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bably right. One boner of_the kind pulled by‘ the pollsters in the American election can destroy

TH E GUARDIAN

aioralng Daily (Ionnded ln 18111) Aulirnrlsrcl Ill IiEe-unll ciim Slisll. I'M!- ‘"0" lrennrtnieist, Ottawa. _ Tho lninud (inurdinn Pnbiiiihlnl U’- n‘ Bditur nnii Miennging Director. .1. B. Burne . Auoninta Editor, Freak Walker. "The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than

the Weakest lnk." CHARLOTTETOWN. MONDAY. NOV. 8. 1948

Colonel Drew's Addresses

in his first public utterances as leader Bl the Dominion Progressive Conservative _ Purl)’. Quyone] Drew has dealt clearly and convincingly with one issue of major imporffliiCe. "f-lmelY that of Dominion-Provincial relations. He dhss cleared up many points which were obscure y misrepresentation of his attitude as Premier l: Ontario. He was at that time, of course. 59°" ' ing for Ontario. l?“ "i l! l°'9°" Fem? clle lighting for the rights of all the royin_eS-ren_ criticisms were directed flgumsl celllldu lllngd ev_ dencies at Ottawa which would have elm‘: ery Province of the power to discharge te re- sponsibilities given them under Confedebrattlon-

A striking parallel may be found _e wee" many of Colonel Drew's statements in this con- nection, and the speeches of Premier Angius donald of Nova Scotia. Both leaders c amP ed the cause of local responsible government, approaching it from different viewP°l"l'5 b“

hin the some conclusion. _ l I leach. ghis address published in Saturdays Guardian Colonel Drew disposed of several mis- statements with regard to his attitude at the Do- minion-Provincial tax conference. OIITUIZIO,‘ he pointed out, was not oHlY Wllllflg. T" hlllsllsledi that any advantages gained throug te aca- tion of head offices of commercial and other organizations should be P°°l°d "P°"> ll“ Pr?" portioncte basis of the business done in the dif- ferent Provinces. They 0|” ""994 Th“ a "mm" cl adiustment fund, as recommended by the Rog/- ell-Sirois Report, be Se!’ "P. Will‘ PuYmfllns- l“ I: rnado from the fund on any basis whic wou h be acceptable to the Provinces receiving suc payments. lt was the Dominion Government, not the Ontario Government, which refused to con- sider this proposkil. Moreover. ll’ W“ The D°“‘"" ion Government's failure to reconvene the con- ference, in accordance with tho clearly indicated desire of thodelegates, which brought the tax agreement issue to a stalemate. ln cIarifYmQ these and other points at issue Colonel Drew has spoken with commendable candor and sin- cerity- The very fact that the Dominion treas- ury is now accumulating surpluses of some $300,- 000,000 is damning evidence against its argu- ments advanced to refute Colonel Drew's conten- tion that their taxation terms to the Provinces were unjust and extortionate.

The convention which gave such enthusiastic support to Colonel Drew also adopted a specific policy for improvement of Maritime conditions, including removal of discriminatory freight rates, assistance in developing Maritime electric power, and better opportunity for the marketing of Maritime products in Canada in competition with the products of other Canadian Provinces and the United States. These matters concern us very directly, and we may expect to he!!!’ Colonel Drew deal with them clearly and out- spokcnly in his address in Charlottetown this evening, in his first public utterance in the Maritimes as Conservative national leader.

liliiection Sustained

The St. John's, Newfoundland, Evening Tele- gram complains strongly of the bad practice initiated in some Canadian newspapers of ab- breviating the name Newfoundland to "New- land." This, it was stated by one iournal, had been adopted for purposes of convenience in writing headlines.

