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THE GUARDIAN

llorning Daily (Foisldsii lls illl) Authorised as aerunii Clisas llail, Pass OIIIII Drpnrtment, Oit-nsrn.

The lainuil Guardian Publishing 0O. ldltor nnil Managing Director, J. B. Barnett

whose circumstances are inadequate to the ex- pense. But if the peculiar values of university education are not to be perverted by irrelevance, and stultifed by sheer numbers, there must be intellectual tests of such a character that these who are unqualified, except financially, should

‘Tl-IE GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN For iiur Guests

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‘ ii An Arisona rnaa has suggested

concerned. — New York l-lerai]

not clutter up the halls of learning. A univer- ' Tribune.

sity education is not primarily a means to a higher income, though that may be possible. lt is on investment in human life and character which calls for on equivalent contribution to so- ciety in after life."

{L EDITURiAL NOTES ./,

FARM-WEI

Before the flaming of the dsrm she's up to put the coffee on.

To set the table, to bake the in-eed. To open the door of the chicken-

Aasnaists Editor. Irnnls Wells!- _"Tho Strongest Memory is Weaker Thal the Weakesl Ink."

TJBARLOTTETOWN, TUESDAY, JUNE 14, _1949

Welcome Visitors

‘Prince Edward Island extends a cordial wel- come to the members of the Canadian Manu- facturers’ Association, who have completed their annual general meeting at St. Andrews, N. B., and after visiting Fredericton, Halifax and other centres are due to arrive in Charlottetown today. They will be guests of the Provincial Government at luncheon at The Charlottetown and will have an opportunity of visiting the Confederation Chamber and other places of interest.

Unfortunately their visit will be of only a few hours’ duration, but it is hoped fhat it will

a w om r laxation and that m n who _ , . zfgvteriaklngelfheile’ fifst trip to the lsland feel "okht-‘d bY "dmm"! ‘midi °‘ '"'“°‘*°" "m" desirous of visiting us again. They have honour- Mum- , ,, g '

ed the Province by including its capital in their The Maritime m" of the Canadian Month

itinera and our citizens enerall will heartil , . W’ g y y facturers Association, whose members are here

endorse the official greetings which will be ten- 0d h ‘ c d. . t r clered them on their arrival. While we have few l fly’ ‘PPY offer! l e. TY“ ° b??? m“ fir“? large manufacturing interests here, we are not '° Mlmhme "l "Sim W5“ "w; W K l

to the mayor of Regina that warm air could be piped to Saskatchewan from the South. Before any Cari- adian tags "crackpot" to the idea. he should be reminded that it can't be any worse than other ideas that will be sired in the Dominion dur- irrl the next few weeks of election campaignlrig.—l~‘ort William Times. Journal.

The visiting teacher from u, country town was giving her fir-ll demonstration lesson to a o1". o‘ "lne-Yflar-olds in nn upland 1" area. She had chosen as her sol: llect "Wool", and started o" b Ihowln: a large colored picture y a sheep and remarking brjgmlol uNOW I am sure you u" know why. this is." Much to her sur H" there was no response to herplrl: plied question. When she put j’ more pointedly on; "urdy boy I kl ed if he could see the picture n: l er at hand. On permission be!“ given with much wonderment surveyed it carefully nrid than’), arded, "It's a two-year-oid Bord" Leicester. isn't it?" -- Mancbe t” Guardian. l u

she , . To rattle the welichaln down, to drop _ And draw the bucket to the top. ,

Fuom kitchen-stoop the farm-wife seéa

The dawn flame over the dew- dark trees.

“IMP!!!” l0 "Witt new ideas is "P"? 5° lPPlrfllt as it was. There is still a lot of room for improve. merit in regular farming practices. The present seems a more than “wally °Pl>0rtune time for a wide scale demonstration of those ad- vanced farmlng methods that seem revolutionary today. and which may be commonplace in two or three years. - Cornwall Standard- Freeholder.

Fourteen more days till the election, i k I

Canadian Manufacturers’ Association are

welcome on their brief visit. Th, New“, do“ m, bedqums *

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d. The butter churned in the door- ysrd shade, The rooms all swept and the halls

between

The firmlture dusted. the dishes clean,

The dinner cooked and the dinner done,

The supper to get, and the wash begun.

