PAGE FOUR_ TIIE BIIARLUTTETOVIII GUARDIAN Morning Daily (Founded ln 188'!) President: Lieut. CoL W. Chester S. MeLure Vim-President: J. It. Burnett, FJJ. Secretary: ljeut. Col. D. A. Macltlnnon. 0.8.0. Iiiior and Managing Director: J. It. Burnett, FJJ. Associate Editors: Frank Walker and Ian A. Burnett SUBSCRIPTION RATES Iy Mail iii P. t; l., $4.00 per year; $2.50 for 6 months $l.'.’5 fi-r S months; 50c lor- one month City Delivery: $5.00 per year; $3.00 for 6 months $1.75 for 3 months By Mail in Canada and U.S.A. :$5.00 per year latiirdny “Tfvklfl $2.00 per year: $1.00 for 6 months, 50c for 3 months. fThe Strongest Memory is Weaker than the Weakest lnk." SATURDAY. MARCH 22, 1941 Maritime Air Service Sonic time zigo it was announced by lion. W. P. Aluloclt, Postmaster General, that on or about April l5 the Hans-Canada air mail service would bc extended from Moiicton, the present eastern terminal, tn llaliiax, and that the frequency of service between Montreal, Moucton and Halifax would be increased to two round trips daily, iti- cluding Sunday. It was proposed to put on the route the rcgtilai‘ type of jiliiiic-—-ten-:.cilter Lock- hccds-—uscd in other parts of the Tiaits-Caiizida service. New Brunswick members are now pressing iii the House of Commons for extension of the 'l‘r:ins-Cziiiada service t0 Saint John as wcll as llalifax. Tiransport Bliiiistcr Howe has stated in reply that consideration is being given to pro- viding better air service not only io Saint john, but to l-‘rcilericton, Sydney and Charlottetown. Our Board of Trade should not miss this op- poruinity oi zigain pressing for sitcli iiiiprovc- niciit. 'l‘hcrc are two matters of coiuplaiilt with regard to the iccdei‘ service t0 this city. We want through air ticlcct .'irrzitigcnients to other parts 0f Canada, and also the application of the statutory 0 ccnis ]ll'l' mile air rate basis for passengers. The present raic oi b’ cents constitutes a diseriiiiiii- iiiioii which, iii \‘l\'\\' of the fact that the service is Subsidized by the Dominion Government, should not be tnlcrati-tl. The uuauguration of the new transcontinental plane service to Halifax is the opportune time for effecting a general improve- llll'lll. in ihc whole Alaritime service, which is coit- ciIlo-l to be lung nverdite. Tlig-(jomiug Session the sctiniil session oi the present General As- htllilily oi the Province opens here on Monday. The tact that we are at war, that there is no elec- tion in tlie inimeiliate offing, and that comparat- tivclj‘ liulc legislation is anticipated, are factors which should make for brevity. lloivever, the tIpptt-iiion, iiiough numerically weak, have an important function to perform. It is their duty to jirobe the Government's record, and every fac- iliiy should be provided for full and frank dis- cussion oi public affairs. Last yiear H011. Dr. i\lac.\lillaii and his colleagues in Opposition had frequently" to complain ot the withholding of iii- formation, a procedure which is not calculated t0 lll>lllf€ confidence in any administration. It is hoped that the Government will take a wiser course this year. If s0, itcan depend upon the Upposition for loyal support in all measures connected with provincial and itational interests. There is happily no division of opinion as to the all-important issues at stake in our war efforts. It dt-pcnits largely upon Premier Campbell and his stipportcrs whether the session \vill be conducive to lurtlicring these efforts. Harbor Facilities Needed scheme. hand. r e a- e 1|‘ l‘ l It‘ incnt. r r x 4- i927. Altmicijial Affairs. it m iv m by the Government. 