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THE GUARDIAN

llurnlng Dally (Founded la 1on1) Authorised ssa riarund Clrsaa llall, eon Offlat Department, Oftlvvl. Ilse laliusd Guardian Publishing 0o. hunul‘ an! lnsuisglug Director. J. B. Burnett;

Aaaoelsto Editor, Era-uh Wallal

"The Strongest Memo y is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink."

ouaarurrarown SATURDAY, OCTOBER e. 154a llatlonal Thanksgiving

The simplicity of faith with which our fore- bears celebrated the thanksgiving festival is. perhaps, less common today; but the ultimate re- liance on providential bounty-symbolized In The lmmemorial rituals of seedtime and harvest-re- mains unchanged. "All is safely gathered Ifl. f??? the winter storms begin" are woods which find their equivalent in every tongue, and are OS Old as humanity. They breathe a sentiment of nat- ural piety and becoming humility, in'the ac- knowledgment of blessings receivgp, far be- yond the meagre limitsof our deserving.

This yea_r there is particular reason for a na- tional expression of thanksgiving, not only bo- cause of our unusuallybountiful Canadian har- vest, but for the fact that of all the countriegin the world, none has suffered less than our own by reason of war and postwar calamities. For whatever the reason, this land is one of the most favored on earth. And this applies with special emphasis lo this fair Garden of the Gulf, in which our fortunate lot has been placed. We have many difficulties yet to overcome, but in matters of real importance — in the enjoy- ment of peace and a fair measure of plenty- we have all that we can ask, and more. And it is well to remember that while- Monday has been proclaimed the official Thanksgiving Day, the Sunday services in the churches tomorrow afford the best opportunity for devout expression of our thanksgiving. For this good fortune too- untrammelled freedom of worship — let us not fail to be devoutly grateful.

Glty Hospital Bazaar

No public appeal for funds has ‘been made on behalf of the Charlottetown Hospital. The money necessary for the additional construction is being raised by the annual bazaar which is to be opened at the Armouries next Monday eve- ning by His Honour Lieutenant Governor J. A. Bernard.

The new wing of the Hospital when complet- ed ln 1949, will provide one hundred additional beds and other hospital facilities. Charlottetown ‘has every reason to be proud of its hospitals, and all citizens will join in congratulating the board of the Charlottetown Hospital on its forward :te .

pTlll! is the fourteenth consecutive year in which the bazaar has been held. The programme this year will assure patrons of a very enjoyable time each evening with an abundance of popu- lar entertainment.

All Parishes of the Charlottetown Diocese have assisted, through the Bazaar committee ‘headed by Father P. Frank MacDonald, in pre- parations for the event. Citizens and merchants of all denominations have cooperated in provid- ing prizes and other donations. lt remains for the general public to attend in large numbers to assure that the objective be realized

A (tow Per Family

Canada has over three and one-half million cows, about one cow per family. We have nearly twice as many cows as we have telephones, more than one cow per square mile for all the land mass of Canada, including the Northwest Ter- ritories and the Yukon. Line them up along the almost 4,000 miles of the American border and there would be nearly 1,000 cows for every mile or almost o solid line of cows facing south, 'all the way from Prince Edward Island to Vancou- ver lsland.

These and many other facts about the dairy industry are compressed into a pocket-size pam- phlet published by the National Dairy Council of Canada. lt constitutes the second edition of a series which began in wartime with the publi- cation of the booklet, From Tiny Drops, of which 72,000 copies were distributed. The title of the present pamphlet is More Tiny Drops, and it con- tains a wealth of interesting statistics as well as general information.

Either directly or indirectly, the dairying industry is a source of income for one-sixth of Canada's population. lt produced one-third as many dollars as Canada's leagues of grain fields and other field crops combined. lts dollar vol- ume is nine times that of the fruit-growing in- dustry. lt yields ten times as much national wealth as our fishing fleets and the canneries they serve. Dairy farms yield two and a half times the annual treasure of our gold mines and more than eight times the dollar production of Canada's coal mines. The dairy industry is big- ger, in terms of dollar output, than Canada's giant pulp and paper industry, in which we lead the world. All our lumbermen and the great mills they supply, produce less than the "one cow per family" population of our dairy herds. In the food field butter and cheese alone eclipse bread and bakery products by nearly two to one in dollars.

