race FOUR THE GUARDIAN

Auniorlnd no Second Clan Mall Post. Office h Department. Ottawa. The Island (iuanllun Publishing Co.

President and Associate Editor, Ian A Burnett. Anoclula Editor. Frlnli Walker.

g CIRCULATION "Coven Plinco Edivud Inland uka tho dew”

, ('Tho Strongest Memory is Weaker Than : the Weakest Ink". SATURDAY. NOV.- 87153-1.

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POIIIW "all

The poppies being worn today repre- sent both our homage to the dead and our debt to those who did not die although they too were prepared to give all for home and country. Through the small charge made to the branches for supplies i' , of poppies Vetcraft Shops are enabled to I provide employment for many disabled veterans generally unfit for industrial work, and also the Legion keeps up its Service Bureau. After the. 'campaign costs have becli met the remainder is retained by the local branch for welfare work among vet- erans and their families

The poppies are a vivid reminder of these things. ”Lcst we forget" is no idle phrase. We forget all to readily and it is well periodically to think on these things.

The Queen's Ancestry

An authoritative research team, com- prising the editor of Burke's Peerage and seventeen assistants, has lengthened Queen Elizabeth's ancestry by a couple of doz-en generations but pruned back the family trees of many of Britainls lesser nobility. Burke's Peerage, the accepted chronicle on this subject, is being revised for the first time since it was established in 1826. Al- though the full story of the editorial re- search will not be published before the 2r 840-page Coronation Edition appears in June, a few interesting excerpts have been released for publication.

The Queen's ancestry, the editor states, has been traced back to a fourth century Teutonic tribal King, Woden. Previous data had followed the Royal Family's roots back only to the ninth century Saxon King Egbert, first King of Britain. It appears now definitely established that the British monarchy goes back earlier than any other in Europe. Old records have been re-ax- amined and others recently brought to light have been carefully checked, it is stated. Some other British family trees have been extended by the research while others have had limbs lopped off mercilessly. Many peers claim that their records go back to the days of the Doomsday Book of Wil- llam the Conqueror's era, but, according to Burke's Peerage editor, there are not more than twelve people who can substant-

iate this claim.

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cost. til Living lnillces

The announcement of a new cost-of-liv- ing index by the Dominion Bureau of Sta- tistics is not only an event of considerable importance but it may well lead to consid- erable confusion. For example, notes the

the other day at Toronto, predicted that there would be a substantial fall in the cost-of-living index when next issued. He was thinking, of course, of the old index. But the announcement nvas given over chiefly to the new index which, contrary to

Mr. Howc's expectation rose. It was the , old index which fell. The new index is given at 116 on

August 1 and rose one tenth of a point to 116.1 by September 1. The old index stood at 187.6 on August 1 and fell 1.1 points to 1865 on September i. This was indeed, as Mr. Howe forecast, a substantial reduc-

tlon. The old index is based on the average of the years 1933-39 being equal to 100. Thus at September 1, the cost of living was 186.5. That is the cost of living was 86.5 per cent higher than in 1935-39. The new ilndex is based upon the single year 1949 which equals 100. Thus at September 1, the cost of living was 16.1 per cent higher than in 1949. But beyond this the two in- dices are prepared differently. "The cost- of-living index number is the stock in trade of politicians, economists, trade unionists and of all those who are interested in fluctuations in living costs," says the Free Press. "Politicians use it to buttress or undermine their own or their opponcnts' arguments; economists, among other uses, to measure the advance or retreat of in- flation; labor officials in wage negotiations and so on. But while so commonly used, few understand that the index number has much of the mystique of the pronounce- ments of the ancient oracles. All sorts and kind; or ngure--ore muscled. N.ided- 9"” it 1 t dmqed, lmtlpllcd and, most mys- " ' f 9 Decisions which

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Winnipeg Free Press, Mr. Howe, speaking ,

THE GUARDIAN. cnAliLorr'r" ii-:TowN

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pays for housing, clothing, food, entertain- ment and so forth There never has been a cost-of-living index which was not con- troversial."

By and large the cost of living index of the Dominion Bureau has been general- ly accepted by all parties and all sections of the people and the country as a fair reflection of living costs. It will readily be seen that no changes in the times making up an index are possible without changing the index itself. As the housing, cloth- ing, eating and general living arrangements of people greatly change over the years, it is not only desirable but essential from time to time to abandon one index as be- ing outmoded and to devise a new one. This is the third time in the past few decades that a new index has appeared. For a time 1926 was the base year. Then it was superseded by 1935-39 and now by 1949. A similar change was recently made by the Labor Government in the United Kingdom.

