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President LleuL-Col. W. Cheater S. Melon Vice President .I. it. Burnett. FJJ.

_ Secretary LieuL-Col. D. A. Maclinnon. D-l-D- Eflltor and Managing Director J. B. Burnett, IJ-L Associate Editor Frank Walker SUBSCRIPTION RATEQ $5.00 per )-..r tln advance) delivered to City $4.00 per year tin advance) mailed to P. Edllalld $0.00 pcr year tin advance) mailed to Canada and U3. Members Audit Bureau of Clreulations

"The Strongest Memory is Weaker than the Weakest Ink."

> “TIDNESDAY, JUNE 8. 1938

P. E. I. Not Included

On thc principle of “to him that hath shall be given", all thc Provinces fortunate in the pos-

session of mining resources are t0 be assisted again this yrur by ‘the King Government, to the amount of $1,300,000 in improving roads Into

their tnizring areas. The allocation is part of the supplementary estimates, and the proposed allotments are as follows: Nova Scotia, $25,000; Quebec. $250,000; Ontario, $250,000; Manitoba, $225000; Saskatchewan, $125,000; Alberta, $50,- ooo: British Columbia, $240,000; Northwest Territories and the Yukon, $93,000.

Prince Edward Island, not having any min- ing areas, gets nothing in the way of assistance under this scheme, but of course contributes its share of taxes for thc hand-outs given the other Provinces.

Last year, tinder s similar arrangement, $I,- 300.000 was distributed by the Federal Govern- nrent.

In view of the fact that Prince Edward Is- lahd and New Brunsivilk are the only Provinces not receiving special grants for road-building into‘ mlnittg areas, should we not be compensat- ed in o‘l'v*r ways? Why should our basic indus- tries of farming and fishing he regarded as of less importance than the mining industry, or less lV0fllly of federal encouragement and sup-

Y . Port “up;

The Patriot's ,Vo|le Face 1

l few days ago our local contemporary boast-

ed that it was “on the recommendation of Pre- mier Campbell" that the Dominion Goverrunent reconditioned the old car ferry by providing it with an automobile deck. _ As pointed out by The Guardian, if Premier Campbell made any such recommendation he entircly misrepresented the attitude of the Boards of Trade whose application for a. new ferry steamer he was sent to Ottawa to present.

Our coutctttporary has evidently been hauled over the coals for its indiscretion, and in yester- day's issue it devotes over a column of editorial space to rcpudiating its previous statement.

The fact is, of course, that both from thc Charlottctotlvtt and Summerside Boards of Trade came strong expressions of dissatisfaction with the substitution of the old ferry for a new steamer, specially designed for auto carrying and CZIPZIlJlC of accommodating at lcast fifty cars at a time.

\\'c quoted, to this effect, the report submitted by Hon. L. R_ Allen as chairman of the trans- portation committee of the Summersidc Board of Trade.

Now our contemporary pays belated credit to

Hon. Mr. Alli-n for having prepared the detailed brief rccotttttictttling a new steamer. The Pre- mier, having forwarded this to Ottawa, went there himself to make “final presentation of thc case." Ilut he might just as well have stayed at home for, says our contemporary, “he took no part in the decision as to the exact form which the improved service should take." This lcavcs it a moot question ivhetltcr it was .\lr. Allen's brief or the Premier's presentation that was in- effective in obtaining what the Province wanted, "namely a. new steamer, not a reconditioned old bnc. r But there is one thing our Cfitllfilllpflfilfy is dear about. It wishes its readers distinctly to understand that its previous claim that Premier Campbell had “recontmctrdcrW thc rcmodcllittg of the old ferry ivzts “cntirclfv incorrect and un- foundeti"

Such d.’ voltc fncc is an all-tirzc rccord, evcn ‘for the Campbell tiovcrntttcnt organ.

