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CHARLOTTETOWN. FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1950 A liionorahlo Anniversary

Saint Patrick's day this year is being celebrated as the 125th anniversary of the Benevolent Irish Society of Prince Edward Island. Throughout all its years of service in the Province, this society has E039 quiet- ly on its way, contributing in many ways to community progress and betterment. '

Established in Charlottetown in April, 1825, the Benevolent Irish Society is one of the oldest Societies in Canada. In the early years of the last century 8. considerable ‘number of Irish immigrants settled in Char- lottetown, bringing with them their cultured manners, unswerving loyalty to the British ‘crown, intense love of their homeland, and a spirit of ‘philanthropy which has not been surpassed by any other race.

It was not until the arrival of Col. John Ready in 1824, as Lieutenant Governor of the colony, that their high resolves blos- somed into united ‘action. Under Colonel Rcady’s patronage a charitable organization was established on April 18th, 1825, under the name of the Benevolent Irish Society of Prince Edward Island.

The objects of this society were of a threefold character; the relief of the _poor of all creeds and races, the perpetuation of Irish national sentiment, and the perform- ance of works of benevolence.

The most important work of the Society, for many years, has been of a charitable nature, and no worthy cause has ever been overlooked by‘ this grand old organization.

Marketing Prohlems

The world today has become so ac- customed to encountering currency diffi- culties in the way of trade expansion that there is danger of coming to regard mone- tary exchange as the most important or even the sole problem to be overcome. It is, therefore, reassuring to find that the Federation of Agriculture is alive to the need for producing fine quality eggs, but- ter, chicken and meat products, particukirly for the growing Newfoundland trade, and of so packing and shipping them that they will maintain their high quality until they reach the consumer. Newfoundland is, and will increasingly be, a highly competitive mar- ket and if our natural advantages are to be fully exploited it is essential that we have satisfied customers.

Whether a “community” abattoir could be run efficiently enough to be both profit- able and to uphold the reputation of Prince Edward Island products is open to question. In Canada the packing business is organ- ized on a nation-wide scale and many economies are constantly practiced which would be impossible to any purely local ‘or- ganizatlon. ‘

Freight Rates Increase

The Ottawa . Journal professes’ astonish- ment that “out in the Western provinces and down in the Maritimes a cry goes up against the latest increase of freight rates for our railways. This, despite the fact that the increase may be inadequate.” The in- crease may, indeed, be inadequate, although it was granted after the most careful in- vestigation of railway costs. If the rates allowed by the Board of Transport Commis- sioners were put into effect across the whole country there would be no doubt about their adequacy. What cuts into railway revenues and throws an unfair burden on the West and the Maritimes is the policy of cutting rates in the central provinces because of truck and bus competition. There is no .earthiy reason why the Maritimes should be penalised in unnecessarily high rates in order to carry the costs of operation in Ontario and Quebec. . ,

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Simplicity and economy are the chief x:ho1-acterlstlcs of a new British 3-row po- tato planter which will plant up to 16 acres In an 8-hour day. The machine is avail- able for delivery this season. Its normal performance is claimed to be 95-97 per cent 1 tomatic, the remaining 3-5 per cent being

de up by the operator. One of the ma- chine's most practical features is case of ad- justment for setting and spacing between lows. Standard settings are 12, 15, 18 and 21-lnchbufsnothersetcanbearranged on

' filnailneooonobioseedbedsthetool so a straight-forward planter,

5-inch faces and free wheel hubs for turning the machine in its own length. Up to 600 lbs. of seed can be loaded into the hopper and the planter is steel throughout with no castings.

EDITORIAL NOIES Twenty-four days till Easter. . . .

The Feast of St. Patrick, Ireland's Pa- tron Saint.

O O 0

“Young Paddy Barry” repeated at the Prince Edward.

O O O

Summerslde has got ahead of Charlotte- town in progress in the development of its Federal Building project.

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It is rumoured that things are not run- ning too smoothly behind the scenes in Pro- vincial Government circles.

O O I

St. Patrick's Day—-its light hearted fes- tivities stand out all the more gaily for its setting in the more or less sombre Lenten season.

0 O I

“It’s simply good business for Central Canadians to eat more fish,” pointed out Federal Deputy Minister of Fisheries Stew- art Bates. “They'll be able to sell more of their manufactured products to the coastal areas." And so say all of us.

