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Naumoruea no second Clue in-ii Poll Office Department. Ottawa. 4 The Island Guardian Pnblilhing '0).

President and Associate Editor. Auocllte Editor, Frank

CIRCULATION "Coven Prince Edward Inland

item concluded that it could be "sharply reduced without injury to the public in- terest."

The Federal Government is spending 318 millions on office stationery this year. Again, there could be large savings "with- out hurt to efficient administration."

Unwarranted increases are occurring (1) in the outlay for materials and supplies (554 millions); in the construction and purchase of buildings (09 millions); in repairs and upkeep of buildings and works 351,400,000); and in the rental of office space (5S750,000). The figures in each case indicate amount of the increase over 1951, not the full amount involved. The Committee finds that every one of these items could be cut down without the slightest injury to the public service.

In addition there is a major indictment. In the building, buying, repair or rental of buildings or works, the Government is spending this year S,i163e millions. Not only is this amount much too high, but the Committee notes that only .580 million of it is being spent through the Public Works

inn IL Burnett. W a liner.

like the dew”

I f'The Strongest Mammy II Weaker Than the Weakest Ink".

(JHAKLOTTETOIVN, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 24, 1952 Textliook Rental Scheme

The cost of school and college textbooks, and the frequency with which expensive textbooks are changed, has been a fre- quent cause of complaint among parents. The Lacombe school division in Alberta has adopted a scheme which will at least be followed with keen interest in other Prov- inces.

Briefly, their policy consists in supplying textbooks to students on a purely rental

basis. The life of a school textbook is con- Departmeim NOW In” Federal Public sidered to be three years, so students will WDTRS Act makes lhls D9931”-mellt 1'0SP0h' pay ohe.thh-d of the costs of me books sible for Government construction, pur-

chase, repair or rental of buildings or works. The statute was enacted long ago as a measure of economy and efficiency to put a stop to each Department engaging in this kind of work. However there is a loop- hole, an escape clause, in the Act and it IS now evident the various Departments are using it greatly against the public interest.

As the Free Press points out, the major- ity of the Senate Finance Committee is overwhelmingly Liberal and therefore no political significance, in the Party sense, attaches to their report. It is headed by Hon. T. A. Crerar, and consists of some 38 members, including both Party leaders in the Upper House. Most of the .members have had long experience in public affairs,; and they have had, moreover, the assist-' ance of high officials of the Treasury and of the various Departments of Government. What they have sought to impress upon the Federal Government, of course, is eco- nomy-not parsimony. In doing so they have discharged an invaluable public ser- vice. At least, it will be invaluable if acted upon; and it is our public men. and Duhhci generally, on whom the onus falls of seeing that the Senate Report is not just D1290”- holed and forgotten along with the SPRIC of other parliamentary publications.

this year. At the end of the school term, the books, which are the property of the Lacombe school division, will be returned; to the teachers, who will return them to the divisional office. During the summer holidays in 1953, the books will be recon- ditioned, and used by other pupils the fol- lowing school term, and those pupils will again pay one-third of the cost of the textbooks. By the end of the third year, each book will have been paid for. Last year, when students purchased new books, their back-to-school supplies often exceeded 3545. This year, under the school division's new policy, this 1951 figure will be reduced to 5515.

This policy, it is conceded, will entail a great deal of work on the part of the div- isional office staff and on the teachers of the various rooms and schools. Co-oper- ation will be needed from the school stu- dents and the parents to make it work successfully. The substantial saving in money, it is hoped, will prove the de- ciding factor. Certalnly it is a scheme which most parents would welcome whole- hcartedly.

