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Iorrsln] Dally (Founded h llli) Authorised as tseeonrl Clula Null, Poss Offlae Department, Ottawa. lie Inland Guardian nsblfshln] 0e. Irlllor sud Managing Director. J. u. Barnes;

Aaloelale Editor, Irani Walker

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OIABLOTTETOWN. FRIDAY, AUGUST fl. 19M

A Sheep In Wolf's Clothing

Liberals are stil~l aghast at the result of the Alberta election. The Winnipeg Free Press, Lberal, alter cogitating ‘on the subject, has reached this conclusion:

"Three terms in office is ordinarily a long life for any Provincial Government. A fourth usually results only from some extraordinary circumstance. How does it happen, then, that the Social Credit party, after three terms total- ling l3 years, during which there has been some of the worst administration in Canadian politi- cal hlstory, is now returned by a majority of such a sweeping nature?

"Nearly two years ago the Progressive Con- servativeslwithdrew from Alberta provincial poli- itcs because they considered the Manning gov- ernment was a good, safe Conservative admin- istration. Speakers at the Progressive Con- servatiye convention said so and the idea was made prevalent in the province. Thus the Manning government became, in fact, a Con- servative party tool and gained Conservative support on the belief that it would indeed be a Conservative party government with the Pro- gressive half of the label left off.

"Being such, it would not disturb the eco- nomic and business expansion started during the war by the presence‘ of thousands of Americ-an troops, and continued after the war by reason of national policies and conditions and the discovery of new oil fields. it was an expan- sion with the promotion of which the local gov- ernment had nothing to do but which it could fisturb. Mr. Manning, the Conservatives believ- ed, would not disturb it.

"Progressive-Conservatives are rejoicing in the victory of the Manning government as e victory for their own party. If in fact the Al- berta government can be counted as Conserva- tivo - and Conservatives so regard it — then it must be counted os the extreme right wing of the Conservative party, as one of the Con- servative governments to which the word Tory eon be applied with precise accuracy." '

Tlio Conservative Party

A despotch from the Progressive Conserva- ttve Party headquarters in Ottawa announces that an exceptionally large number of dele- gates are expected to attend the forthcoming Convention and indicates that the Party is far from any thought of vacating the political stage.

Widespread propaganda to the effect that enfy the "big interests" are served by both old parties, and that therefore they should unite leaving the C. C. F. as the hope of the com- mon man, is at variance with the truth. Yet such poppycock may find ready acceptance, and only continual education of the electorate can safeguard the nation.

The fact of individual greatness and human inequality is the basis of all progress. Leaders are no-t selected for their mediocrity, nor can policies affecting the conduct of national af- fairs be dictated by groups who, lacking cour- age and vision, hold up mediocrity as an ideal. No one can raise either his economic or spir- ltual level by pulling down those above him.

Instead of closing, the cleavage between the Conservative and Liberal parties _has been

widening because of the acceptance by the Lib-

erals of many opportunities to increase the field of government with consequent tremendous ex- pansion in the number of bureaucrats and high level of taxation.

Conservative delegates should adopt a platform in accordance with true principles and swerve not at all to the catch-vote promises of easy roa-ds to security.

ln the selection of a leader, the man chosen must be endowed with the Party spirii and willing to fight all odds to achieve suc- cess; be a lead-er, arrogant in his refusal to compromise in exchange for political prefer- ment, resourceful in dealing with people and situations, and cuss-worthy to his opponents.

ll. Z. Butter Boning

While the butter situation is not nearly so bod as the oleo propagandists loud-ly proclaim, the Government is considering importation of 15,000,000 lbs. of New Zealand butter.

This was learned from Mr. T. H. Ward, man- aging secretary of the Hamilton and District. Milk Producers’ Association. "The information," he said, "came to rne from _a rpliable source and i would like to pass it along to assure the peo- ple of Hamilton that_the butter situation is not as bod as it appears." '

Mr. Ward scored the recent panic-buying of butter which he said aggravated the situa- tion. "Actually taking the over-all picture, there is, and will be, a shortage of butter this winter, but not to the degree that most people Irlnlr."

Will the matter rest there, or will again the Heed gatefof oleo-margarine press and radio propaganda be re-apened to intlgence and fright- en the consumer? ‘

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The M-aritime Underwriters are welcome visitors. I I

His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, after- wards Duke of Connaught visited Charlotte- town this date i869. ' -

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The C. C. F. decision to abolish the Sen- ate is scarcely io be wondered at. Socialists would have to be in power a very long time before, in the natural course of things, the

upper chamber would take on a leftist tinge.

