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President. Illll A. Burnett; Burnett: Seep-Trout. Managing Director, .l. R. Burnett: Associate Editor. Frank Walker.

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lleteraifs Land Act

Statistics giving a complete picture of the operations of the Veterans' Land Act, just re- leased oy the Departmcrit at Veterans’ Affairs, indicate that the phase of operations on which there has been mast discussion-—the project hour-es built by tI-ze director on half acre plots , ' oi land—are only a very small portion of the work done and as time goes on, will be- come still smaller. At present prpject houses represent roughly 515,000,000 of a total approx- imately $l45,u£0,f.0D wnich the people of Can- lda have invsstzd in veterans through the Vet- crr:ns' Land Act.

Prlnicnly, tn: Act is a land settlement mea- sure, [JfJVlClllQ for three typos of settlement: (a) fu'l time fcrriziirg; (b) settlement on a small holding which the veteran would operate to supplement income earned in regular employ- ment; and (c) a small nolding operated in con- junction with commercial fishing.

As at May 31 last, c total of 27,496 estab- lishments had been approved under these three headings. An analysis of the figures is inter- a-sting. They show:

Full time farming: number of approved set- tlements to May 31, 15,575; amount approved for land and permanent improvements, $55,- 131,610,‘ approved for stock and equipment, $18,- 142,798. The figures include 12,952 farm pro- perties purchased by the director and re-solcl at cost to the veteran. The average size of farm under sale was 198 acres, the group including

and Indian reserves. More than 24,000 head of Iivesfock have been purchased after inspection, and 4,793 new tractors delivered to veterans.

In small holdings the number of settle- ments approved to May 31 was 11,470, . the amount approved for land and permanent im- provements being $55,576,304, and for stock and equipment $3,833,814. The settlements include 2,225 sub-division project houses on half acre plots of land. Loans have been approved for construction of 3,645 homes on small holdings exclusive of sub-division projects, of an average size of 5 1-2 acres.

In commercial fishing 451 settlements have been approved, amounting to $1,183,021 for land

- and permanent improvements and $521,348 for stock and equipment. The average size of land holdings under this section is 15 1-2 acres.

It will thus be seen that the project small holdings built by the director which have been the source of much of the criticism directed against the operation of the Act, total only 2,- 225, less than l0 per c-ent of V. L. A. approv- ed establishments to May 31. There are an additional 438 houses nearing completion, round- ing out the total program of 2,663 sub-division project houses on I14 separate projects across the Dominion.

The Department reports that construction defects and deficiencies in houses on the sub- division projccts are bezng remedied as fast as competent workmen and required materials can be brought together on the job, and these re- pairs are being made at no additional cost to the veteran. This of course is only fair. The war veterans have been put to a great deal of trouble and inconvenience an account of this bottleneck in the scheme, and conditions can- not be remedied too soon. In the m-eantime the Department is to be commended on the frank statement it has issuer}, and on the evidence given of the garierol effectiveness of the Act, as judged by tire overall pictu:e.

British Conservative Policies

The Industrial Policy Committee of the Con- servative Party in Great Britain has published a pamphlet, entitled Th: Industrial Charter, outlin- ing the parr/s attitude towards industry gener- ally, including tiosc sections which have been nationalind, and containing proposals for a workers’ charter

'l'hor.:g.'r Eng nationalization "as a prin- ciple ugpn wf all industries should be organ- ized," the pamphlet suggests that it would be wrong "if every change in the majority of tho House of Carrrrc: wcs follaived by a complete rearganiz: ‘ 1 in c: Iain of the basic industries." They would thawfcro not deiiationclize coal, but modify the mctlzcrls now being used. Some of the powers cf the Bani: of England, now nation- alized, no Id b ‘Jfillfllid. A "wide meas- ure of frcedom" would be restored to road trans- port, but ati nationalization of inland transpcrt v. tion plan; ivcuf

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zrly ire "amended." Iron and slcel nationaliz n is firmly opposed, as is the closing of the L. erpaol Cotton Exchange. For the employee, ind: try must provide security oi employment, i iva to do the job'well and get a better one, an stctes as on individual, how- ever big the firni or mechanized the job. The I944 Full Employment White Paper of the Coal- ition Government, with its‘ cmphosis on plann- ing and government responsibility for avoiding mass unemployment, is reaffirmcd.

