EASE FOUR THE GUARDIAN

Honing Dally (launder! ln 1H1) Anlharilad no llocond Clan lfntl. Poll Offloe Depnrtneant, Ottnwn. ‘the lelnnd Guardian Pnbllehlnl Ce. ‘Editor and Aluunglug ltlrentue, J. B. Burlefls

Anoelnle Editor, Funk Wallet

' (‘The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest ink."

. CRARLOTTETOWN, FRIDAY, SEPT. 8, 1948

r The Finished Product

A Canadian Poultry Mission visiting New York, says the Egg and Poultry Market Report, was amazed at the amount of Canad-ian dress- ed poultry seen on that market. lt had been shipped to the United States alive, processed in down-town Detroit and reshipped to the New York market.

The report fu-rther states that the cost of processing in Canada would not be any higher than in the States, so that the work and in- creased profit might easily be retained here. "Al| that is needed is a little more initiative, a little more sales enthusiasm to do the job."

That of course is a sore point on Prince Edward island, for it applies equally well to all agricultural products. A very large percentage of all livestock and farm produce leaves this Province in the raw state for processing in other parts of Canada or the United States. ln ad-

dition, we reirnport the finished products to satisfy consumer demand. Industries based upon processing farm

produce have been advocated on many occas- ions. Some progress has been made in partially processing cucumbers, strawberries, blueberries, a new fish drying plant is under construction, and a nurrber of packing companies have been operating on a comparatively small scale.

The Windsor Star in an instructive article on Maritime Problems referring to the campaign to make the Maritimes more self-supporting, says "one of the greatest obstacles against suc- cess in tfe nave is the heavy spirit of defeat- ism that hangs over the Maritimes, who cannot be persuaded that Confederation did not in- zlude the loss of their birthright."

it should be noted that we have both the initiative and enthusiasm in men who would like to see such establishments erected heie. The "spirit of defeat" ‘has only entered be- cause of our transportation isolation and high freight rates to and from Canadian markets. Such ventures require considerable financial backing and the lack of initiative and enthusi- asm cf thcse having the capital to invest, due f0 Wei!’- hflfldtcops has destined many an Island-

er to blush unseen in his n-ative Province, or else uprcct and transplant ‘himself ‘in more venturesome sections of the Dominion. The

Windsor Star happily situated in a densely popu- latcd area, and adjacent to the United States, the capital from which finances all kinds of projects, does not realize that the iron has ent- ered our souls, not into our industries. We've gct the rren, we've got the land and sea, we've got the vlll-‘l and initiative, but we have not got the Federal Government behind us to enable us to get to and from the Canadian markets ‘unhandicopped. I

End of Blight In Sight

m one of a series of excellent and timely

articles on New Brunswick, its industries and attractions, appearing in th_e Saint John Tele- ‘graph Journal, Mr. lan Sclanders describes a visit to the Dominion Experimental Station at Frcdericlcn cnd what is being done in the 630 Acre Lcbcratory in the interest of farmers.

At the moment, he tells us, the scientists located there are preparing ‘to unveil the greatest and most spectacular triumph-o dis- ease resistan-t potato, which will revolutionize ‘the potato ind-u-stry in the same way that rust resistcnt wheat created the wheat empire in “western Canada.

Blight which may destroy 50% of a crop has been an added hazard to the potato grower, who is termed a gambler if he puts in more than a few acres. Even the best care and regular rprcyirg often fails to keep the fields free of this menace. v

Because of rigid inspection of seed potato exports, P. E. l. farmers have enjoyed a repu- totion as the source o-f the world's best seed and ‘have been able to market all that can be .pro-

, duced. '

The effect of the development of new varieties which are immune to such diseases as common scab, leaf rgll, and scab, as well as bliglht should prove a boon to our farmers, and the potato Industry.

Although the Fredericton Station is charg- ed with the task of finding and developing new strains, ecoperimental plots are being grown in many of the New Brunswick illustration farms. The Charlottetown Experimental Fa-rm is also participating in an attempt to find those vtraiins best suited to the soil here.