Why is butter scarce? The pamphlet has a detailed answer for that, too. One primary reason is that Canada's milch-cow population has not kept pace with the growth of human popula- tion. Canada now has 1,500,000 more people than in l940-—and 250,000 fewer milch cows. To- tal milk production in 194B will be the lowgst since 1941. The milk supply—which means fluid milk and milk used in butter, cheese and other dairy products-will be the lowest per person in seventeen years.

The industry is doing everything it can to encourage building a of larger herds and thus to increase the action of milk for butter and all other uses. lat the farmer who Imps tha aawswhich produce the milk wants a fair

mans said city people had been getting from the farmer "too much for too little for too long." in that-phrase moylie a thought which suggests a solution, both of Canada's butter problem and of the related problems of threatened short- ages in other dairy products.

r liDlTORlAl. NOTES —

Tomorrow 20th. Sunday after Trinity, and Zlst. after Pentecost. t I I I

H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, born this date i935. His father, the late Duke, was the young- est brother of His Majesty who was killed on active service on August 25, i942.

Fire Prevention Week is almost over but the danger of fire is not. The burning of leaves must be done with care or the firemen will have their hands full.

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lit is rumored that the Manitoba Coalition Government may be about to end. The reason: Premier Garson is fairly certainly expected to be called to a Cabinet post at Ottawa.

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Hallowe'en is still some three weeks away but from the sound of exploding fireworks the cele- bration has already begun. Perhaps the young- sters have the right idea, particularly as this year it falls on a Sunday.

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Open season ‘on ducks and geese began this morning, nine days after gunners started going after woodcock and Hungarian partridge. By this time both ducks and hunters should be old hands at the game.

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Sir Arthur Whitten-Brown, who with Sir John Alcock, made the first Atlantic crossing in June i919, has died in his sleep in London at the age of sixty-two. They won the Daily Mail $40,000 prize for their effort.

U Q ¥ I Reports from Europe indicate heavy yields of grain and vegetables in almost every country, which should end mast of the hardship on that devastated continent -— or persuade leaders that war is again a prafticgl possibility. I I

Hollywood has found, what others have long maintained, that natives of British Columbia are more English than the English. A part calling for an English voice went to a Vancouver boy because a young Englishman living in Ontario lacked the necessary accent.

I I I I The effect of Britain's paper shortage is strikingly illustrated in the publication of Win- ston Churchill's book, "The Gathering Storm," o_n Monday, ten weeks after the American edi- iron. Every copy was sold on the day of publica- ion. I I I I

> Farmers have become acustomed to hearing that produceprices are too high, so that it i; refreshing to learn that officials think there should be an increase. The present price of our potatoes in the United States is below that of their own product so that Maine growers are becomingly understandably annoyed.

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An Ottawa income tax payer has complained of the number of T-1 forms which must be cam- pleted and filed at a cost to the department of approximately $50. each, becaiise the s“. payers originally used the "simplified" form when they shouldn't. lf that is the cost of handling a T-1, the Government would save money by riot bothering a great many of the smaller taxpayers.

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Ottawa has decreed that ethylene glycol, basic ingredient for an anti-freeze that does not evaporate, is_a luxury that cannot be imported from the _United States. The result, notes The Letter-Review, is that Government cars are sup- plied with this luxury, while the ordinary tux. Pill". Who pays for the upkeep of the Govern- ment cars, goes without.

p Hon. George Ddew,‘ Lebder of the Opposi- tion will be entitled to an indemnity of $15,000 per annum-$i0,000 as leader, $6,000 as member and. $2,000, car allowance. But he is out of luck until he gains a seat in Parliament, which he hopes to do in January.

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Guiseppe Verdi, italian composer, born this date 1813; studied music when a very small boy; but at sixteen when he applied for a scholarship at the conservatory at Milan he was rejected; he went and studied elsewhere andin i833, when only twenty waslmade conductor of the Italian Philharmonic Society of Bussetto. His first opara Obarto was an immediate success, and it was followedby others which earned him world-wide recognition. Three of his best-liked operas are Rrgoletto, if Trovafore, and La Traviota. ln 1871 he wrote his greatest work Aida.

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it is reported from Paris that during a tense session of the Security Council when ‘Russia's Andrei Vishinsky rose to reply to a Syrian speech against a Soviet proposal, El Khoury the Syrian delegate was sound asleep. Mr. Vishinsky, it is reported, required all his reputed diplomatic skill to awaken the unconscious Syrian. Perhaps El Khoury’s technique could be emulated by the Western Powers, who might find that the less attention they paid to Russia, the more atten- tion Russia would pay to the Western Powers.

