' itis to be hoped that the long-range view,

no. means the full explanation.

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CIRCULATION "Covers Prince Edward Island like the dew”

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

.CHAllL0'l'TETOWN. TUESDAY, MAR. 10. 1953

current Health And Welfare

Two reports of the Department of Health and Welfare were tabled in the House yesterday. The usual annual report for the year ending last March 31st and an interim report bringing health activities up to December 31. This is the first time that such recent information has been made available to our legislators since the chang- ing of the fiscal year. In the past it has been customary to present to the Legisla- ture at the annual spring session a report which encompassed the previous fiscal year. It was felt that such a report was outdated at the time of presentation and did not give a true picture of recent hap- penings in the Health Department. Con- sequently this interim report has been pre- pared. It represents an effort which will be appreciated by all interested.

Some sixty-nine cases of poliomyelitis and two deaths from this disease occurred. Cases were reported between May and November with September as the peak period. It would seem that doctors are working in very well with the Department because many mild cases are included in the reports which would have been over looked a few years ago. '

Public interest in cancer control facilities is not as great as the Department could wish but increasing numbers are taking advantage of the facilities offered. Interest in dental health precautions, too, seems to vary with the economic status of parents. The Department now provides treatment for grade I pupils in the hope of stimulat- ing continued care. Sodium fluoride appli- cation in Charlottetown is designed to sim- ilarly impress the need for continued at- tention.

The system of a Provincial Laboratory and Branch Labs is on an ambitious scale and has done much to improve the diag- nostic servicos available to the family phy- sician. . 1

Advances have been made in the fields? of preventive psychiatry and mental health generally; nutrition; public health nursing; sanitary engineering (the quality of pas- teurized milk far surpassed that of any previous year); tuberculosis control; use of new drugs and surgery resulted in more rapid turn-over of patients; and the rate of venereal disease remains at a low level.

No less than 69 accidental deaths in! 19.32. 26 due to motor vehicles and the. death of 81 children under one year of,l age indicate that much remains to be done; in those fields.

Ccivic Boundaries

Lengthy excerpts from the report of Judge Trainor, acting as Commissioner to inquire into the Parkdale water supply

problem, appear in today's issue and will doubtless be studied with close attention; The Commissioner found it necessary fol broaden the scope of his inquiry to include; the Spring Park area as well. A portion ofj this area as well as that of Parkdale is in-' volved in his recommendation, that these sections be included, by legislation, within the boundaries of the City of Charlotte- town as the only satisfactory solution to the problem occasioned by the lack of a safe water supply. He suggests, however, that a special survey be made of the de- tailed problems before legislation is enact- ed.

The Commissioner sets forth his findings at length, and his reasons for coming to the conclusion that extension of the City limits is necessary and desirable. He anti- cipates opposition on this ground, but the controversial nature of the question has not deterred him from plain speaking. His findings appear to be fully warranted, and

which he emphasizes time and again as the most important factor, will be borne in mind by the Legislature when it comes to deal with this question.

University Survey

A survey, just completed by the Federal ueputnrent of Labor shows that in the put thirty-two years, university attend- and in Canada has increased 175 per cent. Part of the increase cah be attributed to -population of Canada, but this For Hlllhdmt that in the same 32-year per- ' inaction of the population in the age

most college students, had only 45 per cent.

Hon. Milton Gregg, the Minister of La- bor, observes that with the increased em- phasis on industrial production has come a greater use of technological processes. And these processesdemand a higher proportion of professionally trained personnel in the labor force.

The increased enrolment is not con-l.

fined to the universities alone. High school attendance has also increased 150 per cent. in the 32-year period. Meanwhile the age. group 13 to 17 which supplies most highi school students has increased by only 29' per cent.

The marked transformation in the oc- cupational character of Canada's labor force was brought out in the survey. The labor force has tripled in the past 50 years. And now the manufacturing industries em- ploy more workers than all the primaryi ones like lumbering and mining. This is a complete reversal of the pattern of relative-; ly few years ago. The change has an im-' portant influence on the utilization of uni- versity trained workers, particularly those in engineering and natural science.

