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Morning Daily (Founded in 1887) summit aa Second cim‘ mu. n»: out.» _ Department, Ottawa Preaident: Lieut. Col. W. Cheater S. MeLure Vice-President: .I. B. Burnett. FJJ. Secretary: Llcut. CoL D. A. MncKlnnon, 0.8.0. Idltor and Managing Director: J. B. Burnett, F. J. l.

Annotate Editors: l-‘nnk Walker and Ian A. Burnett.

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

THURSDAY, JANUARY, 3, 1910

An Island Institution

As announced elsewhere in today‘s issue, the firm of llyutliiiaii and Company, Ltd., is this year celebrating its seventy-fifth annivers- ary. The well deserved reputation eniovcd by

~ this local firm, both at lionic and abroad. is an example of Prince l§dwarrl Island enterprise and tradition at its best. It has remained large- ly a family institution, the present president. Mr. J. O. Ilyndfnan. having been with the firm for tlie past half century. Started in i872 as a marine insurance agency. it now handles all kinds of insurance but still specializes lll mar- ine insurance and is Lloyd's agent for Prince Edward lSlitllCl.

Throughout tlic years, the firm has set a high standaid of business integrity. and has been associated ycry‘ closely with such progress as we have inade as a Province iii transportation and other vititters. All our citizens will ioin in ~wishing it continued success, and many years of further progress and (levelopment.

Food Subsidies To Cosumers

It is being argued that should the Gov- ernment contemplate any drastic change in the food subsidy systeiu——which ensured relatively cheap food and especially cheap dairy products for Canadians during the war — the change should be made now while family purchasing power is at a fairly high level. Otherwise, say the farmers, the public should be made aware by every means possible that the Government is paying a share nf their food bill and all such pay- ments should frankly be labelled as “consumer iubsidies” and not hidden as payments to the original producers. '

There is much to be said for this argu- ment, says the Ottawa Journal. If this subsid- izing of focd continues much longer the pub- lic. more and more will come to take present pricei as true values and the farmer stands in danger of becoming a permauenfly-subsidized citizen within the Canadian community. In mall)’ respects this is not an enviable position for him, especially when labor is asking for higher pay for fewer hours of work and when the former cost-of-living bonus has been madg l part of the wage structure.

Naturally the farmer fears any sudden dropping of the subsidies, mainly because he does not believe the public know they arebeing paid or are prepared t0 pay the higher prices which would come into effect immediately.

It is difficult to figure hdw much has been paid out by the Dominion to keep the cost of liv- mg down and give Canadians cheap food, as many of the subsidies are hidden in such in- direct payments as assistance on feed grain brought from the west. But it has cost at least $900,000,000 during the war to give the public cheap milk and dairy products alone. That's a 13116 511m but without the subsidy and without price control the total paid by consumers would have been very much larger.

Any idea that these subsidies could be drop- ped and the prices of dairy products remain at their present level would be wishful thinking. It might be possible if costs of manufactured goods were to drop but tlie tendency is all in the other direction. Prices might be frozen at present levels but that would almost certainly cause such a drop in production that a chaotic condition would soon emerge. On the other hand if prices were suddenly to increase by the amounts of the subsidies — milk by over three cents a quart, butter by about eight cents. bread l-y about two cents a loaf —— every housewife lll Canada ivould be up iii arms. It is one of the most difficult situations- lacing the Govern- ment today and in the meantime the farmers and food industry stand on the sidelines with plenty to worry about.

Big Step In Education

Forty-four members of the United N“ have agreed to establish a world-wide educa- tional organization (lcsigiicd to improve cul- tural standards everywhere. livery maior coun- try except the Soviet Union has approved the formation of the new agency to be known as the United Natinn. Eiliication, Scientific and Cul- tural Organizations. As a result, education is for the fiist time tn receive an international base. Nothing so comprehensive 0r far-reach- ing has ever before been attempted. i

The constitution sets forth several ex-

‘ treiuelv vital piiiiciplcs. Stress is placed on the importance cf removing illiteracy and misunder- standing. Only by (levelopitig a common faith Ind confidence. the historic document holds, can world peace be attained» In its preamble, the educational charter proclaims t-he laudable doctrine that a wide diffusion of culture and the education of men for justice and peace con- stitute a sacred duty that all nations must ful- fll in a spirit of mutual assistance and concern.

Emphasis is placed on the value of intema- tionil exchange along many lines. It is propos- llf that a far wider exchange of scholars and

‘flashers take place and that books and other

ctlilcetionsl materials likewise be sent to all countries. ffliis implies freetlom from censor- lltln for alLmola "media of communication.

