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could be employed usefully. Hon. R. B- Hanson suggested recently that the affairs of Govern.

c G mellt-Owned corporations‘ like the Bank of Can-

ada aud the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Rlvrvluk "Bil! ‘Fwhdfli i" "371 ought to be reviewed by Parliamentary gom. rrestdent: Lleul. Col. W. Cheater B. MQLIIN mmecs’ in]; Banking adld Commerce iconimittei; vice rreiiiiient: J. a. Burnett, I41 and the Railway Committee of the Senate include

seeretiii-y; ui-iit. ciii. o. a miiiiuiiiiiim. 0.5.0. some of the ablest men in Parliament. Edit-u and Managing Director. .l. B, Burnett. IJJ. Ass-relate Editors: Frank Walker and lull A Burnett

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Tue Charlottetown uuurdiau may b0 obtained a! Hntiillnl‘! .\o\va Agency. Tlniea Squurl, New Yurht Oll Biiuili Nevin Agi-iicy, Uiriii-r blllli and Wuhlngtoa,

llliiiitri-iil: J. liiii-. .i.'ii llii_\ an, Turiintn; New: Stand. weld‘, imp i0, i-i.‘ . . n .. . , '~ , ciiiiii-iiii iiiiui, Ulltlfl-II n iiuiv- \l'\\l stiiiie. iiiiiiiiiirv. Lil iii” . iii ii “Hmc “i iimic"i' H“ olll: llulr TIIlnHTII bllup, iiiiiii-iiiii u. B.| - lremier is master in his own house,

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"Tl"; Sfrurigesl [Ilvniory is Weaker than the Weakest Ink."

“blew hzinsel iii on Robin.” l i l I Our FITTIIIBTS Doubly penalized i‘

The extent t0 which Prince lidwnril l>llllltl i5 atdferiuq bv r -i'\ll of the iiicliicicucy- uf the 5.i'\ivi‘ uuiy be judged from

_borri; he is American born, but Scotch bred. U i I II

5puw~m< iriiui Lupe TWirmQntine to Bor- _:.\'_i twin l:i<t lllltlllll as against 792 wit. llii- wprv-i-iits a decrease Of ~11 i-ini-i- siwllfltillll are the fig- irziiiic moving from the Island. Island?

2 cars were moved from Bor- a e a a

Last l-‘rhvuzi (ion to iliitflllPli

This i5 ii Poi“! which ‘he diiiPil-"iiihh which 5°” efficacious, on the other hand should they hap- to filrlllua to tin-l"? ii‘? [WW6 Chiiihg Q" Pom‘ pen to be bridge devotees, it might not. tiics sin-tilt‘. em -i:'e vcry strongly. The rea- Wzirtiuie Prices and Trade _ _ p 7 ifs ceiling was that speculators _ 510R ih¢_i-ib°i'ai3 "T89 everl/Oiic 1Q VOW )'°5 iiii-flih; “um, effect did the in the plebiscite, and the Conservative, C.C.F..

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were rai _ . . ppiip p, _.hipp.piiiq chic m ihcf- Social Democrats and Labour do likewise, who firiiii ~ \t“‘\'.i("(‘ llI‘\'€ in dctermin- h“! 16ft to vote "H0"? 5m Quebec 35 a Pioiiiiic?

hip, i‘ i ,-. {iiiipd iii ihis “mum-y 'i‘hi; for Premier Gotlbout has gone out un the hust- Br-ztril is :1 Fcfifirin of the Dominion Govern- "185 iiigiiig a" aiiiimaiwe resPaiise-

l the ll-niiiiioii Government is solely i t v 1- " t“'-iil"'ihi*‘! efficient iriihslioiiii‘ Evcrvonc —- well, nezirlv evcrvone — will "F ihhrillhr and the hiiiihiaiifi‘ ii heartily commend the policy enunciated by tho

-- <i"\\1i ill ihiS °i9iil31ii_°“—a5 iiie Prime Minister for an "all-out" war. His speech i '1‘ BhOW “°i’)'_ wiiciiisiviiiY-fvh)’ in Parliament following those 0t Mr. Donald ihould our fzuuiiris and shippers be penalized? Gordon in Montreal and Ho“ M; Howe in Qt-

in 1h‘ ‘Yihiiii lihlihhi’ i0 ha" ha" doiib‘ tawa indicates that the Government has at long l_v I 1 i',\‘ 1‘<‘~'i»""ii 0i flihiiii)’ dmifiised last taken its courage in both hands (l€l€fllllll<_‘(l f1‘ iiihh hiiih i“ Fiiiii iii)?“ iiiii Pro‘ to march forivard in line with the Mother Coun-

viiice, i... . h_v the action of the_ “iartinie if)“ Priccs and '1 Fllilt} lioriiril in dealing with the sit- i it II 1 Klflliftn (“T i-il by ih€< traHspOYY-liioh hOiYiBYWC-k- Is Prime Minister Mackenzie King losing his

