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“The Strongest Memory la Weaker than the Weakest Ink.”

TUESDAY, JANUARY ll, IMO.

Richmond Site Selected

For some considerable time officials in con- Ytection with the Commonwealth air training scheme ltave been surveying the Province with a view to ascertaining the most likely centre at which t0 ercct and enuip an airport for the train- ing of aviators for the war. lit Queen's County the Charlottetown airport was recommended by local atttltorities and in Prince County Suntmer- side and St. lileanons were both suggested. While no definite announcement has yet been itiade, it is reported that the federal officials ilecidcd that Charlottetown and Stilnmerside did not provide stifficicitt accommodation for the pllrpost‘, and that the site suggested at St. l".leanor's was cnnsiilercil loo low-lying and with [no mticli tnarshlaiitl in the vicinity. It is under- stood the officials have selected hicltmond, fif- teen miles wcst of Stiimncrsitlc, as the most suitable place; There the land rises and pro- vidcs sufficient water-fall to prevent the tin- 5ZIIISIZICIUY)‘ Ctvlltlllltlll found at St. Eleanors. Tihcre too, it is statcd, there is abundance of suitable land for supplctucutaryt landing fields,

two of which ituist be within a radius of five iuilcs of tltc airport. This no doubt is the project to which Fin-

aucc .\'liuistcr Hal-ton referrctl the other day iti advising the Suiuiiiersitle Board of Trade that

there were certain large expenditures in con- teuiplatioit for l'riitcc County that made it tin- desirable for hitu tn consider at the present time the propel-Cd wharf improvement project in the inlcrcsts of the potato export business. Seed Potato Tariffs

i-‘l stipplciiientztryi trade agreement between the United Slates and Cuba, signed at Wash- illgton on Dec. t8, I939, whcit it comes into force will tcrmiitzitc the obligation of ti":

Unitcd States tn grant a 50 per cent preference to certified sccd potatoes imported from Cuba tlttring the months of December, January and lfCl)l‘ll1ll'_\'. The effect will be to permit com- plete fulfilment by the Uttitcd States of the terms of the concession on Canadian seed po-

tattoos provided in the United States trade agrecw

Ill('lll with (Taitada effective January I, I939.

The present rate to Canada on certified seed potatoes is 3;" i-z cents per I00 pounds from Marclt I to .\'ov. 30, and (to cents from Dec. I t0 the end of l‘i(‘l1l'tlZl.l‘_\'. The rate t0 Cuba dur- ing December, january atid February each year was 30 cents per loo potintls, and under the 1934 trade agreement with thc United States guarantee-in; a 5o per cent preference, no ratc lower than (i0 cents could be accorded to any other C(ltlllll'_\'. The new United States—Ctiban trade agreement cancels this obligation. The re- stilt will he that certified seed potatoes from Canada which are now subject to a duty of 37 I-2 cents per too potiiids when imported into the United States between .\Iarcl1 I and Novciuber 3O in any ycar (subject to a quota limitation) will, when the ncw supplementary agreement between me United States and Cuba becomes effective, be subject to the rate of 37 1-2 cents pcr I00 pounds throughout the year.

The President of the United States pro- claimed the trade agreement on December I9 and alter proclamation by the President of the Republic of Cuba in conformity with the laws of that (‘flllllll'_\', exchange of proclamations will take place and the agreement will enter into force on the day following. lt stated the ex- change is to take place at Havana as soon as possible.

The War Loan

The success of Canada's first war loan may be a cause for satisfaction, btit, says the Ottawa jottrnal, it is no cattse for complacency. The loan has been ovcr-stibscribed bttt ntany had expected that the offerings would be greater than that. liidecd, considering that mining coni- paities took 1o pcr cent of the total amount ask- ed for, and insurance companies practically an- r-ther I6 per cent. one is made to wonder whe- ther the tiffcritlgs of the general public were what they might have bccit. Canadians have $l.7o0,ooo,00o in savings hanks.

It will be interesting. when the books are clos- ed, to check the total number of subscribers. In- teresting ltecatise that. not a fcw dozen large FlllbCTlPlltlIlS, will he the real nteasure of the loans succcss_

ln the first Great \\'ar, Canada's initial war loan hrotight 25,000 subscriptions.

_ The second war loan brought 34,000 sttbscrip- tittns.

