PACE FOUR

THE GUARDIAN

Aoihorlfod up Second Club Mail Post Office Department. Ottawa. The Ilinnd Gunrdiln Publishing Co.

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

CIRCULATION "Coven Prince Edward island like the dew”

"The strongest memory is weaker than the weaken ink".

GHABLOTTETOWN. MONDAY. MARCH 23, 1953 Welfare council Brief

The way to prevent war is to prepare for war, and in the view of the Canadian Welfare Council the way to prdvent unem- ployment is to prepare for unemployment. Prevention is, indeed, the keynote of the brief presented to all the Governments of Canada last week although the handling of the problems of unemployment is gone into with care and intelligence.

A premise of the brief is that the need for financial assistance is not different in character because of differences in cause. Whether an individual is unemployable or unemployed does not effect the fact that his needs and those of his family must be met. The Federal Government can take steps to provide employment in slack times and provide the finances to support the un- employed. It should administer Unemploy- ment Insurance, the best form of assist- ance, and extend its benefits as widely as possible. Other relief should be administer- ed by the Provincial Government or munici- palities with money provided by Federal grants. g

Constitutional reasons and readier ad- aptation to local conditions are amongst the arguments advanced for Provincial ad- ministration. The Council accepts the dis- advantage of separate administration from Unemployment Insurance, and. an unavoid- able variation in policy between Provinces and even between municipalities.

The well-balanced brief goes into a number of other matters, including the necessity of a rehabilitation programme, and emphasizes that the problem of unem- ployment in good times and bad must be tackled from a number of aspects. it rules out any simple solution.

To; Many'Ahsentees

The Moncton Transcript notes that when the vote which closed the budget debate in the House of Commons was taken last week, only about 60 per cent of the members of parliament were present. It is quite nat- ural the voters who elected their repre- sentatives might. ask, where were they?

Voting on "the budget traditionally has been one of the more important events in the course of a session of parliament. In the days of Mr. Mackenzie King and Mr. Bennett there was generally a full member- ship of the House for the final vote. So when approximately 40 per cent of the members were absent from the House last week it would appear there was a lack of interest in the proceedings by many mem- bers. During the long debate on the bud- get a great deal of criticism was heard from the Opposition, and government supporters were quite as voluble in backing Finance Minister Abbott's effort to please the tax- payers in an election year. But when the final vote on the budget was called. therel

,were a great many empty seats.

"It has become common practise, evi- dently." comments our Moncton contempor- ary, "for members to observe the Thursday- to-Tuesday week-end without faltering. For those members whose constituencies are in Quebec and Ontario it gives them about as much time at home as they spend in Ot- tawa. Since these men were elected to at- tend the parliamentary sessions and assist in the business of t.hc country it is doubt- ful if the men and women who elected them will view their disintercsicdncss in proceed- ings in the House with consent. These ab- sentee members should not be too surpris- ed. if the electors show the same interest in them at the next election, as they have shown to the final vote in the budget de- bate."

Eliucation in Russia-

Frederick Barghorn of Yale University writing in the New York Times on the necessity for estimating Russian power has this to say of its system of education:

"We may rightly deplore the one sided- ness of Soviet education, but we shall dis- count it at our peril. I was impressed while in Russia, and more recently while inter- viewing Sovieturefugees in Germany, most-

,1y army officers or minor officials, by the keenness and knowledge of this class of I am sure the students work i "in Soviet schools than do most Vnbudentn. They are particularly

unity;-in-geography, language, and his-

x.. lg . dieifhom goes onto comment on

the vigorous pressure exerted by the Krem- lin for scientific and technical education. ”Stalin," he reminds his readers. "in a speech in 1946. and Malenkov in his recent speech at the party congress called upon Soviet scientists to tovertake and surpass' America." The doctor admits that there are obstacles to creativity under Commun- ism but he points out: "Compensatory fac- tors" such as ”huge appropriations for re- search." He also mentions the data gath- ered up by? Soviet spies or pased on by fei- low travellers.

However there is now a comparatively free exchange of data among the western nations on scientific matters. He further suggests, and this strongly, that the time has gone when we could complacently go about in our educational systems - putting emphasis upon the mediocre while letting the gifted become bored and discouraged. They are the ones whose interests and capacities must be considered. This is not to say that the mediocre and the dull should be neglected-democracy has need of trained followers. It is to say that in the last analysis the future depends uponythe type of leadership which a nation develops.

