PAGIIOUR _____ THE_ GUARDIAN.

ll ' Dally (Founded tn ‘lllh. Au" ‘ ’ an Second Clara Mall, Post Offleo ‘ i Department. Ottawa. ‘President, lns A. Burnett; Vloe-Prealdcnt. Wm. R. Burnett; Seep-Trend G. M. Burneltf-Edilor and Managing Director. .l. B. Burnett; Associate Editor. Frank Walker.

>_"Tho Strongest Memory is Weaker Than fho Weakest Ink."

“Cirnnmwurowu russnny, ruununmr 2s.“-

wasteful Puffs

The following comment from the Winnipeg Free Press (Liberal) leaves nothing unsaid:

"Among the many publications put out by the Government for the better information of the Canadian public and the praise and glorv of those in authority in Ottawa is a bi-monthly periodical issued- by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Like the others—-and no more and no worse than they-it is devoted to showing the good work being done on behalf of the veteran. by the Federal Government with asides on vet erans themselves. " '

"The issue to hand includes a farewell from Senator lan Mackenzie and a hail from til: new Minister, Hon. Milton Gregg. Mr. Mac~ kenzie remarks modestly that he leaves the de- partment in the knowledge "that the veterans of no country in the world have a more complete legislation programme. " Mr. Gregg soy: the "jab which has been done by the department is a monumental one."

"Thousands of dollars are spent annually by Government departments on such puffs as these. They are paid for with taxpayers’ money includ- ing contributions to the Federal treasury from good Conservatives, Social Creditors and C.C.F.'ers. They are a thorough-going waste of" public funds and it is high time they were con- signed with other extravagances into the limbo o wartime practice."

Multum In Parvo

The difficulty of "seeing the wood for tnc trees" is exemplified in the com-prehensive re- ports presented at last week's Agricultural Coun- cil meetings, embodying about a hundred recom- mendations and suggestions of far-reaching im- portance on practically every phase of our farm- ing industry. These reports are covered extens- ively in the press, and no doubt will be given due consideration at our farmers’ meetings this week, and by our legislators who are also meeting op- portunely at this time. The average reader, however, is likely to be confused by the multi- plicity of the matters discussed, and will per- haps appreciate the following attempt at con- densation of the more important points mode by our agricultural officials:

Special emphasis is placed on the need of practical and simplified courses in agriculture in the public schools and Prince of Wales Col- lege. Textbooks on basic agriculture should be approved by our own specialists, and provision made for keeping them up to date by the oddi- tion of yearly summaries. Establishment of scholarships and bursaries for agricultural stu- dents is recommended; also an extension special- ist in plant pathology and the holding of annual field days in connection with plant disease and insect control. To the existing farm organizations should be added potato and grain production clubs, and more general use made of the press and radio in disseminating agricultural informa- flOn. Fuller reports are needed with regard both to weather and marketing conditions.

Establishment of a permanent livestock committee and of a central selling agency for dairy products is suggested. Veterinary as- sistance for innoculations and other services should be made available to breeders on a basis comparable with the services provided to potato growers. An animal nutritionist should be ap- pointed by the Provincial Government, and there should be established a joint Dominion- Pravincial bonus policy for inspected and ap- proved bulls patterned after the Provincial boar policy. The present hog population of l00,000 should be increased to l50,000 annually, which would require approximately -275 bushels of mixed grain per farm plus protein supplement for finishing. More general use of sows from advanced registry stock is required, also a larger test station for advanced registry and more ex- perimental work with hogs at the Dominion Ex- perimental Station.

The Province should be made a disease frec or restricted area for poultry, and a poultry pathologist, with adequate laboratory facilities, should be placed at‘ the Experimental Station. The policies of bonusing broader stoves and pur- chase of breeder cockerels should be continued. and provision made for a steady supply of feeds. Marketing of poultry should be done co-operatively, either by amalgamating the ex- isting assembly units, or by on entirely new org- anization. There should‘be inquiry into the feasibility of establishing sales pools, and pro- vision of refrigerator cars for handling eggs dur- ing the June-September period. The I940 statute pertaining to licensing of all_ first receivers of poultry products should be enforced, and provis- ion mode for more housing units and for o new laying house at the Experimental Station.

. Grain production should be increased to the extent of from two to three acres per farm, and the potato acreage held in a balanced re- lationship with other field crops, with a provin- gial limit of 40,000 acres of potatoes annually. limestone consumption should be doubled to c Qolol of 40,000 tons annually. Commercial for- tillnr should be diotrisuted more equitably -os bitween potato and. other crops, and more at- ‘ilention given to improving the magnesium con- itontof the soil.

l? A“ control marketing board to llflildlQ-flle ‘é tote _orgp'is recommended, along with legis- grin: tllrpnsing all hackers and loaders ln- "gsd" ln handling and transporting potatoes

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equipped to operate all winter, and a plant to disinfect second-hand potato bags. Potatoes should be sold on grade inlocol retail stores, and should be exported only in new packages, stamp- ed "P. E. l. Potatoes", with the grade number eliminated from the package and placed on the tag. All seed exported should be marked as to origin, and every tablestock grower required to place his full name on every sock tag for export.

