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THE GUARDIAN-

Mornlng Dally (Founded In 188T‘!- Authorlled as Second Claao Mall, ‘Post Offlce Department, Ottawa.

President, Ion A. Burnett; Vice-President, Win. R. Burnett; Secy.-Treao., G. M. Burnett; Editor and Managing Director. J. R. Burnett; Associate Editor, Frank Walker.

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

CHARLOTTETOWN TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 3. "Jottlng It llown”

One of the most delightful volumes publish-

od having its locale on the Island thence to the "larger sphere of U. S. A. and Europe, is the late Bishop Kelley's "A Bishop Jofs It Down." There

"I" is nothing high brow about it, thoug-h it eman-

ates from an ecclesiastic who in his lifetime built up a private library of some 5,000 books, which he generously and most thoughtfully donated to his Alma Mater, St. Dunstan’s,hin ap- preciation of the start it gave him on his own career, and in the hope-and expectation that many of those who follow him will benefit by his largesse. Also a member of such a fine cultural family as produced his sister, the late MrsuLucy Gertrude Clarkin. It is not our pur- pose to review the book or to dilate on the Bishop's career in Church, War and State, but reproduco from it an excerpt which we think will be appreciated by our readers as character- istic of the Island.

_'l'he Bishop in I898 volunteered and was accepted as a chaplain in the American-Span- ish War. Herewith:

"The war with Spain was, of course, a very tome military affair. For five months I lived under canvas, most of the time in a tent pitched under a burning sun, and a refuge for mosquitoes and flies. Now and then there were snakes too, as well as one lone alligator w-hich was taken prisoner. I had to learn everything, oven to ride a horse. How I learned that may show haw I learned everything else needed in process of turn- ing a peace-loving cleric into a soldier for a clay.

"My colonel was one of those to whom the title ‘soldiermbymnature’ rig-htfully should be ap- plied. His qualifications began with his appear- anco. Ho looked like Napoleon Ill. From youth ho hdd been attracted by military life, had serv- od as private and officer in the National Guard, had studied soldiering-and his name was Mc- Gurrin. He promised to teach me to ride a horse, but kept the promise tn his own way. It took fivo minutes or less of his time to do the job effectively and for me most distressingly.

"One day the regimental staff was ordered to mount and enter a nearby palmetto grove to pose for a photograph. I borrowed the colonel's second horse, ‘Monte Crista’. I was not nervous, since the grove was just across the parade ground and the horses would have no chance to break into a run. If they did I was lost. The photo- graph was token and we returned as for as the level parade. I was about to dismount when a thought of mischief entered the colonel's head. He gave orders to the staff to line up for drill. That worried me, but things went off fairly well, with only ‘Column Right'-—'Column Left'—'Fours Right'—‘Fours Left'—'Twos Right'—'Twos Left’ —to obey. Then come the fatal moment. The nOIOIIEI snapped out the order ‘Charge’. ‘Monte Crista‘ knew his master's habits and loved a race. Appalled, I saw the horse thrust out his head, and

. setback his ears. I felt all the muscles of his body gathering their forces together beneath

_ me. In a second he was off, headed for the other end of that quarter-mile stretch of smooth parade. I lost the reins. l lost the stirrups. Dosporately I hunched down holding on to the racer’s mane. I prayed that my inevitable fall might bo on a soft spot. The whole regiment was on tho side lines. I heard shouts of laugh- Ior as I just missed an army wagon crossing the fiold. My face was redder from shame than tho heat. We neared the end of the parade ground. ‘Monte Cristo‘s‘ nose reached out till it was on line with the flanks of the coIonel’s new ‘horse. The colonel flung around and saw met ‘Hello, Father,‘ lie said. ‘What brought you herei",

"I looked a reproach.

"'Hang it,‘ the colonel added, ‘I intended keeping you and Dr. Weed out of it. I guess I for ot.‘

"l walked ‘Monte Crista‘ back towards my tont. My ‘striker’ Jim Hinchey, a policeman , in civil life, was waiting. He took the horse away and I heard him c-huckling as he went along to tho corral. What,I did was to go back into the tent to hide my shame. In a few minutes Jim came back and "sot down.- _'Ye did foine, Father,‘ he remarked. '

"'_Don't rub it in, Jim,’ I pleaded,

Jim lookod surprised. ‘What's tho inat-

‘tr wid ye, Father?‘ ‘Matter. Matter!‘ I said - utterly. ‘I don't know how to ride. I _|ost the _roins and the stirrups. I grabbed the mane. What else--?'

