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fIHE GUARDIAN

' llnrnln| Dally llfonndld In Ill" _ jllhorlnrrl no tipflrnd Cline Slnll. Pun Offlal Drpnrtmenl, Ollawn. The Inland liurnrdlnn l-uhlanhlnn Co. Idltnr and Managing lIin-vtnr, J ti. Barnett

Annotate Editor. Frank Waller.

"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink!‘

CBABLOTTETOWN, TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1949* Farm income

Net income of Canadian farmers from farm- lrig operations in i948 reached a total of ii,693,3l5,000, the highest figure recorded since rhe publication of comparable statistics back to i938, reports the Economic Annalist, issued by ‘he Dominion Department of Agriculture. This vos well above the net income of $i,Z34,909,000 ‘or i947, and of $i,i6i,395,000 for i946.

Farm cash income from the sale of farm iroducts also established an all-time high record if $2,449,865,000 last year as against $1,962,- ‘.76,000 in thepreceding ycai, and there were ‘urther increases in the value of home-consum- ed farm produce. The decrease in the value of the year-end change of farm-held live stock in- rentories more than offset some increase in the value of year-end changes of farm-held grain inventories, but it was insufficient to offset the gains in cash income and income of kind, the result being that gross incom-e for i948 also set a record.

Farm operating expenses during i948 con- tinued their upward climb. From $968,273,000 in i947, they increased to 9,083,556,000 last year, ii gain of nearly I2 per cent. While gains were registered for nearly all of the expense items, the most significant increase occurred in livestock feeds, which rose by approximately $45,000.00‘) or about i9 per cent.

With the exception of British Columbia, all of the I948 provincial net incomes were larger than in I947, while compared with I946, net incomes were lower in Nova Scotia and British Columbia. Greatest absolute gain in net in- come in i948 as compared with i947 occurred in Saskatchewan.

The Communist Shadow

Proclamation by the King of a "state of em ergency" in Britain to cope with a wildcat strike of i0,000 British dockers, has brought the ques- tion of who or what is behind this strike. A strong presumption is that behin-d it is the hand of Moscow - that in Britain, and also in Australia, where a work-stoppage by Communist-led unions threatens industrial paralysis, the Kremlin's cold war goes on relentlessly, comments the Ottawa Journal.

The general secretary of the Transport Workers’ Union said last week that two-thirds of the London dockers are convinced, that the wildcat strike is political. The Home Secretary, Chuter Ede, says the strike is Communist in- spired "to injure our recovery and with it the whole process of Marshall aid." And the York- shire Post points out that the British strike has two important points in common with the Aus- tralian strike, namely, that the number of men involved is small compared with the damage that can be caused, and that they illustrate the power of Communism — and its well known tactic—to seek out those spots in a nation's economy where it can do most harm. More than i00 ships are tied up.

Australia's coal strike, which is nationwide, followed a series of press articles by a former member of the Victoria State executive of the Communist party accusing the Communists of organizing faked trade union ballots and delib- erately fostering strikes in rotation among key unions to disrupt Australia's production and so limit her contribution to European recovery. The strike, which has gone on for two weeks, bring- ing a threatened standstill in the country's econ- omic. life, has ceased to be a struggle between the miners and owners about working conditions and wages and has become a tap-level political struggle between the Commonwealth government and the Australian Communist party.

‘lire Sea Cadet Movement

From July 25 to August 5, the Montreal Di- vision of the Navy League of Canada will act as hozts at their Como Ewing, on Lake of the Two Mountains, to visiting groups of Sea Cadets from the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Sweden. This is the first such Empire Comp to be held in Sen Cadet history anywhere in the Empire. It is regarded by the Navy League as the culmination of fifty-three years of en- deavour cn behalf of the Royal Canadian Sea Cadet movement, and the Canadian Merchant Marine. it also shows the acceptance through- out the Empire of a universal axiom, that who speak the English tongue have common basic interests and loyalties.

With the inclusion of Newfoundland as part of the Dominion, the opening up of Labrador, the inevitable development of the Hudson Bay route and the St. Lawrence Waterway, Canada is on the threshold of becoming a great mari- time power. There will be rich rewards, before many years have passed, for young Canadians who have absorbed a knowledge of_seamanship while still in their teens. ln the process of fitting themselves to follow the sea by joining the Sea Cadets, Canadian boys will make an in- valuable contribution to Canada's future pres- tige and prosperity.

IEDITORIAL NOTES!

This i; the season when brush fires take their toll. Carelessness with matches or fires can lead to loss of property and even endanger life.

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Modern Insecticides have really remarkable effects. Prairie farmenjirsing them are report- ed to be "oettlne the lune on" ores-Mom i»- blfi If the ehae being on the other foot.

