L ~“—-quite‘ inexcusably, we think-—-of the V

/ grant. we receive \for four years as‘; + our share of the adjustment grant for

, right‘m_tomexpect that much. ‘

_ arguments for the amount he receiv-

I higher than those of Newfoundland.

or ﬁuardizetu

’("«0oven Prince Edward Island Like the Dew

Published every week-day morning at 165 Prince Street Charlottetown, P.E.I.. by the Thomson Company Ltd- A. Burnett, Publisher and General Manager ' Frank Walker. Editor Member Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers Association Member of The Canadian Press Member Adult Bureau of Circulations Irtwh offices at Summerside, Montague and Alperton ‘Represented Nationally by Thomson Newspapers Advertising Service 0 King Street West, Toronto, Ont. 640 Cathcart St.. Montreal 1030 West Georgia Street, Vancouver B3-Carrier Charlottetown, summerside $1a.00 per cm- nnm. Elsewhere in P.E.I. $9.00. other Provinces and ' U.s. 212.00 per annum.

“T he strongest memory is weaker than ' ‘ the weakest ink.”

MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1958

That Acliuslment Grant ._The brief presented by the City of

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I Towns of the Province for an ade- qiiate share of the special federal of $2,500,000 contains state- nights which cannot be lightly dis.- Ifiissed. The full text of the brief, as .pi3esented to the Premier and Provin- ci§;l ‘Treasurer on Friday, appeared in}-Saturday’s Guardian and will, it is hoped, be studied very carefully by every member of the Legislature w_hich,_is scheduled to meet on Tues- day. Just howthis grant should be apportioned is a matter for the Pro- vincial Government to decide; but there .seems no question that it was intended to include municipal aid. The amount asked for is $253,629, cfifapproximately 10 per cent of the giant. The municipalities, it is point- ed fout, represent 31 per cent of the Province’s population; and it is claim-

7 ad that the greater proportion of taxes /paid into the provincial treas- ury emanates from the municipalities.

"There is no doubt, on the other lland, that themProvincial Government has itself been seriously handicapped for lack of revenue and that educa- tion and other important departments have suffered as a result. In the brief presented by the Government at the Dominion-Provincial Conference, ya

§5,000,000'annual increase was urged ‘ '

as a basic minimum requirement un- der the tax sharing agreements. We got practically nothing as a result of the change in the formula of these agreements announced by Finance Minister Fleming—the only Province which failedwto benefit in this re- spect. This was due to the dropping

stabilization grant in the agreements. ' That is something which still has to befexplained, and on which we are oertainly entitled to reconsideration. I Moreover, the .-$2,500,000 extra

the Atlantic Provinces is considerably 4 less than we had expected. While it represents much more than we ever received under the Liberal regime--- and is certainlylto be. welcomed on I that score——it still does not meet dpr fiscal requirements.’ We still can- not understand why Newfoundland, with a Royal Commission now.assess- ing its claims for special federal aid-, s‘_hould- have received 30 per cent to’? our 10 percent of the general ad-

justment grant for the four Provin- ». ces. As reported unofficially at the

time,-,ourV,A share of this grant was to ihavejibeen $3,800,000.- On the basis of the [total amount allocated-— ‘$25,0__0_0,000—-and of our fiscal needs and taxpaying ability, we had every

_;The allocation of this grant, it was stated, was made on aformula agreed “llponoby the gove_rnm.ents of the'At- lahtic Provinces. But we understand that the formula itself was worked by Federal Government officials, it originally it provided for even , less-‘than we actually received, and that the $2,500,000 was awarded us only after strong protest by Premier Maitheson.

ii‘ In that case we think the Premier, _ at the Ottawa conference when the ’ was first being discussed, should have pressed more strongly o.llr._needs as compared to those of Newfoundland. Premier Smallwood’s

ed, over and above the $17,000,000 he expects from the Royal Commission findings, could easily have been ail- red; for they were based on dif- fe, encejin living conditions between his‘ Province and Nova Scotia, (the '_;_a.lthiest of the Atlantic Provinces) not atall on Prince Edward Is- land, which, as shown by the per capita income figures submitted at the Conference, are only slightly -

Nor can it be argued that the grant was distributed on a population basis, for Newfoundland’s population is much less than Nova‘ Scotia’s, al- though it received exactly the same amount.’ Nova Scotia, however—— along with New Brunswick and New- foundland — benefited considerably under the change in the tax agree-

,performance of a Shaw play here,»

. the real beginning of Shaw’s recogni-

_Kinsmen brought the Canadian Play-

&‘of Shakespeare’s V “Hamlet”. ' was a large and enthusiastic attend-

evening.’

extra benefits amount to some $10,- 600,000.

