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GUARDIAN

Morning Daily (Filllnlloll ll")

President Heat. Col. W. Chester B. McLure Vice President J. B. Burnett. l‘. J. l. ‘ Editor and Managing Director J. B. Burnett. l‘. l. l.

Secretary Lleut. Col. D. A. liaekinnon, l). S. 0. Associate Editor Prank Walker

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‘The Strongest Memory is Weaker than ‘ the Weakest Ink”;

WEDNESDAY, APRIL, N, 1988

A Cold Welcome!

“It is but natural," says our evening contem- porary, "that the members of the Legislature should want to express their individual opinions when addressing the House either on the Ad- dress in reply to the Speech from the Throne or on the Budget, for on both these occasions the whole governmental policy is under review and the Liberal party welcomes this form of free and independent expression"

“Welconic" is hardly the word to apply t0 the reception accorded some of the expressions of “free and independent opinion" in the House this year, One too-outspoken member was taunt- ed with being chagrined at the result of the Lib- eral nominating convention. He was denounced for making “an irividious comparison" between the late Premier Lea and Premier Campbell, and for "presuming to arrogate to. himself the divine attribute of omniscience." He and another member were charged with making “a deliberate misstatement of fact.” A third critic was told in effect that he had no right to open his mouth because his district wasn't paying its share of taxes. One government apologist rebuked his fellow members for having “spoken without any feeling for their fellow men," and another de- clared, amid loud applause from Government benches, that “any member of the House who criticises the Premier on what he has done dur- ing the past year shouldn't call himself a Lib- eral."

And so. says our contemporary, "criticism, if constructive, is alivays rvelcomed and especzallv r0 by flu‘ prawn! Government inasmuch as there it no oflficial opposition party”!

Mr. Acorn, Would-Be Critic

l\Ir_ H. H. Acorn’s contribution to the Bud- get debate was an interesting and detailed ac-‘ count of his activities as a member of the Fish- ernicifs Loan Board. The importance of the work fully justified the time devoted to explain- ing it. lt did not justify, however, the manner in which the speaker attempted to reply to com- ments in The Ciuardian and by some of his fel- low members in the House.

Two of the members, Mr- Stewart and Ml? Baker, had stated that the Fishermens Loan Board exceeded their estimate for administra- tion by over 100 per cent. This Mr. _Acorn characterized as "a deliberate misstatement of fact" The esfimme 3g passed last year, he said, was for “a sum sufficient." That being so, Mr. Acorn should have complained of the misstate- ment in the Public Accounts, 1937, which at page 32, under the heading “Comparative State- ment of Expenditures with Estimates,” gives the following: “Fishermems Loan Board,’ Ad- ministration, Expenditure $5,093.06: Estimate $2.40o-o0,”~an excess of expenditure of $2,- 693.66 over the stated estimate. Mr. Acorn failed to explain this item in the Accounts, which substantiates fully the “deliberate miflstalflflfll! he attributes to his fellow members.

Hie also takes exception to the following state- ments in a Guardian editorial on the Loan Board administration: _ _ _

i. “\Vhere, as in this Province, the politicians in charge are of one party ‘stripe, the temptation to exploit their opportunities for vote-catching purposes is really too much for human nature."

Mr- Acorn terms this a “charge or insinu- ation." It is neither. It is a statement of fact of general application, and in our opinion i_t 15 applicable to him and his colleagues on the Fish- ermen’s Loan Board. This opinion is not shaken by the Souris membcfs assurance that “while we are first of all Liberals, we are nevertheless representing the people as a whole.” Ourvpomt was that the Board should be “first of all non- partisan. _ _

2. The Guardian quoted, as a matter fornn- quiry and explanation, the rumor that applica- tions “not infrequently received preferred treat- merit in the way of cash payments to all intents and purposes indistinguishable from the dole" Mr. Acorn refers to this as a "statcmcnt” which i5 "absolutely untrue." It is Mr. Acorn, in this

ease, whose statement is untrue. The rumor may, as he alleges, be incorrect, but he had no_ right to misrepresent The Guardian's reference to the rumor as a misstatement of fact-

As to other irregularities, would it be correct to say that even the rumor was “absolutely un- mic"? Mr. Acorn's colleague on the Board, Mr-

t II Gallant, confessed that they had been ffoolcd occasionally in the matter of applications for relief. Mr_ Acorn “would rather use the word ‘misled’ ”, a difference of little importance to the taxpayers who are footing the bill. In this case. however, Mr. Acorn seems to have made mat- ters worse. An intelligent man may be "fooled",

ii f 't hewould be a greater fool to allow himself

i -be "misled.”

i '7“Another objection" Hr. Acorn takes is to

“The Guardian saying that there is no more de- fprblng class than our fishermen, and that they entitled to all the assistance they can obtain. fwd his party claim to be the only ones who ‘ right to make statements of that kind. ' titudc ill accords with one job on the Wasn't itlthe w’ fives who l‘ Mil " of blob

Mr. Acorn

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not been divulged- He was under the impres- sion, Mr. Acorn said, that the amounts had been stated "time and again." Probably they were-

. in Liberal caucus. Our complaint was that the

public had no access to this information.

