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PAcF. FOUR _ _ _

THE CHARLOTTETUWN GUARDIAN

Dimming Daily IFollnded In I887) McLure I.

President: Lieut. Cnl. W. Chester S. Yiee-Presltleilt: lll R- Burnett. F. Sccretaijt: |.it‘l||. (‘ill D. .\. ltlat-Klnnnnl D.S.0. Efior and lg llirctrtur: J. R. Burnett. FJJ. A-suviute l1 . hunk Walker and Ian A. Burnett

SYIISIYIIIIIIPION RAIIIS By Mall In l‘. L L. “4-"0 per year; $2.50 for 6 months Slfifi Il-r 3 nluutlts: 50c for one month City DPIlVl-l): $3.01! per year; $3.00 for 6 months .~l.7l'i tor 3 months By Mail in (zitilttlit and USA. $5.00 per year Saturday It Uvkl); S3170 per your; $1.00 for 6 months, 50c lur 3 months.

fTha Strongest Memory is Weaker than the

Weakest Ink."

‘EELS; iii v, VI- EURUAKY 2s, 1941.

A Loss To The Empire

The tletitli of Sir Frederick Banting in an air. plane crush in uilicli two coinpaniotis also were ltilled, is a l-.».-.~ inn only to Canada, but to the whole British lzliiplre. A; the co»discgygfer of the insulin ticatiiieur for diabetes and recipient of the holiel Prize for this and other achievements in the field of medical research, Sir Frederick's reputation was \\'llI’ltl-\\‘l(l(‘_ Bu; it was not gen- erally knutvu that since the outbreak of war he had been etigtigetl in the service of his country, on prolilrni- vllilllccicd with military aviation, alld at the time oi llls lli-zilll he was proceeding to Britain on a lllb-"IPII 0f high national and scienti- fic lII1POl'I£tl]CC_

The ‘Lrilllltcs paid yesterday to his ntemory rc- fccted tlle wiy high c-tt-eln in which he was held, not only l>_v lclijtt‘ sclt-iitzsls, but by all Classes, “tireat wll he the gill-i," stud Prime Minister Illackcilzi»: liil. "ililil his hic, s0 full of promise for human u ...u"c, should have collie to such an untimely cull." llle example of such a life, how- ever, shill: Itlllllill ii source of enduring inspira- tion to hzs fellow LWIIHIITYITIQII.

\\"liy This lixpeudilureli

line Goverrlrllrllt estimates tabled last week include SILHUU fur the chrtirnizlll and $7,500 for each of L‘.\'U olhcl- illclilllers 0f the Pfllllellllafle5 Comnill-il 2i which llais not yet been named.

AppOllllllltlll oi such a body < to govern our Federal ll'l'1~»l1=. ttl-tes the Ultétwa journal, was recnnlnlt-ulled by a i-l»_val cnlnnlission which sat lenglhlly and €l\llt‘il*l\'t‘ly and reported almost three yetirs r1541», (ill April 4th, 1938.

Iilicre never \\'l't5 lunch necessity for the set- ting up of the commission of inquiry, except the (IPsllC of the tioverlillielll to placate a few noisy seil::lii<'ll:;llz-"l< ttutl sob-sisters. There is stil

less (lcctisillil [or ittiplcluetttittg that commission's

report at a vi-ry toilsilicrzible expense t0 the tax- payers, c-pc .l_v in a year when Parliament is to Wilt’ $1.3 ink-tilts‘ 0 for the war,

lt is I“. ~_- ; ‘lice the royal commission gzltc. clnltllis a vlav of self-pity, gave them l lllull‘ ills and grievances, and l litl... Cs have been adminis- ‘lucln of Justice and a trained

staff l-f iiliil-lnlc lilltl guards, If the need for a Ctlll!!lll'*1"ll \\'llS l; int ll is strange that the Gov- ernment llIll l.l.i lllllill‘ ltplllllllllllClllS when we were at pczivlu Null, in Will‘, willl dollars needed

t and ships, it would be pl'€l!(.>.€l('l"f1ll\ l0 take on three useless and highhv-ltznl And we may be sure $24,000 for llttcv o llliiliissilviiers wotlld not be tlze last cost. Wail, wllull net-d Offices, and furni- ture, travelling c.\pcn.-<'s, secretaries, assistants, clerks and sielioplxlphcrs, all to do the work that now is being done much more cheaply by a sys- tem which has stllotl well the hard test of exper- ience.