4i m x v It is zuiiiouncctl at Ottawa that temporary addi- tions to harbor facilities at Saint John arc being planned "to meet wartime demands.” posed to build a structure 900 by 60 feet to ac-. commodate cargo lighters, on which three stand- ard raihvay tracks will be laid; also to extend the loading facilities of botli Halifax and Saint john‘ and Wcjsj, backyards had been unsusl to meet more emergencies by introducing a system‘ 1mm, Counted in a census undertaken of lighters so that in addition t0 the loading‘ the basis for rationing gardcn pOum-y alongside docks it will be possible t0 load at anch- orages in the harbor. Again we arc reminded of the neglected condi- tion of our own railway wharf at Charlottetown, oi the money voted but never expended on this project, of the contract being cancelled on the ex- cuse 0f “wartime economy" after the material had actually bccn purchased and brought here at coii- sidcrable expense. There is now a shortage 0f modern harbor facilities in the Maritimes, and “temporary additions” have to be erected else-l \\'llt‘l't' because of the same war exigencies which have bccu given as an excuse for neglecting the Charlottetown project. It is t0 be hoped that not only will the money for this work be re-voted at A Sad Fatality The victim of the R. C. A. F. plane crash near| Sussex on Thursday was not a antive of this, .. Province, but the fact that he was training at the ei-nment institution) Summerside airport made him “one of us” for the 245 M" m“ ‘muffs n” "ma"! time being, and it was with deep concern that our] a: citizens learned of his tragic death, Such accidents Viva del Mar. Several thouiand are inevitable occasionally in such large-scale‘ new “mes have nkewie be“ de‘ . operations as are involved in the air training . EDIIURIAI. NUIES q i Many are anxious to become manager of the City Water “forks and Secretary to the Coin- missioii, but the Commissioners are holding 'l'oiiiorrow in every Church throughout the Empire prayers will be offered for the Allies in' the fact that the German note, re- their defence of Christian civilization, especially for the valiant men, women and children being sacrificed, while the rest of us at their €XpellS€,' one cf the firings which occasicnal-l enjoy a measure of peace and prosperity. It appears European industrialists and others admitted to Canada under special regulation in, 1939-40 numbered 69 and had $4,200,000 capital,‘ a \ isas were granted 810 family units from Central ‘he hwy C‘ ‘he messfige w“ l“ lmlred litirope for settlement on faviiis. Uf this number, 507 faiitilies were in possession of total capital of inunicatl n; $1,380,000, and the remainder of 303 Czecho- slovak families had $518,292 for use in settle- After being vacant for over a year, the kite Mr._ justice l‘. G. 'I‘aylor's judgesliip in Manitoba, has‘ m‘? it and llle 5611111108 might. 11:5- beeii tilled by the appointment of the ltlon. W. j Major, Attorney-general. Mr. Major, who lives at' they do. - sault Ste. Marie Star. East liildonaii, Man, was first elected to "ii Manitoba Legislature at the general election inf slgnq- who we“, p) rmicag; lle was appointed attoriiey- ‘Clltffill in fiXlliblt hls WW '¢='¢flll°1l'>" "fillies April, 1927. He resigned from the cabinet during the 1929 session and was reappointed in May the, erit same yum h, 1936-116 was appointed Minister U,‘ such funny hats if site wishes to be Too often, Mr. M. Coldwell, M_ P., C.C.l". leader told Montreal Forum, the men sent to l’ar-, or fashion appears liaineiit were sent there by people of a constitu-i “mmmnd” deslglh We“ ll she is a“ cncy who sought to do them the honor of electing tliein because the representative had done soinc- flislll ‘lacks’ or “llefi. and the WD- 11$ 0H6 Writer Dubs ll» “bellllld that thing for the community, instead of electing men WlIO would be able to cope with the situation. wished, he said, that the Canadian Parilztirient was the dwgill“? ‘If fumly hats‘ I" 151° circle the sapphlre as full of life as its British counterpart. Province must be the proverbial exception, be-» cause it elected four men who had done ii0thing~ and have not yet done, anything worthwhile for‘ the community, and show no indication of being‘ able to cope with our present situation of neglect This rut-z CHARLOTT | NOTES BY TliE WAY Popular Housing Corp". (a Gav- tbe cities of Ooquimbo, 1 llvered. all over the country. dur- ing the last two years. Road and They occur despite every precaution,‘ 1161156 blllldlns have so IarEBlY l!!