lAGE FOUR "IE CIIABLUTTETUWN GUARDIAN

k " Morning Daily (Founded in IBITI

, President: Lieut. Col W. Cheater B. Mebnro

( vlCe-Pfhlllollll J. B. Bnruell- l-u- Secretary: ileut. Cot D. A. nuelunnon. DJ-O.

Editor and Managing Director: J. B. Burnett, IJL

Aseuciate Editors; Frank Walker nnd Inn A. Burnett

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,"The St/angest Memory is Weaker than tlo Weakest Ink."

WEDNESDAY. AUGUST l3. 1941.

Conservative Reorganization

A brochure has been issued containing the

first official i:tlv1"iii:itiuii relating l0 the Con" llicllCdllllflli of prt-purutiotis for the summoning of u lh-uiiiiuur C.i|l<t‘l‘\'£lll\'8 Convention in I942 {or the Jitiililll of a pcrtiianciit leader of the

Douiiiiiwi tf<iii~ci'\'titi\'e l-'zirt_\'.

'l'lic- first >l<'1t\'. it is announced, will be taken at the gisntrzii mot-ring of the executive of the Dciniiitioii tltiisciwzitivc Association t0 be held in L)l1."i\\.'l \lll-lll\' before or after the reassembl- iiig oi lhiriiltiiittiii in November. To this meet- gm 4,, in»; 15o rrgulzirly accredited executive IllLlllllCYS will ‘be culled

'l'i'iluitt~< to two great Canadians, Sir John A-

rlillfllllliilbl ziud Yiscottnt Bennett, and an ef- fective iii1:'r»ilt'ctvii'_\' statement by Conservative Ilousc l.t“!tl<-r. lion. R. B. Hanson, are featur- es of the brochure, uhich is being sent to the ascvcrzil thousand members of the Dominion Cotiscrvntiie Association all across Canada. It contains nu interesting treatise on the growth and derclirpiiicrit of the practice of calling Con- servzttivc (‘mivciitiruis to select candidates for Pzirlirimciit rtncl permanent leaders for the Con- servative l":irt_v in both Provincial and Federal 1*,q,-15¢,,n<~nr=_ Conservative Convention techni- quQ liq: l\t‘f'n democratically established 0n the lifltflll llfl\i§ of the rank and file of the Party ,\_<_-oci:tti.»i~.s in the ridings and Provinces.

The Ply-spilt progn-imtue to rebuild the Con- 5Cl'\'.'lll\'(' l'n,rt_v organization has been making 5.11m progress siurc its inception in October 11140. Much ground \\"0rk has been done. In the interim, llittl=€€ Ixnrler Iizinson and Associa- {inn President John R. 'i\l;icNicol, M. P., have visited til‘. the Provinces, and at present Gor- don t;;-;r_v.l..ri_ .\l. l‘., National Chairman of the (‘rmarrv:itivc lhirty for Canada. is on 'a tour which will take him right across Canada. He is now in the west.

An initial brochure, sent out last fall, outlined the historv of the Conservative Party. The cur- rent brochure contains several other interesting fcnturcs, one of which, under the caption of the “Conservative Party in Opposition", includes brief pertinent extracts, dealing with specific subjects, from spccchcs of members of the 0f- ficinl Opprisitioii. Ilricf as the extracts are, they clczirlv iudiclite the potent influence 0f 31¢ Ctmscrvative Party on the conduct of the war. Another feature is the messages from the Pro- vincial Conservative Presidents which ifidlwls‘ the lllill)‘ in the Conservative ranks all across Czinzulzi.

The tncmbcrship campaign which is being conducted in connection with the Conservative Ihtrtv reorganization seems to have aroused the ire (if m,» lncrtl contemporary. It suggests that there is som-stliiiig tiupzitriotic about such a cam- pziigti \\ll('ll the l-imlvire is at war. All that need be noted about this argument is that it Comss from m. nrfgltli Supporting a government which i5 sprniliiiq millions of the taxpayers’ money in keeping up its lliillllCill fcticcs, and which stub- bornly insists on conducting our national war effort along rigid party linei-

Ruling The Waves

The Lord Privy Seal, Clement R. Attlee, has lct it be known that July was a “good month" from the point of view of Allied shipping losses. Llorcovcr, it was a particularly good month in respect of the damage inflicted on enemy vessels, 29i,ooo tons having been crippled off the Brit- ish northeast and Atlantic coasts alone, with an additional 168,000 tons in the Mediterranean- This is more than equal to British and neutral losses in all quarters of the globe. It is true that the Germans claim their submarines ac- counted for ii6_o0 tons of shipping in l single convov at the end of the month, with the infer- ence flint the loss was not included in the Brit- ish Government's figures. But. Ur. Attlee has disposed of this mcndrtcity, ivitli the remark that it represented “an exaggeration of almere 350 per cent, and prolmlilv 700 per cent.’ The Nazi claim to have sunk a (iestroyer and a corvette, outwittinr; the protecting “Q" boats, was an-

