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THE GUARDIAN

Morning Daily (Founded in I881) Authorlud la Second Clan Mali, Pout Oflica Dapartrm-nt, Ottawa.

The ialnml Guardian Publishing ('0. Editor and Managing a! . J. it. liurnatl. Associate Editor, Frank Walk

"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink"

SATURDAY, DEC. l1. I949

IHARLOTTETOWN.

island Farmers Leading

Au increase of $1,669,000 in the gross value of field crops for Prince Edward Is- land, bringing the total value for the pres- ent crop year to $23,484,000, is estimated by the Bureau of Statistics. This is indeed encouraging news, Prince Edward Island and British Columbia being the only Prov- inces to show an increase in this respect. lt has been achieved despite a drop in potato prices, which are such an important factor in our Island agricultural economy.

While the potato movement is slack at present, Island shipments to date of some four thousand cars, representing over three million bushels, is a tremendous achieve- ment in itself. There has also been an ex- ceptionally heavy movement in turnips, con- siderably in caress of the 1,100 cars shipped during the entire season last year.

Evidence of Island farm activity was

given in a statement in yesterday’s Guar- dian by Mr. W. R. Dawson, supervisor of the Federal farm-placements branch, De- partmcnt of Labour, who said the biggest interprovincial movement of farm labour this year was the transfer of some 1,020 men from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to Prince Edward island for potato harvest- mg. An Island farmer was crowned potato Icing this year at the Maritime Winter Fair. and another Island farmer won the coveted Brethour trophy for bacon sides at the Royal Fair at Toronto. It might be added that our breeders are producing more than hall.’ the swine qualified by the Advanced Registry Board of Canada, and that only recently Dr. Childs. veterinary director general, reported Island dairy cattle as leading all Canada in bovine health tests.

These are but a few of the successes scored agritiulttirally by this Province in recent months. Marketing and transporta- tion difficulties are still being encountered, but it is gratifying to note that In every phase of the industry over which our farm- ers have had control, the year has been one of spectacular progress.

Amending The Constitution

Many plans for the machinery of consti- tutional amendment will be put forward and studied at the Dominion-Provincial con- ference next January 10th, but they will probably all have the common purpose of providing the most flexible constitution pos- sible without endangering Provincial and language rights. One such proposal is that of a. Montreal lawyer, Paul Gcrin-Lajoic, and is as follows:

As to schools and language rights, the concurrence of all the Provinces be required; as to other provisions, that no amendment be carried against the will of any of four big regions of Cfanada-ffhe Maritimes, Que- bec. Ontario or the West; that amendments require concurrence of two-thirds (or pos- sibly three-fourths) of the Provinces, rep- resenting at least seventy-five per cent of the population of Canada.

'l‘hus any four for possibly three) Prov- inces or any Province having more than twenty-five per cent of Canada's popula- tion could block an amendment, as could any of the major divisions of the country. The suggested means of taking the will of the Provinces and areas is a national refer- endum.

The plan seems to be rather cumber- some, even with the understanding that wholly Federal or wholly Provincial matters can be amended by the legislature concern- ed. If agreement could be reached on an easier method of amendment there would be less likelihood of finding ourselves in a constitutional straight-jacket when decisive action is needed.

iir. Gardiner’: Contention

Farmers and others who look to the Federal Minister of Agriculture for guidance about market prospects for Canada's agri- cultural products, says Saturday Night, have a pretty bewildering time. "Mr. Gardiner really makes life a good deal harder than It needs to be; yet it is difficult to dismiss his outbursts without notice." The Toronto weekly paper continues: ‘

“The speech he made at Brantford re- cently seems the most remarkable yet in n long line of remarkable speeches. It may have been displaced from that eminence be- foro-thil appears; or, more probably, Mr. Gardiner will have Issued his habitual state- ment that he was mismpofled. But if we m“ that a Canadian Press report

w Je-zshi-eieewevtiw

reliable than a Canadian Press report of any other minister's speech, we may legitimate- ly ask what good end Mr. Gardiner expects to serve by declaring that ‘there is a very decided official effort’ to drive Canadian produce from the British market. This is a statement of the world currency problem so perverted as to secure the maximum amount of misunderstanding and ill-will.

“To complete the distortion Mr. Gardiner went on to say-unless the Canadian Press reporter made it up-t hat farmers must buy where they could sell, and the only place they could sell freely was Canada.

