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THE GUARDIAN

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Associate lfdleas, Isaak Waller

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

OIIARLOTTETOWN, MONDAY, Auavs-r- so, mes

A Somthing to Boast About

I ‘It is good for us to be hospitable without any thought of reciprocity. Nevertheless, as an island Province, we are most appreciative when visitors return to the mainland and boast of the good time they had while our guests, making friends and acquaintances desirous of sharing at some other time their joy and satis- faction. »

ltt is particularly encouraging and profitable to us as a Province when these guests prove to be newspaper men, able and willing to describe in newspapers the beauties and productive re- sources of the island. ‘The Province has been particularly fortunate this summer in having not a few journalists vacationing on our shores, and quite a respectable number have returned ‘home to publish the good ‘news of what they had seen and learned.

In Saturday's issue, in common-with other morning newspapers, we published such an article by Mr. Forbes Rude, the business analyst of that great news-gathering‘ and distributing agency, The Canadian Press. His story thus received o Canadian-wide circulation, and is sure to do us an inestimable amount of good. Mr. Rhude knows whereof he writes, for he is ‘himself island bred, has made good io Canadian journ- alism, rising to his present position through merit. -

It will have been seen by those who read Mr. Rhude's account of his recent sojourn among us that, while giving full cred-it to our enter- prise and initiative he did not over state the case. He showed in graphic language what we have accomplished with our limited natural re- sources, and how we, or at least how our lead- ers, are not satisfied with playing second-fiddle -in whatever production engaged, insisting upon super-quality, the highest that can be placed on the market. This policy has paid reasonably well in the past and for our own and our Island's good reputation, must be maintained. There has been a tendency here and there to drop from the high standard, and to endeavour to be satisfied with lower grade produce, which, of course, reacts to our detriment. It will be well, therefore, for our leaders in agriculture and fisheries to keep ever before themselves and ‘the Province at large the necessity of being satisfied with producing nothing less than the best. and having the fruits of our labour graded ac- cordingly. At present we have good leader- ship in this respect, and it is for everyone in- terested to see thort no falling off is permitted.

' Then from yeor to year we will be visited by

tourists from hither and ayont to enjoy our salubrious climate, our beautiful scenery, our surf bathing, our golden sandy beaches, our fields and live stock, and, above all our hos- pitality and friendliness, of which we have rea- son to be proud-having inherited it from a llong line of similarly endowed pedigreed an- cestors.

Russian Troubles

Life can't be all 'oy and sweetness for Comrade Stalin and his colleagues in the Krem- lin. It all goes to show that some people are never satisfied, and in some cases even un- grateful.

The "let down" feeling of the elite of Moscow when one of their n-umber suddenly de- cides to forsake the land of Utopia in favour of the so-called outmoded economy of free coun- tries, must bring a sigh, a tear, and a shake of the head.

Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov must pon- der upon the delinquency of those who specially nurtured in the faith and insulated from for-

"eign ideas while serving their country abroad, still desert.

Surely the decadent capitalists must have some secret method of poisoning the subcon- scious minds of these unfortunatesl

Have the police been sufficiently diligent in ferretin-g out every act and conversation which migrht indicate a wavering from the party line? The schools charged with the prepara- tion of persons in the diplomatic service, have‘ they been lax in ccaching their students on the unquestioned superiority of Soviet life? Has .the foreign office sufficient control over the consulates? is there insufficient supervision of the associations made by members of the con- sular staffs?

Maybe Premier Stalin finds it all a little tiring. What is the use of maintaining effici- ent organizers to establish unrest among the workers of the world if his lieutenants in the foreign service cannot prevent or at least gloss over these embarrassing incidents? -

The iron curtain effectively prevents the entry of any unwanted students or investigators, and no one d with tainted principles and recalled ,to ssia is permitted an oppor- tunity to contaminate others.

it is all very puzzling.

Poor Joe! His heart may be in the right place. Possibly he too would "jump shtip" if circumstances permitted.

Anyway things might easily be improved and the threat of mortal combat removed if he were nc-t so set in his ways. -

Ali that is needed is a little better under- standing which might be achieved by ex- change vieits of University students, teacher tours, business meetings, and private travel.

Let us have the open door so that people of oil countries and classes may visit each

permits.

will dominate the world of the future.

-- EDITORIAL NOTES -

holiday instead of four.

