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”The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink“
IIIPARLOTTETOWN. WEDNESDAY, OCT. l9, I949
Beating Football Iirowds
Not. only in Prince Edward Island has there been a revived interest in. plowing matches. The movement started in this Province at Dundas a few years ago appeals to have spread throughout Canada. At Bur- ford, in Brant County, Ontario, they claim- ed an attendance of 75,000 one day during the International Plowing Match, a record which, as the Ottawa Journal points out. makes the 16,000 fans at a football game at Landsdowne Park seem insignificant. The Journal adds:
"The huge crowd did not all go to see the actual plowing contests. For a great many the plowing itself was just a background for one of the most unusual country fairs held anywhere in America today. The In- ternational Plowing Match is really a big itinerant show held in a different part of Ontario every year and represents one of the finest organization jobs it is possible to imagine. There are hundreds of huge tents, many acres of open show space, and all facilities such as water and electricity have to be provided. The farm machinery show Ls recognized as the largest held anywhere in America."
Some day we may get an international Plowing Match here. As the leading agri- cultural Province in the Maritimes we may at least see the Dundas Fair develop into an event of Maritime-wide importance. This would have seemed fantastic a few years ago, but with the cooperation of farm mu- chinery firms there is no doubt that this form of competitive entertainment can be greatly developed.
Premier Swallwood Bored
For “a last, manly word” on the social cocktail party custom, Toronto Saturday Night quotes approvingly the following comment by Premier J. R. Smallwood of Newfoundland: v
“Until I went to Ottawa I had never been at a cocktail party in my life. Of all the boring experiences a man can be called upon to endure, cocktail parties are the worst. Personally, I do not drink anything stronger than chocolate milk shakes, but I ‘could endure cocktail parties a bit more if they provided chairs. The business of stand- ing around for an hour, holding a full or empty glass and pretending that you are en- joying yourself, if my conception of the last word in futility."
Income and llutgo
Some interesting pointson the personal incomes and expenditures of Canadians are brought forward by the latest study of this field by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics.
As might be expected, the report shows that Ontario has by far the largest in- dividual share of personal income in Can- ada. On a basis of 1948 estimates, that province with about 33 per cent of Canada’s population had 39 per cent of its total per- sonal income.
General farm prosperity in the Prairie Provinces is reflected in the fact that this part of Canada also enjoys a personal in- come greater proportionately than its share nf Cfanadas population. So does British Columbia; but in each case the margin is much less than that shown in Ontario. The Prairies had, in 1948, slightly more than 19 per cent of Canada’s population and 20 per cent of the personal income. British Colum- bia, with 8.3 per cent of the population had 9 per cent of the personal income. In the rest of Canada income was lower propor- tionately than population. This point should be emphasized in future conferences on Do- minion-Provincial tax arrangements.
The Bureau also shows that, in 1947, approximately 3O per cent of national in- come originated in manufacturing and 13 per cent in agriculture. In this connection, the point should be made that the manu- facturing total owes its place of eminence largely to agriculture, both by virtue of the great amount of manufacturing that is de- pendent on the farms for its raw materials and the big market which iigriculture pro- vides for manufactured goods.
Some encouragement for those concern- cd about the cost of government may found in the figures covering personal in- comes derived from government. In 1944, 17 per cent of Canada’s total personal In- come originated in the Government. in 1947, the proportion was less than 8 per
cent. It must be remembered, however, theta?“ was a war year in which all those in thsnrmsdssrvloes received their income
Jbpws thgstof m; mm personal unendi-
ture in 1948, Canadians laid out only 10 per cent for household operations, including rent but excluding food. At the same time they spent nearly as much, 9 per cent, on. tobacco and alcoholic beverages.
EDITORIAL NOTES
France continues to play her role as the horrible example of a multiplicity of politi-
cal parties.
Revenue Minister McCann may have frightened the taxpayer with threats but, in this election year, it was revealed in the Commons, there have been no prosecutions of farmers for income tax.
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People on both sides of the border have expressed disapproval recently of the use of American flags in this country for busi- ness purposes. The custom, which is in- deed deplorable, was not adopted on the Island. We have enough flag problems without borrowing them unnecessarily.
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Canadian Boy Scout Jamborees, similar to the one held at Ottasva last July, will be held every four years, the executive of the Canadian general council of the Boy Scouts Association decided Saturday. Site of the 1953 Jamboree will be decided later. The executive decided the first Canadian Rover meet will be held in Ontario in 1951.
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Summerside merchants’ short-lived ex- periment at remaining open until 5:30 prob- ably deserved its fate. At the same time it is a pity that some such arrangement as the drug stores have could not be worked ("it i0 Pfirmili Shfipping at odd hours with- out placing an undue burden on employees.
