,, 1, i l ,1 THE GUARDlAN '. Quin over! uukdly voonlnx II III Prince hired- tetnnn. P.l.l.. D! the Thomson Cnmr-any Lmutad r "Owns Pvt-re Idvud lllnd Llko the De!” Editor. Frank Walker General Manuu. In A. lunut branch offices at sununenirlt-. Moniaxue and ubertnn. Authorised as second Clan lhil by the Pou omce Department. man. '83- Clrrlrr. ChIl'ltIllI'lIIiIn. sunimemde its on per an- -vum. Ellrwhere in P. E. I seen. other Prmtncra and t". S. ll2.no per annum ; "Tho strongest-memory is weaker than the weakest Ink." ' MONDAY. JULY 25.” 1955 12 -ow: Firemen's Tournament Everything is set now for the big Maritime Firemen's Tournament -.which opens officially with a wet- coming banquet and firemen's ball this evening. There will be a full gweek's festivities, including street parades, fireworks display and oth- er entertainment features in addi- tion to the tournament itsclf. uhiclt takes place on Werlnesday evening at the Driving Park. This popular event is thoroughly in keeping with the spirit of our civic centennial ccebrations. It will recall to :(iil'rler citizens many similar events ol the past. featuring stirring contests .ah(l exhibitions of skill and aihlItlll' prowess by our fire liglilers lrom all parts of the Klaritimes. In the old days there were few other distrac- IIl'lllS. and the tournament was the -hi-1 event of the season. ('il't'-llllll;.' par-pie to (liarlottetown from all parts of the Island, as well as from line neigliboring Provinces. It should s”ll make a strong popular appeal. rl there is every reason to expect that this year's attendance will be large and enthusiastic. - Certainly there is no of hien more entitled to a hearty t'lHC t)IlI' lioily welcome than the members of our Maritime Fire l')eparlments. The Fire Chic.fs' convention here last week was one of the most successful in the organization's loin: liistory, and the local department is going all out to make this week's gathering the biggest and best ever held. Our citizens generally will wish them ev- ery success in this ambitious en- deavour. Protest Registered Prompt attention has been called in the House of Commons by Mr. Neil A. Matheson, Liberal MP. for Queens, to the unsatisfactory ruling of the Board of Transport. Commis- aibneis in the mat.ter of the railway application for discontinuance of local passenger train services. As Mr. Matheson pointed out. although the discontinuance of the eastern ' service will be inconvenient to many Islanders, the cut in the freight service will be I much more serious matter and will adversely affect Iihout one-half of the farming pop- ulation of Queens as well as the en- tire district of Kings. He noted that the Transport Board had granted discontinuance of rail service in one end of the Province but not in the other; this indicated that the decis- ion was in the nature of a comprom- ise and "compromises were rarely satisfactory." .1 There is no question but that Mr. Matheson has voiced the views of the entire Province on this question, and that his colleagues in the House. as it ell as in the Senate. will fully indorse his statements. The Provincial Government may also be expected to register its protest in due form. in the meantime. Mr. Matheson's attitude shows that he is concerned less with politics than with the overall interests of the Province. and particularly of his own constituency. He has taken a coin- mendable course in speaking out promptly and emphatically on this subject. Man-Made Islands Man-made islands standing on long steel legs above the sea. like motionless herons. are appearing off United States shores in growing numbers, reports the National Geo- gr phir Society. An entire archipel- a ome 600 oil-drilling platforms --sprouted off the Gulf coast of Texas and Louisiana in the last eight years. Sometime this summer the first "Texas Tower". I huge radar sentry pool, literally will let down its feet in the Atlantic Ocean, 100 mila or more east of Cape Cod on ,GeO1'ges Bank. These stations on sea tilts Ioa.roeLv class as "land", al- tllrmgh they certainly are surround- ed,-by water. Kids of steel and con- rankiu, fixed, inhabited vnornrlpblfus-autcd bymap Mississippi Delta to the Rio Grande. Some rest on permanent pilings driving into the bottom. Others are submersible barges. whose upper platform remains high above the water while the main hull sinks to become a solid foundation. The fantastic Texas Towers, how- ever. carry their own legs. They push them down to the sea floor, then jack themselves