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UHARLOTTETOWN THURSDAY. JAN. 25. 1951

Eisenhower's Task

General Eisenhower's lightning tour of European capitals is but the prelude to taking up his appointment as Supreme Commander of the Allied Armies in Europe. Thus, out of the North Atlantic Commun- ity and the North Atlantic Pact emerges the solid and comforting reality of leader- ship and organizing genius coupled with manpower and material as the basis for the defence of western Europe and the free world.

When Eisenhower left Europe in 1945 he had just completed another mighty task -that of commanding a powerful military weapon backed by the entire resources of the United States and the British Common- wealth, designed to deliver the "coup de grace" to the waning might of Nazi Germ- any. By comparison, the undertaking

. which confronts him today is even more

onerous. He must create and deploy not an offensive but rather a defensive force over almost the same territory. The armed strength at his disposal will be but a third of that under his command in 1945. His responsibility will be, not to two nations, but to all twelve Atlantic Pact countries. Organization of a headquarters com- mand will be General Eisenhower's im- mediate concern. Operational direction of forces placed at his disposal by Atlantic Pact countries will follow. France has al- ready committed herself to three divisions. The three American divisions now in Germ- any. will now come under General Eisen- hower, as will, at a later date, two more.

' British ”Tommies", several divisions strong,

7will take their place alongside the French ”poilus'-' and American GIs. One Nether- lands and one Belgian division will join them. In due course. German troops will find themselves serving under Eisenhower's command. A small and somewhat obsolete air force will be available to him. His least concern will be with naval support, which Britain, France and the United , States possess in overwhelming strength.

Around this small, hard core of defence units General Eisenhower must build a de- fensive system for Europe west of the Elbe so strong and so united that Soviet Russia will be forced to abandon all plans for mil- itary aggression in the West. His assur-

' ance of success lies not only in the fact

that he has undertaken the task on the unanimous request of the twelve Atlantic Pact countries. It also lies in the willing- ness of those countries to give overt proof through steadily increasing the number of com- mand that not only can,Western Europe he defended, but that it will be defended. Canada's contribution thus far consists of the arms and equipment to. outfit the Netherlands division under Eisenhowers command. The presence of a division of trained Canadian troops would do more at the moment than anything else to strengthen the purpose of other Atlantic Pact countries facing the Soviet Union over

the road blocks and barbed-wire barriers of"

central Europe.

Leading The Way

Canada's Avro jetliner, notes an ex- change, opened the eyes of U. S. airline of- ficials recently by cutting in half the standard flying time for commercial flight between Chicago and New York. It flew the route in 102 minutes. whereas current 'time for standard craft--is two hours and 50 minutes.

Being the only aircraft of its type in North America, this Canadian plane breaks records, of course, every time it takes to the air. In the Chicago-New

' York flight it cruisegi at 450 miles an hour.

aided by a 70 mile an hour tail wind. and reached a top speed of well over 500 miles an hour. On its U. S. tour it provided a preview, as it were, of future air travel in the upper altitudes. This will be far smoother and at least twice as fast as is now possible with standard craft.

This aircraft was designed-f0? C0mPal'8' tlvely short distance flights, with a V19W to economical operation on present Cann- dian and U. S. internal routes. Britain has developed in the Def-Iavilland Comet. a pure jet aircraft. known to, have much gi"..:ter speed, and capable of making direct ocean flights.

To make the U. S. tount jotilner cancelled as proposed Visit to B0 0" -I bit at Famborough, L j”.d. This ' -to the "great Intemst sho rm by U.

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have been advanced to the production stage. In view of the decided advantage over competition that would be secured if jetllners are adopted, it seems likely the Canadian builders, A. V. Roe Canada, Lim- ited, will be in on the ground floor when U. S. lines start to change over.

EDITORIAL NOI ES

Conversion" of St. Paul. O O 0 What shall the answer be to the ”What's in a name?" competition now engaging at-

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There should be a large attendance at the Burns' anniversary concert tonight in the Prince of Wales Auditorium.

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The Fisheries delegates are favoured with fine weather, and are apparently en- joying the hearty reception being given them.

