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such service touches persons wholly or mainly employed in agriculture”; and later in his speech that “farmers, farmers’ sons and agricultural laborers will normally not be obliged to under- take compulsory military iraiiiiiig and service" Further, he stated that, with three exceptions. "no male person wholly or mainly employed in agriculture on March 23—shall enter into any employment outside agriculture unless he had

T_llE GIIARLOTTETUWII GUARDIAN

Morning Daily tFollllded In I381)

President: LieuL Col. W. Cheater B. MoLnro Vice President: J. R. Burnett, IJJ. Secretary: Lieut. Col. D. A. Mflfllilllllflll- 9-3-0- Bditar and {Managing Director. J. B. Burnett. I"J.l.

‘WWW-e Edmm‘ Anm“ wnk" m“ l“ A am.“ obtained written permission-U’ QUBSCRLPTION RATE! ,This seemed clear enough. Now, however. By mu in l’.l£..l., $4.00 per year: 62-50 lor s months comes Mr. Mitchell's press release telling that $1.26 for 3 months; 50c for one month what actually is planned is to allow bQardS ‘vlllcll 9"" "5""! $51“) P" ‘mm “o” '°' 6 mum" select trainees greater latitude in dealing with ‘"75 l" 3 monnm 60° h" o“ Man“ agricultural labor. Such labor is in a preferential B, ma“ m "m" muvmc“ and u S‘ A’ “'00-,” u" bsition but it till will bc cilletl up and must Saturday ltcekiy: $1.00 per re“: 51-00 for b month. P , 5 _ ‘ ‘ . 50o for 3 montna apply in the regular wav foi deferment.‘ Failure to respond to his initial notice to report still makes the farm worker liable to penalties. _ There appears here needless confusion over a fairly important matter.

EDITORIAL NOTES -

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"The Strongest Memory is Weaker than the Weakest Ink.“

l-ltlUAY. APRIL l0, 1942.

India

The boys overseas are calling for soap of any kiiid-—lct them have it. a it- o a

The St. Lawrence is open once more for trans- atlantic shipping after almost the shortest freeze on record.

\Vhen l'rime Mirriszer Churchill recently spolu- of the defense of India he reminded the \\'I.'liil llllil lllilill is "tiiie of ilic bases from which tlic strorigcu counter blows must be struck at the advance of i_\'l'.lllil_\' llilfl aggression." In China, \\'llll‘*(‘ inn-r. i zmd good will were expressed in liUlIt". g lidi-Slicitk- fruitful visit, and ' i ‘itil Slates, \\'lllCll has taken an active l" the iicgtitiations of Sir Stafford illCl. is quite as fully recognized as ll and the Doininions. Hence the ‘l which will be felt throughout "i-ri- a: the rieirs that the dead- ll4€ll broken and a general .- eii Ilritain arid the Hindu i ‘his good as reached.” The diffi-

Bettcr News From

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_Our Highland laddies overseas would like to get some cigarettes from the I5land—I‘lflliffl-‘<. Truro, Pictou, Amherst have been sending quotas but since Christmas the Island has been iregligentt in this respect. The boys also would like shirts, haiitlkies, undies. tics, clothing being rationed for soldiers as well as civilians over there.

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"Boating Magazine" the sprightly "year round magazine for all the family." has this brief, bright and brotherly editorial iii iis April num- ber: “\Vanted 24A man with guts. Airy man, Lib- eral or Conservative: white or blaclc. who will pull Canada. out of the ‘valley of humiliation’ in which Sllf? has been wallowing iioiv for two

tin l le r leathers

ciiitv al' a‘. tllij l.. been an satisfy the contend- iiig" Qruiiit- Ili‘(l :i_v the zippreliciisions of those yicars." Cfliilllilt‘ is wlio=e rights must be effectively * * “ *

bfifPfliiflfilPtl iii airy lasting settlement. Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet.

Sir Fbffarwls proposals for national govern- died this date, I900; his masterpiece, “Atalanta nivii: i- ‘l om- vi'al point over which a in Calydon,” published in i864 brought him re- den-lint“; ihiwriiciicd. namely. the management cognition as a master of l_vrical expression; his hi" H1" 'n of tlic ilrfcii=c of Illillil during the “Poems and Ballads" created adverse criticism: war, ..< is an zibsolute military necessity. The but subsequent works were universally coin-

mended. lie being recognized as a poetic drama- tist of great power and beauty and a rliapsodist of emotional life; he is Hfllllillfftlly the greatest British master of metre; wrote several essays on Hugo, Byron, Dickens, also “Contemporaries of Shakespeare”: “Where children are not, heaven is not."

imminent iweril of the Japanese advance would be trciiiciidoii-ly- enhanced if there was divided (‘illllillfllill a= l)<'i‘.\‘t‘f‘ll Ilritaiir and the Congress leader. at tlii= time.