E DI IURIAL NUI ES

The Horses—yes, they are P. E. I'| Number Ones today. a n- a After three years it may be Lord Hepburn of St. Thomas, (Ont.) m u w Perhaps the visit of a policeman on foot to the vicinity of where the street roller is in oper- ation would obviate a lot of trouble. a u w a Printing invented this date i437. That was by L. J. Costcr at Haarlem; but before that print- ing was practised in China about the 12th 0r 13th century, while books were printed in Korea by means of movable types of clay or wood in the early 13th century. 4r w m The first week of next month is going to be unusually attractive. Monday, Sept. ist will be Labour Day, Tuesday 2nd His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent will arrive by air on inspection duty. The following day His Royal Highness takes his departure. a n- » u Creamery butter prices at Montreal, as quot:- cd daily by the Canadian Commodity Exchange for the first grade product, averaged 35 3-8 cents a pound, compared with 22 5-8 cents in July i940. Ontario white cheese at Montreal based on daily quotations averaged t6 cents in July coni- pared with I4 cents in July, i940. n- i- i:

Creamery Butter Production in July decreased approximately one per cent as compared with the July make of I940 and decreased 3 p. c. as compared with the output for the preceding month. During the month of July 39.3 million pounds of butter were produced and during the seven months ending July, the output reached a total of 166 million. The decrease in the July make occurred only in Quebec, Ontario and Brit- ish Columbia. w it v

Cheese production increased approximately one half of one p. c. in July as compared with July. 1940, and decreased two p. c. as compared with the output for the preceding month. The July make was approximately 25.2 million pounds and the total for the seven months, January to July, amounted to 74.9 milloiri. The increase in the July make occurred only in Prince Edward

Island, Quebec and Alberta. u- m x n-

At last the marking of the channel of the Wood Islands-Cariboo Ferry has been under taken by the Government, \\‘l'|l(‘l"i should have seen to it at the outset. It has been like drawing teeth to get anything done for this Car Ferry by the Government. It has been much more ready to benefit from commandeeritig the North- umberlzind Ferries property and equipment than in providing the necessaries for the service. It has been through the indomitable perseverance and pressure of President Mutcli that anything has been accomplished at all. 1k =1 4r n:

Evaporated whole milk increased approximately i7 p. c. as compared with the same month last year and there was also an increase of I0 p. c. as compared with the preceding month- During the month of June 2I~9 million pounds of evaporated whole milk were produced, and during the six months endmg June the output reached a total of 86.7 million pounds. During the month of June 3.8 million pounds of skim milk powder were produced, while during the six months ending June the output reached ii total of 14.1 million pounds. There was an in- crease of approximately 5 p. c. as compared with the same month last year, and an increase of f3 p. c. as compared with tile p:ecedmg month-

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A Western philosopher wrote the following lines, and inversely, they might equally be our own conditions:

He sold his grain, then ivatched the market soar;

And listened to his neighbors talk of drought

Upon the steps of Benson's country store,

While winds foretold the dust-storms south,

to the

He drove his stock to water twicc a day, Until the Little Caney Creek ran dry;

And then he hauled it from up Greenville way. And said he guessed that somehow he'd get by.

“The Lord helps those who help themselves." His eyes

Were narrowed to keep out the parching sun;

And while all others grumbled of clear skies,

He said he reckoned that the rains would come

In time to plant crops for another year,

And that he aimed to Winter cattle through; “A drought,” said he, “is nothing much to fear, Just nature showing us a trick or t\v0l"

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"Rice is the staple food of the Japanese and wheat is not grown by the farmer in Japan for food in its original form, but to make money for payments for fertilizers,” writes Mr. M. T. Stewart, Acting Commercial Secretary at Tokyo, in the Commercial Intelligence Journal. “These payments are made once a year. Farm rent has to be paid for the cultivation of rice, but this is not the case in the tillage of wheat. There- fore the whole wheat crop belongs to the farm-

TH E CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

NOTES BY TIIE WAY

With no further opportunity to

does any one g) about. these days Victoria Dally Times.

Hitler proves that a mun really

W so to Moscow. - Toronto Star. 9'1""! 1940 Brltllh housewives saved enough scrap metal 113m

of 16,000

Piper to fill 100.000 heavy lorries. In all, their efforts have saved the equivalent of 100 ships’ cargoes frzm abroad - ships which have been diverted fiisbead of carrying other vital supplies. - Sault. star.

"epileptic collapse", but might. be nothing new, and"

the news. The measure of this dreds of millions of people would rejoice over hLs death. Journal.

