PACE roun- frur. GUARDIAN iauuioriuu no Second cim Mail Punt Uffico Department, Ottawa. The lllund Guardian uublisblng Co. pected over the next 20 years. according fol Toronto's town planning consultant, Dr. E. G. F aludi. ”If this prospect guides public policy- making,” says the Citizen, "a great deal of human misery and unnecessary expense can be avoided. The slums of the big cities in the United States are a wretched legacy from decades of rapid but planicss growth in population. Canada already has much bad housing. It is not building homes and schools fast enough to meet present needs. It has entei'ed an era of expansion with- out fully realizing the fact." Ian A Burnett. Walker. President and Anuclate Editor, Anociata Editor. Frank CIRCULATION "Coven Prince Edward Island like the def flho Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink". CklAB.l.4-0TTE'Vlf6?MN. SATURDAY. OCT. iii. 195 I 2 l cost or St. Lawrence" Project Trade Fa", opmmmmes Set against the expenditure involved, in the proposed St. Lawrence Deep Sea-1 way, Maritime demands for Federal ai('. have been picayunc by C0mPa1"150n-, Latest departmental estimate of the cost- of cdnsnucting my 2-Hoot” deep by-I,mssiBoa1id. Entries of seed and tablestock pota- canals on the 11.) mile stretch betwcenhoes are solicited for the Prince Edward M0””'?a1 alld P,"SCf”,i,'Og(i”PSbL”'3 0." Wiisiand Trade Fair, Oct. 22-25, the Amherst Canadlan-sld.e .15 3262 mi”10n-:' Fills V fn'iWlnter air, Nov. 1-8, and the Royal Winter Tludes mt) million as the Canadmm Gmem-ilfair, Nov. 14-22. Substantial prizes, includ- niemys Share of the navigational PM of thiiing championship awards. are being offer. oig power development at Cornwall. , Thei. ,, 1. . . . led at these exhibitions, and in the case of must be adqed s0nw.wT': imumns f(,)r lmilthe Royal Fair especially the attendant provemenis m the exlstlxlg 27400? xx Cuandipublicity will be nation-wide, and of value Canal which b,y'paSSeS bflagam Fans and not only to the successful competitors but Sm”? Upper mver dredgmgl . , ito their home Province as well. On a qual- En (.m.mr words the esumam is feeggiity basis we have every reason to believe W63 mlmom But the department mm .a kithat our growers can make an outstanding. roughly 15, my C(.3n.t to 1,hat 1.0 brmg 1: u,p'showing at Amherst and Toronto as well -- mi 10 c ' i paid for her share of the deep seaway 2,-E. 260 miles to the head of the lakes had the i .1941 agreement between Canada and the It is to be hoped that as many as pos- sible of our potato growers will take ad- vantage of the forthcoming fairs to which reference appears in an advertisement lnl today's issue from the Potato Marketingl EDITOIELCNOIES Feast of St. Luke. THE GUARDIAN. Cl-IARLCOTTETOWN Don't- Mention It! i ' . 4l.llll in- K. it iii. it 1 ill PUBLIC FORUM U. S. for joint construction been approved- by the U. S. Congress-which ditched it. it Tomorrow, the 19th Sunday after Trin-f The extra 55210 million cost is another estimate to which some 15 per cent more must now be added in the calculations, critics are prompt to point out. that all' these estimates are guesses and in the end the cost may be a third or a hall more. For gxample, it is expected that it will takcl some six years to complete the job. And of course, the Rio.) million must be borrow 0 ed, at interest charges which will add an- r other substantial sum to the ful'. account. l” T . . . l The Maritime Electric Company is fol be congratulated on the speed with which its high tension power line was completed to Alberton after the destruction by fire, of the local plant. If all goes well Albci'ton' jlshould have a full power supply this week- l nd. ' O O O The addition of three new "draggcrs -HTS . Paritjtrlces l D0,. , . A Canadian .Press despatch tcills il.EW ggzgltigieiagigggi ::1(E1us;rS3:Wt:erC:nStmemo"l ::':t1io;:0::n:)a;::u::Sn?n t:re0gml:SS1iX:!nt;:c:land is building up its capacity for landingi . l :n3.e..di::,at;::..c rI(;l;11Cf;l1Eiri-((131 p(t))flicpyIllil('iS(:SiiIsIsKii)(())i11,:iDiy generally will tend to fall off. and both Governor Stevenson and General ' ' t Eisenhower have given farmers strong as- surance on this point. Since 1933 the U. S. government has taken a hand in regulating farm prices. The. established standard, named "parity". aims at giving the farmer a fair return in relation to the things he. has to buy. ' This level does not fix market prices at the parity level but uses various dc- n ' vices to push farm prices up to that 19.