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Morning Dally (Founded In 1887i Authorized as Second Cluo Mail. Pout Olioo Department, Ottawa.

President, Ian A. Burnett; Vice-President. Win. If. Blirnest; SGL‘)'.-'A‘I'BIS., G. M. Burnett; Editor ma Managing Director, J. B. Burnett; Associate Editor.

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"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink.‘

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1046

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Better late Than llever

After the exertion of much public pres- ....-r, War Assets Corporation announces that there will be an increased flow of building ma- terials from surplus military installations in various parts of Canada, which'have been pur- chased by Housing Enterprises Limited and which include more than 180 barrack blocks, storehouses and other military structures. The buildings are to be demolished, and the salvag- ed material used to meet urgent civilian de- mands.

One wonders why this order was not given a

or ago. lo the majority of cases these estab- ishments have been lying idle for at least that length of time. ln this Province, it will be re- called, the basic training centre at Beach Grove was closed long before the end of the war, and only recently was acquired by the Provincial Government, which is still undetermined wheth- er to make it into a home for juvenile do- linquents or an extension to the Infirmary.

It is to be hoped that means will be found of utilizing tho hundreds of thousands of dol- lars' worth of material and equipment still un- disposed of at the Mt. Pleasant airport. This was one of the biggest air training schools in Eastern Canada during the war. Similar estab- lishments in other Provinces have been sold, and the need here is equally great for building ma- terials. ln any case where sales of this kind are mode, the material should not be permit- ted to be sold for use outside the Province.

We have a different situation at the Ord- nance Grounds in Charlottetown, where military huts were erected to house the Veterans’ Guard in the early stages of the war. As requested by the Canadian Legion, these huts could be made available for veterans as emergency homes. In view of, the long-standing housing shortage, the only surprising thing about this suggestion is that it was not adopted long ago.

One alleged reason for the delay in dis- posing to best advantage of all surplus war ma- terial of this kind has been the overlapping func- tions of different governmental departments, and the failure of-these departments to work in harmony. An example comes to mind in the Charlottetown housing project undertaking some time ago by Housing Enterprises Limited. Plans were made for the construction of thirteen apartment buildings; city co-operation was ob- tained; the properties were purchased; tenders were called and a verbal contract was awarded. Then the whole thing become suspended in mid- air, like MahomeFs coffin, because of failure to obtain authorization from the Department of Reconstruction.

All over Canada the same thing hos been going on, with discouraging COITSGQUEIICra to those concerned in~ the reconstruction pro- grammes.

A Distinguished Canadian

Many friends here, and particularly Mr. Justice Arsenault who was a close personal friend, will regret to learn of the death at Ox- ford,,England, of Dr. Lawrence J. Burpee, dis- tinguished Canadian historian and secretary for Canada of the international Joint Commission, which has jurisdiction over boundary questions arising between Canada ad the United States. Dr. Burpee was also chairman of the United Polish Relief Fund, and it was while en route to Warsaw that he was stricken. A native of Hali- fax, he entercd the Dominion Civil Service as a young man and was private secretary to three successive Ministers of Justice in the Dominion Government. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geo- graphical Society‘ and the Royal Society.

Dr. Burpee was also secretary of the Board of Transport Commissioners and in that capa- city visited Charlottetown a few months ago. On that occasion he prepared materials for on article on Prince Edward Island for the Can- adian Geographic Magazine, which has_not yet been published but which Mr. Justice Arsenault, who is an associate editor of the magazine and a fellow director of the. Geographic Society, has had the privilege of reading. At that time he gave Mr. Justice Arsenault the proofs of on in- teresting article he had written some years ago on the Island poet, John Hunter-Duvor, which was published with his permission in The Guard- ran.

Farm Issue In ll. S.

One of the larger issues being fought out in the United States congressional election is that of tho Democratic party's policy towards agriculture and its direction of farm affairs.

Opposition party speakers have launched vigorous attacks on the whole system evolved with the idea that it would improve the farm- er's lot. They charge that the interference, in- stood of being a benefit, has, in fact, caused or increased the difficulties which agriculture ex- periences. Tho parity prico system developed as port of tho New Deal, they say, has led to losses and the efforts to circumvent tho law of supply and demand and ttyiilg out_foncy the- orias of regulation and rogimontation in fact oro operating against farm wolforo.

v Thus, Governor O'Conor of Maryland, Democratic candidate for tho Senate, proclaim- od to tho ‘votors of his stats, which is a strong- ly agricultural one supplying tho immonsa mar- llot of tho Atlantic seaboard with-much of its food oxcoprln whsot, that if oloctod to tho Son- time,» woul do his utmost to olimlnoto intor- tonnes with forming. Ho said:

ogement of the farmers by government. . . Let mo say definitely that I do not ogroo with some of the proposals that have been advocat- ed in Washington in past years. Unquestionably many of the troubles tho farmer has facod dur- ing the war years and even in recent months have been, in a way, mono, ‘ troubles.

