' Nothing succeeds like success, and

THE GUARDIAN

Authorfscdsssecondoluslolllostofflcs In

f'TIle Strongest Memory is Weaker Than fhe Weakest Ink"

CIIARLOTTETOWN FRIDAY. JAN. 12. 1951

Farm Federation Reports

Much information of general interest and value was given at the annual meet- ing yesterday of the Prince Edward Island Federation of Agriculture, and the public will be particularly indebted to Mr. Louis O'Connor, president of the organization, for his very comprehensive reviewiof Fed- eration activities during the past year.

From the standpoint of production, as Mr. O'Connor points out, the record has been very satisfactory, with possibly the largest yield of grain and roots harvested in the Islands history. The depressed prices caused by large surpluses elsewhere in the potato crop have, of course, pre- sented a serious problem. Fortunately our growers have now, in the Potato Market- ing Board-which the Federation was in- strumental in establishing-a powerful in strument for the regulation and betterment of the industry. There remains, as Mr. O'Connor points out, the need of giving serious consideration to the question whether more stability and long-term pros- perity does not lie in increased emphasis on livestock production, rather than in the field of a single speculative cash crop.

The reports presented at yesterdayis meeting, taken in conjunction with the splendid year-end reviews by Mr. W. R. Shaw, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, and Mr. R. C. Parent, superintendent of the Dominion Experimental Farm, which ap- peared recently in The Guardian, will un- doubtedly be studied with keen interest at home and abroad. As the banner agri- cultural Province of the Maritimes, and in some respects of all Canada, it is import- ant that every phase of our farm industry be given its due measure of publicity. our Provincial Federation of Agriculture is itself a striking example of the truth of this maxim.

community central-iieating

The installing of a steam central heat- ing for the Summerside R. C. A. F. sta- tion is in no sense an innovation. The equipment being utilized saw previous serv- ice at the Mount Pleasant Airport, and similar plants have long been in service for institutions possessing numerous buildings, and also for urban communities.

The advantages of doing away with many individual heating plants with their inefficient use of fuel, cost of replacement and, above all, unending labour of opera- tion need only be considered to be apprec- iated. "

It seems a safe prediction that closely built-up areas will more and more adopt such a system and pipe in heat in the form of steam or otherwise instead of wastefully operating a miniature plant for each build- ing. Not much more than a generation ago it was customary to heat individual rooms independently. Now we have a logical advance from domestic central heat-

ing.

Canadian Expansion

An article in a recent issue of the U. S. publication, Business Week, draws atten- tion to the remarkable growth of the Cana- dian economy in the past 10 years. The survey highlights the fact that the dollar value of gross national output in this coun-

itry has nearly trebled since 1940, having

increased from d6.8 billions in 1940 to 317 billions in 1950.

U. S. business men invested close to 51 billion in Canadian enterprises last year, more than in the four previous post-war

A ' years, bringing the total U. S. investment

in Canada to 35.9 billion. The main rea- sonsifor their confidence, the magazine

judges, are that the Canadian market for

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industrial products is growing fast, and

some foreign markets can be more profit-

ably served from Canada than the U. 3. With its industrial capacity greatly en-

',lb.rged, 'li'ri'(T"itsTvast I natural resources,

Canada is growing industrially at a faster rate than any other nation, it notes. And

i -large,-recently discovered or developed oil

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EDITORIAL NOTES

Newfoundland, it seems, is to go back a half-hour in order to catch up with the rest of the world in the adoption of Stand- ard 'lime.

New 'First Aid posts continue to be es- tablished by the Red Cross and with each one, the danger of complications because of lack of immediate skilled attention is lessened for every user of the highways of this Province.

Canada plans to send technical experts to Asiatic countries to help them achieve increased production and an improved standard of living. In what we have come to regard as the "bad old days" Britain sent such countries as Egypt instructor sergeants to teach them- how to defend what they had.

The board of governors of the ,Am- erican Red Cross has decided that Red Cross blood donors in the United States no longer will be asked to specify their race. In taking this decision at its annual meet- ing in Chicagogmembers -of the board em- phasized that race is not a factor condition-

ing human blood.

It is not a sign of disunity that Britain and India should wish to seek a com- promise between the American and Chi- nese positions, while the other Dominions and the United States stand firmly against anything resembling appeasement. Both the United States and Communist China well know that British arms will oppose any aggressive use of force, but that the aim must be to find a way of peace.

