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President: W. C‘ ‘ r S. lllcLnre, MP. Vice-President: l. B. Burnett FJ.L éecretary; licul Col. U. A MIHKIIIIICII. 0.8.0. Editor and imaging Director: I R Burnett, FJJ. Associate Zditors: Frank walker ind

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and they never have wanted small state pack- ers to get into the inter-state business.

Another source of opposition is expected»

to come from the many horse lovers throughout the country, who probably would claim that the United States was being denuded of horses.

Officials point but, however, that several hundred horses are slaughtered weekly all over the United States to feed the, zoos of the na- titiii. Furthermore, the United States today has a larger surplus 0f horses than ever before in history. Agriculture Department estimates are that 3,000,000 surplus horses are now on the ranges and farms of the country. The grain which they alone consume would go a long way towards feeding Europe.

Officials estimate that _thesc surplus horses would supply a total of two and a hall million pounds of iiical, also give fats for soup, together with liidcs to casc the scar- ciiy of leather.

While prices of almost everything tended upward during the war, the price of horses did not. (iovcriinicilt buyers purchasing draft ani-

Notes By The W0)’ l

“We must quit running intqhllobli we must balance the budset. says a parliamentarian. What's the mat- ter, mister? Is osterlty runliill!

l out of money to end us’! -—Kil-¢h- l l ener Record.

I The annual prise of a gold-plated water ju for understatement goes,

l to the innipeg Free Press, which . opens an editorial thus: "Another vital change in our national char-l

I acteristlcs is the trend towards fe-

, {pale domlnatlcnfL-Harnllton Spec- ator

' Ontario's Minister of Alflcllllllffli thinks farmers should take their

| is wrong, The wives should attend the conventions whilc the men lock i after things at lionic. The men can always "got. lo g0" to auction| sales. --Farmei"s Advocate. ' l

The hack-seat driver Ills oome| into his own at last. Ah Ameri- can court of appeals has thrown‘ out a woman's appeal for damages

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Farm Prices on Prairies Up sharply

(Globe flnd Mail)

prices are leaping rapid- ly on the prairies, with ‘Dlifill boosted to between 30 and 5° W!‘ cent over their real value Ln Mani- oba, and doubled in some sec-

In Alberta, values have lllmlllld in the better and more settled ug- ricultural areas, showing Increase! cf 5 togqil per cent over former rates. Land that would have sold at the outbreak of war for $25 and $30 per acre in the Edmonton dir- trlct now brings $40 and $45 with- out difficulty.

In Manitoba's Red River Valley and Portage in Prairie sections, ex- perts report land worth $25 an

Farm

3900-000 wives to conventions, The Minister ' "T9 l5 801118 for $37.50. Heavy land

Saskatchewan, which is‘ hard to get, has sold for as high as $60 an acre, with an average licliveen $20 and $50. Light. land has jump- ed from $10 and $12 to $20. Most Saskatchewan sales are ‘for cash or heavy down payments.

Varied reasons are given for on increased value set on prairie soil. Rising prices of farm products have attracted more persons to

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UTIIQ Strongest Memory is Weaker Tharp ‘HMS f0“ UNRRA report that the counm, has in an automobile accident r the ‘and and increased use o‘ mm proper place for business and social meetings.

‘processing of Irish moss, are outlined in the

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FRIDAY. APRIL 12, 1946

Better Late Than Never

The Cliurlolleloivii Board of Trade is to bc commended on its decision to uiakc an i1idus- trial Sili‘\'t‘)' of the City, and to make it as silccdily zis possible- ivitli a vicw to encouraging llic development of much-needed industries. This is something which should have been undertaken long ago, not only in Charlottetown but throughout the whole Province, in connec- tion with our post-ivar reconstruction planning. It is tragic to reflect, tlfit with over a thousand unemployed war veterans in our midst, we should only now be be infiing to survey what possibilities there are tor industrial develop- mcnt.

There is also another important survey which should long ago be past the blueprint stage, and that is with regard' to our natural re- sources. This matter was brought to the at- tention of the Legislature recently by the Fed- eration of Agriculture, which recalled that this was the third successive year in which the org- aiiizgtion had been pressing for "more aggres- sive direction and development of our natural resources.” The Federation is particularly con- cerned with the necessity for control of our for- estry preserves and protection of our water ways.’ Many other activities, such as cran- berry production, exploitation of peat bogs and

Federation brief. “Our recommendation in connection with all these’ natural resources," it says, “is to the effect that the Department of Agriculture be enlarged to provide for the de- velopment Of these important resources, and that expert services be initiated at the earliest op-l portunity to direct s. program of extension and improvement in this field."

