. THE GUARDIAN

Publined every weekday morning at 136 Pi-inc st i, (,1, . lettesown. P. E. l.. by The Thomson compels: umud. " "Covers Prince Edward Island Like the Dew" idditor and Manager. iaa A. Burnett. ale Editor. Frank Walker

lraaek ollicea at summenide. Montagu so Alberto . A bad as Second Class Hall by the Poe: C.tffica Depsrznenuttmr Ottawa.

. Sunullrrside 315.00 per annum. Else

I7 Carrier: Charlottetown when in P. E. 1

Mr annum.

"The strongest memory is weaker than the weakest ink.”

MONDAY. AUGUST 16. I954

impediments To Statehood

moo. Other Provinces and u. s. A. uzooi

less been associated with the game for more than three hundred years. The Hamilton Manuscripts record that a game known as "Goff" was played in Newtownards about the year 1600; King Charles I, it is said, was playing golf at Leith when he first re- ceived news of the Irish Rebellion of 1641.

In Ireland interest in the game did not however develop to any great extent until the late eighteen hundreds, although re- cords show that the game was played on the plains of Kiidare at the beginning of the nineteenth century. One of the oldest clubs in the country is in this area, the

Residents of Hawaii and Alaska must be wishing these days that partisan con-

Curragh Golf Club, founded in 1885. This honour is shared with two other clubs, the

P1804 i5OGtIIl'dhn Notes BY THE WAY; I

its world has beeolne a vlrtml paradise for pessimlsts. Tn."-, continually an ample supply 0; things to worry and Complain aboait. - Kitchener-Waterloo Re. cor .

An era of unprecedented um... ployment may be in the offing, A scientist says the time will soon come when people will do only mental work.-Kitchener-Wnm-10;, Record.

Senator sosper doesn't ban." women will stop with this new

lnare is only one beauiful child in the world, and every mother has it.-Brandon sun.

A I0-aided building has been added to the Owen Sound Col- legiate, which should provide the students with an all round educa- tion.-Port Arthur News-Chronicle.

Pienle season is here and again the country is going to the dogs- or hamburg-...-Sudbury Daily Star.

A national survey found the

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average Canadian was shorter and heavier. than was thought. ..Pos- slbly shorter in cash and heavier in debt.-Daily Times-Gazette.

plpesmoklng fad. Next thing, in says. we'll have cuspldors in den orator colours.-Hamilton Specia. tor.

siderations were a little less pronounced in United States political circles. For a year or more both districts had been led to ex- pect that very soon they would be admit- ted as States. So they would have been but for considerations which have nothing to do with the cligibility of their claims. President Eisenhower's idea was to admit Hawaii first; this pleased Republican Con- gressmen becausc Hawaii might reasonably be expected to send Republican representa- tives to Congress. But it did not please the Democrats, who argucd that Alaska, which traditionally is inclined to that polit- ical Party, should be admitted at the same it time; this packagc deal would not upsct the political status quo, at least in the foreseeable future. To make matters more irritating still, from the viewpoint of

Iiawaiians and Alaskans, the Southern Democratic bloc was not anxious to admit either at this time for fear that the new Congressmen might bolster civil rights strength in Washington.

ducive to sound political thinking in either Hawaii or Alaska; but, political partisan- ship being what it is, it seems that State- hood for either district will have to await the time when one Party or the other can claim and exercise absolute control of Con- gress. Then both districts can shape their political patterns accordingly, both becom- inz Republican or Democrat as the situa- -' tion may demand. Once they are in, each can choose again its own political course.

A change of Attitude

About a year ago the people of East Germany were faced with a severe food shortage, amounting in some sections to famine. When news of their plight reach- ed the United Statcs, President Eisenhower offered relicf supplies; but the offer was rejected. Foreign Minister Molotov of Rus- sia called the President's action an "in- sult". That, however, did not prevent mil- lions of the hungry citizens of East Ger- many from getting American relief; they streamed across the border into the West- ern zone and picked up their packages of food, in defiance of police and immigration officials. It was reported at the time that many of them went to prison for their boldness in the face of hunger.

This summer, following the most serious flood conditions in many centuries, famine struck anew at East Germany and other areas in the Soviet bloc, and again United States supplies were offered the suffering victims; this time the offer was accepted. This changc of attitude on the part of Communist officials may indicate a more sensible and more humanitarian approach to problems of the moment; that would give somc cause for hope that relations between Russia and the West are improv- ing a bit. On the other hand, of course, the new attitude may mean nothing more

1 than that Communist lcarlcrs were anxious

to avoid a repetition of last year's hostilc

demonstrations with their embarrassing

diplomatic effects. In any event, the im-

portant thing is that hungry and homeless

people have hccn given a i'Tl0aEV'.llift of re-

It is all very unfortunate and not con?