To set up this commission, while the war con- tinues at least, would be a shocking waste of pub- lic money.

for built-ls it'll-l zinc"

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More Extravagance

Another revelation of gross extravagance was In the expenditure last year of $202,672 for gov- ernment press agents. This expenditure might

In defended if the Government was getting any

adequate returns; bill the fact is that most of the propaganda prepared by lhesc men goes straight into the waste paper baskets of newspaper offices Iron-i coast to coast. e

According to Hon. j. B. Gardiner, Minister of National War Services, who tabled the return in Parliament, no statistics are available to show in what papers the press releases issued by the Gov- onunent were published. Yet these res: releases 00st an average of $262 each. The £202,672 paid out of the nittioital treasury for Government pro- paganda ls roughly twice the combined salaries of the forty COITCsPOIIlICIIIE who cover the proceed- ln s of Parliament for the press of Canada.

ut what is much worse from the taxpayers’ point of view, says the Globe and Mail, is that the shocking waste of public funds in Government publicity is sympfllmzitic of what is taking place in nearly every department of the public serviu. 1f the taxpayers had the faintest conception of how their money is poured down s dozen differ- ent sewers on Parliament Hill there would be a rebellion.

According to the return tabled by Mr. Gardiner, twelve (lCpZlflYllPfllS of the Dominion Government have a total of eighty-six employees engaged in publicity wllrk who (lrztw annually $t64,46o in salaries. lllClllIlPIl iii these will be stenographcfs and office l>ll_\'.<. llut lll zillilltioll to salaries there will be office» lllfllllllfl‘, tiling cabinets, station- ery and OllltT Hllllt rial, JlHll IClFIilIHIICS, the cost of which is nut. Iilllvll ltlln ncclllnlt in the return brought (ltl\\'ll in the llililse. Ull top of all this is lllc l)t‘l\l‘ll'llllt‘lll (ll l’ul-!ic Infni-lniition. which pnyg i-(ll‘l>\"llli't't' lluhllcltv employees Stinzyg a

VUQIT. ll is lllt‘ \\'l4litjl of cbllllflllcllt newspaper- iiilru llizil lhl lllllil of llH‘ nlzitcrizil prlldtlcetl lzy these litil-ttlllrlzu. got ~ dlnr-illt whore it bclmigs- iinii the tl-il .‘_li. .\n lllt l inlets‘ lilouey which pays for ll :1 ‘a 4ll'\\'ll ll.t' llrzlili.

A_ Vermont View

from [lll- lWiFlx rihhcil Republican state of Ver- mmll gillllr- a I'-'{>\' of lllt‘ .\ltiI‘l‘lS\‘lllL‘ hlcssengtr ,,-y,,.,l,_ h, ,ll- l I'll zlvlivii‘ on Willi‘ (lveate-t [Hllililqfl 5 v.3. ‘ .\\,‘ 1,. lil\(4ll‘_\'." llt-nlultlccs Ill lllt‘ up,“ YIBUIUII) fashion llie dtliiy lll tlie euttcttlletlt

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of the lease-lend bill and the tactics 0f those who are obstructing its passage. “Politicians at Wash- ington," it reularks, "are having a swell time at the expense of more tluili 4.1,000,LXJO voters who reg tcred their approval last fall in favor of all- uut aid t0 Britain."

Conlplaiut is iuadc that time was wasted lis- tening to the testimony of people never before liczird of as international experts, and the pre- tensions oi Charles l\_ Liutlberg as an authority on PUIJIIC affairs are distiiisscd with contempt. “Let our law-itlakers cut out Illejidfisllflu/ PEI’- fornlatice and get back of the President,” the Vermont paper urges. "If we must furnish credit and war material to the British nation," it continues, “let's do it now . . . No matter what it costs, it will be cheaper than sending millions of young men to shouder arms in any part of hur- o .” phpparently debts resulting from the previous war have not been forgotten and The Messenger demands that they be cancelled as an expression of appreciation of what Britain has done to pro- tcct America. Until the present national de- fense program began to take form, it says, the people of the United States had not realized how much the country had saved by not having to maintain a two-ocean navy.

