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Morning Dolly (Founded in 1181i Authorized o: Second Clue Moll. Poll 031M Deparnnent, Otoowo.

Resident, Ian A. Burnett; Vioe-"realdent, Wm. K Burnett; Body-Troll. G. M. Burnett; Editor Ind Managing Director, .1. B. Burnett; Amoclato Editor.

Ihnlr Walker.

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker Tim: the Weakest Ink.”

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1948

Fire Prevention Week

By proclamation of His Excellency the Gov- ernor General, Fire Prevention Week will this year be observed during the week of October 6 to I2. If ever there was need for such ob- servance, that necessity has been amply dem- onstrated by the trend of fire losses, in both life and property, which have occurred during the past year. The loss of 391 lives and $42,000,000 property damage by fire in I945 should stiri every Canadian out of complacency which threatens our national economy.

Appeals to individuals to prevent fires on a otrlctly abstract basis seem to have had little effect. More often it is only when a person's pocket-book is affected that he begins to sit up and take notice. It is obvious, therefore, that unless the present trend of increasing fire losses can be checked, fire insurance companies will have no other alternative than to increase their rates. This statement is made on authority of the Dominion Fire Commissioners, Ottawa. In l92l, the average rote per $l00 of property against fire was $l.ll and, in I944, it was 67 cents. In the face of rising fire losses, it is a question how long the insurance companies will be able to operate successfully on these low rates.

The people of Prince Edward lsland with an estimated population of 92,000 lost $257,- 504 in fires last year of which $103,563 was uninsured. These figures have just been issued by the Prince Edward lsland Board of lnsur-" once Underwriters to call attention to the appalling wastage caused by fire damage. Losses in Canada as a whole last year were nearly 50% higher than in 194i and, while Prince Edward lsland losses remained practic- ally stationary as between the years I941 and I945, the per capita loss of $2.79 in I945 f8- veals the burden carried by the people of the Island.

Fire prevention measures are largely a matter of common sense. Heating equipment, electrical equipment and other potential sources of fire should be carefully checked over._ _Na risks should be taken from spontaneous ignition, which is possible in many substances under cer- tain conditions. Fires from the careless dis- position of cigarettes and matches are so pre- valent that too great care cannot be taken in this respect.

On the farm, it has been found that there are eight major causes of fire. These are: defective chimneys and flues, sparks on com- bustible roofs, lightning, spontaneous ignition, matches, gasoline or kerosene, heating equip- ment and electrical wiring. With just ordin- ary care, fires from these sources can be‘ re- duced or entirely eliminated, even from light- ning. A well-rodded building is considered 99 per cent immune ta lightning. A farmer can supply his own individual protectionby the pro- vision of approved extinguishers, pails and bar- rels of water, hand pumps and ladders. With the development of motorized apparatus and, good roads, he is in a fair way to receiving pro- tection on a community basis. Distance, how- ever, is still a great disadvantage when it comes to providing rural protection.

Fire prevention can only be brought about by the individuals responsible for fire hazards. This brings the question right down to the homes and places of business of every person.

A Million Tons

Investigations are being made in Orkney into the resources of sublittoral weed, a more valuable and prolific type of seaweed growing under water and difficult to harvest because it does not float when cut and is usually in- visible from the surface. A survey of Orkney waters from the air and by the Association's boats has revealed that an earlier estimate of a possible million-ton development of under- water seaweed in Orkney is conservative. Pra- vided suitable harvcsting gear can be devised, says th Association, a sizable industry should be capable of development.

The wide range of potential uses to which llginic acid and other chemical constituents of weed can be put points tho way to an Increas- ingly important Scottish industry, reports the Association. Demand for alginic acid is at present so great that three factories are now operating on the West coast, and one in South Uist.

An effort is also being made in collabora- tion with the Rowett Research Institute and Read- ing University to determine the food value and digestibility of seaweed for sheep, pigs, and poultry.

A large house has been purchased at lnveresk by the Association, and is now being equipped to serve as its headquarters and to house the engineering, botanical, and chemical

staff. The Patient Taxpayer

Will the income taxpayers of Cqriqdq gygy got mad enough to go on strike? asks an ox- chonge. Such a strike might stipulate, tho writer suggests, that no income tax would be pold until the government had substantially re- duced its expenditures and its employees; also that tho fox-free income of ordinary citizens olioulil be on o parity with that of members of parliament.

