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' - a new one without brin into use the .. 4 The Guardian Elfhundl-7: Ml! 13. 1705 THE GUARDIAN . «--~- dreadful instruments stored in its arsenals. %‘ ‘ "Cover! Prince Mwlrd llllnd Like the Dew‘ This is delusion; pledges not to use the Published every week-day morning at 136 Prince bomb ape 6f no avai]. “lap might begin Street, Charlottetown, P. E. l., by The Thomson . . . Comp“, Llmmdv with conventional weapons; even the decis- I , By Ublerver E,m,,, ,,,,, m,,,,,,_ I... ,,_ ,“,_,,._ lve actions might be fought with them; but im 1:m°roalAl.s I . A"°°m° ‘'m'’'' I"'‘'‘ w‘""" when ‘me side ‘V3-5 faced with certain de‘ should war develop between toricaliy this has never can-lea Branch offices at Summerride. Montague and feat, and when the enemy forces were at Russia find the West—-which much weluhti €V9l‘¥l-70¢! ltnous Alberton. Authorized as Second Class Mall by rle:ivc.i forbid it will not cont: as that most of the great wars of the

the gates of its capital, would ii. not drop the bomb on its victorious opponcnt?

One of the most fortunate accidents in ‘ history, says the Manchester paper. is that Hitlei-‘s war happened when it did and not later, when he would probably have had the bomb. The best guarantee of peace today ‘ is that none of the major Governments has

last thousand years found Christ. ians fighting Christians.

The magazine writer bi'u.~lim the Russian appeal aside as being irrelevant. “The civilized world ha. refused to accept a religious form. ulation of the conflict. We see ,,, this state of mind a startling er-id. ence of the shifting of modcrn thought from religion to economics. Christianity pitted against Burl. dhism counts for less in our era

any g.;a., sU.ll).'.Se to anyone who has been reading the newspapers since l94.i.' Many tlmcsln the inter- _ lm war has been considers. almost . certain, out each time the good sense of the world. or pernapa a realization of what modern war might. do the civilization, has kept it in check. at least up to the pres- em.

While lnteriiatioiial Communism

.he Post Office Department. Ottawa. Ry Carrier: Ciiailotietown, Summcrslde $15.00 per lunum. l-Ilsewlicre in P. E. I. 59.00. Other Prov- nces and U. S. A. $l‘.‘.ll0 per aniiuni.

"The strongest memory-|a—'weakei than the weakest ink.”

The Potato Pleiilsclts

<‘M'4t>A Gators .:‘'i.*t‘.'‘§‘'‘:5 '

Tile intense interest in the future of the same suicidal or mad tendency as the seemed to be the opennglanzozr. than H Open door “Emu

- - v . .~ - ,:_ . . . . ere are 0 ier causes a c - a . co _

C ‘ pmaw markplmg m ""5 plmmce 1‘ 9“ N311‘? and nothmfi “'1” 50 9ff9Ct1V9lY 1"‘ llicting interests which have con- merclal restriction". m This was a singularly

frank statement to appear in an influcni. ial periodical at the turn of lha century. when secular humanism was not nearly as strong Ag 1; became in‘the years immediately preceding the First Great Wm‘ All moral considerations aside, mg interesting thing about all this lg that in less than twenty years the Russian official position changed from that of profession of Christ. lanity to that of outright i-epud_,.. Lion of all religious values and n,_ servanccs. it is true that during the last war many Russians unii to their Churches to pray for pm“-, and victory: but they were me, encouraged in their piety by their rulers.

Not yet had the radio and ac:-n.

trihuted to the serious and war- provoking tensions. This is by no ‘‘ means a new story, as is evidenced by editorial articles in a leading American magazine in 1901 when the Ruuo-Japanese war was in progress. Some of these ‘articles are of great interest in these days, since they show that there is lit- tle that ls really new in national and international disputes which have in them the possibility oi war. ‘

denced by packed houses at the meetings " i ‘ sponsored by the Prince Edward Islam] ‘ Federation of Agriciilturc. The subject, iii- deed, is a vital one to the Island and to its leading inrlustry. The plebiscite of register- . etl potato growers being taken by the I 4 V pl‘lll(‘P Edivarcl Island Marketing Board will I presumably hc a guide to policy. ix,‘ ' , The only question which it is proposcll shall be pill to the growers is. “Are you in favour of continued operation of the Potato Markcting Board?" The assumption is that growers will iindcrstand that a Board \vil'n l’if'|\\’Pl‘.< to operate an exclusive centralized

crease their caution as that there should be 7 a supply of hydrogen and cobalt bombs at its rivals disposal.

