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"The Sir , ' Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink".

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Political Activities

While it is possible Canadians will go to the polls in a Federal general election this year, the likelihood is that this will not happen unless some election issue should emerge during the next twelve months which is more attractive than those now at hand. This is the opinion of Mr. Arthur Blakeley, Ottawa resident correspondent for the Montreal Gazette, who contributes an interesting political summary to the Ga- zette's annual "Commercial Review and Forecast."

"It seems likely that 1953 will be the election year," Mr. Blakeley says. "There is little to substantiate speculation that Prime Minister St. Laurent, with an eye on early retirement from public life, is pre- paring to call a snap election this year to catch his political adversaries off-balance. Liberal members of Parliament returned to their constituencies at the close of the last session satisfied that they had been given a frank assurance that the Government had no such plan." C

All parties, he notes, are demonstrating a cautious reluctance to give offence to any important or influential section of the elec- torate. Even the Canso Bridge project, which has figured prominently in election campaigning in the Maritimes for the last half-century, has once again received an official green light.

The Liberals he reports as being "still on top and looking to the future with im- mense confidence." Despite by-election losses. party membership in the House of Commons of 262 members, actually rose from 185 to 186. This was accomplished by accepting Arthur Masse and Herve Rous- seau, elected as Independent Liberals in the Quebec ridings of Kamouraska and Rimou- ski. as full-fledged Liberals. Consensus of opinion is that in any immediate election the Liberals, if led by Mr. St. Laurent, would be returned to office--though with. a substantially reduced majority. Biggest

blow to Liberal hopes in 1951, aside from failure to produce a winner in five straight by-elections, was the crushing defeat in On- iario.

Progressive Conservative Party pros- pects are brighter than at any time since June, 1949, Mr. Blakeley reports. They won all five of the by-elections held during 1951 for a net increase in House of Com- mons membership of three, to a total of 46. Quebec is still the big question mark for the Conservatives. Party reorganiza- tion is still incomplete. Iii an immediate

able to find a solution to the probiem.- Per- haps some landsmen can come up with the answer, something more practical than hinging sections of the hull.

EDITORIAL NUIES

appearance. I O O The old-time horse sleighs have had an innings for the first time for several years. 0 O 8 Average farmers allegedly earning 3300 per week, over and above their keep, will not be envious of the septuagenarians re- ceiving 840 per month pensions. O I 0 Mr. Churchill's address this evening to the Canadian people need not be expected to be what we want to hear but it will un- doubtedly be what we should hear. I: C O The new Holy Redeemer recreation cen- tre promises to fill a long-felt want in the northwest section of the city. There is a steady growing population there that re- quires to be catered to.

It is highly satisfactory that there was an increased birthrate and a decreased death rate in the Province last year. It is now up to the Federal and Provincial Governments to see that the increase is not lost by emigration of youths for improved employment conditions. O V V

The suddenness with which this Prov- ince found itself facing a coal shortage last week indicates a dangerous trend by coal dealers to operate without proper re- serves to assure their customers of a con- tinuous supply, as well as a similar trend by consumers to avoid laying in adequate re- serves to take care of any delays in deliv- ery.

O O O

The earmarking of part of a national health grant to develop an organized nu- trition program in this Province should pro- vide a valuable service. The Federal Gov- ernmcnt did commence such an advertis- ing campaign a few years ago but appar- ently the necessary funds were soon divert- ed to other purposes.

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In the City most people got out early and shovelled their footpaths, but here and there careless ones let pedestrians trudge knee-deep in front of their premises. The crossings also were a hazard, the snow ploughs heaping up the snow and making it practically impossible for pedestrians, es- pecially women, to get from point to point. iThe ploughed streets, however, in a meas- ,urc compensated for this.

I O O

l-lenry Edward Manning, English card- inal. died this date 1892. He was an elo- ,quent speaker and one of the ablest of the lTractarian party. He tooka leading part in the debates of the Vatican Council in 1870 on papal infallibility and in 1875 wrote "The Vatican Decrees". He devoted much cffoi't to social reform and founded a total

general election the party would expect in make substantial gains. But their chances of ousting the Liberals are, as yet, not great. unless Mr. St. Laurent should de- cide to step aside. In that event, the P.C.'s consider that they might have about an even chance of forming the next Govern- ment-with careful management.

