PA(ir. mm: H p H FHF. GUARDIAN. vlM"'nT11fr,ToivN A M

T H E G U A R l) l A N Greatest-Cift

Authuriud as Second Ulla: blail Poet olfico Departnnnt. Ottawa. The Island Guardian Publishlrig Co.

1952

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the French role in holding the Communists at bay in Indo-China is regarded as second . only to the American role in Korea. More- over, French withdrawal in Indo-China would imperil much of southeast Asia and call for a complete reorientation of North American military commitments in Asia.

Against such a background, about all that can be said of the Pinay regime is that it brings General de Gaulle a step nearer power in France."

The Passing Scene

By Observer

IPIING

'I'bdIy 1 saw my first sign or the city of God which inn 5. spring. my first this year, that is sliowni" And i suppose u 3 ,f,” 00 lay. Quite unexpectedly a tiny come only once in a man'.-xpii I swallow flew by in sihurry, as 11 it time. he would strive for my ble- were bent on the most important period of lime to study the "., W bu-linens Imnzlnabie. as indeed it in or life and realize a little hem" mlght havi been. The little thing his nearneas to the heart met? did not tarry very long, but long Universe. ” mouth to assure me that another "11 .a man dio, smii

hlillclldelll and An-wells Editor, Ian A Burnett. Associate I-Siiltatr. l"rnn.I Wlllier.

t..'lli(.'Ul.ATlf)N "'L'on:rs l'riiice Edward Island like the dew”

&"lIle strongest Memory is Weakcr lhan the Weakest ink".

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clinnwraiifiioivx, THURSDAY. APRIL lo. n;3'2' Lively Issues

Two livcly discussions featured the clos-l ing days of the Legislature, namely those on Prince of Wales College and on electoral; reform. In the first instance Dr. MacMil- lan challenged the Government with relig- ious discrimination both as regards appoint- ments and salary increments. and demand- ed to know who was responsible. He also asserted that there were too many profes- sors for the number of students enrolled and commented adversely on other features of the administration. It is to be hoped that the committee to be appointed by the Government to inquire illto the College curriculum will clarify these issues as well and leave no doubt in the public mind as to the complaints which have been voiced on the floor of the House.

Until the Education Act was amended in 19-15, the Board of Education was in control and this Board consisted of the Premier, as chairman, the Executive Coun- cil, the Principal of Prince of Wales Col- lege, and the Superintendent of Education as member and secretary. Since that time the Minister of Education carries on as in other departments of government, with an Advisory Council to assist him. This Coun- oil, of which the Minister is chairman and the Deputy Minister vice-chairman, com- prises the principal of Prince of Wales Col- lege, the rector of St. Dunstan's University. one representative each from the Teachers' Federation, the Canadian Legion and the Federation of Agriculture, and three repre- sentatives of the Women's Institutes.

Last year a. High School Committee was set up on the advice of the Advisory Coun- oil, under the chairmanship of the director of curriculum, Mr. Malcolm MacKenzie, for the purpose of studying the two senior high school programmes with a view to working out a uniform matriculation course for the two additional years of study beyond Grade X. This Committee includes representatives from Prince of Wales College and St. Dun- stan's University, and from the Grade XI schools outside"'Prince of Wales. At the last meeting of the Council in February, the Committee reported progress but stated they had not yet arrived at a definite ar- rangemcnt.

With regard to electoral reform, a com- mittee of the Legislature has been appoint- ed to study this question and report back to the House at its convenience. The pro- posals have already been pretty thorough- ly discussed at meetings of the Federation of Agriculture, which is to be commended for bringing the issue so strongly before the public. There is no doubt that some reforms in our electoral system are neces- sary, and the extent to which the reforma- tion should go will be the real question be- fore the committee, and, later, the Legis- lature.

M. Plnayls Dizzy Pinnacle

l"rance's Monsieur Pinay. having scaled' the giddy heights that lead to the premier- ship of the Fourth Republic. must now be experiencing pangs of anxiety not dissim- ilar to that of the amateur alpinist who, having scaled Mont Blanc, is more worried about the problem of where to go next than concerned with the glamor of his achieve-I mont. For M. Pinay's election marks a9 turning point in post-war politics in France, in that it is the first time since the ces- sation of hostilities that a premier has ta- ken office without the support of the social- ists. Monsieur Pinay holds the premier- ship because of the fact that 27 de Gaullist members of the National Assembly disobey- ed the order of their party leader to ab- stain in the voting.

