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THE GUARDIAN

Morning Dally (Founded in 1887i, Authorized ae Second Clare Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa.

Preeldent, lan A. Burnett; Vice-President. Wm. R. Burnett: Seep-Trees, G. M. Burnett; Editor and

Managing Director, J. B. Burnett; Associate Editor,’

Frank Walker.

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- ’ A civic Problem

While controversial issues have not arisen in connection with the forthcoming civic elec- lion, there is one ma-tter with which our citizens are vitally concerned, and whic-h they will ex- pect to hear discussed at Friday night's annual meeting of the City Council. This is with re- gard to the progress, if any, made in inducing our fast-growing suburban population to assume the responsibilities and privileges of citizenship.

The rapid expansion in building activities in areas contiguous to Charlottetown has caus- ed a very serious health problem. A special committee appointed at the last session of thc Legislature took note of this fact, expressing concern at the conditions, particularly in respect to wa-ter supply, sanitary facilities and housing accommodations. The committee made the fol- lowing recommendations:

(I) That provision be made for the im- mediate employment of a qualified engineer.

(Z) That the compilation of _o building code be proceeded with immediately. i

(3) That a Well Diggers’ Act and regula- tions in respect to the operation of the some be immediately prepared.

(4) That barn and sanitation standards be immediately prepared with a view to improving the mil-k supply.

The proposed Well Diggers‘ Act was intra- duced and passed, forbidding, in certain pre- scribed areas, the digging of wells without a license from the Minister of Health, a-uthorizing the Minister to make regulations prescribing thc location of wells in relation to buildings or sani- tary facilities on the same or adjoining prem- ises, etc.

Primarily, of course, the enforcement of these and other regulations is a matter for thc Provincial Government, but it is also a prob- lem of very serious import ta our City Council. The logical solution would be the installation of the City's serwerage and water facilities in the areas affected. lf the present expansion

g continues it is difficult to see how this can be avoided. Every expdnding municipality has the some problem to meet, and our Charlottetown Council cannot go on shelving it year after year. It involves w,orking out proposal; that will be mutually acceptable, or at least mutually fair and equitable. An excellent civic election platform cou-ld be drafted on this issue alone, which in the long-range view is perhaps. the most important with whic-h we are concerned.

Hint To Housewives

Mr. H. G. James, Sherbrookc, writes as follows on how to improve the quantity of but- ter in o household: "lf a few more house- wives played tricks with their butter instead of placing it in the refrigerator until they need- ed it on the table, the butter situation ‘in'many households would be considerably eased. For instance, take one pound of butter, soften it, put a cup and a half of milk on the stove until it simmers, add the contents of one envelope of a packet of gelatine mixed in a little warm milk or water, stir and let cool; place your pound cl butter in a bowl, add half teaspoon salt and a dash of dandelion butter coloring (35 cents o

_ bottle which will last four to six months, making aver two pounds of butter per week); pour over the butter the milk and gelatine mixture and beat with ordinary egg beater to a consistency ol heavy whipped cream; place in container, and refrigerator or cold pantry. The result—twice the volume of your original pound, weight i 3-4 lbs. of something that looks like butter, tastes like butter and as a matter of fact is butter but more of it. During the rationing period our household treated butter this way because we had not enough to go round otherwise. And since rationing has been discontinued we haven't CIIOIIQlII money to go round."

Prices Inquiry

Prime Minis-ter King's promise of a parlia- men-tary inquiry into the rise in the cost of liv- ing, will, it ic hoped, be conducted in a fa-ir and non-partisan manner. The public has been prone to lay the blame for higher prices at the door of particular groups in the community, and without any reliable evidence some industries and enterprises Ihave been accused of profiteering. In some quarters there is a naive belief that the reimposition of the excess profits tax would somehow bring prices down. There are many popular illusions on the subject but usually the underlying causes of inflation and high prices have been overlooked or misunderstood.

