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"The Strongest Memory rs Weaker "Ill the Weakest Ink.“

DHABLOTTETOWN, TUESDAY, JULY, 28, IMO

Attlee iln Communism

_-lt is the commonest trick of Communist and fellow travellers to represent all who are op- posed to Communism as reactionaries, Fascists, the advocates of special privilege and the like. They invariably seek to link.Communism with Freedom and the good things of life. Actually, sf course, Communism is the reverse of freedom, 1nd the truth in this regard was well put by Mr. Attlee, Prime Minister of the United King- :lom speaking at Manchester on July 3. He is reported by the Manchester Guardian as follows:

"We are celebrating in February next the Foundation of our party. l am certain that if the men and women who built up our movement were to be told the true facts about Russia to- lay they would say ‘This is not a Socialist so- :iety; there is no freedom. It is a classic example of a police State, iust as Russia under the Tsors was a police State.’ There are class divi- sions, quite glaring divisions. There is no free- lorn of speech, of conscience. or of person. It 's collectivist, but certainly not Socialist.

"Yet these people who suppress all free- dom whenever they are in power use all the phrases of democracy. l constantly get hypocriti- cal resolutions protesting against alleged in- lringements of freedom in this country. l get protests because we keep out from places where secret work is carried on people who cannot be trusted. This from Communists who know that their fellows in Communist countries carry on ll constant purge and ruthlessly remove from of- lice anyone who shows the slightest sign of devi- sting from what their rulers consider to be ortho- doxy. lt is sickening hypocrisy."

For the benefit of those accused the Labor Government of being "imperialist," Mr. Attlee cited the countries where "only those who put Russia first are allowed to survive." "Any of the great Labor leaders who were active in the days when I joined the movement," he said, "would have no doubt whatever about who are the imperialists and who are the true Socialists."

‘Pointing to Burma, India, Pakistan, and Ceylon, Mr. Attlee said: "We followed the policy which we have always preached. We believed in the right of nations to govern themselves. Never before has there been such a handling over of sovereignty, freely given. Now look at the other ride. In Poland and Hungary, Communists who dare to take the line of their nations are ruth- lessly thrust out. Only those who put Russia first and are completely subservient to the clique in Moscow are allowed to govern in their awn countries. Marshal Tito . . . is attacked, vilified, and boycotted. The economies of all these vas- sal states must be organised not for the benefit of their own people but to serve the turn of the U.S.S.R. You cannot have a more classic- exam- pie of imperialism."

"We have no quarrel with the Russian peo- p|e," Mr. Attlee said. "We recognise their right to have the kind of government they want. We sympathise with them realising that it will take many years to reach the standards of freedom,

Britain. But we shall oppose any attempt to drag us down toil-heir ievel."

lillllil Health Services

, "At the recent annual meeting of the Con- adian Public Health Association, held in Hali- fax, a preliminary report was made on a nation- wide survey of public health programmes and facilities, and special emphasis was laid on the" health of school children. It was suggested that techniques for preventive medicine should be de- yeloped, including pre-school examination of children; and that records of each student's medical history be maintained, with continuous supervision of the student's health, and careful control of communicable disease.

Most teachers, the report stated, believed that their responsibility ended with teaching les- sons on health, but it was urged that the teach- ers be required to co-operate with public health officials and parents in maintaining children's health at the highest possible level. in addition, there should be semi-annual weight, health and oye examinations of each student, and provision made for discussing with parents the prevention or cure of defects. Both teaching and health programmes, it is suggested, would benefit mater- ially if this were done.

Worst health Monaco

ln language more robust than delicate, the Edinburgh Public Health Department describes the sources of filth on which flies feed, and adds: "Flies are detestable insects because they have dirty habits, live on filth and soil the food we eat . . . Flies give people typhoid fever, dys- entery and worms . . . They carry the germs of 'summer diarrhoea’ which is so highfy fatal to infants, and may play a part in the spread of poliornyeiitis."

