FEBRUARY 5, l V, PAGE FOUR . THE GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN . g . 1952 T the ordinary run of cases, and we do not ' . A T H E G U A R DI A N say the trend is unfortunate. A stiff fine In The Balances Toda The Passing Scene . , a 01 M." PM mm. is at least some punishment -for the driver g . , -' g ' ””""”'"' ';::::leM' Izmwl. who drinks (or the drinker who drives); The mmdpGm,,m,, ..,,hu,m,,, go, on the old clause he might and often did " uncuuriou escape entirely." Total city Zone me By Observer A political paradox or our day is tie too ready an auunnce, on. that, while internationalism is he- cannot help thinking-that the ac. p Z 8 P0 lng held out as the last best hope tion does not necessarily estgbum Retail Tradint 0110- -sh ED'TORIAL N01 ES of mankind. the spirit of natioii- a precedent to be followed for ev- Allp l..;.d.-.- 12 "3 I alism is stronger than it has been ermore. This may be Mr. St. Laur. 0 I -- - f for many, many years. Anyone whoreads the newspapers or listens to the radio knows this to be true. Colonial peoples wherever you look. and regardless of whether or not they are well cared for. are striving, and in some cases rioting. for nationhood. small nations are clamouring for more voice in big affairs. In this country which is neither a small nation nor a big one, but one somewhere in between, this nationalistic spirit is by no means dormant, although we are commit- - ted to international co-operation in a big way. ent's honest personal opinion, 1; may even be his hope. The rm. remains that from now on there will always be a possibility of the Vice Regal office becoming a prim iii political preferment. It is not so now in the case of Mr. Massey, but the future is another sou,-'y, such a possibility. however remotg some may take it to be. is abhor. rent to all people who revere tn. Crown. As time goes on it will be vii-:. iially impossible to find any man in Canada. suitable for the office who has not had at some time or other direct affiliation with one of the political parties. This means, too, that, almost inevitably. there win be lobbying for the signal honour which. of course. will make mal- ters worse and worse. . Summerside civic elections. 0 I 0 President and Assoclaw Editor. Ian A. Burnett- Associate Editor, Frank Walker. "ilhe St: This province has obtained Canada-wide publicity through its Supreme Court judg- ment in the Potato Marketing Board litiga- lion. , 2 Memory is Weaker Man the Weakest Ink". g.. "17ulmnoiriar6tEsTruEsmnn E In Mystery In P.E.I. Students and others interested in music will have a unique entertainment offered them tonight by the P. W. C. Girls En- semble. Certain groups in Ontario and clsc-, where have been endeavouring of late to make an issue of farm incomes. It has been suggested in more than one quartei that farmers in the Maritime Provinces and Quebec are paying less than their fair share of the income tax burden. This move to tar the farmers of eastern Canada with the tax-evasion brush has been applauded in, the prairie provinces, where the belief is firmly held that western farmers shoulder- the entire tax burden. . If revenue from income tax paid by farmers is low in the Maritime Provinces as compared with the prairies the cause is not. far to seek. On the basis of Department of National Revenue statistics alone, it IS a matter of record that while the average farm income in Saskatchewan in 1949 (the latest year for which records are available) was 333,700 and for Alberta in the same year 534,266, farm incomes in the Maritime Provinces averaged only 32.832- The Health League of Canada should have little difficulty in convincing farmers of the importance of proper diet. They would soon be out of stock-breeding if they were still following unplanned feeding prac- tices. The action of the Federal Gov- crnnient in advising the King to name a Canadian as his personal representative here is a symptom of the nationalistic urge. There are other symptoms, too. and more will probably be evident as time goes on. Whether the departure from cus- tom will turn out to be wise or foolish is a question that will have to be Judged by future historians. Perhaps the verdict will never be unanimous. for even historians dif- fer in their opinions. judgments. and conclusions. But at this his- torical moment in our development towards national maturity the ques- tion is of considerable importance. and there is no way to keep it from being widely discussed. Perhaps it is a pity that the step, if it had to be considered at all. was not postponed to some time in the future when Canadian unity might not be quite as essential as The breaking of one good trsdl. tlon usually leads to the breaking of another. Mr. St. Laurent had no such intention in mind. but if the door has not now been opened wide for still more radical change. it is at least ajar. A few more years of growing pains may do the trlck. and we may yet see the of- fice of Governor-General changed from an appointive to an electiis position. What a field that would be for