Thc third hrotight 40.000 subscriptions.

The fourth 8_*o,oo0 subscriptions.

The fifth 1,000,000 stibscriptions.

Finally, in iolo, when the Government asked for 300 millions (:1 Victory Loan) the response (no record wits" k-ept of the total number of stib- seri-hr-rs) was nearly $80 per head of the pop- ulation.

\\‘h.'tt the result of the present loan shows, says thc Journal, is that the people of Canada have not yet got their teeth into this war. They ltavc not yet had it brought home to them. There has been altogether too much talk abotit war or- ders, plus too itiany comfortable assumptions of

an early victory, and altogether ton little realiza- tion of the desperate magnitude and (langer of the struggle upon which we ltavc embarked.

There will be other war loans; how malty, vrho

0.1.0. annual. r-u. ' A mi- ldltor, Prank vvum.

knows? The Government should begin prepar- ing for them now. It should begin preparing for them by (a) Showing that money raised by war loans is spent exclusively and efficiently for war purposes; (b) That there is absolute economy in all other expenditures; and (c) 'I‘hat this war, likely to be lotig and bitter, calls for the utmost in sacrifice.

In Great Britain they are not taking comfort or delnding themselves over the fact that Ger- many is on rations. 'l‘hcy' know too well that a Germany on rations is a Germany preparing for a long struggle, and their answer to it_is not to sit down and await victory but to go on rations themselves.

We here in Canada are facing the same vital issue and it is time we realized it,

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EDIIURIAL NUIPS

William Pitt died this" date. I806. “Necessity is the plea for every infringement 0f human freedom; it is thc argument of tyrants; it is

the creed of slavcr " K

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Quebec has yet to be ltcartl front on the pro- posed deepening of thc 5t. Lawrence. The Premier announces the question will come be- fore the Legislature ucxt month.

* is is W‘ In view of the rcccnt gcncral clcctinn. attd n0 new political dcvelopiticnts since, it is tiltlikely the Cotiservativcs of thc Souris district will cou- tcst the by-elcctinn for a successor to thc latt-

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The Nordislte Coinptitty, skin auctioneers of- fered 46,000 silvcr fox skins at the Norwcgiatt fur atictiotis, and (llltltll 7o per cent was sold. Foreign buyers were fctvcr. big orders were received front Norwegian skin firms. Repre- scntatives of (iermany were more nuntcroits than last year, and tilacctl liiggt-i- ortlcrs. Tiltt-rc were no French btiycrs. The [iriccs were about thc same as in December. 'l'itda_v ‘Ian. 23 the auc- tioneer will offer 1.1.000 silver foxes, and a

number of blue fnxi-s will be offered on ‘Ian. 25. Qu the Zjllt, 300 plztlintiitt fnxcs will h: offered. Two .\iticricau liujcrs are itt attcint- ance_ n- : =0- y

The Ottlztrin (intcrititteitt. in its estimates of

ftitttre hydro power itecds in that prnviticc, ltas"

contended that the province intist expect a rapid increase in population after the war tltrottglt intniigration, that as a result there will be a large attgnientatittn of the number of power users", both industrial and doiui-stic. and that this larg- er power need can only be mct b_v cxleitilcil dc-

vcloptnetit of the tirescnt sources at Niagara and in the Lake Superior ilivt-rsioits. No ac- count is lZlhCll by these proutoit-rs of the large amount of atlditioilal ]>l,\\\'t‘1' that can be tibtaiir ed front an culztrgcnletit of prcscilt ilcvclttp- mcnts wholly within (faitadiztn territory". iticltid- iug the Gatincatt and (lttawa rivers attd pnwcr

streams in other {Quebec areas", llut thuario officials stress the fact that most of the increas-

ed need will bc in central and western (hitario where an important industrial cxtiansittn i< ex- pected, and this arca could be best served l1\' the ncarrst dcvcloptttctils. IlZllll(‘l\' thosc at .\'i.- agara and in the Lakc Nllltfifittt‘iftgjiwll. >l1 >l< 1F i1

