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Authorized in iieouisd Clun lllil, Poet Office Department, Oltlwn. rail-iced Glllfdllll Publiehlnl Co- lldltor and Managing Director, J. B. Burl!"-

v Associate Editor. Frank Walker. i "The Strongest Meinory is Weaker Than

r ' the Weakest Ink." CHARLUPTl-YIOIVN, WEDNESDAY, Nov. 10, 194a

Remembrance flay

In a war cemetery in the Middle East there is a one-line epitaph which might serve as a fit-

‘ ting text for every Remembrance Day address-

lt reads Simply: We gave our today for your

tomorrow.

On the eve of this solemn occasion of re- membrance of the sacrifice of one hundred thousand Canadian lives in two world wars, it is well to bear in mind that the greatest tribute we can pay is not a brief moment of silence nor the formal ceremony of a war memorial. These are profoundly significant and should be df vital help and inspiration to us. But they involve some- thing more. The pledge of the living to the dead is to work unceasingly for peace, toward greater justice for all, toward a wider toleration, toward the increasing betterment of life the world aver. With each forward step, the prospects of new wars are pushed back. War is essentially nothing but the culmination of failures in peacetime. It is the result in years of peace of our own sel- fishness and complacency, as well as of direct acts of aggression on the part of oIherS- Ii i! ~ made possible as surely by the neglect of those

who never wish to resort to war as it is by the greed of those who see profit in it.

i The slow struggle to place our hard won victory on a new foundation seems hopeless at times. More than three years after the close of the second war, what are the prospects today? Many would refuse the name of peace at all to the present world condition; they see it only as the uneasy prelude to a third conflict, more destructive than any known before; and there is certainly much surface evidence for that belief. But there is another side to the picture. The

' i check of world opinion, as represented unmis-

tokeably through the United Nations, has so far

é: prevented another explosion. The organization

for peace survives, and ls gaining strength. lt

Is not unduly optimistic to believe that it will

continue to operate among men and women of

goodwill. Lii1I'il spheres of rival influence have been peacefully de-limited and the distressed areas of the world have been brought back to health and plenitude. - -

There are days when the effort does not , ieem worthwhile, when it would be easy to i give way; but if Remembrance Day means any- ‘ thing at all it means that we must make every effort, all the time, to prevent what has happen- ed twice in this century happening again in our lifetime or in the lives of those who come after. From our common citizenship must come the will and the strength to meet all tests.

Thus tomorrow's anniversary brings a two- fold message. On the one hand, Remembrance; on the other concentrated purpose to help build the best memorial, the best tribute and the best remembrance of all, the only one worthy of those valiant hearts-lasting Peace.

Prince of true Peace, re-cruolfied in wars, Fierce are men's fears; Summon the saints whose souie are lit like stars, Take thou their tears; Teach the new world the new world neighbor needs; Dethone despair, transmute good dreams to deeds.

The iiansard Society

__ The Hansard Society of Canada, one of our latest democratic organizations, is realizing the benefit of and necessity for public discus- sion. its first project is a Youth Conference on Parliament, to be held in Convocation Hall, Uni- versity of Toronto, next Saturday. An able and lively panel of parliamentarians, representing East and West, French and English-speaking Ca- nadians, bath sexes, the three major parties and an independent, have been chosen to give the young people an idea of how Parliament works, which they cannot get from books, or even fromi a casual visit to the gallery of the House of Commons. Hon. Paul Martin, Minister of Na» tional Health and Welfare, and youngest man in the Cabinet, will lead off on "The Govern- ment Side of the House." Mr. John Diefenbaker, who has made a mark as an Opposition leader will follow with "The Opposition — Basis of our Freedom." Mr. Jean-Francois Pouliot, who sel- dom lets a day pass during the session without l_ one of his amusing interventions, will tell the Ontario students af "A Quebec Member at Ot- tawa." And Miss Agnes McPhaii, Canada's most experienced woman parliamentarian, now in the l Ontario Legislature, will address herself chiefly to the young ladies of the audience: "Women in Parliament -- Why Aren't There More?"

