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CHARLUTTETOWN TUESDAY, OCTOBER l9. 1m

Georgetown Winter Service

At a recent meeting of the Kin9'5 cfiullli Board of Trade the question of es_tablishing'a Georgetown-Pictou winter ferry service was dis- cussed with members of the Pictou Board 0f Tfflde and it was intimated by Dr. Grant. M-P- l" King's, that the proposal had his full support and cooperation. We note from a Nova Scotlfl exchange that the matter has also come before the Pictoii Board, and it was decided to request the local federal member, Mr. H. B. McCulloch. to work with Dr. Grant to get this service start- ed and make it a winter link between the two Provinces.

This is something which should have ‘the full support of everyone in Prince Edward lsland, including the Provincial Government whose ac- tive cooperation would be useful. It is a matter which has been frequently brought up by King's County members in discussion in the Legislature, who have urged its advantages With the full con- currence of members from other constituencies.

Georgetown has a magnificent harbour which is open iérly all the year round, and it is the natural winter port of the Province. Had this additional winter service been available when we lost the S.$. Charlottetown, many thousands of dollars might have been saved in lsland ship- ping losses during the long years in which we were waiting for the "Abegweit."

While the new winter service between Borden and Tormentine is a great improvement over former years, there is no reason why it should be our sole link of winter communication. The success of the summer ferry service between Wood lslands and Caribou is an indication of our ever increasing transportation requirements.

Whether or not it would be possible to op- erate the S.$. Prince Edward Island between Georgetown and Pictoii is a _matter for Federal engineers to determine. In any case, the advan- tages of this service during winter months, when the Wood lslands-Caribou route is closed, should be strongly presented to the Dominion Govern- merit.

Serviceaiiie iirganlzatlon

The newly formed Potato Shippers Advisory Association is said to be the first of its kind in Canada. This may be due to the fact that there is obviously more need for such an organization here than in any other Province.

The seriousness of the refrigerator car shori- age was underlined in the Legislature last year, when it was stated that one of the chief difficul- ties confronting the railway was in the alloca- tion of the limited number of cars at their dis- posal. This year, according to head C. N. R. of- ficials, there will be a considerable increase in the number of cars, but the matter of allocating them equitably among the l00-odd potato ship- pers throughout the Province will still be a prob- lem. It is here that the Advisory Association can be of great assistance, especially to the smaller shippers.

In addition, the Association will be in a po- sition to give expert advice as to changes in rail and water rates, best transport routes, etc. and in such complicated matters as adiustment of claims.

Altogether, its services should prove of ma- terial benefit, both to shippers and the railway. The Provincial Government may also be the gainer, in saving the time and expense of the numerous telegrams it has been obliged, in recent years, to forward to Moncton, Ottawa and Mon- treal in connection with reefer car requirements.

Farm Hazards

Now is a good time to remember that late fall and winter increase the chancd of fire a- round farms, for oil lamps are needed more often in the home, storm-lanterns more fre- quently in barns and outbuildings. Only one out of every seven Canadian farms is served with electricity. Few, because of their location, can be aided by the effective fire-fighting servics available to city and urban dwellers. Often lack of water and snow-bound roads would make fire- fighting apparatus useless in any case.

In a survey of fires on Canadian farms, the Oominion Bureau of Statistics estimates that ll per cent of farm fires are caused by the use of inflammable liquids and a quarter arise from faulty heating or cooking equipment.

Ohiirchllts Warnings

Declaring there was nothing between Eur- opean security and Soviet tyranny but the atomic bomb stocks held by the United States, Mr. Win- ston Churchill in his address to the Conservative convention“ at Liandudno expressed the feor that a third world war was remorselessly ap- proaching. He saw no hope of its being averted by agreements unless they were supported by ac- tions which would assure the world that the Intentions were sincere. He held in the utmost mistrust proposals by the Soviet on disarmament and atomic energy control in view of the refusal

‘ to pennit an international commission the right

to carry out investigations in order to ensure that. the agreement was not being violated. The Russian suggestion was that atomic control the Security Council whose authority could at any time be nullified by the exercise of the veto. When allied by the ‘Brit- ish delegate whether Russia would be willing to abandon that right in matters relating to atom- ic control, there was no reply. y

. A decade age, malls an exchange, Mr. Churchill strove by might and main to persuade

