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THE GUARDIAN. ' (JHARLOTTETOWN

OCTOBER 22, 1951

THE.GUARDlAN

Authorized as Second Cllll Mali Pout Oilico , Dcpartuient. Ottuivu. Tlie island uunrdlim Publishing Co. CIRCULATION

i'otuI City Zone its-tall Trading Zone All Other: .. foul Net i".ild

srcsident and Associate Editor. fun A. Burnett. Assoclnte Editor. Frank Walker.

f "The Strongest Memory its Weakel "'0" the Weakest Ink".

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'cn:iii.o'i"i'crow:s'. MONDAY, 075. People who Are Blind

Although we may speak of blonds. of south-paws, of car-drivers and of teachers we are very well aware that it is people we are talking about and that the descrip-

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IIUIIURIAL NUIII3

That was a graceful act of Islander'M.P. Daniel A. Riley complimenting on the floor of the House his political opposite, J. Angus MacLean. Moreover, it was well-merited.

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Furs will be the appropriate wear of the Princess until she reaches the Marltimes, when, we hope, she will have a taste of Indian Summer.

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Scouting in Scotland is playing its part ,in boosting the number of Scouts in the iworld to the record total of 5,160,147.

Scotland's contribution is 57,558 Scouts. I O 0

Andre Garnerin made the first par- Sachute jump from a balloon this date 1787, a feat which he accomplished over Paris. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is credited with originating the idea, his rough sketch

live word loaves unsaid the essential in-lSUPP059dly h3-Vlhg SuggGSl9d ihf? design 10

flividuality of the man, woman or child 1'0-iluhlll 9-VPP1'lm9mCl.'5-

ferred to.

It , l ' ' '. unless we have” All too 0 en' lmimel ?Royal couple probably feel that all that

--melcould be said officially has been repeated

close personal contact with some of them. we are prone to think and speak of

Having crossed this country one-way, the

blind" as thourvh blindness were their prin-'0fteh enough and that the Oblect from HOW

cipal characteristic. wearer of false teeth were to be known and thought of first and foremost: as a being lacking the biting and chewing equipment provided by nature.

Their blindness is not, of course, to be ignored. Indccd it makes necessary special types of training and special equipment for reading, playing games and, perhaps, get- ting about. These costs, like the provision of schools for minor language groups, must be met by socicty rather than the indiv- idual.

In short, we must provide for their spec- ial needs but always recognize that those needs are incidental to the full life which each is entitled to and capable of leading.

scientific Isolatlonlsm

when Sir James Chadwick fold the l.-iranklin Institute in Philadelphia that com- pletion of the atomic bomb was delayed about a year because of failure to achieve full co-operation between researchers in the-United States and Britain he knows whereof he speaks and as the occasion was his receiving the Franklin Medal for his work in nuclear physics, it is obvious that his intention was to bring about an im- provement rather than indulge in recrim- ination.

The strength and glory of science until very recent times has been the free ex- change of information. The world could not possibly havc reached its present stage of knowledge had each nation or group of scientists been obliged to make all its own mistakes and hit upon its own independent discoveries.

That idyllic freedom of scientific in- formation has gone, of course, and consid- erations of security prevent its return. Un- less, however, the interchange of ideas and

information is renewed as far as secumtygla payment representing the final Cleangup

permits we can cxpect a barrcnness 0 scientific discovery which may prove more harmful than'any leakage of information.

Party Forecasts

upon the following political forecasts:

"From the watchtowcrs on Parliament Hill, obscrvcrs do not seriously expect Premier Lcslic Frost to lose in Ontario. But they are ready to place a few modest bets that Premier T. C. Douglas and his C.C.F. organization will bite the dust" in the wheat- growing province. This should mean that. come the next Federal election, the Con- servative Party will be in about the same position as it is now. relative to the dom- lnant Liberal Party. and that the C. C. F. Party will have, fewer rcsou"vcs on which to draw, and less prestige. It could mean the- definite rc-emergence of the Conservatives as the only party offering a practical al- ternative to the Liberals and the logical beneficiary of the many protest votes ex- pected to be recorded at the next Federal election."

iGeorge Farquharson wore at a iClan Farquharson, a kilt 200 years old. It ,'had been carefully laid away in a cedar

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h b h iavailable this year from the 1950-51 pools, ”Canadian Business". publis ed y 1 cl Canadian Chamber of Commerce. vcnturesi

. lllilof of clan Cameron

A Sir Donald Walter Cameron of Lochiel, twenty-fifth Chief of Clan Cameron, died in London on October 11th at the age of 74. He is succeeded by his elder son, Don- ca Hamish, 49 years old, who now becomes hood of the clan. Sir Donald's wife was the former Lady Hermoinc Emily Graham. sec- opd daughter of the fifth Duke of Mont- Their marriage united two of Scot- idnl's most distinguished and historical

'.;.'l'he late Chief of Clan Cameron was

” Lieutenant and Convenor of Inver-

. ggid 1 deputy governor of the Na-

t i . , of Scotland. During the South

ywn he served in the Grenadier

i 'hI'thIF1rItGreatWu-heraised

of Cameron Highlanders and " gm: thgig qufougliout the war.

