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President, Burnett; Managing Director, J. R. Frank walker. _v______ "The Strongest Memory is W811i?!‘ TM“ . the Weakest Ink.”

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER l0, 1940

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llur Seed Potato liidustry

A five and one-half million bushel harvest of prime seed potatoes in Prince Edward Island this year tells its own story. It is a story of which we should all be proud, for it is an achievement highly creditable to Canada's smallest and—trom the transportation stand- point—-most handicapped Province. Other Prov- inces now engaged in the seed potato industry are mere imitators. They cannot equal our quality product, far less surpass it.

Much water has passed under the Hillsboro Bridge since the seed potato industry was first established in this Province. The father of the industry was the-late Dr. Poul A. Murphy, who established the first plant laboratory at the Dominion Experimental Station and carried on experiments in various diseases in plants, espec- ially in potatoes. He was here from July, 1915, until February, 1920, and initiated among other things the spraying of potatoes in this Province.

Dr. Murphy saw the suitability of our Island soil for the growth of fine, flowery white potatoes instead of the blue and pink varieties then being produced. In order to interest the farmers, he wrote a series of articles in The Guardian which resulted in Mr. M. J. Mclvor of Kiiilcora starting the first white potato farm in the Pravncé under guarantee by Dr. Murphy that he would find 'a profitable market for the spuds. This he did.

Then the late Mr. John B. McFadyen, pro- gressive farmer of Augustine Cove, seeing the success of the experiment at Kinkora, followed suit and was equally successful. Appreciating the benefits to follow the development of this in- dustry, he got in contact with Mr. John O. Hynd- man, who was instrumental in arranging alarm- ers’ dinner cit the Charlottetown Rotary Club in order that Mr. McFadyen might lay the project of a potato organization before both farmers and citizens. The outcome of this dinner was the institution of the Prince Edward Island Po- tato Growers Association.

The industry has come a long way since Mr. McFadyen paid over to Mr. J. W. Boulter, sec- rotary of the Association, who was also Deputy Minister of Agriculture, the first membership fee of one dollar in the spring of 1919- The first step taken was in co-operation with the then potato dealers of the Province who offered cash prizes in each County for the‘ best yield per acre of white potatoes. To beeligible for the competition it was necessary to join the Association. A large number joined. This was followed by the sale of a carload or more of certified seed to a buyer in Long island at a very high price per bushel. This high price set the heather afire, and the development of the certified seed industry was under way. In 1921 the Association became incorporated, and with tho assistance of the Department of Agricul- ture introduced Island potatoes to new and pro- fitable markets. its rapid growth was made possible through the Division of Botany, Ottawa, which was responsible for seed certification. Ev- ery year the industry has worked closely with Mr. S. G. Peppin, chief representative in this Province for seed potato certification. In the formative years hundreds of meetings were held throughout the Province for purposes of instruct- ing the growers both in potato diseases and in marketing organization. Hundreds of samples of seed were furnished by the Association for demonstration purposes to almost every potato producing State in the Union. Potato tours were organized, resulting in great numbers of buyers visiting the Island and finding here ideal condi- tions for growing their seed_.

Reviewing the history of the industry at the Association's silvcr jubilee last year, Mr. Boul- ter remarked: "A careful compilation of our seed shows this Province has marketed at least twenty-five million bushels. It is more difficult to arrive at the average price but we are per- fectly safe in saying 8O cents per bushel which gives us a total of twenty million dollars. If we add the value of our tablestock shipped dur- ing this period it would show without question that potatoes are the most suitable and re- munerative cash crop this Island can produce, arid the reputation of Prince Edward Island seed potatoes has put P. E. l. on the map in scores of places. All of this has been accomplished not through any individual grower or group of grow- crs overdoing the production but by the aver- age grower planting five acres or less of pota- toes per farm per year. During the same period the volume of dairy products manufactured, the number of hogs, poultry and eggs marketed have increased tremendously. Therefore the potato crop supplies ready cash which is supplementary to the income derived from all other branches."

There is no doubt that the industry will survive as one of the mainstays of our Island form economy. With five and a half million bushels of seed to market this year, the prob- lem has become largely one of transportation,- for which unfortunately we have to depend, riot on ourselves, but on the Dominion Government.

