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“The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink.‘

WEDNESDAY, JULY 81, I946

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Recalling The Past.

A link with the historic past has been severed by the death in Nelson, lLC, of I\'Irs. F. H. Peters, widow of a former Premier of Prince Edward Island and last stirviving daughter of Colonel the Hon. john Hamilton Gray, C.M.G., one of our distinguished Fathers of Confeder- ation.

Colonel (lrav “its born and educated in Charlottetown, and 21> a wunq man served as a cavalry officer" with the llritisli Army in India and South Africa. llc returned to Prince Ed- ward Island aliotu IP45“, and twn years later was elected to rcpresicnt the Fourth District of Queen's iu the Island Assembly. From‘ 1863 r0 i865 he was Premier of the Island and Presi- dent of the Executive Council, and in these capacities took a lcailing part in the Confeder- ation negotiatious. llc ivas chairman of the historic Conference in Charlottetown in I864, and was a delegate to the Qucbec (ionference which followed. (In the rejection of the Quebec Resolutions by the Priircc lidivaril Island Legis- lature, he l"(3lil'(‘(l.fl'-llll political lifc and ilcvotcd himself to military (luiics.

On the bronze plaritic in our Confederation Chamber may be sccn a likeness of Colonel Gray in lhe fourth, from left to right, of the five fig- ures in classical zittire which zidorn the left side of the tablet. Ilc is <fcpictcil as holding the Facis, ancient symbol (if unity and strength, Comprising four slaves bound together repre- senting the Provinces of Nova. Scotia, New Brunswick, (Qucbc; and ()lll(li‘lO-—-IIlE first part- ners of cOllifllffzllltill. The other figures rep- resent Sir john Alacdivnzilil, Sir George Cartier, Sir Leonard Tillev and Sir Charles Tupper.

In 1867 Colonel (irav was appointed Adjutant General of tho Militia on the Island, and in r873 became Deputy .\djut.'iiit General 0f the Militia ofllistricl No. 1O for the Dominion. He died in 1887 at Inkc-rmzui, in the Royalty,—s0 called by Colonel Gray after the famous battle of the Crimean \\'ar.

It was at lnkcrmziu that Mrs. Peters was born. Hcr elder -.\'l\l(‘l’, .\lrs. .~\rtcmas Lord, will he bctttrr remembered hcrc as she lived

most 0f her long life in Prince l€d\\'ard Island, v t dying on Dcc. 3i, 194i after participating as guest of honour in the celebration, Iuly 103i), of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Char- lottetown Conference, 0f which she had vivid recollections from her childhood days.

Mrs. Peters" husband, the Ilon. Frederick H. Peters, was Premier and Attorney (jeneral of Prince kidivaril Island from 189i to i897. In the latter year he resigned and removed with his family to British Columbia, wlilere he prac- tised law until his ilcath in i919. He was a son of Hon. James Horslicltl Peters and Mary, daughter of Sir Samuel Cuniiril, founder of the North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company from which originated the famous Cunard linc of sicamships. Premier Peters fin- ished his legal education at the Inner Temple, London, before being called to the bar of Prince Edward Island and Nova 56th:! in 1876- H? represented Charlottcintvn in the Legislature. His marriage to Mrs. Pctcrs tool: placeyin I338-

A son of Premier Peters and Mrs. Peters, born in Charlottetown before their departure for the Vkcst, ivas thc late (iapt. Preston Thorn- ton Peters, \'.('., I).S.t)._ whose Royal Navy ship forced the boom of (lran during the North African landings, Nov. 8, I942.

Descendants of the (flray and Peters families include Mrs. Wilfred C. Wright, of Snuris, who is a daughter of the late .\lrs. Lord above men- tioned, and Mrs. Victor Saunders and Mrs. l. ‘R. ‘Paton, of Charlottetown, who are nieces of the late Premier Frederick Peters and daughters of the late l-Ion. Arthur Peters, also a Premier and Attorney (ieiieral of Prince Fdward Island,

_I9OI to i908. Regional Business Survey

Th, mm.“ Review of The Bank of Nova SCOtia examines economic conditions ln Canada (mm the regional point’ of view, with special attention to the circumstances arisinl! I" Darli- ;. gqlgf areas and centres in consequence of the i changeover to peace. ' _

War Industry was heavily concentrated In the two Central Provinces, and to a lesser ex- tent in British Columbia and NOW! SQOIIB Hilda the Rgvkw points out, readjustment difficulties . ‘y; obviously more widespread in these pro- ‘Qiflflei. Irbthe Praigie Provmcesi where war aim‘ I ' ti" w“ o cnmparativey minor im-

"dufluig h“ been little ‘perceptible de- jmpjpyment from ‘the wartime peak. British Columbia and Nova

“the other hand, show a common

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f‘ war employment was in ' llding. aircraft and muni- ellmitcd peacetime usefulness. f, the _ changeover problem is, l i-Revllw, the impact on

Verelfied industry,

cried and

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tries as construction, transportation and trade was high, readjustment difficulties have been at a minimum. On the other hand, in places where employment had been abnormally iii- flated by the rapid growth of war industries with limited peacetime Possibilities, the change- over has been much more keenly felt.

