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WEDNESDAY.

JULY 24. 1846

Precious Time Passing

It is must uiifortuii:\tc that the dredging op- erations at Wuotl Islands could not have been completed befOre thc tirrival last week of the second stcamcr, the C/irirlcr A. Dimming. Th6 result, according to the ferry company of- ficials, has brcu the grounding of the Dittinfitq at low tide and cuuscdticiit tieup for repairs for a few (lllls. 'I‘hcre is no guarantee that this will not happen again if she attempts to dock at low tidc, with consequent disruption of the service for perhaps a longer period.

It is uudcrstotid that the Dominion Depart- inctit of Public “Xirks is placing a sccond dredge on the job. Thcsc (lrcd-gcs, however, are not equipped for spccdy work. The dif- ficulty now is for them to operate near the ivharf while the ferries are making regular landings and departures at two-hour intervals. ,\\'hat is ncedctl, it would seem, is a big fast- working suction dredge, of thc kind which has been in operation at Borden. blight it not be possible to obtain the use of this equipment for 1 few weeks for the \\'ood Islands job? Per- haps the Porter Company which operates it would take over the contract. So far as the public is concerned it matters not at all who does the work,—tlie thing is to have it (lone at once.

Even with two ferries operating at_ lVood Islands we are still in a precarious 9051mm 5° far as transportation this Fall is concerned. \\'hat are our provincial and federal authorities doing about it? (lur hoards of trade and municipal councils sccm to have lost lflltffil- and there is yet no sign of the alltwirllmsfltfif that Provincial Transportation C0mml5510fl which was so strongly recommended a year ago in the report of the l’.E.I. Advisory Reconstruc- tion Committee. lt I185 been left largely l0 private initiative to carry on. A number of business men are "Pomd l° be Seflmlsly considering the >lfll‘llll-‘I of a ferry service lic- Pictou, ' which could operate much latcr in the r-(‘tisou than the \\ 00d Islands-Caribou fcrrics. lluflc Steel bffrzlis lltltable for landing floats at both tefllllllilli could be obtained very ClWKPIY {Wm the War Asscfs Corporation, and wnultl save time 811d moncy in construction of sticcial DICFS: It ‘l5 also reported that a stiitablc steamer is avail- able for purchase.

Another stiggcstitin barges at Tormcntiile and nirig an additional stimmcr _ vicc between thcsc points. .\11Y kind 0f 5mm“? could 115g these brirgcs as piers. and’ they cou.d be located so as not to interfere with the res!- ular car ferry service. The Railway Colllfl Pm reasonably obicct to any proposal for rcligvinl! the cominfl lfali con-“lf-‘lloll- Th?“ l5 also the earlier proposztl of operating a 59TH’ llelwee“ lVcst Point. in Prince County, and Buctotiche, Nil. The difficulty thcrc would seem to be the malty,“ tut the other side. _ 111.35g and other ideas are bcnll! l3flllva§scd by our citizens, but in the’ lllcilflllfi“? Plemml’ time is tiassiug; time which if wasted may mean the loss of hundrcrls of tllfltlSttllds of dollars-- “pcfhnps even millions,” as Prcmlcr loll“ 55ml last y'car~liw our farmers, shippers and incr- l t" \\'bat are we (loin! "hm" ‘l? “lme ma“ i. loci‘ for" action and leadershil)? Of ale “i6 irlpwidn W31,‘ until next irlidwintcr and flliztfcctiiiiiiliwiih ‘about being let (lfiwll 0"“ more ‘at Ottawa?

is for the Placing of Bordcn and run- and fall fcrry ser-

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Al It Again

Our King's County representative in thfi House of Commons, who last made the head- lines by misinforntiiig Parliament and the coun-

try tliat tht-rc were no jobless veterans in Prince Edward Island, has bccn at it again. He broke cover this time by interrupting Mr. A. I. Brooks, Progressive Conservative member for Royal, NJE. .\Ir. liYUObS was speaking on the Redistribution liill, protcsliilg against the dan- ger to the Maritimcs of losing the proviso in the British North America .-\ct limiting mini- mum representation in the House to our rc- presentation in the Senate. He recalled what the late Mr. Woodsworth, C.C.F. leader, had said in 1932, urging that the Act be amended ‘o that Prince Edward Island would be re- duced io “its due number" based on population. Atthis point Dr. Grant interrupted with the xremsrk "That would he half a member.“

