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SUBSCRIPTION BATES 85.00 per year (In Idvuwe) delivered to City 34.00 per year (In advance) mulled to P. E. Island 55.00 per year (In advance) mailed to Canada Int! 0.! Members Audit Bureau of Chcnlntlons

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker than the Weakest Ink.”

MONDAY, JULY 1'1, 1839

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Charlottetown today extends a cordial wel- come to a distinguished number of guests and visitors who are here to participate in the seventy-fifth anniversary of the historic confer- ence of, the Confederation Fathers in the Prince Edward Island capital. A noted Island writer has laid emplmsis on the fact that the Char- lottetown Conference was only indirectly re- sponsible for Confctlcmtion and that this Prov- ince continued for some years later to remain Outside the union. This is true, but it is un- important. There is no gainsaying the fact that but for the Charlottetown Conference there would have been no Quebec Conference and no

Confederation, at least not for many years later. Even the representatives of Upper and Lower Canada with whom the Confederation

idea originated, were divided among themselves and their furthest vision did not extend to Canada as we lmow it today.

The great fact which this week's celebration tmphasizes is the existence of a united Domin- lon,—-the fact that our sectional problems, im- portant as they are from a provincial stand- point, are of in finitely less importance than the ties which knit us together. We are celebrating

this event not as individual Provinces, but as a '

tingle united family. It is customary at famﬂy reunions to drop all petty quarrels and con- ccntratc on things of common concern. That is what this wcck's celebration is for—-to get to- gether round the old family hearth, to draw in- spiration from the vision an-d initiative of our forebears, and seek new common ground in facing the problems of the present and future.

Something Wrong Here

Official returns reveal that, of the fourteen tariff classifications on which alleged conces- sions for Canadian fish were secured from the United States under the nc\v Washington trade agreement, exactly seven show an increase of exports to the United States for the first five months of this year over the same period of last year and exactly seven show a decrease in ex- ports to the United States.

But in the case of the seven classifications in which there was a decrease in exports from last year, the total decrease in exports amounted to $229,587, whereas in the case of the seven classifications in which there was an increase in exports the total increase amounted to only $133,695-

Result: :1 net loss to Canadian fishermen in ‘exports of their products to the United States on the new Washington trade bargain 0f‘$95,-

Under the Washington treaty there has been i drop in exports for the five months of $37,- 000 on halibut, $38,000 on mackerel, about SI,- DO0 on smoked cod and haddock, $2,000 on pickled salmon and no less than $150,000 on fresh-water fish. These decreases compare with Increase of $16,000 on fresh and frozen sal- mon, $I7,oo0 on sturgeon, $3,000 on sword fish, $56,000 on salted, dried, smoked or pickled had- dock, pollack, hake, $33,000 on green salted cod, pollack and hake, $6,000 on herring.

But the whole story is not in these figures. While exports of Canadian fish to the United States within the classifications covered by the treaty were dropping nearly $100,000 for the first five months of 1939, exports of Canadian

ish to Great Britain during the same period increased no lass than $577,000. This increase was secured under the Empire Preference agree- ment negotiated by the Conservative Govern- ment in 1932.

As Others See Us

The prominent Canadians who are gathering at the capital of Prince Edward Island to take part in the observance of the seventy-fifth an- niversary of the Charlottetoxvn Conference, says the Moncton Transcript,_arc to be-envied their pleasant task in these days when the cradle of Confederation is gently stirred.by...cool sea breezes. It surcly'is not fanciful to imagine that the Canadians of three-quarters of a century ago who dropped in upon the conference called to consider Maritime union and proposed the wider union, became the more eloquent in their pleas "because of the obvious attractions of the Island limate.

Unfortunately, say our Moncton contem'por.- Iry, they met. behind closed doors and the story fjwhat happened there never will be known in l. Certainly such men as Macdonald, Brown, and Cartier would appeal to Maritime -by picturing a new British nation‘

v"iC‘0T.V" 01” “V0. but they are pyrrhic victories.'

[the 'scheme was sound, and it is a fact some- times forgotten that the general plan which the Canadian fathers of confederation brought with them to Charlottetown was that of the Earl of Durham who for a brief ‘few months, from May to November in 1838, was Governor-General and wrote a report under the shadow of death which became the textbook and guide of the home authorities. 7. ‘

Nazi Economic Nightmare V

_ The Rcichs-Krcdit-Gesellsghaft, of Berlin, has .l“5t Published its half-yearly financial statement. 1t ‘shows that the policy of “guns instead of but- ter .15 being earned out in a literal sense. Though there is plenty of employment, it is of an unproductive character; taxes have increased Small)’. and debt is pilling up at an alarming rate. On the other hand, trade is falling off dis- astrously, and the ingenious shifts by which an effort is being made to keep it on an even bal- ance arc not proving successful, “Fears that Germany Wlll be _able to dominate world trade . . ». or expand its foreign trade at will at the expense of the democratic nations, are shown to be quite groundless," says the New York Times.

