PAGE FOUR .. THE GUARDIAN

Authorised on Second Class nun Pout omu Deputnient. Ottawl. The island ulurdlnn Publishing Co.

President and Associate Editor. In A. Burnett-. i Associate Editor. Frank Walker.

CIRCULATION "Coven Prince Edward island like the dew”

:'Tho Strongest Memory 1! Weaker Than the Weakest ink".

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The by-laws passed by the City Council Saturday prohibit parking off the travelled portion of the streets except where space is designated for parking purposes: and in any case prohibit parking on the travelled portion between 1 a. m. and 6 p. m.

It was necessary to adopt some such regulations for the protection of the rights of pedestrians, whose sidewalks in some cases are encroached upon by parked Cars to the point where it is necessary to walk around behind them. Also the indiscrim- inate choice of parking spots has done ser- ious damage to our public squares and to the appearance of other streets the sides of which have been used for parking al- though not intended for that purpose. At the same time the new traffic regulations impose upon the City the responsibilityof properly designating sufficient parking space to reasonably accommodate the needs of motorists. Relatively few are now so designated except in the central shopping area.

The ban on overnight parking on the traversed section is made necessary by the mechanization of street cleaning, as it was made necessary in winter by the mechan- ization of snow removal. Enforcement will be a source of annoyance to many lndlV' iduals but it is not unreasonable that car owners should provide off-street garage or at least parking space at this time of year as they are required to do when the snow

COITIPS.

Ontario highway Policy

One of the important amendments brought before the fall session of .the On- tario Legislature calls for the financing of highway construction and maintenance out of funds specially voted by the LeglSl3tUl'9- This procedure is a drastic change from the old methods whereby the funds were pro-

, vided under the general statutory authority

of the Highway Improvement Act. The Government will now credit amounts to a reserve account from funds appropriated by the Legislature. The House will be ask- ed to vote 1'520,000,000 in addition to the 5;1()0,00().0O0 already earmarked for spend- ing on Ontario roads in the current fiscal year.

Ontarlols highway problem was stated terscly in the House by Premier Frost. ”Car registrations,” he pointed out, "are now over a million and aquarter; cars are rolling off the assembly lines and we may have a further 50,000 registrations before the end of the year. About one in every three of our population is a licensed driver. There is a motor vehicle for less than every four of our population. This just means that there are enough motor vehicles in On- iaiio for every one of our population to find a seat in a motor vehicle at the same time and not be crowded. Indeed, the province is on wheels. In addition to this, we have 5,000,000 visiting motor vehicles coming into this province with their occu- pants every year. We plan to bring the Highway Improvement Act right into line with the conditions of these very heavily mechanized days. Present highway 007'" struction in the province is far beyond any- thing previously attempted and is involving vast sums of money. This is very big busi- ness indecd. Hereafter money will be voted by the people's representatives annually rather than being expended under the gen- eral statutory authority of the old act."

Trygvo Lie's iioport

As Mr. Trygve Lie, Secretary General of the United Nations Assembly, sees the situation. the Korean question is still oh- scured by "honest misunderstanding" as well as potent falsehoods. . . So in his an- nual report to the Assembly he has set forth bluntly why we are at war.

"First of all," says Mr. Lie, "United Na- tions forces are fighting in Korea to resist armed aggression and bring it to an end. The only victory they seek is a victory for collective security and peace. This is not it war against the security of any single na- tion or against any system .of government. It is not a war to unify North and South

.Korea by force. The unification and econ- omic rehabilitation of Korea are political ob-

ectives of the United Nations but only by means. The Charter does not ' use of military-force against to achieve political objectives. it we 0-efe!.0re.lm

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Nations only to throw back the aggressors, to bring the aggression to an end, and to restore peace and security."

On the important issue of collective security Mr. Lie's report is equally clear and unequivocal. He says:

”The final test of effective collective security will always be that a sufficient number of member governments are firmly committed in their policies to join in resist- ing armed aggression wherever it occurs and that they have at their disposal military power strong enough to strike back with punishing effect against any aggressor na- This is the necessary combination of policy and strength that will achieve col- lective security because no nation unde: these circumstances will dare to commit an act of aggression."