up above the highest waves like a boy shinnying up a pole. Already used for oil-well rigs and at Thule air base in Green- land as piers, they will take the form of huge triangular platforms, 200 feet on a side. for the Atlantic radar sites. Five such guard posts are planned in a 1.000-mile chain from the Virginia Capes to Newfoundland. They will stand on the continental shell, an undersea plain reaching as far as 200 miles offshore. Rotating crews of radar specialists will man the stations. probably a month at I time. Sea toners for defense are not lieu. Britain built anti-aircraft bas- tions in the Thames estuary and along the Channel coast in World War II. Moles. breakwaters, and liglitiiouses st and above shoals around the world, but seldom so far from sliore. Ancient Tyre and medi- eval Venice rose to greatness on islands enlarged and reshaped by man. Many a huge new island has emcrgi-rl from the North Sea as the Dutch hodly pushed forward their dikes. One man-made isle upon which a city of towers and pavilions rose in a year uas 'lli'cas1irc Island in San Fl'2illClSf'0 Bay. Site of the l9.'l9--if) Golden (late International Exposition anti now a Navy base. its 400 acres elm-rut-ti from the bay as engineers drew an outline with dumped rock, then pumped 2(J.0()0,0()O tons of sand and mud into it. By similar dredging of l-liscaync Bay. Florida, a good part of :Vliami Reach and entire new islotitls behind it were built in one of the world's greatest resort develop- ments. Washington, DC, dipped into the Potomac River at its door to re- niake its waterfront, creating the .'l'.lT-acre East Potomac Park, com- plete uith golf course. where only water lay before. Airport Expansion It is reassuring to note, on the authority of Transport Minister Marler in reply to a question by Mr. Neil A. Matheson, that the extension of the present Charlottetown airport runway will in no way prejudice a further application for larger ex- tension at a future date, which will enable larger types of planes to op- erate here. The amount placed in the estimates for the current year is ft'ltlfl,tl00 but the entire project now to be undertaken, extending the present rumvay from 2.800 to 4,000 feet, will cost in the vicinity of .li200,000. So long as it is fully understood at Ot- tawa that this is a temporary mea- sure. and that a much larger ex- tension permitting the accommoda- tion of 4-engine aircraft is required, we can accept. the present with satisfaction. This Province cannot go abead.' however, unless it is fully abreast of the times so far as facilities for commercial flying are concerned. With the cutting down of our train services it is all the more important that our transportation facilities be supplemented by modern air traffic. Adeouate runways are expensive to build. but we have every reason to insist that we be placed on equal footing with other provinces in this connection. We have flying condi- tions here that are unsurpassed in Canada, and our geographical situ- ation gives us an excellent oppor- tunity of expanding in air services if proper ground facilities are pro- viderl. EDITORIAL NOTES Mussolini resigned this date, 1943. O O I The next thing on the scientific utility program is a paper raincoat to be distributed from vending ma- chines and discarded after one wot- ting. ! 2 O Britatn is reported to be con- cerned over the fact that her trade deficit with Canada is growing. Canada's S-xpbrts to Britain in the first five months of 1955 totalled S321,500.000, while import: were Sl57,000.000, leaving Britain with I trade deficit of 5164,500,000, which from I Canadian standpoint it good. since thb represents for us I nur- plus. But it is I question whether lhh I rdlktlc. i project p it's Tournarrielnt Week -TNoies Of A Naturalist On Charlottetown Harbor From an article signed "D" 'It'I'IlllL'lS Baini in the Daily Ex- aminer, July, 1882 There is no fairer set-nc among all the broad landscapes of the I)ommion than the harbor ol Cliarlottclown. surrounded by its hills of summer green. Let us mount the elevated hill on Warren Farm, crowned by the old French fort, and have a view of its features. The swift tide of the Narrows gushes in blue streaks just beneath our feet. Before its the. gleaming, flashing. dappling. azure and silvercd surface of the harbor sports in the sunlight: on either hand stretches the low swell of bills. wrapped in the fresh vendurc of cultivated fields and groves: beyond rise the elevations of the interior, swell upon