The trend of the past half century can- not be considered to have run its course. On the contrary, as scientific and techno- logical processes become more complicated and their use more widespread, an increas- ed percentage of the labor force will be re- quired to have university training. The survey showed that a major concern of in- dustrial leaders now is to keep the flow of properly trained young people level with advances in production methods.

EDITORIAL NOTES

The landing of a Russian Mig 15 jet fighter in Denmark will enable British tech- nicians to discover what the Soviet ex- perts have been able to develop from the jet fighter models the British sold to Rus- sia a few years ago.

A curiosity of the new Soviet central committee is that L. P. Beria, head of the political police, is new Minister of the In- terior and of State Security, authorities to whom he was formerly responsible. In other words he is now his own boss.

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Two Islanders will be in the third trans- Atlantic flight of Sabre jet fighters which will bring Canadian strength in Europe to nine squadrons. It will not be long before jet-engined flights across the ocean will be as commonplace as a visit to town on Sat- urday night.

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Lloyd's of London, the insurance mar- ket place for all the world, is ready to cover all the triumphs" and disasters of Coronation year. The 3.000 underwriters of Lloyd's are prepared to cover postpone- ment of the Coronation itself. They quote a flatpseven pounds 10 shillings per 100 pounds against "it not taking place in June.

Thel:American B-29, the Super-fortress

of World War II fame, is going out of pro-

duction. As the B-29 it would never have captured popular imagination as it did. It was one of the early American aircraft to receive a distinctive name such as R. A. F. Hurricanes and Spitfires had long enjoyed.

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The Agricultural Council was success- ful in having the use of only new bags adopt- ed for the shipment of potatoes. They adopted a resolution, however, at their re- cent meeting which might rob present reg- ulations of much of their value. Deplor- ing the dirtying of new bags by use in the field they at least imply that the farmer should use old bags at that stage of oper- ations. ' .

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John Benbow, English vice-admiral, was born this date 1653. He spent his whole life in active service at sea. Near Jamaica he attacked a French squadron far superior in numbers to his own; his leg was broken by a shot, but he sat on deck to take charge of the attack; he was defeated owing to the want of support from other officers; he returned to Jamaica, the of- ficers were punished and" Benbow died of his wounds.

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Allowing oil companies to deduct the cost of drilling and exploration from their taxable income is a very special privilege extended to encourage the rapid expansion of oil production in this country. The ques- tion of what is capital investment and what is an expense, however, is extermely diffi- cult to answer. The Agricultural Council's proposal that the cost of clearing land for agricultural use be allowed as a. deduction could be adopted on similar grounds of pol- icy or on ordinary principles of accounting it could very often be considered an ex- pense 9; operating at farm or producing the income. In such circumstances it would be deductible under present law.

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For him, time

Is not. the ticking of R clock,

But. the silent moving of the sun Across the sundlal of his mind; The blowing garden

is a pantomime.

Air moves with him

As water parted by a swminicrz The fountain at his touch Mutely blooms and dies."

Birds are as voiceless

As butterflies.

Sound does not. devour Either his touch or sight. He hears what blind men see at night: The Word made flesh And flower. --Jean Burden. in the '.'irgini:t Quarterly Review.

Old Charlottetown "tad r. I. Li

ANNEXATION RUMOR

"A rumour has been in circula- lion here for some days past, that His Majesty's Government had in contemplation to annex this is- land to the Government of Nova Scotia, and we have seen a private letter received by the last packet. which puts it beyond doubt that there was some intriguing going forward in certain quarters, for the accomplishment of some such object. What the views of Gov- ernmcnt may 9, we have no 09' portunily of nowing; hilt the warmest admirers of Ministers must acknowledge. that their favours and chasiiscnirnts were dispcnsrd somewhat capriciously. were they. at the very moment. when with one hand they were conferring a Constitution on New- foundland, with the other, to de- prive us of that Constitution whirh we had enjoyed for up- wards of half a century. mid ””' der which the country had pros- pered. fo .1 degree nlmost beyond belief, considering the disadvant- ages it has laboured under from the present tenure of landed pro-

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L -"N JGHTKI. once helvywalght .champion of the world, is dead in 0911103113. Bled '77. He had been little in the news since 1910, when Jack Johnson defeated him in his last fight, but always he will have an honorable place in the books of the Pllslllstic records. - Ottawg Journal.

