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itotato Breeding Tests

A brochure of interest to all engaged in the potato industry is the annual progress report, iust received, of the National Potato Seedling and Variety Tests in Canada, i948.

The season of 19-18 completed the second year of operation of national potato seedling and variety tests. During this period approximately 4,700 seedlings and new named varieties were distributed for inclusicn in the tests in the var- ious Prnvinces. 4,500 of these seedlings were originated at the National Potato Breeding Sta- tion, Fredericton, N. B. The remaining 200 came from potato breeding stations in the United Status, Scotland, and from private individuals da- ing potato breeding work in Canada.

This system of testing was organized as a (o-operative project between the Experimental Farms and science services of the Dominion De- partment of Agriculture, agricultural colleges, universities, Provincial institutes and growers. Through this system a uniform method of test- ing is employed and the dota analyzed statis- tically. ln this way the horticultural characteris- tics, range of Ciilflpflblllfy, disease resistance, maturity, yielding ability and quality of a seedling or variety can be more accurately ap- praised under varying environmental conditions. The iCSllllS of preliminary tests had clearly in- dicated that a hybrid or variety of potatoes may show high resistance to late blight or common scab iri one area and extreme susceptibility in another. lt is now recognized that there are l-‘ilvfiiologiccii races or strains of both late blight and con-imon scab organisms, and that in order to frilly appraise the disease resistance of a particular Seedling or variety it is necessary to test it over a wide area. '

Tilt‘ IFE-Hlis of the two years’ operation of the system have been very encouraging. Each year the results of the tests will be assembled and analyzed, and the data will be available to all interested. The Division of Horticulture has been charged with the responsibility of testing and recommending for license varieties of pota- toes for sale in Canada. information on the fldflfliflblllff» (futility. disease resistance and yield of varieties as obtained through the national system of testing will be the basis for recommend- ing varieties for license.

"Operation Snail"

One thousand British railway workers who ore moving to Australia are introducing a new wrinkle into immigration. They are taking their own prefabricated homes with them.

A decade or so ago this idea might have been looked upon as an absurdity, but today it has a high practical value; so high a value, in fact, that authorities in this country would do well to inquire about its possibilities here.

Since the end of the war there have been instances in which Britons sold their homes and came to this country, where as skilled craftsmen ‘they soon found employment at high wages. They were unable to rent living accommodations, how- ever, and as they were not permitted to bring any ubstantial sum of their money out of Britain, hey lacked the means to make the considerable own payment that purchase of a home entailed. s a result, they felt obliged to return to Britain.

lf they had been able to invest their pounds a prefabricated house and bring it into Can- da, their problem would have been solved. And s it would have been in the interests of munici- alitics to provide them with a lot at a reason- ble price, the question of location would have een siriiplificd. snrs of the Australian plan call it Snail," but obviously the term is o reflection in its speed or originality.

immunization Week

in ihc forward march of medical science im- munizatisn against such communicable diseases as diphtheria and whooping cough has been among fill’! iiuaicrous notable achievements, and for this there has bcen high public appreciation. It is impossible io estimate the number of young Canadian lives which have been saved since the introduction of toxoid as a preventative against the ravages of diphtheria and of vaccine to com- bat the pcroxizms of whooping cough.

But, unfortunately, the invaluable benefits to children from immunization against these two diseases are not us widely recognized by parents throughout Canada as they should be. ln order that a greater knowledge of the benefits should become better known, the Health League of Ca- nada has, in coniunction with federal and pro- vincial departments of health, sponsored Na- tional Immunization Week and this is currently being observed.

Since the institution of this special week some seven years ago, the efforts of its sponsors have been marked by increasingly good results, both in respect to the lowering of the mortality rate and the incidence of both diseases. The cam- paign to save the children of Canada from pre- ventable disease, must go on until the irreducible minimum hos been reached. That is why in this week from September ll to ‘l7 the annual effort is undertaken to impress on the minds of par- ents the necessity of immunization of children against diphtheriaiand whooping cough. Par- ents who have failed to give their children this protection medical science has mode available should not defer longe in getting the youngsters to the family physician or medical clinic for the llrnplo and inexpensive immunization that pro- loch young livu against thoso two dangerous Jog of child health.

