PAGE mm: , 4 , , , N THE GUARD-IAN Authorized on Second Clnu Mill Post Office Department. Ottawa. The Island Gunrdlnn Publishing Co. CIRCULATION Total City Zone . . . . . . .... . 2:.-ll 'l'rl:dlnz Zone l..l other .. legal Neg, Paid Editor on-I Managing Wlrector, J. B. durneft. Associate Editor, Frank Walker. "The Shongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink" CHARLOTTETOIVN, THURSDAY. NOV. 13. 1050 Southeast Asia Thoughtful Canadians cannot but br: encouraged by the temperate realism of External Affairs Minister Pearson with gard to recent proposals that this country should give substantial economic aid to than Pilgrinl Will take her Southea:-t Asia. "It is a bit discouraging," says Mr. Pearson, ”to look around and s-.-e in some of these Asian countries what if MaCd01l'c1id S91'V9d their last supper (after- high proportion of their budget is devoted, noon tea) to the Pilgrims. not to social and economic progress, but to defence itself. In some of the countries we shahld like most to help' more than ha” a delightfully temperate climate. their 1)l'Si??lli budget is devoted to defence. Seems to be behaving abomnamy recaps ; we ,3” obliged t0 thke that fact in” other great losses of public confidence, as consideration, of course, in trying to help in sunny France. them." To the man in the street in Charlotte- town, Saskatoon, or even Victoria, South- east Asia is a vague and faraway place. Canadians, already faced with a heavy bur- den of taxation for security, both social and national, will need lnore convinciiig evidence than the reduction of the defencuo from, as Mr. Pearson suggests, 50 per cent they are to be persuaded as to tl e wisdoln and merits of these economic aid schemes. iving away the taxpayers hilippines, Malaya or Ill- accomplished by money to The donesia. grave closed at Suinmerside yesterday, was in his heyday, perhaps the best known and popular railway man travelling the Island and the mainland. No excursion party was complete without him, and he budgets of the countries of Southeast Asia had always 3 bright ahd cheew Whhd for travellers en route. , - if a party was travelling to Toronto shortly if the ndmnal budget to 25 W Gem after the Prohibition election of 1927, a Liberal member was The trouble about such utopia" pm, that cheers, when Charlie greeted him with posals is that no adequate precedent exists the 5ighif'iC3.ht whereby it can be shown that anything is great: lsht it-" what evidence there 55 points not experiencing the increased sales pre- rather the other way. The best example dicted when Federal taxes on the product is the mess in which the Philippines find We” removed last July- themselves despite the billions of America” states where the yellow spread is now avail- ?- u LDIIORIAL NOTES Tonight the political campaign for a successor to the late lamented lion. H. H. Cox opens at Morell. I O O Summerside seems determined to have a museum to collect and protect articles of historic interest rather than itself being one. 0 O C An U. K. exhibitor'at last Mav's C. I. T. F. in Toronto, has since received orders totalling d30,000 for expansion type cuff- links designed and boxed to the ('anadl'.m taste. ' o o 0 Nurse Helen Macdonald of tie Cana- placc with Nurse MacLean of the Dunnollar Castle as Island heroines. It is noteworthy Nurse I O 0 Korea, according to early accounts, has That it The late Charlie Mcikle over whom the between On one occasion when enjoying the cup remark, "Prohibition is Margarine makers in the U. S. A. are Even in the 33 since the war. Blllestocklllgs dollars poured into that country before and To those who have observed the pre- dominance of female students in at least able consumers are not rushing to buy it, reports the National Association of Mar- garine Manufacturers. One explanation is that the industry has made all the easy converts it is going to get and the coil- firmed butter eaters are going to be hard nuts to crack. Competition is getting cam- --h PUBLIC FORUM Thu column to open to flu dtncuulon by correspondent: of questions of Interest. I'll: uuordlnn doennut necessar- lly endorse the opinion of oorreopondonll. V5Eh55 ”PBINCE EDWARD ISLE ADIEU!” - Sir,-Mr. J, A. Gllues did well to resurrect the lyric with the cap- tion (abave). He must. have saved it for a long time. The writer kr.