I i is ill.‘ v<-r_v life-blood of our nerve? 1p the Home ihe pihpr (hp, Mn Lémomhe, ~"_\'- iihii 1h!‘ iihwiiiiiieiii 3i Oi‘ the Anti-Plebiscite Liberal from Quebec, was de- i ‘vii It‘. h‘=ill“~*'iii‘--‘i i"! made i0 ieaiizc maiidirtg a specific reply from him regarding pruiiiriii Cfmllut be Side-irahiffli ioi’ iii‘ the proper representation of that Province in

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K-iuzziiznu of the war without disastrous refilliii- the Government when l\lr. King became provok-

,' ii ed and warned the Quebec member that if he didn't behave himself in the lliiuse and desist

i FUN)’ MflES p6!‘ HOUI‘ from daily disturbing the llouse proceedings

__. with fractious use of the ritlcs, means would "Mu: to the Highway Traffic Act have to be taken to see that he was more decor- -l in the Legislature, limiting ous. Hence his being named and removed from the silt" .1 llllliitl’ viiiivliss, during war time, to ihe “GU59 911 i-iiiicfliikv-

forty nhlr- pt r hour. This lvgislutitvti, based on iii * iii *

the ncul of saving gasoline and tircs, has been indorsed by the Llppositicm leader, and has al- ready passed the committee stage.

Other lH-oviucrs are giving consideration to the ifillllt tum-l re at the YCtillIJ-l of the [Jomiiiion (joveriiiiit-iit. .\lr. Liiinziut, Attorney General of Ontario, suggests that the Dominion, if it thinks the reduction in speed important, should establish the lower fiiJLIFE as n war measure undcr its o\vn broad iiuivr-rs. This iihviously would be the easiest and simplest ]it‘1J(‘l‘(ltll'€, and it would save the passing of nine bills by nine legislatures.

The means, however, comments the Ottawa- Journal, are not important. What is important is to get llltiLUT-V-‘lf spot-d cut down, because it is clear that illTN will l:i>t li-iigci‘ zit 40 milcs than at ihe pcsipipiipp should pp acpppipphp The rpcppp

5o’ that We “iii use iesi gawiine‘ Proliabiy it. is mendation deserves ver)’ serious consideration at true, however, that there would be less inclination Quebec n

to evade the rule if it were presented to the a iii a iii

piioiiie as a iiccesiii-v °i ‘var’ , . Cecil john Rhodes, British Colonial statesman, “hm "iiiiiiiii i“: “_i_i'_i‘_ "iimii i‘ iii“ w‘ ‘i0 died this date i902; with his brother Herbert longer lIiUEI plot-tilts iais p ‘in the piciviar $11“ made a fortune in Kimberley diainund fields; ofvtlie \\Uli(, int tiiat €’\Cl_\ motor veiicle is a founded the 13¢ Beer; Mining Co; formed plans unit in the country s transport system. The to make South Africa Briti‘h and to “pk it up ‘ 2 i r , ' _ _ ‘ _ _ Transit (nflllTiilCT, l\lr. \\ . j. Lynch, has point- “pp Egypt by rail; entered pphiips and piaycp ed nut that tlflllls {llltl buw- all over Canada are pp pilisipmiipg pa“ in pepicpiipp ihe parimis ivi-rlvniig prziciivzilli" at t‘ viciiivpzviiitl as tires wear poiupies and icm-iprips into one great 50pm hi" “lid l/iiiiif‘ “We ‘iii’ fiiiiii“iiiiil_“ii 35 ihe 835°‘ African Union “with equal rights for all civiliz- line ration afiects our driving habits, the demands ed mm regardless of colour-i; Opposed by the upon public transportation will increase. The Boers who believed in the Hitler idea of Supep 5"ii°‘i‘i" iiiiw-h ii“"‘ii“"*~ i‘ i“ make iiie Smck "i men and insisted the coloured races should be l""\‘-Hfi\-iu\iiiil lllllfttl‘ vehicles last a5 i0"?! ‘i5 their slaves; public-spirited, energetic, autocratic. l"_“"_i’i"- "iiji i-‘iii iii"-'iii* iiiiiiii! iiii‘; best 0i C?" Rhodes was a great empire builder, and for nearly ni IIFQS, llft°$ umi- out more quickly at high quarter of a century was the dominating person- rpct-rl. and lll€Vlllllllllptlléllltfi of reasonable speed, phi), pp the imperial side of Sppih African po_ mind of (‘Cnntiltllfill driving practices, is not nicrc- hiics; by his wiii he left his fpriiipp pf $30,006" ii is'""*i “ii-‘c iiiii "i l"'iii""iic iiiii-l" 000 to the public service, including r75 scholar- ._____.______________— ships for British Colonial and American stud- ents et Oxford., Vv/hat Of The Senate’? u a - a