A Signal Tribute

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Apparently years mean nothing to .\lr. Justice \\'_ R. Riddcll, of the Ontario Supreme Court who celebrated his 90th birthday‘ on Easter Mon- day. When asked horv long he thought he would continue to sit on the bench he said: "Oh, I think about 20 years more." Ile siiggcsicrl the govern- ment might be planning “some hlllfl of zi shoot- ing party" to effect his retirement. "I will be iii charge of a court on Iliesday morning and I am doing all the work expected of me," he con- tinued spealtiiig of the more immediate future aiid expressing a determination tn die with his judicial boots oii. He was appointed to the Sir- preme Court bench in i906.

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The folio" ' g rliapsody is the tribute 0t a London joiirii Esi after witnessing the, man- oeuvres on a \\‘lll' footing being carried out by Canadian forces ‘from the hlaritime Provinces. It is from an article appearing in the London Pictorial of recon: dzitc:

"l hid tlic plrasrire of seeing an example of wild and lli‘t‘nlllll'i‘iil.llllt enthusiasm for the war such n: I had never sccn before. From men who h. l travelled goon rriiles to help us wake up in ‘I'll. .\!lil \'t.‘i'_\' soon their zest spread to all ulin <aw it.

“Tu-o (Iaiim in officers arid three sergeants were dzslilayitig some fresh ideas on modern warfare. And they did the job a; it should be dniie. I began by sitting up with stir-

rise-anrl ended by lying down with exhaustion.

lad iilltl iiizigir5f‘cciit, Inspiring arid infectious. That is ilie only way lfl which their enthusiasm can he described.

“Throughout the whole crazy day these Can- adians spurred us on tn action- ‘You've got to keep going’ . . ‘You've got to get nearer the Iliin’ . ‘It's kill or be killed’ . . . ‘It's the hardest game in the world and you are allowed just one mistake.’ ‘For seven years those Hune have been at it: we've got to catch up in two’ . . ‘Rcmember; sweat saves blood.’

“Before ten minutes had passed these boys had created an atmosphere as electric as s. revivalist meeting. ‘Keep down but keep moving’. , .. , ‘You're no good to your country when you're dead’ . . ‘One damn mistake and you'll be ivrapped up in a blanket‘. "

"The biting wind didn't seem to matter any

Canadian

The wreck of the steamship Isleitry C. Daryaiv last November 21, on the St. Lawrence River. five inilcs above Brockville, was zidjiirlgetl by Mr. justice Errol M. McDougall, of the Superior Court, Montreal, to be due to the wrongful act and default of her master, Hyacinth Letraverse, in failing to navigate his vessel with due re.- gard to good seamansliip and to the Rules of the Road. Rendering judgment iii the case in Room 24 at the old Court House, His Lordship, as wreck commissioner, ordered that the certificate of Captain Hyacinth Latraverse and his licence as pilot for the Upper St. Lawrence he sus- pended for a period of six nioiitlis from the date 0f the court's judgment, (April 4). The ship Henry C. Daryaw, of Kingston, Ont., left Sodus, N. Y-, last November 2i, with a load of coal for Montreal. In the vicinity of Whale Back Island, some five miles above Broekville, the vessel struck a shoal and became a total wreck.

mcfffyouw t m I _ Y _ All on board were able to escape except Robert now, e 3° f"? mWmg- Oil cant stop Groleau, a fireman, of Montreal, who was trap.

ped and lost his life in the stokehold. where he

Remember London! Remember Coventry! was on duty when lthavessel grounded. it a

"(in and on they chanted. We crawled through tons of tniirk. \\<~ plunged through wire- We. ran like hell. iiihorvs were rarv —knees were bleeding —anil faces were slashed by wire and thorn; hiit sv-nichorv it still didn't seem to may. tvr. "flirt m’ lvrrritli? You can't keep moving? Is lllit? '\<-ll" ..-i».\- t» the lliin aiid lllC laps when lllc.” 1'6 siv-i-b... "\'(‘l‘\'illlilg we have? You've GOT to keep moving."

