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CIIARLIITTETDWII GUARDIAN

Morning Dally (Founded in 1887) Authorized a: Second Clasa Mall, Post Offlco Department. Ottawa.

President. Ian A. Burnett; Vice-President, Wm. lt,. Bartlett; Stacy-Treats. G. M. Burnett; Editor and Managing Director. J. R. Burnett; Associate Editor. Frank Walker. _

Jill; Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink." Tlluusrxlv. JANUARY 16:1;

flivic Finances

Of special interest at last night's annual mzcting of the Charlottetown Board of Trade was the ccrvprellcnsive report on Cl‘.lC finances submitted by a special committee under the chairmanship of Mr. J. P. Gordon. This report appears in today's Guardian and should be studied carefully by all our citizens. It is ob- viously til: recnt of a greet deal of work, and the tlndulgs are presented with admirable clar- ity, and in a spirit of fairness to all concerned.

Nclthor the present City Council nor former Councils are criticised for conditions which, the report suggests, arc probably clue to economic and bu: s conditions beyond their control. The fact is, IlOWCVel‘, that the City's cl \."t charges now require 43 percent of the civic ilzome, leaving only 57 percent for current civic services. The total funded debt is much greater than that of other comparable centns which are mentioned. So are our per capila tax arrears. The chief lack is seen to be increased revenue, but it is noted as being "ncither good business nor good poli- tics" to increase the general tax rate every time more money is needed. A better solution, of course, in to obta‘n new revenue sources, or at least redistribute the existing burden more equit- ably. A particularly interesting feature of the report is the review of various taxation methods fltlrpled in otli-er cities across Canada.

The Board's activities during the year, its immediate objectives and the need for increased membership and closer cooperation, are discuss- ed in President F. W. Hyndman's report, which also appears in today's issue. Well placed is I'll5 emphasis on the warning sounded by the Ca- nadian Chamber of Commerce that "if private enterprise is to survive, we as citizens and busi- ncss men musftake more interest in the affairs of government. The 'let George do it’ attitude must go."

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lllur Gilly And Shale Resources

The prospects for greatly increasing the Island's pro_:ction of fruits and berries by means of irrigatlozi were discussed by Premier Jones in a recent aidress. The Premier made it clcor that he was not enunciating Government policy; but surely this is a matter in which the Gov- ernment might wcll be prepared to take the lead. In any cqsc_,__i_f__t_lt;are ' tgflbe any extensive irri- gation wor undzrln en, we shall need lots of cheap drain tile. We have the material right here for the establishment of such on industry; and now we have o n w booklePon the“ sub- ject, just issued by th and Resources at Ottawa. It is entitled "Clays and Shalcs of Prince Edward lsland", and it is a compilation by A. R. MacPhcrson from the field notes of Mr. Frcch-ette made here during the summers of I927 and I928, and from the laboratory reports mode by Mr. J. F. McMahon on_ samples obtained in the field work.

Much of the Island, the report notes, is cover-zd with soil deposited under marine con- ditions when the Province was overlain by the ocean or impounded glacial waters: These mar- ine sediments are largely sand impregnated with red clay in widely varying proportions. Gen- erally, the sand predominates, but in places the percentage of clay matter is sufficiently high to classify the soil as a sandy clay. These marine clays are seldom more than two or three feet in thickness and do not constitute important de- posits as a source of clay for the manufacture of clay wares, though most of the brick plants whIch have operated in the past within’ the Prov- ince drew upon such beds for their clay.

Boulder clcy, also ofkcommon occurrence, is red like marine clcy and frequently very sandy. In most localities it is not suitable for the manufacture of clay products but at several points it. was appa fly used for brickmaking. Such brick were usually made by the soft-mud process but, though of a good red ‘color, they were mrlrrcd by the inclzisPon of fragments of sandstone. ln general the clays of the Island do not offer so good a promise as some'of the beds cf~ red shale as a source of row material for a clay-working industry, and it is this feat- ure of the roportfiwhicll merits attention.

The principal exposures of shale we're foundin the coastal cliffs; particularly along the Northumberland Strait side of the Island. Fol- lowing this coast from eqst to west, important beds were observed at various points between Bothwell and Broughton River, Orwell Bay, Lob- star Point, Hillsbarough Bay, Cape Egmont, and at many points between West Point and North Cope. Along the northern coast, shale is much less common and the beds observed were not re- garded as of commercial importance.