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the Government of the day to note Germany's preparations for war in violation of -various treaties, and to take counter-measures. He was termed a warmonger for his pains. Subsequent events proved how real his warnings were. To- day, except in certain factions preferring to place their faith in the men who rule at the Kremlin, the world heeds the words of the veteran statesman and is prepared to act on his advice. The treaty violations of which the Soviet Union has been guilty, its frustration of the efforts of the United Nations to implement the Char- ter and the activities of the Communists in prac- tically every quarter of the globe to create strife and confusion only too conclusively show haw great is the danger from that quarter and how necessary are measures to combat them.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Today the Empire Parliamentary Association conference opens in London. Representatives from Canadian Provincial and Dominion legisla- tures ore among those taking part.

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Finance Minister Abbott at a supper in Westmount said he expects to live in Ottawa until the Conservatives "fire him", which was taken to mean until after the election.

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ln the Old Country the fig-lit against the Colorado beetle is not one of control but of exter- mination. Farmers there are using insecticide

dusts containing iodine which are claimed to eradicate the larvae of these pests. i ‘k i * Australia will continue to ban sales ol

cream in i949. This will be done to help in _pro-'- ducing more butter for Britain. ln normal times Australian cream contains more butter-fat than the ordinary Canadian cream. The Premier of Queensland (Mr. E. M. Hanlon) who went to Brit- ain for the Dominion Parliamentarians Confer- ence wants to step up nominations for British migrants to work on producing food for Britain.

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Sir Thomas Browne, author and physician, born this date i605. Amid the stirring affairs go- ing on around him in England, he had a Slllgii- larly detached and contemplative mind, exhibit- ed in his works, chief of which is Religio Medici: "Music strikes in me a deep fit of devotion and a profound contemplation of the First Composer. There is something in it of Divinity more than

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Nearly 280,000 pounds of Danish butter were due to arrive at Montreal Sunday, aboard the Canadian Pacific cargo liner Beaverglen after a voyage from London. Distribution has not been set yet by Government authorities but it is expected that about.40 cars of butter will leave the city for points in Central Canada soon after it is unloaded while another large amount will be‘ stored in Montreal.

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It does not do to be too high-minded regard- ing prosperity, all the same'it is something to crow about when Canada is credited by fifty selen nations with being the second in prosper- ity in the world. Senator Wishart Robertson, Halifax, said he left the United Nations cham- ber with a "lump in my throat" after 57 coun- tries tactily agreed Canada is second only to the United States as the most prosperous coun- try in the world.

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The United States Commerce Department has announced that during the first half of i948 dairy product exports from the United States were valued at $88 million, representing a 23 per cent decrease compared with $114 million for the some period in i947. Largest decline is in cheese which dropped l8 per cent. Dried skim and evaporated milk, infants'_food and butter exports have also declined. Dried whole milk, malted milk, and condensed milk exports increased, the latter by 50 per cent.

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Canadian Press takes a no doubt justly cynical view of the factors in determining the date of the next Dominion election. lt quotes Ottawa observers as stating that if prices are still high next year, the Government will hold out until i950; if they turn downward during the next six or eight months, "you can look for a fall contest in i949." A pretty'clear indication of Government intentions, it adds, will be il‘l the Budget. If taxes are slashed all along the line, watch out! '

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President Chiong Kai-Shek in his National independence Day speech said, "l had hoped that following the inauguration of our constitutional rule and with the people of the entire country sharing political responsibilities, they would be able to rally behind the Government in the campaign against the Communists. Subsequent events proved that l had overlooked one fact. lt is that thoso who have not lived under the Communist rule were taken in by the Red pro- paganda, thinking that after all the Commun- ists are Chinese too and that they in their own way also practise democracy and guarantee po- Iitical freedom. In consequence, they mistook the Communist rebellion as an ordinary internal disturbance, and they under-estimated the Com- munist viciousness as compared with the Japan- ese imperialists. This psychological error has cost us the concentration of our will and the forti- fication of our spirit, thereby keeping us from using our strength to the best advantage. As a result, the campaign against the rebels has not had the benefit of coordinabd ‘efforts on the part of the army and the people. And we have suffered many setbacks. This is the main rea- son for our reverses. If we do not pause and reflect and correct this erroneous attitude now, and if we fail toirecogniu in the Com- munists the arch enemy of the Chinese people and see the threat to our country and press on in our struggle with determination, then our path would be strewn with more difficulties and our-military position would become even more

