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THE GUARDIAN.

CHARLOTTETOWN

'A?Rfl>_6.1954

THE GUARDIAN

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lldilvor Ind Mung , Ian A. Burnett. AIIoclIto Editor, Fnnlr Wnlkar.

' cmcou-non ‘Coven Prince Edward lllnnd like the dew” "The strongest mumory is weaker than

the weakest ink".

7}lIAll.LO1"l‘E’l'0WN. ruzsnay. APRIL 5, 195?" on Tito llosc

Last year Finance Minister Abbott bud- geted for a surplus of $11,000,000. The’ white paper he tabled in the Commons yesterday indicated that the surplus turned out to be $10,107,000. This is an astonish- ingly close forecast under fluid conditions and if this budget is to be his last as Mr. Abbott says it is, it still shows that experi- ence is I great teacher in the matter of weighing the imponderables of the national economy. ,~

The effect of last year's 11 per cent re- duction in personal income taxes (effective for I half year), cuts in corporation taxes, reduction of the tax on cigarettes and the elimination of the stamp tax on cheques and the license fee for radios were all judg- ed with considerable accuracy although both revenue and expenditure were some- what less than anticipated. This eight and smallest successive surplus comes from a record-breaking revenue, however, and out of a Gross National Product which has again moved upwards.

The influence of rising interest rates is

shown by the fact the interest on a reduced national debt has gone up, as has the cost of servicing it. There have been sharp drops, however, in spending by the Department of National Defence and Defence Production. reductions which it is reasonable to expect will be carried further under the new bud- get.

Canadians are told in the white paper that they earned, saved and spent more than ever before, a highly satisfactory sit- uation except, perhaps for farmers whose incomes and spending did not follow the general trend.

Tonight Mr. Abbott delivers his budget address. Once more he estimates the im- pact of many economic forces on the na- tional economy and the all-important Gross National Product. Unless he changes his consistent practice he will not count on it rising at a rapid rate. It may almost be assumed, therefore, that with an almost

. non-existant surplus for the past year he will be inclined to balance tax reductions. if any, with increases that will yield at least a similar revenue.

Nursing Leadership

The theme of World Health Day, April 7th, is “The Nurse, Pioneer of Health“. Nurses are rightly recognized as the agents who give life to any programme of public health. Organization has pointed out that: "In countries where medicine is highly develop- ed and nursing is not, the health status of the people does not reflect the advanced state of medicine."

Physicians and surgeons would be the first to acknowledge the essential function of nu1'sing. The advance of medical science has placed many new tools in the hands of the medical profession. Their choice and method of use are determined by the doctor but he depends upon the nurse to apply them and to tend the many wants of a patient which must be taken care of ii’ treatment is to be successful.

The more than 50-year-old International (Touncil of Nurses was founded in a century when professional work for women and or- ganization for such a purpose were all but unknown. It has survived two world wars and has allied itself with great and benefic- ient health movements to play its part as a self-governing and highly organized pro- fessional group in world deliberations. The national and local nursing organizations which make up its membership have gain- ed strengththrough the years and have helped to give vitality to the profession.

Together with the work of nursing schools, the organizations have been the means of providing nursing service on H constantly improving level of training and efficiency. Canadians join with peoples throughout the world in honouring the nursing profession and its dedicated mem- hers.

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The Soviet Government has announced that. from now on, "the German Dem- ocratic Republic will have the freedom to decide on its interior and exterior affairs at its own wlll." As in the case of the other satellite states, this "independence" is as much ll figment as its "democracy". The German rulers of Eastern Germany are Iubservlent dictators. In I famous phrase of Burke's, they "kneel to their masters on the necks of their countrymen.” And thi: is not in any way changed by the new merge. The East German Government will

‘ity is entirely different.

' to it at Bonn, because of French doubts and

A committee of the World Health‘

"decide on its interior and exterior affairs at its own will", on condition that in the future as in the past, its own will is strict- ly subordinate to the will of Moscow.