..- EDITORIAL NOTES .—l

A decrease of I92 students from the preceding session is noted by McGill University and Mac- donald College in complete registration figures for the present session. Present registration now stands at 3,232—2,I74 men students and 1,058 women students.

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Most people will agree with the Vancouver n wspaper which says no one can understand why Premier Pattulo was “accompanied to Ottawa by a galaxy 0f Cabinet Aliuisters and a staff of 01'- ficials large enough for an army corps when he had previously determined to scuttle the Sirois report.”

II 1' Ill l Not nlany alterations are to be made in IIIflvOIII

' Bank of Nova Scotia building recently acquired

by the Provincial (joverlilneilt, The Bank of Catl- ada. will continue to occupy the ground floor, while above accommodation will be provided fur the Department of Agriculture, the \\'onlcn's Institutes, and the Uld Age Pension Board. ll‘ i ‘K i

Most people will agree with Mr. Hanson that the taking of the decennial census arranged for this year should be postponed as an economy measure. i\lr. llaiison said a stun “in excess oi 1523500000" was being spent on the census. He recognized the British North America Act re- quired the census be taken, but Canada was at war, and the census was a purely peace time activity which could be foregone by the tillaui- nlous approval of the provinces.

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Hon. l\Ir. Howe told the House of Commons that there was not a sliirill engineering shop in Canada lJIItVWZIS getting war work to do. Ile w.8 lllllllfiflltllfily Qllallcngctl by a mentber from \';ui- voucei" who declared there were tlozctls in British Colultlbia without orders. But our representa- tives silt dumb and let the lltisrepreselttzilion pass though they well knew that Bruce Stewart's hull been totally ignored.

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Tlie Federal (ioveriimclli gives a bonus of one cent a pound for high quality cheese which is Io be extended to two cents a pound if the CllC6>fi reaches the top grade. The vote last year to mett this expenditure as well as factory iulprovciucnt was $1,000,000 and for this year it has been in- creased to $1,250,000. “Cheese quality and pro- duction are improving steadily," said an officiil of the Agriculture Department. "In 1939 the pru- ducliou was around 122,000,000 pounds and it Clilfllwl in I940, to more than 142,000,000 pounds.”

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Dr. William Buchan, Scottish physician, died this date I805. He held foremost rank in medi- cine in his clay, and is chiefly remembered as author of “Domestic Medicine" (1769). the first English book of its kind, went through 2t edi- tions in 40 years, and was, with the Bible, the chief book to be found in almost every Scottish home as well as in the majority of well-to-do Eng- lish families at home and abroad. In this Island it was the principal book of reference when duc- tors were few and far apart.

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Good news for trainees, their wives and relatives. National Defence headquarters an- nounce ari increase of to cents a day in pay of reserve recruits training under the four- months compulsory plan. The increase brings reserve army pay to $1.30 s day, the same as pri- vates in the Canadian (Active) Army receive. The statement said that dependents’ allowances will be paid at the same rate as those of the Active Army, contingent upon the recruit assigning not less than 15 days‘ pa monthly to the support of the de- pendent. n the cue of married men, s monthly allowance of $35 s month for the wife and $12 a month for each dependent child, up to two, will be paid. In the case of s dependent relative other than s wife, of whom the recruit is the sole or partial support, such as s widowed mother, or sister below the age of I7, or brother below the age of t6, the allowance docs not exceed $20 monthly.

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Those patriots who let their right hand know what their lcft hand gave in the way of patriotic contributions have got a jolt from Finance Min- ister Ilsley who has issued the following an- nouncement: "As the law now stands s deduc- tion is allowed up to 5O per cent of net taxable income in respect of contributions to certain ap- proved patriotic organizations. It is intended to reduce this 5o per cent to 10 per cent which is the limit of the deduction at present allowed in the case of ordinary charitable dotiations and direct contributions to the Dominion government. The reduced allowance will apply trr contributions luadc on or after Feb. 20, 194i. This proposed autclttllncitt will place all patriotic and charitable giving on the saute basis and will remove any feeling on the part of the public that unduly fav- orable trcrtllilent has been given to a. relatively few large national organizations as compared with the hundreds of smaller local bodies whose ser- vices to the communilv include- a range of activi-

tics not easily ilistiilgilishahle front services Ordin- arily classed as patriotic." .