U l l bra uncertainty as to. location. HIIUFNIHIIIIIIINI

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barracks. As the Minister of Notional Defence put it, "Charlottetown is one of the places hav- ing high priority in any construction plans." But it requires some one, or some body to push "priority" ta performance.

U U U The first Woman's Rights convention held in London this date i848. It met with a not very cordial reception by press and public in general, they being pillaried as "Suffregettes."

The by-election in ist. Kings shows a re- grettable lack of interest on the part of the electorate. Regardless of which party it may benefit the time has come to make on end of the property franchise. "One man, one vote", is the more democratic rule.

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Nationalization of just about everything in the Old Country is merely a superficial change compared with changes in, of all things, Punch. The magazine, which has been put out for I08 years practically unchanged, has pow had its face lifted, and the man in the street will won- der just what there is left for him to cling to.

I l U U it is now fashionable for college girl grad- uates in U. S. A. to have larger families. The United States census bureau figures show that during I940-47 the girl graduates have in- creased the birth rate for their group of Bi per cent. This compares with a 32 per cent aver- age goin for all women. k eh

All Hereford cattle are descended from one cow left by a farmer in Britain as a legacy 250 years ago. Benjamin Tomkins received this ani- mal as the only bequest from his father. He fixed the breed into the type now known as "Whitefaces" in every continent and this one cow thus inherited has produced the herds now to be found throughout the world.

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A. J. Cronin, M.D., M.R.C.P., D.P.H., Brit- ish physican and writer, born this date I896. Educated at Glasgow University, practised medi- cine from i92i to I930, and now resides at Greenwich, Conn, U. S. A. As a novelist he pub- lished among others: Harte/s Castle, Three Loves, Grand Canary, The Stars Look Down, The Citadel, Jupiter Laughs (play), The Keys of the Kingdom, The Green Years.

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A cure worse than the disease. Competitors in the Australian diving championships used a water-filled quarry, four miles from Brisbane but they didn't like it, because of the mosquitoes. Years ago mosquito-eating fish an inch long were placed there. The mosquitoes have disap- peared, but the fish are there in millions. They chase swimmers and nibble at their flesh.

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The Royal Mint in Britain is making I00 thousand sovereigns which will never be used as money/They will remain as part of the na- tion's gold reserve and will not be issued to the public. These gold coins are being struck for a very special purpose, to preserve the in- herited knowledge and craftsmanship in mak- ing gold coins. The craft of gold coiningre- quires a different technique from that used for other metals. '

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Britain's National Health Service has com- pleted its first year of work. During this time 48 million people have been entitled to medical, dental and optholmic treatment without pay- meat. More than 2,500 hospitals representing 5i0,000 beds are working for the Service. 18,000 doctors, 9,000 dentists, 5,000 opticians and i4,000 chemists are actively cooperating. Over 93 per cent o-f Britain's population are register- ed on the doctor's list which means that they are actively benefiting from this free health ser- vice.

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New venture to encourage the export of British handicraft was announced in London when Sir Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, described its aims and appealed for more capital to be invested in the enterprise. British Handicrafts Export is a non-profit mak- ing company which has been formed to encour- age the revival of craftsmanship in Britain and tc assist the export drive by finding overseas mar- kets, porticularly in Canada and U. S. A., for high quality handmade goods. It is intended to open a showroom in the West End of London later this year and a similar centre in New York eventually.

I i 9. The British Labour Party may introduce American un-American methods to prevent

doubtful persons aligning themselves with the organization. The Rt. Hon. Aneurin Bevan, min- ister of health, commenting on the resignation from the Ldror Party of Lord Milverton, charac- terized this peer who brake with the party over the steel nationalization issue as "some obscure person I had never heard about." Mr. Bevan was bitter over publicity given to the action of a "person who joins the party in i948 and then resigns in i949 because the party is going to do what it said it was going to do in i945." "l think," he told a Sheffield Party rally, "that the time has arrived when as a party we should scrutinize more closely those who apply for mem- bership."

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Mother's hairdressing in childhood adopted as "O.K." in man's estate. Few people have ever seen Paddy Levin with his cap eff, but every- one for miles around Barsted, England, admires his corkscrew curls. Twelve flaxen curls train-ed down over his forehead surprise most people when they first see this unique coiffure. But Paddy, a true-born Irishman, does not think there is anything out of the ordinary about it "at all, at all." "Sure and wasn't that the way my mother sent me off to school," he rays. "Who's gain‘ to tell me she was wrong and why should I be arguing with what she thought was best? And if it's arguing with men I am, it'll be with my fists." Paddy has three brothers in Bel- fast who have stayed with the same hair style all their lives. "What mother thought best is still good enough tor ae/j Paddy eaye.

