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Canada's ‘Life - Blood: Trade

added to the campaign if the elected representa- tives from the Maritime: raise their voices in. concert on Parliament Hill in support of the canal and power development proposal.

Burning Dilly (Iolslslosl In IIII) Authorised ea noruerl Close tlell. Post Olfloe Department, Oltesrl-

Tlso lulieml, liulesllee subllshlee Co. fitter end lounging L - . J. B. Burnett Aaemilete Jtdltrsr. Ireeb Weller.

" The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than _/ 1i DlTURlAL NU I ES I

the Weakest ink,“ Jlsestlnrrnuwn. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 2o, 1M9

vn. m. ones-s‘ nmzaac: THE AMERICAN scamm-

B! ' I5. L. I. Williamson. 31.8.11.

Foundation Day of Australia, 1788.

Prince County Progressive Conservatives

‘"10 cans“ 011158111‘ meet this afternoon in Summerside to choose a candidate for nomination ut the forthcoming

We in ‘Prince Edward Island can perhaps ekacfion appreciate better than most people the claims ' e w s now being pressed strongly at Ottawa for a per-

In_prevlaus articles we have seen that there ls no basis for e c; adlan trade-policy which assumes either that there vrlli be a ggnern‘ return to free muitl-lateral trading or that there are any vast, new p‘? terns of trade awaiting developme t. ln other words, Canada's tradin. relations must continue to be principally with those countries with who): we have for so iong traded: the Sterling Area, (that is. Britain and u,‘

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1 pf shell eggs, 30 dozen to the case; 13,561,124.

‘rapidly decreasing volume of egg exports over-

‘ somoquoddy lay, these astronomical figures

manent crossing over the Strait of Canso. This narrow strip of water which separates Nova Sco- tia proper from Cape Breton is at one point only half a mile wide. The ferry connection, op- erated by the Dominion Government since 1883, is serviced by the "Scotia" and "Scotia 11", the former being forty-seven years-old. The area of Cope Breton is close to 4,000,000 square miles, with a population of more than 150,000. It is the homo of two national industries, coal and steel. The Dominion Bureau of ytotistics recent- ly reported that for the first "ten months of 1948 Canadian mines produced 14,563,000 tons, of which Nova Scotia's portion was 5,301,000, or 36 percent. ln the same period Cape Breton's production was approximately 3,601,000 tons, or 360,110 monthly. The island produces nearly one quarter of the country's steel. As those who have travelled through the Bras d'Or Lakes region, are aware, it is also rich in scenic attractions. ln the national interest and as a primary econ- omic need, the construction of a bridge across the Strait is being urged upon the Dominion Gov- srnment.

In winter serious dangers attend the ferry- :rossing. A tide-rip of four to five miles an hour courses through the Strait of Canso, carry- ing heavy ice-floes. The ferries are frequently trapped by these and are swept for miles down the Gut before they can work free and chug back to the landing-docks. Even then these be- come choked with ice, thus adding more hours of delay until the obstruction is cleared.

For the past half-century Cape Breton's peo- ple havo wanted the Strait of Canso spanned by a bridge. Today they are more hopeful than ever. The Federal Government has had the sit- uation surveyed by a Board of top-flight en- gineers, and the Canso Crossing Association of Sydney, N. S., are optimistic as to the result.

British Egg Market

Local officials in recent weeks have placed

Tonight entries for the Dominion Drama Festival will be on their mettle. Adiudicators may make their notes but audience reaction has a far greater influence on the performance.

N i i

With confederation with Newfoundland in the offing, Canada has that additional interest in fisheries conservation. The Washington con- ference meeting today comprises nine countries bordering the North Atlantic who are concerned about "serious depletion."

Jaques Greber, French architect, has pre- pared o report in "preliminary form" for the ro- planning of the city of Ottawa, having a weight of 35 pounds, What the final draft will weigh, and cost, will probably stagger imagination.

