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THE GUARDIAN

Morning Dally (Founded in 1887'. Authorized as Second Class Mail. Post Office Department, Ottawa.

President. lan A. Burnett; Vice-President. Wm. R. Burnett; Secy.-Treas., G. M. Burnett; Editor and Managing Director. .I. R. Burnett; Associate Editor. Frank Walker.

"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest lnk."

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Teachers‘ Pay llnll Pensions

At the last session of the Legislature ll"! Government was warned repeatedly by the Op- position that its proposed pension changes and salary increases for school teachers were both unsatisfactory. The same criticism comes from a nan-political sourcep-fliflt 0f the Yeflclle" themselves, as expressed in resolutions adopted at the annual meeting last week of the Char- lottetown Teachers Institute. lt is claimed ln these resolutions that salary schedules in op- eration are inadequate; that there should be special increases for married teachers and all those who have dependents; that urban teach- ers should receive the same statutory supple- mentary allowance as rural teachers; and that the Government should be pressed for an annual contribution equal to that of the teachers to the Provincial teachers’ pension fund.

At last week's meeting Mr. Show, Deputy Minister of Education, in referring to the mat- ter of salary increase is quoted as saying that the increase "had not held many more teachers, neither had it brought many into the profes- sion." This is a matter of general knowledge, and it is precisely what the Opposition predicted when the scheme was put through.

The weak points in both the salary and pension changes adopted by the Government were analyzed at last week's meeting in the report of the vice-president of the Provincial Federation, Mr. J. A. S. Williams. Though not at all meeting the request of the Federation, Mr. Williams conceded that the Government had made "a start in the right direction." But, he pointed out, the increments should not stop at $200, neither should they ascend so slowly. "lm- agine a doctor, in his profession, at the end of sixteen years earning only $200 more." "What about teachers having dependents — should they not receive some special consideration in view of their relatively greater financial burden?" These are pertinent questionsflvhich Government policy makes no attempt to answer.

On the pensions question, the Federation board of governors had agreed to pay the 4

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— EDITORIAL NOTES -

In Montreal Witnesses of Jehovah have switched from the now illegal distribution of pamphlets to merely carrying Bibles. But a number of these have been arrested for disturb-

ing the peace by ringing doorbells.

The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers favors amendment of the B. N. A. Act to empower the Dominion to ccntrol com- mercial transport and enact social legislation. Both are now provincial subjects except for in- ter-provincial transport.

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Australians are perhaps the most independ- ent people in the British Empire, but they have maintained rationing of butter, sugar, tea, meat and clothing in peacetime in ordcr to share her supplies with Britain and other hard.hit coun-

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flotes By The flay l Civil service was instituted to re- place the old spoils system. It was designed to keep new officials from ' replacing old employees with poli- l ticai friends. Civil service is an im- provement, but it. hasn't proved a cure-ell. It needs modification in several particulars and probably should be abolished for many tech- nical posltions.—~Minnespolis Star.

Of all the pests which threaten the potato, the worst is the cook who specializes in limp French fries __ Brandon Sun.

Minneapolis garbage men foundl a whole 1oa.f of bread in one gar- I beige container recently. There were many individual slices of _ bread that had no business in the garbage. The trouble is that this one spot check made in Minneap-

One of the less popular of Britain's expedi- ents is to reduce electricity consumption and ease the strain on transportation facilities. liven the best economic arguments fail to reconcile the worker to a change in his daily schedule.

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.Montreal is so satisfied with the resumption of mounted police, that it has added an addi- tional six, raising the number to eleven. Per- haps the Royal Canadian Mounted Police will now follow Montreal's lead.

If it can be done an easy way a school boy will discover it. At Dartford, Kent, England, officials in charge of a machinery display in the interests of sales were puzzled when they noticed a great many school boys attending the ex- hibition. They investigated and found the boys were doing their home work on on electric add-

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The number of Canadian pensioners for the Second Great War has increased more than 50 per cent in the last year and now exceeds the number for the First Great War, J. L. Melville, chairman of the Canadian Pension Commission, reports. The total for the Second Great War stood at 66,677 awards in payment and an an- nual liability of $26,996,039 at Aug. 3i, I946. Last Aug, 3i, there were 97,729 pensioners and an annual liability of $35,136,407.

