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President: ueut. 00L W. Chester is. ltfclrnro Vice-President: J. B. Burnett. FJ-l.

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MONDAY, rm. 31. ma A Good Campaign Slogan

The retail iiierchants of this Province did an excellent job last year in selling \Var Savings Stamps, and, as a result, Prince Edward Island Lived up to its past record and doubled its quota. The quota for the Province this yell" has_bcen set at $15,000, just two and a half times higher than last season. 'l'liis means, of course, that everyone connected wit]: the food industry will have to go "all nut" during the month of Febru- ary and sell War Savings Stamps morning, noon and night. There is no need to emphasize the importance of this campaign from the stand- point of our wa_r effort. Getting 100 per cent behind the \\'ar Savings Stamps sale means helping to bring our fighting forces borne a little sooner.

The appropriate slogan which is being used bv the food industry iii their across-Canada Februarv sale of War Savings Stamps is: - “Hasten Their Victorious Ilomemmiiig."

l\'ir, Philip S‘. Cobb has again been named as provincial chairman. Mr. A. R. Gillis has been appointed director of sales for all rural food outlets, .\Ir. Gordon Avard directa" of sales for Charlottetown outlets, and Mr. Frank Aniett rlirector of sales for Summerside.

The food salesmen are all set to help the re- tailer in every way possible. Witlt everyone eo- operatmg, it is confidently believed the Febru- ary sale will be the niost successful yet.

N0 Longer Lowly

The lowly hcn has emerged as big business in Canada, reports the Ottawa journal. Long associated with the farm yard 3nd the suburban back yard, the poultry industry is no\v one of the most important braiflcs of agriculture, in all its ramifications—eggs, poultry meat, egg powder, baby chicks-representing a turnover of between 25o and 30o million dollars annually. When the National Poultry Conference met iii Ottawa. the other day some far-reaching recom- Inflation: were made to control and improve this vast industry which makes an important eontribution to Canada's wartime food supply. Meet rdtioning has had the effect of greatly biting consumption of eggs and poultry Ill. So greet have been the demands that last yqr we wce unable to fill our export contract pfi Britain for egg powder. Canadians this are escpecte’ to consume some 30o million '4:- qge and more than 30o million pounds

lite that much. In addition the in-

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Tlie footpaths in the cityiagain claim atten- tion, there having been not‘: few "back Bidders" cr tumblers over the week-end.‘ _ " i: I I

About half the groundsmen cf the R.C,A.F. to replace the R-.A.F. have arrived. It isex- pected the formal handingoverwill take place at the end of lKXttlKlfllll- "

Whei-i- will the Imperial Conference be held in London? As Prime Minister King has promis- ed to attend what ever dates are agreed upon, he may beabsént fronrtherl-Iouse for s con- siderable period, or. else Parliament may adjourn or prorogue. ' t ‘ t _ .

Mr. Churchill has lost sduncle by marriage in the death of Col. Sir John Leslie, 86-year-old Irish baronet. The title passes to his sonnJohi-i Randolph Leslie (Shane Leslie, the writer). Sir Iohn was s. former commanding officer offiie 12th battalion of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. His late wife whomhe married in 1884, was Prime Minister Churchill's aunt, Leonie Blanche Jerome ofNew York.

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Franz Peter Schubert, Austrian born this ‘ate 1797; born and reared in poverty, self-taught, but secured some instruction from Salieri, the intimate of Mozart; he produced operas, cantatas, masses, symphonies, quartettes, and chamber music of all kinds; no fewerfthaii 605 songs are credited to him, and in this de- partment alone he was unquestionably the most fertile and original melodist who ever lived.

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Great Britain now is spending more than £13.- 250,000 (about $59,625,000) daily or nearly five-sevenths of her national income 0l_l the war effort. Sir John Anderson, Chancellor of the Exchequer, reports to the House of Commons. Asking theiHouse for a supplementary credit vote of $50,000,000 to the end of the current financial year and £1,000, ,ooo for the new financial year, Sir John Anderson cited increas- ed expenditures for relief and rehabilitation in territory liberated from the Axis. He said the government propostl to contribute $0,000,000 as Britain's share toward therUnited Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. I-Ie estimated the national income from £7,000,600,- ooo to £7,ooo,7o0.0o0 yearly. Sir john added

a SCIIODL TEACHER. on , rsmnnivcc,

llr,- Please allow me space in your velusble DIP" t0 Ill’ a 1W words on the much talked of wplc of "Temperance tn our Province". There have been leblscltcs on this question which e ways resulted in rohiblnon belw curled. e fact I lsn proud of. g all know it has not been enforced ls It lhculd be ltln ly use some o! those in but ority have not done their duty and there always seems to be

tyne of citizens who are lswbresk- ere. -They even brook God's laws in the ten commandments.

