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PAGE FOUR IIIE GIIARLIITTETOWII GUARDIAN

llflfllliig Daily (Founded In I887) Authorized as Second Class Mall. Post Offloo Department. Ottawa.

President. ‘Inn A. Burnett; Vice-President, Wm. B. Burnett: BEfIh-Trvuit. a. n01. Burnett; can.» und Managing Director, J. R. Burnett; Associate Editor, h“ Frank Walker.

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink.”

g I-‘IIIDIIIVTIVAIARCII 21, 1911 Why Bother With Estimates?

The Pu-blic Accounts for the year ending .March 31, I946, as published in yesterday's Guardian, show another huge increase in liabil- ities, indicating that whatever tax revenue terms the Jones Government may have obtain- ed at Ottawa—and these will shortly be reveal- ed in legislation forecast in the Speech from tho Throne——evcry cent will be needed to pull the Province out of the hole into which the ad- ministration's deficit financing is dragging it.

Admittedly in recent years we have not had sufficient revenue to carry on without incurring slight deficits; but how is one to account for the wild miscalculations shown in the differ- ence betwcen estimated and actual expendi- tures? The estimated total ordinary expendi- ture for the year ending March 31, I946, was $3,087,309; the actual ordinary expenditure amounted to $3,291,833, and this notwithstand- ing that such essential services as agriculture were pared to a minimum far below the actual estimates.

The total vot-e of $73,085 for agriculture was small enough for a Province such as Prince

TI-Idward Island; yet we find from the Accouilits that only $59,663.08 of this meagre amount was expended. Under dairying, for example, the estimate was $2,000, the expenditure only $739.10; under field crops and horticulture, the estimate was $10,000, the expenditure $1,513; under livestock and poultry, estimate $14,000, expenditure $12,189.55.

For education, while the total estimate was slightly exceeded, we find that of $2,500 voted for scholarships, only $895 was expended; for adult education, estimate $2,000, an expendi- ture of $1,535.48; for physical fitness, esti- mate $2,000, expenditure $1,134. '

On the other hand, debt charges estimated q: $150,000 were actually $801,168. Expendi- fur-cs for administration of Justice, estimated a; $78,000, actually were $85,073; Legislation expenditure, estimated at $27,650, rose to $32,- 30S.

The big increase over estimates was on high- ways, bridges, etc., from a vote of $602,705 1° an expenditure of $700,315. Expenditures on general government also increased from an esti- mate of $161,365 n. $177,980. _ y

Perhaps the most revealing instances are showniin the eleven thousand dollars increase over the estimates in maintenance costs at Fal- conwood, and in the large unestimated increases in officials‘ salaries. -

There is little or no evidence of any effort at economy, except, as above cited, in the De- partment of Agriculture where it would have been excusable to have spent geiierflllfili-

Butter Going lip

The margarine discussion in the Senate is not without its significance to both producer and consumer. The price of butter will soon cost the corsurrer 8 1-2 cents more per 1b., without beiietitting the farmer one cent. This is because no money has been provided in the Dominion estimates for payment of subsidies to prcducers of butter-fat b-eyond May 1. These subsidies have been costing the taxpayers around $24,000,000 a year.

Butter will th-us, as we say, advance ot lei-st 8 1-2 cents without the farmers, the manufacturers or distributors making a cent more than at present. Only the Dominion Treasury will gain. _

Consumers are not aware that every time they purchase a pcund of butter the Dominion Government pays 8 1-2 cents to make that

- purchase possible. This has been going on for so long now householders have taken it for granted.

Technical Courses There is a growing tendency to widen the scopr of secondary schools to include technical clcsscs, or, at least, to provide for\greater fac- ilities than heretofore in these secondary schools for subjects of a technical character. AIDa meeting of the Canadian Education Associa- tion at Ottawa this week, presided over by Dr. Fletcher Peacock, Fredericton, director of_Edu- cation for New Brunswick, Mr. C. E. Phillips, executive secretory, explained Ills Obie" °l 111° new movement as follows:

"We wish to set up a comprehensive pro- gressive. research with a view to securing more practical courses in our secondary schools.

