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Morning our; (Pounded In res-n Authorised as Second Class Mall. PM! 0.1“ Department, Ottawa.

Prfllllallt, [an A. Bartlet‘; Vlad-President, Win. I Bar-neat; Sccyu-Trcaa. G. M. Burnett; Editor an: Managing Director, J. B. Barnett; Amoctata Edltol.

Frank Walker.

“The Strongest Memory ia Weaker Than flu" ‘Weakest Ink.‘

SATURDAY, OKYIOBER 26, 1946

The Farmer's Turn

The net income from agricultural opera- tions across the Dominion exceeded the $1,- 000,000,000 mark in I945. This huge ftet yield of Canada's farms, the second-largest in dollar value in the country's history, is vouched for by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. It is I60 per cent higher than the 1938 net of $387,053,- 000. Notwithstanding special t-ansportation dif- ficulties, Prince Edward Island did not fare so badly, as the figures show. The picture, of course, would have been much brighter had we had the new car ferry. n

The all-time record to date of net agri- cultural income is that of 1944, when it reach- ed the peak of $l,227,542,000, which was 217 per cent above the I938 level. The official figure for 1945 is $l,004,299,000. This net was divided between the 9 Provinces as shown in the

following tabulation: Net Yield, Province 1945

Prince Edward Island $10,755,000 Nova Scotia 13,829,000 New Brunswick . . . . . ... . . . .. . 24,089,000 Quebec . . . . . . 154,174,000 Ontario . . . . .. . 307,232,000 Manitoba . . . . . 86,310,000 Saskatchewan .... . . .. . . . . 219,931,000 Alberta 143,257,000 British Columbia 44,722.00

The decline in 194515; ‘.'.‘..‘..'.... with I944 was attributable mainly to a relatively smaller

crop on the Prairies, there being little change‘

aa between these two years in the other Prov- Incas.

This great expansion of the net profits from farming operations is largely due to» the war-inflated prices of foods, but is also account- ad for in part by the increased acreage under cultivation and the stepped-up pace of agricul- ture In recent years. But the important thing Ia that world conditions today, including the greatest market demand ever known for the pro- ducts of farms, fields, orchards, ranches and dairies, promise soon to place agriculture in the category of tho most profitable enterprises to which men can apply their energy and skill.

Tho Indian Ganrnlsslon

While the'Dominio Government has been generally commended for appointing the Royal Commission on Indian Affairs which visited Prince Edward Island this weak, on the other hand exception has been taken in some quarters that in its constitution there should have been includ- ad a representative of the Ilndians themselves. There is, says an exchange, good point in this contention for there are numerous Indians well qualified to act, as was shown during the Par- liamentary Committee's sittings in Ottawa last summer when a number of prominent membe a of that race presented well-supported arguments for revised Indian legislation that would im- prove conditions and advance the general wel- fare of Canada's aborigines. A well-qualified Indian with the knowledge of the problems of _his race would certainly facilitate the work of tha Commission in its Dominion-wide investiga- tion which has just commenced.

At any rate it is to be hoped that the Com- mission's inspection and inquiry will result in the gathering of complete details on the Indian problems and that the recommendations made to Parliament for the betterment of Indian pop- ulation will be given legislative action prompt-

ly.

Changes In Toys

It is not too early to begin thinking about Christmas, and it is cheering tc learn that toy- lands this season will reproduce in miniature a world of peaceful abundance, where playroom housing, new cars, household appliances and furnishings are happily ahead of production fig- ures far adult-size models. '

While miniatures of military equipment will be plentiful, Santa's 1946 pack will contain more toy cowboys and policemen. Home-mak- ing, building and road construction, trans- portation, science, agriculture, fashion and art are represented among the 100,000 different kinds of playthings now ready for Christmas distribution. '

Items in 1946's toylands have been asti- mated to have a retail value of $250,000,000, a 35 per cent increase over 1945. Estimate is based on a survey of member tay producers.

