I -. PAGEFOUR. THE GUA-rRDlAN Authorised as Second Cllll nun Post Office Department, ' The Island Guardian Publishing Co. 'ClBUIJLA'l'ION . Total City Zono 3.165 Retail Trading Zone 8.457 All Others -..... ' 337 Total Net. Paid .. 13.0-fl President and Associnto Editor, Inn A Burnett. Assocllto Editor. Frank Walker. "The Strongest Memory is Weaker Yhon the Weakest Ink". .”-...;..zonu-iasviewviwimixs-. hi;-7.5.19.5 Eastern c.u.n. Service It is evident from the indignant pro- tests forwarded to the Postmaster General. by the King's County Board of Trade and Town Council of Montague that the change back to the slow train mail service is any- thing but a popular move. There is no doubt but as time goes on this fact will be demonstrated more and more convincingly, In the meantime, the Canadian National! Railways has announced that the morning; truck service for less than carload freightl and express will be continued as hereto-l fore. i Prior to the introduction of the mail trucks to Kings County last October, The: Guardian pointed out the advantage of leaving Charlottetown at 6 a.m. instead of at 9, thus enabling business men to have their mail available for morning perusal, and giving all the rural couriers an oppor-. tunity of making their deliveries at a com- paratively early hour the same day. Unfortunately this proposal was not fol- lowed, it being deemed advisable by the postal authorities to wait for the morning air mail reaching Charlottetown by Flight Two. Now that they have reverted to the old train service for mails, however, the Railway might well give consideration to having its trucks leave at 6 a.m. for l.c.l. freight and express. The trucks will no longer require to wait for the' air mail into Charlottetown, and there is no question but that the earlier start would prove of far greater ben'cfit to the public. The Railway authorities have shown commendable enterprise in launching this improved service, which had been request- ed unanimously by the Boards of Trade of the Province before the Royal Commission on Transportation. Doubtless it is their intention. despite the setback given by re-, verting to the old mail carriage, to make' it as efficient and practicable as possible. We submit that the earlier morning start of the trucks at 6 a.m. would have everything in its favour. it would probably be the only truck service on the continent running, daily, nearly nine hours ahead of His Ma- jesty's First" Class Mails! "' Shocking Mine Disaster l The tragedy in the McGregor Mine at: Stellarton, resulting in the loss of nineteen lives, was the worst in Maritime history since the Princess Colliery disaster four years ago. It was due to a gas explosion, and points up again the hazardous nature of the miners calling, as well as the heroism shown by those shock troops of the industry known as draegcrmcn, who braved the death gas and smouldering tunnels to bring out the dead. , Doubtless there will be a full investiga- tion into the tragedy, but no one has yet devised accident-proof working conditions, for miners. In this case the men were en- gaged in walling off gas-affected sections of the mine as a safety precaution when the blast caught them. All the victims were from the Stcllarton area and there will be sympathy for the ” bereaved Mir.-l:hurchlll's Warning In his address at Ottawa on Monday vening. Prime Minister Churchill again em- phasized his advocacy of a United Europe and the inclusion of German arms in a European army. He had long been an ad- vocate of both ideas and promised that Britain will do all in her power to help them to success. But that, he went on, "does not mean that Britain will become a unit in a federated Europe, nor that her army, already in line upon the continent and to grow steadily, will be merged in: uch a way as to lose its identity." Those who were looking for significant statements from the British Government leader niight well ponder these words. They go to the root of one of the most import- --ant issues of the European rearmaihent scheme. There has been a persistent at- umpt.to bludegeon Great Britain into a - ' federation. One leading American exponent of this policy has been Senator of Rhode Island, who in a recent gggtcmcnt in the press appeared to threaten Britain come to heel and joined . federation. Is a section of Am- ggpmbndidansnding, American aid refused her. Prime Minister i h ziinkiiig lt'crystcl