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’ THE GUARDIAN

Morning Daily (Founded in i007)

lutliurlzeri in rieuund Cline Slnii, Post Office Department, Ottawa. The lsland Guardian Publishing Ca. Editor and iliuiiiging Director. il. B. Burnett.

Aonoalata Editor, Iranis Walker.

"The Strorigest Memory is Weaker Than

the Weakest Ink." _ CHARLOTTETOWN, FRIDAY, 0010mm 29, mu

Why Lecture Our Farmers!

A wish that "every citizen could realize how important for the whole world is the production of food in Canada" was eXpfeiied lJY Ailllig ‘Prime Minister St. Laurent a_few days ago in opening the Ottawa winter fair. Canlodinn 69"" culture, Mr. St. Laurent said, should rise to the challenge of the day and help meet the 9"°*l"9 demand for food from a world whose P°P"l°l'°“ ever was on the increase."

No question about the need in Europe ‘W5 elsewhere for food; but what our farmers are worrying about just now is how the Government proposes to facilitate the marketing and distri- bution of the abundant crops they haye on blind- ln this Province they are alrefldl‘ f'"*‘ll"9 llml’ previous assurances of a satisfactory supply 0f reefer cars for their potato and turnip shipgmepti were somewhat premature. Shippers are flfidlllQ it just as difficult to abtairrthsse cars in suf- ficient numbers this year as in 0th" Yeulir F“ are beginning to worry about losing the United States preferential on seed potatoes as tltel last it on their table stock. lt was hOPEd that a more satisfactory condition would pre- vail this year with the cooperation af the Ship- pers Advisory Association, but. such an organiza- tion can accomplish nothing if the cars are not available for distribution.

ln the disposal of other products. 0i" fmm‘ ers are still handicapped by exorbitant freiglll’ rate increases and lack of truck transport fa- cilities to and from the mainland. Here the "challenge of the day” is not to our food pro- ducers but to the Government to see that ode- quate provision is made to enable our producers to take advantage of market requirements- lf Mr. St. Laurent had been addressing an lsland audience instead of an Ontario one, it is this phase of the problem which he would be expect- ed to deal with. _

Another serious situation is that involved in Great Britain's plan for drastic cuts in her imports of foodstuffs from Canada in i949. Ca- nadian farm products directly affected by this plan are bacon and eggs — two products of prime importance in our lsland production program- Britain's exchange difficulties are at the bottom of this change in policy, of course. According to the Financial Post, the British are said to want to get out of their fresh egg contract with Can- oda entirely. They want to slash their bacon purchases to a figure very substantially below the wartime level or_even below the prewar figure. lf this plan is followed, it would mean that the fresh-egg contract would not be renewed when it expires on January 3i next. lt would mean that bacon contracts for i949 would be made at sharp- ly reduced figures, with further tapering off in the future as the British seek to close their dollar exchange deficit by i952.

Following representations made by Canad- lon negotiators at the Cripps conference at Ot- tawa, this very critical prospect for our bacon and egg producers ls now under review. lt is one o.‘ the matters at the head of the list for discus- sion by a special continuing Canada-U. K. com- mittee whoso personnel has recently been an- nounced.

By and large, our farmers seem to be about the only ones who have realized "haw important for the whole world is the production of food in Canada", and they have met the challenge of increased production only to find their efforts stultificd by a series of bottlenecks, starting at Borden and stretching all the way across the Atlantic and down into the United States. Gov- ernment leaders ought to be concentrating on straightening these bottlenecks out. They can safely leave the production end of the problem to the men who are doing the job.

‘In Saskatchewan Too

The C.C.F.'s in Saskatchewan, like Party governments elsewhere, are finding it hard sled- ding to keep within estimates. With the cost of just about everything rising rapidly, Provincial Treasurer C. M. Fines has announced his gov- ernment will find it difficult to keep within the i948-49 budget of $52,238,154. While gov- ernment revenues remain buoyant, Mr. Fines stat- ed, mounting costs of government services are exerting a steadily increasing pressure on the provincial treasury. The problem is already re- fleeting itself throughout the government. De- partments making our estimates lor the l949-5O fiscal year have bzen notified to maintain their expenses at a level consistent with the i948-49 year. In some instances, Mr. Fines said, this may mean a reduction in staff or in services provided. The government could not continue spending more unless some new form of revenue were found or unless the people were prepared to pay more in taxes for the services provided them. Thus government costs more when Socialists at- tempt to provide necessaries or luxuries from the

cradle to the grave.» - IiUllURlAl. NUIES

Cranberries, known as "the children's money- mokers," are more than maintaining their re- putation here.

