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392E FOUR. . nu: OHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

blaming Dally (Founded tn I887)

President: Licut. Col. W. Chester 8. McLure Vice-President: J. R. Burnett, FJJ. Iecretary: lleut. Col D. A. MacKlnnnn- 0.8.0. I-lltnr and illavmging Director: J. R. Burnett, FJJ. Associate Erlilnis: Flilllli Walker and lau A. Burnett

Sl'BS(‘llll‘y’l‘lO.\' RATES ly Mail tn l’ t. l., $1.00 per year; $2.50 for 8 month: $1.25 fi-r 3 mouths; 50c for one month City Delivery: $5.00 per year; $3.00 for 8 monthl $1.75 for 3 mguths By Mail in Cuuula and USA. 255.00 per y“! Iaturday Wci-ltu: sum pcr year; $1.00 for 6 monthl.

51n- tur 3 months.

I The (‘llurl-illrlun ll iaiihriilhh may he nhtnlnpd n Ilotnlincfi; .\\'\\-t Agi-iugt, ‘Finn-n Square, New York: Old Smith Noun Aeiniiqt, it-iiii-i- mm Illll| \\'lllhllliltlll, Boston: llelrnllli-litnn .\::<1=i.\. lllll Feel 5L, Montreal; J. l-‘lhw, its! lliiv so, '1 i-i-iihin; \'i-\\i Slum], Chateau Lauri", (Ntilnil; Until"; \i~\\~4 \lllllll. fillullmry, Ont; Ilub Tnhggfg Illllll, Mllllilllll .\ n- Ihllflll lthhirisim, Amherst, N. o.

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.._ - ...._ i f'The Strongest Memory is Weaker than the Weakest Ink."

snnflxiiiiiis, 1941.

Ti:

The Political Census

Last _\'c..r a ltiilt-jml ' ll census of the popu-

lation of (‘Iilkrlil \\'llS llllivll, in the form of com- lllll<ill'_\' ll min". l'\i;l~ll‘ll'ililll. .-\n army of vol- ulrirsi" w till the llflil; Conservatives as

l as lnl- :1» c-l to take their coats ' ' ' ant unilcrtaking. The s was such as might - glslfilllkifl was coin- vil llii\\'llEl’C was there any i \'t‘l‘S. ll cciisus is due, and not- s friun the Press and ii that it be suspended, ' lly ilcclared that the n15 appropriated some to spcud on it. It ..li(‘€ the work will no CIISC‘ in the national re ncctl apply. An ex- ’ a iliat all census takers he Conservatives; the p: with a. reputation for

f in‘.

l'\‘.~‘ll

be exp. pfezcil in 1'. '

CPti-‘lls w. two a! l a l

i p.111)’ supporting the King ls are above politics at All has been received with

wit: of the Government was 1.16 Teachers Federation of rs offered to take the during their summer ', we understand, was turn- i (iiivtriiiiu-ilt was not 100k- rs in this case. It was " ii through Wllltill to fccd its " li ihc hard earned money of llLUKIC the two and a half million bu, [which will likely be ex-

lisis of Liberal census

(l-Ilifll‘ appivvprii

C(‘l,'1l(?’ll an‘.

ll»!

. of Prime Minister King and to the contrary notwith- si-mwii is still rampant at l(‘ m lis- rampant as long

as aw -in Q'1\\‘i'1llllC‘ll[ :iihninistcring LYHiIiIlFUs \\":ii' -i".. .\ few’ wccks 0f realism, such as ili»: p-w Q .n fin-at llritain have been

cxpcrimnvfizg. w" .. -l llluliC a great change in the public attitude of ricipiicuccnse in political hand- outs at lttviiwi. he: us hope that such a con- tingcnisy \\'l.l i1»: ari-e. If it does, the King cab- inct and its saw» ics will collapse like s house of cards. mil t liliililS will realize the only way tn win a w: . .. n irrir is to scrap politics “for the duration.”