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EDITORIAL NOTES

Ceylon became a British possession this date I756.

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The- Salvation Army financial WMPNQ" makes headway. Every dollancounts to attain the city and provincial obiectivcs.

Opening of Parliament today. With the gen- eral election behind perhaps CW" lwllllcfms "l" be looking for solutions to prcblems rather than trying to show they do not Exist.

Parking meters provide a thorny problem but the cricring of I50 of them by theCity should at least give citizens a chance of deciding wheth- er they are to prove popular or otherwise.

The end of the Battle of Britain this data i940 by the crushing defeat of the German air- force by the R. A. F. aided by the R.C.A.F., when, in the words of Winston Churchill, "Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few."

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Ari American, Cmdr. Donald B. MacMillan, 74, has discovered ZSislands off the Labrador coast and taken some 1,000 soundings all of which will in due time appear on United States charts of the area. lt is iust another reminder of how little Canada spends on the charting of her own territorial waters.

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Premier Jones went to the root of our diffi- culties in advising initiative in developing home enterprises and noting the difficulty of getting capital and personnel for such purposes. The whole problem of financing new industry needs going into. Our present securities legislation is

merely restrictive.

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lt will be some time before sittings are held here of the Royal Commission on Arts, Letters and Sciences but interested persons and organiza- tions should have their representations in prepara- tion. The Commission resumes hearings in Win- nipeg Oct. ll and from there it will travel west. lt is due in Toronto Nov. l5 and from there it will work east, winding up in Charlottetown Jan. Z6.

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fThe St. Laurent Government now at the con»- trol, is already letting up on its election pro- gramme. lt gives several reasons for not proceed- ing with its Health Programme, but does not mention the chief and all important, namely it has now no need to hurry to get ahead of the C.C.F., part of whose programme the Public Health policy is.

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Many in the province who know Mr. E. Nor- man Smith, will be pleased to learn that he has been re-elected President of the Ottawa Jour- nal Co., Ltd., of which he is the principal pro- prietor controlling 5l per cent of the stock. Mr. Smith is in addition, editor-in-chief, being a practical journalist having worked his way to the top the hard way. He owned and edited the Ottawa News which amalgamated with the Jour- nal many years ago. Mr. Smith was one of the founders of the Canadian Press, became past president, and is now honorary past president of that great cooperative news gathering agency. Mr. and Mrs. Smith and their two daughters have spent their vacation at Shaw's for the past three years.

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Mead, the traditional beverage of Northern Europe and particularly of England will soon be available for North Americans. Four types are being made on a commercial scale in Cornwall, Southwest England, and 90 per cent is for export to dollar countries. August 24th saw ceremonies in Gulval, an ancient Cornish village, to celebrate the revival of the making of mead, Britain's old- est beveroge, on a commercial scale after a lapse of 400 years. The revived pageantri-es included heraldic trumpeters and a cup-bearing page in tabards, members of the Wershipful Company of Meadmakers in regalia, and local and civic digni- taries in procession. As wine is the generic name for most types of liquor from grapes, so mead is the name for the whcl: range of liquors made from honey.

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Nine years ago, in September, i940, the Ger- man all-out air cff:nsive against England was at its height. On September i5, the fiercest as- sault of all was beaten off by the RAlF with a conservative estimated loss to the enemy of 18S aircraft destroyed. Between September 6 and October 5, at least 883 Nazi planes were lost over England. Canadian troops stationed in Brit- ain shared with British civilians the horrors of the blitz and, by tire wai's end, more than 400 Canadians were killed or wounded as a result o! enemy action in the U.K. lt was during these September raids that Lt. J. M. S. Patton and Capt. D. W. Cunningham, both of the Royal Ca- nadian Engineers, won respectively the first George Cross and George Medal awarded to any mem- bers of the Canadian Army.