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Everything is all right in Canadian trade and commerce, says Agricultural Minister Gardiner, except as regards mar.- kets for apples, potatoes, and eggs-two, at least, of our specialties.

A growing number ol' officers on the retired list are again donning their old uniforms and returning to service. The in- creased pay and promised gratuities make a very attractive proposition for immediate enlistment.as well as the knowledge that it might as well be now as later.

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In Toronto a 21-year-old youth who confessed to robbing the cashier of the west-end Odcan theatre of S70 last Dec. 28 was freed by Magistrate W. W. Mc- Keown, who said he had no doubt that Gilbert '1'. Pctcrs committed the hold-up but ruled that Peters, because he was drunk, was in no condition to form an in- tent.

Saskatchewan keeps down its insurance rates on private cars, and makes up the resulting heavy losses by charging a high rate on commercialovchicles, according to a New York insurance expert and official statements. The practice is not unknown in private business, but to the operators of commercial vehicles it must seem like taxation rather than insurance.

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That description of the new Ferry, planned for the North Sydney-Port-Aux- Basques run, sounds just like what is re- quired for the Wood Islands-Caribou serv- ice. Could the Department of Transport." be persuaded to take advantage of the re- sultant economy of laying twin keels and handing over the second ship for operation by Northumberland Ferries.

Robert Burns, poet and philosopher, born this date 1759, and died July 21, 1796 at the age of 39. He was a ploughman and afterwards a farmer. Had only a common school education, yet developed into one of the greatest literary geniuses of his own or any other age. He was hu- man, with httmanitysfailings more intense than that of the average citizen, but when it came to intellectual understanding of what is wrong with the world, he posses..- cd a lively perception of how the situation could be met, and expressed his opinions in forceful, effective poetry, which, like Sliakespeaies, will live forever.

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Prince Edward Island has never lacked for public spirited citizens, but among them have been a number of outstanding examples of unremunerative work in the public interest over a great number of years. One of these is Mr. T. Roy Cud- more who has devoted inestimable time to numerous institutions and campaigns. Too often their efforts are taken" for granted, and only should'we lose these institutions, which in their aggregate are the enriching influences of our civilization, would we be- come sharply conscious of their worth.

The startling announcement is made that a railway is paying its way. It is the Pacific Great Eastern Railway of B. C., which has been operating in the black since September. Not only that, P. G. E. Super- intendent J .-'A. Kennedy told a service club recently, but the line has . made a profit of 5390.000 in the last 4 1-2 months. The province-owned railway has lost mil- lions of dollarssince it was started as a private concern in 1912. It still isn't coni- plete. The line runs from Squamish, 40 miles from Vancouver. to Quesnel in the Cariboo rangelands about 400 m'.le- nort'n. It now is being pushed north to Prince George to connect with the Canadian Na- tional Rallways Transcontinental Line. The government also plans to finish the southern end into Vancouver.

PUBLIC FORUM

This column to open to the discussion by correspondent: of questions of Interest. The Guardian does not necessar- lly endorse the opinion of correspondents.

NEWFOUNDLAND TRADE

Sir,-We must travel back to three and a half years ago to a certain clay in August. when word came from Ottawa that our ship- pin-g conditions as they existed at. iihat tiinc were not in line with the prestnl-day rules and would not be allowed to -continue.

Out of this ccntiiiion grew two m-yethods of thought. Our - Gov- ernment took the stand that ii new cattle shed must be set up along with adequate whzii-fin.g facilities. and I ciccid-cd that the day had conic when we should turn over a new leaf and orcct a plant instead, wiicrc shippc-r.-', frtrincrs. caiiners of meat, etc, could get their live- stock killcd. inspected. chilled, graded, wrapped. etc., and refri- gerated boat service be supplied for the shipping trade.

To date IIOIUIIET the Government nor I have finalized our decisions: perhaps you will see that one had bearing on the other. Our Gov- crnment; under Premier Jones and our Trade Agent to Newfoundland. asked Mr. Gordon White (present Provincial Government engineer) to tlruxv up a set of blue-prints which would apply to a building they were going to move off the Railway Wh-ar-f. In tihe Fall of 1949 this building was moved and is at present situated between Prince Street wuh-arf and the Rail- way wharf. I have been around tihere every day of my life since and I cannot see where anything was done to it. I would like to point out that this building was moved to ground that was made earlier that summer by filling in the sea bed between the two wharves. and to the best. of my knowledge collected a bit of rent at times for storage space.

