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Once again, all roads will lead next week to Charlottetown and the big Provincial Exhibition and Driving Park events which are scheduled to equal anything of the kind seen in Eastern Can- ada. ln addition to the racing programme and grandstand features, livestock exhibits and mid- way attractions, the Women's institutes are sponsoring a revival of handicraft and other exhibits in which great interest is being taken. A record attendance during the week is antici- pated, and nothing has been left undone by the Exhibition management to ensure the success oi every feature of the Fair.

Thousands of former islanders and others have made special efforts to be here for Old Home Week, and the proverbial hospitality of Charlottetown will be taxed to its utmost to meet the requirements. Our citizens have always cheerfully cooperated in this respect. One of the best advertisements we have received on previous occasions has been the appreciation expressed by visitors for little acts of courtesy, and this is one way in which we can all help to make next week's celebration memorable.

Today’s Special Issue

Today's special issue, devoted to Prince Ed- ward lsland past and present, represents some- thing of a labour of love, made light by the enthusiastic cooperation of all concerned in its production. These include our advertisers and special contributors, to whom we are particularly indebted and without whom the frail bark of our enterprise would have been swamped before it was launched. They include a devoted band ol compositors, proof readers, pressmen, cartoonist and others, each of whom contributed his essent- ial part with great zeal. We are conscious of the stresses and strains that may still be evident ln the final result, but on the other hand we feel that the job was one which needed doing, and to have been deterred by fear of falling short of perfection would have been to lay it aside forever.

Primarily, the special features are for the information, edification and entertainment of our regular subscribers, young and old, but we trust that our summer visitors will also find something of more than passing interest in these

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lteassurlng Figures

Talk of a recession of American economic activity over the past nine months-since Presi- detn Truman was re-elected—hardly prepares one for the fabulous corporation profits made in the first half of 1949. The'Ottawa Citizen notes that some 170 major companies have reported higher earnings than for the sama period of 1948, and some the highest of all time. The so- called Big Three of American steel production (United States Steel, Bethlehem and Republic) furnish an example. Their combined earnings for the first six months of this year totalled $179,500,000, an increase of no less than $78,- 700,000, or 78 per cent, over the first half of 1948. Such profits undoubtedly helped to bring on the current demand for fourth-round wage Increases.

lln Canada, thriving economic activity ls still providing a contrast to predictions of a recession. The reports of the Bureau of Statistics are nat- urally some weeks and even months behind. But the cost of living index reached a record 162.1 on July 1, a rise of 1.6 points in a month. This followed a prices rise in the previous month. An- other indication of economic buoyancy is the fact that Canadian exports rose to $255,100,000 in June, or nine per cent higher than the figure for tho same month in 1948. Canadian goods sold abroad in the first six months of this year were worth $1,424,600,000, an increase of 1.7 per cent over the same period last year. The DBS index of industrial production reached a new high of 187 in May, the latest figures available, com- pared with 182 in May last year.

As long as the indicators show gains in econ- omic activity, talk of a recession in Canada, in response to the slowdown in recent months in the United States, has little substance. The ex-

_perience of recent months suggests that the

Canadian economy is not as vulnerable to changes in the United States and abroad, as Canadians have thought in the past. lt is too soon to claim that a maior change in this re- spect has occurred, but there is reason to hope for continued high-level economic activity in Canada.

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"Collactivism", tdwards which err-President‘

Hoover says the USA. is steadily drifting, is the economic theory of socialism, that industry should be carried on with collective capital, in- stead of individualistic capital. This eventually would mean "the State Over All", wiping out individual effort and aspiration, and leaving the progress and retrogression of a nation in the hands of bureaucrats with unlimited power to direct collectively the lives and endeavours of the citizens as a whole. Russia, has this ideal in view both as regards the Soviet state and those bordering Communistic states which she has subdued to liar wishes. it seems unthinkable that the United States, founded to_proservo tho freodpntyof-dlho individual and his independence in birth mutlrlal and spiritual should ' Iut that ls what Mr. n through tho Gov- oallactlrlg lures ta

States citizen, he said, now must work 61 days a year to pay taxes supporting the government, local, state and federal. He divided the days this way: 12 to pay obligations from former wars; 24 for national defence and the cold war; 12 days for other Federal expenditures and 14 days for state and local government. Can't we see this tendency developing likewise in Canada? i I ‘I

EDITORIAL NOTES

Tomorrowb Ninth Sunday after Trinity.