The C. C. F. are in the doldrums, at the moment. and caught in a new Liberal- Conservative squeeze. Best example of the problem facing Canada's socialist party is the recent Ontario election. Despite Lib- eral losses, the Liberals still emerged as the official Opposition, with C.C.F. M.L.A.'s reduced in number to two. Despite this, though, it is too early to write off the party in Ontario, as some observers have done.

Ship construction

By turningfrom the practice of rivet- ing plates together to welding, ship-build- ers made great economies in labour and in the steel saved by eliminating the overlap involved in the older method. The individ- ual weld is usually stronger than the plates themselves and some problems, such as the gradual wearing down of rivet heads are eliminated.

Unfortunately there is one great draw- back to the welded ship. A riveted hull has a certain amount of "play". allowing it to respond to the forces of the waves tending to make it hog or sag as the case might be. The construction of the frame. of longitudinals and transverse frames. is designed to resist these forces as far as possible but they cannot be eliminated. When the plates are welded, the play is largely eliminated and the stresses which

' should be left to the frame are apt to be nppkil to the plates themselves. The re- sult is,thc disconcerting habit which ships

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1' The City ploughs, notwithstanding en- ilormous difficulties, did excellent work in pkecping the centres of the principal streets .open for traffic Friday and Saturday. it was somewhat surprising to see autos early in action on Saturday morning after possibly the worst drifting storm in our ihistory. The City Council, Streets Commit- tee and staff are deserving high commen- dation. . O. (A Q

It is obviously better for the nation and the individual for handicapped or disabled persons to be helped to become self-sup- porting than merely granted financial as- sistancc, although that is much better than complete neglect. The newly announced national advisory committee on such re- habilitation should offer hope to many who have become discouraged by the prospect of unending dependence.

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Zion Presbyterian Church, City, is en- deavouring to carry on without an acting minister in place of Rev. .C. Carlyle Web- ster, now on the sick list in Toronto. Miss Webster, his daughter, a trained theological teacher, substituted for her father for two Sundays, while yesterday two elders, Mr. J. E. McEwen and Mr. A. A. Macdonald, ably officiated giving great satisfaction to the worshippers.

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A powerful and representative new Dol- lar Exports Council has been set up in Britain consisting of leading industrialists with wide experience of Canada. To in- sure co-ordination of policy and effort, lead- ing Canadian and U. S. business men are to join the Council as overseas members. The new body, which has the full support of the U. K. Government and is sponsored by U. K. industry and finance, succeeds the Dollar Exports Advisory Council set up last summer. g

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This column is open to the discussion by correspondents of questions of interest. The Guardian does not necessar- ily endorse the opinion of correspondents.

A DISCOURAGING TASK sir,-Following my reading of your editorial in today's Guard- ian entitled "The Knocker Knocks" I could only say with all my heart "So Ti-ue, so True."

For those of us who give of our time and energies in a number of organizations towards making our City and our Province a finer place in which to live and bring up our children in. the task does get discouraging at times indeed. Bravo To The Guardian for having the courage of mailing the trouble right; on the head and of expressing so forcibly exactly what so many of the younger generation here feel and exactly what causes so many of them to drift of! our Island annually. I am Sir. etc.

A WALT!-IEN' GA'UDE.'I1

Chai-lol.t.et.own, Jan. 11, 1952.

THE WRONG SPOKESIVIEN

sir.-if everyone is so dumb up In Kings County as you quoted in your issue of January 11, will you please explain where Mr. Chins came from? I understand he came from King's County and is one of the right-nhimd men of President Truman. I tun. Sir. etc. JIM HANLAN. New Zcaland. P. E. I.

(The article referred to was re- printed from the Ottawa. Journal. Unfortunately it was the unpro- gresslve Klekham-Macxlnnon dele- gation and not. Mr. Ching that appeared as representing Kings County before the Postmaster Gen- criil-Ed. G.)

TURNING BACK HIE CLOCK

Sir,-I would appreciate in few lines in your paper on the improv- ed mail service which was blocked by a delegation led by Mr. Kick- hani. M. P.. from King's County.