-ows positively at it. was writ- ten qulte some ars before the turn of the century-presuma ly shortly after the P. E. I. railway was completed. It is quite evident that Mr. Glllles had (and still has) the ”poetic soul". 'I1hef'fl1rm boy" writer was none other than the sweet. Island bard Larry Gomlan. 1-: was dictated to yours truly in 1897 by James (Maxim) Thlbldeau of Miminegash Run and lost re- cently by fire. Mr. Gillies agrees with the senti- ment expressed tn the poem and regrets our status as the oi-plum” of Confederation. but there's little use in repining and recrlminatlon-what's donels done and would be hard to undo. In the present state of the world it is better to belong to "one big urlton". I am. Sir. etc. JAMES PENDERGAST. Kelislrlgton. TOPICS MORE PROFOUND Sir,-When the hours of leisure present themselves. I take great pleasure and much educational benefit from reading your columns. The space allotted to public ques- ,'rHE. GUARDIAN, CHARLOTTETOWN , , A Flu Flowering many occasions I have found that Mr. J. A. Gillies has put forth his thoughts into words; he no doubt has that right and is every wel qualified to exercise it. - I feel -that we in the rural cen- tres owe him a debt of gratitude for the stand he has always taken conlrove rsal correspondence with .ket the pet hog. yet he has not nature. I would invite him to launch into the deep and give us his views on such questions as who holds the wealth of the land. and who controls the medium of exchange. and whether the figures supplied tions interests me very much. On the wads of Just one such emkg ? 3 . Let. ll new, bold policy of immlg- f (-hia'lU"9lOWl'I ti be ' 1 ('1 b - giirdgeall d:i1::Ji:)r(5lacy.li..e:i':lrl:eI d;(;ii- I-1 mhd P- '3' L) - - ocrrattc nations emphasize this mes- & sage: "We will take every man, woman and child - m - t A f .h .- courage to leave their chains biz- ,;,",,,,,,,'g",,,;",f,rff,,: L2,, 1,,:di?':;:,',Z hind. We will settle all those who mom of me In my pioneer stage of pumng flee the slave-state in in free coun- the case my -thoughts on paper and into fry. Where they will have an 09- and Murphy. respondent. relative words I fully realize that I am (I;0l'iollnNyJf-0 W0l;if.Ii;;1d "V6 in Ch! to the Charlottetown Perry, was not qualified to enter into any 9m0CTl C Way 8-' Then. if thls is backed up by 30- before whom the nppenl was tried such an outstanding, highly es- tlon. you will see a. withering up cf The case touched on me ngm of tee-med gentleman as he. nor do I Communism in Europe, and evem- the wharfjnger 5; Mmcmnis pomp, .wl:.h to do so: yet I am at a loss unlly everywhere. can we ask for Wm;-1 to demand whm-gage frogn .to know why gr. GIilitl:15,l((e1BpS in better immigrants than those who boats syswmaucauy gen-ymg pea. such slroal wani-s.h n d hav; would risk their lives to come to P19 for or wnhou; hue. and 1m. :52; :;:?.i..:... .2232. ”.””.?2.”. :5 W i "X of B a W - l S m 5. lie has advised us on many ques- gound anywhere. "W5 T3"-SW3 hm" hm” We Shim” help. Call -we afford to lose these feed Jr. to when we should mar- hands to Communism? vevoea -elem-otisif BM FERRY WIIAIIF CASE who has the "On Saturday last the judg- Supreme Court in of Bourke, appellant. delivered by Mr. Justice Peters. ””-ihinsv W '09 for passengers landed from such We need their boats, "The respondent claimed wharf- nge dues from the appellant for . A C ii iii . up ox - ---J ...::.:s ..:.:: :...:r:..:::.::”22 :::::;:: .233, ”,:,l:":,,;W,:i,,,:"?:; acres of misused land. Let the Gov- 1-0,. the boa, purswmt to the 101, eminent buy this ground, sub-dlv- hwmg regufauon by t ide it into small co-operative home- nomngcouncut steeds lind settle there all those who vessel employed or used by my will form. Give