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TI'IEg GIJARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN FEBRUARY.g.I. 195' Memoirs Of. '34

Prince Eiliiaril Islslil classified The Hon. A. E. Arsenauliiif

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a most interesting manner, highlights of it career which brought him into contact with many of the leading figures of his day, both in Canada and overseas.

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I remember wharves and the ships,

And the sea-tides tossing free;

World War, as Attorney General and Premier of the Province, as leader of the

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"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than Opposition and subsequently as a presiding And fipsnlsh sailors with bearded E8"! Year?!

the Weakest Mk" jurist of the Supreme Court for more than And tn?” be,,,,, ma my...” 0; ' ' ' 0 uuxniorreroifu riiu'iFsBIy.”i-En. 1. iii;-si' twenty-five years. his career has Indeed ll" Shiva Afff ,.'””""" "'"""' ;13'”,',i,”. "me" by "'e R"- D'- R-ms-yd ” been noteworth But he found time for Am the mm” M me 5”” and nlfil"I:':'i'dvi'la(!'B Eanjlatdtetgt .1 of ?3'3...'"” netv' ML Mumm'o"' hm ' . th - y. t t ti If D - And ifoi, voice M that wayward tweility-one migiated to Post igtoyal Churclli T: gzipeztue mbeul; Um” many 0 er impor an ac v ies, ecoming s in Am". in the yen ml. one 0! . so for

Is singing and saying still;

"A boy's will is the windis will.

And the thoughts of youth long, long thoughts."

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Ilrasilc Emergency Measures

the first president of Prince Edward 1s- ili:gnihgo:et1hife.itbeen "km 'e'p"i' land's Tourist Bureau, a director of the ' ' ' Good Roads Association and a life mem- ber of the Canadian Association of Tour-

ist and Publicity Bureaux, as well as a di-

my maternal ancestors was a Pou- trlncourt who accompanied Du Mont to Port Royal in 1604. Pierre Arsensult married in Port Royal and afterwards moved to Beau- bessln. now the Town of Amherst in Nova Sootla. Two of his sons.

Some years ago. q if cldent, I came upon vilhuet. ilrxy '11: another relic of the Acadinn oecu. potion. While visiting a friend 1..

Ovcrsliadowing everything else in the ""'

Speech from the Throne at the opening of Parliament was the emphasis placed on the ”furthcr deterioration" of the world

situation caused by Communist China's in- tcrvention in Korea, and the need for un- precedented peacetime emergency measures

early authorization for Canadian participa- in General command, for additional powers to ensure adequate homc defense preparations and to prevent resulting economic dislocation, for substantially increased expenditures on de- lcnsc, for establishment of a Production

agency for defense needs and for Atlantic Pact allies, for appropriate participation in Commonwealth and United Nations build up Asia, and for amendments to the Citizenship Act, cracking down on Canadian activities within the country.

In the past, emergency legislation has been associated with the War Measures Act. The present intention of the Government appears to be to seek powers short of in- voking this Aci, but with almost as far- reaching implications. The powers would seem to point towards control measures to deal with the channelling of materials into or from civilian production and to keep prices-and possibly wages-at what the Government considers to be reasonable levels. It is likely, however, that these pow- ers will be of the stand-by variety whic will be used only if necessary.

It has also been announced that a new defense bond issue is being launched to help pay for the rearmament programme and it is likely that a savings certificate cam- paign is also envisaged. go on sale today, paying 3 per cent in- terest and replacing the current issue pay- ing 21,'g per cent. certificates and bonds will not be subject to income tax, the gross interest rate will be nearly 591,- per cent. that the issue will assist in reversing the downward trend in savings which has in- terfered with rearmament in recent months.

Public opinion will support every con- structive effort on the Government's part to cope with the present grave situation. will also insist on the Government itself setting an example of drastic retrenchment in all non-essential expenditures.

Another Sales Tax?

