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' ‘ l. MEETING TONIGHT qaixigtniulzlil meeting of the Sum- sgde board of trade will be hEid qht. Routine business is schedu- ‘and will include presentation of pops by chairmen of standinB itzccs, it was learned.

,1}; HOSPITAL - The many - “d; of Mr. J P. Geudet of Rich- md who was operated 0n in m6 I mcé Countv Hospital will be glad

hear that he is doing as well I can be expected and hope to see .‘.. home again in the course oi’ . next week or so.-S.

RECTION- Mr. Lidstone otfntgnihe Guardian thllt it W55 orrect to say that John Camp- 11 ciefcatcd him in the 1925 elec- ., gm- player as he did not run it rear. He says he has never ,,,. been defeated either as a. uncillor or as Mayor which is n f. good record. The Guardian rc- is the error which was a mis- nderstntiding and was not inten- anal-S.

_DEATH 0F MRS. JOHN CRA- R-There passed away on Janu- t 13rd at her home in Baltic, Lot- 5, ms. John Crafer in her 80th at. The deceased before her mar- ,3 nus Margaret Ramsay, ughter of the late Benjamin Rom- r, and had resided in Baltic all i life. where she was loved and onoured for her many Christian ues. She was a true Christian roman, kind mother and Eghbour. She was a member of Princctown United Church, a. tliful member of the W.M.S. and . dies Aid. She was a. woman who sincere in her belief and lived .. to her religion. She leaves to mourn one son, W. K. Crater and (hm brothers. Arthur and William illlamsay of Baltic nnd Russell rtlcccmbc, Alt-a. The funeral took ghee from the United Church, Rev. It. Omnwils officiating. He spoke my highly of the deceased man? (‘nrbtlan virtues. The pallbearers xelife long neighbors and friends . the tines-used: Messrs. Claude Owen, Wilbert Delaney, Ralph Beairsto, Alex Craig. John MacGll- y end Alex MacKenziez-S.

-MALPEQUE AND BALTIC l’. .11. S. —- The regular monthly meeting of the Malpeque and Baltic Women's Missionary Society was beld at the Manse on January 13th lilo President Mrs. Crowdic occupied he chair. After the opening hymn. In. Crowdis read a. very interesting leper e New Year's Message. Minu- lrs of last meeting were read and wproved. The roll-coll was answer- ei with each member repeating a verse containing the word "Faith " five visitors were welcomed. A list nfariiclcs packed and sent in e nision box was read; also a letter ofthnnks expressing appreciation was rend. The treasurer gave an hterestitig report, the Society hav- lllxgone over the objective for 1941. lltllort on the Mission Band was lmentcd by Mrs. Ralph Bealrsto. lltltlfltes were appointed to attend iiiePrcsbyli/crial to be held in Sum- limide. Service of worship followed, Wis taken by various members. Chaier III of study book was read Ind entoyed. Word for February roll fill is "Hope." The meeting closed lllh prayer by Mrs. Crowdis, fol- lvwec with the lord's Prayer. A glsiaious lunch was served by the

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Personals

‘Ml’. Sterling Moase was n. visi- lfl’ in New Annan over (the wack- mrl the guest of his parents, Mr. "ll Mrs. Henry Masses-S.

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hlliher in Ohio. On his way home lttendccl the annual meeting of Canadian National Silver Fox

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—SYM.PATHY EXTENDED Much sympathy is extended to Mr. and Mrs. John Burrows of Wilmot, in the death of their infant son, Walter Bracken. who passed away on Wednesday at 7 weeks. The fun- eral le to take place on Thursday afternoon from the home of his parents-S.

—R-IITURNED HOME BY PLANE —-Mrs. IieRoy Harris and little daughter Sh rley returned to thm home in Cambridge Mass, on Tues- day by aeroplane, after spending i011!‘ Pleasant weeks wiiu Mrs. Har- ris’ mother. Mrs. James Rayner and her sister, Miss Norma Boulter, S'- Slde. Little Shirley l: only four years ofd but enjoyed her trip to ‘he Bland by plllllfi so much that she insisted that her mother re- turn horre by plane so that she could have dinner with Grandma and supper with Dad.