The Summer hotels are operating once more. May their season beat all records in patronage. i‘ I I ‘

The West Kent Cadets made a most favour- oble impression on their church parade Sunday, and their march to and from Trinity Church was

Whereas n week n

ed bad for the Wezsotehrlirlngj-Lijo? wheat belt, a lot o1 peorle talking about the return o! 3‘! dustbowl of the thirties, rein a a snowfall from May 17 go M! 1;: broke the drought over . greaty

of the southern Prairies while w! lcnt weather through th'e U s a: Mid-\Vest ' and Mountain l Slat: gave an indication that this ls Ml suing to be a drought yam I,“

In 1948 the 428 Orglnlgnflong embraced by the Greater New York Fund will spend $170,000,000 (or their operations. Nearly half of this amount. $80,000,000. will be earned by the agencies themselves in the form of membership dues, clinic fees and payments for sor. Vlci- About 545000.000 will come from endowment income and pey- ments from governmental funds. The remaining 345000.000 will be

Through the honeybee-drone of the afternoon

She washes end whistles a horne- spun tune.

The dark comes early. comes oool and deep.

unmindful of the great importance of Canada's industrial development and we are eager to share in it to the extent of our opportunities, par-

would be better to develop with Canadian ra- ther than American co-pital.

Charlottetown vyelcbme; the visiting post-

Whcn supper ls over, when children sleep.

When fingers are weary, when farmers dream,

sought from York Times.

the public, -— New

The woman responsible for start-

deed, Kansas reports that star h Y ernay billitlapsnblgger crop "m" l“! year's

western Alberta ‘ week's rains brought the total M.’

In Lethbrldge and South- generally i,"

She scours the crock for the morn- ing cream. When supper ls over, when crickets

ink the Village Institute movement in Britain is to have a memorial of an avenue of 300 lime trees. She was Mrs. Alfred Watt, a Canadian, whq died at Montreal last Novem- b". lied over 80. The trees will line the main avenue leading from

ticularly along lines associated with our basic activities of farming and fishing, and also to popularize what we modestly believe to be the fin- est tourist attractions in Canada.

pgecipitation up m 6 H. which i l

over the IY-ysrsaiiulillh; sliraelrfag: ha: could not ask anything ball". __ Lelhbfld8e Herald.

about 2.8 in,

masters attending the annual conference of the Maritime branch, Canadian Postmosters’ Asso- ciation. With its "all up" cross-country service

cry. . . . . x aki , h bat- the Post Office continues to give meaning to when m“ a" o" n: w en

wing‘ at the children fascinated st the

wonder of moving pictures, and

U. K. Dutch Bacon Contract

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Winnipeg's Anniversary

Tne city of Winnipeg lost week observed its 75th birthday. lt was a proud day in the history of this community born in the vastness of the open prairie and come now to a place of honor and distinction in Canadian life.

Winnipeg in i870 had a population of 300, and two years later an agitation to make it a city was begun. The Legislature balked, however and it was not until I874 that incorporation was granted—this after a Speaker of the Legislature had been torred and feathered in the conviction of ‘his assailants that he was the Attorney-Gen- eral.

A writer in the Winnipeg Free Press, telling of the city's early times, says a banker arrived to open a branch with $200,000 in currency sewn in his waistcoat. A man came in to open a saloon with a barrel of whiskey, a tent and two barrels of apples, and he retired wealthy in two years. ‘lll i872 the Free Press printed an item about "a brand new sawmill" in operation in the north- ern port of the city. The compositor who set the type asked the editor where the mill was located. The editor took him to the window, showed him in the otherwise empty plain two men working on a log with a whipsaw.

"Winnipeg creaked into history with the Red River Cart," says the Free Press, "its infancy and youth were passed in a stern pioneering school; it felt the hot breath of the pre-war boom upon its face as it struggled, a tousled young giant, to catch up with its destiny and blllndered into greatness; it tasted prosperity in the twenties and wore its ragged trousers in the depression days when it knew defeat and almost despair, the surrender of a soul; but it came back with a marching of banners when freedom called to her sons in the war; and now Winnipeg awaits the future with d-ue caution and serene confi- fiiillce."

Quality 0r lluentity

The rise in the demand for university edu- cation is one of the characteristic aspects of this era. No fewer than 16,000 students attended the University of Toronto in the session just clos- ing. Only ninety years ago, the total enrolment at University College was eighty students, and even those at Victoria, Queen's and Trinity add- ed just 142 to the number seeking higher educa- tion in Ontario. Allowing for the much lower population, the contrast is extraordinary, and doubtless it would apply to every other Province in Canada. Obviously, one of the factors in in- creasing the numbers attending university is the general availability of elementary and secondary education. There has been a spurt in attendance since the war, however, higher in proportion than the simple accumulation of student mater- ial preoccupied with the war.

