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35gb FOUR TIIE IIIIIIIILETTETIIWII GUARDIAN

Morning Duiiy (Founded In i887) Authorized us Secuzitl Class Mull. Pout , Qepurtment. Uttisvra. President. Ion A. uUPlIPI-l; Vice-President, Wm. ft. Burnett; SC('y.-'rl‘l‘i/I§.. Ci. .11. Buriictt; liiliulr urru Mflllllgllil lllrectiir, .I. It. Burnt-ft; {Associate Erlilor. Fruzik Walker.

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"The Strongest illi-‘nrory is Weaker Tliiin Use Weakest Ink."

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An item of interest to our farmers comes from Sydney, N. S., where the Cape Breton Poul- try Producers Asscclaticn ;.-i a special meeting set up a fact-finding CCIlIYII-IIEE to inquire into the feed situation and aflendant increasing costs. The meeting drew a repres:ntative gath- ering from all centrzs of Cape Breton lsland, the reason being that within the past vear, price of feed supplies has increased 20 per cent, and rumors were that another increase was ex- pected about Aug. 1. Decision was reached at the meeting to appcint a committee to make a comparative dealer price survey of the district and elsewhere in Nova Scotil, and later make representations to Ottawa.

Our poultry men have boon badly hit by exorbitant feed costs in this Province too, and the action taken in Cape Breton might be fol- lowed with advantage here. Certainly we should be more concerned than any other section of the Maritimes in the question of poultry feeds, for we are one of the banner poultry provinces of the Dominion.

In no other department of agriculture- not even that of hog raising-has greater pro- gress been made in this Province in recent years. Since 1929, for example, our laying hen population increased from 395,000 to 690,000 in 1946. ln the same period the production per hen was stepped up from 91 eggs per year to 110, while the estimated total egg production in dozens increased from 2,995,000 to 6,371,000. Last year 538,285 day-old chicks were dis- tributed from lsland hatcheries and the percent- agc of hatchability has been steadily increased. Also, in disease control measures, particularly relating to pullorum, we lead all Canada.

Feed‘ costs are all-important in poultry raising, and if there is to be another increase in feed bills in August it will have a serious de- terrent effect. This is a matter which should receive attention ot Ottawa. The best way to ensure it doing so is to have all the facts and figures relative to th'e industry collated and analyzed. lf the Cape Breton Association can do it, why not our progressive egg and poultry organization in Prince Edward lsland?

That Secret Session

The Ottawa Citizen criticizes, and rightly, the planning of a secret session of the external affairs committee of Commons to hear about conditions in Europe. Actually, the session was made to include the entire Commons, and appears to be a reversion to a measure normally accept- ed by the people only in wartime.

The implication is that the Canadian aeo- ple, who sur-ely have the right to know the real state of affEirs and the attitude of the Ex- ternal Affairs department on them, cannot be trusted with full facts when a grave situation is thought to confront the country.

There can be nothing iii the international situation which warrants such a view or such a major retrogressive step toward wartime methods of government. Undue secrecy is not a nega- tion of democracy but is the stuff of which wars have been kindled and could be again.

iiuge Prairie Power Protects

Tens of millions of dollars are to be made available by Ottawa-anti the Maritimes will have to pay their share of it—-for a vast irriga- tion and electric power development in Alberta and Saskatchewan. The director of rehabilita- tion, Dominion Department of Agriculture, in- formed a convention of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers in Winni- peg tlie other day that Hcn J. G. Gardiner esti- mated the cost of this project designed to al- fect two million acres of land in Western Can- ada will cost "not less than $50,000,000."

One factor in this gigantic Prairie scheme that is of especial interest to the [DIOWCI-SIIOII’ Maritimcs is quoted by the above mentioned Fod- eral official as bzing connected with Whfll h’! described as the Red Deer rivcr development and would furnish "a hydro plant whose aglnual output would be 30,000,000 kilowatt hours. Of another development in the chain, that gin the South Saskatchewan river, he stated it would supply power, irrigation and domestic water sup- ply to Moose law, Regina and mt-Ir-"Mdlflfi points. The dam on this river will be the larg- est earth dam on the North American contin- cnt and would supply 364,000 acres of land suitable for irrigation." _ _

Power—and at low cost-is as imperative ir. insuring economic progress in the Maritimes as it is in the Prairie Provnccs, but it seems dif- ficult to convince the Dominion Government of this fact. As the Moncfon Times points out, the long-envisaged plan of harnessing the‘tides o9 the Petitcodiac river to produce electric power lins been reported feasible by qualified engineers, but Ottawa frowned upon taking any lead in bringing the project to fruition, and finally suc- croded in obtaining a report throwingcold wotcr on the scheme. This was one project which would have benefited Prince Edward lsland tre- mendously if it had gone through. Ofhersare the Chignecto Canal-which also is being given tlic "delayed action‘ treatment by tho powers- tliot-be-ond the application of tho Prairie Ferns Rehabilitation Act, to tho Moritimes. Tho latter rnusuro, it ls hoped, will actually nia- rsrtoiizo.

