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Shackleton, R. N: Rf) in the summer of 1908

the latter expedition returned to tell the story. In 1929 Sir Hubert Wilkins made the first aerial flight over the white wasteland, and one week later, U. S. Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, with

Bur-neat; secya-‘rream. G. M. Barnett; Editor lina three mrrrparrions mode the firs‘. fl- h m l, _ _ _ , . . _ - rgt over ma" vffliimecm’ J 8 ‘ Mnm“ ‘um’ the pole itself.

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker Thee the Weakest Ink.‘

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22. I946

— EDITORIAL NOTES _.

On the decline. Hooper rating of radio programs show a decline to 10.8 million listen- ers for the highest listenersliip in 1946 com- pared with 23.7 in I936. In addition, in 1936

Repatriation Almost Complete

Figures recently released by Army head- quarters reveal that 281,012 Canadian service- men and women have been returned to this country from stations abroad during the period 8 May 1945 to 9 November 1946. This grand total includes 8,818 medical cases and 1,418 prisoners of war liberated’ in the Far East. It also includes $33 members of the Armed Forces once stationed in Australia and 923 in‘ the Carribean area. With a big job almost com- pleted, repat officials have announced that, as of the 9th November, only 2,812 Canadian ser- vicemen were still waiting repatriation ta Con- cda. Of this total, between eight and nine hundred arrived at Halilax this week aboard the S. S. Samaria. But, because approximately 650 of the remainder have requested their dis- charge in the United Kingdom, there will be but a few hundred men still left to be repatri] ated by the middle of next month.

only one other show was in that category. it ‘A’ i i

_A Pteference for doctors’ prescriptions in plain English or French--rather than in the tra- ditional Latin — was expressed at the closing sessions of the Canadian Association of Medi- cal Students and lnternes at Montreal. The students also said they thought the metric sys- tem of weights and measures better than the old imperial measuring system now in vogue. N I fi i

Surely the Jones Government, out of its abundance, will now reimburse Mr. William Callbeck, Bedeque, for discharging the solemn duty regarding a monument to the memory ol the.» Hon. Phillip Callback, which has just been erected. O 1K ‘U! 1i

At the inter-city football match, Montreal Alouettes vs. Toronto Argonauts at Montreal Saturday, 20,683 passed through the turnstile, the arcountreqlized being close on $45,000. First class sporting events suitably staged, pay handsomely. ~

iio Place For Pioneers?

Estonia is a tiny republic an the Baltic Sea, north of Latvia and west of Russia. The coun-‘ try is now under the domination of Russia, and at least some of the people do not like this. At any_ rate, several small groups of Estonians, men women and children, forty-eight in all recently

.crossed the Atlantic in small open boats, land- ing at Miami, Florida. On the ground that the Estonian immigration quota had been filled, He United States was on the point of forcing these people to leave its shores for some other coun- try when President Truman intervened, and the deportation order has been at least temporarily held up.

"According to our immigration officers," says the Canadian Unionist, “Canada is one of the countries where these people could not ent- er, presumably for the some reason as that giv- en by the United States. There might of course, be difficulties if the people of Europe were told that Canada would take them in, provided they crossed the Atlantic in small, open boats, but it is not unreasonable to suggest that, if the people of Canada were asked whether or not they felt they could make room for forty-eight people who had the courage, the determination and pioneering spirit which President Truman mentioned, in asking that they be allowed to remain in the United States, the answer would undoubtedly be in the affirmative. After all, governments ought to reflect the wishes of the people as far as possible, and the Canadian Government might properly have found some way by which to admit these highly desirable immigrants."

llttawa Stands Flrni_

Hon. lon Mackenzie, Minister of Veterans‘ Affairs, has written to the Ottawa civic author- ities about their traffic laws. lt appears that Mr. Mackenzie is a very busy man. He does not like to waste a moment of the day in the pursuit of his public duties. But the Ottawa authorities seem to have overlooked his special requiremenis. They recently enforced a rule which requires Mr. Mackenzie’: chauffeur to ‘drive around several blocks to take him from his down-town office to the cabinet chamber, of the East Block and thence to the House of Com- mons. Mr. Mackenzie did not ask that 'thc by-law be changed. He merely requested that he be granted a special permit to violate it.

The city fathers stood firm and the min-

ister. must go round the block. "No doubt",. ommants an exchange, "it is all for the good mons last June by Minister of Justice St. Laur-

g. and surety of Qrruwc, And it there be Some ,_ent when on the redistribution bill the min- “c,” supp“; for. M, Mqckerujg’; theory fltgt iister had laid it down that a mere resolution of the Show.“ distance between two point; i; n a matority of Parliament is sufficient to banish

_ straight line, as Euclid, another eminent outh- _tlie French language as one of the official

' ority, supposed, still there is a certain comfort langllflgei 0f Cflflfldfl- ll lwd been o" that oc-

- and wcssmunce in tyre tact that q member of casion that the late Mr. Cardin had ioined the

' the government, a Privy Councillor and a man Progressive Conservative members in denounc

~ of power throughout the nation is only, after all, I119 Such a doctrine. a cltizen of Ottawa an!’ mus‘. accept‘ its local " laws with the humblest inhabitant."

