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Homing Dilly Wounded in 1887i Aithorked n Second Clue Mr-Jl. Pen Oltloo Department. Ottawa President. ha A. Burnett; Vice-President. Wm. B. Burnett; Beam-Trend G. M. Barnett; Editor and Ilnlglng Director, J. R. Burnett; Ansoclato Editor, hank Walker.

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

SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1947

Briefs Well Presented

The interests of our farmers, fishermen. businessmen and others were well represented in the briefs submitted yesterday to the Board of Transport Commissioners, in protest against the proposed 30 percent increase in railway freight rates.

Of special importance was the brief pre- seated by Mr. W, R. Show, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, dealing with our whole form pro- duction problems. Clearly Mr. Show showed that the proposed increase would strike o ser- ious blow at our agricultural industry. He esti- mated that the Province should have a minimum livestock population of l50,000 cattle, 200,000 hogs and upwards of 2,000,000 poultry, but this objective could not but be adversely affected by higher transportation charges. ln hog pro- duction, freight increases would weaken the bargaining position of island producers, espec- ially in the marker for breeding stock in West- ern and Central Canada. Already our poultry industry is feeling the impact of high produc- tion costs.

On the basis of bushels of barley, Mr. Show figured that our i946 importations of coarse grains and proteins amounted to about 2,250,000 bushels, or one-third of the total provincial pro- duction of grains in a normal year. The main- tenance of this livestock feeding program, made possible by federal freight subsidies, is threat- ened by the announcement of the cancellation of drawbacks on grains.

in form machinery, Mr. Show ShOWBd lWW freight rates cause extra costs over Central Canadian prices of more than $l0 on a binder, $5 on a mower, S25 on a tractor and from $40 to $55 on cars and trucks. 'On other materials the rates are of o corresponding nature. He also dealt with importation of ground limestone, fox feeds and other commodities.

Strong arguments were presented in con- nection with the ‘potato industry by Mr. Boulter, the fishery ii¥ustry by Mr. Buihoe, Boards of ‘nude by My, raham Rogers, and co-operatives by‘ Mr. O'Brien. The examination‘ of the briefs, particularly Mr. Shaw's, was lrWQlhY "lid _"""' are, but substantially the evidence submitted was shown to he correct.

A strong point was made bY Mf- Bfiillle" when he showed that this Province ships the largest percentage of its potatoes by rail of My Pfgyincg of Canada. Being subiect to long hauls on bulky commodities we help to pay the terminal charges on all freight moving short distances, as these charges are frequently the “m; an freight moving lO0 miles or l,000 mil", The proposed freight increase would mean that our potato growers would have to revert to steamer shipments in order to meet

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conlCpheiblfugCommissioner Cross and his colleagues showed every courtesy and consideration in bear- ing the various witnesses. Perhaps they felt that |f ""7 Province were in a position to present such a case, the question at issue could easily be decided. At any rate, our appointed spokes- men have done well, and we con do no more now than await the outcome.

What Dictators Forget

Mr. Bevin, Britain's Foreign Minister, though an out-ond-out Labourite in domestic policies, is on ardent disciple of Mr, Churchill in international affairs. And he is able, and always willing to declare the faith that is in him. At the great annual convention of Labour at Margate, Kent, he boldly faced his critics of ”rhe Little England", or isolationist type, and carried an overwhelming majority of the dele- gates with him in his determination to continue the present trend of foreign policy. He showed clearly and positively that though Britain must march with the international times, that did nol mean she should vacate the forefront for the rear. Britain since almost before historic time, has been in the forefront of reform progress, both nationally and internationally; and the Labour Party, notwithstanding its advanced views and policies on domestics and financial affairs, is determined to continue to make Brit- ain's‘ moral and economic presence felt in the councils of the world, dominating international affairs, now os hitherto.

In this connection it is interesting to recall that though from Hitler to Napoleon the re- trospective iflsta of history may seem long, yet Hitler's ambition to dominate the world per- sonally brings back to mind a talk a writer had with Marshal Foch, in i921, on the centenary of Napoleon's death at St. Helena. Foch had studied profoundly the campaigns and life of Nelson. fie had commanded Allied Armies on some of the old Napoleonic battlefields. Dis- cussing the reasons lor Napoleon's failure, Foch said: "ln my view, the deep reason for the disaster that overwhelmed him must be sought elsewhere than in ill-health. He forgot that a mnii cannot be God; that above the individual, there is the nation; that above man, there is the moral law; and that war is not the highest goal since, above war, there is peace." These things the British Commonwealth and Empire have not forgotten. They strive for peace, not war- place with freedom." Notwithstanding tho wido- sprcad assumption that Britain has again fallen upon evil days, it ls prudent to remember, the

words of that leading English historian, the late H. L. Fisher, upon the apparent eclipse of Eng- land after the loss of hei North American col- onies. He wrote: "lt has always been found difficult to take Britain's measure." The meas- ure taken in l78l proved wrong. it is our firm belief that any similar measure now taken will prove not less erroneous, and Bevin and Chur- chill ore in agreement.

