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THF. GUARDIAN

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CHARLOTTETOWBL THURSDAY. MAY 0. 194.

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"Information on the Plebiscite to be_ heel: Juno 28, 1948" is the title of a pamphlet Iii" by the Provincial Government. l" Vlllfl‘ H" “we in the balloting on the liquor q"'$ll_°" l‘ ill" cussed. The choice will be will!!!“ "l l! P“ °l' in which the questions will be "For New 76ml"? iince Act," and "For Old Prohibition Act" as It Exist“ prior i-o rho passing of the Cullen Amend. ment. . lt is claimed in the WmPlll" 11"" l"? M‘: Temperance Act, enacted at the last‘ session o Ilia Legislature, ie especially aimed at the Sill’ of intemperance". l" ""lt f! WY "'9' 9" “m”? crate person may not obtain liquor by any riled,” without the person from whom he obtoins It e- ing subjected to a |ail senteiice without the option of a fine. The some prohibition applies to all persons under the age elf IWQHlY-ftilt-

The pamphlet discusses the anomaly of doc- tors’ prescriptions" under the Prohfbition Act. and emphasizes that the plebiscite will riot be a decision between the present law and the MW Temperance Act, but will ble a_ decision between r return to the old doctors single prescription, rind the permit restrictions the pew Temper- ance Act. The vote will be simply, ‘Do you want the doctors to have control of prescriptions or do you want them to be regulated under Commis- sion supervision?”

lt is doubtful whether the Government state- mcn-t will satisfy those who have been advocating a return to the old ‘Prohibition Act. On the other hand, it provides a talking point, and clears up any ambiguity that may exist with regard to what the plebiscite is about. lt is maintained that "there is no intention on the part of the Govern- rnent to advise or influence the people of the Province to vote for either one or other of the proposed laws. The desire of the Government is solely to ascertain by what means they require the distribution of liquor within the Province to be made; whether by the prescription of doctors, or in conformity with the strict regulations of the NewTemperance Act."

Wliat Lies Ahead‘!

To predict what is ahead for Canada is

futile speculation, says the Monthly Letter of the Royal Bank of Canada, because it depends upon so many variables: the state of the world, the urge of our young men and young women, the sense of our statesmen and business-men. . . "The wars have presented unpredictable situations In Canada; technological advance is so fast that it upsets predictions from day to dav. in down-toearth figures, here are the immedi- ate prospects outlined by the Department af Re- construction and Supply in March: a 17 per cent increase in private and public investment outlay for new capital goods in 1948, compared with 1947; a capital programme of $2.8 billion, the highest in Canada's history; of this, $2,184 million is to be in privately-owned business, in- stitutions and housing, while public outlay is expected to reach $635 million.

"Canada has undergone noteworthy econ- omic advance in the 81 years since she became a dominion, and there is good reason to believe that the process of growth has by no means reached completion. New industries are being en- couraged. and existing industries are expanding in a way to contribute to Canada's long-term development.

"This advancement of Canada has taken place within the friendly atmosphere of western civilization, a culture based on principles es- tablished in the western world at heavy cost through the last seven or eight centuries. Work.- ing on the foundation so well laid, today's Con. adians have the responsibility of preserving the fruits of the work of pioneers, _and developing human potentialities which will enable men to use to their full value the new powers with which science has gifted them. '

"Young men and women who graduated this year are part of a civilization whose fate may be decided within their own life-span. This civiliza- tion has in it, despite all ite faults and dangers, the seeds of freedom and of decent living.

"There is no need to approach the future in a timid and tremiilous way. ‘All the power we can ever usevnow exists, and awaits our intelli- gent application. These are days when pomp and pride cast only a faint shadow across the pages of current history. Ability and knowledge and initiative, linked with common sense, are the points on which this year's graduates are judged and by which they will ‘rise or fa|l."

Sun's Eclipse

The eclipse of the Sun due in Korea on May 9 (Korea date), which caused a postpone- ment fo-_ one day of the elections to be held in the soil tn art of that troubled and apparent- ly euperstitlou country, is an Interesting one In

other respects or well. ln some press dispatches

it has been called‘ a total eclipse. Evidently it won't bogiiiie. riiar.

‘fiTlieIiéll "leldescrlbed in the ‘American . other almanac: as of the annular

' is. l ‘suction, eclipse tlie obscuring

aillttleptaofar from the earth to cover Xoolprdlrlr. When tlie rnoan is cen- ' V, Jlierefore, lblbllfiblf ls not w rlhpkif brilliant light remaining

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the sun, the lunar globe casts a topering shadow in space. On the rare occasions when the shadow touches the earth every observer over whom it passes sees the sun totally eclipsed. That hap- pehed last in New York on January 24, 1925, when the shadow cone painted a dank streak about 100 miles wide across the country from Minnesota to Mantauk Point. .

in this month's eclipse the'moon's apparent diameter will be slightly less than the sun's, so not even the tip of tho shadow cone is expected to reach the surface of the earth at any place‘. lt will come closest at a point in the Seoiof Japan not far from Korea's eastern coast. Astronomi- caL calculations indicate that the distance there between the shadow’: tip and the sea will be five miles.