It cannot be said that we were dis- criminated against because of having a Liberal Government provincially. Newfoundland was under the same handicap in its dealings with the Diefenbaker Government, and came off very handsomely. We cannot at- tempt to fix the blame; but the whole matter is clouded in conjecture and

I we hope that it will be fully discussed, both inlthe Legislature and during the present federal campaign.

Damaging Ettect

Regardless of the outcome of the March 31 election, it seems likely that ’ the new Government will -have trouble on its hailds in thematter of trade

with the United States.

‘ For more than two months Presi- dent Eisenhower has been trying to persuade the_Congress to agree to a. renewal of the Reciprocal Trade Act which empowers the President toen- ter into agreementswith other coun-. tries for the mutual reduction of tar- \ iffs. It[ expires June 30.

The situation now, according to Washington reports, is that the bill asit stands has no chance of being approved by the House of Represen- tatives inthe face of growing sent- iment for greater’ protection to do- mestic industries. The 25-man com- mittee which is still studying the measure is said to feel that it will either have tobe whittled down by restrictive amendments or abandoned altogether. In either case, it seems clear that the doctrine of liberal trade which‘ has jbeen followed more or less consistently under both Democratic and Republican administrations for a number of years is about to be re- . placed by one of protectionist high tariff. The effect of this on Canadian exports to the United States is bound tobe damaging over.,a period of years.

Fine, Dramatic Fare

The Charlottetown Kinsmen Club is to be commended for bringing again to Charlottetown the, famous ‘ Canadian Players of Stratford, this time in a perforlnancel, of the late 'Georgel_Bernard Shaw’s play, “Man . ’—and Superman.” So far as we are “aware, this is the first professional

and it is being awaited with much in- terest. A satire on the military, pro-/ fession, “Man and Superman” ‘was first produced in 1894 and it marked

tion as a. dramatist. It is still regard- ed as one of his most internationally popular successes. Like all of -Shaw's plays, it is excellent ‘ftheatre” and ' provides entertainment-of a very high

order. 4 ' p I , Last year, it will be recalled, the

ers here in a magnificent production There

ance and it is hoped, despite'other attractions, that there will be an equally large turnout for “Man and Superman” at the Queen Charlotte High School auditorium on Tuesday

i EDITORIAL NOTES

A report from Sumatra says that oil drillers there have‘ to sleep in tents » set up on bamboo platforms raised twelve feet above ground, for fear of -marauding tigers. The crews now working in the Wellington, P. I. area have no worries of . that kind, thank goodness. ‘ ' ' 0

gr ' 9. . ._ .

Try as he might, Mr. Pearson , simply cannot explain away his pro- posal that the Conservative Govern- ment resign and give place to the Liberals without an election. It was no joke. On the other hand, itjdidn’t makesense. He is probably wishing now that the original idea had never occurred to him. '

Q i ‘O

A Social Credit candidate in‘ Al- berta says he’d rather campaign in the winter than in any other season. There is no doubt that it does have one advantage. It makes it easier for a candidate to keep a straight face when he says to a voter just before polling day, “I‘ wanted especially to come and see you but the weather and roads were so bad that I just couldn’t get around to it.” __ , ' K 9 t ‘ t Fisheries scientists report that metal lobster traps last longer than wooden ones. That is not a startling discovery. The question that needs answering is whether they will justify the extra cost. One metal trap will cost more than several of the conventional type. Some fisher- men are of the opin'ion,that lobsters are extremely wary about the new contraptions. But that, no doubt, is a matter which further experimenta-

ments, while we did not. Its total

tion will settle one way or the other.

