JANUARY 13,

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Grand Central is quiet again, which goes to show the importance of the American minority. 1t is safe to say that most of the people directly affected by the aural mix- ture of music and commermals either approved or cared riot a hoot. But the sharp-cared dis- senters felt strongly, and insisted

THE GUARDIAN. (mAnnUfrErOWN

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FARDIER IN WINTER.

PAGE FOUR 1950

THE GUARDIAN

Morning Daily (Founded In IBM) Authorised nu Bet-end (‘inns Mull. Pout Ofilra Department, Ottnwn.

Thu lslnnrl fluuriilnn Publishing Po. Editor and itlnlinging llirrctur, .1. It. llurnrii. Aonncisio Editor. Frunir Walker.

sultation with accountants and other repre- sentatives of industry has gone into fram- ing the rate tables embodied iii the new regulations, and it is hoped that they will result in some simplification of income-tax procedure.

Hitherto no provision has been made for obsolescence resulting from technical improvements. This deficiency has now been corrected. Many Canadian industries with rapid changes of equipment design are

Now I REMEMBER- I wAs 601N910 SAND

They planted the trees. as a sys- tem of field shelters, over n 20- section area, breaking the fieldl into plots ranging from 40 to at acres. The purpose of these field shelter belts was gto conserve moisture by helping prevent u“ Spring run-off, to cut down loil drifting and to help protect grow-_

"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest lnk" _

' cnonnorrmowu. FRIDAY_ JAN. 18, lost-l” _€*_*-¢’

The Farmer's Problems l

Each season at this time of year he thinks

Oi’ the little red fox he trapped, Fast in the steel and straining at.

and how it laid

- _ th rim, . . ,

nolY freed» atdeast partially» from an u“ m eyese 0],, a" 10,. m it w” what they_ conceived as their mg crops from) hot dry winds

The annual meetings of the Federation desirable handicap. Somewhat more favor- aka... léghtldn¥llg listen. — New York as: how effectljve these shelter

. . - , _ - , - _ H k t n k, 1 h era - r une. s are was cmonstrated last

of Agriculture in Charlottetown this neck able treatment 1s also accorded income de e zlsindowioiga; wee Wm t e 5mm“, Although the rainhu

Revolution has struck the build- ing industry. A couple of Ameri- call ex-Arimy engineers have per- fected a brick-laying machine they say will step up brickliaying speeds three or four times. Here's what we'd like to see come next, an automatic wall-painting machine that bears such delicate adjust- ments Lhat it will daub anyibodys

during the growing season was pitifully small. the famriers within. the protected area harvested crop: averaging l5 bushels to the acre. The average yield outside the area was only nine bushels to the acre. The Conquest shelter belt is on! of the many prairie tributes tv thc_ effectiveness of the worl being done in the field of soil and

rived from disappearing assets such as min- cral deposits. The intention of the changes is to re- move obstacles to Canadian industrial de- velopment. It is not true, however, notes an exchange, that income re-invested in

The amber eyes turned toward ‘the winter hill. Alert the while it licked s bloody

were of more than usual interest. The ad- dresses and discussions should serve to en- lighten the general public as well as our farm producers on a subject of prime con- cern to everyone in this Province.

Throughout Canada similar problems arc

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being discussed. Noting the zmxictyi shown by Eastern Ontario farmers over current de- clines in the prices of their products, the Ottawa Citizen reminds its readers that while housewives are rejoicing at the lower prices of eggs and pork and the prospect for lower cheese prices, their gains are usu- ally at the expense of the producers. It adds:

"When there is a general weakening of prices, the commodities the farmers have to sell almost always lead the way and it is generally long afterwards before the goods they have to buy follow the trend. Occas- ionally a business firm is caught with big inventories when there is a break in prices

plant improvement of extensions has been made entirely free of income tax. Many industries are hard pressed to keep up with technical changes and at the same time try to overtake the backlog of needed replace- ment which accumulated during the war. They are forced to devote much more of their earnings to replacement than the non- taxable amounts indicated under the new regulations. Parliament and the income tax branch have gone part way in recognizing a practical need, but the changes fall a good deal short of a hearty go-zihead sign for industrial development.

EDITORIAL NOTES

high and still.

When he loosed lt something in him leaped

Free with the freed; yet knowing all the while

Himself a prisoner, with the win- ter heaped

Against his door, and every snowy mile

To town hmpassable. l-ie dreams of

spring

As dreamed the fox of his escape and knows

April will have him out, and April bring

Release on the first south that gently blows. Restless. he paces up and down and thinks

Of the fox, and the secret wate: where he d-rinks.

