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ms“ ctuintoruztowu GUARDIAN

Morning Dally (Founded In I587)

lire-slum: (Col. W Chester S. Mel-urn \'tre President, J. R. Burnett. FJJ. Secretary Lirul. Lul. D. A. Maclilnnon. 0.5.0. Editor and stun-airing Director, J B. Burnett. FJ-l . le Editors, Frank Walker and lln A. Burnett Vsuzscitn-‘tiiux RATES By tum ll] r. u. l. siiiu u-r velar. stftlllltsz‘: "mull"- o; c 1| t, 5U. or 0n - City siii-Iijii-ilifriiiiiitlltti“: Vi"; 53W m‘ 6 ‘mmm.’ $1.15 tor J months,” w p" "u By Mull lll Ctuurua and l_-__>» A, ' . ', irituruay Hum) F-Ibl’. pr-r you. SLUU for h tnon In our tor 5 tuunllll-

“The iSfronf/Tlfl ~'ll1’"l0l'y if "Weak" m“. [he ll calves! III/t. V‘ vlcnxi;.~ii.n'. sizi-renrtstzit 4, Iss0

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_. V,“ f...- jtiim defense ,», 1i, tlitiidti and the Liiiieti ‘c: struck the right note ,l_-,ii_i--r~i1 lllllllllllZ- “but. Laitatla lle was uii- iherc, and not rite oi ilcfetisc‘. t lirrc_i-tltcr- J-ll Navy and - tti-{cnilpiis and .\lllt‘l'lt,'llll coit- " ' fact is be- es, and it teii iii this

I - King himself, in a In- ;, ._ j,‘\- coiicctled this

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"a tine threat of ill~ over tlte heads . . . Ifnlcss the W. l_'\\‘(‘<_l countries "ttrc will, he n11 of maintaining

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{y i . 2 wliica Canadian 5., _ ‘ s . ', .\e \\"lll, no hope of ,-_ _i . 5-2" the ‘tiappiness of o... . 3 tilius."

' at Ogdens- bi; 3 ‘ l ; ati increase. ' n Y .‘ . ' i s l'l‘~lIi'\ll=ZlllllllCS. Can- 1 . ‘_ l'-1 have tinilertaken to 5f ~ ‘i ' ' aixttq their joint s i titrlcr the agree-

s 1b.» new" freedom ant with the anci-

‘.l'llll<‘ welcoming l't‘l.'lil'llli, ile- tr iieigliiiors to the ady zit war :i\l t iizi‘. iiitportance. \\"e q this continent with "twin, we are an es- v: uiaclftie which is 'i aZyIs-iiiit on liritish ~i (izsllllle any obliga- ‘i. the SllPP/Yff we are tour of supreme ll'\]'i|‘_ v\]irr‘::(‘(l f l . l _ i W ~ -- il~it class-r defense ' ' will actuallv - ,wl: and it is “l”: that the agreement ala.

Ptrsistence Does It

lcgtrned tllélt tnere l5 i but in a persistent and t‘ 1- 1h»; immunization of

~y intlis of this year Regina. cases of diphtlieria-ivhich .i the five preceding years -— ier oi the cases ending . w the Imiztlrwllost points ill"lll ttiust not be neglect- . . dren of pre-school age. the complete cooperation of M avuarqs llc kept tinder control- ‘ n.1,; the ilanger that a long period of ¢rv;n;i;i..i_i\e “flllltll from diphtheria will be followed bv indifference to the only safe- guard —aiid , mably to such a reyival of the diseases as Re; a ltas experienced. Not until the intmurtizatioti of every child within a few months of birth beet-mes standard practice, and so gen- eral tltat notie E n: sell. can we be quite Sufc the juvenile popult. will not be ravaged by a plague ivliicli can lie conquered but is not yet ex- terminated.

