1' HE ETOWN GUARDIAN

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' the impression that, as far as the

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Morning Daily (Founded l.ls 1H7) Alilsorlaod as Second Class Mall, Poat Ollee . Department. Ottawa.

At the precise hour, British time, at which Fogei had asked his two empire telepathy-cor- respondents to think of the word they had written for him, he scribbled on a sheet of paper and asked that the envelopes be opened. The mail- ed number and word were given to a second newspoperman, Harold Williams of the Press Association who wrote them down in shorthand.

listes By the Way

[mixing in en the ‘ J chanso- lonshlps, the thought came that it calls for some unusual kind of courage to travel half way across a continent merely to be punched

PUBLIC FORUM

This column is open to the diaeuaaleu by eon-sv- epossdenta of JIIQIHOIII al interest. The Charlottetown Guardian does not neeeasar- li; endorse the opinion ot

Mr. Bevin On The Peace Treaty With Germany

(United Kingdom Information) I!

Western Zones were concerned, they had settled reparations by the following decision embodied in itie words of the Agreement: "The pro- ceeds of exports from current pro- duction and stocks shall be avail- able in the first place for the pay- -. ,ment of approved imports." _That iwaa the Potsdam Agreement and in

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THE LOST LAUUQN _-.

t. Ian A. Burnett; Vice-President, Wm. B. _ - h . . -

Secyn-Treua, G. M. Burnett; Editor and Fogel motioned as this was done and threw me; 25:: lgkgmfhw "11:’: a‘; '°'“"°“d°"“' Mr. Bevin quoted figures inIdli-"iud m" ‘hi5 dmm" W" mode a Director, J. a. Burnett; Associate Editor, do“ hi, w. rhreijof pqpgf which gqva the ham, 4,," Mull“, Qwbchmn“ - connection wlui reparations allot‘ 1“,,“’°°“‘°"°° ‘with valid, v it”: dusk on the Lori brim,‘ 191445 w“. to ‘we some jn_ It l5 QIHGIOXB DIOR!‘ , said Ml‘. W9 WrO dreaming n“ a“

Frank Walker.

{Strongest Memory is Weaker Than . the Weakest Ink.”

correct number but with the word "bogpipe" spelled "backpipe." Mr. Harrison told The Canadian Press by

cle. Union tenth ‘ ‘ling has rescis- ed a new peak 0n the Japanese

UNBOUND AND UNFAIB DEBT FINANCING

sin-The publl; debt springs

the dication of the reasons which had led to the present attitude on this matter. Under the Versailles

settlement, he recalled the origlnlill

jiBevin. "that until there is a balance 0d payments in Germany, exports rprflcefidilifl from current production

must so toward paying for imports. d"-

"my. Beneath the drug o Beneath iihe draw

f‘lwlught ‘ 5e OI gn m .

't' ‘- the " tration was o "real suc- railroads. where there are 40.8 em- from two sources first the coli- . . - And th WEDNESDAY, may 2s, 1941 ca“? He mid the Fogej 5c|Qwj .204; ploycs for each mile of track com- struction or public improvements, §§‘ll““°"‘ h} ’°F°'““l°",f Zillrdrclrlle jlilllillililigilliln reghlfolilibllis “riff c cum o! ll golden mo“ bored with six iri ziio u. s.. says such as schools, public buildings, "“'“"“i’ w“ °" ’ Paiime" °i -- expressly excluded’ can“! be cw 1t ia dark in tiha Lost

"i, Maurice Fogel seem to receive the fol-

Newsweek. Both the Government

court houses. paved roads. and so

500 million spread over 35 years. The

sidered until that stage l5 reached. mg blue

And gone are the depth;

Greflll Where Dill. llwlllg "om cu"°d°_° word backplpe’ and ‘mm and the occupation oiiiciflis 8W0?’- forth; secondly from deficit bor- lmpmwlllly °f pallmellt m‘ lhls Th 3

. New Zealond the following number-9l74." ilie sliuairon, vigorously defended rowing through the Government scale was "w" mfmscd “ml PM" 1O 1111;”, hhf”,,,§'ffflf,,il,hi“f“&w The grouping gulls. and th

