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TIIE GIIAIILGTTETIIWII GUARDIAN

. Morning Daily (Founded in i881) Authorised ee Second Class Mail. Poet Office Department. Ottawa.

Prenldent, Inn A. Burnett; Vice-President. Wm. L Burnett; Seep-Tread. G. M. Burnett; Editor and Managing Director, .1. B. Burnett; Associate Editor. Frank Walker.

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

SATURDAY. DECEMBER ‘I, 1946

Farm Producers Worried

At the Dominion-Provincial agricultural conference at Ottawa this week it was made ap- parent that the question of feed grain supply was one of very serious import, especially in con- nection with the fulfillment of Canada's food agreements with the United Kingdom. Recently it was announced by Agriculture Minister Gard- iner that the supply of western g'rains to eastern feeders would have to be curtailed, and this in turn will mean curtailment of livestock produc- tion in the Central and Maritime Provinces. Can- ference delegates seemed particularly worried about the hog situation. The estimated produc- tion in Canada this year will be 26 per cent lower than it was last year-from 5,861,505 hogs down to 4,350,000. These figures compare with the 1943-45 average which showed hog produc- tion then at 7,291,264. To remedy the situa- tion, it is recommended that hog production be boosted in 1947 to 5,175,000 head, which should provide 269,304,000 pounds for domestic con- sumption and 365,000,000 pounds for export. It is hard to see how this objective can be reached, or even approached, unless feed grain supplies to the eastern Provinces are increased. Also, the free freight rate policy on these grains must be maintained.

One thing the King Government could do is cut off the supply of wheat and barley now going, at very low cost, to the brewers and dis- tillers. Strong complaints have been made by western growers about being compelled to sub- sidize the liquor interests in this fashion. The Government claims the Wheat Board is re- sponsible, but the grain growers say the mon- opolistic policies of this Board are dictated by the Departments of Trade and Commerce and Agriculture, and that the Board merely does the Government's bidding.

The wheat growers want, among other things, an initial price of not less_thon $1.50 per bushel for the 1946 wheat crop, from the Wheat Board, plus participation in any price received by the Board on sales over this figure; also an increase in the ceiling price on barley to 92 cents, plus a premium of 5 per cent per bushel on malting barley. They want the ceiling price on oats raised to 73 cents; participation on a per bus- hel basis in the equalization fee on all oats and barley marketed; discontinuance of domesfic flour subsidies, and discontinuance of all sale of wheat and barley to distillers and maltsters at less than open export value. Some of the west- ern growers are also urging discontinuance of the Federal freight subsidy policy. This is on the ground that water transportation from Port Churchill would be moreeconomical. So for as the supply question is concerned, the executives of the big wheat co-operatives who attended the recent Farmers’ Federation meeting in Char- lottetown seemed desirous of selling us all the coarse grains our livestock producers can use. lt is for the Government to figure out how best this policy can be achieved.

brushing The Middle Glass

Noting that liquidation of the middle class ls, according to the Communists, one of the very first steps necessary to the achievement of their revolution, the Financial Post suggests that in Canada this is being achieved right now by tax-

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The full effects on our nation of continued high taxation on the middle class, says the Post, have been so for very largely obscured. Strato- spheric tax rates have been with us for only four or five years and those have been most abnormal years. Many people have had some clothes they could go on wearing for a time, some savings they could spend. Buying a- car, or furniture, or fixing the roof or the bad teeth could be or had to be postponed. In tens of thousands of homes children in the expensive late-collegiate and university years were in the armed services.

But middle class "fat" has been disappear- ing rapidly and in many cases is now complete- Iy gone. The stores are filled with people, but among the buyers you won't find many from the

middle income salaried group. Merchants, car‘

dealers, furniture men, doctors, dentists and so en'will soon be wondering about the where- abouts of their "good, old, regular customers" when shortages are past and war-created bundles of cash in novel places have evaporated.