The first lines of rubber and steel ploy- things in four years will bring back such deeply missed favorites as rubber balls, balloons, and

animals, wheel toys, electric trains, noise- makers and pop guns. * Itiw ltrltlsh tlotnago

Gold vanished some years ago from tha

coinage of Britain, and now silver is to follow. Tha five shilling piece and the silver throa-

panny bit ara already almost extinct, and. they‘

ara to ba followed by,tha sixpenca, tha shilling, tho florin and tha half-crown.

.' A British Government announcement points out that tho existing silver coinage was dabasad In tho First Great War and ona is laft to aa- suma that the prasant mava is maraty follow- hg tradition. Tho dacay bagun in 1920 with the decision to raduca tho standard ftnanoss of all. silver coins to 50 par cant will shortly ba aaaplcn ~

1 tho act of I920, British stlvar catn- coataiaad 17/40 at ftna sltvar” and ‘only time

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par cent of alloy. In 1939, the metallic value of the shilling was only twopanca halfpenny and now, though it is up to five pence this is due to the increase in the price of silver, and not Eng- land but the United States is responsible for that.

The metallic value of the new shilling coin will be I/20 of a penny, based on a price for copper of a halfpenny on ounce and nickel three farthings an ounce.

One reason for the change is the need to repay in silver to the United States the 327,- 000,000 ounces of silver received through Lend Lease. There is, furthermore, a heavy demand for silver for industrial use. All this has led to use of an alloy known as "cupro-nicke|."

The new process will not be a speedy one. The previous debasement took nearly 20' years. One more issue iemains however-a question asked by a British contemporary: "Can fortune really smile when a palm has been crossed with a nickel?" Worse still: Will fortune attempt to smile when the palm_has been crossed with copra-nickel?

— EDITORIAL NOTES -

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Tomorrow the celebration of the Centenary. of Canada's Protestant Foreign Missions begins. - rt in I w

Now is the time to put money _away in War

Savings Bonds to provide for the proverbial rainy day. i fi i Dehydration plants, as well as fertilizer

plants, are at the mercy of the flames these days. a R Q I Q Charlottetown had a taste yesterday of what Lodoners designate a "pea-soup fog", all but impenetrable. i i i vfl A leading member of the Maritime Board of ‘Trade declared yesterday, "the Charlotte- town is the most ideal hotel for a convention I know of in the WIIBIB*DO:IIIIIEOII".

The Youth and Social Services Sub-Com- mittee of Aberdeen (Scotland) Education Com- mittee have recommended that playing fields under the City Council's control should be open on Sundays for recrieaticnuinciluding team games.

That was a fine testimonial given Indian Reservation administration here, when Mr. Brown, chairman of the Parliamentary Commission, de- clared after the visit to Lennox Island that the reservation seemed to be in better condition, to be more progressive and better kept than any the Commission had yet seen in their travels.

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Rt. Hon. Viscount Sankey, P. C., G. B. E., D. C. L., LL.D.,. British jurist, born .'\is date 1866; est-Lord Chancellor in the Labour and Na- tional Governments of 1929-35; British member of the Court of Arbitration, The Hague, President of the British Institute of Adult Education.

One can have too much of a good thing, and that, unfortunately, is the present experi- ence of some potato farmers. Mixed farming has proved itself, time after time, the best for this Province. In the present instance, for ex- ample, comparative fortunes are being made off poultry and livestock, much more than neces- sary to offset any prospective drop in the "spud"

market. C I I Q

Should the British, Government act upon the suggestion of Mr. Winston Churchill, and give up its mandate over the Holy Land, it would mean that the Christian United Kingdom and the Christian United States, have handed the birth-land of the Founder of their religion to occupants ready to fight like Kilkenny cats, which are said to have fought each other until only their tails remained.

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Lieut.-Governor, the Hon. J. A. Bernard, has been possibly this year the busiest public man in the Province or out of it. He has had to entertain, receive formally and informally, be present at public dinners and banquets, de- liver addresses to all sorts of delegations, travel all over the Province patronizing and encourag- ing Iocal enterprises and, in a word, to’ be at almost everyone's beck and call. The ready re- sponse he has made marks him out as the right man in the right placf.

