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Authorized as Second Class Mall Post Office Department. Ottawa. The Island Guardian uubllxhing Co.

President and Associate Editor. Inn A. Burnett. Associate jldltor. Funk Walker.

CIRCULATION "Coven Prince Edward Island likeitho dew”

"The strongest memory is weaker than tho weakest ink".

CHARLOTTE-I'V()WN, Agricultural Resolutions

Timely in view of the fact that the Leg- islature is now in session is the. publication of the comprehensive resolutions in today's issue, emanating from the Agricultural Council of Prince Edward Island. These resolutions embody the unanimous views of leading officials of the Federal and Pro- vincial Departmcnts of Agriculture, the Experimental Farm and Science Services, on matters of great interest to our farm- ers. Needless to say, they are presented merely as suggestions. It is for the Govern- ment and the various farm organizations to take action if they see fit; but all will concede that the Agricultural Council is a very important advisory body, comprising as it does menof high technical knowledge and skill, backed by practical work in the field. The organization has special com- mittees dealing with. such subjects as plant diseases and pests, poultry, junior farm activities, seed, livestock, potatoes, horti- culture and apiculture, soils and crops, marketing, women's work and consumer- producer activities. The committees meet from time to time during the year in order to line up work in which the Federal and Provincial officials are engaged, and pro- vide for the fullest co-operation in carrying out the various policies of their depart- ments. Thc committees also deal with pressing problems developing within their own particular fields, and their solutions for specific problems are applied or passed on to the General Council for further con- sideration and ratification.

The Council was launched in this Prov- ince in January, 1948, and has already proved of great value in promoting and co- ordinating agricultural activities. The con- clusions reached at the last annual meet- ing and now released for publication are certainly deserving of very careful con- sideration; and we believe that all con- cerned in the industry will welcome the opportunity of studying them carefully.

MONDAY. MARCH 9. 1953

ll. 3. Farm Imports

in the controversy ,over United States restrictions on dairy imports, notes the iwinnipeg Free Press, certain highly rele- vant statistics appear to have escaped the attention of Congressional protectionists. The fact is that the United States benefits quite as much as Canada from the trade across the border in agricultural products. Thus anything which damagesthat trade is a threat to an important United States in- terest. In the five-year period 1935-39, the U. S. exported to Canada agricultural com- modities to the average annual value of 965.5 millions while its comparable imports from Canada were valued at only 963 mil- lion. In the special conditions of the war years 1941-45 this situation was reversed though the figures indicate that the Cana- dian market was still valuable to the Uni- ted States. Their average annual exports were, valued at 9115.1 million, imports from Canada of agricultural commodities 9173.8 million. However the pro-war relationship promptly re-asserted itself with the return of peace. In the period 1946-51 the aver-

age figures were as follows:

U. S. exports to Canada 9221.8 million U. S. imports from Canada 9208.0 million . By 1951 the value of Canadian imports of agricultural commodities from the Uni- ted States-cotton and linters, grains, fruits, vegetables and preparations of each, vegetable oils, oil seeds, hides, skins, meats, men; products and other itemsAhad reach- ed 9300 millions. Moreover the figures for the first 10 months of 1952 indicate that this U. S.;Canadian trade in agricultural commodities was still in very close balance.

Such statistics-all drawn from United States sources--provide an odd commentary on thewidespread impression that, gener- ally speaking, Canadians trade their agri-

, ctilhirhl produce and raw materials for U.

S. manufactured goods. It is true of course that Canada has fgr fewer producers than .the U. S. and a much more restricted home .mo.'rket; hence the individual Canadian formfr has A proportionately greater stake In this two-way trade than has the divtdual United States farmer. In pre-war fvou: Canada was the third best customer agricultural produce, buying sub- more than France, Germany. the . .;c':.It,aly. In the years 1940- ' - i thought more than France, . fonds though for under- loss than partitioned Ger- D 1- '

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lduction is far greater than Canada's and

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many. ,Moreover, it remains true, as stated in the U. S. Department of Agriculture bulletin, that "Our (U.S.) agricultural pro-

agricultural imports from Canada usually amount to only one or two per cent of the American output."

