dzu, ...;.,.5_..>..i.__' u.” - - g é .4. PAGE FOUR TIIE lillhllLllTTETllWllllIAlillEl ‘ _ Dally (Founded lei 1881i as Second Class Moli- Pofl Office Department. Dttawn. a Ills " “' Vice-i‘ I Wm. I, Burnett; SocL-Tregu. G. M. Barnett; Editor and l! T "' ‘ml-KB “ ' ' Editor. Mo Albhorllel [rank Walker. “The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink." MONDAY, DECEMBER Z3, 19“ liov. llr. Genge, Poet lt is not necessary to produce rhymes_to be a poet, or most of our greatest poems including those of the Bible, would be unknownto the general reader. A poet has the gift of illustrat- ing in words, as a painter does on canvas, what he sees, hears and feels intensely and spiritually, commonly called inspiration or the divine afflatus. To the few only is this act given, and mare often than not they are unrecognized by the world at large, though appreciated by the few having had the good fortune to know them intimately. Among the number may be included lev._Dr. Conga, who passed away yesterday after a brief illness at the ripe age of eighty-three, Latterly he was a preacher professionally, but at heart he was a literateur, and was never happier than in congenial company discussing books, poetry and philosophy. As a preacher he was noted for the comprehension of his dis- course, and the facility with which he brought home to his hearers in graphic language what to him seemed the meaning and interest of the text, in the subject under discussion. When he was Minister of the Central Christian Church, he was invited to address a Service Club then recently formed. Among the audience were two distinguished University men, one a professor of philosophy, and the other a dean of law. At the close of the address they concurred in de- claring it was one of the ablest, most forceful and eloquent orations they had_ ever listened to. Most of his sermons were of this description and quality, but unfortunately he did not often have so learned and appreciative o congregation. He, though lacking the opportunity of an early classical education, made up for it in later life, and revelled in learning. He wrote a number of poems, but published only a few. He delighted in singing of the common things in life, of ships, of sailors, of toilers of the soil, of youth and its inspirations, and of the part the common man played in the advancement and the progress of the world. Such, for instance, as in these verses of Thomas Hardy: Only a man harrowing clods In a slow, silent walk With an old horse that stumbles oral nods Half asleep as they stalk. Only thick smoke without flame From the heaps of couch-grass; Yet this will go onward the same Through Dynasties pass. Yonder a maid and her wight Came whispering by; War's annals will cloud into night Ere their story die. The last verses he wrote did not do him credit as a poet, but reflected gloriously on his appre- ciation of and admiration for a fellow captain of the sea, viz Angus Walters of the Blue- nose. It is a great good fortune to meet with such men as Dr. Genge and to have them in one's community. Unfortuniately they do not always meet with the appreciation and rewards which their talents deserved, but it was ever thus. When my poor bones an hearsed in clay, And final sleep hath sealed my wondering eyes, The moon as now will~ sail through tranquil skies, The soft wind in the meadow grasses play; And sacred Eve, with half-closed eye-lids, dream; And Dawn, with rosy fingers, draw the veils Of silver from the shining face; and gales Sing loudly; and the rain from eaveshoots stream With bubbling music. Seek my soul in these; I am part of them; and they will keep Perchance the music which l wrought with tears, When the moon shines above the silent trees Your eyes shall see me; and when soft as sleep Come murmurs of the rain, ah, bend your ears! Why Thirty Por in... In his correspondence with the Premier of ‘Nova Scotia Prime Minister Mackenzie King concedes the right of the Maritime Provinces to have 30 per cent of the White Commission lward for special claims restored to thorn, over Ind above the amounts fixed under the new tax agreements. This offer represents the sum of $825M annually to this Province; to Nova Sco- 150' ll’ "Pfllllli! $390,000 annually. Not ‘very large sums, as subsidies go, in either case. But why 30 per cent only? Both Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island ale asking for the full I00 per cent restoration of these subsidies, which wan deducted from the grants paid us under .th_a wartime tax agreements. As suggested in these columns the other day, Mr. King's latest offer has a "phonay" look, more in keeping with Jtba principles of horse-trading than with re- " l sible statesmaiiship. This is evidently the ' Appleton of the’ Sydney Post-Record, which says lit: , hen effaijlng to restore only 30 p" w" ‘ White award of BLINMN Mr. King says ls the fermeleodapted in the case of tho ‘ ~ ' Provinces. eiiil would place Nova Scotia ~< _ them In the er ef Domin- ~ a , ‘ This eieans that lie brushes aside ‘ ‘- i atlons of the White speclfical eii the ‘eco- wlileh e Maritime mablect, ewin to their - in rel to the _ of Canada.’ What f is that these ‘eco- fer n, es well as the ncen end Wiiira Commissions, both appointed by hls own Gov- ernments, awarded this Province, when similar awards were made to New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, to balance the picture as be- tween. the Maritimes and the rest of the Domin- ion. lf he expects the Government of Nova Scotia to take that kind of thing lying down, he needs to do some more thinking." It is a vital principle in Dominion-Provincial relations that is at stake in this issue. It would seem that Mr. King once again has forgotten what "Maritime rights" are, and is in need of a reminder. If so he will find it in the follow- ing paragraph af an editorial from the Hali- fax Chronicle (Liberal): "Mr. King is deliberately destroying the bal- ance that is essential between the Dominion and the Provinces. .As the Dawson Report declared in I944: ’lt may well be that the only defence the Provinces will be able to invoke against an aggressive Dominion will be an appeal to their awn people for political support.’ lt might be appropriate for such an appeal ta be made at this time, when it is not merely a matter of a financial dole that-is at issue, but the rights and status of a proud people and the general ques- tion of the unity of Canada at large " e- EDITORIAL NOTES —. On the last short lap for Christmas. Fur buyers are here again as usiial; its the cold weather makes them our welcome tourists. I I I I If one wishes to see a human hive—like bees working for others not themselves-—the post of- fice these days is the place to go. * i l‘ i Seventy-six per cent of North American housewives refer to newspaper advertising for grocery news according to a recent survey by the Home Makers Guild of America. i i i l’ Bacon, ham and pork is to cost us more‘, and at the same time the British consumer will get less. His ration from now an will be reduced from eight to six ounces per week- less than an ounce per day for an average fam- ily of five. fl O Q i Samuel Smiley, British author and biograph- er, born this date i812; first practised medi- cine, then took to iournalism, and became known for a series of books of which Self-Help had the most notable success. "The common saying ‘Do as l say, not as l do’ is usually re- versed in the actual experience of life." Though milk will cost the consumer more —at least a cent per quart—there is no in- dication that potatoes, of which there is a sur- plus will cost him less. The Federal Govern- merit has refused N. B. potato growers a sub- sidy to replace the drop ii: export prices. Fred Rose, Labor-Progressive, convicted of espionage, has lost his appeal and must serve his six years’ sentence. But though in "durance vile" he will continue to be "M.P." until such time as the House of Commons by motion and vote expell him fiom’: membership. ln view of the elections, the Federal Gov- ernment is reversing its policy in almost every direction. The latest is in connection with its previous decision to allow 200 Hun prisoners to remain here in competition with veterans. Now —out they must go! w Q e I 1m: CHARLOTTETOWN scanning llotos By The Way News fraiastlsaoeaetistliatlrt- tleh Columbia is drveloplng her own lobster. In a t ' _ shortage, the carpenter would be even more welcome. Jlbronto Telegram, It lilrsaa oat. that a character- ts waking sideways from coast to aout. Oinlookers had naturally sup. POeed it was a politician rehearsing his Pflfillikiai on a hot issue. —Wln- nipeg ‘Tribune. A Cleveland doctor aaya in; m. dlvldual ls a combination or hopeg, disappointments. ambitions and frustrations. He left. out fallen archee from standing in ]l,n¢_ __ Chotharn News. A sneele. which some would rather hllle lllln U161!‘ breakfast, becgugg of alleged benefits to the human System. cost a. west Virginian some $1.250. He lost control of his coi- and gmflshed mm another. There's a time and place" for everything —- includlng beneficial 51102195, _.