PAGE-FOUR, THE GUARDIAN Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Omen Department. Ottawa. The island " Publishing Co. President and Associate Editor, In A. Burnett. Associate Editor, Frank Walker. CIRCULATION ”Covcra Prince Edward Island like the dew' "The strongest memory is weaker than the weakest ink". CIIARLOTTETOWN. THURSDAY, FEB. 12, 1953 Water For Parkdale Charlottetown should be reducing con- sumption of city water in the opinion of the expert it employed. Mr. John R. Kaye passed on to the commission of enquiry on the Parkdale water and sewerage situation the opinion which he had formed as a re- sult of his investigations. That opinion and the facts on which it is based no doubt will have a strong influence in determining kets being only a small. percentage of the total. New Zealand is also favorably placed in marketing its dairy products in world competition, having achieved a higher out- put per unit of labor which gives low-cost production. , ii.B. Hydro Power New Brunswick is looking forward to a greater supply of electrical energy as a re-' sult of the N. B. Power Commission's con- templated plan to develop avhydro power site at Beechwood. This particular source is one of several capable of being linked to utilize the water flow of the Saint John River to produce supplies of electricity for both New Brunswick and the State of; Maine. The engineers of the Internationall Joint (Waterways) Commission have al-: ready done preliminary survey work on the; proposed overi-all project, but New Bruns-l wick can proceed unilaterally at any timeftol develop the Beechwood site. to add to its x .- THE GUARDIAN."CHARLOTTETOWN Standing A Chance Himself Well,weH.' One of them selected For "breeziness”.' j bemoan FEBRUAIZY 01.2. 195,; 5 The Passing Scene .15: ubserver A wonn r-on amour rboruz "Yes. I'm almost seventy-flue and could, if they wculci, I1'l3nf-lgp H,” soon I'll be ready for the shelf". I heard one man remark to another the other day, There was nothing particularly novel about the re- mark. In fact. the man was voicing in his simple homespun way a View that is as old as any in the bulky catalogue of theories and opinions. It is not so many years ago that ministry was very wary about am- ploying any man past fifty. on the theory that he would be onhuln the -ray. - ' This attitude is not quite so com- mon now. and some industrialists '.wre speaking right out in favour lof the experience and stability of lune middle-aged and older. There (is a gradual re-discovery of the ,idea that advancing 388 I5 W33 necessarily the same thing as use- essness . The same day I heard the man his approaching 75th new birth more readily than H, young because. they have moir ;. the nature of recreatlvc Cx1)Cl'l('lI('r- to draw upon. i Home of my elderly friends lnuri I am thankful that I have a g1-my number of them) have told me that they spend a lot of their 2 v . in pondering mysteries of the in, and wherefore. This, too, is xi-.n..,,,; enough, for the sense of Chiluzr and apparent hm means ninrr H, them than to the young, Vvm,-., primer limits it is, no doubt. ,. healthful diversion. Carried in lip -point of morbidity. as it smnetlnw. is, it is likely to make cotifuman worse confounded. There -, questions in life and about life 1 we may as well admit have no , parent answers. Wrote the ;....- Landor: "I see the rainbow in the :9.-, the dew upon the grass; l I see them and I ask not '.x!:v they glimmer or they pass, With fnlded.arms I llngrr not 0.; call them back; ' birthday I happened to come across l;ome words spoken by the late sir William Muloch on his 95th an- electrical supply. It is estimated that the new source will the attitude of the Charlottetown author- ities to proposals for supplying water to .. desirable development surrounding villages. The problem which must be faced is in- rlicated to be one of the acquisition of addi- tional sources of water and their develop- ment. The evidence of Mr. Kaye is that it is not a question of sharing an already suf- ficient water supply owned by the city. Even if Mr. Kaye has considerably under- estimated the capacity of the city's sources so that there is a margin for expansion it would seem that the city is entitled to rely on that margin for its own future needs and to regard water supplied to the surround- ing villages as requiring additional capital investment. The Parkdale brief seems to assume that Char1ottetown's water supply is already in- adequate and makes the very sensible sug- gestion that plans for expansion should be undertaken in the knowledge of Parkdale's requirements as well as those of the city proper. Judge Trainor, on a slightly differ- ent point, points out that the problem is not one concerning the city and the village of Parkdalc only but the whole built-up area surrounding the city. Evidence has already more than justified the appointment of the present commission to investigate the health menace through inadequate water and sewerage services. It is to be hoped that the further evidence and expression of opinion will enablea sound and fair proposal to be made which