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lilr. llcitonnelrs Appointment

_ During its long service to the community the Charlottetown Y. M. C. A. has ‘had many capable and devoted general secretaries, but none who "ihas filled the position with greater satisfaction to all concerned than Mr. James McConnell. It was, of course, a foregone conclusion that Mr. McConnell would be slated for promotion, and it is a matter of satisfaction that 181N115 new position as field secretary for the Maritimes he will still have the right to regard himself as a Prince Edward Islander, and will be in close con- tact, not only with the local "Y" but with our people generally.

In the few years in which he has been one of us, a new Charlottetown Y. M. C. A. has arisen which is one of the finest institutions of its kind In Eastern Canada. ltsuriembership has ‘largely increased and its activities are continuing ‘to expand in numerous worthwhile directions which will mean a great deal to the youth of this city and Province in the years to come. Much of the work of reorganization and development natur- ally fell upon Mr. McConnell's shoulders, and the manner in which he discharged his duties has been very widely appreciated. Not least among his qualifications are his genial disposition, his tact and courtesy, and his enthusiasm for his work which has been an inspiration to all our citizens. He has been ably assisted by Mrs. Mc- Connell, a talented vocalist and charming youth leader, who will be remaining here for some months until Mr. McConnell is settled in his new field. " ‘ i

World Food Supplies Improve

ln making an appraisal of the world food

situation in April, 1949, the Food and Agricul- ture Organization reports that world food produc- tion and supplies in 1948-49 were materially higher than in the previous year, and the grain surplus the highest since 1930-31. Production in North America and Europe exceeded expecta- tions, but the increase in the Far East was some- what below expectations principally because of disturbed political conditions. , A number of important developments dur- lng 1948'-49 afford general evidence of a turn for the better. Chief among these was the dis- continuance of international allocations of all foodstuffs except rice, though for other impor- tant commodities like cereals and fats a close watch is maintained with the possibility of re- suming allocations should the situation deterior- ate. Rationing of bread has been discontinued 1n most countries, and there is considerable re- taxation of other food rations throughout most of Europe. Larger supplies of wheat, sugar, and bther foods have been reflected in a further fall in world prices. Larger food supplies have eased inflationary pressure, restored confidence in the currency in countries like France, Austria, and Siam, and diminished black market activities. In ‘India, however, says the report, food controls were partly discontinued early in 1948 but had to be reimposed later owing to floods in some areas and severe drought in others.

The benefit of the increase in food supplies has been felt mainly in Europe, where supplies per person have probably increased by about ten per cent compared with the previous year. How- ever, consumption of fats and of animal products such as meat and milik has improved only slightly and is still substantially below pre-war.

Immigration 0n increase

The latest annual immigration figures re- leased by the Department of Mines, Ottawa, show that since-the end of the war, nearly 300,- 000 people have immigrated to this country, the vast majority of them from Britain and Europe. The number has steadily increased, year by year, until by now it is running at a rate higher than at any time since the boom years of the late nineteen twenties. For the year ending March t. 31, 1949, the total was 125,603, an increase of nearly 59 per cent. from the previous year. Although this sharp increase was registered in the total, there was an actual falling off in immigration from two sources, Britain and the United States. Slightly more than 40,000 people liigrated from Britain to Canada during the year, a decrease of 10.7 per cent. from the 1947- 48 fiscal year. Emigration from the United States to Canada dropped from 9,034 to 7,306, or just over 19 per cent. As against these reductions, im- , _ migration from the northern European countries ‘ ‘ jumped from 7,340 to 18,540. From other parts of Europe and the rest of the world, it rose from 18,000 to nearly 60,000. The figures show a substantial increase in ‘ emigration by refugees from countries now un- der the control of Russia. In the one year, im- migration of Czechs to Canada has increased from 285 ta 1,134; Esthonians, from 572 to 2,531; Lithuanians from 1,992 to 4,444; Latvians rfmio 897 to 3,445; Poles from 4,269 to 15,420, and Rutlienians (Ukrainians) from 3,386 to 10,498. People from other countries hard hit by the war are coming to Canada in sharply higher num- i f; liars. Emigration from Italy jumped from 204 in ' ' the 1947-48 fiscal year to 5,207 in the year end- ing March 31, 1949. Dutch immigration climbed from 4,264 to 9,866 and the immigration of those of German origin increased from 530 to 4,785. Immigrants of Hebrew origin increased from 3,922 to 8,447. 70f the 1 ,603 immigrants in the last fiscal jyear, the 1nd " Ill‘ grasp, 37,660, was made up - . Tet ‘more; farm washers and their families. - 5 Sh 0d wit». aadtlialr families made up the

‘ was!‘ lanai mo. 14.651. rod uphill“! or

semi-skilled workers and their families, totalling 16,683, accounted for the third largest.

