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THE GUARDI-AN

Authorised as Second Clsu Mall Post Office Department, Ottsws The Island Gusrdlsn Publishing Co. CIRCULATION Total City Zone ......... .. Iotlll Trading Zone All other .. I Total Net Paid . .. 12.313 Editor snd Managing Director. J. ll. Burnett Associate Editor, Frank Walker

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CHARLOTTETOWN

FRIDAY. JULY 7. 1950.

Britain Not To Blame

-Those who accuse Britain of ”ingrati- tude" to Canada when Britain refuses to continue a wheat agreement or to buy goods from us which she can buy more advant-

ageously elsewhere are taken to task by

Winnipeg Free Press, which with an eye apparently upon Agriculture Minister Gar- diner says bluntly:

”No question of gratitude is involved in" this business. Canada did not fight the war for Britain but for its own survival. When Britain stood alone under the blitz and Canada was enjoying the largest pros- perity in its history we did not aid Britain because we expected to sell wheat and oth- er goods comfortably in a protected British market later on. We aided Britain during and since the war simply because we knew that the free world must stand together or perish.

"To introduce false claims of gratitude at this point as an excuse for a Canadian farm policy which went wrong is not sim- ply to ignore the obvious facts but to breed ill-feeling damaging to Britain and Can- ada alike." i

The Free Press adds further that when trade passes from private traders into trade conducted between governments the con- sequences are almost certain to be bad. When a private trader (it says) fails to sell his goods in" a foreign market because some other goods are offered more cheaply he does not accuse that country of ingrati- tude or betrayal. He cuts his price or looks around for some other market and goes about his business. But-

”as we see in the classic example of the wheat contract very different results follow when governments quarrel over governmen- tal trade. At once the issue is lifted out of the sphere of economics into spheres of poli- tics and partisan politics at that. The gov- ernment which has made a bad bargain accuses the other government of bad faith for it has to offer some explanation to the thousands of producers who have foolishly depended on its business judgment. The economic facts are drowned in a chorus of propaganda and recrimination as discredit- ed politicians and farm organizations at- tempt to justify themselves to their pro- ducers."

This appears to be the inevitable conse- quence of state trading-which means sim- ply trade taken from business and put into politics.

Want To Be civil servants

That there were 100,000 applicants for the 17,248 civil service appointments last year is revealed in the 1949 report of the Civil Service Commission. These figures when compared with the 13,235 separations indicate that, far from declining, Federal Government staffs are still on the increase, and with new demands for services of one kind and another the prospect is that the rate of growth will increase rather than otherwise.

Also noteworthy is the popularity of Government employment. It is not appar- ent to what extent this is due to the secur- ity of employment and eventual pension, or to the attractions of public service itself, with the increasing prestige associated with the holding of an official position. Neither of these possible explanations bodes well for the youth of this country, and it is to be hoped that the attraction for many of the applicants is the opportunity offered by Government employment to neally0 serve their country.

VI-a-s-t-epapcr Basket Boon

Senator W. A. Buchanan of the Leth- bridge Herald, says that the purchase of wsstepaper baskets in the editorial offices of his newspaper is on the increase. The reason? To dispose of the mounting flood of publicity handouts from Ottawa.

This frank comment on bureaucratic publishing efforts from one of Canada's lending newspapermen deserves more than pining attention. For it is not only news- paper offices that have to deal with the deluge of pamphletp, mimeographed docu- ments and other material that pours through the mail. Private 'orgsnizstions.x lmrporstions. universities snd even indi- vidual citlscns whose names somehow find their way-on to departmental mailing lists. V senator Bucbsnsn i on printing and be set up to investigate the scope

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is sound. It would be unfortunate, however, were steps taken to set up a separate de- partment of information and publicity which, almost certainly, would develop into something not unlike a ministry of propa- ganda. Far better solution would be to impose strict limitations on the funds avail- able to government departments for so-c:il- led publicity purposes. I

EDITORIAL" NOT ES

A Dean succeeds a Church as command-

er of all United States forces in Korea. 0 I O

The Manitoba Flood Relief Committee in thanking contributors to their Fund asks them to have patience with regard "to of- ficial receipts as they are over-burdened with work in getting them out.

