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THE GUARDIATN

Morning Daily (Ioulliiorl la i881) Authorized an nevoud Cine: iinil. Pant Office Uiiparinienl, Ottawa. 1'lio lolnaii (iaarrlina Publlnhiag Co. Iiditrir and Managing Director. J. It. Burnett. Alum-into Edllnr, Frank Walker.

"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than.‘ the Weakest Ink.“

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llaval Barracks Site

As reported in yesterday's Guardian, it has been officially confirmed that Charlottetown has first priority in the matter of construction of a Naval Barracks, and an estimated expendi- ture of half o million dollars will be provided in the parliamentary estimates for this purpose. it is necessary, however, that the site selected in Victoria Park, immediately west of Govern- nient House and east of the road leading from Brighton Road to the Park roadway, be made available to the Dominion Government. This site is part of an area of sixteen acres which was not originally attached to the Park, but was add- ed by legislative enactment with the consent of the then Lieutenant Governor iii the year 1905. There are no residences or buildings oc- cupying this land, which was used in years gone by as a camping ground lor the militia.

ln the objections previously raised to the utilization of this site tar a Naval barracks, it was argued that a waterfront location would be more suitable. This apparently is net the case. ln the survey conducted by Federal en- gineers, it was found that a building of the proportions intended could not be erected on tho waterfront without prohibitive cost. We un- dgrgtqnd, however, that it is the intention of tho authorities to build, in addition to the Nav- al barracks on the Park site, a boothouse and flouting pier an the waterfront adjoining the ola‘ gun battery, which will constitute an ad- ditional important undertaking.

In view of the intention not to interfere in any way with the Brighton residential area, with regard to which there was at first some misun- derstanding, nnd in view also of the fact that tho authorities have definitely fixed on lhe Park site as the only suitable one in Charlotte town, it behooves our Provincial Government either ta fall Ill line, or elseacccpl the responsi bility of passing up this tempting Federal atlcr altogether. Failing prompt action in this inat- ter, tho appropriation will either not be passed at Ottawa, or the project will go to some other community -- perhaps even to Newfoundland.

lt i; well to note iha assurance that the building to he creclccl will be in keeping with tho surrnuiiifinqv, thril it will he act sufficient ly [iii- lmck fllitl ‘he land in liant graded and made attractive .n every wiiy. The Dominion Government l! reportedly prepared to expend an extra amount for this purpose. These and other conditions are for negotiation and agree- ment in preparing the terms of conveyance. The point is that a prompt decision must be reach- ed, and it is for the Provincial authorities to toke action in the matter without further delay.

Ontario Farmers Protest

Two farm organizations meeting recently ir. loronto have pointed out that the shorter work- ing week, now generally accepted as the aim of most labor groups, has a direct bearing on the cost of living, both for farmers and urban dwell- ers. The Ontario Cheese Producers, representing some 70,000 dairy farmers, had a strong resolu- tion on this subject. This organization went an rrcord as being "opposed to any further rediir- tron in the number of hours worked weekly by labor groups, as food, especially dairy products, was produced on a sevcn~day week." lt was held that lurthcr concessions would odd grcahy to the cast of things farmers must purchase and ra increase cost of producing food.

The Ontario Federation of Agriculture tack- led the matter in a different way. Their resolu- tion pointed out a trend towards establishing food wholesale prices on a cost-of-praduction basis and that an Ontario government agency had been set up to ascertain such costs. lt sug- gested that in future calculations the work week for farmers be regarded as 48 hours, at f] fair wage, with timc-and-o-half for overtime. For some crops work can be arranged l0 meet the new conditions but during harvest time and on dairy farms the labor problem has been causing nll sorts of difficulties. With a growing demand for cheaper focd from the towns and cities farm- org have shown increasing anxiety

"Consumers may consider they have no share in this problem, that farmers are wcll able to look after themselves," comments the Ottawa Journal. "But there is a growing tenden- cy among farm operators to reduce herds and form operations to about what they can handle with their own and family labor, a condition which would soon lend to scarcity and resulting higher prices if allowed to continue. Cheap food is greatly to be desired but cheap food is the result of plenty, not of scarcity.”

