fungi 5. 1946

Enthusiastic Meeting ;_._0f Campaign Workers

Prlltl hliiiii-l ltlalil ilstltalfllilsctles h

city Inaugurated At Slayer lAsetlsg At libs iiiisrel.

Tiie Charlottetowif collection in the Prince Etdward Itsian fin t t

- alngo away oa essr “mp a “er held in Zion all at six o'clock last eve- _ There was a splendid ' leniiance of workers, a delicious ' quickly served by the on and 8t. James con-

Immediately after supper there ’ was a short spirited sing-song led by Walter Cox with Miss Darrach

Quite short addresses were de- by Dr. J. A. Clark, chair- tiie Board of Trustees and

A. L. MacPherson. irman of the campaign. former thanked the, workers for

.sure it was a fine augury for the success of the campaign. He ack- nowlcdged on behalf of the Board

' the excellent support accorded_the

the local newspapers

s tlon and also express-

ed appreciation to the business

houses that had soecial advertisements and to Mr.

William Burnett who had prepar-

tiie great importance of providing sufficient hospital accommidation for the community, the expansion

hlch it was hoped lo meet the great shortage of pa- tieiits’ beds so apparent at the pre- sent time, and assured his hearers

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to have her propellers gone over . and on Sunday the ship was laid " up iili 8 o'clock last night having I knew that is a seri-

ous lnatter. and that the freight T IZPiS pretty well tied up on the There are M8 cars awaiting transfer to the Island on the, other side at the present time."

Mr. Strong: "Are these reefers?"

38 carloads of lime- stone, 78 carloads of coal, l5 car- liiads of feed, 2i! carloads of fer- altogether some 248 cars. The next six weeks is a very crit- These imports must he increasing from year to year, "but if we can got by for the next six weeks we are safeu It is won-

“I think the lime could very well be left over there for a while, and the refrigerator cars brought over."

that the roads are good and the

farmers are trying to get them . siiinncd when conditions are iav- The authorities are doing the best they can. They are izet- illlfi! box cars and making ship- mcnts to Sackvllle and even as far There are today ord- ci-s for 325 cars, and usually about this time of year you have about that many orders at the railway. It is the weather that is crowding stlyear we were about a_riionth la e; getting under way iviiii potato shipments. this year the ferry has transported i500 carloads of potatoes, which is Just as many as was transported iillS time last year, and we have crop than we had last

Something Wrong

Hon. Dr. MacMillan: ‘The Pre- niicr says that Canada is short of potatoes, and Prince Edward Island

That is not a good thing for the The Premier figures so 111111.‘! ears of limestone 1111111? ears of. coal that have to he transported to the Island when we should be getting the potato cars _Don't you think there something wrong with the general P111105’? Why are 79 cars of coal being brought over now? Those can should have been broughtlast 7'5 W The Premier shakes his head, btlt I ask the question."

Premier Jones: "You mean they should has; been brought

h The dealers should rive been‘ forehanded and orlered "l" will. but they didn't."

intention to this anomalous posit- 0 . The reason our potatoes are "Oi selling away is because there

c Alba o M». so Mr. and Emmett. , B011.

MmNAN-At seaiilemwii on m. 20 1946. sic and Mrs. Walter __ s - at the Prince c: iiiiy Hospital, Feb. lflth, mo. to MlTund

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thatthera was plenty of money in Charlottetown to , ut them over their oblectlve of M0 additional to the objective set up for the special Names Division. It was inow for them to put their should- ers "to the wheel and so set it. Judge Palmer pointed out that n community is judged largely by the standard of its churches, hos- pitals and orphanages ‘and this clmPflisn to ensure that the standard of our hospital ls main- tained. A fine organization has been set up. It is now for us to set the results. The workers must fisst sell the idea of the contri- bution and then see that the con- tribution is large enough. Refer- ring to several lines i)! criticism that might possibly be raised by prospects he pointed out the an- swers. reviewed the splendid rec- ord of the Prince Edward Island Hospital and the work done on its behalf since its establishment and urged all to get out in the morn- ing and do their stuff so that the progress may be continuous. Before ciosing- he announced that at tomorrow night's report meeting, to be _held in \he same hall at six o'clock, there will be prizes for the Di.‘ ' l Comman- der, the team captain and the members of the team attaining the highest percentage of the respect- ive objectives set for them. e particularly thanked the lad es who had provided the supper and urged all to be on hand tomorrow with every possible card completed.

are-coal can to transport that ghfiuld have been taken over last a ."