Phlianthropists At A Discount?

The question of the sufficient provision of houses again arises with the return of house- holders from holidays by the sea or elsewhere. ‘in the interim their city residences have for -the . "most part, been rented, and the occupants are j naw ‘m search of accommodation elsewhere, and ' are experiencing difficulty in finding it. Certain

enterprises have been entered upon to erect l both apartment and individual‘ houses, but not . nearly enough to meet the crying demand. Tlhe

g, vacating of the temporary housing ct Maple 1- Hill: has emphasized the need for cheaper rent-

l ed homes. The complaint of not a few "ev-‘rct "

I; families at Maple hills is thot they cannot 01-‘ i lord to pay the rents asked by owners. in is ppted a high as

from $30 tc $40 per month is Qeing asked for two unheated, unfurnished t your". This is more or less ern-ertien, yet the I "l; why to remedy matters is for the City fifeenell to take natme

inhnndegairr, or-

ranging for the erection of temporary dwell- ings at nominal rental rate. There would be no money for investors in such an enterprise, but it would provide an outlet for philanthrop- ists prepared toecost their breod (or money that is) on the water in the hope and expectation thait later it would return buttered.

Highways and Trade

Evidence that adequate means of trans- portation steadily develops expprts and imports is clearly shown by the experience of the Nonlih- umlberland Ferries.

Traffic over the Wood Island-Caribou Route to August 31st, 1948, as compared with the same period i‘n 1947:

Passengers Autos Trucks

1948 . 43,1835 10,250 3087 i947 38,057 8,386 1843

increase 5,778 1,864 1244

Total trafrfic for 1947, as compared uiith

the opening year, 1941: 1947 . . . . . .. 54,785 12,028 3713 1941 25,303 6,527 629

Increase .. 29,482 5,501 3084

n EDITORIAL NOTES -~ The French Republic declared this date

1870, cnd it hcs lifld a rccky passage ever

since. l a On September 3, 1943, British and Ameri- can Arnvies, including the 1st Canadian ln- fantry Division, invaded Southern ltaly after a successful campaign in Sicily, ‘I I i i

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One thing about bad weather at this time of year-it niches it easier to reconcile the ycurgster to the idea of starting back to school.

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On September 3, 1940, the United States transferred 5O "over-age" destroyers to Brit- aiin in return for a dcfcnce outpost in New- foundland and seven others in the Caribbean en a lease of 99 years.

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George Bernard Show wrote to The Times that what is needed in the present world crisis is a new ddtfl-OHQTY that would convey the so-me meaning for words in each language. Perhaps it would be better to begin with the spelling of names with vowels that would enable "foreigners" to pronounce them—-Zhd'an'ov and Czechoslovakia, for instance.

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The results to date of the U. S. congress- ional spy probe, after due allowance for the lflTEflillCfl of errbarrassing the administration, clearly show the same kind of independent and parallel spy organizations as were disclosed by the earlier Canadian investigation.

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The World Council of Churches met in csscrrbly at Amsterdam and the World Con- gress of intellectuals at lireslau, Poland. lt is not altogether surprising in this day and age that from the Churchrnen should have come svictt rccscn, and from the "intellectuals" merely fanaticism.

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Tomorrow, during the 1948 Edinburgh In- ternational Festival of Music and Draima, Alfred Co-rtot will give a piano recital of the works of Chopin. it will be the some music that Chopin ‘himself played, a few months before his death, on his visit ‘to Edinburgh. The recital which thus fittingly marks the centenary of Chopin's visi-t w<ill be in the Usher Hall.

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On this date 1939, Great Britain, Aus- tralia, New Zealand and France declared war on Germany. Canada, with several thousand rrcn already called cut on active service, join- ed the fight one week later, on September 10. The first British trcops arrived in France an September 6, but were withdrawn a few months :a9t4e0r when that country capituloted 1n June,

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Labour leaders are suggesting that Prinice Edward island should adcpt the provisions of the new Federal Lcbour Ccde in place of our preserit restrictive legislation. lt is not at al-l certain that that would be the best move but there is little doubt that the whole problem of lctur rcilcticns cnd legislation requires to be gcre irlio in the lighft of island conditions.

