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l President. luii A. our-miss; Vice-President. Was. is

BuriieJ; éeqn-‘frpisl-s u‘. ltL Business; l-Jalmr ano unsung-sq uirector, J. R. Burnett; Itaaoclnts Edwin t-‘ranl Walker.

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than , the Weakest ink.”

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Salvation Army Appeal

. The magnificent work carried on by the Salvation Army has become UHIVBTSUII)" known and appreciated. Annually thoflAimyi R84 Shield Appeal is made to all citizens of good will, and the response heretofore has _ been prompt and generous. This year's campaignus being launched on Monday next, the objective for Prince Edward Island being the suiri of $9,500. The amount sought is modest indeed compared with the multitudinous services which the Salvation Army performs, and no doubt the

a public will welcome this opportunity of again co-operating whoIo-heartedly.

Under Provincial Chairman N. _W. Lowther and City Chairman Tom D. DeBlois, an ener- getic campaign committee has been formed, with prospects of keen competition among the various teams in reaching and passing their ob- jectives. Our "free enterprise" system never shows to better advantage than _when_geared to campaigns of this kind, especially in con- nection with on organization whose name throughout the world is synonymous with orac- ticol Christianity.

Tho 0leoniargarlno Ban

The demand for removal of the ban on oleo- margorino is growing more clamorous, and in certain industrial areas — which have been built up by high tariff protection-there is complaint about the existence of a "butter monopoly and of "vested dairy interests." Few people in this agricultural Province are likely to be misled by such propaganda, but it is well to have tho ons- wering facts at hand. Here, according to the editor of the Ottawa Form Journal, is the case against oleomargarine: _

1. There is no question involved of the suit- ability, or otherwise, of margarine as a food or spread. lt is wholly a matter of economics and a situation peculiar to Canada where‘ nearly 50 per cent of all milk produced goes into butter.

2. lt would hold a constant threat to cheap competition over this major branch of the Can- adian dairy industry, have a constant depression effect on other branches, so that some 500,000 farmers who produce milk, and depend‘ on milk to some degree for their livelihood, would never be sure of their financial prospects.

3. lt would place virtual control of the dairy industry in the hands .of a few companies, con- trolled outside Canada, who in the final analy- sis control the world's edible oil supply.

4. It would not benefit to any extent, or for any length of time, any other. large group of Canadians. While some oils suitable for making margarine can be produced here the huge supply available outside Canada would ol- ways control prices.

5. lt would interject into Canadian poli- tics. a troublesome and ever-recurring problem, possibly cause a definite rural-urban line-up.

6. For courts or Parliament to make the sale of oleomorgarine legal in Canada would only be tho beginning of a long drawn-out fight oil such matters as coloring, excise and import taxes, duties, dumping clauses, protection against fraud (selling margarine as butter). This would go on both Federally and provincially. There would be no forseeable end to this controversy.

7. It might well permanently endanger a huge market for Canadian manufactured goods. The dairy industry of Canada has a net turn- over of $400,009,000 annually at present.

8. The big dairy distributors could make-as

' much profit, possibly more, distributing margar-

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ine. There would be less gamble, no storage worries over long periods, it would not be neces- sary to tie up millions of dollars in Summer but- ter for Winter soles.

9. The complete ban on oleornargarine is the simplest means of handling a highly con- troversial matter. lt is a form of protection for th-e dairy farmer such as tariffs are for industry. Without that protection the dairy farmer would have the right to argue he should buy in a duty- frle market.

10. The immediate shortage of butter should not be used as a means of introducing oloornargorine. Over the years the dairy in- dustry has supplied Canadians with all the but- m needed in normal years, often at prices which returned very little to the farmer for his milk. The price of butter in Canada has seldom reached a peak where it might be termed "ex- lrbitant."

llaril 0s 0iir Farmers.

How the packing strike situation affects our farmers is thus outlined in a mainland exchange:

After years of effort Canadian formers today are producing a hog which can compete with the b_sst bacon type produced anywhere. (This applies particularly to Prince Edyard Island formers.) As o result we have o contract with Britain for prac- tically all the bacon sidss wo can ship over, and tlis prospects are good for keeping this market. But to produce finfWiltshira sides formers hove learned they must food carefully, market hogs at on exact weight. A fsw days’ over-feeding and the hog goes into another and lower price class, tho former is penalized for overweight and losss the premium paid for top grads. In addition. ho losoftho value of tho extra food he had waited.