"The Federal government has interfered, sometimes unwisely, l believe, in trying to cir- cumvent the law of supply and demand and in trying out fancy theories about farm matters. .

"The farmers uill make their own prosper- ity, l am convinced, if they are freed from un- necessary regulation and experimentation by government agencies, and particularly by con- tradictory price ceilings. . . .'

"AIl too often, regulations made in Wash- ington . . . do not take into consideration local conditions and frequently do great harm in one section even though of benefit in another."

The price ceilings on farm products are based on parity and are required to be at least l0 per cent higher than parity prices. ‘

- {EDITORIAL NOTES -.

The first U. S. A. Congress met this date, 4.

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Wlioo tlioro are two fires there is usually a third. In the past few days we have had near- ly double that limit.

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Have we all arranged to acquire our peace- time victory bonds? They are now avail- able and merely wait our application.

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Today a dozen or so Nazi war criminals pay the penalty of their crimes, unhonoured, unsung and universally execrated. How many homes would have been the better had they never been born.

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Troubles, as we know, seldom come singly, but surely it was unnecessary for the railway to odd to the troubles of the potato farmers by threatening to add 30 per cent to the already

exorbitant freight rates between hero and our Upper Canadian market. * Iii >l< ti‘

The price of newsprint is going sky-high. That is a sequel to combines where the demand is greater than the supply. There is no com- petition for markets such as the farmers must face.

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At tho end of this morph all special postal rates and privileges to members of the armed forces overseas will be withdrawn. They are about all home anyway.

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According to the postal survey all over Can- ada os to house-accommodation, Prince Edward Island is the only province to report an actual positive shortage. lts vacancies are listed by the Post Office "as zero."

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Mr. Charles E. MacDuff, so well known in religious and political circles, will be greatly missed not only in Brookfield but throughout Queen's County. _Of a hole, hearty disposition, he loved congenial company, and was never hap- pier than when lending a helping hand to some deserving cause or individual. His works do follow him. \__

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Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, American dra- matic outhor; member of the American Institute of Arts and Sciences; his works include: The First Man, The Marco Millions, The Great God Brown, Lazarus Laughed, Mourning Be- comes Electra:

"Women are jealous of ships. They always sus- pect tho sea. They know they're three of a kind when it comes to a man."

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According to a recent despatch from Mos- cow, a new potato harvester which can harvest

‘25 acres daily, lift two rows of potatoes as it

goes along, separate potatoes from the stems and soil, sort them according to size and throw them into baskets, has been designed by the Institute of Agricultural Research in Moscow. That is going some even for Soviet Russia.

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"What use are we?" asks Professor Joad. "lt depends on what is meant by useful. Useful- seems, in the modern world, to mean useful for a particular end-perhaps threeends-iflie helps you to make money, two helps you to increase speed and three helps you to kill your fellow hu- man beings more efficiently from a greater dis-

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We not infrequently deplore here the fact ‘It we have so many unoccupied forms, but, if it bo any satisfaction, we are not singular in this respect. Atia meeting of the Horticul- tural Society of Mimico, Ont., it was stated by Major P. K. Ketchison, that there were 64,000 abandoned farms in Ontario, while twenty-five per cent of the remainder produced subsistence only.

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Stocks of creomery butter in Canada at October l totalled_70,665,000 pounds, an in- crease of 1,854,000 pounds over stocks at Sep- tember l but a decrease of 835,000 from those of October i, i945, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics reported. The stocks were 2,645,000 pounds higher than the five-year average for October l. Commenting on tho figures, Prices Board spokesmen said it still was too early to determine whether a reduction in the individual ration of six ounces weekly would be necessary this winter. They noted that the ra- tion now was two ounces lower than it was at this timo lost year, when a reduction was modo, and oxpressod the hope tho lowor allot- inont would onoblo tho country to got through tho wintor without a ration cut. The bureau also roportod that Soptombor butter reduction drop- pod to 25,783,000 pounds, a reduction of op- proximatoly i5 por coot from Ssptomlior, i945, and sold tho decline was tho most pronooncod sinco lost March when tho total was roducod

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Notes By The Way -

We often lieu that Condo loch in national MM. it we tend to he o notion divided. We should loco no oppg-g. will? no develop among mnodiom a. ireerier consciousness of our Con. adran nationality. Portal-n than y. Wflllld be less inclined to pm, in“; sectional factions and group‘, w!“ we begin to think of Oman; q rally a snot nation our oootionul- lam will give way to o groom- g4. mimilon and a greater love of Om. “do as a nation. and we'll have fl filiur to make us work to m“; it. an even greater nation. —-Latrh. brides Harold.

