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THE GUARDlAN

Authorized lli Second Class Mail Post Office Department, Ottawa. The Island Guardian nubliahlng Co.

President and Associate Editor. lan-A. Burnett. Associate Editor. Frank Walker.

CIRCULATION "Covers Prince Edward island like the dew”

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

cHX'k'C(Tr'Fi-:"r'6ii'b-. Moxnar. MAR. 3575;;

A Federal -Obligation

are the higher costs of repairing damagedi cars. This is illustrated in so common and simple a thing as repairing a smashed fender, which costs three times as mucl: as it did in 1939.

While insurance rates have gone up since 1939, they have scarcely kept pace with rising costs. The average cost to the insurance company per claim has in the last five years alone jumped from M34 to d166. Last year the margin of profit cal- culated by the auto insurance companies in Canada turned out to be at A6 million loss. ”Since a furtheriupward revision of insurance rates seems justified," says the Gazette, "it becomes highly important that the burden should be eased as far as pos-

Hard-pressed municipalities will find a,sib1e in the case of the driver who had

zleam of hope in Finance Minister Abbott's

proved his regard for safety. The insur-

sdmission in the House of Commons Olhance Companies of Canada have an-eadt.

Friday that the tax allocation formula may stand in need of revision. The question was raised by Mr. Gordon Graydon, who claim- -d that there is not very much justifica- tion now for the Federal Government not paying taxes in a municipality ”the same as anyone else." Municipalities had to pay excise taxes on what they bought, yet the Federal Government was not contributing .ts share of municipal taxes. The munici- Jalities, he emphasized, have a tremendous oad to carry, "and some cannot bear it."

The Finance Minister replied that the present; formula for federal payments to municipalities in lieu of tax on govern- ment property appears ”reasonably fair." However, he conceded that it might be due for review. It provides for payments to municipalities where federal property makes up more than four per cent of the assessment roll. This formula, adopted in 1950, set a precedent in thatlno attempt had previously been made by Ottawa to compensate municipalities for untaxable property.

While giving due credit to Mr. Abbott for this innovation, members do well to point out that it is still far short of being fair and acceptable to a large number of municipalities where the extent of Federal property falls under the four per cent as- sessment roll ruling. Revision of the pre- sent system is certainly in order, and it is to be hoped the Minister will give further consideration to it without delay.

Life And Times Of Atlantic Fish

The young of many of our salt water fish constitute part of the plankton on which larger fish, including whales, live. To learn as much as possible about the habits of fish it is essential to study the plankton and the National Geographic Society and the Marine Laboratory of the University of Miami, as well as other American and Canadian researchers are engaged in such research. They are conducting a long range investigation into the lives of pelagic (ocean-going) fishes; both those pursued by sportsmen and those of interest to com-

tried to avoid the blanket' rate by setting insurance rates according to districts, there- by taking into consideration the regional accident risk. Furthermore, Canada is one

automobile rates are reviewed annually.

”The new provision of allowing a prefer- ential rate to safe drivers carries the same principle further. At present the prefer- ence will be confined to particular classifi- cations of insurance. But it may be hoped that the principle may be carried still further in the future, so that the incentive for safe driving may be increased and in- surance rates themselves may be subject to fewer upward pressures than prevail at the present time."

El-D-ITORIALTNTOTES

Cattle ranching is reported to be be- coming popular in the South Sea Islands, from Tahiti to New Guinea. Future tour- ists are indeed in for a shock when they hear the equivalent of ”yipee-hi-yi” in Polynesian or something similar.

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Eggs are now "off the ration" in Brit- ain for the first time in twelve years. There must be general rejoicing in the Old Country despite the fact that rationing still applies to meat, bacon, sugar, butter, cheese, margarine and cooking fats.

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More than conservationists will be glad that Sherwood Forest, Nottingham-home of Robin Hood-is being replaced. The great oak trees and elms of the forest were slowly disappearing but are now being re- placed. The world would have been the poorer had the greemvood haunts of the outlaw band been permitted to vanish.

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, Canada is now the fourth greatest in- dustrial power in the world, notes a form- er British Labour Minister. Canadians sometimes need to be reminded of that fact also. The United States took far too long to realize its position and responsibilities in the world. It is to be hoped that the

mercial fishermen.

