bland, and shipped back from there to Can- vooooinrrlnoe . . H PAGE roux 'THE GUARDIAN Authorised no second Ulou Moll Past Ofllco Department. Otlawt Thu llluid F " fuhulhiug 010. UIBCULATION Toto! City lone ................ 3.185 Retail Tndlng Zone .................... 3.451 E; All Others .. .. ...................- Total Net Pnld .. M .... .. 13-046 Editor nn-I ftliumglng illrectnr. 3- K Jilflen Auociaw Editor, FIIIIH Wlllusr. "The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink" CHARLOTTETOWN SATURDAY, FEB. 3, l95lk A Too-cominwi Menace National Health Week is being observed across Canada next week, and in this Prov- ince the Provincial Health Department is stressing particularly the ravages caused by the common cold, and.the means of treat- ing this highly contagious respiratory dis- ease. In a bulletin issued by the Depart- ment in this connect.ion, it is pointed Out that there are about 2.5 colds per person each year. This would mean that in Prince Edward Island there might haw P99” something like 235,000 colds last year. If for each cold there were three to five d'dy5 of illness (the average duration of a cold) there might have been 705,000 to 1,175,000 days when some people in the Island were feeling miserable. If not actually absent from school or work, they would not have been at their best while performing their tasks. . Many people do not realize that 3 slight cold in one person may mean some- thing much more serious when spread to someone else--such as infection of the cars. or sinuses, or pneulnonia-according to the individualls susceptibility and. laclx of resistance. Infants and YOUNZ Child)?” seem to be more susceptible to colds than others, for which reason every attention should be given to early symptoms. Md "3 the taking of precautionary measures against more serious implications From I). 5. Via Holland Queer things happen sometimes when Governments participate -in business. In its current. issue, "Canadian Grocer tells of one of them which has to do with dried ' fruits produced in California, sold to Hol- ada. Last fall, the United States Government bought up quantities of California prunes and raisins for shipment to certain Euro- pean destinations, among them Holland. The merchandise was sold to Holland under a substantial subsidy 'ciI'PanL!Em8nt. Wash- ington paying the subsidies. On. mediuni- . size prunes, for instance, the subsidy was 3 per cent of the cost, and on the smaller size, It per cent. Bill Holland, according to the trade paper, did not keep all these prunes and raisins. Apparently to get dollars, she dis- posed of about 25,000 boxes of prunes and 15,000 of raisins to Canadian buyers at prices nicely below what we in Canada could buy them for direct from California. This put those buyers who got the U. S. dried fruits that went to Holland andback to Caiiarlzi in at favorable l3FiC0. D05m0".- but made it difficult for other firms who had to buy direct from California, to com- pete. ”Canadian Grocer" adds that the Cal- ifornia Dried Fruit Export Association has been much exercised over the deal, and has taken the matter up with WaShin8t0n- '1E was stipulated on the cases that the dried fruits could not come back to the U. S. A.. but there was nothing arranged to pre- vent their being "dumped" into, Canada- ........Aj-sew- Hidden Taxes Some new light op the proposer! W9- vincial sales tax is thrown in an article in the Montreal Star. The article points out that when the Federal-Provincial Confer- ence met last year, the Provinces declared their need for greater revenues. The Do- minion was not prepared to admit the Provinces to any bigger share in corpor- ation or inheritance taxes than they now have, and it wants to retain the income tax. In these circumstances. the proposal made by some of the Provinces for a sales tax had to be considered. The proposal was for a tax on retail sales, sometimes called a turnover tax. That is, a tax on all retailers on their gross sales, to be collected, not as some pro- vincial taxes are collected now, by an add- ition to the purchaser's bill, but at the source. The proposed tax would be a hid- den"-tax. The consumer would not know directly that he had paid it, but the amount of the tax-or as much of it as the re- taller