PAGE FOUR THE GUARDIANl

Authorised as Second Class Mnii Post Office Department. Ottawa. The island Guardian Publishing Co.

'dent and Associate Editor, In A. Burnett. Auoolste Editor, Frank Walker.

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CIRCULATION - 'CoverI Prince Edward Island like the dew

"The strongest memory ll Weak" "W"

the weakest lnk". cl-IARLo'r'ra'rowx FRIDAY. Aflgj; 24. 19-'53

By-Passing Parliament

The justification for granting the Gov- ernment extraordinary powers is the possi- bility of their being required at a time when Parliament is not in session and the emergency does not permit waiting until it can be summoned. During war-time and because of the Cold War such emergency powers have been entrusted to the Cana- dian Government. The present powers, of course, are not so far-reaching as granted during the Second World War.

The Government, by Order-in-Council, prohibited Canadian shipping from sailing to North Korea or Communist China. This followed and lent moral support to the United States blockade of the China coast and was similar to the action taken by Brit- ain early in March. In Canada's case, how- ever, the action had no practical effect because no Canadian ships were engaged in such trade.

The question raised in the House of Commons, therefore, is one of principle and it is to the credit of the two Liberal Members who joined the Opposition in an unsuccessful vote of censure of the Gov- ernment that they placed their concern for the powers and dignity of Parliament above considerations of party.

The fact that the action taken was strongly favoured by all parties must have made it more difficult for them to take their stand in protest against the procedure followed. It was an action outside the ordi- nary powers of the Government and should properly have been dealt with by Parlia- ment. There was no question of time not permitting Parliament to be consulted. Par- liament is in session and the measure would have had prompt passage. It is right and proper that the incident should not be lightly passed over.

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Food consumption on i'.E.i. Farms l

The Economics Division of the Federal Department of Agriculture has released a series of three reports dealing with con- sumption of food by farm households in the Maritime Provinces. These studies re- late to the season 1945-46. The report on Prince Edward Island, recently published, .shows that the farm families studied had a diet that was as satisfactory as that of the average Canadian. Compared with the Canadian average, the P.E.I. farm family was low in consumption of meat, poultry, sugars and syrups, and tomatoes and citrus fruit. They were higher than the average, however, in their consumption of fish, eggs, potatoes, fruit and other citrus, leafy, green and yellow vegetables, vegetables other than those above mentioned, and grain products. The calories provided by the diet ex- ceeded the estimated requirements by

tion unit on potato farms. but the consump- tion of pulses and tomatoes was higher on the mixed farms.

the all-adult households ranked first among the household composition groups and the group with less than second. The group with no children had the highest and two children under 13 years of age had lthe lowest rates of consumption of meat, lpoultry, and leafy, green, and yellow vege-

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THE GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN

In value of food per consumption unit

three children was

those with more than

tables. The all-adLIlt families also consunI- ed the greatest quantity per person of milk solids, and per consumption unit of fish. but ate the.lowest quality of pulses. Families having more than two children under 13 had not only the lowest rates of consumption of the foods noted above, but also of eggs, tomatoes, fruit other titan cit- rus, and grain products.

In Prince Edward Island, as elsewhere, it was found that as the ccononiic levcl rose the value of food per consumption unit increased regularly. increases in con- sumption of milk solids, meat, poultry, fruit other than citrus, and lcaiy. green, and yellow vegetables were most marked.

Worth Preserving

A million dollars is rcquircrl to renovate and fireproof Canada's historic Library of Parliament. That's a tidy sum to put it mildly but the structure is worthy of pres- ervation. Iils the most beautiful building on Parliament Hill. Built during the earlyl years of Confederation in the reign of Queen Victoria, the 80-year-old Gothic structure is attached to the rear of the Parliament buildings as it was to the first Houses of Parliament which burned down during the First World War. Valiant fire- fighting at that time, saved the flames from spreading into the library. Then, last summer, fire broke out in the roof of the Library of Parliament. it was saved from destruction but many thousands of valuable books were badly damaged by water and then by mould on their water-,

soaked pages. . and reconstructed for fireproofing but itsl distinguished exterior with flying buttresses;

interior so far as possible. This building is more than a library, important as is that function. It ranks among Canada's most. important historical monuments and some would put it foremost. For architecture alonepit's worthy of handing on to pos-l terity. Without its presence in the Ottawa

Hill would be lacking its most gracefull point of exclamation.