Mr. Lie sees the chief value of such pacts in the organization of military power, mak- ing possible close co-ordination of defense preparations and advance creation of com- bined military force among participating members. He is unable to report an improve- ment in the general world situation and as regards Europe he notes the continuing deadlocks over Germany and Austria. At the same time he praises as ”constructive and courageous" efforts towards European unity such as the Schuman Plan, the De- fence Community and the Council of Eur- ope.

IEDIIOEIAL NOI ES

Feast of St. Simon and St. Jude. 9 O Q According to Premier Frost's estimate, the Province of Ontario stands to gain about

5520 million in the fiscal year 1952-53 as a -

result of the five-year tax rental agreement signed with the Federal government a few weeks ago. 0 It is proposed that at Prince of Wales College the pictures of graduating classes be hung in the corridors rather than in the library so that they may be seen by all rather than a few. What, though, if the pictures empty the corridors as well as the library?

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Theoretically it should not .m'attci' whether a fund is collected and administer- ed on a national or a local basis. But hu- man nature being what it is, local people feel readier to give towards the Canadian Legions poppy campaign knowing that the proceeds are used on a local basis to aid

needy ex-servicemen. O

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Unlike the situation in the United States, reports the Bank of Montreal Busi- ness Review, the net budgetary cost of farm price support in this country has been very small. The net losses incurred by the Canadian Agricultural Prices Support Board during the five years after it began oper- ations in 1946 amounted to less than J10 millions. But with prices of farm products becoming softer, the cost of farm price sup- port could conceivably be a more important item in the foreseeable future than it has

in the past.

Captain James Cook, celebrated English navigator, was born this date 1728. He left his apprenticeship to a haberdasher to go to sea and was soon made mate. He joined the navy in 1755 and was successively mas- ter of three sloops, in the last of which he was present at the capture of Quebec: As marine surveyor of Newfoundland and Lab- rador he published the results of an observ- ation of a solar eclipse off Cape Ray. He then was employed by the Royal S0Clei.V. exploring the waters of New Zealand and Australia. In a later expedition he cruised the Pacific for three years with the loss of one man through scurvy. l

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The joys of progress are often tinged with regret and the movement of people from old property in the centre of Edin- burgh to new houses on the periphery has brought its own particular loss in. the clos- ing of the world-famous Tron Kirk. The "Tron" is more than a kirk to Scots all over the world, for it is outside this famous landmark that thousands gather on Hog- manay to bring in the New Year with their friends. As the clock sounds midlllgllil 9" the last day of the year Scots join hands and sing "Auld Lang SYNC". 35 'lh9”' thoughts turn to friends at home and over-

SEES.

Fishermen have long followed. a card- inal rule in the interest of conserving game resources: Throw back the little ones. Now. reports the New York Times, the National Wildlife Federation dlsapproves of the maxim, at least so far as hook-and-line fish- ing for sport is concerned. Under natural conditions, it is claimed, fish need no PTO- tection to repopulate or even over-populate the waters. Only 9. scanty few of each hatch can ever grow to maturity. In the

competition for food and living space, thou-

sands of fish must die in order that ii dozen or so may mature. Spbrtsmen,'however. may find the law unsympathetic to'any. such arguments. ' - '

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A uiovd in time saves nine!

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ON GROiVlNG OLD

Be with-me, Beauty, for the fire is

dying;

My dog and I are old, too old for roving,

Man, whose young passion sets the spindrift flying,

Is soon too lame to march, too old for loving.

I takegihe book and gather to the

fire.

Turning old yellow leaves: miniue by minute

The clock ticks to my heart; A withered wire

Moves is thin ghost pf music on the spinal.

I can not sail your seas, I can not wander

Your corn land, nor your hill land, nor your valleys,

Ever again, nor share the yonder.

Where the young knight the broken squadron rallies.

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-Only stay quiet while my mind re- members

The beauty of fire from the beauty of embers.

-John Masefleld.

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r.Am.i' i.i(;r:Nsi-zn Tl5A('HERS

The first meeting of the Board of Education of the Island was held in July, .1830, and the follow- ing list of schoolmasiers includes all who were licensed by the Board U!) to the end of 1833, as published in the Legislative As- sembly journal- for the following year:

Music-rii of (lraminar Sclioolii: Alexanfler Brown. Charlottetown; Alexander Rac, Princeiown; John MncNcil, Georgetown.