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Socialists and others have done a good iob of playing the idea that to run a business ai a profit is sinful. A typical modern attitude is that of Mr. E. M. Gross of the' United Farmers’ Federation who, speaking of their fertilizer div- ision, said, "There is nothing we need be asham- ed of. We've only made a profit of five per cent."

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Since the introduction of the marine Diesel funnele have been obsolete. Yet for years ships have continued to be designed with valuable space given to these ungroceful objects, some- tirres to the extent of adding one or more d~urn~my funnels. Now the American Maritime Commission hos thrown ‘tradition to the winds and ordered three funnelless streamlined lin- ers. O-ne immediate advantage is Ihe improv- ed scawcrthincse with the reduction in top weight.

Regardless of whether .5‘. not there is a third party in the field in Quebec in the next

Tederal general election, the Progressive Con-

servative Party will run candidates in all 72 counties, Mr. Ivan Sobourin, P.C. Leader in Qiwb". said following a caucus held at the Palestre Notionale. Mr. Sabourin for the first time flatly contradicted reports that the Quebec P.C.’: would join force's with a third party in that Province and would not con- test seats wire-re they believed the third party with o nationalist. tinge would be likely to

attain more success.

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“MR. JONES‘ PLAN.

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YOU Brunei UP mousrrues , ANDTLL FEED You THE VERY

6000' FRIENDS.’

No-Funnel Ships

Planned For Line

(New York Times)

The three new round-the-rworld passenger-cargo liners that. are soon to be laid down 1n o. Camden. N. J. shipyard for the American President. Lines wflb be modern streamlined vessels with s super- structure design as yet unknown 1n the New York servlce.

The low, sweeping profile of the liners will be unbroken by the con- ventional funnel or funnels, and 1s the design of George G. Sharp, well-known naval architect. The only other type of vessel of nearly similar design ls the Del Norte class type, buflt. u;- the Mississippi Shipping Ccirrhponys Gulf-South American run.

In an effort. to elfmlnato fuel smoke end gases, which usually sweerp beck on the recreation decks o; liners, the design cafe for two klng-past-iike stacks well oft. of the apparent. funnel for exhaust gases. The plan ‘permits the normal funnel area to be incorporated into the superstructure, adding large space for ‘Passenger accommoda- tions and navigation equipment, 1t. was explained.

Originally intended to carry 188 passengers, the ships have been z-eplanned to provide space for 223 persons. Twenty-eight. extra

All he had loved, and moulded into thought,

From shape. end hue, and odor. and sweet sound,

Lamentod Adonels. Morning sought. Her eastern watch-tower, and hex hair unbound,

Wet. with the tears which should adorn the ground,

Dlmmed the serial eyes that. kindle dBYi

Afar the melancholy moaned.

Pele Ocean 1n unqulet. slumber lay. And the wild Winds flew round. sobbing 1n their dismay.

Lost. Echo site arnfd the voiceless mountains,

thunder

membeoed loy. And will no more reply to winds or

fountains, b: unorous birds perched on the young green spray,

0r herdsmons horn. or betl at. closing day:

Since she can mimic not. hi; llpe, more deer

Then those for whose disdain she plned away

Into s. shadow of ell sounds: -- n drear Murmur. between their songs, 1s

all the woodman hear.

-F\'om Adonole. Petey Bysehe Shelley.

$5 Old Charlotletowngl 4'. mm r. e. t.) i.

c, BIA! KILLED

On l-‘rldey night of lost week. John A, end Angus Campbell, of Block Pond, lot 16. killed a lugs beer that had been pestering the neighborhood for some time book. He bed killed e sheep on Thun- ihry night. The next night the f/wo Campbell: with a gull apiece, placed themselves up e tree near the carcass. About l0 o'clock along come brain for hie evening meal, but. instead of getting mutton he got shot, end his deed body wee teken to Sourle next. day end sold to Mr. Allen Bolener.