clear that. as tish policy is not for sale.” Britain is a leading, not a secondary, power in the United Nations and her de- sire is to keep her own force within the N.A.T.O. independent, as the American force naturally is. As Mr. Churchill points out, there is nothing to be said against a European Army, formed by those nations which desire to form it. Britain is pledged to associate herself with that army when it exists, but by no means to merge with it as a secondary power. It is not known what Mr. Churchill told President Truman in discussing this issue, ' but it would be characteristic of him to re- call the words of a venerated American statesman of another day, in connection with all such proposals. "Paying too much for one's whistle," is what Benjamin Franklin called it. EDITORIAL NOTES It seems somewhat heretical but a Cal- gary school board architect believes that schools were apt to be too well built. His idea is to build one-story schools which, can be changed to meet changing needs. I :- The occasional hard kick given by old man winter should not obscure the fact that average temperatures are steadily becom- ing higher. We are a long way from having a sLib-tropical climate but that seems to be what we are heading towards. J it it It is officially announced that notwith-i standing the reversion to the slow train service for mails the truck service to Kings and Southern Queen's will continue for the carriage of l.c.l. freight and ex- press. First class mail will be excluded. 0 O i Unlike the younger generation in the 20's youngsters today are not being con- tinually told what a mess their parents have made of things. Instead they are more often told of the jobs which remain for them to do. 0 Sir Johnston l-'orbes-Robertson, famous English actor, was born this date 1853. He first won distinction as a painter, ex- hibiting in the Royal Academy. He then studied elocution, soon becoming one of the foremost actors of his time, noted for his beautiful voice. Despite unfortunate accidents, such as the burning of Britain's first four-engined Valiant jet atom-bomber, the jet aircraft offers increased safety from fire. Unlike conventional aircraft engines the jet can readily be adapted to burn kerosene and the heavier fuel oils. 0 Cl 0 Newfoundland is able to boast that it has less public debt per capita than any other province in Canada. Premier J. R. Smallwood, passing through Montreal, took exception to the statement of Quebeels Fi- nance Minister Onesime Gagnonis state- ment that the Province of Quebec could boast the lowest per capita debt ,in Can- ada at 5583. Said Mr. Smallwood: "New- foundland has a per capita debt of Silo." He didnlt elaborate. U I 9 Here is something worth recording. Norman Fisher of Alderwood, Toronto, charged with assaulting his daughter be- cause she read the Toronto Daily Star, was given suspended sentence in a suburban New Toronto court. Fisher testified he banned the reading of the newspaper in his home prior to the Nov. 22 provincial election because he wasn't in sympathy with its editorials. He was told by the Magis- trate he couldn't tell Helen Fisher, 20, what not to read. I O 0 Coming events may be casting shadows before. More than 400 Montrealers who served voluntarily on the various commit- teestof the Royal Visit last October have received engraved testimonials. The parch- ment, about 12 by eight inches, bears the crest of the city and a large gold seal. It is signed by the mayor, bears the name of the volunteer and is "in grateful acknowl- edgement of service rendered." The parch- ments have been sent to military men, re- porters and, photograpiiers of -the city's newspapers and radio station workers. I 0 c 0 Election talk. A political soothsayer with his ear quite close to Liberal sources has brought to Montreal another appraisal of the prospects for a Federal general election this year. Here it is, and. like all soothsayersl ap- praisals it is to be taken as such. Ontario Liberals are apprehensive after their On- tario defeat, and their feelings are shared by representatives of other provinces. Mr. St. Laurent is anxious to retire. His party would, in view of events, like to postpone the test to 1953. But the feeling is Mr. St. Laurent must lead the party through an election. If he cannot be persuaded to stay, the election will come this year. If he can, it will come in 1953. On his decision rests the timing of the election. Soothsayingl ends. l 0 THE GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN ' Underground ' Education 5ET1'INGiCLA5SROOM SOUTHOF Tl-IE BORDER. '4:., "-Ni E. -1. iii. - -- . a. place up in called Prince Eduard Mind 6-Nd the snow QOOS may lathe smmnei-,' LOW -' says here cm.