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THE GUARDIAN

blurnln; Dally (Founded in 18M) Authorized in i-iecourl Clan Mall, Punt Office Department, Uttlwl. Ilia loluuii Guardian Publluhlng Co. euiior uni liuuugiu; Director. J. B. Burnett;

Auoclnio Editor. Front Walker

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CHARLUTTETO\VN. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1on4

To Aid Agriculture

Among the resolutions to be considered at today's meeting of the Progressive Conservative Convention, one in uiflfllflllfi" will be welcomed by our farmers. This PledQes the Party to permanent floor price legislation dealing with agricultural products. The formulfl. iays the resolution, should allow for wariations in production and demand for individual pro- ducts ond should be reached in consultation with representative producers. Also, the floor prices should be announced well in udvflflfie 0f H" production period. g

Another resolution favors the passing of _on Agricultural Products Marketing Act which would enable producers to market their produce "in a democratic and orderly manner, in the best interests of both the producers and consumer." The embargo on Canadian livestock and other farm products would be removed to expand Can- ada's natural markets and provide much-needed U. S. dollars. The platform also calls for the establishment of a Dominion-wide rehabilitation and soil conservation plan and for a board ol livestock commissioners on a basis similar to the existing board of grain commissioners.

Farmers will be interested, too, in the resolu- tion calling for an increase in income tax ex- emptions, for a reduction of the general rate of personal income tax, abolition of nuisance taxes and substantial reduction of general sales and excise taxes on necessities, as well as tax allowances to farmers for work on the farm by members of their families.

Interest also centres on Resolution No. 28, which pledge; q "fixed policy, limited only by tho rules of sound economics," to give the Mari- time Provinces more electric power, better mar- kets for their products, and legislation guaran- teeing shipment of Canadian goods through Ca- nadian seaports.

Further details of the Convention resolutions appear in today's news columns. They cover o wide field of interests and represent the most realistic approach which has yet been made to many problems of national concern.

Service First

- The Financial Post takes a commendably frank view of the railway situation-—and one which is fully in accord with the contention of the Mari- time Provinces in opposing the recent flat-rate increase-—when it declares that service and not profits should be the basis of railway policy. The idea that railroads must make ends meet" and this is the argument put up against eiiery claim for transportation improvement in this Pro- vince-the Post finds to be absolutely untenable. "»lf carried to the ultimate extreme and all non- profitable rail lines were abandoned," it says, "we might have paying railroads but the couri- try would have totally inadequate railway ser- vice." it adds:

"The truth is that in a public utility like a railroad, service must come first. The railroads form a most important link, in many cases the only major link, in keeping this country togeth- er. Unless we are prepared to abandon com- pletely large areas of Canada, we will have to keep certain rail services functioning whether those services are profitable or not.

"And we cannot expect the people living in those areas, or in areas a long distance from natural markets to pay all the losses, The neces- sary support must be so shared that the cost will be fairly distributed."

Lloyd George Memorial

Liberals in Canada as well as in the Old Coun- try will be interested in the campaign to erect at Llanystrumdwy in Carnarvonshire a memorial to the late David Lloyd George, the inspiring leader of Britain's efforts which resulted in the victory over Germany in the First World War.

The campaign to raise the necessary memorial fund opened on September 26. The money will go towards building a Memorial College and the intention is that it will offer as its distinc- tive curriculum one which, on the vocational side, will emphasize agriculture and its incidental crafts, and, on the cultural side, with chief re- gard to Welsh literature, history and the tradi- tions and institutions of Wales, music, art and drama. The initial gift has been the beautiful site at Llanystrumdwy, burial place of Earl Lloyd George. The college will consist of eight buildings.

The campaign is being undertaken on a world- wide scale and is being sponsored by many of the most eminent men and women ill the Com- monwealth who will recall the work of Lloyd George as a social reformer and war leader.

The Farme ‘s Position '

The major effect of the rise in farm wage costs on Canada's food prices is strikingly re- vealed in a compliation by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics of prices received by tho farmer at the farm compared to what the farmer pays for goods, services and labor. A synopsis of these figures has been issued by the Canadian Fed- eration of Agriculture.

