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M11111!!! Dilly (Founded In 1881i. Authorized u Second Close Mull. Post Ofliee Department. Ottawa, ‘ President. hn A. Burnett; Vice-President. Was. It. 311mm: Been-Trees. a. as. Barnett; Editor and Men-slur Director. .1. u. Burnett; Associate Editor, Frank Walker.

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink."

CHABLOTTETOWN. TUESDAY, DEC. 23, 1947

Orders Of The llay

Oral questions in the House (questions ask.

"ed of Ministers before the "Orders of the Day"

are called) should be abolished, according to a recommendation made in the House of Com- mons. Odd also to ‘note the reasons given for this support, such as the following from the Fin- ancial Post: "Obviously Ministers can't and shouldn't be expected to carry in their heads ans- wer". to everything. Not only is time wasted in this practice, but it could be hoped that written questions would produce better questions and better answers.“ ‘

But MP‘s during "question hour" (the thing actually takes no more than 10 or I5 minutes) don't ask the sort of questions which are concerned with routine administration, or demand of Ministers that they "carry everything in their heads." Such questions, almost invari- ably, concern matters of immediate urgency, na- tional and international, about which the Gov- ernment is presumed to have knowledge, and re- garding which the House is entitled to author- itative information. To hold that in days like these, when almost every hour brings develop- ments of moment, members should be denied the right to seek such enlightenment, or compelled to put their-questions in writing (a delay of a day ta begin with) and wait weeks or days for a reply, is to deny an important function of Par- liament.

Says the Ottawa Journal: In the British House "question hour" is among the most valued of its proceedings. During that hour Ministers are not merely questioned; they are literally subjected to a running fire- of cross-examination. Over here a question is asked, a Minister re- plies, and that is the end of it. At Westminster, when an answer is given, somebody promptly rises to ask a further question "arising from the answer.“ The Cabinet, in other words, is treat- ed as Parliament's servant, not its master.

Yuletide Fashion ilote

With comparatively little hope of new and luxurious clothes for Christmas, women in Brit- ain, being feminine and therefore ingenious, are doing the next best thing. They are concentrat- lng on novel and surprising hair-do's which, while attracting the maximum of attention within and without the family circle, take the minimum at time to attend to. In other words, at parties, or restaurants, and at theatres this Christmas there are likely to be worn hood-dresses which will be 20th century rivals to the kind of adornment about which Fanny Burney wrote in the lBth cen- tury. Onirwoman "gave a hint of the new fash- ions recently when she turned up at a wedding with her hair brushed up ta the top of her head into a topknot of curls which were then tied round with a scarf, the ends of which hung down her back. One or two of the leading hairdressers who specialize in inventing surprising hair styles are using plaits of different coloured nylon which are intertwined into the natural hair, and are introducing hair ornaments of the type which suggests 18th century fashions. One young man is going further; he will invent a_new hair style for his client and build her a hat on the spot (and on her head) to wear with it.

Butter higher, cheese Lower

Production of creamery butter rose 86 per cent in November to 15,051,000 pounds as com-

pared with 13,859,000 in the same mont last year according to the Dominion Bureau Sta- tistics. Total for the 11 months ending ovem-

ber was 279,820,000 pounds compared with 261,- 113,000 in the same period of 1946, an increase of 7.2 per cent.

Cheddar cheese production showed a further decrease in November, amounting to 3,411,000 pounds compared with 5,717,000 a year ago, a decline of 40.3 per cent. Cumulative out- put for the 11 months ending November was 114,058,000 pounds compared with 141,046,000 in the like period of 1946, a decline of 19.1 per cent.

Output of concentrated milk products ad- vanced in November to 17,068,000 pounds from last year's total of 14,911,000, bringing the cumulative figure to 320,824,000 pounds as against 287,753,000 in the like period of 1946. Respective gains were 14.5 and 11.5 per cent.

Oarols lira Born 1750, Charles Wesley

Somewhere about

‘wrote the words of the popular Christmas hymn:

Hark, the Herald Angels Sing. More than a hundred years later, the words were set, by a principal of the Guildhall School of Music, Lon- aon, to music written by Felix Mendelssohn for quite another purpose. Wesley died in 1788, and Mendelssohn in 1847; the words and music of the two were sung together for the first time on Christmas Day, 1856.

Christmas Awake was written, not as a hymn but as a Christmas greeting. The words are the work of Dr. John Byron, of Salfard, near Manchester, England, whose daughter, In I745, asked him to compose some verses which she might copy and sand to her friends.

