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ling to collect the annual interest.

ard of comparison with other lines.

mos roua i‘

THE GUARDIAN

‘Icrullg Dally (Pounded ll lll!) Aulhorflod in Second Cllll I Plot Offleo Department, 0th! The Illnud Guardian Plhllhlng O0. , Editor nnd Managing lilrorlur, J. ll. llurlctt. ‘ Alloclnll Editor, lfrllk Wlllnl

"The Strongest Memory i: Weaker Thon ‘ the Weakest ink"

CHARLOTTETOWN. MONDAY, NOV. 1, I949

ti. ii. ll. Problem

It is evident from the brief submitted by the Canadian National Railway before the Turgeon Commission on Transportation that the whole financial structure of the company is out of balance. Perhaps we shall llCVOl‘ get far \vith our transportation _l",l‘i€.".'3ll(‘(‘S in this Province until this car- diral problem is dealt with. Here are some of the facts:

The company is committed to fixed charges of $44 millions annually to service capital dcbt. This amounts to 11.5 per cont of its revenues, as compared with a C. P. R. charge of 6.5 per cent and a United States average of 6.5 per cent. Most of this debt was incurred as an inheritance from the bankrupt railways out of which the natioral line was built. Some of these were built to service isolated communities without sufficient justification, others for political reasons, others, like the Intercol- onial, for strategic purposes, and still others to give jobs to contractors at the expense of the public. The result is an uneconomic network of lines, some of which are unable to bear any portion of their fixed charges.

At one time the C. N. R. debt was more than $2 billions. This was reduced by the Duff commission to $125 millions by the wip- ing out of the value of the common stock held by the Government. Of this amount the Government holds about $760 millions, including the bonds repatriated from Brit- ain during the war. There is obviously no public advantage in compelling the company to carry this dead-weight of debt and in try- If the company makes losses, the interest cannot be paid out of company funds and must be

.shouldered by taxpayers. The obligation of

carrying the bonded indebtedness keeps the books of the company almost perpetually in

the red.

But perhaps the worst feature of per- petuating the company's over-burden of debt is that it deprives the public of any stand- If the company does well, its books are still in the red. If it doesn’t do well, the manage-

Jment can always blame its capital structure

rather than inefficiency of operation. The company now proposes: 1. That there shall be central transport control by

_Dominion-Provincial agreement which shall

co-ordinate all transport agencies into one‘

‘ ‘comprehensive public service. 2. That $760

millions shall be transferred or converted from loan-capital account to equity capital Qaccount, to remove a dead-weight burden and increase the prospects of profitable op- leration, and 3. That the Government shall

._ relieve the company of the cost of render-

'ing uneconomic services which are demand- fed by Government in the public interest lbut which are unremunerative to the com-

s. Pally-

In this Province we have always main- tained that the Borden-Tormentine carferry operations should be divorced from railway management altogether. The C. N. R. brief points indirectly to the reason why the Do- minion should assume this obligation to which it is committed under the terms of Confederation.

Removing A Handicap

A new form of Government insurance for United Kingdom exporters to dollar markets in Canada and the United States is being offered through the British Board of Trade, reports the Globe and Mail. In ef- fect, it is an offer to underwrite in part the additional cost of selling and distributing merchandise on this continent. The North American consumers’ market has two out- standing characteristics: it has densely populated areas in and around its great cities, and it is widely extended over the whole continent. Both factors require in- tensive advertising effort to establish brand names, to impress buyers with standards of quality, and to maintain stability of sales volume under highly competitive conditions.

It is timated by British authorities that about 60 per cent of their retail price must be spent in this kind of promotion. (Merchandisers there are not accustomed to ,anythlng like these conditions, not even in the most competitive markets they have at home or on the Continent.‘ SuchGovem- ment aid is, therefore, necessary to help ex- porters switch thelr selling efforts from the profitable European market to the highly competitive trldc in the dollar uses. The British Board of ‘Trade, u administrator of the insurance fund, delcrlbll it ll l kind

EDITORIAL NOTES York Community entertainmenL

O O O

Maritime Winter Fair "opens at Amherst

today . O O O

Berlin gives place to Bonn, Rhine City and birthplace of Beethoven, as the capital of Western Germany, leaving Russia in possession of the former capital.