The Financial Post reports that the price of cocoa bean has dropped from 38c a pound to

,26c and holds out hope that after Easter we

may again see a five-cent chocolate bar, par- ticularly if the excise tax is lifted as candy- makers hope. ‘f I

Twenty-five persons in Saskatchewan have been prosecuted during the past two months for failure to pay their hospitalization tax. About 20 per cent. of the people eligible to pay the 1949 tax have not yet done so. However, despite the increased tox rate this year, the number of payments is about the same as in 1948.

Apropos the opening of parliament today, Prime Minister St, Laurent is reported to have said, "1 don't think we're going to have any more light sessions. I don't pretend to see into the future but |'udging'from appearances at present these light sessions would seem to be a thing of the past." i

The Fall of Khartum this date 1885. Gen- eral Gordon was isolated there in the Madhi re- volt, and before relief arrived he was killed and the town captured. The Mahdi died the same

strong emphasis on the need of cultivating the domestic and American egg market to a greater extent. The serious decline in our exports to the United Kingdom, owing to the exchange situation, has also been stressed. The following figures rel ased from Ottawa tell the story:

ln 19 7, that is, Jan. 31, 1947 to .lan. 31. 1948, Canada exported ‘to Britain 1,993,620 cases

pounds of egg powder; and 5,130,357 pounds of frglen egg melange — a total equivalent to 88,676,280 dozen eggs.

ln 1948, that is, from Jon. 31, 1948 to ‘Jan. 31, 1949, Canada will have exported to Britain 1,330,000 cases of eggs, 30 dozen to the case; 9,243,794 pounds of egg WWO“; 0M1 111399.403 pounds of frozen egg melarige — a total equiv- alent to 70,000,000 dozen eggs.

1n 1949, the new contracts call for export to Britain between Jan. 31. 1949 "Ml Jflfl- 31. 1950, of a total of 650,000 cases of e995. ~35 dozen to the case; 6.720.000 P°""<1$ 01 e99 PW‘ (for; and 8,960,000 pounds of frozen egg melonge __|-epresenting altogether 46,000,000 dole" eggs. I

Thus, in two years Canadas egg GXPOPB 10 Britain have been cut in half. Sogfdr, the rise in prices has to an extent compensated for the decrease in value. For the calendar year 1947, total value of @995 °*P°"1°f1 1° 11mm" 1"“ $36,968,102; for 10 months of 1948, the value of these egg exports was S3_4',963.1°2- '_

But there is the possibility that with the

seas the domestic market will soften unless othel’ outlets are found. At the moment, it is hoped to dispose of these Canadian export sur- pluses in other markets.

Seaway Versus Banal

An estimate of the cost of the proposed St. Lawrence seaway and power proieci has been given delegates to a meeting of the Dominion Marine Association by Mr. Frank P. fifer, chief engineer of the Atlantic Division of United States Army Engineers. He believes the post will be more than $675,000,000, which, even in these inflated times, is a considerable sum.

Mr. Fifer says the estimated costs of the power half of .the St. Lawrence development would be approximately $463,000,000. The na- vigational holf would\cost about $105,000,000 in , the International Rapids section of the river, and the remainder of the expenditure, $107,000,- 000, would be spread‘ over the waterway from Duluth, Minn. to Montreal.

To Maritimers who have token renewed in- terest in revived plans for development of the canal and power resources of the Chignecto Isthmus and the hydro potentialities of Pas-

should be enlightening. Compared with the St. Lawrence proposal the cost of the Chrgnectolcan- al project is insignificant, although construction of the waterway between Northumberland Strait and the Boy of Fundy is vitally important to the future economy of these Provinces.