Britain has with great reluctance writ- ten off the ambitious groundnuts or pea- nuts project in East Africa. The British taxpayer is left to foot the bill for a scheme which had been insufficiently studied and for which proper equipment was not avail- able at the time. If the world supply of fats should prove inadequate it may some day be revived but the initial investment of some i36,500,000 may make John Bull wince.

Sir Charles Oman, British historian, born this date 1860. Born in India, he went to England as a youth and went to Oxford, becoming a fellow of All Souls Col- lege, and in 1905 was appointed professor of modern history. In the same year he was made President of the Royal Histor- ical Society. His numerous works include "Warwick the King-maker", "Short History of the Byzantine Empire", "History of the Art in War in the Middle Ages", "A History of England Before the Norman Conquest", and "Wellington's Army."

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The Cityls interests at Ottawa at pre- sent are sadly neglected. We have no Gov- ernment member there, and worse still, we have no one of sufficient: weight and stand- ing here whose advocawitwould command the attention and response of the powers- that-be. In the old days we had such stalwarts as Messrs. Nelson Rattenbury, S. A. MacLeod, Henry Aitken, Major Bart- lett, whose names and influence were as well known in Federal circles as they were at home. They never took anything for granted, far less lying down, especially Messrs. Rattenbury and MacLeod. '. No mat- ter which party was in power, they were on the alert to-see that the City and Is- land's interests were properly represented and furthered at Ottawa. It was not un- usual in days gone by for local leaders of that type to over rule the M.P.'s themselves and.carry their case to the Cabinet direct. Have we such political stalwarts today? Since the death of Senator Sinclair we have been practically unrepresented at the spot where our present existence and fu- ture prosperity are vitally at stake. O 0

Egg prices on January 5 this War and previous years. The prices quoted below are for Grade A Large. At Montreal and Toronto the prices are those at which graded shipments are selling to whole- salers. At other points quotations are prices to shippers for ungraded eggs.

. 1951 1950 1949 Montreal ............ 45-48 33-3317; 49 Toronto ................ 44-45 32 47-48 Wlnnlpel --....... 36 25 45 Vancouver .......... 45 31 431,1; Edmonton ........... 35 28 44 Resins ................ 35 28 45 Charlottetown .. 39 28 46-47

weight of Live and Dressed Poultry st Registered stations week ending

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(X)l.. SLEIGIPS NARRATIVE

The hardships of the oldtime ice-boat. crossings between the mainland and Prince Edward Is- land, so much in contrast with the present day service by the "Apog- welt", were never more graphical- ly described than in. a vohme which was published in London in 1853, entitled "Pine Forests and I-Iaotnatsc clearings, or. -Travel, Life, and Adventure in the Brit- ish North American Colonies," by Lieutenant Colonel sleigh, C. 14.. late of her Majestyis 'l'lt.h Regi- ment. The author's description of his experience in the spring of the preceding year is a classic of its kind. It is purposed to publish ex- cerpta from his narrative in this column, in several installments, beginning today with the account of his departure from Halifax: "The period was the first week in March, 1852. and I was desirous of proceeding to the Island with- out further delay; for the wall: for the usual mode of transit by steamer from Plctou to Charlotte- town would entail the probable detention of a couple of months, as the navigation was not gen- erally open. or free from ice, un- til the middle or latter end of May. Having obtained all neces- sary information from fnriends in Halifax, and notwithstanding ur- gent recommendations that I would not risk a winter passage over the icebergs of the Straits- whlch was described as an under- t.aklng.of imminent peril and haz- ard to life and limb '- I booked myself a seat in Hyde's six- horse sleigh for Truiro, Amherst, and New Brunswick.

"The morning of my departure arrived, and at eight I crossed over to Dartmouth, opposite Hull- fax. and, taking my seat, was soon speeding onwards in a clear frosty atmosphere. The horses became frisky, playfully throwing their heads in the air; the slelghbells chimed in pleasing, tinkling chor- us. We passed along the great chain of lakes, stretching further thsn the eye could see along our left. now silent. and lirozen over with a dazzling mantle of snow.

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"At Schultz's we made our first stage, having travelled eighteen miles in less than two hours; here we got an excellent breakfast, and bidding good-bye to an old lady, my only fellow-passenger, I resigned myself to the company of a by no means communicative Whip. Silently we glided over our smooth path, now passing some sledge laden with hay for the Halifax market, or the lighter cunricle of the Provincial, through dense pine-forests, not enlivened by a. human soul; here presenting the appearance of some new pine or hscmatac clearing, these dark and burnt, with sapless branches, the mournfui emblem of the too oft recurring conflagration. Dur- ing the day I met numerous tracks of the moose-deer.

