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SNIURDAY, FEBRUARY i, mi. A Shock To The Province

The hrtital crinic reported in yesterday's Guardian which restilted in the slaying of tut aged Lluirliittettnvii store-keeper", Mr. Peter j. 'l‘r:tinor, has" catised Province-wide indigatiou and HlZl“lll_ lt is‘ not the function of the press in British countries to exploit puhlic feeling in such cases, or to tire-judge the evidence. But the cir- cumstances" in this: instance are of too revolting a nature to pass unchallenged. It is plain that there is an increasingly lawless element in our midst which inust be (lcalt with unfliucliingly. Perhaps: we have heeii too complacent about the rectirriiig twideitces of this menace iii recent years. lf so, we are having a rude <"l\\'.'ll\'(‘l'llllg; and unless more drastic mcastires are taken, we shall find ourselves hopeless t0 cope with the Sllllltlhtll.

The llfllllU duty, of course, rests with otir law Officers and courts of justice. There is also a duty resting on every citizen who may be em- pHllllClCd as" a juror or otherwise called upon to assist iii enforcing law and order. This is one 0f the most scrioits responsibilities of British citizen- ship. \\'lit~re it is titnidly discharged, or regarded with itidiffereiice, crime will increase as stirely as night follows tltty. ltistit-e cannot be flotited with impu and where scriotis crime is involv-

i i \\‘ltL'l't~ lllllllilll life is itivolvcd—— _ z ‘c of justice. on \\'llt'llL‘\'L‘l‘ grounds of false Cttltllhlsilltll or seittintciitality, is an en- cottragetitciit to further otttbreziks of the saute kind.

With regard to the present case, the police of- etc; later devoted himself exclusively to moral

ficcrs are to he warmly coninietitlcil on their proniptiiti-s Illlll c-ittragc in carrying out their (‘llll\'. Willi-re. for the present, continent must rest. lint the ocmisitvtt givcs twin! to the criticism, too frequently heard in recent months to pass un- notitctl, pf the vet-v serious need for a tightening up of our whole inacliitiery of law cnforcetnertt.

\Va nleiclztA-VTS/ar Leader

.. ‘ 'l‘l:t- t vil that nieii do, it is said, live after them; and so it ntay he with the short-lived Uttzuvzi con- #~'l'\'l1\1' l-H the Sill": report. The conference lilFirtl Phi)’ t\\'oll:t_\1<, hut it has given rise already to .' llllllitlllulls dispute lictiveen federal attd pro- ytnctal lxilv ml l<'.'l<l(‘l'.\', now citgzigeil in hotnhard- 1H,: c-‘tvit other at lung range with zihusc and rc- ft;:., itrit ' “llll lite taut of tanarlzi and the linipii'e hanging a

in the balance overseas! Lilierzil protagonists for is a complicated instrument requiring various ad- _ ‘ Premier llcphtirn of justmcnts to allow for the particular type of "ttntitvlttiiitf the L‘t)llf(‘l\'llt"t.'; Ali’. llcphuru rc- honih being used, for lwigltt, air and wind speed, it)! l». h)‘ tlt tltittticillj; llip wliulc splicing; as n, tiel-gir- (TllFCCllUll élfltl (lflfl.

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rm: CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

ers are also urging a widening of the powers of the \\'ar Tllllc Prices and 178110 Board l0 Sllilllle that body to fix maximum prices of goodsenter- ing into the cost of farm production. _Alr.'eady the board has fixed a wholesale maximum price for butter, has issued “statid-still” orders on rents and a temporary order on bread prices. ‘Another request of the farmers that there be set up a board of livestock commissioners to perform functions similar to those of the Board of Grain Commissioners brought comment from Mr. Gar- diner who pointed out that the grain board was a costly machinery and its costs went back against the return to the farmers on their grain. lle would be glad to see a livestock board but simply indicated it would be expensive. Farmers also asked for some pflCC-SCl-lll) on their products that would not have the effect of increasing costs to the British [)L‘01)l€, but would ensure a better return to Canadian producers. Some system of maximum prices for products to be exported and of minimum prices 0n farm products coit- stunerl at home would be a solution of the present pressing problems of the farmer in war time.

EDITORIAL NUI ES -.

