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President and A-ocisto Editor. In A Ilurnelt. Associnto Editor. Frill Wellies.

OIRCUIATION "Covers Prince Edwud Island

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CIIARIQTTITOWN, SA'I'UBDA!'. MAY I1, 1052-

iflgo-Ii;i:iuslng Death

When an individual is injured by the negligence of another he may recover dam- ages at law for that injury of which pecuniary loss may be merely a minor part. The courts will take into consideration pain and suffering, disfigurement, social disadvantages and in fact almost any measurable ill consequence of the injury.

When death results, however, at com- mon law the claim for damages dies with the victim. By Lord Campbell's Act and in this Province by the Fatal Accidents Act a right of action is given cn behalf of the next-of-kin but it is limited to the actual pecuniary loss which the survivors can show they have sustained. The result is that it is generally considerably less cost- ly for a negligent driver or other careless individual to cause the death than to mere- ly injure.

In some other Provinces, notably in British Columbia and Manitoba, the an- omaly is corrected by either continuing all the rights of the deceased, including loss of expectation of life, for the benefit of his estate. or else by allowing his survivors topclaim not only for their pecuniary loss but also for mental anguish and for the loss of all the advantages of having that relative alive and well. '

The first principle is probably the more satisfactory as it is obviously less trying for the survivors to claim what the deceased would have been entitled to than.to go into the details of their own sense of loss. In any case the law as it stands is in ur- gent need of reform.

Another Timely Reminder

One again the long-neglected possibil- ities of electrical power development in the Maritimes have been brought to the fore, this time by Mr. Frank S. Small, of Apoha- qui, N. B., a retired engineer, who addres- sed the Moncton Branch of the Engineer- ing Institute of Canada on the subject this

graphs showing that while Canada has now developed 13,000,000 horsepower in its hydro plants. in the Maritime Provinces the total hydro development is only 286,- 000. The charts and tables emphasized that while there was on an average nearly one horsepower of developed hydro per person in Canada, the Maritimesl share was only .22 per capita.

The H. G. Acres survey of the Petit- codiac and Memramcook, completed in No- vember, 1945, had not proved economical- ly sound, because the estimated cost of de- velopment was d155,700,000. The power output would have ranged from 76,000 horsepower to 255,000 horsepower. and this would have meant an expenditure of 952,409 per continuous horsepower. For the mean tide with' an output averaging 203,000 horsepower it would mean a cost of 3767 horsepower. Either of these figures is pro- hibitive and the site is undoubtedly too expensive for the volume of power that can be produced. Another suggested source of power was at the St. Mary Bay and Annapolis Basin where the neap tidal ranges are 18 to 23 feet respectively. At the Cape Split peninsula in Minas Channel. however, there is apparently an almost ideal site for a large development. Mr. Small said.

in brief outline the idea proposed is 10 build a rock fill dam across the channel from Cape Split to the north shore. This dam would be located as far west as P05" sible to provide the maximum space for the power house which would extend cast- ward from the dam talent! the P9"ii13"13 W ward Cape Blomidon. The water area of the proposed dam would be 465 S903”? miles at high water and 327 at low water. On that basis, the development would work out to 10,000,000 horsepower for the full tidal period. Mr. Small advocated a dam across the chignecto Bay from Cape E"' mgr,-, N. ,B., to Sand River, S.. with 3 channel excavated behind it. resultlnl in '1

”'",...l.'.”..”””"t..i”..E"?.i.l C3.?....s"l.'.i'. if s s ' mow or a total for

5,000, horsepower. was ofwe buy of 15,000.000 mu -hcuepowcr-.' The two dams would have s combined total length of about 10 mu. g compared with 2 U3 miles for " --.gnu, and control works of the DIV

contin-

First Crest Wsr,'whcn the surplus

radius is the present practical limit for pow- er transmission. If a 500-mile limit became a commercial reality all or nearly all of Newfoundland could be covered.

Mr. Small urged that the Maritlmes start. not with the world's largest tidal power plant, but with a much smaller and cheaper development, or twin plant such as appeared feasible in the development of St. Mary Bay and Digby Basin in Nova Scotla. This project would yield a sub- stantial block of power and would start the industrial growth of the Maritimes. Later, he said, the lessons learned would be applied to the much greater problem of harnessing the power now going to waste at the head Vof the Bay.