So for, comments the Mpncton Transcript, too much attention hiss been paid by Ottawa to the St. Lawrence plan and too little to the two Maritime proiects. And in this regard Maritim- ers themselves may be to blame. lut it is heart-

year, and was succeeded by the Kholifa, who ruled till 1898; when he was completely defeat- ed at Omdurman by an Anglo-Egyptian army un- der Kitchener. $1,800,000,000 are to be invested in Brit- ain's forms during the next four years. Half of this sum is to be spent on mechanized equip- ment. Agricultural machinery production in Britain is now valued at $280,000,000 a year, compared with $105,000,000 in 1946. The out- put of tractors in Britain for the first nine months of last year exceeded 82,000. About 40 per cent g0 to overseas markets. Egg prices on January 21 this year and pre- vious years: The prices quoted below are for Grade A Large. At Montreal and Toronto the prices are those at which graded shipments arc selling to wholesalers. At other points quota- tions are prices to shippers for ungraded eggs 1949 1948 1947 Montreal 43-441/2 42 35 Toronto 42-43 43-431/1 36 Winnipeg 37 41 37 Vancouver . . . 38 40 36 Edmonton . .. .. 4i 35 Regina 41 36 Charlottetown 41 35

A new painkiller six times more powerful than morphine has been produced by chemists of Glaxo Laboratories, Greenford, England. Heptalgin, which is the name of the drug, can act within a few moments and rarely takes more than a half-hour, while it: pain relieving effects last from at least three to four hours. Swallowed in tablet form or given as an inflection, it ot- tacks the seat of pain without producing drowsi- ness or a feeling of depression. While it is too early yet to say with certainty that heptal- gin is in no way habit forming, it has been es- tablished that addiction to this drug is certain- ly less likely to occur than with other analgesics. In trials carried out so far on patients, the drug has given quick relief in rheumatic com- plaints, pleurisy, heart trouble, sinusitis, tooth- ache, gastric ulcers and inoperable cancers.

Always the centre of Canada, never the Maritimes must receive consideration at Ottawa. "Any project such as the ioint development of power and mavigation on the St. Lawrence which can open up the centre of this continent _. . . cannot be deferred much longer," Transport Minister Chevrier said in an address to the Marine Club of Toronto. During the 1948 navi- gation season 250,000,000 tons of cargo were carried by American and Canadian vessels on the Great Lakes. These Great Lake fleets carry row materials and commodities to "the greatest industrial centre of the world." "Huge iron -ore deposits discovered in Labrador and Quebec make the St. Lawrence seaway proiect not only leas- ible, but also a necessity." Besides supplying o" highway of commerce, the proiect would un- leash approximately 2,200,000 horsepower of electric energy. Mr. Chovrior said further meas- ures to assist the Canadian shipping and ship- buiidingindustrios were being studied. The shipping industry is the very lifeblood of our existence. Our future both in war and peace depends upon its smooth operation. It is vulner- able to sabotage . . . It is our duty to organize

snlng to know that on office has been set up to promote the Chignecto project, and before ioee Ottawa doubtless will be hearing o lot

for the protection of the shipping industry. lut, be it noted, all in‘ favour gt Control Canada.

THE SEEKERS

Only the road. and the dawn, the sun, the wind. and the rain. And the urainh flre under stars. and sleep, and the road again.

We seek the City of God. and the haunt where beauty dwells. And we mid the noisy mart and the sound of burial bells.

Never the golden city, where rad- ianl. people meet,

But. the doloxous town where mrourners are going about the street. '

We travel the dusty road till the light of the day ls dim.

And sunset shows us spires sway on the world! rim.

we travel from dawn to dusk, tlli the rlay is past and by, Seeking the l-ioly City beyond the rim of the sky.

F‘r'icnds and loves we have none. nor wealth nor blessed abode But tho hens of the Citv of God at the other cud of the road.

—John Mascdleld.

QrFQ-zr-QMQ-c Old Charlottetown , (And r. n. l.)

