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THE GUARDIAN

iliirning Daily (Founded in llllil) Authorized us Si-i-irnil Class Mull. PI"! 0H1" liepurfnirlll. Oitsus.

The lrilmiil tiuiurilliiri Publishing ('0. Editor nriii Managing liiri-i-lnr. w‘. If. liutnelf. Asriui-iiito Editor, i-‘rank Walker.

"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink‘-'

(YHARLOTTETOWN. THURSDAY. OCT. ti. 1949

Leading llll Canada

The phenomenal increase in the percentage of grade A hogs in Prince Edward lsland in the past ejght years (from 35 to over 50 percent) constitutes a record for all Canada, and one in which our breeders, government officials and all concerned in the industry may well take pride. The significance of this achievement is underlin- ed in an article on the importance of Advanced Registry stock production in the current monthly letter issued by the Industrial and Development Council of Canadian Meat Packers. The per- centage figures quoted in this article of market hogs graded A in 1948 (sows and stags not includ- ed) differ slightly from those published in The Guardian on Tuesday, but they are equally favour- nble to this Province. They are as follows: P.E.l., 52.5; Ontario, 41.1; N.S., 40.0; N.B., 36.9; B.C., 30.0; Quebec, 29.4; Saskatchewan, 28.9; Mani- toba, 27.8; Alberta, 24.5. The article notes as significant the fact that the Provinces producing the largest percentage of A grade hogs today generally accepted carcass grading as soon as it was made available late in 1934, while those with the lower percentages were slower to accept it.

The article lays emphasis on diversified farm- ing as being "the nearest thing to security that can be practised by the mass of farmers." Hogs have proven their worth in this system as a means of turning grain into meat at a profit, and the profit margin is considerably increased by selec- ticn of breeding stock, by skill in rearing and feeding and the scientific blending of grains and concentrates in the feeding ration. At present one thousand pounds of barley or its equivalent feed- ing value in a blended feed will yield returns equal to $2.39 per bushel of barley. This amount of feed per pig reared should provide for carry- ing the sow and liberal compensation for risks. lf the price was to be reduced to $20.00 per 100 lbs. dressed ($15.00 live weight) hogs would still return o barley value of 3 cents per pound.

"The whole grain market situation," the ar- ticle states, "is likely to feel the effects of the accumulation of grain that is beginning to ap- pear in the United States. Two extraordinary corn crops in that country, 1948 and 1949, which to- gether will total well on to seven billion bushels will, it is to be expected, have a levelling effect on grain prices. A part of this adjustment took place this post year in consequence of the corn crop in the U.S. in 1948. There is a floor price arrangement in effect in the form of government loans to farmers on stored corn b-ut this is likely to prove a false floor at least in part, because of inability to find storage roam. The grain will be forced into use and heavy hog production is predicted. However, there are no tricks of politi- cal necromancy nor of nature that can change the principle that eventually raw material shall be of less value than the product into which it is converted. lt would appear to be very sound prac- tice that hogs should be a basic product of di- versified farms."

Farm Machinery Rates

The Winnipeg Free Press has this to say about the recent railway freight rate hearings:

"What the railways are now aiming to do is to restore farm machinery to the higher cate- gory of freight rates to which it belonged up to September 1919, and from which the implement items were removed to a special rate.

"The railways may not have chosen the most propitious time to act, although they could hard- ly know, when they served short notice last De- cember of their intention to restore the old rate, thnt their case would be heard hard on the heels of another gfineral freight rate increase or- der and also at a time when the prairie farmer was worrying about the effects of devaluation of the Canadian dollar and of the pound.

"As a matter of fact the railways hardly ex- pected their case to be heard at all. But they wcre immediately challenged - principally by the Canadian Federation of Agriculture and the Canadian Manufacturers Association — and the Board of Transport Commissioners promptly sus- pended the restoration of the old rate until, at a formahhearing, the railways could present ar- gument to justify their action. _

"The suspension order was made early in January, and the hearing did not take place until more than eight months later. The Board pre- sumably thought that if the railways had waited 30 years to abolish the special rate on flarm ma- chinery they could wait a little longer.’