Whatever the complications. there is perhaps a case for revising some of the current instinctive ideas about the bomb. What has been the history of the past four * thousand years. during which man has pos sessed the mechanical knowledge which has enabled him to destroy dangerously but no: . to destroy devastatingly? There has been ‘ almost continuous war. There is no reason at all to think that the history of the next four thousand years would have been any -

-so

Here is one sucn editorial: "This is not all accidental war which takes the world by surprise. It is an , inevitable clash of great interest: and race tendencies; and it brings to a focus a conflict of purposes that has been becoming more in-

, -<E‘lllll2 fl2f‘n<‘.\' is implifld. Thai aiiumplloll. different if scientific kliowledge had not tense since the West begun to plane arrived to shorten dlsi.an..~._ ' l\()\\'(‘\'(‘l'. may not be justified. The term made its recent advances, All past at. touch the East.“ , but‘new lnrormgtllonls cntd new .~.. "Marketing Board" m a _v mean many tempts to end war by political means — by _ ~ d,'§;‘:r,,°e,;,3 d,l:,?l‘,ecr5:,l,,,,h,°pLc,,,:h:f,e; §:rgexi"ece:a:V¢;reclo‘,:ri Ii‘.‘,;3.:‘i,e¢,p°(}.?,‘,:,'f

things to many people and surely it should leagues or international institutions or ‘ of thelpresentuteiisloiis and c'o_n- v(e'il'Zmflan:!i)l(icaerrmis mate Afoltlolvlni

33 I . . . . . .. , - , - __ , , - , ' \ llcu tiere ul. enlarge it aa is- C I I e nipories ‘ ‘ we made pcifectly cleai to the gl0\\El\, rational p€'lSl.laSlDI’l. have failed and How He Could Use A Green mam,-y mmuia by means or ti-inch no longer suggest distance, for um. “lid? lll'.\" 3|‘? \'0l|ni,Z I01‘. would probably fall in the future also. But nations of diner-ciit modes of gov- are now Just around the turn of

ernment and social customs will the world. No country is remote ill

The time is certainly propitous for a vote of confidence in the Board, including the central selling agency, for without it the past season would likely have been dis- astrous. It is most unlikely that without the government guaranteed minimum price any

V substantial amount of potatoes would have

‘i’ - ‘ been moved from this Province. What did

" ' move would in all probability have brought little more than the cost of handling.

the bomb may succeed.

“At present,” says The Guardian, "per- haps the wisest guide to thought is a poet like Goethe. Against all expectations Faust. worked his salvation by his pursuit of knowledge, energy. and inventiveness. The spirit of evil, which was the necessary con- comitant of his activities, was made to work to ultimate good in spite of all the intentions of Mephistopheles to the con-

these days. No achievement, h(\\\'. ever extraordinary, ls startling iv.- have accepted the whole earth as within our range of vision.“

we 'rwo srmcizs , Why does one ant, amall as it grain

be able to live together, if not in a friendly way. at least in a peaceful way. This is exactly the view that was prevalent in 1904. "Out of this war". the editorial writer went on to say. “there will come. let us hope, something like a final solution of the grave prob- lems which have kept the great

OH Clio rloffelown

and P. 1.1.

e Shadow Of Angus L

By Douglas Howe

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OPEN FOR BUSINESS

"The Bank of Prince Edward Island is now open for the trails- action of business. at the o ce Power‘ busy for :0 many yen" in the dwelling house of Wm. H. buudmg bame_ah1p5’ The clash P°p"' E‘S“' C'”‘n"." Street H°‘"’ ing Asiatic ambitions, interests. from 10 to 3. Discount days —— Ind madman oi the mmom Wm

Monday and Thursday in ea h . week. William Cundall, Cashier?" now com‘ up mt 'd"us"mem" um

Canada save the habltant's mystic '~

devotion to Quebec.

For the first time in a quarter- century the Nova Bcotian Liberal Party is in search of s new leader, 0. search that will end in 8 Dirty convention later this year. In the first weeks alter the death of Prem- ier Angus L. Macclonald. it was developing liito a quest of, the

Actually the Scots predominate in only five of the 18 counties, and even there Angus L. was typical because the French and Irish con- tributed half his blood. But he was

