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TIIE IIIIAIILIITTETOWN Ii IIARII IAN

Morning Daily (Founded tn 1881)

President, LleuL-Col. W. Chester S. Mobil" Vice-President. J. R. Burnett. FJ-l- Secretary. LleuL-Col. f). A. MacKlnnon, 0.8.0. ldltor 1nd Managing Director. J. R. Burnett, FJJ. Allochte Editors. Frank Walker and Ian A. Bums"-

silisscnii-Tiox RATES s; sun ln P. a. l.. $4.00 nr-r rear. 52-5" for 6 ""1"" 81.25 for 3 months. 50c for one month- Clty Delivery. $5.00 tier W1" 5300 I" 5 “"0005 $1.75 for 3 monthmuoo m a’ ~ ti. s. A. . r y - h“: $nyltlclfkitjangiflilfa§g year. $1.00 for 6 montluf 50c for 3 monthl-

‘The Strongreisfil-lemorywis. TVeaker thdl [he Weakest Ink.”

TFESDIIY, JULY so, 1940.

Military Training

Of inn-rho 1.. 1f‘ (‘uwi/lian citizens are the

' ~ - iraiiniig plan. out- - - yesterday by ', the present

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details o!’ lined iii 11-‘) Defence .\ armv c= . ' -

' M. g__\ < t as at today r33,- 572 men. fw-wi l'l zi . ‘ i 0f ake- ‘Th0 a" serving at " l 1'T"‘~'l’l- P3."—s1-30 P"

dav plus al. -. _ ‘2, "The \'.~. .' llwtiie Guard companies.

vflerflm ,,{ - ‘ _:o years and under.

who a”. service defenrling key

22 companies of ie as CAST’. A ct i v e Militia i8 in 45 years of f~r service in the training. Pay $1.10 'l y are paid only

Points. T? "Z ':7t”l

25") flli

li1l1f"l Reserve, com-

priging M‘. _ of zq years of ‘age and under, “Pr. -.~..-: time training. Pay

same as .\'.l“s\ ‘ll.

The . ‘lea for suspending, on

witig, voluntary recruit-

Aug. l5

in‘! f“, t}... , M distinct from the CASF. The are w be called for training dutv "e in Canada under the .\'ations.l h‘ mation Act Will hfi brough, ,4,‘ i"? militia regiments yhroughop- _ The. period of annual training wzlI V rlavs, beginning about Oct. I, in groups cf , ximatcl)’ 30-000 P"

month ggnqge m.“ flir- low-er categories will bg called first. It is izrl‘i"r~l_v that married men will be called dziri: the first year. In one year, appmximatply 347M700 mr-n will have FCCCIWKI initial training; {H046 men will be regarded as (h, vanguard of Canada's defense army. No dis- tinction will be f7‘.'il’ltt ween the new recruits, thus drafmrp and the rrst of the militia, except that the men valTe/l .er this plan will not be "ailahk fr»,- flll'\' our-"irle of Canada unless they volunteer for such. service.

Make Registration Easy

It ha; bgen gtigqeslefl f0 Ottawa that Il1C N8- tional Registration :0 be carried out nmtt month gguld be expedited by providing forms that could be fills-d mi! at hr-me in advance of the fegiiffatiofl flHlCS. '1 ‘ie proposal is indorsed by the Toronto Star, w ' ‘ ‘ g

_If every one of the in..lons of persons eligible for registration slviuld reach the registration of- fioo with his answers aIreadyi ivritten out, lt would save a great r al of time and make it ne- cessary for the r ars only to check over the lnlwerr to see i the requirements are com- Pflgd with, The cimen could attest that his sn- lwers were correctly given.

As the registration dates approach rt becomes increasingly evident tliar, unless s great number of offices an, Qpr-nevl in every electorial

' " and the method of re stration s s-

vision Z1 _ l’ tcmatized, the rush w swamp the registrars and perhaps confuse an e-‘w-ntially simple situation. It is not suggested tlia! these factors have been overlooked by the authorities; but the general public should be made aware of the complete plan well in advance.