Our St. John's contemporary points out that it has not been considered necessary for similar reasons to write Saskatchewan as "Saskat", orWinnipegosis as "Wingosis," or to abbreviate New Brunswick to "Newswick." It adds: "The name of this island identifies it ‘with an event of historic importance. lt was the first part of North America sighted by John Cabot on his voyage, of discovery into the un- known Atlantic. Newfoundland has no inten- tion of sinking its identity, no matter what politi- cal changes the future may bring, and to our Ca- nadian contemporaries we wish to point out that the substitute name which has been introduced -—to serve a headline writer's convenience -— is regarded as objectionable That having been pointed out, it is felt certain that, in keeping with their usual courtesy, they will not repeat the grotesque faux-pas."

Poilsters Thoroughly Sunk

Qie gratifying result of the Truman victory ln the United States is the thorough defeat ad- _ ministered to the professional pollsters. As

now these so-called experts have paraded them- selves with a massive dignity before the public as almost infallible interpreters of what John and Jane Doe are thinking about, or what they are going to do- By the law of averages they

have sometimes hit the mark, and upon that fact they have built up a reputation beyond their

real merit. The present upset has shown con- clusively that- human nature is something upon which it is not safe to dogmatize. These poll- stars can now produce all sorts of reasons to account for their inaccuracy. But a public opinion ' poll is expected to take full cognizance of all the imponderables in a particular issue. For the

recent failure of all these polls to arrive at a a correct conclusion there are 50,000,000 reasons but not a single excuse. A cross-section of popu- lor opinion may indicate trends, but it cannot guarantee conclusions. The old Literary Digest

lies buried under a tombstone rnodo out of a

similar wrong public opinion poll. lts last odiror whonthe election of ‘President Truman was ‘I think that notional political polls will h non-existent for a long time.’ Ho is pro-

sold, conceded :

the Halifax Chronicle aptly says: For a long time

public confidence for a very long period.

EDI IURlAl. NOTES ~-

Col. the Hon. George Drew and Mrs. Draw in our midst today.

Our reputation as the "Agricultural Pro- vince of the Maritimes" was more than sustained at the Amherst Winter Fair.

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According .to the Globe and Mail "people don't vote for men who look like themselves" That's why they contended Truman would be

a loser.

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The Kiwanis Red Cross blood donor drive, un- der the direction of Col. Leo Macdonald, main- tains our reputation, as a province that goes "over the top," everytime.

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' Premier Stuart Garson of Manitoba is re- ported to be slated for the Dominion cabinet with the post of Minister of Justice. There arc very definite advantages to a province where candidates of cabinet calibre can be nominat- ed and elected.

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Another outlet for agricultural enterprise and exhibition attraction. At a recent stock exhibition in Ladysmith, South Africa, Charlie Porrill stole the show with his performing ox, which lay down at his command, allowed him to sit on it and then got up when ordered. More entertaining if less exciting than a bull fight. i fl i i

All food and supplies to be sent to Britain by the United Emergency Fund for Britain will be purchased in Canada. These include foodstuffs, grown or processed in the Dominion, and medi- cal supplies and essential textiles for individual home use, all of which are manufactured in Can-

ada.

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There was a decrease of both births and deaths here to the end of July-—9.4 fewer births and l3.l fewer deaths, so that our vital statis- tics are in our favour. The Federal showing on the other hand, was not so good, there being 6.3 decrease in births, and 2.7 increase in deaths.

Irwin

There is an impression, it is to be hoped un- founded, among refugees abroad that Canad- ian immigration policy is to prefer the "strong and dumb." lt is tempting to fill obvious de- mands for domestic help and farm labour, but in the long run this country will profit by wel- coming the highest type of immigrant available. vi e ‘i n

Publicity for the Maritimes abroad is still at a very low ebb. it does not even come as a surprise that Britain's Minister of Agriculture Tom Williams, having expressed a desire to study farming activities and agricultural research in "Eastern Canada" should land at Quebec and go on to Ottawa and then proceed to the United States.

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insisting upon "unconditional surrender" of the axis powers should have made the question of peace treaties simple and easy. That it did not, is largely due to the United States and Canada yielding to the natural eagerness of our troogs to rcturn home. As D. H. Gibson, National President of the Navy League of Canada, put it, "lf we had maintained a million men in Eur- ope alter the war we would have had a peace with Germany and Austria two years ago and there would have been no collapse of Hungary

and Czechoslovakia. .