Five years after Dr. Byron's words were writ- ten, they were setrto music by the organist of Manchester parish church and, sung outside the author's window. Dr. Byron's home, dating from tlieldtheen , isnovr public propsrmnnd n ltIlhU; their fiftyivaicss sang Christmas Awake than, .et midnight en Christmas Eve two

years ago, In honour of the 200th anniversary of the hymn. _

Unfamiliar to most Canadian readers is the name of Nahum Tate, who was at one time Poet Laureate of England; but almost everyone has. sung, or heard sung, his Christmas hymn, While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night. This seventeenth century poet aspired to be a playwright but met with no success and died in poverty and obscurity.

A manuscript copy of Bishop Heller's Bright- est and Best of the Sons of the Morning, written in an exercise book, offers an amusing iIlustra-j tion of the fact, that familiarity breeds contempt. The wards of the hymn, presumably in the Bis- hop's hand, are beautifully written. The backs of the pages are scribbled over with prob- lems in geometry, supposedly by the Bishop's children.

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— EDITORIAL NOTES _.

The Christmas rush should pretty well clear the shelves of merchandise. i i ‘I I The Russians, it seems, are not pessimistic about the possibility of reaching agreement at a future meeting of foreign ministers. Why should they be pessimistic? They don't have to negotiate with Russia. t I i‘ I . The darkest day, yesterday, being safely over, we may resume our optimism in view of the sun's gradual return. Yesterday the length of the day was 8 hours, 24 minutes. Today we gain a minute, viz., 8 hours, 25 minutes. t I I I

In accepting the verdict of the court of inquiry that the commanding officer of the Mic- ~nac was at fault it is well to bear in mind that the events which the members of the court have been considering for five months took place with- in a matter o-f minutes. I I I I Certainly the Province has reason to be grateful to Federal Members for the stiff fight they have put up for reefer cars. It is signifi- cant that the West had no occasion to do so, to bring their beef to Halifax for export; the Government making the Island play second fid- dle to them in regard to our export of potatoes to a dollar area. I I I

‘The Financial Post argues that a 25 per cent tax at the manufacturer or wholesale level will only amount to about 10 per cent of the price paid by the consumer. The Post apparently does not expect distributors to figure their mark up on the whole cost including tax but merely pass on thb goods at their usual price plus the amount

of the tax. I I I

For the great majority of Islanders their Christmas, in a world .of scarcity andlturmoil, Robbie Burns’ Selkirk Grace is singularly ap- propriate:

Some hoe meat, and canna eat,

' And some wad eat that want it,

But we haa meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord b: thankit.

Samuel Smiles, British homilectical writer and social reformer, born this date 1812; was the first popular author of books for boys and those having ambition to get out of the common rut; became known throughout the English speaking world, and by translations, abroad for his series of books, of which Self-Help had the most_ ex- tensive circulation: "The great and good do not die even in this world. Embalmed ill books, their spirits walk abroad. The‘ book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still list-

ens." I i I I

An American young man spent eight days in a box car without food or water, and suffer- ed mostly from the want of the latter. An Indian told a Guardian representative Saturday that both he and his grandfather used ‘to ‘spend twelve sleepless days and nights fasting in the open studying the sky and stars in order to pre- dict the weather for the farmers for the ensuing twelve months. He said they were none the worse, but rather the better physically for the experience, though financially it did not pay them, their only reward being possibly a sack of potatoes in the fall and a fowl at Christmas.

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In Camden, N. .l., they have a school prin- cipel, Mr. Donald Barker, who sticks to his prin- ciples. He objects to girls wearing slacks, and sent one home to gct "properly" dressed. Her parents objected and kept her from school. Mr. Barker, principal at the I,300-pupil school for the last 14 years, says it is his duty to sec that stu- dents are "appropriately dressed." The contro- versy started a week ago when a fourteen-year- old girl was sent home to "get a skirt." Another pupil appeared at the school in slacks next day, but borrowed a dress from a teacher and made a quick change. The first girl's father refused to alloy his daughter to return_to school where the principal has ruled she would be kept apart from her classmates if she continued to wear slacks. In the House of Commons Mr. F. D. Shaw, Social Credit member for Red Deer accused Mr. Tucker, Liberal M. P., for Rosthern, of being guilty of "pure and sheer political dishonesty," ir. attributing socialist doctrines to the Social Crediters as well as the C. C. F. Agriculture Minister Gardiner look exception to this langu- age as unparliamentary. Graciously, Mr. Show agreed to withdraw the objectionable word. But since the sentence would not read right if the word were omitted, he substituted for "dishon- esty" the word "skulduggery." It is rather dif- ficult to understand why this satisfied Mr. Gardiner, Mr. Speaker and Mr. Tucker. The best available dictionary does not list the word "skull- duggery" dished out in Hansard. It does/how- ever, contoin "skulduddery," "Schulduggery," and "sculduddery"—all apparently synonymous.

