r’!

. A!

i‘

fly X . all‘

PAGE FOUR

THE GUARDIAN

‘ llarllll’ Dlliy'("aulllosl ll 1887) f Authorized n leaned Olen Nell. Poet Office . Department, Dianna. The ll II Guardian Publishing Co. ‘gm..- u Mpnjglnf Dirac-far. J. B. Burnett. Annotate Editor, Frank Walker. "The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than

the Weakest lnk.” _ OHARLOTTETOWN, TUESDAY, NOV. z, loss

Momontous Times

That is ominous news from China carried by

l’ -lhe Canadian Press, and bears out what many who have been following the civil war there. have

l dreaded. Time in its current issue puts It this way: In February I948 U. S. Secretary of State

Marshall had appeared before the House Foreign

Affairs ‘Committee, had there engaged Ill a

blunt exchange with Minnesota's Congressman

Walter Judd. _

Marshall: lf the present (Chiﬂﬂq Kﬂlsillek/

vernment falls, the Communists will take power north of the Yangtze River. _

Judd: And if the Communists take power H1 tlie area north af_the Yangtze . . . what would be our position in southern Korea?

Marshall: It would be untenable.

Judd: And with the Asiatic continent under control of Soviet Russia, what would be the po- sition of Japan?

Marshall: We would have to put forth great effort ta insure that Japan continued to move under her own steam.

Judd: The U.S. in fact, would have either to withdraw from Japan, would it not, or continue to support her indefinitely with uncounted sums of money?

Marshall: We would face a very serious situa-

tion.

Last week Lieut. General Robert Eichelberger, who commanded the Eighth Army in Japan, pick- ed up the prediction where Marshall left off. Said he, in a Chicago speech: "One can ap- preciate what a great prize Japan would be to the Communist nations . . . To the U. 5., Canada, the Philippines and Australia it would signify the loss of World War ll and a potential defeat in the Pacific in any future war that might be forced upon us."

We are passing through one of the gravest

periods of the Christian era.

flow It's Canadian Meat

No doubt much of the agitation in the United States aver the importation of Canadian potatoes has purely political. our neighboring republic in the throes of a presidential election campaign, this kind of talk was to be expected. lt is by no means confined to potatoes. Meat workers in Washington, Oregon and California are said to be protesting with equal vehemence the movement of pro- cessed meat from Canadian packing plants into the U. S. market. At a tri-state union confer- ence, it was contended that these importations

ment and creating "most un- nditions due to the fact that are below our American stan- dards." . Movement of Canadian dressed meat to the U.S., in any quantity, was made possible by the ode agreement which cut beef from 6 cents to 3 cents a pound. For Canada, of course, it is far better to sell finished meat,

the labor as well as live cattle,

uch more in U.S. dollars with which to pay the bills for the large number of manufactured goods we buy from U.S.

than raw materials. This is in their own trad- ing interest, as when our dollar position becomes

“too lop-sided we have to curtail imports from the U.S., as we'are doing now in our "austerity rogram."

___________.______ Trade With U.S.. Booming

According to a Financial Post estimate, Ca- a's exports to the United States reached the ' in September. This

figure of September, I947. ln the first eight months of

period last year,

y average was $80 million. In the

1935-39 pre-war period, the monthly average was $22 million in this same eight-month span. The net result of the September upswing cted to show an actual

be small — possibly in the neighborhood of

$l0 such million. But it will be the first such

credit balance since the abnormal wartime statis-

‘cs of i944 and I945 when the Hyde Park agree-

ment was in effect. It will be one of the very

;few balances ever to be shown merchandise oc- icount in normal peace-time trade. (In the pre- Awar period, l935-39, the average monthly debit (balance in the Canada-U. S. trade account was f8? million monthly.) ~ ~ -The figures show that the first nine months .of i948, Canada has actually reduced her total qddbit trade balance with the U. S. to $267 mil- ‘lion. In the same nine-month period in i947, "bur debitibalance on trade account was $720 Jnillion. Measured In monthly terms this is an jmprovement af about SSO million monthly or $450 million for the first three-quarters of the ,-' ear.