It is difficult, of course, for theilayman to check the above quoted figures, but there can be no doubt as to the accuracy of the speaker's main contention, that there is enough power now going to waste at the head of the Bay of Fundy to trans- form the Maritime Provinces and be of tre- mendous benefit to all of Canada. This is a scheme on a par with the St. Lawrence waterway project in national importance, and our representatives at Ottawa should emphasize this fact at every opportunity.

EDIIURIAI. NOTES

Tomorrow. fifth Sundaytafter Easter, Rogation Sunday. I

On Monday the Salvation Army opens its campaign to raise funds for the ex- tension of Sunset Lodge and for the con- tinuance of the great work of the ”Army''.

0 C I ,Tomorrow is Battle of the Sunday, commemorating the grim and long- drawn-out struggle by sea and air to get shipping through the U-boats to the Brit-

ish Isles. O

A good motto for Safety Week, which begins tomorrow, is that, "Accidents do not happen, they are caused." As the great- est number of accidents occur at home we do not have to go far to look around for probable causes.

The R. C. M. P. band is scheduled to be here on August 15 and 16, and will give performances at Charlottetown and Summexside. It will be a most suitable time while Summer visitors are with us and out-of-door entertainment the order of the day.

A group of American scientists have been seeding New Mexican clouds with sil- ver nitrate on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wed- nesdays and claim that as a result it rains in the east on Fridays, Saturdays and Sun-

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This column is open to tho discussion by correspondents of questions of interest. The Guardian does not necesssr- ily en' the opinion of wtsespondeiits.

BALI. FIELD EXPENDITURE

Sir, - Many Charlottetown tax- pnycis besides myself must have been ughast. when they read in today's paper that we are to have arclight. baseball this mer and that the City will pay the cost. of op:.-ration for the first two years. It is understood that this will equal the total amount of electric power used by several towns in the Province, in fact. it will equal sev- eral of them combined!

We have just passed through a period of weeping and wailing by the citizens. Everyone complained about the new cssmeir and the rate being 2:'l',b instead of the hoped-for 262. veterans had a meeting or two and petilioncd the Mayor and Council for special con- cessions as the increased taxes would create a hardship on them and their families. We wonder how we are to relieve ourselves of the heavy burden of past expenditures

days. If they want support for their ex- perimcnts it might be a good idea to leave

eastern week-ends alone.

Chickens coming home to roost. Dr. James S. Simmons, dean of the l-Iarvard School of Public Health. suggests that some mental ailments and diseases of old age may stem from measles, mumps or other infectious diseases of childhood. Which im- plies that efforts should be made to prevent such epidemics if we desire to eliminate mental troubles later on. O O

A birth notice in a Toronto newspaper on Wednesday said: "Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Massey are pleased to announce the birth of quadruplets, Robin, Robinette, Joan and Jerry, Saturday, May 10. 1952. All doing Friends who rushed to the Massey

nicely." home to offer congratulations found the quads in a robin's ncst' just outside the Massey apartment window. t o o s , Tribute to the hardiness of Scottish

tweed has been found in the letters of Pres- ident Rooscvelt. "In 1878". he wrote, "my father had a twced suit made in Edinburgh. . . . He wore the suit constantly until his death in 1900. I inherited it and wore it steadily until 1926, when I passed it on to my boy, James. He still has it and wears it in the winter time, when he is in the

country." '

Mafeking was relieved this date 1900 by Col. (later Field Marshal Lord) Piumer. It had been gallantly defended for 280 days by Col. (later Lord) Baden-Powell, to whose remarkable resource and courage was due the fact that it managed to hold out. During the siege the defenders manufactured in look-out tower, ammun- ition. a "searchllght" and even a "gun", the la'tter improvised out of drain-pipes and named "The Wolf". ' '

0 "That fellow". (Lord Boyd-Orr. Pros- ident of the Intematlonsl Food and Agri-

with Senator I-iaig, evidently because he suggested that the best thing for the develop- ment of trade and commerce would be for was no market, to give them away. That. but better than whstwssdonssfiertiio

of-coffee and cotton were burned.

cultural Association). is not very popular "

of course, would he s little revoiutionsryl

and still meet. the cost. of present day expenditures such as snow re- moval and street reps . At the some timtr the request of casual labor for a bare living wage is left. in abeyance and it is a question if these men will.gei. more money because the City is poor. All these things are normal in the operation of a corporation llke,the city. An attempt must. be made to balance income with expenditure and. as a conscqu . if one goes up , , , so must. the other.

