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THE GUARDIAN

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Editor and M ' Director. J. ll. Burnett. Associate Editor, Funk Walker.

f'Tho Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink".

OIIARLOTTETOWN, MONDAY, AUGUST I3. 1951

our Biggest Week

All is now in readiness for the opening of the Island's big Provincial Exhibition and Old Home Week, and everything points to new records being established for attend- ance, for livestock entries, for exciting horse racing, for handicraft exhibits and other features. Certainly the management has made wonderful progress in improving the grounds, buildings and facilities. and the public interest was never more keenly shown than during the past few weeks as details of the programme were being com- pleted. The Fair is now recognized as one of the outstanding events of its kind in eastern Canada, the variety of entertain- ment provided being unexcelled anywhere, while the educational advantages in the dis- play and judging of some of the finest farm stock on the continent have been con- stantly kept in mind.

Agricultural fairs are of long standing in this Province, and horse racing also has been a popular sport from early Colonial days. In combining these two attractions in a big way, and adding the midway, vaudeville and other features, we have cre- ated something uniquely characteristic of Prince Edward Island. Our visitors say

, y they find nothing quite like it anywhere,

1 and are drawn back year after year for

' ' this big event. An increasing number of

former Islanders now make it a point to

spend their vacation here at this time, and

there is no doubt also but that our farmers

are attending in far greater numbers than

in years past. It is by a natural process

of evolution that the Fair has expanded

into Old Home Week, with all the happy as-

sociations which these words convey, and

with the many opportunities afforded of

r meeting old friends and acquaintances. and ' making new ones.

Our proudest record in connection with the Exhibition is the freedom from serious accidents we have enjoyed during this busy week for several successive seasons. This is highly creditable to our police and traffic officers. as well as to the public generally. Let us hope that this week will

. be no exception, and that the general on- joyment will be unmarred with regret over some tragedy involving as car or pedestrian which might have been avoided.

cabinet Government

It a Province could ever have its views and needs adequately expressed at Ottawa without Cabinet representation it certainly

cannot today. The expansion of the field of government activity has, perhaps inevit- ably, resulted in policy being more and more considered and finally decided by the cabinet or even cabinet ministers in con-

The role of Parliament and of private members resembles more and more the .task of threshing old straw. This change "has come about without any formal with- drawal of power from that august body, but simply from the nature of the tasks which ,the Canadian people lrave come to expect j from government. Whatever the explanation, the fact re- mains that the bulk of decisions are made fby the ministry and a Province which re- mains without cabinet representation-such as Prince Edward Island at the present time-is at a most serious disadvantage.

i illtal To World Security

This Province. through its great R. C. p A. F. establishment at Summerside, ranks among the finest air training centres of M the world. It is hard for us to realize this .' i. fact," but there is no question of the vital importance -it is playing in the air training plans of Canada and the United Nations. . Under the new- setup announced in Satur- i,dAy's Guardian, the centre will consist of Etwo departments-No. 1 Air Navigation School for the teaching of basic nayigation, mid A Central 'Ai1E'N'avlgatlon School for tspeclallst courses, tests and development. A f-Aeconcl Air Navigation School has been ifopened At Winnipeg, but the main centre for Air mvigathnnl training for the whole :,Dominlon will-remain here. . A1: sgtui-'dAy'I impressive ceremony at V the airport, the lamest group of flight ca- . to graduate line: the war received

their wings ham commodore J. G. Bryann,

c.s.u. amends was Attended by no

7 L Pnowse, Pre- Jonu. I-II: Worship Mayor Weds!

. J. flpciilauzht. M.P.. who -is

tivo for'Prince County And par-

sultation with their departmental advisers. i

liamentary assistant to the i erles Min- ister was largely instrumen 1 in pushing the claims of Summerslde as a centre for air training. .