‘Mr. Acorn neglected to explain a fact which subsequently came out in the discussion on the Estimates—namely, that'hc had improperly re- ceived travelling expenses at the rate of eight cents per mile for the full 12,229 miles he trav- elled as Loan Board member last year, whereas

i he was entitled to this rate only on the first 5,000

miles. This was one of the reasons why his expense bill was so much greater than his col- leagues’. His speech would have sounded beg- ter if he had frankly said so,

Farm Statistics __._.,_ A report issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics states that the average value 0f fami lands in Canada was $24,o0 per acre in 1937,

By provinces the values were as follows :- Britisli Columbia —- — — $5800 per acre Ontario —- — — — — 46.00 ” " Quebec — — — — - - 40,00 ” "

Prince Edward Island — 34.00 " ” Nova Scotia — — — - 3200 " " New Brunswick — — — 26.00 ” " Manitoba — — — — - _ 17,00 " " Alberta — - -- _ - -. 16,00 " " Saskatchewan — — — _ 15-00 " "

The same report states that the average wage for farm male help throughout Canada was $224.00 cash for the year 1937, 0r $400.00 cash and board. By provinces the wages were :-

Cash & _ _ Cash Board British Columbia - - - - 4527900 $51390 New Brunswick - - - - - - 295.00 442,00 NovaScotia - - - - - - - 262,00 43500 Ontario - - - - - - - - - 23500 42[_oo Alberta - - - - - -. - - - 221.00 401.00 Quebec - - - - - - - - - 22600 376.00

Prince Edward Island - - - 206.00 374.00 - Manitoba - - - - - - - - s - 202.00 36790 Saskatchewan - - - - - - - - 184.00 344,00

I Editorial Notes LI‘

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It is interesting to note from Mr. Acorn’s speech in the Legislature that the Provincial Fisherman's Loan Board functioned more sat- isfactorily during Mr- LePage’s absence than when he was in his office as chairman. The speech which Mr. LePage should have delivered

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“Drunken foxes are preying on farms near Lanesville, New York, fifteen miles west of Al- bany, residents have reported. One farmer was bitten by a fox he surprised in a chicken house." Thus reports the New York Tiriies. They sure- ly could not have been Island Prohibition foxes

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In their new Tax Act the N. B, Government exempt Companies with $10,000 capital and un- der. Whcn the bill was under consideration a sub~section under the part dealing with capital. tax was struck out. This would have required companies with a capital of under $10,000 to pay a minimum tax of $10 Such companies will now pay nothing under the Corporations Tax Act, although they still pay a filing fee under the Companies Act,

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A decline of 54.6 per cent in the production of factory cheese in Ontario from March, 1937, and a small decline in Manitoba more than coun- ter-balanced increases in the remaining produc- ing areas. Production in Canada totalled 794,271 pounds in the latest month compared with 552,- 594 in the precious month and 1,162,934 in March, 1937. a w e n- The N.B. legislature passed a bill incorporat- ing the Upsalquitch Water and Power C0. with the object of developing the hydro-electric on that river for the benefit of Campbellton and othcrs- Actual development if hydro along the river may be undertaken only if the governor- in-Council so authorizes. Considerable opposi- tion to the scheme was met with from interested power companies but the promoters carried the day. One of those chiefly concerned in promot- ing the scheme is Mr. R. M. Legate, B.Sc., city electrical engineer of Campbellton, and son of Rev. Dr. and Mrs Legate of this city- w a- Itl w

Mr. F. A- Silcox, chief of the U.S.A. Federal Forest Service, told a House Appropriations Subcommittee at Washington, that one factor entering into the higher price of newsprint is that the supply of Canadian spruce is getting farther and farther away from the mills. His testimony was given at hearings on the Agricul- ture Appropriation Bill- In the dominion, he asserted, “they are coming to the limit in the matter of exhausing their forest capital." The situation in the Southern United States, Mr. Silcox said, called for a balance between growth and drain of forest resources. He said the $100,000,000 invested in southern pulp and pap- er mills recently looks like "only a beginning". With the consumption of paper increasing the drain might be intensified, he added, by the needs of meeting a national housing shortage and by world-wide pulpwood conditions.