could pass on-would he added by ""3 . retailer to the selling price of the 8005-5- Inv view oftbe fact that some of the ivrovhiociuxenlreodycolkcdnllltiei tax Edward Island in tax on liquor amendment. The reason is that existing provincial,sa1es taxes have- had to be framed in an awkward way because, super- ficially at least, they are unconstitutional. The only reason why the courts have per- mitted them is that the Provinces have ap- pointed all retailers as their agents. These agents have then added the tax to their individual bills of sale, thereby creating the tax legally into a direct tax, which Provinces could levy without constitutional amendment. The proposed tax, which it is believed would collect much more, would be levied not on the individual transactions but on the retailers' total turnover, and would he therefore levied on everything sold at rc- tail. Few persons are aware today that they are all paying an 8 per cent Federal sales tax. It is imposed at the manufacturers level, and is passed on through the whole- saler and the retailer to the consumer, concealed in the ultimate selling price. This may be an easy way for the Dominion to get money. But the new proposal is 1'01: an additional hidden tax, this time imposed at the retail level and not consciously paid. The mere fact that the tax would be hid- den would mean an open invitation to Pro- vincial Governments to raise it to the limit. . Once the Provinces enter the field of indirect taxation, there is reason to fear that they would encroach further and further and thereby undermine the basis of Confederation. EDITORIAL NOTES Tomorrow, quinquagesima. "o o o Lent begins next week with Ash Wed- nesday. I O 0 Mr. D. A. MacDonald, Potato Marketing Board, it is not exceptional for an organization to impose an assessment on its members and that it is done by the Dairymen's As- socititioli to defray the cost of advcrtisinrz butter and dairy products. lz chairman of the advises us that Although no time will be lost by the Federal Public Works Department in re- placing thc recently burned down labora- tory at the Experimental Farm, it will be months before it will be fit to be occupied by the staff. Meanwhile they will have to get along as best they can with the assist- ance of Fredericton and other experimental stations. 0 0 O Organized charities sometimes have their disadvantages. Take for instance the recent Water Street fire and eviction of women and children in their night clothes, an emergency call for aid if ever there was one. Notwithstanding that the Children's Aid Centre have a telephone, 2789-L, the Catholic Social Welfare Bureau, phone 1863, the Charlottetown Free Dispensary, phone 1464-J, it was left to L. P. U. to take the necessary action to rouse the sympath- ies and support of the charitably minded. On Thursday reference was made in these columns to a bond issue being launch- cd in connection with the defense pro- gramme announced -in the Speech from the Throne. The reference was erroneous in- asmuch as the issue referred to the United Kingdom and not the Canadian Govern- ment. A summarized Canadian Press statement from which the London dateline was detached and figures given in dollars and cents instead of pounds sterling, was misread as having emanated from Ottawa. 0 I 0 Nine years ago, on February 27, 1942, British Commandos raided German instal- lations at Bruneval and an important radio detector station, there was destroyed. . . Six years ago, on February 21, British troops in the First Canadian Army cap- tured Goch, near Cleve, and on February 22, the greatest air assault in history took place. Before dusk had fallen more than 10,000" Allied sorties had been flown. On February 26, Sgt. A. Cosens of Porquis Junction, 0nt., won the Victoria Cross for an action which cost his life in the fight- ing around Mooshof, Holland. Thomasw Woodrow Wilson, American statesman and 28th President of the United States, died this date 1928. He was a dis- tinguished student and university president before entering politics, becoming Governor of New Jersey and afterwards President. He played a crucial part in getting the United States in Great War I, and took an active part in directing the proceedings at the Peace Conference with his famous "Fourteen Points". He gave his approval to the appointment of the League of Na- tions, but. Congress fumed it down. In an endeavour to convince the nation of its necessity, he undertook a speech-making campaign, but his health broke down, and of ii . uinubulwhythe coioutmiomi be practically remained inactive till the end ' irals- be THE ' GUARDIAN, cnnanorrrrrowgx puauc ronum This column is open to the discussion by correspondent: of questions of interest. The Guardian does not necessar- ily endorse the opinion of correspondents. INCREDIBLE Sir.