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(The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Irik".

CIIABLOTTETOWN, TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1951.

low Delivery Service

'As intimated in today's news columns, A further improvement in The Guardian de- livery service outside of Charlottetown was put into effect yesterday, with the result that most of our subscribers in Prince Ed- ward Island are now receiving their paper on the morning of publication.

In many parts of Eastern King's County. this means that the delivery has been ex- pedited by twenty-four hours. This morn- ing, for example, the couriers will be leav- ing today's Guardian in those sections along with yesterday's mail, just as they have been doing in West Prince County since The Guardian airlift service was es- tablished last April. In other sections the improvement, though less marked, will also be noticeable.

The people of West Prince have been very warm in their expressions of appre- ciation of the service now being received, and it is hoped that the further improve- ment by truck delivery for Queenie, King's and Eastern Prince Counties will prove equally satisfactory.

Rullller For Stalin's chariots?

The United Kingdom is still exporting vast quantities of raw rubber to the Soviet Union. Authority for this statement is none other than Sir Hartley Shawcross, President of the Board of Trade. Eight million dollars' worth of rubber has been shipped to Russia during the last fort- night alone.

Modern armies, as even a schoolgirl knows, roll their chariots of war on rub- ber tires. It seems a tragic error of judg- ment, surely, for the United Kingdom to be providing Russia with the rubber that makes it possible for Soviet armies to move swiftly across the face" of Europe and Asia, and for Moscow to provide rubber- tlred war equipment for use in Korea against the forces of freedom.

The explanation offered by the Pres- ident of the Board of Trade for the decis- ion to continue this dubious trafficin rub- ber with the Soviet Union is not convincing. The rubber that goes to Russia, says Sir Hartley Shawcross, is traded for coarse grains and lumber. both urgently needed in Britain.

In Canada, where grain is produced in almost limitless quantities, and where lum- ber is one of the'most important industries. and where both depend in large measure on the export market, it seems the height of folly for the British socialist government to persist in trading with the Soviet Union. This country needs rubber. Automobile tires, electrical equipment, medical equip- ment and a host of other essential commod- ities require rubber for their construction. Trading British rubber for Canadian grain and lumber surely makes more sense than for planners in Whitehall to persist in a traffic which can only result in making it easier for Stalin's war machine to roll against the western democracies.

Food Problem lilscussed

Little hope for lower food. prices in the immediate future is held out by Canadian farm economists, to judge from the reports of their recent gathering at the Ontario Agricultural College. Dr. W. M. Drummond, of Guelph, pointed out that between 1941 and 1946 alone there was a decrease of 27,000 in the number of Cana- dian farms, and a decrease of land under cultivation of more than two million acres.

"There is, fortunately, a brighter side

I to the picture," says the Ottawa Journal.

"There may be fewer farms and fewer farmers but the smaller number today can produce more. Canadian agriculture today, stated "Dr. Drummond, could face the pos-

' gibllity of war with much better equipped

arms and with better production methods, gm-laugh with a much mailer reserve of mm than was the case in 1939. He wu not too optimistic about expanding pro- duam-, by my worthwhile price-support I , oonddering it too costly for the rhfof the Ountry to accept. He did feel that Canadian farmers were the victims of ” I designed to protect secondary ' and there is little doubt but that had a good point there. "for; hm lllllnitiated who may think this Cline to buy that little piece of land the business of food pro-

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duction the word of warning. They pointed out that to become a farmer today required 150 per cent more capital than it did in 1940, 50

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EDITORIAL NOTES

The 13 prize Bingo for the Hockey Lea- gue was apparently unlucky. ! I I

The farmer who lives "off the pave- ment" wants no rain to mar haymaking operations but would certainly be glad to see a daily shower on the road to lay the dust. O" O 0

Welcome to the 85 members of La Survivance Francoise who arrive tonight, and also to the Hon. Hughes Lapointe, Min- ister of Veterans' Affairs whose brief hol- iday here happily coincides with that of the Quebec and Montreal group.

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A city schoolmaster holidaying on a farm turned to the farmer and said, "You are excavating a subterranean channel, it seems." ”No, sir," replied the farmer, "I am only digging 8. ditch.”

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Summerside's programme which aims at eliminating all overhead wiring on the main street will greatly improve the ap- pearance of the town, but even more im- portant, it will reduce the hazards of fire fighting in the area.