HOME MANUFACTUIIES The pioneers did most of their own mzmtifncitiring. A few "iron ploughs hurl been brought ."om Scoiluuri by the settlers. but most cl’ the plows were wooden. made by some liunrly man among the farm- crs. anrl fiilctl with irons by the village blacksmith. The barrows were of wood with spike teeth. "ud with tho plow were the only im- plements used in putting in the crop, unrl the reap-hook,‘ cradle anii scythe rlirl duty in harvest time. This svas before the days when the Ontario manufacturers sent the smiling machine-agent down here to tell us what. we wanted.

Besides boing their own smiths and carpenters. farmers were also their own shoemakers and kept u kit and spent many stormy days. and sometimes evenings, after a hard ilay-‘s work in the wooas. in making or mending the shoes of the family. r _

Oftciitimcs 1 have heard the ‘old folk tell how they got up at four ifclock in the morning and repaired to the barn. to thrash with the flail to get straw to feed the stock during the day while they were WOTklilI in the woods. and how. after won-king tlli dark. they would come home. get tea and take some more “flail exercise" to give the cattle their supper. . .

The whip-saw was an article greatly used by the early settlers. The first frame buildings erected here were covered in with boards. many of them from two and a Calf to three feet wide, that were cut with the whip-saw, the logs being otter! squared with tho broadaxo to make them lighter to lot up on the saw pit. Sills e foot to fourteen inches square were medo by quer- terlng logs with this sew.

The women's share of tho work woe also very important. The mo- thers tnede the clothes for the family. Cur-ding. splnnt , weaving, dyeing. fullins. and et lest teller- lng. »Meny e “hoddon grey" s-rit they turned out which wee es

i The Strasser Case l

_ (Winnipeg Free Press)

Dr. Otto Strasser, the German ex- ile now living in Canada who has been refused permission to return to Germany because his presence there would likely provoke trouble. has curious links with the Nazi regime, despite his criticism of and hostility to Adolph Hitler,

He and his brother Gregor, a more portentous political figure. were leaders of the left wing in the Nazi party. They tended to emphas- ize the word “Sociaiist" in the title of Hitler's party rather than the word “Natlonai"; their‘ views on social reform were cloudy but were held with tenacity.

Two or three years before Hitler came to power in Germany thev opposed. without. success. his policy of having German industrialists contribute lavishly to Nazi party funds. Otto Strasser quit the Nazi party and left Germany after that defeat; he bears no odlum, there- fore, for the crimes which. later disgraced the Nazi regime. His ex- ile carrledhim to Austria, Czecho- slovakia, France and Canada; in each country he has attacked Hit- lerkm withmucii passion and some scholarship His brother Was loillod by Hitler's “triers in the 1934 purge of dissident elements in the Nazi ruling clique.

More recently Otto Strasser has founded what he calls the League for German Revival. The major purpose of ‘this league, he asserts. ls to restore Germany to hcr right- ful place in Europe without again making iicr a focal point for rig- gresslon nud war. This sounds ivel]: but his benevolence looks vcry doubtful when his practical programme is considered. lie ai- tacks us "quislings" all those Ger- mans now co-oporntluk with the Western occupying powers and urges tho formation of n movement pledged to resist their policies.

in Canada where he has been liv- lrig for several yours, Otto Stras- ser is harmless. His hutreds do not touch us. 1n'Germany. how- ever. this ghost from the Nazi world.’ us the London Times de- scribes hlm, would at once be a figure of controversy unri unrest. Hence the opposition of Great Bri- tain and tln- Unltcrl States, in which Canada concurs, to his re- turn to Western Germany.

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run llge-tilii Story

I will glad. end‘ rololoe in.

PUBLIC FORUM

This column is open to the discussion by correspondents of questions of lnlcrcli» T1" Guardian does not necessar- ily endorse the opinion u! correspondents.

THE LOBSTER SEASON

first. day of liiny. This your

‘daylight on the day previous

harbor some of them stop

ants drovrned.

in certain parts of our coast.

have been thcrc before this.

30 at 6 o'clock a.m.

eubjoot.