Some 600 men have joined the R. C. M. P. since the end of the war and the force now is up to full strength of nearly 3,500 men, R. C. M. P. headquarters report.

The fourth Dominion-Provincial tourist conference opens in Ottawa today. This is one field in which cooperation has been exemplary and has paid off-in American dollars.

O O O

This being National Cheese Week that tempting and nutritious food should be in the limelight. Cheese, after all, was prob- ably the first of the ready-to-out j which are now so numerous .

[HE GUARDIAN, CHARIDTTETOWN .

llotlor llollilg Probill '

4.“. .- v

The Proposal that a mass of Naval paper work will be transferred from senior offic- ers to civil servants will undoubtedly be welcomed by such officers, but it seems likely that the gap between administration ashore and operations and personnel afloat will be made the wider.

O O O

After 14 days of Canada savings bonds selling, the Bank of Canada reports that the_ thfee regions have swept past payroll savings records established in the campaign last year. The Maritimes are in the lead with 109.18 per cent of last year's payroll sales.

O O O

Our Disease Free Area for cattle, pota- mes» etc» lS paying for our tourist ihdustry as well. We are promised visits from the families of officials who came to spy out our veterinary set-up, and were so well pleased with what they saw and heard that they de- cided their families should vacation here next summer.

O O O

Nobody evidently is happy at the pro- spective loss of rent control, house proprie- tors, tenants, and even the Government are afraid they have, or are about to, make a mess of things. The only answer to the prospect of rent increases is the provision of more housing. All levels of government must assist in a programme of construction. O O O

Dr. Charlotte Whitton tells us that “to- day, in North America, it is estimated that the incidence of alcohol addiction exceeds that of tuberculosis, cancer and polio com- bined." Comparison of the Canadian in- come and the money spent on alcoholic bev- erages showed that for every dollar each Canadian paid in direct taxation, he or she paid 75 to 8O cents for liquors. Or whereas direct taxes took seven per cent of the per- sonal national income, alcoholic beverages took practically five per cent. “We can't, by taking thought, ourselves cut a dollar off our taxes; we can by self-control cut our liquor bill,” said Dr. Whitton.

John Kyril, “the Man of Ross" died this date 1724. He was born in Gloucester, but spent the greater part of his life at Ross in Herefordshire. He made his money in busi- ness, but, instead of hoarding it, he spent it as he went in charity, church-building, and hospitals. He did much for the welfare of hi5 neighbours, in this respect, never letting his left hand know what his right hand was doing. His example was so much appreciat- ed that, after his death, instead of a monu- ment in stone or brass being erected to his memory an organization, The Kyril Society, was formed to continue his good work, es- pecially tho lmlllomuon of up u"; q: m. poor.

O O O

Plans to give Australia a Christmas box are being worked out by the Commonwealth Bureau of Biological Control, Ottawa. It will consist of shipments by air of a fly from Florida with the redundant name of Trlchopoda pennlpes (Thichopoda i; Greek for hairy feet and pennlpes is Latin for feather foot). An insect from the Florida region called the vegetable green bug (Ne- zara. virldula) somehow reached Australia. It has become a pest for it sucks the juices out of useful plants, Down in Florida the T.P. fly lays its eggs on the bug. When the larvae hatch out they eat up the bug‘. Aus- tralia has provided $2,000 and the Bureau will arrange for an expert to go to Florida and set “cl-tickers" and others to collect green bugs. These will be kept in cages till thepansltelhltchotlbﬂfhenthepuplsof the flleswlllbe slnttoAustrllll and the filelwlllbelctlooscwheoethegrembugl are thickest. It the parasite’ tllel est up allthcpccnbugslnAultrllllthllwlil-bl complete biological control. 11m Burolu doll

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FAITH O World. thou chocsest not the belter part!

It is not wisdom to be only wise. And on the inward vision Close the

eyes. _ But it is wisdom to believe the heart.

