E69! TIIE ~ IIIIARLOTTETIWIII GUARDIAN

Mornlnl Dally (Founded in 1881)

fiesldent: Lient. CoiJW. Chester S. MeLure ~ Vlee-ifiesident: J. R. Burnett, F. J. l. Secretary: Lleut. Col. D. A. Maolllnnon, D.S.0. ldltor and Managing Director: J. It. Burnett. F-J-l. llloelate Editors: Frank Walker and Lieut. lan A. Burnett, R.C.N.V.R. |0n Active Service]

‘The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink."

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Our Transportation Bottleneck

Transport Minister Michauds recent an- nouncement that a committee of engineers had been set to work to survey the prospects for a tunnel or causeway between this Province and the mainland, though not news to Prince Edward Islanders, has caused considerable com- ment in the mainland press. The survey, of course, is only in its preliminaqv stages and much water will pass through Xortlnnnber- land Strait before anything concrete ntatcrial- izes. In the meantime, it is significant that the press comments ltave all been favorable to Prince Edward Island getting everything pos- lIble ii be way of transportation itnprove- Dents.

The Alone/on Truu.rl'ri[~l, for example, wel- comes Mr. Ivlichaucls announcement because it refutes “the belief entertained in some qttarters that, after roviding a fnur-tnillion dollar car ferry, the Igedcral (Ioverutnent would be in- clined to look askzmce at further and tnuch larg- er expenditures to provide better communica- tion."

“That," adds the Transcript, “should not be the case. The new car-ferry is an immediate necessity. Traffic \\'!ll not wait for a tunnel and the present inadequate ferry service ntigltt fail at any time. It was imperative that another ferry should be rushed to completion to meet present needs. The best of ferries cannot be regarded as a final solution of the problem. No ferry can ensure the adequate, dependable and continuous service promised in the Confedera- tion agreement. A tunnel, or perhaps a cattse- way, is the only final and satisfactory solu- tion."

The trouble with our Liberal friends. of course, is that they only make discoveries of this kind on or about the eve of z Federal elec- tion campaign. Let us by all means get that survey completed which Mr. Michaud talks about; but of far more pressing importance to the people of this Province is the need for speeding up work on the new car ferry. The lbsolutely inexcusable delay of two years in commencing work on our new icebreaker, and the worry, inconvenience and expense to which our people have been subjected as a result, ltave not yet been forgotten.

Speaking of Fertilizer

Premier Jones quotes his soil analyst as being Y's little alarmed by the greatly increased use of fertilizers rather than manure" in this Province. This is an opinion frequently expres- sed, but it does not apparently coincide with the view of Senator _l. l-i. Sinclair. Speaking in Parliament the other day on the Agricultural Prices Support bill, Senator Sinclair remark- ed that during the period of adjustment frotu war to peace farmers in Eastern Canada will have to continue to increase rather than dim- inish their use of fertilizers. He added: “The greater the crop and the higher its standard die cheaper will be the unit cost of produc- tion. This is possible only by the generous use of modern commercial fertilizers. on the other hand, farmers who follow the old tnetltod of fertilizing get a smaller crop at a higher out of production."

The fly in the ointment is the exorbitant lost of fertilizer in Eastern Canada, which des- pite Federal controls is 25 per cent above the price prevailing before the war. Senator Sin- elair also called attention to a further disad- vantage which the farmers of Prince Edward Island have to contend with. Our soil is defici- ent in lime, and with the use of commercial fertilizers it is ltecessary toyneutralize acidity by treating the land with a liberal supply of crush- ed limestone. Since 1939 we have had to pay high freight rates on lime brought from the oth- er Maritime Provinces and until the Prov- ince granted a subsidy to offset the cost of transportation this tnaterial was not available to the small farmer. This grant is just begin- ning to stimulate the traffic, and during the crop season in the years ahead railway facil- ities will be taxed to the litnit to supply the lime required for the farmers of Prince Edward Island.

The Senator ntade no reference to the ar- rangements made by the Jones Government to subsidize the operators of a limestone quarry in Quebec. Perhaps he was sceptical of the value to the Island of this project, or perhaps he for- got all about it. In any case, his point is well ta- ken with regard to the increased transporta- tion rcquirentents of our farmers with regard both to fertilizer and lime. lle tnight have added that our whole agricultural problem in this prov- ince hinges on transportation, and that our in- terests have been woefully neglected in this re- gard by the King Government.

