PAGE roux THEs GU'ARDlA.N I-Authorized as Second Ulnu Mail 3'-Isl &flt.'oq- Depurtiiierit. 'lttuwu. the Inland uuurdian rublllhmu Co. CIBCIILAFICIN l'oi.aI City tun: Retail Trading Zone All Others .. Total Net Paid Editor unvl lilatiuglng llrecbor, J. It Juruen Associate Editor. Frank Walker. "The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink" CHARLOTTE'l'0WN. s.u'umo.n'. DEC. 16. 1-555. liome For Christmas Christmas is peculiarly a family festival. There is something especially piinful about being separated from one's home and family at this season, whether by be- ing on Active Service or otherwise unable to rejoin the familiar circle. The C.N.R. puts on additional trains be- ginning Monday, not to accommodate tour- ists and holidaymaking but to bring Is- landers home for a brief reunion. Schools and Colleges close and it is an unfortunate youngster indeed who cannot take advan- tage ot' the opportunity to be again with his own. In a very real sense the whole C0mll13ll- wealth becomes aware that it is a family and gathers to hear a Christmas message from the King which owes its power to that feeling of ”beloaging". which no dif- ferences of colour or creed have been able; to destroy. It is. as members need not be reminded, a family in which no part seeks to dominate another, but rather all seek to work together to better the world in which they live. It's All so confusing! The Ottawa Journal, in an advance story on a public lecture being held in the Capital, reports that the speaker, a college professor of economics, ”wili consider not only economic ideas and facts but also va- rious non-economic causes of current world tension.” "In the light of these factors,” the press report goes on, ”the lecturer will make a special study of the United States, the USSR and China. . . Additionally, he will examine the question; 'Are economic ideologies overrated as contributing causes of war”?" This sounds like a pretty tall order for one evening. let alone one lecturer. In- deed, the Journal's advance story is enough to make one decide to go bowling instead. Maybe the reporter just got confused. If he did. it must have been the lecturer that confused him. It's a pretty safe bet that the audience was confused too, when the lecture finally came off. Maybe this episode explains some of the economic con- fusion that seems to exist nowadays in of- ficial circlcs in Ottawa. Acadlan Progress & Ambition l'he Acadians, with a high birth rate and large families, expect to have a nia- jority of population in New Brunswick by 1975-their first objective in a peaceful campaign to recapture the Maritime Pro- vinces. ”They know what they want,” writes Ian Scianders in the current issue of Mac lean's: "to dominate New Brunswick first, then Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Is- land. "Statistics indicate their optimism is justified. In 1871 at the first federal cen- sus, 15.7'2. of New Brunswick's population was Acadian. Now they make up about 3856 (ll-38,000 persons). The proportion of Acadians has gone up an average of 2-996 a decade since 1871. On thisbasis it would take 50 years to give them a majority, but they point out that in 1941 the Acadian birth rate in New Brunswick was 35.8 per 1,000 and for all others it was 20.3. This could meant that Acadians would consti- tute more than 5070 of the population in 25-30 years." I ,..-. The resurgence of these descendants of the earliest French settlers (1604)-exiled by the British in 1755 for refusing to fight against French Quebec and outcasts for more than a century-began 75 years ago, writes Sclnnders. "Now they're marching out of the for- ests and into the cities and towns, out of illiteracy and into business, politics and the professions.” Moncton is 4070 Acadian ind Saint John, which didn't have a dozen Acadians in 1930, now has 6,000. Acadians have been advancing, too, he says, on the cultural, social and economic sides. New Brunswick has four Acadlan -colleges for men and two for women; the cost of education is low and a unique 'Acadlan-operated insurance society awards 37 scholarships to worthy students. g Half the Roman Catholic priests in New .-Bruncwidr are Acadian; so are 20'ht of the doctors and dentists and 1796 of the Ilnwyors. They hold 13 of 52 am in the " ' mm and three-ottho Provinces 10 , , in tlinnouso of Coriiuiono. 9 , iilloltill d leading Audion: -1 v tun. 11mm no rug xx .... .