0 O 0

It is remarkable that no sooner does Prince Edward Island find a profitable mar- ket for its turnip crop in Ontario than some- body or other at Ottawa discovers a microbe or maggot which never hitherto interfered with exports to the U. S. A. market.

0 O O

A Michigan University professor has de- termined that outboard motors do not “scare the fish.” i-ils findings should do much to improve the temper of fishermen who are inclined to react to that kind of disturbance even though the fish don't.

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An exchange refers to science as having taken the romance out of weather forecast- ing. It has, indeed, if establishing weather stations within the Arctic Circle. maintain- ing weather ships oh the seven seas and sending aircraft into hurricanes to plot the movement of their core can e so described.

I O I

Senator David, Quebec, advocates a world government to oppose and destroy the threat of Communism. If such a gov- ernment were based on that of the Pro- vincial Government of Quebec, it would be a dictatorship, and minorities would be as well off as they are in Russia or Spain.

0 O O The Budget Speech was another reminder that many grants from Ottawa to the Prov- ince must be matched by Provincial ex- penditures. It is always a question just how much bounty we can afford to accept, apart altogether from any question of where the Federal Government is to get the money. 0 O I

British parents of Canadian and Ameri- can housewives who were war brides are to be offered a round trip at half price to visit their daughters and their families. It is one of the hardships of these times that post- war conditions in the Old Country should have made such visits very nearly impos- sible.

O O O

In Saint John a special agreement (which should be of interest to our Water Commissioners in w of the proposed ex- tension of boundaries) to clarify the prac- tice of Wartime Housing Limited—now in- cluded in Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation—collecting water rates from tenants was approved by the Common Coun- cil on recommendation of the water assess- ment department. In making the recom- mendation, H. R. Sewell of the water assess- ment department noted “we are the only water department in Canada that has an agreement, of this nature, and from reports they all wish they had." Mr. Sewell men- tioned the difficulty that would arise in the case of transient tenants being levied in- dlvldually for the water rates.

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Keeping up with the “I-learfses", etc., Chatham News remarks: “At times you hear warnings about the danger of any but the mlldest kind of physiclal exercise for the persons advanced in years. Great care must

be taken, one is told, not to put a strain-

upon the heart. Still we find that a well- known London surgeon, an authority on physical culture, has come forward as A champion of muscular exercises for old per- sons. Hls advice is “Don't be afraid of your hearts. They will stand more diseases than any other organ in your body." He maintains that men ought to walk at the rateof110anllnute(ther-otelmownirithc army as "quick time") even after reaching

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Till BRANDON BELL! with deep affection. And recollection. ' I often think it Those Shondou bells, Whose sounds so wild would. In the days of childhood, Fling round my cradle Their music wells.

on bills’! ponder,

whereof I wonder,

And thus grow fondcr, Sweet Ocrk. of thee;

With thy belals of abandon, That sound so grand on The plessmt waters

Of the River Lee.

I‘ve heard bells chiming

Full many a. clinic in,

Tolllng subiiune in

Cathedral sluine,

While at s glib rots \ Brass tongues would vibrate- But all the music , Spoke naught like thine; - F\or memory, dwelling

on each proud swelling

Of the belfry knelling

Its bold notes free,

Made the bells of

Sound for more grand on The pleasant waters

Of the River Lee.

I've heard bells tolling Old Adrian's Mole in, Their thunder roiling From the Vatican. And cymbals glorious Swinging uproarlous In the glorious turret: Of Notre Dame;

But thy sounds were sweeter Than the dome of Peter I-‘lings o'er the 'I'lber

Pcullng solc-mn‘.y;—

0' the‘be‘.ls of Shandnn Seumi far more gfsnd on The pleasant waters

of the River Lee.

There's a bell in Moscow. While in tower in kiosk 0 In Saint. Sophia

The Turkman gets; / And loud in air

Calk men to prayer

Frfrn the tapering summitd Of_tall mjiiarcts.

such empty phantom

I freely grant them;

But. there's an anthem More dear to me,-

'Tls the bells cxf Sllandon That sound so grand on The pleasant waters

Of the River Lee.

—l=‘ather Pmut (Francis Sylvester Maahony) 1801-1866.))

