TIA-IE GUARDIAN, CHARLOTTETOWN

The Old Scout

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ZAUGUST 23, my

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stant; vigilance against waste or extrav-

agance is needed. Various debates in the House of Com- mons, and above all the detailed investiga- tions of the Senate Committee under the g l chairmanship of Senator T. A. Crerar, have Trelident Ind AIIOCI-to Edit". III! A Burnt”. ,confirmed the public's anxiety that the ”'””'" m”w'- ""m w'""" A virtues of economy do not occupy the high- CIRCULATION est priority in the scale of values at Ot-

The Uranium Rush

(Begins Leader Post)

In the pre-atomic age gold was lake in the North West Territor- the mineral most prized and tea. Started in 1946, its shafts go sought after by men. In those days, down for 1.350 feet and have not prospectors carried a pick and yet reached the bottom of the ur. shovel, or a panning sieve. For- anium deposit. The company in. tunes were made and lives lost in tends to sink a new shaft north of

Now when gou see Something like ting, H; 2'. , means you're heading into a. general e(ect.'o,,.l

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"Covers Prince Edward Island like the dew" tawa. The -operations of government, in- me Search M me yellow mm, m. ,,,e,em, opening -shortly. and "mate in Character and burdensome in ex Tlhle gold rush became al memif; so increase production. - r ' a e part of North Amercan m - ' ' ' j'The Strongest Memory is Weaker Thu Dense. are not always visible to the public ing history. Next April Eldorado's second

Today. in the opening. years of

mine, this one in the Beaver. the atomic era, uranium has to I

it W fk". I . an" n lodge area in northern Saskatche.

or immediately available for public review.

V . - , Where samplings of these operations re- large extent replaced gold as the wan, is scheduled to get into pro. VHA310TTET0WN. SATURDA), AlJ(r. 21. 19-'12 H.631 some laxity of administraiiony 0,. a object of the prospectorsi search. duction.-It is expected that thh; - . s .. In 1952 the prospector carries a mine will eclipse the Port Radium

-mispirit of complacency, the impression will inevitably take root in the public mind that still wider investigation would produce ev-

Prlnce Edward Island has many beaut-1 idence for still greater anxiety.

iful flower gardens, and our citizens arcl

certainly not lacking in their appreciation"

of nature's loveliness in this respect. it is of interest therefore to note that the

Abegweit Chapter of the I. O. D. E. at Sum-p

merside is sponsoring the first of what is

hoped will become an annual Provincial

Flower Show. The show is being held in

the Summerside Baptist Church hall on

canvas-coverm Geiger counter. It is true that as yet few fortunes have been made out of uranium, but the search is still in its infan- cy. Fewer lives have been lost, too, because of technical advances in communication. But the uranium rush, to judge by last week's events in northern Saskatchewan, seems destined to replace the gold rush,

The emphasis on the drive to find uranium-bearing deposits tends to obscure the fact. that uranium is one of the commonest minerals on earth. It is estimated that a hundred million million tons of the mineral are distributed throughout the top 10 miles i the

operation. One thre -foot vein has shown ore worth a ton running for 300 feet. Another vein showed a width of 15 feet with ore valued at Q48 a ton. one drill hole was cut through a concentration of ore Wofth 5417 a-ton. so there seems in be little doubt about the richness of the Beaver-lodge deposits.

it is hoped. of course, that E1. dorado will not be the only produr. ing mine in the Beaver-lodge area, and that at least some of the other mining syndicates which halve been developing claims in tin. area will strike it sufficiently Hill to go into production.

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calling All Flower Lovers

canaiiians Eating More

Evidence that Canadians are eating iriore food per capita and higher quality food is shown by "The Economic Analyst" published by the Department of Agricul-” ture. Those bigger grocery bills, there-

Tuesda next the -ud es bein' MFA C. C. f , . , V , earth's surface. But it is distrbiit- Last week's staking rush cum

y t 1 I 9 : ' 919: alegnot by a”.V "193"-5 dim Only in, ed so thinly that in most instances about when the three-year con-

Warren, of the Dominion Expeiimental hlgher pm-es, i it cannot be mined economically. cessions given by the provincial i

so the search is not really for ur-

anium but for uranium in solid

enough concentration that it can

be extracted at a reasonable cost. .