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It is interesting to note that operation of the St. Stephen Exhibition showed a small deficit this year, officials of the agri- cultural society reported at a week-end meeting. Total receipts were $7,649.02 and expenses amounted to $8,747.00. Part of the expense was incurred in making repairs to the grandstand and fair buildings. The exhibition was held this year for the first time in 10 years, and it is planned to make
it an annual event.
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A start has been made in the reorgan- ization of the Conservative Party. Major- General G. R. Pearkes, V.C., M.P., has been in Fredericton for the past three days, and tonight will be the guest speaker at a din- ner concluding the annual meeting of the New Brunswick Conservative Association. Officials have stressed that the meeting is the key event in the drive [to re-organize the party and several matters, vital to party affairs, will be discussed. Is anything being done in this respect by Conservatives here?
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Jonathan Swift, British satirist, novelist, essayist and pamphleteer, died this date 1745. Swift was a master of the art of satire. Nothing escaped his merciless scourge. He is best remembered by his “Gulliver's Travels", which is all embracing in its lash; every human weakness and vice is subjected to his savage irony and sarcasm. His splendid imagination, story-telling gift, and command of language, rank him among the foremost writers of fiction. For him the times were out of joint. He is one oi the greatest and most tragic figures in
English literature.
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Egg prices on October 14 this year and previous years. The prices quoted below are for Grade A Large. At Montreal and Toronto the prices are those at which graded shipments are selling to wholesalers. At other points quotations are prices to shippers for~ ungraded eggs. 1949 67 65 52 56 . 52 5O 55 O O v
1948 74-75 72-74 54 54
194 7 '54 53-54 42-43 4G 4O 41-42 42
Montreal Toronto Winnipeg.......... Vancouver Edmonton...
Regina... Charlottetown
Workers on the towering permanent headquarters of the United Nations, now under construction in New York, will put down their tools and turn off their machines on Monday, 24th inst., while the operators of the machinery to which the world looks for permanent peace take over. Those op- erators of the machinery of peace are lead- ing statesmen from 59 countries who are in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, which has been meeting at su- burban Flushing Meadows and Lake Suc- cess. The Assembly delegates will move their meetlng place to outdoor quartersto take part in a cornerstone ceremony at the permanent headquarters of the -United Na- tions and to celebrate 24 October-United Nations Day. The principal speaker at the U. N. Day ceremony will be President Truman, who will go from-Washington for the ceremony. U. N. Secretary-General ‘Trygve Lie will place in the cornerstone copies of the United Nations Charter and
of the U. N. Declaration of Human Rights.
THE ROAD ‘TO THE POOL
I lmow a road that from town,
A Dale road in a Watteau gown
Of wild-rose Sprays. that runs nway
All fragrant-schooled. slim and gray.
leads
It slips along the laurel grove And down the hill. intern to rove, And crooks an arm of shadow cool Around a willow-silvercd pool.
I never travel vary far
Beyond the pOOI where willows are: There ls a shy and native grace That hovers all about the place,
And resting there I hardly know
Just where it was I meant to go. Contented like the road that dozes In panniered gown of brlar roses.
—Grace Hazard Conkiing.
Old Charlottetown (And r. s. L)
GOVERNOR READYS TOUR (Continued)
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On Friday the 5th inst., Lieuten- ant Governor Ready inspected the 3rd Bait. of Militia at Three Riv- ers. and after passing the night at the hospitable mansion of Mr. Angus Macdonald, proceeded on Saturday morning to George. Town. the situation of which he spent some time in examining. He thcn crossed the isthmus to Cardigan River, giving various di- rcctions relative to the improve- ment of the roads in that quar-
On Wednesday last, his Excel- lency and suite set out at an early hour on an excursion to the west- c-rn parts of the Island, and l! 3 o'clock the same day he inspected the lst Batt. of Militia at Prince- Town. l-ie afterwards visited the Grammar School at that. place, in which were I20 scholars, and cx- pressed himself much plcasei with the mode of teaching in practice there. and the appear- ance of the scholars, several of whom repealed their exercises in his presence, much to his satis- faction.
At 6 o'clock he sat down at an excellent dinner at Mr. Bearistoes Inn, with about thirty of the prin- cipal inhabitants, Col. Stewart in the chair.
The greater part of the next day he spent in viewing Prince-Town and the country adjacent, and in the afternoon proceeded to St. Eleanofs where, after inspecting the 5th Bait. of Militia which mustered about 500 strong, he din- cd with the gentlemen in that vicinity at Smith's Tavern, on which occasion the Rev. Mr. Jen- kins presided with his usual af- fability.