District. Schoolmiufers: Reuben Fales, Thomas Irwin, Charlotte. town: Joiin Arhucklc, Exist Point; Charles Macarthy, Lot 4.'l; Thomas Brown, South Shore; John Mac. Innis, Malcolm Darrarh, Elliot River; Neil Arbuckle, Belle Creek; Waller Pheliin, Tryon; Samuel MiicLeod, Belfast: Sebastian Dav- idson, Cavendish; Robert Robert- son, John Shaw, Three Rivers; William ll. Neils, Princetown Rov- nlty: Alexander Smith. Lot 49; Neil Macloean, Pinnetlc: Archi- bald M:icKinnon. Point Prim; Alliin Stewart, Lot 49; Archibald Mac- Kenzle. Charlottetown Royalty; Thomas Crmve, Donaldslnwn: Neil MncKinnon, East Point: Neil Show, Dog River; John MacNe-ll, St. Pe- ter's: William George Carson. Lat 32; Hector Johnston, Lot 34: James Ii. Filzfernid, Bedeque: Richard Quinn, Brackley Point; Roderick MacDonald. Lot 14; Patrick Doyle, Cape Traverse; James Kelly, St. Andrew's; Hugh MacLenn, North River: John MarNell. Belfast; Pat- rick Griffin. China Point; Donald Graham, Orwell River; Thomas Walsh, Alexander McCabe, Ed. ward Kickham. Charlottetown: Patrick Doyle, Vernon River; An- thony Melody. Lot 48: John I-learnt, Darnley: John Whipple. Bedeque: William Coiiteii. St. Eleonora: Charles MacEachern, Newtown, Belfast; John MacLenn, Lot 16; John Ronnn. Lot 18; James MacLsughiiin, East Point: Roderick Campbell, Di:-Sable; Donald Mac- Rse, Belfast: George Irving; Ro- bert Blnke Irving, Charlottetown; Pierce Ryan, Brackley Point: Ed- ward Kirvnnsgh. Mill Cove; Thom- an Noonan. St. Peter's; James Gouldrup, Bedeque; Robert mid- gei-son. Mill Cove; Patrick Swee- ney, Grand Rlver; Michael Dunn, Lot 43; Thomas Welsh, Pisquid River; bonald Mnckinnon. Mal- peque Road: Archibald Mnckinnon, Murray Harbour: John Stuart. Guernsey Cove; Lawrence O'Brien. Cardigan River: John MscKinnon, Lot 33: Donald MacDonald. St. Peter's; - Donald MacDonald, Lot 44; Charles Fowie, John slnttry, William Morris, Char-

lot Poll: l Pi-tin; Tliomn Collins, In-

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i Canadian Post. Office proposes to use television and helicopters lilo speed up Her Majesty's malls in this country. Even more effec- tive. many will hold, would be re- storation in the cities of the two- deiiveries-a-day sistem. A Ottawa Journal.

As Great Britain sinks world political scale the tlon found in the tame animal kingdom seems to increase. Since 1947. when we had our first sharp economic crisis, the dog popula- tion ls up (according to the sur- vey's calculations) by 22 per cent. the cat population by 16 per cent, and the cage-bird population by 1'10 per cent. There is much room for advance, unless hard-hearted landlords and a scarcity of food bar the way. But, perhaps, four million cats, and over it million and it half cage birds are quite enough to be going on with. -- Marichester Guardian.

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A subscriber has sent us the wrapping of a can of tobacco on which the following stamped in- telligence appears: Tobacco 80 cents, federal tax 40 cents; total 31.20. The reader is quite right in pointing out that, if all items were ihus marked the consumer would soon discover who is really re- sponsible for the high cost of liv- ing: particularly if the article also informed athe buyer as to how much the item carries by way of income tax, security tax, old RRC pension tax. provincial sales tax. federal sales tax. municipal tax and possibly a few more. - Mon- treal Financial Times.