New Z ar

United Euifire, the Journal of the Royal Em- pifg Sonic“; rz-tvirtt; the speech of Mr. W. Medan’ 1| u. (iiiitiitll~<iltll('l' for- New Zealand. ' ' i. m it .- of the snflPly presided over l)\' I, ml \\' l, lliwiliug with the aborigines,

he said i‘, Lie Eliot-is and the ivhites had quarri-ltil l iln- ]i'l\l_ l-iit that was largely the fzuilt of t ~ ltwl ltlltltChc.‘ The government bad rfCOLYnl/(‘ll ,<- uriait" tix-atiiieut nietcd oitt to the

natives ll\' ]‘tl‘i|1i'y]i~ll1: their descendants. "Evert

t,,(];.\-_" .;.1.-l ‘ti; l. ,-.l;.n_ “some of the coitntrv ponptf- n,» pill llyiillhv ‘iv the syivertttneut on‘ appritlllt of ltllll l ‘ti frliin lll"ll' forefathers. Th;- Xlstori ‘liitll ii is llli‘t‘l‘.'t~'lllfl ——fhere were Sqfyor) ,1; in.» l. twig of lllf‘ renturv and at the m]; t't‘ll~ll~ tltt re wen- $_1.""°-

The 101,1] Pupulntititi of .\'e\v Zertlaitti ts not much more than one autl a half llllllllllll people- H". wuutrv ltt int; onlv a little bigger in area than ]r,,..i,,,..t >1». ilu tl autl Wales. ltt the last war NW5]. .1... 1.1.... “i. unlv a million, and of these =3 1.,‘- .~. u: of lill’ itiiile: l‘llll\l(‘(l, IOIDOO gttlllfl ,‘,\... U, i,,,,,,.i . pa... “we 8,000 .\laori<. In tr:-t~-tioriiii'_" lll"~c .\'i'\\' Wlllllllll llllflll‘ ll°t ‘l

and 0n wine; and spirits by t5 per cent, money has been offered to the government by persons. firms and banks, free of interest, amounting to one and a half lllllll0ll pounds sterling ~—re- presenting it per head of population. Consider- able sums have been contributed also to Red Cross funds in different countries.

In concluding his address .\Ir. Jordan observ-

‘ed: "I" have not said this in any attempt at

comparison, because I am sure if a British per- son packed his bag and went to Canada, .-\us- tralia, South Africa, Rhodesia, or any of the colonies, the same spirit would abound. I do not think we are doing any more than the others, but the saute spirit prevails in .\'c\v Zealand as pre- vails all through the limpire in this fight for what we believe to be right.” Never in history ivas the title “United Etnpire" more justified than now. In union there is strength and that strcnqth is being brriitgbt to bear against the enemy in constantly increasing measure.

— EDIIORIAL NOIES —.

School. after all. is a welcome change from running loose or diiitig chores. l‘ i $101 Fair eiichaiige is no robbery as. for instance, sending soldier boys to the Motherland to be replaced by buys and girls from there. 4- a r a

.\ proclamation has been issucd appointing the week ciiutmeiicitig October 6th and ending Oct- ober 12th "Iiire Prevention \\'cck."

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The Car Iferrv has been in operation at lloriltitt since Il)l§, and not in all that time ltas Captain Read cxpcriencerl such difficulty in getting along side as he did on blondayt night. Tilt? \\'lllll ivas terrific, and it was onlv great pa- tience and good seamaitship that ultimately en- abled liitii to do the triclc.

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Premier Cantpbell may claim the honour and distinction of being one of the first Premiers in Canada to act as the private host to royalty. In the rill days. not very far distant, even a tiioiternor-Cctueral was not permitted by Col- onial ldffice regulations to visit arty home in his territory other than that of the Lieutenant- Govcritor, the Commandant getteral of the Forces, aiirl the Anglican Archbishop or Bishop.

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‘lie TlllFLl Reptililic of France proclaimed this date. 1370. ;\fter the disaster of 5edan, the titinistcrs, Itiles Fayre. Gambctta, and Trocher ovcrtltrcw the Imperial government and re- stored that of the Reptiblic. The Prussians there- upon besieged Paris. which surrendered through lZUlllltC January 2S, 1S7t_ France lost Alsace and Lorraine. and in atlditioti had to pay $1,- oo0,000.000 to (ieruiativ.