It is as though melon will be to see and be seen by as many

people as possible. I

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Hon. Dougal MacKinnoii, Minister of Public Works, is showing great initiative and enterprise in the performance of his duties. If he can produce a road surface to anyway come near being firm and dust free, he will have provided a memorial that future generations will appreciate.

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No less than 6,500,000 pounds of foreign buttcr will be landed in Montreal this week. The Stella Marina will bring 2,500,000 pounds of Swedish butter. Most of it will be distributed in Ontario and Quebec. A

-1,000,000-pound shipment from Holland is

cxpccled tomorrow, followed by 3,000,000 pounds from Denmark. O O

Brigadier Reid and the committee in charge of the Royal Welcome are having a strenuous time working out plans and making preparations for the 11-hour visit. Backed, as they will be, by the people as a whole the welcome will be as enthus- iastic and sincere as the Princess and her consort have received anywhere where their stay has been more prolonged. It is the spirit that counts, and we, named after roy-

alty, have ever the loyal patriotic spirit. 0 O I

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The kilt has always been looked upon as a most economical boys wear in Scot- land. descending from oldest brother to junior without any wcar-out at the knees. But an exceptional casc occurred in Laur- cncekirk, Scotland. recently. when Mr. rally of

chest and forgotten. I

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The Western farmers are in .luck again, in having distributed a nice little nest egg,

of the pools. The farmers get an initial payment and then, when the grain all has been sold and handling charges deducted, the money left over is distributed to the producers as a final payment. The surplus

Hon. Mr. Howe told Parliament, is "in ex- cess of fS100,0O0,000.''

; What a lot of money is coming to the Province these days. all to be spent and en- joyed. In addition to our industries we have baby bonus millions, veterans and "means" test pensions, and soon, we shall have old age pensions when everybody of three-score years and ten will have their 1540 per month to play with or spend at their pleasure. Sure, an agricultural and fishing community is in the money class

those days.

A very strange statement was reported to.have been made by the Director of the Massachusetts Marine Fisheries Depart- ment, to the effect that he had "success- fully negotiated" with Canadian author- ities to raise the legal size of lobsters here to that of the Boston market which is to be increased at the end of the year and again in a year's time. Negotiations on the subject should certainly involve more than talks with Ottawa members of the Fisheries Department.

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Sale of synthetic detcrgentsmiay in- crease to 75 per cent of package sales with- in the next two years, according to an article in Agricultural Situation, :1 pub- lication of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Washington. sales of deter- gents have increased from lem than one Pound Der.caplta in 1942 to eight pounds in 1950. If temporary shortages of plants and raw materials are alleviated, trade sources believe. total sales in the ncxt.cou- ple of years could hit 2,000,000,000 pountk, Total sales of the synthetics" have been cut. lmated at 1.200.000.000 pound: in 1950. one-fourth of the total for soup and de-

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Old Charlottetow mm P. ir. I.) QUARANTINI INSPECTION

As I colony Prince Edward 15- land had its own quarantine office and marine hospital in Charlotte- town. which were maintained for some years after Confederation. In 1877 the inspecting physician was Dr. W. H. Hobkirk, whose report. dated Dec. 31 of that year. throws an interesting light on his duties. "I have frequently had to visit vessels with sickness on board, to satisfy captains as to the nature or such sickness, also to Olnspect sick seamen before their admis- sion into the marine hospital, in order to certify that they were not suffering from contagious or in- fectious diseases," the report states. "I have also occasionally been called upon to visit. vessels about to proceed to sea, to exam- ine and give certificates as to the state of health of sailors, who. on the plea of sickness (often feigned with the view of getting discharg- ed) refuse to proceed on their pas- sage. I have also visited steamers and other vesels carrying passen- gers from foreign ports, when sua- pcctcd. or when coming from in- fectcd places.

"I have frequently had the hon- our to submit; to the Department (of Agriculture at Ottawa) the necessity there is that the hos- pital should be placed in a good state of repair..as soon as possible. It is commodlous and well suited for the purpose. but should be ready for the reception of the sick. for we might at any time (as has heen the case before) have an in- flux of patients with smallpox or some other infectious complaint.

