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‘fl-IE GUARDIAN;

C HARLOTTETOWN

OCTOBER 15, 1949

THE GUARDIAN

Morning Dally (Founded in i581) Authorized n net-unit Claaa Mall, Fun Office Department, Ottawa.

The laiunrl (luardlun Pulillahlng Co. Editor and Managing Dlrrrlor, J. It. llurnolt. Anon-into Editor, Frunli Walker.

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

CHARLOTTETOWN.

lllstorlc Relics Exhibition

SATURDAY. OCT. l5. I940

As will be noted from today's advertis- ing columns, plans have been made for a public exhibition of articles of historic in- terest - provincial, national or general — to be held in the Clover Club on November 3 and 4. This commendable movement is sponsored by the I. O. D. E., and the col- lection of exhibits to be loaned will open at the Armouries on Monday and continue until November 1-. This is not a commer- cial enterprise; admission to the exhibits will be free, and there will be no entry fee and nothing on sale. It is hoped, with the cooperation of all concerned, to make the exhibition one of the most interesting held in the Province for a long time.

Objects of historic interest may be of any description_books, maps, manuscripts. coins, Indian relics, old handicraft, China ware, glass, silver, kitchen utensils, old photographs, old buttons, boxes, wearing ap- parel, old lamps of all types, old Island- made pottery, jewelery, small chairs or tables-—the list is almost inexhaustible. All the known facts should be attached to each exhibit, preferably in typescript. The ex- hibits should be accompanied by their ap- proximate value, and will be insured by the sponsors and given every possible care while on loan. ,

Everyone has something in his or her possession, or knows where there is some item relating to the life of the past. Per- haps of little value in itself, it may fill a gap of historical significance, or serve at least to recall the period in which it was in use. Such trifles form the bulk of the material in all the big museums, and to the historian may be of incalculable importance.

\Ve have as yet no Provincial museum ll'l Prince Edward Island, but i_t is to be hoped that the exhibition now being planned Will serve to stimulate interest in this subject. It is something about which our summer visitors have frequently expressed concern; but more important than that is the educa- tional value of exhibits of this kind to our own people, especially those in our schools and colleges who should be encouraged in every way to familiarize themselves with our Island past.

Canadian Citizenship Appeal

The Canadian Citizenship Council, a voluntary organization with members in all parts of Canada working through existing bodies such as Chambers of Commerce, na- tional, provincial and local welfare, church and youth groups, etc., is preparing to launch its first nation-wide campaign next week. designed to publicize its aims and objects and to raise $50,000 required from all Canada to enable it to continue its pro- gramme. ,

Since war's end, the Council's work among Canada's 400,000 new immigrants, 7000i) of whom are D.P.'s, has been a major task, yet it is also seeking to pro- mote a fuller understanding of our demo- cratic way of life among older Canadians, and among the 250,000 young Canadians who come of age every year. The need for such activities is apparent. They were strongly emphasized by Rt. Hon. W. L. l\tlackenzie_King in a message to the Coun- cil‘s regional chairman. “Whether we like it or not," Mr. King declared, “the future of our country is wrapped up with the fu- lure of all countries. In this atomic age, the alternatives which face mankind are universal destruction or unparalleled free- dom. Canada will help to decide in which of these opposing directions humanity will move. So long as our citizens continue to possess the vision and courage of the found- ers of our nation, Canada's influence will he in the right direction. So long as we continue to cherish the high ideals of our common citizenship, our country will make a great, and. it may be, a decisive contri- bution to the preservation of human free- dom, and to the establishment of enduring peace. That is the largest opportunity and the heaviest responsibility of Canadian citi- zenship." ~~ '

Spear-heading the Canadian Citizenship Cotincifs work as co-chairmen are General H. D. G. Crcrar, leader of Canada's war- time Army, and Dr. Andre Taschereau, K. C., senior partner in the law firm of which Prime Minister St. Laurent is the head. The national campaign chairman is Mr. Hugh M. Wallis, of Montreal, whose function is lo co-ordinate the appeal of his twenty- seven regional chairmen for moral and fin- ancial support for the Council in its first crusade to establish itself on a truly coast- to-coast basis. Regional chairman for this area is the Hon. A. E. Arsenault, retired Justice of the Supreme Court.

