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THE GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTIETOWN

_ FEBRUARY 1. 1950

THEIGUARDIIIAN

Inning Dally (Founded ll llllﬂ) Authorised ll Second Olson llull. Post Dillon Department, Ottawa.

‘Ihl lIIlIll‘ Ounrdlu Publishing 0o. Idltor and Managing D. , J. B. Ilurnoﬂ. Asnooinh Editor, Frank Wlllulr.

"Tho Strongest Memory i: Weaker Than tho Weakest ink"

CHARLOTTETOWN, TUESDAY, FEB. ‘I, 1950

Tourists Ami lilstorlo Sites

A plea that historic sites should be pre- served and reconstructed as part of Canada’s heritage, and as a tourist attraction, has been made by Mrs. Stuart Cork, chairman of the Canadian Tourist Associations com- mittee for preservation of historical sites. She expressed the fear of their being left to vanish while historians argue their authenticity. The action called for by Mrs. Cork is, indeed, urgently required but the reason given is not the most important one for preserving the relics of our country's giast. Historic sites may lend interest to a tourists visit to any locality, but should mean far more to the people who live there and whose ancestors actually took part in the drama which is commemorated. To the visitor, such mementoes will ordinarily have no personal associations such as they will for the native, who should, therefore, be at pains t0 sec that important relics are trans- mitted to his posterity, at least as well pre- served as when received by him.

When Parliament Meets

The chief items of business at the forth- coming session of Parliament, opening on Feb. 16, are the budget and the estimates, neither of which will likely be of a sensa- tional nature. The main carryover from the autumn session is Defence Minister Clax- ton’: military bill to consolidate the la\vs governing all three defense forces, which ex- cept for its financial clauses has already passed the Senate.

Despite its top-heavy majority of 190 Liberals against 72 others, the Government last session was on the defensive in con- nection with the McGrcgor report under the Combines Investigation Act, and also on rent controls. This session the Opposi- tion’s attack may be shifted to the Govern- menfs trade policies, and to farm prices. Agriculture Minister Gardiner will be un- der fire on both counts.

Early in the session, all political eyes in Canada will be upon the British election, with the voting day set for Feb. 23. But economic developments in the United States will also be followed closely. If the Ameri- can upturn continues and the U. S. is in a position to take more and more Canadian exports, then the damage to Canadian trade caused by the dollar crisis in the sterling area will be eased. ,

One feature of the national accounting is becoming more and more marked. Less than 25 per cent of expenditure has be- come controllable in practical fact. De- fense and social security expenditures are theoretically controllable, but no party is likely to advocate cutting them down.

Winter Employment

Unemployment is now at its seasonal peak in Prince Edward Island, as in other Provinces, and the National Employment Office in Charlottetown is endeavouring to do something about it.

An employment office cannot create em- ployment, but it can suggest ways and means whereby a seasonal situation can be relieved. At the present time, the local office has a large number of men registered for employment including carpenters, paint- ers, interior decorators, and other trades- men, and a large number of labourers. These men are available now, but their ser- vices will be very difficult to obtain in April, May and throughout the summer months.

It is pointed out by the National Em- ployment Office officials that some alter- ations or repair jobs which must be done In the coming year, could very easily be done during the months of February or March. There are many householders also who plan to do interior decorating, and this type of work could likewise be done before the advent ofSpring.

Two months hence, there will be com- petition for the skilled men who are now out of work. Perhaps not in a great many years has so. much construction work been in prospect for one year in the business pection, as is contemplated for Charlotte- oown in 1950. Undoubtedly, the building program will absorb all the construction tradesmen in and about the city, and this without taking into consideration the con- siderable number of private dwellings, which will be erected. 'I‘herefore, the wise merchant, landlord or home owner who has essential work to be done, would be well advised to have it done now when men are available for all his needs.

The National Employment Office can fill ‘Fn-“ﬂgﬂy my order now from it's list of

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more than one thousand unemployed men. Any employment given now will contribute to the prosperity of the community, and will certainly cost no more than if the work is delayed.