Election Promises

Once again, notes the Financial Post, U. S. politicians are discovering that election promises are more easily made than carried out. All through the campaign last year, the Republicans hinted broadly at thumping tax cuts and great slashes in government spending. But as soon as they got in the driver's seat the tune changed abruptly. Now the U. S. public is being warned that balancing the budget will take time, that immediate hopes of substantial tax cuts will have to be deferred. Even Taft now suggests that the notorious Excess Profits Tax now should stay until the end of the year. t

The trouble is that new Congress like the old one finds it has realities to face and that trimming where it might be done is often politically painful. "Most members seem to have a pet project or two and the only safe place for swinging the axe seems to be foreign aid. In both respects that would seem to bring the new Congress into sharp conflict with the new President. The outcome will determine the real boss at Washington for the next four years. Up to now, we very much wonder if Eisen- hower is the boss.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Nursing is a profession with a proud record of service to humanity. Today the calls upon nursing services are greater than ever before and the trend in public health activity will make even greater-t demands (in it. 'There is no finer vocation that a younggwoman can take up today and prob- ably none where she is so urgently need- ed.

James llustinian Morier (l-Iajji Baba), British traveller and novelist. died this date 1849. He was secretary to the British am- bassador to Persia and during his six years of residence in that country he thoroughly acquainted himself with the character of the people. He published, "Journey Through Persia, 1808-9".land a number of novels. The best is, ”The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan."

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The sum or s32,34o.oo0 voted to cover the loss of the agricultural prices support board seems a great deal and no doubt

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The extended thumb is I notable feature of the Quebec rouuidi. both in and around the city. ru- oome reason, there Memo to be more people seeking lifts around Quebec than in other puti of the province. -Quebec chronic e- 'nol- egraph.

A North Bly mu: has on offer of I mllion dollars for mineral rights on an island in Lake Ni- plsslng. Better take it. There are d p. , tors going around with toes out of their shoes because they wanted just I little more for

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The growth of population by natural increase and immigration,

PUBLIC FORUM

This column in open to the discussion by correspondent: of questions of interest. The Guardian does not necessar- liy endorse the opinion of correspondents.

:lxrLo1'ra'r1or

Sir,-This word has come to ex- hale : bad odour. It smells heav- ily of Communism, and the Com- munists clalm it smells of capital- ism. There may be truth in both assertions. At. any rate the word has greatly changed its meaning these last years to something sin- ister, and it. is much in use.

In The Guardian of March 14th in His Eminence Cardinal Mc- Guiganb timely article, "Immoral Llterattue", he uses this word in denouncing unscrupulous men, par- asites, they fire, who shamelessly exploit. human weakness for their own- profit. No condemnation too strong can be pronounced upon men who thus prey upon human weak- ness for money profit.

Desire for drink is mother pas- sion that selfish men prey upon for money. some can drink or leave it alone. Others drink in moderation to enjoy the filllp it. gives them, loosening up their ton- gues and putting them at ease. For them drink has strong attraction. But for others the pull of drink is irresistible. 'Iihcy can no more help their habit than they can the colour of their eyes.

The whole liquor traffic is playing this thirst for money pro- fit. They sly. "hook or crook, people will get. drink. We can charge them what. we like. and they will pay. Prohibition is im- poesibld. This thirst is here and it is going to stay. Our business is permanent." All the liquor ads are saying: "Let. us make money out of this irst. We can make lots of it." And no corporations in Canada are making so much monty as che brewers, and we have to say this. there is no business carried on upon earth more con- temptioly selfish than the liquor traffic that thus makes money out of human weakness.

But. this thirst can cease. It is unnatural. We were born to water but not to alcoholic liquor. And science says the body in better without it. This thirst can cease clean out of a man's life. I have known it to happen. It is happen-

much will be made of the enormous amount. mg hm now 1,, oamda in mom

of money spent on aiding the farmer. When divided by the number of occupied farms in this country, however, it works out at an average of about 3950 per farm. It is a poor farm indeed which does not contri- bute 3250 a year to the national economy. 0 U 9

There are 22,455 occupied dwellings in this Provincehaccording to the 1951' cen- sus, 18,305 owner-occupied and 4,150 ten- ant-occupied. The number of rural homes is 16,880, of which 10,650 are farmsteads. Urban dwellings number 5,575 which are al- most equally divided between owner-occu- pied and tenant-occupied. Our Island farm- ers are obviously -holding much more strongly to the aim of home ownership than are city and town dwellers.