The iiustlngs Still Count

One thing that seems to have been demon- etrated by the victory of Harry Trumfl". “W5 the Ottawa Journal, is that in waging an elec- tion campaign there is'no real substitute for the platform. Political parties, seeking victory at the polls, may flood the country with leaflets and pamphlets, disfigure the landscape with posters, have candidates televised and photo- graphed ad nauseam, use the movies and the radio. Nothing they do in that way will ever be as effective as a rousing campaign from the hustings. _

Mr. Dewey had himself televised and photo- graphed, made "higher level" speeches from ‘ radio studios. Harry Trumfl". II" "W" "l" i; wouldn't quit, travelled 31.000 "Ill" “I'd mude 5 300 speaches to the people. Over all of the United States people saw Dewey posters. They didn't see Mr. Dewey. instead tllIY f" Hi1"? Truman, heard him speak to them directly and intimately about what he planned to do foli; them. Face to face he told the "little PIPPI‘ that he would repeal the Taft-Hartley Ad. "it"

endure hardship.

efforts.

with cutting delinquency 50 per cent below what it was three years ago.

gaged at that time are now back might also

Conservative Ontario government credit for con- irolling even rainfall and water fable Their president, when lights went out at a recent meeting, cried, "See what George Drew has done to Hydro!"

mits that there must be control and supervision of rents by some authority, and "in the interests of uniformity, that authority should be federal."

ing to have assurance that European graves of Canadian servicemen are being carefully tended. Hon. Wing Commander L. A. Costell

iting a number of military cemetries has high praise for the imperial War Graves Commission. I I O ‘Ir

staple breakfast for untold generations. Now his quota has been reduced to one ounce bacon per week and no egg. much of a bellyfull to a race once famed for its abundant consumption of roast beef and ole. Let us share some of our surplus with them in time for Christmas.

liable? Ninety-seven per cent of prisoners re- leased on parole from Canadian penal insti- tutions do not return to their former habits, Hon. Joseph Jean, Solicitor General of Canada, said at the weekly luncheon meeting of the Lawrence Kiwanis Club in the Ritz Carlton Ho- tel in Montreal recently. "Only three per cent of the paroled prisoners fail to live up to the confidence placed in them and return later to .o penal institution, the members of Parliament

against "privilege" The "little peflilli": _\'I'° don't understand high abstractions on windy heights, liked the Truman technique better.

"in Canada in recent years, odds the Journal, "we have had politicians imagining more and more that all they require is a microphone. They are wrong; wrong because not one in a hundred of them knows how to use a microphone; wrong because few people listen to even the best of radio speeches; and wrong because the dullness of the radio can never compete with the excitement, the sense of urgency, that is pro- duced by the platform.

"Some of our dilettantes, the young men with a distaste for what they consider hustings vulgarity, are against the platform, all for the radio studio. They are the sort of people who are for "polls", for "scientific" methods of "measuring" public reactions. The politicians should beware of them . . . should realize that the hustings is in the great tradition of demo- cratic poljtics, that from it have come the great pronouncements which have been the milestones in our march to freedom."

EDITORIAL NOTES -

Tomorrow, sons, let us in all humility and

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Tomorrow is Remembrance Day for (hose who gave their lives in the First, Second and let us hope, the Last World War.

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It is only fair that the City should reap what they have sown in liquor fines. if the fines are not paid the City has to provide quarters

for the offenders.

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The City Council find that it is not possible to please everybody; whatever they do there is adverse criticism. But, that of course, is life and councillors are supposed to be trained to

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board with winners in ground produce and live stock. lt is the man and woman behind the cultivation and production that count.

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New that Truman has been re-elected, there ls no need to lose hope over the international situation, Transport Minister Chevrier, who was temporarily head of the Canadian delegation to the United Notions assembly in Paris, reports an his return to Ottawa. i Q

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Today the gasoline engine even provides fer- tilizer. The New York Times reports that alka- line deserts are being restored to productivity by subjecting water to the exhaust gasses mak- ing it mildly acid.

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Macdonald College hos developed a project which deserves to be widely adopted. In coopera- tian with other organizations they have created a "5peakers' Pool” ready to provide speakers on a wide range of topics from agriculture to town planning.

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OliverwGoldsmith, British poet, dramatist and man of letters, born this date I728. His Vicar of Wakefield, is one of the masterpieces of English fiction. His poem, The Deserted Vil- lage, will not readily be forgotten: "The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are

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Labour Minister Mitchell has given a re- port which reflects high credit on Canada's vet- erans. A majority of ex-service men have asked for "minimum assistance" from the Government, reestoblishing themselves chiefly by their own

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Montreal police credit their juveniles’ club

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lt seems just possible the fact that fathers who were otherwise en-

have something to do with the improvement.