y Apart from the improvement in Canadian "exports to U. S. during September, however, our ;trode with other countries continuerta show 7 contraction rather than expansion. Exports from {Canada to the United Kingdom for September 4m estimated at about mi lion against $55 ‘rmllllon in the some month a ear ago ond $53 ‘million In August. Exports to countries other

4i’? than the United States and the United Kingdom are down from $77 million a year ago ta $72 million In September. Cumulative figures for the first nine months will show a drop in our exports to these other countries of about l8 per cent.

EDITORIAL NOTES *-

All Souls Day.’ ' ‘I .

Amherst Winter Fair is the principal event of interest for farmers this week. O i I O

High prices or not, Canadians have Increas- ,

ed their per capita butter consumption from 2.58 ‘pounds in September I947 to 2.65 pounds Ill the same month this year. i’ ﬂ I I _

Everyone should buy and wear a poppy. The welfare of ex-service men cannot be completely looked after by Government, however benevolent. As Veterans Affairs Minister Gregg, V. C., put i‘, "No matter what regulations ore passed, it is impossible for a Government department to take, care of all individual veterans."

i k i i

The Chignecto canal project is taking on a new lease of life with the linking of power development and land reclamation to the prin- cipal scheme. The Island has little interest in those subsidiary aspects but the shorter water route would certainly be valuable to our ship- ping interests.

W I Q i

Remembrance Day, November llht., I948, should be the most widely observed, locally, in many years. A record turn-out of all veterans is being planned while detachments of the arm- ed services together with representative equip- ment, guns and tanks, will lake part.

I I I I

The Parks Branch plan to establish Green Gables as it was in the life of Lucy Maud Mont- gomery, a representative farm home of her day, together with manuscripts and historical items. lt is not the intention, it has been learned, to make Green Gables a complete Island museum the right place for which logically is Charlotte- town the capital,

I i I I

Election Day in U. S. A. to decide who shall be President. Says The Letter Review: ”Mr. Tru- man has given Moscow real encouragement, with his campaign in the U.S., unless

s U. S. p how many, or how fe I

Lind, Swedish soprano soloist, died

l 87. After a great success on the con-

rope she visited London in 1847, and

U.S.A. and Canada in i850. She

_ad a marvellous voice that thrilled her audience

In a way that may have been equalled but never

surpassed. She retired from

and became a concert singer on her marriage

with her manager Mr. Otto Goldschmidt; at the

some time being appointed professor of singing in the Royal College of Music, London in I883.

i‘ ﬁ G i

Qut-af-sight out of mind is the unfortunate experience of numerous P.E.l. Hospital, to distributed

Before scientific

be technique was brought to U!

erations, our pioneer fore-

‘ run _ QYJARDIAN. crgsxwwmowu

Old Charlottetown

(And r. 15. 1.)‘ . ____

LAWYER SANDWS CAMPAIGN

A curious port In the history of e Skye pioneers was taken by

gallon and controversy. A native of Klrkendbright, In the south of Scotland, Williams had been a Iallor In hIs early days. and later served as a soldier In the Irish rebellion of 1798 and at the old citadel at Quebec. On the recall of his regiment he was discharged

the operatic stage, '

well what he had seen, bath In English and Gaelic.

By some means or other In the fall of 1802 he attracted the at- tention of Lard Selkirk, who was then In pursuance of his scheme of colonizing his large estates In Prince Edward Island. A ver slight ecqualntunce with Sandy convinced the Earl that he was Just the men he wanted to act as agent to go about among the people, pointing out to them the many atl- vantnges the new world offered and Inducing as many of them as aOuld get ready to take passage In the shlp which was to sull from Oban during the comlng_summer.