"At three we arrived at Truro, where the malls were transferred to another sleigh: and after pan- tsklng of a-well-provided dinner at the table d'hote of the hotel, we resumed our seat. and under the guidance of.a natty, shrewd little fellow, a native of Scotland, we soon left the village far behind, and are long commenced our ss- cent of the Cumberland moun- tains.

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"About ten at night we arrived at suthei-land's inn, where to my delight I found s most comfort- able cottage. with s snug well- fumlshed room, in which A large wood fire merrily hissed on the hearth. The landlady, s young woman of very gentesl' exterior, soon attended to our wants, and before long a well-spread supper

petites. we here met. a couple of gentlemen on sntclectioneerlng tour III the mountain district, for the conservative candidate for the noun of Assanbly. I ."I !Il,l.0!I7,wh9n the horse:

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slisyod the wolflshness of our SP1.

The Nickel

(Winnipeg Pres Press)

Research having unearthed the fact that 1951 marks the sooth sn- nlverstuy of the discovery of nickel. a commemorative nickel is now being minted in Ottawa. By many persons this will certainly be attributed to a yearning for things past on the part of cans- dian treasury officials. Time was when the nickel enjoyed not only considerable respect, by virtue of its regular attendance at church, but also of some prestige for the fact was that it would buy things. quite a variety of articles as in- dicated by the spread across the nation of the five and ten-cent store.

It is quite possible however, that the decision to mini: a commemo- rative nlckei originates in a some- what. different calculation. No doubt many of these coins will be snapped up by the public as sou- venirs. Thus the l95l nickel, ly- lng in the bottom of a Toby jug. will become like the stuffed whooping crane in the museum, an historical document of some im- portance. '

The trouble with too many coins of haughtler demeanour is that they become shop worn in their passagc through commerce. Queen Victoria -was no phantom yet. one might think so from the appear- ance of some of the quarters which continue to circulate a half cen- tury sfter her death. From such a late the unsullled commemora- tive nickels of 1951 should escape to tell the story of an age which still retained at. least the five cent chocolate bar.

Along with the nickel the Treas- ury xis doubtless commemorating the gallant, if somewhat scatter- ed rear-guard actions which marked the great inflation. Even now it is still possible in isolated establishments to buy a five cent cup of coffee, and it was possible a few days ago, by grace of the Post office, to mail five cent. Christmas cards for a nickel. In the United States where more sub- tle notions of vnlue'perslst, they continue in fact to retail stamps in half cent denominations.

There are of course still some who disbcileve in the possibility of perpetual inflation. Among these no doubt will be found the most calculating collectors, persons who gaze unfllnchlngly on a distant future when, riding a tide of de- flation, the nickel returns to commerce.

They should ponder the fate of the great.

early as it was. to receive the mail-bags . . .

"On inquiring whether the mail from Prince Edward Island had arrived, I was answered in the negative; and though two days over-due, it had not made its ap- pearance; from which it. was lust- ly argued that the ice-boat had not been able to cross the straits. with a. promise from the post- master that he would send the letter carrier to me the moment the expected mail anrlved. as I was waiting a conveyance in the mail sledge to Cape Tormenilne. I left for a. small hotel. the best the town offered, where, after considerable difficulty, WI” aroused the natives from their slumbers; and getting no fire lit. in my bed- room, with something warm with-' in. I soon sought repose in u very comfortable bed, though weary and frozen out, after my trip of eighteen hours in an open sleigh."

i The Age-old Story

found the postmaster up and alive, .

SON NET

You will remdnber me in days to

come, With love. or pride. or pity. or con- tempt, So will my friends - friends, but some), When this my life will be a dream

(not. many

out-dreamt;

And one. remembering friendship by the fire.

And one, remembering love time in the dark,

And one. remembering unfulfilled

- desire.

Will sigh, perhaps, yet be beside the mark;

For this my body with its wander- ing ghost

Is nothing solely but an empty

grunge. Dark in a night that owls inhabit

mo , Yet when the King rides by there comes a change: i The windows gleam, fiery hair blown branch and beauty lodges there.