0 C O

The extensive dredging programme which commenced in Montague River this week should stimulate the business life of the port, much hampered in recent years by the silting up of their harbour.

I O I

In the family. Gandi's sister, Mrs. Ralist Ben, aged eighty-three, went on a 24-hour hunger strike in Saurashtra, India, because the local authorities increased the school and college fees. The authorities surrend- ered.

O The Dominion Fisheries Biological Divis- ion men experimenting in stocking Island ponds consider them ideal for trout develop- ment. That should be the best of argu- ments for maintaining the ponds as an al- most unbeatable attraction for the kind of tourists we hope to keep coming here.

0 O O

The Royal Commission on Arts and Sciences is now holding its final public ses- sions in St. Johns before returning to Ot- tawa to prepare its report which is expect- ed sometime in October. The findings should attract wide public interest but per- haps the crucial question is whether poli- ticians can be induced to study it.

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The Credit Union Leaguels proposal to employ a field man for educational and pro- motional duties is the essence of wisdom. Co-operatives have been launched in this Province in the past, but almost invariably foundered on the dilution of membership with those who did not . understand the principles on which they were based.

0 O 0

Among the eulogies lately pronounced on Wordsworth no one saw fit to mention the compliment paid him by a gentleman whom George Borrow met in his wander- ings. He suffered severely from insomnia until he discovered one day that if he lay down in a particular meadow and opened a volume of Wordsworth he was instantly lapped in the profoundest slumber.

O O I

Mr. H. R. Hare, Ottawa, superintendent of farm development under the V. L. A. is quoted as saying, "Economic studies of farm income have invariably shown that the net returns from farming, seldom exceed the vision contained in the plan prepared months earlier." In other words, the farmer must first see how he is going to profit and then

go ahead and do so. 0

It is expected Senate reformwill be high on the agenda of the Dominion-Provincial Conference. The Senate is looked upon by many as the "protector" of provincial rights and the provinces probably will mint a say in any reformation moves. Prime Minister St. Laurent, whose Government has initi- ated procedure changes such as authority to amend Canadals Constitution-and abolishing appeals to the Privy Council, is said to be favorable to Senate reform.

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Sir Thomas More, English ,writer and statesman, died this date 1535. Educated at Oxford, became M. P.; in 1523 was chos- en Speaker. ,After Wolsey's disgrace, More. much against his will, was made Lord Chancellor of England in 1529, filling the office admirably. In 1532 he resigned be- cause of Henry VIII's breach with Rome; he refused to acknowledge Henryls claim to the title of the head of the Church in England, and was imprisoned for treason and executed. His chief works are "Utopia", and "History of Richard III". More was a friend of Erasmus, from whose letters may be gleaned many details concerning his life; beatified by the R. C. Church in 1886.

O O O

War correspondents report that primi- tive snd overtaxed communication facilities are a serious problem in covering the opera- tions ln Korea. Most of the news is tele- phoned over an uncertain radio telephone circuit from Taejon to Tokyo. Correspond- ents have access to the circuit for brief petlods when the military can spare it. Oth- er dispatches are sent from Korea to south- ern Japan by planes and telephoned from there to Tokyo. Up to now.there has been considerable confusion because of the meagre snd undepcndable facilities and re- ports from hesdqusrtcrs in Tokyo some-

times hsvs been in conflict with reports '-'-i the front. .

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Extract from Minutes of the Ex- ecutive Council, 26th February, 1789:

"Present-His Excellency Lieut- enant Governor Patterson, the Hon. Captain Burns. Mr. Town. shend, Captain Gray, the Hon. Mr. Aplm: .