_ The committee, suggests an exchange, can render a real service in the education of pub- lic opinion by calling as witnesses qualified, trained economists to relate the maladjustment caused by the war to present economic condi- ‘tiona and particularly the price level. What is not sufficiently understood by the public is that today's high prices aie attributable to the scar- cities due to war’: destructiveness. Coupled "with the scarcity of many of the material things which mankind has come to regard as necessary lta existence there has been an excess of money lgupply and purchasing power, likewise attribut- able to the war. With scarcity of goods on the fone hand and excessive money supply on the ,atlrer, price levels have been forced up. Last- ‘ing benefit: will be achieved if the committee “fin ille course of its hearings, educates the coun- -,lry to enundentanding that greater production

If there have been occasional instances of profiteering they should be brought to light and the resulting publicity will probably be suffici- ent to end them. gA fairly-conducted inquiry will probably reveal that no group or class in the community have been profiting excessively. lt is likely to disclose that in a period of infla- tion everyone is caught in its grip and that high- er wages and higher prices are merely attempts to keep a foothold in the whirl of economic forces.

IIDIIURIAI. NOTES Devaluati-oni of the franc, whatever it may eventually mean to the stability of other cur- rzncrcs, should ensure greatly increased French exports of wines, laces and china.

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A bad third to a private individual in Que- bcc and thc government of Ontario, the Domin- ion government is at last preparing to bring in immigrants by modern means, via air.

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At the consecration of Very Rev. R. H Waterman to the office of Coadjutor Bishop o: Nova Scotia in Halifax, Tuesday, the Presbyter- ian Clrurch in Canad-a was represented by the llcv. T. H. Bussell Somers, M.A., $.T.M., Mod- erator of the Synod of the Maritime Provinces.

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Mr. J. F. Arnctt is to be congratulated on being rc-elected by a-cclamation Mayor of that progressing and "coming city" of Summerside. He has a magnificent record of public service to his credit, and Summerside may well feel proud of its first and representative citizen in the maintenance of the progress and dignity of the community.

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interest in the civic election is livening up. What has tended in recent years to create lack of interest is failure on the part of success- ive Mayors and Councils to conve-ne a meeting of electors fa give an account of their steward- ship. Public spirited citizens continue to throw their hat in the ring for civic elections. Public service is arduous and without significant re- muneration and we should show our apprecia- tion of the efforts of those who would serve us.

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Premier Jones in the nature of things is a politician, but he is a farmer first and all the time. In Ottawa this week interviewing the powers-that-be there he devoted most of his talk to fertilizer, milk. butter, margarine—"if mar- garine was permitted to flood the market, it would destroy the dairy industry." That is talk- ing horse-—or rather cow-sense.

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We are not nearly so mature a generation as we fondly think. W_e look with con- descensiamon our ancestors who, being loath to change the law when it obviously needed chang- ing, fell back on fictions. The arbitrary‘sel- action of standard periods for such things as the dollar saving program enables us to discrimin- ate against certain countries, while holding high the banner of non-discrimination.

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Official estimates of the Australian wheat yield for 1947-48 have been reduced by 36,000,- 000 bushels by summer rains-the heaviest mon- soonal rains in the wheat belt for 30 years. The Australian harvest time is normally settled and dry. This year it has been almost incessantly ive-t in New South Wales, and wet also in Vic- toria and Queensland. The effect has been twofold. Wheat has been damaged by excess mdlsturc and the harvest has been delayed for weeks because the machines and men have been unable to operate. According to the Saskatchewan News the market this year for pelts shows signs of strength, and better prices are expected, es- pecially among short haired furs. At a special ranch and wild mink sale held by the Fur Mar- keting Service in December, i947, approximate- ly $100,000 worth of pelts were sold. A strong demand was ‘evident, with on increase over the PIGVIOUS YEGF S PYICES. I i I I Vocational and academic training will soon be‘ provid-ed inmates of Saskatchewan provincial jails under a new government plan administer- ed by the corrections branch of the Department of Social Welfare. The program, a resulvt of recommendations contained in the Saskatche- wan penal report of i946, calls for vocational training such as farm and motor mechanics, woodworking and carpentry to be taught in the jails. Academic teachers will also be posted in jails to assist inmates with ordinary school and correspondence courses. i i i I

The Charlottetown "Y", which i; the oldest organization of its kind on this continent, has held its 92nd annual meeting, and reported pro- gress all along the line, notwithstanding that it has been handicapped recently Ivy-lack of a central meeting place waiting the completion of the magnificent new building, corner of Prince and Euston. Under the Jnergetic and inspired guidance of Mr. James MacConnell, the mem-i bership, juvenile and adult, has been kept act- "ely together, the institution of regional "gangs" tending_to sustain and develop the interest of "the rising hopes" in the work and objectives of the "Y". -

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Earl Haig of Bemersyde, lst Earl, died this date i928; muc-h of the success of the Allies in Great War I was due to his friendly relations with the French, and to his ready acceptance of an Allied Command with Foch as generalissimo. Made Field Marshal on January l, l9i7, and Knight of- the Thistle in July the same year. After his brilliant advance of August I918 he was awarded the M-ilitary Medal~ from France. On his retirementhe received the Order of Merit in l9l9, an earldom and $400,000 together with the thanks of Parliament for the eminent

For the flret time In our hil- oory a ZOO-pound women can carry $1.0. worth. of groceries through n revolving door. — Brendon Sun.

