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The Island Guardian Publlalung 00. Ul.lwUlA'l'l0N Total City Zone ...... ueiuii Trading zone All other 103 Total Net Paid .a......-.................- H.818 Editor and Managing Director. J. R. IIIPIIBCG Associate Editor, Frank Walker "The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink.”

CHAIILUTTETOWN TUESDAY, SEPT. 12. 1060.

Tlie Late Mr. Kennedy

The late Hon. Murdock Kennedy, whose death is recorded in our news columns to- day, was for many years one of the leading business men of the Province, and a stal- wart of the Conservative Party in many hard-fought elections. In the rough and tumble of platform debate he had few equals, while his command of facts and figures, ready wit and ability to speak on any subject made him a formidable oppon- ent in the Legislature as well. From his entry into politics in 1903, when he scored a victory in the traditionally Liberal rid- ing of First Queen's, until the Liberal land- slide of 1927, he proved unbeatable as a candidate, holding his constituency in line during some of the most trying periods for his party. His ability was recognized when he was appointed a member of the Mathieson Government, one of the strong- est administrations in the Island's political history, and later when he became a di- rector of the Canadian- Government Rail- ways, a position which he held until the abolition of the board in 1935. In, both capacities his counsel and experience were -highly regarded by his colleagues.

Mr. Kennedy was a man of warm hu- man sympathies, and it is not surprising that his friends were legion throughout the Province. The Guardian joins with all of them in extending sincere sympathy to the bereaved family on this occasion.

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A Unified lioroa

One of the most effective bits of com- munist propaganda in connection with Korea has been the appeal to the Koreans to fight for the unification of their coun- try. The fact that it was the Russian army which prevented the Korean Repub- lic from holding electoral contests North of the 38th parallel is conveniently ignored. To the Americans that line was merely a division for the purpose of accepting Japanese surrender to one or other of the then allies.

Despite its origin, the communists have had considerable success in selling the K0- rean people, particularly those in the North, on the project of fighting the Am- ericans in order to end that division. '

It is most opportune, therefore, that U. N. Secretary-General Trygve Lie should call for the creation of a unified independ- .ent Korea that will have peaceful rela- tions with its neighbors, both communist and non-communist. The wider the, public-

j ity. given to this declaration, the rezziier will United Nations forces regain the sym- pathy and support of those Koreans de- luded by Red propaganda.

Psychological Warfare

Why did President Truman undertake to save Formosa from conquest at the hands of the Chinese Communists? There are several plausible explanations. One reason given is that of Formosa's strategic importance to American plans for the "con- ' tainment" of Asiatic communism. Another

is that even today many people on this continent prefer Chiang-kai-shekls corrupt regime to that of the Reds: Yet another is that a struggle between Chinese forces on Formosa. and the mainland armies of the communists might spread to involve the whole of the Far East in a conflagration -that could lead only to World War 111- None of these considerations. taken singly or together, is entirely satisfying. More iogicai is the explanation of the psy- chological impact upon other none too staple regimes in neighboring cpuntries of use r';ii,'ot,”1ioi-moss to the Reds. -.5-Already. Soviet propaganda. coupled with Red successes in China and the North offensive, has left the impression in 1'nuch'.lof'East Asia that, in the words

I jar jtiitffondon Economist. "it is politically

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EDIIURIAL NUI ES

Our defende forces are now all on active service, though many may not yet know it. 0 O O

Canso bridge project, like our own Fed- eral building scheme has got another set- -back due to slow initiative in inaiiing a start.

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Premier Duplessis has proclaimed Oct. 9th as Thanksgiving Day in the Province of Quebec. Here, under our Interpretation Act, any day appointed by proclamation of the Governor-General is automatically a Provincial holiday.

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Politics is blamed for the unsatisfactory discipline in the Montreal police, and the C. C. F. are demanding that Premier Du- plessis appoint a commission of investiga- tion with a view to reorganization. clescrip cmfwyp'eta vbgkqjeta cmlwyp mbb

Our tourist business is steadily growing in numbers and in the amount of dollars left behind. It would have been much greater than it was this year were it not for the traffic snag which sent so many tourists early away, and prevented others reaching our hospitable shores. As it is two-and-a-half million dollars and over 100,000 individual tourists are not to be sneezed at.

