.PAGE FOUR 'THE GUARDIAN

Authorized as Second Class Mall Pose Officol, . Department. Ottawa. T5 The Island Gunrdlnn Publishing Cos

lsdltor and Managing Director. In A. Burnett. Associate Editor. Frank Walker.

CIRCULATION "Covers Prince Edward Inland like the dew"

"Tho strongest memory is weaker than tho weakest link".

CHABLOTTETOWN WEDNESDAY. OCT. '1. 1953

'gPogged Freight Rates Untouched

While freight rates in the western Prov-l inces go down and those permitted in the central Provinces are raised under an equalization ruling of the Board of Trans- port Commissioners, tolls "within, into and

out of” the Atlantic Provinces will re- main unchanged in accordance with the Maritimes Freight Rates Act, 1927. It is

encouraging to have Mr. Justice J. D. Kearney, the chief commissioner, thus cor- rect I narrow interpretation which had re- cently been given to the Act. It had been suggested that only rates within the area were protected but now it has been reaf- firmed that the protection is extended to traffic to and from this area.

It is claimed on behalf of the railways that they will not be able to pick up in Ontario and Quebec the revenue which will be lost in the West, the reason being that it is seldom possible to charge the permit- ted rates in the central area because of competition from other forms of transport. 'This is, of course, the very crux of the difficulties between East and West and the present judgment does not solve the prob- lem.

To the Maritimes the judgment is wholly satisfactory. Year by year, rates have been raised since the early days of Confederation, Maritime rates to a far greater extent than those of the central Provinces in order to achieve "uniformity". That uniformity would be costly indeed for these Provinces and it is reassuring to have it ruled that the 1927 legislation is an ef- fective barrier.

liow liming Policy

Prime Minister St. Laurent's announce- ment that the Government is considering a change in the Federal housing policy has

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had favorable reactions across Canada.

It is understood that the amendments to the National Housing Act will provide for establishment of residential mortgage insurance and enable the chartered banks, as well as other lending institutions, to lend on insured home mortgage. The changes in the Act should result in a lower monthly carrying charge for the borrower over a longer period of time. Most mort- gages now are limited to 20 years. The main point of the plan is reported to be the establishment of a system of insuring holders of mortgages on new homes against default on the part of the home buyer. On the basis of such insurance the chartered banks for the first time in their history will be allowed to lend money on home mort- gages. '

The benefits of the lower down pay- menis and cheaper, longer-term mortgages will be cancelled out to a considerable ex- tent, warns an exchange, if the price of the new homes is inflated. And if the value of the long-awaited house slumps soon after it has been built its owner will be loft. holding the bag.i Should his business forcc him to move elsewhere he will be unable to sell without taking a serious loss and without having to pay off a big chunk of a mortgage which once looked attractive but has now become a financial millstone. Avoiding these troubles will require re- straint and a sense of responsibility on the part. of every one involved. Too much speculation by owners of land and profiteer- ing by builders, too great eagerness on the part of the would-be home-owncrs to pay high prices with their "cheap" new mort- page money, can ruin the whole scheme for everybody-including, in the end, the build- ers and the buyers.

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There are more telephones and better plumbing than on the Prairies, as many radios per family as in the rest of Canada;

Passenger car ownership per family ex- ceeds Quebec's although lower than the Ontario and western levels;

Population of Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick increased by 11 per cent between 1946 and 1953;

Mineral production doubled in value in that period and increased 26 per cent in volume. New Brunswickls gain was exceed- ed only by Quebec and Alberta;

Electrical energy production increased by 53 per cent and proportionately Prince Edward Island's advance was larger than for any other Province;

Manufacturing output increased by 92 per cent in value and 16 per cent in vol- ume, a rate only slightly below that of Al- berta; g

There were six per cent more manufac- turing establishments in 1953 than in 1946 and the number of employees was up 11 per cent;

Value of output per worker rose more than 73 per cent, exceeded only by On- tario and British Columbia:

Total personal income for 1952 was 41 per cent higher than for 1946 and even after allowing for the larger population was an advance of 33 per cent in P6F50na1 income per capita.