-5 Canada . 4.11-' P if ')-”v 4 An independent place tao- returned I a penny I sent... .3? u.S.A.GED6RAPlIP guklfgsl-5 I? 0? il),,,,'32 'oBsEsvsir NOTES mseiclit rustic on THE WHOLE rooiuv iurosmao ABOUT mun NORTHERN NsieH8ouR...l'oumSl BUREAU Rerokrs STEADY FLOW OF REQUESTS FOR iuronmniou mom .-AMERICAN SCI-i0Di. CHILDREN. PUBLIC FORUM This column is open in the discussion by correspondent: of questions of interest. The Guardian does not. necenssr Ily d the opinion of correspondcn :. HONESTY APPRECIATED Sir,-I would like to express my thanks to Mr. Samuel Hood. Char- lottetown. and others concerned for the safe return of my wallet. This is R. fine example of hon- csty. and is indeed very much up- pi-eciated. I am. sir. etc, ROSE MARIE 118 Archibald Street, Moncton. N. B. DesROCHES. SCHOOL ASSESC-Ni-ENT Sir.-The Public School Act. 1940, with amendments thereto, provides that "real estate includes any building or other thing erect- ed on land leased from or belong- ing to the Crown." In some school districts it ap- pears that the trustees are now assessing warehouses and other buildings erected on lands be- longing to the Canadian National Railway Company, The owners of these buildings hold lenses from the said Company and not from the Crown. and I believe it is I well known fuel. that the Canad- ian National Railway Company is is body corporate and functions in- dependently from the Crown. I would like to have some one inform me the reason for such an assessm ut as it would appear that these warehouses are not real ast- nte or real property under the School Act. now in force. I am, Sir. etc. ' RATE PAYER A TRTBBTE T0 MRS. V. L. GOODWILL Sir.--l wish to pay 3 well de- served tribute to the late Mrs. Dr. Goodwill. not only on account of the multiplicity of her general public se'i'vices but especially for her great work and loyal support of the Red Cross Society both in time of wa-r and in time of peace. During my thirty-eight years as a member of the Provincial Executive of the Red Cross So- cicly I can recall many splendid men and women w-ho gave many years of loyal and fruitful service to that great. humanitarian organ- ization. but I can truthfully say that no one in my opinion was more loyal. energetic and faith- ful than Mrs. Goodwill. She like her late husband. Dr. V. L. Good- will. did their full share of public service. Her record and life is a shininz example of one who seemed in- spired by Divine Providence to 74c I 7oe&l' &ma ALOOF .Z. The ii-responsive silence in of the d. Says Montreal Gazettezlrhe irresponsive sounding of the sea, Speak both one message of one sense to me:- Aloof. aloof. we stand sloof. so stand Thou too aloof. bound with the flawless band - of inner solitude; we bind not thee: But who from thy self-chain shsll set. thee free? What heart shslltouch thy heart? What hsnd thy hind? And i am sometimes proud and sometimes meek. , sometimes I remember days of old When felloviship :eein'a not. so far to see . And all the world Ind I s6cm'tl much less cold. And And at the rainbows foot. icy surely (old. And boos felt strong, and life it.- self not weak, . -Chitlsitns Gcorains Rossetti. x 555H55S 'uN? . inc Age-Old storyi "n'h'."-Wn'c'u'n'u'b'u'ini'-'o'in"s'o'u'-'-'1?- Go your why, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the leper: are cleansed. the dual hear, the dead are raised. to the poor the gospel is ..reached. do everything possible in every way to promote and support ev- ery movement to aid and assist children and families in suffering and in need-both during and after two world wars. If the yardstick of public serv- ice performance is applied. Mrs. Goodwill's life stands out. pre- eminently as a splendid example of 9. great. lady inspired by the greatest of all Christian virtues. Coming first to this Province and city as A stranger and doing so much good in this city for so many years, she leaves to this land of her adoption a life record of public service unsuirpassed and seldom equalled. Her career should be an inspiring example well worthy of emulation. I am. sir. ei.c.. W. J. P. MECMILLAN. (Patriot please