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Prolldent: Liont. Col. W. Chatter S. lloLnro Vieo-Prelldont: l. K Girllltl. l‘. J. l. loorotnry: Llent. Col. D. A. Ifnolinnnn. 0.8.0. l&or nnd iilnnnging Director: J. l. Burnett. IJJ. hnoointo Editors: Front Waller and Hui. Ill A. Burnett. RONALD. (On Aotlvo Service)

‘The Strongest Memory in Weaker Thou the Weaken Ink.‘

TUESDAY, Ituincn 1s, 194s‘

The Legislature Opens The Provincial Le islature meets toda and . . . y

our citizens, as usual, are preparing to extend a cordial welcome to the representatives of the various districts. It is hoped their stay in Char- lotwtown \viil prove pleasant to themselves and profitable to the country. The session is not lilvdy to be unduly prolonged, though that, of course, is :i matter which will depend largely on the ainotinv of legislation to be dealt with. Interest naturally‘ centres about the Lioverii- menus rehabilitation plans, and thc progress, ti any, made in implementing its pic-election plat- form since the House last inct.

The jones Liovernnient has one thing in com- mint with lite King Government. lunch titlniui- istration has a kcy tnitiistcr who is still ‘llltllilllg a seat. .-\t Ottawa the .\Iinistci* of l\zitiouiil Defense, Licncral .\lc.\'atightoti, having been defgmpd in (grey North, will not be able to? at- tend the sittings of the llottsc excrpt as‘ a vitstlvl‘. and in this Province the .~\ttorncy' General, Hon. F. .-\. Large, who was appointed to office in Alay, i944, i; still without a scat. This 1s not a practice to be commended in a democratic coitiitry; it is indeed opeit to very grave abuses, and it certainly makes for an awkward stttia- tiou so far as" the ministers themselves are con- CCHICII.

,-\5 in other war years, much of the peace- time formality’ of the legislative opening \\'lll be dispensed with today. It is to be hoped that members of both parties will bear m intnd the tremendous importatice of the events transpir- ing in lzuiopc and elsewhere at the present time, and ctit liiClf spcechmaking to the tiiinnntini ne- cessary length. It is essential that the closest scrutiny be given to every item of business, bttt beyond this there should be no need, either for lengthy debate or partisan maneuvers.

Not Good Enough

Transport Minister Michaud is reported trom Halifax as holding ottt “little hope for a tunnel or any other form of a link" between Prince lidwzird Island and the mainland, claim- ing that “the car ferry system seems the most practical." 'l‘his will be a disappointment to many. The disappointment will certainly not be lessened by the fact that the Minister did not choose to give reasons for his statement, which was made as a sort of appendage to his review of possible post-war projects in Nova Scotia.

It was in April, I944, that the same Mr. Michaud announced in the House of Commons that “an intensive study" was being made of the possibilities of improving transportation facil- itie. between this province and the mainland. Messrs. D. W. McLachlati, and R. S. Lea, con- rultirig engineers, had been appointed to make an “ori-the-spot" survey as to the feasibility of either a tunnel or a causeway. Consideration was also being given to extending the existing ferry slips at Point Borden and Tbrmentine. The fe- sult of the McNaughton-Lea survey has not yet been given to the public. Mr. l\Iicliattd's latest statement, however, would indicate that their report is unfavorable. In that case we are entitled to the whole story.

This is n matter which the Legislature should take up with the Transport Minister a5 soon as possible after it gets down to business. According to Premier Jones in his speech last session on the Budget, the Number I post-War project fur this Province will be the building of causutays covering the shoals on both sides" (if the Borden-Torntctttinc run. llc was qttitff conviucctl that this project was feasible, and he will surely not bc prepared to accept Mr. Michatuls casual dismissal of it without protest.