--SAD NEWS RECEIVED-Rela- tives on the Island have received word of the sudden death in Bos- ton City Hospital of Bertram R. Smith. a. native of New York and a. resident of Quincy, Mass, His widow i5 the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. wellington Calibecir of Tryon and a. ivister oi Mr. Walter Callbeck. of the firm of Brace Mac- Kay and 00., summerside. Mrs. Smith is well known in Summer. side and before her marriage was employed with the firm of Mac- Gcugan and Wright, a well known firm alt Summerside in its earlier days.—S,

—LADIES auxrnianv . IAN LEGION — The annusllxrlfigrlt- ing oi the Ladies Auxiliary of the S'Sicle Branch of the Canadian Le- irion held their annual meeting on Tuesday evening in the regwm Home. There we; g gQQd “temp ance. Mrs. Neil R. Durant the re. tiring president presided. R9901; of the various activities of the 511x11- 581'? during the year were received and showed that the ladies had been up and doing. A very good re. port from Mrs. Wood on the work of the knitting club was received With much satisfaction. The elec- tion oi officers took place and 1,5 as follows: President, Mrs. 1,, ;,_ Moore; 1st. vice President, Mrs R, E. Ellis: 2nd. Vice President, Mrs. Iieith Smith; secretary, Mrs, R, L, Mollison. Treasurer, gig-elected, Mm Dickieson-S.

Death of Mrs. James MacArthur yesterday

Many friends will learn with m. gret of the passing of Mrs. James Mwbflllllr. who died yesterday morning in the Prince County Hos- pitili at 82 years of gge. Mrs, Mac- Arthur suffered a stroke a short Wlllle B80 which seriously affected her heart. She was brought to the Prince County Hospital for treat- ment but in spite of the best of medical care and nursing she pass- ed to her eternal rest following s severe heart attack.

Mrs. MacArthur resided in Mt. Pleasant, but was a native of Sher- brcokc and was before her mar- riage Elizabeth Harlmess.

She leaves to mourn, her husband, two dflllzhters. Mrs. Bradford Yeo of Travellers Rest; Mrs. Alton Sea- man. of Moncton. N.B.; and four sons, Harry and James in western Canada; Brewer, l-laverhill, Mass. and Wallace on the homestead at Mount Pleasant. Also one sister Mrs. Horatio Waite at ‘Travellers Rest to all of whom much sympa- thy ls extended.

The funeral will take place on Friday at 2 o'clock from the home of Mrs. Yeo at Travellers Rest. In- ferment in the Peoples Cemetery, Summerside-S

THREAT OF NEW

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view.

Yesterday Ross Gray (Lib. lamb- fon West) urged immediate enact- ment of compulsory overseas service without a. plebiscite which he con- sidered dangerous and Edouard Ls- croix (Lib. Beauoe) opposed

t-be plebiscite as e. "terrible concession

bo extremists."

While Mr. Lecroix said he would vote against the address in reply to the Speech from the 'l‘h.rone, in- dicating lack of confidence in the he did not go the length of cutting himself off from

government. the Liberal party.

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fisunnnc? ALL i355 , RALPH MUTTART

Summer-side

Hot) also supported mentfls course of action imd firmed hone the plebiscite would release it from previous commit- ments. For the post-war period h; urged retention of wartime taxes and use of the money to old, m.

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farmers. clear slums and reclaim lands. Pbvor Immediate Action

Two Conservative speakers, Karl Homuth of Waterloo South and J. F. White of Hastings-Peterbarcugh, said they were against the holding of a_ plebiscite and in favor of im- mediate action.

Mr. Lacombe said in his speech that "formation of a Canadian party is necessary."

"I shall adhere to that party which takes birth here today in the House of Commons," he said, “other melllbfilfi. all true and loyal Cana- dians, will rally around it."

He declared himself opposed to releasing the government from any of its pledges. said he would vote Wain-st the Conservative and C. C. l“. amendments to the address in reply to the Speech from the Throne and said that at the proper time he would propose an amendment of his own calling upon the govern- ment to honor its pledges.

(The Conservative amendment re- grets the holding of a plebiscite and that the Throne speech did not pm. vide for measures for complete mob- ilization of wealth, material re- sources, manpower and womanpow- H‘. did 110i Supply the imperative needs of agriculture, industry or the fighting forces or prepare for the post-war period, The C. C. F. am- endment calls for total mobilization of wealth. industry and finance as well as manpower.)

Mr. Lacombe said the doctrine of the Canadian party would not. be the special prerogative of one prc- vince. He read letters from farmers and others in Ontario and the west supporting a stand taken by him in favor of exemption of farmers from military service.

Australia, said Mr. Lacombe, now was threatened with invasion white its troops were fighting in Africa. and many of them were dead in Greece and Crete.

"Did the government and the Op- position come to an understanding to reserve the same deplorable fate for Canada?" he asked.

"From their former actions and their former statements I can only arrive at the conclusion that at present we are facing the most. anti- Canadian and imperialist policy this country has seen so far."