Railway and o e I H. . I The envelope from Mr. Randal was sent dir- Ilfgjizjf’ “'l°'“' "5 " “Tm "l “'°‘l‘ liillliii? 9° fmei-‘l “m”: °P"l"all"5 lilblliillil bl‘?rsulsllzlgzsgilogfiigziazflldallell dl-scusslii" "i “Pa-Yum” "fulfill; The Sllllglllglfif! and (b e o“ v m eri ~ » - cx ense r m - ‘ . always in o p0Slflg0l1 tomspeoko flrlzrlu lfhefilgelillélbl eclly lo Tlgl-lumslzn JromDTllS cfonudlfhn lljess Cfiililflfi- s o cum“ can m w" s“? qwehen '°E’§““°'i§ 1:323:22: t: lllllfilTilllllinglrdllil-legpiill-n you‘ Mush“ . ffice in on on an r. unris rom e ew Let us. for just. this once. atop Coo-M‘ o i many o pa ' And gone is the old

j ‘j, ' ° V v _ . ., The first type of debt can be , , atilon; {rm our g d il ' "iiiiwn.

Wm palm“ “alums '°' llle l°cl llwl “m” Zealond Associated Press office in London. Mr. ‘alkmi "hm" if" iiisiiiliimi Peieimi- fustlfied as creating s definite $011: ggl £jj11jfnn'wg: gal; now. In addition fear. Til-gills: (l); ohm" o, m, L“, Lngoonu "

what unfair criticism of our roilway men in this Province was allowed to pass without correction in The proceedings recently before the sessionril committee of the House of Commons on roil-

return-zi full of ice during the winter season. This applied, he said, to New Brunswick cis well cis Prince Edward Island. "Holf the cars are pieced on the sidings ond when you go to load them you will find there is so much ice in them that they cannot be used until they have been taken away f0 o different point and thawed out, and that, of course, involves demurrage charges os well cis delay. division point for weeks before they can gei o

Harrison said the letters were not opened until after Fogel scrawled his message in the theatre.

‘a Llgiiorion Players tonlgll.

An enjoyable picture for those who love singing and dancing is staged ot the Prince Edward, showing the progress of Al Jolson the

Sometimes they wolf at the‘

famous Negro impersonator and jazz singer. I I i I lnverness Town Council have agreed to offer the freedom of the burgh to 94-year-old General Sir Ion Hamilton, president of the Brit-

as illougli they were some sort of farclcss mass. They are iiunian beings. very much like ourselves. Every one of them has a name, a soul, a separate identity. Tho-y

bridge is a “probIr-m." They are persons-men with hands, womm with hearts. children with arms and legs. —Calgary Herald. Summing up a batch of recent studies comparing U. S. uiomcll today with those of 50 years ago. The New York Times found this‘. women now are taller and lnln- rier. live longer but get gray earlier. have bigger feet. eat less but do more heavy drinking. arc less prud- ish. less iveepy arid loss moral. mar‘-

risset value behind the lonn. with a containing benefit. for the ncxf, 3G to 50 years. Provided of couise sufficient sinking fund is provided annually for repayment of the

the future generation. Our capl- taiistic economy and civilization depends upon control in creating nndvsklll in carryinfl and honour in discharging public debt.

This honourable creating and discharging of public debt is not being carried out in Prince Ed- ward Island. ss the following facts show in the sinking fund state- ment for the year ended March 3i, 1946.

Sinking Fund

under the Dawes and Young plans. Lirianediately iii connection with that. long-term loans were advanced to Germany amounting to £475 million. These figures took no ec-

indebteiiness in i002 to a total of £700 million.

"I have no intention", declared Mr. Bevin, “oi: following a policy which allows us once again to be placed lll the position of makintl loans on a. scale which we know to be lrrecoverable from Germany." He added that the effect of the reparations settlement after the 1914-18 war could not be judged in terms of money alone. They took the form of deliveries ii. kind,

finityinstructions from His Maj. estyb Government that we would not and could not. agree to the principle of reparations from cur- rent production. which involved

blurs

weed stirs,

thought among all powers, and at the next meeting some solution might be found. He desired to make Britain's position clear, she bad no desire that Germany should es- cape payment. She must not be allowed to escape. Britain must en- sure that the cost was imposed on Genriany and not on the people of other countries.