The Times commented that thejpublication oi this pamphlet was "the first indispensable step of the Conservative Party to establish the notional alternative.-

"A striking feature is the area of common ground with the Government. In practice, the Conservatives would change little if they coma into power now," lays Tfto Times, noting porticm, lcrly the acceptance of government planning and controls for csuntials, with fruprrtgrprlu. also. stilts,

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2,056 establishments an Provincial crown lands‘

Evidently we have so many beautiful girls her-e that it is all but impossible to choose any .o.'ie to represent us at a national beauty con- test’.

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The children and parents of children who sat the P. W. C. entrance examinations will

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that the pass list has been published. It is an anxious time for all concerned between the ex- amination and th-e declaration of results.

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The California teachers visiting our Island are doubly welcome, recalling the fact that many

who left here in the gold boom days to try their luck in Pacific old minin Th ' h

i g g. en, too, it as been customary for many of our citizens to win- ter in California, while Californians have re- turned the compliment by coming here for the summer months.

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How bureaucracy grows. tions of Saskatchewan Government Telephones and the Saskatchewan Power Commission have been placed under the jurisdiction of the Govern- ment Finance Office by a recent ord-er-in-coun- ,cil. The Finance Office, which was set up under ‘the new Crown Corporatiors Act passed at the last session of the legislature, now co-ordinotes the finances of all the CCF government's com- mercial enterprises.

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Four years ago on the afternoon of July 28, 1943, Canadian infantry entered the town of Agira, Sicily, after five days of bitter fighting cgainstyn enemy who was determined to hang on at all costs. Canadian casualties in this bat- tle, indicative of the ferocity of the fighting, totalled almost 600 all ranks. However, the Canadians had virtually cut to pieces whole units of the enemy's 15th and 29th Panzer Qrenadier Divisions, and taken almost 700 prisoners. For their part in the bitter enccunter, at least two Canadian officers were :iecora.'edr LIZ-Col. (now trial-Gen.) B. M. Hoffnreister, Officer Cam- manding the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, received the D. S. O., and so did Major H. P. Bell-Irving, a Seaforth company commander.

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Mr. Ralph Wightman, the Dorset farm-er, spoke the other day on the shepherd's "hon- auroble calling." "In all the history of our civ- ilization," he said, "I believe there has never been any job which has been more honoured than that of the shepherd. David left the shcepfald to be a king in Israel; the bcst tidings in the world were told to shepherds on the hills of Bethlehem; Our Lord compared himsclf to the good shepherd. I have known shepherds all my life," he went on, "and that knowledge has nat shaken my faith in the old imagery. Without going into any high mysteries, it is still true, in any ordinary, every- day sense, that the ‘good shepherd giveth his liic for the sheep.' I am a farmer, and a busi- ness man. I keep shecp berause I hope to make a profit out of keeping sheep. Yet I cannot l:elp feeling proud that the melaplrcrs and sim- iles which have moved mcn through all the ages have been connected with my calling."