swell. their dark groves purplcd by the growing distance: and, in front of them, the town. with its thick grouped masts. and spires. and crowded houses. nestles right down by the border of the wave. As we lie on the grassy rampart of the old fort and enjoy the freshness of the sea breeze coming through the harbor entrance. we view the scene in all its loveliness. The summer sky bows over the shining wave, and rests it's amber verge on the purple hills beyond: the pearl-tinted cloud casts I soft shadow as it passes over the gleaming surface. The attenuated mistiness of the sea air throws I delicate softness of panelling on all the colors of field and grove. and up the broad valley of the Hillsborough. where the low hills recede to the horizon, it clothes them in tints of the softest aerial blue - that'great valley of the Hillsborotuzh where the waters recede till they almost mingle with the verge of the sky. It is a long trough Oscoopcd out of the upper Permian rocks, and its southern extremity forms the Charlottetown harbor. o . o The history of this valley is peculiar. Before the red rocks of our island were laid down in the Gulf, when the Carboniferous st- rata alonc formed its bed. there existed here a synclinal valley in that system. Through it the horeal currents passed on their way to the south. through the Bay of Fundy; and. during the deposit- ion of the Permian strata. they still keep the valley open in the same line. Thus, it happens that the valley of the Hillsborough has a north-easterly and south-west erly direction, while all other im- portant valleys of the Permian. run nearly east and west. How different most have been the scenery around, when the valley was first formed at the close of the Permian. Then. as far as the eye could reach. there was nothing but one vast spread of sandy shoal, partly left bare in smooth ripplcd surface. partly covered by shallow, Aurbirl waters. and partly consisting of for-extend ing reefs, where the while break- ers. falling in from the deep sea. thundered the eternal swell of ocean's nnthcm. But right through the middle of the shoal and break- er. there runs a deep blue str it where the boreal poured its tide on its mission southward to cool the heated tropics. I O O The red rock: round the harbor are mostly composed of the bould- or clay formation. This formation spreads everywhere over our 13- land. It consists of red clay, sand, gravel, and stones: and has I depth of from three to thirty feet. In every part of these banks which we may examine. we will find numbers of worn, smoothed, and scratched or glaciated . I to n e 3. bearing ample evidence Item! of ice in its fonnatloo. Floea of marine Ice. doubtless. had much to do with the formation of the boulder cl-y; but the evidence of.tlIe operation of glaciers, or creeping land ice, in producing Home of In future: II abundantly Ippsrent. At Rocky Point. I little Ooitho west of the "want: ectiun down the slope of the land, though, in one case. this northerly, and in the other easterly. At the inoulh of Mill Creel.. on ilr. Howard's farm. an ancient glaciel moraine forms the river bank, and the masses of rounded and glac- iated stones which it contains are well exposed to view. At Brighton shore a smilar instance is seen. V 8 ' Here and there along the shore we may find a block of grey gran- ite or diorile. or. more rarely, I fragment of dark Laurentian rock. These were dropped from bergs or flows of ice. which careered over the Island when it. was sunk deep beneath the waters of" the boulder sea. The granite rocks come from Nova Scolia. but the boulder rocks were borne from the far coast of Labrador. What a story these banks of boulder clay reveal! They tell of the upward march of the sea with destructive tread over the whole surface of our land. They tell of the reign of an Arctic winter. when snow, mountain and ice- field. berlz and glacier filled tha scene with their deathly glare. 