EDI IURIAL NOTES

Charles Dickens, English novelist an journalist, born this date 1812. Probably‘ the best delineator of characters in his plots~ of all authors of the Nineteenth Century! Best remembered today for his Christmasl

tales.

Should the C. N. R. embark on its pro- posed passenger and freight service it would mean the Government will have to main- tain the roads in the pink of condition. Which, of course, would imply an additional subsidy.

Just as we evidently are beginning to feel the effects of an old-time freezing win- ter, smiling British Columbia announces spring has arrived there. Zero weather, with only a sprinkling of snow, is not very- welcomo to either man or beast.

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There are always grounds for consider- ing our blessings compared with the hard- ships of others. For instance, in Jugo- slavia, people are desperately short of food. Butter costs more than $14 per 1b., and eggs

almost 40c each.

U. S. Senator Brien McMahon's much discussed proposal to provide $50,000,000,- 000 for a “peace offensive" in the form of a

NOSE FOR NEW5

development programme in return for ges-. sation of Russia’s revolutionary and im-t pcrialistic activity has a parallel in history. It was called Danegeld.

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Scientists have been working continuous- i ly for ever-so-long to produce the deadliest} of bombs imaginable, and now they turn; round and caution the United Nation gov-

Some Light Logic

, IQ-Agg: THE COUNCILLOR‘;

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"iF THE PRISTINE BsAorv M061 B: SHATTERED, LET n- Be WITH

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OBOECTED TO Ti-iE

LACK OF \ Lléi-rri,‘ - \

our: mounzmo Puoroeaneuea, J. Quizzmnr. KARSHAM, sounos our ouauc oPmloN on W€l6iiTY "romcs or rue onv.

$TANO 0N Lléii-TS FORVIC-

I TORIA PARK, VIL, TO WAIT TILL WE (‘AN BUY ATTRAC- TIVE LiGHTS REASONABLERATOWRTHAN INSTALL THE’ R€GULAR STREET POST AND

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ernments not to be the first to use them. Presumably they would rather Soviets. should.wipe us out, getting away with al, good start and no conscience or fear of the wrath of God.

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No arrangement of mutual advantage‘ could have demonstrated better the friend-i ly spirit so long prevailing between this] country and the United States as did thei agreement by which Colonial Airlines lost its monopoly route. Widely divergent in» terests were involved, yet at no time did either official or public relations become in

the least strained.

The National Research Council has con- ferred a boon on seafarers by developing} a foghorn which transmits about twenty times as much sound as conventional types. ~ It was simply a matter of giving the horn

curve but it means that in fog the seamenl

much the earlier.

Mr. Seymour Hills, a 38-year-old jour- neyman printer, is the Labour opponent of the great Winston Churchill in the riding of Woodford in Britain's election. He prob- ably feels (says the Ottawa Journal) as Thackeray did when he once ran for Parlia- ment against a famous opponent. Meeting one day during the campaign, the veteran said to the stripling: “Well, Mr. Thackeray, I hope the better man wins." Replied Thack- eray with humility and wit: "I hope not!”

Some 20 million workers in Britain are now getting holidays with pay, a fact which

of Trade, when he opened the Hotel, Res- taurant and Catering Exhibition, in London recently. Mr. Wilson also announced that a new travel association is being set up in Britain, to be formed by merging the‘ present British Tourist and Holiday Board» with the Travel Association. The new body will be called the British Travel and Holl- day Association and will work under the

direction of Sir Alexander Maxwell. O O

British Columbia is now at loggerheads

of $50,000 each has been set for Michael (the Archangel) Verigin, John Lebedoff and Joe Podovinikoff. Verigin is leader of a Doukhobor colony at Hilliers, on Vancouver Island; Lebedoff is leader of the radical Sons of Freedom, and Podovinikoff is sec-

necessary to give Lebedoff his freedom pending hearing of charges. For four others facing charges of participating in acts of violence, bail was set at $5,000 each. They are Bill Perepolkin, Peter Maiakoff, Peter

Babakaeff and John Shertibitoff, slated to appear for hearing next Monday.