them long term. lo-.v person 0,. persons interest loans fcr equipment: and Pope welsh we 'presem .by the Dominion Bureau of Slatis- Seed- Gover- 'Any boat. or except Henry licensed fcrryman or licensee of l-ltllsbor- be charged with cuflve Council not to Qattempt to al statute into the means of serv. 1118 the purposes of an individual. It is the first time that we can remember of the Government and Law coming into ii -' Notes By A null vendor Eiigland. is looking sourly at the much-vaunted British because he had faulty scales. Not that he was short-changing his ing every customer 17'r'.' way constituted "unjust accidents, some of them haunts. High-powered rifles. wlilcli ccme into most use during the need? A recent are due to human for safety. - From sault Star is clear. He owes a. strict and loyal c allegiance to the states parties owning or working such boat. or vessel.' the statutes to the use of ferry. and nfter 3. clear tion of this point. and 1 com- of like tendency. came to the con- C equally clear that no person could whlarfoge for either landing at or going from it. The judgment In the Mayor's Court was reversed. "This is a very important de- a clslon, and one that. will have the effect of greatly establishing a confidence in the integrity and firmness of the Supreme Court. It. will be I cau- t tlon to the members of the Exe- wurest. the plain words of a gen”. collision, and NOVEMBER 16, 1950 C The Way ..n h 5h?9?II0II- Pltrotlsm mingle. sclzh of often in this nape t 1 Justice. He was fined two pounds deflnod Esxentlalfy a:.ciu;,bys;.zftu customers, mind you. He was glv- are found at the basis of , unces for scnallty and for him the :31 W" every pcund they paid for! The system is necessary for M court: ruled that lnnccur-oy either N-wrtheleu while inhablun weight." province of Quebec he is I um -From Fort. William lTlmes-Journ- citizen of the great pout al. ' common inte est.s The rash of week-and hunting Canadian ccmrmon iillteigiis Fr?” fatal. under certain ' W M ought to sound a warning to local the former must he cons, nlmrods who are planning to take so. - L'Evenement-Jou: off November 1 in seoi-ch of deer bec. "big same" season, cause terrtbte in St. Louis the other a. tragedies -when placed in the screen fell off on y' hands of boys who think too little and narrowly about the safety of their compan- despatch told of police with d; tons during a hunt. They have n guns and then naively concluijgq licence for the gun and a licence that hit was not to shoot game. What. more do they screen came loose from the or statement of dow." If the St. Louis police Wm- spccllallst of the Ontario Depart- able to see something sinister T ment of Lands and Forests that a falling sash, the n 85 per cent of hunting accidents right. For sheer cussedness care essness are lndls utabl ' should be their an.-'wel'. A licence -Torantop Glob); Ziitcimlilillii mil in countries where minority mil 1; re, an 318515;, nationality problems do not pre- moving along a desert, abc g . sent themselves the citizen's duty miles north of Adelaide wllueniig whose of what. had once be political jurisdiction coincides with lake. but. which then the land' and with the nation. For puddle. Nevertheless, tbs privileged citizen clvlsm and be known as Eyre's Lake, The um dried up what water there ",5 employed in and nothlllglwlls left except de.m' ants and withered slaltbilsli. 090. "The learned Judge went into 1”3'5"5 whh 9-Wmhlm the area be- the question fully L5 to whether "Wed thll” millions of years he. the wharf at Mlnchln's Point was m" mere hhd Wen 3 STEM a public wharf or one devoted by The? "Wild in the Hun-baked roll the the bones of grant kangai-ocs, glut eluddng emus and other anlmnls nnd birds Last Winter parts or Dartson of the statutes with others had weeks M h””'Y "4”'l5- Rt- cluslon that it was a public wharf. "yum "er M5 sihhhll 58W Ihl free to all Her Majesty's subjects 5"" gummg cm Ewes L31” 00' to land at or embark from. It. was zxgaggzik l:;;:ui:ga:h?l:llih1eo5uv':(Y waves were dashing ligalnst flu shore, and several rivers whlcl were formerly trickles were flaw. lng freely, The country around in now fertile for the first tlmg 1; sheep are grazing there atzain, Tm underground scurces of water hlvv lng been primed, perhaps Lm Judges 9! the Eyre will be worthy of I place .1 Journal. i T as it were, u . h”WW9-iv in cur country the ,1; ion the French 0 ad . tuned to the m0l':1nVEiiTl2S OIB Survival, lcal emit; which is called Canada, 1, the aspects tram;-and dered .1. nal, Que, when President. 