This steady progress, Mr. MacPherson said, represented worthwhile forward strides and supported the belief that the Maritimes would continue to grow and prosper with the rest of Canada.

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Knee-Deep in Bread

In the United States where, as in Can- ada, a huge surplus of wheat has piled up, consumers are being urged to eat more bread. In Europe. it is pointed out, the peo- ple eat several times as much bread as they do on this continent. .

That is true, comments the Financial Post; but they also eat far less meat and eggs, and dairy products. And if they turn to bread in a big way they will have to cut down on the other items. In the end that would mean still less consumption of wheat or at least other grains that com- pete with wheat. The reason is simple.

To produce one pound of meat, a hog or fed from four to five" " pounds of grain and the same would be approximately true for eggs and dairy pro-

a steer must be

ducts. -

"Few people in this modern age could stand knee-deep in bread and polish off 30 slices of it for their supperff says the Post. "But when they eat a fair sized steak they are getting rid of the equivalent in grain. Let the cows eat the grain. And

we will eat the cows."

EDITORIAL NOTES

The cautions being given about shipping potatoes in bags that are dirty because used for picking should not result in an 'There would be a real danger involved in using second-hand bags in the field in order to preserve the

even worse practice.

new appearance of bags to be used for shipping. t O I O Spokesmen for the Potato Marketing Board are not making light of the difficulty of disposing of the Island product in the face of increased production throughout the Atlantic seaboard. If farmers are to real- ize more than the guaranteed price it will be necessary for all to co-operate in main- taining quality and in assuring buyers that contracts will be scrupulously carried out. I I D The sulphur deposits in the base metal discoveries in the Bathurst area of New Brunswick have a special significance for this Province. To New Brunswick they promise a chance to develop a chemical industry based on the manufacture of sul- phuric acid. is interested in, however, is that the sul- phate salts are important ingredients in fertilizers. A 0 It is reported that Canadian Peace Congress is proposing to make a canvass requesting persons interviewed to, say

What Prince Edward Island.

THE SSUARDIAN. Cl-IARLOTTETOWN

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3””'fgI,l.V oi , fix 3-.-

Re-Awakening

SPECULA

thou form- It matters not If south or north, Bleak waste or sunny plot.

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be late He does thee wrong.

To stile or gate Lean thou thy head. and long!

mounting Upon a tower,

Or in thy counting Thou hast mlsta'en the hour.

thee all th

Old Charlotte! using. a. u

THE FAIRY QUEEN

Today. October 7th, marks th 100th anniversary of the memorable tragedy in our Islan transportation history. The lowing account of it is given Pollard's historical sketch of Province, 1900:

'During the early part of th

th

ernment to carry the malls

it was soon found that the time to reach Plctou.

heavy see, that broke open th age otherwise. But repairs wer soon made and she continued he course, and had reached opposit

gave way; splicing this she wa under way again but as she we leaking badly, fears were tcrtained by the officers that sh

boat and left the ship regardles of the fate of those on board.

crew left the ship she went to th bottom, taking with

men and three men; the remain

where they landed after hours exposure to cold and dangers of an angry sen.

th Th

il?oeza' Qua;

When lie appoints to meet thee, go

Nor think. if haply He thou seek'st

It may be that to spy thee He is

But if He comes not. neither do thou go

Till Vesper chime.

Belike thou then shalt know

He hath been with

time.

--'I'. E. Brown.

most d' bound fol-

in

summer of 1853, A steamer called the 'l-"airy Queen', frail, old and shaky. was employed by the Gov-' the be and passengers to and from the neigh- boring Provinces. in the perform- ance of which she continued until the 7th of October. On that morn- ing the steamer left Charlotte- town as usual, with the mails and passengers, bound for Pictou. But. as a gale of wind the night be- fore had made the water rough, old ship was going to have at hard

"Off Point Prim she shipped I

gangways, doing considerable dam-

Pictou Island when the tiller-rope

en-

would flounder, and they, the in- human monsters, and A part of the crew took charge of the only

"Shortly after the captain and her four wo- der of the unfortunate people clung to some wreckage of the ship and

drifted to the Nova Scotla shore. many

cowardly conduct of the captain and others in abandoning the pos- sengers to their fate excited A great deal of public indlgnatlo against them at the time."