\\'hilc the Transport Minister" scented indif- ferent t0 the trzuisportatiott worries (if this I-lzind, he was zihlc to ttitnottticc quite dcfinitt‘ plans for the construction immediately aftt-r tiiu \\"'il' of two more coitcrcte picrs at lIHllffl-X- This will hcncfit Nova Scotia and the Maritime shipping indttslry generally‘; but what about intr (jhzirliiicttinvti wharf ituprovctncttt PFOJLWII which was discontinued after the titoncy lutd Bren voted by Parliament and the work actually begun? The steel and other material for this job was lying here for years, and theil was sur- fQpllllCltlSly removed to Blulgrave, N. S. Ottr Lcgislattire at this scssifitt should dcniantl from Ottawa a Commission to look into this matter. since our Federal representatives have failed to obtain the slightest information on the subject from their seats in the Ilousc. _

'I'h-:rc are many other matters concerning our relations with the Dominion Government which should be taken tip at the coming ses- sion of the Legislature, and pressed by wziy of resolutions unanimously adopted and supplement- ed by strong itnti-ptirtisan delegations. It is to be hoped Prentier Jones will take a lead in this mat- ter, or at least be prepared strongly to stipport anyone advocating redress of our many griev- nnces at Ottawa.

_Poor Toronto l

This from the pen of Bruce lluteliison: The most pathetic aiul tnoving news of modern times comes nut of 'l‘oronto. That great city has broken (lown in tears and confessed that it is not popular with the rcst of the nation. In an agony of repentance it has begun a civic campaign to make Toronto loved by all. It is organizing a selling campaign, as a manufact- urer would sell soap, to make friends and in-

fluence people. Thib may be a good way to sell soap. It may not be so good for selling a city. Toronto, the mighty metropolis, thecentre of learning, the creator of Canadian culture, the very Athens of Canada, has reduced itself in this new campaign to the position of the girl in the soap adveitisemen a. Why, mother, oh why won't the boys dance with me? Because, says the mother in the advertisement, you don't wash with So-and-So's lovely, creamy soap. Why is it, mother, that no young man loves rite? Because, my daughter, you do not bathe with So-and-Sds bubbling, foaming bath salts. Why is it mother, that I am middle-aged and a spin- ster and no little feet toddle about my empty house? Alas, oh poor Toronto, you forgot to launder your undies in So-and-So’: quick-and- easy laundry flakes. Unhappy Toronto, lonely

dish-pan hands, tattle-tale gray garments, a skin no one loves to touch! . . . And then she tells us that she lacks friendsl Idolatry is not enough. We must love her, not for her money and power and her intellect, but for herself. Oh, mother, why won't the boys dance with me? Never mind that, my daughter, the boys will always pay your grocery bill, and a girl can't live on love.

-_EDITORIAL NOTES- Proyincal Legislature opens today. i‘ i i i‘

'l"here4is need for blood donors; a consider- able falling off in attendance has taken place, and the attthorities are worried.

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Stiuiirierside is to be heartily congratulated in getting tne only Commonwealth Air Train- ing School in the Maritimes. Charlottetown had one and has lost it, due to whose fattlt the poli- ticians may decide for themselves. One thing is certain, the Hon. i\Ir. Ralston proved a real fairy godfather to Prince County.

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There may be luck sometimes in t3. In the small Etiglish hamlet of Woollcy, near Bath, Englantl, with a population of some I300, I3 men went to war in 1914-18 and all came back. This war another I3 are serving, and all so far are

reported safe. a u n- it

istcr King, this province fails to have an repre- sentative. Why? Surely it would have been just and reasonable to promote Hon. Dr. Cyrus IVIacMillati, assistant to the Air Minister, to the substantial position, and so regulated provincial

spinstcr, brooding, unloved, beside its lake, with d

In the reorganized Cabinet of Prime Min- as

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rnl Eisenhower, who known bout. ti: than an body else on e, refuses to o any more n; about the end of the wnr. I'll-s example is commended to

lconunentntprn and experts every-

WhIIQ.—A!I1h¢i'll; News.

Tho newest fashion fad from Paris decrees short: socks for fe- minine wearers. Black is the pre- ferred color, tn allk or lisle threads. Some are adorned with embroidery tn colored silks. It is not expected that the fashion will make much headway here, in view of the pre- vailing cold weather. - From the

Stratfonl Beacon-Herald.

A new fibre, culled Ardill hnn been develo ed In the United king- om. It. made from peanuts and ts described as cream colored, crimped, resilient and soft and warm to the touch. It is moisture absorbent, and has dyeing quali- ties similar to those of wool. It ls sold not to shrink and not to be attractive to moths. About 500 pounds of fllzre reportedly can be obtained from one ton of nuts. Ardlll fibre probably wlll be used as a complementary fibre, mixed with wool. cotton or rayon. —From Foreign Commerce Weekly.