The problem ad reparations gave

I dream tonight that mv

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The purple shade where the m,

I hear the call of th In the hush of the allay?“

l ' - - _ t *' bl " l , _ ways and shipping. A Newbrunswick member _ ti)‘ iukiAL NUIts 5 Xllsan plcgoeréisvéns; rgitiwrlgeetliczi; loan at maturity. V count o, the shorbmm 10am Britain and other Allies in virtually . of the committee complains: that most of the 7 in Calgary i; a "prqbjem", o,- me Th‘: l“x'l?,ay°' l‘ ,.p°“'°'l°55 " made to Germany in the same FY1118 feplmtivhe i0 Boothe!‘ E P . refrigerator cars serif here for potato loading ore “pmfln “lilo buys gFOPHiPS i" i-fiiii- Sadr-jig, 235;} bé):;€“jng' f j o Pflmd’ which Wm‘ "mmml l° Ally? T- aullm ‘mm’ 5 ‘ma’ f’ have brought German short-term Tho whole matter was causing H“ “nu, “nuwm.

Old Charlottetown (And IIEJ.)

TENANTS‘ fiRlliVANtls

Rom Debates and Pr

in the House of Assembly, 131;; Hon. B. Davies said his hung‘. i the Attorney General had tallied about the extmordinriry klfdjjps‘ of the proprietors lO‘-\'a,f'(l5 gm,

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new lo lake me l“ out . . “ll L_e9'°n' when he “lends u Leglon conler‘ ry earlier, cook better meals bu: Issues Maiured Provision plant, equipment arid ships as well 1B9 i0 l-iio QUPSUQH OI 90011011110 M" Vaughn’ the c- R- Plesldefili did 8M9 iii llie l’°""'i "at mmilli- ~ make poorer mothers, are much less Aug. l. 1945 a 50,000 8 12,619.63 as cosh. ‘Ihis was followed by fore- unlty, in which the United Klfii- lemms- but l" (M11 D.‘ could toil not have the fdcls before him but promised to " " ' * satisfied "with their lot as women.” A118. 1. i945 450.000 78,583.49 ign loans which enabled Germany fiom h“! Ne" hiiiidicilplied i" W0 a’ ‘interim awn” hm h" kiiWs look info the mailer. Ho added that this oc- ' r - h d f urebread Holsteins sold mdep°“d°“""' D" Mawnlh P’ 0"" 1' 1°45 1.225.000 140.51 as to re-equip herself wmi modern ways. first she agreed at Potsdam film-W "6 "m "W" hid been [jog was My nrmjssjbje Md that the ob-ectpuus f S"; y‘, ojnef Z32 5°70 pm u" average of $370 Fnrnham, Manhattan psychiatrist Oct. 1, 1945 150.000 74.685. 4 plant and at the sarne time forced to a central administration in cor- burnt to the ground b3. the M‘ ~ ck P- ‘ I _ i 0r u i 0 ii ° l i i , _ and co-auihonor "Modern Woman: Oct. l5. 1945 250,000 401503.31 her to find foreign Eltsthange for tain flelds._lt was io the advantage nnLs who Wiiii-liii-‘d thcni. when (liq to ecp the cars moving on the line ond keep each ii‘i the fifth all-eastern Ontario Holstein- Th, 1,051 sexy proclaimed that U. Ileb. 15, 1946 500,000 19994943 in, purpose or reparations, Ill many or the Allies that this should be found that higher renis \\'t?l‘e rm them loaded. Frjesjun sale u; oflqwm The average Wu; down s, ivo-meii are the unhiipipiest in ————- 65-596 Pulilrliifl h" f" liiielvi of her done. Iiirance was not present at i0 be levied from them by mes m, world, To“; $535,000 $55,292,115 companion Potsdam and could no; 531-” be. who claimed to be the propfltton‘ ouuse of claims regarding the Ruhr. of the soii- The people put tbs

has been no waiting line of cars in any case. Every car is de-iced when it comes here, and is sent right out to the rood for loading. The

$65 from last year's $435.

London, this week, when Mary the Queen Mother, quietly celebrated her eightieth birthday, ond sorrowed over the death of her son-in-low, the

must give way and it will revel‘. to sane usee again. When will this disease of language exhaust itself and convalescence set. in? There

To meet this deficit in the sink-

Unless this unsound and unfair debt financing is corrected it can only lead this beautiful little Prince Edward Island into bank-

"We had the old stuff! and she had

aftm’ such experience only 35 years age statesmen ought not to follow." O I I

stood that there would be a- pool- ing of ail foodstuffs and product- ion.

