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Morning Dally (Founded ln 1887-. Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Department. Ottawa.

President, lan A. Burnett; Vice-President, Win. R. Burnett; Secyn-Trcam, G. M. Burnett; Edi r and itlunaglng Director, J. R. Burnett; Associate Editor.

Frank Walker.

"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Th0" the Weakest lnk."

(JHARLOTTETOWN. WEDNESDAY, ocronm 2:9.

it. i. I. ilogs Acclaimed

A fine tribute to the superior quality °l Prince Edward Island hogs isPuld I" ‘he ocmbel letter issued by the Industrial and DeveloPmeiil Council'of Canadian Meat POCKEFS, T°'3"I'"l’- The article deals with the imP°_"l°"ce “l bu‘ once“ in Wiltshire sidem/memlmg ilielebY ‘he relationship, in weight, between the lore-end, middle and gammon or ham, of. the side._ One of the chief criticisms of Canadian WIIISIIIIGS’ is their lack of balance. Recently. 24 Dlmfsl‘ Wiltshires and an equal number of Canadlil" sides were token from stocks in England and carefully cut and weighed. The sides were all in the sizeoble weight range (5§ to 65 lbs-l ("id were of "leanest" selection or finish. The com- porisons are given in on accompanying ‘table, and are strongly in favor of the Danish sides. The article goes on to say: _

"These figures support the conteiitifln lhfll Canadian hogs, on the average, need more length of middle and a much lighter shoulder in comparison to their ham. By continued breed- ing, testing and selection to the ideal, the Dori- ish hogs hove been standardized to a fairly high cutting perfection. Some Canadian hogs are doubtless the equal of the Danish hogs in this respect, but these good hogs are too few in re- lation to the total, or, as is the case with the good hogs from Prince Edward Island, they are not readily available for export.

"Recently two ‘A’ grade carcasses of hogs were token at random from the rail of a plant in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and pre- pared as Wiltshire sides. These sides were then cut and weighed for balance in the some man- ner as thosc cut in London. The results, as giv- en in the table, when compared to the other test are interesting and would indicate that they compare favorably with the Danish. . _

"It will be noted that these "lsIand" sides cut o middle that weighed over half the weight ‘of the sides and that the gammon weighed fully as much os the fore-end. If thc bulk of our ex- port had the balance of these four sides one of the chief criticisms of Oinadian bacon would be removed." . _

The following comparative figures are giv- an in tho article. In each case they represent average weight:

Canadian Sides Danish Sides Princc Edward

in London in London Island Sides lb. ('2, of side lb. % of side lh. 7,. of side Sides . 61 65 63.5 Ganimons 15.5 25.41 l6 24.62 15.5 24.41 Fore-ends 19.5 31.97 17 26.15 15.5 24.41 Miriillel 28 42.62. 32 49.23 32.5 51.18 ,_. _.__ 100.00 100.00 100.00

llii llnwllling Plunger?

One of the minor curiosities of the coming~

election campaign will be the explanation, if any, which Premier Jones will have to make of his attempts to mislead the public into believ- ing that there would bc no campaign this year. Back in July, in commenting upon an advertise- ment calling a Liberal convention at Ellerslie, the Premier announced that he could not under- stonl why this convention had been called "in such o hurry." "They have riot consulted mo," he said, "else I would hove told them that this time next year would be plenty of time for them to begin holding conventions." Even at Toronto the other day, within a few hours of Mr. Barbour’s official announcement of the election date, the Premier was at pains to leave the impression that the election was not in the immediate offing.

What is the reason for this manoeuver on the Premier's part. Rumor has it that he himself was averse to an election this year, but was out- voted by his cabinet colleagues who believe that now is the opportune time——-when there is money in the till—to Q to the country. It moy be, how- ever, that the Premier was right, and that it would have been wiser to have postponed the evil day, at least until there was more evidence of solidarity in the Liberal party ranks.

Discussion And Debate

Holding that democracies must have Q lu- formed public opinion if they ore to face up to a "challenge to the death," Sir Alexander Clut- terbuck, United Kingdom High Commissioner in Canada, said recently: "The more discussion there is, the better; the more political contro- versy, the better. Therein lies the strength of democracy."

And Sir Alexander C-lutterbuck, comments

the Ottawa Journal, wasn't thinking of mcre‘

speech-making, which often isn't discussion at all, and which can become a disease, some- times o horribly boring one. He was speaking of good, hard controversy, spoken or written, of the condition under which ideas are not merely uttered but debated, and under which men who are free to speak arc also compelled to answer.