the ambitious politician! How it would eclipse the present run for senatorships, judgeships, and the like! There is still another eventuality that might possibly come out of this. What will there be to keep the experimental philosophers in politics from asking: "Why have a O O 0 Sir Robert Peel, second baroiict, Eng- lish statesman, was born this date 1788. His valuable reforms included the reduction in the number of capital crimes, prison amelioration, and the foundation of the Metropolitan Police, the "Peelers" or "Bob- bios.” 0 0 0 Argentina evidently assumes the seller's market in beef is to continue, proposing to boost the price to Britain to i250 a. ton DGOOGWQWOVWG . ' ' P ' ' - I ' I Governor-General at all? Couldiiot . . . - . - . . Op ,4 it now. Unity will always. of , , So far as Prince Edward Islandt is :iilrfill11gar2i1tiiElI:ie:taiissrt: :1 ttolfle fzorfltialifiic Old Charlottetown ) f B f 6 ,;;::u;s:;p::e(:gsh;?b1e'lbutthtod1ayp as 2': 11i7i:iliLt1rigcn(g:i1-gt dEll:;:iScel)ep;B;11alrl;(i. concerned, farm incomes present no niys ci y p I . p I . . g .' (AM P. E. L - Y 5 y A . t k I k 8 are n e scan c may as they are mmeumes MW at an The high Cost of farm equlpment lS lizlndly an lfldlfdllofi either of any desiic ) ,4 4 L d.e.-gpomng tegglxf-igceaoggrf teszioglmg-orpl wmpommy.,.. what zgtsiwel; would i , . g . . f to pease he cus omen ,5 M 1 H "M. A t ' there be to sue a qu on None and supplies. the d1V915lf"-id Character O . . . ISLAND FOUND,-"ON 51-ONE Complaint is heard from 0t- Indians and Eskimos. The Esk- to'd,,:,,'1.,fl;.Vunnece:Sl;:;,';3s;,1f:g at all, except that constitutionally the farming itself. and the fact that Islgand farmers seldom find themselves .the en- eficiaries of such political munificencc as last ear's 3:65 million wheat ”b0nuS". 0011' stit e pretty clear evidence 'that the rel- atively low ”takc" of Ottawas tax collect- ors in this Province is not. attributable to tax evasion. In fact. a good many farmers would consider themselves fortunate if it their net Cash income atthe end of the )':;1'l The tumour of by-elections in Ontario, even equalled the Mammw alwage "f " ":Quebec and New Brunswick has merely a , l V. . ' . . ' well to explain matters....Tlie 332, . - f P ,passing interest, as the overwhelming Got- stone in the will is 0; V5,, good It is bad enough 1'0? iii? falmels 0 "ernmcnt majority is not likely to be affect- quality and is rapidly hardening in laws that they have had quite enough snow for this Winter. It is not at all consoling to know that snow is beautiful, and every crystal which fall: is different from another. - St. Catharine: Standard. imos are still largely untouched by civilization and are therefore "naturally honest.” - Victoria Times. Ships arriving at Atlantic Provinces Nothing remains n'W or the old ports in winter are frequently laden with Falconwood Asylum built in 1878. an impressive coating of ice built up from N” we wuwmg exmp” mm 9' . I letter published on March 27 of freezing spray. What few sailors bother to that year by the architects. Messrs. explain to sympathetic landsmen, however, smlmg 3"” "””5' m defame ”' , , , , the quality of the Island material lS that most of such a coating is picked up used as foundation-stone. may within n few miles of land. l 5”” b" "ml Wml l”l"e5” "Now that talk about the Asy- lum walls has become general throughout the town, and noticing that some ambitious polyanthus has rushed into print, we think it there is provision for having a personal representative of the King at Ottawa. But. presumably, it would be easy for any Canadian Government, if it were so disposed. so advise the King to name no representative. and that would be that. be avoided. If Mr. St. Laurent feels that our "rights" as an independent nation necessitate the naming of a native- bom Governor-General. no one will quarrel with him seriously for stating his opinion, although many people will dispute his promise. Many, too. will question the timing of the innovation as well as the almost clandestine manner in which i: was brought about. The practice in vogue since Con- federation up to now has appar- ently worked out well. It had taken on the aura of tradition. There is. People profess (mainly in mid- summer) admiration for the old- fashioned Winters, but in the midst of such a Winter there seems a general feeling that. we could do better with something else.