amen

The way iron and steel scrap is being clean- gd up now, there wiH be none available for scrap drives in the event of another war in _the

near future. . . '

Newfoundland has properly been seeking the best possible terms for’ her entry into confed- eration, but it might be wsll for hsr delegates to' consider that each financial concession to her will probably be extended to the other pro- vinm sooner or lirhr and she will have to bear her shore of the tbtal burden.

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‘home. with plumes, etc., are returning to Ottawa.

As a result of redemption and refunding operations next woe": Canada will reduce her na- tional debt by $40,954,600. With money like that seeking investment it is scarcely any won- der the stock market is bullish.

i i I I We stand corrected. Prince County Liberals have nominated Mr. J. Watson MacNaught, M.P., as their standard bearer for next election. This was done on the occasion of the selection of representatives for the Liberal convention at Ottawal I i I I '

"To be or not to be" is still the question farmers are puzzling over the proposal to wipe out the ban on margarine. No one knows the answer but the Supreme Court at Ottawa which declines to release it till after the N. S. elec- tion, and not before Nov. l5.

There will be considerable sympathy for as- sistant commissioner C. K. Gray of the R. C. M. P..in his protest against a proposal at the re- cent Dominion-Provincial tourist conference to use Royal Canadian Mounted Police in their col- ourful uniforms as a tourist attraction. The R. C. M, F. have far too big a job to do to take time out to give tourists a thrill.

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An aspect of highway maintenance which has not received sufficient attention in this pro- vince is uniformity of traffic signs. ln New Brunswick, for instance, a driver knows he is entering a built-up area with a speed limit of 30 m.p.h. by the shape and colour of the warn- ing sign without taking his eyes off the road for the time required to read it. ' r

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Early Canadian momentos are coming backii After 65 years, a set of sleigh bells, ln i878 the people of Montreal gave them to the new governor-general, the Marquis of Lorne. They went back to England with the vice-regal couple in i883. They were found recently in Kensington Palace and Viscount Alexander said he would like to have thcm himself. .- .. A’ i.

Farmers are being threatened with prosecu- tion for trapping red foxes. ls this good policy?

ln England the farmers claim that ‘here it not ~ for fox hunting the country would be aver-run by Mr. Reynord to the detriment of their poul- try industry. Perhaps it would be better for the Government to offer a premium for red fox.

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Premier Jones is rather rejoiced than disap- pointed that he was not nominated as a Federal candidate for Queen's. He has another four years to run as Premier and much may happen in the interim, including thc- adjunct of Newfound- land. lt was suggested that Premier Jones, if el- ected, might receive the portfolio of Agriculture. More likely it would have been that of Labour, as it is well known that Hon. Mr. Mitchell is to be raised to a sciiatorship. Joan Keats, English poet, born this date i795; son of a livery-stable keeper in Landon, he subsequently studied medicine, but after qualify- ing he abandoned that profession for literature, his first publication appearing in i8l7. His best poems are La Belle Dame sans Merci, The Ode lo a Grecian Urn, and his sonnets which had an incalculoble influence on rater English poetry. He was unfortunate in lave, was driven from Eng- land by T.B. and died in Rome at the early age of twenty-six:

"Let me have music dying, and l seek no more delight."

The work aiid responsibilities of the Provin- cial Government ore increasing by leaps and bounds. New duties are being thrust upon it, and were it not for the able and much abused bureaucrats who practically assume, or have per force to undertake the duties of Ministers it would be difficult for the administration ta function properly. Premier Jones is a hard, deter- mined worker, leaving too little for his col- leagues to undertake. Perhaps it would be better for him from now on to sit back and direct poli- cies allowing his ministers a freer hand in actual administration.

