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OBAKIDVITITOWN TUESDAY, FEB. 20. 1951

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Parliament and Press echo the concern of most Canadians regarding the creeping menace of inflation. Advocates of price control proclaim with increasing vehemence the necessity for putting the country into an economic straightjacket. The din is made even worse by those who argue that price control does not make sense without wage control, since wages are one of the most important factors in determining prices. Then there are those who advocate that we should have no controls at all. No wonder confusion reigns on the economic front.

It takes but a moment's calm deliber- ation to understand that the fundamental cause of inflation is that the supply of money exceeds the supply of available goods. The resulting scarcity sends prices skyrocketing. Just as in times of depres- sion, the supply of goods exceeds the sup- ply of money, and prices plummet.

"Pump-priming," or the putting into circulation of additional money by the Government, was regarded as a proper and necessary step to overcome depression. Yet Government and people alike” seem sing- ularly reluctant to adopt the opposite and obvious device of curbing inflation, which must be to reduce the amount of money in circulation.

The only step taken by the Government in this direction was Finance Minister Abbottls somewhat elastic restrictions on? installment buying. Thus, while credit ar- rangements may be somewhat tighter when it comes to financing the purchase of merchandise through retailers, individual credit at the banks and through the loan companies is just about as free as ever. What would do the most- to defeat the enemy of inflation is a drastic regulation of domestic credit. .

This can be accomplished without any undue raising of taxes. Once credit curbs have been imposed, they can be P011995 with infinitely more ease than can price and wage controls. Rigid credit restrict- ions coupled with a system of compulsory savings which would make due a1l0Wan'3e for life insurance and mortgage payments might do more to check the rise of the Cost-of-Living Index than all other con- Lrols devices put together.

Jeliled Gasoline

Daily we read of the devastating effects of napalm, jellied gasoline, when used as an incendiary bomb by United Nations air- men in Korea. This same product, how- ever, which rates high in destructiveness, holds promise of saving life and property when once the world becomes free from ag- gression and the necessity to resist it with armed might.

In modern life gasoline is in constant use. Without it we would still be, not per- haps in the horse and buggy era but in that of the railway. Air and road traffic would hardly have developed. In fact it is highly unlikely that anything like a mod- em system of highways would have been created. '

' Part of the price we have had to pay and are paying is in the risk hitherto in- separable from the handling, storage and use of gasoline. That risk should not long continue after hostilities cease. Jellled gas- oline. safe to handle almost as butter and as conveniently shipped and stored should bring new standards of safety.

Women on Juries

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Under the British North America Act. criminal law and the appointment of judges are Federal concerns, but the provinces constitute, maintain, and organize the courts. The Criminal Code merely states that in criminal cases any person .quelified by provincial law may serve on a jury. A Canadian Press survey made in 1948 found that woman were barred from all jury serv- ice in Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, 'New Brunswick, and Nova Scotla. Saskatch- ewan was revising its low, sndulest year opened its juries to women. British Colum- bia still restricts coroners' juries to men, and Alberta keeps women from juries in capital cases. Duty under the sontsrio ,.iun';n' Act is specifically reserved to males, while in Prince Edward Island "ninle M'-

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public duty. But it gives to the people, by and for whom laws are made, a share in the administration of justice. A jury of one's peers may lack professional knowl- edge, and its verdicts may sometimes seem questionable. At theosame time, it often contributes to court proceedings a common sense that is more important to fair dealing than the application of the letter of the law. The exclusion of women from this function is a hangover from the days when full citizenship was the prerogative of men.

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Premier Frost has announced the es- tablishment of a new cancer clinic in To- ronto, to be the finest on the continent. The physical structure of the new Institute of Radiotherapy will be built, by funds sup- plied by the Ontario and Federal Govern- ments, but the technical skill and profes- sional leadership required will be drawn from all the major hospitals, the Ontario universities and a number of societies in- terested in the cancer problem. The Well- esley Hospital site has been chosen for the new clinic, the management and treat- ment to be in the hands of the Toronto General Hospital, with which Wellesley is affiliated. A group of treatment centres in various parts of the Province will be as- sociated with the institution.

The Globe and Mail predicts that as a result of the facilities now about to be provided, the effectiveness of the Canadian Cancer Society will be multiplied many times. The new clinic will have at its dis- posal all the knowledge which intensive rc- search elsewhere has obtained, and in turn will contribute materially to the advances now being made in overtaking the ravages of this deadly disease...-

EDITORIAL NOIES

Island Kinsmen are celebrating "Found- er's Night" and will be joined by all in ex- tending greetings to their founder and wel- come guest.

