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Morning Dally (Founded tn 1881a. Authorized as Second Class Mall. Poll 011100 - Department. Ottawa.

The Island Gllltfllnn Publishing Co. " President. [an A. Burnett; vice-President. Wm- B- Burnett; _SCCY.-TI'CRI., G. M. Burnett; Editor ma lanolin: Director. J. R. Burnett; Mud-l" Edlw"

Frank Wilkes‘;

"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than‘ the Weakest ink."

ETIYWN, THURSDELAPRIL 8.154s An Unfinished Argument

A point well made by Mr. J. o. HYlldmfi" i,“ his letter on railway freight rates in yesterdays issue, is that the concession obtained under the Maritime Freight Rates Act, i927, was a meas- ure of belated justice and that no Board has authority to approve tariffs which may destroy or preiudicially affect such advantage in favor of persons or industries located elsewhere. Also he points out that the 2i per cent increase now proposed is based largely on the increased cost of operations of the Canadian Pacific Railway in their rail department, but excluding other earnings, which at $24,788,927 were the highest in the company's history. Both railway corpo- rations havc substantial earnings from steamship, hotel and communica-tion services which were not taken into account.

In other words, the actual financial position of the companies was not accurately assess " by the Board, and the arguments of counsel for the protesting provinces were entirely ignored. Look- ing at the matter from another angle, Premier Macdonald in presenting the case for Nova Sco- tia recalled that neither railroad has taken any notice of the Act of i933 enjoining co-operation for purposes of economy. There is, therefore, very sound reason for asking the Dominion Govern- ment to review the whole matter before permit- ting new rates to go into force.

As Mr. Hyndman points out, this Province has special claims to reconsideration, in view of the fact that we have never had the advantage ol" C. P. R. competition.

lio Great Benefit

On balance it is doubtful whether a moder- ate devaluation of the Canadian dollar would result in any large expansion in exports, since the only majorsphere in which it might have im- portant results under existing conditions is gold mining, states the current Monthly Review of the Bank of Nova Scotia.

Exports are already high, with most export industries producing as much as their capacity

Because the level of prices and costs has risen less here than in most other countries, Can- adian exports already enioy a strong competitive position in world markets.

Earnings in the great export industries are at or near record levels, states the Review, and these and other industries which look toward export markets have been making large outlays to increase capacity and to improve productive efficiency. The incentive to increase production is great; indccd, the relationship between prices fltflllfllllg to export markets and domestic costs has seldom been so favorable.

Devuluation might have some discouraging effect on imports from overseas countries. Prices of European goods are in some cases already high by Canadian standards and many of them are consumer goods of a less essential character, the demand for which is quite sensitive to price in- creases. Whereas Canada is in a position of hav- ing to rcducc liar imports from the United States, hcr interest is lo expand her imports from over- seas countries.

r The Roosevelt Statiiod r

King George Vi will unveil Britain's mem- orial stcrtue of President Roosevelt at ll a.m. on April l2, on the third anniversary of the President's death. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Attlee, the entire British Cabinet, Winston Churchill and most members of the Royal Family will be present at the ceremony in London's historic Grosvcnor Square.

A London correspondent in the New York Herald Tribune recalls that since the day when John Adams, first United States Minister to Britain after the War of independence, set up his legation in the square, the area has been a little bit of America in the centre of the British Empire. The Georgian-style structuros that to- day ring the square house the American Embassy and most other American delegations in.Britain, political and military.

The Roosevelt Memorial is the first purely British gesture in honor of an American Presi- dent. it represents a co-operative effort by tho Pilgrims Society and the British Government, but rt was inspired and organized by the society it- self at the suggestion of the late Lord Derby in February, i946. Thero are statues of Lincoln and Washington in London, but both aro tho re- sult of American generosity. Justsix days after Mr. Attlee declared tho public subscripion cam- paign for the memorial open tho required $l60,- 000 hod been roisod. o

The statue itself is ton foot in height and will faco south. It is now in a London foundry whore it is being cost into bronze. It portrays Roosevelt standing and barohoodod, drossod in o double-breasted lounge suit, soft shirt and four-in-hond tie. Ho is wearing tho naval typo capo ho favorod in his lifotimo. It is dropod about his shoulders and a walking stick protrudes from its folds on tho lowor loft. Roosevelt's loft hand is clasping‘ his loft lapol.

Sir William lold Dick, a loading lrltlsli oculployolocotod rho ltotuo oftor his own do-

pig». When it was first proposed to show

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popers and tho House of Commons discussed the question. But Sir William was eventually up- held, particularly after the Prime Miniser visited his studio and approved the standing version.

