Efai: roan THE GUARDIAN

Murnlng Dally (Founded ln I881) Authorised u: Second Clue bllll, Poet Offloe Depnrsmrnt, Oiinve.

The lrilisml Iluurdlisn Publishing Pa. Editor unil hlunnrlng Director. J. ll. llurnett. Asunclnla Editor, Iranls Wplisar.

"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest lnk"

CHARLOITETOWN, SATURDAY, OCT. l. I949

Welcome Support

Among the issues discussed by the Maritime Board of Trade at its annual meeting here this week, none is of more practical interest or im- portance to the people of this Province than the resolution deali*g with the need of an improved car ferry service. This resolution, which was un- animously indorsed, takes note of the report that a new ice-breaker is to be built by the Federal Government for the St. Lawrence service, and sug- gests that the design of the ship be such as to permit its use as a supplementary highway lerry during the summer months on the Borden-Tor- mentine route "until such time as this service is adequately provided for." The resolution also suggests that the ship might be used in emergency winter service on the some route, as the period ef use on the St. Lawrence is limited.

This should serve to focus attention at Ot- tawa on our cor ferry requirements, about which strong presentations have been made in the briefs submitted by our Island Government and Boards of Trade before the Royal Commission on Transportation. The support and co-operation of the Maritime Board of Trade in this connection will be appreciated by all our citizens.

Already, in its brief submitted to the Royal Commission, the Maritime Board has emphasized that the advent of the motor vehicle has com- pletely changed the situation in connection with our car ferry service. Where it was primarily a railroad operation, today the volume of motor vehicles of all types carried has dictated a greater consideration of this form of transport. Much discontent has prevailed with regard to the charges assessed motor vehicles an the ferry; and while adjustments have been made from time to time, they have been met with such manifest opposition from the railways that it has given rise to the concensus of opinion that the ferry shoiifd be operated by a department of the Dom- inion Government. "The transition which has taken place in transportation," says the Maritime Trade Board brief, "lends support to this view. A change-over to operation by a Government de- partment could be facilitated by granting the railroad running rights."

The brief cites another proposal as being worthy of consideration, Instead of a department of the Government operating the ferry and facili- ties, there might be created a Prince Edward ls- land Ferry Commission with wide administrative powers, and also with authority "to resolve all problems that might arise in connection with the service."

The Maritime Board of Trade realizes what Dominion Governments since Confederation have been reluctant to admit-namely, that a car ferry service adequate to our present and future re- quirements is a vital Dominion obligation, writ- ten into the bond of Union, and having no con- nection whatever with railway revenue and ex- penditure; that it is in effect a national high- way, as essential to interprovincial trade, with- out toll or barrier, as any other such highway, including the canal system of Upper Canada on which hundreds of millions of the taxpayers’ "W"? hi!" been freely expended in the national interest,

lin English Comment

Not so sure of the panacea of devaluation under Socialism in Britain is the widely-read Lon- don Economist. This is what it has to say about it:

"ln and by itself, the devaluation of the pound sterling so artlessly announced by Sir Stafford Cripps is no more than a confession of defeat by the Government. To the outside world, it has long seemed natural and proper that the pound should be adjusted to a level more in ac- cordance with what the markets of the world are unconstrainedly prepared to offer for it. The ma- jority of sober judges of affairs in this country have long felt that it was only a question of time before the decision to devalue was taken, and to many of them it had become apparent months ago that the time had come—indeed, was in danger of going by. But Ministers and the majority of their official advisers have been uncommonly stubborn in their refusal to face facts. Socialist politicians believe as an article of faith that water can be made to run uphill by administra- tive action; and the technicians of the Treasury and the Bank of England love so dearly the fabu- lous intricacies of their exchange control system (which, as th-ey so proudly explain, no one but themselves can understand) that they have come to believe themselves capable of damming up any economic flow for any length of time. Between them, they have' founded the economic policy of the British nation on th-e nonsensical doctrine that water does not, sooner or later, find its own level."

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Canadian shoppers are discovering that the full reduction in the price of British goods in Canada, implied in the new exchange rates, is not being passed on to them except in a few cases. This discovery is an instructive lesson in market- ing, for the importers are guided more by what the market will bear than by the cast of production. Unlike the war years there is now no effective way of policing prices. Any reductions in the prices oi British goods are likely to be dictated by com- ntition, rather than by devaluation or other fac-

is.

