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THE GUARDIAN

Morning Dally (Founded in 1887', Authorized as Second Class Mail. Pout Ollica Department, Ottawa.

President, tan A. Burnett; Vlce-hesident, “in. 1t. Burnett; Sony-Tread, G. M. Burnett; Editor and Managing Director. J. R. Burnett; Associate Editor. Frank Walker.

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

CHARLOTTETOWN. THURSDAY. CTOBER Z3. 1947

Serious Feed Situation

A very serious situation now faces our live- stock breeders due to the removal of the Federal price ceilings and subsidies on feed groin. Still more discouraging is the outlook for the near Future, as the Government's freight assistance policy an feed grain from the Prairie Provinces is to remain in effect only until the end of the current crop year. Alter that, our breeders who are dependent on western grains are presumably to be left to their own devices. This being the only Province without grain elevator facilities, it requires no prophet to forsee that our bacon and poultry industries in particular will be gravely handicapped.

Unfortunately, too, in the Legislature last session a resolution advocating a grain elevator for Charlottetown at Federal cost in the event of Freight Rates Assistance Act being discontinued, some to gricf on the racks of partisan politics. The resolution was introduced by a Conservative nember, Mr. Morrissey and it was thrown out oefore it could get into committee of the whole douse. The only Liberal member who did not oppose the motion for committee reading was Mr. i/iorrissey’; colleague in the lst District of Prince, Mr. Fred Ramsay.

if and when the local Government decides to go to the country this year, it will have some tall explaining to do as to the reasons why this res- elation-which also stressed the need of suffi- cient cars for feed grain haulage and of pre- venting further increases in the cost of feed grains and concentrates—wos so summarily dis- posed of,

Or. iireglrs Opportunity

Something which should interest our newly- elected Minister of Fisheries, and every member of his Department, is the recent announcement by President Truman with regard to the United States government's voluntary food conservation programme. Starting around November l, a nation-wide advertising campaign will seek to induce the people of the United States to eat more fish. Reasons presented, apart from the value of fish as a dietary article, will be that fish-eating will release meat and grain for Europe. Fish production, unlike meat production, does not use up wheat and corn in feeding, and granted the American fishing industry maintains

top levels of production it will not of itself beimwyer from MonneuL

jhave wide administrative matters; but once again the Mariiimcs have been ‘cold-shouldered.

able to fill the whole demand. More fish will

be wanted from Canadian Atlantic and Pacific

coasts as well as inland fisheries. l Effects of this advertising campaign should

public knows them, they are iiterariiy barren." The low literary batting average of our modern politicians is in marked contrast to the performance of their predecessors, for the list of Canadian writings is studded with references

to non-political authorship by such men as Cart-E

wright, Pope, Howe, McGee, Murphy and Meigh- en, to name but a shining few.

— EDITORIAL NOTES —

Just as off goes the ceiling on feed grains, so off goes the subsidy, meaning that what the former "makes on the round-abouts" he loses "on the swings."

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At this season we are perhaps, rather for- tunate not to have big game on the lsland. One is much less likely to be shot at for a duck than, sa\, for a deer.

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Whether or not a Provincial election is to

be held here this year, politicians of all three

parties seem already to be "rearin' to go." So for, however, everything is under cover. . s a .. Premier Jones, in speaking to the Gyro

Club, pointed an encouraging picture of farm and industrial prospects for the lsland. Every one of those developments, however, is depend- ent on cheap and efficient transportation.

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The Newfoundland commission, while ne- got7ating for confederation in Ottawa, was re- ported to have asked for a guarantee that the manufacture and sale of margarine could be con- tinued if the island unites with Canada.

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According ta Finance Minister Abbott, the members of the Federal Government have not "had a rise in pay for 30 years." Which is tech- nically accurate, but omits to take into account that last year, as members of Parliament they in- creased their indemnity $2,000 per annum free of income Tax.

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it is a laudable gesture of Mr. Mackenzie King to propose visiting the Netherlands, but it seems a pity that he did not take the opportunity

“being provided by the Royal wedding to coll a

conference in London of Commonwealth Prime Ministers. There are obvious objections to the United Kingdom having to take the initiative in such a move. I I I a

The School improvement League, inaugurat- ed and run by ladies, has had a most success- ful career to date, and shows what can be ac- complished by mothers, compitently directed, who have the best interests of their children at heart. Not only the little ones but the com- mur.ity as a whole owe them a deep debt of gratitude.

