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

WEDNESDAYKSEPTEMBEIT 3. 1841 Exports Stlll tirow

'The phenomenal growth of Canada's exports during the past nine yrars, a growth which has put Canada among the very top trading nations of the world, is cleurly shown in -figures from the external trade branch of the Dominion Bur- eau of Statistics. They present a comparison between the first six months of I947 and the corresponding period or I938. as well as with the first half of last ycar.

From January to lune, 1938, total exports amounted, in round numbers, to $387,100,000. For the first half-year oi 1946 they had risen to 9,062,800,000, while a further gain is recorded for the January-June pcriod of this year, to $1 ,328,500,000.

The figures for 1946 are of interest because they indicate the nature of the further increases and also to what extent recessions have occurred. For instance, a very significant jump from a year ago is recorded for flour, from $60,319,000 to $102,418,000, while thero are smaller but important increases in the case of rubber, to- bacco, wood pulp, newsprint, passenger automo- biles (the increase foi this item reflects an emergence from wartime conditions), asbestos, and some other groups of commodities.

On the other hand, we have been shipping out of the country less meats (other than bacon and hams) than a year ago, and less wool and its products.

"Most illuminating of all, as a record of pro- gress, is the comparison of exports between 1938 and 1947. Here is the summary, products of these basic materials being included in each case:

Six months ended June

1938 1947

(millions of dollars)

Vegetable . .. . . . . . . . . 343.6 Animal .. . .. . . . . . . .-_._. 54.2 160.7 Fibres, textiles .. . . . . . ..,,_. 6.4 24.4 Iron ..,._., ...... ..,,._ 34.4 138.2 Wood, paper 94.6 402.7 Nun-ferrous metals . .. . . .L._._ 89.7 143.2 Non-metallic minerals .. . .~_,_. 11.3 34-2 Chemicals . .. i ... ..,_._., 10.7 42.7 Miscellaneous ... .. .... . .,_. 11.0 38.7 387.1 1,328.5

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5n almost every instance, there have been gains since 1938, some of them enormous in size. One of the few exceptions is found in the nan-ferrous metal group, as exports of nickel andqprecious metals (including gold) were not much out of line with those of that year, while copper actually shows a slight falling off. Cop- per exports are well above those of last year. however. Zinc is up nearly three times from 1938.

One important item, wheat, suffers unduly from the comparison because the very much smaller exports of 1938 reflected not only the restrictions of international trade but also a severe crop failure.

Why llrlng That llp?

Newspapers readers, says the British Colum- bian, must be pretty tired of being told that if Mackenzie King hangs on to DlTICBJIISI’ a little longer he will beat the record of Sir Robert Walpole who "had 20 years, 10 months and nine days of the prime ministership"-number of minute. not stated. Incidentally, the title of Prime Minister is comparatively refit"; will’ pole’s offices were those of Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer. However, he was virtually supreme in Government whiclh puts him in the same class as that of Canadas Prime Minister.

”The resemblance between these two great figures, one may hope, does not go beyond supremacy and length of tenure” adds our B. C. contemporary. "According to the office encyclo- pedia, Walpole was expelled from the House, sent to the Tower and declared disqualified for election on the strength of accusations of cor- ruption as secretary of war. One of his pocket boroughs re-elected him but he was expelled a- gain. He was a firm upholder of the Honoverian dynasty. Says the record: ‘He did not hesitate to stoop to parliamentary corruption if by that means he tsould increase the power of the Whigs.’ Altogether, not a character to be cam- par-ed with the saint in the ivory tower at Ottawa."

The ltorth Polo

The north magnetic pole appears to have shifted again. Canadian scientists, trying to track it to its supposed home in the Boothia peninsula, find, according to reports received in Ottawa, that it may have moved northward to Somerset Island, a distance irt about 200 miles.

This is not the first time it has been guilty of misbehaviour so greatly upsetting to geograph- ers lt was fixed by the famous explorer, Sir John Ross. in 1831, but later investigators in- cluding the AstranomerRoyal himself, found that it has removed itselt by as much as a de-

. gree from where it ought to have been.

Its present erratic behaviour-appears to be its worst so far. For iwirnetic poles deflect the compass needle-indeed make it stand on its head when in their company. And in these days of air navigation the dependability of the com- pars is no light matter.

Perhaps the recent discovery of Professor P.M. S.- Blacliett, the famous British scientist, that the earth itself is inherently a magnet and that Its magnetism ls due to its mass rotation may provide a in ni-dnnation of whet

happened to the magnetic pcie. At any rate, it hos oscillated itself our oi the reach of the Ot- tawa observers searching lor it, and become one with Kipling‘s "secret ha under Cheops pyra- mid."

.- EDITORIAL ‘NOTES -

French Republic declared this date 1830.

