.-‘\>.. u.” xiiilltfllitliié!§!H4!ll9}:,.;l p‘ y! . under the existing regulations which ‘ May would be in the opportunity pro- 111E -cllnlilonsrown cunnnun Pnaldell-W. (Pinter l. Il-Lun ll P W" frvllfllltl-Jv I. Barnett " leeretary-I-lelt. Col. l! A. lulflnnon I) l. 0. Edllur unu ilumsglng lllm-tnr-J It. liurln-ll Associate Editors-Frank Walk» and D. K. Currie Inning Daily (founded llll) [M10 per you (In advaua) delivered. ease ply year (In advance) mulled in Canada and [lulled Staten. FRIDAY, MARCH "6; 193i them. There is no reason why Prince Edward Island, the banner potato province of the Dominion, should not have a creditable POtato exhibit at Toronto every year. Of more importance, however, than any exhibition ls the need of working out some system by which our potato growers can reach the Cuban market in sufficient time before November lst. If the planting of a. small por- .tion of the crop by each farmer at an earlier date than has hitherto been the custom in this Province would solve the difficulty, the plan would be well worth the extra labor and care involved in carrying it out. More irresponsibility? The statement in yesterday's Lib- rral organ that the Lea Government lid not engage any legal counsel in zonnection with the dispute now be- lore the Supreme Court of Canada 1o decide the respective jurisdictions of the Dominion and the Provinces on radio broadcasting surely requires explanation. According to a Canad- ian Press despatch dated Ottawa, March Si, "Ontario and Prince Ed- ward Island will join, with Quebec in disputing the contention that the Dominion has jurisdiction to regu- late and control radio communica- tion.” "These three provinces," the despatch states, "were represented in Court today." After the application to set April D as the date of hearing, "counsel for Ontarioland Prince Ed- ward Island indicated their argu- ment would follow the lines taken by Quebec." Is Prince Edward Island being re- presented by counsel in a legal con- imversy before the Supreme Court of Canada without the knowledge and consent of the Lea Government? This is what the Liberal organs statement would imply. Who then is this mysterious counsel purport- ing to represent Prince Edward Is- land? By whom was he employed, if not by the Lea Government? And why, after it was broadcast through the Canadian Press, should the fact o! his employment be "news” to Pre- mier Lea? Is it not the Premier's duty to keep in touch with ngws af- fecting the interests of the Province? As we remarked yesterday, the case in question is likely to prove an ex- pensive one to the participants, and since Prince Edward Island is men- tioned, on the reliable authority of the Canadian Press, as one of the parties to the suit, it behoves the Lea Government to wake up and find out what it is all about. Morbid War Books In a recent speech at Edmonton, Colonel Peck, V. 0., made a stln-zng condemnation of the modern Welter of war books. He took them one by one, from "All Quiet" downwards, showing, in so far as many of them were concerned, the “filth. morbidity, and hopelessness of the contents." One point omitted hy Colonel Peck is referred to by a correspondent in the Vancouver Province, whose re- marks in this conne-ciiorl are well worth quoting. After indorslng the Colonel's condemnation of morbid war books, he says: “I do not believe there lives a man who after an interval of ten years can look back and tell what he did and thought during such a strenuous period of his life as the war period- I do not believe he could give a true account of what he did, let alone what he thought. -"And again, he is not the same man who went through those adven- tures. He has added a new psychology to himself in the interval. ile was ut- terly changed if‘ he has any mind at all and if he hasrft he couldn't write a book. "It is quite {possible that certain memories stand out and _that he hris analyzed those ‘eirperiences in the light of his later knowledge and has put down what he now thinks he ought to have thought tncn. Where- forc in the main these books are purely works of imagination, and, as the Colonel says, imagination of a morbid and filthy ndture." The Cuban Potato Market The problem of marketing Prince Edward Island potatoes in Cuba impose a stiff tariff-duty after the 1st of November, is one urhich should be "given careful consideration by our growers. The Cuban market is a most important one to this Province. We are within easy access of it and Prince Edward Island potatoes have already established a. high reputation in that country for superior quality. The dif- ficulty to date is with the lateness of our potato season. It has been sug- rested that if each farmer planted one acre of potatoes in the early part of May, it would overcome this dif- ficulty by providing a marketable crop for early shipment. Island po- tatoea for Cuba would then be ready by the first oi.’ September and could be shipped before the middle of that month. This would leave a full month, from the middle of September until the middle of October, for ship- ments to reach there before Novem- ber 1st. At present, our shippers are confined to practically u. week in which to ship Island potatoes to Cuba. It is impossible, under those conditions,‘ to compete successfully with the New Brunswick growers in the Cuban market, as the New Bruns- wick potatoes are ready for shipment several weeks in advance of ours. If ‘a beginning could be made in the planting of early potatow, specially for the Cuban market, it might solve the difficulty of the November tariff increase and provide an excellent out- let for the Island product. Another advantage in planting s. portion of the potato crop early in Winter Roads v Every winter complaint is made of the condition of the roads throughout many sections of the Province, but it is doubtful if travelling conditions have been so bad in this respect for many years as during the past few months. Roads in many sections at the present time are practically im- 1185811118. A clergyman in the Belfast district recently had occasion to com- plain of this matter from the pulpit. Farmers have preferred to walk five and even ten miles to railway sta- tions, churches and other places rath- er than risk taking their teams over the roads. In many cases the hind shoes of horses have had to be remov- ed to enable the animals to travel with any degree of safety. In other in- a.nd people have been held up for hours in pitches. The road overseers disclaim responsibility for the wlnlcr roads and the Government, having abolished statute labor, seems helpless in dealing with the situation. It is a problem, however, for which a solu- tlon must be found in the interests of the travelling public. Editorial Notes vided of featuring Island potatoes at the Canadian National Exhibition. The New Brunswick potato growers have secured immense publicity from exhibiting their potatoes at this fair. True, these potatoes have been ex- hibited in the Maritime booth, and with no provincial label, but the fact that they are I New Brunswick pro- duct is easily ascertained by inter- ested visitors, -and the credit naturally goes to the Prpvinoo- which frradlwwl Of the Hon. George S. Henry, Con- servative Premier of Ontario, the Toronto Globe says: “I-fe possesses what so many public men lack—a mind of his own; an utter disregard for political sauvity; and the courage to say No with telling emphasis." Not a bad summing up of some of the essential qualifications of statesman- ship as distinguished from those of the mire politician. Notes by the Way March ls the month of hope. We are looking forward to the better days to come and they are beoomim better as each day goes by. This is what constitutes the striking d188- ence between March and Itomnber. In the latter the worst is yet tocome in the former we know assuredly that the best is yet before us. March ushers in the springtime of youth and loveliness and happiness. November marks the beginning of old age, decay, and death. May all the spring-time hope of this beauti- fu1 spring-like month of March be amply fulfilled in the lives of all our readers and pray the good old summer time fulfill for us all the hopes that we cherish and enable us to realize that it is good to be alive in the spring-time. We have not the slightest doubt thatthe Bennett Government's cour- ageous action on the Russian menace in defence of Canada's material and moral interests will have the over- whelming support of the whole Can- adian people-excepting only a minute minority of Communists, an occasional interested manufacturer, and a few extreme free traders; "You men of middle age" said the psychologist in the university of Pen- sylvania should not ‘think you can make your bodies young again. Butlit is a scientific fact that the brain does not reach maturity until the age of 50, and if it is properly exercised, sufficiently worked, it may remain young at 00." The Now York Herald Tribune pays this compliment to the British people: "Today the British remain one of the world's greatest peoples. stances, teams have broken down, The peculiar combination of con- servatism and resiliency, astuteness and probity with which they have met the enormously difficult prob- lems which the post-war era has brought them commands an admir- ation far more profound than any- ihing which can now be felt for the splendors of the Kipling‘ tradition. The Round Table Conference is a triumph of the best qualities in British public life. One may only hope that the solution which it has outlined may prove workable and fruitful for the good of both India and Great Britain." Deferring one's happiness to the end, when one will have time and the means to take it. is risky. For most of us that gilded tomorrow will never dawn. If we don't get our happiness along the way we shall never get it at ail. That is a lesson worth learning. The real joy of living is not something that can be banked and drawn on at some future date. It has to be taken from day to day. It is compounded, usually, of many little experiences. The haze of an autumn afternoon over a flaming woodland; the con- fiding smile of a child, nestling in one's arms for a fairy tale; the smell of a clear wind as one trudges along a beach by blue water; the sudden revelation of tenderness in of such things is a satisfying life fabricated. You cannot postpone them, you cannot wait for them. You must gct them as you go along, or you will miss H1813 entirely. A legend circulates along the sidewalks of New York that the Hon. Alfred Smith—the ubiquitous Al- has passed characteristic comment on the present political situation: "I won because I lost." Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown, comments The Toronto Globe, in these days of world unemployment President Hoover now knows what a singer of Israel meant when he talked of the vanity of power. Seldom in history has a United States President been snubbed more openly than Mr. Hoover has been in Congress's repudiation of his veto of the veterans bill. There must be times when President Hoover wishes that President Wilson had never made the world safe for democracy. Sir Herbert Holt points out that in ten years the strength of the Communist Party in the Soviet Re- public will have reached 40,000,000. because the rising generation is be- ing reared as Communist. Having this in mind, it is impossible to overestimate the dangers of the Bolshevik menace. It is well known that the Communist Party, with a subscribed membership of some 1,500,000, dominates ‘the Soviet Government today. Any Goyem- ment or business group making an agreement with the Russians thus deals only with a subsidiary org- animation, which is subject to re- moval and whose undertakings can be nullified under any one of a multitude of pretexts when it suits the plans of the Communists. The steady growth of communism will make this situation increasingly precarious for trading nations which regard business agreements as in- yiolatp. rm Soviet Government t v tion of and th food. It is this cos that makes the portant, and is vidual taste or lent. During the tals units were meals in one the trouble to manner practic to give variety cause food had "ordinary diet." Now you can in the hospital some days, and much appetite is delayed. receiving much duced in some brought keeping within This means t forward to his fore his tray is digestion thus start. the eyes of a loved one; the brief, I vanishing strain of a bit of music.— ‘ ]_'I_I_E_§l-I__ABLOTTETOWN. GUARDLAN_____ Mist Bohr of fiuurs B) lame: . Barton. M.D. A LA OAITI- SERVICE IN HOSPITALS ' One of the new professions that is of great importance and interest is that of dietitian These dietitians have to take an ex- tensive course on cooking, the nutri- in _ any hospital. e proper serving of Unfortunately another factor en- ters into it and that is the cost or price allowed for each meal. t of meal per patient work of the dietitian difficult and yet there is another factor that to my mind is most im- not receiving the at- tentlon it deserves. This is the indi- appetite of each pat- war when all hospi- served the same rat- ions, it was surprising how different were the type and appearance of the unit compared with those of another. One cook went to give variety in the way th efood was cooked whilst an- other served the food in the same ally every day. What is my point? It has always been thought that the dietitian had really no chance to sick patients be- to be-liquld, soft, or readily see that when it comes to a soft diet or an ordin- ary diet, and the patient has been for some time that while there may be some variety to the diet nevertheless the patient may go for a number of meals, even for not get the kinds of foods that he likes. And as he hasn't anyway. his recovery In Berlin this matter has been attention and regular a-la-carte menus have been intro- large hospitals. Every morning the menu for the day is to the patient ,and he selects the dishes that he desires, the range of the diet Vila-t his Physician has prescribed. hat the patient looks meals; that his dig- estive juices begin to work even be- brought to him, and gets an excellent It means also that he will be out cf the institution some clays, pos- sibly some weeks sooner than if he had to take th supplied to all stitutions. appetite is real THE lain wine erpiire, main. plain, pine, the brine again- speech Men turn, and the free heavy fio operations oi‘ t The latter is reached business chann international revolution. e "regular" meals, as patients in most in- The lesson of course for all of us is that ufnile the food value must always be thought of, the patients ly more important in getting him well in a short time. I ODYSSEY M one that for a weary space has Lulled by the song of Circe and her In gardcnsnear the pale of Pros- Where that Aegean isle forgets the And only the low lutes of love com- And only shadows of wan lovers ‘As such an one were glad to know Salt on his lips, and the large air So gladly, from the sons of modern see the stars, and feel Shrill wind beyond the close of WGIS, And through the music of our lan- guid hours . They hear like Ocean on a. western beach The surge and thunder of the Odyssey. —Andrew Lang. states repeatedly that it is not re- sponsible for the propaganda and he Communist Party. responsible for what the soviet Government does, and it is an organization which cannot be through