An Election Gesture?

The Federal Government has passed an or- der-in-council permitting corporations in Ontario and Quebec to deduct certain taxes from their earnings before payment of their Federal taxes. These Provincial taxes, which are oii operations of the companies rather than on profits, were deductible before the war, but not since. Now Ottawa has reverted to the original position, ii» troactive to January, 1947-

To be sure, comments the Globe and Mail, many businesses in Central Canada will be gratofulfor the relief thus given, especially since it is retroactive to 1947. But of more immediate iimmr is, why the change of heart? If Ottawa felt iustified in treating the Central Provinces in this fashion in 1946, what has occurred to alter the circumstances? _ y

Probably the Federal Ministry is not very

eager to go inla o general election with Doniin- ion-Provincial relations in the state they are. On the face of things, the fact that seven Provin- ces "accepted" the agreements, while only two rejected them is not a very realistic statement of the odds. Moreover, while some Provinces accepted, not all did so willingly. Among the mast outspoken objectors to the terms was Nova Scotia, whose Liberal Government stood squarely for its taxation rights under the British North America Act. '

J EDITORIAL NOT 12$ f, Tomorrow, 2nd. Sunday after Epiphany.

The railways have combined to increase rates on sleepers from today from 20 to 25 per cent, varying according to locality. Probably the aerial competition has cu‘. into their profits, just as the auto bu: short’ haul has.

A new Federal building, a new Naval head- quarters, besides numerous other promises of Federal patronage all indicate there have been "Chiels among us takin’ notes" of what a Fed- eral election should "bripg ‘forth.

The early meeting of the Legislature, ol- though announced so late, will have the great merit of being able to consider departmental lifld financial reports which are reasonably up to date.

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With such spokesmen for agriculture as the recent delegation of the P. E. l. Federation of Agriculture, the Government cannot complain that the farmers do not know what they want, or do not make their demands clear.

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No one would claim that proclamation of P.E.l.'s Dairy lndustry Act provides the best solution to the threat to the dairy industry from the sudden raising of the Dominion ban on mar- garine. lt will serve, however, to draw Ottawa's attention to the seriousness with which fflrméri view that development.’

Canada has been allocated 3,000,000 lbs. of Ummj Stairs lard, but has not yet decided to "(Lrltl it However, the Canadian Government wunls an American allocation of soybean oil- A Trade Department official is now in Wash- iiigmi-i trying to arrange for a shipment to Con- udu, soybean oil being nfiedfid l" ll" mmWfflF‘

ture of shortening. .

According to the New York Times, 50"“ economists, members of the Soviet Academy of Science, have been trying to find N" YrlW fl‘? United States hasvnot harl the economic CHM! predicted by Marxian theory. Considering that countless American experts, much closer to the scene, have been surprised by the fllrlllllued boom, it is understandable that the Russians are also puzzled. . I Q I

The rapidity with which history is being made is ‘indicated by the proposal for anatner change in the Royal Style and Title. lt is re- ported that the proclamation of Eirob lflflfiPf-fll" 4mm will require the United Kingdom Pflrlfk niCftf rind the Dominions to substitute, of Great Britain, Northern lrelflfld, 1315-" i°l' ll"? Plemrlfi "of Great Britain, lreland, and the Brifiill 00ml"- ioris beyond the Seas." lt i5 r101 "FY l°"9 Slllce the title, "Emperor of indie". W95 41°91?“-

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August De Morgan, English mathematician, died this date 1871. Best known name in Eng- lish educational science. For over thirty years hi; wug the great and clca; teacher of mathe- matics in London University, among his subse- quently famous pupils being Todhunter and Routh. He also did much for the devfiltllimelll of formal logic and for the introduction of the metric system. His chief publications are I-or- ma! Logic, Elements of Arithmetic. Algelflli Trigonometry, and treatises on Differential and Integral Calculus