Those fellows who have been grinding out stories describing Northern Saskatchewan as the last, frontier will have to col their own mush now that the trappers up there have set aside 60 square miles for the exclusive use of wom- en pelt-hunters. Whether this is a nice. chivalroiis gesture or 3, de- vice for preventing disputes over trap lines we don't know-or care. For whoever heard of such chival- ry or such anxiety to avoid argu- ments in the unconquered wilder- ness? Up until this happened not even the movie makers had been able to shake our conviction that a. frontier was it place where men

were men and women were scarcely tolerated. -- Saskatoon Star-Phoenix.

Visitors in Britain for the For- onaiion next year should he rea- sonably safe from the llght-f'm- gered gentry. Scotland Yard has begun lo list the assorted crooks who may be considering transfer of their operations to the British Isles for that occasion. The rum- pact island kin dom is well suited to such crime revenllon methods as Scotland Yard is applying. Not only has the law detailed informa- tion on the practicing thieves at home. it is in ii position to check outsiders who can arrive only by boat or plane. with advance in- formation on the movements of those oily artists. it can prevent their entry or keep them under observation. This is not to say that the Coronation crowds can be fully protected against crooks. That's impossible. What it means is that if the people in those crowds are half as cautious as the police, the crooks will have poor

pickngs. -Windsor star. Miinufmturon of certain food products. we Ire thinking here

particularly of bottled and tinned jams, jellies and pickles, often demonstrate I fiendish capacity for devising tops which even a circus strong-man would have much difficulty in removing. The British. we think, Ire pre-emin- ent in this field. On occasions too ni";;:-rous to mention we have

dlan River: Roderick MacDonald. Charlottetown Royalty.

Aondinn French Teachers: John Richard Bolt. Rusticoz Jacques Pietro. Wheatiey River; Pincldq Anenuuit, Abrams Village; Fran- cois Blott, Belle Alliance; Pierre Dollvird. Tlgnlnh; J. Aruemiult Mn- gitte, St. Joupli. Lot 15.

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ldamaged tempers.

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wrestled with food jars, round using every available weapon the kitchen and even tool house-

to show are bent broken knives

bottle and Food manu- facturers may work on the theory

lthat food which is difficult if not consola--

lmpossible to open must become much more desirable in the des- peraicly hungry and frustrated consumei”s eyes. It so the leaves us cold. - Bi-ockville rorder and Times.

Sum; Peace River district farm- ers, or rather t.he.r grairifieids, are being attacked by herds of "wild" horses. The animals will have to be stopped. undoubtedly, yet we rus- peci. many will feel some sympathy for the animals, as well as for the men. Nowadays, horses can scarce.- ly be blamed for taking to the hills and forming wild bands to perpet- uate their species, In domestic life. after all, they hre being more and more replaced by machines, and human beings are becoming alto- gether too fond of biting into a haunch of horse. If these trends continue, and ilOl'3e sense means anyt-hing. Dobbin and friends may well go back to nature in increasing numbers as time goes on. -- Ed- monton Journal.

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Siudents Exchange

(Ottawa Journal)

The National Federation of Can- adian University Students has taken a stand against visits of Russian students' to Canada and Canadian students to Russia on e ieciprocal basis.

This is. we are sure, the right decision. The Russians would wel- come such ll step because of its opportunities for propaganda-db recited both at our young people visiting the Soviet Union and at Canadian students at home through the young Communists we should have to admit and enter- tain. All that might not. do any harm, but it is folly to subject, and unnecessarily, so many of our young people to so sinister an fr.- fluence.

There is no question here of any sacrifice of the broad prin- clplc of freedom of speech and of thought. and opinion. Communism

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OCTOBER 23.3952

A LOOK

Accidents will happen, of course, but. that old saying can hardly Justify the enormous number of fatal highway accidents, a. num- ber which appears to be increas- ing every year in spite of all the advice that is being constantly handed out to automobile drivers.

The problem is l. very grave one in this country and the United States and no doubt in other countries as well. Unless drastic measures are taken soon ii: prom- isds to assume the status of na- tional calamity.

The cost in material terms is appalling. The cost in human suffering and anguish is something which no statistics can reveal. The tragic thing is that in the great. majority of cases "accidents" are not really accidents at all, but simply the results of carelessness, bad judgment. and downright neg- ligence. As a. recent speaker on the subject put it. "the human factor (the driver) is the greatest single cause of accidents”.