Nearly half the total, or more than 62,000 of the newcomers, made their homes in Ontario. Prince Edward lslandgot the fewest, 282. Mani- toba was chosen by 7,921 of the immigrants; Saskatchewan by 5,372; Alberta by 10,519 and British Columbia by 11,016.

One point of regret, made apparent by the report, is the almost complete disappearance of emigration from Iceland to Canada. Manitoba in particular has been greatly enriched by the large in-fluxes, years ago, of men and wom- en from that island. But in the 1947-48 year, only eight people migrated from Iceland to Ca- nada and in 1948-49, the number was down to three.

Incidental information to be found in the statistics includes the fact that Mexican immi- gration to Canada increased by 100 per cent.- from two to four. Persian immigration held steady at two and there was a thirteen-fold increase in the immigration of Abrabians— from one to 13.

JEDITORIAL NOTES/

Saturday saw a tremendous advent of American citizens here visiting relatives, or just on tour.

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"Dog Days" is not exactly an appropriate time to enter upon by-elections, but needs must when the Provincial *goyern*ment drives.

At Kensington, today and tomorrow, l’. E. I. credit unions and co-operatives look back ave; their year's record and forward to a_proposed island Co-operative Service.

U I I The furnishing of Green _Gables with au- thentic period furniture should not prove diffi- cult. There must be any number of farm homes having pieces of furniture.

"As you were" ‘is lheloutcome of the sol- diers’ vote at the general election, confirming the Canadian Press admirable compilation and publication of returns last week.

I l I Two-month long school holidays are enter- ing their second week and some youngsters pro- bably wonder how they will pass the time until school again opens. They will soon begin to worry about how little time is left. Q e I

Evidently there was too much holidaying to prevent Islanders providing their ful-I quota for the Red Cross blood transfusion reserve. Next time there probably will be abundant blood to spare as the result gf iiivigforating holidays.

Two hundred years ago the German poet Goethe was born, and today in the small Color- ado town of Aspen a fortnight-long festival commemorates the event in the hope of starting a world-wide Goethe revival. "Goethe," explains a lecturer, "is i1 delayed time bomb, a repeating time bomb." '

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Figures released by the Life Underwriters News show that for the first quarter of 1949, $19,365,714 was paid to beneficiaries for both death and accidental death’ claims in Canada by life insurance companies. In Prince Edward ls- land, the amount paid out under this heading was $102,257.

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This is how one Nova Scotia firm advertises: Famous Last. Words: "Just One More Drink Won't Hurt!" There's only one thing worse than a drunken driver; and that is, two drunken driv- ersl When driving, keep yourself and your car in good running condition. Stop in regularly for a Puidy Motors Serzice Check-up!

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Farmers over the weekend, having had time to study election returns, declare that the Lib- erals could have had two members in Queens, were it not for the fact that in the city resi- dents split their votes. That was merely play- ing safe with the view of having one represen- lative on the Government side whichever party won.

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A London dispatch says Tommy Atkins will go to battle next‘ time in collar and tie. The British Army Council announced that shirts and neckties, hitherto worn by "other ranks" only when off duty, in future will be the uniform at all times, including battle. Brass buttons and cap badges will replace plastic types used in the start of the Second World War.

We have nothirig bn ‘the English public

spirited housewife when combining official duties and domestic chores. Mrs. Nan Harris, mayoress of the Cheshire town of Stalybridge

serves tea and coffee at the railway station buf- fet to help pay for the education of her 19-year- old son, a medical student at Manchester Uni- versity. "l work as manageress from nine o'clock until two in the afternoon," said Mrs. Harris. "lt fits in very nicely because my civil engagements are in the afternoon and evening. And Mrs. Har- ris is up early in the morning, too. She rises at 5 a. m. to get Mayor Harris off to work. He is a bus driver. I I I

Cecil John Rhodes, British Colonial states- man, born this date 1853, died in 1902. At the age of eighteen was sent to Natal for his health, being T.B. With his brother Herbert he made a fortune in Kimberly diamonds, then recently discovered; he founded De Beers Mining Co. in 1880. He early formed a plan of making South Africa British and linking it by rail with the British protectorate of Egypt. He entered Cape politics in 1881, and soon proved the dominat- ing influence lni extending British possessions and control in that continent. In 1890 he advo- cated a policy of equal rights for all civilized men south of the Zambezi regardless of colour and race. Public spirited, energetic, autocratic, was regarded as a great Empire maker. 8y his will ha left practically his whole fortune (about $6,013,000) to the public service, including 175 Rhoda Scholarships (for British, Colonial and

THE GUARDIAN. CHARIJOTTETOWN

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6 TEiiA FIRM!

