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Til" GUARDIAN

Morning Daily (Founded in I88?“ Authorized as Second Clan Mull, Pout Office Department. Ottawa.

The island Guardian Publish n; Co. fireside-rt. run A. Burnett; Vice-President, Win. R- burnett; 5ccy.-Trcus.. G. M. Burnett; Editor and Managing Director. J. it. Burnett; Associate Editor i-‘runls Walker.

"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest lnk."

UHARLOTTETOWN, SATURDAY, APRIL i7. 1948

Under Which Flag?

An illuminating debate’ at the moment, sug- gests on exchange, would be one_,between Mr. M. J. Caldwell, leader of the C. 8.. F-rfllld M’ A. R. Masher, president of the Canadian Con- gress of Labour (C.l.0.), which is the union spearhead af Mr. Coldwell's party.

Mr. Caldwell has called for postponement of the 2i per cent freight rate increaserecommend- ed by the Board of TransportCommissioners and has strongly denounced the King Government for supporting the Commission's findings. But Mr- ‘rashcr appears to think quite differently. Asked to comment on the railways’ position, he said "they should get more than even the 30 per cent they asked for."

Mr. Masher, of course, besidesbeing Can- adian Congress of Labour president is also head of the Canadian Brotherhaodaf Roilwaymen, while Mr. Caldwell, as C.C.F. leader, has his real political stronghold in Saskatchewan, where the freight rate jump will seriously affect the inter- csts of the wheat farmer. lt would, therefore, be interesting to hear these two leaders of similar political policies debate the issue. But their position is no more anomalous than that of our Maritime Liberal members of Par- liament, whose Provincial Government leaders have strongly denounced the rate increase but who have been forced to take their orders from Prime Minister King at the party's Ottawa cau- cus, and are reportedly prepared to put poli- tics ahead of other interests in this emergency.

The question now is, what will our Liberal Maritime Premiers do? Will they stand staunch- ly by their guns, and refuse to be dominated by the big interests in the Central Provinces and New York, who are behind the freight rates grab because it means milking the less prosperous Provinces which have no competitive transporta- tion facilities to keep the freight rates boast from running wild? In this little Province, Premier Jones estimates that the extra charges will cost us nearly a million dollars annually, and will disrupt our whale agricultural economy. That is a big price to pay for protecting party in- terests at Ottawa. Can we afford it? is the question which the Jones Government will have to ask itself. lf instead of a Prohibition pleb- iscite our people..were_gi1en_an_oppor.tunity 41L "voting on this issue next June 28, there is no ques- tion as to what the verdict would be. But it is for the Government to decide; and the some applies to the Governments of our sister Maritime Prov- inces. By stonding solidly together they may do something yet to save these Provinces from impending economic strangulation.

Money llnil Expenditure

Anyone wishing to know the extent to which wants have increased need only look at the difference between 20 or 40 years ago and today, says the Monthly Letter of the Royal Bank of Canada. We flfg consuming very different quantities of the some goods, but in addition we have many new goods to consume. People now want, and demand, and can pay for, things which were unattainable or not even thought of by their parents or their grandparents.

In Canada, the total personal expenditure on consumer goodsand services amounted to $3,- 7l4 million in i938 and $5,926 million in i946, in dollars of the samo buying power, an increase of 60 per cent, compared with a population in- crease of i0 per cent.

As rapidly as supply has grown under the wheels of machines, demand has kept ahead of it. Today, the providing of things people want is for behind demand. With their tables laden with good things which would have seemed the undreamable heights of luxury to aristocrats of a century ago, today's ordinary people are crying in front of Mother Hubbard's cupboard for some- thing mare. Amid riches, we bcwail what we luck.

lf a man oxpocto to wont somo things ii; future more than he wants things which arelovail- riblo at the moment, he saves his money, turn- ing it into a store of values representing work he has done. Canadians hove o great deal of ef- fective demand stored up in savings. Therc were, at September 30 last, 6,337,500 savings ac- counts in~th¢ chartered banks, totalling $3,805,- 900,000, This represents $302 for every person in Cariado, compared with $130 per person 25 years ago. When translated into dollars of the sumo-value, tho increase is I92 per cont.

lloinostlc illiirosc ilcnsiimption

Aidod by controls, the export market dom- inated tho disposition of choose produced in Con- oda during tho wor, but that lrod has now been lost and the domestic morlrot hos established its position as tho_ loading consumer of all dairy products producod in Canada.

f -' in i937, Canada exported 89 million lbs. of chooso. ly i942, tho tigiiro was up to l42 mil- lion lbs. In i947, It hod droppod back to 56 mil- lion lbs. Port of tho onrwor to his iloclino lios in ilonrostic consumption flguroo. in i937, -Con-

udlono uto 40 million M. of clrooio. in i947, . iiiby Illil 67 ‘million lbs. -

' filli‘ act's‘ --‘mporotod, _ _ rpowlorodm --to on no . ; s f froniflniillionllimlni will’) " x 1K9, thou Ioll bocloio ll million

in I947, but domestic disappearance climbed steadily from i0S million in i937 to Z65 million lbs. in i947. .