These show, that taking Canada as a whole, and using the 1935-39 period as a bass of ‘I00, at July, I948 the farm wago index has risen to 377.4, or by 277.A—tliot is, nearly two and thru- quorter times more than tho base period}

But against tlicso great rises of more than two and thm quarters times in form wage costs, of over three-quarters more in costs of equipment,

a third more in taxes and interest, and two- thirds more in living costs, the farmer's prices received on the farm had increased by only an additional one and a half times more than the l935-39 average prices, according to the D.B.S. figures.

The prices used in computing this index are those actually received by farmers at the farm. Storage, transportation, processing and handling charges are not included. On the other hand, subsidies, bonuses and premiums which can be attributed to specific products are all includ- ed to date. The index is based on about 50 farm products which contributed approximately 90 per cent. of the total cash income received by farmers from the sole of farm products.

The D. B. S. figures show that the index of prices received at the farm has risen from thc base of 100 in the l935-39 average period, tak- ing Canada averall, to 250.8, an increase of l50.8 per cent, or by an additional one and a half times.

EDITORIAL notes ~-

Marechal Foch born this date l85l.

Mahatma Gfllldlll bdrnllthis date i869. Popular ten cent telegrams introduced in Brit- ain this date i885.

Today is the Day of Gittawa for the Conser- vatives. I i W i Tomorrow l9tii. Sunday after Trinity or 20th. Sunday after Pentecost. i’ i I Driving an unlighted wagon at night is not only illegal, it is unduly tempting fate.

Mr. John Brackein mayinof be a popular poli- tician but he has proved himself a statesman, o man of vision.

The Church of Scotland reunited this date i929, after separation by the Disruption of i843.

I I I I Turkey declared war with Russia this date i853, leading to the Crimean War in which Brit- ain was involved.

l U I I The preliminaries are over. The main event can take place anytime. Anytime, at least, after a pro-election tax cut, "A ‘k ‘I "I Field Marshal Viscount Alexander as succes- sor to Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery would be a popular one in both the War Office and the Army.

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There is not much sign of it here as yet but more American industries are finding themselves no longer in a seller's market. Usually the transi- lion does not mean a reduction in volume, ac- cording to one reoc-rt, but requires greater sell- ing expenses and more attention to economy. Major products such .as steel, automobiles, oil and non-ferrous metals are still in short supply.

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it has long been observed that religious sects thrive on persecution. One modern group seems to deliberately capitalize on that fact and break the law for the express purpose of being perse- cuted. Two members of the Jehovah's Witnesses have now been deported from Bermuda for not complying with immigration regulations. ln Sum- merside recently they flouted civic by-laws.

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The success of the U. N. in political matters has been anything but complete but in other directions, notably public health, real progress has been made. Ono project of the World Health Organization has been the search for strains of influenza virus other than the common A and B varieties. It has been new varieties, not af- fected by standard scrunis, which have caused serious epidemics.

No more "horror" films will be licensed for public screening in Australia. This decision was announced by the Chief Commonwealth Film Censor, Mr. J. O. Alexander. Films already reg- istered are not affected, but the legislation is being prepared to cover them. Mr. Alexander said the decisicn was made after a wide canvass of opinion embracing the public, film distrzbu- tars and exhibitors, critics, and Government officials. ln no instance was the "horror" film d:- fended.

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Taking last May as a point of observation, an exchange finds that while Canadian prices had risen to l5l ovcr the figure of i939, the United States figure had gone to 165; that of South Africa to 150, of Australia ‘to I43, New Zeaiand to I35. South American figures range from I86, in Argentina, to 416 in Chile. Iii Eur- ope the cautious Dutch found their in.lex at 202, and the Belgians at 394. inside the iron curtain, where totalitarian controls are supposed to man- age everything so much better than democratic free enterprise can do, the index figure varied from 3Z5, in Czechoslovakia, where Russian in- fluence is relatively recent, to 15,870, in Poland.

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There were some confused United States For- est Service officials in Vancouver the other day and it was all because of equipment being used by The Canadian Press in coveringi the Can- adian open golf tourney. To transmit golf scores staff men used three frequency modulation trans- mitter units, manned by Canadian army opera- tors. The F. M. sets are supposed to carry no further than the line of sight but the sets at Shoughnessy Heights golf course got tangled up in a channel being used by tho U. S. Forest Service. The result sounded something like this: "Mangrum is getting hotter. He sank a 25-foot putt on tho ninth for o birdie three. There seems to be a trace of a blaze south of here but tho Ranger can't be reached." After continu- ing intorchango of weather reports with golf scores, a puzzled forester queried: "We've op- porontly got mixed up with the Canadian Army on one of their manoeu-Les but what are they

doing, playing golf?"