-.31., Highway accidents are the greatest That is where the fight comes, pa;-lly,cause of casualties today with home price standard is generally accepted by both ycldellls the Second killer. The American major parties but there have been bittci ',NE1U0l181 Safety COUHCU holds its mffercnces on (he method of achieving this,eonvent”-ion in Chicago next week and will objective. spend five days studying means of'improv- The most extensively-used method is,lnEZ Safety In SUCh C8585 and also with re- iliat under which the government gives lliclflalld 10 indllsilliai. farm. School and Oiilffll farmer a loan on his crop. a loan based onillubiiff DUNS- - l ieaten as horse meat in the United King- ,dom. About 12,000-of them came from. lEire and 4,500 from Northern Ireland. Thcl offered for horse meat in the United King- duce British horse numbers considerably. 9 I 9 sketch in which it was stated Lean- wonian, hangs in the 500-yard long " to , Grandc Galleria of the richly orna- . . g . . . imentcd Louvre Palace, once the -Albeiton's fishing fleet lS particularly im- hem 0. France-5 mugs, tant in view of the loss of min from the throng or enchanted P301319 from all countries. daily The IS-Imoved to touch it. that the mus- eum's workshop put up 3. low rail- and handling fish at a time when the sup- ......-5 lengm frogn 1., Evenilmily During 1951 about 53,000 horses were”: I lpresent correspondent; lremainder were from England. High pricesla thought of Spiritual excellence dom and the Continent are tending to re- been since 1793, and its disappear- 'nor was it ever found the world ',over in any private collection. No 33' ; ransom money was ever demanded. Lwhat was the motive? Was it the .act of someone with a peculiar annual brain-twist? .amu ed tinge of irony in them, '-was she icarlier had sat at intervals during This column is open to the discussion by correspondents of questions of interest. The Guardian does not necessar- fly endorse lllie opinion of correspondents. THE iuo-NVK LISA Sir, - There appeared rccent.ly in the columns of the press a news ardo da. Vinci's Mona Lisa. the worldts most famous portrait of n that at milling about this remarkable canvas were so ing to keep visitors at more than the management had to have a glass placed in the frame which held the portrait. Even today fan mail arrives at the Louvre address- d to Mona Lisa. Now this is news. indeed. to your for this notable painting like a poetical vLs- ion that in its posing left with us completely vanished on August 21. 1911 from the Louvre, where it had once constitutes one of the most mystcrous thefts of all time. It was never thereafter offered for sale. This lady with the firmness of moral peace and health in her face, the serene eyes with an who four hundred years four years for the orlgliiiil paint- ing of the Mona Lisa portrait. La parity. The farmer's crop is stored under loam and is not available for the market llenri Louis Bergson, French philosoph- er, was born at Paris this date 1859. while under loan. Thus a miller must pay . held many important teaching posts a price in line with the government loan rate if he wants the farmer to sell him his crop. At present, major products are be- rupicd with semi-mathematical ' supported at 90 per cent of parity. . mg L......LLg Elle regarded the functions of the intellect - Hon ;ns practical rather than theoretical and Growth lmmigra that sensible reality is beyond the scope of any conceptuaiistic logic. He became a favorite authority amongst pragmatists. l , andl . vapproached philosophy by lmathematics, his earlier works being oc- By the end of the century, Prime Niin-i, ister St. Laurent suggested in an address last week, Canada will have a population of perhaps 40,000,000. But. as the Ottawa Citizen points out, Mr. St. Laurent. was counting on no more than the rate of iii- crease that has been experienced since the beginning of the century, and the year 2,000 A.D., is still far away. Yet in a crowded ”world Canada is under-populated Although much of its area is unsuitable for farming. manufacturing is on the increase, and set- tlement spreads with the discovery of new resources. Even in the long-established communities of Nova Scotia, Mr. J. A. Paul. chief of the departmentpf immigration's settlement division, thinks agriculture could A Smct program of quarantine kept be greatly strmgthened if Skilled farm Canada relatively free of the dread rabies immigrants were Weicomod 1” ""3" "”m'idisease, until recently when it broke out bers. lamong the foxes and wolves in the ,Fort Post-war immigration has totalled ”9ar'iVermilion area of northern Alberta. and :1 1y 800,000, of whom some 200,000 arrived . . 