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Tire Strongest Memory is Weaker than the ltealrest Ink.’

ITESDAY, OCTOBER ‘i, 1941.

Farm Mortgages

At the recent annual meeting of the Queen's Ctrunty Llrirserrative Association a resolution Wits prca-crrtctl by .\lr. jznnes G. MacLeod, urg-

ing tlre pas-trig of legislation forbidding the forr-clir-trrc of any farrrr mortgage during the continuation of the llfcbCllf war and for a term no: t.» cut-evil lliltc‘ yczirs thereafter. unless birth par .05. the mortgagee and the mortgagor,

cznrre ttr an ttgrccalrlc truderstanding consenting

tr» saEd iorerlo-"trr-t~. lrr the discussion which fol- |rr\\'r*tl tlrritc uas general agreement as to the sa-riotrs t-rwliralrlcllt in which many of our

farrrrcrs are placcd financially, and the need for rvrrredial zrcturn. There was, however, some doubt as to whether such action lay within the port-er of the fcileral or the provincial author- itirs, The rv-oltrtion was finally referred back to the executive, of which Mr. MacLcod is a mt-rnircr.

The point taken in this resolution, namely, tlrc ncctl for some kind of a moratorium on foreclostrrcs of farm mortgages, is well taken arr-l rl-:-cl'\'cs \'.,-r'_v serious consideration. The plight of our farmers in this Province, with in- creasing overhead costs, labor shortage and other handicaps accentuated by the war, is becoming tragic. The Provincial Government's policy of farm rehabilitation on which it last went to the country has been held up on the plea of war- time economy. Nothing has been substituted in its place. Western farmers have continued to receive federal bonuses and other assistance; hnt irr this section of Canada our farmers have been left to shift for themselves. They have no spokesman competent to speak for them in the Ilrruse of Commons. The millions of dollars ex- pctrtlctl in war industries in other provinces have brought tlrcm no increased home market, no re- lit-f HI any kind front the onerous debts accumu- latcd during and since the depression years. The (‘r>l1'~ct]l1C1‘t(‘€ is that many of them today are without credit facilities, with heavily mortgaged farms and without the means of meeting their ntcrst pressing obligations. Foreclosure of fartn mortgages means ruin to the individual farmers, and if continued on a large scale, to this Prov- ince as well. What are we, after all, but one large farming community? How can our mer- chants, our lawyers, our banks and business community expect to prosper at the farmers’ expense? Some remedial measure is, in the cir- cumstances, absolutely necessary.

The Conservative Party, which was respon- sible for introducing the Farmers Creditors Arrangement Act (though not for its abuses under the King Government) has s right to in- terest itself in this important problem. It can- not, of cortrsc, force the hands of the govem- ment, cithcr hcrc or at Ottawa. But it can, and should, go on record with some constructive suggestion for bettering the present intolerable situation.

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Stranger Tho n Fiction,

The other issues raised in the Nova Scotia provincial election are inconsequential compared with the two following points made in the man- ifesto issued by the Opposition leader, Mr. L. W. Fraser:

“We deplore, as I believe the great majority of Nova Scotians—-regardlcss of party affil- iations-also deplore, this unnecessary wartime election which involves s very large expenditure of money and results in a division of the people and inevitable distraction from the war effort. All this cost and distraction could have been svoiclcd if the present Government had accepted our proposal to extend the tenn of the Provincial Legislature.

“If the Government, for reasons known only to its own members, felt an election was neces- sary, it is inconceivable and most undemocratic that it failed to make adequate provisions for the (‘Zhllllfl of ballots by those thousands of Nova Gcotians now serving in the fighting forccs of tlrc litnpire who are stationed outside the borders of this Province. The result is that those members of the active service forces will have no voice in deciding what Government shall direct the affairs of this Province during the next five rears."

One is rcminrlctl of the Reconsecration Week broadcast made by Prime Minister Mackenzie King, just after his return from England. "I would say to every one in our own and in other latuls," he said, "who has not yet found his true place in lhc war effort of his country:—

"Rise! for the day ls passing,

And you lte dreaming on;

The others have buckled their armour, And forth to the fight have gone.

A plau- ln the ranks awaits you.

l-lirilt tnan lrns some part to play:

‘The Past 0nd ‘the Puture If! tltlthlng In the nice of the stern To-tlsy."

It i- difficult to reconcile this urgent appeal u-rth the attitude of the Nova Scotia Liberal gnverrrrrrerrt. At least. we imagine it will be for the drsfrtrnclnscd troops overseas.

