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WEDNESDAY, sum". 24. i941. Why Not Trial Blackouts‘?

The public is indebted to Group Captain Blake, O.B.E., of the Royal Air Force here, for his timely address at Monday's Rotary meeting on civilian duties in wartime. The part which civilians are playing in Great Britain, where they are truly “all in the front line," is one of the most inspiring achievements of the war. Emphasis was placed by the speaker on the importance of teamwork in this connection. Teamwork can only be achieved by practice under competent guidance, and with all classes \\'Ol'l\'lllg together towards some definite objec- five.

One of the first duties to be learned, it was pointed out, is obedience to orders with regard to blackouts and air raid precautions. Already, in many centres throughout Canada, bands of citizens have been organized and blackouts and air raids have been staged for practice purposes. Saint John, Halifax, Moncton, and other Mari- time centres have had their trial blackouts. We have here what are known as air observers. or- ganized under the Carry On Canada Corps, whose activities Group Captain Blake com- mends highly. But we have never given thought to other forms of civilian defense which are equally important.

Our municipal authorities might well give consideration to the advisability of staging blackouts in Charlottetown and Summerside. The commanding officers of all our service forces would no doubt welcome the opportunity of co-opernting in such a measure. It would give citizens practical experience in their duties in an emergency, and a more realistic impression of the kind of war in which we are engaged.

Another point emphasized by Group Captain Illnke \\'.'1S the general failing, among both civilians and service personnel, of gossiping about matters which should be kept secret. This warn- iiig cannot be stressed too frequently. The news- pzipcrs, it may be added, are supplied with Press Censorship directives and in cases of doubt the censors must be consulted directly before the publication of any news likely to be of value to the enemy. It is by word of mouth that such information is generally disseminated, some- times quite innocently.

r i, “'Ti- New Pier For Shelburne

From helbume, N_ S., comes word that the ‘erection o a new 468-foot pier to replace the present government wharf will start in the near future. Plans and specifications are on view and the Public Works of Canada is calling for ten- ders. The pier is to be completed within four months. .

Shelburne has a population of some 1,360. and its harborage is used chiefly by fishing craft and coasters sheltering from bad weather, It is to be congratulated, however, upon having ener- getic representatives who can get what they want from Ottawa in the way of wharf im- provemcnts. We, it seems, are under a differ- ent dispensation in Charlottetown. Repairs for our railway wharf were authorized some years ago by Parliament; the money was voted, the contract let, the materials purchased and brought here. And then, on the plea of war economy, the job was abandoned. How is this treatment to be explained or excused? The work is ne- cessary to our war effort as an agricultural province. Our Board of Trade and others have emphasized this, but all to no purpose.

Nova Scotia is shortly to have a provincial election. Whether or not that has anything to do with the new pier at Shclburne we do not pro-

thedefinitc promise-still unimplemented-of our own wharf improvement project was fea- tured in the local Liberal press on the eve of a local election. April Fool's Day was the date,

The Old Party Spirit

The thoughts expressed in the following com- ment from an Ontario exchange must have oc- currcrl to many persons who listened to the Re- consccrntion Week speeches from Ottawa, made llll(l(‘l' the auspices of the Department of Na- tional War Services for the avowed purpose of inducing the whole Canadian people to rc- dcriiczite themselves to our war efforts

"livery night during the week a fresh orator appealed to the public in a Dominion-wideubroad- cast and cvcry one of these was a Liberal Minis- ter. The obvious implication was that the Depart-

' mcnt of National War Services regards Canada's

share in the war as under the monopolistic direc- titm of the Liberal Party, and that nobody except simmi-purc supporters of the King Government is culiih-rl to my anything about it. As an excuse for this fvlifvllvlliillllf‘ display of partisanship, the aha-urn of .\lr. Hanson in Britain will probably he ailwiucrwl. but Senator Meiglicn, a distinguish- eil fWiii-vrvtiiivc. who knows something about war cfinrls has not left the country, and there were also available Mr. M. A. Macpherson,

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Dr. Manion, and other prominent Conservatives, who are not inexperienced in broadcasting. Mr. M. J. Coldwell, the Leader of the C.C.F. Party, is riot known to have left Canada.

"How can Conservatives, members of the C. C. F. Party and other elements which are not convinced of the merits of the present Govern- ment be expected to rally with enthusiasm be- hind its policies when their representatives are dcbzirred from any share in the oratorical pro- gram of Reconsccration Week?

“This latest demonstration of deplorable partisanship must confirm the widespread im- pression that today at Ottawa there are too many people in high places who are still more con- cerncd about the furtherance of the fortunes of the Liberal Party than about winning the war."

