PAGE FOUR THE GUARDIAN

Authorised In Second Clue Mail Poet Office Department, 0” s The blend Guudion Publishing 00.

President and Associate Editor. Inn A. Burnett. Auoeillo Editor. Frank Walker.

CliICUl.A'I'loN 'Covere Prince Edward island uko the dew”

f'Tho Strongest Memory Is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink”. l

UHARLOTTETOWN. waoxcsoay, ocr. s, 1952 l

A Fine Example

The visiting delegates to the annual meeting of the Maritime Provinces Board of Trade conclude their Charlottetown ses- sions this evening. Most of the work put in by members of tiie various Boards of Trade is, of course, on a community or provincial level but the Maritime Boards have shown that mucii can be done by joint action which would be impossible for the separate Boards. The work of the Maritime Transportation Commission is a prime example.

Without tiie efforts of Mr. Rand H. Math- eson and his associates the position of Mari- time shippers and consumers would hardly be able to be presented. The various gov- ernments do a great deal but it is doubtful if their efforts could be effectively coordin- ated without the enthusiastic fact-finding and gathering of points of view undertaken by the Commission and by its parent Boards.

Charlottetown is proud to have been host to a worth-while organization, doing an important job for this as for other parts of the Maritimes, also to their distinguished guest speakers. Islanders tend to have a fellow feeling whatever island (they may hail from and this Province certainly hopes that the Hon. Mr. Sangster will carry back to the people of the Island of Jamaica warmest greetings from Islanders here.

License Plates

The origin of the car license plate goes farther back into the past than one would suppose, according to the Hamilton Spec- tator which has done some editorial re- search on the subject. It stems from the early Greek and Roman practice of licens- ing vehicles and registering their descrip- tion for the purpose of raising revenue.

The large vans used to transport mer- chandise from the seaport of Piraeus inland to Athens, were taxed and their owners is- sued a. scroll giving them official permis- sion to carry on their trade. The revenue was used for the upkeep and protection of the road. The Romans levied similar taxes for the maintenance of their vast network of roads. Generally the traveller was stop- ped at toll stations and issued certificates that permitted him to travel to the next station. These licences of a sort, however, embodied little more consideration tha:i their value as revenue sources. Little, if any, consideration was given to the use of licensing to control traffic or record the vehicles.

Licensing as we know it today didn't come into common use until after 1900 when the number of cars on the roads rose to such an alarming number that some defin-

iie means of controlling the vehicles and protecting their owners against theft be- came necessary. Also, of course, it still was necessary t.o pay for roads.

The first license plates apparently were 2- nothing more than some rude shingle the owner devised. The first licence bureaus merely issued a number to the owner and required him to display it, leaving the method entirely up to him. The earliest metal licence plate apparently came into use shortly before World War I. No exact date is available but only a brief period elapsed before some economy-minded legislator hit upon the scheme of having the plates made in prison by convicts. -

The practice of alternating the colour schemes of the plates each year apparently didnlt arise until the 1920's. This method is in general use today but due to metal shortages and other circumsta ces, differ- ent methods are being devised. As in some Provinces this year, windshield stickers have been used to signify renewal. The State of Connecticut, however, has issued the small, metal renewal tag to be bolted to a corner of the original plate, since the mid- dle 1930's.

The commonwealth conference

Meetings of senior government officials of the Commonwealth countries which be- gun in London on Sept. 22 are designed to do the preparatory work only for the Com- monwealth Prime Ministers Conference -scheduied to begin in 'London at the end of

,November. By the very nature of things, says a United Kingdom press release, esc meetings may seem unproductive end Incon-

vs, wilihnot be possible to judge ' unit! the Prime Ministers have

r..ua..-...x.a.ai..-was,i-.-may --a-'rwQiN"LI'0I1rAIi'A-any-:w.k ..

reached their decisions. -

a free association of equal nations is one reason for the rather long drawn out pre- parations for the Conference. The inter- ,change of ideas and information between nine governments (and in addition the over- seas colonial territories) obviously takes time. The preparatory work of the officials is therefore required to be most far-reach- ing. They are asked not so much to ex- amine short-term expedients as to inquire into the conditions which over the long run will enable the sterling area to pay its way. The object of the January Conference of Commonwealth Finance Ministers in Lon- don was to agree on emergency measures to arrest the drain on the sterling area gold and dollar reserves. This purpose has been achieved and though the officials will have to examine the present position in order to see that there is no danger of .a relapse. their main task now is to chart the way ahead for a period of years.

