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Morning Dolly (Founded ln 1887i. Authorlsed es Second Clem Moll. Poss Office Department. Ottawa.

President. mi A. Burnett; Vice-President, win. ii. Burnett; Seen-Tress, G. ‘M. Burnett; Editor sail Managing Director. J. B. Burnett; Associate Editor. , Frank Wslgker.

' "The Strongest Memory “is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink."

UIIARLOTTETOWN, SATURDAY, FEB. H. 1948 a

At the basis of all,discussion on the present high cost of living lie a few economic facts, which wereclearly set forth this week by Mr. J. K. Macdonald, president of the» Confederation Life Association, in addressing the annual meeting of his organization. His statements, though in different words, have already found utterance in our own Legislative Assembly this season, as well as in the House of Commons.

Mr. Macdonald emphasizes that the only way to check inflation is by the direction of ex- panding production of goods and services and by checking, or even contracting, the amount

first requirement in this connection is for gov- ernments to abandon their easy money policy and to effect economy in expenditure wherever possible. A period of prosperity seems a logical time to reduce government indebtedness to banks. Permitting interest rates to seek their natural level has been in the past an effective method of curtailing excessive credit expansion. "industry, labour, and governments," says Mr. Macdonald, "ars faced with the most es- sential task of increasing production and the efficiency of labour and to adopt firm measures to arrest the vicious spiral of rising wages and prices. Until sufficient supplies become avail- able, any attempt to improve the people's stand- ard of living by simply raising money wages and increasing the money supply is doomed to fail- ure. lncrease in money wages without a corre- sponding increase in labour output per man-hour, and increasing the quantity of money without e corresponding increase in the quantity of final goods available for consumption will only re~ suit in a rise in prices and the elimination of any possibility of maintaining economic stability." lncreasedprices, as such, need not be harm-

ful. It is the balance between prices, costs and income which is important. The objective of our prices program should be.to obtain a proper Ixlance in the price, cost, and income relation- ‘P- ' -

I. Z. Teachers Britloai

Trenchant criticism of the "new education" ln vogue in New Zealand schools was expressed by Miss A. L. Loudon, for many years head- mistress of the Epsom Girl's Grammar School, one of the largest girl's schools, in New Zealand. Too much "play-way" methods, too little at- tention to fundamentals, and a continued neglect of important mental processes were all too evi- dent in ,girls entering the schools from element- ary schools, Miss Loudon said. "Evidences of poonstandards are to be seen in hand-writing, spelling, composition, weakness of vocabulary, lack of any logical thought in arranging work, and lamentable inaccuracy in even the simplest "calculations," she added. "Such, in the ex- perience of this school, are the results of the new education.’ Apologists for the system may find compensations, but we have honestly tried to do so and failed."

5"l>l¢¢h giving background of language, good memory and habits of logical thought and accuracy are worth more than the superficial dabbling that has characterized much of prim- "FY education for many years and‘ is now a favor- od part of post-primary education, she said. Methodsare becoming soft. They too often in- vrte_ avoidance of everything that is difficult. Projects and dramatization and "play-way" methods still hold, after a quarter of a century of very doubtful success, a far more important place than they merit. The road to knowledge is hard, and these pleasant by-paths serve only as a very brief diversion.

Miss Loudon's attack has been strongly sup- ported by Prof. J. Rutherford, Professor of Hist- ory at Auckland University. Students who came to him from the schools, he said, tended "to read carelessly and superficially, think sloppily and uncritically" and to be "woefully weak" in lit- erary composition.

iiovol Milk Stimulator

' Mrs. Barbara Woodhouse, who lives in the south of England, has ‘hit on a novel idea for coaxing poor-yielding cows into l,000- gallon a year milkers-,she dresses them accord- ing to the weather! Thirty-eight-year-old Mrs. Woodhouse used to teach dancing, but since the war she's run a lZ-ocre smallholding and madc quite a contribution to llritain's fresh milk sup- plies. About two years ago she came to the conclusion that varying temperatures caused cows to give more or less milk-so she decided to dress them to suit the weather! If it's wet, they wear raincoats! In fine weather they have yutg and wool-lined rugs, and ln summer they

'- wear cotton. The lierdsrnan decides each morn-

‘lng what clothes thgy'll put on. They keep their coats on indoors, so it doesn't matter if the cow- shed’: chilly. Seem! lllfil Soon get used to wearing overcoots. Mrs. Woodhousifs method . is. quits ordinary in Holland, Denmark and New "rlealond, but so far unusual in lritain. Mrs. “Vlaodhouse finds this idea a success. There's

j Queenie, for instance-Mrs. Woodhouse bought

lisr a year age for less than $160, when she _ giving 40 gallons. ofmlilr a year. rile new, a record mlllrer irith e yield of

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of effective purchasing power. lt seems that a"

den-and the three la four hundred cows whicl- have passed through her hands are now giving thousands of gallons of milk to farmers in the

Barbara's cows act as a barometer to the rest of the household. if she's doubtful how to dress the children,-she just looks to see what the cows are wearing!

