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Frank Walker. '

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker Thou the Weakest Ink.‘ '

nos-rim. OCEBER 2i. in}; 0n

The visit of the Royal Commission on In- dian Affairs to tlie Province on Wednesday is a matter of more than usual interest. To Mr. Jus- tice A. E. Arsenault we owe the details of the

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origin of this Commission, as published in Sat-i

urday’; Guardian, It is quite evident from his account that the descendants of the first in- habitants of the Island have been given anything but generous trzaluwicnt. As wards of the Dom- inion Government, their ‘nterests should have been safeguarded materially and spiritually. The fact that their condition today shows an im- provement over previous years is due less to Government activity than to the keen interest

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taken in their wclfcre by such public-spirited; citizens as Mr. Justice Arsenault and the latel

Mr. Gilbert Gaudet, K. C, who was responsible for discovering, about the year l9lO the long lost will of Lady Wood undcr which a trust fund f0! Indians was provided.

The Royal Commission when here will have the benefit of Judge Arsenau!t's knowledge of the whole subiect of Indian affairs provincially, and it is hoped and expected that material bene- fits will result.

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Reference was made recently in these col- umns to the important part played by the late Dr. Paul A. Murphy in establishing the seed potato industry in Prince Edward Island. As plant pathologist at the Dominion Experimental Station from l9l5 to I920 he not only carried on important experiments in potato and other plant diseases here, but was the first to point out in a series of articles published in The Guardian at that time the great possibilities of our island soil for the growth of white potatoes. Dr. Murphy died a few years ago at the early age of fifty-one, in his native Ireland. Some de- tails of his career, published in The Irish Times, are worth recalling.

He was regarded, says the Times, as oiio of the most distinguished authorities in Europe on diseases of the virus type in plants, and in Ireland for many years he rendered valuable service in the work of fighting potato disease. Born in Kilkenny, he received his early educa- tion at Kilkenny College and at Blackrock Col- lege, Dublin. Hbving studied afterwards at the College of Science, Dublin, and at Dublin Uni- versity where he graduated in science, he took post-graduate courses at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, the Dahlem University in Berlin, and the Cornell University in the United States. His very first appoint- ment was with the Canadian Government, under which he established and took charge _of the first plant laboratory here. Among the innova- tions he initiated in Prince Edward Island was the spraying of potatoes.

Following his return to Ireland Dr. Murphy

Island Benefactor

became professor of Plant Pathology at Uni- versity College, Dublin. For distinguished ex- perimental work he was awarded the Boyle

Medal fof research by the Royal Dublin So- ciety and also the Snell Medal. He was chair- man of the science committee of the Royal Dublin Society in its bicentenary year.

Through his experiments in virus diseases he showed that the deterioration of healthy plants of good variety was due to the accumu- lotion of virus in the stcclz. He contributed a great amount of scientific knowledge that has resulted in the production of strongly disease- resisting plants. He also took a leading part in the development of the Albert College at Glas- nevin where much of his experimental work was done.

Such was the man to whom this Province is so much indebted. Some day a suitable memorial may b: erected here in his honour. In the mean- time it is surely flttng that his memory be kept green.

Amulliscretlon In Tax Rulings

Ruling of Justice Thorson in the Exchequer Court, upholding the peremptory ruling of in- come tax officials with regard to disallowance of a taxation appeal, apparently conflicts with a ruling previously handed down by the Supreme Court of Canada.

The Thorson decision concerned the $7000 salary of an Ottawa bottling firm president, which the deputy Minister of National Revenue had held to be excessive for the services per- formed. The deputy Minister considered the salary should be computed on a basis of not more than $5,000 in deducting legitimate operating expenses when determining the firm’s taxable income.- Justice Thorson upheld the official, and held the powers of the minister to be supreme in such matters.