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Farm, and Mr. J. Wilfred Cudmore, Char- lottetown. The official opening by Mayor Wedge in the afternoon will be followed by an address by Mr. R. C. Parent, superin- tendent of the Experimental Farm. Tea will be served during the afternoon; flower films will be shown; there will be a mus- ical interlude and, in the evening, a pro-

goveriin-.eiit to these syndicates in the region ran out. The companies were allowed to retain a cu-mn proportion of the onsesslons they had developed, and now prlvatg prospectors have gone in, in the hopes of staking claims on which it really hot find may be made.

The prospectors do not expect to develop any such finds them- selves, but will turn their claims

The finding is ai'i'ive'd at by compariiif.:,' total expenditures for food with the costi of a fixed quantity and quality of foodl during the prewar period of 1935-39 and in the following years, in 19.35, 3475 per person was spent on food, 24 per cent of the per capita income.

During the following 17 years the per;

Because of this fact, Canada to- day is well in the forefront of those nations which are producing or are likely to produce, uranium in large quantities. The pre-Cam- brian shield has hardly been

. . . , scratched so far, yet Canada is over to l er 1 I . gram featuring Scottish girl dancers from caplta expenditure on food gradually in- H, one of the top three uranium- veiopmenarg wmpanm or de Charlottetown. Among the yrophies to be creased until it reached 3945 in 1951, rep: 3 7g .. .v.. V; VV-V : V producing countries in the world, The Beaverlodge deposits, one

and may soon move into second or

the promise they hold out that even first place.

offered is a silver tray donated by R. T. emwhue m the pmgcambmn

1. Notes

lix The Wayx.

resenting 23 per cent of disposable incomc.i Old Cildfi0HEl0WlIfgy i g (And r. s. 1. )

Holman Ltd., for the best individual table In the Same period the food price indexl W;1;11ld9,. Beelgiglt C0230 15 t iii: Bllllxtzld there are others equalli decoration. increased by 150 per cent, so that the costl -- shinkoiogbrwe miri)er.u imiteci iiiieiidviiiltii): ”ri.inC.?r"i32.....Z? 1:3,? It is hoped that fill thfee C0UYlile5 W1” of the 1935-39 quantity and quality of food: A man scans; Vancouver is boasting of its 322 why are ive fighting in xores?'S:?,:e:;,1" fecandj 9139' h” d”' d"c””"' In W3 "slid 5553'"-ch9' be well represented ill the competition for if purchased last Veal. would have beenl , , hours of sunshine in July. this be- Mrs. Roosevelt answered this ques- V, tp m "as n E Comma) wnn seems dammed m pl” 5 Show will . I "mm ymudny R Swedish mg 50 hours above the average, mm brieny and to the pomt the pa eau, and is now considering major role. it may not be long be-

, ..A H0191 h0n0UFSr and mat the 3152 D0? D9l'S0”- The dlfferencv. 5893 per, .,,,i,,,. ,.,,,,S,. We ,,,,d ,,.,,,,,;s Wm But on the other side of the pic- other day. "1 think," said Mrs. d"””p'"e"” i" the ma” "W i” '0” me 51083" 0" WT wiomoblli

spark 8 revival in exhibitions Of this kind persgny represents fhg jncrgascd quantity, covered with sorcs similar to those ture is dried-out woodland in Briin Roosevelt, "that the answer was :ioI:t:,i1?:,::g;:'1yI?)e ;f:gEt:: t::n.lEJ' ngzgcidplgtgs Willi!” huve "7 M Which, in years gone by, were a popular or quality or both. lseen on a smallpox patient, nrriv- ish Columbia and the disastrous best summed up by an American 5' by a Chemical prose” "on; C 3 1' "1 "3 Wm” Dm-

feature of our fair activities.

bers of Abegweit Chapter, I.O.D.