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\\'ith elimiitatiain of Northern Ettropcati coun- tries its a po><iblc source of supply, there may be an opportunity" for sales in Cuba of Canadian spruce of the type known as box grade, writes .\lr. S. (i. Rlacllonald, Acting 'l‘ratle Com- itiisdoiter, in a report to the Department of Trade an-l Uointtterce on the Cuban lumber mar- ket. Abounding in native ltardwocids of many varieties, Cuba is largely 5€lf~5llfIlCl€flt in meet- ing its lumber requirements, he states, and im- ports of lumber are small. "Except for spruce for box shot-ks, there are no possibilities for sales here of (Yiuadirtti lumber tittdt-r present ec- ourittiic conditions in Cuba and the freight situ- atioit for shipments from the wcst coast of Can- ad-"l."

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.\lr. Herbert Hoover and his friends seem greatly concerned about starvation in Europe; but so is every other thinking person. The only way it can be stopped is by stopping Hitler. German armies have tilaycd the part of the locust, consuming and destroying until they leave desert wastes in every land they pass over; and as they have covered most of Europe, it is in- evitable that famine must follow. The British blockade has helped in its struggle to stop Hitler, and for U.S..»\. to interfere in a way which itiigltt lessen the effectiveness of the blockade would be little short of a "stab in the back." It was a fine and useful thing that Mr. Hoover did in the former war when he carried the full Am- erican market basket to Belgium; but the situa- tion today is completely and disastrously differ- ent. For U.S.A. to send food to Europe would merely give more strength to Germany, do no real good to those who should be helped for it would but prolong their slavery and would be a betrayal of Britain.

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Mr. Alberto Torchiano, former editor of the Corriere della Sera, takes exception to theol- legation that the Italians are “no good on land or sea.” He writes: “As far as the Italian navy is concerned, it is well known that some of the most brilliant episodes of the Great War were fought by Italian sailors. Commander Rizzo, on a small motor-boat, attacked an Austrian squad- ron in the Adriatic and stink the dreadnought ‘St. Steven.’ Colonel Raffaele Rossetti (now an eminent anti-Fascist abroad) entered the military port of Pola and‘ satik the "Viribtts Unitis," another Austrian dreadnought. These are acts that may be considered honorable by any navy; the British Admiralty highly appreciated and re- warded tlicm. It seems to me that the best way to dissolve the ntonstrous etttcnte between Italy and Germany is not that of offending the op- pressed Italian people, but to attack the Fascist regime that is betraying at the same time Italy and civilization. There is an “ahime" between Fascism and the Italians: they are not like the Germans who feel and do what the government feels and orders them to do; they understand and deplore the war that they must suffer. A dav will come —,and tnaybc soon-in which they will show that they prefer freedom and interna- tional justice to the extensive and ruinous ‘glory’ that a dictator imposes on them, It can be said that the Italian fleet dries not dare now to come ottt of its ports. llut we are not far from the truth

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l"'lll'.f on a voluntary‘,

s- ‘ of tbt- l..'lL'l that income tax has‘

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that Iluwolini is not entirely sure of the spirit of “hi? coldiers, sailors and aviators. IIe has ztlrtwiilv llll‘ Pxillllllll‘ uf an flruietl submarine which trave itself up to a Ilritish fishing boat in the Red Sea. 'l‘lio<e facts must not be forgotten and above all, the organs of the Allied public opinion must remember that a strong and easy arm of the zictuztl war is that of dividing the Italian people front its guilty ruler." t

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THE CHARLOTTETOWN

‘ttonss av nus WAY

The Domlnlon budget recently

presented by the Finance Minister goes a long way towards the con- scrlptlcn of wealth of which theorists who haven't. got, much wealth are fond of taking. Dis- cussing this point, The Ottawa Journal explains: Conscription of lutealtb ls little possible by any other means than lncccne tax. A Government. could gain nothing by asking possession of a. citizen's lhouse or farm or business. A -Government could not. sell any fproperty it might seize: because ithere would be nobody able to buy. "Conscription of wealth" by any other means than income tax, says [The Journal, ls an idle dream; the mall-baked economists who briefly ‘use the phrase never trouble to explain bow else wealth can be conscripted; which Ls not strange, seeing that nobody could explain it in a practical way which would BPPGHI t0 anybodifls common sense. —Medlcine Hat News.

