APRIL 9. 1951

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,.m,;'ioanmo car baled shav- ing. atzrll 9th and 10th at Sum- menf Lloyd Burns. Freetown.

.103 ALI. YOU! House Clean- ,” supplies. call the Snlmmerside gang-ware Go. Phone 3111.

.9 INDIAN 1uvlm-Kr.N- smq N Dramatic Club present their in King George Hall.

Y Kensi i ton. Monday. April 9th.

..nii5rAN mvnlt play in Ken- ,-mgion postponed until Saturday night.

.. COMPLETES COURSE my Ruth Kelly, R.N., arrived home from Baltimore, Md. on Sat- urday night where she had been inking I post graduate course in surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hos- pital, Miss Kelly is a member of the nursing staff of the Charlottetown Hospital. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Kelly, Summer- side. - S .

--ENTERTAINS KINETIES -- llrs. Elmer Offer entertained the. members of the Summerside Kin-E ettes on Thursday evening at, her home. The president. Mrs.i Harry Dickie, occupied the chair-.1 A discussion was held on the' l(:nsmen's Carnival which will be! held the latter part of May and plans for operating booths were made. The members were busy in the preparation of a doills wardrobe. The next meeting on: April 19 will be held at the home - of Mrs. Jack Oliver. Slemon Park. Delicious re-freshiments were serv- ed by Mrs. Elmer Murphy, Mrs. Alex Macllae and Mrs. George Olscamp.-S.

.. DIES AT ALBERTON - Mrs.

Edward Thompson of Alberton pass-

ed away in the Western Hospital

Friday night. Six months ago she

suffered an accident from which she

never recovered. she was eighty-

two years of age. Her husband pre-

deceased her some few years ago.

she is survived by one sister, Mrs.

Annie Field of South Portland,

Maine, and I number of nieces and, nephews. The funeral, conductedl by Rev. P. A. Fitzpatrick, was from, the home of her niece. Miss Shir-. ley McArthur, Hymns sung were Shepherd", and "Rock Of Ages".' Pallbearers were Messrs. l-leber! Hardy. Alvin Bell, Leonard Mur-, reli, John Black. Arthur Wilkie and

Robert Campbell. Interment was in

liillcrest Cemetefy.

Sunday afternoon.l "The Lord's My:

-ONLY THE BIG ONES -It is related that I certain fisheries. nllicer while patrolling the streams not far west of Summer-i side recently. stopped at a bridge- whpre the big ones are known too he plentiful. Four little girls were busily engaged in lending some speckled beauties and as the closed season was still on the officer asked them what they were doing. "Fishing." they coylyl answered. "We are fishing smells: of course we only keep the big ones. the little ones we put hack." Blinfully unaware that this was a fisheries ,warden the children continued to whip the stream and the officer. remem- bering perhaps a. small boy of long agoplmiied to himself and walked away without a single twinge of his official conscience.

-'1'IVE BOYS SENTENCE!) - At..a session of the Juvenile Court in Summorside Saturday morning five boys were senten- red to I year in the Saint John industrial School, Saint John. N. B. or longer at the discretion of the. court. Ono lad who had not been in trouble before was placed on probation. Judge L. G. Lewis, judge of the Juvenile Court. presided at the hearing. Chief of Police Peter White placed 20 in- formation: before. the court which covered practically every break that occurred in Summer- side in the last six months. They all pleaded guilty. It is hoped that ,II I result of these senten- CM the worst wave of juvenile crime in the history of the Town will be brought to an end.-S.

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-nanca l in Spring Valley HAIL Tuesday. April 10th. sale of lunches.

-EYE IMPROVING - Little Donald Campbell. Ion of Mr. and Mrs. Erskine Campbell. who suf- fered an eye injury when struck by a piece of glass is much iim- proved. After further examination by Dr. Lantz much improvement was found and no impairment of eyesight is expected.

-ACCIDENT NEAR. ELMBDAIJJ -- An accident incurred late Friday

. evening at McNeil's Crossing, about

one mile from Elmsdale, when I car crashed into an unoccupied 1943

'Mercury which was parked by the

side of the highway. No one was injured but considerable damage was done to both cars.

