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THE GUARDIAN

blaming Daily (Founded in 1881i. Authorized as Second Clue Mull. Post Oflice Department. Ottawa. nesident. Ian A. Burnett; Vice-President, Wm. It. Burnett; Secy.-Treas., (i. M. Burnett; Editor and Managing Director. J. it. Burnett; Associate Editor, Frank Walker.

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

CHARIDTZTETOWN, TUESDAY. DECEMBER 9, Ambitious Plans, But-

A forgotten class of men under the Jones Government has been our fishermen, for whom great things were planned by the Government's Advisory Reconstruction Committee three years ago. This committee recommended, among oth- er things, the establishment of a Provincial De- partment of Fisheries "under a suitable Minister who will administer the department with the as- sistance of two men or more as the department expands, and a secretarial staff." The assist- ants of the Fisheries Minister were to be‘ a dir- ector of Fisheries, together with a chief clerk, the latter to look alter records, compiling of sta- tistics, survey of markets, etc. The former was to be “a man having both scientific and prac- tical experience in the various phases of the industry, who would act as field man for the pro- motion af improved methods of fish handling, packaging, grading, etc." The estimated cost ta the Province of the new Department was $11,500.

The new officials were to make a detailed survey of the requirements necessary to better fish production in the Province, the main items of such a survey being:

(a) improvement of boat harbours to ac- commodate larger fishing boats, or the creation of new boat harbours adjacent to the best fish- ing grounds where no such harbors exist.

(b) Inspection of breakwaters and safe- guards far boat harbors with a view to repairs and improvement.

(c) Erection of new plants for handling, storing and distributing fish, including fish piers, salt fish storage, canneries and cold stor- age.

The committee recommended inclusion in the curriculum for vocational training of a course of studies that would include training in the best methods of commercial fishing, in proper methods of dressing, handling and packaging fish, in the technique of freezing and staring fish and in the operation of fish canning, etc.

lt also recommended that investigation be made into the possibility of erecting a system of cold storage plants for the promotion of the marketing of fresh frozen fish, principally in fillet form; also that the new Department make an investigation and survey of the possibilities of setting up industries which are allied to the main fishing industry. Such a survey would in- clude the manufacture of certain types of fish- ing gear, as well as fish box shooks and the local manufacture of cans ta take core of all local business; also the setting up of a small chemical plant for the following purposes:

l. Refinement of fish oils for medicinal use, the lower grades of which could be combined with imported vegetable oil for paint manufac- ture.

i 2. Manufacture of glue from fish offal.

3. Production of fish meal.

4. Production and processing of Irish moss and kelp.

What has the Jones Government done to implement these recommendations, which were tabled two years ago in the Legislature after the Committee members had been eulogized by the Premier for having done such an excellent job? The Government's outstanding achievement, so far as our fishermen are concerned, was prob- ably its action at the last session in insisting on imposing an additional three cents per gallon provincial gasoline tax, not even allowing a re- bate to either our farmers or fishermen for any purpose whatsoever.

Bureaucracy 0n Rampage

Speaking of the latest arbitrary moves of the King Government to meet the dollar short- age, the Fortnightly Law Journal says:

"We have often warned that not only would the politician not willingly relinquish the power given him by the wartime opportunity for irre- sponsible government, but also that those who had begun as the tools of the politicians’ power lust and had ended up as the masters of the poli- ticiarrs would endeavour to postpone as long as possible the day when they would again find themselves faced with the necessity of finding useful employment. The fact .that much of this new des otism introduces measures which will tend ta essen the demand for manpower in pro- ductive enterprise lends credence to the thought that bureaucracy itself, staring demobilization in the face, may have had a hand in its design.

"From the lawyers’ point of view it is not im- portant to debate whether the dollar shortage is an emergency or not, though it ought to be ap- parent that it is not. This is not the first time in Canadian history when there has been an adverse U. S. trade balance. ln fact it is to be doubted whether there has ever been a time when that has not been the case. Neither does it matter wheth- er the situation in which we find ourselves does not arise from the mistake of trying artificially ta maintain the parity of the Canadian dollar. The price of the Canadian dollar on the open market seems to answer that. Nor does ‘rt mat- ter that permitting the Canadian dollar to find its own level would provide an effective remedy. What does matter from our point of view is that, whether the politician or the bureaucrat is the guTding spirit, we find ourselves In a situation where the habit of wartime despotic government is being resorted to as a perfectly natural and ordinary routine of peacetime government. No excuses are offered. Evidently the politician and

