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JAG! F991? THE

cilliitomzrowii GUARDIAN

Morning Daily? (Founded 188])

_ Presldent, Lleiit-riil. W. Chester S. MeLure

i Vice Presiiti-iit, J. R. Burnett. F .

Iecretary, LleuL-fol. D. A. lllarlilunoii, D.S.0. “llm- and lllnnugiiit; lJirector, J. R. Burnett, I-‘JJ.

ASSOIEIaIe liilitur, Frank Walker Slfl. sl IIIPTIUN RATES $5.00 per yeai iin advance) delivered to City. $4.00 per yeiii- in. ailiaiicei inaileil to P. E. Island I54") per year (in iiliani-el mailed to Canada and U-S. lllernben, unlit lsu --.iu of Cireulatiuns

Jlcmory is Weaker than the ll‘ccili'est_ Ink.’:_

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, The Euri_ i i i is is stiiiinicd up in one sentence i» A ilmpzitrlii-s iriiin London: “ 'either i. I ~lY1't'Cll nor iii the Loiuloit e was -_ i .ii.iii-.i:il on litiroptfini peace;

t the c ‘s Jwc was that peace had i1 Hitler ll i Zv-l, rcfrziiiieil from aiiiioiui- ting that ;~~ '.\.iilll(l inzirch iiito (zeclto- slovakia l. Xi-ii-riliele», his speech ycsterdai nil in stich belligerent terms that it I»; i. >lt‘1'llt‘<1 ivariiiiig issued by Brim-i ., - < beuzin. lt iiiifificd tlie Nazi 1i-_. ' , _ i: ./i.i!.i if t!” livl-f-Ulhld‘ Iiiiulr by the [h ._ ».~ ,1]: w, ii tirriiiiii: attack i: fllfldfl x i:.i.i~!<i:'iil':.i the fmnieifiafc result ruff’ [Vuiritr ruff! be bound In come to hm- 115v viii’ (frrtif Ilri/itin um! Russia tvfll ccrfit-fl liriiiiri"? There i. '.i iiitg i\\'ll1lf this means. Illeanivb, prciiarzitiiiiis are going on apace, but‘, iiri- and England. Agreement

has been r ‘ l ' z-i ‘ii the \‘\‘l'll1 of war France

would dirt :-:i ics (lllil air forces of' both countries, ‘1 .il'!l.'1il1 wiitiltl supervise both i-i‘ "i ‘i < reiterated her assurance with

g‘ the Aiiglo-Frisnch plan for ‘ xiii areas in Czechoslovakia, j." ll open for a peaceful i - pwiic that the (ieriitzin tlie- tor really \\1_' 1_=,-.ind not its dtreadful alter-

‘Acloll Hitler; Author

ulKill comes a despatch telling that is iiiirkint; on another book. It ii-_»i~§v . r I llitlci" is more than a. dictator i i l.‘ i v11‘); that, in addition, he is 11 '1" llls “Klein lxhiinpf" has SOld i, n-iiiiii» copies, ivhich must be al-

iu re tli.-.i i “Mo, a f4 llici- i-nialltv, it must have made Him-r \\

\‘iheii 5' rt published his book he used he profiw i-i if . 4‘ his" Viper, the “l'ucfli‘isclitit' .',(;bfli,fl.‘ t that i-iiit necessary, and

pill-i ".\l *1 l\'.i-.:i_ f" running into salt-s of Q00.- ‘ -. _r_ iii. i-i tit-sf sziiil to be trllC re ri-acli

af- ,1 , i ~.t tlii. irxxooo

tum-pa U, ' >1 iiyoooo at ciii-riiiit exchaugt: i r3195 T‘ = ‘ ‘i \' been Il‘itll>llll\"l into zilniost all for- i "LWHLW -

N0,- ~ ».- literary merit (if it had aiiyl made '- f iiipt" a lit-st sc-lli-r. lt is l'<‘Illlll'\'(l reading ‘l, ‘t i ii-iinm Schools, ciilli-gt-s and iiiii- yei-siiii-e, F i (ierinzin entering one, of the pr0f@_.~.i,.»~- ,~ i LllPClCLl to ktioiv its main iilcas. some _»i . Giriiian iiiuiiieipttlities give every neivlv-ii ~l couple at the registry office I! IpCCllllij‘ ‘ ii‘. copy of the book.

