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President. len A. Burnett; Vice-President. Win. I. Iurnosl; Seem-Troll, G. M. Burnett: Editor and Managing Director. J. B. Burnett; Associate Editor- Frenk Walker.

' _"The Strongest Memo y is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink."

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Tuesday of next week will see_the_ opening of two of our most important institutions-the Provincial Legislature and the series of agri- cultural organization meetings which have not unjustly been called the "Farmers Parliament. lt is unusual, and perhaps not advisable, that these two events_ should coincide. Each is im- portant enough in itself to occupy the spot- light, and it is highly desirable that our Legis- lativo members should have the time and op- portunity of attending some at least of the farmers‘ meetings. Perhaps this can be ar- ranged next week, so far as the evening meet- ings are concerned, but it would be muclh more convenient for all concerned if Farmers Week fell slightly in advance of the Legislative open- ing, as hos been customary. The early opening of the House this year no doubt made this ar- rangement difficult.

The farrn meetings will include annual con- ventions of the Sheep and Swine Breeders‘ As- sociation on Tuesday, the Central Farmers’ In- stitutes and Dairymen's Association on Wednes- day, the Federation of Agriculture on Thursday, and an open meeting for all junior farmers of the Province on Friday morning. The latter gathering promises to be a most interesting one, and an invitation has been extended to all ex- club members and interested farmers between the ages of I6 and 30 years especially to at- tend. .This will be followed by a board meeting of the Federation of Agriculture, which is rep- resentative of all our farm organizations.

In former years the Federation met the Legislature while in session and presented a comprehensive brief covering the subjects dis- cussed at the formers’ annual meetings. This practice might be revived with advantage this year, as it helped to focus public attention on the problems which those engaged in our basic industry consider of most pressing importance. In view of next week's activities it is oppor- tune that the conference held jointly by senior Dominion and Provincial agricultural officials under the chairmanship of Mr. W. R. Show, Deputy Minister of Agriculture, should have born fruit this week in o series of important recommendations forthe improvement of general farming methods, potato production, poultry raising and other agricultural activities in the Province. ‘These reports are being pubiislied in the press and doubtless will be studied with close attention by our farmers-

Of particular interest is the report, pub- lished In full yesterday, of the Potato Commit- tee, which went exhaustively inln the problems of potato production and marketing. This re- port suggests, among other things, the setting up of a central marketing board to handle our whole potato crop; also that potatoes be sold on grade in our local retail stores, that only new Packages be used. for exported potatoes with grade numbers on the tags only, that the words P. E. I. Potatoes be stamped on all packager used for export, and that the advertising of Island potatoes abroad be encouraged. In the matter of production numerous important recom- mendations are made, such as the planting of cover crops immediately following early harvest- ed potatoes, the more extensive use of manure, particularly by those growing Cobblers, the home mixing of fertilizer to a greater extent, and proper care in the matter greening, field frost injury and late blight. While stressing the need of more frost-proof storages in approved areas, the report also suggests "that a farmer should not grow more potatoes than he can safely store himself._ This one piece of advice is worth its ‘weight ill gold.

A more detailed summary of the Potato Committee report, along with other reports, ap- pears in today's issue and should be studied carefully. - .

iio Whaling Fleet

it is a strange fact that Canada, which is o signatory to the International Convention for the I Regulation of Whaling and has an Arctic terri- tory which is inhabited by certain species of _whales in considerable numbers, has no whaling fleet in operation. Today England and Norway < have such fleets, reorganized since th-s war, which operate chiefly in the Antarctic. Japan is said to be getting her whaling fleet ready again, bnd Newfoundland has a fleet that car-

‘l ries on in the Arctic. . y Some interesting in-formation in connection with this industry was given in the Senate last week by Hon. Thomas ien. Before-the recent war, Japan and Germany had been pushed out of the business of whaling, and an opportunity ‘was created for Conada- to step into it. Whale ail and whale fat are now considered edible pro- ducts, dnd whale oil has been refined to such a degree that it commands a high price in the world. At the time of demobilization Canada had ‘a fleet of corvettes, and there were other ships which could have been purchased at a rea- eonobie price. These could have been convert- Id.,-_Il'li0. whale catchers and factory ships. Cor Willi m admirably adapted for conversion into ‘ash ‘ h and no better use could have - ad (of them than to have adopt-ed them

3b _fui purpose. enterprise has proved to be o very goat‘ Af/“wflllf countries. The government ‘Itllarlonds has gone so for as to sub- ‘ f geslliioii dollars to sue in in lid fyr ‘Senator Vien siiggss

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GovTnment slfildfcohsidefiubsidiziWa Ci?- adian whaling industry, as he believed it would have"'rery substantial and gratifying results." lt offered many lines of employment which would be of great advantage economically and industrially to Canada.