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Librarians throughout the Province, sparked by the Director of Adult Educa- tion, are conducting a survey of materials available for inclusion in the archives when established. - The public can help in this project by supplying information and sug- gestions. Presumably the actual collection of material will come later if the present survey proves successful.

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France does not want to surrender to Russia -as she did to Germany in the last war, hence-her rounding up all possible spies and fifth columnists to get rid of pro- Soviet propagandists before they accom- plish their objective. In Canada we have not a few pro-Soviets who think more of Russian peace balloons than they do of Canadian unity and freedom.

I O I The possibility of making the merchant service an auxiliary of the Navy was broached last week by Defence Minister Claxton. The vital importance of the Mer- chant Navy in wartime certainly warrants such a move but whether the additional or- ganization involved would prove welcome to all seamen is open to question. At pre- sent those who wish may join the naval reserve and take training as convenient. ' 0 0 0

Seamen have some strange tales to tell. One is of a diver working on a wreck in the Irish Sea. When the time came" to bring him to the surface he was found to be unmistakably drunk. Mystification grew as the procedure was repeated and finally another diver was sent below to find out what was happening. The thirsty one was discovered to have filled a corner of a hold with compressed air and stood there, hei- met off, quaffing some whisky he had sal- vaged.

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From Glasgow a consignment of 34 North Country Cheviot gimmers, mostly from Caithness but four each from Suth- erlandshire and Berwickshire, left recently for 'Quebec and the Maritimes. This is a follow up on the excellent impression made by the 63 sent out to the Federal Depart- ment of Agriculture last year. Twenty- fourjof the shipment are for the Prince Edward Island Sheep Breeders' Associa- tion, and ten are for the New Brunswick Sheep Breeders' Association. The gimmers for New Brunswick are to be taken over hy the Premier, the Hon. J. B. MacNair, who is a Cheviot enthusiast. Mr. J. A. F. Watt, Thurso, secretary of the North Country Cheviot Sheep Breeders' Society has re- ceived information that 25 of the ewes sent out last year to Canada have dropped a total of 44 lambs. '

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Herbert Henry, Earl of Oxford and Asquith, English statesman, born this date 1852. Like Prime Minister St. Laurent, he was not much of a politician but a bril- liant lawyer obtaining prominence during the Parnell Commission. He was entrusted with the resolution in the House of Com- mons which brought about the defeat of the Salisbury government. On the defeat of the Liberals in 1895; he returned to his practice at the bar. Subsequently he re- entered active politics as the strongest op- ponent of Mr. Chamberlain's tariff reform policy. He became Chancellor of the Ex-

, chequer in the Campbell-Bannerman min-

istry, and Prime Minister from 1908-16. Ill 1915 he formed a coalition government in alliance with Lloyd George and Honor Law and subsequently resigned on account of opposition engineered by Lloyd George. He

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Dishonest Propaganda lLadies And Gentlemen

(St. John Telegraph Journal)

As individuals, the potato grow- ers of neighboring Maine are nice people. As ii group. aided and abetted by unscrupulous poll- tlclans they are apparently cop- able of stooping to any sort of dishonesty they feel will further their ends.

At the moment, itiuy are flound- ering in problems created by their own greed. They are try- ing to extricate themselves by crying out hysterically against their competitors in New Bruns- wick and Prince Edward Island, and by intensifying a campaign to have the United States ban potato imports,from Canada. If they succeed, this country's two chief potato exporting provinces will be deprived of one of their oldest markets.

Maine's growers have lately en- listed the support of Colliers. a U.S. magazine of international circulation, the current issue of which has an article headed. "The Great Potato Scandal.” The gist of this is that Arcostook County, Me, where potato growing is con- centrated, is experiencing sev- ere economic distress, and that this is "directly due to unfair competition from the Canadian

Pl'0VinC8S Of New BWDSWWK and elicit sym-pathy than sound advice

- 'for'o brldegroomb audience is. in distortion one sense. the trlclrlest he will ever and misrepresentation, the article have to take on. Launched says that since last fall ,14,0o0.000 sea of sentiment which is strewn potatoes ,with platitudes, he must have enfg-red the unued stages, course between the susceptibilities

Prince Edward Island." A prize example of

bushels, of Canadian increasing by that amount the surplus the U. S. government had to buy at approximately 31.28 a bushel under its price support policy. "In this sense," it asserts, ”U.S. taxpayers have just made the Canadian growers an outright gift of slB,000,000.”

