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President and Auoclnta Editor. Ian A. Burnett. Alaorlata Editor, Frank Walker.

CIRCULATION "Coven Prince Edward Island like the dew”

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

6uAiu.oT'ri-:1'ow:v.riivnsoav, MARCH 25, I953

Atlantic Fisheries

Most encouraging is the fishery pro- ducts section of the report submitted to President Eisenhower by the U. 5. Public Advisory Board for Mutual Security. It recognizes the position of the United States as a net importer of fish and fishery pro- fiucts and recommends that the domestic industry supplying frozen fillets supply only the portion of the expanding market which can be met by fishing on a sustaining basis the nearby fishing banks.

It recognizes, reports the Fisheries Council of Canada, that the fisheries of foreign North Atlantic nations have certain advantages in supplying frozen fillets (as against American fishing boats which go far offshore) because the fish are taken closer to shore so that they can be landed economically and frozen quickly, a con- tributing factor in quality.

Noting that in 1951, three-fourths of total imports of frozen fillets paid the high- er rate of duty, 2',-'; cents a pound rather than the reduced duty on the quota amount, the Board recommended that there be one rate and this prcferably nearer the lower end of the present range. Such a policy would be consistent with assuring an ade- quate supply of fish for consumers and en- couraging the replenishment and subse- quent conservation of nearby fishing banks.

This policy, if adopted, would indeed oenefit all concerned; the American fishing ndustry, the American consumer, and of -ourse the Canadian and other North At- lantic fishermen. Even if not fully imple- mented, the report is highly satisfactory to fishermen in this Province as indicating the advantage which our product enjoys in quality as compared with that portion of the American supply which is taken at a distance from their home port. It is to be hoped that the policy of building up their own nearby fishing grounds appeals to American fishermen but if it does not then our products should still sell on sheer merit.

Larger Lolisters

Two years ago Dr. A. W. H. Needler recommended to the Prince Edward Island Fisheries Development Committee that it advocate increasing the minimum size of lobsters for canning from seven inches, the equivalent of 2 3,8 inches caparace meas- urement. There was evidence, he said, that a greater yield could be obtained in that way, but added that there was no point in making the change until the limit was be- ing effectively enforced.

Presumably enforcement is now suf- ficiently effective, for Mr. J. Watson Mac- Naught, parliamentary assistant to Fisher- ies Minister Sinclair. has announced that the 2 W8 inch limit is lzcing raised to 2 1,t2 inches. Market lobsters remain at 3 1Vl6 which is the equivalent of the ll inch limit long applicable.

There is no doubt, of course. that tak- ing a given number of lobsters annually it would be much more profital)le for them to be of a large size. In the course of time the move should add substantially to the income of the fishermen of this Province. There is bound to be a period, however, during which the great bulk of the lobsters caught will be just under the new size limit.

It is going to tnltc a lot of restraint, on the part of fishermen to lcave the small lobsters to grow. They probably realize that is small consolation for putting up with relatively short commons in the mean- time.

compulsory Gar Inspection

A New York exchange estimates that i

compulsory inspection of the 4,000,000 cars on New York State's roads could save 1,000 lives a year. Whether the estimate is sta- tistically right. or not doesn't much matter; the fact is that several American states (and some Canadian cities, including Van- couver) have found that a tightly enforced testing law for cars has brought. a sharp drop in the accident. toll.

In New Jersey, highway deaths were running as high as 1,300 a year. As soon as state-operated Inspection stations were opened the figure dropped to 865 and it has never since risen anywhere near the old rate. In Pennsylvania, where the check- ing is done at privately operated stations but is well regulated. highway deaths are 15 per cent below the national average.

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Quoting the above statements, the Ham- ilton Spectator observes that a compulsory system of thorough inspection at properly equipped testing stations has two results: First, it weeds out the outright jalopie-s which have no place on the road anyway. Second, it keeps the average run of cars. up to a.proper standard. The first result is the more obvious and the more dramatic. The second is probably the more important. The relatively few really beat-up old junk- ers are a menace to their drivers and passengers (who in any case know theyire taking a chance), but most other motor- ists automatically give the flapping fend- ers, the beat-up body and the steaming radiator a wide berth; the appearance ad- vertises the danger. The newer car which has been allowed to deteriorate is a more subtle death trap both for its owner and for other highway users. It looks safe enough-until a blow-out or the need for a sudden stop proves otherwise.