who in Water

Agriculture Minister Thomas Kennedy of

Es

Ontario has announced that he is planning EDITORIAL NO a Province-wide program to create farm- -.A land D0hdS- This Il01lCy RlV0S PFBCUCHI 1”9' Beginning early this month. Maritime

cognition at the grass-root level to the oyster producers annually ship about 7,- long-ignored fact that there is wealth in;00(),()()0 pounds of oysters to markets in water. His announcement, says the Globelcehh-hi and western Canada. Needless to and Mail, comes at a time when Oxfordllsay, the prime product is that of our own County is again worrying over low WaI0l'3Malpeque Bay, tables which are drying up some deep

wells, the shallow wells long since having; The Russians how ciaim 10 have (,1-igih. SUlfGr9(l- Bllt it l5 110i Ohly lhls dalrylhi-iiated baseball.. At least, they complain that area that is alarmed by chronic wateixit is nothing but a Yankee perversion of shortages. Consumers of all varieties 0fitheh"anCie1:lt and noble village sport of lafm Ill'0thlC9 haw felt lhe Dlhch hf hlgh9Fi”lapta”, which has degenerated, in Ameri- prices arising from the higher cost of pro-yeah hands, into "a beastly battle, a bloody riucing crops from farms that are Si0iVl)'ifight with mayhem and murder."

drying up. " ' "

Even where wells have offered fairly Sir Aiah pan-ick Herbert, English poet steady water supplies, soil dF2VliallZ3.1iOll,and politician, was born this date 1890. has been extending through formerly rich Most of his verse appears in Punch. His areas. The regular loss of surface water'n0Vcis include "The pirate, Gypsicsufahd! has been accelerated by the increasing use HT,-iais of Topsy", "Holy Deadlock," in Orml of chemical fertilizers in compensation forE a hovei, is a pi-opagandist work aimed at!

the smaller amounts of barnyard n1al'iLll'(l.hbi'ingll1E about a change in the law or die Whcre neither such soil rcstoratives nor; homey in which he was lanzely successful. green manuring is applied the way is open-i ' ' y ed for both wind and water erosion, so that) Thh dcicgaqioh at Ottawa ,.cpi.CSemihg l the all-important top ”eight inches” teiid.-:,Mm.itime pol-is seems to have a good easel to deteriorate by the mere fact of culiiv-'in Complaining of the ' dispamy in port alion. it-liar, es as between harbours in the Maria

The pond system. if well planned, exIen- yimof and those of me United States At-3 sively (levbloperl and accompanied by otlieuiamic Seahoani, 1n the past these rates; soil conservation measures in local ai'eas.fwe,.e kept at the sgme igvci and it

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is al will not only replace water now being lostlsmious disadvantage that they should now? from crop-bearing soil surfaces of Ontario he h,.m,k,,. at Canadian ports. I but will tend to check future losses and to; 9 o . i promote nature's method of sustaining? water tables by seepage.

The Provincial Plowing Match gets under; way today at Dundas, and the two-day! "'-- programme combines an unusual number The Senate REWI1 iof features which should make a very

- wide appeal to all sections of the public.

One of the most important documents of Our farmers are, of course, particularly

the year is the report of the Senate l”in- interested, but local citizens also will find

ance Committee, which is available fromlihe outing a most enjoyable and educa- "the Kings Printer at Ottawa and which 610- tional one.

serves to he read and pondered by every T

taxpayer. The Winnipeg Free Press devotes A year ago, the Bank of Nova Scotia Re-

a leading editorial to the subject. pointinr: view was devoted to a study of the first

0Ul- that here. lfl terms which are briefu decade of the Bank's history, designed to

and clear, are enumerated case after casci illustrate the problems involved 1') establish- of waste and ektravagance at Ottawa. The. ing a bank in Canada over one hundred Government is told plainly how it can save years ago, In the latest issue, the trend of

.' money without impairing any worthwhilelevenls in a later period is tracedAthat of service. A similar report was made a year the years from 1870 to 1900 when Canada

ago but regrettably was not acted upon. was experiencing slow economic growth and

But C0nSldel'll1lZ only the r9P0I't 01' June profound economic change. By drawing on

".3 last, thereiare several items of stagger- the Bank's own records, the Review at.

"Liz implications. tempts to show the way in which a bank, Travel and movlnz C-XD9l1Re5.l'0ll 0XHmI7l0. and particularly a Maritime bank, was af-

' mounted to 046,000,000. Of this total 5514.-ifected by these changes and adjusted to millions was spent on civilian expense and them. As in the earlier Review. the econ-

the -

THE GUARDIAN. Cl-IARLOTTETOWN

Gone . Are The Days

SEPTEMBER 24, 193

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- The High Cost Of Criminals

.trac.-tor takes his is okay.

