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' llarnlng llnily (Founded In IIIT) Authorised u rioconil Clans Mall, Pans Office Department, Ottawa.

The Island Guardian ‘Publlohlug Co. ‘Edmu- llll Managing Director, J. ts. Burnett:

Mountain Edttor, Frank Walls"

"TlieStrongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink."

cmssuurrcrowis. SATURDAY. rum: i1. rose

Friendly Greetings

The Maritime Provinces are featured in the current issue of the Canada-West Indies Moga- rine in a manner calculated to promote better rnufual relations. In greetings from Prince Ed- vard Island, Premier Jones is quoted as stating that this Province'selong and close association with the British West indies islands and Colonies "lids had certain potent rand adherent qualities symbolized in two products of the West Indies -rum and molasses—which came to us in the schooners which plied between the northern ‘and southern ports, the forerunners of Canadian- West Indian trade of today. From this beginning has developed an interchange of trade that to- rloy has carried the fame of Prince Edward island potatoes to the furtharmost corner of the Caribbean." The Premier expresses the hope that this mutual exchange may grow to OI-II‘ mutual benefit, "and, with it, that interchange of travel with which our ‘Islanders’ will come to look upon the Caribbean islands as their not- ural winter 'home away from home;' and the islanders of your lovely tropic lands look upon Prince Edward island as their natural summer playground." The issue contains a brief histori- co_l sketch of this island, with a photograph of a comely lass in bathing dress "typifying the pleasant atmosphere" of our "hills and voles and friendly shores."

World Wool-drop lip

‘Although wool production is down again this year in Canada and in the United States; reports from most other sheep-raising countries indicate that pasture and feed have been favorable, and wool production may show an up-swing. .

in Australia, after four years of declining production the total wool crop may reach a bil- lion pounds. New Zealand farmers are likely to clip more wool in the season beginning July l, than they did in the previous season.

A little more wool is expected in most South American countries. Uruguay is recovering from the i943 drought. Better world prices for wool hbs brought the Argentine--the chief wool-pro- ducing country in South America-crop back to about half-a-billion pounds.

South Africa, Turkey and lndio expect in- creases in i948, and other Asiatic countries about the some as in i947.

' Most European countries report some increase for the fourth year in succession, with the excep- tion of Belgium, Eire, Greece, Holland and Czechoslovakia.

World production for I948 is estimated at 3,830 million pounds, about I00 million pounds, or nearly 3 per cent more than in i947.

The Exodus From Gilles

The growth of suburbs has been so hap- hazard and chaotic that they are in effect, pres- ent-day parasites and tomorrow's potential shims,

l declared Mr. Guy Greer, o prominent American

consultant on city planning, in an article in the current issue of an American magazine. Although Mr. Greer was writing from his knowledge of conditions existing in many Am- erican cities, much that he has to say applies equally as well to many Canadian cities. For instance, he says "the tragedy of the exodus to the suburbs is that it leaves the city proper with all the services to support as well as the blighted areas, while, depriving it of many of its most sub- stantial taxpayers ond natural leaders." He goes

i on to say that unless the suburbs show more re-

sponsibility for the health of their source of“sup- port they, as well as the cities, may wither. "The antiquated laws ithat keep our cities in a straight jacket by severely limiting their taxing powers and their control over their suburban develop- ments should be overhauled to meet the realities of_'l948," he declares.

British Dollar‘ Gut

The consequences of the exchange diffi- culties which are one of the many legacies of the war are well known in a general way. Ir

' Is known that owing to our shortage of U. S.

dollars, the Government put in the embargoes and quotas on imports from that country" lost November. Because of the shortage of Canadian dollars, the British Government has taken vari- ous steps to reduce purchases here. For one thing, thd-U. K. has had to do without Canadian apples. The U. K. lost December, would have cut down on_ other food purchases if the Canadian Government had not intervened to prevent this being done at the time. it is highly probable tho/t food cuts will come later this year.

But there are other consequences of the shortage of Canadian dollars in the United Kingdom which are less well known. For ex-

‘gmpla, tho British government untll recently had , boon allowing emigrants to take up to £5,000

($39,009

) with them to tho country of their choice. Now this has boon cut down to £1,000 or flflM ln Canadian money instead of $20,000. ' ‘ gut fpplies to all dollar countries-not to

' Cenodoi o ono.

