on the industry generally in the Christmas PAGE FOUR -ms GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN DECEMBER 30. M 2.953 THE GUARDIAN Iucaonna-sooouecinull-lilo-8011100 Doporinont. Othwl. The lI1Ind Gunrdlnn Publishing Co. nino:.uu.ugiunuoom.inLnurnaM. Iuodmndiu.lnnkWIlkI'- CIICUIATION "Conn Prince Edward Idnnd like an dew” "The strongest memory it wliktf "'90 the weakest Ink". rnannorrnrown WEDNESDAY, DEAD. so. 1953 lrlsrlloss Although the important Irldi moss in- dugtry of Prince Edward Island is not mentioned, there is an informative article number of Northern Circuit by. sean Mc- Gregor. The Nova Scotian localities where it is gathered are the Antigonish district, Pictou, Shelbourne and YaI'm0l1th- War stimulated the industry and there was a decline afterwards, particularly with the resumption, in 1948, of imports of the moss from France and other countries. Production was continued, however, and in, 1949 gatherers in our sister Province net-, ted 568,000, or roughly one cent a pound! working from flat-bottomed boats, fish-, ermen scrape the moss from the rocks with, long-handled rakes. Storms assist the har- vesting by casting the moss up on thel shores. Vifhen collected the moss is clean- ed, washed and dried, often by being: the same time bleached in the sun, Until 1949 the Nova Scotia product was export- ed for final processing but since then the product has been used in local industry. Some of the uses of the D1'0dUCt gen- erallv are as one of the ingredients in the to shoe stains and leather dressings: cause barber's soap to lather effectively: as a hair dressing; as a clarifying agent in the oil and beer industries: and in the!” apeutics in combination with oil for cer- tain disorders of the digestive tract. It has many applications in the food industry; as a stabilizer. for example, to prevent the cocoa settling in chocolate milk: to prevent the formation of large crystals in ice cream; to prevent canned fish from breaking up in handling; and in numerous other products including: pie fillings. jel- lies, jams, cheese, frostings, candy, tinned chicken, ices, sherberts, mineral oil, cough syrup, cosmetics, toothpaste, hand lotion. dental plates. submarine batteries, shellac. typewriter rollers, cellophane, and artificial silk. It is also employed in oil drilling and boiler scale removing. A To correct the omission of this Prov- ince in the original article, it may be added that from January to Novenihel”. l9-53. 15' land fishermen collected 10,221,000 pounds valued at S113.839-00- The 0ppositlon's Role The second of a series of two very in- ilcles on the role of Her Majesty's Opposi- tion in Parliament. appears in the current issue of the Canadian Liberal. its author, Lord Campion, G.C.B., points out that the Leader of the Opposition is treated by par- liamentary law and by members generally with marked deference. He is paid a sal- ary, like a judge, under a permanent statute which gives no excuse, as an annually voted salary would. for criticising the con- duct of the recipient. As the mouthpiece of his party, he enjoys precedence in speak- lng and certain other privileges-the right to fix the subject of debate at a substantial number of sittings, the right to obtain on behalf of the House all official information necessary for the appreciation of Govern- ment policy. He may be consulted by the Government on crucial questions of foreign policy and defence-leaders of the Opposi- tion have been brought into consultation in the Committee of Imperial Defence. As the head of the party out of office, the Leader of the Opposition has the choice of those to be trained as future Ministers and meantime into I team capable of challeng- ing the Government with intimate knowl- edge of all departments of public affairs. This body has to be trained and ready to take over the conduct of government when the existing Ministry falls. It is not inapt- ly known as the "Shadow Cabinet", for its shadow constantly looms over the ad- ministration in office, waiting for the moment to materialize. The modern House