PAGI FOUR THE GUARDIAN, _». THE GUARDIAN Morning Dolly (Pounded in i657) Authorised n Second Clue Mall. Pout Offloo Department, Ottawa. The lnlnud Guardian Publllhln] Co. Idltor and Managing . J. B. Ilnrnott. Anorlnlo Editor, lfrnnk Walker. "The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink" MONDAY. NOV. 28. 1049 CHARLOTTETOWN. lio Request Needed Field Marshal Sir William Slim gave a broad hint in Ottawa last week that an im- portant Canadian contribution to the de- fence of the Western world would be the training of British and Western European troops in this country. The Chief of the Imperial General Staff made it clear that the offer of such facilities would be very gratefully received in the countries involved. All too often in the past, as for instance in the case of the Berlin Air Lift, the Cana- dian Government has stood pat with the weak explanation that our cooperation had not been requested. With the well known sensitivity of this country to any suggestion of British “dictation" it is highly unlikely that any official request for any particular action by us will ever be made by the British Government. If we are to make good our claim t0 sovereign independence we must take the initiative in offering to contribute to the common safety. Australian War History By far the biggest literary work ever undertaken in Australia ls the Common- wealth’s Official History of Australia in the War of 1939-45. About one-third of it is finished, reports the Australian News Let- ter. On completion, it will contain approxi- mately 6,000,000 words and will have cost about £200,000. Gavin Long, the official historian in charge of the production of these 22 vol- umes, believes that they will be finished by 1953, except for one volume, which will be completed in 1954. _ C. E. W. Bean took 23 years to record in 12 volumes Australia's part in the First World War, and his 4,000,000-word work is now recognized as a model for all war historians. More than half of that history was written by Dr. Bean himself, however, whereas the present work is being under- taken by 13 writers. The “Official History Australia in the War of 1939-45" is being edited and supervised by Gavin Long, who will himself write only two volumes. This achievement is a reminder of the fact-shameful to the government and peo- ple of this country—that the Official History of the Canadians in World War One has never yet been completed. A first volume was issued some years ago, ending in the second Battle of Ypres in April, 1915. “The rest is silence." Pensions And Jobs Mr. Bruce Hutchinson, one of Canada's most brilliant journalists, takes a forceful punch at the current fallacy that national welfare can be promoted by retiring people from gainful employment at ages when they still could be productive. Writing in the Vancouver News-Herald, be says: “We are only beginning to discover the wonders of economics. If compulsory re- tirement at 65 will provide more work and prosperity for everybody clearly compulsory retirement at 60 will provide still more work and prosperity. If we would only force men to stop working and producing at 5O we would begin to usher in a truly abundant lifc. “Even that is still only a timid begin- ning. When we elect a government with enough courage and intelligence to compel retirement at 25 we shall really begin to get somewhere. And later on, as we gain a better understanding of economics, we shall make everybody rich by prohibiting the crime of work altogether. Retire all children at the age of 12, never let them be sucked into the vice of labor, keep them out of temptations way and then at last the economic age will dawn. “If you doubt this economic logic just consider what mischief a man commits when he works in his later years. He may do it quite unconsciously and with the best of intentions, I admit, but the economic con- sequences are always the same. He pro- duces something, that's the trouble, he pro- -duces something. Thus he keel)! himself instead of allowing his children or the state to keep him. , “Two inevitable results follow. First, the state does not spend as much as it would otherwise and that, as everyone knows. apfegdg poverty everywhere. If enough re- bellious old men insisted on working and producing, the state might even reduce taxes and where would we be then? Second, if younger men did not have to support the old there wouldn't be enough work to go around, nobody would have a iob except the old men who, by producing wealth and keeping themselves, had started the vicious ppiral‘ of de ression.’ “One firgds it difficult, therefore, to ex- cuse such men as Mr. Churchill who dis- regard the public interest and keep on working. Why, by next spring Mr. Chur- chill may well prevent some promising young man from becoming Prime Minister just as he did during the war. “Now that we know the facts no further excuses can be accepted. The old man who works, produces wealth and keeps himself is the enemy of society. He deserves to be banished, hidden away, forgotten and kept by the work of others. A trout stream or a petunia bed is good enough for a fellow like that.” EDITORIAL NOTES 'l‘\v'enty-seven more days iill Christmas. O O O spotlight these days. I “The Times", London, was first printed by steam this date 1814. Previously print-l ed by hand labour, it is now operated b)’ electricity. O California is soon to have a monorail system carrying aluminum aircraft iurtclagc- type cars slung under tandem wheels, clear- ing the ground by sixteen feet. Speeds in excess of 100 mph. are expected. O I O Sir Stafford Cripps, in declaring Bri- tain's debt to Canada for aid in war and in the post-war years, has shown only one side of the picture. The debt of Canada. and of the whole free world, to Britain is the other. I With the baking industry the tail-get. for attack under the Combines Act it looks as if in sclf defence it will have to come up with something in the nature of the baker's (iozcn again as a safeguard against prosecu- lion. Mr. Gardiner and Mr. Howe disagree as to whether we have food surpluses. It is a question of identifying cause and effect. Our exports have dropped but the Government has not decided whether it is from lack of markets or of under production. I O O Czechoslovakian farmers are limited to ownership of not more than 124 acres, so the present communist drive to liquidate “big” farmers involves smaller holdings than that limit. The obvious intent is to make farms so small that the farmers will wel- come coilectivism. O Rent control, like other controls, costs money for which the taxpayer fools the bill. Canada's rentals administrator, Owen Lob- ley of Montreal, has been paid $15,000 in travelling expenses since he was appointed by order-in-council in 1944. His salary is $10,000 a year. A parliamentary return showed that he received his largest annual travelling expense payment in 1944-45, ivhen the amount was $3,120.20. His travelling expenses from April 1 of this year to Nov. 12, were listed as $1,067.10. Total travelling expense payments were approximately $14,- 945. Lord Kemsley, English newspaper pro- prietor and publisher, addressing a gather- ing of newspaper men in New York said: “My experience so far does not convince me that the ordinary university training equips a man for the rough-and-tumblc of newspaper life, with the reporters note- book, or at the sub-editor's desk. However valuable the scholar may be as a writer of features or leading articles, those who ap- pear to believe that newspapers would do better if entrusted wholly i0 a graduate staff are out of touch with reality. If the university graduate desires to be a news- paper man in the fullest sense of the word then he can only be so by undertaking, on entering the profession, a basic training in the necessary routine of journalists’ work. I believe that for some time-for a long time-recruitment will wisely be made at all levels." O Dr. Brock Chisholm is again to the fore with his psychiatrist theories, this time pro- claiming that imposition of obedience upon children is almost certain to distort their personalities. Commenting on this the “Montreal Gazette" says this theory is really not new at all, but one that is very old. In- deed, Samuel de Champlain, who explored Canada in the early years of the 17th cen- tury, came upon a tribe of Indians, named the Attigouantans, who were practising pro- gressive psychology within the present boun- daries of Ontario. Of them Champlain wrote: “Their children are extremely spoil- ed, as a result of not being punished, and are of so perverse a nature that they strike their fathers and mothers, which is a sort of curse that God sends them." Of course Samuel de Champlain was only a visitor from an old civilization. He failed utterly to appreciate the significance of the great ex- periment that was taking place before his eyes. A great opportunity was lost. Had he brought the new methods back to Europe with him, the world by now might be really 300 years ahead The oysters and the chickens hold thc _ / ’ (we ormwa JOURNAL uovcs eorromsuv rum‘ one mu TOWN wuerze TRAFFK: CAN B . .. w." vosuc FORUM l!) This column is open to in: F discussion by correspondents oi‘ questions of interest. The Guardian does not net-ensur- ily endorse the opinion oi correspondents. /\. ..