Royal Belfast, established in 1881, and the Royal Dublin or Dollymount Golf Club, founded also in 1885. Since the establish- ,'ment of these clubs hardly a year has pas- sed without the foundation of a golf course in some part of Ireland until at present there are more than two hundred in the country. In Dublin City alone there are seven clubs: in Dublin County, twenty. Most famous of all is perhaps Portmarnock, hard on the shores of Dublin Bay, and ,which has been with some truth described as the St. Andrews of Ireland.

L Advice on Chips

. Maritime potato chip manufacturers are making chips or "crisps" of excellent qual- ity, reports the Experimental Station at ,Kentviile, N. S., and those who have en- ,joyed the various brands of chips produced in Prince Edward Island will thoroughly agree. The trick, it seems, is to use the right kind of potato.

Chips must be crisp, light, golden brown and not too greasy. The greatest factor in achieving this result is starting with a po- , tato in which starch, sugar and water are .1" D1'0pel' proportion. The plants convert

sunlight and plant foods into simple sugars, which are then stored in the tubers in the form of starch. Storage of starch is great- est in the late growth period. A potato high in starch is usually low , in water content and gives a chip which is crisp and not greasy. A potato which is Still Producing sugars when harvested will give a chip of deep mahogany brown colour. It follows that well-matured tubers are re- ,quired for the chip industry. Digging the crop before the vines die down is a dis- advantage from the chip manufacturers , point of view. i Si0l'aRe below 55 degrees Fahrenheit lnlso results in the formation of sugar which, however, can be eliminated by the potatoes being "cured" in a warm room ,after their period of storage at compara. ,tively low temperatures. , The varieties which lend themselves to suitable storage for chip making are Irish Cobbler, Katahdin, Kennebec, Sebago and for late season manufacture, Netted Gem

EDITORIAL NOTES

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I , these days, but nobody has quite

Payoff

Old Charlottetown

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From the Royal Gazette, March 24, 1840:

A few days since, some persons of thc name of Burns and Cameron

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Bedeque, came to a den, wherein a huge bear was domiciled. He was first attacked with clubs, not finally despntched with a gun. We have -seen his skin, which is beautiful. land he weighed upwards of 500 lbs.

A. Lane, Captain and Town Major, Her Majesty's 37th Regi- announcee that "any persons ap- give such information as may lead to their apprehension, will be en- titled in of this Island the sum of Five Pounds for each Deaerter, over and

Articles of War; and any person found harbouring, concealing, or as- sisting any deserier Majesty's service, is liable to pay for every such offence the sum of Twenty Pounds."

r James H, Conroy, Charlottetown, advertises for sale the leasehold linteresl. of 200 acres of land, for 999 years, at one shilling sterling per acre, beautifully situated on the south shore of Lot 26, Bede- que; about sixty acres cleared, with -a new dwelling on the premises.

,i26 x 30 feet, a new barn, in good.

draw-well at the house, and s con- stant brook within 200 yards of it; also with an inexhaustible supply

Fjve.day or mediumgrange weather foreg of sea manure on the shore, and

casts will be available n ithe Dominion Public Weather Office. The service should be valuable to a great many 'people but the weatherman can expect more -rather than less criticism.

ext yea r, promises

I T O O O

l The concern expressed r

. Pcenlly by Fed. eral livestock marketing officials at the prevalence of over-weight hogs has a ser- iious enough basis. The solution is fairly gsimplc, however, and the adoption of Prince Edward Island Yorkshire breeding stock on a national scale would put the entire Cam- dian industry on its "feet.

The fortress of Bomarsund on Aland ylsland was captured by the French nnd ,English this date 1854, after a bombard. mcnt lasting a week It was destroyed

it level bank to haul it up.

At about ll o'clock last night, an alarm was given, that Mr. Pethicln Brewery was on fire, and indeed but for the prompt assist- ance which was afforded, and the great exertions which were used. that valuable bulldlng'would soon have been a heap of ruins. We are happy to any the fire was got under control, with apparently little damage.

James Nan-sway advertises that he will be happy to receive orders "for the erection of his Threshing Machines, either for two, three, 01 four horses power, or to be put in operation by water. There are twelve or fourteen of his Machines erected in Prince County, and give general sat.islactlon."

On Tuesday last, the anniversary of St. Patrick, the members of the

' Benevolent lriah Society partook

of a dinner prepared for them at the Wellington Hotel. Francis Long- worth, an. has the President of the society, assisted by Dr. Con- roy. the vice president, presided on the occasion. The appearance of

while lumbering in the woods at

ment, quartered at Charlottetown, 3

prchending Desert:-rs, or who shall receive at the Treasury above the reward allowed by the

from Her

Mystery Of Stonehenge

g I tator.

