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Morning Dally (Founded in 1881) Authorized as Second Class Mall. Post 081M Department, Otoaws.

Irooldflll. his A. Burnett; Vice-President. Wm. k Burnett; Secy.-Trons., G. M. Burnett: Editor lull Managing Director, J. ll. Burnett; Anocloto Editor.

Prank Walker. '

"Tho Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink.‘

TUESDAY, OCTOBER B, 1948

Tourist Ferries iloedod

In the opinion of Mr. J. R. MacNichol, M. P., who visited here last week in his fact-find- ing tour of the Maritimes, what we need for this Province in addition to the new car ferry now being completed at Sorel are a number of high speed tourist ferries. This recommenda- tion is in accord with a resolution passed by the Summerside Board of Trade to be presented at the forthcoming annual meeting of the Mari- time Board in Charlottetown, calling for pro- vision of an auxiliary ferry to be operated in- dependently of the railway schedule for the purpose of carrying autos to and from the ls- land. It is too bad that this matter was not drawn directly to the attentional the Minister of Transport, Hon. Mr. Chevrier,_on his visit here last week; but no doubt he has already been advised of the resolution indirectly.

Actually it has been stated in the Legis- lature that an auxiliary ferry is being provided; but no such assurance appears in Hansard, and it is noteworthy that Mr. Chevrier, in the two addresses he gave on the Island last Monday, made no reference to this subiect.

But it is one about which his department will hear a good deal from now on. The Summer- side Board is to be commended on its decision to bring this matter before the Maritime Board for its indarsation. It is essential that we get public opinion behind us in the other Maritime Provinces, and this is the logical way to go about the matter. The objective should be bet- ter provision ot Borden and Tormentine next spring for our growing tourist trade.

Calendar Reform

The World Calendar Association, lnc., is carrying on its persistent campaign to persuade national legislatures to not only see the error of the present eccentric calendar but to do something about it — namely, adopt the World Calendar. Already fourteen countries have en- dorsed this reformed calendar: Norway, Greece, Estonia, Hungary, Spain, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Mexico, Uruguay, Panama, Turkey, Afghan- lstan and China. Not long ago, the Newspaper Advertising Executives Association of America passod a strongly-worded resolution calling upon tho U. 5., Congress to adopt the World Calen- dar, principal advantage of which is its consist- ont, accurate and businessli'e uniformity. It consists of twelve months divided into equal quarters, tho first month of each quarter having thirty-one days, tho remaining two months in each quarter thirty days. Thus January has thirty- ono days. February thirty, March thirty; April

havo been possiblo hitherto.

THE CI-IARLUTTETOWN GUARDIAN

In tho matter of yield, however, they hope the now oat will bo at least equal to the well- known variety Vanguard, whose blood runs in its own veins.

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Summerside has become the laundry of the Island, barring tho services of the industrious Chinese citizens. Q l I In days past, Newfoundland wai known as "the graveyard of the mariner". Now it seems to add to that reputation "the graveyard of tho airman." I I i I Trygve Lie, Secretary-General of the United Nations, recently stated: "The free exchange of ideas and facts between the peoples and no- tions of the world, is the very life blood of tho United Nations." i i F U A reporter asked a German in Nuernberg last week if he was in a line-up to hear judgment in the war crimes court. "We are lining up for fish," the German said. "A special ration of one. herring a head has arrived in Nuernberg." I I Q fi

Even the Germans do not want to harbour three of their number who escaped conviction of the Nurenberg trials. Henceforth they will ap- parently be men without a country. By the same token, we have a convicted fourth, doing time in Dorchester penitentiary.

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Interest is becoming keener in the pros- pective appointment of a Supreme Court Judge in succession to Hon. Mr. Justice Arsenault, about to retire. Many feel themselves "caIled", but only one can be "chosen" and his choice is largely in the hands of Messrs. Douglas, Grant and McNaught, with the Premier probably hav- ing "a say" should the recommendation to the Federal Government be divided.

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Wendell Wilkie, U. S. A., Republican can- didate for the Presidency, died this date I944; he earned distinction in two respects, first, as a rank outsider, capturing nomination at his party convention; and second, in swinging round and wholeheartedly supporting his political op- ponent's policy in entering the war on the side of the Allies; he did more, he undertook a mis- sion to European capitals in the interest of President Roosevelt's administration.

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Rev. Harold L. Henderson, B.A., who is mentioned as an independent candidate in the Portage La Prairie lMan.) Federal by-election, was one of the outstanding debatersin P. W. C. debating society when he attended there. Subsequently as a student at McGill he took an active part in the debates of the Students’ Council, and since then he caused somewhat of a sensation in a discussion in the General As- sembly of the Presbyterian Church. He is a go-getter, and pursues his course with the en- thusiasm of a convinced reformer.