Whatever consequences follow the pre- sent peace talks in Korea, there is no doubt but that air training will be intensified as a precautionary measure, and that the R. C. A. F. Station at Summerside, on which” millions have been expended to equip it with the most modern facilities and accommoda- tion, will continue with further develop- ments from time to time, as a vital link in our Empire defense plans.

EDIIURIAL NUI l:S

Old Home Week. 0 O O 1-laying weather or no, the question of whether to bring in what now remains will probably be a toss up. 8 '3 I Crowds, crowds, crowds. yet the appeal of Old Home Week is to each individual who has his or her own particular reasons for wanting to be here at this time. , 0 II 0 We are making records this year. More tourists than ever, more conventions than ever, more money in circulation than ever, and better and earlier distribution of The Guardian daily than ever. 0 V in 0 Austerity and improved health seem to go hand-in-hand. Deaths in England and Wales last year fell by 20 per cent over 1949--the biggest drop for any one year since 1929. O O D For the first time in over 22 years a girl has been born to Fair Isle parents. In that time 15 boys have been born on the island which lies off the north coast of Scotland. 0 I 0 Perhaps the reason why psychologists have swung away from the theory of child rearing without corporal punishment is be- cause some of the products of the system have since reached a stage where the method is no longer practical.

The prize livestock receives less publicity these days than other aspects of Old Home Week and the Provincial Exhibition but the quality of the breeds hcing shown merits attention even more than in the days when the judging was the thing.

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As a farming community. we do not like to appear to rejoice at our neighbours' ill-luck, but it is a consolation to potato growers to learn that in the U. S. it may be necessary to import spuds to provide for minimum requirements as indicated by Mr. D. A. MacDonald, chairman of the Market- ing Board.

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The Directors of the Provincial Exhib- ition Association are to be congratulated on receiving the largest number of entries in livestock in the Exhibition's history. This is not attained by lying down on the job. but being up and active in preparing an attractive prize list, and seeing that it was well advertised.

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It is gratifying to know that Summer- side is to remain the main centre of air navigation training in Canada, notwith- standing the provision of a similar school at .Winnipeg. Since air training was in- troduced in Canada, the Island has enjoyed the advantage and reputation of being the first and foremost training school.

Thelnternational Conference on Surg- ery will be held in Paris from the 23rd to the 29th of September. Delegations from 48 nations will be present and, for the first time, certain important operations will be televised in colour. in France. Grafting will be the general tlicmc of this year's conference. Professor Andre Lrlche of the French Academy of Medicine will preside over the world conference.

0 O I

Florence Nightingale. the pioneer of trained army nursing. died this date 1910 at the age of ninety. She studied and trained in Germany and France and re- formed the management of a Harley Street sanatorium. She sailed for the Crimea in October 18Q4 and toiled there until British troops left Scutari in July 1856. To the troops she was known as "The lady with the lamp." ' ' A '

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The Lord Lyon King-of-Arms" who pre- sides at the Scottish Court of Chivalry, known as the Court of the Lord Lyon, has recognized Sir Gordon Macmillan, Com- mander in Chief in Scotland and Governor of Edinburgh Castle, as hereditary chief of the Clan Macmillan with the surname of "Macmillan of Macmillan". .Thls is the flrst time the clan has had A chief for 150 years. During World War II General Man- mlllan commanded the famous Scottish 5151 (Highland) Division. The Macmillan: are one of the few landless clans, "of Macmil- lan" designating an imaginary Highland

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bllltiec, Doc. we think we'd buy I butcher shop and eat. steaks as long As the money held out.-0t- tawA Citizen.

