PAGE FOUR TIE GIIILITTITOII "lillllllll Iotlln] Dill) (Founded In "I'll PrfldutiluuLCoLWChesm-lIoI-Iw Vleo-PsddolnLllIi-USKIJ-I. lesnluyiUeILCoLlLA. lull-BAD. Idltsroad D =s.naumt.r.s.s Aloehtoldtto alkeroodLleII-hna n: husk IV Burnett, B-CZNJZIL (On Asllvo Bervloel ‘The Strongest Memory is Weaker Till flu Weakest Ink.‘ IATUIDAY. robin, rm Germany's Last Ditch That the war is getting on Nazi nerves is evident from the attempt of some of Hitler’s officers to assassinate him, as well as from the shrieks of panic emanating from the leader himself. Without falling into the pitfall of wish- ful thinking. it is possible now to accept the signs of a mounting crisis in the affairs of Germany. These signs all point to something pretty near to national panic on the German home front. This is the time for the United Nations to redotible their efforts to smash the enemy on all fronts. In a leading article in the July issue of The Legionary, an anonymous writer warns against the eve-of-victory ilangct" of “falling for" the old sentimental claptrap about the German peo- plc. \\'e may soon. as this writer anticipates, be hearing from the champions of the "No Revenge" policy-from people indignantly con- denining any mention. even. of the punishment of the Gtinzin people because a few misguided leaders like Hitler, tioering & C0. have led them astray. These people will point out that if Ger- many suffers any retribution for what she has done, it will create a spirit of revenge in the good Germans, and that will mean more wars in the future and will interfere with trade aild with pleasant holidays in Germany to see the Passion Play at Oberammergau and the opera at Munich and the beautiful picturesque Rhine- land. It will not occur to them that the vast majority of the "good Germans” in the early years of the war heartily approved of a policy of calculated, deliberate, bloody-handed murder, treachery and massacre planned and carried out with gleeful zest. It was our scntimentalists who won the peace after the last war. They were in s. majority then, but this time let us hope that sterner measures will prevail, that nothing that happens in Germany front now until its complete and unconditional surrender will be permitted to swerve our armies of retribution one iota from their course. National Poker Came With its customary flair for apt metaphor, the Wartime Information Board heads a news item in its clip-sheet "The Jack Pot Grows." The item reads: “On the first of July, Unemployment Insur- ance in Canada will be three years old. At pres- ent the Fund, which has been accumulating since July I, i94i, and is made up of contribu- tions by employees, employers and the Domin- ion Government, has gone over the $200,000,- 000 mark.” The metaphor is accurate in some respects, declares “The Printed Word." There is no guar- antee that those who have put up the chips will draw anything from the pot. Under certain con- ditions, some employees can dish in; but many other employees, all employers and the Domin- ion Government (in this connection, an official euphemism for all taxpayers) are simply shov- ing in their chips for the fun of the game. The house rake-off is not mentioned in the news item, but it exists in the form of salaries Ind overhead expense involved in operating the Fm- . . . . What is not obvious at first glance is that the pot consists largely of I.O.U.'s_. Money riot needed for overhead and immediate claims is converted into bonds. Interest on these bonds and their eventual redemption will be the re- sponsibility of the Dominion Government -— in other words, the taxpayers. Some of them are "beginning to wonder how they came to sit in the game. The Philippine Sea Amniral Nimitz has made the suggestion that that great and virtually empty space which lies between the Philippine Islands on the west and the Bonin Islands and Marianas on the east and between Japan on the north and the Carol- ines on the south be ‘called the Philippine Sea. The suggestion reminds an exchange of the naming of the Philippine Island themselves. This important group of islands enjoyed, or endured, several other names before they fin- ely settloddowu under the cognomsn Philip- nes. p‘ The islands were discovered in i521 by Magellan, a Portuguese navigator operating in the interests of Spain. Magellan called them the Archipelago of San Lazarus. The Spaniards, who looked on them as at the extreme west of