MFHE, ciilsiztorrtarowtsimoybBPliN-..

notes av nit WAY

J. B. Priestly records this 0M: A Nazi pillflllhlllitbb landed in York- shire, found I113 wuy to a r ad. and there came across an old workmen who was digging. The Nazi sad: "Tell me, phase, vlch Is the vay t0 SheIfIe!d?".T.‘1e cld chalp looked at lim_ then pointed down the road. “Yer g. dahn there," he said, “until yer came to the Ofmvterl’. In’ thin Yer turn to t/left. an then yer keep on till yer come to tlgea works, and‘ then yer tum left again an’ keep straight on. An’ thatill bring yer back ‘ere. lad an’ yer‘ll get. fsame blC0dy answer.”

Now that the news commen- tators have given us their pleasant deductions from Mr. _ Churchill's speech at Glasgow it might be lust as well If those among us who keep saying "things In Eilgland are not as bod as the newspapers make out" gave a little thought to this extract frcm that speech: "1 can hold no hops of an early passage -before us lle dangers-I htmIly like to say as great as those through which we have passed, but at any rate dangers which If we neglected anything will be fatal. mortal. Before us Lie many month: of having m endure bom- bardment uf our cltlles snd In- dustrial areas without the ptwer to make equal reply. I am not one who pretends that smooth c urses are open to us or that our exper- ience; during this year are going to be deprived of terrible character- Isis." "Terrible characteristics" If any Canadian newspaper used such. w:rds in Its headlines, what a cry would go up from tthosc who sitting In comfort-able anti-chairs, ate to be shocked out. of their compla- cency. - Ottawa Journal.

A flne stirring example of the new natLnaI unity now prevailing, and how this country can rise above partisanship may be seen In the fact. that the President, Invented a new adjective the other day, the word "iffy." and nc-bcdy has said a single unkind word about It. When a. President invents a. new word It Is usually given consider- able attention, while 51mg saying ‘it. Is go c1 and some telling the truth about it, but ilothtiig at all has been said about "iffy", This word appeared the other day in Ille- re- parts or s. presldentzal press con- ference. The President had been asked the status of srme prtposctl. or lf some event. the (IIITSIlCII be- ing whether this event was likely to 2laplpen_ unlikely to HIIDCGII, Im- mlnent, undlr way, tentative. Q1195- tionnlble, certain uncertain or still under dIECIISSZOII. The President replied that the whole thzng was "iffy." "Iffv.“ lt- optic-ms. ls the diminutive o! "if," alter "lf" ls re- moved frcm the list of cfnlunc- tlons, gtvq; a pet ending. and used as an adjective. If a thing can't. be ' c issv, yet Isn't definitely ' It i5 tielther tnny or py and yet not uowuey. it would b Ilossiblcq _\".‘ll can £ce,_to think o-l ll. as being ‘iffy!’ Just Lie same, there hasrft- been a man slnce Gecige “llrlllllgitbll or a President since Lincoill, who c uld have got away xvitli it. It sliotvs the strong ilndivlded loyalty the

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or aitzlies. — (at ‘ "o Duly News.

This ilttture slury will sltmv wnccipeckzrs are w as well as induslviotts birth; witch, cnce aroused to a coiietrtcd project» 0i siotzng I 1- the fuure, can be .1 serious handicap to a woltliy loit- phone pole liyung‘ to hcld in: its end of me communications lines. Plant nlen out In Putland, Ore- gon, had t. replace a pole ‘in a. mountain pass because wlwupeclt- ets chose it Icr u stvorehstts- Why the woodpeckers e-elrsied ths par- ticular pole, an Gl'd.Il3‘.'y wwslern red cedar, Is known only lo them- selves, but, frcm a point about clghg, feet. above the giounli to the top of the pole, it was scarred by deep channels cut in the woad by busy beaks. Into these chan- nels, scans had been 58C“ ely driven, until the pole was studded with them. VIrgiI James, of Port- land, has It. all figured out thIS way. "After Fat-her wcodpecker has dug several holes In the sapwood he flies o-ver to the grave or oak t-rees ncallby and selects an ac rn which has a tiny h0l¢ In it. ‘This acorn he carries to the pole our‘. finds the hole which will 8N9 the tightest. Ilt, prcceedlng to-drlve the scorn Into it. "The Whiter rain further aids the Woodpecker by cautiltll the scsm to swell. thercbll‘ making It. an even tfigltter fit, A! this preliminary wcrlc takes plafe In the late Fall, The harvest c mes In the Winter. The Innocent-Icon-

