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THE GUARDIAN

Morning Dally (Founded in 1881'». Authorized as Second Clara Mill. P061» om" Department. omn-

The llIl-Ild Glllfllllll Pulllllhlllg C6.

rresldeni. inn A. Burnett; Vice-President. Win. B. Burnett; Seem-Tread, G. M. Burnett; 5'1"!" l"

ilanaging Director. .l. B. Burnett; Allwlli" 54m"- Fronk Walker.

”The Strongest Memory is Weaker TIN"! the Weakest lnk.“

DHARLOTTETOWN. SATURDAY,

irritating Mlsnomer

The Winnipeg Free Press and other western newspapers have an annoying habit, in discussing the freight rates question, of miscalling the two big Central Provinces the "east" and thereby confusing the whole issue. "for example the Free Press complainslthat in the west, where there is no water, rail or road competition the

railwpys, as in the past, will charge the fulT

amounts authorized by the Transportation Board. In the east, on the plea of competition, the rail- ways generally have not charged the standardor maximum rates. Therefore, the discrimination ln» these maximum rates does not begin to tell the full story. The spread between the rates actually charged in the east and in the west is much greater as the evidence submitted to the Commission in the present case proved."

If this is the way the Western Provinces pre- sented their case, it is no wonder the Transporta- tion Commissioners got their wires crossed. The habit of ignoring the Maritime Provinces as if they didn't exist in the geography of Canada orig- inated with our Quebec and Ontario neighbors and has been exploited by them ever since Con- federation. lt is pure propaganda. There are but three eastern Provinces-the Maritimes—- and, like the West, we are the victims not the ex- ploiters in the freight rates grab. So far as Prince Edward Island is concerned we are the most victimized Province of all, and for the rea- sons-doubly operative here—so strongly em- phasized in the Free Press comment above quot- ed.

The West Point Service

From an item quoted in yesterday's Guard- ian, from our files of I889, it will be seen that efforts were being made at that time to supply ii train ferry service between Buctouche, N.B., and Cape Wolfe, P.E.|., which with the later addi- tion of the Borden ferry service, would have prov- ed of inestimabla advantage to the people of Western Prince County, as well as of the Mari- times generally. For some reason the scheme lell through, and therein lies the object lesson for us today. The plans for a West Point-Buctouche ferry service now proposed have received the unanimous indorsation of the Provincial Legis- lature and of all our members of Parliament, as well asof the New Brunswick members and public generally. It should now be pressed too

y satisfactory conclusion. If for any reason this is not done, it may be another half-century be- fore public interest can again be aroused, which under present uncertain conditions is taking a long gamble indeed.

To the arguments advanced in favor of the need of this ferry service-such as the provision of ready access to nearby agricultural markets, the fostering of increased trade between the two Provinces, the shortening of the route for trans- portation of supplies both ways, the promotion of tourist traffic, relief of the present congested freight traffic situation at certain seasons, etc.- we may now add another very importantane name- ly, the exorbitant increase in railway freight rates granted by the Transportation Commission and allowed by the Dominion Government, which im- poses on this Province the necessity of building up a competitive truck service to and from the mainland at the earliest opportunity. With two large ferries available to be purchased for the West Paint service, the work of terminal con- struction on this side, and of dredging operations of a minor nature on the other, would place us in a greatly improved position so far as truck transportation is concerned. This is a matter of importance to the whole Island, and it should be so presented before the Maritime Commission and the Dominion Government.

Parliamentarians And communists

The position of the leaders of the House of Commons with regard to Communism was clearly expressed a few days ago by Prime Min- ister Mackenzie King, Mr. Bracken, Mr. Caldwell and Mr. Solon Low. No political group of any stature in Canada, whether of the right, the can- tre or the left, will have any truck with the fol- lowers of Stalin.

Mr. Caldwell was especially determined to keep his party free from Communist influence. Mr. Low, as one might expect from the leader of the Social Credit group, was inclined to ba ovar- whelmed by the perils confronting the nation, Mr, Bracken declared that "the best defence at home is . . to see that our communities are served better than Communism can serve thair Movie"-

Of more significance was Mr. King's raf- aranca to the Government's experience with Com-

munist spies in February I946. Mr. King sought

l9 iifllflfv, retrospectively, the maasuras than taken. At this momant," ha said, ‘I do not foi- I" I'll" MY collaagua, Mr. St. Laurant, was tak-

l J" PMW "VINIY to task because it was allagad

that, in authorizing tho staps necessary, ha was

“thrtarfariiig with Individual libarry. . . . ldo not

forgot . . . that wa on thissida have sinca hoard r . mora about our allagad mtorfaranca with in-

.. "i-“ilfviduol rights and human llbartlas than diout

" almost anything also, bacausa of tha actidn wa "took toiaupprass Communism."