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No sooner has the York-Sunbury by-elec- tian been disposed of than Prime Minister King announces the personnel of the newly created Mar~time Commission,—with not a Maritimer in the lot. The chairman is a Vancouver lawyer, and of the two other members one is another The Commission is to

powers in maritime

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York-Sunbury Post Mortem

Notes By The Way ,

Lord Beaverbroolca latent gilt to the University of New Brunswick ls to be an ultra-modern hockey arena -- a heated structure equip- ped with ice-maklng machinery and capable of seating 1,500. According to press reports, it will cost up- wards of 8250.000. and will bring

(Sydney Post-Record)

The intensive by-electlon contest in York-Sunbury, New Brunsrw ck. terminates at the polls today. Barr- ins art electoral upheaval that would be little short o1 a political w around $19009“) ‘he ‘mount mracle, l! is impossible b0 piCbtlre “hp-h the famous newspaper pub. ‘ any outcome other than the re- fisher. financier and statesman has 1mm 01 m9 Gflwrmlle"! Caifdldam spent on our provincial university Him- Mill-ml F- GYQEE- Mill Si?" 01 in recent years. Lord Beaverbroolcs “Eheries- by 8 subsmfli 9i Diufflill’. generosity u, the pl-ovjme 0g m; This seems to be practically certain youth places all at us in the debt 59951159 the C- C- F- BIO“? BIB of this great Canadian. He may be running a candidate who w ll serve sure of the heartfelt gratitude and B6 I ShOClK-Elbsf-‘Pber f0!” the Kins warm gppregllfllgn or his fellow Government along the lines of the New Bfun5Wl(‘ker§_ _ 531m John lastgenerul election as well as of

Tclcgraph Journal. two-th"rds of the lay-elections which

' have been held in the past couple or years. That pufblic sentiment ls strongly against the tired but stubbornly over-holding reg me at

It wan quite a ahock the other day to read in The Pa: newspaper a long account of a fashion show

held at Flln Flon. Even the re— Ottawa goes without Srling, for‘ porter who described the event tlvs has been deciiansirated at showed that he or she knew as every electoral test snce and m-

cluding that of 1945. But the C- C. F. candidates. utterly hopeless as their cause has always been al- most invarlably poll enough antl- Governmeni votes la- make .t, next to impossible for the Progressive Con|ervatdv|s—\vho tonsttute the officznl opposition from uihich tho next Ministry must CCTn€.—'l/0 con- solidate public op nion strongly enough behind their candidates to ensure success at the poiiS. Park- dLlB, Toronto, nlld .Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. are two notable exceptions.

Obviously the C. C. F. diversion Ls but a temporary conditzon, which time w.ll inevitably cure, for intell- igent people-and even the most superficially informed electors-are ,cert.a.n to get tired at last of throw- ing away their votes on a docmed and fantastic cause, and to con- centrate llnally on one or other of the only two parties that are. or are ever likely to be able to farm a Federal Administration, (lilenri- whlle. and so long as these C. C. F. Socialists tarry as a sufficent for- midable nuisance on the pol tical stage, the net result of their act- ivities can only be to help retain an unwanted Government 1n offlie at Ottawa.

Politicians As Writers

much about latest fashions as the average writer for a city paper. Dis- appointment and disillusionment is great. Never for a moment did we think that the mugh-and-tough Flin Flon would go snooty on us. Now we are prepared for anything and will not be suprised if we hear that some of the oldtlmers are strolling around the main street of Manitoba's mining town attired in morning coats and tap hats. — Winnipeg Tribune.

Pig raking 1| becoming a nlu profitable business for the North- ern Qntorio farmer. Why? Par- tially because the malor meat pack- crs have been finding it increas- ingly difficult to get along with their employe unions and the small packers are moving into a more important place in serving remote areas. Certainly this dis- ttict is finding no meat shortage despite the nation-wide strike in the two great packinghouses. The pigs which have been raised by iarmers in this part of Northern Ontario have found ready markets because of the shortage from out- side areas. - ’I‘lmmlns Press.