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If ever Prime Minister King had an oppor- tunity to abolish, or even reform the Senate, as he threatened in the days of Bar- den, Meighen and Bennett, that opportunity is

thirty-one, May thirty and June thirty and sim- llarly for the remaining two quarters. By the samo token the first day of each month falls on I Sunday. The "odd" or balancing days are Yoar-End Day, an extra Saturday following Do- camber 3O every year and Leap-Year Day, an- othsr extra Saturday, following June 30 in leap yoars. _ In July l5 and August I, respectively, bills were introduced in the U. S. Hauso of Represen- totlvos and Senate. They aro described as having both Democratic and Republican sup- port, being jointly sponsored. The Senate bill had the distinction of being the first ever in- ‘troduced in that chamber for calendar revis- lon purposes.

Scientific, industrial, labor, educational and other advantages accruing from a mathematic- ally accurate calendar which would be the same year in and year out are so apparent as to need no elaboration. The bills placed before the U. S. Congress are for study and it is not anticipated that they will be acted upon in haste; nor should they be. But it is proposed that the effective date of the recommended legislation be January l, i950, since both calen- dars start that year on a Sunday, and a confus- ion over a change-over at that time would con- sequently be cut to a minimum. '

New Rust-Frost Wheat

A drilling example of the need for constant vigilance comes to light in the development, by plant breeders and pathologists of the Domin- ion Rust Research laboratory at Winnipeg, of a new variety of oats which is resistant to all types of rust now known in this country. There have been other rust-resistant varieties before it. For a time rt appeared that some of its predecessors such as AlflX and Exeter, products of tho some tsam of scientists, might be tho final answer to rust. Within the last four years, however, now virulent races of rust appeared on an epidemic scolo.

Tho laboratory was already prepared for iust such a contingency. Fourteen years ago thoy had made the first crosses loading to tho varioty which is now in process of multiplica- tion so that thore will be enough for all wost- orn farmors who want to grow it. This process will toko a fow years longer, and in tho moan- tinlo, because science is never content to stand still, something oven more promising may coms

that tho now strain is completely satisfactory I in oll rospocts.

so sovo just how good a yisldor it ls ‘m cpmpori- s

son with today's standard oats. And thoro aro it was impressed on the U. F. C. executive that othsr agronomic propsrtlos which can only bo any drop in milk production now will havo vary '

against him but because the split in

party ranks.

Government regard tho viow of tho U. F. C.'s willingness to resume do- liveries immediately upon the ment's accession to such a "lust and reason- able request," rrrganized groups in Canada should bring all possible pressure to 1., London m, on,” d“, our or bear on tho Fodoral government to set up a fact-finding board, Premier Douglas o] Sask- atchowan declares. ancos that for tho present flow of fluid milk would not bo stopped. Mr. Douglas pointed out to tho oxocutivo that piclrotlng should bo con- IIOIIQ- finod to persuasion, and any resort to violonco

For it is not yet established beyond doubt would compel police to protect thoso making de-

lts originators aro tho first to pickoting would be of such-a nature. lnolto that cloar when they point out that whilo culture Minister Nollot had boon greatly con- 1ft "m"! I! roslstonco to ovsry known raco of stom and cornod with possible results of o farm strike in crown rust is a doflnito attributo, thoy aro not which formors let their cows go dry, with ro- l

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now when thero are 65 Liberals against only 23 Progressive Conservatives. On the other hand, should the forces of Mr. Bracken win at the forthcoming redistribution election, and with tho Duplessites form a Government, it will take another two generations for the Progressive Conservatives to get control of the Upper House, which Liberal Senator Duff now claims is so essential to the well-being of Canada. Q s i I

Opening a Conference on "homo-making for all," Miss Ellen Wilkinson, British Minister of Education said that thousands of teachers are now being specially trained to give home- craft instruction to schoolchildren, young people about to be married and to husbands and wives. Eleven special training colleges providing three- year courses are packed to overflowing while 5,500 in the post year havo attended local re- fresher courses. Home instruction starts in the nursery schools. The, aim in secondary schools is to give each girl a long weekly lesson for at least two years before leaving school. i O I 1'

What happened in the Pontiac by-election will have more weight in tho East block at Ot- tawa, says a LuuGSPOfldEIIl, than what is to come this month in Parkdale (Toronto) and Portage (Manitoba). The Liberals are not so rash as to hope for any upset in Toronto, and the latest news from the Manitoba battleground is far from heartoning to tho Fodoral cabinet. So if any desperate party moves are made by Mackenzie King before the end of the year it won't be because three by-elections have gone Liberal ranks in Pontiac wasn't healed, there being no handy men in the cabinet capable of closing the

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How does the Saskatchewan farmers’

Provincial strike? In

Federal govern-

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The U. F. C. govo assur-

Ho received tho assurance that all Agri-

ivories.