wanted to raise the rem i4) shillings and sixpence per acrsl ‘ tenant appeared before the cm misslorlcrg appointed lo settle tits

p This plan, we understand, has been satisfact- orily carried out iii Prince Edward Island. The re- t w e s Tlsioietneege of the superlative. lng fund the Government had to iii! YWW- ‘This helped Germany to Rhineland and Saar. Unanisnity torch to their houeea rather firs. frigorotor ccir shortage has been such that there . _ Language has been w for etreifiii- create sBank overdraft of $2,059. build up intimately an efficient was not dbtained and not operated. Boo the proprietors should get Joy ond sorrow mingled in the Royal Poiofle. ed that sooner or later its elasticity 010,85 ' war potential to siiiri the Second Further it. was not operated on the them- And ii ivos no ponder flu» World War. That in a Process which economic side because it wna imder- ihei’ did w. when ille proprlotq

criticism voiced in the committee is certainl . . no, a “Cable m m" jsiund run“ Omciujsy husband of the Princess Royal. are signs already. In the adverils- rum“. ‘Home, fundamental wobjem “and the” We min“ been enact” PP Y _ I _ * * ‘ 1,3 world. the revolt has begun. T am’ a". at w“ ‘m, quesum, “Wm, w“ agfeed New carried out’ H would have Laliid Question. in 1860. in ragnsiid in the various conferences during helped u, mm yo d"; Wm, me almost naked. and stated il-rr y;

who have received general commendation from shippers for the manner in which they have dis- charged their duties. Particularly during the pusf

season, potato shipping holdups on this side have stretch of cloves in I- Pli-‘iiiffi ated l at fault. f H‘ M - been rcducpd to a minimum, and o great deal Mf- Mill-ii"! iilliiiili ‘iiie- Mi"? lliflii difllf i1 theatre, rnay be described aswliat firrqn . report from the Db was sumemd at yum that $20 “W, wverhumfint m, 8°“ hgluetfge dozen members were started "searching the she i!—.l\i5l ii_ pretty sifi Willi partment of Commerce. Washing- biiiiii" “Mild 8° l” "i9 Aiiles- °f Ilrmn Britain I; me counc“ o, from hlm by the proprietor. fiflu some talent fol acting. -- Ottawa. which m0 billion were m go m Foreign Mjnism“ is to build comb less the hon. Attorney Gciiorallsid

of credit is due to Superintendent Montgomery and staff, as well as to the captain and crew of the cor ferry, for their work in this connec- tion. A letter to this effect, quoted elsewhere in today's issue, has been forwarded to Ottawa by Mr. J. W. Boulter, manager of the Potofo Growers’ Association, and chairman of the P. E. l. Potato Export Board.

lt would be unfortunate indeed if the im- pression were allowed to prevail that our offi- cials here nre blomable in any way for the many costly delays to which our shippers have been subjected since the loss six years ogo cf the S. S. Charlottetown. The fault lies wholly

lf an illustration of the value of religious education is necessary and desirable, the dis- cussian in the House of Commons initiated by

scriptures," only to find that Mr. McLure, a deuce Presbyterian elder had verified his quotation, ond was able to correct the Leader of the House, likewise o douce Presbyterian.

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Once more there is to be o restriction in

the export 0f dollars to U. S. A. The reason is obvious; we have been buying too largely from over the border, ond now the balance of trade is very largely against us. To prevent a discount on thedollar, it is necessary to sell more of our produce to the States, or reduce our export of dollars for pleasure and other nonvproductive

It may spread. If’ so, the time may come when a ravishing. lllLlTlLfl, incomparable. super-plupecfcct beauty, gazing aoulfully from L

Citizen.

Some of the romance will disap- pear from the railways if the move- ment. started ‘rn the United States inwards the elimination of names from sleeping-cars becomes ivide- spread. Across the line a number of the railway corripenies are pro- posing to give mere numbers to these cars ‘rn place of the names, often quite peculiar names. that they have borne from the time of their introduction. We hope this movement will he nipped in the bud and that, whatever American lines may choose to do, Canadian

ANONYMOUS.

THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC

tun. some startling figures ow given relating to America's‘ enor. rnous drrnk bill. It. is pointed out "w! 1m year the people of iiio United States spent over $3,000,. 000-900 "1 Whifik)’. beer and wine. I" this country foo lhe situation is alarming. Canada's yearly drink bill has now reached the enormous "euro or woonooooo. There ie much food for thought iri then.- figures.

Is it to be inferred that. becaupsek those two nations are slilT strung, the liquor traffic levics no t~lc upon a nation's resources ’Il('l mill. my strength? Or that because the traffic in beverage alcohol iii

Russia.

the war.

