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Prelldent, Ian A. Burnett; Vice-President, Wrss. l, Burnett; Sena-Trans. G. M. Burnett; Editor arid Managing Director. J. B. Burnett; Associate Editor.

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

IPRIDAY, FEBRUARY If. I941 lllorlted Condemnation

At Wednesday's Conservative convention a strongly worded resolution was passed, denounc- ing both the Federal and Provincial Liberal Gov- ernments for their callous neglect of our trans- portation rights as a Province of Canada. This resolution was timely in view of the adverse de- cision given by the Board of Transport Commis- sioners on the claim that the Borden-Tormentine ferry b-a regarded as an integral part of the trans-Canada highway. The Board, of course, had no jurisdiction to try this matter, which is That is what Chief Commissioner Cross said at the hear- ings, and what the C. .N. R. counsel, Mr. Dysart, told Hon. Horace Wright when he attempted to argue our rights under Confederation.

Premier Jones and his colleagues in the Pro- vincial Government are aware that the Borden ferry is a national highway, and that the rates currently charged are a gross imposition on the people of this Province. Why then do they con- tjnue, for purely partisan rea , to support a Federal Government which repudiates its obli- gation in this matter? Why have they not taken a firm stand, as Premier Angus Macdonald has taken on the question of fiscal pl posals, re- gardless of politics? That was one of the issues in the last Federal election campaign, and it is well worth recalling.

The Progressive Conservative notional lead- er, Hon. Mr. Bracken, addressed a public meet- ing here on May ll, I945 and at this meeting the following pledg-e was unequivocally given:

"Ono of the aims of Confederation was that there should be no barrier to inter-provincial trade. Your geographical position has imposed. such a barrier. We see no reason why that condition should not be rectified and prompt- ly. We believe that the water route from Bor- den to Cape Torrnentine should be in effect a national highway. Accordingly, the Progressive Conservative Party pledges to the residents of Prince Edward Island that the increase in cost of moving farm products and other essential freight, by truck or rail, occasioned by this wot- er route over the normal cost of moving such farm products and freight for the equivalent mileage on land, will, as a matter of national policy, be borne by the Governemnt, without waiting for the completion of the addlitional ferry to which reference has been made.

It is self evident that if the Bracken Gov- ernment had been returned in the Federal gen- eral election of I945, there would have been no need for the Summerside Board of Trade or any other body going before the Transport Com- mission and being turned down on this trans- portation claim. It was the duty of the Jones Government at that time to have persuaded their Federal Liberal leader that the Bracken policy was necessary to Prince Edward Island _and should be implemented regardless/of P011115}- They failed then, as they have consistently fail- ed since, to make any impression on the_Klng Government in this matter; and our Liberal members at Ottawa have prave" eql-"lllY 1119" fective. Is it any wonder, then that 1119i ‘"9 being denounced in resolutions which cannal’ 11B too strongly worded to fit the case. Rarely has there been such a shameful betrayal of our :s- land interests by public men. Add the resu t! of their action to the many other losses incur; re-i by the people of this Province by reason o Liberal negligence at Ottawa, and we have l1 sorry tale indeed. i

______‘_ Faulty Farm Policies

Few more serious indictments have been levelled against a Government than that made in tlie recent speech by Hon. Mr. Braille". P10‘ gressive Conservative leader, I11 1119 112111119 11" the Speech from the Throne at Ottawa 1051 week. Mr. Bracken referred particulorly_ to agricultural policies. He pointed 011i’ 11101 5111"‘ I944 the overall net farming income of_Can- ado has been declining, in spite of the highest domestic and foreign demand for farm products in our history. The Government, he charged, has been guilty of misleading the British auth- erities with over-optimistic statements of what ws can produce and supply. It has onteredfllla long-term food export agreements with Britain which it is impossible to fulfil without DPIOI-lil-Jll- ing exports to the United States, maintaining strick rationing in Canada, and discouraging any increase in the acreage of wheat. Last year's contract for 450,000,000 pounds of haw" to Britain had subsequently“ to be reduced to 350,000,000, and Mr. Bracken was informed that we failed to meet this reduced contract by ‘over I00,000,000 pounds. The production of eggs