-I dont believe my friend Mr. J. O. C. Campbell is as fool- ish as Mr. Woodrow Wheatley says he is. 1 am, sir, cw. JOSEPH J. P. O'BRIEN. Ohurlottetown. SUMMERSIDE iVA'l'ER SUPPLY Sir. - In reply to the letter sign- ed by two water and sewerage conitnissloners which appeared in both The Guardian and The Pion- eer of Feb. 1st.. I rlvlsh to confirm the facts I stated in my letter in The Guardian of January 30th about the amount of water which can be pumped from the well on Upper Central street. My information was supplied by Mr. James Spinney. C. E... who was appointed by the firm of Whitman and Company, consulting engineers. to inspect the well. He informed me that before the well was started he advised that a six inch test hole be bored until the amount of water could be determined but was overruled by Commissioner Dewar and Va-ughim Groom. manager of the Ti-ask well company. Mr. Spinney also advised me that be measured this well to the 505 foot level and when he went back to complete the measurements he was advised by Commissioner Dewar that be, Mr. Dewar. had meas- ured the Well and had signed the cord certlf'ing the depth so that Mr. Spinngr would not be respon- sible for the measurements below the 505 -foot. level. Mr. Spinney also informed me that the amount of water which could be pumped from this well would be 100 imperial gallons per minute and considered this well to be a failure, and he was very much surprised to see a pump house be- ing erected on the site the next time he passed it, as he expected this well would be abandoned. I would like to know on what authority Mr. Dc-war tcok it upon his own sliouldoi-s to go against the advice of the consulting engineer who was hired by the Water and Sewerage Commissioners of the Town of Siimnierside to inspect this well regarding the size of the bore mid the depth. Ccinmissiruirrs Dciiai' and Suzu- ert stated in their letter that. the well being dug on Harvard Street was a continuation of it contract awarded ohe Trask Well Company for digging the well cn Central street. I think that the public upon reading :1 copy of bite contract would clearly see that. it. states one well and definitely not two or three. They also state that they expect the -well cn Harvard Street to pro- duce 300 gallons per minute. I would like to know if they expect the 12 inch well on Central street to produce the same amount. I have also been informed by a representative of a competent weil digging ccmpany that 500 gallons per minute can be pumped from an eight innh well without. any diffic- ulty. Then why should we dig a 12 inch well when it. six inch or nn eight inch well would do the re- quircd job. I have also had quotations for digging an eight inch well from a company which has boxed wells in many towns and cities in the Mar- itimes. The quotations were 37.00 per foot and 5100.00 for testing. I had a visit from the representa- tive of a well digging company who wished to tender on the well to be drilled on Harvard Street. find I called a meeting of the Commis- sioners, but. at the meeting I was informed by Mr. Dewar that this company could not dig a straight well, Then Mr. Dewar and Mr. Stewart proceeded to overrule mo and awarded the contract to the Trask well Company. I should like to know where Mr. Dewar got nls lnfcrmation regarding the capabil- ities of the firm I referred to. I am well aware that according to the fire undt-.rwi'it.ers report the Town is in urgent. need of more water, but I am at a loss to un- derstand why so much money must be'spent. to procure it. Fer in- stance why spend 37,950 to dig a 12-inch well producing 100 gallons per minute when the some result could be obtained from an