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Ibo lsinnd finnrdlnn rnbilnlslng Co. Editor nnd llnnnning Director, J. It. Burnett. Asuneinto Editor, Frnnis Wnilnor.

"Tho Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink“

CHARLOTTETOWN. MONDAY, FEB. 18, 1950

Mr. Cox's Appointment

Congratulations are due to the Hon. H. H. Cox on his well-merited appointment to the portfolio of Minister of Public Works and Highways. Mr. Cox is a veteran mem- ber of the Legislature, having held his seat for Second King's continuously since 1927. He has been known for a much longer per- iod as a highly successful business man, though from his youthful appearance one would say that he is still in his early‘ prime. Actually he was born in 1875, but some- where along the way, either at his beautiful home at Morell dr in his wide and diversi- fied travels, Mr. Cox seems to have discov- cred the Fountain of Youth. Not only are his faculties unimpaired, but in the sunshine of his genial disposition may be said to be putting forth fresher blossoms every year.

In the Legislature, which he has enliven- ed with his ready wit and humor, he is esteemed also for his sound common sense and practical knowledge. The debates at

times may lag and languish, the galleries _

d\vindle and members fall half asleep; but there is a change like an electric shock when Mr. Cox gets on his feet, and in ten minutes he has the wires vibrating in all directions. He gives hard knocks, and takes them with equal gusto. Probably the dullest four years he ever spent in the House were those in which there was no Opposition to argale with, when not infrequently he was seen to yawn prodigiously over the inter- minable exchange of platitudinous civilities between his party colleagues.

Mr.‘ Cox has been acting Minister of Pub- lic Works and Highways on previous occas- ions, and is well versed in all the duties of his portfolio. Apart from his o\vn unques- tioned popularity, it is also gratifying to note that this important office now goes to King's County, which has not always been adequately represented in the Cabinet, and which has been particularly handicapped in the matter of road improvements. "

Margarine Production

Production of margarine in Canada amounted to 7,996,000 pounds in January, s gain of about 1,000,000 over the same month last year. The production of 9,867,- 000 lbs. of creamery butter for the same period represents a gain of some 37,000 lbs. over last year. In other words the few margarine producers are already making almost as much of their product as the dairy industry did butter in recent years. One great difference, however, is the very strict Federal control over standards in butter production, standards that have no counter- part in the margarine industry, except in a few instances, such as amount of colour which is permitted. In matters of maximum moisture content margarine is free while butter has long been closely controlled. In spite of adverse conditions the farmer has not notably reduced his production. If the trend continues, stocks of butter will reach proportions rivalling that of dried eggs south of the Canadian border.

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IOIIE Bursaries

The Imperial Order, Daughters of the Empire, which today is celebrating the fif- tieth anniversary of its founding, among its other activities has raised a substantial fund to be expended for educational purposes as a Memorial to Canadian men and women who gave their lives in the defence of free- dom during the Second Warld War. Bursar- 10s in Canadian Universities for students of ‘nigh academic standing and promise form in integral part of this Memorial. Ten bur- saries are being offered in 1950--one for each Province—for which only the sons and daughters of deceased or permanently end seriously disabled men and women of the Services are eligible. ~

These bursaries are of the value of $1,600, $400 a year for four years, provid- ed that the holder passes the examination of each year in the spring, or, at the latest, in the autumn of the same year, and satis- fies a Provincial committee of selection of his or her continued fitness to retain the bursary. The selection committees each comprise three members of the Order who represent the Province on the National War Memorial Committee, and three education- ists chosen by these members. In the event of there being no suitable applicant for the bursary in any one Province, it will be ‘within the power of the National Education- nl Secretary to award the bursary to an applicant in another Province. Annotmce- msht. of the awards will be made early in September. ‘

These bursaries may be tenable with uni- vanity scholarships. Applicant blanks may \

be obtained by eligible candidates from Miss Jessie Fullerton, Charlottetown, acting I. O. D. E. educational secretary for the Province.

I. O. D. E. chapters now number 930 in Canada, with a membership of more than 32,000. The Order has taken a very active part in educational, welfare and patriotic activities. During World War I it expended $5,000,000 in its various projects, and $6,- 000,000 on services during World War II. All its work has been conducted on a vol- untary basis, and its record is a striking illustration of what can be achieved by zeal and devotion to a worthy cause.

