Europe because Canada is incapable tmder its present political set-up of, carrying on any sus- tained effort in the international arena-except in mouthing our “coming of age" and “rnatur- .

authorised

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President: Lleut. Col. W. Cheater S. Mollie Vice-hesldent: J. B. Burnett, IJJ.

Secretary: lieut Col. D. A Maekinnoll. 0.5.0. lditor and Managing Director: s k Burnett. IJJ. Associate Editors: Frank Walker and V

Ian A. Burnett

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if?" over the radio. Behind our. grossly over- rated, tinsel-decorated and expensivediplomatic corps, and a guOd deal of Ottawa-primed pub- licity that is continually humiliating Canadians everywhere —- there is still the same ‘group of politicians playing safe with a voting bloc that has paralyzed them for so long in world af- fairs that they are possibly unable to see what

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"aces nearly as last as sound, they are new exverlmeotinu on one that can travel almost as (u; sip. —8tratford Beacon-Beale,

plastics-those amazing modern substances which take the place of thing but a nation-wide Indujttlfl recovery.

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

THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 21, 19M

Big Farm Conference

The Prince Edward lslzintl Federation of Agriculture. whose annual meeting takes place loduy, is all important link in a great Organiza- hon. Young in )'(‘(il'>‘, the Lenailian Federation of Agriculture has grwwn m giant stature, as is evidenced by the fact that, it has received an official inviflalion to participate in the forth- coming internaboual conference of farm organ- izations scheduled for London, England, for ten days Commencing May 21 next.

The conference in London will be the cul-

mination of negotiations and conferences which have been proceeding for almost a year, com- mencing with the visit of the British Farmers’ Delegation to Canada last spring. All United Nations which have nutiOiIaI farm organizations are invited to send voting delegates to the con- ference, each limited to six voting delegates, while those countries not having national farm organizations are invited to send not more than two observers Qach, both of whom should be farmers. . The delegation which will represent the Canadian Federation of Agriculture comprise the following: H. H. Hannam, president; W. J. Parker, ‘Winnipeg, and l. A. Marion, Mont- real, vicc-presidents; R. l. Scott, Belgrave, Ont- ario; ]. H. Wesson, Regina: Alex Mercer, Van- couver; Ben Pluiuer, Calgary; W. H. McEwen, llforlcton, N. 1%.; Percy French. Vernon, B. C.; R. S. Law, “linnipeg; R. H, M. Bailey, Ed- monton; with C. G. Grofi as secretary of the delegation. .

The basis of deliberations at the confer- ence in London will be the constitution for .1 permanent organization of primary producers. to be set up as an international federation of agriculture, with the main purpose of c0-ordin- ating its activities effectively with those of the

United Nations‘ food and agriculture organiza- tion.

More Agricu ltu re Needed

Th buttrr shortage in Canada is typical, says The Latter-Review. it could be relieved, very easily, by active efforts to substitute the production of ‘butter for Canadian use for solne of our output of cheese for export, but that would alter incidcilce of the shortage, not relieve it. Canada has to face facts With the best opportunity of any cuun=."y' in thc world to incrcasc agricultural production rapidly, and on a scale \\‘l‘lCli would hc of international im- portance, this country has, for mzmy years, be- fore the \V:il' and during it, tended to a. grow- iug indifference to agriculture. In a starving world, Cnlizldw cannot afford to remain a nation 0i twclvc zliilliou, failing u) ilcvclup the food production of half 2i continent to the maximum. On the other hind, if wc are to rcstorc and ex- pand our tlgricilliurc, tlicrc will be required the complglg rglnvlltllillg cll fill 0U!‘ DIZIIIS lOI‘ C3D‘ ital invcstliwlll, ivngc lcvcls. housing, social sccuritv and pillilic finance. livery plan so inf made iu each of thcsc ficlds is on the assump- tion that this will llOiV be priziiarily an itidus- trial and u "-2 nu agricultural nation. \Vorld coli- (il[l()ll$ at til-s uiouicllt arc such that we must bc pmn;u-(-l|_ if -_-.;,- pn>|>ilsi~ l1) coinribute cffccllvc- ly to thc world silpplv of u 0d to do 50_ by ti“! .\'crv important sncrilicc uf ilcwlillll I111 111011135‘ it“; amount of our national productivity to food. which. for sclzie vczirs to ironic, we must 01'0" vidc to othc: lotions witlout cXDBCUHE an)’ _ inuncdinlc i“.’l'ii‘l'l The iliicstion is ivhcther we are prepared in face this fact, which up to l‘ . the moment has not been mentioned ll Wu!‘- discussion in Canada.