Faith In Britain

F41

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ns events conspire rapidly toward a major htilitary $lll'lt\'-rl’.>l‘t'll in the Balkans, the New York Thine; a ipates a long struggle in that arena and prei s ultimately a concentrated British, (ircclc aiwl Yugoslav attack on Italy which ivill l<~ her out of the war and leave (iPflll-flll)‘ as tie stile cricnixi belligerent. Pay- ing tributa- tn Yiiqoslavia's stand, the Times says:

“The full sum and size of Yugoslavia’: bet 0n Britain begins to be appreciated only 3,5 thg Nazi war mach§i~.e_ trzimplits orcr hcr territory. \Vhat is happening niiw is what the Belgrade Govern- incnt fFlCFil iii it to d.‘ its fateful decision. Equally it must have fflC<‘l the terrible punishment that would be meted out to the country in the event 0f a German victorv. As an act of faith in the final succ==s of lli ain, no cvcnt of the war, in- cluding our warn p~lii~_v of aid to the limit, is quite so significant as tho .'iction of this Balkan state in opening licr ficlils to invasion and her cities to (l/‘slriiction. Yiiq~=l:ivia has wagered her national llfl‘ Ililfl llil‘ llll‘? of licr citizens on the belief that . .1: liVill-ll must win in the end."

\Va r Cum mitteek Function

from Ottawa

A (‘:iii.iil' lil l'ri- s dvspaich quotvs .\lr. _I~-i 1i '1‘. 'l'|i~i:<~ii, chairman 0f the Special \'l'i ..i- on \\‘ar Expenditures, as

Filfvllitf ill i: .'| .1; fliill] future outlays, rather than ill-w: of the pad. are the main concern of the wiiiiiifwr. 'll,<- primary purpose, according to lll(‘ l’il.'l ‘l .~.i_ i. “vxriininzuinn 0f future costs of flu‘ \‘."lI' r iii r‘, uhb a vicw to effecting ec- onomics wlzi rr- pM-ddc. Approval 0r disapproval of past 0";pi"."/l.t:ii'i s is not the main function Of titi- Civilllllliliuh"

'l'iii< v. i 1x‘, hi-wcvcr modificd by the phrase "nuin fii-imiuiz," alias not rcprcsont the \ll‘\\' of ll n. .'\‘. Ii. llzuisim, the Acting Con- s.-r\';i:§\—e lmwiii r, wl~~ h is ll(‘l'll urging upon the

(in ~-

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‘ill committee should ii iytiij" H) i". v

in: all cxix-nrliturcs ~-.'iud in rcpnrt llicrc-

i l fuiiiri.

- : .. n" lo rvpn-scnt thc vicw 0f t l'.im,~ \l"~‘ i i‘, Si» akin-g in tho [louse of l u: u i . -_ "' ~ ‘i p \lr, hing siiiil lhv Special l iuliiiii‘. . “is :1 r-imuiilti-i:

r giililllll ithich should be

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‘wit. cal . i

confined to the Public Accounts Committee, and which in Great Britain i: so confined." The rea- son that the British committee is confined to fcurrent" expenditures is that it has been in ex- istence since the war began

The people who are paying the shot, com- mcnts the Globe and Mail, have a right to know whether they are getting full value for every dollar expended. There will be emergencies when the Government will be justified in getting de- liveries quickly regardless of the cost, but in the absence of urgency there is no valid reason why public money should not be spent economic- ally and efficiently. Equally, there is no valid reason why the elected representatives of the people should not be furnished with evidence to satisfy the public about the propriety of the ex- penditures for which it is bearing such heavy taxation.

