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TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1931

A Farmers’ Budget

The Budget brought down in Par- liament yesterday by Premier Ben- nett realizes the most optimistic an- tlolpatlons of the Maritime Provinc- es and especially of the agricultural community, The tariff has been bas- ed on the assumption that the basic industries of Canada must oe pro- tected to the hilt, and at Llie same time the means by which these in- dustries are carried on should be as lightly handicapped as po-sible.

The particular items in the Budget affecting the farmers oil tvhcli the duty has been increased are num- aroua. the more notable being live hogs, fresh meats. bacons, hams and

shoulders, shell cogs, cheese, hops. powdered milk, peas. Iildlaii corn. hay, root and garden seeds. canned

fruit and vegetables; This. it will be seen, covers the bulk of the ilrodilcc of Prince Edwni-d Island, and all are to be suiliczenily protected.

In ﬁdfllllOll. the farmers‘ hides re- the in- creased ratcs being provided on kid upper leathers. sole leathers, East lil- dian kzps. belt lffllilﬁl‘ and belting. glove leather and lcatlicr garments.

The industry‘ of the Maritime Provinces agiart from agri- culture is coal. Diltlr-s o! 40 cents and $1.00 per ton posed upon anthracite coal under the general tariff while the rates on bit- uminous coal and coal screenings are

ccive further prniection so far as leather schedules rm‘ concerned.

principal

i‘\’-$p€C'.l\'t‘ly are im-

raised to 75 cents. general tariff, and rates on charcoal are set at $7.50 per ton. In addihon, subsidies for the coal industry in the Alaritlme Provinces and Western Canada to the extent of 51800000 will be provided. The building up of the Maritime coal in~ clusiry by this means will provide more employment and increased mar- kets for products of all kinds to the farmers of this section of the country. ‘

The tat-in’ changes affecting iron and steel include increases on steel plate, safes and iron

wire netting, machinery, miscellaneous manufactures of and steel, with decreases on green saw steel. not rolled rip steel for cold rolling, various kinds 0f steel wire. and Bessemer steel billets.

Premier Bennett also that a. new tariff agreement had been arranged with Australia and would be brought clown probably this ses- slori. He pointed out that the diffi- culty experienced with New Zealand ln recent, months was due to the neg- ligence and shortsightedness of the Mackenzie King Government in mak- ing it possible for that country to get u. strangle hold on the butter market in Canada.

The Premier announced that no

announced

changes are made in regard to the duty on farm implements, although the items covering repair parts is extended in point of time.

Altogether the tariﬁ changes in

the Bennett Budget are enormously in favor of the farmers of this Prov- ince and of Maritime indusatries gen- urally. V ‘Another welcome announcement in the Budget ls the proposed contrib- ution of scvcntyfive percent of Old Age Pensions to the Provinces. This b an advance of ﬁfty per cent on the present contribution made by the Mackenzie King Government. and lhould make it possible for every Province, including Prince Edward Island. to take advantage of the Old Age Pensions scheme.

These concessions. granted by the Bennett Government, come as a dis-‘ tlnct surprise in view of the serious depression that has prevailed for the past year, not only in Canada but throughout the world. The Liberal press was prognostlcatlng heavily 1n- creased direct taxation, ivlth poor prospects rol- the fillflllmcnt of any of Premier Bcnnettls preclcctlon promises. The recent announcement of the restoration of the grant for technical and agricultural training. followed by the Budget concessions, will be a great disappointment to the Liberal prophets of gloom. Not only ans direct taxation on the consum-

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erable extent, but the relief grant- ed and the protection vouchsafed to our producers will go a long way t0- wai-ds bettering the present situat- ion alid paving the way for more prosperous and greatly developed 1n- dustrles-includlnglthe great basic industry of Agriculture-in the days to come.

Ungrateful Recipients

One of the strongest arguments advanced by Ex-Premler Saunders in lthr- 1927 election campaign was the ldeslrability of electing a Provincial

Government that would be in line

with the administration at Ottawa. lThis argument, as pointed out. at the jlast session of the Legislature, ap- izplies with much greater force today. llThe Lea. Government lshowed itself incapable of proﬁting luv its political aﬁlliation with the Mackenzie King Government, at least so far as the interests of the Pro- vince were concerned; but it has shown, under the leadership of Pre- ,lnier Lea, a much great incapacity Sto ivork in harmony with the pro- 'l;rc.ssive policies of the Bennett Gov- With the King Govern- ment the Lea Government had much in common; with the Bennett Gov- ernment it has nothing in common.

