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THE "LIA .”.'?';””.

THE GUARDIAN

Pout Offlco

Authorlud as Second Clan Moll Department. Ottawa.

The Island Gun-dim Publishing ()0.

President and Auoclna Editor. In A. Burnett. Auoclntc Editor, Fnnk Walker.

CIRCULATION "Coven Prince Edward island like the dew"

"The strongest memory in weaker than the weakest Ink".

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There are about three million register- ed passenger automobiles in use in Can- ada, notes the monthly letter of the Royal Bank of Canada, and they are trying to find travelling room on quaint, winding roads that were built to carry the vehicles of a more leisurely age, and to find park- ing space on streets designed for buggies and bicycles.

It was as recently as 1946 that the first all Canadian road crossing of this country was made by car. The United States has a network of highways every part of its domain, mostly built during the past thirty-five years. South of the Panama Canal the great Pan American Highway continues.l2,500 miles into most of the countries of South America.

Before the Christian era the Inca Road of Peru, four thousand miles long, and 25 feet wide was built over the roughest, most mountainous country in the world. Tun- nels through mountain peaks and smooth pavements of stone through burning desert, dykes across swamps and lakes and the whole surfaced with asphalt madt a high- way unequalled in modern times.

The coming of the railway set back liigliway dcvclopnicnt many years. Roads deteriorated until the turn of the century vhcn the development of the motor vehicle ".?L'.::(l an Ltplic val. Today we are strug- gliiig to build (.. scvcral means of trans- :.-:':siiv'2i;'s. watcrivays, airways, rrvl pipc lincs-into a related rm iii-:i'. vxlll scrvc. cach in its own way, the criunti',v7s IlCCdS.'

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Life liisiirance,

in the annual report of the Canadian Life Insurance Officers Association which has just been made public, it was proudly announced that Canadian families receiv- ed approximately one million dollars on "every working day” during the past year from their life insurance companies. The report pointed out that death benefits alonc averaged more than 339.1000 daily whilc aggregate payments for all classes of benefits exceeded 5?-252,775,00tl.

The increase in life insurance business

has increased a great. deal during the pastl

few years, and so have the benefits paid out to policy holders by the companies. Benefit payments are up 72 per cent in ten years but ownership of policies is up 140 per cent.

Payments to living policy holders amounted to more than 3li152,000,000 in the form of matured endowments, disability payments, annuity instalments, render values and dividends to policy hold- ers. Death benefits amounted to almost

5100.000.ii00. ' The rise in the insurance business is noted as indicating that Canadians are

a thrifty people. While they are meeting present obligations they are providing for their own security for the future. A great many are not depending on the govern- ment to look after them, which is an ex- cellent. indication of the character of the

people.

Air Streams

Record-breaking speed flights of today may be the scheduled airline runs of to- morrow when sciencc announces it has time tables for the jet air streams. More- over, when these schedules are compiled, accurate weather foi'ecasts months in ad- vance could be a commonplace. The jet streams, meteorologists are fast coming to believe, are responsible for major weather patterns.

Old as the earth itself, jet streams are not the fierce ghost winds of the iono- sphere, nor the thermals used by glider pilots. They were unsuspected until World Wu 11, says the National Geographic So- ciety. Then Japan-bound bombers, flying above 10,000 feet, incredibly reported that west-east winds of 250 miles an hour, more than three times hurricane velocity, were gtopping them dead in air. Since those days, science has learned that the north-

cm and southern hemispheres each have it

get; an-cam, almost invariably blowing from want to" eut.. Neither is found below 10,000

- 40,000. Speeds of the 300 miles an hour.-

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hundred miles usually will take them en- tirely ncross a speeding jet. Nobody knows for sure what forms them, but some be- lieve it is confluence, meaning the coming together of masses of cold and warm air. In the winter, the northern hemisphere stream speeds generally above the Gulf of Mexico, while in the summer it moves north, to the latitude of Oregon. Unfortunately from the point of view of those who would learn their secrets, jet streams curve, meander, zigzag, speed up

gether. hind all these gyrations is found, moderi: aircraft, particularly jets which perform best at high altitudes, will always be able to find a roaring tailwind or avoid a head- wind. Just as obviously, the nation which first knows about jet stream schedules is going to have a big military advantage.

jets can move faster and farther. Becausc

jet streams has been cloaked in secrecy.