their Empire, named them the Western Isl- ands. The Portuguese, who approached them from the other side of the world, called them the Eastern Islands. Finally, Spain, which took possession of them through a missionary ex- pedition despatched in I564. named thcm Isiai Filipinas, after King Philip II, the same royal gentleman whose beard was singed by Drake at Cadiz and whose Armada later met disaster in English waters. The Old Party Game . Rumors of a Toronto clique which is seek- ing to dominate Hon. John Bracken and mould the policies of the Progressive Conservative party remind the VIHIFOIITT‘? Province of s characteristic story about Sir John A. Mac- donald. An old fricnd had written Sir John stating that while his admiration for him was undimmcd, he did not like the policies of the Conservative party. "(Ionic into the party," Sir john wrote, “and Iielp create and decide its Wes." The policies of a party, of course, are al- ways crested by the men inside it. There is no other way of creating them. So, to say that any man or group of men is seeking to mould the policies of a party-Progressive Conservative, Liberal, or C. C. F.—is merely to say that this man or group is doing his or its duty in a democracy. As for this particular Toronto conspiracy, of which so much is being whispered in the, camps of the other parties, said he knows nothing about it. He knows ol no movement to dominate him or direct the party in any subversive way and would not permit such a movement to develop. If there were such a movement, obviously I\Ir. Bracken would know about it. Who are these people who profess to know so much more about the inside goings on of the Progressive Conservative party than Mr. Bracken himself knows? It grows more and more obvious that these rumors are merely put of a political war of nerves. There is an election not far away and the various party strategists are trying their hand at party propaganda. It is time that this particular propaganda was spiked; and it seems- to have been spiked pretty effectively by forc- ing it outinto the open. EDITORIAL NUI I23 .- Hitler narrowly escaped this time. "licking the dust" U i i Thirty women, specially selected for their mathematical ability, were responsible for the whole of the work involved in calculating what war materials would be needed for the invas- IOH. l tote Equipment in our airborne army ranges from tanks whose engines start running in the air so that they may g0 into operation as soon as the carrying glider touches down, to compressed porridge blocks. w Tllfife if! 7.000 dogs serving with the Brit- ish Army today. It takes 60 day's to train eacl: one, and on completing the course each animal goes to a unit with his trainer, where the dut- U i U ies comprise guarding aerodromes, depots, dumps, installations, power plants and secret enclosures. u a n- w British Aid to Russia in two and a half years from June I941 to the end of I943 in- cluded: 6,778 aircraft; 5,031 tanks; 4,620 vehicles; 32,000 tons of aluminum; 37,000 tons of copper; SL423 tons of rubber, besides footl- stuffs, machine tools, guns, tin, jute and other war materials. I II i I Prefabricated houses will play s big part in the British Government's scheme for provid- ing temporary post-ivar homes. It is expected that when full production is attained, some three months after the jigs and tools are prepared, these houses will be manufactured at the ratc of nearly 2,500 pCf week, It‘ 1k III i Canada's cheese exports to the United King- dom have been practically tripled since i935, Agriculture Minister Gardiner said in the Com- mons. In I935 the cheese exports totalled 52,- 000,000 pounds. In i942 the exports totalled between 140,000,000 and 150,000,000 pDlllldS. They were slightly lower last year, but “were up" again this year. The price 0f cheese had increased from II cents a about 25 cents at present, \lr. Gardiner said. I l8 I t The Allies crossed the Marne this date. I918; on July I5, Ludendorff began his final attempt to break through on a line extending from the Argonne to Chateau-Thierry; cast of Rheims, Goiiratid prevented the Army from making an effectual advance. but pound in I935 to ed 3rd (lerinan s. von Boehm succeeded in crossing the Marne above Chateau-Thierry and descended itito the villages of St. Agnan and La Chapclle; on July I8, Foch latinched a powerful counter-attack with such success that more than 2o villages were recovered; this