THE GUARDIAN.

Trolls your children 1n the we! they should go. and later an they wlll tell you where you made your mistake. —Quebec Chronicle-Tele-

graph.

Light on this modern world so now belng provided by an all lamp over the outside doorway or a. well-known cigarette and soft. drink shop on Rublclge Street. Next we expect to see horse-drawn car- riages. - Peierborough Examiner.

A medical aolumnlat writes. "Neglect your health year after

morning to find that it has left. you." 1f 1t has left you complete- ly, of course, you won't even wake up. _ Peterborough Examiner.

-R.rsln, Inch has been formed as a non-profit. corporation to gel; more rain for CBlIfOmIB/S Santa Clara county. Directors o1 the cor- poration propose to use the same rain-making method used else- where "seeding" of clouds with dry ice, and wlll send a commercial pilot. up whenever they see “a. like- ly looking cloud." Officials o! the association anticipate no legal dif- ficulties from other urees jealous of their rainfall since clouds which float. over the Santa Clara valley without. dropping their moisture usually move out. to sea. - Engin- eering News-Record.

One at the big grain companies which gathers precipitation data from a great. many points month by month tells us that the present. moisture condition ls 141 percent. of normal for the moisture-conserv- ing months of August. September Ind October for the three Prairie Provinces. The average 1n Alberto ls 151 percenL, ln Saskatchewan 139 and 1n Manitoba. 121. In other words we are starting out. the wining year with nearly one and one-halt times as much stored moisture 1n the crop lands as nar- mal. Here 1n South Alberta we had a very wet August, we had over 30 inches of snow 1n Sep- tember giving us about. double the average September precipitation, and are getting more than us- ual snow lrr the pro-Christmas per- 10d. Reserve moisture does not n.1- waye make a big crop, but 1t. goes s long way towards guaranteeing at. least’. an average crop. - Letti- brldge Herald.

Perhaps the most important ef- fect. of the Second Great. War has been to make manufacturing the largest. single employer of labor 1n Canada, instead of agriculture comments The Budbury Star. An- cordlng to the census of 1941. some 25.8 percent of all fully employed were working 1n agriculture, as compared with 23.1 P61119111 111 manufacturing. By May 81. 1941. the percentage of those engaged 1n manufacturing had increased to 27.5, w-hlle that. of those 1n agri- culture lrnd decreased to 24.1. Fur- ther- significance ls given to these figures when 1t. 1s remembered trrai: Cenadab population has increased substantially in the last; few years. From 1941 ha 1944. there was a large exodus from rural 111985 W urban communities, especially to those 1n which there were indus- tries engaged 1n war work. Most of those from rural districts who moved tn the cities during the war have remained, and, 1n addition, large numbers of those who came from rural communities to join the armed forces have, after being dis- charged, remained 1n the cities.

The Chancellor of the Univer- glty of Chicago, declares that when atomic energy ls fully ap- plied to peacetime uses, it W111 make man llve as long as Metlru- selalr. It may be recalled that Methuselah was a son of Enocn and the grandfather of Noah. He 1s said w have lived see sem- 1'- 15 gertalnly a somewhat startling prospect. Three score years and ten will became nine hundred. 111193 score and nlne. Insurance sale;- heve to pursue 1.11911‘

men now r clients through the years. Pherl they wlll lurve to pursue them

down the centuries. And think of the college reunions when the graduates of ooo veins <5 0W1! beck to the campus. The plac wlll look a blt. different. after ooo venis- B111 the memories wlll be thcrl’. F01 tire racorrieur the opportunities for telling tall tales wlll be taller than ever. But. the difficulties 1n find- ing an audience will probably bc M gréat. as now. 1t 1s a1; a rather riir;-,-~yii_rg prospect. Well still sci.- tle for would three scar-c and ten. The briefer span wlll both sharp- en our pleasures and dlnrlnlslr our sorrows. Lei. 1t. be as it. has been. _Monl,rea1 Gazette.

The problem of bringing dawn our smoking to the level enlfllned by the ex-Chancellor (and no doubt. by his successor) ls'st.lll with us. 1f tooJeiw smoker-s have ryei: solv- ed lt it may be (as a clerical cor- respondent suggests) that we are counting too much on wlIl-posvcl‘, thug emphasizing the idea of a weary strugglefwhy not (he asks) make o. game of it. with slink >1 cards and a notebook and the simplest of rules? The Preliminar- for involve writing 1n the notebook a list ot dolly smoking orders _- one for each card 1n the pack. There can be plenty or variety and wide scape for the imagination. For instance: King of BPfldfl-NB smoke till noon Ace of Hearts- One smoke aller- ench meal. Ten of clubs-Na smoking today. Two of Diamonds-No smoke till ll DJ"- Queen of Hearts-As much s8 you like. The morning din into the peck to learn your fat-e for the any 1e the one simple rule bv which the game has to be played.