0 O 0 Britain's latest anti-inflationary step, re- striction of dividends, may well reduce the excess money in circulation but old fash- ioned economists would expect such a move to also have the effect of preventing in- creases in the amount of goods produced. 0 I O Sulphur is.one of the most critical raw materials today and no less than four ships carrying that product to Britain have caught fire in the last three months. The recent loss of such a cargo off the Cape Breton coast should certainly be invest- igated thoroughly. 0 O O Compulsory church rates, formerly lev- ied in each parish in England and Ireland for the support of the parish church, were abolished this date 1868. They were levied by the churchwardens together with the parishioners and collectible by the eccles- iastical courts or two justices of the peace unless exceeding i10 or involving a quest- ion of law. O O 0

It is just as bad budgeting for a gov- ernment to produce an unplanned surplus as an unexpected deficit, although public reaction is not usually so unfavorable. At the present time, however, the fact that Canada has piled up a t336,4-15,157 surplus in the first three months is going to make it extremely embarrassing for the Govern- ment when it comes to imposing the ad- ditional taxation necessary to finance the expanded pension programme.

There is a drive on in the United States to ban all imports of dairy products until 1953, if these would impair domestic pro- duction. The restrictive measure appears to be aimed at Canadian producers. For- gotten by the people ln Washington spon- soring this legislation, says' the Ottawa Journal, is the fact that several hundred million pounds,of vegetable oils of U. S. origin are being allowed into Canada at very low tariff rates and competing direct- ly with the Canadian dairy industry.

Women must ieam to go slow if they wish to live to a green old age. The rea- son some women are nervous is that "They spend 310 worth of energy on a 10 cent task," Dr. Walter C.-Alvarez declares. "They shop too long to save a quarter," said the consultant from Ilifayo Clinic. "Then they come home so terribly tired that they shriek at their children, and fuss at a perfectly good husband." He told the General Federation of Women"; Clubs that women are nervous because they "worry stupidly over things that are preposterous or things that never happen." "Women must ieam to be more adult and more self- controlled," he said. Advice that may be acted upon by many business men as well.

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Experiments in which children and stu-. dents aged from four to 30 were tested on a treadmill have established that women are not equal to men in physical work, but that before adolescence girls are equal to boys. It was found that in children up to 12 there was little, if any, difference be- tween the two sexes, but after puberty the capacity to take oxygen and for'physlcu'1 work showed a steep ddzline in the case of women. The adult woman's capacity was 30 per cent lower than that of a man or 20 per cent lower in relation to body weight. The women with the highest capacity just reached the level of the men with the low-

est. It seems that the only period of true physical equality is in childhood.

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IN LEADING STRINGS

It was not until 1851 that this Island achieved Responsible Gov- ernment. The manner in which we were handicapped prior to that. date is illustrated in the fol- lowing excerpt from the Colonial Herald of November 14. 1840;

"We regret. to state that Bill passed last Session for the erection of a building for a Luna- ilc Asylum and "other objects of charity. has been suspended by the Queen in Council. on the ground that the appointment of the trustees by the Legislative Council and House of Assembly would be conferring executive powers on the legislative bodies. The Bill for the appointment. of coroner: in each of the Counties is rejected, because the appoint- ment. is in the Governor, by and with the advice of the Executive Council, whereas it, is maintained that the appointment ought to have been in the hands of the Governor alone: and also. that no retiring allowance is provided for the officer at present in charge of that office. The Ap-

dlsallowed.but. upon what. grounds we really confess ourselves un- able to make out." ,

New Documents About Columbus

(Winnipeg Free Press)

Two documents soon to be sold in the United States have been in the hands of an Oxford firm of booksellers. They are here de- scribed by Valentine selsey.

"The first document, dated May 30. 1948." he writes. "instructs the officials of the royal store- houses of Seville and Cadiz to hand over enough wheat for the manufacture of biscuits to the fleet of Christopher Columbus. The second. dated June 1, calls on these same officials to borrow enough wheat for the manufacture of biscuits because the royal storehouses are empty -biscuits. of course, because bread could not be baked on board ship in those days. Spanish sailors of the period expected to receive daily one pound of biscuits. two litres of wine. and two-thirds of a pound of meat or fish. It had been Columbus previous once that Europeans did not take kindly to local food, and so plans had to be made togcany all the food needed for a Journey by sea, and even for time spent on land.

when Columbus made his first Atlantic crossing in 1492 he only had his own Santa Maria and two other small ships carrying crews of 120 men in all. This second trip was I much more ambitious undertaking made with be full support and approval of t e King of Spain: seventeen shipl were carrying 1.500 men. and to make the biscuits for these men 6.000 bushels of wheat-had to be found. not an easy task after a year of bad harvests .thI.'ou.ghout Spain.

