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CIIAIILOTTETOWN, SATURDAY. NOV. 25. I950-

Manliower and Immigration

Canada's population has gone up over 20 per cent in the last decade and is now nearing the 14 million mark. Despite this not inconsiderable gain, this is not enough. The reason? Because each succeeding crisis finds this countryls efforts hamu.-led by its greatest shortage, which is manpower.

Why are new settlers, and particularly people from the United Kingdom. not com- ing to this country in larger I-umbers? Not, assuredly, because they do nor wish to emigrate. For, in 1949, some 200,000 me 1, women and children left the Old Country to settle in Commonwealth countries. Of this number, the substantial malority con- dsts of skilled and unskilled labor. Destin ation of by far the largest proportion is Australia.

The motives for leaving Britain, which presently enloys full cmployini-iit and whose government offers a newly expand- ed system of social services, may explain in some measure why Britons are going to Most fre quent reason for British eniigiation, re- ports the leftist New Statesman and Na- tion of London, is the conviction of many working class Britons that full employment in the Old Country has been bought at the cost of mobility of labor. About 98 per cent of the British working population is employed. But apparently many of them are required to work at jobs which they dislike, and see no prospect of making a change. In Australia they see a chance oi' striking out anew for themselves, of looking: around a bit and choosing their occupa- tion. a thing that is not possible in post- war Britain.

It would be unfortunate if Canadian preoccupation with social security were to deprive this country of the very sort of settlers Canada needs to ensure national security in terms of adequate manpower.

Gibraltar

On Thursday the Duke of Edinburgh opened Gibraltar's first legislative c)'.m.:il on behalf of the King. The rock was cap- tured from the Spanish in 1704 by the English and Dutch under Rooke and was subsequently ceded to Great Britain by the treaties of Utrecht and Versailles. As a Crown Colony it has beentcontrolled by a Governor. and has been the centre for British sea power in the Western Mediter- raiiean.

Gibraltar is very strongly fortified and is honeycombed with tunnels providing uri- derground communications, fire control, power supply, bakeries and accommoda- tion for troops. Its being in British hands prevented any serious enemy interference with the 1942 Anglo-American expedition to North Africa.

The British Navy cherishes the rock for another reason than its controlling position at the entrance to the Mediterranean. It has withstood long and numerous siegcs so that whatever day of the year it may be in default of anything else to commem- orate, one can always celebrate the siege of Gibraltar.

mm the Lower llock

Seven young men from the "lower deck" of the Royal Canadian Navy enter- ed university this Fall under the Plan which provides selected men with the op- pdrtunity to acquire educational qualifica- tions required for promotion to commis- sioned rank. . .

As was announced earlier, three others were enrolled at the Canadian Services Col- lege, Royal Roads, under the same scheme.

In effect for the past three years, the plan was established as an additional chan- nel for promotion to commissioned rank. and does not affect those avenues for pro- motion to officer rank already in existence.

On successful completion of their aca- demic courses and professional ti-ainlnez months, the men will

lieutenant.

i' 5 Most of this year's group did not have .1-the necessary educational for entrance to

qualifications the Canadian Services Coi- O, unlwnliy when they entered the G, mt. unlined the required standard attendance at the R. C. N- Pre- -gglloolpg I-I. M.-C. S. Nadcn, , , .

. - recom- courus under to improve their

educational standing. Private study also is encouraged, with instructor Officers as- sisting and directing the sailor-students.

IUIIURIAL NUIl'S

Tomorrow, Sunday next before Advent. I I 0 Another arena for agricultural display, etc., at our annual exhibition, would be a welcome and laudable enterprise.

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Last day of the open season on d'.i:ks. The braiit season continues until the 30th and geese until Dec. 5. Hares or rabbits may be hunted until the end of January.

The numerous peace rumours in Korea may be connected with the predictions of intelligence officers that the war will con- tinue until spring.

