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Jagtqagv 16. A1953 ,-at-oriycoo-rep.-on area eouteecze--ceosa.-9 .:.r.

I Notes By The Way 1. 5 meant by the term for even tit);

Social Creditors couldn't detitic l' It's an abracndahra dish like one

Harbinger or Spring

Advent of t.he almanac for 1953 may be regarded as an auspicious omen that , despite the uncertainty of what will happen

-Iii-ealdcnt-I-ari-diissoclate n.m3.. Ian A. aunietf l on Ground Hog Day. sprint; need no Ioniz-

Alany people have grown lemons in their kitchen windows. It isn't done by planing lemon-seeds and

I letting nature take its course, but from More or wherever. so wht Associate Editor, Frank Walker. !or be regarded as but a forlorn hope. No N 1;-V tgcqulgintt 7i W”! P1331 Of "Shel the Mme to define a Darti

.....;-1:-w -- - -- -(v:-- i . , ru -pro uc ng age. -- awa w e 3- ' t Ct , t (-lRCfLAT10N :matter how the winds may howl and the - PAR ,, Q ldollrllal. imajzinaxlidln? llnlvti. iiliiiieiijitiignivi-1:: "f'm'rrs Prince lldward 1513"” "R9 "W d""' 'snow drifts linger, comfort may be de- Ycu too can, look ' EA TYI 1 - -- - - to change the name to the soon: -- - -V -----A - H -- - Wm. : . d t. th - . , . ,. c -,, , ” - 1 A WHIK I'M seievltd its .E0"W'Demqcrais or to the Purple pi... ..the "ranges, memory It Weaker than Hit? Wm Uml-Wilg lh10Ugl1 U10 i0llll111l- m9Ve 35": 5 1" 3 --'& tor the .l.JOlli.lOl1 newspapers as the gmuives or something that might the Weak”, ink... ous tome and reading, among other things. Z imobable husband t of Princess mean something it would be un- grw, ,, M. ,,g ,,V-V,,,,r g ,,,th9 unqualified pt-Ognosticatton that the .M9T8”95 hits married, 50m?b0dY de1'S18nd&bIe.. We're getting tired (.HAm.0TTL .0wV FRIDM H 16 PW, : . jj else. It shows the fragile basis of of the mystic veil. -. LGlill7l'ldgP

' ' t hw h ' 'V'h'm ' glhoitest weather on record will be expcr- tmuch gossip about the llh'll.l'llIl0ll-'.Hei'ald, ieiiced bctwccn Au ust 28 and So itcnibci f. 9?” mm” M ”””mmcd '"""b"5

1119 Wood Islands Service ,, ,, g l O --- or the Royal mmiii. -- Ottaual In our cunt.aA't4s uilli LIIF. ......... 'IY10OJ' t t 19L 1.; . Journal. land and in our internal com- W Few publications can be said to com- . f .' ' Vttttn has tfttuf onto to ,tim”'””””"5 We 5” 3”” "ml 1"" Th” irllllltitllltlfllllflill ill T1"-'lIlSlWPl Mllllslh t pare in educational or entertainment value .,.F . 333 disti-ti.-t Inf Americnnii ititestl,tioTisl31l?il:dt:stkatl:lt lt:':r:rilardcrtmi.o::op1;fIL

tlhevricr of tho lfcdciutl Govcrnincnt's in-twith the modern almanac. The seasons, the ientioti tn build a new automobile ferry fol;-jsjhg and setting of the sun, the tides and run between Prince liciuard Island aiidt the phases of the moon, and even the move-, Nova Scolia. Staliinz in 1953. is news Of ments of the planets, all matters of intense! vital importzincc to this Province and maytconcet-n to the rural dweller, are each ac-, well mean the bcgintiiiig of a new era in cot-dad their appropriate place, Atmahat-SC

and to mock all Alilfl-l'lCal1 ftnelrice is not, therefore, merely The words than the. impertiiicnces ll'l-iydplivetty of man; but 315,, the "mt, fhcted on foreigners under ihe,eiiicieni: distribution of letters and tMcCarran immigration) .act. Wetpaxcels having tn mind tha mtm, in Europe could never do it becauselof tour peculiar communication it would bevtoo much like Whattdlfficuliles. The post office, in happens behind the Iron Curtain. fact, must make a full contribution

' l -Manchester Guardian. 'to improvement of oui- social and

l ": fcommerclal life to the extent that

our ll'EillSp0l'l.'lllOll ltisioiy The Ministers statcnieiit indicates that the Government i-eallzes the increasing importance of truck trausportaiioii for the farmers of the Province, lll getting their products directly into eastern Nova Scotiit. No decision has hccil made as in what. agency will operate the ferry. but in any case it is to be owned hy the Govcrniitctit and its efficient oper- ation, in kcopiiit: with the growing demands of the scriicc, will be assumed as a Federal responsibility, in tho same manner as the "ar ferry operation at Borden.

