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President. and Associate Editor, Ian A. Burnett. Associate Editor. Frank walker. .- C

IRCULATION "Coven Prince Edward Island like the dew” i

he strongest memory is weaker than i the weakest ink". 1

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'c.'iiTai.-()7'r'ru'rowN, SATURDAY, JAN. 17, 195:; Now For The Marine Slip! With the assurance of a new automobile car ferry being built by the Dominion Gov-

ernment and made available by 1935, an-, other splendid opportunity arises of benc-l

fiting this Province both industrially and from the standpoint of water transpor- tation. l

The question of a marine slip for Chai- lnttetown has been mooted for a long time. lack as far as 191.3 the Dominion propos- ed to build a railway drydock at South- port with accommodation sufficient to over- haul the Borden car ferry, and designs were actually prepared by an American firm for this purpose. Pressure from other Provinces resulted in this scheme being scrapped. but the issue was revived in 1942, after the loss of the S. S. ”Charlottetown” and the narrow escape incurred by the "Prince Edward Island" from an enemy submarine while on route from a Quebec

drydock. In October of that year the Maritime Boards of Trade, in annual meeting at

Moncton, indorsed the proposal of a marine drydock for Charlottetown and in the fol-1 lowing November, at a meeting called by; the Charlottetown Board of Trade, a: strongly worded resolution was forwarded to Ottawa on the subject. This resolutioni noted that Mr. James L. Craridall had re-i cently inspected the Charlottetown harbourl, ' and had pronounced the site adjacent to the plant. of Bruce Stewart and Company; Ltd, as the most suitable on which to: construct a slip capable of handling ships; of at least the size of ear ferries to service& this Province. '

This issue was revived from time to time, but unfortunately it became a political foot-i hall. and met the fate of similar issues bylt being trotted out in election campaigns and; then conveniently shelved and forgotten? The result is that we are still without dry- docking facilities of any kind, and are ur.-ti able to service even small boats in thcp matter of underwater repairs. 1

These facts are stated by way Of 0mPh?1'- sizing the importance of a meeting which; has been called for Tuesday evening next) in the City Hall, by employees of Bruce. Stewart and Company, who have inViiC-d our Federal, Provincial and civic represen-j tatives. Board of Trade and Commercci Chamber members to sit in on 1 discussioni of our marine slip requirements. Bruce. Stewart and Company have done excellent work in reconditioning war-service boats for the Government, but these boats must be towed back and forth to Pictou for underwater jobs which could well be done here if the facilities were available. The local firm employs 152 men at present, and with a marine slip these men could be keiii lll full-time employment and could do all the work required on the Wood Island-d - ferries and other boats as well.

It is to be hoped that this meeting will be largely attended and that it will result in joint, efforts being made to have this long overdue project started during the

present, year.

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Charting Arctic Waterways

'l'Itcre are 10,000 miles of water pas- . sages in Canada's Arctic archipelago. area is described as ”a vast ramification of interlocking channels”, presenting a tremendous challenge to hydrographers. But this job must be undertaken in the near future, as these waters have become important to Canada's defense, economic and scientific development.

Mr. F. C. G. Smith, Domiion hydro- graphcr, has read a paper on the subject before a panel meeting of the American Society of Photogrammctry. The mapping of this vast Arctic area will be done chief- ly by aerial photographs. It is known to contain great mineral wealth, but even more important are the implications from the standpoint of national defence. The submerged continental shelf north of North America is part of the same plateau which holds all the Arctic islands of Canada, Greenland, Iceland and most of the islands north of Europe and Asia.

Few details are known, except that the plateau is crossed by deep gullies-sub- marine valleys extending in between the Arctic islands and affording navigation routes for well-strengthened vessels. The fate of the world may be decided here some day. In any case it is expected that. ore- carrying vessels will be an important factor in tho northern water transportation pic-

f An eradication

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coastal charts 9 Second elm Mull Post Office i prospective ore-shipping ports must be made 1 available.

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This extension of Canada's interests in the north accentuates our tremendous pos- sibilities as a nation, as well as the fact that

year by year the world is growing smaller,;

bringing the continents closer together and! forcing new .conditions tipon world states- men in shaping a course that will avoid a I i l

catastrophic war. Excellent Publicity

Among our many summer attractions to; visitors from other Provinces and the Un-T ited States is the freedom we enjoy from ragweed. so dreaded by hay fever victims.” program started in the Charlottetown area last year has gone far to clean out the pest entirely, and this goal: will. it is hoped. he achieved during the. present season. In the meantime we have the result of a survey conducted through-j out Eastern Canada by Dr. Campagnal head of Laval l'niversity's Faculty of Agri- culture. which is highly gratifying and en-- eouraging. Prince Edward Island receives top billing. with an established index which will be recogni7.ed by hay fever sufferers as the highest in North America.