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Ilbtato Research In Canada

Potato research has been carried on in Can-l now beenl

ada for several years. A report has issued by the National Research Council on the progress ntade. An apparent surplus of several million bushels of potatoes on the Canadian

son for undertaking the investigations A con- ference was called in Ottawa for tlrc purpose of considering problems associated with potato production and distribution, and subsequently a committee was established to organize and direct work in this field.

The Committee studied industrial uses of po- tatoes, such as the substitution of potato starch for corn starch; the use of potatoes in stock feeding; preservation and canning of potatoes; breeding of improved types of potatoes; food value of potatoes.

The value of potatoes as an eusilage and the use of potatoes in combination with other feeds as a poultry and stock feed were studied. Stud- ies of the feeding value of raw and cooked po- tato silage for hogs and of silage mixtures of potatoes with grass, hay or straw for cattle were carried out, and a report was prepared on the digestibility and feeding value of potato chips.

The widest scope for the utilization of pota- toes appeared to be in the industrial field as potato starch and potato starch products, btrt it was found that much research work would have to be done in order to find out l1o\v far these products could be placed in competition ,with other starches already used in industry, for lexample, corn starch. This branch of work was undertaken by the National Research Council.

The Dominion Department of Agriculture un- dertook the work of potato breeding on the basis pf disease resistance, chemical treatment for hastening and retarding sprouting of tubers (dormancy), the control of insects, the problem of the discolouration of potatoes in cooking, an- alyses of tubers to determine the starch content of different varieties, and a study of sced and soil treatments.

Part One, Potato Research in Canada, con- sists of 54 pages mimeograpltccl, and is obtain- able from the National Research Council, Ot- tawa. Part Two, Bibliography and Abstracts, 1S in preparation and will be published shortly.

-— EDITORIAL NOTES —

Fox ranches, whether they be part of a farm 0r not, are classed as agriculture, and are except- ed from Unemployment Contributions either on the part of the employer or employee.

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Ontarids corporation and personal income tax revenue has been estimated as around $30,000,- 000, nearly half of the total amount the federal Treasury estimates it will cost to reimburse all the provinces.

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A serious shortage of beer in Britain at the time it was most needed is explained by The London Daily Mail: Double Summer time; the hot spell in June; the scarcity of wines and spirits; the higher cost of soft drinks, plus the increasing thrist which women acquire when

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with an engine before being sent overseas will shortly be in production here. The plane, man- ufactured by the de Havilland Aircraft Co., will be powered by a Rolls-Royce engine manufac- tured st Detroit. The new plane will be known as the “Mosquito," and a large order has been given the company. I O I I Ladies willing to wear girdles, copper stock- ings and batteries need have no fear of mice. A contraption exhibited at the inventors’ congress, Los Angeles, is rigged up so the mouse gets a shock if he. brushes against the copper-mesh hose. Wires run from miniature batteries in the shoes through stockings and garters to a coil in the girdles. No danger to the wearer, the inven- tor asserts. e e u n A machine which picks clover tops as fast as 2,400 hand pickers has been invented by Pro- fessor E. N. Gathcrcoal and Professor P. D. Carpenter of the University of Illinois Col- lege of Pharmacy, who believe it will lead to the development of special apparatus for harvesting more than 20o other medicinal plants. They re- port that it gathered four tons of blossoms in a day, while nine hand pickers got only six pounds. The machine does not damage the clover for subsequent cutting as hay. s 1r s s- The Deputy Minister of justice, Mr. W. Stewart Edwards, has been supcrannuated on account of ill health, and Mr. Frederick P. Varcoe, assistant deputy has been appointed in his place. Born in Toronto in 1889, Mr. Varcoe was called to the Bar in 1916. He entered the Department of Justice two years later as jun- ior counsel, being made a K.C. for Ontario in 1931, and of Canada in the present year. Mr. Varcoe was appointed Assistant Deputy Min- ister of Justice in 1940 on the appointment of C. P. Plaxton to the Ontario Supreme Court. l ll l! i

Sir William Cleaver Francis Robinson, Brit- ish Civil Servant, arrived this date, 1870, on his ;appointment as Governor of Prince Edward Island. He was the fifth son of Admiral Her- cules Robinson. I-ie entered the service of the Colonial Office in I858 as private secretary to his elder brother, Sir Hercules Robinson, after- ward first Baron Rosmead, who was lieuten- anl-Rovcfflflr of St. Kitts. In 1866 he himself was appointed governor of the Falkland Islands, from which he was transferred as governor of this then colony. It was during his administration, and partly due to his strategy and resourceful- ness, that the inclusion of Prince Edward Island in the Canadian Confederation took place in 1873. A! 8 fewflrd, hc was promoted to the im- poriant post of Governor of Western Australia, ibecoming successively governor of Straits Set- tlements, South Australia and Victoria. retiring from the service in 1895. Ills hobby was music; he was a musical compost-r of some note, and the author of a number of well-known songs.