King l.'cI'dIHIIId and Queen Is- abella were in a hurry, the Portu- gesa were threatening to send rival expeditions to the New World and it was only intervention by the Pope which settled the mat- in'. He decreed that all the land discovered west of the canary Is- lands would go to Spain. and that everything to the cost. would be- long to Portugal. This ssuified cvcrybody. and so. having received all the supplies he needed.0olum- bus soiled westwards for the sec- ond tima in two years, and the course he look was more to the south than in the previous year. San Salvador had been t.he.firat. land sighted in 1402: the island of Dominica close to the mainland of south America was the spot where he went ashore on his sec- ond journey. The biscuits. we are told in I report he sent that you to the Hill of hill. V!" In unqualified suooei.

As for these -two documents, they are In I-emu-hbly good eon- dltlcn. The ink is now dark brown

instead of black: of the K1l'lI'I sosl,only about half remains. The

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WHEN WE ARE GONE

bloom and pass,

When we are gone. and all loves we knew

.Are blown like jonquil petals on

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lThe cherry trees bouffant row

Quite nunaware that we. forgotten, e

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broken beads of

will stand in

Beyond the reach of springtime.

or of snow,

Beyond the arch of pale. delphin- lum sky.

?Yet. what of those who come.

I flesh of our flesh.

.'ro stand beneath the trellis where we stand?

Will they not know this moment's sliver mesh,

The swift caress of lip and throat. and hand?

And will they not, finally. prove to

Our proud. triumphant immor- tality? -Christie Lund Coles. in The

New York Times.

British Museum authorities have accepted the documents as auth- entic. They are quite unknown to the historian-a Columbus biogra- .phy published fifty years ago makes no mention of them. Near- ly all the historical documents of the period about Columbus and

the d ovary of the New World are in he Spanish State archives.

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The Age-Old story;

Wherefore the Lord said. Foru- much as this people draw near me with their mouth. Ind with their llps do honour me, but have re- moved their heart for from me. and their felr'bowIrd me is taught by the precept of men: therefore. behold. I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this peo- ple, even :3 marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish. And the understanding of their prudent men shall be

Gaelic In Scotland

(St. Thomas Times-Journal)

Preliminary report on the re- cent census in Scotland, shows that the population is 5.095.000. which is a gain of 253.000 since the last census 20 years ago, and the largest on record. The first

census was in 1801, when the population was 1,608,420. Glas- gow. is of course. easily the

largest city. with 1.089.555; Edin- burgh next. with 468,770: Aber- deen jumps over Dundee for the first time to take third place with 182,714. Dundee having H7.- 333. There are 2ae,4rr1 more females than males in the coun-

try. Scotland at one time had I

so these two documents must have lain forgotten in the private col- lection of a Spanish family for more than 450 years. Perfect, too. are the signature; not "Ferdi- nand" and "Isabella: but Yo El Rey. I the King. and Yo 1.: Ray- na. I the Queen."

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mrennurrlou NOTICE

. Time will be all into power from 1 PM. to 4 PM. on Wednes- day. Aug" let. on the Illa Avenue circuit from Wm-tlIy's comer to St. Dunslolfs. '

This interruption is necessary in order

on in electric

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three weeks in Canada but three years. -Ottawa Journal.

chologlst. will develop character if

administered often enough. -Windsor Daily Star.

Upon education our country must pin its hopes of true pro- gress, which involves scientific and the direction of reason; of true technolosi 1 advance. but under Pfoperity. which includes external goods. but does not overlook those

language of its own-Gaelic. It can be traced back for more than 1,600 years. But the census shows that the number of Scots who know only Gaelic today and cannot speak English at all, is only 2.052 compared with 6.716 in 1901. The number who can speak both languages is 91,031, compared with 129,419 at the last census. The counties with 3119 lnrseat number of Gaelic speakers are Ross and Cromarty, 1,332, and lnverneas 1.221. These

has been vanishing steadily for I great. many years. and outside”. of the counties named the Gaelic language is not spoken, the vast: majority of Scots never having' heard I word of it. It is onlyi kept alive there and to a small extent by patriotic societies thati run classes for the benefit oti their members.