1 t number of cattle, swine, horses and dogs last year. APPEVQWY Fedeial Whey 5 9 were bitten and infected by the wild an- taper off this inflow and lei the 3951 few” imals. Federal and provincial officials and stand. In all probability. however. imt the R. C. M. P. went into action immed- mi8T8li0" Wm mntmue, t0 ,be heavier ma" lately. vaccinated all dogs, destroyed all in the years of dePYe8?10"- New 0PP0"”"' animals showing symptoms of rabies and may new W,”,.”.h' 5!” . fwmg Mme "M ” quarantined premises where the disease few Canadians M5 O O I Dartmouth was an important event in Cana- dian naval affairs. During the last. ii"-il' the establishment showed its worth in de- vcloping "CAT" gear to foil the acoustic torpedo. Indeed war at sea was to a very considerable degree a contest of scientists ashore. First one side would have the tech- nical advantage and score heavily. Then the other side would regain the initiative with some new device. 0 I D . -left "'9 mumryi was suspected. With wild animals. how- ICXOG - A huh" Pm' ever, quarantine is difficult, and the of- 3 mm” "pm ficials are considering the possibility of re- i989th9F- Q1159 i" 999' duclng the fox and wolf population in that Province ' may be ex- He l him and him alone to possess her? 25 the path ofiihai D1'0b1emS- i he had received as a gift. Its miles l l The opening Thursday of the Naval Re-, search Establishment's new laboratory atl ,Gioconda. though long dead, lived .in the heart and mind of her ad- lmlrer. Was it this that prompted As the news writer remarks, the 00-yard Louvre Palace is so long King Louis XIII of France once galioped up and down the Urandc Gallerie on a camel which of galleries exhibit 146.750 paintings and other works of art. Its extreme size if anything enabled the thief to carry out. such it hold act. suc- cessfully. The theory was that he. who did so was an ugly dilckllng of the higher classes of society who moved about freely among connois- iscurs. who dressed in the garb of a quiet gentleman and carrying a .vcry usual gentlemanly walking cane entered the Louvre shortly before closing time. He emerged from his hiding place during the night; neatly cut the portrait out of its frame (it had no glass waver- ing); and neatly inserted the roll- cd canvas in his hollow cane, After some chit. chat. and the expression of airy nothings with the morning visitors he quietly left the build- me. We were always under the im- pression of airy nothings with the morning visitors he quietly left the building. We were always under the im- pression that there was never found any real trace or clue to the where- abouts of the stolen Mona Lisa. The theft occurred before both world wars. Then if it has been re- turned to the Louvre why should such warlike secrecy be maintain- ed about it? I am. Sir, etc., J.P. McCLOSKEY. Charlottetown. - ---sums .23-4zorXGb”-1.eG0r&OO4 line Age-Old Story 4- 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God. and the Word was God . . . All -things were made by him: and without Charlottetown Conference Story Is From "John A. Macdonald: The Young Politician". by Donald Creighton. The MacMilian Company of Canada Limited, 1962. On Monday. August 29. (1864) Macdonald boarded the Canadian Government. steamer, Queen Vic- torla', of Quebec. with him was a large company of people. There were. the seniors in the cabinet, Cartielr. Brown and Gait. and their Junior colleagues, McDougali, Mc- Gee, Campbell and Langevln; and -what was distinctly unusual in British North American conferen- ces-a secretarial staff of three. It was. for the times, a large, deter- mined. and well-equipped delegg- tlon that set out. from