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more flare after starting with a shallow,

will be able to determine his position thatl I

has brought about a revolution in the holi-l day industry. This was announced by Mr., Harold Wilson, the President of the Boardi

‘avalanche o! snow and ice.

with the Doukhobors, on charges of fire] raising and general violence. In Nelson bail. of clearing all over again.

rotary to Verlgin and spokesman for the leader. Immediately after bail was an-z nounced, Doukhobors raised the $50,000

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1 This column is open to tho <‘, discussion by umcspundents . of questions of interest. The Guardian does nut necessar- ily endorse the opinion ui uu respondents

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MARCO POLO RELICS

Sir,-l have just read in The Guardian for today of the irre-

iparable loss of the figure of the

Marco Polo which had been in

menLs and was destroyed lately in the disastrous fire at Mon- tague. This is indeed a catas- trophe but may I point. out that

‘the possession of Mr. R. K. Cle-

this was not the ffigurehead, which I

is under the bowsprit. of a ship; the figurehead of the Marco Polo xvas the bust of a woman which disappeared in the wreck. There were two figures of Marco Polo recumbent across the stern of the

ship, one of which was for years‘

on the barn of Mr, John John- stone. Mr. Johnstone generously gave this to my cousin, F. E. I-Iol man of Saint John, who placed it "n the historical museum there. The other should have been in o museum of our own, as Mr. Cle- ments undoubtedly meant it to ‘be, when, if ever we had one. How long is this indifference lio our historic past to go rm while one precious relic after sn- other disappears? "What is every- body’: business is nobody's busi- ness" especially where there is no material advantage to be gained. Yet a museum might at- tract tourists -— not to mention the fact that our children would come to real-ize that the Island has a heroic past possibly quite s: worthy as our prosperous present. I am, Sir, e CARRIE Summerslrle, Feb. 3rd.

tc., HOLMAN

The Section Man

(New Glasgow News)

The unsung heroes of the bsd days on the railroads. Particular- lly in the western part of tho mountry, are the section men. These songs so out in all kinds of weather to clear the tracks and let the trains go through. If

.there are slides in the mountains.

the section hands get on the job nnd work day and night to free the trnins. Sometimes they risk their lives, never knowing when a new slide may come roar- in/g down to engulf nhem in on

It takes courage to stick the 10b in freezing weather discouraging

on and Espec- ially when as daylight seems to be breaking through on s. job. another slide lets go to repeat the damage and start the work

conditions.

The section men do not always lget enollsh credit for their activ- jltles. They are sent. out snd sway they go. Vlfhen their work is done, .it is tnken ns all part of the service. It is only seldom they s word of praise, but they are deserving of ii. as everyone road- ing of the hn-ttling in British . Columbia must knbw. So far this part of Canada has not felt the full fury of King , Winter. but if it did. or will. lec-

get.

lion men here will fully measure‘

‘up to the task necessary to got roll traffic rolling.

I DIAMOND. PIONIIBS

The first baseball organization In the United States was formed in New York, 1846, and coiled itself

H1O 31111101000321‘ Hlslilll Gilb-

s who |s Russia Trying lw§>oo@oo@>oo@co@o

T0 Impress’?

‘Soviet policy is passing through a rather curious phase. Everr 0;;- portunity is taken to repeat Stalin's formula that the “two Systems" - Corrmunlst and Capitalist - cnn live peacenblyqtogelher for a pro- longed period". It is an ‘lngenlors

phase which secls tc reconcile the‘

lpure Marxlst-Lenlnisi doctrine of the inevitability of violent conflict with Rilssisfs immediate need for peace. It may also be intended to

allay the anxieties and slncken the‘ precautions of the Western Powers.:

But while professing a desire for ‘ peace, which at the moment, there . is no need to question. the Soviet. Government seems determined, not only to keep its relations with the West as restricted ns possible. but i nlso to make them a: difficult mzd

I disagreeable as possible. Its ITHST-z

national manners were never more ; courteous. But of recent months , they have been as discourteovs, ‘ and, indeedss offensive ns possible. And it is evident that this studied discountesy is deliberate.