Despitraeute local problems, however, the readjustment to peace has s0 far been less dif- ficult than anticipated because of the generally favourable economic environment. Income pay- ments, it is pointed out, have been well main- tained, and the level of expenditure —— both for consumption and investment-As high. Em- ployment in manufacturing, though 20 per cent below the wartime peak at May I, was n0 less than 66 per cent above the I939 average. One of the most buoyant factors in the econ- omy is the high level of activity in the primary industries. hliuing and forestry are very ac- tive, and though farm income has receded somewhat from the high point of 194:1. 5t i5 I?" larger than in even the best peacetime years. Indeed, the whole level of economic activity has been much higher than pro-war. Turning to its regional stirvev oil bliililcfifi. the Review finds that the curtailment 0f war- generated activity has been sharply felt in the Maritime Provinces. Port and rail activity have inevitably declined, much of the war manufac- luring was nnt adaptable to ITCIIIIYCFSIIIIIv ililfl coastal cities have not the diversification to per- mit ready absorption of war workers and \i'ctcr- ans. Nevertheless, considering the scale of the changeover, economic conditions are reason- ably good. Retail and wholesale sales are still rising, a large volume of tourist trade is (‘X- pected. and the primary industries are operat- ing at a high level.

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And now good-bye Iuly for another year. i I ll Ill Y!

Tourists are being assured by the action of

the City Council that they will both have bed;

to sleep on and at least three meals a d:i_v dur-

ing Old Home Week. I

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Because fuel is so scarce as t0 become alarm- ing, forest fires ensue to wipe out the ueedful. Verily, to him that hath shall be given, and to him that hath not shall be taken ziway that which

he thinks he hath.

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Hitler's personal standard, the silken, black swastika surrounded by golden eagles. which the Fuchrcr boasted would one day fly over Buckingham Palace, is now in London. It adorns a wall at the “Germany Under Control" Exhibition in Oxford Street, together with Doeuitz’s personal standard, a gavdv emblem of black crosses encircling a golden eagle.

* * 1K * According to Dr. Dickson, of the Federal Dept. of Agriculture, who has been on an in- spection tour of the Province, accompanied by Dr. I. A. Clark, Supt. of the Iixperimctital Station here, we have every reason to pat our- selves on the back over the harvest prospects, all of which pleases—exccpt the lack of mois- ture, which is vile.

v a a iv It cannot be claimed that warning has not been given about the coming scarcity 0f coal. What are our powers-that-be doing about it? Unless we get our winter's stipplies delivered on the island by October, there will be practically a shut out, for neither railway; nor ferries will then be able to handle our imports as well as our exports. Are the Governments, Federally as well as Provincially, asleep at the switch?

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Dr. Iivatt of Australia has stolen a march on Prime Minister Maclcenzie Iiing by springing to the front as the leader of the small nations at the Peace Conference. All along it has been Mr. Kings ambition to lead the small nations of the world, and pit his diplomatic strength against that of the Big Four. lint while he was dreaming of his prospective visit to Ger- many, Australia, in the mrson of Dr. Evatt, stole the limelight as the small nations’ chairi-

pion. if W’ ll

Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce (Rep, Conn.) in a speech referred to an earlier suggestion by Rep. Walter H. Judd (Rep, Minn.) that radioactive elements might be used to "transmute the species." If the atomic energy commission de- cided to trausmute the female nf the species, Mrs. Luce said, “they \\'0llI(I make thenLall Lana 'l‘urners." As for the males, she believed the commission might hit upon a creature with "a very large head, one eye, an car bent per- manently to receive a telephone call, one hand with only a thumb and forefinger so it can sign cheques and- documents, no legs, and a very large bottom to sit in a swivel chair.” In short, she concluded, it might turn all the men

into “New Deal Burcaucrats." 1V 1F l! It!

