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,' ~' barley would fetch $2.52 per bushel."

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1'llE OIIARLUTTETOWII GUARDIAN

Morning Bully (Founded in 1881) Authorised es Second Class Mall. Post Oflioe Department, Ottawa.

President. lun A. Burnett; Yice-Presideilt. Wm. R. Burnett; SCGL-TICIS" G. M. Burnett; Editor and Managing Director, .I. R. Burnett; Associate Editor. Frank Walker-

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

TRURSDAY, FEBRUARY if. hols

llot A Suppllant

Strong objection is token by the St. John's (Newfoundland) Evening Telegram to some com- ments in an Ottawa paper, to the effect that a Newfoundland commissoin was proceeding to Ottawa "to ascertain on what terms Newfound- land might enter the Canadian Confederation." lf such a delegation was sent, says our New- foundland contemporary, its only purpose would be to obtain information in order further to study a number of alternative forms of gov- ernrnent which the National Convention may Consider. it continues:

"Newfoundland has not expressed in any way o prefefence for Confederation, and there is much to indicate from newspaper corre- spondence on the subject that in some quarters public sentiment is no more enomoured of such a move than it was when the Dominion show- ed such a churlish attitude towards this coun- try when earlier in its history, at the request of the Imperial Government, the terms of union were considered.

"lf, as the Journal states, the "general trend of Canadian opinion is that Newfound- land, shorn of her wartime prosperity, is now looking for o means of eluding bankruptcy," Canadian opinion might take into account the fact that whereas ot the peak of war prosper- ity, the annual revenue ‘otalled $28,552,000, last year's returns were $33,427,000. A con- servative estimate of the total revenue for 1946-47, on the basis of the returns in 'the past ten months, is approximately $35,000,000. The figures scarcely suggest that Newfoundland is as yet an the slippery slope of insolvency or, hat in hand, would become a nuppliant for Can- ada's bounty."

The St. John's paper states that at the end of the last fiscal year, Newfoundland's na- tional debt totalled $82,057,185, less sinking fund of $7,777,290. Further, as against that debt the Treasury has amassed a surplus in recent years of $28,699,000. On a. population basis, not a few countries would be greatly re- lieved if they could make as favourable a statement on flieir financial position.

"As to Confederation," sayQ the Telegram, “if it should ever become a live issue in this country, the first problem would be to deter- mine, no matter what the constitution of Can- ada may be, whether there actually exists a federotidn of the nine provinces into which Newfoundland could enter. When the Federal Government has failed to reach any agreement with the provinces as a whole on the tariff is- sues and, as the only alternative, has had to negotiate with each one separately, the ques- tion might well be asked whether the Domin- ion was one or whether there were not nine dif- ferent blocs, with one or the other of which Newfoundland would have to conduct its negoti- ations.

"Whatever the attitude of the public might be an the questipn of forming with Canada a united and amicable British North American family, it is difficult to conceive that any large section of the community, no matter how high- ly they may regard Canada's status in the Com- monwealth and Empire, or how worm their es- teem may be for Canadians individually, would choose to become involved in the dissentions which appear to exist in Federal-Provincial re-

lotions."

Topsy-Torry Politics

The Winnipeg Free Press (Liberal) has this unflattering comment to make on the King Gov- ernment's wheat policy: _ _ y

"There is o degree of irony In the 011K101 report that the Canadian wheat board has authorized the export, under permit, of a quan- tity of molting barley to the United Kingdom at a price of $1.80 per bushel. When carrying charges and molting premium, are added the ociuol price, f.o.b. Fort William is $2 per bus- hel. This barley, it is officially stated, is be- in; gold for human consumption, not for molt- ‘ ~ r ses. m‘ egdbfhing Could throw into clearer relief ‘g folly of the United Kingdom-Canada agree- ment, Inder which for the present and ensuing crdp years we are selling wheat to the_ United Kiss i om for $1.55 per bushel, Fort William. As I food cereal, barley is inferior to wheat. Yet the inferior cereal fetches $2 and the superior cereal $1.55. Indeed, the topsy-turvy, wrong- slde-up, policy of the government is worse than this. On a basis of weight-the true food value if cereals-our wheat if priced equally with this

TFTsl Bering Lent

‘ The Lenten season is known as a period of‘ fasting. At the present time this is hardly the roper definition.

-_ for e long period in history, however, meat ygioff the menu for 40 days, although Sundays y"; gemstones excepted. For this reason, the giiglnal Lenten season of 36 days was increas-

Jg egydflwloys. When we learn that eggs as ' ' ' he meet were sometimes sacrificed for the i A we wonder how in days when foodstuffs

a lligillwd appetites and nefls could be

was the only answer, and fishing ves- ' obliged to make long journeys y of tlie catch in order te supply feels. This search for flnh which wider es the deniuene of the nheir feeding grounds was a fac-

discovery of America. New England developed prosperity originally from the fishing industry and supplied much of this staple product not only in Lent but throughout the year to dis- tant islands. _

Today, with our modern methods applied to fishing and transportation we have fresh fish as well as salt fish aplenty. Our problem is‘ merely to make this product appetIsing when we prepare it for the table.