A complete revision of the prel- ent examination system in secon- dary schools, to take effect in 1960 is recommended by the Sec- ondary Schools Examinations Coun- cil in a unanimous report publish- ca this week. The report susseste that both the School and the High- er Certificates should be swept a- way and a new and more fluid sys- tem of external examinations should take their place, for chil- dren "going substantially beyond the minimum leaving use." In this system there would be no pass or fail for the complete examination, but a series of certificates for sep- arate subjects. The greater num- her at children would not. take an examination but would leave Wllll a “school report" based on the whole oi their school career. 8nd (Olltalnlltg the fullest. possible in- formation about abilities and p0-

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It used to be that journalism was a, tre ning ground for politics. Today it's the other way round, wth every mother's son who has gven up politics, or been forced to give it up, launching into jcurnalsm- or author'shlp.,Thus we have had Mr; Jlm Farley, long the Democratic Party's Natonal Chairman, wr ting what he thought of Mr. Roosevelt (and what; Mrs. Farleyr thought of Mrs. Roosevelt), iv-iiicli sometimes wasn't; much; and Boss Flynn, who succeeded Farley, writing an how to run a party organization; 11nd Mr. Morgenthul, who Was R0050-

_ _ , 'lt“ Se eLar f the Treasury‘. iflmahnes‘ _ Manchester Guard‘ her ting (Cl; Covlligfsi that l5 it ‘an ihadnl been for colleagues like

Ickes and Henry Wallace he could have saved Roosevelt from a lat of grief; and lckcs (now i. Columnist! uniting equally lmccmplmcntriry

This is the time or aw" whim motorists begin to think of airti- freeze, Perhaps it. is a little early t0

m OCTOBER

The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a. cry

Of buglea going by. ‘

And- my lonely spirit thrills

To see the frosty asters smoke upon the hilll.

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There is something l-n October sets tihe glpcy blood aatlr;

We must rise and follow her,

when frcm every hill of flame

Sihe calls and calls eaati vagabond by name.

-Bliss Carmen.

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“EXPORT”

No account of agriculture in Prince Edward Island would be complete without a tribute to the personality and executive ability of Dr. James W. Robertson, for many years Commissioner of Agriculture and Dairying for the Dominion. Years of poor crops and depression were beginning to be frequent oc- currences in this Province. The warning of the old Agricultural so- ciety nad not been heeded. Much of the fertility of the land had been dissipated by extensive farm- ing methods, and a vital problem faced our farmers. Prior to 1892 at- tempts had been made to establish cheese factories at St. Eleanork, Dunk River, Millvlew, Hunter Riv- er and Cornwall. The attempts failed, and it remained for Dr. Robertson to instill life into the industry and to encourage the farmers of the Province to feed their raw produce instead of sell- t ing it from their farms.

In 1892 Dr. Robertson, in the 1n- terest of dairyiilfi. visited personal- ly a large number of centres. His strong personality. and power to assist financially for the time from the Dominion treasury finally triumphed. The first factory was established at New Perth. Eleven factories were started in 1893, six in 1894, and this number had in- creased to forty-four in 1902.

1t was largely as a result of Dr. Robertson's efforts that the Prince Edward Island Dalrymen’: Asso- ciation was organized in 1892 to encourage the production of milk, and to look after the interests of the dairy industry generally.

archyes of their country; as mater- ial for hstcrians of the future. Not. so today. New the secret of the cabinet or the conference room becomes the current property of statesmen, who seemingly consid- er themselves free to make use oi .t when and as they please-and to make use o-f it. at a prof t. Nothing is any longer confidential, regard- less of where, or under What. ar- cumstances, it happens-cl} in the cnd is subject to the market place; sold l0 the publisher who makes the highest bid.

Not, .t must seem to many, a

'wiho aspire to the

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Patronage And a Appointments

(Otl-aiwa Citizen)

The announcement by the Minis- ter of Justice that seven new Judges have been appointed is a reminder that irhough most. civil service ap- pointments are now made on the merit system by a special commis- sion, the filling of positions in some other branches of public service re- mains in the discretion of Cabinets. Formally, the Governor-Gemeral-in- Council decides who shall be a Judge. but in practice the recom- mendation of a minister la usually accepted in the filling of a vacancy.

