IIjAGE FOUR TllE ti-llhlLllTTETllWll GUARDIAN .

Iornlng Dally (Founded tn 1887) Allborllod u Second Class Mall. Post. Oflloo 1 Depnrtrmoal. Ottawa.

, Prddent. Inn A. Burnett; Vice-President, Wm. R. Burnett; Soon-Tress, G. M. Burnett; Editor and y Manning Director, J. R. Burnett; Associate Editor, Frank Walker.

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than

the Weakest Ink." FRIDAY, APRIL 1s, 194i

ll Compromise That Failed

That was a hard "crack" that Public Works Minister Barbour gave to Hon, Dr. Cyrus Mac- " Millon, when he told in the Budget debate how badly advised he had been by Dr. Cyrus while the latter was representing Queen's County at Ottawa and was acting as parliamentary as- ‘ sistont to the Minister of Defense fcr Air. Ac- ’ cording to Mr. Barbour, he had bee.i tryinq to get a settlement from the Defense Department for over $l00,000 of damage done to roads in Prince County by heavy airport trucks during the war. He had been offered $20,000 and Han. Cyrus had advised him to take it as he did ' no,‘ think he would g:t any more. Mr. Barbour refused to do so, and held out until finally the Dominion Minister agreed to pay $80,00C-- Q sixty thousand more than our then Queen's ~' Ccunty representative thought we should take- v but still over twenty thousand dollars short of the actual damage.

g Unfortunately for all of us, the King Gov- ernment has nct yet made good lts offer. As Mr. Barbour explained it, there was a change -of Ministers at Ottawa—a cabinet shuffle for which, of course, Prime Minister King was re- sponsibl-e-—end the new men, adiised by legal 'counsel, insisted on holding up payment until similar claims in other Provinces are settled. That is the situation as it stands. "lt may be ‘for years arid it may be forei/er." Mr. Barbour couldn't even convince the Government at Qt- tawo to pay one cent on his highway paving pro- ijects this year. He came back empty-handed on both. counts.

Perhaps, after all, our former Libeall M.P. -—-knowing more about the King Government than our Public Works Minister-was not so far out in his reckoning. He may have figured that a bird in the hand for the lonns-llughc< Govern- mc-irt was better than two or even half o dozen in the King bush at Ottawa.

In Saskatchewan

i, from lkgino suggest the probabil-i

ity of a Pro‘ icial general election in Saskatche-y wan some time during the present year. All . if"! DOlillCHl parties are stiffening their organ- . ization and some nominating conventions have already been held. On any balanced survey of political conditions in the Province, there seems - be no reason why the C. C. F. Government, aded by Hon. T. C. Douglas, shot-Id appeal to e constituencies this year. The last general ection was held on June l5, 1944, and the gislative Assembly has still over two years ore to run before living up to the statutory mit of its length of days. But the fact that me may be of the essence of success in the se of Canada's only Socialist Government, hose enactments so far have produced mainly isillusionment and resentment, may have in- ced Premier Douglas to make the plunge be- re the political waters become too much dis- rbed, At any rate the Liberal and Progres- ve Conservative leaders are obviously expect- g an early Provincial appeal to the people.

Although there has been no coalition of he solid parties in Saskatchewan, such as that which was formed in British Columbia to com- but the Socialist movement, the dispatch quoted above says au agreement has b-cen reached bc- tween the Liberals and Progressive Conserva- tives to combine their forces in the two-scat urban ridings to prevent the election of C. C. F. candidates. There are three of these dual- member ridings in Saskatchewam-Regina, Sask- atoon and Moose Jaw, all of which returned the C. C. F. candidates in the i944 election. Al- though no public announcement of this "half- and-half" coalition has been made by any of the leaders, it l5 significant that the Liberals recently decided to narn»: only one candidate lll Saskatoon, the idea presumably being that the Conservatives will do likewise when their con- vention is held.

