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THE GUARDIAN

Morning Dally (Founded II Hill's) Authorised no rtor-oirrl Clan llisll. Port Office Department, Ottawa. The bland Giusrillisn uublhhtnl Co. luster lllll Messaging Director. J. It. Burlotsi

Asaoctistofidttor, Frank Weller

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CBARLUTTETOWN. MONDAY, SEPT. 27, 1948 Bright Farm Picture

lt is indeed something for which to be thankful, at this harvest season, that taken by and large our farmers were never more pros- perous. This year's crops are, in the inform- ed opinion of Hon. W. F. A. Stewart, Minister of Agriculture, the best on record, and this at a time of prevailing high prices and improved transportation prospects.

Mr. Stewart's optimism is iustified by the latest report of the Dominion Bureau of Statis- tics, which states that while the Island's potato crop will be below last year's figures because of late blight (which may not be as bod as was

anticipated) the prospects otherwise are bright."

All across Canada the news is reassuring. Of this country's paramount grain yield —- wheat -- the Bureau places the total at 391 million bushels, approximately 50 millions more than the 1947 harvest. Compared with the Bureau's first estimate this year, the figure is higher by 19 million bushels. In the breakdown of the latest report, 362,661,000 bushels are of spring wheat, grown mostly in the Prairie Provinces, and 28,331,000 bushels of the winter wheat var- iety which is largely produced in Ontario.

Other grain yields are also estimated high- er than last year. The oat crop is expected to reach 316,728,000 bushels or 79,074,000 high- er than ‘1947, while barley production is set at 157,125,000 bushels as compared with 141,451,- 000 in the preceding year, and the output of rye is placed at 26,608,000 bushels or more than double the 1947 figure which was 13,217,000. Flaxseed (linseed) is also set at heavier volume, 17,748,000 bushels this year as against 12,240,- 800 last year.

In the estimate of other crop returns for

all Canada, the Bureau places dry peas at 1,- 646,000 bushels, dry beans 1,731,000, soy beans 1,974,000, buckwheat 4,310,000 (123,000 be- low 1947i, mixed grains 62,658,000 (an increase of 27,729,000) and shelled corn 12,869,000 (a gain of 6,187,000). The appreciable rise in mixed grains yield is a welcome eventuality, es- pecially for Maritime stock raisers who depend to a great extent upon this variety which in the past few years has posed something of a prob- lem when there was a concerted program to in- crease live stock yields. . Of the root and fodder crops, potatoes is lstlmated to yield a total of 50,779,000 hun- dredweight, the highest since the record crop of 1931 and 5,665,000 cwt. more than 1947 when the total was 45,114,000 cwt. Turnips will be more than a million hundredweight higher this year, with the yield estimated at 22,197,000 cwt. The hay and clover crop is placed at six times greater than that harvested In 1947, the current year's production being shown as 15,662,000 tons.

Should all these estimates be finally real- Ized, the result, while falling short of the rec- ord years in the big grain and root crop yields, will nevertheless be highly gratifying for the Canadian farmers as well as for the country as o

whole.

Canada's Obligation

Commenting on Sir Stafford Cripps' mission to Ottawa, the Globe and Mail points out that in normal times Britain can and does pay for imports from Canada (which always greatly ex- ceed our purchases from Britain), largely with American exchange. That is not feasible at present. Nor will it be feasible for some time if threats to peace compel Britain to keep near- ly a million men in the armed forces and put an immense army of civilians to work on warplanes and weapons. Bearing that burden, In addition to the heavy economic losses caused by the war, the British cannot be expected to pay as they go for the essential supplies they need from overseas. But it will be very damaging to Can- ada's long-term interests if Britain is therefore compelled to curtail imports from this country and look elsewhere for her requirements.

A share of American funds available under ER'P will, of course, go to Britain, and the Labor Government may decide to spend some of that money in Canada. But we cannot allow the future of our trade with Britain to depend on any factor so uncertain and so totally outside our control. lf Britain needs Canadian goods without immediate payment, this country must supply the line of credit and so increase its already large investment in British recovery.

The need for some new arrangement of this kind is urgent, even though trade figures re- veal nothing of the kind. They show, in fact, that measured in dollars, our trade in both dir- ections with Britain is very much greater than prior to 1939. But these statistics are so mis- leading as to deserve ,the adiective "phony." The swelling of the totals is due largely to price increases. lt would be a good thing, in- cidentally, if Canada were to publish reports, as Britain does, showing the volume of trade-— after allowance for price changes. Then a true picture would emerge and it would disturb the Pollyarinas. But Sir Stafford Cripps and his opposite numbers in Ottawa know the actual facts of the emergency. Whether they grapplo with it effectively will depend chiefly on the at- titude of the Canadians at the conference.