— EDITORIAL NUflzS -

School attendance in the City is suffering greatly from an epidemic of measles.

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President Truman will send a message to Congress advocating universal training as soon as his committee has completed an inquiry.

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"The Senate will not sit todoy"--almast standing onnouncement—ond bang goes $20 multiplied by 96, the pay of the Senators, or $1,420 per ???? i I Q The Hon. Dr. W. J. P. MacMillan once more director-in-chief of Red Cross activities in our midst. He is o tower of strength to the movement. I fi i i

.Winstan Churchill has purchased 43 short- horn cattle to add to his herd at Chartwell, Kent, which shows his heart is still in the right place- the soil of Old England.

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Pilot Charles Trainor, D. F. C. and Bar, is to be congratulated upon being appointed one of the Government official spotters in connec- tion with the Newfoundland seal fisheries.

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The Federal Government is relieving or ac- centuating the situation by its piecemeal dis- closures of War Time Prices and Trade Board decisions. Why first announce increased rent- als for summer homes, and then haggle over disclosure of o 10 per cent increase in every other kind of rental? Mgantime intimation is mode that up goes summer hotel rates 10 per cent as soon as the season opens.

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Rearrangement or re-shuffle in the Provin- cial Government is anticipated soon. Hon. Mr. Hughes may retire altogether, and hold him- self in readiness to contest King's in the Fed- eral field, should Dr. Gront contemplate with- drawing. In that event the likelihood is that Mr. E. P. Cullen would be made either Minister of Health or Provincial Secretary-Treasurer, or both. I W k fi The Provincial distribution of 1946 farm cosh income, including supplementary payments were as follows (1945 totals in brackets): Prince Edward Island, $16,776,000 ($16,469,000); Nova Séotia, $32,212,000 ($26,745,000); New Bruns- wick, $34,667,000 ($35,295,000); Quebec, $248,- 180,000 ($232,720,000); Ontario, $469,353,000 ($452,274,000); Manitoba, $171,534,000 ($154,- 709,000); Saskatchewan, $411,327,000 ($417,- 959,000); Alberto $289,070,000 ($298,018,000); British Columbia, $86,192,000 ($74,948,000). I k w i

it is reported that it may be another two and possibly three weeks before the Federal Government tables its estimates for the next fiscal year in the Commons. Several departments were understood to be in the final throes of slashing item after item to conform with a Cabinet call for economy all along the line. This is contributing to a delay in tabling the figures which at one time were expected to be laid before the Housia week or so ago.

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We are within a short distance of the meet- ing of the Legislature, and also—for that mat- ter-—-an election, Federal or Provincial, and plans are to be mode accordingly. As Sum- merside is to have its airport restored at a cost of $500,000, this is likely to be offset by the erection in Charlottetown of a $1,500,000 of- fice building to house the numerous Ottawa bureaucrats now doing business here. Provin- cially it is on the cards that the health tax on tobacco will be abolished, leaving, apparently only the Government tax on liquor which, of course, would be taking money out of one poc- ket and putting it in another.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet, born this date 1807; was professor of mod- ern language at Bowdoin and Harvard; travel- led extensively in Europe, and at his death his bust was placed in the "Poet's Corner" of West- minster Abbey. His chief works, Voices of the Night, The Spanish Student, The Poets and Poesy of Europe, Evangeline, The Golden l.‘- end, Tales of e Wayside Inn: ' ‘ Saint Augustine! Well hast thou said,

That of our vices we can frame, A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame.

("De vitiis nostris scalam nobis _facimus si vitia ipsa calcamus."—"We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those some vices underfoot.") .

Member nations of the British Common- wealth will meet in London an March 7 to dis- cuss the troubled. question of the British pref- erentiol tariff system and what stand the Com- monwcalth should take at the international por- ley on trade and employment at Geneva on April 8. This was mode known in the House by Sec- rotary of State for External Affairs,vSt. Lour- ent, answering a query of Mr. T. L. Church, (P.C., Toronto). The Minister declined to make any statement of policy on the matter in ad- vance of the London discussions. Business and industry in this country are showing a deep in- terest in the London and Geneva parleys and it is known many representatives of Canadian firms will ge to Geneva. _They are anxious to know not only how for United States is ready to go in the direction of multiloteralism, but also what attitude will finally be token by the "npublicon congress to the entire project, the

THE Notes By The Way

Fur can: season is the time when Wflflé Ifillllrllds hubby hcw hg spent, $50 for n fishing a-uitli last sum- mer to catch a 50-cent fish. ._ Guelph Mercury.