Members of the legal profession bcrnch look to TITIC government of the day to fur- ther their ambition. This power of appolnttneni: unfortunately can be used for political patronage. It certainly contributes to bringing an undue number of lawyers irnto public life.

The Canadian judiciary enjoy a high reputation for ability and in- tegrity. The tact that many judges have at. some time been politically active is not to their discredit, and as Judges they must abandon poli- tics. Nevertheless it would serve the public interest in bath politics and Jurisprudence if political ac- tlvity had no bearing on the pro- fessional advancement of lawyers.

STERLXNG, SCUYLIND — (CP) - The war proved that people do not requre to retire at 60 or 65 said Dr. A. D. Briggfi. u Glasgow medical superintendent.

ROMSEY. Hampshire. England- (OP) — Alderman Robert Chem- bers, vnho is belicvcci to hold the country‘s maycrality record - he has been mayor nine imcs. egixt times consecutively - is to become

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‘date. "Why," it is asked, "is there not arcng

But apart from this possibility, would it noti be advisable for the Dominion Government, in conjunction with the Provinces and the organ- ized fishing industry, to launch a similar nation- wide campaign in Canada? With thevmeat short- age accentuated by packers’ strikes during the past several weeks, it is astonishing that our great fishery resources have not been utilize more fully in this emergency.

Hon. Dr. Gregg would be making a good’ start on his job if he tackled the problem of‘ increasing fish consumption throughout Canada‘ as his most important immediate objective. it‘ would be a tremendous boon to the Maritimes.‘ The best market our fishermen have is right ot~ home, and it is one which, under governments ofi both political stripe, has been shamefully neg-= lected.

Poor Batting Average

A recently published American encyclopaedia, in its section dealing with Canadian litcraturef makes the following arresting assertion: "Pre:-' eat-day political figures in Canada are notably unproductive in the literary field, but many Con- adian statesmen of earlier times were prolific find able literary craftsmen and their works have an important place in Canodianc."

Speaking generally, this describes the sltlltr | tion with fcir accuracy. lt is difficult to dis-‘ cover, among our "present-day political figuresf’; a single man af creative literary inclinations among the whole crew; while looking back at the politicians of yesterday one does observe a record of literary effort which is notable.

This curious matter is discussed by Walter Herbert. in the Winnipeg Free Press of recent

the nineteen members of the present Federal Cob- inet, for instance, a single man who writes for public entertainment, enlightenment or instruc- tian? These nineteen men are the leading citi- lens of our country, elevated to their exalted posi- tions altar displaying their mettle and proving. their merit in the not easy process of democratici politics. _Presumably they should reflect, as 0' ‘group, the main characteristics of the citizens they represent and who are their Iovds and mast- arr. lut this they do not do insofar at Can. adian cultural interests are concerned, for on\ "Parliament Hill than is not oven one cabinet minister who indicates extravert‘ interest in music, literature, art or drama. Not one who molt a poem, a novel, an essay or biography, a learned discourse on political philosophy.

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‘that she is risking her very existence to boost exports to meet her foreign commitments.. A

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The Bottle of Edgehill, in ' which both the Royaiist and Parliamentary Parties claimed victory, took place this date i642. Amongst those who fell at the King's side was Sir Gervase Scroop, He lay for thrce days among the dead when his son, who was also in the battle, rescued him and took him to a neighbouring inn preparatory to burial. In doing so he discovered life in the body, and took meas- ures to revive his parent, who then lived for an- other ten years.

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The time is not for distant when it will be, as common a thing to order an air taxi, as itj

was once to hire a horse-cab or is to telephone now for an ordinary taxi. Britain's first air taxi, o Bristol Type l7] helicopter, has made its public appearance and its test flight was most satisfact-

'ory. The helicopter can carry thrce passengers as

wcll as the pilot. The 450 h.p. engine has a 200 mile range at a normal cruising speed of I00 m.p.h. As its rotor has only a 47 foot diameter, the helicopter can take off from and land on vary small areas. fl Q