PAGEFOU1! ,i g THE GUARDIA Authorised II locond Class Mail Post Office Department. Ottawa. Tho bland Guardian Publhhllg ca cmcuurion ' 9 Total City Zone 8 tall India: 10 .......................,.......... E . .M ..............3.. I21 lI.MD Editor Ind Managing Director. J. B. Burnett. Associate Editor, Frank Walker. f'Tho Strongest Memory as Weaker Than the Weakest Iok". ' CHARLOTTITOWN. THURSDAY. AUG-. 38. 1951 Frelght- Rate Equalization The railways have filed with the Board of Transport Commissioners a study on freight rate equalization which will be the subject of public hearings commencing Sept. 10. Two alternative plans are proposed in the study. one covering a general levelling off of rates but retaining the statutory preferences such as the Crows Nest Pass rates and the 20 per cent advantage on cer- nin Maritime rates. The other plan, favoured by the rail- ways, would retain existing differences be- tween east and west bound shipments be- tween various regions. Obviously the first plan is to be pre- ferred by Maritimers although it might be objected that it should go further in en- abling our products to enter the central Canadian markets. In opposing the actual disadvantages of existing rates we should N M33, 333 &n presei-if iii Canada pri3r-to7 those 20 years for an aggregate period '. . g .-rm: GUARDIAN. GHARLO'lTETOWN equal to twice the aggregate period of ab- sences from Canada during those 20 years." Under the Blind Pensions Act, allow- ances are paid in -the s:un'e manner as they are under the Old Age Pensions Act, the only change made being that the residence clause has been dropped from 20 to 1G years. Those who are eligible for the Old Age Pensions Act before January 1. 1952 with the means test, should continue forward- ing their applications to the Old Age Pen sion Board. It should be noted that legislation cov- ering assistance ..to persons in the 65 to 69 year group has not been yet proclaimed, and the Provincial Govcrnment, while fav- orable to the scheme, may require the sanction of the Legislature beforc taking action with Ottawa on a fifty-fifty basis. EDITORIAL NOTES Thanksgiving is gazetted for Monday, Oct. 8, just a few days more than a month after Labour Day, Monday, Sept. 3. O O 5 All circles are not vicious and the developing market for Kings green beans may well lead to the establishment of mar- ket gardening here on a substantial scale. 0 O O Ayrshire breeders are having a field day at the Experimental Farm today. closely following their having figuratively enjoyed a field day in R.O.P. listings as reported in not forget that we are entitled to a posi- tive advantage to more or less balance the tariff protection enjoyed by the industries of Ontario and Quebec. Pay For P. 0.VI. The demand that Canadian soldiers be paid by the Japanese for every day spent in concentration camps will be difficult I0 justify. Japan was not a signatory to the conventions providing PY0teCll0l'l 501' PI'150'l' ers of war and her treatment of them, which left very much to be desired indeed cannot be considered in the light of a breach of those conventions. Apart from that, it is only officers who are entitled to receive the pay of equivalent ranks in the captorls forces, supposing the conventions to be in force. Other ranks are entitled only.to proper pay for al'l.V work they are "required to do, which itself would represent a substantial sum for the unpaid forced labour which the Japanese imposed. ' Unsatisfactory as was their treatment at the hands of the Japanese, it would seem that Canadians who were prisoners of wai in the East should look to our own Gov- ernment for compensation. ' The Road Back The road back from the dangerous 3"” of socialism is not easy. It is, therefore, to the credit of Australiais Prime Minister that he is willing to attempt it, hard and tortuous though it may be. The first step towards unravelling the tangled skeln Of the sociaiistic regime which Preceded him- is Mr. Menziesl decision to tde-nationalizoi Amalgamated Wireless Inc., a government enterprise, by offering to sell the Govern- nentls 5192: interest in the organization to arivate individuals. , ' In countries such as the United Kini?.' zlom, where socialism has gone much far- ther than in Australia, the process of un- scrambling the eggs may be Well 3101"”- difficult. Winston Churchill has remarked on more than one occasion that some soc- ialist experiments in the realm of nation- alization may be irremediable. Socialism and Communism have in com- mon one quality that does not exist in pther political faiths. For both Socialism and Communism strike at the roots of the principle of private ownership, upon which the Rule of Law and democratic constitu- tional practice rest. The consequences, therefore, that