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A revival of old pioneer days happened at Oshawa, Ont, recently when 200 farmers gath- ered at the farm of T. C. Glaspel for an old- foshioned barn raising. They had the barn up in less than two hours.

World shipping, American coal and steel will be released with all their consequences by the decision of France to reduce her import of American cool by nearly two-thirds or over

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The counterpart of the island's new high- way bridge, broad-gouge flat cars are on their way to the Argentine. One shipload of 4i4 of these cars, originally intended for Russia in World War ll, left from the West Coast rec- ently.

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Canada needs immigrants and the best kind are sturdy, independent and law abiding. Just such qualities and an abundance of courage is shown by the groups of Estonian refugees who crossed to this country in their tiny boats. Their plea for admission deserves every consid- oration.

‘It is not often that conservation measures are so strikingly vindicated as in the case of Prince Edward island lobster. According to re- ports large catches have been made in sections where no illegal fishing ls done, while other areas show much less satisfactory returns.

I i I I The island is not the only province where hard surfacing of roads is being left for the fut- ure. Ontario plans to do no hard surfacing this year because the cost has gone from a pre- war $10 a cubic yard to over $50; an\d besides the Provincial election is past. _ I I i l

James Thomson, Scottish poet, died this date l748—his second centenary being cele- brated in England this year. He was first a tutor in London, then a surveyor in the West indies. He is best remembered by his great poem, The Seasons, published in four parts, and his Masque of Alfred, principally because it contains the song "Rule Britannia": "Bose Envy withers at another's joy, and hates the ex- cellence it cannot reach."

The antl-Confederotionists in Newfound- land may save time, temper and money bry re- fraining from petitioning the British Parliament to retain the Old Colony as an independent unit in the Commonwealth. The Labour Party is strongly anti-imperialist and the British Gov- ernment fearful of being made to pay up deficits as they had to do prior to the appointment of a Commission Government. The British Par- liament as a whole will be mighty glad to have Canada assume the responsibility allowing it to

get out from under.

The fifth and last session of the present Parliament could be cal-led this fall if the Lib- eral leadership decides it should be. Prevail- ing Otlawa opinion, however, is that it will not start until next January or February, traditional period for the inauguration cerbmonies. Its major issues could be new issues, but quite likely they will emerge out of those that have gone before — the high cost of living, freight rates -— or a new budget and its degree of tax cuts. Two new leaders will be at the helm of Government and official Opposition respective- ly.

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"The best all-round crops for years," is the prediction of the Agricultural Minister of Ontario, Col. Kennedy. ”The average profit of all Ontario farmers will be slightly less than $2,000." The Income Tax collectors will be glad to learn this. On the other hand New Bruns- wick farmers declare they will sustain heavy losses in small culture due to over-abundant crops of tomatoes, cobbages and cucumbers. Farmers will in time learn elsewhere, as we found 40 or 50 years ago, that the best and most enduring agriculture here is dairy and mixed farm-ing, whereby we are able to export the finished article at the least freight cost, and at the same time provide plenty natural fertil- izer to enrich the soil.

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The prospects for our "rising hopes" enter- ing the learned professions are being largely circumscribed due to circumstances over which they have no control. An official of the regis- trar's office at the University of Toronto states that unless prospective medical students have "very high scholastic standards," they haven't much chance of entering the first pre-medicol year. He said the University of Toronto could‘ take only 150 pro-medical students in first year. McGiii University, Montreal, had room for 120 students but had 2,500 applications for admis- sion. Czming nearer home, the Prince Edward Island Law Society has raised the standards for grtduato law students entering the pro- fession so that they may have better practical knowlc ‘ge of Provincial law and practice than obtain Hie from theoretical training at the various universities. Only one learned profes- sion s:'ms lo have abundant openings and few offers, viz, the theological. So for as the Pro- testant Churches are concerned, they are cry- ing out almost in vain for suitable volunteers to

some forward for training.

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Thls little enlr-nal whose ravages have been so much spoken of and exaggerated to almost every per- son who has ever heard anything u! the Island, being often repre- seated by trhose who are disposed from interest or otherwise, to de- preciate the value of it, as at.- tacking us periodically. and destroy‘ lng every kind of vegetable pro- duction, than which nothing can be more groundless, or unfounded. In thirty years I~heve been urc- queinied with the Island and up- wards of thirty y-eers actual re- sidence there. I have never known mice to do any injury to the craps. Lwo or three years only excepted and then partially, 4nd by no means general through the Island. Yet l’ am sensible it 1s often men- tioned 1n Nova Scatlu, as whet frequently happens, although 1t might. be expected, t/hat. the quanilt/y of grain which we send them annually, ought. long ego to have induced thorn. to desist tram a representation so pelpably er- roneous and unjust.