Jack Slcpler in the ohm Citizen

Salisbury Plain is a familiar sacrifices; that Roman soldiers corner 'of England to two genern- threw down some of the standing lions of Canadians, fathers and stones as being symbols. or part son who fought in two great. wars. hr the apparatus, of worship.

And familiar to them, too, is I, During recent months large-scale puzzle that has been lntriguirg thclcxperiments have been conducted British for a good many ccnturlesiby archaeologists and achoolboys to

Holldaying Britons will go mllesireconstruct the building methods out of their way to visit Salisbury of Stonehenge and to show how Plain. to stare opcn-mouthed atythe huge aarscn stones. which the sarsen and blue stones of weigh many tons. were brought Stonehenge. and to ponder its pur-,'orerland from north Wiltahire, and pose. For its origin is as puzzlingbthe smaller, but cumbersome blue a the great white horses carvedlstoncs were brought all the way into the chalk hills a few milcs'lmm Pembrokeshlre, in Wales. The northeast. Serious men of sricm-e.ischoolboya towed and poled con- lwlth imposing arrays of lcttcrs'crete replicas of the blue stones up ,aftcr their names, spend liourssniall rivers from the Bristol Chan- 'carcfully nxcnvating the groundinei (by which the blue stones were around upright and fallen stonesibrought by sea from Wales) to which, for some reason that con- Salisbury Plain, and thence over tinues to elude researchers, were the plain on aleds,'aometimea using -set. in a prrcisc geometric pattern cruclc rollers to ease progress of lby ll race of people who have leftithe slcds. By their labors with only this monument to their dc-jcrutlc implements they proved the icendents 4,000 years later. route and method. And archaeolo-

Stonehcnge is not a static puzzle. gists have constructed models of it is as much alive today as it has crude ramps to show how the been for the pnst few hundred multiton lintels, mortiacd and ten- ,ycnrs. But it is a puzzle which, anned to (it onto the top of hugh. ,sphlnx-like, keeps its secrets from upright. sni-sen stones. were raised if-van the most. astute arch;ieoln- into position. lgists; and keeps them rcturnlng ' year after year to dig a little more, sift a little more. and learn a little IIIOTE.

A complete model, based on the latest. research, shows Stonehenge as an outer ring of saraen stones with hotels, an inner circle of blue stones, a horseshoe-shaped group of sarsen stones with lintels inside this. and A horseshoe of blue stones in the center.

At eacsh midsummer snlstlcc hundreds visit Stonehenge to see tile sun rise over the horizon im- mediately over the "pointing" stone - which was, any modern scientists, never an altar, for there is considerable conn 'ion between the design of Stonehenge and the heavens. .

Throughout historic times Stone-

Vhe COOL TOMB!

When Abraham Lincoln was shov- eled into the tombs, he forgot the copperheads and the as- sassin . . . in the dust. in the cool tombs. .

And Ulysses Grant lost all thought of con men and Wall Street. cash and collateral turned ashes . . . in the dust, in thc cool tombe.

Pc3ahontae' body, lovely as it pop- lnr. sweet as a red haw In

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Two mt-n whose names are cur- rently prominent among those probing the Stonehenge mystery are Prof. Stuart Plggott and R. J. "C. Atkinson. Th:-y recently took pwrt in a tclrvision documentary ,whlch describcrl how Slonellcngc was built. uhcrr the stoncs came '-from - and what. Stonehenge was not.

Primarily. it was not a sacrificial Itemple built by the Druids. This theory is as popular as It is incor- lrect. Perhaps the Druids used it as ,a temple; if thcy did. they in- herited it from the real builders, who pi-e-dated them by hundreds of years.

Recent excavations indicate that there were thrcc Stonchcnrcs, the first dating to about 1900 BC. Anrl during the next three or four cen- turlea the other two were built on the same spot. in the manner of alteration and revision rather than as completely new mnstruction.

It appears almost certain that Stonehenge was a temple-to what gods or to what purposc is obscure.

The discovery last year of carv- ings of a large dagger and several axes on one of the stones, and more axes on others has helped to date the monument and substant- iate thc fact. that there was travcl

They gay paper can keep a per- 'son warm. We know a fellow who had a mortgage that kept him

Since we can't d about the odd weathe.r w?"iii",f been having this year. we must

awentlns for IWEMY Yum r' perforce make the best of it. If Guelph Dally Mercury. certainly is good for conventional

my -e---n - em :.".':.2”;..:. 'l;"..'l::.".'. '"::.:. "9"" i” be nu” the "me way real -godsend to editoribl i . as money. More people have it hard pressed tor lubjectrr

that so many of the international disputes are being settled.-Fred. erictoni Gleaner.