This suggestion may be fol-lowed up by the Government, as Senator Robertson, Government leader in the Upper House, in moving approval of the international convention regulating the industry which was signed at Washington oh Dec. 2, i946, said that while it is true Canada has no whaling fleet at the present time, "it is hoped that she will have one in the near fut- ure."

Prince Edward Island has a special inter- est in this industry, as whale meat is now in demand by our fox ranchers.

- EDITORIAL NOTES —

Tomorrow, Second Sunday in Lent.

Tomorrow Washington's birthday, he was born this date i732.

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The Children of Europe Fund holds the

limelight, and deservedly so. ' R i! i I

All in readiness for the opening I the Legislature and Farmers’ Weak. I I I I Letting the light iii at Ottawa on the dark ways of profiteers is producing results.

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Not all medals in Russia denote exploits on the field of battle. Farmers rearing 22 pig-lets in the course of a year are awarded the coveted Order of Lenin while those growing I9 get only the Order of Stalih.

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Considerable public interest is being shown in our educational system- The question of reg- ional high schools is of concern to all. Only by open discussion can the merits of such a de- velopment be properly weighed.

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Tomorrow is the eightieth anniversary of the death of the Rev. Donald Macdonald, who was a tower of strength in the Presbyterian Church in his day and generation. The locally named Church of Scotland body, otherwise known as Macdonalites, is his memorial.

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Tomorrow Lord Baden-Powell's birthday. Not often has a man lived to see his ideal developed and prospering, but in this case Baden-Powell d-id, and the undoubted success of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide Movements since his demise is realization of his wish "that man may see and God approve" his handiwork.

Recent blunt remarks about the United States made in the Canadian parliament will not be misunderstood South of the border. Can- adians and Americans know and like one another too well to worry very much about the other's re- action to the expression of opinions on domestic problems.

According to a Toronto source, statistics in- dicate that total per capita use of bugtter and substitutes in Canada equals the per capita use in the U. S., which would suggest that mar arine would not add to Canadian consumption of fats, but merely cause Canada ‘to buy fats in a mar- ket already very short of them, decreasing con- sumption of butter in Canada, and .elcasing an equivalent volume of milk to be made into cheese for Britain. The net result would be to deprive Britain and other deficit areas-of one form of food to the exact extent to which another form of food was made available.

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Cardinal John Henry, Newman, born this date I801; he excelled as‘ a poet, preacher and pamphletcer-Tracts for the Times—and in I843, the year of the Disruption of the Church of Scotland, he resigned the vicarage of St.~Mary's, Oxford, and two years later was received into the R. C. Church; settling at Edgeboston, he estab- lished an oratory there in i847, and again at London in i850; was rector of Dublin Catholic University I854-8; created Cardinal in I879. His contributions to Lyra Apostoli u and his Dream of Gerontius are perfect in expression while his hymn Lead Kindly Light has attained great popularity. He died in his ninetieth year, and it was a tri- bute to his greatness and the love he inspired that on the Sunday of the week of his death. "Lead Kindly Light" was sung- in churches of nearly every denomination in the British Empire and U. S. A- - .

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Everybody who is anybody in the financial and economic world has views on the present dollar shortage. The immediate necessity of a sound world monetary system and the relief of war-shattered European economies are deemed essential by Dr. F. Cyril James, principal and vice-chancellor of McGili University and one of Canada's leading economists. In a review of the international monetary system, since the col- lapse of the gold standard, Dr. James maintains that the world will have to find some other standard on which to adjust exchange rates. He points out that trade was badly hit due to the collapse of the gold standard and that as o result "we gave up the ideal of a freely function- ing world economy, and each notion ruthlessly strove to improve its own position by stepping on the heads of its neighbors." It was with this in mind that the leading nations of the world agreed to the restoration of an international monetary system, and the International Fund was set up, Dr. James says, pointing out that this scheme has not lived up to expectations. This was due, he holds, to the fact that Great Britain suspended the convertibility of the pound sterling, which barred nations which exported to England from converting the pounds they received. in pay- ment into dollars. Other reasons were the de-

valuation of the Russian roirble and, the de-

thot valuation-of the foreign exchange rote of the posrlble flolIlOllt-RIII‘ Canadian French franc. ' ' _

Now the landon school superin- tendent thlnke it would be e good idea to add a baby-sitters’ course to the secondary school curricu- lum. Whiy not go the whole hog and run ten minute periods on ev- erything under the sun from fish- ing to fission. and forget sil about. this business of educatlanl-Woad- stock Sentinel-Review.

