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our J s as Second Class Mail. Post 081w Department, Ottawa. helldmt, Inn A. Burnett; Vice-President. Wm. E Burnout; Seep-Trees, G. M. Barnett: E411lor I04 Managing Director, .I. B. Burnett; Aaoclxte Editor. Jronk Walker.

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink.‘

FRIDAY, SEPT. 20, 19-10

Mr. Mactlichofs Tour

Probably the most widely travelled and best informed man in public life in Canada today is Mr. John R. MacNichol, Progressive Conserva- tive member for Toronto Davenport. Mr. Mac- Nichol has been a frequent summer visitor to this Province, and has never lost an opportunity of studying our problems at first hand. He has spoken on our behalf on several occasions in the House of Commons, particularly in connec- tion with the long delay in providing adequate car ferry replacement since the loss of the S. S. Charlottetown. lt is of much interest, there- fore, to note from an Ottawa despatch that he has started on a motor trip through Quebecgincl the Maritime Provinces to survey the possibilit- ies ”of eliminating transportation bottlenecks which have been hindering trade between East- ern ond Central Provinces." His first stop, it is announced, will be Sorel, Que., where he will have a look at the new P. E. l. car ferry still under construction. Later he will study the dock iacilities at Cape Tormentine and Borden to see if there is not some way in which the ferry service between the island and the main- land could be improved. Other projects advo- cated for the Maritimes, such as the Chignecto canal, the Strait of Canso bridge and rehabili- tation of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick Marshlands, will engage his attention.

Why The Omission‘!

lt is to be regretted that not one of the new

- Canadian stamps now in circulation was design-

ed to commemorate the achievements of our service forces in the war. Instead, all of them "illustrate aspects of national life." lt is diffi- cult to account for this omission, especially as the Government had the example of the United States posal department before them, which honors all branches of the American forces, most of them with double-sized stamps dear to. the hearts of philatelists. A brown stamp, dedicat- ed to the American army, pictures l. troops ‘marching through the Arc de Triomphe _ in Paris. A blue stamp shows navy men parading. A green one honors the merchant marine with a picture of the fleet at sea. Just three months ago, a purple three-cent stamp bearing a dis- charge button of the American forces," was struck "Honoring Those Who Have Served, and was dedicated to all American veterans.

"lt is not too late," suggests the Kitchener Daily Record, "to strike a double-sized Can- adian stamp honoring Canadians who have served in the armed forces. lt would please the public more than the nine to be introduced this month. Nor need the Postmaster General's Department feel embarrassed at. copying on American idea. The two countries exchanged ideas arid policies freely and enthusiastically in war loan campaigns and other national ef-

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Proper Balance Necessary

ln Canada as in the United States, says Canadian Business, the threat of inflation has been oversold. Bumper crops are l_>¢"19 1P1" vested, vastly increased production is possible and if labor, management and government can develop a nationally acceptable policynwe should not have to worry about price ceilings based on rigid relationships of a base period.

Ray Atherton, United States Ambassador to Canada, recently said: "Canadians and Am- ericans as a whole seem intoxicated with the bogey of inflation, just as they were a year ago with the bogey of unemployment. That unem- ployment fear has now largely vanished 0nd there is actually a shortage of skilled labor. That is what I think will happen to this infla- tion scare." _

lt is sugqestcd that if the Prices Board would adopt this philosophy we should be able to attain the huge volume of production which is necessary to match the prowess of the mone- tary g'('r1t which is threatening us with infla- tion. A‘ more flexible policy, rather than im- mediate froodom from controls, 81'0"“ 5' 1'1" objective.

Sonia Trade Figiim

A decline of 22 per cent in Canada's ox- tornal merchandise trade during tho first seven months of this calendar year is reported by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. This is a sub- stantial decrease, but no greater than might bo oxpocted when it is remembered that tho com- parable period of i945 comprisod the months of January to July, inclusive, when Canada's ovor-

‘ . loos trade, and _sspecially its war exports, were

at thoir poali. Notwithstanding this liolivy do- clino, tho figuros for January to J ly inclusivo of 1946 by! tho hoaviost poacot mo external trodo in tho history of tho Dominion. ' "Canada's total exports and Imports, ox- cllllng gold, woro volnod at $2,306,675,N0 for ‘t: r-nosthpnlod onmgcflulyyg, ‘For corrospondio po r vouo olnsisntd to’, gblrfilmp-this bolng on oli- ~ " " The doclino of “Glfl this on oiitoniol sob-

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5951100 in Canada's ’fovor, and at tho some time on increase in imports which has boon o monthly feature of the record ever since tho beginning of the year. During July for ox. ample imports were valued at $161,615,000, as rise-nit $132,681,000 i» July i945, and this tho Bureaus report says, "was a continuation of consistently higher monthly totals this year." Imports for the seven months from the United Kingdom aggregated $132,790,228 in value, and from the United States $730,845,131, tho totals in ‘both_ cases being above those for tho lilro period in 1921. Approximately two-thirds of Canada's two-way external trade is with Brit- ain and the United States. It is worth noting that this country's external trade for the first seven months of 1946 has had an aggregate value equivalent to the entire total for an average aged year in the period immediately preceding c war.