—s EDITORIAL NOTES n

Trans-Canada. Airways start new service be- tween here and Moncton today. i i! i i There were 233 marriages, and 233 births, (in- cluding still births), in the third quarter here of 1940. u u u a King's County usually has less snow in winter than the other counties; hence it is no surprise its main roads are the first to be open for traf- fic as far as Montague. u w w u We had become so auto-minded that we were more or less convinced it was absolutely neces- sary to keep the highways open all winter be- tween here, Summerside, Borden, Souris, Mont- ague, Georgetown, etc. We now know that the railway is the indispensable means of locomotion in winter, and should govern ourselves, or the railway, accordingly. u u a u Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president of the United States, assassinated this date 1865. \Von fame by great speech against slavery in New York, and elected President in 1860. Seven slave- owning states then seceded from the Union, form- ing the Confederate States; civil war followed by confederate seizure and capture of Fort Sunter (1861). Announced willingness to stop \var on submission of rebels to national authority of Un- ion constitution 1863. Re-elccted President in 1864; adhered to previous terms of peace; war ended April 1865; entered Richmond after its surrender; assassinated at “lasliington. n- : u u Live births in Canada during the third quarter of 1940 numbered 63,242 (prelimniary figures) giving an equivalent annual rate of 22.0 per 1,000 population as compared with 59,252 births and a rate of 20.8 for the third quarter of 1939. There were 2,210 illegitimate births forming 3.5 per cent of all live births, as compared with 2,- 213 and a rate of 3.7. Stillbirfhs amounted to 1,613 or 2.5 per cent of all births as against I,- 528 and a rate of 2.5 per cent. Deaths totalled 25,155 with a. rate of 8.7 per 1,000 population as compared with 24,161 and a rate of 8.5. The natural increase for the quarter was 38,087 giv- ing a rate of 13.3 per 1,000 population as against 35.091 or a. rate of 12.3. =1 =0- »: a Three hundred years ago Nlassachtisctts citizens were forbidden by law to drink liquor with another person. Research by the ‘WPA Historical Records Survey shows that in 1639 the “General Court" ruled that the “common practice on drinking one to another is a mere useless ceremony, and draweth that abominable practice of drinking healths." Such imbibing t0- gether was described as “an occasion of much waste of the good creatures, and of many other sins, and drunkennes, quarelling, bloodshed, un- cleanneu, mispense of precioul time." The ordin- ance stipulated a fz-pense penalty -about 24 cents ——for each violator. The person reporting such law-breaking got half the amount and the remainer went to the use of the town where the offence occurred. a u m a As last of her line, Mlss Jessie Louisa Mylne, a recluse who died recently at the age of 87, pro- vidcd in her will that her residence at Ham- mersmith, London, should be preserved as a museum. The family, a distinguished one, had once owned a. considerable part of the borough. Her estate was estimated at about $500,000. Jus- tice Farwel, in the local court, was asked to de- cide whether the clause in her will concerning the house constituted "a valid charitable gift." He said that to use the structure for no more useful purpose than that specified was a waste of money, "especially in these times.” Of the pictures, jewelry, books and other family belongings he re- marked: "The chattels the lady intended to be housed in this museum are not worth anybody’: while to go and see." Nevertheless he had to agree that the bequest was both valid and char- itable. So the house is to be known as “The J. L. Mylne Museum," as it: late owner had di- rected, a a a a There is not likely to be a mimimum price for butter as it might interfere with the production of cheese, for which there is a. growing export market. The War Time Prices and Trade Board said that it seems certain the threatened serious butter shortage in Canada will not materialize. “In response to the board’s request and with the co-operation of hotels, restaurants, institutions and individual consumers, considerable waste of butter shortage in Canada will not materialize it said in its quarterly summary for the period Jan- uary 1 to March 31. “There appears now to be no doubt but that the new season of production will be reached without the occurrence of any serious shortage of supply." Late last year, fast- (lwiudling butter stocks lcd to expression of be- lief by Government officials that a severe short- age might occur before dairy herds were put out to pasture and production mounted, "During the past three months the stock position in respect of huttcr has steadily improved, owing in large mea- sure‘ to a steady increase in production as com- ]l.'ll‘t‘tl with tlu- some months of the previous

THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

NOTES BY TNE WAY

Adolf Hitler M. Brita-in ummh time-obviously for home nsumptlcn. Adolf 1| talking a great. invasion and maybe In will and maybe] he will brgtg

dismiss 01¢ impression that he is whistling to keep hLs-end his pe:ple’s— courage up. - Minne- apolis Star Journal.