Columbus found a world. and had no chart,

Save on that faith declphered in the skies;

To trust; the soul's invincible sur- mise

Was all his science and his only art

Our knowledge is I. torch of smoky

pine

That lights the pathway but. one sLe-p ahead

Across a vcid of mystery and dread-

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine.

By which alone the mortal heart. is

d Unto the thinking of t-he thought divine.

—George Santayans.

Mr’ Gordon Talks Turkey

(Ottawa Journal)

Donald Gordon went down to New York and in his c pacify as Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada "talked turkey" to the U, S. A. One of the things he said ~11 Donald Gordon can say uch thlngs—is that there can be no effective or permanent solution of the dollar shortage in Europe un- less North America, and especial- ly the U.S.A., provide a much larger and more reliable market for Europe's goods than ls the case at Present.

Mr. Gordon said that both Can- ada and the United States found themselves in the "fantastic posi- tion" of having to mnke loans nnd gifts to "proud and industrious" peoples who wnnt to puy us ln full with real goods, nnd would do so if We would let them. And in the meantime these people were being driven to prop up their own economics with more and more controls, more and more re- strictions, more nnd more bilateral deals.

We told them they shouldn't do such things; that. they should join us in declaring that controls. quotas, dlscrimlnutlons, bilateral deals, barter, and so on, were evil things and that they mustn't resort to them. "Well, the condi- tions simply have not viliﬁed which would make it possible for them to do as we would llke.". . .

"Europeans are not 80MB l0 10l- low the kind of policies we want, just because North America be- lieves those policies are desirable. They are not going to do that even though they themselves be- lieve such policies are desirable. They cannot, they cannot adopt those policies unless and until the right conditions exist for the luc- cesa of those policies"

The right conditions? Mr. Gor- don, in hil forthright wly,_snlw- d: ‘ ersExperlonce has IhOWH 9181,! multilateral world has to be under- written by some country which will provide both an export IMP- ket, lnd l source of clpitll dc- velopmencln len advanced rel- ions. Brltlln nnd Francs hld un- dertaken that up to 1914. . . It‘ ll only the United States which MW can take the lend, which can ll- sumc the risks." Mr. Gordon concluded:

‘The question I leave with you

. ll very simple. It ll that we

bi North Amaricl ltlnd ct l crou-

roldl. If we take one told we accept the new role of North Am- erica. It requires that we furnllh n ready Import market for the

loodl of other nations and lilo m“, w; supply development clp-

lul for len advanced rellﬂit”

No one in authority hll spoken to tho American people Pllbllﬂlv

with lush frlnknen. And no onl h” ‘put tho world trldo position mm oielrly.

REPORTER IIOOHII MAYOR

‘M0088 JAW. SIC» NMLG-

(opp-A nowlplpﬂ rlporter who OOIIII lllllh." ~

covlrcd lnoctlnll of the Jaw -

OM Ooilwll for 10 Yllﬂ. ll"! I OIAITOI IIIIII‘ wm""“m'w~m"°clmiunl—lmn h‘. w" m. m. a chur- Inm"

H. um. Mom lw corrcwondeni for tho lloglnl bolder-Poll. hll ro- olgnld hi: position, lffletlvl mo. 31. to boccrno the of!!! full-lime

We Stand By A » Canadian Cross

"WE STAND BY A CANADIAN CROSS"

(By a Dutch woman, beck, Holland)

of Grues-

At the Canadian cemetery at Groesbeek, Holland, the road was warm and dusty, the sharp grit and pointed pebbles were painful to the feet, but the way. led thmi-lllh a waving sea of corn, nnd surprised us with stately prospects. Past the only farm the path turn- ed and slightly rose over a short distance. Then we stood before the gate of the Canadian cem- etery, und entered, deeply moved.

A vast plateau, planted with small, white crosses, nnd here nnd there n single star of David, shield- ied by an immense white cross, which, from the height; of its sev-I eral marches, is outlined full length against the endless skyline. All around the swelling country with its distant horizon reaching far ovcr the frontiers, and round about, and unending the murmur- ing wind.

