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Would Conserve llnited States’ llational Wealth

' at c. n. BLACKBURN

Canadian Press Staff Writer

NASHINGTON. April 15 - (CF) , United States natural resources u; being exhausted at a rate which is displacing about 175,000 oeopie a Yell!‘-

This is the'conclusion of Guy Lrving Burch. director of the iuthoritative Population Reference Bureau in Washington.

United States residents do not reel the effect of ilhese expan- ditures of their subsistence sources, Burch writes in his March bulletin. ‘because they are not sustaining themselves on a permanent sustain- ing basis.”

Instead they are “digging deep- er and deeper each year into their capital Which should be preserved for future generations.”

Here are some of the facts Burch has put together from vari- ous official reports:

The United‘ States has already lost one-third of its topsoil, four- lifths of its standing saw timber and many of its mineral and wild life esources are near exhaustion.

A ut 100,000,000 acres of crop land, enough to feed 40,000,000 human beings has been destroyed for further cultivation.

Close to another 100,000,000 acres are in "critical" condition due to erosion and a third 100,000,000 acres are in "serious" condition.

Rapid Consumption

The United States has used up v1 per cent of its known sources vi mercury, 93 pa: cent. o! its silver and lead, 78 per , cent of its chromium, 70 per cent. of its vanadium, bauxite, manganese, and ttmgsten. 65 per cent of its zinc and 60 per cent of its copper and petroleum,

This exhaustion of resources is proceeding at an accelerated rate ls the population increases. The loss by erosion is equivalent to 500,000 acres of topsoil a. year, the vwrcage necessary to support 175,- 000 people with food and clothing st accepted American standards of lvlng.

Standing saw thrnber is being cut or destroyed 50 ,per cent. tutor than total growth. Minerals are oeing mined much faster than new resources are discovered.

It is not e. matter of becoming weak in a hundred years, the re- port says. "but that we are rel- atively vceak now."

At the, current, rate $555511 ..

loss and population increase the report forecast that "by 1060' this country may not be able to support its people at. present standards of ‘rnsumption!’

It quotes Secretarv of Agriculture

Clinton Anderson in a warning that: “Nations which spend irreplaceable resources beet-me

‘mmirerished and are doomed to a neat along the sideline; of history."

DON'T OVERPiI-AY Health authorities advise persons

over R5 to have a physical check- in before indulging in strenuous

shorts. Anyone who does not exer- ".156 daily should not take a sud- den splurge on week-ends or holl- inys. -

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BRIQANE, Queensland, April l5 —- (OP) - Britain mill get moat of her pork and bacon frcm Australia if a scheme to make central Queensland a “Food for Britain" area develops along planned lines.

The British Overseas Food Cor- poration and the Queensland gov- ernment are Jointly investing $6,- 400,000 to cultivate 250000 acres of black-soil country along the NogcQ, River near Emerald. cen- tral Queensland. -

Present plans are to cultivate sorghum and sun flowers and to establish a pig industry to send a minimum of 500000 pigs to Britain every year. The area later w-lll be extended to include other food-processing industries,

Edward Hanlon, premier of Queensland told parliament it eventually would be the biggest agricultural undertaking ever tackled. l-lis government gave the corporation permission to extend its actlvtities to any areas in the state.

"If the scheme is successful it could be an answer to the prob- lcm of closer settlement in Queensland — particularly the inland‘ areas where lack of trans. port makes it unprofitable for the small tanner to operate,‘ 41¢ the premier.

_Mr. l-ianlon told parliament that the British government was

alazmed at the prospect of food shortages in Europe for some Years. He s d the project would Provide muc -needed food and would also guarantee a market for Australian products,

e corporation would be utider str t government control. Details of the plan were discussed with the British food mission which visted the state early this year.

lllonthly Meeting y 0f Local K. 0f 0.

The regular monthly meeting of Charlottetown Council Knight of Columbus was held in their home, 196 Richmond Street Tuesday eve- nlnfl. April 13th.. with a large at- tendance of members present.

Grand Knight Dr. J, A. McMil- lan presided.

The meeting opened with prayer offered by the Chancellor, Rev. Dr. Ellsworth!

The minutes of last regular meet- ing were read and on motion of Mr. M. A. Farmer and seconded by Mr. Walter Morrimey were approv- ‘ed as read.

The recorder then read the bills and communication and on motion of Mr. Gerald Murtagh and sec- onded by Mr. Wendell Mullin-they were- also handed to trustees for crutization.

The chairman for Raffle, Walter Morrissey gave his final report. First he thanked all the members who assisted him and all those who attended since the Raffles began.