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There is something new under the sun, and She has it, a New York housewife declares. it's a talking stove. Mrs. Walter Sechrist said her gas range picks up short-wave transmissions made by her next-door neighbor, an amateur radio operatonThe other day she said she heard her neighbor's voice coming clearly through her gas stove while he was talking with another op- crator- in South America. An engineer told her that two unlike metals in the range probably picked up the signal frcm the neighbor's station while one of the stove's metal panels tune:l in the broadcast.

John Milton, English poet, died this date i674; became blind in 1652. First attracted general public cttsnticn by writing and publish- ing The Ready and Easy Way to establish a Free Commonwealth, advocating a republic with- out an established Church, for which he was arrested, and subsequently released through the influence of a friend at court. His greatest poems were Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, depicting the Fall of Man and Man's Redemp- tion. He wrote Areopagiticq, a plea for the ficcdom of the Press, the Presbyterians having objected to his alleged heretical views on di- vorce:

"The childhood shows the man

As morning shows he day. Be famous then

By Wisdom; as th empire must extend,

So let extend thy mind o'er all the world." i ‘k i it

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ls there any mother who does not fear the times at which her darling child becomes a little fiend, an infuriating, stubborn individual who persists in his course of wrong-doing no matter what she may say? At such a juncture the haras- sed parent of old used to say darkly "l'Il fetch the policeman to you!"—o suggestioyi which would, as often as not, produce the obedience of sheer terror at the thought of the arm of the law in navy blue maiesty coining to remove him to who knows what dread region? lut life hos progressed rapidly since then; there ore for worse threats nowadays with which to frighten tho young and disobedient into subjection. A re- cent issue of "Punch" showed a cartoon In which o bowling child caused its mother to say, with infinite exasperation, "if you don't stop ‘ollerln’, young ‘Erbort, yer’lI ‘ave the IIC van come and record yer!"

ARRIVES/

WINNING AN EXHIBITION Bour, COL. orzew is Now IN TRAINING FOR THE BIG Fici-ir.’

PUBLIC FORUM

Th1; column In open to tho dllcuoalrn by cvueupondente °l fluent-Iona of interest. The Guardian does not necessar- ily endorse the opinion uI correspondents.

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0&0 BED FOXES

SIr.—1n Saturday's issue of your Diner there appeared an article un- GBX‘ i116 héldlflg: Red Fox Menace —Why Protect Them? ‘The season on foxes as quoted is misleading. Game authorities have been aware for some time that. red foxes were increasing beyond the safety mar- gin due in main to the ridiculously low price paid for their pelts over a period of several years.

5 or 6 years ago red fox pelts’ fetiched as high as $21.00 per pert. on the local market. Today tiseir pelts sell anywhere from $1.50 to $3.00 each.

In order to put a curb on the abnormal increase in the numbers of red foxes certain changes were made in the Game Act regurdina foxes at the last sitting Provincial Legislature and the fol- lowing substituted:

"Section 24 of the said Act is hereby repealed and the following substituted therefor: Every one is guilty of an offence and liable to a penalty not. exceeding one hund- red dollars (8100.00) and not iess than ten dollars (510.00) or in dc- fauit of payment to is. period not exceeding thirty days fn gaoi, who hunts or kills. iittcmpts to hunt or kill any fox not. in captivity except. between the 1st day of November and the thirty-first day of January in each year. Provided that. fami- ers are hereby empowered to kill. at any time. foxes found in the not of attacking or destroying poultry."

In r-onfrast to the old regulations rerrzirdlnrr foxes '-"IP leizisi open sen- son for faking their pelts has been lncrensed from two toihree months rmcl in addition all protection ha: been "Moved from foxes ‘hat stray cirt of hon-nae and attack or rio- =»-~-- "Yyvicv-r‘ rvsriltrv

Tri-vlue W" "i": letter will pii‘. tron-ere or"! 7"" hunters rlabt. in re""*:l to the open season on Rey- nerd.

