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P11100113. his A. Burnett; Vice-President, Wm. It.- Bmm: ‘IL-Troll. a. M. Barnett; Editor and

Managing Director, .1. l. Burnett; Associate ltditor, Irenk Walker. '

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest lnlr."

CIIARLOTTETOWN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 19:8

Prepared Speeches

As already mentioned here, recently a P.C. M.P. challenged a C.C.F. M.~P. with reading a prepared speech supplied him by C.C.F. head- quarters. The C.C.F'er indignantly denied the allegation, and next day demanded an apology, saying that nobody but himself had anything to do with the preparation of the speech, that he had "expressed his thoughts in his own words." Commenting on this the Saint John Telegraph- Journal remarks:

"lf that was the case, we don't see why there should be any objection. As a matter of fact, if more speeches were prepared, parlia- mentary sessions might be more enlightening. We have few orators so gifted that they can stdnd up, without preparation, and say briefly what they want to say, in crisp, clear English. The ordinary man who doesn't write his speech in ad- vance tends to fumble around, repeat himself, bore his listeners, and than find, when he has returned to his seat, that heforgot to mention some of the most important points."

There is another angle to it. When a man prepares his remarks he is developing not only his powers of expression but his thinking facul- ties as well. Today there is a growing tendency to resort to "conned" speeches and debates in which the participators have had no responsibility in preparation. This is specially marked in the various radio forums. We are fast becoming a people cursed with "canned" opinions issuing from Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, and elsewhere, delivered in various parts of the Dominion by local speakers, who are sometimes so unfamiliar with the subjects that they can hardly read their script. - We complain about the centralizing of control in Toronto and Montreal, but that is nothing compared to the centralizing of public opinion there, and even in New York and Chi- cago, to be sent across Canada in the form of "canned" speeches and debates by local speak- ers. ‘

lt is a hundred times better to develop our local talent, our own powers of speech, than to have "Charlie McCarthy's." Let our young men, our rising hopes, train themselves to think on their fee-t, and at the some time make careful preparation before ai- tem-pting in oration and debate to influence their fellows. Thereby they will benefit and enrich themselves as well as those they wish to con- vince or convert.

What The Figures Show

A striking illustration of the transportation handicap under which our Island potato produc- ers and shippers are operating is afforded by figures released lost week by the Dominion Bur- eau of Statistics. The figures are a revised esti- mate of the production and value of the 1947 Canadian potato crop. Th_e details are by Prov- inces, and they include values per unit repre- senting average prices received by farmers.for the first half of the crop year from August l, 1947, to January 31, 1948. lt will be seen that notwithstanding the superior quality of our Island potatoes and the fact that in many places they are actually selling at a premium, the average form price for this Province is, with the excep- tion of Manitoba which grows a very inferior potato, the lowest in all Canada. This undoubt- edly is due to our extra rail costs and the lock of adequate truck and steamer facilities, such as the other Provinces enjoy. Here are the figures. which speak for themselves!

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Acreage Yield Production Average Gross

per Firm Form

we; Price" Value 43.500 2% 9,738,000 3 .07 3 0,406,000

.... .. 21,500 142 3,047,000 1.33 4,058,000

60.800 237 15,762,000 3 17,779,000 Quebec . 148,700 113 17,597,000 1.30 22,011,000 Ontario _. 113,700 133 15,107,000 1.34 20,293,000 Manitoba . 24,500 123 3,022,000 .04 2,828,000 Soak. 37,300 107 3,078,000 1.10 4,007,000 Alta. . .. 24.500 133 3.261.000 1.21 3.059.000 8J3. ........ 17,100 20b 3,503,000 1.60 5,887,000 comb 40mm is: 15.100300 1.22 01110.00

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A leading life insurance company states that well over one-third of all deaths among its policyholders in 1947 resulted from heart and blood vessel ailments. Heart disease takes on annual toll in the United States of a half-mil- lion lives-more than twice the number of all Americans killed in battle during World War ill. It kills. three times as many people as can- icer, and’ six times as many as flfifldfllhfffllfl ‘oll causes. It is the No. 1 killer-

The moiority of people, but by no means Xail, who are suffering from serious heart con- ditions orefully aware of it. They, ot leofl, ore zable toitoke precautions. Unfortunately, thero are much largernumbers whore health is im- . aired.‘ by heort- conditions who ore unaware of iii ondnrha are taking no priccutions. It is iestirhotedflhat one in every 20 persons is ol- dected byliosr . d ' Comp e energy an money ex- ‘ retnidiioirmereii, rhe-

sort] distinction been. ism gntnrliuie been

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largely neglecil. _ . | mcemrnt ierlces‘ and‘

relieving high blood pressure. _ Early knowledge of developing heart trou- ble is useful because it enables the patient to take common sense precautions against heart strain. Thousands of people with heart trouble are able to live practically normal lives and their expectancy Vof long life is fully justified. best advice, therefore, is to have o periodic check-up and do what the doctor advises.