ltttle acorns, that were selected

that

‘"5 wl h such care, now have become .

Incubators for the eggs which were laid by the worm which made the

in-potnl. hole. The eggs have

amt-led Into nice, juicy giubs, and this ls what the weedlpcckers eat. during the winter to give them strength enough to be on hand next Fall and start, pecking away in new storehouscs." — From "The Blue

For sophisticated people there Is something mystifying in the occa-

sional erratic conduct. of illitlve roots. Fal- I nee, It. Is reported

fr.'rn Brisbane, Australia, that; na- tives will work well as cattlem-en 0n the ranches fonele-ven months o: the year; men during the other month they are likely to 3o on what I5 termed s "walkabnutH For this period work Is cut. of the quatlon. "They revert completely to natlve customs, hunt their food as did their forbears, even though for the past eleven months ‘they rind lived s civilized life, end have not wor- ried about. where and when they wduld get their next meet." An emlrient writer claims that, the hu- man race as constituted toda ls the repository of all t-he religions and other custom of the ages, and that, In the subconscious mlnd these continue to exert an Influence on cuiduct. In the childish mind there l; the Impulse to dIg eaves Ind lIvs In them until the novelty Is ended by hunger or me mint. organised by modern society. Of course, children do not need to, mid should not. live in caves. but who will say that. the Impulse hasn't came d wn from the days of the osve dwellers? There comes s time annually when hu- man beings surrounded by sll the luxury that the modem world pro- vIdes tlre of It all and yearn for the rougher llte of their forbcars, They want to get baok to the bush. bsek t; more primitive ways of life; In cook their own toad tor try to) and wear sny lrtnd of old clothing. This ms be accounted for s: s "tin-cw- bu: " to the centuries when their sneest rs had to do that. silyway. At least, this ls s the:ry. Anyway, that's all the Australian aborigines

PUBLIC FORUM _

This column h ouul lu W: lllseusnlol b! °°""9""“" . questions n! Interest. ‘Ilse Chlrlottetnv/I Guudlsu do‘; necessarily endorse the ID of oorrosnflllklli-

PUBLIC null-cu connmoivs

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BIig-Hsvlm previously out-lined four services provided. 1 will con- tinue with others.

Service No 5-Mentsl 110.91!!!- This Institution Is maintained by the Province and patients needing

such treatment receive It free If they or that: Ilunllles use unable to pay

Servloc No. 6—Bens.torlum. This institution is for the treatment of T. B. patients. It Is maintained by the Province and he financial s:- rsngemtnts are slmllsr to service No. 5 In that those needlnl trut- ment mcelve It free If unable to

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Service No. ‘I-General hospitals. These are communlty Institutions but they receive s yearl grant. from the Province and the Inanclsl ar- ranxements are similar to servloo eltlllens who are unable to my may receive treatment even In sn om- ergency of very short, dttrstton.

Service No. 8—Unemploynimt zlellef. This Is s. setgvtcs designed. to relieve family needs of those tem- porarily without employment and the means of providing s. livelihood. But It should be noted that. as the berm implies, It Is only extended as s relief and It has never beer. claimed that the amount or scope of this service was adequate to pro-

vide; for those permanently unable o so. service No. 9 -RlelIef for In-

ternee's dependents. Under that Iteadlng cm November 8th. I940 there appeared In the press the following announcement :- "Obtawa, Nov 7th -Needy de- pendents of Canadians who are interned under the defence 0f Can- wda regulations may receIve relief In the some way as dependents of interned enemy aliens, according to an order in cotmcll table In the House of Commons today. ‘The order Is dated August 13th.“ This service requires no com-