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Speeding The Plow
day on the plowing match at Dun: das, this being the 16th.annual con. test to be staged by this enterprising community, which is responsible for reviving one of Prince Edward Island's oldest competitive events. In early settlement days, plowing' matches vied with horse races in providing the biggest thrills of the year. and old Island newspapers con- tain interesting accounts of these matches. The names of many of the winners are still well known in the Province, and some of their descend- ants will likely be competing at Dun- das today and tomorrow for top honors in these events, as well as In the livestock and farm products entries. .
Today the technique has shifted to mechanized plowing, but the same skill and experience are required in producing champions. The contests have,'of course, the merit of being of the greatest practical advantage in an agricultural Province such as this. The aid now given by the Pro- vincial Department of Agriculture in promoting the matches is evidence of this fact. But no one can take from the Dundas enthusiasts the credit due themtfor the success which has crowned their efforts. Starting modestly in 1921 with a prize list or 3200, they have ex- panded year by year, and over s5,- 000 is now being spent in prizes to make the Prince Edward Island Plowing Match and Agricultural Fair the best event of its kind in the Maritimes. With a little cooperation
from the weather man, it promises to be a record breaking one-even for Dundas.
Important Session
The special session of the British Parliament opening today will be one of considerable importance, and it may be expected to produce both strong support for and severe critic- ism of the Government's policy in the Suez Canal crisis. There is some speculation that the Eden ministry may fall. That, of course, is a pos- sibility. Almost anything is possible in these troublous times. There are circumstances, however, which would appear to make it unlikely. For one thing, it seems reasonable to sup- pose that Prime Miniter Eden was confident of a sizable parliamentary majority for his mllitary-prepared- ness plan before he embarked on it. Whatever else may be said about him as a political leader, he is cer- tainly well versed in the ways of parliament, and it is most unlikely that he would venture into any such undertaking without studying care- fully beforehand all the possible political reprecussions. For another thing,- it seems fairly evident that much of the opposition to the Gov- ernment's stand is based on misun- derstanding of the actual situation. A Somehow the rumour got around
' that the Government was bent on
enforcing the -London Conference's xpoposals for the lntemationnlization
I or the Suez by military might if,
' wasiexpected, President Nasser d refuse to, accept them. But
no time did the Prime Minister
-- .- any mchintentlon. He has
A c - at Ieverolioccaslons that the
Province-wide interest centers to-' V
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dnction in recent weeks. Had they
begn in power when the situation-
arose it is more likely that they would have handled it in much the same way as that taken by Prime
Minister Eden and his cabinet. And,-
should matters come to the point where no peaceful solution is pos- sible, it can be taken for granted thdt Britain will go into Combat u a united nation. Meanwhile, the situation is grave enough, but per- haps not quite as grave as it was two or three weeks ago-
F. A. 0. Report
A report pl'L'.sClliC(l my me United
Nations Food and Agricultural Or- ganzlation at its current meeting in Rome contains both good and bad news. It states that world agricul- .tural production in the 1955-56 period rose by about 364; over the previous year. But the gain for the most part took place in North America. The world where hundreds of millions of human beings are in a state of un- dernourishment were virtually un- touched by thc improvement. There was a slight increase in scattered parts of Asia but not enough to make much difference to their stand- ards of living. All in all the produc- tion in Latin America and the Far East was 5'k less than before World War Two.
World trade in agriculture in the period under review increased by about 5?2:, the highest post-war level. Its value, however, increased only fractionally, owing to the fall in agricultural prices. The report in- dicates that this decline in prices is at last coming to a halt, and there is some hope for a strengthening in the year ahead. It is worth noting that, while world trade as a. whole has increased by 7070 over the pre- war level, agricultural trade has in- creased only 579. The most annoy- ing thing about the whole situation is that while farm incomes have de- creased considerably in the past few years, the cost of farm operations has been going up all the time. On the subject of farm surpluses the report has this to say: "Although some progress has been made in adjusting the production pattern more closely to demand, there is little likelihood of any significant reductions in surplus stocks during 1956 - 57. Looking farther a h e a d much depends on the success of the new United States measures in cur- tailing the output of surplus com- modltics. The relative stability of the present situation provides a further breathing space for these and other measures to adjust world agricultural production."
The most pressing problem, of course, is how to put these surpluses to good use and at the same time bring farm prices and costs in the productive areas to a satisfactory economic adjustment. Thus far, the experts do not appear to have come up with any promising solution.