of Commons, writes lard Campllon, may be said to have begun on the centre of constitutional opposition to the Stuart kings, whooe administration it stove to control through ill power over the public purse. By the beginning of the 18th century the king had learned that, in order to avoid I deadlock in government, he had to choose his ministers from the party with I majority in the Home of Commons. This was the origin of Cabinet government. Through its financial power Ihe House of Commons succeeded, in effect, so-called water paints; to impart a gloss, mg the duty of organizing them in the ling their administration. 1 The result of this was that the House of Commons became divided into two parts with differing functions. The majority turn- ed round and became supporters of the King's government. On the other hand the minority took over the traditional function of the House, that of controlling Ministers in the interests of the people. They be- came the Opposition. For a hundred years, from the middle of the 18th to the middle of the 19th century, there was considerable fluidity in the system. Under these conditions it was common enough for the Government to be defeated in the House. A brilliant speech could turn votes and I deal with independent members or a discontented section of the Govem- ment's supporters could put the Govern- ment in minority. It is true that this did not usually involve the resignation of Min- isters, as it would now. They generally bowed to the will of the House and carriedi on. Even Palmerston, at the height of his prestige in the Parliament of 1859 to 1865,l put up with, on an average, a dozen defeats a session without thinking of resigning. But if, after a defeat on a major issue, or owing to the increasing defection of its support-5 ers, the Government judged it had not suf-i ficient authority to marry on, it would re-i sign and the Leader of the Opposition would be called on to form a government tin the same Parliament without an appeal to the electors. i In the third quarter of the 19th cen- tury a profound change took place in tho jconstitution of Parliament; :1 new phasi- lbegan-the democratic phase-in which we inow are. This was marked by a great in- icrease in the power of party organizations land in the strictness of party discipline in! ;the House of Commons. These changes ;have powerfully affected the work of the House of Commons and the position of the ,Opposition. Independence of party is now practically extinct; Independence within a- fparty is also disappearing. For members tare pledged, either expressly or implicitly, i to obey the orders of the party whips; and ;they run the risk, if they disobey, of be- 'ing ejected from the party and having to light the next election without its helix- a prospect much more alarming now than it was fifty or a hundred years ago, when constituencies were smaller and the person- ality of candidates counted for more. The result is that both the Government party and the Opposition party vote as solid blocks, and the prospect of a member dis- -pohcying his whips for the sake of argu- ,ments of the other party is too remote to be worth considering. It can readily be ment. But it is not quite so good for the selves condemned to remain the minority as- long as the Parliament lasts. EDITORIAL N731 ES A Maori spokesman in New ;was able to say, "We thank God for al I ,is a challenge to Canadians to see to ltl ,that our own aboriginal races have cause to feel the same way. I I O Many poople will be pondering the mat- for of making good resolutions for the forthcoming ycar. Perhaps a first resolu-, tion to be moderate in what we expect of ier to keep. 0 I I gaiety of the holiday season are becoming drier and more inflammable in heated i'ooms. It may seem a pity to take them dovwi but the earlier it is done the better for safety's sake. I I I. Humour is generally risky as the Royal, Canadian Navy found out. When a fire- pman was rolling up a hose after a small, ishipboard fire had been extinguished at lquartermaster facetiously chided a memberl "of the