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Admiral Peary, American explorer, died this date 1920. He led an expedition to Greenland in 1891-2 and again in 1905-6 and 1908-9. He reached 87.6 a point farth- er north than had been reached by any other explorer, and in 1908-9 he reached the Pole itself.

Invasion of this Province by aphids from New Brunswick was charged in the annual report of the Federal Department of Agriculture. Special traps on the car ferry have caught specimens five miles from the mainland. Our frontier for insect control is the Saint John.

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Three men fell 85 feet into a snowbank in Quebec City the other day. They were almost uninjured by the fall but badly bruised and battered by the shovels of en- thusiastic rescuers. Not first aid to the injured but first injure the aided.

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The winter jobs campaign is probably of as much value to employers as to the workers. Neglect to have jobs done in the off season will probably result in having to employ less skilled men in the spring if it is possible to get the job done at all.

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"Utility" goods may be in store for Can- ada according to the Ottawa Citizen. Sound products at moderate prices should prove popular. Design, however, in such standardized products is all-important. Nothing could be more unsatisfactory Than to use large amounts of labour and ma- terial on badly designed products which would be encountered at every turn.

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"The census of Canadais pmmercial fisheries," says The Financial Post, "will be the first ever undertaken in this coun- try. Names and addresses of persons en- gaged in this business will be collected. This will permit .a.- subsequent detailed sur- vey. It will give new information on the extent to which individuals are dependent on fishing, supplementary sources of in- come, etc. The main purpose of this new enquiry is to obtain information on the de- velopment and economic and social circum- -stances of the fishing industry in all parts of Canada from the more personal angle of the fisherman and the community. Details of landings, equipment, employment, pro- duction and marketed value by kinds of fish and product and by subdivisions of provinces, are already collected annually. But it is felt that these reports are inade- quate in 6. definition and understangng of the factors that affect the development of the industry and the plane of living of those engaged in it. For purposes of the new survey 'commerclsl fisherman' is de- fined as 'sny person engaged in catching or carrying fish, having earned wages, sold fisher shared in the cgtgigwho during the period June 1, 1350, to May 31, 1951, fish- ed for at least 15 days or earned at least 3100 from fishlng.' The information will

be of special value to insnufscturers snd liittdliuton offi-h1hs.mr..etc.!' ,. ..

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Tish column is open to the discussion by oorrospossduh of questions of intcnll. Tbs Gnsrdlsn does not ascents- tly endorse the opinion of correspondents.

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Sir.-It is a well-known theory among present day psychologists that an individual who expresses u-lticlsm of another lndividusl's appearance or ability is either jealous of him or feels himself in- ferior to him in some manner. They attribute this klnkto certain undeveloped traits in his charact- er; in other words he is still, in some aspects, a little boy who has never grown up. A dispute being aired in the local press at the present. time makes one won- derl

One must concede. however. a cleverness as the attack progress- es. Mark Antony swung the mob of ancient Rome to his side by praising the ability of Brutus along certain lines. purposely neglecting to mention his ability in others and finally falsely branding him as the t of

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the very thing that Brutus. the idealist. worked so hard to avoid. Mark Antony cared not for the people of Rome; he wanted only to have everything his own way and got it.

Can anyone on Prince Edward Island in this year 1951 at the atomic age still be of the opinion that the farmer is not able to think for himself or that he can be swayed by such obvious tactics as were employed by Mark Antony on the mob of ancient Rome? Again, one wonders!

I am. Sir. etc. SP'ECT.A'I'OR Charlottetown.

WHAT PRICE MARKETING BOARDS?

Sir,-There has been much con- troversy recently about the posi- ble benefits of ilhe Potato Market- ing Boards recently set up in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Is- land. We have been told through the -press and in Federation of Agriculture meetirigs that these two Boards would work hand in hand to the advantage of potato growers.

What is happening today? We find that New Brunswick Canada One Grade potatoes are being sold, in volume, at Sl.l6 to 31.18 per new seventy-five pound bag delivered Montreal, wihereas P.E.I. potatoes are being quoted at 31.35 per bag. but sales are few and far between.

We are told that New Brunswick farmers receive the same mini- mum prices as P.E.I. fa.i-mars for potatoes. under the Marketing Boards. Leg us look at the cost of potatoes delivered to Montreal: Minimum price in farmer Cost of Eng . Inspection Freight, -heat etc. from Tignish to Montreal Loading Cost . Commission to

Broker in Montreal .02

Cost delivered Mont.-pea-1 . 1.25 V4 On the same New Bruns-

wick -potatoes cost approximately 1.20 per bag delivered Montreal.