- eorroruor. notes -_

The prospects of dry streets for St. Pat- rick's Day parade are now less hopeful. i 1r it i

The fisheries have been receiving some, ‘at least, of the attention which their importance and problems warrant.

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Monday was a day of unusual happenings, when the Chief Justice became an ‘Indian Chief, and anti-Communist Rustico was officially des- ignated "Russia" by the King's Printer at Ot- lav/o.

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Captain and Farmer Andrew MacRae, East Royalty, bearded the lions in their den when he admonished the Rotations on the vital questions of margarine and Daylight Saving.

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The Commons Price Committee seems to be going around in circles looking for the basic cause of price increases. The chances are they never will find the answer if they confine their investigations to this country.

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The Provincial Government's interest in re- forestation is commendable. Much of its other work for good or ill will soon be forgotten but the fruits of a wise forest policy will be enjoyed

for generations.

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As many important roads are not to be hard surfaced immediately the government should look to the comfort of tourists and others by provid- ing adequate supplies of calcium chloride or other dust-laying materials. -

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Alexander Graham Bell, Scots inventor, born this date 1847, invented the telephone which he introduced at Philadelphia in 1876; invented the photophone in 1880, the gramophane in 1887; he also played a leading part in introduction of wireless telegraphy and aeroplane flying, tests in which he carried out in Nova Scotia.

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Modernization of the United Kingdom min- ing industry has been taken a stage further by the placing of a large National Coal Board order for diesel locomotives. The order includes 152 fully flame-proof locomotives and has o total value of more than $3,000,000.

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‘Rev. ‘Dr. W. J. Gallagher, Secretary of the Cdnodian Council of Churches, told the annual meeting of the Board of Evangelism and Social Service that "eighty-nine per cent of young Roman Catholics in Canada soy they go to church every Sunday, but only thirty-eight per cent of young Protestants make this claim.

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The Attorney-Generals defence of the Gov- ernment's action in seizing the packing plant l5, to say the least, a bit thin. The Agricultural Products Marketing Act authorizes the estab- lishment of schemes for the control and regula- tion of marketing, but it certainly dws not authorize the government to seize private pro- perty and do the marketing itself.

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ln Britain, a Socialist Government, carrying the actual responsibilities of office, is (says The Letter-Review) trying to dig in its heels. lt is taking the first m-ild- steps to stop inflationary pressures from increasing. It openly proclaims that the capitalist theory that production is the road to wealth is right. lt pleads with its follow- ers to remember that wages cannot go on rising without prices going up, and that subsidies are only c trick, which will, if carrifl for enough, produce an economic crisis. Mr- Strachey has announced that the price ~, of eggs is to rise 60c per dolep, since no additional subsidy is to be provided the farmer to compensate for the latest price increases.

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A new method of treating herring-rwhere- by they are broken down by chemical action into their natural constituents, the most important of which are edible oil and protein-—has been evolv- ed by nutritional scientists of Britain's Depart- ment of Scientific and Industrial Research. lt is considered to be such as to make a significant contribution to the solution of the world prob- lem of shortage of fats and proteins. lt also has e great value for the industry itself. It al- lows widely varying quantities of fish to be ab- sorbed day by day into the processing plants, thus providing an answer to he problem of how to deal with gluts without waste. A number of these new plants are to be constructed in time for dealing with the catch from this year's sum- mer fishing season.

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When the people of Ontario bought out the privately owned power enterprises, it was because they wanted "the people" to own the utilities. This move was supposed to remove them from the

' "clutches" of an "irresponsible group of private

capitalists.” In recent weeks, Torontonians and other Ontario p ople have had a ohonce to see something of how such arms of government work. People have been caught in stalled elevators. ln- dustrial processes have been halted with ‘serious loss. A large segment of the nation has been seriously incommoded. What the public does notlike, and what it will long remember as typi- cal of bureaucratic arrogance, says The- Finan- cial Post, is the manner in which power-saving policies were put into effect; by pulling switcher, regardless of consequences. The private busi- ness has its task to explain its problems and its plans to the public in considerable detail.“ ltr welfare is flori- lnseperobly with the. peblldswllig illness tesepport it. lf-tlrot rndersiendlh end

support is ‘lest, the business is infer _ '

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A lecturer telh ee that prehis- toric man wee neither es round- shouldered as ourselves or bow-leg- ged. Then came texes- Guelph Mercury. r

The everego person ueee eight mstches n day, according to statis- tics. What is done with all the other ones people borrow? - chat- ham News.