dockyard fire department for beingi on the officers' gangway. The incident soon became a national cause celebre. ' I I 0 Canadian gold interests look somewhat suspiciously at the sales of Russian gold in Britain. There is, however, a very favor- able aspect to the transactions. In the final analysis they will amount to large sales of equipment to Russia without the necessity of buying Russian goods which in most cases would have been in direct competition with our own exports. I O 0 Stephen Butler Leacock, Canadian econ- omist and humorist, was born this date 1869. He came to Canada at the age of seven. Educated at pper Canada Col- lege, he taught there and at McGill Uni- versity, becoming head of the department of economics and political science. He wrote on economics and Canadian history but is best known for a genial iconoclast, not unlike Mark Twain for such books as. The trees which add so much to thei”"9 P" "M kw" lbutldlng supplies s-V Warming Thoughts orig A 5tz7IclioQ- PUBLIC FORUM illacunlon by corrcspomlciifs of questions of interest. The Guardian does not necessar- Ily endorse the opinion of eorreanondentl. Thll column II open to the t THE LABOR DISPUTE Sir,-Flor sor;rtTme now there have been many 111 this locality who have expressed hopc that ,, -' is r i );I.q1a,-te'-.l&'3';.:'e'a7 If Winter comec, can Spring be hr belilnd .7 ll); Pi-obobly Hie budeoc kind of prosperity to stand is the neigh- bor's. - Kitchener-Waterloo Re- cord. school the you round has been proposed by an American teacher. The young fry are reminding their parents that there in enough crime news as it ls.-Hamilton Spectator. "rho human eye reaches In maximum size at 10 years of age," ,says the science note, although i some think this happens on Christ- Vfios morning It the age of four. -Stratford Beacon-Herald. i l "The world weighs 80,000,000 sextlllion tons." - Newspaper fil- Iler. It seems even heavier when Iyou carry it around on your I shgulders. - Kingston Whig-StInd- or . Irlnh radio announcer has been fired because he sounds as If he had an English accent. Dublin is proud of its repute of the purest English being spoken there, and ldoean't want it Idultsratod by any ,lmported accents from Icroas the slrlsh Sea.-Windsor Daily Star. Police at the town of Boll-le-Rio near Fontainebleau were confront- The '.VVay; 1. hours.” But now at long 1.1.: someone is doing something align; the weather. President Eisenhow- er bu appointed a board to study the possibility of controlling the weather. Not that anyone hopes very seriously that man will Sutx ceed in making the sun shine on this form while it is raining on the next'qusrter section. or that the Caterers' picnic will be ablu to put in an order for a warm, bright day.-Winnipeg Tribune, That. was an interesting event at Trinity Church Fall Fair when 1 number of men entered a class for baking I cake. some men are excellent all-round cooks and a good many can get by when friend wife is sick or taking a vacation, but the majority of men are pretty helpless when she is off duty, and if they don't eat out, they con. sumo lots of canned or cooked food: and large quantities of ten and toast. It is quite an achieve- ment for a man to bake an ediblc cake but he cannot. live on cake notwithstandlng the dictum of Marie Antoinette who, as a queen, seamed woefully ignorant of the mysteries of cooking. Every ma.-. rled man should know how to cook simple meals. Hr jlflypf ed with I rash of "Us. Go I-llome" signs which began appearing on the village walls-Ill I few feet from the ground. It could have been I. Communist midget, but it. turned out to be the work of three young children of American Air Force officers stationed at Elon- talriebleau. They thinkuthat going home is I good mu. -New 'hnd P. 3.1.) .