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“The Strongest Memory is. Weaker Than the Weakest Ink."

‘DAY, AUGUST 21, 19IG

Training Assistant! Nurses I

So serious is thc nursing shortage situation in Untnriti thnt the llrcw lill\'t'l‘llill‘~‘lll has l1.'1d to institute at course pi irniiiing for nurses as- sistants. This might prove to be a vcry service- able idca. Tlic rwults, :11 anv rate, \\'ill be watched with keen intuit-st in other provinces. The t‘lll.~.<t'>' Jl"L‘ 11- otvcn in lpronto, Hamilton and Ring-ton <11; .\'.1,~i. 11-, in which illlplltlllilS between the zigtx. 111' tight-urn 11nd forty will receive 11 niin-iiitnitli.‘ C-1lll'5(‘ of instruction. On coniplutipii i-i ~ 111w tin-v will he c11- titlcd to a v‘ 9' 1g ;1~.~i~tz1nt.<. The trainees will l1\"i‘l\'t‘ _~i.\tv dollar.» :1 month, less cost of room 41nd lkzird. throtighout the train- ing period. The initial three months of the course will be c-iuductcd in schools, and the balance, (lenlinu vvith the prtrcticztl tilizises of .1111rsi11g, will be lllliltflllbtll i11 selcctcd l1os- pitals.

Even during the lust six months of their training, it is suggested, the students should bc able to take some of the load off the shoulders of the nurses i11 the hospitals. 'l‘he_v will he able to tiudertake intwh of the ward routine and so release the qualified staff for the more responsible (titties. In this way there should be an almost inimctlizite improvement in the nursing care of some institutions.

The scheme is I1(lllllll(‘(ll_\' a palliative which will not solve the basic problem of scarcity of trained nurses. It takes three years to train a graduate nurse. and the problem of supplying the increasing demand in this highly skilled field is becoming more and more SCriOUS-

Heavy Livestock Exports

Canada's reputation as source of supply for breeding live stock to all parts of the world is gathering momentum, and the heavy exports made during the war are being maintained, says R. W. Blake, Export Division, Foreign Trade Service, Department of Trade and Com- merce, Ottawa, is a review of the large ship- ments of Llanztdiztn intro-bred cattle and other live stock. .\Iore than 71,000 head of pure-bred and dairy cattle having an ziggregate value of $11,612,955, were exported front Caitacla to 23 different countries during 1945, and an addi- tional 8,801 pure-bred cattle and 24.847 dairy cattle were exported during the first five months of 1946. Statistics of the exports of sheep, swing, and poultry show the remarkable in- crease in exports of live stock and 21W all in’ dication of the rapidity with which Canada has risen to prominence as a producer of breeding stock.

After years of sound, selective breeding, Can- ada has reached the stage in live stock develop- ment from uihich she can offer to the countries 0f the world ltiglt-titizility healthy animals, such as beef, dairy, and dual purpose cattle, sheep, pigs, draught and saddle horses, thoroughbreds and standard brads, in addition to poultry with the best Record of Production.

One of the reasons why (‘ztuadian live stock can claim to be notably healthy is due to the fact that the Health of Animals Division, D0- minion Department of Agriculture, has been consistcntlv active in its efforts to eradicate. control and tirevciit (llSl‘(l.~{‘ anion! ll5 l"? Stock- There never has bccit a case in Canada of the destructive 11nd drctnlcil foot and mouthducasc and the percentage of '11P». infection is very low. For the control of Banifi dlsefie 21684 herds are under supervision of the lhvtslon. mill other (liscztscs either have been eradicated or so controlled that no srrious outbreak has occurred for many years. The strict and efficient super- vision of Canadian live sloclt constitutesa E1131“

‘nntec to importcrs in all other countries of the world.

To no Province (loos this statement more apt- |y appjy than to Prince Edward Island, which i; entirely a disease free area e0 I31’ l! TB infection is conccrucrl. -

No Connection

The romantically inclincd wonder if there is a connection bctwccn the recent Slill-SIIFIHCB ex- plosion of an atomic bomb in Bikini Lagoon wit-h the Dominican Republic earthquake. There is none, says the New York Times. When the earth shakes even slightly, it shakes over an area and with a violence that no atomic bomb fin match. The Turkish quake of 1939 kill- d 40,000," the Chilean quake of the same year, pgyooo, Ind the great Japanese quake of r923 " j 150,000. The two atomic bomb explosions

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' no one felt any quake a hundred miles “if. The Pucrto Rican and Dominican disas- ie wholly Nature's work. “The t seismic regions of the world lie

l fluidly imam belts. One surrounds the Pacific;

- 1; other passes through the East Indies, the ‘ lnulayae, the Caucasus, the Alps and the West l ‘ . ~ Selunoldgfsu are therefore not aston-

drqg Caribbean points had been iolted by jg “reignite! it was. recorded in St.