No new moon till the 25th x -i< v 4'

Ash Wednesday, beginning of Lent 26th. m =|< >t¢ r

Tomorrow Caudlcinas. May the groundliog fail to see his shadow or woe bctide tis. 1F IR If‘ I‘

"Before long there will be no male Briton working on a job a woman can do.” So cables the Canadian Press representative from London. How long will it be before the same can be rc-

ported of Canada?

$10110‘!

In his address to the jury in the Doucettc mur- der trial, Mr. justice Saunders directed attention to a witness who, he said, was not telling the truth. Is there not a duty devolving upon tlic Attorney-General to discover ivlietlicr this is so or not? Or are such xvitnesses just allowed to £0 their Own Sweet way irrespective of the court's tipintion of their vcrticity? 4- * =1‘ n-

Ceurgc Cruikshank, greatest of Eiigland’s llineteenth Century black-and-ivltite artists and caricaturists. died this date, I878. Renowned for his illustrations to Dickens, Ainswortli, Lever,

propaganda including “Bank Restriction Note”, which satirized the execution of forgets; and the temperance serics—-“'l‘he Bottle", "The llrtink- ard's Children", and “The Worship of Bacchus." iv -i= iv 4i

“‘Jt’s too late now,’ a young lady behind the 1’. U. counter once said to me,’ writes the Marquess 0f Dvltcgilll. ‘You should have counted your change before you went out.’ “ ‘Indeed, l am sorry,’ I replied. ‘I had returned with the in- _t¢11t10l1 0f giving you back the extra 10s note you titcluded in my change!” “\Vitli that, of course, l walked out. But I. will not let it Occur again. l will co-operate with the P. O. hy counting my chattge before l pick it tip.”

>i< r =i= 4- "Boiiil.v-i\iiiiing is an li. .i\. l“, job for which a msic training in ntatlieiiiatics is itivzilttablv," says

writer in the Glasgow llerald. “A hoinh sight

“There are two kinds of

IIOTES BY TIIE WAY

Pictures, now belnr iwblllhd l" the newspapers in Canada, 00mm“ all the broadcasters told us about. the damage done in central I/mdou by the Nazi super-raid at. the W81‘- eud, Any nearer who envisioned a scene c! more complete destruction than some of these P1631115 life-WM 13 gmed with unusual imagination. In one view, shswing me Old Bailey district, hardly a building ls to be sum that. escaped the halt o1 bruins entirely, and most. of tlaem are only ruins which will have to be torn down. It is a depressing spectacle (I liavcc and waste, even ignoring the lzivisuble backgrcund cl‘ death and suffering. Yet British keeps sending out reports that. the equally heavy and evcn more sus- tained raids of the RAF. on Ger- man centres do no serious damage. Is it; suizpascd any intelligent be- ing, outside the ranks of t.li.se in Germany who refuse to face facts, believes any such nonsense? It ls tmpxsible. When a bcmb hits a blhldlng it; ivrecks it, whether the bomb is Gcnman or Biutkh, wher- ever the building is situated and whatever lt; is llz€d for. What Nazi bombs have done Lo store bulld- tngs and hiuscs in L211Cl0ll, Brit- ish bombs have done to oil tanks, arsenals, munitions Iaetorits. docks and railway junctions in Gemiariy and the occupied cauntrles. There can be no possible doubt; of that. Bremen, I-lamm, Wilh-elmsliaven, Einden, it damn cities in the Ruhr, and probably evui Berlin itself, cculd show pictures fit, to rank with them views of Lcndcws bombed areas. That is scmething the ob- server shsuld remember when he locks at. the battertd landmarks in the Empire's capital and loking at them, DSIII-Embfll‘ that this is the work of btmuers who cared not. what, they hit, while RAF. bamb- ers t-ry to make their bombs count 1n tthe destruction cf German world; of scinie military importance. —Edmontan Bulletin. To hear that the German Secret. Police ts raiding French bockstores and seizing publications guilty of "anti-German character" cheers the c:mlc spirit between the acts of the tragedy. ‘The conquer-Ly of so much of Ettrc-pe is made to look a Illllfllfg Dogbcrry, After u tizght, of’ wljtclesale iutirdei" ccmes the liar- rytng of the bccksellers. The re- vival of bck-btirning in Germany was more than silly enough, but Hitler's laurel; cf ravage were then young. New lie ls a god of destruc- tion, dart-tug lightning o-f war. So practised a dealer of death shouldn't illustrate the old saying that the devil is an ns=_ When there is a print slip nt ev y cor- ner, what could be more rldiculcus titan to try to supprcs: a book or a pamphlet? Bevdes. ruined France, forced to pay .1 the entertain- ment of the victors armies, fleeccd, ptllacerl, made to deny herself and pretend b accept the polsotied dcc- trine of her invader, now has such new cause to fear and hate him that the bit-wrist. word ever printed agamst. him in France must. seem a. complztnent. 1t is unprssble, thinking of these Gestapo sfeuths, tic-t to think of ivliat a great quarry of French literature that has stirr- cd the pulses of liberty and de- m'cracy' these littuters musl. leave untouched. If the names could be ffxllllnlicd from F‘i"nnce ii. kit's per- iod of opprefsfon they Wflllld only b9 brighter in (he c: 1TH Ill’Ill()l‘_\' of the rest. of the ct ltwrd w.rlcl.