copy) FAR.MERS' PROBLEMS Stir,-In your editorial recently there was a writ-e'lip of great markets being found by Mr. Har- old Clay for farm products. Ba- con and eggs are being produced now at. a loss on P. E. I. Mr. Clay will have to find some new mar- kets now if he expects the farm- ers to produce bacon at 526.50 per cwt. 9. drop of 34.50 in a week. Canada has lost her bacon market, also her egg market to the -United Kingdom. Dairy pro- ducts are on the way out. Mar- garine hss been substituted for butter made of cheap oils and fats that are being imported into this country. Our beef market seems to be the only market that is holding out. but it looks as if it will soon be substituted by the western horse. I am surpris- ed to see a Province like Quebec slaughter horses for human con- sumption. I also note in your editorial that leaders are stated to have realized that the farmers of this Province earned 3300.00 3 week over and above their keep. Those leaders must have had a bad dream. If it was when Royalty was visiting here it could be pos- sible thnt they had a. bad dream. A farmer on this Island who finds himself with three dollars over and above at the end of the year, is considered lucky, owing to the way his farm produce is being bought: and sold. The farmers were all jumping off the ground this past. full to receive the high price for their hogs but when the fall run went on the packers dropped the price and too the fsrmers' profit along with ir own. If there is such I. thing II a farmers' profit. the farmer realized the empty sacks Is his profit. The leaders of the government of this country had ii chance to do something for the farmers when the Margarine Bill came up. but they just. turned I dcsf car to it. And the Fcdcrnuon of Agriculture fell in line with them and kept their tongue in their check. If the Federation itself wiisoof any benefit. it would never have allowed the msnufpture and sale of margarine. The pulpwood' industry was some benefit to the farmers of this Island. But. it looks like curtains for it at the present. We just mother blindmsn's bluff be- tween the government and the buyers to lower the price. and make the firmer the goat again. I might say that the bulk of the potatoes were sold at below the cost of production on the early markets. but when the dealers hsd the bulk of them they put the price up. It's site: the farm- 01'': products leave his hsnds that they begin to bs worth iomcthlng. There must be A nest prom in the farmer's products. for the vary rsuon than who buy snd 3C0ieQ0&DG0&r0Osi-Eu"? (,1 Old Charlottetown ' (And 1-. r. 1.) IE0”? SKATING RINK COMPANY "At ll. meeting in this City on Tuesday evening last, it was re- solved to form a. joint stock com- pany, with shares of 133 each. for the purpose of building 9. Skating Rink, in Charlottetown, or suburbs. Messrs. L. H. Davies, C. L. Strick- land, R. R. Fitzgerald. James Pal- mer and Charles Yates were ap- pointed a committee to solicit. suliscriptioiis. Quite 8 number of shares have already been takcii, and the residue should be dispos- ed of without much difficulty. as the institution can scarcely fail to prove in paying proposition." -The Journal. Feb. 3, 1871. three thousand dollar cars, wcll dresed and with a white collar at. all times. with the poor old farmer it's different. He's un- shaved and wearing last. year's overalls. As a long residing farm- er of this Island, this is my pic- ture of it. The money men do the buying and selling of the farm- ers' produce. He isn't. in business at all. He is only working. 1 sm, sir, etc.. R. F. D. Mount Sleiviiii. (As noted in a correction in yesterday's issue. the figure given for average farmer's income in 1951 should have read 5300 per month, not. per week.-Ed. G.) nvnifil MAIL nuuivisnv Sir.-Reading the editorial in' your paper of Jan. 11. also the piece ubout. "Slow Train Tom." I cannot help but write and give you some facts about the mail service over some of our rural routes. Getting the mail on board the fast truck and sending it. out fices is not getting it out to the box holders on rural routes. We get our mail on ER. 2 st. Mary's Road. This mall is deliver- ed by truck to Montague where it is sorted and given to another courier to transport to St. Mary's Road Post Office, where it. has to be sorted again for each of the rural routes there. three in num- ber. By that. -time the couriers thought it. was too late in the day to make the trip over the bad roads of their route that day; so The Guardian and ol.lier mail that not a good early start stays in the Post Office till the following day. about 9 or 10 o'clock if a fine day. if not. till the next fine day fol- lowing, This has been going on since before Clirlstmas and unless you have some means of going to the Post Office for mail you never know when you would get it. Last: week I had a. card mailed to me from Murray River marked A. M. Jan. 4. Murray River. (which is 8 1-2 miles from here), I received this card on Jim. B at the Post. office. 