"We feel that the present secondary school courses employ to far too great a degree of tra- ditional academic subjects which are of a uni- versity preparatory nature in character . . . it is hoped by a progressive rese-arch not only to give added emphasis to practical courses in secondary schools but also to assure that prac- tical courses will be adapted to the needs of Business, industry, agriculture and home life in Canada today." ' ' _

This is a step in the right direction. It will be sern that it is not int-ended to crowd out classics and mathematics, but to amend the “rllflbu; in include instruction in matters af- leriing indusfry to which most of the rising gen- Qfflfii)" must, perforce, be attracted. It fol- lows, of course, that the cost of these modern-

-izcd secondary and technical schools will be increased, as such additional instruction cannot be proyidcd vithcut the necessary teachers and equipment. At present, with n-o such thing as apprenticeship indenturc, it is essential that some sort of technical education be provided. At present we have the rudiments of it at the vet- erans‘ classes in Prince of Wales College, but

very much more thorough and comprehensive courses must be developed to make them ans- wer the purpose intended.

e- EDITORIAL NUTES .--

According to the calendar, this is the first duy of Spring. A A’ I T-he retirement of Mr. Donald Gordon from the \h’a_rtime Prices Board is to Prime Minister ‘Ifrng, like Kaiser William ll losing Bismarck- Dropping The Pilot." A Toronlo magistrate has ruled that Sun- day hockey, at a crowded Toronto rink, is "a work of necessity and mercy." That, says Ot- tawa Journal, is an interesting precedent!

"All politics in a way are power poliliq, (says Mr. Harold Nicolson), since it is of little use to hove even the noblest ideals unless you also have the physical power to carry those ideals into eff-act."

I I Q I Encouraging. Mr. Beardsley Ruml, former chairman of the_U. S. A. Board of Reserve Bank predicts a lowering of retail prices so that the _1947 real income of people who still have their income will show a rise." The pressurefor bet- ter goods at lower prices, he says, is "getting stronger every day." fi i i i

‘It is gratifying to Islanders to find they continue to be in the limelight and newspaper front pages throughout Canada in general and the Maritimes in particular. Even in Britain the fact that Prince Edward lsland is supplying spuds is favourably commented upon.

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An exceptionally fine variety picture enter- tainment is being provided at the Prince Ed- ward today and tomorrow. lt would be almost worth while for the Legislature to attend in a body to enjoy the clever caricature given of ivl-iat happens when American politicians m-eet —Greek meets Greek.

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As "an old parliamentary hand”, Dr. Mac- Millan does not allow Premier Jones to put any- tbng over him. It is the inalienable right of members of the Legislature to discuss the Gov- ernor's Speech from the Throne, which, how- ever inaccurate, connot be altered or amend- ed by elected members, though it provides the necessary ammunition for criticism of the Government's sins of omission or commission.

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In o recent review of "Life At Home" over the B.B.C., Mr. C. Gordon Glover said: "This happens to be the first autumn for many years in which the own-ers of English gardens feel themselves justified in spending a little of their savings. It is the first autumn for many years when they have felt free to push back the brussels sprouts from beside the porch and plant a useless, frivolous English rose instead." And now the elements have upset all their pleasant anlicipations, and plunged the amateurs into the depths of despair.

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Rt. Hon. Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, English statesman and historian, born this date 1865 He was known as "The Teachers’ Friend" as he vitally interested himself in education and the status of the teaching profession; while Minister of Education he introduced and car- ried the Education Act of 1918, a remarkable development of national education, also an improved scale of pensions for teachers, as well as numerous other reforms, which paved the way for the reform policy adopted by the ‘Attlee Government; he is author of A Political History Of England, and The Republican Tradition In Europe.

