

Thc reason for this is clear. for should the press nnd public be pcscnt, at such meetings where proposed extensions and programs have to he discussed and gone into thoroughly before decisions can be mnrlc. than this infor- mation would be in the hands of lhc prcss and public before the Commission could submit their findings nnrl rccommendations to the Town Council. I think any one will agrce that the Town Council should be ill!!'fii'Si to be acquaint- ed with these facts.

With regard to financing. it is suizxzcsteri that if interest and sinking fund had been charged the Commission, they would have shown a dcflcii for 1952 of some 514,000. This is not correct. The nu(lllor's siuicmv-nt for 1952 show: R. net surplus of 51,026. after play- ing interest clmrgcs of SL260 on moneys borrowed to pay for cap- ital expenditures, covering the purchase and installation of two new turhinn pumps. two new pump houses for some and new services and extensions made dur- ing the yr.-nr. The interest and sinking fund charges on outstand- ing wnicr and sewerage deben- tures for 1952 totalled 32,380. If this latter amount had been charged to the Commission. the deficit would have been 51,354 and not 514,000. r

The siarrd pipe was painted in 1952 at A cost of,Iome 51,300, the first time in 14 years and charged to 1952 operations. pairs, etc., to the distributing system were made in 1952 and the ground: surrounding the ltand pipe and pump houlel graded and fenced. Thou special expondituru, which are only required in cer- tain years, accounted for In in- crease in expenditure: under the bending of repair: and painting of 32.103 over 1951. The coat of elec- tric power for pumping in 1952 wu 510.457 about 31,800 more than for 1951. The testing, etc., of the new turbine pumps and wally. this flrn't.wni.er not going into the uyliem, also the long ,dry lum- mer materially increuad water consumption. i

All thinu conciduwd I fool the W110: and Sowenn Commiuion made I -creditable 13. If ova-and over I varied of ui 10 your a good profit mu ranllud, and depreciation provid-

Further re- '

showing I in V

ture

feet

Did you

or description in the period covered. who they, and was theiwdeath

dent or crime?

pairs, etc, been charged to current expendi-

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enuc and

shows over to the

So far as corned. anyone really with the question knows. that, in train than it was the present age. most important times, when a dry season was so utilities. publicly owned, are man- aged by Commissions, responsible to governing bodies, be they Fed- eral. state, provincial or clpal.

Whether the members Commissions should be elected by appointed by the governing body. is a question for Mr. John Public to have their virtues. No man is per- government can be, so all that can be done is to use every effort to choose cap- able, worthy and direct our national cunt and municipal their reward will be at-ant. small monetarily, perhaps with little glory.

the citizens or

smith Falls 9. small smith Falls Record-News.

Definition of I (mull town: place where everybody knows whatln-cubic bag”. when everyone else lp doing. but.

read the local newspaper to if they have been caught at it.

ford housewife got. stung decorat-I ing one. A bee, roused from hi- bernation - or whatever bees do divided between me in the winter - flew out of the and the 3nf,i.31lppgp people, They branches and nipped her on the will go to me pong gmmum. this

toreanm. - Brantlord Expositor. month to settle the matter. If that

covered

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the

therefore,

cost' of

Commission town a total revenue" of 561.776. The "total in- terest and sinking fund charges" on outstanding debentures for the same period was S2-1,569. This still few districts in which one is to leaves a net profit of 537.207-so there can be no gather answer but that this utility has operated at a profit, at existing under management of a commis-'since the Society has slon. Why change horses now? management is con-' conversant.

persons

Geneva.

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which

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decide.

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town?

rates and,

to control

they was redecorated and the fussy seelmunicipal council decided that media” he Md ”9"i”d di5""ct' 1,, the children would we” supp”, ion in music. literature. and

is all the Swiss have to bother Vnncouver has I first--clnu ms!-iabout they are living in cloud cuc- tery on its hands - skeletons of goo lana, .. two children of about eight. years dard,

of age and dead three years found in Stanley Park leaves, a. few yards from travelled roads. and no persons of that age reported missing

with

are occi-

Some nice ques- tions for the detectives. -Ottawa PROGRESS AGBICULTURALLY Journal.

Pnrenlc of school children in I community zerland. are aroused because their offspring were ordered

Swit-

wear

have

A check of statements of l'ev- labours of the Society. Previous expenditures for period 1942 to and including 1952 husbandry of every description in turned use throughout the Island were of

the-

"netl

muni-

xuch

Both

rovin- True

and

The Way I.

A bedroom suppers

-- so as not to scuff the paint-work. some iiouoewivec are too - everything too immaculnu

let Itunr huyint I and Just so for comfort. The pur- .

Christmas tree this year? A Brant- ent.s rebelled and forced the local

government. to call for a referen-

dum on the issue.

Peter MacGowan, Esq., secretary-

meetlng of the Central Agricul-

tee derive considerable satisfaction

-by that excellent judge. Professor

keeping throat with medical techniques, he has been there ever since.