'neath the hottest summer suns. The cold of the boulder period is now referred to astronomicalg causes; and is supposed to have been produced by the occurence of the northern winters in the time when the earth was in that part of its orbit most distant from the sun. If this theory is correct, then that red band of clay and stones will represent I period of the earth's history ten thousand years in duration. Round the harbor in various places, immediately underlying the boulder clay, we have small out- LTODDIIIES of rock. They consislt uoppings of rock. They consist stone beds, of the Permian form- ation. Though we find these beds in Immediate conjunction with the boulder clay, yet an immense gap in time separates the two. The whole of the secondary period, with its monster reptilian forms. and the Tertiaries, with their mighty mammals, had passed away between the deposition of those red sandstone beds and that of the clay banks which repose upon them. - (To Be Concluded) Franco's Fauro (Ottawa Journal) one of the extraordinary things about France is that she seems to have an inexhaustible supply of politicians to take the place of those she- keeps Iendin into eclipse. . In this country we put one set of men into office. keep them there for decades and ask our- selves the while "who would we put in their place?" in France they get rid of I pro- mier almost every week-end and invariably come up with some- body also reputed to be In good" or better. A few months ago it was Mendeli- Frsnce; he was the man of the hour. shaking Frenchmen out of their lethargy. shaking Eur '- chpncelleries as well. Men as- France disappeared. and we have heard little of him since. Yet at Geneva today there hi I French premier who is sold to in little short of I genius. the only Western premier who Ipeah Rug. slIn fluently the monks three oth- er langusges as well). who mg I bl; In practice, and who. It is uld. writes detective stories for fun. Of him I writer In the London Observer IIyI that If he ll 9'! Yttllnlul Ind lent power- " '- I for r highest I ". T, M France over the put a or Q Year: has had some bad leaders. She has had IlIo some out Ind famous onea- and have may soother. ---:-A--mm.-. - Avxuor not now . N.l.. (cm-Am M! II! the nu-aviary VIIIHM Q3 hm'm"' Rewriting History For Richard III You would not recognize old ('l'tItlixI)3Ck any more. Richard Ill of 15th-century England. long charged with mur- do.-ring the line princes in the tower, is being outfitted with a sparkling new reputation. The tailoring job-perhaps cut on the bias-is beinn erformed by a group of thcatrica and pro- fessional people who decided last summer that nearly 500 years was long enough for Richard to skulk through history as ahunch- backed slayer. They banded Iocelher as Friends of Richard lll. lnc.. ded- icated to making a gentleman out of Richard. Among Richard's latter-day friends are Helen Hayes. Char- les MacArthur. Richard Aldrich. Stark Young. Rnhcrt YlInnt"om- ery. Mrs. Ed Sullivan, James Thurber and Cornelia Otis Skin- ner. CHANGING HISTORY . Their idea of an lionorable Richard plays hub with the his- tory books. He has long stood convicted in the public mind of a handful of reprehensible murders, mostly of people lined up be- tween him and the throne. Oyer the centuries there have been those Who suspected Rich- ard was given a first class job of character assassination. There little doubt that Henry VII. Richard's enemy and successor. scrapped the actual records,and paid back historians to write the account of Richard's brief reign. And these suborned chruniclcrs --as the friends like to call them -were Shakespeare's sources for his historical tragedy "Richard lll". which portrays the last Plantagenet King as one of the craftiest monsters that ever usurped I throne. 2.000 nor: BOOKS i Secretary and bend of research for the friends is Natalia Hays Hammond. She is getting togeth- er the last of the documentation and letters for a 2,000-page book. Miss Hammond points to a pile of papers: "Our research shows clearly that Richard had no mo- five for committing the alleged crimes and further. his twn-year reign--he was killed at 32 you know-was marked by wise and beneficial legislation. In short. he was I popular, intelligent monarch. quite enlightened for the period". Among the murders laid at Richard's door are those of King Henry VI and his son Edward. Richard's wife, Anne, and his brother George and the two lit- tle princes. Edward, Prince of Wales. and Richard, Duke of F4 5 Medically Speaking IyllonnIIN.IInlIIII.ll.D. WAKE rr Mar. to AV0lD' GETTING A HEAT STROKE SUMMER II I Ieuon of free- dom, relant-loll and fun for most ofu.s,butltmIyIlIobcIuIIon of undue siren. 