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

CIIARLOTTETOWN. "ruasnav. ma. 22. 1949

The llomlng Session

At least two measures are definitely on the agenda of the session of the L/egislfllilrfi which opens today. These are modifications in the _La- bour Act with respect‘ to the licensing of UnlonS and the repeal of the prohibition against non- residents (promised by Premier Jones in a Labour Day speech) and the introduction of a Workmen s Compensation Act. One can also safely forecast a reference to the increased revenue accruing under the Dominion-Provincial tax agreement by reason of the continued rise in gross national production, and to the claim, advanced on sev-~ eral occasions by Premier Jones, that the so-call- ed new Temperance Act is working out much more satisfactorily than the old Prohibition Act which was defected in the plebiscite last June.

The Government will likely take credit for the new central bait storage plant, which will be i-n operation by mid-April, the new potato warehouses built with Dominion-Provincial assist- ance at Morell, Vernon River, Bloomfield and Tignish, the extension of health measures under the Dominion grants and the progress of tech- nical training, also operating with Federal as- sislance.

Marketing legislation, which has been the theme of much controversy at farm organization meetings, will likely come in for discussion, as well as the margarine ban and-by way of re- solution-Federal farm income taxes.

The new setup of the Fishermen's Loan Board will involve the appointment of a non- partisan Commission, about which some infor-

mation may be given in the Speech. This meas- ure was put through by proclamation, but there may be other developments in the way of estab- lishing Crown corporations, which would require legislation. '

Last year's Speech announced that the Gov- ernment was "closely watching" the extension of electricity and was "prepared to do everything a Government can do to foster a rapid extension into rural districts." Apart from a belated order- in-council passed last week-end, providing for a high-power tension line from Mount Pleasant along the Western Road, and the issuing of an order from the Utilities Commission to determine the earnings base for services supplied by the Maritime Electric Company, the Government has little to slhaw for its activities in this direction. This is a matter which has been brought to its attention every year by the Farmers’ Federation, and in which in two successive election appeals it-promised prompt and effective action. The vulnerability of its record in this respect ls not likely to escape Opposition criticism.

Last year the Fremier berated his retiring Health Minister (Mr. Hughes) and Minister of

' Public Works (Mr. Barbour) for grossly exceed- ing their estimates. He announced that there was now "a high-priced machine in the auditor's

"in future. In addition, there was to be an exter- nal audit-a welcome innovation indeed if it succeeds in clarifying the financial picture.

lt is to be hoped that the members will pass the time pleasantly as well as profitably, and that they will bear in mind the example set in Parliament the other day by Mr. A. L. Smith, of Calgary West. Rising on a question of personal privilege, Mr. West said: "During the debate last evening l made some uncomplimenlary re- ferences to the hon. member for Springfield. -This morning I do not think that they were either very funny or very clever. Of my own volition. and having regard to my sense of fair play and the dignity of debate in this House, I willingly and sincerely tender him my apology." That is the spirit!

Farmers’ Problems

Farmers’ Week -- or the week of the Farm- ers’ Parliament, as the Minister of Agriculture reminds us it was once called — holds a particu- lar significance this year. Although, through high production and prices, the farmer has received the highest cash returns, his old, easy markets are threatened and his happy position may well be reversed in the near, foreseeable future. It is imperative, therefore, that a solution to the - farmers‘ marketing problems be found, if Canada i toretain her Favourable position ln world trade.

Again, Island farmers are beginning to re- cognize a weakness in the organization of the provincial Federation of Agriculture. At present it is supported by the various agricultural g-roups and societies and its work is done on a voluntary ' basis: An effort to gain direct rural support will require ‘constitutional changes which, no doubt, will be discussed on Thursday.

lt is interesting to nets the Federation's di- rectien ‘towards centralization in the national field by its endorsement-of state marketing and governmental support of qviculturc generally. Theopposite is true in the local, provincial field where the Federation would appear tobe moving i towards decentralization, rroéhlng out, for vi- lttllty,’ to the grassroots of the rural areas. This

incerigrulty between the notional and provincial prgcnlziillm within the Federation itself, should glvepiiuu to thou who might be tempted to eii centralisation as the only solution to our var iifpolltlcelyecenomlc and social problems. - Thb" current problem of marketing is the problem of Britain's lock of dollars to continue tabuy Canada's form produce. This basic mar- keting piolllem may be solved only or highest

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govern, tel levels. In the meantime, some of ‘ v y - which in being devoted to market- ‘, ' i i profitably be directed to

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office?’ which would do away with this practice_

discussed and improved. The open market is at present in disrepute and is suspect by the pri- mary producer. Organized marketing, through producers’ co-operotives, requires a high degree of political and social maturity in its members in order to function effectively. This is the most elusive requirement in co-operation. Many eyes turn towards the government and governmental mlarketing as the panacea for all our economic il s.