The mem- EL. deserve

much credit for their enterprise in this con-

At the same time the value of a fixed! portion of food which went into food dc-

clined from 25 per cent of consumer dis-

cd by train from Georgetown, and by direction proceeded to the Pol- ice Station. lie carried with him a small bundle of clothing and ti letter addressed in the doctor of

forest fires now raging. - Ottawa Journal.

Nothing oan bcwmore discourag- ing to the Communist bandits now

flying ace. Major James Jabara. who upon returning to his home in Wichita, Kans., in an interview was asked what his feelings were while fighting in Korea. Major

phosphoric acid.

Australia and South Africa have recently discovered and begun to develop substantial deposits. Be-

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vince" to "the uranium provincr.'

FOR THE BEST Ill

. g I h ever S” H . . ,. . V ' -. ' the Marine Hospital. lie was foi- opemtin in S vk th th J b Id. . , , bind the Iron Curtain there are

nectlon, and shoud ave .V PP0 posable income in 193.) to Just met in pei ,,,,,.,.d M ,, 53,0 ,,,s,,,,,,.,. by ,, gang me 0, tine Japsflzg: d,re:,';r 0: wl:u';f,”n:i: hagellffighfifef 52.3 uranium mines in czechoslovaiziai from the public at large. Cent 1,, .1931. If mngun,(.,-S had hm... (.0... nf small boys, who gazed curious- ,,d,,C,,,,,on who med ,0 ml ”,eps,meL ,n w,c,,m-3. gg wmmpeg and Saxony. Although these are

-,4.Ws..--.-A - gem with pm. same food as in 1935 mm, '3' at "W "mi RPM UP 3 f'0HV9TSac head.hunte;-s oi the -'ch.pmspe1-Jpree p,-C55, 10W'81'Id9 49905118 they H6 beingl

Saving Tine Gaelic

their food bill would have represented only

It is Interesting to note that seventeen teachers have been enrolled in the Gaelic; classes conducted by Major C. L. N. Mac-3 Leod, at the Dalhousie Summer School this: year. Six of the students have been takingj the advanced Gaelic course which calls for a literary command of the language beyondl the purposes of ordinary conversationl "One who can read the Gaelic poems and! grasp their subtlety, has truly advanced,” says the Sydney Post-Record. ”The ev- idence is that the Nova Scotia Department of Education is saving the Gaelic for pos-i terity in Nova Scotia. Gaelic will not per-i ish here if it continues to be spoken in, homes and if songs continue to be sung in: the ancient tongue. One reason that Welslii continues to be a living language in Wales, is that the Welsh never have ceased sing-K ing the songs of their native language. Such) Gaelic languages as Manx and Cornish have, died out but there is a movement today in, Cornwall to save Cornish completely from, oblivion.”

federal Expenditures

in a recent address Finance Minister Abbott pointed out that for the fiscal year. L945-46 the Federal Government's expend-. itures stood at more than five billion dol-I lars. By 1949-50 these expenditures had' fallen to two and a half billion dollars. The country, in other words, was on its way towards a stable economy with a high level of employment but with the prospect of lower taxes. This outlook was altered with startling suddenness with the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950. The necessity of enlarging our defence programme, ac- cepted by all sections of responsible Can- adian opinion, led to the adoption of de- fence expenditures which amount to more than two billion dollars in the current bud- get. The present budget is based on Ii. total expenditure for all national purposes of roughly four and a half billion dollars. The weak point in Mr. Abbott's case, notes the Winnipeg Free Press, was in his attitude to economy in Government admin- istration and expenditure. There was no sense or compelling urgency in his reference to this subject, no awareness of thevpro- found public conviction that in a national budget of this enormous size it is a matter of supreme duty never to relax in the in- iensive drive against waste, extravagance, duplication and,lnefficiency. A close watch must be kept on the expenditures of the Defence Department to ensure that full "me is received for our two billion dollar gikpendltuns; and not only in this Depart- ment, but over the entire range of national affairs. Expenditures on social security my total hbout one billion dollars annually, .. fwiiui exceeds Canada's total budget '1" ”. national purposes for any year up to

1936. Here is another field in which con- . . 'x 4

14 per cent of their disposable income in- stead of 23 per cent.