-FUNERAL SATURDAY -The funeral of the late Peter R. Rich- ard was held on Saturday morn- ing with Requiem Mass at Mont Carmel Church celebrated by Rev. Father Buote. who also perform- ed the last rites at the grave. The pail bearers were:Messrs. Posithee Poirier, Nazaire Richard. Oxybe Richard, Clair Gallant, Cyrus Gal- iand. Tillman Gallant. Interment was in the church cemetery.-S.

-BRIDGE PARTY - A bridge party on Wednesday afternoon. the first in a series. in the Nurses' Home, Summe side. was sponsored by the Ladies' Aid of Prince County Hospital. under the con- venemhip of Mrs. William Hay- ward and Mrs. T. H. E. Ionian. Six tables were in play and prizes were awarded to Mrs. R. L. Wil- let, Mrs. Horace Clark and Mrs. James A. Hill.-S.

-FUNERAI. SATURDAY -The largely attended funeral of the late Robert C. MacNaught was held. after a short service at the home. from the Brae United Church Saturday afternoon at 2.30. The service was conducted by the Rev. W. G. Dickson, assist- ed hy the Rev. J. Sheen and Rev. C. O. Hewlett. Hymns sung were. "Lead Kindly Light" and "Unto The Hills Around Do I Lift Up My Longingv Eye " and "Lead Kindly Light" Pal bearers were, Ira Ellis. l-lughle MacGregor. Carroll Mcwilllams, James Wood, Bradford McKay, Alfred Gallant. Interment was in the church cemetery.

-ENTERTAINS GUILD -Mrs. Elmer Newson entertained the members of the Ladies Guild of Church on Friday evening at her home on Arcona street. The president. Mrs. R. T. Dodds. opened the meeting with "rhe Lord's Prayer" repeated in unison. It was decided to holda Pantry sale' as a ways and means of raising funds. The members were busy with the usual sewing and knitting. Dainty refreshments were served by the hostess.-S.

-85TH BIRTHDAY -- Rev. George Ayers of Summerside was host to I number of friends and relatives on Thursday evening at his home at the dinner hour on the occasion of the -ighty-fifth anniversary of his birth. Mr. L. R. Allen. who extended congratu- lations and best wishes. made the presentation of a lovely gift on be- half of the assembled guests. The evening was pleasantly spent in games and contests. concluding with the singing of sacred music. with Mrs. L. M. Callbeck at the piano. and prayer offered by Rev. J. C. Johnson. a nephew. who ar- rived from Moncton. N. 3.. to be present at this function.-5.

Fertilizer coliig By Air From S'side

llbur tons of fertilizer in 100 pound bags were loaded aboard I "flying boxcar" of the U. .5. Air Force for Harmon Field base in Newfoundland, at Svummerside air- port on Saturday. Bad weather prevented the plane. taking off

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Bowling league Dinner. Dance

The annual dinner and dance foauring the closing of competit- ion in 1-Iollnan'I staff bowling league was held on Thursday Iv- ening It Coy1e's Restaurant. Bum- merside. Mr. "Dutch" Underwood acted as master of ceremonies and the presentations were made by the general manager. Mr. Robert T. Holman.

A program of entertainment was presented s' i , which there weal

or- chestra and vocal solos by Mrs. Layton Dunning and Dick Hunt-I horn. Mr. Preernont Archer Ic- oompsnied on the piano. There was also a vocal trio consisting of Mrs. Gertie Cshill, Wally Coulson andi Dave Murray which was accom-i panied by Mrs. Irene Peters. i The league trophy was presented ' to Mr. Antoine Gallant. captain of' the Donkeys. the winning team in- the Barn Yard League. as it was' known. other team members arezl Irene Peters. Keith Champion: June Oliappell. Claude Arsennult.' Stanley Rogers and Irene Dun- ning. Each player received I box of chocolates. The prize for the man' with the highestaverage scorewenta to Dutch Underwood and the prize for the women's high average went to Mrs. Gus MacDonald. Al consolation prize was presented to Mr. Felix Gallant. I

After the program had been' completed dancing was enjoyed to the music of Ted Ahearn's or- chestra.-S

I.et's Talk It Over

A Prince County Viewpoint

We are all extremely proud of our democratic way of life. We hear of the Russian ballot bearing the name of one candidate for whom you vote if you want to remain healthy, and we glory in our free system of elections where a man goes behind I curtain armed with a ilot, a pencil and his precious rigt to place the X where it pleases him. He doesn't have to submit to any kind of coercion or intimldatlon. No one can know for sure how he votes and it is nobody else's business but his. Truly a proud privilege, and one which ev- ery man and woman should feel humbly and deeply grateful to exer. else. and to defend.