For the energetic young middle-class Can- adian who has neither inherited money nor mar- ried e rich wife, the tax climate in which he finds himself today is stifling. From his present efforts, Government takes the cream. If he doubles, triples or quadruples his usefulhess and

‘ value, taxation cuts him down, and because of

the increased cost of maintaining his extra yalue-af holding his new job-he is no better probably worse. Np wonder so many‘valu- file young Canadians are leaving the country.

ad s taxation ls ingeniously contrived to znalse ambition and enerll. ability and initi-

s Great Aellsvenest

The Dominion Government has presented a of the late Sir Charles Saunders to the Ad- ~ Vlililding at the Central inpati-

‘ , is Ottawa. It isneerly 25 years from hie past or bo-

' ‘It lsr reasons el toiling health.

wheat. This marvellous hybrid of the wheat kingdom has been the greatest single factor in placing Canada in a commanding position in world wheat production for the past quarter cen- tury. Of this wonder grain, Sir John Arthur Thompson writes in his “Outline of Science":

"One of the factors that assisted the Allies in overcoming the food crisis in the darkest per- iod of the war (World War I) was the virtue of Marquis wheat, a very prolific early-ripening, hard red Spring wheat with excellent milling and baking qualities . . .

"lt has increased enormously the real wealth of the world in the last 10 years (1921). In 1918 some 300,000,000 bushels were grown in Canada and the United States. Yet the whole originated from a single grain planted by Dr. C. E. Saunders as early as I905.‘ . . ."

Sir Charles searched, the world for a wheat which would give a heavy yield and at the some time ripen before killing frosts struck the Western Prairies. He found the elements and from them evolved the renowned Marquis. From India, Persia, Russia, China, Eastern and West- ern Europe he imported seed‘samples, crossed them and improved the result. His work was in the laboratory, in the sample plots and in the fields. He spent long days and nights at the electric ovens, baking bread to test the edible and nutritive qualities of his discoveries.

- EDITORIAL NOTES .-

Mary Queen of Scots barn tomorrow's

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Now is the time to have all the winter road machinery ready for immediate operation. Q ‘I i "I

"There is plenty money infcirculation," says a leading merchant, "people are prepared, and even eager, to buy almost anything attractively

offered."

ls the almost perfect Spring, Summer and Fall to be followed by an almost perfect Wint- er? This is provided the wells are filled, and the running water not below*par. i R

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It was an English philosopher who said "the perfect guest is he who makes me feel I am a perfect host." Trust the King's County and Charlottetown Board of Trade feel that way today.

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Attention is drawn to the Fox Notes in this issue in which the present condition of the in- dustry is discussed, and a proposal made to in- augurate a movement ta have Federal taxation schedules amended.

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U. S. A. entered the war with the Japanese attack an Pearl Harbor, this date i941. With- out warning, and while her envoys were still negotiating at Washington, with the United States, Japanese bombers attacked the great naval base at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, and air and naval bases at Manilla in the Philippines. President Roosevelt ordered immediate mobiliza- tion of the Army, Navy and Air Force.

Ontario and Quebec members of Parlia- ment are worrying over the prospect of losing their long week-ends when the session opens late next month. Hitherto they have been able to quit at noon Friday, returning about the same hour Tuesday, and never being missed. Now, Mr. Bracken threatens to put a full stop to "pairs", which will necessitate members being on the alert, as it is anticipated the Opposition will seize every, and the least, opportunity to coll a division with a view to the defeat of the Governmeat, which has only four votes to spare.

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The British Council of Churches has raised £570,000 ($2,280,000) towards its target of a million pounds ($4,000,000) for Christian recon- struction in Europe. Help is being given in both cash and kind. Grants of £10 ($40) each, for instance, have been given to more ‘than 200 theological students in France. It is hoped to allot £60 ($240) to each of some 4,000 minis- ters to supply their need of clothes and books. Cycles and motor vehicles have been sent for the use of pastors in Holland, France, Belgium and other countries. t

There is nothing like having’ the forward- looking attitude in life. Even before construc- tion work begins on Britain's revolutionary ser- ies of Brabazon air-liners, designers and engin- eers in the United Kingdom are already suggest- mg their successors for "sometime in the ‘fif- ties'." The plane of the next decade, accord- ing to the experts’ composite ideas, will be tail- less, shaped like an arrowhead, capable of o speed of 600 miles per hour at 50,000 feet alti- tude, and will have a range of 3,500 miles. While it is emphasized that four years normally elapse between the drawing board and the actual con- struction, o six-foot model of this type of plane was one of the main items at the United King- dom Ministry of Supply's stand at the 17th In- ternational Aeronautical Exhibition, which open- ed in Paris on 15th November.