'n-um", W upper wt missed mm, mm known how an if were and when Nu”)! 80 yam no Edward 1.3,, explorer, um time on what looked like the bum 5" 3 xrellt "N85 8 mar. it came to A usmlir ently a sheep rancher who um bout. 200 years. and cnttle and he mHD- - St. Thomas Timu- -L tougher and stepped-up advertising ties on the cost of living are cor- Let me G”V""m"" 5”" 5”" ough Ferry opposite Charlotte- we 3” hm” th” i" "19 00M110t- t - - - ' . . . ' . . cg r not, 1-; might 3150 ten able sites. and settle there, as co- t p 1 the latter has triumphed." oeg Our Junior 00118885 there W111 be "0th1"3 paigns offering premiums ale appearing in wzemer thee democratic form operative communities all those who jj';;,,,;;r,,g;,”,,5"C;:::;lff,g”"t;:;"' -Hasmd's Gazette. June 16. 1866. I surprising about the announcement of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics that wives today are better educated than their hus- bands. Going into the field of professional and food.wave of the future, DOSt graduate teaming it is Pmhable thai packing chilled or frozen food in plastic men Still haV6 the Edge. but there can be containers was discovered by a student of no doubt that, speaking statistically, wo- men are being better educated thanmen. The very thought of such a situation would have sent many an old pedagogue reeling for the support of his Homer and switch. Women were very generally con- sidered incapable of imbibing higher learn- ing. The present trend, if continued, would see the learned occupations, the arts and top flight occupations in every field go to p the educated sex, while man must content machine for doing the packing work, it is himself with the practical application of the principles worked out by educated members of society. the picture. 0 O 0 ”Food in Canada" reports that "sea- food in plastic cans may be found in the The feasibility of the University of Washington School of Fisheries (Seattle, Wash.). This student put some oysters in a transport plastic coli- tainer, placed them in a freezer, and when he took them out, six months later, he found them in perfect condition. Visioning the commercial possibilities of the plan students of the fisheries school have ex- ported several shipments of chilled crab packed in plastic to the Hawaiian Islands, successfully. It is planned to construct a said." O O 0 Perhaps the best kind of ”floor" for po- tatoes would be advertising of the right sort. There must be many thousands "of Farm costs A recent statement by the Canadian Federation of Agriculture indicates that farm living costs have increased by 7? per cent during the last 11 years, between 1939 and 1950. Corresponding 51-crcentalze increases in other elements of total farm costs were given as follows: farm wage rates, 245 per cent; binder twine, 227 per cent; building materials, V 128 per cent; equipment and materials, 100 per cent: hardware, 65 per cent: farm machinery, 60 per cent: gasoline and oil, 51 per cent. ' The composite price index of commod- ities and services used by farmers, includ- lng living costs, showed a further increase seventyqgighth year; son of 3 Quaker cot. this year between April and August. from ton manufacturer, while in the business be living took an interest in public affairs at York, Costs. the index F058 5-7 P0il1fS IO 2153- and after a foreign tour became a promin- For Western Canada. the 00171905118 index ent member of the Anti-Corn Law League, exclusive of living costs, rose from 206.4 and entered Parliament to 213-7. mainly due 10 