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SELKIRK AT PINETTE

"Being anxious to explore the country in order for laying out the different lots we proceeded as ex- peditiously (as possible) by the old French Road or Portage to Ienyns or Pinette River, — the first. half of the way is tliro’ old French cleared land, grown up with small timber of '20 or 3O years‘ growth — the further part i5 large tim- her with a considerable proportion of pines, &-('., mixed with maple. birch, &c.; this is reckoned good land.

“In Plnette we embarked in a wooden canoe, leaving the people busy in bringing another across the Portage-landed with M. Wright the surveyor and walked into the woods, beyond the River

—the wood at the edge of the River is stunted spruce and has a forbidding appearance -— also

the soil on being scratched up ls a wliite sand at top, but red below. However on going 50 or 100 yards back there is a great deal of hard- wood — maple, birch, black and yellow, which grow to a great size, and are a better sign of the land than the while. "Here and there are some pine, spruce, &(‘., all of which Mr. Wright reckons symptoms of good land-a mixture of pine augurs fully better than mere hardwoods; beech and maple alone, implies very dry land; pines alone wet lunrl-qhe mixture implies clue med- ium. Black birch, (among beech and maple) when abundant. seems also to prove a sufficient degree of moisture and without some sign of moisture the land has riot suf- ficient strength for permanent hay. tlia‘ it might be good pasture and tilteriizitc tillage producing the best when! and potatoes when manurecl. Black spruce alone shows lurid perfectly useless, a mere sand, but red spruce intermixed with ash, alder, currniiis &c., shows a rich swamp czipnlilo of being made into excellent meadbw; the pine is the Wllllf‘, \\'l‘_\'l’llfllllll or New England pine. The yellow birch is said to be tlic black birch half grown.

,"'l‘heso ivooils are oversprazirl with llllLl0l'\\'OOd, lrriurs. raspberries and grounrlspruco which seems ll kind of ye\v. The beech, tho’ rlif- ferc-iil, lius ll considerable resemb- lance to the English. I have yet seen no tlllli. ‘There are some licm- lock trot-s which are of u large size and very grand picturesque zippciiriiiiue, hiii they are u brill sign of llic lund “more prevalent us \\'(‘ found them un the east bri-incli of Pineite River. Where the pines too are alone. the land is generally barren and sandy.

Cliickenstsilker by his affectionate

‘was on the way out. I-le joined the

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Son Of Dickens A Mysterious Figure

(By T. Morris Longstrehh ln the ROME. Quarterly)

‘The Force's tie-in with the crea- tor of Mr. Pickwick, David Cop- perfield, Mr. Mlcawber, and the Wellers, rests on official records, yet has the glamor of mystery. Charles Dickens’ third son and fifth child was born January l5, 1844, and christened Ekancls Jef- frey, Later he- was nicknamed

and doting father. For some un- explained reasou he was educated on the Continent. He was brought back to England to go into busi- ness but. oould not. stick it, and left, for India to visit. his brother Wal- ter. who clled while Francis Jeffrey

Bengal Police and became district superintendent in his 20's.

At. Charles Dickens’ death in 1870, Francis Jeffrey, now suffer- ing from sunstroke, returned t.o England, In spite of lnheriting his father's gold watch, he was not always punctilious as regards time. He outstayecl his leave in London and lost his commission in India. He come to Canada in the Spring or I874 and on November 4 of that. year was appointed sub-inspector in the new North West. Mounted Police. as the Force was then known, but “lost? a couple of days 1n Toronto.

This lapse from punctuality oosl: tlic junior officer nearly $200 as lie had to defray the expenses in- cident to rejoining the Force from his own pocket.

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However, he shook davm into the service and saw l2 years of active duty which culminated in the

The Age-Old Story

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lilbit the drive, the intensity, the quality of inspiration of the fath- er. So one accepts hancls Jef- frey's differences. his saiurnlne moods in contrast to Charles Dick- ens’ exparislveness and exuberance. Perhaps his coldness woe a musk for sensitlveness, Perhaps his ten- dency to withdraw may have been a seeking of what William Penn called the “fruits of solitude". It must. be difficult. b0 be the off- spning of one of the most. loved and idolized men of your time. To Francis Jeffrey it. may have grown intolerable.

