“Tansy: ‘s. earl-L. ewe-L...“ ‘L. -._._.-.-. .

CHARLOTTETOWN»

PAGE FOUR

THE GUARD

I

30ml" Dnlly (Founded in mm

AN

Authorised no Second Clan Mail, Poet Office

Department. Ottawa. The lelnurl Guardian: Publishing Co.

Editor and Managing Dlrectur, J. it. Burnett.

Aleoclata Editor, lfraak Walker.

"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than

the Weakest lnk"

Strictly In Words

MONDAY, OCT. 8, I940

Note is taken in the Toronto Globe and Mail

of the Maritime complaint about the disadvan- iage to this section of Canada of the imposition if horizontal freight rate increases.’ The new ruling of an eight percent increase will cost Maritime shippers $3,200,000 a year. earlier 2i percent hoist cost them $8,000,000 a year. Ontario and Quebec do not suffer propor- tionately—a fact which the Toronto paper freely admits. lt says:

probably The

"Far from disputing it, many in Ontario and

Quebec would completely accept it in principle. These two Provinces are not in the position of selfish exploiters who want to enjoy cheap trans- port at the expense of other parts of the country. They are merely reaping the benefits of their geographic position and the competition of air and highway carriers in their territory. "These benefits, it is important to come to them inevitably and automatically re- gardless of what the Tran-sport Commission may rule. Suppose the Commission authorized the rail- ways to get all the extra revenue they need from Ontario and Quebec, as the Provinces best able to afford it, the railways would almost certainly find it impossible to comply. Raising their rat:s here to the requisite level would lose them so much business to truckers and airlines that the cure would prove worse than the disease.

note,

"Thus, as so often happens, justice in ‘this

case is by no means a simple matter of soaking the rich; and how the Maritimes and the West are ever to have cheap transport, without a great gain in population and industry, is hard to see. But the recent rate boost was explicitly called a temporary measure. The Royal Commission Transportation may bring up a formula which will improve the pssition of the outlying Pro- vinces while meeting the railways’ needs. lf so, it will have plenty of suipport in Central Canada."

Oil

The "support", however, will presumably be

stricter in words. On-tario ond Quebec are only Provinces which have not joined in protest against the Trans-port Board's previous rulings ond they have evidently no intention of doing so in this case. We must continue to get along in our representations without them; and spare us their crocodile tears.

lihurchili Needed

"Cutting the pound sterling was like

"At home, however, British

the

they can

splitting

the atom," observes The Christian Science Moni- tor. There has been a world reaction, and it has the gravest political implications. ln the United Kingdcm there are spreading strikes and slow- downs; France is affected as well. The Monitor declares that the United States did not tell Brit- ain to devalue the pound, but American interests had a lot to do with it. Evidently that paper is not impressed with the labor troubles in Brit- ain, when it comments: leaders must bear their responsibilities without reference to external influences. What Britain need at this moment is leaders-hip that can make the people as aware of an enemy when the foe hides in trade statistics as when he stands in uni- form on the Channel. lt would be a help to have someone around who can talk of the Briton's din- ner pail as convincingly as Churchill talked of a Briton's freedom.

appears to

"For it is evident from British reports that

World Food Distribution

the average Briton does not know his country's security and his own are besieged. After Parlia- nent meets, if elections must follow, we may see e clearing of the air which, for the moment, ap- pears to have been only super-charged by pound devaluation."

An international clearing house for surplus

food stocks has been proposed by Mr. N. E. Dodd, director-general of the Food and Agricultural Or- ganization of the United Nations, and it is antici- pared that some large-scale action, along this line will be taken at the Organizations conference in November.

lt is claimed that food production now is

In the 1930's these conditions led

less than in pre-war years when l,O00,000,000 hu- man beings were constantly undernourished. Since then, too, the world's population has increased by 200,000,000. Three-quarters of the inhabitants - of food-short countries go to bed hungry each night. Yet surpluses are developing in some coun- tries, particularly American wheat, seeds, and some animal products.

corn, oil

I'D COM-

petitive dumping that provoked import barriers. Countries with surpluses resorted to restriction of production and destruction of food. Some nations tried to meet their own needs uneconomicolly. - Frrmce, for example, grew more wheat and dras- tically reduced imports from Canada. Farm prices fell and depression was intensified. The purpose of the FAO plan is to prevent a return to this state of-affairs:

The proposed clearing house would help

ill

move surplus food to countries in need. Accord- ing to the Ottawa Citizen, it would be authorized to acquire as capital the equivalent of five bil- ‘lioifdollan contributed by its members in food or in their own currencies. To get supplies additional to normal consumption, buying countries could pay the full market price in their own presumably incaivvertirle currencies or get cut-rate prices by paying in other immediately acceptable currency. ly eiorlrig soft currency credits temporarily, the clearing house would facilitate trade despite the dollar shortage.