Oven-Ion donor: of food parcels to the British people during and After the war expected no return except the satisfaction of lend- ing A hand in times of privotlon. They will be pleasantly surprised that in Appreciation of their gifts the National Thanksgiving Fund of the Lord Mayor of London will be used to build and main- tain residences for overseas stud- ents. Launched in March, 1950. the fund has been formally closed at 33.100900. London House in Macklenbvurg Square is already

er, oven if that is granted, she is iechnl Ally violating the terms of the 1 9 armistice agreement be- tween her and Israel. For exper- ience shows that such legal argu- ments can go on almost. endlessly. And it ll important if possible to reach I settlement. without furth- er delay. I 0 O

The strictly legal issue may turn on the precise interpretation of those words in the Armistice agree- ment, And the decision in one which might not prove easy even for the Judges of the Hague court. Should the words be taken in

Riley fceln that he them? 0: should the

must take

--Wagner Shrine

(New York Times)

Baireuth lies quiet on Lhc Ba- varian hills, its red roofs among the green like the perfect setting of s jeweled rlu. Until 187.2 it was just another German town. busy making earthenware And gossiping about the doings of its burghers. In 1-072 Richard Wag- ner chose it as the site for his opera house and laid the corner- stone. The building was to be as massive as the completed Ring it- self, which no opera house in Germany could properly house. it was planned exclusively for the performance of his works. Lud- wig of Bavaria was paying all the bills and when the house open- ed, seventy-five years ago, it was the last word in opera houses. To mark the 'l5t.h anniversary the Wagner festival in Baireuth has just been resumed. In I few weeks more the town will celeb- rate the 75th anniversary of the first performance of the complete Ring. With the exception of I few years, when war got. in the way, the Wagner festivAl has played every year since 1876.

The Wagner festival is Bair- euth's big moment. Not that the people of the town get; much chance to hear the operas. The opera house, which is still the last word in opera house: as of 1876, holds only 1,800 people and the tickets are bought mostly by outsiders. The customs set. for the audience are pretty strict. Baireuth is probably the only place in the world where ladies and gentlemen in full evening dress walk the street: At 2 in the afternoon. hoping to get A cub up to the open house. Failing that. they walk Along A dusty street and up the high hill to the opera house that overlooks the town.

The performances begin in late Afternoon. In the golden sunlight of a dying summer day the Aud- ience pours out of the theater nt- ter the first Act, to crowd into the open air restaurant alongside -either for Bavarian: beer on for coffee with whipped cream and cake on which whipped cream is piled on whipped cream, like one blizzard on top of another. He- tween the second And third Acts a corps of wnltcrs with the polish and efficiency of stainless steel serve A full course dinner-which can make the upcoming third Act fairly tough to stay awake for.

The performance ends about 10 and the townsfolk then have their show and not At. S10 And more per ticket. In their gAy costumes tn? nativu line the street down to the town, along which tne highly dressed guests must ride or walk: The cvepln-g is young. The guests head for the cafes. There, too, is Wagner, which the cafe orches- tras play gayly, to echo the music recently heard up on the hill.

The whole town is Wagner. from the little plutcr busts on sale at all souvenir AtAndA to the "impressive grave beyond the Alm- pie villa in which he lived. If any visitor has the energy to do any sightseeing he,cAn find other -thlngs of interest. In A quiet cem- etery Franz Liszt. liu buried And near him in Houston Chamber-' lain. Wagner-'n son-in-law, an Englishman who found the Get- min: the Manor Race long be- fore Ritler happened on thin dis- covery. Elncwhero in town is the grave of A gentle: mAn.the wi-liar Jean Paul Richter. who wrote: "rhci-e,wiil come A time when it shall be light And men will awake from their lofty drnml. And they will find the dreum Atlll

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SIR MURI-I-A-Y.MAXW ELL

Prince Edward Island had one

Lieutenant Governor set footton Inland soil.

have succeeded Governor Ready in 1831. but died before leaving Eng- people petitioned to have Colonel Ready retained. but too late. Sir Artemas W. Young. I. worthy successor. was nppolntetl

land. The

to the post. and Arrl Colony in September. mg reference to this poured in the Royal August 18, 1831:

"The unlookcd for

ray Maxwell. C.B..