On the basis of devaluation, as Mr. Abbott ill pointed out, the cut in the cost of British Nils would be 23.6 percent, with the pound de- "fill 30 percent-and the Canadian dollar only lo hrcsnt. But Canadian importers, it is re-

ported, have been flooded with cablegnams from overseas announcing price increases in British goods that would reduce or wipe out the effect of devaluation. ln some cases, such as British au- tomobiles, some spectacular price cuts were made. But behind this move was the fact that the mar- ket for British cars was drying up in Canada be- cause of the high price. ln cases like English china, importers have not been able to catch up with demand for some time and no gain in the volume of exports to Canada could be made by cutting the price. The price of Australian wool was another item which rose immediately almost the full extent of the devaluation. The Canadian consumer is likely to conclude that the immediate advantage to him is slim.

The price of American goods has generally risen l0 percent in Canada. American prices have been going down and may go down further, but the benefit may take some time to catch up with. the Canadian consumer. The best thing for Parliament to do, suggests an Ottawa exchange, is ta keep a close watch on the trend of prices, with the intention of acting quickly if action is necessary.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Michaelmas begins. ’

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Tomorrow, world-wide Communion in all

Protestant churches. I

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The Church of Scotland re-unitcd after disruption of eighty-six years, this date i929. i i

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The open season for ducks, woodcock and Hungarian partridge begins today.

For visitors, so far as weather is concerned the pas_t week has not been half-bad nor even half-good.

The Tenant League has long since passed away but, judging the meager bidding at the land tax sales, its spirit still inibues the Islander.

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An encouraging note in international amity is the proposal of French foreign minister Robert Schuman that Germany be admitted to the Coun- cil of Europe. '

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Canadians show no reluctance to accept bank notes in spite of the recent wave of lnrgeries. The Bank of Canada reports that during the week ending Sept. 2i, notes in circulation increased $3,339,000 to $l,29l,l39,000.

Futile, seems to be the only word to describe a current move to remov: Canada's only enemy war criminal from Dorchester Penitentiary to mili- tary detention. Success would mean that Canada would have to look around for a suitable fortress or request Britain to do so.

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The Maritime Board of Trade is a live body all right, as was indicated in the discussion on resolutions. The membership as a whole declines to allow a committee to suppress resolutiops without at first consulting their sponsors.

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The window-breaking incident at Carleton must have seemed a strange welcome to visitors arriving by the Borden train Wednesday. The fact that only one window was broken in each of three separate cars induces the hope that perhaps only one delinquent is to be dealt with.

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Mrs. Annie Besant, English theosophist, lec- turer and author, born this date i847. Early in life she was associated with Charles Bradlaugh Ill his free-thought campaigns; then became a theosophist and prominent leader, spending much time in India where she founded the Hindu College, Benares, and began the Home Rule for India League. Works include Reincarnation, Re- ligious Problem in India, Theosophy and the New Psychology.

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Premier Jones hit the nail an the head when he told the Maritime Board of Trade that it was ridiculous for the Federal Department of Labour to expect the farntcrs here, who get only 64 cents for their potatoes against $l.ll paid the Ontario farmers, to pay the some rate of wages as was paid in Ontario. It is this genei-qli1. ing of rates and prices which leads to the un- fairness of departmental administration from Ottawa.

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_ The Chief Justice in his address to the Mari- time Board of Trade at their gathering at Sum- merside. departedfrom the usual routine cus- tom of speaking on commercial affairs and di- lated on constitutional issues, which brought en- lightenment to many\of his hearers, who had not hitherto given that subject much thought. In dealing with the proposed abolition of appeals to the Privy Council, he raised the question whether Canada has yet reached the stage where she has outgrown the necessity of such an experienced and legally trained body as the judicial commit- tee of the Privy Council. The question is whether we_yet have a system of constituting the court which would satisfy legitimate Dominion and

Provincial susceptibilities.

