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THURSDAY. OC

TOBER l5, 1931

THE’ CUBAN MARKET

Of interest to our potato grow-

ers at the present time is the situ- ation of the Cuban market. Small shipments of seed are being made weekly to Cuba by,‘ the Prince Ed- ward Island Potato Growers Asso- ciation, and while these shipments do not affect materiailgv the gen- eral sittiation, conditioned by the market in the Southern United States, the fact in itself is encour- aging. According to Mr. James Cor- Trudi‘ sioner in Cuba, writirg in the cur-

mack, Canadian Commis- rcnt issue of the Commercial In- Qlllgence Journal, Canadian seed is almost universally used in that cffort should be made to retain the mar- kei. As the table trad,- decreases, so should the seed bu=lness pro-

country now, and every

gross. Th!‘ heavy local growing has resulted in the more general use of potatoes whereas formerly it was confined to the towns and cities, Now that they have found throughout the lclillld, they become a staple foodstuff, displac- ing rice, yams and other loctll veg-

favor may

etahles, at present largely consum- ed ln the country districts. The price to Canadian growers is ad- mittedly low, but should improve as conditions become more normal. The maintenance of the good repti- talion for Canadian seed in this market should, therefore, be primary consideration.

Reports from Cuban sources in Canada. have been published dlcating an estimate of 167,500‘bar- rels of Government certified ‘Bliss’ seed as available from the| Maritime Provinces for export to Cuba. These estimators usually multiply the acreage by 100, mak-

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iod of high duty and the lessened plantings. In that case the future prospects for seed would be much brighter.

This year will see a continuation of‘ the Government scheme for shutting out spring and summer imports. while it is generally tul- mitted that it. was a costly and unsuccessful experiment last year. its sponsors contend tlAt on ac- count of rains and bad refrigera- tion it did not get a fair trial, and that this year will be a fairer test. The high import duties, therefore. will remain as they now are, with free certified seed only from Sep- tember 15 t0 March 15.

(‘ANA DA'S FAITH

Speaking to a body of distingu- ished Canadians in New York City on Tuesday evening, Premier Bennett described Canada's "un- conquerable belle! in herself" in words of impassioned faith and sin- cerity. None who heard him could have been unmoved by the utter- ance of the visiting Prime Minister at this critical juncture in world affairs. The general depression has affected Canada as it has affected United States and other coun- tries. We have our problems of un- employment, of depressed agricul~ tural prices, of adverse crop con- ditions in the Wat. But these problems are righting themselves in Canada perhaps more rapidly than in any other country, and there is even stronger ground for optimism in the realization of our vast min- eral and other resources and par- ticularly the courage and confid- ence of thepeople of Canada. It was these qualities of Canadian

ing no provision for the percentage that fails to pass inspection. Last year the amount of government’ certified “Bliss” was stated to be; insufficient for Cuban require-

ments, and some seed not Govern-

ment certified was admitted, duty

free, into Cuba. The statement that

such a large quantity of seed ls| available this year has had a de- pressing effect on price, as it is much above the present normal re- quirements. It. has been stated by Canadians in Havana that this in- crease is an over-estimate, and by Cubans that the standard of Gov- ernment inspection had been re- laxed to admit a. higher percentage of disease. If, as is likely, either or both of these statements be cor- rect, it is suggested that, as early as possible hex: year, the Canadian

Trade Commissioner" in Cuba bc supplied with official totals of quantities and varieties of seed

passed as finally inspected, s0 that undo local publicity may be given ‘zrmation in order to offset

the in rumors oi ow-r protlticiicn, lax ccr- tification zmzl the like, which are. fletriin trial i1 C.Ill.l(l2l'-. trade in-,

t-rrgsis. Arrnal; film _‘.'l"l!‘, .\Ir. Car- niack reports, have ."..! brcn in 20nd |

("intlitivn anti better than flit c of-

citlzenship that Mr. Bennett dwelt

THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

NOTES BY THE WAY

The tllh which for year: carried highly-trained graduates 0f Cana- dian universities south of the bord- er has evidently been stemmed. Statistics from McGlll show that. m the past decade, of 64 graduating in the department of “ ry with the Ph. n. degree.

ties or to research staffs o1 U. s. industries. Nearly all the others

work.

One word has been much over-

suspend specie payment has been frequently $P°ken of as an "aband- onment" of the gold standard, with all the mistaken suggestion of per- manence which this word implies. Of course, the British Govern- ment's act is nothing of the sort. What is the very heart of England's purpose in refusing, for a while, to allow gold to be shipped abroad? Obviously, it is to protect and con- serve her present gold stuck. Con- sequently, it is ialtogether wrong to suppose that that which Great Britain is striving to protect she is at one and the same time pro- posing to abandon.