- "ongghere." .. a sinister plot. We'll simply attain numerical superiority with our high birth rate and see to it that our children have the best possible educational advantages. We'll then have recaptured Acadia. We'll continue to be loyal Canadians." IIJIIURIAI. NUIIS Tomorrow, 3rd Sunday in Advent. O l 0 Soon there will be electrification for all purposes between here and St. Eleanorls. Progress indeed. I O O The groundings of vessels recently at Victoria and Montague indicates that there is much yet to be done to make and keep our ports safe for navigation O O 0 Perhaps it is crass commercialism, but the wide publicity given to the chair-carry- ing operation of the Royal Canadian Navy could be turned to account by marketing replicas of the now famous little rocker. I O I The increase in automobile insurance rates here is a sharp reminder that len- iency with individual reckless drivers is at the expense of all who must use the high- ways. 0 I I A complaint has been made that there is now too much Christmas giving There can never be too much charity even though there may be duplication. The blessing, be it remembered. is on the giving. t O O Enthusiasm t'or a cause all too readily leads to intolerance. Hockey fans would do well to remember that even those who seem most to disagree with them are hon- estly doing their best, as they see it, for sport on the Island. 0 I I Unions selected the Summer tourist sear son to embarass trade and travel, and now in the States they have selected the Christmas season in whichgto embarass people sending and receiving Christmas parcels. O O C Both civil servants and armed forces are rejoicing over the increase of pay prom- ised them by the Federal Government, which recently proclaimed it had a super abundance of revenue. Happy servants of State, and happier tax-payers if the Gov- ernment's optimism is warranted. O I 9 These pay increases for the services, civil military and police, bring their salar- ies in line with those for private employ- ment. Disregarding marital status and de- pendents is quite proper where those con- cerned are to be treated as professionals. In the case of large numbers of men and women being diverted temporarily into active service dependents' allowances are the only answer. I Q I Like the poor, the veterans we have al- ways with us, and there is no more deserv- ing body of men. And the veterans have little ones for whose benefit Messrs. Moore & McLeod are providing a Christmas tree. They are advertising the fact in the cur- rent issue, and the attention of readers of good will are directed to it in the hope they will govern themselves accordingly. I 0 0 Ludwig Beethoven, German composer, born this date 1770. He was one of the greatest composers of all time. Though deaf for 48 years before his death the could only be communicated with in writ- ing) he produced marvelous melodies which entranced the musical world. Though a student of both Haydn and Mozart, he cre- ated a school .of his own, his later works, marked entirely new departures, character- ized by amazing individuality of style, clas- sical beauty and perfection of form. Eleven years ago, on December 17, 1939, Britain joyously received an early and heartening Christmas present in the shape of some 7,500 Canadian troops-the van- guard of more: than 335,000 she was to welcome before the Second World War was over and won. The first contingent of the 1st Canadian Division arrived that morning in the Clyde River, unannounced and heav- ily escorted, in one of the most impressive convoys to make the Atlantic crossing dur- ing the war. In the convoy were the liners Aquitania, Empress of Britain, Empress of Australia, Duchess of Bedford and Mon- arch of Bermuda, escorted by some of the most famous vessels of the Royal Navy- the battle-cruiser Repulse, the battleship Resolution and the aircraft carrier Fu- rlous. Several other ships of war, includ- ing four Canadian destroyers, also were in the convoy. The Canadians had arrived in Britain Now, eleven years later, Canadian troops are againiat sea on their way to a war zone. The Second Battalion Prin- cess Patricia”: Canadian Light Infantry sailed from an undlclosed west coast port a week ago prepared to fight alongside United Nations troops against Communism -s-.-..-l.-i.-t.-l.-.-..-i.-5..-.-is.-H. -.-..-.-.