Printing invented in Europe this date 1437.

Old Home Week begins tomorrow, and tlnues till the 20th.

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Cope Breton's predicted building boom is also a matter of congratulations for this Province. Plenty of money in circulation in the "other

U I U Dr. Beauchesne is said to be slated on his re- tirement as clerk of the Commons as special ad- viser to Parliament on procedure. The new po- sition would not be under the Civil Service. i i‘ i

Old Town, Maine, is the focus of internation- al goodwill in the air just now. Their air meet is being attended by flyers from various parts of Eastern Canada as well as the New England states.

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An interesting comparison of feed values is the estimate that grass turned into hay loses 4O per cent of its original value; gross turned into silage loses about 30 per cent, and grass artific- ially dried loses only five per cent.

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Flag flying and bunting for Old Home Week. As will be seen from the oldtime map in this issue we have been in existence and identified since earliest days of British North America. At that time we were St. Jean; today we are Prince Edward island; but the same beautiful fertile land on which the discoverers commented.

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Many people, especially parents, will approve of the protest of the Canadian Teacher's Feder- ation over the interference of hockey with school work. lt will be recalled parents here protest- ed against classes being let out during school hours to play hockey, and the School Board dis- continued the arrangement.‘

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Reconstruction Minister Winters, duo here today, will probably be impressed with the num- ber of roads and highways already existing here. What is required, however, is improved means of communication with our neighboring Provinces, to be as satisfactory as through inter-Provincial highways.

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The unorganized community surrounding Charlottetown is steadily growing but does not provide itself with the essentials of urban life. lt cannot do so, of course, without either incor- porating as a municipality and levying local taxes or preferably electing to be included with- in the city.

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Mr. Lister Rutledge, though chairman of To- ronto's Unity Council, does not believe in the unity of railways. Orthodoxy is all right where his interests are concerned, but as to Premier Jones‘-suggestion of railway unity to cut down excessive overhead expenses, well, that in Mr. Rutledge's opinion, is out-and-out heterodoxy.

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Civil service telephone operators in Ottawa are reported to be answering with "Government of Canada" instead of "Dominion of Canada." The term Dominion, which was originally a means of avoiding possible American obiection to the title Kingdom of Canada, is now in cer- tab minds associated with colonialism and so must go.

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Prof. A. F. Coventry, of the University of To- ronto has a word to say in favour of the owl. One screech owl, according to the professor, can consume 1,000 mice in a year, each of which could have eaten twenty-two pounds of grow- Fng hay or other cattle fodder, representing eleven tons of food per 1,000 mice.

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Through the efforts of the Provincial Depart- ment of industry and Natural Resources, the C. N. R. has agreed to continue the three Sunday trips of the Borden carferry until the end of October. This will be of great advantage, both to resident islanders and visitors, and it is hoped will establish a precedent which will be contin- ued in other years.

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Statute labour is a thing of the past but it does no harm to occasionally convert the tax rate into the equivalent working hours as Her- bert Hoover has done. The average working United States citizen, declares Mr. Hoover, must work 61 days a year to support the Government, local, state and federal. The figures for Canada would certainly not he less.

John L. Baird, Scottish inventor of Television, born this date 1888. His father was the Minis- ter of the West Parish church, Helensburgh. His machine was known osthe Televisor, the first practical television apparatus for the in- stontaneous transmission of scenes or objects over a distance by wire or wireless. He also in- vented the Noctovisor, an apparatus for seeing in the dark by invisible rays.

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It has been left to Canadian architects to take exception generally to radio broadcasts. ly raising the cultural level they say, it would be possible to "combat the dabasing flood of for- eign propaganda which pours into Canada by radio, television and magazines.” We are not very fzmlliar with television, but most people will agree that radio's standard could be raised vary

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DAVID STEWART’! JOURNAL

Continuation from last Saturday of the journal of David Stewart. Esq. recording his visit, to Prince Edward Island in 1831 in connec- tion with the affairs of his estate. The last excerpt concluded with his arrival at the Tryon River scl- flement.