The feeling the British people had for Roose- volt-the feeling that they are expressing throug-h the memorial—probably has been best put into words by Mr. Churchill. When, in the Houseof Commons, he supported the Govern- ment's plan for the notional tribute to the Am- erican President, Mr. Churchill said:

"Of Roosevelt, however, it must- be said that had he not acted when he did, in the way he did, had he not felt the generous surge of free- dom in his heart, had he not resolved to give aid to Britain and to Europe in the supreme crisis through which we have passed, a hideous fate might well'have overwhelmed mankind and made its whole future for centuries sink into shame and

today not only anticipated history but altered its course, and altered it in a manner which hus saved the freedom and earned the gratitude of the human race for generations to come."

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lt is a little difficult for townspeople to imagine just whatmany of the country roads are like just now, and most of us would rather not._

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The final assembly of the oft-called white elephant, The League of Nations, was held this date i946. lt has been replaced by the United Nations.

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The Red Cross is evidently going over the top in the City——the cunvasscrs are unselfish livewires-not talking too much, but getting re-

suits.

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Another blessing for Canadians to count was Russia's sale of Alaska to the United States back in i867. A Russian Alaska would certainly have been an embarrassment to this country.

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The Toronto Telegram’s report of the pos- sibility of the introduction of gasoline rationing before the end of the month need not, of course, be taken very seriously. The organization for administering such a program no longer exists and could not readily be again set up. The ex- istence of such reports, however, indicates how tight the gasoline supply will be this summer.

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Prospects for general price reduction are somewhat mixed. Against the factors of the sat- isfaction of pent up demand and filling of in- ventory stocks which would tend to depress prices, are the approval of E. R. P. by the U. S. Con_- gress, and proposed stockpiling by the Ameri- can army which should boost them.

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read in today's Forum the letter from a Liver- pool printer, whose wife found on island laid egg for breakfast. Then you will have an en- hanced respect for the British working man in these days of stress and hardship over there. We take off our hats to them—"there'll always be an Eng-land" with such a spirit predominating. so .1- 9r a- ,

Now it's lobsters flying to Boston, soon it will be oysters, and perhaps before we know where we are all our markets, selling and buying, will be south of the border. We don't want it if we can prevent it, but one gets tired waiting for consideration and encouragement from a cen- tral government which considers us merely fit to produce income taxes to squander in Ontario and Quebec. '

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Preliminary trade returns for January and February show that Britain has bought $116 mil- lion worth of goods from Canada as against $95 nrillion for the some period in i947. Our bacon and ham exports for January and February amounted to nearly $l4 million. In i947, for the same two months, they were over $88 million. Our egg shipments for the first two months are val- ued at some $8 million compared with $5 mil- lion for the same months last year.

Platinum foxes and platinum fox furs are made subject to U. S. import duties under a bill signed by President Truman. The bill provides that the duty on the platinum variety be the some as that on silver an-d black foxes. The present rate is 37 l-2 per cent of the value. The legislation was necessary because the platinum fox strain had not been developed at the time the general staff law was enacted.

Henry Peter, Boron Brougham, and Vaux English Lord Chancellor and historical writor, died this date i868; was native of Edinburgh and member of tho Scottish bar before being called to the English bar. The bill for the abolition of the Slave Trade was entrusted to him, and he had the unique distinction of having defeated a Government's income Tax Bill. His outstanding distinction was as Queen Caroline's attorney- general and his management of her case won him popular fame: "Education makes a people easy to load, but difficult to drive; easy to gov- ern but impossible to enslave." "What is volu- oble is not new, and what is new is not valuable."

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A contemporary, the Peferborough Examiner, has been looking into the discrimination in sales tax ogainsttho daily newspaper. Tho subsidiz- ing of magazines _(in Canada) is considerable, it says. it is not generally known that daily news- papers pay an eight per cent soles fax on all thoir paper, and that magazines and other per- iodicols-including such weak-end papers as the Toronto Star Weekly-pay no solos tax on thoir papor whatever. Tho daily papers poy back many ‘time! tllo equivalent of thoir low postal rato in solos tor, but magazines do not. it is also a fact that if a dolly popor occupioo rnoro than 55 per cont of its total spoco with advertising, it pay: a vory hoovy lurchorgo; this lo notfhocou with inagozlnol. Tho grout bonofieiorlos of tho pro- forontiol postal roto oro tho ruogozlnor, and not

ruin. It may well be that the man whom we honor.