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Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, died this date i556; "a Spanish soldier and hidalgo with hot Biscayan blood", he was, in I521, <15- sisting in the defence of Pmnpcluna against the French, when a cannon ball fractured his right leg and a splinter injured his left. He was carried to the neighbouaing castle of Loyola, and in the weary months in which he lay stretched upon his couch, he tried to while away the time in reading Tluv Lin‘: of Ilw bkiinti‘. He was only thirty; he had a strong and wehement will; he had led a wild and vicious life; and had burned for military glory. As it was evident that for -liim henceforth the part of the soldier was bar- red, the question arose why not be a saint and rival St. Iirancis and St. Dominic? He decided to try. After s visit to Jerusalem he returned

No_tes By The W0)’

Troubles are Illllllly the brooms and shovels that smooth the reat- to a good man's krtune, of which he lftth dreams; and many I man curses the ralr. that falls upon his head, and knows noi that it. brings Ubundinre to dr've away hunger. —'Basll.

Why must so many young people these days think that the; cannot have a good time uiuless they have drink and danclnz. as it there were nothing else worth doing lo enjoy the passing hours? —St. Thomas Tunes-Journal.

_“The ancient-practice of allowing

now exploded aria a succession of different cro s fi-und prrfersbie, the ease ts sniilar With ri-gard to the understanding which is more relieved b_v change of study than by total inactlvit ‘ —Cluinw.

It has been hinted that Rev. Martin Nlemoeitnr inter-its’ to vlstr Canada later this Summer. aim the hint has arovscd eaisideralsi. protest from retumed sswvlccmea We join them lii protesting agnlns:

the admission of Nlemoeller to this country. Ht: can serve no good purpose here. —Ki.ngs ion

Whig-Sta ndard.

Canadians are iemlnded that. most of them iiusi drive their old cars for seine time yet. tiict. tn-a average age of can in seiince is l0 years. It should not be necessary’ to mention the need for eautlrn In driving, in thcse clrcumsta... —Ottawa Journal.

The suggestion has horn made at. Guelph that a woman oversee: be unpainted for each bar rec-m "to scrutinize CIUrCIY the ch-zrnci» er of women ana their escorts’. Any person who set out to pron- ounce upon the character uf others as they proceeded to enter ' beer rccm or anywher: else would quick- ly be In a peck or‘ trouble —Pori Arthur News-tmrorilcle.

Less fanaticism on the part of the cppcrnnts- if drinking would make their opposition more effect- ive. There ls nothing uirong in a Jdrlnk; there ‘.5 oientv wrong 1.1 too much drink, The protflem ls u question of degree not of inherent wrong. If there Ls tro muen drink- lnia it 1s for Illmi of education In dr king and hart-use drinking is made a grim vice to be indulged in with conscience looking over the shoulder std the penalty nf sin In every sip. -Winntpeg Free Press. The work of frlllng the avenue of elm trees which stretches from the gates of Windsor Castle to Th3 Copper Horse is nearly completed. The avenue, which is tau-e mites long, was p1ar.'.t-<i by Charles II. who called it the Long Wulk: it. contained some of the finest. elms 1n England Elm disease, which is now so prevalent. In England nec- essitated the felling of the trees, which are being replaced by plane trees and horse chestnuts Which- ever of these orovigs- to be the iveak- cr will he removed to aiusw room for development tc the others, - Ccmlng Events in Britain.

One of the Til-ngs which makes

it hard to undo stand urhy Oun- ada turned dow. the American request to establish a weather

centre far into the Arctic is the exrplnr-ttion suca ll mow might: urinate tlhe Russians. So what after the spy disclosures? After all the ground ls ours to do with as we want; and It was Russian agents spying on us hllfl not VIJB verso, There ls no reusor. why we could have told the American". to go ahead and advised the Russians to take a jump In the VJIfJB if the.’ didn't. like lt. -Ncw Glasgow News.

Recent. years have witnessed a marked decline iv the mortality from appendicitis in the general population qt flic Uxriicd States. A little more than a devade ago the annual death toll from the disease was 18.600: by 1943. the latest year for Whlfh data are avail- able the numner in a muqh larirr D°Dllluflcn had oren cut to aioo Moreover there are definite indic- atlons that. deaths from the dls- ease have D9811 further reduced stme then If the appendicitis death rate of the early 1930's pre- urtlcd currently, lnc disease would now take about 20.000 lives a year. -Metropolltan Lflfe Bulletin.