- but their percentage is stirprisingly low in com- parison with the number of students in training and the number of flying hours put in daily. The lxreaved relatives of Pilot Murray, who reside iii British Columbia, have the consolation of know-l iiig that he fell in the service of King and coun- try, just as truly as if he had been in actual coniy market for Canadian pnducers and bat overseas. His comrades willas truly honour ltis, t-‘Xllcmirs- 9311mm 511"“ 31"‘ “m” itiemory; and Prince Edward Island, to which he came to coitiplete his training, will rank him in among our own gallant band of war heroes. creased of late, mainly with. the . reconstruction Clng on tn the cities contemplated. In the meantime, a special commission is in charge 0i’ the distribution cf cement and its importation has been made free Cf , duty. In other words, there is a ed by Chilean steamer "Imperial" will be sold at auction in New York, Maren. The shipment, consist- lzig cf some 8,000 cases, is cm- posed cf 2,282 cases honey-dew- melcris, 3,300 nectarines, 1,201) plums geoigrap? ipiclt347 egseflsptafacltes. Edest e rui , hun re o cases of Chilean; dverrgcutbl, cfisirrgpagnte and assore ta la w ties ( renc j tyi-pes) arrived. It is believed that a small part. of this appetizlng cargo The Turkish Government. in send- ing lts reply to the recent not-e from Berlin sent it. written which in Tllfllilll. ‘mg had been sent In without any translation. German | Iy lighten the dmb or tragLc drama lflme o; great may 1t g5 a new. of international relatcns. There is a stify told that 'in the early days , of the Irish Free State it. was the custom of the Dublin officials to despatcli. their official ommuriica- throng)» whose to Dublin with the saturation in English and the message itself in Gaelic. Tradition relates that. it tock the Dublin ud- mznirtraton sortie months t; tzsns- lsibly find the some trouble tvltn ' the Turkish reply. Here's hoping thei An admission by a millinery de- 115 t; revert. to a subjrct which has intrigued us beforo—why the mod- woman is requaed to wc or up to dale. We now learn that it. is men who design thcse monstrzrs- itcs, and that; if designing was left in the hands of women \nly_ hats would be quite pretty. The “W118?! to want the l ardent feminist, and the top-fight designers are men, Just as the tsp- ‘ flight dress designers are men alsi. . According to the man in Chi- He’ cago there is a purpose behzrid t to bring out the latent beauty in a woman's face; to make a man want; t; notice the face rather than the hat. Tbs man's 1mm’? creation ihcwn at Cftcagv “W15 said to have been inspired by sce- ing a fine piece of mahogany so l lie made a cliapeau that resemble: I an 01d chair. We've seen some Ike that, czily we couldn't flgllk 0U‘- wiiat they were meant. to lfk like. if anything at all. But. 1f funny In the House of Commons, Mr. j. I-I. Black-l 1,3,5 am inmnded l, direct azim- more (N. D. Lcthbridgc) quoted a report that 3' tioit to the wearer's face they fail Britain inquiry for 22,500,000 pounds of lard was expected to be filled by the United States on March IX. l\'li'. Blackmore also mentioned a stig- gestion that the United States might give wheat and other foodstuffs to Britain. He asked ivhetlicr on her headgear uritll she has gone W“? Lil/ll?! G°d a5 “I'm-Shed l" the Canadian government had taken steps to sec Canada supplied Britain with foods the Dominion‘ was in position to produce. Prime Minister King‘ replied that Canada was taking every precaution’ cf their object. T-lisy appear to have the opposite effect. Somermes they are so ‘quaint!’ cr cute.‘ that. :1 man with any SEIIFC 0f hllmolf ill i all hasn't. time to notice the girl's face because lie has his 0X95 Bfl-lfid past. And ivlten a. man loses cut. on {tie parade of pretty faces because cl‘ the hats, it. is time for men, not wcmen, t9 register a prlteu; and petition fer it return to sanity in hats. 0f course there are few to see that in supplying foodstuffs to Britain the’ mnaps" that are better overlooked ish wislies_ ii- is m n- Millions of hcns, whose existence in English ll is Illlhi Dominion went as far as possible in meeting Brit-l i!‘ 50"“ °f ‘he ha“ But m" l“ this city. - Stratford BSZC-Il-HGIGIG. The R.A.F._ has discovered a nflv way of providing rsast park, eve.) more elaborate than that. recorded ‘@9194. have. by Charles Lamb of burning the to provide keel“? it'd nd t‘: inhabitants cf cccup-I feeding stuffs. It had been estimated by the Min-l p i ' a c But since it. was the Germans who ied France who gct. the pork, there istry of Agriculture that these egg-layers number-l 15 Sflmmhmg t’ b“ said f“ l” A imontii or two n80 the 68mm?