--Ottawa Journal. I While newspapers in succeeding editions tell the stories of crime and corruption, from the local break-in to the major U. S. polit- ical scandals. it is interesting to note the remarks of inspector Henry A. Larsen of the R.C.M.P. In New Yorkrto address the Ex- plorers' Club, the top man of one of the world's largest police dis- tricts reported little crime in the In his Otinwzi speech Mr. Chili'- chill said: "Besides the Crown. there is the King!" The Crown is a symbol of supreme law, justice, and authority. The King is a. per- son. The Govemor-General keeps the symbol of the Crown before the people at all times. In addl- l tlon to tiiat. he represents the I C ..A playwright decided to leave Hollywood, and gave notice to that effect to his employer. The producer sent for him to try to dissuade him from the radical E I to have to cope with indifference at ed. There are three Liberal seats vacant Ottawa with regard i0 ma1'keti”g and 01h'land one Progressive Conservative, Victoria- er Problems. Wi1iii?U-t h3Vl”g- lo endufre ES; suit heaped upon lllJLll'y because 0 ' Political manocuvering Oi PI'85SUl'e i1ll0”T'il elsewhere in the country. bidntentlonal Libel English publishers have at last received protection against heavy damages for un- intentional libel. In that respect most Canadian Provinces, including the Island, were well ahead, having for some years legislation which enables publishers to pub- lish apologies where the original libel was .inintended, and thus avoid paying Crippling awards. The older law was, as a Labour M. put: it, "a playground for rogues" and did nuch more harm than good in suppressing news which was actually i" the DUb1iC.i”' lerest. The new act, like our own, provides idequatc protection against any deliberate --ampaign of vilification while saving the conscientious publisher from many prema- ure grey hairs. By AnFodie-r-llama Noting it marked dropping off in charges of drunken driving, both in Ottawa and other Ontario centres, the Ottawa Journal remarks that during the same period there were many convictions under thc,ncw sec- tion of the Criminal Code which makes it an offence to drive a motor vehicle while onc's ability is impaired by alcohol 0' :11-ugs. The difference is that under the drunken-driving charge conviction means an imperative jail term-thcrc is no option of a fine. On the "impaired" charge a fine of not less than b50 is called for on first conviction. This is under the Criminal Code and of course applies in all Provinces. "Drunken driving," says the Journal, 'v'is often hard tcrprove, in the lack of some fixed legal standard and definition of drunk- enness-the police may be quite certain that a driver was so for under the influ- ence of liquor as to be a menace to public safety, but to prove it to the satisfaction ')f the court is another matter. It is true also that cases do arise in this category which amuse the sympathy of police and :ourts-a week in the county jail is not a nice thing to have on the family escutch- l edn-and it would not be surprising if there were a tendency, where no accident has oc- -curs-bd, to give offenders the benefit of the doubt. l "On the other hand it is much easier to prove the charge of driving while one's ability to drive is impaired, and conviction -urging Ia. social ignominy since a fine V XIV 0!! J first conviction. Thus lCzirlcton. N.B. l . 1 There are now only 9 Progressive Con- 'servatives and 78 Liberals in the Senate, 'with 15 vacancies, including one in Queen's. iBut the Prime Minister seems in no hurry '10 make new appointees-and why should he with an overwhelming majority in the Upper Chamber, as well as "saving" some d60,(l00 per annum in subsidies? O O s 1 I I l Mr. J. D. innes, president of the H01- stcin-Friesian Association of Canada, told it meeting of the association that a dairy farmer earns less for an hours labor than does an industrial worker. "The greatest itobsiaclc a farmer has today is the lack of :men with ability to handle animals. Until the price of a farmer's production an hour is more in line with the price of industrial production, this condition will not be ini- proved. Many urban people are of the opinion that farmers are a group of pro- fitcers,.and that producing milk is extreme- ly profitable.” He hoped that figures would soon be available to show that farmers itl'PI'C not making exorbitant profits. 0 O r I 0 The Massachusetts system of retiring ;judges at age 70 with full pay and having lthcgi don call for iliarta-tirciictrt duty ibcinlg lstu ic in ega circ es awa. s c lthc hugc backlog of untried cases could be lwhittlcd down quickly if the plan were faclopted. Massachusetts has found it brings 3 younger and more active men to the Bench and it has not been necessary to increase lthc ntdiibcr of judges. Under Canadals epension system many judges who would like to retire at 70 feel they cannot bccausel their income would be cut. The Massachu- lS0l.tS plan is said to induce judges to retire lbccausc their income stays the same, and the public continues to benefit from their mature knowledge. 