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Teacher Training Problem

At the recent convention of the Cana-

dian Education Association in Toronto, it; was generally agreed that teachers should; have more than a one-year training period.- They should have at least a second yeal',j devoted largely to cultural subjects. Can-i ada, it was pointed out, is the only major nation in the world where a one-year train-

ing program is widely used, Alberta being exceptional among the provinces in its two-

year course. Dr. J. R. Maclntosh of the

University of British Columbia described the

situation as "incredible", and Prof. A. S.

Mowat of Dalhousie University declared it

is "impossible" to give in one year the cul-

tural background that high school grad-

uates should have before undertaking to

teach.

Dr. C. E. Phillips of the Ontario Col-

lege of Education boldly entered a con-

troversial field when he asserted that there

are not two kinds of teacher, elementary

and secondary, and that all teachers should

have had university education. To raise professional standards, Dr. M. E. LaZerte, former dean of education at the University of Alberta, suggested that as distinct from a certificate to teach, the title of "teacher" should be granted by teacher organizations, and given only to those who have proved themselves. .

"It may be long before all these ideas find reflection in public policy, but they point in the right direction,” comments the Ottawa Citizen. "Meantime, nearly 10,000 certificated teachers in Canada have no more than a Grade X education and sev- eral thousand classes are being taught by elderly housewives who are simply helping out during an emergency. This state of al- fairs will apparently get worse before there is any prospect of its getting better. On- tario, however, will move ahead by trans- forming its Normal Schools into Teachers' Training Colleges in September, 1953. The colleges will provide a two-year course for grade XII graduates, a one-year ourse for teachers who have had two years exper- ience and two summer courses."

EDITORIAL NOI ES

Tomorrow, the 22nd Sunday after Trin- lty.

Good yields and good prices seldom go together. Prince Edward Island is extra- ordinarily fortunate in its potato industry this year as indicated by the figures quoted by Mr. Donald A. MacDonald, manager of the P. E. I. Pptato Marketing Board.

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No Nobel peace prize is to be awarded this year, presumably because those re- sponsible for making the awards were un- able to see any great contributions towards peace in the past year of fighting in Korea, cold war in other areas and propaganda in the United Nations.

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Canada's vast grain crop will have its effect on railways and shipping as well as on the western farmer in particular and the Canadian economy in general. Strain- ing rail capacity to the utmost will bring its problems but, should remove those 'of

finance.

United States and British forces landed in French North Africa this date 1942. The several landings were under the command of Lt--Gen. Dwight Eisenhower. Allied naval

tions with anti-Axis elements had previous- ly been conducted by General Clark. 0 O O

The cancelling of the London Opera Company's presentation of "Carmen" in Charlottetown is a great blow to this Prov- ince. It has been at least .a generation and probably a good deal longer since a professional opera company visited Prince Edward Island. Perhaps it was hoping for too much that their Canadian premiere

pqnona ;i;gn!.lly,”what it

forces were under the command of Admiral m Sir Andrew Cunningham. Detailed negotia- .

O Notes From

Another Island By "Annon”

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LONDON, England:-

Our annual Motor Show has once again been attracting the usual droves of citizens all anxious to see what the car manufactur- ers have been up to. But this year there was a difference. Since the end of the wnr the Show has had only slightly more than academic interest for us because a new car. except in the specialised - and lllgli-priced-range, has been as difficult to come by as an unfurn- ished flat, and that's saying some- thing; ulllcss one happened to live overseas, in which case one was an export. customer and entitled to every possible service.

This year, however, more cars are nvailable for the home market. Export is still the deity whom we all, especially the manufacturers, serve. but because of import re- strictions overseas and other caus- es the car makers are finding that exports will not go on for ever ab- sorbing all they care to send out of the country. It is then that. ii home trade is necessary for them to keep up their production sched- ules. Hence the change of atmos- phere at this year's Motor Show.

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Where once the salesmen were somewhat disdaillful of the atten- tions of native would-be purchas- crs calling at their stands, now they are actually trying to sell their wares. Where once we were told we might have to wait. years for delivery of our favourite model, now we are promised despatch within a matter of months, weeks, or even immediately.