-—Eicanor Alletta Chaffee in the New York Herald TTibune.

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walls with the exact shade th

0 forest conservation by the Cana-

missus wants — and on the fir-Si dian Forestry Association. —- Win- try, too. The contraption might nipeg Free Press,

cost a few painters their jo-bs

but those who would be leift would L“; Apr“. h, united "m", be 5 1°‘- haPPier- " Swell-fwd groups and seven-foot wing- B°a°°"‘H°1'“1d- spreads. 28 whooping cranes start-

The proposition train services cannot be maintain ed by the C.N.R. in the Maritime

“because of lack of coal" is too

preposterous w be entertained fo

l moment by persons who know 1 Why should this part of the country. with ample coal

the facts.

supplies, be made to suffer becaus there may be a shortage some where else’! -— Halifax Chronicle Herald.

that normal

ed north from their winter sanctu- ary at thc Arkansas National Wild- life Refuge in Texas, to summer i: successfully hidden Canadian nest- ing placcs. in Dcccm-bcr thc Na- ti nal Audubon Society rclportei list ‘.19 adult birds (apparently I hitch-hiking picked u-p

sky-road) had returned to Texas bringing with thcm four young Somewhere, perhaps in the wiriq spaces of Saskatchewan marsh- lands and tall grass, the whoop- ing crane was able to make a slight

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‘i Mathematically the conservatives who believe that January l, 195i, inaugurates the new half century have a sligh-t edge. indisputably, when you have a half dollar, the fiftieth cent is an essential part of it. and your second halt dollar begins with the fifty-first cent. Bu-t there is a certain fascination to a ne-iv set of digits, and this is especially true at the end of a

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PLlbLiL FORUM

‘l‘his column is open to the discussion by correspondents of questions ui interest. The Guardian docs not neccsmr- lly endorse tho opinion oi correspondents.

gain in its battle against extinction. The continental population of s bird which stands more than five feet tall and whose whoop can be heard for more than two miles. now totals 36, including tiwo cap- tive birds at thc Arkansas refuge and one ill Louisiana. — New York Herald-Tribune.

and suffers severe financial losses, but as a rule its economy is cushioned against such losses. The average farmer is less fortun- ate.

"Last year many big firms drastically cut their inventories in anticipation of lower prices and economists blamed that

(Winnipeg Prec Press) Today, Friday the 13th. 1r B Scottish author. Mr. Alistair ' , . , Alpin MacGrcgor, is endowed with - even an ordinary amount of dis- Now Britain is having price rate pro- LflEgARy 155519153 cretion, he will allow h lonlg time blems to solve—-on the eve of an election, l° elapse “m” he “gml 5°“ m“

_ on the Outer Hebrides. not after. 35 m Clmada- For he has vrrittcn n book about e I- t! the inhabitants of the Isles oild

some of the things he says about

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‘The popularity of literary meet- ings in Charlottetown in early days is indicated by the following

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FOOD PARCEL APPRECIATE!)

concerted action for the recession in the United States. However the government agencies there supported farm prices, and

the farmers prosperous because of the Uni- ted Kingdom contracts and the floor prices,

At this season the tourist business seems far off and unimportant, but this is the time

Mr. Lowthcr, one of the candidates for the

cxcenpt from the annual report of the Mechanics’ Institute, Decem- ber, 1859:

"Your committee would respect-

cently established in connection with the Young Men's Christian

them have engendered a distinct feeling of hostility toward him on their part.

sup-ply of whisky is still deemed a and one

Sin-Mr. Fitch

Drive received a

of Lansbury parcel from

filling and jcllics, Perhaps you can through thc

century. It is hard to accc-pt the explanation that the year 1900. as well as i899, was actually part of

year with a moderate profit. whio in itself is

substantial progress

One of the most controversial topics of the present is: How should woiiien be educated? Dr.

the maintenance of the farmers, purchqsinq for Planning if the Province 1S to make the fully recommend that our meet- ‘Villlt aroused the l-lcbrideans Callddai and P3555?‘ lid)“ 1° m9 the nifleloflllh Rem-UP! — wash‘ Lynn White, president of Mills , ‘i _' W105i 0f ItS Incomparable Sunlmel‘ attrac‘ ings in future should be held mcst. of all was his accusation that as I “m "OW {he 5§CI°WTY l°f U14‘ mg Post. College. contends that loo many

