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rue BitMiLtITlEiunli autumn

Morning ill-ll; (Founded in ill?)

Russian of any importance expresses any opin. 30ft. thlt i! the opinion of Russia, and Russians simnlv do not understand that, in our countries,

ltfr. Tim Buck, or Mr. \Villkie, or Pfqfggsgr

laski may not be speaking for the nation.

President: ueut. Col. W. Chester S. Mel-Ire Vice-President: J. IL ell, IJ-l. Becretary; ueut. Uni. ti. A. Maoltnnnn, 9&0. lot-or tsnn Memtgmg Director: J. it. llurnett, ifJ-l. Associate tsottms: rrttnlt Walker and Melt. tan a Burnett, it.t;.N.VJL 10st Active Sen/toe)

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker Ti; the Weakest Ink."

FRIDAY, JANUARY 2B. 1954

Premier Godboul’: Opinion

Premier Uodhotit of Quebec, like his federal leader ilriur: .\illllSlCl' Mackenzie lung, is fac- ing an election in the nut luu distant future. He ibis issued a statement on this stibject which is

itighly significcnt. liere it is:

"/1 i,» only 11m- I/ml I/lt‘ Utuniuiuu (Iflrrrtt- fttcnl Jll<|!:lri' lmrit‘ It) fall's rur/itutriliil/Iy for its‘ arl: and‘ rmiztl in I/zu fmlr/inrttl of t/tc [loop/tr

11mm fin-m. [lat i/' our rirrliuu Jlttlff/tl romt." firrl. if l.\' u-t-m” 11ml tfll rffurl trill In‘ unit/n In lmlt/ l.'.\' /'..r/*|1:t.rililt' In!‘ Xifllli‘ 1iircu;i.‘rnl: t/trzl (lriulzttitctl In Fri] 1.! hello/fr." .

.\lr. la-rih-ui i~ll1 \.--.\ rliiialrous. llc seems ltt i;- zzr. ' lllllllti'<l imn the water [lisp tln- t t mistake ltim for .\lr. King and dccm . him ilruwn. .\s" a testi- monial to his f-di ‘ leader‘. popul: ‘ity in Que- bcc, this re: lIll-(‘s the cake? .\ud this comiw- till top of an clouient address bv Sena- tor \\ shart R1,?» ‘hr-u, lilz‘ new ]ll'£‘>l4il‘l'li of tl.c X i' ‘d lxh-c-ral lk-tit-iuitiuii. in which .\Ir. Ring is reft‘ r i" e d to as" “our of lite must ‘ l-lt“ figll 1'95 lliiit tiemocracy has ' l." ll lllitll, forsuutli, who hv hs t|l1lii ttihns might turn out r.» lll;l~'.t‘l architect of the future." ' liinl. ml that; and ihcn think of the base in; tinurie of Premier Liudhotit in harn- iug nit "dtscoutcnts that orizitritr in lied- eral fictions" as Twin: of titorc consequence poifliiilll". l

Bracken Speech lndorsed

The Xlontreal fltar turns aside from its rt " tiiiinti"): tiailv editorial latxdaticni of the lung

(lmerimztsut to iudorst- \crv siroitgl)" a slate- Went hv .\lr, Ring-Z most feared oppon- ent. lli-n. _lhlin ilrarlren. The i"l't)gl'CS>l\'C Con-

§4'.l'\ilil\(: leader lltltlfCisCti a convention 0f milk producers in terms which. the .<tar suggests. illicit: well he applied to agriculture generally. It agrees that no f)[l'l(‘i' industry has stiffered

“ml-r- in poacctimr; front govcrnmeit laissez fairr, plus a dcvrttiou tn “rugged individual- ism" on the p;-.:‘t of znirictilttirisls themselves

which has made concerted ziction in almost any direction additionally difficult. lt goes on to sai. :

"The lll'lrtlnl‘llfill of the tiatioital income which this essential illiiil5ll'_\' has been receiving is a favorite srroiiud for statistical disputation. .\lr. Bracken l ts it at a itiaxiznum of 1.6 per cent. But if thi. figure he doubled it remainsadiscottr- agingly low return on the immense investment in the industry and for the exacting conditions which govern production on the fai‘ni. How much more difficult such production must have been recently can be imagined since, according to F. 5. Grisdale. a national expert. the Cau- adian farmer has had 25 pcr cent less labour than lie had in the first year of the war to meet the insistent and increasing demands 0f each successive year. So handicapped, they did. last year; push production of primary I dticts tip to a vahic of $I,.’O<>,DO0,000, or one-third above the previous year.