Ml‘. Vyshlnsky‘ has surpaisedf

i even his own records. 0n January

l i8, he declined to receive the am- i bassadors of Britain, Fmrce and

- the U. S. A. Thev were curily in-'

, formed by M. Grornyko that the Soviet Foreign Minister was “lll". But two dnys later he was issuing a long reply to Dean Acheson's

|remarks on China. And the next

day he was at a big demomtratlon '

I in the Bolshel Theatre The Ambas- sadors were clearly meant to draw the deduction that they hnd been snubbed. The reply to Mr. Acheson

,is, to my remembrance, withcut

parallel. The Foreign Minister of

the Soviet Union publicly accused

“insolent lying", of "ignortvcc", of "spreading slanderous rumours". Both the Secretary of State and

slhly ignored those childish dis- plays of bad manners. But that is beside the point.

Nor are these isolated incidents. The brusque refusal of M. Gromyko

how long the Soviet Government. means to hold up work on the Aus- trian treaty by postponing its reply

or give any hint of how long the

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It is sll part of the some pattern. And one has to link with it the he- havlour of the satellites -, the re- fusal of Hungary and Poland to allow consular representatives to see arrested "Westerners". The Bul- garian demand for the ‘ “m: recall of the U. S, Minister. the Al- banian refusal to comply with the decision of the Hague court. For those no certainly not spontaneous acts but gestures ordered by the Kremlin.

It is precisely the sort of thing which a man of Vyshinsky’; typo would think well calculated to im- press the Chinese mind. One can sec him thinking that he is causing the Western powers to "lose face" and that. Mao and Chou will see in these defiant gestures. eviderce of Soviet strength and dnrlcg and of Western weakness and timidity. Perhaps he hoped to encourage

them to do likewise. For he is des- f perntely anxious to make impos- sible any sort. of good relation be- tween China and the West. No bridge must be built there i! he can help It.

Peking‘! long dclny in answering the kitiah proposal for the esta- blishment of diplomatic relations. Pekinﬂ recognition of llo Chi Mlnh’: Communist Government in Vilf-nlm (o step from which

-Russia herself has cautiously tfrnihed) may well nave been

the American Secrernry of state of;

m give the slightest indication of. '

in tn the Austrian note sent to Mos-, cow on December 6, is another case. There may be reasons for dclny But,

the refusal either to cvplaln theml

delay is likely to be is mere rudc- ' ‘

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! VICTORIA HOTEL FIRE

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Old Charlottetown l

(And P. E. I.)

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"A destructive fire took place yesterday mornzng about 5 o'clock, on Water Street, in which three houscs and some outihouses and offices were destroyed. The fire originated in the Victoria Hotel, o»! which Mr. Peter MacKinnon was proprietor, and is supposed to have been caused by some firewood which had been placed upon the cooking stove by one of uhe servants, for the purpose of lighting the morning fires. When first discovered, bhe lower part of the building was one mass of flame -~ some of the inmates ! having to make their exit through the upper windows of the build- ing. The other houses were ten- anted by Mr. MasLcod, tailor, and Mr. Meikle, bootmaker. The house occupied by Mr. Alexander MncKenzic. confectioner, was re- ‘duced to a mere shell. The fire was discovered by His Worship the Mayor who resides on the op- posite side of the street. Some i portion of the furniture was sav- ed. The premises were insured ' for £1800. There was also an in- fsurancc on the furniture of the ,Victoria Hotel, s considerable {portion of which was destroyed." —The Examiner, Feb. 14, i860. (T-he Victoria Hotel of later lycars, a much larger and finer jstructure than the hostelry shove mentioned, was destroyed by fire on Jan, 12, i929.)

rs- sug- gested by M. Vyshinsky. If so, ho has had some success. But how

‘much we cannot know until nego-

the Ambassadors politely and sen-l

tlation ls over snd we can begin to sec how far and how docilely the new Chinese regime ts prepared to

lsccept. control of its policy by

Moscow.