Tlil Times concludes reasonably: "ln citing IIII extraordinary dlffennce in Ottawa's inter-

est in the welfare and advancement of the Prairies as compared with the Maritimes, we are in no wise envious of the West's good fortune in ;l:cing so lavishly favored. What we llo wish to ‘emphasize is that th-a Dominjsn Government's attitude toward the power development and land reclamation problems of the Maritimes is defin- Italy unfair. The generous bencficence shown towards the Prairies clearly furnishes a prima |fcrie case in favor of the lvlaritimes securing a more equitable share of the Federal expendi- tures for public works,—in which category come the hydro tidal power, canal and marsh- lands rsclaiming projects."

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Canada invaded by the U. S. A. this date i812.

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lt will have been noted with satisfaction h-ere that on the day of the announcement of her betrotlnal our future Queen was wearing a waist length wrap of platinum fox.

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Strikes seem to be a response to anything and everything today. ln France 300,000 work- ers laid down tools for an hour in protest against

a new tax.

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Tourists may not think we have the best roads in the world but once they have seen our mile after mile of beaches they decide that a visit here was well worth while.

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Dominion civil servants are waiting im- patiently for the parliamentary session to end, for with it ends the suspension of "four o'clock closing" of government offices.

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Canada is not only selling surplus war stores, she is also buying. A BUP story indi- cotes that Canada is ‘rhe best customer for U. S. surplus stocks. Tanks and aircraft are im- portant items in the transactions.

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Congratulations will be universal from all over to both Lieut. Philip Mountbatten and Prin- cess Elizabeth on the the official announcement of their engagqnent. All the world loves a

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Everyone will rejoice that the new Car Ferry Abegweit will make its first appearance here at the Capital of the Province at the end of this month before taking up its regular schedule be- tween Borden and Tormentine.

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When Flora, the MocLeod of MacLeod and Chief of the clan visits Sydney at the end of this month she should certainly be greeted by the head of the family for the lsland, if he can be located.—"S. A." f“ instance.

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When Mr. Shinwell declared that he did not care a "tinker's cuss" about anyone but a worker he was gravely maligning the hard- working though disappearing body of men. The tinker's dam, of which he w.is thinking, is made of clay and assists in soldering operations.

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Canada has proceeded much further than cithcr Britain or the U. S. in the unification of the various branch-as of the fighting services. lt remains to be seen whether we can develop a body of leaders who can cope with such extens- ive responsibilities.

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The cities of Ottawa and Windsor have requested that the ban on the sale of sliced bread be lifted, but according to the Ottawa Journal this will not be don-e until the scarcity of wrapping paper is eased. Meanwhile house- wives will just have to continue wielding the bread knife.

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The telephone company enjoys a monopoly under the protection of the provincial govern’- ment because from the nature of its service competition would be wasteful. In return for the monopoly it is expected to give the b-est and cheapest service possible, and it is the duty of the Utility Commission to see that it k-eeps up to the mark. '

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Sending, or taking, home tasty morsels to the Britons is now almost universal. Lord Inver- chupel, British Ambassador to the United States, frantically hunted buttcr nnd bacon on the New York waterfront before boarding’ the Que?" Elizabeth bound for food-short Britain. He said he was able to buy l0 pounds of butter and eight pounds of bacon in a shop a short time be- fore the ship sciilcd with 2,250 passengers. fir! ‘will spend two months vacationing in the High-

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Nor liming his loft hand know _wliat_ lils right hand doeth. Anglo~Canrdian friendship is to be perpetuated by a commemorative chapel in the new Guildford Cathedral, -England, which will ever be associated with the gratitude of the people of Surrey for the hrlp of the Cflflfllllflll forces during two wars, and to perpetuate the links with the people of Canada which were forged during those years. it is now disclosed that u... gift of £40,000 ($160,000) made hi" years ago for the completion of the purchase of i-he site of GuildfordgCnthedral, then known to bo made by a ”Conadicin", was made by the late Lord Bennett.

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Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch scholar and theologian, died this date 1536; he remained faithful to the Church of Rome through a career that led him to Scotland as tutor to the future Archbishop of St. Andrews, son of James IV of Scotland, and to England where for five years he was Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Cambridge. His publications include Adagio, Encomium Moriae (Praise of Folly), Colloquia, Spongia, Diotribe do Libero Arbitro, Ciceronianus. His writings were marked by perfect sanity and broadnoss of view, and his influence was very widespread both as critic and theologian; he was unquestionably tho intellectual dictator of his age; "War is delightful to tliosc who him no experience of it."