A record probably unique in Canada was that achieved by the late Mr. Fidele T. Arsen- ault, qenerril merchant. of Wellington, who passed away on Wednesday at the age of ninety- eight. Until quite recent years he retained his laurels as o champion pedestrian and skater, and almost until the end he was in his store every clay. No neighbor could remember when he was not to be seen in his paw in Miscouchc Church, located fcur miles from his home. lt is of such stuff that our hardy lsland pioneers were made. The Province has lost a fine citizen, and a most noteworthy one, in Mr. Arsenault's pass- ing.

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ln reference to the visit of the Rev. Dean of Canterbury to Canada the following statement is issued by the Primate of All England. Arch- bishop of Canterbury, The Most Rev. Geoffrey F. Fisher, D.D.:— "lt is unfortunately the ca}: that recent actions and utterances of the Dean of Canterbury have given rise to widespread mis- understandings and misconceptions both on the Continent and in the United States, liable to af- fect the relations of the Church of England with foreign Churches or countries. lt has been sua- posed that a Dean of Canterbury must necessar- ily be acting an the instructions of the Archbishop of Canterbury and representing his views. l find it necessary, therefore, to repeat the warning given by A-chbishop Lang in i937. The Dean's office and jurisdiction in this country does riot extend beyond the confines of the Cathedral Body of which he is head. Outside those limits he speaks and acts only for himself: the Arch- bishop of Canterbury has neither responsibility for what the Dean may say or do nor power to control it. In view of the special and worldwide associations which surround the naine of Can-

IGOVEIIitJlEIili spokesman to use ;blunt language to i United states, Rt. I-loii. C. D. Hone ‘is the man to do it. Not only does, Pull down the blmde 0f my mind he know bow to use blunt. laug- like the lldded “H119 uage. but. can do it with ii New‘, To draw Wllllin. Wllliili deep "t" England accent, having been barn erus 0f llwllg-‘il- and raised in Massachusetts. [ The subjective retreat of the tired. P0131055 an; big business m the,

tLR\L or‘ QUIET

the \\"<l11- l-lle “'°1‘"~ New England States, especially in‘; The g1‘1f‘i-$'~1'i'-‘li¢11~ Th0 909i. Pheltblfllfifi’. Tliere have been Objections‘ artist. raised to Canadian spuds going}

T115 Dliim-‘Olllifif h°1l°W Mll- mQldPd l across the lliic, competing with titie‘ rclrrrilr- ‘fin-zit product there. Mr. Howe Wlicrc. Oh Wlicl? BlSP- l° n99 l" i‘ lr-rsely bolls United Slates objeciorsl unit storm ltliat. ivlillc Canada buys szooooopoo

01183011. 111 WYTCYW‘ 0i ilaipqof fruits ii-iid vegetables annually lied lllidsflile an” me ‘ from llie United States, it only sells

flood $54,000,000 including potatoes, to But in a snow storm of silence aft-er ma, country PFHSCY! The United Slates has iiotiiliisz

I draw n CHFVQ Bfmmd m9 9°07 o! about wlilcli to kick, really. 'I‘roublc vfin5viollsne5s- l ls. an election campaign l5 on there. ‘llhe door of my flail“ °f "ism" “d l and some New England candidates rNPlffllF/Ii- late trying to ride into office on a And draw Wllhln- u“ mm‘ 0‘ 5m" bag 'of potatoes. Perhaps Mr. Howe. KVHUE [Olill-‘ig “Pfm thelmibelng a politician himself. should WIYP-‘i- _ liinl. he too tougli on lils one-lime Tn" lvldfli “H1155 °l Tflelallon, ,New England compatriots. They fielding 11"‘ w“; u“? Pm" the "fer" riri- ririerely trying to make big pota- nrl of quit?» toes out of small potatoes. 0f subjectivity. close-leaved, like R budderl plant.- Close-vvluged like a resting bird.

Split lnfinit-ivfles

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Thin column is open to the . discussion by correspondents / of questions of interest. The Guardian docs not necessar- ily endorse the opinion of correspondents.

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0%0 \VHY FOR TOURISTS ONLY?

