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‘The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink.‘

THURSDAY. JULY l8, 1946

I Authorised

The Truck Rates Hearing

An cxn-u-ivc brief ivzis prcscntt-tl yesterday to the litutrd oi l\‘;ti]\\".'t‘v (bitimissioiicrs on llC‘ half of tlic Summcrsitlc lloard of Trade in protest ztgaitist lllc freight rates charged for trucks 0n the ll:irdcnilortiictttine ferry. “lith- out :itte|npting ll! discuss the nterits of the case. it nrtv bu pointed nut that the brief covers tut» is-ttcs. tli: most important bcittg lllf‘ ‘lttcstioit of ftilfihtzcnt on the part of thc Dominion liovcriiiiiciit of the terms of Cotifctl- oration with this lH-rivincc in the matter 0f trahsportatioti lo rind from the tnainlaitd. 'l‘lii,-, is a tnattci- ovcr which tho Transport Connnis- sion has no ittt-isd-ictiott. This point was raised at vcstcrilaws hearing in obiection to ltavitig "irrelevant" stzttctncnts by the Summcrsirle litiard of Tradc go on record. Chief Com- missioner Cross tool: a wider view. “There sccms to be a good tlELll itivolved outside of our sphere.” he said. “So far as we are concerned we arc going to confine ottrsclves to our own iuristlfiction ttnrlcr the Railway Act, tmssibly‘ supplctiicittcd by the Maritime Freight Rates Act. liut that docs not prevent you front put- ting forward these matters." That is an at- titude which will be appreciated by the people of Prince lidward Island. It is essential to have our full claims on record. because what- ever findings the Transportation Commission may reach in the matter does not affect our con- tcntion that the ferry is an interprovincial high- way.

___.___________.____ Still A Bargain Land

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Return of the Canadian dollar to parity with its U.S. cousin, says the Financial Post, means that Mr. Smith from Washington will no longer be I0 per cent richer when he tours north for a Canadian vacation. But it certainly doesn't mean that Uncle Sam's nieces and nephews will stop finding bargain vacations here, The U. S, dollar, even at par, can buy a bigger holiday in Canada than it can at home.

Even before OPA toppled it had, since 1943, been lifted so far as rent control in resort areas was concerned. Prices at American play spots this year have gone notably haywire, Hotel rooms, normally renting at $3 to $5 lmvg been reported up to $17 and $20 a day; a seashore apartment that could be had for $250 the sea- son last year, today has its tenant for a cool $1.300; sxvimming pools and other routine pri- vileges have suddenly become high-priced extras on the resort bill. All this, before the general removal of U.S. price control. Where the top may be is anybody’: guess.

But in Canada rentals control remains in re- sort areas as elsewhere, assuring vacatianists that a dollar's worth of currency still will buy a dollar's worth of accommodation. So any first-report fear on_ the part of Canadian tour- lst businessmen that parity might inhibit travel to Canada is more than offset by a sober sec- ond glance. Canada is still a tourists bargain land, and Americans, faced with rising prices on every side, know it.

Electric Power Resources

Canada has enough turbines and generators harnessed to her rivers to produce ten million horse-power, says a writer in Canadian Affairs. Only Norway has more of such power per per- son. Only three otlrer countries produce more regardless of the size of population. Yet it is estimated that Canada's ivers could beimade to produce fifty milli horse-power a5 and when required.

Of Canada's total output of over 40,000 mil- lion kilmvatl-hottrs, 98 per cent comes from water power. This water power is equivalent to over 25 million tons of coal, or nearly twice Canada's coal output.

Qucbcc Province boasts the first long distance transmission line in the British Empire. It was installed in 1897, seventeen miles long, to feed electricity into Three Rivers. An eighty-five mile lino, set up five years later, from Shawini- gan to Montreal, was the longest in the world. Gradually the voltage for transmission was pushed up. so longer and longer distances be- came possible. 1100 volts was a matter ‘of doubt at. the beginning of the century, but by 1928 we were tisitig 230,000 volts for distances ‘of over 300 miles. '

The pulp and paper industry alone gets near-

'» ‘-ly 40 per cent of (‘anadais total output of hydro

power. _1oo horse-power is required for each ton-of daily output-m thousand or more kiln- watt-hotirs per ton.

To produce a single ton of aluminum it takes 20,000 kilowatt-hours, —- as miich as a home

would use in ten or twenty years.

At present about 6o per cent of all Canadian homes are wired forclectricity. The average consumption for lighting. cmkingfetcx, is about l i‘ ' kiloivitf-liotirs‘ per customer. This is

about twice? the average for the United States. Canadlanjann out of five, however,

r eleetrl ,lp'genejratitig its own

his. In contrast, two

in United States get

electric power. In some Western European countries and in New Zealand, the figure is over nine out of ten.

Ontario has the highest proportion 0f elec- trified farms-jfper cent. Next comes British Columbia with 36 per cent, followed by Nova Scotia with 26 per cent, Quebec 23 per cent, New Brunswick 18 per cent. For the other provinces the figure is 7 per cent or less.

To increase the rural percentage is not easy. In Ontario where conditions are most favorable, it takes 20,000 milcs of rural transmission lines to supply 80,000 horse-power to 132,000 rural customers——which means that aimile of primary line, costing two thousand dollars, supplies only four ltorsc-powcr to six or seven customers. As the lines are cxtctidcd to more remote areas, con- sumers per mile are fewer, service costs higher. Manitoba has already nver two thousand titilcs of [lilbllCl\'-0\\'ll£‘(l transntission lines. lt is now cottsitleritig the rccotumcndatioti of a l\‘o_val Commission to bring power to every town, village and hamlet of over twenty in- habitants in the first five years after the \var. The plan is to conncct at least a thousand farms in the first year, and 25,000 farms in a period of tcn years. .\ll itcccssary wiring and appara- tus arc to be provid-crl at the lowest possible cost. The grout :\il‘llL‘flCZil1 achievement in this (li- rectintt is the regional platmitig by the Tennes- see Yallcv Authority, which has in ten years transformed the 'l'cmtcssce Valley front an im- povcrishctl and flotid-dcvastzitetl region into one of the tnost prontisitig in the United States. The Valley spreads ovcr seven States, covers an arm about that of England and $cotlan<l. and has a population larger than Ontario's. Thvctttt». one grcztt (liilllS prcvcnt floods and have an in- stalled capacity of over two and Ottc-halflitiil- lion hursc-yicnver.

~ EDITORIAL NOTES .-

“Motity” will have a great reception here when he‘ visits us toward the cud of next tnonth. Arrangctticnts will be in the hands of the tnili- tarv in collaboration with the Provincial Gov- ernment and tittmicipalitics. x v

We had abrothcriti adversity at Sudbury,Ont. last week. All electric power in the west cud was shut off for more than tm hour when the worst electrical st0rn1 of the year struck the

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city. a m a Though only officially disclosed now, it was well-known among social workers throughout Ontario and Quebec, that Moscow W85 influen- cing and secretly financing the Labour move- ment here. Before last election warning was given that Moscow throttgh its agents had ad- vised unions to support Mackenzie King with a view to tiltitnatcly swinging the Liberals to Communism. - w l- y v In U.S.A. the draft is still in operation. Chilcllcss mcn up to 35 years of age appear certain to face possible induction in Septcttiber when drafts calls are resumed. The act auth- orizes the induction of mcn from 19 to 45. The army has been unwilling to go into the higher

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age brackets, and few men of that group have been taken since thc \\'ar's end. although draft- ing of men 25 throttgh 2f) was authorized dur- ing part of May and lune. The department's decision to ask for the older men was disclosed after Col. George Z~\. Irwin, chief 0f selective services demobilization division, said in an ad- dress that the army docs not want any men of more than 35. at n- : a

A lady member of Attlee’: Socialist Gov- ernment, Miss Ellen Wilkinson, Minister of Education, complains that men are not bearing their fair share of teaching. A letter she has sent out said a percentage of 28.2 males is not enough and she wouldlike to see it reach at least 35 per cent, which would increase the 40,- 223 men now teaching in primary and second- ary schools to 63,000. Male 21nd female teach- ers now total 180,000 and it is estimated there are openings for an additional 11,000. Besides more equally balancing the profession, Miss Wilkinson said the move would be a step towards enabling the rehabilitation of ex-soldiers once they have completed the necessary training.

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William Makepeace Thackery, British novel- ist and humourist, born this date 1811; aban- doned law for journalism and painting, drifting into novel writing after publishing two des- criptive works, Pari: Sketch Book, and Irish Ska/ch Boa/e," his moét popular novel is Vanity Fair; his others include, Pcndcnir, Henry E:- mond, T110 Nawcomcr; he published several other works, and contributed legularly to Punch; as a novelist he combines humour and pathoe with a streak of cynicism; in- all his writing his style is cultured and his craftsmanship is mas- terly: “The wvickcd are wicked, no doubt, and they go‘ astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very viitttoys ‘do?

Sales of. country, general stores were 14 per cent higher in May than in April and 17 per cent higher than May last year, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports. For the first quar- terof the year the average gain over last year was only eight per cent but with the increases of 17 per cent for both April and May the cumulative gain for the first five months is at 12 per cent. Heavy sales of feed, building sup- plies and tnaterials were cited by: some of the

more important factors contributing. to this recent sales expansion. Uttadiusied itidexes of sales 0n the base 19354939 equals 100. was 213.4 for May, 186.7 for April and 182.! for May, 1945. Except in ‘British Columbia where a pro- nounced sales increase of 2 per cent occurred, increases in May were unusually uniform. the provincial average increases being close to the average gain for the country as a wlmlc. the llrlaritime 'l’rovinces the increase whs 15.9

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Notes By 771a Way

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Taxpayer: wih children will he flompelied to take family allowances after next January 1. Reminds us of some of fume army orders: There will be an entertainment in the men's canteen tomorrow night; troupe WILL enioy themselves. - Woodslock Sentinel-Review.

politicians keep rnosi most of the time is TAOIN ETAO

The Way of us fooled

by

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0f us and taking our money through indirect taxation and then Bivinq a part of it back ivlth a. flourish and a fanfare of trum- pets~ New ulmsgcvw News.

Probably it wen cheaper, but the blowing up of twenty Japanese sub- marines sixty miles off the Jag. ancse coast doesn't fit. well in the minds of many p seem to thirk cost too much seas craft here and salv steel and other metals for peace- time production of much-needed articles here. Tit-era's no telling when imn and sttei may again b.=:~ come short. in this country. -Bost- on Post.

. A new iypc of grefabricnled house complete with uilt-ln -‘umlture. has been put m the market in the British zone of Austria xor 125 P0111155. 583's Th: London Times. The house is corstructed in sec- tions; wmprlsing five rooms and an attic, and is tics‘ ned to accom- modate a fezmlly of ive. I: is made of wood tn a design typical of lite Knlttelfeld district, ln which lt is

oduced. The specifications include

ullt-ln bath, wardrobes two double beds, dlvan. coliaps ble family bible and five smaller tables. Tit.- bullding company which ceslgncd the house is producing two a week but they say that the output cou-tt be increased considerably if more labor were available,

Walter Winchell relays the story of an aging woman from Texas with an overpowering yen for “the perfect string of pearls". ‘The clerk at Garner's "mistook her unpre~ possessing appearance for poverty and showed her the lowest-price strings". But he persisted until she saw “just. what she was looking for. ‘The price‘. said the clezi; h-aughllly. ‘is 5500.000.’ ‘I'll take it’. said the woman, c ening 1cr purse and extracting 3 tall-million doll- ars 1n cash. The clerk keeled over all: i; heart attack". —-New York

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But why save wheat? Why not continue to eat (he normal amount of bread and other when products and then help the food drive by. say, putting tn another row of le- t-uce in the now-Victory garden? Again the answer is simple. _ need ls for foodstuffs which will carry well. SlOIt; well, yield a maximum amount of value when the distribution process is over. That is ust. another wa' of spelling out. .te word ‘wheat’ for wheat has in a aramount, dc- gree all those qua flies. Phat ls why, from time mmexlrrorlal, wheat his been the staff of life. That ls why voluntary cuts in wheat con- sumption are ‘he first long step to- ward helping the starving peoples 0g the WOTld. —-B_;ltlmore Sun.

The whole world is badly clothed. Some articles of apparel are much more scarce than ever before in the memory p1 living mortals. Yet at this time some omnipotcnt being 1n war-scarred Paris removes the pins from his or her mouth and

roclalms that skirts shall he englhened. In farmer days, such a. command from on high was tr- refut-able. To question was heresy. But today it's txllierent. To buy clothes simply for style rather than for need is all right. ln the piping days of prosperity, so iomz as the budget isn't raotured. But. to buy them needlessly when men's suiis.

ts. and shorts are scarce as pearls 1n oysters ls another mat. ter. ——0algnry Albumin.

Dutch land flooded to a depth of sixteen feet. only little over a year 83o about to field its first wheat. crop today. The 50.000 acre Wierlngermeer lder was flooded on April 1'7. 1 ln one of the last desperate gestures of fine Germans before their final capti- uiatlon. Farms were ruined, vill~ ages and homes destrogqed and vai- uuble farm turned *0 heaps of 1113b. Dutl‘: engineers

an repalrL-tg the Welrln ettnecr dy five days after the surrender on May 5. 1945 and clos- ed the last. gap n it, on Auzusl 5- Drunage operations began the next day and were completed by last, December 11. M. that. time e. harvest. of 50 percent of normal was expected for 1946. -—l?‘ront Netherlands Government Infprm- atlon Bureau. .

h lvgltigh poiittlfal we”); ontered, eques on has arisen as to whether a hali- hour iitlcal speed: isn't too long. The ttnwa. Journal comments. A half-hour radio speech by IVL". Churchill might seem to many to) short; a quarter-hour speech by an inferior speaker might seem tn many 0m long. We ourselves have heard radio speakers and thoucht. after five minutes they were too long- We forget who it was that said of Bacon that: when he was Rperklflfl “men feared ne m t make an end". The unable wit most of our radio speakers, and some of W! platform speakers too, is that their make their nearer; fear they w‘! never make d d- A furih. trouble with uome of our radio speakers liadihattthgy Lmrgkio no mt‘- tunttofdauwa spe- p bout Th don't seem to

I . It! understand that when they spe on the radio they are questing to people in their homes. and that iven the privilege of en- terln lilo homes

retailers reporting to the Bureau as among the dra

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percent; uebec, 15.9; Ontario, 19-5; Manitoba, e 15; Saskatchewan, 94-5; and Alberta, 15-3 P" h

no tit grace and good manners.

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..lt h refresh to hear that a

i110 old prewar t e naval barracks a flhatham Kent, says The Cal- gary Herald. This ghost ls mariner who wears the uniform of Nelson's flute. and he has a wood en leg. lie doesn't try to harm any- one. He has no urmmt message he must inmlmit to e lwentie h Century. He merely patrols the old, ighty corridors. and i1 pupal: fir.

oi’ . lo the British xvonderu Iwhk we 1k them in orrh nth

enily.

. e a mun: man develop- t it Dfililiitlillgng .0 lad came e n . . ‘ n if‘ flotiited

They ran , trad

it 5y Id d t bod Neill’: hi" riff-i didii‘:

s11 ugnip slfiipliig up on the blind side m

foocl wt

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PUBLIC FORUM ‘

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Sim-When I first sew Edward Island. two weeks eight: day. 1 could understand the pride

my t1 1 voice when he 511102 “My native Ian .

1 have framed m mind a p]¢_ ture which I snail cgierigh-_phg lmacnouse. white against, t, green of the rolling plums, 1m 1'00! as red an the m; Wgfef‘ tinted wby your native 5011, clouds above low and soft u“ your voices, warming m; he"; o;

Now a MacDonald, I m; ma; 1 bad entered nature's fairy land andldfound old friends in a new wor .

Dan MacDonald's taxi met u; at the stailon and at once I learmd the hospitality of your people when he took us t0 his home to; supper because there were no cafes open that nwht.

1 enjoyed the busy. friendly M. mosuhere and the “old world charm" of the Charlottetown Hotel and found that I didn't miss U. $3.11. coffee as yours was even bet- er.

When 1 met my huizand’; mo. ole. boots red from the soil which nurtured them. and my hand was clasped in greeting, I was no long- 6i‘ a stranger. '

I shall never forget. the drives in the evening along a. ribbon of red and the joy of God's benedic- tion ln the expanse of water, the auiet. trees silhouetted against. a fusion of color 1n the sky, and the sound of voices blended in the old Scotch songs.

Your climate is a tonic no aci- entlst- can duplicate in capsules. In contrast to the heat of Cni- caizo was the incomparable salt water breeze as we crossed from Cape Ttérmentme to Borden. I'd like to ake your cool nights back vrlth me to refesh the weary uleivule sweltering in- our crowded c t. es.

Yet the warmth of the hearth in the lounge o1 Dalvav House was welcome’ after an hour spent on the beach one Sunday afternoon.

. Etched in my memory are many pictures which will not. fade with time. and engraved in my heart are the names of] friends I've made which shall ever be my most. priceless wedding gift.

Should any Islander visit. us.ln the heart: o1 the Rocky Mountains of Montana, I hope to have the occasion to say. “Welcome home!" and make them feel it as I have

th you. -

Fem. Sir, etc" MRS. F. it. MaoDONALD Whitefish. Montana.

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A Flour Mill For Halifax

“(Halifax Chronicle) '

At last theuzuesrlon of a hour mill in Halifax nus come before the Commons. There it has been aired. and so far as the federal govern- ment ls concerned relegmd once more to that tune-honored institu- tion, the bureaucratic pigeon-hole.

In tylllcal Parliamentary fash- ion. the Minister of Transport dis- posed of the business. ‘The serious alle ations of -‘1e Minister of In- dus ry and Publicity for Nova Scolla Ihul Lhe decision of the Na- tional Harbors Board had been in fluenced by central Canadian mill- ing ‘interests, were brusqucly clis~ mused as "totally unwarranted" and "totally unfounded". Parlla~ ment was asked to assure them- selves of this by scanning the names of the members of the Board. Precisely where this left the local Minister nobody, appar- ently, cared to enquire.

. Ohevrlei-‘s tantalum einive but unsatltsfac ry. a ed the Board “was at. all ttrxies wi i to do all possible to Assisi privue companies and govern- mbelrlitsfl’! he made 11101.?!‘ ltihis was o ousy no oneo e mes.

It per! y underrtandnbfe that ier accommodations in Hall- lax r might. not have been available while the war was on. The shooting, noviever. is r-ow over though the tam may have escaped Ottawa. Halifax Harbor is nu- ing to slump into its stitiate of peacetime get '. $111 lo

e overmnen ‘in 118092 provliiee there ts no doubt about the death-ability t-l making profit- able use of a pier that. otherwL-e may lie in idleness until we have another war.“ m e