1 It does not necessarily follow. however, trary. The scientists, who, in’ the obstinate widest character. forfiiflns lhmukh above all a Scot. full of the poetry . that grave problem or civilization- ‘ ih i ii ~ v ‘ ~ ‘ ‘ ' ' the C°mm°"5 in °“““'“- ‘"9 "°"°“ of Burns and the paizeantry of the "H°“”'d 5 G'”°‘”' “‘“" 13 the future of the Oi‘lent—will be “I “"- a w .s_\ slcm is the best oicr a period belief that science in the end cannot harm and the km and H he lay wounded m the 1856. taken mlowy in hand... Gallop along. an insect antelope,

the pmvmcm cabinet And one, no larger, ever‘ though

of _\-pars or that it is the one that the mankind, lyave with heavy heart invented political periphery from which Mr. Gama“ 11,,“ in 1915 he mougm ‘M g+l——————’G _ _ submme ..A mm H Bomb.“ ,0, mm‘ mute I farmers want. On that point. the farmers and manufactured the bomb, may live to f“‘°“°":l(“E "'r"‘5‘;1.;'s *j,‘;as;‘§.}‘“‘;‘;,3 33‘ 1"‘ Ldffili‘ h‘‘“;‘ ‘’’m”“ ’;°";-‘hf’ rs‘ 3 aprop a'"'"g "bi!-t-3:-6:lr>6". guild thaltmeditoml Hlmngh, slowly ,,]ck R, ,,.,,,, W, . . . . . .. . . .. reso. . e eresei s " ‘ must speak for themselves. The plebiscite see their faith Justified and their misgivings ;u:heEi—literaily —- into his public go: till: Brill-511 cftiilvn ch. blood 0% (Atlantic Monthly) $°§.,,1,,,_”R .93: ‘fifn '23,, N. B"°l’°7 T ‘ is one way in which they express yhe;-3 confounded," career. In the vacuum of hlsmI0- people who had so long opposed it. The predominant fault of the tug. of the Orient has been a 1: we oould answer, then we might ‘ ‘I ! ‘Views but R has been pnimpd nut heron’ __ __ __ _ trig. the Proaresswe §°“:°";'3m“’;' He came to be _the Highland bid English encounlteregl today ll gmva “problem of civilization ever dlggern . ' _‘ ‘ ' " ' ‘—' were shaking Off the 8 01", 0 - chief of this province of varied not the Crude (BU! 0 the _l{|'|- since the eyes of the West began why the blown sung roll on in [Zit- . _ the method is by no means an ideal means EDITORIAL NOTES ing that at long last their WW9" bloods and he was accepted as such ynuizht but the hlithe }rrcsi>onsIbil- to look through the newly npen- tel-ing fleets, I of mundinz popular opinion qu .]ememed ing lzemesl-‘« had SW6 and “I” and when he died they mourned {U 01 the '3US“1- 1“! 15"8“33° ed door of the East. In 1904, of And why one man is fir-elem, nu; ' ‘ ' ‘ pp ' ' ' _—“"‘ Kllslfinllltt 0l>D0l‘llml'«Y lay 5119 "‘ and buried him as such and only 15 "° 1°“S“‘ “‘E”‘‘°d ‘5 " mm‘ course. the question was: "Which may burn

mon treasure to be hosrdcd and

* ; l‘i0\\'9Vt=l'. by full discussion it may give a Tile proposal of the Defence Department head. The fact tlillllitllv came the pipes could express the dimen- protected as m H Dumb]! Powers shall have commercial con- Willi thehfllme and Gplendor of a ‘ ’ - ~ , _ _ . _ I year after an e66 10" in W sions of their sorrow. As his body ' trol of Asia?" Now. commercial Bra ms or Kea . reasonably clear indication of how farm to spend appioximately 25 pet cent of the , (N. h,,nd,.,.,, cm. "1 the right 1“, 3, M5 h,,me_ ,, numb], mm To give examples: The hotel Como, doe,“ mm “um, H ,m_

--Stanton A. Coblcntiz in New York Time:

l'ls=l'k giving me a good room feels inn bound to mention the well known person whom "we last hospital- ized in that room," Not to lag behind Joyce. the advertiser hids you "slip your feet into these easy

places could have turned the tide ll‘idl('lliPd that thc province. is fac- ing into I time of struggle in the atoutest traditions of political war- fare.

portant, the question beinil: "Will Asia go Communist. or stay with Western Democracy?" The two questions, however. are closely re- lated.

came one night and asked in see “our premier". He fell to his kneesl beside the bier. praying. He was an Acadian named Foligere who had come many miles to pay his

defence budget for seven years on aircraft indicates recognition of the outstandingly major role of the air arm in a full-scale It also indicates -that this country. or

' ' p. l ‘ ers generally regard the question.