The invention of n welded rot] for railroad tracks is almost rm- dovbledlv an exccllenl thing, but still there is sour to be taken along Wllh the sweet, the sour being that; the claaketymiadc or the when; 80mg over the joints will be ell- minated with the Jolnus. says The Si. houls Poot-Disoa-tali 'I'he clock. Ely-clack 0d a ioalioad train is. a very fine sound. It deserves to be mentioned in the some breath with the high, cmtented piping o1 the Popcorn moon's whlolile. It is mmpararble to the moot enthralling sound that can woken a country boy to a biLsy morning in a big ¢lly—t.lre plop. plop, plop of a home's hoofs on cobblestones. The sounds of America diminishing trim slL once. all. We must. get along with us and the old loved sounds 3o into silence of things past. It will be u-orihwhrie pmgrcs when the last claekety-clacl; has sounded on the rails. But how are youncmro to know that o. railroad train uaod to talk. smelting talk, that ila clack- clinclack. clack, clackety, cloctrety clack. clack became words and sent- ences over and owr, to make a boy wonder and rirerrm, ano iii. last, to become a song and sing him to sleep.

Roserria y Svvarlirlck, fl8-yeoriold Preston. Lancashioe, girl who has been totally blind for almost a year can now see perfectly. Corm- ens from the eyes of two men, o. blinded soldier and o. civilian who had lost trhe sight. of one eye, were grafted 0n to her blind e906. Both operations were performed at, Man. chesler Royal Eye Hospital. Both were 100 Per cent successful. Now Miss Swanbrlek can read tho omodl- esr print. is-a regular cinema; . aid of specbaclcs. —Prom Ionchn Daily Mail.

The old world boo not loot ltl reverence for age. It seems to be the misfortune of o young ‘ y to put. more cmplaaois on youth than age. The demands of pioneer- ing life, the demands 0d modem factory life, and the many de. mervds of the revered and highly artificial life of the preauitdoy put peahaps an altogether too Ewart. emphasis 0n youth. Time and again occasion arises where the sod s is all too patent of discrimination against age and rel» placement. by your-ha. The mod- em factory system with its ever newer machinery tends to discard the B-kod imd employ youth with much consequent hardship. It is s-Omeliltles tarp-return inst judg. men‘. comes with years and an active mind may. by mrislant. use, be only o. much more tempered and highly developed instnuv-ent when years have left yout-hfulrieas in llie distance. —Gaelph Meimiry.

There is . ' _ substantial about, October, too. We have the harvest cd’ late August and Septem- ber, and they gave us such delici- ous things as apple pie and eon-n on the ccb. When we had our first dish of corn on the table. we though iioiihing could be more Gn- joy-able. says The Tllloonbixg News. And lhfll we had apple ole. mde from freshly harvested apples, and that seamed to be Just about the best of all, including pcectves and cream. Of course, there are all kinds cf pumpkin pies. poor ones and good ones. Moot of more experts in sampling them, and when we find a good one-arid it is toP- ped with whipped cream-who will say that October; and its pumpkin pies is not the best combination of all the yea-r?

“The low-necked dress and hold look of the wearer are M81115 01 U“? present fast. frivolous and lndcc. orous ago, The Girl of the Period is a creature who dyes her hair and paints her time; no one can so of the modern ilnsilsh sir! that she u tender. lvvlno. retired or domestic". Ware those W011’! written Just. eighty years ago. and the trouble had started with the alleged fiauntinz of a-nlales on trhe

are thinking of the admiration they hope to excite and reveal in the rnlneirig- airs they assume at the approach of the 0990806 - Str-stford Beacm-tleralrl.

Mrs. Dorothy Harrison liootll. founder of The Seeing 3W. devoted use but 20 years of a full life to an inspired and beautiful cause. Only

olertly gentle Seeing Eye dogs leading its blind master throllill l maze of city traffic can realise what a miraculous gift. she had for restoring a kind of second olB-hi W the eighties. Her rirst dog-breeding experiments were begun at Vevey. Switzerland. She sought to turn the intelligence of tbeoe animals iii new ways to the service of man. One of her door. brwshl to this country by a biinu American, soon masque‘; the hazard of truffle here. Mrs. Eustis herself ihoise-ilpon re- turned to her native land and merit the root at hor life ibvelophio The Seeing Bye orolnlfltlon It Morriotovm. rt .l.. rmrins from the presidency wry two yearn no. Only someone who loved doll! ll W11 ll eho loved hllliMilly could hove bod up potlenoe to toooh lhooo do]: 11m to obey all rrlgnolr from their rnutoio and than to diiooo! dona- eroslonoo. Mn Iuot ‘booritothe blindoqiiorio that. of llo. Bar uiilquo wool won na- no ooid moduli c1 u» Notional Iriotltiflo of looio.

but lior tool Ill the ovonoottno orotloudo d on only

hat aids oloo in ti! “onion-Truman raolrnuu

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is the division seats. The Peasant‘: Printer ash foo- iriore seats than the Commun- iota and the socialists are prepared to grant it. Originally the , llilllbd for ‘l5 Per rent. o.’ lllli! total, asserting that their otrengilh among the people. Now they are ready to settle for 40 per cent.