Mr. W. G. MacKenzle, First Queen's: “Would it be the fault of the shippers? I was told in the critical situation a year ago that an order had to be laced for these cars- a reasonable tme ahead, and that in the fall there was a rumor that the market was going oil’ and they cancelled their orders; then when things brightened up they ordered their cars. The shipper from whom I got‘thls information ordered his cars and got them at the proper time. When ~did the shippers that are needing cars now D1009 their order?"

Dr. MacMillanz “I have talked to many eople and that is the first man I now of who has got all the cars he wants. Go to Mr. Boulter or any other potato man, and they all say they can't get cars. It is admitted that the cars are on the other side. and have been forquiie a time, but they can't be brought over. That has been the constant complaint all alon . I thin}: the Government woul do well to make a serious investigation into conditions. I know the Premier is doing all he can. but I don't think it is quite good enough to say that we are shipping just as much as they did last year. The farmers have suffered every year, and they will suflerthls- year, because un- less there is a change in ll0lll‘y ~and -more attentiovi- is ~paid to Prince Edward Island, you will always have trouble." 1 ',,,Pr,filni_el.‘""3,iihgs cites; ngures of xecertt carférry trafllc and said

he present‘ order for S5 reefer cars ‘washlust about the normal number. It was nothing to get nervous about.

Dr. MacMlllan: "Then according to-you the situation is quite satis- factory."

Premier Jones: "It is normal at least. In fact we shipped more potatoes this year than we did last

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Dr. MacMillan: "It is a very ab- normal finormal’. Our ‘normal’ situation is always abnormal."

Premier Jones: “With respect to coal. for some reason it was im- possible to get coal here last sum- mer. For some reason the merch- ants don't want to bank coal, And for some becull r reason the peo- ple are using t ice as much coal in this Rovlnre as formerly. Poo- ple are buying it who never did before, the reason being that they can't get time to go into the woods and cut slicks. There is no labor available. There is lots of labor in town but they won't go into the

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Dictatorship

Mr. T. J. Kickham, First King's: “Our Government is now paying a trade agent in.Newfoundland_ and ap arently we obtained the good- wii of a large port of the New- follndland trade for the Island. ‘Ottawa now comes alonlt with a prohibition and restriction, and dictates to us. It is something that we peo le should not tolerate in Prince E ward Island. We have been selling our beef, potatoes, eggs and cheese in Newfoundland, and they gave us the highest ric- es; higher than we got in pper Canada where they have the price ceilings. It is ingratitude for this Government to allow Ottawa to place such arbitrary restrictions on our trade with Newfoundland"

Mr. Klrkham referred to the large (7.5. potato crop and llie importation in large quantities in- to Up r Oansds. I-lo stressed the uncer lnty of the potato business and the necessity o this Province retaining its Newfoundland mark-

mfil‘? e Mr. Russel C. Clark, Third his 71st Qlflfll lb till M Filli- "iii 301M. tuneful notice later.

‘ In Memos-lam

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Queenh: “The Premier said only 32B cars are on order. The reason is that when I go to order cars, .for example, they can only take orders for two, and I may want as many as ten cars. If all the orders were placed there would be more laigeulflw cars needed today than

Millan as ed regarding the health of the oldest member, . W. H. unis, who had been absent this session. He understood he had been ill. Premier Jones said it was ex-

lay up. ydfl pectell Mr. Dennis would be in his

scat today.

ll. ll I was informed, I think legislature should have

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stand us that

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erage of Canada, it would have been ten and one-half million dol- lars. ‘Ihere the Dominion recog- nizes that we are only one-third agdwell oi! as the average in Can- a . . "Take it anotherlway. Take our provincial and munic pal reven- ues. Together they amount to

.502, . The average for Can- ada is $4,728,000. There again you will find that provincial and muni- ci ai revenues are ust one-third o the average of anada. Thai: shows definitely the fiscal need of this Province.

"They were not able to refute those figures in their economic committee. In fact the tables com-

lled by Dr. Lattlmer could not

e refuted; so that the Provincds position for fiscal need is well est- ablished, and I know that the eco- nomic committee admits it. The question will be whether the co- ordinating committee of Premiers will see it as well and will recog- nizf that we have fiscal need here wh ch must bring us more money."