EDITORIAL Notes

Tomorrow, 11th Sunday after Ti'inily., St. Bartholomew. l

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It is not difficult to tell for whom Brit.- ain's largest aircraft has been named. The 10-engine "Princess" was launched on the eve of Princess Margaret's birthday.

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Next year will see the 130th anniversary of the landing of the Selkirk settlers in this Province. Tomorrow descendants of the pioneers and others with already quicken- iiiginierest will gather at a memorial serv- ice at the church at Belfast built: by the

original Selkirk settlers.

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Conventional ideas about Greenland are upset by the report of Capt. John Gaiver that he had seen volcanic eruptions there. Even more surprising, however, was the off handed comment of Norwegian experts that what the captain sziw was probably a

sandstorni.

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Arnold Toynbee, English economist. anti social reformer, was born this date 1852. Ill health prevented him following a career either in the army or at the Bar and he turned to the study of economic and social questions. He also did much work for the betterment of industrial conditions. Many of his writings were published posthumous- iy as ”Indusirial Revolution in England". Arnold Toynbee, the historian, is a nephew.

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It is very useful indeed to be able to recognize a policeman quickly. Finland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden have adopt- ed a standard uniform for their police con- stables, a move which is very much need- ed elsewhere. Formerly men in blue could be recognized in most places by their sim- ilarity to London's Bobbics but over a per- lod of many years policemen have become almost as diversified in dress as the pop-

ulation in general. 0

Half the Prairie wheat crop-the big- gest in history-may have to be stored in the open. Such a development, however, is causing less concern than it would have done a few years ago. In Saskatchewan, for example, they have experimented suc- cessfully with storage cribs made with snow fences. A layer of tar paper is spread on the ground, covered with building paper. A snow fence is thrown up around the paper and the wheat dumped into the centre in the form of a cone. Even where such grain was left uncovered, there has been sur- prising little loss in grade or quantity. In many other areas, however, the elevator companies arefhulldlng annexes to double their capacities

lion nmong Ilicmscivcs about the sailor's terrible disease.

"On arrival at the Station he was met at the door by Officer McConnell, who asked him what was the matter with him. The sailor, in much mixed English re- lating his story, ended by stating lhat he lind- smallpox and asked where he was to go. The port of destination given by the officer, in the midst of much exriiemeiit,. coulgi not be easily arrived at un- less the disease grew fatal and the sailor was a very bad man. At any rate he went to Dr. Taylor's. b-"The Doctor was not at home and the poor son of Neptune rc- lraced his steps to the Station. The officers seeing him returning heiook themselves to the apathe- cnry shops, and became thoroughly saturated with disinfectants. Of- ficer McGonncil went to dinner The sailor on return to the Station was sent to the Quarantine 0!- ficer. who examined him, and found that lils disease was not smallpox, nor was it contagious. He sent him to the Marine Hos- pital. By the time the sailor was comfortably lodged in hospital the false rumor that his disease was smallpox had spread through the city, and the timid ones became alarmed.

”Now, Officer McConnell had left the Station in a great fever nf excitement and spent his din- ncr hour at. home, uneasy, lear- ing he might havc contracted the riiscasc while directing the sailor to Dr. 'I'a,vloi”s. His fever did not abate much as he returned in the Station. contemplating the loath- some possibilities. As he opened the door. he started back in fright. for he had seen the body of a man stretched on the station floor, and as no one was present, he as sumed it to be the smallpox pa- iieni,

”The Marshal arrived and, he- lng aware of the lack, ordered the officer to 'throw the man out". But MCGnnnell declared he would give up his jacket before he would en- ter the station. A few of the oth- er officers then arrived. While Officer McConnell, much nmazerl, stored in nt Ihem. they lifted the bundle of haberdasliery which was covered by n pollceman's coat, and throw It townrds him. A crowd gathered around the Station to en- joy the joke; but, we learn, Of- flcer McGonnell cannot see that there was any joke at all."