The cause of these on-again off-again ox ports is the increased domestic consumption of fluid milk, butter and cheese. No important quantities of fluid milk or butter are exported. Canadians ate 35l mil-lion lbs. of butter in i947, a straight i00 million lbs. increase over i937. In i937, they used M284 million lbs. of milk and cream. By i947, tho total was up to 5,760 million lbs.

But regardless of the ultimate use to which the dairy products have been put, Canada's dairy farmers have enjoyed a continuing im- provoment in the financial returns on their pro- duction. Total values increased from $2l5,44i,- 000 in i937 to $535,740,000 in i947.

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Fishing is now legal but it will probably be a while before it is really pleasant. I R i! I

lit is to be hoped that the meat situation will be better when the Prices Committee gets tired of i.t than is that of their lost object of in-

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Considering the figures for increased bank deposits of Canadians and the sales of cars in this country it looks as if Mr. Abbott hit' the nail on the head when he said that we are ex- periencing a boom.

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Ottawa explanations of the sudden solidar- ity of the government benches are astounding. The Canadian Press report is that Liberal mem- bers backed the unpopular government freight rate policy because it is much too unpopular to go to the country on.

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Henry Vaughan, Welsh poet and mystic, born this date i622 in the ancient territorv of Sil- urcs, Wales, hence called _the "Silurist"; he was the last of a once popular metaphysicist school of which inroginativc love of nature is character- istic: "To God, tliy country, and thy friend be true."

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Since the hair-brush, the strap, the cane and the wood-shed went out of fashion, says the Brockville Recorder, a good many boys have got out of hand and ended as juvenile delinquents, often the criminals of later years. lt may be argued that pacificism in the home leads to pacificism in the city and state, and thence to that unpreporedness which has resulted in two World Wars, and threatens a third.

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At one time flowery language, exaggera- tion and repetition were regarded as oriental characteristics, but Hollywood and the adver- ti§fir§"f“raternity"lrave "thoroughly Jwesternized them. So much so that defence counsel said in the Alberta libel case, "The influence of adver-i tising on the language has been such that many journalists find that they have to overstate in order to get the impression across to the reader." The tendency is one against which every news- paperman must be ‘on *his*guaerd.

Therells on interesting footnote to yester- day's reference in these columns to the birth in i848 of a noted English actress, Nellie Farren. Miss Farren was a close relative of another famous actress, Elizabeth Farren, who became the wife of the twelfth Earl of Derby, and who was a first cousin of Mrs. George Thresher, the maternal grandmother of Mr. A. E Morrison of this city. Mrs. Thresher's only other descendants in Charlottetown ore tho Misses Doris and Jean Gill.

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"lt couldn't happen hcrc" used to be the slogan when people discussed Hitler's onward march in Europe. Now the Congress in Wash- ington is being told that a revolution which overthrew the Government of Colombia might quite as easily have brought down the govern- ment of the U. S. A. Representative Donald Jackson, who was in Bogota attending the Pan American Congress told Congress at Washing- ton that "what has happened in Bogota can and will happen here unless we, who still remain frec- and unfettered give ourselves for an all-out bat- tie with the enemy."

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There is still the prospect of a Maritime Reformatory. Attorney-General Currie told the Nova Scotia Legislature that young prisoners would hovo to bo confined in "outmodcd“ coon- ty ioils unless an agreement could be reached with Ottawa to establish a Maritime reformatory. Conferences between officials of the three Mari- time Pravinces and Ottawa had discussed the possibility of using the former Debert army en- campment near Truro, N.S., but Federal auth- orgies wanted to inspect the grounds first, he said. If an agreement could not be reached the province "wil-l have to go its own way," he added. Tho AttorneyiGenerafs department has been allotted $50,000 in the current budget to provide for the institution.

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Tho coll to Rev. T. E. McLonrian, Trinity, to the great Church of St. James, Montrool, docs not bocomo effective till the Fall. Many intricate steps aro involved in tho translation from one area and one district to another, but everything is in apple-pic ordor for tho call boing placed in Mr. McLonnon's hands, and which he has signi- fied his intuition to accept. A great honour is involvod in this coll by historic St. Jamos to tho poitor of Trinity, for ho succoods o lino of in- cumbents socond to irono in tho Dominion. To bo tho Minister of St. Jornos, Montroul, is to bo- como ono of tiio oloct for hitherto it hos collod tho outstanding ministors, not only in Canada and tho United Stator, but England. Mr.,Mcl.on- non will bo grootlyniiscod horo‘ for ho liar oddod enormously to the reputation oi Trinity, ospociaily l! I M00 rwrlfi slum. ,

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Some of the younger devotees at the "new look" seem to be walk tag about the streets in their night gowns and bedroom slippers. — Brockvllle Recorder and ‘Dimer.