More attention should be given to growing and marketing our horticultural crops, and a fieldman should be employed in this connection by the Provincial Government. There should be provision for advanced training in horticulture, for quick freezing and cold storage facilities for fruits and vegetables, and for insuring adequate disposal of cull piles to curtail blight infection.

There is need also of a qualified forester in the Provincial Department of Agriculture and of the teaching of forestry in the schools. Foresta- tiort projects on abandoned forms should be undertaken, and there should be legislation to regulate the sale oft pitprops, pulp wood and other immature crops of trees. '

Soil conservation measures and control ol pests and plant diseases bulk large in the recom- mendations, and are evidently Jegarded as of prime importance in our agricultural economy.

- EDITORIAL NOTES -- \\L.

Farm week begins with first of a series oi conferences. . .. .. . lt must be plain to all the sooner the United Nations cease their talk and resort to action the better for the peace of the world. Tourist cabins unoccupied may command higher rents when the season comes round. Meantime no one wants a tourist cabin at any rental. I i V Opening of the First Session of the Forty- sixth General Assembly of His Majesty's Prov- ince of Prince Edward Island. Government is undoubtedly the Island's fastest growing busi- ness.

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Setting up the P. E. l. Agricultural Council represents a very real advance. At Confedera- tion agriculture was placed within the iurisdic- tian of both Dominion and provinces and all too often Ill the pastvthe respective governments have‘ gone ahead with little regard for what the ‘ther was trying to do. Feast of St. Matthias-Aha disciple select- ed_by the costing of lots, (secret ballot) for ap- pointment to the apostleship in succession to Judas. _ Some critics identify him with Nathaniel; a qualification for election was qssoflgfign m}, the Apostles from the baptism of John till the

Ascension. ‘

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George Moore, British novelist and dramat- fil. l>0rn this date, I851. Was much influenced "l ‘will’ life by Zola, Flaubert and Moupassant, Md his novels are strongly realistic. These in- clude, A Modern Lover, Esther Waters, Celibales and The Brook Kerifh. Ho also wrotg Made”; Painting, m which he sharply attacked the Royal Academy and other art institutions; Hail and Farewell, Ave, Salve, Vole (3 vols), some verse, and ‘the plays The Strike of Ar/ingfard, The Belldmy 0f the Bough, and Elizabeth Cooper.

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D Hlt is heartening to learn authoritatively that ClVllllGllOII prevailed 4,000 your; helm; m; birth of Christ, and is at least 6,000 years old. The lraq Department of Antiquities reports to- day it hodtdiscovered traces of perhaps the worlds earllestcivilization. The department gqid the discovery, |n_ Southern Iraq near Ur gf fir; Chaldees, IS a civilization older than the Alubeid civilization, which dates more than 4,000 years before Christ." That being so, the" wlrqr ab,“ modern puny claims to social advancement? Q i i i

ll’ l‘ "5"°_“Y lilophalcs in the law that legis- latures are called upon to plug after qr‘ ir|_ dlvidual hos managed to get away with conduct obviously intended to be barred. Now, however, Parliament has to deal with the problem of the Crown conducting a prosecution for an offence WllICll Parliament had clearly indicated was not so triable. Indications are that the Criminal Code will very probably be amended so as to make conspiracy" as well _as the actual pub- lication _of a defamatory libel triable only in file Province in which the publisher lives.

Here is how the respective provinces fore regarding veterans loans. Almost 3,000 loans- amounting to $5,2ll,66l—have been made "n4" the Veterans’ Business and Professiondl Loans Act, it was disclosed recently in _a Government return tabled ll the House of Commons. Of the 3,657 applications-for a total of $6,477,595—at ll"? Dec- 3l. 2,959 were approved. Greatest numberapproved in any one province were l,l66 In Ontario, ‘for a total of $2,030,29l. Other figures: British Columbia, $73Z,l7l (377): Alberta, $9B0,54l (537); Saskatchewan, $451,231 (269); Manitoba,‘ $322,278 (W4); Quebec, $389,- 747‘(Z27); New Brunswick, $98,860 (68); Nova Sflfillfl. “H.752 U00); Prince Edward Island, $54,707 (4l),