In my case I had a guarantee of thousands of dollars from New- foundlanvders who were fed up on buying live cattle from here and were willing to throw in their lot with mine on a plant. Now they were willing to put up this money and along with what little bit I had we could have a plant and a ic-frigeratted boat calling here, and the Island could enjoy the service of this boat too,-a. service which is badly needed in summer time. I must state here that I have spent quite some money and time on a plant and could have it ready for operation by early summer if I had co-operation. When this money was offered by the im- porters of live cattle in Newfound- land it hcld one string - they wanted our Island Government to back the bonds covering their in- vestment, if only on a percentage basis. They gave me three mam reasons for asking for this back- ing and their reasons were logical. They knew our Federal - Govern- ment. un-der petition from our Island Government, was paying a subsivdity of S34.000 9. year to the Island Connector to call at Char- lottetown every three wceks in summer time: they knew we had a Trade Agent to tiheir Province. who had bccn doing it good job, but it cost our Island; and they also knew our Premier Jones was forever talking and blowing about their market.

when I approached Premier Jones regarding my method to help out on the trade to Newfound- land. and told him about their financial offer. my proposition wasn't even given consideration. The biggest argument was in the fact that chilled meats could not be shipped away down there.

We will leave the decision to the "Court of Public Opinion."

My next letter wil.i give further proof of whatra Government can really do. '

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THOMAS MAY'S SURVEY

some time ago The Guardian published an address on geological changes in Prince Edward Island by the late Mr. Thomas May. de- livered before the Natural History and Antiquarian society of this Pronnce in 1899. Mr. May had been employed in 1872 in survey- ing the Prince Edward Island rail- way, and he drew upon his exper- lence in this connection in de- scribing the subsidence of the land in former ages. An interesting footnote to Mr. May's address has been received from his nephew. Major Fred F. May. formerly of St. Eleanui-'s and Charlottetown. and now residing in Duncan B. C. "My uncle speaks of Covelieadi Bay and residents of the same. and ilie natural phenomena he; had found tlir-re," Major MzI.V1 writes. "When a schoolboy, I '.-pellti several most. enjoyable sitzntneri vacations there, both at the farm. of the late John Leitch and ati McMlllan's Hotel. I did consider- able boattng on Covehead Bay and know how shallow it becomes inl certain places. And I have also, walked along the shores of Bay and on the North Shore, helped my mother search for dlan arrowheads. some of which I still have.

”Covehead, Stanliope and vicin- ity had in former times been the home places of French settlers be- fore the Island was taken over by the British. Perhaps you may remember that I once mentioned tlze old oaken barrel that had been taken. from the Covehead mill- pond, which had been found to contain several French muskets They had been thrown into the pond to prevent them falling into, British hands. One of these old muskets. less iLs stock which had rotted off, was used for some years to stoke up the mllf fire, and since the charge of gunpowder still re- mained. it promptly exploded but without hurting anyone. I some- times fell: the desire to gain per- mission to drain off the old mill pond in order to find out if any more French occupation relics might still be there in the muddy bottom.

"I have before me as I write the same old sketch book to which; my uncle refers iii the address published recently in your columns. It. shows Keefe's Lake with the! two-foot. bank around it. running into the bushes. also shown. This sketch was made in 1872, and I, am all the more interested in it'- slnce my own father was an as- sistant engineer in the same sur- vey that. my late Uncle Tom re- fers t.o.'In the same sketch-book are also scenes at. Stii-athalbyn, Lot 30, P. E). I., two scenes of Georgetown, its Square and Har- bour. as well its of Souris Harbour. All these were made in 1-372 to 1814.

"To me there is 9. most interest- ing interior sketch of the old Charlottetown Rink, ”on the site of the present one." made in 1683. The site referred to is doubt- less the old one on Fitzroy Street. What particularly strikes me is the minute detail made by my uncle of the beams and general inter- ior of that old building. At. the first of the sketch-book are two views of Yarrow Valley. Scotland. and of Yarrow Manse and Kirk. made by my Uncle Tom in 1811. All these old sketches are made in soft pencil."