Enthusiasts for the Royal

a will at the Belvedere Golf Club. W I I

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Georgetown’: splendid harbour is getting some of the attention it so richly deserves. Ports, railways and roads are essentials in the

development of commerce. i ‘U I

larly aphids, are coming from potato growing New Brunswick the inescapable conclusion is that our frontier is the St. John. I i Q W

The gentlemen cadets of R.M.C., Kingston, will simply be cadets when that National De- fence College opens September 20th. Ottawa presumably has been forced to the conclusion that modern war is no occupation for an officer

and a gentleman. I I

Men were deceivers ever. in Modeno, ltaly, acclaimed unanimously by the judges of a beauty contest, the winner doffed a dazzling red wig, wiped off the enhancing lipstick and rouge and revealed a l9-year-old male student. Q i I W

The long drawn out controversy whether the battleship is obsolete seems to be settled as far as the United States Navy is concerned. ln order to concentrate on anti-submarine war- fare the active fleet will be reduced to ona battleship.

Republicans in the U. S., like the Liberals ln Canada (says The Printed Word) ore risking a great deal, by failure to explain economic truths, to the public. Mr. Truman, like Mr. Coldwell, is now in a position to collect votes by nonsensical talk of keeping prices down by larw. I I R i

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Two funerals on a Sunday in the City is un- usual, and bath were of men belonging to prom- inent families, viz., Mr. Roland H. rMacNeill, of the Empire insurance Co., and Mr. Harold R-iggs, of the C.P.R., son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Riggs, to whcrm sympathy is extended. I i i I

Although 57,275 immigrants are reported to have come to this country in six months the number who would like to is much greater. For instance, a Belgium lady expressed the opinion that half of Belgium's form population would emigrate but for Canada's requirement that settlers have capital of 250,000 francs ($2,500). R l‘ I I

Lieut. General Sir John Harvey arrived in the

city from London ‘in l836-to look into-colonial ad- ministration. The following year he was made Lieuh-Governor of New Brunswick, and four years later was transferred to Newfoundland, and then back in ‘i846 as Lieut.-Governor of Nova Scotia. ln this last capacity it fell to him to introduce, in its full form, the principle of Responsible Government in the Maritime igginces. He died at Halifax on March Z2,

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The traditional blacksmith of giant frame and "large and sinewy hands” has been replaced in London by a petite brunette with a mass of wavy hair, a cream complexion and a dazzling smile. Jean McGowan, wife of a former Brit- ish army blacksmith, watched her husband at work one day and found it so fascinating that she decided to hammer herself out a career on the same anvil. in less than six months the couple had set up a business together. I I I I

Two former leaders of other erstwhile na- tional parties will be delegates ex-officio to the Ottawa Conservative Convention, viz., Hon. H. H. Stevens, who in i935 led the Reconstruc- tion Party, and Hon. W. D. Herridge, who in i940 led the New Democracy Party. Since the last Convention in Winnipeg in i942, three former Party leaders have died, Viscount Ben- nett, Hon. Dr. R. J. Manion, and Hon. R. B. Hanson. lt may, or may not, be significant, but it is officially intimated that "all Ontario Cab- inet Ministers will be in attendance." W i I I

Nit only the Labour Party in Britain but the lawyers as well now support international- ism. T e international Bar Association meet- ing at the Hague proposed that British Com- monwealth citizenship be made available to citi- zens of countries outside the Empire on a reci- procal basis. The Association suggested that arrangements for equal citizenship rights could be made in the first place between the Com- monwealth and countries with whom it had close ties, such as the Benelux countries -- Belgium, Netherlands and Luilembourg. This exchange of citizenship plan is regarded as o first step towards promoting tolerance and good neighbor- Iiness between countries.

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lt is always pleasant to record the suc- cess and progress o-f our ris-ing hopes. On Sat- urday the announcement of important appoint- ments to Mr. Wiliiom Keith Rogers Ill to be second in command of the Hamilton Conservatory of Music, and Mr. E. D. Reid, agriculturalist, edu- cationist and radar expert to succeed Mr. Boulter as manager of the Potato Growers Association, will give satisfaction to many throughout the Province. Prof. Rogers belongs to o widely known 'cify family who have made their mark, while F|t.-Lieut. Reid's family is well and favourably known throughout rural ports, especially in King's County where his father, Mr. Edwin Reid,

ether and mix freely without any ‘government

A few years of seeing how the others live would soon settle the question of which ideology

August has been an ideal month for por- sons, enabling them to have a five Sundays‘

and Ancient game are knocking the gutty boll about with'

ff it is found that our insect pests, porticu- r

‘THE (EUARDIAN. ETOWN

THIS, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, rs ruE ENEMY ! LET ALL eooo crrrzrzus UNlTE AND BANlSH r-rrrvr AND rrrs scco roacvca room ova FAIR sorc/