"When one soot o normally kind and even- tomporod moo looking o: if ,ho wor: ready to likelihood l: that ho has lost had e lottor from tho income to: dspart- Ioot doinoodlng further poymont o: hi: i942

income tax or else," says on Alberta editor. "The income tax racket is a crushing burden on the people of Canada, immensely aggravat- ed by the fbct that officials in this form of tax collection are years behind in their work. It is taking very questionable advantage of ordinary citizens, to expect them to dip up the data of four years ago. If they cannot produce exact figures an labor employed (much of a transient nature) and on the most minute transactions then they are held liable, and are subject to de- mands which are regarded as unjust and are resented by honest men.

"Entirely too often the department by’ sheer persistence and threat, beats down the spirit of its victim to the paint that the extra amount demanded is paid rather than contest- ed. But payment is made merely to preserve per- sonal sanity not as an agreement that the debt isiowed.

"The curious thing is that men who are mercilessly hounded by the Income Tax depart- ment are men who have earned top rating for scrupulous honesty in all their dealing through their whole lifetime. No one in their home com- munity would have a moment's doubt that they would turn in an honest statement in respect to income tax and that they would pay every cent they believed that they owed. But Ottawa ap- parently has no such honesty rating to go by. Every man seems to be regarded as a potential

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One consolation stay-at-homes have these clays is that they run little risk of becoming vic- tims of airplane disasters, railway collisions, shipwrecks, or automobile accidents-unless, of course, they happen to be unfortunate pedes- trians run down by furious or drunken drivers.

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One highly successful business firm, which devotes 75-8096 of their advertising budget to daily newspapers says: "Newspapers have been the pillar of the company's advertising pro- gram throughout 50 years." .

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Ownership and management of the well- known New Glasgow Eastern Chronicle has pass- ed from the Fraser family to Major James M. Cameron, a farmer member of the staff of the New Glasgow Evening News.

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The County Court Judge of Northumber- land and Durham Counties, Ont., has been charged after an accident on Sept.-3 with drunk and dangerous driving when his automobile struck a woman in Coburg. His case was ad- journed to 22nd inst., when it will be heard by the Magistrate of London, Ont.

Owing to a strike in the plant of Brunner- Mond, Canada, Amherstburg, Ont, where they make the soda ash necessary for glass manu- facture, Ontario liquor ration has been reduced seven quarts a month in order that there be suf- ficient bottles to go round. In Quebec, the quota has not yet been reduced, but a premium of from 5c to 25c is being paid for all empties returned to Vendors.

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John Addington Symonds, English-poet and critic, bo’rn this date I840; a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, his critlcal works include Studies of Greek Poets, Life of Shelley, Essays, Speculative and Suggestive, Walt Whitman; his magnum opus was an exhaustive study of The Renaisance in Italy:

"No seed shall perish which the soul hath sown."

"Gods fade; but God abides and in man's heart

Speaks with the clear uncenqucrable cry of energies and hopes that can not die."

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The Mackenzie King Government have now two agricultural problems to solve, a floor for Eastern Maritime potatoes, and a parity between farm costs and returns for Western farmers. The potato delegation obtained no definite promise of a floor, but were told that everything possible would be done to find export markets and processing outlets for our potato surplus, and the possibility of a guaranteed minimum price on what remains an hand in the Spring. The Western delegation is being told that the Prices Support Board possess "all the authority and more” to settle matters than they ask for in a fact finding board.

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Canadian hens are laying ahead of time this fall. The special products board at Ot- tawa disclosed that it has bought I3 carloads of newly-laid eggs for shipment to the United King- dom. Normally, fall eggs for export do not came freely to the board until late November or December but this year the hens are laying earlier. As the board's paying price is below the wholesale prico ceiling, it can buy eggs for ex- port only when there is o surplus on domestic markets. The surplus has developed at a rec- ord early date because last spring poultrymen increased their purchase of chicks.

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Swift Canadian Co., Montreal, lost 3,500 lbs. of butter through burglary this week. Through a smashed rear window the/ thieves broke into the warehouse and-fled in a truck with 70 boxes of butter valued at about $1,500 at the ceiling price and at $1,000 more on the black market. From time studies of police and watchman patrols, detectives estimated that six men used a truck to move the butter without detection. lts recovery is considered problem- aticol.