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The disclosure of more of a company's business to its owners., the share lders, is the theme of a series of recomm ndations made by the Canadian Institute of Chart- ered . Accountants in its proposals for amendment of the Canadian Companies Act and Provincial Acts. Outstanding is a proposal that companies should disclose to their shareholders the profits earned by subsidiary companies so that they w uld know more accurately the value of t elr own shares. other proposals include such things as the independence of the auditor and the disclosure of the consideration for "founder-3' shares". Thelatter is already provided for in this Province.

sands of cases. Every town has its "A.A'." society where "down and outot come in. are befriended and saved from the power of drink. some time ago I had a letter from a friend who told me the good news of his salvlitlon; and what good news it. was! - I am. Sir, et.c..

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LONDON. Englancl:-

Most of the bigger trade groups have their awn annual exhibitions. but the trouble with some of them, so far as the great British public is concerned. is that they are what they are-tmde shows. Hence, fre- quently, anydhe and everyone with an interest in the trade or the in- dustry in-volved--not forgetting the overseas buyer, on whom we al- ways have a hopeful eye-ls wel- comed; gentlemen of the Press ere given every facility; but members of the public at large are toler- ated and no more.

Indeed, sometimes they are not even tolerated. On certain days of the brilliantly spectacular air dis- play sponsored by the society of British Aircraft Constructors, for instance, entry is only-for the rela- tive few, who qualify by close con- nectlon with the industry. the Press or, somewhat oddly. any for- eign power (friendly or otherwise). Even the south Bank site at. the Festival of Britain in 195l-good- ess, is it two years already since the Festival?-fell partly under the same spell of exclusivenesa: on Tuesday each week the price of admission was raised. in order to dissuade large numbers of the merely curious from attending, and so leave more room for tycoons whose time was too valuable to be wasted .t.h.rough crowd delays.

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But at. least, once a year, there is an exhibition in London which is for all of us, irrespective of our trade or calling. It has a theme. one that. owm nothing to any par- ticular lndustry but touches on most in one way or another. It. is the Ideal Home Exhibition, spon- sored by one of our national new- papers. and its name makes its purpose evident.

The home, surely. is something that must interest all of us who have roots. The annual Motor Show has little attraction-for any- one who has neither hope nor am- bition to own a car: the Business Efficiency Exhibition may help an oi'l'lce manager to save his firm a fortune. but it deosn't. mean a thing to the miner, the electrician, the airline pilot and millions more of us. Yet the motorist and tie pedestrian, the miner. the electric- ian and the pilot all have a home, be it ever so humble. and we all like our home to be as near ideal as we can make it.

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The Ideal Home Exhibition is designed to show us how to do it. Or at. least, how it should be done, given certain id-sol circumstances- n.ot. least of which would be a good deal more cash than is to be found 1" m08'- Pe0Dlc's wage packets.

However. slum most of us are conditioned to set our sights come- what lower than the ideal in all things, this is a matter which does not distress us unduly. It in nice

TIIOUGHTS ON FREEDOM

It is not. to be thought. of that the Flood Of British freedom. which, to the

open sea .

of the world's pulse. from dark antiquity

Hath flowed, "with pomp of waters. unwlthstood."

Roused though it; be full often to

a mood.

which spurns the check of solu- tary hands, "it

That. this most famous stream in

i bogs and sends

should perish; and to evil and to good

Be lost. for ever. In our hall: is

hung Armory of the invincible Knights of '

We must. be free or die, who speak the tongue

Thai: Shakespeare spoke; the faith and morals hold

Which Mtlt.on held.-In everything we are sprung

Of Earth's first blood. have Litles manifold.