Horse population in rapid decline as the

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How--or if-the 826.000 in re- ward money offered for Edwin

will be distributed hasn't.-been an- nounced. But at 08.500 a head, the sum is an easy record In Canad- ian rewards.

of the total. the Canadian Bankers Association put up a flat 010,000. The Province of On- tarlo and the City of Toronto added 30,000 apiece. Both offered 32,000 for each of the four want- ed men.

The Bankers Association has a standing scale of rewards for iii- formatlon leading to the appro- hension and conviction of the bank robbers whose desperate, and sometimes well-heeled. doings are no regular and frequent in feature of life in Ontario and Quebec. These vary with the amount stolen and the way In which it is taken. Usually 51.000 is a high reward. Bank robbers steal about s200,000 a year, but forgets and other fal- slfiers take more than that. The bank robbers are more spectacular and attract more attention.

City rewardi ai-e- common In Toronto. In many cases private firms and persons offer rewards for the apprehension of shop- breakera and other offenders. The sum of S500 is 1 good reward In such cases.

The City of Ottawa occasionally offers a reward. There was an outstanding case about ii. year ago when the City put up 31,000 for n hit-and-run driver who gravely injured a boy on the Laurier Av- enue bridge. He probably came from out of town; nothing came of the reward.

Rewards do not interest the police, except so far as they may

PUBLIC FORUM

This column in open lo the discussion by correspondent: of questions of Ii1tereat.,The Guardian does not neccasah iiy endorse the opinion of correspondents.

RECORD WHEAT CROP

Sir,-In your "Notes By The Way". I see this cereal reference: "Not long ago a record wheat crop was force.-ist. for Canada. Now it. appears that several other coun- tries will also have crops well above average, and for the world the prospects for 3. record harvest are good. This will undoubtedly present a good many marketing problems. But with the number of mouths to feed in the world today, it should be easier to deal with problems of this kind than with Iamine".... (London Free Press.) .

The above abundance would likely be describable as "9. head- ache" by our Communist friends (.9), who have been using hunger as one of their chief ideological weapons.

Be that as it may, my farm paper points out that the estim- ated 1951 production of wheat in the world was 6,500,000,000 bush- els, an all-time record. Such ii hgure would naturally be 9. bit beyond the reach of the busy city folk who "run as they read", so I thought I'd like to submit a couple of ways by which that global total could be more easily measured by the man in the street: (at-The above busheiagc is the equivalent of 170 million tons of the breadgi-aln: tb)-Every tenth bushel (17 million tons), in 1952, has to be credited to the great fields in our own West!

I find it. interesting. also, to

ponder the fact that while the experts figure that "the Big Three" in the wheat production

business-Europe, Asia. North Am- erica-each contributed about i.- 500.000,000 bushels to the above 1951 record, the North American wheat-sown area was 26 million acres less than Asia's. while Eur- ope's wheatiiclds were. in turn. million acres less than North Am- ci'ica's. I am, Sir, etc. D. P. W.

MORE INFORMATION-WAN'iTED

Sir,-In Saturday's Guiirdlan I read with great Interest. where Mr. Chiirlcs Yen. President of Ilic Federation of Agriculture, report- :-rl to the press that the Feder- ntian is intending to hold n mass meeting in the interest of the producers. to try and iron out some of the problems which seem Lo be affecting the Potato Mar-

keting Board. Now I am it firm believer luv Boards and our Federation of

Agriculture and I think it is only fit and proper that producers izet together and speak their mind, but would it not he n good Idea for them to invite some of the shippers of potatoes in to their morning?

Before I ask any more ques- tions 1 wish to make ll statement nhnut one of my neighbors. This neighbor of mine has been mix- ing young pigs for quite some years. and it in only In the last

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HEEOIC RESCUE

"A gentleman from Murray Harbour, whose reliability is be- yond doubt, gives some particulars of the rescue of a, party which re- cently left the icebound 'Northern Light! It appears that when the party was first seen from the shore there intervened between it and 'terra. iirmaf a field of lolly, or ice broken into very small pieces. floating on the top of the water, about a. mile and a. half in width. To row through this was quite im- possible: to walk over it was also impoeslble. There were no avail- able appliances such as they have at the Capes. But with heroic in- genuity, the brave men. whose names, as given below, should he chronicled not only on paper but on gold. invented a means of crossing the field of lolly and suc- coring the party.

