HIE. GIIAIILOITETOVIII GUARDIAN

‘ is VIGOROUS PROGRAM.

Premier Mactdilians announce- moat last night of the comprehen- aive DNIT8IIIIIIQ which the Provin- cial Department of Agriculture is inaugurating will be good news to all ourfarm readers. It has long bean recognised that more attention could profitably be given to mixed farming, and a vigorous policy along this line is being launched. Also. the outlying and backward districts ‘are to be given special attention by means of short courses. The Junior Karin clubs are to be further en- couraged and assisted, and a spec- ial field promoter will be appointed whose chief duties it will be to es- ” tablish and take care of cow test- ing. This official, under direction of the Department. will assist in establishing Cow Testing Associa- tions in Club centres and perform other services in connection ‘vith organized livestock ex n.

Coming in conjunction with the economic and social reforms now being introduced in Parliament by the Federal Government, tho agri- cultural reform policy of the Mac- j Millan Government should not only ‘ make a wide appeal, but should

achieve concrete results in improv- . ‘ing agricultural conditions in this Province. That it merits the ful- j lest cooperation of all concerned will be recognized by every one in this agricultural community.

INSTITUTE MEETING

It is evident from the reports of 4 filo annual meeting of the Central 1 Farmers Institute, that the mem- bers of this Nwrossim organiza- tion are giving thought, not only to problems connected with their in- dustry. but to provincial interests ,3 generally. Special reference was made in the address of the retir- ing president, Mr. ’J. W. MacIear-i. to the importance of health meas- ures; and the Government and Red g Cross Society were commended for , their efforts in this direction. The i I value of oo-operative purchases by 1 - farmers was emphasized. Careful ' study of the Marketing Act was ‘oi- so recommended, and the delegates were-advised "riot to be misled by those whose self interest would keep us in the old rut of competi- tivc selling." This is sane advice. and is applicable to every remedial rlneasure which has been, or may be. introduced. It is a. plea that such Yneasures should be judged on their merits, which is the only fac-

tor entitled to be considered.

'KING’S BUBBLE PRICKED

' Mr. Mackenzie King's inflated Ilibi for failing to introduce unem- ployment insurance during his re- gime was neatly prlcked in the _ House of Commons last week by 1-," Hon. Dr. Manion, from whose re- marks we quote:

"The leader o! the opposition the other day, in that two-hour- weary and dreary speech of his, as usual, made the statement that his government could not put such a

' measure into effect because they had to balance the budget. Then he ‘showed that they had balanced the budget, that between 1925 and 1980

,, he said, they had actually cut down

i; the debt of this country by $240.-

i» 000,000. That was the statement al-

so made on a number of occasions by the hon. member for Shelburne-

Xarmouth. that they had cut (‘own

the debt of this country by $240,-

000,000. Well. if they wcm able t0

cut down the debt of this country by $240,000,000, were they not then in a position to do a little towards putting into forcc some of this so- cial legislation that we are .at- tempting to bring in, and was not

I the proper time to plit social

_, a , legislation into effect, preparing for

V days that must came in every na-

11Z ' tion when times would not be so good as they were throughout the world between 1925 and 1930? But

ls a matter of fact, Mr. 89611"?-

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 31, 1H5.

well have drawn his sword on you. Walking on the right of the pave- uient is also associated with the use of the sword, the "bloods" pre- fcrringtopassoachotherleftto left in order to leave their sword arms free. “Handshakingfl the Aberdeen newspaper adds, “is con- siderably less common in Scotland than in Midland. audio! course there is the usual reflection upon Scottish rude manners. But one might quite well argue that if hand- shaking began in the way suppos- ed, then the Scots were more peace- able and trustworthy than the English. because they could meet one another without that guaran- tee against treachery. At all events, that is a nicer way to look at it even if it would be difllcult to prove. The custom is said to be spreading in Scotland to quite or- dinary meetings .of acquaintances. If this is so, then a. sign of friend- ship will become quite meaningless and its total disappearance would be sensible."

EDITORIAL NOTES The Farmers Institute by resolu- tion expresses a. desire that repre- sentation 111 the legislature should be reciui.;.l to 16-0110 member for each constituency except Charlotte- town, to which two wouldbe allott- ed. The Institute also went on rec- ord against Provincial borrowing, on the principle that borrowing leads to extravagance-and ultimate sorrow.

Canada's trade in the first ten months of the current fiscal year aggregated $997,626,000, compared with $841,613,000 in 1983-4. $766,645,- 000 in 1932-8 and 99433000 in 1981-2. Imports totalled $487,196,000 compared with $352,607,000. $349.: 907,000 and $485,470,000. Domestic exports totalled $554,657,000 com- pared with $483,863,000, $410,024,000 and $500,164,000.