Realizing the great possibilities of this the P. E. I. Tourist and Information Bur-

can is giving it wide publicity, and there is”

no doubt that it will attract many addition- al visitors to the Province, particularly in late August and during the month of Sep- tember when the need for relief from it'll.” fever is at its worst. It represents another, invaluable asset with which nature has en-I dowed us, and which we should capitalize on to the fullest extent.

Wrong Emphasis

---H I The Government is not putting first; things first in emphasizing the iniquity of, the unknown individual who supplied C. C.j I”. Leader M. J. Coldwell with a copy of the Currie Report. It must, have embar- rassed the Prime Minister and his col- leagues that a Member of Parliament should have had access to the report on conditions in the Department of National Defence be- fore it was ready to be formally presented to Parliament. At the same time the re-, port was intended for Parliament. It. woultl have no meaning as a report to the Depart- ment on the Department and very little as- a report to the administration on a par- ticular branch of the administration.

Any Member of Parliament, in fact,: would seem to be a more proper recipienti of the report than the Minister whose De- partment was being investigated.

What is shown by the reaction of the Government is that the conception of secur- ity is not so much the safety of the nation as the protection of the Government from embarrassing revelations. This is some- thing to be guarded against. It is all too easy for Ministers to slip into the habit of regarding danger to themselves,as being pdanger to the state and requiring as high a degree of protection.

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r I Notes By The Way I. 'I'gIII.I column is open to tho i '7 g '8 mscnsmu" by w"”"""d"'"” ; A dentist says that lupttotisntuiieet that responsibility will

"I Ilursti . f i I - f. 1'! , . - . . .. mmrdm'o'::m:; "3t""L:w”n':3 lcan make h;s work painless. lie strengthen the stand of those who

Hy "Morse we opinion 0' .presume that he would -think poor-i1c.onsidcr that parents should havel w,.,cslmndmts' of a further 5implification-1:s-dtttle or no say about the lives of 1": h.)'Pll0llSm to make the. tooth-ievcn very young children.--Guelph N. . lache painless and thus chminat- Mercury, CHRISTIAN Fl-ILLOWSIIIP ing him altogether? - Peterbor-.

p ---- ough Examiner. t The pickets in Ottawa carry .Sir. - Coins years ago I lived for, isigns in English and French say- six montns Ill 21 model home. Love) In our news columns was the mg: "Think of the Rosenburg

was there and humour and good'story of a farmer at l4'oremost, inichiidren," yes, lhthk of them and fellowship, but. across tr: line fence the ext-ieme south of the province. think of all the children of traitors was a family with which my family who, on January 1. ccmp1ctcd'and murderer; who apparently had no dealings, They never spoke.seccl.ng 65 acres of mustard seed.j-gave no thought to their children to each other, The children neveriThe mid-Winter effort, even in when they committed thcip crime, played together. They tried to set- view of the mild weather, waS:Appeals to sentimentality are thg tie the trouble in the church butpartly experimental, but it was last resort, of those who fhemseiveg that only made it worse. But oneltakcn with the advice of the U. S. were without mercv to their fel- of the boys ncross the fence died,ifi1'm which has 2. contract to buy low countrymen when they sold and over his dead body enmity was the crop. In all. about 40,000 acres out to the enemies of their coun- given up, and anew friendship was of mustard are grown annually try, By all means think of the f0”"?d- g in lsoufhern Alberta. :1 good deal children - all children whose fu- ...i.”.SSf3 iiimiii ".3333: '.ii?ii.”il?””.3ii?.S,? 2?ii.E;Y”.?.” ” ”" U" S" " 0”" ii.” 3;? i22i?.'.i3ff.” 3.: .326 1.”? all to settle. Members take sides - -- A Reg...-d, I I as and it SlJ1'98d9- 30 many excuses The police officer who arrested --:-- arc found for carrying it on. It can himeelf for speeding when his be called cold war because it is a squad car hit a parked car while denial of the very thing for which;he was chasing 9. Speedster in the the Chumh Stand-V Viz. D9369 On line of duty, is probably the best WW1 and R005 will Emmi! men. iexample of obedience to the law.