EDIIURIAL NOTES

This is the time of year when flowers and vegetables look their best in the pages of a seed catalogue.

O O O This must be recognized as a poor ice- making winter and caution exercised ac- cordingly. It would not take very much of the hot sun to make any of the salt- water ice rotten and dangerous. O O I

Mr. Justice Vincent C. Macdonald, form- erly Dean Macdonald of the Dalhousie Law School, is truly “learned in the law.” The judicial bench of Nova Scotia will be the stronger for his elevation. O O O The Annapolis apple growers lost over a million dollars on last year's apple crop, and now they are agitating for a million dollar subsidy to tide them over next crop. Here is not a case of overcoming a surplus by planting less-apple trees are not raised in one year. O I O The railway coal shortage has affected the ice-business in so far as it concerns the dates of Barbara Ann's public appearances, which have to be delayed somewhat. But ticket-holders should benefit by the post- ponement in so far as improved weather con- ditions are concerned. O O O

We already are familiar with our white, pink and blue spuds, but we have yet to get acquainted with vari-coloured dyed var- iety which the Washington Government has ordered for the surplus they cannot get rid of at even a cent a 100 lbs. The rail freight rate seemingly makes 1c per 100 lbs. of po- tatoes expensive fertilizer or stock feed. O O O

Men are doing more of the family buy- ing than they did in the early 1940's. They are buying a larger percentage of women's goods, such asclothing, toilet articles, drap- eries and kitchen ware. They are being trusted to buy their own clothes more now than they were in 1940. Women have in- creased in importance as buyers of drugs and hardware. These conclusions are from report of a survey made by the University of Illinois Bureau of Economic and Busi- ness Research, conducted by Mr. Paul D. Converse.

O O O

When it comes to a “split personality" as an excuse by Klaus Fuchs, then it should apply all round-the rights and the wrongs of a subject to be left to the opinion and inclination of the individual concerned. On the other hand his confession in London that his oath of allegiance “meant nothing to the man whose mind was irrevocably wedded to Communist principles" does not come as a surprise but is a factor of Com- munist behaviour which is worth noting when considering the probable usefulness of an oath in such cases.

O O O

“The day when a salesman would be re- warded for the volume of sales he made irrespective of whether he overloaded a cus- tomer is past," says Mr. Henry H. Heimann, of the National Association of Credit Men. “The salesman’s problem today is to coun- sel and advise his customer and to help him be more successful. Sales management that insists upon an increased quota year after year without regard to the economic condi- tions in a man's territory or without con- sciousness of the customer's position has no place in today's economy."

I O O

Charles Maurice de Tellegrent-Perigord, French statesman, born this date 1754. He adopted the ecclesiastical career and receiv- ed rapid promotion; became Bishop of An- trlm in 1789, and representative of his dio- cese in States-general as ardent democrat and reformer. He helped to draft the new constitution and advocated confiscation of Church property. He accepted a mission to England the failure of which brou t him under Robespierreb suspicions and e was proscribed in 1792. He visited U. Sf A. be- fore the fall of the “Incorruptible" permit- ted him to return to France in 1795; at- tached himself to Barras, and became for-

eign minister under the Directory. He broke_with Napoleon, and dictated his deposition to theSenate, and in 1830

brought back Louis Philippe whom he sup- ported as s man, always ready to sacrifice

-an able diplomatist. '

principle to expediency, but patriotic and

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PUBLIC FORUM

This column is open to {he discussion by orrespondsnu of quest-ions o! interest. ‘flu Guardian does not ncuQQI- ll! m tho opinion oi correspondent-n. aiciiht/vvsavuwmi-qg __

FERRY SERVICES

Sir, - I notice in your issue 91 the 4th instant a letter by tho Northumberland Ferries, Ltd, mak. Ins it elm to the public what: u about to transpire regarding our terry service at. Caribou end wood 151311118. s service which has done much for our transportation to and from the Province, not only by lJl-oviding us with a. second port of entry but by being the means o; reducing our rates on trucks to and from the mainland. And 1 may say that this was only accomp. lished by the Board; o1 dude of the Province, when it was made a one-way route until recently, or to be exact, three days after our Federal election.