“ ed fewer than 6,000,000, whereas the actual cotmt| We“; round a district or Northern showed that nearly 600,000 people were ltccjiing 'l‘lie hlinistry 0t Agriculture's policy has been modified by this tre- mendous poultry population, and the brake is to “The government has no 10,000,000 garden poultry. be put oit expansion. France collecting every pig they c.uld lay their hands on, and nat- urally ivltlisut. paying any 8W5!!- tion to the ne.<ls_ of the French. They loaded the pzgs on to ll cargo ship of some five thousand trn". mid set. sail for Germany: Tliey immediate intention of encouraging a rapid de- must. have czngriitulat-sd themselves veloptnent of garden poultry keeping,” said Mr. 'I'om Williams, Parliamentary Secretary to the 11ml, nzw tit last there wcuid be some of their belcved sausages in Germany. But the slilp had scare:- Ministry of Agriculture. . “The development has‘ ll’ Pill 011$ 0i llllbl" and b?!“ l9 already been sufficiently fast to strain the re- ic-sccp cautiously along the coats before the RAF. tosk a hand. The sources of the commercial poultry-keeping indus» ship was gunk. the pigs were try, and it is vital that the small-scale amateur, “'“"“’l 851"“- ‘md the" w“ rJS“ trk for dinner in many French the present parliamentary session (as Mayor‘ should start. off with sound stock and adequate gm,“ m“, (iny___scot,5m5n_ Holman predicts) but that it will actually be ex-l pended. Ilad we representatives worth their salt at Uttawa, the job ivould long ago have been pusli- ed to completion. A—Publicity Suggestion In the early months of the war the Dominion Government was perhaps fustiiicd in scrupulously zivoiiling nnytliiiig in the nature of Canadian war propaganda in the Unitedbtatcs. The passing of the lease-lend bill, with its implication of all possible zissistztnce to the British Commonwealth, has put the main-r in a different light. The over- ivhelming majority of the people of the United States would now welcome information about (LauadaIs war programme. Herc, suggests an exchange, is an excellent opportunity for gov- ernment publicity efforts. "Millions of Americans have never been told about ilie sacrifices Canada is making. For eighteen months the Canadian Legation at Wash- ington was all but silent so far as effective public cxptisition of ibis country's case was concerned. Ilappilv, that situation can now be remedied by; American colonists were concerned witltthc prin- ilie apptilillillent of Ilop. Leighton McCarthy as, ciple, and the tea ships were boarded m Boston technical liclp." liens’ feed from household scraps. x y a y The British Colonial Stamp Act which directly Domestic poultry-keepers, be added, would have to provide the bulk of their‘ Vcrnon Lee observed years ago that ‘only a vanquished nation can civillze its victors. Na amount of cdonlzing among the vanqustecl can ever produce the effect (i a victorious army suddenly finding led to the American War of Independence passed itself in the midst cf the superior by the Grenville Government i765. Since the mid-‘ c-Vllizatm“ °f t‘ “mql-‘ercd pmple" dle of the 18th century relations had been strained, i A gang d stupid and rapacious inf- ffans losting Italy were firerunncrs owing to the policy of Grenvillds Ministry, sup-lotMfinlilkllm5l1fllleilliflftl. 097""- ported by George III, in rigidly enforcing the laws ‘tea-oi the Renaissance of leamlng in Europe. The expeditionary forces WlllCll gave Britain a monopoly of American trade. of the United Stat/es, England and Smuggling was circumvented, and resentment led 3mm‘ °°l°m°§ we“? n“ cmflue" t0 political restrictions to taxation by llritaind yrs e1.’ an inferior strain vlrig among their victims in fiance years Rockinghaitt in 1706 repealed Grenvilles Stainpl n80 blit- 58815 0! FWlW-l clvllllitlil“ Act of the previous year, but in 1767 some new went home with them and with a multurai effect yet to be measured. duties were imposed. These were met by passive I; will prove to have been subtle. resistance the Americans denying the right of the Iilnglish parliament, in which they were not rep- deep arid wide, no doubt. The pres- ent. Gcrman occupation of France. likewise. short. as it may be will resented, to tax these, and declaring they owcd- have deep and far-reaching effects was much lower than in England. allegiance to the crown alone. in 1773 Lord North repealed all duties except that on tea, which the‘ many thing; from n“, French, most 1111s India Co. could send to America from Englandl without English duty, so that the price in America But tn the German people. Americans of the expeditionary ferce eamed important of all. perhaps. thzit money, ‘crmfort and physical cu.i- venlence are not the chief end of tltc man. Young Germans in lfi-ance are ‘secretly learning nrw to laulh It their false gods; at bite comic delu- slon that man exists inr the state Ellvtty l-Ixiraortlinary and Minister Plcnipcteu- Harbour and their cargoes thrown overboard. and ml "-16 l“!!! ml’ m"? "l- ""3 tizirv and steps should be taken t0 remove the ini- Boston was deprived by Britain of its charter, a stupid and rapaclcuq leaders who exploit this felacv end their folk picssion that Canada docs not lease or lend but volunteer American army was raised, and the war so that they may know at any crst. demand» cash for everything llritain tibtaius from which tit-finitely severed Britain from her Ameri- can colonies (except Canada) was on. this country. for a while the exubcrstlons of riithlcss cwcr. Day by day, and I whether they know it. or not, French From Santiago, Chile — the will deliver cple during this month of Maren Serena destroyed by t e 1939 eaxthquaked that. rationing of cement. is being, will be unloiiderl via New Yak. on . the Canadian markets. - Chilean llV-‘lf Press Service. l; a SBFCICTLC. cLmment on putcdly ln Hitler's own handwrit- Th" i5 ‘and when they are being shot any- tions to London wit-h the salutation lwas brgughi; 1n on a charge,- and tid ttie farewell 1n Gaelic, Wl‘lll<?'gjven m the damsey we never my. . English. Among the British cff.c;ais lcl-lme and we do no; mad that he hflllds the e <>”-m- {was even paid a dollar bill but do 1185594 W"? 41 OQIlPY-firead that "he was very sorry." - of Gaelic Scholars and cne day they lgot together" anéseiit back the reply the greeting and to cession. The God of lifljah was the house down and the pig with ‘it.’ ETOWN“ GUARDIAN i l PUBLIC FORUM nu oolnnl u nu l" t" dtuuulu In nrmblllflll‘ " questions or interest. The Charlottetown Guardian dun l0! unclear!!! udom "IC nvlll°ll It‘ INIIIIBIIICBICI. THE OWL BOUNTY ' Bin-In a letter received last week from a. resident of another Province the following appeared: “I am wondering whether or not the P. E. Island Government is still wasting its money by paying bounty on owls and 1f so, on what species is it. now paid?" What was his idea for enquiring I cannot say, but do not imagine it was for "bootleg" purposes. I was sorry as well as ashamed to have to tell him the facts, which I did by enclosing the ad- vertisement appearing In the press. It; is true of course that owls have to eat. to live but. nevertheless they fulflll a ver important part; in the plan o! lie. Our experience has been that jwhere birds are well fed and look- Ied after as the majority of them have been this year, that neither ‘Hawks or Owls are abie to cap- ture them. but will weed out the cripples and weak birds thereby keeping the race up to a high level. If those were allowed to multiply it. would only be a. question of time until disease or something else would replace the predators. - White Owls add a much of ro- mnnce to our northern winters and their rare beauty makes them objects much sought after by al- most every gunner in the country __§ how tt seems to me that -in this less waste of public money. ‘The Bible tells of a man who was fulfilling his part ln the great plan of the Creator and they went and beheaded him. And his head the insttgators of that I am, Sir, etc. COUNTRY RESIDENT. THE POWER. OF PRAYER Sin-Sunday, March 23. has been set; apart as a day of humble pray- ‘er and intercession to Almighty God on behalf of the cause under- |taken by the Etmplre and her Al- lles. The call of the hour. is for men who are mighty in prayer, ‘masters of supplicatton