Meteorologists, however, have disclosed some of their weather findings. When a jet stream curves southward, for example, it may suck in cold polar air, bringing cool weather in its wake. Conversely, a turn toward the north can create a void into which hot air from the tropics immediate ly rushes. Some say last summer's heat wave was caused by it particularly erratic jet stream.

EDITORIAL NOTES Tomorrow, 6th Sunday in Lent. Sunday.

Palm

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weeks ago than it does right now.

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i Welcome to the specialist navigation

group from Mamby. England, now visit- ing their opposite numbers at the R.C.A.F, Specialist Navigation School at Summer- tsidc.

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1 av W S- : 'l'liosc seven new post office buildings built in the Maritimes since 1945 could well have included one at Charlottetown. it is very largely the fault of citizens that la single proposal was not adopted and act- ted upon. it Q C

I A notable feature of the Budget and one likely to become even more fixed, is the very slight control exercised by the Province over the amount of revenue to be obtained. Taxes remain unchanged. In- deed any reasonable tax change would have had little effect on total revenue.

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The big six-gun that opened up the West is no -longer used by Canadian forces or the R.C.M.P. Crown Assets Disposal Corporation has sold 2,634 revolvers of .455 and .45 calibre at about 258.53 each for ex- port to the United States. The R.C.M.PI use a .38 Special, and the Army nine-milli- I metre Brownings. V

There is a good case for making the Charlottetown School Board responsible to the City Council which is obliged to provide the funds for the Board's expendi- tures. Over. the past number of years, however, the Board has not been so lavish that the Legislature is justified in cutting down the amount which it is authorized to spend.

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The disadvantage of arming others to do one's fighting is the responsibility for con- duct over which one has little control. The United States is experiencing that difficulty at the moment with Chinese Nationalists in Burma. The even worse alternative, how- ever, for the United States would be to do all the fighting herself, or assisted only by those countries which have the necessary economic strength to arm themselves.

Sergei Rachmaninov, Russian composer and virtuoso pianist, died this date 1943. He came of old Russian landed gentry and had a brilliant musical career in pre-revolu- tionary Russia. llater he settled in the United States, working" as a pianist 5nd conductor. As a composer his more per- sonal works are saturated with beauty to an extent too obvious for some tastes. Yet, as in his Third Symplmny, there is a qual- ity of resignation and bitterness.

Those interested in keeping youngsters as participants in sports rather than mere spectators will be grateful to the Premier and the leader of the Opposition for stick- ing up for rugby as against the kind of football played ln.Ontarlo and other parts of Canada. Of course if our ambition were to build stadla rather than healthy bodies some such change might be in order. A special advantage of the Maritime game it

of mere numbers.

and slow down, sometimes even stop alto-f Obviously, when the pattern be-'

Bombers and guided missiles high in the:

of the military angle, much research onf

Lent, certainly seemed much longer six"

that it cuts to a minimum the advantage but

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PUBLIC FORUM

Thin column in open to tho dlocunlon by correlpondentl of questions of interest. The Guardian does not necessar- lly endorilo the opinion of correspondents.

ROCKY ITHNT FERRY

Sir,-The Fairview has made a trip at last. she is so much more convenient. than a motor boat.

We heard by the grapevine IIl.'lI. our worthy representative from Kingston was going to send E motor boat. over this week. I sup- pose he did not. realize there arenit. too many motor boats sail- ing around at this time of year.

We were all thankliil thcre was no serious illness in this vicinity, as there certainly WB.bIl'i. any way of getting to Chnrlot.iet.own unless we rowed across in a small punt

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Au Revoirz. OPPORTUN aw!

Game SOMEWHERE?

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A Nothing So.New-Fangled For Us!

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, lhe Age-Old Story

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one of his disciples, Andnw Simon Peter: brother, saith unto him, There In 3 lad here. which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but. what. are they among so many? And Jesus said, Make the men sit down . . . so the men sat. down, in number about five thousand. And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, be distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes so much on they would. When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. Therefore they gathered them together. and filled twelve basket: with the frag- ments of the five barley loans, which remained over and Above

as some of our rcsirlentsgwcre forced to do. That. wouldn't. be very suitable for the sick. We congratulate ”Residnnt. of Rocky Polnt' on his timely re- marks. We all realize at. this stage of the game that there is defin- itely something lacking with the crew of the Fairview but as the Departiment. of Public Works is re- sponsible for the efficient running of this ferry. we feel that sold Department should have the ferry ready for operation .at. a reason- able time. It is all of six weeks since this boat! was inspected, so we feel that the Dr'pal'I.mellt, like the crew, deserve some criticism. We All hope the ferry will coli- tlnue operations until she goes to Plctou for her annual overhaul, and no doubt the Department will make sure she is back on the route, in first class condition, for the tourist season. I I am, sir, etc. DISIAPVPOINTED LIBERAL.