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concerned with Communism. The

the persons convicted in open court of treason, sedition or of revealing ‘official secrets‘ could have been adequately dealt with by deportation, fine, imprisonment or all three. Nobody is pleading for law breakers. But what Mr. King forgets is that his Government persecuted inno- cent persons. He forgets that nine out of the eighteen persons thus treated, upon being brought to trial, were acquitted."

- EDITORIAL NOTES - ._,_. Tomorrow, 2nd Sunday after‘ Easter.

Extending until July, I949, the policy of government paid freight on eastbound feed grains gives our local government a year's grace in which to find a permanent solution to the prob- Iem ofbiinging in feed at reasonable cost.

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Supplying our share of foodstuffs to ERP countries will require maximum farm production in the Maritimes. The government should take steps to assure farmers that production will bo profitable in spite of freight rate increases.

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The American Ninth Army, this date I945 captured Hanover and cut a motor road to Bruns- wick, while the Canadians in Holland captured Deventer. Mr. Churchill announced the Em- pire's losses to the end of February were I,IZ6,- 802, the killed numbering 306,984.

George Canning, British statesman, born ta- morrow's date I770. Was Prime Minister in I827; one of the most brilliant and witty orators of his time: "l called the New World into ex- istence to redress the balance of the Old." (The King's Message, Dec. I2, i826). "When our_ perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep? Nc,—here's to the pilot that weathered the storm." I i i The Fredericton, N.B., City Council has ac- cepted an offer of the Fredericton Exhibition to turn over its property to the City. Under the agreement the City gives the company a re- newable 2I-year lease to operate the business, the property to be tax exempt. . I N I

Our primary producers pay more proportion- ately for what they buy than any other prov- ince, and also pay more for movement of their product to the market. At the same time they get less for their produce than any other prov- ince. Yet we are told there is no discrimina- tion in our Con-federation system. It Ir * i

If the P. E. l. Tennis Association succeeds in its endeavor to have the Eastern Canadian Tennis Finals held at the Charlottetown Club, it would prove appropriate entertainment diversion for Canada's Governor General, Lorcl Alexander, when he vacations here this summer. He is a great tennis player, though golf has his prefer- ence for outdoor exercise;

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Mr. K. M. Martin, K.C., made a good, and it is hoped, an effective, fig=ht on behalf of city telephone subscribers at the investigation for increasing rates held by the Public Utilities Commission. He put his finger upon several weak spots in the Company's claim, which the Com- missioners, if not the Company, seemed to ap- preciate.

I I I I The Prices Board order on butter and sugar mark-ups will ease the blow at the consumer at the expense of the merchant. Although the in- creased freight is certainly part of his cost he will not be permitted to take it into considera- tion. Instead_he will have the old mark-up plus the actual increase in freight. fi I‘ l‘ I

If the Island Telephone Company's applica- tion for increased rates for the city be granted by the Public Utilities Commission subscribers will have to pay one dollar additional per month for a one-party line for business purposes and fifty cents per month for residence. For a two- party l-ine the requested increase is 75 cents a month for business phones and 25 cents a month for a residence. For multi-party lines the re- quested increase is 50 cents per month for busi- ness and residence phones. The increase would be effected by the Company listing this area under Group 6, which includes areas wherg the num- ber of phones and extensions would run from 3,- 00I to 5,000. The present number of phones and extensions in the Charlottetown exchange is 4,- 535 and there are applications at present for I00

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The death at Halifax on Thursday of Mr. W. A. Heustis will be learned with regret by many friends in this Province. A native of Part Hill, where ha was barn in I863, Mr. Heustis moved with his parents to Summersida whara in 187B ha antarad the dry goods stora of l-lon. Bani. Rogers, remaining thara for fourteen years. Latar ha ramovad to Charlottetown as manager of tha drars oods department and European buyar for tho fi of ‘Perkins-and Stains, the predecessors of Maura. Moora and MacLaod. It was in iha latter capacity that ha was shipwrecked naar tha Skarryvora Lighthouse, off tha Hebrides, about tha yaar I899, along with Mr. John McLuran and Ilia lata Messrs. S. A. MacLaod, L, E. Prowsa. W. W. Stanley and Col. Chas. E. Laigh. In latar yaors Mr. l-laiisris raprasantad nuinaroui clothing establishments and tiavallad wldaly throughout the Provinca bafora his ratlramant and subso- quant ramoval IOIIflIlfCI, whara ha raaldad with his daughter Mrs. W. Gordon Schwartz. who also

a i - "livid to lziiaw that tha Govarnmaiit has

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‘heard’ about what happened at Ottawa in Fab- ruary I946. And Mr. King errs gravely if he thinks that the criticism which thus arose was 'individuai rights and human liberties‘ which were suppres- sed by the Government in I946 were the rights of all Canadians, including those of Mr. King and Mr. St. Laurent. Had the Government pro- ceeded in the proper way, as it should have done,

