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THE GUARDIAN

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CIRCULATION

Total City Zune..... ..................................... 3.163 ttetail Trading Zone. ..........................-...... 8.657 All others .. ............................................ 83 total Net Paid ........................................ 13.041

Editor and Managing Director. J. I. Burnett Associate Editor. i-"rank Walker

f'The St. ngest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink".

CHARLOTTETOWN, FRIDAY. JULY 13: 1951

lllghway safety Measures

Highway traffic safety is a matter of prime importance at all times, and the views of such a representative organiza- tion as the Womenls institutes on this subject are deserving of special consid- eration. As pointed out in a resolution adopted at the closing session of the In- stitute convention on Wednesday, highway fatalities have been of too frequent occur- rence here recently. While a great deal or money is being spent on improved roan facilities, no provision is made for the safety of school children and other pedest- rians, who also have to use the high- ways for legitimate purposes, and who must do so at considerable personal risk. This condition will get worse as time goes on. as heavy truck transportation develops not to speak of the steady increase in auto traffic which has been noticeable in re- cent years.

The Institiite's suggestion is that spec- ifications for road construction and main- tenance include some provision for foot- pall-s along the highways, and that while road work is in progress, stones and debris he piled elsewhere than along the road- side for a space sufficient for the accom- modation of pedestrians and cyclists. This matter is of timely importance in view of the Trans-Canada Highway projects now under way. The main purpose of these highways, of course, is for motoi traffic. but the safety of pedestrians, and partic- ularly of school children, should not be lost sight of.

When the railway lines were built, it grave mistake was made in not providing: for better safety measures at level cross- ings. How many lives have been lost due to shortsighted economy in this regard it would be impossible to say, but the num- her must be legion even in this little Prov- ince. Our Provincial highway policy has been more enlightened. Already much pro- gress has been made in the removal of roadsidc obstacles to freer vision. in elim- inating dangerous curves and in widening the roads for heavier traffic. If it is at all possible to make further improvement in. the interests of public safety, along the lines suggested in the Institute rcsolutiolt, the Government would be well advised to consider the matter. It is not a question of standard highway practise but of the particular needs of this largely rural com- munity. The expense involved need not he great-certainly not out of proportion in the vital purpose to be served

Farm Hazards

it is traditional for farm children to take an active part in farming operations The custom has much to commend it. both from the point of view of rural economy and the training and disciplining of youth. It must not be lost sight of, however, that the conditions of work are changing. Ma- chinery has taken the place of horsepower in many operations. instead of a. kindly Dobbin who would take care not to harm his young friends, there are powerful trac- tors and engines which go their remorse- lcss way bringing injury and destruction should the operator's attention wander or his skill prove inadcqutitc. '

Sol-zniilist Brokers?

i'I&ll'lll()d Canadian housewives who find it. hard to stretch the family budget far enough to pay a dollar a pound for break- fast coffee will not find much comfort in the revelations made by a West Indies tradc delegation presently visiting this country. The reason the price of coffee grown in the British West Indies has reach- ed such astronomical figures is not because, as some would have it believed, the pri- vate traders are doing (I bit of profiteering. Rather. it is because the British sobialist, Government. is indulging in 9. bit of pro- fiteerlng itself, at Canada's expense.

Here's how it works out. Last year British crown colonies in the West Indies were required to sell their total coffee out- put to the United Kingdom. For their crop they were paid in sterling at a price arb- itrarily fixed by bulk-trading bureaucrats in London. The coffee was shipped to England, then re-shipped to Canada for sale at a price substantially higher than what the British had paid for lt.'Freight ootitl made the price delivered in Canada even higher.

The West Indies trade delegation fig- ure that they would get a better price for

their coffee on the open market in Canada than what they are paid by Britain. They also believe that breakfast coffee would cost Canadians a good deal less than a dollar a pound if they could market it di- rect, without it having to travel to this country via London, with Prime Minister Attlee's socialist brokers taking their cut. Last year, say members of the trade del- egation, the British Government made a profit of d280,000 on coffee alone, bought at fixed prices in the West Indies and sold through London to Canada.

The idea of a resumption of direct trade between Canada and the British West Indies makes sense. It remains to be seen whether the trade delegation can impress such reasoning upon the minds of Britain's planners.

