THE CIIARLOTTETOWN’ GUA§_DIAN_____

' " '...."..“$"..’;l' °3l°',......°"’°°£'ll‘.’ have P l ' mere, but we don't mind that ra- ther shall we he only too 81 assist. A matter of even importance. however. than the grain brought to this Island is the m: u...» at 1w: 1w 11w Ottawa government has been made to realise that Prince Edward Ia- simplv cannot do without

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TNE ONARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

IIorritngBaiiLLI-‘uuudeii tn i587)

i.‘ President: Lieut. Col. W. Chester S. McLurs Vite-President: .|. It. Burnett, IPJJ. Secretary: Lieut. Cut l). A. blilllhillllflll, .0. Editor ans Managing uircctui: .|. u. Burnett, r44.

quarter of 1940, and some badly inforiiicd cr-

sous publicly" attributed thc increase to thcpoji- eratio ¢ if the so-callcd ‘middleman’ as the wliule- l - lfsalcr zuid distributor is frequently termed. This, is not only tiiifziii" hut uni-i not lit‘ alluwctl It) go tiiichallciigctl. The fact that a carcful sur- vey 0f storage holdings and itiarkel action was made by the Wartime Prices and Trade Board, ,

PUBLIC FORUM

o!

The “lslamp OOllOlT|Oll

A nice thing about Mr. Burst. when he ivas Li’! an artowiiing .m:od, was that nothing deterred 'hltn, in iilier pi"ice nzr size. Like many another art collector he would buy a small. preci-us item

Inrlinn loos not l0- onloeso the osinlons of nonncnonlnnln

(The Somme. Juno. 1m)

Associate @1013: trunk “TOINCLBIIVQIII A._ Burnett SUBSCRIPTION RAT S: By Mail in P. n.1,, $1.00 per year; small for 6 nsonthn

$1.25 for 3 months; 50c for one month City Delivery; $0.00 per year; $3.00 for 6 month;

s . By Mali tn Car int and us. .\.; $5.00 per yea: lsturday Weekly: suit) per year; aim tor ti month, 50c for Lt month...

“The Strongest Jlemory is Weaker than the Wealrist lnlc." TIYESDAYLLIANYARY, 2B 194l- Air Service Rates

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At the n-cciit annual iticciiiig of the Charlotte- town Board of Tirade, strung exception was tzikcii in the ftlrlll‘! of tlzc lllllli]>L>i'i(llllIlI committee to thc pzissciigt r rate, t'llill'_§l'tl (Ill thc iiir :t‘I'\'lCt' l0 and innit .\llll'k'l.klll. lllt Board llllll rcccivctl the. dcfiiiitc ;i~~iii.-.iice lihll \\lltll irlllis-Cilliiltlfi -\~Y Linus starlvil tipcixiiiiig to .\l.\*ilL'lLIli, thc connect- ing fccdci" in - ]IJlS~ r ixiics to llalifax, Saint john, Siiixiiiivi tile .i:tl tfliiirllitictoivii would be

which zniitotmcctl through the prcss that ‘there was n0 evidence of iinpropi-i" di-aliiig. should hc sufficient answer to illn~c \\"lio fri-qucittly fail to recognize the iiiipoi"t:int service I'L‘ll(lt‘i'('(l to the dairy industry and the consumer by those whom they so tinfairly criticize. lt seems prob able that, in view of the present supply posi- tion, producers will receive lwttcr than average rcturlls on the 45 to 50 IIIllliOHs nf pounds they will manufacture and market in the months, January to April, i94i.”

-. I:DIIORIAL.NUIES —

Tlw January Zero weather has proved too much i

for the January thaw. N‘ 4K

ii Ill

Reports of spies and Fifth Columnists ltiivc been totally discounted by poweis-lhztl-bc licrc.

if it appealed to hm; but, unlike the others, he would also buy a large. cumiberscme item or a job lot. Ainaiig the things ncw going on |s.ile. for iii! attce, are such c m- pact treasures as a set of 34 Ital- ian majolica dishes. for whzch Mr. Hearst paid $270,000. and such szzeable treasures as three French clofsters, complete. and 7O pan- Clld rooms. Finding a buyer for 34 plates may uct be so hard. but it is going to be hard t: replace a man wit“ will buy 70 paneled rooms. That, was the wa with Mr. Hearst. I-Ie liked er. and every now and then he would buy a carload. — Chicago Daily News.