Even before he embarked on his missionary career he was a man of distinction. In natural gifts as well as in academic standing he was without question one of "the really brilliant men of his generation. Be-' fore he too): up the study of

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in

theology, in any one of which he might have had a brilliant career. He was particularly masterful in music and I believe that even now he is regarded as the worlds out- standing expert on Bach. some idea of his talent for music may be gathered from the fact that he was widely known as an organist before he was ten years of age, I I

like that

The village is pro-slipper

His critical "rhe Quest of the Historical Jesus", written while he was still 3 very young man. mark- ed him as a. penetrating theological scholar and writer. one passage in that book has been quoted time and time again and it is. indeed, 1 beautiful expresion of the faith by which he has lived and now lives. "He comes to us as one unknown. without a name. as of old. by the lake-side. He came to those who know Him not. He sets us to the tasks which He has to fulfill for our time. To those who obey him, whether they be wis or simple, He will reveal Himself 1 the toils. the conflicts. the sufferings, which they shall pass through in His fellow- ship. They shall loam in their own experience Who He is". ' O O I

st. cathulnes Stan-

Old Charlottetown on: r. I. 1. 3

From a report submitted by

treasurer, at the annual general turiil Society, Jan. 13. 1841:

"In reviewing operations during the last few years, your commit-

from observing the great benefits

. To most men great natural gins, resulting to the country from the

aided and developed by scholar- ship, are rungs of a. ladder by which they hope to achieve uucccm. Nor are they to be condemned for it. Whatever success came: their way is more often than not. justly

to its formation, implements of

the rudcst construction, and but

ill adapted to their several pur- deserved I poses. The clumsy wooden lough In most Ttagyagcagsbngleggags was universal-now there a very ' Y

some measure of service and the world is better for their ascent to honour. But to Albert Schweitzer success has never figured. directly or indirectly, in his thoughts and ambitions. One attractive proposit- ion ofter another ha; been offered him, and rejected. Time and time again he has been begged to come to the United States for speaking tours. university lectures. and other opportunities. all of which would have been much appreciated and well rewarded. He come only once and stayed-but a. few days. "it is all very pleasant", he was heard to say, "but my patients need me" This from a. surgeon who could have had his choice of any number of lucrative appointments. What- over money he does make (most of it comes from royalties on his musical and literary productions)

be met with. Upward: of three thousand sets of iron plough mountings have been imported and disposed of by the Society; and Jmporied largely of the Red and White Clover and other grasses, the hay crop is rendered much more cer- in the olden

much and justly dreaded, as it was almost sure to be followed by a great mortality among cattle. "The meadow lands too have been greatly benefited by these grasses. The produce of the Clydesdale stallion and the Ayr- shire cattle selected and sent out

Lowe, of Edinburgh, are remark- ably fine nnlmals. and promise to be of great advantage in improv-

speaks to his semi-nvua pgugm of the love of God which alone is able to heal both body and mind, That is about the extent of his preaching nowadays. Dr. Schweitzer lives the Christian life. if any man ever did. and that, by common con. sent. of the theologians. in the but advertisement for "the Christian gospel.

In philosophy. too, this great man of. the century has something to offer the world u it gropes for light in the thick darkness of the time.-4. In his profoundly simple way hg says: "The only way out of today's misery is for ,people to be worthy of each other'a 'trust.". Certainly he has given plenty of proof that in this respect his practice cor.

responds with his precept.

It is a and comments; on our bonsted civilization that I mom who turns his back on comfort and ease in order to follow an ideal which will not be turned aside is often called a fool. The unflattering word was applied to Schweitzer when he left Alsace for Africa and it mu applied to Grenfull when he left

Harley Streetrfor. Labrador.

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It was applied to a. middle-aged doctor whom it was my'p1-ivilege to know in the Eastern United estates when he left a very comfort- able practice in a. small town to endure the rigors and dangers of a leper colony in Thailand. As I young man he had been 3 medical mlmionuy in Burma. And, for family reasons. had felt obliged in return to the United State: aftei five years of service. For fifteen years or so he carried on his prac- tice in the town where he had been born and brought up, but never for one moment was be satisfied. Al. way: the my of security, or tlhai. sire to go back.

He was past. fifty when the new opportunity came and he did not allow it to pass unheeded. At con- siderable sacrifice be disposed of everything he had and started on the long journey to one of the moat unpleasant places on the fine of the earth, He has written to me in couple of times and from wtbst he has told me,I am sure he in M happy and contented as my man could be. He plans to tannin in that jungle country as long is hi can be of any service.

His neighbours and some of hill professional colleagues said there was no doubt the man won only. No one in his right mind would want to live among leper: in 'moii- land.

I wonder who was "the more lone: he or his critics? which is the infer way: the way of security. or that of insecurity?

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The weary dny rlns down and died The weary night wears through; And never an hour is fair wt

flower. And never a flower wit dew.

I would the day were night for me, I would the night were a. day; For then would I stand in my sin fair land. A: new in dreams I may.

-Algernon Charles Swinburn 5.

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. The Age-Old Story

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And he taught dilly In the tem pie. But; the chief priest: and tin Iorlbes and the chief of the 1160 pin sought to dcntroy him. and could not find what. they might do.

SlllVVllivIER-VIl7AiAIlSD Swimming during it lightning storm is dangerous because thl

ing our stock. A colt from the Clydesdale, owned by Mr. Henry Longwortb, is a beautiful creature, and deserving of particular notice. The Ayrshire heifer; have both had calves. The milk of these animals is exceedingly rich in

goes into his little hospital for the native: or Equatorial ll.-fricn,

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