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T_Ij_F_Z_ CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

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i-ic-siait-iit. Llclll. cui. w UIIMW 5- "all" vice President: J, B. lilltlillli lJ-l-D.“ §filtflflial); Liciil. Uol. U. A. Mllillmull“ ' ' ‘IL ndiiui uiiu Jliiufllllll 9"*°""' J u’ aura.“ ‘J A,,.,.-.,_..- suit“... i-mn. Wllkfl mu iui A- "If!"

SUBSCRIPTION new! um lor s owl-III $1.25 lo! a iiiimllui N" l" M" """‘“

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5y tuuii in i'.it.l., 54-00 P" 7"“

Bu‘ ‘hose Si; hundred HIOHSHHd IhfObblYIQ

throat: ,

That cheered me deaf at Drefdflf. "lwihl"! east _ _

S0 full of yam/Ii and IP11’!!! —¢1” bkac/led b0ne:—

Ridiculous! Can it b: 4'0, 1100'. 10* Their mothers, my?

— EDITORIAL NOTES-

Midsummer Day; I. ‘l

u; mun w uiiier Pruvllloci and U. 5- A. $6.00 per you

§sflbtaluil’ iicsni); 944W P“ 7*“? "'00

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so: s noun. The war means more and more sweat, blood, tears and taxes-

:- n- a . . . In obuliim c! __ . - iii-flaniilsuilulzbiihu‘Qlkiuiélmifixhll unit-im- l" '°"' ‘m Welcome to the British “Bl1tz" Scouts on their """“ M“ uwu" "n" sfiii; “‘LJ"‘.-‘.'.'l"°-Z mission of “Preparedness? “hwy; Alutruviiiilan owl U . N i...‘ ‘ g ‘ ‘ lluulII-‘llli -l~ liliiv. M‘ "l! "- ‘°"°“'°' rfimwu" ,, , Cliulcuu LllUlh-l‘, Ulllllhtl: \\llllQ-fl New: - "It n11- ht have been worse ls the genera] com- 011st um. IIIIHIPVU bllfllli ll""*"°" l ‘Ll g '

“The Strongest Meniorll l! Wmk" "m" u.

Weakest Ink."

rucnsnav, JUNE 25. 1943

Ralstuii For Conscription

The Muir the Minister ‘for Defence, Col. R11- following Navy Minister MacDonald 1n t Q sgriicription delrite declared his belief that thQ l b " l - o Plcbiscite was a mandate for c0n5¢nPil°lli gfld flowing gas, 1t is ivhat we would expectnt: chit; Pa, veteran 0f the last waf- anfl m5 Pr”: h of our l)t']i:11'ln1€lll of \Var. Llkc most of us, l? , l4

would prctcr a voluntary army but ‘we cannot t th» armv down, and what is more lmlwllarlt we ' ' “Canada has three fro-us" he added, “and I contend that for us in the lung run the English Channel 1s the M05! Vllal

cuntttit let Czitizida down."

of all."

Th,“ sages ig,Cotiscription for oversefs is“: vital itt-cc.~sit_v. andno Pus§yf°°llng °n t e F“, of hidc-botmtl political parttzans can prcven

ultimate enforcement.

"FThe sum. of It All

Concluding his Budget spflfill. Fina“? Min" lster llslev blew to smithcrcens the fallactous o?‘ tintiszn rcqtirtlingilic war which for too long has chnrztctcrizvd our recent "way of hfe. Too man)’

of m itseltc» jeer at German

butter" policy, and Hitler's "Ym-lth Training lnissez-faire Government" P°ll°Y “'35 Supposed to be so much superior, sonmuch more practical, so much more pleasant for a _con- ccrnctl. Now some of the members of our laissez- fair: Government have wakcnsd l0 l T¢alllail°fl of the extreme gravity of the situation. quote, as we fully endorse, the closing passages o

Scheme," our

Mi. llslcy's Btittget apt>=al=

“The proposed tax increases are substantial [Ill stzvcrc. They are imposed on the assumption phat Canadians appreciate the critical Efa-Vlt)’ °f recent events and the necessity of making a su- A few weeks m», thc atmnsplterc was surcharged with optim- fill] \',"1'.icii in tnauy of its manifestations was al- The war would be over by latittrirv; the ticle had turned; 657mm‘? was 53°‘ in’! ititcrtial collapse; Japan had OVCP-CXiCIIdCd s0 forth. b10112 V forward de- betterment, increasing numbers were transferring their in- terest from war to post-war problems.