follow in the wake of a socialist regime, extend far beyond a po- litical reverse in which they lose the reins of power. A Socialist victory, likewise, means a change in the whole economic and political system, not just I change of party and of policy. ' security Laglslatloii There appears to be I certain amount at confusion with regard to the old age security legislation soon to come into ef- fect. As of Jan. 1 the following sets will be in force in Canada: Old Ase Security Act; on Age Pensions Act: Blind Pensions 5 The first is the universal pension which based on proof of age and residence without the means test. The Imond provides asslstame to-the needy to 69 your group. vdth assistance based the mean test gpt unlike that under the present Old Age Pension Act with as- up 340 per month. In addition the moon test, the applicant "must have , . in Canada for the 20 years. im- i the" dot! 09. millen- -fIr'uIlIhneo.cr lIln.hI.InptI9'r9- iii”? the Ayrshire Review. 0 Ontario veterans hold their annual re- union at Cornwall on Sunday, when no fewer than 2,000 of the Legionnaires partl- cipated. Rain. however, played havoc with the celebration. I Thieves in Calgary broke into the John Howard Society's headquarters, and stole a dozen shirts intended for released prisoners in that area. If convicted they may find the shirts waiting them on their release. I O 0 Sir William Wallace, Scottish patriot. was executed this date 1305 after having been captured by treachery at Glasgow. He had long fought Edward I in the name of Baliol, who was Edward's prisoner. O O D It is not uncommon to tell an opponent to "jump into the river.” But the Mayo: of Magog went one better. of his own free and, what is more. lived to tell the tale. 0 I J The Island extends a very special wel- come .to the Rt. Hon. Arthur Henderson and his party. who are demonstrating the country. May they be the first of many ward. Garages and service stations are un- bors, particularly after a big fire. Perhaps, however, when world peace is restored they like butter and almost as safe. 0 O 0 New World record for milk yields has Faith Jan Graceful. This 13-year-old Frie- sian recently achieved a milk yield of 267,- 315 lbs., beating previous records by about 11 lbs. Her daily average yield since she first began to give milk has been 86 lbs. 0 C I A word to the wise farmer. The Ex- perimental Station advises that as "the population of aphids, the transmitters of virus diseases is rising; add 1 quart of 25?? DDT emulsion to each 100 gallons of late blight spray." Attention to this will mean money later in the potato growersl pockets. ' C I I Canada's Chief Justice, Rt. Hon. Thibau- deau Rlnfret is on a tour of the world, but when he reached Sydney, Australia, he fainted at a reception his honour at ,Govemment House. He recovered sufficient- ly tcf proceed to Canberra as scheduled, and the doctors pronounced him to be organi- cally fit though suffering from cold and exhaustion-due to reaching Australia fro India in the farmer's winter. - O O 0 An Ottawa report has it that Mr. A. D. Dunton, chairman of the Board of Gov- emors of CBC, is being urged to join the Department of Extemal Affairs at umbassa- dorial rank. He is a brilliant young man,- and could serve his country very well vln such a capacity. -Successor as CBC chair- man has been mentioned as possibly Mr. D. C. McArthur, for many years head of the news division of CBC. His qualifica- tions are that he has. in the main, over 15 years or more successfully defended the in- tegrlty of the news from the attacks of the less principled "politicians; that he is a philosophic and articulate liberal (small "l"); is held in high regard in all quarters. and is blllngu'al..p It wouldbe an improve- ment, also, if the chairman of the CBC did not live in the political atmosphere of tthe erosion man. should be interested in. and proper way to commence a tour of this that is reforestation. An article in students both mdum and "H- the August Reade,--S mg”, mg”; ;'.ergraduate to their halls of learn- , what has been accomplished he-'9 113- i not to begin at Montreal and proceed west- by the cross breeding of trees Hy the u. s. Forest Service at. Planer ins of this new scholastic year J'- ville, California, They have been would not be Iml-as for some of as able to produce trees that grow in mu the um; 11 took 5-1., the Canadian student. so precisely c t h derstandably looked askance at as neigh- iiiaarlf: lulilelferlo reach I 9 'lheq count our blessings .l Good For A Lift PUBLIC FORUM This column is open to the discussion by correspondents of questions of interest. The Guardian does not necessar- ily cuoonu tbo opinion of correspondents. OUR FOREST HERITAGE Sir.