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PAGE roux Hmm THE GUARDIAN

Authorized In Second Clue Mail Poet Offloo Department, Ottawl. The Inland uuimlinn Publishing Co.

Pruldent and Alloclnus Editor, Ian A. Burnett. Auoclnto Editor, Frank Walker.

C CIRCC LATION

"Coven Prince Edward island like the dew"

(The Strongest Memory ll -Weaker Than the Weakest Ink".

CIIABLOTTETOTYN, I-illH)AY, AUG. 29, 1952

School Reopening

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The great trek hack to SCllU(ll. will take place on Tuesday, youngsters probably

L complaining at Labour Day falling as early as it can. Pupils will give little thought to it but a vast amount of effort is wasted trying to work out schedules for successive years which are quite unlike, every date falling on a different day of the week from previous years.

Conflicting activiM'cs wliicii required special times and which were most care- fully allotted time last year must now be again fitted into the new shape of the school year. ('ei'taiiily school principles must be amongst the inost cntiiusiastic ad- vocates of calendar reforiii.

Other clianges are in the air. The Gov- ernment has decided as a matter of policy beginning next year, that it should take children the same number of years to coin- plete university iiiatriculaiioii in whatever part of the Island they may live. Whether this will be lirouglit about by knocking a year off for those witiiout consolidated High Schools or increasing the time re- quired in attain university matriculation in the High Schools has not been revealed.

The final decision probably depends up- on reaching an understaiidiiig with the Governments of the other Atlantic Prov- inces.

All of this is of little interest to the children who will be directly affected. They are adjusting themselves to the change from holiday- activities to the. more coin- plex and in many ways more interesting school life, of highly organized work and play.

The Seaway

Any discussion of the proposed St. Law- rence Scaway must be tied in with the pow- er projects in connection with it. On- tario's pressing demands for additional hydro power would in themselves prob- ably justify construction of many of the works proposed. It is only the additional expense which need he argued about on the basis of the value of the Seaway.

There can be no doubt that the con- struction of such a waterway would great- ly increase the value of basic Canadian production while reducing the cost of many imports. Too, it would give this country a decided boost in merchant shipping and all that goes with it. I

To the Maritiiiic Provinces the Seaway would mean water-borne competition with the railways for traffic with the rest of Canada. That could be expected to reduce

the trails-sliipmcnt of goods through ouri

winter ports of Saint John and Halifax but at. the same time would bring new business to these ports as inter-provincial

trade tended to move increasingly by wa-i

ter.

The Maritiiiics can see no decided gain i'rom the change but are generally willing to go along with the idea for the general benefit of Canada. They look, however, for projects to be undertaken here which will help their economy to follow reason- ably closely the further industrial develop- ment of the central provinces.

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g A recent article in an American mag- azine tells of the outstanding success achiev- ed in highway accident prevention in the State of Massacliusetts. With 4,390,000 peo- ple of whom one in four own cars, the death rate attributable to automobile ac- cidents is about one-half the average for the entire United States. Here are some features of the program which is respons- ible for this reduction:

The State has strict traffic laws and the traffic. police to enforce- them; since 1930 it has required a, twice-yearly check of all'cars at. designated stations; it trains prospective drivers and requires R strict test before it driver's license is issued and then keeps a master card index of ac- cidents and offences in which every driver is involved. Finally the State Licence Bu- reau carries on unceasing propaganda on the subject of highway and automobile safety through every means possible. Com- menting on these regulations, the Ottawa

' Journal says: -

"There emerges the prime fact that the Massachusetts motor licence depart- ment does, not appear to consider itself Jnerely a revenue-collecting bureau for the

grjw -- - state government. It takes its licences ser- iously, as a form of guarantee to other drivers that the vehicle on which the plates appear is road-worthy and that the man or woman given a licence to drive has some training, more than casual-ability to drive, and (knows the laws. There'lies the great difference between this attitude to- wards automobile traffic, and the kind found most everywhere else."