-.... Old Charlottetown -7 ,feet. The French newspaper points ithy God: Fen thou not: for I am with Lihec: he not dismayed; for I Ini I will strengthen thee: yea. I will help thee; yea, I will uphold the with the right hand of my rlglitcoumeoo ... Behold. I will make thee I new sharp threIh- .lng instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shall. make uthe hills In chaff. Thou shall 50mm” Vmuld Wme you mmem" lfan them, Ind the wind shall carry ing the labor situation in Prince Edward Island. Perhaps there could write more effectively, but seeing they have not, I feel it my duty to give expression to the facts as they are in the hope that U19 public may have I proper under- standing as to why there are labour disputes in this Province. To me the "labor disputes" are in reality a repetition of the cir- cumstances prevalent in the dais of Charles Dickens which in5Dli'ELi him to write the Christmas Carol understood what a comfort this is to them wmch he p,c,,,,,,, om sC,.0ogl9;g.M every leaders of the majority party, the Govern-in the employer. and Bob Crawhltltunity to become better a.cqua..inl.- as the underprivileged labourer too many old Scroogcs. dominating chit. It appears to be a small thing for an employer to make a bad example of an employee organiza- tion. through which the emiplo,v- Zealandier seeks protection, by presenting, the trade union to the public as an unreasonable party which al- necessary rights and privileges of the employee. I am quite well aware of the fact that the employer has rights, and his privileges should not be denied. But. on the other hand every employer is in duty bound to pay his worker what is right. And his attitude toward his employees should not be that a small day's pay is better than none. He should pay his help according to the pre- ourselves would make succeeding ones Gas-ivailinq standard of living in thc community where he works. It is only reasonable to expect that if an employee's wages are seventy- than they should be. then groceries, fuel. and household appliances as well as professional services. should be seventy-five per cent. lower than they are. Can no find an cinploycr who ldoea not maintain the hope of the final benefits which are attain- able through Christianity? 1 think all have such hope. But what do, the Scriptures say rogardinrz thr- psyment of a just wage? "Thou shalt. not. muzzle the ox winch trudeth out the corn." ox is worthy of I living. Heretofore. the attention of the public has not been drawn to the circumstances which confront la- bour 111 this Province. 1 have 111 mv possession a chart. which 1 ob- talned n-om the Department of Labour It. Ottawa, which states the cost of living and wage rates prevalent in Mlnritime industrial confers. P. E. I.: carpenters and welders 51.00 per hr; plumbers anrl electrfoiane t1.06 per hr. The coat of living averages 30.: per oent. NovI scottn (Halifax): Car- penters 31.04 per hr; electricians 31.07 per 111'; welders 01.45 per hr; plumbers 31.01 per b-r.; labourers t1.lo per hr. The cost. of livfru fr. 1-1IlifIx is as per cent. Sydney. N. 5.: Carpenters 81.05 per hit: electricians 01.30 per hr.; plulnbore l1.I0 per hr. Coot. If liv- ing for Sydney is 40.0 p: cent. Monooon, N.B.: Oarpentei-I 81.40 per hr.; eleoti-Icianl 01.46 per hr.; plumber! 81.50 per hr. The can at livingforuonotonialllltcom. Oomerbroot. N-fld.: Ca:-penl.er.. b1.5o per hi-.: electricians 01.86 per M; plumbers 91.5 per lir.:, labour- on 01.10 per hr. The coot.of liv- ing in 4621 per cent. Now you Ire in I podilon to oomoou the out of living and woe run in P. I. blond with "Literary Lapses", "Sunshine Sketches of 3 Little Town", "Short Circuits" and "Humour and Humanity". ' in choosing the minlstell andi1n.o0M'I'0l- those of other Mantlmo industrial centers. Hiving done no you Ire ln .1 position to decide whether the United Brotherhood of Elec- trical Workers are otitltled to I Even an 1 imam away. Ind the whirlwind 'shIll scatter them: Ind thon Ihnlt. "9 "WW wholrejoloe in the Lord. and nun glory in the Holy One of In-Iel. I ,ra.i'se in salary. And perhaps I lklloilld go further and any that. ov- tcry tradesman and labourer is cli- titled to at. least. a forty per cent false in hourly rates, and a five- (lay week. i The five-day week will not only ldistribute employment. but, will bread-winner In oppor- cd with his own children. and en- . . . . . .Wh0 5.Vmb01iZ9S "19 W0Tk0T- I if” ijoy more intimate fellowship with minority, the Opposition, who find theni-um: Prince Edward Island has tat-i,he,,,, I believe that. I am safe in slot.