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THE GUARDIAN

Authorized In. Second Clu: Mali Post Office Department. Ottawa. The inland Guardian Pubiinhlnx Co.

President and Auocinto Editor, Inn A. Burnett. Associate Editor, Frank Walker.

CIRCULATION "Coven Prince Edward Island like the dew"

"The strongest memory is weaker than the weakest ink".

CHARIAITTETOWN. THURSDAY. FEB. 26. 1953

Title Has Turned

It used to be taken as a matter of course that Canadians, particularly those from the Maritimes, would make use of their talents and education anywhere but at home but most particularly in the United States. Astonishingly large numbers went from these small Provinces to help build up that great nation.

Today the situation is very different. l-low complete the change has been is shown by statistics compiledtby the secre- tary of the University of New Brunswick alumni association. Out of approximately 1,350 graduates of that university who were Canadian citizens and who received their sheepskins in the past five years, only 14 are now earning their livelihood in the United States.

The fact is. of course, that.today Can- ada is the land of opportunity, the land of the frontier. the land of expansion and ex- ploitation of great natural resources. It has become a magnet for ambitious Amer- ican youth and those of many countries who see the opportunity to take part in Canada's phenomenal growth. Small won- der, then, that Canadian young people do- cided that far away fields are not nearly so green as those of their own country.

Britain's Fine Gesture

A man who is himself in grave peril may be forgiven if for the moment he for- gets the tribulations of his neighbor. It did not occur to the people behind the crumbling dikes of Holland to appeal for help from England. To the Dutch it seem- ed that the British had quite enough to do in coping with disaster at home.

But in the midst of their own trouble the British people read reports from Hol- land, and the help which was not asked was given. The London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian is able to write: "Clothing, warm underwear, footwear, and bedding are specially welcome and many consignments have been forwarded to Hol- land. Chelmsford has sent a truckload of clothes, and the Society of Friends thirteen bales of bedding. A lot of money has also been sent to the Embassy. All this has happened without any appeal being made."

"It is not difficult to be cynical about human conduct and to ferret out motives of sclf-interest behind many apparently benevolent deeds.” says the Winnipeg Free Press. "But surely this free act of kind- ness is reminiscent of Sir Philip Sidneyls gesture at Zutphen when, mortally wound- ed, 'he handed the precious cup of water to a dying soldier, saying: tThy necessity is yet greater than mine'."

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No Specialized Train-liig

it is strange to note that despite the huge expenditures in road building in re- cent years, highway engineering is the most neglected of the sciences according to the findings of the Canadian Good Roads Association. It says the cause of the short- age is chronic, with no irrimediate solution in sight: that no Canadian university pro- vides spccialized training in ii, and that

would-be highway engineers must go abroad to study (and all too likely stay abroad).

This, conimeiits the Glee and Mail, re- flects an astonishing lack of resourceful- nessamong our senior governments, includ- ing Ottawa. Highway expenditure (and highway revenue) is- in the multl-million- dollar realm today. In highway science, as in forest, field and mine science. the obvious way to promote university courses is to offer incentives, by way of scholar- ships or other recognized devices. i The biggest beneficiary from the highway business might well be expected to take the lead in such enterprise, yet nowhere is the silence more profound than in Ot- tawa. Aside from its sharing of Trans- Canada costs, the Dominion Government I has contributed practically nothing to the nation's roads. Last yearithe automotive industry, according to' the Canadian Auto- mobile amber'of Commerce. paid the ' " Treasury 9138,487,863 in sales I Ht.-pges alone--not to mentionithe 'l tlallhare Ottawa took in income hidden taxes from the 3131,- exhlchjthe industry paid its

'dIi3ag1ect of theliicientific however, still no for

If students are not alert to the opportuni- ties awaiting them it is not they but the authorities who are to blame. The CGRA reports that one highway department secured only one-sixth of the engineers it needed. If as a result of such a shortage we are getting less than the best in roads, it is the taxpayers who are the actual losers.

conquest of influenza

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The Health Organization of the United Nations has announced that medical sci- ence which has been making a study of influenza in fifty-five laboratories in forty- four countries will be able within a short time to pronounce the conquest of the dis- ease. l

The fact that ,there are three main types of virus responsible for influenza had increased the difficulty of combatting it. It has been found that with the right vaccine to apply to each-and these have been found-the disease can be success- fully fought. Because the -type identified in the epidemic in a numer of countries this year had been studied by the experts in earlier research, the correct vaccine to counteract it was quickly made available in quantity.