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An interesting account of progress i_ri food science, written for the non-specialist, is given

in "Food investigation, i947” which has yust been published for Britain's Department of Scien- tific and Industrial Research by His Maiestfi Stationery Office, London. At the Torry Research Station, Aberdeen, quicker and more convenl-I ient ways of freezing herrings than the "plate or "Air blast" methods ore being considered. It may be possible, for instance, to freeze the fish in metal containers by indirect contact with calcium chloride brine. A comparison of the ef- fects of "quick" freezing and "sharp" freezing on the quality of herrings was made oi the Lerwick factory of Britain's Herring Industry Board. lt was confirmed that "sharp" freezing results in a poorer product, particularly for later kippering. Work on cold storage and freezing of lobsters has shown that it is better to freeze cooked lobsters rather than row ones. The raw flesh shrinks after freezing and thawing and when cooked later it clings to the shell, making ii difficult to remove. Rapidly frozen cooked lobsters were stored for eight months with little change in flavour or texture. '

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THE GUARDIAN,

CHARLOTTETOWN

BABYLON

If you should bring her glories book!

You gentle sirs who sift the dust Ania burrow in the mould and must Of Babylon for brie-a-brac;

Wiho catalogue and pigeon-hole The faded spenders of her soul And put her greatness under glass- If you could bring her past to pass!

If you could bring her dead to life! The soldier 1m; the market. wife; Madam burying fowls from her; Tip, the butcher's ban-sly cur; workmen carting bricks and clay; Baibel passing to and fro

On the business of the day

Gone three thousand years ago- That. you cannot; then be done, Put. the goblet down again,

Let. fhe broken arch remain, Leave the dead men's dust. alone . . .

The Jewish seer when he cried Woe to Babets lust and pride Sow the foxes at her gates; Once aguln the wild thing walls. Then leave her in her last. decoy A house of owls, a foxes’ den; The desert that ilil yesterday Hid her from the eyes of men In its proper time and way Will take her to itself again.

—R.:iilph Hodgson.

TheTSiin 0r Slander

lGeneral William Boolhl

One of the Devil's choicest. and most successful methods of de- stroying the influence of holy men, or women, and thereby hin- dering the work of God, has, from the beginning. been by making false representations of their char- acter and doings.

This sort of thing has, l am sure. lied the hands, broken the hearts. and shortened the lives of many of the choicest. workers that Goci ever sent. out into His vineyard. and has been the direct and in- direct means of the damnation of multitudes of sould. Let us look at this sin.

What is slander? ll is the spread- ing of statements calculated to damage an individual for the mere gratification of personal spite or envy.

It is not necessary that the statements made by one individ- ual regarding another should be untrue in order that they may slander him. In that case it would be lying, and although doubtless the great majority of slanderous statements are false, still a mun can be a alanderer withou) being a liar.

A slander does not need to be slated in so many words. Many a man's character has been hope- lessly damaged in the estimation of listeners by. nods and hints and insinuations.

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Some of the vilest slander! ever uttered have had some little por- tion of truth in them. There has been some foundation in fact for the statements that have destroy- ed a comrade‘: pence, blackened his reputation and crippled his power to save souls. The little truth there is connected with rnlny a scandal serves it for wings which carry it over land and sen. Slander is often mixed up with praise; that is, the slander-er pays a compliment in order to open the door for the introduction of his lnsinuatlons. For instance. he

will say: "Mr, —- ll In excellent

man, very good, but. "Mrs. -—— is very kind, very useful. but Or, "The Salvation Army does a great deal of good amongst certain classes, but-—." And then follow the misrepresentations, only to find a lodgment for which the compliments are uttered.

Slanders are often voiced with

great professions of love and great protestations of regard for the in- terests of those the speakers are stabbing in the dark. “Oh." says the slanderer, “how l do love them! how 1 do admire their good points. If it were not for certain little things about them." anrl then he proceeds la pour out his poisonous venom. Slanderers often pretend to do their dirty business in the inter- ests of truth and righteousness. They are “actuated by a public spirit." and so, with their tongues set on fire of hell, they adminis- ter the brimstone slanders in the treacle of sickly cant. and “for the good of the cause" they cle- stroy the influence of those who are spending their life's blood for its extension.

Slander is cruel. Usually no wrong has been done the slander- or. Very often, on the contrary, the man who curses ought to bless.

Slander is a sign of littleness. Only narrow, mean souls will stoop to such ignoble business. The slanderer is usually despised by those who listen to him: even by those who encourage him and seem to be pleased with his vile insinuaiions. .

Slander is often its own pun- ishment: the good and useful n‘. whose characters it is commonly aimed generally outlive this iin- scrupulous form of opposition, sn that those who have souizht in in- filiPG are in lurn despised.