$r_ Thomas ‘limes-Journal. Ayoimgeaiatlaerliaatoldueof 801118 into a toy atorevthe other day to see about. getting hes- little boy a rubber bell for his Christ- nms stocking. "Why, Madam, we haven't had my for years!" the ‘clerk exclaimed. Then, 1° re-nssure the customer. he added “But I know ljusi what yOu mean." -Th¢ New iYorker. l Large-scale nohiral gas develop- ment in the Uoydmineter oil field in Saskatchewan ls seen no a dis- tinct possibility after recent drill- ing operations which have recent- ly extended the field from l0 to 2'2 miles. ’I.‘he development. of the field, now believed to be one of the largest ln Canada, has led to many towns. such as Saskatoon and North Baitleford. being given franchises to construct pipe, lines once a care- ful study has been made of the pres- sure and capacity of the wells. "- Ottawa Olilnem. Americans are showing; tendency to d-rlnk ‘hemsclves into ilCHdBBhca arid even convulsions, Dr. Ilicster Kennedy. director of the department of neurology at. Bellevue Hospital mid, but the beverage that dlstiube Dr. Kennedy ls not. alcoholic. It's water. Plain water. In a. talk at a meeting 1n the New York Aoed y of Medicine. he explained that the American habit of rushing the water cooler, countless glasses of water each day. might cause edema of the brain. resulting in convulsions. Two lltresr-allghtly more than two quarts-are enough for any normal. temperate person. Dr. Kennedy said severely. —New York Herald-Tribune. ' tford has no roam to be smug. Here the people pronounce "Greenwich" with the "w" sound included. And they mulce Delhi. B piece in neighboring Norfolk, into “Del-hlgh". Also some Bluenases nicer at. what the imagine to be a localized pronunc tloin of "Disl- housie" is; "Dloozy" when (as the Biuexioees say) it should be "Dal- how-zle," with accent on the "how." But wait a minute for that. one! According to Funk and Wagnalls, Brantfordlies are nearer the mark than the Nova Sections, "Dalhcusle" according to this authority ls "Dal- hoo-si" with accent on the second syllable! You never con‘ tell about names unless you take the troilsle to look them up. —Bramford Ex- posltar. Surgeons are now advising that their pati- ents should get up and walk the _day after the operation is performed. That is |ust a sort of return to the old days, when _it _was the rule for mothers to get out of bed within three_days of child birth. There seems to be nothing new under the sun, only history,‘ repeating itself. "Oh to think of it, oh to dream of it!" The Hon. Mrfii-lowe assures us there "is some evi- dence to indicate that domestic stocks of coal, coke and solid fuels were larger than in previ- ous winters," hence control of distributions of these will be terminated December 3i Naili- ing like opposition gains to make ministers sit up and take llliilfis. i i Islanders will be pleased to learn that an Christmas Day, between l2.l5 and 1.2.30 P-Mv Mrs. H. A. Jenkins, wife of Flight l._ieut. H. _A. Jenkins, R.A.F., and formerly Miss Marion Andrew, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Melville Andrew, Charlottetown, will broadcast a Christ- mas Message over B.B.C. and C.B.C. from Lon- don, England. i Now is the time to remember the necessity of taking precautions against those Christmas- tree fires. Strings of electric lights should be checked over carefully, lighted candles and cigarettes kept at a safe distance. Candles are the greatest menace in home decorations, and should be kept carefully out of the reach of children. l fl O Q I A wartime device originated by Britain also has a peacetime role. The Customs and Ex- cise authorities are assembling a fleet of trawl- ers and minesweepors especially equipped with Radar — an invention by Britain which WW“ so vital a part in wartime aeronautics — to de- feat smuggling. Radar gear will enable Cus- toms’ ships ta detect smugglers craft in the thickest fog and overhaul them when ather- wise they would be helpless from poor visibil- ity. ‘ eats Mr. L. I. Pearson as next leader of the Federal Liberal party was mentioned by Pre- mier Maurice L. Duplessis whgn addressing _a National Union rally at St. Pie. The Premier was answering the charge against him that he refused to co-aperaie with anyone, and cited lat- tars froin It. Han. Louis St. Laurent, Hon. Phil- lrais, "and also from l..'l. Pearson, Can- adian Ambassador at Washington, who has been mentioned as successor to Prime Minister Mac- lienale King." Mr. Pearson ls now Undersecre- tary of State for External Affairs at Ottawa. There are 10.000 postal chess player's in this country. according to Jack Straley Battell, editor of The Chess Review. The game ‘ls played with