"I hope," Mr." Brooks rctorfctl, "that the hon. member-Joi- Kings, who has just spoken, will bear these things in mind when he comes to ‘ent his vote in a fcw days, because, as I ha mid, if the British North America Act can be amended without consultation with the differ- ent Legislatures, we of the Maritime Provinces ltltld i0 lose more than any other Province."

l Mr. Cruickshank, Fraser Valley, 11C, inter-

“It'.| time you did." The Hansard re-

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" ."If the Provinces are not con- ll be established and the ritish Columbia and hon.

Act has been amended."

Mr. Speaker: “Order?

Mr. Brooks: “We have been reduced from forty to twentyfive members."

I)r. Grant: “This is not the first time it has been amended."

Mr. Brooks: “My hon. friend can make his speech, and if he does it will be the first except one he has made in this House in the tan years he has been hcrc. \\‘c have sat here and lis- tened to him clap his hands and pound his desk like a child and interrupt practically every member who has stiokcn, but he does not take the trouble to prepare a speech or rise and deliver one in the Ilousc."

1t would be tiainling the lily to add any comment to this casiigation.

- EDITORIAL NOTES s

It is an tipscttiiig time, with Ieivs and Arabs iii Palestine, Spaniards in Bolivia, and Cana- dians in Hamilton. >r =u n:

There is a slight lull before the onset 0f Old- Homc-\\'cck visitors iicxt month. Hope all three fcrrics are fit and rcady for the expected big rush.

»r * 1r Building operations in the north-east section of the city will be begun immediately tenders are zicccyvtctl for the I3 ncw houses to be erect- ed by Ilotisiiig lintcrprises of Canada Ltd. They are scheduled to bc ready for occupancy late in the year.

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* >l< * ll‘ A ncw type of under-sea telephone cable for use between Britain and the Continent is being tested experimentally between Portsmouth and Ryde in the Isle of Wight. The cable ls of the “multi-channcl" type capable Of handling several sintullaneous conversations. t =t< =v a‘

The Attstralian Prime Blinistcr has not gone to the Peace Conference. Nantes of Australian delegation are: 'I'lic Minister for External Af- fairs, Dr. Evatl, will lcad the Australiani’ dele- gation with the Australian Minister in London, Mr. Beasley, as Deputy Leader and Senator Donald Grant as Observer.

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_Thc coal controller, Ur. E. I. Brunning, Ottawa, points out that for the first time in history all Alberta coal iriities are operating at virtually full catiacity in what is normally considered the ..slacl< summer season. Mr Brunning said a largc amount of the briquet output from Alberta's Canmore and Brazean fields is being divcrfctl to eastern Canada to QQl11pQ|]5;ll(g for the acute coal shortage there resulting from the ‘recintfkg. coal strike.

At-lcast one landlord likcs children. Norman

.\lcLeotl ill>Cl'l(‘<l this ad in the Lewiston Tri- bunc: “Modern house, four bedrooms. \Vill rent to family with minimum three children, $50 month. Iiuur children, $45 lfive children. $40," Tlrrlt i5 the surf of attitude that should be adopted gciicrallv, for, what is a home witli- oiit children? ;\nd cnutrarywvise, what are chil- dren without a home?

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Farmers are having their troubles in England much more than our own here. Because l0\v market prices would mean losses, Suffolk farm- ers plowcd in their cabbagcs for manure while those in Norfolk did the same with their let- tuce. Up to $40 a \\'Q’.‘l\' is being earned by wqmc“ pick-lip; pens in liast Anglia. Filfm- ers “l... paid i2 ccnts a sack bcforc the war

now pay $t.50.-

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Simon Bolivar, South American patriot, born

. ' l4 ‘ o this date i783; known as the Liberator , born at Caracas, Yciiczucla, hc early associated him- sclf with the cause of the lfldellendence “f Spanish colonies, and aided the rebellion at Car- acas in April, i810; after Yflfylnl! “"955 he finally routed the Spaniards in i821; Venelueld and New Granada were united under the namC of Colombia of which Ilolivcr became presi- dent; stibsequcntly libcratcd Iicuador and Peru; he died in his forty-seventh year.