Duplessis’

Opportunity

"Called to administer Quebec's affairs in I. most difficult moment in her history, Mr. Duplessis has a great opportunity before him (says Montreal Gazette). The country will watch his course with anxious interest rarely ac- corded a Quebec politician. I-le has based his catnpaigtt on his championship of the province's autonotny. It remains to be seen if he can dis- tinguish between the proper preservation of provincial rights and a return lo narrow tmt- ionalistu. 'l‘lte rnttntry will soon detect the dir- ection of the cottrse he has charted. To Maurice Duplessis comes the opportunity of being one of the greatest prcttticrs Quebec ltas had, or one of the worst. As for the Bloc Populaire

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Canadian, which was never Canadian, it is now apparent that it is not popular either. The peo- ple of Quebec have rejected it with a finality that should put an end to its existence as a political power. If this ultra-national, sep- aratist and subversive party cannot capitalize on the unsettled conditions that the war has created, if it cannot seize advantage of the fears and doubts that have conte in its train, it must collapse and disappear. The French Canadian

the country will note this fact with satisfaction and relief. The violence of the Bloc was too much for Quebec to swallow. It has had its day. It has made its appeal to bitter prejudice and narrow nationalism. It has been scorned and crttshed in an unprecedented manifestation of the people's will. May it never rise again."

EDI IURIAL NUIIIS .-

The week of weeks. C ll I U Not many vacant beds in the city and dis- trict these days. e m v e _ The transportation facilities at both Tormen- tine and Caribou will not be equal to the traf- fic this week. Il I I i Thanksgiving Day will be observed this year rm October 9. Tltattksgivittg Dzty is one of the six statutory holidays which the government has recommended be generallv observed. The (late is set each year by proclamation. 19K it It Ill

Carrying 17,000 tnothers and small children, 22 special trains left London Saturday for areas in the north and west out of the ratige of fly- ing bombs. None of the mothers knew until the trains left the stations to which part of the country they were going but their depart- ure was in striking contrast to that of outgoing vacationists who waited in long queues for standing room on very crowded regular trains. liach of the evacuees had a seat on the "spec- ial."

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Field Marshal Sir Colin Campbell, Baron Clyde, P-ritish soldier and administrator, died this date 18C33; was Commander-in-Chief dur- ing the Indian Mutiny, when he cleared Bengal of its insurrectionists, relieved Lucknow, paci- fied Northern India, organized a successful cam- paign in the central districts, and laid the solid foundation for the development of India along the lines of Christian civilization; for his serv- ices, on retirement, he was raised to the peerage and received a pension.

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Recruited from all walks of life, Canada's “Bakers in Battledress" are doing a good job. Among them you'll find Master Bakers from some of the largest baking concerns in the D0- minion. And working alongside, Master Bak- ers who joined up as green apprentices and won their laurels solelyas a result of the Army's excellent training. But whether Master Baker, First or Second Class Baker or humblest helper, all have at least two things in common. Each man is jealously proud of his own baking sec- tiotl, and each man is, first of all-a soldier. All have had basic training and if the need arose could grab rifle, llren or Tommy gun and use it with professional skill. “In making the Canadian soldier the best led, the most intelli- gently fed and the most intelligent in his eating ltabits," says Lt.-Col. Ralph Webb, Assistant Quartermaster General (Catering 8: Messing), "no group of tuen has contributed more, or ‘had a tougher job, than the unsung ‘Joes’ of the Army bakeries."

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An Associated Press correspondent antici- pated the Japanese upset more than a month ago as this bulletin, dated June t2, indicates. “Once German influence was so strong in Tokyo that Gestapo agents sat in the Home Min- istry. Arrogant Nazi officials expected to turn the islands into another Italy Their business- men anticipated brisk trade. The Japancse deep- ly resented both their aims and their manner. When I left Asia. in late 1943 as a repatriate, Nazi political influence seemed negligible. Tokyo's political organizations were being purg- ed of littropeatt Fascism. The average Japanese believed the European and Pacific wars were separate; it, more important, was being con- ducted by Japan without outside help. Now, Japanese pressure upon German businessmen shows the final step in the attempt to regain ‘self-stifficiency" for the future solo war, Here- after the Nazis will share fewer Japanese con- fidences. Their role in Tokyo's affairs will de- crease in proportion to Allied successes. For the moment, collaboration will continue on the surface, in its present limited aspects, and Jap- anese propagandists will continue their pro- Nazi boasting. But, well before the final cap- itulation, the Japanese will be ready to fled the Nazis like s. threadbare coat."