EDITORIAL NOTES

The strawberry season is all too short but the present methods in use to quick freeze and otherwise preserve the fruit provide a continued supply of the next-best thing and a dependable market for the grower.

0 U ! One Raine Bennett, 210 East 38th Street, New York City, is compiling im- pressions from "articulate islanders" what it means to -them to have been island born. He could have saved much research by' a judicious choice of his own birthplace. O O O The Army is loolting for a trainini: area about 50 miles long and 15 'to 20 miles wide so as to be able to train a com- plete division in case of need. On that basis this Province could be used for three divisions, but there would be some 9(l,()00 displaced persons. 0 O I The Federal Tariff Board has decided that a mixture of 80 per cent hydrogen- ated cottonseed and 20 per cent hydro- genated soy bean oil, imported -for making margarine resembles cottonseed oil more than anything else, and should benefit from the lower rate of duty accordingly. 0 O 0 The Berlin treaty was signed this date 1878. The congress of Berlin, at meeting of European powers, regulated the affairs of the Balkan peninsula. It was summon- ed by Prince Bismarck and British repre- sentatives were Lords Beaconsfield and Salisbury. I I D O

Fire in a building in which the public has gathered calls for neither unreasoning panic nor destructive vandalism. There would be few reports of injury or death in such circumstances if everyone .made 2. practice of noting the'location of exits and in case of emergency, walked quietly to the nearest.

! O O The Women's Institutes are once more all set for another year and have mapped out for themselves a strenuous programme of activities which will bccupy -them all Winter and Spring, the season in which the ladies have most time at their dis-- posal apart from their domestic and farm duties. I D Q

A L'niversity trained Antigonish C.C.F. farmer, now of Gravelbourg, Sask.. has been elected to the Saskatchewan Legislature over a Liberal lawyer partner of the form- er occupant of the seat, now promoted to the bench. The latter has demanded a re- count as there was only 81 votes between them. This has been an unfortunate sea- son for by-elections so far as the Liberals are concerned.

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London, with a total of 12,831,914 peo- ple, is nearly as big in population as the whole of Canada. The population of Eng- land and Wales, 750 to the square mile, is the densest almost in the whole world. The total population of the United Kingdom ex- ceeds fifty millions. More immigrants en- tered the country since 1931 than those who emigrated.

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This witty correspondence appeared in a recent issue of The -Times, London. "Sir,-if at breakfast a kipper is spread out on your plate with its tail on the right. the backbone is found sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other. Does this mean that-for want of a better term- some kippers are left-handed? John Chris- tie." Reply: "Sir,-The kipper is like the Liberal Party. The backbone may be.on the left or the right, according to how it is split. R. H. Spence, MP."

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A striking coincidence. Two Canadian girls on a cycling tour of Britain stopped the other day to ask a passerby the road to Inglesham, near Lechlade. Noticing her name on her saddle bags the man asked Miss G. I-lenshaw if any of her relatives had served with the R. A. F. during the last war. Miss I-Ienshaw produced , ii photograph of her bmtlier, who had been killed in a flying accident while serving with the R. A. F. With her brother in

the picture was a friend--thei man to whom she was thlking. '

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GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN calling For A Remedy '

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THE LITTLE DANCERS

Lonely. save for a few faint stars. the sky

Dreams; and lonely, below, the lit- tle street

Into its gloom retires, secluded and

shy.

scaicely the dumb roar enters this soft retreat;

And all is dark. save where come flooding rays

From a. tavern window: there, to the brisk measure

Of an organ that down in an alley merrily plays.

Two children, all alone and no one by.

Holding their tattered frocks, through an airy maze

Of motion. lightly threaded with nimble feet.

Dance sedatcly: face to face they gaze. ,

Their eyes shining. grave with a perfect pleasure.

-Laurence Binyon.

Five-Day Week Sought By Banks

(The Montreal Gazette) Appropriate Government action has been sought by all of Canada's chartered banks, through the Can- adian Bankers' Association, to per- mit reduction of their regular business operations and their em- ployees' working hours to five days a week. The request, put last week before Hon. D. C. Abbott, Finance Minister. is aimed at relieving the banks of the statutory obligation to remain open for business for at least part. of every weekday. in- cluding Saturday, apart. from legal holidays.