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A nsturslist’ asserts hotly thll an alligator will not eat a burglar; I alligator can pinch

being. But like a woman fruit store, an

and prod s human being unl

nobody else “Yants what's left. -

Peterborough Examiner-

Continuous sub-zero readings do not make a

combination of snow,

rapping on the

stock to combine into a hard Win-

ter that the Old Timers would even demean themselves to talk

about. — Lethbridge Ilerald.

The increased tempo olsctivliy in Old Quebec is shown ill a secondary roads are now plowed Of the 150.000

cent government report. for winter use. farm homes 50 per cent have been electriified as compared with 2i per cent in 1940.

cent have indoor per cent inside running water. Bell Telephone reports 45 cent installations compared to 27

per cent five years ago. All this

mercury hard Winter in themselves. It takes s mercury bottom of the tube, blizzards. blocked highways and shortages of feed for live-

Seventeen per plumbing, 25

per

The Way ~-

they can find enough flat ca,‘ and if they can talk the railroad; into low enough freight rateg _ Lethbridge Herald.

One of the latest Qllmplg; m scientific achievement in sldin‘ nature concerns the traditionally "busy bee." Test tube method, of cross breeding are reported u have produced a new type o; bee more industrious than its in_ cestors. Moving at greater Ipgg‘ from flower to flower it game" more nectar in s working d4; and thus produces more hone; But bees have a dual purpose, f0, they not only provide s m“ spread for buttered bread but fil’ the larger purpose of aiding i; the fertilization: of the blogom they visit. It has been found in alfalfa growers in Nebraska ti“, the stamcn of the alfalfa flown pops up when released by the be, burrowing in search of nectar and gives the insect a more o; less upsetting blow on the had PIov/cvcr, bccs, particularly 1m tame varieties, have learned h“ to approach the bloom so as to evade the blow, but in so cloln| they fail to be showered with pg]. ien and hence do not carry ti“

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lfzsijcanfzvinga upearfrontalaln cCan- reproducnve elements to the M“

adds farm arade _ Medicine flower. Alfalfa crops have there- p ' fore fallen off and efforts an

I-Iat News.

The church in Russia was. ls we know, an instrument of the rul- ing classes in the days before communism. Of the Russian peo- ple more than some others it could be said that religion was their "opiate? But even where the abuse of natural religious im- pulses has been so notorious. atheistlc authorities show con- tinuing cuncern over the tenacity with which the people cling to religious concepts. It is no ac- cident that in countries where religion has been truly free, l matter of individual conscience rather than authority, state or clerical, communism has made least headway.—-Chrisiiali Science Monitor.

We can't say we blame these owners, because we know how its feels when Alberta wheatlands don't get enough mois- ture for proper growth. Never-

ski resort

theless, we may have a solution

Southern Alberta at the moment is covered by at least five hun- In Waterton Lzikes National Park, the ground to a depth of 10 feet in some places and the occasional driaft is anywhere from 15 to 30 Most of this snow is When it melts it will cause floods, and it is cer- in its But to Q11:- bec and Ontario skiers it would We therefore sug- gest that they come and get it, if

dred billion tons of snow.

for instance, snow covers

feet deep. no good to anyone.

tainly of no posible use present condition.

be invaluable.

- being made to overcome f)" problem by breeding s flpwer um does not knock its visitor's ﬂfOzgtj I -—Vicloria Times. '

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ELEGI’ 1N COUNTRY CIIURCIIYABD

The men that worked for mgilnno They have their graves at home; Ami bees and birds of England About the cross can roam.

But they that fought for Enﬂllnl Following a. falling star,

Alns. alas for Erlglnnd

'I‘hey have their graves afar.

. And tihey that rule in England, In stately conolave met,

Alas. alas for England

They have no graves as yet.

-G. K. (ﬁttest-canon

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;_jThe Age-Old Story i

33m ° Behold, Thou deslrest truth ll

the inward ports, and In the hid-

den part Thou shalt make me t: know wisdom.

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