It was one of those sober and rather melancholy days in the early part. of the autumn, when the shadows of the morn and evening almost mingle together. that my friend Capt. Cross, who had risen with the sun that morning, could be seen making his way into town from his home, a little way out on the Brighton road; my friend was early ostir, hastening to the stables of the "Royal Oak". to look after a valuable horse that a few days before had arrived in town from his father's estate in Devon.

The Captain had almost reach- ed Block Sam's Bridge when he heard, as he thought, I ship's bell ringing--it was quite clear and distinct to him-eight bells. The Captain was confounded; the sound did not appear to come from the sea, rather as it -were e from the heart of the town. He stopped and heard the ominous sound again; this time he thought it was some vessel on her way out of the harbour, and the wind had carried the sound to him across the Pond.

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lie started on again, and hasten- ed to make up the time he had lost by this strange occurrence. He had reached the corner of Pownal Street when he heard the bell again; no given number, but e a continual dreary toll, as if it were some fog-hell on some rock- coast. The Captain now thinking it was some foreign ship entering the harbour and, not a knowing the channel, was nearing the shore, made his way to the e small bridge at the entrance gates tovGavernment House.

Here is stopped and scanned

y he looked up and down; no vessels seemed astlr; the "Fairy Queen" had not yet left for Pic-

tou. There was a strong wind blowing. it swept in from the Straits, ruffllng the surface of

the placid harbour, and making it quite difficult for three Indians in a native canoe who were pad- dling their way from their en- campment at Warren Farm to the landing place at Pownnl Wharf. Here he again heard the bell, this time in the town again. He thought no church hell would 9 ring at this early hour. What could .lt be? e The Captain now became deep- ” ly interested in his strange quest. 9 Forgetting all about his horse, he retruced his steps up Kent Street. 3 Drawing near Pownal Street he ” heard the sound again, this time coming, as he thought. from the E belfry of the Kirk. Knowing it was unusual for the bell to ring at that still early hour, he de- cided to lnvest.ignte.the mystery. 8 O 0 0 , He crossed the street to Miss MacDonald's corner (the site of 9 the Charlottetown Hotel), walking up Pownal Street until he came ' to Fitzroy. Here ,he heard the St. James Church bell, no mis- take, toll eight times: and lower- in; -his eyes from the belfry to the entrance door. be there be- G, held on its threshold three wo- 0 men dressed in some white ma- terial, with uncovered heads and feet. The woman seemed not -to notice him as he now made his I! way toward them. The bell now struck again and,

. on glancing up, Capt. Cross saw

through the aperture the form, as he. thought; of another women. when he lowered his eyes it was

i The Phantom Bell Ringers,

A LEGEND or Tl-IE om) KIRK AND THE 'l-'AIRY QUEEN l By .1. Edward nemne

but to see the church door: close upon the three that had stood on the steps.

Davy Nicholson, the Kirk sex- ton, turned the corner from the misuse where he had been in- quiring the cause of the bell-rlng- lng at such an unseemly hour, and not receiving I satisfactory an- swer, decided to investigate for himself. They both tried the church doors and found them Io- curely fastened. On looking through the small window: at the side of the door,. they saw the retreating form 'of A woman as- cendlng the steps leading to the belfry. The sexton now made off to the mnnse for the key, leaving the gallant Captain on guard who. above the roar and whistle of the wind, .which was now blowing I gale, could hear the sound of foot- falls and voices in the tower above. 4

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The sexton, accompanied by the minister of the Ki;-k. Rev. Dr. Snodgrass. now arrived on the scenes The door being unlocked, the trio made their way to the belfry. The wind twisted and twined itself about the giddy stairs. and made the. very tower shake and shiver, as they ascen - ed the ladder that led to the bel- fry, which was reached by small trap-hatch that had to be shut down when the bell was frung from above. The round of the pool was heard again by the sexton and Capt. Cross who were climbing the ladder; Dr. Snod- grass, who was in the chamber beneath. failed to hear it on ac- count of the moaning and creak- ing of the tower at the time.