One general assumption underlies most of the ideas that will be examined-that the Commonwealth, if it is to prosper, needs to promote an expanding and stable world trade. Though some measures, such as the development of Commomvealth resources, might suggest that the aim is to make the Commonwealth self-sufficient, it would be misleading to think that self-sufficiency in isolation from the rest of the world is the objective. On the contrary, the object is to

The principle that the Commonwealth is '

expand the Commonwealth's trade with the rest of the world. The development of

)Commonwealth raw materials, for example,

can be pushed ahead with greater con- fidence in the light of American forecasts of expanding United States demands for im- ported raw materials for many years ahead. One of the more controversial ques- tions to be considered is that of tariffs and imperial preference. The General Agree- ment on Tariffs and Trade (GA'IT) will be examined in the light of a thorough re-ex- amination of Commonwealth commercial policy, when two factors will have to be bal- anced against each other-that GA'l'l' lim- its the freedom to operate preferential tar- iffs, but on the other hand has been an in- strument for lowering tariffs since the war

to the benefit of the Commonwealth's trade with the rest of the world.

EDITORIAL NOII:Sg

Chinese Communists have been throw- ing stones at Canadian troops. Some peo-

ple really are hard to get along with. Q 0 I

Maritime Transportation Commissions man- ager Mr. Rand Matheson pointed out to the Maritime Provinces Board of Trade, it is also the price of satisfactory transportation service at economically feasible cost. 0 O 0 Not long ago they had a controversy in Britain about the propriety of shooting burglars, armed or otherwise. Now, to give point to the controversy, a household- er has been arrested for setting a booby trap which shot and killed a burglar. , 0 o 0 Canadais supplying of three fighter squad- rons to the North Atlantic Treaty Organ- ization to be based in France is a burden which will have to be increased but which at greatest should be less than the cost of permitting aggression to get started in that part of the world. I

It was a builder and not a would-be house owner who said recently that it should be possible to provide houses for a down payment of iS1,000 for the average Canadian building a .ii10,000 home. If the trade succeeds in doing so there will be no more problem about disposing of houses that are built. g

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The operations of the draggers fishing put of Souris are gradually resulting in the building up of an efficient system for get- ting a wide variety of fish to the house- wife in perfect condition. The development of a market for assorted kinds of fish should also rebound to the advantage of the inshore fisherman. '

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Sir Alfred Munnings, English painter, was born this date 1878. He first exhibit- ed at the Royal Academy in 1898. special- izing in turf and horse pictures. His "Ep- som Downs" is famous. During the First World War he painted a series of war pic- tures for the Canadian Government. An uncompromising critic of certain tendencies in modern art, he became president of the Royal Academy in 1944.

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, Aircraft designers in the United King- dom are busliyworking on a revolutionary wing design. It is crescent-shaped-swept back from the fuselage and then straighten- ed out again towards the tips. The crescent design takes advantage of the best features of the delta, the swept-beck and the razor- thin straight wing all designed for flying near the speed of sound. Ancient British chariots must have had a somewhat similar appearsnce. i Q, "

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Vigilance is the price of safety and, as

back in mothballe after -Wmmer We toyed with the know- ledge that neverso silly as to wear such gaudy

rocks of the Scottish hills a nu-

THE GUARDIAN, CHARLOTTETOWN - . Li Concerted Effort

Surely; she'll respond!

I OM30 Old Charlottetown . (Ami r. r. 1.)

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o I Days Of Ulr-Namlmu

(New York Herald Tribune)

V E i-lommurabi evidently didn't y start. it, after all. It was a gentle- .

iman named Ur-Nammu who de- INOTEWORTHY EVENTS

vised the first set. of laws-at least the first set we know about today. Actually, man' must have been making laws ever since he discov- ered that there were other men on

SOUTH wmni If you wake in the night.

Sumer, which included the city of Ur, whence Abraham come. He must. have been a. gentle monarch induced, for in a violent. rage he 'or- dslned a system of cash fines for crimes, rather than the eye-ror- an-eye treatment favored by Ham-

lt.'s the south wind whistling up daffodil weather,

his cap atiit

with its gay green feather;

chre in old burying ground. 1 Jan. 1873. new

ills the south wind calling the twigs to start.

possible that he devised his toler-

-Francee Frost. -AA. ant: law system in his old age, after

ed that in his younger days he put to death an opposing king who made war against him. At Iany rate, the Ur-Namimu Code shows that society has been up against the same problems for a long time. In those days. there were "grah- bers" of oxen, sheep and, donkeys just as there are grabbers of other things today. it also was felt nec- eary to see to it that "the orphan did not fall a prey to the wealthy" and the "widow. .lo the power- ful" and, most succinct of all. that "the man of one shekei did not fall a prey to the man of one mine. Thai: Ur-Nammu

cLARK'S FEED SERVICE

MT. STEWART

(Ottawa Journal) As we put. our Buchanan tartan (bright as the sunset) sport; sums a good

the Highlanders were

lennia ago. . - .

cloth when the troubles were upon

. S than. Against. the heather and FREE sun”:

chanan in what. we call his tartan would be I. certain target for the Hanoverian bullets, and High- iandere with all their chivalry, were not so romantic as to believe they should give an even break to the scarlet and red battalions of. their foes.