First 4W1 in 1935, “Me-iii Kaiiipf" sold slowly. i" 5t'\'L‘1l years its total sales were less

ma“ zovrin copies. this despite a cheap, popular ulitinn, '1“.:en Ilitlcr came to power, where- upon tlie salts shot skyi-high. By the end’ of i937 they had reached ($437,000 copies. “hat author v. iiildii’: be a dictator? Or dictator an

author?

New Deal Reciprocity

mformed advices from Ottawa indicate, says the Fyilncyi Post-Record, that the I\ey'1\11l1l5t61'5 of tlig lliiiiiiiiiivii Ciiivertinicitt are bfilfilflg‘ them- selves to fave a tiiixcd. ll “Qt Predommanlly hostile riizictiiiu from the country at large, when the terms of our new trailc treaty with the United Ftitcs are made knoivn. After six months of ariltioiis bargaining, thisrevlsed PM! is said to be coiiiiilctc at last, that it is now ap- I.,,.0,_.,.,i 3H,] rm],- f.,r ilit- <igiizittircs of the high wniiwiviiiii; parties. Its provisions, however, all‘ ti; vi-t l1ll<"i\1l only to the iiiiier Cabinet circle. the ' fill/l flit- llt-pzirtitietital experts who

lli*[{~‘i'.'l'iii1'~’. _ _ (lid fly- fwiilillt’ lll'l.l(lfl<'l'_\‘ of trziinlzitiiig the deci- kit < ri~ filiufldlll‘! llll‘ reiiiiireil terms. “ml 1111115‘

uni"; 1l‘i"ll1 iiim thi- i-Iict- y (f ~_~ ‘ii 41l- ilitist; i-xiii-rts returned from \\ ash- itigiiiii tn Ottawa rt few days ago. to itirilce an

ifljfilll roprvrl Iillll tn get fullcr- and better iii-

_,- H, M, “m,- giiiuli-rl ltriibleiiis incidental 1,, . i, i,- ;,. ,1 rpflllt iif riiiifcrring < fiipliiiipijills that lea-ling nii-tiibers of “\’4 ( _ _., M... tiiiil tn have reached the con- ,~'i,,_' ,,, p i, l, in]! l,,~ ;i man's fiib to get tlie new l" it it.‘ IIFFIMQ ll] tfiiiviila ii-itliiiiit roiisulcriiblii

' ii-il iiiii, lil‘.~'tlllllt‘~'~'. _ 1‘ i ii~;»_i..i- lF-Illlllt‘, iivciiriliug to report. 1s the " t _,,,._.,._ n; (‘;ii~iil;i'_< piwfcreiices in tlic ~,-ii-‘ ' liv tlii- t"\'lill*'lllll of some of the

l‘1'>'\ ti. .\iii~ric-iii exporters uiiiler

,i- {ml fvfilltfllCfl ti-i-ziti- bt-tiveen tlie

‘i-iii ‘l1l<l llii- Viiiteilblzites. This

. p».- .,f iii-giiiifitiiiiis has been in

Pi i~ f‘"l’l\' iii 103*‘. aiiil FY91)‘ item i" "","l':t'.".ll iirict that llCllri tipon any -~-., .1, .i.,.-=.i-t':i-i:iili:in agreement, or "Ot- iritv llt‘(‘.’llllf,‘ the siibiect of - .i,. ,, ilii- ri-iirest-iitntives of tlie ',. . \,- iiiiiiv rif these discussions ' I . i’ l'iril'f rwiiliiistments. Flllil Fl‘ ,'i .1 qi-;iii.;i¢:i‘¢iii is based upon tlie ~' '~ i-i‘ !'l\1‘ :iiiil lfllil‘, it is virtually .. ,-i-.,.- -. ‘intl iyrniips of Canadian t-- - "l fiiill lllt‘lll“l\'l'.< less favorably 1i. itii- (ll iiii~4ii~ and t-xyaort markets

