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THE CIIARIDTTETOWN GUARDIAN

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Canada Challenges

Prince Edward Island 0n Behall 0i tler Fighting Sons ‘- 0ver There Accepts the Challenge.

CANADA has once more chal- lenged the provinces to take their part in the country's {i8- antic war effort. When the plans of this Dominion were first an- nounced tiiere were many to say that we Canadians could not do it. Hitler was one o! them. Now that we are faced with the Sixth Victory Loan there are still some who say it cannot be done. But it can and will be done. Prince Edward Island has never been known to let Canada or the British Empire down. The tiniest province has poured men, women and money into the strug- gle since war began. Money may not grow on trees in the Garden of the Gulf, but when our Island boys on the

fighting fronts need equipment,- or shells, or encouragement, or;

money, we arc going to see that they get it. We always have and we always Will because they are our sons.

Prince Edward Island has no history of conquest; no raging battles for its possession will go ringing down thc corridors of history; but hy the same token it has never Iii-on known to quit a fight, nor take a backward step from any foc.

Today (“anada has challenged us again. Once more we are asked to scnd our boys $3,000,- 000. The kids we brought up and educated; the ones we taught and lovcd and played games with; they are the same kids who need help once more.

Big Purchases

And only the help that those at home can give.

We cannot go over there and fight for them any more than we could fight their battles for them when they went to school. But we can give them moral and financial support. They already know our hearts are with them, and they already know we are praying for their safety; they need something more than either of those now and are counting on Us to supply it.

lf your boy were ill and need- cd an operation you would dig up the money no matter what it meant to you. Well he needs just that right now. Technically ,they call it a combined opera- tion and they mean co-operation ‘bi-tween the navy, army and air force. It is an operation that costs a lot of money, more than ever before because this one lllcztlls victory itself. You can- not lct Islanders perish for wan! of u combined operation, any more than you would let your own son rlic for want of a single operation.

Get lit-hind this Sixth Victory Loan like you never got behind any of thi- others. Give it i-vi-rythini: you have because it means thi- end of the war this time. We want our Island sons to come home and we want them homo soon. Every Bond aaveg a second so lct‘s have the Island an hour. Forget all the iitxle minor considerations and Put Victory First. We must win now.

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Contemplated

By Many At The End 0f War Through Victory Loan Savings

The normal demands of Mr. and .\lrs. John Canadian for peace-time goods have been held buck by wartime priority". Ac- cordingly. industrialists, busi- nessmen and other postwar" plan- ners have been confronted with the question: “How much buying will there be immediately after the war, and what goods will be in the greatest demand?‘

To answer this question, the Canadian Institute of Public Opinion last month asked a care- fully worked out cross section of the public: “What are the first big purchases you definitelyplan to make after the war is Ovefi and thing's can be bought again?"

On the basis of the answers received, the following tables show what might be considered a minimum blacklog of postwar buying for some eight commo- dities:

families

Automobiles . 500,000

Homes 440,000 riiiiiirimi 200,000 f Refrigerators . 160,000

180,000 120,000 95,000 50.000

Washing machines Farm machinery Electric: appliances ..

Put Victory F irst--BUY

These figures could be consid- \*I‘(‘4l a nzinimum indication of

the t" Ill-lip demand for consumeri

uppr-r- income groups mentioned a car than mentioned other itcms. In the lower income groups. homes or ma] ggtgtq:

were mcntioned most frequently‘. In (Qitebcc there is a consider-

flili)‘ lllllht-r postwar demand for, iiing machines. while in Wes-

\\' ti-in (‘nnada farm implements are uppermost in the minds of iiimorrii\\-‘s sham)";

That most of these postwar purchases will be made

Wfljoi- portion of the saving! otf rln-actically all individual Cann- 7' Hill‘; three million individual cub- Ffrihtions and the coming Vlth Victory Loan will again see em- phasis placed on securing fire irzreatest possible number of sub- , scriptions for the liar-gut possible {total from the average Gena. idian.

An earlier Gallup Poll showed What although Canadians have ‘been digging down deeper and ‘deeper for ash with whleh w pay increased wartime tune, l (Continued on page 6t

__ from ' ‘ hctory Loan savings i5 obvious‘ Us \ ii-tory- Bonds are becoming a,

The last loan secured over:

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in m vs i , J c ay c ~ s your » on . . . ‘ ‘k HE story is old —— it has been told many times —- o! thef last Allied soldier to be killed in; the first great war. He died just‘ a minute or so before the Armis- tice ended the fighting. Had it

ended a few minutes earlier he might still be alive. l

there is a clear-eyed courageous. youngster sitting on lus

tonight. I-Ie may be your son, With his comrades, boys withl whom he went to school and,

played marbles at recess, he is‘ waiting for the big battle. He hopes he will have enough equip- ment and ammunition to carry him through; and that there will be plenty of planes to keep Oflr those screaming, gun-spitting Messerschmidts.

But most of all he hopes the day is not far ofl’ when he can come home. He. wants to swap. yarns with his old gang. And eat some more of those cookies you used to make for him. You see, he may be your son.

IIe thinks it would be swell to go fishing again with his Dad; to drive the old cnr once more and send it purring along with his girl in the seat beside him. She isn't there now, and if you remember he was kind of a lone- some kid at time. Now he is tired of war and wants to get this invasion over with fast. He dreams of the day when he steps nil‘ the train and walks down Main Street with an arm around his Mom and Dad.