“The facts which Mr. Gardiner so strangely garbled are of course that the currency problem is compelling not the Uni- ted Kingdom alonc but all the non-dollar countries to reduce their dollar purchases to a minimum; that, in spite of this, the U. K. is still buying a higher proportion of her agricultural imports from Canada than she did before the war; and that the only way she can possibly maintain, let alone increase, her purchases from us is by our buying more from her.

"These unhappy facts may mean some painful readjustments for Canada: they will be smaller and less painful than the re- adjustments required for most countries. and we know of no divine right by which Canadians should be spared from all the iii- conveniences of this disordered world."

EDITORIAL notes

On the last lap for Christmas. I O I

‘Fomorrow Fourth Sitiitlay after 'i‘rl|ul_v. Q I O

We all have our bete nolre. With Mr. Ronald MacDonald it is women in the Fed- eration of Agriculture, and Mr. Allan Stew- art, politicians on the executive of the some. I I O The other side of the loss of the British market for bacon and eggs is that of the British consumer who has lost ilwsn ini- ports from this country. Q O 0

Mr. H. H. Hannah, President of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, voiced a general opinion when he stated that Cana- dian farmers “got gypped" at the beginning of the boom period. and now they were the first to “take the rap“ at the end of it.

O O O

Since crime comics were declared illegal, the publishers have set up their own cen- sorship at source. If they had had the pru- dence to do so when public opinion became evident, there would have been no necd for restrictive legislation.

I l I

Mr. Gardinens assurance ihai the freight-rate subsidy on movement of West- ern feed grain to Eastern Canada will be continued is one of the few encouraging things to comc out of the recent zigricultural conference. I l O Ludwig van Beethoven, German com- poser, born this (late 1.770. Beethoven's earlier works were akin to Mozart and Haydn; his later works marked entirely new departures, characterized by amazing indi- viduality of style and classical beauty and perfection of form. I O I

Egg prices on December i) this year and previous years. The prices quoted below are for Grade A Large. At Montreal and Toronto tiic prices are those at which grad- ed shipments arc selling to wholesalers. At other points quotations are IJFICOS to ship- pers for ungraded eggs.

1949 i948 J94? Montreal . . . . .. 47-47l-’_~ 52-5.‘! ‘ilk-ISL; Toronto . . . . . . . 46-47 50-51 46-46 Winnipeg . . . . . . 42 46 43 Vancouver . . . . . ~ll ‘fill, 40 Edmonton . . . . . 40 44 Ill Regina . . . . . . . . 40-41.‘ 4R - 4:.’ Charlottetown . 41 46-41 44

'I'en years ago, on December l7, 1939, Britain joyously received an carly and heartening Christmas present in thc shape of some 7,500 Canadian troops-tho van- guard of more than 335,000 she was to welcome before World War Ii was over and won. The first contingent of the 1st Canadian Division arrived that morning in the Clyde River, unannounced and heavily escorted, in one of the most impressive con- voys to make the Atlantic crossing during the war. There were the liners Aquitania, Empress of Britain, Empress of Australia, Duchess of Bedford and Monarch (I Ber- muda, and they were escorted by some of the most famous vessels of the Royal Navv -the battle-cruiser Repulsc, the battleship Resolution and the aircraft carrier Furious. Several other ships of war, including four Canadian destroyers, were also in the coii- voy. The Canadians lost no time introducing themselves. From the crowded transports they loudly and unmistakably spelt out in unison “C-A-N-A-D-A" and concluded on a mighty crescendo “CANADA? The Cana-

diaps had arrived in Britain. 4

THE GUARDIAN ,

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ON ‘THE SEA

It keeps eternal w-‘ilzperiiigs around

Desulate shores, and with its mighty swell

Gluls twice ten thousand caverns. till the spell

0f Hecate leaves tliuzn i/helr old shadowy sound.

Oftcii ‘tls in such gentle temper found

That scarcoiy will the very miall- csi shell

Be move-d for clays from whence it sametiiue feil

When last the winds uf ticaveu wcrc unbound. Oh ye! vrho have your eyeballs

vexed and tired.

Feast them upon the widen/ass of the Sea:

Uli ye! utz-nsc cars are with uproar rude.

Ur fed too much with cluyiiig mel- ‘X13’- .