, i . a H1" lll"‘<'.‘lll moment. When " i- in’ lll'(‘ ll(‘\\‘ agreements are ' ,,i.‘-..3,- .,{ pron-us may be ex-

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THE QEARLQITEIQKN GUARDIAN

members of the King Government.

The Post-Record adds: “It is Premier King's good luck that so far helicis been able to evade or postpone every big crucial problem ivliicli seemed iinniiueiit when lie took office in i935. 13y referring the ‘lleiinctt reforms’ to thecotirts

as to their COllSlllllllmlllllly, he has obtained a‘

respite from action in the matter of social secur- zty legislation which has already lasted 3 _veurs and may eventually outlast his term of office.

Premier Hcpburifs obstructive attitude toward

the St. Lawrence Seaway project has saved the Dominion Prime Minister the awkward neces- sity of ntalting up his niindon an issue certain to cut sharply between his Quebec folloivci-s and his supporters in tlie West. F0 far Mr. King has not ventured to define ixosition on the European war menace, and the chances are at least even that lie will not be forced to. But in this new reciprocity (leal with the Cnited States, (Tanadrfs opportunist Prime Minister is squarely up (lgfllllSf a big and far- rcaching stroke of public policy, on which lit: shall have to be definite. concrete and ili-fetisivc in his pronouncements to the Iloiise (iliil flit- country."

I‘ Editorial Notes I

The first railway in liuglziutl opened this date.

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Do you recall the lializin air fleefs visit ‘io Slimline? Couldn't it do so zigaiu wiili less friendly intentions?

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Surely President Roosevelt is not going to repeat the experiment of President \\'ilsoii, who attempted to “kill the Kaiser with his tnouth," or, rather, with his pen.

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The Halifax Herald (listiugtiishctl ' itself on Saturday by the publication of a full page of editorial opiuioiis from Yancotiver to Sydney on the European crisis.

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Hitler and Goeritig were driving along a coun- try road when they ran over and killed a pig. llitler ivaitted to drive oti, but (iocriug iusisteil upon visiting the owner first. llc returned to the car with his arms full of gifts. “\\'h:it (locs this mean ?" asked Hitler. “Didift you tell them?" “Ycs," replied Goeriug-JT said I have the Fuelirer in my car, hut-the pig is dead!”

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Canon \V. W. Judd, general secretary of the council for social service of the Church of Eng- land in Canada, told a meeting of the house of

bishops the church’s organization work to “keep

in touch" with prisoners could “stand a tighten- iiig-iip." Excluded from the “needed improve- ment", lii- said, were the province of Ontario and the diocese of Fredericton where “stich work is satisfactory." v iii ii- x - Among those passing hence last week was Mr. G. Fred Pearson, K.C., llalifzix, who was for many years publisher of the llalifax Chron- cilc before fCllll(]lllSlllllQ“ll to his brother-iu-laiv, the llou. Mr. 1\lcCtird_v. .\lr. Pcarsoti took a keen interest in the business side of jouruztlistii. and played a prominent part in the ilircction of the then Eastern Prc" Association. "and the founding of the present L natliaii Press organ- ization. lle was public spirited in cvcry $Ull>C of the wiiril, being long conuectetl with Dal- liouse University and other Nova. Scotia institu- tions.