A corrcspondt-Ilt of the .\'<-w York Times writes: “l rcccntly saw the tutuinn picture ‘Main Street Latvyei". .\lllli1tl"ll the story was far-fetched and lacltiitg in vt- ' iililude. it had one saving grace. in tltzu it p .trctl a lattvt-t- who was honest and helpful in his clients. flu the screen and radio and in the thcatre a lawvci‘

is generally held up to ridicule. invariably a knavc and a crook,

llc is almost who Cnlllll\"‘.s'

to cheat his clients and tl1't"f‘l\'t_' the court. lr. the l\\'(‘Ill_V _\'CZ1l'$ that l “as zutnrui-v for the Le- gal Aid Bureau ot the lidiivi. outzl _\lh:tut'e. which recently closed, l listcncil to thousands of coni-

Pl-‘111115 against lawyers. ln £11) per cent of thc

cases I found the coitiplziiitts to be without foundation. They were ithuoq .-t]\t-;.\'5 (pm m misunderstanding.’ The long calcliditr delays raised suspicion in the minds of clients who

believed that they had been ‘sitld ottt' bv their lawyers...Yet there is hardly a lawjver who

doesnt give free service and lltl\‘lt‘(‘ to thc plltll‘.

Former clients, Il'l('l1tls' and relatives who ("1l]]_ not afford to pay fccs ztrc found in every law office."

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Colonel E. B. Dowsett, writing to Thc Tin,“ of London, stistains thc contention recently ad- vanced in that paper by Sir .\lalcolnt Citntcroit, of Pollalloch that the leiltctl Scottish infantry (the Ladies from llell) in the \\'nrld \\'ar stif- flcred fewer castiitlties. under identical condi- ‘IIOIIS, than did the 'l'oi|imics otherwise clad: A battalion of the London Scottish, whose fllenlbcrs altvajvs wore kills, was a ttitit of the Sixtieth Division, which saw service in France, figfiicflligltllg- hlZYPt 311d Palestine, andalthotiglt I o\v the exact statistics zivailalile I can iigilyrsffy’ 1h“ l. 111111 had mcdivltl charge of sCOlllbllvlslligliliallrli“Al? Itimiicd tum" ‘he Lolld?“ 1h Y! 1 on as llC- itiost healthy unit in e “toe division. Moreover, these men were London Tcrritorialc

_ n j whoatcvet" wore kills in éllzgllllfar (/°"l"“l'.l' 9\‘1(l<‘11cc is offcrcil by pain .. L. Alarstlen, now a canon at the

finxfllilghvlhceilrigflf-HI \\I'ho says that in the division war of Iqmqgeivei 3S'2l]'C'llil]1lflIl‘l during the on)" “fires m" lpere ttytn tilted lnittztlions. An- of H -k_l l t 11f aigucs that the predecessor

1c it, the belted plaid. has many advam- agies over the pl‘(‘S(‘lll~ll;l_V ilrt-ss and stiggcsts its Iaanogtjfirgqis ildccalxvor soldicrsll lps gmmmc Iltgh- as accord-c}! Ctll'lh’l§.l(‘f. n‘ as‘ many yard5 of saffron "m" “tC-IIICI‘ s taste and dncans, Cenmrv “Ionlm. "ivupiiplt re end of the fifteenth now ckhcd tan," it I'M‘ lunltinun thc patterns as twmtrfm" ' ,1“ I l1 51;" (1 iephneit. As much a chief,‘ “m” lflfh‘ l; flylvlllfllylll ls rccortlcd as the OV- _ < - c‘ eitgti was plcatcil under _ tncrs belt, leaving a lot of itiatcrial fall- "18 °1l1,51<lt the- bell, which was drawn on to the wearers shoulders and was_ tisetl as cloak and hood when required. On going into bivotiae the belt was released, the man rolled ltimself in his Plilld. and slept warml_v. ln bitter tvittds the plaid was soaked in the neitrest burn and made a cold compress. firotigh which no wind could

get. Troops so clothed were itotoriously ltcaltliy.

THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

IIOTES BY "lllE WAY

t with transport dllflcultlee

1s unlikely m be able to supply tts nswsprutt customers. The Unlted States, which takes 200.000 tons annually from Flnland, will look malnly to Canadian manufacturers w make up the volume untll the situation gets squared away. -— Woodstock Sentinel-Review.