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"As‘an Englishman I have always felt more foreign in America than anywhere in Europe (says Mr. Aidan Crowley in a BBC service) be- cause in the United States the great adventures of life are still mainly in the technical field, whereas in Europe they are mainly in human af- fairs or in the realm of ideas or social organiza- tion. To drive into New York across the New Jersey Skyways is o thrilling experience and one's imagination soars with the endless possibilities of further engineering feats in a continent which is still so undeveloped; but to drive into Rome is to- coniure up visions of all the men who have lived thori and tho beautiful things they have created, and to wonder how its present inhabit- ants measure up to them; it is an exaggeration which still contains much ‘truth to soy that in

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Europe one is more interested ln e man's char- oetor than in the way he oems hls livingff

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We have that

often thought there are too many pxganlzatlms

in Canada. that they hold too many meetings. and that "hey hear too many speeches. People might be better olf l! they listen- ed less. and thought. more. "they might. be better of! lf they studied things for themselves, instead o! expecting somebody else to do the studying for them, and condense lt into o. 20-minute oration. —Col- gary Herald. '

lt l: pretty generally recognized that. it 1s much better, cheaper and safer to prevent sickness than t.) try to deal with lt- after 1t. occurs, and so we have immunization n- gzllnst. communicable diseases, vu-r- ious measures deullng with sani- tation, inspection of food and places where food ls handled. em These measures are aimed prin- cipally at. avoiding diseases that may become epidemic, but therc- ls much that all can do to avoid usher diseases which take a tre- mendous toll 1n suffering, expense and untimely death. - Pembzoke Suzlstin.

From Plymouth, Mass» comes the pathetic tale of a nine-year- old boy expressing forgiveness to a brutal father who had beater: him into UHcOIISClOUSXlBSS. The per- centage of parents who resort i0 such inhuman treatment. ls infin- iteslmal. It. is an unnatural porous who would so abuse his or her own r-htld. But, such lncldencs do happen. ll ever lashes were wart-exited, certainly they are tn such instances. Letting the culprit feel some of the polo he so suds- tically administered to a child would have a good effect. Th8 language of the lash leaves an lm- pression upon the mlnal as well as upon the body. — Windsor Star.

Mellaha ls ln Trlpolitanla and i! directly south of Malta. The Amer- icans are using Melloha as an air base again. Gallant Malta held out all through the war. When the Italians and Germans tried to '11s- lodge the British from the surve- gic island. they felled. Malta was a British and Allied strong print. Now. Mellahn ls another strong point. It ls on the edge of the Mediterranean. From its awfletd warplanes can sklp across to cc-ver the sea and to cover Italy and other countrles on the European slde of the Medlterfisnean. Reop- ening of the air base at Meilaha is another step ln the war of nerves by which the Brltlsh attd Americans are preparing for ev- entualltles. The Mediterranean has been a strategic area ever since the Christian era began. Posses- sion of the see routes ls cherished. Whoever controls the Mediterran- ean also controls a large portion of the world. » Windsor Star.

It‘: becoming more and more a0- parent. that television cameras are not ktnd to those who are of med- ium height or less. Especially ms!!- ‘There ls something about the wr- mern or transmission which dis- torts the human figure lnto being very short of tlrnb. This can n- mount to a definite handicap to performers and ls something which the costume department wlll pro- lmhly have ta try l/o overcome. Any mutt imitler 5.5 who gets ln front of a tele lens wearing a. suit with a long Jacket ls crazy. He well nigh looks ridiculous. The only answer for him 1s medium or close-up vlews or to slt. clown. This distortion also can extend to the girls and especially ballet dancers. It's pretty funny. even silly. when the camera. moves in to show tne lower half of the figure ln acttin For let. it always be. remembered that from the waist clown any bnllel; dancer could well be Grou- oho Marx. - Variety.

On the average. Americans smoke 115 Packs of cigarettes a year, but. the lnhabltenta of New York state smoke an average o! 132 packs u year. The higher fig- ure ls accounted for largely by New York City - many of whose residents are nervous people who smoke a great. deal and sometimes btte their nulls. some New York- ers, tn order to out down on smok- ing expenses. have been buyltlg" their cigarettes not tn New York (where the three-cent. state cig- arette tax brings the east of popu- lar brands to 20 cents o. pack) but from "cut-rate" firms across the Hudson tn New Jersey (whore there has been no such cigarette tax.) last. week tn Trenton. Gov- ernor Alfred E. Drlseotl moved to cut out the cut-rote business. He asked the New Jersey Legislature to tax cigarettes 3 cents a poo‘: Just. like New York. - New York Times.