~————— Emphasizing that victory for the United Na-

If ll‘|(‘llll)(‘l\ of the llotisc of Commons are tions cannot be achieved "until we have establish- QX]lt't”l(‘lH‘lil_£' "ii terrible .~!‘ll\(‘ uf frustration" bc- cd and used complete air supremacy over our ciiusc thry zirc ignored by the Government, what, enemies," the Air Commodore, Albert de Niver- asks the (iliibc and Mail, is to be said of the ville, commanding No. 3 Training Command, Senate? _ R. C. A~ F. spoke at some length recently on Th1‘ upper lluu~<~ H‘ supposed to he the great the set-tip of the Royal Canadian Air Force. review-lug buily (If the (iill-likllllll‘ Parliament. Its pointed to Canada's enviable record for the qual- jiib i,- iu givi- uinturi- cntisulrrzition to hasty and ity of her airmen in this war, paid tribute to the ill-digi-stt-il liiigislzitiiiu pa-"sctl by the lower House. navies of the United Nations, and explained some

The Montreal City Council ltave approved without debate an amendment to the Montreal Bill now being prepared for the Legislature to the effect that a curfew law bc fixed for child- rcn undcr 16. the class barred from moving pic- ture houses. This, says the Gazette, " Illa)’ appeal" drastic to some, but such a curfew would seem to be in the interest of the youngsters. The coun- cillors very wisely recommended that the hour should not be set earlier that 9 p. m. standard time. This would permi: the children to play out- doors in the long summer evenings until night actually descended. After that they should be at their doorsteps or inside. It is ivartimc and if a curfew can prevent nuicli juvenile zlcliuqucucy,

It Ctlflla‘ the l.l\iii'l_\'('l'S 5600.000 a y'car,. of the features of the Dominion Government's

The u-iirli iluuc by the Red Chamber during post-discharge rehabilitation organization. “l tbi fir-i right \\'l'l‘l\'\’ Hf the present scssioii could have no doubt that we will achieve superiority in b.- tifil in .-i liuiiih-i-il wiirils. The Senate made number of planes,” the speaker piedictcd- "We

< uric uiiiiur ciriugu- in 1hr!,|>i“i>i>¢ii<‘_l>ill. paid lri- in Canada have atlvaiiced furthi-r with the pro- butt-s fll llll‘ uuiiiiiiry of di-pnru-d Senators, and duction of aircraft than anyone ilinuglit possible, i'l])_|ll'ti\.'(‘|l lbltllt‘ iigrti-uiauts Wllll llll'(‘C Liitiii-Ain- while the tremendous pTOllltFliVv capacity of our

eriitan t‘»lllllll'l(<. neighbor and ally, the Unitcil States. is just gel-

li \li'lilllw' :i<l_iiiiirii<-.l fur works on cud i)('t'i'lllFC ling under way. Ni-vcr fear! ‘Xv will certainly ilii- tinvi iuuivul pivi-s it no work tn do. Yo! lhcri- achieve the utinu-riciil :iircr:ifi stipvritirity‘ so nc- itrc brilliant lllllltls iii llic upper lilouse which ccssaryi in niodcru warfare."

THE cnkiztoiijrsro_vii_iy_ ,_ GUARDIAN NOTES BY TIIE WAY .

Mtlbllll-IHOII iii the ievwle rs- SOLUOES of fill the Allies. hvwsver complete, Ls not enough tn itself To obtain in the shortest poeslble the overwhelming quantities m equipment of every kind which are needed. it 15 K160865817 to co- ordinate thcse resources, to allot w each oil the allied countries the kind of pPOCiUOIlOIT for which it ties the greatest Iififiiiil-ifiii i0 9°01 resulting supplies, end to allocate them to the from; where they can be used to the zreatest eiifiwt. —

A Thought A lee A People Amer “We must aaertnee voluntar- we have, and even offer our llvee to maintain our liberty." — Major-General L. R Associate Deputy atlonal War Ber-

Must the Senate remain unemployed until thi- dying days of the session? And i: the Prime Min- SUBSCRIPTIUN RATE! istcr justified in keeping thirteen or more seats

B: Mail In P'E'l'l $4110 u" year: $2.50 for e monllll vacant in the upper House until the eve of the next election to find a resting place for the faith- ‘up p" 3 mumps; ‘up m. “p. "ppm ful who have grown weary and old with service?