The Health League of Canada more vigor- ously indicts the fly as a polio cprrier. It reports studied cases showing that milk contaminated by flies was either directly or indirectly the source of the virus, and that the house fly and blow fly carry it on the inside and outside of their bodies more often than any other species of insect in- vestigated.

These findings, comments an exchange, prove the vital importance of a never-ending war on the fly. An added reason is the rapidity with which they breed, for tests have shown that

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Jamboree Scouts return. I I I

Members of the Royal Commission on Trans- portation are hearing the Island's case and what is perhaps just as important, seeing some- thing of the situation ‘fortthemselves.

Halifax honours in the bicentennial beautv contest went to Connecticut, Georgi-a and New Brunswick respectively, the fortunate contestant from N. B. being Premier McNair's stenographer at Fredericton.

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This is an Associated Press taI-e of a bird on the wing. An airliner, returned to London from a round-trip to Corsica, developed a twit- ter. Mechanics opened a wing and discovered a bird had built a nest inside.

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Ontario potato growers are reported to be having difficulty in marketing their crop at the Provincial floor price of $2 a bag and hope to capture part of the United States market. That is certainly not something that can be accom- plished in a hurry.

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The fact that a Nova Scotian fudge ordered his court cleared is news because it is excep- tional. Our tradition is that justice, even be- tween private parties, is a public matter and that the public has an interest in seeing now it is being dealt.

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The proposed establishment of a separate Department of Immigration is a long over-due move. For a comparatively young country immi- gration, is one of the most important problems of government and certainly warrants cabinet re- presentation of its own.

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Agriculture Minister Gardiner is in hospital at Regina having been flown by a Saskatche- wan air ambulance plane from his farm at nearby Lamberg, Sask. He is suffering from stomach trouble, but x-rays indicate an opera- tion will be unnecessary.

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The Peterborough Examiner notes with sur- prise that a seeming increase in child. delin- quency and depravity has coincided with the development of the science of child psychology. Perhaps it is not that children are getting worse but that we pay more attentioh to their behavior than formerly.

I I Halifax gets an escort warship contract; Saint John the H.M.S. Magnificent repair contract, Charlottetown did not even get the new armour- ies contract or promised naval barracks though; Summerside was lucky in landing a 200 new houses contract. Obvious reason, Queens has no Government supporter, Mr. McLure's vote cancels Mr. Douglas's every time. i l’ W

British Overseas Airways started" the race for world traffic without suitable aircraft of its own an-d has been carrying on with planes purchased abroad, including some from this coun- try. Now that their own de Haviland jet-propell- ed airliners are coming into service we will see what Britain's permanent position in interna- tional flying is likely to be.

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This Province lags behind the rest of Ca- nada in teaching standards and remuneration and Canada lags far behind the United States

. in both respects according to the LaZerte report

of a committee of the Canadian Education As- sociation. Unless teaching is made more attrac- tive to those with high qualifications we can hardly expect to maintain a satisfactory edu- cational system. I I

George Bernard Shaw, British critic and dramatist, born this date i856; born in Dublin he went to London i876 where he became a socialist leader and a dramatic and fine art critic. His works consist of novels, tracts on So- cialism and problem plays. His novels include The International Knot, An' Unsocial Socialist; his plays include, Plays, Pleasant and Unpleasant, Man and Super Mon, Getting Married, Fanny's First Play, The Music Cure, Augustus Does His Bit, Heartbreak House, Annajanska; his essays and tracts: Fabian Essays, The Quintessence of lbsenism, Socialism and Superior Brains: "lt is easy—terribly easy-to shake a man's faith in himself. T9 take advantage of that to break ri man's spirit is devil's work."