‘declined last year, having fallen to 23,000,000

dozen short of the export agreement with Brit- oin. ‘ The biggest blunder, he said, was _in the way in which the Government has treated tho dairy industry. Mr. Brock-en recalled that a ysar ago in Parliament ho had wafned that the dairy formers would have to have higher prices or there would be o .declino in milk production. "At that time I pointed out that dairy and hog reduction would decline to lower levels in i946. Tsaid that the Government was asking for four r cont rnors hogs but would got 20 per cont’ If». . l sold that the Government was asking for five psr cent more butter and would get five ps1 eons lass. . It now turns out that my pessim- H forecast was, not pessimistic enough, for slaughtering: declined 25 psr cent and but- sorsri per cont. This post year decl_ was the grsatsst in any year for the

' musty-yours. Production in 1946MB down

to the level of thi%en years ago."

Mr. Bracken also charged that theGovern- merit by its unwise policies had been forced to import some twelve million pounds of New Zeal- and butter in order to maintain our low level of consumption. In I947 Canada, by pre-wqr standards, is likely to be short no less than 60,- 000,000 pounds of butter for normal consump- tion.

Production of cheese had fallen drastically, no less than 25 per cent in the last year. This was the greatest decline in a single yoar for more than twenty-five years. "We lost in one year what it took us five years to build up," Mr. Bracken said. "The state of the dairy and hog industry is proof of the failure of the Gov- ernment to foresee the effects of its price pol- icies on agricultural production.”

These are matters that come home to every farmer in the country. It is significant that Prime Minister King, in his lengthy address in reply to Mr. Brock-an, made no attempt to deal with this phase of government policies.

Mr. Caldwell, C. C. F. leader, followed with further criticism. "Long ago," he said, "the Government announced that the price of food would be one of the last to be released from price control. Lately ceilings have had to be raised. BuT the Government maintains farm ceilings, raising them only after other prices have risen sharply. This means that pric-es of farm products always log behind farmers’ costs of production. While holding the line on living costs, of which food is a major item, is un- doubtedly sound national policy the Govern- ment has no right to inflict the burden of its costs upon the farg-ier, the producer. Yet that is the effect of t_he Government policy of lifting the price ceiling from commodities which the farmer must buy and retaining them as long as the Government dares on things he must sell. Thus the farmer is made to subsidize the con- sumer."

— EDITORIAL NUTES .-

St. Valentine.

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It is an old trick of the powers-thot-be at Ottawa to vote money for work in this Province, and then not spend it. Year after year the some allocation is made on the estimates and nothing done with tho money. Isn't it time for

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', The manual labourer, and especially the coal miner, in England is in no hurry to dis- place the Sociolist Ministry-for a Liberal or Con- servative one at the present iuncture. Why should he? All the loss and inconvenience of remodelling the economic system does not f I on his shoulders, and the prospects of socia betterment are alluring. Should a general elec- tion take place tomorrow it is likely Attlee would be again returned to power. Look out Canada, political revolutionary uprisings are contagious! l’ N i ll

Truth is still stranger than fiction. "l read lately in a book on farming and country life a story about a land girl and a farm work- er (writes Geoffrey Gri son). The land girl ask- ed the farm worker: " hat do you think about when you are going up and down the field on your tractor.” The farm worker, being human, did not say anything about the richness of the ea'th, about its fruitfulness, about the beauty of the sky, and so on. He said: '| look at the blank earth and I says-—blast it'l"

According to a news story appearing in the Quebec Chronicle - Telegraph two French- Canadian physicians have had the honor of be- ing the first people in America to successfully make use of Vitamin D2, also known as "CaIci- ferol," in the treatment of tuberculosis of the skin. This vitamin was discovered in France during I943, but it was only after the war that Dr. Emile Gaumond, chief dermatologist at the Hotel Dieu Hospital In Quebec, and his as- sistant, Dr. Jean Grandbois, were able to test it an patients sufIering from tuberculosis of the skin. Results obtained were so satisfying that the eminent physicians believe that, once their experiments have been concluded, other forms of tuberculosis may be greatly bettered, if not tot- ally cured, through use of this vitamin.