Boll-Vloovll, Benefactor

__ war. . ,. _ _ In the flux of this situation. only homuh The” W" “many, many _ _ - o o . ' l‘0l‘ litany years the farmers of Alabama at any rate its sky. might well be the "lit. one iinvereign fact stood nut——thc mm mm ,0, mi, 3...”. ,. beloved §;"';‘§a]1°“f(‘:r*:|‘f-‘nr='_','l ‘’“’'*”‘¢ 5 5'3“ In m “mm “mm ...m__ won_ ‘ - ' ‘ ‘ ‘ " ‘ ‘ shadow of Angus L. will hove: lea‘-I9]-‘ , p‘ l d I 1 i. ,_h - , -,__ put all their e(,0n0ml(‘. faith in cotton. Then tie Belgium in case of such a disaster. Om emymng um kappa“ I, But he was 3 leader mo who in The. new Yorker spotted ii n1ovi(- er u Jaoaneae e niaizazmeim LAUNDERED

er expressed amazement over what he called “the quick mastery by these people of what has been considered the very difficult and slowly learn- ed science of modern warfare". The

theatre sign on which "adultery" was used to mean "adulthood." From an English periodical I learn that some new houses "affront the opposite side of the street."

along came the boll-weevil walking briskly on all six legs across the hot fields and causing havoc to owners and s'narc-crop-

will probably be years before it re- ¢..-uui finally into history to find its place.

What that place will be only time can know. Certainly W5 “'09

many ways dwarfed his provincial stage. There will long lurk about his name the tantalizing specula- tion of what. might have happened

'10 PERFECTION

The dispute about capital punishment may be solved in this country by an inabil-

pers alike. . SO devastating \\‘.'«iS H19 (in- itv to replace the ppeeent hangman The had “'19 mt“ °m9l‘W‘59 5h5p9d1“-5 lf Mrs. Malaprop is going to chief tool of this “modern“ war- - - ‘ . ' ‘ ‘. ' ‘ that he has gone to join H long mm, For there was imime when l’) lh t . l t f r. . fare was the tor a. -‘ hi h h d RITE - WAY ‘ ._ slaught that the farmers. finding cotton in ]OiY‘If committee of Parliament has been told and quite remarkable line of prem- men mud of this ,5 . mime ,,:§.'_’m,:.,,a,° 1:“ ;:i"ng“,',‘, °p,e,,:,':t Mm, heme bw?°u2,d wwnfh “L '. ', hf’ 3" '~"““-’"""'" S°”"“’ °f “ash infifime. turn- by Sheriff J. D. Conover of Toronto that ‘*’‘'-‘o ‘°‘ F““'“ l"°""‘°e C3“ "‘"" prime minister of Canada. It came “contention" Irom meaning the ceas", Ind which, because of its CLEANERS match A line that includes I TUB‘ to a rancid end when he fled in same thing as "contentment" or potentially destructive character.

ed to diversified crops with consequent bet- torment of their cconomic status. In their ‘- delight at finding a new and bcttcr way of i making a living the farmers of Enterprise, a small town in the heart of the Land of

there is only one active hangman in the country and that it has not been possible. to get an assistant who will continue after a single hanging.

per, a Howe, 3 Sir John Thompson. DH“ 7387

happiness home from Ottawa in '45. R, Fielding and an Angus L.? . . .

He disliked Ottawa .they said. But it is nearly forgotten now that it was to Ottawa, not Halifax. that he first sought to go politically, that he ran for federal office in

the maker of woodcuts from be- in: callcrl a worirlcutter?

many American officials had hop- ed would not be used at all.

An interesitng thought (which probably is in many minds at this moment) was expressed in t ese words: "Does modern prlcl. at

To t.lu=..=c may be added James ,]o]\n5[une_ ll pre - C0l‘il(',del‘Bl..|0ll leader capable. some believe. 01

age all Canada might be paying him today.

—j:

O D O

' "ththbtflih .nd Cmton‘ “meted " m°"”mem' l" H" b‘’“‘ The explanation given by the British 333:9?lt)lh:ravewif:se°27‘;$rI‘at li::l[c)ir:ndbve’iAi:gde1celiI¢::ednmsrimgdmiitcifhuiigg E5“lIl‘1mtIllen:’le.ll“lIi‘,;v;l0kf‘|llIl'-‘Tlitlgfyrefillfirtld::'X'O:”0l°rl:f2llfi,:r:é Rfltflgflffltlflfl weevil. For some reason as yet unknown ’ ‘ ’ rule 11896-1923i far Uutdlsl-filmed leader. It was his one political de- ence of his '33 campaign. (In fact. and training and experience and

Automobile Association for the “mystery mile” where more than 100 car windshielcls have been shattered is more disturbing than 1° the mystery itself. Apparently 87 per cent of the smashed windshields were of curved. toughened glass instead of laminated safety- glass, a development which runs contrary to

even Mackenzie King's record years as a Comnionwcalth prime minis-y

it's said Nova Scotia never did publicly either, that his greatest

feat. Had he gone to Ottawa di- reclly in i930. unknown. instead ‘of in drafftd duty 10 years later, oriitniy emergcd one night in I his reputation big enough in in- mock debate on it fishing trip.) vite the jealouaics of Mackcnzle,Certainl_v the greatness was there King. there is no telling what hnm- to have rlnne big things for Canada.