War Necessary For iioiiiiiiunisin Industry, the Canadlas Manufacturers’ As- ioclation Journal, tells this one: William Z. Faster, hood of the Communist Party in the United States, summed up the whole

Communist attitude towards industrial relations recently when he said:

"A program based on class peace would be a first-class disaster to the workers and the people generally as well as to our party. The aims of the trade unions cannot be achieved by a harmonious agreement between capital and labour." ,

This is a pretty frank admission of the fact that Communist aims cannot be achieved by peaceful relations between labour and manage- ment, but only by continuous strife and struggle.

The same Mr. Foster, according to the Minneapolis Star, in a radio debate ignored the following two significant questions:

"Name one opposition leader in Russia who, in the last ten years . . has criticized the gov- ernment . . and lived to tell his story?

"Name one instance when the Communist Party in the United States has criticized the for- eign policy and actions of Russia?"

These questions are the type which all of us might ask of those who rave about the advant- ages of Communism in Russia or who rant about the "true Canadians" our local Communists are.

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EDITORIAL NOTES

They all say it, including the Income Tax Collector and City Tax Collector, that we are exceptionally prosperous. Alas, and alack, how many there be who cannot find a house where- in to lay their heads!

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Potato picking in Prince Edward Island may not be as exciting as the harvest excurs- ions to the West in the twenties, but the pickers have a better chance of returning home with money in their packet than had the harvesters.

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It will be long before It is possible to order a new car with any hope of early delivery. Ben- son Ford, who should know, says that it will take the auto industry two years to catch up with its backlog of orders. Scarcity of steel is the greatest factor in restraining production.

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Lt.-Col. Leo Hawel, Jr, U.S.A.F., told a Canadian audience that any future conflict would be like an old fashioned gun-fight. "If you lose the draw, you lose the fight." It seems to be iust about time the law moved in, .in the form of world government.

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The British Labour Government having bon- ned the manufacture and use of open fireplaces for culinary purposes, Dame Vera Matthews, chairman of the Domestic Cool Consumers Coun- cil, says open grates have only 20 per cent effi- ciency, compared with 50 per cent of new kitch-

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The widespread search for the U. S. Navy aircraft lost in Northern Manitoba was success- ful on Friday. One thing brought out very forcefully by that twelve day search is the vast- ness of the North country. Hostile forces could manoeuvre for months in that endless wilder- ness without coming to grips.

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Canada ls trying to learn as much as pos- sible about the homeland of the Eskimos, but she is doing a little teaching at the same time. The Department of Mines and Resources dis- tributes to the Eskimo the Book of Wisdom printed in his own language and English which contains just about everything an Eskimo should know.

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The fact that Sir Alan P- Herbert is re- nowned as a humourist is sometimes a disad- vantage to that Member of Parliament for Ox- ford University. ln response to a memorandum from the Responsible Government League of Newfoundland he wrote to the London Times protesting against confederation. His readers, however, will probably be looking for the ioke and altogether miss his arguments.

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It is pretty hard when even In prison a man may be defrauded. Kenneth McGall, former ac- countant of Kingston Penitentiary, was sentenc- ed to six months definite and one month indef- inite in the Ontario Reformatory when he plead- ed guilty to a charge of stealing $1,512 be- longing to prisoners. McGall pleaded guilty to the theft of cash and securities held in trust for prisoners, His counsel said that full restitution would be made.

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Job Beaver, one of the most famous huni- ers of the Stoney Indian tribe, and still consid- ered as the original trail-maker on the Alberta side of the Rockies, regarded white men as wasteful hunters (says Forest‘ and Outdoors Magazine). Job said: "The Great Spirit gave these (Canadian Rocky) Mountains to the Ind- ians. tie put the mountain sheep here, in the volleys he put deer and moose and elk so that His children would never go hungry. Then the white man carre and he goes shoot, shoot, shoot all the time. Soon there will be no more sheep, no ircie dcer, no rrcre moose and elk. And then the Indians will starve. Wahhhhhhhl