Gaelic Relntorcements

Though ignominiously routed in his bout with Mr. McLure over the Biblical quotation about Jacob and Esau, Veterans Affairs Minister MacKenzie, like the doughty Highlander he is, returned to the charge two days later, bringing with him this time his Gaelic reinforcements. The incident is thus reported in Honsard of May 26:

"Right Hon. Ian A. MacKcnzie: Mr. Speak- er, I rise to a question of privilege. Last Fri- day, at page 3433 of Hansard, the authenticity of my interpretation of Holy Writ was chal- lenged l was supported by the book, sir, the Bible on which you were brought up. I went home and got my own Gaelic Bible, and l om going to put the quotation on record. l have a precedent for doing this, because John Tol- mie-

"Mr. MacKinnon: He was my uncle.

"Mr. MacKenzie: -—did this about forty years ago, in the Gaelic language as used in that part of the country from which my col- league the Minister of Trade and Commerce (Mr. MacKinnon) comes. This is what it says in Genesis, chapter Z7, port of verse Z2: ‘is e 'n

guth guth locoib, och is ind na lamhan lamhan Esau.’

"The translation, which I give to a long suffering Honsard, is: ’The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands ore the hands of Esau.’ ”Mr. Graydon: Mr. Speaker, does this mean that this House is becoming trilingual?

"Mr. MacKenzie: lt should be.

"Mr. Speaker: According to the rules the right hon. Minister should not try to introduce a third language in the House."

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Striking is not so much a habit in Nova Scotia as a recurring disease, breaking out at frequent intervals.

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The current house-moving iob draws at- tention to the inconvenience of overhead wiriag in a city like Charlottetown. Some day we hope that both power-and telephone lines will join the watermaiiis-iindergraund.

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With 108 travelling assessors to check up

on him the Canadian farmer might as well be- come reconciled to paying income tax on every- thing he receives, including the cash value af the fun he gets out of being a farm-er. —~+--~a a m. _ Premier Jones is quite cagey regarding Pro- vincial affairs when in Ottawa. He predicts quite definitely an carly end of butter ration- mg, but os regards the end of the new car ferry delays, in which we are more particularly in- trested at present, he is equally indefinite. i w‘ i’ i’

Walt Whitman, American poet, born this date l8l9; was editor of several New York State newspapers, and also The Freeman at Bos- ton; acted as a volunteer in the Civil War, and left a record of his experiences in Drum-Tops; also published o volume, Leaves of Grass, a col- lection of un-rhymed verse of striking power: Away with themes of war! Away with war itself! Hence from my shuddering sight to n-ever more

return that show of blacken'd mutilated

corpses!

That hell unpent and raid of blood, fit for wild tigers or for lop-tongued wolves, not reo- soning men.

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Mr. Winston Churchill in an address after he had received the freedom of the Burgh of Ayr, Scotland, reiterated his conviction that Britain would overcome her difficulties. "lt is my unconquerable faith," he told his audience 1n .Ayr town hall, "that if we have hard times ahead—l will never, never admit the word "des- pair" on British lips'—-we shall come through in the end. We shall continue albeit not in the full stature of Yormer days to play a leading and honorable part in guiding the future progress o! mankind."

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Canadian farmers may as wcll write off as I bad debt the hundreds of millions of dollars they have given to urban Canadians and to the woi effort in cheap food (writes John Atkins). They will never collect it. The best they can hope for is the restoration of free markets in which food will bring a natural price; above perhaps, a stop-loss price floor. Urban Con- odions may expect food prices more in line with urban earnings. Form people have left the farms of Canada, for better paid urban work, fast enough to create a shortage of farm labor which has resulted in a food supply for short of the nutrition requirements of Canada and its food customers. Cheap food can mean expensive starvation. When do farmers get fair prices? When urban people buy their food in free mar- lllfi.

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Although car manufacturers will sell their entire outputs with little or no effort. the indus- try's manufacturing divisions are strivi g to revive the competitive spirit on the merc undis- ing front, according to a Detroit despotch. Every general sales manager hos dozens of charts analyzing his competitors’ operations and prices, as well as their distribution in the larger areas and the growth or decline of competitors’ sales organization. Close watch is also being kept on new model planning. Usually a top secret, it

not infrequently happens that leakages occur as to tooling and didord-crs-that give an inkling of new designs under way.

THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

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Acaordln; to Mpofll linen tho opening a! 111a fishing souoa thy 1. there have not been many worth- while catches. but watch the poc- 1a1 pace m June. -Pc-rt Arthur NQWS-ChFORlCIQ. ~

It all parent: would regard the speed-fiend reckless driver as an enemy of their children. as they actually are, 1t u-ould do much w reduce rife menace. Sad to say, many of these drivers are them- selves parents. -Owen sound Sun- Times.

Ifvooustrucflron of housing ls slowing up it is not. because the need has been met; there are two reasons, the continuing high cost rrf building materials. and hamper- lng government restrictions which make rental property an uncertain DTOPOSlYlOTP-Ollflivfl Journal.

A wag/laziest: that. alnce so much money is being devoted la research maybe the scientists could give a little time to researching on labor troubles, such as lnflam. maziori c-f the Lewis and harden- ing of the management. Jraronto Globe and M511.

Sudbury. Que. lua n new curfew law. under which children out nftrr nine are put. in the pound, and their parents have lo pay a dollar 1o get them out. This ls rank inflation; you ugerl u, i), able to redeem a cow for a quarter. —'Edmonton Journal.

British Columbia's Investment market will be in n far healthier po- sifion if British Columba secur- ty officials carry out their plans to introduce regulations to curb the activities of "wildcat." stock brokers. The BC authorities are planning 1o pattern their regula- tic-n: on Quebec legislation which bans soliciting stock sales by mall, telegraph or telephone inside 0r outside the province and lives fraud victims the right to cancel transactions. Fraudulent operators, under the Quebec amendments, will be vulnerable for two years to court action to recover inves- tors’ losses in wildcat ventures.- Vancouver Province,

We always were A waatclsd poo- ple. and apparently we still are 11-1 spite of the lessons that we learn- ed during the war. We cant be bothered saving paper o-r metal or rags or fats or anything else notwithstanding the fact that. all these materials possess veal value, and we prefer to send them to the dump. where they will be utterly lost and destroyed. rather than put them aside for periodical sal- vage collection. But while we prise. lice this ivaslefulriess, ivtrlch would nrver be condoned in a good many countries, scrap metal and paper and other materials ‘emfllfl in short. supply; and we romplpin bit.- trrly- because they are ‘not avail-

able in normal valumt.—- Brock- ville Recnrtlet and Times.

-A large. picturesque figure tn London llfa is removed by the death of Harold Moody, the found- er and president at the league of Colored Pee-pies. He had only lust returned from a visit lo his native land of Jamaica allet 37 years’ absence. His ancestry was N68"), and he was naturally proud of his succesvas a doctor Ln Peck- liam. where, after geihlng a Lon. don honors degree, lie built up l. large practice. "There lg no color har 1n Peckham," he used to gay, Passionately devoted to the cause of freedom for colored pea-pies @\'=l‘>v'here Moody could deeply mQW 1101111161‘ audiences with his natural oratory. His return to Jamaica trad been almost a royal progress. 11¢ was chairman of tho London Missionary Society's Africa committee and was trusted 1n wel- fare advic at. the Colonial Office. -Manches er Guardian.

Modern strikers use different tactics from those who engaged 1n industrial disputes of the past, says The Manchester Guardian. One of the earliest strikes an record in lhrS country was that of the jour- neymen shoemekers of Wlsbech. reported by the Bishop of Ely la Thomas Cromwell 1n 1538. Instead of parading the streets or picket- inr: the workshops tho men with- drew to 11 hill outside the town. ivliere lhry established themselves and refused lo budge until their rlrmands were granted. Their mclh- ads, however. could hardly be da- lcribod as peaceful, for in suns- monirig the master shoemaker: to meet them to discuss an increase of wages they declared "There shall none come info the town to serve for that wages within a lwelvemonln and a day but. we will have an arm or a leg of him. exrrpt they will take iin oath as we have done."

Every you when we give the lisl nf people who put money in the hank and then forget about. it. we took for our name. never coo if. says The Ottawa Journal. 1t makes uii wonder all the more whet. sort. of people they must. be who go to n bank. deposit. as much as a thousand dollan. then never return to claim if. Yo; i1 host of persons all over Canada do this strange ‘thing, as strange as any- thing we can think of. Right. now. for instance I50 people in or near Ottawa have money 1n the local banks, have had l>t there for yen-ii. nnrl apparently have forgotten ll. In 1r that a few hundred or g few thousand dollars doemt’ matter to them-or something adder? Strange stories must luck behind g lot, of this forgotten money. What. for example. was the explanation o! the fact that some yuan ago a men walked 1 one of our hanks, deposited p15. . and then vanish- ea into thin ‘alt-t Psychologists are prablnl into everything else: here,

lt seems to us. ls‘ |, real tlold for them

r-ing. which was held at the-Jungian l _ death before she may ~f'l"2@l_VQ thi

PUBLIC FORUM

this column In anon tn tho oiseiualiin by corro- spoaaont-a at question n! interest. The C‘ lottosolrn

Guardian dool not nmoQr- I7 endorse tho opinion of correspondent.