How the heart widened at this world wide grief! I would have gone from cross to cross, reading every name, reading it aloud, so that. it would float uguln one mo- mEnt through the universe ln quivers of sound, with a prayer nt every grave, attention nnd prny- er for this one Canndinn, en- veloping him with my thoughts, as loving thoughts would have sur- rounded his grave at home, over- seas, in Canada.‘

For each one this attention, nnd for each one n Dray". nt each cross, ut each star, nl each name- But there are so many crosses, so many names, so very many; these men lie us if drawn up in battle-

of prayers for this Canadian le-

colorful annual Royal Canadian

Old Charlottetown "IO P. B. I)

WEST END SCHOOL

"We invite the attention of the Pwblic of Charlottetown to an Ad- vertisement in our columns, of Messrs. R. B. Irving and J. LePage, who have opened a School in Sid- ney Street. for the instruction of pupils o-f both sexes, in various branches of Education. The Ccn- tral Academy has lately been a subject of ‘engrossing interest to the inhabitants of this Town, and has been (we believe) deservedly eulogized for its efficiency, under the present Teachers. It is ob- vious, however, that a respectable School in the western section of the Town, is yet wanted; which wan-t is likely to be well supplied by the opening of the above School —espccially as l favorable oppor- tunity is offered, by the proposed arranzemedts, to the young men of this Town-whose respenive call- in-gs will not admit of- their attend- ance during the day—of improv- ing themselves, by attending the Eveninl! Classes."

—-The Islander, April 5, 1845.

souls. Lord, I prny in the shadow of the big cross, with wonder nt the pence in my heart, may my prayer help them, who still are on their way to Thy Kingdom, may my prayer be a drop in the sen

lllvn; that it. may enter Thy Heav- cn as a body. for nil eternity!

R.C.l\l.l'. BALL

MONTREAL, Nov. 6—(CP)—The

ducts. He had a suggmion for

Riley Bldg.

~- Jirederic A. Large. ILC.

array in n nnd there are so many sqllﬂfﬁl Squares

square nf hundreds.

of small white crosses.

amidst clusters of britlhl. "d "$95 with n few white ones and other smnll ﬂowers, yellow or purple. but mostly red roses, twined like l ribbon around the crosses. It l! like s red tie which winds around euch cross and links the KIM/l‘! together, the tie of the love 0f their Wives and mothers and bc- loved ones in Canada.

They lie as if in battle-array and if on n heavenly sign they rose. they would stand like an army in marching order aligned and drawn up nround the bill "OSI- Th‘? would look about ln wonder M these lovely roses surroumllﬂi!

Mounted Police bnll. staged under brilliant settings including the blue and gold colors of the red-coated "Mounties". was held Friday night under the patronage of Mat -Gen.

"\

ﬂurry l. Mclfelvll bu been telling the Vancouver Tour-ix Al- soclltion that it. should leld a campaign to creole l distinctive label for British Columbia pro-

the label or sloson- HE £00k ll from the old Chinook language of the trade - “Skookum". meaninx good and the superlative “Hyas Skoohum", meaning the very belt. Mr. McKelvie has a skoohum ldcu and one that should be pushed with VlgOfr-VBDCOUJVGY Province.

Dr. Chester S. Walters. deputy treasurer and controller of fin- ances for Ontario, succinctly has stated the reason for high taxes. If we want lcwen taxes we should ask governments only to do those things for us which we cannot do for ourselves or which can be clone better éollectively. Govern- ments don't set taxes except in a technical sense. Apart from vital wartime expenses, or the costs of carrying the public debt they pro- vide the services the people demand. If people demand a lot, governments mus-t raise thc neces- sary fundls by taxes. In the fir/l analysis, the people themselves de- termine how much money govern- ments must take from them in taxes-Windsor Star.

a

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The past walk has been n big one for the Scot who loves to

extol his conntrymcm-and how few

moi/nuns: 1. 1949

-~ Notes By The Way ._

of them dotﬂ? Following c] upon announcement of the uegfﬁ’ of Donald Gordon, l “we, M, n donlln" ll chlirmln and pregld u‘ of the Clnldlln National Rallwum clmc the news. that Jamel Mm, from Pecblel, lfld been elected ' ll" vfﬁﬂldénﬁ’ 0f the Royal B“: of Canada. With James W11,” c! Sanqulur. who has n» m,“ years been president of the Sh“? inlgan Water and Power can: puny, we now have trungphm Scots ls operating heads o; n, world's largest railway system! the largest bank in Canada “a the twelfth largest in the worlq. and the greatest privately owned power organization in the British Commonwcellh.—Montreal Fin“, mial Times.