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If the 14,000,000-bushel figure is correct. which is very doubtful, then Canadian potato shippers paid some s5.000,000 in tariff into the U. S. treasury, which should certainly be deducted from the 518,000,000. There is no ention of this. Nor is there any mention of the millions of bushels of U. S. pots-toes which entered Canada duty free, a movement which helped ease the U. S. surplus.-.and should obviously be taken into

account in any honest ard occur- 4

ate appraisal.

The real background of present conditions is that Maine sought and obtained from Washington a ridiculously high floor price for potatoes. Maine's growers could get so much from their govern- ment, for so Little effort. that they neglected their markets. Farmers elsewhere in the U. S. went into potato growing and captured much of Maine's busi- ness. Maine didn't care as long as the money was pouring in from the federal trearury.

When the taxpayers pi tested. Maine looked for I scapegoat, and settled on New Brunswick and Prince Edward Inland. It was not too successful in this, for the U. S. administration ordered potato farmers who wanted to qualify for government assistance to re- duce their acrdage. The farmers in Maine evaded the purpose of the edict by planting potato rows closer together, piling on more fertilizer. and reaping thr some crop off lea land."l'he result won another surplus. and now. with the heat on again at Washington. our neighbors are once more on- deavouring to blame farmer: to P.E.l.. and NB. for their position.

Only an umeuonabi high floor price has enabled Canadian growers to hurdle I high tariff barrier and sell large quantities of potatoes in the Untied States in the last year. Maine's groun- ers. who have profited 'euormouo- ly from the price floor. should admit this. They mould also re- member that CaliIdI'l total im- ports of fruit and vegetables from the United sum no for guitar than U. 3. import: of fruit I98 vegetable! from Cumin, and that the U. S. benefits much more than Canada from this exchange.

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(Tho Times, London)

Hermit: apart. there in not one of us who can count on getting through life without making n. speech. To B fortunate few this is no hardship; they find themselves as at home on the platform as their less self-assured neighbours do in the bathroom; the applause that pimctuates their oratory, the sli- enco that attends their purple pas- sages. are meat and drink to them.

How different are the feelings of most of their audience! Thai. atten- tive listener, entrenched in me of the back rows. would suffer acute mental paralysis if he had to take the speaker's place. He feels secure enough; he sits on no committees and holds no violent views to which he feels impelled to give express- ion: yet. unless he is prepaied to sever all the ties which bind him to society, he knows that the in- exorable march of events will one day force him on to a. platform from which there is no escape. It may be on his wedding day an the

ever it comes his only defence against it is to be forearmed. Th-s is a precaution which has been taken in full measure by the

Old Charlottetown mm r. r. I.)

THE iER.lN' LAUNCHED

"From the shipyard of Thomas Claw. Esq., on Tuesday the 13th., I new ship was launched called the 'Erln,' 731 tons register (the largest ever built on this Island), moulded by Mr. A. Owen and said to be one of that gentle- man's happiest efforts to unite large carrying and fast soiling properties in naval architecture. She was launched with her lower masts in; has a splendid round house cabin, is almost entirely finished, and reflects the highest credit on the builder, as well as the draftsman. She glided most beautifully into her destined ele- ment, amidst the human of a large concourse of people, who assembled for the occasion. She was built for Daniel Brennan, Esq.. of this town."

-The Islander, July 1a, 1047.

(Several ships iargei-' than the "Erin" were subsequenfy launch- ed in Charlottetown, including the "Ethel". 1,746 tons. which held the all-time fslsnd record for

bridegroom-to-be who appealed

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suggestlons .for a wedding ” His is a common

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of those who are gazing on him for the first time and the rnillery of those with whom he has .hsi-ed the wilder moments of his life; Be- fore such A critical public he may well seek Choice word, and measured phrase. above the reach . of ordinary men. A stately speech; sunh mi crave livers do in scot- land use.