Very few of the deposits were found to have had sufficient work done on them to de- termine the quantity of clay or shale available for brickmaking or other purposes._ Sufficient clay or shale of good quality, however, the re- port states, should be available to support o cmoll industry. Areas most promising for fut- ~arc work to prove deposits of economic value are: in Prince County, tlla Richmond, Tignish and Wall Print areas; in Queen's, Gallows Point and Devil's Punch Bowl; in King's, the Both- wcll and Bridgetown areas. .

In brief the report strusu that old plants Itiliud surface clay from small deposits and, lf a ‘proved deposit ofgholc could be found, a non uniform and bomr product could be ob- tained. -._- . - . luclduntqllrltgic nmd that there m good clay bod: illfiflgficl thick overlain by a thin

» , lull a mllc and a half north

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ncurluluqmmtk

l tltewpy advances,

‘all farmers and business men to get busy and

Department of Mines‘

able for the manufacture of clay products, but as tho deposit is under the land of the Domin- ion Experimental Farm it would not be available for commercial exploitation.

- EDITORIAL NOTES -'

g The Bottle of Corunna, Spain’. foughj this date, I809, when Sir John Moore, after do. footing the French, died of his wounds and was buried on the bottle field.

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The Grand Jury, in the words of the Mayor of New York, "said a mouthful" in its report to the Supreme Court on Falconwood Hospital. It Will‘ be for the Government to take the necessary act-win; it has been customary on the port of all Governments to earnestly consider and adopt recommendations regarding Fqlcoyywggd made by Grand Juries.

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_ c The year I947 will prove a "record shat-

faring yeor"_for drugs and medical supplies, Modern Medicine believes. The conclusion is

The Cl-lAkliOTTETOwNl ‘GUARDIAN

Notes By The Way

Jean Plcard will" glyfgfln‘ ‘llgam- “Oiled by a net enclosing dOO balloons. It sounds Ilka m, ream of’ a boy with a new air. 811R- ~Tomnlo Star.

‘Liars In the United Slates ha" 9166M! their new champion. shacks, ‘We have lols 0f friends who could lea.“ hm‘ i" "10 Dost. lvilhout even 1111mm —Wlndcarr sm.

“It l4 almost enough lo upset g llfifsolls patriotism lo see beautiful timber maslicated into newsprint" sold E. E. Johnson nl Toronto. But llvw nice it i; wlmn g rakes on 111111111111 811d Dlvlures. -—POTl Arthur NfilVg-Chfqniclg,

bllll another fire has tzccn- cx- lll11111§d liwlly wllli (rcllvclliclil llvc-cry lhnl ll was caused by tnlce gnaw- "iti matches. Such an explanation has surface plausibility. but il. lacks Sflflllllflc backing, Many pecpye who Pr? FHDEOSPd lo know such things

bnsod on the increase in the number of consum- crs and the ‘aggregate amount of money theyI will have available. Also taken into considera- tlon are the upturn in birth rates, new chemo-l

child-bearing in the early years of marriage, and‘. advances in the science of nutrition.

R i fi I I Figures recently released reveal that morel than. 800 buildings and five major training and: Staging camps, involving upwards of 600 addi-l tionol units have been declared surplus in the Nova Scotia area to the l5th October, lost year. Of this total, l02 buildings in the Halifax area had been turned over to Wartime Housing Ltd., or the City, for emergency shelter purposes, and 493-—all former Army buildings-had been sold

by the War AsseTs Corporation.

lt is informative to realize that the Pne- micrs the Fedegal Government have been "fixing "P" are not Conservative-"not o cent to a Tory Government" being formerly the Prime Min- ister’: slogan. Premier Hart and Premier Jones are Liberals; Premier Garson, Progressive; Pre- mier Manning is Social Credit; Premier Douglas, C. C. F.; Prcmicr McNair (at whose instance the partial conference has been called), Liberal; Premier Macdonold (the main kicker who was turned out of the King Government), Liberal; Premier Drew, Conservative; Premier Duplcssis,

Union Nationale.