Influenza, which may rapidly spread throughout a nation, causes victims very considerale discomfort, generally results in a heavy death toll and seriously affects the

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general economy, has long baffled those en- gaged in searching for its causes and for preventive measures. The announcement is of world-wide importance. In making it, the Health Organization stated: "Even in its present mild form, it can cause great economic loss and dislocation of essential services, especially as the ill effects are concentrated within a few weeks. In the Netherlandsxin 1949, 2,200 persons died of influenza and its complications, within a short period; These facts alonewould make it important to learn how to control the disease, but it is even more vital to dis- cover "how to prevent or repel an attack of a lethal influenza pandemic such as the 1918-1919 one, which is believed to have killed at least 15,000,000 persons through- out the world. We do not know what led to this outbreak in 1918, nor whether a similar one will appear again."

EDITORIAL NOTES The aerial survey of Surnmerside pro- posed by Mr. Charles Linkletter to the Community Planning unit would certainly provide rapid and accurate information on which to base plans "for the future. 0 O I!

Seventy-five-year-old Pipe -Major An- drew Kirk of St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, is composing a new air to celebrate Queen Elizabeth's Coronation. He gave piping lessons to the Duke of Windsor when he was Prince of Wales.

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Sir Patrick Gardiner l-lastings, English lawyer, died this date 1951. He was ed- ucated -at Charterhouse, elected Labour M. P. for Walisend and became Attorney-Gen- eral for the first Labour Government in England. He published a number of plays, "The River", ”Scotch Mist", and "Escort" las well as an autobiography.

That the U. N. powers have the avowed aim of unifying Korea but are under no obligation to do so by military means” was an important point made by External Af- fairs Minlster Pearson in the Commons be- fore leaving for U. N. headquarters in New York. The division into North andlsouth Korea has no international sanction, except that of Russia and her satellites. The

try, but only bn terms of submerging the 'Republic of Korea under Communist rule.

The naining of grades in many products is confusing to those unfamiliar with them. Potatoes. until now, have been an exception but it is proposed. to introduce higher grades than Canada No. 1. The Potato Committee of the Canadian Horticultural Council is understandably concerned. that the quality of that grade be maintained or even raised. Putting some such grades as fancy or extra fancy over it would have a strong tendency to lower the standard for the"present top grade.

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Charlottetown citlzenslhave always re- cognized the importance of the work of the Y.M.C.A:, and given their generous sup- port. Once more, as the workers have gone amongst us to raise funds to retire the outstanding debt on the building they ,nre everywhere met with friendliness and gen- erosity. The object of paying off the heavy mortgage and being relieved of interest charges appenk to the business some of .tf,un:utiiclntetislveuseoftheprein-

ind ,iiiid.'uciiitiu-or the auureo them Cit; nionoyia being cunt to good

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Communists too want to reunite thaticoun-.

PUBLIC FORUM

This column in open to the discussion by correspondent: of questions of interest. The Guardian does not neccsuh fly endorse the opinion of turrespondentn.

DON'T BE A BOOKWOBM

Sir.-The earthworm, unlike the beaver or other burrowing ani- mal, actually eats the earth; in fact, it has been likened to an earth-mill. Nearly one hundred years ago Charles Darwin made an interesting discovery about vegetation in England. Each year in that country the earthworm deposits in the top soil as much as twenty tons of "clay which has passed through the earthwormls hody.' It has since been discovered that in parts of the land irrigat- ed by the river Nile the count is as high as 200 tons per acre per year. As a figure of speech the term ”Bookworm" should be taboo. Queen Victoria, in a flat- tering mood, spoke of Lord Mac- aulay as a 'Book in Breeches'. No reader cares to have these epithets applied to him because it seems to imply that he swal- lows holus-bolus everything he reads. In a gold vein, for every grain of gold the gold-digger puts in his "poke" he discards tons of dirt-country rock. He dreams of what he will do when he makes his million. But when he comes to building his air-castles, ideal inside and out, he will have to discard 99 per cent of the ideas that pop into his head.