If there was any doubt as to the hostile attitude of Premier Lea. and the members and supporters of his Government towards the Conserva- tive administration at Ottawa, that doubt was removed by the uncalled for resolution railroaded through the Legislature last session, in which the policies of the Bennett Government were criticised in the most partisan fashion. And this after the Province had received, as Premier Lea admitt- cd, very generous treatment in the matter of unemployment relief, and when a statute was being passed to enable the Province to take advant- age-of other beneficial measures ad- vocated by Premier Bennett and op- posed by Mr. King and his support-

Saunclers -

ernment.

ers (including members of the Lea Govrnment) in the last federal campaign.

With vchat face could the Lea Gov- ernment g0 to Ottawa for further ﬁnancial assistance, after showing its ingratitude and its partisanship by a formal resolution introduced into the Legislature for no other reason than to make political capital and dis- tract attention from its own miser-

able record of incompetency and failure?

Blueberry Exports

Blue berries have long been prais- ed as the basis for pies and puddings, but the-y seem to have another qual- ity hitherto unsuspected. Statistics indicate that the taste for them Ls lasting. Early crops do not lessen the demand for later arrivals. The Providence, R. 1., Journal says that in I929 dealers in the United States paid approximately $850,000 for .a little more than nine million pounds of blueberries shipped in from Can- ada and Newfoundland. How much the consumers pl-ld for these imports is not stated. but it must have been well over a million dollars-possibly as much as a million and a. half.

New England and the Middle At- lantic States are copiously sprinkled with blueberry patches, but the ex- planation of these large imports is simple enough, according to the Pro-

vldence Journal. The domestic sup- ply is abundant for all demands

throughout July and nearly to mid- Allgust, but many persons have noted that the market supply continues

long after the local patches are de- nuded. That is due to the activity of

the exporters ln the north. The Can- adian berries begin to arrive about the time the U. S. crops are ex- hausted, and the season continues until late September. For the most put the Canadian berries are taken in chilled or frozen. The Journal adds that there ls a distinct improve-

ment in the quality of these import- ed berries because of the modern

minz-ds of handling and preserving frcsh fruit in transit.

no not been incleased to any consid-

Nofes by the Way

The ' Gov today says the Blnningham Weekly Post ls leglslatlng for the benefit of Bov- let Ruaslm rather than for that 0. their own country. The position be comes even worse when we oonsidei that the present. British Government, by granting large credits to the Sov- iet, is actually 1:61PM: that Cavem- ment to cut out our own producers both at home and abroad. The situa- tion is so grottaque that it is almost incredible. It 1s a further proof of theextraordlnary spirit of apathy and indifference to its own welfare that seems to have overtaken a. large portion of the nonﬁction o! this country.

The poulblllty of Al: Increased trade with the Central American Republics may be inferred from the fact that the average Import trade of ' these countries amounts to about fifteen billion. dollars a year. Of this amount Canada now contributes not more than $40,000. Clearly there ls room for expansion and Canada stands togaln enormously by it provided good-business like arrangements are effected. This was the object of the recent trade com- mission who visited those countries and from the reports so far received there are many evidences of mutlual satisfaction. .

The Dominion Government s!!! the Sydney Post asked for subscrip- tions of at least $250,000,000 to the Conversion Iioan, and more flhiin 56.70.000.000 has been forthcoming. It is the largest and most successful domestic loan ever floated in Can- ada. Such a record at the acme of n. world wide business depression is amazing. When the tide turns, Cali- adaﬂs come-back will be swift and sweeping.

The craze to get something for nothing creates the stock gambllnl; the crook, and the swlndler. It.up- sets the money market, brings pov- erty and fills the penitentlaries.