It is a great pity that this con- venient and beneficial system has been "thrown out" through the ef- forts of our sli-ting member and others who accompanied him sec- retly. So far as the writer can learn. this was the first move which has been made through the postal service of any account for King's County since the time of Sir Louis Davies.

In oihei- Provinces in Canada any beneficial services are Jealous-

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We'll soar up to each lofty station

And alter without: alteration. I'll snntohx up Helen from lost times

And carry her through olden rhymes. Or I'll be Odysseus. trying with

You. ii Goddess, ripe for myth. we'll buy up dome: of Rubia Khan gg Nor fret on the installment.-plii. We'll room to sunset: of desire. Like rich flotiilu all on nre. We'll move in suburbs of a sigh And View the deaths we do not

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or through some tragedies we've mode. .

We'll walk, Olympian and un- Icnthed.

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nut thou not known? hut thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Crenior of the ends of the earth, fnlnteth not. neither is weary? there is no searching of his derstnndlng.

ly guarded, but here our represen- tatives are intolerant of improve- ment. and we must take the con- sequences, The improved truck system will not be easily reverted to after our delegn.tlon's request. However. this a. repetition of things past.-our airport. 001' P059 office, our naval barracks, our convertlng and repairing of naval craft, and other lost opportunities too numerous to mention- I should imagine that with'the increased freight rates, etc.. this delegation would be anxious to secure the best and speediest pos- sible service for us. However, the deed is done, the die is cast and the people of King's will once more get their mail by the some slow system as their forefathers. Who knows what these knock- ers will do next? I shouldn't won- der if the next delegation they send to Ottawa. will be to have the csrferry "Abegwelt." replaced by the old lifeboat system! I am, sir, etc., DISGUSTED.

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STORMY WEATHER SCHOOL SESSIONS -

Sir.--Isn't. it about time that- the Charlottetown school author- ities decided upon a. sane system of cancelling or holding school sessions on stormy days?

During last Friday's blizzard. with hundreds of grown-ups stay- ing at home. and taxis and private cars at a standstill, it was .de- cided that the school sessions must. go on. As a result most of the grades had only a. skeleton attendance. one class of ten- year-olds with an enrollment of thirty-five having only nine present. The writer who is quite rugged. found it a tough Job walking several blocks, and was not surprised to be called upon to dig out several youngsters who were almost overcome in it snow- drift. It is true that classes were dismissed early-but that was not of much avail after breaking their way through deep snow in a sixty mile gale and then having to re- trace thelr steps. I. along with many other parents. believe it was foolhai-dy to expect them to leave their homes at all that day.

I suggest that the Board ap- point a committee of three (one a woman) any two of whom would decide about cancellations when the weather is stormy.

Frida-y's storm was bad at sev- en am. and a decision to cancel sessions could have been easily made and announced by the lo- cal radio station. when a storm develops during school hours it is I. simple matter to make the de-

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From the Journal of the House of Assembly. 1845:

"Tuesday, March 11: Wherea.s'it. appearing in certain newspapers i 1 in Charlottetown, pur- Dcrtingv to report. the proceedings of this House. and the appoint- nicnt of certain officers thereof, that; Mr. Edward Whelan had been appointed Reporter to this House; ordered, that the Clerk do notify the proprietors of said newspapers to contradict such statement. neither the said Mr. Edward Wnelan, nor any other person, be- ing the authorized Reporter of this House.

"Wednesday. March 12: Upon reading the Journal of yesterday's pi-nceedings, it was moved. that the following be added to the entry of yesterday on the subject of n Reporter:-'But Mr. Whelan hav- ing offered to report the proceed- ings of the House, it was agreed that he should be. allowed to oc- cupy the Reporter's box; and if his reports gave satisfaction, as being correctly given. such remunera- tion as his services might be deem- ed to merit would be awarded him at the close of the session! "The House divided on the ques- tion: Yeas: Mr. D. Msolesn, Mr. Dingwell, Mr. Wightmnn, Mr. Montgomery, Mr. Fraser, Mr. Hud- son, Mr. Dalziel, Hon. J. 8. Mac- Donald, Mr. Ma.cGi'egoi-, Mr. Mac- intosh. Mr. Rae, Mr. Thornton, Mr. Bearisto. Mr. A. Macliienn, Mr. Coles; Nays. Hon. Mr. Palmer Mr. Longworth, Mr. Douse. so i was carried in the affirmative, and or- dered accordingly."

