PA'5.".L' FOUR THE GUARDIAN

.-Authorized AA Second Clan MALI Poll Office Department. Ufuwn. The Inland Uulrdinu iublinhlng Co.

Editor And Managing Director. Im A. Burnett. I Associate Editor. Frunls WAlker.

CIRCULATION "Coven Prillcc Edward l:iA.ud like the dew"

"The strongest memory lo weaker than rho weakest ink".

PHARl.()'I"l'ET()WN FRIDAY. NOV. 20. I953

Lovely children's Books

One of the worthwhile contributions made to the encouragement of good read- ing habits by the Charlottetown Public Library is the emphasis placed on child- ren's books. This feature of the library has been expanding continually, the children now have a section of their own where a fascinating collection of beautifully pub- lished books, ranging from new editions of

. oldtime classics to illustrated works on jet

available celebrated Canada”s

planes alld atomic energy, are daily. Tills week, which is being across the country as Young Book Week, a particularly fine display of children's books is being shown. Not only children, but adults as well will find the display of great interest and value.

Indeed, it is worth remembering that the principal aims of this special week are to interest adults in nlore and better books for children all through the year, to foster the accumulation of worthwhile children's books in school, home and library, and to give an incentive to making good books available to every child, not only for en- tertainment but as a foundation on which to build education and charact.er. Books have never before been produced in such pleasing variety of colour, design and typo- graphy, and this applies particularly to the little world of enchantment known as the children's section.

Man's Best Friend

The dogs role of man's best friend is threatened by, of all things, the goose Far from being a silly creature, the goose has intelligence enough to tend sheep, act as a watchdog and weed a garden, as well as incidentally providing eggs, roasts and feathers. All this is brought to light, al- though not for the first time, by the Na- tional Geographic news bulletin. I-Iearking back into history it reminds us that the ex- cited gabbling of Rome's sacred geese from their home in the temple of June atop the Capitoline Hill aroused the city's defenders in time to rout the barbarian Gauls who invaded Italy in 390 B. c. '”

In more modern times they have been used to sound the alarm for British settlers in Kenya when awaiting attack by the Mail Mau. Far across the world in Malaya they protect villages threatened by Communist guerilla raiders.

when not engaged in prot'.-cting life and .property from human enemies, the geese put in time weeding crops of cotton, blueberries, strawberries and also tree nurseries. They conscientiously clean out crab grass, Bermuda grass, the saw-edged Johnson grass and many other weeds while leaving the crop untouched.

In comparison the dog is a lazy scroun- gel: and allowing his master to joill him occas- ionally in his frequent hunting expeditions, he has little to commend him. The occas- ional dog who by dint of endless training is induced to do some real work around the place cannot raise his tribe to the status of man's real best l'riendAthc goose.

A Sill:-Arctic Province?

Parliament is to consider a Govern- ment bill "to change the desigmtion and orientation of the Department of Resources and Development" and define the responsi- bilities of the Government: respecting North- west Territories and Yukon affairs. Mem- bers for Yukon and Mackenzie River are quoted as saying in Ottawa that new hydro, mining and processing developments ”may be the first steps towards creation of Can- ada's 11th Province." ' The idea of a sub-Al'ctlc province may be dismissed. says the Toronto Telegram, unless the official attitude has undergone A sudden and drastic change. it recalls that when Commissioner Young opened the "little Parliament" of the North at Yel- lowknife last June he said the time had not been reached, nor was even approach- ing, when he would be justified in recom- mending that the proportion of elected representative: on the N. W. T. Council

.(thrce' of nine) should be increased. Of

course, A Province conceivably could be set up "without I Legislature; the Irish 'Prov- m9e' of,t.Jlgtcx.nevvext'wAntn,d A separate par- Hhillt tho dfevclopnlent problem in ' ortl'I,iIA'! (rent, due to the I i of occurrence: thufgli neod for fed- i fusion much longer,

ANA now in Al-

Beyond barking at the mail carrier,

berta and. Saskatchewan.