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QEEN KNOWN

SNOW“ OFFS HAVE

MAN, BElNG A LAND CRIATURE,

MUST FOLLOW ' THE’ QULE$

The fact that tlie city rooolvqL-s and accepted—a bld of over per for 834.000 worth of debentures, beer- IIII interest at three and a half per cent, In a fine tribute to the excellent financial condition of

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Aethensnlncasharop offarmersl in this area ts potatoes. more and more attention ls being given u; it, _ This year 11 varieties are being "W"! l" 1R8! Plots and record‘ will be made for each vnrlety ofi its general growth, disease IBlllI-l ance. and yield and marketablel quality of the crop, pert of which‘ will be placed ln storage and lnteri tested for table quality. A small orchard contains 55 apple and plum trees of the most hardy varieties, selected from the Experlmentnli Farms at Ottawa and at Morden,' Manitoba. Raspberries, currents Ind looseberrie- ‘are on test, ris well as a wide assortment of the comm garden vegetables. — Fort William Times-Journal.

We think It shawl a poor eplrlt if a more or less Important mem- ber of an embassy staff should ex- pect to have the right to break the traffic laws or any other law, and imperlouely claim that the law; of Canada, local, provincial, or na- tional, should not apply to him. Members of an embassy staff, be they the l0? diplomat or Just a minor clerk, secretary or counsel- lor, ought to set an example in ob. servance of the laws of the coun- try they are appointed to; the same

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PUBLIC FUR UM

l‘hfs column is open to the discussion by correspondents of questions of interest. The

Guardian does not - ily endorse thwopiniun oi w. respondents. .

SOLILOQUY 0N “THE ISLAND"

Sir,-—Il. is the time of the even- ing which Scois call “the gloam- ing,“ when the sun has set and the afterglow bathes the earth with a faint luminous light strong enough to make distant objects visible and soft enough to smooth away harsh lines. The cows have been milked, horses, hens and pigs fed, and the very last job of the day, putting the baby to sleep, ls finished. Now I sit by the window enjoying a few moments’ rest and look out over my own particular corner of “The Island."

Beneath the window across our small lawn is the orchard. Plum trees, raspberry canes, bleckcur- rant bushes end the two big old apple trees on the right all stand motionless in the twilight. It seems as if they might be list- ening like myself to the far-off sound of a sweet-toned cowbell, ringing softly somewhere farther up the slope behind our house.

Beyond the orchard is my own special field. I imagine the daisies in that tleld are bigger, teller and

Just now I see them es a blurred white carpet over the darkness of the grass and against the wild rose bushes that skirt the road on the field's other side.

And in the valley there's the

river, screened by the belt af woods. In my mind's eye I can see the trout pools as they've

looked on our late evening fishing expeditions, dark and mysterious. until the trout are hooked and landed. Then we know their only secret is the whereabouts of the biggest end best of flsh.

Up from the river on the op- posite hlllslde rise other people's fields and woods to the little church on the crest of the hill. outlined dimly against the felt darkening sky. A panorama of wonderful shadows, of earth and sky. I wonder if the true children of "The Island" feel about their land the way I do, who em only a daughter by adoption.

The faint breeze that sets the fruit trees whispering is like a sigh-the sigh that comes from my heart, of peace and content with "The Island."

I any Slr. eta. "CAMERON".

PROVINCIAL IIIOIIWAYI

Slr.—Now that the blg election is over and a minor election In the offing. let the powers that be exercise caution and economy In their undertakings by refusing to open up any pew roads in this Province at the present time for e trans-Canada highway, but rather let them widen and prepare the roads that we already have for that highway. They made a good start lest year when they widened and built nearly two miles from the end of the Borden Road through Carleton end Cape Trev- erse, so new let them continue that course by Bonshew to Char- lottetown and carry another branch from the same starting point through North Carleton and

American students at Oiiforih) "So much to do;

sg little done/j -

Bedeaul to Somme side. and from those two oolatl an to the Nation-

more friendly than ln any other“

SOUTHWEST

In the dry, brown dust of cen- rles

Where rings of stone once sighed

like trees

The wind this

season sounds of

drums Announcing rain that never comes.