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The Commons have given first reading to two bills aimed at tircvciitiug “double" taxation of British and Canadian citizens Willl lfll€fe5l5 l" both countries. The bills, sponsfilfil by Revenue Minister McCaiin, would give effCCt l0 WW9‘ merits signed in Londmi June 5 deall"! W1ll1 income tax and sticcession duties. The first agreement prcvcnts (louble taxation of the in- comes of British and Canadian citizens with interests in the two countries while the second would prevent similar lcvics on the fisifllei 0f deceased pcrsoiis with similar interests.

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Vqgl-wsflol-ganizations are reported to be marshalling their forces to Oppose ‘I f¢§°m' menrlntlon of the Royal Commission investigat- mg Civil Servicc salaries that the "ItlISOIUlB Ne‘ lr-rcncc" corded veterans for the last 30 vcafS be modified. Canadian war veterans have tn- joycd preference in the Civil Service since 1917' and I. C. G. llcrwig, Dominion Secretary of the Canadian Lcgion states organizations woiild de- finitely oppose any reduction ofprcfercnce for government jobs. The commission, called pri- marily to deal with the matter of senior Civil Servants leaving govcrnmflnt P05“ 5531155 °f low salaries, recommended upward revision ‘of salaries for deputy ministers and other selllol’

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At the recent celebration of the Sir Isaac Newton centenary in London, ‘he R°Yi1l 50PM)’ had as their guests scientists from 37 national academies, including one each from Germany and Russia. The president of the Royal Soci- cty, Sir Robert Robinson, announced that the British memorial to Nflvlofl W°11l<l l! l 1°°' inch telescope and observatory to be known as the Newton Observatory. Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton is to ask Parliament to vote the money for this purpose. Th; ob- gen/story will be the property of the govern-

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anyolher part of the country menf and will probably be on the new site of

rnllfib as they with. We have I ma‘ ‘

not the tint time the»

the Greenwich Qbservatory, which is being

‘moved bodily‘ to‘ Sussex iocscabe the atmos- phere and the lllllll QfJ-ondon

Notes By The Way

Remember when suit with the 11gb in deciding whether to get the gray blue serge with zlie two onus of pants? —-New York World-Tele- ram.

W ' sometimes strike be- cause enough meat. is not. available. And a London strike kept meat rat-ions from 5.000.000 people who had no chance to take action to obtain it. —'Iloroiito Telegram.

lf comfortable homes were avail- able in nn-al areas the farm labor situation would be less critical. But with the shortage 0f building mat- erial very little is being done to provide houses for married men "Edy and willing to go on farms. —Farmer's Advocate.

Veteran court attache at five, little Ann Mcililcliern 1101a,; down a t3-a-dny job m Columbia, S.C.. court, because she cant read. She draws Jurors names when anels are selected lfl circuit cou s fei- Rlchland County. Her predecessor reached the retirement nge of slx and had to 3o to school. The state law prescribes that the lcb must. be tied by a verson who can't read. -—New York 0st.

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A rather arresting-and rather disturblng- sentence from a recent University Sermon at Cambridge by the Bishop of Livcrpcol: “In the thirteenth century there were about 57,000 clergy in this country min- istering to a population of 3,000 0G0 people. Every flfflcth man 1n those days was in Holy Orders. Today the population is twenty times as great. and there are about the same number o! clergy ond ministers of all denominations. One in every thousandth man ls a clergyman.“ -- London Spectator. There are lust two lrlnds of power in the world. One ls military. A nation which tan mobilize and equip millions of soldiers can speak with force. A LQUOII with a unique weapon may have a frightening authority its people do not Want nrrd would like to et- rld of—as is th- case with the :

The other kind of power is in me. . minds, and it can exlsiuin tiven nations having a total populat of about 140,000 (tut) as easily as can in one having the sane or a greater population. —New Your Times.