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How you respond to this privil- ege, born of a freedom which has "broadened down from precedent to precedent" is in a sense a mea- sure of your manhood. It seems a pity there are so many ways this privilege can be abused and defiled. First of all, you can sell this birth- right for a mess of filthy lucre. You can accept a bribe and thus submit to the dictatorship of money, which is as miles a tyrhnt as stalan is. if

this, you are helping to make our democracy shoddy, and not some- thing of which to be proud and to hold up as an example to the less favored parts of the world.

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You can opermit 'yourseif to be cajoled into casting a. vote for some smug candidate who thumps you on the back. and flashes his "elec- tion campaign" smile at you. If he has always been friendly, well and good. but if It other times he has ignored you. his big. hearty grin now is an insult to your intelli- gence. He is plainly presuming that you are I dull-witted, addle-pated member of the electorate who can be kldded into voting for the nice. friendly pal that he has suddenly turned out to be. He is sure that such things as e1ection issues, rec- ords of government, careful” man- agement or mismanagement of your tax money and the like are all far above your head, and all that is

get away today. The fertilizer was purchased from the Canada 'Pack- ers plant here and it is expected that two more similar loads will be' taken. This is the second year that this material has been pur- chased here. It is used for the lawns and fruit and vegetable gardens of the base.-5.

Personals

-- Mrs. Carl Crockett of Bummer- slde arrived home on Saturday

over the weekend but they hope to

evening from a visit to Boston. - S

S'side Coding Club Closes A

The formal closing of the Sum- lnerside Curling club for the year was held on Saturday even- ing with the finals being held in three competitions. The club championship and the Tip Top Tailors trophy was won by I team skippered by T. D. Morrison. other team members were: Bob Ross, mate, .1. L. Gorrill, second stone Ind Jack Turnibull, lead.

The Oanmercial Iaegue champ- ionship and the George Olark

i shield were won by the N. C. O.'s

skipped by Sgt. Burnie. The '1 o'- clock competition was won by I rink skipped by Morley Bell.

The trophies were presented to the rink! by the club president. .1. K. Curran. Following this there was I presentation by Wally Scantlebury of Charlottetown of his Ice Follies which was much

' appreciated. Later on there was I

dance for members and lunch was served.--S.

needed to bring you into the fold is his hearty handshake and the hypo- critical love-light in his eye.

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Voting for your own selfish ad- vancement. and without regard to the common well-being. whether you receive actual money. its equiv- alent in stimulating liquids, or even a promotion in your work lowers our standard of democracy and makes it subject to criticism by other peoples. We heard a startling suggestion the other day. A man gave it as his opinion that men and women getting their livelihood from the government should not be al- lowed to vote. That would be I rad- ical change indeed and we doubt, considering its many implications. that it would ever work, but we uri- dersiand and appreciate the abuse at which such a proposed restric- tion is levelled.

LIBERAL RECORD (Continued an Page 5) capabfe- leadership during that fateful period.

”We sincerely hope that no new emergency of that sort faces

us at the moment. But it was not reassuring to hear Speaker Sam Reylburn tell the United

States House of Representatives this week that troops are massing in Korea and Manchuria and that not all of them are Chinese Com- munists.

”It is up to the people of this Province to decide what sort of leadership they would prefer in case of another emergency.

”Would they choose the party that bungled so badly during the 'terrible thirties' and plunged this Province into the depths of de- pression? Or would they rather have at the helm the Liberal party which brought the. Prov- ince back from the brink of econ- omic disaster and steered our destinies through the trying days of an all-emlbracing world war? The choice should not be a difficult one.

"During this campaign you will be given an account of the work done by the various branches of Government by the .responsible ministers.

"At this time I would like to deal for I few moments with an industry which has developed

rapidly in this Province during the past few years. I refer to the Tourist Industry - an industry

which has great potentialities Ind one which has it bearing on almost every economic phase in the life of our Province.

"We are truly the Garden Prov. ince of Canada. Our scenery. our beaches. our fishing and hunting and the well-known hospitality of our island people are real assets. These attribute: set us apart and give our Province a special charm which is bringing more and more vacaiionists to our midst each. year. The Liberal party would do everything to foster and de- velop the expansion of this im- portant industry.

