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I ed to indicate that it was suitable for glass-

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The Province-wide mineral survey to be undertaken here by Mr. Picher and other offi- cials of the Federal Department of Mines and Re- sources is a matter of much public interest and importance. As noted editorially yesterday, the possibility of obtaining (among other things) sand for glass-making purposes was mooted several years ago, in the report of the Prince Edward Island Development Commission under the Mathieson Government. This Commission, under the general chairmanship of Mr. Frank R. Heartz, presented in ‘I917 a series of excellent recoun- mendations which unfortunately were not follow- ed up. One of these, submitted in a paper by Mr. H. T. Holman, was to the effect that the De- partment of Mines be asked to send an export to this Province to report exhaustively on out clays and sands. Two samples of sand were sent to the Department for analysis, one from the Norris Pond and the other from Black Pond. No report was received from the first, but with re- gard to the second the preliminary analysis seem-

making. » The Commission of I917 also recommended the development of a brick and tile manufactury, the utilization of our Island peat deposits; the extensive canning of small fruits and vegetables; the collection of moss for surgical dressing; farm underdrainage, consolidated schoolp, fishermen's co-operatives, a Province-wide system of cold stor- age facilities, and many other improvements. Much of the report was taken up with a discus- sion of fishery and agricultural problems, and many of the recommendations made at that time are still of interest and value.

Associated with Mr. Heart: on the executive of the Commission were Messrs. W, F. Tidmarch, A. J. McFadyen and J. A. MacDonald. The sub- committees were constituted as follows:

Agriculture: Rev. Dr. Gauthier, chairman; J. W. Callbeck, F. Bovyer, F. L. Mellish, Jas. Aeneas McDonald. -

Education: Rev. Dr. Gauthier, chairman; Dr. W. J. P. MacMillan, J. D. Stewart, K.C.

Fisheries: A. J. McFodyen, chairman; W. P. Callaghan, W. F. Tidmarsh, L. McNutt, D. F. McDonald.

New industries, Undeveloped Resources, Im- migration: Percy Pope, chairman; W. P. Cal- laghan, J. O. Hyndman, J. A. MacDonald, H. T. Holman.

Transportation: N. Rattenbury, chairman; W. L. Poole, P. W. Clarkin, W. P. Callaghan.

Programme: Frank R. Heartz, chairman;

N. Rattenbury, W. F. Tidmarsh, Percy Pope, J. O. Hyndman. y Many of these gentlemen have since passed away, while others are still prominent in public affairs. Noteworthy is the fact that the Com- mission was widely representative of both pali- tical parties, and one of the mast interesting features of their report is the emphasis which it placed on the need of working together and forgetting partisan politics.

"Politics," says the report, "is all tight; we must have it. lt will be always with us, of course, like the poor; but we don'_t wont to see too much of it. . . . The object of our coming together is to co-operategto work in harmony with a view to making this Island what it should have been long ago. Co-operation is opposed to self, and we have been selfish. This is one of the effects of original sin. We are all too selfish. We are not broad enough."

Had this admonition of thirty-one ycqrs ago been more carefully heeded, there is no doubt that our Province would be better off today, materially and spiritually. Nor is there anything outmoded in the following commentary which concludes the Commission's introduction to the, report of its sub-committee on agriculturez~

"Honesty, industry, intelligent co-operation and an adequate realization of the obligations of citizenship as essential to the well-being of tho state-these are the foundation of all true pro- gress. These ye must strive for and in this struggle every individual-is called upon to play, his or her part. This is the note that'we seek to strike with all the emphasis possible, as pre- liminary to any definite programme of work. Given stirling honesty, industry and a spirit of generous co-operation we must succeed. Lack- ing these, true success becomes impossible."

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The Winnipeg Free Press takes exception to the interpretation placed in the eastern Prov- inces on o. rdeolution parsed by tire Manitoba Legislature lost session, dealing with the sole of margarine» lil Canodd.» lt appears that the res- olution was interpreted as advocating such- sale, and-fit has been described as "the-thin end of the wedge" by those favoring the margarine bill “ ‘ ‘ s

_ EDITORIAL n-(Fcs -

Farmers generally will be getting in on the soil now, though about a week later than anticipated. ' Our Federal members at Ottawa are work- ing hand-in-hand solving provincial problems and straightening out wrongs that should be righted. I i i I

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Tomorrow, or rather at six o'clock this eve- ning local time, British responsibility for Pales- tine comes to an end. Apres nous, le deluge. W I k W With the meaning and purpose of educa- tion such a live issue we may expect tolhear the problem fully dealt with at the respective con- vocotions of our Island colleges. I i ‘k "k ‘ The United States does not seem alto- gether enthusiastic about a two-power confer- ence. There are certainly advantages in hav- ing additional parties if only to keep the record straight. I It is not too early to think about band clon- certs in Queen Square. These have always prov- ed highly popular and the bandsmen and pro- moters deserve every encouragement to carry on the good work.