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lt is now found not only to be feasible but much cheaper to bring western grain direct to Charlottetown than via Montreal. This being the case it is up to the Provincial Government and

insizt upon the plan being implemented. It is understood it will cost from 15c to 25c per bus- hel less to have direct importation” but to make it practical a garin elevator is necessary. Let us have it, and lose no time about it. Who, among our agricultural and business men arc going to take the lead in this matter? Neither Provincial nor Federal Government will move un- less strong pressure is brought to bear on them by those interested. - w i fi II

Ottawa is getting its signals mixed over price‘ control removal publicity. The Ottawa story is that price control is really quite popular, which is absolutely true, as affecting those who buy ilny particular item of goods. That docs not mean that it is a political asset. No one is going to vote for the Government because it keeps the price of what he buys low. Men may vote against the Government, because it does not keep prices low enough on what they want to buy, and because it keeps prices too low on what they sell. There is no political advantage to be gained out of price control.

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C.B.C. National News Bulletin, January Ist, celebrated the New Year by announcing that we are all now Canadian citizens, and that th-e clause in the Act which says that we are Brit- ish subjects was only put in it to get over some legal technicalities. That was not the story which the Government told us when the Act was being passed. Canadian citizenship is a great possession, but the present attempt to make a

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llltll mice do FCl gnaw match-

1-1 lJCi. lhrv hale phosphorus, rnil will not touch it. —Winc1sm- Star.

.. - l _ . greater ccncnsttcrion of, Casual vlsllol’! are not the only, (mes who sometlmcs forget that the]

Iollilrlalion stock of Cnrtadn and lhe Llnllocl Stelcs is not. ltlo same. Info “l” 1311" Poured many slrearm, ~ comparable to cur Continental European lmlnigrqljrm but m) 111350? ClliT3l1lS. Here wt‘ have trad ‘WO- 011° 801116; bllck lo fiance, lilo Oiher lo the British Isles. There is nothing to compare with those two dominant divisions in the United slatvs racial background and the K141111181 1119Y8€r 0f Ule two wlll pro- duce not flancricans but Canadians. —-Fillancial Post.

A former Wren. who sine; dis. Charge has boosted her earnings lo $10 an hour. has her heart set on ir- Sfin-un-liour job. Audrey Hug!‘ 1 0i Rlvvffiifll‘. 0111.. is lhe cx-serv:

for a plaza on the slaff of Powers Agni: some linle as a photographic mofc‘ in Winds-er and Detroit. Allraciivc Audrey lock a course with lhe T-OVVCI"; finishing school in P2101, Willi DVAKs assistance. Shc »':vcd with the WRCNS at H" ' nncl Ollcnva. —VE“C1‘IlllS A!" .

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“Alulnic llllcrs" bct g lllzft. up in l-Lll-vcll. Ellglcvlrd. \" ill produce inal- vrials for lrealritrll of lancer. Thcce malcrlu vlll act as a sup- plement to to u".l. This announce- ntcizt was ma by Profcsror Cock- ct-ofl. Unllca igdc-m Dlrectzr of Atom Rcscrrcll. on December 13. A lllCill such x cobalt "v'.'C'11lll be put into lilo l‘ 5* and lcfl there for a ll‘.()llill, I snlrl, By lhell il would 116d DYUDPTHES very slin- ilar lutadiunl. A small fllffcg 0,; Co. billl would have an nt-Livfly about rqu~l lo lhe biggest radium source 1'.‘ Fri in medical lrealmunl. —-UK In- f-irrlrilion Office.

’l‘ll‘t- use of tlomcslli-aled lflllg as n sllbfilllllle [or horses is being scri-

1y conslrlernl irl Mosocw as lhe rl ull of successful cxpcrimmls in l.tl' "sslltg lhcse powerful beasts. LI Md out by a Russian scientist Vfll‘) had previously contrived to maize sables breed in captivity-an achievement from which fur traders are already benefiting. AlbOUl 20 tilts at an experimental station nenr Moscow have been trained l

culllcs arises from their inlpeluoug speed. a trained clk having recenll

Covered a mile lb about one mln-ul

2nd a halt. Bul. as the professor has pointed out. if elks should pro' e unsatisfactory as draught animus they maize excellent eating. -I_o1l-

' don Times.