15 50d taking BOCOUM Of ihlslregardleas of the offender. we War Within his church? Who can can't help wondering though if he i doubt it? There is a vital coiinec-iacyually enjoyed me penalty of i tion between the war within the the fine hc imposed on himscn - church and the wars going on in and if his feelings toward -reaps" mi? V;'0l'1d i90dB.V. were as friendly as before. One

This I5 G053 W01'1d- Mid "' I”'icoulrl develop a split personality eltidcs the church which is set here under such a situauon. A Brock. to be the means of the world's re- Vine Recordel. and -I-,n"...g dempiion, Jesus was profoundly , ,.,. an-VWU5 that his PEOPIC 5110"” We The family may have lost much There's a homey Chimney Corner I” ha"m0"Y- Hleliemre 3” ha” the of its authoritv, but it has and a pastoral Cow Bay, only nubile pm.ver he ever utterediiost nothing which can prevent it, And illel'e's old West Ncwdy Quoti- as far as we know. the burden of from mvmg very ,.ou,,g Child,-eht dy that you ought to :80 llmcil W35 mill his 999915 might immunized against such diseases) 50-719 day: all he one. As he looks over theias whooping mughv ,hphih9y1g,i And if we were minus Mina: would world todav his heart: must. be soreiscarlet fever, and s,,h.,upoxg MoH,.i we mind it very much. as he beholds the disjointed condl- cm and mm”; have an 0b1igaHQnjS0 long as we kept Paradise, Elya. mm M his bud-I" me Clhurchi to see that children are protected 13" Field-5 find Such?

The” 15 ” Kmwmg hamm"-V b" against these di ascs. Failure toi

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IN NOVA SCOTIA'

Down here in Nova. Scotia. there are names to stir the soul;

There's a place called Ecum Sccum. there's a Kitimiti Shoal,

We amble tip to Aspy Bay by way of Chezzetcook ta ” 3T-f--'9':-"5-3'3 And then come back by Stewlackc

he and finish at Banook:

Or we can romp on Rogue's Roost. I w '57! Q3 E”.-3-.f,.srf.-ill-ro.&,;.Gt.I-'Qrti-K

tween the churches. We are begin- ning to realize that our divisions are dishonourlng to Jesus and de- laying his kingdom. The whole trend of church life today is to- vtard unity. It is something to pray for daily, The salvation of mankind depends upon the solution of this

and maybe scale Skir Dhu. Then if you wish there's Ingonlsh, seductive Sissnboo:

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i O i It would be easy to be jocular about the iSummcrside Business and Professional Wo- imen's interest in speech training but the subject is, in fact", extremely important. Good speech habits are even more fund- amental in education than the three Rls.

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Montague's concrete street paving, un- jfor. The payment in full was dramatized in it ceremony in which the final lot of debentures was burned by Mayor B. H. Yeo. The paving must have seemed an expensive undertaking 22 years ago but the town can hardly have regretted its long term policy.

If. R. H. the Duke of Edinburgh has been appointed to the highest rank in the British Army and R. A. F. The Royal Navy, however, has a higher rank than Ad- miral of the Fleet. The post of Lord High Admiral has long been "in commission," the commissioners being commonly known as the Admiralty. The last individual to hold the rank was Lord Howard of Effing- ham.

Anton Tchekov, Russian novelist and short-story writer, was born this date 1860. He alternated between writing and medical practice but was always poor and gener- ally in ill-health. He was interested in the social order and in peasant studies but-new cr posed political problems. I-lis influence on modern drama and the short story was great but less so on Russian than on French and English literature. Ills best known play was "The Cherry Orchard".

dertaken in 1931, has now been fully paid.

Or start a day on Breakfast Isle;

nrohlem before the wider problem have lunch at. Sandwich

lumt is wxing the world mdax Ami ll. crime to pass also on nu-I , I am. Sin etc, nIIIN' bahhulli. that he entered into, point

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j W.I. GREEN. ”"” ”-Vii”!-303"" "mi "'"K'"3 i""'j At sundown sup on Lobster Claw or . Sham" Bmdgeg there was it man whose right hand gnaw E Gmmpus joint.