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Lord Nelson, English Lord High Admiral, born this date 1758. He made England Mistress of the Seas, laying the foundation of her I-m- porial ex-pansion. He was a clergyman's son, delicate, ailing child of poor physique, but of great determination and perseverance, and rose speedily from middy to Captain, coming to the front in the wars against the French till he reached the full command of the Navy at Tra- falgar, where he was shot through the lungs and spine, his dying words being "Thank God, I have done my duty." He remains the greatest British naval hero of all times, displaying bold- ness of conception, impregnabla determination, and the intuition of genius; the leading prin- ciples of his tactics are traditional in the Brit-

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LORD SELKIRICS DIARY

M, L, 5., of Mt. Buchanan, this oolumn ta indebted for extensive excerpts {roan Lord Selkirks dlary for the years with oLher original material re- listing to the Skye pioneers. which wlll appear here from time to time. Readers of Macfllleefl’! history wlll recall that: the first of Selklrk's ships, the "Polly", ar- rived at. Orwell Bay on Sunday, Aug '1, 1306, dlscr-nbarklng her passengers near the present. Halli- day's wharf. On her was Dr. Angus MaoAulay, Selklrk‘s agent, to whom reference is made below, The "Dykes", with Selkirk himself on board, arrived on Aug. 9 and the "Oughton", with ilie Utst men, on Aug. 2'1.

"Saturday. Aug. 13th (1803) Having finished all the business with theI Dykes and left her ready for sea-and sealed up my letters fo.go by the Post, I set off for the settlement at the old French village called Belfast. I arrived In the evening, having passed Mr. Stewart on the way aver; fatigue ln the exploring had made h"'m ill, I went. on board the Polly from which everything was landed, but still some baggage on board and other things to settle; the shlp lying a mtle and is half from made the boating tedious.

"Several of the passengers had not token up their full weekly allowance of provisions and had to receive the balance. A week had been distributed per advance and there still remained of the a weeks laid lri, one clue to the store, Some squabbling had arisen alfiut the cooking; no cook being provided by the ship, ti. was difficult to keep order among so great; is number. 280 lull passengers and nearly 400 souls——Dr_ McA. man- aged it at last by appointing cooks from among themselv6s_ The berths seemed fully confined tho’ the ab- undance of hatches gave a good opportunity of air; yet it had proved very close tn the hot. weath- eir. the berths were dirty enough.

"I fo-und the people scattered about. along a mile of silo-re, a few barns, etc, belonging to 3 umsuth. orlzed settlers. the rest ln novels or wlgwams, built. oblong like the roof of one nf our European cot- tages, and thatched in general with spruce baughs. some of them very close. and fit to turn a good ruin-but; the ftne weather had not yet. put. them to the test. Mr. Shaw observed, however. that. they wanted trenches around them which would be necessary in wet. weather. ‘They have been so Wvllpled with landing their lug- gage that nothing else has been not done: tho‘ the Smith was sent. dciwn yesterday he has not. yet got to work,

"Supped at Dr. McAulay's tent, and went up to lodge in J. Mc- Donald's to which scirne of my own camp beds had been taken, My awn tent. had been too cumber- scrne to bring ln the bcatp-one less complete would have been more useful, The mosquito curtains W"! mismanaged and enclosed as marry wtthtn as without so that the night. was _not the most com. fcrteble. '

"The encampment had o very picturesque appearance under

fire near it. illuminated the woods, and each party sitting or moving around with their KYDSy like Qp- nisratus of pots and pans gave the light. additional variety of play.

"Sunday. Aug. 14th, From the lateness of the evening, 1 mu "en it'll! 0f the People lost. night-the most- of them met. us tn the mom- tng about breakfast time, and we hart a hearty shaking of hands- they came tn general around me with a keenness and warmth that Perhaps had s little resemblance ta the old feudal times; the zeal with which they assisted st. our lnndinii last nlzht nut me in mind 0! Boaforth’: l ptton In Kentati if years ago."

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THE GRASS STILL GROWS

3N0 book can tell you how to come of age.

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.Mat.urlt.y le no man's heritage.