Dartmouth College In the llllhi- ly embarrassed beneficiary of a bequest of $500,000 from the late Emil Bummer of Brooklyn, . ., a lifelong opponent of college edu- cation. Mr. smmer did, to be sure, stipulate that none of the money should b, used for the hlsher ed- ucation of women, for competitive sports or for instruction in the “so- called dead languages." But there is a. minor mystery in why he left. money to a college at, all." -Balt.1- more Sun.

William Allen White, the fam- Qus editor of the Emporla (Kan- sas) Gazette, is reported by the New York Times as having made these eb.-erva.t..ons at a zumeizng recently held in his honor m that. city: In the coming world, h, warn- ed, 1t will cast as much. to main.- tatn our isolation as it will cost to help other democratic nations set up a. soc.ety of goodwill, We let Fmmpe "stew in its own juice” after the last. war, he continued, but ask- ed l! it WI/llld not. have been "cheaper twenty years no 1n cold

in the League of Nations than to spend the billions we Me Spending today for defence." We shah nave to spend another “national areas- ure" twenty years hence, he added, if we shlrk our duty now."- Win- nipeg Free Press.

The planting uf fruit trees on Alberta farms is a devezcpmeitt of resent years that 1s worthy of en- couragement. The p10Il€F.\'_!81‘mBI'S of this province d‘d not conccm themselves a. great deal 1n the planting of trees of any kind. They were busy men whose eneigcs were pretty well taken up with breaking the prairie sod and es- tablishing a HLmB. Then it. was thought. that trees of any kind would grow only with. the greatest diffwuliy because the prairxs in. its

-Brooks Bulletin.

Hitler’; gloom over a. rebirth of Great Britain 1:1 the fires ot war may be accentuated by the rhoushi than it. actually leaves the British commonwealth stronger plum ever. That, dces not Usually happen in the rejuvenation formulas known to science or legend. Usually the operation arrests the process of decay for a term of years. If it leaves the patient only hair as young or strong as he used. to be, he is very well pleased. In bu: present case it is obvious that HIL- 1er's calculation; started out witn the British Empire, and he ends up facing me British Ellllllfe plus the United States. Hitler's advisers were afraid that a fuli-szed war would tone up the systcm of a competaior embracing, say, 150,000,000 EngLsh- speaking folk. Hitler's war 1135 broughi absut a. sol-d union of 200,000,000 English-speaking folk on botn slues of bhe Amantac, There is probably naming like such a. result in the annals of rejuvenation. — New York Times.

Th0 seriousness of’ Britain's ship- ping sauailcn can be Laid ul a few ilgufes. To ante British srnppdlg losses in the war total signify more than 5.000.000 was. Stan available for we vital tasks of transportation mat. means life or death to Line United Kingdom are approximateiy 8,500,000 was. 101s the oplnon 0f tncse best. QUBLIIIOCl to judge than German “all out." sea. and air wax- fare may result, I11 another 4.000,- 000 tons o1‘ slllppdlg, Merchant yes destroyed before nus year ends. Should fomcast. muwriahzc and Britain receive no now _snipp 11g, uie situation would, within tne next. year, become crifltml. _H9fl.e the satisfaction felt. 1n oifzclal circles that one of bhe first. forms of United States aid uncer the Lend- Leasg law will be the turnmq over to Britain of some 50 IIebIJl-laéfl, representing about. 700,000 ions 0t snippmg. Merchant. vessels are doubiy needed, and the U5. _car- rlers to be added _ to the British service will be of high value at this juncture. - Strabford Beacon- Herald.

The new American Ambas- sador has beam {sported “lip bg p manofconsiera e wee. . u ti.» story of how he acquired it ls not, generally u. It. was ac- tually bllq result of a wartime ac- quaintance. When serving as l. private 1n fiance lVLr. winant. hap- pened to "bunk" wfbh another “doughboy" named Coyie. who turn- leld out to havg comezxiromdtllahpvgl ome town ncnr e Hamrpmfm. The two soon became u e o - fife‘; firth. “£31..” ill‘... “if fields and presently reported w his fox-trier fellow-campaigner that. he l"? ‘°“““..i..i‘ °’i‘i‘.l“lé"u‘l’;"fiill‘.lll u ne cap - a“ of it. Mr. Winmt at. once went mi“:- ti?“ n fer uss 3 v6.1 gparqacnsh lnhgfiplrfrtilg purtchuse of a lease. T rs we a was driven proved to be n gusher, and other ventures 1n the same proper- ky‘ were equally successful, so that e two tnera were boon well off. Man ter Guardian.