-The Examiner, Jan. 11, 1881.

Qllie Age-Old story i l QvM-G03-t0sfeC0-&CO3vvx And the Lord ulcl unto Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that. as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee. And thou shalt commend the priests that been the ark of the covenant, saying, when ye are come to the brink of the water of Jordan. ye shall Ihnil still In Jordan. . . And it came to pose. when the people removed from their tents. to pass over Jordan. and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people: and as they that here the ark were cinne unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that here the ark were dipped In the Ilflln of the water, (for Jordan overfioweth all his bank: all the time of her- vest). that the waters which came down from above-stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain.

ity Sphere” a few years ago. His perfectly preserved head was seen later, accurately sliruiiken except for the gold glasses perched on the nose.-vottawa Journal. '

Not surprising to learn that the Christian name, Adolf. has become so unpopular in Austria. since 1945, that it has nearly disappeared from church registers and last year only one baby was christened Adolf in Vienna. -V Niagara Falls Review.

Jeffrey Farnol, English histori- cal novelist, has passed on at 74. He fled from a foundry furnace in Great Britain as a young man to a small room in Hell's Kitchen, New York, to write The Broad High- way whiie he worked as a. scene painter at in theatre. That novel was his most succcsful among a long list of romantic stories. Hamilton spectator.

When he has 'inislied putting up a house, builder Wallace Johnson of Memphis presents the owner with a handsome illustrated book- let containing the name and photograph of every workman who had a hand in the job. The book- let explains what each workman did; tells what a good craftsman he is, and gives his address and phone number. After a careful look at the booklet, one of Johnson's men said, "Boss. I'm a proud gent.” Johnson is proud. loo. He has ac- quired a reputation for excellent work. -Changing Times.

Sometimes the Channel is so full of swimmers there is hardly room for ships, headed from England to France or from France to England. So many have done the trick that success brings little honour, small cash reward. The Journal, as its contribution to long-distance swimming, repeats the suggestion it. made is year ago-that swim- mers tackle the Channel from end to end, not from side to side.-Ot- tswa Journal.

over right against Jericho. And the prints that here the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground In the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until

"It's the same nlrl story we've heard hundreds of times," com- mented a Detroit sheriff an the de- falcation of I bank emP10ye Who got away, with 545,006 in nbank funds. The same old story was the man had got to gambling. had tak- en some money to cover his losses and to try to recoup them and on- ly got in deeper and deeper. There is in human nature a gambling in- stinct. But it is one to keep under

seem unable to keep it under con- trol, once bitten by the bug. It be- comes an unreasoriing disease. of- ten leading to disaster for the vic- tim and his family. The gambling instinct definitely isn't one to be encouraged or promoted.-Windsor Star.

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CHAUCEE

An old man in a lodge within I park;

The chamber walls depicted all around

with portraitures of huntsmen, hawk, and bound

And the hurt deer. He lisieneth to the lark

Whose song comes with the sun- shine through the dark

of painted glass in leaden lattice

bound;

lle listeneth and he iaugheth at the sound,

Then wrlteth in s book like any clerk.

wrote The Canterbury Tales, and his old

I read I hear the crowing cock, I hear the to

no Of lark and linnst. and from every

all the people were passed clean over Jordan.

flowery mind. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Pays up to 31,500.00 We will be glad to be

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strict control. Unfortunately, some

lie is the poet of the dawn, who

age Made beautiful with song and as

P336 Rise odours of ploughed field or

frantically worked over by Com-'

munist slave-labor in their efforts to keep up with the western world. And there are other sizable deposits elsewhere in the USSR which the outside world does not know about.

Here in Canada our only uran- ium producer at the moment is the Govemment-owned Eldorado Min- ling and Refining Company's mine at Port Radium, on Great Bear

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