diplomatic els. The tenets and aims of the Communist Party are too well known to call for reitera- ;tion at this time. Their destructive character should be sufficient to place the other nations on guard against rendering assist- ance to this program in any way or under any guise. To accept trading propositions from the soviet is but playing the game of the Commun- ists, strengthening their financial resources for their so-cailed world or Iuteresting Episode ‘In History Of P. E. Island Described by Pro-f. n. c. rum: before me Mm swim ‘M WM»- ol which he la a fellow. . (Story of "The Loyal Electors" cou- tlnuerl from yesterday’! l-illlflullh) In the meantime ceftlln 0f i119 proprietors in Great Britain had Prince Edward Island. The Chief Justice had retired on a million in 1601, had‘ been succeeded by Coch- rane who went to his death in VP- per Canada,‘ by 11101119 4-119 P"?! Pretender who also came to I119! 1n Upper Canada, and he in tum. by Colcough who arrived on the Island in 18M. Likewise meutenant-Gov- emor Fanning had been recalled in 1006, but remained in the background as a sinister influence until 1817, be- cause of. his ill-gotten landed pos- ‘ , his Tory convictions, which chimed in well with the uactio‘ y influences in Great Britain during and subsequent to the Napoleonic nightmare. I It was thus during this period when justice suffered in Prince Edward Is~ land, partly from deliberate pervers- ion, partly from the temporary so- journ of Judges. and partly from the cussedness of human nature, that the new Lieutenant-Govemor Desbarres arrived with instructions to over- haul the entire ship of state and to make exhaustive reports thereon for the distracted Home Government. He began to work with zeal remarkable in a man who had already passed the alloted span of life; but it was a. work of labour and sorrow. Records had been tampered with, were avail- able ti; some but not to others; the surviving Stewart-Desbrlsay faction were not anxious to have their activi- ties investigated and were furious at not being able to dominate Dedbarres as they had dominated running, The Ex-Chief-Justice Stewart was at the Point o: death: the Err-Lieutenant- Govemor Desbrisay was 11f his dog- axe but still clinging to office and writing Micawberesque memorials to the multifarious secretaries of state for the colonies; Charles Stewart the son of the m-Chief-Justlce and the son-in-law of the Ex-Lieutenan - Governor was Solicitor-General; Pet- er MacGowan, thoroughly broken m- to the Stewart system, was Attorney- General; William Townshend, son-in law of the Iix-Chlef-Justioe was Col- lector of Import Duties and Naval Officer; James Curtis and Robert Gray, neither of whom had been trained to the law, were assistant 1116895. part 0f the old system and recently of the Stcwart-Desbrisay- Fanning factiong‘ John Stewart, eld. est son of the Ex-Chler Justice, who had led the Stewart faction in the Assembly, was Receiver-General of Quit Rents, which gave him know- ledge of desirable land as well as access to and weight in the counsels in Great Britain. He at the some time was Deputy-Paymaster of the Royal forces in Newfoundland. This gave him an ample livelihood, contact with the influential, and enabled him to perform his duties as Receiver-Gen- eral by deputy; and this, in turn, afforded him suitable subterfuge whenever anything irregular needed ‘explaining. His contacts with Ixmdon jillld Edlnburg gave-him an oppor- tunity to influence and join forces with Lord Selkirk, John Hill, the Montgomeries and the Cambridges- the most active of the absentee pro- prietors who moved upon the stage durlng the first quarter of the nine- teenth century. The local Cabal with these power- ful connections in Great Britain was a power that would have given a younger man pause. It was a clan» that for vindlctlveness to opponents could learn little from the promoters of the Massacre of Glenooe. It was a clan whose blood relations controlled policy but did not hesitate to adopt anyone of influence or notoriety who could be made to conform to its will. Thus old enemies are crushed, then conciliated, and finally utilized to their full capacity. Of the latter, John Hill of Rctherhithe was a con- spicuous example; also, John Cam- bridge and his two sons. .Now it chanced that James Bar- din Palmer , an Irish Attorney, had sought to mend his broken fortunes in Prince Edward Is- land, under the patronage of John Hill. a London Merchant, who had ventured in the Island with Edward Lewis, M. P. Lewis had founded Lewistown at cascumpeque; but finding Hill a sharer in his profits though not in his losses had com- mltted suicide. Hill then appropriat- ed Lewis's lots 5 and 6, substituifing the name I-Illltown for Iewistcwn, had built vessels, had traded with the Island, and in the days of Fanning had clashed with the Cabal. It was Hill's boast that he had secured the recall of Fanning; and, at first, he was favourable to Desbarres, during which time he wrote intimate letters to Palmer about men and affairs in the Island. Desborres, in his need of legal advice," lcok Palmer into con- fidence, and during the remainder of his right hand man-Adjutant-Gen- eral of Militia, Master and Registrar of C” y, Inspector of Public Ac- concluded that all was not well with. his sojourn in the Island, Palmer was counts, Inspc-sfior of roads, and mem- ber of Council and of Assembly al- wmtely. In these ‘varied capacities he incurred the dl-BPZBHHYB w‘ the local Cabalfand-in time also o! Hill his eiriier bitten. . n was an Irishman and William Hasaard. the son of a_ Loya- list from Rhoda Island, who organ!!