It would be a shame if the war lasted just that one hour, or‘ on minute, longer than neces-

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last casualty of World War II. He would never know the thrill of rc-living those moments when he caught the big one while Dad

of those cookies, or the feel of

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the watt-r as he swam at

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Listen, Canada!

P ' Edward Island is Determined romrliiiece More “ G0 Over the lop

Fashion.

AYBE this province 11005 mt

duct of Dominion afltllfi: f9; haps we have been rm‘ 1"‘? the past to hide our 118M under

have mm you what we think of

daughters. But we knows I c

We know that we stun‘ aim when it comes t0 I)" caPlla em ligmnr-rtr for active service. WE know that we do not have‘ I uw-alth of industrial CGIIITPn. “e know that there are 1w IWEQ business empires to Cflltlflbute

‘enormous sums to Victor)’ Mani and put us over the top m two o!"

three (lays. _ We also know that in _ thIS Sixth Victory Loan, just as in its predecessors, we have to count on every man, woman and child on Prince Edward Island to put it across. But, certainly, we also know that we arc not going to let our fighting son,- die in battle or cxpire in prison camps from wounds, just because we did not send them enough help in time. 'I‘hc_v zirc going to get all the help Wt- (‘illl give them as they have in tlic past. If we can fight only with our mom-y‘. at least we will land one solid blow that will lct the Naizis know they‘ are in a

rcal scrap.

We did not start this fight; we did not even want it; but when IIitli-i‘ sowed thc seed of’

sary and he should be CanaddsH i t r s

SLANDERS.’ Canada needs more money‘ to support your sons

iloes not ask you to give it,

t)“. 01d u". or the coolness or bPCZIIISO in our democracy we (l0 s

as Hitler (loos; to lend it you will be

not tlu things you are only asked for freedom. And

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SeeiiFrom the Inside: A (hurchill Tank

One ofThe crew of a Churchill at his station inside the an];

lPichxre shows: The driver at his controls in the driving seat. Re h

must be maintained. help maintain the offensive that desired Victory. Subscribe Today.

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operating the left hand steering lever. War equipment such u chi; Your purchase of Vlth Victory Bond; wit] must eventually bring the long.

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international warlan be started o reap the harveat of Island He has to hanow what; lhe ploughed, and the crop of bitter revenge from Prince Ed. ,ward Island will not be to hi;

Somewhere on the other sideya bushel. No shouting politicians liking‘

We have a three million dollar

hunkaul. homeland, or our sons andlquota for this loan starting to.

‘day, and we admit it is a lot o1 'money. But we have it! And Jurthermore you can lell Iiitier ‘for us that it is coming after him in the form of shella, guns, planes and ships just as fast l! we can shoot it across the Ag. lantic. His U-boats could not stop our boys from getting ovt-r to Italy, or Africa, or Great Britain and nothing will stop u! now.

Victory lies straight ahead of us and if any sacrifices are neces. sary on the road we will make them. But we will nut be strip. pcd by anything or aliyrinp‘ least of nll Hitler.

From now on we are putting Victory tirst because we “am our Islanders to come home. 'I‘he Nazis‘ Fortress Europe is jiiq another pipe dream like the hlaginot Linc, and we are send. ing our 33.000000 to blast it zipztrt.

In thi- beginning we asked _\-,wu ti» listen, Canada, and you have. .\'ow we are going to prove uhat \\‘<- said. Let's go, Prince lid- waril Island, nnd let's go ovcr the top while we arc at it.

paid for the use of it. Freedom, our ilcurest posses.

looked on enviously; or the tasteiwho zirc fighting for you. Shej-“itrli. is never free. It must al-

wuvs be bought by "lJlttltlL ‘eat and tears." Once ac. quired it has to be piotci-ieil

by vigilance nnd ilevotion. We value freedom so highly" hcii- lll America that uc arr- iyii-liipq to trike it for granted, nnd somctimcs forgot that iii-ye nri- lllilll_\ who tlid Ilrtl Tldllrni. bcr to be vigilant.

Fniiarliiilis would hrltv to live llIlllP!‘ Ilitlci-‘s yoke. and lzcre -ll the Island pt-iipli- “(rind >l"l<l<l1‘l‘ Ill (‘You tbv thought. Our ancestors fought against the zifrscnlet- land owners be" UHIISP they did not bclievi» m the system. lloiv would you dike to livt- under‘ an ztbscntce ldictzitori’

‘ We may win the war this; at ilcast we belicvt- we lltlVv a ‘chance to do so. Hut we canmit if we all just sit back tinil hope. Sntncbittly vcr_\ aptly said that "the war is nll ovcr lint 'tl1e fighting." The worst bat- tles have yet to come and un- ;ll'>'-< W0 are prepared for tlzi-ni

_thc war may continue luntjvr ‘than we now expert. It can be yshortened; maybe by only an

I101". or perhaps a day, but 1t definitely can be shortened. Because this is known Canada

Onve more asks you to lend your money to help eml the war as soon as possible; No

INDIE!‘ do we face the dark

and terrible days a! the blitz [when the world thought the IEmpire was crutmbling and

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