PAGEFOUR Hm THE GUARDIAN . Authorized as Second Clan Mail Poo! Office Department. Ottawa The Island Guardian Publishing Co. CIRCULATION Total City Zone ........ lenll Trading Zone All other Total Net Paid Editor and Managing Director, J. 3. Associate Editor, Frank Walker ly f'Tho Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink." CIABLOTTETOWN. VVEDNESDAY, JULY 5. 1950 Doubtful Tourist Promotion The Niagara Chamber of Commerce has hit upon the plan of giving United States tourists their change in ”cartwheels”. 511' ver dollars and hopefully expects to start a flood of the souvenir pieces across the bor- der. The idea has been widely hailed. C195" pite the ridicule earned by an earlier PTO" posal for tourists to be supplied with red coloured currency. . A word of caution, however, might not come amiss at this staE'.9' A1'ih0Ugh Cam- dians do not always look on them as such the silver dollars are coin of the realmhpart of Canada's currency. Many Americans will, no doubt. treat them purely as sou- venirs, but there are others who will qL1ite properly regard them as money. They W111 find that back home in the States these impressive looking coins are not merely at ii much greater discount than Canadian bills, but are refused at almost all but the largest metropolitan banks. The cost of shipping them back to this country will be high and Canadian money is likely to come in for much unfavorable comment. If we must sell souvenirs to our visitors, let us at least avoid dumping the Canadian dollar with the junk the tourist is supposed to collect so avidly. g:g1 End The Mumlio Jumbo! Parliament's intensive probing into the public accounts may not have resulted in any immediate reduction in expenditures. It has certainly been useful, however, in pointing the way to how economies may be effected in the future. For departmental estimates in the future will be stripped bare of the mumbo-jumbo and gobblede- gook which has made it well nigh impos- slble for parliamentarians to determine in advance what they were voting.money for. Central Mortgage and Housing Corpor- ation, the Government's agency for sub- sidized housing, provided one choice ex- ample of this sort of obscurity in estimates during the last. days of the session. The item read, ”To hereby extend the applica- tion of the terms of Vote 562 in the Main Estimates, 1950-51, to include the acquisi- tion of land. the installation of services and improvements in respect thereof, the pur- chase of building materials and the con- struction or conversion of housing projects for the residents of Deep River, Ontario. and to authorize commitments against fu- ture years for the purposes of the said vote to an amount of S14,208,000 . . . . . . . . .31." On the face of it, this item in the esti- mates looked like a vote for 514208.000 f0? the developments at Deep River. Actually. it was intended merely to extend the appli- cation of the terms of an earlier vote of 575,000,000. Control over public expenditures is ob- viously impossible in the face of such ob- scurities. It is high time such mumbo jumbo went out the window. A Huge New Industry 'i1ie extent to which industrial chem- lstry is thrusting itself more and more into the daily lives of Canadians is shown in a report issued a few days ago by the Domin- ion Bureau of Statistics. It sets the value of products produced by Canadals chemical and allied industries in 1949 at the peace- time record figure of 5595 millions. This represents a gain of 2.6 per cent over the previous peak in 1948 and it was exceeded only twice during the war when shell-filling accounted for a large proportion of the totals. Since 1940, the value of chemical pro- duction has tripled. A considerable part of this increase, of course, is represented by higher prices but DBS estimates that the in- crease in the actual volume of production has been 51 per cent. The industry had 1.001 plants in operation in 1949. It em- ployed more than 40,000 people and its salaries and wages totalled nearly 596 mil- lions. Only about one-eighth of last year's production was exported. Thus the vast in- crease in output is largely due to increased home consumption. The suburbanite who starts to use D.D.T. to dispel mosquitoes, the housewife who buys water tumblers made of plastic instead of glass. the farmer wholhas recently swung over to the ex- tenolve use of weed sprays and chemical fertilizers-these are only a few individual factors in this Increased consumption. Less . apparent to the average man but of great tion has been expanded industrial use of chemicals, including plastics. For instance, many industries is being produced today in production was the highest in Canada's hist- ory and was nearly double that of 1940. dollar investment in Canada's chemical in- dustry is now over 91 billion. More money merit since 1945 than the investment in the entire Canadian cllemical industry in 1939. And more money is being continuously in- vested in the industry as research develops new products. EDITORIAL