-and PUBLIC FORUM 3 Thll column In open to the g . discussion by correspondent: of question: of interest. The uuardinn doesnot necessar- ily endorse the onlnlon oi ; correspondents. -' .hH'AHH& . "SHAKO" SALE JUDGMENT Sir.-In your editorial column of December 14th. I see you make the following observation; "we are re- minded that under a. judgment of the unrestricted sale of "shako" is not illegal here. To make it so the present law must be amended which cannot be done before the ,next meeting of the legislature." ' In order to keep the record Si-Flight. I would lke to correct your impression that the judgment to which you refer made the sale of shaving lotion legal. Under the P. E. I. Temperance Commission regulations. the sale of lotions, was, and still is, illegal. except under certain restrictions which call for sale by licenses. That is the law. While the .vnlidity of the regu- lations were questioned by defence counsel in the Stedman case, and they met with some criticism by the Court, the regulations were not held invalid, as has evidently been assumed by you. That case was dismissed on a special point of fact, namely that there was no evidence before the Court as to whether the content of the bottles marked as lotions and producd in Court, was con- oritles hold that evidence this is necessary. If the Crown produces a witness who has sampled the stuff by taste and can say it is drinkable. this requirement can be taken care of in the future, and it should be clearly understood that persons selling lotions contrary to the reg- ulations are subject to prosecut- ion before the Courts, and their licenses are subject to cancellat. to: by the Temperance Commiss- io . BS L0 1 am. Sir. etc. R. S. HIN'ID" Summerside. A OTHER GODS 511'.-Temperance people begin at the wrong end with same method of handling the traffic; Govern- ment Control, Nationalization. or Prohibition, some low. It has to be recognized that the liquor pro- blem is a moral one, moral-social and moral-economic but. funds.- menlally moral, and our major er. fort must be spent in raising the moral level of our People by per- suasivo education, carried on through church organizations and especially primary schools. Then after years of teaching. an-d a wholesome public opinion has been formed, some law. The Stalin Way. a nation changed at one stroke, seems so easy compared to the Jesus way, "first the blade then the ear." Excessive drinking and its con- sequent crime are bad advertise- ments for the traffic. Its main sup- port is the moderate drinker, and until h-is moral principles are raised high enough for him to care what happens to his weaker broth- er and his family no method will solve this problem. The moderate ma.n'is a superior fellow who says. to himself and to others: ”No man and nothing can interfere with my liberty to drink if I wish." Lib- crty is not the proper word here, but the crude and cruel form of selfishness of the first man who said, "Am I my brother's keeper"? The church in one way and an- other has tried to do a great deal for the rirunkard but practically nothing has been done for the moderate drinker who is, after all. responsible for the traffic. Drinking and its accompanying cvils have increased to startling proportions these last. years, be- cause morality has dcclined. This decline is illustrated in the gum- bling craze. Sabbath desecration, increasing divorce. and in disre- spect for law. We have been worshipping the god of this world as Mammon. in particular. and he has let. us down, morally, as he always does. Now the God of Jesus is angry with His people and be- cause of our sin He has doomed us to cast our billions into the flames of war. "These are the days of vengeance." We can't escape. The Marshall Plan was adopted to raise the living standards of poorer nations and thus stem the tide of Communism. What move could have been better? But now that plan is dead because mind and means of the United States and all Western Europe is obses- sed with preparation against an- other world war. In the concen- tration of wealth and privilege among o few and the wretched poor of the many, Communism finds its argument and its strength. The god of this world is I dragon with mouth and mow that will never be satisfied. No sin of man is so common and so disastrous as the worship of other gods. Some day we will return. Some day we will learn that the ancient com- msnd. "Thou shalt have no oihcr godsbefore Me". still stands. God this. I am. Sir, etc. W. I. GREEN Stanley Bridle- iicsvv nurnc There are nearly i.000.000 com- mercinl vehicles on British high- ways in addition to pulengcr curs. Magistrate Hinton, summersidc, sumable as a beverage. The auth- who cores in trying to teach us ITHECGIJARDIAN. CHARI.OTTETOW'N , , Testing And Trying Solution MEANS OS TESIING APPREHENDE IS STILL acme Sou6Hr,.. "DAILY GUARDIAN f , Reaper seuns EmpT-i in runs SOLUTION; -7 we Autuomraes Hive BEEN CONCERMED oven was MANY TRAGIC ACCIDENTS RESULTING FROM DRUNKEN DRWING BUT A D DRNEP5 SAYISFACTOIIY TO ALL ..:,'-.....