dramatic stroke won the Second Battle of the Marne. l? 1F Ill i Mr. H. H. Hatfield, M.P., is the farmers‘ representative from the Maritiincs. Mr. Hat- field, busy looking after Maritime af- fairs in the House of Commons, asked whether the forthcoming government bill, establishing floor prices for farm products, would cover po- tatoes. Agriculture Minister Gardiner said there was the possibility of "anything" being in- cluded in the bill as now drafted. It still has to be introduced in the House. Mr. Hatfield said earlier he had noted new potatoes were being sold at Halifax and Toronto at $l for a 75—pound bag, which was below the cost of production. Next Mr. Hatfield questioned the necessity of an annual grant of $18,000 to Livestock Rec- ords. He llld he understood the organization had a $500,000 surplus and thought the records should be kept by the department. iner said the organization did a good job and he understood it operated at cost and had no surplus. n- : n e Since the United States entered fully into the war, London has been the gathering-point, to which have gone the thousands of Ameri- can citizens concerned in the many-branched business of fighting. Indeed, there are probably nearly as many Americans in London as there are in some American cities. Now as the bombs crash, these Americans are shoulder to shoulder with the British in a fellowship altogether more ieril than anything that was possible in the days of the blitz. What this fellowship means is des- cribed by Geoffrey Parsons, an American who writes from London to the New York Herald Tribune. "The flying bomb has had a great effect on Anglo-American relations," he writes. ". . . Indeed, the common emotion of fear and courage that the flying bomb engenders is Mr. Gard- .m5 perhaps thegreatest single contribution toward Anglo-American understanding that has occur- red since the beginning of the war. Now for the first time American troops stationed in the London area are able to comprehend in a way they never could before what the people of London went through during the blitzes of i940 and i941." ' m; .. . _,. THE Cl-IARLOTTETQWN" cuizpim Notes By The Way i Home came through the war al- most undamlsed but when Berlin surrenders lt wlll have a different "017 to belL-Ottawn. Journal. Herald Kovln Patrick 0'Shoo of New York has been denied permission of the courts to change lt to l-Ienrl Marie Patrice Hubert de Plneo. The back o’ me hand to ye, Pat, for wantln’ to part with s good Irlsh Expo for a label llke think-Ottawa 78!]. A British offlclnl used a corn- blnatlon of geography and mathe- matics to show how blg the lob still is. Ile compared the 500 square miles of territory won in France with th¢ 2,000,000 square miles stlll under control of the Nazis — New York Sun. Notices are appearing In work- shops all over Norway to the effect that all holidays are prohibited this year. Those eontravenlng the order wlll be summoned before Ger- man military courts. Quisllngs press directorate forbids the newspapers to publish any material encourag- lng people to take hOIIdlIYB- —M°1‘-' treal Star. Mlss Doris Dolnnd o! New Yllrk City reports that she overheard two young ladles knocking off n little economics, says W. D. in C0lll€l"5. Said one. “What's bankruptcy?" The other said. "It's something corporations do when they run out of money." Sold the first. "Doesn't it cost them a lot of money?’ And the second. allowed to do it until they've spent it." And the first. glrl said, "0li.” Rather than have handsome shade trees butchered for the benefit of power and other lines, the Eltzln County Council Wants the utllltles ln question to move their poles off highway allowances. Better still would be the burying of these llnts. Shade trees along highways and elsewhere are a zrent national as- set and their insane butchering by power and other companies ls some- thing that should be fought Wllflf- ever possible. - Brockvllle Recorder and Times. In one New York household. the word "mare” may not be mention- ed, because to do so would inevi- tably precipitate ti marital ruinous and reopen old wounds. The wife, a participant in a recent radio quiz program sailed rilong beautifully through a series of questlonlntz rc- qulrln her to fll! one-word blanks in wel -krio\vn quotations until she came to the last-and big-money poser, which was: “Shoot lt‘ you must this old gray - New York Herald-‘Prlbunc. Long after