EDITORIAL NOTES
A research scientist says that "hard cash" is the big answer to university needs. It comes in handy for a lot of other needs, too.
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This is :1 big day agriculturallv, not only at Dundas but at Egmont Bay, where the annual exhibition is being held in that community, which has a long record in promoting suc-
' ccssful events of this kind.
There are many places in New- foundland, with a bigger population than that of Wahana on Bell Island, but there are few places more im- portant in an economic sense. Last year, a recent report has revealed, the iron ore mines there produced more than 71A million tons, just about one-half of the total Canadian output. -
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Hunters really interested in wild.
large areas of the
MEETING IN A QUIET ER ATMOSPHERE
OTTAWA REPORT
Muddeii Fiscal Problem
By Patrick Nicholson
OTTAWA : afford to
grow?
This sounds a silly question- indeed it is; but the economic pro- blems being thrashed out in Ot- tawa now centre around the fact that it looks as if we cannot af- ford to growl.
Today we should be the most prosperous and the fastest-growing country in the world. We have ab- undant resources supplied free by nature; we have the power pot- ential to developp them; together, resources and power will provide an abundance of new jobs; the de- mands of lessV1appy countries of- fer an insatiable torelgn market for our products; the additional wage-earners in those new jobs would create a domestic demand for more houses, clothing, food and all the other trimmings of life as enjoyed by the Jonesls.
Yet this encouraging picture of this development-as-it-mlghbbe has got smeared over. It is a "still" rather than a ”moving" picture. And it is clouded with red ink, showing trouble in our national and commcrlclal balance sheets. SQUABBBLE OVER TAX SPLIT
The long-drawn disagreement be- tween our federal and provincial governments on the subject of taxation has now expanded. The municipal governments have got Into the act too. complaining-as do the provincial governments-
Can we
that the federal government takes :
too big a share of the tax dollar.
The truth is that our local gov- ernments are going deep into the red, spending more than they are able to collect from us in taxation.
Our municipal governments will probably spend one-tblrd more than they take from us this year, ending with a deficit of over 300
million dollars. Our provincial gov- -
ernments will end the year with a deficit of over 150 million dollars. But in contrast. our federal gov- ernement expects to end the year with in surplus slightly higher than this total provincial deficit.
My guess is that, before any adjustments and fiddling with the figures, Finance Minister Walter Harris will find his conservatively- estimnted surplus considerably swollen.
The fact that the federal sur-
plus about matches the provinc- ,
ial deficit gives substance to the wall of the provinces. The federal
government is taking too big a bite of the tax dollar. The wretch- ed municipal governments, play- lug the role of tail-end Charlie, are of course in an even tougher position.
Today Ottawa collects '70 cents in every Canadian's tax dollar; in 1939 Ottawa collected only All cents, leaving 52 cents to be divided be- tween the provlnclall and munici- pal governments.
HELPING DEVELOPMENT
It is the provinces who spend money on aiding the development of our resources, building high- ways to open up new communities. erecting schools to give better ed- ucallon to our more numerous children. providing health and wel- fare services for our expanding population.
How can they do this with a smaller share of our tax dollar?
This is the background of the recent outburst from the confer- ence of our municipal governme- nts; this is the background of the longdrawn disagreement between Ottawa and the provinces. The situation is aggravated by the sp- ectacle of Ottawa carelessly ex- panding its spending on frills this year, when it is calling on the rest of the country to reduce sp- ending in an effort to halt infla- tion.
Running hand in hand with our slowed down economy is the slow- ed down expansion of our labour force. Too few men are chasing too many Jobs. so wages are spir- alling. To halt the consequent price spiral, Ottawa has imposed a credit clamp. Which came first, the spiralling wage or the shor- tage of labour? Some critics hora believe that the blame for this year's ' J .. in our ' should be laid on the Department of Immigration, not on the spart- ment of Finance.
But that is the government's worry. Our worry is that our ex- pansion has slowed down, and that unless we go even deeper into the red over our local government costs we cannot afford to grow.
Echoing over this lost opportun- ity is the voice of a Liberal Prime Minister who predicted that the Twentieth Century would be Can- ada's Century. That forecast was made in the days of the men in the sheepskin coats. when immi- gration rose to nine times our pre- sent ratio.