The banks evidently have been concerned for several years with this ruling, imposed by the Bills of Exchange Act and applying to no other industry or business. It has impeded their desire to put the working conditions of their staffs more closely on is par with the majority of employees in other fields. After extended study of ways and means to overcome the legal and other difficulties in the way of B five-day banking week, the Association is now pressing for early legislation to facilitate it. The banks have found its lack an increasing handicap in obtaining. and retaining, the necessary calibre of personnel to assure the neces- siuzv standards of service.

The average bank employee al- ready enjoys many of the advent- ages and terms of employment prevailing for office workers in other lndusti-les,.lncluding compar- able salary rates. pensions. holidays with pay. sick leave, severance pay, and weekly working hours which nvei-age close to 40, even after el- lowing for necessary overtime es month-ends and on other occu- lons. Despite this the bunks report. that the absence of ii five-day banking week is n factor-often the main factor-in I tendency of both job seekers and existing bank employees to take positions by preference with non-banking firms. in some cues at. lower ply.

spokesmen for the 0.B.A. have explained that it would be im- practical to attempt to maintain B live-day week with extra stuff to spread operations over six days, partly because of technical diffic- ulties in bank administration. part- l.v because of the substantial od- dltlonel cost. that would be involv- ed. Even with legislative freedom to operate on I five-day basis. the banks will still face a. number of problems in putting it. into effect. because of the differing customs and requirements of buninoll in various sections of the cdimtry and in communities of disparate line and type. Because of these consid- erations, the banks would intro- duce the change in houn cred- unlly. beginning experimentally in the inner cities, and in some also to conform to local curtain by closing Wednesday afternoon: in- stead of Saturday mornings.

The bunkers have properly laid

the problem before the Genom-

Muddled Thinking

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"Communism and Capitalism." says Dr. Gordon A. Siscoe, "are both defective from the Chrlstizm point of view." Loose talk of this sort scarcely merits coni- ment but for the fact that Dr. Siscoe happens to be secretary of the General Council of the United Church of Cannda. Com- ing from so eminent A church- man it is apt to be both mislead- ing and dangerous.

Unfortunately, Dr. Slscne liiis chosen merely to indulge in vagina generalities in his denunciation of capitalism. Had be qualified his remarks by stating that the sort of capitalism to which he was re- ferring was the sort of exploit- ation and misery that was the lot of the many in the days im- medlately following the industrial Revolution. his utterances might have made some sense. As those utterances stand, Dr. Slscoc in effect denounces the economic system that the Prime Minister nnd his cabinet collcactues have declared on more than one or- casion to lie essential to the pre- servation of freedom itself.

It is fashionable iii soclnllst circles to lump capitalism and communism together as kindred evils. The danger inherent in such an attitude of mind is the failure to distinguish the fact that

capitalism has its roots in iii- dlvldual freedom, whereas com- munism rests upon tyranny.

Christian leaching constantly cm- phasizes the worth and dignity of the individual, something that communism utterly denies,

Dr. Siscoe, in rejecting rom- munlsm as unchrlstian is perfect- ly correct. In rejecting capitalism as it is known in Canticle today. he suggests by implication that socialism, which. places the stnte before the individual in all things. is the sole nlternntlve. Surely such a conclusion. from the Christian point of view. is also defective.

to determine whether flve-day- week equality for bank workers with other fields, including rall- way office workers and civil ser- vants in summer can be facilitated in harmony with public conven- ience Ind general public policy. l

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EARLY EXHIBITION

"The annual Exhibition consist- ing of colts. fillies. cattle, sheep. hogs, and grain. under the our.- pices of the Agricultural Society. took place on Wednesday last on the Market Square. From the in- difference shown towards the ex- hibition lnst year, it appears the Society contemplated but little competition this year. But. to our agreeable surprise, even at an early hour the whole Market and Square were crowded with an im- mense concourse of competitors and spectators. far exceeding in number nnv former exhibition. it may be supposed that the excite- ment mnnifcstcd on this occasion was chiefly attributable to the in- terest felt in the additional ap- pearance of tlic colts and fillies, the produce of the famous horse lmported by His Excellency Lieu- tenant Governor Ready; but In every article for which :i premluin was offered there was great. colli- petition.