And feeds her grief with his re-__

staterooms will be lnwrporated 1n the superstructure, some of them where the smokestack would nor- mally be located. _

All staterooms will be sir-condi- tioned and v.11! extend through four upper decks of the liners, 1t was learned. Sixteen of the rooms on the promenade deck are to be convertible to two-room suites,

Public spaces rwlll fnclude n smoking roam, overlooked by a balcony, o large lounge forward, dining room card room SWlmmlnS p001 and a children's playroom. The crew quarters, for 162 men. will also be air-conditioned.

The new ships, announced by the Maritime O0mmlssl0n and the company last week, were then sold to be designed for a speed of nineteen knots. But according to authentic sources here they will be culpable of at. least twenty knots 1.1 used as transport and of higher speeds l1 extended.

They will be single-snow ehlP! driven by a high-speed, double- reductlon geared turbine which will develop 12,500 normal shaft- horsepower, Steam. will be supplied from two boilers at. 6% pounds water pressure and 850 698T”! Fahrenheit Wruperature.

The New York Shipbuilding Oar- ‘poratlon will build the ships and deliver them to the American Pres- ident Llncs 1n 1950. They will be 536 feet. long, ‘T3 feet: 1n the beam and have a deadweight of 10,600 tons. The cargo capacity 1s listed g5 414,000 cubic feet. and the cruis- ing radius 20.000 miles.

According to the Martlme Com- mission, the ships will cost $32.- ooopm, 4415 per cent of which will be lllpplhd by the commission es e. construction differential subsidy under the Merchant Marine Act of 1936.

Maritime Freight Rates

(Sydney POSbHRAOOTd)

1n announcing that. Manitoba is filing e formal opposition to the application of the railways for on additional 20 per cent freight. mte increase, Premier Stuart Garcon points out that, 1f the Transport Board allows the railways‘ re- quest, this 20 per cent. boost. added to the 21 per cent decreed by the Board last. April. will re- sult 1n n new rote level 45 per cenn shove that. of flve montihs

ago.

But there ere two things w. Carson does not. point. out. "One ..= the wage increase granted 1n the lnterkn to s11 railway em- ployees. wihfch 1e the ransom-end 1t. seems unsnswembla-ewhy the railways are now risking for e compensating advance 1n freight rates. The other 1s that. the prospective 4h per amt increase, of which Mr. Garcon complains. is calculated on a hula freight rote structure which wu estab- lished, not. b months ego, but. an for beck ea 1W1.

Oe-n any reasonable person be persuaded that. it doee nm cost. the milweya l6 per cent more to move freight now, than 1t. dld I1 years ego? One ventures to u: titre coat increase is nearer 100 per cent; and. were it not. for the abnormal volume of tufffo dur- ing end immediately offer the war, neither of the two tailvmy snteau could have curled on without lavish financial aid from the Government.

A: in the cese of the I1 per cent increase of lest apnlnq. the Nave Scott: Government 1s now joining up with those of the Western. Provinces, in opposing the railways‘ most recent. appli- ootlon. It. will be interesting to learn whet. alternative to l. freight. rote advance these diesel-lofted Govemrnente will outdo». u e way of meeting the new wage levy the railways now hove to pay. Wane, 1t. 1s hardly accessory to erruphnice, can only come from

The Ago-Old Story

Blessings are on the lead of "l6 lust. The desire of the righteous shall be (rented. The hope ot the righteous shall he gladness. ' railways are all derived from freight. end passenger rates, the

former being the major. and 1n- cieed chief source, on which they depend for financing hhelr opera.- tions.