The Critical

With the removal of nearly all price ceil- rngs in the United States and many in Canada, the period of de-control in North America is now far advanced. llut, according to the Win- nipeg Free Press, the period of ample produc-

Renort.

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Phase

_ ed. Until that production appears we shall live , in difficult times and in serious economic dan- . ger. At this point in the gradual recovery from wor the utmost wisdom will be required of em- ’ players, of labor and of consumers if we are to

avoid serious consequences. Canada, which refused to lift all its con- trols prematurely, has been able to resist, so for, much of the impact of price increases in the United States. But because the business of Canada and tho United States- is closely inter- locked, because goods are moving daily in . enormous volume across the international bound- ory and from one price zone to another, in the [and prices on both sides of the’ boundary will be roughly equal, allowing for the incidence of thrills‘) transportation and tax-as. Realizing l. Qlltoda has sought to hold its price levels - ' at lblo in the belief that tho

tion to satisfy public demand has not yet arriv-'

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periencing tho intermediate rise.

So far this programme has worked out roo- sonably well. Prices certainly have risen in Caroda and in some fields are likely to rise further as controls are removedu This is un- avoidable unless this country is foolish enough to attempt to isolate itself Dom the economy of the world on which it largely lives. And unless we propose to live forever with not only prices but wages and working conditions strictly regu- lated by the government in a totalitarian state, controls must be removed as soon as adequate supplies of goods appear in each individual line

of production. __._.s_.__._____.

— EDITURIAL NOTES i-.

Seasonal and other temporary helpers, such as utreet cleaners, are perturbed over the pro- posed new regulation calling for resignation at seventy. Several of them have reached, or about to leach, that age, and consider they are too vouig to be compulsorily laid on the shelf. The Mayor and City Clerk should assure them they will be unaffected, as they are not, unfortunate- ly for them, pensionable.

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Rev. and Mrs. I. Judson Lcviy arc to be greatly missed on their departure for their new home and duties in Moncton. Mr. Levy has beer. a power of strength in our midst during his ministrations at First Baptist Church, his worl. among the young being especially out- standing. lt is not every departing Minister who gets such a regretful send-off as Mr. Levy has received. o I I I i History repeats itself. "You remember how lcarus took a flying-machine built by his father, Daedalus, and went soaring away aim- Iessly to get as near the sun as he could, (says ian Finlay, over B.B.C.). At last the sun melted ilie wax used to hold the feathers on the wings and Icarus crashed and was killed. We're so qoorl at inventing ingenious machines, and so crirrinally stupid at thinking out the proper ‘vol/s of using them." C Q Q

Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles Darwin and Francis Galton, noted scientists, and him-elf a naturalist, doctor and poet, died this doti- i802. He anticipated in pcfit the theory of evolution propouncled by Ilimarck and his grand- sons. He also anticipated the destruction of zhe world by the power of the split atom, when, ital after star from heaven's high arch shall rush,

‘Sum sink on suns, and systems systems crush, Heo-flong, extinct, in one dark centre fall, And death and night; and C1100! mingle olll

The honour and distinction bestowed an Mr. Frank MacKinnon, M.A., D.Sc., in being ap- poirted deon of the Department of Political "science in Carleton College, is well-merited and will be appreciated by his many friends here. Professor MacKinnon, ever since his P, W. C. day‘. has token a keen. interest in politics and public life generally, anid has contributed large- ly, liy both voice and pen, to discussions on these subiects. His series’ of articles on Prince Ed- wor~l Island public men, which appeared in our locrl Press, tended to show the enlightened gfUl-P of the Science he hos been chosen to

‘reach. I N I D

A drip-proof tap, the washer of which can be changed without turning tho water off,at the main, has recently appeared in Britain. Con- sistng of only six parts, it is based on a new principle resulting from wartime advances in hydraulic equipment in aircraft. Two washers, marle of a new synthetic resilient material, re- plane the normal one. Sealing is effected by water pressure. After being turned on and off l,0lf-0,000 times in laboratory tests-the equiv- alent of 40 years of household use—the tap was as good as new.