Federal expenditure in the Territories far exceeds the revenue obtained; one estimate places the ratio at 10 to one. It

tion was shown by the census to be about 16,000, and even with the Yukon only 25,- 000. Actually, prospects for growth are lsaid to be much greater in the Yukon than the Mackenzie.

The Regency Act

The British Regency Act, under which the Duke of Edinburgh would act as Re- gent should the throne be vacated for any reason during the minority of Prince Char- les, was approved by the Prime Ministers of all the Commonwealth nations which acknowledge loyalty to the Crown. Before the act was presented to Parliament they were consulted as a matter of courtesy by the British Government.

The act, notes an exchange, does not call for legislation in countries which have a Governor General. In Canada the Gov- ernor General is appointed by the Crown on the advice of the Canadian Government

and when appointed he acts solely on the advice of his Canadian ministers. His commission continues to operate if the

throne is vacated and in the event of his death or serious illness his successor would be chosen by the Canadian Government.

There is a precedent in the Act which designated Prince Albert as Regent in the event of Queen Victoria's death, but in this case the next in line for succession to the throne after the immediate heir was the King of Hanover. that the Duke of Edinburgh, who is keenly interested in science, is following the foot- steps of the Prince Consort, who made it his aim to promote application of science and art to the manufacturing industry. The Great Exhibition of 1851 was the result of a suggestion he made at a meeting of the Society of Arts.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Constitution Day, Jamaica, 1944.

Today, the sixth wedding anniversary of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. 0 I D

Maritime Air Command will be more directly than usual in the service of the Queen at the commencement of the Royal tour next week. They will provide an escort part of the way across the Atlantic and from Gander to Bermuda.

4 O O O

The immunity of legislators l'rom arrest is ill issue in Italy just now. The question is whether the Italian senate will waive traditional freedom from arrest in the case of a senator who ignored a sign to keep off the grass. Being a politician, he prob- ably considered it a public duty to get at the grass roots.

A member for New Brunswick is trying to induce the Federal Government to give encouragement to the Passamaquoddy elec- tric power project. Although a fisherman for some twenty years, Mr. A. Wesley Stuart sees clearly that industry is neces- sary to the prosperity of his Province and that power is essential to the development of industry.

It is now expected that there will be no difficulty about securing 100 electricity users in Tignish, the minimum number to make it practical to supply the village with power. The surprising thing is that the matter should ever have been in doubt. The village has that many telephone sub- scribers and it is not practical to run over to a neighbour to make use of his lighting system.

I O O

1 Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy, Rus- sian novelist. poet and reformer, (lied this .date 1910. He did not distinguish himself at college and led a life of pleasure until entering the army at the age of. 23. He fought in the Crimean War and wrote-n series of brilliant war sketches entitled "Tales from Sebastopol". He returned to a life of dissipation but quickly tired of it

studying the needs of the poor. A great revolutionary force, he disapproved of rev- olutionaries. Probably his most outstand- ing disciple was Gandhi.

I

There has been 8. long-term decline in the relative importance of bank lending according to the monthly 'review.of the Bank of Novavscotla. In the first 20 years of the century loans amounted to about 30 per cent of the gross national product, in proportion that has declined to about 15 per cent. In the same period they declined from,60 per cent of.the banka' total assets to 20 per cent in the war years and now About 35 per cent. The banks could do con- siderably more lending and it may be that the new provisions for loans on the secur- ity of rul estate will bring them substan- tial. bttineoa. y I

is to be remembel'ed, too, that the popula.- '

It is interesting to note .

and gave himself up to literature and to.

THE GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN

A - Fine Tonic

PUBLIC FORUM

Thin column ll open to flu dilouulon by correspondent: of quutlonl of ' t f The Gu.ArdlA.n does not ncceAsAr- Iiy endone the opinion of wrrenpondentn.

