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THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

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Neptune. of name and birthplace of the

This is ample warrant for the choice New World

Agriculture In

Dissolution Possible

DECEMBER s. 14m

llotos By ‘lhs Way

HELP BUILD UP

Ulll Resistance

Transition Period Next sessmn’

(Bank of Nam Brotle Review)

Poetry series, which promises well as a means of bringing the work of Maritime authors, past and present, before a discerning public.

GIIARLOTTETOZVII lilllllillihil

Morning Daily (Founded in 1887) Authorised as Second Clasa Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa.

(By 1". O..MEAR8. Gazette Reel- dent Correspondent)

Hitler's “Mela Kemp!” ie out of the picture. Present sensation is

Tim's mine coup. —'Iloron'tn Tele- OTTAWA. Dec. 1—Palitical de-

r-eeldent, Ian A. Burnett; Vice-Preeldent, Wm. B. Burnett; Secy-Treus, G. M. Burnett; Editor and ilenagin Director, J. B. Burnett; Associate Editor. Frank Walker.

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

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1946

Saskatchcwaus Windfall

Saskatchewan has reached a five-year tax agreement with the Dominion Government. lt has also obtained a windfall from Ottawa in the way of debt cancellation to the amount of $44,400,000.

Of Saskatchewan's whole treasury bill debt of $92,000,000 the amount of $12,000,000 for 1938 seed grain advances was refunded last year. Of the $80,000,000 remaining. $61,300,000 was the province's share of direct relief costs. This is divided exactly in two, the Dominion assum- iiig $30,700,000 which is wiped off Saskatchg. wan debt. That cuts it to $49,300,000. Next= an item of $5,700,000 of accumulated interest charges is cancelled, leaving $43,600,000. Next comes the settlement of the natural resources bill amounting to $8,000,000 owed by the Domin- IOI1 to the province and which, in the settlement, offsets that aomunt of the debt, leaving $35,- 600,000.

Thus the Dominion Government has reliev- ed Saskatchewan of $44,400,000 of its drouth- depression borrowing. Of the $35,600,000 still owing, $5,400,000 is not relief debt and‘ will be paid over 30 years at 2 5-8 per cent interest and $30,200,000 is relief debt and will be paid in 30 annual installments without interest.

An important item in the agreement is the settlement of the Saskatchewan claim for pay- ment for the alienation of natural resources by the Dominion between 1905 and 1930, the period between the time Saskatchewan was set up as a province and the year the Dominion transferred natural resources to it.

Poultry Census

Hens and chickens

number to 3,037,800 birds, 91.3 last year's total of 3,325,600.

June 1 a year ago.

the i945 total of 812,900.

Sir Hartley Shawcross,

been appointed recorder of Thames. er are two sugar loaves. work since the recorder - d’ k

Christina Rosetti, English

this date 1830; daughter of

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are distinguished by metrical

Deep, Verses:

There were 89,849,300 head of poultry on farms in Canada on June 1 this year, according to estimates by the Dominion Bureau of Statis- tics, as compared with ‘$9,504,500 on June 1 last year, an increase of 0.4 per cent. numbered 85,459,200, slightly more than on June l last year, when the total was 84,724,800. Turkeys decreased in

per cent

The number of geese declined by four per cent, being 615,700 compared with 641,200 an The Canadian population was 736,600, being 90.6 per cent of

- hDIIURIAL NOTES -

British Attorney- General, who has gained a great reputation, and added to his laurels since obtaining office, has Kingston-on-the- Traditional emoluments of the record-

The post involves no never sits.

poetress, born Gabriel Rosetti, Italian patriot who settled in England, and sis- ter of D. G. Rosetti, painter and poet; her poems felicity, mastery, and deep spiritual emotion. Her works include, Goblin Market, Sing Song, The Prince's Progress, Called to be Saints, The Face of the

Better by far you should forget and smile, Than that you should remember and be sad. ‘k X i it

lt is the old story. Having created a huge bureaucracy the Government, in view of an elec- tion goes on increasing it, hence the increase of the Maritime Division of Fisheries from seven to

total duck

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disarmament or phyfilfifll merit-of cleaning up poisons of Hltlerisrn. the

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take an the-hate. brutality greed which Nazism orsanlwd- Christian Science Monitor.

of

postman every Christmas

not happen lo a mule".

cards. -Victoria Times. New York's

of fare" which listed

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tiiphitheria. Erythrin

red blood cells. erythrocytes.

fifteen, with the addition cf five supervisors.