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‘ For lack of time, Prime Minister Mackenzie King was obliged to decline an honor intended to be bestowed on him in Paris, viz., a seat in L'Academie des Sciences Morales at Politiquos do L'lnstitut de France. His secretary announces pressure of United Nations business ivioda it necessary to forego the honor at least "until some subsequent visit to Paris." The only English- speaking persons admitted to the Academy are Winston Churchill, Britain's wartime prime min- ister; the late President Roosevelt, and Lord

Vonsittart, former adviser to the British Foreign Office. , ' "

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Memories Set To Music

(By Rev. H. Beverley Ketchen. D. D., in the Presbyterian Record).

J‘. L. M. Barrie seidonce that "God gave u: memory U“! l" might have roses in December." In the 22nd chapter of Samuel. which is almost identical with the 18th Psalm, we see how life's EXPBH‘ ence appeared to David ln the quiet reflective evenflde as Mem- ory held the door. The sweet sing- er of Israel looks back gratefully over all the way by which the Lord had led him and sets his re- markable personel experience to music -— a good thing to do in the eventlde of the Year. lhl! Thank!" giving month. Surely very few 179°- ple in the world have more cause

1o do it than the average Canad-

ian.

David's had been an unusually eventful. chequered career. Not. al- ways in green pastures and beside still waters had the Divine lead- ing taken him. He had known the "moor and fen" and the "crag and torrent." There had been days of bitter and inexplicable disappoint- ment as well as days of thrilling success. He had ridden on the crest. and dipped into the trough of the wave. There had been many a time when it. would not have seemed unreasonable if he had bor- rowed the words of Jacob and cried, "All these things are against me." He had suffered so much at the hands of both enemies and friends; he had been so often dis- appointed and perplexed by glar- ing injustice; had been the victim of so much malicious jealousy and treacherous intrigue that nothing but on extraordinary faith could have saved him from a cynical at.- tifude to life.

But in the eventide as he looked back over ii. all he could not. help taking up the iiurp he loved and setting to music his grateful thoughts of God's unfailing good- ness. The whole passage may be regarded ns n glorification of Divine Providence. As_he reflect- ed on the many blessings he had received. the many kinds of trouble he lind survived. the many desper- ate and critical situations from which he had been dellveredfDavld was not able ta find any word that could describe all that God had been to him. Note the variety of terms-his rock. his fortress. his shield. his high tower, his Saviour. Each of these epithets has its own peculiar significance and together they were meant to express the various ways in which God had cared for and helped him.

The grateful veteran who had known such a variety of vicissi- tudes ln his chequered career meant that whatever had been the peculiar danger or need God's help had been timely and the simple 1e:- san for us la that we never can have any kind of need for which God will not be able to supply the particularly suitable kind of help. Iii not. that the significance of the promise, "As your day: are. so shall your strength be." no matter how different the tomorrows may be from the yesterdays?"

If David could have foreseen all

the troubles rind conflicts and aar- row: even he with his braveend gallant soul could scarcely have faced them. but. now he ha: not only come through them without serious hisrm but has been enrich- ed and sanctified by them and a: Memory holds the door. it l: not the hardness of life that. he dwplla upon but the goodness of God, who never failed him. We can eaally liaaaha him clasp- lng Paul’: hand in the world be- yond and laying: "My dear friend. you were perfectly right when you said that all things work together for good to them that lava God."

Materialism haa o davastatln effect on the poetry and romance of life and this undoubtedly ta a

materlallstll "I. fllllshglvfng ~_ "ally for

the celebration of God's goodness at the lngatherlng of the harvest. And lt ought to remind us-whefh- er we have reaped and gathered into barns or not-—that however clever and resourceful we may have tolled, the gifts of God have been the basis far ell our gains; that the generosity of Providence has been the background for all our blessings. Of what avail would be our scientific ingenuity. if God did not make the grass to grow upon the mountains; if He did not

~wafer the hills from his chambers?

And yet la it a common thing at Thanksgiving season. either on the farm or in the city. to recognize that? Do not we need a satirlst like Isaiah to show the ridiculous folly of the popular worship of the God of efficiency? By and lorfle to be sure we are very smart. No one cares to dispute that. But if we were only a little more intelli- gent we would reallze that the smartest would be at their wits end or “like infants crying in the night" but for the dolly gifts of Him ho causes the sun to shine on the just and the unjust, and whose mercy falls as the gentle rain from heaven.

