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‘THE GUARDIAN

r- Alas-ulna Dally (Founded in I881) Authorised an Second Claaa Mall, Poet Office Department, Ottawa.

The lalnnil Guardian Publishing Co. Editor rlnrl Managing Director, J. If. Iiurnett. Assoc-lute l-Jrlltor, Frank Walker.

"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest ink“

CHARLOTPETOWN. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 28, 19-19

New Housing Legislation

A new Federal housing programme has been outlined in Parliament by Hon. R. H. Winters, Minister of Reconstruction. Some of the operat- ing conditions for the new scheme are vague, but the Minister's statement is interpreted as giving final and irrevocable approval of ‘the principle of government aid in housing for low-income fami- lies, and as such will be welcomed throughout the country. The Government will grant additional mortgage loans to reduce the buyers’ cash pay- merits, and it will share grants with the Provin- ces so desiring on a 75-25 basis for the construc- tion of low-cost houses for rental or sale.

ln providing the additional loans, the Gov- ernment is adopting the Ontario second mortgage plan, which will be incorporated into the National Housing Act and extended to home buyers in all Provinces. Within the last sixteen months the Ontario plan, by reducing the cash ddwn pay- ments rquired by NHA to about one-half, has made it possible for l0,000 or more people to buy homes in that Province. If, under Federal auspices, it has anything like a similar recep- tion in other Provinces, it will mean a great ad- dition to the ranks of home owners everywhere.

While that phase of the program can cover a wide scope, it does not entirely remove the need for assistance to house people of small means. To that end, the Fderal Government un- dertakes to pay 75 per cent of the cost of public housing projects in any Province wishing to par- ticipate and agreeing to pay the remaining 25 per cent. This is recognition that the municipali- ties are unable to launch and finance such under- takings. Under the proposed partnership, there- fore, the two senior Governments would share the cost of land and of services such as streets, water and sewers. The municipalities concerned would be paid an amount equivalent to the real estate taxes leviable on these rental properties.

ll. S. Tariffs

The recent Anglo-American-Canadian econ- omic conference in Washington placed high on the list of matters requiring continuous consulta- tion the study of means to remove tariff barriers that prevent non-dollar countries from earning dollars in trade. ln this connection Mr. Kenneth Wilson, Ottawa correspondent of the Financial Post, cites figures which will surprise many peo- ple. Certainly they explode the idea that the United States has become a low tariff country.

Examples of the prohibitive duties imposed by the U.S. include cellophane, 45 Percent; chinaware_ less than Z5 percent bone, 7O percent plus ten cents per dozen; optical instruments, 45 and 6O percent; fir plywood, 4O percent; cotton rag rugs, 7S percent; mechanical toys, 70 per- cent; jewelry, 55 percent; cigaret I-ighters, 55 to ll0 percent; lace window curtains, 9O percent; embroidered wool gloves, 7O percent. The .list published by the Post, from which these examples are quoted, is for longer.

One point regarding the American tariff is that a whole range of articles is excluded be- cause the duty rate is too high. Estimates of the tariff level fail to include the fact that a consid- crable volume of imports simply does not get into the United States at all. Another is that Ameri- can prices have risen since prewar days and the effect of ad valorem duties is seen by calculating a rate of 50 percent on an article that once cost $1 but now costs $2. U.S. tariff rates still incl-ude many specific duties, i. e., so many cents on the pound or the dozen, and while the effect of these rates is diluted by high prices they would be- come effective barriers again if prices fell.

Arthritis Control

The past few months have brought encour- raging news for victims of arthritis and rheu- matic fever. The_ long-sought cure has not been found, but medical science has done some pre- liminary testing with what shows promise of being an effective treatment for arthritis, at leash

This is the drug cortisone, which has been extracted from the bile of cattle in minute quan- tities, and is believed to be available in greater

supply both in the seeds of the African plant,‘

.Strophanfhus, and in the Latin American yam, Dioscorea. Another hormone, ACTH, produced from the pituitary glands of hogs, ls as effective as cortisone in tests, but from present indica- tions must remain exceedingly scarce.

The Canadian Arthritis and Rheumatism So- ciety is not building any high hopes on these drugs in the six-point program it is launching. .Years will pass before the drugs can become available to more than a small fraction of the 600,000 arthritis sufferers in Canada. Research, therefore, will have a high place on its program, but improved methods of treatment, serving larger numbers of sufferers, also are projected

Unstable Position

The Economic Co-oporation Administration in the United States has approved Britain's use of $l75 millions in E. C. A. funds for the purchase of Canadian wheat. While this is welcome news for Canada, it must bs remembered that the de- cision can be upset by the Congress if it so wills. And although the Administration is hopeful of convincing o majority of the Congress that the action is necessary, there can be no doubt that it will run into opposition. -

An indication of this-opposition, notes the

‘ Winnipeg Fm Press, has already appeared in the informal reaction oi several senators to the E. C. A.’s decision. Ono Republican senator describes it as a flagrant violation oi the E. C. A. act which

moors-Coil"!!! risilrsibriiufi is

purchase outside the United States any agricul- tural commodity of which there is a United States surplus. Wheat is in surplus supply in the United States. Another senator predicts that the Con- gress will place new restrictions an the use of E. C. A. funds. Another expresses his lack of un- derstanding of the Administration's action and still another talks about the harm which the decision will do to United States’ farmers.

All this emphasizes the un-stable position into which Canada's wheat marketing machinery has fallen as a result of Britain's shortage of dol- lars. The marketing of a large part of our crop is now made directly dependent on the discretion of E.C.A. officials and the bounty of the U.S. " Congress.

EDITORIAL more:

The Maritime Board of Trade welccme.

The Federal Exderiiisenial Farm here is go- ing ahead to some tune, staffed with efficient and ambitious officials, with Mr. R. C. Parent

at their head.

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Nova Scotia's coal industry will receive o boost if Canadian industry turns to it in prefer- ence to paying the ten per cent exchange prem-

ium for American coal. I

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The Toronto Globe and Mail notes that a Brooklyn factory is turning out a semi-automatic l tool for opening oysters. Few gourmets can afford y to consume even the quantity they can open with

a knife.

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lf is surprising how restrictions come to be taken as a matter of course. Few outside those in the trade were conscious of the ban and quotas on different U. S. fruits and vegetables to be , lifted Saturday.

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A plan-of-campaign for increasing the tour- ist traffic is well underway here under the direc- lion of Brigadier Reid. Special attention will be

‘given to advertising of rural features of af-

i traction in our lovely fertile isle. . . . . ,

l Parliament no doubt has other and more ' important duties than that of press agent for the provinces but it is none the less gratifying to have Prince Edward island's almost complete freedom from bovine tuberculosis remarked upon

in the House.

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The destruction of a Canadian Pacific Air-

lines plane, allegedly by a bomb explosion, re- ' sulted in the death of Z3 persons, but even if no llives had been actually lost, such an attempt ‘ should be at least as serious an offense as piracy

on the high seas.

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Louis Pasteur, French chemist, died this date, i895. Best known for his work on micro or- ganisms, showingthat alcoholic and acetic fer- mentations and putrefaction are caused by liv- ing organisms, and that when these are killed or excluded decay is prevented. Thus he opposed the idea of spontaneous generation, and introduc-

ed sterilization.

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There is no such thing as standing still, we are _either progressing or retrograding. At pres- ient we are going ahead, and it is up to each and all of us to put our shoulders to the wheel so that the maximum may be attained putting the Island in the forefront of Canada's worth while provinces, and an lsland not merely of boosters but of performers.

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That was a splendid meeting of the West Prince Board of Trade at Albertan Monday eve- ning addressed by Mr. Ralph Hawthorne, M.B.E. ‘and presided over by Mr. Peter Pate. lt shows I what may be accomplished by anyone alive to i the interests and opportunities of their commun- lily. Albertan, and West Prince generally, are 1 live wires in a progressive county.

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Six years ago next month, in October i943, the 6rd Canadian Infantry Division, then in Brit- ain, swarmed ashore on the Dorset coast at Studland Bay, near Bournemouth,._during a largo scale amphibious exercise designed to develop the assault tactics learned at Dieppe and to l pave the way for the invasion of Europe. So rea- {listic was the manoeuvre, known officially by l the code name "Pirate," that at least one or two

public house keepers about Southampton where

part of the force embarked were heard to re-

mark that "this was the real thing." The assault

brigade went ashore at Studland Bay on the , morning of October l7 in the wake of a storm of fire laid down an the "enemy position" by all I three arms of the Service. "Exercise Pirate" de- veloped this combined fire plan for providing as- saulting troops with heavy and immediate sup- port which had not been available at Dieppe. lf was, in effect, the real thing on a reduced and preliminary scale. Eight months later Canadian troops who took part in "Exercise Pirate" were in the van of the assault on the Normandy

beaches.

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Canada's forest industries represent a billion dollar business. Wood valued at more than $413 million when taken from Canada's forests in i946, was worth $1,076 million when manufactur- ed into pulp and paper, lumber, plywood, fumi- ture and other products, according to a statistical survey prepared by the Canadian Forestry As- sociation. Thirty-two percent of the wood was in the form of pulpwood valued at SIB! million. In the manufacture of pulp and paper the value ' was increased to a total of $537 million. Logs and bolts accounted for another 38 percent of the row wood valued at $l5l million and increas- ed by $l38 million in the manufacture of lumber and related products. Other wood-using industries ladded $l70 million in the manufacture of a | multitude of products from a small portion of tho ; logs and bolts, and some of the lumber. This

totals $459 million. Twenty-six percent was used ‘as fuelvrood worth nearly $50 million, and the ' remaining foar percent of the raw wood mode up miscellaneous products worth nearly $30 rill"?!-

I‘ HE GUARDIAN,

CHARLOTTETOWN

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A Porforiiraiioo

THE SANDPIPEB

Along the sea-edge. like a gnomg

0r r0111“: pebble in the foam.

A5 111°118h he timed the ocean's throbbing,

Runs a Piper. bobbing. bobbing.

Now he stlffens, now he wtlts, Like a. little boy on stilts]

Creatures burrow, insects hide, when they see thg piper glide,

You would think him out of joint, Till his bill begins i0 point.

- You would doubt ff he could fly,

TlIl his stralghtness arrows by.

You would take him for a. clown, Till he peeps and flutters down, vigilant among the grasses.

Where a fleclgliing bobs and PMSQG.

-Wltter Byrrner.

£0 Old Charlottetown

(And P. l. l.)

vrsrrons FROM soon-mun

"On the evening of July 18th.

the gentlemen composing the Deputatlon from the General As- 1191111115’ of the Church of Scotland to the members of the Church tn the British North American Col- onies-fhe Rev. Dr. Simpson, of Klrkneivtan, the Rev. Dr. McLeod, of Morven, and the Rev. Norman McLeod, of Dolkielh-arrlved lri this Town per the steamer St. George, from Plctou. The object of their vlslt ls to ascertain the real state and the wants of the Presbyterian population ln re- itflrd to the means of religious in- struction, and to assure them of 1118 Sympathy and kindly feeling of their brethren in Scotland fo- warris them. “On Sabbath. the 20th lnsf., the Rev. Norman McLeod preached in St. James Church. rind at I o'clock. the Rev. Dr, McLeod ln the Gae- llC lflnflllflge, and in the after- noon the service was conducted hy thr- Rev. Dr. Simpson-all to delighted and crowded congrega- tions. On Tuesday the Rev. gen- tlemen proceeded on the object of their mission to the country, ln different directions: Dr. slfflp. son to Georgetown, Rev. N. Mc- Leod to the Westward, De Sable. go, and Dr. McLeod to New Lon- 0T1.

"The Rev. gentlemen bid fare- woll to their friends here on Fri- rlny, after n farewell service con- ducted in St. James Church, and sailed ln the Si. George for lvierlmachl, en route to New Brunswick and Canada. Just pre- vious to their departure, a num- her of gentlemen ivaiiod an them nt the Victoria Hotel, with an Address, to which the answer was given. We understand the Rev. gentlemen expressed themselves much pleased with the reception they met with during their short slay here." ~-The Islander, July 30, 1845.