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Recalls the London Daily Mail: Atop the crags of Edinburgh's Castle Hill stands the most imposing modern equestrian statue in Britain- that af Field Marshal Earl Haig, gift of a Bom- bay Parsee, Sir Dhunjjboy Bonianji. The es- planade, fine approach to the fortress, was de- clared to be an integral part of Nova Scotia in the reign of Charles I. This was a legal dc- vice to enable-the Nova Section baronets cre- ated’ under commission of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, to "take seisin" of their posses- sions. Through changing dynasties the decree has remained unannulled, and it has been con- tended that the parade ground is legally o part of Nova Scotia (or New Scotland). Through the battlemented gateway beyond has passed, glori- ous and grim, the pageant of Scotland's hist- ory.

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Israel Zangwill, British journalist, play- wright, ond Zionist lecturer, born this date I864. Hi.. writings deal mainly with the lives and suf- ferings of the lower class of Jewish commun- ities who were treated with contempt and even cruelty by their Gentile neighbours. Ho was mainly responsible for organizing and oppular- izirig the Zionist Movemontswhich today sways tremendous international power, and has served to divide the interests of Britain and the U. S. A. in the settlement of tire Jewish problems in Palestine. ZanwiIl's leading works are: Chil- dren of the Ghetto, The Master, The Mantle of Eliioh, The Principles of Nationalities, Chosen Peoples, Jenny the Carrier, The Voice of Jer- usalem; he also wrote several plays, the best known being Too Much Money: "Selfishnsss is the only rsol atheism; aspiration, unselfishnesi, the only real religion." "Scratch the Christian, and you find ths pagan—-spoiled." "Indiffer- ence and hypocrisy between them keep ortho- doxy olive." "We plant o tub and call it paro- dise. . . New York is the great stone desert." "A fotherlond focuses a people", "A sunbeam took human shops when lis (Wlsraeli) was born."

l THE CHARDOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

Ilotss By The Way

A Brltldi fashion nlsorr recently featured e lot of eiocltlng new s". tans from New York, Ports; pm. don and Stockholm. It l4 mod“. stood that there were also g f" old plaidles from is country called Scotland. --Va.ncouve;- Prov/Inge,

Production of mines-ab In N9" Scoila reached o new hlgiriigm¢ 1H5! year. according to preliminary P990115 of the Department Q! Mines 81111 the Bureau of Statistics. Val- uation of 1946 output is estimated at $35,391,000 about $3,200,000 more lhB-rr In 1945. Increased prod-um. 1°11 °1 c0111 811d tfyllsusn were the principal factors. —A.mhorst News.

Now that two-way‘ rudlo develop- ed during the war, i3 available as safety equipment for railway train; 11B Ilse should be made obligatory on CBflBdlB-w railroads. Use of i-wo- Way radio would eliminate most if not all death-dealing collisions which colilinuc to occur on Can. adian- railroads at ‘too frequent, BLIIICIIIEYVBIS. —Vtinoouv¢u' Wows-Her-

Willlum Allen ‘White, who 1110118111 "Very" was the moist overworked ivord ‘in the iEnglish 111118111180. once told Franklin P. Adams how he could eliminate the word. “Instead of ‘very’ ‘Wfllg the urcrd ‘damn.’ " he advised. "The prcoiroader will knock our 11m ‘damn’- and there you have p, righi good SCIIIEIICE."—KBI'ISBS C-ity Star.