Under present oireumltanael. the business of renting houses ie what the English call e mug’: game: no- body will go lnto it. And because nobody will go info it, there is e severe shortage of rental housing in Canada a shortage w-hlch will not. be appreclably'relleved till the Government comes to its senses and throws rent. controls into the discard wher'e they properly be- long. - Calgary Herald.

That en aeoueed husband had sufficient provocation to Justify tire spanking of his wife was the can cluslan reached in c. Windsor wart. It's nice to know husbands still have some rights. But, remember men, there must. be ample provo- catlon- sufficient to convince a court. -before you take the little wonran over your knee. It. would also be a good idea to ensure that. the wife hasn't. e rolling pin handy. -Windsor Star.

Motorists should take time to clear their rear windows of ice und frost these wintry days. Marry cars are seen on the roads with the driver's rear vision almost ivholly blocked by an accumula- tion of frozen snow or a mall): of frost on the back windows. i: Lakes only e. fe-w minutes to remedy such a condition and to allow if. to exist invites the danger of ac- cidents. - Brandon Sun.

The red planet Mare — named after the Roman deity who stands as the symbol of war —ls now ris- ing to ascendancy in our January slay. Astronomers gazing into the interminable‘ neutrality of the heavens tell us this mysterious planet. about which so much has been thought and written, wul grow brighter until at last. he out- shines his two rivals in the nightly show —Saturn and Regulus. With three such performers in the sky, star guzers who breve the zero air will be rewarded with a brilliant picture. saturn glows with a gold- en radiance; Regulus gleams Like a diamond. But. ll; is ruddy-faced Mars which holds place of hono‘ in this slderlel theatre. And Mars ls the mythical god of war, and this is a. year pregnant. with huge uncertainties and unknown events. -Iiondon Free Prms.

The Ottawa Journal repeate ite opinion that "the primary func- tion of a school should be to turn out. young people with a love ana reverence for education, and above all with understanding that. edu- cation ls a continuing process." To that, “Hear, hear!" Especially the port. about it. being a. continuing process. Some graduates we have known, however, disdain even the comlnulng use of n dictionary, and apparently, despite all their school- ing. never learned how to look up anything in an encyolopaedia, Branlford illxposltor.

The story of the pampered Flint. youth who has finally gone to jail for stealing his stepfather‘: car al- most. provides lire own editorial comment. Hen le e boy, if, who. a year ego, stole his mother’: rife savings of $15,000 and was found by police only after a four-month spree. Ills mother refused to pro-

‘secute, so he went. soot. free. Now

he's been apprehended for ca! stealing and has begun a one w five-year term in jail ~and his mother has left his stepfather bo- causc the later insisted on prosecu- ting. Mother love is one of the finest things the world he: to offer, but. like all fine things, we much is too much. Here's a mother

so foolishly doting that, in her eyes

her son literally can do no wrong. and when he does lt.. she doesnt. want. hlm punished. She must. re- ulize that. there comes a time when neither she nor anybody else in the world exrcept. the boy himself“ can save him from the results of his folly. He's a grown man, even though she'd try to keep him mam- mafs boy. I-fe must. pay the permit,‘ for her faollsh overfondnes-s, which never reckoned the cost. of her ‘n- dulgence. She thought to give him everything, t.o make life easy for him. S-o he's in Jail. It's food for though/c. - From Windsor Star.‘