Working with fine silk nets in the Gulf Stream and off the coast of Florida these scientists have added immensely to man- kind's knowledge of the tiny planktonic life with which the sea abounds and on which all animal life in the sea depends. ,The young of the fish in which we are interest-

same fault will not be laid to Canada's i door. I Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter, was born one hundred years ago today. Many of his paintings have been frequently repro- duced and are widely familiar. Their bril- liant light, their sometimes ecstatic, some-

ed are presumably to be found in the plankton but their life histories are al- most completely unknown. -

An immense amount of work will be re- quired merely to identify the larvae. It is this study, of deep-water ocean fish from

times pathetic gravity, enthuse amateurs as well as connoisseurs. At the time of his death, by suicide, only one of his paint- i ings -had been sold.

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E The 50 m.p.h. speed limit, 30 m.p.h.

ghekegfh it0,th9 tabl1P.m' tr; j:p:1'tSm;:s,xx'hen meeting another .vehicle at night, 00 ' a '3 mw wing un 91 a en' V I may be irksome to some drivers and is a

V - i - v - -l . . . eral Caribbean gm einrnents are co operat Every rough guage mdeed of careful dnvmg.

ing to supply the Society and University-

with additional plankton samples.

For Safer Driving

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l-jmphasizing the alarming increase in motor accidents in Canada in recent years, the Montreal Gazette points out that from 40,000 in 1939 they now amount. to 200,- 000. in an average year 30,000 Canadians are injured in traffic accidents, and 2,700 are killed. It is estimated that one person M killed in Canada'in an auto accident ev- my four hours, while one is injured every 15 minutes. A fender is smashed every two The claims paid out by Canadian puto insurers during the past year amount- to 565 million. This is about the same to the cost of Canada's participation in the two, years of the Korean War. .

This does not merely mean that more cars are now insured than before, with the result that the total is larger. It means

, Also that the cost of each accident claim is

higher. For example, the cost of medical care-has increased x165 per cent since 1939.

-Similarly. the costs of reimbursing Cana-

idmnyfor lfloat time" due to accidents have The average Canadian wage today per cent higher than it was e' The courts, in giving judg-

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At the same time it has been demonstrat- ed that such limits have a most beneficial effect on highway safety. Reckless drivers who happen to be operating within the maximum limit can still be dealt with as at

present.

There is little popular interest in the law of inheritance; in procedure in the courts; or in the Sale of Goods Act. It would be almost impossible to get the pub- lie to attend meetings to discuss amend- ments in the law on these important. mat- ters. That does not relieve the Legislature of the responsibility for keeping the law as just and reasonable as possible. Nor does popular indifference make it right to ignore objectionable features of the Elec- tion Act.

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Like other seasons.of the year spring- time has its hazards which very often lead to accidents. Children's eye accidents oc- cur more frequently at this time. Playthings such as bows and arrows, air rifles, sling shots. bean shooters are in common use by children. If these playthings were pro- perly handled painful and permanent in- juries would not be endured. The fllel , ' Canadian National Institute for the 13 contain grim stories of eyes being lost . total darkness brought to many who began by enjoying seemingly harmless sport with

these weapons.

of the few countries of the world where

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This column is open to the discussion by correspondent: of question: of interest. The Guardian does not necessar- lly endorse the opinion of correspondents.

OOUN. JOHNSTONE REPLIES

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The Age-lllii Story

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And Samuel said, Both the Lord no great delight in burnt offering! and sacrifices, an in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

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ACCIDENT IN AET

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sir,-Kindly allow me appace in your Public Forum to comment on a letter which appeared in Satur- day's Guardian and was signed ”Unf0runate Taxpayer."

The writer of this letter says, "The City Council took good care not to hold their meeting and in- crease this tax percentage rate un- til after the Appeal Board oon-

The Atom Keeps Time (New lfork-Times) 5-51..

The other day the Washington Academy of Sciences awarded a prize to Dr. Harold Lyons of the National Bureau of Standards be- cause hc had invented a. clock which will neither lose nor gain

eluded." I would like. to explain to

total assessed value of property. Therefore the

peal Board has functioned.