>--Slr, ._ Those who are fami- liar ivith Carlylels Hero Worship may remember that. tn the last chapter, devoted to "The Hero as King." there is striking evidence that the enemy's fabricated erm- munlque, s0 blatant and w per- sisteni. is not a new feature in ivarfare. Thus the sage of Chelsea

'l'he nearest approach was sciit to Falcoiiivood. l‘ N‘ 1F U‘

the saint" il~ Ullillb. .| In T. t. .\., namely u cents pct" milt- with a i0 in" cciii. reduction on iwaiiitd, ll~~ lillillllm‘ ll.l> not bccn imple- ritv cliziiql-tl tlll lllc fender SBHM! '1 llf" clillllllillct‘ rciwrt hug}. iuitc> are quoted I ilndril l-laml to points ' ‘Yllllgll ilckcts are ilYllll-

trip livid 1-. ll] wilt-d. llu‘ [wing 5' f‘ lli- l~ ".' idw .\. -l ' ll'iili]]'l'lI1~ i“ lt‘.l(llk‘-.ill_\ i i. flllll‘, l‘l'lilll lllll. i‘ .\li\ll\ll<'ll I> will (ll. i. can be cxcl ' w: T. L, A. ~

illt" trip.

l>cl\\'ct=i ~ . -~ lliilllglllihhl it":

on thc li.i~:~ i-t Iii for l'tJll1!I.l lrlll I ‘l

This iliii ~?' ‘

illvlllb til ~l

lllllt

1 pivllllltl iirdcr issued which iurtlit-i- ticket at the i...’ iln- DillLlllCt.‘ of int lllt‘ ncw §Cl‘\ltI€ . giir and Moiiciou. l _;. p. ll_'__'|t'l' léllTs arc bit. 1-i;‘1llllL‘,lL‘>>' to pcr cunt.

ii ,\l. i c; ~

lyllli

'1" ticket arrange- ,;ii1d of lhe ap-

\ pct- iiiilc air rale

s one which should

i, uiiilersluotl ill-ll

4.... and ncw set-tip’ uiiv lll the ciirly spring, Lilli-g». llzc vxtciisiuu ut

ill\'ill\'1l'i". at..." _ v a . i.» lllClllLlC llalit x. l\u\v

L‘. .\.i.1ii*r.il‘

_ zilioii which ard l>llflltl a ticket l0 by plant

pushed vigorously from now on. 1t is absolutely

iiig on the war, and tlic ciisicst and iiiusl profit- zible way to do so is for the zivcrzigc iiiau iii busi- ucss or in the street to invest in \\':it" Saving Cer- tificates for which they get $5. for $4. iiol asked to tighten our hells, only to ill\'t'>l our savings with the kiu\"t'riiiiiciil.

“Agriculture, slates that iii the ucxt fcw months ,the czill would go out in Canada for trzliiicd inan- power" to main cvcrij piccc of cqtiipiiieut and cvcry article of armament now being nnidc. Speaking , to rnentbcrs of the Calgary Board of Trade aiidl gave charm 1f no, beauty w Lam

The footpaths are positively treacherous andl accidents frequent. llad this been election year " the City Cotuicil \\'0lllfl have sccn that sand 11.1.1 been applied iu abiiudziucc,

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_ What next? Two yflllllg‘ nicn from Williston, .\. 1)., have so! out in their ski-cqtiippctl airplane, bound for kioldiicltls and two oi" tlirce wccks vac-

tlicyll spend hunting iiiiibcr wolves llopc they don't drop bombs.

k a a e

The sale of \\'nr Saving Certificates is to be

iicccssaiiy funds should he furnished for carry-

\\‘e are '

l‘ Ill

lion. I. G. Gardiner, fcilcral hlinislcr of

writes: "False as s bulletin" became a proverb in Napoleon's time. I-Ie makes what excuse he could for it: that it was necessa

the enemy. to keerp

men's courage, and so forth. On the whole there are n; excuses. A man in no case has liberty to tell lies. It had been in the long-run better for Napoleon. too, if he had not told any. History repeats ire]! to- day with rencwcd ferce.—F‘aitl'ifully y urs. Orchard Close, Monmouth. —-A. H. Sayers. Letter to Landon Spectator.

In a London park there ls a great mound of bricks and stone already twenty feet high and fully a hundred yards in diameter -inillions of fragincitts of mason- ary gathered from the rums if countless liimes izi which royalty. gentry and the common folk 0f London lliltl lived for snerations.