Premier Pinay has struck a bold course in declaring his determination to "restore the franc.” To do so he will have to close a gap of something like a billion dollars in the budgetary picture. It is, of course, un- thinkable, considering the debacle that be- feli his predecessor M. Faure, that the gap should be closed by new taxation. The necessary savings, so far as they can be

iday.

strenuous session, and the members have

returned to their homes and customary chores. O O I So successful has been immunisation

against diphtheria in Britain that eradica- tion of the disease is foreseen within the next few years, says Dr. William Logan, Chief Medical Statistician.

O

dents compared with 50,000 prewar. There are twice as many in Science and Tech- nology and, in Arts, the increase is about 50 per cent. compared with 4,000 prewar. O O O

of Mr. C. N. Bissett, manager of the. East- ern Trust, Halifax, are congratulating him on his unanimous appointment as president of the newly formed national organization of Canadian trust companies. choice could hardly have been made.

PICMME, the abbreviation for Provisional Intergovernmental Movement of Migrants from Euorpe. Cana- dians missed out on the schooling in such alphabetical Americans under the New Deal and war- time practices failed to make such mon- strosities an accepted habit in this country. it

eral Budget is that it has readjusted tax- ation-has not relieved it to any extent for the average consumer. been lightened at the expense of the ordin- ary taxpayer who has had a two per cent "security" (defence) tax added to his bur- dens. be thankful for small mercies. I

and painter, was born this date 1778. When unprejudiced-he often was pi'cjudiced in: the case of poets with whom he was ac- quainted-his judgment was usually sound, and generally well expressed. with sympathy but declined to be influenced by the conditions under which a work was produced. His many books include, ”Char- actors from Shakcspeare's'Plays."

voting at political elections, though it would have its advantages. What most people in- tcrestcd want is a readjustment of constit- uencies according to population, and with- out endangering unduly the property inter- jcsts of farm'crs and others. unique position greater percentage of individual land and house owners than any other province in Canada. and those having most at stake are entitled to'd. - recognition.

owing to the nature of their business. Any farmer with livestock must days. duce his daily duties by reducing produc- tion, particularly milk production. now happening, and is the chief reason i'or present food prices. down till the farmer is willing to work harder; and he will not work harder till city" dwellers do. uation, and only they can cure it.

cities is going to benefit the dairy farmers. The milk industry in the which hitherto has been satisfied with June as Dairy Month, has appropriated another month. iHenceforth, the heavy promotion of dairy products will include May as well

EDITORIAL NUiI:S

Maundy Thursday.

Thursday before Easter. 0 0 i

Tomorrow Good Friday-statiltory hol-

The Legislature has risen after a fairly

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Britain now has 85,000 University stu-

Teachers number about 8,500,

The numerous friends and clients here

A better

Members of Parliament have balked at

Committee for the

nomenclature acquired by

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All that need be said about the Fed-

Luxury taxes have

In these strenuous times we ought to

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William Hazlitt, English critic. author,

He wrote

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Nobody at present wants compulsory

We hold a in Canada of having a

Farmers cannot work a five-day week,

work seven What the farmer can do is to re-

This is

They will not come

They caused the sit-

Increased luxurious living in American

United States

PUBLIC FURUM

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

WE SHOULD AT LEAST WARN THE POOR. TOUIIISTSI

sir, - Our Department at Public Works should certainly put up two signs, one at Aulac on the turn-ofi tn P.E.I. and the other right in limit of the car-icrry at Cape Tor- mcntinc. warning the tourists that our main roads are either under construction or are very bad.

These two signs will probably cost the Province of P. E.I. maybe one million dollars in tourist mon- ey this year. But they will protect and save our tourist industry for the future years.

If we don't put up these two signs. we are in serious danger of crippling our tourist traffic for half ii generation.

This statement will he no exag- geration to anybody who has driv- en a car outside of P. E. I. We might as well start to face facts and at least be honest. about it.

Yesterday I had the misfortune of being oblged to drive from Summci-side to Charlottetownsaiid return and then to drive to Borden and return, all in one day. it. was a hectic experience. hectic for my- self and worse for the car. Fortun- ately. I was not driving a new car. I have driven the Charlottetown highway twice a week for the past ten years and it is obviously going to be in worse shape this year than ever before. Most of it will have to be either torn up or feeble attempts made at patching. I don't know which is worse.