U. S. emit-fr Por Frozen Blueberries

\\'hilc tlrunestic production of blueberries in thc bnitcd $tzitcs [Irnltably ntccts to sonte cx- tcut thc rlcnntml for fresh ltcrrics. in thc frozen trade thc principal supplies have ltccti import- ed, tuztinlt- from Xcwfottttdlantl with a fairly substznttiztl :untutnt from Canada. writcsMr. R. G_ C. Smith, Assistant Canadian Trade Com- missioncr at New York, in the current issue of the Commercial Iutclligcttcc lottrual. Importa- tion of all blueberries into thc United States. ex- thttlittg canucd fruit. ltas shown an annual in- rrcasc sincc I031, zmd this atlvancc has been )tcarl_v, mainly bccausc of thc increase in frozen fruit imports.

Total imports in I037 amountctl to l2,78_‘4,000 pounds as compared with l0.ll)0,000 pounds in r936, 7.3661100 [rounds in I935, and 4176.000 pounds in Iogt. Thc pcrccntagcs of these to- tals accountcd for by frozen berries in the res- pcctive _vr-nrs wcrc 70. (W15, 50.5 and 5I. Prim‘ to I035 thc firzurcs for frozen fruit included bcrrics calmed or otherwise preserved. How- ever, thc trade in canned blueberries in I035 amounted to only about 500,000 potmzls, and it ls doubtful if thc voluntc was very great dur- ing thc preceding vcars.

Frozcn blucbct-ric-s do not ordinarily cuter into the srunc cnmumtwtioit channels as the fresh, but the fnct rcmnins that. despite a higher duty for fivc vcors. th" import trade in frozen berrP-s incrcawtl ntorc rvtvilllv and more consistently fly", i~q,-.~~-t.,- Ht ffrwh hr-rrirs. For some time th- ltqlc-e l-c- r""'\rr'»"'l thr- frozen fruit as he- ing mot -t-"'--'~~"~ for tb-ir needs; and the frnzcn Pack lv- ~--~~’~~“-~ diwlnrcd canned bitte- bcrrles. To :1 oroH-lilv imrcnsing extent, frozen

» blueberries are "(ting into tl-e grocery and hotel

iradethrqttgh the existing facilities for diatri- tam of qtxick-frosen fruits and vegetables

Imports into the United States in I937 of frozen blueberries totalled 8,921,000 pounds u against 6,160,000 pounds in I936, 5,123,000 pounds in I935, and 2,I28,ooo pounds in I931. For those years Canada’s share was, respective- ly, 35.6 per cent, 34.5 per cent, 26.3 per cent, and 29.4 per cent,

It Saved Him

The propagandists won't let it out, but it is well known that a few effective quips about Adolf Hitler and his lieutenants have gained a good circulation in the Reich. Humour is dead- ly stuff for the pompous gravity of dictatorships, so the outside world docs not hear much about this angle of fascism.

One story, however, is well worth repeating, for it shows that wit is not a lost art in the new-born Germany.

The Bishop of Munster in \Vcstphalia was preaching in his cathedral about the influence of the church on the education of youth. A uni- formed Nazi jumped up in the middle of it and shouted: “How can attyhotly talk‘ about youth if he himself has neither wife nor child?"

The bishop roared back with equal fury: “In this house I will allow no offensive remarks against the Fuehrer.”

Between The Two

Speaking to a group of visiting Scottish far- mers the other day, Lord Tweedsmuir express- ed the opinion that too much is heard of the failures 0f Canada and toolittlc of thc successes. The Ottawa journal is inclined to agree, and after remarking that the world hears about our Western drought, the problem of our railways, but much less about our solid accomplishments, states:

“The trouble is that our accomplishments go into the blue books, but our difficulties are news, and our successes are not sufficiently under- stood abroad. Perhaps it isn't news, but it is a ‘fact of first importance that alongside an English-speaking nation of I30 millions we have preserved and developed a British country, solid- ly devoted to the British tradition. The pro- gress of agriculture, of industry, of mining may not be news as drought is news, but that pro- gress has been_a vital factor in world history of the past half century."

r Editorial Notes 1'

Sir John lilillar born this date, 1829, x x x u-

If Mr. Dunning is not careful his budget will miss the distinction of being a june bride. x n- 1r =o<