History repeats itself and It l! probably getting ready to do a re- peat, performance in Antherstbur: iegarding deliveries 1n the Echo 30 years ago it states that ttie merchants of Ainlierstburg are undertaking a co-cperative auto ceivery scheme It semis the merchants of that day decided that money could be saved if they only used one or two autos for deliveries from all the stores. while e number of _ _ stores in town make deliveries with licyclcs there are still a number of autos used for this purpzse and in order to save gasoline and tires

Colonel Blimp

short and simple annlll of colonel Bltuip are told tn a re- cent issue of The Listener. gallant colonel made his first ap- pearance in the London Evening Standard, April 21, 1934, tn a car- b L

A judge may have the last word on the bench

- - . T110 utttalllfl; iii-iiiiiiuiiiiiii new. Anni-y, 124a Peel us. but not Ill the lcgislattirc, hence the tinwisdoiti 0f

Under the cartoon were these introductory lines: Lr-ws friend Colonel Blimp said in bflilll Only yesterday, ‘Gad, sir, splcridii isolation ls the policy ‘for Ei-gland. ruse to trade with the dashed for- eigners lxi Ireland, wales and scot- land, and send the dashed Domin- ions about their business, the future will be 1n sight. "

Low, a New Zeiilander by blrt told the story o: the creation brie colonel tn a broad

"It was eight years lliil was breathing fire-as usual: Hitler. who was on the point of sivindling his way into power

By some fateful mischance we credited Lady Day" \\'lll'l being the birthday of Hiirus Of course. ‘f,'iii'i§ifi;“}iiiiipii w p,“ as cvurybtidy knows it was _l:uiu:ir_v 25th th;.t

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again have to adopt some kind of co-operaitlve delivery system with perhaps a couple of deliveries a day. - Aniherstburg E110.

No, General Douglas hIacArthur, hero of the Philippines and gerealissimo of the South lizist- ern Pacific in spite of his name, is not Scotch

An American Foreign Legion. not made up of motion-picture roman- tics trylnt; to "forget", but inc-lud- lng hard-headed, hard-listed refu- guess who remember only too well- such i; a project reportccl to be

2,000,000 citizens otlicr United Nations are new These from Poland. Czsctio slovakla, Greece, Yugo- slavia and the Neherlarids are here because they were driven out of their hcmelainds. Russians exiled by the Stalin Gcvericmezit are not unwilling to fight against Hitler.

R- fiiiiiv "slim i" Frbruarv- The Home Guard of the Light Horse bu. m “‘° “m”

to out-do other units in popularity and speed in obtaining its quota, all the more creditable as it will include both kids and granddaids. \\'ho darc cast a stone at the patriotism of Prince Edward

iinunced liLs intentions of re-open- lug the first World War where it left off tn 1918; and the Japanese tnllltarlsts were telling themselves,

rakl, in 1931. that they were the descendants of the gods and must ielgn over the world. As a. start they began to invade Manchurla. And what were we doing relate, we —or our statesmen representing the g majority of us, who hiuin’: felt the urgency of organizing when we had the golden chance- nmv. that the chance was lost seem- ct; equally slow toorganlze against The policy of keeping the lr world peaceful by united economic pressure and the policy of enforc- nlg peace by i. joint army and force representing all peace-loving nation; were being discussed; but they were thought too dangerous, We all remained pilacent. 'I‘liere was talk of a ‘restora- t-lon of confidence,’ but nobody ex- plained confidence tn what_ There was an invitation to all to pull to- gather, but nobody said who or what to pull, Bitter days.