.. EDITORIAL NOTES -_

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AaCGllllOll Day;

Music still holds the fort.

With the proposed thoroughly modernized air-port at Summerside the Island should be in a strong position to develop large scale air freight

business. I

Post Offlce and Customs employeis were the last to be considered for salary increases, but getting the back pay should make the‘ delay seem tolerable.

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Maritime Stock-Breeders are holding their annual convention at Amherst in the’ week of May 12. There are many farmers here vitally interested in the olrgapizrrtian. -

Historical research may be disillusloning. Two London archaeologists found evidence of jerry building in a 3,300-year-old city in the Sudan. Mr. Peter G. Fell is reported by tho Winnipeg Free Press as saying, "lt crumbled largely ‘because of jerry-building." So there is nothing new under the sun. I I I I The Canadian Government has lssued a warning to citizens of Yugoslavian descent that they will lose all their rights in Canada if they return to Yugoslavia. The grounds for this amazing statement is that even Canadian-born descendants of Yugoslavs are claimed as sub- jects of Marshal Tito. Surely the government does not contemplate creation of a special tegp- orory class of citizens who must remain at home

or lose their stdtus? I

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The grave closed yesterday over the re- mains of one of our oldest and most highly esteemed citizens, Mr. J. F. (Conductor) Macdon- ald. His long association with the railway made him welleknown to the travelling public for over forty-years, and since his retirement over twenty years ago he spent his declining years quietly, interested in all good work. He will be greatly missed by a host of friends and acquaintances.

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Farmers are not the only ones in arreas in taxation. Federal tax-collections for the year ended last March 31—-including payments in arrears from previous years-will total about $1,- 300,000,000. Stressing that the figures include large amounts due from past years, a spokesman for the Revenue Department gave these approx- imate totals for 1947-48: individual personal income, $656,874,000; corporation income, $351,- 500,000; excess profits, dividends, in-terest and succession duty taxes, $330,000,000.

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They have not all the- luxuries on farms elsewhere any more than we have here. In a debate in the Ontario Legislature it was pointed out that 50,000 Ontario farmers had no auto- mobiles, 160,000 no trucks, and less than 9,000 threshing machines served 178,000 farmers. Only 10 per cent had milking machines and 145,000 no means of refrigeration. There are no radios in 60,000 Ontario farm homes and l60,000 fair. homes have no vacuum cleaners. More than 160,000 farm homes have outside toilets.

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The U. S. Election is beginning to warm up. The latest Gallup Poll shows Governor Dewey has the greatest advantage over President Tru- man, followed in order, by Mr. Stossen, Senator Vandenberg and General MacArthur. Mr. Wallace gets astandard 7% of popular support in every case. Primaries in Nebraska and Wis- consin showed Mr. Stassen well ahead of Gov- ornor Dewey. Many people feel that Senator

Vandenberg may be a compromise between the other two. ~

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H Edward Vll died this date 1910; known es

Edward the Peacemaker" because of his ability to mix freely with foreign potentates and people and ta charm them with his tact and diplomacy. He served a long apprenticeship to the throne under his mother, Queen Victoria, and was thor- oughly familiar with its duties and responsibilities when he succeeded her. He was no spoil sport, and it was under his regime that the "Gay Nine- ties" got the name, and being a good opom. rnan won the admiration of the English people. A man highly endowed with commonsense and savoir-faire, he proved a conscientiousand suc-

cessful ruler.

Following a policy of progress and expansion in-industrial development to meet greatly chang- ed industrial conditions, the Motlier Country has sought the services of an Islander, a member of one of our cleverest families, viz, Mr. Douglas Gordon. Scotland has been one of the outstand-

given it a considerable setback. The North lrit irh Rubber Company has been in the forefront years. In order to keep of the timer _have engaged Mr. Gordon as general manager for c three-year period, and we tool sure‘ they have made no mistake, for he lias al- ready earned an enviable reputation in both the United States and Canada as a trchnicol and

ing rubber centres of the world, but the war has "P "u"

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And locating what. about. those new shades of llitqqlebt —Ha.nriltcn flpectatpr.