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Extremely stormy weather onli occurs intermittently during the year. but when it does and under the present confusing way of dealing with ii.-it presents a very annoying problem to pan- ents and teachers.

I am. Sir. etc. A VEXED PARENT

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cutting 45 Christmas trees Dysart township in County, and Reeve Harold Black said the penalty should serve as it warning to others who "start chopping down trees wherever they find them." There was 'a time when it man could go out into the bush to cut a Christmas tree wiih'the same freedom that he would pick up a gun and go look-- ing for 9. wild turkey. for the Christ- mas dinner. However. it is only in the remote districts that the law might: wink at individuals who cut single trees for their own use Cutting without permission is ts- bnn, even on Crown lands-which perhaps. is not as generally known as it should be - Budbury Star.

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A motorist from Florida in re- ported to have stopped at 3 Haiti- more filling station. fllld then to have driven 10 miles further along on his way to Philadelphia when a thought suddenly exploded. "Where's my wife?" The gentleman had forgetfully driven off from the filling station after his wife had gone to the rest: room. When hr- sped over the 10-min stretch back to Baltimore - within the speed limit, it is to be hoped-he found her standing by the gas pump. "tapping her toe on the concrete." It is not unnatural to wonder if the tapping toe signified murder- ous thoughts - or just patient im- derstancling born of the years Did the lady mind being forgotten - 2- was she complimented by the lmowledge that her husband took her company for granted, like a r-air of spectacles momentarily mis- placed - like a pair of slippers mislaid but bound to turn up?- Salnt John Telegraph-Journal.

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Last March 1. young migrant worker. colored, was dragged from his rooming house in Florida. and was beaten. and finally shot by four masked men. This murder is listed by the Tuskegee Institute as the United States' only lynch- ing In 1951. In the traditional pattern of such brutal affairs, the

guilty parties were never appre- hended. Yet while Americans were reminded by this incident

that the ugly excesses of night- ridei-s still lingered in the repub- lic. the 1951 showing was an ini- provemeni: over the , previous year's. in 1950. two lynchings. in- volving a Negro and 3, white man. were recorded. Seven were avert-

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urge: figure of Uncle Sam and his stogey give place to something more modern. The benevolent old gentleman is too deeply embedded in grateful the world to be so lightly discarded.

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are triumphing over 'the prejud. ices of self-appointed Vllillntes. Although they do occur in they times. lynching: are infrequent. Once they were almost monthly occurrences, and cynically accept. ed by authority as llnnvoldgble violence. Swifter means of- com. munication and transportation these days offer ways to com;-01

lynch mobs. It only remain; to put them to use in all cases. L Windsor star.

There's one wheat grower in

the Claresholm district who can answer the question whether the wild duck is an expensive bird. Part of a field of the Ciareshoini iarnici-'5 wheat went down under the snows and rains during the Fall. The ducks found it. He hni expected to reap 2,000 bushels from the part of the field caught by the weather. When he got around to it- during the few days in No. vember when harvesting could be done, he got only 700 bushels. The ducks had eaten some. The rest they had trumped out. Tho ground was covered with grain. It will lie there till Spring, then it will begin to grow and will he rlowed down in the siimmerfnliow operation. This Claresholm farm- er thinks L300 bushels of wheat make a Pretty expensive diet for wild ducks. Little wonder farm- or: are asking the Fish and Game Branch to do something about it. ---Lethbrldge Herald.

Harrlssod by high fnxu. the rising cost of living, the perils of international crisis and number- less private worries. the American husband can take cheer from the report of A group of Cornell Uni- versity authorities that the fam- ily is better off today than it has been in any time in recent his- tory. It is better housed. more ful- Iy fed, has more cash in the bank. more household appllancu to make housework easier. and is getting more mllage out of the family Jalopy than in former years. and the outlook for its con- tinued prosperity remains bright. Among the reasons given for this encouraging situation are the con- tinued high rates of both indus- iiiiil and food proouiklon. But al- so important to the family's sus- tained good fortune is the finding that one-third of the nation's Ia- bor force are now women. and that one-half of them are mar- ried womcn.- New York Herald Tribune.

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