Contrary to popular opinion, the instances where mechanical de- fects and weaknesses are respons- ible are relativelyvew. So, appar- ently, the chief reason we have so many highway fatalities is that there are far too many irrespons- ible drlvers on the roads.

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According to the same speaker, who evidently had facts and fig- ures to support his statements, 'i0'.Vo of all accidents are caused by speeding, driving on the wrong side of the road, drinking, and refusing the right of way to oth- ers, ln that order. This is proof that the human factor is indeed the principal element involved.

It LS ll. strange fact that ,many people who, normally, appear sane enough, become virtually crazy the moment their feet touch an accel- erator. Why this is so the most eminent psychiatrists have not been able to explain, and certainly it is a psychiatric problem.

Need for haste has nothing whatever to do with it. It is only in extremely rare cases that a man has any real need to drive at a higher speed than fifty miles per hour. Very often fast. drivers are not going anywhere in par- ticular. They have no purpose in mind except the desire for speed. Driving on the wrong side of the road comes in somewhat the same category. There is no ex- cuse for it and no advantage to be gained by it. It is obviously just as easy to drive on the right side as on the wrong one. and yet hundreds of drivers persist in this delinquency. ' Why do they do it? The late Professor Freud could answer iii- most any question having to do with mental aberrations (to his own satisfaction, that is) but this is one question that his profound knowledge of self-assertive tend- encies would not have been suffic- ient to answer.

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Whatever may be said of drink- ing from a. social standpoint, there is only one thing to be said about it so far as our driving is con- cerned. It is definitely and in- excusably criminal. There is no getting away from the fact that every drinking driver is n poten- tial killer. He does not always kill and he scarcely ever intends to kill, but. neither of these cir- cumstances can modify the ever present. danger.

I have heard of only one com- munity where this problem was faced in realistic fashion, and that was in small town in one of the American States. Any person in- volved in 9. highway accident through drinking, moderately or otherwise. is not permitted ever again, for any purpose whatso- ever, to drive any vehicle within the limits of that municipality, and breach of that law is regard-

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edpiishn felony.

er and i would be I goon thing if that were to become stan. dard practice everywhere. It would not. of course, stop all highway slaughter, for there would still be ll. lot of foolish people behind steering wheels. but it would rura- ly be H. great. help.

Refusing the right of why to others is another of those paychj. attic twists for which them seems to be no explanation. As in the case of excessive drivers the coni- monly called "road hog" is usually 5. normally courteous person ren. dered unclvll by the "feel" of an automobile.

If the ill manners of the road were transferred to ordinary social relationships whole communities would be forced to live in per. manent bcdlam.

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The fact. is that 20th century man has not yet. been able to adapt his habits and manners to the demands and requirements of 20th century technology. which is another way of saying that we have more mechanical gadgets than we know how to handle properly. And that, in turn, is an indictment of what. we like to call our moral progress.

Specifically. so far as the sub- ject of this article goes, there will be no appreciable lessening of highway accidents until an entire- ly new concept is introduced into automobile licensing procedui-gs, This concept. it it ever does ax. rive, will recognize the importance of emotional and psychological in well as technical qualifications. But, of course, before any such concept can find a. place in our routine systems it, will have to be absorbed into our thinking.

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The large number of hunting accidents should also cause grave concern, whereas actually it seems to arouse very little general in- terest of any kind. Here, too, I bit more common sense in gram. lng licenses is indicated. A state- ment made by 8. Nova Scotla of. flclal that "a person can be totally blind, tmentaily unbalanced, and know nothing about loading or firing in gun and still be eligible for a. hunting license" indicates a really tragic situation. And it. is by no means confined to Nova Scotia. Why do government of. ficlals go through the formality of issuing licenses at all if no dis- crimination whatever is to be ex- ercised in what very often is n matter of life or death?

MOVE FOR WINTER.

CALGARY-(CP)-The prslrls winter is too cold for Nat: and Stony, sea lion: in the Calgary zoo. They have been moved to balmy Vancouver t.o keep warm while hardier animals remain here.

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The proposed exchange of stu- dents would be nil,-to the adven- tnge of the Communists. We in our open-hearted way would show them virtually anything they might want to see in Canada. tell them what. they might. want. .to know. give them unlimited oppor- tunltles to convert and corrupt our people. Canadians in Russia. on the other hand. would see no

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