A young Indy who works in one of the department stores writes us that her way of keeping interested

wallets of the male customers while they ore taking out money to pay for their urchoses, to see whose picture is nslde. It's a predictable matter, she says: A young man will have a pretty girl, an older man a baby or so, and n really old boy a young girl» again, presumably hls daughter. One man, though, had a picture of a pig. To be sure, it: was a handsome, well-groomed pig, nnd It was standing on the front. steps of a house, but it was a pig for all than-New Yorker.

At the are of 37, James Turner becomes the y gest president ever elected to lend the National Farmers’ Unlon with its 162000 members, says the London Sketch. The choice was made while Mr. Turner was leading a delegation of

Domlnlons. A few years ago “Jlm" Turner had a great reputation as a rugby footballer and got county caps both for Derbyshtre and Yorkshire. His fearless love of tackling ls nowadays applied to ministers and other people in high places, and farmers ever here have great con- fidence in h s courage and tenacity well as his shrewd common sense. He comes of a family own- ing quarries which supplied the stone for the British Houses af Parliament. But his chief inter- est ts his 320-ucre farm (it West: Bank, South Anston, Sheffield.

representation in the Government. Instead, Col. Gibson has been transferred from the Revenue Ministry to Hon. G. C. Power's portfolio, and Prince Edward Island left out in the cold. i‘ 1F if‘ ‘K A

Mr. J. O. Denis announces he has resigned as assistant organizer and second vice-president of the Quebec section of the C.C.F., “because that party is now for conscription." Mr. Denis was tinsuccessful C.C.F. candidate in Portriettf at the provincial gcnekralflections last August.

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Quebec may be in a. political turmoil, but that does not prevent it having its eye open for opportunities to boost the province and its in- dustries. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, as a representative of “all the women in the United States," was’ presented this week with a mink coat by the Quebec Fur Breeders Co-operative Association. The coat was described by Dr. J. E. L1 Forest, president of the association, as having been made "from the first crop of Quebec government crested mink" under a ncw trade alliance with a New York fur house.

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Charles, 2nd Earl Grey, also Viscount llo- wick, British politician, born this date I764; known as “the Great Earl", grandfather of the future Governor-General of Canada; took part in the impeachment of Warren Hastings; mov- ed Pitt's impeachment; after Fox's death be- came Foreign Secretary in the "All the Talents" Mitiistry: carried the act abolishing the African slave trade; became Prime Minister in I830; carried the Reform Bill giving manhood suffrage by obtaining permission froiu the King to crcatc sufficient peers to ensure its [ittssiug in the House of Lords.

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Caii we develop industries here? Sure we can, as the Fox and Seed Potato industries prove. Until the year I920 the export sale of seed potatoes had been confined to Prince Ed- ward Island where the acreage was rapidly in- KTCIISLIILI. In that year a large volume was available for domestic trade and, in addition. approximately 56,000 bushels wcrc exported. N. .' llrunswick then came into the picture. The (lttlllltnd was so great that by i924 ship- ments of certified seed totalled 334,484 bushels. Since then the trend in shipments has been gen- erally upwards, although there has been wide fluctuation from year to year. Since I937, with one exception, shipments each year have been in excess of 2,ooo,ooo bushels and reach- cd an all-tinte high of 2,903,909 in i939. The largest demand is for Irish Cobblers and Green Mountains, although Bliss Triumph has also been quite popular.

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The Rev. Harold Gerige Michael Clarke, M.A., who is visiting here on Friday under the attspiccs of the British Ministry of Information

and the World Council of Churches is an edu- cationist of outstanding reputation in the Old Cotintry. He was formerly headmaster of the famous Repton School in Derbyshire, founded in I557 when Rcpton was the capital of Mercia, and which has a church with a Saxon crypt. Mr. Clarke is n graduate of Cambridge with First Class Honours in Mathematical Tripos and 2nd Class Honours in History Tripos. He served with the 2nd Field Company, Royal Iingino-rs in France in the last war; and for five years was Honorary Treasurer to King Alfred's Training College for Teachers. He has produced various plays of Shakespeare in Hampshire villages for the Winchester Strolling

Players.

