race FOUR 1 _

rot may be practically eliminated if the crop 1a riot dug for at least ten days following the complete death of the plants. By that time, the infectious spores too are dead and incapable

ciuiiuinnoivii cuiiiniiii

Growers are more and more rflaliling that even light epidemics of late blight may cause severe losses unless necessary precau-

iu ' _ out; (Founded ‘u. iiiini 0f Cfliisinz harm- llthorlaed as Second Class Mail. Post Otllee

Department. Ottawa-

‘lbetiuardlan may

tions are taken at digging time. As a result, in seasons when severe frosts do not come early enough to destroy the plants and permit digging operations at the usual time, growers are us- ing certain chemicals with which to kill off the

Bub Tobacco Shop, Monctoll. N. I. The News Shop, Moneton, N. B. George McLean Pictou, N. S. Walker's White Spot, l1 Salter St., Halifax, NJ- Iletropolitan News Agency, 1248 Peel St.. Montreal United Cigar Stores, Chateau Laorler Ottawa, OIL 8. Altken, Lord Elglnb llotel. Ottawa. Ont.

.I. Fine, 354 Bay St.. Toronto OIIL

Wolfe's News Stand, Sudbury. Ont. Old South News. Cor. Milk and Washington Sh,

Accumulated information from the many ex- periments which have been conducted in potato growing regions in Canada. and the States has so impressed the manufacturers of

mmhw‘ m“ ‘gem’ Tim“ “mdhl- N" 7°"- fungicides and insecticides that they have real-

ized the great possibilities in this method of

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than _ controlling late blight and rot.

tlse Weakest Ink.‘

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presents pm

in piiwcr.

offer was mail-c

subject says:

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turers and- tecliuicitins of the Science Service, Dominion Department of Agriculture, are de- veloping and experimenting with many types of chemicals for use by potato growers.

TUEJSDAY, JULY 30, 1946

Government

In (l'.'l_\'$ rut-t the Li:iii:iili;m Press, which re-

: cvt-rv daily newspaper in the Diiiiiliiiini, siliinplv ri-sciitcil, and offered vigorous objection [it the intrusion of the Gov- ernment iii the lll>lflllllllt>ll and circulation of news. The fczir \\'(l5 held that such new; could easily. llllll vcrv |)l‘ull(tlll\' iticrilly lltillltfll :i:nl ltljl-Ctl in favour of the pan,-

»- EDITURIAL NOTES -

If oiie's cellar is not already filled, it would be bctter to ring the cnahiian and tell him so. He'll do the needfiil, and wait for payment.

Next hioiith will lic noted here for two out- standing events, the Exhibition and Old Home Both are now long standing and out- standing lllziritiiiic features.

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liiiiiictlizitel_v ZlliUl‘ \\'in".(1 \\';ir I, in 1919, an Canadian press, open a l‘rcs.< liititriiititiini statfcd with cumpt-iciit officials iii charge, to SUDPlV Utttiwu ciirrt-spimdciits with any Gov- ernment llilfiflllilllllll they might desire, includ- ing summiirics ill the various ilepartmcntal re- POYIF- F1115. the liii\'c'i‘lll1l(3lll suggested, would 1'@l1<’\"e newspaper (‘(lll'll'S of considerable trou- ble iii reading and ilfgi-stiiig blue books, and at the same tinic would provide profitable read- ing matter for newspaper readers. pressing due appreciation of the good intentions of the Government, theloffer, for the reason we suggest, the oppor- lumlY It wollhl Dffivirle for unscrupulous pol- iticians to utilize the service for party propa- ltanda. Mr. Borden and Mr. Meighen, who were. then in office readily acknowledged the l’i5h involvcrl, and took no further action in the matter. Ottawa correspondents continued to collect their own iicws from available sources, and kept the iicws tree from bureaucratic taint and ofticial censorship.