For seven years Joseph nf Egypt fed the starving world. Hi:

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A food expert says that brides will now find for less guesswork in recipes. That. may be true. but young husbands will be in for some surprises just the same. .. St. Cathiirlnes Standard.

"Many motorists run through red lights because they hate their J0bs.”' says 9. psychologist. This doesnt make sense, as they run throush red lights on the way to WW1! 85 W911 as when returning.- (Kingston Wh.ig-Stimdard).

1-183 your there were 402,259 new motor vehicles sold in Canada - three-quarters of them passenger vehicles - the total being an in. 39353 01 501118 17.000 over sales in 1951. Presently, if this keeps on, the streets and roads will be so full of cars nobody can move. and what. do we do then?" .-. Ottawa Journal.

Absence of snow is a nuisance in a bush when 1083 or firewood are being brought out. There may be 1955 maple Syrup than usual. it early indications mean anything. Winter wheat will not benefit from being uncovered. or covered with ii. layer of ice instead. of mow. But. in general the light snowfall is welcome in the country as in the city, apart from the oport.s-mlnd- ed people. Snow has only n' small economic role to play in these days of wheeled transportation. and it costs more to dispose of an abun- dance of it than to get along with- out quite enough. Cornwall Standard-Freeholder.

did not offer them a stone. Nor

did he offer them straw and chaff. After the wlnnowing of seven years plenlitude he gave

them what they needed. the life-

One night in a dream he saiv two objects; one was iai beautiful necklace made up of all sizes of precious pearls with A rich pen- dent attached; the other, '1: loop of rope. Like Abou Ben Adhem he felt in need of some higher light and he offered up a little prayer to his guardian angel rind Lo! it was written "down. The pearls in ascending value were taken from the paragraphs and chapters of the Book of Life and the rich pendent was the lastinil influence which the -book had on his future. The loop of rope signified a slaves halter or at the worst a hangmiin's noose, and the rope was made from the strands of influence in a had hook. Little boys are mother's little angels. But if an urchin dumps a packet of ecdles into your favorite brea ast bran you are

put: the burr thrice through her flour sitter before serving it. Even then you are going in be a discriminating cater.

To him who has what Words- worth Chill "the vision and the faculty divine", nothing in nat- ure is it crazy patchwork. With the naked eye we see the beauty that Jack Frost paint: on a sheet of glass or the picturesque roil- ing bank: and mountains" of white clouds and blue sky creat- ed "by tun. wind and mollture. When magnified b today's now-

the moat exquillio pcrfectlon:bnrt wl1lch'rnIn can abulo but cannot equal. A speck of soot. A ny of

colored , Iunlglht I t r c a min g through a cathedral window IIIIDIII man's greatest 5 ll.

Woven in nature's web are wo in which not even a dc Vincl in his molt cru vo momung could equal in doll . buuty and magnifi- cence. In the cycle of plant. flower, and fruit. the history of a. thousand beautiful color do- ulgm nu wrought in Gorl'I won- derful laboratory. Al Joyce Khmer uid. "Only God can rock: I tree." and in the need it ii determined whether It in to be

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giving cleansed grain. in lull ix:-300300-Q0

cases it is the substance tia

susmnsg Old Charlottetown

'Llke Joseph a Road reader of-

ten finds inspiration in a dream. (And. P' L Li

In the dim past R person fold T

me he had ll strange experience. SIUPWRECK

going to he sure that your cool:

erful Ions, we bah id in natural

Half I. century or more of what may be described as a cold war. with the sea often threatening but never launching an all-out offen-

"The brig Sultan. of Whitby. Capt. Sanderson, 9 days from New York. bound to Mlramlchi, struck on the reef off the North Cape on the evening of Friday the 31st uit. The crew got on shore the following morning. and were living in ii. hut on the Cape. In consequence of there being some suspicion of cholera. having been on board, the inhabitants in the vicinity were strictly enjoined not to go near the people landcdofrom the vessel. until they had been inspected by a health officer, a caution which we are sorry to say some of them neglected. Dr. Jenkins has been despatched to the spot by the Board of Health. and his report. we trust, will relieve the public mind from any alarm which may have been experienced on this subject."