Value Of Tourist Trade

"It is sometimes difficult to compute in dollars and cents the value of the visitor industry. Many intangibles enter into at- tempts to pin down the dollar value of our holiday business. But certain surveys have been made which give a fairly accur- ate insight into the large amount spent annually on travel.

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industry ranked second only to the pulp and paper industry in bringing important new money into this country. In our own Province the two primary in- dustries of agriculture and fish- ing may outrank the travel busi- ness in dollar value. But. to I larger degree than many of us may realize. the visitor industry has put ready money into the pockets of our farmers and fish- ermen. Vacationistn consume large quantities of the product of our land Ind sea.

"there is I mistaken impression that most of the money spent by visitors goes directly into the pocket of the resort operator. But such is not the case. We have figures compiled from an ull-em- bracing survey made by the Cans- dian Government Travel Bureau to put the record straight on that point. '

"According to the Canadian Governmen-t Travel Bureau, this is how the tourist dollar is spent: Retail merchants get 30 cents of it; restaurants and cafes get 22 cents of it; accommodation ac- counts for 17 cents; 13 cents is spent at gasoline stations; the- atres and other amusement places get I nine-cent slice of the tour- flit dollar; transportation com- panies receive seven cents. and three cents is spent for incident- Ils. '

"I am sure there are many who would dispute me if I said the tourist industry is worth up- wards of five million dollars an- nually to this Province-and that its value could be increased.

"But let us look at the figures as set down in the i050 report of the Prince Edward Island Tra- vel Bureau.

"We see from the report that 32,915 automobiles came into the Province by way of the Tormen- tine-Borden route in 1950 and that another 11,908 vehicles came in through the Caribou-Wood ls- lan-ds route. That is a total of 44,103 automobiles which entered Prince Edward Island during the year 1950.

”We know, of course. that not all of those cars were of outside registry. In other words, many of them were Island cars returning from trips to the mainland. Let us take some figures which would estimate how many were visiting automobiles. Let us say that half of this total represented Island cars returning from trips abroad. This would be 22,051 automobiles. Our total registra- tion of automobiles in Prince Ed- ward Island in 1950 was slightly over 10,000. If our estimate is not too high, this would mean that every automobile in the Provipce would have to leave the Province twice during the year to account for the 22,051 cars which might be Island cars in the grand total entering the Province for the year.

"I think you will all agree With me that our total for Island cars is much too high. But for the sake of argument let us leave it at that figure. Then we would have 22,051 visitor cars coming into the Province in 1950. We can now follow through and get some idea of what money was left here by our visitors.

"A spot check conducted last summer on our ferries establish- ed that 3.46 or roughly 3 1-2 per- sons travel in each car. So, a total of 77,138 persons would be the number coming in by auto- mobile in visitor cars only.

Impressive Figures

"Some visitolxs stay ll couple of months, some one month or three weeks, many stay two weeks. a large number spend ii week here, while quite a. number stay only a few days or less. I do not think that an average 5 y of seven days would be too high or too low for the purpose of our com- putation. This would Imount to 339.756 visitor days.

"While here. the visitor has to have accommodation and food. This costs him individually at least five dollars is day. But he also buys gasoline. cigarettes and liquor. In view of this it would seem that an average of eight dollars spent each day would not be too high. Eight dollars a day for 77,138 persons for 539,766 vis- itor days would nbririg travel spending during the year to I total of, 94,318,128.

"We have not even included in

these figures any of the 10,127 passengers which came into this Province in 1950 by plane. Nor

have we added a single penny for those who clone here by bus.

"So it would appear that a fig- ure of upwards of five million dollars for our visitor industry is not so fantastic after all.

"You may ask. in view of this. what is being done to help the tourist industry of the Province.

"My answer is this: We are adivertisinrg the attractions of our Province as I holiday area. The advertising is carried this year in 17 American and Canadian news- papers which reach it total read- enship of five million persons. All through the year our Travel Bu- reau is busy mailing out literature to the thousands who write in for information about our Island. Many of the queries have to be answered by personal letter. In addition to the paid advertising. the Tourist and Information Branch has started I publicity campaign in the form of stories about the Province which are sent to various papers acompan- led bypictures. This free public- ity is usually read: to I greater degree than the paid Idvertiing and should be very valuable in making our -Province better known.