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Now it appears that Burma may stay ivifhin the Commonwealth u u Dominion. Complete independ- EHN Can lose some of its charm when it can be had for the taking. —O:tawa Journal.

We have long believed that II’ i. marl has anything worbh saying nc will be able to find the words and ml? vliPortuni-ty to say it. We do riot believe in “mute, Inglorious Mittens": we doubt. if any man has 9W1‘ some to ills grove carrying a. heavy freight. of unaltered wis- iicln. And we have observed that the greatest praise-rs of silence - Thvunas Carlyle will do as an ex- ample —are themselves gari-ulous FY4211 and usually writers, as well. —Petoi'boi-ough Examiner,

It is Interesting to note that, 30.000 young pheasants are to be turned loose from Ontario hatch- crtcs this Summer. Also that grouse are making a. comeback in the On- tario landscape. Even without. the boon for the hunters. this would be a 800d thing. because these birds are enormous weed seed eat. ers. The licensing and training of "Sh and some guides is also anoth- C1‘ forward step. if wild life is to become the tourist attraction it should be. - St. Cotharlnes Stan- dord.

A mun out tn Kansas, Chas-lea W. Wlmlmfill. dilly hands a knockout blow to the argument of too many business houses that anyone who hfié Dassed the 40 or 45-year mark 1-5 not much of an asset says The Boston Pos-t. They warit younger men. But Mr. Woolmrsn walled un. tli he was 50. then started 5, broom busmess of his own. and now. at. 58- he h“ n0 llIOI-lght of retiring. He even raises his own broom. corn and for 38 years has been l-lfmlflg out quality brooms. He has given encouragement, to many, and ha' prov-en that age doesnt make B111’ difference if the ambition ls tnere.

A committee of trained export-n at Berea pooled their minds m ex- plain why crows swim 1n 5 circle, Country crows find their perch on "99 llmhi. hillsides. corn stalks and other slanted objects. This causes t/tiern to put more than one llalf oif their gross weight on the lli! on the down slide. This results In over-development. of the down .02. It becomes soouter than the "We! 198- When a crow Ls swim- ming, therefore, the stronger of one 1W0 198! is utilized with more V1801". causing the crow to swim 1n a circle. To prevent refutation of this‘ hypothesis, 1t can be ma- determined whether the crow will swim clockwise or counterclockl wise by observing which direction the crow face: when he allghtg, _ Louisville Courier-Journal.

Two species of blrdg, flu; 14"", Rail and the Layson Finch were added be the long llst. of extinct animals as a. result of conditions during the Second World War.

Once fairly numerous on Lay- san Island ln the Pacific, [h9g9 birds dlsfl-llpfiured from the place which gave them their name, and when wai- broke out were found @1111’ On Midway Island. Transport and other vessels brought a new enemy to these birds on Mldway_ the Rat. Both species nested on g1- 1169.1‘ the ground in vegetation, R31; and finch alike were helpless a- gainst the hungry rodents which ate them out. of house and home. They cited out. to the last. specimen and are now as extinct. as the Passenger Pigeon, or the Gregg Auk. and like them would event- ually be lost even to memory were it not for museum records. Representatives of both the Laysim Rail and the Laysan Finch are treasured specimens in the orni- thological collection of the Royal Ontario Museum.

The Tourist. Board has made plans to draw to Britain this sum- mer" 150,000 visitors trsm over- 5-115. eF-llcmllly from iLe United Slates. This was described as "lun- acy" by the Caterers‘ Association, Tile Manchester Guardian reports. There was lack cf equipment, many hotels were still rcqulsittoned. and l-n general the least tourists would extract would he more than lllev

were advised not to conie- until next. year. To this the AIIZOIIIODJB Association added the melancholy view that. every tourist. from a- nranri will kvrp an Englishman out oi an hotel bed. In a, statement tsuvrl l'(‘t‘8l'lily, the Brbtrlsh Tourist Bani-rt said that these “ill-founded and defentist suggestions" were (Ding considerable damage ta tho nation. Many steps ghad been falc- cn to assist the catering Industry and others were being investigat- ed. As a, parting shot, Mr. Tom Johnston. chairman oI the sea‘.- tlsh Tourist. Board. pointed our. that. VISIIOR; wlll cc-me for our his- lory and our scenery and not "for a guzzle."