this war ls over. man wlll marvel at the faith and courage which upheld the people of those European states which were over- , Fariii Prolilsiiis In Canada i (Royal Bank 0f Cumin News Letter) (Continued from yesterday's Guardian) Cultivation The subject of cultivation ll one of real "llousness. Boll ls not mere dead matter, submissive to treatment or mistreatment with impunity. Chemically, lt contains elements which must. be present ln certain proportions for the sup- port: of vegetation, and fly t ls made up of matellal whlc supplies the principal plant food. These attributes are amenable, within limits, to modification by capital and labour. In a demons- tration at Rothamsted experimen- tal station ln England, one plot. has been used for wheat every year or a. century without fertilization, rind last year it yielded 28 bushels to the acre. Another plot at the some station, properly fertilized, raised 50 bushels to the acre. There does not seem to be any doubt that worn=out land, under scientific culture, can be re- claimed and made as fertile as ever, and the productivity of nat- llffllll’ good sol! increased. Some may ‘point to lack of capital as a handicap to adoption of methods, but the work of cultural schools shows that. there ls opportunity for improvement without large cash outlay, that much could be done to 1n- productlvlty by elimination of wasteful and nefflclent meth- ods and unsuitable seed varieties. With farming developing lnto an "Sure. but they ain't 1,, alnnced soil, ln devel- Olblnl} irons which wlll meet the "flying seasons 1n different parts of Canada, and in preparing and marketing his product. This coun- sel ls given freely by Agricultural Colleges and by the Dominion and Provincial Departments 0f Agri- culture. Acceptance of it, and practice ln ll. will enable farmers to cut production costs through increase in per acre yield, and give ii measure of insurance against loss from crop failure. Nature ls slow to anger, and there is still. time to arrest the consequence of single cropping, neglect of fertilization, and other slns of omission and e.- misslom Mail must add lils judgment to the selectlvcness of nature, and to the capability of nature he must. add science, labo vestment. This as wcll as n deci wh intensive culture, a knowledge of when to stop, because there ls u law of diminishing returns. After a certain polnt is reached the uppllCflllOll of new labour and cap- ltul falls to cause a proportionate increase lit tlic yield. If the farmer puts on additional loads of fertil- izer or employs additional men, he may raise tile total harvest, but the return per unlt of capital and run by the Nazis and held ln sub- jection for a 10m: and gruelling term of years. High on the llst will stand France; betxnvad at home. snlit fatally asunder, the llll- willing host. to a gross and htmd opprcssor. raped ln all that a sltlve and God-fearing people rs . and hold dear. Human imziglnci on dwarfs before realization of all lhrs’ reality must have been. and ls to- day. - Victoria Colonist. The Wheelbarrow is venerable velllcle which has help- to set many a heavy load aver awkward places. but this war lias given_lt a tragic aspect. Since the bombing of Shanghai by the Ja- panese, several years prior to 1939-, on through ta Hitler's invasion of the Low Countries and France, inls lowly carrier has been the refugees‘ great friend in need. It. has borne tlielr all in ri pltiably few pcsses- ens. flldltlg them in their flight and their long-awaited return to the rubble or the blackened walls of what were once their homes. - Hamllton Spectator, an old and At its lust meeting the American Psychiatrc Association expiessecl its low opinion of the lle detector 1n a resolution which pointed out that the findings were wrong ln about thirty per cent of the cases Nllorted ‘by Med Inbnu tn I942, that the feeling of guilt is too com. Dlex to be tested by any single in- strutijient. and that the hardened criminal is more linmune to the test than to the free interview and other modes of probing his mind, llys the New York Times. No cle- flnlte conclusions can invariably be drawn when the lle detector ls used. and even those that are valid are no more trustworthy than ordin- ary confessions. It ls a question ln the minds of the psychiatrists whe- ther lie-detector findings are ed- mlsslble as evidence in court, and this because the subjest does not submit himself voluntarily