Another Antarctic Expedition

The stories of the Antarctic explorers of old will be revived again with the projected ex- pedition to that region of a dozen ships and 4,- " 000 men of the United States Navy. The pur- pose of this voyage is to test equipment and investigate further the secrets of the icy con- tinent where there are still perilous horizons to beckon the explorer. It will be recalled-that last winter Canadian: followed with interest the mechanical and aerial trek of units of our army and air force during "Exercise Muskox" through the frozen wastes of the sub-Arctic in a test of operations under extreme winter conditions, end the progress of the U. S. N. mission will i’ also evoke an interest in this country.

" The vast, frozen miles of snow and ice at the South Pole have lured men of daring and curiosity‘ for centuries. {erhaps the most intre- pld were the earliest, w olproceeded under sail in wooden vessels. James Cook, on Jaii. l7,

‘I773, made the first penetration of the Ant. v‘ erltic Circle. Six -one years later, Captain J. , of the oyal Navy, rnode one of the *3 . jllfilille of ell voyages to the bottom of the 4r r the continent's shoreline for

, ilel. = _ Britain's ll. M. S. Challenger the first. ‘steamer to cmrtiie Antarctic another twenty-one years be-

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Mr. James Kendis, 68, a song writer for 40 years and ca-authoi of such hit numbers as "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" and "If I Had My Way", died in London this week. A picture of a pretty girl blowing a soap bubble gave him the idea for "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" which was written in 1919 and of which som 3,000,000 copies were sold.

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The Marchioness of Huntly, the wife of the Marquis of Huntley, who is a cousin of the Earl of Aberdeen, is visiting U. S. A, and Cqnqdq, She is a newspaper woman, daughter of Lord Kemsley, Britain's No. 1 newspaper magnate, and before he was raised to the peerage sho was practically engaged in newspaper produc- tion in Aberdeen. It was while there she met her husband whose family estate is at Huntley, Aberdeensliire. The Aberdeens and Huntleys are closely associated with royalty.

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-Slr Arthur Seymour Sullivan, English com- poser, died this date 1900; he wrote overtures and incidental music for several of Shake- speare’s plays, works for orchestras, songs, in‘- cluding The Lost Chord, three oratorios and three cantatas; his name is best remembered because of his association with the long series of_ comic operas, written mostly to libretti by Gilbert, and of which Patience, H. M. S. Pina- fore, The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, The Gondolie s, and The Yeomen of the Guard, are the best known.‘

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Premier John Hart, B.C., goes to Ottawa November 24 to discuss with Federal govern- ment authorities arrangements for a financial deal to replace the wartime tax agreement. He will also discuss plans for extending the Pacific Great Eastern Railway ir to the Peace River, and British Columbia's demand for elimination of the "mountain” freight rate differential. It is believed that the latest Dominion offer made by Finance Minister lls.ey in the last budget address and British Columbia's‘ minimum de- mands are so far apart that an agreement ap-

pears unlikely.

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ln the Sorel by-alection, Mr. Sabourin re- ferred to the declaration made in the Com-

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Mr. James Tuplin, Summerside, noted pioneer fox rancher, formerly of Black Banks where on his ranch he grew some of the most highly- priced silver fox pelts in the world, is a visitor to Charlottetown. Many of the finest silvers and ‘new types trace back to an original Jim Tuplin fox. His foxes were characterized by their blue-black colouring and brilliantly light illYEf. Specimens from what he called his East 490" pens frequently brought $1,500 to $2,000 in the years 1910 to 1.913. Mr. Tuplin d5 100K019 Jlale and hearty. and is receiving a warm greeting from numerous friends and relatives tin the city.

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Premier Jones and Hon. Mr. Howe are In complete agreement an one subject-the con- tinued. and progressive prosperity of the nation, including this Province. improvement in qual- ity standards ,of merchandise rather than any catastrophic decline in prices will probably be an important feature of the economic readjust- ment biipected seine vime next year likewise is the opinion ef many merchandise buyers. They look for rising production to irate some of the rise in prices which has developed, but at this time believe that there will be no over-all repe- tition of the precipitate rlce decline which inartiedtliel flips The vleviseii- pressed that the improvement in quality. is olx

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pionee ed by sledge to the pole itself. Threri years later, two other parties finally reached the pole-those of Scott and Amundsen--but anly_

eleven other shows rated above 10 while now‘

THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

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Science will take ti] pa.‘ men in the mle of father in to come. bays e Philadelphia ion. There seems to be for women. —Excliangc.