The selection and perfecting of marketing methods, however, is no substitute for finding the

‘markets themselves. ‘This, in the final analysis

is the answer to the marketi-ng problem.

For the farmer to maintain his democratic way of life, it is necessary for him to continue to shoulder his own responsibilities and not leave them to a government or government officials.

The old idea of the Farmers’ Parliament sug- gests the thorough discussion of the farmers‘ problems, by the farmers themselves, threshing out their solutions in the arena of public opinion. Without let. or hindrance, uninfluenced by pro- paganda, the farmer has his say and re-estab- fishes, b1 his own eyes and the eyes of his neigh- bors, his fundamental independence of thought and action.

/ EDITORIAL NOT ES f.

Fannere Week.

Boy Scout and Girl Guide Week

Opening of the Legislature -— the Grand Assize of the Province. I I

Rev. D. MacDonald, Old Church of Scotland missionary and father of the MacDonaldites, died this date i867. "His works do follow him."

Antiques, like everything else, are produced more quickly today. Listed for display at a recent New York antiques show was, "The first televis- ion set ever manufactured."

l U I Canadians are becoming so used to bad budgeting that it is distinctly refreshing to lea-rn that H.M.C.S. Athabaskan cogt $7,647,550.01, just one cent more than the cost of her sister ship, the Cayuga. I A $5 million project to build a war memor- ial concert hall on Fletcher's Field, Montreal, has been given approval by the executive committee of the City Council. A site at Duluth and Park avenues will be donated by the city for $1 and other considerations. The concert hall may be made part of a war memorial project. fi fi I

"Go West young man!" should no longer be the slogan of the East. An Islander writes from British Columbia: "We are having difficulty with our electric power due to the fact that there has been practically no rain this season. Unemploy- ment is rife, and I hear that one cannot get a job in Vancouver for love or money."

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A voluntary organization that is playing an important part in Canadian life is the Canadian Standards Association, representative of indus- try, science and government. lts objective is the development of nation-wide (and if possible, in- ternational) standards of products, processes and procedures. A good project for it to be working on would be the height of automobile bumpers.

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Health Minister Martin told the House of Commons the Food and Drugs Act is being re- vised to prohibit the use of nitrogen trichloride in flour sold in Canada. The chemical is used to bleach flour. The minister said there is no evi- dence it is harmful to humans in the amount present in flour sold in Canada but the govern- ment is taking action "owing to the suspicion cast upon it by some animal experiments."

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_ ' Destroyers and motor torpedo boats of Brit- ain_s Royal Navy left early in February for a cruise in Arctic waters. They are being followed by an aircraft carrier from which jet planes "I" OPerate. TlllS Wlll be the first time this type of airc-raft has been tested under polar conditions. lt is also the first time an aircraft carrier has gone so far north. The experiments are to be carried out several hundreds miles north of Iceland and are expected to last about two months.

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undependable says The Letter-Record. At any

moment Canadian foodstuffs may be excluded, as in the case of potatoes, which have been shut out of the U. S. market by Canadian Government action, but at the request of Washington. Canad- ionswanttebuy U. S.goods,sothatiswhere Canada must look for a market for Canadian pre- ducts, as long as that can be obtained. Mean- while, the situatian is made unnecessarily com- plex by a strange plan of unilateral attempts to fix the value ofCanoldion cprrency in $ U.S.