_._,___.___ Praising ll Politician

Praise for Sir John indeed! In his Marginal Comment in The Spectator, Mr. Harold Nicolson pays this tribute to Aristotle and Sir John Ander- son recently on this side of the Atlantic. "l ain always astounded by the amount of knowledge which other people possess. I om not referring to those specialists who can discourse intelligently about the respective merits of the paeonic or the logacedic rhythm, who can explain with ease the intricacies of Ypuginan syntax, or who, when oli- servinjr a moth digging holes in o tweed coat, will immediately exclaim Tinea Pellionella. I am not distressed by these manifestations of superior con- centration, since l have a deep affection for spec- ialists. l admire men and women who can devote their lives to Pindafs prosody, tophilology or Iepidoptora, and I have the happy disposition that enables ma to listen entranced to exports falli- ing shop. Nor, when I express my astonishment at the amount that other people know, am I ri- fairing to those men of massive mind, such as Aristotle-arid Sir John Andaman, who have ioms- tlriiig to say about everything and everything about something. Aristotle, as Dante assured us

many years ago, is the master of them that know; it is indeed remarkable that, living as he did in an inquisitive but ill-equipped age, he should have been able, not merely to write excel- lently about the human soul, not merely to analyse the most subtle gradations of political sovereignty, but also to notice that the sea-perch was a hermaphrodite. Sir John. Anderson again, although an extremely modest man, is able with- out effort to impart information regarding the incidence of the land tax in the Punjab, the lo- cation of tourmalines and’the functions of the olfactory organs in cyclostcmes. l amnever dis- turbed, but always encouraged, by such examples either of the concentration or expansion of knowledge. l well know that l do not myself pos- s-ess the patience of the specialist or the cerebral

muscles of the Aristotles and Andersons. I regard _

these phenomena with comfortable awe."

EDITORIAL NOTES

‘OP°"l'"9°l PFOClGimed a republic this date

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"- e 5°" clfilflflguay who succeeds his father by a vote of the House of Commons-as Chief ‘Electoral officer, receives a salary of $10000

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British Foreign Secretary Ernest Kevin's “’°""l"9 Should not fall on deaf ears here or in other Atlantic Pact countries, that in case of wgr

there will simply not be time to build up our defences.

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Mr. Bevin's claim that Britain is not an old c°""l"l'r bill ° Y°""9 dominion, has much truth but her current soles campaign lo,- mead the d",'"l‘ °l H9091" 0nd Horse, shows that some- thing of antiquity remqm;

i fi I With all the potatoes in the country it seems aimlwe H191 lmpflrls 0f potato starch and potato our to the amount of 766,980 poundg, valued at $49,948, should have been imported for the present year, Jan. 1 to July 3|. I I I

The problem of cost is not decisive in the question of building n city high school, A mount. mg enrollment will soon force new eqnglyuqion abnd itlwill be a matter of policy whether jl- should

e 9" "Ygemefll 0f present quarters or this new

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P John Addrngtorr Symonds, English poet and ¢"l'¢. born this date 1340; fellow of Magdalen, Oxford. His critical works include Studies of Greek Poets, Lrfe of Shelley, Essays, Speculative and Suggestive, and Walt Whitman. His Magnum Opus was an exhaustive study of The Renaissance in ltaly.

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Eclipses of the moon are becoming gjmggf "mmvfl, tonight's total eclipse being the sec- Ond for many parts of Canada this vear. lt co-m- mences at 7:50 p. m. when the moon enters the earths penumbra, at 9:05 it enters the umbra 10:20 totality begins, 11:33 totality ends, 12:48 a.m. moon leaves irmbra and at 2:03 moon leaves

penumbra.

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We will all be getting pensions soon from funds provided, it is presumed, indirectly from income taxes. Mr. R. E. G. Davis, executive direc- tor of the Canadian Welfare Council stated in Ottawa Monday Canada needed "an adequate state. pension that covers all our citizens." ln- dustrial pension schemes should supplement, not supplant, state pensions, Mr. Davis said in a statement commenting on a pension agreement between the Ford Motor Company and its em- ployees in the United States under which the company adds enough money to bring a retiring worker's social security benefits up to $100 a

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The German mental outlook is the some still as it ever was-Germany over all" cven in the penitentiary. General Meyer, who is in Dor-

'chester serving a life sentence as a war criminal

is agitating to be transferred to a military prison of which there is not one in the Dominion. His lawyer, Col. Andrew in Winnipeg, told the Ca- nadian Press he had no idea who was launching the investigation, but suggested a possible mo- tive. He said it was probable Gen. Meyer, as an officer, felt he should have the privileges of se- gregation granted officers 1'1 military prisons and should not be forced to associate with civilian con- victs.