PE F§NCE

CON‘TINéN 774 L

can-rmeum. ‘FRADE

TOGETHERNIESS

London, England: The baroni- al style of millionaire living in thefree world has been all but killed by high taxes. In Toronto, that former private home C‘asa Lorna is now a white elephant. Our wealthy southern neighbours have, found that the mu=lti-mi1- lion’ dollar summer “cottages” at Newport, Rhode Island, have become unu~s~u'-able and unsa1ea- ' ble. , , ’

Here in England, where. cas- tles and manor houses have been built and enlarged and carefully maintained through very many centuries,’ these “stately homes” have become ‘ an embarrassing anachronism. Some of the most enterprising inheritors have con- verted their ancestral homes in- to museums and tourist showpiec- les charging an entrance fee. A- mong these, "the most, successful is the 40-year old thirteenth Duke of Bedford, who three years ago inherited the’ title, historic Wo- burn Abbey and much other real estate, together with the obliga- tion to pay‘ the; government" $14,- 000,000 in inheritance taxes.

Woburn Abbey has been the \ principal_ residence of the succes- sive Dukes ‘of Bedford continu-ous ly since about the time when Samuel de Champlan founded Quebec, City.’ Before that,. Wo- burn A,-b be y.was a Cistércian Monastery. _

ENGLAND’S FINEST GARDENS, : It stands in a private park of 3,000 acres, credibly claimed to be the most beautiful in England. And as one might imagine‘, the

ome where a wealthy family has lived .-for over three centuries, of-

n entertaining Kings ‘and Queens, has becomeenriched by

ings, furniture, gold plate, silver-

ware, porcelain, tapestries‘ an

other art treasures. - t On the death of his father, the

burn from the auction block. He converted it into something cap- able of earning sufficient reven- ue to meet its maintainence ex- penses. Being only 40 miles from London, it now draws overseas

huge numbers. Canadians and ‘Americans especially enjoy visit- ing it, to see a glimpse of his- _tory and a feast of culture such as the New World':cannot offer.

“Woburn Abbey has become the most popular ‘stately home’

The medieval alchemists, often scoffed at in the past, may have been on the right track.

In the United States and else- where, scientists have succeeded in changing one metal into ano- ther — a prime goal of alche- mists who sought to manufacture gold. Ironically, today’s resear- chers labor hard in the creation of mercury, using gold as a raw material.

From a gram of gold worth 77 cents, they have produced a gram of mercury 198, a rare form of the element, worth about‘ $3,000. The feat.was achieved by cooking highly purified gold pow- . der in a nuclear reactor for al- most 10 months. Bombardment of atomic particles converted some of it to themercury iso- tope, which was then distilled out.

NEW ELEMENTS CREATED

Atomic laboratories have made other transmutations, and prod- uced elements never found in na- ture.’ '

The alchemists would have i en delighted. They had labor- ed for centuries trying to produce that result. Alchemy’s beginnings are uncertain, but ‘the art, or craft, flourished in Egypt before the 3rd century, and had spread through Europe by the Middle Ages. , .

The term alchemist was ap- plied to many kinds of experi- menters, magicians, astrologers, and plain frauds. Great wealth awaited the man who produced the “Philosopher’s Stone” —- a

_ substance that would turn base

metals to gold. Many tried to‘ make it.

Since so many people wanted

a, priceless collection of paint- '

113th Duke acted fast to save Wo-

visitors as well as Londoners’ in -

EngIcincI’s'Stclte_Iy Mansions L special CI?1¥esIpbiit1l:iltNf§I}oI1§1i: Guardian '

in this country during the three years it has been open, and 750,- 000 people have visited it,” The Duke of Bedford told me. “It is my policy not only to show visi- tors the -fabulous art treasures and the park, but also to make it a place where visitors are really welcome. There are three res- taurants and _a milk bar for the convenience of visitors, a play- ground and a children’s zoo for younger members of the family.”

‘Fabulous’ is not too strong a word to describe the art treas- ures. The dining room, for. exam- ple, contains -twenty-three paint- ings .by Canalettoi /the li- brary contains self-portraits by Rembrandt, Reynolds, Tin-toretto, Franz Hals, aTeniers, C-uyp and m-anyiother painters. ,

N0 HOLLYWOOD QUEEN

The uncounted rooms in the Abbey include fourteen State A- partments. Inone of these is the huge canopied gilt bed slept in by monarchs from King Charl-es II ‘to Queen Victoria, but recently rejected by Marilyn Monroe.

Many’ acres of rhododendrons are now in bud, and -spring flow- ers in bloom, in the park, which is the home of 2:000 deer of elev- ‘en different species. Geese and swans swim on the thirteen lakes, while bison, cranes, «pheasants. and walla-bies wander at large.