_ Again, the l)i)\\'(‘rs-ll1Zll-‘lJ6 at Ottawa are ang- ling to keep official news as Government pre- serves. The Blonirczil Gazette dealing with the

Our Island fishermen are liecoiiiiiig prosper- ous, to the advantage of all concerned. Tiheir catch of 6,497,300 pounds last month repres- ented a landed value 0f $733,268, or $135,908 more than the lauded value of lune, i945. The increase last mouth, both in quantity and value, was general throughout the Maritimes.

‘F It‘ It‘ I‘

"UNO is a great advance on the League of Nations," says Gcncrzil Sniuts, “and deserves our fullest support. But the world has also become far more "dangerous than it was after the last war, with far mightier powers and forces and deadlier ivcapons than in the time of the League of Nations.’ Disarniamcnttheii proved a snare and appeasement a delusion. Let us now more cautiously build our security uoi solely on‘ UNO but also on our own prepared-

Cllllillllflil Press

Evidently Nova Scotia is getting into close quarters with the Federal LiOvernmeiit over tax compensation, seeing that a Provincial Govern- ment meeting is to be held to consider terms. Hitherto the Hon. Angus L. Rlcicdonzild has con- ducted negotiations unassisted. ficially known hcrc vct ivhcthcr this Province has been promised the $3,000,000 subsidy coii- sidered the absolute minimum

"The fact is that an information service is to be formed, the scope and nature of whose functioning will be under rigorous Government control. lt is true that the service will be under the ‘general supervision’ of a committee. this committee is only the Government under

The trouble with Rt. lloii. lirncst Bevin is he is too outspoken for a diplomat. fended the jews and the U. S. Goveriimcut by telling them in measured but wholly iindiplo- matic language "where they got off at" on the Palestine issue; and he czirlicr rubbed the So- viets the wrong wziv by openly asserting that their leader Blr. I\I(llOlO\' lied. \Vinston he would have sziuvely suggested the communist representative had been “guilty of ll terminological iiicxactiturlc." As it is, the forth- right Bevin has been shelved for Prime Minister Attlee at the Peace Conference. be assumed that Prime Minister Mackenzie King will say nothing that cannot be misconstrued to suit any listener o; reader.

~ “Fur it is to b: ciiiiipiiscd of a chairman u-ho -" will be appointed bv the President of the Privy ' Council, whois llt. lloii. \\‘. L. Mackenzie King. Another member is to be appointed by the Secretary of State for External Affairs, who happens also to bc hlr. King. A third member is to be appointed by the Minister of Trade and Commerce, who is currently .\lr. Rlzicliiiiiion. A fourth, representing the National Film Board, will be appointed liy the Minister responsible for the Film liltilfll, ' Claxtoii. The fifth iiiciiiibci" will be appointed by the Cliairiiiziii of the Board of Governors of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, who is ! Mr. A. l). Duiiion, himself an appointee of the Government. The sixth and last member will the Cziiizidiaii Information

at present Mr.

be the director oi Service, smother Gorcriiiiiciit appointee.

"‘.\iiil the whole committee is ‘subject to the authority of lllc Minister", who happens in this Hue is i'Cl'l1ll1(l€(l of the line

Thomas Gray, British poet, died this. date 177i‘, his Elegy is sentiment iiiiperishable; he was in his mature years, a devoted college stu- (lent, a man of refined taste and an cxemplifier of all the virtues-there is not a more irre-

case to ho .\li'. King.