ITIJBLIC FORUM

THOSE IIUN S AGAIN

Sir. —As I was sitting one stormy day at. the window wa 9.1511: flock of Hungarian Partrdges around the barnyard that have been fed and cared for by the men folk I wondered why farmers in general who are fighting storms and atten- ding to their business should have to listen t0 the asperslons cast at ttliem through the press bv the "pen" friends of these birds.

The farmers and their families are the only people who are dozng anything (but wilting) to keep the bards alive, putting out ashes, clay, seeds etc, and all the thanks they get. is a. lot of letters tn the papers telling them to do the things they

make it. seem as though there is no humanity among country people. Now If these “pen" friends would go out to the country and gather up the blzds. I believe the farmers would even provide covet.‘ as welt as feed and grit to protect them.

The poor little birds dld not conte here by their own wish. neither did. the farmers ask for them. (much as tliev enjoy seeing them 1n the flel in summer.) They were brought, here evidently {or sporting purposes. Well who gets the spot-t? Not the faxmixs in most cases. who ruthlessly hunts and wounds them. Oli, no! Now the Island papers g0 far 8nd Widfl. and what impression are people from abroad getting 0f the Island people? It ts about ims criticism of far-triers thiou-gli thcs; letters had stopped.

l am Sir, etc. Farmers Wife

WHY ISLAND FARMERS NEED 1'0 IMPORT FEED GRAIN

Slrz-In one of my prevlou: let- ters I was able to show from Gov- eminent; statistics that. the annual agricultural production in Prince Edward Island had fallen from $26,- 000,000 in 1929 to an average of $12,800,000 during the years 1930 to 1939. The Dominion Statistician has now announced that. the pra- ducticii in 1940 is only $l0,798.000. the lowest of the decade since 1932, when it fell to $10,078,000. In an- other lettcr the livestock popula- tion for 1927 was ztated to be 294,- 720, while by 1939 it. had dropped to 222,000. Looking at the above two lots of figures. lb ls but. logical to attribute a large portion of the loss in farm production directly to a decrease in the number of animals kept and fed upon our farms. Fur- thermore. so long as the selling or killing of livestock continues. our production returns wlll decrease and farmtug generally will become Ie s and less remuneratlve.

Ask any farmer why he got rid of his cattle, his hogs and his sheep. and he wlll tell you that ft; cost too much t.) feed them, and the same reason is given for not having bred new stock. Almost all farmers nd- mlt, however. that they are feel- ing the 10s: of sales of milk and of fewer animals to sell except hogs, and of the latter they complain bit.- t-erly of the high feed costs and clamor for cheap western grain. The abmje ls but part. of the

have been doing for years, trying to \

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.9 28, t-he resulting costs per giighglbii/ere for oats $.82 and for barley $1.10. _ The above Experimental Faun fig- ures were prepared with great care by men who have made a life study of agriculture. The figures for this Province were materially lower than those Ironi the Ottawa Farm and frcm the other Farms ln Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Seotta, and can with safety be accepted as entirely dependable. One is therefore surely jutlfled in asking why, in the name of common sense, there should exist. any prejudice BBB-mil’ the importation of grain from the prairies at figures from one-half to one-third of our local producing costs. Let- us even go further and ask why tn t-hls Province any more grain should be grown than is ne- tually required in order to start; new hay and clover fields and for the production of straw. In the case of straw a large saving could be made by converting our peat, o! which we have millions of tons, ln- to stable litter.