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Despite the optimistic picture given by Transport Minister Chevrier here in his ‘ ad- dress boforo tho Rotary Club, it is reported that whnn the steel men go back to work. there will

» still be 27,000 workers on strike in Canada, many

in most important industries related to Canada. Arc we bottor off; comparatively, than othor na- tions in this respect? Other nations apparently are stoning to work in nornort, as can be gath-

- and from thou notes In the Dolly Express, Lini-

THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARQIAN

don: . ”lf you want to know the time ask the Swiss; They are to supply £2,000,000 worth of watches and alarm clocks for the British mar- ket. lf you want houses built more quickly go to the Belgians. They are baking us 110,000,- 000 bricks. Italian ironfounders are coming here to make drain pipes and stoves. Poles in Poland have got a big order to make us utility furniture. Germans, over 160,000 of them are cultivating our farms. And for the next two years the Argentinas have fixed a fat contract to grow us meat."

Houses, stoves, drain pipes and watches could be multiplied many times over in goods needed in Britain, many items of which this country could supply, outside of food entirely. In the war-torn countries, no strikes are re- ported. They are all concerned with getting back on their feet. In Canada on the contrary there is no use in trying to disguise the fact that there has been o tendency to throw away the opportunity, and sabotage of recovery has been most marked in recent months.

f EDITORIAL NOTES =

A consumer survey conducted recently re- vealed that 65 per cent of the women and 5| per cent of the men buy products from now:- paper advertising.

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The 14th should be n real heartfelt Har- vest Thanksgiving in the Dominion for from all over come reports of the crops being the finest in years. And this applies to livestock, from cattle to chickens as well.

Evidently the Liberal "machine" and the Jones Government are still at loggerheads-- a sequel to the break in the party when Mr. Jones was chosen Premier over the machine's nominee, and subsequently emphasized by the differences between the Premier and the Federal Minister of Reconstruction.

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Residents of the Fourth District of Queen's are called together at Belfast tomorrow evening, when consideration will be given to a number of questions of public interest, not the least be- ing a proposal of incorporation. There should be a large attendance, for the Fourth is a wealthy and progressive community.

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There must be a plentiful supply of ready money across the border, when Reconversion Director John R. Steelman reports officially that business profits and individual incomes are at an all-time high, with spending for consumer goods and services 50 per cent higher than the war-time peak, and 60 pcr cent higher than pre-

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Steps are being taken by the Admiralty to make life in the Royal Navy more attractive. A summary of these measures has been issued by the Admiralty. One of the most important new decisions is that officers and men appointe to stations abroad shall be entitled to free pass- age and removal expenses to bring their fam- ilies out to join them. The new scheme is, for the time being, limited by the shortage of ac- commodation on most foreign stations. The Government has also decided to provide, as soon as labour and materials are available, married quarters for naval men serving in shore estab-

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Recent amendments to the qualifications for the award of the various campaign Stars and Clasps indicate that Canadians who serv- ed at Hong Kong against the Japs are entitled to the Pacific Star. Very few Canadian soldiers have, until now, been eligible for this coveted award. The medal will go to all soldiers, or the next-of-kin of all soldiers, who entered the Pac- ific Theatre on the strength of a unit. The Canadian Force in the Pacific was comprised of the Royal Rifles of Canada and the Winnipeg Grenadiers and auxiliary troops.

"Morkdowns should be very high in the next six to eighteen months, not only because they will be a reflection of a thorough cleaning- as-you-go policy but competition between avail- able and new items will make it imperative to take action quickly and drastically," said Mr. Albert Coons, vice-president of the Allied Stores Corporation, at a meeting of the National Re- tail Dry Goods Association last month. "Where- as pre-war standards called for a normal four to five turns per year, it would seem obvious that turnover must be stepped up to six to seven times if you wish to minimize losses and be realistic about present-day hazards."

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Father Theobald Mathew, Irish apostle of Temperance, born this date in Thomastown, Tipperary. While priest in Cork, he became president of a newly formed temperance society, and threw himself so successfully into the move- ment that he obtained 150,000 converts. A dis- tillery in the south of Ireland belonging to his family, and from which he himself derived a large income, was shut up in consequence ol the disuse of whisky occasioned by his preach- ing. His services to the cause of religion and morality were recognized by the British Gov- ernment, ond a pension of $1,500 a year granted him from'Hey Majesty's Civil List.

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"For Henry and for thousands of other householders (says The Printed Word), the age of speed has become the age of frustration. He buys labor-saving devices and finds that any time they save in doing their work is dissipated by the dilatoriness of service men who have to repair them. He sends letters by airmail and finds they arrive later than when sent by ordinary post. He pays taxes for improved roads and they become so jammed with traffic that tgn minutes is added to his time in driving from homo to office. From tire to time Henry con- templates buying o farm. Ho thinks that work- mon who have been educated by cows and pigs to do their chores on time might be more sat-

isfactory to live with than tlioso yho inornly rotor to tho needs of liuinon beings."