eight inch well costing 33.700 for digging and testing which was the estimate supplied by the representative whom I interviewed? I have been informed by the en- gineer lit. the light plant. that the water pump there is pumping 180 minute from a six inch hole, withstanding the fact. that the pump is over 30 years old and no doubt. is considerably worn and not. producing its original capacity. I trust. these facts and figures will refute the claims made by Mr. Dewar and Mr. Stewart which ap- peared in their statement to the press. I am. all-,' etc. CARROI. DELANEY Chairman Water and sewerage commissioners. Su-mmerslde. J. P. MacPIiorsoIl & Son SUITS - TOPGOATS - 0VEIw()A'l'8 g s.Vvs.C;..A Mon'o tllothlnil Tblt Fill S 157 QUEEN 51'. ,2 of his term on March 4, 1921. i- V Know Your census Taker CREDENIIALS . ' 3' THIS BEING CENSUS YEAR, LUCIFER W. lfX)NEY, DISTINGUISHED IIMTEUR PSYCHOANALYST AND (IGAR BAND COLLECYOR. CAUTIONS: ANSWER ANY OF A FELLOWS 360 QUESIIMS UNTIL YOU'VE SEEN Ills " DON'T CAREFUL .' HE MAY NOT as , A census TAKER AFTER ALI... Tull nil, putty nuldemue than any more at home like you , STILL CDOSE He is beyond our sight, beyond our touch, The one we loved-and love-so very much. But may he not be nearer than He was through Life's abbreviated spun? I183! US. May he not feel our sadness and if-J0O(i(DO00:eO0&9E)& i Old Charlottetown i (And r. n. 1.) LOCAL IKANUFACTUBES "Messrs 3981' and Sons have, for some time, advertised as prepar- ing for the market a lot of ilsland made P9891113 and mowing mn- chlnes. In another column this machine. which is called the Is. llmd C113-mplon. is announced as "OW ready for sale. Yesterday afternoon we visited the establish. ment of Messrs, white, Mon-iseyg Butcher and Lowe, where these machines. twenty-two in number, are being manufactured. "Mr. Archibald White flutes the iron work; Mr. Edward Mon-lsey the castings; and Mr, Butcher. etl:., the carpenter work, and each in his own department, contri- our pain And yearn to whisper: parting is true gain When flesh is laid aside and spirits soar Above all earthly ills for ever- Indeed. oilr very resklciicc oni earth Is but an interval-from birth to l3irth-- A time for learning and n time for love, To tit us for that. Rendnzvoilsl Aboilc. . we shbal: not; no. we dare not. falli E ' l The best that. we can be. or have' him know That we are bowed with grief that blinds us to The tasks that. still remain for us. to do. we must not check his progress. or our own By looking baoksns loneliness is prone- We must go on, look up and try to smile And bridge, with rleeds of love. that "little whlle." - 1 -Laura M. Tennysoni (formerly Miss Laura Mitchell, of Charlottetown. now of A1liuin.bra.l California.) ' Last. Words Of A Pilot (London Daily Mail.) Records of the conversation be- tween air traffic control officers and the pilot of the Viking air- liner which crashed in fog at' London Airport on October 31' with the loss of as lives will be the) most. vital 'w1tnesses' when the public inquiry into the disaster: Automatic speech other British airports for some time. but this is the first time that they will provide important evidence at. an inquiry into a major accident. This evidence will include a word - by - word reproduction of the instructions given to the pilot, by radio-telephone by the man who was "talking him down" (mm the GCA van at the side of the runway. Ground Controlled Approach is the radar system installed at Heathrow and other airports to Ruidc an aircraft. down to the run- way in bad visibility. Pilots have instructions to "break off" and not continue their land- in: approach if they cannot see the runway after being "talked d?V;l'l:l" to within a certain distance 0 . opens in London on February 19.; recorders) no have been in use at Heiithrow and W a Second is has done well. We saw one or the (mowers at Messrs Beer and Son's iseed store, and we must say that it. is as near. and substantially built mid finished as those im- ported from the United states, 1;; some respects it is, in our opinion, on improvement on the Ame;-inn machines. "An objection often urged ilsallisl. the latter, is that in reap. ing, the inner wheel runs over the uncut grain. In the Island made machine. this is obviated by add. in: a. tooth to the blade or knife, and throwing the flange so much further out. Another improve. ment claimed for the latter refers to the wheel communicating the 'm0til'e power to the knife. The cogs on this wheel are very liable to tweak. In the Island mower 3 band runs round the outside 'rim of the wheel, and being cast; sand with it. strengthens the cogs. This is an improvement of Mr. White's Suggested by his experience in re. Wm"? Manny's mower and reaper. "Another advantage which the '1-flllnfi Chntnpionl machine has "V0!" Mmmy's is that the bar on which .he knives is rivetted is 3 Soon deal stronger. "Mr. Morrlsey's foundry is an establishment highly creditable go the enterprise of its propriety; and amply repays a visit. -rm; l.-iillding and extensive yard are nearly filled with castings, mould, and materials, giving a very 531, idea of the amount of busineg carried on. A ten horse power sieclm engine is in constant ope;-3. mm and Derforms the largest part. of the heavy work. But. one furnace was used here before: added to keep pace with the requirements of Mr. Moglseys customers. " enerally the hands d - ceed twelvr-.,, but lit. prgwrfi? will f:;:lWs1;19;I;Wa M01); hegvlyd orders our number fifteen." e u 85' they 4rhe' Islander, June 19, 1363. '-.-.-.n.-.-.-.-.l-.-i.-.-.-.-l.-i.-l.-l.-.-u-u-.-.-,- The Age-old Story h5N For God shall bring every work into Judgment with every not-ct : thing. whether It be good, or whggh. or it be evil mars, Feb. 2 -(AP):Dr. a. The record of the landing ap- proach which preceded the British ElH'l7De.'ln Airways crash on Oct.- ober at includes the comments made by the Viking pilot, Captain 8. D. Clayton. who was killed-in reply to the directions of the talk- down controller. Bi-omley Oxnnni of New York, Methodist. bishop, today accused Hollywood of helping communist .l!P0D-wands. by showing Ameri- .cnns ns "gangster-minded. over. sexed and luxury-mad." He said Communists have been "using our iown motion pictures to denounce the capitalistic system." . COMPLETE INSURANCE SERVICE fl1)'.aC.3it.o3m Jgonclea igtmited QMIIML IIt!i!t-"V-5 'FEBRUARY 3,; 1.5,; The years previous to and im- mediately following Confederation were politically strenuous. The land question. the railway quest- ion. the school question - those were all of is decidedly contro- versial nllture and Were respons- ible for many upsets of Govern- ment. Some idea of the brief llfc enjoyed by several of those Gov- ernments of the past. may be formed when I say that the mo- jorlty of my father's eleven polit- lcal contents were fought during his first ten years in the House. There was at great deal of lobby- in; between elections in those days and I can remember as a child my father being visited by such politicians as the Popes, Hav- lland. Brecken, and others who wished to sound him out on the questions of the day. My father started out as a Lib- eral in politics, but his uncom- promising views on the school question drove him into the ranks of the Conservatives with whom he ever afterwards remained. On the accesslo of the Sullivun'Gov- ernmcnt, he become in minister without portfolio and continued as such ivlder the MncLcod Gov- ernment. O C 0 During my years at St. Dun- stan's College. I frequently tit- tended the sessions of the House. At that time. the Government members sat on the right of the Speaker. as the right In the place of honour and the side on which all Government parties sit in iill Legislatures under the British Flag. Today, however. the Gov- ernment members in lhe Prince Edward Island Legislature sit in the left of the Speaker. Behind this unusual position there lies an interesting tale. . During the Premiership of thr- Hon. Fred Peters, there was an Opposition member named Cyrus Shaw. He was an able and fluent speaker ca-pable at times of rising to heights of eloquence. But. his voice, harsh. loud and strlrlcnt, irritated Peters szrciitlv. More- over, Shaw was addicted to sar- casm especially when he was di- recting his remarks to the Premier. soon became the custom the Premier, when Show rose to speak, to leave his seat. and take refuge in the room used by the Clerk of the House, To get to that room which was to the right and at the back of the Legislative Chamber. the Premier was obliged to cross the floor in front of the Speaker to whom. in conformity with Parliamentary procedure, he had to how. To avoid this incon- venience and to more readily reach the Clerk's room. the Prem- ier changed the seating arrange- ments of the House so that ii"- and his followers Slit to the left of the Speaker. All Island Gov- ernments have followed thp sunin practice since. it should. hoivcvcr. be discontinued and the former positions restnrerl. . O .