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“The Strongest Memory it Weaker Th: the Weakest Ink.‘

Tiiuiisnav, Manon 5Tb‘ Bo; Scout's Training

From time to time from all over the Domin- ion unsoiight testimonials are received and pub- lished of the benefits of Boy Scout training both in peace and war. Ever so many ex-Boy Scouts from this province in the armed forces have written home telling how beneficial their early Scout training proved in their naval and military courses ‘and in the discharge of their other dut- ies. llcfore the war Scoutiiiaster A. P. Ceretti, Borden, conducted courses iii deep sea diving for Sea Scouts in Charlottetown, among his , pupils being Dori Martin, son of Mr. K. M. Mar- 7 tin, KC. Mr. Ceretti sends us the following letter received from Don who is now in the Flt-er .\riii of the British Navy in England:

HMS. St. Vincent Sun., Mar. 4, 1945.

Dear LI iinuiodnrc: Q. I had a letter from Dad a couple of days ' ago and behold me you weren't feeling too well. I hope you're on your feet by the time you get this but if not I hope you regain health in the very near future. What's ivrong? Surely you haven't swallowed one of those cigars you used v to chew. ' 3 The station \ve’re at now is one of those old Royal Navy establishmehts. You know the type. strict .'lS old Harry. Boy, the training I had under you sure has helped me along.. 'Whv every little detail of the diving course is on my official papers and I feel sure it will help me get along in this outfit. As soon as we got over here we all had intelligence interviews with an officer at the station. The idea was to find out what I kllfili‘, but in the end I was telling him what he didn't know about deep sea diving and all things connected. And on another occasion an old guy was telling us how to splice rope and while he was talking I made a perfect eye splice just like you taught me. It really surprised him as most of the boys had never handled rope be- fore. He wanted to know where I had picked it up so I told him all about your course and he was really interested in the whole thing.

Well that's about all for now, perhaps I'll rim into Smokey sometime, if so I'll let you know. '

Yours, Don (junior)

Farm Income

Serious concern is expressed in the Speech 1 from the Throne over the fact that while the farms on Prince Edward Island are "in a healthy state", we were yet the only Province in Canada in which cash farm income declined in i944. An increase in farm income coinmen- surate ivith the average increase in Canada in that year would have amounted to 25 per cent over $3,500,000.

This is indeed a matter to challenge serious study and concern. The Throne Speech mere- ly beclouds the issue when it suggests, as causes for our position, lack of manpower and machinery. These drawbacks to wartime farm production were experienced by every prov-

,_ ince, yet lariii incomes in every other prov~ ince weie not decreased but greatly im- proved. The real cause is our transportation bottleneck, and the inexcusable delay of the King Government in providing a new car ferry steam- er aftcr the sinking of the S. S. Ciunlfiffflftiltlll in 194i.

The Government might indeed have antici- pated this loss of farm income in I944 had it given lived to the ivariiing contained in the brief presented t0 the Legislature last year by the P. E. I. Federation of Agriculture. “The pres- ent is sufficient," said the brief, "to create in the mind of every producer a fear that he may not be able to place his i944 crop on the mar- kcts of the \\'0l'l(l. May we suggest that iin- mediately you begin investigatio_ns as to the best arrangement which can be made that will insure a continuous movement to and from the mainland during the winter of 1944-45. T0 avoid disaster you cannot allow the annual icc barrier to again close the Strait of Nortliu|nber- land without having at Iiordfln another i106! that will assist the Prince Edward Island in the movement of th: freight which under normal crop yields in i944 will lic much greater than it is for the present winter."

For another striking illustration of the peculiar obstacles placed in the way of export- ing Island farm products, take from the report to the Provincial Government of Dr. Lattiiiier, farm economist: "In the year of our Lord i944. there departed from Char- lottetown, Prince Edward Island, a boat bound for Newfoundland. The distance is a very small portion of a roniid-the-world cruise. Hay. to be used as cow feed, was loaded at $18.00 per ton. was reported as in this particular case $26.50 pet ton. The import duty at destination was $4.75 per ton. The selling price in Newfoundland ' was reported as between $50.00 and $50-00 P01‘ ' ton, almost three times the,buying price."

Dr. Iilflllliftl‘, who has a sense of irony, adds this by way of comment: "The Chris-lion Sci’- encc Illonilor (August 1944) devotes one page to a discussion of the Atlantic Charter on the third anniversary of its proposal. The pictures featuring the page are of Newfoundland off whose waters this important document came lino being. It ivould be fine if the important principles of the Charter such as freedom from went and access to raw materials could he ap- proached right in the vicinity of its inception.”

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Fine for our. Inland farmers, too, if our Federal and Provineinlnmembers would get to- gether 1nd drive home the facts 0f our economic handicaps at Ottawa. But instead -nd even in

for Federal negligence that stultify the efforts of those who are really trying to get something accomplished. _ y

-EDITORIAI. NOTES-

Purchases of eggs b Board for the British lVlinfstry of Food to the end of February were 25 -per cent ahead of the same period last yearpiti has. been announced The current agreement calls" for total minimum shipments by May 15 of 600,000 cases of shell eggs of Winter and Spring production, and in-

additionalquantities if available above the 600,- 000 cases of spring production to be stored for shipment in the fall. i I i I

During the celebration of her employer’s golden wedding anniversary, a Negro servant who had beetl with, the family about 40 years added her own felicitations to those that had come by wire, telephone, letter and by personal call. The opportunity came while she was as- sisting in the preparation of the anniversary dinner, when she said to her mistress: “Well, all I has to say is dat you two sho’ has fought a good fight."

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"Canada is rapidly becoming a manufactur- ing nation, with 25 per cent of its people dir- ectly engaged in industrial work, and its status is almost comparable with that of the United

Company Limited, Montreal, told the Fore- men's Club of Montreal. “Now in the position 0f having to rely heavily on our export trade. the well-being of our manufacturing industry is of vital importance to our post-war future." Agriculture needs nianufactories for its exist- ence or depression follows.

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Widows of veterans of this war and of the North West Field Force have now become elig- ible for pensions under the War Veterans’ Al- lowance Act, under which widows of the South African War and the First World ‘War had been included since August 1943. Widows of such veterans, if they have reached the age of 55 or have become permanently incapable of

circumstances, are now eligible for an allow- ance oi $365 annually if without dependents, or $730 it’ supporting one or more dependent child-

$36o for one, $648 for two or $730 for more than two, to be paid on behalf of children of such veterans where both parents are dead.

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Estimates of the coming season's wheat harvest, prepared by the Australian Wheat Board, show that the crop is expected t0 total about 66,000,000 bushels. The figures by States are :-

Queensland .. 6,000,000 New South Wales . . . . . . . . 25,000,000 Victoria . . . . . 7,000,000 South Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,000,000 Western Australia . . . . . . . . . . . 15,000,000 With the exception of Queensland and

Western Australia, the crop position is deterior- ating further because of the dry weather. The estimate of 66,000,000 bushels compares with an average Australian yield from i931 to 1940 of nearly 178,000,000‘ bushels. i! ll ‘ 1

be a hero in real life, too. When it does hap- pen, there is a certain satisfaction‘ to his screen fans that they had recognized, iii his-screen heroics. a note of truth. Take Sabu, for in- stance. The young Indian boy who ruled a screen jungle until he was called to war, has

Cross for his service as tail gunner with the 13th Air Force, somewhere off Borneo. The action and its reward tops one of the most colorful careers in films. Sabu was discov- cred in India, where he was actually the son of an elephant man, and chosen for the leading role in Elephant Boy, which Robert O'Flalierty was then filming in India. He was an immedi- ate success and was taken to England for the film, later appearing in other pictures, most of WlllCll have been eiéhihited here. i I

Gaius Julius Caesar, Roman General and dictator, died this date 44 B.C. ; bound to demo- crats by family ties, although of piitrlcian blood, he distinguished himself in the army in the East and in the Mithridatic War; identifying hiin- self with the democrats, he became Curule Aedilc in 65 B.C., Pontifex Maximus in 63 B.C. Proctor in 6'1 B.C.; in 60 B.C. he formed the ‘First Ti-iumvirate”, with Pompey and Crassus, against the oligarchy in his consulate; a quar-

latter's defeat; and in 46 EC. Caesar's victory

cause; in July of that year he was made dictator for io years; he extended local government, en-

_ gradually tended towards undisguited absolutisin, and he was assassinated March r5; 44 B.C.; i bril-

trator and a gteit ststunianjjiiaesar founded the new monarchy lt Rome, litd hit assassination failed to prelrent the development of the Roman Empire he planned; loctldjolio at ("The die is cast") a declaration made oitflcrossing the Rubi- con after coming from _Gttul and advancing into

Italy against Pompey. Theogiubicon has been __

the Fluminico the height of oh: erected on avignano, to mark

identified as a brook now; (little river), and Mullolitfl” his glory, caused a triotltt _ its bank nearthe village pf

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the Speech from theThrone-one finds alibis m:

the Special Products ml

dications are this quantity will be offered “well g“ ahead of schedule". The contract provides for

States," Mr. A. Herrgen, manager of the maiiu- b facturiiig methods division of R.C.A. Victor , Th la

maintaining themselves and are itt necessitous "

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It is not asked of every screen hero that he 1943

jilSt been awarded the, Distinguished Flying d

rel between Caesar and Pompey ended in the u,

of Thapsus was the death-knell of the Pompeian m,

liant and original soldier, a‘ forceful adminis- '

Notes By 77w Way

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Everybody hos lhl t bl _ 3719 Yvllns worry beciiilise 13.1.11“.

ear sophlstlcated- e Boa; ti h° mike mvnev~riie head of hi; Tpjuse tries to fill the coal bln __

e evicted try to find s. house The world ls trying to flnd pence: —-London Free Press.

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“W6 f"!!! know enough about u, law." admits a .. ° 1W9!) out of contemppraw’ '0 do not set o learnerd ln _ eve o ten tempted to say, Micawber, ‘The law l: the other hand we geld? to learn."

B" "my traps II ave miiy b5?" 59111118; how many plncglg been buttoned up nvgr fir‘? gigigmed enenlijv hordes? A few, t" c mlhy- or have the mlll- Y ommanders, except as an out. $159 hobo. ever expected that many gag}? d "EWSDBDBT renders an s of miles away watch ex_ pectantly for the jaws to snap the 09ml"! 01- the Japanese condem- Bd not blindly fighting on ofilllivlousl to the danger like tho V 511a n th d _ Christian Bcleencae '1'fllili'li'lf§r,s'r'p!'

0h thls _“ hlsl. hlstorlcn-ltlilgliltlcilonltlzlilidnxiln "tot: a

ta fipnference. Prime Minister

ans are still as lleclflc as ln the days,

Years Mo, when a issueflnlwgs fought large- treal Gazette. rocm ' _ Mon‘

mm" if 0|‘ not. but world-fam- ed Tflfflflza Park Zoo. overlooking 57d"!!! 118N701‘. ls shortly expect.- lng from Canada a pair of "tie. odorlzed s." "You are not "U118?" secretary of

rongs. Park Trust was asked, when he related this to a news- Pllherman. "No, really," he replied. And to prove it, he produced n llsl: of what the Zoo ls expecting from Brltalns neighboring Dominion gwglflgeghfl 11st was: "One pair of

eo or k k." _ New‘ “were lln 5 Austrnllan

skunk

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iitiintIaTuAinci-eehlee lnufiflienein pzodilil: tlon, crop prices and net farm 1n- come since the war started. recent statistics on the value of occupied farm land show a relatively modest Bnln the Kitchener Record com- ments. The annual figures of net: farm income have approximately doubled since 1939, but the aver- age value per acre of farm land across Canada has risen only 2o per cent and last year's gain over was only seven per cent. The official explanation suggests that

ery have d scoura ed expansion iind YIBW Purchase of land holdings, thus curhlnx the price-rising demand.

The En llah vTe-r-efplnnnera where we were mprovlsers. They thought lfl terms 0f 50 years where we

as surely as we lacked their equal- ty. We were volatile where they were traditional, and unpredictable where they were certain.

amused them by always rushing off somewhere, even if we had noth- lnt; to do when we got there. they could lnfurlate us by remaining calm and un fact th

I01 Although their mln s appeared to move more slow- ly than ours, this was not neces- sarily because they were slower ln their thinking. It may have been because they were thlnklng ahead. Thelr leisure was as much a proof of their self-control as our energy was of our spontaneity. - John Mason Brown ln the Saturday Re- view of Literature.

It ls extremely hard for Ameri- cans to comprehend the problems of Ohlnn when such varied com. merit on the subiect comes from so many llfferen sources. Even his conflict, however, understanding would not be easy. An ex .e of the dlfflcliltles ls to be found ln the announcement from Chungklng that n third of e military personnel fa to be dis- missed and many military iii-gang- nations abolished. This ml ht be en to indicate a weaken n; of China’: war effort, but the precise pgposlto ls the case. The fact ls at the decision made was one for n long overdue reform. Ohlna has had millions of men in uniform but few under arms. vast hordes of men tn the Olilneao army could not be supplied with weapons the resources of their country lnedln suf-

iuaittlty from America, be- o o transport diffloultlel. In addition ~to this lack i of arms, Otilnn‘: anon-nous mill force: not be pgoperfy or even clothed. and e pay was so low that many a rfckahn puller nude more monev than e Ohfn of .

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rue CHARLMTETOWN on

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some are three weeks without

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PUBLIC FORUM

f ed this Illimd I .§'.l“....i°'i‘a 1M0 our uni!

none outside area I would be improperly dressed. to Kin: Rulel andniw- gulogorés, and would be tried fore

millov/ may I uk the 0.0. ofRe Armylfthelrmcnorntf them,

men every day with the . on working on farms and going to and from stores and vniases haul- ing produce to stations. and all other work in the count-ry- some ully dressed even to the cal). badge and boobs. I wonder tf some of the boys now in the thickest of battle would not like to have some of those uniforms for a chemo as a

change of clothes. I hgpe that the 0.0. of each uzilt ll put a stop to this. 1t not I think our" Legion which 1 am a member of and proud to be in such a wonderful organization. wlll take action. Any one who wears the uniform renders himself liable to usual military dlsclpllne as if he were on strength of a unit.

I am. 51!‘. etc. -.. Eli-SERVICE SOLDIER.

GOVERNMENT oonwnor. AND wiwr NEXT?

Sin-The lld ls off. The noble experiment has ended. The appeal to the provinces to restrict the sale and consumption of 81001101 in the Interest of war and tn the interests of humanity has been made, has been heard and ignored. The only limit to the consump- tlon of liquor 1n the near future is the inability of the vested ln- terests to supply the demand. We are first approaching the era of the greatest consummlon of ln- toxlciitlng beverages the world has ever known. Men stand Wheat at. the implications of that indict- ment. British Columblu 828.000.1100 for drink alone. 841000.000 revenue

they ho to do better next year. The Iliiuor

controller as he ls culled. any: that. the removal of restrictions that dld not restrict. ls the best. news he has heard in a long while. Does he forget that the primary mir- pose of Government Control la or was to reduce the consumption of liquor to a minim/um’! The pur- pose of enforcement as at ,. conducted seems to be to increase consumption to a maximum. English brewers and dfstllfers are more straight forward ln their methods. A few years no