In the case of Czechoslovakia, Germany is pursuing the age-old course in war——to divide its opponents and then conquer them. w 1 1v x There have bcgt so many European and Asiatic crisis during the past two years that one tends to become rather sceptical. On the other hand, the very next one tnay prove fatal. w- k x x

If the Liberal organ is to begin explaining away its party's many blunders and disastrous mistakes it will have embarked upon no mean undertaking. Only. it will be but adding anoth- cr blunder to the list. 1‘ 1* 1|! l! \Vhen the New Brunswick Premier returned from Ottawa he did not claim to have scored a victory for his province in the ntattcr of relief work. He said nothing. It would have been bcttcr if some of our Island delegates had anti- cipated him in this respect. ti‘ 1s i F More Federal promises have been handed out to the electors of Saskatchewan than the Bank" of Canada could foot the bill for in the next decade. But then Aberharfs bait of $25 per month had to be offset no matter what the cost ——strictly in words. a n- v * . There were 276,663 cwt. of fertilizers im- ported during April compared with 304,730 in the previous month and 309,750 in April, I937. Exports of fertilizers totalled 559,995 cvvt. com- pared with I,06I,452 in “arch and 426,586 a year ago. The United States figured largely in this trade during the month. a a: =0- n- Canada's oldest newspaper, the Montreal Gazette. recently celebrated its 160th anniversary, It was founded when the American war of in- dependence was in progress and when France. also. was at war with Britain. The events of those times. and subsequent stirring eposodcs in Canadian ltistory are reviewed in interesting special articles in the anniversary number. It is Itotcivorthy that the founder of the Gazette was a printer named Fleury Mcsplct. who was sent to Canada by Benjamin Franklin to work up enthusiasm for the Congressional cause and finding the proicct a “hopeless one, in spite of the appeals of Lafayette to thc French people in the name of France," dccidcrl to throw in his lot with thc Canadians and so set up his press on their behalf. He remained in control eleven years. From this beginning the Gazette pro- gressed to become one of the leading newspap- ers on the North American continent. u n- u m The British Government will have to spend £2,410,500 more on the navy during I938 in ad- dition to £I2,37o,7oo already provided, accord- ing to a supplementary estimate. Out of the new appropriation £1,773,000 will be used to begin construction on two battleships, seven cruisers, one aircraft carrier, three submarines and a num- ber of ntisccllatieotts craft. The estimate also" covers the purchase of a seaplane carrier, the Albatross, now owned by the Australian Gov- ernment. Hon. Alfred Duff Cooper, First Lord of the Admiralty, itI a memorandum accompany- ing the estimate, recalled that the original esti- mate, issued some months ago, contained no pro- vision for the 1038 bidding program. Of the

increased expenditure, £r,0oo.ooo is accounted for by the larger tnarriagc allowance recently granted naval and marine officers and sail The total amount to bc spent in shipbuildi ‘i pairs, alteration, maintenance, etc, during".

is {$7,479,440 a net increase over the year of £1,484,700. t

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THE (IHARLUTTETOWN (iPARDIAN

lures av nus w»

Indiutry isnow lnaltatael convalescence. It needs no seven noatrums. It needs

I! ail the swords were beaten into lowshsres and all the non to pruning forks, what a bunch of farmers these armament manufacturers would look like. - St. [mils Star-Mince.

“Women Better Bridle Player: Than Men.’ says n. Boston head- line. That's easily explained. Men concentrate on theyre on the verge of starvation, while wo keep themselves for- tified and the cards all goood up- by nibbling tasty food bite be- tween hands.—Wlndsor Star.

Father Martin Oflalioran, the parish priest of J- hnstown in Kli- kenny country Eire, died recently, leaving a thlr of his estate tothe village of Grane in the same coun- ty. According to the London Times, Grane must be unique among municipalities in the "dis- tressful isle," for its residents, con- tented wtth their lot could find no use for the legacy. Among them there are no destitute per- sons seeking relief; they do not want a sports field, a social hall. a school playground, a billiard hall or a. handball court. In short, they are satisfied with their present facilities of a more abundant life. Because of this the people, Catho- lic and Protestant, have united ln suztfestlng that the executors of the estate give the money to the parish priest for upkeep of the church-Sydney Post-Record.