“The events of the last few days must surely have had a sobering effect. This is no time for siry ovcr-confidcn¢¢_ Events in China, events in the Crimea, events lri Libya,—— do not these convince us that the war may not be won this year, may not be won for many years? It was not recklessly that Germany md Japan brought the United States into the war. u they did. What foolish statements we have made! Not long ago, how often was it said that Hitler was a madman, irrationally running head- long to tlcstvuctiott, that Iripan was committing hare karil Alas, there scems to have been nothing irrational ~~nothi1ig intentionally suicidal about These aggressor ns- tions prodded the United States into the war be- cause they were convinced that they could, never- theless, win -—win in 1942. Do Canadians realize howrcritical the situation ls at this Russia, in China, and in the Middle how critical it may be elsewhere before long? I believe that now they do and that their individual desires for gain, and ease, and advantage are sub- merged in the nation's will to win."

Oh, that we had had such vision in I939

Iirt-mc effort in the present Year-

most light-ltcartcd.

herself; Italy was a. joke; and

and more Canadians were putting

mands for their o\vn material

the Ukraine, events in

the plans of our enemies.

stead of 19421 The Parallel

Napoleon, with his Grand Arm , faced but one vsd one winter, but with each passing day mutt b0 pondering

winter in Russia. Hitler has s

how he may survive a second.

There has been in recent weeks s number of articles tracing the parallel between the Russian campaigns of Napoleon and Hitler. The parallel, says an exchange, is deadly and may perhaps be best summarized in the following passage from

Hartlfs "The llynnsts":

Marie Lottfre: And when i: thl Grand Army!

Ala/Mylar)»; (Jib-that's gone.

Illnrie Lomltr: Cont?! But-gone when? Na/mlvnzz: ([0110 all f0 not/ting, dear

ilfrlr/t’ [mu If!!! xmm‘

.1" Iiimdrcd lIto-trsand I sazulparr

ment on the budget‘ anfl it: taication proposals.

All loyal citizens will cooperate in mBklOE Arrfl)’ \Veek the stltucccis it’ deserves. D0 Ym" bli-

All citizens interested in Air Raid Precaution should be at the “Blitz” Scout ntceting i" P- w' C. tonight. I. ‘I ‘i I‘

Evidently there will be less rum than ever here this summer for apart from increased tflxflllflfli 20,000 gallons have been destroyed by fire m a distillery at Barbado-‘i-

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It is up to every citizen to have a. bucket of sand, a pail of water and a. long handled shovel on hand to cope with a raid should 1t unhappily occur. Be prepared.

a n: n- i: A patient went to his doctor and got a script for rum. He presented the script at the vendors and was told he would have to take Scotch. "Bu! my doctor prescribes rum,” said the sick man. ‘Dont care" replied the vendor, “we are our 0\vn doc- tor; besides we have had no film 50f “V0 months." u w w a

Dr. lVilfrid Laurier McDougald, BIOYHICIil. has passed to his final account at the age of sixty- one, unhonoured and unsung by his party press though for a number of years he played a lead- ing part in Liberal counsels at Ottawa, and was chairman of Montreal Harbour Commissioners. Hc was also a. Senator, but resigned his scat fol- lowing the Bcauliztrnois revelations, which led the Liberal Party into such trottblc that Mr. Hac- Kenzie King declared it was “passing through

the valley of humiliation." m v a

“bullets for

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L" l" A {our year Qld boy of Nominique, Que, who

_ was punished by his parents for swimming on cr brother, with whom he had gone swimming. They were lost in the woods for four days, and kept themselves alive by eating raw partridge and frog legs, while at night they slept in a lean- to against a tree which they had constructed. The little fellow went to hospital when found, but seems little the worse for his escapade. a w v v

There are differences of opinion at Ottawa with reference to bare-legged “stcnos." Mr. Stitt, civil service commissioner, says the problem whether women atid girls in Government offices should wear stockings or go bare-legged is strictly up to the employees themselves. On other hand Doctor Arthur B e a u c h e s ii e,- Clcrk of the House of Commons expressed the opinion that bare legs would be forbidden for stcnographic pool employees and girls in various other offices.