Says The Daily Scotsman, Edinburgh: "But, at the adult stage, Scots have developed the art of girning to a national cult. If we are honest with yourselves, we are the best girners in the world, and the spectacle of a crowd of Scots- men girning in unison is a formidable one to behold." "To girn", is to gnash one's teeth and utter dire threats to the oppressor. We want some of that quality here in our demand for our rights and privileges as a Province. Let our M. P.'s and Legislators develop the ability to grin ferociously in face of the political foe at Ottawa.

I I I Q

How thankless sometimes is the role of the well-meaning theorist is amusingly illustrated by a recent series of letters to_ The Times. The correspondence was started by a writer sign-

ing himself "Pedagaguc," who invaighed against 0

the establishment in many State school play- grounds of a large polished board, suitably guarded at the sides, down which schoolchildren may slida in a sitting or lying position. This con- trivanca, says "Pedagogua," is “calculated to waar out any clothes, particularly the seats of trousers, in record time, and in these days of clothing coupons must ba for from walcomo to tha hard-pressed mothers." Ono hard-pressed mother ratorts that rha would rather mend har son's Trousers nightly than dopriva him at tho exquisite thrill of ‘shooting tho rapids." An- other actually praisos tha slides as giving "an opportunity for a twining in that self-Imposed discipline and social behaviour which tr a world- wida noad today among adults.“ Tho firm who niarliat the playground apparatus dotanrl. tt on Womble ground that It Iralps to "haap death

tho road." '_

Itatas By Tho Itay

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About Illa III!!! budaaaa or II- aon who in’! acusldfmd la pm; "i? la the salaried lacuna tax- PBIRI‘. ~81. Catharina Standout.

“Ilia man wbn darlvaa mlrtls 11%;‘! his alwn mtmakea ovlacm a rue-n ’ y anyaa may; . iatHIbcr-e ta of course an ruruaulaluy high LQ. conceded to hwcataa who are cotwulsed with hilarity aver IthB moan: trend o! one mock market. —I-1arrrtlnon Specie‘

Aa some alight reward for upland- Id service tbeelv and voluntarily Wndrewd. the cm as wuiam a 11181111111: to urrgmln at ten on October B 111B 003$ 0f wflflm Who have canted an the dicta-i. button qt ration tracks. It. ls a gm. flare tihet is richly justified. - Windsor em

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noceart v‘ m of a stoppage 1n paroductlcn of necessities, may come to a. realizations cf-tfbe fact that be k being whtpsawed. Than he may amaze his opinion that in Isn't his flsnt or his business co say anything to uhe acmaaatsnta 1n a labor dispute. The day may ooanewhenallpartlestoalabor diflPllte will recognize ohevt tihete 1a o. blather interest, which ta the com. monflaodofttsegroatnrnnberof maple, -,Porrt. Arsnur Newo-Obrcar-

e.

More and more persona who don't expeottodlelntlsenearfutzirre aim making . irgcrnenta for their funerals, members of the Natlonar Selected Mnrtleana, mo, optimis- tlceny agreed at the (mlcagc con- vention. "lit la only giood aenee to face the inevitable" observed Burt- ls E. Mom-cry of Mointclalr, NJ. “People make wills, buy 11f: innar- cnao and tetra other praoautloara

‘ , ----- ‘ Why not snake similar precautions against. the one inevitable event?" -—clb1cago Dally News.