Under such circumstances how in the world can the spending of the citizen's money to light. s ball field be justified. If it is a need- ed thing why cannot. a greater price of admission be charged at the gate? Many people who can afford to pay 81.50 and S1. for a hockey g me put. a dime in the but out a the park and, too often, look the other way when the col- lector comes around. If this sport is to continue here it. should pay its own way. Daytime baseball may be mole nearly justified, it MAY keep juveniles interested. it may keep them out at the park watch- ing or participating but. night baseball does not. come into this category and will probably keep youngsters up and around who should be in bed. Surely we have parents who can keep their young- sters off the streets at. night.

I am not going to sign this let- ter over my own name. 1. would be labeled no a crank. A child hstcr. I am not. I am just one who does not go along with the current-day theory thst. those who govern have the right. to spend money without regard to where it is going. People have come to the way of thinking that it is not ne- cessary for them to support things, that it. is up to some pstacrnsl in- stitution called "Government" be it Dominion. Provlrieisl or Civic to dip its hand into some i ' able supply of funds end to dis- pense the hsrd-corned money of the taxpayer to any group that can claim it needs support. Money

for playgrounds. yes . . . money for civic good. yes. Money for bssoball st. night . . . why?

If this outlay is s. wise and just.

area about tennis? Horseshoe Golf? Will It hockey be sub- sidised by the Chsrlo town tox-

Is:ebslii.ln goodsnme Niht. bssebsll will be n source of "amnio- msnt to many in Charlottetown git; cominl llirniner (I don't lie-

1 pitching?

nations having surpluses for which there an

Memorable Ann

0-1-1-Aw; - Observance of Battle of the Atlantic Sunday 0" May 18 has 3. special significance this year in that it was exactly 10 years ago that Nazi Germany pressed U-boat wsrlsrc for up the st. Lawrence River and Canadian sailors foukht 'snd died W"-ND sight of the shores of their home- land.

U-boats struck in the St. Law- rence at s time when escort ves- sels could be spared only at great sacrifice from the North Atlantic convoy lines.

The first attack occurred on the night of May Ii-l2. 1962. eff CID dos Rasieres on the cups coast and the British freighter Nlcoya and the Dutch freighter uto went down in flames. war casualties, wounded, shocked and coated with oil, landed for the first time on the hitherto peaceful shores of the st. Lawrence. Inter that summer the same Gaspe village, was to be shak- en by a torpedo which, missing its mark. ran on to the beach and ex- piodcd.

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A bottom-of-the-barrel cscort. system was hastily brought into being. Minesweeper: were divert- ed from locsl escort and harbour protection duties, aimed yachts. ill-fitted for anti-U-boat. war- Hare, were assigned to convoy duty. The first of the Falrmliu. sub- chssing motor launches, were bes- ed on Gulf poi-Ls. .A few dsys sf- ter the slnklnu the ins ursl eon- voy, SQ-i. sailed from ydney for Quebec city - a lone minesweeper gilardingj lone merchant ship.

There was s lull q nearly two months and then the U-boats struck in earnest. shortly after midnight of July ti. three ships of a convoy of I2, sgsin escorted by s single mineswceper, went. down off Clip Chat.

Corvettes preparing for the

North African campaign, destroy- ers and more minesweepers were despafched to the St. Lawrence in-ca. American warships gunni- ed convoys routed through the strait of Belle Isle. During that summer's campaign, 24 merchant ships were sunk. the armed yacht Raccoon was lost with all hands snd the corvette Charlottetown went down with the loss of nipe lives. A grevlous blow as winter drew nesr was the tor- pedoing of the sydney-Port. aux i!ssques'ferry, the 3. 5. Caribou. at the cost of no lives. including that of the only woman member of the Canadian mvnl services to die from enemy action.

The at. Lawrence campaign brought the wsr home to Canada as never before and its bitter cost served but to strenglmn the will to win. its vlcims shsre in the

U-Boats In The St. Lawrence

iversary Recalls

sonnel killed and :19 wounded dur- ing the war.

The gallant. ships which went down in .thc St. Lawrence are among those whose memory is honoured whenever the stirring deeds of Canada's war st see are

recalled.

72; ?oe&' draw

the cloud shadows

among the hills,

Like mighty birds seeking a place of rest.

A great wind hurries them, hur- ries them over the crest.

Are they lost in that vast empti- ness of sky?