“.\lr. lraclcitu iloes well tn point to one In‘ two of the principal itandiczips now iu the way of greater prosperity for the farmer. One 1S the sort of farming that depletes the fertility 0f the soil. The blessed word "inexhaustible", as ap- plied to the natural irealth of Canada, has much to ztusiver for in several directions. Another and perhaps" more formidable obstacle to the as- sured well-being of agriculture is what Nir. llrackeu well describe-s as the iudustr_v‘s lack oi lk-rt-drmq; tut) ryrcar ilcpz-nrleucr upon the world market for its ])1‘1=_~|1L‘1‘ii_\'. Certainly the dairy branch of agriculture, the most profitable hue, might hope for an increased and more depend- able return fiuiti a wider" development of til‘; home uxzxrhct. a matter. moreover. not uncon- nected with the natiraial hcallit, as Mr. flfatlvcli was <|tii."’.< to lmllll will. Finally, agricultitre must he more surl- of grea -r permanency m its mar- ket than it has hitherto c-uittycil. since farm pro-

duction in its most profitable brztizihcs is a n-vattqp M" ,.,,,,,.v,flr;,,;,-¢|, dow- drveloptiterit." llussirfs Ulfcr Russian offer of the cur/l... Line to the Poles

is a ierv atsttilc pit< , of ilipluinacy, says Letter Review. l‘, shows the Russitttls as tiot threaten- ing the indepeudcitce of Poland and as ltrcpttretl to recognize that lite Poles have a case. These Letters hztvt- ]\t'hl(.\l(‘ti lhat Polish interests tnttst. be protected, as far as it is possible for us to protect llictn. lt has‘ bra-u stressed that the tiiethotl of pzvftut-iioii will ltavc to be bv the cs- tablishnicnt of cnnlitlcuce and good \\‘ill between Russia and the \\"'<-stcrn dcmorracies. There are Polish claims tn territories liast of the (Iurzou Line \\'illCil czzitnnt Lc set aside without cxam- ination, and there arc Russian claims to the Curzon Line which are (leserving of study. That is, the Cur/rm Line does not need to be taken as automatically correct. What does give hope for the future is that the Russians have started to discuss" the tmestiou, and that Britain and the U. . are prepared to negotiate. "Pravda" official organ of the Russian Com- rnulst Party, has qouc after Mr. Willkir very severely. for vcntnriuz to suggest that Russia should not seize the llaltic States. Poland and Bessarabia. There is a grave danger in tno much public discussion of these delicate problems in the lVcsterit democracies. Russia i5 not a democracy, but a highly integrated autocracv, tvltere there is itothitiq in the way of public op- inioti. as we understand that. “Puhlic" opin- ion is fnriried by the inside group 0f rhc (fr-rm. munist Party. under liarshal Stalin's pcfgonfrl direction. and is then issued in the press, If g

- EDITORIAL NOTES .-

No citizen has so far officially announced his candidature for the City Council. Why this diffidence on the eve of the election?

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The contribution of some $34,000 by the Wat. er Commissioners enabled the City Council to make its good fltiitllClil SElOWiIIR for last year.

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The Iifanitoba Liquor Control Commission had a net profit of $3,743,530 from liquor sales in the fiscal year ending April 3o, i943, a new ltigli. The 1943 profit represented an increase ot $000.39! compared with I942 when the net profits totalled $2,842,138. Sales from head of- fice stores and branches totalled $7,399,629, while sales of beer to hotels and from brewery cash-antl-tarry" offices amounted to $44,583.29.

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Ifertilizzci‘ distributors are required to sec their regular farmer customers are stipplicd with fertilizers before new accounts are accepted un- der a directive issued by Mr. G. 5'. l‘eart. prices

ltoartl fertilizer acltttittietrator. The board said the ac '_‘-='l was (‘TCSIQIWKT to give farmers gfczttci‘ assurance that tliev will receive their

fair share of fertilizers to be available in 19.1.].