-I have been led to write this article through a stat.err.ei.t from Premier Jones appearing in our local paper a few weeks ago. in which he expressed concern about Prince Edward Island losing its population by the cxouus oi the young men to the Malnlaviu Provinces and the U 5. Also I noticed he was concerned air".- that is slowly but surely completing its destruction around the coast of the Isla.n.l Last summer I visited the Island for two weeks. after an absence rt thirty-seven years, and one of the things I did was to take obsei--Ia - . ions of how much will and accord he jumped into a lake 9""0-"had it Cnnoe CW0 where the Farquhai-son lobster was built, sixty-two found that the restless swallowed land. or about a .foot I rear. omethln le th C0"98" S ,3 vreoznssgs; our country will throw open their doors the sea h-ti canncry ago I sea and up sixty zest of the YPEFI There is emicr Jones. as wil' size to I know it is late-fifty years late -yet. I believe if the right. kind of trees were planted the will be handling gasoline in a form not un- "W W"! WY" "1 Prince Edward Island might. before their child-en sojourn is ended, again hear thohum of an sawmill cutting lumber to replace where the "mental capacity" the houses their grandfathers built. f athers and These homes been set up by 3 British cow, Manningforj must soon be replaced. I saw u by this very factor. The cause of lot. of land on the Island that was not being farmed to any great ad- vantage. The Government shzuld acquire some of this land and r- forest it. What ex-President Hoover chose to call rug-Jed individualism incl the Communists dirty cIpltI1'.3rn has tamed I continent. in the last hundred years; but what desolat- ion it has made of our forests! Somehow I always feel reg-et when I see I fins ape:-in-ion of I tree that took many years to grow and had withstood the atoms of winter and the hem. of summer fall I pray to the woodman's an only the other day I read of one of the guest inonarchleg of the Redwood forest. fall the victim of the iumbei-jack. It was six feet In diameter Ind oontsinpd nine thousand feet of lumber-enough to build I five-roamed cottage I remember when I hey there wan fins pins tree In our wood lot, sixty or severity feet. tall and not coveted it to build I boat, so it went the way of all good trees. I was certainly sorry to use that trao cut down. I am aura thIt if the Premier is interested in whIf. they hIve Io- compllshod here It Place:-vzlle they would gladly flVc hlin ..n.hy information on the subject. I dunk one month in some I limb ibr fifty feet Bomshnf best suited to the Island gllmatc. I saw a young forest. on l-hlrty atres at the back of our old place at Canoe Cove that has grown in th: last twenty year; on land I helped to clear fifty years ago: but. they are the wrong kind of trees. May- be if they were cross bred with some other type they would be just the tree. as they certainly grow fast: but they will never make lumber. as they are now limbs down to the ground-gum. good for Christmas trees. Of course here in California the growth is faster on accfunt of the mild climate and the amount of sunshine we get. In my neighbour's yard is a cypress tree that has grown four feet each year for the last three years. I am sure, how- ever. that fifty years from now if the Island would again have trees that would make lumber. gen-r ations yet unborn would ble-s those who made such a heritage possible. I am Sir. etc. J. E MCKENZIE 346 Carroll St... Sunnyvale, California. 9 .n.. J? A Chicago doctor has discover- - C ' U43? ed that the failure ofjpeople to re- . lease pcnt-,up anger contributes directly to poor health. He says know what type of trees would he could be done by way of helping the most, cheerful parents with this far from ideal situation by those who have the means lying idly by in anticipation of I rainy flliy which in most cases never comes. and if it does is rarely so falhy as to dwlndle the pile any appreciable amount. Our students are doing their ut- most in most cases for themselves in the form of summer employ- raent. Their earnings from chi; source. it can be said, go a long way in our local colleges (P E. 1.). but when education must. he sought elsewhere their problem becomes at least twice as great and is often five times as great. For each of us this matter should be of interest; for the student. it 'presents a real problem. and for many of us it involves a duty let's remember our students, those who provide so large I percentag- o' leaders in our governments, our professions and business. Let not the financial factor play such zi iole in their selection. Let's edu- cate all of the so-called in many senses "cream of our younger gen- eration"; then this threat to our "democratic concepts” LEARNlNG'S HIGH COST ' sir. - soon. in