“Tuesday, 28th June, The crops looking beautiful this morning and the air particularly soft and balmy. We got breakfast and set out at half-past 5 o'clock for Lol 27. About 11 o'clock we reached the place. Here I had been in- formed the tenants on 3.000 acres were determined to resist every claim of mine. and that. there was little or no chance of one of them attornlng. In fact I found they had nevcr paid one shillings rent. and that. neither Stewart. nor Law- son knew much about the mat- ter. In fact I believe Lawson hnd never been there but once and then only within a half mile of the plncc: and Cnptn. Stewart knew next to nothing about it. although he had sold the land to SlrWllliam Wray himself.

"This was very discouraging and I was advised that no good was l0 b! QXDc-clod by going there and that it would be better to pro- ceed agalnst the tenants by law. I however determined to go on and take my chance and when I had gone within about a mile of the houses 6 or 7 men met us end upon our asking for the houses of the tenants upon Lot 27. one of them said he lived there nnd that his name was McInnis.

Capin. Stewart then recognize-ii him and pointed me out as their Landlord. The man. who is n

Highlander but born on the Is- lnnd. immediately stopped, thank- ed God, threw his bonnet up in the air and thanked Gad again that his Landlord was come and hoped there would be an end of their troubles: came up and shook hands with me rind said he was ready to do whatever I desired him. and also all hie family.

“I thanked him and desired him to collect all the tenants; he saiil he would and that all present were tenants except one. and that he would send for the others who were absent. We then wont into their houses and found them very comfortable. I suppose they land heard by some means of our pro- cedllnrzs at East Point. but. this l could not learn.

"l told them my intention to- wards them and that I meant In return to Charlottetown tomorrow and had to go 12 miles further that night if not ‘£0. and that they must either submit implicitly to my orders or quit the Estate. They said they would conslde of it: rind in the meantime I desired them to send for their wives and ch‘!- dren that I might sea them 1nd to get some refreshment for nur- selvea and corn for our horses. This was instantly done no for as related to the horse: and they lzot some dinner for u: consisting of good mutton. fowls, eggs and bacon. and some rum and milk, with tea, breed. butter. to. and seemed ta try who would do moat.

"I than entered into particulars with them and found they had never nttornld u tenants to me at all. I said nothing, but ordered u paper to be prepared for them to sign. Theophllul Stewart having prepared the groper, f ordered it to be reed to hem. having prevf- ously explained in Gaelic my vluvrl to them fully. and stated that my mind was unelterable. I than mede- Lemon road the paper to them In English and explain it t

them in my‘ hearing c “f had previously forbid either

word to the tenants on business. reserving that, wholly to myself. After they had heard the paper read by Mr. Lawson the Solicitor General and after my explaining everything to them fully they said they were perfectly satisfied nnd ready to sign the paper. We than adjourned lo the end of the house outside. it being hot inside. and they all signed the paper except one or two who were absent unfl their friends who were present said they would answer for them.

“This being finished we were in- vited in to dinner. which urns ready. We dined and 11nd some rum punch and drank their heultlis and success to them and ihr-‘r families and farms. ordered our carriages 82c. and left them. All the business is being conducted by myself entirely and all in Gwe- llc nnd afterwards explained in English by Lawson and Captn. Stewart.

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"I left the people much pleased with them upon the whole and I have reason to think they will be- have very wcll. but the people in the Island. at least our people. do not understand tenants nor how to treat them. There are hero 6 or 7 McInnes‘. fine men and several others. and the lnnd is beautifully situated nbuttingpn the sea at one end and a road CTOSSlHfZ] the Lot. The land is good and s0 is all our lend excepting the 1000 acres on Lot 46 which Cam- bridge ls now ready to give up. that is on the north side of the Island abutting on the sen: and the 10.000 acres on Lot 47 and the 3.000 acres on Lot 27 abutting nn the see on the south side of the Island.

"Most of our tenants speak the Gaelic language and many of them cannot speak any other. Bruce must learn Gaelic. They were

nulte overioyerl that I could sneak Gaelic and I believe under God's blessing that much of my success was due to that circumstance."

In that day there shall he a fountain opened to the house of David and to the Inhabitants of Jerusalem. for sin and for im- clcannoeo.