'Wetandloworli toohardand to play too hard. While it's never Idvluhle to do anything to ex- cess, this advice becomes even more important during the hot, sunny, sultry day: which Ire now upon us. HOW THE BODY IIEACTS I don't want to spoil your sum- mer fun, but let's look reIlkt.lc- ally It what you are up against In warm weather. Let's see how your body reacts and what might happen if you don't follow this. advice. Statistically. your chances of dying during the summer are less than -those in the winter. Gener- ally, death rates in July and Au- gust run about 3.5 per 100,000 population. The winter peak com- monly runs over 10. OVER-EXERTION You lower your individual odds. however. by over-exerting your- self,in the heat and sun. Hard muscular work tthis means play as well as labor) pro- duces great heat even in I well- trained person. You never turn more than one-third of the en- ergy you generate into work. The other two-thirds are converted in- to heat. If you are not well trained -and I think this goes for many of you who try your hand at strenuous summer games -, all but 10 to 15 per cent of your food energy is lost through heat. Now your body has I built-in air-conditioning unit - sweating. You perspire and as the sweat evaporates it cools your body. Any condition which hinders this evaporation. such as high relative humidity, lack of air movement and thick, heavy clothing. pre- vents this air-conditioning systenF from functioning properly. EXCESS HEAT b That excess beat you are man- ufacturing cannot be icgulnted adequately. Consequently. you are apt to become overheated. A serious condition resulting from failure of your heal-regu- lating echanism is heat-stroke. or sunstroke. QUESTION AND ANSWER. W.T.: Is double vision serious? Answer: Double vision may in- dicate that some serious disorder is present. affecting the brain or the muscles which control the .movcmcnts of the eyeballs. It might also occur in disturbances in other parts of the eye. Immediate examination by your physician and an eye specialist would be advisable. V1? i..nv.ifTTh ('0-wrap FLEET STREET I never see the newsboys run Amid the whirling street. With swift untirlng feet, To cry the latest venture done. But I expect one day to hear Them cry the crack of doom And risings from the tomb. with great Archangel Michael l19Ill'J And see them running from the lleet As messengers of God. with Heaven's tldmu shod About their bray: unwoarlni feet. -Shane Leslie The Age Old Story out of Zion. the perfection cl beauty. God hath Illlned. PERSONAL MARK REGINA (C?)-Winnipc sculp- tor Hubert Gunter leaves his personal mark on every job: on I telephones-building panel ho carved the likeness of one of the architects: in the delicate frieze around the 31,000,000 provincial museum Q placed I tiny mer- maid in company with native Saskatchewan fish. TTPIRUFTESSIONAL CARDS i BARRISTERS. SOLICITORS. Etc. loll. Matheson & Foster I50 Elcbmond St. J. mar Blanchard. B.A. I65 Qloea St. Phone 4232 K A. Farmer. Q.C.. LLJI. Bill OPTOMETRISTS G. F. llutclieson 8 Son r. G. nurcnnson. Lo. 3 Grafton at. out J. A. Osrrutlners. 3.0. Ian on. mu an or Commerce Bldg. III II J. Grant. 0.D. mm bbinivrv '3 Kzml Dill 5311 A. wine: Good LL.B. '- 3- T'lY""'v 3-0- --- --2" 't5--- - 63.: i..2-.:-.::.- Palms II! II ll.J.Ilabon.ll.0. In-I ag,u:n ....'.'.. Tldg. M-I-an P. I. I. Iotbosol. Peaks 0 V mm. CHIROPRACTOR rn onus: Dr. W..I. Oarsoa I A. It Prhss I. on on is. I. ll . ..........””"'t.l..'t... ezzt;-5-t--i-...... Ilocrloo I , ' M I. .. Twig; an a-union. CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS -y IolIONAlDoOlIIlIlIW. ' I.I..DOANlI0&A!l! Ilaounaumamamh .f if NOTES lav THE war he may hlnlllu (In that children names that sound 'Iristo- cntic rather than one that lend themselves easily tb being yelled from the buck step: It mu! lime. -Strltford Beacon-Herald. A tumor: fulllol expert says that in 250 years women will wear virtually no clothes because they will have achieved "perfec- tion of body". In this hot weath- er we have seen several who ap- pear almost to have reached that desirable goal-an well Is I great many others who have merely achieved perfection in self-con- fldence.-Peterborough Examiner. Pullng III! on streets and highways in the winter has proved an effective way to com- bat ice and snow. But the cor- rcslve action of the salt plays hob with car bodies. Now it wont! appear that the salt is hard on the street surface. ton. Sud- bury's city enginee is blaming salt for destroying a pavement that was laid only last year. He said "admixes" are being added to the concrete this year to pre- vent a repetition of the trouble. Sudbury's experience prompts a few questions: Was the salt ap- plied in large quantities? Or was the new pavement not up to specifications? - Kitchener- Wit- crloo Record. A Sock That Rock'ed (Associated Press Plymouth. England) PLYMOUTH. England