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THE GUARDIAN. CHARL()TTETOWN

MAY. 16. 1950

THE GUARDIAN

Morning Dell; (I'MIltIoII II III") Authorised on second clue lull Pool omen Input-tmens, Occur.

The Island murals: Puhlllhlnt Co- lldllor and Managing Director. J. I. Burnett Anmwllto Ifdllnr, Frank Walker.

"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink."

CBABLOTTETOWN TUESDAY. MAY 15. 1950

Federal Health Grants

The National Health Plan is just two years old, the Rt. Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King, the then Prime Minister, having an- nounced the proposal to the House of Commons on May 14th, 1948, to make ' I grants available to the Provinces earmark-

ed for a health survey and for particular projects in national health. Many of the grants required to be matched by equal amounts from the Provinces.

The amounts spent in Prince Edward Is- iand uncier the various aspects of the plan during the years 1948-49, 1949-50 and the Imounts available for 1950-51 ape:

, Health Survey. 85,763: 54,740; 34,332.

' Crippled Children, 35,000; S5,000: 37,310.

Professional Training, 557,347; 57,011; 37,- 310.

Hospital Construction. 638,227; 2536.163; 592,740.

Venereal Disease, 37,482; 57,356; 57,310.

Mental Health. 3.34.664; 534,020; 959,098.

Tuberculosis Control, 3534.015: 343,793; 956,032.

Public Health Research, 5---; 5250; 5--.

General Public Health, 323,777; 336,555; 842,300. .

Cancer Control, 55,009; 510,582: 524,969.

Total, 6161.187; 5180,481; 5301,1101.

Grants were approved toward the cost of providing space for 349 1-3 beds in Island hospitals, provision wasm ado for a new mental health clinic here and almost every branch of public health stimulated.

Among the twenty-eight "practical" as- pects of the grants claimed in a depart- mental release, however. is "24. Purchase of ACTH and cortisone for clinical research in Canada.” The packing industry, it may be added, has made an enormous contribu- tion in making raw material available al- most without cost to the taxpayer.

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Scotland Won Her Heart

Miss Madeline M. Carter, a Canadian ex- change teacher to Britain, gave some inter- esting impressions recently of her visit at a meeting qt the Edinburgh Women Graduate 'I"eachers' Association. She told her aud- ience: ”I have found the people of Scot- land more apologetic than anything else." The remarks she most often heard, on com- ing to Edinburgh to teach, were "You must find the food dreadful after Canada" and "You must find things very restricted here after Canada.” To the first question she would answer with a most emphatic "No". She had no quarrel with the food in Scot- land. But she would not be so positive in her reply to the second question. But in spite of restrictions. she said, Scotland had won her heart completely. "I shall be sorry to leave it and go home." The ever-pre- sent historical background in Edinburgh, which gave life here a sense of permanency and continuity unknown in the new world was what had impressed her most. She felt it immediately she came to Scotland, and it was something she was going to miss very much.

Ilnlverslty Enrolment:

Arts, sciences and the professions are not so popular with students as they were at the close of the war. University enrolments have dropped this year from their all-time peak of 85,000 two years ago. However f there still are nearly twice as many per-

sons seeking higher education than in pre- war years when enrolments totalled less than 40,000. The Bureau of Statistics re- ports about 70,000 students had signed up for the 1949-50 term-a drop of 15,000 from the peak year 1947-48 when many a Cana- dian war veteran returned to the campus to complete his studies. Fewer students are going into the arts and science courses. In- stead many of them are seeking careers in medicine, dentistry and social work. Med- icine took 4,284 compared with 3,927; den- tistry, 1,095 against 888. Students study- lgn the arts dropped from 24,595 to 23,642 and science students from 4,618 to 4,514. However, postgraduate students in arts and science and other courses have increased from 3,435 to 4,529. Engineering and ap- -plied science showed the biggest drop from f-112,333 during the 1948-49 term and 14,345 in 1947-48 to 10,549. The number of agri- .culture students dropped from 2.874 to 2,-

:s275 and students of architecture from 743

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- striking, statistics have been re- v I 1- ,lv' .I5Il.I?I0Ill.-.F00.Ol,lldAFI.-. 7” folio Inlpttuleend

distribution of potential food lands not yet exploited by man. Total land area, includ- ing inland waters, is given as 33,126,389,086 acres. Of this nearly half-15,604,365,000 is ruled out of consideration, either as built-on area or as wasteland. The agricultural sec- tor consists of 8,277,867,279 acres, divided approximately in a 4 to 7 ratio between arable land, including fallow and orchards and permanent meadows or pastures. A slightly higher fraction, 8,605,333,000 acres, embraces forests and woodlands. This leaves 936,509,000 acres - less than three per cent of the total surface-still open to the plough.