If it is going to be necessary for the people to stand long hours waiting their turn t0 register, there is hound to be a great deal of dis- satisfaction. Such dissatisfaction could be dis- rc rdcd in \'lf'\\' of the occasion’: im rtanCC.

ga 1 _ P0 but there should l-c no need in any event t0 disrupt the ordinary i1 '

1y life of the community to the point of confu-v-n. A mother with s. large family and lll)ll<l‘lllil'l to look after, for example, will surely not be expected to leave her children and stand in line for hpurs at a time. It should be pocgilylg try ar Q0 for people to reach the registration offices in some sort of alphabetical order at slaltul f“ll('~. Hrgi-iration. under these circumstances uwuVl h.» rrl‘llf'l‘l_’.',' there would be IIttlc waiting, and l - grinning.

The law as :t u: < lll'<l\'l>it'§ that the ques- tions must lfi- ' i i‘l'<ll in the [IFCSCHFQ of a registration of w mu still be done. All that is ileccssacv i. t. ll ilic law so that the citizen can go to i‘; ration office with the answers zihi-a "y ivr: in out on forms to be provided, and .\\\". '11‘ ti. tlzi-ir ziccuracy. The an- swers could be rhrrl" l and tlicn transferred t0 the official cartl zit ire by the registration officials.

A TFIIAIBMZTOO Thick

The Sydney l'o=l-l\'<~c~i-il (independent) voic- n it"; opinion that lIlll_ l\’. l’.. Hanson, Op- position leadvr in 1hr- llpu-e of Commons, was right in rejecting l’rinit~ Minister King's tenta- tive suggcstipn llmi lQ-rlz-ral liy-elcciions “might we" he flffllllpfl iltiriiu; wririiiiic," Hy Mr. King's own clioicr- and ilvrii‘. fiillliltlll‘! Wflflllllc Gov-

ernment rr-maihis a >llll¢>'l-])llf‘3 party admin- IFfffilinii_ {iipl must lltvrvllwrt? resign IIQQII t0 sim/m-frlrc lt‘ll‘7\' ripprn-"ririii. The Premier "atiiitil in lTil-lrli rjtltli‘? to have it all, politically- .,,.,,i,-,",,._,, IIHI; ,~,, .I,,_. m] going. Nor can it be

irtfillrll [it'll iii» l‘w ll|ll'l', on his own volition, lip] 1: m] H;|' ,‘:.'l'l|"ll ~,'ri>l<t* fif POIIIIGII SIFHIQE)’, fl"Ill)l‘f‘.’ll('I\' ppMp;--.:./l fl lloiiiinion general elec-

tion wlimi sh» \\,'.' \\.'ls zipproacliitig its most lCule Mrigi- la-t llwivlv. "Wartime elecuons," says our Sydney 00n-

t ' ' ‘ ‘ ‘ t‘ ‘T’? h.‘ {it , .4312"? I r é i n; é‘: r“ y f! w‘ 1 ‘ g fill

ltemporary, “can only be obviated in s politically lunited country. Mr. King keeps Canada divided "in Liberal and Conservative political camps. He won an election 4 months ago by tactics which strained the constitution to the very limits 0f its legal potentialities, and has on several occasions since pointed with pride to the offside 'victory" ihe obtained on that occasion. Now, it seems, he luants to hold the political spoils of that victory without being subjected to the annoyance of be- ing obliged to defend them at the polls. To con- cede his extraordinary request would be to per-. mit him to lay it on a trifle too thick. There is ‘ neither democracy nor sportsmanship in his rc- quest.”

- EDITORIAL NOTES -.

Thomas Gray, “Elcgy," died this date, i771: "The social smile, the sympathetic tear." I I i I

The calling up process is making itself felt .in Banks and Audit Offices, several leading ‘young men in the respective professions having already left, or are about to leave, to join their

units. w u a u

The worst, (for politicans) of Ottawa being so near both United States and Australian] capitals by wire and cable, is that corrections of l Government claims re speeding-up, etc, come Io hand the very next clay.