At the recent Junior Farmers Course, only one boy took the Domestic Economy course. killi- ting, sewing, darning and mending with the class of girls. Here he was considered exceptional, but had this been New Zeoland he would have been but one of a crowd of boys. Courses in house- wifery arc given to boys taking the agricultural course at Gisborne High School. The syllabus covers washing clothes, pressing shirts and jroiiggrs, mending, darn-rig, sewing and cook-rig Why should not like encowagement in this re- spect be given our’ boys hers?

Canadian Federation of Agriculture shows some appreciation of the basic economic prob- lcm, in its recent statement that formers Ore glittering chiefly from the high cost of labour, says The Letter Review. if CFA would only stress this, it might do something to help farmers. rciiaiqiioii’; liner n» Royal Commission an Prices i-howed that, in 1926, one hours average fOCYOTY labour would buy 8.4 lbs. of bread, one doz. eggs, 1.4 lbs. of butter, 5.1 qts. of milk. In 1948, one hour's industrial labour would buy 13 lbs. of bread, 1.6 doz. eggs, 1.6 lbs. of butter, 6.6 qts. of milk.’

Farmers are nov; fdld lithe future may offer steaks and chops from meat animals fattened on sugar from sow dust accordigg to the For- est Service in a report on exper mental use of low-grade wood and wood wastes, including saw- dust. The report said "one of then-nest plroinis- ing" potential rises is the production of wood sugar," which it said could be converted into molasses for feeding livestock and poultry. The service's laboratory at Mfldllflltfwlt, produced 20 tons of wood molasses last year and made it available for feeding experiments in various states. Although none of the tech has been firi- ished, no unfavorable results have been report- ed to date, the service said. Ono ton of puro wood, tree of moisture, yields about half a ton of sugar, it noted.

North America, i949

iii/fax Beloff, in The Fdrtnightlyq London)

It would be o mistake to imag- ine . . . that this domestic pros- perity and apparently care-free domestic existence, is carried oii yvholly in oblivion of less fortun- ate peoples. To a great extent in the U. S. A.. and to an even more marked extent. in Canada (especial- ly where Great Britain la concern- ed) there is a ready acceptance of the moral principle that those “'1'i0 enjoy so much of nature's bounty should be prepared to share it.

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“Without the wholly moral im- pulse whieh this implies, the Mar- shall Plan would have been incon- ceivable. Even now one gasps at the extraordinary blindness ‘to this imaginative generosity so often shown by prominent people in England. One lends to explain lt rather shamefacedly to one’: Am- erican friends. by saying that, of course. the English are undemon- stratlve by nature, that they die- like being thanked and imagine other people, sliare that: dislike.

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“But one cannot help feeling. first, that what is becoming in an individual may be less so in a nu- tion and. secondly, that this explan ation is not. the vuhole truth.

"One cannot help the feeling that

our present rulers have shown their essential and ineradieaiile inaularity —that although our diplomatic, and perhaps even our finnncinl relations with the New \Vorld have on the whole been handled rather well since the end of the war, Great Britain ln reconstruction badlv needs bath in the U. S. A. and in Canada a voice vihich (‘an express, 1.11 time of pence, the common pur- poses wi- hold with the same elo- nuence that. Winston Churchill dis- played fri making clear our common purposes in war. "Whatever may be the future of Western Union in any of its former —and no subject is more eagerly canvassed in North Qmerlea—it re- mains a fact that the only stabiliz- ing element in the world today. the only element capable of holding 1r check the forces of aggression and resolution, is the strength present- ed by the North Atlantic triangle— liy the capacity for worklrii: to- nether shown by tho llriitrd States. Grant Tsritalri nrirl (“zirinrl-a.