After all, what need is then for anyone to travel more than 50 miles an hour anywhere? A: best it only saves a few mlnutgg on any average trip in days when time is not so important because so much of it can be saved in other ways with all the modern gadgets and conveniences. It is much more important that lives of law-abiding people be saved from the reckless and irrespons- ible ones who are the offenders. -Port Arthur News-Chronicle,

Twenty-year-old Joyce Iandry. Miss Toronto of 1954. currently is visiting California where she was quoted as saying she hasn't seen an American male she could go for-not even two movie stars with whom she cavorted for the benefit of photographic cheese- cake. It isn't that she's belliger- ern toward U. S. manhood, but si ply because her kind of man, she says, is found only in Canada.

so much of it.-Hamilton Spec:

When. through lskeahore eros- ion, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario eventually join up with Lake Huron and Georgian Bay we won't be here to regret it. Appar- ently lakeshore erosion is some- thing we have to learn to liv with.-Farmer's Advocate. '

Published by the Newfoundland Tourist Development Office, a PIlot'a Guide invites visitors - especially Americans-to came by plane. It tells what to expect at the customs, where gas can be obtained, what the elevations are around Bay Bulls Big Pond. and what the soundings are at Twillingate. Newfoundland is out to make the most' of the air age.

Ex-King Farouk of Egypt con- gratulates the United Kingdom for withdrawing from the Suez Canal zone of Egypt. Reciprocal court- esy would seem to demand the United Kingdom congratulate fat

Farouk on previously having , wnhduwn tmm EHPL H Wind. Now theres nationalism that 5” sun should spur the pride of every

rcd-blooded Canadian man in this great Dominion of ours.-Niagara Falls Review.

We are rearing a generation of extremists. When the children come into the house they make n bee line for the television set and turn it up to full volume, than go over to the fan and turn it up to "high". The radio has to be turn- ed up as loud as it will go, the w,mdows are flung up as high as they'll go. the doors are banged wide open. When they get n drink the water is turned on full force so it splashes all over the kitchen; when they take baths the tub is filled to the brim. Every- thing is done with a hang at top speed. Except when it comes to mowing the lawn. Mower has one speed-very slow.-Eldora (Iowa) Herald-Ledger.

Bonny is five years old. she was one of those tossed out of a 5-foot boat hit by heavy waves in Lake Huron. Exercising remark- able presence of mind, the father rescued Bonny and her baby brother Dennis. And when the excitement was all over, Bonny said: "I wasn't afraid. I knew my Daddy would come and get me." Such complete confidence of a child in her parent is one of the most delightful sides of hu- man relations. - Fort William Times-Journal.

Those who persist in traveling in canoe or outboard motor boat without lifebelts at least at hand are inviting trouble. Actually in outboard motor boats safety of- ficials urge that the belts be on if the boat is traveling at a fast rate. There is always the chance of being thrown out with such suddcnncss that there will he no time for grabbing a nearby hell. it isn't a bad idea, either, to test out the belts to see that they really will do what one expects them to do in time of crisis.- Owen Sound Sun-Times.

& hcnge has always stood a dumb symbol of we know not what. Its secret is probed by archaeology, but is not yet disclosed.

The Age Old Story

if f ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bad in hell. behold. thou art there. if I take the wings of the morning. and dwell in the innermost parts of the sea; even there shall thy band lead I110. and thy right hand shall hold

me.

NOW! PAY ALI. YOUR -BILLS AT gut TIME

in 3 sensible steps

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Phone or call in at Household Finance.

Tell the manager-in privacy-how much

' . ' ' - - rw ' ' - . s lief. It 15 3 5h"m"' "ii" hurmn d, 'Tm”nfm,d.”d the hem-V or Paris biiund the RU5- the room was much enlivened by between pro-Homeric. Grcecc and November or a pawpaw ir cashyouneed.GctS50-S500-up toSl0U) should ever be aggravated by political dis- slang not to rebuild the fortification com. a tasteful arrangement of over- Britain before 1475 ac. Th axes May. did she wonder? doe-Mhr - . . utatlon mandjn the G If f B l - greens and well disposed trana- were common in Britain 0? that TOMCMNY-vvil1 the dull-.111 r35t'r9'1 Y0” OW" "8m""""w"ho"' p ' , , g , i U 0 mmm' It "Ow "95 parenciea. Among the latter was period, but the dagger was un- W0 0001 Wmbl? L - -

within Finnish terriiorv and the Finns n vely pleasing representation of-known in Northwest Europe. Yet Take -my streetful of people buyinz bmhbie 99C""iY- Th” ml""'9m9”" '"