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Morning Daily (Founded in 1887)

Author‘ ’ as Second Class Mail. Post Offico Department. Ottawa. Presidents lln A. Burnett; Vice-President. Wm. I. IIrnott; Secy-Trens, (i. M. Burnett; Editor and Ianaglng Director. J. It. Burnett; Associate Editor, Prank Walker.

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

MONDAY, i-‘izisiruiutv 1o, i941

Where llo We Game In?

Apart from an academic address given by Premier Jones at a service club luncheon on the benefits of irrigation, what is either the Provin- cial or Federal Government doing or planning to do to assist our Island farmers in this vital matter? We use the word "academic" advisedlyd

greater difficulties than those that overtook us, can bo attributed, partly to tho breathing spell affordod by the first six months of tho war, and partly to the intensive efforts of ITNIHYdIIOIIS- ands of individuals from all parts of the Com-

llotas By Tiio Vlay

Two-pants aultu are agalis bohsg

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THE CHARLOTTETOWN’ GUARDIAN .

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I This column to upon sq tho diaouaaiori by our".

monweolth. lf the result was_ a_mirocle it 501d 1,, ‘h, U, 5_ gaudy“ mm. was a miracle of IIIIPTOYISGIIOII. Faith in the fime- ‘with twitter-lass coats and vests ly recurrence of such a miracle is not u suffi-lhlnuihg lu their closets. hope "My

oporidenta of questions of ' ‘ Tho l“ Guardian does not uooemr-

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MEN AND TREES

l fr. the forest. by the early sottlera.

Old Charlottetown inns ran.) "

rsuiuuva was iauin was After a clearance had been ma“

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with regard to the Premier's address, because he went out of his way to v/urn that he was speak- i-ig only for himself, not for his Government. The subject received scant attention in the in- torim r-aport of the Advisory Reconstruction Com- mittee which was tabled in the Legislature last your, and which dealt extensively with agricul- ture. Yet it is a vcry live question today, and we seem to be the only Province in which om- bitious plans are not well under way.

According to an exchange, Canada is pre- paring to add "an ar-eo equal to eight of Ont- ario's southern counties, or three Prince Edward Islands, to its arable agricultural land." Every ls- Iand is scheduled to receive "new territory through the rehabilitation of new useless land within its boundaries." The aid argument that wo have no such land in this Province was fully exploded in Premier Jones’ address above noted. But it seems we are doing nothing about it.

ll Nova Scotia and New Brunswick it is planned with Federal aid to reclaim 100,000 acres of tidal flats along the Bay of Fundy and tho Bale de Chaleur, to increase by a tenth the aarble land of those Provinces. In Quebec and Ontario rivers will be deepened and straight- onod to drain 500,000 acres in the St. Lawrence volley and elsewhere, and turn land now used only as summer pasture into rich mixed farm- ing country. In southern Saskatchewan and Alberta rivers are to be moved and new lakes created to irrigate anywhere from 2,500,000 to 3,500,000 acres of semi-arid land, while in Brit- ish Columbia floods are to be controlled and dry lands irrigated to bring another 200,000 acres undor cultivation.

These are all listed as post-var reconstruc- tion projects and will take years to complete. The total cost will be about $125,000,000, of which $75,000,000 will go directly to construc- tion labour. Of the remaining $50,000,000 nooded for materials, industrial labor in the Central Provinces will receive the lion's share.

What does this odd up to? Unless we get busy at something more than speech-making, it means not only that this little Province will have to pay its share of taxes for these gargan- tiion undertakings, but our farm labor will again, as in wartime, be drawn-to other Provinces where high construction wages are being paid.

The Dominion Government is reportedly looking agreement with the Provinces on appor- tionmont of costs, which will probably follow tho plan suggested by the water development conimitteo of 1942. Under this plan the Do- minion would assume full cost of building res- orvoirs and connecting canals, and the Prov- inces should carry the remainder of the pro- gram and be responsible for maintenance, op- erofion and replacement. The Province, if it chose, might assess its costs against the land bonefiting, but the Dominion's shore would be non-recoverable. The wealthier the Province, of course, the more it could afford to spend and tho more money it would get out of the Fed- orol treasury as a result.

The Western Provinces have already bene- fitod tremendously under the Prairie Farm Re- habilitation Act. In the Lethbridge, Alberta, northern irrigation district of only 360 square miles, the number of farms increased from 300 to 900 after irrigation, and the population from 1,5” to 10,000. There is no question as to the advantage of extending the benefits of the _Act to other Provinces. But just where does Prince Edward Island fit into the scheme, if at all; and wliy aren't we hearing something about this motlar from our elected representatives?