-...:. Mi:mANI(AL '-l '9J”;E ,1-v Auzicur, WHILE WE'RE Arir, LET'S Go ONE FURTHER mo lN5l5T EVERY pnzsr on-suusp. 3 Old Charlottetown ; 4 - ' (And 2. E. 1.: , CROWN LANDS According to 3 return furnish- ed by the Registrar and Keeper of Plans, reported on by a commit- tee of the Legislature on April 8. 1853. there still remained undis- posed of the following Crown 340 acres on lot 55: 4743 acres on Lot 15; 130 Town Lots in Georgetown; 92 pasture lots in Georgetown Royalty; 4:5-8 town lots in Princetown: 3'1 pasture lots in Princetown Royalty. With respect to the lands on Lot. 55. the committee recommend- ed that they be disposed of by the Government, either at public or private sale. and that the maxi- mum price be not higher than 230 per hundred acres. The committee gave considera- tion to E petition of Roderick Campbell of Georgetown Royalty. who in 1342 bought the posses- sion of several pasture lots in the Royalty from one James Mac- aulay, held under lease or agree- ment from Mrs. Fanning. and cne of which was 1.02 No. 3'1. which proved to be in he Crown. ”lVLr. Campbell being led, by Miss Fan- ning, to believe, for some time. they had a grant of the Lot, he offered to take a lease of it, pro- vided the grant was produced; but such not having been done up to 1852. and in order to relieve himself from Mrs. Fanning's claim for future rent. of the Lot, he at- tended the Government sale to purchase the said Lot, when he was opposed by an authorized person. on the part of Mrs. Fan- ning, to bid against him, the conse- quence of which was that he had to buy in the Lot for the sum of 229, being considerably beyond a fair upset price." The committee recommended, under the circum- stances, that the Government. "should not call on said Camp-A bell to pay beyond the usual up- set price of such lots in at wilder- ness state." The committee recommended that the Government ”takc such steps as may be deemed neces- sary for exercising all the rights recently held by the Crown over the fishery reserves of the Colony." They stipulated that the tenants and small freeholders already in occupation of the reserves, who had leased or purchased from the proprietors or their agents under the belief that the lat- ter had as good a right to dispose of the reserves as of the adjoining lands, should remain "ln quiet possession" on the undertaking to pay sixpence, exclusive of any other lawful rates or taxes, for such portions of their farms as had been reserved in lands in Prince Edward Islandtl INSTALL ONE OF THESE I CURVE OF QUIET Pull down the blinds of my mind like the lidded turtle To draw within. within deep cav- . eras of thought. The subjective retreat of the fired, the won, the worn. The grief-sticken. The poet, artist. The philosopher hollow out mold- , ed retreats. lwhere, oh where else to flee in a hail storm Of dissension-. in torrents of hate. In a wrecked landscape after the cod the Bug in a snow storm of silence after prayer! I draw a curve around the door of consciousness. The door of my dawn of vision and revelation. And draw within. the horns of sentience folding upon them- selves, The folded hands of revelation Holding the core. the pith. the kernel of quiet. of subjectivity. close-leaved, like 3 budded plant, C105erWlnEed like a resting bird. -Amy Bonner. the Crown for fishery purposes; "and should there be any re- serves rented at 3. lower rate than slxpence per acre. the holders thereof shall not be called on to pay more than they have hitherto paid. and the small freeholders should be at liberty to occupy the reserves fronting on their farms without any further charge there- of. saving and excepting, in all cases, such taxes as are now, or may hereafter be imposed." But it was the opinion of the committee that whether