- sew c‘ eae/ew- -. u“ - 5 4v- S'SIDE SKATING RINK Sin-It. was with amusement and '. ust that I read of a. recent nictilllg of a. fe-w of the sporting cuuzcns of the town of Summer-side who seem very anxious to have an up-to-date skating rink and youth center (both of which would br» a luxury and not a necessity) crerted by the town. It is obvious that those who are lhv mcst enthusiastic have been fortunate enough to find thclnselves wojl supplied with this world's goods. Have those men paused to consid- er what percent of the tazcpaycr; would b0 benefited by the erection of n building of this sort costing many thousands of dollars? What would one of us think if our neigh- bour wished to build an addition to his (lwcllillg and asked us to help defray the expense nll-hough we- would derive no benefit from it whatever? That is Just what those en- thusiasts are asking us to do for there are hundreds of our tax- payers to whom a skating rink means nothing. Would it not be more fitting for [hose so much in favor of the pro- joct. to join with their cwompanions and erect a building lo their liking. rather than increase the burden of the taxpayer? I am. Sir. etc. SUMMDRSIDE TRAVELLER. l} CHARLOTFETOWN A Sufferer Sneaks llp ~ p’ u - Old Charlottetown um r. n. u ron cnnnroinm "Quite l large party left the island recently for California. among which were the family of Mr. John Harrington, five in num- ber, who go from Summerside to rejoin Mr. Harrington, now in California; the Woolner family, nine in number, of Rustico; the McNeill family, three in number, of Grand River, Lot 14, the head of the family being now in Cali- fornia; Mr. Thomas Brazil of Summerside. and Mr. Sutherland, of Clifton. New London, and sev- cral others, including nine from Charlottetown. and making in all about thirty-two persons. Among the Charlottetown contingent arc Mr. W. l-I. Fraser, contractor, and family. A ORR. sleeper, a very fine car built specially for such excursions, has been provided for them and will meet them at Point du Cherie. Thence they will go to Vancouver, B.C., without change of cars.” -lsland Guardian. May 30, i890. DI¢ IT“ The Age-Old Story QQQ UQ3ZIQQQ<JQQ ill -- . Behold My servant, uhom I up- hold, Mine Elect, in whom my snul dellghteth. I have put My spirit upon Him: He shall bring forth judgment m the Gentiles. He nhnll not fall or he discouraged, till Ho have set; judgment on the Earth; and the isles shall wait for His lnw. I, the Lord, have culled thee Too Eager To Win (Globe and Mall) I It is essential for the good name of the Royal Winter Fair that charges alleging that horses par- ticipating in the horse shows are doped should be cleared up as soon as possible. Giving horses stimulating drugs is an illegal practice, but unless the law is en- forced iL will not prevent un- scrupulous owners from trying to obtain an advantage. General de- nlals will not satisfy the public. us the charges have been too well supporinrl to be without founda- iiou. Strict precautions against doping are taken at race-tracks, und serious penalties are imposed when it is found. There should be no loss sincerity in the application of ihc l:\\v nt the Royal Winter Fair, ille (Tanndinn Nntionnl Exhibition, or any other Canadian horse show. The people who attend horse shows do so because they love horses. They like the color and the glamor which attend such events. It ls a gross insult to sin-h patrons that exhibitors should zlrug their horses for the cheap object of victory over more hon- cst competitors. Apnrt from the interests of patrons of the horse shows, iherc is the question raised over the llilfifly value built up for n horse which has won a number of ribbons after having been doped. Should such a horse be sold, the new owncr is morally. if not leg- ally, n victim of fraud. If thll practice were widespread, no little harm could be done to the breeds of horses used in the shows. There ll every reason for getting the situation nude: control. The urge to win is not in itself n bad motive, but it lometlmes leads to absurdities. The approved methods used in nome other com- petitions could also he reconsider cd with general advantage. Much acclaim ls given to wheni, oats and rye kings, but it ls seldom noted that their exhibiis are not samples of their run-of-the-mlll production. butplnhoriously selected items from several bushels. The some thing is true of apples, pears, and other fruits. Thcy are not representa- tive of the fruit of a tree or an orchard, but are individually pick- ed over from n large quantity. In plowing matches, competitors are allowed tn pnt and shape furrows hy hand, before the judging takes place. This would appear to be carry- ing the competitive spirit. tno far. Nn one would expect n company making tractors in make om spe- clnl iicm in show ni the Winter Fnlr. What l: shown in tho com- pany's general line. It might not he practicable to demand that n competitor submit a bushel at Till‘, rlom from n whole crop, but it ought in he understand ihnt the prize has been won by selected items, not the average. The win- ning of prizes at fairs has become n hubby proposition’. and rarely ro- lnten in tho general activities of farming n: they un- carrier! on un- der ordinary condition: of Weath- ln righteousness, and will hold lhlne hand, and will keep thee: and will give thee for n covenant of the people, for the light of the Gentiles; to open th hllnd eyes: to bring out: tho pr noners from the prison, and them that sit In darkness out of the prison house. Cabinet Secrets (Windsor Star) Mr. Si. Laurent expresses con- cern about socrets leaking out of Cabinet. And, he should, if these relate to national