POWEI‘ probably WES the T113101‘ HICTOI‘ 111 tions monthly throughout the year, 0i‘ they failed to observe i1 decent Hay“ \v°"‘5,"5_ Insllwle- The “my women today arc being educated making the recession so shortqived In ' . . . semi-monthly for the session, iri- amoulli of reverence at funerals. “gimp! C?" rm“ a5 m the 311m?" Th0" l5 11°"! "Dllmlflfl M"! to befluvcccssfui mcn, a pattern . ' . stead of weekly as has been furm- "At many a funeral in the ivest- ' °“'~‘l~l' ‘,5, m“ Cncmsed PM“? °l 61184151186 ‘In the 1949 1311i’ 0! lhe of education he says that was set

Canada inventories also were Cut but Wm‘ Without waiting for formal nomination, erly our custom — on account of cm Highlands and Islands," he PW"- “w Palm “mtalltcd aircraft nidustry- In general. up by rehilhlsu of the last cen- B literary institute having been rc- says, "the providing or ll copious """"'° “WWI 5°“'P- mwl- P1“ lilaue manufacturers will end the tury. He maintains that because

h of physical and psychological dif-

ferences bctwecn men and wo-

matter of prilne honor. which the natives observed to the full until very recently when it was agreed that too much brawl- ing and fighting took place after- ward."

As a balance perhaps to the

City niayoralty, gives some important in- formation regarding who have, and who have not, the right to vote. This will be appreciated by citizens as a whole. I

columns of your paper, convey our sincere thanks and grzitciful appreciation for this food parcel coming as it did just before Christmas, although 1 have thc feeling that it has been rather a long time in the post. l'm almost

over 194G and i947. Military plane production will run around 2500 units. This is only hlalf the an- nual procurement recommended in the rcrpori of the President's Air Policy Commission at the end of 1947, but it is still sufficient to

men, education of girls should bl related to their special aptitude: and interests. A little over a cen- tury ago the debate over whether women's health. morals. brains and matrimonial chances would be destroyed by higher learning was

Association, they having consider- ed and concluded from diverse reasons that our Institute would not pnobaibly resume operations during the coming winter; and as this bodw, as well as the Catholic

any recession here was hardly noticeable.

“Experience shows that when the farm- ers are prosperous the country as a whole is prosperous, and when the farmers are

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hard up, sooner or later the remainder of the population will be in the same predica- ment. If there is to be a general lowering of earnings and cost of living the Govern- ment would be well advised to further help the farmers with subsidies until markets are adjusted at the lower prices. Otherwise the process might be ruinous to many of them. And that would be bad blisiness for everyone.

“The confidence of the farmer needs to be restored. It might not be much of a drain on the treasury. It could well be that he is unduly exercised and this flutter in prices is only a breather before the country resumes its march to even greater prosper- ity. President Truman may be right when he says the way is open for a rise in the annual national income in the United States equal to $1,000 for every family by 1954. If he is right, Canada cannot be too far out of step with her big neighbor. In the mean- time, let the farmer start his spring work with assurance."

Winter Roads

It is commonplace to remark how lit- tle the first fall of snow affects traffic as compared with the storms that iolloiv, yct the fact is significant, and proper considera- tion given to it might mean better roads for winter travel. The principal difference be- tween the first and subsequent snowfalls is thc existence of banks of snow along the sides of the street or highway. Without the snowbanks, the road surface is swept clear by the wind, and the snow tends to collect in the lee of the nearest windbreak. If lhat condition could be restored after each storm the amount of snow that it would be necessary to remove from the roads in the course of a winter would be drastically reduced. A move is already well advanced to build up the level of the road surface and to clear windbreaks away from the immedi- ate roadside. The next step is to do away with the embanked ‘cuttings created by the usual type of snow plow. In the country, the answer would seem to be the rotary or blower type of plow, but the problem in built-up areas remains unsolved.

Income Tax changes

Regulations based on income tax amend- ments passed at the last session of Parlia- ment have now been announced by Mr. V. M. T. Scully, Deputy Minister of Revenue. Under the amendments the discretionary power to fix rates of depreciation is taken rates are fixed by regulation. It has "been ‘the new rates while an improvement on the old, fail far short of substituting a re-

away from the minister, and the detailed

pointed out by industrial spokesmen that

The proposed customs union of the Brit- ish Caribbean colonies is of great import- ance to this country. A strong West Indian economy would provide a market for a great deal of our production, particularly fish products and potatoes. I O O It appears that it was known some 1700 years before Euclid that the sum of the angles of a triangle equals two right angles. Discoveries in Iraq show that geometry was well advanced by the year 2,000 B.C. The odd thing is that the discovery was not

made in Moscow.