Is it not about time the Alberta Government. realized that it sltould do scttiethiiig tanglbl? to help in Canada's war effort? With the ob- ject lesson staring it ln the face of ntuntctpalties. fraternal and pat- triotlc organizations, companies and individuals contributing cash. the government of thLs province could stop wasting the taxpayer's money by closing their top banks nncl do- nate the 8.000.000 i-early cost of operation to Canada's war effort Another half million dollars a year could very easily be saved and invested in helping to defeat Hitler by dismissing _titose lziin- dreds of political civil servants added to the public imyrcll during the [last five yiears. This is a time for retrenchment. and the cur- tailing of tion-cssetitial services and works in order that we may concentrate on winning the war. and our provincial atttltoritles outzlit to lead the ivay instead of tarlizmg along 1n the renr.»'l‘rochu Tribune.

B9801." l5 an evasive word,

difficult. to define. This ls eme- cially so when it ls appliedifo the feminine sex of tlre niimm race. There are these, for l".-

stance. who sav citv girls are the most beautiful: there are ctht-rs who would 2o to small towns to pick their pulchrltude: there are mam’ who advocate the type to be found on the farms. Be ‘his as it mav. at a beautv contest lteld in Wheatlev, two farm girls took ‘he ptzes. Furthermore. fcr whatever 1t ma!’ mPf-lll. lllt? iuflues were urban residents. In cities and towns there ls a. greater accessibility of arti- ficial accessories to beauty than in the country. There is. in rural parts. perhaps a greater reliance on natural charm. It would be n fool. lsh man who would be dogmatic that farm girls. as a class. are more beautiful than city girls. or that city girls are prettier than their town or country sisters. But the Wlieatlcv wlutiers tire some proof that all the pitlclirittidc isn't confined within the limits of urban areas. — Windsor Star.

The further the war prngrP5go§ the more we l'“."tllZA? that all tlihius are poasible, that. all i "crniteeived ideas mav iarovc wort-rlcss. that every notion we held a year Mt may be willed away by one day's action. But. while all these thoughts and perhaps vain dreams may vanish. the one essential fat-t in this war stands stronuet" and surcr every da_v, the will to ti"; our own lives on the pattern our fathers and forefnt-lirrs ltave set. for us. I-littlei" now controls more than 100,000,000 people of Ger- man blood: his dream of "wait.

macht" has produced a ltetidv brew and lie has drunk deep, Everything unints to the "l01l‘,, hard war" Mr. Churchill pred ct-

ed. The issue daily becomes clear» er. The English-speaking race and the Giflllflll people are lockr-il in a. fight to a finish for survival, because 1f the British Contmon- wealth were tlcfetizecl, the United States would in a Sllrllflilllgfilj.’ short time become merely 8I10l<.l€l' German vassal state defeated in an economic war, The confine; may range north and south. east. 5nd Weflt. but the final chapter must and will be Inscribed in Ber- lin and it will be ivrltten by Eng. lli-h-Speflklng troops whether it be next year. the year after. or tn whatever year Providence may ile- cide. —- London Free Press.