In dismissing a libel action against a pamphleteer who was charged with scurrilous attacks on religion, Judge Wallace, of the New York courts of general ses- slons said: “We must suffer the demagogue and the charlatan in order to make certain that we do not limit; or restrain the honest commentator on public affairs... It la wiser to bear with scandal- mongerlng than to extend the criminal law to become an in- strument of oppression." This sentiment might well serve ea an inscription over the doors of any court of Justice, for it ls a telling rebuke to men in s hurry and advocates of shortcuts who forget. in their zeal for suppressing the nuisance of today, that they may be laying the foundation for the suppression of the genuine dis- sente of tomorrow- Baltimore Sun. .

As the shape of vessels changed a separate flgurehead in wood or other materials often took the place of simple decoration of the stem itself. Gradually typical fig- ureheads on ships of various na- tions began to appear. On the prow of Phoenlclana’ boats was often displayed the horse's head symbol of speed. The Roman’: fol- lowed the lion and crocodile that once represented tutelary deities of mountain and river, with busts of their distinguished warriors. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries English and Dutch fea- tured thelr national emblems of the lion, while Spaniards liked their craft headed by thp figures of their favorite saints. An era of expanding merchant shipping, the elkhteenth and nineteenth cen- turles were prolific ones for Amer- ican flgureheads. At the prows of Yankee clippers, frlgates and brlgantlnes of war, heroic-sized females in flowing robes, naval heroes in uniform American statesmen in ordinary street clothes plowed through walls of spray along with the con- ventional images of Neptune with his tlrdeni: and classical goddesses of the sea. No country, however, maintained more interest in ships‘ figurehead than the English o! Queen Elizabeth onward. So elab- orate and unwieldy was some of this decoration that in the words or Slr Walter Raleigh, ‘The ocean fairly groaned from their welzht." An example was that of the Brit- ish Sovereign of the Seas, with a mass of carving on her prow rep- resentlnk Kins: Edgar mounted on horseback and trampling on slx subject klntzs, and beyond it a figure of Cupid rldlnz a lion. Eventually, British craftsmen de- veloped their art to include carv- ings of characters from Shakes- soearo and Scott, the Knights of the Round Table, American In. dlans, Chinese mandarlna. witches and goblins. They came to repre- sent not only imaginary characters but actual persons from public life and members of shlpownera’ families. The sacred image of Vin- torin was set on The Queen. In- conrrruouslv. a ‘vlmzed "cure of Lord Cairns. Irish statesman. adorned a selling vessel hum tq Belfast in 1M7; while an Ffngtish cllnper proudly displayed at her bow her financial hacker in Ellhl‘! tzlorv of Sunday frock coat and top hat!

Tuna grow to he much bigger than mackerel but these ses- golng cousins. both xnemb u of in common that they have plenty of spirit. "When a mackerel is hooked." says a fisheries inspec- tor in eastern Nova Scotia in re- porting to the Dominion depart- ment of fisheries at Ottawa as to deep sea angling in his district. "it puts up just as hard a fight as s larae trout." Its taste in bait. thwflh. isn't the same as the trout’; A trout might turn up lta nose st obit of salt herring‘ and oatmeal mashed together, but the mackerel would be happy about the whole thinl. Hnlflly. that ll. until it discovered, too late. that the bait concealed a hook. Wheth- er or not there will he much endi- inr for mackerel remains to be seen. so far most of the ses fish- ing for sport's sake on the Atlan- tic coast has been snailn: for Cousin Tuna and one or two other species. But the mackerel is lure of a pines in the Canadian fish-

the tame till more than

and famous m‘

the Seombridae family, have this:

The Saint Laurent Music Festival

' ‘ ‘ (a: mn-‘Iiwm-n The Saint, came“. was»: mestlval Montreal which betlan Monday

o a of years ancllbrotulht to a successful conclusion for the third time. in Ciunda

the three evdllme. of this year's feIt-lvai. 1t ls estimated that

. many com- po ts in Canada and the United States. year has the festival trrow in scope luenoe.