defence, diplo- matic information or other data having to do with the safety of the state. Or if tax policies or other budgetary data become known in advance of the budget. Or, if information gels into the hands of persons who can use it for their own private profit. Beyond that, too much secrecy about Government doings or Cab- inet meetings cnn be much more dangerous to the welfare of n democracy than too little secrecy. Certainly there are leaks from Cabinet. There were leaks long before Mr. Si. Laurent eniercd pliblic life and will be long after he departs from it. Where does he think newspapermen get their nd- vance information, excapt from Cabinet Ministers or from senior or other civil servants? Often Cabinet Ministers for ilheir own purposes wish to get information out, sometimes lo fly n kite to test public opinion; often because they think the public should know what goes on. That we: true even during the war. even during such hectic times as the conscription crises. O O O A democrat, can only function st lbs best in an rmosphers of maximum information. Too strict a cloak of secrecy around Cabinet meetings would deprive people of knowledge they should have if they are to be an enlightened electorate. Possibly. such leaks frequently embarrass a govern- WE}. sp 0F RAGWEEi) nurnc LlGHb wmrrcwn WM REM/ii" g- TQngTEp T0 OPERATE WITHOUT | Auvactifl" FREE ecia VIRTUALLY .- zw-opa __,,,-— FREE OF “v.- \"&&O, \ f w. ~¢ ' o; ONE CANAD- i‘) RGO AND GQEE N LIGHT9 74¢ i faefiéwwz WANDEBLUST Awake. srisel and come away! To the wild woods and the plains, To the pools where winter rains Image all their roof of-leaves. Where the pine its garland weaves C! sapivss green, and ivy dun. Round stems that. never kiss the SUll. Where the lawns and pastures be, And the sandhills of the sea- Where the melting hour-frost. wets The daisy-star that never sets, And vvlXld-HOWCXS and violets, Which yet join not scent to hue, Crown the pale your weak and new. Whcrc lhc night is left behind. In the deep east. dim and blind, And the blue moon is ovoi- us, And the multltudlnous RlllxMS mumuu‘ at cur feet, \'l'hc:'c the earth and ocean meet, And all things seem only one In the universal sun. ——Pemy Bysshe Shelley. U. Kit/And Canadians GeLTogelher A new "Businessmens Commit- tee" has been set up to study Anglo-Canadian trade from the husinessmen's point of’ view. Sever- al United ‘Kingdom organizations have joined with the Canadian Chambers of Commerce to form the new committee which will meet twice a year-once in each emin- try. The next meeting will be in London at. the end of this year or the beginning of xicxt. The committee will study prob- lems of internal and external trade affecting both countries, such as exchange difficulties. multllstezul trading. etc. Suggestions are to be considfiwl "at the buslnrs level", and the prime purpose will be to exchange ideas and views. If circumstances demand. tho com- mittee will have the job of alloying misconceptions about mutual trad- lng policies, '.nd will make recom- mendations to one or both of the governments concerned. Two members of the United King- dom section committee. Mr John McLean and Sir Percy Lister, are members of the Dollar Exports Board, thus ensuring that the work of the two organizations is con:- plimentary. Formation of the new body folluvs talks which started when the delegation from the Cana- dian Chamber of Commerce visited London last February, and were continued when n party of United Kingdom businessmen came ta Quebec last June. Electricity From Peal Peat has been burnt on Scottish fires for generations, but today it. has coma into its own as another type of fuel. Brltlan has just- net up n special committee to advise.- on developing pent as n fuel for burning in gas turbines This com- mittee will wnrk under the chair- manship of Sir Edward Appleton, noted British scientist and Princi- pnl of Edinburgh University. Xi. will investigate ways of extracting post from vast. bogs in sootland (which cover thousands of acres). and will plan rnsonrch into burn- ing peat in turbine engines to pro- duce electricity for light. heat and power. There is another side to the schemvclearance of peat from wide stretches of land in Scotland may open up large tracts of soil for food production. Scientists who produced many of Britiunfis ingenious wartime dis- coveries are now working on a large plough to lift the pent. It will ment. There i1 no u: t against than. Some times it does n government good to be emibar- rassed. Cabinet secrecy successfully pre- vented ihe people from learning that the Ministry had broken the law of the land in refusing to make public the Combines report on the flour milling industry. Thus preventing voters from knowing about this report prior to the election. It is just too bad there ‘hadn't been a leak on that one. If the Cabinet. in secrecy, will break the lnw that is the best argument in hvor of lulu. Else, what assurance: are there against similar occurrence: behind Cab- inet doors! In big law flrml or private cor- porations. where privnie business ‘n boinl discussed. there i! reason for secrecy. Bu! in n devmoeracv. "where Cabinet in discussing pub- lic husinell, secrecy enily can be or and circumstances. ’ overdone. Electrical contractor WIRING AND IIIAIRINO ERNEST B.