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THE GUARDIAN

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Alonalllo Editor, Ennis Willy

' "The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest lnk.“

CIIARLUTTETOWN. TUESDAY, OCTOBER l2. i948

For Maritime Development

Resolution 20 of the new Conservative plat- form calls for conservation and development of natural resources and industrial production. The program would be carried out with the co-opera- tion of the Provinces and with the assistance of a national advisory council. Irrigation, Water and flood control, forestry, hydro-electric devel- opment and drainage schemes would be pushed forward "vigorously." There would be develop- ment of inland and coastal fisheries, of lumber and coal, of petroleum and other mineral pro- ducts. The party, on assuming office, would press for action on the St. Lawrence Seaway as a joint navigation and power development. It would improve the Hudson Bay sea route.

This development plank is complemented by others in the platform. Number 28, for example, calls for "a fixed policy limited only by the rules of sound economics," to give the Maritimes more electric power, better markets for their products and guaranteed shipping of Canadian goods through Canadian ports. By the some token, Number 24, promising the immediate construc- tion of a hard-surfaced Trans-Canada highway, is no't a mere gesture toward the tourist trade.

What giveS this development program par-

- ticular significance is that it provides such sharp contrast to the theories and practices of the group now holding office at Ottawa. On not a single one of the items for development enum- erated above has the Liberal Administration taken constructive action, except in the odd case where o national emergency or public de- mand has made avoidance of the task no longer possible. Canadians must ask themselves which they would rather have: a program of jerry-build- ing, patchwork, hour-to-hour expediency and political hondstanding, or one of positive aim whose goal is the future greatness of this coun- . . "Y-

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The Only Alternative

The British Minister of Defense, Inaugurat- lng a recruiting campaign in the City of Lon- don the other day, found his efforts opposed by young hoodlums who distributed Communis- ‘tic literature, exhorting the crowd to "fight for peace, not for Wall Street."

Many Canadians, comments the Halifax Chron- lcle, share with their old brothers-in-arms in Britain a decided revulsion against getting back into khaki. Like the British, we are essentially a peace-loving people. But the very action of the young Communist saboteurs who heckled Mr. Alexander showed as plainly as could be de- sired how disturbed Russia is at the newly de- monstrated determination of the democracies everywhere to go to any needed length of re- armament to oppose further Russian expansion- ism. This circumstance makes it the more credi- ble that Russia has been engaged in a tremen- dous bluff during the past few months. lt has been a bluff backed up by force, exerted by unscrupulous and treacherous totalitarians a- gainst democratic peoples who, out of sheer in- tegrity and a desire to make quite clear their earnest wish for peace, dangerously stripped themselves of the very instruments which alone can guarantee peace.

Re-enlistment, even in the Reserve, is some- thing many Canadians would rather avoid. But the core of the matter is contained in the Brit- ish ex-soldier's philosophical remark: "If we can show the world we are still strong, it may keep something worse from happening." To keep that worse alternative from our door it is worth while making a minor sacrifice of time and energy. lt is perhaps on some such line of argument that a recruiting campaign for the Canadian Reserve Forces might most readily be made to succeed.

Maritime Piitatoes in ll. S.

The Wall Street Journal is authority for the statement that Maine potato growers are all in a dither over the effect of Canadian potato imports and their government-supported price structure. The Canadian spuds, mainly from Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick, are

_ selling like hot cakes in Boston and New York while the Maine variety remain in freight cars on local sidings or in the farmers’ fields. Maine potato prices, notes an Ontario exchange, are gov- ornment-supported and a grower must get bet- ter than $2.70 a hundred pounds, bagged and

» loaded on cars, before it pays him to offer them

to the Goverment. With freight and other charges this brings the Boston wholesale price

_ to around $3.25, the New York price to $3.45.

j r After paying 37 cents duty Canadian potatoes

~, r are selling at $2.35 in Boston, $2.80 in New York

‘ ' and the famous Maine spuds are just not want-

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There was a report that Canadian and U.S. officials might meet soon in Washington to dis- cuss restricting Canadian exports. Should our potatoes have the effect of depressing Maine prices below the support price for any length of time, and considering the size of this- year's Maine crop, the U. S. Government stands to lose a lot of money, and meet considerable criticism. If the Government has to buy surplus potatoes in order to keep the price up it means almost a complete loss of both the purchase cost and the potatoes. Once having purchased surplus potatoes the U. S. Government cannot very well sell them in competition with the growers it is trying to protect, with the result the potatoes are left to rot. Millions of bushels rotted o few

~ EDITORIAL NOTES

Fishing is a very. profitable occupation in Maine according to a report in the Boston Post. A teen-age schoolboy made $10,000 in his Sum- mer holiday in a sardine boot while another earned $16,000 herring fishing.