-Royal Gazette, Sept. 11. 1832. an elm or an oak. We are living in no fool's paradise.

Here In an epigrani of Prior, the poet: '

"Yes, every poet in ii fool-

By demonstration, Nod

show it; Haplpy could Ned's Inverted i' is,-

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Prove every fool to help poet." Be not discouraged by the Neils. Whoever you are and

wherever you be. read and re- rend the beat” in poetry and you will have ii read:-rt: rich experi- ence. I , I iim, Sir, etc. . J. P. -McCLOSKAi;Y.

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51". Very na.l.urally decreased the Sense of urgency about improving the defences of our coastal fields and homes. The lemon of the ca- tastrophe is that the piecemeal erection of permanent defences in not enough. Long-tenn plan; can. not envisage only the reconstruc. tlon of defences where they are; it may even be possible to launch a counter-attack whereby new de- fences may contain an area of new- ly reclaimed land. The job will be neither cheap nor easy nor short,

urea taken by the government in- dicate - it is now going to be tackled on a. national scale. na- ture'5 recent. tragic triumph over manmay be followed by I substan- tial triumph of man over nature.- London Daily Telegraph.

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ON THE DECLINE OF POETRY

Is there no magic any more,

Is beauty gone, will no one tell The secret of. the pale sea. shell With gale and splndrlft at its core, Or trace the flight of cagi ' wings And write the Joy the skylark sings?

Now the dark solitude of pines weaves no more mystery, the well or soundluc midnight cuu no spell.

And all-the intricate designs

Of frond and snowflake signify Nothing to the unseelng eye.

And there is none to mark and praise

The ageless moon. the puppy's flame,

The rose, around whose lovcly name -

was wrought all poetry in days

Whenkthe sweet singer walked with

go And crowned with song it thousand springs.

-Lenore A. Pratt in the Montreal Star.

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The Ago-lllii dtory,

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The Lord in not slack concern- ling bl: promise, as some men count slnckneu; but is ionnufferlng to us-ward. not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But. the day of the Lord will coma in n thief In the night; In the which the heaven: xinli pun away with I gt-out nolu, and the oiemonto uhnll melt with fervent heat. the on-lb also and the works. that no therein lhlll. be burned up. Seeing than that All then. things shall be. diuolvod wiuit nnnno of persons ought ya to be in all holy conversation and godliness. looking for and hunting unto the coming of the day of God. wherein the heavens bola: on fire shall. be diuoived, and the. ole- monu obnu molt with format but?

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of hilt and blohuloa.

wherein dwoillth wherefore... beloved.

in peace. without spot,

net, and allow you rebate next Jtoi-up two months conucutiveiy.

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7 DRIVING YOUR GAIN

I If your car is laid up for winter montiu. kindly notify Ill immodintoly and we will cancel Liability and Coilinion cover-

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FEBRUARY 25,. 1953

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SOME AFTI! Till BUDGET THOUGHT!

week I have found myself think- ing about Mr. Abbott's latest Bud- get, the one he hopes will be his last. And there's a strange thing. While most men would like noth- ing better than to be in 5 position to decide what other people should

lngs. Mr. Abbott, says he is tired of it and wants another job. It must be that the kind of financial power wielded by the Minister of Finance is not so attractive as it looks from the outside. Historically, bhe job 0! tax col- lector has never been held in great repute. In Bible day: it was so frowned upon that in tihgpopular WOW a tax oolloctor'iind ii sinner

The office has gone in long way ladder-Raf respectability since then but, even now: it comes in for I lot of unoharitaible corn- ments. I should imagine that no one would find the po'lit.iciil hust-

man whose job it has been be direct the financial affairs of the country.

This much, however, will be said about Mr. Abbott. If he has not been able to popularize his office, at lent he has gone about his work with decorum and dignity, to my nothing of the courage he has had to muster from year to year.

