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THE GUARDIAN

Authorised as Second Clue Mail Post Office Department. Ottawa. The island Guudisn Publishing Co.

President and Associate Editor. Inn A. Burnett. Associate Editor, Frank Walker.

CIRCULATION "Covers Prince Edward Island like the dew”

"The strongest memory is weaker than the weakest ink”.

CHARLOTTETOTVN.

Deadlock Broken

FRIDAY. JAN. 80. 1953

With fewer than four days left before the Monday deadline, the threatened rail- way strike has been declared off and Can- adians everywhere are breathing a sigh of relief at the welcome news. At the time of writing, the details of the settlement are not known, but Mr. Donald Gordon's state- ment, made on behalf of the negotiating groups of railway and union heads, leaves no doubt that the issue has been settled.

Within a few minutes of this announce- ment, the Railway Association of Canada lifted its embargo on freight and express shipments, which went into force on, Tues- day at. midnight. The wheels of business and industry everywhere. which were slow- ing down in anticipation of the strike, are picking up momentum. It is impossible to estimate the loss already incurred by rea- son of the deadlock which appeared to have been reached in the negotiations, but it is inconsequential compared to what a tieup in rail transportation across Canada for even a few days would mean.

No doubt Government intervention was an important factor in averting the strike. it would have been caiamitous had it stood aside in such a crisis, and not exercised, if necessary, and to the fullest extent, the em- ergency powers with whichvit is vested.

Raising The Birkenhead

The news that an attempt is to be made to salvage the "Birkenhead" recalls a link between the heroic military commander of the vessel and this Province. Col. Seton, before the fateful voyage, gave a flint-lock gun, a fowling piece, to a friend, one Cap- tain Cleary. A daughter of Captain Cleary, Margaret Cleary was for many years a well known resident of Charlottetown and a printer when women were just beginning to enter the skilled trades. Miss Cleary in turn gave the gun to the late editor of The Guardian. Mr. J. R. Burnett.

The Birkenhead was a steam troopship built of iron which sailed from Queens- town, Ireland, January 7, 1852 for Cape- town. The night of February 26, 1852 she struck a pinnacle of rock off Simon's Bay, South Africa. No less than 454 of the crew and soldiers perished out of 638 per- sons on board. Col. Seton had ordered the buglers to sound assembly and the troops stood fallen-in on deck while their wives and children were taken off in the boats. They knew they were doomed but did not break ranks. As the ship went down their voices were raised in a hymn.

Now the modern salvage vessel Twyford is inspecting the wreck and those of three vessels sunk by submarines. The Birken- v head and one of the other vessels is said -to have carried a large amount of gold and all of them had valuable cargoes. This ac- counts for the salvage ictivity but it is the heroism of the troops that inspires public interest and such expression as Addison's "The Story of the Birkenhead."

Token Exports

Earlier this month, the,British govern- ment announced its intention to set aside some of its precious dollars to buy Cana- dian cheese. It now follows with a further sum, earmarked for Canadian bacon. The cheese and bacon purchases are 31,500,000 and 51,000,000 respectively, and details re- main to be worked out.

"These purchases," remarks the Ottawa Citizen, "are but pale shadows of the enormous demand for Canadian cheese and bacon during. and after the war. Bacon ex- ports used to be particularly spectacular, nainglito speak of 695 million pounds in

Q1944, but falling steadily away thereafter. The present purchase may amount to around 5 million pounds. But last, year not , (single pound of Canadiambacon or cheese vwpm" " mannin- : .' .'lThe Krltlsh government has shown tfrgt,..it..:ls,1ust as anxious as is Canada to i K cultural imports from this coun- u only produgt to maintain its - . 2 the British market is wheat. The i V effortlsbeingmade tokeep am , ' it 2

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Canada is capable of producing, ordersfor some five million pounds of cheese and R million doliars' worth of bacon are mere

flea-bites and are much more likely to cause false optimism than help our over- all marketing situation. In neither case do these orders constitute any resumption of trade between the U.K. and Canada these two products.

waste lnwiduoatlon

A programme to allow the best students to finish secondary school and college a year earlier is proposed in a report published by the Harvard University Press. The report on "General Education in School and Col- lcge", financed by the Ford Foundation, of- fers a series of suggestions which would eliminate waste and duplication and at the same time permit students to make pro- gress appropriate to their capacity.