In All the voluminous literature "f U995 Perhaps the most. direct; and practical sentence was penned W0 Centuries ago by the Swedish b0?-8-n1-St. Carolus Linnaeus. "If A tree dies." he admonished. "plant ”"0ihe1' in its place.” - Winnipeg Free Press.

A railroad man in Kansas de. manded additional personal in- come tax exemption on the ground mi” he WM 3 bizamist maintain- ing two establishments and two WW8-9. one at each end of the line. The Internal Revenue Bureau de- creed that the possesgiun of mm-e than one wife is not at necessity, huts. luxury, and therefore tax- able.-Ncw York Times.

A Newfoundland sawmill open- tor needed eight. men to complete a. logging team and offered an as- sured minimum return of so a day with the prospect for experienced men of earning much more. He Quid let no applicants for the j0b5 although there were several men available in the community. This was an experience which. to. put. it mildly. he found most. dis- cours.iz1l1E- - St. Johns (Nfld.) News.

I-Evidence comes that the new armored apparel worn by UN troops in Korea, is saving lives. Two U. S. soldiers wearing the a.nmy's armored shorts were hit last Friday night by shell frag- ments that would have caused ser- ious wounds if the armored sllOi'i6 had not stopped them. It was the first reported combat test of the: armored shorts. They were dew

Signed to give the same protection as alrealy provided by armored vests.-Sydney Post-Record.

Prof. G. P. Murdoch, an anthro- pologist of Yale University, has lately pronounced the witch doc- tor's art to be in fact "the oldest profession in the world." The pro- fessor has studied the cultural his- tory of more than 250 tribes all over the world, and has found, that

perty." -The Royal Gazette, Scpl.18, 1832.

Land Sighted Diie-North

' (Financial Postl

Considering that Canada has been 3. next-door neighbor of the United states ever since there was A United States, and that during almost all of that time we have been a. very large purchaser of A- merican products, the suddenness and impassioned character of the present American interest in this country is 3. little overwhelming.

Its latest manifestation is ll. New York Town Hall scrim of six weekly lecture sessions. These have been in response to a suggestion from the Chancellor of New York University, and will be participa- ted in by 3 highly reprcseritktive list of Cmadian experts and ex- eoutivu.

This follows it long series of special issues and special in-ttcles in innumerable United State: periodicals. all devoted to explain- ing Canada to their readers. one would slmoet. suppose that the border had been crossed by an adventurous exploring party from Buffalo for the first time a few week: ago, and that Lester Pear- son, Leonard Brockington. John Diefenboker and a few other no- tlvu had been gelled and carried on! to New York as examples of the indigenous population.

We no not complaining about

have very good 1-quite - even, perhaps, the good result. of con- vincing Americans that there in no longer much to be gained by con- tinuing to insist that import: into

all primitive tribes have their witch doctors, or medicine-meny These individuals do not. confine themselves to the practlceof phys-

must be form. This country now lies to a large extent right between the United States and its one serious potential enemy. The stronger it. Lg, the larger and more defense-capable its population, the safer will the United States he. and at consider-

in the rawest. possible

ioai cured. They usually left bone setting and hubnlism to old men and women of the tribe and spec- ialized more in the ills of the mind. Professor Murdoch considers them the direct lineal ancestors of the modern psychiatrist. The sophis- ticated New York matron who jok- ingly refem to her psycho-analyst as "my witch doctor" may be nearer the truth than she imag- ines. -Manchester Guardian.

There in much been for criti- cism of hockey - but that it. must not be assumed that every hockey game that is played is nothing but. a brawl. Here in North Bay this season we have seen some of the most. skilful hockey that. has ever been displayed before a local nu- dience. The skill and speed have outweighed the brutality. However. we subscribe to the opinion that as long as the National Hockey League - which all other leagues look up to for 8. pattern - con- done: the transgression of certain rules covering interference. boarding, hooking. and holding, it will set the style for hockey throughout the land. The NHL should take steps to see that there is a stricter enforcement of cer- tbin rules. That will put the skill back in hockey and end the trend towards ibrutality. - North Bay Nugget.