- O ithc fattlhful worker like Bob Crat- mg mg; mu, an gt, 1,”; xmoo l1)el'50l'1.! in this Province who Ire ldirectly connected with labour and ,are therefore faced with the prob- lem of inadequate wages to meet 'the present cost of living. In the effort. to avoid the neces- ,-sity of paying a higher wage I fear tliat many employers have tried formative. and entirely "0"'P3i'tiS3”v ar"century and more of British rule." That;wa.ys demands more than our to start a. quarrel between the lunrker and the farmer by saying, "The farmer is opposed to trades- men and labourers getting higher wages". Other words they say "it would ruin the farmer." But are the employers (who in nioat. oases inre dealers in household appli- ;-ances. food and building products. fucl, etc) afraid of ruining the ,farmer or the worker when they present their prices to the public? if think not. i I have always felt that there rhas been I very fine spirit pre- valent. between the labour groups and the farmer. If there is not. there most certainly should be. Why should the labouror bite the hand of him who produce: his food? And why should the form- er break the teeth of those who ,cor.sume his produce? The more money the labourer receives for ,his work, the greater will be the ,'quantity of farm produce which he , ..lll consume. I wish that every unjust. cm- izlnvrr in this Province could get a lciimnse of "The Ghost. of Christ- .mns", both put. and present, as did old Scrooge whom Dickens sets forth in I "clu-iatnioe Carol." I am, sir. etc., . K. R. MIcM.DLI..A.N. Recording Secretory for Locsl Union No. 2296. ,st. Eleonora. P. E. 1. SNOWBOUND aamwav ”” From I letber by Mr. Sclirelber on behalf of the contractors of the P. E. Island Railway, to Mr. Swinylai-d, Conunissioner acting for the Dominion G-ovornment, ex- plaining why apecial arrangements for the conveyance of freight prior to the close of navigation had had to be cancelled. Dec. 19, 1874: "As you are aware, heavy snow- stdrms have prevailed the past week. comzpletebt blookedtng the mtffic. The snow now. upon many parts of the line, is from eight. to fifteen feet. deep. On Tuesday last I despatohod two engines, with a snow plough, to the westward to raise the blockade. After laboring” the whole day, most. diligently, they returned, having cleared the way for six miles only. On the following morning I held conversa- tion with our manager, Mr. Rain- nie, when we decided to send out. no more trains until the storm abated. "Yeot.erdn.y, being a fine day. and feeling that if we left the road blocked you might. consider we had acted unhandsomely, and shimkod s re.spons'ibili't.y, we con- cluded, very much against my bet- ter ludgieriwnt, to dispatch I train botzh out and west. Accordingly, three engines and a snow-plow loft. Charlottetown, westward, at 8.30 a.m. and two engines and I. snow-plow started out about half an hour later. The westvmrd-bourid train returned about 1.30 p.m. yes- terday, with one engine disabled another damaged: she reached North Wiltshire station, at which point. she plowed through some hundreds of feet. of snow three feet above the top of the snow- plow. "The eastern train I have 'hnd no tidings of since she left Charlottetown. This morning two engines were deopatched weat- ulrd. to take the place of the disabled machines. I have come to I full determination thet. they succeed in reaching town to- prudent course than sending them out in the storm to be battered to pfecu... "Our train Ixponaeo have been very heavy the past week. and the receipts nil. To expect us to con- -tinue to operate the road for another arruigexrient, is, we maintain, un- reasonable. as, within a week. it is possible we might. have to raise the snow-blockade several times, and derive no benefit from it thereafter." MORE AIRMAIL CANBERRA (OP) -Airmail nor- vice! In Australia. have increased