"in the Unilerl Slates certainly nrirl in Canada to nn extent, per- linps only less marked, the full 1m- plications of this are just emerging into the light of riuhlie discussion. Anti in the United Slates particu- larly where, in the long run. opin- ion is everything. vrhere the ex- pert and the professional must in the last resort give way to the aspirations and prejudices of the» ordinary citizen, in n country that is n political f1l"1'110l‘1'iil"_\' in a senor- irnprissible to one with a parlin iiientary system and an elite Qt‘ more or less traditional pattern, this docs mean the creation of puh- lic support. Great Britain has lit- tle to gain and everything to lose from majestic retleence.

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"Today iri terms of sheer power, the world's centre of gravity lies undoubtedly somewhere m the south of the Great Lake-s. The Great Lakes are perhaps going to be Wliflf tlir- fvferliterranean was to the ancient world or the narrow seas from thr- times of the Re- formation until our own days.

“in so far as the fortunes of the human race now rest upon the good sense and capacities of the people who inhabit that. area, one is bound to say that with all their crudltles of temper and with all the ii-i-i. perfection: of their institutions these people are not. inadequate to the task.

"If we are asked to choose he- tween tlie_l'\'orth American pattern and tlir- hovic-f pattern. it. is in- 1'Ofil‘t‘l\'f11l1f‘ tlirit any civilized tic- lllf! ran firsitiitri."

Best Sellers Produced By biacliinery Now

lPeieraarough Eyummeri

A zccen; lzbllf‘ of the New Re- public has an article about a M1". Albert E. Siiidliitger. Mr. Sincl- linger is n former associate of Dr. Gallup. hut nftei" galluping along for several years as a public-op- 1111011 ancilyst, Siiidliitgcr saw new fields to graph. devised new gad- gets to talk; i» public pulse. per- frcled new .~._ iiis to mechanical- ly syiiclii-oiiizri ilir- creators of lrr-zirt-thrabs viitli the throbbing heart uf 1' n masses. As ‘Thomas Wliiiesicle. the author of the New Republic article, says:

“Operating on the theory that. the jieoplek u urrl is law. Sindllng- ll‘ “as aehimerl a new and scien- illic‘ svstern of producing best-sell- ers. lle harnesses willing lubliOfl to an electromechanical editor which rejects nll passages unpalat- able to the public at large. So successful has been this remark- able robot in two years of elec- trical criticism that. sit-idling“ has established a book-writing factory rif his awn. Now, with slide-rule in hand. he is rapidly closing in on radio. movies and records,"

The chief cog tn the Bindllnger system of ensuring best-sellers and writing them i; a patented machine called “Teldox".

When an author appears with a manuscript. Sindlinger sets a battery of laboratory assistants at work to make a digest. of the book. The bones of the story iire thcn road into a recording machine and a recording is mode. Willi the record and n Teldox iiiili. the Slndltiigar agents pop Into various liamea across the country. connect their "average" citizens to Teidox W11.1lQ they, the irulnewvlsr. listen to the i-e- wrdlnz. The pea-arm wired w Tfildwr areas buttons tio indicate their flicks of emotion. and their like: or dislike: of each pan. graph. incident and character or the story. Thuo the book ll boil- ed down to n tape. 1t is literally taped.

The tapes ore brought back to the workztiop. the more opinion

revealed on them is studied. and the wlllinl. sensible outlier out!

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LNSCRIPTION FOR A BED

The winds on the wold

And Lhe night is a-oold

And 'f'hav.nes runs chill "Pwixi. mead and hill.

But kind and clear

Is tilie old house here

And my lienrt. is warm

‘Midst. winter's harm.

Rest. than and rest.

And think of the bcéli

"rwhrt slnmmer and sprlu| When all birds sing

In the town of the tree. And ye lie in me

And scarce dare move

Lest. the earth and its love Should fade away

Ere the full of the clay.