tAPl- Why did the sailor suck the ad- miral? And why did he choose to do it on parade in full view of outraged officers and astounded shipmates" Shaken to its core, the Royal Navy Thursday called in a psy- chiatrist to help get the answers. The sailor-a 22-ycar-old Scot not yet named officially-was to ap- pear bcfore a preliminary investi- gating court today. Meanwhile-, he is in a cell. The swipe that made naval his- tory was uncorked WcfIllPSt'l-'l,V as Vice-Admiral John William Mus- grave Eaton inspected the men of the maintenance ship Berry Head. Witnesses said the sailor sud- denly rushed the admiral. jolted him with three or fottr blows and knocked his gold-braided cap over the side into the sea. They saidhthe 52-year-old ari- miral defended " .-clf gamcly. but was no match for the six-foot sailor. The admiral stands five feet, six inches. He had to have a two-inch cut over the right eye fixed up. Some crew members said they believe the sailor was fed up with inspections. POLIO CONSCIOUS EDMONTON ICPI-Salk polio vaccine has been given to 9.185 ..Edmontonians. the city health department reports. The total includes 306 expectant mothers. MINING DEVELOPMENT EDMONTON (CPt-.A rccurd year for mining is shaping up in the north, says the Alberta and Northwest Chamber of Mines. It says more than 1.000 men have been placed in mine jobs during the last three months and devel- opment work i.I underway In many areas. Emergencies , Simply on your promise to repay I When your paycheck worn cover Inspected qolh do as thousands of others do. Get extra cash the modem. busincsslikc way . . . from Household Finance. Loans made without endqrsers. One-day scrvice. Simple f6l-lUlWmmi5- Borrow with confidence from HFC You'll be pleased with HFC's fast, friendly servicc. pleasantly surprised at the sensible terms. Thatis why WC serve more people than any other company in our field . . . why HFC is Canadals largest and most recommended a Pop4'l1n Inns of Canadian Iqlllult-s luaroovhialalvodusiyg, t 'It. Is. under-stood. bowovu-, ch; 1.. males will combine on the seven. day week.-Fort William Tim”. Journal. T The dad whose father gave M. 8100 if he abstained from amok. tug until he was twenty-one now has a daughter who won't do it for less than I roadster.-Ed. monton Journal. ' - And now there's I not about Daniel Boone. Th is probably means the coonskin caps will I); good for another season; but In awful lot of T-shirts are going to have to be relettered.-l-lIm- ilton Spectator. We all know the type of mu wlio grinds the cigarette out on your carpet. We have most of us suffered from the man who leaves a cigarette burning on our mantle-piece or favorite piece of furniture. We know the careless way he throws away a match and taps out his pipe on his heel. This is the man who is setting the bush fires which are now costing taxpayers untold'tI1oua- ands of dollars. The man who is careless at home or when visit- ing. is doubly careless when he is in the bush. To him. the whole world is his ashtray, and he couldn't care less what uwone thinks about him or his dirty hahibs.-Sault Ste. Marie Star. Sad, and is the lot of the Jolly fat man! In Kitchener. 0ut., he is now going to have to pay 35 cents extra for his breadth of beam. It seems that some of the wider patrons of the Kitchener arena have been complaining that the present. l7-inch seats are inadequate. So the management is going to install 20-inch seats in some sections and charge two- bits more for lhem. The news. of course. will be very gratifying to those thin types who up to now have been the paper-like pieces of ham between two solid slabs of starch. No doubt their counterparts in B.C. will be Id- vancing. shortly, upon the man- agement of the Empire Stadium with similar proposals. It is enough to make a fat man so sad that he'll eat. himself 25 cents wi(lcr.- Vancouver Ifrovince. AUTHORIZED i m DEALER Licensed Wlrlng contractors REFRIGERATION We sell, install and ser- vice refrigerated counters. walk-in coolers. also House hold refrigerators. C. G. E. Vacuum Clean- er and Polisher Rental ber- VICE. MOTORS & APPLIANCES We sell and repair all motors, washers and elec- trical appliances. Storey Electric 175 Grafton street PHONE 3287 VG consumer finance compony., uulm um Why not OI" i .'..-s.. ...--'.'..v-.'. -'.-.-.-.'.:' ""1 '-d-v' mu: slut n '30 I0 "300. not in - . ,,,. .. on your proruloo nus out so ' 1-guppy MONIY WIIIN YOU IIID I1 w.Ioi.a-,-an-nip: Ioooucuooovuoltqdni. Vac.-.. mrouolllf