The Dutch ere s V|IOI0lll ncr, yet. the Hun would wipe out. such a race. virtle and industrious, the Dutch burn with A loyalty to liberty that is so far removed from the state of the Germans who are ac- tivated by Hitler! violence tall-at the German; cannot understand tnem. So benlghted and clouded is the German that. he cannot see the things that appear worthwhile to the Dutch and other lover; of liberty. The stupid arrogance of the Hun and his leader; to one of the penalities Germany pays fo.-_ sub- mitting for generations to militar- and tyranny. Naturally en enemy might. expect a people such s4 the Dutch to revolt and cammt sabotage, but the Hun cannot see 1t that way. He does not m, tizat hi; enlelty and repression flre the spirits of the subfuauted people and that all the shootings and ex- ecutions for smote“ cannot stifle the spirit and love of country that the Dumb feel. The Dutch, s mall nation, have lived for two thrus- nnd years and preserved their racial characteristics though sur- rounded by 111Q[g__powerful neigh- bars but, they have never lost their Dutch courage and Dutch sense of

Reedy or not hers I come! about: ' for the

try it ft offmButltisno onzerpoeslieto

dollars and cents tn take our place Prqvj

natural condition was bare of trees. 00

Bonus Plan Questioned

(Globe and Mull)

difficulty of m-ut e gen- eml 1w to meet fndtvld circum- I t: well Hurt-rend by the new national wh t boy. For ex- ample. Mr. W. W. ey of 8e- mam Saskatchewan, flunk; he will find 1t difficult to fit. into the Bum- merfallow bonus plan with any ad- vantage to his i941 operations. be- cause. as he points out. "no pm- visloin has been made for irregul- arit-les in summer-fail owing, w en for vartoiu reasons suirmer-fellow

moses"

or dec . In a letter to the Moose Jaw ‘Ilmes-Herald. m". Lindley writes: For example. in 104i‘) I had 150 acres of summerfa low land 1n wheat and 42 of stubble plowing tn oats. Because of drought 1 sun- merfallowed 1n 1940. 214 aczes w put in When/t 1n 1941. As I understand the Government policy. I am supposed to put into wheat th‘; year only 65 per cent of my 1040 wheam acreage of 150

acres. Surrmeda-Pow ready for

wheat in 1941 - - - —2l4 urea

65 per cent, of 1940 acreage of 150 — — — — — — 9'1 1-2 116 1-2

‘min leaves 116 1-2 wee for coarse

grains. when will I store or sell?

Moose Jaw newspaper be- lieves them will lbe other oases similar to that of Mr. Llndley, “but for the great’. majority of formers in the drought; areas the summer- failow bonus will work ln reverse to Mr. mndley’; eorperence." '

Speaking for a large group in his nee Mr. W. T. Mooney of Grand Coulee. Saskatchewan. has been in Ottawa. protesting against. the way in which assistance has been given and ls proposed further. It. is h‘; cmtentton-end this lb the verdict or the majority-than the men who had the larger elds of wheat per wre 1n the last ew years obtained by the major share or the 567.000.0041 lost by the Mice-t Board and onade good by the Dominion Government in marketing opera» lions on the I938 and 1939 crops. In other words, the funnel"; who were most tn need of help because they suffered’ partial or total crop faflure got Lt 1e or nothing. and these who had the best crops got neary everything.

The group for which Mr. Mooney speaks is also opposlnp Mr. Gardin- er's proposed expend tuxe of $36,-

l In the Wat to discourage wheat production this season. on the ground that this mcnev would 0150 80 Ohlefly b0 those who do not, need it. and second, because the farmers could and would make the needed adjustment themselves in a. much less dangerous way if left to their own de ces. It is felt by hhfa group that. such expenditures by the Federal Goverrment should he avoided when every available dollar is needed for the prosecution of the war and the preservation of human lliberty.