If the Government takes as long to patch the Borden and Char- lottetown highways as they took last year to patch the Charlotte- town highway. they are going to be at it right in the middle of our icurist. trade. Roa s under con- struction are a nightmare '0 the holiday tourists. The dust is very bad. But the myriad of bump! and the thousands of actual holes in the open pavement are worse. ll. is bad enough in daylight when YOU have some chance of seeing the holes in time to save wrecking your car. but on it rainy night, you just can't help pounding and banging

We must remember that these tourists are accustomed to driving St; miles at a stretch coming from Montreal or Boston or even in the other Maritime Provinces without. hitting one hole in the pav:-ml-nt. Anybody who has been outside P.- E.I. will know this is a fact and no exaaseratlon. -

Therefore. we should at least fore- warn our tourists, at Aulac and at cape Tormentine and suggest they wait until next year. Surely it they are forewarned. they will not get so mad and disgusted at our roads

It is indeed too bad that we haven't got at least one good main highway between Borden and sum- merside and Charlottetown. The other roads are not too bad. Tour- ists don't expect clay roads to be as iiood as pavements. Our I19-WMCM from summerslde to Chnrlottetowll is mostly awlul, but it is a boule- vard compared to the pavement from Borden to Suiiimereiae. I won't attempt to describe it in words. other motorists will soon find out to their sorrow that I am no: exaggerating.

What would you think if You were it tourist here on a holiday with a nice new car? If this tour- ist use-re anythlnli like me. by "1" time I had won the bumps and

The Age-Old story? i it

its-aixio-mes-&ot-Qcogseoa

let this mind he in you. which wa.s also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God. thought It not robbery to be equal with

God: but made himself of no . putstion. and took upon lilni the form of a serv . and was

made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as I man. he - .. . Ll .,I and I.

obedient unto death, death of the cross. -

even the

Government to put up those two signs.

Another thing has always amaz- ed me about the roads of P.E.I. and it is still a blind mystery. When is the Department of Public Works going to realize that ordinary pave- ments will not stand up for more than eight or ten years in this Province? When are they going to realize that the only permanent solution is a cement highway? It will be the cheapest in the long run. Our Minister of Public Works has only to examine the cement stretch leading into Summerside and leading out of Borden and to compare their proven long life with the other ordinary asphalt. pave- ments to realize the correctness of this observation.

What is the sense of continuing to dump our money into mud with ordinary asphalt pavements whcli it has been proven that cement is the only permanent highway "for this Province?

Otherwise we will always have the main bulk of our highway: either torn up under construction all, summer or feeble attempts made at patching what should be torn up How can we ever expect to en- joy a really expanding tourist in- dustry with always such awful roads?

I am. Sir. etc.. ROBERT T. HOLMAN. Summcrside. i5.E.l..

FARM MARKETIR : PROBLEM

sir.-Ii seems to me that there was an important economic prin- ciple in the following paragraph in a news item rcporling suggestions- made in the Legislature for ini- proving conditions in the pr'im:iry industries of the Province: "Mrs W. A. Acorn, Sourls. thought the Department of Agriculture should look into the matter of better and fancier packaging of products grown on the farms hire. He thought that clean potatoes al- tractivcly packaged in cellophane would attract the buyers and bring better prices to the produc- er: and. in support of his sugg:st- ion. pointed oiil. that imported tomatoes brought far higher prices in the local stores when they were put up in specially proparcd one- pound pack gas than when they arrived in ulk lots." iMarch 28. Guardian.)

The above appealed to this read- er as being "good business." even if it also rcmlnded me of the fol- lowing ebullient assertion by a wholesale provision dealer (In farm language, a middleman) dia- cuislng ii cereal product for the market: "If we can package it. our fortune's made!" also this' very different comment from one of the farm leaders on the Prairies: "The farmer is the only man in the world who spends all his time in production. without evcr thinking where. or how. or in what way he is going to sell his product."

And I am only frank if I take the opportunity of dlnl to my

MCOMGODOOMNMO Old Charlottetown

(And P. I. I. )

CHANGE OF NAME

"The inhabitants of Bull Creel: held a meeting on the 3rd inst. for the purpose of changing the name of the place. on the meet- ing being called to order Mr. John McAulay was appointed chairman and Joseph McEachern secretary. It was then proposed by Capt. James P L " and seconded by Mr. Vincent Mccormack. that the name of the settlement be chang- cd to Bayiield. On this being put to vote it was unanimously car- ried. After a vote of thanks to the chairman the meeting quietly dispersed."