tenants or freehold- P-rs. they should be allowed to oc- cupy the reserves now in their possession "onLy so long as they may not be required for fishing purposes. . .. and. if tenants, they should receive from the Gov- ernment reasonable coxnpengg- man for fthe sacrifice they would be thus called upon to endure." STEPPED TOO CLOSE PETERBOROUGI-I, Ont. - (CF) - When his long overcoat. became entangled in the drive shaft of a corn-picking machine, John Per- due. 28. was whirled around sev- eral times before the machine stopped. He was treated for I. lorok.en arm, cwls and bruises. Canadian passports are good for flve years and may be renewed for s. similar period. ' plnld- excluslveiy boxed. PRICES . IIAMBLY mm. o p.n1. ' -166 Gt. Geo. s ...p,;.,.-,;..7;gg.,, One of the most use- ful and pleasing gifts he will get - choose one of these outstand- Ing tubes in all wool flannel in plain or and lacquered or satin striped liiks, DRESS'"SHIR'l'S SPORT . SHIRTS PAJAMAS TIES All expertly designed (John Mockett in Canadian Business) Before World war II changed their attitude. Irish moss was only 3 pesky seawed to I lot of people in the Marltimes. - Qulzzlcql grim lightened the weather-beaten faces of Nova Bcotta fishermen whenever a. stranger stop- ped by and offered to buy all the Irish moss they could gather. They couldn't see the sense of his paying it cent. in pound for the oursed. parsley-like weed that fouled their nets and slowed up their oars. official statistics show that some of these fishermen later changed their minds. Close to 15 million pounds of Irish moss have been shipped cut. of the Maritime: since 1940. Today the gathering and our- ing of Irish moss means 450 thous- and a year to down-east. fishermen. Round figures keep this business in the minor industry class, but it is the kind of small industry that swells fishing incomes by provid- ing work in the slack seasons. Innatcly conservative. the fisher- men were slow to take up this fill- in occupation and even now it's sometimes difficult for buyers to get enough moss. A few men around Wedgeport and through the Pub- nicos in southern Nova soctia were the pioneers, back in 1040. The total output that first year was 10 thousand pounds. 0 O O The following year Prince Edward Island recognized the demand for Irish moss and produced not: thous- and pounds, compared with 53 thousand marketed by Nova Scotia. The Island continued to lead the mounting production figures until 1949, when its 1.195 thousand pounds were upped by Nov: Scotta's output "of 1,174 thousand pounds. New Brunswick marketed 26 thous- and pounds in i942 and the some amount in 1944, then dropped out of production. Today the curing and shipping of Irish moss has grown important cnough to make people in and out- side the moss business ask questions. Can the industry be maintained? Can it be expanded? What does the future hold for this prosperous wax baby? air:-ant threat is the effort being made by European shippers to re- gain the Irish moss market in the United states which they lost when the war blocked the shipping lanes in l939. Lower wages and govern- ment subsidies in some cases are enabling overseas shippers to cf- fer dried moss at prices below those of the Maritimers. But this threat is already being countered. O O 0 Who buys Irish moss and what do they use it for? Processing extracts from the dried weed a. substance called carrageenln, or gelcse. And gelose helps to preserve the consist- ency of some substances and. added in small quantities, works a drastic change in others. A pound of gelose will "stabilize" a. ton of chocolate milk and keep the chocolate particles from settling to the bottom of the mixture. Two pm) cent or even less can produce jellies or thicken liquids and is is exten- slvely- used in meat and poultry canning to keep the contents from becoming mushy. A small quantity added to oil breaks it up into tiny drops that will mix easily with wa- ter-this mikes it useful for emuls- icns and in preparing water-soluble paints. Ice cream. salad dressing and cream cheese acquire smooth, oven textures when gelose is used. with all these potential buyers. and with new uses tfor uu rngeenin being found every year, the market should hold up indefinitely. And it is not only the Bluenose and Island dealers and fisher:-folk who are taking an interest in retain- ing part of this market for Mari- timers. The