0 D C The words "Election Year" irviist be oweot music to the oiira of any Finance Minister, for they indicate 9. period in his official career when he can let his emotions influence his 5-dgement. After being obliged for several to hold it tight min on the country's purse it must seem good to be able to relax a bit and give a few concessions in the heavily burdened tax-payer. It is. of course. pure coincidence that the financial condition of the country is always at its best just- boforc an election. but ii. iii ii. fortunate oorlnoldence for all that. Life would not be worth living for any Finance Minister if he never had an election coming up to soften his heart and start in his soul the flow of the milk of human kindness. I D 0

It is hard to have in say "no!" nil the time, and that is what Mr. Abbott has had to siiv all these rears. What a relief it must be to be able To say "ye.sl" for a thanks to the country's good financial standing a and an ensuing election! No nne will begrudge Mr. Abbott. his few months of haoplnm, He deserves them for, as Finance Ministers go. he am hold his own with the best- of tihem. There is no doubt that Ganadolo money position is good. better perhaps than that of any other oount.r,v in the WfIl'lf.l. and he must hrwe had something to do with bringing it ahoiit. Whether it. is any better this year bhsn if; was it year ago is a question that only Mr. tt can anniver and he isn't ying much about it. How could he be expected to go into that with an election onlv B. few months away? In the words of the old oopybook adage: "One tahiniz at a time and that done well is 3 very good rule as many can . ..

.ell . . . .

Political affairs are sometimes referred to as a "game". and with some reason. No sooner was the recent Budgdt brought llown than the Conservatives and other

The Passing Scene

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. accepts nnturedly. It's the biting to do, An ordinary Budget on the eve or an election would not only be un- PODIIIOI1 It would be stupid, 1115,, never has been one and were ,-I not likely 00 be one in the for. zseenblo future. No matter; what the various opposition groups may 53,, a change in the (oi-nhm,;,,1,;g' election would not be followed 5., any appreciable change in Budget tactics. Mr. Drew lmows this. so does Mr. Coldweil. and so does Mp

how. and they are all, an honourable men. An lnatitu” as old is 13,,

"Election Budget" is not be 90"! up by the mdsmiaziifipiii transfer of executive pom, Imm one group to another. In on. respect it is si'm.ilai- to on," aapects of the "game". election promises for example. Everybody knows. that if all this pmmiseg made on the eve of an election were kept the country wouid be well on the road to bankruptcy within a" year. . . . The most we can-hoipe for ., that the game aspects as pomm will not be allowed to miotlhep mm more serious one and that, so far 38 P0534510. all group; shall alblde, by the rules. It is safe to say um, an Eelection Budget '-sols nobodi-.0 but it may entertain a great mam. so perhaps it has a comic valiia apart altogether form the tax ru- lief it affords at least temporarily. And certain amount of 0Ol'nCdV now and then, like a little non- sense. is relished by the best of men. The task of governing ii country well and keeping it financially solvent while glrdlng it for defense is no joke If is very serious busi- nea indeed. But it would be un- bearably dvifflcult if governments were denied their occasional bit of fun and amusement. And what better time for it than first before an election when everibody is in the pimper mod? i . . . If I were asked foiclose my are-.z and make 8 political wistli it would be that some day a government will resolutely determine to stay in office for its full legal term. and I am sure there are many others who would make the same wish. No doubt the present government can make any number of good excuses for going to the countrv ilhis year but. up to this time. I have hon of no good reason so far as be well being of thr- country is concerned. There is apparently no great political crisis at hand or in the making. The people could re-elect the administration or throw it out of office. whhlcver it turns out to be. lust. as well next year as this. Why then should. thi- country be put be the bother and expense of an election one moment. before it to absolutely necessary?

MODERN TREND REGINA, (cm-A new ii-arrin division has been established bv the Regina police force. Officials said it was necesitnuted bv the recent switch from theft to tmrrflc as the main problem in law en- forcement.

STEADY WORKED

VANCOUVER. (OP)-Nomi Dilla- bouslh dhserved his tliifih birthday by staying borne for the first time. except for illness, in 27 years. Hr-

irentiemen in opposition branded it as an ,"Eiection Budget". So far.

th-ement was compulsory for this veteran city employee.

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