' Last February, however, the Supreme Court of Canada was called on to rule in a somewhat similar case. In that case the expenditures dis- allowed by tax officials were contractual pay- llorits of commissions and royalties by a Can- ldiail firm to its controlling company in Eng- land. Disallowance, for tax purposes, of all but I lmall part of these payments was criticized by tho Supreme Court as unreasonable and nroly arbitrary, and tho company's appeal up-

Tho Thorson judgment implies sweeping and llqobllflod power for tax officials in such mat- Tho Supreme. Court decision, on .tho other

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hand, lmplloo a basis of review of circumstances, ’fll‘tomonoblonoss, on the part of tax officials. and would bocoino offoctivo April l, I947, ro- “ it is timo for a show-down on this iin- placing tho. wortimo tax ogroomont which os-

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Tho Battle of Trafalgar this date I805- death of Nelson. i 1 i Parkdale (Toronto) and Portage La Prairie (Man.) Federal by-elections today. i U I l

H. R. H. the Duke of Widsor and his Duch-

less seem to succeed wonderfully well in keeping

in the limelight-nearly as well as movie act- resses. - fi I I

Ari American submarine has explored possibility of going north of Greenland through the narrow strait between Ellesmere Land and the northern tip of Greenland, opening up a new

way to Russia and Siberia. i ll II

U We are getting back to normalcy in travel

when Canadians may enter the United States,‘

and remain for six months, without passports, visas, or other documents of identification, savc and except the proverbial letter informing cus- toms officials that the visit is temporary. ' t a» * w Our potato growers must possess their souls in patience while waiting for markets, re- fraining from rushing their produce to dealers to bring a glut and lower prices. The question now is, however, has the average farmer suffi- cient storage to safely keep and protoct the surplus through the winter. i‘

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Lord Beaverbrook, now visiting New Bruns- wick, is apparently "on the outs" with the Con- servative party over there. "Janus" in the Spec- tator says his newspaper, The Sunday Express has dropped its parliamentary column by a Con- servative M. P. and substituted one from the Cross Benches, i.e. the I "ependents, and won- ders what is at the root of the trouble.

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Major-General Sir Ernest Dunlap Swinton, l(. B. E., C.B., D.§.O., M.A., British military ex- pert and writer, born this date I868; originator of the tank; controller of the Information De- partment of Civil Aviation, Professor of Military History and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; commandant of the Royal Tank Corps I934-38, his publications include: The Study of War, Eye- Wifness, The Green Curve, The Great Tab Dope, The Defence of Duffer's Drift, A Year Ago.

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A reader, who has been a movie fan for years, complains that the quality of the pictures now being shown has fallen off tremendously. He alleges cheapness and nastiness. He is not singular in his protest, however; one critic writes: "Hollywood has sent us three new films, all musicol—caIlections, that is, of songs and dpnces and bond numbers strung together on a thin thread of story. Am I alone in feeling irri- fated? Evidently not. Judging by the letters I get, there are still many people who like adult entertainment, and are bored with incessant glorification of band leaders, crooners and com- posers from Tin Pan Alley. The public I have in mind, by no means all highbrow, finds their sentiment mush, their mariners gush, their charms lush, and their music (mostly) slush."

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A United Kingdom firm claims to have pro- duced the perfect stocking: fully fashioned, silk, and completely ladderless. Miss Caroline Has- lett, chairman of the Government Hosiery Work- ing Party which recently published its report, describes these stockings as "very, very good." She says, "I could not tell the difference be- tween them and pure silk fully fashioned stock- ings made in the ordinary way. I satisfied my- self that they were really ladder proof and I think it is a tremendous development in the hos- iery industry." Production at present is only in the experimental stage and it cannot be stated when the stockings are likely to be on the mar- ket. The firm took out a patent for them in

‘i939 but the war held up research and produc- i tion.

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Air transport operations and organizations in Britain, Canada and the United States are to be investigated by Mr. David Ross on be- half of the Australian Department of Civil Avi- ation. He left Sydney last week for London and later will represent Australia at the Pro- visional lnternational Civil Aviation Organiza- tion in Montreal. Australian Commerce offici- als anticipate that the Australian wheat crop this year will be a good one. Early estimates give the crop as lZ8,000,000 bushels. A con- signment of Tasmanian orchids will soon be on sale in the United States. They are to be ship- ped across the Pacific on the A. N. A. Sky- gaster3which left Melbourne for Vancouver on

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Saskatchewan is acting on its own. Nego- tiations on the proposed tax agreement with the Federal Government, and on some settlement of tho $92,000,000 in Saskatchewan treasury bills owing to the Dominion, have taken Premier T. C. Douglas and Provincial Treasurer C. M. Fines to Ottawa. Loans made to the province during the depression years piled up $7I,000,- 000 debt under the Relief Act and $21,000,- 000 for seed groin guarantees-more than twice the amount borrowed by any other west- ern province-and these have been drawing in- terest of 3 per cent. Before Saskatchewan ent- ers any new tax agreement with the Domin- ion, it wants to know where it stands in regard to the treasury bills. "We're hoping to got some of these wiped out," Mr. Douglas pointed out.