"'.lust a minute, Father,‘ put inJim, ‘when yo passod me like a flash of black lightnin'--if thoro's such a thing, and there is for its name is ‘Mellie Crisfo’-ye had her head down like a jockey and, I swear to hiven, yo had the spurs ‘ driv into him half an inch. Father, the bhoys are

prowd of ye._ The colonel had three horse lengths .g on yo of tho start and ‘Monro Crista’ wad have l poised that new horse of his in another second.

I W. Yo aro a grand chaplain from this day on. Ye

won the race.‘ "It was only then that I learned what every- . that ‘Morita Crista’ had boon a racer. But I still had onj argument to offer. -'WIiy were rho boys laughing at mo, Jim?’ mlsllffln‘ o1 yo? Suro it was not yo they ' worh loffln’ at. Major Knowles foll Into that wagon yo missed and they had to pull him

ornlca to 'hls many-scrapes. if?» more ‘who should not have iiriilsh o iiiiorry lot of soldiers

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mo smiling before his tent, ho said something that sounded like a violation of army regula- tions. lt was a whole day before he got over his propensity for using such language. lThe colonel had taught me inrecor time" and in a painful way how to ride a horse. I gm most things iii life like that."

A Real Blizzard

We tal-k about occasional blizzards in this Province but, according to an Alberta exchange, ours are riot the real McCoy.. It takes a couple of days for a blizzard to get under way. It is preceded by clear and extremely cold weather ranging from 25 to 40 below zero, sometimes more. Then the skies become hazy and the wind commences to rise and sometimes, within an hour or so, reaches such a velocity that the snow frozen over the prairie is picked up in much the some way as dust storms commence in South- ern Alberta, in the Spring and Summer.

And in o real blizzard, one cannot see any farther than Iin a dust storm, if as far. Remem- ber, too, that it renlains intensely icold. No ani- mal or man con possibly face a blizzard for any length of time and come through it olive. Visi- bility is nil and for that reason many people have perished in blizzards practically on their own doorsteps.

A blizzard blows itself out in the course of a couple of days, but it is a fearsome ex- perience while it lasts. We are lucky that we d-on't know much about it.

- EDITORIAL NOTES -

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"There should be a law" against leaving children alone in a house, either _day or night. I R I‘ I

Tomorrow civic nomination day when there may, or may not, be some dark horses in the field.

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The gfoundhog, if we have one here, must have seen its shadow yesterday all right, with the dire consequences it must have gone back underground for another six weeks.

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Annual reports of the‘ city indicate careful

management both as to finances and property.

lt may be, however, that some more well dir-

ected spending might liave benefited citizens. I i l‘ I

To have a politician of the caliber of Mr. Mackenzie King as Governor-General would cause a profound change in our constitutional de- velopment. Even if he could be content with the formal exercise of power, there would ol- ways be the suspicion that he had a finger in the political pie.

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lt was once conventional to consider one formal motion in the Commons before moving the address in reply to the speech from the throne. In the present parliament the speech on the draft address may never be finished, for it seems that almost everything else is given priority.

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Sympathy goes out to Mr. and Mrs. Lyman B. Laird, Alberton, in the unexpected bereave- ment they have sustained in the tragic death of their daughter Margaret in Sackville. She was acting the part, of the good Samaritan at the time, in the capacity of chaperon of youthful Islanders on a sleigh ridc

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Orvill Wright, co-inventor with his brother of the airplane, has taken ‘his last flight. His first was token on December I7 at_Kitty Haw-k, North Carolina, when he made a successful flight last- ing 30 seconds and covering a distance of 859 feet. This marked the first instance in which a person had been carried from the ground in actual flight by mechanical means and without artificial aids. We have travelled for since then, and the end is ‘not yet. -

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We heard a good deal about the desirability of selecting the right kind of wives for farmers. Here is the stuff of which former brides were made. Great-great-grandmother Mrs. Elizabeth Bull, 88, of Beaufort, Wales, has been awarded a cerificate of merit by the British Ministry of Agriculture for helping to grow more food for Britain. Mrs. Bull does all the work on her al- lotment except digging. Most of this is done by’ her 35-year-old grandson.