And there, incidentally, lies con- cealed another reason why manu- lncturers are beginning to wonder if they haven't ignored the home market too long: many a British motorist who ordered his new car years ago has refused delivery when it came, either because the price has risen too much in the meantime or styles have changed so that he no longer wants his original choice anyway.

As for the Show itself, this year it. was as blllilllllll. as ever, and as great a magnet as ever to veteran motorists, intending motorists, hope-to-be motorists, and never- will-be motorists who Just happen to be interested; motorists who want speed in their cars, motor- lsts who want. comfort; motorists who want: to go one better than their neighbours, and motorlsts' neighbours who have no intention of being outdone: and, twittering all around, little boys by the doz- on.

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It would be a dangerous gener- alisation to claim that certain types of people go to see certain types or cars. But without being dogmatic about it. one can notice a certain amount; of ”whi-it might. be expected" among the 'visitors clustered about each of the stands. Thus the younger men, many wearing sporting jackets and flat. corduroy caps-unquestionably the thing for the city man off duty- crowd around the smart. small, l-nklsh-looking sports cars, while the girl friends try not to look too vague as the technicalities are ex- plalned to them.

The city man who is not so young. probably an executive who is never really off duty, retains his hard hat. and dark suit. as he studies the cars for the family man; his wife has no time for engine details; doubtless she is concerned that if hubby buys this car or that, she won't have a thing to wear when they go out

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Tile big. ornate American vehicr les-and there are a few. for this is an international show-are merely interesting for purposes of comparlwn, for with petrol the price it is they come 3. bit. expens- ive to run. which is why prac- tical men of all levels, from the city or not, devote their attention to the low-powered runabouu. those toy-like delights of which economy II the middle name. Alas, then appear to be still as popular OVCMCM as ever; delivery for the British in still it matter for the indistinct future.

As fer the Dnlmlcrs, the Bent”-

-would actually be in Charlottetown.

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Itukulltotoyeeutudave up all the bones and muscles of our feet, says a doctor. After that most of us are too lazy to use them. -Hamilton spectator.

.'.l'lio East. certainly has It over the went like a tent when it comes to publicity-seeking mayors. why, with the possible exception of Cal- gar-y'u chief magistrate, we haven't got I mayor west of the Great Lakes capable of stealing a. head- line from Ottawa's Charlotte Whit- ton. Toronto's Allan Lamport, and Monti-eal's Camilllen I-loude. It's a disgraceful situation all around and we hereby propose that wes- tern Canadian mayors do some- thing about rectifying it. - Leth- bridge Herald.

Survey: lu recent. year: have concluded that Canada has not enough large. modern libraries, but so far as the universities are concerned expansion is underway. The University of Bl-itch Colum- bia. built I his library addition not long ago. In Ottawa, Carleton Col- lege opened a new building for it:

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NORTHERN VIEW

Day comes slowly up north, From the first thin white of dawn's Beginning to the last gold, dis- solving

When the long beams of the sun

at. at a

Lie level on the earth. It. comes as slowly

An our trees grow, ripen,

or the day turns toward the night. We have a long time to think about change

And to be tempered to what; will come.

We have 9. long time to hold life Within our hands and savor it And know it good-juniper oak.

From laying the fire to the last pale smoke.

-Harriet Pllmpton. in the New York Times.

our apples

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i The Age-lllil Story

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And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven. clothed with a cloud; and a. rainbow was upon his head, and his face who as It were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: and he had In his hand a little book open. And the voice which I heard from hen- ven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which In open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea. and upon the earth. And I went. unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it. and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but It shall be in thy mouth meet. an honey. And I took the little book out of the angel's hand. and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet. as honey: and as soon in I had eaten it, my belly was bitter. ...... ..

Royces, most visitors to the Motor Show find it: hard to imagine there can be any delivery prob- lem. One supposes that people do buy such wonder., at Jeveral thousands of pounds apiece, or they wouldn't. be manufactured: indeed, we see them being driven in the streets. But; it: can hardly be supposed that the demand is so great. that a. waiting list of cus- tomers is necessary. Few of the show's patrons care as they jostle for a closer look. These are 9. joy to behold, no better cars are made anywhere. and it is a pleasure even to have seen them on dis- play. We can day.-dream about tgiem as we ride home om the ' us.