Lister I was able to visit cemeteries at

Gardens of the Dead

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iMajor Colin McDougrsii in The

Legionary)

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and west of Nijmegen and Arnhem and was able to visit, briefly the cemetery at situated on a hilltop, looks out. over the valleys to the flowing Rhine end the I-Iochwald where such bit- tcr fighting took place in the riiln and mud in that long-ago February of 1945 when the advancing Cana- dian troops took their first steps into and through the Siegfried Iiine. Here in the peace and quiet of the rolling countryside. with the siui shining brightly on the rows of vvhite crosses, one wondered if one had not dreamed those other days when the eras-h of hurtling steel smote the ears and the smoke from hundreds of guns drifted in the dull, gray light of day. But those rows of silent witnesses proclaimed the truth and confirmed that it was rio dream.

Groesbeek. which

IN FRANCE

the Beny-stu-Mer and

Brettervtlie-sur-Laize in Normandy In the waving fields the farmers were busy bringing in the harvest on either side of that, long, straight mad that runs from Ceen to Fis- .

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Saskatchewan’; AIttoiIneytGeneraI, Mr. J. W. Corman does not favour rent control being thrown an the Provincial Government. He ad-

At this season: in‘ pdrtic-ular, it is comfort-

o, Principal

Chaplain (RC), R.C.A.F., newly back from vis-

Bacon and eggs have been the Englishman's

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MEMOBIAM

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On sea On land And in the air

They voyaged for Freedom. For deer Lands they strove, They rejoiced in High Might.

"At the going down of the sun And in the morning We will remember them."

-. fl liiewert in The Li.

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In lonely wetches night by night. Great visions burst upon my sight. For down the stretohes of the sky The hosns of dead go marching by.

Strange ghostly banners o'er them

flout. sound an awful note,

And all their faces endtheir eyes Are lit with starlight from

the skies.

The anguish and the paln have

passed

And peace hath come to them e‘.

last.

But in the stem looks linger still The tron purpose and tihe will.

Dear Christ. who rei|n'st above the

flood 0f human tears end human blood. k weary road these imen have trod.

house them In the home of God. —I-‘rederiok George Scott.

The Ags-iilii Story

Thou elicit guide me with Thy council. and afterwards reulve he

glory.

w-o e-Q-eeQ-r PUBLIC FUR UM

This column is open to the

discussion by wiieapoudeuts

of questions of interest. The

Guardian doee not necessar- y. iiy endorse the opinion of § correspondents.

COLONEL DREW’! PLEDGE '

Sin-For many years past, owing to my position as e Judge i have taken no interest in politics and although I am now free to do so I have no intention of expressing my political opinions and in this letter I am simply urging a matter which is of provincial interest regardless of political bios.

For the second time since Con- federation B leader of a Federal party has came here and mode a solemn promise.

In 1911 Sir Robert Borden pub- ilciy promised that, if he bccume Prime Minister of Canada he would take _immediate steps to imple- ment the pact of Confederation with respect to transportation across the Strait of Narthumber- land. This promise he fulfilicd by having pic-rs built at Borden and Tormentine and placing a car ferry‘ at those points und widening the gauge of the Prince Edward Island Railway.

I have always contended tiiiii the transportation of motor cars (pas- senger and freight) across the Strait should be frcc.

This principle was recogni cd by the Federal Government away back lri 1913 when cables were laid across the Strait and as to tolis for telegrams and telephone messages we were considered as adyoining the mainland und no charge was made for the nine miles across the Strait.

I note by The Guardian's report of Mr. Drew's speech Monday night (and by your editorial comment) that lie has recognized ths prin- ciple as to the transportation of motor cars and trucks. If it were possible (and I do not say it is not) to build a causeway, bridge or tun- nel across the Strait we would thcn virtually farm part of the mnin- lund and would be free to uumc and go without paying a toll.-

Because we are scpeiutcd by a strip of water. we as rs lhovince should not be handicapped as we heretofore have been and be oblig- ed to pay a high price fut the privilege of dolnp IJUSIHG-sb \v.tli the other Provinces of Canada.