Quebec. But it had only the vaguest notion of what its reception was likely to be at Charlottetown. The letters from the Maritime Govern- ment. had been polite-but very form-ally polite. The Maritimers might. be simply annoyed by this uninvited Canadian intrusion. The whole affair might. have I. most deplorable ending. And yet. at the same time. it was impossible not to regard the meeting at Char- lottetown as a divinely granted opportiinlty. The Canadians might succeed, though their mission was strictly unofficial: and if at the end of the conference there it seemed a reasonable prospect that 3 general federal union could be formed, then it would be easy to call H. formal conference on the subject. The great thing was to convince the Maritimers: and. as the Queen Vlctorial travelled slow- ly down the Gulf of St. Lawrence towards Prince Edward Island, the Canadlans must have been frantic- ally busy, putting the last touches to their federal plan and deciding who had best. speak on this or that phase of it. 0 0 It was late Wednesday night. the last day of August, when the steamer began slowly to approach Charlottetown. Th somewhat in- curlous citizens of he capital city of Prince Edward Island casually noticed a strange vessel just off the harbor that night; and next morning the strange vessel. which was without. benefit of pilot, came timldly up the harbour, casting the lead for safety at every few feet. The exciting news spread that the Canadians had arrived; and W. H. Pope, a member of the Prince Edward Island Govern- ment. procured a small boat and rowed manfuily out to the steam- er io greet. them. The Queen Vic- toria hoisted its flag. The breath- less Pope presented the greetings of Charlottetown and Prince Ed- ward Island. And shortly after, Retold it was discovered that there was difficulty about. lodging. The New the Mansion House: but there was not enough room for the Canad- ians at. the Franklin. The embar- rassed Islanders subsequently tried to excuse themselves for this un- fortunate lack of accommodation by pointing out that Monck had indicated a. Canadian delegation of only four. In the end, some of the Canadians stayed in town at the Franklin House: but most: of them remained in the Queen Vic- toria, and among these, with his secretaries, was Mocdonald. It. was an awkward beginning. Was it an unhappy symbol of the Canadians real position? Physically their delegation was half in town and half out in the harbour; morally. they were a part. yet not a real part, of the conference. Was the whole enter- prise to end in embarrassment, irritation, and defeat? The first hour or so after the landing at Charlottetown must have been full of painful uncertainties. And yet, though the Canadians were. of course, unaware of it, their prob- lem was already solved in a. fash- ion which could hardly have been more favourable. On Thursday morning, Septem- ber l. as the Queen Victoria was moving deliberately up the hair- bour towards Charlottetown. the Maritime Conference had held its first meeting. The delegates had scarcely assembled when the news of the imminent. arrival of the Canadians was announced. And then an odd but revealing event occurred. with a unanimity and alacrity which almost suggested a general sense of mental relief. the conference decided that it would postpone the discussion of Mori- time unlon until the unofficial visitors, the Canadians, had had a chance to present their very dif- ferem. plan. This was the wonderful news that greeted the adventurers from the 'Quecn Victoria'. They may have heard it. first at. about twelve o'clock when all the delegates went out to Governmentf-louse, on the outskirts of the town, to pay an official visit to Lieutenant- Governor Dundas. .They were to be heard at once! The conference had cleared its agenda. for them! Everybody was ready to give im- mediate attentlon to what they had to say. It. could hardly have been a more courteous reception. 