National Research Council, with the active encourage- ment of the National Chemurglc Committee of The cnnsdian Chun- ber of Commerce. has set up In Association Committee on seaweed Research. Part c-f its job has been investigating carrngeenin itself and discovering just. why it stabilizes milk mixtures. as one stop in set- fIrish' Moss Turns Canadian John Mockett In Canadian lliulnuu ' bfobahly the key to the whole pm. blem lien in that word "quality! shippers concentrate o - flciont, production and oil lll'1li.0l'?)vi.r:; the quality of the dried moss. '3... comes so much of th m goes is the food processors. cleanliness 1. all-important. The method of collection hast-rt 0him86d much since George Beqrh ridge of Yarmouth sailed 1.1, schooner over to scitxuate, um three generations ago and bi'ouzlnf back the long-toothed rakes 1.2.5,, by American moss fishermen. Be.-c. ridge's attempt to interest Yur- mc-uth County shore dwellers in gathering moss didn't meet with aim enthusiasm then but it bore fruit years later. Once the mass has been rak-ti in. preferably from rocks near low tide level and down to a depth at 15 feet. it must be dried and some. times bleached. Bleaching cons-.1; of moistening the moss with .11; W er. spreading it out in the .---.-- an letting the rays bleach it :53; light straw color. Fog and ,-m,, .,,,f any fresh water) dissolve the x..:.,.- C able seloae so in bud wealli:-r t mcss must. be protected. Anllq bleaching comes a thorough ll 33;? 0 0 0 ' It is often in the curing p 9-. that trouble begins and tliat. re: less handling occurs. Sometim the moss is spread out on ground - ere, it gets adulterated with tilt. of various kinds. scmetimes p 1.. rotted moss. with lower gelose n. tent, slips into shipments. Th :2 why the business of curing Hy,-. O... is moving into the hnnrls of I at: scale buyers. better able to op up the quality. Buyers take the wet: moss or from the fishermen as soon it is landed. They assist the r ers by providing power boats to will their dories to the moss grout: in groups. Inaded dorles are t on back to the wharf and mos is trucked to curing plants, A typical curing plant is the nu, operated by the Irish Moss Div arr of Kraft Fcods Limited, at t al- burne. several truckloads ('ll be dried at one time on cpen-at o: ment platforms. A sprinkling sy yr. stands ready to spray the moss all salt water if a sudden shower c 9;; p. . The dry mass is handled l a -building adjoining the square. - cu seaweeds. rock grass, shells nd coral weed are sorted from the 5s before it is fed into 3 power h er" and the bales are wrapped in r-' lap for shipping. The output or is) - plant was shipped unbleached f year. 7 I I I There is another possible p- proach to this problem of kee g the Irish moss industry hm r. and that is building a plant in v n- ada to extract. the carrageeniii. e Naticnal Chemurgic Commitie ot the Charm-her went into this q 5- tion too: came up with the ... clusion that the domestic do cl couldn't, support a profitable x- traction industry here. nnd at .1 tit tariff hunters would make expo. the carrageenin difficult. illumi- least one Nova Scotia firm is ing and marketing packazzed dings with an Irish mcss bus-. This pessimism about .1 drill 30 industry doesn't. mean that lhr - weed Committee is giving up problem. In fact. it's going r C. nhead evolving standa s of ans 3'- Next it plans to study he yield I quality of moss collected at v 11 we places and during dill? '-l reasons, This should make DAMN lo the improvement. cf quality tr: -- leciion. 1 Taking advantage of this rem. ll allied with practical nppllmt it the Maritlmers should continm 0 find in this once-despised sum d 3 smdll but welcome contrlbi: I to their income. ggqvxe-V - xvs-xxxxwx7s'sQ?V I J. P. MaoPiIerson & Son ; Mani Clothing That F"! SUITS - TOPCOATS - OVEBCOATS ; ;;.'....,..a ting up standards of quality. Mtually, says the committee. 157, QUEEN sr. NNN sJsauIs&AIsAAAAA - s s .)CR(l)FESSlC(,NAL CARD John P. Nicholson. W I.l..I. mmm; soncnoh. C cu. in tune: .s:.;. . Oman. ' PIIOIIOVIIII Dr. W. ll. Carson IYIIOI o:l;oM5lTi5lig 0- - Chi our - ' Pnlme;”(?-ndllfo 11055 Item street . CHRBLOTTITOWN PHONE I79 4 ”1 "W" 5" '3'" W” Adjoining North American Hot FREDERIC A. LARG . .0. Barrister. Solicitor. Noilllllg, Royal Bank of Canada 3" I N - - -Charlottetown. P. E. I. 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