Workers in industry three and four times as much as the men fighting in the forces to defend Canada. he said. The Can-

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For lleyhdration 0f vegetables

Tabled recently in the House of Commons was the following order. ln-Council (RC. 9228) dated D9. cember 6. 1941, relating to m, u- tablishment of vegetable dehydmg- lng plants:

Whereas the Minister or Agricul- lll-le Wports that in view of the evi- dence of lncrearing interest by both ilze British War Office and the De- Qfllitment of National Defence of bflnfldc in dehydrated vegetable products for wnr purposes because °Y lllsh nutritive value. facility of transportation, and long-keeping characteristics, and particularly in view of the fact that the British War Office recently indicated that they were prepared to place an or- der for 1,000 tons of Canadian de. hydrated vegetable plpducts but only 137 tons willvbc delivered be. CB-llfe OI the inability of Canadian plflllti. 9s presently equipped, to Supply the full quantity within the period specified, it is expedient, that nleasures be taken to dehydrate, ac- cording to technical practices which pflldllce products having a high vitamin content, certain vegetables for Government account:

That to assure production oi’ a high quality product it is impera- tive that. all phases of prcczsntng be under the control of the Gov- ernment and to this end it is pro- posed to furnish certain desighatcd plants, one in British Columbia, two in the Maritime Provinces“, with essential equipment at an estimated total cost of not more than $25000 and to provide inspection services to insure that the product meets prescribed specifications:

That allowing for payment for reasonable prices for raw vegetables together with all processing and packaging charges. it is estimated that the total commitment invcz. d, excluding possible storage chnrgm, would be as follows:

500 tons (dried product) potatoes at $520 per ton 75 tons (dried product)

$260 .000

turnips at $540 per ton 40,500 50 tons (dried product)

carrots at $580 per ton 29.000 25 tons (dried product)

cabbage at $980 per ton 24.500

‘Total $354000

Plant changes . . . . . .. 25.000

Total $379,000

That it is anticipated that

through the ultmate sale of the dehydrated products full cost of the products would be recovered by the Treasury of Canada and that the ccst of special equipment. required ($25,000) would be absorbed by the Dominion Government as a capitol outlay necessitated in the produc- tion of strictly war commodities. THEREFORE. HIS EXCELLEN- CY the Governor General in Coun-

cil, on the recommendation of the M

inister of Agriculture and under the authority of the War Measures

Act, Chapter 206, Revised Statutes of Canada, 1927, is received thorlze and doth hereby authorize

pleased to au-

che Agricultural ‘Supplies Board: (1) to equip five plants m Can- ada to dehydrate vegetables in ac-

adian party proposed that soldiers. cordance with prescribed specifica-

sailors and airmen be paid not 1cm than $4 a. day in addition to their food and clothing.

Mr, Homuth said |. “cowardly system of coercion" was employed to get men called up for military training to volunteer for overseas service. l-ie said that in order to get more men to enlist the government Yo; giving soldiers a new dress uni-

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CENSUS FIGURES

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bec to every sitting Commons mem- ber under the 1941 population fig- uru is 51,034. This compares with 44.500 in 1931.

The clause ln the British North America. Act providing that no pro- vince should have in the House fewer members than it has in the Senate, saved New Brunswick from a loss of one of 10 Commons seats on the basis of the latest popula- tion count.

This snmo clause is protection for Prince Edward Island with four seats, while Nova scotia, with 12 seats and Ontario with 92 would each have lost a seat except that. the change in population in each of these provinces, in reizfiion to the Dominion total, was small.

By Province: Mr. MacKinnon announced the

Whether he and other French- epeaking Liberals opposed to con- scription will nlly themselves with Mr. Lacombe‘; new Canadian party may not be known until after a vote is taken.

Mr. IAcombe, first elected to the

if! there's - n up hrgnrihial tubes. coughing. mv-I- cular soreness or tightness-re- lieve such misery. Mfllllel- "m: unimproved v pollubMncsaflo.

House as n Liberal in 1935, was re- Withthic more thoro htreet- turned in the 1940 general election menmtlie fiélkggaggualalag: as an Independent Liberal, with c. zfiglgavglynnmmuflmgengu majority of 1,920 over on official mmseswm, cmngmedicinel Liberal candidate. Since his re- "purl... chm "14 election he hu sitting and buck like e warm! nit-M M‘

voting with the government.

The governmental point. of view on the plebiscite received the full support of Douglas Abbott (Lib. Montreal-St. Antine-Weetmount). who acid he believed in conscrip- tion. He urged en end to dispute ov- er the plebiscite itself in order to Ilve the Canadian people an oppor- tunity tc show that. democracy can function "even in wartime."

Dr. l‘. W. Gerlbeiw (Lib. Medicine

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tions;

(2) to purchase or direct the pur- chase of such surplus potatoes, tur- nips, carrots and cabbage from the 1941 crop as may be available, not CXCCEGHZ! the quantities herelnbe- fore mentioned.