EDITORIAL NOTES

The Senate defeated a resolute attempt by a minority to remove the 10 per cent sales tax from margarine. Had the votel gone otherwise this Province would have had cause to regret our low rcpresentationj in the Upper House.

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The capping service tonight for fll,ll'SlYlf(l graduates at the Prince Edward island Hos- pital and similar ceremonies represent the climax of long and exacting training. Those, who have so qualified for a career of ser-. vice to humanity may well be proudoft;

about five per cent. The protein content of the food was more than adequate, 160 per cent of the amount required. Cereals werc the source of approximately one-third of both the calories and the protein but one half of the latter was of animal origin. The food at retail prices was worth on the average 33.41 per person per week, vary- ing from 33.24 in the winter-spring to 323.52 in the fall and summer. The value of the meat, poultry, game, and fish. comprised almost one-fourth of the total of all the food. Dairy products, including butter were worth nearly as much, 22 per cent. All vegetables, includ- ing potatoes and tomatoes, contributed .14 per cent of the value, and fruit, 11 per cent. The home produced food was worth 54 per cent of the value of all the food used in Prince Edward Island. Nearly one-third , of the value of the home produced food came from dairy products, including but- ter. The value of the home produced vege- tables, including potatoes, was just over one-fifth, and that of meat, poultry, game, and fish was also approximately one-fifth, of the value of all the home produced food. Only 27 per cent of the carcass weight of the beef and veal, but 63 per cent of that of the pork consumed was home pro- duced. Of the butter eaten 53 per cent was made at home. , The value of the food per consumption

unit of households on potato farms in the Province exceeded that of households on mixed farms by ten per cent. More meat, eggs, and vegetables other than , leafy plllbsndyollowworouten perconsump-

.their attainments and their opportuniticsl

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l lfarmstead, and threatened another requir-I led the best efforts of large numbers of local residents and equipment: from various municipalities to put under control. It is a reminder that the three counties badly need their own fire protection oI'gani7.a- tion.

The fire at Hope River which dcstroyedl almost two square miles of woodland, a'

Two of Britain's jet-propelled Comets, the world's first turbo-jet airliner, will make: their Canadian debut, about the middle of May, wearing the roundel-enclosed red maple leaf of the R. C. A. F. Following completion of flight trials in Britain and long distance test flights to Johannesburg, South Africa, they will fly to Ottawa to join No. 412 Transport Squadron. They will be the first Comets to go into service with an air force anywhere in the world.

P O 0

Anthony Trollope, English novelist and civil servant, was born this date l8l5. Al- though as postal inspector be instituted pil- lar-boxes in 1853, it is as a novelist that he is remembered. He wrote a number of books of travel and some 47 novels besides short stories and an autobiography. His descriptions are precise and piquant, and his portraits, like his descriptions of daily life, are theoresults of intuition and con- jecture, rather than a photographic repro- duction of what he saw. His clerics are convincing, though hardly saintly. and the bishop's wife, Mrs. Proudie, is immortal as

Forever Blowing Bubbles

The fresh wetmw-ind and the wide- Are over now, and everything is The irarges. the great bustle, the Ll-fave left. no impress on the river- Much of the library must be torn d0WlllAnd lResume.s untroubled its an-tique re- will be preserved and so will the Iiniquclmld WW” almlll” ”- l" ""5”r' A lonely hemn bills the Like Thgought himself on his own And probing fathom on fathom for so still in Time's unwearying flow, The first that haunted ruined Acad- skyline, as seen from the river, Parliament -TM Vheilgybaird that dared to dip In Memphian pylons crumbling to

T E RM OP 0.- be (07. 9- P1,? or

i ME?-FROM?

E EARLY ; iReeI.AceMeuL-5 :

THE HERON

glittering light

Ight; clink of tools pools,

reedy desolation rose

edged with

P058;

ring sedge,

water's ed e,

elbow leaning

in meaning- .

he seems

emes,

the swill,

The first of fishers, who is nshing

Then the wave glitters with a rod

of gold

Illifudinlz fiercely on the heroifs hold

From the near city": Babylonian strife

The commentator on the frings of

life 5 his loose body in the misty rain;

Long-legged, fastidious in high dis- dam.

He swoops to duskler reaches, dirns to ghost.