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A war commentator regales us with such highly enlightening and instructive interroga- tions and exclamations as follows: "Who would have believed, a short time back, that there could he any such breach as these words plain- ly suggest in the morale of the German army? (Jr that any such frantic appeals to be ‘loyal’ as those made by commander after commander in the last ten days would ever be needful? - - - About the details of what has been going on during the last ten days in Germany we have little means of verifying rumor. Have two div- isions in East Prussia revolted? Has there been a mutiny on German warships? We do well to

c0n1e from the notoriously uncertain source cal- led ‘A Swedish traveller just back in Stockholm by plane from Berlin.’ - - - Everywhere s rec- ord of catastrophe! In what mood must German listeners now hear Goering or Goebbels at the microphone, telling them that all is well? Or Hitler telling them that a project of killing him and undoing the Nazi order was that of just I few retired officers—-in the intervals, doubt- less, between beer and cribbage? Also that, al- though so insignificant, it will require a blood bath organized by the Chit-f of the (ieslapo to remove the risk!" \\'h_v not "cut the cackle and come down to the bases."

people have given it its quietus, and the rest of 1

keep judgment in suspense over such stories as n; n,

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West today as it 1t were all gone, washed up. and that there was no more pioneering to do. It's true the easily accessible parts of Western Canada have been settled, much n! it 1n very sparse manner, there's still a last Great

know. We refer to Canada's great northland, the hinterland north of the Prairies and stretching away to the Arctlcr-Lethbrldge Herald.

A New York newspaper pllhllsh- er. now a brlgadler-general, came home for an unexpected leave, says Bennett Cerf in The Satur- day Review of Literature. A re- ception in his honor was whipped up, but there was no time to hire extra servants. and the offer of his ten-year-old daughter to help serve cocktails was gratefully ac- CBPted. She Was doing fine, too, until her horrified mother heard her go up to an adlnlralls spouse and say sweetly, "Won't you let. me get you your eighth martini?"

Reports keep coming out of the Orient that Hitler will hlghtall it to Tokyo when things get too hot in Nazlland. There was an un- usually weird twist to the latest rumour, incidentally, having to do with a. supposed eargerness upon the part of the Japanese high com- mand to have Der Feuhrers ad- vice 1n future military plannlngs. Considering the mess that. Adolf’: boasted intuition made of the Nazis‘ Russian adventure. lt might serve United Nations purposes het- ter to have him on the Jap staff than at the end of a rope-Les. Angeles Times.

Beards, once a popular fad with Canada's sailors, are growing searcer. A recent memorandum in this Command asked seagolng captains to discourage the wearing of beards The order stemmed from a post-mortem on the sink- ing of H.M.C.S. Valleyfleld, which disclosed that at least two of the victims might have had a. better chance of survival had they not been wearing beards. and salt water mixed ln with their whiskers choked them. consideration ha; been that the enemy might resort to gas. and the Navy points out that itls difficult enough to breathe In a respira- tor Without the stifling effects of a beard.-R.C.N. Crow's Nest.

In the latest of a series of or- ders aimed at securing protection for thousands of young men who have fled from home in order to avoid Nazi conscription, the Nor- wegian Home Front leadership ‘thlswqek served up an ultimatum to NS-sherlffs. These oftlcials, irbo are vested with police powers and who receive their posi- tions through appointment, were bluntly told that they must not assist in the apprehension of the refugees. “Sheriffs who violate this parole," declared the Home F's-out. leadership, "must be pre- ared to meet the same fate as hat of ‘Police Inspector’ ' and ‘Sheriff’ Horgen." Llndvlg was recently shot to death by 11n- known assailants; Horgen and his wife were killed when a bomb exploded in their home.) - News of Norway.

A reward has been offered for the return of a watch in a. metal case inscribed "Wm. I".Ci{.. .1‘, ILMB. Bounty, Cap. Bligh." One h°l>es that it may be recovered, for Pockover has his little niche in history. It true that he did not rise high in his profession. but his record in the number of the elrcumnavlgations of the eigh- teenth century in which he partl- clpated was surpassed by very few. On Captain Cook's first voyage i was A.B. ln the Endeavour, h home being shown in the mustexp roll as moth, Northants. On t e second voyage he was gunners mate in the Resolution, and on Ute third gunner in the Discovery. t Wfls as gunner, too, that he sailed in the Bounty with Bllghfand, As befltted an old sailor. remain d true to hls captain when the in - tiny broke out. and was one of two

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open boat's crew which made he astonishing journey from Tofoa t Tlmor. —- sir Maurice Holmes London Times.