Thy me ;, for Thou but oon- sidered my trouble, Thou has known my soul in edversities.

cloth ‘are by the dudes of today. Besides their other duties the wo- men took a hand ln_tho field with the reaping hook, and were as ex- pert ln manipulating it as their granddaughters now are in finger- ing the keys of piano and organ:

-l~‘rom an article by Mr. limiter Simpson. 1900.

TRIP T0 ENGLAND

HALIFAX — (C?) —Duncsn G. L. Presor to Arcadia University and Alexander '1‘. Stewart. science grad- uate of Dsihousio University, have been awarded 81.600 scholarships for past-gflduete studies in British universities by the Imperial Order Deirghters of tho Empire.

donor: nose can.

LAKE OOWICHAN. 3.6.. — (OP) -Provtnote1 police were de- prived of their offloe and jstl here when the structure wee moved to caste way for e new highway. Until a new building is constructed, prfs-

highly prized by husbands end sous as suite-at booed-

oners are being token ~17 mtios to Dispose.

Phone 2498

Provincial Agent: . for fron Firemen Equipment

g whenever it even ep

Sin-For some unknown reason our new Minister of Fisheries has changed the opening time for set- ting or leaving the shore to any

~.> ~ “q 1 1 ' . As regards the planting in the ‘ 1‘ Pacific coast of lobsters I hope it . l I does not react against us as did . O , O ,

the fox industry. They have their

salmon industry; let it not at that: 2 for 1 don't believe it cvor was in- tended for lobsters to ilvo and de- velop in the Pacific or they would

I would like to see this hour for running rope or gear made statu- tary at six o'clock n.m. on May 1 or when it falls on Sunday. April

Hoping other fisherman will give their views on this very important

I rim, Sir, etc.

FISHERMAN. Southern King's.

Tho Arnfsst Goal. o.

Commonwealth), and the United States.

2.- We also have seen, however, that thoserelations cannot em, tlnue on the old baslsz‘ eeillng to the Sterling Area, and btlylls‘ “on, the United States. In the future, the Sterling Area will be able to bu in Canada only ss much as Canada buys from the Sterling Area; Mg Canada will be able-to buy from the United States unLv as much as in, United States buys from Canada. This means that if we are to buy from the United States on the same scale as we now are buying there. Canada must-loll more to the Unlted- States. Alternatively, if we Expect n"

more of our requirements in the Sterling Area.

3. Thus wo ere brought face to face with the crucial question: ‘A; international shopkeepers, whom do Canadians regard as the more 1m, partent toour trade—the American salesmen, or the British custom,"

d. There is a section of opinion which holds that our Americas sources of supply ere more important than are our British markots- 1| other u ds, that the American salesmen are more important than ‘m. British customers. But if this view is to be practical, we must find in the U. S._a market for the things which we now sell to the Steriln| Area; there is N0 other way in which we can maintain employ-mum andincome in Canada. -

5. Are there American markets for our agricultural produce‘! Th, first factor, and one which is frequently overlooked in Canada, 1e um the United States itself has been shipping vast quantities of agrlrgu] tural products to Europe and other parts-of the world. The high pflqfl and shortages in America, (which for the past three or four years wauiq have made the U. S. a lucrative market for Canadian farmersi, h"; been created by these huge American exports. But American avcrseu markets for foodstuffs and grains rapidly are drying up. When in", markets are gone, and they will terminate with the Marshall Plan. America will have large, unsaieable surpluses of all tho-grains. bots bread-grains and feed-grains. There will be no room in the Americas market for Canadian groin.

6. Is there o. market for our meat? American meat-herds resch- ed Qieir minimum about two years ago but they now are rapidly being increased, and theaburidant supplies of American corn (maize) git-s the American cattle-raiser an immense advantage over his Canadian counter. part. There is no reason to believe that there will be any appreciable American market for Canadian cattle, beyond a limited market for "feeder" stock, and we know from experience that even this market might be closed at the critical moment, when it would hurt the Cen- adlan producer most. ,