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rHE Cl-IARLOTTET Notes By The Way

You can get along with womon i: you let them think they are lwv-, their own way. But the can

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It. -Quweo Ohmntols-IUQ-upti. People are not. keeping no many gainarles as they did some years back which In a pity, because. un- like some radio perfonners, they could sing. -E.onaon Free Pres.

Butter In St. Louis advanced this week-end to 95 cents and $1 a pound-the highest prices tn his- ‘toiry-at the very time the West Liiinols oaai field was strains 8 King Coal celebs-anion exhibiting several pounds of Inst/tor made In Germany from coal. It. Ls just possible there ‘s some special alg- nificarice to this? synthetics from coal and petroleum are costing the cwneirs of titre rubber plantations a lot of sleep. Is Kim; Coal giet- ting ready to invade Queen Bossyb realm and if so, wouldn't she bef- icr uraitch heir step? r—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Recently I came across an ex- ample of a. word derived from a diving st/anieaznan, utter the manner nt sandwiches, zladstccie bags. arid wellington boots I‘. was in o. mining village where, wlmeoi a miner was unable to work through no fault or his own bu‘. ovzin; to the lack of apparatus or similar clrcum- stanoe and still, in consequence drew his pay, the circumstance was referred to as “Iizivirg s. Bevin". The pit. in question urea in Derby- sliiire but I was assured that ll. was a conventional term; and I should be interested to knciw “whether it ls in use tn, for example, South Wa-les. Durham and Yorkshire Johin O‘I.ondnn's Werfsly

Blood testing orcame compulsory ‘or. October 1 for persons intending , to marry, mid-er en act. oi the Mimi.

who legisiaturc In framing the act, Manitoba tieailh authorities iconsidersd tilie exp-ertence gained in other provinces and states where such lcgislairion was posed previ- ously. They Irizzriulamea a-n iwt which in their view, combines the pest», features ‘,1 tlie measures cri- acted elsewitioic It. has been ocn. tended that rracu blood t-whs repre- sent an infringement. of personal liberty. This argument ls not sound. venereal diSeu-ufls are sociaii in their affects. Mlorwvcc, they threaten with their contagion and crippling legacies not only uhe present gen- eration but t/tie ur oorn. --Winnip@tl Free Pres.

Tomato growers and processors 5901115 to have the basil; of the argu. |mcnt as to whose responsibility it is that marry bins of the product are going to rc: this season. They claim llllB-l. their pleas for more sugar have fallen on ma! official ears. with the result that. they are unaible to make the soup, cotsup land chili sauce which the Public cemands Meanwhile, mesa com- modities are conspicuously absent from store shelves. Iii. will be a reasomless anomaly If tremendous ‘WZCLEC takes place while the iamine of tihe tinislied articles cora- iinues Oflloicitdozn must be pro. pared to give some good explana- atton of w-hy .\ different policy has been follow-sad, .15 charged from that adopted corn. —Wlnd.s<rr Star

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The Journey nu-de by the King and Queen to London for bhe open- [ing of the "Britain Can Make n" exhibition was done as a qutolcer ‘speed that. if u. had been under- nailaen by Queen Victoria. Though hdgh speeds were poslblc In bier ‘days, she a-lnvuys stipulated a maxi- mum cil 40 mph. when she travell- ed, and even hnd an arrangement by which sure could signal for n re- duction of speed or o. stop. In her da-y It oust some-ahlng In Uhe region of 1.000 pounds t... maike nhe double jammy by royal train from London Ito Ballaiea‘, and it is said that Queen Vtonorta once spent. 10.000 pounds a yeaa- on Xfldilfffly travel The King Pa-ys lust-class fares for every member o." the ipyol portly travelling, and before the rise in prices he paid 13s 4d. o miie for the use of the royal train; he could have to pay more today! Great precautions are taloen and elaborate arrangements made when- ever myaltiy travels by train lev- eI-omossing gates are lacked. goods trains tn sldings are examined. and the royal train is signalled mile by mile No one muii has the privilege of driving the train, the honor be- ing shared by a number 0d veteran driven. —Manohester Guardian.

records of every known flower and Iplorit. in the world, and tthc auth- orities are 'n touch with agents