By ll llarrovi Margin

Tho most outspoken comment on the Brit- Hi Commonwealth Air Training Plan yet to Iiovo been mode appears in the current issue of tho Journal of the Canadian Institute of l_nter- notional Affairs. It is also authentic because it is writtan by Mr. Terence Sheard, for long execu- tive assistant to the Deputy Minister for Air and then member of Air Council in charge of equipment and supply. Mr. Sheard, now back in his own business, feels genuinely that cer- tain criticism must be voiced.

First in his mind is the need that in future‘

Canada must be forecrmcd not only in equip- moot but in policy and tactics. This would have to include o degree of constant preparation and on acceptance of definite future commitments "oven lf such preparation and commitments in- volyo some derogation from abstract conclus-

ions drawn from the conception of sovereignty/‘l Gordon, ovarsoor of private prices, described

This la evidently a reference _to the King Gov- ornmaiiVa refusal to allow the R. A. F. to train lo Canada under their own staff before tho wor.

Mr. Shoard_ is one of those who wero obIig-I tlio old Globe probably still don't believe their

od almost to make bricks without- straw, to

tliodo days ‘is worthy of note. He says:

"We must not allow the final victory in tho y moro frooly than thay do, though iudgmont must

mm war to chloroform our memory of rho s _ ii that gained at its start. The Air g Plan web not ovan put on paper until

I'll. tires months after the outbreak of war. fIlo lack llf iiayedaquate policy prior

' and gho consequent delays in flll iii- * eploo, did riot load to ovoii

cient foundation for policy in matters of de- fence."

War Assets Sales

War Assets Corporation—charged with the'

task of disposing of war surplus material, indus- trial war plants, machinery and equipment, and lands and structures which had been acquired by the armed services, government departments and industrial establishments to promote Can- ada's war effort-announces that the aggre- gate of sales from the b ginning of operations in July, 1944 to December 31, I946, have gros- sed $314,350,000.

The whole of this sum, of course, is by no means "gravy" for the Dominion treasury. For an idea of the effort and expense involved in this huge disposal plan it is only necessary to

[will soon be old generally in the iDomiralan again. Many are oon- ivinced that the wartime ban on itwo-pants suits was the most short-

sighted conservation order of the l

l war. -—Edmor.‘.on Journal. I

The ancient, battered roll-top desk Thoma; Edison's employees presented him in 1889. and where h; worked the last forty-five years of his life, will be opeiued for the first time since his death fifteen years ago and its contents examin- ed on. the 100th anniversary at his birih next week. Prom that aid. upretentlous desk came many a scribbled memorande, many a pen- ciiied tketeh that was io make possible easier an: better living for millions of men. Like its owner ‘it was mc-clesi, sensible and prac-

tical. -Bosion Post. I

refer to the Canada Year Book which reports, A “n,” h, 9,4,0“ h-n, “M,” that, as at the and of March, i946, the staff of has revealed. lo int- liorrcr and War Assets Corporation number 5,400 individ- ‘ll-fillet’ "i cififlP-f- "w! the 8W1-

uals. Incidentally, it did something towards the rehabilitation of returned men for almost half of the male staff is composed of war veterans.

r- liDlTURlAL NOTES — Controversy is warming up at Ottawa. Q w t R All, all are gone, the old familiar faces." Iv Q t Q

This is the week for Valentine revival and

celebration.

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Sorrow over our power interruptions lasts for a few days; joy comcth with a new week. I I

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Our potatoes are going to Britain anyway. Will we be able to ship them from Charlotte_ town, Summerside or Georgetown? That depends on the enterprise and labour conditions in the

respective areas.

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Most of us will now be making hay while the liwt. "slit and power lasts-provided ti... Cur Ferry does not play havoc with our trans- portation. There always seems to be something or other to keep the ‘rabbit's toil short.

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' With two formulas offered by the Domin- ion, Saskatchewan chase the one providing for an annual per capita subsidy of $15, plus q continuation of statutory subsidies paid since Confederation. Under this plan, the total an- nual_per capita payment wilf be about $18.50, and in addition the Province got port 0P its debt

wiped out.

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_ Von Papen weeps because nobody will be- 11¢" 11"". on oath or otherwise. Too bod he was not taught as a child the difference be- lWfien right and wrong. He is what all men rnight becomeif Dr. Chisholm, late deputy Min- ister of Health, had his way in rearing the rising generation. Q I

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There will be debate in the House on the New Zealand butter importations which have been necessitated by the reduced dairy sup- plies in this country-reduced to maintain ship- ments of cheeseto Britain. The Kiiigodmin- istrotion will have painful recollections of the political havoc wrought by New Zealand butler importations during the 1930 general election. It proved one of the most powerful factors in the election of the Conservative Government under the leadership of R. B. Bennett. "Look at

your butter checks!" i

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born this date I775; he and R. L. Stevenson are the.t_wo outstanding short article writers and versifiers of the early and middle Victorilln lit- erary ora. Lamb had a charm all his own, and is an ideal bedside author. "When he goes about with you to show you the halls and colleges, you think you have with you the interpreter at the House Beautiful." "He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture, hath pounds of much ‘worse matter in his composition."