It May Be Mr. Pearson

, Reports continue to come from United ;Nations headquarters in New York that illon. L. B. Pearson, Canada's Minister for ilixteriial Affairs, will be elected the next -president of the U. N. General Assembly. While the appointment would honor Can- ada, says the Ottawa Citizen, the choice would be more for Mr. Paa'rson than the country he represents. In the selection each- year of a new President for the Gen- eral Assembly, the personality of the man chosen carries greatest weight.

IHE GUARDIAN. CI-IARLOTTETOWN

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Mr. Pearson had a part in the organ- lization of the U. N. in San Francisco, and: since 1945 has contributed steadily to 13.: N. decisions. Isle has demonstrated great; skill as chairman of the General Assemblylsl political committee, where issues decided by the assembly are first debated. He

the founding fathers of U. N., and thus would bring continuity to the presidential post. Yet should Mr. Pearson not be chos- en, Canadians need not be too disappoint- ed. The U. N.'s essential task is to tryl to reconcile conflict. It seems natural thatt such 21 role should fall to the smaller na-,t tioiis. If the conciliatory purposes of the, U. N. would be well served by another ap-it pointmcnt, Canadians would not quarrel with the choice.

EDITORIAL NOTES

The Prince Edward Island Command Legion convention on Monday starts off ivery appropriately with a public morning; psciyicc before the Legion parade to the:

l monument.

The closing exercises tonight of the city squares playgrounds winds up a sea-f son of usefullness and enjoyment for whichf ,ihe Playgrounds Commission may takcl high credit.

Women seem to be flocking to the cit- lies even faster than men. The Bureau of Statistics reports that census figures show ;an urban female population increase of 1.- l232,345 in ten years as against an urban male increase of only 1,143,492.

Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian dramatist, ,was born this date 1862. He joined forces .with the symbolists and produced work iwhich is mystical to a degree. Although gnot particularly fond of music he had the

fortune to inspire two of the greatest imusicians of his time, Paul Dukas, with ”Ariane ct Barbe Blcuc" and Ciaud De- lbussy with "Pclleas and Mclisande", the -lattcr being one of the greatest of mod; ern operas.

O

i Now Canada is teaching Scotland iliighland dancing. From a collection of itraditional dances preserved by Scottish ifolk in Canada, Mrs. .l. MacNab, Van- 'eouvcr, brought four dances with her to i the summer school at St. Andrews of the iRoyal Scottish Country Dance Society, iwhere they were taught to the students. iMrs. MacNab has done important research iwork for the society in Canada. Several

iycars ago she brought to Scotland four

,lScottlsh dances she had learned from il'lliJ,lllalld people settled in Canada: They lineluded '”Roukcii Glen" and "Weaving

jLilt", which have proved very popular all over Scotland. One of the dances Mrs. iMacNab brought with her on this occas- ' or ”The Royal

ion was "Bonnie Ann",

Princess."

Among the important advances record- ed by Canadian research is the develop- ment of production of the new hormones ACTH and cortisone in this country. The so-called "wonder drug", ACTH, which has shown such promise in the treatment of arthritis, rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease and many other afflictions. is prepared from the pituitary glands of hogs. From the heads of 1700 hogs it is possible to obtain only one pound of pitu- itary gland and from this pound only about fifty 25-mg. vials of ACTH can be secured. With aid from the National Research Coun- cil and ll public health research grant, the Connaught Medical Research Laboratories in .Toronto set out in 1949 to establish methods of producing ACTH and to assure a supply of the drug for Canadian use. Tested ACTH can now be prepared in Canada even more cheaply than in the

might with justice be described as one ofi -

Pleasant Holi

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day, Mr. Gregg!