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When the American universal military train- ing plan gets into operation it is going to be difficult to convince our Southern neighbours that Canada is pulling her weight in world of- fairs unless we adopt similar measures.

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The three way talks between Ottawa and local officers of the Revenue Department and taxpayers as represented by the l-flW 5W"? and Trust Companies should lead to better understanding all around. Ottawa rs a long way off, and the more personal contacts that can be established the better.

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A glance around our public buildings, re- marks a visitor, shows that our Provincial Gov- ernment has for long fallen down ‘as a patron of the arts. Where are the portraits of Island Governors, judges and recent Speakers of the House? Where are episodes of lsland history recorded on canvas? - - - .

I I I C Albert Einstein‘, Swiss professor of mathe- matical physics, barn thistdate i879. He enunci- ated his theory on Relativity rn-apaper read m Berlin Academy in i915, and published his work on the subject in i920. He is on ardent Zion- ist and was keenly interested Ill the proposed Hebrew University at Jerusalem.

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Summer-side "did itself proud" ln entertain- ing the civic delegation from Charlottetown Wednesday. The we tern _ capital has every reason to be proud o its progress and aggress- iveness. lt has live business men, not only in its councils but behind the scenes, ever seeking municipal and provincial improvements and developments. "

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The undergraduate returned from college has a hard choice. Many have been away from home for many years with but the briefest re- turn and now are faced with the search for em- ployment to finance another year at college. Only the lucky ones will find it where they can at last enjoy the llilll? o: heme life.

The Maritime Central Airways is becoming practically indispensable in transportation, both to and from the Province. Captain Burke is to be congratulated on extending its express serv- ice to Nova Scotion points, as instanced in carry- ing Yarmouth lobsters to American markets. We are already familiar with its invaluable services in connecion.with the Magdalene: and New- foundland.

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Are there Communists in training in Scol- land? Glasgow Police raided the premises cf "Young Scotland", a movement with extreme no- tionalist views, and took away .two vanloods o! high explosives. They also removed documents. At the same time a number of houses in the city were visited and three men taken into custody charged with unauthorized possession of explos- rves.

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Our potato exporters are resorting to the right means of strengthening their position with regard to the supply of reefer cars, etc., for ex- port purposes. By co-operation they should be able to assist both themselves and the railway in having a plentiful and proper allocation of cars throughout the Province in the shipping season. Of course, an additional ferry would help materially.

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Behind the "Iran Curtain" scientists seem to be busy. Russia has just laid claim to the fastest radio transmission speed in the world. The official News Agency, Toss, quoted "the well-known Soviet radio expert, Alexander Mints," as follows: "European and American stations transmit I20 to I50 words per minute, whereas in the U.S.S.R. the average transmission speed is 300 words, and the maximum over 500 per minute."

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The savages have as beet In one way. They can stand a lot. of lets- ure without. making e problem of 1t. - Calgary Albertan.

Wereadtbe other slay uboata mllllnet “plunnlng e hut." Some hats we have seen looked more like products of doodltng than plan- ning. - Kingston Whig-Standard.

Preillent Truman vvlll be glad to see Mr. Stalin - tn Washington. If Truman and Stalin could put. up their feet. tn that new ‘White House porch and talk as man ‘to man they might resolve many dlf- ferences —- but it. isn't. likely to happen. - Ottawa Journal.

‘nut. report from Fllu Plan. Manitoba. ls the dlsopvery of a one- eyed fish. This on the heels of ‘uranium and diamond discoveries near the northern town. to say nothing of the sardine with a noes-l tn its mouth, makes us tncllned to remark that Flirt Flon ts determin- ed to make “’1‘lme." -- Saskatoon Star-Phoenix.