It is unlikely that he will find them, but he need not worry: his listeners are more in- dulgent. than he thinks; oh-;i'e are those among them who are think- ing that their turn will come. and others who recall, with feelings mellowed by time. their own dis- comflture. .

Our Future

(The Royal Bank Letter)

We can listen stony moment and hear our country growing. The air is rich with promise. The spirit of Canada is progressive still. we can any to the children who left school this year what old Voltaire, when he went to Paris in 1778 to die. said to the youth in whose heart: be sensed the grandeur of the coming century: l.'The young are fortunate: they will see great things."

We are not seeking I. mechanical utopia, or I. country with highways paved with gold. The ideal Canada will be developed by its people. us- lng all that science can give them as ,an old but keeping their roots firmly nounded in the rich herit- age of tha' past,

To quote a fine Greek adage: "Life is the gift of nature. but beout.l'ui living is the gift. of wis- dom." What we need in these days is to broaden our knowledge and intelligence, and at the nine time cling to the simple virtues which 0"? IWMIY .- Va. The values which test achievement-honesty

truthfulness, self-control. fair play, lorllty. dcvcutneu, andmany oi.li-

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Wltnmy worm angel-sons: and trumpet-burst

And plenltude on end of all de-

site: But what for thee, alul but what for thee?

-Christina Rossetti.

Fair and Reasonable

(Halifax chronicle-Herold)

Prince Edward Island. through its Government and Legislature, is making formal demands upon the Dominion authorities for indem- nity to cover losses suffered as a result of the railway strike when ' ontlnuous communication" was broken between that province and the mainland.

The Island's cm is soundly based upon the Term: of Union which brought that province into con- federation.

In this-regard, Prince Ildword island occupies I unique and ex- clusive position not enjoyed by any other part of the Dominion. Im- bedded in the Terms of Union is ieco tlon of the "isolated and oxcep no! condition" of the Island

communication" acrou the Straits to relieve the Province, of it; in- ouisrity in roinilon to the not of the country.

This claim for indemnification

an - than play I determining pm in the course and pattern of life.

We, a nation of 16 million people. covet no other man's land. we who that the notions of the world should

should be pruud at Ottawa - and the Dominion Government mould give It may and adequate consid- oration

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Watch flu now: for word of I terrified North Korean rots-oat. ,Tho Scottish contingent from Ron: Kong took along its bagpipes; - Ottavn. Oitiun.

Nowfoundlandu youth has uior been found wanting in times of national danger and 1'16 young men havo already been accepted and sent to the mainland for training with the special Bi-lgnde to be

I , formed for service under the Unit-

ed Notions flag. It is and to think that international ccnitlons have so deteriorated within five you: of the defeat of Hitler that it has been found necessary for now up- peals to be made for recruit: for overseas service, But pets, how- ever grim, have to be faced. The tree-world is once more in deadly peril and it. is high tribute to the mlrlt of young Newfoundland that so many have responded so speedily and 'so spontaneously to the call. - St. John's Daily News. A farm pond in a combination rain barrel. the bucket, swimming hcle, skating rink, fish hobcho, all rolled into one. It's created by the -simple process of damming I creek or brook. or even just a natural depdosslon in the land. They cost, on the average. from 8100 to 0300, although some on much more elaborate, mo cov- er several acres. and have up way: and other water-control devices. They provide I supply source for irrigation, stock watering. spraying. In case of fire, they can be used to feed hose lines. They contribute to sou conservation by checking the run-off after storms or dur- ing spring thaws. Many of them are stocked with fish. - saint John Telegraph-Journal.

Four times a year In 3 big Lon- don warehouse dowii at the Docks a few men gather to bid for old teeth. These originally belonged to African elephants and they come to the -wsrehcuse from all over that continent to be sorted, mea- sured graded and finally auctioned. some ivory is obtained from elephants that are shot. though these are few, some is found on dead animals in swamps and undergrowth and some is paid in taxes by tribal chiefs. Ivory is mainly used for toilet articles. brushes, fittings for expensive dressing-cases and piano keys. It is also used for making biilard

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