"The Governor having scqualm. ed the Board that it had been fre- quently represented to him by many of the principal inhabitants of Charlottetown and the Island at large. that it would be attended with. very beneficial and salutary Pllbllc purposes, if the tract of ground in this Royalty, heretofore appropriated as a Common, should be laid out into Pasture Lots, and grants given of the same under certain limitations and restrictions. -it being new useless in its pres- ent waste and uncultivated state, and even considered as a nuisance and obstruction to the settlement of the Town.

"And the Lieutenant Governor further observed, that it appeared to. him highly important to the King's Service, and the conven- ience and advantage of His Maj- esty's future Governor. Lieutenant Governor or Commander-in-Chief of this Island for the time being. that a certain portion of the said Common should be appropriated, and a grant thereof made under the Great Seal of the Colony, for the use and accommodation of His Majesty's Governor. Lieutenant Governor or Commander-in-Chief for the time being, there not hav- ing been any reservation of any land heretofore made, for the erecting of a Government House, for the habitation and residence of His Majesty's Governor. He in- formed the Board that he should call for their opinion on this subject at their next meeting. and requested that they would take the same into consideration. "The Lieutenant Governor fur- ther proposed that Captain Gray, in member of the Board. and acting Surveyor General of the island, should, against the next meeting. prepare I plan of the said Com- mon, laid out into Lots and reser- vations as nearly as may be agree- able to what had hitherto been suggested in -the Minutes of this day, that the same might be ad- opted as the division to be made, if approved of. at the next meet- mg...

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PASTUBE LOTS GRANTED

Accordingly at the next Coun- cil meeting. 2nd March, 1789, tag- reeable to what the Lieutenant Governor suggested at the last. meeting respecting the appropriat- ing of that part of the Royalty of Charlottetown heretofore consid- ered as a Common. into Pasture Lois. and a reservation to the Gov- ernor for the time being. he then requested the opinion of the Board, whether the measures appeared to them eligible or not. and whether an equal portion of the Royalty heretofore reserved for Pasture Lots. beginning It Three Mile tree on the Pl-incetown Road. and ex- tending slong said road on both sides equally as near a square as may be for complement, should now be laid out snd reserved as s Common, instead of that part of the Royalty heretofore considered as such.

"The Board were unanimously of opinion. that the measure was eligible. and that the reserving the like quantity of acres for I Com- mon as above mentioned on the Print.-etown Rosd was both exped- ient and proper. It wu therefore unanimously ordersd. that the same should immediately take effect and be carried into execution Accord-

lngly." At s subsequent meeting under Llsuionsnt Governor Desbrluy

(12th March. 1180) "the Surveyor General reported to the Board that ho had made I correct plsn sgrecsblo to whst be but propos- ed at the last meeting. which be laid before the Board, and the Board having inspected -the sums. fully approved thereof: and order- ed it to be kept as s lgltlng Uvid- sncs of the pin of the distribution of the Inc! of land of which it was the plot. snd the divisions of the ground to be bounded Accordingly."

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Events Of Today In Australia

By Thomas Dunabill

Fixing Floor Prices.

When the Australian Parliament meets again after its three months recess it will have a busy time. It will have such prickly holdovers as the bill to ban Communists and that to avoid deadlocks by alter- ing the method of electing the Sen- ate. Then there will be the Bud- gel.

The Government will also have a bill to setup a permanent tri- bunal to keep I constant. check on the cost of primary production. On the findings of this body the Government will be able to guar- antee prices to farmers. thus mak- ing a floor, if not a ceiling. for prices.

This decision was announced by Commerce and Agriculture Minis- ter John McEwen to the annual meeting of the Victorian division of the Australian Primary Produc- crs' meeting. He said that evidence would be taken in public and that all sections of primary industry could be consulted. It is a guinea

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This column is open to can discussion by non-sspondonts 0! Questions of interest. Tho Guardian does no: necessar- "V C ' ' of corrsspondonto.