MAKE RE. I. - SOME DAY A HAVEN

or across rob. HAY seven

O f‘ "surrcacrzs? ‘("44"

Nemesis ls So Pleasant

(Hamilton Spectator) There are bumper crops ahead and new factories and now J0!!!"- still every one’: worried to death Vebouf the "blow-HP"-

No one seems to know 108i Whil- she blow-up is going to be or who is going to cause it. or who will b8 to blame for it, but blow up we must. r

This day of glory for the Cassan- dras must. be accepted as one of the most convincing on record. No one can be healthy, but. he must. analyse d coming illness. No one can work but. he must feel he is going to over-produce. No one can invest because he will be gypped (even after he has been BYPPK! by Government). Any one who expresses confidence in the future is o moron Cl!’ a perverted fascist. We ourselves see only one silver glimmer o: light. The experts Who have been predicting the blow-up for the past. three years were so wrong the last. time that it is Just. possible they could be wrong again.

For instance, just: rune mouths before the greet stock market crash m 1920, President caivfn Coolidge wrote in his annual message: "Na Congress of the United Sh”! 9V0!‘ assembled has met with a more pleasing prospect. than that which appears st. the present time.‘

Irving T. Bush, e leading bus- iness msn, later declared, "rwe are only at. the beginning of a period that. will g0 dfiwn ln history l5 the golden age."

Irving Fisher. the farmed econ-

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oufifvrnr

Oh, sing us out. of Esstpoft. Harbor. sing us out of York,

whose fathers sang them down the Minch,

and sang thorn out of Cork.

Chant u: out of Portsmouth, out of Gloucester and Nantucket. whose fathers roared past Cer-

nervron, salt. water in the lrucket._

Oh. sing us out of Newport News. and sing us past; Partchogue.

whose fathers rolled deep through The Wash

and the North sea drank the log.

Chant us out of any port. stout-huiled in sun or rein.

Oh. sing us back. a crew together, shout us home again.

—Franoes Frost. in the New York Herald-Tribune.

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Old Charlottetown (And r. a. l.) 7

MEAGRE REVENUE LAWS

The revenue laws hitherto adop- ted in this [piand are but two: l license duly on retailers of wines, and spirituous liquors and an 1m- post. or excise duty of fen penoi per gallon. Plyable on the impor- tation of all wines and spirits; and twp pence per gallon on the im- portation of all porter, ole, or strong beer; these are the only taxes yet. payable on the Island, end the produce of them has constituted the sole revenue by which the contingent eflfmlses of govern- ment, and the high road-s and bridges have been» carried on. Taxes are e subject on which‘ the House of Representatives have

and they have yet: to team, that It is possible to err on the popular side Q the question. Called to the duty of leglsiating for their fellow subjects, without muoh experience or knowledge or public business, they have not observed that. by giving way too much to the pre- judices cmman on the eublect, a considerable revenue, which might have been raised and applied to the public service, greatly to the advantage of the Island, tree been suffered to go into flu; pocket-s o! s few individuals, who have hither- to had the trade of the Island in their hands. This is an error not- urally to be‘ expected in l nUI country, but experience will teach us better, and all will noon be eon- vinced, that a s spectable revenue adequate to the wants of-fbe public service __ls absolutely neaesssry to the prosperity of the Island.

ls one of our outstanding progressive farmers.

hitherto been particularly tenacious-

amist said on the morning of the very day that. stocks collapsed that stock prices were on "What: looks like e permanently high plateau."

On October 25 two noted British economists, John Maynard Keynes and Sir Josiah Stamp, slid the market. panic would benefit the world.

Now could it be, with the tone bho way it. is bO-day, that. there might. be l catastrophe around the corner? l‘! it. that. we have to suc- capt that. nothing can be done to prevent if? Or is ft a form of mesrnerlsm that makes us feel even a! we write that of course the whole thing ls likely to lall apart st the, seurne ta-mo-rrowl

The Palestine Question

(By J. M. Roberts. J'r., AP. News Analyst)

When you aet. away from the Palestine question. British offici- ple divide scoording to their own _speciait.ies in discussing various phases of United States foreign policy which irk them.

They are so courteous, so anx- ious to ovoid both personal p1- fence and exaggeration ad the importance of any differences. that it is difficult to determine what they really think. But there are n. few thing-s that. make u discernible pattern. aside from the generalities to which the British public is addicted.