0 while it was still morning, formidable Canadian delegation came ashore. in sudden influx of visitors. '1-leather flfi.El'n00l Trlnce of Wales' It midnight. on the some day. of August, 1864. behold it. this 'wonderful migration'?" loolly. "The circus. Sir. the circus. swept past him. 0 0 many members of the' Prince Ed ward Island Government. At an on hand to give an official wel was-not even I carriage or I was or their belonging: to holell. WI! miido. hlm was not any thing made that era, and the Canadians. the Charlottetown was crowded with The Belie' had brought the Nova. Scotian delegation on the of August 31: the New Brunswic crs had arrived on the little before But the conference on Maritime union was not the only. nor, indeed. the main, attraction which drew people towards the somnoient little town of Charlottetown on the last day There was also ll circus. the first circus to visit the Island, it was said, in twenty-one years, and people were unveiling eagerly from sixty miles iaway to "What is the cause of the correspondent of the Saint; John Morning Telegraph enquired satir- came the answer from a dozen throat: as the "surging throng" The circus not only attracted people from oil over the Island: it also apparently attracted a good rate they were not on the dock to greet the delegates. Not a soul was come to the Nova Sections. There gon, do it was said. to take them Pope, the-indefatigable Provin- eiol secretary. hurried out: alone to welcome the New Brunswick- And af- ter this rather meagre "reception. And that evening, when the Can- adians went. out again to Govern- ment. House for the opening din- ner of the conference, they must have been in e. pleased and ex- cited frame of mind. Next. day. Friday. at a little past. ten o'clock in the morning. Cor- tier began the presentation of their case for federal union. He spoke for some time-o fairly carefully" prepared oddrea.u- and then, for the not of the session. I general discussion followed, with the Mai-itimera asking questions, and the Canadians attempting to supply satisfactory answers. It was the pattern which the meeti gs were to follow for the next ew days. Cartier had given a gen- eral survey of the advantages which union might be expected to bring. . Mscdonnld. in oil probability. had planned to analyse the gen- eral character of the pro coed federation: and next momin he not up to face the conference. He was. in appearance. though not in age, nearly the youngest of the delegates. His pearl-grey trousers u y the funereal inountuohu. of his long. oval face, his ueiy poetic expression. be earnest and erluulve: paper. Dog or no dog, he ish history and practice. ference, and certainly one of the most. serious efforts made-lasted most of the contracted almost. frivoiouaiy with expense of black broadcloth around him.. He was clean-shuven in the midst. of e grizzled and nth r forbidding for- eot of beardl. ado-whiskers, and And the spare lingo; to forehead. and the graceful mass of hutdark curly-hair gave him a sensitive. thoughtful. even vag- He cogld ul. .1 x Notes Bx An elderly woman In Odessa. Ont.. spent 5 1-2 hours in I cold storage locker after she was lock- ed in by mistake. such lockers should be equipped with some sort of signalling device to enable anyone locked, in by error to get word to the outside world. Brantford Expositor. Somebody want: to know, "What is a horsetrack?" The purpose of horeetracks (and don't confuse them with the tracks of A home) is to demonstrate that some hordes run faster than others and some don't. Mostly the batter. And all it costs you is a couple at bucks per race to find out which is which. They call it the ”sport of kings," though we've been at. many a horsetriwk and haven't seen I king round one of them yet. Any further questions? - Ottawa Cit- izen. A gardener in Boston died and left S5,0tX) in his will to Lassie, his collie, with instructions that she live with a friend in Quincy and pay for her keep. Naturally, Masseohiisetts State Tax mlssioner read about it. We were somewhat charming. belied any suggestion of undue gravity. He was full of his subject. Brlt.- fox-med ., dmgmm, and mccudul constitlutional ope;-guon on In m.y,u,o1d hay n the d ' other colonies of the Empire, the ,a:ed'ica1 prance t l l r U Srtniftei. 'i:,ii:i"t.eliiacebri,ef gdgerlnixeiiftg i” W h” m” ” bed W1 the precedent; of the Southern Confederacy-he d knew them all. His speech--prob- ably the longest given at. the con- .' he had ever hospitality. aborete luncheon. They were still there. talking and drinking touts, until late in the evening. 