I Fggrgiw was withered. And the scribes and Phnrlseen xvafched Iilm. whetll- , H, 1 d . - C H or he would heal on the Sahbnthj For IIfR0rl.lSecot:'i;;;,:g:n),'onquem ' day; that they might find an no-.-I-he kennel clubs love pugwashv against him. But. hep musicians Harmony;

knew their III0llEIII.I.lRlI(I said till. Skull Bog Lakefs ml. "Buy Imus. the man uhlch had he ulthcret Mfmgnanb Covey: ml, crooks lmnd. Rise up. and stand Earth In, Oyster Pom.” for wnnomeurs. the midst. And he arose and sfnntl Frying Pang ml. coon; :::(""v:"l"l0'IJ,:":'l"':":o then”, But. you can have each place I've luwful on this Snhhnfh tiny to do to acuppen bush or

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"On Thursday Est His Excell- tcncv the Lieutenant Governor. Lady Mary Fitzroy, Misc Fitzroy.

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By Observer

POLITICAL

A news report from the States says that President-Elect. Eisen-

ghower is already having trouble

over minor office appointments. Republican congress are loud- ly complaining that hey are be- ing unjustly by-passed in the mat- ter of Job assignments. and from all sections of the country there are demands from good Replibli- cans (and bad ones. too. no doubt) that they should have more to say as to who should or should not share in the feast of fat things.

So, even before the new Presi- dent has assumed office, valuable time which ought. to be spent in preparing broad strategy for the new administration is being taken up by'those who are hungry for the spoils of victory with which, in many cases it can be assumed they had little or nothing to do.

It is, of course, an old, old story and one which does not help very much to maintain good and et- ticlent government. Nor is'..lt con- fined to the United States. Here in Canada. too, political patronage is undoubtedly a. stumbling-block to the proper functioning of a Democratic system of government. In ftar too many instances the lives of the better politicians and statesmen are made miserable by this constant begging for the so- called "plums".

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If that were all it would be bad enough but that is only part. of the sorry tale. The tragedy is that often the usefulness of political leaders, especially when they are in office, is impaired very con- siderably by the time and energy they are obliged to waste in try- ing to appease the angry parasites. Mr. Eisenhower did show com- mendable courage right. at the start when he named a well known Democrat to head the department of Labor simply because he seem- ed to be the best fitted man for the Job. Whether the new President will be able to carry on in the same courageous way with respect to appointments in which he has any discretion remains to be seen. it does not appear too likely, however, for there as well as here the ar- rogance of job seekers is equalled or excelled only by their impor- tunlng ways.

The old shibboleih "To the vic- tors belong the spoils" la about as undemocratic as anything could be. In military warfare it has long since been abandoned. It seems destined not to be abandoned in national affairs so long as there are third-rate politicians who can think of nothing but election day votes and third-rate electors who are prepared to barter their fran- chise for EL price.

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In it. dictatorship where one party domination is accepted with- out question, the principle is'con- sistent with all the other foolish- ness involved. But Democratic government has never implied one party domination, at least. in the- ory. Minorities have rights and responsibilities no less than ma- jorities. This fact. perhaps more than any other, is what. distin- guishes free political institutions from institutions that are rigidly

PATRONAGE

controlled by totalitariam hands,

To keep a qualified man from public office of any sort whatso. ever for no other reason than that he asserted his inalienable right. of political independence is just as bad in principle, though not of course in fact, as to throw him into concentration camp to w1th;-;- and starve. Conversely, to appoim a man to some emolument. for no other mason than that he is or has been politically useful is actu. ally an act of malfeasance, however respectably it may be dressed tor- the occasion.

Government appointments and public service jobs should be dis. tributcd in exactly the same way that reputable and well conducted business concerns distribute theirs, on the bases of ability and inte- grity. The fact that good "party" men often, more often than not probably. make good officials does not alter one jot. or one tittle the principle involved.

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Any honest. observer who has watched the progress of a Provin- cial election on this Island-and in this we are no different. Irom any other Province-must have been sickened in his heart and soul at the spectacle of Menoetrvering for little offices on the part of so many people. They do it not be- cause they are basically avarictous -in other respects they are mgr. ally impeccable-but because they fancy it. is the expedient and smart thing to do.

Not infrequently the same Job

is promised to a dozen aspirants with consequent bitterness to at least. eleven of them. This sort of thing has been going on for 5., lens unit. the gross immorality of the practice is scarcely ever pointed out. I have read somewhere that the Social Creditors in Western Canada have begun to tackle this social problem in earnest. Let me lay here that I have no special liking for these gentlemen and what 1 know about their monetary tech- niques could be written on a post- age Sf-amp with a lot. of space to spare. In this latter respect. I am probably in the same position as most. other people including the Social Credit leaders themselvu. But if it is true that they are taking the lead in doing away with political patronage of all. kincls they deserve credit and hon- our for starting :1. new and more righteous trend in the history of responsible government.