In that Nirvana where all time is lost.

-Geoffrey Johnson.

Old Charlottetown mu 2. s. r. I

SEAWEED CASE DECIDED

”The October term of the Sn- prcme Court opened at St. lu'lt-nnnrs on Thursday. the 4th insI., and closed on Friday the 7th. The only important cause on the civil docket was that of John Clark vs. John Bell, sr., which was an action of trespass brought by lhe plalniiff against the de- fcnclanl for gathering and carry- ing away 5! quantity of seaweed and on manure from the shore opposite the plaintiff's premises; and from the nature of the right in dispute, the cause seemed to excite much interest among nu- mr-mus persons present at the irinl.

"The plaintiff, it appeared, was the assignee of a lease for 999 years of 3! piece of marsh. con- taining 12 to 14 acres of Town- ship No. 28, bounded by the res- shore, and demised in the year 1807 by the then proprietors of the township. The defendant and his family had been in the habit, for several years pull. of both gathering and piling seaweed op- posite this marsh. but for sonfe distance outside of n dike by which it was enclosed.

"Thc plaintiff gave evidence that when the marsh was origi- nally surveyed. It extended many yards beyond the dike. towards the sea. including that part. where the defendant piled the seaweed in question, which part had. un- til the last 14 years or no, yielded hay, which was cut and made thereon by the former lessee, and othtirit with his permission. and also that several personl, at dif- ferrnt periods, had obtained per- mission from the lessee to gather seaweed on the shore; some of them for consideration paid or rendered to him.

"The defendant gave evidence that different persons had, for many years past. been .in the habit of gathering and piling the

a type of domineering vulgarity.

seaweed uninterrupted along the

For The Fruits Of Peace

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(New York Tunes)

in his inspiring address to A- merican editors last Thursday. President Eisenhower did much more than delineate specific peace proposals. He did, it is true, call upon the Soviet Union for defin- ite acts and he enumerated some that would be regarded as an earnest of good faith. In addition he set forth the precise charac- ter of what he, and the free world, would regard as a sound program of disarmament.

Beyond this, however, was a passionate presentation of the philosophy of the search for peace. it is singular that one of our greatest soldiers should offer in the most striking terms not merely a condemnation of war - which most soldiers justly hate - but an arraignment of the whole con- cept of an armed world. This ar- rignment is based not on econo- mic but on humanitarian grounds, The President pleads for peace because its fruits can be reflected in better things for individual hu-

man beings. ”EveI'y gun that is made." he said, "every warship that is

shore, including the space opposite the plaintiff's marsh, and en- deavourcd to show, that there was a public right of way along the shore, from the termination of R settlement road. but which part of his evidence was not admitted by the Court, in consequence of the plaintiff's counsel objecting that such public right of way was not specially pleaded on the record: although they contended that even if such right of way exist- ed, it would not give the de- fendant a right to the seaweed.

"The learned Chief Justice held that there was no common law right in the public to take the seaweed left by the tide on ihe shore, whether it, were left on the marsh or even below high water mark; that the name, prima faclc. belonged to the owner of the land immediately opposite. The Jury returned a verdict for the plain- tiifwbamages 20:. We under- stand this question. although one of common occurrence, has never before been judicially decided in this island."

- Colonial Herald, Oct. 15. 1842'.

Books Received

IV THE Nevil Shute fin Canada, McLeod. Toronto 54.

.'i39pp.) Perhaps because. as the authnr says, no one takes a

novelist too seriously a romantic novel is an ideal medium for stimulating discussion on the fu- ture ni the Commonwealth. The master story teller pictures with equal vlvldness the life of a cleric in the vastness of northern Aus- tralia "ln the wet." when desert becomes tropical swamp and the politics of the Commonwealth thirty years from now as seen through the eyes of It young Aux- trsllan. pilot in the Queen's Flight.

ONEIRICS AND PSYCHOSO- MATICS by Roll Loehrlch (Com- psn Press, Mei-ienry, iil., 36, 157 pp.) Man-while asleep or awake- dreems his life. in the theme of thll highly original work. Dreams do not. mirror man's environment but are mirrored in the environ- ment. The author hsn explored new fields of human knowledge. related with difficulty to conven- tional thought. It may well add to the precision of statement but it silo adds greatly to the be- wilderment of the reader that Mr. Loehrich has invented what

press his discoveries in the field of dreams.

lowed by others the practical use of his methods in tberspoutlcsi work.