The Calgary Herald, in a recent issue, declares that Spring seeding proceeds vigorously throughout Southern Alberta; that the farmers of that region are not pessimistic; that theyare not blaming govern- ments for all their troubles; that they are not looking for financial relief from the public treasury, 8nd that they are determined to work out their own salvation in spite of the present hard times. _

‘The Herald charges thei western oppasltlonist members directly with overdolng the calamity cry for their own political purposes. In like mah- ner, the Edmonton Journal, publish- ed in Central Alberta, which is one of the best agricultural districts in Western Canada, condemns the Liberal blue-ruin campaign in the House of Commons as wholly un- warranted and as extremely dilﬂllef- ous to the pairle country. It picks out the wild statements of such Liberals as Mr. MacMillan, the Llb- eral member from Huron Country.‘ The Journal credits the Hon. Rob“ ert Weir, the young Minister of Agriculture from Saskatchewan, with effectively meeting the mischievous statements of Liberal calamity _howl- ers.

A wayward person indifferent to the safety of people who cannot protect themselves from him says an exchange is as dangerous as the criminal with a gun and not. as res- pectable. He should be subjected to the punishment given the criminals. One of the greatest outrages society can permit is that innocent 900919 keeping within the law and usage of the road should be smashed info the grave or the hospital, killed or cripp- led for life and injured financially by the wanton act of a driver ' who made them the victims of his own indifference and recklessness.

Gandhi appear! In be hedﬂlll again. In declining to attend the preliminary meeting in London, the Mahatma says that he does notin- tend to leave India until the Hindu- Moslem communal problem is solved and all of the Indian Government's obligations under the agreement be- tween Imd Irwin and himself are fulfilled. The latter are certain to be settled quickly. The former has been a. problem for a number of centuries and l: Gandhi does not leave India until it is settled he will never leave India.

A contemporary venlnli of the Old barter method of trade says the Glouscester Gleaner occurred re- céntly wherf an automobile dealer wanted to sell g car to a real estate man who hadn't any cuh, but did have some empty apartments in a

good building in a good neighbor- hood. The car was exchanged for the leasing rights to two LDSﬂ-IIIQIICGJTDQ car dealer promptly reduced thrrentl on those two flats $30 a month I-nd advertised them ln a. daily newr paper. Applicants ﬂocked to the, apartment. The auto dulerellﬂ“ up with two tenuifil with 14-month leases, and $45 g month. Everybody

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CANDY NOT ALTOGETHEB TO BLAME FOB. BAD TEETH

It}: unfortunate that sugar and candy have been blamed ‘to such a large extent for the decay of the teeth in youngsters. There is no question but that if you took a. group of youngsters who ate a lot of candy and sugar, and a group who did not that there would be more cases of decay of the teeth in the sugar and candy eaters. »

Now this might be taken as proof that it was the candy and sugar that caused the decay but the real truth of the matter ls that youngsters that eat a lot of candy and sugar are not likely to eat enough of other foods, and of course will not eat enough of the kind of foods that make good teeth and prevent decay, that is plenty of milk and green vegetables.

Further, it must be admitted that candy and sugar will cling about the teeth more than other foods and will thus give more opportunity for acid formation there.

Thus lf there is not the lime and other mineral salts built into the teeth from the eating of green vege- tables and milk and the deposits are going to be left on the enamel of the teeth which favor the growth of little organisms, then the teeth are going to be undernourished on the inside, and will have organisms at- tacking the enamel covering on the outside.

However youngsters, and adults also should eat an all round diet- meat, potatoes, bread and fruits to which should ibe added milk and green vegetables. In adults who do not like milk or who ﬁnd it constipa- ting, the green vegetables should al- ways be added to the diet anyway.

Candy or sugar should not be con- demned or avoided as there is no food that gives energy to the m, as quickly as candy or sugar. A young- ster can go out after school and play for an hour on the strength anc‘ nourishment he gets from a stick of candy.

If the parent will see that the youngster gets suga" or candy half way between meals instead of just before meals, he will have the ap- petite for milk and green vegetables. In fact many youngsters have act- ually learned to like spinach because the)’ We"! k???’ hungry instead of being allowed to eat candy or pastry before meals.

The thought then is that young- sters should not be deprived of “Indy. as it gives them strength and pep for play.

THE TENT OF NOON

Behold, now, where the pageant of high June

Halts in the glowing noon!

The trailing shadows rest on plain and hills;

The bannered hosts are still,

While over forest crown and moun- taln head

The azure tent. is spread.