Another illustration of the effect of tho ' of nadion dollars in tho U. K. is of- ’, nt of lritish pooplo whose , ‘For! in Canada during the q given, but recalling the air , __ were undoubtedly rriony U.i(. ‘tillieoirntrr- ‘ 33% the parent! of British bqs >- ,

who were killed in Canada and who are buried here want ‘to come and see the graves of their sons. This, of course, raises a dollar problem. There have been several questions put to the government at Westminster in this regard. Sir Stafford Cripps the Chancellor of~ the Ex- chequer, in reply to appeals, pointed out that no dollars are allowed for travel in Canada but that special provision is being made for parents wish- ing to visit the graves of their boys in Canada. The amount allowed, at maximum, is £25 or $100 per head. This seems o small sum, even though it is in addition to the return passage which is payable in sterling. '

— EDITORIAL NOTES —

Tomorrow, 8th Sunday after Trinity.

The Governor-Gendral in residence. i I i i i And now it's the mockerels‘ turn to visit the lsland—in schools.’ I W I i The end of on uplifting week in public events as well as pleasure. i‘ ‘I I O

W. G. Grace, the famous English cricketer, was born this date I848. His centennary ‘I bo- ing celebrated in England.

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Rev. T. E. McLennon, Trinity Church, who recently received a call to St. James United Church, Montreohpreaches his farewell sermons tomorrow morning and evening. He has occu- pied the pulpit for five years. What is Mont- real’s gain is Charlottetown's serious loss.

l‘ ; i i F The announcement by Mr. J. Watson Mac- Naught, M. P., that the Fisheries Department will treble its expenditure on publicity should be generally welcomed. Letting people know by od- vertising the merits of a fish diet should in- crease the fisherman's income and save the pocket of the consumer. t i O U

islanders have long been up against the dif- ficulty of shipping their products to a distant market. Should the high grade iron ores of Lab- rador make a real boom town of ‘Sydney the

island will be an indirect beneficiary. i l I

Flights of jet aircraft crossing in their Eastword and Westward passage of the Atlantic make the world. a very.small place indeed. It is hard to realize that jet propulsion was isn- known until almost the end of the war.

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The seven Provincial Premiers are not going 1° 1°" °" °‘"Y 19*!‘ ‘P_'..'.°"..i!'.9.Qlltbtqfsyisws on freight rates. The Central Provinces do not act on the principle that the others should be in as favorable a competitive position in Canadian markets as they would be in their natural mor- 11915 11 11°1 Pllilllfidlly linkfd by Confederation.

The Berlin blockade has become more than o temporary annoyance. Britain and the United States should not be left to fly in supplies with- out assistance. Participation by this country in "operation dinner-pail" would go for to con- vince the Russians that strong arm tunic; are not going to pay off, i‘ I l‘ i The Communists are on strike in ltaly and Jugoslavia, and striking elsewhere. Mr. Mikunas, secretary of the Communist ‘Party in lsrael, claimed at a Press conference in Prague that ll the broad masses of the people of Israel sup- port the idea of a treaty of alliance with the Sov- iet Union." I‘ O i I

Election plans are going ahead. Mr. Don-

laid M. Hueston, 22, of Fort William, has been

appointed national executive secretary of the Young Progressive Conservatives of Canada. Mr. Hueston has been a reporter for the Fort Wil- liom Times-Journal since I946. His appointment is effective August 3.

James Abbot McNeill Whistler, Ai-nerieqn artist, died this date I903, studied in Paris and settled in London. His first painting The White Girl was exhibited at the Salon des Refuses, and in i859 began to exhibit at the Royal Academy,

painting figure subjects and views, also many

‘portraits, including those of his mother exhibit-

ed in'Paris and Glasgow; was eminent as etcher, 1100711111191’. and purely decorative artist; also pioneer of moss impressionism in English art; his stgre is subtly but not powerfully original; he was attacked by Ruskin in Fors Calvigora in I377 and a libel suit followed. He himself wrote The Gentle Art of Making Enemies: "Nature con- toins the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of o” music. But the ortist_is born to pick, and 6 0M8. and group with science, these elements, that the result may be beautiful." ii w fr.

First of its kind to be built in Canada, a com- plete self-contained X-ray unit has been acquired 117 N"! Brunswicktocarry outa full anti-tuber- culosis survey there. The unit, a large van with attached trailer containing the power generating equipment is the property of tho New Brunswick Tuberculosis Association. The unit takes the place of the mailer X-ray mobile unit which hos been conducting moss examinations in the prov- inco for tho last year. The latter did not curry along its own power facilities but served a vory usefuhpurpofe. Persons ready for examination move in tho_bock door of the van, oro register. oo‘, proceed into on undressing booth in tho fow cases whore it is necessary to remove clothing, po_ss on to tho X-ray machine, and loovo by the __front doot. "An average of 350 to 400 capacity in persons handled is possible in a single doy.. The program is corriod out with tho assistance of district rnodicol liooltli officers arid olthor local nurses or rnoinbers of tho public health nursing service.‘

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“Why 1| It you never loo bagpipes in is pnwnshop?" asks s paragraph- er. It's because Scotsman are sel- dom broke and pswnbrokers are never crazy. -- Kingston Whig- Standard.