Sit ye near some old mouth. and brood

Until yo start. as if the sea-nymphs quiredl

—Johii

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DISASTROUS FIRE

Wlule the Great Fire of Sun- day morning, July 1G, i866, was t'harlo‘.tclo\vn's worst coufliigrii- lion. it was not the only one of LIISZLSIYOLIS proportions in the town's early history. A memor- able date in this connection was July 3i. i833 —- which also fell on .i Suudziy.

fir: fire broke out in the house of Mr. J. B. ‘Fliompson, merchant. on Water Street, between 2 and 3 am. reportedly through the care- lessness of a servant. in not pro- ]‘\€‘t‘I_\' extinguishing a csudic be- fore giving Io Lie-ti. So rapid was IIA: progress that before many per- sons were assembled, the adjoining buildings had caught and the heat was so intense that the Town and Garrison engines could not be. worked sutficicutlv closc to be cf- fcctivr. Bofwc ii o'clock all the waterfront liousrs comprisingsome of Llie most valuable dwellings, stores and warehouses in the town, were destroyed, Upwards of fifty fii-niilics were loft honiclcss. some of lhcni cntircly EIFSIJIUIC. Mr. 'i‘honipsou himself, and a seven ycar old ilaizghler. pcrishctl in the flames. 'l‘l\c property loss was as follows?

“later side: Dwelling house and stores of Mcssrs. McBride and Kerr; dwelling houses of T. Os- borne. G. Dooley, Widow Cody, Mrs. Walsh. Mr. ilutchings. Mr. O'Brien; houses and stores of P. Doyle and lliessrs, Bowriug and Son; slorc of Matthew Stewart and Co; houses and stores of Gar- land Gaden, J. B. Thompson, J. Howlcy: stores of Marctt and Co; house of H. Dotiin; house tsionc building! and stores of A. LelVies- surfer; houses of'John Brine, Mrs.

Quinn. Patrick Stirnmcrs. s North side: Ilium-cs of Patrick Flood. liuli c Nowiiiu. John Snel-

zrovc, and George Snclgrovc; Widow Duran: Stcphcn Ryan, Ro- lwrt \'i'_vlic. lVlicliaeI Dunn. Mr. Stafford. John Kelly. J. Rossiter. .i Cody. Charles Ryan, _Mrs. Do- hcrfy. 'l'honias Power. Dennis Noivlan. lVfrs. Dodd. James Fo- garljr, Owen Kearney. Mr. Main- waring. Jnhn Walsh fiaiiori. Peter Kelly. Thomas Atkins. James I.t‘£<1l‘_\'. Patrick Drmiivaii. Patrick Chapman, Avirircw Lriudy. James Kelly. Mr, Bull. l\'ir. Cassidy. Ed- ward Iiforun. J. Crostbyz Luke Con- way’. Mr. Ryan and John Walsh fpudiiicanl.

"Few persons," nlll‘?ii'_\‘ ilccriiuit their nrouc". ‘nu frequently clays.

savs n Contem- lmrl any part of ivurrd." ’l‘h:il ivas the case in ihosc

PlJPiI It: I"i IR UM

This column ts open to the \ discussion by tuiienpundeuis y, ni questions of interest. The ‘ (inarrliain does not necessar- I. if! rndursi- the ivpiniuu n!

correspondents.

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T. B. LEAGUE REPORTS

Sir; -'l‘lus bung tlii: fourth week of III? TB. League's annual (lhris-fmas Seal Pale ti". ~ I/JSQ"? i ‘m- licvcs that the public who so well su-pport ii should know how the campaign is goina. Up to the close of bilsincrs on the lfiih the total contributed was $6293.75. This com- pares with $3497.87 on the 15th Tlcccmbcr i948. The first figure is madc up of the mnii sale and thc personal solicitation in Charlotte- town and Summcrsidc. The total solicit/xi from business firms, pro- fessional and‘ individual business mcu in the two cities totals $2396.50 to date, compared with the total solicitation of $223L5O last year. The proceeds from the mall sale of seals is $3897.25. and on the IIILh Dcccmhci" last the figure- was $3584.82. This response is extremely gratifying to those who work for tubrrculcsis control, when we real- ize that. thcrc are other very wor- lliv pilbili‘ causes who are also re- cciving the same generous sup- port.