"They obtained two long. broad boards and placed them on each side of a. dory. They then got into the dory and pushed the boards as far as they could ahead of it. Then two of them got out. and walking on the boards at the im- minent. risk of their lives, they drew the dory through the lolly the length of the boards. then got in and pushed the boards ahead again, repeating the operation un- til the lolly had been crossed. In this way they made two passages between the party and the share, rescuing the passengers who, but, for their ready ingenuity, wllllngl lliearts and heroic bravery, mustl ihave perished miserably.

”The names of the rescuers are

Charles Machon (whoitirst saw the party In jeopardy). Daniel Machon, Thomas Davy. James

White, James Clarke. John White -a. lad at sixteen years." I -The Examiner, March 2, iasi.

The Age-Olilifsitoryii

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For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husband- ry. ye are God's building. Accord- ing to the grace of God which is given unto me. as a wise master'- Iiullder, I have laid the founda- tion, and another bulidcth there- on. But let every man take heed how be bulldeth thereupon.

Ing to get A plant nu behalf of everyone? Would I be thinking properly if I added that I thought n little topposilinn in this line might be a good thing for the farmers?

Further if we can assume a little opposition might be A good thing. why is it the Federation, rind pnrtlciilnrly Mr.- Yen him- self, should rieiuse to lend nny moral support when a plant could easily be obtained?

I am, Slr. etc

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'FROM IN THE FOIESTS

aid. or hinder, police work. The Mounties may get their man but if there is a reward attached to him they have no part. in it. The feeling that he has done his duty is a. policeman'a reward. A good name is better than riches; it is sometimes pleasant to have both. Except by special permission no police officer may share in a. re- ward. The Bankers Association has given a pension of 33,000 I year to the widow of the detect- ive. Edmund Tong. killed by bank

Boyd and his gang. dead or alive;

Then there came a. change of :e

scene. Groves of beech and maple green. Streams that murmured through the glade.

Little flowers that loved the shade, Lovely birds of gorgeous dye. Fluted lmong the branches high, Colored like the setting sun.

But were songless eveiy one;

No one like the linnct gray,

In our home so far away;

No e singing like the thrush,

To us mate within the bush;

No one like the gentle lark. ' Singing between light and dark; Soaring from the dewy sod,

Like a herald up to God.

some hild lovely amber wings Round their neckli were

rings;

some were purple. others blue,

All were lovely. strange and new, But although surpassing fair.

Still the song was wanting there.

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with the high cost of living. The

calls the fact that 18 years ago a reward staggeringly large.

Ontario would be

John Lababt. B. wealthy brewer.

in a. cottage at a Muskoka Lakes

kidnappers who began by demand- ing 3150.000 for his ended by taking him into Toronto widen and freeing him there without making any very resolute efforts to collect the 0150,000.

best rewards were issued for polit- ical offenders. The late W.L. Mac- kenzie Klng kept to his dying dnyldlcd today nfler a long lllnrss.

obbera, but that is another met- 1'.

Rewards are rising. in keeping ecent death of John Labatt re-

nf 35,000 was thought On Sept. 7. 934. Attorney-General Roebuck of announced that 35,000 given to anyone giving

vldencc about the kidnappers of

Labatt was kidnapped on the cad near London. Out... and held

eaort. by amiable and amateurish

release but

In earlier days In Canada. the

in The Ottawa Citizen)

a copy of the proclamation . ing a reward of 21,000 for thgmifh: prehenslon of "that notorious re.