-The sober truth is that the gay tartan, possible of identification by the enthusiastic Scot. at 500 paces, is 3. modern invention. Un- til 1746, when the old clan system was shredded by English cannon at Culloden the Highlanders wove their own tartan: with their own FEED PRICES

dyes, Their colors came from the

heaithtek:-, the mossecci the flowers, MASTER FEEDS

en ey were sub ued if hand- - . " i - , mm. They blended mmamy mm M. Pig Startei Pellets 954 90 M. Hog Tmishei Pellglism

”..i1:.:.::r:.;:.:'. ”.”.':i was Mash 54-00 1,31,. lgo3vhRg1tign ...,,,.,,ggs.ss hunted. ” . e 98. gg Highland .drese was proscribed M' Hog Grower Pellets S-4.95 icarg ygzars nft3ri:'i:-5 iiifii:te.uni:- M10 My Dairy R. (S) 354.25 l'i om an ' 3 I. 00 I10 6 0 a. . I g Grower hm n, 3, 1 m m d 1 - M. Hog I-inishu Mash M. Calf Starter F .t.hugf.f3'.mZq.7.:?.i.ll.id.?..,?r:?,,;,!.1l?. s4.oo A Pellets ........ .... 35.63 air 3 s I I tme w ' ' i A could pnol: have done so slfnhox-neg. 'SHUR-(SilAINR t. n W125 But when Queen Victoria 1-, he ' . gggggggggggggg u . 4.95 OW a 10 ............ .- - - Royal patronage, made the iiigh: Plg Stmter is Laying Mash ........ .. S435 lands. their music, their terians I-log Grower ............ .. 554.15

Calf Starter Grower &5.gg

and their Purple glens fashionable Hog Finisher ---------- ” .3405 Dairy R. (S) ........ H g4

the old one of using the native

dyes in cottage w-eaves had very

om," been ML Tm. W” when Above rlzrloes F. 0. B. Feed Mill. We finance gin imagination ma mm W,” ,;-,W. three mont s with no interest on Shut-Gain. X ed to run riot and we have for our months, no interest, on Master. Deliveries can be or- lighter hours patterned cloth that fanged.

may not be well founded historic-

The following notes were among those found recorded in an old prayer book of Peter MacGowan, F.sq., ,3 prominent. citizen of Char-

mains of the wife of Archibald MacNeill were the last. in copul-

cemetery (Sherwood) opened for interment.

6 May, 1884: Foundation of sec- ond Methodist; Church near the old burying ground (Grace Church,

their buds on the Rpm: tr" mlilfiroalgidy know! too much about Upper Prince Sm of your hem. Upmmmu nowadays but u ,8 --m-v-m-?-

geiher succeed in his aspirations is demonstrated by the fact: that,

Lions. They still are at. it; today. as a matter of fact, and so long as the great struggle for justice still is being waged. it may not. be a- miss to mine time out. to salute R man who waged it so many mil-

TORONTO - (OP) A Free shoe- shines to all and sundry will be of- fered by one exhlbitor at. the Can- adian Shoe and Leather Fair here Oct. 14-17. The shoe polish manu- n facturer is operating a shoeshinc did not aim- parlor where no fee .s necessary.

in Hollywood they no

Titanic end they are to call . "Nearer My God to Thee.” much to expect that with all the fortunes it on advisers, could ever find one to tell it what is bad taste. Ottawa Journal.

The useful

harvest helper works the swother. operates combine, trucks grain to farm granary or elevator a

snized operations of the

in a cement; mixer

fifty cents.- Standard.

, Kingston

The

merits of worms beneath the

radioactive report their abouts to geiger ltcounters, the Resources Depsrtnientf nounces that underwater could

depths where divers

it's 9. eorker how many

there are in the change

ways being plentiful money going into

Catherinee Standard.

3. Negro was

was not making speeches." told the judge. the arrest of the

such occasions." Replied the

demo before you die.

way? And yet: statistically ii: is fair assumption. The

an of ective way is found to our

Winnipeg Tribune.

sary. Numerous devicw dependin

mobile. in many instcncrs ihave added a certain

xNotes B); The Wayg I

making a new movie of the sinking of the

To!) Hollywood spends any-

Western Canada. drives a tractor, the the

works in anywhere in all the mech- har- vest. The 515-n-day man is a skill- ed workcr.- Farmer's Advocate.