Britain declared war_ with Germany this date 1939. I I Q‘ I Olivgr Cromwell, English protector and

dictator, died this date 1658.

According to reports of visiting motorists the appointments of the new car ferry leave nothing to be desired, but that unfortunately it seems iust as long to wait for it at Tormen- tine as if it were ‘thefld. one.

Probably the only war criminal to be fitting- ly punished was ene that got away. Charlie Schmidt, ruthless chief of the Gestapo in North China and Mongolia was found, a scrawney wreck, in an earthern pit under an old Peiping

house. He had iiat seen the sun for two years. i i i’ i‘

ulations which give to the farmer the same priv- ilege of making a tax-free capital gain as has been enjoyed by purchasers of real estate, shares and other_capital goods, the farmer may now establish a basic herd which is a capital asset. Any sale depleting the herd is regarded in the same way as if he had sold part of the farm itself and does not produce taxable in- come.

were:

The first faint gleam of hope for Nova Scotian coal mining is the announcement by Dosco of a program of mechanization. Officials of the company admit, however, that it will take five years to instal mechanical cutting and load- ing devices. With the government in a hurry to withdraw its subsidies it looks as if the pinch wiil be felt long before that.‘ IV i

Princess Elizabeth has evidently inherited her Royal Mother's keen’ sense of humour. Speaking at Edinburgh of her South African tour she remarked: "ln South Africa I found Scots- men and Scotswomen were so plentiful that I was greatly relieved to lind yesterday that there were still some left; Nerthi oftthe Tweed." Speaking on Trout Fishing in Scotland aver BBC, Mr. Moray McLaren had this to say: "l suggest that this friendly, classless society of trout anglers that exists in Scotland owes a large port of its origin and continuance to the fact that trout fishing in this little Northern country of ours is not hedged round with the restrictions which obtain in richer and more crowded lands." I i The Editor of the Communist Daily Worker received a facer the other day from a housewife reader. She raised a point which Karl Marx and Engels overlooked. ‘What about the so-called Communist who exploits his wife?’ is what she wants to know. 'l work from eight to six’, she says, ‘and I have to shop, wash, sew, clean and cook in my spare time. And while I'm doing it, "He" is out shouting: "Down with Serfdom".' "

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\Over 700,000 farm workers in Britain will receive more money from the beginning of September. Orders made by the Agricultural Wages Board at their meeting in London on August 19th bring into effect weekly pay in- creases of ten shillings ($2.00) for men and eight shillings ($1.60) for women. This means that the minimum wage for a forty-eight-hour week is rnised to ninety shillings ($18.00) for adult male land workers and sixty-eight shillings ($13.60) for women.‘

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Apropos the Salvation Army campaign, twenty-two-year-old Maisie Ringham, a Landon lassie every Sunday morning and often in week- day evenings, marches with the Hendon Salva- tion Army Band playing her trombone. lt takes some doing, graduating from playing in the "Army" band to playing in an orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall, but Maisie has done it! It seems she played her trombone so well, that she was brought to the notice of the Halle Or- chestra. Now, she's been appointed its second trombone player, and plays at all the Albert Hall concerts. In spite of this success, how- ever, if one were to go down Hendon way any Sunday morning, he would still see Maisie, in her neat Salvation Army uniform, blowing lustily away on her trombone, and keeping step with the Salvation _Army band. i i‘ i ‘k It is reported that Canadians, last winter, spent more than $110,000,000 in heating their homes or approximately three per cent of their entire living.expenses for 12 months. The esti- mate is based on yearly domestic fuel consump- tion in previous years as compiled by the Do- minion Bureau of Statistics. The average ex- penrliture on fuel, it is said, is about $40 a year for all Canada, but in the Central Prov- inces and the larger homes the fuel bill is said to be greater. Heating experts point out that this expenditure is much greaterjhan necessary as most house furnaces are only about 50 per cent efficient, causing incomplete combustion and wastage of heat by obsolete and poor in- stallations. The Canadian Institute of Plumb- ing and Heating has outlined a few simple rules for reducing costs: 1. Learn how to handle your furnace. Obtain professional advice and follow it. 2. Insulate the walls and roof of the house and avoid heat waste. 3. Maintain a steady heat. Do not overheat the house and throw open windows to cool it off. Automatic thermostatic controls will assist in maintaining an oven temperature. 4. Make sure the furnace is in proper repair. Now that winter is ap- proaching a proper inspection should be made

and repairs completed. 5. Make sure that fum- oca iwl fkres are clean.