The population of Ontario ls formed predominantly of people of British stock. According to the Ontario Bureau of Statistics and Research, people of lb-ltlsh orlgtn constituted 72.07 percent of the population of this province at the time of the I041 census, a slight decrease from 1031 when they formed ‘l4 percent. Numarloaliy they increased by 100.050 uurlM this period. The next. largest. group ls the French race, which 1n mt constituted 0.81 percent of On- tarlo’: population. 0f the 373,300 people of Hone): orlgln, 100.113 llve 1n rural areas. Tho greatest concentration of French stock ls 1n the Ottawa ‘Valley, tn the southwestern part. of the province 1n the oountleu of hoax and Kenn, and 1n Northern Onltsrlo. Other racial groups having more than 06,000 persona In 1M1, wue: (Jer- man, 187,102; Netherlunrk. ‘H.001; Jewlaluffllb; Italian. 001M; Pal- lsh, 04,80; Ukrainian, 40.100; Pin-

alnh, am. and aoaaainavian. 37w n "- Kltotsoner-Welorloo Reo-

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this column la open i.- the dbeasloa by oorrn- opoudoata of gueafloaa ul inland. The L-u-loitotow. , Gllardhu doeo not nooir this; endorse the oplnloss or

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_ Till MAILGARINI BAN

Sup-Ono way to reduoo the cost. of ltvlng, and benefit the economy of Canada, would be to] remove the ban on the sale of oleomnrgarlne-thls product to be manufactured tn Canada under Government inspection, thus mak- ing available much of‘our dairy product for export.

By falllng ln the exportation d such valuable products as butter end cheese (so basic to our coun-

er losers. For the many thous- ands, to be added to‘ our popula- tion 1n the near future (who may never have seen butter) mrsi. share in our scant. butter reservcsi remembering too the large per- centage of our people who would

all or do without.

So far as I'm aware, any nation that permits the use o! olaotnar- garlne has not. harmed lts dalry industry, the contrary being the ease.

country, have suffered through protected interests. Now that the walls of protection are being lov- elled do\vn—brlng'lng 1n a new day-Aer. us for shame sake if for no other reason. wipe off the “Olen Ban Act." from the laws of our Canada. I am, Sir. eta.

SEEDY FARMER

’l‘ryon, P111’.

TIIE NEW DEMOCRACY

Slur-Another" of our institu- tions upon which Time makes but little impression is our Canadian Parliament at Ottawa. Engrossed with matters of relatively mluor importance the great issues o! the day often receive scent atten- tion. While the world deplores the continuous and more and more unreasonable rise in wages Parliament pauncesupon the per- fectly simple problem of the high

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wnune Y0!‘ crrosn TU 3|;

Summers, when young. You climbed this hill, you chose This graveyard for your own be. tween

The sprtlces and vi-lld rose.

the years were

The WllldS here had Lhent

And one cows’ sweet breath, Wood-thr-utshes called from hill to

the son m

. h , Death here was not like death.

Dark sprucewoads wihere the sun came up,

A green farm where it set. Chm-ah to south and school to north,

Here all the good things met,

Small boys and big geographies Wan-t past along the road,

Folks in Sunday-meeting clothes, The hayrock’; honeyed toad.

Here were captains home from sea. A hundred years ago,

Old babies rocked to sleep for good Under the Spring or snow.

The llohened trees

Weeping lovely lace

Where the young wild showed

Hts shy, w-rlnloled face.

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slates vlibh willow

rabbit

Now on the lslnncl where you found '

Wild strawberries and love

You lte ln the graveyard 0d your ciholce,

And the sen winds blow above.

Deer stare at. one tlnkllng cows;

395i. where you ahose to be.

The high fog comes in over the hill

Wlth gray eternity.

——R0berl. P. Trtrtram Coffin 1n The Atlnntle Monthly.

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Charlottetown (All P. I. I.)

AGRICULTURAL TRAINING

"ln this Island. the Government 010191165 0108.846 anually 1n educa- tion. The amount now paid for what 1a known u the higher edu- cation u 811,000 yearly, the Drac- tloal effect of this higher educa- tion ls to unfit the recipients for farming altogether (It should not be so, but. 1t is.) They aspire to the learned professions, for which there. ls not half room enough an this Islsnd. Some of them make their good mark, but of man," we do not. hear much; but we know they have left the farms to be worked by their parents as best. they can. Our Superlntendeir of Education, tn his report. recent. mohdo that $2.000 of the 117,000 should be set apart. for instruction 1n the science of agriculture 1n the public schools. and that. a competent professor of ngrtouluurs should be appointed tn Prime ‘of Wales Oollole to instruct and train students, and to loeturo through- out the Province. But I contend that st tout one-half o! the 011,000 ought. to be applied for that pur- pose. It. cannot make things worse

Lry) we farmers wlll be the great- '

prefer butter substitute, to none at i

The farmers for decodes, in our ‘

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- rmnl. ctenunuce Men's Overcoatsg

Tuesday morning we offer the balance of our Men's Overcoat: at a price that will "soll them quickly. OUT THEY GO . . . . . .

Coats worth $32 to $40.