EDITORIAL NOTES Tomorrow, 18th Sunday after Trinity.

Charlottetown is becoming decidedlyari conscious with two exhibitions of paintings

within a week. O O O

Next week, starting Monday, the Bible Society will make its annual collection

appeal.

A delegation of British trade union lead- ers bound for the United States got their first object lesson in boosting industrial pro- duction before they even salled. A Com- munlst mcuber of the group was refused an American visa. o . . ,

This’ Province is now represented on the Standing Committees "in accordance with

their experience and interests" as follows: Marine and Fisheries, Mr. J. Watson Mac- Naught, Mr. W. Chester S. McLure. Rail- ways, Canals aiid telegraph lines, Mr. J. Lester Douglas, Mr. McLure. Agriculture and Colonization, Mi'. J. J . Kickham. Lib- rary, Mr. MacNaught. Printing, Mr. Doug- las. But Public Accounts, Banking and Commerce, have no representatives from this Province. I I O

The volume of freight carried by Cana- dian railways in June is reported to have been 10.2 per cent less than in 1948. In- creased freight rates will not improve the situation from the point of view of goods carried, which is after all the object of hav- ing railways.

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The Mother of Parliaments is experienc- ing strange constitutional behavior by the Labour Government. Only a few days after Health Ministei- Bevan stated that a general election would be held “in a very short time on a date which I don't propose to mention," his chief, Prime Minister Attlec contradict- ed him to assert that there would he -no election this year.

I I I Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet, born this date 1686. He started business as a book- seller in Edinburgh, and published The Tea. Table Miscellany, and The Evergreen col- lections of poems. It is, however. as the author of The Gentle Shepherd, a dramatic pastoral of the realistic type that he is chiefly remembered. In 1730 he published a Collection of Thirty Fable-s and six years later a collection of Scots Proverbs. For when I dinna clearly see, I always o\vn I dinna ken And that's the way with Wisest men. O O O Federal Ministers are fighting shy of set- ting up even the standing committees for this session because they have been bitten by the bug of an early prorogation. It means that those who are eager to take a fling at the CBC proposal for doubling the listening license fee from $2.50 to $5 may have to wait until next spring. But Lib- erals at their caucus last week denounced the project so it is unlikely the Government will approve a higher listening fee in the face of strong opposition from its own party backers. O O O The reconstruction of the Jones Gov- ernment came as no surprise as it was con- siderably overdue. The Premier, as was to be expected, retains the whip hand, greatly strengthened by the portfolio of Public Works. Mr. Stewart has dropped out to help to give each of the three Counties rep- resentatives in the Government. The re- formed Government seems more likely to exhibit cabinet solidarity than Island ad- ministrations have done for some time. There can be no division of responsibility. Each member must answer for every act of the regime. O I I

Most members of the House of Commons and the Government. itself seem determined to finish the agenda with the minimum of talk, the maximum of speed. and the mini- lnum of money spent. by members in hotels and boarding houses. Members want a lot of take-home pay this time with which to wipe off election bills. One big item yet to be completed is the abolition of appeals to the judicial committee of the Privy Coun- cil in London together with appropriate changes in the set-up of Canada's Supreme Court, and another important piece of busi- ness is final consideration of the project whereby the Dominion will provide financial aid to the provinces in construction of the long-awaited trans-Caziada highway.

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Charlottetown lost two highly esteemed citizens yesterday in the passing of Major H. L. Bethune and Mr. Leo B. Doyle. Major Bethune was one of the Island's outstand- ing athletes in his younger days, and had ll distinguished record overseas in the First World War. He was also one of the lead- ing pharmacists of the Province. Mr. Doyle carried on a plumbing business in the city for several years, and enjoyed a wide re- putation both for competent workmanship and for fair and honest dealing. Both gentlemen were model citizens, upright and conscientious in the discharge of all their duties, with a wide circle of friends and ac- quaintances and with a keen interest in thc

.welfarc of the city and Province. In both

cases death camc unexpectedly, before the news had reached many of their friends that they were seriously ill. Deep sympathy will be extended by all classes to the bereaved families, whose loss will be felt in many ways as a community onc. I i it