Wrillng to a school friend now in Canada. a. 12-year-old English boy conciuded his let-fer as follows: “Mfsl. people think we shall win the war, because Gennany is a. Fat-herland and England l; a Math. erland. when mother and‘ father

ville Recorder and Times.

For three years the American and British Governments have fol- lcvved s. policy of flpipeaSemerlt, ln the Far East. They have refrained deliberately from applying severe economic Pfessure, lest they drive Japan info still more aggressive ac- tion. Japanls decision to take the initiative has new brushed aside the last". reason for withholding effective sanctions. The Western democracies have no alternative but to bring their full economic power to bear in order to deal a deadly blow to the whole system of trade and fl- nance and industry that, supports the Japanese war machinee. - New York Times.

Compasses went wild and trans Atlantic radio reception was im- possible fcr hours during the inst week-end, and all because spots appeared on the sun, 93,000,000 miles away. No doubt mariners must. have noted the occasional strange behavior of their compass needles long before Galileo discovered spots on the sun; but. it was not until

the telegraph, the transAtlantic cable and radio were introduced that. sunspct-s began to interfere

with the lives cf business men. The reason fcr the interference became clear enough when it was discovered that stinspoti are vast. electrical tornados and that. thzy bombard the eartli with electrons. Sensitive measuring instruments quiver in a hundred magnetic observatories whenever these solar storms rage. Terrestrial magnetism also varies and thus testifies to the fact that the earth and sun are linked not only by gravitation but. by electric- ity. Sunspots invariably make news in t-hese days of radio. They also revive belief that the sun contrcls human destiny. A recent study made at. Harvard leaves no doubt that. despite the advance of science a goodly number of supposedly en- lightened Americans are convinced that. the prsitions of the planets are not to be ignored when the house is to be painted, vacations planned or Susie and B111 are sent to school. Even some scientists are not quite immune to this kind of fatalsm. Their attempts to correlate sun- spots with events on this carth have an air of specious object vity, Cor- rela-ted statistics have their place in accounting for the present and predicting the future. But when the honest statistician Ls asked to Jug- gle a. hundred variables, which in- clude the rising tide of insanity, a shortage of aluminum and health of acme dictator, he simply throws u-p his hands and decides that beyond affecting the earth's magnetism, creating more magnificent. auroral displays and affecting electrical communication surispots can

ignored. - New Yzrk Times.

An effort wiii be made in Sep- tember through an exhibition of farm animals, farm products and handicrafts to remind New Yorkers tliiit they, too, originally had kin- ship with the earth. Most. of these who will attend the show begzn- ning in Madison Square Garden on Sept. 10 are separated" by choice or circumstance from anything more fertile than stone and steel. Yet. often unsuspected, there lurks in most. human bengs nncestral yearning for an earlier way of life. It. often ccmes to the surface after mfliiy years spent. away from words and green fields and is made mani- fesl m purchase of arable acres long abandoned to the inroads of weeds and taxes, Many New York- ers know less of farm animals than cf beasts ln the Zoo. At the coming County Fair, however, which will be the first in Manhattan in forty- four years, they will be able to view livestock and sultry on the hoof and to examine examples of the skill of the farmer's w.fe in cookery, preserving llld‘ household adornment such as rug, curtains, bsdxpreads and embroidery. ‘The back-to-the-farm shzw will be managed by the Amerciiri Institute y o! the City of New York, which W83 l

chartered by the legislature 1n 1829 and which for tnii-ty years held country fairs annually. As ma-

ichlnery displaced draught. animals.

on the farm and as mzre and mzre hand labor came to be done by power those familiar with earlier ways oi agrfculturists and their families became fewer. There will be plenty on view at. the Garden. however, to interest the visitor whether or mt be ever roe at. dawn on a ccid morning to begin

Hitler, it is said, h” had 1n-

win $250,000 on an Irish sweep, how ,

V For Victory

(Halifax Chronicle) A writer in The New Yorker n- cently pointed out that. while V

stands for Victory 1n Grout Britain , locating the long-lost. relative? - and the conquered nations of Eur-

lope, on this side of the Atlantic

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the careless use of the symbol should frequently he replaced by

needs a wife to make up his mind P 7°!‘ Resumption. He was distress- ‘fg iiiggké/apéllztlnxgtmgzlf first of | ed by thoughtless people who made vacaflon in Longgn. N“; h:iifll’1;hn3,8 great show of the letter V.