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Edith Cavel, British Red Cross nurse, ex- ecuted by the Germans for helping British sol- diers to escape from the enemy, this date l8l5. ls recognized as a martyress, and her work and sacrifice held in everlasting memory in all the English speaking world.

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The meeting of Commonwealth Prime Min- isters got under way in London yesterday. No binding decisions will be made at the confer- ence but the informal agreements reached will undoubtedly do much to.shape the future of the Commonwealth both internally and in relation to the world at large.

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Senator J. G. Turgeon of Vancouver, ad- dressing a veterans‘ meeting, called for the for- mation of an alliance outside the U. N. until that body proves successful, the alliance to com- prise the United States, France and Western European countries, the United Kingdom and the entire Commonwealth. Q Q

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Long suffering civil servants got a little at their own back at their annual conference at Ottawa last week. Secretary of State Gibson praising their standards, Federal and Provincial, went on to say, "lt is true there are some people --chiefly members of opposition parties — who seem to think that when a Government employee becomes efficient and is called upon to advise the Government, that he ceases to be a Civil Servant and becomes a bureaucrot."—Touche.

Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain's Chancellor oi the Exchequer, declares some countries misuse the term "democracy" to describe their political

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systems. He said this is particularly true in Eastern Europe. The term "democracy" has be- come a slogan, used very often to denote some- thing that we certainly would never recognize as such. lt is one of those often much-misused words-misused to trap the unwary and the ig- norant into a surrender of those very rights which are in fact the foundations of true democracy.

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A government spokesman smiled at a sugges- tion that war plans have reached the stage in London where evacuation of some government departments to Canada has been discussed. "We didn't do it in the last war and there is no like- lihood we would do it if another war came," he said. The Communist Daily Worker said "high level talks have concentrated on the "details of moving large government staffs from the danger centre, London, to other parts of Brit- ain ancl even to the dominions in the case of the most important sections." The Daily Work- er added that the movement of some "top gov- ernment departments to Canada" has been

discussed.

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The difficulty in getting young Canadians to train as tradesmen was cited before a meet- ing of the Vocational Training Advisory Coun- cil in Ottawa. A three-day meeting, attended by educationists from many parts of Canada, was told by Deputy Labor Minister Arthur MacNa- mara that plans for training apprentices were the most important item on the agenda. Indus- try needs well-trained tradesmen, he said, but young men are reluctant to enter trades, por- ticularly the trowel trades in construction work. Girls also are reluctant to enter trades, even though they could earn more in factories than in stores. Almost all boys and girls leaving school were willing to forego trade training and take

unskilled work.

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European countries will get a record total of l2,l00,000 tons of European coal in the next three months, the United Notions Economic Com- mission for Europe announced. This pebk figure in a series of mounting allocations of Europ- can cool indicates. Europe's growing self-suffic- iency and increasing independence of Ameri- can coal. Coal imports needed from the United States to make up the deficit for the next three months total only 6,000,000 tons, 2l per cent less than in the previous quarter. Poland will be the biggest exporter. of coal to Europe with 3,947,000 tons. Britain's coal exports for the quarter total 2,755,000 tons, the biggest total since the war and 385,000 tons more than the previous quarter. France and Sweden will be the biggest European buyers of British coal, taking 550,000 tons and 366900 tons respectively. i l’ k

Will we be still further ignored? Montrealers bound for Britain in the 20,000-ton Canadian Pacific liner, Empress of France, included F. W. Collins, industrial manager, Canadian Pa- cific Railway, who was en route to London to confer upon industrial development-g in cqnudu_ Mr. Collins recalled that the C.P.R. was the first Canadian organization to identify itself with the deyelopmeiit of the Dominion and he said that this phase of his company's activities was continuous. Remarking on the large num- ber of British industries that currently were anx- ious to establish branches in Canada, Mr. Col- lins said the industrial development of the Dominion was increasing rapidly. "Municipali-

great future Canada possesses," Mr. Collins em- pliasized, "and they are determined to partici-

velopment." Quebec's expansion would continue to widen, Mr. Collins predicted. Greater popu-

The Maritimes hove good reason to know of the C.P.R.'s expansionist policy, for it is due to their

order to have an

ties from coast to coast here are aware of, the

pate and to secure their share of industrial de-

lation was one of Canada's rnaior needs, he felt.

alignment with Montreal, Toronto and the West

THE GUARDIAN. CHARLOWETOWN

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. TRAtlStlAtlTltlG as]. ‘moisten: io rociric‘ coast racers sum success.

iuuii noon

This is the kind of road I like: QM that clambers twisty, cigmbing a pine-deck mountain- side

Until the air grows misty.