-John Maseneid.

the crcsset's

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Moreover, brethren, I I '

unto you the gospel which I preached unto you. which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand... For I delivered unto you

I ..If. . Notes"

Ahlslnlllusvlltili wsy bu flawed. The search was

for uranium. But all they on was

gold. so they gsve up. - Qttsws citizen. - t ' I

The story of on ldmsntei III. believed to be dead '1-eturulnl to life while being taken to the nor- gue bunothlng on that of the Pembroke district bushworker swho officially committed mlcide three years ago sudihu It lest proved that he is alive. - Pem- broke stsndu-d-Observer.

Walter Thomson. political leader. Interviewed on his eating habits, reveals that for breakfast he sometimes ests s steak, while at lunohhelslikclytohsves piece of rare roast. beef. The so presumably was asking. In Shake- speare terms, "Upon whet meat doth this, our Caesar feed. that he is grown so orsat'I'f - Port Art- hur News I cle.

A nsfurslisff expedition to the Cypress Hills is planned for next summer by university entomolo- glsts of the West to determine the extent of tropical insects and small animals available in this unique corner of Alberta. Prof. E. H. Strickland, head of the Uni- versity of Alberta entomology de- partment. spent some time in the Cyipress Hills last year to locate this "mystery of nature" and he believes he has isolated the breed- ing ers: of such fauna as scor- pions. solpugids, termites, several , ' of t ,' ' wasps. horned toads and kangaroo, rots. This is the farthest honth that these species have ever been found -.most of them never having been found north of California. - Medicine list News. l

Man lives by his dreams. Things are sbways about to get better,

up to the forecasts. We dreamed of peace in 1945 because we had just won a victory; but after the parades were over peace seemed to have vanished around the next corner. We had some fears of I depression, too, and the depression

-make life richer and fuller. GOLDEN CLOUD by Leland Silllman (The John C.-Winston Co. Ltd. 232 pp. 32.50) is a. tale of ranch life in Oklahoma, at a young city raised ranch-hand Orrin Tole-r and a beautiful Palomino filly Christ- ened Golden Cloud! Plenty of ac- tion and suspense is provided along with an accurate picture of ranch

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life.

. , . , . . Instead. wsabid s boom. which -in many ways-wj. lust so uncomfortable for pom: psooli ss-s .dep:euion.'ou sccouyp of the high cost of living. (Query: HI! il1!b0d3s'li my-time. remark- ed upouthe siuusrly low cost of living prevailing at that paxu. culu--moment? Dldwsvnog mu... ble about the price of bacon when "ff 5;: ' ll?” W.” M 1' cl!!! -'- Q l-Icrtllid. A 1"” no modem motor on 1. . besutiddl machine, it's sleek, in fast and it's powerful and com- muscle to rlde,ln. ti... 1:... , it's not Ilwuysi all that it 1:: hi be when the mercury dives to around 20 or 30 below zero. In view of the experience of I lot of local motorists in the past. few days, we think will be agree. meat on this score. Now you take old Dobbin. the horse. on the acne.- -hsnd. He was slow. admittedly, but Jack Frost didn't bother him. All hepneeded was another binn- ket thrown over his back and he was set to go. No -low temps". ture bothered his battery or crank. case, he just blew a little morn white steam from his nostrils when the temperature dropped. Old Dob- bin is almost dead as a means of .transporiatiun. But we can't forget his reliability in Winter. - Brocltvllle Recorder and Times.

A new writer has appeared be- hind the Iron Cu1'lain.called Old- rich Adamec. In an article which has just reached me from the Prague paper, "Lldove Novlny", he svows his love of Nature and then asks why the contemplation of flowers, bees. and mesdowi makes man so happy. This ques- tion Adamec then answers, in part: as follows: "In the evening. when you listen to theinight and look It the starry skies, it seems to yet;

but the facts never quite measure-that sganu'3 ggnjling eye; 3;; 1901;.

ing at you full of love, goodness and justice. The whole sky is full of Sta-lin's eyes, his thoughts, his movements and his words. we love thee, oh thou sky of Stalin I-low immeasurably we love thee. Thou ever shinest above our heads We inhale thee. because we need thee to live, because thou art oui sun, our warmth, our blood." Thu young man should go far.-London Observer.

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first. of all that which I also receiv- ed. how that Christ died for our sins according to the ....iptures; and that he was buried. and that he rose again the third day according to ills scriptures: and that he was seen of cephns. then of the twelve: after that. he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the - put remain on- to this present, but. some are fallen Illeep. After that, he was seen of James; then of III the apostles... Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resur- rection of the dead? But If there be no resurrection of the dead, than is Christ not rlscn: sad If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your fslth Is also vain.