Or do they join the greater host that ills

All white

NOW move

space lieyond?-the clouds flying by In search of their dark mates? Is there ll nest. Somewhere in evening. where the flying stills?- Whcre each cloud meets its other, the shadowy one, In quiet at the farthest reach of the sun? -Roland English Hartley in the Christian Science Monitor. '

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MB. IIODG80N'3 DEPARTURE

"The Rev. G. W. I-Iodgson leaves today for London, Orest Britain, in the hope that rest. and chsfigc of scene will renew his health, which has not been good for some time post. About s week ago Mr. I-Iodgson received a very kind address. signed not only by the members of St. Peters Church but also by others who sccsslonsly attend the services there; and. through the offsrtory. he received sbout use as sn earnest. of the love and esteem of the congrega- tion. His absence will be regret- ted, especially to those to whom he has mlnistereu in holy things, and those engaged in temperance work: and we are quite sure that all who know him will welcome his return. The Rev. W. B. King will have charge of st. Peter's during his sbsence.”

-The Examiner. Aprg 17, 1333,

LONDON - (OP) Pontins. 70-year-old insurance bro- ker who died recently. left en es- tate of f2l5,0o9. I-is slsrted so years

honor paid on Battle of the Alien- tic sundsy to the 1.701 nsvsi per.

no so 1- football player at be per week. selling insurance on the side.

SAVINGS PLAY,

Buy Life Insurance. Pension money.

of Thrift an the. Qusrtiinn of

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IN THE IAITLI AGAINST INILATION.

The Great-West Life Assurance Company is the Champion,

We will be glad of so opportunity to servb you.

cs-riuuo-n - ,u.uso1rr.. soonest. o.x..u.. niotriet Mousse: no sugnunu. .0"!!! IL I. IIIAW. c.z.v.. llstvfet lilnsnr in Montague.

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I education should nwnkcn

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The Beauties

No further back then s hundred years sgo, education was retard- ed as s dangerous explosive to be kept. under guard. when the bat- tle for popular elementary educa- tion was won. there still lingered prejudice szainst. continuinl Gdlls cation. in feet, the Canadian As- Ioclstloh for Adult Education is only seventeen years old. it has in June 1935 that a constitution was drawn up and A council elect- ed. A year later Dr. E. A. Corbett began to devote his full time to the affairs of the association as Direc- for By 1943 the auociatiop was ready to state its goal, and a com- mittee under chairmanship of Pro- fessor H. R. C. Avison. of Madon- ald College. drew up an explicit statement. Ordinary men and women, said the committee, have within themselves and their com- munities the spiritual and intel- lectual resources adequate to the solution of their problems. Adult people to the possibilities and,dangers of niodcrn life; it should deal with the actual and living concerns of actual and living people.

There are. of course. stages in this continuing education: youths leaving school may study the some subjects as their aging grandpar- ents. but not from the same point. of view. The disastrous thought. for anyone to have is that his pres- ent store of knowledge, at what- ever sge. is sufficient.

It would be a mistake to ldeallze immaturity, to look upon childhood as themost. happy time and youth as the radiant age. in reality. nia- turlty is the golden fleece we seek. The child lives in the minute, the youth in the day. the instinctive men in the year. but those who at- tain ii measure of maturity set- themselves in relation to an epoch or even eternity.

About Maturity

We need to mature our mental- ity so that it catches up with our techniques. instead of getting Ilons with a way of thinking and feeling thst were appropriate in s technically simpler age. only thus

middle years of our lives without the sense of frustration and failure that is all too common among mid- die-aged people.

It is not in terms of years that maturity is to be measured, noryet in terms of knowledge. To be ms- turc is to use knowledge wisely. l

The mature person has learned snd is learning; he has exper- ienced and is daily taking note of his experiences; he hss achieved the ability to weld these two, knowledge and experience. in his own mind and to produce judg- ments and plans.

This is a far cry from the artifi- cisl life pictured by some utoplsnn. Theirs is a realm into which they escape. 5 sort. of childish world where things are provided with case. if not free, and where some benevolent power looks after every want.

To be a malurci person means accepting a responsibility for one's own part in the world. It is true that much of what we are came down to us by our forefathers, set in motion or completed long be- fore wc were born. but there is left to sli of us A margin for initiative. In some way. big or little, we can contribute to the world's progress. it. A. Overstreei, says in his helpful hook "me Mature Mind," that the sum of our insture sets, in each of us snd in all of us. may nuke the dlfference t s world headed for destruction snd n world bead- ed for creative fulfilment.