m a. est. -If there were a conscience- robot it would be reasonable to us. sume that there could be a dlagng. sis-robot. but there isn't. tor ma findings she those obtain then on! h “d y by competent psychia- ts and psychologists. It h lllfPfl-filnl how frequently the manner ln which s. motorist sounds ls horn ls Indicative of til-s own character. A drive on any or the hlshways wlll reveal this to anyone with s keen ear and a power of ob. salvation. Them are many person; who manage to convey ths 1m. reeslon of their superiority over ill! mt 0f mankind by the manner 1n which they signal to pass, oi- warn s pedestrian. with them the s a! ls an assumption of right. Then there ls the arrogant driver, whose fierce, loud blast is a com- mind. Ind Whose ear-splitting rac- ket ls terrifying even to an eXpflfl- caged ‘dglvgri! The h orlst 9 fill Y manner of doing his best to lmltste the closing notes of a mm: band, While the tlmld, ult- fldent Individual "tots" iy and with a certain deference which i?>°££.3l“§"l“..." “"..*".".";.. T“ c o e car uently no criterion. W! the musical notes. expressive of lsbtness and cheer, wh ch are frequently attach- ed to the largest and most im- presslve appearing automobiles» On contrary, a battered vehicle, with little more appearance than a decedent ash receptacle may have ii particularly obnoxious noise. There is probably ii moral to tlils. but. like morals. lt s all the better for being submer ca‘ ln the matter, labour will OE less. Every farm has its own inilximum of develop. mcnt. Illltl tile farmer who would be successful must use all the scientific aids of the colleges and expcriiiizrital stations, as well as 1115 U\'-'l1 lltlllvc ititelligencc, m rcnch that peak, The man on .1 farm producing 12 bushels of wheat per acre has not a chance if the economy is cd to a yield of 20 “Win11 bl-ill c tile price to be the same, SL2; per bushel, and the cost lo no the same, $14.54 pet" acre. then the farm ylelulng 20 bushels will give a net profit of $10.46 per acre; a ld-ousnel farm \'.'l!l give just about half, 35.46, willie the profit from B. lz-‘uushel farm will be only l6 cents an acre. It Llle ylcici “POPS to ll! bus- hels Lnere is u net loss of $2.04 an ccrr, and at. 8 bushels the loss ls ssh-l. ’.l‘ticse l!_‘_',lll'0S are purely arbitrary, fcr purposes of mathe- matical illustration, and do not 111v claim to any resemblance to ilic cost of raising field wheat. The same principles would apply tu anv otilcr crops. Field Crops {i PUBLIC FORUM THE JAPANESE BEETLE Elm-No one, I iim sure, could read Dr. A. M. Bell's description of the dreadful ravages made upon everything that. rows upon the farms, by the apanese Beetle. without being greatly impressed with the terrible dim er that threatens the future o Prince Edward Island. If the Japanese army and navy were to attack the Island. the re- sult of the invasion would at least be ltmlted 1n time and casualties. On the other hand, 1f the Japan- ese Beetle were to make an at- tack. It would only be u mutter of hours when they would be the conquerors, and our beautiful Isl- and would become little better than a desert. . I am presuming that Dr. Bell's articles Ire not over-stated. Dr. Bell ls a mun not given to exag- geration. and, ln any case, he ls evidently basing his description of the habits of the beetle upon the literature prepared by the Washington Government research men. which has been going on for the last two or three years. Owing to the length of Dr. Bell's several articles. there is a danger that the are not being read and studied iiy all the readers of the Guardlan, I pro use, therefore, to enumerate a s ort and concise llst. of the main points, which are as follows: l. A single female beetle wlll propagate from forty to sixty beetles a year. Supposing that ten are females, and forty males, the result from a single female ln five years time would be no fewer than six million females, and at lerist as many males. 2. Unlike the potato bug, the Japanese Beetle attacks about two hundred and fifty different kinds of vegetation, including almost everything grown on the Island, large trees, fruit trees, most vegetables and fruit. and perhaps worst of all, our pastures, lawns and golf links, the grubs feeding on the roots and killing the grass. 3. Again unlike the Colorado Beetle, the Japanese Beetle ls not sluggish, except in cold weather, and in our warm summer climate, lt ls very active and at. the least disturbance flles from one plant to another and therefore cannot be handled. 