I like that road that follows the hawks

United Nations And The Berlin Situation

(By w. N, men

The first. days 0f the Unll-Ed Nations Security council's consider- ation of the Berllu situation will. it. seems, certainly be taken up with legal a-guments. Bst, that will make them not less but it anything more lmpcrtant. Details may cnarlber little, But the zeal subject. of discussion will be ihe competence of the Courci to den‘

And hunts the source of e high Are the color of the sky.

A road abet reaches for the slots Or drinks clouds bright with rain. That. tops the crest. and stumbling down

Uriwlnds itself again

And searches for blowifla but/MY‘

home Straight to my own beck G00!‘-

-—Frances Frost.

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l Old Charlottetown (And P. E. L)

SELKIBICS OBSERVATIONS

"On the banks of the Plnelte River are several marshes. but only one of large size that I saw. Notwithstanding the great accumu- lation of these marshes. I d0 71°‘ think that the settlements ought 1.0 be close to tliem—for if the habi- tations are set. down on fir)?!‘ lands they will be healthier, more comfortable and freer from mos- quitoes. The settlers prefer the neighbourhood of the marshes in opportunity 0f monopoilzing the more 0f lhflm within their lot; but I DFOPO" l° give no lot. above a certain shore aiid reserve the surplus for lots that. have no marsh adjoining to them.

"Near Pinettc is a cleared spot.

foes intending to settle this aut- umn, but will now keep his dist- ElflCE. Squutters are not respected here as they are said to be in the $111195, ln general, however. the proprietors are not unwilling to let them remain but hold themselves under no obligation to them. 8nd will drive as hard a bargain with them as they can.

“About Pinctle and opposite to it are several places covered with young birclies. Grown up over the old French clearing among these we found by Mr. Wrighlfs assist- ance that the birch bark at least of small trees would still peel- an advantage to the settlers as It makes an excellent water-tight. cav- erlng for houses. It must be kept stretched as soon as cut. for if it dries and curls up ll: becomes use- less on the roof; also it must be immediately thatched over and cov- ered from the sun.

“This birch bark seems a kind of universal article. Besides thatch- lng houses it. makes canoes, bowls and all sorts of dishes. I eaw

of the sugar maples end when you cup ln a minute. Dr. McA.

large trees.

bark ls also put below shingles."-

Sunday, Ali's 14, 180i.

The Age-Old Story

years ago and the resulting criticism was tor- rifle.

that the provinces this side ‘of the C. P. R. line have been lay-passed.

Also thou shelf lie down. lone shall nuke thee afraid.

‘humbling stream whose icy P°°~lBr

with, ch15 “inn-eat, to the peac ." The attack will be lidieol» PM screened. Bub lt will. nonthelezo

be an isttcck on the auhvil-‘r’ ‘f

the Ccuncll, rn zrtsmpt. to 1o- strlct. its sjhere.

For the second time the frst. occasion was that of the continued

ipresence ca‘ Russian tmops in

cup meld°w5 for their withdrtwaii the Soviet n k “ch dlffeyencg whgfhel‘ Gold on i118 W116i’ 11°01” Govenuznent. will be vlnually themgofne? Union and “s associ. A" awn-green road that takes me claim!“ lmmulmy {mm the ates were formally l0 withdraw or

_ on political grounds. Suggestions have

any passed by n two-thirds majnl y.

a loyal

Persia after the date fixed by Trefliy

Council's jurisdiction. Nor ls it. only the competence of the Council lbfiship while denying the gunhority which ls being altacl-ted on Iegel- f0; the organ mum-L

lstlc grounds, The authcrlty of the i Assembly is asa being qucslcned [Ass-mbly are only to, w,“ y“; m-

been irnade League or Nations is now facing that ff the Soviet. Union, by the use of its veto, prevents the Coun- cll from making any recommend- ations under Article 3/9 or Artcle 40 of the Charter, the mot-tn" shall be referred to she Assembly, where

no great. power has a velo and recommendation is vsld if

Ncrw the Paris Communist, paper. llurnanite, which can be counted and inspired mouthpiece

threat. no the 179"!" l! I We“ n. all possibility of ssfezwardfluz the pence by methods envblifll in the Charter.