.\lr._ l’eart said farmers should place orders for

fertilizer not later than .\larrh i5. ' i I I I

.\iiss Lesley Lynn Pickett. Pr..\., BC]... f Saint john, has been appointed superintendent of the inter-Provincial Home for Young \Votucn at Coverrlale, Nit. Miss Pickett expects to c-utci‘ on her new duties about thc middle of February and has teitdercd her resignation from bet‘ prcscnt position of tuoiicc matron in Saint _lolm. The announcement of Miss Pickctfs new" appointment was made by Ur. Stanley ll. Prince. ilalifarc, president of the Intcr-Proviiicia‘. Home lloard. She succeeds .\liss Barbara (r. ‘.\‘:ill<ci" who has retired after t5 years‘ service

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llenri hiurger, French author, died this date, i861; after failing with a poem, "Via Dolorosa", he wrote the novel for which he is still famous", “Scenes dc la Vic dc lioheme". translated in ' as “ilohemiaus of the Latin Quartet”,

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esciiptivc 0f the privations and vicissitudes of his owti student life in Paris; his other works include "Claude et Marianne", a coitiedy "i.e Bonhoitiuie jadis", "i135 Yacances dc Camille‘, and a voltime of verse, "Les .\‘uits d'llivct"'. of which Andrew Lang translated some in I872 un- der the title "Ballads and ‘lfivlics of Uld France.”

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The Victoria County Council, New Bruns- wick. havc passed a resolution requesting the PYOYTIICiBT department of agriculture to take ac- tion towards‘ having a federal embargo on ex- portation of seed potatoes removed. i-loldiug of these potatoes was detrimental to growers, stab ed titc resolution. .\lr. ll. ll. Hatfield, .\l. l"., l-lnrtlatid. spoke to the council on various phases of agriculture. and the fertilizer and wood situa- tion He assured the board he would do all in bis power on the agriculture (questions when Parliament opens at Ottawa.

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“Prices and cost of living are going to come down after the ending of war conditions," says .\Ir. “iilliam .\I. Robins, president of General Foods Sales C0,, Boston.

be price increases." he adds. “but soon after there is a fairly free flow of raw materials and most wartime restrictions can be lifted, prices and cost of living will begin to trend downward. A basic aim in competitive business is to get large volume, and this is clone by a combina- tion of increasing cfficiencv. improving quai- ity, and lowering prices. The war has only temporarily upset this trend."

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‘the Mackenzie King administration consists of at least 16 cabinet ministers, twice as ntanv as are necessary to talze cure of the portfolios at Washington and considerably more than in Loti-

dou, btit the number of rueu iu a cabi- net does itot count for so iuuch as the fact that every c a b i ll c t itiiitistei‘ repres-

ents another government department, and departmental officials have an irresistible tirgc to expand their personnel and impress parlia- ment atid people with the importance 0t those departments. And all that runs into sizeablc stints" or itioney. remarks the Ottawa correspondent of the .\lotiti‘eal Gazette. More and more per- sons are being added to the staffs of thc existing departments. Some of it may be defended on the grotutd that the business of government is extinnrliug. chiefly brcausc of \var's demands. lJut it is hard to reconcile the steady iticrcase in so-callcd non-war expenditure with the speeches of the Finance Minister and some of his coi- lcagncs who periodically urge the taxpayers and bond buyers to save money, tn econnmisc wher- cvci‘ imssible so that they mav be able to liuv more bonds after paying more taxes ' i‘ ' ' i I I I

Occasionally reference is made. says Saint john 'i'elegraph-]otirnal, to the gathering and sale of herring scales by fishermen of southern New ilruttswick, particularly in the Charlotte County fishing districts, from which scales are exported to the United States throughout the greater part of the year. The total value to the fishermen of Deer Island, including freighting ntoncy, exported to Maine pcarl essence plants in i943 amounted to approximately $70,000 American funds or $77,000 in Canadian tnoney. The method of gathering the lterring scales con- sists of the use of small boats capable of hold- ing from two to three hozsltcatls of ltcrring, fit- ted with slatted floors. When the fish are dip- ped into these boats from the seines at the weirs and are more or lcss stispentlerl in water the scales are loosened from the bodies of the fish as the men work among them and they fall iuto the bottom of the boats beneath the floors. After the fish are scooped aboard the large sardine boats which transport the herring t0 the canncries. the scales are dipped out from “w-ells" in the smaller craft into wire-screened containers and after the ivater has drained off of them they are placed in baskets furnished hy the scale buyers and thcn transported by the

b93538 l0 i! "Elk factories."

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Notes By The Way

An astronomer says that the moon sways lentil! on its orbit. Probably only when 1t is Peter-bore’ Examiner.