There are probably as many natives of Canada who. to a ccr-I taln degree at any rate. have the I Gaelic' as-- there are 'ln Scotlandi who cannot speak English. When; Prime Minister Ramsay lVlacDon-I aid visited Canada he was met at. Halifax by Premier Angus Macdona-ld who as a Canadian Scot. presumed that the British Prime Minister whose Scottish accent was so thick it could be cut with a knife. could alsol speak Gaelic. particularly as hei came from one of the Northern. counties. Premier Macdonald ,' greeted him with s Gaelic phrase of welcome. Prime Minis-. tcr MacDonald looked at him in' surprise. He dlid not know what. the Premier of New Scotland

was saying.

If Prince: Elisabeth was to lo- oept all the invitations that sre,be-V of the soul; and of true in: extended she would need not and in a society rationally ofdu-ed:

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which can exist only in societ liberty

I -Robert. Mi. Hutehlns.

In our opinion there 1. may

"A but on the back. Ian I pIs- gather too much criticism of hitch.

hiking: After all, the fault 1; Wm. not thg mu-. who who stands by the road Wiggllny ; his thumb. If every am... ,,,.,,.,,5 .whistlo by without stopping mm Jsoon wouldn't be any lutchlhgkem :We imagine the majority of mm ,who stop will continue to do ,0 ,becn.use they were once hll.ch.h1k, -e;:' themselves. -Lethbrldge 59,. n .

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I There's another luv sum, Ioughta be!" This one would my, .it legal for any grown-up to an Ithe breaches or Otherwise of my .ycungster observed running om across a street or highway without first. looking carefully both my, ,0 ymske sure no traffic is coming, In ,the majority of these cases an I long-suffering motorist. beset as he Iis with the many other pitfall; 'C0l1nCCi-Cd with driving in the C1 rhas been entirely blameless. '1-he Iwonder of it is that there nm

are the real Highland counties. FM" 59'3" "I0"? d”V9” C0I13PS1l1gol Gaelic as the national tonguelhean 19-"UTE 85 3 result. of close

shaves involving un 51

insist on darting oiit fxgonihhelivixkilg parked cars or other obstruction; into traffic lanes. - Sudbury 133” Star. y

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The Communist propngsndlxm has left A permanent lmpressio: on the English language, 1; 1," served to discredit a lot. of 300., words. The word liberal has prac- tically lost meaning beau” M the uses to which the Communists have put it. and the word fascism 15 rapidly losing its excellent usage because of loose application on Communists have made of it. 13.. mocracy has suffered badly but, 1;; meaning is still clear. The latest words to suffer are "civil him. ties." The abuse which the com. munlsts have made of these two words have rendered them invalid as part of the name of any hon,” organization. The death blow wu dealt. in New York where bail in.- Communlsis was posted in the name of a "civil liberties” cam. mmee that moved itself to 1.. without honor. The words have been worn thin and useless by mISUSe- - Boston Post.

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A. Walthen Gander. LL. B.

BARRIETER, SOLICITOE. EM. Phlllllll Building Ill Grafton some "039! 10 I-OIII Collection

M. Alban Farmer B.A-. 1.1.. a. Money To LOAN Charlottetown. P. E. L

Bell. Mafhieson 8: Foster

Barristers. Solicitors. etc. it. it BELL. K.C.

D. L MATHIESON. Ll...B.. K.C. G. R. FOSTER. Ll..B. Loans on City and Farm Properties.

150 Richmond Street Charlottetown. P. E. l.

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FREDERIC A. LARGE. K. C.

Barrister, Solicitor. Notary Royal Bank of Canada Building Charlottetown. P E. 1, LOANS ON CIT! AND FARM PROPERTIES

J. A. McGuigan BAEEISTER. SOLICITOR, Etc NOTARY. ITO. BARRISTER. SOLICITOB CUBRIE BUILDING

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MacPlIoe & Trainer

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Palmer & I-luslom A. J. IIASLAM. l.A., LLB. Barrister. Etc.

Bank of Non Sootls (lumber! Charlottetown. P. ILL MONEY To LOAN

Dr. W. R. Carson

cmnpmun .3 Palmer Graduate CHAIILOTTETOWN till Prince It. Phone mt

Mallleson. Peaks 8: Nicholson

A. W. MATEEBON. ID. A. ll. PIAKE. BA. LLB. JOIIN P. NICHOLSON. LI.-I Ilrrllbors. etc

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