It is pointed out‘by the United Kingdom Information Office that in form, the new status of Eastern Germany is to be almost identical with the status of the West Ger- man Federal Republic which is provided for in the Bonn Convention—though the real- Even the wording of the Soviet declaration is, in some of its phrases, taken almost verbatim from the convention. The similarity may well be calculated. There has been, inevitably some annoyance in Western Germany that the Bonn Convention, signed nearly two years ago, has not yet come into force, be- cause it is linked with the European De- fence Community Treaty, which has still not been ratified by all the Parliaments of the member states. It seems unfair to many Germans that the Federal Republic should not have the full freedom promised

hesitations about the Defence Community Treaty.

Now the Russians can claim that they have acted where the Western Powers have only promised. That provides the West German Communist Party with Dfopaganda material. And it could stimulate the de-

mand, which is already being expressed 1“ ,0

l\V€’Siel'n Germany, for the putting into ’force of the Bonn Convention without !further delay, without waiting for the ratification of the E.D.C. Treaty by the ‘French Assembly. And that demand could, in turn. create annoyance in France. So iit looks as if the new move in part moll- .va1ed by the perpetual desire to foment itrouble in the west, particularly between fFranCe and Germany.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Budget night. O

. . l France IS beating back reckless Com-1' S,,.‘___L,,u.,y me“, have been ,w,, _ Sudhury star.

munist assaults on Dien Bien Phu in Indo-E China and similarly-inspired mob action in« _‘Paris itself. Truly the French people are being called upon to exhibit their lraditionall .‘qualities of fortitude and intelligence. I O 0

Nova Scotian lobster fishermen have been receiving a fairly steady sixty cents a pound. Allowing for the usual difference in size and price the prospects would seem to be good for the opening of the season

in this Province at the end of the month. 0 O O

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l The loss of three out of five Newfound-

land sealing vessels in three weeks almost writes finis to an enterprise that once at- tracted as many as 400 vessels and 13,000 seamen. Perhaps its revival will await the, ,development of aircraft that can carry con-:5 siderable loads of men and pelts and yet’ be able to land safely on the sea ice. ' I I I Canadian and American civil defence, authorities are facing the appalling task of evacuating large cities in the face of threatened atomic attack. There is one small grain of consolation in the thought that if the week-end onslaught made pop- ular by the late Herr Hitler is adopted the task of evacuation will have already been largely accomplished. O I A sour note has been sounded in the Winnipeg Music Festival. It seems that al- though classroom choirs comply with the requirement that 75 per cent of .enter, in some cases children are instructed to open their mouth but emit no sound. ; “Goldfishing”, as it is termed, is scarcely a surprising development when no other prin- ‘‘ciple of selection is applied. '

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It was an international bus company that successfully challenged Provincial con- trol of inter-provincial highway transport. The trucking industry, however, as repre- sented by Canadian Trucking Associations favours retention of Provincial control, by constitutional amendment or by Provincial

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I PUBLIC FORUM I

This column is open to the discussion by em. spondcnts

of questions of interest. The Guardian does not necessar- ily endorsc the opinion of correspondents.

OUR LAKE

letters in the Public Forum of your paper about the MacDonald Lake

lin Mermaid. I would like to say tlons that some day la few words about this Lake. My you rich enough so you can afford