and inter- ‘answerln God. Something hap- pened w en Elijah prayed that. would not have happened if he had not prayed. It is the same today. Peace and speedy victory rest not so much upon the fighting ser- ,vlces as upon the shoulders of mighty men of God who have their ‘faces in the dust. God is unchang- ed and unchanged/kale and honors His Word. He says that even when {two are in harmony with one an- iother and the great plan and pur- .,pose of God “it, shall be dmie". And shall He puts the arm that lltts lthe pillars of the skies and the tlIfl-nd that lighted a million stars heavens." Earth never looked upon a greater ‘source of power than men upon their knees, pouring out their peti- tions before an answering God. | Let; this not be a day of mut- ztered mouthlngs or great swelling words of vanity uttered for the ears of men, but. one of hem-t. searching and heart rendlng in- tercession before the Throne oi’ the Ancient of Days. Which was and is and is to come, the Al- mighty. Let intercession be made for this Empire that the inhabi- tants may repent of their sins and ‘once again seek the saviour, W110 its this dying worlds only hope and ,tlie only source of power and pres- tige in the assemblies of men. Only ,by laying hold upon the power of -tlie dynamics of His ageless Gos- pel can victory be won. Prayer is no chllds playl More than once in the history of the world has the fate of a nation hung on the prayer of- a single man. These old giants of the Faith who prayed mightily with tears and with their faces ln the dust were able to hold the very elements in check. Has God chang- ied? Has the God Who breathed upon the Assyrian host lost Hts power? Never. And in this hour of dire extremity let us do W118i. Gods real men and women have always done. Fall back on the promise and ‘power of Jehovah. "If my people, [which are called by my name, shall bumble themselves, and pray, and k my face and turn from their wicked ways: then will I hear from lheaven, and will forgive their sin. ‘and heel their land." A datelesi. promise! I am Sir el". R. W. BOSS. A FlSll-EATlNG-TCIIANE Sin-In Tuesday's issue of your paper appeared a letter in the Public Forum column headed, "A fish-eating Crane" and signed statement of Mr. J. J. Larabee. In- specter of Fisheries, made at, e. 1e- eent meeting of the Fish and Game Association. It. is apparent that ‘Fair Play’ doesn't know his ‘cranes’; if he did. and lied the interest oi the birds at heart, he would be con- tent to "let sleeping dogs lte" and not demand proof o1 a. deed corn- mitted by a bird that is already walking on very thin ice. Mr. Larabees words. ii’ the writ- er remembers correctly were: ". . the Hatcheries superinten- ,dent at. Cardigan, Mr. X. told me that. he shot a crane one morni at the Hatchery that when opene its stomach was found to contain 90 odd trout. I think it was 9'7. . " To be rfectl exact the count was 05. e tron in question would be from 1 t-fl to 2 inches in length and were removed by the bird from one of the circular oement. rearing pools. ‘Iriese pools are approxi- mnbely 3o feet lil circumference and each contain from 16,000 to 20.000 flngerlizig trout. Mr. Larebee will have no trouble ln provin his statement. ii he cares to ta e the trouble to do so. statement was made in im- swer to a direct question by a member re: cranes versus trout. The question oi’ action against the cranes was not even mentioned. years ago an old fisher- man told the writer that he watch- ed a crane one evenln feeding on flats at. Vernon Ever and saw this particular bird catch and swallow an even dorien sspereauii. The crane lied some diiioult in 1 “ ‘- ._.