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First Methodist Legal Conference held in Lon- don this date 1784 when it adopted its con- stitution and became the supreme court of Methodism; it consists of s hundred members elected either by seniority or by the vote of the whole annual conference; this body endorses and adopts what has been done by general con- ference; the first actual Methodist Society was formed five years previously, then grouped to form a circuit, then finally an annual conference out of which the legal governing body is con- stituted.

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What can be done to make people realize what they are doing when they use their cars without absolute necessity? asks the Brooklyn Eagle. The number of cars on the roads is beginning to ap- proach pre-rationing proportions. Lives are be- ing lost to bring oil to the East Coast. Brave men risk horrible death in a burning sea every time l. tanker clears the Gulf ports. We have no new rubber and the war must be won with rubber. Is it possible these people have only carburetors and no hearts? Are they without enough self-respect to enjoy patriotic self-denial?

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Recently the Chungking Government announ- ced the appointment of Sien Shuh-kang as the Chinese Minister to the Vatican. Its original an- nouncement that it had arranged for an exchange of diplomatic representatives with the Vatican came within s week after japan on March 27 an- nounced the appointment of Ken Harada as jap- an's first Minister to the Holy See. Ken Harada, has now called to the attention of Vatican au- thorities that in the event the Valican permitted the stationing of a Chungking representative at

moment in East and

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japan now is fighting the Cliungking regime."

Surely japan docs not contemplate making war

on the Vatican as well as on the United Nations! e ii u u

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Aynhflyvn,“ Beginningjuly 15 every motorist in the Atlan- "rpm ,/,_,,_,,. ,,,,.,, [,‘p_. tic States \Vlll be required to display on his car (b- v/ "f Ilium in Iuvrrs of lrlmrhing band: a 55d"? ShQWlHf-l ll"! lYPe 0f 2350mm 735°" Card if,‘ p, /_,,.,.,. “m; ,t1,,_,~,~,,{,. _ _ 1 have be", m5. he holds. “nth the stickers on the cars, residents

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17:1! m /'/.~ t'ft‘!IIi‘Il/.Y,'(17l(f them alone

of every neighborhood will know who among them has a coupon book he doesn't deserve. At

_\‘,.; /j~ ',,, 1.”; god's s)“. 1m‘, ,,,,,q,,¢,,d m” the same time essential motorists will be protect- , I l. , . l. _\.,,v,g,-,;,,. 1,, m, ,.,",[,',,,[m,_, ed against bcmg falsely accused of possessing un- '1,’ i Y. 1..., ,, _,-/ -»~_v 1 [HUT 1H,,” xfl‘|i”q i; deserved rnttmt hooks. 'llic stickers will cnme m - . ,~ 3 H‘. y.',,y,,,._¢ n] mV !”"f! jflilrnqv four colors. rmt- fur r-ntli typo of coupon li00k—/\, v ' ' ll, f. rtntl F-

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3- i . if” k "M7,. ,.,',/,',.,,/,,,,_. tilitrun .\ howl“ will l7(‘ gin-n shrkt-rs colorv-rl - ' ~ H»,- \-,.,», [W]; a; [1__[],,_],,,_1 black: ‘- lllH)li\ \\lll hrivv grim-u slisiccrs; (_\\'ill _ ' ' lw rvd, .'ii1d those with contnicrctztl b books \\'lll be

ll/ ' ’ "HISCI brown.

NOTES BY TllE WAY

German children IIQ l0 b0 lakoll from school at ten and Pl" l-° Wm“ on the farms until the bell-Om"!- oi November. This ls 111N711 m?" scvere than the Russian measuics. In Russia the iccent regulations tor agricultural L/bour 8W9 1°“? authorities power to mobilize child- ren over fourteen durlnz their holidays. The comparative: indif- ference of me Nazis to education Ls all the more striking because Ger- many's rapid progress 1n the nine- teenth century was due to her educational reforms. Germans themselves attributed their success larzeLv to this cause. and 1t. was xioted that whereas 1.2 Der cent of their army in 1872 was illiterate the Hench figure was 23. But the Nam-s 1n their enthusiasm for drilling ii people in their dogmatic system have thrown over the old German respect for intellectual training. This was shown hi their treatment. of the universities, where the num- ber of students fell between 1831 and 1937 from 138,00) to 58,000. tI-ntler came to power at the be- g! tnlng of 1933). This blow at the elementary schools is the most severe of aLl. The children are to be placed 1n Hitler's Youth Camps, so that they will be removed at. Vna same time from the influence of school and home. What kind of a people will emerge from this ln- liemo Nazi incubation? —(MBI1- chestcr Guardian).