Is the Thanksgiving season just another holiday for you to be spent either foolishly or ln sane recrea- tion. or is it a time for grateful and songful reflection? Can you look back over the year and. like David dwelling thoughtfully and humbly on the goodness and mercy that followed you throush 1119 dark days as well a: the bright, set your memories to music?

In this peculiarly favoured land God has provided with a lavish hand. as Jesus provided the bread on the hillside that summer day long ago.‘ Here as there. there has not only been enough to complete- ly satisfy but a very considerable surplus to be "gathered up" for the hungry people overseas. But. at Thanksgiving time we should think of more than a bountiful harvest for "man does not live by bread alone." For fill of us, I dare say. some days have been "dark and dreary" as with David. There have been ups and downs. Fortune was not. smiling rndiantly all the time. God's ministering angels did not always come with shining. sun-lit wings. There have been plenty of obvious blessings undoubtedly. but there have been also blessings which perhaps we did not recog- nize as blessings at. all.

I like that story fold of Arch- blshqp Whateley. An emotional Irish friend was telling an inti- mate group of a thrilling experi- ence at sea when the ship waa

burned. He attributed his mlracul-l

oua escape to Provldential care. The Archbishop listened patiently and with just the trace of a smile in his eyes. Then he remarked that he had had an even more wonder- ful experience. He had recently sailed from New York to Belfast and _ln the good Providence of Gad the vessel never caught fire at. all. In the eventlde of the year we might, if we are foolish enough. think of the disappointment: we have suffered, the trial: and the irritating grievances we have nsa. but it la better for to think of the very many blessing: for which in spite of everything there i: cause for thanksgiving, for u song in the heart la worth two in the book. “There have been nettle: hero and there. But the toll green greases wara more common aftll; The blue of heaven ha: been larger than the cloud."

The lige-tild Story

Aad the fear of yea and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth. and upon ev- ery fovrl of the air. upon all that naval-Is upon the earth. and upon

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Old Charlottetown (And P. n. s.)

YEARS 0F PROGRESS

"The striking contrast between the exhibit: and prize llsta of 1837, the firs‘! year of Her Majesty's reign. as compared with those of the present day, show the great progress the country has made in that period. The log house and small stable of the early- settler heve given place to the comfortable frame dwelling-house for the fem- ily; the large and commodlous barn for the crop. the snug outbuildings for the cattle. the farm implements. the alelghs and the wagons he now possesses. The simple form- ing tools he then required have been laid‘ aside and in their place may be found a number of costly labor saving machines which enable him to raise and save a crop which in his early years of colonial life he never dreamed of possessing. His children are now receiving e free education such as could only be secured abroad half a century ago at great cost by the sons of the wealthy classes. The country girls. who then trudged barefooted fo the

butter and eggs, to barter for household groceries, are new drea- sed in fashionable attire. and driv- en to market in a stylish sleigh or wagon. and have a snug balance to their credit. in the Savings Bank. The loom and the spinning wheel have been discarded for the sewing machine, the piano. or the parlor organ. On every hand we are con- fronted wlfh equally notable proofs of the advancement. of the people in that. material prosperity whereof Prince Edward Island, as you ob- serve. has reaped her full share during the petlod covered by the reign of Queen Victoria.

“The settlement of the land quea- tion. which had so long disturbed the Colony, was one great cause of this improvement. While the peo- ple held their lands by an unsatis- factory tenure. they epent. that time in agitation and discussion of their grievances, which otherwise would have been devoted to the soil; but no sooner had that great question been settled-mo sooner had they acquired the freedom of their farms. than with renewed vigor they devoted their entire energies to the task of improving their property and paying off the In- stallment: of the purchase money as they became due. so that the homestead» on which they had en- dured tails and suffered prlvoflonl. such as the young men of this gen- eration would not have the courage to face, might. descend to their children and to their children’! children, free from encumbrance and likely to remain ln the family for generations."

—From an address by Hla Hon- our Lleufenant Governor A. A. Mao Donald at the opening of the Pro- vincial Exhibition. October 5, 1887.

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001-153". Nlill. South Africa (CM-Sent. with i0 natives f0 de- molish a. l7-mlle-long brick wall. I rlilwlv smiiims rm recently killed 1M villi-adders that scurried from the crannies. A more snake emit out. of his bed one morning.