» Ipqwey. The earthquake hin- torts-m as dimirbirrg as that

“hi! enough. ‘Not since 1918

To a seismologist, an earthquake is not ex- actly a blessing, but he regards it with more composure than the rest of us. For he sees it as a way of relieving terrific strains gradually. If the strains were suddenly relaxed the planet might be disrupted. Indeed, a few geologists believe that millions of years ago, when the day was only a few hours long, the earth was dis- rupted-a catastrophe in which the moon was supposedly thrown off. If this hypothesis is more than a mere speculation, which has the mathematical support of Sir George Darwin and of Henri Poincare, the Caribbean quake is indeed a minor disturbance.

— EDITORIAL NOTES a

The second day of Veterans \Vcek—be pre- pared for arrival of Veteran Montgomery. w- 1r

There is to be no starvation in lCanada any- way this coming winter, for we are promised a htuuper wheat crop, better than the average. In the Island we are’ promised a bumper potato crop, better than the average.

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Dr. Grant, M.P., notwithstanding, therc'are still veterans lacking jobs in this Province, and it is up to employers to see that they find them —henee (he Iqiotfs present campaign.

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Veterans are called for parade in civvies with ribbons or medals, at the Cficket Ground, Vic- toria Pztrk at 11.15 11.111. (lavlight savinggtirue 011 .\I0ttd.'1y' to meet Field Mztrsltal Lord Mont- gomery of Alamcin.

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New, up-to-dnte, sanitary fox cages are on the market, and will be in general use just as soon as sufficient material is available for their construction in large numbers. A Montreal firm, with a branch in Hamilton, Ont., are the producers, and Island foxmen who have seen the cages speak highly of them.

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“The Admirablc" Crichton (James) born this date 1561; celebrated Scottish scholar, whose versatility has become proverbial; son of Lord Advocate Robert Crichton; tradition states that he successfully carried 0n a debate in twelve languages in Paris, and next day won a match in a tournament; outstanding philosopher, mathematician, theologian; composer of Latin verses; a fine swordsman, a man of great per- sonal beauty and fine physique; killed in a street brawl at the age of twenty-two.

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We are getting better, from a children's point of view. Juvenile delinquency, which reached an all-time high in 1942, is on the wane with the number of juvenile crime convictions in 1945 the lowest since I940, according to the Domin- ion Bureau of Statistics. Juveniles brought be- fore the courts in Canada in 1945 numbered 9,755 compared with 11,554 in 1944. Convict- ed of major or minor offences were 8.909 juve- niles in 1945 against 9,917 in 1944. Of the t0- tal of 5,758 convicted of major offences, 4,231 were first offenders and 1,527 repeaters. Boys were responsible for 5,516 of the major offences with 242 attributed to girls.

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Indications of the return of a buyers’ market in the house-furnishings field were in evidence at the opening of the American Furniture Mart at Chicago. According to industry spokesmen, material shortages and uncertainties of the price situation are still main considerations, but buy- ers search for merchandise may be satisfied par- tially during the remainder of the year if manu- facturers shortages are overcome during that period. Salesman will again be working by next Spring with the furniture industry fighting hard with hundreds of otlfcr industries for the con- sumer dollar.

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Why is it the American Associated Press and the Radio adopt such anti-British attitude in these critical times? I11 describing the recent trouble in Calcutta they laid emphases on the allegation that the Moslems attacked the Hindus because of their opposition to the British pro- posals for India's independence, and the Hindus interpretation of them. The British broadcast, immediately after the Canadian, made no such a/Hegation. As a matter of easily ascertained fact, the lVIoslems resorted to “direct action” bc- cause ihey were afraid the Ilindus, the vast majority of the people affected, would make a success of the measure of Home Rule granted by the British Government. The trouble in India is not a racial one but “a family row” accentuated by religious differences.

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Dairy olbd ie not improving any. C21- ery butter production is continuing below that of last year, with July output totalling 40,- 836,852 pounds compared with 42,527,680 in the same month last year, or a decline of nearly 4 per cent. Total production for the first seven months of 1946 was 164,388,377 pounds against 176,606,415 in the same period last year. Chedder cheese output also declined, amounting to 25,- 518,300 pounds in July compared with 30,451,- 170 in July, 1945. The total for the January- July period was 81,905,494 pounds against 103,- 830,815 a year ago. Concentrated milk products totalled 36,321,506 pounds compared with 35,- 656,854 in July r945. The seven-month total was 187,592,065 pounds against 191,056,404 last year.

