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THE GUARDIAN

Morning Dally (Founded in Illl) Authorised an Second Clue Ilail Post Office napmmono. on.» ’ The Island Guardian Vrubllnhfu co. latter and Managing Director. J. ll. Burnett Associate Editor, frank Wullfor.

"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than ' the Weakest Ink."

CIAILOTTETOWN Eil\'l‘UllDA\’. APRIL 8. I950

Easter

The Easter message is one of hope and renewal. It deals with the most momentous. event in the history of mankind, and central revelation of the Christian gospel, that ‘of {he Resurrection. There is a happy 00m‘ tidence in the fact that this tangible proof of immortality is commemorated in. the spring, when nature is shedding her winter veeds and preparing for the gorgeous oageantry of summer.

Easter is of universal significance, but like all other Christian festivals its meaning ll intensely personal. Science can throw no light on it, either through its largest tele- scope or its latest discovery in atomic fis- sion. It must be felt and experienced in- dividually, through faith which is the sub- stance of things unseen.

Not where the \\‘ll€0“l|K D)‘|l4"“l d"l‘°” And our benumbed conceiving loani- The drift of pinlons. would we harken. Beats at our own clay-shuttered doors.

Men and women in their own lives con- stantly face the sorrows of death, failure and disappointment. The grim asp?“ 0f events takes its toll of moral as well as physical strength, and we are all too prone to forget that death is not the end of every- thing--that life is forever triumphant. This concept makes of man a dual being, with a spirit not subject to the laws of matter, but sacred and beyond the reach of time and chance.

Our civilization, for all its doubts and falterings, owes everything to this creed. All our institutions, our laws, ou-r political system and the code which guides our democratic society are based, whether we realize it or not, on this central principle of Christianity embodied in the message of Easter. It is something we have salvaged from the barbarous past, and from the mod- ern deluge of materialism which has left us with the wreckage of two world wars and imminent threats of another and still more devastating _inundation. It remains our sole hope of the future, in this world as surely as in the next.

In this favoured Province and country, Easter has always been an occasion for de- vout praise and thanksgiving. Today we have not only freedom of worship, but fa- cilities for church-going of which our re- ligious pioneer ancestors never dreamed. It is ours to use this opportunity to the fullest advantage, not on this occasion only but at all times. '

Canadian iioast Guard

"The Coast Guard is well on its way to being organized," declared Fisheries Min- ister Mayhew. ‘'It will be in partial opera- tion this year." Thus, without fanfare, a major step in Canada’s evolution as a mari- time power was made public. Before the war many of the duties ordinarily under- taken by a coast guard service were per- formed by the Marine Section of the R. C. M. P. That section was absorbed by_ the Navy at the commencement of hostilities and although it has been reconstituted, most of its earlier duties were supposedly con- tinued by the Navy. It used to be, and probably still is, the case that the Navy did not take kindly to its wartime training programme. being interrupted by tasks which the average Navy man regarded as being, if not beneath his dignity, at least none of his proper business. Information about the proposed Coast Guard is as yet of the sketchiest, but there is a job for it to do, and it would have been folly to have left it undone.

,llloncton's lien Hospital

The proposed new hospital for south- eastern New Brunswick, to be constructed in Moncton, will cost approximately two and one half million dollars, according to plans now under study by the Moncton Hospital Board, says The Telegraph Journal. This was disclosed in a joint statement by Leonard C. Lockhart, chairman of the board, and Dr. D. F. W. Porter, exe- cutive director of the hospital. The new institution will be scaled up in two, four and six-storey portions, with the patient ac- 'coj_rir'n‘o'da'tion portion-comprising" ' six stor- iee._ ‘it will provide 206 beds, including the children’ department and 38 bassinets for The Board expects to be

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one-storey work shop minding, furniture, furnishings, equipment, roads, walks and grounds and fees for architects, engineers and inspection.

EDITORIAL NOIES

Easter Eve.

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Tomorrow Easter Day.

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M. P.'s have ten days in which to visit their constituents and find the pulse of the

electorate.

Prince Edward Theatre has outstanding attractions for today and Monday. Today the classics “Oliver Twist” and “Huckle- berry Finn"; on Monday the Easter play by the St. Charles Auxiliary, “The Golden Flame.“

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Nova Scotia has only itself to blame for the problem of having to pension off cabinet ministers who have been in office ten years or more. The electorate would be wise to see that no party continued to hold office for more than two or three terms at most.

The cost of living index, standing at 163.7. and still rising at the end of Febru- ary, now reflects chiefly the item of rent in the average budget. It must be taken with the warning however, that it is correct only so far as the public's buying habits have re- mained unchanged——which they haven’t.