' ‘ city's bones is grvwung daily. Trucks ladc-n with debris roll continually to this melanehcly’ mound. It, is like a llllIllllLLS——iliP rounded hill covering an ancient burial ground, with ‘which. Britain is pleritlfully supplied. It seems inevitable that this mound vrill here-me llhe‘ future 51m f3)‘ a m-c-itioral t) thcse men, w mcn and cliildrrn who have been killed when German bombs

estroycd mellwced bulldogs that

TEACHING CHILDREN TOR-HAD

shy-I am an old retired teacher who ls still keenly interested in methods of teaching in Prince Fad- ward Island. and especially in methods of teaching children to read. From recent observations I have come to the conclusion that there is now a general movement on the part of the teachers in our province to teach primary read- ing by a phonetic system that is quite independent of the alpha- betical names of the letters, and one of the deplorable results of this method is that it has already led to a state of bewilderment and a. sense of lnabilitv on the part of parents who wish to assist their little ones at home in their stu- dies; for the great majority of these parents learned to read by the old "spell and say", method which does not co-ordlnate with the phonetic system pure and simple. I am firmly convinced that. if skillfully used. thc old “spell and say" method is still the best one for the rural schools of Prince Ed- ward Island. though I can well im- agine that when I say this that many iip-to-date teachers will be tempted to dismiss me as an old fogey too stupid to discover h-a- does not really sound at all like the word hat. but rather like "altchatee". Let me assure these however. that I made this discov- ery almost on the first day I un- dertook to teach a primer class, now over 40 years ago, and that some of my contemporaries made the same discovery in the same manner, and what is more. we also made the discovery in the course of time that the phonetic system or teaching primary reading in the English language presented just as many inconsistencies and irreg- ularities as the alphabetical sys- tom. since that time, however, I have seen a good deal of the phonetic system in practice, and I will not deny that splendid results may be accom fished by it when used by a teac ier who has thoroughly mas- tered it, but I am quite sure that deplorable results mav follow when it is used by a teacher who has only half-mastered it for in this case the teacher not only falls to teach his pupils skillfully. but ren- ders it well-nigh impossible for the pupil's parent or any member of his family to assist him at home. The phonetic system, again I ad- mit, may be the best. one for city schools, where the teachers have

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land

cheap feed. For this change of heart, much credit is due to Mr. Dennis and Mr. Walter Shaw for their persistence in preinlng the need

Our Government may not relish havin to pay half.’ the freight rates east om Pbrt William. but this again Ls of secondary importance for the whole future of this Is- land depends upon our farmers be- ing placed in a position not only to increwe the number of their ani- mals but to improve their quality. Economists the world over agree today that the number and qual- ity of livestock are the prime tests of progress in any and every agri- cultural country and to set the movement. going in this Province is worthy of s. very serious sacri- floe being made by the Provincial Government.

Regarding this question of im- ported grain, there appears in this Province to be a remarkable diver- gence ot opinion. Many farmers, for exwiple, say that they will iirn the number of their animals to the quantity of feed that. their sores will produce. This may be _s necessary conclusion for farmers who have no money to pay for lin- ported feed, but for those who have even e. moderate working capital such ssgolicy can readily be shown to be octslghted.

A farm, after all, does not differ ea ientially from a factory. In each case goods are produced or made by converting materials into fin- ished products, and the main ef- fort should be to lay chief stress upon lines that yield the highest profit and for which there is a

ready demand. If n manufacturer were to limit the quantity of ma- terials given to his employees to work upon, irrespective of hi: cap- ital or the demand for the fin- ished lines, lie would soon end in the bankruptcy court. Similarly on farms. livestock being admitted to be of chief importance, whatever may be required for its mainten- ance should be obtained. Partlctilar- iy is this the case with feed grains on this Island. for it has been shown by a number of experimental farms in ea Item Canada, including the Charlottetown farm, after several years of careful research, that grain lrrowmg in our small fields, and Wli-li old style methods and imple- ments. costs far more than it dues in the western prairie where single farms run into hundreds and ever.

By all the glories of the dav

And the cool evenings benison.

By that last sunset touch that. lay Upon the hills when dav was done. By beauty lavishly outuoured. _ And bless By all the Make me a soldier. L0

By all of all man's hopes and fears And all the wonders poets sing, The laughter of unclouded years. And every sad and lovely thing; By the romantic ages stored

Bv all his mad catastrophes Make mo a man. O

I. that on my familiar hill

Saw with uncomprehending eyes A hundred , Dill Their fresh and sanguine sacrifice. Ere the sun swings his noondav

sword Must sav good-bye to all of this- Bv all delights that 1 HelD me to die. O Lord

________i____i__ ___ much further ahead E s race nst time.

Youth Ls the pride and heart of every nation and as one who hal had the privilege of attending these courses in the past, I am in sitlon to know their value.