We should be united rind in- llet that whatever government is in power, as to passengers and freight, we be placed on the some footing as the other Provinces.

We cannot compete successfully until this is done.

1 um, Sir, etc. A. E. ARSENAULT. Charlottetown. '

SOUTHERN llOADltTA-IKING

Sir, Possibly your per could enlighten the citizens of this area regarding the new system of road engineering initiated in this section of the Province. We were formerly of the opinion that when now roads were built, they would follow as straight, a line as p0!- sibie, Apparently the new tech- nique is based on the feminine idea. that curves are in style. In any event the road at New Do- minion follows this pattern, and now in order to keep an the new- iy established highway the trav- eller must. slow down and lean over in order to negotiate the bulges.

To effect this rather cork-screw shaped design the road ditch lillv- ed so close to the business premises of one worthy citllen that on: step from hie doorway deposited him in the immediate excavivion. This danger was quickly rrmed- ied by eieborote reconstruction processes. Now this citizen may atq safely right on to the high- way. after of course wnriiy scrut-

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Old Charlottetown (And r. n. r.)

HOLLANUS ARRIVAL

The British Government commis- sioned Captain Samuel Holland as Surveyor General of the district north of the Potomac on March 23. 1764, and instructed him to begin with St. John's Island (Prince Ed- ward Island) on account of its fish- eries. Lieutcnants Robinson, i-iuidl- mund. und Carleton and Thomas Wright were appointed as his el- sistants; and an armed merchant vessel of 200 tons, the‘ Cunccaux. manned by 40 men, under command of Lieutenant Henry Moivaf, was placed at his service.

Holland arrived in Quebec from England, early in August. There he met Captain Dean of the Mermaid. who had visited the Island during the summer and was advised by him to take "all sorts of material fiIiCI provisions with him. us there was nothing left an the Island but a detachment posted at Fort Am herst who were lndifferentiy pro- vided and could not. furnish him- sclf and his staff with lodgings." The truth of this description Hal land was soon to confirm by ckperi once.

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He arrived on the Island early in October. Fort Amherst itself did not impress him. He described it as a poor stackudcd redoubt, with barracks scarcely sufficient to lodge the garrison-the houses near it. having been pulled down to sup- ply material to build it. I-ie iind to build winter quarters for himself at Observation Inlct, now Hoi- iund's Covc, n spot. in the woods. near the shore, where he put up nn old frame of a barn which lie covered with such material as he had brought with him and some boards collected from the ruins of old French hauscs.

The preparations for wliiicr. fa- gethcr with his negotiations with Captain Hill of the garrison and Lieutenant Movvat of the Cnncooux. both of whom had to be instructed as to their duties by Iilglier author- itics, occupied his time until Doc cmiicr 8 when he moved info his Iiousc. The curly winter ivris spent in astronomical observations. in keeping meterologicui records. and in drawing plans of his work in Canada so that the serious work of the survey was not unricrlaken until February 15, 1765, when four parties \V9I‘E organized under l-loi land anrl his assistants; and then the work proceeded rapidly, being finished the following autumn.

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As much of this work was done in the winter and spring months. it is not difficult ta understand why there were later disputes as fo boundary lines of the various townships. "Our travelling equip- age." he says, "consists of n sledge a foot in breadth, upon which are our beaver skin coats, a buffalo or bear skin, n blanket, canteen: and about 8 days’ provisions. each drawn by a single dog, which we have purchased for that purpose from the Acndiiins. but as the chiiinmen, not being able to carry their provisions-which the rest of the party are obliged to do-‘I have found it absolutely necessary on that account. and in order to re ceive proper information. to hire an Acadlen for each of the gentle- men." '

-—Frorn en article by Dr. D. C. Harvey.

Wily. so as to protect his life ftcltn epproschtrig vehicles, Experimentation has not. been neglected either, for the road has been diverted acroee the only swampy location in the, area, an 1 even the desperate efforts to fill from an immediate pit have not. entirely headed off the swamp ef- feats. ‘the road of life that our good

church goers have ordinarily to travel ts beset with many diffic-

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(These verses appeared in The English Review of June 1916 which woe found by Grenadier S. Machin. now of Charlottetown, in a Ger man officer's pack during the batlie of the Somme in August 1916. Pre- sumably the German had taken the Review from an English officer).