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Newfoundland’s agreement with Ottawa for $6,409,000 a year in exchange for ex- clusive rights to income tax, corporation tax and succession duties is probably an excel- lent bargain for the new Province for the time being. If the experience of other pro- vinces is repeated, however, it will not take Premier Smallwood’s Government long to spend the money which they have not been obliged to collect.

‘Nova Scotia would gladly become an agricultural province in addition to coal, steel and shipping. In a discussion Mr. Mac- Donald, a Cape Breton representative, said that for every prosperous, well-tended farm there were several that were run down or vacant. His suggestion was for’ the agri- cultural department staff to visit the vari- ous districts and give practical instructions on farm management, crop improvement. fertilization and soil testing. We could like- wise profitably benefit from such a pro- gramme here for we have not a few farms failing to make ends meet.

Six years ago, on Easter ounuay (April 9, 1944) Major General Chris Vokes, at the time a divisional commander in Italy, stood on the slopes of a hill overlooking the Adri- atic and read the lesson of an Easter ser- vice to members of his headquarters. Not far away the war went on as usual. It was the Canadian soldier’s first Easter in the field. The weather was mild with a warm rain laying the dust on the roads. Men from the battalions in the line also observed Easter but in a different fashion. Chaplains went from one company to another, occas- ionally under fire, leading the men in brief and simple devotion. The battlefront, that Easter Sunday, was comparatively quiet and action was confined mostly to small-scale patrolling on all fronts.

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Good news. Under the auspices of the World Health Organization and the Inter- national Children's Emergency Fund, a technical conference was recently held in Paris at,the Sick Children's Hospital under the chairmanship of Professor Robert Debre. Expert medical authorities from fourteen countries which were specially invited pre- sented their points of view regarding the treatment of tubercular meningitis and glandular tuberculosis. French pediatricians from Paris and the provinces met with their foreign colleagues, English, Austrian, Bel- gian, Itallan, Czech and Yugoslav. The con- clusions of these experts established the fact that tubercular meningitis is today a curable disease, thanks to streptomycine.

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Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, English Lord Chan- cellor, died this date 1868. Admitted to the Scottish bar in 1800: co-operated in found- ing the Edinburgh Review ln 1802, con- tributlng eighty articles to the first twenty numbers. Entered Lincoln's Inn in 1803; settled in London in 1805. and was called to the English bar in 1808. Entering par- liament two years later he was soon regard- ed as a possible leader, and carried a bill making slave-trading a felony. In 1816, he opposed andadefeated an Income Tax bill. As Queen Caroline’: attorney-general, his management of the we won him fame. I-Io later introduced and carried a great scheme of law reform in 1828. In 1830 he was nub Lord Chancellor. Versatile, egotisti-

. cal, turbulent. he is chiefly remembered as

a law reformer and author.

THE GUARDIAN. CHAlu.o'rrI-:'rowN I Season’: Greetings

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Break the box and shed t.h‘e nard; Skip not now to count. the coat; Hither bring pglfl. opal. sud: Rock not what. the poor have lost. Upon Christ throw all away: Know ye, this is Easter Day.

Build His church and deck His II

shr e. Empty though it be on earth; Ye have kept your choicest wine-— Iet. it. flow for heavenly mirth; Pluck the harp and breathe the

horn: K110-w ye not ‘us Easter Morn?

Gather gladness from the skies; Take a lesson from the ground; Flowers do ope their heavenward eyes .

And a Spring-time joy have found: Earth throws Win-ter's robes away. Decks herself for Easter Day.

Beuuily now for ashes wear. Perfumes for the stub of woe. Chaplets for dishevelled hair, Dances for sad footsteps slow; Open wide your hearts that they Let in joy this Easter Day.

-Seek God's house in happy throng; Crowded let His table be:

Mingle praises. prayer and song. Singing to the Trinity. . f-Ienccforth let your souls alway Make each mom on Easter Day.

——Gers.xd Hopkins.

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(And P. I. I.)

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Canal Tidal Wave

\ E Old Charlottetown § SHIPBUILDING DAYS I The boom in shipbuilding in

this Island a century ago is in- dicated by the following list of launchmgs appearing in one issue of l-Iaszard's Gazette, Oct. 14, 1854:

“On Tuesday last the nth inst...: from the Shipyard of Messrs. J.[ and W. McGill, the Barque Dul-I cine. 506 tons new measurement.| 627 tons old. She is universally admitted to be as well finished I vessel in all respects as has been built in the island. She is copper fastened and clipper built, from a, model by Maseley of Dartmouth in ' Novascotia. and has all the ap- pearance of turning put a superior sailing craft.