0, C ates. ceased to be a. meeting for the consideration of 9. Maritime legis- lative union: it was becoming ii conference for the promotion of British North American federation. Everything that subsequently oc- curred seemed to confirm this too- itly acccpted view. On Tuesday- befoie the Maritime delegates had devoted, so much as l! single ses- sion to their own separate project -the conference decided that it would adjourn two days later and proceed to Halifax. On Wednesday-when at long last the Marltlmers got down to the subject for which the confer- ence had ostensibly, been called- a. complete impasse was quickly reached as a result of Prince Ed- ward Island's impossible demand that the capital of the united pro- vinces ehould be established at Charlottetown. It. was not that Macdonalcl and the Canadians were hostile to Maritime union- so long, of course, as it did not get in the way of federation. Ac- cording to a rumour which the correspondent; of the Halifax Morning Chronicle retailed to his readers. the Canadians were re- ported to be quite indifferent. as to whether the Maritime Provin- cea should enter their proposed federation as one government or three. But. the Moritimers simply could not agree. And now the best. chance of reaching an agree- ment had gone by. The confer- ence was on the move. On Thurs- day, September 8, the delegates went. off on an excursion to tho northern part of the Island; and that night, when they returned, came the finol'ball. O 0 0 The Province Building. where the conference had held its sit.- tings. had been hurriedly prepared for the festivities during the brief absence of the delegates. The Legislative Council chamber had been fitted up as at reception room. In the legislative library- now 9. refreshment. room of ii rather different character-tea. coffee, sherry. claret and cham- ploce, had been decorated with flags, flowers, and evergreens. with tall and cunningiy placed mirrors, and with the most bril- liant; lighting effects which the superintendent of the local gas works could produce. MacDonald was paired off with Mrs. Dundu, the wife of the Is- iiu1d'I Lieutenant-Governor, for the fist quodrilie. At one o'clock. w an supper-time come, he took his seat to the right of the chair- man, Colonel John Hamilton Gray of Prince Edward Island. In the eyes of everybody he nnd come to represent the visitors, and he re- rponded first to the tout. in their honour. He was beginning to win the Mlritlmerl. as he had alrendyavon the Canadians and. from hi: point of view, the conference could hardly have been a more com- onxiouo for the next move, ready to be gone. o'clock in the morning. The can- ndinne had agreed to. carry the their atnuher; use the delegates the iollll his frequent omi I, which was supposed to be in Halifax. . s the dog felt. pretty secure. But the the lines of inwme to listen spellbound to tax on what the fund earns.-New go,-y of Demosthenes, Cicero York Herald Tribune. on Monday, after Brown and '' Gait. had spoken at length on the SUIKOOH said. "Oh." said the la-637'! economic and financial aspects of 8011- "ii WES!”- the proposed federation, S. defin- much. it was 36111118 mother on ite impression began to form rap- her feet. You know, idly in the minds of the deleg- walked for seven The conferencee had almost Yorker, pietn auooeu. not now he was and It won three entire conference across the strait: the Nova Scott: nnlhiand in having tnrnthoinoelvu away from bell. packed their bags front- and b ca down to the harbour in the early hour: of the m0l'n1nl- 3! Siturduy they were ocronen 154952 A ' The Wax .4 cilned to raise an e . - of this declaration.” vi; V:-'. here to say that the fumm. who owns this dog actually demon- strated the phenomenom to 1... And the dos. did indeed c1,,,; Rum. and avidly. This portlculu d08 makes a dolly round of what. baskets in his home looking 5,”, discarded bits of gum. when on. is found he retires with it to the fireplace. sits down and begin. the kind of rapid-fire gmn chew. ing that one seed beet U9-ll10n3bI'Ria ed in pool halls. This animal en- JOYH his gum thoroughly and M. never been known as yet 10 ".31. low a piece. After witnessing this Peculiar sight we suggested to me animal's owner bhat the dog might find more scope for his activities if offered it piece