1.! I had not sons there I would not-have got it till Jim. 9 about 10 s. m, ls it any wonder "Slow Train Tom" has ssked for thc mail to be shipped luck to the slow old train? Truly we need I faster and bet- ter mail service for Kings and Southern Queen's. but what. we had will no better. but worse. True it was OK. for the wns and village: but not for th rursl areas, .. I am. Sir. ctc.. J. H. CA-MPBIILL Alllston. P, E. I. GOVERNRIENT I MOONSIIINE Sir.-In the Guardian I read: "The U. S. narcotic agents. to- day. snapped a giant trap on the nsi-cotic' underworld and seized more than 500 suspected ped- dlers." Good! Fine! These pcddlsrs are enemies of the country. de- bsuchiniz. especially the teen. users 'of the nation. in .snd out of day-schools. But why get after ths dope-peddlers and let go the drink pcddlcrl. who Involve far morc people. young and old. than all kinds of dope put together? Alcohol is a narcotic poison. 1 habit forming drug. that poisons the human system. It poison: the drinkei-'s rclntionrwlth his neigh- bours snd sspcclnlly with his own handle his products. jump out qf family; and yet. all this Mr. 3 lcm of the liquor traffic is fin- to the town and village post of- 'llquor'is the real moonshine of a b-3.0.-Cave.” 'Viu-. ..x. M; i to what happens when an irresis- tible force body is difficult, but anybody knows what happens when an un- frusti-stable child tangles with an 1 Notes By says. "is further proof of the ad- vantages of living in a small town where you can always walk to work." And the popular town for that would be one not more than I block wide and two blocks long. -Ottawa Citizen. .:-l "Relax, relax, and then relax some more," is the advice going the rounds these days. Quite ii number of people relax all their lives, but most of their cars and support falls upon the shoulders of those who are more or less tense I considerable part of the time.- wlills the sight. of n dead ricer. or buck strapped to the side of car might be appealing to Sllortsman or all who hunger venison steaks, it isn't s pretty sight for children many of whom we hnvc noticed gazing in colic poisoning goes on legally andfunder the protection of our laws. Are our legislators insane and the laws they make, in re- gard to drink. utterly unwise? Let the results judge. Why does this harmful traffic continue? Why does not reason rise up in rebellion against it? Why does not the Spirit of Jesus, operating through the Church. rise up and demand that this evil shall cease destroying the young of our land? Why? Why do dope peddlers run the risk of long jail sentence: and heavy fines? Because big money is to he made In drug peddling. The prob- unclnl. The brewers and their agents would rake the lowest floor of the bottomless pit if there was money to be got there, and run the risk of being singed. A young man whose form but- ted on the river thought he saw s chance ,to make easy money. it was in the rum-running days and with his little boat he met the big boat outside the harbour. The Mounties got after him and he had to flee this Islnnd rind could not return. Our Government debated the problem. They said, "rum-running is going to continue. The making home-brew will not cease. Bootlegging is a regular money- mnking business. We had better go into the liquor business our- selves and get what profit can be made." Some members were shocked at the suggestion. "Do you mean," they? said. "that we, the Government, elected by the people, to guard the highest in- terests of this Province, should legalize the sale of intoxicating liquor?" The answer comes from the front bench, "Why not? The people are going to get liquor anyway and we might better get the profit. It's bad for the people, we admit, but that is their busi- ness. No man is compelled to drink. and here's the point. the Government has a chance to make money out of this business." If a commission could be set to work to find out what it costs the Government in: (1) Court procedure; (2) Jailing drunknrds: (3) Road accidents; (4) Loss of lime in industry,-not to speak of money misspent, and loss of self respect-lsuch a commission would find that the legalized liquor traffic puts them out of pocket. somewhere about four dollars out of ii: in revenue. The idea of making money out of moon-struck Government. I am, Sir. etc. W. I. GREEN. The answer to an old poser u meets an unmovablc nlprcl.