"Um fortunate Taxpayer" that the rate of taxation is dependent. upon the

all city rate can be calculated only after the Ap- The City is not allowed to budget for a

deficit. 'Unfoi-tunato 'I'a)apayer' also says: "For the City Council to

think that the taxpayers can pay

more than a second in ten billion seconds and which is unaffected by changes in temperature and presure or by aging. Dr. Lyons' clock is a thirty-foot copper -tube filled with ammonia. gas. with its aid the accuracy of astronom- ical observations, long-r: ige nav- igation and communication sys- tems, surveying, map making and radio tuning will be increased.

For generations the rotating earth has been the world's stand- ard clook. When the astronomers

A'sudden at the sound of such or Strange verses Written he knows not how, but Like trumpets down Itself unmaaks the likeness of In- And evt1:iit'in blind chmces darken

Accomplished his despair? - one touch revealing

All he had put of life, thought, vigor, feeling,

Into the canvas that without that touch

showed of his love and labor just so much

Raw pigment, scarce a scrap of soul concealing!

What. poet has not found his spirit kneeling

such staring from his manuscript,

which will sound the years?

So Accident

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all the expenditures of the city is

source: of revenue." 1 am sure that all

we are at'-present overlooking.

1954.

on someone.

Under the present burden falls mainly on the owns of real estate. The Council fel that some of the anticipated in

own real estate Apparently 'Un fortunate Taxpa er' agrees the members of the Legislatur who do not favour placing

real estate.

be devised. whereby, the full bur den of the next. increase fall entirely on the property own era.

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'Unfortunate Taxpayer' o

for every councillor when I say h will be most welcome and any aug

receive full consideration from th Council. I am. Sir r-tr.

GOOD OLD TIMES

in. mistaken idea. There are other citizens as well as the Council will be forever grateful to him if he will tell us about any source of revenue which

It is painfully evident that much more revenue will be required in

More revenue means higher taxes

system the

crease in 1954 could be borne by car owners, many of whom do not

with any burden on car owners in order to lesson the load on the owners of

Therefore the Council is hfiidlilf! a special meeting Tuesday. March 31st at 7 pm. to discuss taxation in the hope that some system can

will not.

any other taxpayer is interested in his own liustneu he should attend this meeting and I am sure Ispeak

xeatlons he may care to offer will

UNFORTUNATE CHAIRMAN OF FINANCES

Sir,-Quite interesttiig to read

consulted old tables they found the earth was slowing down because of the braking action of tides in shallow seas. other causes also contributed to the mounting error. In the early Eighteen Seventies the clay was shorter than average by a few thousandths of a second: about 1900 it got a little longer; in 1920 it began to shorten. On the whole, the d-ay is lengthening about 0.001 second in a. century. This may seem a negligible error to most of humanity. An astronomer is as disturbed by it as much as we are when we discover that our watohcs gain or lose a minute or two in a week. When the astronomer cal- culates tne time 7 total eclipse ' of the sun twenty centuries ago he has to make a corr-:ct.ion of several hours.

Just. why is ammonia a better time-keeper than the earth? All atoms in molecules vibrate, and their vibrations appear as lines in the molecular spectrum. Each line indicates a specific frequency of vibration, just as a tuning fork emits a note of ii. particular pitch. - It is possible to measure these a.- tomuc vibrations with precision. - Here in a clock'ao much more ac- curate than the slightly erratic r earth that henceforth much time- keeping troulble will be avoided. It looks very much as if the very high frequenccs used in radar," televi- C slon relays and microwave equip- - mom. will be controlled by vibra-

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,3 boon to broadcasting comtmiea. for it will be possible to establish radio

can be made as automatic as the

dialing of a telephone number.

I is known by the name of Billie Graham. Quite recently. in con- versation with Dr. Donnell of Fifth

ting atoms. This ought to be a.

The shrine-lamp of God's purpos- lng is found.