Further in regard to the new income tax reg-

Tire GUARDIAN

llotes By The Way

At the "We llnve n Card for Ev- ery Occaslon" counter of a large department store, says Renders D1- gest, the clerk asked the women standing beside me what ‘he could dc for hcr. "I'm afraid you haven't. anything that wlll do." she nld. "I‘ve looked all these cards over." "Madam." sald the clerk, "we have greeting cards for everything. What klnd do you want?" The women hesitated, then leaned forward and sald 1n a low valce: "My brother has just been sent to jall. and I want 1.0 send hlm a card express- lng my regret." The clerk thought a moment, then reached among the cards "For the Slck" and handed her one. It reed: "Sorry to hear you're a shut-in. Hope you get. out soon!"

Ronald's program of belting, need- l1ng_ refusing to co-operate. imput- lng evil motives and open charges of dishonesty and lack of Integrity, 1s obviously planned to webr down lts allies. All right, we're worn down, —but not so worn down, that we can't. leave Russle to ft.s own devices and lead the reef of the world to ecanomlc and political recovery . . . Let's stop making faces at the little men In the Kremlin and play the game under our own rules. And those who don't like those rules don't have to o-ay. P. S. _-The United States 1s still making atomic bambs and 1s look- lng for ways to make better ones. according to Atomlc Energy Oom- mlsslon, Pravda please copy. —St. Louls Globe-Democrat.

What ls the American tourhfa vlew of Canada? "Canadians do

not have coal to burn at ell 1n their homes. They burn wood. Barns are‘ all unpainted u they

don't have money to buy pelnt. The Canadians are all very poor people. Their small towns look like Western ghost towns. Thetr homes aren't kept up as ours and they don't have the house shortage we have 1n the states." The: was pert vaf an lntervlew publlshed 1n The Greene County Journal. James- town, Ohio, and was headed "Wrltns Interestingly of Canadian ‘I‘rlp." It must have been a. hot, dull day ln The Journal's edltorlnl office. There's nothing much to say about. the lntervlew --1t's too obvlous. One can draw the moral, however. that brlef trips can be productive of the most. amazing conclustons. Same people can spend a week or so 1n a country and blossom out as full-fledged experts on that coun- try's economlc and soclel candl- tlons, past. and present history sud Cablnet. ministers’ secret mans. You'll have to pardon us now- we're on our way to Interview I splrlt ln one of Oxford County's ghost towns. _ Woodcock Sentinel- Review

Brldget, the goddess of the broom and dlshpan, ls going to come Into her own agaln ln Canada -wlth her name changed to Olga. or Gret- chen or Anastasia, observes The Vancouver Sun. Domestic servants in this country have been becam- lng rarer and rarer. Thousands of famllles now do their own home- work who ten years ago had one or more servants to care for them. More than one hard-working bus:- nessman ends his day not 1n n comfortable armchalr as soon as dlnner ls finished, but vested in an apron and presiding weal-fly over the activities of the kitchen sink. The mald-of-all-work and the "cook-genera? have become scarce luxuries for a varlety of causes. One obvious cause 1s the shortage of manpower 1n business and Indus- try during the war, when young women found they could double and triple wages obtalneble 1n domestic service by working tn fac- tories and offices.

Slx of the eight Norwegian sul- ers whose shlp drlfted out of con- trol for nearly nlne months and was finally crushed lrr an Arctic Ice pack have survived arwlnter 1n the Arctic to cross the Norweglar- Russian border at Klrkenes on August 13. says Norway Digest. Home again, they related how they had felled to reach their static-n on Spltzbergen when thelr echo-flier "Enlghefen" burned out a muln bearing and how they drlfted uut. of control before a severe southeast gale. Alter nearly slx weeks adrift, the craft froze fast 1n the pack 1ce where 1t held together through the winter only to be crushed on .lune 8. At that time, the crew took to a lifeboat and after flve days reached land where 1t. managed to contact a Russian sealing etstlon. Negotiations between Russian rind Narweglan authorities have now resulted 1n the return of the slx survivors. The remaining two mem- bers of the crew died of tlliiess.

Alarmed American educetlonllte are Introducing special courses Into the schools on the subject of man- ners. Now, nobody wants our school- boys to turn themselves Into Uttle Lord l-‘auntleroys or our girls l"ll.0 walking volumes of Emlly Post. The world would be a stuffy place 1n- deed If this happened. But It would be o. good thing to have our young people taught ln school the essen- tials of common decency which 1s. after all, only consideration of one's fellows. This Isn't to sny n young man should be constantly hohhlng up and down to light a lady's clgarets. Women wanted em- ancipation; they have 1t end they shouldn't. complafn because men no longer klss their hand. but general- ly treat them as equals. leasing them to take‘ their chance-c. with every one else. But there are tun-

young people could be taught-and these rules ell boll down to conrild- eration of others, l. little thought before one acts, making sure one’: action wlll not annoy the neighbors. Our youth ls so good u the youth of any generation. only a lfttll

jtench our bays and glrle to be

more thoughtless In lto exuberance. School lessons on manners could

rlomentsl rules of mariners that. our I

PUBLIC FORUM

Tbli oolunn ll _opea to the dilator! by oorro- q of “ el Inherent- Tbe Charlottetown Guardian doee not necessar- u; endorse the oplnlon o1 correspondent;

IKE-L COAT OI‘ ARM

Slr.—People 1n cock-tall bars are apt to see thlngs ccckeyed. Three llttle trees under a blg tree may“ be a big forest to one who hue had too many. But apart from bleery vtidon the correct showing of’ our cont o! Arms ls of interest to many Islanders.