In leamlniz to do things in the right way. a ew weeks of proper training with is far better than years with some who don't kn they are doing. In this hour. when v hanks should bow to those who first start-

libert

ed this noble not will be remembered in

ment of you for your fore this terrible ertv and Chrtstianitv.

I am. sl

Bristol. P.E.I, WEARS FEATIIERS

AUCKLAND N. Z.. Jan. 24-(0?) A new Greek riddle Mai-Gen. Sir John Duigan, Chief of the New Zealand General surf on his return by alr from a visit to the M'ddle East and Greece.

The Greeks "Wlhst wears feathers that.

s eleasl . 18gb!!! IgliI/Q lived A horse often needs

tell you. Lord. der will time uu his di

give gloss to hi; llllllrless to his action.

of Thv sunsets s

shall miss.

—Willlam Noel Hodirson. u". A m" noun“ n“

never lower.

fectlveness. a D0-

e skilled instructors 0w themselves what

W!

in the balance. mat movement. as this

i

answer is the Bersiiglle

Ens great’ move‘ feathers in their ats.’

Youth Tr nine. I salute brave undertaking be-

hour to save llb- Ram-mi l1‘°°i15 111 t

were in great heart

r. eta. WALTER A. O'BRIEN. ent among them a1 The Italian morale nous LIKE HARE flower 0f New Zealand When they did another pair of running was related by declared. HS the pairs now were wozn out.

FORMER MIhlhTER

asking, he BUDAPEST, Jan, 2i; Count Istvan Casky,

are said is not

POWDER

T as well as docs s marT. m‘

will know if this ls IIOPEQ by the appearance of his. The slowness of gait-am] u,‘ dullness of his eyes-in hi! general appearance

The Island Condition p“,

E .il "Id llliwllte. clear rogues:

coat and

F0"! Iw-rs experience with this preparation is our ("an In!» for Rood results from in

kit 35 cents and the [Iflftxfi-g:

Take home a package M, and prove its llllfllliv and d?

Prepared and sold only by

E- A. FOSTER

CENTRAL imiicsroiu;

Italian troops who iviuiutliiiiiicrtii

h Mai-Gen. Diiigan sald lic '

Jitldle and

You sag-y hair. Int Will

t o lhe New

fuil u!

fight. A wonderful split I rlldflshlb and team york int; 3,5,1

low, but they had not

m aiihccd.

lhev would lliliflt

slices, in they hm

DIES

46. Foreign

is the tiiiic. zirraiigciiiciits are coni- which I.) W . on oi thc rate structure , , . .

dares venture to and how broad the Ifi"lllifl will b- by the time the

thousands of acre, all sown I wheat. barley. oats. rye, m. and harvested with combines and other

service clubs he told of the wimiiiig battle bcingldon. No one

waged in Britain, and on this continent, to pro-l gm” h~"“' m?“ T bird? what we”! fathers that is

not s man? What wears feathers that runs faster than s. hare?" The

Minister of Hungary last two critical after an illness

their primary upiis all day under close personal instruction. Such pn- pils need little or no assistance at

during the Years. died tonight

0n thc iccilci" l.ll< .\. \‘. iiy wllillllkl uc llC subjected to a di>criniiii:it~i"v l'1l'.L' of two ccms cxlrzi pvr mile on a service Sllllsltlllfifl bv the Dominion . ' , (ioveriiiiicni, “lilill is iitlciidcdto place 1B 011 i- piir \\'llll ivthti" parts l f L iinzitlal.’ _ ‘

'l'lii< is :1 llhlllvl‘ in \\ll‘.Cll our provincial and federal gU\Cllllllt'lll lllz‘l'illli.‘l'.~, ‘should aCIIVClY ‘ll’ tcrcst lllt'lll.\Ql\t'>, in cti-iipciatioii \\'llll t)he Mari- time Tf.lll.\llltl'lillll>li klilllllll5$l0fl 3W1 lwards of 'l'r;idc. lite quc>ti~ii of air transportation is bl:- ci-iniiig; iiicim-Jt-iiigly; inip0i't:iitt. l\0ll'llllg 5ll0llld be lCll tindonc to uhuiin the EIIIllIlOYS 11"“ l9 which we are ciitillcd.

Gasoline Wastage

The need of ¢.,,,_<U~\-in_; gasoline in wartime i? emphasized in an Zlfiirlt‘ lll the current lbl>ll€4 0 Saturday Xiglil liy .\li'. l}, l\. Lullrellr, Oil Lou- troller for Llinaila. .\lt". coitrclle sofa!