spending 3. mcatjm

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Are FM: won-in; s little poly. the nu" to the ethylene terephihnlate today? Or -Brandon sun Perhaps some ncrylonltrlle. or ' even I hit of lyhexamethylene V” ”"'"l udtpainlde? wait! Don't shake your head in horror and any, "Not" so t1l11CkiY- F01”. if you're clad in any Romania mode of Dacron, Orion acrylic fibre. or nylon-in that or. der-the answer is "Yes." Be- cluse the chemical name: of the ne synthetic textile fibres are so long an dcomplfcnted, ii. to virtual-

front page can lic to bear with lapses which we

m0Vini a block

that was written

the St. Clair River has doubled its population since 1941. The river, on which Sarnii: has 8.700 feet; berthinz. handles more shipping in six months than the Suez, Kiel and Panama canals combined in a year. Until last. September on oil refinery at Snrnin was the largest in the British Commonwealth. Be- tween the years 1939 and 191.9 the gross value of Sui-nlifa manufac- tured products multiplied five and A half times. What accounts for cities in Canada? - Petuborough Feb' 26' 1842' Examiner.

I Winnipeg used to be known hu- and wide on one of the worst regu- lated cities on the conii as traffic was concern

"During recess

'ef a "grand 'ttl1enisluid PEW-

PCOOCWOCOQOC 9? Notes From

ll) Another Island 3. M "An--1 "

LONDON. England:

The tragedy that smote the quiet coiiiiiryslde of Devon in mld-Aug- iist had, like many tragedies. one or two touches of Satanic- whlmsicalfty.

A furious thunderstorm. bring- ing torrential rain, turned a small. peaceful river info I raging mon- ster that. broke loose and Look heavy toll of property and human life. It was bad enough in the light of the early evening on the ill- starred day: but B. night of horror was to follow, with the lighting supplies out. of action, communica- tions cut, and no one knowing quite what was happening or about to happen. Little could be seen in the rain-swept. darkness, and little could be heard above the roaring of the dreaded flood waters.

. . .

Ordinarily the very name of Dev- on has ii. soft, restful sound to many of us; itis almost synonymous with relaxation, and every year thousands of holidaymakers go there to get away completely from the hurly-burly of their workaday world: to wallow, as it were, in an atmosphere of soothing tmnqulllty.

Thus it seemed altogether Machiavellian that an event: of such ferocity should happen there of all places. And equally treacher- ous thnt it: should happen in Aug- iist-tiiadtttonally the month for holidays.

It. is here that we come to con- sider a. habit: that clings despite all the arguments of statistics "and commonsense: why so many of our citizens should continue voluntar- ily, year after year, to take their annual vacation in August, not.- withstanding the good reasons for not doing so. remains a mystery.

What are some of these reasons? The one that comes most; readily to mind is the simple fact. that so many other people take their holidays in August. The result is that. the resorts are all crowded, hotel Ind boarding house accom- modation lii hard to come by unless you book months in advance, and even to get to your chosen holiday spot. becomes a trial of endurance and patience; trains and buses be-

ASPIRATTON

0 youth whose hope is high. Who dost: to truth aspire, Whether thou live or die, 0 look not back nor tire.

Thou that art hold to fly Through tempest. flood and fire,

Thy heart. in torments dire. .

if thou cans: Death defy.

If thy faith to entire.

Press onward, for thine eye Shall see thy heart's desire.

Beauty and love are nigh, And with their deathless quire Soon shall thine eager cry

Be TlUTI1l3BX':u and expire.

--Robert Bridges.

working and watching your neigh- bours and worlunates going off on their vacations when your own are all finished? The late vacationist always has that edge on his fel- lows. I O 0

Over-riding all these coiisiderat- ions is the fact. that many people have no option about when to take 3. rest. Many factories and busi- ness house: close their whole place down for a week or two, finding it more convenient to have all their

employees away at once, and get the matter of holidays over and done with at one swoop, than to

have interruptions spread over sev- eral months. And right. away we are back to August. for most of the places that have this plan close down in that month for reasons that are doubtless commercially sound.

It all adds up to a very complex problem. the solution to which will not be easily found. Unt.ll it is. it great many -of us will continue to have the proverbial wonclcrfultimc on our holidays, in spite of every- thing that goes to show such I thing is impossible-in Augiist.

come packed with passengers and

vents tempera somewhat frayed. . .

