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THE GUARDIAN

Autho i ' ll Second Gino Mail Poof office Iloportancnt. Ottawa. The Inland Gnudlnn Publioblog Go.

Prnldcnt and Anoociaia Editor. In: A. Burnett. Alooclnip Editor, Frank Walker.

, CIRCULATION "Coven Prince Edward Island like tho dew"

f'Tho Strongest Memory is Weaker fhon tho Weakest ink".

CIIARIDTTETOWN, MONDAY, APRIL El. 1952

llagrancy

Parliament is undertaking a revision of the Criminal Code and this would seem to be an appropriate time to get rid of at least one outdated provision. In the four- teenth century the Black Death ravaged England and started a series of social up- heavals which disturbed the realm for some two hundred years. Reprcssive laws were enacted to keep labour on the land and to suppress ”sturdy beggars".

It is to this period that we owe the origin of the offence of vagrancy or being found wandering abroad without having any visible means of subsistence. Numerous other offences have since been legislated against and included in the Code definition of ”vagrancy". They are for the preserva- tion of public order and decency and are properly made punishable.

The basic offence, however. has ceased to serve a. real purpose. The sturdy beggar is no longer such a. threat to society that it is necessary to make it punishable to be idle. The clause should have no place in modern criminal law.

Trachoma campaign

Probably for the first time in the history of the world, notes an exchange, plans are under way to combat trachoma on a global scale. It is a virus eye disease. It is high- ly contagious and particularly so among small children. Recently, an international committee on trachoma was set up by the World Health Organization. The commit- tee of experts will outline a general work programme, co-ordinate information. and scientific research and recommend measures

,for controlling and preventing the disease, with special emphasis on the needs of un- dcr-developed countries where it has long been endemic.

According to the W.H.O.. trachoma is present in practically every country in the world. The total number of sufferers has never been estimated, but it is believed there are millions. The disease is common among the poorer people of Egypt, India and Arabia and found also in North Af- rica. Eastern Europe and some American republics: A great deal of trachoma is said to exist also in some of the southern and midwestern states of the U. S., which indi- cates difficulties in its eradication.

The infectious eye condition is transfer- red from one person to another through towels. touching of hands and, according to one authority, even by sneezing. In this disease, the membrane of the eye, called the conjunctivia, becomes swollen and tiny blisters form over the eye. When the blist- ers heal, scars take their place. The fluid within the blisters spread the disease. Not infrequently trachoma may cause partial or complete blindness. Specific measures for its control and prevention will be widely appreciated.

The ilebit Side

Never has the Canadian dollar stood so. high, nor our budgetary surplus been so" great. On the other hand it is announced that in 1951 Canada earned by selling things to other countries, and through its tourist trade, shipping and dividends, 95500,- 000,000 less than it paid to other countries for goods, machinery and food and services. As the Hamilton Spectator expresses it, "We had a whopping deficit in our balance of payments for the second time in more than 10 years, and normally it would have given the politicians a cat fit. However, because of the enormous demand by Amer- icana for capital investment we have U. S. dollars in such quantity that our own dol- lar commands a premium. In this way we appear to be balancing our economy by trading oil wells. iron mines and the rest for machinery to equip the new develop- ments and for the things we use from day to day as consumer goods."

More startling, says the Spectator, were the paradoxes in trade. Out in British Columbia, where they have had an unpre- cedented lumber boom, a spokesman for ex- porter: said that when deliveries are com-

on United Kingdom bulk orders ,in

bar there is "nothing more in sight." It'v(u filrthcr said that the timber indus- try there is facing its hardest times in y .

dgado.

bottle to find, or retain mar- luyooribnn produce was in full swing. of cheers and bacon bulk

. tra civil servants

controllable surpluses in the Dominion and the government could only buy up supplies to keep prices from collapsing. A looming dairy crisis had distributors suggesting a cut in the price of milk to increase demand.

"Our great export markets, on which Canada ultimately depends, seemed to be C10Sln8 their doors." says the Spectator. "Knowing what has happened in the past, with the trigger-happy.U. S. tariff tech. nique, many Canadians might wonder if we are not being too tightly bound to the American economy, and in the process los- ing the historic outlets abroad that have given us the only true prosperity we have ever known."