A pike coughs near Sudbury was found to contain is young masks-st and a young duck. The pike 1s one of the predatory and destrucifve fish. Thousands of young ducks In‘? prey es 1t comes up from belo surface to grab them. — Port. Ar- thur News-Chronicle.

Example of an upside down economy. In Germany. pork 1s so scarce and cognac so plentiful that farmers feed the llqudr to their hogs so they'll sleep quietly while hidden from inspectors hunting food for hungry city dwellers. —- Detroit Free Press.

It. must be recorded from the Northern Ireland standpoint that until on approach ls made by Else slang the lfne of full adherence to the Commonwealth with a renun- ciation of neutrality and the safe- guard of a free entry w she British market. no plan for the ending of the partition of Ireland can. have even a dist/ant. prospect of success. - London Rouno Table.

Brlioln admits more refugees than any other country: Figures just published by the International Refugee Organization show that Britain has taken 1n mare_refugees and. displaced persons than all the other countries of the world put together. They are enterln Britain at. the rate of 1.500 a week. Al. least. 70.000 have been admitted slnce the end of the war. - Nlagara Fails Review.

A twelve-inch phonograph record that will play as much music as an album of slx or seven conventional records.’ will hlf. the market soon. The revolutionary new dlsc wlll provide up to half an hour of con- tinuous music. ,up to an hour if you ploy both sides. That means you can hear on a single platter an entire symphony or the full run of a musical comedy score. - Wall Street Journal.

White men must learn to follow Eskimo ways, ln the Arctic, says . Dr. Vllrialmur Stefonsson. famous Arctic explorer. lf they want co conquer the north. let's see. Isn't the Eskimo kiss the one where you flutter your eyelids against. the other person's cheek? Or ls it. the one where you hold Lhc nose and ear of the party of the second part? Anyway. we know how to handleen Eskimo ple. —..Wlndsor Star.

It is a mutter of some dlsouuuion and interest that. Victoria's femi- nine member fills week was culled upon by Mr. Speaker to preside over the House ln committee of the whole. The incident ls aoc without. precedent. Once before a. member of that sex bemjporarlw oc- cupied the Speaker's chair. The practice is unusual. But 1f any cre- dence ls to be placed la the theory that women do the bulking. what. could be more natural than that. one should be the speaker in shat. or any other l-Iouskunless it be that Mr. Speaker, or Madame speaker. is the only member vno ls not allowed to balk? —Vlctor1a Times.

One Rakoei. secretary-general o! the Hungarian Communist Party- ls perturbed. He finds that many Hungarians are joining the Com- munlst. Party not. because they are Communists but. merely because they think that. ls the slde ohelr bread is buttered on. He advocates u. purge of these omortunlsts. One instance ls cited of ‘i0 men ln is single factory who considered firem- selves either social Democrats 01' Communists. whichever seemed .i.he more advantageous at the mo- ment. The Reds apparently clono like Democrats boring from witn- ln, — Windsor Star.

When she celebrated tier 100th. birthday, M“, George Williamson. a Scotswomun who emlflfdlefl 1° New Zealand in 1877. received the

congratulations of two other con-g tenerlans. Mrs. Wllliomsons acme ls at. Walkoualtl. Otisga Province- 30 mlles from‘ Dunedin. 011d h" 100th. birthday nnnlversflflr‘ 9°10‘ olded with the centenary celebra-

tions of the city and Pfflvmce- Her guests. both aged 101. W!"

Mrs. Susan McFarlane. also o na-

tive of Scotland; o-nd Mrs. 0. Nell-

sqn. bom In England. Recipes for

long life given by the three cen-

teniirlens were‘.-Mrs. Williamson

_Qulet living, high thinklnfl- M15-

McFarliine-Plenty of herd work:

Mrs. Nellson-flood. nstural- food.

no tinned stuff. —EdfnburI1'1 91°10-

man. '

Flying jargon, as tout in U. S- Air FDICN, has been radically fe- vised by the advent of the let plane. The "airplane driver" of the First. Greet. War is now l “firecnn jockey." s "flame film: a "wick willy" or a "P1P! P1191-

The ante he fllee ls a “biow wick) l, "flame thrower," s llnum," n, "blast. fin-since," or a "mvgpfpe," The engine "blowl out." instead of “conklns Wk" Ground crews now "trim tho wick." 1-119? "WW1 11" bwnur" °E they "check the pipe." And if they find the eflllno ddfll 811 "Chi. it‘: st s "study 11°11" M‘ "W11"; ""-""'.f“...."'....'?"“‘éi‘.‘. 1.1:.