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Remembrance Day will be observed as usual November II, though by Royal Proclamation it is to be observed in Britain on Sunday the 9th. A State Department official at Ottawa says it is the practice in England for the King to direct by proclamation the day to be set aside for this purpose, while in Canada, Remembrance Day is

per cent requested by the actuary, providing the Government made its payment of an equivalent amount in order to make the fund more sound. Instead of doing this, the Government, which formerly made an appreciable payment to the fund, withdrew its whole amount. As a "sop to Cerberus" it guaranteed the fund, but that was a different policy altogether.

Mr. Williams contrasts this action with the treatment received from the the Nova Scotia Government by the Federation of that Province. There, a pension committee sponsored meetings all over the Province to discuss pension prob- lems. The Government presented two proposals for a new pension scheme. Neither of these proving acceptable to the teachers, a union com- mittee was oppointed, consisting of representa- tives of the teachers, the Department of Educa- tion and the school boards, which has drafted a third plan. In this plan-and it is likely to go through-the Government is required to pay on a dollar for dollar basis.

The Government of this Province acted quite otherwise when it rejected the bill pro- posed by tho Teachers‘ Federation, and also when it ignored a resolution of the Federation requesting the Government either: (I) to table in the Legislature the actuarial survey made by Mr. Shepherd (in which it was shown that the pension fund was not actuorially sound), or (2) to present the pension bill embodying an alternative actuarial scheme, as prepared lost year by a committee comprising Messrs. L. W. Shaw, Ran- dolph Carruthers, W. E. Massey, Dr. G. D. Steel, H. W. Yeo and P. S. Bradley.

Whatever reasons the Government had for rejecting each and all of these proposals, it did not clloose to clarify them on the floor of the House. We may assume therefore that the arugments of the Federation in this case were unanswerable, even though—for some reason not yct clear-they proved at the time to be unac- ceptable.

Blvll Liberty

The key to universal peace is still being sought, and many and diverse are the solutions suggested. According to the Fortnightly Low Journal, the problem is essentially one of demo- cracy, and of the maintenance of civil liberty above every other civil doctrine including that of the supremacy of Parliament and the politi- cal shibboleth of the safety of the state. Says the Journal:

"There can only be true civil liberty if there is complete rule of law and, there can be no rule of law if any person or body is above the low. Even the legislator and so the Legislature must be subject to the law. It is almost three centuries since a King was martyred to estab- lish constitutional monarchy. Today's problem is to create a constitutional Legislature, other- wise we have merely substituted one despotism for another and we are not so sure that a single despot is not preferable to a collective despot. For one thing you can martyr an individual while you cannot lop the head eff a Legislature. Or can you? Perhaps the mythical Hydra is the answer to that question. Two won have shown that there are still mew and nations who will fight for freedom end lt may be that this preb- lamefpettlegelvll Ilbertybeyaedthereeellef

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fixed by statute as a Nov. II holiday and the date could be changed only by an Act of Parlia- mcnt. Remembrance Day has never been a holiday in the United Kingdom.

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Mr. J. T. Bryden, Assistant General Man- ager of the North American Life Insurance Cam- pany, in an address at the financial section of the American Life convention in Chicago said that Canada's future policies must be predicat- ed on whether it thinks the free convertibility of sterling will be restored in the near future. "If it believes this will occur it will be justified in thinking in terms of relatively temporary ex- pedients to tide it over until it can once more convert sterling into dollars." The temporary expedients might include reducing the value of Canadian currency in terms of the United States dollar; placing import restrictions on certain United States goods coming to Canada; placing a flat import tax on all United States goods-— which, he said, "would be contrary to the whole Canadian philosophy of freer trade and would introduce the danger of some kind of retaliatory trade action; "placing a bonus on production of gold; tightening up on Canadian travel in the United States, and/or borrowing in the United States.

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William Penn, English colonizer, born this date I644; _was the founder of Pennsylvania; a son of Admiral Slr W. Penn, he left the Church of England and became a Quaker in I669; the following year he was imprisoned for publish- mg Sandy Foundations Shaken, and again im- prlsoned for unorthodox utterances in i670; he subsequently, in i680, obtained a grant of land in America as quit-claim for crown debt; emi- grated to the new continent, he became governor as well as proprietor of a new province, which he called Pennsylvania after his father, and made rt a haven for persecuted Quakers. As governor he proclaimed religious toleration and promul- gated ln I682 the "Great Law", which made dIIlFIIWIIIIESS, swearing, etc., punishable offences, and founded the City of Philadelphia; was in I707 imprisoned for debt, and thereupon mort- gaged the colony, incurring the first public debt. Though lacking in administrative ability he was an incalculoble moral force setting up a high

CF05!’ No Crown, etc; "Genera|ly money lies nearest them that are nearest their graves."