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' One of Britain's most highly treagiiggd link; with her seafaring post is to go —- the old "lin- placable" which shared with H.M.S. Victory the honor of sole survival from thb fleet that fought at Trafalgar. The ship has been examined by experts and declared beyond hope of preservation. During the war, she could not have the some care that had been given her for nearly a century and a half, and decay began which has now doomed the old ship. implacable will be given a fitting funeral:_she will be towed out into the Channel, to a paintueventy miles off Portsmouth, where, laden with iron, she will be sunk in ninety fathoms of water. The Royal Navy will do her honour and Franco proposes to son-d a warship to witnsss the

THE GUARDIAN,

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This column ie open to the discussion by cui-eepondenls of questions of interest. The Guardian doee not neaollr- lly endo the opinion of cm-espaailenie. _

.4%OO'Z>ELVQ>L®QI>~E¢IZ>E€ <- MABKETING OF LAMBS

Sin-As the seasornfar shipping lambs has now arrived, may I ex- press, through the medium of your paper, to those raisin-g lambs ln Prince Edward Island, my own experience in the marketing of lambs, namely, that shipping an the dressed weight basis 211W ll! much better returns than ship- ping llve weight. For example, the first lot we shipped last year on the dressed weight basis gave us a return equivalent to 191i cents pcr lb. live weight, while at that time the drovers were paying 17 cents at the barn.

In my opinion, with the facili- ties which are provided for ship- ping on the dressed weight basis. the drovers are an unnecessary expense for lamb raisera in ihc Province.

Thanking you for space in" your valuable paper,

I am, Sir, efc. T. J. KICKI-IAM. MP. for King's, P.E.I.

Music And Drama Festival At Edinburgh

The Third International Fest.- lval of Music and. Drama at. Ed- inburgh, has Just. completed an even more successful your thin "-8 predecessors. This year there have been many more visitors from Overseas -from Canada, from the United States, from France, Hol- land, Australia and New Zealand. You see them 1n their hundreds, along with the English and the seats, strolling on Princes Street. or walking footsore but eager down the cobbled narrow street of the Royal Mlle, or standing up on

ing clown on the old grey city with its turrets and its monuments and the green of its garden.

The entertainers are as cosmo- polltan as the visitors. There was s. ballet. from France, drama from England, Scotland and Germany, orchestras from Switzerland, France, Germany and Great Brit.- aln; films from all aver the world, including Yugoslavia. Hun- gary and the USSR; and artists ranging from the internationally famous to the local amateur.

The main subject of discussion at the Edinburgh Festival was TB. Eliot's modern verse comedy, "The Cocktail Party". Peter Ustlnows "Man ln the Raincoat” was also premiered at. Edinburgh, and dur- ing the third week the Dusseldorf Theatre Company presented the first ‘part of Goethe's "Faust", in celebration of the poet's 200th an- nlversary.

The Scottish drama was also well represented. Tyrone Guthrie's dynamic and colourful production of "The Three Estates" a 400 year- ald morality ploy by $11‘ David Lindsay excited and stimulated all who saw it.

What will probably linger long- est in the minds of many oflhe people who visited the Festival v r15 the show at. l0 pm. on the , planade of the Castle called "The King's Men." Here the Army, kill.- cd ivlth white spots twinkling and scarlet coats ablaze, piped over the drowbrldge to give a display of Highland dancing and drill, against the background of the floodlit Castle. For sheer drama ll. was unsurpassed by any other Festival event.

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We have been all snsde to drink into one Spirit.

r0 EXAMINE aovrinmvnmr

ST. JOHN'S, Nlld. -- (C?) - Jamcs c. Thompson, financial ad- visor to the Newfoundland deleg- atlon at. the Ottawa discussions leading to confederation, has been appointed by the provincial gov- ernment. to carry out. investiga- lions into government. depart- mvnts.

TRACK!!!) HIM DOWN

CAMPBELL-TON. NB. (OP) _ Now it's the telegraph opera- tors who “always get. their man.“ A telegram which arrived recently urns addressed simply in "Bill! The lOcaI dot-dash expert. deduc- ed. from the contents of the mos- sage, \VlllCh "Bill" was meant. — and chose the right. man on his first. gucss,

G. F. i-iuseheson 8i Son

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LADY WESTMORLAND PETITIONED

On October 6, 1839, the Countess

Wesimorland having visited Crapeud, forming a part of the Earl of Wesfmorlandh valuable estates on this Island, her Lady- shlp was waited upon with an address from his Lordship's tori- ants in that quarter, reading in part as follows:

“When your petitioners first emigrated to this country, we ap- prehended no dlfflculfy in being enabled by perseverlng industry regularly to nay our rents, nnd as long as we had the opportun- iiy of paying in produce and la- bour, we mode our payments rogu- lerly; but for several years last. past, the seasons have been so unfavourable, and our crops have failed so generally, that many of us are very much in nrrcnrs with our rent, causing us much anxiety of mind, which we would humbly submit to your Lcidyshipks favour-l able consideration. As if is our desire to remain faithful nnd loynl l subjects of her most. gracious Ma-l jesiy, (as we think we may sny,| without vanity, we always huvcl been) and tenants fa our prcsentl Landlord, we would beg your Ludyshlp‘: kind recommendation in the proper quarter for a small reduction of our renls-we would beg leave to suggest, that if our rents were reduced to the lslrmrl currency, in lieu of stbrling money. as it now stands, your petitioners would feel much more confidence ‘n extending ihcir improvements. i order lo meet the demand."

The petition also requested as- sisl nce in completing a suitable place of worship and in providing for eliomeniary educational needs. Another» memorial. from "the In- hnbifanfg\_Of the Back-settlements of Crapautl." numbering twenty- eight families wiili seventy-eight rhildren, rep esentod the petition- or; n; being ewly arrived and. "unable to attgqd 1o the means of grace" through rick 0f church and Sunday school fa lhllrrs.

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In her reply, d led Chnrlollo- lawn, 20th Novem or. 1839. her Ladyshlp expressed h" Sfllislfll" iion with the lone of the ad- dresses ond went an lo sny:

“I have, ln complian i! Wllh .\‘0ur wishes for suitable pl ship, nnd schools for tinn of your children, PDTOPFlHF» ed 2.100 la effect lhesel_l1llI‘P0-50!l —£l00 lo be applied to‘, lhe lm- merliaie completion of the Chapel zilready comments-ii upon glhe lor- riinry near thr- cnnsf~thr= Olhor

£200 in he administered [I1 illvll

sums ns may be Jhouglit ntflsl 0X-

lnnds \vhlch.I inherited. conjoint- iv Vlscauntesa Melville, now fho pro- prlofnr of tho adjacent tract."

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A PINCH 0F SALT When a dream ls born in you With a sudden clamorous pain, when you know the dream is true And lovely, with no flaw nor stein. O then. be careful. or with sudden

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You'll hurt the delicate lhlng you prize so much.

Dreams are like a bird that mocks,

I-‘llrllng the feathers o! his toil.

When you seize at the salt-box,

Over the hedge you'll see him sail.

Old birds are neither caught with salt nor chaff;

They watch you from the bough and laugh.

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Poet. never chose the dream.

Laugh yourself, and turn away.

Mask your hunger; lel; lt seem

Small matter lf he ccmc or stay;

But when he nestles in your hand at last,

Close up your fingers hold him fast.

-—Robert Graves.

pedicnt by lhosc- capable of judg- ing, from whom I shall lose no time in obtaining the proper in- formation. Rcspecllng the schools I Sllllll apply for advice to the Lnrly Mary Fitz Roy (wife of‘ the Lieutenant Governor) whose ex- emplary zeal and judgment, at the hand of ihose affairs which regard ilie relief and instruction of the; poor. as wcll as her indefatigable exertions la promote iha happi- ncss of this improving Colony, command at the some time the nrlmlrniion and esteem of all, and cntiilr- her to the highest degree of confidence and gratitude. "With respect to geverythlng which regards rho rents. by the laws of Great Britain I rim, us n married woman, not empower- od lo rici. If it should be the Almigiiifs will to afflict me with whnt I shall consider the heaviest calamity-lo be iho survivor of my husband-J should than ric- knawladgc whatever’ power de- volves unon mo to be placed ln my hands by God. for the fulfil- ment nnd furtherance of his laws. nnd mrikc it my study to en- rlr-nvour fa promote, as far an pos- sible, in consistency with my olh- or duties, the welfare of the por- sons who have been located by 1h" niilhnriiy of my husband. the Earl of Westmarland. upon fhosc

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with my sister. the present

—Cnlanlnl Hamid, Nov. 23, 1839.

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