Torpedoes cost $10,000 each. One way w beat tnem, espcially m re- spect to trade on the short routes between Britain and the Low Countries, might be to use beats that. cost. less than the cost of striking them. The submarine, now- ever. is not. the real menace. Tne principal danger as from the ex- plosive mines. —- Port Arthur News- Chrontcle, _

The Finish-Russo struggle has been likened to the battle between

David and Golfath. But Goliath did not tour-flush about It; he was out; and out determtned to

clean up on lllillg David and did not claim that. ft. was a friendly matter for David's own good. Nor did he claim that David first at- tacked Iflm. - St. Cathartnes Stan- bard.

Londpn-Alr-rald precautions In Edinburgh have been brought to a fine art by the canny Scots. On each t-able in the lounge of one of the largest ltolcls there l! a Lvpcwvriltten sheet 0t‘ emergency instructions the last paragraph of which reads: "Dining-vomit custom- ers wlto wish t-o g0 l0 the shelter should tell their trailer, who will present their bill immetpatelyu." -— New York Herald 'I‘I‘Ibu1‘l(‘. I

It’ the news coining from Ger- many slnce New Year's Inealts any- thing. certainly the Olll/dfllltllllg tact. is the complete tctttnovork ofl Messizs Hitler and G'.'(‘l'.lll.!. 'I‘li.'y, ntay have their lllllg tll , btlt they llIllIK and plan and act as one wreu l it ccme; to ltatltig Brita n. Th s 1s the t-lung that counts. It is titterlle t-o place any faith in a po sible in- tcrlial bust-tip in Llerntnny‘ tlltdfl" prcsettt contt tons. ‘Phat. may (‘D1110 later, but. that time has not ar- rived yet _ Vaticotivcr Sun.

Tllc history of anv war is lin- porlatlt, not only lrrm int‘ acad- emic Dolnt of view. on wnc11. some; educators tell n‘, we 118V? p t toot much stress. but liir the I a-"ons to be derived trcui \\‘l\ll'll later ;cn-I

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FEED PRICES

sir,—I have read with Interest letters by correspondents as well

as reports of other aetlvltles tn connection with the prices of 1m-

ported feeds especially with re- gard to bacon pmductlonl think that under the present circumstan- ces thls ls a matter whlch deserves more attention than It ls getting at least up to the present time. Wllh the war on and greater de- mands being made on us all In many different. ways It. should be very essential that we ‘be able to take our part In the Increased In- dustrial actlvlty requlred, but we are an agricultural province there being no other important industry, so that everyone depends dlrectly or indirectly on the business or purchaslng wer of those so en- gaged. To at old disadvantage of having t.o sell our produce for less and bliy at a higher rate than anywhere In Canada. has now been added the jacked up prices clue to war cottditlons. But. our most 1m- portatil, products such as being sold at a set. price.

Now with Great Britain needing a heavy and steady supply 0f bac- l on and with out" production by local ‘ Ineans very limited It seems a grave liijttst-ice that with abundance of cheap grain wlthhi our Dominion we should be forced to either do without It or pay exorbitant prices. The producer In the West- sells grain. especially barley. which is hog raising at a low price. But. we, a part of the Dominion. cannot get It as heaply as foreign cotnttrlcs. All this for- eiiig us to ship many of our hogs away for someone In a more ad- l tiantageuos position to grow and; flitlsh.

In peace times these conditions, were tttibcarable enough but at the present. time tvith our countries en- l caged in a titanic fight for the frcetintn of the world surely these renditions can be altered so that we ina_v be able to lake our part 1n the increased DTOIlIICIIOII needed ititd give our province a ltealthler. stronger" position In our Canadian lndtistrial acliviryx I would there- for-:- urgc indiritlttals. organizations and esprcially members of the

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0111010115 01 $016101» 11111.1‘ T111111 111 different Houses to do their utmost 11111111‘ “"815. 'l'1‘11(‘. 11 15 WIN"! 1l1111.to eliminate these conditlons and

the first and grralest les n to n“ learned will abolish the nrcll lot‘ military text. buck» and tnal llll‘ Ititer-Tst In tlrs war will lie ch etlv m the Iait that u is- to; early to Lake the nttlletiittlti tot‘ gqaittctl. We of the Britv-li Cnmniontvcalltt probably paid more dearly than ullv of Earth's peoples to lf‘fll'll l“c folly of assttntitlg tro socn that the race had grcsvn older and w; —C.i)-- gary Afberlan. j