The Foreign Commerce Weekly,

tofflctai organ of the Department of

Commerce, reports that 20.000 tons of seeds, a quota set; for the first half of this year under lease-lend, have been delivered to Russia. These are mostly seeds of vegetable and field crops that wlll permit increas- cd planting in the liberated Uk- raine. Some indication of what the shipping of seeds menus in con-

tlons than food appears in the ubllcatlon, It says that: the 20,000 ons of seeds could be carried by two cargo ships on one trip out that it would take thousands of ships to carry the food which these seeds can produce. To make a point it says that: one pound of tomato seeds may 160,000 pounds of tomatoes; a pound of carrot seed, .0000 pounds of cor- rots and a pound of cabbage see, 200,000 pounds of cabbage. - New York Sun. .

To foster anti sustain matrimony, State Senator Brooks of the Ten- nessee Legislature has introduced a bill to make the use of the lip- stick ii felony. It seems that tne lipstick has a way of leaving prints on men that cause wives to leave home. If the senator will search the musty tomes of the law he may find that the use of the lipstick ls already banned. As English statutes enacted prior to 1607 M0 part of the common law of most. of the United States, on act. of Parliament enacted under King James I declaring it to be a mis- deameanor "for any female to en- trap any of His Ivinjestys subjects into matrimony" by the use of pntnts" false hair, Spanish ‘ moss or other devices should take care of the lipstick. The statute pro- vided for fines of 25 pounds by justices of the peace. Under the "law of Morgeiitnnu“ 25 pounds ls equivalent; to $100. Justices of the peace abound in America and our Chicago municipal court inherits their jurisdiction. - Chicago Dally News. ‘

The first attempt f0 use the cold water of Okzmzigan Lake as a refri- geration storngc for surplus n pies has proved n total failure. Fish were partly to blame. Last fall, when cull apples were far in excess of the capacity of the pro- cesstnt; plants, someone evolved the brt ht. den of dumping the fruit: ins de a huge net extending from the wharf into the lnkc, where it; was hoped they would remain in good condition for months, About. 200 tons were dumped in. In theory the op les should have stayed at the bo tom. Instead, being some- what over-ripe, they floated (.0 the surface rind looted, Tens of thous- ands of rotten apples mode rather a dismal picture. To mrikc mat- ters worse, Okan an car like apples. These fin cut hrough the retaining nets, and large unn- tittes of the submerged fruit rift.- ed away through the holes. Tests of a pies which were still ln good cond tlon after four months show- ed the juicing qualities had not been retained. The experiment has been written off as o failure-Toronto Saturday Night,

Lord Wnvellh review of the In- dian situation rightly emphasized the great opportunity that now lies before India. Very soon, when the war in Europe ls over and Allied strength is concentrated atfntnst. Japan, India wlll become an im- mense base for the ndvnnclng_ At- lled annies, and her new will give her, as the Viceroy said, "the greatest opportunity that she has ever had." It. would be the best nun for India's future if, at this crucla moment in their country's histo , the arty leaders could co- o ra in t e government of In- da. Unfortunately there is noth- ing to show that t ls is at all rob- lb e. Lord Wnvell again apo e of the value ~of im Indian national government, representatives of all he parties. But the breakdown ot the Gandhi-Jinnah conversations lnat. September showed that. the Hindus and Moslems can still reach

Fifty Years Ago Column of the 1

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United jtlngdom farmers to the d

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Equality ' 0f

Sacrifice ..tt~t*. 12.:- swat“; mou- of the 1g Conservative Party, gs h; 3rd Annnnl Moetin or h;