The day following his Excel- ler-fcy crossed the Ellis River and went as far as New Bideford in Lot 13, where he spent the night at Mr. Burnards The following clay he visited mos-t of the ship- building establishments at Bede- que, and having rode through that fine settlement, was highly pleas- ed at the appearance which the fertile and blooming fields every- where presented:
Having spent the night at Mr. Campbell's he proceeded next morning to Tryon. and some miles from the place was met by a cavalcade of 50 horsemen who es- corted him into the settlement. After viewing the most prominent objects he was conducted to a tent. prepared for the occasion, where an ‘Address numerously signed by the principal inhabitants of the settlement was presented to him. He then sat do\vn to an elegant collation, Col. Holland in the chair, assisted by Mr. Palmer as vice, and a numerous party. The lion. Mr. i-laviland and the Attorney General. who accom- panied his Excellency, were among lllc guests. it is unnecessary for us to add. that hilarity and good L‘ll'(‘l' aboundcd. His Excellcncy‘s health was drank with the same digrcc of rapturous applause as at all_the other places where he dined in the course of his tour. ills Excellency proposed the health of the company and prosperity to ihc settlement, and soon after rosc from the table and resumed his journey io Charlotte-Town, where he arrived about 9 in the cvcning.
During these repeated journeys oi our \'v17l'ii"l)' Lieutenant Gwen nor the state of the roads occupied much of his attention. and hc was attended by the road com- missioners of the different dis- tricts through which he passed.
—Princc Edward Island Register, Aug. l6. 1825.
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Chigneclo Canal
Winton Moder in The Canadian Geographical Journal)
From the middle of the nine- tee-nth century the mainland of Nova Scotin has been cut in half by an ill-fated and forgotten cannl and the Island of Cape Breton has also been divided into two parls. Familiar to more, but still not widely known, are the many plans and proposals to cut Nova Scotla off from New Brunswick nt the isthmus of Chignecto, a bare twenty miles of marshinnri between the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Bay of Fundy.
The dream of the Chignecto or, as it is called after the bay into which its northeast end would run, Bale Verte Canal is doubl- less the oldest of these threc ell- terprises. A report upon the isth- mus made by de Mculles, the In- tendant of Canada, in 1686, over two and a half centuries ago, says Chlgnecto “may be easily cut through by n canal, since nli thi- land there is very low. In this case communication would be made between the French Bay (Chlg- necto Bay) and the Straits of St. Lawrence (Northumberland Strnltl, which would shorten the way from Quebec to Port Royal (Annapolis\ by at least two hundred leagues (600 miles)". Thus, the thought that occurs when onc looks at n map of the Maritime Provinces had been entertained as a project in the earliest days of the French colonies.
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In the early days communication in the lViuritimes was almost en- tirely by coastwise shipping and vessels were at the mercy of the weather. The Idea of a shorter and safer route than the hazard- ous ocean one around Nova Scotia prompted the Maritime govern- ments, with the government of the Province of Canada included once, to conduct four enquiries into the possibilities of a Bale Verte Canfll between 1822 and the time of Con- federation. The Province of Nova Scotia went so fur as to charter a short-lived private company to undertake construction.
Francis Hull, a civil engineer, had Just. made an exhaustive" re- port to the'New Brunswick gov- ernment whcn Thomas Chandler l-laliburton, m\-c famous as Sam Slick, was writing his book, An Historical and Statistical Account of Nova Scotia. In the book Hali- burton transcribes Hall's lull rc- port, complete with a map, and adds: "By the construction of this canal. thc long and dangerous cir- cuit. of Cape Breton in the navi- gation between New Brunswick nnd the Si. Lawrence, wtl ho avoided. . . . The exports of bot-Ii Provinces lo the West Indies are
crense In the Inter-colonial trade."
Whether led by the smell of Maritime rum or not, since the Dominion of Canada was created ihe Federal government has con- ducted no less than eight further enquiries into the Bale Verte Canal project. Sir John A. Mac- donalds government even extend- ed n subsidy of $150,000 n year for twenty-five years to a New Bruns- wick company engaged in the grandiose scheme of building a ship railway to carry vessels of 1.000 ions across the isthmus. Thai. project failed financially and has left nothing but massive stone- works and a story that the en- gineer who plonnecl it was buried. at his own request, at. the Fundy end of his hapless undertaking. after dying from a broken heart.
All the earlier examiners had no hesitation in recommending that something be done io'connect the \\’-'ll(‘l‘S which were so close and yet so divided. But as ships grew ln size and speed the hearts of Royal Commissioners began to harden against the Bale Verte Cnnul. The latest Commission to investigate it. was BPPOIYII-ed i" 191-71, nnd the best lt could afford wns- “feasible?