I have had playmates, I have had companions, In myddays of CJIItlIIOOd, in my joyful 5¢l|o°|

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Formosa fldparonts pleoso psi, described as tlie "perfect food" by Dr. F. F.

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Tisdall of the Toronto Hospital for Sick Chil- dren when he told the Royal Commission in- ‘vestigoting milk distribution and production, of l the value of milk in the diet. Dr. Tisdall said

milk was high in prot ' , in thiamine or vita-

min U. in riboflavin and in calcium. l thiamine was "the cause of more deaths prior to the wur_ than of any one disease," said Dr. Tisdall. It should be the duty of producers and consumers alike to seo that on abundance of

. milk was available in the interests, of public

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Says Tlro Printed Word: In discussing the {meat situation in certain largo cities, Donald

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lsamo pooplo in tho moat-packing businoss in l words which novor willyoppeor in these pages. So reported Ilia Globo and Mail. (Qld roadors of

eyes). Thoro may bo criticism of the reportor,

' tqain flyora without 'planes. His comment on but thoro aro otliors who contend that Pros!

i Gallery correspondents should more" ofton write

lbs reserved until it is loarnod whether or not , tho bold raportor is motaphoricolly tarrorl and faotharod and run out of the capitol on a rail. Bureaucracy, romorkod one philosopher, actu- ally lr a political process by which citizens got :1. bo what Mr. Gordon says some packers may

Charles Lamb, English essayist and poet,l

Lack of the sequence of man's days.

.uufes of those schools are prac- Iticaliy iliiierute. It is stated that ipupils nominally ready ta pro- [cccd to university, or into com- Imcrcial and industrial cocirpist- ions, are not only unable lo spell ,or write correctly, but in some poses have to have elementary -muitiplicatic.n and addition tables fufnished them before they can do even the most simple clerical ‘work. It is doubtful if any Cen- ridiim eecordcfry schools have fgggh- cd such a state cf inefficiency. ybul there is ample evidence that the existing standards of education have deteriorated very consider- ,abiy m. the past 20 years. While the theory of education has trend- od toward some vague ideal of “fitting pupils for life" the proc- tice of education has failed in many ways to fit them for the elcmer-‘ary duties of both life and citizenship. There his continual complaint from universities that the first two years of courses are taken up with teaching undergrad- uates common. grammar, arithmetic and composition which they should have learned in high school. — Sudbury Star.

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Dentists are said to have cring- od wlicu they heard amplified the iscuiid of a drill operating on the teeth a; patients at St. Louis. This |wl11 be cited. no doubt, ss further proof that dentists and physicians IDTE worse “babies" when it comes io surgery than are laymen. Per- haps the indictment is lit-stifled. Certainly. it is backed up by Ber-- oral opinion. But the professional lmen should not too hastily be labeled as cowards. When n dentist has l0 climb into a chair to suffer the ministraiicns of a colleague or when n doctor goes under the knife, they have g healthy apprec- yiatior. of the risks they are running despite all the safeguards which modern science provides. Their fear ‘is a wholesome one, founded on ‘limo-sledge, as ccii-irasted to the ‘courage which grows from the oom- foriable ignorance of the layman. '-—Windsor Star.

All we hope is that the psychiat- ric journals don't. drop David Rage, now that David has a new face. His old one, so the story said, drag: him to crime. His new one, ix up by a famous plastic sufleor» is said lo have changed his antl- sociai attitude entirely. His nurses say that he has acquired a new lpersonalily since the operation on lJan. 15. This is big time stuff in- deed if it can wipe out crime and maladjustment by fixing up the surface and letting the effects soak ‘info the soul or ego or whatever it is that resents faces like David's laid one. It reverses the theory that la persons spirit shines through his members. darkening 0r illum- inating the ugliest features. That's lwiiy we want the psychiatric JOur-

rials lo keep tabs cin. David. He

‘opens up a new way lo salvation. the way of the hsberdeshers who insist that the right clatheswiii make a new man. of you. —Prov1d- cnce Journal.

This is by every test an impatient ‘age. Men seems nowhere disposed no emulate the slow but sui-er pro- ‘ccsses of nature, wherein a century goes lwfo the making of a forest. a season lo a rose. There is every- lwhcro the same search for rho-r: cuis, for the means wlierdzy come- thing can be obtained before It is

Mflk y” truly earned. 'f‘be unrest is trfcnti-

lous. spurring many to roach for the sun before having climbed the hill. Yet mar. ls the creature of ‘INBIUTE. and can in no wise circum- ,veni her reasonable laws. Any-

thing that ls worth the doing is‘

worth doing well. A-il that is worth ‘having is worth working for in

Know- ledge l; the accumulation only of a Jlfctlme, ar-i wisdom ls it! Yield. — lvictoria Oolonist.