In our opinion, there is not the slightest possibility that England will ever forsake gold as her prim- ary measure of value. The most that can happen will be a revalorl- zation of the pound sterling at a somewhat reduced level. Such a change does not in the least mean an abandonment of gold as the standard. It simply creates a. new relationship of exchange between gold and paper, and in this con- nection the most important thing for the good of world trade con- sists in the future ability of ster- ling to achieve final and enduring stabilization. Perhaps stability will be attahed without any reduction o! the old ratio; but in any case it will, in time, be fully achieved. Great Britain and the gold basis will stand firmly together.

They don't buy them to wear, but for utilitarian purposes. In the old days Henry Ford was probably the heaviest steady diamond buyer in the country. He purchased an aver- age of half a million dollar's worth

upon most strongly. His words in this connection will, we believe, go down in history. They sum up what many Canadians have thought and felt, and will think and feel more clearly now that they have been expressed by the man upon whom chiefly rests the burden and re- sponsibility of directing the coun- try's affairs in these critical times.

“In the past," the Premier said, "we have encountered difficulties and dangers, in peace and war, almost unparalleled in the his- tory of other countries. In the beginning, a people few in num- bers and scattered throughout the length and breadth of half a continent, divergent in views, fin- ancially weak, politically un- cordinated, we have met and overcome these difficulties and dangers. and from them have emerged a. disciplined people, un- important still in numbers, but with our great resources mar- shalled in our support, with our social and political creecls merg- ed in a national consciousness which is not unmindful of our external responsibilities, with our institutions faithful to the pur- poses for which they were desig- nated, and with a vision of the future which our past achieve- ments fully justify.

“What are the difficulties we now face compared with those we have already overcome? What arc the problems which compare in magnitude with those we have lonz slncc solved? Conscious as we are of the gravity of world

I conditions, believing as all sane

1J5! yrar.

piangmgs, which lhould be gun-l i the forces which built us into a

| nation will carry lls forward to

oral in Cuba about the middle of October, will b; crinsitlcralily short; of last year's, when about 200,000‘ barrels (the total for laoth CFOP5) were put. in thc ground. Estimates cf the shortage for this year vary from 30 to 50 nmount- Plantings will probably be spread over a longer p~riod in nn effort to steady the srpply for the local market. Early plantings, to catch the New York market, are still favored, but must take risk of the rainy season and pos- sible hurricanes. Early blight. was very prevalent lnst year, and some farmers reported bad seed and many other troubles. This year the stringent financial and credit situ- ation, the unssttlcd world trade outlook, the present low prices of nearly all commodities, the impov-

per cont

Of thatl I greater Canada."

the l

urn must that they cannot be luughccl away, we yet know that

a nmv and greater era of pros- pcrlty. That knowledge is our power, it turns our labors to our common account, it is our con- solution ln distress, it is the stimulus behind our increasing efforts, it is the light which makes clear our pathway to a

EDITORIA L NOTES

The attitude which the world is taking toward the gold standard would almost justify the late Wil- liam Jennings Bryan in his famous

‘the ironl~ I cn on a free silver platform and

annually, to be used in grinding bearings and other automobile parts which require great precision. Lately he hasn't been buying near- ly so much. his engineers having been busy figuring out substitutes for the work. The stones used 00m- merclally are. of course, far from being first class. They bring from $10 to $35 a carat mostly.

After reviewing the political sit- uation in England. The Mall and Empire says: “Our judgment, therefore, is that, taking all thing-i into consideration, the result of the polling three weeks hence will be the continuation in office of the MacDonald Government with pow- er to establish a. protestionist tar- iff wlth preferences to Canada and the other Dominions. Britain will thus be on the road to acceptance of the lntra-Ennpire trade policy proposed at the last Imperial con- ference by the Prime Minister of Canada."

John ll. Finley, of the New York Times, points out that if we cun- nor, do anything to shorten the per- iods of enforced leisure we can make them less miserable, less de- moralizing, less stagnatinz. less ‘ieconomically dlfficuf... He declares lthat those who seek to provide {proper recreation for the unem- .ployed in such a time as the pres- 5ent of slackness and depression yhave an ordered part to perform ns Zworthy as those who are seeking liq adjust; consumption and produc- tion and to discover the economic rhythm b: planetary life.

"In my view," any: the Rt. Hun- Stanley Baldwin, "a. tariff is the quickest and most effective weapon not only to reduce excessive im- ports, but to enable us to induce other countries to lower their tar- iff walla." The balance of trade, he declares, is the paramount domes- tic question, and financial stability can be accomplished only by W‘ ducing imports or increasing ex- ports, or both.