NOT ES Most publications, whatever may be their financial year, number their issues accord- ing to the calendar. Not so the Ottawa Citizen which patriotically came out with No. 1 of its 108th year on Dominion Day. 0 O I Mr. MacNaught, M.P., should be able unofficially to supply his colleague Mr. Mc- Lure with information regarding the area tentatively set apart as a site for a bomb- ing range here. Perhaps it may be in King's County, as no kick has been forth- coming there. O O O In reply to criticisms, Speaker Ross Mac- donald, whose estimates were under con- sideration, told the House he had allowed latitude on the no-reading rule for speeches because many of the members were new- comers to Parliament. However, he plans to enforce it in subsequent sessions. Speeches must be spoken, not read. 0 I 0 "Public Relations” to the R. C. M. P. is no matter of publicity handouts. By ser- vice to the community in which they are stationed and particularly by work with young people, as in recently conducting a Boy Scout master-at-arms course, the force assures a healthy attitude towards the police and towards law enforcement. The Weather Office has been induced by public criticism to explain at length some of the difficulties in the way of accurate forecasting. Their headaches are as nothing compared with their successors who will probably have to justify their selection of weather as well as the accuracy of their predictions. 0 I O The current issue of Collier's Weekly contains a feature article on Mr. Donald Gordon, president of the Canadian National Railways and former chairman of the War- time Prices and Trade Board, which de- scribes him a man of dynamic energy and the C. N. R. as the world's greatest railroad network. I O 0 Marketing schemes are very much to the forefront of public discussion just now. It is well to remember that current pro- blems are related strictly to times of "easy money" in this country and in the United, States, together with European production that has even yet not recovered from war- time blows. Any long term scheme must take into account a change in both these respects. 0 O O Cecil J. Rhodes, Empire builder, born this date 1853. Son of an English clergy- man, developing T. B. he was ordered to South Africa by .his physician. There he recovered his health, entered diamond in- dustry, and soon made a fortune. He next entered politics, and kept in the forefront of colonial expansion, until he became the most outstanding figure in the Empire. At his death, he bequeathed his fortune to provide scholarships to students in the lead- ing Dominions, Colonies and Germany for the purpose of attending Oxford, Cam- bridge and Edinburgh Universities. Egg prices on June 29 this year and previous years. The prices quoted below are for Grade A Large. At Montreal and Toronto the prices are those at which graded shipments are selling to wholesalers. At other points quotatloiis are prices to shippers for ungraded eggs. Man. . . . . . . . . . . . 117,728 61,111 64,322 Ont. . . . . . . . . . . . . 570,144 660,193 770,239 Weight of Live and Dressed Poultry at Registered Stations week ending .......-....- .-.,.-.......- ..,. importance in the whole field of consump- - sulphuric acid, which is a basic chemical in y record quantities. The volume of last year's According to The Financial Post, the has been spent on new plant and equip-I n 1... 7 E 77oe&l'Gmwz Sch of foil. and song of forest. come you here on haunting quest, Calling through the seas and sil- ence. from God's country of the west. Where the mountain pass is nor- row. and the torrent white THE GUARDIAN, CHARLQTTETOWN y Tlio Foolloo , cuff and strong, Down its rozky-throated canyon, sings its golden-throsited song. You are singing there together through the God nights And the leaning stars are listening above the distant heights That lift like points of opal in the crescent ooronet Aiboui. whose golden settling sweeps the trail of Llllooet.- Trail that winds and trail that wanders, like a cobweb hang- ing high, Just. a hazy thread outlining mid- way of the stream and sky. Where the Fraser River canyon yowrrs its pathway to the sea; But hall! the world has shouldered up between its song and me. Here. the placid English August. and the sea-encircled miles; There, God's copper-coloured sun- shine beating through the lonely alsles. Where the waterfalls and forest. voice for ever their duet, And call across the canyon on the trail of Llllooet. -Duncan Campbell Scott. i'k99M'i'l0fI0.'