ICE -BOUND STEAM El: 5

Sir,--The rccciit.-article by J. I”. Lafferty, "Forty Days Without Winter Communications" brings

back vivid memories to several residents of Murray Harbour for they were among those who con- tributed in no small way to the freeing of the "Stanley" from her long selge of lmprisontmcnt. Dur- ing the time that the steamers were in this area Mr. and Mrs. Reuben MacDonald and Mr. Mes- scrvey accompanied by a man re- mei-nroered here only as Dutcliy the "Dynamlter", left Charlottetown for Murray Harbour, going by train to Georgetown and then by team to the Harbour. It. appears that. Dutchy had ample supplies of dynamite with him. Arriving at. Murray Harbour they proceed- ed to Cape Bear and soon two doirlcc with six or eight men in each started, for the steamers which were then marooned some seven miles S. E. of Cape Bear.

They reached the stranded chips that evening and in the morning owing to some dispute over wages one crew returned to the Cape. Later that clay. however, the dif- ferences were ironed out. and the men returnecl to the aid of the stricken vessel that. same Saturday afternoon. Sunday the wind shift.- ed to the N.lE. with snow and the steamer: were driven I.o.t.he South side of Plctou Inland. Monday morning a. third group left to old the stricken ship. They followed along the shore to Little Sands and then struck south ncrosl the otnlto. Tuesdiiy the tide carried the huge lee pan which imprison- ed the tenmeu to the west. end of Plcwu Inland; at times there was lea than 9. foot of water un- der the Mintoh keel.

The next momlnx, March 17th. thanks to the feverish efforts of the men and the telling effect of the dynamite the Stanley in-oke clear and inking the Mlnto in tow proceeded to Pictou Harbour. The Stanley at once began load- ing freight and when loading op- erations were completed left. for Georgetown, landing the helper: It 0:90 Bar on route. s The following made up the nav- out 31'! dOWI thlt went to the old of the stranded, mamas: lil-

mama. Wallace White. Jams 1'. Herring, Colin White.-loo Mlcbeod. Simon White. Vera

unto them that had eaten.

White, Silas Sencabaugh, George Dunn. Reuben Penny, Edward Chaimmm. Joseph White, Edward GUIDE”. Hush Jackson, Horace Hyde. Thomas Gosbee, John N. MacKin.non, Hiram Hyde, Thomas Roberts, William F. Herring, Gab- riel Herring. As far as we are able to ascertain, only the 11mg your listed are still to the fore. I am, Sir, etc., J. A. B. MaoCOlN'fNELL.

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S1r.- Evidently there is quite n C0m'l'0V9myg over the increased taxes on City property, which )5 nothing more than could he expect. ed. We all realize that City pm- perty owners must. pay a. certain amount. of taxes because school- tcachera and certain employees must. be paid and the streets, et.c., ""19 be Kelli In flood condition: but for the City Council to think that the taxpayers can pay all the expenditures of the City is n ming- taken idea, the some as it would be to think that the tax payers of this Province can meet all the ex- nendltui-es from year to year. There are other sources of revenue. The City Council took good care not to hold their meeting and in- crease the tax percentage rate un- til after the Appeal Board coli- eluded, otherwise the Appeal Board might. not. be through yet,

A year or so ago the City proper- ties were all revaluated, which W35 3 good thing in some respects.

But the valuations were based more or less on the present Inna. tioiiary conditions when EVCI'y.

thing is co extremely high. which is not. very fair to the ordinary working man: and now they come along and increase the assess- ment. percentage rate mom 3235 to V2.75. This increase may not al- fect the better-off people, but what 350115 "10 Working man who could only makes ends meet. before, and the younger laboring clam who Ire trylmz to my for a home? Per- haps some of these built n home that may have cost. them 38,000 to 310.000, that will take them years with hard struggling to pay for; and then to be burdened with ex- tremely heavy taxes every year would almost. make-them quit and go to Central Canada, which 1 lot are doing where wages are much hlsher and it is easier to make a living. Even I number of immi- grants only stay here long enough to understand the situation and then no to centnl or wgcgm Canada.