313ml may 11a a better proving ground for self-government than India. These hurniese, of course, have ilicir factions, but there is more agreement, aJnoing them and 195s resentment against the Brliish than In Indie. lbav all there are no deep a-‘nd lrreconc able divisions of religion. Fixcept in the frontier hill districts Burma Is overwhelm- ingly Buddhist. and religion there is e binding Iorme rather than a sourm of conflict. -—Ne'w*York Times. ‘ , It in easy to see tihnt the rest of the world does not trust Germany to believe and that is not surpris- lng, remembering how. In the past. solemn lntemetloinol ‘agreements have been tom up and treaties broken. without any qualms. This makes It necessary that. Germany slialhbe coniroled for many years 1o preveii-i her from falling Into her bad old haiblt of preparing once again for aggression The Ger- mans must piove thatiheyaen be trusted before their promises can be accepted at face value. —Niogarii Falls Review.

In general, people are mud: more impressed by beauty of the human form ‘fllfln .they are by dexterity or mind. Games which give players the o-ppori riity l0 exhibit their bodies in lsgvant-nge arouse tho natural curl lby of people so much that they will pay m0l'€ to watch than they will l0 take part, says The PEIEPbOYOIIQII Examiner. Chess players deserve more i-redii than they get for their cfforis lo divert ottoiviion from the playcrs la the games; they are our introverts among sportsmen. We need more of ‘them and. If they can discover some mcem; by which they can encourage people to pay to which chess, they may help our philoso- phers to make thought. at least. as popular u action.

Although it seems hard ftp bo- lieve today, there was once a. time when many Englishman turned up their noses at mince pie at Christ- mas, says The Vancouver Prov- hice. In tho time of Cromwell and for a long while afterward, this dessert more than any other was a lest of 0110's religious sympathies. Catholics baked and ale ihls pie Wllll a relish, no doubt smacking ihclr lips loudly. But. the strait- laced Puritans would have none or ii. They would neither est li. ea guests nor allow It. to be baked iii their homes. It is claimed that. Jolui Bunyan, author of The Pll- grfm‘s Progress, even refused lt as Dart of his fare In Bedforvd Jail.

The statistics may prove that there is no bogey ln the sky. It. ruin‘ be calculated that the travel- lor should ride the airlines wiLh (‘C-IJIICIETICC. Bu! no amount of rrliihemaaicel diemanstretrlon will offset the scare effect of a vivid- ly narrated aircraft casually story. For this reason it must be impress- cd on everyone in the aviation in- dll5ll'y that safety i5 (he measure of our aeronautical fulurc. This applies i0 the airlines. But it. Is n maxim of even mom urgent concern to private flying. Fbr the safety score of the private pilot 7'1 fat- alities per 100 million passenger miles) ls ‘bad. Bcr-ausc the ceiling of the entire aviation industry will continue Io be limited according to safely performance there l5 no subject. which merits more serious study by all concerned. -Oanoqla.ri Aviailom.

It l; not the least surprising thing about Mr. Altlee that after l8 months a5 Prime Minlsier- as gruelling a-n 18 months e4 n Prlrne Minister ever had in peacetime - he is just as fresh physically end mentally as when he entered No. I0. He is clearly for sLroneer con- stitutionally than hu rather rlllht build would suggest. but whence come; ihL<~menisl ioughnog which enables him to face each succeed- Ing crisis with e serene from? How many expected this of hlifit Con- irooi him with Ramsey MsoDarr- old. whom a crisis often reduced to o nervous wreck. Yer MacDonald seemed extraordinarily vlrtle. Mr. Aitlee never won-loo. That aeornl lo be tho exploration; and he never worries because. ssy some of Intimates, ho Is a Clirlsllkw ‘and o philosopher who roes ell problems under the aspect. of at lty. But the big majority should n be for- gotten. Disraeli said a malorlty ls slwlyg Iho bflt repsrteo. A bl] Illi- jorlty must be s nest. fortiflor of s Prime Mlnlstef’. — Manchester Guardian.

The Continuity’ Boys (Ottawa Joiirnal)

Wlll the attention-drawers please draw tho-following comment to the 81191111011 of the appropriate officer of the _ Canadian Broadcasting Corporation?