food,

The plan is regarded as more realistic than

the earlier project of o World Food Board that '51 m»; itlllll N“?! P"! the»,

have con-trolled prices as well as the flow of sup- plies. lt is similar to plans proposed by the Ca- nadion Federation of Agriculture and the Interna- tional Federation of Agricultural Producers, but contemplates handling larger volumespf food and provides a bridge over currency difficulties. lt would protect producers of surpluses from ruin, encourage full production, and work for the ire- lief of hunger. ln many lands, however, the foster- ing of technical improvements in farming would continue to be a major task for FAO.

EDITORIAL NOTES

in France and Italy it is festival of the vine that outdaes all others in importance, but here it is the potato festival.

I I

T-he landscape of the Island is seen at its best these days as will be realized by anyone who travels b-y car to Borden or Summerside via Bon- shaw. The beauty of the scenery at Churchill is indescribable.

The Royal Commission an Transportation is reported to be costing $4ll,5Z5. lf it saves the Maritimes and the Western Provinces say two mil- lion a year it has earned its keep.

t i I i

The Magdalens form part of the province of Quebec but the tale of their needs as told in Parliament, strikes an even greater note here, their closest neighbour, than in that Province.

I I O

George Bancroft, American historian and states-man, born this date I800, was.,governor of Massachusetts in i844, and U. S. minister at St. .lames's i846, later minister at Berlin in i867. ls best known for his famous History of the United States.

I I O

lt is curious that the Federal Bureau of Sta- tistics which is so efficient in providing statistics on all sorts of business is unable to inform the House of Commons on the production cost per pound of butter and margarine respectively. In an agricultural country, one would have thought that would be the first business it would be con- cerned about; but, of course, none is so blind as he who does not want to see.

c- o w

Though the Bureau of Statistics cannot sup- ply us with the cost of production of a pound of butter or margarine, it reports that a survey showed almost half Canada's domestic cookstoves are fuelled by wocd or cool. Cooking with gas runs a poor second to the old-fashioned way of fixing the family dinner, while electricity is a fairly close third. More than two-thirds have washing machines, most of them electrically-oper- ated. About 30 per cent enjoy mechanical re- frig-erators. Some-what more than that have va- cuum cleaners. Almost 94 per cent own radios.

I v or

An old and highly successful business in the City has changed hands, and a busy citizen in Summerside has transferred his interests wholly to Charlottetown. Apart from his business Mr. Hughes is known locally from his connection with the Exhibition Association and curling. Mr. Baker is a Charlottetonian, though since the war he has been more closely identil-ied with Monta- gue and Summerside. He has been for sorne time a member of the Cit-y School Board. He will now concentrate all his business attention and ener- gies in furthering the interests of the fine old drug business he has acquired.

Q f I

The Potato Festival which opens in the Forum this evening combines the elements of good en- tertainment with competition in quality produc- tion of a vegetable which has made Prince Ed- ward island famous throughout the continent. The potato displays and demonstration booths will be well worth seeing, while the oldtime fidd|ers' contest, step-dancing, boxing and other events will doubtless draw large crowds of en- tertain-ment seekers. The Festival is under the auspices of the P. E. I. Innkeepers’ Association, and i-t is expected that the entry list will be large and representative.

There is always something to be thankful for. In announcing that precipitation for the first 28 days of September totalled 3.56 inches, F. W. Baker, weather official at the Dominion’ Experi- mental Farm there, reminded Ottawa citizens that heavy precipitation now would help avert a win- ter electric power shortage. The 3.56 inches of precipitation to date this month compared with only 1.24 inches for the whole month of September last year and an average September rainfall of 2.99 inches.

o e a

Montreal liotelmen have toted up their re- ceipts, compared notes on U. S. tourist spending and have arrived at an estimate of the season's spendings in Montreal. The total was $25,000,000 and the hotelmen say it is "a conservative esti- mate." The hoteirnen made their survey over a four-month period and ‘guessed that the ind-ivid- ual tourist spent from $25 to $30 a day. At the same time they are congratulating themselves that the season, which usually falls off around Labor Day, will continue for some time owing to a continuation of daylight saving time till the end of the present month.