The committee, under the chairmanship of Alan R. Blackmer, instructor in English at Phillips Academy, Andover, proposes an integrated study schedule which would elim- inate duplication of work on the secondary school and college level. encourage the stu- dent to educate himself and push forward at his own speed in fields of special interest. Advanced placement tests would enable the student to go at once into advanced courses

again on an introductory course in the various subjects.

The report criticizes language training both at school and college levels and notes that the great majority of students do not carry. any foreign language to the point of real usefulness. Similar wasted effort was noted in physics, chemistry, biology and history, in which college students seemed to go over the old ground supposedly cov- ered in the secondary schools.

EDITORIAL NOTES

The report of a schooner being loaded in ice-free Georgetown harbour is a remind- er of the potential usefulness of that port. If developed, it would serve the Island prac- tically the year lround.

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It is regrettable that no funds are pro- vided in the estimates for the improvement of the airport at Charlottetown. There is still the hope, of course, that it will be pro- vided for in supplementary estimates but to all appearances Charlottetown will remain incapable of handling powerful modern air- craft.

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Accustomed as we have become to lead- ing Canada in the matter of the quality of Yorkshires, the comparative figures for the first half of 1952 are still astonishing. The first quoted in yesterday's story, that out of the 11 in Canada scoring 90 and over in a slaughter test no less than 9 came from this Province, illustrates the out- standing quality of Island bred swine.

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Charles I, king of Great Britain and Ireland, was beheaded this date 1649. He had managed to fight with France, Parlia- ment, the Scots andestablish a military tyranny in Ireland. Although his right to levy "ship money" was upheld in the great Hampden case, he was forced to concede its illegality and the abolition of the court of Star Chamber. After sacrificing Stafford he resorted to arms but in the end was overcome by the forces of Parliament, the backbone of which- were Cromweil's Iron-

sides.

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For the first time in the history of mo- tion pictures the Coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey will be filmed in full Technicolor and will be shown in Canada within a few days of the actual event taking place in London, England. Special facilities are being made by Technicolor to process the film, which will have commentary by Vsir Laurence -Olivier, so that the world will be able to see whole spectacle in record time. ' Special air express services are being laid on for distribution of prints. The run- ning time'for the feature fllm'will be ap-

proximately 85 minutes.

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Doctors in medical laboratories in Toronto have started work in processing iblood collected by the -Red Cross Society during the Second World War, into the first gamma globulin serum produced in Canada. They expect to have between 4,000 and 5,- 000 doses of the serum ready .by,the first of July. The,blood being used has been re- frigerated since it was collected during the war days. Experiments in the United States with gamma globulin have met with pre ery success in apparently reducing paralysis from polio. Jt is apparent that gamma globulin produces anlmmunityin patients which lasts about fivelfwccln. when

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OfOO3mr00ime00-TO Notes From Another Island at "Anson"

LONDON, England:-

Somebody sold a couple of used cars the other day. Nothing re- markable in that - the used our business has been very active since the war - but what did make us raise our eyebrows were the prices. one went for five shillings and Sixpence (about eighty centsl, the other for a shilling less than that. Both were claimed to be in "drive-away" condition, and we must. assume, in the absence of complaint from the purchaser, that they were. True. at those prices. he would have little room for com- plaint anyway, but even so E sales point is expected to be reasonably accurate whatever it is you are selling- and as far as cars are concerhed. when you say "drive- away condition" there's no two ways about it. Either you can drive the things away. or you can't.

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Two cars, then. for ten bob. Less than the price of, say. three pack- Ms of twenty regular size cigar- ettes, s seat. in the stalls at many of the West End shows. or a pair of good nylons. small wonder that the transaction caused consterna- tion smong used car dealers.

They condemned it as a stunt, and of course they were almost certainly right. The cars would have fetched a good deal, more than ten shillings even if they had been sold merely for scrap -

and they were. after all, some twenty years old. One hastens to add that this

does not imply that all cars of such age are due for the scrap heap. Far from it. Indeed, there are hosts of enthusiasts who would maintain that a car is only in its prime after its wheels have been turning for a score of years. It may be that their enthusiasm stems from the fact that they

on A omucnrv DAY --loW0ae.s'(l-- ups HAD it!