It is reported to us that I local dog committed something of an outrage shortly before Christmas. This dog, while the family was out. managed to find three christ- mas presents. yet. to be delivered. in the back of the house. The ani- mal tore open and investigated All three packages and found himself confronted with a. choice of nuts. candy and cheese. To the eternal glory of the cheesemakers of Leeds. it may be reported that this dog passed up the nuts and candy. hut consumed half of the top of the locally made cheese. obvious- ly in dog of taste. and discrimina- tion. A Brockville Recorder and Times.

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ing Scene

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In my own experience I have come across 9. lot. of people whole formal schooling stopped very enr- ly in life but who, nevertheless seemed to have a great love for reading and used good taste in their selection of reading material.

on the other hand I have known many graduates of second- my school: and college: who ep- psrently had no interest what- ever in serious reading. One won- tiers what other advantage could possibly make up for this look. No doubt. A man could make I. living without having much to do with books, but it is difficult to see how he could live ii full life without what. Andrew Lang. in referring to love of reading, called "the golden key that. opens the enchanted door".

And it to an enchanted door that this key opens. The door to I new world which anyone may ex- plore for himself with a. little of- fort. that is part. work and part play. This is recreation in the finest. and moat meaningful sense of the word.

Moreover, it is one sphere of life where familiarity does not breed contempt. The more one reads, the more one enjoys reading. The farther one goes in this new world of thought. and light. the greater urge one has to travel still further on.

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One evidence of this ever in- creuing interest. is found in the testimonial: of those whose lives were centered in literary pursuit: and who never tired of passing through one enchanted door After another. The foot. that they them- selves were distinguished llteru-y artiste did not keep them from making acquaintance with the works of other: who had received "the stamp and esteem of the ages". Wormworth wrote:

"Books are yours,

Within whose silent treasure liel

Preserved from on to Ago; more precious for

Than lghat aocumulated'atoro of

chambers

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And orient. gems which. for it day of need,

The Sultan hides deep in ances-

tral tombs,

These hoards of truth you can unlook at will".

And long before his time, the Roman philosopher Cicero put an equally zealous testimony .ln equally fascinating words: "Books are the food of youth. the delight of old age; the ornament of pros- perity, the refuge end comfort of adversity a. delight at home, no hindrance abroad; companions by night, in travelling, in the coun- try...

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Henry Ward Beeche . one of the foremost religious thinkers of the last century, put books very high in his calendar of good things "A book", he said. wk a. garden. on orchard, II. storehouse. a party. a company by the way. it counsellor. a. multitude of counsellors." one of his contemporaries, James Free- man Clarke, went even further in his philosophic treatment of the same subject.

"When I consider What. book: have done for the world. and what they on doing. how they

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courage and futh, meme give an ideal life to those hours are cold and hard. bl tether distances and for greate donew worlds H18 Wn truth from . I give eternal blessings fldiavzeim gift, and thank God for book,-. AWWHY Trollope. who w...' Dubed to be the mm ,,m,,',” novelist of the 19th century lc whose works have enjoyed ;,""l vival of interest in recent yea?" thought that love for good .,.,0,,”' was an asset that would 1.. a fall to pay Rood dividends. At 1.” one may gather as much 'm' what he said about it. "Book to my friends. is your p355 to as- greatest, the purest. and the m 9 perfect pleasure that God hi” prepared for His creatures, 1. M: support you when all other niea ' are gone." This may be 3 5,, 2' exaggeration but, if so, 1. Wm 35, i ly be overlooked. "lei . . . lL'merson was so tug,- l-mbort-a.noe of reading 31: advised: "when you eneoume man of rare intellect, do notr I what schools he attended Ask ink what. books he reads." E.'C!'S-0lla!lI1".l gefenui little mmmmms I has; ' ” W5 0M by Goldsmith '5 Well In my: "The first .1... read an excellent book, 1; 1,”; me Just ” ” I had fzalned new friend. when I read over : gefemtilleshmthe perused berm," 1" old one". mcmng Mm ” Bu! mun for boo confined to the xiii...-iI.",,,,'f;f . e have been joined by 501. glare. politicians, and statesmen. eoige Washington. who excelled in all three profeasiona, om... um. "I conceive that knowledge boon in the begin on which .11 om" kn”wIed39 "W6". Fmderick the Great. was brief but posmt-3 it what he had to say in nu matter: "Books make up no small part. of human happiness." . . .