The R.C.A.1i‘. hockey player shown kissing Barbara. Ann has his eyes shut. A result, no doubt. of his training in blind flying. — Windsor Star.

There hes never been e sumpt- uary low, beer or liquor, in On- tarlo. that has given all round sat- isfaction, and there never will be. —St. Cotharines Standard.

Around ll billion bottles of the stuff (soft drinks) went. down Am- erican throats lest year, or 115 per man. woman and child. That was peak consumption, 15 bottles per person more than 1n pre-wer 1940. - Wail Street Journal.

Now. a hunch of dirt-disturbing, publicity-seeking politicians and pink-tinged union troublemakers are trying w cause a. rhubarb nnu embarrass n bunch of respectabie businessmen who decided to get into the council where the busi- nessman should have been ell e- long. - Timmins Press. s

In the upper reaches of North- wesoern Ontario, hundreds of square miles of good hunting coun- try await the first. sportsman. Bu’. of course before that. can be done. Ontario Government. must. make a start in opening up the settled section to the south. Which uriii remind us that we’have not yet. started on a highway from East,- ern Canada to Northwestern On- tario along the north shore of Lake Superior from Sault. Ste. Marie to the lakehead. - Farr. William Times-Journal.

Canada has the raw materials for synthetic gasoline in great, quantities. Alberta. has. too. abun- dant, supplies of water. which is essential to such production. Re- cent oil strikes in the province have been most encouraging. bu: they have not. and probably will not. make Canada self-sufficient- Now is the time for exrperlmenta tion and development" of syn- tbetic fuels. not" when an emer- gency suddenly cut off nine-tennis of the country! supply. —- Calgary Herald.

We Canadians are e free peo- ple. We are so free that. ive src often a nuisance to ourselves. Take the matter of clean streets. Canari- ian cities are dlrtler than any o.’ the great European cities. dirtier than most of the major cities of. South America. It. is not. so much because our street-cleaning systems are inferior, it, is simply because most free Canadians interpret as part of their freedom the right w stroll down the streets, scattering refuse gully and thoughtlessly es they go. That empty cigarette peek:- age, that banana skin, the dis- carded newspaper. or package wrapper-off they go. out. of specu- lng cars and into the street. Who cares? The city will clean it. up. The responsibility 1s on every oiLf- zen. Those who think and those who care, will not litter up the streets. — Guelph Mercury.

A complete eurvey of ell foot- paths and brldlewnys throughout Britain with the preparation of a national record is urged by tho Ramblers‘ Association, who have published their recommendations to Planning Minister Lewis Sil- kin‘s committee on "Rights o! Way." New footpaths which shouia be created. say the association, are n Pennlne way of 250 miles from Derbyshire to Northumberland and a path all along the coast which could become Britain's best long- distance path. The association points out. that the development. of grouse moors and deer forests has led to the complete exclusion of the public from many beau- tiful stretches of mountain sid moor. They demand on eat which will give everyone the right. to walk over land of that. type. And the association cello attention no the increasing practice of charging fences with electric current which causes shook end discomfort, end it should be treated es e nuisance to the highwoy- London mo.

It wee our rlentisfwiro told Ill about, it. How they got around to the subject we don't. know, but. e patient, sn English lady of the old school, related that. her fath- er. a rtlokler for etiquette, insist- ed on obedience to e rule. 1t. wee. "when guests ere leaving, never close the front door t.lll they ere out of hearing of the sound of closing. Never turn out the light till they ere well sway." We men- tioned this to e friend. 11c Wlo much impressed. Now he betas ue. He eeye he followed thepettern at manners one night when the temperature we: bciow. nero. While he, the perfect host. mod ehlv- ering on the threshoirL-the guest: buttoned hie overcoat. out, on 1m gloves, got inoo hie oer, couldn't find Me kcyflot out, book off his’ gloves, untruttoned hie -oost. wont through his pockets several times‘ found the key, hilitioned up his cont, put on hie gloves, lot bsoir into the. oer, out h earl?! lu windshield, I0 lit Illd ht hr ‘five minutelwith life 01! the etert- or. "r aunties drill. leiii the-inert we once celled friend, "nap lied [week in notation. I! .31 elem the ooor-eofggtm titre pro Fur‘, I