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Iblo column lo open to tho dloounton by born opondonto at qnoltlonl o! Interest. Tho Charlottetown‘ Our-dim dooo not QooeQn ll; ondoroo the opinion u, "crrnopondonh '

l INCREASED BAIL FREIGHT i BATES

' Sin-It ls to be feared that there are few reasons to believe that the demand for Increased freight rates now being made by »the Canadian Nls-tionnl Railways and the Canadian Paclftc-Ratlwsy will not be granted by the Tran:- portatlon Commission at Ottawa. It is of course possible that a cam- promlse arrangement will he arrived at. in certain lines for there ls bound to be almost universal opposition from Interests of all kinds throughout the Dominion. Up to the present time the frost. of living In Canada has not increas- c-d materially but there is prob- ably nothing that would cause prices generally to rise so much as higher priced transportation. The almost universal demand by union labor hath In the United SMIOS and Canada can have no other effect than to Increase the cost, particularly of manufactured goods; in fact it is beginning to look already as though the In- creases in pay that are beingi izrantrd to libor will not be suf- ficient to cover the higher prices that labor will have to pay for its i-ndiviriual requirements, It looks very much like a vicious clrcle and once that starts to pyramid there is no foretelllng the future. ' So far as Prince Edward Island lls concerned it is our duty to con- lslrlr-r the affect. of higher prices and particularly of higher freight rates upon the cost of Imports on the one hand and the increased cost of shipping our exports on the other. It certainly looks, so far as our farmers are concerned ,thnt they will Iiave to pay higher prices for what they buy while ‘world competition ls bc-und In the coming wars ta lower the prices 10f what they have to sell; and If ,on top of that fact they are com- lpelled to pay higher transportation charges the outlook ls not encc-ur- ‘aging, I There ls. however. at least one feature In which Prince Edward llIsland will be in a better position than will he the case with any of |the central and western provinces of Canada. namely, that eommcnc-i ling In 1947 we shall for the first time In severity four years have ocean shipping facilities that lshould have the result of lowering lrather than raising freight rates lfrom and l0 this province both for llmporls and exports. Although very little comment ls being made In the press regarding some some very important work is being done at the present time In the Char- lottetown harbour. In 1941 the railway wharf will be enlarged very considerably so that at any one time five or six ocean vessels

can be accommodated. drawing twenty-six feet at low tide. I understand furthermore that an

extra four feet can without trouhlg be dredged and here I may say that. freight carrying ships being built In Canada at the present time call for thirty feet draught.

Because of the high freight rates from Prince Edwnrd Island tn Ontario and Quebec, Island (armors have made but little money on our high grade potatoes. whils- fruits and vegetables of dif- ferent klnrls that we are able to raise to better advantage than In any other province In Canada are not oven grown because Ontario and Quebec are producing to a surplus and naturally cannot buy from us. while the United Sta-tel places n heavy customs duty upon same. The Omadlan Natl-anal Rall- ways can only ship to the United States and other parts of Canada but ocean vessels can carry our goods all over the world and there are almost two billion people In foreign countries In addition to the population of North America.

Under these circumstances It can only be a matter of enterprise on our part to sell abroad all the goods, animals and poultry that we can produce. It Is well also to remember that when shipping In competition with the United States, ,Ontarto and Quebec we shall only .have ocean freight rates to piiy lfor Inland to our harbours wlilch goods can readily be carried W truck and call for no freight charger.

It Is just possible therefore that an Increase In roll freight rates would be a blessing tn dlsgulne so far as we are concerned. for they would hamper shippers from tho other Canadian provinces wnlle we would be independent of them.

This ts a most. important sub- ject and it ls to be hoped that some of your regular dents will views.

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Many pebplg llilnk of the Royal Botflfllfl Gardens at Kcw— coiled Kmv Gardens ‘Tor showt- as natth- ing mm iium .. union of uvnlwl pin-nits, and the people who visit then ltamous gardens In Inadm go to nee lthetr varied attractions such as line avenue of niltp the rhod- odendron dell, the guracn of wild flowers, the cedar vlstia, the water ifloiweraanidooon. butlr. lsesoern. ‘lldllsiy o. place od scientific study and development, says The Strat- Itoru Beacon-Escrow. n. is an tm. mense place. the main iireo kmwn [to the public beliig about ‘l0 bones. |but the entire zrvsimd covers some i215 acres. It ta not ganerollyknawn Amt. Keir Gardens tries to 00111911!

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