‘Aiehllem or inquim British House of Commons, which.“ to cost .05.009.°9li. have had to pier". "ll-ll Bfllelns respect for tredlttoi. in mind and. at. the some time, iti- irodiioe a few revolutionary tea.- tures - such as sound amplifying, air conditioning, and most astound. "l8 0! all. foot warmers! Bach go Cutler-rho! the chamber‘ will have s beet-inc Dene] imau his feet. and. as the architects rather draftllg; declare. fa penile cumin oi s1; from vorylht directions around hi, heed." The foot warmers and gen- t.le eir cirrrents should enable mem bera to debate grave issues with warmer feet and cooler heads. — Kitchener-Waterloo Record,

Superb rhubarb sauce fa like 171°“ l-PIIJY 800d foods. It is sim- ple. honest and unpretentious; but. to achieve the height. of culinary success one must appreciate funde- mentals in the Bill of Rights, use only, tender, fresh-cut, pink-and. White stems: don't. peel the imiu; toss 1n sufficient sugar to cwvrcben. "W 0H1? a minimum amount of water and bring the pgnful to a boil very slowly. When the pink and green sauce ts cold. fill a large oereal dish with ft; pour on op. Prordmatcly half e cup of cream A dish of rhubarb and cream plus a wedge of generously-frosted trip. lie-layer chocolate cake bolsters op timisrii as to the ultimate (goo or W!‘ l-YPe of society. - Wail Street Journal.

Settlers who come b cum]; g hundred years ago would never have believed that. the trip that. took them 90 days would one oay take only 90 hours. Trade Minister Howe reports that. during the pggf, l: months nearly 12,000 lmmlgrggtg have come to Canada by all‘. mos} of them in T.C.A. planes. And air- mitratlon 1s to be expanded dur. 1118 the year ahead. What. a far Cry from the days of sailing ves» sels and voyages that. took from bwo to three months! How differ. ent even from the crowded steer- eile passages of 40 and 50 years ago 111 slreamshlPe- T0118)’. a family may leave England or Holland on a Monday and be more or less "settl- ed" in a new homo half-way 3111-055 Canada Ln time bo go to churgh next Sunday. _ Ekimontion- Jour. no].

Japanese goods are back on the Canadian market - and back by benefit of U.S. dollar financing. 1s this the hale 1n the dyke through which will flow a market-flooding tide? This is 110w the flnnncigi arrangements developed with- one aim of restoring Japanese industry will work out. so for as Canadians are concerned: The same importer who ls allowed only a sharply re- stricted quota. of U.S. dollars with which to purchase goodsrtn the U.S. may secure all the U. S. doi- Iara he-wams from the Foreign ExchangeConti-ol Board for the purchase of Japanese-made goods 1n J-aipsn. Importers can buy In Japan only with U. S. dollars, Jap- anese industry requires U. s. dol- lars with which to pinchuse 1n the U- B- the raw rnarcriifl roi- its Production. So the U5. dollars go round and round, building up in conquered Japan an industry which may disrupt the steady progress of key Canadian indusLries. -- Ven- couver Nerve-Herald.

Moat people who are unhappy are so because they lack o. sense of humour or lake themselves no seriously. suggests Dean a. o. Hurst. of the Ontario College of Pharma- cy. Not-only are these character- istics conducive to personal unhap- piness, but. when sessed by p33. sons in high places they can con- tribute to the unhappiness of the whole world. It is significant that. dictators as a rule lack a. sense of humour; also tiiotntbcy take them- selves boo seriously. The late but unlamented Adolf Hitler and Beni- tc Mussolini took blTCmSQIvca ser- iously and lacked humour to an extraordinary degree. They brought great. unhappiness to their owa peoples and to the world. Tiie fana- tics and the zealots are the dan- gcrous men. Clive them powef and then beware. The jovial fellow. who doesn't. take himself seriously seldom k omes a. dictator. He wouldn't want. to be one. — Winc- eor star.

A boy and a. eet-epeulf are at all times a dangerous combination. 8o denim-our. in tact. that the eu- Lhorlbles have deemed lt. fit to make the carrying of these iveispona an offence under the criminal Code. There are instances where children have been deprived of the sight of an eye through _t.he medium of these wooden crotches fitted with elastic lrandn In Huron Count; some years beck, a youth, stri- ken on the temple by a shot from one of those home-made contrap- tlons. died e few. hours later. Oiie can recall numerous cases where people have suffered more or lees serious injury through being armor. in the.‘ face or a. out. the heed by a stone or leaders Pellet. JOIOGNG from e catapult. The boy with a catapult ls n nienoce-tabtrd life. Ibis up NTLPIQPIPQIIBHOI young- sters to confiscate any weapons of this k111i bhet._~_ttiey-mey flud in‘ the possession or their haplifuis