In the playground and pets corner, children may enjoy pony rides, llama rides, swings, boat- ing and travel in a stage coach or get lost in a maze.

There is a ﬂower stall and a ‘souvenir shop. ’

“Shop takings go up 30 per cent when I serve," said the Duke, The rest of his 7-dayweek he acts as guide, perhaps shudd-ering at the juke box in the milk bar which, he complains, does not play his wife’s rendering of “Luck’s in love- with you.” ‘

Last year 372,000 visitors paid (35 cents for adults, 15 cents for children) to visit Woburn. The take just covered the year’s over- heads, which included $14,000 for heating. ' ,

The Duke’s rival -dukes com- plain that he provides so much attraction for tourists visiting Wo- burn Abbey ‘that he should be charged entertainments itax.

‘This, says the Duke, is pure sour grapes. The other stately homes cannot match Wob-urn.

Alchemists Not 50 Crazy

National Geographic Society

so much to believe in transmuta- tion, charlatans gladly “proved” it to them. Some demonstrations‘ » completely fooled the onlookers. False-bottomed retorts held par- ticles of gold to convince skep- tics. Alloying metals and chemi- cals gave a golden hue to the pro- ducts. ‘ Rulers interestcﬂi in enriching their countries grew short - tem- -pered when alchemists failed; Many imposters, unable to ful- fill their boasts, were marched to the execution block. Freder- ick of Wurzburg maintained a special gallows for such alche- mists. He had it painted gold. FOUNDED CHEMISTRY

But all the frauds could not out- weigh the work of careful ob- servers, whose’ experiments and discoveries provided a base on which the modern science of chemistry was built.

Many of their concepts have been validated. The Philosopher’s Stone, capable of changing the substance it touches, has a mod ern counterpart in catalysts.

In addition to riches, alche mists searched for immortality. There was somewhere, they [be lieved, an “elixir of life” that would confer this boon. Although the elixir has not been discov- ered, modern medicine has been able to lengthen the human life span. 1 One fundamental alchemical be- lief was that everything in the world was made of one universal substance modified in various ways. To the alchemists it was “prima Materia." Today’s atomic physics is based on much the same principle, but the universal is identified as electricity.

I

THE WINTER MIND

There is no Autumn that I have inot thought ‘ That this is loneliness,

3 leaves condoned Like dreams to court a‘season’s whim, then caught ‘ By circumstance,-.. disfavored and disowned.

these

There is,no Autumn that I have not turned‘

From trees in anguish, from the sight and sound -

Of beauty breaking — mocking

‘ dreams I spurned

In ‘ golden innuendoes to the

ground. ’ - .

Now W i n t e r thoughts protrude like twigs that cling ’ To brancbles stripped of verdant hope, and I Know suddenly -I have misjudg- ed this thing --’ _ . That loneliness is not «the, leaves that die, I Not dreams discarded by a sea-' son’s whim, But this is loneliness, this bar- ren’ limb. —Marilyn Eynon Scott in the New York Times.

FULL BOXES FREE’

‘OTTAWA (CP)—-It costs money to mail an empty-federal elec- tion ballot box but there is no mailing charge when ‘it is full of ballots, the post office's weekly bulletin says. The empty boxes go at regular parcel post rate-. The sea-led boxes‘ containing marked _ballots travel free under terms of the C'an»ada Elections Act. I I

Chances Better

For Long Union

By Herman N. Bundesen, M-D-

Here‘s a tip for young. bride- grooms: better start looking I01‘ that present you’re E01113 I0 SW9 your wife on YOU!‘ g0ld€n wed-

- ' r . dlrigoualkriiolifrilaoxizr long it takes to buy a gift like that, and statis- tics‘ say both of you probably W111 be around to enioy I/0111' 50th 3”’ niversary together-

In fact, the likelihood that a typical young couple getting mar- ried now will celebrate their gol- den anniversary is more than twice what it was half a century ago.

CHANCES ARE BETTER

For a 21-year-old man who mar- ries a girl four years younger. the chances are 419 in 1,000 - better than two out of five — that both will survive through the next 50 years.

Back in 1900, the chances were only 192 in 1:009-

The older the couple at mar- riage, the less chance both have of celebrating their 50 th_ anni- versary. But the odds still are much better all down the line, than they used to be.