. Nor is that all. This month of iA'.l'.'ilSl. is the one that statistics- innd personal experience on tho ipnrt of most of us at one.timi-. or another-show is the least. likely of all the recognised summer holi- days months to offer prospectn of wood vacation weather. You might be lucky, true enough, and hit. on days of biiizing sunshine. But. the weather charts show that. you .Would be lucky. indeed, and that you would atimd ll for better chance of that kind of luck if you took your holidays in any other month from June to September. we all suspected it. long ago. yet little has been done about it. Var- ious authorities have tried to per- aunde us to holiday early or late in the year, pointing out the advant- ages of doing so, but still August

(has some sort of magic appeal. the

resorts still fill up. the public trunlport services get overloaded and-it still rains.

August his A strange sort. of fascination, but there may be a logical reason behind it. Possibly the resorts are then ntthclr bright- est. intent on making the best poulblo tmpreulon on the vast. crowd! they know they can expect. Afterwards, in the later months of the year, things begin to tilde, slightly, maybe, but there in an un- mlntakeoble and-of-uuon alrto be named. Butdel, the daylight noun are fewer and when the sun shlneq -assuming it will shlnklt ohlnu neither. so hot nor for so long.

. AI torgtoking holiday: early in the ouinmer. well. that ho: iii drawbiickl. too. Your chosen ruort mny not quite be tuned up so early in the uuon; it. moy look too freshly painted and not "lived in.” 'l'here'I another thing: what can be more depreulng than to have your holldAy'ln. any. June. and

United States.

then spend the rest of the

their luggage, and the best. holiday- good-wlll in the world hardly pre-I from becoming,

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soon as possible the date on which they desire electric

of such disconnections required during the first days of September it is necessary that we make special

icult to execute last minute orders promptly. Section 7 of the Company's Regulations reads as

"7. DISCONTINUANCE OF SERVICE. Any custom- er who wishes to have service discontinued shall give the Company forty-eight hours written notice. Until such notice is effectively given, the customer shall remain responsible for the account."

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Thin column ll open to the dlseulslon by correspondent: of " of Internet. The Guudliul doe: not neceuuh ily e ' the opinion of correspondents.

-rs . TOBACCO AND mai.ioioN'

sir,-In o recent issue of the Guardian, I was taken back to

and closer checks granted driving arel, city traffic" been cut by over 20 per cent. The law Wu accepted in the. proper spirit by the public, and properly put into force by the police. and it brought. good results. But there is I. tendency now among some cit- izens to act. like the small boy who has been too good too long.-with and For-Ly.fo1n-I nipeg Free Pres.

on licence:

persons

in

be avoided, as

would intersect angle: the road ship Forty-five,

In mnny put: of Britain, a. cltt- dtgnn River. zen facing an emergency need only

once. dial 999" was first used

Barrens) would

tended to About 2.000 telephone ex- changes in the UK. When 999 is

is not A moral islue within the United Church.

"The commission does not re-

izard the use and distribution of

tobacco as sinful. It is not-tn the same category as gambling and drunkenness. The use of tobacco cannot be generally regarded in a. matter of conscience."

I will agree with anyone that we are living in a world of great. changes. I agree that. the things that one person does are regarded as morally right. in the eyes of an- other person because he wishes those things himself. It is not so very hard to be moral in the eyes of others. But being moral is not being spiritual. One may help the other. but they are different.

It is no wonder that there are so many church branches today. when A. church would want such an issue passed. The church is made up of people, and if the people are not spiritual. but only moral, likewise the church.

We, as a people should strive to have those great. pleasures that come from God and satisfy the soul. We should proclaim the good news to those who go in for the pleasures of the world rather than to let ourselves go into the same snare.

While none of us is perfect. we should aim to do those things that are pleasing in the sight of God. than those things that are looked upon as rtglit. in the eyes of the world.

i I am Sir, etc., .