"The inspection of vessels has been of late rendered more diffi- cult and uncertain than it was in consequence of the local Govern- ment having removed from the Block House the signals which an- nounced the arrlval of vessels in port; also. by the removal from the station (by order of the De- partmenti of the boatmen, whose duty it has been for some years to report daily to the inspecting physician the arrival of any ves- scl in the harbour which required to be visited. Now, being deprived of assistance from these quarters, I am left entirely on my own re- sources."

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E3The Age-Old Story

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And Jesus went; into tho temple of God, and cut out all them that cold and bought: in the temple. and overthrew the table: of the .......cy-changers. and the IellI- of them that mold dovcl, and said unto them, It is written. My house shall be called the house of pray- er; but ya have made It I en of thieves. And the blind and the lune came to him in the temple: and be healed them. And when the chief priest: and scribes new the wonderful thing: that he did. and tho childrenlcryinz in the temple. and buying. llounnl to the son of David; they were lore dllpleucd. and said unto him. nearest thou win: than any? And Jeluo uitb unto them. You: have yo never read. out of the mouth of bubu and nuckiinu thou hut perfected prllocf And he left them. and went out of the city in- to lcthollyl Ind be lodged then.

IRIMIRI-IAVIN. ,Oomuny. Oct. 21 - (AP) - Men of the 48rd In- fantry Division. New lncland Na- tional Guard. ti-amped down the ganxplank of the, 11.8. transport Gen. Butner Saturday to join four If I. combat troop total in Germ- any to at least 100.000 men.

MOSCOW. Oct. 11 - (AP)) -- 1110 Iuulnn nuvypnownllnr and nut. II fiportod the dad: of llur- Vndim chimn- mdov. nova! Artillery apart.

ILIGHTLY Il.A'i"l'lNlI) The out-wolf. circumference of

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In France they are testing a rocket device for a quicker deliv- ery of mail. Be wonderful when an executive can dictate: "Yours of tomorrow was received yester- day. This will confirm your ar- rangement of next week to meet you in Paris last Thursday. Re- gards. monsleur."-Hamilton Spec- tator.

For some reason we just. emit seem to get enthusiastic about A lovely. runny Autumn day when it in the first day back at work after a long holiday week-end which was filled with nothing but chill winds and constant rain! The weatherman for this past Sum- mcr season has had a most pecul- iar sensc of humor.-Brockville Recorder and Times.

It: was bound to happen. The royal square dance at Rideau Hall has started what seems likely to become a London craze. It will not be surprising to find society this.winl.ei' arrayed in peasant blouses and blue jeans. and a frantic call going out to Canada for "callers". Next thing will be that green and white polka-dot bow tics will become the fashion for man. if the Duke of Edinburgh wear: in public his gift from the Governor of Michigan. -- Ottawa Citizen. '

When they began putting sodn fountains on battleships we" were quite sure the navy was going to the dogs. Not to the tough old sea dogs. A new generation of sailors is being developed and at the risk of having the crew of the next warship that visits the har- bor descend on us in an angry bodily we're going to suggest that it will be a generation of softiea that wouldn't even know how to "splice the main brace" if some- body ardcred them to. Now comes something else to complete the softening process. A machine is being tested by the British Ad- miralty, reads a dispatch. "with which one man could swab the decks that seven sailors now do by hand." Using the floor-scrub- hing machine, the men would not have to get down on their kneel and would not even get their feet wet. Shades of Nelson!-Monh real Daily Star.

Whoicanio'prIccI in Canada fell off by 2.7 points in August and unxious housewives. working out their budgets. will be hopeful that this 'quilc substantial drop will be reflected in the cost of living index. It may not be. but. an indicators of a general trend ih prices, the wholesale lndcx II better over the whole price field than the selected items in the cost of living index. It just may he that the drop in wholesale price: is the harbinger of better things to come all round.-something like the first robin in spring. Whole- sale prices have been falling for uomc time in the United States. Canada usually lag: a bit behind. But, on the other hand. the pren- Iurc on price: In a result of re- armament is still building up. However, in these inflationary days, we may be glad of any crumb: of comfort that come our way. The decrease in wholesale price: in such a crumb; though it has not yet turned into I nub- Itantlal loaf.--Montreal Daily Star.

"I don't want anybody natur- lnz at me before bi-enkfut." re- marked on ncqunlntnnw. We un- deutood exactly how the felt and what one meant. Lot: of people don't want to be nattered at ur- ly in the morning-or any other tlmc of the day. for in t matter. This in A good word which we haven't heard in ch used lately. Yet it in I useful on with I pro- clu meaning of in own. It meant to find fault. to be peev- lnh or quei-uloun. Nutter-in; II Iomowlut lou objectionable than nnulng. bdauu it lm't neonat-

Wo all have had expo:-font with

clinttunabout thin or that. often about 'ncono

And. In the

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tergents that year. i

.orth-aoutb olmiinfli-cncii in 24.- in mlllu.