Q I Our educational transportation handicaps are as nothing compared with those of other

plates. In some parts of Africa they go by air to their classes, not exactly out of enthusiasm but for the simple reason that there is no other torm of transport available. Appropriate air- crart are used in out-of-the-way districts where he farmers live o hundred miles or more from the nearest school. United Kingdom aircraft manufacturing firm is making a specialty of supplying the l2 to l4 small seat machines so tho‘ farmers’ children may be able to attend SClluOl regularly. Here we grudge sending our chililren two or three miles, especially if it on- lull; the use of a horse. ‘v I W

lt is hardly fair for-representatives of rural constituencies to oppose the City of Charlotte- town's imposition of an employment tax on transients. This tax bears hardly on no one ex- cept those who prefer to live out of town while drawing their income from it. The City has to pro-ride all the necessaries to enable both resi- dent and outsider to earn a living within its bounds, and surely it would not be playing the game to permit all and ‘sundry to come in and benefit without contributing some share of what they earn to maintain the smooth running of the City's plant, equipment and social order. What is $10 per annurn for such a privilege-less than 20c per week, the third of the cost of a packet

of cigarettes?

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~ The Texas disaster is iust another remind- er that hero we have no continuing City, and have no priority claims on existence, wor or no wor, atomic bomb, or no atomic bomb. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, we may be wiped out, neck and crop and have no come back, oven to complain how unfair it is, and how unprepared we were for tho sudden transition frdm the hora to the hereafter. Tho Ruler of the Universe tolerates Quiolings, disloyalists, Jroilaruand other rnisdom for a ‘time, and than by some cotootrophic stroke reminds in that un- tho laws. of God are mpoctarl all is not I wltlltllo world:

Tlriit inch o should bigot, ‘loch Ifdllllll l»,

tltll , ,wlll shortly begin to stabil- dr decline. ln other words, whllo

., __ i grtllroogh a further ,- i,- ' minnow.» cm

till! Canada ~ could

rue cannon-crown cuimoum

llotes lly the Way

Joe Loula ls to have another bout 1n June, but. the challenger ls not yet named. His opponent is appar- elrtly arioiiymum even before the fight. — Edmonton Journal.

T00 Ipfluy people get their ‘ideas of love and PCIUSDCG from movies snys Dorothy Dix. If they are no more accurate liri this than llicy

are lii depleting newspaper men, no virontter there are so iztany alvorcepk-— Windsor Star.

lncolnolivo engineers it ls u do - stood. are not permitted lo drink irrhlle on duty. It. 1s qulle a5 lm- Pfifullve that truck and rulomobile driver's. who do not: travel on a pfuvale right of ivay. should avoid iuloxicanls before or during (ll-iv. 111g. Ir canoe: be lClfl often repealed that alcohol and gasoline is kl bad mixture. - Toronto Telegram

We could use a good loll/ion showing a l“;“.l kicking himself in the teeth. Il would ‘illustrate the activities cf some labor people about waxes and would be equally useful in illustrating to farmers the fallacy of tlie vlew that higher Wlflges for workmen necess-arlly mean expanded demand for fnrmsluffs. —- Bovvmnlivile Can- adian Statesman,

Th: Gallup Poll pcupe appear lo be working oli lli€ prlnciple that ll they bake enough polls they can make a. big lXllpfCrSlfJfl on the Dubliv by referring lu the number “at turn our l0 to scme-xvliere near right and ignoring all those perhaps many more ~ llial turn out definitely to be wrong. Why no: a Gallup Poll Lo decide how many people lake Gallup Polls seriously — or even pay any atten- tion to them. - Nlonlreal Financial Times.

Ills W85 n single-intruded devot- lOn to the lundamentels as he saw them; hard work, itie simple vir- tues, self-reliance, llle lzccd earth.

new. laul also lrcasured that which was bygone. A peace-loving m-: n, he was willing, nevertheless to “fight like the devil". He built “for ‘he great niullitucic", and they were, boil: (Frcctly and by tltlClflfiTl, llie grout bsllezloiaric; (f Help, -‘nrd, ll‘.'.l<lPl' mechanic -- Ncvi York Times.