The conclusion is inescapable and de- serves to be stfdssed at a time when some anxiety is manifest among United States producers over the recent decline in cer- tain farm prices. As the bulletin justly observes:

"Temporary market gluts that develop as a result of imports should be viewed against the backdrop of our two-way, over- all trade policy with Canada. Actually these countries are primarily partners-not competitors-in agricultural trade, each supplying the other's needs. Neither has anything to fear in the way of any vast volume of farm products from the other flooding its economy. Both are highly in- dustrialized and need high agricultural pro- duction to meet their people's requirements, and agriculture is not expanding as rapidly as the rest of the economy in either coun- tlu!..U

llatlonal Savings

Two items in the budget White Paper tabled in the House of Commons by Hon. Douglas Abbott, Finance Minister, deserve closer examination. One of these concern- ed savings out of the national production in 1952 and the other dealt with investment and capital expenditure. Savings, as the paper pointed out, is the source from which capital expenditure is financed. "Income arising out of production may either be spent or saved." In the same way produc- tion will be absorbed either by consumption expenditure, or by investment expenditure at home for new plant, equipment, hous- ing, or additions to inventory'or by invest- ment abroad.

Personal, Government and business sav- ing in Canada in 1952 amounted to 94,483 millions. Personal savings, that is to say the savings of individuals, accounted for 91,538 millions, or 34 per cent of the total. Business, chiefly in the form of money set aside for depreciation and in undistributed profits, saved 92,662 millions or 59 per cent of the national total. Governments on the three levels saved 9301 millions in sur- pluses, thereby accounting for seven per cent of the total. ,.

Most of. the amount saved went for in- vestment within Canada. New residential construction accounted for 9803 millions and other new construction 91,476 millions. The investment in new machinery and equipment was 91,859 millions, while an ad- dition to inventories of 9176 millions oc- curred. The other major item was a net increase of 9151) millions in foreign assets, including foreign exchange. (Balancing items were 918 millions in savings and 919 millions in their disposition.) '

.It is noted that the greatest capital expenditure in 1952 went into manufactur- ing, housing, Government departments (mostly defence). agriculture and fishing, transportation, storage and communica- tions, and electric power, gas and water works, in that order.

EDITORIAL NOIES -

At a great many national conferences Island representatives are largely in the position of being sliglitly behind develop- ments elsewhere and anxious to learn what others are doing. It is quite otherwise with the Ottawa livestock conference. Other provinces will do well to learn from our Mr. Henry Clay.

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After years of moves and counter- moves in international affairs it was pleas- ing that one of the last acts of the late Prime Minister Stalin was to contribute to the relief of victims of English Channel flooding. Political interests and strategy may not be in the least reconciled by the circumstance but it makes for an atmos- phere ln which conciliation is possible.

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It is surprising to find Mr. Jean Fran- cois Pouliot (L-Temiscouata) using the word "politician" as a term of reproach. Without going into thelmerits of his battle with New Brunswick power interests, one can only hope that it is the rottenness and not the fact of being politicians that called for his blast against "rotten politicians."

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l-lonore Gabriel Mlrabeau. Comte de Riquetti, one of the greatest figures of the French Revolution, was born this date 1749. Imprisoned several times by his father on "lettres de cachet", a title which he used for his famous book. In the States- General and later in the Constituent As- sembly he had enormous power with the people. power which he was inclined to use for moderate reform. Had his life been prolonged it to at least possible that there

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THE GUARDIAN. CHARLOTTETOWN

Dreamland .'Coming Closer

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electricitg -to do my work, I'll build .a- loafinq barn for non .'

PUBLIC FORUM

This column in open to the discussion by correspondent: of questions of interest. The Guardian does not necessar- lly endo the opinion of correspondents.

TO CURB SPEEDERS

sir, A A possible solution to pre- vent. cars from speeding through towns, and to cut down the fatal- ities of the Province would be to have a semi-circular ridge 5lX incha in diameter. painted yellow at either end of the town. A large sign "BUMP" has proved suffic- ient in other localities to force motorists to stop and go into first before going over the ridge. As the towns are small, it would be im- possible to pick up much speed -be- fore coming to the next bump.

I am. Sir, etc..

HEIJEIN P. MERRILL Crapaud. P.E.I. .