Mn. G. I‘. Fisher, the wife o! the Bishop of London, broke an agg- old custom the other day by being the firs woman ever to speak m St. Pan ’s Cathedral. —Fndericton Gleaner.

When e former purchases a ,enw hots. tn effect. gambling that one annual against his entire herd, say veterinary authorities, unlgss bEfOfQ being weed with the other unl- maLs t "cow has been tested by a veterinarian to ensure that u; ts not a disease carrier. -Sourt.s. Man. Plalndealei-

Couldn't Mr. McNult and Mr- Morgenthau get. together on the business of ntan-ltours wasted in figuring out the income-tax 1n- structions? - Christian Science Monitor. '

Members of the railroad broth- erhoods, it ls good to hear, tn- cluda 2.3 percent who, perhaps for profoundly pat-latte rsazans. do no‘. believe in a strike just nciv. — Washington Star.

Definition -‘su inttlu consultant —-A professional man who chiiwc". You more to run your own bit-sin. s than you could make if you ran it. the Will! You want to run i‘, instead of the way he told _vc'.i -Lctidon Free Press.

Life Isn't \"‘1'_\' lair in us men. when we are barn our mcthriri: got the compliments and the fhvcors. when we are married our brlfcs get the picsents. When we die mu‘ widow get the insurance~ 'l."he Canadian Doctor".

Goebbels is reported tn ltave all

Berlin guessing about a shartuiv and a question mat-k, Posters have appeared overnight on the

ruins of bombed buildings and on the front page of newspaper; show- ing only tlte rhadotv of a man in n slouch hat, with a largo qua; ‘on mark. Peflmps it ts meant to tvaisn of coming events. -_ Hamilton Spcctatnr.

Premier Toju of Japan hits or- dered the compilation cf a n2.

efficial histoigv oi the Jrlll€ll(.‘\(\ c-m- piie. The project. will begin in 19M and is expected to take l5 years to complete. We (Isn't kuaiv but the last

few chapters cf tb. xorl; ought to b; nary for the JI!',.1"<(‘ The military historians will n e it for

thcrn --Bu.ffa1o CGtl1‘ie1'-L‘>.prCSS.

The New rJr-EF-m is in the throes of a terrific bocrn. D

of stander: taro i\‘.lll‘l iitctfin their arches in lltc "tampons. Seats sic-west to 2o rra luv dollar- fcus. And while it‘s all very pleas- ant to sit‘ where yeti can see the s’ar‘s totisilz. lots 01' determined bit’ sucz"‘"r.< are eoitzg to wish they'd r\“?Cd tythe enllery, oi‘ cvcn sL’ rd at hcritc. come treat rnrinn vrlieit they mrcl up with the taxes and surtaxes cf 191.4 - L-iiZSTf-l’.

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Army and navy litslznla. tons. cltevrons. even roari-

ths most unexpected p12. . “fast- ened. for instance. not on soldiers‘ or sailors‘ unifcrnts but on civl"1n <. siveethear

and friends of the vice mrin whose insignia they so proud-iv

“it is trite that if‘ price ceilings were abolished today tlici‘c would .

weer are unaware that they are violating any law. - Minneapolis Star-Journal

A lifelong observer nf the politic a1 scene in the province of Quebec writes that alarm "ovoi- ttiefipoari‘ enl; strength of the Bloc Populalre reminds hin.- of the farmer who undertook to supply a summer hotel with a hundred frogs a clay from a marsh on fits farm. Th» menus listing frogs‘ le-‘zs were t; ready printed v/lten the farmer turned u" with his first day's catch. It consisted of four frorr. H1: ex- cuse for default of his cQJtrae-t was that in making his estlna-ate of sun- plies he had been misled by the nclse- —Exchange

There is no guarantee that when peace 1s restored and normal erm- ditions return the decline in the renmductlon rate of the British people will no: h» resumed. If ll; were to fall to say. 60 per cent, Britain would be fecerl with the prcspect of seelnw her population cut 1n half hv the end of this century. In that event she simnlv could not afford to enentu-aize any emigration of her voum nconla if slur aspired to retain any serious political influence. and economic power in the world. So it. may be o case of now of never if Canaan wants to sectirc a frc:h stream cf healthy British tmnlrrants. Globe and Mail tTorontol.

