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"Tilo Strongest M ory is Weaker Than tho Weakest Ink."
CIABLOTTE'l'l)wN THURSDAY. JUNE 29. 1950 Have! Aircraft
There is ground for satisfaction at the announcement of Defence Minister Claxton that the Navy will for the present continue to use the types of planes now being flown from Canadian aircraft carriers. The pre- vious decision to substitute the American Grumman Avenger for British Seaflres and Fireflies was characterized by some of the fliers concerned as exchanging modern equipment for planes that are already ob- lolete.
1'11; judgment was probably harsh and 91! three types are to continue in use. Mean- while both Britain and the United States are making advances in design which can in due time be adopted by the Royal Cana- dian Navy without the embarrassment of having newly converted to an inferior model. There is no question of this coun- try manufacturing the relatively small num- ber of naval aircraft we will require, al- though the Fairey plant in Nova Scotia :ould probably be developed to produce as well as service the Navy's carrier-born alr- :raft. Unless an agreement could be reach- ed for us to supply other members of the Atlantic Alliance with the highly Special- ized craft we are much better off concen- trating on the production of other equip- ment. -
crime and Punishment
The high cost economically and in terms of human values of perpetuating a criminal class has greatly stimulated interest in our penal system. The trend is away from ma- king the punishment fit the crime and to- wards making it fit the criminal with the object of reclaiming him as a useful member of society.
The value of the altered approach is undeniable and we may expect great ad- vances in methods of dealing with crimin- als, not, of course. a mere soft approach. In fact: it may often happen that rehabilita- tion may require a longer term of confine- ment than is now considered appropriate as punishment for many minor offences.
There is. however, another aspect of the subject which cannot safely be ignored. One of the main purposes of the law is to act as a substitute for privatevengeance. it is obviously undesirable that injured per- lens or their families should seek out the wrong-doer and pay him back in kind. In use of serious,personal injury or killing it might be difficult to convince those close- ly concerned. that the appropriate treatment for the anti-social patterns of behavior is also a sufficient vindication of their fierce sense of injustice. It may well be. that some branches of penal reform may have
to await the slower alteration of individual and public attitude towards personal wrongs.
Poison ivy Eradication
We hear little this year of the campaign
1' the eradication of poison ivy. Prince Edward Island is fortunate in being com- parstlvely free of this scourge to summer vacationists. and a little attention directed every year to its total destruction would be time and money well expended. In an ar- ticle on the subject in C-I-O Oval. one Cana- dian community is mentioned as having done this successfully. This is the little town of St.- Eustache-sur-le-Lac. some 25 The campaign there
consisting of the Citizens' Association, Gyro Club. Canadian Legion. Boy Scouts Associ- ation. Catholic and Protestant School Boards and the local golf and country club. This summer resort district was plagued with poison ivy for many years; it over- run the beaches, gardens, parks and woods. Two years ago the citizens got together and took action. Volunteer fighters were divided into ten teams. The area was first mapped. showing infestations of poison ivy. Each team was given an area to cover. Ivy patches were sprayed with the lethal herbi- clde. "Ammate." So spectacular were re- suits that it is expected one spraying of ivy each season will now reduce instances of poisoning to a minimum. "Ammate". uaedattherateofonepoundpergallonof water for each 100 square feet of foliage, in highly effective where complete eradica- tion of plant life is desired. Whlle'lt-la not tonic to animals. care must be observed V no it will not be applied to dull-ail! A '
gin Ill parts of Canada. poison ivy in Ontario and
Winnipeg to the Pacific Coast it grows mainly at lake and woodland resorts. The ivy adapts itself to a variety of growing conditions - wet or dry. shaded or sunny -and to almost any type of soil from pure sand or rocky ground to rich woodland loam. As a rule. it grows as a trailing vine or an upright plant although sometimes it appears as a climber on posts, trees or tele- graph poles. It may occur in a single plant or in patches of varying sizes and density. A point to remember is that poison ivy is the only native plant with three similar leaflets and white fruit. Trifollate-leafed plants such as the strawberry, raspberry and others do not bear white fruit. Virginia creeper. a somewhat similar plant. has five- parfed leaves and clusters of blue fruit on red stalks.
EDITORIAL NOIES
The Feast of St. Peter. I I I
The Agricultural Scientists conclude their convcntial tomorrow. I
Today the Progressive Conservative Convention to revise" its constitution, elect a
Provincial leader. etc. I I I
The store-keepers will be working late tonight to make up, in part, for their longer than usual week-end holiday.