1'. E. I. POTATOES IN OTTAWA

Sir,-I would like to thank The

Guardian newspaper and the many people who answered my- recently published letter. on where to purchase P. I. po- tatoes. I received a number of replies including a nice lot of

potatoes from'ai Mr. Lloyd Rob- bins. My thanks in Mr. Robbins for such a wonderful treat.

Also, I believe I mentioned that in my hunt for P. E. 1. potatoes here in Ottawa the wholesalers were not too helpful in giving our information about such. Part of this -statement I want to cor- rect slightly-I should of stated, some of the wholesalers.

As a matter of fact. one com- pany has been most helpful and I might. ndd most generous. Yes- terday I was conducted on a tour of the Gamble-Robinson Co. warehouse here In Ottawa and I nm now thoroughly convinced that had I not been too hasty in the beginning I could of saved myself and others a lot of trouble and inconveniences.

Sn. to the Gamble-Robinson Co. I wish to express my sincere thanks and appreciation: for their generosity.

I would also like to mention that several answers I received came front different. parts of Canada. One reply cam! from as far away as Calgary.

This goes to prove that The

Guardian must. be indeed it won- derful newspaper to attract rend- ers away beyond the Prairies. I am. Sir, etc.

I. M. ELIOT. 16 Edina Street.

Ottnwn, Ont. .-

Old Charlottetown uu 1. 1. i

LAST OF THE REGULAIIS

iln 1864 a review of the troops was held on Queen Square in non- our ol the Queen's birthday. 1 royal solute was fired and three hearty cheers were given for Her Majesty, but this was the but time for any military display by the troops of Ghcrlottletown surl- son. -

The troops were xmnuall reliev- ed by fresh datnchmc from headquarters at Halifax. thul 1 strong and sufficient force was constantly in charge of the sta- tlon. Now. however. when war wu declared against Russia I large portion of the troops from Halifax were called home to England and the troops in the garrison here were called to fax.

During. the f In: your St. George's buttery, Port lzdwoul and the Slock house were dismantled and on the equipment. ltoru and nmnuinluon were shipped to Halifax. n , Th Regulars were never station- ed erulln until the time of aha rum Magoo, fun, when 1

otaohnwut of the foul. Rezlmont horn Halifax arrived and were al- idwed to remain a little out n

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Notes From Another Island ,, ..A”.,.

LONDON, l'.'ngland:-

Somebody, sometime - I don't recall who or when - said that Britain doesn't have a climate. only weather. The inference is that we are poorly served by the elements, although we should be ungrateful if we failed to remem- ber that not so long ago we had reason to be thankful that this was so: the logs that blanketed our cities and the storms that raged around our coasts more than once gave us a. respite from the atten- tions of I-Iitlerls bombers.

The inference goes further. how- ever. it suggests. perhaps, that whereas most places have seasons of warmth and cold more or less at the times of year when one would expect them, and can consequently claim to have a. "climate" (with the words subtle implication of orderliness and conventlonallty). we don't. We have seasons. true enough. but. they are merely to be regarded as tims when the odds

in favour of one kind of weather or another are rather shorter than at others. But it is still 9. gamble. Hence, the most. that. one can say is that in summer we are more, likely to have warmth and sunshine than in winter; and. conversely, to winter there is a better chance of snow than in summer. To be more dogmatic than that is most un- wise.

So we have long since come to accept the unexpected as normal, and the sudden changes have one thing to commend them. at least - they make a useful gambit. on which to open a conversation. As Samuel Johnson said: When two Englishmen meet, their firsttalk is of the weather."

However, having seen to it that we are trained to expect the un- expected, the elements these past few months have showed us yet anothertrick. Whatever was to be said about. the weather during the winter from which we are pain- fully emerglng, it has been nothing if not consistently wintry. And therein, perhaps. he: the ultimate in perversity; other people. in other lands. might have no doubts about what they are in for when winter comes. but we could never bcf sure. People who live in climates might. -- if they are in the pro- per latltudcs -- expect. nothing but winter, and prepare for it; but we. with our climateless "weather", might in the light of past. exper- ience bargaln only for bits and pieces of snow and sunshine, frost and rain and balmy breezes.

It must have been as early as last. ptcmber, if not before. - it seems so long ago that memory fal.tcrc' 4- that winter come. We didn't. know it then. when we first saw frost. whitening the grass, and when the first flurry of snow come whirling about our care, how were we to know that it was winter and not just another of summer”: jokes? Yet winter it. was. Ind it has lasted. and lasted until only now, with the first spring flowers poking through and the mercury at. least climbing away from trees- ing point. can we feel that there will ever be anything else.

It has been a winter as fraught. with misery so many of us can remember, and so full of tragedy that we never again want. to no its like. A truly Ilokenlng winter thut has put many. ma y hundred. of our folk into premn urc graves, and laid low with clothes: count. let: others. The great. ion, the tnllueml. Ind the furious also that laid wute rut Ann of our coun- tryside Ind towns. have all taken

DREAM RIVER.

Wind-silvered willows stream,

And all within is hushed and cool.

The water, in an endless dream,

Goes sliding down from pool to pool.

And every pool a sapphire ts.

Fmm Shadowy deep to sunlit edge.

Rlbboned around with irlses

And cleft with emerald spears of sedge.

hedge the

0. every morn the winds stlllcd, The sunlight falls in amber bars. 0. every night. the pools are filled with silver bredc of shaken stars. 0, every morn the sparrow flings I-lis elfln trllls athwart the hush. And here unseen at eve there sings One crystal-throated hermit- l thrush.

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--Marjorie Pickthall.

The iA”ge-Old story 0

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For since the beginning of the world men have not heard. nor pcrcclvcd by the our. neither hath the eye scan. 0 God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that WI.IIlI.I'I for him.

-Spud At The

Coronation (Napier Moore In the Financial Post) .

Not. long ago. the tvlctorla. Daily Times astounded its readers by hoisting the ”Royal Sovereign" at Buckingham Palace.

Now, our old frlend' Hugh Sav- age, of the Cowichan Leader, Dun- can. B.C., send: us a clipping from the Times which states, "During the Coronation the Lord Great Chamberlain invests the Sovereign with the magnificent Sword of State. and with the solid good spuda whlch'cre the emblem of knight.- hood and chivalry.

Al Hugh remarks. "shore!" says Pat. "We mow be a republic, but when there's a Coronation the Murphy: will be there!"

Incidentally. in one respect. Hugh savage confounds Sir Walter Scott's assertion that "Time will rust. the sharpest sword. Time will consume the strongest card." For 39 years he has been ardcntly bat- .tllng for a Canadian flag and he hasn't weakened one bit.

The typographical and proof- reading troubles of the Victoria

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not whcn.lt would end. but only when, how and where the next blow would fall.

All because we finally had I winter that acted as I winter pre- Iumlibiy mould. It has to be Id- mlttcd: we didn't like it at all. We much prefer the sort. to which we are accustomed. when bitter cold gives my almost. overnight to temoerm blue. with A gentle breeze it grow: quickly tilt: ;ql,I:lr:rl:Liz atoi-n;V before the

Pour. o can with that kind of .u nope

i I (Notes- I "ll the children want to bore

holes in the radio to see what's in- side. let. them do on." advices I ply-

" cholozlst. who manifestly has no

radio, no children. or no sense. - svtratford Beacon-Herald.

The tourist does not come here to see another United states. He Wants to feel he is in another country--Canada. The. wise opera- tor therefore will provide a fully Canadian background in all rc- s.pcctA.-London Free-Press.

It Isn't. only In Ottawa that the increasing population of children is creating problems in education. The situation is province-wide. at least. The Minister of Education for Ontario says that within 10 years "the number of Grade nine pupils will be more than double the present enrolment" in all sec- ondary schools-and high schoob boo will feel the repercunlons long before that time. -- Ottawa. Jour- nal.

There is an ugly tone In the now: report. that state secretary Bud- ley has "ordered" all Canadian book publishers to send two copies of their publications to the Na- tional Llbrary of Canada. to be stored until the library is built. The "order" became effective Feb- ruary 1 and publishers who don't comply are liable to a fine of 825. This "order" is something that we might expect to come out of the Kremlin, or to read in Pravda: But it doesn't. sound like a democratic government appealing for co-op- cratlon in collecting books. -Vsn- couvcr Province.