to tmpres; on our people that Gov- ernment Control, or they mould say Goverrunent Sale would be better. but what I have learned from this law in the other provinces ll that the amount o! liquor used hu IIIDIQJJII-ll doubled since such law come into effect. lothstsfiowsltisnote. safe system for the youth of our land. I noticed a. letter a few days d "Dum Vtvlmus, Vtvairrus" w o tried to convince his renders that Government Sale would do away with bootlegglng and bad liquor. I fear he ls not s. very good student of the type of citizen the bootlegger is, or he would realize that anyone who will stoop to sell liquor to his fellow men for s. bev- erlge is just in that business to I61; material pin regardless of the harm and vice which‘ follow its use, and a change from Prohibit- ion to Government Sale would only help him along in making his lazy‘ lowgrade business more res- pectable. Government sale liquors lntoxicste people and take their senses sway from them so that crime of all kinds ls the result. Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging and whosoever is deceived thereby l5 not wise." be it individual 0t government. Revenue got from this traffic l; blood money which robs little children and wrecks homes. Lloyd George said during the

Some Dafoe Letter!

(Winnipeg three Press)

n w“ a d,” convnilonlof John w_ m!” ma? m euitcrskfunc. tlon was to slick to his des and write. and he accfllvtw cut-MI I"

nstbllltles only when the“ We" t lilm in a Way thit- brooked no dnial. 1t was 1n t-hl! way may, he become s member cf me Rowell-Blrcis coiisnilssion and during the years from 193‘! until well after the cut-bf?“ 0t W" l" 1980 he was, more of‘en than not any from his office. Today, looking back at those critical years, when the appease- men), policies of the democratic nations were tii 11111 tlmver» it t! wglble t0 open the tile of letters he wrote to his ccllefl"! 0n u" nee Press. coirimentliis. lllvlltltl. and silggestirit; the lino the m?" might take as the Wt-fld toflli h! lsat fatal terrible steps into the war he knew was cpmlnz- 0"" readers may perhaps be interested ln coming with us behind the scenes to re-read some of those letters with tis. ‘

Flt-st there is one. written in the slimmer of 1937, when Mr. Defoe had gone east on business connected with the Canadian 1n- stltute of International Affairs. l-le was 1n Ottawa. ensued in the buglflesg of raising some money for Institute work:

but I buzzed atuund with n quite considerable success. P. D. Ross (of the Ottawa Journal and his oldest. friend; _ bless hi1. gener- ous old soul -- threw $500 in the pot . .

“I g0 on to Kingston (to an American-Canadian conference) and hcpe I'll have sense enough to look on. . . . But I don't know.

“I had no one to help me here,

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I went to n. League of Nations Society lunch at Ottawa — the executive cotnrulltee and some other; _ nncl the fiist thing I knew I was battling with

Great Wai- "that the llqucr traffic is a greater enemy to our country than Germany." Yet people will try to make it more respectable, more plentiful and easier to obtain

there had been some increase in thenational in- come for the year ended June 30, I943- I I

"Exit the garbage man" might have been the title of s talk given recently by Morris M. Cohn, sanitary engineer of Schenectady, to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. “While city planners are dreaming of POSf-Will‘ cities with parks in every plaza, two helicopters on every rooftop andhousing developments in every former slum," he said, "engineers are mak- ing undramatic plans to eliminate all refuse. in the town oi tomorroiv. They believe the dream city of the future cannot-leave the problem of

of plnhy meats. No other people on earth cat will:

fiflry is being called upon for over 6o million ' been eggs for the armed forces, ships’ ill and for export. It's a tall order and Idol tint flocks throughout the country will h“ to be greatly increased. For instance, they an asking for neerly 25 per cent more poultry it. . As might be expected from figures of this size I: industry is no longer confined to the farm er book yard. -While ii great deal of the capacity still consists of small flocks, there has grown up e specialized poultry industry which in many es operates on s. huge scale with large plant and equipment. Chief credit for the growth of the industry and the place it now holds in our food economy goes to the wise pol-

' icv of standards and grading enforced by the

poulty division of the Department of Agricul- ture and the enhanced productivity of flocks made possible by supervised production records.

Unconsciously" the general public has come ‘to accept the results of vears of supervision and testinrr of the lowly hen. A bad egg is a rarity, the old jol-zeshave all but disappeared, as a result 0f rigid grades and standards.

