PSAGE FOUR _ . _ __ _ ___ THE GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETQWN _ _ _ JANUARY '3. 1950 “Qinynjht t t h 0t n1 fog ‘ | m _ T H E G U A R D I A N the‘? govgrnmxelriinofagiiasnditl) Nehru obulz, for‘ PUBLIC FORUM Look up ' ' I'- umiii. only (Pounded i. I557) the whole western world. It would open the Th“ “ma! u u,“ w u“ z’, D d, ‘ '- NOtES Th6 Way “T l: “"'°""° "l,,s,,°ff,fl§,‘,_f_"a‘nx,'_'f' h" °'"°' gates of India and so of all Asia to Com- “mum, b, conupondm“ . _ ‘ 5

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CBARLOTTETOWN. TUESDAY, JAN. 3, I950 Bank Notes

On January 1st the Bank of Canada as- sumed liability for the redemption of the outstanding notes of the Canadian chartered banks thus completing a process which be- gan with the establishment of the central bank in 1935. It was, perhaps, inevitable, with the steady assumption of powers and duties by government that the issue of paper currency should become a state monopoly. In earlier days, bank notes gave an ease and flexibility to the country's money supply that could hardly have been obtained in any other way. In times of expanding trade the amount of money in circulation could be greatly increased. When business was de- pressed the notes were presented to the is- suer for redemption and stayed out of cir- culation. The advantage to small pioneer communities was particularly great. To open a small branch to take care of local banking needs, all that was necessary was a supply of the bank's o\vn notes which, as long as they remained in the bank, repre- sented only so much stationery. Had each branch been obliged to stock sufficient specie to take care of its operations there would have been many a growing community without adequate banking service.

Those liiesel Locomotives

Early this year we should see our rail- way locomotive system in Prince Edward Island completely dieselized. That, at least, is what C. N. R. officials anticipate. An earlier official announcement was that the new engines would be ready for delivery in January or February, but owing to steel shortages, consequent upon strikes, the word now is that they will not be available until March at least, probably not before April and possibly not until May.

In the meantime the coal shortage has resulted in the Canadian National Railways announcing a twenty-five per cent reduc- tion in their steam train services across Canada. There is apparently to be no cur- tailment locally, though the cancelling of the Ocean Limited between Montreal and the Maritimes will mean slower connections with this Province. It is difficult to under- stand why the Government-owned railway should be reduced to this drastic alternative, while the C. P. R. train schedules are un- affected. In any case, it will mean a big demand, all across the country, for diesel locomotives.

The diesel engines destined for this Prov- ince will be specially equipped for yard and road purposes, and local officials are confi- dent that there will be no question of divert- ing them to other Provinces where steam train services are to be reduced. They an- ticipate that the order will go through with- out further delay, and that by midsummer at the latest the new system will be in op- eration throughout Prince Edward Island. In many ways, we are ideally adapted to this kind of service, and when it material- izes we shall be the first Province in Can- ada to be so equipped.

In the meantime, it will be well for our political representatives to keep n, watchful eye on the delivery dates of these new cn- gines. We don’t want them to go astrav.

The Threat To India

A major challenge of the New Year con- fronts the democratic nations in dealing with Soviet penetration in the East. Na- tionalist China has collapsed, and today, with Communist armies closing in on the India border and washing up against Burma, time is getting perilously short to help these nations as they must be helped. They need not arms but economic aid. The Winnipeg Free Press devotes a leading editorial to this subject, from which we quote.

“Until now, the responsibility ior helping them has been largely British and Britain has nearly bankrupted herself in the pro- cess. It was the flow of unrequited exports to India-exports for which there is no re- turn in goods or money-which led to the latest manifestation of the recurrent British crisis. It was this aid and the dollars re- leased to them out of the sterling area's dollar pool which allowed India and Pakistan to increase their dollar imports from $33,- 000.000 in 1938 t0 $491,000,000 in 1948 and to increase their imports from the United Kingdom from $160,000,000 in 193s to $447,- 000,000 in 1948.