'Q\iitc 1i riiw of tliciii sitting there!’ “ljiiilvi- circumstances and conditions of this kind, iiidcpcnileiicc of action will feel many restrictions. Iii :i service whose function will be to givc out iiifiiriiiziiinii concerning the activities and policies oi ilii~ ilcpartmcnts of the Govern- ment, the guiding hand will undoubtedly be felt, ‘even if ii is not aliviiys seen. The personnel of the Caiiziiliziii Iiifiiriiintioii Service are likely to find themselves, sooner or lzttcr and to all intents 1 p-irt riiiil pnrccl of the Government. “.\iid lll order that the fcilcral Liberals might have this rmivi-niciit service, the Canadian tax- paycrs will hart: still ziiiothcr reason why the swollen expenditures of

among p0 ular English poems there is none more distinguished than the Elegy; it appeals to a. feeling ivhich is all but universal —— a ten- dcncy to moralisc whcn alone in a churchyard: and thus it is enabled to take hold of the iiinst common-place minds. In One of the final verses of the Elegy there is a clause not unworthy of comment, as a historical expression of the Eng- lish peasantry of the eighteenth century: "Ap- pmnch and road-for ilmii (mist rand", says the hoary headed swain to the stranger. here assumed that, as a rule, an English pcas- ant was unable to read. A Scottish poet would not have had occasion to make the same as- sumption rcgzirtliiig his humble coiiiitrynifn — thanks to the Scottish parish schools instituted at the Revolution.’

ivartime cannot

whatever to no his trair. -1=‘..-:t

céuiruiiiiig-Laie Blight

The Progressive Conservatives are fortunate in having leadership‘ from hlr. Macdonnell. His budget criticisms are. within their field. as good a platform as the Party could very well get. Pro-Con criticism of GOVCIIIIIICIII expenditures has been definite and useful, says the Letter- Rcz/icttn. Government spokesmen have nothing to say, except that the Pro-Cons would have spent at least as much, which is’scarcely argu- ment, even if many Pro-Con statements would lead to this conclusion. erals have no heart in the fight; fcebiust as extravagance as The C.C.F. and Social Credit members realize that public spending is now unpopular, so necessarily have little to say ex- cept to repeat the tenets of their creeds. Nat- ional registration still costs $324 thousand I year, although Mr. Ilsley refuses to be drawn into saying why this waste continues. while, i4 thousand deserters are loose. who could be caught in a week, if National Registra- tion were really effective. The plain fact’ is that Mr. Boivin, M.P., has a real story, when he asks nn amnesty for all zleserters. the Government intends to make areal effort to round up these men and punish them. it ls continue the National Regls“ flflgt arulto maintain a time Call

"e practice ill ilcstroyiiig potato tops by Spraying the plants with certain chemicals scv- eriil days before (llfllllllfli the tubers is being more widely adopted by the growers in Prince Edward Island, notes a bulletin issued by the Federal Department of Agriculture. galions carried out by the Dominion Plant Pathological Laborafory at Charlottetown and elsewhere demonstrated that late potato blight and ‘m: could be prevented by killing off the to»tops_ towards the latter _end of the grow- and leaving the crop on the ground it‘ ten days. But there are other types

The back-bench ' Lib-

: - ' the Opposition. ‘$0M rot. especially in badly infected fields, is ‘y f0 result from blight spores being washed the soil by- heavy rains during the growing toys L. C. Callbeck, agricultural scien- ‘V the Charlottetown Laboratory. This type fittlctft ‘they be satisfactorily controlled by ' ' recommended spraying program sure that the tubers are t o inches of soil. Many of will show tlie bronze dis- , of blight rot no digging them should be caught by the

- f_ lnfettlotuilsttlttllly the

- eater var-t 0f the

The delay sleqaa and shines, a lesser sun

And the lone bee that plowed the lieavywalr

Rests on t clover now, his cruis- ing one. ,

Bends as she bends, and finds ob- livion there. l“

mi- 1g. mum that beds the bee in lllIll-

btr. now~ . to And. amt.‘ itself, half slew. half problems . fl our b it

féetly abrupt to

THE Cl-IARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

Notes By The Way

What ever became of old-lash; loner! mass nzducflon- rememberv -t.1ist use to produce needed at}: la rriassest- Winnipeg Tri-

e.

Deyplte peace conferences, It might be difficult to convince 1e suddenly expelled from Ains-

rla that war has ended on the Continent. -Toionto Teiegrem.