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Hon. A. W-. MacKenzie, minister of agricul- ture for Nova Scotia, and Dr. H. A. Barton, Ottawa, deputy minister of agriculture, addres- sed the annual breeders’ banquet at the sixth Maritime Spring and Fat Stock Show and Sale in Amherst. More than 200 were present. Vet- eran beef breeders were in attendance os well as members of the boys’ and girls’ calf clubs. Miss Marjorie Sanderson, North River, P.E.|., who lead in junior showmanship and won the championship of her class and the reserve in the Hereford competition and the reserve to the grand champion, was greeted with applause and praised by the chairman, Mr. -C. F. Bailey, and the judge, Mr. C. E. Devlin.

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Just as in the\distribution of the mail courier bonus, the Federal Government shows favouritism in dispensing bounties to provinces in road-making. The Federal Government con- tributed a total of $687,028 for highway con- struction in British Columbia, Manitoba and Quebec from 1940 to date, was shown in a Commons return filed for J. W. Murphy (PC- Lombton West). The return showed $218,- 706 had been contributed towards roads in British Columbia, $154,919 towards roads in Manitoba and $313,401 towards roads in Que- b:c between April 1, 1940, and the present. No contributions had been made to any of the other provinces for road-building purposes.

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Dr. E. S. Archibald, Director of the Domin- ion Experiemntol Farm Services issues a stern warning to farmers on thethreatened reduc- tion of Canada's agricultural productivity. Actually, he says, there is evidence that overo period of years Canada's producing ability is declining, and that, inspiteof the fine work of plant breeders toward producing heavy-yielding varieties of better quality and resistant to dis- ease and insects, these insect plagues were on the increase and had been so for fifty years. Many pgople failed to realilc that, although Canada's population is small in relationship to her total food production, nevertheless the world's population is rapidly catching up. to tho acres of agricultural land. With nearly two and a quarter billion people and only tweand three-quarter billion acres of agricultural land, the time is rapidly approaching Wlifllr "l It'd" to prevent LOIIIIIIIIOIIS malnutrition, all coun- tries must so conserve soil fertility that nations must be fed. And there is plenty to do In

Canada in regard to soil conservation, which has‘ been neglected from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

llotss By The Way

Pcritapis we need s better- motive for peace than fear of war. - Van- couver Province.

Now that the Income tux return fer-ms have been so "simplified," It. 1s reported that Einstehfs theory Will be dlitested In infne brief volmnes. - Hamilton Spectator.

This. any; The Hamilton Spectat- or. was a Govenxrment reply to a question from the opposition In the British House of Consmoins the other day: "The total number of people employed Ln the rut-catching department of the Ministry of Food is 298 and the cost is $540,000; 194 of these people are engaged in ad- ministrative and clerical work and 104 are catching rats."

In spite of modern specialization and the development of laboratory l-cchinque, tltere is still plenty of room for the country doctor -_ and the COUHIYy 112865 him desperately. Too often, perhaps, the young medloo 1,; attracted by the glamor of a city practice with all its re- "ivards and opportunities. Yet the compensations that came Io the country doctor are wide and satis- ftyring. because they are human. amid‘ reckoned in the deeper things that really ooumt. --I-la1lfax Chronicle.

For 109 years postal service at: Upper Siewiacke. N. S. was 001i- ducted by the Cox family. In 183G John Oox W135 appointed "Wily house" keeper at £8 per nnnum. His son. Francis Cox, became post- master in 1867 and was succeeded by his mm. James D. 00x in 1912. In 1945 the postmasterslup was taken over by Mr. Cox's son-Iov-Iaw. Harry Johnston, Three generations qf one family in the some office I01!‘ over rt century certainly consiiute an a1-

most unbeatable record. ~ Post Office Bpllctin. Inst week crime declared a

dividend for its Vancouver share- holders. For their part 1.11- crime?» local enterprise 1'1 grating 111611 WW9 rewarded with a total of 86 years imprlsoitmetri. Another faces the death penalty and another life imprisonment. In am- we W11!" youngsters are inclined to 8116a!‘ Bf the old adage. “crime doesn't Pay"- it. would be smart. for them at least. lo examine the kind of wages crttne does offer it; disciples. For forgery. iarmed robbery, trafficking in dings, burglaries, field-up; and manslaughter 1'1 young men rwlll. on the average. Mve the next five years of their lives m prison-Van- couves- Province. '