“An. Pinette. some days since.| from the Shipyard of Mr. Wm. Mc- ‘ Lean. Pinette, a very fine Bark of 490 tons. called the ‘Blonde’. for Messrs. J. and W. McGlil.

"At. l-iillsborough River. a Brigi.' of 140 tons. called the ‘James.’ for‘ the Hon. D. Brenan.

"At Grand River. from the ship-I yard of Daniel McEachern. a fine Berk 368 tone. called the ‘Recipro- city’. for Messrs. Pope, Cuthbert and Co.

“At Vernon Bridge Shipyard. on Saturday the 7th inst... a superior Bark of 690 tons. called the “Bom- arsund', for Pope. Culhbert and

Co.

“At Pinette, a few days since. I fine Bark of 471 tons, called the ‘Water Witch’. for Mr. James Mc- Craifh. Charlottetown.

"At Bedeque. some weeks since. a fine Bark of 689 tons, called the ‘Paxton.’ built for Pope. Cuth- bert and Co.

“At New London. a Schr. of 127i tons. called the ‘Delta’. built for E. L. Lydiard. Esq.

“At. Rollo Bay. a Schr. of 115 tons, called the ‘Margaret’, built. for Mr. Edward Kickham.

"At Rustico, from the shipyard. of Joshua Down. I Schr. of 191 tons. called the ‘Fairy,’ built forl James Peake, Esq."

Respect The Milk Bottle

ll-la.milt.on Spectator)

Considering the general use of' milk and the fact that it is one of the most essential of foods. the abuse to which milk bottles are subjected is an astounding com- mentary on the disregard some people show for the practice of hygiene and the primary purpose of public health ;

Inasmuch as milk is wnuumed daily in virtually every home and in an ingredient in some form of almost every meal. it should not be necessury_t.o stress the elaborate precautions that have been fol- lowed within past. years to ensure its purity. Dairy herds are watched closely to no that they are kept healthy: buns are likewise inepect- , ed, and so are dairies, with every care being exercised to safeguard cleanliness of surroundings and prevent contamination of any kind along the way until fresh. sweet milk reaches the table: of con-| human.

All of that constructive effort. is made in the interest of public health; yet. it can be impaired by the negligence of I. minority of consumers. Dr. L. A. Clarke‘. M. O.

that it is illegal to use milk bot- tle: for other than container: of milk. Too only person, It appears are misusing these bottle: as vu-

coai oil and all manner 0: liquids, quite unmlndful of the boards they are thereby creating to the

health of others.

Delriee take in: to clean their bottles; they are coriy equip-. ment. for doing so. But. even when way: possible to remove the last- bottles are sterilised It is not al- wnys possible to remove the loot minute trace of foreign matter that may remnl after I lhilk bottle ha- heiq coll oton gasoiuu just. be- rum being returned to o do‘:-y. Ivan V a

petition cling to that same ’ bo‘.t‘e it might be lllffiriant to contamin- ate the 1iilkofvl.he,uIxtoonumer

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health‘ in‘

‘ — and this is the liveliest move-

| knit‘. the Atlantic provinces‘ econ-

lore in-the Quebec-Labrador area

3, warns this thoughtlesp element ,

sole to hold turpentine; gnolene. .

little of the tunnel each im- '

benefits

(Toronto Saturday Night.)

A tidal wave of public opinion.

- rolling up from the Atlantic sen-

coast. will surge ‘nto Ottawa dur- ing the present Parliamentary ses- sion to demand that a. start he made at long last on a project dis- cussed for a century or two: the Chignecto canal.

There are‘ now 46 local “Chia- necto Canal committees" in cities towns and villages of the Man- time Provinces and Newfoundland. Indications are that a huge deleg- ation will invade the federal cap- ital early this spring .— individual citizens and representatives of or-l genized bodies with memberships, totalling hundreds of thousands —-i to press the case for the shortcut waterway. l

The Chlgnecto isthmus is an 19- mlle-thin neck of land linking New Brunswick and Nova Bootia. In the‘ last. century and a quarter, survey after survey has been made. It. has, been found that construction of 1 canal across the isthmus would in-

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He iayoth up sound wisdom for ma righteoul. He in I buokler to them that walk uprightly. The up- right shall dwell in the land. and the perfect shall remain in It.

fresh-caught fish moving in the other direction from the Gulfof St. Lawrence to Boston, Nova Boo- tia apples flowing to central can- ada. They see many heavy mater- ials — zypsum, limestone. peat

I moss, granite — finding new mar-

kets because of the canal.