-slon .:ccbt wss done sway with in for, JANUARY 16. 1952 I T .. . Cm x.u.x.x.;i,g;,hL'g,;9.u,;g;:c-cV.wsz;4.V.v.v.v.xo1.x wwwvmwwwyu, vs. - I .:v...a.. AAAAA4 The Way, 7, A' startled horror their nttenipt to cxpluln why deer have been killed. - Brock: ville Recorder Ind Times. To attract top rate sclontiu. h unbreakable toy. - Pcterborough Canada. the National Research Examiner. Council is offering tux-free mm. arships to scientists throu h "The Toronto strike." on writer world-wldc competition. mg, post-doctorate awards are to N mace and winners will do in work in chemistry. bio-chei-nlsii-y physics and microbiology in cam: diim laboratories. Cannon. pom, sing vast: natural resources, new the benefit of the best. scientific research available. Such world. wide competitions should attract bright laqowleoge-hungry ml. dents. on s more restricted ",1. this is the way in which universit- ies can obtain top flight nicmbm fx.l' their various faculties. Quu. ity has to be aid for. - Free Press. p mm” Most people are under the in. that imprisonment goi- Och. go. Thll ll Lrug' 1 civil ppcuom ". concerned but the practice u. limlns imbedded in our cl-im1,m, law. in the form of the miqugm, ”tlnc or imprisonment" pemity Once an offender has been um: tenced to "thirty dollars or thii-iy days," whether he goes to 1.11 0,. goes free depends not on the ser- iousness of his offense but on whether he has the thirty dollsn V The man who is locked up bgcuu; he cannot pay 5 fine is just ., much 3. prisoner for debt as gh, mai. who was sent to Newgate ,. century ago because he could not pay his grocery bill. - Edmonton Journal. ads many years so far as most. The extensive floods iii the 1'. Valley are a demonstration of the folly of man over 60 generations. The forests of the Cls-Alpine 1;. gion were heavy and extensive in Roman times and for m cangum. they have been fumllhlng fin. wood and timber for Italian uu, They could be furnishing it ygt had they been conserved and ad. ministered with intelligence. But now they are gone and nntuiva balance has been upset. . ,1-hm is nothing to protect the soil and nothing to hold it. so the hill. Sides are scorec. into tunnels and chniiriels and the water that deg. ccnos in the rainy season, instead of being cased down to the us through months, comes all at once and sweeps everything berm it. The Italian floods are s lesson in the importance. of forest con. servatlon. - Vancouver Province. At Trenton four young children were rescued from their burning home where they had been left alone while their mother visited A beverage room. she has been sui- tenced to not. more than two years in the Mercer reformstory. Then have been too many or them cum and there will be public support for the imposition of sentences upon the guilty parties. In some instances the parent or parents were more cxc sably absent, than in this one. But they neverthe- less neglected the precaution of providing a baby-sitter for the lit- tle folks they left at home, and children have lost their lives as A result. In the Trenton case. what would the mother have felt if her visit to the beverage room had left her childless? What. is price for a drink or twol Toronto Star. For Mcnis Clothing That Fits J.P. MacPlierson & Son 157 Queen St. Stanley Bridge. PROFESSIONAL CARDS llr. John E. stem 5! Anliolntincnt 1 Dr. A. L. Moclsooc uuunsr Dsntul K-Roy GLORIA BUILDING 1'19 Grafton 8!. Phone 101 virrnnmanr summon LLB. room no ass Pownll so. B'mmS"";',:o”c”0R' Office Hours no Richmond st. - olrumn Allison M. Gillis. Phone 590 Muriieson. Peaks & Nicholson A. W MATHESON ILO. A. ll. PEAKE. EA. LLJA JOHN P. NICIIIILSHN. l..L.B. Bnrrlnterl. out 9 " 'lons - Money To Loin I0 Grout George Street us Orsot Ocorn CIIIIII IIIIJ. Olllrlimctowl Charlottetown 0"”"'""” man J. sum 0. 0. 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