Appropriately tiined ti: coincide with the travels of the Royal Commission on Transporta- tion, Canadian Car 8i Foundry Co., Ltd., has

, placed a series of advertisements in the daily

newspapers vividly portraying the vital role played by the railways in the economy of Can- ado. The theme throughout the series is "Can- ada needs healthy railways to serve her people." Practically all our people whether they be farm- ers, fishermen, miners, lumberman, or employed in the vastly diversified industrial processors, are depend-ent upon railway transportation for their well being. The railways themselves are th

country's biggest industrial venture, spending l

income. I I I

Governor-General Alexander was in the spot- light in two unrehearsed incidents on his visit to Owen Sound last week. An elderly woman with a radiant smile clasped his arm while he was inspecting a guard of honor at Thornbury, outside the town, and exclaimed "Halloa Harold." Later it was discovered she was an old servant in his home in England. The Governor-General chatted a few minutes before resuming his in- spection. The Viscount apparently doesn't be- lieve in "Indian gift giving" with a string tied to it. The Governor-General was presented with a key to the city-by Mayor Ed Sargent and pro- mised to hang it in an "honored place" in Ot- town's Ildean Hall. This was an unanticipated heeeer. The ‘IO-pound, yard-long key is usually presented to visiting dignitaries — and is then

unobtrusively retrieved and put away for the

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THE GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN

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For hlm the field was a challenge to be met;

A colt for breuklnl: he would bridle it

And coax ti. down neat pathways of submission.

For her the field was summer! in a room;

Green plenty. plump tomatoes on the slil

on the wlnd.

For the children the held was space. was sight. and smell;

A place for digging, end for rim- ning, reaching;

For sailing kites with wishes on the tails.

For each the field became is gar- den where

Ono could grow tall wlthln himself, and touch

A spring of strength: where one could plant desires.

And gather harvests other than the fruit.

—Melora Hobbs Pond in Christian Science Monitor.

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RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT

The long battle for Responsible Government was nearing fta close a century ago when the following letter was written, indicative of the fears of the Home Govern-

volved ln such a measure were too great for the people of this Colony to shoulder. The excerpt ls from a letter by Earl Grey, Down- ing Street, 1st January, 1849. to Lieutenant Governor Sir Donald Campbell. Just two years before self-government was achieved:

“Her Majesty's Government have now had for some time under their serious consideration, the question in what manner the Government of Prince Edward Island may be best conducted, with a view to the general interest of the people. and especially whether l‘. would be ad- visable to introduce the system commonly known in Her Majesty's North American Colonies by the name of Responsible Government.

“The introduction of this system into other Colonies has been, in every instance, n work of time, and has been postponed until the gradual increase of the community in wealth, numbers and importance appeared to justify it. It appears to me essential, with a vlew to the success of the system in question, that the Colony should possess a sufficient number of inhabitants so qualified by property, intelligence and education, rind by the enjoy- ment of a certain amount of leisure, who are willing to attend to pub- ll¢ Objects, that each of the politi- cal parties into which societies lhus circumscribed are commonly divided, may find itself represented in the Legislature by competent public men; while in the event of either of those parties obtaining the majority in the Assembly, the officer entrusted with the adminis- tratlon of the Government of the Colony may experience no diffi- culty in forming such an adminis- tration as would claim the respect of the people. And for these nur- poses individuals thus qualified must not. be confined to a single town, but scattered. in some mea- sure. over the face of the country in different districts. Such is the present condition, improving by

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Prime Ministers And Golf

(Ottawa Journal;

A despatch telling that Prime Minister St. Laurent has been playing golf at. Bathurst (the Bathurst golf course is one of the hardest in the country. wlth a par six hole included) has brought some comment on the golfing pro- clivities, or lack of them. of our past Prime Ministers.

Not all of them were Bobby Lockes. Sir Wilfrid Laurier (font King, a whimsical Press Gallery correspondent, used to say that Sir Wilfrid once told him he had an ambition in his youth to be- come a prize fighter) probably never got nearer to a golf course than the Aylmer Road. Sir Rob- ert Borden played n lot of golf. this even though his golfing lan- guage was better than his golfing technique, and continued playing the game long after his retire- meat.

Arthur Melghen took up the game after he became Prime Min- ister, but. continued it not much longer than he continued to be Prime Minister. Meigben once ar- rived at an Ottawa course carry- ing with hinLa volume of Buckles "History of Civilization", which was a fairly good indication ofhis golfing concentration. lt was told of him, too, that, once in the deep rough just off a green he turned to his caddy and said: “l guess it's a case for the putter."