"Britain cannot continue assistance on such s scale. She must to save herself cut 5°" 0" “P0118 to the sterling area and in-

crease them to this continent, But to do this means less for Indie. at the very time when Indian needs us greatest. To out

munism and throw another 600,000,000 bodies into the slave camps of Communism.‘ “Aid on its present level is probably notl

of questions of interest. 1'1» Gusrdliu does not neocons- ily endorse the opinion ul oo-i-upoudeuls.

enough. Yet Britain cannot continue even. what she has been doing with great Wis-i dom and generosity. And if the position' of India is to be assured, where is that as-l sistance to come from? It can only come

from North America either in the form of

taking over some of Britain's responsibili-j tics which are finally the responsibilities‘ of all the west, or by some defined pro-l gramme of assistance which will provide the! time needed by the new governments ofi Asia to establish themselves and raise the, standard of living in that area sufficiently

to offsebthe worst threat of Communism."

EDITORIAL NOTES

Let us remember this is now 1950.

I I O Easter Day falls on April 9 this year. O O O

At 2:00 a.m. today the earth was at its nearest to the sun, a distance of 91,445,- OO0 miles. '

In our diverse manner we have seen the. New Year in. Those who welcomed it most: extiberantly, probably now view it with somewhat less enthusiasm than do others.

I O O The annual meeting of the Fisheries Re- search Board of Canada commences today. at Ottawa. Problems of conservation andl supply are secondary just now to preserva- tion and marketing.

O O A Polish born Canadian artist, Walter‘ Trier, who was recently named Man. of the Month in Switzerland, comments that we have nothing comparable here to European satirical magazines. He attributes this to the lack of age-old traditions, but it seems more likely that it is due to the essential? virility of this country. Satire is, after all,

the art of the disgruntled and frustrated. I O I

Canada's policy in 1950 is “to co-operate to the fullest extent with the British export drive; to divert imports from U. S. dollar, markets to sterling and non-dollar sources wherever economically feasible; and at the same time take full advantage of the Reci-‘ procal Trade Agreements Act and other means to expand Canadian exports to the U. S."—Trade Minister Howe.

George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier and sailor, died this date 1670. Was a Royalist in early life, but after capture by Fairfax and imprisonment by the Parliamentary forces, he accepted the com- mand of the Parliamentary forces in Ire- land. Under Cromwell at Dunbar he dis-l tinguished himself. Later, rejoining the] Royal forces he was instrumental in bring-i ing about the restoration of Charles II, whoé created him Duke of Albemarle. As Ad-i miral of the Fleet he defeated the Dutch. i

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A two-acre field of lavender in Banchory, Aberdcenshire is the beginning of a grow-f ing industry in Scotland. There in the! sandy Deeside soil, Mr. A. R. Inkster is? turning out perfume from his factory and already building up overseas markets. Mr. Inkster got the idea of growing lavender for perfume while working as a chemist in‘ Canton in China before the \var. The local soil is especially suited to the growing of I lavender, and the long summer days in thel North of Scotland benefit the flower at an important time in the cultivation of the plant.

The Man of the Half Century observ-. ed the 50th anniversary of his escape from ' his Boer prison camp on December 23. A~ war correspondent for the London Morning ' Post at the time of his capture, Churchill? was taken prisoner during a Boer attack on i an armored train. He escaped later by hid- ing among bales of wool on a freight train. The Boers offered a £25 reward for him “dead or alive" and their poster description of him read this way: “Indifferent build, walks with forward stoop, pale appearance, red-browning hair, small and hardly notice- able moustache, talks through his nose and cannot pronounce the letter ‘s’ properly." O O O

“There is still a tendency (says The Spectator) particularly in the case of the smaller authorities, for the personnel to con- sist of by no means the most competent and i most respected members of the local com-

munity. The more the importance of local

affairs is recognized, the more public atten-

tion is focused on them, the more likely the

right persons will be to devote their time

and energies to them. The Press can do

more than any other agency to arouse and

maintain such an interest, and if it is to do‘

orities they are."

€o-s§:-oo\=_i=4i\§>.-.-o<: - ~. PAVE!) HIGHWAY!

Sir, - Anyone who has driven over some of our psved highways recently does not need any stretch of imagination to realize what the condition of these roads will be when the frost comes out in the Spring. and the question naturally arises: - How can our Provincial Government finance the building of s so-called National Highway and at the same time keep in re- pair our present stretch of pave- ment thst is fast. going to pieces?

I believe our Premier, who is also Minister of Public Works and Highways, should forget about the construction uf the proposed new highway, and apply to the Federal Government for a grant equal to the estimated cost. of their portion of this highway and apply it to the reconstruction of our present paved roads in a similar manner to that already rebuilt from Sum- merfield past Fredericton, s. dist- snce of approximately seven miles.