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Ottawa is the meeting place for any number of conferences just now. So 1ll'.l-'ll so that it must be difficult to keep them

all sorted out. is W 0

Mr. Adhemzir Raynault, who was mayor of the city of liiontreal from 1936 to 1938 and for the two terms from 1940 to 194-I, announces that he has agreed to be can- didate again at the forthcoming elections. He will again cross swords with Mayor Camlllien I-ioude. O O O

The services, facilities, and construction personnel of the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation will now, by order-in- council, become part of the new Crown Corporation to deal exclusively with Gov- ernment contracts for defence construc- tion. Thus another wartime organization survives and is expanded for which the employees must be duly thankful.

The Northumberland Strait meeting on Monday of Maritime Fish and Game As- sociation aboard the ”Abegweit", repre- sents a stroke of genius. What better place could there be for inter-Provincial gatherings?

The Prime Minister of India is quite modern in declaring that he desires to be described as "Mister" Nehru instead of "Pandit" Nehru, his Brahmin title. This puts him on a footing with all the elector- ate, "touchables" and "untouchables" alike.

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Saint John is waging war on its pigeon population since residents discovered that these birds not merely disfigure buildings and other property with their droppings, but are becoming badly infested with lice and ticks which makes them a serious hazard to health.

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Tongues have been wagging a mile a minute in a Montreal high school, says Montreal Gazette, about the two fifteen- year-olds, both Tenth Gracie pupils, who persuaded a clergyman in the Laurenti-ans they were of legal age and were married by him. At first highly indignant, the girl's parents are reported to have relented and accepted the inevitable. The question most frequently asked by parents who have heard of the match is: "What kind of marriage laws do we have when kids like these can talk a clergyman into marrying

them?" I O I

Andrew Carnegie, Scot-Anierican mil- lionaire and philanthropist, born this date 1837. He emigrated with his father from Dunfermline to Alleghcnny, Pennsyl- vania, where he started life as a telegraph boy. Later, through his business ability in the iron and steel industries he rose to great wealth, which he devoted to charit- able, social and religious purp3s..s, being particularly addicted to providing public baths and free libraries to favoured towns and cities. In addition, in his later years, he endowed colleges and universities, pub- llc trusts for this purpose. He also insti- tuted a Hero Fund, and a Peace Fund to hasten the abolition of international war.

For the first time in 200 years the an- cient clan banner of the Gordons has flown in their native lands on Royal Deeside. This year, at Aboyne Games, the Marquis of I-Iuntly, clan chief and chieftain of the games, attended, and the Lyon King of Arms granted permission for this ancleiit flag to be flown at the games. The flag is the long-tailed type, which in itself is an indication of its antiquity, for in stages of the clan history the square flag took its place as the clan banner on the field of battle and on ceremonial occasions. The last known occasion when the flag was flown was on the restoration of the 6th Earl and 1st Marquis of Huntly in 1599. The ancient flag, which carries on it the cross of st. Andrew and the ivy leaf

badge of the Gordons, attracted the atten- tion of thousands who attended the games.

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Sir,--In View of the large amount of farm products which could be shipped from this Province after November 30, as well as other trai- flc to and from Nova Scotia, I can- not see why the Wood Islands fer- ries should not endeavour to oper- ate. weather permitting. up until Christmas or New Year's. In the old days of sail we nevcr thought of tying up before CIIYISIJIIIES.

The need for continuing this ser- vice after Nov. 30 is evident to all. If the difficulty is the matter of in- surance for the vessels after that date. why cannot tle Government provide a guarantee for such a necessary service?

There was some talk of operating the ferries from Georgetown to Pictou during the winter months.

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lative Assembly, April 1. 184.3:

A petition of divers inhabitants of the Second Electoral District of Prince County was presented to the House by Mr. Rae, and the same was received and read, set- ting forth:

"That. petitioners have to com- plain of the high rate of rent de. manded by the land claimants, which being never less than one shilling sterling per Acre. and fre- quently much higher. is more than the circumstances and resources of the ienantry can bear; and that it is necessary, in order to enable them to exist, that the rents be reduced below their present rate, and paid in the currency of the Island, and not in sberling us he;-e- tofore.