A Ilgnet ring loss by Miss Maude Toppers, of 5t. Luke's med, Mald- stone, Kent, has been found -iu Egypt. -by her brother. Cpl. Re,‘ Toppers, RAOC. Cpl. Teppen was cutting is cake made and sent. u. him by his sister when he sow

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ring. -' London Daily Mail. l

A writer lenienle the decline of the oidrlme community spirit In the rural districts, and claims that wich the passing of barn raising, the huskfng bee, and the sawing bee among men, and the paring bee and the pickling bee. and the likramong t women. there is not the spirit of sociability that should prevail. He seems to over- look fhefact. that time has only worked its change here as eisc- where. and that now we have the church tea, the garden party, (he family reunion. womienls lnstitites and clubs without. number and sporting leagues of all sorts, — Chathem Nevis.

A U. S. psychologist advocates removing the word "love" from the marriage ceremony, on the grounds “that. you can't promise to love anyone." This conflicts with the evidence of s Windsor Romeo who was found staring gloomfiy into his bee: the other day, not so much because he had mode that very promise to three separate and distinct persons, but because in each cue lihe other two had found out about it. - Windsor Star.

The Oil-ewe Journal repeats its opinion that. "the primary func- tion of a school should be to tum out. young people with a love and reverence for education, end above all with understanding that. education 1e a continuing process." To that, heart" Especially the part. about. it being n continuing process. some grad uatoe we have known, however. disdain even the continuing use of c. dictionary, and apparently, despite all their schooling, iiever learned how b0 look up anything in an encyclopaedlis. - Branaford Expositor.

ll Le e cherished belle! among Women that. men have funny legs. 1f, for any reason, a man has t.o expose his legs, there are always a few women who seize the oppor- tunity for contumelious sniggerlrg. And yet. we have never been obit. to see why men's legs are, upon the average, any funnier than women's legs. The exceptionai feminine leg is a thing of beauty but the average article is nothing special. '1‘hc male leg has its our-n rugged appeal. Peterborcugh Examiner.

The senseless shooting of l scis- gull with an arrow in Esquinieil Harbor has directed attention co the fact. that. seagulls are pro- tected birds because of their uLii- ity es scavengers of the beaches and river banks. In n province where millions of salmon die en- nually in the act of spawning, the service rendered by seagulls and other natural scavengers can scarcely be over-estimated. Bur. sceguils can.be diverted from the discharge of their function as scavengers as much by mistaken kindness as by wanton cruelty. Mistaken kindness is luring thou- sands of seaguils from useful ac- tive service as scavengers and is transforming them lutc porissitzcal

dependents. —- Vancouver News- Herald. . One of the still explained

medical mysteries of the Seconu World War is the absence of any serious epidemic among the mim- sonds who lived for months In me crowded, makeshift conditions of Britain's air raid shelters. Those who saw, for instance, the nighLly elbow-to-elbow existence o! munv Londoners in the tube station plat.- forms far underground often won- dered what would happen if in- fluenza began to sweep through the sleeping ranks. "There were warnings and forebadings-bur. the disease did not strike. No one knows why. And even colds sad other Infectious diseases recorded what medical authorities term e "remarkable" absence. Where they did appear, they had a lower yir- uicnce than usual. This record was equally true of children's health.- Vlcoorie. Times.

1n "Vancouver every dey scores of well-meaning people insist. on coughing and snufflng fhelr way lo work, apparently revelllng in a martyr-like conviction‘ that they will not "give in” to that. cold. 0f course they do not give in to that cold. They "give out." ‘On clie buaea and street. cars they bi-w and wheeze and apt-cod their infec- uoii to heif Ldozen diners who, keeping up the vicious cyclc. spread the virus to another heif- dozen. Ac the office, store or wire- houee the story is the same. Be- fore the cold victim finally sur- renders to the bugs and is peeked off home to bed he has done Lit level worst. for his fellows. rte common cold is most. infectious lfi lie early stages and when you r.-ci you are "catching something" gr home to bed, keep worm and drink late of liquids. ff. you- fee. worse cell. e doctor. Don't de uric yourself into believing snot bi keeping yourself tn circulation you ere being heroic. ‘You are only being unfair‘ to yourself sria sv-

eryone also. - Irons Vancouver- Provlnal.