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gong’ some o"'let monitor" qg g “full.” R’! MG wllfy Who'll‘ hoomomo: .138 “mm”. . A . gtno amt wlstlo tn flight. 4mi- forrd Isaoon-Imld- ~

prom: m. nuosao

a liilles Byfhe wry-i

sewers .' . _' _ which tlo water horses could be erected at. convenient places in

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LEAP YEAH FANTASY

0 Glory be. it's leep year, and The girls are lookln’ round. Bo don't go hldln’ ln the woods Afeared of beln’ found. Six months to go — end summer- thine: with bait. and hook end line - Some girls will land their csteb and ssy Tibet. flshln's mighty fine.

small; They hoped to hook e whale:

Oftlimes we hear that tale. Some use all artful, cumslng lures, Some, mast expensive belt;

‘Mose, do not always lend the fish That tips the scale 1n weight.

While others with a piece of string And just. an old bent pln

Wlll land the biggest catch of ell,- To eves-y trophy wlnl

Well, flaliln’ may be just an art, 0r luck or maybe skill:

It takes e lot of patience though To catch the one you will.

But. girls. there's bigger b land '

Than ever yet were caught, When suckers steal your bolt. juet

say "That wasn't what I sought!” O1’ all the bait and clever lures For evening, morn or noon, None ever will outciate for clue The good old-fashioned spoon.

—Johri Robert Lamont Campbell.

Owrx cvwvooo" g Old Charlottetown (And r. u. s.)

CIVIC WATER SUPPLY

"The sixty-four pumps and wells ln the city have been metabolized ln an efficient condition, at s cost of $1407.35, It is to be regretted that. so much money should have been spent. to provide water. which scientific men have declar- ed to be unfit for hiunan use. Un-

‘llo some. their fish seem mighty

{There's bigger in the goldfish bowl"

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i517” QC4¢

mount. which would be petm- if

der these circumstances. the sub-

ject. of pro ldlng the alt with a copious. suiiyply of watery clcmaridslcmlncu 1W m‘ wmshm my“

your earnest consideration. a “The question appears to have‘

frequently engaged the attention‘- of the city Council, but more es-' peolally in 1870. when the eervlces - of M.r. Charles F. Fairbanks, engineer of ability, were scoured. His survey. with plan and” report.- cost. £269 ($905.30). Mr. Fairbanks imhesltstlngly recommend

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that the supply be drawn from Win- ter River. about 5 1-2 miles from the clfy. He estimated the cost. of Water Works at. $100000. and

noted that. among other advan-

tages lt would provide for o sys- tem of fire plugs, drains and Free fountiaffie’ or.

the streets, and he hoped ‘the day is not distant when a good bath can be had.’ _ . . "With regard to Spring Park. Mr. Fairbanks says this source is about.‘ ten feet above the Llde level, and although 1t may be, at this date, good water, the time l.s not. distant when even the small supply derived from 1t. will become almost as bad as the wot- er 1n the city wells . . . ‘Water 1s now sold ln this city for one pen- ny, currency, per three gallons. oi: the doors of those who can pay for it, and many persons send for water to Spring Park, while water is eold 1n New York for one cent per hundred gallons.’ "During the autumn of 1871 the City Council authorlud the erec- flon st Spring Park of s tank, to be filled by means of n steam pump operated in the factory of Messrs. McKlrmcn and Fraser, to whom they authorized e. payment of fifty cents per day for wimp- lxig, The tank. which has since been erected, and hos o capacity of 12,935 imperial gallons. was put in operation early 1n January of this year. It. oost 31.03714. besides $250 for the steam pump. "Before the erection of this tank. the water was taken from the spring by means of an or- dinary wooden pump, and ll; fre- quently hsppened that fifteen to twenty teams were waiting their turn to fill. At. the present time water can befitsprplied at line rote of one handed gallons per minute. The effect has been, that water- men have multiplied. and the number of other persons seeking water at. the spring has increas- ed, so that. lest. month the quan- tity delivered per day averaged not less than nine thousand gul- lone. On Saturdays and Mondays the quantity supplied reached L1.- 000 gallons per dsy. "Nine thousand gallons per dsy at. one penny per bucket o! three gallons is equel to £15.10 ($40.55) per day. or for 81S days 512410110. which represent!“ the least. o- mount the citizens of Charlotte- town pay directly for tho wow now token from Spring Park. Add to this 01,101.36 psld for keeping the purnpe and wolir in order. sad say s81: for oporstlng and repairing Bprink Pork tank, sad you have 014.1228) as the di- rect. annual coot to the olslsenl of the present insufficient supply of bod water for the poor. and goodgvoter for those who can af- ford to pay for 1t. ‘Ito this should be added the dittsreuco between use premiums paid for flro rlsiis