of bubble gum The suggestion. however. wu greeted by the owner with I rath- er fishy eye. Understandablv, perhaps. Brockville Recorder and Times. Seventy-five you: no gm. month Thomas A. Edison shouted ”Mary had I. little C0.m- lamb” at a slowly revolving cylln. in the der mapped in tinfoil. He had in. ruled. vented the, talking machine. From Lassie must pay an inheritance these crude beginning: the tax. I-Io figured it at 3369, includ- em phonograph evolved, in: mrtnx. Furthermore. It Lassie pity the invention had to wait till invests the remaining 54.631, she 1577; we might will have to pay a yearly mod- What. A have able ora- and been the Burke, the playing of Jenny Lind, the voice of the great 13101111304 history or eye witness accounts of recently to come upon A dog who the landing 01 Kingston Whig-Standard. leader! of the Mayflower-.- A yolml Iurgoon recently per- ln conformity with modern instructed her talking in soon as possible. The ay after the operation, she was made to walk around her room for few minutes. she complained ittgudlsy, anid protested) eve; more my. e econ ay. w en I 0 was session. He was a good advocate. E913; :1" :9? feet f0I' 5110"? Period! But. as the Canadians knew very oi n t 4: morning and after. well, he was also a. convivial host; noon. By the end of the week. and it was only appropriate that still grumbling. she won shuffling Bi-unswickers could be put up at 2”.;5j,f”e,f,ijg&fon””,,f”1i9;",ff,,.f?, "round M "We o'clock ih fagge-d gn by hergnux-re. A few days . y now ghert;-fgf1gei:oi;x.1 Zllmgfrfgg-3g):tf;;1 walker, she was home. Soon arm to the 'Queen Vlctoriu' for an,el- E the hospital corridors. rather cheerful his, her son stopped in It the urgecn's office to settle the bill. The entire family, he said, could- nit have been more pleased with the results. "Well. it was rather : ough operation at her age.” the the operation so she hadn't years. - Ned Austerity And Pigs (London New Statesman and Nation) The effects of the we: and the peace which followed the war are deplorably familiar to both produc- ers and consumers. But. like many other familiar things. they neerl analysis. First. then. the supply of imported fodders, which were the mainstay of the pre-war industry. declined heavily. Secondly. human beings once more began to eat food formerly given to pigs-more wheat. in the loci, 'for instance. meant'less wheat offsis in the trough. For the pig does not cre- ate food, he merely converts one sort of food into another-and, in so doing, he inevitably takes his toll. But his terms were too high for a besieged nation: food for di- rect human consumption, whether imported or homegrown, was too valuable to be processed, at 3 price. by the pig. In statistical texniii, therefore, the pig population of England and Wales, some 3.515.000 in 1939, fell to 1.988.000 in 194i and 1.146.000 in 1947. Old Charlottetown (And P. ii. 1. i .-.L.. THE ELFIN "A beautiful screw steam vs-.u-al called the Elfin. built by Donald Stewart. Esq., of Cardigan, for Messrs. Walsh. Wcstaway "M Owen. is now lying at Prakei wharf. She is 308 tons builder's measurement, is copper fastened. iron strapped. and rigged WV" wire rope. She will sail in n feV days with a cargo of oats WV Glasgow. where she will be furn- ished with the necessary holleri- maclilnery. etc.. by the Messis. Demmy Brothers. of Dumbartnn. We wish the enterprising owner! pagne were available in copious of the Elfin every success in their quantities; and the Assembly. spirited undertaking." , where the dancing was to take -The Monitor, Oct. 9. 1907 ,,,;;.:...,,.,. E 7Ae . l Woedi Qmmt Oh the dim and solemn GUM " closing of the dirt when the leaves are slow. And the wet birds come and :0 Through the hedges. and whit: winter in already on its WW When the smoke of amouiderim fares. Loosely borne on laggins 31"- mu the nostrils with its savor. It the closing of the doll- droppim the closing of the day! When the cattle cease to me"- And the tree! stand close. R50” And the mound: about the church- yard lie unshadowed in 1 i EFIYI - ' When the soul that dwells alone Finds I sadness like its own , In the heart: .of Mother Nnturr. H the closing of tho dJY- , . .--Arthur Joseph M""”' o '2' chews cum. Reader any 1,. .,,;.i Oh the grim and ghuuy quiet "i J i. 5.