Italy From The Inside

This is the picture of present-day Italy as. portrayed for The New York Times by infor- mants who have spent years in Rome and have recently returned home:

"Premier Mussolini a sick and disappointed man, living in semi-seclusion watched by the Gestapo; former Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, dying of cancer of the throat; Marshal Pietro Badoglio, former Commaiid-in-Chief of the armed forces, under arrest in Rome; the duped Italian people openly declaring they would ra- ther be a British than a German colony; and en- ough German troops in occupation of Italy to put down any revolution within 2o minutes. “The informants, who were in close daily contact with high Italian officials and in fav- orable position to gauge Italian opinion, were emphatic that no one in Italy wants an Axis vic- tory. Ever since the day the Germans moved iii —first disguised in Italian army uniforms, but later openly in full German war kit—tlie Italian nation has known that whoever wins the war, Italy has lost it.

"The sole idea of the average Italian is said to be to get to Germany as a worker, or to be taken prisoner by the British——anything to keep out of the fighting, in which they have no inter- est."

— EDITORIAL NOTES —

Races today, reminiscent of Old Exhibition Week.

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Hope Premier Campbell while at Ottawa will do something effectively to put us on the map of wartime industries.

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Eliza Cook, English verse writer, died this date, I889. For many years Miss Cook enjoyed the reputation of being the most popular vcrsifier in England, on the strength of which she establish- ed and published for five years a monthly en- titled “Eliza Cook's Journal." Among her pub- lications, including songs were: “Oh! dear to Mem ory are those Hours,” "Melaia," “Spring,” "The Englishman," "A Song for the Ragged Schools,” most popular of all, "The Old Arm Chair”; and "Good Works z”

“Though language forms the preacher,

'Tis ‘good works’ make the man.”

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The Sunday Pictorial deplores "the cause that encompasses us of waiting for Uncle Sam to do the dirty work for us." In a. two-page editorial its editor, Stuart Campbell, said a new kind of deadening defcatism was sweeping the country, “a defeatism that declares Britain can’t win this war without America." The Pictorial said Am- erica, “at this moment farther away from a shooting war than she was last Spring," was do- ing her best to help. But the truth, it added, was that "America's help in war materials so far has been lamentably disappointing. So in two full years of war we have no more airplanes from America than we could reasonably expect to tum out in our own factories in a few weeks," Mr. Campbell wrote. "America. may be our generous Dutch uncle, but it is Rus ia who is our fight- ing brother. Better a Bolshevik who kills the Germans than a democrat who kills time."

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Under the National War Services Act a man 21 to 45, unmarried or childless widower at July t5, I940, is liable to military service. A sub- section of the regulations forbids any man to leave Canada for any reason whatsoever after his age class has been called up, without written authority from the chairman of the divisional board under whose jurisdiction he comes. Mr. Justice Adamson chairman of the Manitoba Board told six athletes that Canada needs men and that they are the type who would make good soldiers. The players were Eddie Bruneteau, 21 and Billy Rcay, 23, forwards with Omaha Knights last year in the American As- sociation; Sammy Levitt, i9, Hugh Millar, 2o,

who have been granted tryouts with Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League, and Bob Whitelaw, 24, Detroit. defenceman. Omaha is a Red Wing farm club. Therefore they must now forgo a sport caree: far a military one. a m

The powers-that-be are beginning to look after the interests of the "small man" in the U. S. A. and not before time. Mr. Floyd Bostwick Odlum, New York, has been appointed to the task of finding national defence jobs for the multitude of small plants which have been or may be thrown into idleness by the requirements of the all-out program of manufacturing arms. He insist that he is not a "Wall Strceter," sl- though the various positions that he has held for just more than a quarter of a century have been in or near the towering office buildings of down- town Manhattan This slight but persistent aver- sion of the financier who probably has handled more big securities deals than the average Wall Street man, is mainly psychological. It carries with it a faint criticism of financial orthodoxy. an unwillingness to be cast in the mold of men who he believes have come to regard “sccur-Ifies" as things in themselves, rather than the repre- sentations of tools, factories, workers, man-

alters. salesmen and inventors engaged in trans- forming materials of every sort into improved and new objects for human use. I

A timely warning about “war nerves’ was mace the ouher day by Prcfes-or Curtis Hillard of me htmSMIlllRi-LS Committee on Pub- Lc Safety. Everyone, he says, slioulo sit times forget about me war and defence. Putter in the garden, relax 1n the sun or pursue s. hobby. Balance the war news with lignt reading and entertain-

of stress. — Boston Post.

A good example of Chinese ability in reconstruction in time midst of destruction was revealed ln the Ohungklng press. It is an- nounced tliat. the laying of seven miles of underground telephone wiles wltliln the capital's metro-

plete. The much-needed work was begun last December. — Trans- Paclflc News Service.