will lead to an early solution of the most pressing problems and clear the way for for many years to COYIIC . -.LL--... Dairying In New Zoaiand While the dairy industry in Canada has been marked by a declining prosperity in the past two years or so, the opposite situa- tion has been prevailing in the sister Domin- ion of New Zealand. There, notes an ex- change, dairying has become particularly stable, with total production steadily rising and net returns in this branch of agricul- ture higher than would be obtained from any other type of livestock farming. In economic importance, dairying is now second to that of sheep farming. New Zealand dairying is mainly under- taken for the production of butter and cheese, but increasing quantities of proces- sed milk are being manufactured and the production of casein is higher now than it was before the war. The number of dairy cows has increased measurably and, because of improved breeding methods producing better milkers, milk is in greater supply. There, too, dairy farming has many ad- vantages which enable production to be car- ried on at probably the lowest cost level in the world. The temperate climate, elimin- ating the need for buildings, and making it possible for an almost continuous growth of pasture throughout the year, as well as the highly mechanized nature of the dairy farms and factories - these are the prin- cipal features contributing to the success of the industry. . While climatic conditions are nntirelv different in Canada, nevertheless it is per- turbing to observe the adverse position of Canadian dairying industry. The lessening . of its importance to the national economy, as it is to those engaged in dairying, is of growing concern. Admittedly, the Cana- dian dairy industry has sustained substan- tiai setbacks in the shrinkage of export markets, notably to the United States and Britain. In case of the former, embargoes against shipment of dairy products in high domestic supply there have been imposed, while in the latter instance the shortage of dollar resources has reduced purchases here to meagre amounts. ' i'i'he currency situation in the United Kingdom has. on the other hand, been greatly beneficial to New Zealand, which is in sterling area country and presents no doi- problem for British buyers. In fact the . industry of that:Antipodean Dominion i'-of nearly all its products in the ' mes, quantities going to other mar- be productive of an additional 192,800 the province, which by June next will reach a total capacity of 144,000 h.p. after the nearly completed Tobique Narrows hydro: project and the added unit to the Grand? Lake steam plant go into operation. With a combined total of 336,000 h.p. of. electrical energy available, the Moncton Times anticipates that New Brunswick will be in a position to meet the demands of in- dustrial and domestic users, even on an ex- panded scale and embracing many of the projected new extensions in the rural elec- trification scheme. And with low cost pow- er available it would enhance the province as a suitable site for prospective new in- dustries lo:ating there. EDITORIAL NOTES A great year for the gas tax. Practical- ly all income, no expenditure, and at least a third greater consumption over last year. O O 0 If the agreement with Cuba for the im- portation of sugar is interfered with, Mr. A. Wesley Stuart, M.P. (L.-Charlotte) told the House of Commons, then Maritime fishermen would be ”sold down the river.” His other remarks made it clear that shut- ting out Cuban sugar would also mean en- dangering the Cuban market for potatoes. 0 O 0 Former President Truman has joined the many ex office-holders who have sounded off on the special difficulties of dealing with the Russians. Even if there were no other advantages to an election it can unlock the tongues of those who are familiar with international problems but whose responsibility would otherwise keep them silent. I O I Lillie Langtry, Lady dc Bathe, English actrcs: died this date 1929. Sim v as known as the ”Jersey Lily", her fail:-:r being the Dean of Jersey. She made her debut as Blanche Haye in "Ours" at the Haymarkct Theatre. played Kate Hardcastle in "She Stoops To Conquer" and Rosalind in "As You Like It". She toured South Africa and America and became an American citi- zen in 1887. The restoration of Arbor Day to some- thing of its earlier importance is a well- chosen project for the Community Planning Association. By regular and planned plant- ing, earlier generations provided Char- lottetown and other communities with vai- uabie trees which would be exceedingly costly to replace. Planting, however, should ,be continued according to well-considered i plans. Newest evidence indicates that sleep is "natural" and that wakefulness must be lprovided by special nervous action, a dc- veiopmcnt of the higher brain centres. A UNESCO report says no matter how nat- ural it is to live a life of sleep, it is human to live actively and awake, and the highest intelligence makes the best use 'of the waking hours that have been wrested from the sleepy animal nature. Q C O 1 Dominion and