__\ into their meet in the central part Province. It seems to me that their gpliépytyrecord in the past; does m; ture scheme. the Board at first attempted to folst the compulsory scheme upon the farmers slon as possible, and without even a public meeting doe t to d ‘Fair Play‘ in which the writer create confidence iii “Ihougnhggiii challenged the authenticity of a people. It was even made to appear that. the Sheep Breeders‘ tlon and Qwlne Breeders‘ Asgoc- mun To where the fields of snow begin WORDS OF CHALLENGE » A THOUGHT A DAY FOB A PEOPLE AT WAR "I can see a mighty army of crusaders from the tour corners of the earth cominz to the aid of the Meteor Fla: of England. I have a vision o! the Flag moving slowly but inexorably back to the Biron- can continent. May we have the loyaltv and faith to trans- late this vision into works. so time, a realityfl-J. C. Ander- son, K. 0.. Mayor of Oshawa. getting the larger fish down but had no trouble whatever with the smaller run. Now, ti a crane can consume a dozen fish o1 the size of herring (at least a dozen, may- be more, the matter of 95 2 inch trout would be an appetizer. noth- ing more), and if this particular crane had been left at his work for another 20 minutes. the count might easily have been 195. "Fair Play" would be well ad- vised not to insist; too strongl on the proof of Mr. Larabee's s ate- ment. The writer has always con- slderd the crane (our great: blue heron to give the scientific name) as a picturesque, amusing blrd. one that; would be greatly missed from our landscape, and has no desire to see it placed at, the busi- ness end of a l2 gage shotgun. I am, Sir. etc. FISIIERMAN. LIVESTOCK MARKETING Sir,_1 feel that an explanation should be given the public regard- ing certatnmatters pertaining to the present status of the Livestock Marketing Board, something of its record in the past: and the steps which may be taken in the near future. As the set-up is today and has been for the last, few years, we have practically a two-drover s s- tem representing iIWO piic rig plant-s; the independent; drovers representl Davis s; Fraser and the Mtirkeing Board representing ifts U) € When this organization was set up about eight years ago, the cost o marketing a 150 pound hog be- tween the producer and the packer was about $1.00, and no doubt the packer. when he bought through drovers, established a similar charge. However. I find that in the next, two years, although the volume of hogs shipped. doubled, the cost. actually increased to about $1.15 a hog. During the next five years the volume more than trebled, but the cost advanced to about $1.45 per hog. It. would seem to me according to the past record that with the expect/ed 100% increase of business onticL pated under the new compulsory sclieme, the costs will continue to 5081' 811d may 80 very much higher. While these high costs of sell- ing through the Board prevailed, the drover continued to do bilsi- tiess on lils original commission o! about $1.00. In view of this spread the farmer had to take about. forty-five cents less per hog it he sold through the Marketing Board in preference to the drover. This condltlon, as it existed previous to 1940 ‘forced the Hunter River Club to discontinue marketing through the Board. Immediately a change took place in the manner tn which the Board did business in Hunter River, to the extent that; the farmer re- ceived for a. few months an extra dollar per hog accordin to mar- ket values. Since then, Elie farmer has been receiving through the Board's representative from 50 to '15 cents per hog more than had previously been paid through the Club. llvcflrdlnk to market value. No doubt this extra. money receiv- ed at Hunter River would have to be paid at; the expense of farmers elsewhere. Even previous to this a similar practice was followed with respect to Charlottetown, in order to meet competition there. These unconstitutional practices were lknored by the directors of the Board who claimed to be watch- lng the situation closely. While the drover was able- prac- tically to put the Club out oi’ busi- ness at. Hunter River, the drovers ln other large centres of hog pro- duction were able to seriously i-e. duce the volume of business done by the Club in those centres. A peculiar situation has arisen lri which the Marketing Board is applying to the Government for a compulsory scheme to shut out of business the very drovers whose competition they were unable to oi the the continuance of the present manageme i. in any In. Further the manner in which with as little discus- Associa- AS SPOKE THE CERTAIN WIND ew Acrossmthe meadow to the darken- u w . Where the great wind oi winter w. And how still in the heavens the sun itood. 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