SHOOTING SEASON

Sin-Recently the Fish and Game Association called a public meeting for the discussion of dates for s, duck hunting season.

Unfortunately in Eastern Kings the noLlce published in the paper reached the readers at about 6.30 p.m. of the clay of the meeting and 1 1-2 hoursmolice was loo short lar the attendance of some who had decided 1o appear and voice an opinion.

Now 1t is passed. and supposed- ly there is nothing that. can be done. It ts interesting ta note that those voting were 24 as against 4 when tho motion was finally put to the meeting-hardly a rep- resentative number considering the Island's population. 1n fact not quite equal to the Provincial Governmenfo membership; pos- sibly more interested however.

A few thoughts no offered 11ers for consideration. In the first place the season has been suggest- ecl as opening an the 15th October. This will result definitely in con- servation. Hungarian partridge are shot. (all all during Oats-her, Ruffled grouse from Oct. 15-41, and now we crowd the days with n further opportunity of shooting st ducks and geese from Oct 15 onwards.

I for one like to shoot andfleel that 1f tho duck season commen- ced an Nov. 1 I would have two months of shooting instead of six weeks-A month st. partridge and grouse. and one month at ducks and geese.

If. may be argued that by No- vember 1 most of our home-rais- od ducks have departed. Well good luck ta them and may they coma back, but I for one prefer tho Northern bird. For geese Novem- ber first ls a good time to com- mence, they are usually here in fair numbers. and can be expect- ed to keep coming all the month. October 15, however. 1s trequentlyi too early for the big flocks lo arrive. and harnessing them 1a merely felling them to keep mov- mg.

By the way. Sir. I note that. on page 5 of Guardian dated May 29 ‘Game Act Cases Pending‘ the size given for the legal limit of’ trout. is 6 inches. Tut, tut! r10 you lake them at. that size‘? Take n look at. section 32 of the Game Act 1937 as amended in 1944. and don't. let. the Game Warden catch you ivi-rh those six inch beauties. i

I am. Sir. rlr. ISAAC CHEVEKIE. Souris. P. E. 1.

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CHARLOTTETOWN (IOMPOSITE mart SCHOOL ‘

~11 svill be Ncallrd that. at a vrcenl well attended citizen's meet-

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Hell. Lhemagedg for a Charlottetown Composite High School was ‘dis- l cussed.

Many of our loading business and professional man loo-k part in this discussion and ivitlhaul exception. supported the idea of a. Charlotte- town Composite High School.

They stressed lhr nocessldy for an adequate education for those who would enter-commercial and technical occupations. today.

A1 this mooring. veteran officers slated that B11111)’ records showed our Island Youth lo be education- ally below par. The corrumon reason I given by f-hese boys for leavlni

little in their school studies to 1n- lerest lhom.

It W“ ‘WEB-Bled l°°‘ “l ‘his Ste mrt 11-1 sum of -— hundred _,, -' meenng ‘ha; many 0| the gm; 0t poullzdsl e difficulty. any; Dr. Corbett. “lnlfligiglkon M50 is hem“ initiate: this community (our fulus-e hcme- ,1 leave and bequeath‘ to __ expandirg such an activity lo 111-, be“ smoking lacs,‘ gyc -.r.n ‘makers’ “mum Pmfm by a “m” Stewart. the sum o: one hundred dud“ lflmdmls °l lmusand‘ ollinemloss because they SPonci l‘ practical school course. Such n poundx people if a little more money were £510 mqhe hm. 1f this "- mi!

course which would include 000R- ing, sewing. household ‘munflflfi- meml, together with certain neces- sery book teaming subjects. would enable our future homemakers t0 betwi- cope with their all import- ant duties 1n family ille-

We have always laid the Pfvbltm of large numbers of our boys m4 girls leaving our oil-s’ fich°°l§ e5“)? before they have sufficient educa - ion for their later do)’ need-S-

Tg-dpy, 1.111- fetnily allowance {toes encourage more pupils to tome? in school until their 16th drlfllt M- Thereforo. we must provide Prong,- ablr lrainirill for the imorc 911M" cal nuinded iiuivu-s- ivthw t" l: mend their school lit“? i“ productive manner and if i511? not lo be o. hmldrnsvce to_

(‘S oflhhllilccblbéilrlfliiur. schools ltififi p,,,‘,id..d well for hho academically "winded pup“_maln1y those {who 0 on lo University Md Tm‘ “y in”, W110 leave our Province to

‘T1819. . ‘efqueglibsrelilitetown ComPfl-hil“ ‘nigh school Wm grunge for the needs

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