Provincial Health and Welfare programmes are undoubtedly snow- balling. Churches, private welfare groups, and fraternal organizations, which .were once independent, or sought government as- sistance only to supplement their actlvities,. now find themselves supplementing govern- ment programmes and in many cases have surrendered their entire field. The same generous individuals, formerly charitably minded. now taxpayers, put up the entire amount, and the Federal Government form- erly far removed from the great mass of individublsmow blossoms forth as the great humanitarian and takes precedence accord- lngly horse-power of electrical energy with costl of development being in the vicinity of W5,-1 000,000. When completed it would more! than double the power and light supply of 1 PUBLIC FORUM This column is open to the discussion by espondenta of questions of interest. The Guardian does not necessar- ily endorse the opinion of n.u.I'I'6SD0l'IdCI1tI. axcusa, PLEA!!! Sir.-j'Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." It looks as if I talks ed out of turn. There are more friends of Mr. Pendergast among my acquaintances than I could shake a stick at. some of them were highly indignant at me for presuming to censure him, To me Mr. Pendergast was just a name. However his friends told me in no uncertain terms who he was. One of them made me shiver in my boots when he told me that ”:Big Jim", as they call him affection- ately. stood 6 feet plus and had an athletic record that would eas- ily stretoh from Kensington to 42nd street: that he was a skilled boxer. I would never be able to make my living by boxing. but I could easily meet my death. In my opinion there.e.re only two Kinds of boxers: the quick and the dead. Then, a champion of Mr. Green accosted me with the question: "What have you got against Mr. Green's contributions?" I was taken unawares. Finally, I answered: "I didn't like that heading: 'Mice and Women', tMlce versus Women' would have conveyed more accur- ately the idea of the eternal rivalry between them. The fair sex do not like to be associated with mice even on paper." He then remarked: "I save Mr. Green's letters and I would -be dis- appointed to see them discontin- ued. " I reassured him by saying: "It would take more than a little gibe like mine to shut him out of "Public Forum”. I am, Sir. etc. MCANDREW NAVIN Malpcquc Road. 0 GASTRONOIWICALLY SPEAKING Sir.-.Viaciean's doughty photo- grapher Karsh is still under fire in the "Mailbag" part of the mag- azine. He is "persona non grata" in several sections of this Dominion. His cynical aspersion on the cuisine of the "Charlottetown" was unnecessary and uncalled for-an contrary to the "moral law” an- unciated by St. Paul in one of his Epistles, e.g.: "Be not solicitious about food or raiment. Behold the lillies of the fleld,"...etc. One may almost certainly rest assured that a blatant, uncompli- mentary diner must have been brought up in hard and meagre circumstances. Parvcnus clothed with brief authority. are liable to arrogale to themselves the prop- erties of connoiseurs and last word arbiters. The lack of oleaginous and legumlnous articles of food on the menu, which have an odortferous effect on the body metabolism may have irked the gastronomic menst- bilities of this scion of the Middle East. Mr. McLure. M.P., was faulted by one lady writer for being too hard on Mr. Karsh. but she must admit that the provocation was great, and we would be considered a spineless tribe if none protested. He left himself open-stuck his chin out. Let him take it. Meantime the "Charlottetown" carries on serenely-The "homey" hotel of the. Maritimes. Its cuisine and service are well known and well regarded by visitors from n1i,America and the old world. In the natural perversity of human nature an attempted "knock" eventually becomes a '3"im1..rI0&GvSsWeCOWOO' The Ago-Old Story -1 vac:-co-awn-cl--we-... ' ..!hcw in thy ways. 0 Lord; teach me thy paths. Lead no in thy truth, and heal: me: for than an the God of my salvation; on thus do I wait all the day...Ali the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto" each as keep in; connnsnt and lb testimonies. I . it is good for something. - Fort '1. Notes I B); : A (hasdlan farmer near Whit- by clsims his cows give 15 gallons more of milk every day since he installed a. television set in the stable. In view of all the criti- cism that has been levelled at television, it is nice to learn that William Times-Journal. Old Victorians. people living here before 1910, recall the days when they could buy salmon from In- dians on Government Street near the Inner Harbour. There were two prices: 16 cents for a. small fish of four pounds, ”two-bits" for a larger one of six pounds. Victoria Times. Jleodiine writers admittedly face a problem in the matter of the President of the United States. peeks Plcayunish rmd innuendos a la liarsh are as hall on a gable roof. The bard of Avon says: "Small ours are not regarded when they grin, but great men tremble when the lion roars," I am, Sir. etc. J. PENDERGAST Kensington TI;-UE NATIONAL SPIRIT sir,-Last. week the