We Leave Europe

Here arc some bitter, but unfortunately truthftil, words from the IIHIUIIYOD Spectator:

Neither lhc Canadian public, nor our Can- ldian soldiers, nor, we suspect, the Canadian ‘ Federal Govcrtlliient, cvcr had a very clear idea of what our oicupation re-ponsibilities were to III: in Europe. ‘ Now we kifO/W.

‘ This on the mile K1

word of Prime Minister W. L.

{incoming inure-snugly bit-duties" As-ltl-oafs $9 .. M!

J-u

da hlilettve the business ritain, who are load. ‘

every one clsc can see. ' .

to accept any blame.

i have no responsibilities, because Call- {ddliil- not one of the ‘occupying powers" and is iota member of the Allied Control Commis-

. .. who has announced that our ~ ‘occupation force would be withdrawn ’ Germany early inlApril because our Allies sble to share in oc-'

ntoney, and means ordering beg-don't like, it is of every to "increas-

“uh Toaacco Sh”, M°nc‘on‘ N_ 5 It is a pity, indeed, tnat Mr. King's an- gt fkieiiogglghghfugiiilieg tun 11281128 The News Shop, Monctun. N. n. nouncement, loizg overdue, should come in the on ten-um,‘ ,¥,,,,_’ __§fn,"f:,‘, “mm; gzlilzeslllilfialflbsatoilmfl s. N8 wake of ugly and widely-echoed demonstrations Spectator. ' s no r .. ilaufs . . - -—-

Metropolitan News Axency. ma Peel st. ntreal. by ‘m’ "w" °“"'°a" w” shmfld b‘ ‘h’ h“ Women may still he Intel-loi- m

man, but she can put. a m; on q

There ivns no attempt to inspirt them with j

the need fur occupation; no honest squaring up to the issue with the Canadian people, any more than there ivas in the twilight of 1939. The day to day comormriising, behind the old shabby facade of nzviimal “uriity". is a decaying and corrupting element that we seem unable to shake off.

It goes far behind the occupation issue; behind even the conscription betrayal. It is chronic. It was one thing to shift the burden of the war o-i the Canadian civil “volunteers" from i939 to r945; another to boast of the way in which the Government. as an agent of the taxpayers, is rehabilitating them. It is an- other thing forever to play political games with Canadian pridc—-or what s left of it.

\Ve are taking men and supplies from Europe, but we are probably raking more. It is not-unlikely that Canada is politically clear- ing out to reach the same exalted position that it held at the outbreak of ihe last war, and to redeem which it paid such a. bitter cost.

l-EDITORIAL NOTES-

‘ _ "Friends of Russia", organizations and in- dlviduals alike, are now busy finding alibis. It 1s still a truism that if you fly with the crows you may be shot with them

a s a a

The Federal Civil Service in this province will have no objection to be. the “Guinea Pig” for the Royal Commission on salaries, provided "guinea" is taken solely in its financial sense.

_ Money spent on daily newspaper advertis- ing by clvr: bodies means more revenue from tourist traffic and industry, according to the Ottawa Board of Trade. Encourage your newspapers, and you develop prosperity as the night follows the day;

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Nikolai Vasilivich Gogol, Russian novelist, l born this date I309; ivell-known for his Cos-

sack tales and realistic novels exposing the

abuses of officialdom; achieved fame with his

Iii/citing: in a Farm, and M irgarod, the latter in-

cluding the masterpiece Tara: Birlba; other

great works are The Government Inspector, a

satirical comedy. and his powerful last novel,

Dead Souls; he died in I852.

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It is iust the luck of diabetics, after depriv- ing themselves of candies and ivheaten bread in the days of plenty, to be advised now in days of scarcity that they may rake both in modera- tion without endangering their lives, or even perccptibly hardening their arteries. When doc- tors differ it is the pziticnr who bears ‘the con- sequences. I U I I The Provincial Government can do hardly otherwise than assume responsibility for seeing that the Dominion Government shoulders the Airport housing scheme. Neither they nor the Federal Governlncntfs Committee or Council on rehabilitation have done anything worthwhile in the matter of housing, and the Provincial Gov- ernmcnt, as guardian of our rights and privil- cges, must assume the blame. We are told at Ottawa that there have been no requests for housing accommodation from this Province, which is plain proof that our provincial auth- orities have been asleep at the switch. i 1F l

It may l-e all right but one must have grave doubts about the geuuineness of those self-con- fessed traitors fathered by Russia. It may be recalled that during the Soviets first Five Years‘ “Comeback”, they seduced many lcad- ing engineers and mechanics from the United Kingdom and U. S. A. to supervise operations, and afterwards locked some of them up as spies, obtaining by duress confessions from the ac- cused. A Roland for an Oliver may be as ap- propriate in international politic-s today as in the days of Charlltoemagne romances.