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TBACADIE PIONEERS

At the side of the highway which now runs between Charlottetown and St. Peter's, near to Trncadic post office, there is a spring of wat- er, which in the days of pagan fable would have been reckoned as a favourite haunt of syivnn nymphs and deities. Limpid und abundant, it bursts forth from darkness into the sunlight, and rushes down the slope to the East River, with none of the infantile weaknesses of a rill, but with the strength and bearing of a full-grown stream. This spring was greatly prized by the French, and the locality came to be a fav- ourite with the Acadian husband- man; the soil was generous, the marsh hay fed his cattle, and the stream turned his grist and saw mills. Soon a church was built, and a flourishing colony sprang up on a site whose at- traction, in the beginning, had been this solitary woodland spring. o a a _

On the shores of Tracadle harbor the settlers in 1728 were few. Four Acadian farmers-with their wivcs and children, numbering in all twenty souls, were the first to in- vade the solitudes that reigned there. Their names were Francis Boudrot, Michael Bourg, Charles Bourg and John Beiiivcnu. The precise locality where rose the cabins of these pioneers, can in our days be matter only for conjecture. It is known that the western shore of the Bay proved the most attract- ive to the settler. and that the track from French Fort through the district of the Grand Source to Sav- age Harbor and Si. Peter's, skirlcd its southern rcachcs.

It may likewise be in the early settlers woul choose a position whence communications with the neighboring settlements could be most easily maintained. Such a position would be at the southern extremity, where the bay terminates in n pointed sheet of water. known as Millcave. into which a stream called Millcove Brook empties itself. These names are but English reproductions‘ of the old French names, that still clung lo the locality. when they, who had imparted them, had been driven for away. The emigrants who succeeded the Acadian farm- ers, borrowed their nomenclature of the localities. and in their Cellic tongues the brook was stlii the Mill Brook, rind the site of the old French mlii n landmark in the land- scape.

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The western coastline of Tru- cadie Harbor is cut: into somewhat equal portions by Winter River in its confluence with the waters of the Bay. The tract of country lying to the north of the estuary be- came in the course of time thick- ly settled. and near to the mouth of the harbor, where at. the present day the eye iviinders over herb- iese send-dunes, the cattle of the Acadian settler browned in fields of rich clover. For the French farmers, copying the devices in use on the fertile meadows of Grand Pre, built up strong embankment:

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thus hastily and unceremoniously to one more place on record my appreciation of the kindness which has been shown me and the other prisoners by you, the commandant and by Dr. Gunning and my ad- miration of the chivalrous and hu- mane character of the Republican forces, My views on the general question of the war remain un- changed but I shall always retain a feeling of high respect for the several classes of hurghers I have met. and, on reaching the British lines. I ‘will set forth B truthful and impartial account o! my ex- pericnces in Pretoria. In conclu- sion. I desire to express my obliga- tions to you and to hope that when this most. grievous and unhappy war shall have come to on end, a state of affairs may be created which shall preserve at. once the national pride of the Beers and the security of the British and put a final stop to the rivalry and enmity of both races. Regretting that circumstances have not per- mitted me to bid you a personal farewell. Believe me Yours very sincerely.

Winston S. Churchill. Dec. lil, 1889.

In agreeing to iet. Mr. Morton publish this letter Mr. Churchill said: "You are at liberty to con- tradict. the story of my having swum the Aispies River." Thus dies a persistent Churchill legend. He simply jumped the wail and escaped. He swam no river.

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--From an article by the lati. Prof. John Coven in the Prince Edward; Inland Magazine, 1902.

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When Winston Churchill was e young man he went. to South Africa during the Boer vver as e newspaper correspondent and was captured by General Bathe who later became prime minim/er of the new Dominion. Mr. Churchill con- trived to escape, after his. capture at Ohieveiey in 1M and his im- pilsonrirent with Britten officers in Pretoria. He hue described his escape 1n tvro of his books, first in "London to Ladymriith" and later in tile fragment of autobiography, "My lhtly Ute."

Before he escaped. Mr. Churchill, with greet courtesy, left a letter on hie bod addressed to the Boer Secretary of War, Ir. do Home,

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When we lieu of a burglar who has successfully robbed homes co v the extent of $50,000 profit being | allowed out on $5,000 ball we begin in wonder about the invariable truth of the saying that "crime does not. pay." —- Montreal Financial Times.