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Sup-I see it. ls reported that we are,at lost to have a museum on llie lsland, but why at Cavendish? What is the purpose of a museum? Is it, to cater lo tlie casual interest of the tourists most of‘ whom will forget what they have seen here when they visit museums else- where br is it to preserve what is valuable ln our past so that our children may learn something of their background and of the struggle, endurance and heroism of their forebears who made out of the wilderness this fair Garden of the Gulf?

Let. us look_at the question frank- ly. If our young people are the first. consideration then I ask isgisln why a museum at Cavendish, where it would be visited at most. during three months of the your largely by tourists and for the other nine months be practically empty’!

i do not luggest for a moment

flAmv Bonner. lii Poetry (Alliuil

that it should be located at Sum-

writer of u letter to the Christian Century. To firmly buttress lils argument, he cites Southey. Coler- idge, Lamb, Woodsworth, Macaulay. ncQuliicr-y, Milton, Matthew Arn- ulil. RblSliili iis splitters i-ill.

Tlu- soundosl view seems lo be llizii. to split. llli infinitive, it. i‘: noc- cssziry to correctly spilt it. That is, tlic splitting must result in a liurnioiiious souiiil. mid must add to llii- misy flow of language. Usually. il is morn riuliiriil to use uii infin-

LliL-il-SLATTVE TOPICS ln 181:5» LlPLllOllliHl Governor lic-uily coiiiiiiuiicutl lllS rcigii by rc- \\'£ii'(llll,‘_' ill!‘ hear liuiilcrs uiicl liill- vrs of “llfl wits, lili(l by \\‘i\)' of llfll- uiicu. lllil\'L‘(l his tliouglils from (les- ll‘li\lil\‘i‘lltc‘SS lo that of tho preserva- llOlt of " rrs; but hours. \vilrl cuts and ussli-i-i, \\I‘l'(‘ not the 0iil,v sub- jvvts: of llis l-Ixvolliriivyhs lliouglils.

ll" -'\l1l""1'\l“il l")! I'¢‘"\"‘-‘- ""41 "ll" ilivv \\'llll0lll. splllliiig it. On Sli(‘li \<-\H <l PllHlWIlh-YII- ll" I'f‘\'l\“ll ni-i-risioiis, lllf‘ rule should b0: Don't Wiill -- -~ Fulll llP>ill'0.\'<’ll f-lollfi- ll" split, (iii llit- 0lll(‘i‘ liimd. lllt‘ con- \l\\1i lllt ltoil" ltlt-llt- "ml ltlll taxi of u sciitriirc is rrftcri Sli(‘ll as his signal uii lriivvlliiig swine. fir in jmjunupv lr-url (mp to spill, In t'lll15lflf‘l‘l‘fl lliril (‘HHUCS ouglil iiul m,“ p, p, [ho ruin glioulrl he; Split, lu hi‘ lnl-Pu u\\'=|.\" Willwul 1hr‘ vwi- ‘rliiii suvnis lo be ilir riilc llilll ls swirl uf lllf‘ rivcni fllill lliul pilot- iircsciilly being worked our, 1n Eng. iui: ouizlit 1v b" wslviiiiilili-il- lli- litllfl, ilii-iiiiizti rho rlispiiii- now iii Lliflf‘ r-iii-uiiriigciiiviil to llll.‘ fislii-r- jirugi-i ~ 'l‘lii.- viewpoint that split ii-s lililllliSiUlilYtLZPlliPlll to iiifiiiitiv‘ ' are ril rill limos abhor-

ili- liltl'lL‘ll tho pisilu- rent l: being aliriiirlnrioil, ltllll llio

,,'l. .i _, iii‘ lll" jlPJil (l \ \.,"I llie l(l"Ii lliut slioop w! r- u iiiiisiilivi- l \\‘li!‘li llicy \\'("i‘(‘ iii liliorly lo upsati buckets in u buck porcli fii (llizir-l latlctoivn. lie provided a remedy for g injuries arising from playing ivltli ii fire, anti a remedy 0f another kliiti, by Issue of Treasury notes. f, To diminish the use of rum 8nd‘ brzinrly ilir-re was a duty put on, tori; unrl tlic solace of mankind, to-i bricco, became fl contributor to the‘_ revenue. Marriages, biiptisms. and I polygamy, which was made felony, ‘ stirred lils mind; but he did TiOl. succeed tn convincing his master, George the Fourth, that polygamy ivas felony. However. rum and pumps were the order of the day,

litljllsi‘ liingungo. so flexible, is bri.