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The famous Canadian shrine of St. Anne cle Beaupre has made extensive preparations for the Feast of St. Anne when it is expected same 40,000 pilgrims will swell the little town of 3000 population... The religious cbscrvances will be a high point in devotion to "La Bonne Sainle Anne" which every year sees hundreds of thous- ands of visitors arriving at the town nestled in a lovely meadow (Bcaupre) bttwcen the Lauren- tians and the brcad St. Lriwrcnce River, obou‘ 23

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_' THE (ZHARLUFFETOWN GUARDIAN

JULY 26. 19',“

Notes By The Way

With all this added speed of their command, we trust, that; the railway companies will look to their road- beds. A train, however powered, is onflr as good and as safe as the track ovpr which lt-iravelo. Ex- In some o; we mo,‘ cesslve speed -t.rylng totsike curves handbocks fgmflng yo me u! we hleh a rule v! speed. and Macbeod We are informed liner ysf’ °"*h“ bee“ resllllmlbl! 1°!‘ the Rooney family n nwv extinct. some of the recent railway acci- How ghjs 125...“; m” q j. amp iclents in the United States. It cult to say; presumobiy the error, “Illa happen llere- l°°- l! mflln- fan‘ error it is. was due to the fact Lenance should be overlooked and ma; m? 135i, Macucd t, p055,“ ll‘ Equlllmflll l5 110i R995 lll A1 the Raasay estate emigrated to condition. - Brockville Recorder Australia 1n ‘he "fiddle o; me 9nd “mail IXtIIDBIGGTIyII ceriégry or}? was evien- u as in. . ' é

So now we have n new "Ideal" will? on ‘m? c1331,’ mg? gjilhrvjggi feminine flsurc- A man Who blllllis kenzie. does not however moire this mannequins says American women mistake, for {t "cords ma; Mac. today are almost. perfect, and he 14mg x1, 0y Ramsay; an um“..- 0g Elves PP°D°Fl4°n$ l0 91'0" ll- Bu“ ‘the ‘(Bf-ll Highrufiders, "having got 35 lmllesi will“ 23 lllcllfii, hill! into difficulties," the estate was 34 inches, are the magic mensure- 501d in 1345 yo (193339 gain), and merits We are not solos to irrsue that rvriicLeoir emirated U! Austra- with him as to the suitability of 1,15, those dimensions, simply because o o o we clo not know whet la ideal. In The me gum R Q Muheod fact, we doubt if there la such a or Macpeod on“ mg me ma,‘ thing as a perfect figure. The Ven- when fine Roomy estate was dis- us de Milo, long recognized as the lposed of, the portrait o! the Inst acme of feminine pulchritude, was Chief of’ Rausay was aljQui-[Qfl by a hefty cow compared to the sizes the Dunvegan family and I believe now approved. It is all a matter of that it. now hangs in the gallery of taste. One man warships plump Dunvegan Castle. damsels; another wants the wispy Mackenzie slates that ‘..Ill.5 Otilef llttle clinging vine type. And, If had three brothers and one sister you are wise, you will not venture ‘(Wife of Sir John Campbell of to disagree with either. —Wlndsor Ardnamurclranr. and correctly i-e. Star. cords the moi that all three blroth?!» were {grated and left ls-ue.

Alunflnum will ("gun m, 4,. vz.: ames. u oun and Francis sign and construction of nine ships 'M°5lr 0f lll! deflendflnts Of these bufldjng 1n gamma for Qpefflflgn brothers now live ln*.\ustralla. on the Yangtze Klang, one of In a remote corner of the Nai- Chlnas most important arterial 6H8 RSI-ate. on the borders of Vic- waterways. The superstructure, lflrlfl and swl-ll Allfilffil-a. illcri? bulkheads window frames, doors lshil! htcmbstxgineuget wlt-hlrr Blfrilllgtl and fum ture will be made of ‘W C W60 I l! Wil 7i A - e mew}, in order m save weigh; 5nd mortal remains of John MarLeod Provide for additional payload. l" Rea-WY. lasi “Chief of Clan Tor- Three large ships of 283 feet. 8 llllrllll’ Tile 17115718 “like ‘"5- lll ilnchcs in length and two smaller llle "5015"- ll-P llc-mfl 9f W110?

ships of res feet are being bullbl-lllhlli and her; the euihut 01d of- m the yards o; George T_ Davy, flcer found hs lest rest after the and son’ Limited’ a; Levis‘ Que“ vicissitudes which had sc greatly \\'I’lII8 four small ships of 168 feet. flffefiled the firs-tune of its family liave been ordered from the St. [since “h? 45-

Lawrence Metal and Marine Works, Inc, Quebec City. —Ci1nadlan For- clgn Trade.

