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CIlwUI.A'l'l0N , total City Zone ..... 3.703. nun Tradlnl Zeno - ---- "5: in Others .. . - & total Net Paid . I3-

ww .:-...t.:W' "The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink"

.u.,.mLo".;1-own 'rnunso.u'.Emn. 12. 1951

Please, Mr. Spectator

The increasing roughness and militancy on the part of spectators and players in iockey is not confined to the Maritimes; it s equally evident in Ontario and has called forth protests of leading citizens and news- papers there as here.

The modern hockey game is charged with excitement, occasioned by bodily con- tact and high speed. The tension on op- posing players is always terrific. This, in itself, sometimes leads to unnecessary roughness. However, players can very well take care of themselves. What is to be de- plored are the actions of unthinking spec- tators who litter the ice with debris, inter- fere with players from the sidelines, or

majority of two and as the President of the Senate has no casting vote but only a de- liberative vote. that will be barely work- able. If the Government can command six of ten seats in each of two States it will have a majority of four, which would be much more comfortable.

The second State to which it looks for success is Tasmania, where Labor has been in office for 17 years and the State gen- eral election of May, 1950, showed it had lost a little ground.

EDITORIAL NOI ES

Nomination Day-the field is made up today and it will be a hard dash to the fin- ish line even without a muddy course.

0 D O The meter situation seems to be that the City is marking time before metering time.

9 Gibraltar was ceded to England this date 1713 by the Treaty of Utrecht, hav- ing been captured from Spain by Sir George Rookc on July -1, 1704.

O 0 I It is too warm for skating "or sledding; the water too cold for swimming; the ground too soft for baseball or golf; and most of us are too old for marbles.

1' HE GUARDIAN.

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This column is open to the discussion by correspondents of questions of Interest. The Guardian does not necessar- tiy endorse the opinion of correspondents.

COLUMN APPRECIATE!)

Sir,-one of the best features in your publication since "Agricola" passed away is "Hunter's Corner". and he is "d- good."

Tell him it was a mistake to domicile pheasants on the Island, and the quicker they can be elim- inated the better for the part- ridge. His column is better than any similar one in sporting maga- zines.

Wishing your paper more of the SIIIIC.

I am, Sir. etc.

M. MIICFARLANE, D.D.S. Boston, April 6, 1951

INQUIIIY FROM AUSTRALIA

Sir. - Having been an enthu- siastic reader of L. M. Montgom- ery's stories during my girlhood days, I became greatly attached to your little Island. vowing some day that I would visit it. However that is impossible, for the present, at least.

I would be grateful then if some one in the same position as my- self would correspond with me. I am a young married woman, with three small children. two boys and a girl. I am very fond of reading,

CH ARLOTTETOWN -

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MAIL COACH PETITION

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Uncle Sun's economic stablilser warns about undue complacency in the U. 8. It's hard to imagine that with income tax returns just filed.--London Free Press.

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Every day. a few more proper- ties are vacated. and thus move from controlled rents to uncontrol- led ones. These uncontrolled pro- perties are the only ones available to new workers; thus. it has be- come axiomatic that new workers coming into Ontario must pay for higher rents than the workers al- ready established, whose homes are under control. This is one of the factors that tend to dis- courage the mlgration we badly need.-Toronto Globe and Mail.

itlonhnsh Blackfeet Indians are resentful of alleged encroach- ment on their domain by cattle and sheep ranchers; and they're on the wanpsth..The chairman of the Black-feet tribal council re- cently told a reporter: ”The In- dlan bureau is fooling some eattlemen and sbeepmen by tell- lng them that the Blackfeet ” has t c' to grazing permits when in fact. the council has adopted sevenl resolutions, all by unanimous vote, withhold-

ing consent." Shades of Custer and Sitting Bull! But who wouldnit agree that resolutions

may be a better way of deciding

APRIL 12, 1951 "

I Notes By The Way I .3;

which the law says I mam ls'n( longer a minor? Where does the municipality draw its power to set the age limits? Can a muni- cipality. by the same token, rule that persons under 33 years of age will not be permitted to play pinball machines? Or that all men over 21 years of age must wear blue ties?-Sudbury Star.