(3) to direct. supervise and DRY for the dehydration. ackaging and storage of all vegeta les purchased hereunder;

(4) to store. sell, or otherwise dispose of the said dehydrated vege- tables as may be deemed desirable or expedient.

His Excellency in Council, on the same recommendation, is. further plgflsed, hereby, to authorize the expenditure out. of moneys allotted from the War Appropriation to the Department of Agriculture for the use of the Agricultural Supplies Board, of a sum not. exceeding $400,- 000 for the said purposes.

1941 ppoulation by provinces

follows with 1931 in brackets: Prince Edward Island 92,919 (88.- B)

93 .

Nova. Scotia 573.190 (512.8465) New Brunswick 453.377 (408319)- Qusbec 3.319.640 (2874374) Ontario 3.756.932 (BAH-fill)- Manitoba 722.447 (700.1139)- Saskatchewan 887.747 (921,785). Alberta 788.398 (731505).

British Columbia 809.203 (694--

203.)

Yukon 4.887 H.230.)

Northwest Territories 10.961 (9.- )

204.

Under the redistribution the f-iouse of Commons will have 238 members distributed as follows with the present division in brackets:

Prince Edward Island 4 (4).

Nova Scotia l2 (l2).

New Brunswick 10 (i0).

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Manitoba 17 (it) Saskatchewan 21 (17). Alberta 17 (17). Britlshfilolumbie. 16 U6.) Yukon i (1).

TILLIE THE TOILER-

Recreation Centres In Summersidc

u. may not be generally kncvlm what a splendid work the Knights of Columbus Army Hut at Summer- side is doing for the airmen sta- tioned at the N0. 9 Service Flying Training School. The local Council in the Knights of Columbus have given up their Home on Central Street. 101' the use or the Army i-lur and it has been tit-ted up m a hone like and attractive way. There is a reading and writing room furnished vew comfortably. There is also a card room for those who wish to have a game of cards: and there is sufficient accommodation tor a. large card party to be put on. In m... was the n‘. of C. Council Cnambei" there are three new pool tablts. These tables were purchased from the money given to the local cem- mittee of the Army l-lut. by the chairmen of the Victory Loan Olm- paign, namely Messrs. Heath Strong. K. 0., H. T. Holman, W, J. Lidstone and Morley M, Bell, K. C. and re- presented their commission, ‘Ihey asked. that the money donated be used in some manner oi recreatLn for the soldiers. There is also an- other room with a very nice 17111;: pong table 1n it. Darts and other games are on hand for the rec . ation of the men.

The army hut is non seczanan and is open to all service men. Mr. Leo Wood is the efticient. secretary and is on hand every evening to welcome the ‘boys and give tnem guy information they would care to

ave.

lvlr. Lawrence Gallant is in charge of the Hut and he and Mrs. Gallant. do all they can to make the boys feel at home.

'I'here is an excellent tennis court on one side of the building and on the other facing St. Paul's Church, are spacious grounds with shade trees, which in summer affords a delightful place for recreation.

Since the opening of the Hut lat: last sununer several delightful dan- ces have been given for the service men. the C. W, L. assisting in putt- ing on the dances and serving r0- ircshments. Hon. Col. Ra-lston when he visit-ed Summerside recently paid a special visit to the Army Hut. and commented verv highly on the nro- vision made for the comfort of the men.

Legion Home

The Smnmorside Iicuion Home ncar the Post Office has also bcen flticti up vcry comfortably for thc service men. Here too they will find reading and writing rooms and every facility for a good time.Dances are held here every Friday and the men are able to meet their friends and. enjoy a bane,‘ up good cvenhrg. Sing songs are held here on Sun- dav EVElllilfZS as well as at tho Red Triangle. The Summerside Library affords an excellent place for the boys to spend an ho-ur or two when on leave. Every class of reading matter is available from light nov- eis to hooks on travel and research. The citizens of Summersidr have helped in nlanv ways to provide these various places of recreation with many comforts. which, no doubt are appreciated by the ser- vice men.—S

WAR DEBATE

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Prince o: Wales and the battle cruiser Rlepulse off Malaya. in the first days of the war ‘ "It was an unforglv cl to send these ships wit-hurt. ade- quate fighter protection," Sir Arch- ibald declared. "rhey lacked even - adequate destroyer protection. I have heard it stated that. orders were given icr on aircraft carrier to acccmpany these ships and that. those Orders were countermandcd by the Prime Mllllsifil‘ himself. “Taken in conjunction with the lack of defences in the Far East. the throwing away of these two capital ships II the Prime Miniszel" is respon- sible, lct him say s0. Lf he _is not. then let him set up n Cimmlllefl‘ 0f inquiry to d-etertnine upon whose shoulders the blame should rest.“