' The b: fruition‘. which is to open it: head-

' ' s. will have as one of it: major among nations land, nar-

ticularly, new developments and findings in the educational field. Scientific research ia to be encouraged, as is the study of cultural problems relating to peace.

In every possible way the international body will “advance the ideal of equality of edu- cational opportunity." Basically, its constitu- tion holds ieal promise of the nations of the world being able to work together to improve, at least, the cultural life of the people.

-l:Dl IURIAL NOI [ES-

Next local excitement will be over the civic election. a a- w- a One noted change in the new year was the return of both men and women to “evening wear" for social celebrations. During the war years it was strictly taboo. i i i i

What most people would like to know is liow we are t0 be financed provincially in the event of the FCCCIHl-IIIICT-PIOViIIClGl Confer- ence failing to recognize our claim of fiscal need. Will the Vendors’ profits be sufficient?

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A United Kingdom finn of engineers have begun work on a ten million dollar road and f3ll\\'ElY.l)i'l".lg€ across the River Tigris at Baghdad, reports the London Daily Yhlcgraiih. The work has priority over other developments in Iraq by the desire‘ of‘ the Iraq Government.

Two leading British Labour statesmen were born this date, viz., C. R. Attlee in i883, and Herbert Stanley Morrison in i888; the former is a graduate of Oxford, a lawyer. and profes- sor of economics; t'he latter is a printers’ trav- eller and Labour Party official; both held cab- inet rank in the War Coalition Government. and are the leaders in the present Labour Govern- ment.

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Reports from the nursery front indicate that Mr. Claxton should make provision now for medical 411d hospital services to accommo- date approximately one million cases of stomach “KEYS. between 198i and i983. His Deputy Minister of Health, Dr. Chisholm, has officially reported‘ that children who believe in Santa Claus will have stomach ulcers by the age of forty, and our information is that those under five years of age who did not believe in Sarita Claus this year are but a negligible percentage.

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Three members of the Canadian House of Commons, Stanley Knowles, Co-Operatiye Commonwealth Federation, Winnipeg North Celll"; Gordon Graydon, Progressive Conser- vative, Peel; and H. W. Winkler, Liberal, Lis- gar, have been visiting Europe, including Ger- many and France. The trio had hoped to be able to enter Russia but they said they did not expect to be granted visas for the trip. They arrived at Oldenburg in the Canadian Occupa- tion Z0ne of Germany December 23, then trav- elled through Hanover to Berlin. There they saw the Reichstag and the ruins of the Chan- cellery.

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Extravagant ship-building. Senator C. C. Ballantyne, acting Progressive Conservative leader in the Senate, recently urged that the gov- ernment cancel its contracts to build Tribal des- troyers in Halifax. While he did not pose a; an authority on naval construction, he said when he was a member of the Montreal Harbor Commission “many years ago” he had accom- panied the late Hon. L. P. Brodeur, then mem- ber of the Liberal government, to England, where the question of building such naval ships in Canada was surveyed. It was agreed the cost would be too great. During the present session, the Senator said, Mr. W. G. Mills, deputy naval minister, had said that after four years one of the Tribal destroyers built in Canada was now in commission at a. cost of $6,000,000. The same type nf destroyer, according fo the deputy minister, could have been built in the United Kingdom for $3,500,000,

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_Our progress in peace resumption plans is evident in the further reductions in war risk rates on ocean cargoes announced by the Can- adian War Risk Committee, representing pri- vate underwriting firms in the Dominion. As a result, a i5 cent rate per $100 of cargo value now applies to voyages to or from the United Kingdom, Irish Free State and Northern Ire- land; Portugal, Spain, Gibraltar, Tangier, Ma- deira, Azores; East Africa north of Beira; Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion and Seychelles Islands; France, Mediterranean, Malta, Africa Mediterranean. Red Sea. Gulf of Aden, Turkey; eastern ports. cast of Gulf of Aden, but not east of Burma: India, Ceylon and Burma; Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania and South Pacific Islands. The rates to the above places were 2o cents. The rate has been lowered from 25 cents to 20 cents per $100 on cargoes to Continent of Europe north of Spain, including European U. S. R. and Baltic * ‘