the sawdust Caesar of bureaucracy consider that . the public have become so indrrrated to tire slave

ltatcanelhods of wartime that it will swallow

the adaption u time methods

as a regular incident of peacetime government. This is the product of the type of thinking that fought at the meeting of the Canadian Bar As- sociation at Ottawa in September against a resolution that indicated a knowledge that civil liberties were being invaded. But it is worse than that. Not only are the methods adopted the methods of government in a slave state, but the introduction of the measures by despotic de- cree without parliamentary consultation and de- bate is further proof, if such be nleeded, that the oligarchy, that has gorged on wartime despotic POW". now fecls itself safe to abandon even the

, semblance of the forms of democratic govern-

ment and blatantly resorts to despotism without even the blush of an excuse."

é, tDIIORIAL notes _ One more day atrd then the election,

Voting is a duty of citizenship. The man who "doesn't take any interest in po|itics” is a

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While other Maritime Provinces are intro- ducing new industries we are standing still and letting our young men go elsewhere,

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Fishermen have had a good deal of hard luck this year. The smelt season offers the last op- portunity for them to come out ahead of the

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Other considerations being equal cost is a decisive factor in selling goods or services. Pre- mier Jones deals in a very expensive brand of government. I l‘ O i The blow has fallen. The price of news- print again has been increased another $6 per ton, making it almost a luxury both as regards price and availability. i I I i If a "free vote"—-that is non-party division- is taken on Mr. Sinclair's bill to admit margar- ina for sale, our four members, we are told, will holdritho balance of power-an example of where "unity is strength.” I l‘ I I There is to be no ceiling on potatoes, but it does not matter much as the farmers for the most part have disposed of their crops, and only the middle man and consumer are now con- cerned. I i I I / lt is taken as axiomatic today that hunger and poverty are the stuff on which revolution and all kinds of "isms" flourish. lt’ is signifi- cant, however, that relatively well-off workers are the most demanding. Real hunger seems to take the tight out of a man. I I I W

G. B. Show has mellowed somewhat with age. ln hrs earlier days he said "the fickleness of the woman l love rs only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me." Now he says a philanderer is a social weed to be rooted out root and branch. Q I I Q The question hos been raised but goes un- answered in the British House of Commons whether a "nationalized" industry and a "social- ized" industry are identical. ln any case the gov- ernrrrent makes it clear that its plans require that the control boards exercise wide powers for which the appropriate minister need not answer in par- liament. I O Q W One of the omissions from the Speech from the Throne is the expansion of immigration. Ap- parently theKing Government is not concern- ed about bringing our population more in line Willi. the countrys resources and transportation services. i i I i While Molotov seems waiting to see the outcome of Communist agitation in France and Italy, the U. S. A. is delaying the necessary assistance to Britain which would effectively stay his hand. Churchill's warning, repeated now for the third time, should not go unheeded if Christian civilization is to survive. Britain is in peril. _ a w a n Canvasscrs have had a good opportunity to get in effective heart to heart talks with elector; the past few days. A concensus of opinion is I'll" the 1W0 leading parties will be returned each by a small majority, but if the uneXpected happens there will be a clean sweep in favour ‘of one side or the other. The C.C.F.'s are, for the most part, considered merely interloper: upsetting a straight fight. i ‘l’ t .. Ezra Cornell, founder of Cornell University, NEW Yflrk. died this date i874. When public grant of lands to separate States for technical educational purposes was made in i862, he a New York Senator, added $500,000 to the New York fund on condition it was applied to the foundation of only one institution for classical and technical instruction, and gave his home and lands at lthaca for a site; degrees are grant- ed in arts, chemistry, law, medicine, agriculture, engineering, science, etc.,' it is non-sectarian and staffed by non-resident professors. I i’ I i‘

Industrial disputes in Britain since V. E. Day have caused a loss on an average of no more than one hour and ten minutes a year per work- or. This is revealed by statistics which Mr. lsuacs, the Minister of Labour, gave in the House of Commons recently. Mr. lsoacs said that only s-.x and a half million working days had been lost because of industrial disputes (including all un- official as well as official strikes) since May, i945. Since there are, on an average, l8 mil- lion people engaged in United Kingdom indus- _trres,_this is roughly equivalent to a lass in work- ing time par worker of lass than 3 hours ovv the two-and-a-half-year perior, or one hour and ten minutes for twelve months. These figures appear in a still better light when contrasted

with than for tlra corresponding period after the First World War. At that time 89 l-Z mil- lion working days were lost-fifteen times more than the present post-war figures. . '

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“Manner: are what vex or soothe. corrupt or purify. exalt or debase, lrarbarlze or refine us. by s. con- stant. steady, uniform, lnseuslbl-z operation like that. of the air we treathe ln."- Edmund Burke.