pasteboards equipped with slots and pieces, the player moving from slot to slot. as his cor- respondent indicates. Many fans keep several -games going at once. Mr. Battell is currently managing forty games. William Preiwltt. of Auburn. Calif, is the champion at this simultaneous game business. confessing to have had 500 going. Players entering these tournaments by-mell are of all ages. The young- est is ten. and Dr. John Hogan. a dentist, of Bedford, 1nd, eighty- faur is said to be the oldest particl- perit. It goes to show there are a1! kinds of people in the world-and all kinds of pastimes. —Ncw Haven Journal Courier. A quaint English Christmas cue- tom ls the tolling of the "Devil's Knoll" at the parish church cf the Yorkshire irrwn of Dewdoury. Every Gurlstmus 2m far foo years this ceremony has been peaformed- only broken by World War 11 when, for security reasons the church bells of mlialn were slleni. The tenor bell of Dewsbury is tolled once for each year since the bltth o! Christ. and this year the 1046 strokes being timed exactly to fell at the mid- night hour. A legend connected with the custom tells haw s local baron named Thomas dc Booihill, back in the 13th century. killed one of his servants. and to expleie hi4 crime presented the-tenor bell to the church wi the request that it should be toiled annually. If is said the inhabitants of Dewsbury of those days believed that the toll- ing of the bell would keep the devil away from the perish for another year. A aelinoss, bruised and torn, its once proud allvar-blue sheen tarn- ished and yellowing. glides from the back eddy where It rested with its fellows. For a moment it hangs in the stream, nose pointed against the current, tell waving slowly. holding ground. In a quick, desper- ate f1 it fight; lis wny over the ihl s. bony eicpoiea and thraehliig in its ruah so the next pool of sanctuary. There its reeta, lllliflllil 0M!!! for another dash. Here. in the water; ‘of Ooldsiream the annual drama of fish battling to the sveirnlne around is renewed in ell its gallantry and lllllffli- Up lhla cobbleetrewn bed. rimming with cold, shadowed 4y, "ll Within! inose-oovared branches ‘of lea ees trees. they siflilale. It ls a miracle that they “l! Illa stress illiter- eiretches of use stream. a miracle that they mos they was slioulitptlrn wti Federal Government Troubles The Dosalnlon-Peovlnclal negot- iations over financial relations are taking a form which should be hllllly satisfactory 00 the only bene- flolarles or sufferers- the fax- peyera. By degrees. the Dominion authorities have been forced away from their irreconcilable attitude of take it. or leave it. They now make concession after concession, and as a result, Dominion-Prov- incial financial Bkreementa be- came far l8§ dangerous. Health Insurance, for example. which was to cost. i050 nullion e year. or the interest an $8 billion is now pretty well out of reach; cer- tainly will never come info effect. imless Ontario and Quebec make on unexpected surrender. That. is. the obatlnacy of the rum-concurring Provinces ls to be thanked for hov- lrrg saved this amount of taxation, to b9 devoted to a cumbeir . Im- necessarlly costly scheme. Improvements in the field of public health. added expenditures by public authorities. are, of course, essential and inevitable. The ln- telligent example of Manitoba show; that important steps can be token in this field ‘by Provincial Govern- ments, without colossal expendi- tmcs. 1i ls safe to say that, s; is result of Mr. Haley's failure -to curry his original proposals info effect, public health improvements will be made ln this country over the next few years, which will be more effective than would have been Mr. ClBXIOlTS schem and which will still cost the taxpayers e. more frmfon of what his plans would have involved. Mr. Cliaxion can be blamed for the Social Security hysteria, the dying down of which seems likely m involve great political losses for the present Administration. The common sense ad the Comdlm people revolts against. such a theory as that, in the two items of Fam- ily Allowances and Health Insur- ance, up to 5500 million a year —- equlvalent to the interest on the whole oost of the poet war-chould be diverted from the incomes of producers to the relief of non-pro- druoers. Desirable as ue intelligent measures to increase the public health and to relieve distress, there never was any reason for Dlunelrfl into. half-baked schemes of this soft. The Federal system of Govern- ment. which haa preserved us from this rash experiment, is well worth maintaining. Adrnlitdly. 