A sorry anticlimax to the Throne Speech arc the proposals, tabled ' yesterday by the Prime Minister, for allow- ing the Provinces sales tax. This is about the most inoppor- lune lime in the ward a measure of this kind, involvc changing and-worst of all-set a pre- cedent which is bound Alhc limit and can only result in further exorbitant pricc sumer. The sales tax is the most iniquitous levy in our whole taxation system. It is criminally unjust to the poorer classes, and 5 to extend its provisions now to the Provin- cial ficld, at a , are on the eve of being boosted to wartime .. proportions, might well prove disastrous. , Fortunately the consent of all the Provin- L cell will be required to put this dangerous - lelgslation through, and it is to be hoped A that some at least of them will think twice before agreeing to it.

Judge lIrsemlt's Iieiiioln

, On the retirement of Mr. Justice Arsen-

, ault from the Supreme Court bench on De-

cember 31, 1946, the hope-now fulfilled-

was expressed by mfny friends

would devote some of his well-eamed leisure

to writing his memoirs.

' which unfortunately few of our public men

have cultivated in the past, and the loss is

' felt by every student of Island history. The

fact is that many who have played prom-

. lnent parts in our political and professional

I life have either been cut short premature-

' iy, or have felt the task too onerous In later

, ,l, years of passing on their intimate exper- ZT iences in literary form. .

. In Judge Arseiisulrs case, the.circum- Man.

stances have been more favourable. H3 Ont -537-335 399-4” 32455"

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Briefly, the Speech forecasts

Eisenhower's European

to act as a procurement

to

anti-

The bonds will

As money used to buy

Hope is expressed

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in Parliament to impose an indirect world for bringing for- which will the British North Am- to be exploited to to the

increases con-

time when Federal taxes

that he

This is an art

rector for many years of the Canadian Bar Association and a recipient of the degrees of Doctor of Laws from Laval University and Master of Arts from St. Joseph's; a Fellow of the Royal Society for the En- couragement of Arts in England, president of the Acadian National Society of the Maritime Provinces and New England, and one of the founders of the St. Thomas Aquinas Society.

Judge Arsenault's memoirs are char- acteristically modest and straightforward. His shrewd eye missed little of the foibles of his associates, or of the undercurrents in the events of his time; but permeating the whole record is that spirit of "kindly and benevolent justice" which he exempli- -fied on the Bench, and which the Bar So- ciety noted appreciatively in its tribute to him on his retirement.

He has set a laudable example in thus re- cording his first-hand impressions of historic incidents in the making, and we feel that all our readers will appreciate this oppor- tunity of perusing them in the installments which begin in our issue of today.

EDITORIAL NOTES No mosquitoes about to

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Fire recognizes no class distinction when opportunity presents itself, as witness the Water Street and Experimental Station

outbreaks.

The federal Forestry Branch maintains five Forest Experiment Stations. These are in New Brunswick, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia.

Sir Edward Coke, English lawyer and Chief Justice, born this date 1552. Dis- tinguished as a legal writer, and remember- ed for his brutality to Raleigh whom he prosecuted as Crown lawyer.

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The sympathy of the community goes out to the unfortunate people who lost furniture and clothing in the Water St. fire-a loss they can not make good of themselves. The Labourers Union has opened a fund to help the families con- cerned, and donations and contributions should be sent to the L. P. U. Hall.,

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The disastrous fire at the Experimental Farm will have consequences of a serious nature apart from the loss of the physical structure. All the records are wiped out, and the scientific apparatus destroyed. The Government carries no insurance, consider- ing that such losses can easily be recom- pensated from taxation. As the Public Works Dept. has decided to start no new projects, probably a new building will not be commenced for" some considerable time. This means that some of the staff may have to be transferred elsewhere to carry

out their duties.

Egg prices on January 26 this year and previous years. The prices quoted below are for Grade A Large. At Montreal and Toronto the prices are those at whih grad- ed shipments are selling to wholesalers. At other points quotations are prices to ship- pers for ungraded eggs.