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deotinieo of till» notion. the foelims of o Canadian and can thread o needle without the “h,

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tioldng those who have been one of the tétilefl Po ma. eooofuliy watched oarcp

How To Hold - A Friendly Election

(Winnloggmgoo Pious) h now “HI .

The only trouble at the moment of the electoral

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this represented

Perhaps ii. deal can be rnado and

then the electors will vote in each constituency for u single ticket. If they do not like the ticket, if

want to vote for sortie party

villi oh is nc-t. cri lite official slate may can do flu-‘diinfl more o protez-t by spoiling their

than

. Li’ a socialist in“. to

live in a constituency allocated to the peasants lie has to vote for the Peasant Parry or not at. all A peasant. undo: similar- circum- stances mruot vote for s. communist.

This is an interesting arrange-

ment. perfect-ed in Russia. where the one-party ticket i.» considered ill-e final expression m’ l; democ- racy so perfect, that it is beyond our western under-standing. To im- dosotond it, one would have to isnagine Messrs Coldrwedl and lmv sitting down at this point and arranging the com- posit-ion of one next. Parliament of Oalniada. Mr. King, would offer Ouzario to Mr. Brack- en, provided he could hoki the Maritime; while than a great wove of socialism justified u bid Ior a. hundred seats: Mir. Law, after itie Pontiac by- clection, would insist on o rational majority for Social Orvodlt; and Mr. Brockai mblit mm kind of coalition based on o policy of prosperity. It is o picture no aid-lat. could palm.

King, Brubon,

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Quebec and ‘one Want;

MEI‘. Caldwell would claim

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But assuming these leaders agree on panelling out the imagine voter

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in Quebec East and mund he must. vote for a Conservative, a Toronto ‘lb

offarod o Social Creditor. Only the Oamrdion communists would bo satisfied for they would have eo- tablisliod the new and free dom- oaocy, which is loo sacred to be trusted to the people.

counselled to support a. hated or o socialist in Saskatchewan

Two Important By-Elections

(Globe and Mail)

On Oct. 2i two by-elections will be held which may have great slg. nlfioorioe in national affairs. In the Manitoba ridinir of Portage Prairie ohere will be a vote to elect a member to lake the place at the late Mr. Harry Lender. former Liberal member of the House of Common-s. In Tnr-cnlo-Pnrkdale the vote will fill the vacancy canised the resignation of Dr Herbert

. Bruce. former Progressive Corn-

servative member, who retired. The Wllflrx will have zPeart-er importance in view of wilmt happened in Pon. time riding ln Quebec. more. the surmise at moot political ob- server the [literals loot- tharuofe seat to a social Credit candidate. Should the government lose again in bath Portage and Parkdarle. rrialking three defeats in ‘three different, Pmvinoes willhin less than o month, the results will be crninom.

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Portoge la Prairie elected o Lib-

eral member ln 1945 with the Pro- gressive conservative second by a1. most 2.000 votes. The CC!" member was third and the Social Credit last The riding was vnori by the Liberals in 1940 and in 1936. Iri i030. when £1.13 Bennett swelpt

country,

elected a member from Portage with a maturity or only 14.2 votes. The P141108 l! of interest for aft‘!- Oflwr Mm. in that: m. Arthur Meigvhen won it for or» ivos in 1908, i911. 1917 and 1925 rhoigairl he lost. it lo the Liberals n .

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TbrmitoJarkda-le is a riding

which should return r. Progressive- Coriaorvo/oive. It was carried by Dr. Bruce in L040 and again in 195. Al. social following which-i voted for 21m reagninfillcss of parry. the riding n . para/die m Brllthtsm. n waeoaid “at mnffmwy" °°“““’°‘°“ l° l” I"- the seaside most of the young ladies 1w

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Pmkleaoivo Conservat- The Progressive Conservative can:

dldato is Alderman hilt-Hid Tim. mono who has carved me arm-m "l! l" "he ‘Ibllmnlo City Council. But his cippositlon is making o v13- 0V0“! GHOIt to capture Q14; 9mg, with the Liberals, 00F and 00m. mutilate organising diligently.