Economists in the government almost. invariably go back for their pet. peeve to the d-ays when the United States lifted economic controls and, as they put it, de- valued the British loan. They are mild about it, speaking more in sorrow than in anger, but still think it was shortsightedmsnd that. it. had a most adverse effect on Britain's recovery effort.

Sometimes. in discussing this apparent lack of United States interest. in British recovery in the earlier post-war days, they go as for back as the sudden ending of lend-lease. They recognize that. it. was strictly n. war-time vehicle that. had to come to an end. but hold that prudence would have provided a direct bridge be- tween it. and something like the Present. program. They think they might. be for ahead of the present recovery program ff that had been done.

As for present economic rela- tions, they have practically no criticism. at. least that. they are willing to tell about. But; they are very alert and very determin- ed to see to it that. economic re- lations do not get mixed up with what may consider their purely domestic policies.

They don't. want to have to cater to United States opinion regarding such things as the m- fionalizstlon of the steel indus- try. They fhink that. whether publicly or privately owvned, Uni- ted _States' interest. in British steel can go no farther than whether it. makes proper use of materials supplied under the Marshall plan.

They are nd inclined to enter- tain the American idea that, if their steel industry continues de- veloping and producing as it. has in reaching records since the war. ‘.2. should not be made the object of governmental experiment dur- ing a critical period.

They cast aside the ides. that the 07.50.000.000 they say steel needs for expansion must. come from sn economy which would not be capable of supplying it without United States assistance and that, therefore. it. is an Am. ericrm concern. They say the money for the capitol investment- needed is already here. and not being invested because the steel industry never has entirely shed its old ideas of an economy of scsrcify. This is the some thing of which the American steel in- dustry tros been accused.

SAY! U. K. GOODS PRICED TOO HIGH

WINNIPDG. Aug. 2'1 - (OP)_ There is a vital desire on the PI"- Ol Canadians tabuy British loads, but. the high prices of such floods "constitute a problem” and there ls "urgent. necessit. to re- view price structure."

This opinion was expressed by G. H Ward. secretary of the Cm- sdten Chamber of commerce in Crest Britain. who stopped here during e trans-Canada. tour.

Primary purpose of the Csn- ndlan chamber of Commerce in

Tho Age-ilidStory

lay ye to the Illlllfllll m“ that, It shall be vrell with him for the unriglsteoul lhlll all l!!! fruit of their dolngl.

Inflation In China

(By Jeanne D. wmrp Associated Press News Anal?!"-

Inflation in Chins berm in the mid-M's.

~ Ar that time China one WW4- Qg by a British economdsf to aban- don her "hard-anoney” silver standard and saunt- A mm!“- psper currency.

Pro-sly, has step wu forced by om uncontrollable activities of Japanese and xenon semi-I WM were taking bu!‘ qlllflfll" d sliver, nickel, and 0007901’ ml!" W‘ of China because they were Worth more as metal in the imperial Japanese armory than they w!!! rrs money in Chine. ,

So mafky coins left China ti!“ there was a serious deflation. Money and credit were tight. Business was self-fled. Paper enonoy remedied this shortage, and there was n brief prosperity before Japan struck with the sword in 191i.

During one war this paper mom’! surprised nearly everybody V! holdln-g up ss well as it did. ‘vii-h (he rhelp o! a tow foreign loans. However, it steadily dropped in value, The Yuan fell faster after the war ended, when it. became clear that. the Chinese government would continue spending 80 per- cent. of its income on war, this time against communists.

Lust. week ff took 12,000.00!) to buy a single United Stat-es dollar

Now China has issued s new pmpet‘ currency, celled the "gold yuan."

Already t/here is the wide-spread reaction that this means nothing -t.het. simply issuing new money can mean nothing till the things that med. the old money worth- less have changed. Have they? Who knows?

Meanwhile, there was an Inter- esting report recently that. China has recovered large stocks of her silver, nickel, and. dipper coins from Japan.

This might explain to some ex- tent the sudden ability of the Chinese Government to say it fs backing its money with hard re- serves and will issue para coins again.

It. also is interesting that. the new paper money was printed in 1945 but was not issued then for unexplained reasons.

The economic convulsion orf re- placing one currency with another is potentially so great, however. that. many other reasons ‘mufl: be present lo justify such e step.

Few observers believe this phase of the currency reform will work any better than it has fn the past, unless the new money is booked by something more solid than the rickety under-pinning! of the old.

Nanking will have to produce

some drain.

U. S. To Strip Fleet To One Battleship

(Montreal Stu’)

The United Bfstee Navy sa-