The latest critic of the munitions industry is US. Senator James P. Pope, and he does not blame the munition factory stock-holders, but Congress itself. Responsibility for the present situation. he said. was failure of the United Stains to co- operate iri the world peace move- ment. "Because the United States refused to Join the League of Na- tions and the World Court," he said, "the munitions industry has had its opportunity to develop on a world scale."

They had such remarkably fine weather in England in Janus-TY that potatoes were as far on as they usually are in April. The crop was so abundant last year that many farmers did not bother to gather their spuds. and the winter being so unusully mild, these sprouted and grew amazingly. According to an agricultural writer in the Spectator. the only set back these farmers would have would be from late frost —thcre is not usually frost of any intensity after January in England.

It, is. good tohave such outside speakers as Mr. Theodore Morgan and Mr. c. F. Howard here to re- mind us of our blessings and the tourist attractions we have to sell. “onlookers see most of the game," and people from away, like the two mentioned, and Mr. Hemminl. cot a better view and grasp of the sit- uatlon than do those who have grown up with the “‘ and to whom they are apt to appear com- monplace.

Is there to be any centenary cefc- brations of Andrew Carnegie! birth this side of the Atlantic! Tentative nu men‘ for cele- brating the event on November 25 this year were referred to by M1‘- James Norval, chairman of the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust, in a speech which hemade at Dunform- linn recently. Mr. Norval said that the form which the celebration was to take had given the ‘Carnegie. Dunfennline Trustees very great concern, but naturally they had agmed that there must be some co-operaticn of the four great Trusts founded by Mr. 051116319 111 Great Britain-The University ‘Rust. the Dunfermline Trust, the Hero Fund Trust. and the United Kingdom Trust. -

Them is eternal rivalry between Edited and ontal-io which periodi- sally makes itself evident in their respective lezialaturuis well as‘ in the Ibdsral parliaiulnt. Compari- sons as to sniouitiual 60941091111111» inquebaomdmtasiowitiithefor- mq-‘province loading were made by In 019mm 11-111». W‘

return on its ‘investment working its employes fifty-two or fifty-five hours a. week. and this at low wages. then there is something radically wrong with it. Either it is badly organized, or badly managed, or it has no reason to exist."

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It. Hon. Arthur Melghen’: ad-' dress on "Shakespeare" first deliv- ered in Vancouver, has been re- peaied at several other centres and has won high acclaim. Mr. Meigh- en's speech was composed on ship- board" between Sydney and Van- couver without s volume or a. single line oi Shakespeare before him. The copious quotations so aptly applied were not studied for the occasion. This feat of memory was surpassed when at the request of Ottawa newspapermon in redictated his speech word for word in his office a few hours after having delivered it at the Canadian Club-Vancouv- er Iixohangc.

The curse of demon , is polit- ics; nothing can be attempted, or even suggested. without arousing suspicion and Jealousy. Let's forget politics and make a calm and dis- passionate examination of the Pre- mier's proposals, whatever they may tlun out to be. Public welfare is above partisanship, the fate of a government is nothing compared with the fate of a state. As mat- ters stand at present there is no occasion for either excessive en-

thusiasm or alarm. There is, how-

ever, genuine ground for satisfac- tion that anoilialies are receiving of-

ficial recognition, which is the es- sential preliminary to amendment.

—Hamilton Spectator.

"We are told." says the Ottawa

Journal, “that a 48-hour week may be a. hardship upon industries in Ontario and Quebec in which, ac- cording to official information, the working

week runs as high as fifty-two or fifty-five hours. The answer to that, we suggest, is that if any industry in this country, and

particularly an industry receiving

tariff protection, cannot get a fair without

The three-oar streamlined train

of the Burlington Railroad can be operated about as cheaply as an average passenger automobile, far as fuel costs are concerned. 0n the LOIS-mile from Denver to Chi- cago, fuel oil cost less than $16; on the same run a steam train would use about $250 worth of Reader's Digest.

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Trial by ballyboo; that is what

Hauptmann received. Lawyers broad cast by radio their opinions of the evidence. and films taken in court are shown all over the world with spoken comment. And than came the last obscenity-betting on the result. It is to the credit of reput-

able bookmakers that they have re- fused to handle this blood-money. A British judge would have sent a dozen people to gaol on the first day of the trl —-and we don't mean bookmakers.— anchster Sunday Chronicle.