All his lite Mr. King has kept. lls connvctim with his church, llle Prcibylcsi-lti Church, and is fou d each Sunday in his place el Ilc serviccs. 11c. loo. has kcpl up lllf.‘ old custom of family worship, lllld lnlco a day holds worship In lyls liomta He is not n mail who has “ought popularity by zippearimg in public at. cv'cry' function which came along. or by calling everyone

sort of newsreel movie out of it is so ‘much hol- um. Mr. T. S. Ewart, certainly no imperial- ist, begs to point out that Canadian citizenship was defined as for back as I9lO; that no Actl of Parliament was needed; that all that wasl wanted was instructions to Government offices; to use the term "Canadian citizens." British, subj-ects we remain, as long as we arc members of a Commonwealth of which the King ls the hood, so that the whole song and danco,_ un- fortunately, is rather unworthy of our nallonld

dignity. . .

Here is Premier Duplessis’ reaction. "The spirit and essence of Confederation l5 co-opero- tion and collaboration properly understood. The result of Federal tactics has been to. provoke disunion, mistrust, confusion and lead towards corruption of Confederation. The Government of Quebec will always be ready to collaborate with the central Government and the govern- ments of the provinces in a manner respectful of the spirit and letter of the constitution, but the Quebec Government will never collaborate towards contempt of the constitution, and with tactics of dicunion, evasion,_ mistrust and cor- ruptive bargaining. lt is evident that the pro- cedure of the Federal authorities constitute a danger for the féderotivo pact. We Era ready to do all reasonable to conjure away these dagg-

by their Christian name. Neither

l has llL‘ been known or called by ills

Christian name by everyone. And

yet no one ln Canada today is lock-l

ca up lo or held ln greater respoct lhnn Mr. King. There has been no scandal. private or public. con- nected with his mime. -He hi5 strong temperance principles whluh ht- llves up l0. undone of the great-

‘osl temperance specchvs 0V6? 1'11"!“ wrllc fault-finding lollors about an

in Canada was delivered bv him during the war. --J.R, Hale Orlllla Padtet and Timon.

nearly 200 years ago. was a famous

rifles. says The Woman Magazine. They road a; foil

1. rarnk and especially your sword.

2. Leave outal your right of pre- cadence your ldc and everything akin to them»,

3. Be any. blyt do not damage any- thing. .

4. sit. ala-ld or walk, regardless of anybody.

5. Talk c mly. but not loo loudly so as to ‘m e the heads of other! ache.

d. men .

'1. Neither llgh nor yawn, nor maltd others z y or dull-spirited.

us, to forsea and prevent them.‘ At thé. op- propriate time responsibility will be established in a complete fashion for what has occurred. Font the moment, I find it singular that there should oven be a question that in matters that cour,

corn the Collfcderatio as a whole. “d consll- in one ear m st go out the other’

qucntly all the provinces, that persons should speak of- p partial Dominion-Provincial Conflqr- once. Also that there should even be quest/on imcmain" placu of having a conference at which will not be p cnt the provinczs which bdlle .d it to b0 tbcir duty not toflgn agreements l lth

Ottawa oil-condition: laid down by Ottawa, and

iflifilllvlll U fill-inn

lbwwilulnll

8- Let all jobs In any game pro- posed. » ,

9. Eat whuleycr ls good, but drink moderately 1n order that. every- body’: head m y be level on leaving.

l0. Tell no t lea. That which gees

before you 1 ve the room.

If any guet broke any ed the first nine ofilhese rules, he had lo drink a g1 road aloud a Trellulcofs-ky. I he broke three, he, had to memo be afx lines of tho

m. But if {he bloke the lcnlb nlleahe ooulll prover again

‘Mid he slluuld KllUN bcllcl". 3B 1-2

_ l lzlrg lllfl- Shl“s been celled to New York “'- i

1.)’. after working fcr "'

lake lhe bit, One of the main diffijl

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Catherlne ll, who rnlotfikudslpa? 1'

rparty giver. and she made her own-

Leave outsldTwyour hat. your‘

Discuss llhout anger or exclle- ' i l

o, m, ‘m, Ml . Orthopedic

o from the poet,

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wawl-vwu-vnv PU BLIC FORUM

Thll column ll opqn g9 the dilcnulon b; “ma. upondenta of questions o! Intel-cat. The Ch-rlottrotown Guardian don not necessar- lly undone the opinion of w-rccpondentl.