. THE SOVIET CHALLENGE

Slr.-It is time the citizens of this still free country grasped their plight clearly. There is no longer any time for muddle-head- ed hoping for the best or ostrich- hesdsd ducking of the facts. Let us use our common sense snd judge for ourselves. These in the facts:

1. Soviet Russia and her satel- lite: are police states.

2- N0 Police state can survive indefinitely while there is s Ilnglc arcs of freedom outside in bu- riers. This is so because from this area of freedom there shines spontaneously the light of truth and liberty. Despite the prodig- ious and uncesslng efforts of the police state rulers to hide this light from their slaves. some fil- ters through their barriers and ultimately, directly or indirectly. causes the downfall. of the police state. Thus the police state must.

freedom. and extinguish every trace and memo y of individual liberty or perish in the end.

3. The pressing necessity of blsnketlng the whole planet with their police state system is well known to all the present Schrlet rulers, as it was to Lenin. This fsct stands stated clearly In their published books, ss you may see for yourself.

4. We have two eventual choices only. snd no others. either we are engulfed by the police state or we witness the downfall of the police state.

Let us examine now the ways in which police state: fall. as shown by history. Police states fall in one or more of three ways.

a. They are torn apart by an up- rising of their slaves. seeking lib- erty. in s time of treat stress. such as the death of the ruler. or I new ltrllslle for sole power amongst the rulers.

b. The ruler: o( the police state are forced to return to more democratic ways by pressure from

to s gooseberry that some can- sumers leagues, such as the milit- ant I-Iousewlves' Association, will want to give evidence on prices-

tribunal.

Mr. McEwen stated that the Gov- ernment did not want to controlt industry. 1: would have the nna1' say fixing prices because it would - guarantee them but that would be' only after those in the industries had themselves decided what they wanted. As for outside markets the Government would do nothing to affect adversely the supply of food to Britain but Ausirslin must look ahead and explore other markets.

If Mr. McEwen comes to Canada in November, as suggested, he may get some ideas from the Prices Support Bosrd. He might also get. from Mr. Howe, Mr. Gardiner and others some hints about exploring other markets.

Doubling qleel Output

On June 35 Austrslisn Iron snd Steel Ltd. raised its sutborlscd cspitsl from :8,500,000 to 120,000,000. This company is the largest sub- sidiary of the Broken Hill Prop- rietary, which controls almost all Au.Itrslis's iron snd steel works.

The money is needed to ilnlnce the large expansion outlined by the chairman o the B. H. P.. It. Esslngton Lows. It the Annual meeting in March. This program includcI:- -

(1) A tin-piste plant; (2) s hot. strip steel mill: 8) s cold strip mill. Then on I to bs at Port Kernbls, New south Wales.

The work will take uvsrnl years to complain. when finished it will double Austrsllrs steel output cs- pscity. Up to tbs present all Aus- mun tlnplstc has bun imported.

Altogether the project in the input industrial enterprise yst undertaken in Australia, in great- er than the original steel plant opened at Newcastle. N. S. W.. in I la.

espscity of some 1.000.000 tons of stool I you. Owing mainly to luck of soul the production st the mo- ment. is far below capacity. Dur- ing part of the recent war the out- put was pushsd up to an limit. V The l.lI.P. Proprietary in new opsulng up new iron on mines II Ynmpi bound. Noruiwsmn Au- Itrillg. when than an "blast of

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c. They are crushed In s war. of their own choosing, with the free democratic peoples.

Present Russian strategy is one of relentless infiltration and ex- pansion on all fronts, now in Asia, then Africa, than South

cent of metallic iron. Like Canada Australia promises to have soon s much greater output of iron and steel.

Psruu Plns

Jor the unit time in history Aus- tralis is receiving shipments of timber from Brazil. This sudden shift of trade seems to be due mostly to In alert. Spsnish-Amcri- can senor Carlos Zspsls y Leon, who used to be Consul for Mexico in Sydney.

When imports of Oregon and other pine lumber from British Columbis were cut down owing to Australia's lack of dollars he re- csllsd:- .

(1) Thu south Brazil bu large forests of softwood. the Plum

pins:

(2) That by arrangement through London Brszll will take payment in sterling.