‘KIIUTES BY ‘HIE-WAY

A hay fever note that mtut de- light. any traveler Ls that. olden- vou is absolved of all guilt con- nection with that. affliction. The story ls that 1t lot its bad name merely because it bréakl inw

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Ilcok-rlg ragweed Ls spreaoing ‘trouble. Goldenrod’; pollen ll ilreavy and sticky and cannot. travel far on any ordinary breeze where- as the rageweedfis gees miles in search of victims. Though this may absolve the decorative autumn blossom in the rheumy eyes hay fever sufferer, it probably will not, clear 1t in the practical eyesoi the farmer whose fields 1t. has m- varded. - Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Speaking with the authority of s man vrho has learned about wo- men by making them beautiful, a Hollywood beauty “expert” tvld the American Cosmetlclans'_ As- sociation, astembled ln Chicago,

the American female to rely on the charms Providence gave her. The exigencies of the emergcnfil’ will mean an end to “fruitless frills, arched eyebrows, asty- white complexlans". Over-til , “to- morrow's beauty will be smart, not cute". She Will be smartly tall- ored; her eyebrows will be plan, natural-line. That cry of joy you hear is thoroughly male. Husbands hereafter will know what their wives really look rke. Never more will swains be under the handl- 08.1’) of not being sure whether tireyu-e plrtChlIlZ woo at. their sweetles or at assorted claysgand pzwdcrs from the ccsmetlcrans’ pot. - Detroit Free Press.

“Believe it or not" there ls s school in the Republic of Panama called the “Dominion of Canada.‘ Naming this school ls tn accordance with a decree issued by the Pan- amanian Government to the effect that each of the public schools of tire Republic \vlll be named after One orf the American or European countries. The school, "Domlnro del Canada", is situated in San- tiago, which Ls one of the largest towns in the Republic of Panama.

180 miles frcrn Panama City and ls one of the oldest, if not the oldest settlements cn the isthmus. Most of the old Spanish families in Santiago origlnaly came from Santiago Spain. Columbus was Duke of Vcragucrs, Veragutis being the Province of which Santiago ls the capital. On the occasion of tine naming o1 this school in 1930, a fiesta was declared and elaborate re aratlons were made to cele- ra the event. What is more, H. W. Brighton, Canadian Trade Commissioner at Panama City. has been informed by I-lis Majestyls Minister tn Panama. that the school proposes to celebrate Do- minion Day, July l, next year — which ls more than a number ol Canadians will do, we regret to say. — Que-bee Chronicle-Tele-

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that sales crt‘ Birbles in Germany

000 in 1940. Berlin and Vienna are the only cities where the distribut- ion of Bibles ls now permitted. ‘Ifnls ls hardly surprising. How could one expect the Germans to dispaly any inconsistency in trlmelr policies of pillage and rapme: in their godless acts of murder and destruction. The only surprising thing about It ls that Bbles still orn be distributed in Berlin and

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Vienna, although no dcubt, this ls in diminishing numbers. Perhaps those who receive the Bibles are at placed under suspicion In ible there always is to be

found something to solace the

sad at. heart. to give strength to the ‘,

worried and weary; to gve the real meaning m life on earth. The

|Naz‘s would not want too many

Bibles ln Germany because it might lead to great cfnfuslrr ln the minds of Germans vrho are still not. convinced that, the Nazi creed lfisalthe only one. -- Ottawa Jour-

It would be a ghastly — perhaps a fatal blunder to assume that. maybe the enemies of Hitler whom we are helping can “get b " with the materials that are aready "on order". The need for tools to be used agalrvt Hitler will continue to increase with the o-p- portunity to use them, until the Job of ending Hltlerlsm has been done beyond any possibility of fall- ure. We need more tools and we need to put many. many more ol them in the hands that are wait»- lng to grasp and use. them, before we can have any certainty that the job l; done. S0 far l1. has scarcely been begun. 1t ls still pos- sible for Russia to fail, for Bixtnln to be invaded and conquered, for Africa to be added to Hitler's Ern- plre and made a base for penetra- tion of the western hemisphere, and for us to find Hitler "looking down our throats” before we have even started to throw our real productive might into the arrest and overthrow of Nauru. —Mln- neopollr Star Journal.