Many a car owner. atlll waltfng tn vadn for a new auto, is being oomtlnmlly surprised by the endur- ance of the old one. Before the war 40.000 was considered to be pretty high rulteage on an auto- mobile and when that. figure was reached on the mileage diet roost ommeau were In the rmrlaet for a new one. Today 100,000 ta not fl- oepblonal mileage for an auto of pre-war vintage and validates that have traveled that moron and more are still going sarong, Of course, such can have to ba checked often and closely far safer/y reasons. — Boston Post. ~-

Thls year's campaign to reduce truffle accidents in lcxrdon, and dies/tbs and injuries resulting from traffic crashes, ls having excell- ent results. So far this year fire dentin boll has been kept to five, Jusrt one-third o! the total for each of 0116 previous two years. In 1946. on city streets, 226 persons have teem injured compared with 311 for e01 of 1946. and 288 1n the year befcre. The general campaign has induded spacial drives against SpOBClSTS, careless drivers and lrn- patpextly equipped cars. It ls sign- lfiaarit that While 63 drivers were accused of drank driving, convic- tions were registefl-‘d against 55.- Loardon flee Prose Butter In Sr. Louis advanced 1o Qscentsandtlapoiurd-the highest price In triatory —- at titre very time the West. Illinois coal from wlas staging a King Ooerl cele- bnsitlon exhibiring several pOlllll-dfl of butter main: in Germany from coal, It ls lust. possible there is some special significance to this? Symttietics from coai and petrolecun are costing the owners of titre rub- ber plantations a lot. of sleep. 1a King OoaJ getting ready to Invade Queen Betsy's realm and. lit so.

wouldn't. she lwter vratctr her step? —From St. Louis Post- Dispatch.

The decision to bring Unrra to an end 1n Europe is ali tlhe more regrettable in t-hel the ext-an time and money needed to round off it: nook and to secure en orderly transfer of its functions to perman- onc international essences are very small. Another year would have ocrnpleted the task l.n Europe, an- Cnhcr bwg years tn the Far East, ‘T119 last stages of Unrrab work 1n Eutoipe would IIGW‘ required at the most another billlorr dollars (which the enrpplylng countries could have provided lav ollotlni mate-hill 01 One pg,- m‘; or ibelr riot/locust tn- wma, m- sp-p. miexely three days of trhielr war expenditure); the W011! might erven have been completed with lem eaapendlume, since the re- cetvlng ocuntnea this winter, would bevabeenlar npostblfln toputaomo of their own ruppllm—Poltsti coal. Oaech vegotabr m- Jugodlnv tim- bar and dried fruits-Into the rm!- -—1=‘rasn the Manchester Guardian.

A remarkable record, compiled

gum-y by the HANGI- ery Office "bn the State of the Pu Rae-lab during 91x Years

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Sin-There was plant-y of "food for ttlotldat." m that lmntpege arm-y 1n a recent Guardian ‘ “ with dlsairmtoars by a gathering of your potato growers In P. 1 . 1n con- nmsbtcn wfla a ‘utter-m calling “for y. thwar- prion an Lbfa year's potato

crap.

This layman has no lntcmsrotlon to step Into atria problem, wlherc, as mos been intimated, even the ear- panta “fear to tread"; but utuere 1a

ttudmtrtallntlon of aa-calllaa "m. plus" grammes? In these more, the Mfleatkm that there la any “bu. ptrue" food paryvrhere, l; a grim pa; hideout

Onooftluapaekeratarcoorted ea aaodng to the meeting: “Who- everundertakestorqsreoesrt the Pravlncemnatbe backedbyflre acrtnloucftltre, eunomany onnrtaatlhavchedcntheaevar- élivliésboorrda, tthey will try tomalse

Tine wtuh titre quit-it of the price- wbillalrrg enactment. My understand‘

mecbentmr which Mmks so equitutaly for the wheat. grower coirtd be axed to advmtace among the potato growers. In the

buamm, Iiowevar, one of the

c2 1-'a mints, the point at Mitch the Special Products Board at 0t.- itnwc. begins buying-tn 688! for

Britain." I am. 51.x‘, etc. SCOTTIE

Tasnanla, The P.E.I. 0i Australia

(Australia, like Canada, has its Island Province and the people of Prince Edward Island may be in- terested ln their island cousins 1n Tasmania. The following article was written from a Radio Aur- tralia shortwave broadcast made on 8th October by Harry Reldy.)