Bulls may be o great. necret oo- cfety, but. in 180,000,000 people. there are mighty few who have the password. — 8t. Cathurlnes starr- dard.

Some women who are defying the lower lremline believe and show they have two perfectly good argu- iur-nts for their rebellion against fashion. - Gait Reporter.

A preacher whose congregation regularly spur-n seats in the trout. of the church was surprised to see one man, a stranger in the very first row. After the sermon, the pastor asked the man why he sat. down in front. Tho man replied that, being a bus driver, he want- ed to find out how the preacher got people to move to the ream-- Pathfinder.

To those who are of the opinion that exhibitions and winter fairs are a sink hole for the taxpayers money, the report of the first. Ca- nadian National Exhibition to be held at. ’l‘oront.o since the war should be salutary reading. The ex hlbitlon, held last. November, took tn $1.6 millions. Of this, $205,000 was turned over to the City of To ronto as surplus and goes to re- duce the demand on the taxpay- ers. —- Winnipeg Free Press.

Bruce youroelf for a brand-new‘ type of cafeteria. It's reported that elevator dining tables will soon be all the rage. You sit. down, write out you: order on a slip of paper, drop the slip into u. slot. in the table. The slip drops to the kitchen below, and as soon as the order ls ready, the table lowers through the floor, and presently shoots up again, (‘umplebcly set. Now, we pre- sume, instead of transporting an extra pot of butler to your table they‘ll transport. the table to the pal: of butter, and then back a you. —(Thls Week Magazine.)

When a strange motorlsiwiiiiriircis” into Alberta he must register wittr the provincial authorities within thirty-six hours. WHy he must do this has not ban satisfactorily ex- Plalned. Such a rule does not app-v in the other provinces of Canada nor in the great. majority of tire states across the line. As a special attraction to tourists it ls certainty not to be recommended. There should be-no provincial barriers. petty or otherwise. In a world that ts cursed with restrictions surely within. our own boundaries we can set an example. -¥Finan clal Post. T AT"

Tire babies born In the United States last year bear two dlstln gutshlng characteristics. First, they greatly exceed in number the cm} drcn born in any previous year; second. their prospective lifetime is at a record high. The average length of life of the babies born tn 1947, according to current, mar- tallty conditions, will be about 66 1-2 years. This means that. last. year's crop of bablep will live u total of 260,000,000 years. If they were subject to the mortality pre- valllng at. the beginning of the century their average length of rile would be only 49 1-4 years. Metropolitan Life Bulletin.

Now. at this wondrous season when the rablns are back and tn: skies are blue, when trees are budding grccn and bursting wulte and pink. nobody would wish so sound a sour irate. But it would be interesting to know, now, how many of springs gardeners rvlir still be ni. it when the not dilgi: of July and August roll nrouurl That is ulirrr the test of the true gardener comes. So. Just n ward uf ivrirniirg in all l.llUb(.‘ people who are grabbing in the cavtn bliEat; days --make up your mllldS to stick to it. for" six months. If you uorft all your efforts will be nast- cth-Vuncouvcr Ncvvs-ileralu.

On Kelvin Island in Luke Ntpl- gun about thirty of the woodlanr; caribou have found sanctuary. They are about the last. of he species ac be found in the district. tn happy surroundings. they may multiply if left alone. However, the govern- merit. has assigned the island ta n lumber cutting contractor, And ll the contractor begins operations, the caribou are going to go. Evan _lf pulp wood were scarce, it would be penny-wise. pound foolish, i.) chase thoso caribou from their sanctuary, With other ltmlts avaii- able which the government "nay assign to the wood-cutters, dlsre gard for the protection of this branch of scarce wildlife is inex- cusable. —- Fort. William Tlincs- Journal. ~ .