fact in less than cases. the Ind universities across to welcome thousands of With the approach of the open- at. least to recall the problem of and accurately appraised in the June 9th editorial of The Stand- ard. We are facing I situation in which financial ability is the de- termining factor in the selection of our university student body with the result that in many casts and present, thwarted "personal stamina" these potentlantles are are this so fittlngly described "priced out of the market" education is of course due to the all-time high cost of living. Even with the ratio of government aid against univer- slty cost. declining. this decline it would seem could in some meas- ure be offset by scholarships from sources other than the govern- ment, even though our govern- ments have become totalitarian enough to provide citizens wlilfe no provision is necessary. ' As the above mentioned edit- orial points out. much could be done by . commuilty org- anisations and by individuals Add- ing my personal opinion I should like to re-emphasise the part which the individual could take. so much 7: E cedars hear: speak to me now. the clear llafrlgoratlon SALE! and snavicn Repairs so an um. I0'I'0ll8' Rewinding and Repair! l:l.liC'l'BlOAL APPLIANOII Repairs lunar Eloctrlc PHONE 1444 Ottawa. ' l day. or in the nested glsdou of solitude Deep in the shadow of the chang- ing lsIf , j - I'll lit. Ind feel the wholeness of the wood , And best one with giadnsls and with grief. Then if you see his unlit. I shall And .look upon Hue. tnutful II I child, And drink the waist bv the ItIn-i- I spoke so often but you did not I shall bo fur away In the green fields of silence when White daisy opens to the on of have smiled one hand we engage in I fearful At the shy thoughts thol. coma like mu 51904,, up (4, mate” om dear to ed. home. and our llbartlcs and on the to our future "public welfare" will be removed. r-nonrnrrioiv AND LAW ENFORCEMENT March 25th, 1948, the Government gave Prohibition ll knock-out blow: but though it went down for the count it will be back in in the ring agsln. for this Province is becoming fed up with all that is wasted in liquor and its consequent. mischief. Prohibition can be enforced. For the first 18 years of its life the law was res- pected. becausc the Government was behind it; but then the forces of propaganda got busy. The Gov- ernment.-was told this law is un- natural and cannot be enforced People want-liquor and are going to get it, hook or crook. The brew- ers said to the Government "you had better give the people what they want. legally, and reap what. profit. you can from the sale." Then the Government. convinced of what seemed to be the truth, got. bury and finally convinced the people that this Prohibition law can't be enforced, and the majority fell under the forces of propaganda. Laws people don't. like can be enforced. I remember when tai- laws first began to be mooted. Poll- ticians turned pole at mention of the idea. Long ago, volci-I became well used to these laws. Grinding tax lavfs are now enacted and peo- ple kcep them. . A prohibition law cIn be enforc- ed by the Government. backed by tha people, when word is passed to the enforcement agencies that they want. this law kept Ind, hero is the truth. the majority in lhis Province really want such I law They were fooled by the propag- Inda. When they see, as they are baglnning to do, that the New Temperance Act, is I failure they will vote this "right. little tight little Island" dry again Is it once was. statistics Ire In Ibomlhallrm, but here are I low that prove that Prohibition is the only permanent settlement of this versed problem of intoxicating liquor. The Unl- led states has become progrcnlvaly lntempei-Ito since the days of Pro hibitlon in 1932. Sales have gone up from two billion in that year on nine billions in 1949. with con- sequent increuo in crime. Hera in Canada the story is his nine. in- 1942 we spent 8672 millions. in 1940 Slim millions l.o. 01,600.00.) per day in homage alcohol. Do we Jelllld, what these rut vested interests of tho liquor tn!- flc In doing to our country? Think how we Ira acting. on lhq Sir.-On other we toioi-Ito I traffic that destroys our homes Ind, annually. rob: thousands of our young men in: read. ai;id1.w:mcnuofAlll:l:mm;ney Ini Y”"' t&'I:'1k'"pW”:m.m' tun "ml -I :Irn: who. ..'meyd”;3u7.l. A d I 60:1" d I m" you say, don't can I d-n what han- " mm uh" todgua DOo1plI In line II eh-.n YW11"';;e;mg9"- 7'" I ''"W' :ll":hEk!i:g.oYod':htyl1db':v:m::; You will not won know um x In "' ' , m w. M, t 20-", A .m v . , w. r. calm, in Alum Dniho M0010! 