This last, and this lost alone, is the essence, the true value, of free speech. Walter Lipo- man once put it perfectly. "What matters is not the utterance of opinions. What putters is the confrontation of opinions in debate. Na man can core profoundly that every fool should soy what he likes. Nothing has been accomplished if the wisest man proclaims his-wisdom in» the middle of the Sahara Desert. This is thc shadow. We have the substance of liberty when the fool is compelled to listen to tho wise man and learn; wheli the wise man is compelled to take ac- count of the fool, and to, instruct him; and when

ing the judgment of his peers."

In other words, (odds the Journal), discus- sion and debate mean the challenging of ideas and policies no matter how august their origin, with the citizen who is neutral, or who confuses; neutrality with independence, or pretends thati neutrality is independence, to be regarded as a bad citizen. Discussion and debate mean the existence of. o forum where the speaker must rc- spond to questions; or a parliament or legislat- ure ‘where the executive must submit its policies for discussion and its accounts for audit. 5

It would be well for our politicians to bear‘ this admonition in mind during the next six weeks of election campaigning. There is only one way to get full and frank discussion of pub- lic issues in a political campaign, and that is‘ at public meetings.

-— EDITORIAL NOTES -

King's County Memorial Hospital in Mon- tague opens today.

Permanent anti-freeze is very scarce this year, but the alcohol ones are in good sup-

PI)‘- I l I I There is something to be said for the wear- ing of evening dress to concerts. The stiff shirt provides better acoustics than ordinary soft

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Milk producers, to offset the high cost of farming, seek to have the price of milk increased. The consumers, on account of the high cost of living, protest, and on the eve of on election, the Government is being asked to decide bo- tween them.

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Rt. Hon. J. G. Gardiner, Minister of Agri- culture, and a contender for the leadership ‘of the Libero! Party, in succession to Prime Min- ister Mackenzie King, will open the Provincial election campaign in Charlottetown on Novem- ber 6.

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The Provincial Government seems bent on maintaining its reputation of being divided against itself. The Premier told the Canadian Press "he would not be in Toronto if there was on impending election." Next day Acting‘ Premier Barbour here confirmed the report that thc election would be on December II.

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The so-called "holding charge" is looked on with little favour by British courts. Anyone arrested is entitled to know ot once whatlhe is accused of, and the practice of laying a vag- rancy or similar charge merely as o convenient prelude to the more serious one the police have in mind is less than inst to the accused.

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The international Trade Organization sit- ting at Genevq trying to straighten out the trading difficulties between countries have de- cidco to permit Britain, Canada and South Africa to adjust their Ottawa preference agree- ment so as to enable the Mother Country a freer hand in offsetting the dollar shortage.

,would such a system solve

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llotes lly ‘Ilio Play

Chairman of 18 manufacturing companies, Mr. Gordon Ralph Hall Callie, of Britain, suggests that bartering is the way out of the dollar-sterling exchange impasse. But, If the United Kingdom hasn't. enough goods to barter on equal terms with other nations, how her ciifflcuitlew- Windsor Star.

Only eandwlchcl will be lervcd at the royal wedding breakfast. Without a klppered herring how will any Englishman know that lt-

lis breakfast? -Det.rolt. Free Press.

A Soul-h Australian amateur nat- uralist has an excellent insurance against bucglary _a young and ao- tlve crocodile which prowls around the house all through the night. and “gets snappy" If annoyed by strangers. It was captured in the Northern Territory and christened Gandhi because of its long fasts. —Australisn News Letter,

First successful introduction of the crease In men's houses-s was made by Edward VII of Etiglancl, who as Prince of Wales visited the United States in 1860. The prince st that. time, according to R. Turn- or Wlloox (The Mode in Costume, 1946i, wore the crease at. the sides of the leg u well as at front. and back. The custom of placing the crease front and back only was one that came into vogue tn the '90s. This later innovation originat- ca with army officers. — American Notes and Quotes.

When the English. only in the reign of Good Queen Anne, for tho benefit of home growers of wool, gave an import. preference to the heavy wines of Portugal over the

‘Jghi. wines of France, they hadn't

any idea that. they were making gout a national institution for the British upper classes -—though, tor be sure, some medical pedants will have it that: it. wasn't. port bu: Hock from the Rhineiand that was really responsible for the preva- lence of that distinguished afflic- tion among the tight. little island's hlghlivers. - New York Times.