"on The Age-Dill Story

The captive exile hnltcneul um

he mly be loosed: and that h, should not die In the pit, nor ti“; his broad should flll.

uurnvmrn m CIZANLINEQ;

MONTREAL —(CP) -M0ntrea1'; first super infection-proof nursery will be opened at Christmas in 1h, Herbert Raddy Memorial Hospital,

The nursery will be so clcan um‘

even doctors won't be admitted,

PROFESSIONAL CARD?

J. A. McGuigan NOTARY, ETC. BARRISTER, SULICITON. CURRIE BUILDING

Chas. R. McGuuid

~ R.A. RARRISTER, SOLIGITOR, NOTARY, Etc, Illlbern Trust llulldlng CHARLOTTETUWB ' Phone "ill

MucPhee 8t Trcinor H. F. MncPlIEE, J..\., [Lb- B SOMERLED TRAINOR, BA. Barristers, EM. (Jlftown

Bell 8: Mcthieson

BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS. 8c- Il. ll. BELL, ML. .

D. L. lilATlllvﬂN, l..B., 8.0. Attorneys lt [Aw LOANS 01v crrv AND rum PROPERTIES I50 Richmond 8t. Charlottetown. PJIJ

annlusrrzn‘. soulctrou, NOTARY Royal Bllllf of (lunadl Chambers Charlottetown, P.E.l. Successor -' George J. Tweedy. ILO.

Palmer 8: Huslum A. J. IIASLAM, B.A., LL.B. Barrister, Etc.

Raul: of Nova Scorll Chambers Charlottetown, PJZJ. MONEY T0 LOAN

Joseph R. MucMillcn, LL.B.

RABRISTER, SOLICITOLZ, lll. 15 Queen Street

PHONE 71B Money to Loan

A. Wolthen Gander, LL.B.

BARRISTER, SOLICITOB, Etc. Phillips Building lll Grlffnn '-LI'QQI Money to Loan Collections

Dr. W. R. Carson

Chfroprlctm Palmer Grndultn CIIARLOTTETOWN 201 Prince Sf. Phone lMi

M. Albon Farmer

MONEY T0 [JOAN

B.A-. LL.B. BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, Etc. Charlottetown. P. B. I.

Gander 8: Hazard

Rlrrlltcrl, Solicitors, Notaries, TM Clnndlln Bank of Com neu- Bldg. MONEY T0 LOAN GILBERT A. OAUDET, B.A., LLR Canlcllln Blnk of Common - Bldg.

Collection

them, they would pick some and let them dangle between their strong white teeth or stick a cluster on their hBlmBlS 0!‘ Wave with the ﬂowery branches.

They would henr the rustling 0f‘ the wind and feel the vastness "l the world around them. Md be" “we they were ln Canndn. But blank consciousness would 855E" itself again nnd they would clum- cur nnd bustle and remember the enemy they must destroy. "En nvlnti Forwafdi." . -

ﬂtny quiet, ye men, ye boys from Canada, the enemy exists no more. he is destroyed, also through your exertions. We owe our liberty t0 your attack lnd flsht. B"! ll l‘ not in this way that I want to think cf these yvuns. strong fel- lows with their broad shoulders‘ 1nd sun burnt skin; with their eyes full of the joy of life, and their hearts full of dreams. It hurts the heart so deeply Hill ll" lmlll white crosses show another

mlzllrly immaterial, of thin white ma“ gﬂ-Ipped cf lll weight and accident, the)’ d0 l")! “"9" M”! of llfo an death, of blood and tours, of d cay and decomposition. Th"; Canadians have already "\- bered the road to eternal bllu. Thgy may have ltormed the l!" of heaven in cloud lllﬂlf". "l" may have been detached and stayed behind on the wlv 0f PM‘ iflcltlon, thcle who had not Y" attained the om o! the ll"!

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