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Australia as well as Prince Edward Island has a budding litterateur. Australia's latest novelist, 17-year-old Catherine Gaskin of'Coa- gee, has achieved overnight success with her book, "This Other Eden," acclaimed by critics as an outstanding sophisticated work. Catherine began her first book, which has already sold out the first edition, when she was 15 years, 8 months ‘old. When told by her publisher, Wil- liam Collins (Overseas), to delete 200 pages of typescript from her novel, Catherine left school, where she was in 5th year, and devoted the whole of her time to pruning her novel. She rises at 4 a.m. every day and works at her desk in her bedroom until time for breakfast at 8. After breakfast, she admits that she writes as the

mood suits her. Oooksellers who read the book

doubted that it had been written by anybody as ' es the nether. When .the publishers read the manuscript, they were so confident that

it ivould be a best-seller that they took an option‘ books. Our young poet, Mr... ssh

on her next two W. 0. beCosts istttfliiy-tivs, hot has been lishing for four or live years.

The Vley

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There ere two ways of acquiring old furniture. You can buy it or raise e family.

the imagination tnet- snaps back on you. -Kltchener Record.

Mr. Molotov In reported In b! suffering e head cold. We suggest that he try his veto on it. -Peter- borough Examiner.

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Scots are thrifty people. but we flat- ly dlsbelleve the Guelph Mercury's story about the Scotsman who found a package of corn plasters‘ and promptly went, out and bought a pair of tight. shoes. -Klngstop Whig-Standard.

Twisting the lions’ hill was long an American pastime, Americans cannot logically object If some British members of Parliament re- taliate by plucklnil a few tetl feathers from the eagle. - New York Bun.

Blood transfusions are being used more and more in new wave for treating every klnd of imaginable disease. An outstanding success hes been achieved by a Blackpool doc- tor in combettlng rheumatism. The blood with which the doctor injects the patient ls not dnswn from e healthy person, bu‘. from the pet- lent himself. The blood ls then exposed to the rays of an ultll- violet lamp and ls finally put beck lnto the rheumatic patient,

Imagine the union power a! a man who can make millions suffer l-n the United states no work, no pay. no schools _Whs. a travesty in the mind's eye that the wsr was fought to exterminate Hltlerlsm end Mussollnlsm and e'so crown Ste- linlsm and John L. Lewlslsm. The blokes who are wearing the white collar certainly take It on the chin these days, what they cell the bourgeoisie. --St_ Catherlnes Stan- dard.

This Ie the season of the year when petty thieves make rich hauls from automobiles. Thev prey on shopper! who leave bundles un- guarded ln unlocked cars. Ill is beat, of course, to place packages ln the trunks and then ‘make eertulm the trunk of the car ls locked. 'I‘ao many motorists forget atnut locking the ignition and the rloors of their parked curs. This merely invites theft, —Boston Post

t We should make r-ome sacrifices to gel; for ourselves customers a~ broad who will remain faithful to us in the future. We should de- prlve ourselves of certain consum- er products so that. they can be ex- ported and became known and ap- preciated. In this way we shall win certain foreign markets into which we had not penetrated be- fore the war. It. will he afterward when competition will be keener an world markets. that our pros vlnce will congratulate Itself on and having thus secured outlets lcu- its industrial surpluses. -Mon- (real La Pltrle.

Inviting laymen to confer with them rm the administration of lus- tlcc is a happy innovation hy the members of the American Bar As- sociation. It augurs well for the future of n democracy when those who interpret the law and nre the oc-unsel for the people before the bar of justice, seek of ‘hemselves to make the courts: understand- able ln their manifold phases to the maple for whom thev have been established. Humanizing the courts, whether related 1n a better bed for e juror or a simple-English "uling by a iudge- is a lone step ln the right direction St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

The most cheering news we have heard ln a lone time ls the report that the jlfze-box mugnates are plannlng lo raise their prices. 'I‘he'_v consider that a nickel a tune lsn‘t enough They feel that their instru- ment of torture should be "sweet- ened" with a dime before giving off the sounds that the addicts consider music. This raises fascin- ating possibilities, According to all lhc laws nf economics. an increase in price should mcrm n decline in patronage. Besides. you can run out of dimes twice as fest. as you can out or nlckels: and this should cramp the style of those who hang over the machine and play one record after another. The on‘_v hap- pier development we can think of would be for the workers in the juke mllls b0 be organized by John I.‘ Lewis. and go on strike for twelve manllhs’ annual vacation with pey. -Edmonton Journal.