0 Rt. Hon. Vincent Massey's most recent .public service (says Time) was as chairman lot the Royal Commission which last year gave Canada a master plan for cultural development (Time, June 18). "We are the more Canadian for being British," Massey once wrote. At times. his icy dignity and faultless manners have amazed even the English. lord Cranborne, now the Mail'- quess of Salisbury and .Winston Churchill's f..ord Privy Seal. once observed "Fine chap, Vincent, but he does make one feel a bit of a savage." Massey unbenck rarely, al- though close friends who have seen him at charades rate him a better natural actor than his younger brother Raymond, long a U. S. stage and screen star (and now a the exposed parts of the building. The bed from which it was quar- ried was a. solid table of freestone rock, having a layer of earth and strata of hardened clay thirteen feet in thickness upon it. The sur- face of this layer of earth is about fifty feet above the sea level. The tool marks show as sharp and clear on the window quoiii stones as they did the day on which they were cut. This-is a safe and sure criterion for the durability of any stone. "In scowiiig the stone from Rocky Point to Falconwood the greatest care was taken to keep the material free from salt water. for one clash of this upon any specimen of freestone. red or grey. destroys it for building purposes. None of the stone was landed on the Asylum grounds during stormy weather. 0 o "In this piece of foundation wall, 1,200 feet long and 9 feet high, vere winter. having been exposed to the weather on the inside and outside faces, there are only four window piers and about two dozen stones throughout the whole struc- ture that show any sign of defects, and the Commissioner of Public Works has the copy of our notice to the contractors (Messrs. McIn- tosh and Dewar) on the itith Jan- uary last. ordering the removal of this stone and rebuilding of it early in the spring before any brickwork is commenced... "As regards the workmanship of ihe will. with the exception of the four piers above mentioned it is of the very best description. and we have never before seen a firmer piece of foundation. perhaps ex. cepting that of the WellingtoiiBar- racks in Halifax, having superin- tended the construction of suclt buildings as the new Post Office and Club House of Halifax and the majority of the most extensive stone buildings in that city; I I O '-'One---hon.- gentleman. by the name of Hatchet. a rather sharp individual, no doubt. expressed his idea that none of the Island stone was fit for a foundation for the Asylum. Now. this is all abomin- able nonsense. A parallel case of this kind happened in Halifax Wm? BIXW years ago. when the Parliament Buildings were to be erected. The late Mr. Archibald Scott, the architect, who came li'0m Edinbufihwtrongiy advocated the using of native freestone for the building material. A great agitation ws's raised against the idea of such a thing. and it was with difficulty that Mr. Scott gain- ed his Dolnt. This led to the open- iniz of the Wallace Free atone Quarries... "It is not generally known that one of the most expensive build- ing stones used in Boston. and quarried at Springneld, is almost the exact formation of our Island freeatone. both in colour. grit, and the amount of ailicia and mice points contained. The price of the stone in Boston is I15 per ton In the year of the American Centen- nial. the Hon. James POM. we be. lieve, tried to persuade Mr. wooi- rich of the Mount lldward Quarry to trim some specimens of his stone. and send them to Philadel- phia: but this was never done. "As a good building nistei-ial,tiie red stone fseinn on It. Jamar Church are hardening very quickly. the 'impaired' clauseused in U. S. citizen), The stone has been out into mould- iais and ornsnients. and yetihere which has stood t.he test of a-se-"' territory under his jurisdiction. an Arctic precinct covering 3.000.000 square miles. Why is there little crime there? Inspector Larsen has n brief reply. Most of the inhab- itants of the region he polices are DU BLIC FORUM This column is open in the discussion by correspondents of questions of Interest. The Guardian does not necessar- ily endorse the opinion of correspondents. GREAT CRISES Sir,-I had a pleasant evening with a long time "shut in" and was impressed by his cheerful outlook on life, kindly interest in others and his reward in family relation- ships. In the way of talk, he ques- tinned me as follows: "Does it say somewhere that Joshua stllled the waves?" Without much thought. I replied, "Joshua bade the sun stand still". Nothing more being said on that subject. I next day referred the question to another and was reminded that Joshua divided the waters of Jordan to allow the hosts of Israelite enter the Promised Land. as told in Joshua 3rd chapt. He was the suc- cessor of Moses -who raised his rod at the Red sea. the winters raised up in a heap, allowing the Hebrew people to cross over ”dryshod". Exodus. 