.7AIt'this time it should be noted that the Province is greatly indebtcd to the present operating company, Northumberland Fer- ries Limited, for pioneering this service over a period of seveial years, under many difficulties and disadvantages. Chiefly the credit should go to the president of the company. Mr. R. E. Mutch, for his enter- prise and initiative, but all his associates are to be commended for the support they have given him. The service has already resulted in great benefits to our farm ship- pers, tourist trade and the public gener- ally, but perhaps its chief value has been to show that ferry transport of this kind is absolutely essential, and that its possib- ilities are practically unlimited. If we are to expand agriculturally and otherwise, we must have modern and adequate means of moving our products in mainland niarkcts. The Railway has performed an excellent service in this connection, but it must now be supplemented by other means. Dominion recognition of this fact is highly important, and is the result of a long series of rep- resentations on the part of our Provincial Government, mem bers of Parliament. Boards of Trade and others interested.

The new boat cannot be made available for two years. In the meantime it is to be hoped that the application of the operating company to use a boat which they have purchased in Halifax, as an auxiliary to the Prince Nova and Dunning, will be granted by the Maritime Commission. The boat could be put in service this summer. and could remain in operation until the new ferry is completed.

Army Reserves

With the exception of the war years. which saw it rise to a peak of 173,000, Can- ada's Reserve Army has been in a state of decline over the last quarter-century. While the population has been rising, the num- Imr nf Canadians taking part-time instruc- tion at their local armories has been falling. in 1927-8, when our population was below ill million. the strength of the Reserve Army stood officially at 52,326. In 1951-2, when our population was above 14 million, the strength of the Reserve Army stood of.- ficially at 46,936. In 1927, we had fifteen part-time soldiers for every full-timc one. Today, the iuitiilicrs are running, about equal.

Tlicse figtlmc, siifri the Globe and Mail.

help to explain why the Canadian Armj."

is having such a difficult time reaching its March. 1954, objcctivc of 50,000 men. Granted a voluntary system of recruitment for active service, the logical place to get such recruits is in the Reserve Army. But the Reserve Army itself is not getting rc- cruits. Diirlng the fiscal year ending March, 1952. it increased its strength by fewer than 500 men. It is doubtful wheth- er the fiscal ynar now ending will show any improvement.

"The problcni," says the Toronto pa- per, "is to draw men into the Reserve. Granted that this, too, should be volunthry. we believe the most effective and most honorable method is to make military train- ing compulsory in Canada's high schools and universities. This would give all young Canadians the basic training which may, at some time, mean the difference between life and death. It would give them, as General Eisenhower has said. 'a , decent chance of survival in battle! It would also, we believe, encourage many of them to join the Reserve Force-not as paper soldiers, but as real ones."

in short, make good reading. ,

The almanac has endured both the In-J idustrial Revolution and the Atomic Age.l lThe mere coincidence that prognostication:st' tabout the weather in the 1953 issue shoulcil idiffer little from the carefully hedged pre- diction in an almanac for the year 1580,, which said: "The Sommer and Autumnet shall sometyme encline unto driness, some-t tyme unto moysture: so the Winter shall. be partly rough and partly milde", appar- ently does nothing to damage its popular-i llv,

llet Farm Profits

A delegate to the Federation of Agri-1 culture meeting in Toronto, notes the Wind? sor Star, expressed annoyance at the eni- phasis placed on gross farm revenues, rath-I er than on net profits. "There is some- thing.” it says, "in what the man says.

as well. When industrial or other corpora- tions make their annual statements, they specify clearly what are the net profits. After all, that is what counts. That is the money in the till after all expenses of op- eration, taxes, etc., are paid.

"If a farmer gets 3510.000 for his wheat, that doesn't mean it is all profit by any means. He has to subtract very sizeablc amounts for his operating expenses, his overhead and his taxes. Similarly, if a man sells a prime steer for 3300, that isn't all profit. He has to deduct the cost of

him, and the overhead represented in in- vestment in land and buildings. A wage earner is in exactly the same position. The portion deducted from his pay cheque for taxes doesn't represent any profit from his labor. It's only his take-home pay which enables him to buy the groceries and pay the rent."

LDITORIAL NOTES

After an admirable potato harvest this :Province is now enjoying a first rate ice harvest. The succession of snow and rains and frost benefits the ice house as well

as skaters.

l In future Canadians in Korea will be

relieved by battalions rather than by com- panies as has been the practice. It will make little difference to the individual

cfficicncy of the larger units. 0

t The Battle of Corunna was fought this tclate 1809. Sir John Moore had been ap- proacblng Madrid to aid the Spaniards but learned that it had already surrendered to the French. Sir John led his men in A difficult retreat to the coast and turned and defeated a much larger French army. tile was killed, however, and hastily huricrl ion the ramparts.