THE GUARDIAN.

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THE FARMERS

Whpt should I will my can? 0r- cherds and brooks?

High pastures and the fertile basin land?

My house. my barn. the horses and the herd?

How slight the workings life-time stand

Before my knowledge held in other ways-

The scent of wlrid that bears the welcome rain.

Knowing the time arrived to new

of my

or reap.

Reading the future from a new- plowed plain.

The way to spot a storm between the hills.

Arid where the tame and hunted creatures g0

To hide. and when to shoot and when to save.

These are the things a farmer's son should know.

That heritage will never leave my hands

Or head: my father held mine in his turn.

It is not ours to will or to bequeath.

The land will teach him. if the boy would learn.

—By Margaret MgAndrew in New York Herald Tribune.

W030} B Old Charlottetown (And r. a. r.)

BEAR CARCASE SOLD

"A large Bear. in capital condi- tion, was brought to town for sale yesterday, weighing about three hundred pounds. The skin was of course not in season, and compara- tively of little value. The carcase was purchased by Mr. Thomas Des- brisay, drugglst. This animal was killed by Mr. Donald Murray, ot Doaltlver (only seven miles from t w l, who, having lost a prime Sheep, determined to watch for the marauder, and, what is singular. did not watch more than five min- utes, before Bruin made his appear- ance, ancl was instantly destroyed.

—-l-laszard's Gazette. Sept. 18. 1843.

An Almanac For Paris On its 2,000 Anniversary

(By Andre Beucleri a . a

Paris's store of magic formulas. of mysterious echoes. of silent poetry. has just been enriched by a new expression: 2.000 yenre. A further decoration will soon be pinned on her breast by the very genius of her long life: 2.000 years. We used to speak of the power of Paris and of the enchantment, the primacy. the magic of Paris. Now we shall speak of the two thous- andeth anniversary of the found- ing of Paris.

The Parisian who has the most. fertile imagination and the great- est sensitivity will hear this de- llghtful secret. whispered as it is waited through the streets of his beloved city. In the Place Saint.- Mlchel. in the rue Coquilllere, on the qual aux Fleurs, in the Av- enue des Champs-Elysees. in the square of the Paints-Royal or in the Boulevard des Capucines he will say. “Paris ls two thousand years old.“

And when. while strolling lclly. or following the road which he takes every day to go frcirn his home to his workshop or office. this same Parisian looks up at some sign-board or some roof. when he sees that. this bridge by which he crosses the Seine. this street which he lakes. these dor- mer windows. these balustxades. these arches. these shops and these squares all spring from Lhe same foundation and all share in the same anniversary, he will in- vent words and phrases and songs. lo perpetuate the idea. inaccurate, doubtless if one wishes no be pre- clse. but true in its splendour and its signification: Paris is two thou- sand years old.

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What does it. mtater if one is halt an hour or three weeks out. the fact remains visible. exciting. accomplished: Paris is two thous- and years old. Two thousand years of "Purely mental mobility“ as Valery said when treating that. vast. subject. the capital in his "Regards sur le Monde nct-uel" (View of the present world.) Two thousand years of application. of great. conceptions and of petty labours. two thousand years of al- most. marine climate which pro- duces such lovely delicately-colour- ed skies. two thousand yegre d image-makers, of song-writ rs. of riosers. of well-dreued women and of architects. of painters and vaga- bonds, two thousand yous of kinks and of the people. _

Valery was right in saying purel- ly mental mobility, Paris was first imagined. and tilled with inspira- tion. Paris gives birth to the be- ings which create tt. But. one must also remember what Ramuz said of it; Paris tins been uplifted e: it. were, so that it. lhali be seen not only by the whole of France, but by the whole world.

The feet. is certain. but she has been uprnised by men of intellect, who for two thousand years. have borne tier. uplifted her. shown her to the world. enhanced her beauty loved tier end protected tier. Nat only geniuses but. rather geniuses of tiebit, of patience and of taste; milllners, goldnnlthl, tnilornglov- ers. caterers in routed menu. lace mnltere, picture-fro. me mrken. booksellers. tapestry-makers. drap- erii. perfumes-s, otter-w r i t e r I,

coschmen. n whole tnduntrious and.

eklllul population which creates the obloct. end its desire. which know! how to show it all. whlch organize: the odds spice to the lenlvlll. and precisely, establishes that mobility.