ARCHBISHOP SlNNO'l'l"S VISIT

sir,-on the occasion of my recent visit to the dear old home- land I had an experience quite unique in my life. For the first time I saw Government House in Chnrlottotown and let me any that it stArtlecl me beyond measure. The white facade of Government House is equal to the White House in Washington and the building itself, with its well-kept. lawns. surpassed Any Government House in Any Province in Canada. Even the Banner Province of Canada, with it's well-known quality of boastfulrlessp must. take second place. And what. A glorious situ- ation is that of Government House in Charlottetown. The view of the Harbor, with steamers plying back and forth upon its bosom. makes the place A perfect dream. The six old cannon, that could scarcely blow up A mosquito, with” the Old Arsenal that supplied the slnewa

traotivo. ,

so much for the outside of Gov- ernment House, but what. of the inside? What. a charming man is Lieutenant-Governor Prowsel I spent. an hour with him And I never met A. more cultured And distinguished gentleman. His gram of the Affairs of the world shows that he is the right man in the right place.

Next, I had the honor of calling on one of the predecessors of Gov- ernor Prowse, the Hon. George De- Bloia. Mr. DeBlols is of a. noble family And the nobility shines forth in his conduct and charac- ter. Prince Edward Island surely has reason to be proud of'its dis- tinguished citizens.

My last. visit gove.me the pleas- ure which I missed a year ago, namely the pleasure of meeting my old Presbyterian schoolmates at St. Peter's Harbor more than 60 years ago. Harry Davlson and Leigh Coffin come to see me and nothing could have pleased me quite as much. They were, as I was proud to note. immaculately dressed And very few men enjoy that distinction. Another school- mate that I was delighted to meet was Florrie Davison (Mrs. simp- son) who wu the most. Attractive young lady in our old school. Mrs. Lottie Mcllwen And Mrs. Hurry Davlson lilo did me the honor of calling on me. Very few may un- derstand why these meetings give me so much pleasure. They must understand that; in my estimation. these lndlvlduAlA Are the cream of the earth. My prayer for them is thAt. God may bless them and that He may have them always in His holy keeping.

My deA.r Mr. Editor. The Guar- dlA.n hu lost. none of the fine qualities thnl. give it A high pi.Ace among the finest. Journals in Can- AdA.

Very Alncercly yours, IALFRED V. SINNOTT, Archbishop of Winnipeg. Comp Norton, Mun.

Till GAMBLING MANIA

air,-'mere is something lnune about the gambling habit. Over in England the people hAve gone cruy over umbllng. Two lords wen Altlng At. 9. mile over A scotch when two fllu lit upon the table. one lord bet. the other A shilling thnt the fly next to him would move first. He won the Ahllllng. They bet. on don, on hornet And on men. I aAw A non of blnck pin once. I Auppou they bet In those. Rare In anAdA

the Aug: of MAMA has not been reached but we Are on the wAy money

to it

netting lo I way of utuna Iolneminf for nothing. The M10! in A nun who tries to no Aconc- thin; for nothing. The plokpoohot la A nlngler. Hplm1AnJlhIfl her the clnnoe mo 1 Al. . ppod All honen poople Aboula quit

some effect on society As if Avery- , .

work And turn to gambling for A living. It would have about tho

of war make the place very At-.

Farm Wife

H, Moon JAw

An Agrlcultunl economic expert. who must have been A man, re- cently made ll survey And put A price tag on A good form wife of 569.000. the peculiar thing About it is tint the rooult of the survey wu presented to the women's Institute by A woman And, no for as the report of the affair in The Ottawa Journal indicates, the Aud- ience, made up mainly of farmer": wives. accepted this price-tagging of themselves wibhout. A murmur. A value tag on A good farm wife of 369,000 is ridiculous. It's more than that- it's downright. insult.- lni. A good farm wife is B pearl beyond price.

She is 1 general utility on the farm, on duty 24 hours of the day. She is required to get up before the sun rises, light the kitchen fire and prepare a feast for the family that includes porridge. bA- con and cut, tout, or bread and butter, jam And mArmAlAdA And, as often ll not, fried potatoes And gal- lons of coffee.

She is supposed to have the Children who attend school scrub- bed And dressed, ready when her man pushes himself back from the table, or the school bus is sighted down the road. She his the morn-

At 939,000

Tinte--!lerAld

MeA.nt.lmo lhe hAA sewed buttons on underwear and shirts, put A patch on here and there, darned socks and, just before banking the fire for the night, mixed up A bovch of dough for bum And bread.