- ad Th, myal Electors; and thus were united in Prince Edward Island the two types of BERN“!!! W" W“ mponsible government for British North America, the mullet wk- ground of Joseph Howe in NW! acotia and the Irish baclwfmlnd °1 Robert Baldwin in Upper 0w»!!- The membership at first comm‘!!- ed go 9 l0 cltlmllb DI CIILIIOHZOWWD and , yalty; but gradually 1110161!‘ ed by including others from outlying distrlctawho attended more or less irregularly. It was the aim of the founders to establish branch socie- ties in other centres and to keep close watchon public M!!!" B8 We" as to seevthat right-minded candi~ dates were chosen for the Assembly- Thg society met regularly on the first ‘Tuesday of each month at Bas- nell's Tavern. Its meetings were open and its proceedings kept in a book for the purpose. 5o far as one can discover, there was nothing to be feared by those whose conduct would bear inspection, as it was designed to promote a healthy discussion of pub- lic affairs and to afford a legitimate outlet for the Gian“. intme ‘ of those who had been stirred into activity by the loca1_Cabal for its own pur- poses, between 1797 and 1803: but the mere existence of- the Society creat- ed a, panic in the Stewart-Deebrlsay- Fanning faction. JProm its very inception it had the enmity of Peter MacGowan, the At- torney-General, who had been sup- portcd by this faction, and of Charles Stewart, Solicitor-General and gen- eral factotum of Farming. Through the influence of these two, the new Chief Justice Colclough became a convinced and militant opponent. Colclough had come tc the Island with the avowed intention of keep- ing justice and politics Sflpflrate; but temperamentally he was a politi- cian more than ajudge. While still at Halifax, he had been turned against the Society by Peter MacGowan who wrote him at length on the subject; and, on his arrival, the impartial judge immediately commenced a cor- respondence with the Colonial Office designating the Society as Jacobin, Levelling, Disloyal, and what not. At the same time he gradually accepted the view that he was destined by Providence to guide the Lieutenant- Govemor and to keep‘ a check upon him for those in authority in 170W!!- lng Street. But Colclough also wrote to Hill, John Stewart, the Montgomerys and Lord Selkirk. As aresult ofhis let- ters, and others from the local Cabal, the idea was fostered that Desbarres’ was the tool of Palmer, that Palmer and his Club were foes of order, planning rebellion. Affairs reached a and Charles Stewart became Attorney General, on the recommendation of Lord Selkirk. An attempt was now made to wreck the Society. One J. 0.! Welshford published a. statement to the effect that Palmer had moved for a secret committee to control the affairs of tht Society and, following this, the wildest rumours were cir- culated as to the beginning ofaReign of Terror. The Society published a denial, asking for an official investi- gation of their membership, books, and activities. This was undertaken in Council but not with sufficient partlality for some of its members. Colclough, who was restrained by Desbflrrefl. Wrote to the Colonial Of- fice that the Lieutenant-Governor had “puffed his bad breath in his face with contempt". While this investigation was on, five prominent members of the Society submitted exculpatory affi- davits to the Lieutenant-Governor, recounting their connection with the Society, its objects, and their motives 111 joining it. These members were Palmer, Haszard, Roubel, LePage and Macaulay. Their affidavits were frank had set out to counteract, and this gave great offense. The Chief Justice —-_-_._ DR. L. B. EVANI of London, Eng. Noted Physician treated luc- cessfully and - obtained per- manent curea of Stomach Conditions, such as Indiges- tion, Dyspepsia, Sour Stom- ach, lleartburn, Gastric Dis- tress and many other ail- ments peculiar to the stomach with a prescription which we have procured and sell under the name of Evans Stomach Mixture. We alone have the sole rights on this prescription and since selling it have received numerous testimonials from satisfied purchasers. Don't fool with your stom- ach, serious conditions are ' likely to arias If "you allow yourself to lapse info a chronic state of- gastric trouble. Get a bottle today. Price 85c. TIIE 2 MACS I49 Great George Street. MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED T0 Tid his tuu iiliSltiLilliS procured Itha affidavits from the LlcutenantGov- action cn the phrt ernor-General for instead of treating them as evidencr crisis in 1811. Peter MacGowan died ‘ in criticism of the Cabal, which they . 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