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Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, died this date I924. He led the United States into World War I at the eleventh hour, and this played a major part in the defeat of the Hun. He took an active part in the Peace Con- ference in Paris, and was mainly instrumental in founding tho League of Nations, but Congress refused to endorse it, with the result the League became largely oii expensive burehu of bureau- crats, which ultimately come to crash on the question of enforcing “sanctions" against Mus- solini's unwarranted war on Haile Selassie. Th0 refusal of Congress to follow his lead in interna- tional affairs, broke Mr. Wilson's heart, and ha never recovered friim ‘the shock.

Mr. J. A. Webster, chairman of the Water Commission, has had a long, arduous and suc- cessful career in that oapocity. He was in- vited on more than one occasion to run for the mayoralty, but steadfastly declined, preferring to bear tho ills he had as a Commissioner than fly to others he knew not of in the Council. Not- withstanding the Water Commission is a three- member body, tho work lies primarily on the shoulders of the chairman, who must not only be a water technician but a competent financier.» as well. He knows no'hours, being at tho bock and call of the public and employees at all tlinoi‘, rlay and night, and must possess the temper of an angel to withstand the slings and arrows of outrageous critics and fault-finders. Mr. Wobitor sou t no bouquets, novot-the-loss tho facrthal ho_ s rocoivod thorn from thoio who knovrond opproclato tho time, labour and ability ho has‘ bestowed on tho ioli has boon sufficient-Iro- Mord In his vlow for tho involuoblo services ho has rondeyod. .

- -llotos_i By Tho Wsy-

~Tho humus urn Iorrocogpltlon stlll surges In all of us. A practical Joker recently telepraphea 012 frlenda. "Just. heard of the great news. Congratulations. Write me In detail." WILhIn a weak he re- ceived eight long letters from hls friends, n11 with glowing accounts of their latest accomplishments.- Your Life Magazine.

It Is surprising that. science, wltli all Its Ingenuity, has not stepped In to devise some sort of protect- Ion agalnst the crippling menace of the endless handshake. A robot. hand, for Instance. that; would function whlle the personage stood nearby. Or B. Jlu-Jltsu trlck that would leave the skilled handshaker unscathed with his weIl-wlsher bearing thejmpagt. of his own too- eager strength -. Ottawa Clttzen.

To the great credlt of the south, Iynchlngs declined from six In I046 to one In 1M7. according to the annual report on this foul business by the ‘Tuskegee Institute, says The Washington Post. Slnce there we; only one Iynchlng In 1945 and two the year before. we are encouraged to hope that the disgusting record of 1946 was n temporary throw- back due largely to postwar hy- aterIa. If the happier trend of 1947 Is projected Into the current year the United States will have no Iynchlnga at. all. .

After Jomoo Welsh, o. former near London. had lost three mem- bers of his family within o year. and had a ten-year-old daugnter taken to hospital for an operation, hIs barn burned down. At this point. 111s neighbors declded to do somethlng about. It. They could not restore the dead to Ilfe, but. they could bulld n. new barn. They did. the fInesl; 1n the dlstflct. It. Is Iieart-wannlng to hear of such Incidents. 1n a world where many can be mean and selfish, the action of farm neighbors up near London refreshes and restores faith In humanity —- Windsor Dally star.

Australia lo Ilkoly to urn half o nillllon dollars o. yea: by sell-III! orchids to United States florists. Test consignments flown to the U. s. have satisfied Commerce De- partment. officials that a success- ful export trade In archlds could be developed. Durlng the Austral- Ian orclild season from mid-August to mId-Decemrber the blooms are out of season In North America and would find a ready sale If flown across the Pacific. One San Francisco florist. recently con- tracted for large,quant.lt.les of blooms and has agreed to pay t! fob AustraIIa-Australlon News.

It la noteworthy that there is one mlle of rail for every 290 Canad- Iuns as against. one mIIe In the UnIted Booties for every B90 people. remarks The sydney Pest-Record- Thfs should put. the Canadian rall- ways at: a relative handlcap. not serving the some density of popul- ation as those In tliestates and therefore not. having the some volume of revenue. Nevertheless, In the science of transportation, long and short haul and In progress. the two great systems compare favor- ably with the best In the country to the south, Perhaps not. In de Iuxe trains of the streamlined super-speed type, but. In comfort. courtesy, consideration for passen- ger traffic the Ganadlnn servlcc 1s something of which Lo be proud.