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As though there ivcrc not enough political parties in Alberta already", the Liberal party has been split by the formation of the “Country- 1neti's Liberal Party." Two explanations are offered of the new tlevelopmetit in well-inforni- ed political circles. One is that of an autiotiiice- merit recently that prominent Edmoiitotiians would seek federal nominations in rural ridings in northern sections of the province, and the other}: that there may have been disagreement in the Athabaska riding over patronage pri\'i- leges. The seat is represented in Ottawa by Ariti-Aiberliart Social Creilite: Percy j. Rowe).

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The day's of Fairy Wiiidfalls are not yet over- An unemployed youth of l\\'Elll_\'-llll'0C putting in his time sailing an old tub in New York liar- bor has just been presented, without explanation. with an $8,000 fully equipped yacht by a stranger who saw he was a born scamaii by the way he handled his boat. Going up to him, the

his

llIlTES BY TllE WAY

The authoritative figures of the Canadian Automobile Chamber of Commerce discloses that. Canada ‘ranks iugli as a manufacturer of lnioior ears, trucks and buses. In 1937 tlie United States came first. Britain was second, Germany third and Canada fourth. The Dominion was slightly ahead of France and soviet RuSS1EI_—-—MO1lCl0II’ Trans- cript. '

England has spent $25,000,000 on 40,000,000 gas masks WlllCh are stored away aginst an emergency. It ls now found that these are no protection against. arsenic gas, which ivould cause the wearers to tear them off, 11nd thus subject tliciiiiselvcs to tlie eifect of deadily gas which would follow the arsenic. 1t continues to be true that ln modern warfare defence does not keep pace with attack. —Toront0 Star.

An optimistic view of India was taken by Lord Wlllingilon the ex- Vlceroy, lii a speech at. tlie dinner in London of tlie Royal Central Asian Society, where lie was tlie principal guest. He lizid the s ‘oug- est impression "that Indians as a race, be the princes in their pal- aces or ryots in their huts, are naltirallv tlie best-mannered peo- ple in the world-people who wlll l‘L‘.\l)0ll(l to fair and just treatment and who never forget acts of kindness and simputliy shown to them at any tinie."~Londoii Times

There are various ways in which a snizill place tan get publicity‘. Wilbur Glenn Volivu, director of Zion City. put liis home town on the map as the original of Kip- lings "village that voted tlie earth was flat.“ PIKIFO)’, Yorkshire, pro- duced a younr, Mr. Hutton wlio put up tlie record of 364 runs‘ in a test uiziicli. Burbitlge, Quebec. has just popped into front-page position b_v putting ii bun on shorts for men. Till a few days ago few outside Yorkshire and Quebec liad ever lictirtl of Putlsc-y and Bur- bicige. but. now the name of the one has gone all over tlie world and that o1 tlie other has probably been wired all over a contincnt— Toronto 'I'elegr-

' need no longer feel iliul 11p. 1t‘ is ii use- iless luxury. The Ivlliiistei‘ of De- fence, ltli‘. 'I'1iorb_v, liiis told tlicin that they are helping to inaiiittiiii a valuable (lefcnce auxiliary. A factory wlilt-li noiv munufzietures brass lipstick containers will be converted for the production of cartridge cases 1ii tlie-event of u war time emergency. Mr. Tlicrby was answering critics who coin- pliiiuetl that the government was roeeetling with n hush-hush iaolicy n organizing secondary inclus ‘y for tho production of war material. He quoted the lipstick-cartridge plan as only one example of what was being do1ic_—-Atistraliai1 Press Bureau.

The existence of a strong Mr Force is the best form of insur- ance giiinst air attack, but 1t can never be u complete guarantee against it. Precautionary measur- es are ludisizeusalale, and what has been litippennig in Spain and China lms enforced this lesson. This C01lllil‘_\’ has become more ulr raid-conseioiis, and lntleetl ls aux- lous about tlie atlecitincy of tlie prectiuiioiis. To llllllllldillf‘ the civilian population by air iraids appears to have bec-omc part of the cw niilittugv practice . The provision beforliand of atletiu-iittl precautions should serve not only to pvrvent tlie creation of chaos and panic. but also to convince n. potential aggressor that lie ls not. likely to succeed iii his object. ARI‘. has thus become an eisen- tial part. of air de1cnce.-- The Scotsman, Edinburgh.