War Expenditures

Premier Jones recalled that dur- ing the war, for munitions and supplies alone there were expend- itures of ten and one-half billion dollars. "If Prince Edward Island had got a per ca its share we would have had eig ty-seven mil- lion dollars. I am sure that much money didn't come to us 'llll'll'\g the war. There was a consider- able amount spent in Prince Coun- ty. Some millions were s ent in Queen's, but I think you w ll hunt around a good deal to find qgen one million spent in King's Coun- ty. That money was not pumpe here so that we didn't get that big jolt upwards which other pro- vinces sot."

Dr, MacMillan: "Where was the million spent in King's?"

Premier Jones: " suppose they bought canned fish."

Mr. Hunter: "Which might a- mount to a thousand‘ dollars."

Premier Jones: "Then- perhaps a million or two would cover lt. But in Prince County you would be able to run u pretty nearly twenty millions. e have the air- port which eost two and a half million, and we have Beach Grove. But I bring this out to show that the Island didrflt benefit by these huge war expenditures to the ex-

tent that the -rest of Canada did. C

That should be part of our fiscal need for the three year period when they propose to discontinue our present agreement under which we get $1,004,000 in lieu of our Dominion subsidies."

Labor's ear.nings in this Prov- ince, Premier Jones continued, were only $560 per person as

against an average of $988 for 000

Canada. He quoted the Slrols Com- mission report to substantiate the claim that P. E. I. revenues are only one-third the average for

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Inca at flu suits a word. strictly pay-

able in salvo-nor.

ORASWILI. for photography I'll! BALI at The Vogue. 3-5-21.

KINBMIN Pill LINIEN DAN (ill March 4th.

2-Z3,25.27,3,2,4,5L HOWARD MOINNIB for Flawed

Footwear. _ z-s-st

RETURN FROM OTTAWA — and Mrs. V. J. Leonard of

Ms.

Charlottetown. arrived home last slight iiom Ottawa where Mr. Leonard attended a labor confer- ence. Lister they visited friends in Montreal.

AT GYIi/O — The feature of

last night‘ Gyr meeting was an address b; Iikaiik “Huck" O'Neil,

lately returned from four and one-

half years internment in Japan-

ese prison wmlifl. For ninety min-

ulm Huck held a large audience of Gyros in close attention wihiie he related his experiences dilllfls the epic but ill-fated Battle of Hang Kong and later in the hands of his Nipponese captors. This first hand narrative was s unique experience, giving as it did, a mov- ing picture of what transpired dur- ing ilhe course of the long confine- ment. ‘I'm chairman for the eve-

ning was mbbert Saunders.

HERE HOB ICE RACING MEET omen and race fans arriv- Gilt? last night by special plane from alifax for the two day goodwill lee race meeting which is

be held here Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. The roup from allfax included essrs C ll Dauphinee. R..S.. Allen, Robie

—25 hors ed in the

aizer, Raymond Kaizer, Al Hod

gins. Mr.. and Mrs.. Gordon Mit- chell, Philip Trotsky, Tom Watson, Mrs M E.. Kyle, Walter John-

ston,’ Bob McAlplne, Geo.

Shanks, Douglas Shanks, L.. A.. O'Brien. From Dartmouth were Messrs. Geo. Clarke. Grego O'Hearn, Victor ner, Geo. Turner, c had paid emmisaries in this Prov-

0’l~learn, Dan Wm. Cross, Scott Weeks. Fields, Mr.. Fields, Mr.. Weeks.

HOME 0N LEAVE - Lieut- Commander Ken Biirtwistle. R. C. d N.. arrived home from Ottawa last nigh-t on 28 days’ leave. Lieut- Commander Birtwistle received his promotion on entering the D91”- manent force. In the closing days of the war with Japan Command-

5- soon as a proper act is drawn up.

er Birtwistie served on I-I. M. C.

Prince Robert as Air Defence Of- ficer. The ship left the west coast on July 5. i945. Bind 0811195- at San Francisco. USA" and Syd- ney, Australia. On August 15th tihe Prince Robert headed for Hons: Kong where it took part in the surrender of the Japanese garrison there. The ship arrived at her home port on October 20th and for sometime Lieut-Com- mander Birtwistle was stationed at H. M. C. S. Naven. Victoria. B. . He is a son of Chief of Police A, Bii-twistle and Mrs. Birtwisile

of Charlottetown.

osals for generatlns Dower on the

gt. Lawrencei ‘llhis scheme is being ushed bv the U.. S. Congress and

f it, goes through, about 2,000,000 be generated and

we in Canada will be paying $160.- 000 to develop more electricity

horse power wil

than ever in Ontario and Quebec.