There are practically no induc- trleo or manufacturing plants and the waves no small. I un not, blunlng the unployen. they are perhaps wring In their buolnnl will allow them to poy: but in view of this inflationary condition how cm emkmes my high tax- eu? Now the Council is t.ryl to 311330 Irhml DIV &no to drive it our over the city streets baldeo high registration fen, insurance and n.llothe-renpmocojuu for I 3.. cylncc to go to work every

y.

And look It the effect. tho in- creased tum will have on rent. Compote rant and win! have in Charlottetown-. with ” rent and ,1! any in Toronto. and cm wauldiue how long they would stay here:

If the city want; the working

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ADVERTIBEMENR

From the Royal Gcutzte of Aug. 27. 1833:

"For sale, a very neat. new Gig. painted green. plck'd out black, with drab llnin-; and ooarleii lace. The Body may be t.mnhferi'ed'tlo Carloile Runners in I. few minutes. To be sold at. a price to ensure ll purchaser. May be seen at Mr. scantlebury's, Charlotte-Town. In- quire for Samuel R. Salblne, Coach- maker, late Manager at. S. Grim- wood's, Wheetlwright. S. R. S. has practiced in some of the firm. Shops in the East of London for many years, and will be. glad to receive Orders of Gen-tilemen'who may wish to have Carriages of any description mode; previous to his leaving the Island, which other- wise he purposes doing in a short time."

John Jury, Clock and Watch Maker. begs leave to inform the inhabitants of Charlotte-Town and the Island in general. t.ha't he in- tends again carrying on business at his own house, adjoining Mr. Davis's, Baker, in all its various branches and respectfully solicits a. renewal of their favours.

Hugh Roohfort, mt 16, advertises that ”a hirlndlcd Cow. with white back and tall, giving milk, one yoke of oxen, one black Ox, wlvh white back, and a red Ox, with white face. came to Rcchfort.'c Comrniercial ship Yard some time since. The ownercr Owners may have IKIIHITI by inquiring at tihatt place or at Widow Rochvforrs Farm. Brown's Pond, Lot. 16, on paying expenses."

8, Desbrisny. auctioneer, adver- tises "to be sold. by public auction on ilhe 28th. at. 12 noon. on the Kings Wharf. the mmtlei-falls, etc, of the Brig iP'lanter'. lately wrecked near the East Point. of this Is- land.

Peter Curran announces that he has removed to the store in Queen Street.-lately occupied by Mr. Wil- liam Kougthan, and immediately below Mir. Dennis Reddiln's, and also that he has just returned from Haliifax with a new supply of goods. to be sold on the lowest possible Lei-ms for cash.

T. B. 'I'i-emain offers for sale "ii very aurpei-for copper still and pewter worm. with hon Boiler, etc., complete."

Editnxinlly the paper notes that "Friday, the ltltlh being 3. regular pout day. some dim intmcnt was expel-ienow at the Halifax Mall. arriving by the steamer; and it was not Lll'lI.IlI six days ilicreafter that any account of l: was received, when it arrived in safety, having, in the intemnedlatc time, taken an excursion as for as Aniiigonlch. from whence it was retumed to Plctou. on the mistake being dis--- covered. and forwarded here on the and...

class of employees they had better see that they have a chance to live without being overburdened with taxes. We are almost. at. the stage where an ordinary Juan is unfortunate to own property gn Charlottetown. I am air. etc,

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The Passing Scene

Isy Observer

BOOK! 303 A IIJIIBEIT ISLAND

If I were on I. desert island I suppose one of the thing: that would bother me, at least at the outset; would be the absence of the familiar. The truisplantlng process which I should be obliged to halo throiagh in textroordlnary as on iron presen many prob- lemllsf and elvieryaihlng, even survival iise , wou epend on the re-

, sul-ts. I should be on my own. Many in; the nggial gelverslxons which. .li e every y e , I ave relied iupon to alleviate life's sameness ; would not. be at my beck and call. I But. there are certain necessities 1 which cannot be dispensed with in lany situation. These, apart. from food, drink, and shelter, I take to be poetry, drama. and comedy in one form or uvother. The first. in to nourish the mind. the second to keep the emotions in good bal- igiice, thud 1;: thirst Ilil) keep alive in as owar goo umour. Hav- ing those, one could, I think, get by wilthoiag missing too severely the un eds of learner in which ordinarily seem so lmpomigg ant. Now, how could I make sure of having I goodly supply of the three necessities I have mention- ed? 11 I could take my entire libr- uy along with me there would, igfbooui-ae.hbe 2:0 ldifflculty st nil, u some ow live to et all three in one volume. And tghat, it seemsbto gne, rploln-ts tohone book and one 00 o y: "T e Com let.e Works of William shakcspearlz."