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Senator McIntyre enlightened the members of tho P. E. l. Fisheries Federation on the suc- cess attending their co-operotive efforts on bo- holf of the industry. Through the representa- tions of the Federation, the price ceiling on canned lobsters, clams, and lobster paste had been tolron off. At one time the packers had had a lot of trouble pacing their lobster paste bocauso thoy were only allowed to use 4 ounce cans in which to put three ounces of paste. This difficulty had been overcome by the Govern- ment granting pormisslon for ri now throo ounco_can. These .oro concessions that would gt hove boo: pessible through individual of-

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plant, components mid to the outcome of new

storage iempeeritures, they a/re sent

clerk, Deviiie, who won the Mill-

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Mfllllllrlloto on otliLwoi-ehing for the secret of defying ruot. and corrosion. Hove they over thought of X-iroylng those hardy taper: who drink shaving lotion and point remover? —Hamilton Spectator.

More and more peroon who don't. expect- zo die m the mai- future are molding airimgements for their funerals, members of the Nation. a1 Selected nrortlcions, Inc, otim- ISi-iwlw named at the oiucago convoiimlmi. “It. 1:; only good some to face the inevitable" observed Burils E. Mowrey of Montciadr, NJ. “People make wills, buy life insurance and take other pmoou. 140W» against Dossiblo-cozitlmgeaciea. Why not make similar pireooutlona against. the one inevitable event?" --Ohlcago Daily News.

Hallo Selassie, Emperor of Aby. sslaia, has ordered two Dove - anger aircraft frr o royal light which he has formed The Dove, built. by de l-la-rllazbd, 1s m entirety new air-craft, and every element of its formula, every litem of it: power equipment

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embodies the latest. advances 1n aerodynamic and teahnlcal effloi. BIliCy. —U.K. Bulletin.

Health authorities o1 the snug]; American republics are reported to be alarmed a: the growth of the habit, of chewing coco. leaves. Coco ls Ynudli dllffeimr from cocoa, be- ing the shrub grown in several

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the Guardian oeern surprised that the Jone: Government liquor store should expand and reach out for new business. Any store lf riot neg- lectred will grow to something big- ger. You never hear of o dry good: or a grocery firm advising its cus- tomer: to buy less. This star-Q like others la operated for profit. In o former art ways of creating a mend for alcoholic drinks. farmers, no doubt. who are not now patron: of the stare, might nevertheless look with more favor on this business if they could 861 o. quite high price for barley. We could easily erect dlstrllery and brewery. Too much "Whey 1: golri: abroad for bottled liquor. Oui- profit: might be three "m" u lei-ac. i! We did our own manufacturing,

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no “Kn e Piss t at people with (root deal of money is rpent every summer in betting. lotterle: and Rambling in all 1t: phase; This could be controlled by the Govem- ment and of course encouraged, 5o that something worth while would reach the There seems to be Rambling as there cigarettes. Let; any, u“ get: out of thee busines: too. We

PUBLIC FORUM

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LIQUOR. BILLING

Sin-Some folk: who wrlto in

eie I iuggened some grpter de-

Some

Government

There la certainly money 1n lup-

power ttitnk they need, A

Provincial treasury. o: many people are omoking

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to tndloote the possibil- to r-rnphuino the natural the two

he his, llelx Ilnlnd r pat oo e. epa award o peaceful and wucceooful partnership. 1n their l. main Oamdlana have o redoubtarble slow. nee: to motion their neighbours’ pre- cipltancy, but one must, admit that it has on air of mojesoy and that in the long run it works with few- er upsets than am their speeding

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would be ambitious theories. They take their work calmly. and. ore more serioiu 030a} their pleasures."

Canada and the Unlted sates." it eoys "are devoted to the 159i» 0f human prone-so; btiey believe 1a the capacity of all men for - ferment, m matter to when. level they have attained, and they affirm the freedom of the lowlfeat. iridivld. ual t‘? fiwigirk his bgvey "P 1° "19 copocl . wills 1: being realized by other nation: otust tar-so Norm Amorlom

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If you met him on the otreer, neatly owned in dork blue m1! mo] mlwhhfl shirt and tie, ynud tnke him for o banker or o iner- chimt or maybe oven o senator. He’: just that kind o! efficient- looking '

But you don't meet him on the street. busy with tho many tasks at hand. You find him 1n a tidy little office on the Parliament Buildings.