Hon. Stuart Garcon, Canadian Minister of Jus- tice, while attending a meeting of the Ontario Bar Association in Windsor, Ontario (we have a Windsor in the Maritimes also) delivered a speech in that city which I feel deserved a much larger audience than even the pro- gressive city of Windsor could pos- sibly provide-even for that mat- fer the whole Province of Ontario. To my mind few Ontario papers gave it the prominence I feel it so richly deserved. His brilliant per- oration was amply sufficient to stir the blood of every Canadian who had the good fortune of hear- mg or reading his eloquent ad- approaching airports over A . I MINIIRRPE e ,- ?0ALJ : The .Wa);f.. "Ike" fox-the head of a great. stats sounds flippant and disrespectful: "Eisenhower" in modern display type ha-Wily can be fitted into a column. Mr Roosevelt's name created no similar problem be- cause his initials were recognized Bwrvwhue. Mr. Truman is the six-letter mm caption-writers bless. -" Ottawa Journal. a It has been hushed up, but on several occasions low-flying planes con- gestcd areas have been shot at, apparently by irate 1 idsnts. Bul- let holes have been found in planes. Pilots have reported hear- ing shots and .even seeing rifles aimed at them. This occurred at least once near the Newark, New Jersey. ainport. before it was clos- ed following the third disastrous crash last winter. -- Newsweek. It takes 1 long limo and un- daunted 51!!) Hence to change. over a country. such as Canada, from its pioneer mood of exploita- tion and waste to I. stricter dis- cipllne whereby an expendable heritage is set aside for perpetual dividends. The excitement of Can- ada's industrial growth and the discoveries of ncw"'nstural treas- ures may easily mask the prosaic truth that our dominant assets are forests. waters. and soils. only if rigid conservation keeps them intact may anyone claim that Canada's future rests on solid foundations. -Montreal star. f?aen'&um drws. It certainly contained no demagoguuy. Unquestionably it sprang from the heart of a great Canadian. With your kind per- mission I would like to quote it: "As long as we can continue to recognize the wonderful whole- ness and the wonderful diversity of the free human being; as long as we realize that we can be diverse without being less whole; as long as we recognize that we. as free men together, do honour to our- selves when we honor and respect each others diversity. we shall have a national spirit that will complete the building of a great Canadian Nation and provide bro- therhood and justice for those who say if am a Canadian citizen'." The illustrious ancients of Greece, never I feel expressed more elo- quently their philosophy. ' As a student of Canadian his- tory, coupled with the honored science of a farmer my opinion is that the brilliant viewpoint so eloquently expressed by our dis- tinguished Minister of Justice should adorn the first page of ev- ery history book in the schools of all of our ten Canadian Provinces. That is the spirit that we should do everything possible to disiil into the hearts and minds of all of our present and future Canad- ians. That is the spirit that was expressed by Macdonald. Laurier, King. and is now being perpetu- ated by St. Laurent. Garcon. Pear- son and other Liberal statesmen-1 that is the spirit that welds A great nation. While that illustrious and im- mortal Canadian statesman the great sir Wilfrid Lourier excelled all others since the turn of the century in his flights of oratory- to such an extent that scans of his opponents said that "the only fig- ures he ever undu-stood were fig- ures of speech'-it would appear from the above qiustatiqn that the Canadian people of the first decade of the second half of the twentieth century are destined to hear elo- quence ofa an equal nature from the descendant of the great soot- iish nee in the person of the Hon. Stuart Garcon. our at tingulshed Minister of outlet.- The Canadian-people can profit much by snob uttoranceo-nar- tlcularly when they put the spirit. of them into practlcz. I am. air. air... MARITIMIR. , FOR ANNE GREGORY ; '.Never shall a young man, Thrown into despair By these great honey-coloured Ramparts of your ear. Love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.' 'But I can get a hair-dye And set such colour there, Brown, or black, or carrot. That young men in despair May love me for myself alone. And not my yellow hair.' '1 heard an old religious man But yestei-night declare That he had found a text to prove That only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.' -W. B. Yeats. Old Charlottetown . can I. a. 1. i 1... QUEEN SQUARE GARDENS "The special committee for Queen Square held a meeting this NWNIIHK. when a subscription list was opened for the purpose of tie- fraylnil the expenses of beautify- ill! the Square. it being decided to lay off and edge the walks. plant flowers, stake trees, etc. Mr. A. Newbery was requested to secure the services of an experi- enced person-one from the Pub- llc Gardens. Halifax. ifspouibie- to ma charge of the Square. "The chairman was requested to draw up a memoriui, petitioning the Dominion and local govern- ments, as well as the City Coun- cil. for I grant to meet the ex- penses. A committee is also to call upon persons interested for subscriptions. There is no good reason why these grounds should not he made equal to the Public Gardens at Halifax. We believe our soil in better adapted. and less cost. Ladies wishing to plant flowers can have beds allotted to lwords here for two reasons: (1) hand to the plow and my face 10 more can be accomplished here at ........ mversary whcrflie was still Ohxel Justice of Ontario. I quote the they constitute an exquisite bit of none, and (2) they refute the com- rnoniy alleged aridneas of old age. "I am still at work. with my the future. The shadows of even- ing lengthen about me. but morn- ing is in my heart. I have lived from the forties of one century to the thirties of another. I have had varied fields of labour. and full toniact with men and things, and I have warmed both hands, before the fire of life. "The t.esum3ny' 1' beer is man: "rwerc vain. In this or hi .x..:v- other spot I know they'll shine again." 0 O 0 Then, too, elderly folk are likctv: to be overcritlcnl of their can talents and skills. "So much to an so little done”. It must. hr (1 concerting to find as one gm-u old that one's mistakes far out- weigh ones good judgements. Ann yet everybody is aware that ll'l man who ,has never made this is not likely to have done any worthwhile. Trial and error li1'i always been and always will be Yr”: useful instruments in the art m living. Cardinal Newman put it but way: "A man would never do an- that the castle of Enahanizment isvhing if he waited until he c.-var not yet behind me. It is before me still, and daily I catch glimpses of its battiomenis and towers. The rich spoils of memory are mine. Mine, too, are precious things of today-books, flowers, pictures. na- ture, and sport, The first ot May is still an enchanted day to me. The best of life is always further on. Its real lure is hidden from somewhere beyond the hills of time". Who will doubt that in years to come those words of a grand old man will be included in the clas- sical work of literature? And who will deny that the sentiments they exprms impart a. rich and glowing dignity to the adventure of living? 0 C 0 It is natural for the elderly to spend much time in considering the past, It is also of great value to the world, for every good experi- ence of yesterday strengtlhens to some extent the moral sbility of today and gives added reamurance for tomorrow. The biblical phrase "other men laboured and we have entered into their labours" expres- ses a plain fact of history. It is when a sense of frustration ensues from contemplation at last and weakly grasped optportfmities that age is likely to enter a. sphere of hopelessnes and spiriual fatigue, Goethe had something to say sabout this: "Woulds't shame I noble life? Then cast No backward glances toward the t D35 . And though sanerwhat be lost and gone, - Yet do thou act. as one new-berm: What each day needs, that shalt thou ask, i Each day will set its proper fads". D All of which. being interpreted. means that living oneday at s. time in quite enough for most of us and that daily rebirth of hopes and do it so well that no one wn-..” find fault with what he has dour” Addison said that "the two ;zr:i"' essentials for happlnem in tfhis iii: are something to do and something to hope for". One well lmoun psychologist has said that the v.0:-ri "retirement" should never be llsci The lance or good and bad in arbitrary ages for the giving up nl customary avocatlons has new been properly determined. bill certainly the exchanging of a bum- llfe for a. life of nbsolute case in.- often had disastrous consequence: There is no reason in the vrorlrl why elderly people, provided that are in fairly good health. slinuld not have important and enriching interests, It cannot be disputcn that here are some things which tilt old can do better than the your: for the simple reason that tiirz hands and minds are more no- customed to them. (I read recently that one large corporation is br- ginning to question the wisdom of compelling its 'emplo,x-css in retire at a certain age) As for Addison's second essential. something to hope for, this is A quality that "age cannot (or at least. ought not to) wither nor the years condemn.” If old people we more inclined than the young reuri middle-aged to think long r.n'l seriously of inevitable things, .vi they are better strengthened .-n ultimate values that transcend con- siderations of time and space, To quolte Whittier: "Alas for him who never suns tno stars shine tlirough his cymr.-'5 trcesi , Who, hopeless. lays his dead looks to see the the mnrhirs playl Who hath not heard in hours of faith, the truth to flesh and sense unknown. That Life is ever Lord of Death. and Love can never lnsv rfx ideals, faiiih and fortitude, is es- sential to good llviniz. The elderly. own.” PROFESSIONAL c"ARDs I ., J. S. Taylor OPTOMETRIST . Eyes Examined, Glasses Fitted Corner Kent and Queen to. 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