To Allied peoples remains the talk "much harder than mere phyfilllfl

the mental Aha part of task is for them to keep Such a clear concept of true religion and of the spiritual nature of God and man that they will not themsem

Every reasonable citizen in thl! mnununity and elsewhere will agree with the United States writer who has said: “What. haPDGHS i0 the should In that pithy comment is contained a. lot of argu- mem w guppoft the case for early trialling of parcels and Bret-Mil!

famed mimosa-e‘ restaurant in 1864 (then far down- town on Pearl street) had a "bill “Regular then carried the a la carte items as follows? “Cu-p of tea or coffee, 1c: soup 2C1 hash 3c; oomed beef and cabbage 4c; beefstealr 4c; pork chops 4o‘. liver and bacon 5C; P085! mlll-"m fried eggs 5c"-— and then the bill of fare really got expensive to wit: “ham and 6855- 10¢; him‘ burger steak 10c; roast chicken 10¢". _N@a1 O'Hara, in Philadelphia. Re-

A new penicillin-like drug ex- treated from the red blood cells o! rabbits and other animals and dis- covered by Dr. L A. Silber of M05- cow is now under clinical trial in soviet Russia as a. weapflll 8811-1118! is the name of the new antiboitic. 1t comes from a, protozoa. a low form _of animal life. The antibiotic gets its name from the medical name for

Why la the ocean blue? A new hnswer to this age-old question has

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Though ll: in more than a year since the war ended, the demand for food i undiminlfiied. Even with cont nued restrictions on domestic consumption, Canada is unable to satisfy the calls made upon her. Shipments are falling far short on the British bacon contract, the cheese and egg can- tracts will not be fully met, and because of last year's heavy drain on stocks there is not enough wheat to provide exports an the scale of the past three years. ‘

Though the feed-grain situat- ion is perhaps a little better than last year because of a modest in- crease in the harvest and the de- cllne in the livestock population, suppllesare not sufficient to per- mit substantial exports and meet our own needs. In this condition of shortage. end under increased pressure from higher prices in the United States, the prices of farm products have continued to rise. and with production at the level indicated farm income has receded only moderately from the 1944 peak. Nevertheless, though the present picture is one of dlortege and high demand, there is evidence of widespread concern both among farmers and in government circles about future prices and markets.

Nor is this concern purely nat- ional. Preparations are currently under way for consideration of the problem by at least two in- ternattonal bodies. A committee of the International Wheat Coun- all, in preparation for an enlarged international conference, is revis- ing the draft convention on in- ternational wheat policy drawn up in 1941-412 by the "big four" ex- porters and the largest importer, the United Kingdom. '

In a broader field, the Prepar- atory Commission set up at the August meeting in Copenhagen of the United Nations Food and Ag- riculture Organization is discuss- ing proposals for raising the world's nutritional standards and

velopmeata much more important than fiscal arrangements will be determined by the final outcome of tax agreement talks resumed here yesterday by Finance Min- ister J. L. Iisley and Premier An- gus Macdonald of Nova Scotia.

Dissolution of this 20th Parlia- ment eaon after. the next session begins is held by those intimate with the situation to be a possi- bility. 1t is argued that unless the Nova scotie Government gets gasoline tax revenue, at. least, in a new five year pact the Liberals in power in Nova Scotia may find it difficult COI1Bl8ant1y to back the federal Liberal candi- date tn the Halifax byelection contest necessitated by the death of W. C. Mecdonald.

These well informed persons also contend that if Premier Mac- donaldb ministry cannot logically support the King Government's candidate, that candidate cannot win, and it this crucial test of federal Liberal strength goes against the Ring administration there is a chance that dissolution would be asked for.

Such a course would be dictated largely by the accumulating evi- derice that even though the King administration has really lost nominal control of the House of Commons it would certainly ap- pear, in the event of a Halifax reverse, that it was steadily los- ing prestige and cuppa-t in the country.

But so much is at stake, so far as the King Government is con- cerned, ft is inconceivable the minimum Maodoneld demaridswill not be met. There were talks here yesterday, but the actual result is not yet known. It rip- parently ie a battle of wits be- tween the economists and those who because of their position have to give a thought to the security o: political fences, between those who would adjust federal-provin- cfal fiscal relations on the basis of l fl-Eld formula and those who

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probably 518095 “D by m9 end f’! this year, the Federal Govern- ment will feel it can face Parlia- ment more confiderlY “W! We" it to block the Nova Scotla deal and bring in its train other ser- tcus political consequence!-

Then the Prime Minister has promised a cabinet shufile before the next session. How far ll 8°" will be watched with deep inter- est. for how extensive it is may throw a shaft of light on the po- litical path ahead. Pew surprises are expected unless the Prime Minister should decide to take drastic steps to strengthen his party representation in the cab- inet. both for Quebec and On- tario.