Yet. I think the mystery goes deeper than that.‘ Why did Fran- cis Jeffrey Dickens decline to talk about his father? Where was the natural pride ln such a family celebrity? In a. broadcast. Mr. James McCook pictures Charles Dickens’ gold watch that “timed the pages of David Copperfield and marked the minutes as the Indians howled about Fort Pitt" as a drama of contrast which the elder Dickens would have seized with rapture. But the son dis- posed of the gold chain to a bat- man imd the svetch itself to an acquaintance. Did he feel no ut- tachmerit. to the heirloom? 0r_ none to his loving father? And lf so, why? Some psychoarialylst. may have the answers. ‘

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The beloved of the Lord llllll dwell in safety by Him; and the Lord shall cover him all the day long . . . The name of the Lord is n strong tower. the right- eous runnetli into it. and is safe.

trail-breed uprising of 1885 and his defence of Fort. Pitt, a. police out- post. on the north branch of the Saskatchewan river, The story can be rend in all the histories. His

and a medal awarded. Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, the last surviv- ing child of the great. novelist. shortly before his death 15 years ago. asked that. this medal be placed in some museum connected with the Mounted Police and for the past five years it. has reposed

in the ROMP. Museum at. the De- pot. barracks. Francis Jeffrey's increasing

deafness and debility led to his being invcillded in 188-8 with a gratuity of l2 months’ pay in ap- preciation of his services. Three months inter he was dead. His body lies buried at. Moline. Ill.

"They give tho mime of Fir i0 n species which resembles the silver fir. There is nothing like the Scots fin-the hemlock resembles it mast in appearance. The spruce is not unlike ours-they ful for logs of houses as they are more frequently of n moderate size than other kinds, —also the smaller for rails. The pines are generally of a great size and make the best boards and shingles. It is also the timber most. in demand as lumber. Hemlock is a snaken wood and will not oven split, but does very well for water works and resists rotting. Bridges, piers &c. are al- ways made of hemlock; it. is also good for lath work. Hemlock is difficult to burn in clearing the land. Pine stumps are very diffi- cult: to rot as well as hemlock; sometimes 20 or 30 years.

"Going down to Plneite the shores everywhere appeared poor stunted trees. but. the appearances are better within-the country lies on a bed of rotten red freeatone and rises from 20 to 50 feet level above the River. We did not meet any natural springs except at. Pin- ette, but good water may be had anywhere on the Island by sink- ing a moderate depth. The writer at Charlotte Town in tram pumps, and I never felted finer. .At the old village of Plriltte, however, there in a very fine natural spring, and others, I am told, inland. _On the shores the springs are apt to ooze out In tn the marshes before they can be caught."

—From Lord Selkirlco Diary, Sunday. Aug. 14, 1803.

PIOTIIR IEQUIIIIIIN!‘ The average man needl about ‘I0 grams of protein in his day’: food.

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y The mystery begins when one lstarts to think about this man, so long in a responsible position, so Iilttle luiawn. His father's biog- rapliers barely mention hlm. I-Iis brother officers found lilm an en- lgmu. A few intimates called him “Dlckle“. but his mariner is most often described as absorbed, al- most. morose, He had two confid- ants. an Irish retriever and a fav- orite shotgun. The most familiar picture given by his associates is that. of a. thin, smallish. heavy- bearded man with reddish brown hair strolling off on the prairie with these companions. neither of which could embarrass him with questions.

People persisted in asking why he did not: follow Ln his father's footsteps and write books. When sufficiently goaded lie had on an- swer to that. 1-Ie would write one book, he sold coldly. Its subject. would be the prohibition - dry Northwest Territories, its title "Thirty Years Without Beer". 1b would have been u. corker.

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It. la a couimonploce that. the

gallantry was praised in the press '

Ill-IE FIR ST VIOLIN

Tilie rasp of the cricket's smell violin

Trills a serenade in the bright moonllglit.

Mocking vast space and the loud reapefs din, ‘

With those thin notes that. rule a harvest night.

‘Life begging to continue, plays its tunes.

Pleading the cause from which its music springs;

And growing greater, mending tunes

And varied pitches beg the finer

love’: de-

things.

Oh brave wee farm! Your strokes articulate '