From the above it will be seen that either New Brunswick farm- ers are being paid less than Mar- keting Board prices - or N. B. shippers are selling at less than cost. And who ever heard of a group of potato shippers selling day after day at les than cost?

What will happen if this situa- tion continues? It could well be that New Brunswick will force P.E.I. right out of our established markets for table potatoes. and farmers in this Province will be left holding the bag (full of pois- toes, this time). f

If the Marketing Boards are of- fectivc let them straighten this mess up in a hurry; otherwise let them step out of the picture while we still have time to hold our mar- kets which have been established during the past thirty years by the efforts of farmers and dealers who have worked hand in hand in true cooperative spirit. .

This situation is serious. Let. us see what the P.E.l. Potato Mar- ketlng Board will do about it, and how quickly they take action.

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"A special meeting of the cham- ber of Commerce was held in the rooms of the Marine Insurance Company on Monday evening, in consequence of certain resolu- tions introduced into the United States Congress, relating to s. free trade between that country and Prince Edward Island. In the ab- sence of the Hon. D. Brennan, president, the Hon. J. C. Pope was called to the chair. ”I. C. Hall, Esq, laid upon the table a printed copy of the resolu- tions submitted to Congress by Mr. B. F. Butler, which the chair- man read, offering to admit into the several parts of the United States, free of duty, the actual productions of Prince Edward Is- land. including fish, whenever the Colonial Government of P. E. Is- land shall provide by law: "lst. Ree admission of all pro- ductions of the-United States to this Island. "2nd. To admit to its bays, ports and harbours, for shelter, to ob- tain supplies, and to refit, free of duty of lmpost, all American fish- ing vessels. "I-ltd. To give license to fish in the waters adjacent to the Island upon such terms that the license fee shall not. exceed five dollars for any one vessel. or such less sum as may be demanded by the Canadian Dominion as a percent- age of, or excise in, licenses grant- ed by the Colonial Government of said Island. I

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1. c. i-mi, w. Heard, and others severally the Board, expressing themselves in favour of free trade with the United states. After a. lengthened resolved that "this Board, being of opinion that such trade would be most condu- cive to the financial interests of both countries, will use their best efforts to promote so desirable an object".

"rho following committee wu appointed "to correspond with Boards of Trade and other persons interested '-e reciprocal free trade between the United States and British ALETICB, for the purpose of ” ''''zg such information as rr' ' to so desirable in result": Wm. Heard, Esq., Hon. D. Davies, I. C. Hall. L. 0. Owen, and D. Ienrd, Ehqs."

-The Islander, July 24, mos.

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The Hon. A.

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pm-mg my years in tho Pi'0Vll1- clsl Parliament there were two quuuon. that gave us some con- cern. One was the sllowinl 01 automobiles on our public high- ways; the other was the leasing of barren oyster bed!-

A ststuts had been passed dur ing the Hsszard regime which pro- hibited uutomoblles from runninii on the streets and public highways of the Province. That was in the year 1909. So far as I remembe . only three members in the Home voted against the Bill! Ml'- 3- A- Mnthieson. Mr. A. J. MacDonald. Georgetown. and mYl9"-

After the Msthleson Government- came to power, the automobile question once more Came I0 '-M fore and. at the session of 1913. a Bill was passed vesting in the Government certain powers re- specting the opening of streets and highways in automobile traffic. owing to the opposition of certain members of the Government. the Bill was allowed to remain dorm- ant for some time. but finally it WM decided ,0 can A plebiscite on the question.. The plebiscite Wal called. 1 might say. owns: the better judgment of the maiorltv of the Government members. went strongly against: openlns ill? the highways.. .

Some time later. on the stronsW representation of citizen! who wished to purchase H1010? cl"- the Government decided that. on the petition of 75 per cent of the electors residing on certain hilhr ways. those highways would be opened to motor traffic on Cetmm day, of thg week. The nllmbe of petitions grew. and as a result several hlshways Were Open to motm cnrs three days a week. The Fourth District of Prince, knogvn as the Bcdcqug District, was if.- ,e,-ly opposed to motor-car traffic and a delegation of twenty of the more prominent men 11'0"! "W" District waited on the Govern- ment to protest against. the open- in: of any roads in their District. Within a few years. One? "19 opening of all roads. Pl'"”93"3' every member OI "III. dC1933u0n owned it motor-car thus brlnglnl to pass the prediction made by Premier Methleson when the dele- gation waited on him.

In September, 1919. I. is Prem- ier. had an Order-in-Council pass- ed by the member. of my Govern- ment which opened all the road! in the Province to motor lflmc every any subject only to We ”' strlctions imP0l9d W the Mm" Vehicle Act. . . .