They even feel sure the railways will gain -— because the general development of new industry and employment is bound to help the rail lines.

They can quote at length the sizable savings which the canal will make in sea routes — ouch I-I knocking 401 miles off the 1.403-

lmile run from Montreal to Saint

valve no particular enxlneerin1l:' gob“. md t-emcopms gh, ch".

obstacles. On several ‘

I has appeared that an actual begin- nirig of the big ditch was unmln-3 "°3,,"“'°' "° " "‘°'° m ""'°"

one. But. something always inter-

vened at the crucial moment. like

a change of Federal Government. 0 I O

Postwar trends have aroused a new agitation in favor of the canal

ment yet. Rising railway freight rates threaten to bankrupt marg- inll manufacturing industries in the Maritime: whose products are hav- ing a hard time absorbing trans- portation costs and competing in the populous Quebec and Ontario markets. The entry of Newfound- land into Confederation has added another reason for a waterway to

omy closer together. And the dis- covery of vast. resources of iron

portlends that a steady proceulon of ore-laden freighter: soon will be moving down the Atlantic coast. from the St. Lawrence to eastern U. 5. ports. Time and expense would he saved if they could dodge

through the Ghlgnecto Canal into‘

the Bay of Fundy instead of cir- cling out to see. uound the jutting land mass of Nova south.

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Canal proponents in the down- out provinces envisage Prince Ed- ward Island potatoes and turnip: being carried cheaply to Boston. and puipwood moving to New En’;- land from the north shore of New Brunswick and Nova aootia. dairy products travelling from the Bay

of Fundy to Newfoundland, canned ’

fish being new-fxclehted direct from

Fundy to Montreal and Toronto,

and hence is the responsibility of all in so far as a reasonable share of co-operation with the health authorities is to be expecte from any community of into llgent people. misusing empty milk bottles

filling them with poisonous il- :

I7! quid: they were never intended to ‘ ‘n is neither intelligent

and harmful practice not in be do- (ended on any grounds.

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ey mean business this time.

ithe canal supporters. They want I the shortcut not as a work project

but as the Atlantic coast‘: rightful due. At the same time, however, the job, if started soon, will do a lot to alleviate Maritime unem- ployment distress. which has been made acute by the loss of British markets.

Electrical contractor WIRING AND REPAIRING

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After, several years building. vie.-mm an finally announced, a daemon to use five-you licence plates on motor vehicles. While all dfllul 01 the Nillfime haven't been‘ announced, the 300,000 3. a. driven, -who have‘ their annual struggle with rusty bolts and new licence plates. hope that at last 3.‘ . is going to enjoy ellpthe bone to of permanent licensee. .— Vancouver Piovtnce.

The sad death of Laurence Stein- hudt in (mud: robs the diplo- matic service of an envoy with much experience and considerable energy. atetnhardt. was a forceful

m:,_m. .. . 0‘-_ . . not to mention the practitioners of it. He preferred to think of him- self in the homespun tradition which he said was lacking in the modern service of the United States. Accordingly he was ac- customed to speak his mind-with out reservation on news and pros- pectl. and if at times he was wrong, he was often right. some diplomats have gone to their graves in com- plete silence and without record. While Ambassador to Russia. Stein- haxdt was caught short. in stock- holm by the outbreak of the mono- Finnish war of 1989. but he kept the department well, and t.f'u.lV Posted about Russia designs from his vantnze point at Ankara. Stelnhardt devoted himself without gtlntt to his duties. — Washington

on .

— The trout fishing season is only I little over 3 month away and. undoubtedly, many xsaac Walton's have already been oiling- up the reels, checking the tackle. and limbering-up the casting rode.

,.Aithough lake fishing is the more

popular amongst anglers in this area, there are many readers who are ardent speckled ‘trout fisher- men, and it is to them this infor- motion is directed. The Depart- ment of Lands and Forests has this your decreed that not more than is speckled trout may be caught In one day. The limit has been 20. This action has been taken by the department in order to conserve the province's resources of this aristocrat of the finny tribes. The limit. reduction is applicable throughout Ontario. with the ox- ception of No)-fork county where it has been reduced to 10. The minimum length remains at seven inches. — smith Falls Record-News

OIII ‘ ‘ , The Ottawa citizen ambles into a critizlsm of Canadian mumbling.

Montreal has charged that Can- adians are mumblers; that we a self conscious people betwee the United States and Great Brittan- both having their own speech mar.- nerisms—“have found the easiest way to avoid criticism from both for mispronunclations is to mum- hie." Rut in, we Canadians have