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The farmers and consumers seem to have reached common ground in wanting farm products to be sold at retail on the Ibasis of grade. The Canadian Federation of Consumers has advocated the practice for some time. At the annual meeting in Moncton the Maritime Federation of Agri- culture took the same stand.

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Those who experienced the annoyances of the Wood Islands-Caribou ferries oper- ating at more than capacity last. summer will be relieved that the company has secured a third boat. Pending the con- struction of a ferry specially designed for the route, Northumberland Ferries Ltd. are proposing to use a converted mine layer.

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Maine is showing revived interest in the Passamaquoddy power project, the produc- tion of electricity 'from the Bay of Fundy ttidc. One factor which no doubt contribute; to the enthusiasm for the project is the dis- covery of vast deposits of high grade iron ore in Labrador and Quebec. The location of those deposits will change the industri;-il face of the whole continent.

And, it applies, of course, to other lndustriesl I

feed, the cost of caring for him and stablingt

servicemen but should help to maintain the,

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PUBLIC FORUM

Thin column in open In the discussion by correspondents of questions of interest. The Guardian does not necessar- ily endorse the opinion of correspondents.

HOSPITALIT-YyAPPR!2CIATED

Sir.--In June 1941 my pal Doug tGas-son and I arrived in Char- tlottetown from England with the .32 A.N.S. RAF. and we were sta- tioned there for two years. In that time. we made many friends We boxed with the RAF. team at the Sporting Club and at the Army Camp. We became very attached to the Island and the grand people who live there and who did every- thing they could to make our stay a happy one. We always said that one day we would come back for ta. visit. I arrived back in Canada lln May and my pal hopes to come lnut later. At. the moment I am living in Calgary and each time I tlicar Don Messer on the radio I fget homesick for the Island.

After all these years I should bite to say "Thank You” to all the kind people of Charlottetown. and that one day in the not too far fu- 'ture I shall fulfill my long wish land return again to the Island tthal. has become my second home. 4 I am. Sir. etc,

ROBERT I-IIND

,Calgary, Aim. PORK PRICES i SI",--1t'l'0f'i'l time to time we hear a lot. about the price of pork, and it the poor pig comes in for 9. lot of abuse. As one old chap said a few tdays ago, "If ever there was a .time when the devil was in a pig. lll(l'S in him now." Anothcriwill ltcil you. "I just. broke even"; an- other. "they" did not pay for their feed-meaning no doubt the pigs. I had an experience with two pigs which we purchased from a :llelgl'llJ0lll' this spring. We paid M2. and we started them on new milk and all the skim milk they could consume, with a small amount. of concentrate added. Then when the turnips were ready to clean they were given the small ones until the mangels were ready. Tlic last. two months they were put in the finishing pen and ate 6 bags of feed. Total cost. 3:24, plus sill, making 536. We shipped one to Charlottetmm, and got. returns back for 168 lbs. at :42, plus two 'nr select, making 3 total of 344 We killed the other for home use. It weighed 160 lbs. and would have brought 542. This would be a total of 586 for the two pigs. Expenses at 536 would leave a profit of S50. If we had to buy a barrel of pork no doubt we would pay about 380 Of course with a large number you could not do this but I consider this a good profit over food. I am, sir. eic., GEORGE MRCEWEN Greenwich, St. Peters Bay.

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P0llLTRY,SlilPPEBS

We will be accepting Live ,Poultry, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday of each week only, until further notice.

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t 70253 Qmm THE HILL-PLAYER Once tvhcii the Sicilian player

Came out of the hills,

We heard that aria

Float through the groves of Taor-

mlna. That dark song of his heart. His eyes were dark, sombre HS the lava-flotv From hungry Etna That had swept his village away.

bugpipc

out of the hills,

With his pert little donkey.

He would not look tnwnrti ldttia

Show-capped in the burning sun- light.

The small boys followed his music

Down the streets, undei- the bal- conies

I-lung with their painted bird cages.

His beast wore a gay harness,

A pompom of bells that jinglcd in the wind.

Once when he played

I saw his grave eyes

And knew the dark flow of lane was in his heart.

-Harold Vinal in the Clll'lSlifl'.l: Science Monitor. -

Stoic

(Manchester Guardian)

"It is common enough for inan- klnd to forget the bad and re- member only the good." This is the philosophical verdict on the ways of the inhabitants of Tris- tan da. Cunha, which, with St. Helena and Ascension. is dealt with in a Colonial Office report There are 270 dwellers on Tristan, a. tiny island in the South At- lantic, mild but damp and windy. What they forget. it seems, is the poverty and isolation to which the islands slow decliiiewthc out- come of shipwrecks and the ar- rival of rats and steaniahad re- duced ihem over the last seventy years. What. they remember is the casual life they led before. a dove- lopment company set. up three years ago introduced them to such benefits of civilization as re- gular working hours and wage iates. Many of them prefer to fish when it suits them, and last year there were "two unfortunate wage disputes". The few ships that call bring in chicken-pox and in- fluenza, to which the islanders are unused.