Now just- imagine a punk like that. He never goes out. at night, doesn't. smoke. hardly ever samples s alp_ does odd Jobs around the house, cooks and does the washing, turns over his whole pay cheque b0 his wife; leaving himself no pocket money, massages his wife's cold feet, and furthermore is nam- ed London's perfect husband, win- nzng a generous chunk of bacon. A perfect husband. indeed. Why he doesn't. even choose his own clothes. Wouldn't it be a strange world lf all males were like that. On our afternoon off, we'd see a neighborhood male, stripped down tc the underwear, hairy chest puff- ing with a clothes basket, hang- irig out. the week's wash. So we'd wander over to the fence, if we had one, and g-as away for an hour or so until the wife came home from her offlce_ hopping mad because

Which is all to the good. I

The Little Theatre puts on their initial play,,‘ "Gongway For Ghosts", in the Prince Edward? Theutre_tonight with an unusually strong cast which should insure o bumper house. Local tal- ent must be encouraged if we ore to maintain our reputation of being one of the most ad- vanced dramatically-minded communities in the Maritimes.

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One bill before the British Parliament will go through without alteration. It provides forI the independence of Burma outside the British Empire. Such was the decision of the Burmese and it will be given full effect. There is little danger of such outbreaks as ore occurring in India. as thc population is almost entirely Buddhist, althought at Mandalay there is a small community of Mohommedans.

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John Keats, English poet, died this date 182i; abandoned medicine for literature, and ultimately had to leave England due to T.B., dying in Rome. Much of his poetry is immature in thought and style, but such poems as Lo Belle u Danie sans Mcrci, The Ode on a Grecian Urn,’ and his sonnets are unsurpassoble. His influ-l once on later English poetry has been almost inculculable: The imagination of o boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of o man is healthy;

but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character unde- cided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition

dinner wasn't ready and growling with hunger. —- Sauit. Star.

Pig raising is becoming o. nice profitable business for the North- ern Ontario farmer. Why? Partial- iy because the major meat. packers nave been finding It. increasingly difficult. to get along with their employee unions and the small packers are moving into is more important place in serving remote areas. Certainly ‘this district is finding no meat shortage despite the nation-wide strike in the two great. packinghousos. The pigs which have been raised by farmers in this part of Northern Ontario have found ready markets because of the shortage from out-side areas. -Tlmmins Press.

1f those elements In this coun- try that. seem to believe Canada may soon be teetering on the edge cf an economic abyss would give more thought to the manner tn which they could contribute to the defeat. of any imported economic or political ism and less to the expression of their apprehensions, they would be serving their own and the nation's best. interests. Surely it will not be necessary to learn all over again, by hard ex- perience, the lesson of the thirties. -Victoria Times.

Kenneth Galbraith, editor of Fortune, and Wyn Plumptrc, fl- nanvial editor- of Saturday Night,

speaking at. the University of Western Ontario, predicted re- sumptlon of war-time controls in

thick-sighted: thence proceeds mowkishness.

Dr. Bcouchcsnc, Clerk of the House of Com- mons, who accompanied Mr. Speaker Fauteaux to London to sec how they ran parliament there, reports favourably on abolishing appeals from thc Speaker's ruling, divisions on which result in nn unnecessary loss of time. He also considers favourably the hours of sittings in London, viz., from 2:45 P.M. to ll P.M. At Ottawa at pres- ent the House sits from 3 P.M. to 6 P.M., and from 8 P.M. to II P.M.

The love of freedom develops marvellous resources in the individual concerned. A Z0- yoar-old German prisoner of war, who escaped on August I9 from o comp at Reading, England,_ was picked up by the New York State police as a suspicious character when found walking bare- foot on o back road near Pittstown, New York. He was identified as Martin Georg Eppich, a former corporal in the IZth S. S. Panzer Div- ision, who was captured by thc British in Nor- moody more than three years ago. Eppich told the police that he had sold his wrist-watch to a follow-prisoner for $12 and had bought civilian clothes with the proceeds. From Reading he went to Southampton by train. There he swam a inile and a half to the Queen Mary and, after clombaring up o I20 .ft. rope, stowed away in a lifeboat. -He stayed in the lifeboat for fivc days without focd or water, he said, and iusl be- fore the vessel docked in New York ho lowered himself by another rope into thc Hudson River

llio wise eiee can increase liis wisdom by hoarl and swam ashore, only to be recaptured.