-William Wordsworth.

indeed to see what could be done if we had the wherewithal. There is plenizy of scope. A visit to the Exhibition is an astonishing edu- cational course in the number of goods and services that go to make up a home. ideal or not. 0 I O

Fumfture and food, lighting, heating and cooling. cleaning. dec- orations lnterlor and exterior, gad- gets for this and fittings for that. so many things which so many manufacturers say are quite indie- pensable one wonders how one managed without them for so long. The truth is probably what we "made do", improvised and settled for what we could achieve rather than sigh for the unattainable The Ideal Home Exhibition helps in tha respect.-it displays ideas as wen as goods. Notwlih intent, it is true; but it would be impos- sible to calculate how many homes have -been reorganized with the minimum of expense as a result of the mental notes taken by astute householders during a. visit to the great show.

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Of course. it all sounds very fine this Exhibition. and so it is; it if a triumph of organized showman- Shlp and it is of absorbing inter- est to men and women of every class and calling. But alaagmd this is no fault of the organize;-gm it has a hollow ring. to qountlgsg thousands more who are still vic- tlms of that scourge of the post- war years, the housing shortage.

Some can make a Joke of their troubles. like the person who ud- vertfsed in the London newspaper not so long ago: "Dog and mug,”

, province to province . .

HI . ', higher levels of edu- cation. as well as measures like family allowances which promote school attendance. are all factors adding to municipal problems in Quebec. e increasing spread of education among Canadians is a happy phenomenon. it will, how- ever, require a large-scale effort to face up to it.-Le Solell. Que- base.

The infinite variety of Western Ontario is constantly providing new surprises. from the Hanover Post we learn that Beniinck Town- ship is planning to erect a. bridge over the river Styx. From our scanty knowledge of classical mythology we had the impression that the Styx was the river sep- arating the World of the living from the Underworld. But appar- ently Bruce County has that too. We can only wonder if there is a Charon up there whose ferry will be made obsolete.- London Free

Comparisons are odioln. And it. is hazardous to place Quebec's last budget alongside that. which the Hon. Leslie Frost has just put be- fore the Legislature in Toronto. Conditions vary a great. deal from . At first glance and proportions accounted for, Ontu-lo'e financial position doesnotoeemtobe no good as Quebec's. Yet Mr. Frost does not hesitate to increase the provin- cial grants to Ontario universities. He has raised to 56,956,000, an in- crease of 0463.000. the current grants to the universities and has added special grants amounting to 81,900,000. - L'Act.ion Catholique. Quebec.

In Weetun Ontario. on a. duel highway, two young men aged 20 and 23 returning from a dance at one in the morning were lnstazltly killed when their automobile left. the pavement and struck 4 tree. The police estimated the speed at the moment of the crash as 80 miles per hour, and the car was cut. in two, pieces being found 200 feet away. Here was a highway of advanced design. ii smooth and well-kept. piece of road, but hu- man folly was not to be discourag- ed. A lunatic at the wheel can do- feut. the moat elaborate safety pre-

lneed home. Box - -- "; others find no humour at all in the sit- uation end may well remark that

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Mutton: the human mind . vise.-Ottawa Journal. "" "'

For I. long the children luv. been deliuhted with toy gun; . . . Today these toye enjoy an exua. ordinary popular-vy. Counters are loaded with them. replete wm. fuofmttng choice. It is an oddday when you do not meet three mu. fellows playing at. bandits. Up to -.. point this is all innocent and chiln. like. But is it always necessar. and is it wise. to let the young: stern learn the art of uoaaslnatlng one mother. of imitating 3 c31linz which id certainly not gmong Hm moot nwle? To the young, uld M, ancient. we should give nothing that is not excellent.-Le Drolt OL- tawa. '

In day! zone to when mlsbchnved in thg classrooxiihlhtillil-I; expected to be punished for" if TINY hlid no grudge against H"; teacher and they did not carry an,- W108 h0me- Girls might be verball- corrected or given e few 1.,-.131 "i-Oken" ships with the strap, but boy: hdld out. their hands mnnful. ly and never moved them umu the allotment of stops was over. Tim, hands might be tingling with pain, but. they returned to their seat; with a grin on their faces and A "NEW. it didn't hurt" attitude M- brcvado. Parents are oometlmeg unaware that during children n home may be lnsolent brats at 3011001. and if a teacher thinks punishment. is required to ea,-.... lish discipline. it is no doubt do. served. - St. Thomas Times- Journal.