Davy Nicholson was the first to throw up the-hatch and gain access to the belfry, the Captain following close after. The batch being closed to make room for both to stand under the bell. they together examined the apartment. Davy putting his head out one of the small openings in the steeple where a view of the exterior of the belfry might be obtained. In- side and outside there was no one to be seen, though when they reached the belfry the bell was still vibrating. Davy blamed the wind for the mystery. notwith- standing .he had acknowledged having seen the women going up the stairs from the first floor to the chamber above; but the Cap- tain still claimed "there was I woman in it" somewhere.

0 0 O r

Descending to the porch below,

when the Minister awaited them,

I Rood opportunity it at, few words about fire "itself. No subject is more steeped in legend and myth. No human tribe has -over been discovered that was unable to pro. duco fire in some way or other although there have been evidenced of tribes so crude and.ignorsnt i.hst.t.hey did not understand its proper use.

Because knowledge of fire goes back to the first records of man--- and no doubt much farther-it is not'sur rising that primitive peo- ples h e always thought of fire as .one of the four "elements" of the universe, the other three be- ing air, earth, and water.

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The ancient Greeks whol had 0. habit. of clothing every myster- ious and powenf-ul thing in mytho- logical dress had an explanation for the origin of fire that bore no resemblance whatever to the chemical composition which was revealed many centuries later. They said that originally it was in the ouatodyiof the gods and that Prometheus, the stormy petrei of the divine regions, stale it and gave it to man. Perhaps if he had been less reckless he wouldn't have done it... for fire has caused as much trouble and misery lb hu- man affairs as any other single thing.

I recall that I few years ago a man who must have had plenty of time on his hands for research and I. genius for it made a rough estim- ate of the damage that fire has done to life and property in the last century or 90. While I do not remember the exact. figures I do know that. they could be reckoned only in uuonomical team. And the odd thing is that a large per- centage of the fires that take place year after year and day' af- ter day are totally preventable. There Are. of course, many fires of accidental origin and some that oonnot. be explained at all. Never- theless, oorelesonus and negli- gence remain the two outstanding causes of destructive fires.

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Bosneh .. there are still a. great number of , ,le, otherwise in- telligent, who appear to have no idea. of the tential danger that lurks in": lo match. Perhaps the invention of the modern match was I mistake. when fire could be kindled only by the laborious

of sticks or striking flint wltli steel it is certain that peo- plo were more careful with it.

in; the day the Doctor learned that thohousekoepar at Dr. Mack- leson's and Ievtrol others in the vicinity of the Kirk had heard the

bell at the some hour as the sex-

- OCTOBER. 7. 1953

The Passing Scene By Observer . nae ..m.....J - Fire Prevention Week provideslmiywayl it is safe to any that

while most people fear uncontroll- able fire there are few things a-; bout which they are less cautious. LltAral.playir'Ig with fire" goes on all the time. Sonnet” the play. an get away with it, but it's a foolish game. ,

In religion as well as In mythoi. ogy'i'ire has occupied a mystical place from the earliest times. In the pre-Christian cults it was con- aidared so sacred that certain de- votees known as Vestal virgins we;-5 appointed to maintain perpetual flame on the altars of the gods. In Christian history the lighting of the "New Fire" in the paschal season has always been aettended with much oolemnity. It is I care. mony rich in spiritual meaning.