A Crocodile On The Green

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There was a. letter in The Times of London recently in which a retired Army officer recalled a golf game in Africa. He had found his bail lying on a crocodiles back and he had had to shoot the creature before he could play his next shot. This is a rarefied case, but still it. illustrates a peculiar and little-noticed form of guerilla wa.rfo.re in which man and. the beasts are perpetually engaged. The peculiar quality comes from the fact that it is an indirect. war. The beast does not fight. man himself; it fights the physical symbols of his civilization. The attack is carried on by creatures of all slzes.- and some- times it. is active, sometimes as non-violent. as Cvandhiis passive resistance. - At. one extreme (ignoring such esoteric cases as the elephant trampling down houses or the giraffe ripping out telepho A6 wires with his long neck) there is the highly active moose which takes a dislike to is car. charges it. stoves in the radiator and presents the insurance adjuster with is tricky problem. At the other extreme there is the passive fly whose tiny body. adhering to the wing of a jet aircraft, breaks the sir-flow and plays hob with the aerodynamics. The determined termite eternal- ly oats away the timbers of man's houses; the teredo chews the piling of his docks; the cow. attracted by cellulose dope as 3 cat by. catnip, placldly munches the fabric of air-

craft; the mouse. gnawing at electrical insulation. burns the house down.

The sheep's compact bones pack under the leading wheels of the locomotive and derail it; the duck crashes th ugh the windshield, fills the cockpit with blood and feathers and may kill the pilot; the roosting owl short.-circuits power lines and plunges the town into darkness; the dog. running under the wheels of the car, causes the driver to swerve and crash.

All this la,disquietlng. We hu-

themselves poss;s.s models that qualify in this way. and that they have grown attached to ltlielr vehicles, as one might grow at-l tachcd to an aged domestic who has given years of faithful ser-

vice.

So maybe it was a stunt, but it points a moral for all that. It. is not the kind of stunt that would have been undertaken lightly only 3 few months ago, when the used car business was a much more lu- cratlve line to be in. The bottom has not yet fallen out of it, but it has sagged conspicuously.

For a time. when new cars for the home market. were so scarce as to be almost. fictitious, an old model for sale was in sure-fire money maker; and human nature bcing what it is, money was made, not always with etricl: regard for scruples. Demand. not value, fix- ed the prices, and the scales were heavily weighted against the pur- chuer; Then, recently. the wheel of fortune began to turn. More new cars were available, and there occurred one of those demonstra- tions of "buyer resistance" that all the sales talk in the world cannot break down.

Many people who had ordered I. new our years ago and had since marked time until their name cnme to the top of the waiting list decided. when they finally not an

accept the offer. -As if by magic the waiting lists Ihnnk; for some models they disappeared complete- ly, and even for some of the more popui cars the wsltlnurtime was out from yours to weeks. And at once the price: of used can came tumbling. ' , , ndulum union. with de-' mand as prealna. people mm to look for nine for their money. To a -degree. not seen in thll peni- oulgr line of business since the war. the customer begun to an

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mans think we own the world; but the hsirying animals are there to remind us how fragile is the equipment with which we so proud- ly stake our claim on its surface.

Old Charlottetown was r. s. 1. i

PAUPER APPRENTICES

From a despatch to Lieutenant Governor Sir ccharles A. Fitzroy from Lord Russell. Colonial Secre- tary. Downing Street, Oct. 13. I840:

"The Act. numbered in the re- cords of this Office, 530. intltled 'an Act to amend the Act now in force regulating Apprentices in Prince Edward Island: although obviously designed. to remedy a. real grievance, might, I fear, in its present state give occasion to abuses stili,more serious. It is very fit. that. the children of deal.- itute apprentices should be taught some business, by which they can become useful a of society: and with this view it. is fit tiiat such children should be placed out. as apprent.lces, with persons who are at once willing to under- take, and proper to receive the charge of them. But in a. coun- try where there is a scanty popu- lotion. and El. great. demand for manual labour. such apprentice- ships-especially children who have passed the age of puberty-will often be re- garded by the master as o. valu- able interest; and great care should be taken to prevent. their being contracted, without the con- sent, either of the parent or guard- ian of the child. except. on on

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of the way of cars. Still. those who. on impulse, - have adopted that course, usually have no cause to regret it."-St. Catharine: Stan- dam.