The songls hushed in every wood- land throat; '

Moveless the lilies ﬂoat;

Even the ancient ever-murmurlng SE9.

Slghs only fltfully",

The cattle drowse ln the field-cor- ners shade;

Peace on the world ls laid.

It la the hour when Nature's cara-

van, , That bears the pilgrim Man Across the desert of uncharted time To his far hope sublime, Rests in the green oasis or the year, As if the end drew near.

Ah,, traveller, hast thou naught of thanks or praise, For these fleet halcyon days?- No courage to uplift thee from des- pair Born with the breath of prayer? Then turn thee to the lllled ﬁeld once more. God stands in his tent door. -—Bllss Carmen.

MORE MOTORBOATS

MENIPHIS, June 1.—(U. PJ-Ari increase in registration of pleasure boats has been noted here despite the depression, it was announced by Meinph Outboard Boat Club omel- nla, who said more than 40 new boats had been purchased since the first of the year.

was satisfied. The driver got. his car. financing amazement. The renters The dealer is assured $90 a monthgil-e pleased with their blrglln in I01‘ 14 Inﬁll-bl. which will Pill h" 800d flats at low rents. Ingenuity

the ca; about. u well ‘u any. otbujuid enterprise accomplish much. _

I . 7 The Public Forum l

nzliurmmc THE cmr

Sin-Quite i. gently tourists and visitors call Charlottetown, a beauti- ful little city. We, who know the place better, hesitate to any ch01" lottetown the Beautiful. We would like m be able w sail ll 00ml“- tlously, just as we. would like to be ab]; to sgy charlottewwn the moral. the sober, the sanitary.

Who knows but all those 11106 things may yet be said 0f our 131W?

1n the meantime, it will be B90955’ ary w progress, avoiding evﬂlmlm! that smacks of i-etrosre-islon- The objective should be the elimination to a great extent as possible of in- temperarice, crime and sloth, draw- backs whlch hive no affinity wlbh all that is true and noble and beauti- gul, Ugly objects-must be removed as soon as pomlble. Old wﬂllipldlted buildings must give place to -tastll’ l! not elegant structures. Those llklll flashly pictures posted on buﬂdln88 and walls are a rePYOﬁP-h- Beautiful bulldinii. in man)’ 65595 are reduced in value by X68501’! 0‘ adjoining rookerles. Up 88111115?- 011° of our beautiful "churcheaisatumbled down broken window contraption with B. ﬂaring roster "Sﬂwkem" facing the church.

Yes, I think there is work ahead for the "city fathers." if Charlotte- town is to be called "The Beautiful." I am Sir. etc.

CITIZEN

LATE MR. J. r. HOOD

Sin-I should like to supplement the information in your recent no- tlces on the career and passing of the late John P. Hood; as the pre- decessor of Mr. Hood as business manager, it is perhaps fitting that I should make them.

First, however, allow me in the most kindly manner, to suggest that your metaphor of the Guardian be- ing “at ebb tide" was ill-chosen. The Guardian has never been "at ebb tide." A better metaphorwould have been "Great oaks from little acorns grow" and that at that time the Guardian was a tiny acorn.

Mr. Henry Lawson never hacl any connection with the Presbyterian newspaper. l-Ils journalistic endeav- ors were with the Patriot. It was Rev. Stephen G. Lawson who ran the Presbyterian up to the late '80s; whereas, Mr. Henry Lawson hacl cut away from the Patriot and was in charge of the Summerside Progress as early as 1872, when my acquain- tance with the family started, how much earlier he had the Progress, I cannot say. Rey. Mr. Lawson did not sell to Mr. B. D. Hlggs. The "low ebb" comes in at. this point, but it was in the Presbyterian. Mr. Law- son sold to a company headed by a Captain Evans from Newfoundland, who changed the name to Protestant Union, and attempted to run it as an Orange organ, but with limited re- sults and signal failure.