1'18 to strike for hours. deaths is demanded Sentinel-Rem; ,1

to find any better rerredy for the hizh cost of living than doing mmefm"! that is hound to make ll- hlBher. --Vanwuver Province.

(‘lvllllL lost in the wwods. might have died if the loyal family do; 1nd not stood guard over him all night. and drawn seamncrs to his side by constant barking. Few other ani- mals. or men, dlspla; ltie steadfast; llvya-liy and responsibility of a faithful dag. --Bos:on Post.

Olle of the iuipren * Joya of ltvh‘ ls undoubtedly full appreciation of the value of leisure anu the know- ledge of how to use it. Persons who say they are be!" ‘d because they have IKQF-hmg to do at: making frightful admission of mental sterility. They have allowed their perceptions and curiosities to atrophy. with the re- suit that they themselves are only half alive. -—GiilL Reporter,

Today the hunger for‘ peace and the hatred of war is deeper and stronger than in 1919. Once more machinery for maintaining a last- ing peace has been born. But now, ulslead of the high hopes and oqrr- ndence that. marked the first poet- war years nearly three decodes ago there is world-wide fear and un- certainty as to lhe future. Tiodey men know what to do to attain peace. They recognize that. had they and their governments not been selfish and self-indulgent and blind to conspicuous forces, they might have done much to avoid the Brent trosedv. Today men know that world co-uperiiticn. the free flowing of commerce and the system of collective security, if given the sincere and undeviating support of governments, will prevent’ another u-air. —Winnipeg Free Preps.

Vary few peoulo can keep their heads when the hobby of stamp- colleciing is mentioned. elf-her they espouse it or rejsc in. and with equal passion. Tne fervor of the stamp-collector is icy and in- tense; the man W110 considers e stamp as a more means of paying for postal service is likely to be loud and tiyperbolicril in his mockery of the whole techniaue and philosophy of the phllatelisr. But. phllatellsts. like numeralogists and people who insist on sleeping with their heads tcward the True North, ere un- shakable in their faith, and this winter there will lo thousands of them in every part. of Canada. bent over their desks during the long winter evenings. weeping intently through magnifying lenses at their treasures, their darlings. their ador- cd ones. —Ki.igs<.on Whig-Stand- ard.

The policeman of y 1e e man of parts. Flniger-prlnti the radio. civic bylaws. traffic control. pedes- trian management first aid, Jiu jitsu, marksmansnp and applied- psycholagy arc all within his pro- vince. Them was a time when ell that was demanded was the physique o! a wrestler unit a working lcnow- ‘edgy of ward politics. Now Chief Knight predicts they Mil shortly require a. BA. before they start out, to pound 3 Milli,‘ and 1T lhlS is so we migu‘. reasonably suppose that one day the chief of London will have his PhD. iii public safety And why not? --I..0nd0n Free Press. A year ago tl-nre anived in Can- ada from Porugia, an at clent Will- cd city on a litll in thr- interlor o! Italy which l5 well knuvn to tour- ists, the bride of Biuce Mntheson.| a Canadian win-lesbian from Ripley! Ontario She know no 311811511 lmd she was in VET) truth a stranger in a strange lon-J. Today. however. Mrs Matheson has mastered Enf- llsh to such an cxicnt ihtlt “he l5 n5 fluent 1n it as in her mother tongue As a Sklllukl seamstress — the women and lslrlé 0i Peru?“ 55 wll versed in Stlfh atts-ehe 1S helping her ncigliatr. with $11M!‘ sgyvlrtg problems Shr ls also leptn- ing to knit. Aria “Hill, i.- more ‘her husband having laden ill, sh 85 lziken his place an n rural, mo route and is also loch-ii! m" a 10¢); of 3.50 hens -—Brcckv le Re- corder and Time!

I >AIIUIIIP a d Book- rrriliiheuzigfiirilevirlth the r that dis- rIu-btng report ma: oiie-ttiird of Canadian home-r contain no book- cases at all. whllc only one-quartet‘ o.' our householders have ever found ii necessary to but’ mo" m!" °“°- This long-standing condition can loge. More likely, ll. reflects the fact that. nowadays a great. many Cen- ricllan families haven't very much to put in a book-once. The habit. of buying books once very wide- spread in Canada, has long been on the decline. All a result. the big glass-fronted conspicuous objects iii-a. well umlstieii home, are grad- ually disa eating. They are going the Wly t the wandering book- snlesman. and the leather-bound sets of. the classics which used to delight our ancestors. The change ls not a MP9? one. To sortie ex- tent of course. it ii. balanced by the increasing use peopie are making at public libraries, as well ae by a marked improvement in quel- lty of general-circulation magen- lnes. still, there is r o reel substitute foi- the old-time family collection of books. aercfutly selected end reed again and elein. The vanish- ing book-ease is tire symbol of a

falnilib, men‘; Just ertting up rouse- ink. w. would s get e smell lease Ind start f n; it by even an se two or rim ewd. worn s . Ion will