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Tha has two Great wnra broke out after the harvest in Europe had been garnered. That should minimize the" present scare of im- mediate war to some degree. —St.. Catherlnes Standard.

The world's leading bicycle ox- portlng nation is Britain. In 1947 exports from the United Kingdom totalled 1.440.662 out of a total pro- duction of 2,489,730 (including 8t.- 476 juvenile bicycles and 189.810 trtcycles). This means that. on an average a minimum of ten bicy- cles were exported every minute of every 8-hour working dbv from United Kingdom ports (ex- cluding Sundays and holidays). On the same basis of calculation, 8,306 bicycles are made every day in Britain's factories -or 17 every minute. - Fredericton Gleaner.

A kitchen in winter la much more a farm house living room than in the summer months of field and furrow, when men folks are seldom seen in it. except. at. mealtimes. But. in snowbound days of a hard winter. a. man often can be found pretty close to the 1111188. usurping the larger of the bwo rocking chairs that the right sort of farm kitchen has, We say right sort of kitchen because there are many modern farm kitchens which, being of the leboratorv- styled and undersized type, would assuredly have no place for one rocking choir, let. alone two. —Han- aver Post.

a London architect, ‘iir- Be"- hold Lubetkln, has been Elven iii’ task of designing and bulldiri! ill’- most. modern town in the world. This will soon be taking shape m the north of Britain and conshrw- Lion will be begun well before inc end of this year. It. is estimated that. the Job will be completed ‘in ten years. The town will be CHI-ed Peter-lee and will house mint" and their families. It will have 10,000 houses and accommodate n- bout, 40,000 people. The cost. is tjmgted at. $56 million. Peberlee .. being built. where there 1s nothing but: small mining communities spread over large tracts of coun~ try. And it. will serve as an educa- tional, cultural. social and will merclal axis for a district habited by 100.000 people- Information Office.

Aware of the advanlblel "I luv‘ ing wood lots on their farm-i. many farmers have commenced w reforest portions of their own ma. 1r is a road arflciice- B“ this is the time of the W" I" think about it. There are thou- sands of Ontario farms with a. bli- of waste land on them. 13°91’ "m for pasture. These acres can be phmted to trees without. any 1055 OI billable soil. The growth v1 e grove would cover UP i! Full? f” o, rocky carrier and add bathe value of the farm. There are obhci farms, bereft of trees. which Well-d be enhanced by the planting at windbreaks. Many Wwnships buy up abandoned farms at tax Salt-S and. plant them out. to P1115 °I other trees. These areas 11800319 d community asset. instead of a lia- btlty-arid an eyesore. Individual farmers can improve their own holdings by the plant-ins of imi- It; bakes some time. M B 5115i Se!‘ son o; the year, u: do this. b1- it. will pay dividends. - Wlndiflf

Star.

The war-time Ind WlFW" shortage of shirts and primes I“ the United States has been licked. and the manufacturers are start.- trrg to worry that their industry may become mired in over-produc- tion. Men's sport and dress shirts are pouring from the factories or. a dizzy rate of 200 million a year. says The Wall Street Journal. find pyjamas left. the factories last year to the lune of 24 million pairs. The manufacturers upped the price of shirts 25 cents for the preser... Spring trade which brings the price of a shirt to twice what it ivas in pre-war times. As for pyja- mas, they sell for two. and is hflif rime; the pre-wrir price. 801005 as the public has the spendlnS power that. presently exists in the U. s. shirts and pyjamas are n00 likely to pile up on shelves. Even when they are not. moving as HP- tdiy as they still are, the price is likely to be slower comtrig down than it. was kotng up. There lrt misny reasons for the situation. and the principal one is that. tapioca- ment. prices are governed b? PN- duction costs. — Btrabford Beacon Herald.