8 d1ffPP"nCe in years later he became member for Mun- W8EES- During -the Same P91'10d. the eust- chester and advocated Free Trade. From ern index m0V6d Only l'I'0m 213-1 to 217- then on, he led the Radical forces in Far- Ih AU8USt the Western farm W'-life index llament. and was their principal orator or: figure rose 30.6 points to 429 between April the publlc platform ' index legislation. Cabinet in 1882, but on account of his be- rntes. two in; at Quaker he found himself unable to other items show substantial incl-eases In support the British policy in Egypt and the western Canada as compared with the scudan; he resigned, and thereafter joined East. Building materials rose from 225.8 the Unionists in opposition to Gi:ldSt0l1e'S -to 244.5 in the East between April and Home Rule Policy. Notwithstanding his uguu, but in the West the Index lncreuv reputation for eloquence enjoyed over a 541:-om 239.2 to -3173. Similarly, tho' long period of years, only one extract from 1 ” I from his many speeches is recalled today- Angel of Death has been abroad through- out the land; you may almost rear the beating of his wings." 196.5 to 201.5. Excluding farm and August, whereas the eastern stands at 382.3. In addition to farm wage people who do not know that Is'and po- tatoes are the best in the market but none. It was this reputation for high quality that created a market among Toronto retailers in preference to Ontario grown. Similarly with cheese. The publicity campaign has resulted in a huge increase of sales in the Canadian market. Our eggs too are new independent of the British market-thanks to advertising. All successful businessmen attribute their good fortune to the judliious use of. advertising's artful aid. 0 O I John Bright, British statesman and orator, born this date 1811 and died in his in 1843. Four advocating advanced He was taken into the Liberal "The discussed. owatcr, I feel that we, the pioneers. by brain maybe by brawn. lam. Sir, etc., A FORT AUGUSTUS PIONEER OUR. LOST HANDS Sir. - Like is bursting bomb in While the fact itself now stands coin knew still exists. There are the artisans many other enlightening topics communities -in lnnts. lustlc lants, breweries. In conclusion I feel that I should algniinum End scaihliess steel fab- "mm "mdw ”" tell Mr. Gillies not to be afraid ricaung pangs. elecgmntc W Whhc 0" hhy 9' those 5”lh35ci5- nient. plants. for the demand for '1': he ha'P'Peh5 m 3” mm m9 dew such products is insatiable. . . . . Let this huge undertaking be fin- IW'iii come to his asrlstance-if not Rnced by 3 public bond issue. This will be a. test of public suppori. Here is a plan. and there may be is arranged. This must; be done to others. but the project is surely not relieve the free European econom- -- beyond the ability and capacity cf its now staggering under this lead a country tliat. has spent billions and to protect these people from for war. t I Above all. get these eople ou :- Korea the global expansion of the wemingv seething Euro; "ow. pm SW19" S1”e'5”f'e system at 15'”: them in our vacant Army camps, in 2379 Danforth, 1”" W95 "9" d”"”””" '"'"d- tents, until their final destination Torcnto, Canada. or government mm Am-aham Lin. cannot farm, the professional men without mm passengers horses or the l5b9'"5' 50"” vehicles over the said lherry and could work on de- that we who walk the rich red fense contracts, as a start; others Eggllnghfrsaggkixgag” mthgay 533:: Jurro-ws in the twilight of 1950 are could start up, under Government anxious to know about. and have loans. newsprint plants. merit. puck- rnte of one shilling for each and every passenger, cattle, horse or nr vo - r said wharf, and also the rate of two shillings ulid sl.:l.; 'c ... every time such boat or vessel shall touch at or land passengers on said who-rf, to be paid by the equin- Communlst agents. 