331430- ' ' should see with their eyes and andrhuard hear with their ears. and dhould I Am. Sir. etc.. F RIB .I6lIi them. Charlottetown R.R. 5. I Notes By W"- lhiglish ch l are in vosuo micro were 20 contestants in this year's race) the shipping insur- ance underwriter; should examine their rates. For Channel swim- mers tIkc'thcl.r place among the dangers to navigation. along with rocks. shoals. derellctsand deceas- ed whales. Marine experts will probably place them in the cate- gory of flotsam and jetsam. - Ottawa Citizen. one of the meanest on record is the auto driver who damages is fender of I parked car by bumping or scraping it, and then drives away before he is de- tected. Not all do this. There are drivers who. when they accident- ally bump a parked car enough to damage it. wait until the owner appears. Those who park their cars are at the mercy of the hit- run drivers. but if any are caught an example should be made of them. Boston Post. In Britain's new House of Com- mons."members'of parliament. in session are under constant scru- tiny by a man peering through a periscope. He is not is police-state observer. He is a technician sit- ting in the .mlddle of flashing lights and dials and his job is to regulate'an elaborate alr condi- llonlng system in -the legislature chamber. The technician uses a periscope to see 'whether the House of Commons is crowded or nearly empty. He regulates the amount of lnflowing fresh air by what he sees. - Associated Press. the least. frustration and tension 5MVW-55'A55? glhe Age-Old Story ' IE6.'Pu'.'h'b'-'l-'uSu'-'u'U-'H'-5-'-'u'.'5 And great multitudes were guthercd together unlo'hlm. so that he went into a ship. and sat, and the whole multitude stood on the shore . . . And the ilisclplrs came. and said unto him. Why speak:-It thou unto them in par- ables? He answered and said unit- them. Because it is given unto you to know the lII)'llPl'lPl of the hlngdoni of lienven, but to them it is not given . . . And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Es- IIII, which saith, By hearing yo shall hear. and shall not under- stand; and seeing ye shall see. and shall not perceive: for this people's heart is waxed gross. and their ears are dull of hear- ing. and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they '-'1 '1 5: understand with their heart. and should be converts-d. and I should ' . Now tlul mus Iwlnu of the are those who explode 1.11 g AUGUST 23. 1951 - mg The ;v when 1!. arises. If you wig? better, blow your to j mad. he Idvisas. Nolwwhgla, you" interesting Idvloc, eapgghu ml most of us have been "blo::lm our tops" for I good many kl! without knowing that it was M" for us. Psychiatry is 3 wmdgrd thing. and I great many bad.” "1 pered Individuals will be ,,1,,;'; to know that their bad hsblliu ;::lll')l I tonic. - London rm pfdi , ,Q Old Charlottetown IAIIG P. I I.) A MICMAC WELCOME Or Thursday. the 131:; Louili Francois Algl.llmOU.lnib!:l!7!l1E deputed by the other Chlgfsl Wm: ed upon His Excellency Lleuten ant Governor Young with m! following address: "May it please Your Excellenc- "We the Chiefs. and other (52. ficers of that part of me Mk, mac tribe who inhabit Princ- Edward Island, on our own pg": and on the part of our people humbly beg to congratulate You; Excellency on your appmmm". to the Government of our Island From the Representative of our gracious Sovereign our people hope to receive that Pfbiecliojg which was guaranteed ihEll'fo1-g. fathers by solemn treaties. and accorded them by Your Excel- lcncy's predecessors. and which their loyalty to their King gm them reason to hope for. That Your Excellency's administration in our Colony be long, and pro, perous. is the sincere przljer-of Your Excellency's devclnd ur, vants. "(Signcd) Louis Francois Ag. gulmou. Oliver Thomas, Frangoyg Bernard, Francois Eksewnl. J05: Piel Eksewel. Francois Pierre." To which His E)(fPil6nr'y we, pleased to make the following "I thank you for you; 3:15,”; upon my arrival. You may rel, upon every protection from me The favorable opinion entertain- ed by your late Governor of your general good conduct and prc. priety of drmeanour. cinnnt (ml in exciting an interest on my part towards you." i This venerable son of the for- est. by whom the above aridreis was presented. is now in M; elghtleth vc-hr. He remembers the days when the British Chin! said to his fathers. "Lay up the Tomahawk. We will b- ll'lElll'iV We will become your fathers. in- stead of the French fathers. Orr Great Father beyond the ocean will protect you. and call you children." His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor has humanely ordered a quantity of blankets. and pow- der and shot. to be distributed amongst .the necessltous of the Indians. -Royal Gazette. Oct. 18. 131. See our solution of lhuo amazingly accurate wotchu. ? i - ) P ? Joseph R. 'MucMilIun. 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