ERATION by Arthur G.

is largely a new language to ex-

The present volume in introductory and will be fol- demonstrating now

THE SHIRT-SLEEVED GEN- reader. Penny Canadian newspspermen whole ex-

launched. every rocket fired signi- fies - in the final sense -. R then from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not. clothed.

"This world in arms is spending money alone.

"It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scien- tists, the hopes of its children." The President pointed up this cruel ex endlture by actually ti-anslatin the cost of a heavy bomber, a fighter plane and a destroyer into terms of schools. hospitals. power plants. food and

not

but it always comes as an appal-

tliat is represented by this expen- diture. He not only proposed that the money be saved through a sound program of disarmament but uitged that a substantial part. of it be applied to a world-wide program or human amelioration. After giving the details ob his five- point disarmament plan he went on to say:

"The fruit of success in all these tasks would present. the greatest task - and the greatest opportunity - or all. it. is this: The dedication of the energies, the resources and the imagina- tions of all peaceful nations to a new kind of war, not upon any human enemy, but upon the brute forces of poverty and need.

"The peace we seek, founded upon a decent. trust and coopera- tlve effort among nations, can be fortified - not by weapons of war -- but by wheat and by cot- ton, by milk and by wool, by meat, timber and rice.

"These are words that translate into every language on earth." There is already evidence that not only these words but the warmth of meaning and feeling behind them have been translated in many parts of the world. This is a basis for peace that every person can understand and that all would welcome. In the total war on human misery that Presi- dent mzisenbower proposes there is no place for neutralism.

One of the very large contribu- tions of the President's address was It change in emphasis upon our own desire for pence. There in such a will to peace in this coun- try and it. is widely understood and frequently repeated. It is. however, too often a negative concept of peace as merely the ab- sence of war or the imminent ihrest of war. Peace is often so- soclated with the "good old day!"

Dutch bandsmen.

I. Notes Bx

i We osn undeninnd the ream l d . for thieves making off with un- open "8 M W W” 0" lmlimr

It is some-

guuded gold bricks. what. skin to finding a 3100 bil lying on a store counter.

, 'I'he ltemptstion is too great. for a thief

APRIL 24 1953

... h

The Wax-J; g

dates or season progx-gm. but merely on the first wlum ham 1 that opens the window. 0, an city. It is the music that com, from the streets, from back court.

to resist. But. I. slab of stone! Andj yards, from the fire escape. and

a piece or stone

market. It might be useful

ing stays hidden.

that after it has been "well

merited. --Sudbury Star.

The inequality of ions. For a healthy national ties Already in this

Parliament at Ottawa been a debate on

there the

hoped that

aid for education. when

when teachers' salaries for same type of work range from- a low of 5966 in the least privileged part of the country to 32653 in the best - then it's time was done.-Vancouver sun.

The bonds between Canada and the Netherlands are being strengthened. Not only are we re- ceiving increasing numbem of

' Hollander: -- especially here in

southern Ontario - as new Ca-

nadians, but the Canadian Army

in Europe has now recruited 50 The plan is at- tributed to Defence Minister Glax- ton, who on a recent visit coni- mented upon the fine musician-

ship of .these military bandsmen.

It is a unique scheme whereby Dutch nationals, retaining nationality. sign up with a foreign army. Pos- sibly this Ls a sign of what the future holds in the way of inter-

racee. -London Free Press.

chair-

Walker Stone. Dmlflm

Newspaper Editors. the new Department of Health Education and Welfare, to the editors: convention as Mrs. Secre-

shelter. This technique is familiar, 'rN'3'- "H" declslimv Ml” Slime add”

ed, "is, "Don't. call me Madam? ”

ling shock to be told, for example, LEW? the department issued the REFRAC1-10;; AND that a single fighter plane I-epre. following announcement: Secre-

sents the cost. of a hall-million W-TY Hobby request-5 "H" We be, ANNALYSIS bushels of wheat, or that the price "'"”d W 35' lM”' ,SeC"m"y

of one bomber would build and "M ”,'M"d3m Secrelaxyt H" "' G, F, equip two fine hospitals, quest is based on the fact that

The significant. point. that the -he 1001-! the W9 M 'Mr5- is H & SON