Damon Runyon taught us um; American gangsters have weird and wonderful names. But once again nature has transcended art. Two men alleged to be among the biggest American rscketeers are called Joe Adonis and Albert Anastasia. These are underworld names with a difference. Not even Humphrey Bogart could any with conviction: "I'll get you, Adonis!" -however spt. a remark it might have been for the Goddess Venus. No serious minded ,ollcemsn would set his jaw if he hdsrd the message: "Calling Car 99. Pick up Anastasia." Even now some- where the lato Mr. "Pretty Boy" Floyd may be remarking to the late Mr. "Legs" Diamond (there was the real thing): "Where are the names of yesteryear?"-News Chronicle. London.

In his baby budget opooc last September Mr. Abbott ai , "I have proposed no increases in the: personal i tax because I realize the cost of living has gone

even on the ice itself. gmmng and W.-mm leg; I so jg "Petitions. m"""0u51l' signed. it than the fomshawk the arrow up about three and a half 'per A ref-ereevs job is not a happy one, but ' ' ' I leave it up to mmge ,o,,f,i: house, have. we understand. been pre- HDGRIM and the old flintlock.'-Lethbridgc cent during the past 12 months The upreparedness budgetn was if any. wue to decide. " me would be wing sented to the Government from Grass is tougher than steel. Herald. and there can be no absolute as.

such unauthorized Participation by SP6C- the inhabitants of the nourishing surance that there may nor be

ing to write to me.

game for the many.

tators makes it almost impossible. It takes it strong hand to keep frayed tempers in check. The hockey-going public. wherever a game is played. has an obligation and that is to refrain from unlicensed acts. Ad- mission to a game doesn't entitle a few spectators to abuse a privilege and spoil the

Man on The Spot

llherc was a time when an admiral could fight a sea battle or a general a land battle without being unduly hampered by detailed instructions from his distant su- pcriors. llc received orders to seek out the enemy and destroy him but was gen- erally left to make his own estimate of the immediate situation and to make his own tactical decisions.

That day has passed. With modern communications it is possible and seemingly irresistible to conduct operations from the seat of government. What must be borne in mind is that the process requires a two- way flow of communication. To make military decisions at a distance without at- tending closely to the factors reported on from the front is truly to put the local commander on the spot.

General MacArthur's statements have met with more abuse than understanding but his call for reinforcements seems to have been simply ignored. l-le must be truly thankful to he no longer "on the mat."

The Australian Election

if it is any consolation, we are not the only part of the world in the throes of a political campaign. Australia is having a general election on April 28. The result, according to an exchange, will depend upon which the electors adjudge to be the more urgent mailer-the suppression of the Com- munist party or effective measures to re- store the purchasing power of the Austral- ian pound. .

The Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies. will insist that Communists are preventing (1) the restoration of peace in industry and consequently increased production, by com- mon consent. an indispensable contribution to u stablcr economy and (2) adequate pre- l)al'lill0llS for national defence. Labor will insist that the issue for the people is whether the Government has redeemed its promise in 1949 to "put. value back into the pound.”

At the double dissolution the state of parties was in the Senate: Labor party 34, Liberal and Country parties 26; and in the House of Representatives: Liberal and Country parties 74, Labor 47. The Aus- traiian Capital Territory seat was held by an'Indcpendent and the Northern Territory seat by Labor. Labor must thus win 15 seats in the House and lose none of those it now holds to bring its strength to 62 in a chamber of 121 members with full voting rights and so give it a majority of two.

Should the Government command even a moderate increase in public favor, at least seven Labor seats will be in danger. There are 15 seats Labor could win with an in- crease in its 1949 vote of from one to four per cent only.

In this election, however, party anxieties are centred even more upon the Senate than the House. A decisive majority in the House will be useless if there is a deadlock in the Senate, which Is possible. To obtain six of ten Senate seats in any State under the proportional representation system now operative the victorious party must poll in little over 54 per cent of the aggregate vote.

Iftheaovernmentcanwinsixofthc ten Senate seats in and five in

thing less burdensome than generally ex- pected. Higher taxes are never welcome but a ihousandfoid to be preferred to unreadiness in time of danger. O O O

Alberton is proclaiming the first week in May to be ttClean Up Week", an excel- lent move which, however, does not in- dicate agreement with the general view

that everything is a month ahead this year. I O 0

One of the firm's directors announces that after getting its fingers burned build- ing arms for two wars Krupps has learned its lesson and will stick to production for peace. If Krupps can learn there is yet hope for the world.

This date 1945 American troops and the free world were stunned by the sud- den death of President Franklin D. Roose- velt-twenty-four days before Victory. On May 7 the High Command tendered their

day.