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GARNISIIMENT BILL Legislative Assembly. March 23. 1881'

Hon. Mr. Sullivan made the Or- der of the Day the second read- ing of the Bill intituled "An Act respecting the Garnlshment. of Debts." He said this Bill is in- tended to run conjolntly with the Act abolishing imprisonment: for debt. It has been found that that. Act has, on the whole, worked very advantageously to the Island. But there are certain circum- stances for which 1t' does not pro- vlde. For instance, A. may be the creditor of 3., who may owe A. say sl00: B. may dispose of his pro- perty and have debts due hint having so disposed of his property he has nothing upon which to levy. By the Act. abolishing lm. prisonment for debt he is reliev- ed of the liability of going to Jail, and A. may be left. without. any means whatever of collecting the amount justly due him; in fact. B. may set A. at defiance. -

Now, this law steps in for the purpose of affording A. la. remedy. It. authorizes a. creditor to take steps by which the debtor may be required to account for the (its- position of his property. Under it. an order may issue elthel-'from the Supreme Court or from the County Court; and the debtor may be required to give evidence show- ing how he has disposed of his property, the amount: of the debt: due him, and by whom they are due, with all necessary particulars, and then it provides that a. lien may be laid upon such debt. or debts. so that they may be taken for the payment of the claims of the original creditor. "This in a law that is very much required," Mr. Sullivan said. "It. will pre- vein: a great many fraud: on the part of dishonest men; and I have no doubt that it will promote the ends of Justice."

On The Cabot Trail

(Sydney Post-Record)

-Cheticamp now is reached. Cheilcamp, where its island serves as 9. strong breakwater to the surge of the sea. Chetlcamp surely must seem a welcome haven, grac- ious and inviting from whichever way one approaches along the Cabot Trail or from the sea.

And what. an splendid background chetlciimp enjoys fronting the ex- panse of sea and beyond are the magnificently soaring .eaches of the Cape Breton Hiizhland: Nat- tlonal Park; today necked with scarlet and gold.

On this Full day of falling tem- perature, of strengthening wind and pluhglng -surf Cheticamp is gratefully accepted by hungry men. Soup has seldom been more con- soling mackerel fresh from the sea never tasted better not apple pie more delicious than here In Chetlcamp in atdlnlng room he-

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financially.

Ice, and welcome your tlon. No obligation.

Insurance

lay: and above all, the Rollo,-'

On the not. on land. In the air, peril of fire, lightning, falling aircraft. of automobiles. of aoeldent. of Ilokneu.

In our modern life we are surrounded by perils, and that In why we employ the system of insurance to protect In

We are In alpoultlon to rovlrla, a complete lnluranoo cerv- nqulrleu for advice Ind Informlv g

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omm: CHABLQITITOWN . suuunuim: - MONTAGIII ALLISON 1'. MBLIAN. o.t.u...mmm Manager at Sununohldb CYRUS A. II. SHAW. C.f..U.. District Manager at Ilonllguo

Aunt: throughout the Province

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books last year. A new as2,000.000 library is functioning at the Uni- vcrsity of Alberta; another is un- McGill; and new plans at the University. of Toronto call for B. five-story struc- gure.-Ottawa Citizen,

whether they win or lose, the Presidential candidates must be al- most. too tired to care. The New York Times estimates that Gover- nor Stevencon has unveiled 32,500 miles (31,000 by all-, 5,500 by rail) and made more than 200 speeches, of which at were nationally tele- vised, to make himself, known to the American electorate. General Eisenhower has covered 33,000 miles (11,000 by train, 22,000. by plane) 'and has made 210 speeches 40 of them major, the rest whistle- stoppers.- Ottawa Citizen. g

At A time when dream world: have a special appeal, those who have clung to the Atlantis legend may be disheartened by the re- port of an undersea exploring ax- pedition headed by Dr. W. Maurice Ewing of Columbia University: geological laboratory. Beside: dis- covering in the Atlantic Ocean a vast canyon comparable to the Mississippi River, the expedition found that. the base of the Atlan- tic east. of he mid-Atlantic ridge

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craft are bobbing up and down merrily, here where the harbor wavec are chunklng and clunkiug against: the pilings of the wharf nearby, here where an gulls are swooping and calling -proclaim- iii: the hunger and the longing and the final fulfilment of life

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was identical loologicuu W1 : .' welt bus. This Ippearlyto ti-1:35..” the idea still held by some gut.-.,.' pan geologists that, the eastern ocean was 1. foundered continent

-Washington" Post. '

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An the women's nylon Ilook. lulu of today no tgood 3.; mm. first put: on the (market a few YEP-N 880? A number of Province readers have raised this question in letters to the editor. Most or them claim that their nylon; aren't lasting as long as they used to last. Members of the Brit- ish Columbia Progressive Conser- vative Association apparently have the same doubts. Their executive adopted a I lution asking, the Federal Government to investi- gate hosiery and textile industries with respect to the manufacture or women”: nylon stockings. The reg. olution suggested that hosiery manufacturers were deliberately making their product less durable to increase sales. Vancouver Province.