EDITORIAL NOTES Today the Queen's birthday.

The extension of the City Airport seems now practically assured, after a long and costly delay due to a former City Council's lack of vision and enterprise.

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Early potato planting is recommended by Mr. S. G. Peppin, potato expert, in order to reap early crop for early marketing at present satisfactory prices. A case of the early bird catching the lazy worm.

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-Over the week-end the subject of most conversation was the condition of our streets and roads, and ever so many solu- tions were suggested. But, down to brass tacks, it is realized that the lack of money is the root of the trouble.

- Mr. Norman John Berrill, Strathcona Professor of Zoology, McGill University and Mr. John Hubert Craigie, associate director, Science Service, Department of Agriculture. Ottawa, have been elected Fellows of the iRoyal Society in London. Eng.

Two "big shots" are on the cards for next week's speech-making, Hon. Brooke Claxton, Minister of National Defence, at Charlottetown and Summerside; and Third Vice-President F. A. Gaffney, C. N. R.. Chief of the Transport Research Depart- ment, at the City Board of Trade.

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Britain is in the grip of a square-danc- ing boom and the shoe manufacturers couldn't be happier. " The eagerness to swing your partner spread rapidly after the visit of the Queen and Duke of Edin- burgh here last year when they were pic- tured joining the fun at a country-style dance at Government House in Ottawa. Some manufacturers are working overtime to meet the demand for special dance shoes.

Charlotte Bronte. novelist and poetess, was born this date 1816. With her sisters Emily and Ann she published a volume of poems and followed it by a novel, "The Pro- fessor". It was not a success but its suc- cessor, ”Jane Eyre”, which is largely auto- biographical, was received with extraordin- ary enthusiasm. In her second book "Shir- ley" she attempted to portray her sister Emily. Her most charming story, however, is "Villettc".

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There's a strong campaign afoot in Ot- tawa (says the Gazette) to have the Civil Service placed on a five-day week. The move has strong backing from the big labor congresses. So far, the Government. has postponed a decision. The cost: About ti10,000,000 a year. And at least 5,000 ex- (and possibly 10,000) yould have to be taken on the payroll so that the work week could be shortened without sacrificing existing services.

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Teachers in Toronto were advised to put variety into their dress as well as their teaching methods and speech, by Mr. G. L. Woodruff. principal of Hamilton Normal School. He told teachers of the Federal Government schools to "get away from wearing the same dress every day, or even the same tie." Miss Dorothy Dunn, Ottawa High School of Commerce, one of a panel of English teachers, said that persons who criticize English courses in secondary schools should realize what teachers are up against. Teachers have a great problem. she said, in overcoming effects of environ- mental factors such. as radio, movies and cheap literature.

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A factor in the last Ontario election was the disclosure that Ontario Liberal Leader Walter Thomson had collected about 5320,- 000 in legal fees from the Federal Govern- ment during the post-war period. It's just been revealed, says The Gazette, that Nor- man L. Mathews, Q.C., president of the

well in this field.. Since 1948. he has re- ceived b53,859.57 in legal fees, dishone- ments and expenses from Federal depart- ments. His most important client was the Department of National Health and Wei- fare which has paid him more than 339,000 of the total-chiefly in connection with nor-

PUBLIC l'Ukl.'M

This column is open in the discussion by correspondent: of questions of interest. The Gunrdian does not necessar- ily endorse the opinion of wucspondenta.

ROAD COMPLAINT

Sir.-Please allow me space in which to complain of the service received frcm the snow plow which operated in West. Prince. We never got our roads crpen once this win- ter. All the rest. of the district roads were opened around us it few days after each storm. but the Piusville Road was untouched. In fact there only had to be a good white frost for the plow to be on some road. we are still maroonved here. as we cannot get. out with wagon or sleigh. let alone a car. A week ago a poor man from the district had to take his wife to the hospital. ovcr bare ground for two miles, and the rest of the way over six or eight inches of snow. We were told by our super- visor that the plow was to come on the 7th of April to open our mads. but. we never saw it. yet. W have 9. good honest pcople in our midst. and some very staunch Liberals in Piusvllle: but. I'm afraid if this keeps on there wil be no more Liberals. I am. Sir .etc.

OLD LIBERAL

Pillsville, P. E. I.