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We are getting s bit. flied of news photographs of Barbara Ana kissing - other people- Toronto Saturday Night.

It lo our opinion that Alberta could absorb 400,000 British immi- grants in one year. 0r, come to that, in one day. If, that. is. A!- berte really wanted to absorb them. This province and this country could do amazing things in the way of immigration, if they had the common sense, just. for once. to lay common sense aside. — Cal- gary Herald.

A young man plainly in the lnsf. extremities of love arrived at Macy's early one morning recent.- iy, so our agent down there in- forms us, to look at. some engage» merit rings. When, with some dlf ficience, he asked the information clerk on the main floor where ho find them. she gave him a mother 1y smile. “Just walk 0o the end or this aisle," she sold, "and there you'll see them shining at you."- The, New Yorker.

Some people think Vondenboog 1:. older than he is. He is 4'7 days alder than ‘Truman and ‘I 1-2 months older than Senator Jo: Marlin. All three become 64 this year. MacArthur 1's 68. Dewey ivlil be 46 this year. Stnssen 41, War- ren 57 and Tafb 56. Vandenbergs announcement that he would re- tire at the end of his present. berm as senator may have given the im- pression that he regards himself as aged. His present. berm, however, has nearly four years to run. To his acquaintances he appears to be in excellent health and this was bho verdict of doctors last Fall. - Newsweek Magazine.

While regarded by many n the colorless months, winter actually is a ‘time of much pure color, the crystal clearness of the winter skies, blue green in the sunshine of midday. soul-moving crimsons, mauves and purples 1n many shades, soft. pure and of great depth, at. even time, skies some- times almost. pure golden, often limes vivid red. Then there are the many colors of the bushland the warm umbers. the soft-toned Venetian reds. the deep purplea Even the snow itself is far from ivhite, but rather blue tones, yel- lows, perhaps mauves here and there or other shades reflected from the skies. Owen sound Sun-Times.

The boiled dinner is one of the noblest inventions of mun. A good chunk of succulent corned beef. l slice of salt pork, a foot or two of real frankfurtcr (not. the mod

ern bloated welner) beside it. and a.“g'ehéi~'5u's"'§frnish of cabbage. turnip, parsnip, onion, porato and (according to taste) a bit of cel- ery each introduced at. Just. the right moment to reach gastronomi- cal perfection when dished up in the savory gravy, all spangied wizt- tlny globules of fab-that's a boil- ad dinner. And it appears, it is also irecessary to mention it must be served piping hot. But what. do we get now disguised under this noble name? A slab of lukewarm corned beef. A two-inch section of carrot, evidently a veteran of bobn

world wars. A heap of wilted, non committal brown iaminallons. which subsequent investigation

proves to have been once part of an onion. -Wiudsor Star.

Perturbed of. the dwindling soc- fai acceptance of the nickel, a. New Yorker: is bearing down on Washington officials to issue a coin worth seven and a ‘half oento. Since such a coin would be a holl- way mnrk between n. _nlckei and u din-re, he suggests that if should be called a. dlckei. IL is in be hop ed that if Washington does deciur to issue dlckels that. the Canada nriut. will think long and hard be fore following suit. Going to the corner store and asking for a “dic- kels worth of jelly beans" is en ough to give every child in the country adenolds. Canada shound poke along with its present com- age. What this country really needs

is a good five-cent piece - one that will buy something besides an ice cream cone or n phone

call. - Winnipeg Tribune.

Synthetic hormones are puttln; a profitable punch into the farm

C1"S eternal struggle toward blgge." and better crops. Apple, pear and pineapple growers already are reaping extra millions of dollar.- lnlihlly from chemicals which sour fruit production. Well-advanc- ed experiments promise similar gains soon for the huge citrus m- dusfry. Perhaps within a few years a dozen or more other commodities will be added to the hormone horizons now being explored Scientists, who are busily testing new uses for these versatile chemi- cals 1n agricultural labor-armies and experiment. stations. believe they've barely matched the sur

face of hormone research. It's an infant industry. only eight. years old. but. already more than 100 different organic che ‘ is have been discovered that. stimulate plants in different ways. - War. Street Journal.