The world has no time for peat- mortems on failures. but the l-Ib- dtvidual himself will find that suc- cess ls chiefly learned in the school oi’ failure. —St.ratiord Beacon-Her- a d. . "‘

livery pound cf fat saved and turned tn merim that. a oound of food fats will be made available tn the general world supply. -M R. Werner, American Fat. Salvage Committee.

A man who sell! out his country is not a martyr. but a. fool. 1-fe exchanges whatever may be - his satisfaction at the moment tor it lifetime of J-Iilim The hitent to betray is not recnliable. Once it is evidenced, the whole man is in doubt ‘and to the or-i or his class Martyrs are not built cf such stuff —V1ctoria Colonist.

Now that “Just and reasonable" wage increases are to he permits-d. perhaps the authorities will get.

ting "just aria reasonable" increas- es in rents. ‘Thousands of citizens whose cnlv offense against society was to provide livng accommoda- tic-r. for the use of others. at a time of critical shortage. are ocing vic- timized by harsh regulations. - Vancouver News- Herald.

There are many reasons why flogging as a penalty for certain crimes should be resorted to to u. greater extent than it ls iii these modern days. L jail term of a few years has tit-come so common that the man wno determines ‘.0 live b robbery by violence has ap- paren ly made up his mind to re- gard the penalty with contempt. He is well Jed arid coiistortably clothed while‘ in prison and the in- evitnbie losscf reputation in soc- iety ceases ‘to trouble him after his first term in confinement. Flog- lrig ts the proper and most ef- ectlve means cit penalizing certain criminals. —Chain-:m Datiy News

Two hours of radio for twenty- flve cents for hotel guests is offer- ed by a receiving set being manti- faptured by e. leiidir-g radio maker The coin operated sets are being specially Yhade for use in not-i moms where they are being in- stalled as rapidiy as production penriits. When peak production is reachetL-over 3,000 receivers a month will 0e built. The sets are similar in appearance to late-model table radio receivers, tii? major difference being u coin mechanism on the top where the twenty-five cent; pieces are inserted. The guest can turn the radio off ii-m on until he Bets his full two hours’ wor-ii of entertainment. —Marke‘.‘.ng Tor- onto.

.'l‘he tragic delusion that the number of dollars a man earns really matters is dc-imuciiinfl a con- tinent. How many dollars he earns is of only reiadve importance. What is important is how much comfort. and security '19 can get with tits earr-Sngs; how much his doiinrs will buy. Each succeeding maicr strike brings more ‘ICHILIS. Strikers and threateners >1 strikes pICSllfImUlY feel they are making progress; that their eeoncmlc status is inzprovlns- In dos-riaeiiisi. ‘the Whippet never oi-tches the electric hare. 1t is tne same ln the rnie between wages and prices. The inflation spiral is now whirling upward. Production --s vast torrent of goods and scr- vtees that people want art-l need- ls the only [ire extinguisher to stop the holocaust, but production is choked off with strike dislocations. and industrial strife. ——r3’tnanciai Post. t

A heavy ore train was proceed- ing near Calumet when the engtni eer saw the Iiody of a man lying across the rails. I-le put. on the atr- brnkes immediately and the loo;- motive was stopped 50 feet. short of where the mar. lay. A !ife w;s saved but the damage to cars and track ls estimated at about. $20,000 and there was serious dislocation of traffic for several hours because 10 qt the cars were deraiicd. The man who escaped death was 5S years old. He had been reported missing for some days arri he claimed that he had suffered a stroke. Railway officials said that he smelled strongly of liquor when roused from his-prostrate- position 0n the tracks. Yet. tie was a human being and tn the railway rode his life was of qreater vaiizi- than railway property. it is i spierdid thing to know that in tlic railway man's int of view nimian life comes fret. Mam people are kill- ed end injured unrriaily on rail- wizy crossings 1nd tracks. but. in the great majority of cases it is be- eaua the engineer had no chance

William Tlmes- oiirnai.