Unr¢;s_t Behind The Iron Curtain

(By W. N. Ewer)

The sentences on Saunders and Vogeler in the Budapest "spy Trial," the Hungarian notes to London and Washington which Idl- lowed the trial, the speech a few days later of President Gottwald of Czechoslovakia. all have one meaning. The Soviet Government’: drive to force a complete" rupture of every re-lotionship between the East-European satellite states and 22% Western world is being intensi-

Notlce has in effect been served upon all “wuslem" private citizens that to live or work in “people's democracy" is to be liable at any moment not merely to deportation but to a long term of imprison- ment. Only the staffs of diplomatic mission will now be safe. Buggestr ions are already being made th I their numbers should be reduce At the same time the work of the missions is being made rmost im- possible. Ambassadors and Minist- ers are treated with studied dis- courlesy. their staffs are restricted in their movernents. followed by police agents. Telephones are topped. Little official business can be done for contacts are rare and delay interminable. The clear pin‘- pose is to make the whole situation of the Missions so absurd and in- tolernlble that the Western powers will withdraw them-4: the U.5.A. already-has in the case of Bulgaria. And, so long as they remain, they will be more and more isolated.

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At the some time. the cltlsens of the “people's democracies" are be- ing warned that any contact with foreigners is dangerous. Any busi- ness conection can bring I charge of oonnlvance at economic espion- age, for which the penalty may be death. Any personal scquslnunce. any personal correspondence. even lm interest in western affairs or western culture is sufficient to bring suspicion. And it in danger- ous to be even mildly sumocg.

There also exist intense propo- gmdu attempts to stir up prejud- ice and even blind hatred of every- fllin: western. President Gott- wal '3 speech is significant. The Czechoslovak people are told (though they may not of course believe) that their country is full of “qslea, dive:-slonlsls, murderers, robbers and outcasts” who have been “lent from abroad? to sabotage reconstruction and prepare for I new “lmporiollst war." clearly has Ouch; on in- vited to look for than "~!nnuu dress" not only among the fur foreigners who remain but upon; more of their own countrymen who lived. worked and fought. in the west during the .

This anti-westun canola: is not new. But lthu nowrecchcd s new level of lntcmlty. why!

The main purpose ll. of count. to insulate the ssfaltlito man from every kind of atom so utomolre than more sndlnuo subject to Russian lnflumcos and Bunion control. They are to be "doweournloov In older mousse‘:

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m confulon they nlull related in their portions; therefore in their lnnd they shall possess the double: cw rlastlng joy shall be unto them. I win greatly rejoice In the Lord, my soul shall be Joyful in my God.

of sabotage and fiulbverslve props- ganda. That is not lrnprobn-ble. For the

Russian mind. and the Cornmunlst rnlnd. grasps eagerly and instinct- ively at some such explanation when anything goes wrong In Raunsis, itself, any failure or any trouble is and has been for twenty years quicicly attributed to "sabot- age." 0 I 0

It is I disease of dogmatlsm. Marxist dogma has laid down the way in which things must develop. If they do not develop in the pro- ordered way then some explanation must be found, some disturbing factor detected.

For one thing, the Marxist doct- rine requires that the transition from a capitalist to a socialist sys- tan shall at once bring about a vast increase in production. The revolution comes about precisely ‘ the institutions of capital- Lvn have become “fetters upon the productive forces." In the revolut- ion “the integument is burst asunder." Vast. productive forces are “liberated."

And if that has not happened. if ti’: production of the soviet count- r has not, as confidently anticl- pated. leapt ahead of and for out- stripped that of the capitalist countries, then something must be wrong. And it cannot be the sacred texts. The Communist Govern- ment look desperately for ways and means of compelling the expected miracle to happen. Hence the brutal disciplining and speedlngup of the workers. And at the some time-—ln genuine bewilderment- they look for an explanation and find it in the wicked machinations of the “remmmts of the capital- ist order" and of the "imperialist powers." . . .

That is one factor. But it is not only production which has gone wrong. By the Lenlnlst.-Stalinist theory an the "broad masses" of the satellite states should have rallied enthusiastic:/lly to the new order They should spontaneously be filled with feelings of loyalty to the great Soviet Union and its great Communist party. and with personal devotion to the “great leader and teacher Josef Stalin." when that too does not happen, an explanation must be found. And ugnlfl the same einp‘a.notlon cornea most easily to conspiratorial minds. Again it is the wicked machin- nllons of the "x-emonts" and “im- perlsllsts."

The Communist lenders turn in o fremy of alarm and enthusiasm to liquidate the wreckers in whose existence they are forced by their theories to believe.

so the very intensity of the pres- ent campaign is an index of the anxiety of the Government's. They turn to terror because of their own alarms and their own frustrations. The spy trials and the rest of list! the clearest. indication we can hwve of the existence of economic failures and popular unrest. in all than countries beyond the “iron curtain."