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Never count your chickens until they are hatched and even ldlber other you uwuld keep a padlock an the henihoaise and a shot-gum be. side the bed. —1.ondon Free Pins.

A Hollywood make-up mail comes into who news with the atakelnient

than, tiho "Cupid's bow" typo of

wnsnsmsren Anne!

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maéetglllzn ‘T315 on the wayou. Tmnmm °f “m”. an at mouth of 1h um '

.5 to be the “melon? or wide styl: Mm‘ m’ dun o‘ whom —Srt. ‘Ithomas ‘Hines-Journal. tum an“ um dim:

The inhabitants of Slur: are ro- poirtcd 0o be toim bebwieen the back. slaipmng foreign ni-adcns o! Arxierlcn and the 01d school tie stiffness o! theBritim Itiodulikcagood place fair (mriadians, who ought. to be arbie to strike a. balance be- tween the owo-Oomwnli Standard- rtreatioldm.

The world’: In gent rrioiinc fn-rm Ls the Tuck Momsery in Rayleigh, Etngiancl, which raises mice for

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shown by tine fact abet dnoo 1M0 the Gorvemmenr, has allowed the farm additional food furious and that, tihe Nazi's took special patina to bomb ti, killing 22,000 mlcn in n single mid.

A financial report. for the Olly of Brantfora issued by its treason-er, E. A. Damby, shows tiha-t municipal- iiy, Whip’)! last. year completed a five-yea: plan-i under a paysas-you go system. to be in a stirring fin- anciaii position During the five years. deben-tura debt was reduced 9.119.048. no new debt was creamed, me tax rate was redruocd 5 L2 minis. and a post-war reserve fund of $251.969 was RSléibl1$ll€d.— ‘Hie Municipal World.

The heather hills of Scotland may yen yield a profitable crop. says The Family Herald and Week- 1y Star. Experiments have been succassdwilyi carried out by the Scciioisti Co-operauive Wholesale Society in the fabrications o! a syrinhcmic tiimber imowr: as heath. eriwood. Masses of heather plants with leaves, roots, etc removed are pressed into hard flat, bloclus witfh syrnrihefic resin as a, blinder. making a board which looks like lumber and has all its natural

mower-ties.

This newnpaper repeats l ml- gesiicn 1r has offered before. namely that all youngsters should be tagged or labeled solely by num- ber umii may a-itein the age of choice arid discernment. Then let each be ail-lowed 1c seluzz n. name he likes and considers appropriate 1t. would save the parents n lat. of need-Less prenatal and postriibtal thought (involving consideration of favorite or weain-tiy uncles and aunts) and b. would save tihe prog. my. in many cases, a good deal of dissatisfaction, if not, mortifie- otloiri. -—Branitoad m-posftor.

llollyivood has sent us three new films all muscaL-aollcctions, that its. of songs and dances and band

feeling irritated? Ewirleintiiy not. Judging by the letters I get, ma“; acre sttlil main-y people who like adiult entertainment ana are bomed witih incessant glorification of band lead. are, criooineirs and composers from Tin Pain Alley. The public I have in mind. by no means all iiigih- bronv, finds their sennimcnm mush, $11661. mariners misih, their charms lush, and their music (mostly) slush ——I.0ifld0Il Daily Telegraph.

An for teacher nuinsing shomtages. largely wioduced by tftie lure o! better pay in other professions, a person finds izimiseif wondering why there are so m-saiy strikes for higher wages and sitmrter» hour-s wherever you tum. which are the occupations (tut have lured away the te-ac-hsae and nurses’! It cannot. be the roamed industry or the Stunning indium. or the trucking industry or iiie coal miners or the bus drivers or the telegraph . avers. ‘Ithe intoiembie ooaiditons 8811mm wtiich nhey find themselves WmDflled to go out on strike oer. mini)’ cannot be luring teachers and nurses away from their own tuiades. -—New York Times.

shortages and to he

The Brlllsh people are no deeply involved in their own tasks of re- construction that. 1.1 ls hard to divest their acwntdon tc itihe problems of other peoples and other nations. Biii itie challenge cannot be skirlr. ea. The war "as Might in the hope of building u. diemnwatlc Elli’- cpe. and that _ began os-ifly with the iricioi-y 1n the battlefield. A new vimld must be built, upon the nuns of the om We cannon do our duty to the les who wore mice our e-a-un-ieo we peso by on nhc other one. Reconstruc- tion iin Europe will not t-slce lace without us. Rn" good or 11.1.1 dc. cision rests largely with us. If we viirre to interest ourselves in the solar-tiara, life on the conun- crit might be reborn in a shape “#11011 would (‘nimien us more pow- c-rfiiliy even than the Nazi colossus than souiiiht. to destroy our ooun. try in 1940. -london Herald.