"Well. I went and lied a Turkish bath. And u! I lat hot and both- ered in the steam room, listening to a couple of fat asses tn birthday suits telling one another that what Japan did was no bust- ness of Britain, I said to myself ‘Low, someone ought to draw some- tnini; about all this —a representa- tion of sheer blttherlng b stupidity.‘ So I tnve Bllmp, a cartoon figure of such a fat ms as I speak of, naked in his foolishness, uttering day by day the opinions and arguments of pompous stupidity. I made him a colonel, because 1n the newspapers that morning some colonel or other had wrltitcn to protest against the mechanization of cavalry and tn- sisted that even if cavalry were put on motor bicycles they must con- t-lnue wearing spurs. 'I‘liat was years

i “iiii°~ ‘iiiiiiiig the same monih A subscriber stiggcsts Senator MacArthur in- lax _\'C.'ll' ibrre iviiri~ grin’. A (loci-cafe of 456 car- Vite ihp “hole Cabinet as his gugsts at the 1' Hui» 0i ifvY-‘iii l" ii fiiiiilie "ioiiiii, i5 '- ‘iery Sen" Easter adjournment, and give them a taste of the ous blow to our potato and turnip growers and ‘irapid transit» which he and others have to eh-

, _ and Chinese are of oourse, not ref- lhiPPers. dure from here to Ottawa. It might PT°\"~‘~

ugces in this sense, but many of them would be glad to serve under the American fiag. Three hundred

aliens" frmn Germany, 402,000 from

many stalwart men who have prov- ed at great. perscnal hatred o! Hltlerism.

the Dian may be carried out. '1he soldiers who might be enlistcdtn the proposed corps would be foreign

shadow a broader citizenship than that determined by place of birth —a citizenship in a world-wide union oif free peoples, not replac- ing national loyalties but harmon- izing tlicm. We are all omrades We may well remain s0 when the war is ended. -New

The aweet tooth of the British population as a whole gets little l1 any indulgence. Not. only 1s the sugar ration sma-ll, but there iimitiatlcn as well on the amount which a person can purchase of Jam, jelly, marmalade or other sweet spreads. Dried also strictly rationed and L-i 1am-

severzil t-lmes a w:ek 1t 1s a sign that the housewives have cleverly

weeks supply of swrets The basic sugar ration in Britain ls a half

und per person a week. The al- owance to a, perssn of jam, mar- malade. minixmeeit, syrup, etc one pound a month. Honey ls not rationed but it might as well be, for it ts hard to procure. Fruits in syrup are out (if genera] circula- tion, fwd cakes aze a rarity and the supplies are low of junket pow- canned puddings. packaged desserts and the like. The ingenu- ity oif housewives has been lcnged and brought well into play. bliuitciiis aim ci-sgm at. w prQQlAvd snneiiirni; iike tne familys favorite desserts wiin tiie aio o1 the {QUOHLO svieet-

"Blimp, as they say, caught on. As some of these things do when they seem to fill a long felt public want, he ra-ther got away from mo. People started to quote his fatuous views. M. PI; called Cabinet Mln- isters Blimps in the House of Com- mons and the Cabinet Ministers tn- dlgnantly dented Editors, seizing on name as the symbol of mlscalcula-

articles saying Colo be tolerated no Ion spread abroad. I read about him 1n newspapers from the Peru and India. He dictionary, where you wni that to soy a man is s, Blim say he ls a dull-minded b

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qutiiroci" oi the laiitly cuniriuuves to iiie sugar peoi 1L1‘ making pur- Rnuiibarb. however, is more diiiucuit probietn. this also there are cmking, tricks. some stalks iii boning wa.er lzeicre cook- iiig. some ado a liitie Sllliilll tne coeiuig wauer, 5.nie use raisins to sweeten tne water. SfleCrlkililn: was iosoricd to a good deal but supplies are low now. — Tcxonm Star.

861‘, etc.. etc. He

ve dust and light stains

_____ s. I heardi recently n story of brush cammiiy Wii liqle; as soon as ccnvenfent a

the city last your, Wh-Ch aiinougn d wrap in ps5” Pepe a box. i '

belated is wcrili reccrmng. hero was on lire-watching duty at his office. Several waves of bom- bers had dropped their bombs mid several fires were ablaze. Sudden- ly there was o, flash of incendiary

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—__ Trout are sport localities, but. ln Al considered it pest because

root or ttic building opposite, and wov salmon ens i . I

soon m€,\\'l‘l0l€ of t was on fire. Regardless of b-cmbs he went over to ace help. No sooner had he reached the other side than a woman, with tears streaming down her liailsrl him and, pointing to t-lie

lprifl of hts warehouse eat. 3g. R iE.P.C.A. had th a donation ot FOWn when a cat but qutc an 0rd].

the other day for there are requests

Perhaps half ii c

Hes. in therel” l-le dashed forward through the entrance, over the door as he went. Bllnde by smoke, and choked by heat, he struggled to the When he had searched the last rccm, all the time risking Ci his life he decided that. he could stay no longer, as