The British really went hungry to help win the war-which is more than one in a million Americans can say-and they're living on less today than they did even ‘in war» time. They're doing It to provide for starving Europe some of the. food that can't be got there from the United States~ because wt. can't spare it from our own bnunt~ eous tables. or can't deliver lt be- muse of strikes, or the Administrat- ion won't ration it because that might “take too long" tic. prove lltlcally unpopular) Yes, 4.000 rltons fainted at their Victory; celebration. Want to make something it? —Minneapoiis Star-Journal.

The four great sources of Can- adlan wealth are forests, farms. minerals and water wci. Pulp and paper uses the wa er power to convert the forest crops into dollars of nation-at income. chiefly obtalng d from abroad by exports anti chiefly paid out. in wages. Of the average consumnticn of the fares‘. the commercial cut accounts for 73.4 per cent. and devastation caus- ed by firc. insects and dlseages. 266 per cent. Oi the commercial cut‘ pulp and paper mills surpris- ingly enough use but 22.’! oer cci-t, while 30.9 per cent goes for furl wood. 5 6 oer cent or oulpwoot‘. exports and 40B per cent for nimb- er and miscellaneous products. — Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph.

Two young Saskatoon men are following in the fcotste s of some eminent men .\I me lcine this summer. John Ciunmlng, first year medical student at the University of Saskatchewan. and Aaron Shaf- fer, who will enter medical school at the university this fall. are spending their vacation stalking rats and gopliers in the nllls and ravines of Southern Saskatchewan. near Lhe American border. The purpose of their gopher and rat. hunt ls to remove the rodents‘ fleas. which carry the germ of the dread bubonic plague. This ls the plague which swept London 1n 1664-65. and vivlrch has mcnnccd sections of tire world for many hundreds of years. —Regint\ mad er-Post.

It might have been better this flag controversy had been begun. People wltl work themselves into 1.- greater turmoil about. a s-ym-bril such as a fl-zg. than they will ever do about a principle, such as international- sm. But as tne flag question has been raised we must go through with it. and the will o! the majority must prevail. ‘li’ the opponents if the Unit-n Jack choose to defy the will of the majority, the character and ln- tention of their thinking will be even more clearly revealed than lt is now. -~Peternctrough Examiner.

We suspect that the lamented asslng of William S. Hart. may ave been hastened by tnc spec".- acle of crooning, guitar-playing, dudlshly attired young mcn at.- tempting to fill his boots and saddle as cowboy heroes of the modem screen. We also sutpect. that. his in» dtrsstandable sohow might have been llghtnecl .r a small news item which appeare, unfortunately‘ an the same day as his obituary. The story told af 10,000 veterans fr. his adopted state of California wno waited- some of them 24 hours- for a chance to huy 1.588 surplus eeps. Thme young men doubtless ame ac uslntec with the jeep during lher days ln the servli-e and knew it for what. it ls—a jar- rln bruisln belaborlng tooth- loosenin invention. sturdy. tire- less In gractlcail unstoppable, but deilni lv Bkitlsh, especlall wvhen rounding corners. in shorfl a hroncho on wheels. Yet. even otter hevin rioden them, these veterans stll wanted them. W think it would have proved to Hart's satisfaction, as it did to ourl. that the old. hard-riding genesi- West isn't dead after all.- lgnry Albertan.

lent guesses ere that it wltl be two ears before recel ts of untur- llrflxibfl from autos attain any- thing like their prewar volume. And when that, time come; it, wlll be interesting to watch the race between the natural and svnthetlc varieties. Bynshetic rubber. though

e and inferior- ln some reqzects was 500.1 em; h to wi-i the wartime ‘rubter ha tie". Now lt must wrnpete tn price and ual- ity with natural rubber in peace ime competition. An indication that tn; tlon will rte keen l.- found loci‘

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Potato Prices Need A Floor

(Balm John Tdefllph hump In New Brunswick’: "potato belt"

stripe or the mdav peqpie are frankly Worried, The

crop. barring adverse weather or disease, will be e large qng—pgfl“,pg the lamest in history. And reports indicate bmnper potato yield; 91”. where. Early winter may {m4 m; market glutted and ', “m,” the federal government skim lnzo the picture. would bring a ealgm- itous drop in prices.