There ls n disposition on the part. of some bakers and a feiv mlllers to resent the action of the Ottawa Government in putting a r00! 0n bread and flour prices as was done by orders of the prloe board the other day when the July 23 selling prices of both these commodities were fixed as me maximum alloivqd until further investigations take place, The farmer. who grows the wheat isn't a bit alarmed over the order. He provides the raw material, but he ls quite convinced that he gets very little out. of the price paid by the ultimate consumer. Glvltig the miller the advantage of the freight rate to For William, four and one- half bushels of 70-cent wheat makes a barrel of 1.98 pound; or flour. and the miller has the bran and shorts to the good. The wheat. cost for the barrel of flour 1s $3.15. T055? there is, besides, a 15 cents per bushel proceginq tax, making the total cost. of a barrel of flour, so far as raw material ls concern- ed. $3.83. Of that. the farmer in South Alberta gets. at 50 cents a bushel net, about. $2.25. It. was stat- ed l-n the House the other day that B. pound of wheat makes a pound of bread, or 20 ounces of ivheat make s 20-ounce loaf. The South Alberta farmer gets for this n shade over the cent. The consumer pays 10 cents. There ought to be enough margin ln the spread in the price of both flour and bmnd as compar- ed to the farmer's return for his wheat to provide a fairly satis- factory profit, but the farmer, we must. admit, will be hard put, to It to find much profit In growing wheat at 50 cent-s a bushel. - Liethbrldge Herald.

In many cases when clvll ser- vants have been selected from the regular departments to go Into the war service departments they have been given employment of a higher grade than tliatJn which they have been employed 1n their own departments. Many of them are capable of carrying on more lmportatit. duties and are glad of m9 Olllwrllllllty of demonstrating their abllltit. They take the hl her post. drawing the same saary, which ls paid by the war depart- ment, as they were paid In their tp-ttrmarnetm ctvll service position.

This they consider their contribu- tion to the war effort. One calls to mmdtheoaseofaclerkzraidetln

GUARDIAN

i Navy Ways

(Special To The Guardian)

"sructrto THE MAINBB-ACE”

Since 101a the slBnal to “stiller the malnbrace" has only fluttered "P tour times to the masthead. When the men are told to “B91166 "l? Malnnrace" it. means that. they @511 have i; whole holiday. The cus- tom izrew up in the eighteenth cen- tury. anct formerly the slsnfll “B! onlv stlven when a. Fleet was to be rewarded for some achievement lTheléast. fOlilrhOficii-Iglrflsselél; imrcel} fllS o sizna as ' - On Armistice Day 19113.1( Creorfle V Review of the Fleet in 931. Bf- ter the silver Jubilee Review in 1935 and after the Coronation Be- vlew 1n 1937. A double tot of ‘rum ls also available on these occastqis. This fact causes no especial w- iotcinu toduv: for not only 18 the rum ration trail-watered and only one gill instead 0f a half Dlnt. bllli many men prefer to take its money value instead of the liquor. which amounts to a few Demre Ofllll.

In the old days. however. the doubling of the half nlnt 0f "l!" supplied the sailor with the means for a verv royal drunk. indeed.

Empire and United States

(Hamilton Spectator)

Early last vear Clarence K. Streit published his much-discuss- ed book. UnlOn Now, in which he suzfzested the immediate union 0f "the democracies that the North Atlantic and a thousand other things already unite-union of 111651’ few peoples 1n a tzreat federal re- piibilc built on and for the thing thev share most, their common democract-lc principle of government for the sake of’ Individual freedom. There WOllld be, under suclr a scheme, a uiilon citizenship. a unicn defence force. a union customs-free economy. a union money, a union pestal and communications system.

The idea was so revolutionary that it inevitably provoked the most heated dLscusslon. no little op- position and ridicule being mingled with enthusiastic expressions of ap- proval. The incredulous viewed the proposition as an impracticable ideal; they pointed to the failure of the League of Nations. asking u-hv Mr. Strait/s visionary proposals should meet with anv better fate. advanced more limited schemes, of a similar character, of their own, advising a, more gradual and cautious process.

The book had the merit, at least, of stimulating great public interest. There could be no subject of more importance to humanity than the preservation of harmonious inter- national relations, and whether Mr. Streit had the right answer or not the more people who are induced to think about these intricate prob- lems. the greater 1s the hope of ar- rivimz at an enduring solution. The author of Union Now Ls a native of the Umted States, born and educated 1n that country. He serv- ed in France during the Great War, from I917 to 1919, and had 0p- nurtunities, owing to hLs confidential DOSltlOll in the Intelligence Service, of seeing behind the dl lomatlc scenes. Soon after the arm tlce he ivrotc: “It ls golniz to be mighty casv to lose this war 1n winning it.