1951 1950 1949 Montreal .......... .. 441A,-45V; 35-36 44V;-45 Toronto . 42 35-37 43 Winnipeg . - 35 22 37 Vancouver 42 34 38 Edmonton .. 34 25-38 36 Regina .. . 35 28 87 Charlottetown 34-35 22-23 36-37

Weight of Live and Dressed Poultry at

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Registered Stations week ending it Jan.13 Jan.6 Dec.30 1951 1951 1950 Province lb. lb. lb. 8. C. .. .......... .. 103,870 68,893 116,406

37,045 13,250 37,202 11,753 3,520 84,361

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NOVEL INVENTION

"A double grain sowing machine, invented by Mr. George W. Mill- ner of this city, was testcd on Thursday last in a field belonging to Mr. Davies and operated to all appearance so perfectly that, to say the least. it bids fair to be- come not only of great utility to the farmers of this Island. but in a short time to rival the best grain sowers of modern times. The only difficulty that presented itself in its working was that it threw up. occasionally. ii. furrow of earth in front. thus making it heavy for the horses. This difficulty, however. did not prevent the machine from depositing the seed perfectly. Mr. Millner, we hear. is now engaged in remedyinrg the defect referred to, which, he says, can be easily accomplished.

"This machine. the inventor states, is wholly original, not only as regards the manner in which it distributes the grain, but in the formation and action of the colli- tcrs, which move on a principle different from any known by him to be in use in either Europe or America. To show that this sow-” er must be somewhat unique, we may state that when in full opera- tion, so completely did it deposit the grain, cover it up. and roll it, that gentlemen standing by, who had seen other sowing machines at work. declared that 'it was not sowing at a.il.' But Thursday last was the second day that it had been tested. and the above con- clusion. which many of the specla.

tors on the first occasion shared in, has been proved incorrect. from the fact that the grain sown at its first testing, at least so we hear. is now above ground in regular drills.

”At some future time we shall

probably give a minute descrip-

tion of this new invention; but for the presentpun-til a. patent is secur.

Cd. Mr. Millner does not desire

that details should be published,

The machine covers seven feet in

its operation. and is so construct-

ed as to adapt itself to the level

of the land."

-The Islander, June 12. 1868

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The Age-lllil Story

Am! the scribes and Phurlsi-cs bfflllxht unto him I woman taken in Adultery... Now Movies in this law commanded us. that such should be stoned: but what snycsf thou? This they said. tempting him. that they might have to accuse him. 3"! Jesus stooped down. and with -his finger wrote on the ground. as though he heard them not. so when they continued lsklng Illm. he im- ed up himself. and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast 1 intone at her. And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. And they which heard it. being convicted by their own conscience went out one by one. beginning st the .eldest. even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone. and the woman stand- in: in the midst. when Jesus had lifted up himself. and saw none but the woman. he said unto her. Womsir, where are those thine sc- cusers? hath no men condenineri thee? She said. No man. Lord. And Jesus said unto tier. Neither do i condemn thee: go and Iin no more.

I Was Just Ti.in'i.ing

By Sandy Todd (in The Weekly Bcolsmun)

There is no royal rosd to learning. but if our modern Scot- tish educatlonlsts have their way the path of the pupil in going to be very nicely smoothed out. A recent report robblirleccndary education of some of its terrors. Now the "toll and tears" are to be elimin- ated from the primary schools. At lent, they will be if the recom- mendations in the latest report are adopted. Pereutbetlcsily. I ofml wonder what ” to these re- ports iifter they are prlntcd. What. has inipreued Inc about the report on primary education is the feet that it has been prepared by 3 panel of H. M. Inspectors of schools. In my very young days a school inspector was a sort of bogeymul whose iiii visit to A school caused no and ,of chittariug and shaking at till knees. the headmaster

rivs1 in the lowest form, there im acute nu-yous tension from

most

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Cigareties and other tobacco products may get a stiff price boost but, after all, this is I voluntary tax - nobody is com- pclled to smoke, and we can live without smoking." notes The Ot- tawa Journal, in a mood of aus- terity. Ag the same time, if every- body quils smoking, the Govern- ment is going io be hard put to it to make up the revenue lost by such self-abnegation. - St. Cath- arines Standard.