”Tliat petitioners believe. if the laiidlords were to receive their rents in agricultural produce, at

but apparently this plan has been dropped. What we need is service up to the very close of navigation. and this year we are likely to have several weeks of good operating weather after November 30. Cannot something be done to take ad- vantage of it'.' I a . Sir, eic., Sl-IIPMATE. EASTERN KING'S "PRINCE EDIVARD ISLE ADIEU!" sir,-In your issue of Nov. 13th. which came to me yesterday. I read with much interest the enter- taining reminiscing Of YOUY COP respondent J A. Gillies. together with the poem "Prince Edward Isle Adieu." Mr. Gillies states in his letter that the poem is by an unknown author: I think. how- ever. that some one in the vicinity of St. Peter's will have given YOU the writer's name before you 895 is

I knew the pkm well in my boyhood days at St. Peters; and no one in that part. of P. E. I. seemed to have any doubts as to who was the author. Everyone there recognized it as the work of Lawrence Doyle. who lived a few miles east of St. Peter's on the Fortune Road. Doyle had consid- erably talent along that line. which nurtured under more fav- orable circumstances might have shone quite brightly. Lawrence Dayle was ii fine man, and much respected by all who knew' him: iir::i It is strange if some of his relatives or friends have not. got. copies of pieces he wrote. includ- ln: "Prince Edward Isle Adieu."

The poem as Mr. Gillies gives it is almost word for word as I heard it: but in the St. Peter's version one line read "In days of yore from Erin's shore." instead of "Scot- land's shoi-e:" which I think was more euphonious, and more in keeping with the work of ii men of Irish descent. living in an Irish neighborhood.

I always understood that the poem was written in protest against the National Policy of sir John A.. written in the days when "Reciprocity" and "Free Trade" were the rirlying crv of the "Grits."-written when P. E. I. was sending six "Grit" M.P.'s to Ol- iswn. and the most. of its young folks to the U. S. It.

To conclude lct me thank Mr. Gillies for his intei-eating letter which brought back many memor- ies of long forgotten days.

I am. sir. ebc. G. L. MCINNIS. Vancouver. 3. C.

(other correspondents have identified the poem as the work of Larry Gonnsnv.-Ed. (3.)

"OLD MAN SURPLUS"

Sir,--It is pretty clear to this man-in-the-street that we owe I deal to the patient research work- ers in the laboratory. according to The Guardian's editorial "Science For Spuds."

On the other hand. it seems to me that in one respect. at least. potato growers and wheat grow- ers have one feature which is com- mon fo both industries, l.c.. both suffer cruelly. in unpredictable but fairly frequent intervals, from the pressure in the market-place of price-destroying temporary cur- pluses.

Unfortunately (if one may ur so) both groups of primary pro- ducers deliver prime necessiti of life; and. as I iI'GlllIi. than bu been n natural tendency to nitric! the services of the lnborltorlol largely to the improvement need ninth: and to the endless bot-

reasonabie prices, deliverable on their respective estates. it would do much towards relieving the .teiiant.ry, and to allay the dis- icontent which exists among them.

"That. petitioners would beg to represent the corrupt state of the Megistrscy, especially the Com- missioners of Small Debts, in many instances, in various parts of the country.

"'1?iat. they lament to have ob- served, that it has appeared to be the policy of the Government for some time past, to appoint to this Office. at least in many instances. persons inimical to the interests of the people. and concerned in Upholding the proprietary and aristocratic interests and ascend ancy: and that they also regret to have to state, that In many no- torious instances the official au- thortty of these functionaries is most. shamefully perverted to base and sordid purposes, and render- s" the means of their own ag- grandtzement, by encouraging lm. gluten and oppresslng the poor - and respectfully begging leave

.cd to the hunt for new industrial non-edible uses for both wheat and potatoes. On the surface this

- irend.would look as being some-

what inimical to the public hunger

for "cheap food." From my view- point. however, it is difficult to see how an enduring improvement in the status of the Canadian farm-

,ci' - incomparably the greatest

'single producer-consumer group in

the population - could hurt the

general welfare of the Dominion.

One of your Ontario contempor- aries discloses at least one valid cause behind the ease with which regional potato surpluses emerge. tnus: We have often heard a pound-conscious cater say, "I'd just love to have some more pota- toes. but you know they're so fattening!" On the other hand, it is notorious that "the better and more luxurious the food. the more bread remains untouched on the table."