The hsovy Fall run of hogs is about to

osinnisncs; hundreds of thousands would nor- ally employ 0,000 pooplo

.nally go to the processing plants in the next rew weeks. Every one that has to be held even a wecf. too long means loss to the farmer; should the strike last several weeks the loss would be substantial. in addition the bacon that eventually goes to Britain will be of poor- er quality and a lot of badly needed feed grains will be ivasted. This latter fzctor is important in a s-eascri when feed s:::city is a major worry. .

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Tomorrow Feast of St. Matthew-léth Sun- day after Trinity. I I I lt looks as thoiigh we have had a million dollai rain, though farmers wish it could have been doubled. i This has been something of a record year for both births and marriages. We had better start planning now to expand school facilities or they will be even more hopelessly inadequate than at present. fl I I. Y Wolves in Ottawa are kept properly in order. Deputy Magistrate Sauve recently fined three youths $10 each, and five others $5 each for whistling at passing women. i fi Q i

lt is obvious that Mr. Gardiner, returning from Europe, was very much out of touch with Ottawa when he said he would take o hand in the (packing strike) matter. i i‘ i i Delhi Day, in recognition of the capture of the capital of India in 1857; it is doubtful now that India is split in two whether the name will be continued as descriptive of the Common- Wealtll of lndia, at wllichtitjs still the capital.

The Jones Government is organizing the movement of potato pickers from New Bruns- wick, but unfortunately the majority of avail- abie workers seem to prefer to cross~ over to the United States to do their potato picking; he has evidently better luck with the miners of

Cape Breton.

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Professor Jansen, Dutch civil engineer, con- firmed the opinion expressed here that he was capable of connecting us up with the mainland if we so desired. He admits he damned up the Zuyder Sea in his native land, thereby adding half a million acres to the agricultural area of Holland.

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‘Orders are already being received from United States buyers to their representatives in Quebec to start their work on Christmas tree cutting on October 15. All preliminary work was completed late last spring. Since experi- enced buyers and handlers are necessary for the arrival of the trees at United States points in good condition; first duti-es of the represen- totives will be to "line up" their respective

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Notes By Tho flay |

What this country needs 1a a fly that will so out when tho screen

door ls left. open. -K1t.chener Rec- l

0rd.

Not enough of the hall-brush In curly life often leads to the police ‘having to comb the countryside

later on. - Windsor Star.

Since the "Red" scare teachers have become sensitive a- lbout references to the Little Red schoolhouse. — Christian Science Monitor.

1n recent weeks, Calgary has re- ported visits by a deer, is bear. a rattlesnake and now a. wildcat. Can 1t be that. Calgary ls gradually returning to the bush? -Edmoriton Journal.

, Sixty apartments of two and ; three rooms are to be made avall-

able to Toronto veterans. at rent- " als of $75 and s90 a month. There would be a catch 1n lt.. —W1ndsor Star.

Halifax 1s a naval city, and ev- eryone here knows that "Jimmy the One" ls the First Lieutenant of a WHY-Ship. being s Lieutenant or Lieutenant Commander 1n rank, according to the size of the shlp on which ho serves. -- Halifax Chronicle.

Poor spelling casts a reflection upon arm's scholarship. 1t 1| bard to believe that. a person 1s well trained 1f his letter of application for employment 1s full of mis- spelled words. It means something to be refused a job; refusal of em- ployment may hinge on the let.- ter of application some day. Cbathom News.

Because 1t can't. get enough nurses, the eighteen-bed hospital at. Carmangay-faces the prospect of closing down. It should have a staff of four or flve graduate nurses. but rlght now 1t has only two. and one of these has announc- ed her lritentlon of leaving. This hospital serves a large area. Calgary Herald.

Ono might say that. the British dollar crlsls resulted from on sb- sence of official control - 1n the United States. This country. 1n ef- fect. has thrown away many of the dollars 1t. lent. lo Britain by permitting American prices 1D rise without hindrance since Brltisln began to use its credit 1n July, toss. If the Unlted States had kept price control’ Britain would have many more dollars at its command today. _The Nation, New York,

Sentencing two men who held up and robbed a bank, Judge D. B. Coleman of Whitby held that. lt made no difference that the guns used were toys. "Toy guns," he said. "are just as effective as real guns." This ls s. sensible and realistic reversal of a decision giv- en by another court. 1n another case. when the judge considered

The Edmonton Bulletin has produced a fine, feature edition bearing the title "This ls Ed-l monton." It points out in vivid style the riches of the area served by this great Western city as an oil centre, an air centre, a gold, wheat, coal,l natural gas and livestock centre. Indeed, if the Bulletin be correct, the Province of Albertaf and particularly the Edmonton district, is the: scene of "one of the most remarkable economic, developments in the history of a continent whose history has abounded in startling revelations of amazing new wealth."