It is howeve? the distribution of this re- serve which will probably occasion most surprise. The largest area is in Canada taking in 206,654,672 acres. Ethiopia comes next with 158,144,000 followed by India with 139,001,163, Iran with 100,470,860 and the United States with 79,996,154. The vast land mass of the Soviet Union offers only 30,352,000 untapped but potentially produc- tive acres, slightly more than one-seventh of the Canadian total.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Salvation Army Financial Campaign

opens.

Guardian Manitoba Flood Relief Fund opened. 9 Summerside has got ahead of Charlotte- town with work on their Federal building. 0 I C All contributors are entitled to attend the annual meeting of the P. E, I. Hospital this evening.

The loss of a pulpwood barge, and pre- sumably of its crew of four, on the south coast of Newfoundland after its tow line parted in a storm illustrates the fact that the North Atlantic or even the Gulf of St. Lawrence is no place for barge traffic.

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Scotland exported 8,521,000 gallons of whisky in 1949-and the United States and Canada drank 70 per cent of it. The whisky was valued at 352,466,400 by the Official Review of Industry and Employment issued recently.

Are bottles on the way out? Pepsi-Cola is following the English example of using cans instead of bottles for distribution of their product. An experiment is also being made with beer. Canned beer purchases have increased by more than 440 per cent since the war.

"A balanced community, limited .in size and area, limited in density, in close con- tact with the open country," the American Institute of Architects was told, "is actually the new urban form for our civilization." It is clear that Charlottetown is one of the most modern communities in the world.

British Columbia Progressive Conserva- tives are anticipating the elevation of Fish- eries Minister Mayhew to the Senate. If and when it happens they'll be prepared. The Progressive Conservative Association of Greater Victoria announce plans to call :1 nomination convention to choose a candidate for the by-election which would result.

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British European Airways, having suc- cessfully completed six months of experi- mental mail deliveries by helicopter at night. is now planning the carriage of mail on the world's first regular passenger heli- copter services. These will be initiated in Britain during June, with twin rotor ma- chines.

One campaign in which we can all par- ticipate is Clean-up Week, now under way throughout the Province. The tourist sea- son will soon be upon us, and spruced-up homes are the best testimonial to our own pride of citizenship and appreciation of the natural advantages which make this Island so attractive to summer visitors.

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Exports and imports by way of New- foundland ports totalled almost 8116,000,000 in the year ended last March 31, Mr. W. J. Browne (PC-St. John's West) was told by the Government. Replies to questions from the Newfoundland member said imports were 322,493,000, exports of Canadian pro- ducts were 592,035,000 and exports of for- eign products were 31,404,000.

Mrs. Felicia Dorothea I-lemons, English poetess, dl 'thls date 1835. At the age of fifteen she published her first book of poems, entitled "Domestic Affections", and a second volume four years later. Her chief works are "The Sceptlc", "Vespers of Pa- lermo", "Lays of Many Lands", "Songs of the Affectlons”, "Hymns for Childhood". She is best remembered by three poems, "The Better Land", "The Graves of a House- hold" end "The Homes of England", which have found an enduring place among Eng-

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.. THE GROUND-SWEIL

Three .tl-mes we heard it ceiling with a low Inslstent. none; at. ohl-rt.ide on tile

noon,

And at the hour of dusk. when the red moon

was rising and the tide was on the

v flow: Then at the hour of midnight once

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Though we had entered in and shut the door

And drawn the blinds, lt. crept up from the shore

And smote upon a bedroom win- duw-pane:

Then passed anvuy as some dull pang, that grew

out of the void before Eternity

Hod fashioned out. an edge for human grief; Before the winds of God had

leamcd to strew ills harvest-swecpiirgs on A Winter

sea To lted the primal hunger: or a reef.

- -E. J. Pratt

Old Llnatlolletuwn ll

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(And I'. e. 1.) I DISASTBOUS STORM

"One of the most dreadful gale: ever experienced in this climate, at this season of the year, visited the island on Sunday afternoon. Just as the storm seemed to abate. an intensely violent tornado burst upon us, tearing up old and power- ful trees n if they had been young saplings, shaking others like reeds, and geleasing several ves- sels from their moorings at the whaxfs. A boat. in which were two young lad: named John Walsh and Bernard McG-ear was swamped 1 short distance from the Ferry Wharf, and if it had not been for lhe promplness of Capt. Johnston. of the Ferry Steamer, both would have been lost. On seeing the ac- cident he jumped into his own boat. and succeeded in rescuing McGeai-, but before he could reach the other lad. he sank and per- ished. He was only 15 years old, and was a son of Mr. -Thomas Walsh, master mariner, of this place.

”Another boat in which were several boys, was swamped off MOGll'l's shipyard. All succeeded in reaching the shore except a lad named William Wann, 11 years old. who had not strength enough to breast the waves, and was matched away within sight of his companions.