On the other hand a family of three is said still to be able to live on 37 shillings and 6 pence a week if it can find its own pet- alocs, meat, fish. eggs, and wool. There. are no police and no pri- son, and no cases came before the magistrate in 1950 and 1951. These is, however, " a certain amount of petty pilfering." but " it is diffic- ult to catch offenders." St. Helena has its troubles too. It has to contend with the dCl.Crl0ltB.lrlOl'l of its resources through the exhaus- tion of its soil. But. its lily bulb industry is beginning to recover from the ravages of eelworm, and a herd of Ayrshire cattle is doing well in Napeleoxrs old grounds at. Longwood. The outlook is mildly

hopeful.

ANCIETVT FAIR

annually since the Nth century.

It was before Christmas he came'

Old Cha rlotlelown

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EARLY NIALPEQC ,

"The first house ever built by a Britisher in Malpeque was one that Capt. Stewart. gnt. con- structed in the year 1769, the yea: before the district. was settled, when he visited the locality in one of his trading ships. This iiouse he prepared for his family who were to come next year. In all the region around, there were then only 12 families (French). Thry lived by fishing.

"Stewa.rt represented to intend- ed emigrants in Scotland that Malpeque was all that could be desired. He showed them a plan of Prinectown with all its numer- ous streets named which induced .15 families without. provision for the Island sojourn, to leave with his own family. Arriving off the im- aginary town in a snowstorm on Sept. 15,1770, the vessel was driven ashore and wrecked at Dztriiley Point. Had it not been for this accident all would have returned. The immigrants immed- iately chartered a French fish- ing vessel to St. Peters, which was then a considerable French settlement, to bring pi'ovi.slon':', and some of the British strangers sailed in the vessel with money in make the necessary purchases. But the craft was lost in a storm and all on board. and no tidings were heard of either, ever after.

"The poor strangers eked out a miserable cxisterice during that. winter. Next. spring the Ranisays, Cat-rs, Maclntoshcs and NIacAr- thurs left for Port Hill. Lot. 13. lNext. year, 1771. the Montgomerys land MacGougans arrived. Not a lcow, horse, sheep or pig was there iin all Prince County. nor for years lafterwards. Through a Frencli fishing and lumbering establish- mentgthen at New London. these animals were obtained and seed to put in the ground from the Province of Quebec.

"Malcolm MacGougan, Esq., still living in this settlement, a, man of 93 years of age, can remember when the crops were put in a-

t There are still some among who persist. in thinking of aero- tplane travel in terms of twisted wreckage and casually lists. The flights. that go through fully are seldom news. So the an-. iiouiicemeiit that the world's com-I mcrcial airlines - excluding those tin Soviet Russia and Red China -safely carried 45,000,000 pass- engers over distances of more than :1 billion mtlcs iii 1952 passed vir-ti

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these are affected by Pxpedi1,()u5 service. -st. Johnls News,

There is an Ilr nf sweet reason- ableness with which we think Mr. Douglas Abbott, a ladies' man, ;,q unlikely to take issue in the plea advanced by university women that half a married man'a estate should be exempt from succession duties. Our taxing system is fur.- damcnlally iiihtinian. of necessity

Wally 1lHIl0lifNl. M Buffalo EVCH-tit must deal with men and women .113 News. lllol. as men and women but as economic units earning so lI'iUtll

A firm in England has develop- ed I mechanical sow which prom- ises to greatly increase that coun- try's pork production. The device consists of a long milk-filled case with 14 artficial teats sticking out of the sides. An infra-red lamp keeps the piglets warm. Purpose of the device is to take over most of a normal .9ow's eight-week nursing job. saving the mother pig's strength and fat so that she can have three instead of two lit- ters a year. - Calgary Albertan.

All crime is a. annptom of the crlmlnal's ill-adjustment to the world. Today's crime is a symptom of A particular kind of iil-ad,lust- ment which many of us who are parents may be creating. all un- wittingly, in the next generation. It is easy to say that the solution of the crime problem is more pol-

ice. It is much harder to admit that it may be better parents.- llamiltoii Spectator.

They are now making furni- ture with moulded plastic draw- ers. If this sort of thing goes much farther, some of the more conser- vative of us will say good-bye to the polymer-impregnated world, retire into the backest of woods, fell some trees, saw some planks, erect them and (as the supposed- ly staid old E. B. C. once quippecl) paper them with La Vie Pariscnne and so build ourselves a rude but. -Hamilton Spectator.