If’: nailed the Neckties for Eur- ope Campaiin. Harvey W, Morley editor of the Angola 0nd.) Herald, started ft. by suggesting that Amcri- can men send some of their neck ties lo the clrably clad, strictly clothes-rationed men of Europe l» bring a spot. of color, o, twist n variety, o streak of vfvldnou lav their lives. Now tho lies no pou- fng in to Mr. Morley at. Angola and lhonoo streaking across the Atlantic. ptrlpoa tloo, painted mo. bow tlol, knitted the. Ito-loll? tin (Moot the. one exuberant Amari- oon flu tho like: of which hove

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lpondentl of question: 0| interest. ‘Ibo Chlrlnltetowr Guardian doeo not neceuor ll; andono the opinion o- correspondent!-

WHAT AN EGG PRODUCED

egg at D. H. Crossmanks Grading station some time ago. I am Sif- elf! MARSHALL GREEN.

Albany, P. E. I.

Dear Rriend

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food, than get-ting the money that is)

Britain these days, we all

of what we get that is the trouble

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fruit,

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book of coupons containing

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Sin-Enclosed ls a letter from Liverpool England, 1 received as a result. of printing my name on an E88

The Kraui

i139 Pilch Laue, LIVERPOOL, 14 19 March, 1948

There is a certain amount. of difficulty in writing to a person the siightesbthlng about, However, be that. as u. bray. whet-Mr you are old and grey, or a young lad hoping to connect a. “young piece", my your address on an egg" purchased ihcre in Liverpool and I lake it you lwOllltl like to know Just how we live over here these days, ifor one can ncvor really

gets into the news is usually some unusual angle urruffuirs, otherwise

neitlier" young nor old being married

Our chief concern just now is clot-hing (upon. from Prices and wages soc-m to be chasing each other in a mad race, with prices a little to the front. Now as for as I know, no one is actually starving in get enough to eat, it is the monotony

Before the war a tasty meal would be perhaps boiled ham, tcrrlato and lettuce with a tin o! pineapple or mixed fruit to finish off with, and perhaps a nice fancy cake. r

Nowadays the boiled hcm is tinned fruit except. m, a prohibitive points value. (I’ll explain the points in a minute) So the tasty meal, comes down to tomato and lettuce at. 6d to U-each and no meat unless its o bit. of corned beef, the tin of fruit. is represented by a‘ bib of rhubarb out of the garden, Even custard is scarce enough to be a treat. Fancy cakes cannot, be ob- tained in the ordinary shops, only Jam tarts or buns or plain things, The humble sausage is a rarely and lard for home made cakes or fried potatoes is rabioned to I oz each s. week. Butter and margerlne is 8 oz each o week. However, as I said. rwo..xsr.._e.n.qush-tq eat. its the dullness of it. filial: is the trouble, A rich person can supplement the ration. with poultry but. it. ts much too dear for ordinary folk, although welcome change occasionally. The meat. we gel. is to the value of a shilling, each per week, that's 24 cents isn't.

Tinned salmon is a huge number of points. Now about thesmpolnts In our ration books we get. 7 points each per week. this has to do for all binned stuff, milk, fish, egg etc. also for all driui fruit. cereals and biscuits, Tc; and at 2 oz tea each per week land 1- 1b sugar, Dried vegetables like peas and beans len- tils and stuff like macaronnl and epuflllcll-l are all on points also, in fact. the difficulty is to find any- thing that. is not, rationed . Fresh vegetables n-re unralloncd except

Regarding clothing, we get, a 24 which has to last. 6 months. A suit. is 26 of them so is an overcoat. a shirt is 6 or '7. socks ls 3 r1 pair, Wit-h dross being so necessary to our women folk we have to give them whet coupons they ask for, so mast men are not. very smart,

But now. let me stop complaining and try to find something else to

“WHILE GHAOS CONFUSEB."

Caught in the whirl Irnd the wind of an on atomic, Threatened by sbormolouds of war: and collapse economic, Warned of the symptoms preced- ing titre end cataolysmol, This whole generation perceives that. the outlook is dismal.

Yet. though we see by the signs our position is perilous.“

It's not that. which makes us des-

pairing; defeotist or- quoru-

lous. Acquainted with war at its worst, we are thoroughly seasoned, No prophets of doom can" stam- pede us to panic wnreasoned.

Our civilization. while neither im- pressive nor brilliant, Emerges fmrn warfares arbitra- men-t. strangely resilient,

And though our existence is cer- tainly fu from agreeable. Its doomsday ls not yet in sight, and not even forseeable.

The word wars, the nerve wars. the Wl-LYS of ideas, and rho cold wars

Have always preluded trhe new f» wars not unlike the old wars. And while global chaos confuses, forewnrns and forearms us,