14th chap. Moses at this time was about 80 years old, Let's go back to his infancy when he survived the danger of death at the hands of Pharoah. being placed in a basket of bul- rushes and canted ashore by the princess. I-low reasonable it would have been to throw the boy fur- ther out as the icing would com- mand. These three Old Testament stories show that God had a plan for the Jewish Church and watch- ed over it, as He now has a plan for Christ's Church and is watch- ing over it in this twentieth cen- tury. More crlsernre recorded in the "New". such as when the Master slept on a pillow in the ship and the disciples feared that He and they would be engulfed. And when they sailed alone and being at their wits end, He am-"rs them in the night. walking on the waves. so much like our lives now. we look for Him to come when we have owhere else to look. Or we imagine He is asleep and does not care. But-now as well as then He comes to the rescue with "Peace: be still. where is your faith? It is If He not afraid!" Ife rebukes the sea and there is "I great calm." . on these two occasions the in- fant church was on trial. But we can say. to their credit, that they rowed hard both times. May we row the boat to the limit of our power. We failed to row when we should have. We should have been across to land before this century began and the waves of Commun- ism would not as now be inning ti! on the Kenslngton. building that has shipped or ,eruin- bfH'Vltb frost, and the alternate is not one stone in the whole A step. "You can't make any money writing for the stage." the produc- er said. "rake your last play - how much money did that make?" "Seventy-five thousand dollars," the playwright said. with some pride. "See?" said the producer.- Vancouver Province. This great agricultural country recently has witnessed some curi- ous golngs-on. We have imported butter. eggs. pork and latterly some beef. To cap the climax we now are importing potatoes. Pur- chasers at some Windsor groceries will have noted potatoes from the United States. One paper bag of potatoes purchased was from Ba- tavia, New York. and marked U.S. No. 1 grade. They don't compare with Prince Edward Island or New Brunswick, or even with some Ontario potatoes. But, due to scarcity of Canadian potatoes this year, some of us will have to eat imported spuds. Another angle to this importation is the higher value of our dollar in terms of United States currency. They can be imported and sold in com- petition with prices of Canadian potatoes.-Windsor Star. 7 .?oed&um NICHOLAS NYE Nicholas Nye was lean and gray. Lame of a leg and oi More than a score years He had seen since he was foaled: l-le munched the thirties. purple and spiked. Would sometimes stoop and sigh. And turn to his head. as if he of donkey's said, "Poor Nicholas Nyel" Alone with his shadow he'd drowse. in the meadow Lastly swinging his tail. At break of day he used to bray- Not much too hearty and hale: But wonderful gurnption was under nis skin. And a calm clear light in his eye. ”Kfid'oii2ie”ln aiiiifille. he'd smile- Would Nicholas Nye. Seem to be smiling at me. he won From his bush in the corner. of 'may- Bony and ovtnerless. widowed and worn. Knobbls-kneed. lonely and gray; And over the grass would seem to pass 'Neath the deep dark blue of the 8oinethin'g much better than words between me And Nicholas Nye. But dusk Lould come in the apple I . And green of the glow-was-in shine. ' And birds in heat would crouch to tilt. And home I'd trans to mine; and there in the moonlight, dark with en, , not wherefore not why. like a ghost. and I II I put. Old Nicholas Nye. fruit and thaw of this winter hive .. . '-.....L . been test enough for any rnsterIai.'1. '. -Walter 40 la Marc. means. in the regular dum it is not a niajoritv would have supported the of course, no reason to treat all traditions as being sacrosanct. In the development of communities as of individuals. traditions and cus- toms must sometimes be replaced by measiii-es which in time will themselves become tradi- tions. snd this replncing'does not necessarily indicate outrage by any Still. when the breaking of a honoured political tradition appears likely to give rise to sharp controversy, as was the case here. it would seem that the people themselves should be given plenty or! opportunity beforehand to ex- press their will l:i the matter. . column innovation at thl The fact that. been done. a ne has been made Mr. Massey. hair on the issue. No ance of the min For your contact, ' OFFICES: 2 Our present Prime Minister is by all accounts an honourable man and st dedicated statesman. safe to say that no one. not even hLs most bitter political opponent, would say one word against him. Besides that. he is scarcely it party politician in the ordinary sense of that term. ii fact which I believe has.alre.ad,v been mentioned in the editorial Canadian unity is obviously, very much on Mr. St. Laurcnrs heart and mind. i . At the some time there is no evi- dence that he had any sort of mandate from the Canadian people as a whole. or even from any con- siderable segment of the popula- tion, to introduce it new vogue, as it were, in our relationship with the Crown. True. there are people. perhaps sizable groups of people. who would like to see the office of Governor-General abolished alto- gether. but. at the moment at any rate, it is safe to say they do not represent any appreciable weight of public opinion. 0 0 Had the people been consulted rocess of referen- psper editorial opinion means any- thing, and it usually does. the re- action would more likely have been in the other direction. l(lllAllii'Y0llll POSSESSIONS WITH SOUND AND ADEQUATI-J INSURANCE IIYNIIMAN 8: CO. LTD. 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