Na Forty Hour g ' Week For Britain

(Winnipeg Free Press)

e forty-hour week apparently is re- jected by the British government and will not be feasible for at least; some time, probably years. When the Trades Unlan Congress zit ii: recent conference, passed a resolu- tion in favor cf reduced workirii! hours it hardly expected to a- chlieve this objective at. once. Mr. Attica’! reply. in a wiles o! ed- dresses to labor leaders, not only seems to dismiss the forty-hour week but demands more work from

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The demand of labor unions for

The weal-inns of life that he; m will ' To clknib the steeperilng hill: The slclmess of the soul for 519m and to be still. _ Arid then once more stoned PYBmY fist Clenched cloudward and defiant; The pride that would prevail, thq doomed protagonist _ Grappling the ghostly giant.

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Victim and veriturer, tum by tum, and than

Set free to be again

Companion in repose with the; who orice were men.

'—5iegfrled Sassoon,

“Old iCliarlottelowirT (And P.E.l.)

THE CELEBRATE!) COBBEI,‘

Tile ignorance which ln our days prevails in the Old Country re- specting the American colonies is not quite so deplorable as that which existed at the period of the Island ‘history (1830) at which we have now arrived. It may amuse the rest-L er to learn what. the celebrated, OObbet thought at this time c1 Prince Edward Island, as p, 110mg for emigrants, and qt the kind of business that was prosecuted her-er “Prom Glassow" wrote (sobbett, “the sensible Scots are pouring out amaln. Those that. are poor, and cannot pay their passage, m- w“ rake together only a trifle are going to i; rascally heap of sand, rook and swamp, called Prince Edivard Island, iii the horrible Gulf bi’ Saint, Lawrence; but when the American vessels come over with iridian mm and flour and pork and beef and poultry and @888 and butter, me cabbages, and green peas, and, p. piiragus for the soldier, and 0mg- tax-eaters that we support upon thgt lump of ‘worthlessness- for the lump itself bears nothing but p».

A royal commission in 1935 awarded the province $5,000,000 but a minority report by Judge Bigelow recommended the payment of $58,000,000. The provincial government of that time refused the award.on the grounds it was too small. Since then interest on the $5,000,- 000 the Dominion acknowledged it owed when it accepted the commission award, has amount- ed to $3,000,000.

In the debt settlement the $8,000,000 was off-set against Saskatchewan's debt to the Do- minion. That is to say the present Saskatche-

been found in a newly reported re- search attempt to use llflllt. l‘!!! in anti-submarine warfare. SKY! Science Service. In attempting to find ways of combating German submarines, two American scientists Dr F A. Jenkins of the University of California and Dr. I. S. Bowen. director of Mt. Wilson Observe“)?! discovered there exist in every cubic inch of clear ocean water about a. million and a, half dust-like part- icles, each about. one fifty-thous- andth of an inch in diameter. These particles reflect sunlight beck to

stabilizing returns to primary producers. Though the original plan for a. World Food Board is meeting with considerable oppa- glfitcigngruglstctiméglssg’? high P sltion, suggestions under discus- c7‘ slon include international coni- , , , modlty agreements and the el- tablistuuent. of buffer stocks of Pram" Mwdmllm l! RIIOWH t0 mule-i arii"? ‘::..i".:"“.":. ‘.‘.‘.Z°“....‘.i‘;°‘ll' it’ . e e musmnent tax as well. The Nova Bcotla Government, in other words. wants the Federal Covera- ment to restore those two inrpor.

at least say that the lose of a by- electlon and further injury to

British labor.

Hie speeches reflect the concern of the government over the fail- ure of Britain ta attain the output of goods essential to reconstruct its economy and give it any hone B! prosperity tin the future. Britain is desperately short of labor- to make the goods it needs for itself and the goods which it must ex- port to buy the essentials of llfc.

To ask workers to produce more and work harder is exceedingly

etoes,—- when these vessels return, the sensible Scots will go back Ii them for a dollar a heed, and m; lawman qt them will be lefit but bed-ridden persons." If such an the doctrines which were taught to the Pefllile of Britain by mm like Cobbett, what must have begs the depth of ignorance

the North American colonies w prevaded the masses’). -0iimpbei.l History of P.E I. (1.875).

might be broadcast over the Club- nel "

Most business men and private citizens had been hoping that the bureaucracies would be wiped out now that the war is over, but no such luck— the bureaucrats stick to the public treasury like leeches.

s e it a

The Labor Premier of Tasmania, Mr. Cos- grove, said recently that his Government in- tended to abolish University fees. The Labor Government also proposed to erect new Uni- versity buildings, and to develop a new idea in

The most striking development in Canadian agriculture over the pest few years is the extraordin- ary wartime expansion in the

wan government has accepted the award reiect- ed by previous governments as being~too small but in the present settlement no doubt the wip- ing out of so much of the treasury bill debt was a factor in the acceptance.