—- EDITORIAL NOTES m

Tomorrow, Leap Year day. k It i i‘ Tomorrow, Third Sunday in Lent.

v The city and towns are now appealing to the farmer who has his own "Daylight Saving" by rising with the sun to allow the some priv- ilege to the city worker. w

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Premier Jones’ ideas on the royal preroga- tive date from the time of Charles l. Surely another beheading will not be necessary to prove to him that only parliament can change the law of the land.

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Tomorrow's date i896 saw the Abyssinian army defeat the Italians at Adowa, a disgrace Mussolini sought" to revenge 20 years later by his invasion of that country, which iii turn, led to the Second Great War.

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‘Packaging is one of the most important as- pects of modern marketing practice. lf Island products both of the sea and farm are to main- tain a satisfactory competitive position they must be packaged in a way that will appeal to the ultimate consumer. I I

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For once the willing tax-payer comes out on top. Next month when the refundable portion of i942 Income Tax is returned, those who paid in full will be getting.it back with interest, while those who found reasihrs for not paying are left out in the cold.

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The Government, alter much delay and sounding the wishes of tlre constituencies they hope to win at next election, have come to the conclusion that the farmers were right when they claimed margarine could not be imported or manufactured in Canada so long as the Dairy Lndiastry Act remains unamended an the statute

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Chains of brotherhood will link the lpeople of 26 nations tomorrow when Children's Day is observed throughout the world. This observance will mark a high point in the Canadian Appeal for Children, an appeal which seeks to collect $10 million to assist 400 million boys and girls in Europe and Asia whose lives have been ravag- ed by war.

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Statistics are apt to be dry and uninterest- ing, but they also may throw an interesting light on a problem. The fact, as brought out in the Dairymen’s Association meeting that Canadian consumption of butter is 28.6 pounds per capito as compared with American consumption of 14.6 pounds of both butter and margarine puts the Canadian butter "shortage" in an altogether new light. The scarcity and resulting high price is due in no small measure to the large amount of butter consumed by the average Canadian.

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lt is the old story, we may be educating and training youths to forsake Canada for U.S.A. President S. Smith, of the University of Toronto, recently suggested that it would be well to con- sider how many university students this country can really educate and place in the sort offjobi for which they are training. lt is an important question. There are only so many openings for professional men and technical experts in Can- ada. To train more than these would merely end in a glut in the Canadian market, and emi- gration to the United States, with great noise from Leftist and careless thinkers, that this proved that everything was wrong with Canada. The Canadian need, at the moment, is for able- bodied and willing workers at heavy jobs with a reasonably good general education.

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Henry James, American novelist, brother of William James, psychologist, died this date i916; though American born and educated, he spent the greater part of his life in England, and his novels in the early years were American and dealt with American life; the later were cos- mopolitan, dealing principally with characters of the highly educated, leisured class who had developed complexes and given to self-analyses. He was a skilful delineator, and his works en- joyed, and still enjoy a large circulation. They include Roderick Hudson, A Passionate Pilgrim, Daisy Miller, Life of Hawthorne, The Sacred Fount, The Wings of a Dove, Partial Portraits, Notes on Novelists, A Small Boy, The Ivory Tower, The Sense of the Past, and The Middle Years, the last being unfinished and published posthumously: "Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity."

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Six years ago, on March 4, ‘I942, the first RAM heavily armored Canadian cruiser tanks arrived in England. The RAM was developed in Canada early in 194i by Canadian and Brit- ish‘ engineers working in co-operation with Can- adian and American manufacturers. The tank hod a cast armor plats upper hull and its chief armament was a 6-pounder gun mounted in the turret. Rapid future development in tank design soon rendered the RAM obsolescefibut. it played an important role in the training of Canadian tank troops and in American and British tank design. Perhaps its most spectdcu- lar role was an armoredcarrisr lor the infantry in the battles preceding the. fall of Falaise. Stripped of turrets and guns, and nicknamed "Kangaroos," the Rams ploughed through the enemy gun screens at night and deposited their loads of liifantrymeir behind the German lines. ‘ibis, ingenious use of tank's came ‘as s stagger-

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south of England. Footnote to the overcoat story;

Around ll billion battles of tire

stuff (soft drinks) went. American throats last your, or 115 per man, woman and child. 'l‘hst. was peak consumption, l5 booties per person more than lrr pro-wor- 1940. -- Well Street. Journal.