The some species or mice are frequently to be met. with on the adjacent perte of the Continent, where they occasionally do con- siderable mischief 1n those put- lcular districts which happen to be in the neighbourhood of ‘bracts of beech-wood forest. Though the mice mey sometimes partially in- jute the crops, yet there are many years successively 1n which none are to be seen on the Island, and no person who 1s well acquainted with it, ls under any serious ap- prehens on or injury 17cm tthe-m, and as the beech-rwood forests are diminished, so‘ will the number of mice decrease.

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Actually “Tickled To Death"

(Toronto Star)

Someone caught. s pike recently by tickling its tummy The exploit was noted in e press deepetch, and newspapers have been treating this method of fish-cat. hing as a dis- covery, The Hum ion Spectator punningiy refers to 1t es "The New Hook."

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Rt. Hon. Arthur Meighen, or some other Shekespearlan author- ity, might. welr have come forward with e (Notation from Twelfth Night. (1601): "Heere comes the trowt that. must. be caught with tickling." The "trowt." 1n that cisee was a human being, but the re- ference 1s clear. Metnphorlceliy, too, u man is described 1n Mea- sure for Measure es "groping for trowle in a peculiar river". Samuel Butler, English poet of the. seven- teentrh century, asserted that troute are tickled best in muddy waters." The method is described in e document or 1715: "Men [o into the water, tickle them on the belly, and so get. them eshour."

The trout. seams to have been the most frequent victim, hut. the cerplike tench end other fish are also mentioned in the records. Pike, no doubt, too. So the Ntnr Hook is like the New Look-just the revival of an old custom, a cus- tom deer to many a poaoher and many a smell boy; superior. in the estimation of some, to the method described by Samuel Johnson as using "n stick with a hook at one end end a fool at the other." In- deed, rnsny a poor fish hes lit- erelly been "tickled to death.‘

Lei It Be a Love Match

‘(Northern Messenger)

If, as now appears, Canada and l Newfoundland are, so to say, eu- y gazed to be married the lncen-l five should be a glorious vision of ‘

what. they can do better wsethe: than separately. That. each should gain by the union goes without. seylfls; "and that each will gain on economic, political and social grounds seems equally obvious.

But such union, like marriage, ls lifted to a higher plane 1f the incentive 1s in terms of reciprocal giving. rather than on reciprocal gains.

Newfoundland, on the material level, brings her vest. fisheries end sturdy, unexcelled mariners. he: wonderful harbor of Si. John's. which could shelter the navles of Britain and Canada, he: strategic airport. and forests and r-nlnes, all of high ranking importance ep- peclally in times like the pres- eni.

Canada. for her pert, would serve Newfoundland with full breed-baskets from her prairies together with e. great variety of other foods, also the products of her cnrlltliudlnoue industries and would stabilize her currency on the Canadian dollar, thus facili- tating commercial intercourse — ell to the greet. advantage of New- foundland.

But. let all‘ materiel considere- tions be ss outward signs of 1n- ward graces.

1r. 1s the spiritual fellowship 1n such a union that. really counts. Without. that, the union would be 1n name, technical, perhaps hard- ly legal, certainly not. complete. Like true marriage it. must be, as we believe it 1s. a union of hearts shoring broadly each the others faith and purpose. So may New- foundland and» her nine sister provinces become a mutual udmlr- alion sisterhood, s fellowship of godly faith and of 'a. high pur- pose and adventure, each "mist- ress 1n her own house." as Kipling so well put. it. but. federated and co-ordlneted in one national par- liament. After all it. 1s nor. on un- natural union since both countries are democratic and both are loyal to the sumo soverelgm-by the grace of God. the good King George Lhe sixth.

Is 1i. not. so, that people in most intimate contact. with 113,111“, such as those who plow the land or plow the sea. find n. nrrlurrrl to have lnibrnate contact. with God? So often. e1. the mercy of elements beyond their control they curly learn to cry: “lard. save us or W9 Peflshw-end then to thank God for His care of them. Surc- iy we have all noticed the sim- plicity and practical directness of such faith and the courageous fortitude and stalwart character it produces. Have we not. all ex- perlenced ti?

NEW LOOK PARACHUTE WINDSOR, Ont. (C?) -_ One you"! Windsor woman has discovered bhet the new look is not the best. apparel for windy days. sitting on the hank r.-f the Detroit. River, she was about. to get. up when the wind caught. her billowy skirt. cousin! her to lose belence en plunge into the Mr $ i |

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Be secret. heart; and 1f your dream; have come

To nothlngness. and 1f their weight. was sweet.