--The Examiner, Feb. 10, 1083.

We 7oe&i' 6-tau

LAST SNOW

Although the show still lingers

I-Ieuped on the ivy's blunt webbed fingers

And painting tree-trunlu on one side.

Here in this sunlit tide

The fresh unchrisiencd things ap- pear.

Leaf. spaihe and stem.

with crumbs of earth clinging to them

To show the way they came,

But no flower yet to tell their name.

And one green spear

Stabbing a dead -leaf from below

Kills winter at ii blow.

-Andrew Young.

approval of the suggestion made by Mr. Acorn this limitation. or caveat; I am not at all sure that he was asking the right pcople to "look into" this problem? My own view is that it should be investi- gated by the growers own organ- izations if. in fact. those "better prices" nre to accrue to rural treasuries? I think it is fairly reasonable to assert that. if the better grading and processing and naclcaging is done by olI-i.-lie-

rm operators. the tendency would naturally be. if one may say so. "in the packngers belong the spoils." l.e.. in this instance the "better prices”-leaving the primnry producers occupying their liisicric position at the "bulk lots" level.

I am convinced. Sir. that in this marketing problem there is really no enrlliring substitute for or- ganlzation. whether dealing with potatoes. eggs. holzs or fruit?

I sm. Sir. etc.

AN URBAN FRIEND Toronto. Ont. -

winter of our discontent has pau- ed into the turbulent stream of the years. The swallow knows more about that than the calendar.Muc:i more.

Not that winter itself should be held in dlsrepute. Thoughtless peo- ple maligfi it. I know. Actually. it deserves honoured place both as a discipline and as an experience of beauty in its own right. Lands where summer is the order of the year no doubt have thed attrac- tions. Somehow. it is ditficult to see how they can posibly satisfy that part of the human heart which must have hope to live by or it will die. Perpetual summer has many elignts, but hope is not one of the . for when fulfilment is at hand there is no need of hope.

. - . If there were no winter to bind our spirits in the harsh discipline of Nature, there would be no spring to release them, and what s loss that would be to the life ol man! It is true that Nature speaks eloquently and sings sweet- ly in each season. she upholds her integrity in the cold winter as proudly as at any other time For all that. there is no doubt that. i.' we had to choose one time before another, most of us would choose Spring. g

Spring is Nature's answer to man's innate desire to see and re- cognize permanence beyond the ephemeral incidents of the common way. I think we can say that, phil- osophically considered. Spring is the great aeason of the soul. The love of beauty which is in us all. through some may not always give evidence of it. finds in spring that response which no other time or ccndition can provide. The diverse vicissitudes and paths which afflict mankind seem to fade into trivial and unimportant episodes when one has the time. the inclination. and the ability to explore the pro- dfgallty of the delights which spring likes to open up to the mind that is willing to receive them. And there is always something new. No one has yet discovered an of Spi1ng's secrets, and it is safe in say that no one ever will. The pic- ture I see this year I had never seen before. Next year it will be another and quite different one.

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spring tells me that I have all Nature for my own DEFSUHM DIO- pcrty. from the stars at night to the tiny leaf along my garden path. It is all mine and my neighbors. I may do little with it. I may even repudiate it. That is what most: of us do, in fact. But it is there for my use whenever I am conscious of my kinship with divine energy and the eternal strength of creation. "1! the stars should app?-I 0'19 night in a thousand years, wrote Emerson, "how men would believe

again?" Ever since human life illxst, appeared, philosophers have been asking that question. All the grim, sEiiIiOnl that have influenced men and civilizations nave snsivereri "yes." with many differences III in. ierpretation and understanding Indeed, whenever men have mi the fact itself and wandered imu attempted explanation of the wlpv Ind YIOW. they have come up against great difficulties. This is us. tural enough since of course in. ll-Hluilse we know is sufficient only for the experiences we have hill: . . .

Theology can certainly nclp 3 man in his reasoning towards it sound and satisfactory belief in immortality. Nevertheless, the volc. of Spring can sometimes answer questions about which the theolog- ians are uncertain and confused. It is easy enough for a mail to be. come sceptical in the autumn. as he stands amid falling leaves and listens to the shrill winds oi gp. preaching desolation. But. on a Spring morning. when everything about him is in the full joy oi rc- surrection, the sceptic shows less intelligence than the swallow. or the tiny plant, manifestly eager to burst through the soft earth in order that it may resume its life n! service.