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Snoopers’ Paridise

(Ottawa Journal)

That. questionnaire which is being submitted by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics to 15.000 Can- adian Iuimliies in an effort. to find out. to the last. lmpertlnent. detail what. they do with their money has 864 questions in a document of 2i.‘ printed pages. The project. Ls called is. "confidential survey of family ex- penditures "for the 12 months Sep- tember 1. 1947, t.o August 3i. 194$

The Government. through the Bureau mvesiigetors, wants co know whet each family spent. on food. beer and other alcoholic drinks. greeting curds. mousetraps and Ink. It. asks for the value of food raised and consumed by each family-Ln detail .

our benevolent government would iiko to know too how much the family spent In those 12 months on postage stamps. starch. insecti- deii. furniture, clothing. gasoline and oil. tram fares. recreation. iri- surence. taxes end a hoot of other Items. It. asks even for the amount. of spending money given the young- sters of tiho household.

It. may be um. governments do this cart of thing when they have more inariay than they know who: to do with. Certainly it Ia herd to believe that. tho eurvIy can lone any ueofsu propose .'I'be dovei-ii moat through the Inooaio to: re- tai-na known verytlilng ft bu any 11m» hiowaboutour sound calories enawiiatwodowi than. If it. II important. that ft now

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Fault)’ Recreational Standards

(By Dr. Kilpatrick)

“There is no field at. present. that. 1; 1n a greater 'at.o.t.e of flux than the field of recreation." Dr. J. B. Kirkpatrick. director of the School of Physical Education at. Mofliil University. said at a luncheon of the Montreal Council of Social Agencies. Dr. Kirkpatrick en- titled his m: "Danger Points in Recreation Proerann."

Ha emphasized. however. that at the some time there 1s no field which has more current activity. which Ls more subject. to irresist- ebio pressure “that. forces oom- munIties to move from one direc- tion to another." It. 1s better, he said, “to know where we are go- ing and how we propose to get there. It ls also good to know the danger points we shell encounter."

Dr. Kirkpatrick said. that these dangers ran along two lines. Ltic general area of basic trends and philosophy of recreation and the administrative problems.

In his opinion. these dangers were: The danger of allocating to communities jobs which should be done by our basic social Institu- tions of home, church and school: of accepting a negative. curative philosophy of recreation: of ac- cepting second-hand experience instead of participating more di- rectly to recreation; of falling to evaluate recreational experien- ces in their proper frame of refer- ence - their reoroalzivo visiue to the individual or group concerned; 01 11981800118 the needs of signifi- cant community group; or m. verseiy. the danger of neglecting the over-ail community group.

The administrative dangers were to be found 1n overly rapid ex- Dansion of recreational programs, foo much enthusiasm for tech- niques and procedure to the ex- lenl’ 01 “Fleming practical needs. To these Dr. Kirkpatrick added the dangers of government disin- terest or inversely. the danger of loo-much government control; of "niikonism between group interest.- Pfl l" ihe field of recreation and Lnisiiy the failure to provide ade- quote leadership training both tar professional and volunteer work. ers.

Keeping a Diary

(Harold Nicholson in The Spectator)

MI‘. Winston Churchill, I have b9"! l-vld. regards people who keep diaries with uspicion and con- lemiri. His argument is (so my in- formant tells me) that the dlarist. is inclined to leave out. of his life what he enters Ln ‘his journai; meaning thereby that. the tiny en- erily needed to record one’: daily 1101118! river o. spurious impression of activity and conceals from the indolent the wastage of their ex- istence. It Ls certainly true than those who keep regular diaries are self-flattered by e sense of pung- tuai achievement; they retire m bed with the feeling that. they have ("I19 I Rood day's work: whereas in fact. all that. they have done is to devote some thirty minutes to "will!!! that. they have done nothing at. all. Sir John Squire mm! Years are wrote an excellent short story about. e man who kept. l fill-W: he was a lazy and self-iri- duiaent. man who wu stung by the reproechee of an active niece; so he decided that. he would keep e din-w. You elm your the greet. locked and bound voiiunq accum-

wiiat. we apend on ink. for example. or men's hats. an lnjuiry of a fow manufacturers would provide the answer, and not for e anal! per- centage of our people but for ni.i of them . Thin questionnaire Io official g gone wild. Pefhepa next we all have the bureau of Statis- tics prying Into the sexual behavior of the average Canadian-and oom-

ep with e bestseller!