The news that Unesco (the United Na- tions Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is wanting to increase its ex- penditure by a million dollars in the coming year, says “Janus" in “The Spectator” is likely to meet with a chilly reception in ‘his country-which would have to find its share of the dollars. I say “would" rather than "will", because it seems to me highly im- probable that Unesco will get’ its money and highly undesirable that it should, until it makes much better use than it has so far of the funds it already possesses. Interna- tional co-operation in education, science and culture is obviously to be welcomed in it- self, but Unesco has conspicuously failed so far to carry conviction. It has on the con- trary created the impression that in a tline of financial stringency it is frittering money away on a number of fanciful and relative- ly valueless projects. If they are not value- less the attempt to demonstrate their value is signally unsuccessful. What, for example, is meant by "developing the already import- ant publications programme of the funda- mental clearing-house”? And is it really true that to make the scientific facts on race available to institutions of higher learning will enable racial prejudice to be combatcd "on a populationlevel?" Racial prejudice raises psychological and moral, not sc'"'1tific, questions. What Unesco ap- pears ‘I-o need is a thorough overhaul, not more (“liars

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BUDDING ISLAND AUTHORS

Dr. Harper's report on the pap- ers ivriilten by scholars in Prince Edward Island has been publish- ed. i-lc awards the Province prize to Miss Nellie M. Hodgson, and the City prize to Master Fred R. HOdESOH. 838d thirteen and four- teen years respcctively. who wrote on the ‘Posse Comitaius‘ and on ‘Tcnantry of_ Prince Edward Is. land and some events connected therewith.‘ Both these most suc- cessful pupils are children of Mr. and Mrs. F. l-Iudgson. The sec- ond place in the City competition is taken by Miss T. May Dodd. daughter of Hon. T. W, Dodd, 1h; subject of her essay being‘ ‘The Tenant League.’

_Dr. Harper makes special men- tion of the papers of Miss Mary Al- llSOn Jost. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Jost. and Miss Mar- garel. James. daughter oi’ Mr. and Mrs. T. C. James. For Queen's County the first prize is taken by Master Allan Simpson. of Bayview School. subject. ‘Dr. John Geddie,‘ the second by Master Nathan J. Lockhart. of Cavendish School, subject, ‘The American Gale,‘ and the third by Miss Lucy Maud

Montgomery. of the same school“

subject, ‘The Wreck of the Marco Polo.’ Dr. Harper says that, of t-he others may be mentioned with a degree of credit to the writers ‘The Yankee Storm‘, by Miss M3. illlc MacLe-od, of Bayview School, ‘The Loss of the Fairy Queen,’ by Miss Eva Hyde, of Meadow Bank School. ‘The Heroic Rescue of a Child by its Mother,‘ by Miss Katie Campbell, of Belle Creek School, and ‘The Seven Brothers‘, by Mas- tci- R. H. Jenkins. of Mount Al- bion School.

For King's County, the first

prize is taken by Master Oliver-l Rose. of Lakeville School: the sec- .

ond by Master Harry Bishop, n.’ Kingsborough School, and the

third by Master Alfred Sinnoll, ol‘ ‘

St. Peter's Harbor School. For Prince County the prize winner is Miss Eliza D. Ra say, of Sixmmersid: High School, the second is Master Ernest Craw- ford, of Tryon School. and the third is Miss Margaret Rogers. o.’ Alberton Grammar School. Dr. Harper says the following pap?"- for Prince County are worthy of special mention: _'Home_ and Hap- piness‘. by little Emily Woods. of Mount Tryon School. who is onl"

nine years old;"Lost_ on_ the Ice,‘ _

by Master Keith Stewart of Sum- merside Eastern District School; ‘The KEHSIYIKIQHVFRE‘, by Fairlie M. Durant of the Kenaington School: ‘The Yankee Storm’, by Miss Jolie Phee of Norway School.

and ‘A Life Among ‘the Indians.’

by Miss Mary S. Dunbar of Alber- ton Grammar School.

—Island canal-n; June b.1880!