Benjamin Darby, Hlggs. a reporter with the Patriot, withdrew from the position to take a journalistic course at Dalhousle College, Halifax. After one year of the course, he spent the summer in Summerslde lifting the Pioneer out of the mud, (ebb tide was up there too), and in the aut- umn, returned to Halifax to com- plete his course. On his return the following Spring, he formed a com- pany, purchased the "floatsum and jetsum" of the Protestant Union, persuaded me to take, the business end of the project, and changing the metaphor, planted an acorn, calling it the Island Guardian, a weekly paper as it had been under the names of Presbyterian and Protest- ant Union. About this time, or shortly after John P. Hood joined the Pioneer forces, and we f. ‘y met and wravelled together through the country, having been acquainted from boyhood days. It was to hlm I first confided my intention to go back to the furniture work. I-le ask- ed me to put in a word to Mr. Hlggs for hlm to be my successor, which I did, and stayed on the job an extra. month to suit his convenience in coming from the Pioneer. No need of further detail.

Mr. McCready of course followed Mr. Hlgga, but not Immediately. There intervened Rev. W. R. Frame, Harry Woodworth, Duncan Marshal and one or two other! whose names escape rny memory at present. .\

Yet, the Guardian growth his been constant, persistent, insistent. "Great oaks from little acorns grow."

I am, Blr, 200., W. P. DOULL June I, 1931.

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Good Intentions

(The Editor and Publisher)

The best story Charles M. scliwob bold at the recent meeting of news- paper publishers in New York was H! himself. He was explaining how easy he falls when anyvne "k8 mm to make a public speech, and Illus- trated the point by telling of a farin-

; oow._ "I've got a‘ oow I want to sell you, charlie," the neighbor said. "Yes, would she fit into my Guern- sey herd"

"No, I dunno as she would." ' "Has she got anything to recom- mend her "

"Wal, I dunno as he has."

"Does she give lots of milk?"

"No. I can't say as she Elva lots of milk, but, Charlie, I can tell you this: she's a kind, gentle, good dis- posltioned old cow and l1’ she's got any milk she'll give it to you."

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The Great Auk

(The London Times)

There is a common belief that when the thinkers of the Middle Ages were not debating the number of angels who could stand on the point of a, needle, they were posing for each other the problem-Which came first, the hen or the egg? The question has increased in difficulty since the rise of evolutionary theor- ier, for the schoolmen could posit the special creation of an B88 m’ a hen containing the 'whole' chicken world in embryo, and they had only to decide whether the hen or the egg should be singled out for the honor. That facile solution is denied to modern biologists, who envisage a long succession of hens and eggs 80- lng back to something that was neither hen» nor egg. The problem is among the most baffling in philo- sophy, demanding a richly endowed Chair of Pullology for its study. But an allied questiom-Which remains last, the Great Auk or the Great Auk's eggtl-restores our philosophic self-respect, and we are able to r6- ply confidently: the Great Auk's rather one of seventy-two extant specimens-lies in a London auction room waitirw m be sold, thus beginning another chapter in. its chequered history. Long ago, without doubt. some Great Auk deposited this egg in her nest and proudly called her mate t0 S99 what she had found. By what de- vice it was wrested from their pos- session we know not. It next HD0941" in a collection of ten discovered m the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1861. Four years later it was put up for auction at the very rooms where it is sold’ alllin: and l" the interval it has passed by private treaty to two other owners. It sold for £29 in i865 and by now may D05- slbly have become worth £300. Killing the Auk has made its eggs golden.

It is sad to contemplate this six inches of egg, and to reflect that the vast potentialities of life therein can never be brought to fruition. F0!‘ the Great Auk, or Galefowl, is one of the few things of which it can a?" proprlatley be said that it is as dead as the Dodo. About a century 58° Nature and man Seemed to conspire in the campaign against this defen- celcss and almost wlngless bird, One of whose main homes was fltly.

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Fimk Island, off Newfoundland It had committed no known wrong. It. had not robbed the

world of a great poet, as did that misguided eagle that is supposed to have dropped a tortoise on the bold head .of Aeschylus under the 1m- pression that it was a ‘stone. One of the chief breeding places of flhe species in Icelandic waters dis- appeared in volcanic action. The birds who could or designed to es- cape took refuge in Eldery, where they were persistently hunted down by man because of what Sli- Richard Bonnycastle described as "the ruth- less trade in its eggs and skin." Those of us who were good little land babies were introduced by Charles Kingsley to the last of the Garefowl; and a pathetic spectacle

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