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Still another railway project mooted. Pro- posal for a new trans-continental railway route from Churchill, Mam, on the Hudson Buy to Prince Rupert, B.C., was advanced by E. T. Applewhaite of Prince Rupert at the closing session of the annual convention of the Associat- ed Boards of Trade of Central British Colum- bia. H; pictured it as a new imperial com- munication route from Liverpool to Hung Kong which would cut the distance, vie Montreal and Vancouver, from 11,737 mile: to 10.061 miles. The proposed route would bc through Winnipeg, the Northern Railways, the Peace River Dio-

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Notes By ‘The W43’

Every time an automobile "page! in a smash-up these days toe police begin zneir investigation oy “kin "was the driver drunk?" - Chat em News

Illness la e greater menace than ever if, according to an official ruling. no income tax reduction is allowed in Canada for mom-y spent on an invalid's drugs Toronto ‘Telegram.

r policies in horticulture are under consideration ir. Austra- lia since manv dcmobiiizeri soldiers wish to take up fruit and vecctablc growing. For some years lanting acreazes have been controi ed and the states now are being naked to subunit plans for readjustment of quotas. —F’redcrlcwn Gleaner.

"High we", as Scotland under- stood ft. was a never-ending source of astonishment and perhaps admiration to the visitor from the other side of me border. What- ever the dietlci-"tns may think about the wisdom of this CPSlWfill-fi rich and possibly ill-assorted HICul, we shall heed them tot when it is in front of us again We shall know that things are book to normal-- Edinburgh Scotsman.

Men who are incapable of be- having‘ themselves when they have had a drink or two must learn by experience that they mJs' pny when sober tor Lhelr misbehavior while under the influence. Other- wise drunkenrvss — whether real or feigned — wouEd be an adequate excuse for any crime in the cal- endar. So for as the victim 1s con- cerned. un attack 1s the sarno whether or not the author of ttte attack is drunk. -Toronto Tele- grunt.

Those war rumors of wholesale vineyard destruction fr. France havc been proven exazgernted. says The New York Herald Tribune. Wine damage was i-ss than during the First World War The cniei loss was in Alsace. Also the French succe led in hidtug and protecting their better stocks. 1t is believed that there is about. as much fine wine in France tooay as mere ever has been. Amazing fact. tnere was two percent more cognac in 1945 than in. l

The newest product of Britain's aircraft construction, was recent- ly given its ‘irsv. puibllc dimott-

air-psgeant Southampton. 'l."liis helicopter whim ,Ls driven by a single motor take of.’ and lands vertically. and moves sideways and backwards as easily as it moves forwards The crowd admired the new aircraft's per- formarne while experts saw dearly that this aircraft, opened up er:- tnlrelv new possibilities. UK Bullet-

l-‘ew things m this mortal world equal a "good blueberry pie. Pre- sent day tendency is to skimp on fruit, turring out, a dessert which top and bottom crusts 11l- most hold hands. The price of berries may make that under- standable. but a housewife would do better to skimp on dresses or perfume and 5-11 ner pics to over- flowing, Fill vnur deep dish lavishly with the best blueberries you c1111 find. Add a nit-ch of salt, plenty of sugar. flour or cornstarch (not too much) for tnickening, a squirt of lemon to unlock every last oi: of goodness and shove in. the oven Some pies are better for a slab of cheese on top or a generous pour- ing of thick cr-nrn. But time blue- berry straight or with a gloss of cold milk w-‘RIIIIIIQBWIIS Star- Journal.

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A minor, change has been made English divorce laws. Order made ny the lard Chon- cellor. as from that date the eriod of time that mus: elapse

tween the making of a de- cree nisl and the fling of the ap-

is reduced from sax montiu to six’ weeks. This change has long been advocated and is an overdue act of relief to petitioners who may already nave been mmpelled to wait. twelve monflhs between jthe Dmemalm" of their petitions and the actual hearing tn mutt, If the period of waiting were re- moved altogether. the law of land would lJlen in that m. W190! be similar to the law in Scotland. —!.ondon Economist.