The remarkable job of scientific detect- ion in connection with cheque signatures and a cheque writing machine here shows fine cooperation between city police and the R. C. M. P. The nation-wide facilities of the latter could hardly be duplicated by a local organization at any price, much less at anything like their modest cost to this Province.

0 Mr. Winston Churchill is slated to ad- dress the University of Pennsylvania on the 8th of next month, and will thereafter proceed to Washington to call upon Pres- ident Tnlman. The President's reaction: ”Of course I wouldn't think of having Mr. Churchill visit the United States without seeing him, anymore than I would think of visiting England without visiting Mr. Churchill."

What austerity means to the hereditary ruling class in England. The Earl of Nel- son has sent to an auction at number of 'mementos of his ancestor Horatio Nelson, to raise money to pay succession duties. He announced he had been obliged to dis- pose of houses and other property because of the weight of death duties. In 1946 the government decided to discontinue the 5,000 annuity, granted to Nelson descend- ants "in perpetuity." on the death of the fifth earl. The fifth earl died Jan. 30. O I 0 They are all doing it-advertising in newspapers! The Ontario Law Society has retained the Kim Advertising Ltd., Toronto, to place in Ontario newspapers a series of advertisements aimed at acquainting the public (just as, Trust Companies do) with the services members of the legal profession are qualified to undertake. The series is scheduled to run for one year. Consensus has it that appearance of this information programme will stimulate similar campaigns on behalf of medical. dental, engineering" and chartered accountants' societies. I I 0 "Our 1952 lqnodei changes will be the most drastic in company history and cars

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Benson Ford, vice-president .in charge of Ford Motor Company's Lincoln-Mercury division. "Nobody has told us yet we can't go ahead." "General Motors Corporation is going ahead with planning for its 1952 models," says Charles Chayne, vice-pres- ldent in charge of engineering for G.M. "As long as our tooling does not conflict with the defense programme there is no reason for suspending the work. Many tools and dies already have been finished- for next year's models. Nothing would be

each of the other five States. it will have as

will be new from bumper to bumper," says'

I am, Sir, etc., MARY MCLEAN.

Mrs. W. McLean.

No. 1 Laidlaw BL,

Ararat, Victoria,

Australia.

POTATO PRICES Sir.-Potato growers. who did not sell their spuds on advice then givengin the late fall and early winter months, are about to benefit from their discretion. as against their contempararies who did. in good faiih, in order to re-

lieve the conjcstion facing the industry at the time. Many of these potatoes were sold out-

right as low as 24 cents I bushel, but the vendor was urged to hold his sales receipts. as he might be entitled to a bonus later in the season. It is in order now, that his sacrifice in a common cause at that time be remembered and his interests protected in any past season bonus that may be offered.

It. appears from a series of an- nounccments recently made. that

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surrender to Eisenhower and it was ac- 533:5; ,3, ssfmg ”;,g,,,::; 3;; cepted by the Allied powers the following about to become fortunate on p their gamble. They are appar-

ently in for a good price. The starch factories are offering 22 cents a bushel. The Provincial Government is offering an addi- tional 22 cents. The Potato Mark- eting Board is offering a further 22 cents per bushel (on starch factory receipts), and on top of that total of 66 cents per bushel the Federal Department is assur- ing a still further bonus, the amount yet to be de- tenmlned. and announced. Grow- crs or officials of course do not know what it will be, or who will qualify-to participate, but in view of the 65 million dollar generosity given to Western wheat growers, Island potato growers are justi- fied in anticipating something better than a mere token pay- ment. To summarize and arrive at a fair price, based on present promises, our i950 potato crop should bring the grower from 80 to 85 cents per bushel and that will not be bad, taking everything into consideration.

I am Sir. et.c.,

OPIIMIST.

Charlottetown.

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The Age-old Story

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I know that. vv .... God doeth. it shall be for ever; noth- lng can be put to it. nor any tak- en from it: and God docth it. than men should fear before Him. That: which hath been is now. and that which is in he hath already been: and God requlrcih that which is past.

MAIN INDUSI'll.Y

Forest products account for 35 per cent of the total export trade of Finland.