I mutilation in Ottawa, Mgr-eh

VII

Divide and rule h Kins’: policy, Not z?- hiafnum and stren of the nation ha; he is hi hl d nflammntory ctgmrhe. ‘$5333 “£12 Party's advantage m m, on filmed! ends. thin yqfld w" nave democracy, one notion 0g Canada now knows its human n. sources have been drawn flpqn u" fairly. In lihl5 world w... to m; our Christian civilization from ex "MUOII. another section of Cn _ Eda now knows it has been midi’; and unnecessarily deceived - first; by the Government/i; promise of its abstention from war and later b the Government's reversal to mi; catsuit. M Bi ""- dew- section of the natlur has been left misunderstood and Inlgregrpsented before the world an hf t humane iiihts iuorgtiifmlitfe “realm” at t ‘ ‘here be g3‘? flefiy ciixtigtetiimiiiiiiin tfigii I1 plat-time he continued to W P ' ' which multl lied dis- lllllty ln the nation? There a; no more argument for thelr- elin- ttnuance than that for a quarter 0f a century they hm pfgven a useful political formula for nar_ row partisan ends. It ls not [Q9 much to say that for party ad- vantage, even in a time of war, Mr, K1118 has so misled the nation tn the vital matter of equalit f iaertfige that its unity ha; ybefn roug t 1t Vifglglf! tlllflsilillSflSllggecessal-uy m the t. and chit-dim? ‘3ll’...‘l§"‘°§£lll gage lttffrn fflrmly united instead of For gm‘ n urther with wrangling. “My s, more than 11g servlqg m Km wet? necessary. ut no, Mr, oust? D e erred to play the nefari- en kapieh of letting a minimum bur_ o umnn sacrifice fall u on one section of the people 3m? a maximum burden upon others be- gglllse he had not the cnuragg to eise a. dlshonournble peacetime Policy that had yielded him party fldyraiétag; ln the past. 8 _ Kl wiser leatlershltilgln ftilsluhestacebrtlagg "Wm "OW be a more contented B“ that °Pl>ortunlty tie

ttnuance of the old- a th has pursued since hegbgésme 12;}? 5E3” "l3 l"? 89 s ea - "5 l" Quebec told the Province that if they dld not vote for Mr 31x38? party their sons would be h“ 0twar—and if they voted gm- ~_ DB1‘ Y. they would never be re- (llllred l0 E0. It was Mr. King and his lieutenants who lndoctrlmited pn: province to fear n fair call-up doe not. It was Mr. King who, un- r this subversive doctrine fall- efl w clearly ex latn to iiié pro. VI??? tthat had een thus misled, hls war was Canada's war “ml that Quebec's future was at; stake, with its rights and its cus- ms» lust as much as the future Plkhts and customs of the rest i'i'ii="i'~igi'i£'."§lla“é‘.§h£'$° “i "m" "‘ ofNghethtiatlt/lllzed ‘world? O the rest » 6 Can e no unity when 1215i burdens of war are unfairly , 0" m1? section of the country. Equality of responsibility and equality of sacrifice are both es- ivehldllziltarmtiihliaeggiztflmot any dilation’ Yet Mr e °'

Even were the war over tomor- rpatlv, the need today for an equtg- a e, sound policy on the draft of ma“ "V" i llrtlent. There 1s noth ng that. causes so much i115- satisfaction as the sense of injus- tice Created by this discrimination. Yet at no time has there been any i-‘lluality of service, any attem t at 5591118 that the human c053 of gérioxwere evenly borne 331-053 me Catt we ev h t that wry? elllnltgge tiiziihaiifnsimbl injustice ls wiped out, the progress of this nation will be retarded for a generation. If Canada 15 eve;- to continue to develop into a greet “HIM nation. the basis for that. injustice must be cleared away. The Simple RWY. ls that: no na- tion can survive and be strong lf thfis torn by dlssension within 11;. is . Bad enough it is tf there are orces loose that cause dlsunfty and over which there is no con- trol. But to cause disunlty, to dis ltiberately follow fi ollcy which urns one race iigzilns another, one type of uniformed man against another; which turns the soldier against the civilian, and the flgh. l" asninst the w-ar worker and the farmer-such a policy is an unfon. klveable crime against the nation. At the beginning of this century, Sir Wilfrid Laurler said: "The twentieth century belongs to Cnn_ ada.” What he meant that phi-are P mean I do not know; but this dokuovh-thnt the twentieth cen- WPY can belons to Canadians as much as to any other community of people in the world. ls na- tion can yet be worthy of its hertp nae. It has shown its s Its love of freedom b res ting a - gresslon tn two ten-lb e wars with n a quarter of n century. At the ante time. it has shown outstanding cop. natty on its farms, In its factories, in is research laboratories and in its schools and offices. It re- mains but. for you and me and our eleven million associates to accept tn Canada one standard of region- slbllity from sea to sen, one measure of equal sacrifice for ail-not two or three or four. for us to make of this new one nation less of race oi- creed or economic calling. all its citizens equal be- fore the law-equal In opportunity equal in responsibility in times of Pence. and equal in sacrifice in days of war.