The Case For Clan Campbell

(The Seolsrnnni

was the "occasional unpopular- lty" of the Campbells partly due to the fact that in the Hlizhlnnds. 115 elsewhere, the other follow did not like the man who was always "a Jump ahead"?

This theory was advanced at the first meeting of the recently form- ed Edinburgh branch of the Clan Campbell Society. held in the Boi- moral Rooms, Princes Street with the Earl of Brcodaibano. hon president of the Society in the chair.

Mr. Ian M. Campbell. W.S. pres- ident. of the branch. suggested t.ha' Sir Duncan Campbell one of LOIKI Breadalbanehi sixteenth centurv ancestors. had to some extent shown the way to the planners of to-dny when he zoned his country, from the west Coast to near the estuary of the Toy, and decld:d on the seven focal points where he would have castles from which to check raids on his vast posszsslons. These castles-nt Barcaldlne, Kilchurn, Achallader. Loch Doch- art, Edinample. Finlarlg. and Ball- loch-pia.:le Sir Duncan's lands the most prosperous and peaceful in the Highlands.

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We might regard the Scottish Tourist Board as somet.hln;,v of an innovation, said Mr. Campbell. and than he quoted from the Statisti- cal Account of Scotland, published in 1793 a passage on Glenorchy and Inishaii that began with the words: "Nowhere in the fligh- lands his more attention been paid to the accommodation of the traveller than on the property of Lord Breadnibano.”

"In these two stories." he re- marked. "you get one clue to the reason why our clan is not always spoken of very kindly in some parts of the Hiphiandu. There. as elsewhere. tho other fellow does not. like the man who to always 3 Jump ahead."

The other clue to the Cnmpbollv oocuioml lack of popularity. he added. lay in the foot that at. the time when the clan system via: superseded by a new form of gov- ernmont. for Bootlond they were, and had but for some time. the moot. powerful clan in the High-

Ontario Liberal Association, has also fared fwd!-

He admitted that the compbcllo. in their long history, had certainly taken part in feuds. forum. and deprodntlono, but claimed that they had behaved no worse than any other cion. and perhaps bot.- tar than Jame. .

0 Mr. Campbell cuguoiod that tho magnitude of tho llauocro of oloncoo had boon puma up for

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K From in letter by Robert Bruce Stewart, E:-'q., in The Examiner, Feb. 21, 1883:

"In your paper of the 10th inst. I see a paragraph headed 'Changc of Namc', from Bull Creek. to Bayficld. The only Bull Creek that I know of Is on Lot or Town- ship Number 46, in King's County. I believe that the name 'Buil Creck' was bestowed upon that locality. in consequence of a form. part of my late father's property, having been 'snld' by the late Mr. ---- to II third party. the price being :1 Bull. Of this irnnsnction I produced evidence before the Compulsory Land Con- fiscniion Commission In the year 1875. I regret that the name of Bull Creek should be changed. even to that. of Bayficld. for it was a memorial. or an historical record of the mic and treatment accorded to 'propri(-tors de jurc' in this Colony. This Bull Creek farm was by no, means the only part of my late fnthcr's property sold by parties who had neither legal nor moral right. or title- by giving whnt I have heard termed 'n squattcr's decdl."

Whiteyi-i;ia7nK's 7Counlry

(Toronto Saturday Night)

South Africa. which is currently celebrating the 300th anniversary of the nrrival of its first Dutch settler. is receiving more brlckbots than compliments these days. We doubt that many Canadians who strongly disapprove of what. is go- ing on in South Africa hate a very clear idea of the situation, except that "Melon is mlstreuting the colored people". And without. holding any brief for Dr. Malau we wonder if Canadians aren't just n bit too free to criticize South Africa for her handling of a problem which we could only fully appreciate if we had 50 mil- lion Indians in Canada.

We say ”South Africa" nnd not Just Mnlrm and his Nationalist. Party adviscdly. For while the United Party (formerly led by General Smutsi is in nctive oppo- sitlon to Mnlmfs measures. it. also stands firm for a white South Af- rica. The real difference is that. the United Party would not go backward, and take away such political rights as the Colored community and the Bantu natives presently 5:. These rights- whlch really exist. only in Cape Province, lie dormant. in Natal and are denied in the Orange Free State and Transvaal-are guaran- teed by one of the "entrenched clauses" in the Constitution. Ma- lon'a effort to take them back, by a bare majority in parliament in- stead of the conat.itutlonolly-rc- quired two-thirds. "isn't justice". and than what the demonstra- tion: are about.