"Mr. Thomas Owc-n's bull, 5 years old. which got the first premium. obliiincd the second two years ago. His sire. the famous old Emzlisn hull. then stained the first. The nmin surpassed all former shows. there being no less than twenty-tlircc samples of bar- ley. Mr. Francis Lonmvorth very deservedly not the two premiums for wheat -- the first prize was from the semi of Snmpson Rose. and the second from the ti:-i wheat imported by the Soclctv. The cats preserved th-lr usual superiority. the first prize KOIIHZ to Mr. William Dockendorff."

-Royal Gazette, Nov. 2, 1830.

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At the end of the 1949-50 fiscal year there were 12,408 post offices in Canada.

LETHBRIDGE, l.'.lta.-(CP)- Al- berta pest controller W. A. Lobay says Canada has at least one rat for 'every human and they cost the icountry s275,ooo.ooo annually.

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in Alexandria. Egypt. there's a ,'ckpoc aw union. but we haven't heard 1 at they picket the caps for being unfair to this kind of or- ganized labor. -Ottawa Citizen.

Two Canadian girls on n oycllnx tour of Britain stopped the other doy to uk 3 piisserby the road to Insleahnm. near Lechlade. Notic- ing her name on her saddle bags the man asked Miss G. Henshaw if any of her relatives had served with the RAF during the last. war. Miss 1-lenehow moduced in photo- graph of her brother, who had been killed in I. flying accident while serving with the RAF with her brother in the picture was B friend - the marl to whom she was talking. - UK Information Office.

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July is here. Midsummer holl- dlyii have started for the school boys and girls. Now families can be on the move. These days, whnt with iiutomo lies and vacations with pay, el oel: everybody can take I vacation for A couple of weeks. And they should. Especially this year. What with the cold war. the cost of living and inflation and ii. Spring which tried to set up is record for bllzzards. people may be pardoned for a show of nerves. And there's nothing like 8. well-

runaways-9.

The W ax 1;, (K

try with democratic fdosie. ,4” other factors being oqllll. .wI firm. ly believe the contention gun. mined in the foregoing is loumj The French and the.Britleh found. ed.thls nation, and it could well do with more of those mu.- iitocks. Immigration from France. however. appears negligible, .nd' the nation has u. very sturdy French population as it is. in saying gm, we do not mean to attempt in up; way to belittle the idea of immigl ration from France: it to merely. that immigration figures illdicltc that Canada must. look to the cm. or great foundation stock :0, any appreciable increase in Illlnijgy-3,

lion. Canada, we think. needs mon- Brltlsh immigrants - of the ngh. kind. There are other consider:-I tlons just as important or race, if not more so. Ability, aduptgmmy health and training an gmongl them. as ll reasonable ouuranc. that the individual immigrant 11 not of a. decidedly unwanted pollt. ical breed. Given adequate screen. mg to ascertain these things, w. think the interesu of the nation would be best served by an in. crease in immigrants of British stock. -- Kingston Whig-stand, ord. . . .

Man chooses the low roads In: his main traffic arteries. Cemem,

planned holiday to bring the re- laxation the nervous system needs. In these days of automobiles which bring the Summer ,resort as 81054.- ae the open road, and when whole families can go gypsylng, there's no arouse for not. taking a vac- ation, absorbing the sun and other- wise preparing for the year nhead - Lethbridge Herald.

The United States Army order decreelng that the siting expres- sion "GI" shall no longer be used to designate an American soldier, applies only to the army's own in- formation officers, Army officials are not. so naive as to believe that they can regulate by edict vernac- ular usage. The expression "Gl" came into and remained in cur- rency because everyone loves an abbreviation, especially one like "GI", which is whimsical. Its rep- resentation of the monotony and standardization attached to "gen- eral issue” appealed to civilians who had temporarily turned to sel- dlcring. Until another adequate ex- pression is found to describe thi- American soldier the initials "GI" will not. drop from the language. After all, the American soldier has never been known by that name. Before he was in "GI". he was ii Doughboy, and before that he was. known in some parts as a Dani- yankec. - Ottawa Citizen. 0 O I