Now it appears the Maritime Transport Commission has recom- mended the turning over to the C. N. R. of the operation of this service, and the present Company has not been able to yet the co- operation of our Fede". Govern- ment. in adequate aids to naviga- tion and dredging to a depth sult- able for safe landing If they do not provide those very necessary things, there ls obviously only one conclusion ~to arrive at, and that r. that they either consider the route unsuitable or that they plan to freeze out the present operat- ors nnd tum it over to the CNZR. or some other body and eventually have it closed.

Now I can realize that with the present setup and lack of co-opere- tlon between the Company and the Government, something will have to be done in order to allow a con- tinuance of the service. But I can hardly see that the C.N.R. would be the logical ones to tum the service over to, for no doubt we could expect: an advance in rates to correspond with the general in- crease in rail rates from time to time, and we would not expect the management to worry should it: be considered impracticable to con- tinue. Should the Company con- sider turning over, this should only be done under certain condi- tions.

However, f fail to see why this Company, if given a fair amount of co-opel-ntion and support, with the amount of experience obtain- ed. could not continue to operate satisfactorily as the business is showing a continuous increase. Bul- should it be necessary to make a change, would it not he possible to have all ferrv services tinder an independent Commission that would see that the operators got a square deal as well as the travel- ling public? Or whv not turn all our ferry services over to the pow- ers that operate the canals and ‘hosts in Central Canada and make them free for all? Then our troubles would be solved and ev- ervone would be happy ever sf- ter!

I em, Sir, etc. SANFORD PHILLIPS O'Leary, P. 131.1’.

P.E.I. SENATE VACANCY

Sir, _ From reliable sources

hero and from usually well in- formed authorities in Ottawa word has been received that. your dis- tinguished Premier, the Hon. J. Walter Jones, is being seriously considered to succeed the Hon. John Ewan Sinclair. into Senator for Queens, P.E.I. ‘Coupled with that appointment is the name of the Honorable Aun- tin C. Taylor, Minister of Agricul- ture for New Brunswick for the pest l5 years as a successor to the late senator Arthur Bliss Copp of Sackvllle, New Brunswick.

Mr. Jones, as your readers will recall, was also Minister of Agric- ulture of his native Province and if the appointments go through they will have associated with them in the Senate another distinguish- ed Maritime Minister of Agricul- ture in the person of the Hon. John A. Macdonald, former Minister of Agriculture for Nove. Scotia - a. position he filled with great. dis- tinction for eleven years.

What s contribution that trio would make in the senate towards a better understanding of Mari- time egrlculture before the august body of the "Scarlet Chamber"! With those three distinguished ag- ricultalraiists on the Agricultural Committee of the Senate, such committee would certainly become more than a theorlstls paradise where the distinction between "practical agriculture" and "rich man's toy agriculture" is rarely understood -- excepting the view- points brought before it by the fonner Nova. Scotia _ Minister.

Approximately 40 per cent of the Canadian people are either direct- ly engaged in agriculture or de- pending on it. Yet, less than three per cent of the Csnsdinn Senators are representatives of agriculture. Agriculture is Canada's basic in- dustry _ was her first industry and without it Canada would per- ish. In spite of that fact. or prob- ably I should ssy dun to it. we have only 3 per cent form repre- sentation in our Canadian Ben- ate. Why‘)

Few Canadians have msds such n wide contribution to Oonmdisn agriculture as your distinwished Premier - that is more particu- lsriy true with respect to the branch of animal husbandry and the live stock industry In particu- lar. For many yssrs he hes been recognized as one of the lending livestock authorities. .

Rarely does one find n great cultural background associated so much with practical things, port- loularly with agriculture. The an Island people have in Mr. Jones just that greet. distinction. He is s university mun with n Master of Arts degree Ind silo a Muster in the Science of Agricul-

ture. His post-graduate work in the greet universities on tho contin-

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Political Potatoes (Saint John Telegraph-Journal There seems to be a great. and

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unwarranted hullabaloo in thel‘ United States just now about a small consignment of Canadian

potatoes which was recently sold in New Orleans. Senator Owen Brewster, of neighboring Maine, is in the middle of the teapot tem- pest. shouting demands that Presi- dent, Truman ban potato imports from Canada.