The United States no e whole b one of the less densely settled ooun- trles of the world and will continue to, be so for many years bo come. According to forecasts based on assumptions of medium fertility and medium mortality. our popu- lation will be about 166,000,000 tn 1010; this would mom n. density of 50 per square rnllc. Even on the most. favorable assumptions. our population tn 191k’: will be about. 1855100000 which ls still only 62 persons per square mile. -Met.ro- polltnu Llte Bulletin.

Until industry ls brought beck fn some way to the smaller centres of population throughout the province our manufacturing structure wlll be bop-heavy and‘ loaded in fever of the larger places where the gon- etel conditions of ‘ no matter how glltterlng, ‘ be too satisfactory. and where" they are frequently unsavory. and the smaller centres with their people. will fall to cnloy the security and the opportunltmm obtain employ- ment. right at home which “ls theft undeniable tlght .— Brockvtlle Re- corder and Times.

Down tn Atlanta. Georgia. e rnnn was seen to mount e verendsh af- ter s. carrier boy passed and that the newspspet. For this offence the magistrate fined hlm 850. The sentence may seem severe to some people, but we regard ft. as one of the most. heinous crimes fn the calendar, comps ble to stealing e horse tn days gone by. In e by- gone ere n man who lost. hle horse by theft. was tn a serious plliht. Today, a manl or any member ol the family who hos no evening paper to turn in. la like e. lost soul. A $50. tlnol The ecoundxel got. off lightly! - 5t. Thomas Times-Jon:-

Weohfngton ts srytng a fearsome experiment. On the request or! 01 percent of the commuters polled, the trams and buses of the Amer!- can capital are to have radios tn- stalled. Pity the poor passenger, especially the important but. pro- testing eight. pcrocnb- driven to work ln the morning to the note of settJng-up exercises, brought to lunch and back to the sobbing ca- dences of n soap-opera, and driven back. in the evening u. weary strap- hanger. to the lnslsbent. and mad- dening bent, beat, beef. of the syn- copated tom-tom. —l:l.allfaX 9111011- lcle. _

Dandellous, the surest lieu of spring, may be a nuisance on the lawn, but. they're a boon to the kitchen, more so thls season with the Government's austerity pro- gram putting restrictions on im- ports of fresh vegetables. People of this community have long known how oppetlztng dandelion greens are when properly prepared. They are at their best. before the blunt begins to flower. Accordlng to the U. s, Department. of Altlcullurc, u half-cup of dandelion greens steam- ed furnishes H.600 unlls of vitamin A. which ls more than twice the dolly adult. requirement. -Kttch- char-Waterloo Record.

Soruervllle police ebovv tbetfhey know how to take care of young rowdles who are given to vanda- lism, When three were rounded up after letting the nlr out of au- tomobile slree, patrolnnn sew to 1t. that. the boys were put to work with s. pump and that the bites were Inflated properly. With this bib of buolteohlng punishment. they drove home to these boys that the property of others muat be respect- cd. Punishment. such as this tn the teen-ages will go e. long way t0- woras making such boys wort-h! cltllerts later. — Boston Poss.

The inventor vrha says u pleat has been developed whlah will beer blue tomatoes will Probably make then: more lccepboble to the publfo lt he can show that they nave any particular advantage over the common rod "ones. The yellow W- meto has been rolled for some time ant hlle is’ fs not. sold u widely ee ‘ e common ‘variety. it. . to very palatable and some people tt fully u well u the regular

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NIT FARM INCOME

Sin-I liked the accent. aelng placed on "net." farm la ome, in that. editorial on "Farm nquc. tlon (Guardian. May a) becgugg 1 am oneof your readers who be- lieves that fu boo much emphasis has customarily been placed updn gross rural revenues in the put, when every urban Canadian 15 wen aware that. u! thebuelnessedage Ives: “it ls the net that counts". 1 take if. as e first-rate sign our, oi- lons tut. IWIODrlote attention ls beginning to b9 pgjd u, we immense "operating 00st." entries on the opposite slde of the am- cultural ledger-entries which, u- cording to the latest figures 1w seen, reach to over $920,000,009, However. I must say that. I wok surprised and disappointed to learn from the above editorial that. oc- cordlug to n speaker in the Com- mons (Mr. wright, Melton. sash.) denllnl with the agricultural esti- mflltei "38 per cent of the tar-mg tn Canada today are subsistence farms." He used this term, he ax- plelned. to define farms which prqduoe less for sale than ts cou- sumed on the farm itself. . . N. berle has the lowest. percentage, "lmtlli 15: Saskatchewan has l6

per cent; Prince Edward Island, so Per cent. and New Brunswick 51 per cent." .

s 1t. would be latex-eating to have

some further ltght given on this l-twnllhine “ ‘ ‘Here. as any

foil. in one grim generalization-

wverlll! 200.000 of the nations 781.000 fotms~would be an explan- ation as to why farm income tax la such on endless headache?