Nothing coulil have been more tactful than tlre postmaster-gen- erals explanation that it has been necessary to affix u mnnocrntii to the new "luxury" post office pens 1n order that. they might. be pre- served sticeessfully for the pur- pose for which they wiere intended. One knows that 1n regard to writ- lng material all classes of the public lave a slightly loose sense of ." . rights. ‘Flint. this goes buck l1 long way ls shown by the ancient. story of William Gregory's being taken to see Mel- bourne tit the Home Office more than n century ago. He was pre- sented with‘ a linntlful of pens and other writing requisites with the advice: "Benin life early. All these things belong to the public. and your business must always be to get out of tlie public as much as you Cllll."—Mflflt‘llff‘ilt‘l‘ Guardian.

It 1s an unfortunate fact that among tlii; principal objectors to n. present. Ctniiuioiiiveultli constitu- tion, characterized by a decen- tralization of responsibility amount- ng to complete freedom of action,

Australian

. . - - 1 stranger, an inventor and retired advertising ex- 4L is Sim mnmm, m Fever, ,0 me

ecutive, asked the youth how he liked his yacht. “Gee, ivhat a beauty, who owns her?" replied the

youth. “You do," said the stranger, and there- iipoti formally handed it over to him. Now the youth ivants to know where he is going to get

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due The

the money to sail the >9!

Congratulations are

page special edition commemorating the 75th

aiitiivt-rsary of its founding. First known as the Canadian Gleaner, tlie paper wtas foitndcil

by the late Robert Scllar, who was a protege of the llon. George Brown, founder of the Toronto (Zlobe and one of the most influential nicii in The paper has remained in the Sellar family and crintinties to p a rt y

Canadian affairs of his time.

give effective support tn Liberal tiolicies. The anniversary edition contains man)

interesting articles and pictures, iii addition to pages of congratulatory messages received from

all parts of Canada, m in

Professor L. H. Ncuxhurgh of the University of Michigan told the Manitoba Medical Associa- tiou‘s aniitial convention that 50 per cent of the diabetes

persons diagnosed as suffering from are "just gluttnns, only they won't admit it.

According to life instirance statistics, he cori- tiuucd, there are 2,000,000 iiuilille-agcil obese individuals in the [lniteil Stair-s with diabetic

symptoms. "'l‘lie_v're not all ilialii-tics at all they're iust frittics." he added. lle rceiiinmeutl- ed a milk, vegetable and fruit diet and declar-

ed the “meat eating fallacy" started in Germany

years ago “when a (it-rinan concluded the way to be strong and healthy was to eat meat. The result was the (icriiiznis thought they could lick the world if they built their dict around merit, ' 1y absorbed by other countries."

Hllllllllglflh Gleaner, weekly newspaper covering the ilistrict of Beauliarnois, Quebec, upon a magnificent 42-

lldca that Britain l‘0])I‘(.‘"€I\l.S the centre of tlie Dominion ilnivcrsie nntl that the Dominlons are the satellites or lesser suns moving 1n n circular orbit. around lie-r. A more accurate zinalogy emerging front the Balfour" declaration would suggest tlitit tlit-re is no centre to this universe save an Idea and that. about that idea, the Domlniniis of which Britain ls e18, urc describing orbits which are elliptical, and by no means similar in axes. In otiier ivords, the Domlnlons are not conscious,

separately or collectively. of a "uniform faitli in tlie ltlenls of Commonwealth practice. 1t ls

tlotibtful. iiitlcetl. 1f there ls such a thing us Commonwealth practice

1n the wider sphere of interna- tional nlfalrs — Natal Wltncss, Pletermtirltzburg.