In the United States it is estimated that compulsory testing will cost the motorist between S2 and 03 a year, whether as a direct inspection fee or as an extra charge on the licence. Two or three dollars a year, plus an hour or so of time for driving to the testing station and going through the machinery-it's not much of an investment to save one's life.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Cleanliness is proverbially next to godli- ness and Summersidels Community Plan- ning Association recognizes that it is an essential to community improvement. Many things can be done to improve a neighbour- hood but they represent so much wasted effort if it presented an unkempt appear-

ance.

O O D

The forthright statement of Justice Min- ister Garson that the Government is not seeking power to pass secret Orders-in- Council would at one time have ended the matter. The fact that it has not fully al- layed suspicion indicates a very serious loss of confidence in the statements of respons-

ible ministers.

The number of accidents to Federal Government employees for which Work- men's Compensation is applicable runs be- tween eight and nine per cent, Labour Minister Gregg informed the Commons re- cently. Increased care can reduce this casualty toll in Government as it has been reduced in various industries, very largely through Government inspired safety pro-

grammes.

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Sarah Bernhardt, French actress, died this date 1923. She was born and had her first successes in Paris but toured Europe, the United States, South America and Aus- tralia. Gifted with a wonderful voice, which could range over every note of hu- man passion, and with a vivid personality the ”divine Sarah" represented at its high- est the emotional type of actress. In 1915 her right leg was amputated at the thigh but she continued to act, even making an-

.other tour of America.

0 O O

The passage of the Civil Service Act recalls a rather peculiar Quebec legal de- cision. In ancient days being in the service of the Queen or King was military or naval and the non-military office holder was des- ignated a civil servant. So greatly has their tribe increased, however, that a judge could actually rule that a soldier was not a servant of the Crown, thinking, presum- ably, of those to whom the Civil Service Act would apply.

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Big business is not necessarily sound business. An exchange quotes the findings that of the 100 largest. U. S. corporations at the beginning of the century only 38 were in existence forty years later. Of 14 major steel firms only four survived. The percentage of cas- ualties amongst little businesses was much less, indicating that in a highly competitive world a small business is usually in a stronger position than an oversize one.

I O O

In less than sixty pages, a Unesco pub- lication takes in national statistics on adults able to read and write, primary education, higher education, libraries, museums, book production, daily newspaper circulation, film production, and attendance. According to "Basic Facts and Figures", Finland is the most literate nation in the world, with only one per cent of its population unable to read and write. However, in Africa, ll- literacy rates going up as high as 99 per cent are listed. The island of St. Helena has the world's highest rate of primary school enrollment with 200 youngsters out of every 1,000 population in class. As far as higher education is concerned, enrollment rates are highest in North America, with the U. S. S. R. second and Europe, exclud- ing the Soviet Union, third.

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THE FARMER' S STATUS

Sir,-Let us thank our stars for farmers. If the farmers should go on strike and not send any of his products in the market, I wonder what would happen to the ones who don't. know when: their bread and butter comes from.

The farmer doesn't work by a clock exactly. He works from sun- up to sundown-twelve and fif- teen hours per day. He doesn't start to work on Monday at T or 8 o'clock in the morning and quit at 3 or four in the evening. five days a week. He doesn't get Saturdays. Sunday and holidays off, nor does he get a two wecks' vacation with pay.

Just like other people, the farmer wants an even break and a decent living, an well as the rest of us. Is that robbing people. as the farmer has been accused of doing? If it were not for the

good old farnwr and his long hours of toil and the favours hr does for his country, not one

person in our factories and Gov- ernment would be able to live. Let. us get behind the farmer and help him, and we won't have to ask him to help us.

I am Sir, etc.

WILLIAM DINGWELL. Cardigan, P. E. I.

LABOR. AND TRADE UNIONS

Sir,-Being a railway worker I would appreciate it if you would publish an excerpt from a letter signed Frank Ellason, of Saskatoon, which appeared in the Family Herald of March 19. The excerpt is as follows:

"There was ll. time when I could accept the opposition to Trade Union tactics so often voiced in Herald editorials, but since retiring and having more time to study these matters, I confess that I had been misled. Trade Unions do not hold the pistol to the head of any nation as you have stated. I find that the railway workers tried for 9. year to negotiate a. contract. and were finally forced to set a date for the strike. Then and only then did the company bosses real- ize that the unions meant business. "I do not. think Trade Unions are asking too much for their aer- vfcee when compared with the de- mands of other groups. For exam- ple, at one time I paid 512 for I. subscription to 9. daily paper. To-

day it. costs me. sl6.00. There won no strike threat, just. a larger in- voice. Doctors increased their teen fmm 83.00 to 55.00 for an office will and lawyers have raised the price of writing 9. letter from we to 31.00. Newspapers have not commented on these increases and we continue to pay the shot. "Checking upon the general level of lneo:-nee. I find that it taken labor about 40 years to buy and pay for 3 home, and that is only possible for those who by some means other than labor income can pay the initial price. The rest have to be tenants and rents have advanced from 330.00 a. month to 850.00 for the some accommoda- tions during the put. five years. I think it II about time labor got. I

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SONG OF THE DAWN

Awake! awake! the stars are pale, the cast is russet gray; They fade, behold the phantoms

fade. that keep the gates of day; Throw wide the burning valves, and let the golden streets be free.

The morning watt-h is past. .. lhr

watch of evening shall not be.

Put off, put off your mail, ye kings. and beat your brands to dust:

A surer grasp your hands must know, your hearts R. better

trust; Nay, bend aback the lancc's point. and break the helmet bar.- A noise is on the morning winds but not. the noise of war! For aye, the time of wrath is past, and near the time of rent, And honor binds the brow of man, and faithfulness his breast, Behold, the time of wrath is past, and righteousness shall be. And the wolf is dead in Arcndv and the Dragon in the sea!

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"We beg to can public attentlmi to an advertisement published in this day's Gazette, announcing tthe es- tablishment of a Foundry In Ornat- lottetown. It has been for a con- siderable time a matter of surprise that a Foundry had not long ago been started, and we now rejoice to observe that one is about being commenced. Wr understand that extensive prepa.ral.ions are now in progress at the depot, and that by the fmst. arrival in the spring, con- slderable importation: are expected of all the essential materials neces- sary to conduct the establishment upon an extensive scale."

-The Colonial Herald. Match 26th, 1842. (The ndvertiisement an- nounced that the Phoenix Com- puny, at. its ”old and well known premises of Messrs. Walters nnd Birnie. in Gharlol.tc'town," was establishing a brass and Iron foundry, to be known as the Phoenix Foundry. under the special patronage of His Excellency Sir. H. V. Huntley, Lieutenant Gover- nor, Orders were solicited for "all dew-oiptions of castings for mill- work, farming utensils, stoves, and lmaoliincs for various purposes, fire and garden engfn, on the most HDI)3'0l'ed principles for effective operation. The services of Mr, Wil- liam Crosby Hobbs, fl. native of this Island, who is well skilled in all theso various branches, have been cnga;:ed.")

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A correspondent magenta that I nune the three books I would take with me to a desert island and give my reasons for the selections. As I understand it, the Bible would not be included in the bhlree all any one with any literary some to say nothing of anything else, would take one with hzlnn anyway.

It is, of course, I purely hypothetical question, for it. isn't likely that I shall ever find my- self alone on R. dwert island. There have been times when the idea ap- pealed to me quite strongly, but the further I go in the "years that bring the philosophic mind" the better I am able tn see that. salt- tude in itself to not a. matter of lonely places. It. can descend upon one in "the modding mvovwd" as well as In "the cool sequestered vale". Like fire and a lot of other Fnings in this world, solitude is a good servant but 3. bad master, It can be dangerous as well as ohnrm- ing. As a servant it. can help a man lmmeasun'a.bIy in his a.tt.empta to scale the heights of thought. As a master it. will almost certainly throw him into the abyss of mad- ness.

Hence, my first selection for the hypothetical journey to a desert

lslmd: "WALDEN",, by Henry David Thoreau. O 0 3 Now. I am well aware that in

-his day Thoreau was considered a. bit of a mlsanthrope and, at best. an incurable eccentric. Later critics, however. have decided that he did not hate mankind but only the prebonoes and shame which somehow have always managed to cling to human society. As for be- ing an eccentric (litemlw, one "out of centre") every man who ,dlxffen-5 noticeably from tihe ao-oal- led "average" person is so re- Rarded. The truth is that most of us have neither the courage nor the abilirly to be good eccentrics.

Whatever Thoreau was like as as an Individual, as a poet. as B. philosopher, no one, I think, will deny that he knew how to bend solitude to his will and make it serve tzhe lnterwts of his entire life. And I should. imagine that any desert-Islander would find such knowledge of inca.Icu.Ia.ble value. It would be fragile If one were obliged to live with solitude of that. nature and or that inten- sit-y without knowing what to do with it.