To crib from the expietive of a well-known local buslm-ss tycoon, Britons are saying “doggone lit." where the expression really mean something more than e little he luck at tummy. In all the United Kingdom, there are only known_fo exist eight mastitis two of them mules, and too old for brooding. And this with an increase of burglaries everywhere. Once urpon n time‘. this fine breed was a compulsory estab- llshment In ell Augie-Saxon vu- lager for protective purposes. The mustlff ls one of the nobles: and slsunchess triads at man, women. and child too. They were used es wer dogs. but the reel reason now, why there‘ ere so few ln Britain. l! the ration. They rzeed- three pounds of meet per day. -8t. Cath- arlnes Standard. ' ~

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Sire-In e previous letter I en- denvoured to emphasize the Im- mediate need for feed grain in Prince Edward Island most of which has been coming by rnll. Prior to the wer the bulk or the western

greln was carried east as fer as _

Montreal by ships and at a cost much lower than that charged by the railway. A few years n80 0W- lng to the lnebillly 1o expo" urllfl to other countries u large stock accumulated in the west and on the advice of Mr. Gardner. the House of Commons passed whet le known es the Arslstsnce Freight Ar-l, un- der which importer-s in Eastern Canada were allowed e considerable portlon of the rsll freight, same being paid by the people o! Ca1+ eds es e whole. The allowance in Prince Edward Island is .39 1-2 cents out of An cents pe- 100 pounds. This charge of .42 cents by the railways ls considerably In excess of the charge that would be mede by ships plying the St Law- rence route and Great. Lakes which ships have been occupied during the war mainly 1n carrying coal and lron. Now, however, that the time has come» when these ships can be put back to the grain trade the question Ir naturally being esk- ed whether the freight. Assistance Act will be continued much longer. for the House of Commons will naturally regsrd s continuance of it as fersfrom economical.

As you stated in your editorial of last Wednesday the farmers of the west are not ln favor of the present Act es they consider lt un- fair to them that the custom ferm- ers should be paid most of the freight on their feed graln. Natur- ally the mlllers and brewers in Ontario and Quebec ere pleased to have their grain brought from the west free of freight.

Prince Edward Island, apparent- ly obtaining es it does something for nothing fevom the Acr and will likely continue to do so until we have unloading facilities in our harbour together with n grain elevator, because until that day comes we shall be unable to handle grain coming ln by bout. In reality the Act is defeating Itself. for dur- lng the pest twelve months to sep- rember 30th Prince Edward Island imported only 655.981 bushels of feed grain, just shout two shirp- louds of grain and lees than one percent of the feed grain that readily could be used in Prince Ed- word Island.

The reason why the farmers of the Island have not been taking advantage of the Free Freight Act ls that neither they nor the Prov- incial Government have confidence in its permanency. ‘Ihey feel that it le simply e wartime bonuslng measure and that. as the Prairie farmers are oppoecrl ta ‘Is. cantln uence ll: ls lleble at any time to be cancelled. in which event they would be compelled to pay the full freight rates on the incoming grain including the thirty percent additional now being demanded by the railways. for gnlln cannot be brought b0 the Island otherwise ‘hen by treln for we have no un- loading facilities for grain ships nor have we an elevator Into which [IIF grain could be unloaded.

I em Sir. etc...

I1. K. d. IIEMMING (To continued.)

Queen's Onlyallege With a Gaelic Yell

(Toronto Saturday Night)

The Queen's University which we believe to be the only Gaelic college yell in the New World. S's about, fifty-five years old, which puts it among the earlier

examples of this form of rltunl. Its history has recently been made public by Alfred E. level). a member of the class of 1891 who was one of the original nroposers of a Gaelic yell er most suitable

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Agriculture _ In gTrensition Period (Bank of Nova Srotls Review)

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In the immediate and market prospects

len Bfllhslturease demand

HT AN AUCTION 300M What a strange meeting piece. old

Time's discard

future price for Canad- undoubtedly in the ehort

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l‘... will clearly be stealer than we can supply. t-hc question with which we are faced helm! slowly to rwhal extent we are willing to cut our own consumption to meet that demand. Beyond next year, the situation 1e more doubtful. but lt eeems quite likely that there may be some diminution luu demand at high prices. '

The situation ls brought into clear relief by the U. S. farm- price picture. Reflecting the acute would shortage end the removal of controls farm prices have soared wldly in recent months, in merry cases to ell-tune record levels. and there have been wlde fluctuations. Wheat and earn prices. for 1n- sbanoes, leaped sharply with the removal of price controls on June so, fell beck in July and August. end then ruse satin. wheat om- tlnulng up while corn weakened with the movement. at the new crop. The upsurge in cotton prices which carried them at raid-Octob- er to the highoet Misfit '40 0W!‘ I'd!) decades wee followed by s. sharp break during which four months’ gains were last in two weeks, end since then the market has been