If either the Council or Assembly were to condone the use of such methods by any 90W" l“ ‘my circumstances, it. wzuid atultlfy ll- self and make all the solemn pledges of the Chane‘: ridiculous. There cannot be two W595 °f conduct, within the Charter. nor can exemption from lls obllili" lons be conceded to one POW" b?‘ cause o1 its formidable sirenSih and its bril-culent. manner. Thllfi would. indeed be the Gild-

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Yet. if either the Council or Assembly condemns the fi°fldu°l o; me Sgvlet Union in this matter or Berlin and calls upon it to abandon its abtempls lfl 0"?" its allies to accept Al! ‘iemmdb a new danger presents itself — bhol of a complete and final 59m In we Unlbrd Nations. Nos‘ would

whether thry retained formal men-

Mi". Bcvlnfis grave words w lite ed. The issue which once faced the

the United Nations. Is it better t4; seek "universality" even by the sacrifice of principle, an- to main- taln principle even Bl the “M. o! losing “univei-sality?" It is ironi- cal to recall that in Geneva in the ’30‘s, the ataunchest champion or "principles" as against “univer- sality” was th; Soviet Union. The . choice remains a grove and cilfll- cult. one, But it. ls the real issue that. will begin to loom behind bhe legalistic nrgumenll we all expect to occupy the first days o!

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of Soviet propaganda, has opened

consider-

a prelimlnmy attack on the As-

tiie Sscuiifiy Council's

where a squatter has planted pom-l

troughs of it standing at the foot

come to a spring, it will make a has been informed by the neighbouring settlers that the bark was past peeling and no it appears to be in

“There is e kind of long grassy sea-weed which makes n good thatch over the birch bark-kit is also esteemed ea a manure; there in a great abundance both at Pin- ette and Orwell Buy. I nee birch

—From Lord Selkirk‘: 'Dlary,

Thou urns as; about mo», nail thou shell hire thy root In nlety. Olflovm and

sembly. “Are countmts which have , , ‘neither suffered dii'ect'y from TQQ 690d Fol‘ Feflllllel’

jlrliblerlle barlarity nor cffectlvziv lmnlzributed to the overhrow cf the Third Roch to be ("riled on ._ by vi: ue of n fszmrl m j: lfy -_ c». p s; ju gnzeiii. on the punt of d1 pu 1?", Humenit: asks, and rgozs on to dim-lb: the ma city, of the Assembly as "pawns on Mr. M Ishals chessbcan-c." ind the whole appeal to the United Nations as “a manoeuvcr of ln- itimlaatnon.“

| In'ihis way a new issue of the greatest moment is being raised.

tables.

It 1s the issue of the whole five to meat rauthority of the United Nations. 5"‘ b°l°re am- Qountrfg mm. of the whcl: character of one omic needs or our individual tastes

organization, of its continued ex- lstnnce in its present. form and even cf the whole system and method of international co-opernt- ic/n.

The issue. as the Note of the Three Powers points out, is no long- er thait. of the currency and oom- munlcations of Berlin. It ls that the Soviet. Government "ls at.- temptlng, by illegal and coercive measures, to secure polltlcal cb- lectlves to which it is not entitl- ed and which it, could not achieve by peaceful means." It ls the use by e great power of such methods the economic weapon c»! the

car-operation lnd the when bails of the existence of the Unltzd Nnitlons. There ls trot so much “s

eoolnl stature.

(CUSTOM BUILT ODOTIII)

Refrigeration

sues (Ind service Repairs To All Makes

MOTOIIS

Rewinding and Repairs

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ation of the Beilln situation."

(Vancouver Province)

we Canadians agree with Hon. Robert w, Mayhew, the new mln- isler of fisheries. that. there should be more fish on Canadian dinner

Mr. Mayhew urges higher fish consumption as a remedy for the loss or! canned salmon sales to the United Kingdom, the U. K. dollar shortage.

As people, most of us would ent. fish simply because we like it, be- cause it can be a tasty alterna-

cnused by

can be satisfied there is n little matter of salesmanship. price and quality, some of the reasons, per-

biockade and‘ the deliberate pro- ELECTRICAL vocation of disorder — as “iri- soruments of policy" which ls now APPLIANCI in question. h’ , llr!

The continued use of such ‘ methods must. inevitably ‘leetroy the whole basis of international