According to The Telegraph-Journal at a meeting of the Edmundston Branch of the Cana- dian Legion the following resolution was moved and seconded. In accordance with the fry-laws, it was adjourned to a meeting to be held next week, in order that all branch members can be sent a notice of motion before voting. "Whereas the ccrtitution of the Canadian Legibii of the Brit- ish Empire ServiceLeague states that thd Legion stands for ordered government in Canada, and whereas the members of this branch of-the Ca- nadian Legion fought during the First arid Sec- ond World Wa-rs to preserve democracy, and whereas certain irrclponsible people from the Town of Edmunzlston and vicinity took .it upon themselfes on the night of Feb. ll, I949, to fer- cibly eject from the Town of Edmundsten a num- ber of people-thereby acting in an undemocratic, dieorderly and unlawful manner, therefore, be if resolved that Edinundsfon Branch "No.15, bf the Canadian Legion, I.E,S.L., strongly coedemn.._ the afare-rpentlened action, andmgggest tyfhpfai-

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{GGOGQQWQQ EASTERN TRAIN SERVICE

Slr.—-For many yeers the people of King's County have been at. a great disadvantage in the m fer of mall and passenger service. on- dltlons are worse today than they were thirty years ago ln spite of tremendous developments and im- provements in almost all other public services. I-Iaw anyone en- trusted with the efficient operation of rail and postal services could slf beck and permit. year after year the some creaking. antiquated des- patch of His Majesly-‘s mall. when a hundred per cent improvement could be achieved with little or no increase ln costs.

Possibly we are ourselves to blame to the extent that. we have not. got together and demanded an improvement. However it should be obvious to those in authority that mall arriving ln the Province the night before must spend the better part of a day in the Cher- loltetown Post. Office-and does not: reach Eastern post offices until bus- iness has been concluded for the day. Merchants must. arrange to go to the post office in the eve- ning, and should correspondence re- qulre an immediate answer it can be done only with inconvenience. Service ln the Rural Routes ls even worse. They cannot go to the post. office and must welt until the fol- lowing day for their carrier.

It ls high time King's County lied some of the attention readily given to more favoured areas. and the first step should be the chang- lng of the railway time fable, or the addition of a jltney to see that. people in all parts of the county Bel. a "same day" rather than the archaic "next. day" mall delivery with which they have put. up I0

long.

Ifthe railway refuses to give bet.- ter service then the Postal author- ltles should withdraw the mall con- tract and award ti. to private con- cerns who could solve the problem wltli little difficulty.

I am, Sir, etc" PERCY JOHNSTON. R.R. 4, Montague.

Old C herloltelown

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THBEEPENNY RUM TAX

Under a statute passed ln 1827. rum Imported from the West In- dies, South America or the Ber- mudas, direct, was dutlable only to the amount of three pence per gallon provided such rum had been bertered or exchanged for erllclel of growth. produce ‘or manufacture o! this hlnnd. or with flsh caught on its shores, or cured therein, and landed tn or shipped from the Inland. A penalty of flfty pounds -a nlff sum tn those dnyo-vru imposed on Importers falsifying their record: ln chlrconnecttan.

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The Germany Of Tomorrow-Jflre’ Von Paulus Enigma

(By J. Paul-Beacons) (Former President of the Council)

From time fa time we he!!!‘ Hews of that man who la a double enigma. both tn himself and ln the mysterious career that the masters of eastern Germany are preterm for hlm, Field Marshal von Paulus. net-b of Stalingrad. wnsreluleled by Hitler. prisoner of the BOVlP-l grmy who went over to the enemy where he formed a Commilih! l° fight against the National Social- ist. government. He was sent. lo the west tn the company of Geri- eral von Seldlltz. who had become Lhe tread of the Seldlllz Oorps. also called the Committee for a fence Germany, which ts new part of the Red Army.

Then silence fell on the two collaborators. A silence unbroken unlll now when rumours from Moscow begin to spread. The U. S. B. R... alone and iizercfore free to act. as she wishes, carries out. her plans with unbroken continuity in contrast to the western allies who do not: seem to know what they want and who dispute among themselves. According to the ru- mours she ls preparing to form a government for eastern Germany. ilre head of which is not. to be a Communist but a genuine flelcl marshal, decorated with the Iron Cross. covered wlLh glory and glv- lng the Germans tlhat sattsfactlon that cornea from bans sovemrd by one of their own people, von Paulur himself.