ANCIENT INDUSTRY

The art of flour-milling in one form or another is estimated to be 6,000 years old.

HISTORIC TOWN

Three Rivers in Quebec Will founded by Sieur de Lavlolette in 1634.

FRENCH EXPERT

The locks of the Panama Canal were designed by Alexander Eiffel. who built the famed Eiffel Tower

in Paris.

PROFESSIONAL CARDS

Mutheson. Peuke 8: Nicholson A. w. rtarnrsou. (2.0. A. H. PEAKE. B.A., LLB.

JOHN P. NICHOLSON. LLB.

Barrister-I. Etc. Collections - Money To Loan- 90 Great George Street

Charlottetown

J. A. McGuigun

BARRISTER. SOLICITOR, Eta NOTARY. Etc. Currie Building

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Palmer & Huslum A. J. HASLAM. 8.A., LLB. Barrister, Etc. Bank of Nova Scotlu Chamber: Charlottetown. P. E. I. MONEY T0 LOAN

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BARRISTER. SOLICITOB. Etc.

130 Blclimoml 5t. - Charlottetown Phone 690

Dr. A. L. Muclsoac

DENTIST Dental K-Bay GLORIA BUILDING 119 Grafton St. Phone ztli

giiglecidby Siteeorlt-(If)n.F'IE.mI-(I?V'H:?iI:i:l?i!rIId "F '0 dastroy In ahml hwklri earth-Upper M d '- tit, and Mr. I-laythorne, proceeded to "'""d ”b”"t "W" g""'t 1:" l'h said unto the man. . in c or gshe,-mun R. Burbnnk.

Cape Traverse, for the purpose of witnessing the couriers crossing the Strait of Northumberland, on their return from Cape Tormen- tlnc with the weekly mail. The principal object. of His Excellencyh visit was to ascertain if any and what. improvement: could be made in the present winter mail route.

"The party arrived at the Cape on Friday, at noon, and after driv- ing on the fixed chore ice for nearly a. mile, discovered the couri- ers at. the distance of about four miles, making their way through the drift ice. The day being exceed- lngly fine, the night was truly gratifying, and we understand that His Excellency expressed him- self in term: of commendation of the hardy perseverance and dilli- uence displayed by Mr. Phillip Irving, the contractor. and his co- travellerl. We hope the lubject will receive attention in the prop- er quarter, and that suitable en- couragement will be afforded to the praiseworthy exertion! of these on- terprising men." -The Colonial Herald. April 10, 1841.

thy hnml. And IIP did so: and his hnml was restored whole. as the other.

IFIFSI published about twenty years ago in Maclennu Magazine. '

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LONDON - (CP) - A bronze plaque has been let in the floor of historic Westminster Hall to mark the place of the late Kin:

Seam” M,.3.in.gtnia before the Agents throughout the Province.

J. A. Currufhers. R.O. OPTOMETRIST in Kent street Phone 2371' (Next to slmmon'o Agency)

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BARRISTEB. SOLICITOII. cu-. Phillip: Julldln III Grafton Street Money to Loan Collection

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Dr. W. R. Carson

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Palmer Graduate . ' CHARLOTTETOWN . Phone I072 201 Prince Sf.

M. "Alison Farmer. 9.0.

B.A., LLB. Barrister and solicitor

Bank of Commerce Building Charlottetown Money to Loan

MacPhee 87'rainor H. F. lIItlcPHEE. B.A.. QC.

E. SOMERLED TBAINOB, B.A. Blrrlutern, Etc. Chas. R. McQuoid

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CHAIII.()TTICT(IwN Phone I'll I

Byron J. Grant. O.D.

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Frederic A. Large. O.C

larrfnter. solicitor. Notary Itoynl Bank of Canada Building Charlottetown. P. E. l. , Loam on City and Farm Properties

IE-K. A. Muciochern

DENTIST Dental X-ray Above Charlottetown Clinic 202 Queen St. Phone 041

J.-S. Taylor

OPTOMETRIBT Eye: Examined, Cllllel Fitted Corner Kent and Queen on

Office Phone I950-llonu loll

Gautier & I-Iuszord GILBERT A. GAUDET. B.A., LLB Barristers and Solicitors Money to Loan Canadian Bank of Commerce Bids-

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