I I I

The home in which Shakespeare's daughter once lived has been bought by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Hall's Croft is a fine half-tim- bered sixteenth century house in a charming gar- den, and was the only historic building with Shokespearian associations in Stratford-on-Aivon not owned by the Trust. It was the homefor many years of Shakespeare's daughter, Susanna, who married a well-known physician, Dr. John Hall, in i607. Apart from its associations, Halls Croft is an extremely picturesque house with many inter- esting architectural featutes. It is considered the best example of a Tudor town house in Strat- ford-on-Avon, in recent years it has been owned by Lady Elizabeth Montagu from whom the trus- tees have bought it. if the Trust had not acquired

it, the house would have been sold by public auc-

. . M, -~.»4»..m.~---».@-m~nua_.

c“ . M». mwr rumn -.s.»........ .. .

i "i x112‘. ‘at: ~».~.~.-".. cw n.»-.erm::s1~r1-.‘i.'.ri¢<. ‘.-.- . r

THE GUA- ueALY,

‘encasement-outcome PUBLIC FORUM

This column II open to the _ diecuaelan by correepondcnte ul questions of interest. The Guardian doee not necessar- ily endorse the opinion of correspondent; auteur/ewe»- ._ -- —

TIMOTHY SEED PRICES

Sir,—In your issue of Sept. 30th there appeared an item under the heading of "Among the Farmers: Federation of Agriculture News", re hayseed. “Timothy seed prices here for some unknown reason," it stated “are away below market quotations-Jourteen cents per lb. from the thresher and seventeen and eighteen cents afler local cleaning." The item advised lar- mers to hold their seed or ship it. through the local co-operalivcs and quoted a Montreal price for No. 1 timothy at thirty-four cents pcr lb.

The writer, although not. a buy- er or one actively engaged In farming, became quite intcrcslcd in the Timothy seed business, and had something to do with the getting it ready for the market. and is in a position to give first hand information. The shipping 0f Timothy seed ls about through for

this Fall. Some of the forum's may think that they have bccfl their

‘gypped" by those that got V seed, Some explanation is in order.

It is now two months past since Timothy was being bought and sold on the Island-a new venture for some of our Island men. Why (‘lid the Federation not give this news itcm then and give figures sho\v- ing items of cost,'etc.. before lhc seed would grade No. 1? All bags of seed, whether shipped in the rough (as it came from the thresh- er or from the cleaner) was tagged with the growel-‘s name or num- her thereon; each lat would be sampled and analyzed and weigh- cd by the buyer at its destination and this is expensive, and unless the bags were of extra good qual- ity’ and carefully sewn the shrink- age might be quite heavy.

One buyer (he operated a sec-d cleaning mill and bought seed as it came from the thresheri said that. the average amount taken out by the cleaner was twelve pounds to the cwt. Another buy- er (he did not have a cleaner but got a number of lots cleaned) said it cost him one cent per lb. to get. that work done besides the weight the mill took out. Pre- mier Jones stated before the Mari- time Board of Trade: “Our farm- ers gel only 64 cents where the Ontario farmer gets $1.11 for pola- loes," and there was much more work, expense and risk besides the very large amount of money paid out for a carload of Timothy seed compared to a carload of potatoes.

We cleaned many tons of Tim- othy seed for which the farmers got 18 1-2 cents per lb. just as it came from the cleaner. and were well satisfied and glad to gel clear of it. What would the Ca- nperatlves charge for bagging (96 lbs. net). tagging and storin", the seed, and where Is the work being done?

I am, Sir, etc. W. J. SEAMAN. Springfield Lot. 6'1.

IIOSPITALIZATION SCHEMES

Sir, - At the present 't.lme throughout. Canada there ls a gen- eral interest ln comparing volun- tary hospitalization plans, such as the Blue Crass, with compulsory hospitalization plans, such as ls tn effect; ln Saskatchewan. I would appreciate the opportunity of set.- ting forth certain facts which seem to have been overlooked so for.

In Saskatchewan, under the hos- pltallzatlon plan, the maximum which any family la required to pay is $30 per year. That. fee en- titles any member of the family to practically any hospital services ivhlch may be required for any length of time during the year. Under the plan every citizen of Saskatchewan ls protected, where- as under the Blue Cross plan tn other provinces only about. one third or less of the population ls protected.

Those who subscribe to the Blue Crass plan pay fees ranging up to $28. But. ln addition, they also pay provincial taxes enabling the Provincial Government to pay grants to hospitals; they pay taxes to their municipality for the pur- pose of making up hospital defic- its; they pay municipal taxes in cover the cost of hospitalization for lndigents; they probably ‘poke a personal contribution coward the upkeep of some hospital; it they go to hospital they pay half the cost of any care required beyond the maximum of 21, 8 or 81 days as the case may be; they pay all the cost. for hospitalization beyond 90 days; it they are hospitalized for some condltlor which existed before they became Blue Oraes sub- scribers they pay the whole cost; if their diagnostic services oost. more than $25 they pay the bal- ance.