The Department could arrange s yearly programme of. say, 20 miles per year for eight years and at the end of that time we would have s. National Highway from 'I‘ignish to Souris. The first sec- tion that should be rebuilt would be from Kensington to Reed's Cor-

ner where some of the pavement has almost disappeared and where men have been working for the past week hauling clay and gravel. filling the holes to make the road

passable.

A National Highway is not one that should benefit a few individ- uals nor any certain community. but. one that should benefit, and definitely concerns the masses of P. E.I. It is true that. a highway from Borden to Wood Islands might be a benefit to tourists for a. few months in the summer. but what benefit would it. be to the people of Prince Cmmty, espec- ially to those living west of Sum- merside?

It. might be argued that Parlia- ment or the Government miflhi not, bo willing to contribute to such a pros-pest. But I am surf? our representatives are reasonable men, that they are not dictators. but servants of the P601119 they represent, and after all was 110i our present paved hiEY-‘WBY ‘he one selects: in i926“: breotiilirewg-‘P

Hi wn o tional g Y xanhsmm" DONALD BAKER

Old Charlottetown (no r. s. u

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THE CAPES ROUTE

"The Cape Traverse Branch Railway was taken off the hands oif the contractors Yesterday; and the first car load of freight for the Cape was shipped by ME&§1‘5- Carvell Bros. today. The station house and other buildings - un- der construction by the Railway Department —~ are not yet. how- ever, quite finished, and the road will not be opened for passenger

i traffic until the close of naviga-

tion.

"Messrs. Grey and Wheaten are to be congratulated on having sat- isfactorily completed their con- tract, but we regret to say the Cape Traverse Branch is the only section of the Capes route which will be ready for use next year. It is said the Cape Tormentine Branch has been graded to within s few miles of the Cape, and that the rails are laid to within a few miles of Port Elgin; but work has not yet been begun upon the piers at Tormentine and there seems to be no hope or expectation of rsil- way accommodation, even from Port Elgin, during the coming win- ter.

“Some further outlay will be

needed in connection with the pier at Cape Traverse. At pres- ent the sand eddies round the

end of it and collects in a bank where the shipping will be moor- ed. To prevent this a breakwater -not s very costly affair -—- has been suggested.

"While duly thankful for the sc- commodation and comfort which the Cape Traverse Brunch Rail- wsy will afford to travellers in winter, we think that the coming winter should not be allowed to pass by without hsving s fslr trial of two small, strong steam- ers or tug boats in the Straits, to run, if possible, in concert with the ice boats. The experiment would not cost much; snd the Gov- ernment is clearly bound to do every-thing in its power to sdifoi-d continuous steam communication between the Island and the main- land. The tug boats of the Messrs. Bait would, we believe, suit the purpose, snd they might be ob- tsined.”

—Dsily Examiner, Nov. 2'1, i884.

Yo Ire nil the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

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‘Upseisilsh is flu fltflng ol gissses for the wrnotlon of

that all reasonable facilities must be ac-I "W" ‘°'°°"-" corded to it, as by many progressive auth-- i

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“No Parking"

(Christian Science Monitor.» While motorcar manufacturers announce proudly that they are turning out automobiles and trucks at a rate of 6,040,003 a year. city managers in convention in Florida have acknowledged themselves as stumped over where to put. the cars already in their streets. Al- most any country on the globe would like to have that problem.

Nonetheless, the parking prob- lem really calls for Some serious thought. Perhaps more than thought, it calls for enough flex- ibility to adapt ourselves to com- mon-sense adjustments,

Some have supposed parking

meters would solve the whole dif- ficulty. Meters probably impel a somewhat greater turnover in the use of parking spaces. but cities have found they still require police supervision to assure this result. Many cities have provided oft- street parking lots, and three or more have erected parking bulld- ings. Yet one of them, Bluefleld, W. Va., find the principal result has not been to diminish tra-fflc but to draw in more shoppers. In Boston and a few other met- ropolitan centres it is proposed periodically to prohibit. nnstreet. parking entirely in the area of greatest congestion. This makes sense, but no city administration has yet become sufficiently spart- an to attempt it.

There are plenty of solutions to the parking problem; the oinly trouble is that none of them as- sure us s. spot in front of our fav- orite drugstore at the moment we want to stop for an ice-cream soda.

Bel-aleddyilyemedy

(Ottawa Journal)

It would be interesting to know what lies behind the very extra- ordinary statement made in 1.011- don. Ont. this -v.'eek by Mr. Rob- ert McCubbin, MP. for hiiddlcscx West who is parliamentary assist.- ant to Agriculture Minister Garri- iner. At face vnlue it looks like wishful thinking. possibly an at- tempt by the Government. to get from under s very had situation. and cr-rtninlv an admission of complete failure of n major Gov- ernment policy.