Time in its endless cycle seems

A force that 'cuts the earth like streams,

Where years in flash-floods flowed and ceased.

Leaving e land where time means least.

—Robert Wlstrand in the Christian Science Monlior.

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‘Old Charlottetown

(And P. E. l.)

COL. LANDS EXPERIMENT

"We notice with a good deal of interest that the Hon. Colonel Lane has been experimenting with a small Dlece of bog lend. one corner of a farm which he owns near the town, lying on the north side of the road to Brighton Lodge. The issue of his experiment, the con- vertlng of peat soil Into meadow, will, we have no doubt, be perfgct. ly satisfactory; and the viewing of It may, perhaps, serve to expedite some undecided individuals posses- sing larger and more easily drained tracts, to commence similar ope". tlons. From the situation of the spot drained by Colonel Lane, the experiment must necessarily have been rather an expensive one; still, we feel convinced, the annual re. turn will be amply remunerative. But hundreds of acres throughout the Island, at present useless. and hundreds in addition, now worse than useless, might, without any other expenditure than the labour of man and beast-and often at times when such labour could scarcely be otherwise usefully em- played -— be converted lnto the most beautiful meadows or moat productive fields."

—The Islander, Sept, 20, 1543,

el Perk which would accommo- date a large portion of the rural population and Charlottetown and Summerslde as well. and serve the tourist traffic better than any other system that could be de- vised. .

Nearly all our tourists will went to cell at either Summe ‘-' or Charlottetown going to and from the Park And that puts ii‘ up to the Charlottetown and Sum- merslde people to get together end look after this and not leave it to some who might not understand the situation as well.

We don't want to add unneces- sary roads to become a burden on the Government for upkeep and extra snow-ploughing.

l em, Slr, etc. OBSERVER.

PI-ATII!!! LIVING C0818

Mill-BOURKE. Australia. — (OP) - Melbourne loo tile out the price of worms used to feed their not!‘ pines from tour ta two shillings tor a two-Pound for. The pietypuaes lust could not on the vrarrna as fut so boys caught them. For months boys round the soo have diligently dug for worms after school and at weekends.

Tunnel Might Have Lost Dunkirk Army

(By Major General Slr Edward Spears in the London Times.)

Recent letters in favor of a Channel tunnel produce some very curious arguments. One corres- pondent invokes Marshal Foch. whose main interest was the safe- ty of France rather than of Brit- ain, as saying that victory would have been- won earlier had there been a tunnel in the 1914-18 war.

He forgets that as the Germans would certainly in that case have swept down the coast in 1914. the tunnel would have been used by them to invade us or blown up in the first few weeks of the cam- paign. He wishes to strengthen western Europe by turning us ln- to a continental nation.

We were able to save Europe, thanks to the Channel. in this last war as in others. Not for the first time "England saved herself by her exertions and Europe by her example." She could not have done so had she not been an ls- land. ,

Another correspondent states that the existence of the tunnel would have been of greet benefit at Dunkirk. There can be no doubt whatsoever that the contrary ls the case. Had there been one, lilt- ler would have hurled his Panzer divisions into the surging, almost helpless masses on the beaches, far he would have been determin- ed to prevent their escape through the tunnel; whereas in the cir- cumstances of 1940 he believed them to be doomed, and‘ therefore failed to take adequate measures to prevent their evacuation by sea.

I-Ind there been a tunnel. the government would have had the terrible choice of blowing it up and ebandoplng our army. or of running the certain rlsk of the Germans coming through it. If they had taken the right. decision of blowing it up, they would never have been pardoned for cutting off the army and leaving It to its fate.

The story of the a‘ " " force would have mined morale and destroyed the authority of the government, The country would always have felt that things would have been different had the army come home.

That la why In every war fully primed bridges always remain un-

destroyed: the ‘order ls not given _

ln time for fear of ‘ ndonlng some of your people on the wrong side.

No amount of tourists weighed down with dollars could ever counter-balance the loss of our ptlceless lnsularlty, and it has been proved that our best con- tribution to European freedom ls to preserve our own safety.

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