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THE GUARDIAN

Morning Dally (Founded in 1887-» ' Authorized as Second Clan Mali, Port Office Department. Ottawa.

President. Ian A. Burnett; Vice-President. Wm B. Burnett; secy.-'I‘reas., G. M. Burnett; Editor and Managing Director. J. It. Burnett; Asaociate Editor. ' Frank Walker.

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

CHARLOTTETOVTN, SATURITA; NOV. I, 194'!

Election Figures

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Reviewing the last provincial general elec- tion figures in Prince Edward Island, the Sydney Post-Record finds that the voting in most of the electoral divisions was so clcse that a change of 100 vote: would have placed the Progressive Conservatives on top, while a transfer of 300. would have given them a two-to-one majority. The j servicemen were not given the right to vote, al-j though the P. C. Opposition had urged the Jones? Government to submit a servicemen’: voting bill: to the House before dissolution. The C. C. F. ran 9 candidates, but they got nowhere, polling only 5ll votes for Councillors, and 9Z5 for As- semblymen. But insignificant as the C. C. F. vote was, it probably cost the Progressive Con- servatives the loss of 5 seats,—-two in Queen’ County and three in Prince. "Neither partyf’; says the Post-Record, "regards the C. C. F. as oi factor of any importance in the coming elec-' tion." lt adds: l

"ln more than half the constituencies the‘ 1943 voting was so close that the majorities fell . below 100. There were 9 Liberals whose marginsi

_ranged from 74 to 10, and 4 Conservatives who

made the grade on majorities scaling down from 72 to 4. The Liberal margins for 9 seats were,- in King's County,‘29, 42, 60, and 38; in ‘Prince, 74, 19 ana l4; in Queen's, 37, and i0 respec- tively. Progressive Conservatives were returned by 72 and 4 respectively in King's; and by 40 and 52 in two Queen's divisions. Summing up, on the basis of the 1943 polling, it looks very’ like a 50-50 proposition on December li." i In i943 figures are ‘also quoted editorially by the Montreal Star which says: j "The Island does not believe in letting diiy party get too deeply vested an interest in pow- er. The pendulum hos swung back and forth between Liberals and Conservatives fairly regu- larlv, with perhaps some preference shown to the Liberal side. The present Liberal administration came into office following a Conservative de- feat in 1943 and has broken even in the by-elec- tions held since then. The last election, al- though resulting in a substantial Liberal victory by seats, showed a quite even division in the popu- lar vote, 35,775 Liberal and independent-Liberal as against 31,840 Progressive Conservatives, the C. C. F. trailing with a total of 1,416"

World Shortage -0f Food

In the report "The State of Food and Agri-

ulturc, l947" discussed at the third annual ses- sicie of the Conference of the Food and Agri- culture Organization (FAO) at Geneva, it is "stated that one thing stands out clearly, namely that the world shortage of food and several other agr cultural products is not, as was thought earl- ier, a short time affair of one or two years. lt is stretching out throughout 1948, i949, and perhaps I950. For example, the grain deficit ‘will continue for at least another year, because the i948 harvest, however bountiful, will not per- mit the abolition of bread rationing in all coun- tries. The report of the Rice Study Group con- vened by FAO in lndia, envisaged a serious rice shortage for four or five years longer. The world scarcity of fats and oils and of livestock pro- ducts is likely to last at least to 1950.

The problem, moreover, is not merely the res“oration of agricultural production in the de- vastated ercas to its pre-war levels. What was regarded as "normal" in i939 is now inadequate. The world's population has increased by about 175 millions since the outbreak of war, and every year there are 15 to 20 million more mouths to feet. ln some cf these regions formerly regard- ed as food surplus areas, growth in industrial- ization has caused increases or changes in dom- estic food consumption and a reduction (in some cases perhaps a permanent reduction) in food exports. In many industrially developed coun- tries, the present high levels of employment, to- gether with a considerable measure of income redistribution, have greatly increased the food demands of the low income groups.

There is further the increased public recog- nition of the importance of improved diets and the obligation increasingly acknowledged by gov- ernments, both in price and policy and in special food distribution programs, not merely that banger must be prevented but that diets ade- quate in quantity and quality for full physio-- logical development and working activity must be brought within the reach of all classes.

Big Tax outs flue

Barring some unforeseen catastrophe, says the Financial Post, the Dominion Government will report a whopping surplus at the end of the fiscal year next March. For the first five months close to half a billion dollars has al- ready been accumulated.

While some of this_money comes in the windfall category, such as from sales of sur- plus war goods, much of-it represents a perman- ent saving in wartime spending and it should be passed along to the citizens in tox cuts.

A good many millions of expenditure, for ex- ample, have been lopped off in the elimination of special subsidies. Payments of this kind 7', ached a peak of over $100 millions per year yguring tho war period, when Ottawa was helping “in pay for practically everything we ate and iIOIO- Actually, it was largely a case of taking out pf one pocket and putting it into another, plus "the not unrubstantial costs of operating the com- plicated system. In milk, for instance, the over- lbe city householder prod about $25 o you; on

his annual bill -as a result of the subsidy, but in lreturn the government had to take that amount plus-operating costs from the average taxpayer.

In the last year most of these special sub- sidies have. been dropped. Having stopped pay- ing part of the bill for our daily necessities it is up to the Government now fo s_top collecting the ,specicl toll. The average citizen and business, ltoo. will be expecting to hear Mr. Abbott an- nounce some pretty sweeping tax cuts any day

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Feast of All Soints-Hallowmas.

of All Souls.

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Tomorrow Feast ..

Today sober citizens reckon up the results

jrif a previous night of wakeful spirits, witches,

goblins and imps. It might have been worse. t . .- y.

Quebec has taken steps to distribute the tax burden for educational purposes so that it is no longer borne by the owner of real estate solely.

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The Rt. Hon. Louis S. St. Laurent clearly has no use for subsidized housing. He declared at the McGill Union building that "No govern- ment of which l am a part will pass such legis- lotion."

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lt is many years since drug stores here did away with soda fountains. Now Wasson's Drug Store in Saint John has decided that it can give better drug store service by eliminating the,soda foun- tain. lf this idea catches an we may not even be able to buy a fountain pen from a druggist.

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New Brunswick is now finding that more wives than husbands are petitioning for divorce. The first flood of aggrieved returned service-Y men is over and now man's chivalry is displayed. so that more men are sued than suing among‘ those who find it impossible to maintain mar-I. ried life. 1

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Battle of Coronel this date 1914 when Rear-

lAdmirol Cradock, with a British naval squadron

encountered a powerful German sqiiadron under Admiral Von Spreejon the coast of Chile which attacked and sank two cruisers at short range, three other vessels withdrawing and resuming the fight later at the Falkland lslands when the Germans suffered defeat.

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The Liberal forces seem to be reuniting under the Premier's leodership—that is, if they ever were disunited. There are of course, always a percentage of disgruntled partizans under any administration, and in both parties. The Con- scrvativegrank-and-file are solidly behind Dr. MacMillan—that is, making allowance for a few ambitious politicians desirous of an oppor- tunity for ‘promotion.

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According to" Premier Angus L. Macdonold, Nova Scotia gets $0,870,000 over a five-year period but that probably tax fields given up by the province are worth scvcn millions so that Nova Scotia gets three million in "new money." Just looking ovcr the figures roughly it would seem that Mr. Macilonald assumes that all money from the Dominion is "ircw" and that no account’ necd be had (if payments under previous agree- ments. y

The brick industry is prepared to meet all housing and other construction needs as fast as the demand develops, members of the Structural Clay Products Institute, meeting at Montreal, were informed by their president, Roy A. Ship- ley. "Not only is the brick shortage a thing of the past, but this industry was the first producer of a major building material to catch up with demand and stort accumulating inventories. The general availability of the new modular sizes of both brick and tile will lowcr the cost of mas- onry construction appreciably."

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Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist, metal-worker, sculptor, cnd flautist, died this date i500; noth- ing lrut his famous and inimitable Biography can do justice to his monysidedness; apprenticed to a goldsmith." then took up flute-playing, and be- come one of the Pope's court musicians; enjoy- ed patronage as a metal worker under Clement Vll, but becoming a brawler he had to move from one place to another, changing his profession al- most as often as he changed his residence. His greatest work as a sculptsr is a bronze group Perseus holding the Hood of Medusa.

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British civil scrvants know no party, and are at the disposal of the Government in power. Sir Oliver Harvey, oputy Foreign Office Under- Secretary. has succeeded Mr. Alfred Duff Coop- er as British Ambassodor_ in Paris. Mr. Duff Cooper, 57, has been British Ambassador to France since 1944. Previously he was British rep- resentative on the French Committee of National Liberation. Sir Oliver, 53, a career diplomat ‘as spent most of his service abroad in France. He is one of the "brilliant young men" of An- thony Eden's period at the Foreign Office, and since 1946 has been in charge of Western Eur- opean Affairs.

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Factory owners use mechanization .for the purpose of increasing output, not for the purpose of reducing employment. The more advanced the mechanization of factories the larger staff at work, the greater the output. In Agriculture, the provision of most ingenious and economic moch- inery does not, in most cases,.result in expanded operations, but in a reduction of" productive staff. That is not" the fault of the machines. They are excellent and cheap. It is an auto- matic result of less average reward for an hour's work on the farm, with or without machines, than

now and they are justified in those expectations. ;

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An Australian woman claim! that tier- eye trouble and her high blood pressure were improved hen she was hit. on the head with an axe- liandlc. Somehow, though, we don't think this will become standard medical treatment. — Edmonton Journal.

That 58 per cent increase in he Russian grain harvest has every- body guessing, as Moscow no doubt intended that it should. Nobody knows just how big an increase it is because nobody knows what the new harvest is 58 per cent. bigger than. Moscow merely sold it was as per cent bigger than last years crop. - Christian Science Monitor.

One of the stories from the York- Sunbury by-electlon has been told us by someone who was in Freder- icton during the campaign. A group of politically-minded people were at breakfast and discussing o. speech made by an orator who had gone to Ftedericton from British Columbia to participate. One of the breakfast group said: “Never did any mau come so for to say

‘so little. —-W. L. Clark in Windsor 1 Dally Star.

A well-known physician has just stated, "The allergic person is a ‘law unto himself." Ordinarily that. statement would be open only to one interpretation. but in these days of legal technicalities we are forced to wonder Just how long it. will be before Bill the Burglar starts appealing his latest adverse verdict on the grounds that the statute doesn't apply because he "are something he hadn't oughter"

or larceny. - Windsor Star. " U.S. court subpoenas directing Canadian citizens to appear in U. S. courts, and produce records from their Canadian offices. should not. be left to individual citizens, cor- porations or even Provincial Gov- ernments to deal with. They are o. challenge to Canadian sovereignty. and a matter to be taken up through the proper diplomatic channels bet/ween the two national governments. The old saying still ystands that. good fences make good neighbours. - The Letter Review.

Announcement of the retirement of Dr. Seager Wheeler, OBE. who plans to move from his farm at Rosthern, Sask. to Victoria. recalls that not only did he receive the crown of world wheat king five times, but that. he developed two new varieties of wheat. Red Bobs and Kitchener, which won for him on two occasions. Dr. Wheeler was a good farmer but he had a hobby and that; was trying to be a beater farmer. To this end he set aside some of-hls acres for research in piant breeding. - Lethbrldge I-ler- 2d. r

This shortage (of teachers) la largely a matter of economics, wages and returns. It ls foolish to expect. that bright young men and women will enter a pIOfESSIUII iii which returns are not commen- surate with their training or their efforts. The ideal of the teacher may he that satisfaction in the zirork and knowledge of the value of the task, is adequate reward but iva/zes and incomes are hard facts. The position of the turn! teacher has been and in many places still ls unfavorable to sc- rurlna new blood. Possibly larger school areas will remedy this situa- tion to some extent. - London Free Press.

No Canadian need he jubilant when a European family is placed on a farm from which a Canad- ian f-amlly has removed itself. Yet this ls irvliat ls going on in some "parts of the country. In some la- stonces the original Canadian stock is leavlnr; the land and getting into LOWIIS and cities. The same process is going on in many sections of the L-‘nltecl States and ls regarded with alarm by studenis of the social or- def" in that country. The newcomer from Europe prizes the lend; to hln-i it, is a great. boon to be able to uwll a hundred acres. The Anglo- 5axon in this conutry regards the land lightly. Ownership means nllle to him. and in many cases he uould prefer making his living somewhere else- Cliatham News.

The fear that the country church. unless revltzllzcd. faces extinction is exam-seed lii an avllfle in the Nc-iv York Titties. The article draws attention to the enormous power \\l1l(‘lI the country church can wield in the rural districts. The country march has a real problem ahead of it ln holding its congregations. ‘ivitli the nrlvent of the automobile many of the people in the rural sections for-soak their customary place of worship to attend church ill firban ,('OmIll\llIil.lCS. As the years passed, this viiltlidravral of support became more noticeable and its ef- fect began to be felt economically. with the result that it was difficult to raise sufficient funds to pay the ministers salary, let. alone provide lOl' other needs of the church. These rundltlons prevail in many com- munltles today. - Guelph Mercury.

What la a "temporary" clvll oer- vant? The question poses n puzzle lai- many ln that category. and no lrss for the taxpaying public. Ac- cording to the dictionary. “tempo:- ary" means "lasting or meant. to last. only for a time". but. lt ap- pears that official bureaucratic 0t- lawa has an odd conception - of time! Locally and throughout the country, for instance. there are clvll servants who have been “tem- parary" for yeariil More than that, they have been doing "permanent? staff work while still in the “tent- porary" category at, "temporary" rates of pay. Others while "perman- ent." have been doing senior work while still remaining in l. iurrlor

for one hour's work in urban occupations. The increasing mechanization of agriculture in Can- ada -sliould be accompanied, as the some pro- cess is in most factories, by steady increase in oillput and in labour employed.

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BANKFATLURI:

From The iJan. 22. I887:

0H Thursday. the 13th. inst. the creditors of the Bank of Prince Edward Island met. in the liquida- tors’ offices for the purpose of treating the report: of the lJOllFlllI- Lee, consisting of Messrs. H. J. Uunaall, Percy Pope and F. W. iilll-vhell. appointed to examine she accounts of the liquidators and FBDOIB illpon the remuneration to oe allowed them for their 5H. vices.

The report referred to the Bank's suspension on the 28th. Nov. 1881, aria to the appointment. on the .9lh June following. of the Bunk of Nova Scotia and Messrs. I... C, Owen and C. C. Gardiner, liquida- tors. During this period a large 5mm!" 9f DFiiciic-ul liquidation was performed by the (liter-tors. Tlio

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liquidators had received. lli gross, about $503,337, but from Llils sum Lite committee thought should be llf-‘ducied money and debentures received from the directors, the purchase money for the Bank prc- I mrses, and transfers from other banks. ivceinm- $108,874. lcavlnl; $394,463 of collections clue to the METHODS of the liquidators. Of this lH-il flmfllllii, $133,458 ivas paid by stockholders on account. of their liabilities. 71 of whom paid ln lull, £0 paid in par-t. and 20 paid nozh. H13. The report recommended that. $13500 should be paid to the liqul. dators for their services. After a vote of thanks to the committee, the meeting amended a; the Judges’ chambers. before Mr. Jus. lzcelPeters, when the report and resolutions were read and submit. Led for His Honours final adjudl- cation. So ended this meeting, p11» bflllly the last in connection with llliS unfortunate. but once flair- ishlng institution. O O O

Little now remains to be done, but to collect the few remaining debts of any value, make the final dividend. bum the notes, and close the liquidation. The $15,000, or ihereabouls. of outstanding notes. or as many as are still in exist. 8110c. Will then be valueless a: money. but 1n the course of time these relics of a defunct institution will be more eagerly sought for by the antiquarian. than ever they were by the money-dealer or oat- buyer in the days of its prosperity, ' ‘The creditors’ loss has been largo. but compared with that; o! the shareholders, ll: ls small indeed, Of the latter. there ivere only 121. and their loss. exclusive in many cases of what they lose as creili- tors, ls about $332,000. A few nei- 5°!“ managed. from one cause and P109101", to escape any payment, but as a body the shareholders acted with great credit, to themsel- ves. having paid, besides the loss 1i their stock, and in many c5595 9- 18-188 Part of their deposits, over two-thirds of their double 1lablllty_

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This Bank. the first; of its kind m this Island, was started in the “my Dflrl of the your 1856i and commenced operations in the office of the late Hon. W. H. Pope, an Grafton Street. on llic 13th, of August. of that _venr. 'I‘lio first. lqzufl of bank notes boars this dale. At. this time banking was quite new l0 People generally. Towards the cnd of the following year lilo young institution metN-ltli what. was than considered a heavy blow to its DYOSPCYW)‘. A monetary crisis, which then prevailed so largely in Ensland and the United States.- prostrated the shipping and t.m- ber trade, so that many of the ship owners were unable to meet their engagements with the bank. and ilie latter deemed it advisable t: suspend specie-payment for a short time. From this. however. it soon recovered. and became in a few years eminentLv stable and success- ful. and very remuneratlve to the stockholder-s.

In the years I875 and 1876. with- li o. few months of each other. Lfit Bank had the misfortune to lose by death three of its chief officers. viz: Mr. George Moore, teller; Hon. Daniel Escnen, president; and William Cuzidall. Esa... cashier, all rucn of long exjoeueirce. and llior- oi.g‘.t':.' trusivrort 1y. Ml‘, Cuiirlull ind been cashier from its begu- iling. rizirl l‘.'ll'.'.‘.'1 for and watched aver it wiJi a fufhcfs attention -unl.ll his dc-xcuso. Tlicncefortli. though there was little change lli the directory. younger and inex- perienced liCllIdS look charge. and in a few ffiGilTS brought. the Bank to a dlsasi us and untimely curl.

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