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CHARLOTTETOWN

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‘Ilrle column h epea_ to 4 the dreaeeelon by corre- ' ‘ of qleetlone el' Internet. The Charlottetown g Guardian rioee not ncoener- lly endorse the opinion n1 correspondent!- _

+v+e+o++u+++e++e$ Ml. PBQFITT REPLIES

5113-411 your issue of March 1st. Mir- J. A. Gillies has e letter in "M011 11B mikes some accusations fora-ruin: the-executive or r m,» Federation of Agriculture. As president of lrhls organization, I 1m obliged to write and deal with these matters.

His statement that "the present, executive of the board of directors of the Federrfsn‘ of Agriculture has been antagonistic. biased, and

prejudiced against the managerof

the llfarketing Board for some time," 1s, in short. not correct. An tiwortulnlty to prove my statement in public, with the press attending will be welcomed at, the earliest possible moment. That the exe- cutive is made up mainly of em- ployees of ube Department of Agri- mrltiure is also untrue, and can‘ very easily be disproved.

I may eey it was not. the or the intention of the Federation to have this Marketing Board question aired or discussed at the annual meeting on the 26th of February. This matter came lo the meeting wholly unexpectedly from the floor, and came in the form of direct questions to the ‘president. Not wanting to prolong e. discussion on the matter without Mr. Gillies or his board of direct- ors present. I entertained the idea of appointing n coormlttce, which I felt. however, at the time. would not be well received by Mr. G11- lies.

Some time ago. we made some attempts to moat, Mr. Gillies and his board of directors. and clear up these suspicions and rmlsundevstandlngs that. are so prevalent among our farmers. but. ‘we failed to get co-operntlon frcm the manager.

The statement-s coming to us from the members of the Market- ing Board were to the effect that

they had not had any annual meetings or board of directors meetings for years. Further that

11o auditor's statement was avail- able for the information of thr- board or the members. We fell; that these matters must. be clarified. and that, I can assure you. was behind our first move. ' We. as s Federation of Agricult- ure. are still willing to meet ‘Mr. Gillies and his board and have tihese matters cleared up. If the re-organizatlon of this Marketing Board on truly cooperative limes ..ls the answer. we again pledge our svnracrt and come-ration.

it is not my intention to follow this matter any further in the press. but I will gladly make any arrangements necessary to bring our boards together and havé mutual confidence and under- standing restored.

I rm. Sir. etc. R. A. PROFITT

Freetown, March 1.

WHAT A BOY—NEEDS

Sir.--1n is recent, letter a corre- spondent stated Lhat. all things considered, he thought e. high iohool in Charlottetown about. es necessary as s fifth wheel on s coach. It. is difficult. to under- stand how any interested nd-uit could truthfully make such" e statement.

There will always be some stu- dents who will make the grade to university under our present‘ set- up. They would do well even if they never attended e school at ell. And here are others who would fell by the way no matter how good the facilities. But. there is that, large group in between that, is our chief concern.

Think for a moment of the ob- stacles that they are up against under the present. system. Every-

body uppreoiates the problem of ’

the P. w. C. entrance cxsnsinu- tions which tend to make young people sacrifice real education: discussions of and investigations into the ways of the world-to the more pressing matter of memor- izing answers to the "sure” ques- tions that. will be asked in July. This is especially true for those unfortunetes who fail on their first. sttempt. and return to grade 10 for a "do or die" second year. Any boy who falls to hurdle this entrance barrier end who can't. afford to leave the city to obtain his university matriculation la for- ever handicapped when it comes to jabs end promotions not to mention his 1o: et. not, being ia- troduoed to modern methods of eeekinl after truth. "

But epsrt from these obvious disadvantages which Charlotte- town students must face, there seems to me to be another one. lees obvious, perhaps, but. no less important. After e boy hes been in the some building for eight years he bee learned all the rapes end knows e11 the angles end .for his own good he needs e change. Que doesn't. need to be e psycholo- gist. to realise this; it. 1e common eenee. Hevoyou ever watched e bunch of grade 0 boys at e city sechooit They're big shots: they look with disdain on the hundreds of .701i11l8lere milling about them: theyrerlt-mc use to teik to them.