O O U

The Earl's after was liberal, and Sandy started on his mission. The work tallied well with the natural bent of hls mind. Nearly every- one he met had fears and mlsglv- Ings about going to America; they dreaded the dangers of the voyage. the cold of the winter. the dift'l- culties to be encountered In cut- ting down trees, the Indians. the bears and other wlld beasts with which the forests were laid t

abound. ln combnlting these nat- ural objections. Sandy was In his true element. He hud his fill of discussion and coniroiersy that wInIer. and many a bottle of whisky was drained around the peat fires of the simple cottages-s whose homes he vlslted In the Highlands. ,

He contrasted all the advantages they would enjoy In the new world, after the first fevlr years, with thelr present condition. He represented

to sell later

disturbance. D I

November 5, I944, all

en_lsland in the ScheldFEs- the exception of two places, Veers burs. was reported in nuns 1.4.4,,

, the dyk allowing the sea to flow in defences. l1 the

said that for the “u” be

history on island a result, of this ad only stom-

were three weeks later, N ed the Port of An at the quayyide

I learn of Wild

that the ship which was to carry them was stout end strong. well found ln boats, rlgglng. sails. chains and anchors. He told them that the trees In America were easily cut down. He expatlnted on the various uses to whlch their trunks could be applied, such es house end shipbuilding. fencing. firewood. etc.

The sugar maple he represented an particularly valuable, from the fact that a

could be converted Into flue whisky!

Tea (a rare luxury In the High- lands In than days) could be gathered In the swamp: and for- ests "equal to any that came from Chine." Nor need cause any concern; bee): converted to Christianity. Sandy only laughed at his heerere’ beasts. representln; e bear hunt In Ina woods. with

Y dog, guns and cudgels. no one of

the moat enjoyable and exclllng of sports. O I O

But the crowning argument In favor of the new enterprise. which he termed the "argumentum cru- menen." was the feclllty with which large farms could be obtained on long luau at a nominal rent. The hardship: to be: encountered In clearing the land lse carefully kept In ‘In; background. nu rm state-

Catoraque-‘f

menu contained e nucleus of truth. around which nle gllb tongue

Zus. PRESIDENTIAL EIICTION .1 5

y been flshlns or rendlnu 90¢)" I"

‘found utterance In the depths 0!

- .5» . .-

, N ‘l8-

Still Bram.

xGlobe and Msllr

Since the London meeting of onwealth leaders there have been cries of alarm and protests that the Brltlsh Commonwealth Ir being scuttled. Such fears are groundless. Among the nations that. came to their full stature under the tutelage of Greet Brit- aln. there Is a special frlendllnesa and underltandlng. It I: the some sort of underflandlng as tgat 1 1g“; which holds caumates toget er $13, lﬂflff; gigs: 52:31:“, e throughout their lives; a bond And all the sumachs on the nun made from v1"! gxvirlsﬂcsl‘ ("lef- ed In common. uc e soce y I Have wmed their green to "d- not In the nature of a consplracy organized against any one; It ls not exclusionary even ll It happens, in the nature of things. to be exclus- lve. Moreover. because It springs from mutual familiarity with events gone by, the old association has great potency. ~ The decision of the Conference of Commonwealth Prime Ministers to drop the adjective from the tlIle of the Brltlsh Com- monwealth of Nation: Is maddening. Bu: so In the departure of any friend, custom or landmark associ- ated with all‘ younger and happier days. The change wu made. how- ever, In deference to the traditions and temperaments of members whose blood llnel end history dlf- agent had represented. The snow fer from our own. The decIsIon In winter. which was not much was reached so that emphasls taken into account In "‘ usslon might be given to the things we around the peat. fires In Scotland. have In common, rather than those they found a source of the greatest which mllht divide lil- discomfort alllhrough a long wln- There has been no barrier erect.- ter, and the kllts of the High-led to our contlnued association and lands proved poor protection co-operetlon. nor has anything pre- against the bltlng frosts. The tea clone been taken away from those and sugar prlvllegen did not coma ‘ who cherllh It. The natural off- up to their expectations, and even _. spring of the Island Kingdom are the crqwmng argument, founded'no lean Brltllh In their ways and an the abundance and cheapnesl of - patterns of land. turned out. to be a fallacy; 591°"-

d he rty maledlctlon §§.....:.mll.y.. Ear-reappear. altecwards l Kingsley and Stevenson and Scott. The purpose of abandoning the

word "British" In the official de-

INDIAN SUMMER

Along the llne of smoky hills

The crimson forest stands.