IUTTBROUTPUT UP

World butter production during the last. three months of 1948 1n- creased nine per cent over the \.u|sEIpOnd1|l§ period of 1947.

Canada's Boundary

(Financial Post)

While the U. S. Congress con- elders President Truman's request h!‘ "early $136 billions to provide arms for the allies of the United States. the U. S. joint chiefs of staff nre off to Europe m examine the military situation at. first hand.

To the superficial view Canada seems to be aloof and detached from all this serious military planning but the nppcnrance is deceptive. This country is deeply involved in the revolution which has taken plnce in recent concep- tions of North Amcrlcnn defence, and if Cunndinn nationhood means anything. we must he prepared to plus’ as positive n rnlc in the ox- ecutlon of dcfoncc policy ns our lrovcrnment—spurrod by Mr. 3t, Laurent and Mr. Pearson-played In the formulation of the North Atlantic Pnct.

Canada hris ncvcr been as prone ns the United SfillOS to suppose that she was not involved in Eur- opcs wars. rind certainly she will not accept that view now.

The first corollary or that 15 that North America must not flKnin allow n potential enemy to overrun Western Europe before mounting tho decisive counter-of- fensive. The North American fron- tier. on the European sldc. ls in Germany.

From ‘this it follows, n; Delenge Minister Claxfon has said repent- cdly. that no Canadian Govern- ment can nllow more than e mini- mum of forces ‘o he tied up in the purely passive defence of Can- ada's Northwest.

The hope of maintaining pence rests on the establishment of n bounrinry beyond which no en- croachment will hr permitted. Thur boundary ls in Europe. It is psychological nc much as physical.‘ But its psychological ntrengfh con- not rest on bluff. Dictators. as we should know by now. nro not to be bluffcrl. It: strength cnn rest

much deafening quiet. they throbbing everyday world.

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The several methods of combo‘ ting juvenile tooth decay employ sodium fluoride. zinc chloride. po- tassium ferro-cyanlde and ammon- ium. Ideally. these would he in- corporated right in the lollypap. Stratford Beacon-Herald.

We cannot help hoping that the team of four American explorers who landed ln Istanbul the other day will succeed in the objective of their voyage, which ls to flu-l Noah's Ark. It. is comforting lo think of Noah's Ark tlicsc rninlcss days. when the fountains oi‘ the deep and the windows of hcnvcn seem permanently stopped up. To- day will be the forfielh tiny nnrl the forfieth night we have gone without ruin; we have endured ns mightily as Noah. though poi-- haps less patiently. ~ Now York Herald Tribune.

Down at Fort Monmouth. N. J.. United States Army Signal Corps engineers perfected n soundproof room to measure the noise of mili- tary equipment. The purpose was to find ways of cutting down on noise-because even the hum of n small electric generator in Pie field is enough to reveal the posi- tion of the operator and lmperil his life. When the engineers tried sitting in the soundproof room. they were surprised to discover that thirty minutes of nhsolul"

silence wns just nhout nll llm any of them could bear. Aficr s1 \\‘r‘l4‘ into the Noisc. it seems. is all a matter of what a accustomed LO—-.’i".d then his ears don't mind the din. or the lack of it. — Saint Jolm Telegraph-Journal.

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AFOOT

Comes the lure growing. Comes the call of waters flowing- And the Wayfarer desire

Moves and wakes and would be going.

of green thlngs

Hark the migrant hosts of June Marching nearrer noon by noonl Hark the gossip of the grosses Bivouaoked beneath the moon!

Long the quest and far the ending

When my Wayfarer is wendlng-

When desire ls once afoot.

Doomibehlnd and dream attend- ng.

In his ears the phantom chime Of mccinsmunlcable rhyme. He shall chase the fleeting crimp-

fires Of the Bedouin; of Time.

Fater by uncharted ways,

Dumb as death to plalnt. or praise. Unreturning he shell journey. Fellow of the nights and days;

Till upon the outer bar

Stllled the moaning currents are. Till the flame achieves the zenith. Till the moth attains the star.

Till through laughter and through tears

Fair the final peace appears.

And about the watered pastures

Sink to sleep the nomad years.

-Sir Chas. G. D. Roberts.

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