‘he Moot Rev. Fisher. u: as a man taste when he said it thrilled and delighted hlm to ride with a pol- lgemescort straight through all red _g s. Life. the kind we always thought of with a capital L awlsv

lv and stubbornly it usually manages to remain. It is well enough to ride 1n the cob of a locomotive engine. tn ride an elephant in the open-

depicting Sultan's court. But for the nec- lar svlthout a dreg. the rose wit-h- out a thorn. the toot without a re- gret. give us a ride with a police gcsort. Us and the Archbishop.

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outside the flees of the Diamond Corporation

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The average hubby like: s. wlfo who ls o Rood mixer-in the kitch- enI—S8.SKlsl00u Star-Phoenix.

A diplomat to tho follow who claims he didn't do any such thing-and promises he never will a0 It. again-Saskatoon Star-Phoe- nix

Recent time studios havo shown that men’; shirts could bo monu- factured with much less trouble than it ta-kes the manufacturers to explain why thero are no shirts-Edmonton Journal.

—Now comes o food chemist to soy that ‘teen-ago girls sro ruin- ing their prospects for mother- tlood by ice cream sodas. The ln- nocent soda now lakes its place with corsets. high heels. late hours. dancing, cigarettes and cocktails. and the many other things that have been making women unfit for motherhood during the lost century or sm-Klngston Whig- Standard.

It would bo pleasant to forget all about the atomic bomb. Many cf us have been doing that in s. way. But the war departunen-ts or other powerful notions and would-be powers do not forget. The United States hos the atomic bomb and only something just as good. if not better. will satisfy them. The arms race 1s on.- Minneapolls Star-Journal.

rrofenslonal football players in Great Britain recently threatened la strike. ‘Itle Government right- lv lost no time ln stepping in and preventing this major dislocation. After all. the public may be will- ing to stand for having its gas shut off. its food supplies threat- ened. exports curtailed or trans- pOrI lied up because of labor dis- putes. But it will not stand for nllv monkey business in such an important industry. Fun comes first-Winnipeg Tribune.

New York's police force before the vtar munbered almost 19.000. In the war it dropped to slight- lv over 15.000. Last week some 2.000 war veterans Joined "The Finest." The New York Times re- ports. The rookies will earn 82-- 140 a year. plus s $350 cost-of- livintr bonus. They work eight- hour shifts. have the prospects of pensions and in general find the job on the force attractive. There ls. however. one drawback. Be- cause of n shortage of blue unl- fcrrms. the men must temPOTQTIIY wear khaki.

Eavesdropping on bread talk is not all as reassuring as our cor- respondent flnds It at his holiday hotel. comments the Manchester Guardian. There nre grlmmcr ac- cents on the local buses-as wit- ness lwo housewives on the same subject the other day. Without stretching an ear too for. much of the conversation \h‘BS lost. but voices were raised towards the end and there was no miSsln-g the last dark utterance: "There'1l be n revolt. that's what t.here'll he. love. That's what started the French Revolution, vknow — bread. y‘know, and cake."

It cannot, unfortunately, be said that the King: past record gives confidence. His first; tenure of the throne was ended bv sentence of bantslunent for plotting the overthrow of the constitutional government of the country. With- in a. year of his return he had given Metaxas permission. on the pretext of a Communist revolu- tion, to abolish parliament and

Introduce the apparatus of dic- tatorship. Now he retums to a country incomparably more dis-

turbed and possessing greater op- portunities and excuses for a re- nressive autocracy. But Greece also expects more of her King. and ll ls lo be hoped he will rise to the occasion. -- London Econ- omist.

A survey of tho women students of almost any Canadian univers- iLv Will shOW s considerable pro- portion of them proposing to en- page m such studies as pathology and bacteriology. or ln occupa- tional and electrical merllpl’. X- my. or that newest of them all. clinical photography. For all these branches of medical science. there is a plethora of candidates. so the future supply of technicians threaten; entirely to overlap the demand. Yet, thc oldest profes- sion ancillary to that of medl- clne — nursing -- so pdly lacks new entrants that hospitals all over Canada are still obliged to keep wards closed. and new hos- pitals projected and building are wondering how they arc going to obtain the necessary nursing

staffs-J-fallfax Chronicle. ,

Tho Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Francis established himself with of discriminating

Tlhat, Archbishop. ls the back there before learning how acute- uncapltellzed It is fine

lng grand march of the clrcm.