We are surprlsed that more Ca.- nacllans do not squawk about the maple leaf being used as a no tlonal emblem. The maple tree Is Indigenous to more states of the American union than to Canad- Iiin provinces; It. grows Iiaturaily In only flvo provinces. for the "Manitoba" maple Is not a sugar maple. Nevertheless. Canadian sol- dlers from Saskatchewan uncom- plouilngly wore maple leaves on badge-s and ribbons, and Albertans slag “The land of the Maple is the Land for me" asvhopplly as .West Africans In Christian mls- sloris slng “From Greenland! icy mountains." The Issue of a natlonal flag caused dlssenslon; the maple lea! could split. the country. —Pel.- erborough Bxomlner.

Ice soiling lo o polr of words to brighten the eyes of any old-tlmer In IhIs district. Out on the bay here 35 years ago the Ice boats or "skeeters" were a oornmon slglit. I! the wIad was right. and the sky was clear. The brood expanse of mirrored water frozen smooth oo glass might well have been called the devll’: pool table by mothers of sons old enough to take u-p Lhe sport, and young enough to take a chance on a sudden gust o1 wlnd and open water In the lake In Win- fer‘: most dangerous sport. Un- heard of here for many years and nnihought of certainly for 194B, Ice ialllng has become a fast-moving and thi-Illlng psst-tlme In the East -as a recent International regatta will testify. The number of skeet- ers In North America Is compara- tively few-roost of them owned by people south of the border. Thls 1| probably duo o he expense In- volved often running Into hundreds of dollars for o trlm boat and natty tolls-and the present. day costume lneludlnglur Ilned boots, helmets, mitts, and ‘plostlcnnnaka. But In the old days all the Irlm-

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‘Ihlo column Io open so tlio arson-Ion by oorrn- o; ‘ of qoootloao os interest. The ou-rlosteoown Guorrllon does-riot nosebl- lly endoloo tho opinion ol err-respondent. _ .

"'“““ ‘”“"““'“""" CBITICISING CITY COUNCIL

BIL-If. Is really too bad that thernnual financial statement of the Clty should have been delayed until only four days before the day ser. for noinlnntlon for a new Council. The Mayor and the chairman o1 the Flnonce Com- mltteo are responsible for not. gIvInz the clbizens some prelimin- ary statement at the monthly January meeting of the Council.

I wan-t to point out. that. ex- Councillor Chandler, when he 0c- cupled the poiltlon of shalt-man of Finance. gave a supplementary statement of receipts and expend- eLc, at. every monthly meeting; but how dlfferent. has the practice been during the last two years! It seems that. It was premeditated to keep the citizens In~ the dark. Not a single Coun- cillor protested or asked openly to have the Information. and yet. you," Sir, commend the Cauncll. I do not thlnk that will be the zen- eraI verd-Ict.

Now how about this reduction In City debt? fl. Is simply a mat- ter of book-keeping for which no person can clalmwmy credlt ex- cept the auditor, and he seems to be able to bring this particular rabblt from his hat every year. The point I want to make Is that. there Is no cash Involved In thIs stunt of City debt. red-action.

Another "high light" of our 11n- zmclal experts Is the cIsIm ofatrlet economy. and there was consIder- able back-slapping at. the annual meeting on this score. But. the only justification for such a clalm is the fact that. there was a sur- plus of about nine thousand dol- lars on the year's transactions. That. of course Is veiiysatiofactory. but before bestowing too much pralse we ought to be Informed what. was the amount of capital expenddture for the year and what Items are cliarxed to capitol. It would seem from tho figures re- leased that. the Provincial Gov- ernment Is entitled to some credlf. In providing funds sufflclent. to pay off $30,000 of debentures, to- gether with the $9.000 surplus n-Ith some over. The total eit- pencilture for the year was quite lathe and does not Indicate much ecpnomy.

1 am, sir, one, J. I’. W.

STORM FROM ‘II-ll! EAST

Titre storm moves In . . . the world moves out . . .

Untll the boundaries round about

Are loot. In blending cloud and

SHOW, 111a landmarks that we used to know As flxed and altogether true Are now less permanent than dew. This Island which remains of all We knew of earl-h has grown so small That. only we Inhabit. It. Except the frlendly birds that flIt About the food which we have spread . That none shall go, this day, unfed. The road 1s filled frrsn wall to wall But In a world so very small No one wlll acme . . . no one will

go . . . Across titu- drifts of driven snow. Our Isolation Is complete

But beauty ls our bread and meat.

-Harry Elmore Hard, In New Yolk Tlrnea.