Long l. problem of those who plant and reap from the soil is a little threodilke worm, rarely more than a sixteenth of an lucli tong, known u the nematode. some farmers coll them wirewormu, which they are not. Others coll Lhem round worms or eel worms. They attack the roots of plonta, causing them to become stunted and cutting down on the amount. of food which can be Absorbed from the loll. Some 1,500 species of plants are subject to their ut- tacks. Truck crops no especially susceptible. Nematodes drastically reduce the productlon of Asia's rtcc f-olds. Europe's sugar beets, fre- iand’: potato fields. Java’: rubber p‘ tattoos, India's ten fields. and.

own garden. Until recently they threatened Hawaii's pineapple tn- aunry with extinction. But now some new coll fumtgontn have been developed and, according to Dr.

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THE CHARLOTTET OWN "GUARDIAN

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This column in open so the nzsuuiiscn 11y corra- IIIOIIGJIIKI ul “ HI lntereit The Charlotte-town

Guardian does not necessar- ily endorlo the oplnlon uI correlponiloutl. NI NM~TINW AGAINST LIQUOR 6i TOBACCO

Slr,—When the notions of the world are falling to establish per- manent world penire, and our ira- tion i-s beta-r: gripped ill a struggle between labour uilri capital with lahc-r" organizing to control capital and subjugate if to the demands of labor’ regardless of consequences, thus disrupting industry and hust- aess and curtrillinr: production, i-t iliukes n dark outlook for jieui-r, prosperity. and plenty. But if rill that wrong could he made right. the ivc-rld ivould still be a long “ray from ivhat it. ought to be.

Because the domestic life of no large a percentage of the people ls absorbed by one or hath of the worst evils that ever beset human- ity, vlz.: li-qucr and tobacco, which

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A PRAYER

Save us. O God.

We are the little people of world,

We have seen death bloom in the lonely sky

Like a tower-rig yucca. with Ihostly flowers uncurled

Into a million deaths they lie.

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On us

Save us, O God

We arie the faitihful farmers of the 50 1,

Of the summer fields whose tum vest has been death.

We are the sunless men in mliries, who toil

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Save us, O God

We are the workers tn the furious

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Of cities horieycombed with fear

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Send us Thy peace while still we

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Thy need of peace befori It is too

have come down through the generations with vehement ad- herence to the race, and have

grown to such proportions that all decent attttuclrs against these are being brushed aside arid they lire being popularized and dressed up in false respectability and present-

by the unwary who lead and go down to the abode o. those who have gone before, no we must regard liquor and tobacco as our worst enemies.

The Indian half breed that I told about before sold that if all alcohol and tobacco were taken out of the world, insane institu- tions and prisons would have to close their doors as is matter of course. He said: “I was o, heavy drinker and was always In trouble and saving nothi-ng, then I gave up drinking and now I have u happy home with money tn she bank and is car."

Then to show the seriousness of the tobacco evil in 8, former letter 1 gave Dr. Franklin Blcknelfs account of conditions In England where he said that Britain 1s dying of starvation because the people have squandered their dollar credits 1n tobacco and other un- necessary luxuries. ‘Iliere are thousands In our country squan- derlng their money in clgaretts and living 1n poverty. To show o. case tn point. a Christian Minister in a certain town stated in the pulpit that. that town was ex- pending $10,000 a your on educa- tion and $30,000 n year lli cig- arettes. Thatfs where the money ts going and when we have statistics to show that: Canada lust. yen‘ spent. over $378,000,000 in liquor and we would judge by observation that she would spend for more than that in tobacco. there ts a lot. of wrong in the world.

Now here is a note to tan-courage smokers to give it. up. 'I'he only disadvantage of becoming a. non- smokcrls that for a short time one feels o sense of irritation especial- 1y when others are smoking in the some room, Lord Morton writes in the London Times, "On .he other hand he who gives up smoking will find that. (l) his general health steadily improves (2) he plays his favorite game with greater skill and less fatigue (3) his enjoyment of food and drink Is keener (4) his sense of smell ‘s more acute, this has its disadvan- tages but the advantages out weigh them (5) he no longer has that tiresome cough and jlis mouth feels cleaner (6) he saves a lot of money ('1) he has a loy- ous feeling of independence while others are seeking for cigarettes and matches (8) he enjoys plays and concerts more because he ls riot longing for a smoke, all the above represents the personal ex- perience of one who was g heavv smoker for 35 years. To disarm. criticism I claim no credit for ceasing to smoke rind I rim qui-to familiar with the fable of the fax who lost his tail."

Now ivhen that testimony coma from Lord Morton ip the London Times that he had been a heavy smoker for 35 years flint; should

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cncoiiragr c-ld smokers tn gladly give if. up and consider" the hrsl. rzirt of their life wasted. It -;.~i*Z-e\ es me to hear of [sci-sons smoking rigaretts as if 1t. were an accomp- lishment. who should he shining lfzhts tn the v/nrid hut tnstcal ivtlose lizht is darkness; anti how l great i-s that darkness! They drill"