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At the end of the year Ottawa reports a fairly sober realization of the fact thht the fut- ure of international trade depends, moreithan anything else. on the ‘ability of Britain to re- build her export commerce, (says The Lum- Rn/iew), but as against this are the excessive hopes of foreign markets for Canadian indus- trial products which were built up during the war. Rumours from Ottawa, that Price and other controls are to be greatly RlAXCd- after the New Year, unfortunately represent no real alteration in Government policy, but merely an unwilling concession to the rising pressure of public opinion. The present situation at the capital la that Mr. Ilsleyb experts would like to see controls kept indefinitely, but that the Ad- ministration realizes that it is hopeleuto at- tempt to maintain even the present controls much longer. The result will be an unplanned and disorderly removal of controll.‘ vrlthrvcrv possibly, occasional spams of control, such u the one now going on at lVsshingtofiflLlckiof policy in this connection is likelytobproduce most unfortunate effects. Obviously; if the rest of the nroceu decontrol ls u‘ cllitfpv as

Notes By The Way

Twelve only q , comm "l?" "mDllIna lnuihe Domlliillltfryi lhll year reached their objective. The cities which dld not reach lhvlr ‘ ' collected, however, more money thla year than in 1944 The Toronto Star reporta. Ha weather durln the period of m, flmPllflhs Mid‘ “end-of-the-wai re- action" are thought to be the all"! 0f lllll yeer'a slowness securing public support for phllsntnropiea. A total of $5,610,. 530 was collected in Canada which will finance the operation of 4'17 social agencies.

According h; My, _ Woods. Deputy niniltelviilrwireteg- en's Affairs, the-Dominion has m. 59° dliflblllly Penalonera and 2,005 amputation cases from World War II. Close to 8,000 patients are being treated 1n military hospitals to the present date. It ls important not. only that Canada's veterans Pelrelve the neceasary care but none become neglected with the passage of time.—-'1‘oronto Star,

It'la easy, with General Sher- mans well known and never-denied definition remembered ,to guess what our returning G. L's might call that war which they have just seen to a successful and, in part, atomic conclusion. In concis- lon and exactltude "The Second Hell" might well wln thelr expres- sive and numbered choice. —New York Herald Tribune.

A doctor friend said to me the other ‘day: "I've had to stop put- ting American magazines in my waiting-room. Their technicolor food udvertlsements upset mypa- tlents whose food is so monochro- matic. And that is as profound an observation as any ln the current newspaper debate between doctors as to whe er we, as a nation, are undezznour shed. What the eye sees the stomach grleves about. The grey monotony of sausage-meat in all its unconvincing disguises ls a considerable factor in making us feel that our diet: ls Inadequate. - London New Statesman

The Princess wnltsed with the chef, the Queen with her footman. the King with the butler's wife- lt sounds more like a Cinderella-ed scene from the celluloid land of Hollywood than the servants’ hall at Buckingham Palace. “Good pub- llc relations!" the cynic may sniff. "In socialist England you might even expect the lion and the unl- corn to lle down with the lambs ln St. James’s Park.“ But we won- der. Such occasions have been more natural ln Brltain than outsiders would expect. Their merriment now may ease the outward bleakness of this holiday season in a country still sadly lacking the plain nec- cessarles of llfe, much less the roast beef and plum pudding for which lt is traditionally famous. But even when they are down to the bar tradition, one can count on the rltlsh to make something of it. In a pinch they will come up with one. In fact, lf circumstances are sufficiently dire they wlll even produce a tradition flne enough to withstand history's buffetlng for a thousand years. In Britain's first Chrlstmastlde since the lights have come on again it would be surpris- lng if those lights dld not glow with a new warmth over Britons, of whatever class or creed. For the storms they faced unfllnchingly to- gether sounded spiritual depths 0f courage and falth and loyalty - end mutual gratitude-that must forever narrow the gap between the English worlds of Thackeray and Dickens. The waltz party down- stairs at Buckingham Palace is a worthwhlle tradition. - Christian Science Monitor.

A new high octane fuel ls prac- tically fire-proof in the sense that lt ls slow to ignite in the open, re- serves lts release of power untli injected into a motor cycllnder. That a demonstration of lts safety was made in a New York office building should be ample roof of its makers’ belief tn its a llltv to resist ordinary fire says The Cleveland Plain Dealer. Until its temperature la raised to 100 degrees Fahrenheit the fuel does not give off the vapor required for lqnltlon by flash flre or by a spark. That quality should add appreciably to the safet of flying, since it prac- tlcslly elmlnates the danger of fire following the crash of a plane. Often it ls true that few of the passengers ln a crash wlll care whether there ls a conseqncnt flre. but sometimes lt ls not. Thst the fuel la to be fed by injection and vaporized by heat generated dur- ing its compression indicates that the motor bullt to use it will be n cross between the present conven- tional type and the Diesel. Do not. expect it soon ln the automobile.