The outlook for the Muiltoba. crop at the opening o! the season Ls good, according to the first Free Press crop report; 1n Saskatchewan 1t is fair, but in Alberta not so good for lack of rain in the central and northern nicas. There Ls a further reduction 111 wheat acreage 1n Manl- toba. this year of 16 per cent, but. an increase of 19 per cent 1n barley, eight per cent in oats, and 31 pur cent 1n flax. The inc-tease in bar- ley and thix W115 what the govern- meiit plWllCLlliULy asked for. There will be an increase 0t 17 per cent 1n hogs, helping to incet the de- mand from Britain, and a six per cent Increase of cattle. For the whole prairie country, the report Ls less satisfactory. It is difficult to estimate accurately the rcduc- tlon in wheat acreage, but 1t looks like 5 per cent. The increase 1n coarse grains and flax ls much less than was Wfllllled for vmr produc- tlun. -W1nnipcg Free Prvss.

For about nineteen minutes yes- terday many of us were led to b2- cve that an air raid was imminent. There are four klnd5 of air raid sigma. s: the yellow, which is a cun- fidential warning to civilian dc- fense officials and to essential 1n- dusi-rial and transportation services: the blue, which moblizes clviLun defense services; the red or “action" signal, which means that. enemy planes are wlthin five minutes‘ flight; and the white. or all dear. This area got the blue signal at 11.06 yesterday morning. Fortunatiei,‘

no enemy planes. But the radio was off the air for seven minutes an indeterminate number of lis- teners had a good chance to be calm or otherwise, and hospitals. doctors, nurses, police and civilian defense workers stood by or tug-an to mobilize. ‘fhe cxpeiuuient was not entirely successful. A great. many people rushed to the Wlllch ls one of the things not to do during an air raid alarm. The school . system proved imperiect, with results \vh' ii might have been disastrous i1" inc raid had been real. If it had been real most or the area's population woud have been caught oft guard Ofthatid one would say that

but that our warning systems 811C] facilities are not. ‘Fhcreisstlll work for the OCD to do in Washington and for Mayor La Guardia and his assistants to do here before we are really ready. —lNew York Times)

WURDS 0F CHALLENGE

GK- IC-

“We must. smtnizuysesrchln pesto our character and W ° our war efiort’ In evor! 10ml and direction. — WlnlWB 5- Churchlll Prime Mint-nth! o! Great Britain.

crc “d tn foN.

Motion Pictures And Morale

(By wellington Jefters 1n Toronto Globe and Mall)

Bo far n I recall. t-M 90mm"?! government has never rcoolnllcd publicly ,as have the British Ind United. States governments, that those agencies of entertainment and instruction which add distinctly to the morale o! the people of the Un-

tted Nations have s mane: vliluela -

wartime and deserve more support than 1n days of peace. This was so wen understood in Britain that. de- spite the shallow early counsels of Colonel Bllmps with petrified men- tallties, first priority was given for building and other materials for the rebuilding of cinema houses which were bombed out 1n the Battle of Britain.

Mental and physical poise m great assets for a people at any tlmr. but most so when called on to endure a l war. one mean; o! preserving “ba ance" l5 w permit and encollraxe avenues of relaxa- tion at times from the all-consum. 1118 llwllsht of what war requires and entails. Energies are renovated and renewed in this way even when the films are also providing a wonderful vehicle by newzcelr uni special pictures to show just what 15 b81118 done for the war effort on all industrial and fighting fronts. 11nd by story pctures which express 1n terms of human interest and r0- mance and striving, what real hu- man beings are doing and suffering in W111‘. and vihat Ls tit stake.