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MERA RESIDENTS

us by postcard or letter as

Owing to the large number

of them and it is very diff-

V after

vo-Q-oo-Q-out-co-e-co-sowQ we hung,” gm

who Age-Old story

a regular depth

give facility to

of the humble, and to revive the orally good, and heart of the eontrlto ones. lion"

in the calllthumplan job lng ourselves from

east. The only trcu

Old Charlottetown (And r. 2.1. i

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use romr noon

Road to Bay Fortune, road from St. Peter's Bay to Car.

Af..Noties Iii); The W59:

PFODOI" depart mm

Herold atuf W305! iii:

n: the gene;

31 Dub. kcs and oil”! Occur SIX") Sll'ElCIi,r:?1:

to south and blc with the bu was that we W

us in mista re bound

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ly necessary to identify them by ”i””59lVe-9 at the corner of Sore ' trade names. Even 3 research sire” and Sixth Allenuc iiistiuh chemist will not often stop to say "1 5'Veh'-ii and Fifth Mme” ..polyhexamemylene adlpammy. South where all the actiriii hm when he can substitute a home as been 861111: on for the im " brief, simple and dmmcme as months. Just a mistake p( M nyion..cii.. Oval. block. mars alll Well. ma .-0.. ".'” ,.g . move from B house that you i new

sunk in Lambton County on 0CC"Pl9d 101" 40 years? And

you a bit confused? That's our .

excuse for fumbling that ” 9”)

Lelhbridse Herald. mg

one;

From A committee .repor' N... Sarnia, one of the fastest growing Rmed W ""3 lgilulsie 05 on n

Petition of divers lllgilkbltil E: at King's County for a centre Rm to be opened from the East to the Head of I-llllaborough.

Assriiibly, it uh up

Point

your comiiiltire

nt as far h8VB made inquiry as to the nut. Now ,g tty of the said Roiaid.and betv lea” Lg "mug the best, since inlroduc- to state. for the inforniatnii ol' Lion of the new pedestrian by-law, "'9 House. that 19 Woul benefit the inhabitants north and

mu south of East. Point. The road on accidents have the south side of East Point to Sourls is very lillly, which mlgm

d izreatly

the COl"li9n'.;)Ia(gi1

Wad Would OPEIN n commiiniratlon with all parts of the Island.

ii Ii98l'iY at right through truwn. the Line Road

between Townships Forty-mm

the St. Peter:

and tho

"To the inhabitants of the north dial "999" for quick assistance. The side it. would afford'a winter rnnd 51035,, "For poucg, pg” 0; Ambm. to Charlottetown and Georgetown, in as the snow drift: and bare ground 1937 whm --999" service Wu Hg up (which frequently interrupt trim in London. It nu now been ex, elllng on the Caves and St. Peter”!

be avoided; inn

with regard to the road in (pics.

- lion beln maintained as a : l-i;”,ii..,.f '&Y.,,.,K"',2f,l,f:pgtEe,,,"”l,l.-'.,'; dmlledt ::o";:Ecu”" lslmlade m hm” winter rogad for all the. liitrtliulii Church Union." The were: "A lo" esp one C" mum W ".9 Km!" COUMS3 .V0i"' Wlllniiire 3' a o rotor immediately relays commission on tobacco . -' n pe would recommend that the that the council find that tobacco Width should be extended to

. and the bushes

suffered to grow on both stdel. which would preserve the snow of

for liiiulinp; and

(3 as this road would reach tiir Hilli- r.i;aoo-&oo-Qaoooe-oo-t-wx borough ice at. the bridge, 2' would

the carriage at

Thu: ulth, the lush Ind loft: produce to Charlottetown. Tm. One that tinhnbitetb eternity. rand would also afford gmt ad- Whnle name 1! Holy; I dwell In vantages for settlement; for, M the 111511 Ind 3101! Pllcc. with far as can be at present ascer- hlm also tint. in of n eontrlte and talned, where it int.ersrt.s the humble spirit. to revive the spirit roads alluded to. the land ix gar.-

tlt. for cultiva-

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