And All this for A more price tag of 309,000, day in and day out for perhaps 50 years. But. the women of the Eastern Ontario Women'A Imtltutc hAd An eye out for themselven. for they hnd rAA- olutlons Asking the Government to exempt from gift tax one-half the value of any gift from husband to wife. property or otherwise; that. one-half the deceased hus- band's estate be considered for tax purposes as earned by his wid- ow. when it passed to her upon hll death; also that. instead of ex- empting estates up to 350.000, this amount to be made A ”t.me ex- emption" deductible from the vAl- ue of the estate before calculating the taxes. They want to be rec- ognized As A partner. not As A de- pendent of their husbands.

However, a price tag of 369.000 may be useful to the pink-checked and robust young ladies who. when courted. can demureiy say "Yes", conditional upon A settle-

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1; Notes Bx

NOVEMBER 20. 1953

The Wax 4

0ttAwA report: Avenge ;ll Oanuolu are up 15 cents com- pared to 1952. Wlut does the farmer, who Is getting tea for his

produce think of that? -at. 'rhomAs Times-Journal

In order to lnAlntAin A well-bAl- rlnced pedpective. the person who "in A dog to woi-Ahlp him should 11:0 hnve A one to ignore him.

, --Peterborough Examiner

Added to the f.oAcher'A troubles is deciphering the scribble from an Angry parent demanding to .know why his child isn't being fsught how to write properly. 1 -,I-lamllton Spectator

- To be different for the ukc of ibeinc different. has little value. lent to be different beoAuile that is the only way by which some urgently needed service can be rcndened I. worthy cause is to be jtrcat.

-Owen Sound sun-Times

lt:'A lard to keep A good coin down. The English half-penny, though now Almost villueleos in iritaln, is greatly prized In Den- nsrkf where it can be used to zxtruct 60 cents worth of clgarets 'rom vending machines.

i -Edmonton Journal

We hue reAd A homily on pur- z.-nta being more kind tn little children whose little legs are tired an hurried walks down the streets. we wont to write 'anot.he;- homily yon creaky Adults being forced to ikecp up with tiny, twinkling, lnever-Mred legs for All the long day.

-Ottawa Journal

Mlny people who hue thought '4'! u A vlgue And terrify-

ing subject. Are now seeing basic economics At work. What. we are

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MR. ALAN HOLMANAR. T. HOEMAN LIM- ITED, CHARLO'I'IlE'Ii0WN. .

wins In the prediction or DBMS PEOPIA come true . , um rising cost: of lvlng and 'm bikes are one and the same mm" There were futile voices Tllisgd many years ago that tleing .....e to cost. of living. was i,.,,,,,,f”f make cost of living 30 up, and then Wlseo go up and so on, we H" still in that mad .process, althoug; the cost of living theme has some what given way to one called "standard of living." i .,Vanoouvcr News pen”

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Oommon

TOMORROW Th t I 1. .T0mOI'll0Wi a "i:.t81lzII)l,l.!l.I'e58 of the 3.,,u,,K' The coward and the f 1 damned to lose 00' con" A useless life in waiting 10, 5,, morlvw- To KBZnt:O:Ill;I;'l0llglllg eyes upon to. T111 interposinii death tleutroys uh, prospect.

Sumac! that this gene;-,1 from day to day rm”

Should fill the world with ivretchea undetected,

The soldier, labouring winter's march.

still see: tomorrow dreaded in :05, of triumph:

Still to the lover's long-expecting

through .

arms Tomorgpige. blings the visionary But thou. too old to hear another cheat, Learn that the present hour along in ml1n'.-l.

- Sn mllcl .lniii:.sx-n,

Education or

and want the Store work - . .

xceptionally promising fut- the finest working condi-

of your writing to

1:23 to herself, washing the break- fast: dishes and prepbring the noon-dAy meal. which includes several kinds of fresh baked pics.

Then, after polishing off the dishes, while the man she married snatches 40 winks or linens to the markets And the sport news on the radio. she is ready to go out and drive the tractor nr do the barn chores for An hour or two. The evening meal is prepared whlc greeting the youngsters home from school And delegotlng them to collecting the eggs, chopping the wood or bringing in the coal.