The-WeIfare'S.tate

(By Rt. Hon. Arthur Melghen. P. C.)

A very prominent American, of whom all of you have heard, just. a few months ago proclaimed over there that anyone who opposed this concept. of the Welfare State was unresliatlc, out. of tune with the times. and was trying to repeal the twentieth century. He gave as his reason for this ,bewllderli-is pronouncement that he: had never yet. met.- II mm who did not. want welfare and want security. Well. neither have I; neither has any of you. A person who did not want these things would not. be of this world. But. what. the welfare state is trying to tell us in that the source of III welfare and security is the state. and that men can have it.

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that?-low verse may build a. princely In. On humble truth. .Throu;zh busiest street and lane-

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AT THE GRAVE OF BURNS

Fresh as the flower whose modest worth He sang. his genius gnllnted fort.hA Rose like a star that, touching earth, (For so it seems) Doth glorify its humble birth with mntchless beams.

The piercing eye. the brow. The struggltiig heart, where be they now?- thc aspirant of the plough

The prompt. the brave. Slept, with the obscurest, In the

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More deeply grieved; for he was gone

Whose light I hailed when first it shone,

master of l:'.vs degree law. And now the announcements concerning Mount Allison enables still another university to take forward-looking stride Ir provid- ing wider opportunities for youth.

in the mornings. This was not very forestghted, with, another likely to come on eventually when markets for beds would-strength- en; but it. did , dispose of the problem mornings. Samuel Col- e7”se's oietlhod of avoiding mak- ing his bed was to move. When his bed and the rest of his room '77 .-.me too untidy even for a. poet. Coleridge strolled away and rent.- ecl some other London -lodging. ' W” are a. variation of the Coleridge system, although the effort used up in cutting and laying balsam boughs to build a bed in the evening cancel much of the sneaking pleasure of leav- lng it behind in the morning. For those who do not appreciate the extent. of man's dlsincltmitlon for

l::1 making. consider what. hap- pened at the Chateau Lani-tar during the railway strike. when

members of Parliament found that they had to make their own beds, they stopped the strike. The Printed Word.

TIso' Israel Philharmonic Orches- tra was founded in 1936. twelve years before Die formal creation of a state of Israel. During the war in Palestine, it played within sight and sound of the front line. Today. it Is the centre of Israel's notional musidal life. Like the state which it represents. the orchestra is heterogeneous. Its 100 members ca.me'bo Israel from 20 nations. During the course of a year, they may play as many as 200 concerts in cities, towns and hamlets from Galilee to the Negev. During its first North American tour, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra is giving 55 concerts in 40 cities in the United States and Canada. Serge Koussevitzky, and Leonard Bernstein, as conductors. follow a distinguished line that began with Arturo Toscann-ini and included Sir Malcolm Sargent, Chsrlw Munch. William Steintberg, fzler Solomon, and Paul Paray. Otta-wans are fortunate in being included on the Israel Philharmonic

E..:..:...E.a:..- distinguished graduates - to have a new chair in law. This meant that Da.lhousle's facilities will be extended and will include, for the first time, a course leading to the in public

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The "Kinsey Report." Ida. 1. 5,, ins applied to lobsters now except that the spiny creatures a 't. in. tervlewed about their love life. In an effort to check a declining 105. star birth rate threatening rm multl-million-dcilar spiny lobsm industry in the United States, .' thorough study of the crustacean living habits is being made by re. searchers at the University of Cali- fornia at Los Amgeles. Through pg)-. manent. records kept. by an exec. tronic recorder. it is hoped to gum,-. antee a. cheaper and more constant supply of shell fish for the dinner table. The first year and a ha.lf'i research revealed that male lob.' sters will protect their mates from? bachelor lobsters but not from any predatory fish in the nelchborhooa, The UCLA researchers soon ex. pect. ho learn where lobsters mau- where they lay their egas,1)h lawn; of the incubation period and when lobsters go on their honeymoon .. Ottawa Citizen.