Stuffing money under rnntrrnes 01' putting it in sugar bowls and other “hiding” places in the home only invites loss. The Institute of Life Insurance has estimated that. $27 million in cash is thus “hid- dcn" in American homce. More- over. persons lcrlown to keep large sunls in their homes also invite violence. The bank is the best of all places for if. —~Bosto'rl Post.

Two generations of Canadians have paid a heavy price for their survival and may never see "the good old days" return within their llfeiune. with world peace hoped for. the Coverluneni should funk more about giving them lax relief and a lfitler standard 0f living than think of taming them for things that wlll benefit s gener- aticm that is still in swaddllng clothes or yei unborn. Two gener- ations have already done a lot for posterity. —Si. Thomas Times- Jomml. '

Henry Adams in n letter la Mrs. La Purge: “Housekeeping is the only part of life which has real and permanent interest." he wrote. To her he also offered the follow- ing as the sum a! human wisdom: “Don't take things too seriously! All the charm of social intercourse and domestic comfort depends an lightness and ease 1n handling. . . The onlyghumazl- beings I have thoroughly admired and respected 1;; the world have been those who carried the load of the world with n smile, and who‘. in the face of anxieties that would have knocked me Clean out. never showed g fre- nlor. Such men and women end by ovnlulg us, soul and body. B1111 01B‘ allegiance can never be shaken. We are only ioo glad to be owned. Religion ls nothing but this." - New York Herald Tribute.

When a man gives you an orange, he simply says: “Have an orange". But when the transaction Ls en- irusied to a lawyer, says The Montreal Star, he adopts this form: "l hereby give and convey to you all and singular, my estate and 11l- Lerests. right, title. claim and ad- vantages of and in said orange. together with all its rind. juice, pulp and pips, and all rights and ud- vunlages therein. with full power to bite, out, suck and oiherwbc lo eat the same or give lhe 5111116 away with or without the rind, skin; juice. pulp and nine. anything hm- lnlbeioro or heaeinflilttl‘ O1‘ 1-11 1111i’ other means of Whfllever 111111" B1‘ kind whatsoever to the oon-irary 111 any wise notwithstanding." Later on. ranothcr lawyer comes along and lake; ii away from you.

Though cleanliness may be next to godliness. it may still be 591116 distance from common l1011951y~ That. at least. appears to be a 1'6- fleciion that is 1151mm by 1119 information that. the Greer W61- em Railway camels-try 118d 3°°~°°° towels "borrowed" during 1946 and that only 1011i’ of 1110111 W91‘: f6- tunled l0 Puddlnglon in 011191‘ 10 soothe the conscience of those who sem them. says The Manchester Guardian. The proportion ls not l1 large one; it does not 111-18895! 1'1""- w-rlsclence packs much qt a punch ln the case oi towels ttbslmfled from railway property. A further reflection mgy occur; lf ihal ls what happmg in the green leaf 0f wivallg ownership, what will be the prim-ed percentage in the 1111611 bra-nah of nationalism when some of the baser sort may be ready i0 argue. "Well, alftcr all, I'm only llellping nwseli to my "W11?" 011° soluuion of the problem 1s, of course. obvious imd will. no oubi. he ex- tended: it l5 already‘ i116 L115! 0-11‘ madly trains there are no 1011915 to be found. On that B01111 13°11‘ science (5 pCIIOICZ, left ullimpfllffid: ' the travel-er demands 110111 111° train dirty but uildemorallcca.

Curne n, Saturday martin; on lli

'aflcr breakfast, ‘wily don't you hitch the team to the and gal new shoes far lllc mares today? Likely id be ice any rm’: new. You ran bring back hill’ l (10llfYi bags cf wllcu _\':u come." A lad of n 11.11 11 yearsnsniiclpnlcd tlli~ irlo to illc blacksmith shop. says The York 'I‘ime.=. In wintertime a gcorl farmer wants liLq horses on sharp calks. and when a farm bcy is old enough to handle the reins aver the horses it's taken for granted that going to the bladtmlith shop ls a young mrarKs Job. 'I‘here‘s seme- ihlug about shoeing horses. 111a old shop is itself o, fascinating place with. its dark, grimy piank floor, the cobweb-by streakrd wind- ows, the pile of rusty old discards in a comer. the heaps of scrap iron and debris in the others. The whole pllcg except for the central cleared spat Ls a tangle of wheels waiting for new time, farm

babe that need new runners. and miscellaneous odd; and ends of womosrt equipment. Against the

beck wan is the brick forge with its glowing mess of soft coal; nest by is the big snvli snd the half barrel filled with brackish, black- uldillnflfld water. The old emlthy known every horse of the country- side and quickly selects the right. stand shoes from the long lines hanging on the timbers warhead. The Morgen mores stand quietly. They know the routine. It's tun to wntxtl the blacksmith heat the shoes glowtng hot and no thesn to lust the right ehe as red epsrkr fly in all directions.