But the people demonstrating against Malan. we are assured by highly-qualified United Party nour- cea, arc in no way in favor of equal rights for "Colorado" and natives. They shudder at. the notion of in South Africa without a color bar. going the way of Brn- zil or Hawaii. They point. out tlmt, with the cxcepiion of the North African litborol South Afri- cn in the only part. of the contin- ent. auitablo to white settlement. They see no comparison with what the British are doing in Nigeria and the Gold Coast. to develop

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Jacobite Press of the time. At the ' 'on of inquiry held in 1695. the number killed was put at. 25; others probably died while cacop- in; through the hills. Thou num- bero were not. very large when a comparison was mode with some other affairs In the Hlghlandn. The point he wished to under- line about Glcocoa. honour, on that It. was not a Campbell V. Ino- Donald affair. Captain ounpboll of olenlyon. to whom than average penon awarded tho ncotut port of the otiium for tho Muucrmwu only a, Ioldle; acting under ordorn. and he but can no ovidonco to pron that. when he was not to the olencoe. billets. Captain Campbell knew that this was part of I plan for ' on intandu Inu-

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Thou. even thou. art Lord alone: thou hast. mndo heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth. and Ill things that are therein, the scan. on! all that In therein. and thou preoerveot them oil; and the host of heaven wor- ohlppeth thee.

native self-rule, since the British are merely handing over power in a territory which they have ad- ministered but: never octt.led,wltlle the nearly three million white oct- tlers of South Africa are there to stay. Nor do the whites have any conscience about. "taking the coun- try. from the natives" (no they might say we in Canada should have) since the Bantu only came into the almost empty land from the north as the white settlers be- gun to push out. from the Cape.

Nevertheless. these people do feel under obligation to help the natives to a modicum of educat- ion. and no doubt they realm: at heart that. with education the Bantu will in time demand polit- ical rights. Declaring that. the Bantu are perhaps .9. generation behind the American negroes in development.. the United Party people appear to be claiming that margin of time gradually to solve a problem for which at. present they can really see no good solu-

tion.

That. South Africa could really be turned into a "white man's country" by simply ”shlft.lng the natives to the warmer arena of Africa" no the pro-Molan news- paper Vanderland now urges. far from being it matter of "courage- ous. for-sighted statesmansiiip" is a mod drcom.whloh would set all Africa, Asia and the U.N. by the ears.

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Detroit and Windsor Detroit has all the luck. It. is hoot to I gracious lady, Queen Juliana of The Netherlands, and her con. sart, Prlnca Bernhard. Her Majes- ty'.I crowded itinerary unfortun- Italy did not. permit. her to include a visit to Windsor. Many from Windsor and other pom of south- western Ontario will be in Michi- gan, however. to catch some part of this royal visit. There is a con-, aideroble number of Dutch real- denta, new and old, in this area. For them. regardless of age. the Queen will bring strong recollec- tions of o colorful land across the sen. All of us can Join with our good Dutch neighbors and friends

area. -Windsor Daily star.

when only small fish are caught in "your lake." there maybe u rea- son - too ma'ny fish. It. frequent.-i ly happens, according to the On- tario Deparlment of Lands and Forests biologists, that in spectra so abundant in a body of. water that the food supply be-' comes scarce. with the result. that the species, while numerous, tend to be small in size and poor in quality. In this case, it. has been shown to be beneficial to remove a large number of these fish and to' plant them in other suitable waters. Recently. the department removed 12.500 stunted bass adults from' uVel'8iDCkCd lakes and placed them in more desirable waters.

zed has showed that they grown appreciably in their homes." the experts repoited. Stratford Beacon-Herold.

had

In I recent speech here an In- surance executive

VOTES KEEPS.