Mr. King, who once won a foot race at Chicago Universlty,'was an early member of the Royal Ottawa. but no one can be found now who ever saw him on the course. And Mr. Bennett. of whom it was once said that he wouldn't know the jack of diamonds from the ace of spades. had no use for games, golf included. f Good, therefore, to hear of Mr. St. Laurent wielding a brassie. Golf won't do him any harm; may even teach him that humility which is said to be the beginning of wisdom.

gradual advances oi Her Majesty's principal continental possessions ln North America.

"Prince Edward Island is com- paratively small in extent und population, nncl its commercial and wealthy classes confined almost to a single town.

"It is, therefore, no disparage- merit of its people to say, that while distinguished by those quali- ties of order and public spirit which form the most stable founda- tion of all government, ln as high a degree as any portion of their brethren of British descent, they are wanting. as yet. in the ex- ternal circumstances which would render the introduction of Re- sponsible Government expedient; circumstances of which, time. and the natural progress of events, can nlone remove the present ‘le- flclency.

"For these reasons I concur with my predecessor, Mr. Gladstone, ln the opinion that the time has not yet arrived for any fundamental change ln the manner tn -which the Government of Prince Edward Island ls now carried on: more ea- peclally as I think experience has sufficiently demonstrated that the system of administration which now eXlsts ls perfectly compatible with the complete enjoyment, by the inhabitants of the Colony, of the real benefits of self-govern- merit."

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Outrageous

(Winnipeg Free Press)

The American newspapers have been carrying an item about an Iown frii-mcr who, after many years of experimenting, has succeeded (if such an outrage can be called suc- cess) in producing a chicken with- out wings.

Besdles a certain aesthetic re- vulsion at the thought of this ploy- lng first and loose with nature. there are sound material grounds for protesting against the ldcn nf n Wingless chicken. There will he anguished walls, for example, from those legions who creep down- stnlrs ln the dead of night to raid the Icebox for a snack. There lust ls no substitute for a cold chicken wing, so there's not a blr. of use talking about the plumper breasts and bigger legs of this new genetic monstrosity.

And, can anyone in his sohcr lenses imagine chicken frlcassee or chicken ragout without the wings. What of that delightful tld bit, curried chicken wing?

For that matter, what about fa-

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This column ll open to the discussion by oorreepondente of questions of interest. The Guardian doea nut ueoeasur- lly endorse the opinion of correspondent;

biw CORRECTION BY COIWMISSION

Slr.—I have been instructed to call your attention to an editorial appearing ln The Guardian on July 22. 1949, under the heading of "Editorial Notes" with reference to the Royal Commission on Trans- portatlan.

The item in question suggests that n proposal was made to the Royal Commission on Transporta- tion to have the Maritime railways formed into one region end that the proposal seemed to meet with the assent of the Chairman of this Commission. It is my duty to point. out to you that no such proposal was made and that, in any case. no member of the Commission has expressed assent to any of the proposals that have been made to this Commission. At this stage the Commission ls hearing various pro- posnls that will be dealt with fin- nlly in its report.

I am taking the liberty of writ.- lng you regarding this matter as the Commission is anxious to avoid the possibility of any mis- understanding reccivlng publica- tion respecting the work which it is carrying on in the course of its inquiry.

l.’ am, Sir, etc.

G. R. HUNTER. Secretary,

Royal Commission

on Transportation.

(We regret the misunderstand- ing. The Commissioner's remarks had reference to n suggested amendment to the Intercalonlnl Railway Act and amending Act. and hnri no bearing upon the pro- posed Maritime railway region sug- gesterL-Ed. G.)

PARISTAN’ ZOO

One of the earliest zoos, the Jardln des Plantes lri Paris. was established tn 1793.

CHINA BEGAN IT

The oldest known system of ex- aminations. which began in China in 1115 B 0., were used for select- ion of officers for public service.

ther? When the average family has chicken for Sunday dinner he generally manages to score a wing, a little dressing, and the Parson's nose. Admitting there is a limit ta how for the experimenters can go in limiting father's share, they would seem already to have done him down rather badly.

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