"But the mosl. melancholy cas- ualty we have to relate, as a re- sult of this storm, is the death of Frederick Goodman, Esq, son of the Hon. G. R. Goodman, ton-ner Collector of Customs of this port, and a young woman named Arm Maloney, a daughter of Mr. Ma- loney. at the west end of this city. Mr. Goodman was coming to town in a small boat from St. Peter's Island. where he had lately pur- chased a farm. and was about set- tling with his family, and had kindly offered I passage to Miss Maloney. who was on I visit to some friends at the Island, when his boat was upset at! Holland's Cove, and both were drowned."

-The Examiner, August 3, 1359.

"Atlantic Provinces"

(Saint John Telegraph Journal)

I-Ion. James E. Chalker, health minister of Newfoundland, who visited New Brunswick a couple of days ago. makes the augges- tion that Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island. Nova Scotla and New Brunswick should be known collectively as the "Atlantic Provinces."

In the mind of the average man. that phrase is more likely to in. clude Newfoundland than is the expression, "Maritime Provinces," which by long usage has come to mean only Prince Edward Island. Nova South: and New ,Brunswi:k.

Undoubtedly. it's convenient to have a short way of designating the seaboard legion Just as It is convenient at times to be able to refer to Quebec and Ontario as the "Central Provinces" or "cen. tral Canada." and to rcfcr to Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Al- berta as the Prairie Provinces."

But while it. has merits, the label. "Atlantic: Provinces." should not be overworked. In the post, New Brunswick. Nova Scott: and Prince Edward Island have so of- ten hecn styled the ”Msrlt'me Provinces" or the "Mnritlmes" that -people clsewhe'e in Canada have mentally lumped the three pm- vlnces together and forgotten that each has its own attrac- tions. its own character, its own problems. -

This mental lumping has pro- gressed to I point: where federal mvernment reports frequently give stetlst.ics'for the "Maritime Provinces" rather than separate sets of figures for New Bruns- wick, Nova acetic and Prince lid- ward Inland. Yet conditions ,In the three provinces vary so such statistics are worthless.

They will be even more worth- lesa in future if Newfoundland, Nova Sootts, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island stltistlcs are sci-nmb'ed under the on heading, "Atlantic Pmvincu." too, our fellow Oom- disns west of New Brunswick on likely to get more muddled -if possible-than they on now about Ieobou-d gsqrephy.

HEAVY OONITIUCTION For the first ll niotlths of 1940

more than o1oo.ooo.ooo In con-

unustlon was spent in Alberto.

Island

Scottish- Home. Rule- y Assembly

(By Wilfred Taylor) EDINBIFRGH. The Scottish Convention, the body which six months ago launched the Coven. ant ceiling for Home Rgulg in Scotland. is going to issue bearer bonds carrying Interest at 4 1.2 per cent. and repnyable 12 months after s Scottish Parliament meets for the first time in Edinburgh. That. was far Ind sway the most; dramatic piece of news to come out of the Fourth National As- sembly which met in the Scot- tlsh capital recentlv.

This gesture. very scottish in its business-like approach, is u striking s. proof as one could wish for, that the Covenanters are de- termined to get. Home Rule and get it quickly. It. is part of the campaign to raise a 100,000 pound "Victory Fund". Up to now the Covenant campaign has been con. ducted almost entirely on a vol- untary basis, and until e few weeks ago the Covenant. ccm- mittee had employed only one paid agent.

About 1.000 delegates accepted invitations to attend the Assemb- ly. They came from an .pnrI.s of Scotland - from Shetland in the north to Stranraer in the south. They represented all sections of Scottish life from dukes to work- ing men from Glasgow, from the church to the law. from industry to art and literature.

Since the canying of the res- olutions was a formality the in- terest of the Assembly centered mainly in the gereral debate. What was most Impressive about the atmosphere was its quiet and good humored unanimity. speak- er after peakcr stressed that. the Covenant implied no animus what- soever towards the English, This note was struck by the elderly Duke of Monti-use and it was en- thusiastically adhered to through- out the two sessions.

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some of the most effective and eloquent speeches cam from trade union delegates. On the day before the Assembly was held the Scottish Trades Union Con- gress, meeting in Rothosay, had turned down, by a large majority a Home Rule resolution. This pro- duced a scathtng speech from ore trace unlonkt. who pointed out that on 52 previous occasions the

Scottish TUC had supported Home Rule. He gave fIgL'I'Es. which, he claimed, showed the

majority vole had been strongly influenced by visiting TUC de'e- gates-from England-. Another Soc- ialist. passionately expressed his contempt. for the present Social- ist leaders in Scotland.