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Trade Of Canada

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Rising prices continue to cause grave concern. according to the current issue of The Canadian Bank of Commerce Monthly Com- merciai Letter. The steady advance of wholesale prices in Canada, par- ticularly of raw and semi-mamu factured goods. is beinil influenced increasingly by shortages. Ifor many classes of goods, allocation schemes and the effect of official operations should be noted. While there is some hope that certain raw material prices may be controlled at the international level, there is still no relief in sight from the ef- fects of rising raw material costs.

The Banks index of industrial ac- tivity rose three points in February to 175 (1937 equals 100'- It ma? '35 of interest to note that this index measures factors other than the unit or dollar volume of production. In the short run, therefore, its movements may not parallel that of the official index of industrial pro- duction. .

For Canada a return to freer trade conditions is a national ob- jective of major importance. Can- ada now stands third among the trading nations of the world. The United States and the United King- dom rank first and second. These three countries make up the "At- lantic Triangle" which accounts for 40 per cent of the world's merch- andise exports.

In the past. Canada's favourable balance of trade with the United Kingdom could be applied against the debit balance with the United States through the free convertib- ility of Sterling. The crushing bur- dens of World War II and the yenrs following forced the United King- dom,.except. for one short-iivcd period. to abandon this free con- vertibility.

Marshall aid. United Ki I by 9 'ul ef- forts to increase Cmo.da's exports to the United States and Latin America. all seemed, in the short run, to solve the problem posed by the inconvertibility of sterling. But. over the longer period, only ex- panding. multilateral trade con ef- fect a permanent cure.

In the foreign exchange picture, within ten years our dollar has been devalued, revalued and devalued again. This was partly the cause. and partly the effect of widespread

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settlements of somerset and Mid- semi-weekly communication may be establish- lmfi Here where I swing the scythe summer-side by WHY 0' Nldemms And call the hidden clover.

Road--their present mail facilities E3,-ch asks (he season; mhe

covered , carriage for the accommodation of; Hm” m”5'C Old End Strande- once placed on- th t said team 3 Mjddlelmmg The question vary only.

through Central and North Be- ..'rhc Islander. March 5. 1869.

The road outruns the wheel,

The soil outwears the spade. i'rhe tank outllves the trade.

And the threat of sumacs hover.

' hi ih tlm .a dnot in! l:1cf:bri:ixeancned with theeswarxills of thei E5Ylh'S beI1HlY I have found inhabitants) It is proposed that

Twice beautiful for change, i And my ear upon the ground

lLife's answers are the same,

Man writes an ancient name But men are new and lonely.

what little I have learned Has added to my lack, For the road has always turned And never once led back. -A. M. Sullivan.

disruption in our foreign trade and of changes in the level of our gold and U.S. dollar reserves. Finally, at the end of September last year, the Canadian dollar was set free to find its own level.

In the recent past, Canada's trade pattern has altered. The volume of Vtrade. both ways, with the United ;Klngdom and other countries in the Sterling group has diminished. while both imports from and ex- .ports to the United states have in- 'creased greatly.

This pattern of Canada's trade :seems likely to continue - at least tin the short run. Cuutinuance of ithis trend. however, would present many difficulties. While the econ. romies of Canada and the United Istatcs are more or less comple- Wnentary. many of our exportnble 'surpluses find no ready market in the United States. It seems, there- ,fore, in Canada's interest to seek more diversified markets. But this can only be achieved by a freer world movement of goods and by a

"Baby Face" adults in Sudbury are going to be most embarrass- ed by city council's latest edict that anyone "presumed to bet un- der I8 years" will not be allow- ed to play pinball machines. Council's amendment to an ex- isting bylaw might not survive the first round if it was chal- lenged in the courts on the ques- lion of establishing age limit- ations and the "presumption" of age. Will the police be permitted to haul young men to jail and through the courts on the pre- sumption that their victims are under I6 years of age? Must young men carry their birth cer- tificaies with them at all times? 15 the council acting within its jurisdiction in placing the onus on storekee-pers to challenge the age of all pinball players? Why was the age limit set at l8 years?

some further increase in prices. Moreover, I wish to avoid in- creasing any taxes that will in any way discourage production, efficiency and output." Canadians will be interested to see if Mr. Abbott still holds this philosophy in the coming budget. During the 12 months preceding the baby bud- get, the cost of living index had risen 7.5 points. During the six months that have passed since the baby budget. the cost of liv- ing has advanced 6.4 points. in other words, the rate of IIICTQIIP has just about doubled and shows no sign of slackening.-Winnipeg Tribune.

HISTORIC COIDNY

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