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Seeing each year the first. flowers come to birth,

You wlll wondering

And live 81110113.; the answers of the earth:

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In rain and sun enough to last. the season,

Accepting equally the death

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Tlbe same field white through clov-

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Tale Of A Shirt i

(London Free Press» l It was hardly necessary to ap- l ‘point a Royal Commission to findi that men's shirts are scarce and‘ expensive in Conrado, Indeed it. might be possible to form a pollu- cal party here an the "dewmfsaoo" ‘or shirtless line of Peron. the Ar- y gentlne dictator. r The sad tale of the shirt. as: unravelled at. the Prices Probe ls that it ts impossible to secure ma- terial to make shirts at prices which Canadian shirt-wearers will 'poy. Plenty of shitting apparentuy available in England — but onlv lri terms of $6 shirts.

i American material ls barred ' the dollar saving program, and Ca- nadian factories have not exparia-' ed to fill the shirt. gap. All tins, ‘indicates that it. ls mainly gov-‘ ernments that stand between us and our shirts. The British Gor- ernmeni. ls partly to blame be-, cause it is maintaining an unreal level of prices and wages and put- wing itself out; of the world mal'-; ket. Our American friends have a substantial prop under prices i.i cotton. The Canadian Governmciz; is drrlven to choose between shlrw and dollars. And then there is tn: matter of ihe eight per cent. sales tax which must. be paid even on

the freight. charges.

We hope that. the Royal Uum- mtsston wlll make some concreti- proposals. It might. for example. recommend the substitution of dle- I kles for shirts. making up for tllei

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royal party; all await: the signal to

go ahead with their preparations. Australia ls expected to spend more than £250,000 on the tour.

In her private apartment. at the Palace. Princess Margaret ls studying Maori, Her mother and father are looming it too. and the Royal Family give themselves tests so that they wlll be word perfect by the time they have to make their first public speeches.

So for the Queen and Princess Margaret have not selected their ivardrobe, but there ls an atmos- phere of quiet expectancy in the green-carpeted, softly llt salon ‘of Norm-an I-Iartnell in Mayfair.

Work will probably begin next month. and once again the sec- rets of the royal wardro-bs will be closely guarded. Trends at. the present Paris shows are being carefully noted.

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Whatever the Queen arid Prin- cess Margaret wear wlll set the fashion for the Deminions. will brine a boom to “Down Under" dressmakers.

Down at Devonport. the battle- ship HMS Vanguard prepares for the "sllake-down” cruise which will precede the royal voyage.

After the South African tour the Vanguard was refitted at

‘ Devonport. and wlll now be manned

by Devonport. men. Full comple- ment is 101 officers, 1.'il5 men, and there wlll be keen competi- tion to make the trip.

Very little work wlll be neces- sary this time: the saluting plai- form will be restored. so will the sun lounge: and the royal party will use the same furniture that was installed lil their quarters for the South African trip. In Buckingham Palace an admin- istration and clerical staff has been working for the past. five months. for lt. is estimated that a four-month royal tour takes at least o. year to plan ln all its de- tails.

Information on the personal likes and dislikes of the Royal Family tn food. drink, and sleep- lnig has also been sent. to the Dominlons.

The King prefers tea. to coffee

orf tea. He also likes addresses of welcome to be out. to the mini- mum.

Brick in Australia and New Zenland officials are rationing the number of handshakes the Royal Family wlll be called urpon to make.

Thousands of applications frcrm people who wish to shake llarlds with the King are belrig ruth- lessly sifted. So are the ap- plications from scores of organ- izations who -— knowing Princess lvlargareffis liking for dancing wish to invite her to their dance. In New Zealand the Postmaster- General, Mr. Fred Haakett, an. nouiices a set of four postage stamps commemorating flle tour: the Australian printing presses are also preparing for special Ls-

ooubllrig in shirts costs by IllllV-isu"

dug the materials. After all Lire’ shirt-sleeve season ls nearly over.l It. might. say something about SfliIbi subsidies. It. might. even point. bu" how the Government. could get rig‘ of some of the obstacles ll. aim raised betiween us and our shirts. But. this would probably be ex" ipeottng too much of a Royal Com

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l Twelve times in the past. three, weeks s 27 hp. block Hummer

Jlmoustne has driven through the- gates of Buckingham Palace sndi

iso-year-old Senator John Ignatius‘ Armstrong has clamrbered out. with ' an armful of mops of Australia.

. For hours, sometimes early in the morning, sometimes late tn the evening, the Senator has sat. at, a table with the King and Queen tracing the route they wlll take on next. year's tour of New Zeisisndv and Australia.

Now the itinerary has been sp- proved and very soon Senator Annatrong-Mtnlster-tn-Churge o-l the Tour-will ‘ly book to Aus- tralia. with the ‘Illhl

Cities, towns, villages tn New zeslandmnd Australia's six States avidly await the announcement of