4. In Japan, which nation has bequeathed this horrible pest upon us, there are active enemy insects which kill the beetle. These lil- sects are not found in North America. 5. While the potato bug lays its eggs on the potato plant, which eggs are destroyed by sproyllls with Bordeaux mixture, the Jap- anese female lays her eggs in the soil, some inches below the sur- face. rendering them almost safe from attack. Canada's most spectacular valicr, probably, has been in grain, wlllcii nclct oui. the ccoiloml: at- traction of providing a crop of world-wide food importance‘ great- er than was necessary for the family need. Under changing con- ditions, it. became economical to fa|'0\'\’ crops to be fed oil farms and sold as livc stock, milk, bacon, and eggs. lt_is estimated that nearly 6m. million bushels of wheat will be fed to animals on this contin- ent during this crop year. while clvlllun imc! home military re- quirements of Canada and the United States may total only 580 million bushels. On the basis of our pre-ivar bread consumption, it would take Canadians about 13 years to get. rid of the amount of wheat that llve stock will consume ar. this ye In 160B the whole Canadian griiln crop wqnt lnto slx or seven unrrcls; ln 1048 the payments to prairie farmers for grain. exclus- ve of subsidies and asslstsnces, was million, and the esti- mate carryover of wheat at July 31st. wlll be e13 mllllon bushels. Wheat ls the king of According to the ar Book of the League of the 1941-42 crop ln Can- ada amounted to 28 bushels per capital, tn Australia 24 bushels, In Argentina 1'7, and ln the United States 7 bushels. (To be continued) _______ This War-Four Years Ago Iv The Csnndlui Press JULY I, l o-Ilbrelgn Secre- tary ‘Viscount. Halifax answered Iltlers offer with declare- Brltaln "wlll not unit! freedom for ourselves H o or? pmiteaMal-‘ieiit . . rat a. n c e Canadian General Staff. l JULY 23, IMO-Brlta-lim lzed new novernment of Free Coech-Blovaks" heeded by Edouard Bones; German bombers ranged from Elnaland to Scotland; U, s. Senate gave approval to comm!!- ory training of 43,000,000 men. ______________ COLDS PROVE COSTLY Respiratory tract disease cas- ualtles ln Canadian military hos- pitals in Canada nlone have been ac!- NOOI b96315!!! din allbllttcllhogd nothing can e one a ou t. any case. -Guolpl nveriigltng 35800‘; hyefll‘ at an; llroxme cos t e to yer o 000000 l" r I - 6. These eggs turn lnto grubs which maintain themselves by biting off the roots of grass. plants. rind trees. In the winter, to avold the frost, they burrow down lnto the soll. from which they emerge ln the spring when the soil bc- comes warm anpl- in Julie the full- grown beetle appears and im- mediately attacks the nearest plant llfe. 7. These Japanese Bcctles are particularly voracious and devour all the leaves except the veins. When they become very iiumcrous they will in two or three days dc- follate a whole tree such as a horse chestnut or elni. 8. From what Dr. Bell has told us, lt ls exceedingly difficult. if not impossible, to destroy the beetle once lt. has obtained a foul- hold ln iiny district. There are methods of poison, etc. but they are complicated and cal! for a supply of poison. etc, bclnr: on hand to be used Immediately and wherever the beetle mny appear. fl. In the United States, in the course of three years, the hcctle has spread itself lnto no fcivrr than lwthljl states. s:verul of which are immediately adjacent to Canada, including Mflllllt. from which it. ls bound to lnflltratw into New Brunswick- lt is scarcely possible to hope that Canada v.lil not b: attacked. 10. Washington anzl State (Iov- ernments have spent almost $11,- 000,000 on research work ln an at- PERIL Onthe sea, on land, peril of fire, llglitnlng, falling aircraft, of automobiles, sickness, of war. In our modern life we perils, and that. ls why we of insurance to protect us financially. We are ln a position insurance service, and welcome your inquiries for advice arid information. Hyndman & not o y many o our "re-T turned men that. wlll need re- habilitating” but man , rnsny of the houses. barns an out-bulld- ings all over the countryside. Not a streak of palnt on hundreds of them. And I saw scores of old tumble-down buildings that might well have been there slnce Noah and the flood-a. disgrace to the