The Communist Purty news-

snd all the papers that had been run off the pres were hastily gsthered up. An article referred to the Communist youth organiza- tion as "Fascist bandits." We'll wager the printer did not. leave a forwarding address. -- Fort Wil- liam, Times-Journal.

Lnun students throughout the world will no doubt be overjoyed by the publication in Rome of it magazine written in the "dead" language. Editqi by one of the world's leading Latin scholars, it. demonstrating to students how modern ideas can be' expressed in the ancient idiom --if there are any really modern ideas. -t Brantford Expositor.

When Napoleon called the Brit- ish e nation of shopkeepers he overlooked Nelson and welling- ton, Blake and Byron. when pru- enl:-dny critics paint England in terms of drabnese and frustration they overlook the old Churchill- ian fire and the new Elizabethan color. the soaring achievements in radar and jet-propelledI alr- craft, and the dazzling contribu- tions of stage and screen.-Chriab inn Science Monitor.

During the put: thirty years the field of glaciers in 1 e for north has receded many m as and new lands and water have become available. Growth of vegetables has become possible in areas which were formerly covered with snow the year around and where now there are three or four months of frost-free weather. while ships are able to use chan- nels which were formerly ice- bound. In our own province the average temperature during the winter months is from twenty to thirty degrees higher than the average of forty or fifty years ago, while many parts of Ontario have little snow. - Muskoka Herald.

The men with e houge and family, who is in the lower wage

and to- gether they can hardly be dissect- ed" turns out to be a description of an elephant! trunk. nora res- taurant steak. - Edmonton Jour-

to jump. thinks The Toronto Tele- "Pedes- trians, a high court judge has rul- ed. are not. supposed to Jump out

JANILAEIY 30, - 1953

1Notes By The i

some so companies in the United sttes Ire new manufacturing these rollers. In 1052. one of these companies had a business turnover, of two and I. half million dam,-,. in rollers alone. - Fort unam Times-Journal.

A .eponur went to interview . local celebrity who had reached my ninety-ninth birthday. As the in. terview concluded. the repomr complimented the near-centanan and added: "I certainly hope 1 can return next year and see you reach 100-" "C9-"'1 590 Why not. youns man." the old timer replied, "you look healthy enough to me." -TIic- lorle Colonist.

Old Victorians, poo Ie up:

here before 1910. recal)pt.he 5.2: when they could buy salmon (mm Indians on Government -meet near the Inner Harbour. The,-. were two prices: 15 cents for I small fish of four pounds, "two- blte” for is larger one of six pounds, Old Victorians compu-e um, prices to the 56 cents I pound they pay today. -Victoria Times.

For the next "six weeks many of the so men and women on the current Asslze Court jury panel will be financially punished for performlng one of democracy: highest functions. Moat ..pnn-1 members will be required to sit several days to several weeks on Juries. They'll be paid only so a day for representing all citizens in this key function of justice, when even common labor de- munds up to 312 a day in Vancou- ver, a miserable so is a real hard- ship to mcmt. jurors. - Vancouver Sun. ' .

Immigrants who Iettled in .On- tario during 1952 brought a. total of 624300.000 of new capital with the . says the Ontario planning and dtveiopment .depsrt.ment. This is merely one of the duets these newcomers have brought. with them. Others are their strong h. skin. experience, Ind will to mo 9 good. It is impossible to calculate to the' full the worth of an immi- grant. it takes so many forms and it extends into the second and third generations. -London Free Press.

The cartoonlsw delight, the El. Bernard with brandy cask attach- ed, is being retired from active service in the Alps. His place re- portedly is being taken by German Shepherds or Alssfirms, breeds which are supposed to be more rugged. Yet. charm, no less than endurance; has its place, and the prospect of meeting an amiable St.' Bernard amid the snow-blown passes must have - encouraged many a weary traveller to no on. A