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Herr Hitler, whose birthday it is, does not like newspaper men- He refused to receive Herbert Hooverfis travelling companion because Mr. Hoover's friend is a newspaper publisher. Hitler thinks the world belongs to the strong, silent men like himself, and he has a_ fierce con- tempt for the scribblers and babblers. To be sure, it was not always thus. Hitler did a vast amount of talking in the years between 1920 and his accession to wenwhereupon he lost no time in clampin own the lld on other, peo- ple's right to talk. ut it may be that Hitler dis- likes newspaper men because newspaper men laugh. They may not laugh out loud or even smile vislbzglbut the yery nature of the news-

pro ion is a standing threat EC

The Malian-a f P ttala h dold. He rulciimneali-ly ‘twice u may loss live in the Prov- ince of . That helps me t0

sense what is meant by the “teem- millioris" of mdla. Also why the a Princes have t0 be reckon- ed 9th in tryintp wlne of dem the old

Etnptre lletln.

‘Robert Saunders. a showman watch-

found that snakes are poor dogs. by thieves who etoe his clothing, Sounders c- od his le a oon several wi mean reputations. Next the suitcase holding his clothes was one. The snakes were sound cork-Enhance. While thg ordinary-sized man

can have a pair of pants made bg a tailor in lees than a week. i takes Medusa. Ionge-vln, 34 of Munlsing, from three to four weeks to obtain them-and ts ocet hlm Just twice as mu as normal trousers. Iiongevtn has just had a pair of pants made by a Milwaukee tailor. who received the following measurements: '10- lnch waist, 74-inch seat. 89-inch thigh and 44-inch outsesm. The weerer weighs 420 pounds. is the father of three children and Ls employed as a truck driver and laborer of the Alger County Road Commission.

The Government cannot be blam- ed if it. feels that ft would be tak- ing s risk to permit guns to be freely owned by ant" and others at the present ime We are referrlng to the tyipes of gun which have been in most common use. those of 12 and l6 bore. ‘Phase weapons are extremely lethal, and have been responsible for the many deaths 11v shooting wh'ch have oc- cured from time to time in certain country dlstrlcts- cases where family feuds or perronal grievances were avenged by gunpowder and shot, The Government probably had in mind cases of this kind. as well as the neral sltua/ion when It decided o call in the shot- guns-Trinldad Guardian.

Hftamlne, a kind of scientific bee-fsteak. was offered to the Amerlcan Congress of Ph teal Therapy recently as med ine's newest and best solace for black eyes. Dr. Harold A. Albramson. Physiology Professor at the College or Physicians and surgeons. re- ported that. the drug. a derivative of hi tldlne. had erased black eyes in t/wenty-ifcur to thirty-six hours. (‘Not alone ls a giocd deal of the purple pigment removed." he an- nounced. ‘tbut also much of the tension is relieved after the swell- ing, due to the histamine, has dis- aippeaxed-Moniireal Star.

Meadford. has. a population o! some 2.700 sou s, and we have been agiked how many in that number take any interest in the town's municipal management. In answ- ei- to the queulon, this column would place the number of about 1 per oent. Only a handful take any lnterwt in town aiflfalrs, and we wonder scmetimes what will happen in five or ten yearstfrmn now. when the present few drop out of the picture. Business men corn- fng on should make 1t a. point to school themselves in the manage- ment of town affairs. It would be better for them and th town. i00- No town ever runs itse1f.—-Mea.ford Ebrpress.

All lovers of Ceylon, whether Ceylones or Europeans. are rightly Jeaious of the reputation of this Island and its people. Anything therefore that ls calculated to low- er the good name of Ceylon in the eyes of visitors ls keenly resented. This accounts for the strong pro- tests made in our correspondence cigi-umn rtigalnst, aiixitgdeggplr-leupe‘; v opmein . One wr a y p when he said that unless there is an improvement Ceylon is likely to become notorious as " e Land of Palms"-upturned palms and outstretched hands. That the pedple of Ceylon shoukl earn this evil fame 1s all the more to be de- plored because the begging spirit is alien to their nature-Times of Ceylon Columbo.