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Striking farmers in Alberta and Saskatche- wan are discovering that in firing stones or the moon one is more likely to hit a street lamp.

ti‘ 1F >11 i _ A great deal of the credit for a free press ls due to our ancestors who abolished the law requiring daily newspapers to carry the legend "Published by Authority" on the masthead.

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Five newspapers which from strikes survived the ordeal without giving way on the issues at stake. They are The Winnipeg Free Press, The Winnipeg Tribune, The Ottawa Citizen, The Hamilton Spectator, and The Vancouver Province.

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But what if he had been a military hider? At Montreal, Peter Capra was sentenced to eight months in jail on a non-support complaint made l0 years ago by his wife, now dead eight years. "The sentence will teach you not to hide away from justice," said Judge Frederick Eri- rig .

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s x n- u The many friends and customers of "Ad- mirol" Senator Duff here will join in the con- gratulations to him, and Mrs. Duff, on attain- ing their golden wedding anniversary which was celebrated at their home Boscawen Manor, Lun- enburg.

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Upton Sinclair, American author, born this date i878; opposed the deleterious practices formerly existing in the meat packing indus- try, and his disclosures in The Jungle led to gov- ernment inspection of Chicago stockyards. ls the author of over 20 .olumes, the more recent being World's End, Between Two Worlds, Dra- gon's Teeth, Wide is the Gate, Presidential Agent, Dragon's Harvest. i‘ d: “k The full membership of the United Church of Canada is called upon to practice total ab- stinence and to refrain from offering cocktails or other drinks containing beverage alcohol to their guests on any occasion, in a report pre- sented at the church's 12th General Council by Rev. J. R. Mutchmor of Toronto, secretary of the board of evangelism and social service. The request is made "in view of the widespread wreckage of humanity caused by the use of bev- erage alcohol . . (and in the belief that total abstinence) is the only wise and safe course to be followed." l? 1i 11'

A majority of the people of the Faroo ls lands have voted for independence from Den- mark, reports from Thorshaven, capitol of the North Atlantic island group, indicated. Prime Minister Knud Christensen of Denmark said that the Danish Government would respect the result of the referendum and give independence to the people of the islands which lie midway between Iceland and the British isles, just north of Orkney and Shetland, and which have been a Danish possession since 1300.

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Harvest Thanksgiving was fixed for cele- bration in England last Sunday but the farmers in the Midlands practised non-observance, be- cause they felt it was premature due to the backward season. While harvest churchbells rang across the fields, sunshine and drying weather kept formers working late into the evening. Many Midlands farmers broke a life- long rule—not to allow Sunday labor on their farms except for feeding stock and milking cows. Typical was Farmer Philip Hope of Rom- iley, Cheshire, who said it did not seem right to sing the hymn "All ls Safely Gathered ln" when he still had 20 acres of grain standing on his land by tho church. Farmers aro so per- turbed by damage to the potato crops, that many of them are talking of the possibility of potato rationing this winter. A bumper crop was predicted earlier, but rain caused a good doal of potato blight and water-logged fields have delayed digging. . II i i

Provincial Treasurer C. M. Fines of Sask- atchewan soys ho has received from Ottawa o second draft of the proposed agreement bo- twoon the province and the Dominion. Under the proposed agreement, which would go into effect April 1, Saskatchewan would rocoivo a minimum of $13,439,000 annually in return for succession duties, corporation and incomo taxes it will give up. It would roplaco tho way- tlmo tax agroomont which expires March 31, i947. lf, however, tho now agroomont is not signed bsforo thon, the province will auto- matically go back into those various fiolds of taxation, according to Mr. Finos’ stotoinont. "We're still hopeful that on ogroomont will bo roochod botwoori tho provincos ond'tho Domin- ion in time to have tho original proposals of tllo Dominion go into offoct upon oiipiry of tho ox- "ogrooriiont," tho rroosuror sold. This moon tho assumption by the Dominion of

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Notes 'By The Way

In politics the British press is not. so abusive as the American Newspapers ueneroll reflect pop- ular taste and eth ovea when they do not rnfiect the popular mind. The British people are m longer Elizabeztiara; they are less violent more subdued. more dis. cipllned and rational than the Am- erican people. Triey are tlis-Jncily fairer in play. -—J. Frank Dobia in American Mercury.