gl'cat-grandfutller Alexander Mac-Y Donald Latter whom the lake was named) settled on the east side of the lake in 1842. He built I logl cabin about 100 yards from the lake. My grandfather William! MacDonald later built. I better house on the same ground and here I was born. The MacDonald's‘, owned this land and cleared it to: the swamps edge. We always wat-i cred our stock at this lake. We had no pump until 1897 and up to that year we got. the water for] the house from the lake. At that time the water came right up to the bank for the draining of the lake took place I long time after that. I used to have I boat on the, lake which I used for getting the many geese and ducks that were shot; nowadays there are not the very large numbers in the fall that there were then. To my mind this is on account. of the lower- ing of the lake for it is now many’ feet. lower in height. In 1926 I sold to the late Major Robertson,‘ the old family farm, and bought I farm near the school called the‘ Fletcher farm. , I am I. Conservative tind like] my friend J. S. Horton who hnp-. pens to be a Liberal committee- man was on the delegation that.- waitcd on the Government in Nov- ember. I know that the Liberal: are strong for raising water levels_ but so are the Conservatives. : In 1935 a member of the Govern-i ment called on me asking for my, permission to have a lease given. I told him I was willing provided my water rights and the right. to ice were taken care of. The lease was given and it reads: “It. is also hereby agreed between the said, lessor and the said lessee that per- sons or parties. their heirs, executors or assigns during the period of this lease who have land] bordering on the said lake shall’, have the privilege and right. to water cattle at the said lake . . I also to obtain water from the said hike for farm purposes and also to |cut ice from the surface of the said lake during the winter months. It is also hereby agreed that these‘ presents shall be binding upon the said lessor his successors and upon the said lessee. his hem. ad- ministrators and assigns." This was signed. sealed and delivered. The late Major Robertson and the

boards acting as agents of the Federal Govemment. I I O

Raphael Santi, one of the most cele- brated Italian painters of the Roman school, died this date 1520. He was taught to paint by his father and subsequently studied under Perugino. He was much in- ﬂuenced by Leonardo da Vinci and Michael- angelo. He profited by the example of one great master’ and another but never be- came the servile imltator of any. Despite his short life no less than 1400 pictures are attributed to him.

A British invention to help the Navy operate faster and bigger planes from air- craft carriers is I signalling system which, subject to success in further trials, will ultimately supersede the present system of. landing by hand signals. It can be used on carriers or airfields by means of lights and a large curved mirror. With this de- vice, irrespective of the motion of the ship, pilots will be beamed down to the flight deck at I constant angle by day or night.

late Albert Farquharson had also »given their verbal consent to the Government for this.

On account of the water later [being drained Iway from the lake, ‘many people had to dig their wells ideeper, My well which was 36 feet deep had to be dug deep- ‘-er because it became dry. It is now 72 feet. deep. During the time it was dry and before I got. it dug deeper I had to haul waver from the lake. On Iccount. of these wells becoming dry and other con- dition: on the lake being unsatis- factory, those near the lake. four- teen in number. on Dec. 8, 1951 asked the Government. to nuke these conditions right for us. In- stead they sold it Ind gave I deed to the lessee. Then came the ter- rible condltlonrl described by Mr. Horton in his letter to your paper.

That. is why the large deion- tlon met. the ,0overnment. Ind pre- sented A Petition containing over 50 names on November lat. They were nice to lﬂvlnd were Iorry to learn that these things were being done It the lake. Those of us hear lrhe lake ale more Iffected than those farther away. livery family in Mr,-rmIld. Llbenl or Con- servative. Ire close friend: of mine. I do not want politics to enter into this difficulty thIt we are,‘ having It the lake Ind would like. Ill Liberal: Ind Conurvatlvu in

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NOTES BY

In their haste to overtake hap- piness. sume people race right by it. — Brandon Sun.

We don't have to vrIlt until summer for the successful man Io make hay out of the grass that grows under other people‘: feet.

Dress yourself mttliy, young man and you'll win those promo- will make

to go around looking like a. bum. —Stratford Beacon-Herald.

Never in all recorded history have so many orators voiced so many solutions of so many in- soluble problcms. — London Free

Reports of Ontario liquor pro- flts going up are proof that more liquor is going down. —— St. Thom- as Times-Journal.

Just nine years ago Hitler shortl- ed he would go on to the bitter end. Let no one ever say he was not I man to keep I promise, — Port Arthur News-Chronicle.

future, we will

not-too-distant the scientists assure us. have occupation troops assigned to satellites whirling around the earth in outer space, and the Old Sarge wonders how long you'll have to be on duty there before a. native girl with three ave; and blue hair looks good — Edmonton Journal.