1i is not perfect. Admittedly, there will be a slow process of centralizing neces- sary fimctlsxia at Ottawa. The fed- eral system docs exist however. and lt i; now clear that the public opinion of the majority of Curi- ediains, Socialists excluded, against destroying it. The realistic f t. is that the Provinces have . and that they are not going to surrender them to Ottawa, merely lo provide m "opportunity far large scale waste of taxation on some experiments devised by half n dozen theorists Ln Government service at Ottawa. Emergency housing is. of course. o proper activity for the Govern- ment ln conditions like this. but it. should be emergency housing. of a-n emergency standard. When the provision of emergency housing gets mixed up with the converting of slums into suburbs. and the building of apartment houses, then public authorities get into a field which L; scarcely theirs in n, non- Soclallsi country. U. K. reports. from Mr. A. Bevin himself. one thing that he would try to get a subsidy for the Pmlll-lc‘ lion o! feed grolna. The thinking ln this case seems to be b little confused. 1m an effort to get beck to common sense in public affairs. W.P.T.B. stopped the subsidy on milk. while ln om effort to avoid get/ting back to common sense, W. P.T.B. also retained the control on the price of butter. The net result has been an obvious tendency to a further decrease in dairy pro- ductlom 1n Canada, so the Minister qt Agriculture now llllkests that the answer is to subsldlu the pro- duction of feed grains. A buyers’ strike would be an en- tirely logical outcome of Mr. Gor- don’; repetition of the fact that there is no real need to decontrol prices at once; that. all that woliavc to do is to wait patiently and have prices come down. or at, least until they will not rise when they are deoontralled. The direct consequence of any- ihlng Ike a buyers’ strike would be a deflarilonery panic, with unem- plovmcni. soup kitchens. and l fine chance for Socialists and oiiher rt- volutioneriei. ‘The public memory 1s short. Few people realize that in 1009, at the height. of s , it was a little blues-s’ strike in the U25. which started a. deflationary panic. The stock market was over-extended. The inevitable oraeh produced re- mu which we mlgh-f remember. Refusal to buy goods which are needed. at current prices. not be- cause ihc mix-chase cannot be af- forded. but merely on the ground that the buyer knows vhar. the price is improperly high. does not need to become very general before men begin to lose jdse here and there. Then. slnoe labour unions are unlntelllgenily led, and refuse in peftnlt coets to be cut. N0600- erg cannot rcadJust their operations to meet the new market conditions, until ouch a crash has occurred as to force even organised labour to reallm that. it is better to take em- ployment at a lower fleure. than so insist on unemployment at high- er wages. Manufacturers of ecribblers ask- ing an increase la price. have been given permission instead to re- duce the else of scribbles: by 24 sheets, which la one way of de- contrcliing prices. but perhaps not the but. _ ' YARMOUTH, Eneiand —(OP) -- A 30-inch rat shot by 80b Cal-var has been identified as a r-oypu- web-footed South American rat bred for nuiria for‘ ooaii. spawned. And um is wonder in the lriipelllng force which drives them instincts of survival to complete til mle of tllel 1i! I d. w-Vlofarla ‘nines; r Australian Wool Industry (By Mel Pratt, Office 0f Airstre- llan High Commissioner, Ottawa) In 1W5. eight ohtqi from the King's Own Flocks in mgland were brought to Australia by Captain John MacArthur. n leading colon- lst. They wereMerinos whose fore- bears came from Spain. 1'00!!!’- eoene 106000.000 sheep. about one-sixth of the world's total flocks. make Australia the produc- er of one-quarter- of the world's wool and one-half o! its fine merino W001. Ill well as en important sup- plier of mutton and lamb. The production of about 1,000,000,000 l). of wool annually i; worth about per cent of all Australian airports. Australia's wool yield during the wai- reached an all-time record. exceeding the production of the five pre-war years by M.500.000 lbs.