‘Crimea Cut Off by Nail Forces. bonrlon Hears". Bo runs s headline, and that eastern battle front. by the same token suddenly grown more vivid. Crimea is s

lace name rich. with GBBSCLIMOXIA or all English-reading men. But Crimea - that. sounds different. Out tribal kindred fought, over ell the Crimea less than a. century ago, and they fought st the very noon of Victoria's day, one of the two great ages for men who speak English. The tight little isle then was literally over-populated with great thinkers, great. doers and, above all, great artists o! the pen. The Crimea - why, we still wear Lord Region's overcoat, invented for that campaign by the show- off eral, and Florence Night- e lives forever. Then there's

no one seems to remember by its title, but which everybody recalls when acme singer starts off: “Give us a song. the soldiers cried!" "The Chm‘!!! of the Light Brlgsde" -—well, the kiddies st school recited that for a full helf century on Frld sftemoons. And one peat. n of "deethless song" sired another-Jay Kipling in one of his sombre end terrible moods-‘The

tony fins uter- says um Tenny- son was almost right about the "mouth of hell". as ‘we are ell nigh unto the workhotul-e". ‘fhere was a poet who knew that peeoe hath her horrors. although less renowned than those of Ill’. — Chicago Delly News.

The United States lure slreetlv moved bv estebllditlng government policy which assures ts formers s minimum Wee equal to 85 percent cf parity (the bese pried be'nq the years 1000-14» and proposing tint no ceiling shell be pinned on

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that national defence is doomlnz l1

Santiago, ls ln the Interior about.

The Ottawa Bible Society reveals‘ dropped frtm 250.000 in 1939 t: 68M

PUBLIC FORUM

This oolnnsn lo open he the dileusllol by sorresnenrlents oi’ question: Of lnlrerest. The Chnrlnttetown nnrlhn than lel necessarily endorse the opinions of correspondent.

FARM sutrtuunrs T0 BRITAIN

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shy-I was much lnte that Ottawa story in nodal! issue of t. 27. l th Train tlfrrl llr and int out a “n e I ltwo $5M. ogi war. Canada sluppec more than 1330000000 pound-s 0 flood to Britain, apart. from vie-i

|and flour...”

Now that I am. to to spelli- 1H the statistical stratosphere, per 1a s rthe average urban Canadian wau d r be curious to know the pottndgze lfl- ‘volved in Jack Canucks wrest

“nil tngui" sriiipmetliitstrriobegidiint

Bl‘ B. XI. 0CD 11K '

ures obtainable: 19.400.000. 0

oundsl " In this latter connection, I found Tthe follotwln statement by the Fed- ure minister (Hon. J.

cent, address, thought-provokln : " am not. vet searching round or :1 plan to throw to the hogs what. may .tum out. to be the greatest. peace producing asset of this country. One pound of wheat will keep a man from starvation as long as ‘one pound or pork, and it takes tour pounds o1 wheat. to produce one _pound oi’ pork." r That assertion certainly s the immense services renc the valiant Motherland anc there- fore, to the whole future of e rac- , by the wheat farmer? Unfortunabely it is also true that there are still l lar e supplies of this vital raw triu- ter al “in the bin" as a result of blacked-out markets across Eurrpc Despite the fact that. these s1“fe lsupplles insulate our war effort ‘ from the threat of weather hazards and a breadgrain shortage. I regret to note that the price of wheatfias l been pressed back to the Draduc icn cost level, while United States wheat is worth more than dotote our miserable 50 cents per bushel (to the farmer) on the Cimadiim prairies. This looks like o PM"? mean deal. to me. So far as that little a editorial notes goes. - Single man t9 he t) milk. 811d drive truck"; I have a friend able w fill both bills-though not at the nurse time! When I drew his attention to the opening. he pointed outlthst r-e was at work ln H. factory ‘earning more cash ln a week titan torymy five rv-ss-ks last. year, as a thfm worker." I would like to see the stream of yriouth moving in the opposite d rec- on.

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Peat Fuel

(FRED WILLIAMS in the Globe and Mall.)

Recent despatltes from Ottawa told o! the possibility that Canada m‘gl1t have to make use of peat for fuel, in view of a possible coal

shortage. Most people reading such statements would think that hear,- ing by peat was something new in this country and that it was a war measure only. Now 1 can testify to the contrary. Eiarly ln the century Dr. Eugene Haanel, Super ntendent o." Mines at Ottawa, persuaded Clif- ford Sifton to let him prove that peat could be used as household fuel

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the price of a farm product until it goes higher thin l0 percent. above ‘ parity. 1n vlew of the experlinces r we have had to date and the un- certainty which surrounds price control operations of the future. some suclr principle as that men- tioned above ls urgently needed in this cvlmify- The Rural Co- operators, Toronto.