As The Post-Record ha: pre- viously pointed out, the Govern- ment of Nova Scotle. gal. off on the wrong foot 1n its original ap- proach to this whole freight rote question. So also did the t.wo other Maritime Governments, but this false lead seems to have orig- inated at. Halifax. The vital mis- take was the omnibus, frontal at.- tack the protesting Governments launched against. any general 1n- crease in the Canadian freight rate structure; and their lllogdoa! refusal to admit. that. the railways needed larger revenues to can’! enormously expended opezmtfng costs, after two decodes of infle- tion in wages, commodity prices, taxation. service charges of ell kfnas, end of every item of ex- pense lncldentnl to their business. The whole case of the Mei-fumes was thus hosed on the denial of the most. obvious focus, and d conditions which were outrun-ion knowledge. In adopting bhlr 1m- posslble position, the Government of Nova Scotie. led the mesa-heed of s futile campaign, down s. blind alley. 1818-11151 the granite well of reality and indisputable foot. What then, 1t. may be asked, wee the Government. of bhll Prov- ince to do? Should 1t. have re- malned supine and fnent. when the railways asked for n general freight rate increase which. 1f granted by the Board, threatened the 1m- posltlon of new handicaps on Maritime stoppers. which migti seriously prejudice the ' interests of the people of aheee Provinces’!

By no means. The application of flhl railways presented l ahel- lenge to the Govermnente of the Mulblmee,—not to oppose l. n- duest for e. general freinht rote revision everyone knew wee ree- sonshle end necessary-but reth- er to prose upon the ‘luenspori

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llolotof menhndlodo It over egefn they would never mor- ry the some women - they wouldn1 getjhe chance. - Bro..- don Sun.

Quite l. romantic our! new up around Mote Hui-l, beautiful Uer- men women spy of the First. World Wu. But. there's nothing tamin- lic about. the women being expoe ed u sples right. now, and we

ain't. believe that. the day Will come. even a generation hence, when Elizabeth Bentley or Lin’ Counteu Dlneen or others like

them will be shown 1n films end history u glamorous sirens lar- fng honest pat-tone to tell 1min“ tent government secrets. They're just. fraltora, and they'll be T2005’ nlzed as that. - Windsor Sta:

We reed in e book the other day that. at. the time of Christ's birth, the world's population we" about 54,000.01» — slightly more than the present-day populotun of Greet Britain. By 1000. it We» 600000-000; and by 1900. l9 W" 115001100000. Now 1i 1s estAnraL-rr‘ 1o be around 1.500000000- WM" you consider what. the poor human race has been through during me lost. 2,000 years, and when YOV consider that. despite ell its Mn and misery. 1t has multiplied 5° tunes over, why, t-hen 1W1‘ Ne" with glsdness 1111s, and demo! with the daffodils. You know the‘ all situations everywhere ere zo- lng 0o work themselves 0m‘.- -— Calgary Herald.

It wlll be n poor heart that does not rejoice st. the stand token b)’ the committee of a local crickct club at. the steffordshlre Asalezs, when sued for damages. A men passing their cricket. ground wu struck on the heed by a boll nil. for six by e batsmen. The injure: mun sued the club for damages — understand-ably. for few men hove heads wholly resistant to descend- ln; cricket. balls. The club. wu-h that. spirit. of compromise mick. n. not out of piece even 1n cric- ket, offered the injured man an ex gratis payment. to solace ale damaged crown, but. hotly protea- ed that. they were under no legs liability to make any payment whatsoever for that kind of mis- hLp. In law. a man 1s assumed to accept. the rlslu necessarfly 1st-en- dunt. on the playing of gamee m which he joins or which he watches. Neither e player nor e man who takes e stroll on e golf links can claim damages 1f ne 1e injured by o bell 1n flight. His presence on the course 1s suffze- lent for the law to say that re has voluntarily submitted hinueli to the risks of such m lujaxy. But to walk on a public highway roast. a cricket. ground Ls e attic.- ent.‘ matter, and 1t. would be an interesting extension of this tbeozy 1f the contention of the cricket club 1e well founded. An obscure: of English Test. cricket. today might well come to the conclusion that. the risk of injury, either outside or even inslde e cricktt. ground, from o ball hit. for six o) an English batsmen 1s vii-funny