- an increase of 80 per cent. Thlg was despite drought fcr pert of the perlod- responsible for a reduction of flocks by more than l5,000,000— and an acute shortage or labour. During the five war seasons the British Government purchased the clips. which return- ed 01.017.615.204 to grown‘: for 17.880344 bales. ‘ . O Also during the war. woollen mill; in the coins-try were respon- slble for weaving cloth which cloth- ed and blanketed well over l.oii0.000 American. British and Australian servicemen, while many thousands of sheep giave their lives to supply ah eepaklir vests for mission and British soldiers. Moreover. from the outbreak of wai- to March a1, 194s. alone. shir- ments of frozen and chilled lamb and mutton from Australia totall- ed nearly 836000.000 lbs. and l0 Jung 30, 1945. about 1.105.015.0130 be Most of the lend on which thl-B mighty achievement took nlwe l1 harsh and unfriendly. Australian sheep country extends frvm Till- mamia in the south, through the‘ mountainous r8810“ 0i "fimmn Victoria and south-eastern New south Wales. then out-back some: the plain; ad western New South Wales, up into Queensland, across the teblelunds to the coast. There are also sheep lands in South Aua- irallo and over much of Western Arustralia. Juet. under half of Ania- fralids sheep are in NW 301ml Wales. The majority of flocks In o! 500 to 1,000 sheep, with almost as many 260 to 500. These two Bile! oomprisewpercentofallmistre- lian flocks. when the last survey wag made there were 88 flocks of more than 50.000. some 8110080- lng 100,000. 01 all sheep holdings. most. are between 1.000 and 5.000 acres, and 14.000 and 34,000 of these pmrpgrtle; grg in N61! South Wales. 0! the luff”! m"? fill‘ ions. 1.543 had an screw! in 9K‘ case of 50,000 acres each. Amonfl them were. 8'18 ln Western Airstre- 1|5_ 19g in New south Wales and 197 in Queensland, each exceeding 100.000 c0118. It will. therefore. be realised the! many sheep runs are reckoned not in acres but 1n square miles, Cerf!- lug capacity ls figured not 1n sheen pes- acre. but in acres per shew- . I I Th, Augfrgllgn flne-woolled. heavy-flowed sheep, the Merino. ls descended from the orielnfl-l spanlsh stock. but the present Aus- trallen specimen Ls a vary 0W0!‘- ent animal, being blelw‘. handler and woolller. This is the result of 100 Years of careful breeding with an eye to conditions. Basic stock of the preeent-dey Australian Mer- lno is the Pcppln Blood Merino. named afiei- the Penpln Broth!" who foimded o. flock at Wane"!- elle. N.S.W.. lrn 186i. Today there are more than 700 studs restricted in the Australian Merino Stud Bock. of which about 90 1M’ "l" have Peppln The original Spanish Merino yield about four lb. of wool a year. The average fleece of all Ami-IB- llgn ghggp tpd-y 1.5 Sbmlt Illne pound-s olod the staple ls 1011891’- The Australian breed ii blazer and has a stronger constitution. The Peppln sheep, particularly, has re- markable pcwerg of resistance to drought. For example, one large N. s. W. station has no water on ite 11,000 acres, except. whet can be dbtained from ground tank; and nrteslan bores. It has no lmDroved pastures or arable paddocks. The flock; llve on lndlflflflw grasses rand scrub, some salt bush and edible roughage. Rainfall. avenged over 36 years. was 14 inches a year. Since 1940 the sea- sons have been the Meat KNOW!!- sorno years there woe no min at all. Yet, with only 5 l-2 inches of rain in 1940 the average clip we! la m. four oa. for’ all crown sheen- O hmblng percentage was 80. In IBM-I, a good year, lamb!‘ per- centage was 101.11. In 1089 the reln- fall of 02 inches was a record for 54 years. The flocks returned the Milan's record clip of 1'1 llb. l1 ol. of wool everge for special stud ewes, and 14 lb. l0 OI. for single iirud ewes. Ibr 100 years Australians con- centrated on breeding Merlnoe be- cause Australia woe too far my from oversees markets to export meat. The development of the “f-reeeer" (meet-promising cheep) has gone side by aide with that. of the Merino in reoeng years. follow- fng the appearance of refrleerat- lon. Ikeelerii belong to the lo- oeuea arose-tired types, the term is really a misnomer. After having experimented with moat breeds. gross-bred strains are now as eervfully preserved u leer- lnos. On the wall-grassed and war.- ered inside cairn!!! Ilmlid and near the coastline. al e pro- portion of the noon are reesers. some brad chiefly for meet. and some for-both wool and mast. Dirt iiie wields country. fies feature- less. vast and comparatively water- ‘en. is the domain of the ID. Jill as the industry’ disorien- d rosters. to s. J0 are its successes successes. Sheep die in hundreds of thousands. even la , in hundreds of thousands. ‘lhe siioosaies only iir the ease of thoeeviho \ 000111‘ 1BR- $240,000.000 and iromprisea about 80 Weill! understand the business. nooks insist be protaafoil from their many eneirsles- the rabbits and kangaroos which duoeno like loc- usts on the pastures; the dlngoos. or wlld does. which maul the shew. the various diheaaaelad in- sect