The thirsty earth drlnkn in the siiill-wamm rsi-i at early autumn. The dried, powdery dim: at summer seems to sweiii, achieves cc-tienon and once again assumes tihe text.- uie of coll. The ncwiallm leaves, still crisp from hotter days, sound a gentle tattoo .r the light down- pcur. And Nzmire. says The vict- cria Times. begins to work the subtle change which ttiezistorms the dis. carded foliage of the passing sea- sons into ttig humus which will feed plant iund me as the cle of growth ‘s retrieve-rd. The whispered dbllaiice of rein on the to-kc prods ttie some long lethargic fcizm sunny ' mice. In in is o nrwnge oayin the time has came to clean b‘) tie summer comp. '1 TLTB are ieiuvro to be inked, lr-rfron to burned. I111 and brririti

. than. has to be cut and p will cease to be the evil pile iihat. threatened the woods floors the element of wsrer will ientiuin M, laoldfing it w'ihin note boiuids and raider-lag it. a molten-o for man's use. not. his mute. Wtohki ih confines of bonfkor. 1t will play out its drama, ma. un. 418ml! to Entry uh. rum the bomba- roinn will bent upon trio ransom. onrrylna into m; b Inc of m t and in the earth in n eloannlru wlatnfl

bnith anions tbn In M‘

Whuclnitilcében-iibsuidoonsotlfing-

of atone. Hen Eng-land. breathes. the holy core of her: l still remains. tier ave swords to conquer, and to save ‘their blessed realm. Hen crown and ornoir. Remembered by their names. shnro quietly Their solitude and immortality. —Wimsm D. De Cone. (mafia: onneo-‘ly

British Author's Asnoc.) r of Charlottetown,

Alaska Highway

Her, with these glorious br bored their

(Canadian Press Staff Writer,

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A thin ribbon nirough the nor-them wilds. flanked by 11n- known riches. the Alaska highwayl beckons today to the dxowsing pioneer spirit of young Canada aria officials repogi. that reactions are starting to manifest themselves.

Officially turned oveir to Crui- ada. by the United States in Arprii, the LOOO-mlle Kravel highway be- tween Dawson Creeilc. B. 0.. and Fairbanks. Alaska. looms as a great potential srterv of tourist traffic and possibly as the wedge the’! will open up s vast new area of development in minerals. for- ests, agriculture and wild game. l

But the military requirements that saw United States engineer- ing siclll build it in 7 1-2 wartime months of 194B are still such that. its peacetime commercial pursuits must remain in the realm of fu- ture possibilities

The most immediate prospects for the pdoneerixig youth are over- night csbiris. garages. stories, and other facilities to accommodate the tourists who may start flood- ing up and down its $115.000.000 lanky extent next summer. The other deveiopments will come lat- er.

Wing Cmdr. L H. Phinney. spec- ial commissioner for defence pro- jects in Northwest Canada, said that plims for opening the high- way to tourists were making “very satisfactory progress," such piro- gress 1n fact that it was hoped that n. percentage of the appli- cants - almost exclusively Ameri- can so far —wouid be allowed through next summer.

Just what percentage would de- pend to s large extent on the num- ber of persons who show an in- terect lri opening uv facilities w 1199p them supplied with gas. food, and other essentials of prolonfl- ed travel. '.t‘he government will maintain the route but has no intention of £01m into the cat-l ering business. ‘r-hotjield would ‘be left open to the initiative of‘ private enterprise. y

Restrictions on onetime of afl- vote businesses have been lifted in the Yukon by federal authori- ties end it has been prvmlfld ti"! they be removed in the British Columbia section‘.

As for potential tourists. Wlflfi Cmrir. Phlnney. now a Olvilllfi- admitted that he was o. trifle puzzled at the “remarkably few inquiries from Canadian sources tn comparison from the United 8111168-

Persons who have recently been on the highway report that lhere 15 a bus service with three stop!» between Dawson creek. 500 milw northwest of Edmonton and Whitehorse in the Yukon. A simi- lar service W911"! “W?” Whitehorse and Fflllibfllll-‘i 1W c9 a week each wpy. About giidizas _t bi . 14 r6981‘ 115N111" csibreosmnre established. There are 19 places where meals ore served and 14 where travellers may slew- But there are still 200 and 800 gills stretches with no facilities w a - ever. and 400 miles are badly 1n need of further KYWfillnB-

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By Giapman Pfnchcr in 1M LOnGOD EXPIVUB

Details of the sooceflllv 91W ned by French engineers to take a ‘ tlflc expedition‘. to the "I00" nya given by Dr. Alexander Amin-

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