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“The things you believe before y‘ all twenty are true (writes Mr. L. A G. Strong of 1313c). It l. difficult to bring them about in the world of facts; but that is no excuse for giv- ing up the attempt. Our elders, in their very love and care for us, would like us to give up the attempt. But at all costs we must stay young in spirit. (That's a very different thing from not growing up, by the way, a disease to which the British are very prone. the men es- pecially.) To be young in spirit is to remain flexible, adventurous, fluid, not set in a mould." In other words, to keep young continue to interest yourself in such Movements as the Boy‘ Scouts and Girl Guides. ‘ ' '

The development by United K511261751 I11‘ duslry of n new material which may prove the perfect plastic is reported by a Iiondon Nu»: Chronicle correspondent. The - correspondent writing from Barrow (the North England in- dustrial centre) states:

ing with spedalistson Viclrm Armstrong staf in Barrow sisgyard and the resultis ssid to be renal-labia the opliiioiiof estpefls, the new material, tlleylame at witlcltliss not ‘ “til?! plsiasnmiiihiilim l l: a .. sir-y. " D's to oo all; . feelQidliltrcandie wax; to be unbreakable, noti- M1,, i _, 33M.‘ ' ' . Qfioactiligii . er dens fy than wood’ ii will float, is watcrproo

, oaahs saws like wool.

Ilpliand needs farm tools, es- Pfflllly two and a hlif million

move without the he] tools in the house, a water and e vise. —Peterborough Examiner.

laws. All the laws cited are still valid, and all who violate are technically liable to lm rison- ment. Here are a few: In 0 lo all cats going out on the street at night must have a red light tied to their tails. In Boston it is for- bidden to play the violin, and to have dogs more than a foot high. In South Carolina it is to go to church with a revolver in your pocket. In Virginia baths rooms are banned. People bathe only in the yards of-their houses. --Guelph Mercury.

ships; she builds them better and more cheaply than any other conn- try, looks upon them as among her principal exports, Ia the Gov- ernment of Canada, which so much about imports being nec- essary to exports, intending that this country enter into tion with Britain in shlpbuiid no? Intending to produce here the one article of export that Britain

practice conflicts with theory; hard

~ tawa Journal.

"Experts fronr ‘(Illifl

perisl Chemical Industries have been

motif-am

Having developed in flue‘ as gos-

You remain‘

This eollletu la 0Q Qi the diaornsiou lb eerlbul spondeub of qeulfle let- intsreet. The Charlottetown‘ Guardtan does not decil- ti; endorse file opinion 01-. correspondents.

steel in every-

ar of fruit that no man can re- p of all the asln of hot

Uncle Sam‘ has some very rum-w them

forbidden

in must

Britain ie a great builder of talks

com ti-

pro- duces most efficiently’) Odd ow

facts with pious professions. —Ot-

Pedestrians hereafter in Kiev will have to be on the qui vlve. Their alertnes will he quite in order in the ancient capital of the Ukraine. where moving sidewalks, modeled on escalators, are being Eéenned, says The Buffalo Courier-

press, The pedestrian will mount a strip which will move slow] and then be automatically trans erred to a faster moving one. The Rus- sians are a hardy folk and maybe they can take this in stride. will be all right with us, however. if the Russians get the lump on us in the matter of moving side- walks, modeled on escalators.

One of the biggest problems enn- fronting the Swedish Lloyd Co. in the resumption of its Gothenburg- London passenger traffic is how to find accommodations for travelers in London's overcrowded hotels, Business Week reports. The Swedes, not wishing to losa this business, which saw 90,000 passengers a year traveling the GothenhurgLondon route before the war, have laced a proposal before the Port o Lon- don Authority-whereby the Swed- ish Lloyd ships would remain in port longer than normally in order to serve as "floating hotels."

A Queensland soldier of the A111‘ on Tarakan (Borneo) has been admitted to hospital with minor log trouble and a heart affection. Not atlsfled with his heart action, but unable to find an active symp- tom of heart trouble, a medical of- ficer ordered an X-ray, which dis- closed two hearts beating alter- nately. A Brisbane heart specialist says the man will probably live to a ripe old age, "His chance of riv- lng with a broken heart, is two to one against, and that's important these days,” he added. -Austral- inn News Letter.