Apart from the location of these

“subsistence fume", who" m“. Iihlllfle Power ls pt the floor. o.- helow It. ft. has to be remembered that e. subsistence farm represents l- 1300!‘ ¢ for industrial

workers and the products of Con.

adlan factories. Then are 200,000

farms across Canada. ranging from

1 to 100 acres; and 33,000 tum; rinsing from 100 to zoo acres; and whlle the former group wuuid in- clude all manner of hIIhly-pm- ductfve suburban enterprises, 1t. seems reasonably sure that m, "Sllbbllbfillll!" farms would be with. ln those two acreage floupg, y“, 100 acres would be “somc" farm, tn Europcl.

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(United Kingdom Bulletin) The Army Council have granted permission to the Highland Light. Infantry to discard the brews they

1181- have worn for nearly 14o your; mg resume the kllt.

Ironically enough the gallant. HLI who have more bottle honors than any other Scottish I fment, loot. their kills through distinguish. fng themselves ‘at Corunna, when they were promoted to the Light.

Dlvlston and mm were deemed un-

suitable for sklrmlshes. The HLI was raised for service ln the Am- erican War of Independence tn rm. but. never saw America, belng shipped off to India instead. Al. Assoyc In 1903 ll. had all lbs officers killed or wounded, and hence it ls known u the Assays Roglmenb or, alternatively, e4 "the Glescn Keellcs", most of the re. crults oomlug from Glasgow dur- tng e Peninsula: War. In the Flrs World War lt. had ao battal- l°l15 flefvlflB- A French General. OBDtut-cd by a HLI corporal la the Peninsula offered rum his purse. "Sir" aald the corporal, "w; an soldiers, not plunderersl" Whether HLI aver did duty at. the Tower of London ls doubtful. But they have a romantic itnk with that. grlm historic edifice. They were raised by a son o! the Earl of Cromarty who was out ln the '45. imprisoned ln the Tower. and having his estate con. ftscated. served 80 years with the Swedish Army. They will wear the Msckenzle kllt. differing from that. of the Befllflrth Hlehlaaders only in that their central stripe will be white instead of red. In their case the dlstlnctlon consists purely tn the

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ocean Is flashing round me. and a tone Arlses from its measured mo-

tion . . . _ Alas! I have nor trope noo- health, Nor peace within not calm around, Nor that ‘ ‘ stuiplselng wealth The sage 1n meditation found. And» walked with inward clan l

crowned . _ .

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THROUGH out. cuoir REPORTING AGENCY

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I could lle down likes. tired child. And weep away the llle of one . . .

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Charlottetown (All P. I. I.)

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"We. having oonsld ‘ the ver- b“! nflwmlaeu. to which letters and parcels addressed to persons an this Island are subjected, owing to their being enclosed ln the Halifax mall and left. 1n the post. office the". t-‘mwd. from whence they have been‘ committed to the cus- tody of any individual willing to take charge of them. by which means they have frequently been lost. or tutoroevied. humbly request that Nut Excellency vvllt be pleu- ed to represent ms Melsstyk Sea. rotary of Steoe the above insecure and uncertain mode of conveyance of letters from England oo this Is- land. and request that be will be

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of fog and a "floating mountetn" which they described es the ‘dolor of silver, harder than marble. of substance of the clearest crystal"- the first. iceberg ever seen.

greet which according bo their descrip- tfogr tied "cat-like heads, eyes the oo

ted bellies" -e fol: description of walrus. '

that monks landed ls not oer but they dld. muse south. s on the vvsy beck naked pygmtes‘ and finally lending on a green and sunny shore. No one knows now whether lt. heme-s or Florida or some other pert of the mainland. but. ohelr description of lt. wee lyrlcel: "A 1end_ odorous, flower-smooth, bless-

fng for joy. unmoutnful."

Horsemen, this was a much eullc:

When they sighted land ti. was cruel, jagged land of cliffs where beasts bellowed — beasts