twee‘;

SUSPENSION

The slow. ions peace of summer afternoon

Darkens through boughs. or sleeps.

o e great. "

Where time, not sure tf it be late

or soon. Forgets his coming, and forgets to

i-tere. vmtlilmmmavea except the d That contemplatm-tha lreeii way of

sttitam tent. blind

y, and the roinmno-

nroflvi to the necessity lo! oermit-,

‘Ilslaeelamahepqle fillllefllallsyaang

cc-rreeponllltlt

MB. SHAW‘ LIITII

Lhe farmers araliist a put over them about an belnit out 0n Csnadis terlng the United 3t; I am. Sir. etc"

North Carleton, 11.1.1, July 29.

HOW ABOUT THIS?

be done to relieve the burden

which are trying to the added expense

iittation Courses for students.

this matter. tn the not too distant time it will be too late to remedy: yet more strikes, Canada needs an

to our democratic way of living. discontented.

normal lives at 17 9r 18 to enlist. ed. What else could we do? Do out. to these boys and what they

tinunnce of the education of those cern of a fatherly Government tit

its well padded seat. of course).

The Legion carried on a Nation- al drive for finances for the edu- cation of men in the service-men vitiuse normal college careers were so interrupted. With fear in our hearts, we mothers and fathers ivatched the inevitable happen.

education, if it met their needs, was there. in some aha-De. yes; but

one of the many strenuous train- iiiz courses. lust. couldn't stay awake tong enough to take ad- vantage o! mental training‘ at night. even if this mental train- ing had been available nearer than many weary steps from their quarters. We have no doubt that the Legion, the Y.M.C.A..~and the other service organizations put the money to good use. and no doubt many lads were helped to further their educations. These would in- clude the thousands of holders of armchair Jobs tn the services, but not the lads nine slept and ate where they eoiiki on active ser-

.ce. Now. some of them are back; I thank the Rood God. mine are among that number. I have been facing the hopeless task of help- ing out the allowance of 860.00 per month which each enlisted man gets while he is a student

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I am llviniz on an annuity of $1000 (paid for over a ‘ion! per- iod out of my husbands salary). My duty as I see it is to keep a home open for my husband's fam- 1lli"lmt11 such time as they have established homes of their Own. Here are my monthly expenses: Rent 8&5. Heat . . N00 (Inciudina cartage. ashes, etc.) Vets‘ Life Insurance 2.60 Garbage . . Telephone . Electricity Milk

S

Grass "itiiii" Snow . Cleaning Water Rates .

3:35???

$70.70 $79.70 out of $84.00 per month. without allowance for necessary repairs. flre insurance. or inciden- tal expenses such as Guardian subscription, etc. New out of the balance (imaginary. ,don't you think?) I am called upon by a be- X1181’! and fatneriy . 00 eminent wnicn promised to do so much for our returned men (I am a Lib- eral. too. mind youl) to pay $160.00 for Income Tlxl If we don't eat. anything other than milk. buy no clothes, give nothing to charity. or church. and get no entertainment outside of free lib- rary service. I sttii can't pay this 0160.00. v - But M.P.'s are able to vote themselves an extra 01000-00 D91’ year free of Income Taxi Amt this morning's Guardian carries an editorial which Mum mitt-he Income Tax, of i1 tamlyers earn- lng $2,000.00 will be minim to niiv the salary of one new d tor of nubile relations in the Afr Force Dept. I-iow many of these izentlernen are belria sililoort. now on the $160.00 tlX 0f thous- ands of widowed mothers scroll Canada. when that 0100-00 IMIM go towards making our returned vets less ashamed of nuttlnl the" dear ones in an early m... from wort-yin! over meet

Many of t men hi‘!!! the courses because of this aide of the situation.

My own son ealne home to find he had eutmwn its 11-100!’ clothes: his gratultlesmetted awe! at present-day wflcss for eiotbee. because he is oiitalse. and cannot