'u MILK PRICES

Sir.-~~As a processor" of .- milk, I lake exception lo some cf the slate. mcnls “Another Consumer" has made- He slates that the raw milk vendor recrives $5.20 per 10a 111s. for his milk. As I think everybody knows, there are only :58 1-2 qt5_ 9;; owl- and he is llgurltlg on 40 (115,,

1H5 at l3 ccllls would come l0 $5.01.

Al- lh-C lifts-ant ctr so price of surplus milk. lie stalks lllnl lhe "n"? 1-5 513° 1-101‘ cwl. I wlsh lo ccr- rccl that slutomcnl, as 100 lbs, t: 3-7 per cent milk comcs to $1.97, subsidy included. 11.7 p9,» 6cm is “he average lcsl for Ch ‘IQLL-glowr; '1 he c"? bill-law culls for 13.5 p;r @9111,

Again, he slates l-hal the tazmcr Pwvlvts which is ncl corrccl. 11$ BPPIO-‘Kl-lllillell’ 40 per cent. of his milk goes at wholesale to stores, restaurants. hotels. llLSillllli0115, elm; 57". figuring I‘. out on a basis of 6C) per C(‘l‘ll——40 pcr cenl, he would rc- celve $4.85. Wlll'l1 is .350 per cwl. less l-‘Jan "Axiom; Consumer" slat.- ed m his anonymous Ieller to lhe press.

Ncw. lo mcrltion the cheese quest- ion ngnin. llow many of our child- ren would cure lo cal choose lihrce limes a day, instead of drinking 3 glasscs of milk. or 4 or 5. whatever ill: case may be’! As many families of three lake l5 qls milk a day, so mother. fallicr and child must drink all average of 5 glesscs of milk a day. as there are 5 glasses in an imperial Furthermore. I believe all ii. cal doclors loll us lZi is to duplicate milk fo:

\"l , L--~ . ail-plane f plre. And

A Graham Bell Stanip

(Sydney Pout-Record)

There l; particular interest in Cape Breton. and emcclully in Bad- deck when the late Alexander Gn- ham Bell. inventor o! the telephone made his Caradlan residence for many years. ln the official an- nounoment that a new Canadian four-cent stamp wlll be issued short.- ly to commemorate the centenary of his birth. The stamp will bear a plCHlfO of Dr. Bell. and wlll be formally issued on March 3, 1947,- Just one century after the great tn- VBlll01"B birth at Eldlnbuugh, Scot- land.

Tlhe Graham Bell slalmp wlll be of bllO came alzo as the regular four- cont stamp, will be red in color. anuzl wlll carry lhe name "Alexander Graham Cell" as well as the ccrl- lonary dates 1847-1947, It will e first commcmorallve stamp Canada wlll have issued since 1939. when ll special issue was sl/ruck 1n honor o1 the Royal visit.

As-has been "med. Alexander Graham Boll was born ln Edinburgh on March 3, 1847. Coming lo Can- ada in 1870, he llvcd 1n Branlford. Ontario, for a short time with his parenis, but nwved subsequently w lhe United States. where tie did rc- scarch on aids to l-he deal ln Bas- lon and lvashington. According l0

1n his illary. Dr. B011 K01 the l. i while on a_ holiday at. Brantford ln 1874, and it was there he made his first experimental lranslnlsslon of speech over a telephone wire.

In his later years Alexander Gru- ham Bell lived 1n lhe Marltimes, making his summer home. and later his permanent residence. at Bad- deck. It was there that he carried on his early experiments 1n avia- tion, and ll was thcrc in collabora- tion wlth F. \'-' win tit-l otlicz" 5cjcn""1< - was xlentltlccl

- - _s£ul alternpl at.

i. c ~ tlyln; 1n t-tle British Em- lt was there 1n his b01119 at Belnn Bhreaah. hhfll U115 81911! irwcntor and physicist died on Aug-