At a time in which Gandhi and other representatives of British itndla. are gathered in lmndoh ht- itemptlng m devise some means of

counclL-the court of last resort in he Empires-has had as members

University I

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iThe Vicar of Wakefield

(Toronto 6X05?)

‘rim-e has been some stir in ‘llnglah Church and literary circles lover the prospective abolition of ‘the m1. of Vicar of wrkefleld. as in result of recent legislation. Canadians will have a “m; because Canon E. A. Welch,

only l9 have gone to U. S. universl- LESSENING THE NOISE EVIL gProvost at Trinity Collefl 170111

.1395 1,0 his appointment as Rector

One of our large cities recently‘!!! St. James Cathedral, ‘Ibmnlb.

crs so that it could be heard on the ‘ sidewalk. | Now there is ziothlng wrong with

be stopped. As you know the greatest amount of noise 0n the street comes from

and noisy bodies. Flat wheels on street cars have a terrible effect upon the ears and hence the whole nervous system. A Southern city some years ago gave a present of Five Dollars to the first citizen re- porting a fiat wheel on any city street car.

All over the world there are or. gauizatlons of lay and medical men and women who have organized themselves to fight noise, not only because it is a nuisance, but. be- cause it is a menace to health. New York, London, Paris and other cities have organizations whose commit- tees work from various angles-poli- tical, home, civic, health-with the greatest emphasis placed on the health standpoint.

Paris, which a. few years ago,- in certain thoroughfares, with its rum. shackle cars, its cobble stones, and the incessant touting of horns, was little short of an inferno, ha; taken recently a. great’ step in advance. Motor horns may not now be used there between certain hours of the night. Other places might well fol- low their example."

The most important single fac- tor in causing noise ls speed. Ex. cessive speed increases the grind of the machinery and the amount of vibration. necessitates the more m- queht application of the lrakes and leads to greater blowing of the horn,

It. of course, has been often said,

that one can get used to any noise. boiler makers-residents near the elevated railways and so forth-but for the majority of people of chi; ago, excessive noise means tense. ness of mind and body. s There can be no tenseness without the use of energy, and the unnecessary use o1 this much energy means just that; ,much sooner that fatigue or tired. 1 ness will overtake us. i Let us all do our part in lessen lng the noise for which we are dir. ectly responsible, and in helping those who are trying to lessen the noise of the community.

MORNING

BEFORE

Summer with crimson banners is

gone down,

And tardy morns are come, and early eves;

Oaks burning with still flré. BM lilac leaves

Like brohzed shields upon r the

branches brown, Like little shields of bronze ‘and green and gold. The tiny lamb is white upon the hill, And fragile mushrooms, into the

soft chill

Of morning darkness, from their earthy fold

Glimmer like lambs of elfland, fair as they.

I must go out into the dreaming rain,

The holy rain. Humbly 1 must go out

Amid the springing grass, v/here girt about

With quiet fragrances, God walks again,

Taking l-lis pleasure ere the break of day.

~Eniu Cameron, in the Australasian

may go some distance with passive ‘resistance, but not very‘ far. Pu- ‘slvlty fits ln- with- much- of- the Qorlental character, but. even the ‘native of India. soon realizes that iin itself reaction achieves nothing. Yl-fe who Ls to win anything must

reference to the "cross of goku in |recohclling the warring castes and become aotlvefil’. is merely a ques- me U‘ s" “ecu” °t 1596' “15- ‘sects of that unhappy country, it 15 ‘tlOll of whether a passive restate: comments an exchange, is one of {not inopportuhe to note that the ‘is able to wear down the patlenufl ,5 of me, Bryan was but. iJudlcial Committee of the Privy of his opponent, lure him into indiu-

fcretion and so afford an opening 'for activity. The oriental, being by

h” p”“5°d ‘m the mm“! 5"“- dggflnguighed men oi’ the legalhiature passive can do a great deal ,yet the great nations of the world {rgmmity of various dark hued .in this way, especially when op-

mshcd consumers and past exper-{with few exceptions, thirty-five races classed as East Indian. fences, all tcnd to restrict plant-iycars after his dcfcat as a pres-

I Pmlvc realatanu In Manchester

,posed to the impatient occidental. [But when the latter attempts to be ‘a passive rcsister his nature does

lugs. Profits should, however, be ldential candidate, are turning h“ n0. proved . ‘uccesl Tm, peewlnot allow mm yo“ w remain p",

greater because of the longer per-

from the gold standard.

ed oriental who wants his own way

alva.