Women's cricket ts becoming more and more popular tn Aus- urulla. More than twenty women's ‘scams began games 1n the Syd- rrey metropolitan lnterclurb cr-lcke: cam-petition recently. Interstate matches will be played in Victoria early in the new year followed by a tour of New Zenland by an Australian team. -- Australian News.

Ten yours ago a year's crop of babies in Now York was about rouodo in the city. This your at will be about. 170.000. In flve years the 152,736 babies of‘ last. year will be going to school. All over the country this process will be re- peated, straining our capacity n teachers and classrooms, and later the college facilities. It 1s a rc- sponslbiltty to reckon with at once. - New York Times.

l! existing provincial legislation rriterferas seriously with local cm- taol over pedestrians then 1t ls .11’. to tho munlcipsl authorities to request. that that legislation he brought. into line with urban needs. There should be no unreasonable barrier to the formulation of mod- ern local by-lowa for traffic ccn- trol. Once the naceuary machin- ery 1s set up, the matter shculzt be treated as it has been with good results elsewhere. This means properly defined rules for the pedestrian. with stiff Denanros, similar to these elven motorists. l<z infractions. - Toronto Globe and Mall.

I wonder which of our feather- u: friends it was that they served w me as Roast Duckling last night. During lbs life, which was by no means as short as the menu suggested, what. did 1b lack like? it mkht have been a. scoter or a cvlllp, for these see-going wild duck, formerly deemed unfit for llre table, now command u read-y market. 5o_ as s matter of fact. rloos practically any blfd- L!" vear comm-ants were fetching from 5s. to 0s. each, and three Calbhness fishermen with one mot- orboat. made as much as £70 in a week. I know of a. UHCOlBBhlYB poacher who shot 100 swans last Winter and got £2 a. head for them 411d of a man in Scotland who sold I forget how many sacks of young raoks from one rookery for £47. Tire tone 1n oyster-catchers is firm and your last helping of tulle nralsan may have included almost anything from a mlssel-thrush to nn avocet. I suppose we shall he caring owls next year. -- 1.0116011 Spectator.

There la nothing particularly new. 1t. would seem, about: the vast deposits of iron are on the border between Quebec and Labrador, the development of which ls now re- calving so much attention. As long {go as the your 1895 a Canadian geologist, Dr. A. P. Low. reported as a result of an exploration of the Labrador country which lasted for seven years that iron ore 1n s.ght. in the Fort Mackenzie sec- tion "must. be reckoned by hun- dreds of millions of tons." Dr. Low, who became director of the geological survey and deputy min- ister of mines. also located valu- able deposits of iron ln the l-lucl- son Bay urea in 1901-01 APP“- eritly Dr. Law's conclusions re- garding the iron deposits of La- brador remained buried in geolog- tcal survey or boundary reports un- ‘I recently. just as many other reports of mineral occurrem-es made by geological survey person- Lei were ignored for years. In some cases however, those find- ings, acted upon by prospectors, gave led to valuable "discoveries." ~Bmckvllle Recorder and Tlmcs.

Anne Shelton la .1 23-year-old London girl who broadcast cheery songs and talks to British troops curing the war. The boys liked her so much that the 13.3.0. received more requests for more broadcasts b». Anne than by any other enter- rulner before the mlcrophor e. To- day she ls a star, earning ,000 a year, and as her fame has spread it. the Untied States she has re- ocrved an offer of 5300.000 a year to go there. But.’ Miss sheltnn 1e riot. going. “You may think me nrazy,“ she told a reporter, but. much as I want. w go on a tour c.’ the United States. I won't. walk out on the boys who helped to put me where I am and while we're still having a rough time at home. I'm staying in Britain to do what I can. I'm just. a Cuck- ney kld,. and I don't. forget." Not. one person tn a million might re- fuse such an offer. Most. others, like the parson who prayed for guidance in regard to a cal) from a church paying a big salary while his wife started packing, would have pondered about aoceptlhg the offer while her mother started gtllltlg tier baggage ready. - 5t. Thrones Timer-Journal.