An American college president again raises the question of how women should be educated, and proposes that education for girls should be related to their special aptitudes and needs. What seems at least equally desirable is that the educational pro- gramme for boys should be especially suit- ed to their aptitudes and needs. O O O John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, English lawyer and statesman, died this date 1838. Was appointed Lord Chancellor in 1801. Was violently Conservative and opposed to any lightening of oppressive legislation on the freedom of the underdog. He conducted unsuccessfully high treason prosecutions against Horne Tooke and other Radical poli- ticians of his time; opposed Catholic Eman- cipation, and the abolition of capital pun- ishment; for minor offences. O O Grocery manufacturers do not condemn the increasing number of studies being made of the spread of prices from farm to con- sumer because, “if more economical ways can be found to process and market food products, we want to know about them so we can put them into effect," says Paul S. Willis, president of Grocery Manufactur- ers of America. It is to be hoped, he adds, the results of the studies will “clarify the entire situation and prevent further errone- ous interpretations of the food industry pricing structure." O The passage of time brings changes. By next year there will be only 3,500 veterans in all Canadian universities, according to J. P. Kohl, president of the National Council of Student Veterans. Because of this, it appears that the council will cease to exist, Mr. Kohl said recently. The council. which has convened annually at this time for the last four years, will not do so this year, Mr. Kohl said. Canadian tudent veterans now number 12,000, but are widely scattered in small groups, and financial difficulties have made a convention impossible this year. Mr. Kohl explained that the council is affiliated with the Canadian Legion, which will con-

piooementcost basis for the unsatisfactory orlainsi-oost bells. A good deal of eon-

Young Men's institute, have al- ready commenccd their course of lectures, it would be injudicious to have our lectures as frequently as formerly."

There was also started about this time an organization known as the Charlottetown Debating Club. which held well attended meetings ever-y Friday night.

The meetings of the Mechanics institute were held regularly ill the Temperance Hall (now The Guardian building) which was for many years almost ‘the only building available for gather- ings of this kind. On the above date (i859) the Institute had been functioning for twenty-one years. The officers elected on this oc- casion were: Patron, Lieutenant- Governor Dundas; vice patrons. Hon. C. Young, Dr. Stratton; pre- sident, Hon. T. H. l-Iaviland; V3119 presidents, Hon. D. Brenan. J. Barret Cooper; secretary treasurer, James M. Butcher; committee. M. Butcher. S. Barnard, J. Williams, W. Murphy. R. Williams, B. Moore, Hugh Fraser. A- MuNelll- T. Muriphry. T. Hahdrahan, J. P. Tanton and J. Kennedy.

over-supply of spirits, Ml‘. Ma.‘- G-regor infers t-hnt tile supply n1’ and demand for another liquid arc

very small. This is the emulsion formed by the combining- of sonpl and water, neither one of which.’ he says, has ever found much fa- vor on the Isles. '

If these two slums are not cn-l ough to set the heather on fire.‘ Mr. MocGrcgor has several more. l-ie accuses nearly all the folk of looking on a. hot bath as non- sense. l-fe says the men inc greedy, lazy, and locking in civic respon- sibility. The women do most of the ivonk and many of them are beaten by their husbands.

These are serious charges and‘ they will no doubt be completely demolished by spokesmen for the Islanders. Pending the arrival of the direct case for the defence. a professional Winnipeg Highlander has heen asked to supply interim comment.

His face got. only moderately purple as he read through the in- dictment, as transmitted to this continent by Reuters News Agen- cy. Then he slammed thedespntch

M. P.'s lndemniiies

(Ottawa Journal)

A Canadian Press delpatchltellis of s move on Parliament l-llll to obtain higher salaries and a pen- sion plan for membe I the Commons."

First thing to be said about this is that members of the House of Commons are not D810 B!!!‘ arles", they are paid an "indem- nity", which is simply s sum of money to indemnify them against loss while performing their par- liamentary duties. The i098. m‘ theory, of the “indemnity" is that. n sent in the l-louu of Commons ll not. n lob. that it must not. be sought after or regarded u s 10b. but must be considered inst/end us an honor and privilege-tho honor and privilege of serving the lint-i.‘- It would be s ity. we think, i! this idea or theo were lolt- In these days, when Vpvealth and social signs can no lo ger be the sole passport: to P rlisment -- and rightly — lndemnltleo should be sufficiently large to enable any man or woman without means to sit in the House of Commons; to take in the farmer or the worker as well as, the lawyer or manu- facturer.