Representative Taber of New ‘York, chairman of the Joint Sen- ale-House Budget committee, says ‘it will be difficult. but "weWdlot lio cut bad: spending a lot more ‘than the President recommend- cd.” May we offer a forrrnulo? A1- whollcs lmchymous. an organisat- ion of rehabilitated persons who often refer to themselves as drunk- arda who don't drink, works on the theory it's foolish to vow

Brandloseiy never to touohaiaotlsori

drop. The members merely mim- ice themselves each day they won't imbibe for the next 2s noora from experience they kzww even a alip- ersot can all! on the wagon that length of ilfne if hi.» really wqziti to. Ii it loo much to suggest. that each Goran-Isaiah Iralt oaels day with a silent personal not o a to an avol dollar! Alooholcs Anonymous has, ’ l0 in: cont "sisooealful. wo oau . th a similar showing on [overrmotital spree-spending. -gi, “my, pm. Dispatch.

tho opiuiouof correspondents. l mamwvuvw niisiirruuif Taxes _ $l1'.—Mi'. McQuuld, th of the Prince Edward fsiflanIdrITilIblialil °l11°5l$ I-eflkue. dtserves u great deal of credit for bringing to the attention of that body and through It m" P°°P1e in general. the facts in °°m°¢ll0n Wllih lhe administration of our so-cisiied lieuith Tim Tm situation secms to be bflfifly this; The Provincial Government, n 19w Wars ago. imipflsefl a special tax on the sale of tobacco and liquor for. the purpose of raising money 1m augment our health sepvlggs and lihls mciney instead of beLn-g set. aside for that exclusive purpose is‘ being paid lnlu the consolidated. revenue of the Province and only; ‘a portion of it finds its way into, Paying for extra health services. | 1t would be unfortunate if mem-l bcrs of the public and public or- gonimiiom would hesitate to raise their voices in protest 8851115; ml; practice because they did not wish to take sides in what m-ig-ht be call-j ed a “political question." I suppose anything that is exposed by one party and opposed by another be- comes thereby a "political issue." But it is unthinkable lihat people in this prosperous little Province should be allowed to suffer and d-fe because- its citizens -think more of their political allegiances than Io! the lives and happiness of their friends and relatives. Because fiifs is not really a political but n moral question and there is no-doabt but that people are dying and will die End M‘! living in miserable circum- stances because lhls money raised by the Government is not being, properly used.

When a person purchases tobacco in this Province the Government has provided that he shall receive s receipt for the tax that has bean collected from the purchaser by the merchant. The Provincial Treasurer‘ may stoic that. he cun- not agree that this money should be all used for one purpose but the wording on the stomp leaves no doubt as to the reason the tax is levied. because it states very plain- l_v: “For Health Services." Probably the Provincial Treasurer has never looked very closely at one of ihcse receipts but we suggest that this. statement given under the Ccat of Arms o! the Province must be made on some authority. It 1s eith- er the truth or it isn't. ff it ls the truth. the money is being improp- erly used. isnd‘if it ls not the irul-li than it should be changed to read: “partially for Health Services." v

There are many other angles l0‘

.p1'f-!SS in all his

Black pine. Jaimie. Ctdisl‘ and birch. 11f you love an upland man, he'll

leave you in the lurch.

life's akin to northern stairs and

spruce trees dark and tall, Upland men and trees are tough whichever way they fall.

Dogwood. splcewood. and plum.

1f you love a lowland man he'll have a green thumb,

And he will cut his backlog of slurd-y hillside oak.

And he will have a friendly hearuli and curling grec-nwood smoke.

applewood

Lowland trees will blossom and bear fruit from the start

he shadow of an unpland tree falls long across the heart.

-Aime Robison lligibee, Ln the New York Herald-Tribune.

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missionary. In those days the Highland population ul Edinburgh numbered many “in spoke no English, and many of flit-m car- ried chairs to bring invullds to church. This journey took them loo for from the one Gaelic serv- lcc in Edinburgh, so Dr. Muir arranged ordinances for them.

Sunday schools were organized with a printed syllabus-Di‘. Muir made a new use of the printing work. A day school was built for the district in 1836, and the building is still ll‘- use as a youth centre. An eve- ning school for lllerate adults brought t-he number under in- struction to 700.

There were also a parish lib- rlry: a work society giving both employment and cheap clothing to "females"; and a “Yearly Society" which was an early thrift and brnofit association, providing a savings bank. a sickness fund, and a funeral insurance-this Society, one of the oldest in the country, is now at Mic height of its prosperity, having 780 mom- bers and a turnover of £7800 an- iiually.