He then read total receipts and expenditures which showed a ivon- derful profit. On behalf of the Council It. E. Bradley, lecturer. thanked Mr. Morrlssey for his won- derful accomplishment.

Mr. R. E. Bradley also reported for bowling in the absence of m8 chairman. Thomas McAdam. Mr. Bradley told the meeting that the playoffs started next week.

Reports were given on the Com- munion Breakfast held at the Charlottetown I-iotei. March 7th

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There is nothing to indicate that Canada will have to ration gasoline this year. Rt. I-lon. C. D. Howe, Minister of Recon- ‘struction and Supply, told the House of Commons at Ottawa. "I know of no circumstance ‘this year which makes rationing any more likely than last year or the year_ before," he said. "The gov- ernment is taking every precau- tion to see that nothing inter- feres with the normal move- ment; and at the moment I do not anticipate the need for gas- oline rationing next winter."

and also the two sacredgconcert; held in aid of the social service oi the Charlottetown Hospital lest month. On motion oi Ray McDon- ald and seconded by Fred DeCoste that the sum of One Hundred Dol- lars be passed over to the Social Service.

The Lecturer then announced that the annual Knights of Colum- bus Carnival will be held this yea: at Victoria Park. The date will be June 30th. and the chairman of that activity will be Mr. Leonard McDonald.

It. has been announced at the meeting also thatthe State Coun- cil K. of C. are holding a Testi- monial Banquet at the Charlotte- town Hotel on May 5th. in honor of Dr. W. J. P. McMillan, O. B. EL, who was recently made a Knight Commander of St. Gregory The Great. '

The sick committees report was given. Some members of the Coun- cil are still confined to their homes. _

Prayers were then offered by the Chancellor for the late Brother J. J. Hornby who passed away last week.

There were some discussion ra- Junior softball teams for this year. Alter some discussion Fr. Joe Fran- ces moved that necessary money be furnished to sponsor a. team this year. This was seconded b sell’ st. Jenn, -

There being the meeting closed with prayer oi- fered by Rev. Dr. Ellsworth.

PROTECT FISH STOCKS

LONDON-(CP) - Britain has taken measures to prevent over- fishing in North sea waters. Stocks. becoming low beforethe war, now are again decreasing. Proposals embody agreements reached at the Over-Fishing Convention of 1946 betiveen 12 nations using North Sea fishing waters.

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By ERWIN IRICKB VANCOUVER. April l6 -(CP) —-The first white man to see British Columbia, Juan Prez, took : few looksfron. his Spanish bar- ql-e -_ but didn't land. That was in 1774. 311i in 1M thlnu boson to perk up.

The discovery of gold on bars of the Fraser River brought hordes of California miners. Queen Victoria gave the territory its present name. The march of pro- ve" "Id P801118 had begun.

But it is only in the last I0 Years - and, more phenomenally, the last i0 - that the real “in- vaslon" of 3.0. has got under way.

T0083’ the population is more than 1,044,000. It has long been the dream of British Columbians that their province one day might Pfiblace Ontario and- Quebec as the Indus-trial and financial heart of Canada. Some observers say it "my m5 be $0 10H: in the future.

Canada's No.13 province - third in size, population and net value °i Production-in i921 had 392.- 430 People — less than one-sixth of Qntarlo and one-fifth of Que- bee. ‘Today it has climbed to with- in more than one-quarter of both.

In bile first three months of this year alone. more than 8.000 fam- ilies have moved to the coast

B. C. Citizens Dream 0S Big Developement

péovince from other parts of Can- a a.

In the first three months o! this year alone. more than 8000 iam- llles have moved i0 the coast province from other parts of Can- adn.

-Vuaeouver the Great_

Prophets of west coast future development point to the manic. lion of Roger Babson. interna- tlonaJly-lamous conomlsi:

“World trade is shifting from the Atlantic 1o the Pacific inevitably, the largest city oi the North American yontinent will be ‘ne of four cities Vancouver, Seattle. San Francisco, Los ».-.g_- eies Vancouver, perhaps, has more opportunity than has any other city .... .. "

Vancouver has added an estim- ated 75.000 in its 1941 population o! 275,000.

Industrial activity some rapid growth,

In 1947, new industries estab- lished numbered 1.367, The net value of produclion increased from $561,000 000 in 1946 i0 $620.- 000000 in 1947.

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- Value oi QXDBFLS from BC, ports in 1947 surpassed the i946 liguve |o€0$306.666,i02 by nearly 3595.000.- O .

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the American people in the dark

people.