"Some of this," remarks the Globe and Mail, "is due to a form of social hypocrisy, which values white-collar occu-piitions above those demanding skill of hand or eye. Some of it, also, results from the immense increase in technological op- portunities, as in engineering, electronics and other forms of applied science. Both factors, in slightly different ways, raise problems which will soon have to be faced with courage and responsi- bility. One relates directly to the size aLuniver- sity may reach without losing the distinctive characteristics of that sort of education. The other again poses the question as to whether ap- plied science in its various forms has any place in a university at all." In connection with the for- mer point, Vice-Chancellor John Lowe oi Christ Cihurch College, Oxford, took a definite stand against size in recent interview. "To say every- body is entitled to a university education is sheer nonsense," he said. "Under the English system, only people who can qualify on the highest level of scholarship are considered a good national in- vestmerlt, and receive some form of state aid."

Oxford University proposes to stabilize its enrolment at about the present figure of 7,500, according to Dr. Lowe, and will aiin at a ratio of one staff member to every ten students. in e university tea big to maintain personal rela- tionships, rnucll of value is lost, and fennel lec- tures substitute very deficiently for the intellect- ual stimulus of direct touch with scholarship. To quote again from the Globe and Mall: "The privi- lege arlif enlargement of a university education siieiiid be available to every m who is fitted to receive it, This must involve assistance for thoge

the expression "post haste.” Q O O

There ls wlsdom on the part of the C.C.F.'s in risking only one candidate in Queen's County contest. The Party has not been over-active pub- licly here, and its tenets and platform known to comparatively few. A fortnight's campaign is not long enough to drive home effectively the Party's propaganda.

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The report that Canada will look to any communist-formed government in China for re- payment of $60,000,000 lent to that country for military and other equipment seems strangely unreal. That the Communists will pay for the equipment used against them in the civil war is, to say the least, improbable.

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The $22 million former Crown aircraft plant at Cartierville, Quebec and the steps by which it passed into the hands of an American com- pany for $200,000 a year may have been perfect- ly legitimate. The secrecy which surrounds the whole affair however seems hard to justify.

8 I I Visitors from away have, as might be ex- pected, diverse views on election prospects. ln one party assurance was giver that the "time for a change had come," which was immediately challenged by another "fellow traveller" who said Quebec and Ontario would decide in favour of St. Laurent carrying on. D I I

improbable Topics at the Postmosters' Con- vention here tomorrow:- The preference of some people for mint flavoured mucilage on their postage stomps; ia mind reading course for mail sorters; and the cutting off altogether of the mail to King's County points since it doesn't get away from Charlottetown any day till mid- afternoon anyway.

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The renewal, by the Fisheries Research Board, of investigations of the Eastern Arctic fishery begun last year may be of direct interest only to the Eskimo population. The general in- formation, including soundings taken in the course of their studies, will help to remove the reproach that Canada does not provide adequate navigational information about its Arctic coastal waters.

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Complaint has been received about unneces- sary horn blowing throughout the city, espec- ially in what should be sleeping time, viz., be- tween ll P.M. and 3 A.M. Not a few autoists stop in front of, or near some dwelling and toot their horns to the HIHOYOHCQ and disturbance of the sleepers. The jolice cannot be every- where of course, but if residents so annoyed would endeavour to get the number of such 0f- fenders an example should be made of them.

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The future looks good for frozen foods, says the National Industrial Conference Board, Wash- ington. Pre-war, frozen fruit and vegetable con- sumption was only 1.2 pounds per person and other frozen food consumption was measured in ounces. ln i948, average consumption of frozen fruits and vegetables was about 6 pounds per person and 1.8 pounds‘of other frozen foods. Compared with -pre-war, the number of retail- ers equipped to handle frozen foods has doubled.

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Magna Carta signed this date l2lS. The Great Charter granted by King John at Runny- mede, the principal provisions of which were: all accused persons to be tried by their equals; no taxes to be imposed without consent of Par- liament; no imprisonment without lawful trial, and no delay or sale of justice. Four copies of the original Charter still exist. Magna Carta was ratified and confirmed by successive Kings, and is now part of the British and Canadian con- stitutions.

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When Mr. R. L. MacLean (Highbonlt, P. E. l.) opens his copy of the June issue of Popular Mechanics Magazine, he'll find that he's now a magazine writer. Some time age, MocLean sent an idea to the editors of Popular Mechanics that he thought other people might find interesting and useful. The Popular Mechanics editors must have thought so too for they passed the idea along, with full credit to MacLeaii, to the mil- liens of Popular Mechanics readers all over the world. The suggestion appears in the June Popli- lar Mechanics iii an illustrated article signed: fl. L. MecLean, l-iigiibenli, P. E. l., Canada};

‘lheifarn-i-wife dilms s dusfry lamp. At. step-worn doorslll stands a

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To breathe a breath of evening damp.