‘We have made afbad bargain with the Russi . We signed an flsroement with them. The purpose

of it was to level out the enormous

adverse balance. in our trade with

» Russia. It has not done so. We bought nearly 17 million pounds

worth of goods from Russia last year. We sold them 3 1-8 million pounds worth. That is a, balance against us of over i3 million pounds. In the year 1932. the.adverse bal- ance in our trade with Russia was only 10 million pounds. We took 1 1-2 million pounds worth of Rus- sian timber last year in excess of our purchases in the previous year. What folly! The countries of the Empire can supply us with all the timber we med. Yet we buy from the Russians. who spend our money in the United States i-London Daily Express.

In celebration of the religious festival Ardliodaya Yoga, which is observed every twenty-seven years. 750.000 native Indians went to Cal- cutta to bathe in the sacred Gang- es. Science was represented on this devotional occasion by the presence of floating hospitals carrying large supplies of disinfectants which were distributed among the bath- ers. Great precautions were taken by the govemlrnnt authorities to prevent the outbreak of epidemics in that city.

tario had a revenue of $20,000,000 greater than that of Quebec. De- spite this the Quebec~Government spent $4,283,000 for agriculture whereas Ontario spent $2,174,001! he said. "Pei- capita,” he emphasised, "when Ontario spends $2.71 an- nually for its farmers, Quebec spends $5.44."

"Do you remember when we sold waggon horses all over the Doin- iniorl?" asks Dr. J. A. sinclair. Can- nington, Ont. Rather. And do you remember when we supplied the horses for the New Brunswick lum- ber camps, when we had practically the monopoly of the oat trade with Newfound nd, and blue potatoes with the Bydrcys, Malpeque oysters with Boston and New York, amelts with Boston, Thanksgiving turkeys with Ilasssehussetsf "Ah, them was the days," but W! didn't have in- spected seed potatoes for the south. or world record fox pelts, graded eggs. graded mum-graded porbers. plggldbotlto, prices, or McIntyre Highways. or automobiles, or ma». ora lot of other things which helll to mains lilo worthwhile iivlnr- The daysfof war prosperity may‘ have haldmedourheartssoalioforgot to ‘give the attention necessary to "Mldgwhat we have“ in minor 1a- iabdfo-havoa alimon- lush as

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(This ls Mr. Hamming’: fifth letter on the Teurhj Pomibilltiea of appear In our Saturday baud-Editor

FE ON THE ISLAND.

Ishouldiiketohavothepriviieso of correcting an error that crept in- mmylastletterinwhichlwss made by the tvnesaiier 1° W w” U16 lfimpefmiww 01 0110 Island 1O summer is re$ilrkab|y equitable in- stead of e011 4%

In that letter I endeavouredyio poihiiosomeoxuioma-nywaysin which this Isle in the Gulf is bles- sed with Just those attractions that appeal most stronzli’ 1'0 111° 5W1‘ ago tourist who seeks a. rest and general phyfllwl OOIIIIOH. I!!!‘ portant as are these thiflfl. 1-119! domtbyanymearlscoverallthe desires or constitute the more im- portant needs of those who Year by year leave their homes in the busy cities for B. ions wlsiv-‘d 1°" ‘=- To them the aesthetic side of life is of equal and even of pa. oun-t importance.

Particularly duriris 0116 0511i’ 115W of their visit ole-- tired out people feel that mental rest and 0010i i" mainly to be sorglit after. file silence of the countryside appeals to them. Broken only by 1111*‘- peaceful sounds of nature. 0110 gentle murmur of the leaves join-

‘in; in a lullaby accompaniment of. the solos of the birds, the rlPP11118 of the ocean waves upon the sand- these things, the paradise" that Mr» Theodore Moi-sun sacks u! in 111-1 banquet address on Tuesday even‘ ing, are to the shattered nerves a stronger, swi-fter and more lastinfl tonic than can be had from all the prescnlptions of the farmed P111181- cans of the great cities, and when to these sol-aces are added the wonderful scenes translated on all sides by the eye to the inner being, those who see them realize. f0!‘ I- tlme at least, what real life is, how blessed it is to be close to nature, and they wonder why they 1111110 111' lowed themselves in these lurid day! to be enslaved by the lust for Bold. the rush for speed and the hope- lem ambition for sc-called Power. All these modes of N811 l0 11119 B9111 our Island can 51111111? 111 011111111311“- The larinhcapes m in no need 01 fervid description. The 0111110110 verdure of the fields, backed by the somber woods in the distance, the carefully tended trees in the fieldfl. reminders of generations that hi" passed, standing alone and break- ing the horizon, with their sweep- ing bows, all contrasting with rod soil of the roads. winddns wer 11111 and, dale, between the beautifully cultivated fafmii, the trim and well built houses, the simple ‘churches and schools, the tiny brooks and lakes. all fill the mincb of those to whose eyes they are for the first time irivisioned with Joy and keen ap- preciation of the rare beauties of our countryside. .