He professes extreme indignation

about the fact. that while the Can- adian potatocs were being landed at New Orlcarls, the U. S. was busy destroying a fil,O00,000-bushol surplus of home-grown potatoes, mostly from Maine. By inference. at least, he blames New Brunswick. Canada's chief potato exporting province, for the U. S. surplus. It. is to be strongly suspected tillai the good senator is simply trying to raise a smokescrcen to corlceai the reall reason for the situation which has developed on his side of the border. These are, first, that the minimum price guaranteed growers by Washington was too higlh, and, second. that U.S. glow- ers, especially those in Maine. have not played fail- with their government.

I l O To be eligible for the f-Ioor price, the growers were required by authorities to reduce ililcll- potato

acreage. They did this. but. they also planted their potatoa closer togfiher and piled on far more

than the normal amount of fertil- izer, with the result that they in- creased their ylcld per acre, defeat- ing the purpose of the average re- duction.

After reaping a, bumper harvest. only part of which they could sell to private dealers, the growers dumped tine balance in uhc lap of their governmcniF-at the floor price, of course.

Senator Brewster and his fellow spokesmen have not mentioned the stiff U. S. thrill! on potatoes from Canada. Any Cdllfldliflfl potatoes en- tering the United States now are subject to a. duty of seventy-five cents a bushel. Seventy-five cents s. buslhel is actually more than Canadian farmers are receiving for potatoes.

The senator and his colleagues likewise forget that. while Canad- ians sell potatoes to the United States, they buy potatoes from the United states. It is probnblethat in the lastthree orfour weeks early potatoes, from New Mexico. trans- ported north across the internat- ional boundary line, have consider- ably exceeded shipments of Canad- ian potatoes soul-h across the some

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on sale throughout Canada. In Montreal they are bringing tvretlty-flve cents for two pounds while old potatoes from New Brunswick go begging at. twenty- flve cents for ten pounds. If there is any complaining to be done

ent. such as Cornell, Col-umbin, and Wisconsin, just to name a few, places him as one of the foremost agriculture educators on the con- tlnent.

His practical agricultural and livestock work speaks for itself. For three years in succession the flol- stein animals which he bred at his celebrated Bunbury Holstein farm topped the greet Wisconsin snle- which is more or less like carrying coals to Newcastle.

RE. Island has never hnd s. practical agrioulturslist in the Senate. It should have one and I believe will have one now. Ths coming appointment should not be considered s political one; rather it should be sn agricultural and economic ‘one. and it. is in the writer's humble opinion thnt the Hon. John Waller Jones is the man to till it.

Even out hers in British Colum- bia. they pick Maritimsrs for the Senate. Out of the five present Senators t-hreo are Msl-ltlmers and the fourth is of Maritime par- ontags: King. Turgeon, Farris nnd MoKeen. Since the economy of Prince Edward Island is predhm. innteiy agricultural. your people should insist that nothing less than en outstanding ngrloulturnllst will satisfy the farm people on the present appointment.

With respect to the New Bruns- wick ppointment ii: is n ‘well known fsct that. the Hon. Austin U. Tflvlor has the refusal of it, and since very few Canadians refuse a Brnste appointment. we can about take it for granted that he will be the worthy successor to s very worth! men. the lste l-lon. Arthur

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Men, my brothers, men the wm-k. 61's, ever reaping something new:

That wllich they have done but earnest of the things iihat they shall do.