‘ IIAMBAY. ltl Elm An Phone 10681 ' G. F. Hutchaon i a. Son OPTOMETICISTO ‘ ‘lpoolnllotn In the fltflng oi [lnlool for the correction oi l | I I ' l ocular detect." 68 GIAITON WIDE‘! ‘M15555 Ten month: no the number of freight cars handled by the CNR in and out of Edmonton was 49,800. That was the total for January of this year and the figure was close to the 50,000 monthly the railway had considered “n-onnal." In July. can handled were 60.285; in Sop- tember, they numbered 69,500; the October total will be 82,000, —Ed- monton Journal. The present work relief program (in Newfoundland) is serving the twofold purpose of sparing able- bodied person's in distressed cir- cumstances the indignities of the dole and prlnming the economic pump. The principle is sound in both cases. But it must be gen- erally realized tha! this is a stop- gap enterprise for two reasons. One is that pump-priming is a process that can last only as long as the financial reserves of the provincial government. The other is that public funds cannot in any event take the place of productive employment. The transition from a state of high prosperity to one of uncertainty and want has been far Iwifter than there was any reason to suspect. —- Si. John's Nfld) News. The safely code for hunters is ‘Qlnplfl. and can be generally stai- "d in four words? “Look before you shoot." It's too bad that the only stare-fire way to keep from getting killed is to stay at home. Sedenliasry skeptics are raising n question that sportsmenk associa- tions and slate authorities find it be able to clear several hundred feet of bog each day. Driven by gas turbine engines which will themselves use peat, the plough is fitted with six foot. blades which slice and lift the peat in even lay- ers. Pent used by the plough ii- self is automatically crushed and fed into n small furnace “there it is converted into hot al’ and steam which provides the necessary driv- ing power. Experts from many puts of Lie lvOfld have been to British recently to find out. the uses to which gas turbines can be put. and the British Government's new research station 1n Scotland is now carrying out important experiments connected with the development of these engines for industrial and other purposes. — Notes By The Way _ hard to answer. "Why." they ask. NOVEMBER 33, u” m 1h - . to commit Suicidyg-Fllauwbxe Just if there is rac ' the numberp sltfggfmf” , simply because we hglvn _k1ll_ sisted on a permanentlfent 1m season for the dams “filo 610m look‘ before they shoot.‘ ' We“ Marie Star, A klndl -. CHllC/ saldhtlfall. ultlirigtlzluqfihlerlcn mm“- haPPY place UcCuusg“a: ' EVE!‘ politics grew a; an vvhen‘ 50,1190“? bu-‘llflht ill a Bzll {mum Prgltlgcilbfl o1 Dlfdg; and ‘Esra: fife this liovxecxf {Few of “idem: ' lrds came go knowledge tins week. A =- my “med 1° 5611 her house-dd)! l‘ northern outskirts of LT U“ lhgléfht sufficiently ,,,,.£d°f c the birds have 1mm m u, 1y fed m!‘ 8 generation gg- g u ever since a llnnct an“ Flora dead on the doorstL-p Um {ilunf morning. A number M “my have wished y; buy u“ gum“ but all have been rejqggqd Ono“; Zl-aund that they shflwod M in terest in birds whzllvvor‘ u: house will only hr Svlii u» ‘a d‘ chaser who will titan-l. u, ‘opt: gigxlhg the birds. —— London Sp“. Viscount Alexander i; M. m.’ an enthusiastic follower of “m, but he is a keen hockey (m: u his whole family and particul- arl)’ his young son. The Alex- anders during the hockey seam seldom miss n home game of tin Ottawa team known as the Q, laws Senators. Th. Guyvmo. General in his address at ihe of: ficial opening of 'l'h;!lllL‘S liall u the University of Western On. tario told a story in regard to hi. son. He said that on a Sunday after seeing a game on Saiurda) night the family were out for | drive and when they passed Pur- liament Hill the flag was at hnli mast. "Why is the flag st hag mast?" asked Alexanderi m; “One of the senator: is dead.‘ replied the Governor General. "What! Not one of the hockey play- ers we nw in the game 1m night " asked his son excitedly, _. ARI. in the London Free Prel. PROFESSIONAL CARDS Dr. W. R. Carson Chiropractor Palmer Grndunw CBABLOTTETOWN 201 Prince 8t. Phone 101! Guilder d: Hazard Barristers. Solicitors. Nflll-PIOI, nu. llnnndinn Bank of Corn um‘ Bldg. MONEY TO UOAN GILBERT A. GAUDET, B.A., LLB. Canadian Bank of Common .- Bldg. J. S. TAYLOR Optometrist Eyes examined, glasses fit- ted Corner Kent n! Queen. Sh. Office Phone IBM-House I018 _J. A. McGuiqun NOTARY, ETC. BARIIISTER. SULICITOIL CURRIE BUILDING Frederic A. Large. i(.C. BABIUSTER. SOLICITJB, NOTARY Royal Bunk of Canada (Ilmnben Charlottetown, P.2d. Successor ‘ George l. Tweedy, L0. 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