1. Notes By The Way I.

Father which is in her

fly so repetitious: and it in coma- whut milder in -bone and content.

nntui-in: people. They poovlnily

eiitinl tiilnu and ulunlly in rpoulmlntlc mumer. morning. they do curt the day of! wrong for oth-

shouldn't ion from our language. It describes A state of mind. or of tongue. mode exactly than any substitute. If anyone disagrees about this. well. we hope he won't nutter. at mi about it.- Windsor Daily Star.

Back in the lath century, loo- lah Wedgwood built up the fam- ous pottery which b-:rs his name. 8 name honored the world over for the x.KCQuEnCG of Wedgwood wire. one day Voseph ..ecL,..ood. walking l.Z."'”.l3h his factory, new 3 workman packing I beautiful blue vane, exquisitely 4 mented in those finely e'-'ied designs in high rt”-” fr w:.lch Wedgwood

is famous. But the proprietor not-

iced ii. iy 'ilp,, barely percep- tible to the iiaked eye. Plcklnz up the vase, he smashed it on the floor. Then he turned angrily to the work who ha: been pre- paring the vase for shipment. "Why did you pass that damaged article?" he demar-led. The work- man answered feai-fully. ''I thought it was ,.ood enough for the trade!" ”Nothlng." said Jos- iah Wedgwood. "Nothing except a perfect article is good enough for Josiah Wedgwood!" There in a. lesson for us today in that true

story. There is no room for tfzood

enough." That is why Jeni"! Christ

set in. humanly impossible standard

and did it without apology; "ac ye therefore perfect. even as your in per- fect!" Unattalnnble in this life, perhaps. y ' ll. . sagiirlng, rod that lc:ves no room for -iugness, 3911. sallsfacnoii or complacency. mncouver sun.

Plowing on the Ciontour

(The Globe and Mall) The international Plowing Match is one of the great annual events of rural Ontario. .Held in various parts of the Province

thousands of people. Originally I plowing petition, the "finals" of a. large number of local events. it has broadened out into a sort of exhibition. in which hachlncr, and other equipment for the farm. Ialmoat overshadow! the plowing in popular interest.

This year. for the flrnt time. there were classes in contour plowlnl. which drew extraordin- arily small interest. Only two plowing enthusiasts entered the first day, and but five the second. The crowd, such an ll: wu. nem- ed to be little impressed by the woi-k,, and some are quoted ll be- ing unable to see why the furrow: were not lti-altlilz.

Contour plowing ls plowing acres: the 51090 instead of up and down it. The furrow follow: the contour of the land. being ulwaya more or less at right angles to the top of the Ilopo at any particular point. This pro- ducea the characteristic wavy line of the plowing. The value of this method is that water doel not run off so rapidly when it nine. and therefore does not carry the top- soil down the slope. when con- tour cultivation is adopted. the told-fuhioned nuns or Mazu- hr fields are abandoned. and the Vlrloul crops are grown in ntrlpl. following the contour. also. Con- tur plowing in no more difficult the straight plowing. once the pat.- tern in not by an oxporllncod ux-lcuitunl rcprooontatlvo.

The lock of fauna! in thin who form of cultivation in a common- tuy on the wouknou of oonolrvp tlon education among fu-moi-I. it in true that southwestern. Ontario. from which the lunar put of the

would coml. bu I good dual of on land. in widcii contour plow- iu would be uniiocuury. lut

wblcli would benefit from strip

fnrmln promitlvo amlnlt wind in no light um: that coil ulna in nuivlll

pllttlnal-ton nlnlomoplrtlof the Province. A drive nnywbuo uvdllu many field: with the blip talc light eolond pqtchu and thin growth of nodal roll. it in menu

cu. Nnttcrln: it I word we

that the farmer; fhomuivu do

from year to year, it drew: many -

attendance at tho plowing-mulch 1.;-3.

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1 had a chance to talk with several well-informed people, not only about labor. farm and co- operative organizations, but about the political situation. the tense- neu and the existing unrenllty that was apparent. The outlook of the people and the stories about general economic conditions in the southern part of the country were pretty well the same as those in the northern section. in and around Hamburg-which I visited later.

On the trip north. it was the same story. Stations shattered, railways rebuilt, and freight trains by the dozens rushing about do- ing their part. in the great job of reconstruction. There are many new and comfortable passenger cars now which is quite a change from the stories they told me about the first two or three years after the war. Then people had to ride when they could, often in open flat cars from town to town. We ltopped at Bremen, and roll- ed on tol-laiiiburz, that old Hanse- town on the Elbe, Germany's larg- est seaport, and one of the hard- est hit centers during the war.