Canada within the next few weeks.

Once you start. something 1lke that,

I ifs difficult to get. away from it- ospeclally when so many people employed in the red-tape depart- ments of admlnstration represent

.50 many voles. ~ Brantford Ex- posltor.

l 1n British cities, eidcrmen are usually chosen from elected coun- ciliors and mayors are invariably chosen from the ranks of alderman. It is o sheer impossibility over tnere for an inexperienced man without. a record of service to

loccupy the honorable position of mayor. Many students of municipal trends in Canada think there is

lvcry much to be said in favor of the British system. Undoubtedly, one British system attracts men of

‘the very highest/calibre into mu- nicipal ilfe. -Vancouvcr News-Her aid.

l Al. the recent opening of the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York, a Bible, printed in English and Norweg- tan, with s handsome moroico binding, was presented to Secre- lary-Genersl Trygve Lie, reports France-Americas. Without an in- slant’: hesitation, ho flipped open the sacred book to Psalm cxxxru and read aloud the first verse "Bo- hold, how good and pleasant. It is for brethren to dwell together in unity." Appropriate? Well, yes; el- ways providing the debates do not. give the llo too brutally to the biblical text.

[the average farmer cannot buy st

PUBLIC FORUM

This column is open tn the dllcllllon by corra- Ipondenfl of questions nl interest. The Charlottetown Guardian does not neceIar- lly endorse the opinion of - correspondents

nv h MR. BARBOUR AND ROADS

Sirr-In reference to Hon. G. H. Barbour’s boast about the good roads that. his Liberal Party had built, I wlsh to make it clear that he promised a lot of roads that- were to be done but never saw any road work done on them. He was petitioned to do a road that. is in a disgraceful condition. He sent a letter saying this work would be done but so far nothing has been done. There is not. o. gutter to carry the water away and after every rain the toad bed is all under water.

And this security for farmer: that he speaks obout,-I do not know where it. is. All feed grains have gone up so high in price that.

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all. There is a very poor prtcs offered for farm products com- pared with the cost of production. One more thing I would like to mflillfln. that is about inflation that we were assured was about never to happen again. We have inflation at the present time, or I do not. know what. it. is. If we do not. have a change for the better and got all these strikes settled once and for all, l do not see how tho average farmer can possibly carry on at all. I am, Sir. et.c., VETERAN FARMER. County Line Rood.

APPEAL FROM ENGLAND

Sin-I would be most. grateful if you would give me space to appeal lo your reading public to help us here at home with a tre- mendous task. viz. the restoration of our church.

My appeal to you is to help us to provide goods for a large bazaar which would be held at Christmas time here in Stockton. I have been in touch with the local Gov. crnment Officer who inform; mg that parcels of food may be sent, to be made up into luncheons, teas, and suppers at, the Bazaar; but. this food could not. be sold to {he Pilblifl- I am also instructed that. parcels of clothing could be sent to us to make up a stall re. presenting your country. This clo- thing shouid be used ciothing— not new, otherwise we could not sell without coupons. I hope m have a stall of goods from Aus. tralia, Canada. New Zeaiand and

wise provision ha the future.

THE ‘g! l0

JOHN S. W. WI

A [TEE-MATH (For England)

And who are these, so grave ‘in

victory,

South Africa at. the Bazaar, as well as one from the home coun- t... l Our very grove difliculty is to provide filings to soil, and wel would be most. grateful if any of; your readers would send gifts for| a. stall. All donations of money.- food and clothing would be most; gratefully ncicnowledged~you know how difficult arc the present days for us here at home, and had it been possible to delay this work, we would have done so. But; to delay would mean the destruction of this noble House of God in g Very Short. time: we believe we can savo this historic Church if our brothers and sisters overseas will come to our aid with their gener- ous gifts.

I um. Sir, el.c.,

REV. R. T. HESELTON, M.A. The Vicarage,

5 West. End Terrace, Stockton-on-Tces.

ROADS AND ELRCTIONS

Sin-Allow me a little space in your valuable paper. in regards to our stretch of road from North Rusllco to Stanley Bridge, if one can honestly call it a road. The writer seldom has an itch to write to thc press, but he is so fed up