The chapel o! the Oollele of Saint. Laurent. where the festival has been held 9 lhflw

letter.

tan Opera Company. a lrloun of outstanding soloists. including Bose Bamutnn. soprano. Katheryn Metsle contrslto. Joseph Bentonelll. tenor. Norman Cordon. bass. Edward Grobe. tenor. and Mack Harrell. baritone-the first four named be- g1: members of High ltlfetzatroréqgtan

era. 00m y: Br

nell. conductor of the Philadelphia Bymnho ctor of music for p cathedral r

boys otf th

Nbtivlbe under F. Severln 0. S. 0.. and the Saint George's Boys Choir, under Dr. Weatherseed. all oom- blned in maklnsz possible this festi- val. which in its scope and excel- ienoe of performance reached artis- tic helzhts of a trulv international standard.

The Chanel of Saint Laurent Col- lege, which was Iormerlv the Pres- byterian Church of Saint; Andrew and saint Paul and moved from its former site in Montreal

. ely Interior forms a ftttlmz settlntt and

the intermission. those in attendance were charmed with the beauty of the wounds. which were Iitzhf, by can 11mm. nlmd at 5 l’! l! DOlII .

Dunn: this year's festival. which was the third in a series of ner- fannancea. which have now become an annual event, the music includ- ed the Saint Matthew Passion by John Bach. elven 1n it» entirety for the first. time in Can- ada on the o night, the Mis- sa. Solemnls by Bee oven. perform- ed on the second eve . and for the final night. enaemta from Par- slfal by Warmer were Drewnwd- nreceeded bv a. noun of Bach Cor- ales. Choral nreludes and Canta- tas. Amo

. noun was conducted by Charles O'Connell. with stelletler niavmtz the

hour and a half for afte which

d t-h l direct! of ‘gill: xiaifiiaductor a

tier. trained was devotional and m- eniratlonal character.

A11 of the six soloists nave admir- able and most artistic perform- ances. the orchestra and choruses under Dir. Pelletlersr direction mso to heilzhts of musicianship. mrelv heard info" u wereao una astobeableto attend. will not soon foraet the ex- perlence.

NATIVE

Wherever he walks. it; will be through this forest, Shadow and leaves forever under

feet. "t "élruitooattatthm t" Dew 1p: e2? windy reaches of the

s lI-ie will recpll how poplar branches e

tre ‘How raindrops clung to a blrch's rsveled ism-k:

ll . a bar's flight, unsaaemblecl.

Like thln. cold furrles of wind in the rising dark.

He will always see the fox as it le.t the shadow , Eager snp- still» ‘pith the eyes of a curous : ‘lie will hear the wind blow Whsreuie u" toodlosctIteldIl-rim vines s . damaged wild, De Always, for hlnuthe deer will come Wary sggglfiltrab a leaf on the m wtu forever iecali the partridge or mu ‘ arr-um ll m ' lplefidldum. . I" y

And these wig]. persist: the fugitive Ollnladltghls eyesxs dusk, like a wsk ' forever. his

wmrsldplm’ “vii-m ‘It mu be tluouah mu vim.

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PUBLIC FORUM

This raiuvna ll.¢P¢l l” n“ dleensioa by vvffllll°"f|"';h t! quellloal of T” ' iuftotolvl (iuanllnn tines not n: “sun-u; muons the will“ eorroenondento.

WINTER (PRESS BBADZCARON

S1r,— Many flelth of new meadow throughout (the Province show an lnfeséatlotft vl/llth fiovyveeresd carrylngsclua r0 yeow -

plea of these weeds indicate the identity u. that of yellow rocket (Ba-rbarea Vulfifll) one or the mustard family- Th" weed hes in all prooablllty been brought 1n wth small seeds. It l5 a biennial to star; with but. owing to the nature of growth from the

base, may become a. erennlal. The weed ls ulte d toetmlble and is easily pull . Farmers should