Nearly one-third vt the 17,000 pcrscizis who lost. rhrii- lives on rural highway‘; last yzw-i‘ wor pedest- rians vi-‘no \\'€.'9 careless or reckless enough l0 walk (in roadways. lvtaiiy of course. a o killed on reacts rr:liii~"i were a ioul sidewalks. Most of those oii Ilievlist fclr, pflfltllpS‘ ultcoiisciouijr, tllal the motorist.‘ was churned, wllh lllB duly of avoid- ing striking them. They were nob concerned about their ovm respon- sibility. This yea:- lhls type of nccldenl is even more prevalent. The pedestrian, ll appears, is becoming even more careless of his own life and safely. — Boston Post.

Consider the nose of I. motor car. Vrrqlous, parts of 01:5 are made by various manufacturers, a-ri-rl are assembled 1n a single factory. But on cacti separately manufactured part there ls an elglil per cent sales tax which 1s paid by the assembling flrm, which adds that expense lnlo lts own charges to the purchaser, as well a5 lhe eight. per cent sales tax u-liiah lt. 1s compelled to charge on the ear as a completed product. In this way the wretched purchaser pays not. one. but mirny, sales tax- es. The insidious lvalure of the sales lax can hardly be exaggerated.- Pelerborougli Examiner.

Although few are aware of lbl magnitude, hospital service con- stitutes one of the first twelve ma- jor lridustrles in the ‘ll-lifted States It is estimated that total plant assets of the nearly 6,700 hospitals iii the nation registered with the AITlEYlCII-Yl lvfedlcal Association amount lo five and one-half billion dollars. 'I’lioir annual operating cost. ls ln excess of one and one- hzilt billion dollars. ‘This ls an lri- vos-lmoiil of $40 for eve:y man. woman and child Liv the notion 0f more than $9 pe-r caplta. — New York Times.

Ari nzrccmrnt llcwreen the lfnh and British Governments sir» llic hDlZlll of E're‘s neutrality lifiS re- sulted in a succlacular rcVlVfll 0f llle llncn ‘Pfxduslry’ ‘in Elle, the Elite

tlie fl-sx crop raised on a com- pa;-uilvbly' small acrcage ln the counties of Cork. Moflollhflll- Cal/Ell and East Doncgol, has in-rcssed from £2,000 sterling 1138.000) lu 1040 l0 morocco $0,000,000) paid for the flax crop by Britain last year. The agreement between the two Governments was brought about by

millbtirv purposes clarlng the wa eepcclally in the manufacture o planes. When the British Mlirvlstr of Supply proposed a method o improvelng the linen industry a; Britain's expc-n-"e. lltc Eire Govern; merit. which had been uu-yillin! l0 promote the development of flax grawlng Ln competition nllli 5min

difficult sllustlon. A German Mlhr

merits between the

merits, were eventually nclurted.

prevent iiri-y leakage of the infor- motion.

BUSINESS-MAN PARSON

England -- (or) n. an compan

ordained o emu/man, mull rural melon and lots of other: mould ll

Boil!!!

ureb of

‘Era a non litlls mainland body, Ml. lam hlrmtm-lloil, and tolls not for over.

“Ia aroobhl tllllll t0

He [ircifiled l.y producing what. was] Willi ivlilcli this female thing

Department of Agriculture ll‘J< FQ-i vealed. The annual lucome lfflml llud- 511ml)’

Brllalns urgent need f0: lfirieir foo

iii-u sug-Jl‘ beets, was faced wllh cl

isles‘ was li-i Eire and he would have takea- lhe first opportunity lo pounop on any suggestion of a vlolatlon o! Elrefis neutrality. Hc-wcver, arranger- two Govern-l-

and a rlgld canaorshtp set up to

WEST HAGEWOYCMMTANTG, .1::i'.";..':.:::r:. .32.’: Iufllfil utyldoligwlghl: p tlnl. Such a highway la certain kc to do in tudlte tourlm who do not lim- hlll: othfl‘ about lt In advance wlltnol. only

vuBLic FORUM

Thin column ll open to the diacrrulon by corra- opondentl of question: a! lnterelt. ‘Tho Charlottetown Guardian duel not necessar- ll ’ the oplnlon of ondeutl.