All might be expected fire re.

celves 9. lot of attention in tin: Bible. In a commentary which I consult from time to time I find that it is mentioned upwards of fifty times. sometimes it is used as I symbol of the divine presence. For example, the experience of Moses at Horeb when he saw it "bush burned with fire. and the bush was not consumed." Again, the Christians at Pente- cost were visited by "cloven ton- gues, like as of fire." Sometimes it is made to represent the aveng- lng power of God. Thus, in the Apocalypse we read that "fire came down from God out of Heaven and devoured them." It is also used to denote adveIolty- "We went through the fire and water."

In one place the damage that an irresponsible tongue can do is likened to the damage caused by fire. "Behold, how great. a meticr I lltle fire kindlethi And the ton- gue is a fire!" '

I 0 Fire has its place in secular poe- try, too. In the prologue of Shakes- peare's "King Henry Fifth" the chorus is made to say (or ing): "0 for o muse of I e that would ascend The brightest heaven of inven- tionl"

In "King Richard Second" Bol- lngbroke asks the interesting ques- tion: '

"O, who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking of the frosty Caucasus?"

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Byron writes of the years that "steal fire from the mind as vig- our from the Limb". And Edwarrl Young in his "Love of fame" writes of "souls made of fire and children of the sun, with whom revenge is virtue."

The benevolent aspect of fire was portrayed beautifully by Michael Angelo in lines translated by Henry W. Longfellow:

"Not without the can any work-

man mould

ton and the Captain. 0 O O

,In the afternoon of the some day, Friday, Oct. 7. 1&3, the sad intelligence that the mail steam- er "Falry Queen" had been lost in the.Strait between Pictou Is- land and Caribou. and seven lives lost-four ladies and three men-three of whom were mem- bers of St. James Church congre- gation-recalled to the minds of the parties interested in the

appearance of the women, and the ringing of the bell, which was Giought by Capt. Cross to have sounded like A, ship's bell. .

To the above mystery I can of- for no satisfactory solution. Life- for the present'we are about half alive-is full of the marvellous. That we" may understand more of the marvellous capacities intent in ourselves, and of the phenomena which surround us, is the object for which this narrative has been written.

"There are more things in heav-

en and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in our phil-

strange events of the morning, the .

The iron to his preconceived design,

Nor can the artist without. fire refine

And purify from all its dross the gold:

Nor can revive the phoenix, we are told,

Except by fire. "0 fortunate fire that burns Within me ltlll.to renovate my

days, .

If by its nature unto heaven returns

This element, me, kindled in its bllu.

Will it bear upward when my life is fled."

..........m.m.. PRESERVE MEMENTOES

SHENFIEUD. England--tCP) - Village councils throughout Essr) pounty have been asked to watch for old mileslpne markers which may have been torn up and lost in years gone by. The request follow- ed iscovery of an ancient mile-

osophy."

seeking to find out the cause of the unseemly disturbance,v the Captain narrated to Dr. 5110(I- grns his peculiar adventure of the morning. The Doctor admit- ted that the bell might have run. though he thought it hardly pos- sible; he ridiculed the idea of either the Captain or the sexton seeing the women. The sexton ry- pudiated his statement about see- ing the women ascend the stairs. but the "power of the church". embodied in the minister, had no terror for the Captain, who still stoully maintained that he had seen the women. and their sp- pesronce had left a lasting im- prenllon on his mind.

The church being locked up again. the minister and sexton re- turned home. the Captain proceed- ed to attend. to his. horse, and the oblcure events of the morn-

ing puled from their minds. Dub

Maritime Progress

In their not infrequent complain

oient stress on their noteworthy achiev

against unfair discrimination the Maritime Provinces have perhaps failed to lay suffi-

whether they are in favor of a meeting of the leading powers with a view to settling by negotiation ,mstters which threaten world peace. The innocent-seeming ques-

ts

Jesus saith unto them. lollou ye that I an able to do this? Tilly said unto him, Yea, lard. Thou touched in their eyes, laying. Ao- oordlhx to your faith be it unto you. And their one were opened;

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