Bore In Alberto w. are lilting on great cool beds, among the greatest lnrthe world. We have tsp- pcd tremendous lies of natur- ol gas. And we may uncover nqc of these days one of the greatest untapped all fields of the world With those resources we should be doing more than we are now do- ing to provide our own oil supplies. And in any event. we should be making sure of our position ln tho future by laying plans for bringing our all. our natural gas and cu: cool together to uouro oil require- ments for hundreds of yearn to come. Gasoline cnn be moan from natural nu nearly on cheaply u it cop be refined from crude oil. That is one. thing wo know now. Cool ID powdorod form con be mixed with low gtodl all to make fuel oils of grout. pans: - colloidal fuel. it. lo coiled. And synthetic oil from can: con bl disused u o standby in cost

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THE FEED GRAIN PROBLEM O

DJ. ~ xeu u...‘ no UUUMlr quit.- correct. in stating, as you 41¢, ,_-, Monday's Guardian, that. we Com-s increase the yield of our teed grains. including oats. barley and 011K641 BFBl-llfi. if our farmers were careful to use only the best segd and to clean that seed nnrl treat-it merwrlally - before sowing and then lo apply fertilizer scientifi- Wll)’ correct to suit. any analysed soil. Bwt. why take all this trouble and go ta this expense to produce i1 5°" Brain trhat. will not. grind to m9 requisite fineness nor has it bee" lll-iilected and guaranteed as to nutritive qualities, should be able under litre-control of the Federal Government to im- Dort from the West the best quality of hard grain to any ex- tmit that we may require?

The Marltlmes were a most, important part; of the original Canada at the time of Confeder- ation and Joined with Upper and Lower Canada largely because of the grandiose plan to convert; the Hudson Bay territory, one Prairie Provinces of today, into an imijjqengg llrfll-Il growlrng area. Because cf this fact. the Maritime: should have o. first claim on all the grain grown 1n the West. that. they may require,

iVheat. should not of necessity he the main crop of the west. as it is today pad before any wheat is exported to Brit aln or other countries rm ample $111901! of feed grain should be grown for titre Marltlmes be- cause of their peculiar superiority Err raising and growing livestock. If we in Prince Edward Island had an’ ample supply of western feed grain, we could almost cease growing grain of any kind and devote our precious acres to the lnstalaiiou of penrnaneut. pastures and the cultivation of large supplies of fruits and vegetables, for which there is an unlimited demand m all parts of the world. at prices that. would yield profits far in ex- cess of any saving made by growing our own grain. . ~-~»-'Fhls»-svoulq. .mean..tha~l. out d produce more milk, butter. che eggs, poultry. becf. mutton, lamb, pork, barn and bacon, not to men- tlon that most valuable export product; hlgrh grlade breeding stock in horses and cattle, for which many countries have already created a fair demand. Under the above system. not only would our farmers .be making for greater profits. but. largely increased em- ployment would be developed for every month in the year on our hcmc farms and in our city and tnnrng in the production and pro- cessing of Lgrealznzarlefy. of humln. food. Do not forget , Mr. Editor. that- aa a result of the improve- merit and enlargement; of the Railway Wharf lu the Charlottefi town harbor. Prince Edward Island ls now in a posltlou- to export. practically everything we produce including fish. providing it. ls out. up in a manner that can be carried on ocean vessels and further that. there are hundreds of millions 0:‘ hungry people all over the worid_ ready to buy the excellent food products that this Island produces.

Before closing, let. me say that no matter what. plans we may make for the importing of grain there is nothing so essential as the building of m1 elevator of ample capacity in keep our funmcrs always supplied and with unload- ing facilities so rapid that ships frcru all countries will wan-t, la call at the Charlottetown harbor.

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l-I. K. S. IIEMMING

PRESENT TZBUCATIONAL NEEDS

Sir, __ 1n a recent speech on Education some weeks ago, Mrs. Alllafill Mavlvlillzm stressed the

incl, that. present rlsv schools do “at mcot. our educational needs. Education is concerned not, only with training and preparing the individual for life, for making and earning u living, but also with shupiirg and moulding the sbcicly g)’ mmnrunily‘ in which ha or sire will live.

Education begins lrr tihe hcitnn and circumstances and environ- ment. affects the child, though ln later years these influences may be less noticeable, '

Mrs, MiseMlllun reminded tier listeners that modern society is l. complicated and rapidly changing affair and chlkiren must. have not; only a general education but. must. be trained for specific jobs.

Only one out of ten pupils on Prince Edward Irlnnd roach Grade XII but if specialized training were given in properly equipped schools, many more pupils would avail themselves of the opportun- ity to pursue their studies tor- Lher.

The foot was pointed out. that. often o. boy or girl leovoo school because they have been compell- ed to study something for which they are not. lultod. Al PEI- lo primarily gr agricultural prov- lnce, Mrs. Mnonfiunn suggested that. in any pllno for high schools, u course tn Agriculture mould be included.

Languages, arithmetic and hir- iory are neccuory for oil pupil: and n knowledge of there subjects should be attained at the and of Grade vnt or 1x. At. this point riupllii should irovo g choice of subject! academic, commercial or rocntlonol. It is hi’! that tho