!i0Dm9O.. Old Charlottetown 32 (And P E. I.) d SHIPBUILDING DAYS "Launched at St. Peters on Saturday. the 3rd 1nst.. from the shipyard of Messrs. Robert and William Sanderson. a hand- some built bi-lgantine of 160 tons, called the tSophl.a'. She was haul- ed by on horses 3 distance of 200 Yards. to the no small gratifica- tion of -those who assembled to lendthei: aid, in thus helping to launch so ponderous a weight. Launching in winter by horse'- power is now becoming so very general in and about this section of the Island, that ere long it. will be a matter of very little conse- quence whether vessels are built Bay at. the waters edge, or 'mld the forest grove! "Also launched at. st. Peter's Bay, on Tuesday the 6th lnsf.., from the shipyard of Donald Mc- Isaac, a brigantlne of 130 ,tons, called the tCleopatra'. This fine vessel was hauled a distance of 200 yards on the ice, b the united strength of about 60 horses. At Souris. from the shipyard of James McGlllvray, a brig of 1.30 tons. called the, 'Manedora'. was launched. Both these vessels were built for Mr. Joseph Macdonald. merchant, ofthis towi-i," , ---The Islander. April 10. im. Britain's Attitude To The Schuman Plan (By W. N. Ewer) The publication of the cones- pondence between London and Paris, which followed the French proposal for a conference on the Schuman Plan. makes the attitude of the United Kingdom quite clear. The British Government from the beginning was not only ready but anxious to cooperate in trying to fashion a workable scheme from the proposal M. Schuman had thrown out. at is news conference. But. it declined to commit. the Un- ited Kingdom in advance to tak- ing part. in something of which only vague outlines were known and which might. when more fully expounded prove quite unaccept- able. The French Government. on the other hand. seems to have decided that no Government should join in the negotiation unless its acced- ed beforehand to ti declaration that. it. accepted as an immediate ob- jective of policy the placing of its cool and steel industries under lthe control of an international authority whose decisions would be binding. During the conversations, M Schuman assured the British Gov- ernment this formula did not, In the French view constitute tin ob- ligation. But his Government re- fused to agree to the addition of ii paragraph which ivotiltl have made this clear beyond possibility of fut- ure dispute or misunderstanding. The story of the negotiation as shown in the documents is that of successive attempts to find I com- promise, all of which were reject.- ed by the French cabinet, The first British proposal was based on M. Bchumon's original announcement. which had suggest- ed Franco-German negotiations for M . 195” 19” 1948. :?.:.":.?f.':f.':l.l”.Z.lll””.Et:l".l2.;l;' fffffff iii :::;; ':::: ” 13:3?-.i 1:3??? 233'??? 3'” Sask. ...'.'. 7:342 122906 4:596 u...miiien”3i.l”t;o.tl'.'.'.m'.”.?fil.?.l3i335;? ed its mind. It now proposed I seven-power conference (France, Britain, the three Benelux coun- Que. . . . . .. 345,703 370,355 mes. Germ-nv -nd It-In -nu It N. B. 2,129 2,973 3,376 2,"5,.”.'f,',,.3.?,',2.”ll”.,,”..,,f,"',”..,,”."'. ',';;5,'; N. S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,261 25,839 ::";1;iot1""thd;:1';:1l 3:” s:;:n'-an P. E. I. 13,982 11,206. 6,171 .,,,,,c.. ,,,,,,., ., ..,,. ,, ,,,.,,,,,,,.,.. Toronto . . . . . . . .. 50 52 49-4914, glgagse decisions wont! be "bind- Winnipeg ............ 36 41 43 11;,"-ench Ambundm. V" 3', Vancouver . .. 45 46 42 0:3 90:: Brltlln could not do WI Edmonton . . . . . . . . . . 39 42 42 ;':m,,':.,, ,,';';,;',;?..:!”'" ch" " Reging,,,,,, 40 4,3 Thcnco.Inotbeoui-chfotocoiIi- Charlottetown . . . . . 41-42 45 4256 i,or:tmo'l..' o porogroph ohouid be mood to the joint communique. making the British position plain. The porn- can - 'mrM'6 , ' 'cNllbP-iN-- Too aao. Mv ow:-w graph was drafted and sent to Paris, But the French Cabinet now rejected the idea of such an ad- dltion. Instead, it produced it new for- mula which did not differ in sub- stance from the old one. And it accompanied this by an indication that, if the British Government. would not at once subscribe to the revised declaration, the negotia- tions would start without Britain. Mr. Bevin. in hospital awaiting 9 an operation, mode a last bid. He suggeated a meeting of Foreign Ministers to decide "the most ef- fective and expeditious means of discussing the problems". Again M. Schuman seemed ready for 5 com- promise. The declaration could he issued by those willing to sin it. and then the Ministers could meet. But again the French Cabinet re- jected the British proposal on the ground that a meeting of Ministers would not "bring any further clar- ification". There was nothing more to be done, I 0 D That is the story of the negotia- tion. It still leaves one rather puz- zled by the repeated insistence of the French Government that Brit.