-a so There is another practice which has no justification for its con- tinuance: the re-reading by the Speaker of the Speech from the Throne. When we had an UNI"? Memoirs Of The Hon. A. Former Premier and Retired Justice Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island showing that the 3'1”! E. Arsenaultsji Political History open the Leglslatur l before the LeEiBlai.ieVenCIt)!liI:ltCli.lo02'T The members of the Legmmve' Assembly, known as the Low! House. had the privilege of If lendlniz by standing about tn. Chamber. When they 1'9""-ned '3 the House of Assembly, um Sneaker would announce hi, 1", tcntlon of re-reading the Govern. or's speech because many 01 gh. Legislative Auemblymen might not have clearly heard His Hon. our's reading of the Speech in the Upper Chamber. I But now that there no longer is an Upper Chamber so that bou. Councillors and Assemblymen 3"; in the Leglslntlve Allembly, an need for A second reading of mu, Speech from the Throne has he. come unnecess y and could be construed as a reflection on His I-lonour's ability to make ml speech lntelll;z.lbi: (.0 the House. While on the subject of wing should be changed or abandoned. it appears to me that a. few 11. marks on our present Coat of Arms would be appropriate. Orig. inally. Prince Edward Island's Coat of Arms depicted a large oak overshadowing with its pfotectlvq branches in smaller oak. Below were the Latin words. "Parvn sub Ingentl"-"The small under the great." Two vertical grooves were shown in the small oak in the original Coat of Arms. Those grooves had been intentionally placed there for the purpose of Province wlu riivldcll into three Counties .. Prince. Queen's, and King's, Some years ago. however. flit College of Heralds in London pro- nared a new Coat of Arm: for the Province. Those entrusted Max the task apparently decided thu the two vertical grooves in tho small oak had been placed there for the purpose of showing that the small tree represented thru and not one. The new Coat of Arms. therefore, depicts three small trees growing under the shndow of one large tree. This llislnrilnn of tho Island's Coat d Arms has therefore made it n meaningless thing. The origin! of Cost of Arms as represented by the small tree with the two verb lcal grooves or dernarcating lint-I resting under the lzreat tree meant that Prince Edward Island with its three Counties of Prince Queen's. nnd'Klng's, wu untied the protection of the Mollie! Country. Another interpretation-a and a logical one-could be that the Coat of Arms represented A small island under the protection of a greater. 0 O I remember discussing the Ill'lV Coat of Arms with the late Arth- ur Newbiiry; then assistant Pro- vlncinl Secretary-Treasurer. The late Mr. Newhiiry hnd occupied lilz poslllnn for many years and was well ncnunintcd with all the de- lnlls of his office. He agreed with me that the Seal was wrong and meaningless. He told me that ii was the intention to have the mat- ter bmurzht to the attention of the Collcrze of Heralds. That was in 1913. But the month: went by. House. known as the L0l!i5ifliiV'3 Council Chamber. it was the cus- tom of the Lieutenant-Governor to war broke out, and the matter of the Coat of Arms was forgotten. (To be continued) PROFESSIONAL CARDS. "Bell 8: Matliieson BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, &c ILII. BELL, M. l.. A. DJ. MATIIIESON L. 1.. 8.. K. C. Attorney: of Law LOANS ON CITY AND FARM PROPERTIES 150 Richmond st. Charlottetown, P. It: -'--:-:s----m---- l John P. Nicholson. l.L.B. nlumis'rnn.'soi.ici'ron. Etc. in Prince st. Cb'town. Phone 2838 Gender 8: I-loszord GILBERT A. OAUDET. B. A., LL. B Barrister! and " ” Money to Loon . Clnndlnn Bonk of Commerce Bldg BYRON J. GRAN? 0.0. 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