pests. esbec . which quickly dec fa tlaesn. The neIlY-‘bom lambs must be care- fully tended. ‘H79 beet etinlna of sheep for the particular land must ‘ie chosen. The number per square mlle that the country can carry each year must _be decided. Dip- plngi lcruwhing, drenching and mnsserng nvuat be properly done. cm-iy if all these things. not to speck of num __-, other. lesser tasks have been successfully man- liled. will the atelier e success- fully to the climax of his efforte— the sheen-ting. U A good shearer can sheer 200 sheep during an eight-hair: day, and ml? earn the season $1.280 or more. Shearing sheds may be two-stand. fair-stand. anything up to 40-etend. The stand la the place on the board where the shearer works. when: the/comb ls connected up with an overhead. shed-length. ilriving shaft, or with the Phil. if electric hendpleces are installed. There are few bigger sheds than. for example. one of 100 stands which can handle between 400.000 and IOIMDO sheep before the end of the season. The shearer drugs a, sheep to the board. throws it over into the right. position and gets to work. From the moment his buck is bent. he goes through his pet- tern of shearing "blows", in line with other sheerere. with tense re- guloied rapidity of movement. No scum- is one animal shorn than mother is grabbed. into position and sham, until the pens are empty. As the fleece; come off. they are classed. There are about 1,600 diff- erent classes of wool in the Aus- tralian cetalogue. with a. wide range of values and fluctuations in qual- ity from season to season. The Aus- tralian wool-chaser commonly handles 700 to 1.000 varieties. Once classed. the wool is baled, marked and oaried to the nearest railroad siding. to be heighten to the buy- ing floor l-fl the city. War-time sew the introduction of the Australian Wool Board can- trol to curry‘ out‘ the dlqpoaals agreement with Britten. Noiw. marketing ls being reorgenlsed 1n aoaordan ,. with an agreement be- tween Britain. Australia. New Zara- lnnd and South Africa. Rvr 100 years Australia was con- tent to grow wool fas- airport, but local manufacturing l; now a grow- lng and substantial fndimry. It has an even greater job to handle than during the war. Woollen manufact- urers have imdertaken to aopply 1.000.000 yards of cloth to U.N.R. FLA. by the end of 1946. while the local market is olamboisring for supplies. There is the tremendous work of getting the 010.000 odd men and women of the Australia/n fight- ing services book into civilian clothes, with the further prospect of enabling the civilian population to catch up on its clothing lag when rationing in lifted. It ls still being retained on certain clothing, espec- ially woollen goods. so that U.N. RI-LA. and liberated countries, so well‘ as err-service personnel. can be supplied first. The Commonwealth's 120 woollen and tweed rnllls normally employ about 27.000 people. There are also about 325 knitting mills which nor- mally employ another 20.000. The industry produces about 80.000000 square yards of woollen cloth m- nually, lus large quantities of high- grade gerlng woola and machine- knitted garments. Most manufact- urer's are proud of the fact that their products are 100 per cent pure-wool and after a special pso- cese. isnahrlnkeble. Dirrlri-y the was’, Anietrallan mills. 1n addition to meeting moat of’ the country's civil needs (as fer as rationing would allow), supplied to Allied end Australian segvices B.- 000.000 woollen cloth blouses and jackets. 6.000.000 woollen clot-h trousers, 101500.000 blankets, 31,- 000.000 Yards of woollen cloth. The mllls of course, concentrated ain war production. The growth of the industry in the last ten years hue been mark- ed. 1n 1083-34 Australian manu- facturers used 242.172 bales of wool, representing 7.96 per cent of total pl ‘Milan. In 1941-42 they used 470.514 bales, or 13.04 per cent. However, in 1941-44 there was a slight decline to 447,642 bales (12.41 per cent) due to shortage of labour. The number o! mills Nee from 102 in 1940-41 to 113 in 1942- 40. and total value of output in- creased from 807300.000 to .111.