Our Boards of Trade and farm organiza- tions are both evidently awake to the urgent need for developing our Island resources, nat- ural and industrial. It might be advantageous for them to get together on a common policy, (for there is no doubt that they are inter-de- pendent) and press forward unitedly in the in- terests of all concerned.

Where _Dld It Co’!

Alfred Miller, editor of the Interior Dairy Guide, declares that a vast amount of butter is disappearing into the black market. The editor reckons this at 12o million pounds per year.

The Vancouver Sun's news follow up on this charge said: "One large distributor point- ed out that the commentator had left out butter used for ice cream, canned soups, cakes. . There is also regular export- to the “fest Indies."

Mr. Miller replies: "This explanation only tends to make the situation worse. In i933, 266 million pounds of creamery butter was enough to give the Canadian peOple all they wanted to cat, to give restaurants and ship stores all tlicy wanted. An unrestricted amount -was used in Canada iii ice cream. and about 5 million pounds was exported to the \¢Ves( ind-- ies. On lop of this there W215 a surplus of sev-i eral million pounds to carry over into I939. Cpn-k trast this with i044 when tlicre was 320 million [mllllrls oi crcaiiicry hultcr plus the regular amount of farm hultcr. Practically n0 butler‘, was usvrl in linking. ice cream and candy. Still tlicrc was only 21 pounds of rationed butter Dcr pcrsliii."

Horse-Meal For Europe I

An important debate has been taking fig among food experts inside the United Nations Arliiiiiiislraiioii regarding tlic use of horse meat, fur fccdiiig liuropc. _ ’

ilorsc nicat is :1 type of food which Cali- adiaiis and Americans know little about. With- iii iiurope it is standard diet and certain coun- tries, especially France and Belgium, have re- peatedly informed ilic United States that they would like to buy more horse meat. If two and a half billion pounds of horse meat could be’ sold to Europe-which is the amount available in the U. S. A.—it would take care of most of Europe's feeding problems and eliminate any

d for rationing on this continent.

i _' Such a program has been urged by UNRRA

l cials and also by some experts in the Army Navy. However, the plan has run - up {several snags, chiefly that of S. meat

don't want the public to

_ ’meat_ is processed in

jTbey. far. that the suspicion would ,

minds even‘ after‘ the’ iced mini»: baptised with “mitts, the ' '1 llllyiilll...' halter out. pelvic

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thousands of four to six-year-old horses which have never been harnessed. Farmers haven't had time to break them in, would like to sell them if prices were right.

_ lni migration

The debate on immigration in the House of Commons indicated that were the Govern- ment t0 liberalize its immigration policy it would command support from all sides of the House. Conservatives, C.C.i<‘.-ers, and Liberals all urged a more aggressive immigration pol- icy.

LL-Col. Cecil Merrit, V. C., Conservative member for Vancouver-Burrard, described Can- ada's present immigration policy as an embar- go on human beings, and called upon the Gov- ernment to remove this worst of tariffs. He urged a programme under which at least 20o,- 000 immigrants a year could come to Canadb over a long pyriod of years?

Australia has already announced its im- migration policy for the immediate future. It is curious that Canada, with its greater re- sources, its greater industrial and agricultural capacity, its greater ability to absorb immi- grants, has failed to make any such announce- ment when it knows how concerned the nation is over this matter. -

The Cost of Bureaucracy

An article by Hilton Lund in the London Graphic reveals some very thought-provoking situations. Lund states that the British Civil Service now equals a fifth of the total man- power of the nation; that one ticket in three issued by the railways is being paid for by the government; that one guest in five at every hotel is paying his bill from a government ex- pense account; that ninety-seven seats out of every hundred occupied by British civilians on aircraft leaving the country are paid for by government funds; ninety-eight per cent of the gasoline consumed in the United Kingdom is paid for by government voucher; that each civilian factory having fifty employees has an average of one official visitor from a govern- ment department every day.

—EDITURIAI_ NUI ES-

A Russian stamp worth only a few "mums was sold for 8o_poiiiids ($360) at Harrners, Bond Street. The reason? Centre of the Wimp W85 printed upside down.