The siren on the door ha: nothing

the door and it owing: open and there you meet Joseph Cardinal, who isn't o. bonk or even o Senator but who ho: the distinction of being Canada's No. 1 hauoekeeper with the job of seeing that tho House o! Common: 1: kept oplck and span, whether or not the chamber :ii:. He‘: one of the little-known ni

behind the scene:

the score: of room: in the building

put the Job on the plane of on un-

official parliamentary housekeeper. U

It would make your head swirl

have to

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Capitol Closeups n, mo: bolus:

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think of the mile: of floors that be rwept. the hundred: yards of brass rail be be polish- and the multitude of windows be wuhod and cleaned.

Professional liariiof on. ll. ihiilgaeiiriizie

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Tel. 589

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Chartered Accountant 144 Richmond St. Charlottetown P1). Box GI

merits fem . . m fficiiil ltl —“Bu er- m” fimfi‘ “.2593 "mill;

nwvlon plenum w-d other allure-l $01810; diiiirorer-viceih-‘bur xetliii- Pum IC bTk-NUGRAPHER

and 1n efbnoe. 111B "$1618 ly hia duties extend for beyond Mllllbfllrlphliil cord; and

goes on to indicate the similarities! that and hi‘: guidance of the 140- concert prom: oorreopondenoo, 1n. heblt: and 01111080911 °£ ll" odd men and women who clean. ‘typing and kkeephigr. people o! t-he two count - Both oweep, poiisii, point, and decorate “LEN 619mm

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ore ooca ad is ta the extent eveo-ywher is not. to dec ne. 16o window olidea ondobmln soars’

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Prwion, Lancrishlm, gu-i, who mu range world interests. Boob hm sldered. too. He deliver: 3.500 ——~—-—-- “

been totally blind for almost a your, can now see- perfeatly. Oom- eas from the eyes of two man. a blinded soldier and o civilian who had lost the sight; of one eye, were grafted on to tier bllind eyes. Both operations were armed at Manohister Royal Eye Hospital Both were 100 percent auocueful. Now Miss Swnrhrick can read the smallest. print. miagoer and own thread A needle without the aid of speotacls. - London Dally Mall.

Canada's storage eggs should or. rive in Britain this season in iihe finest, possible amclltlon. because they aire bauog handled entirely under refrigeration from start to firtsh. Regrazlcd and packed at

1o seaboard in tieazvily load cairs, and shipped to Britain in refri- gisumtod ships bll’ the complete shiplsad. The advamnage on using this new method of the fizlil ship- load ls that, the whole. load can be dealt witih as cine unlit. therefore under complete control before and during the voyage aind onwards to stat-age in the United Klngdcim. —Fr<m Government. Bul. lebin.

An Australian cross-country run. I181‘ has been running to w0rk and consistently beating the street oars and train. He is Billy Devirie of Bankstown (Sydney Suburb) and he runs the 13 miles from his home to his Jab in Glebe Islairil in about one hour 20 minutes. If he travels by car and train it. takes him 15 minutes longer. A shipping

tary Medal anti was severel wound. ed in New Guinea says t. at nm-

“It. is less exhausting than the train crush and 1s good practice for the State marathon" he adds. — Australian Newsletter.

A Carillonnmir i: o. poison who plays the carllloti» an arrange- ment of turned bells hung in tow- ers but operated from a co . Tthcire one in the United States about. 1,000 carlllonneuro. Not. more than twenty-Jive of them are em- played as full-time rofessia in, and t-hese, for their slcil, are paid about $5,000 s year. Most of ohe other cairlllomscuum nine amateurs. A few years before the war. a number of them formed the North American Guild 0f Caril- lonneoirrs m lair-the!" appreciation of bell music Reoennly at Prince. 4cm UniversiLv about, fifty guards- men held Lhelr first postwar meet.- ing The dmvrlng card was the Princeton carillon, embed go pm university by the Gees of '02 One cf the biggest in the country, 1t has f-ortymlne hells, the smallest weighing 51X pounds. the largest 13.000. Guildsime-i held is series of concerts an it, rend scholarly treat- lses on bell music mod talked shop. They had m porrlculor grievances, other Liven t-he nation's lock of 1n- iei-esi in corlilona. New York Times.

Are you o thief? Thlo may be

years a belief tnot, the manifest datlnv was other State, says the Mb tier of the Royal for Oc