The Presbyterians are all on the alert for the Synod of the Maritime Provinces to con- vene here ori 7th, 8th and 9th of next month. lt-will be the first meeting of the second high- est Court of the Church since I920, when Rev.‘ Dr. Fullerton was Minister of St. James, Rev.

Minister ol Summerside, and Rev. Dr. Fraser, Minister of Alberton. It will also be the first Synod in the City since the Disruption, though one met in Summerside some ten years ago.

The Canadian Wheat Board announces that with minor exceptions the issuance of permits to cover the export of oats and barley, whole, ground or otherwise processed, will not be ap- proved during the current crop year. The regu- lotion has been made in order that domestic‘ feed requirements will be met. The prohibition on exports will include mixed feed ‘oats, number one and two feed screenings, whole or ground,

icy, rcclconed oats and barley and any special classifications of these grains. I i l i

In August of this year Britain became an

"atomic power" when continuous atomic energy

was released for the first time in that country.‘ This exciting news was given by Professor Cock-] roft, the director of the Hartwell Atom Station

at th-e meeting of the British Association _ in

Dundee. He said that a chain reaction of split-

ting uranium atoms had been established in his‘ laboratories and already‘ the Hartwell engine is' producing enough energy to supply o large block: of flats with light and power. In a month's

|ti.i~a they will use power released by atomic fis-i 'sion to heat gases up to 350 degrees centigrade.

He said: "With 100 tons of uranium on atomic

pile of this kind could generate energy equal

to 100,000 kilowottsfor 20 years without fuel

replacement. If we could utilise the whole en-

ergy then one ton of uranium would be the

equivalent of 3,000,000 tons of cool." lt was

probable that an experimental power plant would | be built during the next five years to obtain the first operating experience with nuclear power] generators. Advance already has been mode in| the application of radio-octivs materials to scion-

tific research, medical diagnosis and trbatmont,

engineering and industry. The‘ nsw factories

starting in Dundee iindor the Government‘ schemes and working onthois llnos will ovontu-l ‘V

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Mr. Millar, Mirlister of 2..., i... 0.. Mitchell,‘

as well as commercial grades of oats and bor-'

that toy guns could riot be consid- ered weapons. Judge Coleman's

' ruling sets the proper precedent.-

Branttord Expositor.

Two thousand years have elaps- ed since llre Church was bldden to "leach all nations." A lot of na- tions don't want to be taught. Dp we need a “Christian Front?" Has the time come for a holy war "for God and the rlghtFL-o united grasping of the sword of

Ill-Hod, .

JJUBLIC FORUM

This column 1s upon an mo arson-ion by corro- spuadoata o1’ giioaflona of Interest- Tho Ctisrlosaesowri Gusrdlaifdoea not neoamr- 11y endorse the opinion of correspondents

LOCAL PACKING WAGES

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Sin-We the employees of Can-

ada Packers, Charlottetown, \v1sh ‘ the public to know that. wages Mr. J S. MacLean, President of Can- 'isda Packers referred to 1n hls rec- ent broadcast, are incorrect. _

Wages at Charbttetown plan: are as follows: Skilled women 44c per hr.; skilled butchers, moat. Lrlmmers, sausage makers, and other skilled men 60c per hr.

In Moncton starting rate for a labourer 72c per hr; slldlng rate pay for skilled labor ls up to 95c per hr. So all we are asking in Charlottetown ls the same pay for the same work as they receive in Moncton.

1 sm, Sir; etc.

T. lt. JONES. Fin. Sedy Local 282. U.P.1V./\

IIWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOIT.

8lr,-!n a recent. news despatcli from Ottawa relating to the Do- minion - Newfoundland conference re urilon of Newfoundland q Canada, 1t was intimated that. Quebec ls putting 1n for adminis- trstlon of Labrador-on the bpyo- thesis of union taking place. New- foundland bad only riparian rights on the Labrador shores previous to the conference held some vcurs ago, which gave the "Ancient Col- ony" dominion over all the Atlan- tlc watershed to the "Divide" where the rivers start: to flow to- ward dson Bay.

In e natural order of things 1t would seem just. and that 1f there is any more “emin- ent domain" to be passed around this Province should get its share. We have a greater moral and ‘regal right. on account of the "Coiifcd-l oration" Idea. having originated ' here.

Labrador undeveloped 1s a bleak

1t. 1s heavily wooded and mlneral- ‘ lzed. shield" extends into fr. Modern alchemlsts and research men can be the means of turning porphory and “bu1l" quartz rock irito golden dollars by a roundabout process Those new mining towns 1n north- ern, Conada are flourishing like the green bay tree, which a few years ago were a paradise for fur- bearlng animals.