1' am Sir, ctc., R. C. QUITTENTON a. slave system. controlled and per- petuated by force alone. with mud- em communication as efficient: as it. is. such A system cannot co-exist. indefinitely with the democratic system since the slave: will always strive for the freer way of life out- side their barriers. The soviet. slsv-2 system must therefore expand or perish. An ultimate decision be- tween these two systems is thus inescapable. There are at present some 8 mil- lion refugees in Western Europe, victims now of democratic Apathy and targets of Communist proph- glmda. some of these have been up- rcobed by war, some have been ex- pelled from their native lands as being unsuitable for Oommunlslnr. others have fled their slave-states at the risk of their very lives. All of them have sought refuge with the International Refugee organ- ization, and some have been placed in bursting canips in France. Ger many, Austria and Italy. Here they find. that contrnry to the expres- sions of freedom Ind democracy given out from democratic sources, there is little or no hope at all of them escaping from the turmoil ol Europe to democratic notions across the seas, since pru- ent Western lmmlnntlon schedules of refugees are slckenlngly low. :. tragedy which score the soul of my hope and rot: the mind with bit- terness. In these comps they find. that while Democracy is scmothtnz merely spewed from radios, Gom- munlsm Is on the ground. and ul- lve. Paid soviet. agents in every camp, stir up vice and crime. in In effort. all too successful. to crew.- nn erroneous impression In the democratic mind fhnt all refugees are In fmmoi-ll. worthless 109.. Thu I.R..O. states. thnf. in their frust- rntlcn. htttemess. Ind utter defut. some of these refugees, since there ll: no hope of emigration ond they can. but slowly starve when thus Are, return to their glove mm personal t of the truth that cmnmunlnn for cues to right and that tho democratic ndto 1: mon- ly nnotlm mouthplooa for lyfll: proponndn, for worn than tho oolnnlunm voice in fut. for Mt. than to no hope of all. M clearly seen, the cause is not yet - fense fully utlllsed. Russian rule is Me ak-now .vA'.IQ9)JA5((;JASJJ goaodl of now many dollars worth of pi-oin annan one mood to pounmrncc . LAURENT DAU'.I'IlUll.l.l" . Popular Mlddllowolplll says: "For Canadian wlnfon, moko mlno an Alpaca:-no Town and Country cool! "'3 worm, good looking did light a o harbor. coulawo oak for anything ' more In an overcoat!" Available in qobardlno or court cloth, both warmly lined with genuine Alpullul ash-co-t-co-e-so-ms-eo-c-our For what saith the scripture? Abnhnm believed God. Ind if." was ness... He staggered not of tlic promises of God through unbellnf: but was strong In fnlfll. giving penulded that. .wh:t .he. hlul Ilfollllied. be mu able also to per- fomi. And therefore It was Im- puled to him for fghtenunness. Now It was not written for Ills sake alone. that It was imputed to shall be imputed. If we believe on him thnt raised up Jesus our Lord from the dud: who was deliver- ed for our offences. and was nine.-I again for our Justification. No man is an island Ago-0” ron wnou rim nun. rout no-as-eo-6-cc-&co-:60-&e. Every man count.ed' unto him for righteousness If . cbd be washed away by 3” llory to God: ond being. fully A5 wen Any man's death dlnilnislies me him: but for us also. to whom It And therefore It tolls for thee. entire of itself; is B piece of the continent, a part of the main. seat Elli-ope is the less as if a. pnrnontory were. as if a manor of thy frlend'l or of thine own were. because I nm.lnvolvcd in mm kind. never send to know for whom the bell tolls! -John Donne. elm-isaii PROFESSIONAL CARDS Boll & Motllioson BAEBISTERS. SOLICITORS. cc ILR. BELL. M. L. A. 0.1. MATHIESON l..l..B.. x.c. Attorney: It Luv LOANS ON CITY AND FARM PROPERTIES Money to Loan A. Wolf-lien Gaudof. 1 LLB. BABRIBTER. SOLICITOR. EM. Phillip: Building 111 Grafton Street Collcctld 123 Kent Street (Next to Slmpmng Agency) fllurlottofown gulf? 0 Arn'lIlcer?: 'N h New Glasgow l'l-um lonfvlllo curm Ill)-. Olorlouolowl ,. 150 Richmond St. Charlottetown. P. E. I. John P. Nichohonl Palmer 8: Hoslom LLB. A. J. 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