Vii-ll statistics for the third quarter of 1947 show that Britain broke two records. Both in lnfan: mortality snd tn still-born births, the numbers are the lowest ever known In that country. Deaths of children under one year totall- ed only Just over 7,000 0r 32 per thousand. still births were at the rate of 22.7 per thousand. In Ca- nada, for 1946, infant mortalltv averaged 51 per thousand births. In Ontario the lowest. Province, the number was 41; Quebec was 62 and New Brunswick was the high- est, with 71 per ihousand- Tor- onto Globe snd Mall.

Following the first slaying of a police officer in IDIlClOD in twenty eight. years. Scotland Yard extend- ed is rare privilege to law officers when it. approved a proposal that they be permitted to carry srms It's made clear, however, that. the permission 1s only temporary and that-it. will be revoked as soon as the "scare" ls over. London has its share of crime, but. its usually of the non-violent. type. Any American city that would dare permit. lbs polloe to go unarmed over a period of even e week would unquestionably find the results un-y bellevably shocking. - Boston Post.

Nero fancied s. sort of sherbet made of snow, honey and fruit pulp. Marco Polo returned from court of Kublal Khan with a re- clpe for fruit ices that. lncliiiled iirllk, which Catherine cle Medici later introduced into France, and from which French cooks devel- oped somethlng like ice cream. Charles I of England lrled l0 keep his cook's formula. lor ice cream a rojval secret, but. less Lliarr is century later Gov. Blriclen cf Maryland, served lee cream and strawberries to hls guests. Geri. George Washington had pewter lce cream pots ,st Mount Vernon. bought himself “n cream machine for making ice" ln Philadelphia. and, when living in New York as president, in the Summer of 1790, he bought. himself about $200 worth of lcegcream from one. dealer. The ice cream industry has graduated into the billion-dollar class and the American people consumed, in 1948, three bllllon quarts of it. — Saturday Evening Post.

AITWhQ S. S. Nevnsn. l9,000-t.on troop and hospital shlp of two wars, sailed for the breakers’ yard her quarter-master, Frankie “Pup- eye" Huntley, lay broken-hearted in Southampton Borough Hospi- tal. It. was Frankie's 76th. birth- day and the first. in 35 years thin he had riot spent in the Nevusu. "If they lay her up I shall Lay up boo. I couldn't. llve without her now," he sold to o. shlpmale as he book hls last. trick at, the whee. on the last voyage up the Channel. lfi-ankle steered the shlp more than o. million miles on Government service-to Golllpoll, Bombay, : 63-. sla, America, and the Mediterran- ean during the 1914-18 war. "I-lls services 1n the Merchant Navy was unparalleled," said Sir William Currie, chairman of the British East. India Co. He began in a wlndJsmmer in i887. when as an orphan from Weybrldge, Surrey, his uncle paid for hls apprentice- ship. - Iandon Daily Mull.

The flora of lmndon‘: war wounds has excited much com- ment. but. Warsrsws ruins were un- tll recently even more remarkable. -for their fauna. workmen clear- lng rubble found remains of rats and rabbits, which suggested that. n predatory animal hail made its home in the devastation. Later they discovered that. badger liau indeed established himself in the heart of the city. A Polish paper, reporting the find, recalled 17:. Julian I-Iuxly’: suggestion that. the future of the world might. berong to rats if man persisted in lnber- neclne quarrels; this badger, it commented, showed how quickly even the larger animals would irr- vadc a city that had recently boasted a population of over l,- 000,000 souls if nrnri abdicated his dominion. The badger was thought. bo hnvecome into Warsaw/s ruins after the abortive rising ln the autumn of 1M4. He was not. per- mlttcd to remain in his chosen home, but still lives ln his coun- try's capital -ln the zoo. - Mar.- chester Guardian.

Under s. Crown deed and by vir- tue of s certain statutes, the Util- verslty of Toronto claims the rlghi. to control access to College street. by owners of properties abutting on that part of tlis‘horoughfisrc which once belonged to the uni- versity. It ls an interesting claim and one that. was reasonable an oogh when thegunlverslty oivrrcd College street end the property round about, but rather startling at. this late date when Collcg: street has become one of the city's naln thoroughfares. The university hes asserted lie claim in s notice to properly owners that. access w Colleg street. is only permissible on e licence from the university. ff sn application is made. the own- ers are informed t-iist. they will be notified of the terms on Which secede may be granted. A similar situation is understood to exist. with regard ta property on tire west. side of University evsnue from‘ College to Queen street. There, it is seid, the" unlvsrsliy reserved s sirlp of tend s tool wide which it refused Ursell. err-f permission to cross this invisible

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PUBLlC FORUM

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EDUCATIONAL REFORMS

Sin-In your issue of Feb- ruary 25th, you published ii latte" lry J. l". MrscMlllrsri under the heodlnx. "Educational Investment —Peoplo or Buildings?" Hts pro- posal deals with an lhvestment irf money in people rather than in material. In conclusion he sum- marizes, in part, thus:-“I feel certain that we can solve our problem of getting teach a of e higher academic calibre by lnvesi- lng our money lri people rather than in expensive Composite High Schools at the present time."