PATTERSON’S

have The best watches

The smartest styles

and tea and tobacco were not for- and gallon, Th ' About this time some small e “war pmu‘

r-lizinizo "crime o'er the spirit of his ilrr-um", and noles of the value of l ir-ii shillings were issued. After‘ . rvgulatlng apprentices and estab- lislilng iii-i risslze of bread, lie count-

oruv i I i I about I I

once more the Spring Water Act,- was brought upon the carpet, in company with her brother, the Rum Act, while the Tobacco nrli Tea Act

-From "The Progress and Pros-

terbury, it,is necessary to make the position quite clear."

heat; of Prince Edw Ill Island,“ etc, 1861, liy C. Bficil

l l Jewellery

l smoked and steamed beside them. ‘

ageter.

ifvfillei- l (Ottawa Citizen) rmcrslde-thls lii once when our -——*‘—’_”“ A heated controversy has been lresldents would readily yield the

. "mummy! stirred among English stylists overlr git to Charlottetown! There it the defence of the split singriltgve yvoulclf be available to a_ large num-

~ O [Iullehfivli made recently by Prof. H. . av em; er o school children, to the stu- l Lha of Cambridge University. Among dents at Prince of Wales and St. ‘s. (Anti i‘. E. i.) Prof. Davies’ supporters is the . Dunstaifs and to the children all

rd tho population of 'the Island. and up

gave some legifl directions I"

driving carts on the highways, and p 5 V‘

authorized the formation of a fire

engine company. Cases of replevln. i ' __

and the support of light-houses, and i B. Wu.‘ d Ecolwml“ Sh” u. '

PATTERSOIPS

‘over the lsland whose parents ‘would be going to Charlottetown- "and as for the tourists I doubt if gany leave the island without visit- ,lng the Capital.

j Lot us see that first things are. ‘put. first. Few have such richness ,ol' heritage us we and our young ‘people must. be given the fullest ,opporvtunity through a museum of ‘creating lri iliclr Imagination tlie iou ly life 0f our lslanrl Province.

l uni. Sir, etc.

CARRIF ii. llULMAN

Hunimrricidn, October 28

iug _t<i(‘f‘Ol‘fll"fl llic rlglil toWnn-ibiriic; ull iiifiiiilivcr, balli rpllt. aiid un- split.

SUBMARINE IiIllDGl-I

A bridge lii Iraq ls luivered 20 feet under the ivnlc-r so ships may pus over the spun.

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our Antarctic explorer, is plnnnln: on expedition to the Perry River area of northern Canada next July

_ and August. The area lies to the

south of Queen Maud Gulf. The trip will be made by float-plane and the purpose is to study bird and animal life. — Ottawa Citizen.

The Cillllplfnuvuiy largo number of those farmers in the district who have successfully grown potatoes in such abundant yields (more than 500 bushels an acre) indicates that the farmers ln general are passing up a good bet if they do not con- centrate at least in some degree on growing potatoes-aiid on growing

larger yields per ncro. - Fort Frances (Ont) Timed. A big American ull cuiupuny

has made available to oil-burner riianufocturers, royalty-free. a dc- vlce developed by its researchers which reduces liome fuel oll con- sumption almost 25 per cent. When a firm goes to these lengths to cut down lts own income as well as the.couiitry's fuel bill, the millen- nium must be at hand »— or else they aren't kidding about that all shortage. Kitchener - Waterloo Record.

Britain long iod the world ln building giant ships. Now comes word that she ls preparing to tuke world leadership in building giant airliners. Thus a new airship, to be known as Brabazon I, designed ta carry 100 passengers, and which will cost $48,000,000, will take to the air next year. George Straus, Britain's minister of supply, told a Bristol audience this week that the tremendous cost of the new airliner would be justified by its perform- ance, and that a Brabazan lI would be introduced into commercial serv- ice within the next three years. Not bad for a country which, ‘if we were to believe some recent commentat- ors, was on the verge of being down and cum-Ottawa Journal.