I Im glad tint the correspondent who asked me to write this series did not suggest that I should ex- clude Shokespeore. To be per- fectly honest about it I tried to leave him uni all his works out. of the picture on the grounds that he and them put at I disadvan- tage the thousands of other books from which one might choose. The fact. is that the more I tried to keep the treat. man out the more insistent he Wu on coming in. And if I or right in assum- inc t-hl-ii poetry, drama, and com- edy would be necessary ingredi- ents in a desert island culture. there is nothing for me to do but how to the inevitable and take all three in one parcel of gnndeux and munlflcence.

There will perhaps be come,

more competent than I in the subject. of world lit.cratui'e, who will dioagnc with my choice. That is something I cannot help. I mum use my own Judgment and not on- otherb in the assignment that has been given me. I am well aware that shake- speareh chief genius was as A writer and actor of plays. That. was where he made the name that is listed among the lmpe.rlsh- able thlngc of this world. His poe- try, uclng the word in the usual sense of metrical verse, is per- haps no better than, and in some cases inferior to that of many poets from I-lomer down to Robert. I-Illlyer. The poetry of his that I should want to take with me on my journey is that which runs in- vlslbly but unerrlngly through every passage of his plays. It. is that lndefimble something that one feels with one's spirit rather than the printed words that one reads with one's lips.

"If God made poets for any- thing," said Lowell, "it was to keep alive 9. sense of the beauti- ful ond lofty." And surely every reader of Shakespeare's plays is confronted by that sense in a thousand places. Even in the pets- sages that tell of evil things - and there are many such - one is conscious of beautiful and lofty aspirations striving to win su- premacy over crude and angry pas- clonc. Sometimes, indeed, they are for in the bwkgmund, but. the great master of human emotions never allows them to be quite ob- literated. They disappear at times but, before the reader is aware of

it, they are back again, stronger than ever.

The poetry and drama. and the comedy, too, are not things that can be catalogued and put in sop. u-ate compartments. It is not easv, and sometimes it. is not even mg. siblc, to tell where one ends and another begins. This is true, at oouis-e, of-many other great hi.-1-. ary works. But, while in most. cases it. is in the nature of a. pheno. menon, in Shakespeare one expects it. as a. perfectly normal aspect. of his art. The-t expectation would, I fancy, be a. special source of (is. light to a. desert Islander who would have to be on guard con- tinually against mental monotom and physical boredom. '

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Another thing that seems to me to Justify this choice is that.Shake- speareb works, more than any oili- er I know anything about tcxcbpl the Bible) are perennially new and fresh. You just cannot. read any one of the plays as you might if beat-selling novel, that. is to say

with intense niomenitary iniercsi which, after mic reading, sub. sides into passive indifference.

One reading of '1Hamlet.", 12: us say. is useless. It is not until it has been gone over many times that one begins to have some ink- ling of what. it is all about. From there on the road is H. bit more familiar but always there is &0l'llP visit. in the distaxice which one can see but cannot. quite reach. Somewhat. in the nature of I dream when one awakens.

This exercise of trying to catch up with the genius of the author and to see into the paittei-n of his thoughts would certainly be of some value to me on my desert island. However long I might. be obliged to remain there, whether one year or twenty, it would not be long enough to bring finished skill in this respect. So I should have at least one way to keep my faculties alert and ready for ad- venture.

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with Thoreau to give meaning and purpose to systematic coli- tude, and Shakespeare to keep alive the fires of "divine discon- tent, I should not be alone Ii. any time. Two steadfast friends and

guides would constantly be at my side to keep me from "losing my way in the universe."

MARCH

small birds twitter,

lake doth glitter.

green field sleep: in the sun; oldest. and youngest I

Ave at work with the strongest; The cattle are grazing.

Their heads never raising:

There are forty feeding like one! Like an army defeated

The snow hath retreated,

And now doth fare ill

On the top of the bare hill;

The ploughboy Ls whooping -

anon-nnon

Therein joy in the mountains; There's life in the fountains; Small clouds are calling,

Blue sky prevailing;

The rain is over and goncl

-William Wordsworth.

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