One of the bright/eat ideal yet. about the atomic bomb, came from Dr. Julian Huxley. He suzzested to s New York audience that a judiciously placed salvo might help to melt the lce of the north polar esp and thereby do somethlml about our weather. Now, that's what we cell being constructive. There la only one minor doubt raised hy the proposal. It would he wonder- ful to have a lder winter, but would the sum r be llk wlse warmer. If it. would, we 1m t If the idea could be sold to western Canadians. It can net hot enough out on these prairies, even with th polar cap nlr cooling system. W st it would be like without

olar slr condltlonlni we hetllnte To think about. -Wlnnlpeg Free

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JAPANESE IN CANADA

sun-At this season of goodwill, I am thlnklnB 0 the JBP‘ unease-Canadians, who are faclnB auch hardships ln their adopted country.

Some $3,000

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ersons of Ja aneiie ancestry have lved ln Brltis Col- umbia for two generations and have proved themselves lo l and law-abiding citizens. eventy- five per cent of the adults are Can- adian citizens, whose children have been born in Canada and know no other language than ErlSllfill- Dill‘- lg the war, the conduct. of all but a handful of thee; people has been above reproach. Home of them ser- ved in the Canadian army In World War I. Very many have ul- ways contrlbuted generously to the Canadian Red Cross and sup orted Canadian War Loans. Many o them tried to enllst ln the Canadian Ar- my ln World War II and falling of admission ln this country, some of them actually went to England, where they were gladly admitted to military service. _ _

Because of war conditions, these people were indiscriminately ex- pelled from their homes and places of business and sent to llve in de- serted mlning towns. Their proper- ty was seized and sold, in many cases at. disastrous loss to the o\vn- ers. Now that the war ls over they are not allowed to return to their homes but, unlike our citizens of German or Italian extraction, are still treated as under suspicion, and faced with the ultimatum of choosing between finding new homes Ln eastern Canada, where they have good reason t0 i681‘ l cold reception, or going to Jaimi- now a foreign country to them. Much against thelr will! bill fearing the alternative, they are choosing to go to Japan, all ready overcrowded and lacking the bare necessities of llfe.

What a disillusionment! What an experience of western Christianity to carry to a non-Christian land! Of what use is lt to send mission- arles to Japan to teach a religion the practice of which has so signally falledl _ The treatment we are tzlvim; these people, far from exemplify- lng the Golden Rule, isn't even British fair play!

Recently one of our representa- tives ln federal parliament made some very unfair remarks about them. Personally, I would apt???" clate more information on the sub- ject of the Japanese - Canadian and I believe that the public ln general needs to know essential facts re- gardlng them that an effective pro- test may be made against the sub- Chrlstian treatment _meted out to them. Jesus once said: "I W“ 8 stranger and ye took i-ne not ln. In- asmuch as ye dld it not to one of the least of these, my brethren. yc dld it not to me." Could lt be thrr‘ at the final judgment, our fate wlll be decided by the treatment we afford just such strangers?

,Sl, t. I am r e CFAIR. PLAY

Kinkora, P E.I. T0 BE DEPORTED

Sig-The Canadian Government ls about to deport from this coun- try some 10,000 men. yvvmen will children, mostly Canadian cltlzeanu. for no other crime except that they have a particular racial urlzlll- They are being sent to a land which most of them have neve. seen, which l5 too devastated by war to receive them, and Where thelr future ls hopeless. Not since the expulsion of the Acadlam has uuch severe treatment been accord- ed to any social H0119 Wlthl" w!‘ frontiers, and there was at least some military justlficatlon fm‘ that gleptfiltlistiun whereas there ls none 0]‘ H.

I refer. of course, to the Govern- menfs decision to deport the JED- anese Canadians, which ls now be- ing carried out. The flrst point ti: note about this P011337 l5 that solves no problem whatever, at least 14,000 of the toll-l t Japs in Canada wlll be left behind. Only about 10,000 are being sen‘: away. Therefore every social a?‘ political difflculty caused bycl 9 existence of Jill-Panel‘? with?) an‘ ada remains after deportation as it was before. The problem "l what to do with them and whe“: they may llve ls unsolved. It s Hg- being suggested that we can at garb 14,000 ln the future, but n0