William Lyon Mackenzie-. Charles Lindsay. Mackenzies go, in-law and biographer. rcckansthh reward as worth 34.000 and 5:. 0 that political opponents of M53. kenzle supplemented it by ; private subscription of sz,ooo,mak. ms 36,000 in all. This was a heap of money in Upper Canada 1 those days but It was never earnn ed. Lindsay states that plot; W"; made to kidnap Mackenzie after he had taken refuge in the United States and shanghai him across the bordei. If so. the plotters were siiilgularly ineffective, A aim ar reward was lace the head of Louis Joseph Padpialj eau. leader of the movement in Lower Canada. He retired to the United States with even grcam expedltion than Mackenzie. It. was reported that the lake. side farmer who held the rebel leader, Samuel Lount, later exec- uted in Toronto. on suspicion that Lount was a smuggler and so led to his capture, received a reward of 52,000. It so. it seems to liavg been the only reward of the kind paid during the rebellion. After the Red River rising in 1870, Sir John A. Macdonald is rp. ported to have said that he would give 55,000 to anyone who would enable him to lay hands on Loni, Riel, coder of the rising, what Sir Jo n really did was to pm. vide money to ease Riel"; depa.-:. ure to the United States.

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Canadian rewu-as, whether for political or for other offenden, have always been C0nSEi'i'alivg compared to those oifeied 0151-. where. The British Government put i30.000 on the head of Bonnie Prince Charlie after the failure M the rising of 1745. It was never earned.

As far back as 1880, reward. totalling 28,000 (then worth 340,. 000) were offered in Australia im- the Kelly Gang of bushrangc-rg These four youths, headed by N-in Kelly, had robbed two banks of g totiil of about 15.000 and killed three policemen. They had also shown notable activity as horsg stealers and cattle thieves, but otherwise their record was far from outstanding.

In 1887 I reward of i5,000, or 325,000, was placed on the heads of Thomas Clarke and his brother John, two shecpish country youth: who had killed four special mn- stables who were trying to earn A similar reward offered for the ("ID- ture of the bushranger brotheii.

AMPLE NEWBPRINT NEW DELHI-(CP)--The (inv- ernment of India decided to with- draw all controls on newsprint as from September, because new- prlnt now is available in India In sufficient quantities at reasonable prices.

TIMMTINS, ont.. sept. 23 ---lCP' N. R. Dick Manscll former sports editor of the Timmlns Press, and well known in the Toronto and

Northern Ontario sporting world.-.,

-Alexander McLachlan.

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South African Crisis.

(London Specta tor.)

All that can be-said about south Africa at the moment is that Solhelhlng is blowing up that will leave the last state of the Union worse than the first. It may be a General Election; it so 3 nine; camivalsn. leaving the losers angry and resentful, can be counted on. It may be increasing resistance to the apartheid laws, met by In- CI'el!5lni;ly vigorous repressive measures by the Government; so for well over 3,000 an-est; hgve been made. and active resistance has made its first appearance in Natal, whjci-e provincial opinion as a wholeils anti-Malian,

It may be a deadlock between the so-called High Court of Par- liament. which, since the Union Party refuses to recognize it, is not. merely a purely political, but a purely party body and the Sup- reme Court of the Union. It may be an open declaration for a rep- ublic by the Nationalists who would than fight the election on that single plank.

For the moment the dominant issue is the constitutional ci-ials loreahndowed'by the expected col- lision between the new political court and the long-standing jud- ical court. The latest stage in the conflict is marked by the unanim- ous decision of the smreme Court of the Cape Province that the Act establishing that High Court of Parliament is invalid. That issue now goes to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the Un- ion, which may be expected to en-

WOODROW WHEATLEY, East. Royalty, P.E.I.

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two weeks that six of his brood sows gave birth to their young out in the orchard and he never even tried to nave A little one; and he summed It up this way:

..oncluda by saying

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among one will be

nnt how many of on the island. I this

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the balance on expenses connected with de- omic background is stressed, special em- fense and defense production. The Com- phasis being placed on the prttilems of the; mlttee having thoroughly considered this Maritime Provinces.

"If I feed the little ones up to around 30 lbs. I will not be mak-I In: A cent on them. only getting back my cost when I sell. and if. I feed them until marketlnz He. the price I will get ns pork will not pay my feed bill." So let us 'Wh,v should farmers he In this position-and why is something not done .about

I believe If in vote were taken the farmers. and I believe,

Inken even if the Federation won't. to simply find them would like to see another livestock plant, think the vote would go practically 1w96. Now If trend of thought is true. and I believe we

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