Old Charlottetown ' and 1». n. u

IMPTY GAOL

“We were last week _precended with the gratifying and unwanted spectacle of the doors of the Gaol standing wide open. in consequ- ence of there not being a prisoner of any description confined wlniln its gloomy walls. We will be "readily believed when we say that we beheld this sight with feelings Out a very pleasurable kind — not a single prisoner in a population of 30,000, was realizing in per‘! our ideas of the golden age. and while contemplating the pleasing picture we could not help ex- olaiming with the Roman patriot. ‘Esto Per~peutua'."

—Prince Edward island Register. Aug. 30, 1825.

Foreign Ministers To Meet This Spring

By W. N. Dwel-

Although no definite arrange- ments have been made it is now taken for granted that the Amor- lcan, British and French Foreign Ministers will meet during the next few weeks-—probably in Lon- don. in April.

The meeting has no implication o1 urgency or anything in the nut- ure of A crisis. Nor ‘.1 it to be called to discuss any particular problem or take any special decision. such meetings are indeed likely to be periodic. This informal council of three has in a way taken over the functions of the Council of Foreign Ministers. it has a double purpose.

First of all, It is I meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the three Clov- ernments which are now jointly responsible for Western Germany. secondly, it gives ‘an ogporourlty for informal discussion and ex- change of views on all other quest- ions of common concern to the “world powers” of the Western system. .

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The meeting in Paris. in Novem- ber, was devoted almost entirely to German problems; and it was then decided in pl'l"clple to hold another meetlng in the sarlng,.slso with Germany as the chief subject for discussion, But, since November. there have beer other developmerrs which may r'equi e_ cor-side able modification of the expected I- gends.

During these months there has come about I funda ital change in the inter-rational structure of the world. Th; Soviet Union and its associates have withdrawn from all participation in the organs of the United Nations. That muy on- ly be temporary. The immediate reason for it is unwillingness to take part. in any work or any organization with representatives of the Chinese Nationalist Gpvc:n- ment. But there are some indicat- ions that it. is intended to be I prelude to permanent withdrawal. And--p=_A I. 0!‘ ‘ _ --y soviet aeceulon is I fact. means that at the present til-no the United Nations Organization has ceased to be of any use for settlement. czen discussion of any matters at issue between the

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.,_.._ A Detroit paper secures the con- Idlnn city of Cbstlnrn of showing four dlflercnt houses on the one in which John Brown sheltered runaway slaves before the Am- erican Civil War. This shows civic enterprise. We understand that Ohnthsm is also going to open I branch of that other local tourist- oquoezex-, Uncle Tom’: Cabin. — Peterborougl: Examiner.

A civilization which looks golden to those brought up in it rnny lock brassy to some on the outside. Americans who think of their mo- tion as on epitome of idealism forgot that it is symbolized to millions in other lands by juke- box jive, gangster movies, and boorish tourists, — Christian Sci- ence Monitor. .

An educational costs have in- creased, the pi-ovlnclnl grant to Toronto hu been em-barrusingly reduced. In 1948, when expendi- tures amounted to $15,381,352, the grant was $3,419,294; last year’: expenditure: were $16,840,888. the grant $3,282,700; this year, with an increased budget of nearly $2,000,- 000, the provincial government pro- duces a system which cuts off

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The form said lunch new suggests that Donald Gout would lutall radio in the pg;-1 can to take the fed um out of t drcsdlful jaunt through pu-1; Canada. If there's one team more than another we'd like to spared it is that of listening to rndlo when we're not in the mo for it. Give us the click at 1 rolls and the plum: scene It ., time. What is this cough». against silence that is coming at us from all sides’! The radio I! dare I: allow 20 seconds to pass in qu lelt we think the broadcanen operators have all died. Th. there’: the roar of the juke b in the smallest hot: dog and com stand on the street: the nu speaker sports announcer w tells you in the stands all we the game you are watching qu; as well as he. thank you; ;, micro-phones which are now g lng to disturb the peaceful sllen of the further corners of the Con mono chamber wherelo one cou always retreat for a needed for winks; the prevalent idea thu two people lunchlng together. low a minute to pass in silen they are‘ rude or bored or 1; plain stu-pld. We're telling you, you can hear us. that is, 11131, jg, getting to be a mighty noisy wo. with a mighty lot of tayata 1; sin in it. Seems we're burying o silence just as down in the Sta: