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uorulng Dally (foundod III!) $0.00 bar you (In adv--as

dollrers-d In City. 33.00 our year ,(Io udruae) nnllnd to

'_ Prlncn Edward Illlld. “.50 on your (In ndvnloop . lulled to Canada and Ulllol Baton.

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-ruunsmui. AUGUST a. toss. Transfer Truck: Regulations

A subscriber draws attention to’the neces- sity of the Government regulating the Transfer Truck btisiness if there is not soon to be chaotic conditions. At present a truck owner pays his auto truck license at the registered weight irres- p(‘C1i\'C of the fact that, say, a one-and-a-half ton truck can carry fotir tons. The oil and gaso- line trucks have to pay an additional license because it is assumed their traffic is harder on the roads than ordinary transfer trucks. This is not necessarily so. At present there are all sorts

' and conditions of freight-carrying trucks doing business throughout the province competing Ij unfairly with the railway. Not a few of these ' are of the character of fly-by-night ventures. That is the owners have little knowledge or ex- periciicc of the cost of carrying freight. and bid for it against the railway at 3 price that is sui- cidal. By the end of the year, they are finan- cially and mechanically broke, and then direct their energies along other and more profitable lines. lt ivnulil save considerable expense, loss if and trouble were the Government to draft satis- factory regulations governing transfer traffic, j and thereby keep control of a business which, be- ‘if sides competing unfairly with the railway, is as hard on the roads and bridges as are the oil and gas motor trucks. ’ -

A New Island History

The first historians, like HERODOTUS, were primarily story-tellers. Perhaps they were too credulous or indifferent as to facts, and too eager about stories; but at any rate their works -‘ - were immensely popular, appealing to young and " old. and passing safel-y down the stream of time which is strewn with the wreckage of so many pondcrous literary ventures. Who has not . seen, in any large library, those great unread ; monuments of historical erttdition, reposing out i of reach on the bookshelves like mammoths of another age? They are there now for reference purpose-s~—not for entertaining reading. Yet their authors may have been admirable fellows in their way. \Vhat they lacked was that capac- ity for brevity which SHAKESPEARE says is the ‘ ‘ soul of wit. \Vhen they sat down to write his- tory they sank under the weight of their own material. They could not see the wood for the trees. They lost track of their story, or perhaps

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twelve months. There are ,1 great many things that can be substituted for wheat and that are always substituted when wheat is scarce and prices high. Bttt it does mean that the nest-egg is practically gone—that the world is back to hand-to-mouth consumption again.

One result of the return to famine condi- tions or something approaching them is that wheat prices will go up. They are already going up; and it is hard to say where they will go.

It is hard to say, too, what they are going to do to the Grain Board which the King Gov- ernment lias set up to adniinister the surplus. With the surplus no longer in existence,-half the board's work will be gone, and with prices Ml- vancing toward a dollar a bushel or beyond, It will hardly be necessary for the board. to estab- lish a standard price. It will be the height of irony if the Grain Board, which was created to liquidate an embarrassment of plenty, finds that its principal duty consists in supplying farmers with seed grain and administering relief to the burned-out farms in the prairie provinces

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Editorial Notes

Official poultry culling is now the order of the day. it it *

Germans are good at making "courtesy" calls on the battle front. 9K BK ilfi

Visiting agricultural officials marvel at otir abundant crops in a year of scarcity elsewhere. 9K Eli 9K

Anyway, the Natiotial Park will be in time for the year after next, and meanwhile both Federal and Provincial budgets will be that much in pocket.

at: 316 ‘BK

A rousing welcome should be given the Fed- eral Cabinet ministers visiting us. Let them see we appreciate their personal interest in us and our problems.

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All horse and bicycle owners should bear in mind that on and after next Monday all vehicles on the highways must carry rear red lights after

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weit,” Mr. GEORGE EDWARD HART notes that 1824-1831, which matched those of 1924-1931. BK Slé BK

It must be very annoying to Italy, just as she is attempting to spread her Christian and civilizing influence to Spain, to find that the Ethiopian Christians are knocking rudely in protest at her back door. No longer is Skagway, Alaska, the city of bad men. Once the arena for JEFFERSON (SOAPY) SMITH and his gang of desperadoes during the

they never even realized that it is the story element which is all-important in recording hu- man events.

Nowadays historians are showing a tend- envy to get back to the story-telling style of the earlier classics. Nowhere is this more evident ih;:n in school text-books, and noivhere has it proved more successful in stimulating interest and attention, without which, of course, the ac—] quisition of knowledge of any kind is quite iin— possible.

All this by way of preface to introducing to our readers‘ attention a. booklet of some 80 pages just issued, entitled “The Story of Old Abegvvcit: A Sketch of Prince Edward Island History." The author is Mr. GEORGE EDWARD x ’ HART, teacher of History in Prince Street School. He had in view particularly the need of such a work in the class-room, and he has adapted his subject matter to this purpose with the skill of a born story-teller. All the relevant facts. 'l'|v'\lllt‘S and dates of Island history are here, in accessible form; but they are woven into a series of connected stories retaining the

, ruiiiaiicc and the atmosphere of the past. The latter cliripiciis rleal with modern events in the l’rm-iiicc, right up to the end of 1935.

I .\llIllll("1‘ class of readers who should find this little work of great interest and value is our 5|I|l|Hl<‘r lHl1FiSI<. The need has long been fclt

for just such a volume, which can he slipped

gold-rush days, the city has not had a tenant in its jail for more than a year. Deputy Marshal LOUIS Raruzzr revealed that two cats have made their home in the jail house—but they can slip through the bars. Prosperity and crime went together in‘Alaska; now depression and mousers hold s\v:I_v. BE Elf 3K

Canada. if she ivislics. says Mr. BENNIZTT. can rely upon others who are stronger for her defence. But the day will come when we will find our security has been bought for a price to which all did not agree, am] on terms not of our making. The truth of this all thinkers admit, for it is but a paraphrasing of the maxim, the price of liberty is eternal vigilance. We cannot sleep on our 0 ligations and expect our friends all the time to fulfil them. _

There is to be a race for oxen in Nova Sco- tia on September 1, states the Montreal Ca:mc, and as there, like in Quebec, the ox is still much in evidence, there should he a goodly number of teams entered. This animal of the bovine genus may not be swift, but he is sure. When he is liitrlied up to a load of logs or other heavy ma- terial, he does not pull and jerk like the horse. btit rather pulls steadily, and the load moves and continues to move. Whiclicvcr Gee-haw wins on September i, the race will be to the strong.

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into the pocket and carried around like a guide. book. There are some good illustrations, includ- ing woodcuts, and an appendix giving 9, syn- ripsis of the Island story, trigctlicr with 3 list of important dates and events for ready refer- cncc.

There is also a foreword heztrtilv coni- mcnrling the work to the reading pul)lic'by His Ifonour Lieutenant Governor DEBi.ois. himself a sound authority on the art of story telling, and on Island history too.

The Vanished Surplus

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One of the pledges given by the Liberal party in the federal election last year was to get rid of Canada's wheat surplus. The \Vinni- pcg I-‘rrr I’rr.r.r (Liberal) announces with satis- faction that this new policy, “the policy of sell-

. ing instead of holding," has been successful ; that , ; Canada's wheat surplus has been much reduced ,2 . ' “ and that the market price now exceeds by around 1; seven cents a bushel the price which the Govern- )! ment guaranteed to the farmers pending the sale of its holdings. ~ _ Similarly, the Financial Port cxclaims with 53l}5f3°!l0fl. "Canada. no longer holds wheat."_ It ‘ points to the fact that the holdover in this country at the end of the crop year will be 115,000.!!!) . bushels Last year it was 2o3,obo,ooo bushels .- and the year. before i93.ooo,ooo bughelj.

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, which is thus presented by the Vancouver Pro- , viiicc-,.: Canada..is..not..lInatding..uhu:.1;¢cmu

Nor,\for that matter, has any other nation, ,,.. Tltcxe has been a pretty general crop failure .... ':iro-sghout the northern ‘hemispheria. The V; ~~l':’~. hoard of foodstuffs is down. The lean :',,, . rats have eaten up the fat. Last year the world ',._, p ‘ 5,389,800,000 bushels of wheat; there : IJ uvulslile for ¢Ofl3l.ll'llpl,l0: this year, i_nclu(|ing ‘vgp; V ' current pro uction, only 5,274,- ‘ 7' V ,T_his does not mean, of course, _ will starve during the coming

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But there is another slde'to the situation,’

The dcatli has just taken place in London . at the age of seventy-nine of Sir ALFRED l{r.oc.ii l \'.lltl \..1‘\ lJii'cc'.or-geiicral of Army .\Icdic:tl lServicc during the (jrcat War. lie was the otit- standing authority on army sanitation and diet, and thanks to him thousands of lives were saved, not only in the British Army but in all the Allied anuies as well. When ‘the United States entered the war, he strongly urged the org:iniz:i- tion of a large medical corps for the American Army. “The new American Army should take the field as thoroughly prepared as a first—class baseball team," Sir Ai.i=iu:o asserted. "To do this it must have sufficient doctors to keep the men in condition. Doctors are as necessary in an army as pinch-hitters are in the great American pastime. They are there to repair the damage and revive the sick and wounded, just as the star players oftentimes pull the rest of the team together." ,

Science today offers the drought-stricken Mid-West an immediately practical relief, a new “sweet-pickle” method of converting half-bnrii- ed -crops into superior fodder. “Sweet pickles" for cows, horses and sheep equal in food value to sauerkraut, and superior to some of the best fodders. is made by adding sirupy phosphoric acid to high protein crops. The new method was announced at Cornell University. It has been thoroughly tried out in 1,000 silos, both at the university and on private farms. It was devel- 0P€_d by P1‘. J. K. Wilson, professor of bac- -teriology in the department of agronomy. The annniincemcnt says that the acid can be added in silos at .1 cost of 50 to 75 cents a ton of fodder. Even the most completely bumt-out crops in the high protein class, it is declared, can be pre- served so that they will furnish an all-year green fodder. Grass cuttings only a few ‘inches high, too small in most cases for forage, have bgen converted into a..palatabl¢ and highly nutritive food._The "high protein" crop‘; particular] fg. sponsive to the'new treatment include alfalfa, "4 °' "'*"°.‘4'°"'- am st-i|..Inr be-M

ln his new book, “The Story of Old Abeg-

100 years ago we had seven plenteous years,

THE UHAKLU'l'I'I'.'l‘UWN GUARDIAN

Notes by the Way

"New. York . . . The trend. of economic factors affords -no car- planation of the increase In strtkesl lsfnoe 1932, according to an Bllllyfilsi :by the National Industrial Confer-l fienco Board." The explanation in! “the United States is probably the vsruiie as in Canada. The Canadian’ delegate to the Thtrd 1i.t.ernat.lonal Congress ln Russia let the cat out of the bag when he said: “From a narrow sect: the (Communist) party i in Canada has dev:-’opcd since 1930 111110 the .'(‘R(lC{‘shl]) of 90 per cent ‘of all st.rlkcs."—Ffnanclal Post. ,,'

It is our mission as the front, remembering the sacri- floes of the dead and remembering our mm sacrifices in this world, to cast. out the force, injustice. in- slricertty, and ignorance which are always the sources of the greatest harm. We must, you and we, teach our nations to be acquainted with one another and to understand one another. We must awaken in our nations the good will by whlcli there must be inspired the frank wetghlnr; of the wishes and unpert- ant points of each. Tlius there will be produced the good understand- ing which will assure our tuture.— St. Mary's Journal-Argus. ‘

A motorist was fined $6.25, with an option of ten days. because "he was only going twenty-two miles an lioiir," the magistrate remark- lrig. according to a news story from Oakville, than s‘ow drlvliig “ls one of the greatest troublm we have on the open road," causing "accl- dents, cuttlng in and head-on col- lisions." To date this year in Tor- onto alone tiwentiy-four people have lost their llves and 1716 persons have been injured in traffic accl- dents. It would be interesting to learn just what peroentatze 01 01969 fatalities and injuries was attrlbu-‘ table to ,s‘ow drlvlng.—Toronto Gldbe.

There Is talk everywhere of pol- iilloal candidates for this and for that and of the "type of man" who should be selected to hold pulbllc office. What. we seem to forefi- occnslnnally, is that piibllc service

‘demands samethiir; more than

mere lioiicsty and a.bi‘iLy. A man of integrity and talent and training cannot plead a court Cate intelligently; he cannot plan 9.‘ house; he cannot build rt machine.‘ Why then should we expect even a, prodigy of honor and capability to. imdertnko the intricate task of governing a. country unless he pos- sesses some special tr-alnfng or flair, for such complex and delicate, work?.—Vsnoouver Sun.

Sunday observance has changed; mlghtlly the past. few years. due ]nrge‘y to the motor car. The first, day oi the week, as a day of wot--i ship and rest, appears to have lost. ground. We sometimes wonder. whether the average person today N realizes what a. valuable asset. as,

the human race which retains some: vestlge of ft. 1! we allow our sun- dny to be lost. and to drift into an open Sunday such as they have in rminy lands, -with open theatres and. business as usual. we will hR1ldlCl'l‘D' the comtii: generation in the fig?- old search for “fuilness of llf-2."—— Ex. I

We recently commented upon an article cnlrlrd "Shall I Work ori Go to Varsity?" Wlietlier or not. 8] young man attrnds the University’ it may fairly be pointed out that.’ .sa‘e.sriian.=,lilp is perhaps the most, hlzhly-paid vocation in this mod- ern niatcrlalistic world. We often: think that it. is rewarded out. of all proportion to its importance in the sclicnie of things. But. as long‘ as the field brings its high remun-i eratlon from day to day it \vl1l naturally nt.‘.rac'.-'liid'ivldtia1.s who - possesc. personality and n. iilft. to ]')1'l‘Sllflf‘l(\ others to buy what they-, have to se‘l.-—'I‘oronto Mall andv Eniplio.

There is no reason for any serl-, ous aiixltty about Mr. Eilctis, health. He obviously needs R rest‘ nfbcr the grueling experience of- thc lnst. few months, but be dis- played on his return from Geneva, all his usual skill and authority lnj dealing with the lxirrngc fl questions and supplernentarles with which he‘ is faced every Monday nfl.eriioon.l His anivwcr to the repeated sug-i gcsllon that renewed efforts shottd be made to secure an answer from Oennriny to flu, Brltlsh note ob- viously impressed the House by its dlgnlty and restraint. There is wel- come evidence that the Oppmltlon are beginning to realize the serf- ousncss of the liiteriiatlonal situa- tion, and that fit: more important issues ‘are at stake even than the failure of the league to save Abys- afnla. There is a new restraint at quot tfon Lime, and the old glbes mbout the rearmamcnt policy of the Government. are new heard for less _’requently.—-London Spectator.

he answer, one feels. is easy. C ltallsm. if it ls to be defended and malnta‘.ned—snd it. ought to be——must be ab‘e to justify itself as a sytem capable of brlnizlng the greatest. good to the greatest number. That ls the chalenge it: has to mcet—l.he challenge of Com- munism and of socialism (and porn to freedom) and that challenge will hardly be met. by those who, keep- ing the good thing for themselves, are oonttnt. to rat‘. against govern- ments seeking to achieve more Cquallty. There is fl too much truth in the chime that the nest.- est enemies of capitalism today are —some capitalists.-—OttAws Journal.

Anthony Idea now states that the Brftlsh Government carefully considered the tty of infli- tsry cotton to assist mrilapfs u an sllornsuvs to ltrttnu sanctions snmlt Italy. It Is _d>jVl9l_l§__l_lll& we who nearer A woifd war a inb'ii't‘.*i' 110 than we fmsalmd. who dare I] that 31111:: mode the frat; dnun—&1tlord nssnan-aqua.

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qulct. Sunday is to that 130111011 0T i‘

More Than Platitudes Exclianged At Quebec

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(Norman M. usclpod in The Mall and Emplre)

Taken at their face value. the exchange of greetings between Pre- mier King and. President Roosevelt at Quebec shoucl have been great reading. one should have been able to turn away from peruslns them to picture the nations of Europe, having duly paused in their quarrel- ing‘ to contemplate the mammoth spectacle of 800d nElBhb°1'1ln¢53 staged expressly for their edifice- tion, being suitably overcome and rushing with one accord to beat. tlielr swords. tanks and armaments ‘into plowshares. Somehow the Parliament H 1 ll correspondents were unable, however, to catch the vision. The suspicion stlll persisted that despite Mr. Kins’! beautiful Lxflmple of good nelghborlfness. un- regent‘rate Europe will be found rather unresponsive to the force of precept.

Then, while hardly original, the mutual references to tho three zhousand miles of undefendecl bor- der llne should have yielded, when read, an imaginative thrill. They didn't. The truth about this boun- dary borders too closely on the fact

i:i'y it because she knows a. nation "I ten mllllons is not going to at- .‘.‘t(li one of one hundred and

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.-verity millions, while Canada is‘ ‘ccure in the knowledge that the‘ "fitted States is not going to take l y step which would involve hos- . ties with Great. Britain. This in; approidmately the situation. it i not surprising that the hfgli-i mdlng Quebec declarations Ytlllfi’. ;3nl€Wl’lBi. hollow upon Parliament Hill ears.

Citadel Parley Different. i

The probability is, however, that more significant words were ex-i ilianged between the two states-f men in the privacy of the historic ; Quebec citadel. Whnt. pl!-Bed in public may be dismissed as the .iit-Ierfng of the usual platitudes i'.‘llh which democracy insists on tzignlfylng (?) formal I ‘ons without explaining any good pur- itase which they serve. Presumably they are the substitute for old-tune pageantry. 8. rather dreary verbal alternative for the eye-filling spec- tacle of other days when statesme . used to meet.

That. President Roosevelt: had some more serious purpose in his Quebec visit than to add his words to the saga euloglzlng the unde- fended borderline, or to assist Mr. King in staging an object lesson for Europe, is hardly to be questioned. The President is facing an election within a reasonably short period. and it is already evident that the campaign is unlikely to prove the absolute "wallcover" which once was expected. Under the circum- stances lt. is only logical to suspect that some political motive entered into the Quebec meeting.

Mr. Roosevelt intimated as much falrly plainly when he mated In in- terview on his way to Canada that he proposed to discuss the St. law- rence development and Passa.ma- quocldy power issues. Both these topics are of some present degree of polltlcal importance to the President, and from the fact. that they were under consideration, the nature of the pi-lvat.e—and really important. conversations between him and the Canadian Prime Min- lster can be reconstructed with fair nssurance of their accuracy.

Treaty nevlslon Solllht.

1-resumably, the President want.- ed a revision of the terms of the st. Lawrence treaty, negotiated during the period when Hon. Hanford MacNlder and Hon| W. D. Ifemdge were the respective min- isters plenlpotentlary for the two countries. 1t has slnce been con- ceded that Canada made the bet»- ter bargain in that agreement, and this is the feature which Mr. Roosevelt is undoubtedly bent on rectifying, since the Republic does not normally do business on those terms. He will probably want, some modification of the clauses provid- ing that the materials and labor in the Canadian sections should be wholly Canadian, even although the funds, due to the credit which Canada received on account of the Welland canal, might. be American. This is an alteration which the late conservative administration can- sistently refused. If Mr. Roosevelt could secure it now, and negotiate ‘an amended treaty which would promise substantial employment to American workmen ln the enter- prise, he would unquestionably strengthen his position in those slates which are favorable to the development.