Consider wlrt Britain will be

like when 1122c: Iollztt" victurjv. A vast section 0t our tropic Will came back trrm the counltgvslcle. The)’ will have grown L0 l:v~2 it,

to ttrlcterslatid its people and prob- lems, They will no longer be street- bound city d\velle:~s_ Tnetr ciisngett attitude will do much t-o span the disastrous ga-p between town and country. Our treoplp will. tco. have discovered the Jay. and V!l‘lll'5 0t home life. ’I‘It."_v will ttavt- tonnd new“ Interest in (‘llbflilllllllfl them selves Instead cl a'i‘.vars expecting to be etiteriaitied. Wqt shalt all be better democrat In <l str yntq tyranny abroad we sttal have ktl e1 stiobbctflv at ltorve. W." shall be more ttndcrslaitd 11g of our lcllcws reatlicr to snare the vi~wis o! pen- ple who shared a cmmiott dinger with us. lea e w'll brng a b'ller Britain, a more human and more natural Braain. — London Daily Express.

It. surely cannot tivorids notice that the spirit cl‘ "jingoisiti" has ccmulctelv tusaig». l"‘.'ll‘(’(l front Imperial re atlolts. f Tnere was no naccl 0t a "catnpa git"; with catch-pltra-e, ]Jl'C})2lgl'lllCl'-§ll speeches and clriuitbeattiig. unce- the clarion call went out lrciu thcl Allied camps The rtspotise 01 the Empire was Immediate, uni-mom tionnl and absolutely (l9V0ld ct‘ false; sentiment. The iticlirtrntlrnt toy-I ernments acted with the full bark- ing of their peoples: the Cdcnies despattehed “spontaneous messages‘ of support." "We dtd not ask for‘

elrtle Illi-

thee me. ages." declared the Premier: ‘the Coloircs have not been forced into war by Greit Britain against thrir will. The IlCLlOlI of so many people. ol var- ious races is a trltnrss t0 tltc.r colt- ‘CIOIISIWSS that a threat to Great Britain I5 equally a threat to that freedom and swell-being which has been assured to them under British rule." - The Btrmlnglttim Mall.

Italian newspapers ask why the Britt h Government do not. immed- iately declare war on Russia. Some people In England may support the Italian view, They say that ll we were sincere In our opposlttrn to aggression, we W0ll'd tight Strilai as well as Hitler, since Sltlltn has shown himself as foul an aggressor. They are like someone who sees a man engaged tn a ltle-and-deatn struggle with a cut-throat, taps hIm on the shoulder, and says: “If you are really sincere In yolu‘ natred o! cuttlironls, willy not start flghttltg that. other cut-throat over there at the same time?“ We can- not. permit the Italians or any other nation to choose our enemies for us. In‘ the same way the Uirbcd States, wno often-d mediation. are not. going to be dragged or cajoled into war at. the bidtitttlr ol foreign- ers. There ts a vast dilloretice be- tween medtntlon and intervention, and the people here are grateful to the Washington Government for their last-minute attempt to avert this new catastrophe. - London Dally Eitpre s.

The Orient In the one itecllnn of the wide lnternattonal Iteld tn whlch the United States seems d-s- posed to use Its economic power In support. ot principles llfl0l1 wlitcn the securtty of the clvlltzrd world rests; and It ts certalnlv not the time for the blunders of I931 to be repeated. There ts, of course, the chance that. economic saivlrovs will Involve an appeal to force; and It has been the refuel ot the democ uttc na-tlons to accept this risk In the past that has landed the world In war. It the United States should now undertake to en- force by these means respect. for a treaty which a great Power has thought It ln Its Interest to re- pudiate. she should, and we are sure wtll, get the cu-operatlcn and sympathy of all the countrles that have an Interest in seeing a ill-t

peace brought about In the Ollcnt.

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—-Wlnnipcg Free Press.

thus serve worlliilv justice, our province, and our Empire.

I ant. Sir, etc.

' B. H. CURRIE.

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I"I.‘\'.-\N(‘ING CONSUMPTION TO

INCREASE PRODUCTION

Sin-When needed. as 1n the present war. Canada can produce the goods and services as, when and where required.

Be are launching the call for the wai- can of 3200000600, which has naw bi‘<‘tt largely ovcrsuoscribea. the Federal Government called tne cantinerctal banks to submit lists oI their depositors‘ savings and the amount of these lists totalled nn less a sum than one billion. seven hundred mtlllon dnlars.