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It ls only fair when Dunning and Ralston came to the Maritimes for parliamentary seats, that Angus L. should return the compliment by seeking a constituency in Ontario-“giff-gaff

maks guid freens." i: : e a-

Tha vVood Islands-Caribou Car Ferry fiasco‘ is still a sore point with those unfortunate peo- l plc who. took the Liberal politicans at their word.

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What a fellow, especially an investor in the Car Ferry stock, cannot understand is vvhatl economy ls being effected when $1.000 per

month more is being paid for the old service than was to be paid for the new. : i: e i:

According to Mr. Will Thorne, veteran Labour M. P., the only cure for Hitler's world-power mania is marriage. Addressing himself to Hon. Alfred Duff Cooper, the member asked. "Can the Ministt-r of Information say when it will be possible to persuade Hitler to get married to a sensible woman?” Usually Mr. Duff Cooper is quick on the trigger but this one stopped him. He just stammercd until Mr. Thorne, who has

been married four times, sat down with a grin. i: i: i: i:

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It has been suggested in Parliament that the National Registration forms be filled up atl home instead of at Registration bureaus. It is claimed that the Income Tax forms are thus filled up. But how many people, who should pay Income Tax, fail to do so, simply because they cannot be bothered applying for the ne- cessary forms? Besides, those with taxable in- comes find it difficult enough to answer the questions asked, how many more will be in a

similar position regarding registration? 1N 1F N‘ N‘

Notwithstanding the appeals of General Crerar and others for volunteers for overseas service, M11 Arthur I. Hills, chairman of the‘ National Labor Supply Council, warned workers to "remain at what you are doing until after Na- tional Registration is complete throughout Can- ada." He said this would avert any possible change of congestion in industry through work- ers changing positions. Until told specifically what you are to do, stop running from job to job," he advised. Individuals are not able to judge which jobs are essential. If you are worried about occupations, remain steady."

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As the old cock crows the young one lesms. Of the six small boys who marched in full Highland uniform at the head of the famous] 42nd Battalion of the Black Watch. Royal High- landers of Canada, before that unit sailed for overseas in the last war, five are now on active service with the Canadian forces. As mascot of the 42nd, when they were little more than babies, these since grown men strutted on parade through Montreal streets with their battalion, their small kllts swaying as proudly as the soldiers who followed them -—many of whom were not to return. Today, these former mascots hold commissioned rank in Canada's fighting forces, carrying on the tradition of their fathers who were officers in the 42nd Battalion,

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Says "Timer" U. S. A. “will have to show n willingness, not hitherto apparent, to deal in world problems firmly and sensibly. Arid in do- ing, so it must also, as Britain has done, accept the odium of being top dog in the world. In that event, the U. S. can no longer afford to have its external policies subject to the whims of internal politics. It must think in world terms and regardless of quarrels about what

party should be in power at home, it must ac-

‘that. nothing should fall on them.

THE Cli-ARLQflflffilQllfNs GUiBDI-AN

NIITES BY TIIE WAY

"Mental tranquility‘ ls Included 1n the latest set of remedies for the common cold. Never mind what else 1s included. If you can make this 021e, work with a common cold the others won't be needed.-Kan- s“: Cay star. "

Rome admits 775 ltnllan soldiers

were killed in the cLvlng day; or the dominion-s

war on the Alpine front. but doesn't. state whether they stopped bullets or merely fell over lrrcclplces 1n their scramble to stab Fiance 1m the basic-Windsor Star.

An anti-aircraft shell fired It an enemy plane 20,000 feet 1n the air (a riot unusual altitude) will take about. 10 seconds to reach its mark. A single seconds mlscalculat-lon would cause t-he shell to expole futllelv 1.000 feet above or below the intended target. - New York

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Canada ls 1n good company In takulfl 0n the burdens of new taxa- tion. Yesterday in the UflllVEd States the citizens felt the initial shock of the nation's new defense taxes. Alike 1n the neighboring Republic and in Canada, tlits 1s part of the price We must pay for the maintenance of our democratic life and liberties; and as they are maintained, there will be Just com- pensatlon for the monetary sacrifice. -Montreal Gazeirte