'l"hc ficaizuc wishes to thank all those citizens who have supported our appeal so well. We also wish lo thank those people who. through adversity and personal difficulties have not been able to maintain their contributions, but who have so kindly taken the trouble to ivrite to us and give us their bless- ing and good wishes. _

Our campaign remains open un- til 28th February, and we hope that those who-have not had the opportunity or may have over- looked our letters will remember to use the Seals we sent on their

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them IIl(‘_\’ may rcnicmbcr our ncctl ' so that we may continue our work in the elimination of one of the Provinces great health problems. 'i‘hc response to last year's Seal szilc cauipziign enabled us lo X-riiy 1187i citizcus in i949. Having rc- rlucetl the mortality‘ rafc tu it's lowest point. in i948. we believe that the disclosure and early care of cases found this year may pro- duce another record low. Let us keen the figure dropping m i950- ililIII it disappears forever. We must depend on public support to make this possible. We are, Sir, etc, BOARD OF MANAGEMENT. P. E. l. T. B. LEAGUE.

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143 Great George Street CHAELOTTETOWNJLEJ.

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Nurses’ Act" i3 GEO. Vi,

ember 31, i949.

3i, i950, without having

of the above association.

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right to use the title.

4. whosoever practises in without being a. holder

tion, shall be subject Io in the Act.

In accordance with the

Til WliilM IT MAY GIIIIGEIIN

“Prince Edward Island Chapter 62, the attention

of the public iind_of everyone concerned is drawn to the folloiving provisions of the Act in force after Dec-

l. No person may practice as a nurse after January

obtained a license and bo-

ing duly registered as a member in good standing

Members of the association shall alone have the “Nursc" or Nurse” or the initials thereof “N" or “R.N.”

3. No person shall practice under an assumed name.

“Registered

the profession as a nurse of a license and a. certifi-

cate to practise, legally granted by the Associa-

tho penalties provided for

Further information available at the office of the Association of Nurses of Prince Edward Island, 188 Prince Street, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

THE ASSOCIATION OF NURSES OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND ‘I88 Prince Sh, Charlottetown, P. E. I.

MADALEN E M. BAKER,

Secretary-Registrar.

'25% Discount on all stock Suits. Overroain and Top Coats, Saturday 17th FLIII Monday 19th only.

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‘ DECEMBER 17, 1949

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if a group of men agreed not lo talk shop or to discuss politics, womtai. religion or the weather, there would be some unusually long silences. -- Kingston Whig- Standard.

Western Canada shmved its heels to the rest of ilie Dominion once more at the Toronto Royal livin- Ier Fair. Mrs. Amy Kelsey of Erickson, in Southeastern British Columbia, won the worlds when‘. championship for thc second time, repeating her i947 win. T. C. Wall of Coaldaie won first for white spring wheat. John Eliuk of Hairy I-lill, north of Vcgrcvillc. brought the oats and barlcy championship to Alberta. Albert Kcsscl of Rosetown, Sask.. brought the rye championship liVesl. In beef cat- tle South Alberta pushed to the fore with Ralph Thrallis win with his Mclniyrc Ranch fut Hcre-fords

- running away with championships

a-nd grand championships while Ed Nosd of Claresliolm was winning with his Sliorthorn slecr.-—-Leth- bridgel‘ Herald.

Is or is not the Trains-Canada Highway routc settled so far as the three western provinces are

oimzssoicaourimmpbowcnvon-og The Age-Did Story

ootozsxumzooocoor

Who His own ocif bore our sins in His own hotly on the tree. that we being iicnil in sins should

— Notes By The Way -

said several weeks ago u,“ provinces had agreed an | M,“ Premier Manning said that had. Now. without getting 4W, to particulars, Reconstruction Min, isier Winters says they luv, The route through the West L; unsettled, he said, and only m‘ provincial governments could u, tlc it. The Alberta and Sustain)“, wan governments are défifilkly u tlic record as favoring the M,“ or lliedicine Hai-Calgary-EQJ route. Th6 British column‘ m. ernmeni. has not. publicly sq“. miitted itself, and so far all Lin“ is on Alberta's attitude L! Mr, M“. ning‘s statement, now apparent}; contradicted by Mr. Winters. _ Calgary Albertan.

Our Jmdlng oyster that coloriful and enierprlsiq character. Mr. Sam Andrews, d Upper Shippegan, who owns dim of the best-known seafood Iélllilb ants in Montreal and serves all iii; oysters he can grow to putmig who swarm to the counters and tables of these establishments. M: Andrew holds leases from tiu Federal Government on 25 under- water acre in Shippezgn Day. I: prepared and seeded this are; himself, and managed it scientifi- cally and in such a way that ll grows constantly more valuable Along New Brunswick‘: eastern and northern shores there in un- told thousands of acres stubble for oyster fanning — and Mr. An- drews and others like hini have proved that this could be the basis of a much larger indusis1.—

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