A man who pleaded quilty to canylng a. fully-loaded revolver has been sentenced by Magistrate Wood to three yefsrs im- the penitentiary. Revolvers amt automatic pistols are now almost the exclusive in- strument of violent crime in Vim- couver and our Bane-tors would 118W! their fangs drawn i,t their 51101113’ of small arms was cut off and iron- cealment of such weapons invari- ably regarded as B. major offence- Regtslration of a revolver with police does not allow a man I0 carry 1t. A special permit Ymust. be obtained from police and these

days police are just not issuing any such pennies. - Vancouver Province.

A lot of people would like to be newspapennen. They llif-ixik there's a glamor about it. But not all who start out in newspaper life make good at it. To be a 800d ripoff?!‘ requires a "nose for news". If a person hasn't got the nose for news 1t matters little how good his academic standing, he‘l1 never be a top-flight newspepermeizv. It's the some with teaching. Some teachers can- ‘impart knowledge, can aei along with children and really enjoy the work. There are others with a high professional standing who would not make good teachers In: o. thousand years, just a3 there are lawyers and doctors rwho are tops In their professions and others who nevm- make more than a mediocre job of it. - Iiethbridge Herald.

Tin. Ottawa Journal refers to 111,. Bell centennial postage issue as “this. big. beautiful stamp in light: blue which commemorgtes Alexander Graham Bell. inventor of the telephone." Experts say the Bell stamp i; among the Domin- lc.'.‘."5 finest, and it needs 11a practis- cd eye to soc that. The point is

that. by being adjudged one of Canadirs best. the 1i, issue must stand high indeed. nz-intford. the

Telephone city had, of course, the added distinction of being the first. piece In wilt-h this stamp was issued, and the work the local post Office 518.11 had to do in sending first clay covers to people all over the continent. maid In many parts of the world beyond. ettesLs the genuine "publicity value" of the slump us for as this community 1s concerned. —- Bs-antford Expositor.

The other duy the Cnnurilsn Iri- siliuie of Public Opinion reported that “the majority o! Canadian women admit their place Is In the home-or at lea=t that's where they prefer lo be." If the Institute had been strictly accurate, we think it. would have said the majority of Canadian wives not "women." Un- married women were not questioned In the poll. Per-taupe. however. the Institute assumed that 9O out of each hundred lllrls expcci. to be married iicme thy. t-lovmver. what. the wives told the questioner-s wits decidedly interesting. Eighty-flutes percent of them preferred house- work in other career nollvlly. And more than hail of time i-ad lrem‘ employed In. other liner before marriage. Flmllv 59 percent of those who had tried other ernlpoy- ment enjoyed homemakkvg. A

oountrv whore women. In such over- whelming numbers. timid hmnemlk- Ing enjoyable and housebeep‘ 1, In- teresting. should not be concerned

over alarmist fess-a of funtty Ilfo down. - 1191mm

breaking Jdllflll.

- PUBLIC FORUM

This column is the discussion by corn-n- lpondents of aueatlonn n! lntareit. The Charlottetown Guardian does not necessar- ily endorse the opinion of correspondents.

s \ OUR- POTATO EXPORT

open to

Slr,—The writer wishes to cor- rect an apparent error which ap- peared in yesterday's Guardian over the nom de plume George- town Packer.

Your cor-respondent states that the Prince mward Island pota-

toes now being shipped to the United Kingdom are not for human consumption, but are In-

tended for feeding the Jaoultry; that 1s not correct.