Two or three years ago we beard a good deal about the vir- tues of Basic English, and bptlmlsts sufleew! that in it. a. really prac- tical universal lealuaza trod at lust. been found. lays The Peta- DOIOIIH Examiner. It. Wll oom- porattvely easy tn learn. and what» ever was said ln‘lt was aotd with unmistakable clarity. Indeed. it was this later qualify which endeared Beale Isallutr to Ir. Churchill. that master of expressive Iullatr nrd hater of lolrbledaeoolr. lat

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$ir,—1.asl week some one was writing about the bad state of the roads in the St. Peters District. They can't be any worse than those of tire Murray Harbour Dis- trict even though there is lots of activity lately on them. Condi- tions are bad enough but the Government ls sending out a can- dldate from Charlottetown who stands very little chance of elec- tion. They send a men out of this district who has no trope at. all in the Cardigan District, and ignore the former sitting member there who was away to the War. What. kind of a game is it. anyway? We are not blind to the way road contracts ivere handled not so long azo. Those that =have the drag with the Government or are 1n Government positions are sit- ting back and directing things as they please. It is u good thing that. these people who are being push- ed around as fronts will not. be in positions of trust after December- 11th. We need more of those fear- less independent member-s in the Government like the ones in the Conservative Opposition. It cer- tainly 1s time far a ehsngel I urn. Sir, etc.

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NEW POLITICAL TECHNIQUE

Bin-Premier Jones is u. great rum. A recent Canadian Press re- port. calla him the Will Rogers of P. E. I. Besides being a great. humorist he is also u treat. economist. He may indeed be some day recog- nlaed as the Adam smith of the twentieth century. His statement that. wages must be depressed so that. industry may be induced to locate on P.E.I., could easily be the bllll for a new economic low -cel1ed “Jones Paclringhouse haw-stated thus: "The prosper- lty of a Province is inversely pro- portional to the wage level of it; Industrial workers." Main. Premier Jones la l. great paycluolozlst. Hts theories an “how to win friends and Influence peo- ple", are more advanced than ttvacerot Dole Carnegie. His new technique for winning friends among labor ls a' threat “to gel. his hack up and outlaw all labor unlonsf‘, and by boasting "we will beat them." Sir", -lf this entirely new brand of psychology ls ap- plied to domestic life, men will henceforth beat their w-lves only to show their frlendrllness. Premier Jones. moreover. ls s great romantic counsellor-the Mr. Anthony or Dorothy Dix of P. E I. His advice on “choosing a write the same as choosing a cow" may furnish the solution to our divorce problem. Above all, our beloved Premier is a. great medicine man. It is the boast. of the 0.0.1“. that, in the Province of sRSkIIlChEWflli each person receives full medical care for five dollars per year". But. as a result at the homeopathic tl-leor- lee of Dr. Jones and interne Dr. Cullen, a P. E. Islander can re- ceive treatment. for six months for only one dollar. Several new dlspensarles have been added. and medicines obtained at these clinics will relieve an indefinite variety of aches and pains, and_ in as short a time as five or ten minutes re- store the mortally sick to health and happiness. Yes, Jones and Cullen may yet. be recognized. as the Mayo brothers of P. E. I. I am. Sir. etc. C.C.F. ELECTOR, LOT 18.

WORTHLESS LIBERAL

ARGUMENTS Si-ry-ln nearly all tire Liberal broadcasts and speeches, I notice that. the speakers compare the years of the 1930's when the de- pressions were all aver Lire world to the present period of high prices. 1t is unfair‘ and untrutlrful to blame that world wide depression on the Bennett Govcr-nunent. oft-hat. time. Vl/rhorr they even blame the Local Conservative Government of that time it ls not only n distortion o-f facts, but the smallest and meanest of political misrepresent- atfion,

Surely these speakers are intel- ligent enough .to know rural. there was a world-wide depression dur- ing those years. Was Canada rc- sponslble for that. unrest and irpset ln the United States? What about. the hundreds of bank failures,‘ and financial institutions all over the United States? Prices for all kinds of produce reached an all time low and i-Ylbililfllls of people were ruin- ed fI-nanclally during that dark period. In contrast in Canada. not. one bank or financial institution failed due to the exrpert knowledge and for seeing ability of Prime Minister Bennett and his Govern- ment. Prtoes In Canada as else- where were low. but. living con- ditions tn Canada were easier trhon now. Never was the cost. of living to all of us In Canada so high as now and prices of all necessities all“ rlslnz with no hope of relief unless the Conservatives let back to end this awful condition.