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Most summer visitors are inclined to count wet weather as being days lost. but the delegates to the Agricultural Institute of Canada can appreciate and welcome rainfall.
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After this morning the hopeful writers of matriculation exams cast care aside. ex- cept. that is. for occasional misgivings about the appearance of their names on the pass list.
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It. is but logical that the convention of the Scientific Agriculturists should be fol- lowed here by the convention of the Cana- dian Chartered Accountants - just as a check-up. I
I I I An insurance study shows that men be- tween 30 and 39 with high blood pressure die twice as fast as the average for that age group, perhaps because they also live twice as fast. I I 0
It is not a fault in a political conven- tion delegate to be swayed by oratory at the meeting. A candidate who can influ- ence him can probably have a similar ef- fect on the voter at large.
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The late Mr. J. A. Glen. ex-Speaker of the House of Commons was personally known to not a few here. who gave him a hearty welcome when he visited us while still in office. A kindly man, courteous, but firm in the maintenance of order and de- corum in accordance with time honoured precedence.
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Island swine breeders seem to have cast their bread. or Yorkshires, on the waters to have it return as orders for additional carloads. The flood may have been a bless- ing in disguise also for the Manitoba breed- ers who will now be in business with su- perior breeding stock,
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The Mount Herbert ratepayers meeting at which they decided to see what could be done to build a grade school to include the surrounding districts. recalls the MacDonald Consolidated School of five classrooms. in manual training room. and household science room. etc.. which once served the community. It is not likely another phil- anthropist will build the new school.
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Latest product of a Scottish firm is a fishing rod designed to eliminate many of the bugbears of angling. With an overall length of 14" closed. and measuring 2 " fully extended. the "pocket caster" does most of the things a full-size rod will do and has special advantages in awkward or unusual circumstances. such in fishing in confined spaces, among trees. on steep banks or from a boat. It also facilitates bringing the fish to the gaff. It is designed in aluminum with a coiled spring steep top. Special care has been taken to ensure flexibility and resilience of the rod.
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Thomas Henry Huxley. one of the great- est of English geologists. died this date 1895. Educated for the medical profession, he re- ceived appointment as assistant surgeon on H. M. S. Rattlesnake, and during a four years' cruise in Australian seu he studied the delicate fauna of the ocean. the result being he abandoned medical for biological science. He laboured strenuously to make abstruse-science clear to average people. Be- sides his printed lectures, he wrote and pub- lished many nuhtu-Iy' works. including: "Man's Pines In Nature", "Dacha In "Ele-
abomy of the Invcrtebraec". "The Cray-
fish". and "Scientific Mucous" -
wardlt is found less frequently and from .
mentary Physiology", "Physlography", "An- .
THE GUARDIAN. CHAR! "TTETOWN 7 V I A David by Any other um Might no In Trick
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Tm; column is open to this discussion by .1-nrelllondwl-I of questions of interest. The Guardian does no: necessar- ily endorse the opinion of 5 vuIl'8Ip0I'IdBI1'-I.
HNHNNh5R FLYING THE FLAG
attention a matter which has caused considerable comment among the visitors and residents of Cavendish. P. E. I. We have
establishments in this urea. How-i ever. it. is with displeasure that, we note the breach of national. ethics in that two of these three. flags are not lowered in the even- ing: they fly twenty-four hoursl of the day. The flag situated at. the shore bathing-house is always hoisted and lowered according to correct procedure.
We feel that this is a matter of utmost importance. and that the fault should be corrected immed- iately. Consequently. a letter has been sent to the Superintendent of National Parks, who. we are sure. will take the necessary steps to rectify the situation.
HATTIE i R. M. SPENCE. . Cavendish. P. E, l.
Editor Blames Doctors
(The Canadian Docton
L. R. Blanchard. general exec- utive editor of the Gannett. News- papers. who spent some six weeks observing Britain's national health plan. did some plain speaking be- fore the Orange County Medical Society. Stating that American doctors are partly to blame for the continued agitation for ”sociallzed medicine" in the United States. he said. "You doctors may as well face it and see what you can do to keep yourselves from outright nationalization. Here are some of the accounts against you: For one thing. you have a powerful union. You are resdy'lo prosecute the herb dealer but let your own malefactors continue at work. You appear to be reluctant to admit more than I limited quote to your professlon each year. You tend to specialize and thus lose the inti- mate touch which your old gener- al practitioner bad. You do not explain things to the public. By this is meant. your financial prac- tices I: well as your medical prac- tices. As a group you have done nothing to encourage the spread of medicine to lean favored Ipou. You are inclined to concentutu in cities where you work in turns or
with the price of drugs and I feel- in; you and the druultt cooperate
Sir.-We wish to bring to your.