A Brockvlllc man wnei? caught recently and did 60 turns before he was rescued. Al. the Exhibition, in. whirling like that would have cost him at least. Whig-

privacy of the creature world has disappeared. The move- soil are traced by radioactive wires in- stalled in them. Mosquitoes made Where-

Now

an- televi- sion will keep an eye on fishes at p not work in safety. - Ottawa Journal.

United States dimes, quarters and nickels made these days. Not. so long ago they went into private hoard. It. is the old story about cheap money al- and good hiding. - St.

In Port Eilubeiii. South Africa, charged with un- lawfully addressing a meeting. "I he "I was praying. It was the proper thing to do after resisers. The Lord expects us to pray aloud on ma- gistrate: "The Lord said it was not proper to pray in a public place

ing to be injured in traffic arci- Shocking. isn't: it. when you look at it that

National Safety Council asserts that unless

traffic accidents, one out of every two persons living today will be injured in traffic before he dies.--

To the cor designers reduction

tion. It rapidly is becoming neces-

upon the engine for power have been added to the post war auto- they amount. of, ,-

weight. This has made it. increas- omen

OCTOBER s. 1952

lnaiy difficult to 1

Draper weight distribuxiliaxintiiii-louts. out the car. It also has the eu:.f engineers say, of putting more tvhhe braking load on the "ow

8'-'1-S--Sault Ste. Marie am

it

A vital point 1, g i iooked by employer-:01: oilitt ixv: Physically handicapped p,m,ng, is not a charitable act but rm", 9- sound business venture. pm 3:33 People usually are capgbia

ldevoted workers; the fight they have had to wage Egan,” their adversity often results i Strengthened ci1Ei'-actor and'steadI-I fastness of purpose, a. New York . Times.

nd

A man of infinite

MCKEN. the Londoiiint cvdliimiihlf who died suddenly on Friday 1.1. made his home town of Wick in Northern Scotland familiar. to millions of readers with remem- branccs of his happy boyhood, he applied his wit; to modern men and affairs and when he died his employers, who published the veteran London Star considered him the most popular writer since Charles Dickens, also in Star col. "m"i5C--Ottawa Journal.

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This is the time of the year when nature is so bountifiil for those who like to take it little extra ef- fort in their homes to put up jel- lies and jams. Crabapples, mum, and smpes are at their peak p”5"V95 and iciiy that will grace the table during the long winin- m0nths- It requires a little em. work and a small investment to Put up a supply 0! l6lly. But it is fgle Way to keep down the cost at Ccl)'xi(T;K- -- Kitchener-Waterloo Re-

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when A British Columbien graduates from our provincial law sciiooi and is called to the bu no D553 3- fee of S500 for the right: in practice his profession. But if this graduate of a Canadian Univer. sity outside British qaiumbin comes to practice he is charged . 1'90 0! 31.590. The whole purpoge of this discriminatory fee (which

earth to contend with. Hammur- Int . can be an effective bhrri t

d h m h -, . H 0 9 OWN in YHHS 80119 by. but. in a. church or house. I sug- 81' 0 I

:Eundef,ie”w,,f, geese ab” C”de' which is dated 3'” 23 May 18632 Corner Stone of gest you read Chapter Six of the WW"? 711811 Without financial

bmung by. When Ymm 3050 3- C- i-0 1700 13-.C-- Methodist. chapel laid this day. Gospel M st. Matthew. Three means) is to keep lawyers out or has heretofore held the dlslincllfm 17th June 1869. Wesleyan con- damn-5 or ten days," ywaii street British Columbia. It; is a. tariff.

in mg south wmd riding of being the Oldest decipherable ference in Charlottetown. JOMML p nothing less. and as such is re.

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caili th 1) k V p . ' m i ' , Venue How many persons in your Iamv ""13 "'””- W ' ("midi all if!-

lo tag” usmbrliiggsaney. lei; think it IS a bit older. Ur-Nam- closed. New cemetery (Sherwood! Hy? Four. Then mm of Wu are mg terprovinclal hnrrierg. .. victor",

” mu was by profemion the King of Opened f0r interment. The rc- ' Times.

According to Indian delegate. gt 3 the Commonwealth Pariameniory Asociatloifs meetings in oils- wfi, lndin now has on its national radio service a program similar in the C. B. C.'s Farm Forum. The idea was borrowed by Indian V151. tors to this country some while ago- Canadians. for their part, may do some borrowing from In- din as they become better acquaint-

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' some of his youthful impetucsities 19”! 9-"91" he di'9d- Om” 1390919 p t d . . h is tm T - - id dg M 1 t 1., - - 3. ha in go, right on making laws 11- M W” 9” VW15 " Lfilme "3 ed with it. in connection with aria HS Run RIO! hm subs C as 15 lecor gaiiist the same sort. of depreda- mu” um" 3"” ii dgsi” " wndh Senate reform, for example, it will