It costs a lot to grow potatoes. Bills for seed, felilliler, qzruy, ma- chinery‘ an r mi iiigii. But Potatoes are perishable. Unlike grain they can't be held over from one year to the next. when gumfly exceeds the demand they ‘nave to ‘be sold anyway at wh-stever they will bring, and they have brought, in the pest, as little as ten cents a. barrel.

To balance this. ordinarily, they command big prices in vesrs of shortage. our farmers in the last few seasons could have had double Whal- llWy 80f. ‘I Lt had not been for ceilings imposed by the w“. time JJHCCS and trade board. The Can-a Ian potato ceiling was lower than the United Slates potato floor, but our producers were willing to do their part in combating infla- tion and there were no loud com- piaints. even though thev rggllzed they were being prevented from ac- cumulating financial reserves "o carry them thmuizh if the bottom suddenly dropped out of the barrel.

In the face of. many difficulties, our growers wont ahead and made a major contribution on the food U011!- Thty were the chief factor in easing o national potato "m- inc. In additional a considerable portion of their r-ueput was dehy. drnted to feed the nnned {qr-egg and the liberated countries in Eur- ODQ- Bill. 1n spite of their glowing record, parliament for some reason or other has vtol. seen fit to offer them anything in the nature of a guaranteed minrnum prlce—a price floor.

Most farm producers in the Do- minion have such a guarantee Thefe is a floor price on potatoes in the United States. Bur our po- tato farmers remain the forgotten men In Canadian agriculture. Hon. James Gardiner, minister of agri- culture, has been repeatedly asked the reason for tl-ls in the House of Ccmmons. His answers, from the standpoint of New Brunswick, have not been satisfactory. He has dodged the issue with a statement that. if the governnzent acted to pi-e. vent losses by potato growers, EVPTYUOCy would grow potatoes, and that provinces like New Brunswick which have specialized in this field. would soon have more competition that they could stand.

Bul- Sllfely ‘Vlr. Gardiner must. know that our "potato bell." in this Drovince adjoins that. in the n-‘Blgtr- boring state of Maine, and that Maine's growers did fairly well on their 1945 crop tot regardless of, but because of price protection. The United States had a heavy surplus of postoes last, year. Only the floor SIVLfi the day for grow- ers. If Canada has a heavy 5m. D1118 this Year. aslnow seems the Prospect. where will our growers b1‘? The House o! Commons ts now in session and it should cei-t-alnfy consider this qt~cstiori before if promgues. Lf other branches of agr rlculture are entitled ‘.0 floor Dflws. so is potato growing. If floor Prices for potatoes work in trie United States they will work on this side of lib border too.

Perhaps it won't. halppcn—pgy- haps Canada will not: have too 11113113! Pfitatoes wnen the crop ls 1111s this fall. We hope no‘. But in the meantime. preparations should be made by Ottawa for an,» event- ‘llfllltll. so that commercial potato growing areas won't suddenly find themselves confronted width dis- 125 El‘.

T0 MEET Esp snowman

LONDON - (OP) -— Rnadslde grass should be used for animal feedstuffs and fishmeal employed more extensively as fertilizer to meet cuts in supplies this winter, the National Faimers Union rec- ommended.

These. of course, are not mic in- ventions or inventions based on the first large-scale usage. They are improvements resulting from ample data derived from observing char- acteristics and performance in widespread use uvcr a. considerable period of time. Probably the chief reason Why this race will be inter. cstlng is that, such competition hold the eventual pnlniise of giving the public more varied and abundant rubber cproducts nt lower prices. - Chroni e Telegrap . a