"If that money is going to be spent up there to develop Péllllgegi

our Maritime members shou

Canada. Mr.. Stron : "I understand your position is t at we should get $15

per head for our population. and‘ he said. "At least we would titled to thirty or forty million dol-

Premier Jones: "Yes, And in re- lars.. If they are going to g0 on turn for giving up our income and generating corporation taxes the Dominion and Quebe

some more for fiscal need?"

Government agrees to take care of our unemployed employables. That is not a very large number in this Province. In the country our farmers and fishermen are self em- gloyed people. alnd the Dominion

overnment takes no responsibility for them whatever.

"They also agree to pay old age ensions of $30 at seventy, and cave it optional to the Province to pa on the Means test tihe pensions be ween sixty-five and sixty-nine. In this Province it would probably be impossible for us to pay e pensions under seventy without a stiff Means test."

Reconstruction Council

Answering a guestion on the ord- ar paper regar ing the. Region Reconstruction Committee, i-‘rem- ler Jones said he understood such a committee or council had been appointed for this Province by the Dominion Government. The Prov- ince was not consulted as to its

sonnel. He knew "little or noth-

" about it or about what it was do ng. He had had no correspond- ence or conference with tibe chair- man or other member, The work of

this committee, he understood, had

chiefly to do with the "tinting" of

federal reconstruction projects.

"Let us suppose." he said, “that Summerslde or Charlottetown do»

cides to go ahead with a sewn e

disposal plant. The sngineers ma e the plans and subm..t those to 0t-

tawa, and they ask that. tihey be ac- cepted for timing. l Ottawa ao- celils. the people who build flhls would be petting 20 per cent from Sh, ilpoommlgn govertfigentgezf thus‘); o t wor w an signal to do t. This Relvflfll Council would tell the 1701111111011 Govemment when may would be able to do the work. hail

their functions, and that. ls t-he only

fie that I mow clearly that they

Dre MacMillan: “Do I under- hon, rlend to

as stains?" er : " mesfiy sans that as an m lb ggrtklie gggiffillillfl Government tore-

lleve unem loyrnml: the ii

any projec would be adv b!

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together and demand that a simil- ar amount be spent in tine Mari’; times to generate electricity a513,‘

will be eft here w lation.."

Referring to requests from the Federation of Agriculture for a survey of Island water Dowel‘ 1'80"‘ itles, the Premier said such a sur- vey would be useless. The Govern- meni; was convinced there is not enough water to generate electric-

ity ln this Province. Two Main Plants

"Our engineers have drawn at- tention to two main lwwfl‘ P181115- one in Charlottetown and one in Sumnéerslgta" Pfiuéleé-uélgogg-Zd 3111;“ tinue .. ey Lzameritl? electricity and be connec e W a1 th lr lin , so tlhat they could sell e es another when requir- ed.. We also have lines from bum-

lant is out. 1t will not nay to ruirionk» i tifg" most competent 811810"! We . l“ 1n this part of Canada, Mr.. he as‘, of Halifax. and when we have B-

theso two plants could

power to one

merside to Mount Pleasant... "The Mount. P10115111"-

pect to have a report

report we will table it for you!’

'1 G nment, of course will haiihlo glue: action. I cannot say whether it will be by purchase °f obese plants and running them by s "it". time's it’. 3'03??- we w ea means oi a e one or the ,

t is distribution of A. R. P. equipment.

th i tion b ' lytrlliety gogrgf: It. will b h other, the Utility Board is w a used in Nova Scotla.

Th Premier referred to the re- eon rural electriiicatiol}: by ti}:

dvlsory Reconstruction tea, which

l ul r- as“

unskilled! Dlvoreoflouri er

urt. Divorcafle; m, u“

w» ngflnI-“Xlfll-SQNQEH‘ fifipeutli- "-

is 3 i 8 i

ad been i . iat»°‘.':.'.‘l:.“'°-~i*..2i.i hire. . wtkm to take. We think

. proper ,,

we did the risht tiuviug by savin.‘ leader of in’! itlen had said he was in

t runs mone this” vlaimeil the

any such statzmrn

Premier Jonas: "it w.~= l’ ‘ 1y said‘ and intimated ihn‘ tit‘:

should N! the differ-

1 l

electricity in Ontario

c they will soon collect all bhe opulatlon up‘ there and we it out any D0011-

uld tBKB

ftteen ealflaultfialillllyltlmi" m”

Issnd. has Government was ini-

oliiiea to the view tlhat peovlfmii;

central parts should aim“ mm it“ itxiifyflflfi iitfi“ "

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