- 474324 during the same period. In addition, knitting mills turn dist about Ml,fi)0.000 worth cf ‘nluneluy. e a a Although the woollen tirdaietry. ea distinct from wool growing, has become important in Australia only in comparatively recent year, fte beginnings go back almost to the earliest tines of the former colony‘ of New South Wales. The first rnlll was established at Parrarnatta. near Sydney, in lees and is still producing. Woollen manufacturing in Victoria dates back so 1007. In feoe of the competition of Inglis-h cloths. devo was slaw until the 1014-18 war lave the first real impetus. Since then thlro has been a. gradual growth. to- gether with aprogresslve impove- snent in duality with increasing ex- perience. ‘Ibday. nt ex- perts compare the Australian pro- ducts favour-ably with similar goods of other lands. and there has been a Needy rlseln the quantities being sent abroad. The future of the industry seems assured. It may be expected to be- come increasingly important in the Years to coarse. Fa rm house Cider . l gvyereeas Iiort-wsinelglervi‘: In the Melvin days of the lest W"?! lflvflllih young man msklag the lrlnd our of Iu'"-"a was at. five advised to iasiipla "use wine of the oousarry." I suppose ha wuss DECEMBER 23. 1945 . u! FOITITUDE We ' measure bravery; The moan of wind the has; o; rt Are. sometimes. harder far to . _ Than bitter grief. or untold .. . The mmiorv of a smile. a voice, Can twist the heart and blenoli 1h cheek, The wihisile of aupaeslng train Can leave the future dark and bl. ‘Iiho bravest heart we ever knew Who never cringed with fear .. fore Can dread the sound of falling f ‘ The final closing of a door. —-Doirothy Dumbo-tile. in "‘~ To The Stars." Old Charlottetown (And us) FIRST DOCTOR '1 first of the modlcal pso- kslon to lurid on this Island an it was ceded lo Britain in 175B was Dr. RDCIOIICK.M.BCGOIIBIG. Ha and hls family were passengers an board the shlp "Alexander" that brought here the first Scotch im- migrants in 1772. He was a. native of Morar, Invernesshire, Scotland and a graduate of ihe University of burgh. It. appears that he Dtfilod after- landing somewhere n - Sootchfort. probably about in; head of the Hillsborough River. Pram there he removed iii/ces- with bla fondly to Vernon River. where he 71°03 "l! lends and efllflled in lama- lng. Here he died after some year‘ leaving is family of several children Two of his daughters were marrl , to Allan and M1811: Maodonald - Allisary. at the head of Hlllalne- cugh. One of them, Penelope, was the mother of M. Rev. Bernard Donald Macdonald. the second Bishop of Charlottetown. and the grandmother of the Revs. Ronald B. Maodonsld of Sourls and Allan Meadornald of librt Auguetm. The tmcios-‘was s cadet. d B noble family of Clan Ronald. who owned at one time a greet. pelt a! the Highlands of Scotland. There was another Doctor Mec- donisld who arrived in Charlotte- wwu from Scotland in the early dlyl. belonelng to the Baaodala branch cf the Olan Rmield family. He was a maternal uncle of the llle Hon. A.A. Meodonald. Char» lottetown. A.C. MacDonald, Mon- tague and A.J. Macdonald. Georg!- tmrn. After practising some year's in Charlottetown. he returned so Scotland and died than. compara- tlvelv young. —(I"ram an by the lute Dr. R. MecNelll.) chalk barley grows remark- ably well, and in raindfathu-‘e time every slaeable farm mode tie own ale. ‘Iheverynsmeeoffhl villages reflect the quality of the land. ‘Five miles away is Bore Ricgls, just over the border 1n Devon is the fishing village of Beer- while up in the North 0! my 0170B‘ try is Bore I-lackett. Bare woe the old name for barley. and this peo- bebly accounts for the name 0f the beverage made from barley. . The practise of making begs home in iai-mnomes fell 111101141" befbre my time. but i-he lrldlllfl of beer drinking has Willi“! in my district. A soars of miles W“ uxthe Wen, elder making camel 13,‘? “' ‘.""'" u .11 ."°°'...‘i€“.‘3§ DIV"!!! 8 F9? guiteble for fruit trees. Cider mak- trig la relatively new in nicked- We have a. tradition that l! W" introduced for the first time into England by the monks of PM’!!! Abbey ln my county of Doléeet. 60011 after the Norman 00M‘!!! This ‘seems a fairly reeeomflbll tradition since mu of Nor-newly are still famous for cider Oftfhtfll ‘The greet united force which land- ed on the benches in June. 1044. Mil to figlht their way through llille lush meadows and cider orchard? The sight. of old apple mills an V primitive presses made fill-BY l Wm countryman sick foa- the small fwfll and deep lanes of home. ' I have never made cider on m7 (Continued on Page B) i I Ivory Vanity Canoe 110.00 Caste: Gift Bets 59045.00 ‘ Fcrfiwnee lLOO-IIIJI lbevlon Gift lete- - j , 11.00-85.00 Dusting Powder lea-UM PIGGY BAG! G111‘ en's Colognes .. .. 0150-15-0. POND’! GIT’! IITI Babble also ..... lea-sue Woodblrfl Glft Iota- ‘ Io-ll-ll Soaps BOo-il-W Coallsere Iolglet Gift ........ .. 81-“ . $1.00 I » r Julian's Gift em“- $41M mo‘... Levesaloneal- . sins-sari lath all ..... sea-ow Iallel water ........ ms as The I tlaee “Wflfltflllsetfliifllflht