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On the third anniversary of his death, a statue o! the late Presi-

unvelled in London, Eng, by his

widow (left). Standing beside her is King George, who said the monument would be a. "permanent reminder of our comradeship with

days of the war." The memorial,

standing in front of the U. S. embassy, was paid for by the British

ll. S. Newsman ls lleeused 0f- Spylng In Russia

By EDDY GILMORE

MOSCOW. April l5 — (AP) — Robert Magidoff, American news correspondent, said today he had been informed by the Soviet Press Department that his further work here was impossible. He said he was leaving the Soviet Union in two or three days. His statement followed publica- tlo.n of a long letter in i-he Gov- ernment newspaper Izvestia - which Izvestla said was from Magidoff‘: Atnerlcan-iborn secre- tary - accusing him of spying for the United States.

Magidoff said the Press De- partment. had told hkn in view Q this letter his further residence in the U.S.S.R. was undesirable. Izvcstia quoted‘ the secretary. Cecilia Nelson, a former employ- ee of the U.B. Elmbassy. as saying that Magidofi had dispatched re- ports in United States diplomat- lc pouches, not subject to cen- oorship.

(In Wuahinginn, the state De- partment raid the United Slates Almbassador, Walter Bedell Smith, had cabled from Morrow a denial that Magldoff served as a lily for the Embassy. Smith said also that Magidoff had told him Mlle Nel- son's allegations were false.) Magldotf has served the Na- tionel Broadcasting C0,. the Brit- ili Estchange Telegraph Agency. and the McGi-aw-Hill Publishing 09-. of New York, He once was on the Associated Press staff here. (William l". kooks, NBC vlca president in charge of new". said In New York the network had full emfldenco in Magidoif’: integrity, Russell I. Anderson, editor a! Me,- Onw-l-lih world News. aaid the charges were without foundation and were developed on a routine news assignment sent to Magidoff in mm. 1W1. Andersen sold Mal- idoi‘! has been unable to carry out

“the assignment because of Soviet

censorship regulations.)

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Talk 0f Longer Kilts Raises Howl 0f Protest

By SHAUN McQUILLAN

LONDON, April 16-—(CP) -—- A suggestion that Scottish textile manufacturers should lengthen ex- port kilts to "new look" propor- tions and thus increase their dol- lar income from Canada and the United States, has drawn indig- nant war-cries from Scottish clans and societies.

John Taylor, editor of the Lon- don Lrada magazine, Tailor and Cutter, reported that orders worth hundreds of dollars for womens kilts—popuiar in North America- were being cancelled because kiits had retained their mid-lulcccap length.

"In order to save this valuable» export business." ‘Taylor wrote. Scottish tailors are considering utaitlng kilts six inches longer. We imagine this would lead to a. storm of complaint from highland asso- ciations, but.-.1n face of the de- mand for dollars lt looks as though kilts will have to grow longer."

Taylor wasn't far wrong regard- ing the complaints. '_

Sir Donald Cameron of Lochiei. protesting from his Spean Bridge. inverness, hcr.ne said.

"I have never heard anything like it. Kills are not like women's faahions. They don't go up one year and down the next.

"They should come to the mid- dia of the kneecap, so they just touch the ground when one kneels."

Tali, well-built John Taylor isn't unduly perturbed about the clamor from Sir Donald and other dough- ty Scots- Re cheerfully told the Canadian Press:

"I think the furl i: a bit eug- geratnd, old boy. Alter all, it was only a suggestion and there's no definite decision yet to increase the length of the tartan kiit for export to Canada and the United States. ~ “I don't think Scottish. elanl would object to it ltronll! i1 they were lengthened." .

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Western Pennsylvania's soft coal miners failed to stage a general back-to-work movement despite settlement of the pension dispute responsible for their 30-day walkout. A check of the mines showed only one of every fin miners in the Pennsylvania field reported. In the west and mid- west, however, most of the, dig- gers streamed back and in tilt Pennsylvania anthracite field pro- (luction-returnod to normal. Lo- cal union spokesmen in the Pittsburgh area said most mem- bers there would remain idle un- tll they learn the outcome of a Federal contempt hearing against the U. M. W. chief. John L, Lewis. in WvistiinBton.

Italian Elections Key To ilhange In ll. S. Thinking

‘ By 1.1a. itoaaenrs. Jr- (Assoelated Press News Analyli)

The Italian elections Sunday are not, merely a key to the- immed- iate future of Europa. The)’ are a most significant milestone in i119 history of the United States.