“A in“ and “wirlliv contribution to the com- l mun caiisc of winning the war imght be madeby (gnadiau lllliiiillqg flirt-ugh \">l\llilFll'llV restrict- iiig unncccsszirv lift’ of gasoline, Driiiug motor cars for P1Ca;,',,-@ only SlILllTlLl be discontiuucrh. particularly 0n Stuidzivs, and, in most cases, the business man can find n fllefllflfl 0f Yeaclll“? h" office and returning to his home \\'l1lCl1 OOPS not gnvolve the tr-c oi his pin-lie 111°")? (d1; Jail“ i tics Show that Nita“; n11.101- cars proceeding from residences to places of business carry 1855 Illa" one arid one-quflfler Passenf-FYS “ch- If l‘ be not practicable m use other available mflhPdi °f l transportation, co-opttratinn between motorists rc- sidiiig in the same ltlCllllly could leave three out of four cars in thegarngc each day. ibgwllltfil Pliiyassllle? I driving be eliminated together wit o elf; _ I ful uses of private Wllldfl. l ‘ Vi?’ guctsganfigz saving in the consumption wou d e e e C , the life of the privately-owned motor car prO- longed at a lime uhcn replacement should be

. .. considered extravagance. y

Accordingvto the latest I.\'2ill3ble.f;ligl1i't;» lida ranked fifth li’l i939 as compare wit 0 dl countries in the total ‘COHSUIIIVIJIIOILVIIKT secon y i" Pm- qupiui cllllslllilllllOli, lhe Lflllfll Slat“ alone had a gleam’ l?" will“ collsumptlcln" only

the United Stzilefi. Um“ Britain’ Soviet Russ“, to

and (iermrmy ranltcd allfifid 0f Canada in total‘ consuni )ll0ll.

The Ibiiilcrl Flutes owns 60 P" “m 9f the’ “world's known rcscrvcs 0f crude i>°tr°l°"m' o“ the other hand, the known reserves of Caught equal only 2/5 of I per cent of the total- O the basis of import for the yearvended June _30. 1940, 85 per cent of Canada s consumptlllm (rue-"isurcil ill l('l'lllS of barrels. of crude) 113d l0 l)‘ imported into the country lI-"WIIIROTSIQYd lad“; per capita cousuuiiytiou, it can readily be r83 lZ¢< what this importation has fllw" strain on our sitllhll’ ‘If low?“ Exchange‘

The Farmers’ Task

This is prirl of an aildrcss by Mr. RZII. Olive, president of ilic .\llillil‘t'lll Provision lrades ‘As- sociation and is worlli quoting as it throws light on thc purl fariul rs ' ‘C (‘Xiwuml l" Illa)’ m ll": immediate future: “LIzinzidii hasuiirlcrtakcn M supply during the year commencing April nCXl s minimum of IIJ.OO0.0(XI pounds of cheese. and thc ilmistrv of hood will he prepared to purchase ,‘\il\' nilvlitiiiunl qllillllll)’ which mav he available. The fulfillment of this agreement of appi"uxiiii:il<-l\' ignuoyino pounds of cheese more than will ll'l\'l' lm-n furwzirdcd (luring thc 31-m- ouiliiig .\l:iri"h _§l m-xl, This additional

l creased the total from 73,o00,oo0,000 to 85,000,-

t in the way of a.

duce planes, ships and iniuiitioiis 0f \\_';ir. 1r * >k >r

It is refreshing to hear a member of the King Government referring to "Our Empire." lt is not so long ago since that word was absolutely taboo in Liberal circles. int" no sonnet" has the llon. Mr. Ralstou rcltiriictl from London than he , lakes the earliest 0pp0i"luiiity' to dcclzire that "lol help hold the front line of liinpirc during the precious days and wccks ahead will call for thc united strength and most tmfalicriug energy of the Caitadian people can muster."

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Canada has jumped into sccuiid place, the United Kingdom being first as an exporter l0 Bermuda, sending sliipineiiis worth £355,749 in i940, compared to £488,104 in 193i) and £178,334 in i938. There was illst! a iinticcablt- PYUPHf-y lionatc iiicrczisc of imports from South i\iiicricz\‘ —-valued at £00,207 iii 1940-411 such items as meat and canned foods connected with the meat industry. '.l'hc figures show £90 worlli Of iiii- ports from iifldlllllly}, lixports from Dcrmiitla yesteryear" wcre villucd at 1.65.005, iiicltulitig rc- exports.