One would not infer that in many other parts of Canada there is any lack of bea/utiful landscape, but it can at least be said that ours is different, really different, unique.

‘mesa are some of the inspirlnc things that Prince Edward Island has to offer. particularly to those of shattered nerves, but, young and vigorous. pastimes are needed and o1 them. we also have a bountiful supply. Nor must we forget, when planning for the hap- piness of our guests, that activity and occupation are the surest means of driving from the thoughts the worries and anxieties of bushl- ness and social life. While almost all will find pleasure on the shore and in swilnming in the surf. with its attendant hours of relaxation in the glowing sun, others will find recreation on the golf links or ten- nis courts. ‘rho roads and fields of the Island, too, vrlil lend themselves particularly to hiking and to rid- ing, and no doubt an amiple sup- ply of saddle horses can be provided. In sections where fresh water lakes or ocean inlets are of sufficient size, rowing, canoeing, and sadllrlg can be indulged in. Iibr the Isaac Waltons who bring with them their rod and lines excellent fishing can be aupplled—both sea and fresh water trout, and deep sea fiahing~and here may I sug- gest that, under Government in- itiative and supervision, the great- est pomtblc provision be made for

National pride was not hurt at the Daily News ice carnival when Canadian champions ran one-two in all the diamond-trophy events for lrrm. No one minded these transient conquests, for spectators early had lost their hearts to an invading detachment of fourteen yourlslnfilirind young women from the Winnipeg Winter Club. Singly, in pairs, in fours, in sights, their artistry lmld enthralled one of the greatest groups of spectators ever assembled indoors. It was the most beautiful exhibition of figure skat- ing Chicago has ever seen, and it won tributes which Stadium crowds had reserved before for successful candidates for presidential nomin- atlons. Chicago long has liked and admired the homeland of these at- tractive invaders. Their triumph- and the graciousness with which they consented to skate in this bene- fit for poor children of the city- notably strengthen our ties of af- fection and respect for Canada and Canadians-Chicago Dally News.

When the present d location of trade and currency droid most people to try to find some way of employing their property to supple-

ment their incomes. one school of d

economists advised everyone to spend their money freely. As it stands, that advice seems to be the negation of thrift. But if it is qual- ifiedby the proviso. that spending must be wisely planned, anddeslgn- ed, if possible. to bring some form of return to the spender. it is the highest form of thrift. If the ‘sum total of the common wealth samba increased by clever alanageuiont. “you or" speu , a

tlll! have‘ elritsdmwiiether‘ iirj _ on of puruhllvs or of uctivc-in ant. il th: but way

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the angler, so that when invitinl prospective tourists to the Island them need be no hesitation in promising the beat of sport. This readily could be done by pmchsslnl or leasing nesh waiter lakes. parti- cularly these now lying idle and unproductive, long since abandoned as fishklg ground, smoking them heavily with spawn and then k991i- ingthem under strict control, for the benefit of our tourist friemk. In these lakes fishing rights could be granted under strict regulations sstothenuintberoffish tobo taken, their size and so forth. Guides and boats miaht be pro- vided at a "‘ . 0f 8-11 the magnets to the summer tourist therearefow aostrono I8 I dependable assurance that good fishingcaslbehadforinalmost all the established Canadian resorts, because of the lack of sirpervislcn, the lakes and rivers have been fished out, with result- ant disa/ppointuient to those who

have come great distances in response to luring and unfair advertisements.

In the autumn months the

excellent duck shooting in the Northern districts of the Island should attract many sportsman

from the south, while. once the eel grass has returned to our shores, still greater sport will be offered by the migrating geese that come to our Island fora time, while wing- ing south to warmer winter climes.

There's yet another kind of visitor to whom a hearty welcome should be given. Whenever possible a special effort should be made to bring artists and writers to the Island, also those whose ambitions lie in the higher types oi’ the photographic art. Ample scope will be found in all directions for the brush, the pen and the camera, and the work of these people, dis- trlbuted as it is fa/r afield, spells for publicity of the highest order. It is not however uncommon that those of artistic literary tastes are notparticularly burdened with wealth. and because of that fact and of the valuable assistance that they can render to our tourist pomibilities, in broadcasting our many natural attractions, ft would seem to be wise that special rates in all hotels be granted to them and that the Railway and Steam- ship Conipanies be asked to fall simiilsrily into line with lowered passenger fares.