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Ten little blind boys, all of them under ten years old, recently mode their debut on the Landon stage. They presented their play, "The Magic Hen", at a London drama festival-and critics voted it "tops". The small boys are all students of the Linden Lodge School for Blind Children in south London. Among them is eight-yeor-old Gustav Kon, o little Polish refu- gee who lost his sight in a Nazi concentration camp. The play they acted was specially writ- ten for them by one of the teachers; the senior boys at the school Wranscribed their parts into Braille, and the youngsters were word-perfect within a weelr. At rehearsals they first memor- ized the positions of thestage furniture and "props"; then they learned to guide their movements from each others’ voices. This is one of the weys that blind children fa Britain ere teeming to overcome their tragic handicap bed llve aermel lives.

standard for life in the new world; he wrote The Great Cause of Liberay of Conscience; No

‘ hold down our own food prices. -

olls is only indicative - indicative of what is going on in the city and the nation. It is time that we l had a campaign against waste. It we'd stop throwing away good‘ food in this country and every liousewive would undertake econ- omical food buying and utilization we might be able to give Europe much aid and at the same time

Minneapolis star.

Recently buck from hie visit to Moscow, Mayor Stanley Lewis of Ottwaw marvels still at. the clean- liness of the streets of the Soviet capital. There was not even a squashed cigarette butt on the sidewalk, he says. Perhaps he was speaking figuratively, but the point is clear, Moscow has a system of some sort. that keeps lit- ter to a minimum. Not all Europ- ean or American or Canadian. cities achieve that. desree of tidlness and if Mayor Lewis brought back any pointers as to how the Russians do it, he will doubtless pass them on to the Municipal Association and the Mayors’ Conference. — Brantford Expositor.

People are losing heart in Eur- ope and that is a danger ta Can- ada. Instead 0f $171118 to help themselves in every way possible, there is the danger that. too many persons will give up and depend on Canada and the United States to do it all. Already there are criticisms of Canadians and Amer- icans because not enough is being done to help Great Britain, fiance and other countries. This is s spirit that is worked up in an atmos- phere of discontent. It is easy to understand how the people would .ose heart. But, if they lose heart rampletely, then chaos cannot be averted. — Windsor Daily Star.

While our larger towns and cltlea are being very voca] concerning the hOUSIIIg shortages they are experiencing. demanding that the Government do something about it. our small towns, with every hab- itable space being occupied, are facing the same shortage. The situation in the small towns is be- coming so acute that it may very easily have unwelcome reprecus- sians if not speedily remedied. In Binscarth, for instance, the man- ager engaged io operate the new locker plant had to relinquish the position because he could not find living accommodation. Conditions are such that even the change in ownership of a dwelling can re- suit in “displaced persons." such plight. is not much better, than European “DP's" so fat as finding somewhere to sleep is concerned.- Binscarth Express.

"At noon and after the close ol school in the afternoon, scores of students attend-in: the Vocational School leave for their homes on bicycles. They proceed like a wolf- pack, handle bars to handle bars, taking up the full ‘lridth of the street. Fort William motorists know and understand the attitude of youth. They slow up, 0r when! necessary come t0 a full :\>p while the cyclists pass. But danger ;urks. One of these days. if the young ladies and young men keep up their practice, a motorist. who is a stranger to the district is going ‘c be driving along. He will plow into the litter of bicycles and one izr more of the eager young stud- ents wiil ride in an ambulance to the undertakel-‘s parlor. Fort William Times-Journal.

Through the imitative of the Embassy of Argentina submitted to ‘he Department of External Affairs i of Canada, Mr. Juan Bernardo Guilhauman, Attache to the Em-l bassy, will give lectures in Spanish in the cycle of conferences on spanish literature in the University of Ottawa. The Embassy recognizes the honor extended to one of its functionaries. — Argentine Bullet- in.

._,_--_-———— A WOMAN'S MIND

A survey revealed that. in groc- ery stores. '15 per cent. of women bought one or more items they had not. planned to buy.

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PUBLIC FORUM

flsim column iu open to use dluouliou by corre- spondents of questions o! interest. Thu Charlottetown Guardian dooo not necessar- uy endorse the opinion of eorroopondenh. _ THE PACKINGIIOUSE DISPUTE

Sin-Last Saturday night I at- tended a mass meeting of farm- ers and strikers at. the Sporting Club. As I do not belong to eith- er of these groupsond have no interest. in either the

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in: and enthusiastic applause. This was at it. should be. He was followed by Mr. MacNell, who spoke with authority of the ardu- ous work in the packing houses and expressed the opinion that. the strikers were grossly under- paid. lie, also, received perfect hearing and hearty applause. The next speaker was Mr. Bal- colm, who began his remarks by saying that we had heard only one side of the case. The strike ers immediately Jumped to the conclusion that he was going to

present the other side, either for,

I the packing houses or the Goveru- I

merit and in an instant all was.