It has been found possible to score a “barter

If a country is forced to take more of Germany's export production, less is left for the other na. trons, because the Reich's “exports are limited by its Imports and by its own deflection of its productive facilities into armaments,” remarks the Times. There was a time when the United States was wondering whether‘ it would lose South American markets to German commercial aggressiveness, but that day is apparently past. There has been a big falling-off of German ex- ports to Peru this year (37.5 per cent.), to Chlle (313 P91‘ Cent), to the Argentine (28.5 P91‘ Cmtl to Brazil (25.1 per cent.), and to Mexico (20.7 per cent.) Germa ny has even suffered a heavy diminution of trade with Italy and Japan. '

I Editorial Notes .1 it as no: it Confederation Celebrations opened with divine worship yesterday——h0pe, in spite of the Wet Saint, that favourable weather will prevail dur- ing the current week. as: It at in Adam Smith, Scottish political economist, whose work “Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” (1776) led to the repeal of the Corn Laws and the Naviga- tion Laws, died this date, 1790. W 5!‘ ,* *

By-the—by, how comes it that Liberals who failed to get elected are still holding their posi- tions,in the Government? Does the Premier in- tend to reconstruct his executive, or to continue to carry on with unrcpresentative members.

W $ $ It is reported that the Hon. C. A. Dunning is slated as the successor to Mr. Douglas as Principal of McGill University. It will be re- called at last convocation the honoury degree of LL. D. was conferred upon Mr. Dunning. Sir Edward Bcatty, the Chancellor, is a personal friend of long standing of the Minister of Fixi- ance, and would be delighted to see him in- stalled in the office.

in no- A strong under current prevails in the City that the City Council are giving insufficient time to the consideration of the special Auditors’ report in all its bearings on the chaotic con- dition of the City Clerk's Department. This is a case surely where prudence dictates making haste slowly and effectively.

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So the Rt. Hon. C. A. Dunning, LL. D. is not to face the electors in Queens‘. By grace of the Conservatives he was allowed to sit in the present parliament, but, apart altogether from the question of health, it is very doubtful if he could have got the nomination, far less election at the forthcoming contest. As his successor in the candidature the Liberals will have plenty of aspirants from whom to choose—and lose. -0: it It 4-

So the Leadership League has given up the ghost at the early age of seven months. Its father, Mr. George McCullogh, announces that in its inital stages it cost him $75,000, and after its transfer to an executive, another 320,000; while the members and public generally sub- scribed only $200. Another case of “muckle din and little '00, as the dcil said when he clippit the sow.” ' an 4- it at

The qauntity of all dressed poultry in cold storage and other warehouses in Canada on July I was 3,550,000 p0unds,~practically the same as last year's total of 3,520,000 pounds. In- creases were recorded in chickens, fowl, ducks and geese, but turkeys have decreased by near- ly 600,000 pounds..being only pounds. as compared with 2,200,000 a year ago and 2‘,- ooo,ooo last month. Turkey is not merely a Christmas and Thanksgiving dish. It is eaten th year ‘around, ,

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The machine age. which has re- sulted in the practical disappear- ance tram American highways at the once numerous horse and bug- gy, now threatens still another nu.- ttnn-wide institution. That very im- portant but seldom seen mistress of conversational ceremonies. the telephone operator, is being re- pgaced by a mute, mechanical mom»

r -known as the "dial .system;" and many long accustomed to hear- lng “the voice with the smlle" when taking down the receiver now hen: only an impersonal buzz. The story or "central," and of the part: she played in the develop- ment; or the country. is lame. Upon the girl at the switchboard depend- ed the smooth functioning of an entire community, and in lesser degree of the notion. Civic heads depended upon her for the carry- ing out of their orders. Throughout the day. her delt lingers served to expedite many commercial transac- tions, and the wheels of trade were made to move briskly, And as with lawyers and other protuslonnl people, any information gleaned tn the performance or her duty was held in sacred secrac . Outstand- ing instances or lnd vldunl cour- uge—ot emptoyees remaining dog- gedly at their posts, disregarding danger to warn of flood. fire, or other impending mennce-—con.st.l- lute 0. long and lmpertahwble rec- ord. As she is passed in the march or modernity. It is meet that the be given her meed of recognition, a tribute for the sum: but important part play- ln the making of America. - rtsttnn Science Monitor.

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