Mr. McCubbin, who can be pre- sumed to have spoken only after mnsultntion with his chief, told a group of farmers "The sooner the Dominion Government. gets out of hnnclling the farmer's products the better the farmer will be in Chanda", and later in his talk "l feel that now farmers should han- dle their own farm products". In effect he was saying that the whole elaborate system oi‘ coli- tracts as between gnvernmenb, built up over the past eight years, should be scrapped and food sell- ing returned to private enterprise and bargaining.

On the face of it this sounds not only sensible but the way Can- adians would want to do their selling. The trouble is that the re- alization comes too late and that, it is s. belated admission that a policy followed and defended

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PEACE PROCLAIMED

His helmit now an hlvs for bees becomes.

And hills of swords may serve foi- spiders’ looms;

Sharp pikes may make

Teeth for s rake;

And the keen blade, th’ srch en- emy of life,

Shall be degraded to s pruning knife.

The ifiistic spade

Which first was made

For honest agriculture, shall retake

Its primitive employment, and for- sake

The ram/plies steep

And trenches deep.

Tame conles in our brazen guns shall breed.

Or gentle doves their young ones there shall feed.

In musket barrels

Mice shall raise quarrels

For their quarters. Tho ventxilo- quious drum.

Like lawyers in vacations, shall be dumib.

Now all recruits

But those of fruits,

shell be forgot; and th’ inisnned soldier

Shall only boost of what he did whilcre,

In chimneys’ ends

Among his friends.

-Rs.lp'h Knevet (1600-1671) .

through post-vrar years is no long- er workable.

It is one thing to talk about the need for returning to a system of free trading betiveen individuals. as contrasted tn contracts between governments, when individuals are free to trade rind have the money to trod:- with: It is quite another thing lo talk of free trading st a time when natural and long-time markets are practically closed as s result of government meddling and currency troubles.

The whole food-buying policy of bhe United Kingdom today, and since the wai- ended. is based on mass buying under contract snd Government distribution. The chief market for our surplus food to- day is closed tight against private enterprise. If the UK Government agreed with Mr. McCubbln it- would be another story but. there is not the slightest indication that. lflloes.

AIR PIONEER.

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The flight of McCui-dyb Silver Dart. at Baddeok, N.S.. in 1009. was the first airplane flight by a British subject in the British Em-

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Eisner Boper, COP provincial’ leader, hinted at last week's con- vention in Edmonton that the party's national leadership is about to crack down on members who publicly criticize party policy. We may deduce from this that Mr. Caldwell and others are tired of the activities of the CCFsmem- bers who seem to like Rush! beiv ter than Canada. Mr. _Roper was quite right when he said the pub- lic wants to know what the CCF stands for; this, he ccnfmed. is impossible so long as “Coldwell says one thing and other Dari-Y members in British Columbia 58>’ something elseP-Calgary Herald.

The Csnsdlsn Post Office Dc- partiment. we note with sorrow. i5 responsible for a notice which it gets placed in hotels and other places where the public needs to be iruformed. and which states that ten-cent air letters may be sent "to the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland." This entirely unfounded suggestion that North- ern lreland is not part of the Unit- ed Kingdom may have been in- serted by some Canadian official who regards partition as s crime sgsinat nature. or may be due merely to political ignorance; but it is calculated to annoy our friends in Belfast and London- derry, and should be corrected as soon as possible. The same m- tice omits the Republic of Ireland from the list of four-cent postage countries unless it is covered by the term "places within the Bri- tish Empire," which of course it should not be.-From Toronto Sat- urday Night.

Hsd he not, In his Teens bought a slxipenny second-handed diction- ary John R. Clyncs might never

fish labor," or become a minister in Britain's first two Labor gov- ernments. in the middle and late 1920's. tile would, of course, have spelled it Labour, which possess a certain dignity lacking in our American version). But Mr. Clynes did buy the sixpeuny dic- tionary, he coipicd it from begin- ning to end until he knew it by heart. and having thus acquired an extraordinary command of the language he rose in the world (as they used to say), was elected sn MI’. and became one of the most compelling speakers in parliament. So \vhcn the. man who advanced from millboy to minister died the other day at the good age of 80 years his purchase of that diction- ary was mentioned prominently in the obituary notices. - From New York Times. "

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