When these factors are taken into consideration 1t. will be found that. the saskatchewen plan ren- ders a for greater community ser- vlcc at. considerably loos cost. than does the Blue Cross plan. It is a matter of common sense, as any- one famlller with insurance plltil can testify, that when n risk la spread over a greater number at people the coat of insuring against that. risk becomes lees.

‘ I am, Sir, eta.

E0. HANSON 0.0.9., Saskatchewan Boot! Regina, Balk. -

PROBE RIVER’! QECIITI

VANOOUVH. - (OP) - 1min- eors at the University olt British Oohnnbla era determined to find out any the lower Preset River tioode oadi year. ‘may ere bulld-

lng a scale model of the river and will make minute calculations of IMO: polled throtlh the model.

CHARLUITETO . . ._ -

‘r r

\%I i Tue ‘ FREIGHT RATF

def

8%

u."

i

iNCRiASE

x ~ , it.

1-! m; .

c, ,

Ir/ML '\' \i t" , ,

ll

-Q-eo¢-ueoo¢u;u , hOld Charlottetown

time r. n I.)

AUTUMN DAYS

"Thc first part of the month of September the weather hare in general is nearly as warm ns in August, but about the equinox the winds become mOre variable, ho- ing sometimcs to the riortlnvrird of west, which soon cools tho nlr, and also veering to the eastward with rnln; high winds lire (‘nm- mon for some days nltcr the equinox, and nftcr the middlr- of the month frosts are frequent about the heads of creeks, rivu- lets and low sprlngy lands. Upon the whole the weather is now more like the weather in Eng- land at the same season than any other pnrt of the yenr.

"October though sometimes wct ls often the plensnnlest; month in the year; the heats nrc conc- and the weather generally finc; the gales of wind which happen about the equinox, and the frosty even- ings and mornings which nrc common, seem to purify the nt- mosphere, and the air is remark- nbiy pure, elastic and oxliiliratlng. The same kind of weather often continues through the first fort- night of Novemhcr; sometimes it is so mild that the native straw- herrlos come into -blassom on southern aspects, as luxurlnntly ns in the month of May; in other years it is wet and variable, with frost and showers of snow, hut which does not let lie on tho ground more than n few hours."

—‘An Account o! Prince Edward Island, &c., by John Stow/art. Esq., 1806.

glhc Age-Old Story

D O33!

And If they be bound ln fetter-n,

and be lioided in cords of afflic- tion: then He showclh them their work.

and their transgresslonmi

icommamicth that they return from

WHO LOVES THE RAIN Who lnvcs the ruin Ami lovcs his lurnc. And looks on lifi- with quiet eyes.

Him will I follow through the} storm; ,

And ni his hearth-fire keep mo norm;

Nor hell, nor heaven shall that soul surprise,

Who loves the rain And loves his home, And looks on life with quiet eyes.

—Frances Show

Footnote To History

(H. J. C. ln tho llnlilnx Chronicle- Ilornld)

At. first glance, thorn would seem in be little relationship ho- twocn the fact that the Earl of l-lzircwond hnd to ask the King's permission to marry Marion Stein, nnrl the fact that over an Prince Edward Island tlicre nre such place-names as Richmond, lmnnox Island, .. Buntiunv. Conolly nnrl George Islands, March Wntcr. Chlchcstcr Cnvc, Gnodwood River

But there is n very definite connection. The island nrimcs rc- cnll the stoxy of Lady Snrnh Len- nox, sister of the tlitrrl Duke of Richmond rind Lcnnox. Earl of Dnrnley, Enrl of March, Duke of Gordon. Lady Sarnh was very beautiful and wns sallkhl all?!‘ l" mnrrlagr by King Georile III- Howevcr, the Princess Dowager and Lord Bllle were very much opposcd to a match and rllrl their

— that they have exceeded. He open- eth also their ear to discipline. IINI

iniquity.

remit.

husband of Lnrly Snrnh, and "one

— Notes By

I

CLFOBER 4, 1949

The Way —

Fortunato‘ the fannafa Ills! is now able to dress suitably Willi‘ our sacrificing the Parisian touch. Picture, for instance, "a hone- blanket tweed skirt. Wllh l °°"' vertlble hood stole far dashing off to meet. trains," an the farmer! wife is all the time doing. ‘Mock country accessories, belt "Id handbag covered with gilt chicken wire," come from Parln- Willi mock chicken wire, fashion 8°" grass roots. -— Toronto Star-