The British sailor has, It ap- genrs is strong disposition to wcur

ls lint on the park of his head-- a tendency recanted with so much clsfavor by the Admiralty that it. has introduced an oval hat which it is cltlmed znakes the fem practi- cally impossible. It. ls of course obvious that. l.f the British tar is to measure up to Gilbert's famous concopttcn ‘of him lf

His nose should flame and his brow should furl His bcscm should hcave and his Iieart. should glow,

s f t be ever ready for

kncckd wn mew, n

And hl

he ls bound to spoil the effect ff h; wears hts hat like -i hziic. Never- tihfless. pne ~ari sympathize with its desire to sari-y the hat. aft. Even those wnose nautical e eme ls limited to a "pull mun the fer" will know how tlglztlv the at must. be affixed for a life on the ocean vvve if it is not to be written of! as gene with the wlitd And reflecting that. this ls the con- stant ordeal of U11» szllor, they will see In the perilous ands of nts headgear ashore a natural and no‘. inappropriate silfllbfil or trig mil. dnv mcod. One must grant, how- ever, that tn this fashion it does not. present an appearance that is altogether shlyislispe: bu’. whether the oval hat will ride on an eve-i keel, or merely list recklessly to port or stariicnrc‘, remain- to ba seen. --Chrlstla:i Science Monitor.

The war may be over, but the world's fcctf tlturuon ts more acute today than. ft nos been at. inv time fn the. past. six years, an.’ Victory gardeners, who may have toyed

with thoughts of their his

cultivated pat/mes

year. should lcok to

he matter. The iclalnest of those (sets ls that the Victory uurdens of the war years are evea bit an faggot-hint in .046 as they were in 1 or i044. throughout the world

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to Spain and resumed his neglected education, working his way through a full university course, then proceeded to Paris where he marl: acquaintance of Xavier, Faber, Iainez, Boba- della, and Rodriguez, five students whom he

there are millions of hungry mouths M for nnxnbs. On true-rim

o0 nent. of talent;- our granules, usually spilling cwer with Iurplim cs from one sear to the n- xtuhave m.

inspired with his own devout fervour, and the) jointly look the vow to devote their lives to The

e civilian

such indus- ginning ‘of the famous Society of Jesus.

care of Christians and the conversion of in-y tidels. Such, on. Aumt 1g r534, was the lir,

slant

lpped so heavll ‘ha se are close to the araer llne. She crops be be n-rrmsl the t uc‘

one mt only be for-mid to exports drutlcallv

land to lle fallow ‘for a season ls B

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The American Loan And World Trade, leonimle OI! t

(Iljiiviltg Klnlotgntiaifimkllltotlewm Some of those who liiaveifollow- ed the United States UOIIQII De-

eemen may e I}? °" l” “hi3? omldmtgtn im sslo ti: t gran this l

ls gremagiiaxilrhws set ad the o“

of ti... United States from wiiieii H

alone,

profit. In reality, e loan will prove equally bone! lat participants. l-‘ar more ft has a world sigulfioen , It will provide the m of rate- ing the living standards 0f all tar.- ltorict. from North America to Africa. from Jhma to India and urma. . . .4 The widespread assumption the Us A. that the loan to Brl ain must. be a. oneqlded bargain was due to the fact that the advant- ages accruing to the latter country, being more immediate. were there- fore more obvious. these obvious advantages taxation, it’ only to gree, of’ the rigid talned by flrltatr. since the war-an is today stricter even than fn the vrar Itself. Such relaxation as ta- cre-zsed Imports cf foodstuffs to bring some variety to the mono- tonous British diet. will however encroach on only a small part of the American credit. Before dozi- ing with the use; to which Brltsln will put the ‘iulk of these $3,750,- 000000 it is worthwhile reviewing the conditions which called forth the British request. for the Americ- an loan.

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These conditions may be summed up as "The British war effort". In order to purchase snns and war materials in

000.000 ($4,4'l2,000.000) foreign investments. N y marketable United States dollar securities held tn the United King- dcm were used to finance pur- chases cf’ munitions and the con- struction of ivar plants ln the U. SA. before the operation of lend- lease. Britain's vital export trade was cut to one Lhlrd of its prewar volume so as to release shipping space for the transport of raw man- erlals from wbraad and to free factories and workers for the manu- facture of these materials into armaments.

Before the wai. Brltal-rs pron- perity was largely due 0o her abil- ity to Import more than she ex- ported. the balance being ostd by "invisible" exports. chiefly In the form of revenue from overseas in- vestments and shipping. Today the position ts very different. With rc~ venue from siipftal investments overseas reduced from £2N000,0f\0 betcre the war (the average for 1936 to 1938) to only £97.00'J,000 in 1945. Britain must. now export. far more than she imports. Her pre- sent. target. ls a. seventy-flve per- cent increase on the prewar volume. To reach flnls target. existing factories must be re-equlpped for civilian production, new factories must be built. and. industry supplied with vast quantities of raw- mater- fals. Here the American loan Will play its main role; in financing the purchase of machine tools, factory equipment and materials.

The American loan will not. solve Britain's export problem- but It will help to speed the development of her export tracie and eventully also the expansion of her imports This brings us to the first great benefit which she world wlll da- rlve frcm the Anglo-American Loan Agreement.