We nominate as Man’ o! the Week the seedy Individual eu- countered ln the York street sub- way down near the Toronto water- front. He had the usual panhand- llng appearance, and his approach

t an extra smoke on you?" But e set. a new high for his fellow workers when he turned lngratiatlngly to the lady. with us and said: “Scuse me lady, but you know us bums, we're al- ways humming!" — The Printed Word

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At least it may be laid — and this time with optimism not. groundless-that as the war enters its third year the defenders can for the first time forsee a prac- tical way of beating down the ag- gressor. Dimly, as through. 0118i, the full outline of Hitler's defeat i; apparent. Parts of the ttern were long ago discerned. ere ls the part that stirs feebly toward fulfillment. in brooding, rebellious France; in the seething lowlands, and the sultry Balkans. (This, by itself, is s. mere festering flea bite). There ls the emerging real- lty of an offensive in the west limited now, and perhaps tor much time t-o come to British air as- saults. — Chicago Dally News

What makes language "bad." ls its intent. I think, for example, of the clergyman 1 once knew who when he missed a shot on the golf course was wont to exclaim: “Oh pumphandlesl" Now as an epithet, “pumphandiles” is cerainly inoc- usus enough, but when considered

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"The call for a yet ater and more intense nntiogl ef- fort remains as dominant and as insistent as ever." - A. V. Alexander First Lord o! the Admiralty.

Prophetic Verse

(Exchange)

In his meech at the Mansion 'House Mr. King guoted llnee by the poet Gray. oretelllng me

serial battles of the sent war. Gray wrote the lines in Latin

m. King quoted a translation u

follows:

The times will come when thou

shalt lift thine eyes

To watch the Iona-drawn battle of the skies

While aged pe ‘ too amazed for words

Stare at the flying fleets of won- drous birds

mistress of

England so Ion: the

. the sea

Where wind and waves confess her sovereignty,

Her ancient. triumphs yet on blah shall bear

And reign the sovereign In the conquered air.

The verse is one of a long poem. "Luna. Habltabllls," written by ,Gray in 1737 when he wu I1 iyears of age and in his second year at Cambrldae. J This poem, however, is not the only example or this kind. The Carmelita sisters, at Watford, Eng. land. have found an equally re- maikable passage in Spencer's Faerie Queene, published 1n 1580. and have reprinted it for general ‘distribution. They point out that ltbc-Alltiies apply perfectly to the How oft do they their silver bow- ers leave To come to suecor us, that eueeour want. How oft. do they with golden pin- ions cleave The flitting skies, like rlylng pur- sulvant. Agalttfiufoul fiends to aid us mill. They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round a .

in the light. of the circumstances, it. becomes a rich and fruity oat-ii.

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g. V. O'Brien in Chicago Dally ews.

A word about something the Germans will shoot me for lf the Gestapo or the military intelligence ever find these notes. I have been shocked at the way the German army in Belgium and France ha» been abusing the Red Cross sign. The other day when we were within forty miles of Paris, we stopped at. a. big army gasoline dump to refuel our cars. Forty or fifty army oll trucks were drawn up under the trees of an orchard. Several of them were plastered with huge Red Cross signs. Many of the ordinary trucks with can- vas tops which. were being used t0 carry drums of oil had red crosses on their sides and roof, and indeed, looked A German officer apparently less misuse of the Ried Cross sign. He hurriedly bundled us lnto our cars and got us of. — Mom “Berlin Diary" by William L. Shiner.

When you turn through the magazines and read the vacation advertisements describing clear, cold lakes and swift, sparkling rivers, innumerable game fish entrancing landscapes. primeval forests, pun atmosphere, cool

on the comment, and costs which amount to practically nothln - wlien, we say, yau read t. ese rhapsodies, and, entranced, resolve that you will certain visit this heavenly lace -- wl what sur- prise, not say lncredullty, do you then notice that the place ls none other than your own province, as depleted by the touring interests, which you are dlEcontentedly liv- ins rlsht in the middle ofl Sud- bury Shara.

It la to be boiled that the "dif- ficulties" cited by the Minister for the Army will not be allowed to stand in the way of useful em- ployment belng quickly found for

voluntarily enloylng the hospital- lty of Australia. There ls ample work for these men to do ind they will be physically snd morall the bet/her for doing it inst/end eat.- lng their hearts out. behind the barbed wire. Ncbodv In this coun- try would wish to knltate even remotely, Nani methods of con- the ‘labour of war _ -

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so-called "inferior" races, are in- oistlngulshable from slavery. But lnternattonal law mitts prison. ere lo be eruploye in other than war work under prescribed c lions. and the lnterneea themselves would robebly fer to be liven on outet. for elr energies, in some such oocupatlcn as road eon- gltgurspéon. - Sydney (Australia)

Men am terl eealil be told a unfit ‘Maya-ens’ Depot and at various Birmingham elr rald rest centres about the diffi-

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