F" instance. Canadians will soon Sec the ndctro release, ‘"1119 M“ lglfmtvcr. I have not seen it yet,

ut even hard-boiled critics write about 1t and speak o; 1|; as "um greatest picture since Mr. Chips " sttalieslverllrgx presented ln the united

W- and their publications ‘peak °f it l5 giving to the people of this continent the chance to see $158101} at war from inside Bmons fgflnllflble. ffipmsentatlve thuslas. we m“ Wm‘ 5"“ m‘ Show n?‘ recently pictures s, e hllnmi side of the Hus. that? 0:2" atidtil Wm certainly s”

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“hat I expect 013E lt will live up to O O O O

In the last war the i a iplendld Job for the! '1 1t ft offered relaxatlonditiindloetsciadflggif; a cubbyhole for the wishful tlfnker.

Sundav. ran away in his night shirt with an old- ‘"9"’ ‘"5 n° Fed Eli-ma». There were NwadaYs ll “Wld be hard for a,

Smllg man to ret 1 picture house becauien ionitiuegJ-i vflmnhwflnvy at a single‘ moving rclease or other picture always portrays some aspect of the war. I Iremember seeing a picture in the “Si w“ Whlvh gave with fine and (‘lfitnient restraint in story form Wrlifflynls or the long fight for hu. h, m the Krcat wars of 5 FY- A young man. sitting be. me. rose as the picture ended and Dllshed to the aisle. savng aloud --pnd not knowing he Spoke aloud: ‘That does it. I am going rlzht out and enlist." One side of th s war service ls that

our the moving nlcture theatres are we" (ha facilltzes for dealing with the effects patronized‘ H they were ‘wit i316? of air raids are in pretty good order,

would be a poor job. They won“; not be interesting their Datrons~ tgat ls a necessary preliminary.

i t e war is raising costs or mo. filming pictures and o! distribution. In the {Imtcd states this has been met by higher attendance. The re- sults on morale are worth the high-

ln the last world conflict of Hymn 91' 905i €V6n if ll Justified the head-

of Hate didn't do so well. Athouzh

peculiarly suited to German ways of "T's thought, and supposed to convey a "P5i sort of ma-glc power that. would Push." hdp to overwhelm the enemy, what was actually produced was derision

811d WOXIGQI‘ that B QFEM,

automatic fury, such as hnshlsh may 1n an Eastern fanatic, were

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soon discarded. Nevertheless, military

oe, an effort was made to revive the same idea 1n battle the present war. The plan has been Elven up, for the duration at least Lieutenant General Sir Bernard c. Puget, Commander 1n Chief of the Home Force; in Great Britain. has sent n, letter to all British Army commands ordering that. "the use

of strong language and attempt; to

produce blood lust" be abandoned forthwith. Lieutenant General P.1- ZN Iwiflrked that "an attitude of hate Ls foreign to our British tem- perament snd any attem t to pm. dune 1t by crtlflcal stimu us during training Ls bound to fall. as it did 1n the last war." This decision has been generally applauded in Brit- Troops of the United Nations need no other incitement to make things u uncomfortable u possible for Axis forces than s. hearty dig. like for what they represent. they have found it possible to produce satisfactory gaps/in opposing front lines wlfliout. losing their mental lance. Anything pa leasing to transcend the ordinary man's liver- alon w foul play 1s likely to be put. on a par with makln faces to frighten the enemy or s felting pins 1n the effigy of an adversary. - (New York Herald Tribune).

There will be general sympathy with 10rd Beaverbrook 1n the des-

flre. It ls stated, I see, the "the Bonar Law papers bequeathed by Boner Law to Lord Becverbrook are safe." There 1s, 1t may be assumed unpublished matter of some interest here. 0f the biographies of Prime Ministers undmther leading politic- al figures of the last two or three decades one is conspfcuousy miss- ing. That is Mr. Boner Law's. Hts son. Mr. Richard Law. was working on the book several years ego, but. he could not get far without access to the papers which Loni Beaver- brook holds. and that, access, I be- lieve I am right ln saying. was not forthcoming. How matters stand today regardlng that, I do not know In any case. Mr. Law. who Ls now Under-Secrctarv for Foreign Af- fairs. is no doubt. too much occupied