Experiences ‘who narrates the joys and sorrows

have remained in Canada for unl- made a law that the loud speaker of in 1899, became the “W771! Wake‘ ""51? 0r for industrial research the radio could not be used by degl- 1 field on his return to lmgland in

1909, Even greater and wider in- flgeregt springs from the place of

iOliver Goldsmiths hovel of_ that used. 533's the Toronto Telegram. ' the use of the radio indoors, been“; qiune and even absurdly abused, in news- the radio with its excellent pro- fliberature. iii-Del‘ despatchea and comment re- gramme is here to stay, but whml smiles GYM Brllfllrfs recent rm- j the loud speaker adds m portion to Wakefield" one o.’ the best haven ancial course. London's deckion t0 ‘ the general noise of the street then , that has ever in the interests of health it had to imlgh Hunt said that Goldsmith. ,“wlth all his imprudehee, never ‘forgot the one thing needful to a

in the records of English

Goethe pronounced "Vicar of

been written, and

good author-style." The pages of

motor cars and trucks with loud j this story are made living by the discordant horns, squeaky brag’;

of Charles Primrose. of the Primrose family.

"That study," writes James O'Donnell Bennett,_"is compound- ed of a lovely trustfulness by which the sophisticated are humbled and the arrogant are shamed, of a patience which endures without rlpining because it. has its roots deep in moral grandure, of harm- less pomposlties and vanities which keep u saintly man a. fellow-man, and. of a. spontaneous kindliness and a pleased interest in men and their affairs which cause the vicar to be a constantly engaging and various factor in the tale."

This leisurely story possesses an irresistible charm as the happiness cf the Primrose family is develop- ed, only to befollowed by a harvest of sorrows. We see the faithful vicar going about his duties; his wife, an. excellent rousekee and hostess, forever entertaining guests: love and tenderness marking their constant relations. “My orchard was often robbed by schoolboys, and my wife's custards plundered by the cats or the children," the vicar writes. "The squire would sometimes fall asleep in the most pathetic parts of my sermon, or his lady return my wife's civilities at church with a mutilated courtesy." Perhaps these conditions could not last. At least, the vicefs troubles multiplied, and the reader's heart goes out in symp- athy. His family's honor suffered. his own health broke, his property w» destrcljedfland he was thrown into prison. His continuous ser- vices, hls trustful disposition, his amusing human relations lift. him into a high place in fiction, the embodiment of the good loser, the man we respect equally in prosper- ity or adversity.

Whatever the fate of the Vicar of Wakefield in Church life, the lasting place of the vlcvr of whom Goldsmith wrote cannot be doubted.

Flying The Pacific

(Manitoba Free Press)

-By failing to establish one record the United States fliers, Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, _Jr., succeeded in establishing another. They set out in July to beat the time of the Post-Getty round-the- world flight, and when that be- came impossible for them, they de- cided bo trythe non-stop flight from Japan to the States that was unsuccessfully attempted by Mayle and Allen last month.

Flight over the nothem portion of the Pacific may be said to have been pioneered by the Russians, for exactly two years ago SemYOH shgstukov flew the Land of the Soviets from Moscow w Seattle. But his was not a. hon-stop flight, for tempestuous weather forced him to lam-l on the Aleutians. Pioneering honors along the more southern band of the Pacific must go w the British and Australians. and were earned by the splendid and hamrdous flights undertaken by Kingaford-Smith and his com- panions.

Now, no water seems too broad m b; flown over, no mountain too high, no land too desolating. Th6 air surrounding the earth has be- come a. hetway of routes in thQ brief course of the twelve year! which have so swiftly elapsed since Alcock and Brown one June day

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Thl: column II open lol-‘tbe disonrllon by worreopondcnts of qneltlon: of Interest. "Th: Charlottetown Guardian docs not nccelurlly endorse tbc' ' ' of

WATER FOWL PROTECTION

Sin-Much has been written dur- ing the put few months regarding the conservation and protection of our water fowl, which seem to be sadly diminishing in numbers dur- lng the past few years, and 1 am glad to see that some steps are be- ing taken in the right direction to- ward their conservatioh. But it would seem to one that. still more could and ought to be done if we want to preserve a. few for those who follow after. Now, I would like to hear the opinion of some of our real sportsmen on the using of live decoys for goose shooting. I am not kicking over the use of live decoys at all, if used properly and the birds taken on the wing as they should‘ be when coming in. But how often are the decoys used unfairly and the birds allowed to light and be shot on the water without at least a sporting chance for their lives. Now, Z am going to call at- tention to some shooting that has been done in this vicinity of late on more than one occasion, which shooting, although perfectly within the law, was nothing other than wholesale butchery. A party, well and unfavorably known to‘ other sportsmen, comes to a lake near, where geese congregate, and, not being molested very much, are per- haps a little tamer than in places where more shooting is done, digs a pit, sets out his live decoys and kills to the bag limit as the birds swim in. On one occasion ten geese were killed outright and nobody knows how many maimed and crip- pied when he emptied the '