Into the new: broadcasts la the lut. few months has stolen s rlrig- worm of the most vicious order. The peculiar characteristic of the species ls that it, cannot bear the 1110118111 01' writing u series of news 11111881119115 for a radio bulletin Wlihflllt ill 50mg wgy having g "continuity" linking a1] items.

Thus we have s report on a strike 1X1 l 008-1 1111119. and speaking of strikes there we; one in Omaha when e lady hot-dog vendor hit her husband so hard with a roll that h; died and she has been given a suspended sentence, and while we're on the subject of things being suspended it‘ was reported from Timbuctoo that no decision Is yet known in the Jones vs. Jones case, but one Jones who does know something today L; Senior J. Jones from Elmira who received word from London that. he Ir to in- herit a million dollar; from 10rd Keepclean the soap magnate, which reminds us that something new in soaipbox oratory was heard ’in Clan- berra itsierdoy when a zollziizg parrot mounted a pile 0f packing cases and read the Lord's Prayer from llle back of a postage stamp, and post your letters early next Christ- mas os- the ghoulies will get you if you don't walich out.

This is slick stuff, swell to tho ear and Just dandy to tho eye. "Continuity", they call It and it. Ir designed to make news flaw easily Into minds which are otherwise so round, so smooth and so fully packed that they wouldn't have time to listen. Actually this is really none of our business because ob- viously such broadcasts are dir- eciecl at people who can't reed, but we raise it as something for the next agenda of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty l0 Dumb Animals who unfioriiuiately are not also dent.

Chiang Kai-Sliek’: ’ "China's Destiny’

hatized En Ilsh Qrmiirlililoeni chiffon Kai-Shel?‘ famous book. China's Destiny. has been published in the United States and Canada by ilie Meanin- Ian Company. The orl8111111 Chm‘ ese book, first published In Chums- klng an March 10, 1943. ha! 1191*“ widely read by the Chinese people- bolh at home and abroad. Sever-l attempts have been made to trans- late the book into English and other languages for nan-Chinese readers, but. the present edition, ubllshed by Maomlllnns, is the only English version approved by the author. _ _ China's Destiny_wus conceived and written n! a time Wl101_1 61111111 was in the midst of a life-arid- deatli struggle for her national survival. during the most. difficult period of the Pacific war against Japanese aggression. In the midst of this gigantic struggle. the Unil- ad States and Great Britain. lrl recognition of China's contribu- tion to the cause of democracy, voluntarily abrogated their extra- terrltarlal rights and other special privileges In China on October l0. 1942, and later signed with her new treaties o-f friendship and equality.

The book was written, therefore, by President Chleng es a message to his own people. to call their attention to this hlstoiric event. which marked the success of one

hase of the Chinese national revo- lution, and to sustain their morale at e critical stage of the war In order that the Chinese people, with a renewed sense of notional con- sciousness, might fight on to vlc- tory and complete national Indepen- dence. Although ln rounding out his story President Chiang has had to tell It from the period of West- ern imperialist expansion In China, the main theme of the book Ir one of self-examination, charging the Chinese people themiielves with responsibility for the destiny of their notion in a peaceful and democratic world.

China's Destiny was therefore addressed solely to the Chinese people against the hl-siorlc back- ground and under the wartime cir- 01111181811068 above described. In it President Chlan expound; his philosophy of naional revolution anw reconstruction. pro-poses a ten- yee plan for industrial and social d velopmeni. and reviews , the Koumlntang record In China's uizl- flcation and progress. .

iThe author stresses China's own responsibilities, growing out. of her greet heritage and her new slnlus as on independent. miilon. "New that. the unequal treaties have been abrogated, the question to be de- cided Is heihi-r Chin; can be unified po ltloally and whether her national power can be consolidated or not. In the past China's destiny depended on diplomacy: ll Wes In the hands of foreign lm erlulistic powers, In the future Ch M's des- imy will be decided by herself; rt will be In the hands of he: own people."