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open to d‘, g by convi- g‘ ,1 npondeiste of gaunt-lone el i Interact. The C lost/acorn , Guerdien does not neoeQr-

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HUMANITARIAN APPEAL

Sir,-Au Alberton Campaign Committee is now building s. tuna for the restoration of seven-year- oid Veldo. Matthews of Elmsdaie. P. E. I.. who was e fire victim last Christmas evening. The genera. public now has a rare opportunity to help the little girl, whose face and body‘ have been so badly burned, brick ho health and happi- ness.

Expert. and costly grafts will shortly begin at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal. Those who give to help pay the expenses which will be 1arge,wi11 have last- ing satisfaction in the knowledge that. a llbLie girl who has had a horrible experience will have e chance lo Live s. normal, happy life.

Gifts may be sent. to Mr. Cori Weeks, the Albert/on Campaign Committee. Alberlon, P. 1-1.1.

Each contribution will be grate- fully acknowledged.

I am. Sir, etc,

REV. JOSEPH W. NOWE. The Rectory. Alberbon.

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UNICORN

Sleepless. I wandered by the ‘flow- ering iihorn,

No creature was yet. stirring: it was too early for the birds:

Not even a night-hawk out. the eastern sky where

A faint green globe of dying imooin

poled upon the beach of dUWIi.

No mouse TUSbIQG. in hie bent of shrerw,

No truth of wind whfepesed in the fey hazel.

Suddenly, hiaredrixlosre. I sow

The pmud and graalle image of a unicorn.

Lightly he brop upon the petals that lay, sliver-shadowy, be- heath the thorn:

Hie delicate hoof scarce rattling tihem, he paused. aloof. 'I‘hat. fabulous ham a-shlmmcr in

the slow daybreak.

With spirited nostril he miffed the miusky liii‘ . . .

Swift. then. some tremor of my presence must have scorch- ed him,

For he burned urpon me and I sew

the fiery opal of his eye.

Yet even as I gazed, he disappear- od with that white flash

Wihh vljhich liglilnlmg seeks

lrtrl. of mountain oak,

And (h ugh a. strange, pellucld Blush descended

A gllssodc of pearly drape as soft as rain. .

—W1nifred Ada-as B-urrr in "Ameri- can Weave.“

(The guthorbf the above poem. and ‘of other: which will appear occasionally in this column, re- sldce oi. Royaleton. Mass. She is an aunt of Mrs. Willard MacKey, Charlottetown.)

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“MOTHER HUBBARD" DAYS

In the winter (of 1826-27) Mr. McDonald arrived 1n Prince Ed- ward Island, with the history nf which his name will ever be con- nected; but we must remember -r. was not. the Prince Edward Island of today. Small clearings and primitive buildings along rise shores and rivers, backed by .1 forest. that. stood almost. unbroken in its primeval grandeur. The whale population was only about. twenty-three thousand. while Charlottetown itself contained less than one-tenth its present. inhabi- tants. There were more stumps ‘l1 the Market. Square than there were churches in the whole town. There was no wharf except Queen's. The ferry was crossed in rovvbosts and the Main street was repaired with plow and hoe like a country road. Many settlements in the country could be reached only by blazed paths through the woods, on which no carriage could travel. _

Men would walk many miles 0o the mill with grist. on their backs and would travel 20 to 30 miles i.» Charlottetown and back the eerie day. often loaded internally and externally with rum which. in the words of the Polly poet. (M. Buch- anan). "was in every hut. end shanty as plentiful as water." Two arid-e half gallons of spirits for sv- ery man, woman and child on tnc Island were imported in 1825. We hear of s men who had nothing for his family but. potatoes and rum. Another lied . nothing to clothe his children. He obtained some old bags. mode e hole la the bottom to admit the heed, cut off the corners to admit the arms. Thus he clothed them. And in mo style too. -or rather anticipating the slyie~of “Mofher Hubbard."

A school teacher, who accord- ing to the custom of the time. boarded for e week with, eecii fam- ily in his district. soes to bed l1 s poorly-built log house. He can count earns of the stars through the roof ee they twinkle in she frost. An occasional fleecy, snowy