- aln would be excluded from dis- cussions unless the British Gov- ernment subscribed to a declara- tion to which it was quite evident it. would not. subscribe. If the dec- laration would really not commit. anybody to anything why the in- sistence on it? And why refuse to have this made quite clear in the declaration itself? The motives re- main obscure. , why. on the other hand. it. may be asked, the refusal of the Brit- ish Government fo commit. itself? That surely is as obvious as the other is obscure. It is not. a mere question of correct or even wise procedure. For the proposed for- mula is one of vast implications going far beyond the immediate subject of discussion. Whether or not. it is is binding commitment. it would announce its an objective of British policy the acceptance of the transfer of sov- ereign power, in one of the most. important fields of our national life. from Parliament to 3 supra- national authority. That. would be I "limitation of sovereignty", it would be a transfer of internal sovereignty to an external body. independent of Parliamentary con- trol. That is something -which raises tremendous issues. It in- volves ll. constitutional revolution affecting the very basis of Parlia- mentary democracy. To expect 5 British Government. to declare itself in favour of such a revolutionary proposal at a week's notice without any consultation of Parliament and country was sure- ly to expect the impossible, O O D It is a fortuitous - but. perhaps fortunate-coincidence that just at this moment. this question of ac- ceptance of a supra-national auth- crity should be, in is different con- text, the subject of a considered statement by the national execu- tve of the Labour Party. The sub- ject is "European Unity" And. in- evltably. the possibility of the transfer of power from Parliament to some kind of "European" auth- ority is discussed at length. The Ilrsuinents ore based on three sets of considerations -- notional. deni- ocrntlc and socialist. The conclu- sin-.i is unhcsltating: that. in the existing circumstances, such it transfer of power in out of the question. it would have been in- deed grotesque if of. the very mo- ment the Labour Party woo reach- ing this conclusion, the Labour On Strawberries (New -York Times) ' ,Tl-ie Anglo-Saxons were caning them strawberries a thousand years ago, and thanking June for them. The story goes that the ancient Angles liked to go berry- tng but were short. of baskets, so they simply strung the fruit on such straws as they found in the field. That, ft is said, is how strawberries got their name. It sounds like I wuto of that noc- tor juice which make: I. unw- berry worth eating; but it. may be only another legend. The fact remain that strawberries have reddened the lips of mankind for many, many generations. Until just. over I hundred years ago, however. they were the small sweet, wild berries of the open fields. By most. accounts the Hov- ey was the first tome strawberry and was originated in Massachu- setts in 1834. After that dozens and even hundreds of varieties were evolved, including tasteless giants so well as thumb-size ber- ries with almost as much flavor as the wild progenitors. And most. of them have flowers pretty enough to pick-if one didnit. stop to think that every unpicked flower will be- come a luscious mouthful of sweet- ncss. A good strawberry bed. in in good season, is one of the most satisfying components of any gar- den. This has been a good season, with just the right. amount of rain and sun and wind and humid- ity for strawberries. They are fat and i-ed-checked now- and don't think that such wild creatures as cotbirds. chipmunks and small boys aren't well swore of it! Why, by the way. don't. such creatures of the wild so hunt for the wild berries? Anyway. straw- berries are ripening. and the sweetness of June and the whole essence of early siimmer is in their flavor. The old Anglo-Saxons knew whot. they were about when they went ben-ying in June. And so do we. j. Govemment wore pledging itself to a completely conlrrai-y policy. But. this is not a Party matter. No British Government, of whatever Party. would, or could have done otherwise. Why then have other Govern- ments been wllllng to do what the British Government has declined to do? That is their affair. Most of them are understood to have accepted the French assurance that the declaration does not in my way commit them - that it does not, in fact. mean what it. very plainly says. What they consider it to mean we shall presumably see as the Paris negotiations proceed. But I. for one, shall be very surprised if we find that any of them (includ- ing the French) have in fact as- i-ced to any real transfer of pow- etc from their own Parliaments to an outside high authority, or to accept the decrees of that author- ity as binding on their citizens. If that proves to be so, the Brltlsli Government-'5 attitude will be fully justified. BUFFALO. July 4 -(AP)-Bub falo has arrived at the and of tho trollcycor cm. Last Saturday the Niagara Transit corporation run the loot trolleys. Buss replaced home? Compare that cost with tho cont Ooinpi-olionolvo Fire llllilllloei them . Did you ever think how big o job it would be. if you bod to go to work and rebuild and-rofurnlsli your . modern f"(lI3C.:R.o'9m Jgoncioo minutes! C35 MIQZHN y EIDVIIVOII P1! CXIIIQIG B ..--..--.-.-..-..--.--.....------- - - ' - - 'r EIIIIOS ' A --Notes" By New type of concryto in mode that requires no sand. some persons have tried to make concrete without cement.