In the

Mark Twain once wrote: "In the sprlng I have counted 136 differ- ent kinds of weather inside of 24 hours." While the late Mark Twain’: normal habitat was I bit south of the latitude of Quebec. most Quebeckers will have no dif- ficulty in understanding what he was talking about. He wrote those words I long time ago, but they hold lust as true today as then.

Montreal Gazette.

A little old Vancouver lIdy wIlk- ed lnto the office of the B. C. Electric Company and asked what they charged to install a meter jumper. “How's that?" asked the clerk, whn knew very well that it's I highly illegal device to tap

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THE WAY

the electric lines without running the juice through a meter. “I'm not exactly sure what they are,“ the lady said, "but the man next door has one_ and he says it saves him an awful lot of money. —Mac- lean’: Magazine.

"I believe that mun‘: greIleIt enemy is fear: not fear in battle, but in his day-to-day life. Yes, fear, and selfishness with which it is curiously entwined. They are the ultmate foes. And I do not be- lieve that they are conquered by action. They are vanquished by meekness, withdrawing into I state of sublime anonymity, and in in- creasing flre of moral courage within one'a heart. I touch only the fringe of this knowledge yet. but I believe that I am right." —Hector Bolitho on the BBC.

A sporting writer refer: to “the flocks of young people" who go to Florida in the Winter. Unless lie was trying to be humorous he was completely wrong. Nearly every- body who gom to Florida in Win- ter is elderly. A survey of the dining-room of any resort. hotel shows over 90 per cent grey heads or bald pates. The other 10 per cent are children or grandchildren who have run down to visit. the old folks.—tSt. Thomas Times- Journal.)

Folks who clIlm CInIdI': cli- mate is changing can't. be put down. They keep popping up and sounding forth. The most. recent assertion comes from I forestry expert who says steadily rising temperatures are responsible for the greatest damage to the coun- try‘; forests. Rene Pomerieau, di- rector of the Dominion Forest Pathology Laboratory, claims there is certain proof that average tem- perntures have risen three de- grees in the last 76 years. Cana- dian forests have been plagued by such tree destroyers as the bud- worm. but Mr. Pomerleau says the laboratory experts have reached the conclusion that the cause of the greatest ravages in CIn:dlan forests is nothing but I "dis- turbance of the temperature." This sounds like I patient run- ning I fever. —- Sydney Post-Rec- ord.

the Legislature to help us to ob- tain justice and our rights. I am, Slr. etc. CYRUS MICDONALD. Mermaid.

THE CANADIAN WAY OF LIFE Slr,—Is there not something unl-

I believe there is. For many years I have felt it. Our home life is singular experience. We take it all for granted but it. might be for otherwise and not nelrly so happy. some homes are marred by dis- order, but not many. I lived in I home for nine years where were father, mother. three children Ind an aunt. Ind not. one quIrrel did I see. There were arguments I-lid disagreement, but not once did I ,see lllwlll. There are I good many homes with fellowship like that. what better safeguard can I ha- tlon have than happy Ind well- taught homes?

There in here in Canada I re- mnrkable freedom Ind independ- ence. Jack l: Ibout. II good I: his master. I have lived, Ind Iorvod in over twenty-five different homes but never have I felt much I: I mere servant. I In: I helper, on I par with the has. I hoed my own row and he hood his. I pulled my end of the In! and he pulled his. At. table it. vru the amt. There wII no distinction. Once only I remember I we: put. to out in the kitchen when company cIme. I felt the better of that, for I wasn't. dressed, Ind I had the

lcream jug Ill to myself.