Its smallness emphasized by the enormous dimensions of the maln- land of Australia, from which it la separated by two hundred miles of water, the little Island State of Tasmania, lying south from Vic- toria. may appear Insignificant. on a map of Australia.

With an area of M315 square mllea, 1t is by far the smallest of the six States of Australia. It is 1n Tasmania. however, where the greet post-war development cf Australia's primary and second- eryiglndustrles are most pronoun- ce .

A tangible proof of this develop- ment was revealed by State Pre- mier Robert Cosgrcve this month when he stated that the value of primary and secondary produc- tfon for the year 1944-45 was s12,- 930600. compared with $44,164,100 in the year 1908-30.

On the unemployment registers there were no names at all and in the savings bank depositors nod Increased their savings from $27.- 225000 to-$66.000,000 durl-ng the last six years. Those figures add up to a prosperous future, but to really appreciate the potential prosperity of Tasmania you don't need figures. It is not a place to be judged on cold statistics.

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To the visitor there ls no blat- ant display of wealth for the ls- land State clothes her riches tn a garb of qulet beauty, It was this beauty that first lured mainland- ers across the turbulent Bass Strait. for It is of a kind quite unllke that found anywhere else In Australia. It would seem that. Tasmania ls not, a part of~ the great "aunburned country," but belongs to the old world and lt ls for this reason that men elled her "this other ‘England!’ lslordingly oth- ers referred to her as the "apple tale." So greet ls her variety tirnt 1|; ls wrong to give her any defin- lte title.

The hlgh central plateau of the Island, with lts alplna lakes, ls flanked on the east by plains of rolling grasslands which run right down to the see. North and south- east battle border-ed lanes and stone fences brook up internal, cultivated fields. On no part of the Island does the scenery be- come monotonous. Majestic heights give way to lovely hllla and chann- lng valleys. Rugged cliffs form perfa backgrounds to sand beaches. Vtrgln bushland ts halted by groan fields and orchards, The coartllna clroloa the latand tn breathless beauty, tiara pNIenJ-ng a broad oatuary shore a land lock- ad harbour and wbara daap thick- noss of tho forest abruptly defies the ocaan a golden shore dlapah the danrnosa.

mm‘ the bapftatda of tho Dar- want-Valloy In the south eama saftlctonc hops to supply the whole of Australia. More than ans uilrd‘ af tlsa apples llttppod aver-aura tram Australia earna from tho at- mares of tho Island. Wool, moat, Nlatabli. dairy producalnd berry trutta coma from tho rolling dawns of tlso lldtaatda. and tnaoaastal armandtpwlng tn Importance. toot, ta ‘hlnanlab ‘flag:

ate. tau of m atatoipass-

, mun pllowntna waatedasttna vtrala araksasalv

assay atlragotofitloorgtaan m:

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p, 1A1. llagaslna. 1000)

Tho Breton French who first settled the valleys of the Hlllabar- ouah and Plsauld Rivers. and parts

French Village, Saint. Peter's and Groahaut were quite a different people from the French who aet- tled Quebec. The Acedilans waca of purely Oelftc origin. They spoke a petals, the soft. gliding tones of which you detect today among their descendants here or In Loula- lana. They were an industrious people also. Only located hero a few yeerl they left traces of greet Improvements tn the old clearings and in the dyked marshes. Some places near Mount Stewart chow the old, narrow ridges they plough- ed, covered with a forest growth of one hundred and flfty years. O O O

wink. d any no too "dehydration" 1 U f - i» Mou- i-wi- m - ..r"...";:::":r:. c.2222"

thousand at the time of the capture by the British In 175th Thole placer I have named contained largo part of the agricultural sat- tlera of tho time. ‘They. had a church on the land that now corp- prlaes the farm of Mr. John Mc- Kenzie, of Scctchfort. where the old cemetery ls stlll preserved. In It. In after time, some of the Glan- aladales were buried.