As I result Ilvs shipments of Psnns pins to the total vsluc of ll.W0,000 are on the way to Aus- tralia. It is expected that the ship- ments for the year i060 will have a total vslus of l3.000,000. i

Tss-id concessions on timber used in building cum into affect on June I. for the prssont at less: than spply only to sblpmsnts cul- sud for home consumption bo- twuzcu June I snd.Deccmbsr ll. 1

During lbo I08-III! war Brsxil took some coal from Austrslis and would have tskcn more if 'Auo- trslis could have spared it. Is-nil uud to like some can of thous- Inds of can of Tasmanian spplss ovary you when vssssls touching st Hobos-t. Tumsnln. wait round has Horn snd landed the spplss st ldontcvldco or Rio dc Jsnslto. Than lbsso-munsrs caused to all at Hobart snd lhd trido disap- pund. O ,

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ly and finally militarily. less the police state is able

less the police state is den,-oyed by an internal rebellion or by a voluntary return to democracy.

Thus if we wish to hold our freedom snd if we wish to avoid war our task is now plain. '

We must maintain our military forces in a constant and mighty state of preparedness so that the enemy will hesitate to attack di-

'. rectly.

We must attack the police state now with the only offensive wes- pon .lcft open to us. as I demo- cratic people. the weapon of truth snd freedom. This must be used on s far. far greater scale than now Applied. and with all our force. if we are to bring about the downfall of the police state from within. which is our only alterna- tlve'to ultimate war.

We must not be misled by peace msnoeuvers or promises of good- will from Russia. There can be no Iltimstc peace as long as there are police states and democracies on the suns planet.

We must resist Russian expan- sion on every front. with every means available. for every square foot of ground and every human being gained by them will be used sssinst us in the conflict. We must attack with Christian action those targets of Commun- ist pmpsgsnds within our midst, all those regions of In and racial discrimination.

minstion from every individual. Let -us all do our part now. I am. Sir, etc..

R. C. QUI'!'rEN'l'ON. Toronto. June 15, 1950.

The Age-0Id Story

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become part of our national hurl- tsge deserve some sort of respect. and the thought of "Mikado Boog-

Msy we hope that good taste will prcvsil? -Dr. Boyd Neel in Long

America until the strongest re- maining free countries are strung- led economically and geographical-

It is clear then that a military war with Russia is inevitable un- to gain its objective of global con- trol without. full scale war or un-

To retain our freedom will re-' quire effort. sacrifice and deter-,

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iculty she found tbs customs house. butlths plscs was in com. plats darkness. Not knowing wing to do she drove on to Winnipeg,

"swung" Bulllvsn for the rest where she repcrtad 'to the cus. our lives? Tunes which have

toms people within hslf an hour, according to the letter. she was greeted with the announcement that she would have to psy a ten . dollar fins fcr entering Canada without reporting at the border, ldespite protests she was forced to pay the fine. What I. beautiful way to begin a holiday in Osnudsl Whoever is responsible for in. flexible r,egulatlons of this kind should have his head rend. What's the use 'of individuals and groups knocking themselves out. trying to attract tourists to the Dominion when this sort of thing is going on? dwinnlpeg Tribune.

Apparently the limits of modern civilization knows no bounds. A district man who recently visited s dairy farm at. Bchsnectuly, N. Y., reports that the barn is equipped with masonitae ceiling and elevator silos. stainless steel npplisnces, Including milk cans, were use throughout the dairy, which is al. '50 fitted with autcmstic convey. or belts .snd other electrical con.- veniences. As if this wasn't com. fortsble enough for even the more particular snlmsl. these cows are pampered still further. They luv: a heater installed in each individ- ual stall, while "soothing music" -a thumbs or a tango would pro- bsbly produce buttermilk-is din" ected through the born by loud. speakers. Vacuum cleaners us used for sroomlns. and each Guernsey has its own special towel. -Brockvilleilucorder and Times.

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