War Anniversary Recalled
By the Canadian Press
Seventeen years ago this wggk Canada declared war on Nazi Ger- many. -
This country and her "Allies went to war with Germany and lainr Italy and Japan to defeat the Nhzi-Fascist dream of world conquest. History's worst war, it
ended in l945 with the Western powers triumphant. But almost at once I new
struggle arose, this time against the Communists. It was far more subtle and entangllng than the previous connlct. It has yet to be settled.
on this anniversary of mi soc- oud World war, there
do-. New tendon have arisen u the old nbsldsd. The Koren War
including merchant seamen.
But there was to be no peace. The Western Allies, to protect themselves and to try to avoid I third world war, pooled their mili- tary resoumes under the North Atlantic treaty. Formldable forces are still polsedlo meet any attempt to achieve world
PUBLIC FORUM
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P. E. ISLAND BEAR
Sir, - The P. E. Island bear has been seen again. this time by my- self while travelling from Albion Cross to Mt. Hope by tractor about 9:80 on the evening of Sept. (lb. I first saw the eyes shining In the ditch of the road and believed them to be those of a dog. but II I neared them and swung the lights to the ditch, I realized it to be I bear which then turned into the woods. This animal was a brownish black with very broad, short legs, no tail, and would weigh about 500 lbs.
I believe I made no mistake in identifying this animal as I have seen bears both at Charlottetown old Home Week and in a Montreal
too.
This bear has been seen at least four times in the past three or four years, in this vicinity; by Arthur MacDonald. and Whitley Judson when it crossed the road in the on light: in different areas. and by two Livingston girls when they met it while walking on the Upton Road last year. They too believed it to be a dog. but soon ran for the nelghbo . when they realized It was a bear, and lost sboo heels and had torn clothes from fences when they reached there. llmost terrified to death.
Is this bear going to be permit- ted to to m around like this until it has d a some harm? Hers ll a Job for the Game Warden of our Island to have a bounty or reward for its capture either dead or alive. He has kept to the Dundas area now for 3 or 4 years, as there are hundreds of acres of
” J in this " '2. There is no mistaking but that his den is near.
In such a case as this there is usually nothing done until it is too late. Must this happen? Women who have travelled alone at night for years are now scared to o anywhere unless in a car. I, w was never scared alone after night before and have always done lots of walking, would not no out now alone after dark on a bet.
The authorities should do some- thing about tracking down this animal which could become vic- ious at any time and attack either domestic animals or hinnans.
I am, Sir. etc., MRS. VERNON LORD Mount Hope.
with 107,718 over .
The Royal can dial: Navy saw action in the North Atlantic. the Pacific, the Bay of Blseay. the
you should follow. For one thing. wa
sbyourfaco
-your doctor probably will sug- gest you use a suitable soap such as laundry soap.
Should your skin -become too dry. change to milder toilet soap.
Don't use crease of any kind on your face unless it is specifically prescribed by your doctor. Pow. der, lipstick and rouge are okay. But don't use cream muse.
Shampoo your hair every week. Ask your doctor for I special pro- scription shampoo.
Avoid violent exercise, especial. ly this time of the year. Persplr. la; stimulates the olllnou of your skin. Use an astringent recom. mended by your doctor if you per- spire freely.
Avoid sunburn. because an ex- cessive amount of sun also tends to make the skin oily.
Get eight hours' sleep nightly.
Keep your fingers away from your face. Don't pick if you want to avoid scarring.
QUESTION AND ANSWER
EV. I have a severe ringing in my right car. along with slight d 'r In there anything I can do for this?
Answer: Injections of vitamin A have proved to be of help in such cases.
MAXIMS
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Jublel Wlckhelm, 21, of Sooko. 3.0., is the new win-ld'I. champ- lon log roller, having defeated champion San arm of Kelso, Washington, in he men's division of the World Champion Ilolao on the Rock river at Rockford. Ill!- nois. Let us hail our new cham- plun who can spin them faster, better and longer than any other roller. We can do.wltb all the champions we can provide in this age of severe competition, espec- ially a-true blue amateur, ll ever was.-London Free Press
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-Geraldine Ross in the New York Herald-Tribune.
our vssrsaoms
the past two weeks. Even when the weather was fit to haul fringe the catches remained small. a price still remains at ten cent per pound for live lobsters. '
Ask about substantial savinn offered by Family taxes to Canada and to Mid-West and Woolen Ualtoil States.
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