The MacLeads Of Raasay

The Home Makers Service of the Red Cross.

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0 - I It is to the Ramsay family that one of the most distinguished of ‘the officers serving under Welling- rumiay 6h: United sum doe! ’°_"~l" "he Pmlnmlel‘ W" l“- , - i _ i. . I . J . e‘ en m neighbmmg» Canadm as This gallant cffi-rer was the eldest the gentle lamb dezlcribed by our ton f Gener“ s, J h_ Mmmmd statesmen. The proposal to arm *0‘ t; R0 al“Anfl_er° ‘h, Dad Per-on, the use of Canada as our| e 3' ~ Y’ _ -3 Y _ Amelia Kerr, dough er. of the Arctic shield, the continued manu four“ Marqwss o‘ Lommn and facture of atomic bombs, the IJBCIK- lms diam‘ m mien- “ Bfldaj-os at Inn we give the ‘rsactaiiatiriiriirles who “he early age. o! 2,7 depraved xhe govern Rome _ ese n35 Plll" . ’ , zlP foreigners who have heard that 57$)’; ‘léfllilélég 0f,‘ “:1: as‘? we believe in full freedom for all Rimming’ of gs“ wimnfn-fiaplorg nations to deal with others and ' '

' l ' v c with ourselves as they will, pro- daqslglrlghlgft gigmfilx-‘Ig vsllglllrnumfigl?zg records the d'-ath of his friend and brother officer while in a le‘ter written to his wl-fe, he said: "He was the best, and will _p-. the last c-f my friends, for I cannot endure the torture that I feel ncatn. and where can I find another like him?"

Colonel Charles llfarrLecd was buried Plose tn “where he fell, and his fellow officers. desirous at‘ re- cording their afecllan aurl tlfpecb had a monument erected In “Yest- mi-xllster Abbey (In St. John the Baptist‘: Chapel), a-n which ls en- graved lihe lo‘lo\vlnz extract from Wellmgtans desp-zbzh recnriling Macbesd’; dcrfh: "In Licwenant Colonel MacLecd of the 43rd Reg- iment-. who was killed in lF-e breach. IIis Majesty hirs casual-nod the loss of an office? wr-ho was riri omnrnent to his profess on and no; curable of rendering the mcst impart-mt service to his country."

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videti It ls honorably. - The Na- tion, New York. '

Those who have been leaving Canada during the past. few weeks never were really Canadian citi- rens, though many of them may ‘rave taken out naturalization pap- ers. Tire legal forms of naturall- mtipn do not make a citizen, any more than the accident of birth makes a citizen. Citizenship is knowledge. and responsibility, and affection. And as more than one federal minister has aclcriowledfl" rd, Canada has in some degree fall- crl in making citizens of many "new Canadians“ as in the case of those returning to their home lands. — Woodstock Sentinel-Review.

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This new recommendation for U. S. vonsrlption suggests democracy 15 m; longer‘ content in just being iirnrccl f0 the false teeth. —1<Iamll— ton Spectator.

Another colorful pioneer of Can- ada's Far North has reached re- tirement age and will complete B

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fashion joy Bl-nce robin: bravely lklil. Snouldt any and i-ememlbes-tn, deo- roy The rapture of trha Spring?

When life stirs in the darkneag of the earth

Reaching to light again.

And ltgfillly is awakened to new

We should. make peace with pain.

Trees have no memory of fallen leaves Nor flowery; of withered stem: Not any lovely thing in nature grieve: When living ends for them.

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They go to God-made way,

In season blooming and in baro-

Stiould we do less than they?