‘confusion and hubbub with about |a dozen strikers shouting at him at. the some time. The chairman, Mr. Jones, made no attempt to

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houses or the Government. I went. . can for order, bu; seemed we“ .

there with an open mind and a deep sympathy for the labouring man.

I am sorry to say I came away

from the meeting with misgiv-l

ings and doubts and I am afraid

.with diminished sympathy for the

strikers.

Mr. Borsk presented for labour with great force and conviction and although there were many in the audience who did not. agree with everything he said he was given a perfect hear-

the case

LAKE SUPERIOR COAST! TRAIN WINDOW

East of the pm, m8 gaunt euclid- ean town

At the edge of the prairie sky. at the venturous end

0X the sea’; last traffic with the climbing land-

You acme to the hills; the spruce and rock sleep down

To the mountain beach. Inlet and channel and reef

l-ehlrn. in the slow dance of the land's turning;

Shadowed and clear and dark in the lost brief

Moment-flashed and repeated in litre drumming wheels:

Repeat... repeat. . . repeat . .. the flashing eslrth Streams in its rhythm. moment's breath Il title's deliberate breath. The wheeling hills Drift with its tide; the hills, and the quilted flock Of the sky; and a gull, remotely Yin

And the

8 And stifled in flight . . . Time; and title granite flowing Of stonegray water and precarnb- risn rock.

--Oharles Bruce in Harper's Magazine.

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ROBERT STEWARTS MONUMENT

A copy of the following circular letter. dated Mlalpeque, July 3i. 1800. who found among the papers of the late Mr. Leslie Stewart Mac- Nutt, father of Maj. T. Edgar MacNutt, Charlottetown;

“Robert Stewart emigrated from Scotland and settled in Malpeque. P. E. I. in 1770. where he died in 1787. He was the first Speaker of the first Parliament held in this Colony in i773. A tombstone was erected to him mem_ory_ but. the lapse of time and exposure to the elements has obliterated the in- scription untii it. was almost illeg- ible and the stone itself is too much worn and broken to be re- stored. A number of his descend- ants have considered it. desirable to erect a new monument to his memory and to mark the starting point. of our branch of the Stewart family in this country. The under- signed have been asked to act as a committee to solicit contributions from connections who may be in- terested in this proposal.

"This circular is sent to you as a .

suggestion that. you will enclose your contribution to James M. Mac-Nutt. Esq., Malpeque, who has consented to act as treasurer for the fund. If the project is favor- ably received it is important to act at once so that the matter

inlay be disposed of during the present summer.

"Respectfully submitted by (signed) James M. MncNutt. Mal- peque; Henry Stew/art, Hamilton; Richard Hunt. Summerside."

‘Hie new monument for which the above appeal was made was erected shortly afterwards._and is in good condition in Malpeque church cemetery. it carries on its front the following original in- scrfption:

"Here lyeth the body of Rob- ert. Stewart who departed this life the 13th day f Peburary, A. D. 1787 aged years."

On the back of the monument there is the following inscription:

“Itrected to the memory of Robert Stewart and hie wife Annabella and to replace a tablet formerly placed here bearing the inscription written on the opposite side of this Btono."

About the year i100 the Rev. Dusald Stewart. was settled at Rotheeay. Scotland and was min- instar there for about so years. tie had two Iona-Rev. Matthew Stewart. the father of Professor Dugaid ltowurt of Edinburgh. and James who married Janet Mac- Donald and left one son Robert whofmarried Annabella ltswart. sister of feter ltewsrt. of camp- beilton. Arlylebira, lootlend. who became leeond Chief Justice of P. I. Island. lobes-t ltswurt em- migrated to P.‘ I. I. (than 8t. John's island) in the year i110.

and died in Princeton the ilth February. “If. eeed ll years. Io led a hmiiy et eight children.

lsatisfied to have the speaker so lrunlely interrupted. However, Mr.

Barsk appealed to the crowd to ‘give this speaker a hearing. Mr. Balcolm then continued and made I l the finest speech oi the evening. ,He said he was whoie-heartedlyl [in favour of labour but pointed