thereby fancylng that they had contributed something to the war effort. ,

If that is true in the United

their dust bins to build an armada 3ml°s~ 11°" much W)" "119 l8 l! tanks, enough kllctien , in Canada. The V symbol definitely ‘$0110 to maintain an army of Pix-s , has a place in Canada where mos:

ma“? llwu-‘iflnd-i strolls. enough of us are striving heart and soul for

Victory. It. is well that the V should be a common and lngplflflg gygp. bol. But those who make a great show of the V. while doing nothing else to assist the war effort, are guilty of tire worst possible taste. Even in Great Britain, cartoonist

eve“ "ha: David Low has been moved to pro- shouldn‘: sing ln the streets over, ssntlgtlnwse wh° WW1‘! "W" 31¢ V mans evil is the fact that hun- l understands levify better- thgn Mr,

with undue ievity. None

I-BW- He 15 by all odds the clever-

— mtflws est and wttlest cartoonist in the

world. But there is a. place for

j levfty and there are times when at-

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tempted ievlty ls mere bad mt, T7191‘! flklin. is a leson for Cann- dlans. There are nlways people pre- pared to cheapen everything. We have them among us. using the V

fight, mother always wlns".—-Brock- s-Vmbm l" w”! whlch "We m

clreapen it.

Let u; keep V for Victory to the forefront. but let m not be guilty of V for vulgarity or p fol- p”- svmption.

Finally let us heed a verse which appeared this week in the Commer- cial Club Bzflletln:

V is for Victory,

Not for valnglory;

V means the end

Of a world-shaking story: V is for Victory-

Let us be wise

And not debase V

To sell merchandise.

I Wodehouse Non- Bellizerent

(Elmer Davis in the Saturday as-

view of Uterature.)

Mr. Wodehouse gave an interview to the United Press, which quoted him B5 “W118 that "I have never been able to work up a belligerent feeling!’ In th‘S. he follows plenti- ful Precedent. Twenty-two years ago the Nazis were onlya small and obscure group in Bavaria; they be- came the masters, successively, of Genriany and of Europe becausg H" 511011811 people were able to Work up a beliiserent; feeling in time: they may go farther still, thanks to the amiable if chuckle- headed persons who don't see why anybody (except the Nazis, of course) should work up a belllger- em feeling. Doubtles it would have been unwise for Wodehouse r0 pro- fess too much belllgerency, and he may have been merely flflsweflng 5 "Porter's question: but there Is no law against a mank keeping his mouth shut. Yet he went on to say: "Just as I am about to feel belli- Serent about some country, 1 meet some nice fellow from it, grid 115g all my beilfgerency."

If the Nazis have any gratitude, that remark is worth room and board at the Adlon for life. What: nice fellows they are, after e11! What e happy world this would be if BVeYYbOdY else would only stop feeling belligerent. and exhausting H‘t.ler's patience, and plotting as- Bressbn against peaceful Germany! And if Wodehouse didn't. know that; was the implication of his remarks (an implication that would have

been obvious even to Bertie wooe- ,

fer) the men who let mm out of the internment camp knew it. Meanwhile, he ha; put, hi; fellow. wllhtfymen to shame; for it must. be confessed that there are men. and women, in England who reel belkgerent. Men and women who have seen their children trapped in their blazing homes, thanks to the 59ml” dPODDBd by these nfoe fel- lows; who have spent. days or weeks at sea in open iifeboata. with the people who dfe of exposure toa- sed overboard to the sharks; who think that the old Englnnd held certain values besides the life typl. fied by Blending: Castle, and kngw that. those values would not gun/lye defeat. But maybe they would All chrmze then" 1111116: if they met such nice Germans u the” wtgq accidentally mppen to encounter l world-renowned novelist.

In other countries, too, their; an

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FARMERS AND WAR SAVINGQ

Bin-I am led to believe that. in the very near future the Federal Government, in order to tap every source of revenue for the affective prosecution of the war, will nir-ke an effort to have the milk and cream patrons of Canada interest- ed in war saving certificates. I! and when this scheme is adopted, I have n0 hesitation tn urging the farmers to do what. they can to assist. It would be well to make arrangements with your factory to take from your cheque each month from 81.00 upwards b0 be invested in war saving certificates. You do not. give this money away, you Just loan it to the Govern- ment and at the end of seven years you will receive flve dollars for each $4.00 paid in. In this way you will be creating a fund for future use. You can cash these certificates in any bank with accrued interest after you have had them six months

I understand that some of our churches carrying considerable in- debtedness are undertaking t0 nave the members of their con- gregation buy war saving certiff. cafes providing that they be made payable to the church. This does seem to me to be a commendable undertaking because, if we lose this war, what will become of re- iiglon, morality and liberty? They will be ruthlessly tramrpled in the dust. as has been done in other countries.

The Prime Minister of Britain replying to the President of U. B. A. said "Give us the tools and we will finish the job." The moi we must. supply at. the present time is money, an our boys at. the front; in whom we have such pride are asking for the tools in order that the Job may be finished.