usually share their big events. but today

in wishing l-fer Mbjesty and Prince: Bernhard a pleasant visit to this

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APRIL 21. 1952

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Q fNotes By The Wayf. 3

fat: are given to putting their cu; in reverse and backing up on, fences, dogs, cats. human being; flower beds and other local fm.' plcvaniento. This play: havoc with accident statistics and gives in. aux-ance actuation nights of sleep. le-: worry. On the other hand .-. great many people, not associated with the insurance business. it 1, true, have grown fond of reverse gear: and find them useful. Many motorists, for example. would find it an inconvenience if they had to trundle their car: out of the gar. 1829 by hand. Anyway, we think 'that the insurance companies should have in' greater gcunnm. ogalnat high gear: than reverse gears. After all, not many mogo,-. fats race trains to level crosings Whm backing up. -Winnipeg Tn. bune. I

To hep the public constantly on guard against the multiple dang- era of traffic it has been auggestcd to mark with 5. red cross every spot where there has been log; or life. That. would certainly make many a road across our beautiful C0l""TY Bl00my. and give certain roads the appearance 0! a path through I cemetery. Those who hold to the memory of dear ones carried off by men tragedies dn not need this constant reminder of danger, any more than no motor. ists conscious of their full respon. slbillty. would the red crosses me. coed in hrtnglng to their senses those really responsible for the

"Subae- state of things which d I quently studies of retrieved. tag- It is permissible to dtziebt

the authorities have in their hand;

new,a means of effective control, sev. - ere regulations strictly applied, M L! being done more and more, ex.

cept. here. What are we waltim for, to get action, in the provlncq

told his llaten- wh d in

era that from u standpoint of ufe- numreei-ours” we en” ue mom ty, cars should be built without re- highest in Canada?-Le Canaan Apparently rnotor- Montreal

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PROFESSIONAL

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A. Waltilon Gander. LL.B.

BAIIRISTEB. s0I.lCI'I'0R. Etc. Pizillipo Building III Grafton Street Money to Loon Collection

Gaudet & Hosxord

GILBERT A. GIIIJDET. Q A. LI. I

Bnrriotcn and solicitor! Money to Donn

Canadian Bank of Commerce lid.

J. A. McGuigan ISARIIISTER. SOLICITOR. Eh NOTARY. ITO. IARRISTER. SOLIUITOI CURBIE BUILDING.

Palmer 8: Huslom

A J. IIASLAM. B.A. LIA Barrister. Etc. Bank of Nov: sooth aumuen Charlottetown P E I. MONEY I0 LOAN

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M. Aiban Former B. A-. LL. I. MONEY T0 LOAN Cimlottctown. P E. I.

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A. W. MATIIESON. Q-C. A. ll. PEAKE. B.A. LLB.

JOHN P. NIL'H0l.snN. LL11 llarrloboro. oto

Collooiionn - Money To Inn 00 Grant George street Chorlotietaown

J. S. Tiiflllli

Optomelrin Eyu enmlneo ginuel fiitod

corner Rent to Queen su. Oiiire Pbore I956--nuuu IOIS

FREDERIC A. LARGE. O.C.

Bari-inter. Solicitor. Notary Royal Bank of Canada Building Charlottetown. P E: I. LOANS ON CITY AND FARM PROPERTIB

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Crows know all things. Their .-lircvwl bright eyes

Glance sardonic as they strop their beak:

And preen thcrlr hard blank quills

BWTY 5 From hurried flight when beset

" William A. Reddin

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D. L. MATHIESON. LL.B.. Q.C.

G. R. FOSTER. LLB. Loans on City and Farm Properties 150 Richmond Street Charlottetown. P.E.I.

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J. A. CARRIJTIIERB

and harried

By the frantic darting of distract- ed finches.

Crows know the rabbit crushed on the highway. -

The great cage of ribs and apraw led bones of

Canton clean picked and left. to bleach.

Grows do not know. some ' Ly hour,

The steulthy stalk of farmer boy,

Shotgun glintlng steel-hot. sun.

Surprised by death. they plum- met. to earth.

ilovimg known all. they lose III:

and lie, Pitlful-brave handfuls of block.

---Fred swayze in Canadian Poetry Magazine.

TEMPTS YOIINGBTERS

TORQUAY, England -46?) -- A special guard was placed on on exhibit: of electric shavers when the Electrical Development Ano- cintion organized on exhibition for ochoolboyo here. Official: explained that at previoul exhibition: many goungmsrl emerged without eye-

rows.

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