province, ‘particularly a province so endowe with natural beauty as Prince Edward Island. "where every prospect. pleases" and only buildings "are vlle." Even God" cannot keep the Province looking like "The Garden of the Gulf" l! man does not take a hand and ex- pend a few dollars and a. few hours on "rehabilitating" the bulldlngs on lils property. Some farmers seem, actually, to be laboring un- der the delusion that there ls some law against painting barns. ivuodsheds, hen-coups and "slch", or that, included in the "Ten Com- mandments" ls "Thou shalt not paint thy barn." There ls such a thing as farm paint. And there ls still plenty of lt to be had. Hitler and his gang have not managed to grab every-. thing. And If one cannot affordl paint there ls always whitewash. And women. and glrls and boys, nf whom there are stlll plenty.l thank God, are all surely capable! of wielding a whitewash .' Think of how many lovely green] hillsides might be improved wlth| a clump of gleaming wliltc farms, (even whitewashed) where now- there stand."- nothlng but a lumpi of old unpainted, ramshackle af- fairs scarcely worthy of the name of ‘buildings’, disfiguring all the otherwise beautiful landscape. What a shame! Think of what l! would mean 1f there was not an unpainted barn in this prov- ince. And there should not be. There ls plenty of money about. More now than there has ever been. or perhaps _w!!l ever be ngaln (although ln such a coun- try there should be no danger of this, unless the people themselves, are too somnambulentl. "I am sure there are some love- ly farm homes here-look at that! House beautifully painted and ev- ery outbuilding on the property." lndlgnantly commented a passer- by as I discussed this mutter with her. » "But look at that!" I counter- ed. pointing to a house that had evidently never seen paint, and one of the germ buildings with only that. way laughed. "I they've forgotten how it. loo or never think of it." Now, I'm not given to irrever- cntly quoting scripture, but I could not resist replying, "The same yesterday, today and. tomorrow." And that ls about the attitude of a considerable number. There are hundreds of farmers llvlng ln this Province who have always had unpainted barns and sheds-belongw to that age-therefore they bill!!!‘ for guess their buildings should remain that way forever. But this ls a new age. And. painted buildings-even wood- 1 sheds-belong to _!t._ . Just after wrltlng the above our - cat" started to move again and at; the very next stop I felt I simply must have a cup of tea, so I sel- ected one of the best-looking tempt to fight the beetle. ln add!- tion tn which cost, farmers have spent large amounts and much time. ll. Just. what. steps Canada ln- tends to take in the matter ls not yet known. Presumably no time wlll be lost. In protecting the farm- ers of the Dominion. l2. So far as this province ls coh- ccrned, the fact that we arc an Island ls at. least ln our favour. and, lt the Provincial Government takes active steps without delay, enforcing strict restrictions re- gardlng importation from infected districts of all forms of vegeta- tion, including fruits and vege- tables. the scourge should be de- layed for many years. Great Brlt- ain has DEBILSUCCGSSIUI in fighting off the Colorado Beetle for over ht eon. ‘nllywihen it ls considered that, by investing a few thousand dol- lars in preventive measures, many mllllons of dollars can be saved In future years, it ls to be hoped that. Immediate action wlll be tak- en. There are many ln our Feder- stlon of Agriculture who wlll. no doubt, be keenly interested. As this ls n matter of great. lm- portance to the Island. lt ls to be hoped that any person who has niotfireod Dr. Bell's articles. which have appeared ln The Guardian from the eighth to the thirteenth Instant, wlll do so without delay. I um, slr. e . ll. K. S. IIEMMING. “OURSELVES A8 OTHERS SEE US" (ilrz-Ono reason for my wrlt- thl ls because I've been so hi l . enamored with the beauty and 5W9 i-estfulriess of the province, and have seen so many charming and well kept farm homes. Just. be- cause of this I have had l pic- ture ln my “mind's eye" of the Ideal place the whole province m ht. be-lf only! Ive been seeing Prince Edward Island "as others see urn-motoring all over the country with a trav- ellln salesman-clean from Sourls to nlsh and crlss-crosslng the province over and over again. Now, I'm wrltlng this on top of a salt- cnse