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p MATCH AT FALCONWOOD
"The Annual plowing match
lunder the direction of the Royal lAgx-icultural Society came off on lThursday. the 19th
instant. at. 'Folcon Wood'. the seat of the late John Grubb. Esq.. in. the Royalty of Charlottetown. Therevwere a goodly number of farmers on the ground, but we regret to say that. ' c,
E'- 5 3 in V 3 Q- or V i K 5
was within a short distance of the town. there were not one dozen persons from Charlottetown to be seen on the ground.
"The following were the suc- cessful competitors: lst prize, 405. to Chester Woolner. Rustico; Lind prize. 30s. to Denzie Moorside, North River; 3rd prize. 20:. to Robert, Moffat. New Glasgow; 4t.h
Royalty. 75. 6d. each was awarded to the unsuccessful ploughmen. Messrs. T. Di-ummond. Donald Stewart and J. Moorside.
"The ground ploughed by each person was rather less than half an acre. and the time occupied was from 4 to 5 hours. The whole of the work was very credilably performed. We understand it. is the intention of the Society. at its
next annual Ploughing Much. to offer I separate premium to the
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JUNE 29. 1950
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filling right In with the houses that can be lumbar. -Edmonton Journal. Mn. hlrviough: Everything that it spent in the dexgrfment of welfare reflects itself in mun- costs in turn reflect. thcmelvsa in the tax rates which are struck in the municipalities. which in turn be- come A burden upon the small home owner. After several your experience In municipal work I have boconleikeenly conscl of the increasing burden which is borne by the small home owners of this country by reason of welfare costs which are paid by munci. PINNGS. and which I have always maintained and still maintain should be assumed by some high- er levels of government.- Com- mons. Harland.
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..'!'here no Inuly people who be- llavc tint present. speedometer: should be abolished. In their plans should be installed a device which will tell the motorist at. a glance just how far he will have to travel before he can possibly stop his car. speed is the great. curse of the highways. his cars continue to ap- proach the point where they may be called perfect, in mechanism. motorists become sccus mud to excessive speeds. They know their N" "9 5'-TOM and conform to a high plane of safety construction. and they naturally increase their mead. fully confident that no harm will come to them. -. Que. bec Chronicle-Telegraph.
Some. we lllplwle. will be weak and stupid enough to keep rents under control-- and thus to per- petuate the housing shortage. Others will have the sense to let rents find their own level- thus causing the housing shortage to din-ppm. we mm Alberta will be among them. The British land- lord has no such hope. He is re- cognised. both legally and socially, as a. beast, an enemy of the peo. ple. o devourer of widows and Wvhsna. He has been cag for 30 years. and there is no at he
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To them Chit rebuke the wicked -I-ll be dellnn: and a toad bless- lll Ilnll come unto then.
expanded as the family grown. in this green
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is shrinking in not the result of , new theory by Ifmtcln. It 1. , physical fact that the Impuhv standard Yard has shrunk by W, puts in amllllon in the last 5. lens. This must. be of great can. corn to rope-makers. drape;-1 tripe-manger: and others who an their merchandise by the Ed They must. be thinking of all 94,. thousands of miles of their putt. culnr commodity which they am given away for nothing. Then stands :1 has been the gooq old, fashlo f yard consisting of 35 M, inches, whilst the correct leggy Ylrd has been something a shad, of a shade less. -News Chrontclg (London).
It I! lflmrilll to note that up. employment. as predicted. it... taken a huge drop in North 3... and district. The upswing in .,m'. employment which occurred es;-iv thla Spring was seasonal. but jg caused quite a bit of worry at, the time. However. with the mum; camps. the lumber mills. and other summer activities absorb. Inc may or the transient work. era. the index has swung to , favorable position. At. the 5am. time, relief costs have dropped proving that many persons wh. previously had been forced to ac. cepl relief in food and shelter from the city have now rehabill. tatcd themselves and are provid. mg for their own welfare.-North- Bay Nugget.
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will ever be liberated. M nu 116 We
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non housing h t . ' w" your malt ma V” nu” Herald. 5 or M" -c"'"' "m "0 ""-
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Have passed. northern mares
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A 7w by those yluugh men who having already twice carried off the first prize on former occasions, have been by the regulations of the Society ex- cluded from further ””-an; and. as many persons on the ground at the late match express- ed their willingness to subscribe towards a fund for that purpose. the secretary of the Society will be happy in the meantime to N- celve donations."
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