And all the day the blue-Jay calls Throughout. one autumn lands.

Now by great marshes wrcpt In mist.

0r past some river's mouth.

Throughout the long, still autumn

day wild blrds are flying south. -—Wllfred Campbell.

contrived to throw n halo of un- suhstanllal fiction.

This the settlers found to their cost before they were long In the» Colony. To men advanced In yearﬂ. whose prlnclpnl occupation had

herds. the axe was a laborious Im- plement to handle. The trees were of much harder groin than the

the lonely forests. I I I

through the districts ' which Sandy campaigned a feellnz. of restlessness prevailed. There was much serlous consultation be embarrassed by on among the cottages-s; some had artificial classification that does decided promptly before he left.-not apply to them. Ancient sym- whlle other: were slower In mak-_ Ins up their

They [become an embarrassment to unlly So pleased was Lord Selkirk with when they say one thing to some the result of his agent's activities. and mother thing to others. that he supplemented hll former The Conference of Common- very liberal allowance with e free wealth Prime Ministers in London grant. -of 200 acres of lend on hll hu ordered no constitutional Prince Edwin-o Island eltetel. elv- chancel nor when envthlna o! In: hIm carle blanc es .10 the loce- value away from the group. tlan. Sandy thereupon decided to B: tieh elloelatlon Is um u throw In his lot with the eml- u ever for than who belong In the grunts. end croli the ocean In the l Brltllh tradition. The Crown. which same lhlp. The "Polly" not ull Iyrnboliul the continually of the from Oban about the am of June. Brlﬂlh evolutionary procm and 1803. Her llvlng freight, besides under which we have flourished her officers and crew. consisted of ' ” i. lﬂll llllidl u about. m: hundred persona of aILof reverence to chose who have ages, from children or. the brunt lurned to revere it. All that hen to old men and women of three hlblwllld ll U10! I Illlilrl scare end ten. ~ d v v lwnam In his tailor-In: days Sandy had but not ell. It. la a oo spent a great. portion of hle leisure l-herly gesture In the In poring over Blackstone's Cam- Wﬁlﬂlnﬁl Ind conclllei menterlee and other legal works. ‘more British than the word Itself.

which he borrowed from a learned ~——-—--—---- shoemaker in the nellhborhoad. These hooks he subsequently pg " chased and treasured wit greatest care. He had them In lIII ‘ h-Ilh campaign. I

l ‘ Hlllllnlnlmul"

other of tnern he carried about h» its l will with mm In In: Highland rambles. wltn it ovary moment; int In! And more than sixty year; effer- lllrl if» I Will I609 It lillﬁ Ind ward: the old volumes. “ ‘. - and battered and worn, might be seen repoelng alongside the Family Bible on e shelf In his humble home In Prince Edward Island. ‘wPlAml-glf. lg!- l ~— ((9) - -From e sex-lea of old newspaper m ° "l"! "I "ll" sketches b the late Mr. Gear e I‘. "Pym"? l 3354"‘ "WM 0! "I0 0...... y ' comm. h nor Duchess

_______._ TINY IAIN! --- one The avenge Chinese farm h only the my o! Halifax. The £16,000 “some c a to lho-ever- model n: presented n n eoodwill age .8. fun: of about I60 none. fQlﬂllblly-CP-I. .

._.-._..-,_._. ‘IALIIA? GIT! MODIL

- oes y The Way -

Nowell)! Iirle have difficulty In finding their ahaperones when It In time to go home. — Quebec Chron- tale-Telegraph.