Louis Post-Despalch.

A foot black saloon cor drew 3* I-tolbom-vlnduct of-

lt stepped a mart with five omall boxes — wra-pprd in canvas. London- Dally Moll. were 0216.000 worth of diamonds -lndustrial diamonds. final consignment of 24.500

worth which during lhc past low weelos have reached the ofty from Montreal. via BOAn Llberators. travelled up from with anlv one "nerd-on airport security man.

wire-bound sealed and relates the In the boxes

and the

.000 London airport. in whey have the slrport

This vast fortune the residue of the

ems-k representing nearlr 12.000- 000 carats built up by the

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ssssssod oftor fisld trials on -o widor scolo than sorious offsets lotor.

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Sheepskin Glamorizedl

(Lorry Dock in tho Financial Poll.) - Perhaps the fdstest-Bfflwlnltbull‘

ness in Canada today I! M10" ‘m;

which means lh€€p|kln Elm" '

o . o four yurs n80 "W" wdldlrlltus rlirouton fur cost in cop" tlvlty, Now mouton is offorlngntlh: customers fur coats at I300 ll are hard to distinguish from thou- sand-dollar seal or beaver coats. This Winter mouton will e999" l! mink and perhlltl I" "db PM” and yollovvs never found in any M!“ ural fur-bearing animal before.

But the big contribution of mo-u- ton is to make an artlstocrnt out of sheepskin and a. mane out! of fur cod s.

Mouton has opened Fifth Avo- nuo to sheepskins that might ath- erwlso never have done more than ling a work jacket. Al. ‘the lam! time mauton has made ‘fur C031! for oil" a real possibility. At 1 time when all fur coats have gone. up sharply mauton coats still sell for about half the price of musk- rat, o fifth tn: prlcg of seal.

The story is a triumph ln re- search of Osnadllsn and Ameri- can fur laboratories and experts think the results wlll pretty well revolutionize the fur industry,

In the new process shee kin gets sheared, combed and “pastlclzed" into a thing of beauty. The kinky wool ls transformed into o man of lustrous plastic hairs that. l0 longer tangle and are water re- pellent. I

Last, Winter, demand for the new mouton coat far outstripped production capacity l-n both Canada and the United States-was so great as to send the few fortunate firms with knowledge of the pro- cessback to work all Summer with increased staff and expanded plant facilities. There are at least four Canadian companies In the mc-ulon processing business today -two ln Montreal and two ‘rn Toronto. One of the largest fur companies in this country has an- nounced its intention of entering the field as well. at least one small- er enterpriser ls planning to start this year. l

Several different processes or. variations are in use. but all are based on the same principle and aim gt the some goal-to give the sheep hair a "permanent straight,"- a permanent gloss and permanent softening. Mouton men agree that the new processes have overcome the old handicap of sheepskin coats— the tendency to bunch and “felt.” |

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A good lrt. of the credit for original ant successful research in this country goes to Samuel Mos- koff. Toronto chemist dyer.

rEnlering the fur business in 1938 with o capi-tal of $50. Mr_ Moskoff has recently committed his com- pany lo a huge new $500,000 fur plant project, As far back as 1940 the young chemist - he is only 36 —was experimenting with Aus- tralian sheepskins in addition to guiding the fortunes of a small growing fur dressing and dyei-ng business. When he learned how to use an aldehyde base--one of the family of chemicals used In plasti- cizing -whale tempo of his rc- search program quickened.

Gradually the sheepskin was made to yield up its stubborn “woolly" qualities and lake on n new, smart, super-soft, straight- pi-led appearance.

Mr. Moskcff estimates that the advent of the new and improved mouton coat will eventually double the potential fur-coat market in Canada. ,

Although still in its early years laboratory tests have shown con- clusively that ‘the moutan can l; more durable than most other fur 0051!. Mr. Maskoff says. An impor- tant saving feature will be that; of the annual co-ld storage bill, for moths can't eat mouton. The plus-l tic molecules are armor-plate as far as they are concerned

In simple language the Moskoff mouton process consists of perman- ently de-krnklng wool and turning it lnto hair. then costln each fibre with o chemical and bak ng It on to Silly. All this involves about 72 different operations.

Th. Blwepiklnl. usually from year-old "shosrlings." arc Import. ed from South Africa or Australia. At the plant they are graded. Only about 40 percent of skins are suit-l

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WINTER OVERCOATS

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