One of the interesting people present at the Assembly was the youm: Countess of F.rrql who. at the age of 34, IS hereditary High Constable of 8:-otland. and in vir- tue of this office, takes preced- ence over every other Scot.

I-Iectlor McNeil. the Secretary of State for Scotland, was not. at the Asnanbly. It. would have been dif- ficult for him. because of his of- fice, to be present but. it is pos- sible thnt, despite what he may say in Parliament, Mr. McNeil ll Very much interested in the Home Rule movement and is not prepared, like his predecessor, Mr. woodburn, to treat it. u s. Joke.

The I950 Bud-get

(C3. of commerce summary) The Dominion Government will spend 824 billion this fiscal year- more then the total national debt in the prosperous days of 1099-29- eccoidlng to the April iuue'of The

The chief cook's lleol

For "I'sorlst's ht! I

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”A touristy asks for good food and clean beds. These added together with the beautiful Islam beaches give you a tourist attraction which is almost impossible to equal. . ."

D. Leo Dolan, Director, Canadian Travel Bureau.

Voice of a Child (Windsor Star)

Rules are very strict in the gal- leries of the Commons at Ottawa. one must keep quiet, so u not to disturb the debates taking place. And. except. for the section re- served for the press, it to forbid- den even to take notes.

so members of the House would be startled to hear the voice of A child call out "Daddy." It was that of three -year-old Rosalind Sinclair, daughter of Mr. James Sinclair, parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Finance, who

was piloting budget resolutions through the House. I Little Rosalind. of course,

wouldn't understand the rules or the reasons for them. She would only know that it was her Daddy down below, that. she loved him, and wanted him to look up at her. she had no nesitency about cell- lng to him, speaking what came into her little mind and heart.

Three-year-olcl girls axe un- inhibited. they do not attempt. to dlssemble their feelings. If they want to hug or kiss a men, or put his cheek or pull his hair, they do lt.- without. any sense of em- banassment or shame.

It is only as little girls grow up into big girls that they learn- probnbly out of wisdom-to dis- guise their feelings; to say "no" when they only mean "maybe." Little Rosalind has I lot to learn about life, and some of it will be unpleasant. But her Daddy,

tional income and its companion indicator, gross national product-Ion. But, the utter points out, at this stage of Canada's economic development it. should be kept in mind that taxes have both increas- ing and diminishing results in yield and goods produced. 1: depends on the extent of their Ip- plfcstion. Debt. charges. social so- curlty and notional defence must 311 be Dald for out of Cana.dn'l stock-pile of goods and services. If outlay for one or more of these is to be bigger, then productivity In many segments of our economy must. increase.

Proper toxins is necessary, but alone cannot achieve the desired results. Labour, machines, mm. ligament. and all other factors that make Canada weI.lt.hy must produce more. Federal policy should develop and protect In economic climate In which im. aginatlon and creative drive-for- ces inherent in all business and 1!1dtustl'l'- can be given fullest scope.

The Canadlnn Bank of Comanerce index of industrial activity for March was 158 (I037-I00) com- pared with I60 for January nnd February. while decreases were recorded in several of the group indexes, the most notable one oc- curred in the Automotive trodes section.

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Whose oonfeueth Ind Ionnketh his pain: shall have mercy.

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Refrigeration

SAI.l'.0ud SERVICE Repel:-s To All Makes

MOTORS

Osnndlon Bonk coinmrco Monthly Commercial Letter. In fact. the Minister of Finance a";- gested that this might well be the least the Oavemment would spend yearly in future, given so- cial security It present level: and no relaxation of international tension. i

Analysing the recent ioso Federal budget. the Bank's letter draws attention to the extent to which cnpoofty no pay totes has increased in Canada during the put as years. This is shown by the growth offlo-

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' Notes By

The out winter showed that horses can be worth their weight In gold at tunes when snows no no deep that tractors and trucks won't operate. In some south Al- berto. towns the put winter the team and the old-.fs.shto::ed "Jumper" was the farm family's only means of gettlna to town for slxoplfes and mail. However. necessity hp always been the mother of invention. and if the horse disappears we may erpect. that inc-tree tractors and auto- mobiles will be developed which will beat the Snow in winter. If such in invention are. it will mean another push over the cliff for the horse, who will find his realm of usefulness pretty well confined to that ranch where the automobile hunt yet been Invented which will do the job of

o well-trained cow-horse. -I.eth- bridge I-Ietsid. A gentleman of our acquaint.-

mce had two babies. That is to say. he was the father of two bab- ies. The first was raised accord- ing to the clock. No matter how hungry the baby got, he was out of luck unless the clock said feed- ing time. He could holler his head off, but the clock was the boss. And he did, refusing to admit. that I clock knew more about whether he was hungry or not t.hIn he did himself. It was a little tough on the parents. In fact ft was so tough that when the se-