-no home owners have discovered. -Ho.mi.l- was Spectator. Total output of automobile: and trucks in Canada and the United States for the week ending June 9 is given as 200,660 vehicles. They'll soon have to add mother storey to the roads and highways.-(Hnm- ilton Spectator.) Lightening strikes the jut and unjust alike. In Florida. in one day it destroyed I church. killed an escaping convict and ” ocked down eight baseball players and an umpire. -St. Thomas Times- Joui-ml. A mung phylioiln nil he can tell the sex of A child before birth. We knew an elderly doc- tor who said that over)! baby would be a girl; if it was, he was right. and it it wasn't he never had I complaint from the parents. This is hard on the female sex, but is is true. -Pom-borough Ex- aminer. in 'thc area twenty miles around Moose Jaw in all directions the crops have never looked better. This is the opinion of farmers who freely admit. that the pros- pects are bright, though good rains in July will be required to bring the crops through. parti- cularly if that month produces ex- treme hoot. -Moose Jaw Times- Herald. The new P and 0 passenger liner "Chusan" of 24,000 tons gross, has been fitted with fins designed to promote stability in rough seas. She is by for the largest vessel to be so equipped. The appliance consists of two rectangular fins 12 feet by 6 1-2 feet. one on each side of the ship and projecting from the hull near the bilge. Each fin is mounted on o ohoft so or- ronged that the fin lo hydrody- nomicolly balanced. The forward velocity of the ship causes the water to exert. an upward force on the other. when not in use, the fins can be withdrawn into re- cesses within the hull line. First tests exceeded all expectations. We do not believe that union with the United States would automatically deliver to us the chromium-plated living standards displayed each week on the inside covers of Life magazine; and secondly, even if it would, we should still prefer ii lower stan- dard of living and political in- dependence. It seems to us much more likely that if Canada be- come just. another ten states of the union, our standard of living would be roughly like that of the states below the Mason-Dixon line. Once our political sovereignty had gone. we should be overwhelmed by being American financial power; .,.... . The Way - our induottinl system would be com up by the roots and dovetailed 1.. to the American productive mu. chino.-Calgary Herold. JULY 5. 1950 I We think that crmolom of Cum. diam for not speculating in um, country's xiztunl possession. should be directed more to in. big fellows than to the little fol. low . It. is not so many decode; no that o. mining man scarcely hoped for entry into better cluh circles, or the fnnncio! confines, of his country. That. doy has pug. cd. but there still lingers o feeling of doubt about mining in cei-huh, groups. Mining is accepted, of course, and mining men, but somg old-fashioned folks just; simply cannot grasp that this country ha; been enormously blessed with mineral deposits and that it 1; right and proper that these should be developed. -Northern Miner. We are not astonished that now. erol persons saw Hitler go aboard a yacht in Cannes. What ootonish. as us is that the story died when the yacht. arrived. without Hit. ler in Monaco. The people half. (laying along the Riviera In either be lazy or sadly lacuna ingenuity or they would have patched up their story somehow, For this is the silly season, thg fashionable time for weird and wonderful stories. From now un, til the end of July is open sea. son on flying ice cream cones, sea serpents and men from Mar The story about Hitler on o yach is. after all. Dretty ordinary. Ta confess, on such flimsy evidence, that. it isn't true is to break an the rules of the silly season... Saskatoon star-Poenlx. Q1119 Age-Old Story l.......................... The our that hooretb the repi-oo of life obldoui among the wine. I! that i-efuoofh instruction dooploe : hlo own loud: but he that hours i reproof getteth ' understanding. LONDON. July 4 - (Reufoi-Q Britain demanded expuia ion of Alols skoumsl. special so. tache at the Czechoslovak nnbosq in London. This action was o reprin. al for the recent expulsion from Prague of the third secretary as the British Embassy, Adrian Mo- Lsuglln. who was declared pei-song non grate on the grounds that ii had indulged in anti-govemm activities. Electrical contractor WIIUNG AND REPAIRING ERNEST IL RAMSAY. I29 Elm A" Phone 1068.! PROFESSIONAL cmzod Dr. A. L. Muclsauc DENTIST Dental X-Bay GLORIA BUILDING 119 Grafton Sf. Phone 29! Mufliosoii & Pocko A. W. MATIIESON. 8.0. A. ll. PEAKE. B.A.. LL11 Borriotoro, coo. Collection: - Mon v to loan oo Great George strum! Charlottetown j1Z-:1- Pclinor 8: Huslum A. J. IIASLAM. B.A.. I-A-I Bqrrlooei-, Eto- Bnnk of Nov: Soon: munben oiiuiocuoown. P-I-L MONEY 1'0 l1)AN J. A. McGuigun ll NOTARY. ETO. BABBISTEB. SUIJGITOI CUEIIIE BIIILDQG M. Albion Farmer Momiir to LOAN BA-. LLB. BAIIRISTEB, soucrron. In Charlottetown, P. E I. Dr. W. R. 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