The arms of the Colony of the Island of St. John were flrst. en- graved on e. seal 1n 1769. ‘This seal. the great seal of the colony. Ibse- ther with the two chief citizens of the Colony, Mr. Callback and Mr. Wright. was taken from Charlotte- town ln 1718 by Amerlcan priva- teers. The cltlzens were returned but the reel remalned. It may still be extant 1n a collection of seals 1n some Amerlcan museum.

The original dcvlce or badge of this Colc-ny was on lhls seal. No Iax Impression cf 1t survives. We have only the description of 1t as contained ln an order 1n coun- cll "at the Court of St. James the 11th day of July, 1169" readlng as follorwsz- -

"Whereas there was tlils Day rend at the Board. a Report from the Lords Commissioners for Trade end Plantations. setting forth, That ln obedience to hle Majesty's Order tn Council of the 28th of last Month, they have con- eldered 0f and prepared the form and Device of a. New Seal for the Island of St. John 1n America. which they humbly Submitted to hlr Majesty. and ls as fallow-s, Vlz:

“On the one side, Representation of a large Spreading Oak, with a shrub under 1t, and this Legend or Motto underneath, Porn Sub In- gentt, and this Inscription round the circumference, Slglllnm Insul- ee Snnctl Johsnnts tn America. and on the Reverse I-llo Majesty's Arms. Crown, Garter, »supporters and Motto with this Inscrlptlon round the circumference, ‘Georgina Tert- faa D81 Gretll, Magma Brltennl- ole, Ilhnctae a Htberntaii Rex, Fldet Defensor, ... svlol et Lun- eebargt Dan. Beetle Romnnl. lm- perll Arohf - The sisunrlno ct Elector.’

"fills Majesty taking the some Into conslderetlon was pleased with the Advlce [of Hts Privy Council 1° BPDrove thereof. and to order as 1t 1s hereby ordered that his Maj- esty's Chief Engraver of Seals to wlth all possible dispatch prepare is draught of a. new seal agreeable to the aforementioned description and lay the some before His Maj- esty for 111s Royal Approbatlon."

Prom this description it would appear that the saplings grew up later out of the shrub!

‘The second great seal replacing the one stolen was doubtless en- graved same tlcne alter the Arn-_ erlcnn raid. Wax Impressions from it may still be seen 1n the Provin- clal Buldlng and some people (dif- ferlng from Hon. A.E. Arsenault) maintain 1t shows three oak sap- lings growing close together. Cer- tainly an the 1811 Prince Edward Island copper cents It looks like three small trees.

Three saplings representing Kings, Queens dc Prince Counties may give undue prominence to geographical dlvlslcns which lack any governing authority, yct grow- lng together with roots interming- led do not. 1411C saplings show the unlty and brotherllness of our Is- land counties and their lnhablt- ants? Are not our saplings as meaningful as the stars on the American flag? Heraldic language f; very precise, end 1t: 1s both e. plty and a wonder that the device on our first seal was not described In such terms. If George the Third and his coun- cll had called on the Royal College of Heralds at London to design a seal we would have had an exact description of the device first rep- resented on our seal. Perhaps as a. Colony we were not blg enough 1n‘ 1769 to marlt a regular coat of arms which ls why the Heralds were not called an. Yet one won- ders 1f the College's records were searched for the perlad 1760-1716 previous to t-he granting of offlclnl arms 1n 1905. The exact descrip- tlon of the letter 1s as follows, and 1t may be remembered that. 1n heraldry no design 1s offlclnl, only the Written words:- "P.E.I. Coat of Arms granted by Royal Warrant dated May 30. 1905. "Descriptlan. - Argent on an Is- land Vert. to the Sinister an Oak Tree fructed. to the Dexter there,- of three oak saplings sprouting all Proper. on a Chief Gules rs Llon plssant guns-dent: 0r." “Motto: ‘Parve Sub Ingentt‘ I am, Sir, etc. HISTORIAN

BOBBY. N0 FEATIIIBB DURBAN. Eouth Afrlce -— (OP) —Some United States girls who expected to get ostrich feathers from their cellar boys n-egoin; to be ‘lseppotnted. The sellers prom- lsed them feathers which they hoped to get. from a rtitprnent of oetrlcheo belng taken aboard that; shlp. But. Union author-lite; ben- neo the Ihivmebr and the glrla wlll have to go feetherieu.