The United States has evenly intervened in the crtnpalgn to an extant unprecedented in the re- lations between two mail?!‘ ¢'°““' ries, That this intervention has been accepted by the Amiifml" People as a. natural Ste? is Vi?“ ably more indicative of the coun- try's new place in world affairs than anything that has ever hi?"

lie-port Trend Away u From Communism A By Electors In Italy

ROME, April ‘l6 — (AP) —'i‘h6 tumult and the shuttling 0! H" campaign die tomorrow. and Sufi- day morning Ii-alym Europe's end the world's most important post- war election begins.

some 29.000000 Italians are old enough t'o vote and it looks like just about all of them will -Lom- bardYs wealthy industrialists and Siclly's landed barons, Milan's and ‘Putin's factory hands and Apulia. bronzed fishermen, pros- perous small farmers, barefooted

peasants, priests, clolsiered nuns,

soldiers, sailors, airmen.

In pro-election travel over much of this ancient land of the Cac- sar's, green and lovely in the early spring, these two correspondent»-

pened before. . [n the light of American history. tlradltlonal American antipathy

r0,- European politics and caution against interference with other peoples, it is really rather amaz- ing, even though the stelJi by which the United States. has ar- rived at the new position have been clearly defined.

She renounced her peeve treaty rights m a share of Italy's naval ships, and persuaded Britain and Greece ‘to do likewise, .She gave them 29 merchant ships, She shipped food, clcfihing, machin- ery and dollars, Thousands and thousdatids of P6130031 19W?“ were written by IiZliIKH-AIIIEFIC- ans and others, She set up the Marshall Plan and warned that no country; which voted Cuntmun- ist would get any help from it.

She vrarncd that any Italian who voted ConTnilnist would be re- fused entry into -the United States, something which has been the goal of thousands of them for generations, She may have played a part in getting France to re- turn part of the territory France took from Italy under the peace treaty. She ls shipping bark the gold the Gemians stole and pay-

one went north, the other south- taiked with hundreds of these people.

At the peak of the campaign they talked with big and little political shots, with Communists, Socialists of both persuasions, Christian Democrats, Mona-rchists. Nee-Fascists, soldiers, policemen. carabinlere, taxi drivers, vaude- ville actors, bootblacks, the joh- less.

0f (hem all. north and this question was asked:

“What will make a man (or a woman) vote this way or that in your region? ~

With few exceptions, lllOSi'0i them in the south, they replied- and many said it sadly, or blitz-r-

south,

ly - that it was the state of the,

outside world. Internal economic and social questions, pressing though they were, had been sub- merged in the tidal wave oi in- ternational events.

Here are the majoiucouclusions these correspondents, notes, have reached,

1. Hundreds of thousands who three months ago were fence-sit- ters or leftists-inclined will vote against. Communism - enough to deny the Ccormunisi-controllcd Popular Front an absolute major- ity in the new parliament. and enough. possibly. to make Prem- lcr Alcide de Gasperfs Christian Dornocrate the biggest single party or bloc.

(Footnote by O'Brien: A north- ern editor said, "the workmen know now they must choose bo- iween freedom and dictatoiship. Soviet Ruesla-and-Wtloe - United States."

(Fboinote by McKnight: But in the simple south v/heile world events seem far away. the Lofts simple line, "Vote for us and

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ing for work done in the United States by Italian war prisoners. She is sending coal for Italy's gas industry,

At every corner the United States ha: handcuffed the Rus- sians by manoeuvring them into such situations as their veio oi‘ Italian entry into the United Nations and their refusal to join in returning Trieste.

Americans, frequently inclined imconsider themselves and their government as amateurs in world affairs, have conducted this 380111- paign like professionals. Only one or t/wo minor missteps have been taken, such as dispatch of naval forces to Italian waters, which gave the commies something to cry about until it was correct,

But the long-range significance lies in the fact that the whole program has been accepted by Americans almost without cavii —that (hey live in the world and, from here on out, are willing to accept. the responsibility and ex- ercise the right of realistic action

to imprOVC the neighborhood.

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“Guides Director Praises Spirit 0f Organization

a; itlARJiENNE tzsars ' Canadian Press Staff Write!

NEW YORK, April 17 —(O\P)—4 li every girl were brought up ll the traditions of the Girl Guides, there would be far less discord LI the ivorid,

That is the opinion of Winnlfrll gKydd. director of the world ML" ;eau of the World Association of iGirl Guides and Girl Scouts. who iarrlved here recently from London. I “You have only to be with thins

for half an hour to rfllizc hm! ‘intense and enthusiastic they id ‘about any cause that is for thi ‘betterment of the world," she uif ‘in an intervle\v.

Miss Kydd herself is very “in tense and enthusiastic" about tht organization. Dressed in air-force- .blue uniform and soft grey hai worn by leaders of the Girl Guide! ‘in England, she walked rapidly u} and down the room, her blue ayer iflashing and hcr small expreuivi lhands gesturing rapidly. 5 Miss Kydd, a native of Montreal .wn5 appointed director of thl