Its rcnort said: "This Commis- sion ls strongly of opinion that the proposal to construct n canal s! Chlgnecto offers no national or local advantages at all commen- surate wiih the estimated outlay." The report cited the difficulties of overcoming Fundfs famous tides. which sometimes range sixty feet between low and high, and the nullificzition of any saving in dis- tance by the time loss In working a ship through the canal. It con- cluded that even if sufficient trade were offered, the cnnal could do nothing but progressively lose money while working to capacity. Though the report was not. print- ed till 193E) nnd few copies of lI. exist, it has once again sent the Bale Verie Canal to the Vfllhflllfl where so much of Maritime sea- lore lives In glory.
But never be too sure it has had its final entombmenil One day. again, some member of Parlia- ment from the provinces by the sen may rise in the House of Com- mons. With fire, in his eyes he may demand to know if the gov- ernment realizes that. the marshes of Chignecto are an open invita- tipn to canallzntlon-and the BRIE! Verte Canal will be alive again.
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very extensive, and as a draw- back of duties ls_ allowed on the transportation of Rum, from New. Brunswick and Nova Scolin, to' Canada, ll will create n vnst in-
nnd hn delighted with the abund- nnco nf hcr glory. As one WhOIfl a
lmother comforieth. l0. Wm I Mm‘
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When Niagara district fruit for- mers found their harvesting ham- pered by lack of baskets early in September, Boy Scouts of Niagara Falls made a house to house can- vass at very short notice and col- lected I900 baskets. These helped the fruit growers over a difficult period until other supplies became available-Scout. News.
ll. II regarded as l Ifllflllly safe rule for motorists not’ to ex- tend favors of rides promiscuous- ly to children with whom they are not acquainted or to grown lpersons about whom they know nothing. It may work hardship to some poor mortals plodding their way along, but. it assures safety from imposition in many cases and serious trouble in others. To exercise zoodjudgment is the chief aim, but to avoid the pro- fessional tramp, who cannot ride the railways as easily as before, is goud adyicim-Sydney Foil-RECON!-
- 1.15s the people of. Calgary. who hate to be called "Cowtown- ers", the citizens of Toronto dis- llke being called "Hogtowners". We can't say that. we blame them- i-low did Toronto gel the 1181110 "Hogtown?" There are many rea- sons. of course. but the main one undoubtedly is an eight-letter word called jealousy. “l-logtown." after all, isn't such a bad namc. Tho slang meaninl 0! 9B i5 a person who wants every in and who usually has it. -— Leth ridge Herald.
To commemo IIw s recent In- cident in which a Pail‘ °t T°bm5 nested and hatched a family of six in the lectern. l Chick and an embroidered linen cover for the lectern Bible are being provided in All Saints‘ Church, Ringsfield. Suffolk. About eighty people from all parts of the country have ‘written to the rector, the Rev. H. S. Verrells. about the roblns. He has had printed for despatch to them a detailed account of which he describes as “a trivial but charming incident.“ -— Lon- don Times.
OCTOBER 19,
1949
The Way _
Senator John Foster Duilu n, publican expert on foreign affair. calls for the -tull deveiflpmgng as,‘ llic St. Lawrence Seaway and power project. Russia's 9035* sion of the atomic bomb make, ihlS more vital than ever a; | defence measure. With an n, emphasis on‘ defence, it i; n“ easy understand United Statei bumbling attitude toward the su- Wfiy. In any possible war, mam; sectors of this continent will b. the most vulnerable to attack; u“ centre of the continent most easily defended-Windsor Star,
While endcavorlng to nvnld u, excessive purism I do dislike see- zng words given an Impossible meaning. Take "oblivious". 1; means "forgetful (of)" and noth- ing clse-—not “unconscious (am or "indifferent Ho)", or anything of that or any other kind. Pro- vucation to those remarks is [he reference in a daily paper 1° | baby sleeping “oblivious to 1h. noise of fireworks." I don't for ; moment believe the baby had for. gotten the noise; I don't bell". ii. had ever heard it: it had gm" to slecp at an hour when all gong babies should-London Spectator
When Mr. Claxtnn says the "i. dicr doesn't grumble e make; i pretty broad slaicme . One won. ders if Mr. Claxton has been ll and around the barracks nnd messes regularly enough of 1m to kno\v—or lf he ha: been mic. informed. If service men no longer grumble, things hav| changed incredibly in a short time for grumbling is an old pref-op. ilvc of service men in all coun- tries. Call it grumbling, or grous- ing, or beefing. as you like, tho piucticc of speaking forcefully and critically about life and condltioni is lime-honored with fighting men Doubtless the soldiers oi the Pharoahs. of Alexander. and oi
'thn Caesars used to complain c1
this and that. Certainly it ha! been a common exercise for cen-
furies-Halifax Chronicle-Herald.
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