‘l was interested tn read In ploycs‘ Journal tlie story 'o'_l' u T56? . and lier baby. A prospective pus- senger on n long western trip, the lady went Ln ii representative of I certain railway with a problem. She had a very yioung nnby and she had to be assured that a sup- ply of lLs particular klnd of milk would be available under refrig- eration. The rnllwnymnn, the urt- lcle says. ‘figured tlie number of days and hours the trlp would re- quire, arrived at. the quantity t’. milk necessary, reduced 1t to bot.- tles, informed the mother where she could purchase ii container to nccommotllnte that. number of bot- tles, and mnde arrangements with Pullman porter for pre-lclng and lctnrr on the trlp." The int. of the story ls that the trzive ler had ' gone to a passenger reprcsentwlve of another rnrid Wllll the same problem and lind been told, "Lady, t don't know anything about bab- e:. It's not ln my line." The "rouble was. the second man was an old-fashioned rallronrler. He failed to understand that 1n these (IFVR rif keen comnellflcn the man who Vela the lgucllétsus thekxrsan who ls prepar eour us. to gtva that. little extra nrvldl

so agreeably limited his navy to 85

a recent issue of the Rf_\llWI\_y_Em—____

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A5 we write the war has not yet. stat-tea. No one can say, however. wiiniiiei- 1t will or will not. have begun before this appears ln print. But wihether Hitler has marched. whether lie has been deterred for the time being by un unequivocal British stand. or whether Frame and Britain have bowed to the German threat, abandoned Czecho- slovakia and postponed the decision for a year or two, this eolculatlon of the underlying strategic factors of the slttiation will remain per- tinent. Here are some of the coli- slderaticus tlie general staffs are prndering.‘ I recommend their perusal to any who still think that Germany would be fighting t0 “fi'ee" tlie Sude-t-riilriiidcrs, and Britain, France and Russia. "for Czechoslovakia.”

‘Flie basis of Central European- stratcgy ls these-called "trans- vcrsal Eurasian AxLs". This is nothing other than the shortest laiitl route from the Noi-tili Seato the Incl-lain Ocean. It. 1s tlie line along which tlie German drive to tlic East was sizhwtl before 1914 and is again powerfully directed

today. Before the War Germany, with lit-r fillies Austria-Hungary and 'I‘ui'kc,v, controlled seven-

eiglitlis of tlie ROD-odd‘ miles of the "Axis". At one stage of the cr-iiflici slie conunatided its entire length down to within a perilous few miles of tlie Persian Gulf, where she was blacked by the Mesopotamian expedition.

Vcrsaillcs trinniicd the German share of tlie Axis clown to a bare 295 miles. Huugarifls 125 miles raises this effectively to 420. The ieinalnini; G75 miles of tlie European half of tlie Axis are coutrcllcd by Cztchoslovakla and Ruumatiia. The Asian section of the Axis was bioken up 111 tlie same way by the Peace Treaties. For falling in ivitli the German scheme Turkey lost just half of liei" portion. This part. was formed into tlie state of Iraq, under a British prctcctorate. The Allied Staffs were stilclyin-g different kinds of maps from Pre- sidcnt Wilson. I tloirl. mean ‘by this to be cynical: tlie freedom and independence of that. part. of the ivorlcl, and only less of Britain and France, needed strong stratcgls defences.

Now a resurgent Germany has set out, to reccnquer the positions lost in the debacle of 101B. It. is often said that tlie Gerniatis learn- ed nothing from tlie last. war, but they learned at least this: that they ivou it. in tlie East. and lost. it in tlie West. ’l‘ltut. is wliy Ilitlei‘ has gone out of 111.5 way time alter time to assiue Fiance tliut Ger- many has no claims against. nor. and at. Nuremberg renounced zilsace-Lirruinc. That is why he