llsh mall. 19th of June. after A

only two days Scotland, apparently i

barking for the seat emmcnt when he was

which E! ”ngulsheJ officer.

time no successor to

crounly And

rlcty of petitioning His continue Lleutenmt Governor

there and nothing go sleep." Over the years the

finely and otherwise, on conductors,

Baircuth, with low not particularly

Wagner himself in foreshadowed some of

come, shrine

votlons

of the death of Captain Sir Mur- recently ap- pointed to the government of this Island, was received by the Eng- This melancholy event took place at London on

illness. He hcd arrived in town previously from

health. and was on the eve of em-

a violent inflammatory complaint. speedily terminated the earthly career of this brave and

"The latest. dates from London K- are to the 7th of July. at which

Maxwell had been appointed. In this conjecture. the Sheriff of the Island, on a requisition very num- rcspeclnbly signed. has called I. public meeting of the iuhabll.nnt.s on Saturday next. to take into consideration the prop-

our - present

ministration of the government.

Boireuth has been performed both

menu, and even politics.

went rnbidly pro-Hitler. That was surprising since

day there are no strutting Nazis around Bah-outh. at lepst in the open, to make 3. great music fest- ival into A political . p Those who revere the musician Wagner come now as they have devoutly io- n

V So intent are they at their dc- that they do not mind

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Canal restrictions.

tlons Organization for

h W 0 never "imperialist" purposes.

He was to

vent in the The follow- incident ap-

(3 it f an e 0 notice of

intelligence sues involved, went

desirabe that a

the this question should

very short

n his usual

of his gov-

seized with friendly

government are

Sir Murray

fandango.

The Suezfanal .

-e (W. N. Ewer)

It was. I suppose, only to be ex- pected, that in this matter of Suez western powers should be accused of un- friendly action to an Arab state. and of trying to use the United Na- thelr own

the

But it is A matter of record that Britain. whose shipping and whose oil industry have been the great- est, sufferers from the "blockade". has shown remarkable patience. It is now over two years since first protest against the Egyptian action was lodged in Cairo. It was not until last November that the matter was first brought to the the Security Council. And then Sir Gladwyn Jebb.-after stressing the importance of the is- further than to say that the U. K. dele- gation "considers that it. is moot settlement

he brought about as soon as it possibly can."

This patience has been the sub- ject of much criticism here-by no means entirely from the opposit- ion. From Egypt, unfortunately. it has brought. not the hoped response, but stubborn refusals to do anything- aparently in the belief that ience was A sign of weakness.

The issues, in the view of the 0. three -and each of them is important.

0 O O

the

no

for repeated

pat-

The first is the legal question of right to free passage though the Suez Canal in accordance with the convention of 1888. The

intention" of the document be taken into account?

That in why I feel that, though the legal issues can by no means he ignor them might simply lend to long whatever the end. would A legalis- tic handling of the can do any- thing to use the underlying ten- slon.

Far more important than the legal controversy is the fact, that whatever Egypt's belligerent rights ( is she in A belligerent) she is tak- ing Action which, while it inflicts very minor damage to Israel, is doing very considerable damage to the economics of A number of her fellow members of the United Net- lonn with whom she is in friendly relations. And that this same no- tlon-to quote Bi: Glndwyn Jebb Again-"contributes to the state of tension and uneasiness in the Middle East."

The one is not so much that

of Egypt is doing something which is

technically illegal. as that she is - without Achieving anything thereby-doing something which is unfriendly and harmful to her

offending Izllnst international morality. she may or may not be violating the letter of armistice agreement. she is certainly violat- ing the spirit of the preamble to the United Nations Charter. in which she. in common with all oth- er members pledged herself to "practise tolerance and live to-

As good neighbours.

their strictest sense - as General

"manifest

d, undue concentration on

and finally futile Argumenu. Nor.

friends and neighbours. She may or may not be offending against inter-nntlonsl law. She is certainly

gather in peace with one another

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