"We are sometimes " o! going beds on elflwiehie". he Hit!- "That is not so. It is true that it

But nothing was settled. When- we looked into this we est.- imated that yearly payments on

beefs would be rouahiy equivalent to German's prewar gross exports not, allowing anything for imports.

This exchange of views was Rel/H‘

regarded as binding. and in faci- tho l” wm-ggd o“; gunmen", British Delegation reserved its de- cision.

No ong was committed." At, Potsdam he um clearly under

Tjffimfyme ‘done-after" iIiT"€lC\‘lt*"

tor has been built with unloading facilities.

When we ask Ottawa to burid an elevator they reply "We are not expense

other problems which havq, since become so acute. But the fact that these arrangements were not oper-

itlons of political stability in the world. it is absolutely essential that their, should be no hindrance put ln the way of getting economic stability. It is almost impossible in achieve satisfactory results un- less the trivo things go together or

On the political development Mr. Bevin said there was a dlveirgericy of opinion which arose out of historical d_@culties. At Yaiita there us; dlicilssion "i? 'TtiTs"'problélii' but. no agreement. That discussion was on the basis that Germany should be dismembered. and is. committee was set up to study the question. At

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the coilntry and that all he upon his farm was half a burn bilowheai, all the rest of tils an‘ and all hil stock having been tales

about the kindness of the propriet- o: towards their tannins. the better, A Scotehmsn settled pin ii farm is the neighborhood o! West Rives, and paid up his rent yeal‘ by yeq on the very day upon ivhlch it b6- came due. till o. lilslorlline betel him which prevented him psyllil the usual year's rent. The pro- prietor took law proceedings sgsiild this poor unfortunate tenant, lu merit was given against him, and was incarcerated "ll! jail. That-mail who was so badly Jreafod, showed his receipts for the payment of rent for forty years, year by your. ml proceedings _ against him he awed less than film

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was a common ease in soi-ne rel-nil

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elsewhere and it is just as well to have this purposes. “m, V.“ petal“ m, name, tha‘ . .' - ' ' h f - r llll t> t that fact straightened out before the Transport Com- ' ' i ' have h!\1 traditionally assigned to 2:3,“; b,1",°,§§,v§§§° produce“ ll llllmpllygtootrgaoutothe Hudson Bay Pmsdam m’ sovl-el swung fight P0111105- "..' 5' ' "j. h‘ h F ‘d cergmgnjeg in mark the 450th anniversary sleeping-cars. We would go even [j j as a’ necessur" j j ~1- ty w, 5g "you have “w” fmm the decmm" f°"*sl‘“d°w' --——%—i————-— mLslon egins I s si lngs ere on ri oy. _ farther and suggest m them "w" nil ona asset, and the makers and rou e. o ' ifs y d at 1_ rd iii Yaltn and proposed the ccnt- ___._i___._ of the discovery of Newfoundland. plonned by m emulamn o, 5mm‘ “m! my purveyors oi booze be lauded as built hundred» 0i fie-in thevtg; [g1 ggey-jclgg 1,, “hi... 1 h“, N, the Oldest Colony for June 24th, include the o“, b into! 1 nmuagmj, 1mm“ Mmiiflciiiis? surely not ii“'°iiBi'i°"i 0"!“ "l" °°.. rel-red. presumably to lead up to a Th‘ sh d 08 PP)’ P l l‘! Things are not always whet they “will”! bu! "Oi- Wi! 1n "n" cenymjjsed Gemmmfl The U? a A_ a ' '

More Senatorial increases

Evidently our Senators are not satisfied with the $2,000 increase they and the Commons vot- ed themselves, ond are now holding their hands out for more —- for the leaders. The Govern- ment is expected to announce shortly that the

salary of the Government leader in the Senate The hofse.und-buggy dqy; of medical pyqc- “mu of m l,

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oe raised by $3.000 iiiii-l ii “iiiiliif "ii" l" "i9 tice "weren't as bod as they are pointed," de- belie Nth to the door vi’ ti“ m‘ great concern, :7 laonrgnalasetllieotrall? has already replied.—"The Railway 212:???“ bganfixfllluliflgzl "Nlpeii; Office Connected with ventoi of a better mousetrlli- say! m j‘ yielding a 80mm, j-evenu, will carry from Port Arthur to other M"! of m; r grfwcnlgr-L" m," mo"