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_ Henry Chichelery, English prelzuc and diplomatic. died this date i443; famed chiefly for his educational endoiviiieiils. St. Ioliifs Col- iegeand All Souls College, Oxford; is also credited with having inspired the foundation of Eton's and King's,

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Cattle on Canadian farms, which rose to

a peak of 10.258.000.000 at December 1st, 1944, fell l0 9,961,000 at Dcccmbcr 1st, 1945, 51mg), 2,822,000 at December Ist, 1944, fell to 2,456,- ooo at December 1st, 1945. These figures are recommended to Mr. King, as throwing a light on present Government policies for increasing agricultural production. ll! 11

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Delegates to the iiitcriiatioiizil food confer- ciicc in London last week have‘ made it abund- antly plain that the harvests of 1946 will no: enable the war-devastated countries of iiuropc and Asia to restore their agriculture and in- dimly to the point WllCfc they can feed them- sclvcs. The earliest date at which this event can be safely anticipated is the'fall of 1947,

some l8 months hence.

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Ninety per cent of Iiranccs stolen art treasures have been discovered in the American zone of occu-pied Germany where they had been stored in 500 warehouses. This Spgcifll com- mission entrusted with the recovery of stolen valuables was assisted by ~American military authorities wli‘o gathered all the'loot carried out of invaded countries by the Nazis at Mun- ich. The eighth ti-ainload of such treasures rec- ently reached Paris where the Musee du Ieu de Paume plans to hold a June exhibit of the most valuable ones, including paintings by Goya, Chardin, Rubens, Ficasso‘ and Matissee. p A cost of living study for the U. S. shows that between January, r941, and December, ‘i945, food prices have risen‘46.o%: clothing prices 30.0%; housing 3.9%. That is, rentals have been rigidly coniroiiedfclothing prices not

as rigidly; food prices the least rigidly con--

trolled. As a result, the production of food has expanded more than the production cf cloth- ing, and there is a greater shortage of housing than of dtlierfood qrsclotliiiig. "It ‘is lust as, simple u that," Letter-Review. Tile moreiflcidiy miceiisrc gwilfrnlled,» the salcemfully with lirulied. price will

she, riding in liie f lly auto while her husband was rlving, did not| warn her husband of the approach . of another car. Thus, evidently, back-seat driving is not only a right but a duty. —Chatham News. I

A new synthetic starch for cot-l ton and rayon that lasts the llfel of the goods whether washed or dry cleaned is being laced on the market. It takes the crm c! white powder which both impregnate: and coats textile fabrics. Garments, | curtains and other roducts are claimed to retain thei- starchlness under all weather conditions.

Maryland farm leaders say the movement of prewar farm workers back to the farm is less than a trickle. Some statistical support of this statement comes from the monthly reports of the extension farm labor program of the United States Department of Agriculture. quoted by The Baltimore Sun. In September these reports show pre- cisely M veterans of the Second World War were placed on farms in the entire Middle Atlantic area From January through September the placements numbered only 329.

The dodo has almost become a myth or symbol. But there was s bird cf that name-a large flightless relative of the pigeons, which in- habited the Island of Mauritius until 1690, says The Canadian Churchman. At that time it became totally extinct, due to the attacks of hogs which had been introduced into the island by Europeans. In the Royal Ontario Museum there is a skeleton and portrait c-f the dodo on view. The latter. painted by Dr. L. S. Russell, is based on the work of a 17th century artist who had seen the dodo in life.

The extent of investments and how money travels is shown by an advertisement in The Times of Iioridcn, llingland, advising invest- ors of the notice of redemption of bonds of the Windsor Gus Com- pany. The five percent 40-year mortgage bonds are being redeem- ed at the fixed rate of $4.86 2-3 to the one pound sterling. The Ca- nadian Bank of Commerce in Lon- don is handiing the business over there. Investors in Great Britain have put a lot of money into Cn- nadlan enterprises. provided the funds for much development and consequent employment. Their money has been at work making work ln Canada. —Wliidsor Star,

There is ln bliis modern era neither time nor practical purpose in cultivating wnlstlong locks. thinks The Winnipeg Free Press. They belong to a leisurely age when .WOli'lBn gave endless wasted hours in tending a process that nc.-cs-. sltated an armory of hairpins. combs and slides. Long tresses will not return. They are out of tempo with the pace of this age. When woman. took the first brave stop to shorten her hair lt must have taken quite a load of her mind. Nevertheless, long hair has advan- tages. Lady Godiva during an his- torical cccaslon in Coventry dem- onstrated that a wealth of tresses can be put to good use in an em- ergency. A modern hair-do bunch- ed on top of the head might have been more fashionable, but hard- ly as practical-under the circum- stances.