-Richard liovey. Churchill's Tribute

Following is the text of Prime Minister Churchill's broadcast to the Commonwealth on the death of Queen Mary:

I have been. my fx-lamb. ukod f.0say just a few words upon the sad event. which fills our thoughts this evening. Men and women of all ages, in all the lands owing allegiance to the Crown, have aor- rowing hearts tonight. Queen Mary was loved and revered for and wide, as perhaps nobody has been since Queen Victoria.

During six reigns, for longer, that is, than most people can re- memlber. she has moved among us with the poise and the dignity which, as age drew on. made her

Thoy have I way with word: in Bglfhlo. A while ago we came actual a book street with I also describing it u "Certified Unex- Dedlem to Repair." and now we discover that it is the Division of Environmental Sanitation which is inveatiga-ting the mass death of fish in Lake Erie. - Hamilton Spectator.

Here in yvinnilllu member: of the City Coun II have so far made no move to p ocure special robes of office. If they do. it is to be hoped that they will not follow the

tern in which all alderman have to wear the same kind of outfit. win- nines alderman should hold out for individually designed robes to match their moods. peraonalties and achievements.-vWinn14P88 Tri- bune.

According to Dan Kennedy. on Assfnbolne Indian ch-icf born in the Cypress Hills before the treaty was made with the tribe by which they took up residence on the A5- suuboine reserve, the Indians save the name "Moose Jaw" ton place on the creek. because of a bend in its course shaped like a. moose: jaw. Mr. Kennedy saw the hamlet of Moose Jew in 1&3. a year after it had been founded by the party of five from Winnipeg who sought to locate where the railway would make I divisional point. - Moose Jaw Times-Herald.

There coon ondlou poulbllitloe of humor in the story from Mark- fleid. England, about

going -- 'ully. There

hunting.-Victoria Times.

I! the ration shade of Erwin

Rommel ever glances at the news, it must be chuckling at what has come to pass in Egypt. Rommel, as commander of the German armies in Africa, strove mightily and re- sourcefully to win Egypt for the Nazis, but was outmanoeuvred and outfought by Alexander of Tunis and Montgomery of Alameln, and went; home to take part in misad- ventures whlch ended in his death. But now the Germans are moving quietly into Egypt as

in;

-Vancouver Province.

and held her so high in their af-

factions.

Queen Mary will long live mel- low and gracious in all our mem- oniea, and in the annals of these

i .INote.S By The

MARCI1, 30. 1953

Wayl.

Why there should be New Cana- dianx. or '5 (which is an on. ioctlonable and outworn tag) my more than well-placed Persona, we dont know. A man is a camdm, not by virtue of some tickct- from Ottawa. or because of his accent or lock or one, but by the way he acts and lives. and most. of all b,. what. he contributes to the nation --Hamilton Spectator. i

it in difficult to Imagine . ,,,,,

son of 21 years of age being unable to read or write in this present age

but such a case was revealed when an uneducated man was involved in a murder charge in Kitchener,

If it had been a backwoods com.

munlty with no school facum.-5 this lack of education might be" more readily understood. we cam, help wondering where the uuam officer was when this man was be. tween the ages of six and is! . Brockville Recorder and Times,

A ' PBIIM. liven in change by a

London bus conductor, split edge. win as the paaaenge was about to put it into her purse. An um. cial at the Royal Mint slid 'lam that process a small bubble of air must. have been imprisoned in the cost. This had developed into a blister and, with handling in the coup” of circulation. it had split the coin in two. The win, the official adddd. was worth sfiopence to

-London Times Weekly.

durlnl the manufacturing

the Mint.

let the infant. Macaulay mow,

over and the infant Mozart hush

tho: hunte- inon searching throuzh one of Britain's heaviest fogs for I. mino- lng pack of bounds. There will be conventional quip: about the aris- tocracy going to the dogs - and will be others about the pack mined in the mist. There may even be suggestions that dogs be used to hunt hunters hunting dogs. But to some Canadians who have never appreciated the significance of rid- mg to hounds, there will be an ele- ment. of some in the report from Markfleld. At least on that occa- sion the hunters were actually

up. Another three-year-aid wan. to do some quiet reading. Actually. Lance Kerr of Ion Angolea is four now, but he learned to read and write when he was three. The other day he walked into the b- lic ii-brn.ry..a.sked for I cud. read several passages aloud to prove he could PO34 got the card, sigma his name, and walked out coolly with six volumes under his arm. His father has an explanation for it: Television reception in poor in the area where the family lives, and the boy wanted a substitute

form of entertainment. simple, isn't. it? - Christian Science Monitor.