As the war In Africa ls supplying welcome news of stiocesees, so 1t ls supplying welcome touches of hu- mor. Two are provided 1n the

Times. One, of course. was the.

novel and agreeable aclilevsiment of British razders 1n Libya ln cap- turing an Italian general tn full uniform ln the act. of driving his ivlfe to a maternity home, where she expected soon to have is baby; she will have it ln an Eg_vpt:ari ma- ternity heme noiv. The other was in a mes-Cage from Aden wlrch told how during n Britzsli raid in Abys- slnla “the eritzre bazaar was pray- lng throughout the rald no: onlv

but also that maximum dams e should be came to the Italla: Whoever the cleltv to whim

the petitions were addressed, both, 1t 1s

satlsfactorit to know, were fully answerecL-Jbondon Spectator.

Salt Spring Island, which during the last, war was at or near the lop in the record of enlistmeriis per caputa or population tor all Canada, 1s well on the way to repeacng tha; T600111 again, More than 1C0 men have joined the colors from 1L5 small and scattered settlements, and all of these 1n volunteer cate- gories. Since the out-break of the present conflict, Salt Spring Is- land has been sending men to the Navy, the Army and the Alr Fo:oe. Many have already been m action and have given a good account of themselves. In many eases llie

loom of fathers who fought through

the last war are now in the railks. and happy to be there. On one day alone recently. seven ycuug men reached Victoria from Sal; Spring Island to _]Oln up. Tins. expercnce has been a wcll-iizzli conaitarit one since recruiting com- menced. Salt Spring Island is fux- nlshing a splendid example British Columbia to follow, and the little island community ls entitled to be proud of its TGSIJXJIEG. -- Vlc- toria. Colonist

At the National Zoological mrk ln Washington, ASJaIRTlT Director E. P. Walker has been studying the gleam of beasts‘ eyes when a beam of light falls on tlitm lii the dark and the observer's line vision L; parallel wltli the beam. The greenish gleam of car" eyes 1s familiar to most persons. Mr. Wal- ker reports scme of lils findings 1n the year book of the Sm/thssiiian Instltutoln. The shining results from reflection from some suxface of the eye; color and character vary Mt/h the kind of animal. Colors range from silver-y to blue-green, pale gold, rcddLsh-gold, brown. am- ber and pink; most resembled re- flection from a burnished metal surface, those of crocodiles and al- ligators gave the effect of g.iz.ng into “a brilliantly glowing pinkish opening ln a rulI-suflaced bed of coal." Glowing eyes gave the 1m- presslon of reflection from the sur- face of the retina; the observer seemed to be looking through the pupil. Metallic gleams, on the other hand, gave no impression of look- lng into the interior of the eye. Various bxpéfllflftflts support the theory that the shining results from simple reflection: no light. seems to originate 1n the anlmal eve. Mr. Walker (mind no proof of the alleged shining of human eyes. although the most, brilliant reflection; of all were from the eyes of two trypes of those alllcs of the monkeys, the lemurs, the slow lorls and the potto. The results obtained by Mr. Walker were noted 1n Great Brit-sin, and a resident of Stratford-on-Avori, Dents G. A. Dyson of Klnsz Edward VI school now says ln Nature that “for many years he has known of an ‘un- doubted mse‘ of shining eyes 1n s. shop asslstant 1n Birmingham." Mr. Dyson dlrl not know that night shlnl eyes were rare 1n man and he pad little attention to these, but he thinks the glow was of a dark red color. That shop assistant ls 1n for 1t: the scientists wlll soon be after him and he will be lucky 1f with their examinations they do not turn him lnto a noetimiiil anil-

quire the tradition of carrying on a strong, con- sistent foreign policy, a tradition whose failure has brought France to downfall and Britain to the brink of downfall. To become mistress of the seas would be an outright reversal of U. S. isolationism, but it is a policy on which the U. S. already is launched. It was launched last week when Congress definitely placed an order for a two-ocean navy.” i: i: i: n