From time In time. we have 1.. merited the failure of many of the present-day schools to develop in our children just tolerable ability to spell everyday words, with which they communicate their thoughts in -writing. Recently, I pupil in 3 Cleveland junior high school wrote to us to ask if our "publishln" company would supply him with some "phampleta" on "differ-nt" occupations; and to any that his mlsnment was "partl- cually" concerned with jobs on A newspaper. His polite note closed with " tsincel-ly' Yours." We think that possibly our reply should go to the school which the young man attends, and should be in the form of an inquiry whether there is a dictionary on the premises. -Cleveland Plnin Dealer.

According to the uvuluanlh edition of Burke”: Landed Gentry just published. ownership of a country estate is no longer the main qualification for recognition as one of the socially eminent un- titled famllles of Britain. Tho editor, 1.. G. Pine. in his preface recall: that this trend began alter World War I when it seemed to the then editor unfair to excluda many honorable names simply be- cause heads of families had had to sell their lands to pay heavy taxes. In the lam edition. Ml-. Pine noted that approximately one- thlrd of the families listed -no longer owned land. and in this new edition the properties "may have risen to half." For greater prominence in now given to pedi- gree than to possession of proper- ty, Mr. Pine announced.--New

everywhere.

York Times.

IPROFESSIONAL CARDS

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Palmer & I-laslom A. J. I-IASLAM. B.A-. LLB. Barrister, Etc.

Cunk of Nov: Scott: Chnmberl

Charlottetown. P. E. I. MONEY T0 LOAN

Bell. Marhieson 8.

1 Foster Barristers. Solicitors. mu. 1!. B. BELL, (3.0. 0. ll. FOSTER. LLB. Loam on City and Farm - Propertie- 150 Richmond Street Cl lottaelaown. P.E.l.

A. Wolthen Gander. ' LLB.

nnapiswan. soucrron. Etc;

Phllllpl Juildlng Ill Grafton Street Money to Loan Collection

0 Frederic A. Large. Q.C. Burl-Inter. solicitor, Notary Royal Bank of Canada Building Charlottetown. P. E. 1. Donna on City and Farm

W. J. P. Moo:MiIlon.

. M.D. H. A. MucMiIkIn , MD. 105 Kent Street - Phone 520

Office noun: - -. 1:80 - 4:00 - 0:80 - Ill. and by appointment.

J. A. McGuigun

BABEISTEB. SOLICITOE. Eta. NOTARY. Etc. Currie Building lMul'IIeson. Peaks 8: . Nicholson A. W. MATHESON. Q0. A. E. PEAKE. B.A.. LLB.

JOHN P. NICHOLSON. LLB;

Burlniorl. Etc. Collection: - Money To- Loan 00 Great George Street

Eyes Examined. Gin Fitted Corner Kent and Qu II Sta.

Office Phone I956-Ilouu ioisi

Dr. W. R. Carson

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Palmer Graduate OIIABLOTTETOWN Phone 101: - 1 !ol.Prlnce It.

Dr. 1A. L. Moclsuuc 1' must I

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. PWWWBI Charlottetown Chas. R. MCOIIGICI M. Albun Farmer. QC. EA. B.A.. LLB. BABMETE3-, .50!-IC”03v Burl-later and solicitor NOTARY. mm. link of Commerce Building Intern Trust Building Charlottetown cuannonmowu ' A . ””'"”' ” ””"' .. ”"""' "fl Guudet & I-Iuszurd J. S. TIyIOI' GILBERT A. munar, B.A.. LLB. oPTomTBxsT Bnrrlnten and Solicitor-

Moncy to Loan Canadian Bank of Commerce Bid!- .

MocI'hu & Trainer II. I". .Mu'oPllllE, B.A.. Q-G I. SOMEIILED TBAINOB. B.A.'

Barristers. Etc

Byron J. Grant. CD.

I , orromrulsr ll! Kent Street ' Phone 67' (Opposite Bavelollotel)

J. A..ClI'I'IlfIICf8. ILO. OPTOMBTBIIT ' 188 Kent Street Phone 3873

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