She iii called to the telephone 40 times during the day to answer Inqull-fen AA to whether John, or Bill, or Harry will plow the back quarter tomorrow. whether she has been to town to get. the mall. and possibly to hear 3. little gossip :- bout. the school teacher or what the Jones boys did when they went to town last Saturday. It's all in the routine.

For supper ahe seldom on-A If she has two heaping plates of fresh bread, bum, And some cold l08.Si. moat, more fried potatoes and A three-layer cake, swnthed in icing And Atlll A little wArm, A couple of big bowl: of At.rawberric:i or rnspberrieo. peaches or stewed Apples. She gets glowerlng look: if she suggests that the family go easy on the butter AA-she has been too busy to churn this week.

The evening the has to herself agAln, helping the kldA with their lessons, '- ' . them Away from the radio and then off to bed.

body turned to thieving. I now A womnn put. in Jnll for stealing A ooooonut worth About. two cents. I uld thut IA Atubio txmtment for so AmAll An offence. I was wrong. If the petty thief were let. off then it would not be lollf; until everything loose would be stolen. Gunblon An 1. blight in A community Apcnding their time devising Achn-val to scope work And live off other pwplA'A meAnA. Gambling IA lenlly uoed to help church flnoncu, butt mlnlctei-A find the this 1:-utlco deutroyl the Aplrlt of libel-Alloy, Church members A”: ("twin nhouldmvx give off hunt e no we to much need for mu if we on rule the money needed for our Church with o. 2-Afflo on Aomo nibbling Ac-homo? And be- Aldu, A money-puking Aahemo pic in taontrior And we have A fund: and A good evening. atnlxhc giving ”II A. dull wt! of nillng

loft the very hurt of the re- futon of Jena II the Mm in nbIllu&n&6'l'l1KIll giving to one found! upon which is was the bit walk I the uplift of mm- IlnQ."I'hol Vida! on tho church A of thh anon lush the

t of hash. ,

I llr, etc. W. J. GREEN

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ment of that Amount free And un- encumbered. For that they may be willing to take 3. change of getting gifts and outllvlng a. husband and coming into half his mm, of which 350,000 will be An exemptie deductible before taxes.

But figure. Win can put. A value on a good farm wife.

Charlottetown (And P. E. I.)

MAIL! AND NEWSPAPERS

' Old

From A report of the proceed- ings in the Provincial Legislature, Jan. 23, 1835.

"Mr. Pope rose to call the alien- tlonvof the House to the subject of the Inland Mail, proposing t.hAt it should tnvbl weekly. which wu opposed by Mr. Nelson, on the ground of the Postmuter having made his Arrangements for the winter. Mr. Cooper was of opin- ion that to defrAy the Addit- lbnnl expense that would be thus

incurred, the postage Ahould be raised. so that the labouring classes. who had no use for

newspapers, should not be buri.hen- ed with the postage of paper: which they did not use. Mr. Pope expressed his surprise At the con- tracted view: of the hon. member for King's County, And denied thnt. the people were indifferent AA to receiving information.

"Mr. Bremn was Also liurprised At. the narrow-minded policy of the hon. member for Queonk County (Mr. Nelson.)-if. wu very any for him, living in OhAr- lottetown. to get the new: from hi: customoro. but he ought to my: some eonsidei-Atlon for people in the country. Mr. Spuker comlde - ed the dlffuAion of knowledge to be-of the greAt.eAtimport.Ancetot.he IoclAl lnnbltutlono of the country, And Agreed with the hon. r for Prince County. who gave notice thnt he should move for An Ad- dren to the Governor on the Aub- Joct. Here the dllcuulon drop-

DEPLOII BRITISH IOADS

DDNDON -- (AP) - The Pod- cntlon of Britilh Industries Aald 'moAdAy that lril.Ain'A roAdA "Are the moat consented of the whole world" And Ara outing mlllloiu of pound: A year. The foduuum Auld in A report t.hAt the road: cost Britain It lent 100,000,000 A you in loot time, fuel And Accldento.

309.000 is N DFOPOGMTMISV

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