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"At the fer, southwestern corner of the Isle of Mull. the rough. nar- row road from Creigriure ends at Eionnpbort. where it rune. le ii were, right into‘ tlie ace. Here, there is a wee, stone jetty beside, ‘l beach of. white Bfllldpllid one- o! tiiareaieyv, cream-colored, prefab riaated houses. whcre- the fen-v- man lives} for this is who: you cross to Iona. ' ' There ties the island, acros- threc-quarbere of e_mlle of water lLs three irregular, low, rocky htlli. rising against. tho-western horir/iu —green and quiet in the sun, may- be. or grey beneath a smirr of rain. and you can see from here bin roofs of its houses and the squar- tcwer of the cathedral. V

That is the wey to ooirie to Iona; along e route which -wbet.h-

has been s path of pflgrimege for more-than 1.300 years. I I I

Iona is very old, almost. tanmcas urebly old. Its very name in the Gaelic. the single eyilelble "I" seems like one o! the first sounds ever articulated by man. Moot of tbs s-oaiu are quite different. from Mutts, although so close to they are what. geologists call arch aeen. formedibefbre‘ the aides: mountains. and. indeed. most o. the dry land on earth. There arc no fossils in Iona, for there 1N3‘.- no llfe In the world when bllCaC. rocks were new. I cannot help em- phasizing this impressive antfqusty of Iona, for it is certainly pert of the peculiar atmosphere of the place, which strikes even the most. unimagin-atfve visitor. It. is not just. the geological age, o! which the rocks remind you; nor the hie- torlcal age, which the medtncvsi cathedral and nunnery recall. No: is it. the ‘remoteness of this west.- ern island, beyond which there is nothing but. ocean between you and America. Nor is it the beauty of the dazzling white sends and dark-rod sea-tangle, over whicri the strong bide swings in. liunl- nously green and clear like bottle-- glass, nor the blue and purple sea beyond the breaking foam, nor the rose and sliver rocks arnorig the gentle green of tle hillsides. A11 these contribute to the atmosphere. no doubt, but they are not. its e5- sence.

I cannot define it myself better than this: You Just feel that this is a good place, not merely sancm tied by l-he generations o! holy men who devoted their lives here to the worship of God, and w kindness and hospitality to their fellow-men. our that ll: 01th o kind. of primeval innocence; so very old, and so much detach- ed from the rest of the world that all evil has been purged sway from it.

The veneration which Iona has inspired for so long has preserved much of its antiquities from the effects of indifference or fanatic- ism. The medlaeva-l flthedral was largely and richly rebuilt abouo 1500. It. became ruined after the Reformation, but. successive Dukes of ArgyLl saw to its preservation. The eighth Duke, whose body was buried in the cathedral in 1900. gave the building to the Church of Scotland, otter which the nave was rebuilt and the whole fabric re- roofed and put 1n good order. D1- vlne servlcods held here ell through the Summer; 1n the Winter, as the cathedral has rio heating. it. takes place in a little. modern perish church.

Qiube close to the cathedral ts the old burying ground of Reilig Odhrafn. In this quarter-acre of not! 11o mingled the mortal re- moirirof 60 kings. of Scotland. Ire- land and Norway, of most. of the Lords of the Isles. and of many Highland chiefs. About 400 years ago, there were three liotie bombs or chapels here. the tombs of the kings"; That of btio kings of Norway still survived only I00 years ago. Now, all have vanished. But, there can hardly be a. spoi. on earth of this size in which there ls concentrated ‘so ~mucti distin- guished dust. including that." of Fergus II, Kenneth‘ MacAiiptne, Duncan I and Macbeth.

Housing and boarding visitors may be celled the island's chief iii- dustry, no\vadiiya._i3ut there are about 20 small terms on it. or ra- ther crafts, many with new 3.2-1 comforiable houses, a few with old dweiliny. ivlth thatched roofs. The people 131111111 that. casual. West Highland fashion, so maddening to the agricultural reformer end '50 simply sufficient and satisfying 0a the people themseiv They keep cows and e few sheep. which thrive ‘on the close. sweet. grass. and grow e little grain- beriey. mostly -for feeding their hens. '.f‘tia hay is still out. in late September, ‘Much of the lend is iuidroiriedarid bogey. and looks neglected: and the fences ere un- tidy. But it. does not. matter. The pasture is‘ still excellent.

IIOTIIOUSE TOMATO

OARMAN. Mon. - (OP) - A ‘tomato four inches in diameter and perfect in formation was ex- hibited this week by veteran eg- i-iculturtit. Thomas Iayeoek. who recently retired iio Cannon tol- laiving do yearn of forming. The tome-to ripened on a plant. which" was raised lire can on e window oili during the winter. .