A report. from the Department of Justice shows that. 78f of the prisoners in our uenitcr-Zlaries dur- ing 1M5 were "repeaters" leads to two conclusions: first, that. our pgnal system is an utter failure as a reform agency, and second that. our whole attitude to- ward crime, purishment and the free boarding of criminals neccis revision. —Peterboro Ebramisner.

Since the dorm of time. we sup.

. men nave clim-bcd hills or sought the unobstructed level spaces to seek out. the uiifathomed mystery of the stars or iust to stand 1n awe at their glory, says The Christian Science Monitor. Muir- kind may never lznow their secrets Will rodoet planes ever be able to penetrate more than a tiny froc- tion of the immense distances be. tween earth and their far-off light? The utmost of mortal xnow‘edge must remain ns an infant's fancies when compared with thr immen- sity c,f fact. Fiven rho wisest humans doubtless will continue to stand in joyful wonder, while the scintillat. lng planets hold to their courses. the symibols of an order divinely guided. ,

Our QX-SBIVJCB men and women are a tent force in community, pmvlnc a1 and notional life As individuals anl as groups they will be our leaders during the coming years. Indeed, they are so many iarrzd permeate the whole structure of the oormnunlty and the nation so thoroughly that we should be urging them to assume greater and still renter snares of responsib- llty g1 government, from the 1o\v- est to the highest levels. A goodly num-ber of them veterans of the First Great War do occupy posit. ions of the highest responsibility. The younger men. veterarr of the llast war already are takln‘; their places in posts of public service. As they served, so will they serve Canada owes them a great debt, but Canada also expects and is e1:- titled to great things from tnem. —EZdmonton. Jcurrual.

Very neatly, in relative miniature the Canadian currency situation de- monstrates the ftirllltv of rlrbltrziry tampering 1r. the field of econom- ics. It wise duly announced by the monetary uutriormas that Canada and United States dollars would have parity-ire equal 1n value However, the hanks here are cllll discour-‘lng Canadian money and even the D.3 R. has announced its exchange rite Flor instance. 1f you pay your {are with a Canadian dime you have to Lender on: of our pennies along with it Economic laws are not and never tir-vc been created by writing them on a piece of paper to be affixed with iviih signature and seal. Thcv are uii. written laws agreed upon bythe people who tia-idle monev and com- modities, and are faunierl not upon hopeful theory but hard actuality. —Detroit Free Press.

Stop! Don't wash that ivall from the top down VJ-zsh it from the bottom up. And when you finish. starch it so l-‘Jll be easier 1.0 clean next time That's what. the men said according to Pathfinder ‘Thcy were Janitors from 13 states who took a course 1t Columbia Univer- sity to learn that cleaning 1s a science. not n chore. It's like this, they theorized: Then you tackle o. wail from the top down, some of the dirty solution dvlbbles on the soiled wall below. leaving a streak even after the wall 1s clean- ed But 1f you start at ‘.119 bottom and some of the solution. runs down the wall, it's easy to rinse of! and won’; 3min, For g 5110K flnLth, b0li ordinary starch in watc: for 20 minutes then cool. Thirs the 10111’- llke substance with ovate: lo cream ‘consistency. Apnlled with o. wide brush, 1t dries to an invisible film. When you wash the ivails again starch (inmead of paint) comes of! wlth the dirt.

Continually, the bewildered oom- plalns 1s heard from bafflcd 1511011- pers: “It's worse than in wartime. Things we could get then. we cant get. at. all now" Such u SHIP-"lt! shortage is that of pope: boas. Shops seldom ran out of ‘them dur- 1n the war, but now they've be- oo e so scarce tho-l: shoppers in many localities are asked to maize as little use an imsslble or them. io cgffy their own containers of some descrlpolor. when shopping. The Wartime Prices and Trade Board. 1n fact; has ordered a 10 percent curtailment In production of wrap. ping paper, s. upping brill-v and brawn envelopes It has also on- nounced that a reduction will be made in the limited quantity of lcraft paper- from which these articles are manufactured. -a.va11- 5b“ {or rt. It isn't that. leu krgfl; paper | being made than dur. in"; the war. In this as 1n the raise of many other ahor ages whirl; has happened 1s that there hupzcen abnormal demand for the lllloETlfll

involved to E-c used for iii-poses considered re essential -n this lnstqrae, tn abnormal demo-rid for

kroft paper 1s for two high priority pus-posed - Cam-titan construction and shipment of food abroad. Pa: both these piuoiroes "multi-wlll bpgg are used, and manufacturers of multl-woll "rags aro utterly an. o-bie to meet the abnormal demand. 11o: these bogs Kraft paper lrnec- essary. To nr-ivent a. brd bolt-ic- ned 1n their manufacture. with effects on goth 1:01:13! 11-71 1% hfpments t e ‘re to on new! bd shzi-ro of ytm- available raft paper st the exosnso of tna shop- ping bogs, wrapping oer nnd brown, envelopes oonoderoa less essential. For in the construction industry, of grips with admittedly Canada's lreicest postwar problun .."....,"°“ f” us" so": . or nuance - diict‘ Iovol 38 percent above llltb and it is the srvrstoos stnslo user of mum-nu boos. And oo well os for other osoimtfsl items in build- ing oonstmettxx ' iig U‘ some! of