_Lucy Gertrude Clorkln.

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Of the ab: Article: of Ooplbulgg. 10h on the surrender of numbing to the British. July 38. 1758, two had reference to Prince Edward Blind. as follows:

(2) "All this artZ-llery ammunlt- Ion. as well as arms of what Iclnd soever, at present In the ‘own and islands 0f Oops Breton and Sh. John (Prince Edward maria). 5min be consigned into the hands of commissaries BPDOInted for that purpose. in order to bu delivered up to I-Ils Brltanntc Majesty," (3.) “The Governor shrill give orders to the troop; in st, Jqhn (Prince Edward Island) to surren- dcr to suah ships of war as the Admiral shall please to gend go take them on board."

By thts treaty Prince Edward Il- laxid became o British possession, and General Amherst sent. Lieuten- ant Colonel Lord Rollo with A detachment of troops to trike pq§_ session. The French. garrison, Consisting of about sixty men. and lnlirrttants, submitted. All arms were" handed over fr, Lord Rollo, In the takng of Quebec, next year, seventy-eight: Fraser High- landers greatly distinguished nhrm-

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Blr, - I have read your lead ed- itorial an "The Fefld Gcffiln Situa- tion" with keen interest and may- be more concern than the overall foot: call for. I was drown to thr- following paragraph showing the vast and IIICFPBSlIIK Interdependence as betwern Wr-st- ern field CFO!!! and Eastern llve- stock: "The grand iota! of west- ern-xrown outs and barley needed from thin year‘: crop (by eastern feeders) will be of the order o! 144 million bushels, instead of tho usiml '15 million home's or less.‘ The shipments will have to be up: proximately doubled ll that am- ount can be spared.’ and if boats Ind freight can u: available to move it. If'the grain and boats and cars are not. available. then there will be Just. that much less bacon, lesl cheese, less condensed milk and fdwar egg; to snip across

gry ones of Britain and the con- tinent. verily the forces of nat-' are, here and overseas. seem to have conspired to delay recovery".l (Guardian. July l9).

A: it will still be several weeks before the Pralale crops this sea-I son may be safely recorded u "mude” one would need to know the weaihermarvs blueprints, be-' fore attempting to movn from be- neath the shadow of the "ifs" tnl the above picture. The only sure aspects m (u) - that millions of folks across unhappy Europe and Asia. are very hunrry; (Er - that, titre world's cereal blns "wheat and rice) are precariously balanced against the current demand: and (c) - that the situation It the present hour calls for ‘PcrEflSIHB cooperation within as well as lie-I yond Canadian borders?

To me. the weak sin! I'll this- w-hole food and feed scene ls the‘ lack of what the ccniiaim weer-l gtion or Agriculture describes as ml “grain bank". l.e., n reserve or stockpile of feed or ford. ni!illfl£l_ which to draw. As you know, for; the post year or so. in terms of‘ wheat the humanJaml-IY has btefl waiting for the crop to mature. One of the observers savr "man-l king i, 0n n tleld-to-mouth basis for its dolly breed". and Your edl-I torlal makes a man tlfnk of the‘

selves. and the governrrient, wish- ing to reward their officers, gran. tcd four of the Lots of 11M Island to them. vim. Colonel slmon Fra- cer. Lot: 38: Lieutenant Colonel James Abercrrifnbie, Lot. S9: John Campbell, Lot 4-1; J. M. lvfcDonnell, and otiners. Ln 42.

The French had never erected any fortifications on the Island. A few guns war».- mounted a‘. Fort la. Jole. near the mouth of Ike harbour of Gharlottetzwn. A small rrdoubt or breustwc-rk vias thrown up on the north eldc of the Hllgbgrgugh, about riine miles from Charlotte- town, and known as French Fort. This small rvcrk commanded the access by water, to their settle- ment which lay at the head of the river, and at St. Peter's and Tracndie. on the north side of