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A Lost Navigator

(By Thomas Dunbabin)

Officers and men of the Franc]. sloop of war honoured a navigator whose car- eer touched both Canada and Australia when they affixed a plaque to the memorial-at Bot- any Bay near Sydney-to Jean Francois Galziup, Count of Lapar- ouse. Almost at the same time the steamer Paul Carl landed at Mel- bourne the first post-war cargo of logs from the island of Vanikoro in the Santa Cruz group.

Lnpercuse led a French exped- ition into Hudson Bay in i762 and took Fort York. It was the last time that France held territory in Canada and it went back to the Hudson Bay Co. in 1783.

On March l0, 1788, Laperousc sailed from Botany Bay after his exploring vessels, Astrolabe and Boussole had spent six weeks there. He, his ships and all his men vanished.

Nothing was known of their fat: for forty years. In i827 Peter Dil- ion, born (like Napoleon's Emp- ress. Josephine), in Martinique, brought up in Ireland and a citiz- en of Sydney, Australia, found re- lics of Laperouse at Vanikoro and learned that the two ships had been lost on the reefs. Many of the men reached the island and

later sailed away in a craft that I they had built.

Dillon took the relics to Paris where Charles X macic him a Chevalier and gave him 4.000 liv- res a year. The Chevalier Dillon died in Paris on February 9. 1847. His descendants still live ln Syd- n

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Vanikoro has fine stands of kaiirlpine. closely akin to the kauri of New Zcaland. Australian

' timber-getters now cut logs on the island that kept for so long ilic mystery of the fate of Lapcrousc.

Francois Garnicr i

TAM l‘ THE KIRK

O Jenn. my Jean. when the bell ca‘; the congregation

O'er valley an‘ hill wi‘ thving frac- its iron mou‘.

When a’ lmriyfic thoughts is set. on his ain salvation.

Mines set on ‘you.

There's a rcid rose lies on the Bulk o‘ the Word aforc ye

That was growin‘ hraw 0n its bush at the keel: o‘ day, ,

But lhc lad that pu'd yon flower i’ the morainls glnigv,

lie caniia pray.

He canna pray; but there's nme l‘ the kirk will heed him Whaur he sits sac still his lane at

the side o‘ the wa‘. For mine but the reid rose keno

what. my lassie gie'd hl.m-' It and us twa’!

He canna sing for the sang that his ain lieu-t rises.

He canna see for the mist that's afore his een,

An‘ a voice drowns the hale o‘ the psalms an‘ the para-phases,

Cryln‘ "Jean, Jean, Jean!”

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Stand ye ln the ways. and lee- and ask for the old paths. W116" is the good way? And walk Y6 therein. and ye shall find real. for your souls.

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Even In Canada, l! we do not follow aenaiblo practice in the fu-I ture, 20 or 30 or 5U year: may see- the end of many of our game spe- cies. Our buffalo la an example. If a handful had not been pro- tected, and the herds allowed to build up over the years, this fine animal would now be extinct. Elk and moose are already scarce in many areas. Stag and deer, ex- cepting jumping deer, are not to be found any more over wide sec- tions of the country. ~ Winnipeg Free Press.

The amall town. with lla weekly newspaper. is the backbone of ev- ery country, and a goodly porliop of the country's great men and women were reared in the small town. People take_ time to think in the small town. They keep in- formed, and from many a one have come our most outstanding presi- dents and legislators, as well as those who have contributed to the life of the nation and to the world. -Brandon Sun.

It l: acaroely understandable that human beings have remained so tolerant of the rat. The latter has invaded virtually every country in the world except the polar regions. Even in a country of limited popu- latioh such as Canada, the depre-

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The time may come when in" cily will find it advisable to re, quire, rather than merely perm“ a very short taxi-cab, shorter even‘ than the overly long pleasure can which seems to be desired nowa- days by the American public. Bug at present it cannot plausibly d9. l fend in view of street congesiiqn and average passenger load, | continuation o! obsolete specifica. lions that add to traffic problems increase the purchase price of ti,‘ cab. its cost of operation. and re. cluce the resale value of the cab. The city has declined to permit | deserved increase in cab fares: it can at least make the financial condition of cab operation less on- erous. — New York Times.

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