1f Paris is two thousand yearn ola. it. in because the insnginattop of these people end their vest

knowledge have always bad all tune before horn to lnvhf. U

life otthe streets. '

CHARLOTTETOWN Parents Should

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This anniversary will be celeb- rated throughout the year 1950. in high places and in popular fash- ion. l-lcre there will be high fest- ivals. ttiere exhibitions; a high com-missiener, charged imth watch- ing over the facets of this diamond year, will be appointed as soon as possible. Programmes are being studied. In the rue Salnt-Honore. around the Madeleine. in the Av- enue Matlgnon. the Faubourg Saint-Antoine and rue de Paradis in the municipal buildings. as at the llirnnors’ there is not. a single place in the towrwhere the past and present do not. meet and min- gle. not a workroom where this wonderful cake with two thousand candles is not thought of.

The first celebration of this glar- ious anniversary and by no means the least. for it will last. a year. or exactly 365 days. and will be seen on tables and in shop win- dows. m libraries and collections. like a living thing. will be pre- sented in the form of an almanac‘. An almanac in (he finest tradition of that. of the bonhomrnc Richard fgCOfiifflflfl Richard) or of the ltlcnsager boitcux do Strasbourg (the Lame Messenger of Stras- bourg.) A plain real calendar with

the present-day indicallcrcs and divisions.

a little space to note ones ap-j poinbments. _

But. its great originality lies in the fact. that the calendar of events was written up by Colette. Sunday, January 1st, 1950. Mon- day, January 2nd. 1950. and so on until Sunday. December 31st. For this exceptional year begins and ends with a Sunday. It. is placed beneath the sign of the Lord and will be holy. 1t. needed 1m almanac as it. would have done in the good old days.

To give ll. its full weight. its

spice and its homely aspect. Col- ette has composed three hundred and sixty-five phrases, a new novel. that. of the days to come. who will dare not to fall in with the ad- vice of wisdom and poetry. with the glimpses into the heart and the world which the author of Claudine and Mltsou will give us in this bask? And how could one better choose one's daily pen? Writers. painters. artists and Parlslans have gathered round Colette l.o say what. they think of their anslent. town which ls two thousand years old, what they think of its treasures, its ap- pearance. its effect, of what have been so aptly called its “dci-gts de fee" (its fairy toucht, and of its great maternal murmurlng: Raoul Duly. Dunoyer de Segonoc. Marie Laurencln. Brianction Andre lvlaii- rols. Pierre Benoit. Denise Bour- det, Daragnes. Pierre MartlmGer- ard dJ-louville, Alexandre Arnoux. Maurice Chevalier, Jean Effel. Galanls, Gus Bola. Jean-Louis Vaudoyer, Erjrnec de la Rochefouc- nul, Dlgisumont. Claude-Roger Mgrx. Thevenei. I-I€l‘0l'l de Vlllefosse. Jean Cocteau. Yves Gandon. Ger- maine Beaumont.

There would never have been enough roam to welcome all the citizens of Paris wrho would have liked to say a. few words 1n this

l- even I. IIII He that. blallefh 011i l-hy transgressions. for mine own sake. and I will not remem- ber thy sins.

presented by in» com. about?‘

Arlieflqueg national Circle change),

int/n ntrlonaux (Inter- 0! Artistic Ex- the president. of whose

Comite di-lonneur (Honorarycem.

mlttee) is M. le Professeur Pasteur

Vflllsrv-Radot. and or the commit- tee 0f direction. M. Jean-Jacques Guerlflifl- siznifieant and wondrous

DHLTOYIBQE.

It is under this form

that Paris proposed no wig}; to Haiti!!! New Year to the your-jag! Ciliitak and to mark her anniver- sary with a little souvenlr m“.

taming news and pictures.

RECEIVE PRISON TERMS

HULL. Que.. July 18 —(CP) - Three Ottawa youths received stiff

penitentiary fermg today

when

they pleaded guilty to charges in- volving their July 5 attempt to rob the Banque Provlncliile branch at Papineauville. Que, about 35 miles cast of here. Judge Roland Miller sentenced two of the youths. Aurele

20. to 10 years, Cloophas Glvoque. years

and the

ASTROLOGER-BEAUTICIAN

One will even find in ii , Rvbillard. 21. and Wilfrid Leoriin. iiiimi. 19. to seven

. later-ting his fourth term as presi-

- Notes By

Last eeuon the hockey industry had the greatest receipts in the his- tory of the National League. accord- ing to Clarence Campbell. who is

‘ dent. of the NHL. Those receipts came from e GO-cantest schedule. Nexi. Winter the six teams will play 70 engagements. Then come the

Stanley Cup playoffs to bring more

games and more receipts. Hockey

has become n big industry in (‘an- ada and the United States. Its hooks extend co children who are told with what teams they can plriy or with what teams they cannot play And. if n boy in his ‘teens objects to being shoved around. be can make up his mind not to play in organized hockey. But. hockey is big money and as long as it is that. it is a business, not a game. -—- W. I. Clark in Windsor Star.