Ilow eweet In rain that comes to break a succession of not. weary- ing days. And bow changed is the world after such a rain. says The ,Ne'w York Times. Streams flow Berlin in full visor. and with n son; that chuckles, Meadow gr“, 111;; its tangled blades with new strength. Bouncing Bet siraightens its heavy head in the fence corner. a new brikhtr-zss on ‘ts petals. Motvarchs swarm to the butterfly wced, that oran g beauty antong the mllkwead 15ml)’. Whose nectar has been sweetened and renewed. Ana the trees (Wlflfilg in the sunlight the twlmle of CIlliflInfl-Fflindfops and the zleam oi’ tresh-wasberi leaves 0811MB lean ln ar-owtn. And so do weeds. But, happily, now is the time for weeding, a time when they come out by tne roots without too much argument. And if you c311 look across at some farmer's fields gfallriiflhglwwhilgrallghlt! the com blades toward kthe gun." m brow

AN AUGUST MIDNIGHT

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— PUBLIC ration‘

Tbla column la opq h. the dlaclllaloll h; gong epondente oI queatioua an Interest. The Charlottetown Guardian deee not aeeeeear ti; endorse the oplllea el wrrespondenh.

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Sin- Eifliciency should be noted at all times and in. this regard for the record the names of Lt. Co D.A. MacKinnon. D.S.O and Mr.

Wilfred Boulter, M B E, and,

Week should oe rtcorded.

They gave the patrons 100 per- cent. pleasure, 100 percent. eemlmt and 100 percent. safety.

To be commended are the Horse Raciflk Officials; and In this re- arcl not only Prince Edward Island ut radio listener. will rive Mr. F C rDougati, D D.S. the emulat- ion that ls due nim.

I rim, Sir, etc. P. C. POPE. Or. behalf of myself and many, many others.

THE BAY 0F FUNDY TIDE

Sir,—The Bay of Fundy is an in- teresting part of the coastal wat- ers of Canada in that at its heed is the greatest rise and fail of tide of any part of the world. At times this ti-de rises to a height of twenty four feet above mean sea level, or what the see would be if there were no tide, and fails the same distance below this level or a range of forty eight feet where the fall is to real low or not held Up by river slope below,

This is n tremendous undulatlon of a large urea of water and ls of- ten looked upon as a possible source of power that could be made use of in some way. There ls a use right at hand for this great power that nature placed so near that we may have failed to see 1t. And that is to prevent the format- ion of ice in Ncrthumbi-rland Strait.

We all know that the Bay of Fundy is c-pen water below Cape Enrage and Cape D'Or and that ‘Saint John and Dlgby are open in winter for navagstiun. so whnt we need is an open tideway through the Isthmus of Chignecto and the great tide that ls trying to jump over this obstacle will much Bay of Fundy

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breaker terry Will bemeeded there.

The tide of the Bay of Fundy ls usually known as the equatorial tide and is very regular day and night, but is more affected by the distance the moon from the earth. When i-t is near the earth it is perigee; when it is farthcrest away it is apogee. When these chances occur at new or fullmoon jibe tides are highest at perigee.

The question wi-ll be asked why is the equatorial tide ln the Bay of Fundy? The explanation is that the tidal wave that would follow the apparent course of the mnon around the earth has to follow where it can, it is blocked by the continent o-f America that extrnris farther- south than Africa. The shores of the Atlantic Ocean at. the Equator are at an angle that also forces the wave northward g5 the Gulf Stream. as it cannot pass Central America. Shoal water ex- tends out from c-ff the United States and Nova St-otin with an inlet extend- ing into the Bay that is formed by Cape Cod, and Cape Sable boosts the‘ tide range there more than double that of the Ocean. This nice-p inlet extends up and into the Bay of Fundy and a branch turns westward tn Cape Cod bay, the inlet continues up the Bay of Fundy. diminishing in denth untl‘. ln Cumberland Basin the bottom is almost bare at low water dut- lng a run of high tides. The higher tho rise the lower the fall there.

The tide o~l Northumbet-land Strait is the tide of the northern ocean and is only three or four feet above and below mean sea level and at times is very unequal day or night, as the moon in its apparent course around the earth ls at tlmt-s far south and at oth- cr times high overhead slmillar to the sun in winter or summer. The sun lakes a year for this change and ls over or near the Equator twice in this year; the moon makes this change in about twen- ty-seven days and is over or near it twice in this time, crossing to the opposite side and continulngto the limit of its declination, as this movement is culled, north or south of the Equator. As this declination increases north or south of the equator the tides become more unequal day or~night the northern occan..

A corn letc description of this and other ti al movements is given in a booklet entitled "The Tides and Tidal" streams by W. Bell Daw- son, M.A. D. Sc. M. Insc. Cli- FR. SC. issued by the hydrogrephlnlc and map service. Department .1! Mines and Resources, Ottawa.

The Gulf Stream is a great ocean current of warm water that flows northward in the Atlan- tic until it reaches the ehoel wat- er of! the coast of Nova Scotie and Newfoundland. where it is turned eastward and crosses the Atlantic to warm the coast JI Eur- 0P9.