In our pioneer dIyI we made our own candles, spun our own yIm and wave our own cloth. We made our own IoIp. I well re- member the dye-borrel standing in the corner of our kitchen for low making. There were few thlnn we could not do. WI could mow I

que in the Canadian way of life? ,_

field of grain. I remember nee- lng I man of seventy-eight years mowing 35 acres of oats and his two daughter: gathering Ind bind- lng it. The boys of today can nelther mow nor blnd. We have puaed into the machine Ige. We hIve forgotten how to walk. But I good deal of Canada in the country 1: still the old-fashioned

CInIdlIn people like to be in- dependent. To many the old age pemlon goe: IgIln:t. the grIln.,I visited I fImlly recently, where the old lady of the house hId re- fused the pen:lon on tho ground that it "made people luy", she turned to the old man of the house Ind declared in I tone of dluut thIt her husband does nothing new but Ilt. Iround Ind wait for his meals. The only reuon why mIny consent to take it in be- cause every one else takes it.

The true material opportunltlps in the United States have carried way many of our most ambiti- ou: young man Ind women but why for:Iko the more wholesome life of OInIdI? "ﬂan deal not live by brand Ilone." Let u: Itay hare Ind mlke I better CInId:, Ind it can be done.

' 1 Im, Blr, etc, ' W. I. GRBIN lt.Inlor Bridge.

The Age Old Story

And Peter Innworul Ind uld to JOIII. Mlltrr. It In tool for In to be here: Ind in II make three tnbornaolou; one for thee, Inc] MO '0? Motel. III on ,1» EIIII. For he wins not who to IIy: for they were IOIO IfrIId. And then wII I cloud the Ivenhadowod Ihcllll Ind I voles came out of

the cloud. Iaylng, ‘rim 1. my I39- loved 80:: but film.

Whether or not there I: life of Inyk'lndont.hIpl:.netIlu-Ill one of the may cushion: on much Iclent.l:tI disagree. some he- llcvo I crude form of vegetable growth In pomlblo but discount the pouiblllty of animal life. Other: My bot-h form: In pouihlo but that the axlatonco of either 1: ex- tnmely doubtful. sun others, who make up I much mullet group than either of the other two, mun-t.Iln thIt the whole nibject is too fantastic to merit. Ierlous con- Ildentlon.

As for the majority of people who Ire not Iclentisu, the general view i: that it dooIn’t matter much Inyvmy; we have more than we on do to look Iftcr ourselves without bothering our heads about Mint. it Inytnlng, in the way of life Ind growth goes on in the fur off region of Ipace.

The dimension among the uteri- tlsts is due mainly to the fact that ordinarily Mars is do for IwIy from the mrth that even the mm powerful telucopeg ue un. Ibio to bring it within pncticabie range. Every few years, however, it: assume: at less stand-oﬂlsh It- tltude than usual. Ind this sum- mer (on July 2, to be exact.) it. will be I. mere 40 million miles from neighbour Earth, several million miles nearer than it. hu been It any time since the outbreak of World War Two.

This prospect appears to be pro- viding the astronomers with I good deal of excitement; already plans are being made for full- scale exploration into the phnetls secrets and mysteries. The chief observatlm post. will be in Bloem- fontein. South Africa; on July 2 Mars will be directly "up over"

- that city.

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Besides looking for signs of In- lmal and vegetable life the scien- tists will study weather conditions and try to settle once for all the matter of the “canals" which have been reported by many astronom- ers in the post. but never Ictually photographed. At least. one man says it is just possible that the July search will produce I little more knowledge than is presently available about the much talked about flying saucers. When naked if that meant that ho thaught these strange looking and elusive things are launched from Mars or some neighbouring planet, other than the earth, he replied: "At present I don't know Iny more about it than you do. but I may know something Ifter July."

It Ill sounds fantastic Ind un- believable; but Io many things are happening nowadays that were un- dreamed of only I few years ago that no one will say what. is pos- sible and what isn't. so far Is anyone knows, there may be living beings on Mars and they may be Just. as civilized as the beings on earth, perhaps more so. They may have atom and hydrogen bombs. the very latest evidence: of civil- izatlon, or they mIy have out. grown these things long :30. They may be I thousand years, perhaps ten thousand. ahead of us in both culture and science.