I had a very courteous oppon last. week at the game of golf. H sliced. as the very elect may do, long drive into the rough and all ter a 1on2 search found the oal

law of the game did not allow Inm to remove 1t by hand without losing strokes and his humanitar- ian feelings dlrl not allow hlm to play it. so he insisted on surrend- erlne the hole. Lark's nests on “t"t course are numerous. 'I‘wo wll- low Warblers nested-on the ground of course, close to two teem; pounds. The juniper bushes are well sprinkled with llnnets’ nests. and an occasional long-tall iit's. The red shrlke nests tn the thorns. I have seen two birds hit. by lzolf balls: one a lark which soon 1e- covered from the blow, the other a cock chsfflnch which we, hit full in mid-air and instantly des- "0 fld- Twice have found s yelow-hammerfls nest (one in August) thanks to its juxtaposition to a crooked golf bulb-Rex Beach in London Spectator.

We start with o

premise that the Ja is using ‘poison gas against the C lnese, an ssk ourselves

"Then why not use lt. against the Jan?" which in turn raises a question "How will Germany re- act to that?" and so on. The one constant factor in the discussion, end one colouring all our attitudes at to most of us the use of

lson gas against human beings s simply the dirtiest kind of pool. This is something ingrained or at least highly personal, like an at- titude for or against capital pun- ishment and there ls no arguing with it. because it is o feeling not to be rationalized away by point.- Ing out, for example, that petroleum Jelly bomb does not provide the cleanest of deaths. or the flame-thrower, now so develop- ed that it shoots around corners and curls the victim up as ff he were a dried leaf. Death in battle ls generally pretty dirty. The ‘lne between acceptance of other weapons and not of ans rests. at

bottom, on the senslblllllel of MI DI

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Ifilllflrl buses {rm held 1s per- sons-standing, sitting, lapping,

Germany declared Florence an open elty which was not being used I0!‘ mini"! Purposes. The Allies have found that the Nazis were ylng. If they had not been. that would have been newa-Moncton

People le-lk about the ‘last Greet

but West which lies north of the West. we

lying snug ln a larlrs nest. Thai l

Seed From British

the deadly rocket-impelled missiles. cannot destroy the un- eonquerable spirit of tree-born people. steady hands are tendln: the gardens in Enflflndl IOVGIY southern counties with the same calmness as ln the earlier years oi wan-through the ordeal of Dun- kirk, the battle of Britain and the blitz. '

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mtg ga eners

happy thought of a grou of wor- - “CLEO”. ‘ BENTLEY, kers 1n the Income tax vision of Bflffigters

the Deparrttmept cg‘ Natéonaltftey; ,

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lliixuzioiltsaianalda have sgnt lfts MARGARET MARTIN of garden seeds during the ast

three years byorganizlng a "Seeds to Britain” campaign.

Lady Tweedsmulr ls the llnk with Canada on the British side of r-he neon“ in this good work. Bhe VJIOIB appreciatlvely last March. and the

llowlng letter-came last week:

Elsfleld Manor,

Oxford, England,

June 20, 19H.

Dear Mr. Monk,

Thank you so much for your letter of May 9, and for sending me that charming cutting from the Ottawa Evening Citizen.

You cannot believe wvltat a _5oy seeds are to us over here and I tvas| only hearing the other afternoon how wonderfully last year's seeds had grown in our small village aar- dens.

Yeu have indeed made a ur" contribution 1n letting us have these generous parcels.

Your very sincerely,

Susan Tweedsmulr.

As well as helping to give t giblg results in garden crops. l seed; from Canada to British vil- lages will surely yield good fruit ul an enduring character by drawing Canadian and British people clo- ser together in bonds of a common] gardening interest. Lady Tweeds- mulr’s letter is a gratifying

I .6- port of the productive results. Thai‘

income tax division staffs may well

feel that they are making a prec- f’ ‘

tlcal contribution to a greatest: In a delightful way.

TAKING OFF To die in ins. to Join ones fleet- ing girth With tne utprushlng breath of

earth's release; To go out into the sweet. airs and

, like sound. the

Into the April winds: so to become

One with the rising sap. the un- folcllnu frond.

To leave the husk of cold mortal- ' Y.

Thrus. forth one‘s stplrlt. birth- llke, with the spring:

That. were a time to dedicate to

ea . To pass in that green season into HCC

1s but o. stopped chord harmony resolved, b _.

Music lnvtolate; or like a vision l

Seen and with passion recollccted:

Prospect perpetual of lovely life

Immutable in the mLncl, never be- reft ‘ _

Of beaiutyls flame in that survival brief '

No withering by insidious years. for those

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That. die betimcs, or youth's ln-,

gen-nous bloom; I

No delafih. but a rellnquishlnl of

While aiident. stlll It pulses. to in- splr

B A srprlntz eternal. young as the robin's phrases.

—Ellzabeth Harrison.

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