Revealing Or Concealing

The breakdown of inilitarv figures released by the Wartime Information Board gives the to- tal enlistnicnts and callups by inilitarv districts. It provides no clue, however, tn the present strenutli of the armed services. It docs not show how inzinv of the 125,640 men taken in by the draft machinery have volunteered for active service. lt dues not explain the great gap be- tivceii that total and the varying egtimates——65,- 00o to Scoop-oi drziftec-s now scattered across Canada. In fzict, says the (Qilobe and Mail, which has made a laborious analysis of the fig- ures. it does nothing to show the relationship of the draft machinery to the total "intake" of manpower.

The intake of (lFéIilCCS, 125,640 to Sept. 30, i943, by itself is a curious figure. To the end sf December, i042, there had been 108,376 tneii drafted for military service. In other words, during the uiiic-moiiili IDCTlUd. Januarv through September last year, the Mobilization Boards obtained only 17,264 nicn. Even more curious is the fact that the total intake from the dratt at Sept. 30 was smaller than it was at April 16, 1943. In the statement whirh labor Minister Mitchell gave the l-lnust- uf (Ioniiiions last lune the number of ilraftccs “zieccywtcil for training" as of April i0 iwis i_>ti.c;63, n1“ 1,341 more than official figures show them l0 be five months and 14 davs later

The value of the brcakdloivii. if sticli ctiriosi- ties leave it anv value. is as a record of military participation by districts. The Toronto district has the largest percentage of its men between the ages of 18 anduti5 in uniform, with a total 0f 42-7 Mr ccnt. \ ictoria is a close second with 43-4 P" wll- Ttvfwc Percentages compare with a national zivcragc for the 11 wit", I'\‘ digtnqn of 35.1 per cent. Only two districts go bu- low this average, Montreal with 23.5 per cent and Quebec Citv with 17.7. In these two districts the ratio of draflccs to the total number in uniform is llIJ\\'i‘\'(‘l' tlzc biglizs‘ in ill: Dontinioyi, bill"! 5-3 1'11" C-‘lll of i\lontreal's total and 5 per enut in Quebec. i

refuse and disposal tinsolved.” ‘He said the plan calls for the grinding of garbage in homes and its elimination through underground pipes where it will be sucked into incinerators to pro- duce heat and power for the communities. The combination of kitchen-sink food-waste grind- ‘ers to eliminate the ills of the garbage can and the cellar-grinder and connection to ‘the under- ground pnuematic duct will end the garbage n1an’s job, he predicted. i e e

British women should be glVflhpOlltlOflS ot higher responsibility and authority in the Church of England after the war, according to a report issued by s committee-appointed by the Arch- bishops of Canterbury and York. “The pre- judice against women must go in the church," the report states "as it» has gone in the nation." The Deaconess on the ‘Vicar’s staff should be al- lowed to administer communion- to the congre- gation, to read morning and evening prayers, and to speak in ,the churches, the report declar- ed. In addition to louieriiig the age for religi- ous training from 301d 24 the committee urges the modernization of the longidrcsses andrbon- nets deacoiiesses heretofore nave been compelled to wear. “The present dress has the disadvant- age of being old-fashioned." the churchmen say, "without the advantage of berng archaic, like the habit of thel religious orders. We see no reason why its use cut of doors should be con- sidered obligatory?’ The view that a deaconcss cannot marry without repudiating her vocation “should _bev explicitly’pdisavowedf’ ‘_'The contrast between the position and‘ furictioncf women in the church,” the report states, "and in secular society is provoking increasing criticism and dis- content. This we believe will ‘harden intobit- terness and alienation if there is not a change of attitude in ecclesiastical circles.”

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The chief of the Progressive Conservatives has recently met his principal lieutenants in the Province of Quebec. In political circles, the be- lief is held that very shortly the Conservatives will start up in French Canada a propaganda campaign in a big way. For the present, it is a case of naming or getting hold of "a leader. Right now one name fills the bill: that of Onesime Gagnon, former minister in the Ben- nett Cabinet, Maurice Duplessis’ second-in-com- mand. In political circles. ittisfrequently heard

that relations between hfessrs. Duplersis and Gagnon have never been cordial. The latter is above al a Conservative, ivhcreas Mr. Duplcssis hi5 118v" bflrn keen to tie up his Union Na- tionale with a Federal party. In Quebec Pro- vince. the political situation, naturally wmpfl. catcd by the‘ fact ‘that national problems ‘have aii unsuspected importance, has become more and more confused during the last few weeks. Since the Godbout Government has decided to

Inationalizc the Montreal Light, Heat and Power,

ivhilc at the same time presenting it bill to for-

blfl strikes in. government services.- it-issbeilnrg‘ asked how the Liberal Government can retain

botlrthe support of the Labor movement and

of big business. The question is all the more

thotfll‘. in that in Quebec province there is only

one party which has the organization to figln

the Liberals: the Conservative party. whose

rank and file is also mixed up with those of

the [Ii-lion Nationale.

for the youth of our land. "It were better for tihem that rt mlllstone were hanged about their neck and that they were cast into the sea. then to offend one of these little ones".