No longer need any father feel ashamed that he plays with the electric train which he has given to his boy. Revealed recently is the fact that in the United States alone there are more than 103,000 grown- ups who play with trains as it hob- by. There arc 1.000 member clubs of the National Model Railroad As- sociation and it is estimated con- servatively that fans in the United States spend Sl0.000.000 a year on their hobby. Some 200 manufactur- ers arc kept busy full time making model railroads, parts. kits, acces- sories. There are 80 major Jobbers in the business and some 2.000 hob- by shops which carry as their main line electric trains and parts. - Fort William Times-Journal,

Field-Marshal Viscount Alan- brookc, former Chief of the Im- perial General Staff, said that dur- ln-g a war-time meeting in Mos- cow Stalin ”began to put the heat on and started handing out insults to Mr. Churchill. saying: two have been fighting and you have been looking on'." Lord Alanbrooke went on: "Then Winston brought down his fist with 9. crash on the table that shook the w-hole room and started off on one of his mar- velous orations. After ii time Stalin got up and a broad grin came over

his face. He said: II don't under- stand what you are saying. but by God. I like your sentimentsh", What Stalin was trying to gel, at was what Churchill was made of, said Lord Aianbrooke, and from that time on there was ii mutual un- derstanding of one another's tough- ness. Lord Alanbrooke was un- veiling a portrait of Mr. Churchill in the Junior Carlton Club. Lon- don.-London Daily Mail.

Children do as their parents do. a deputy health commissioner of the Milwaukee Health Depart- ment toid parents attending a school-community program. Un- less parents eat cereal and drink milk for breakfast, they can't ex- pect their klds to do it. she said. The youngsters eat and act like me and pa. If this is an absolute truth, there are more kids than we ever imagined breakfastlng on rye toast and sitting down in the living room for a martini before dinner.-- Milwaukee Journal.

Edmonton property owners op- pesr to be well on their way to setting ii new ,record in rule amount of taxes they will have prepaid by the middle of the month. With four full days to go they had purchased prepaymen: certificates to the value of 31,219,- 000. This is just a million dollars short of the 82,222,000 worth of faxes prepaid in year ago. in the full period allowed. The city pro- fitsiby having funds to operate dunno the early months of me year before the tax rate is fixed by council. It (aims avoids the necessity of paying interest on heavy bank overdrafis, and is able to pass on this saving to the tax. payer in the form of the two per

cent discount.-Edmonton Journal.

there were other inspectors who were much too clever, and model the dux boy look like a. backward pupil. Their visits always had al

painful aftermath - hence their unpopuiarity.

The school inspectors of to-day, by contirast, must be charming

people. They are out to make life pleasant for the pupil. A certain amount of effort will still be re- rquied to climb the educational lad- der, but wherever possible elevators will be provided.

Reading. writing, and arithmetic are still fundamental in the prim- ary school, but the report deprec- ates a "precipitate plunge" into the three R5.

The wisdom of this advice will be apparent to everyone who was plunged into the multiplica-

tion table at a very early age and has never got it quite right since. Elderly gentlemen can still be heard muttering the

"twelve times" table as if it were a magic incantation. They have to do this because it is the only way they can find out the answer to ii times 11. These old stagers had their brains so warped by arith- metlcaily-mlnded teachers that to- day they couldn't do long division for a fortune, and they think that the common factor is somebody who collects rents.

Well, if the kindly inspectors have their way. school children will not be precipitated into that nightmare world of vulgar frac- tions and repeating decimals. They. will have to go on learning a little arithmetic, of course, until the Education Autliorlties can pro- vide every child with I rcady-reck- our and on adding machine.

The greatest single reform ad- vocated in the report is the ebul- ition of the pole-not the North, the south,- or the magnetic out Just the plain pole. forty of which make the furlong.

In the old school text-books there were two aggravating characters. usually known as "A" and "5" who spent their whole lives doing all sorts of things with poles. roods, WEBB. Ohlllu. Ind furlongs. If they dug a ditch or ploughed I held, they could never measure it in feet or ysrds. Always it land to be chainshpoies. and furlongs. Not only had we. at pupils. to find out how long It took them to dig their ditch or plough their field. but we had to ineuuro the lob In I way that intelligent people could un.

erstond.

I was surprised to hear that. otteattttiese years, they were gun at it. one would have thought m M axcnvltors tractors. ey woii ova been (thinned long ago. wen, Mr. "A" and Mr. "B" can dig their own Iflvu now. but the Scottish lil- iicoiioti Dtplrtni d

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Supplies ForThe Enemy

(Ottawa Journal)

Our Trade Department comes out to say that it stopped issuing permits for the export of alum- inllm to Communist countries in Allsust of last year. but acknowl- edges at the some time thnt some aluminum shipments went to Coin. munist countries as late as last October.