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What is to be done with this spirit nf slander Oh. that it could be killed! Al present. l suppose that is impossible. Still. something may be done in that. direction. Take the followiniz hints:

l. The only fruit antidote is the Spirit of Christ. which is the spirit of lava. He who can deliberately damage the character of a good rrion for personal considerations. hmv dwelleth the lave of God iri him? Spread-it. abroad. and make everybari understand that the only rel ion of the Bible is that which thinks, speaks. and acts and dvi-ells in love.

2. Refuse yourselves to listen to any who would speak evil n! others. Not only miike it a rule never to repeat evil yourselves. but decline to listen to it, If any Derson brinsrs you slanderous stories. tell them that it is your rule always to inform the sland- ered person of what is being said. in order that he may have an op- portunity of defending himself.

3. Reprove these slandering peo- ple. Tell them plainly to their faces that that is not the spirit of Christ; that they are going dir- eetly in the teeth of the letter and spirit of the Bible.

4. If- any evil thing or doing comes to your knowledge which in any way implicates any per- son. immediately do him the good turn of giving him an opportun-

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FALL SAMPLES

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Looking At Our Flowers Today

MCMZOOQO Old Charlottetown (And P. B. I)

THE ESPLANADE

'l‘he following advertisement. ap- pearezl in The Examiner of June 13, 1864:

"GREAT ATTRACTION. Rare opportunity for purchasing Bulld- ing Slfes.—Twenty-t.vvo Lots.

The Public are respectfully in- formed that an opportunity now offers such as seldom occurs. That. valuable piece of ground hereto- fore known as the Barrack Square. will be sold on the spot by Public Auction on Tuesday, 14th next.

lay out. the various sites ln the most. judicious manner, so as to combine the useful with the orna- mental. A handsome Esplanade, slxly feet. wide on the entire sea face, has been reserved as a promenade and carriage drive for the beauty and fashion of the City, and the spot, which embraces one of the most enchanting. and picturesque panoramas, bids fair to become the favourite resort. of all.

"Now that. a noble line o! steam- ers connects our city with the neighboring continent, the time ihas arrived when an Hotel must. lbe bulld;—here then is the spot. iupon which to raise i; building suitable to the requirements of the numerous visitors who visit our shores in pursuit. of health, busi- ness and recreation.

"Hour of Sale—11 o'clock am.

"A plan of the premises, with conditions, to be seen at the of- flee of the undersigned.

"J. & T. Morris, Auctioneers."

According to The Monitor, an- other newspaper of the period, this Isale of the old Buttery or Barrack iSqiiar-e tool: place “much to the annoyance of a large number of our citizens." The reserved carri- age way or Esplanade (by which name the area ls still known) con- nected with ivater Street at one extremity and with Sydney Street. at Llie other. The purchaser of each lot. was required to erect. a two-story building thereon. All but. one of the twenty-two lots were auctioned at. the sale. "There is every probability", commented The Monitor, "that. ere the lapse of many years this will be by fur lite hundsamest, if not. the most. aris- tocratic portion of our City. The whole plot; comprises about three acres and a half, for which the handsome sum of £5,464 has been realized. The interest of this will, we presume, be applied towards the maintenance of, our Volunteer Force."

lty of making an explanation or defence, if he has one to offer.

5. Speak evil of no mun or woman yourselves. Avoid saying anything which is elalculated lo lower in the estimation of others any lrian or woman who professes to be the child and servant of Gad.

TRAVEL AID

Ancient Egyptians placed u hook on magical religious subjects with the dead to aid them in the next world.

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One largo chuln grocery flrm ro- ports a new net profit record es- tablished the year ended May 28. 1949. No wonder! Vllltli food prices what they rire." — Brockvllle Re- corder and Times,

A young mun in England has contributed o new twist to the tra- ditional crime engendered by un- requited liive. Jilted by his girl friend, he strangled her pet cal and threw it through ri window in her house. This is a decided 1m- provement on the established prac- tice of carving up the "gal". But it proved rather expensive, as the gentleman was required to pay fines totalling "£16, casts of £4 14s. and damages of 3s. 6d. It's still cheaper to find another girl friend. -Sasknloon Star-Phoenix.