ln the back seat of the car as I wult ln front of a little store up in the Cavendish country. conclusion I've been compelled to reach during this trip: Well-like lt or not, there ls one b", houses amongst. the few wlthln walking distance of the store and ln I went looking for my cup of t:a—stl'nnge coincident! For, as I drank my tea, the woman told me: "We've only had this place l little while. It was s tumb e-down affair when we bought it. But I hired a man to raise it, then my little girl and I whitewashed it and we're going to put on an- otherncoat as soon as we can get me. so. you see how it goes! What a little paint will do to s bulldlng And how even the scarcity of lab need not prevent this much need- ed "painting up". Where there's a will there ls always a way. A ten- year-old child can paint, or white- wash a well-house or wood-shed. A fourteen-yesr-old bo and his mother can point s w use or born-end nothing like ls herd work as that. ln which thousands of women are engaged in Europe, and wfille they do lt, endangering r ves. ~ the! Ate P. I. I. women made more fragile stuff? to wield even n. paint-brush? And that, remote from skies that may Insurance Since 1872 Offices: Charlottetown, Summerslde, Montague of accident, of ‘are surrounded by employ the system to provide a complete No obligation. C0,, Limited two, newly painted, neat, sl buildings? If the owners only i311. ized what such an improved set-u; would mesh to the entire com. munlty and, Indeed, to the Prov- ince. they would. I am sure, once make a beellne for the near. est; paint-shop. "We can't afford it," said oiii woman. "Paint costs money." But that very family had I prosperous farm, getting belle. prices for their produce than they had ever before received and, ti; §p_lt,e of _t_h_ p51 agl_st.lll ii cori- ontlnued on page 9, AMERICA TO ENGLAND: 194i (A somict tJ-liuuert Brooke! Ah. Rupert, past. all khan-ledge o) our e Since you are dust uicse twenty years and seven, Hear, on your island where tbs olive flower Leans on the likyros air. toriuicd. w d-dzrlvcli. How liimlland stood — year Enf- land struck by foes More savage mun the tat .1 Corn- wall wave, Forsaken - t...itcii, ns ll battle oes- Yet. with the courage beleaguered Britons have. swung back. and stronger. u-lrn there was no streritz-zh. Lighted new sblrtt in her black- east night _ To rise. defiant. across a t-CSEIH math. The sous of n‘! the earth to nrcvl l. o pencc, O Rupert! lceo and know Still Enkland stands sons like vou.’ -Danlel Whitehead Hlrkv lll the New York Times. PRACTICALLY PRE ISTORIC The first torpedo. the "spar torpedo" of the American ClYll War, was a long ram with a bonni o_n__the_e f lt. because of For ‘Foot Ailments CONSULT H. J. A. BROWN. l).l’ Orthopedic Glllli0Plllll$l' M5 Great George Street CHAIULAYITETUWN IKI-Ll. (i, F, llutcliesun & 3H OPTOMETRISTS “Specialists in the fit- ting of glasses for the correction of ocular dc- feels.” 53 Grafton Street ‘MAX riicroii iiouvwoon BEAUTY ins Mo; ' a - d _ _ 112°:- gfiiieanilnwlvl-g; Mo: Pastor Pancake Make- »---———-*:-.'r R ii .5391?’ if fmfiilhiha iiiio Mo: Factor Rouge Relax ‘u: .31.. c am _. _‘_ l‘ .1 is: and Isis!» raln death at. any moment. Hundreds of times on this trip 1 have, by actual count, seen from ten to twelve, little unattractive buildings ln one farm yard, and of every shape sud also lmssln- nble-even apart from a bl; un- painted burn. And not one of the whole litter had a vesttge of paint. on them. In nesrl every case tww or more of the b drugs would be mere wr perhaps with e roof ciwed ln. In fact, often some of thus little htly sffslrs bad been out of use or years; but stlll there stood the "remain , In view of the whole countryside and of every motorist who passed lag- "t e sods see everywhere!" ad for the "htldren to grow up ln such slip-shot surroundings, to say e least. of t. And indeed for the mor- ale of the sntlre community. And it's really unpstrlotlc to out-of-datc affairs and which ro- fleets unfavorsbly on the entire Province. "For the love of Pets" (whoever he may bel W Y do people not pull down buildings that are too far gone to be of my use! leave them there Just: to the ground and be ts on the whole lnndsea why not. at lust. combine the dol- en or more dersllots lnto one or Max l-‘octor Powder Foun- dation Cream — 75c and 51-35 Mu Factor Astrln cut ___._--'l5o and 1.35 In! 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