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k‘l' i'l'l\ BACHELORS V. SPINSTERS

alFr-Jl-lflflmlfl from reports on our desk, that have come 1n over the past several months, there are ominous signs to indicate that the fulfillment of tlie famous pro- phecy of Isalas cannot. lie long dc- layred: “In that do)‘. seven women sliiiu take llflld iiz one mun. saying, we will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel; only let us be rolled by thy name, take away our roproachf’ Every year‘ in our Alliance ll. ls beccmilli; mole and more difficult to maintain an unbroken Phalanx so:

BACHELOR/S BEWARE

0 Bachelors beware! For who so firm

That cannot be seduced

From what he la disposed?

Can you forget? ‘lts not

Ten months ego, that one among

you

Dld but lWtZil‘ most solemnly And of ht; own volition, to frustrate The plans of each and every female Who would hlm manoeuwe

Into matrimony. Arid then- InlOdltS holy and haPDY- bachelor

life

Thls damsel came-wllh palnled cheek

And powdered nose, and lip:

All red as rlipe tomato.

Her hair was blond-but, dld he look

Willi more discerning aye

He would behold what men c! science

Term phenomena. Beside tlie scalp

Her tresses were of darkest hue

But scarce one millimeter tlence

Her hair had changed to golden.

Ho (‘Olllfl not see, The first whiff

Of perfume, "Secret of Suzanne".

\'.'1|~; saturated, benumbed his senses;

lle UOUld not see her penciled eye-

‘ brows,

Her bolstered hips, or high-heeled shoes,

‘Phase ll'Dfl stays. or artificial lcelli.

He rlid not realize tlie dress she wore

Sleeveless, backloss, fruntlrsin

Would put to shame tlie serpent,

Who tempted our first mother.

And so he fell. From his high perch

He, fell as Lllifllél‘. And never yet

Was fly more qulrkly caught

1n spider": vveti

O I 0 O

And now, you anxiously await

To hear vvlial flclal fale ticfell

Our Brother Bachelor". Ais truly as

Those words we write, he's now returning

Fro-m a friendly hand of poker

He stealthy creeps up some hack stairs;

He rlimlis dread

That lie must meet, a liosllle mate.

And she. who but a year ago.

Beguiled him with her talk '-

Of happy home, of helping hand,

Companionship, and sound babyb feel,

Now tics llfl wislt. for him

Who dares, but once is week,

To stay out late, as one A. M.

She slls wllh folded arms

Arid gcowllng face; the rolling pln

Thafs resting ln tier lap

Is not for rolling dough

At one A.M,

Such married bliss!

We wlll have none of lt.

Oh bachelors beware! Our freedom

Is preserved by vigilance eternal

Roosevelt and Winnie did but speak

Of freedoms four, The fifth

They did forget; or dared not tell

Srnce they themselves hart once

Sucvumhecl to feminine wiles.

Hart lirolher William Lyon been there

He would have then prmrlnlmed

Before the world, the flflli tree-

eacli step ‘m mortal

of

dom- Thnl. of holy bachelorlioud. We are, Sir, cl.- TIIE PRESS COMM, P.E.I. Division The Holy Alilatlsn of Bachelors.

THAT TERRIBLE HIGHWA! Sir,—I am ivi-iticig i-‘li regard to ,the mnln provincial liigliviray be-

tween Summer-side and Charlotte- ‘lowu, which 1s also the regular pavement lo Borden and the matri- ll will be conceded luiiil this ls tlle most "imiwrliiiil