The governments of France and Italy have agreed to build jointly a highway tunnel through Mont Blanc. highest. mountain in the Alps, and thereby shorten the route between the two countries by several hundred miles. The pro-

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Times are as nothing when corn- pared with the headache: of Wil- liam I-I. seed. who for four years tried to edit and print n. weekly newspaper in Ethiopia. the land of Hailc Selassie.-

Mr. seed, who writes for the Manchester Guardian and other British and U. S. newspapers. drop- ped in to see Wayne Haraha, editor of Maclean-Hunter! "I n l n n d Printer." in Chicago. and told of his experiences in Addls Ababa. There was only one Linotype in Ethiopia. it. scenic. and Mr. Seed didn't have access to it. So his weekly, whlci-come out sometimes on Wednesday, sometimes on sat- urday. and sometimes not null. was entirely hand-set. Only one or two of his printers knew any Eng- lish at all, and there wasn't enough typo to set one complete cdltlon. W's and ya were especially short. when a couple of pages were print- ed the w's and y': were taken out and then put in the next tw pages to go to press. Added troubles came from the censor. who, at. the last. minute. would cut. out whole columns. Mr. Seed finally up and resigned. He is now in the U. S.

X. The 7-Way I. .

I MAE?” 9- 1953

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tact now goes before the and It.o.llI.n Parliaments fm fctlon. Perhaps it uck than the at. law , which two other r::s':l'Ilel:::i:' agreed more than 20 years ago ,0 build as a. Joint uxidertakin. go town cltilen. ”' "

French will have atria;

The violet II n no". - makes us sentimental. It. is a”;!:,J;,? 988. pleasant and dtstlngui,-,h,' flower; it's perfume is exquisitd The history of the violet-or H," little three-cent bouquet-is closcln connected with the history or my fan-es dc coeur”. one thinks in. atlnctlvcly of Henry 'Murger 0; Mimi Plnson. memories of the 1..., century-and of the deliglmu; hours of our youth, or our Hm loves. All that, for three com, Nowadays. we can no longer mm" violets to protect. us from the pm. onous fumes of gasolinc- at 1m,' not under six an the charm of the violet is dead. with our "pm. gross". - Le I-Iaut-Parlour.

A policeman who loolu like . soldier. with a revolver Conspicu. oucly bolstered at his side, 15 . Very different figure from the un- cxcltable, slow-treading consiam. we know. It is largely became mo pol-ice nppeu among us in thus ..... ncruulve guise that relations of friendly confidence exist between them and most cltizem. Unarmed police, besides making .. M 3 ml, -the apprehension of criminals a less violent and dangerous busi- nus for all concerned. llavc 3 qulctlng. clvillzlng lnllucnrc on the community. - '1-he ob”.-,.",' London.

Television is raising prohlemq unheard of before. A woman .., Ohio has been forced to more be. cause her cocker spaniel. named Candy. likes television. In court her landlord complained that Can- dy raised a fuss whenever the TV was On. barking with dramatic programs. howling with singeu and prancing with dancers. The dog's owner insisted that Candy has good taste; walks out of the room whenever there's A -wrestling show. Outcome of the case is that the woman and her dog are mov- ing to a. new location where the rent will be 876 more a month than what she has been paying. Tryin( it out. on the dog can be expensive. -Sydney Poet.-Record.

A certain fish expert, while rol- lectlng high-caliber information for Newfoundland, died in Europa more than a year ago. He was said to have a brief-case full of "dyna- mite" with him when he died. and some of us have been sleeping un- easily ever since, waiting for the blast. The brief-cue was sent homo, but nothing was heard of it afterwards. Recently in was re- ported unofficially to have found

9 its way into one of the offices of

the Department of Fisheries anti Co-operatives in St. John's. The Government is said to be consider- lng the advisability of having "No Smoking" signs erected throughout

writing a book which will have a full supply of w's and y'l.

the building.--St. John's Trie-

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-A-. Burlntar Ind Solicitor

Bank of Commerce Building Caulottotown Money to Don:

Frederic A. Large. O.C.

Ban-Inter, solicitor. Notary cl Bank of Canada Bulldlnu Charlottetown. P. E. I. loan on City and ram Properties

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Money to Loon Collection

J. S. Taylor

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DENTIST Dental X-ray Above Charlottetown Clinic 202 Queen St. Phone 611

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