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Fifty-four potential snowmobile drivers and 32 tractor operators have begun an intensive train- ing course at the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps School at Camp Borden. Most of those who qualify will get the chance to handle either a snowmobile or tractor on future winter exercises or at one of the Army's northern bases. Other schools at Borden are cooperating in the train- ing of the drivers. At the Royal Canadian School of Infantry and the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps School the potential arctic travellers are being taught to handle radio-telephones installed in the snowmobiles, and the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps School is teaching them first aid as applicable under conditions of extreme cold.

The U. S. A. Treasury has succeeded in get- ting a cheque for $2,000,000 from Mrs. Eleanore Louise Patenotre, former owner of the Philadel- phia lnquirer, who pleaded guilty to a charge of tax evasion. The maximum penalty of $10,000 fine and five-year jail sentence was suspended by Federal Judge Alfred C. Coxe who placed the defendant on a one-day probation. The Govern- ment has a lien on about $3,400,000 of the de- fendant's cash and securities in J. P. Morgan 8r Company to satisfi additional tax claims amount- ing to about $3,000,000, it was announced fol- lowing the hearing. The suit arose over the sale in 1930 bf Mrs. Patenotre's 51 per cent interest in the Inquirer to the Curtis-Martin interests for $10,500,000. The stock, according to assistant United States Attorney Thomas F. Murphy, had been transferred a few days before the sale to her son, Raymond, a French citizen living in Montreal where the sole was consummated.

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TEMPERANCE ACTIVITIES Some llzht on early temperance activities ln Charlottetown is thrown by the following excerpt from a letter appearing ln the Colonial Herald of March 16, 1839. in whir-li complaint is made of the "lukewarmness and indiffer- ence" with which the cause was being prosecuted at that time: "The Charlottetown Temperance Society was established in Decem- ber, 1832 by a few ‘friends to temperance and good order'—iinrl at thr- first. publi: meeting, which was held lll the month of January following, 21 persons came forward and enrolled their names as mem- hers: and at the close of the year. tho number had increased to up- wards of 160; ill. the end of the following _vcni', ia about 300; and at. the (‘lose of the next year, to llp\Vfil‘(iS of 370, During the fol- lowing year, the names of those persons who had violated their pledges were erased from the list. rind this circumstance, taken into consideration that of the Youni: hfoii‘: Temperance Society having been this year instituted, ric- rrouiits for the decrease in the number ivhicli, at the close of the your, amounted lo hut 315. "During the noxl year (1837). $00!! after tho arrival of the Rev. Mr, Packr-r from Bnrbadoes, the Society was: reorganized. At lhe sum:- limo, 1hr- rlodpe of total abstinence ivus introduced, and ri vnlunln in flio fiulrscriptlon Book so! zrpnrt for tho reception of the rmmrs of those who might fool rlr-sirous of subscribing thereto; nnrl rii the‘ and of the year, \ve find flint tho nirmber who hurl subscribed la this pledge was up- wards of T3, rind of those who had nhslninorl, only from spirits, 45. "But I lament to say, that here musliour account of the ad-

vnncoment of the cause of Tem- perzince cease. at. least so fsr as] lhr~ Charlottetown Society la cori-. vr-rnr-d. helm! unable to state any-f lliln: favorable of It during tho‘ mist year-Jar, judging from, external circumstances, we are compelled (however I ‘ ‘ fly) in come tq the conclusion, that fhr- zeal and srdour with whleli fliosr- individuals who are officers of llre Society appeared some time since to be animated, have in n ltrbat measure been superseded by lnngour and supi eness; and from this circumstance. as well as the nprilhetlc slate into which the Rrenlor portion nf the Society sp- peers to have falleh, we would al- most be led to conclude that Tem- pertince had achieved its flasl vic- tory, and was wearing s crown of inure-ls, did not the sickening and lieartrendlng spectacles we daily heliolri afford smple proof to the contrary. . . .

"Many of tire true friends of the cause were led to indulge the pleasing hope. that its here of usefulness would rpeedl become morn wldely extended, and its fri- fluence, even upon the minds of those who were nonmembers, be experienced. if not candidly an.- knoivledged; but the sequel has proved that the liope ‘was fallaci- ous, for it has departed. leaving the individuals who had lndulied it to lament over the ‘nltabliitv of man, and of all tile under-tale Inga." . .

PUILINI APPITITI

1v. riii s. use-mire plpnllnb lie- fng ma from Edmonton to Sup- erior. Win, will take 1 liar-

rela of oil and to move one liar- rel of oil between the two cities wlll take 2i days.