I am old and have seen

Many things that have been; Both grief and ‘peace

And wane and increase. Natale! trill

0f ill or well

But this 1 say:

Night. treadeth oii day

And for worst. or besc l Right. good is test.

._-W1l1iBm Morris.

out of his book whatever Teldox says is not liked by the Tcldoxed people. Through 1H8 113011131’ 0T Slndlingor, a 1.200 page book by Henry J. Cavlton called "Flame of the Franks" last most oi its pages 50 at a time, acquired the

"Sir Pagan", was selected by the Fiction Book Club and sold to the movies. A book called "Midnight, and Jenniali" by Ster- ling North was submltced to Tel- dox judgment. adapted to the "collective wisdom of the Ameri- can people" thus revealed, and un- der the title "So Dear To MY Heart" ‘became a best-seller and was bought by Disney for screen- inc.

American ingenuity ls amazing. but this manifestation -- Sind- linprr and his Teldox-ls positive- ly scanning. We have long realiz- ed that the host. authors are 1101 always those whose eyes roll in a frenzy We have known that the elder Dumas wrote novels with the assistance of Hacks to whom he gave the bones of his chapters.

But until Sindlinger we had "not believed that n machine could write a successful book. We are a. little afraid of this Frankenstein of the arts. lt is remarkable that it was not tlie Soviet Union, but the USA. the temple of free enter- prise aucl individual. unrestricted initiative. ivhlet produced ‘this first real robot. writer. l5 it. bet- ter for an author to be dictated to by Teldox than by Stalin?

Thou wilt nave the afflicted people. but. wilt tiring- dawn high looks. For Thou wilt, light my candle. the Lorri my God vrlli enlighten my darknesl.

OLD OIL FIELD

The 'us' oil well ln Quebec's Gisspe Peninsula was dug in 1861.

_.________._. PORK STOPS BARK

‘DONCASTER. England-w?)- Thieves broke into a vieanga at Olrf Rosstngton. near here, before down on Christmas Day. The! took it roast of pork from the lar- der and gave it to the watchdog. t-hen ransacked Lhe vicar-nascent- tag £50 worth of presents and the Christmas goose.

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SETTLERS’ CAPABIIJTIES

Lord Selkirk was a shrewd Judge of the capabilities of settlers on the virgin lands of this Island, as the following entries from his diary for October, 1804, reveal:

"Fraser -- a semi-Highlander - squatter on Lot. 57, son of a Soldier Loyalist -— arr infant when his fath- er, formerly settled in New York. came to the island --- now little above 2.’, set down in June. 1801. and clean-ii n small spot; planted 1i bushes of‘ jiotatarn, but the crop failed and lie liarl not '20 of return. 1n 1802 lie planted l2 bushels, hnd about 100 of crop, but for want of accommodation to preserve them lost most of them. lie has now a

_. good appearance of crop, has plant- ‘ ed 16 bushels of potatoes. 1 1-2

bushels wheat. 1 barley, with some Indian corn and turnips. By pac- ing his clearing may be 3 1-2 or 4 acres-say ‘l 1-2 or 2 pots, 1 1-4 wheat, 1-2 acre barley, 1-4 acre of other things. 'I‘lii.s (‘FOP must pill him out of reach of vvnnt. lle has of cattle a bull. 4 cows, 4 calves: cuta about 12 tori hay. o o o

"Me-Load, another squatter. has about 2 acres cleared on which he has 12 bushels potatoes planted. Being small wood he cut it ln about 6 days-lie is a good nxeman: has been long in America. lie was about six days putting up his house-he only began inst spring and had not proceeded for when lic- henrrl of the sale of the Lot and the Co!- ony (of Selkirk sr-ttlersi coming out. which checked him in his im- provements. He has not. yet. built a chimney to his house. &e. lie. however, is proposing to go an with that nnrl other improvements, 0n my promising that if lie (loos not get the land lie is on. he shall have an allowance for his improve- ments—witli which promise he seems quite satisfied.