-Complalnts of military tailors

that they have difficulty in obtain-

ing supplies suitable material

for tartan trews and for the kllli for officers of Scottish regiments

have been brought before .he pres-

ident cf the Board of Trade, but

evidently the deputation receivedl little satisfaction. n is to be fear-I ed that the military and other

authorities concerned, both and in Canada, do not appreciate the strength of Scottish attach- ment to the tartan and thc kiit. In Canada a prominent officer. who is not himself a Scot, has declared that the kllt is unsuitable fm‘ tank and other military opera- tions, and that “war dress" is to be the rule there in future; but the Scots in Canada are not of thc type to remain quiet on the extinction of this essentially Scottish appar- el, and it is evident in our own country that the last word hos not “lhiorl -—Erlln-

been said ‘on "ic burgh Scotsman.

t There Is acmethh" "M" I'M"- seated in the demand for thc slim-t wcck. ‘ll’. is not slmvilv a riucstlovl. of getting more time to play: nor is it specially due to n "11"" "l- trulsm which ion": tn Slli"‘" in» available work v"th other" " i! not, we believe, due‘ to s myster- ious increase in cld-farwcr" f" - new. eitliouizh there are always some who deserve the clinrcc. It goes much deeper than those res- sonr. and is probably quite tinde- in the minds of mart of

seek the shorter hours

of work. i would seem to be a fundamental revolt against the ms- chine. a subconscious revulsion arlslnr‘ the unsstisfylnl. uncreat- Ive work which is imposed unon human beings by mast production. If this so. it ls clear thst it holds a moat desperate portent for

be denied indc‘iviitelil consequences will h- disastrous.- Torvnto Globe and Mall,

Plans may be seen at the office oi’ James E. Harris, architect,

‘ April

chinery has made farming more

popular, causing more bidders to'

offer for available properties and consequently sending prices up- ward. Let-up in the labor and ma- chinery shortage resultant from the end of the war has also played a part.

Veterans, , urchaslng farms through the etercns’ Land Act. have,ccntrlbuted somewhat to price increases A department of- ficial in Edmonton sold the Gov- ernment had purchased nbcut 1.000 farms in the Province for sale under the act and that they were carrying price tags of $1,200 tn $1,300 as compared with 1909 and 1M0 prices of $1.000.

Tenant farmers in some sectors aided by wartime prosperity. liavr purchased land theyformerly rent- ed, while in Saskatchewan ten- ants have frequently had to va- cate their ranches because they were unable to meet the high COW!‘ payments or cash deals demanded of purchasers. One Regina uizencv reported 300 applications on file from tenants who would like tn rent farms but no farms with good land were idle. In all parts of the Prairie Provinces demand for farm land far exceeds the supply.

Although farm prices have "boom- ed," prices have not yet reached the levels which followed the First Great War. Land bought in that nerlod, for $70 an acre in Manitoba later sold for as low as $25 and durlniz the depression veiirs went for $15 or less. Manitoba rents have remained stable hut in Al- berta rentals have moved upward slightly as demand for farms in- creased.

the future of North American so- ciety. The whole structure of capi- talism on this continent has been based on the technique cf mass production, which is the minute subdividing of labor, to obtain quantities of standardized parts with th minimum of human cf- fort wh ch parts in turn are as- sembled by the same stern of single-operation labor. c, effect of this technique on the workers has been on the whole stuitifylng. What they do seldom occupies their conscious attention, and there is a slow sense of frustration, since their work never comes to its nat- ural climax of completion. Their only reward is money; never the satisfaction of saying, “1 made that!" ‘There are two ways by

which this frustration may be dealt with. and thus reverse the

basic revolt against machine-minding. One is the totalitarian method. put- ting the worker in virtual chains, disregarding his human feelings and his inclination toward leisure. This would be an intolerable solu- tion fcr s. country like this The other would be to find compensat- ing factors which would restore the sense c-f creation to work, as it existed before the machine age opened. When this has been restor- ed, modern restlessness, nerves, mental disorders and social excesses of all kinds will decline in Import- ance to the place thcy held before what has aptly bcen termed "the religion of the gcd on wheels" lic- came so widely accepted. lfen do

not hate work. when work brings

its natural snll-‘nr-Pnris. If these

the social

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College, and