During the visit here of Dr. Samuel. he oxiplalned to the “Titer and Io others \\"11y the

United Kingdom is purchasing our potatoes. Briefly. l1 amounts to this: Prior to bread rationing In that; country. the poultry rnisers were using bread to supplement tl1e grain for their poultry, but when bread rationing was instil- uted. 1t meant that that commo- dity was impossible Io gel for that. purpose. They 111011 started using potatoes to feed their poul- try and lt was not long before they found the visible supply of potatoes was running so low that ft became necessary to ration that commodity also; nnd then. of course, they had to look elsewhere to supplement tihelr dwindling supplies of potatoes. As a matter of fact. they are also purolmsfni; some 30.000 long Ions from Don- mark; and I can assure Gent-ge- town Packer that all of those potatoes will be eaten by flir- potato-hungry Brftlshcr, and not fed to poultry. I am. Sir, etc... S. G. PEPPIN District Inspeclor-in-chnrwge

Seed Potato Certification Service

COMPOSITE SCHOOLS, BALANCED RATIONS. IVOMEN. ETC.

Sin-One of the favorite argu- ments advanced 1n favor- of com- posite high schools is that these would include Cool-tlnig srtioois where our young girls would be taught the art of good cooking- hitherto sadly neglected ln our province, awarding to the mod- ern Ides. Thrls argument was re- ceritliy advanced In a very nice letter written a-bove the signat- ure of "Citizen". and the tone of th-is letter led me to believe it

was really a cltizeness who wrote lt-In other words a wo- "F811.

The women! ‘Ihe Women! God bless them, "since you can't get along with your women or with- out them!" Today they buzz a- bout continually chatting and discussing about housekeeping and uLl domestic economy. Thr-y cross continents, and traverse land and sea in search of "a balanced ra- tion“. and then return homo to tell their hungry and expectant husband-s that somewhere or other they discovered the scien- tific fact that milk and oatmeal ‘porridge are good foods for breakfast! Another rruorn fort- unate than the rest. had 111v good fortune to moot the famous and beloved Father Giggs. and ac- cordingly ts strong for corn-barf and cabbage: ano1hcr-—I~Ivavoi1 knows where she got tho Inform- atlon—swears by turnips and car- rots; and still another sirggcsts fruits-apples. plums or pouches for 1nstanee-as a M1010 dessert for supper. And so the modern trend and drama goes on mor- rlly.

I arm. Sir, ole. CINDERI-JLLUS.

CITY POLICE

Sin-For some time I have read with disgust 1111* unfair criticism in our evening jmprr of thr- Clly Polio Force, 301 I hrivo failed to see any grounds for complaint or charges ngnlnsl 1hr said Pollen. Is it not an unfair and unbecoming way to zicl?

These m-on nre 1hr servants of the public; they are I11 a jaosillon that they canY come out openly nnd defend themselves, and know- tng this the critic lilies to 111'.) it in. It is quit» r-vidoiit that hr- is not. conversant with ifir- faclsbut mcpocls when hr: gets an irlnn that hr.- can not only reform l-hr police but can revolutionizi- 1hr svorfd. Just ivhy 11o was not 5on1 to Moscow In sit 1‘I wlhh thr- Big Four must have boon a slip-m on Di~, Cyrus‘ part.

I think as a cllizcn, as n iionvv taxpayer. and who is quite conversant n-iiii the fuels. and one who has travelled across Canada and the Untied Slate-s. and one who has lat-con shown the pol-Ice systems in many of the large cities, that we have one

of the flnost Police Forces In the Domlfiion of Canada. but none.

‘There is nothing to be gained by knocking our bays; it. has a tendency lo demorulizc nnd dis- courage them. I think they are lo be congratulated and wo should be proud of 111cm. Thcy‘ are ii fine-looking group of mom M“! are lmndlcnppnd to a vary grant extent In their duties as Police r-ffleors. First. rven tho emnllost rhlid on 1.110 st-rrol knows llir-m by Mm»; they got llll/lo cooper- nllon from ll1e P11131117. mostly knocks. until tli limo comes flint their service is rennin-cl.- ‘time: receive only small waves. yr-ltltt-y are iii-ways on llio job and they don't know utiat mlnulc that. they may be culled on to risk their lives. ns In the case of mun‘- der on Pnwnr-l Street n few yours ago. I have failed to ere the critic commend these men fol‘ the bravery they have displayed. They have saved people fmm

drowning, yet this Is ail forgot- ten; obey protect our lives and