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It i: even possible that dwellers on Mars h:ve reached perfection in living, Iomethlng which Earth- Man uses only in hi: dreIm:. It may be that It this very moment their scientists and philosopher: are making tlnal plans for I look at this sl.rIn¢e planet called “Ea.rt.h" which Ioon will be only 40 million miles Iwuy. In the Mars equivalent of Bloemfontein‘ telescopes I thousand times more powerful than the but of our own scientist: poaoou Il.reIdymIyhIve been set. up for the July explora- tion. It i: not outaldo the bounds of reason that they know In much about u: II we ouraelves know. In- deed. it is possible that they have been tnvelllng back and forth to earth unseen and unknown for centuries.

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In days when it was supposed that the earth was the central point of the imlvai-so it. wII only natural that mun Ihould hold the view that only the ground on which he trod wu I fit. place for the habitation of living reI:onIblo beings. Even Ifter utronomy be- gun to reveal new wonden it w:: 8. long time before the existence of other planets became known and I much longer time before the fact. of their exbtonca bean to penetrate into Ind lnnuence man's phllowphlcal reuonlng.

There is nothing in Iclance thus far, and there never bu been any- thtnc in phllowphy or religion,‘ nntui-Il or nvoalod. to prove or dlsprovo mIn’: IrbllrIry IpprIl:Il of his own plus in the unlvoru. The more one thinks of it, how- ever, the more unlikely it may

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ply do not know.

It i: not likely that Inyone now llvlnl on the earth will Ice it. but if Iclenco keep: on expanding it.’ horlknnl. the doll surely will come when travel from Earth to Man and other planets will be in the course of routine. Then. if Man i: be not already habitable. it. will be made Io. Meanwhile Earth. Man bu plenty of problems to work out on his own plot of land. Thus far be his acquired by means of science I great. many things which he does not knoi: how to use properly. The most un- fortunate fact of all in that he ha: allowed his spiritual cnpahilltlesw in far behind his physical pow. era: so much so, that he is nol sure from one day to Inothgg whether he i: going ahead to natneu or badwords to Iavag. cry.

It is. M course. possible that what we call civilization will have to start. all over again. That. would be no new thing; it would simply be the re-telling of I very old Itory.

Old Charlottetown

Ind P. E. I.

SKELETON FOUND "On 'I‘hurIdIy last the skeleton of I man was found in the wood; I short. distance from the Block House, It. the entrance of this harbour, by I man and boy who were cutting longers. some shred: of clothing were found, the bus.- tons on which were those of the 82nd Regiment. There was I sol- dier's foraging cap on I tree, to one of the limbs of which was Ittached the strap of Ihaversaclr. —the skeleton lay underneath, :I if it hId dropped off. several of the bones were scattered aboua, as if torn asunder by wild beasts. Both shoes were found entire, and I squirrel had made her nest in the cap. A walking stick, made of I broom handle, lay by the side of the skeleton. Upon In in- vestigation taking place, the non- cluslon arrived It was that the remains were those of John Nixon, I. private in the Bard Reglrnont, who escaped from the military hospital so f:r back as Apr-ll.1835, whllo labouring under mental de- rangement. search was made for him when first missed, but as no trace of him could be discovered, he was supposed to have been drowned." —-Royal Guette July 18. 1887.

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INTEGRITY

Lacking in wordly goods, he walks the earth

Rich in the qualities of haul. and mind.

Hla day: Ire brightened by his gentle mirth

In undertone.s—t.he escapades of wind

Within his barnlot, scattering the :talk:

of fending-fodder; Inl.l'¢g of tho youn

‘ . Colts in their pasture. Every- where he walk: I-‘lo hen: the messages of nature

sun:

In harmony too low for casual ear

To note. He goes his daily roul.lnI WHY.

A man of honest means, hi: Itml Ilncere.

Integrity, I term he'I_ Ieldom hoard.

And yet he live: the letter of the word.

—3llly 3. Cooper. (la the Chrl:tlIn Science Monitor). .

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