When Andrew Carnegie was a boy in Scotland. he once got. hold of a mother rabbit Presto! ‘He soon had a whole nest of little rabbits-and nothl to feed them. But. he had a. brizianit ldea. He told the boys ln the ne hborhood that 1f they wou'd go ou and pull enough clover and dandelion: to feed the rabbits. he would name the bunnies in their honour, ‘the

lan worked like magic. Years liner. Carrie e used the some psychology n businem. For ex- am 1e, he wan-ted to sell steel rails to he Pennsylvania Railroad. Mr. J. Edgar Thomson was the Pres- ident or the Pennsylvania Railroad at that time. So Andrew Camege built a huge steel mil. in PPt-s- burgh and called it the " Thomson Steel Works." Naturaly. Mr. Thomson was delighted. it dldnw, take much persuasion to

t. hlm to order his steel rails

rom the company that bore his name-Dale Carnegie, Five Min- ute Blosfflphiee.

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PUBLIC FORUM

‘Ilia aelama le I!“ l" w‘ dlaeanloa by cenelhlllfll" ‘I lloatlcaa of interest. ‘lbs lotiatqwn Guardian lloea not aa- eeuaru; new» tho oolalens of eotralwlldenta.

OUTSIDE LOBSTER BUYER!

lin-Jt was interesting to read the letters in last night's Patriot sign by "Farmer Fisherman" and "Member of Fishermeirs Union". Well I have been fishing lobsters

for many years and think the Irest majority of lobs fisher- men will agree that. e bill to

protect- oiu- lndusi: y is just what we fishermen want. I have always been paid by the packer I sell

as much and some years more than was paid by those foreign buyers. The union worker says w should the fishermen! wives an daughters be taken out of their homes to work in a dirty old lobster factory. This may be the condition of the factory where he is. but the packer that buys my lobsters keeps his factory and

home. I om always lad to get: to the shore in the spr g, after liv- ing on pretty slim grub all winter and get three good square meals at the cookhouse. I am also clad to get the chance for my family to earn a few dollars at the fac- tory. for it helps out these days when lobsters are so scarce. These foreigners have no right coming in here and stealing the bite out of our mouths. My packer has always treated me square and I don't want him to be put out of business. for if he does I will likely have to 3p on relief. I am. Sir. etc. ANOTHER FISIIERMAN.

OUTSIDE LOBSTER. BUYERS

8113-4 riots by your A ll 14th. edition that the Iiegislaiire are considering passing an Act to de- prive outside buyers buying can- ning lobsters on the Island and taking them to Nova Scotla and New Brunswick to can.

Surely the fishermen would not stand by and let the lobster pack- ers (many of whom are the Legislature) pass such an Act and be content to let those some pack- ers name a price as they have done previous to the outside buy- ers comlng in.

As an instance of some, last Spring those Island packers offer- ed the fishermen along the North Shore of King; County 6c per lb. and had it not been for outside competition coming in the fisher- men would have had to take what they were offered: however certain buyers came over from Nova Scotti: and offered some of those fisher- men Bc per lb for which the fisher- n.en felt very gr..teful and in many cases sold o the outside buyer. But this is not all. as soon as the outside buyer started buying for Belthe Island buyers came up and pad the same price. Now if the lobsters were only worth 6c then how could they‘ pav on additional 2c per 1b.. or at the rate of $4.00 more per case. They sure must have been content to cut down on their profit when thev ‘rund they did not. have a monopoly.

Bcotie. lobster brings a. premium on the overseas market, and that the outside buyers take the Is- land ldbsters over there and pack them and place them on the mar- ket as Nova Scotla canned lobster. Why, if there is a premium on N. s. canned lobster should the fishermen of P. E. I. not get it in- stead of having them packed on P. E. I. where hey will not bring as much money?

Mr. Acorn further states that the legislation (though on the face of tt may not appear so) was really in the interests of the fish- erman. giving employment to his wife and daughters. but why give the so-csflled employment when the some fishermen would receive more for his lobsters from the out- side buyers than he would get. (with his wife and daughters’ lob- or thrown in) for his lobsters from the local buyer.

Mr. Cox says they are not legis- lating against buyers oomlniz in to buy market lobsters, but I em go- ltlfl t0 ask him if just, the market lobsters from the fishermen. would he tell them to put the cunning size back in the water. or would he ask the fisher- men to try and sell them to some buyer whom he (the fisherman) would not sell his larger one; m?

Although I feel that. Mr. lant. is just s. little dubious of the Act yet at the same time more is

robably more fishermen on the

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APRIL 0N BLAUGIIT

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