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THE CHARLOTTETOWN auditorium "Salute 'To'The Few'"

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those men and women of the air forces of every part of tho British Coammrweoilh and Ibo love their livoo 193$1 ." ' Television cameras were laxtpll- ed 1n St. Georges Memorial Chm at 1min H111, Kent, for o spec 1 emoratlon service, and on the previous day pilotswho took port. in the Battle of Britain told their own stories of their nlr fight-o six years ago. Up and down rho country H. A. F. stat on; were “at. home" to the public, Here visitors could aeo much to interest them and lived again those stirring days of 1940, the ctr-g tgf wlpfah 1s ‘retold begow. ry s an ncorrlglb o sou plaglarlst. Nearly 140 ears no there stood will ‘at ogno o great army assemb d for tho over- throw of En land; great, that is by the stan ards of those days. Yr numbered 155.000 men. mad 2,293 transport vessels had been mustered for its conveyance. That Lu; wont awry. In 1940, writes J. . Spalght, there was or. army more than ten times as greclt-ttiere were 98 iln- eluding 9 panzer) divisions of tho German Army in Franco and the Low Coruntr1es—to be drawn upon for the task which had baffled Napoleon. For its transport. there

were 3.000 self-propelled alone with a carrying capacity of about 1,000,000 tons; and vague];

Whose tonnage was about four times l5 Brent had 102911. raised up.

1t was a terrific rumble, that m. tended invasion ~— but it h have succeeded. More than half the equipment of the lirltlsh Army had been left. in France. There were

plenty of troops 1n Britain but 11191’ llwked essential armour and artillery, without which

panzer divisions once they landed could not be stopped.

The great expeditionary never started. Bomber played its great part, bombing German barges and ships concen- trated on the South side of the Enltllsh Channel. The port of l0 Havre never recovered from that early bombiirlig. was. owev , th d f ‘ the Luftwaffe owe-z; Elfiglaengflt b); Flirhter Command that. was the chief cause of wrecking the whole Dian of conquest. That happy blind of brat-hers saved Britain and. oho cause of civilisation b what they did above the harveeg fields of Southern England. FTvm the hen of Colin. Wills "mes 11115 ‘Very: I saw the first 1118 air raid on London from start to finish down in the East. End, which was 1a the firing lme the whole time. After five o'clock on ttzat Saturday evening in 1940 1 W“ "M0111!!! a crowd streaming away from ngrevhound raflnctrack when the sirens rounded. Suddenly Elllflbl-W. above ihe anti aircraft smoke rings I saw the sliver shape of a German bomber followed by another and another, Actually there were about fifty 1n the batch-Jrunbers escorted by a svave of fighters above tho-m It Wfls a terrific barrage, but a; the formation of silver planes ad- vanced towards London 1t suddenly ceased. The reason was soon evident —Sp1tf1res. Up they streaked from 1116 W881. squadron after squadron 11115111118 across the sky n: terrific Speed iilke silver arrows. Tnere W215i a. rattle of machine gun fire and then a great cry from the ivatcherc as a bomber fell out of its course and hustled towards the earth in a. spiral of smoke. A moment later another bomber fell

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Suddenly there a;me the faint whistle of a bomb growing to o scream. The shock of the explosion was followed by several. each closer than the lest. A bomb ‘oursfi 100 yrlerds away. enottrer on the left

and side 50 yards off. Is hit a garage-I sow the roof fly There was a vost. flash of crimson flame and s. towering column of smcke. 'I‘he_ trash was like being hit by a wave of the gen.

Then. suddenly in he [gqkjng night amid the wreckage of those East End tenement-s, amid battered $110M. the streets strewn wtth rub- ble. the gaping blackened windows. with the bombers droning overhead above the rrimlnting flames and the deform-lions never ceasing in the dlstaroe, there amso a strange S0llliCl—B. cheer. That is licw they took it in the East End of London. The result of that raid was-wt) dead. 1.300 lnlllred. but million on million of lxindoncro were more

and defeat the enemy.

Peter Masefieid writes: There can be no doubt at n11 that the destruction of some 2,486 German aircraft and some 6.100 of the Luft- vriztfes most experienced airmen during the twelve weeks of fighting