I expect. that almost aver-ybody has read "Walden" (I know y latest correspondent has). but per- haps not everybody has had the time to digest. it in such a way as to become aware of the deep splrtual character of 'Ithoreau's ex- periencu during his two year's sojourn in the woods. He did not enter the woods in the first place to get away from life and its res-, ponslbilities but, in his own words,l "because I wished to live delib- erately, to front. only line esoentital facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach; and not, when I came to die. to discover that I had not lived. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. 'to drive IMF Into 8. corner and reduce it to its lowest tenms".

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Thoreau's account of how he set out "to accomplish these purposes would, I fancy, be required reading for me as a desert. Islander, for as long as I stayed on the island I should be obliged to get along

of what: we are pleased to call civilization, Many persons have done this. or attempted to do it. by the method known as resignation. But. while rasignatlon may bring a. kind of contentment, it has no power to produce cheerfulness. Only the will to get. everything possible from the means at hand, willhrrut. so much as a thought. for the things that are not, is able to" do that. That. was Thoreau's way.

In my own case. having been

BOOKS FOR A DESERT ISLAND

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accustomed to all the commonly accepted necessaries of life and at least some of its luxuries, the be-

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A

The Passing Scene

By Observer

, of a sojourn on 3 .1,.,,,,, Island would resemble what we mm. Suppose our first parents had in endume on being cast. out ol lin- beautiful and fertile garden. 'n,'.,,' if I were to survive at all, I slmuiii very quickly have to find out my myself whether or not there is am. truth In Thm'eau's statement um "Nature is as well adapted 1,, weakness as to our streiigm”

The procedure by which he inmlr the discovery might not be .-it all adequate for me - nn man um. meet. a crisis for another .. y,.,,, at least it would give me ,1 L.,.,,,, lift. It might. also help me 3,, 50,, my own capacities as thgv uould be in that situation and measmp them fairly accurately. This. luri- dentally, is something we hardlv ever consider In the normal and Uni-'n88'1nat.lve clmumstances 1,, which we are Pllvelopod A, Thoreau himself said: "We l-:.m,,,, judge of what we can do hv an, precedents. for so little has an.-,, attem.pted".

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It is doubtful If there -s am. such place as a really desert ,.1,,,',l anywhere in the world. Howe-,,.,. barren and unlnvltzlng the 1,3,... m-Ivy b6. It is almost sure to luv, some visitors from the vast world of nature. Birds of one SPECIN 0,. another have found resting Iva... or stopping-off places in prartzt-it every spot on earth. so with ilw island to which I should go. '11,”, would mean that I should have to make friends, If it were pas:-51,! with a number of wild erratum. Wild from my point of view, um is to say. For this purpose lp ,. are any number of books lll'lC'.a., by naturalists, but "Walden", r think. would suit. my ClI'CLIIllsi.1nrp,u much better, for Thoreau uh: a philosopher as Well as a I'IFillll':i l, And the function of pl1ilo.sop.,,. is to bring some measure of u-;,.. dom to bear on everytlm-.;; it. touches. Hence we find that. 'I'horeau's account. of the ammd. and habits of every living thing he encounters, even a field niruzn, is saturated with the l)llll(lSA:plllc sense as distinct from mm- naturalistlc description. It wo'.1'rl profit from that in so far as it WONG teach me how to comm otherwise meaningless sounds and sights into lns'lrument.s of ','rl- lectual stininlntion. And nin-"mm,-, that helps the intellect. is 3 Erin 'tn the body and. indeed, in o.. whole man.

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Perhaps every man past In-iv (by which time he is likely to N settled in his dogniutlsm) slm':'Il spend a few months on n dcsrrt island or deep in the woods and try "to evaluate his knowledge o'. better still. his ignorance, in ':n- accustomed solitude. He may or arrive at 'I'horeau's conclusion. viv- wind that blows is all that um- body knows", but he would nluvvt certainly come back lmvprm-rvl. That. is. of course. provided he could.manage to survive at n'.'. "Walden", more than any book I know of, tells how when his spirit. is alive and figur- ous, can keep goiwz on very. wrv little in the way of material tlungs

Let no one suppose that I am about to depart: for some" lmr:-en. rock in the South Pacific. I am much too timid and too well ari- justed to what Thoreau mlleri "foolish, enervatlng, comforts" to embark on any such expedition.

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