Old Charlottetown an r. 3. I. )

ILL-FATED PASSAGE

"On Friday. the 14th uIt., I. boat

which left Cope st. Lawrence, in the Island of Cape Brown. with

the British move out. The Germans are com- ln as industrialists, as finan- ciers, as merchants, as transporta- tion experts and as administrators.

about 12 or 14 persons on board. mostly women and children, bound for Prince Edward Island, was blown off to sea. and after undu- golng great doprtvaliionc, having no provisions on board except one oaten cake, she got into Cow Boy. in the former island. on the Tua- day following. One man and turn of the children had died, chiefly from want of water - the otheil. though in a very exhausted state. were recovering."

tumultuous times. We pray that she may now real; .in peace.

-Royal Gazette. July l6. 1833

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a figure of almost: ' y "dia- tinctlon. How few of you listen- ing to me tonight can recall a time without Queen Mary. and even those who never saw her will feel a deep and sincere pan; at the passing of this last. great link with Queen Victoria's reign.

when uh. was born, Napoleon the Third ruled in France and Palmerston had only recently ceased to bo Pnimo Minister of this country. Railways were com- paratively new; electric light and the internal oombuotion engine were unknown. She knew Glad- stone and Disraeli; her grand- father was the son of George the

channels so exactly that tuning Tm”

Yet she lived into this atomic age, through the two fearful wan which cast. almost. all the throne: of Europe to the ground but also transformed the world. The cl-mm which scientific invention and so-

in the "Old Charlottetown" column about the 96 Roman Catholic tee- totalerl, men, women and boys, who marched from Moi-ell to st. Andrew's to be received by their parish priest. who had another it ready to take the pledge. It

York. he

Graham commitment."

About 20 year: after that, the Order of the son: of Temperance we: started in the Province. ac- complishing -much good. It pro- vided oociai benefits for the young and gave training in public speak- ing as well u in the business of Inch societies. It has a. happy we in the writer when he was- uoh Ito the membership of Union” b 45. All who filled the schooiilntaio on that evening of Nov 100'! are now beneath the oodfrbooe "divisions" although meant for monl better-

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granted me Civil Service.

radon Civil servants fonmtlon

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evangelist '1 the states M10

1 am. Sir, etc, AROH. Mac.Kl-INZIE

Ave.' Presbyterian Church, New was asked-What does the Protestant Church stand most in need of at the present time? Dr. replied - ”Commit:ment,

iiiifdof .t.'.:l”.l.';ii.3l.:”:? iiamwiii Kem'mst3n- P.- 3- 1- seven mileo, on the 30th of March. "T" 1842, or on any date. oyuvnml

sir,-In I recent issue of your paper I noticed in your Editorial Notes a reference to overtime my the Federal

Might I uh who has received this overtime grant? In Ohar- lottetown than no two organiza- tions of civil urvanta, I under- stand-: branch of the Civil Berv-. ahd. on Auloulvunl

Alooofnlvion. Pol

Ilbly either oould simply the in- ' 1, am. air, on. UN

come on adult oo-education college.

clal change have brought between 1867 and 1953 is so wide that it re- qulru not only com-an but mental rcsilence for thdoo whose youth lay n calmer and .moro slowly moving times. in order that they

a may adjust themoolvel to tho giant

outlines and harsh structure of the Both century.

But. Queen Mary did not cling to the insubstantial lhadowo of what had been. am moved tlmrouq;l1i the chonclu cocoa. New ideas old no ten-on for her. Din- puoionoto in Jumnoot practical in nilohince. aha wuabofertoo muoh interacted in the mount to be unduly prejudiced in the put.

she died in the knowledge that the Crown of then mime worn by her hunand and

with Manna: 0,219.11! hood of hot gmnaogugh , or more Imm- ly and securely booed on the poo- plo'n love and the nation's will then in the sedan den 11 her youth, when nut and privilege ruled cool

that and notable part

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