And so. Sir, I am heartily in favor of discovering a series of new uses for these old products- non-food if possible. but edible and stumble it necessary. The so-caii- cd "market" may not like this idea. I confess I am thinking in other terms. and of "K.0."lng Old Man Surplus -- and keeping him so.

I am, Sir. el.c., BUSINESSMAN

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to urge the consideration of those matters upon the House, and praying that measures may be adopted for the redress of the grievances complained of."

Mr. Roe moved, that the pre- ceding petition be referred to the Committee on the state of the Colony.

The Hon. Mr. Palmer moved. in amendment, that after the word "Petition" in the said motion, all be struck out, and the following

substituted - "be thrown under the Table." The House divided on the mo-

tion of amendment:

Yeas: Hon. Mr. Palmer, Messrs. Thornton, Coles, Macaulay, Cam- bridge, Yeo. Dalziel, Hudson. Longwortli, Hon. J. S. MacDonald. A. Macbesn. Wrightman, Douse.

Nays: Messrs. Rae. D. Mscbean, Cooper, Macintosh, Fraser, Mont- gomery, Dingweil, D. MacDonald. MacGregoi-.

so it was canted in the affirma- live.

A similar fate met another pc- tltion presented at the same ses- sion by Mr. D. MacLean, "from divers inhabitants of New Lon- don, praying for 3 Legislative enactment on behalf of the cen- anti-y of this Island, and also ex- pressing the abhorrence of the petitioners at. certain proceedings on the part. of the Executive Government."

The journal records that on Mr. Macbean moving that the peti- tion be received and read, "Mr.

Speaker declined to put the ques- tion, on the ground that the said petition was couched in language highly insulting and disrespectful towards the Executive Branch of the Legislature."

The House did. however. adopt

jesty "to use such mediation as may induce the proprietors to are- mtt. to their tenantry such por- tion of the arrears of rent now due as may encourage the tenants in their efforts to discharge the legal demands of their landlords. and to urge upon them the neces- sity of adapting such arrange- ments as will enable the teiiantry to pay their rents for the future in the marketable products of the soil, at market. prices."

GETS VOTERS

SWIF CURRENT. Sssk. -- (CP) -The Civic Voters donated 335 in prizes to school pupils making the closest esti- mate on the number of civic votes cast. A contestant had to prove his parents voted, and the result was nearly 1,000 more votes than usual.

Association

COLORFUL NAME The devil's coach-horse is the name of a narrow British beetle. about one inch in length.

LONDON, Nov, 22 -(AP) J- Skip the smutty jokes or get off the air. the BBC told radio comedians tac- clny. The BBC acid it would ban for up to a your comedians who slip in off-color jokes outside their scripts.

I . Of course, you are careful to change the oil in

-your CIT regularly. But. are you careful about your.

automobile insurance? Make a date to stop in and talk with us about comprehensive auto insurance.

tic nuinu inucu. virus dluulis biigliu, and the effects of unfav- orobic weather.

I think it is safe to Insert that under the technology of urban in-

dustry. the men in the laboi-utorlll would have long since been inl-

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Ifow much is I mile of wind! We're constrained to ask by,rea- son of a heading in the Herald the other day: "H.529 Miles of Wind Blow Through City in Octo. bet." We've heard of wind ban on the election platform, wind socks at the flying field. wind. jammers on the ocean and a wind- falls in the forest. we've even read "Gone With the Wind", but we've yet to see ii mile of wind. Of course. here on the high plains of Sunny Southern Alberta we've felt it, 75 miles an hour of fit at time.-

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John Sportsman men had made on disarmament

President," said

be the Chinook wind hell. But "a mile of wind"! We ought to be able to work that one into the next election campaign somehow, -Lethbridgc Herald.

"When I said 1 Book of Isaiah.

Ily the sudden pucing lot in ed the Prlmaljr. Most Reverend George Frederick 'Kingston, the Church of England in Canada lhas lost a leader from whom it hoped for a long period of service. Only three Years ago. Archbishop Kingston was elected to his high office at the age of 58. His predecessor as Primate, Most Reverend Derwyn