I arr.- s school teacher of some ten years experience and am deeply tntm-ested in, young people. I feel them a sacred trusb and the mature people of our land are the ones who are responsible for the environ- ment v/lilcli surround them.

One can sxson tell the young people who abstain frcm liquor. cigarettes. etc. They are like Dan- iel arid his three companions of long ago. as their eounteriances are much fairer to look upon than those who defile themselves with the above mentioned. Such ycuiig people are the hope of our future ctvtltzstlon.

I feel any person or company of persons who wlll try to encourage the making and sale of strong drink are very uiipatrlotl: citizens and not true Canadians especially now when our Country ts engaged in such a conflict. When some of the youth of our land have already Elven their life blood and many en- gaged in the struggle, we should be on our knees in prayer to God instead of sipping the wine glass. Thefood materials used for mak- ing liquor should be used for food to feed those in want instead of turned into a product which is 'n~ digestible and worse than wasted.

Many of our best citizens were surprised at a business firm of this province selling so much good food to bootleggers for moonshine when so many little children hsd to go without molasses on their bread.

Some people say they have a right to do as they please, but Hitler said that sCme time ago and see how it affected the world. We are eiieh our own brother's keeper and our influence 1s either for good or evil. The great; Apostle Paul said "If meat make my brother to oft. end I wlll eat noimeat while the world stands."

B0 every one who has the inter- est of our land atyheart wlll try to do slltheycan to attack this most destructive sin of our time, which breaks so many hearts and ruins homes.

This moderate drinking which W“ Spoken of by s writer L; Just a method of lowering people p, 1h; gftlglolftlllgi level; It; tha first drink

E11 e nsu a e s t- lte is not formed. We We are only going this way once and may we so live that other 11v. es may be helped to higher ideals and that We may leave footprints on the sands of time that n we"; 800d we passed this way.

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boys who were arguing

society should subini‘. .

the vagaries of current. public opinion. . .1 told them that the society had better quit. if it. dlrl not regard it. as its cliily to give a lead to pulwlie cpintr-i". . . l later ivondered ivhczhnr

s, damn fool to nllLlW myself

be worked up. ‘Ephraim ir- joined to his dlols."

As the months passcdtiis festive- ness at the course of llie foreign policy of both Canada and the United States steadily grew. He hnd been long eonvinizorl that, Hit- ler meant to r-iake trouble iind that. onlv n firm nnrl open and expressed tleleruiiiiatloii tc oppose aggression could prevent the out- break of war. Hence the semi- liumoroiis but lffliilifhfl note- ln n letter frcm Ottawa. Mity 26, 1938,

where h:- was deep in the labor: of the Ravel Centniission: “Willi all the que - here-Billy Kin; er his invisible foreign -‘ Beaitfl tiltin

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"1 think it probable that lead- ers in_ the Free PFGSc icieii very one-winded ones) on foreign affairs would be welcomed and read. The 1-11" ‘c is conscious at last of the crisis and I think it 1s pretty mucli eami-iceo that we hare been, and n10. on tlie rtsht track. The people will read what we spj nn-zl believe it too. which adds to 0111‘ responsibility. "The cdi "-1 that might this time ls Drliit‘

. . tit-i: Munich _ ijigaln immediately 0 T810111 the commission, having first written one of his mnsy famous leaders; "What t the Cheer- ng For? . which denounced in bitterly truthful language m;

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yet; the recorded amazement at the discovery that Hitler s madman, liar, sndlst an: would- be world conqueror, as though this was the first time they had any grounds for sllPDF-Sing that

port. these Judgments! Up to date it seems. anv observatirns along these lines have been by ‘war- mongers’ and enemies of n- peasement. . . .

sham. llylwcrlsy and evil of u... deal which stirrciidercd Czeeho. ovskla to ‘nor enemies By the nd of October, 1928. he knew his Ofiefulness about last-minute rnll

I Dubllc opinion ma been be- frayed. yfe wrote: "I! tcmorrcw Chamberlain and his gang were thrown-i from the battlements and a Niltinng] Gov. ernmcnt fomicn embracing all the elements opposed tc him took office. lt could not longer do what could have been done bv such n coiriblnntlci: n year H80. DPTIIRIJ: even illfeg months azp. The League is at last ln ruans. the countries iii Europe that. would have joiner: .-ii. Anglo- F-‘rench front, nre now suitors tn the courts cf the dictators. France has shown herself cravrn and trresolute. Russhi lia< with- $911111. The wrecknpc-ls com.