They are defined as follows: obscenity, grossnosss mean, contemptible actions, conspiracy or plot-

ting; often used in a political sense." Personally, one would take ”dislionestg" , '

The result. It ls claimed ll is real sense of rellet and the enloyment of "a flutter which s11 sportsmen 1ave."— Manchester Guardian.

year and you will vivake up some‘

CHARLOTTETOWN‘

Ocean Travel (Sydney Post-Record)

Although trans-Atlantic travel In 1947 ls still below pro-war- records. it. nevertheless is showing a. marked increase over 1946, and l! tire number of alr passengers he added to those travelling by ocean slew-Whips mire total is almost as 111Gb as that of 1937. and ls not for "b01011" that of 1938,

P19111101“? figures published try 111% Civil Aeronautics Board, and the principal steamship compamlgg of the United States. indicate a ccirnibined total ln 1947 01' apprgxj- motcly 625.000 sea-alr- travellers be- tween Arrnerlcan and Canadian Doris on thc one hand, and Europe, 1119111111118 the Mediterranean, on the other hand. 'I‘hese statistics are for the entire year up b0 lrlre end of,’ November.

_'I‘hr*y show that. approximately 4b0,000 persons will be found to have travelled by shfp and nbqut 150-000 by plane during this year.

The sea-borne total shows a drorp 01’ 811T10St 200,000 persons frcm the 653,769 carried by ship to and from Euro-neon ports alone m the rm normal travel year of 1937. The 1947 figures ooimparo favorably, however. with the 1938 total of 487,.‘ 540 trans-Atlantic sen - travellers. But 1t ls to be remembered that traffic was sharply restricted in] 1938 by trlre rising menace or w." m Europe.

Since the close of trlre war, the competition of air lines ha; mad; heavy inroads lnta sea-borne frag. fie. But the ahtet reason for the re. rlucilorr lrr sen travel rs no; 8mm, g:»8$easo much to this competition tonnagtser ous lack of passenger

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Poia toes For Livestock

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Tl“ N" JBYBBY cattle raises who 1s reported to have proved, b? adding salt and u classes pre- 1-“1-"11011. that potatoes can p; lmade as palatable and as fatten-i 111g go steers as corn, may have aun the answer w more than one at the United States’ national l Pmblenl-l. observes The Boston‘ Post. The newspaper points out

"Ce? 1911113’. 11' his idea. works out as l" "W 11101111595. he wlll not only l 5150K,“ the way to ease the grain‘ 51° 8o and the meat. crlsls but

5 potato surplus as well,

tllio would be lronfcal L: M3111“ 17° a Efvwers should supplant mid-west corn ralsers as the 511p. pliers of the best diet for the no.- tlonb herds." ,

New Brunswick tam and livestock breedggs undblrlblgdf 1y will follow the prugrgg 0g m, New Jersey experiment with inter-- est. Farmers In this province for 86119151113115 D051 have fed some c1111 Pvt-Hines raw or- cooked, to plgs and other livestock. The Dominion ' Erpcrlmentar Farm at Fredericton has conducted extensive tests with the feeding of potatoes to p135 and at least one prominent cattld ex- porter 1n the Woodstock area be. are! the war found it was possible

ted substantial quantities of potatoes to steers. He learned, how- ever, that it was something that, had b0 be done carefully, that the cattle would eat only about ha]; the quantity or potatoes that they l??? °Y 1111111115. for instance. and

"1 the P011110 proportion of their | diet could not be increased too quickly.

If NEW England breeders have

10111111 o way to utlllze a. high per- centage of potatoes to the benefit of their livestock, then New Bruns- wick will be looking forward tn making similar large-scale expert. ments. The plan might be an rtmswer to our remoteness from he western feed-grain producing 51911-5» 111131111 1161p to stimulate our bee‘ "me 11111115113’. might. provide gnother valuable alternative use or our potato surplus 1n year-g or 116?“? harvests and reduce the possliblllty of disastrous losses to our growers.

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I DECEMBER

High In the hills baniused Docum- ber wakes

And a delightful inventory takes —

(This 1r Narcissus seeing in 11m. self

The tiring he loves). No longer skin of delf - Serenely smile. for dark storm- clouds. wfnd-‘wtrlpped. Sweep the rune-crowned summit, rough-edged and ripped: Stark trees that moaned beneath untroubled skles