One fact. ls certain, it ls that von Paulus has the complete con- fidence of ii-e Kremlin and it. seems that they are holding hlm in reserve. Other German generals and erlmfrals are openly employed by the Russians. some keeping an eye on the training camps of the Beldlltz Corps, others serving tn the naval and air services of the Red Army or in important. ad- ministrative posts tn the Soviet zone. '

O O I ‘the news that we hear now agrees with the plan attributed to the Russians with regard to Field Marshal von Peulus. It ts of the establishment of a. so called Ger- man police, a police force com- mended by prominent German officers. The head of the general staff of lllll police army ls Gener- al Vincent Muller, member of the

Moscow‘. General Brandt of the Luftwaffe and General Arno von lomkl have been made responsible for the training of this new army. General Leblmm ' ‘ the arma- ment section ln the camp of Juterbol. -

As M. Georges Blum. the special representative of- one of-the Wench newspapers. - wrote from Berlin, "One enraimten a constant euc- oeeslon of generals In the Oom- mimlet controlled German police end ln the acoyfputlort administrat- loa..’1‘he ftrsthate d: ’ tn blue untforrarwllli gold lhoulder tube carrying the lnslgnlnlol rank. The aecoad flraup arelh, green. y Both ere equipped. vrllls impressive automatic revolvers. They allck their lieell ln ~fhe‘ Pnlulen fashion. sentinel: mount guard lneldc and oubttde the butldlnasrfiom eulo- mobtlee nub along the neighbouri- lng‘ streets. ~ Everywhere we lee blah boots, lergecpsulefreaa lone rows of dea N." _.

Allhmllll the f tlon of flats German pollen In bound toreoell the beginnings of the Ralahewrlir and the Bfobertielt-pollee. which was hora to identify el polloe or army. its use does not seem ac threatening to the “our!!! of western Germany. but for Berlin and the Rupelen plan to mole Americans,‘ Irllllui and ‘Preach leave tbl-"ellyrlf may constitute e intone deem. Au negation "tail by lllh police fatal woo be more friuilol and

limits. oela weather. the rrieyflovrer ls‘ ~ ~ e ~ ‘elafffclc

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N EIGHBOR 5

Even before I nan up, my visitors have come.

‘rhlrty or forty of them. ohetterlng

And scolding outside the frosted windows.

Son-etching among the tress and the weed seeds,

They make the chaff fly wildly

like snow

Before the wind. jrhelra la fnoes- sanl; talk:

Yet, through it all, I gleam a. soft. deep note

Of content. cordial and pleasing

ln the first bright rays of the sun.

Nutshells rattle on weathered win- dow sills,

And from the side of the house,

rapping comes.

Rhythmic ainost, as ff is neighbor knocked

Upon my door. ‘These are neigh- bors of mine. ~

These winter friends -- the nut- ‘liafbtlcs and chlckarlees '

The juncos, woodpeckers, and the tree sparrows

Neighbors who come to me in the still sharp hours

Of dawn. or in the days of wind and drifting snows.

_..La.vislng Chrlslrnen. ln Chrisblaa Science Monitor.

people than a similar operstloa openly led by the Soviet army. . . .

In any case this information ls an important step lni the develop- menl. of a policy, lliemalrillnes of which can be seen ln the story of von Paulus. The severe tpurges and penalties ‘which marked the Soviet. possesslon of their zone are being succeeded by promises to the Germans ln git zones that ft

destroy or even to injure German nationalities. '

Add to this the position of the Russians on the unliy of Germany. of which they have made them- selves the champions and whtch ls

sires of most. Germans. The con- stituent assembly meeting in Bonn as just. confirmed this fact by deciding that ll should be a funct- lon of the federal government to collect taxes. This ls e repetition of the provision of the Welrn constitution iwhleh contributed so greatly to the centralization of itie Relob. It. ts important to recognize that on these twp points. unity of

of German generals, llueelen polfcy ls audacious, consistent m: coherent. v Nevertheless. tn spite of these inducements and manoeuvres and all the efforlf making at present to seduce the Geamsna. the popalefton of the western eectorfof Berlin did not succumb. The! have just, by e considerable majority, cold, mo" bo M eovr. - - , ll the nlltec be" able to profit from this? Aiie~ they finally loin]

Ruutn with n policy no leireude- cloud. no less coherent. no IOI consistent? Until riovr tbeyhnve

referred the problem to the-Unload Nations. The United‘ Stallone.

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Where the met hangs, e constant

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