TURN or THE CENTURY

For the groom of 25 with a bride of 21, the chances of reach- ing the golden anniversary to- gether are 206 per 1,000, compar-

, ed with 123- at the turn of the

century.

If the bride and groom are both 17 when they marry, the chances are one in two that both will see the half-century wedding celebra- tion. When both are 25 at marr- iage, the odds drop to one In four. At the age of 31, they drop to about one in 10.

Of course, the outlook for cele- brating the silver anniversary is even better, according to statis- tics 'c it e d by the MetI‘0l>01itan Life Insurance Company in 8 1'9’ cent bulletin.

,The chancés are now nine in

V ‘ten for grooms up to the age of

23, who take a bride four years younger, and also for grooms up to 21 who wed girls of the same age or as much as two years old- er.

Even for men who marry as late as 35,. the chances of cele- brating ,a 25th anniversary are better than seven in ten.

10TH ANNIVERSARY The typical American bride «and groom of today are almost

certain to survive to their 10th ' anniversary. The chances are a- .

bout 93 in every 100 for men and women who marry in their early twenties, and better than 90 in every 100 for those who wait un- til their.-late thirties. _

Medical advances, you; see, have’ made it possible for most of you young couples to spend many, many years together. -W1_le- ther these‘ years will be happy years is up to you.

QUESTION AND ANSWER A.A.: I have had a constant pain and pressure in the upper part of my.stomach. An X-ray showed I ‘have small stones in my gallbladder. Should the gall- bladder be. removed? ' Answer: It would be advisable to remove your gallbladder. Once stones ‘have formed, surgery is the only cure for them. - -

* MAXIMS

Every tomorrow has two han- I

idles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or with the

handle of faith. We should live‘

for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present; -the last is only the method of the first.

Benevolent Irish Society-

I

’~ANNUAL

AND INVITATI-O.‘N .,

SMOK.EI2

TONIGHT AT 8‘ RM.

All 1 Members. Urged To Attend

MEETING

CITY 7 .30,

i

part—why not show port by attending monthly meeting of tonight.

CITY COUNCIL . COUNCIL CI-IMVIBERS ----

Last month you. the electors. voted cl . new Mayor and Councilinto office. They're working hard and doing their

Public Relations Committee.

TONIGHT

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HALL P. M.

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your continued sup- the first regular your new Council

NOTES BY THE

CaIgary’s. war. on . pigeons, which is about to be declared it the commissioners can figure out .1, how it is to be fought, will be followed with great interest. It is not so much what pigeons are really, it’s what pigeons do that cause them, to be resented a- round the wor1d.—Calgary Herald

Almost we envy those thirty. five Holstein - Friesian calves’ which took off from frosty Mal- ton Airport ‘for sunny Italy. » By the way, what's happened to that old saying, “It’s a good thing. cows !an’t ﬂy?” They can, and they do now.—-Brantford 'Ex_posi- tor

OUR YES-TERDAYS

(From The Guardian Files)

TWENTY-HVE YEARS AGO, . (March 10, 1933)

More effective marketing of produce and greater publicity were the constructive recommen- dations made at the annual meet- ing of the P.E.I. Dairy Associa- tion yesterday. The Committee urged that the principle of 'cen-’ tral marketing be closely stud- ied, and that every effort be made to determine the ruling markets at the time -of sales.

A resolution approving of con- solidation of Sheep Breeders co- operativeoorganizations of the pro- vince, and the working out of a . system of coordination whereby overhead expenses might be re- ’ duced was adopted at the annual meetingof the Sheep Breeders Association at Prince of Wales - College yesterday. i. .

TEN YEARS AGO - (March 10, 1948) - Drilling operations are being conducted along the west side of the Hillsboro Bridge by an engi- neer of the Dominion Government as a preliminary step in deter- mining a suitable location for the construction of a marine’ slip in Charlottetown, it was learned yesterday. Mr. J. A. Villandre, Marine Department, Ottawa, ‘is 1 v conducting a survey ofthearea.

Fire in the Summerside Courtt . House and Jail Building resulted . in considerable smoke and water . » damage to the building. The blaze i, was generally located in the at-. tic, and -‘ although brought under control in a short time,’ it had gutted the interior to some ex tent. . ‘

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