While reading a recent day's news, we became unaccoiintnbly interested in the fact that the Duodeclmni Society of Amer-ca had successfully ridden out the war. and had finally made its annual awards for 1944 and I946, says The Peterborough Examiner. The Duo- declmni Society, which we don't

retend to understand fully, seems o be interested in weights and measures, among other things. However, it wants weighing and measuring to be done on n masts of 12, an when you buy egos or doughnuts. It would also wish to see the world do its arithmetic and pursue the pure and applied scien- ces by counting 1n twelves instead of tens. The Duodecimai people don't come right out and any so. but we gather they believe the adoption of their system would do no and of rrood and solve a lot problems. We doubt very much if the world's problems would he solved if we all sat down and prac. ticed counting by tweives until we could do it perfectly. However. the suggestion is a new one to us. and has the refreshin quality of novelty. It will be in eresting to watch the society's progress in the future, to see it ever succeeds in securing governmental author- ity to replace that useful coin now known as the dime with a pretty little silver coin called the dozen.

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‘ IIIIm-OLILIBEIB "I-Iiiis are m... w climb." one mo.

d I i d th l sl . afliioh-otoouotgep I‘ fourgefhelr sides

r too at impu- nim life m ‘to iii . perhaps. But brav

I Q M lsssi"°uir'iiiiiiiiltasaamsm Sig! cleanings to the sky.

Content within my valley now. Where purple she owl run. r spoon gs user on his aunt n“? v the m‘ rllfutii nan Ibr a the climb is done. -—Cl'l1tl'i0tle New if

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ISLAND ennasarns ‘ rmumnn . sl ,-1 n imdsir theavafbove h in! 1 though; my experience mizht be of some assistance w the P1186“ o

ote . mvinhenri became Minister of A814‘

enough to take care of themselves when snow was deep we found the huris used to center

railway cuttings, especially when the sun would expose the banks of clay on the sides. We had the superintendent c‘ ‘he railway ar- range to have section forernen re- port. any difficult with the huns and we sent out eed or grit.

has been no cos-e given the huns since I left office and we may lose them altogether if we are n qareful. I have qulring of travellers oon the matter. One man who had it.- 000 miles registered on his ear had

01 the city 1n ma ters of this kind and vnrlile I have every confidence in the promoters I would suggest

the section o the

that you publish country in which these birds you

REPLY T0 MB. DENNIS

shown in the propagation: of the

hurls and pheasants on Prince Ed-

ward Island when Minister of Ag- culture and is contfsiued in-

terest in 8

his confidence e Wed in the

promoters of Iaian Pheasants Uri-

lm ed.

Regarding the Hum we have been in touch with different sec- tions of the Island and is, that the buns are thriving. also all upland game. The reason is the open winter. making plenty of Brit and food available.

The hiilis run in cycles and the Bnnnlns on the huns amounts 1111011’!- 30 Der cent in the depletion of the flocks

5 '1 § :1.

grit. and other f

‘This bird roosts in trees, big-

gest. drawback be sleet. ' Our aim ls to d ibute eas- ants over all sections of the and. is the aim

Increased propagation of club and tf all sportsmen will become members. a greater number of birds will be brought in and rel making for lgger pro atlon. i

e. released 108 pheasants in November and December. 1M5 They were banded with the num- erals t6 alnd released in the follow- ing districts: Mlsoouche, l2 birds: Summerslde, 10 birds; Wlnsloe and Hunter River district,‘ 84 birua‘

s

Beach Grove, 10 birds; Mason's Road, 9 birds; Oariavoy, 21 birds; Redford, 1o birds

We have 250 birds on order to arrive the last. week March an

an up ree- ord will be kept so Ls l0 follow the glghlgflfnd 11-180 in keep a report of

to answer all questions as our club executive nets on it“.'.°€'.l"l.“5.."'°'“‘”“ - or r»- mggfbggtlfiithe all sportsmen to om-

I I Si!’ . radii": aédifu

eesants Unlimited on‘! COUNCIL anlinss

S Island

w lent "fidfltlllllw outs e ti:

I l rbdélglntfado out the fsgt that the

sine and thvaet in m‘; u: o; m,

couver where h “mm- 0° pderaltion was within the city, 0t a! Bill! I BUUBIINQ- tn pay the