NOTES BY THE WAY

general superiority to men of pre- ceding times, that we have thought? Perhaps we have developed no new ability. nor skill, nor courage, nor anything in modern times, hilt. only new tools. it may be that our advance has beerrwhollr mech- anical".

SALES & SERVICE Repairs To All Makes

MOTORS

Rewinding and Repairs

this-vcs stole the monument shortfy after it had been unveiled; this, too, provcd to be a blessing in disguise, for the original figure had been given only four legs instead of the six with which all normal weevils are fitted at birth. Now, a new one is being built

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of all these prcdccrssors of An7 gus 1., it is Joe Howe who com mantis pre-eminence in provincia folklore today. Tupper brouffh Confederation but. Nova Scotia sti sits in judgement on ac.

‘-1) ii ih _ I . _ Howe first brought. into practic I V _

‘:11 a . P ‘mg and 1.‘ ms and.O”-‘er ‘7”‘"" 0 0 0 lacing the responsible izovernme t ‘ thqonizn:lon:heof“i:>:;a:'::':mfinls1:] ELECTRICAL

alt’ cqulpnlcnt to \\'hi(‘l1 the insect is Cl‘l- . . . . which was to revolutionize. the po- Visitors in the House of As- them. That. is foolish but excus- good ,,m.__1! that Rush“ com_

title;-l_ Ctlmidlllll-‘ 3"‘ .lU5”{13bl.V lwoud “I ""3 itical structure nf the British wnrl . sembly this session have noted able. Sometimes they are things munum “hunk. Who“), mam. APPLIANCES . . . . , ' ‘ ' ~ . On those monumental pegs. ti e with some amusement Premier that we feel will, by their l- ' '

Tiler” is noullllis’. "1 3" “N5 l0 indicate strength of ‘hp Canadlan dollar m lmelna '“-.11 weigh these old enemies. tSmallwood's habit of turning ap- ficence. make us bask in ro’f1l‘eacgi:d 2,‘:-giants: GI?fldl]e:.VlCIIndl:l?4‘Cr1:IPl;vlo: Repair.

that mp farnwrs of Eme|.p,.iSe are em,0ul,_ tional exchange. l“l'0l’l’l A practical l‘l0lnt of will probably find no complra le pealingly to the back bi-nches on glory; that is not cxcusablc, for ‘an “nylon. It ‘Nut by morusmn

. _ . . . . . '1 .‘ , .. H,‘ month] review uh. pegs for Angus L. his side of the Housc. with some nstcnlaiion has no place in giv- ,

-"‘Ell’lE‘”'l“ “€"‘Vll in "5 mlSCll1€V0llS and ('10- \:m“ llwwprm , E f N ,y S t. ‘ His tangihlc mniiuniriiis prov n- such’ phrase as, “_Wo’ll all vnie mg. An expensive bouquet. 0 dt]l'1ee‘)'.p£:iT mbe‘i:rldl:i?r‘iIdl?':. structlvc ways: on the coiltl‘al'y they are “Shed ’y ‘w B‘‘‘" 0 0”‘ C0 ‘a mm 5 clally are nxcelleni. paved roads 0 1'11‘; Ill‘. ulilon 1' W?’ nr ' maybe. rnscs can he ii fine gift »- but roughly by the Japanes: was that Phone: sass sou wagmg war against it with an :he means out that ‘the most attiactlve way of soft, ;:lPl‘;‘1Cal1llg‘l:IH::lg:Olil::ldH(ll;l;)fn‘fit: sued" am" tr:-9 gill dr\I\|i’\‘ll11n.‘ _l“l:;=ey :'?at(‘aln vr?unlfl\l!l‘l1'(‘rh mraif they wen ‘ chmmln people “fin

. , - " ‘ . . . . . , . I . . _ . whmh _<m.nC,. has placed 3, the” disposal,‘ Piling the impact of mounting external com- mm ,0 om“ and W“ mm N 3,3,“ mg mum“ ,0 Wk From M trig ngiirii. I lurthen p-ople. His: __