Within you-then be silent. 1n de- feat,

Counting your lost imaglnluge as the sum

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Prospects for Mr. Drew

(Toronto Saturday Night.) There seems to be nothing like the spar-Ling competitive 11041955 1n the forthcoming Conscrvfl-ilvfi

, convention that. there was in the Liberal one.

Indeed unless the party managers can think of something important for the con- vention to do it. will be difficult to get even e good attendance, to say nothing of e good PR"- Ti- would huve been policy to 8% somebody 1.0 pub WP I mm against Mr. Draw u only for the sake of Remus the event. quoted ln the betting odds; but apps:- enlly nobody 1s wuuns to accent so certain rs prospect. of defeat.

At. the time when Mr. Bracken was selected the party was in n0 position to hope for much from the province of Quebec. Mr. Dup- lessls and the tax moments 6°"- iroversy have changed all that. and there ls now e. very BllllIinB prospect. of e silbsluntial number of the 65 seats in that. province being represented by persons who. whatever they may cell them- selves, would not. refuse to accept portrfollos 1n e Drew cabinet if he were 1n s position 1o offer them. '

The two major provinces w- count. for l4’! seats oul. of 246 in the existing Parliament; theft proportion will be slightly but. not seriously diminished in the new one. There are now 18 Con- servatives 1n the House from tihe seven smaller provinces, end 48 from Ontario. If this total could be raised from 66 to 80, which 1s not. beyond the possibilities. titers are only s3 more voles required to make rs majority (of the present. membership); and the possible sources of these are the Social Credit. members, now l3 from Al- berta, and wherever m. Duples- ‘sis can deliver frcrrn Quebec.

The theory that Mr. Drew can be effectively attacked 1n Que- bec on the ground of anti-French- Canedianlsm does not seem to us to have much validity. In the first. place the candidates in Que- bec who would support Drew lf that. would keerp hlrn ln power will not. run as Drew candidates but under e_opecla1 Quebec banner:

are nor. going 1o refuse office on account- of an ancient Toronto Star report of an alleged ‘and rlenledr speech 1n some re nte try-election. A more effe ve topic might. be Mr. Drew's r i- ous and current interest 1n plre migration; but, that. is i used by Mr. Duplessis as a - pon against. Mr. Kine. . If there 1s an under-stern; with Mr. Duplessis the Quebec re- sults may not. be bod ei. til. A much more questionable elwsnt ls the tie-up with the Albe: .ne. Bo fa: es the voters are concrrned Social Credit. le l left-wing move- ment. and whet. those voters will think of seeing it tied in. in Dominion politics. with the Drew

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“Quality leaf Boon To lo h- penslve" reeds s headline - and we thought. 1t. had reached that. siege long ago. — Ottawa. Jour- m1.

Women have to buy their nun- mer dresses 1n the early spring. when summer comes the stores sell only fell dresses.» However. the situation W111 eventually right. ftself. By the time the stores get. so fer ahead that they sell sum- mer dresses for 1981 in the surn- rner of 1060 sens people will be able to go out. and buy n summer dress 1n the summer time. --Io- Jonto Telegram.

For a III-lo over £500,000. Mr. Creorxe H. Upjohn, of Burghiay Hell. Wimbledon, London has b:- come the owner of almost. all the seaside town of Uttlehumplon, Sussex. and "squire" of 13,000 m- helsitante. He hu acquired an estetn which will exceed 24,000.01») when the present lessee , mmlro. The public scarcely knows M1. Upjohn. He 1s managing director of Stewart. and Ardern, Limited. sole Lrondon distributors of Mo: rls cue. He now owns the major sectlon of Idttlehampbon. which 1r best. known to holiday-makers. His estate consists of 850 proper Lies. including the Beach hotel, two banks, e cinema, 50 shoal. whsrvee. eueet. houses and prlvass houses. —I.ondou Dally Mull.

Borne American correspondents attending the Olympic Games have reported e certain coolness. shown by e drop 1n the volume of applause. towards the Ameri- can athletes 1n the parade with which the games opened: and they have ascribed this to the facrthui the Americans did not. like other delegations, dip their national m: es they passed before the Isma- n 1e perhaps worth making oleo: to-enyone who noticed and re» rented the incident, that their u: tlon 1n keeping the flag upright implied no look of respect. It 1s 1n foot. an inflexible usage- l»- mountlne almost. to e super-stiffen. with the Americans that. the Stars and stripes anust never be dipped under any circumstances; to do so would be considered an insult. v the flag, as isnproper es for e