For I dipped into the future, far its human eye could see,

Snlw ilhe Vision of the wnrld. and all the wonder that would be;

Saw the heavens fill with oom- mcrce. argosics of magic

i sails. Pilots oi llhE purple twilight, drop- ping down with costly bales;

Hens-d flhe heavens till vrith shout- ing. and there gfxasilly dew

mm the nations’ airy navies grap- I

pling in the central blue;

Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-urinal rushing

\\'8.l‘i'l'l, With the standards of the peoples plunging through the thun-

der-storm;

Till the war-drum throiblaed no miller. and the batltieflags were furled

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about the international exchange of perntoes, it shoufd be done by Canadians. not Americans. ~

As far as the controversial mn- signmcnt of Canadian potatoes to New Orleans went. it amounted to a mere 10,000 bags of .100 pounds each. To make this sound won-so, U.S. potato lobbyist: described it not as 10.000 bags of potatoes, but. as 1000.000 pounds of pgflmtocsg This quantity. whether stated in begs or pounds. fades to in-l significance when compared toltilei U. S. potato surplus of 50,000,000 bushels or 3.000.000 pounds. And, certainly. it was in no way responsible for. that surplus.

If tihe U. S. government bonds ho the pressure of Mr. Brewster, then Canada's government should speedily reciprocate by shutting out s. Wide range of farm products from the United Stateowith new potatoes at. the head of the list.

Qco<Q Qo Old Charlottetown (And r. s. n luomzls?l§tmnnm

"Mr. MORRIS respectfully 1M1. mates to the inhabitants of Char- loite-Town and its vicinity, his intention to open an Academy, on Monday. the 7th October, in that building situated on the Corner of Queen's Square, in rear of the Court House, where you“; “n. tlcmen will be instructed with care and expedition in the fol- lowing branches of Education: — The Letln, French and English languages, grammatically; n true and rosular course of Arithmetic, ‘Algebra and Italian Book-keeping; Geometry, Trigonometry, Mop. smailml- Gfiuiiiflii. Theoreiilcslnnd Practical Surveying, Dialling and Nbvlsetlon. Geography, History, Mfllllung and the use of the Globes. with Astronomy.

"Mr. M. flatter: himseld, from icn years’ successful experience in his profesional capacity ss n teacher, that nothing shall he

Wimlinz on his part to merit the patronage of the public.

"Terms will be made known on. application at the above establish-l ment."

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A whole is larger than n needle. Who will dispute that‘! Yet. looking for a wbslo in tlbe wide wastes of the ocean il like looking for s needle in a hsystsck. Now a British firm proposu to change all that. The firm is making small radio transznittexvs which- can be attach- ed to the carcasses of whales a1- ter they hove been hsrpooned. The Whalers can then go on with their hunt and locate the killed whales later by means of the broadcast sigilals from the whales themselves. Somebody suggested. n few years ago, that golf balls should be equipped with radio so that they might be more easily located in the "rough." We are making progrem towards that end and the idea seems less fantastic then it did at first. —- Halifax Chronicle-Herald.

Ottawa — the city - seems to be having the same kind of word trouble that Peterborough has. It's nil in the name, the name for the burghers of the respective cities. 1s a person who lives in , Ottawa an Ottawnite, an Oi- tswsn, an Otliawaer, an Ottawal, or whet? The Ottawa Journal. hsl-idious in such matters, don not like Ottswan. We in Peter- borough are used to facing up to hard facts and dealing with them. -We have put into the civic test- ‘ lube such terms as Peterbor-

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oughlte. Pe-terburger, and Pom. borovian. The reaction has been negative. H. i... Mencken h“ wlaggishly suggested to us qf u" Examiner the unkind term Pm“, boor; that sizzled right out of u" test-tube. Our latest — and we ha, lieve etymologically sound - 0.1. faring is Peterburian. _ peteb borough Examiner.

Down in the Argentine, 1|] trains stopped Tuesday go.- m minutes in sympathy for Ev‘ Durate Peron, wife of the M. tion's dictator, who had her ap- pendix removed last week. The little lady has long been recogn- ized as really glamorous 5m“ Now, however, she has achieved some sort of immortality, he. cause she has been able lo 3p- proximate the aocomplishlnonu of Helen of Troy, who was con. sidered some doll herself. ll. w“ old Kit Marlowe, you remember, who said of Helen that hers was "the face that launched a lhous. and ships, and burnt the topics; towers of ilium." That's pretty good in any league, but we doubt that it outscores stopping | thousand trains. On the other hand, calm reflection reminds u] that stopping trains is no indies. tion of beauty either. John L. Lewis did it, and we haven‘; heard of a poet. who ever wrote a sonnet to his eyebrows. — Detmp,

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