no tastier how often s-lad has s

it. there sre always the breath-toil in; moments when the ssnl plunges the hot shoe into the wet for n mlrnrte, while clouds of denp

to the horse. lifts s ill sad nls the shoe "slant the hoof. ’I‘h

bsginning of which come from Washington a

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yeer ego.

one lets the send, pungent score - ea smelt. "Dean's inn s bit"

big sled '

cottonseed mcvl -

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dark steam roll out, and then tllnn

Cl-iAkLuriisluwN GUARDIAN

a PUBLIC FORUM

This column is open to the discussion by aorta- epondents of questions or interest. The Cnerlottetown Guardian does not necessar- ily endorse tho opinion oi w" pondentl.

STUDENTS’ BOARDING HOUSES

Sin-A letter appeared recently in the “Public Forum“ which de- serves much consideration. I refer to the lcller concerning boarding- places for rural siudenis attend- lm: P. W. C.

The urgent need for a residence or dormitory, ill connection with P.W.C. was stressed tn several meetings of the P. E. I. Women's In- stitute Executive during my term as President of the Board; bur. lie- cause of other" pressing objectives occupying oul' attention at. lllal time, tlie mailer of sul-li a residence for sfudolits was lrfi for future consideration and effort.

At. that time. the only daughter in our fiamlly was attending P.W.C. and we were faced with the prob- lem of finding room and board for her. Happily, with tlie aid of friends and relatives, we secured very comfortable quarters. and she was able to pursue her studies mol‘ diligently than otherwise possible We appreciated her good fortulle but at lllc some time realized llir’! her luck llid not extend to illriudg all students with such u probic . Most. people who open their homep to paying-guests do so with in. purpose of supplementing their in‘- came. No one would ask illem t operate at a loss; yet there shoul be a fair standard of service give 'i for the remuneration, just us the should be a fair standard of (‘OI - sideration and conduct rcquir d from the student. \

l The Island In 1770' u .

May 31st. Wind northwest steer- ed to the oeet point. of the Island again. We intended to pass said point. but wind still contra made us return when a severe ga e came in and canted u; Q11 toward Cape Breton, about. 10 miles. About t0 calmed continuing so ti1l~6 P,M_ In this time saw several ships steer- 1112 different ways. At 2 launched the yawl when five hands and three of our: company went in her alter $98 B11115. But not being well pro- vided with ammunition returned without doing any execution. At 6 a fine breeze arose which gradually carried us to the north side of our Island.

June 1st. Proceedcd sit 91a launch the yawl. Oopi. David, Will and Bell Lawson went (m shore at St. Peters Bay which is within l0 miles of Siunhope Cove. At 4 PM. came of board and wind fair set off towards the Cove. Night com- ing on and s. strong current. not knowing the particular place of landing passed it and next day arrived at Richmond Bay.

June 2nd. At 1 o'clock d Pilot came on board who book us Into the harbor. About 2 P M. we came to anchor. Most of our company were sent. ashore, about ll the ship ran aground. We went out to see them where they were accommod- ated lll Princetown where are a greai many Scotch, Irish and Pren\11 families.

June 3rd. Sunday. Being still at anchor at l PJVI. the Capt. and the rest of lLs wen-i ashore, and being convened in a house we per- formed divine service in Prince. town.

June

4th. Stayed on board umll

lalfter dinner then went ashore where

In a residence or dormitory t e we "w. Q n," “my,” o, “ma,

pupils are more or less of the su e age, with more or less of the

s“ e this

People who were very kind. Spent afienrlioon saunieiring about

tastes. They are served well-balau - m] about 7 when x up“ a child

ed meals (i-n dining-room or cafp- Leila); have access to library a d teacher-help; and regular huu's

for study and play. Probably mo 'l.l

important of elk-regular hours f r

"lights out." In other words, a be -l

anced programme of work l.‘. d Dluvl

We have o, wealth of vision, la - ant and energy wlilhin the peop c of our bclovcil Island. Lei us 'l get together (Wolnens Illsiitul s, Farmers’ organjzatialls. C-lnatll n LPKlOH. School Inlprovenlenl Leagpc and other Service Clubs) nllrl u at our resources to make this drcifnl become a, reality!

Undoubtedly we shall have tie support of our Premier and tle Superintendent of Education ln t ls effort to help ourselves.

The idcn of combining lllr- pl‘ - pascrl High School and fi'Sl(.li‘li‘(' could be explored. Tllell, pussbl: y. the present P. W. C. building mig it serve as a University.