lllarrlnitrc In the Ifnlirfl Sires durin" 194R "“‘l "*‘”l ""0" 1.723.- 000 a drop of 75.00’) frrm the peak number reached tho year before. This riron in Ill'l‘l‘lhf‘7‘ - the first since 193B - will probably irsher tn a period of rapidly declining mar- rlatze rates tiutll the war ls over. Tito decline. which repeats the r,~<_ perlencc of the first world, war, w s bound f0 eoinéz‘ tlfe intin "mar: rlartes tn anticipation of active military service in the preceding pears have dried up.a lame part. of the well of marrlngeabfe folk Fur- thermore, many hundreds of ‘linu- sands of men, still marrttigenblc. have been shlnned overseas. These nrr- the men who. on their return, will swell. the tide of t1“- marri- age ra in pent-war years. Metropo ltan Life Bulletin.

Laws have been passed sflnnlal- in; that Wages and salaries cannot be increased duriruz tine war and laws have been adopted establish- fnz the illegality of certain strikes. But. what ere all these laws worth if they are not respected and 1f nearly everybody breaks tlht-m or finds mvzm of getting around them? Recently. for example, 1t was said that anyone caught using false gasoline t " ‘ coupons risked jatl for life. Why not hanging, white we are about if? This is an- other of those laws which fhapptivt will not. be observed. bet. there be punlshmen for those who use bogus coupons we are agreed. since ll. is not lust that those who vb- serve the law should be treated like those who break ti. but. to talk of‘ jselt for fife for an offence of that tlnd is, quite simply, rldlc- ulous. i» n word. what are tiff-irked are l~',a "o" arc observed b?!

wgrybmv r11" net bv rnty those who cannot 1"" “t/herwise Mont.- seet Linfotmetiott. anti"

PUBLIC FORUM

Ill! ltllll U INA II 5U ewnenneule 0| likens. Ila

A TIACIIEI IIOTIITI

ten by "Onlooker" tn your Public Forum and it. has moved me to fake up the‘ cud els on behalf of the teaching pro esslon. o! which I em a member. “Onlooker" cites the letter of “Unfortunate Mother" es if it in itself were e in-

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FOR BOOTLI-JGGEBS AND DOCTORS shy-I've been reading letters In

nttme it. I. as an onlooker. wish to say that. we have no prohibition here in Prince EJWBTO Island. The only law \vc have is a law for the bootleggera and doctors w sell scripts at a prohibitive price, anv- where from one dollar m three dol- lars. This i; what the Temperance Alliance calls prohibition. I am. Sir. eics

SPECTATOR.

Xlntfa Co.

NOT REPEAL BUT ENFORCE- MENT

Sir.—1. too. am a “foreigner.” having recently come to Prince Edward Island from a mid-ivesb- ern city vrhirlt boasts a population of a half million. every pno of which may, legally. frequent the taverns as often as he wishes. Tc‘- tuitatsly, not all of them do. but I have seen them, yaung and old alike. sitting at the some bar, list- ening to the same cheap Juke box mitsie. indulging tn the same lewd Jokes and alike defamlnz their Indies. I have seen bedragglc-d mothers shuffling down the street bearing" the foaming: pitcher an already drunk husband. Arc there no boutleggers and does the pub- lic drink only “good stuff" under Repeal? True. the drunk soldier beside me on the train was drink- izig from a government labeled 1:01.112, a shame to the govern- ment. but tlld you never hear of the liquor Black Market? It exists. The nrunkest drunk I eve-t‘ saw was ly- ltze in the gutter of a tavern lined street. As I watched the officers drag him into the patrol wagon. Fcltluvlll" from his hip packc-t. a half-emptied Bay Rum bottle. I said to myself, "So they drink only ‘good stuff’ under Repeal." The youngest. victim to come under my obseriation was a little boy be- tween three and four rears of age. His ltltllitfil’ was sharinz publicly,

with him. the beer in her own glass. Prohibition doe-s not rid the

country of the liquor curse. but it docs t1 ck the evil and provide a more vxhcleseznc environment for the \'C\.ll.i\ of the laud. People are mut‘de"/.'d ovcry day, bu: we have too much intelligence to legalize murder

To tilt: it; 1s morally refreshing: tn find. in Charlottetown. and‘ the other P. E. Island towns. an ab- sence of beer parlors. taverns tsrt- lastiat, and stagaeflntt. bleary-Bl/Qd men. woirteu and girls.