To watch the stars above the well.

--Branson Blake in the Washington Post

WWO l Old Charlottetown (And r. s. I.)

__-.- GOVERNOR'S RESIDENCE

Mr. Hodgson, chairman of the committee of the House appointed jointly with a committee of His Ma- jesty's Council to rent for a period of not less than 3 years a suitable residence for His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, reported that the said joint committee had taken a lease from Col. Holland of a house in Charlotte-Town, for 3 years, at the rent of £150 per an- rium, which was deemed the best that could be had for the purpose: that the time for which the house was taken is considered by the joint committee to commence the 10th December last, when posses- sion was given to the joint com- mittee: that the first year's rent was agreed to be paid ili advance, and that previous to the possession of the house being given to the joint committee, the chief part had been advanced to Col. Holland, and since then the balance of the said £150. with an additional sum of £16, has been expended to put the said house in the state agreed on by the lease; but that sum has been in- sufficient to complete the some. as the house ls not yet painted, or the fence put up.

—-H0use of Assembly, Thursday. April 26. 1347-

(Note: In yesterday's reference in the first order for books transmit- ted to London tor the Island's first subscription library the date should have read December, 1825, not 1845 as given.) ' >

Notes From Another Island

By "Anson"

LONDON, England:-

News Theatres are a feature of London's entertainment so un- obtrusive that they might easily be overlooked by anyone but a News Theatre fan. But if they were taken away, many a London- ell- seeking innocent. usemeut. would feel a loss as keen ea any child who'd had his lollipop snatch- ed

For many of Greater London's millions of people, a visit. to the movies in the West liknd is quite an event; something that. doesn't happen every day, so to speak. This is because, in the first place, although you may be s Londoner‘ born and bred. and have your ed- dress in London, you may still have something like an hour's journey or more to get lo the West End. so far do London's boundaries ex- tend.

And, in the second place. the price you have to pay for admis- sion to some of the West End sup- er-colossal palaces seem almost enough to take nearly s whole row of seats in a suburban moviei Most of the big picture houses of the Icicester-Square ares special- ise ln the latest films. new re- leases full of big names and belly- hoo, and if you haven't enough patience to wait until they get around to your local cinema, well. you are expected to pay for your impatience.

O O O

But scattued here and there among the glittering West hid edifices, all neon lights and com- misionairm. is s News Theatre where. for about twenty-five cents. You can enjoy s protrsmme com- posed entirely -— except for about ten minutes of the latest news - of comic cartoons. You don't 4a in if you are looking for anythlril intellectual, or if you are looking for any kind of uplift except that which comes from laughter. or if

humour except good, honest slep- stick. Ana you'd never believe the oddly assorted folk who do go ta... You may alt nest to s fashion-

sblslsdrvithhdsmsiishlldrfl.

you are looking for any kind 0L

the-lady herself secretly pleased that "bringing the children" Elves her an excuse to enjoy herself an immeasurable degree more than the children themselves. In the row behind you, perhaps a clergy- man is roaring in mirth in a most undlgnlfied manner; or perhaps a dark-suited business executive has taken off his sober Hamburg hat and is guffawing at the antics of Donald Duck in a way his respect- fui stall have never seen.

The News Theatres try an oc- casional stunt in order, perhaps. to show that they are not going to be entirely over-shadowed by the super-cinemas. One turned back the clock s. quarter of a century recently, for example, and show- ed today's teen-users the man who used to make their mothers’ hearts flutter in a manner that. seemed almost indecent in those clays - Rudolph Valentino. no less. There he was. silently outwitting the vililan in the best i925 style, and bringing back, no doubt. many e nostalgic memory to ladies in the audience whose husbands were never s. match for Rudolph but vilrgo happened to be more acces- s e.

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This stunt was similar to that of another News Theatre recent- 1y. which put on a couple of old- time melodramas of the silent era, complete even to the detail of a pianist to provide atmosphere music. It seemed there was only om i-hlns missing - no kids in the front rows throwing orange peel and apple cores at the pion- lst in the middle of a tender "Hearts and Flowers" passage. Per- haps there would have been even that, if it. were not that oranges and apples are not so plentiful- or cheap-es they were in the days of the silent screen" ..._

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Londoners who didn't escape to t-he open country during the Whit- sun holiday found that the coun- irry came to them in one respect. as Hyde Park, in the heart of the metropolis, heard the sound of bloating sheep and barking dogs. Champion sheep dogs from all ova; the country came to town to show their training and intelligence. They have a skill that is almost uncanny when it comes to round- lug up wayward sheep and putting them into pens with as much gentle firmness and tender care as