_ _ y ready getting’ under way, and plans for publicis- crivlenebecenilslieflrst i tiietec lntlleliends of h‘ .- Pl: ll t an , advertising

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Toronto einbalmros are threaten- rliorter working An immediate seduction 1n —Woodsiock

"willie ell Title“ warnings qt will‘ better sens-z, we 51m Qgyft “em

Owe lklln Tainan do‘ t." Proved his was-ill. _-'. Nr-rtti Boston

Mr. llsley's

‘ lnadvertence Sydney Post-Record)

In a recent radio speech Finance Minister Illeley reviewed the Gov- ernment's alleged record in nat- ional reoorwmion. with emphasis on what it has accomplished in tax reduction since the war’: close. There have been. he said. two cuts in the income tsx. one of 16 per oent for part of lest year. another of 25 per cont to become effective In 1941. with the cumulative result that Canadians would be paying 37 per cent less on this account next yea: than under the wartime scale.

But Mr. Iilisley strangely omitted every important item l-h the Gov- ernment's a amplistiments in the way of lifting the burdens from Canadian taxpayers. To do the Government full justice he should have mentioned thé measure it put through — called by vulgar and envious people title "indemnity grab." — whereby - two thousand untaxable dollars were transferred from the Fedeai teasury no the pockets of every member of Par- liament. including Mr. Illsley him- self and all his Cabinet colleagues. The total am r of this handout was $82000. and every dollar of it came from the taxes collected by ilhe Govemment, at near-wartime hnpost rates, from the people as e whole. very few of whom were lucky eno h to be in on the deal. The ~ben. clurles numbered exactly 341 1n all. 245 Commoner and 96 Sena- tors. The rest of the people are supposed to number about twelve million. The point is worth nothing. because more is expected to be heard about it later an.

Nagbsaki And Pompeii Atom Bomb and Volcano

(George Weller, first Allied cor- respondent to enter Nagasaki after lt was A-bombed. Written from Pompeii, Italy; in the Ottawa Jour- nal.) _ Vesuvius has met its master. That master is the atomic bomb. The lesson that lies in the ruins of two great cltles iii that the atomic bomb is xreater than the volcano in destructlveners. “"’1‘he Nagasaki of today is more effectively pulverized by the si-ngle atomic bomb dropped on it than was ancient Pompeii by its three-day rain of choking volcanic ssh and asphyxiating cinder: In farmer years tourists who walked through Pompeih crumb- ling walls -- still decorated with the skinny red lettering of elec- toral announcements 2.000 years old-were haunted by their own lnslgnlficance in the rolling sweep of time. ‘ Today's handful of visitors is haunted by something more bane- fui: The possibility that this may be a prophetic vision of what. cities will look like after wars during the atomic age.

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Approximately the some number of persons- about 20.000 —- died outright when Nagasaki succumbed lest year nnd when Pompeii was smothered in ‘I9 A. D.. both nata- clysms occurring in August.

At Pompeii nature was released when Vesuvius threw i-nto the all‘ her red cap of revolution and spew- ed throttling cinder: and finally lava over the city. At Nagasaki man unlocked nature and gave the atom its new and deadly freedom. Especially because of the slrnl- larities of the two deadly strokes. it is awesome to look up today at Vesuvius’ new double cone curl- ing its smoky streamers nto the air and reflect that in some Am- erican laboratory lies the mwer which avermasters the colussus sleeping under these Neapolitan vineyards.

The ruins of the izreafeastern and western seaports have this dif- ference: Vesuvius destroyed HVllS- crlmlnately while the atomic bomb destroyed specifically. The atomic bomb. aimed at ammunition fac- tories and submarine plants st- N-agasalri. took them apart and in its terrible breath flattened llaou- sarlds of nearby shacks and work- men.

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Vesuvtus spread a black mantle} over everything and everyone. Neither blow was total arid in hath cases mun" n'"‘sons "curled. I‘n"rn was warning for both cities -for Nsvasakl In H‘roshlr*ia's lmmrdi- ate!" precedent destruction. and for Pomrell in the awful rlimbllnizs below the earth which preceded its eruption. - Heedfui Pompeiians, especially thc ripper classes, escaped by boats‘ into the sizzling sen. Japanese‘ were unharmed who. obeying the,

reelloll ‘foour ttxiaseomdvouna .

sirens, warning of the oncoming raid. dived into shelters when twin l B-flbls appeared overhead.

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hardly l” due lo m" lumbe shim" ' Vesuvi-us can litter death ‘vldeiy