It is difficult for the average urban Canadian to visualize the immensity of our Western fields. For example, today's seeded wheat area, if spread along the railway line, would stretch as a single grain field five miles north and five miles south every inch of the road between Hali- fax and Vancouver. Field crops are the heart- beat of the West. In Ontario, of the gross value of agricultural production in I939, amounting to $365,000,000, field crops represented $i48,ooo,- ooo, or just 40 per cent of the total. In Mani-

toba the field crop percentage reaches up to 60 per cent: in Albert , 7o per cent; while 80 per cent of Saskatchewan's farm revenues come from its field crops. Over the three Prairie Pro-

mal like the lemurs. If they do, they should at. least refrain from enforcing nrboreal habits on him, From the New York Sun

Amongst the people who scramb- led book to Bllghty from France when Nllarnhal Petaln took hle momentous declslon were n. num- ber of British artists officially M,- tached to our BET‘. ‘These art. practitioners were accorded honor- ary army rank and put lntao khaki. but they were about as civilian as 1t l; possible to be 1n their habits and outlook. For this reason the testimony of one of them, tn whom l‘ was talking today, may be valu- able. 'I'hl.s middle-aged painter, who had never heard s gun fired 1n anger before in his llfe, cums 1n for some fairly lively air-straf- flna by one German bombers. One his bomb burst, he estimates, with- in 50 yards of hlm. Let idmake some allowance for s very human tendency. and call it 200 varids. To

far lens terrifying than he anticl- pated, both actually on the aur- roundfngs and also on his nerves. But what. did create a tenflylng lmiireesion. he mo. was the 1n- credlblo uproar of me A. A. bat-

‘vinces of tlie total agricultural production, valued at $475,orxw,ooo— a round million dollars of new wealth come from these mighty fields every morning throughout 1939.

terlee. Civilians in this country will do well an afr raid, moat of the intimidat-

ing noise ls due to the defenders, not In tam Joitmd.

ltlbwarm-Ot

for‘

°r f Tlie solltudes of tam and b111,

his aeltonlszhmernt, the effect was‘

b0 realize that, during

A New Realism ’

(Halifax chronicle) Many new developments 1n the

‘United states point to a more real- lstlc understanding of world eventsl iMore and more people ln that coun-l t j are becoming conscious that. the, ,Unlted States c nnot. remain aloof :from the stru lEuro . More and more] lpeopee understand that. the United lSta s his a definite stake ln the‘ ‘war which Great Britain and her

are Waging against Nazi‘ Germany and ltliisclst Italy.

Offlclal steps to check the move- ment of oll to Germanv and Italy, discussions of poses and other pro- tective measures 1n the West Indlrs and ln Nova Scotla. and a thousand and one private expressions of opin- l ‘ion all reflect the growing i-eallz-l atlon that the United states must. take heed of existing dangers.

The dangers are not entirely new. ‘They are not the product of the past, few months. They have been a -

rent slnce the war began, But t. e‘

nvaslon of the Low Countries and‘ the fall of France so emphasized the, danggs that even those who clung‘ stub rnly to lscfatlonlst policies. can hardly ignore them.

Feverlshly the United States is‘ ‘trying to arm at home and extend. some ald to Great Brltaln overseas.‘ Extremely vocal lsolatlonists stlll put ‘obstacles ln the was’. but their voic- es sound steadily less COIIVIXICUIQi and the reallsts point to more and‘ lmore evidence against an isolationist DC Cl’-

Manv people 1n the United States are just beginning to realize how- lriependent their nation has been on ltlie British naiys operations in the 1Atlaiitic_ Thev realize that the Brli- ‘lsh navy reallv enforced the Mcn-. roe doctrine. They shudder to think .of the conse ueiiccs should that lnavv be defca ed or even crippled ln the Battle of Britain.

, Even in Iowa, ln the U.S. Mldvnest. ‘ the dangers are becoming apparent. The Des Molnes Register Tribune S c

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‘ eaks plainly to those who would ing to isolation. If Great Britain ‘were defeated, the Register Tribune

points out, the United States would destroy me nmmlc of tlie civil