Puree hu It; heroes up | war, and our heroic c)... W7"? IQFVGC la gallantly

from lm to the little boy;

few, If any, feminine acquaintances. -—Klnzston Whig-Standard.

to——es- peclally that. early morning tom- Lucille l-leln, an American visitor to Britain.

The Puritan much to be av

y of the seven, will cause a reactlon er. People get just

tpln. accuses "a considerable body of writers, joum. alters and broadcasters" of a "on... Drove that rlsk lncreasei proPar- cerllid delermllwll°nv 1° “Md me"- llonately to speed. With all the mm"! Elwland ‘"4 U" E-"Slilh made; mechanyca. ymprovemm“ ‘at all costs, even In contexts when and technical safeguards. It ls. after ‘l l’ ‘mmmmrabli’ Wm“? m u" l"? all. the human factor which counts “the? term" If complain‘ m“ "l! most In ensuring safety. A car ll-lum“ Pan-M's” l" the bounding along at 70 or 80 miles Kmglmm “‘ Semi“ r and an hour ll not under proper can- Nlwulem frelfmd " a" "lbwﬂd 1° trol and Is a peril w Itself and m Ptlal" "l" "eme- Wh-Y "Wild H" other vehicles. Experts agree that Emgllsh’ “m” mmpfl" 82 V" ""1 to drive above 50 miles an how. .5 of the total electorate of the United w Invite disaster. To abolish lhe Kl"8d°"‘- "m be "WW9" '~° d° l"! ‘peed "m" altogether would be m some? the society asks. Scotland, surrender to the demands of the through the Sh‘ Andrew somew- recklesa. the selfish and Inconsld- h“ bake" U“ "'tr°“3"t ‘Xupllfmll eute__cuelph Mercury, to being designated as e “Junior

_____ partner." It asserts that for ever; occasion where "Britain" Is used ns an Inclusive term for "Eng- land," there are a hundred when- “England" Is used la denote the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. "Brllaln," lI maintains. Is a convenient contrac- tion for the full title. the offlcln contraction of "United Kingdom’ not being In all cases appropriate This ancient rivalry was Illustrated during the war when song, "Therell Always

Surely II: requlrea no argument to

There il consternation at Old Niagara aver the proposed destruc- tlon of the 256 by 60 foot llmber barracks of General Bullemwhose troops lortled Into New York State the revolutionary war. They don't. commit such sacriloge In the United Slates. whore such things arfmemorlols and tourist attrac- tions. As one stout member of the U. E. L. said. succinctly: "If the prlntlﬁg press of a rebel of the trne can be preserved In all antiquity, then the General Bu! headquarters should L2, surely."- St. Catharlncs Standard.

FAMILY BULWARK

LII: Insurance stands oat u e noel bulwuk, staunch will: the calm certainty of flullly.

A Life, Endowment or Pension Policy Ia an Insured llVlilll Plan, with guaranteed values for retirement.

Condiilt your nearest. Great-Welt Life agent for e aullnble policy. Including Accident and Health Insurance.

Ilyndman & Go. Limited

Insurance Since lﬂl

Ofﬂoee: Charlottetown Summon-alas Mouton!!!

Allison P. McLean -- District Mannger It Summerslrl-e Cynu A. it. Slmv -nlstrlot. Manager‘ at. Montague. (Tlsomu MoAvInn — Special Rapreeenlailve.

(F. L. MseNuii - Representative at Dernley.

(A. L. Rogers - Representative at Ilenslngtou.

Agents throughout the Province.

YOIIII APPEARANCE IlIlIlIIT$~

Because people ere Inclined Ia lad by appearance, It. h lm- g patient that you wen oloilrea in keep g with your business and looinl stature.

J. P. MABPIIEIISOII 8r Sllll

(CUSTOM BUILT CLOTBESI Queen l9

CHM!!!

BE PREPA D . Colderlweother is expected, you should see that the coal

_bin is filled with our good coal. We are unloadingcon "l Sydney, lnvernemAcaIig and Hard Coal lriquetm.

ll. PIGKAIID 8r 0o. Ltd.

Phone 240