The Encore Fiend

(Sui-rill Canadian Observer)

There are many recognized spe- cies of public nuisances, who make their presence felt at plays and concerts. There is the ‘talker. who conveys explanations in an audi- ble whisper, there ls the exuber- ant enthusiast, who D0150"? 111° more quiet. enjoyment of all in his vicinity; there is the fuss)’ POI‘- sons and the unforgivable pest who has seen ii before. But all these hardened stereotyped variet- ies have to take a back seat to the encore fiend.

This type ls. alas, only too num- erous. The encore fiend is found at every concert and every D18)’- He is insatiable. He has one par- donsble quality, he 1S an optimisi- Nothing is too poor for his ap-

plause aud he wants a second helping of everything. The tenor may have a cracked

voice and may be utilizing it to render selections which have long outlived their usefulness. but. the encore fiend will demand _mora. Not that he enjoys the singing; but he seems to consider it his duty to clap, ln that respect. he is useful to the amateur on the program; he ‘is a hope'to everyone else. The worst feature of this promiscuous encoring is lhaton a pragramwoo long ll‘l_ l1.S original form encores are dragged in to stretch the evening far beyond lhd limjt of endurance.

Hut the mandate has now gone out that the day of the encore fiend is at. an and. He is to be squelched. exterminaterl. The, cru- sade, originating in grand opera some years ago. has now extend- ed to cover the larger concerts anti entertainments. They do so on the ground that the singer is dealing in a commodity that comes high. and contrary to public bolrof. nnl of unlimited output.

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BOYS

I do be thinking God must. laugh The time He makes a, boy; All element. the creatures are, And dfvflrnint and joy. Careless and gay as s wad ln- s window, Swift ss a redalianks, and wild 5a a hare; ' Hesrtacalda and torments - but, son's s mother Has got one to spare. _ --Wlrilfrod ‘M. Lotta.

CHINA‘! FIRST IAILWAY

Chinese railway history‘ began in 1878 when the Woasung line was opened.

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Most nuts consist of at least 50 per cent fat and are so high in Protein they can alternate st timer for quot in main dishes.

;money and building

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This column ls open to the discussion by correspondents . of questions oi’ interest. The

Guardian does not. necesnr- - lly endorse the opinion of y w" spondents.

..§>oo-Q/io~§co~§~io-@>coc LIQUOR. AND TOBACCO

Sin-The devaluation of the pound sterling ls a.’ hard blow against our hopes for world peace. for n0 doubt Russia is watching for any sign of weakness in the Democracies and this ls one par- ticular case for her to muse an; for Brltriln has always championed

justice rind all that is good and ~

grand. where Russia won't com- mrt- herself ta anything noble or right. Winston Churchill viewing the situation makes a hasty charge against the Government. for ex- trnvagance and he also touches on tho common people for domestic extravagance in brlnglng about. this serious situation. .

Now the Government may not be as frugal 1n their spending as they might. be. yet the extra they span-j wouldn't be as a drop in the bucket compared to the awful unslo of the people in liquor and tobacco. Dr. Blckneli of London lolrl the English people three m- four years ago that Britain was (lying of starvation because the people were squimdering their money in tobacco and other uii- necessni-y luxuries. and according tn the rationing-it m-ust be grow- ing worse when they arc only al- lowed a low ounces of meat a week. Their money ls going lrito tobacco instead of meat. butter and eggs; liow CRll a nation survive with people indulging in these two evils?

Our own country ls sinking lnibo about the same morass with metz. women. boys nnrl girls smoking and drinking. wasting their money and their health instead of saving their homes for themselves . r

There ls many s fcnnlly living in poverty because of liquor or tcbcicco or both A good reliable man told me that he was brought up in great poverty _ because trls father spent. more money ln tobacco than his mother trad to feed the family. No doubt. there are cases like that.

Here is a hslfbred Indian! testi- morry: "I was a heavy drinker and was always 1n trouble and nvlng nothing, and I gave up _drlnkln¢ and now I have a hsppy home with money ln the bank and a car." What a changelsurelyemalelllnd

drinkers wlll give up these habits ,

after reading these testimonies. l sm. Sir. etc. OBSHWI!

Blessed is the man vrloi ‘I'll! ehsr-feneth. 0 Lord. alil ioaoliaoi lilrn out at Thy lawvilsai Til" msyesi live Iilni rest from "I0 dm of adversity. until ige all M

dined for tire wlakal.

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