One oi the reaeane why ea many people in the world are suffering from one kind of neurosis or an- other, doctors claim, la that. they live too close ID their nelgbbare and too close to each other. Coupl- ed with living boo close to tho nex-t. door neighbor la the ineacap able fact. that. as the coat of home construction hee gone up the aloe of the dwelling has gone down so that. it. la now quite comm n to find femlllee living in q re where they are literally falling ell over one another and where per- enu can find no piece of quiet a- way from noley children —or vice verso. In this connection some ln- teresting information contained ill an old builder's book ehowe how much the modem, moderately prie- ecl home hes shrunk in size as compared wit-h ITIJnOGHlOGBOI of the 1890's. For example, in lfll, for t7300, a brick house could be built that. contained twelve roome. had three floors end approximately 3,500 square feet. of floor epeoe. For the same price today a new home would contain a ernelllah living morn. a kitchen. a email hall and perhaps a dining alcove, two or three email bedroome end e bathroom. The building would be at the moat. a etorey and e half ln height and contain about 1,000 square feet. of floor epece. if the people ol Canada "are to have larger living quarters it. would seem that present cobra of construction must be dreetleelb out. probably through new methods of building with new end rmréh cheaper mem-

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‘By Robert. s. Bergboff. I. D. ln "The Canadian Doctor)

"Whittier are vou going" coping, prattling little chap? Gleefully you clap your baby hands es you push your home-made one meet sailboat. ecroee the tub of water-your own private ocean. Out it goes, back it camel at the pull of your string. Master of your; own destiny, Llfe ia/almple, ir it not?

“Wh-ther are you going" my little man, with your school books dang- ling from a strep. and your top swinging In the palm o1 your free hand? Still cure-free, are, you not, a creuliwe of instinct. unconsciously following g plan, apart from the world and yet a part of lt.. Still selling your toy ship, but. already others are pulling and guiding its Course.

"Whither are you going" you stalwart youth in full p- ssesslo of LII your physical and mental facul- ties? Does that tilt. of your chin and your furrowed brow bespeak minor bettles—some lost, some won? ‘There is confusion in your face. vexation too, but purpose and dc- termlnaflon in your eye! March on. my man, you are in the army now, the army of life. May God speed you and guide you, and guidance you need like never before. Fnd your path Leotards happiness!

Be tolerant and patient for a moment, ah youth,- and harlsen lo this homely message. Man ls horn with an insatiable desire la avoid pain, misery. suffering and wsnt, and t.o rchieve perfect happiness. , Even though through lhe years he senses that. this is impossible, on and on he goes ‘n his mad futile search for this Will o‘ the Wisp. The paths toward Peace and diver- gent. g . Some follow the hlzhwevs that lead to gold. to glory, to con- quest, and some few tread the narrow trail of service, service to their God. service to their fellow man.

All roads if travelled doggedly tenaciously and with farthrightness converge to u ocrrrnon objective. ultimate peace and contentment. Which will you choose? Now, ch youth‘; is the appointed time for your decision!

"Whither are you going” man of maturity? Your jaw has lost. its egg- gresslve contour, your brow is wrinkled with care. the- natural re- suits of your battle with life. You sail your ship with difficulty HUW. far the ocean is no longer your ocean, but teams with craft—some friendly-mthers contlnously cross- ing and recrosslng your bow, har- assing and endangering you at every turn. Possibly you should have taken a different. a Wide!‘ tack, bypassing thie seething meelstorm, and selling your ship on some smooth distant water in peace, end solitude? Does that look in your eye bespeak despair? Have you selected the wrong path towards happiness? , Ah. men of maturity, Again give heed to the voice of experience. Sail an, sail on your ship of life, with grim determination! Un- furi your canvas. sweat you and lqgbgfl surge for-ward r_nd drive your ship into that vast armandu. They will reach the shore and so must. you. Let one import-enl- 9""- clple guide you.—~Sall by compass. but let. your guiding beacons be Friendship, Fair Play, Justice and a figlplng Hand to your neighbor in dlllxoel.

"Whither are you evlnl" I n"! toothless, decrepit old mun? Too lute. too late to ask that question now! Your ship has reached it! harbor—Your life's work is done- Your face l: lined with "T9. YOU!‘ eye; m-mdimmed, but rah-Ahoy re- tain the faded smile that beamed. from them as yOu pulled 3'0"!‘ hcmemade one master on a atria:- Sq your life we: worthwhile? And the light, in your eyes le the PTO- jeetlon of the memories of acts of kindneee, of helpfullness to Y0K" neighbor? Well done, old Skipper! Rpusg yourself ta n, final effort: Back on your ship. twine those gnarled old hands once more around your rudder and ‘with tilted chin and n steadfast eye sail your ship courageously into the Calm If"! peaceful harbor a_f eternity.