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Practically every large oliy In North America is trying to do some- thing about; its smoke problem It ls not only a. question of the e1’- fect. of smoke on properly but. more important on the health of the residents. 1t was recently not- ed in the CIL Oval that the aver- age person consumes two or three quarto of food and drink ovary any. but in the aame time takea into the lungs from 10,000 to 12.000 quarts "of whatever atmosphere happens to be around. bloat. of the soot. and other pollution in the air iii caught. and held in hia rarptra- tory system. Time generally pro- vides the solution o: most prob- lems. and time may eliminate tho smoke menace. ltaotrtetty. atomic energy and other lighting and heating development may event- ually rnaka the use of aueli things sa con-l and ooka an aaachronisnr. ‘rharadaaarfsaaaaibobsanylm- maaiata proapaos of this. however. and in use maailsiina mokoatackl and ahhnnaya continua to pour noariou. ailments into the caca- elaan air. manity is

naada of

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indiiaky olty for clean air. -- larnla Osl-

“GRII! I5 OLD”

Grief is old. and like an old river Hunting out to sea, It. creeps at. night through swamp

and thicket, Loot as Mystery-

Grlef is old. child. old as woman; Strange, this too she needs: Fold it close. but. listen. listen- For the stlveririg of reeds!

For love is young, bluer than rib- bons

And many the wafers stormed b0 silver ' By a returning moon.

-Bemtce Bunn Chrlstman 1n The New York Times.

+a+oa+++o+o+o+a++a<++o+ PUBLIC FORUM

This colnnlrr II ‘open b0 the dllcullon by corre- spondents ol questions a! lateral!» The Cu-rlottecawi- Guardian doea not necessar- iiy endorse the opinion nl pondensl. ‘

w. - WHOSE HORSE LAUGHS?

Sir,-I would like to say a few words in answer to a letter appear- ing tn your April 5th issue and signed J. Vince McIntyre of Mon- treat.

First Mr. McIntyre tells us very clearly that he is a Couununist and b. Dictator with his words “But I hope acts of mine will be strong enough to eventually right this dictatorship of Premier Jones — Horace Wright Co." Then further down he tells us he is not a Com- munist, but e. true Democrat, Does he think the people of P. E. I. are so ignorant that they cannot. grasp the meaning expressed by his so called "acts of mine"? PW-lfbher- irnore. as he says, he left the Island to seek his livelihood in Central Canada, Why is he rioiw trying to

While on the winds of noon: . but about that time the wind veer-

Old Charlottetown. tau r." r. r.)

l snrrwnacx A’! aoarus "Among all the storms that. have visited the eastern erid of King's County, none has bearish- tended with such fatal results as that. of Bunday evening last at Swirls. in which two llvas- those of a woman and a man-ware lost. a new vessel wrecked, and n valu- able cargo given to the waves. "The evening up to about -6 o'clock was fine but. cold, with a slight wind from the westward;

ed-around to the northeast. ac- companied by n. blinding snow- storm. About 8 o'clock a vessel was seen by those on the wharf striving to round the breakwater. Those an shore coming to me conclusion that the captain was a stranger, bwa young men of the village went out in a. dory to as- sist in piloting her to a safe an- chorage. Their services were er. once thankfully received by the crew, which consisted of four men and two women. One woman was the sister and the other the cousin, of the captain. Having brought the

schooner around the breakwater and to an anchorage. the PIIObS

considered her quite safe and re-

tired to their homes. But about 0

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o'clock she began to drag her nn- chors. and despite all the efforts of the crew, who by this ha. had been joined by three men from another vessel, who went on board to assist. knowing that. she was in danger of running on shore, the vessel drifted helplessly down the Cove until about. 11.80, when she struck the rocks on Sourtii beach. “The poor creatures, men and

of 1948. Mr. E. L. Bowermsri, CUP MP, speaking:

"We are driven to this conclus

ion-the only thing that will solve our present. social and economic Problems is absolute Christian so- cialization of the means of pro- duction and distribution of all the necessities of life.

Mr. Greydon: Does that. include

farmers? Mr. Bowermisn: That would in- a appens next?

CCF‘ disown Mr. Bowerman? (ti-ml: he stating CCF policy? The mo,“ of Canada are entitled bo be told.

Mr. Bowerman wlli at. least have the credit of getting lomething settled which needed to be comer;

women, now gathered on deck, at the cabin and hold were full of water, and remained throughout the bitter oold night, their position being unknown to the people on shore, with very scanty clothing; the women having very little more than their night clothes, and she sea breaking over them, until 5 o'clock on Monday morning, when their cries attracted the villager: ‘o the beach. But. owing to the terrible sea, that was running at