FALL OF LEAVES

Spin, leaves. spin and go. Now westerly there blow The winds which end the year, The winds which bring the snow.

Snug beneath the sky

The towns and cities lie.

Snug each house and neat. The treasured fire heaped high.

Spin. leaves. spin and bound; Cloak this naked ground Hold earth's warmth within While winter's furies sound.

For now long shadows mark The-coming of the dark

When man must guard his fire And earth her inner spark.

—Cha.rle.s ‘Madam in Christian Science Monitor.

Old Charlottetown

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ROOFTOP VIEW

From the top of the Colonial Building there is a beautiful view, its peculiarities are strikingly Am- erican, and yet from the universal red clay roads, and banks of the rivers, it may claim its own native distinction. . . . In the survey wlii be seen buildings conspicuously placed highly indicative of the moral and religious influence which its philanthropists and religious men exercise. Colleges, churches of‘ every description (among which the Catholic Cathedral stands pre-emln enl). Temperance Hail, Jail, the Barracks. two large Breweries, Gas Works, Steam Mills, and innumer- able flagstaffs, ready for the gala bunting of any festival or Joyous occasion. Across the harbor lie the village of Southport rind he Block house. and on its north ank. seen to great advantage on entering the harbor, Government House. the present residence of His Excellency George Dundas, Esquire. Lieuten- ant Governor and Commander-in- Ciilef in and over Her lvlajesty": Ia land Prince Edward. and its De- pendencies. Chancellor, Vice Ad- miral and Ordinary of the lame, etc, etc. . . .

Although the elevation of Char lottetown is only fifty feet above the level of the sea, at. high water. the land behind it rises to one hun- dred and fifty feet, and "lends en- ciiantment to the view.” which charms the beholder an the perk like scenery reveals the coionaded Government House; and ea

protection to the worshipper. —From "The Progress and Proa-

1861. by C. Birch Bagater.

"our modern Popeye";

would send him their manuscripts

‘he had a lovely time. died. his literary

FIRST MAGAZINE

Cave.

the sacred spite: rise irivitingiy above the city, speaking welcome to the stranger and safety, freedom and

pocte of Prince Edward Island," etc.,

uiated upon his shelves; ‘although his life until then had been cosy but. obscure, he found his 1mm figuring In the gossip columns as Invitations showered upon him. young authors

The first publication to be issued under the title of “rs-inguina" wu The Gentleman's Magazine publish- ed in 1731 tn England by Edward

1 orbrooiw tnwnalslp In Onlnrlu hen increased It: population by one in the past 70 yearn. If that place had a housing chortage. one gov- ernment-subsldlzed pup tent ought to take care of it. — Windsor Star.

The Hamilton Llano will not. upon nor the Miss Canada. show next summer. It wlii cause no distress if the Min Canada shows miss Can- ada altogether. — Toronto Saturday Night. i

Lea a Roberta geaya the average Russ an lis behind Stalin. He'd bet.- ter be, an any average Russian who tried to get in front of Stalin would soon find out.—Toronto Saturday Night.

Montreal lobool authorities have asked that compulsory memoriza- tion oLpoetry be lifted. This 'is hard to defend. There Is much of value tn stocking the mind in childhood with the best of poetry. It; ls not no much appreciated then as later In life. We would agree with the Montreal school commis- sioners in so far as the poems mentioned are second-rate stuff. Children should be obliged to learn only the best. »- Toronto Globe and Mali. '