Office Hours: Office - 18! Queen JOEILINK Residence 9471 W.K. Rogers Agencies Limited r COMPLETE -INSURANCE , SERVICE 9:00 111 5:00 M IIII lilldn . Olosetluoll dny Sodznrdnyyfhouh Y Telephones: AGENTS THROUGHOIJT THE PBOVWOI night (the 18th inst) I will house-' them. believing it. to be a far morri week. under the special York Herald-Tribune m-' Fignro, the well-known Paris newspaper, published I despatch ifrom London recounting the ex- ploit of I British colonel who had cast a fishing line into the Thames from the roof of tha- Savoy Hotel, a distance of 315 lnut this is far from I record oven in England. It quotes the follow- ing figures. Brussels, 1932: I fisherman cast a line carrying I weight of half an ounce a dis- tance of 410 feet. London, 1950: a weight of just under an ounce was cast a distance of 443 feet. Paris. 1950: I line with 2.46 nunces was cast 512 feet. Bou- loam.--sur-Mnr.1950: four ounces was cast G33 fcct.-Fclre de Paris. For years Mark Twain has been credited with saying that "every- body talks about the weather but no one does anything about 'lt." But he didn't say it. It was writ- ten by a dripping editorial writer on the Hartford Courant in 1&0. What Mark Twain did say tin 18761, was: "There is a sumptuous variety about New England weath- er that compels the stranger's ad- knows when he might Pncounlpr an emergency In which he should fix meals for himself or for n family.--From St. Thomas Times. Journal FROM EPISTLE To A BROTHER POET It's no in titles nor in rank: It's no in wealth like I.on'on bank. To purchase peace-and rest; It's no in making muckle, mair: It's no in books, it's no in lcar. To make us truly blast: 1f happiness hae not. her seat And centre in the broast. We may be wise. or rich. or 1z1'P5L But never can be blest: Noe treasures. nor pleasures, Could make us happy long; The heart Iyexs the put. aye That. makes us right or wrang. Then let us chcerfu' acquiesce: Nor make our scanty pleasur less. By pining at our state; And. even should misfortunes com 1. here wha sit, hoe met 11' some. An'I thInrfu' for them yet. They gio the wit of age to youth- They let. us ken oursel: They make us see the naked truth. The real guld and ill, Tho' losses, and crosses, Be lessons right severe, There's wit there. ye'll get there. nitration-and regret. . . . In the spring I have counted 136 differ- ent kinds of weather inside of 24 R11 find nae other where. -Robert Burns. PROFESSION AL CARDS Goudof & Hoszord GILBERT A. GAUDET. B.A., LLB Borrlotei-I Ind solicitors Money to noon Cnnndlln Bank of F Bldg. A. Walthon Guilder. I.L.I. BABBISTEE hOIJCl'l'0Iv. 51!. Phillips snlldlng 1.11 Grafton Street Money to Loan Collection Chas. R. Mc9uoid B.A. BABRISTIB. SOLIOITOII. NOTAII. Ito. Eutorn Trust Iluildlng ClIAIl.l.O'l'lETOWN J. A. McGuigon BABBISTEB. soucrroli. Eu: Non-anv. Etc. Curt-lo Building MocPlIoo & Tremor E. I". MIILPEEI, IA. 0.0. E SOMZBLIZD TIAINOB. B.A mrrlnou. mo. - Dr. W. R. Carson H CHIIIOPBAOTOI Palmer Grndnnilo CllABLO'I'l1'."I'0WN Dial 8432 201 Prince st ifaiban Former. o.c. l.A.. LLB. Bonuses Ind solicitor of Oonunoroe Oliuloltomwl Money to Inna H. J. Mubon. R.O. optometrist Montague. P. I. 1. Phone DI Boll. Mot-hleson & Foster Bnrrllterl. Solicitors. Etc. 3. I. BELL, Q.(). 0. K FOSTER, LLB. loans on City and Farm Properties 150 Richmond Street Clnrlottotown. P.E.l. Mofhoson, Peolto & Nicholson A. W. MATHZSON. 0-0. A. H. PEAKE. B.A.. LLB. JOHN P. NICHOLSON. LLB. Barristers. Etc. Collooldonn - Money To Loan 1'15 Gnflon street Palmer 8: I-loslom A. J. RABLAM. B.A.. LLB. Barrister, on 3Ink of Non sooth Obunbon Clnrlotusfaown, P. 1!. l. MONEY T0 LOAN Gordon E. MocMllIan. B.A.. Ll..B., BARBIBTIB, IOLIOITOB. Inn, 154 Prince St. - Charlottetown DIAL 5223 Frederic A. Large. QC. lnrishr. c iicmn-. sour; loyal link of Canada Bulldlnx Olnrlottotown. P. E. 1. Ian: on City Ind For-In BARRISTER. SOLICITOR, NOTARY, Etc il1".;..”u' ”.1.l?.t".'.'2.?.”?f..l9 i2l.'o'n' "WIN" miles carrying about. 46,500,000 - B .n J G rant O.D. -vucr-- - year. .1. 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