Now non-ferrous metals are com- ing more ln demand commercially as clvlllzatlon advances. It. wouiicl be well for our legislators and judiciary to be on the "qul vlve."

I am, Slr. etc. J. PENDERGAST. Kensfngtorr. P.E.I.

The Lesson Of Hamburg

(London Times)

The three shlploads of Jews who sailed 1n the President. War- field in an attempt to land lll Palestine have now been disem- barked 1n Hamburg. Most. of them went. ashore quietly. but. a fcw rc- lused to leave the ships and Brit- lsli troops had the painful task of putting these ashore by force. It.

1s a lamentable episode. Nothing

the but compassion can be felt for the

spirit? Some say 1t ls imprudent. | unfortunate refugees lured hy mis-

iinngerous. foolhardy for

the r epresentatlon

into a venture

Church to take sides 1n political-l doomed to end 1n failure. The ob-

rriatters. But. 1s 1t any more 1m- prudent. dangerous and foolhardy

jectlons to the landing of these refugees 1n a land overcharged

than risking. destruction through with the tragic memory of former mass murder and suicide? This ls martyrdoms are manifest.

the Church's difflculb but. not im- possible. choice. --Vancouver Sun.

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The decision to send them to Germany has been strongly and naturally criticized. No decision

A shadow on the picture of tho ro~"d have been more distasteful.

general increase 1n prices 1n that. i the poor today are poorer than ever. Those who. for various reasons.

Yet no practical alternative has been suggested. A few hundred more refugees could have been ac-

slckriess. accidents. lndustrlal crises ‘commoduted ln Cyprus or everi at

ctc.. cannot earn their living are much to be pitted while they ivoicl-i the prices of food go up. The pit.- tances they receive through our social laws scarcely suffice to meet their need. The poor man's cent

is unfortunately not. worth today"

what lt. was formerly. That is what. our cltlzens who are favored by fortune should remember when an orxpeal 1s made to their generos- ity 1n future campaigns for works of charity. -La. Patric, Mois- treal.

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arr anecdote hv "Bert" Butler. papifar public relations officer of the Trade and Commerce Depart- ment. Speaking at; the CEA fourth anniversary luncheon 1n Montreal. l.e referred 1n passing to the peri- orllc check-up by efficiency experts 1n Clvll Service offices. One of these birds. 1t: seems. making hls inquisitorial rounds. asked a young clerk the perennial question, "and what are you doing?" The brown- ed-off youth yswnert "nothing." He moved on to the next desk-flwhl‘. are you doing?" "Nothing." "Ah!" he izloated. getting _out hls little block book. "duplication, eht- Montreal Financial Times.

The lilstorle ward empire. haw- ever 1t has been misrepresents-l a- broad calls for no apology. Th- ugh 1t 1s now destined to be supersed- ed. 1t has hsd a tlexlblllty corres- ponding to that. of the living and‘ growing organism for which lt. has stood. It commemorates the can! lurles 1n which the British have strlven. first. to work out the con- ception of polltlool liberty for themselves and then to communi- cate that. llbarty to all the peoples who share their allegiance. The goal and the achievement srs now summed up 1n a tltls tliarfs proof sgslnst. detractors, the British Commonwealth 0f Nations, and this title may itself one as; ras-

pand to developments 1n. slant by the omission or its srsar. 4e0- doa ‘noises , r

a pinch in Britain, if indeed they would have consented to coma here. but only ln Germany were camps available for these tho-i- sands of men, women and ch11- dren.

The responsibility lies upon Llnose who planned the expedition 1n the Preslderrt. Warfleld as a political

with :

proper '

' and the Hon. Dennis o. M. Reddln I inhospitable looklrig country, but 1

The famous “pre-Cismbrian‘

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We who have wept for the beloved dead, ‘ And 1n our blind rebellious human way- Our first. refusal to be comforted- I Questioned why loveliness shouldr meet decay; Why young hands clutching eiiger- y : ly at. life l Should fold 1n death? Aiid why courageous hearts, i In seeming fitted for our mortal‘ strife, i Be fallen even as the combat, I starts? ‘ Then. sorrow-taught. we dimly . understand I The tenderness that nestles tender things; i We glimpse the shelvrlng sweet- ness of a Hand i

Above the tiny seedling 1n the, springs. ' I yAr-id to the Lord of seed and sero- phlm

We give our dead and they are

l | sato with Hlm. i

-Lucy Gertrude Clarkln ' i i

Old Charlottetown ' (And P.E.l.) l

coumsr courvrs

Under an act to establish Coun- ty Courts of Judicature tn this Is- land passed on the 14th of June,. ‘.873, the Lieutenant Governor 1n Council appointed one Judge for each of the Counties of Kings. Queens and Prince.