A Bankcr’s Warning

The argument that Canada should follow

area school. At present, the

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ergency purposes elsewhere.

education by the establishment at Launceston of a community school on the lines of an urban

University

Western Australia at Perth is the only free Uni- versity in the British Commonwealth. It ..

Britain is recalling some of her troops from the British Zone in Germany to be ready for em- Belgian, Danish and Norwegian soldiers will gradually replacc

of common to deep OCEB-Il whim’-

eanthquakes. A scientist United States geological says the Japanese islands eventually disappear below water of the Pacific.

the ocean surface. But the llSlll that gets back to the surface has been filtered; water absorbs the red and yellow colors of light. IeavlnB greens, blues, violets, the combina- tion of which Ls the indigo blue

Japan has had muoh trouble with on the

survey. will the J apimeie

production of livestock and dairy products and the sharp decline that 1s now taking place. The record feed-grain crops of 1942 resulting from good weather and expanded acreages made possible a rapid increase in llvetsock numbers and hence a phenomenal expansion in food output. As compared with the 1906-39 ever- age, production of pork and con- centrated milk. 1t. will be ‘noted, more than doubled. while beef.

tent revenue sources in return for the province, for a period of five years, handing over the cor- poration and individual income tax and succession duties. Those who foresee dire political conse- quences should the King cabinet, by refusing to meet Premier Mac- donald‘s conditions for a peace- time tax pact, and create an ex- trcmely awkward situation in Halifax, point out that the Hali- fax by-electlon will be held be-

difflcult for a Labor government which has promised to improve the life of all the working people. Yet there is no conflict, in objectives here for Britain people can only live better if they produce more‘. goods. In this respect the chief difference between the Labor gav- ernment and its pi T€C€SBDT> is that the latter could he accused of be- friending capitalists when they urg- ed the necessity of harder work. The Attiee government cannot be

Nobody ever deserved a. stat-lb more than Mr. Churchill as a. toils of gratitude for services rendered and the cliffs of Dover over \\'l’l was fought much of ilie Battle Britain is the perfect setting. Bit tihe mayors of the Dover area think the lighted cigar would be “ quite dignified", and that l5 ti m way of putting it.

approximately one-tenth of the British forces there. lt is expected that when the shift is com- plete the occupying Belgian force will total around 12,000 men. Both the Danish and Nor- wegian units will be smaller. Troops of all three countries will operate as independent units. British War Office officials said "several" British divisions are at present in the occupation zone, but declined to specify the number. The

so accused. When it states the simple truth that Britain can only prosper by turning out more goods the trade unions cannot reasonably deny it.

The necessity cf production ls true and obvious under any system of society but perhaps is better understood when lit is stated by a government which the labor un-

cheese and egg output increased by upwards of 50% and that of creamery butter by roughly 20%. The peak of butter production. however, was passed in 194/3. that of pork in 1944, and that of beef last year.

Retrogreselon towards pre-war output levels of livestock and dairy products generally end of

fore the next session of Parlia- ment. If the Liberal candidate is elected nothing much waifld imp. pen, but should the Progressive Conservative win much trouble would be a certainty.

Prime Minister King in his Quebec City speem sought ta dia- ooursge speculation about his continuance in the Liberal lead-

scientists reveal the fact that an Island in Kyusa Bay vanished 10o years ago. drowning 5.000. However, Japan may stay above water long- er than some other countries. Scientists show that south America not s) long ago as geological per- iods go. was completely under water. The chalk cliffs of Ealglamd WW6 manufactured by tiny marine creat- ures at the bottom of the sea. And

the United States in abolishing price regula- tions at this juncture was refuted by Mr. H. D. Burns, president of the Bank of Nova Scotia, in his, address at the Bank's annual general meeting yesterday. Mr. Burns conceded that our complex network of emergency controls, willingly accepted during wartime, has become more and more bo-‘ensome in the post-war per-

iod; nevertheless for Canada to permit a free adiustment of her prices to those now prevail- ing in the United States might not only cause an upsetting readjustment of our econvlljy. but would expose us to the apparent risk of‘ down- ward change as American prices work toward a more stable basis. Until American prices show some indication of stabilizing, it seems common sense and good business to continue efforts to keep Canadian prices and costs from rising sharply.

Mr. Burns reviewed many salient points in the Canadian economic venture, leaving it to

proximately 12,000. 94

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stitutional or' home care, the

tional Committee for Mental hygiene committee's brief was

strength of each British post-war division is ap-

Out of any 100 elementary school children selected at random in Ontario cities, nine or l0 will develop mental illness requiring hospital, in- Ontario Royal Commission on Education was told by the Na- Hygiene.