Now Sir, it; ls indeed heartening to see at least. one individual sug- gest s practical method for ed- ucational reform, snd I would humbly suggest. their ‘The 110w- ers-‘Ilist-Be." would be doing s- much greater service if they came dowri-to-earth, dmvn ta the level of the people, snd begin advocat- ing reform from that level, rather than their present effort of aci- vocsitlng "Castles - iii-the - Aer" WlllCll can have no foundations unless reforms are begun at. the present lei-cl.

I sin, Sir, etc. PARENT.

THE PROPER! ISLANDER.

Sin-The proper Islander is one who never forgets the land of lllS blrth, no matter where hls warr- derlng footsteps may lead hlm and you will find hltri ln Europe, Af- rica, Australia and indeed lri al-

most every corner of the Old World. On this side of the Atlantic.

youll find him in every Province of Canada as well as in most. of the 48 states of the USA, Ales- ka, south America, etc.

Born in a. province where there are no industries ivorthy to be called such, and where agriculture can only absorb is very limited number of young folk. it is only natural that. each generation must lose the cream or.’ youth to other places where larger opportunities hold out the beacon of promise.

Still-there exists that bond of kinship, that. love of homeland ivlilch never dies lm the heart. of the Proper Islander. He ma! spend many years beyond the shares of the Gulf Stream but. sooner or later the homing instinct seizes him and he packs his bags for another look at. the familiar scenes of hls childhood. I have known people who spent the great- er part of their lives llvlng a.- braad, and then drawn bythat rr- reslstable something we cell "Love of country" came back to lay their bones ln the soll that. holds the ashes of their fathers. -

Our great neighbor to the soryr absorbs the most. of those who seer: the opportunities dcnled them by’ Canada's smallest Province. 11ml thousands have become citizens of the U. S. A. 0f these thousands, many return each summer to vlsl. among their nln folk, and to sperm their holidays ln this wonder summer-land. and often called lure "Million Acre Farm."

Here they find, the warm hos-

pitality, the quiet atmosphere and the genuine friendship which l. rill too lacking in the blg, cold cities. Arid with them come their friends, many for the first time. to drink in the natural beauty and unsurpassed summer climate which the tlriy Province boasts. ' Thai-es‘ an old saying that one: n person gets the red soll of Prince Edward Island lri his slices ho will come hack again be it soon or lat- er. The saying is more or less true. for we see the some people visit- ing our shores year after year.

Prince Edward Islanders are not- ccl for their honesty, industry iinil loyalty to their employers; wnlch accounts in part. for their being nble to get, jobs ln the larger cities even when unemployment ls rife. Some years ago 1 had the advan- tage of visiting the Edison Elec- trlo Plant at, south Boston, when I met John Grundy, a contractor. whose Job was to keep the boilers and turbines in working order. Ail but five of the seventy men under hls charge were former P. _E. ls- lariders. When I asked Mr. Grun- dy why he employed so marry mer- from the Garden of the Gulf n- said: "I can always count. on the boysifrom the Island doing a thor- ough Job. They seldom quibble over rates and sre not afraid of herd work. some of them have workel here for more than twenty-five years."

Once while travelling from Bos- ton to N.Y.C. by bus my seat pert.- ner happened to be s bookbinoer from Wnltliam. orihls way to st- terid a meeting of his trade in th-i latter city. We fell to discussing various topics and finally wound up extolling the virtues of the Garden Province.

My travelling companion knew the place well snd informed mi: he had spent several summers st Shaw's Hotel.

when he] rose! to lgsv; {so at. at: sin i rice no oe s WI - will: ‘lsgrtpthe scat and celled his attention to it.

"Thsnks s lot," lie said. "I em lucky to be travelling with a Prince Edward Islander. Thai- vcatch belonged to my tether snd 1 would rather lose my right. eye than pert with lb."

The following sprlns on my we! home f stopper; pf! at Wsibhehi arid looked up my old friend. He wail glad to see rne snd book mo to his home where I hsd sum!!! and spent s delightful evening la the oorapsny “of his charming wlfe snd t-Wfl daughters.