“Tire voice of Austria” is a monthly periodical published in Ottawa arid edited by Dr. Frank Klein. In the current issue here is what the learned editor has to say on the Indian situation: "Let us imagine an Indian today, a tliiiilting man in the street, not a professional politician whose clarity is obscured by personal ambition, a man of Some property and growing children: What is he likely to think of the present situation, of japan bfilng at the gates if not already within the gates of his country, menacing its towns and

\It1l litPll $011.6. iwwrr < sftiliCllllilg in it. These Canadians

have Tf'lfi'lli‘il I ;,» -l; -_» »l.-<_ ' - . . .

mosg at lib. , [tfflitlziiilt sltgrsqethlijigghigvhsicill villages with fire. hirirder, and robbery? We

p W1,“ J,.,;,,, qmnlfln cans We sacred flag" , zlliould b; very ‘surprised if atthis ‘moment’ he

Thy-re WWW Tqlvvwgv “M. They," rough an-d l amed t e Brltislrfor not having given India a

"My wpfqw ‘Vwm malnondga“ . arger measure of lfldeptffldflltjfl. He will most F17“), m” I.’ . probably accuse them for quite another kind of

_ _ _ y. H2 ii will be sccn that tlic Slllril of \ i. \'1‘l'_\' much alive in Canada's overseas army iodav,

sin: ‘Why did they not protect us better? They have been the Paramount Power in India for cen-I turies. Are they not responsible for our safety?’ We want to express it more clearly than that In- dian man in the street. If we define Imperialism as the responsibility for aii empire, then the Brit- ish were not guilty of too much imperialism but of too little of it. We as European continental: have a special reason for making this statement. We bfilong among the victims of that lack of British Imperialism that marked the period be- tween the two wars. And if we think of our future, we hope that the British will display a good dcal of recuperated imperialism after this war, not of _tl1e old conquering type but a5 the powcr strong enough to act as a preventive force which need not intervene. As G. K, Chgglgrton put it: '\Vc have to remember that civilization as it goes on ought not perhaps to grow more fight- ing biit ought to grow more willing to fight.’ No- body should striigglc for victory who is lint firinlv resolved to maintain what ll!‘ has conquered. Willi- oiit this resolution .'ill the bloodshed would be fiiiilr- and it would bc better to iiivitc (Jcriiiany and Japan to iakc what they want."

Cnvcriimcnl Lines Crossed?

ConfiwV ll bu." :iri.-.cii. says tlic Ottawa journal, 9Y4‘? llii‘? "'1 "f the (i'>\'<‘i'iimcnt's new sclcgtive rcrvici‘ l Illll which lll>l)li(‘\' tr) fm-rncl-S‘ so"; fliltl ugriciiiiiiiqif \\'iil‘l\'<.'l‘>_ Following Mr. King's -iiii1~iii1i"'iiii'iii of ilzu policy l0 the llouse 0f btiillllltill- iii" lllll’ll‘\*l'tll was gciicrzilly held that lililll lnlriii‘ \'\<l\-i i and that

v "lrrtzt-ii" to lllC land iri-t-i- oi iiiilirzirr :ij_;i\ ciigiigril lllflinly ll, agl-lcul. time \‘.‘l'< l‘\i'!lll!l(.'1l from cntltptilsory military ‘Hit in .\'i>\v L-iltiu- _\lllll>l('l' .\Iitclicll points out m it‘ l-- mi "<‘i’l'1illl"'ll~ iiiiprcssinti" abroad on this \\'ilill" ~iiiil4"'l. lV-lihl lllll All‘. King Zlnfl All‘. .\l'l\'li 1i haw J-tt l->gcilii-r~ i-zirlier- and pre- iwiiwl lil » ~>ii< lllllllT-Tlilll" from receiving -i_'l i i \ K .\lr. King tziiil there was a hllli"i'l.iiii"i."ll Iiii-l-lliilll of ill!‘ policy regarding eompiiZ-t-r; imui il'd\' tniiiriiig and service whcrc

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NOTES BY TIIE WAY

Three months alter Pearl Har- bour, is there any American so de- luoca as to SLIPPOcO that. he can sii. this one out‘! There are 1118111’. we gather, and we pity them. 1f you do not like the will’ ml! W“ l; being prosecuted, 1t your privilege and your duty to use nil lawful pressure on your represent.- atives to correct. it. But. if it is merely that. you do not. like this war, men you can lump it. Every last one of the 130010.000 o! in 1-5 in this up to_ his neck. Your way of life, your lite itself, all you ow_n or nope to own. your 10b. you‘ freedom. your self-respect are It stake. No 011015 sitting this one oui....'nie British, the German-i. the Russians, the Japanese have 110 illusions. They know they are figuring for setfeiristfinw. 1nd me devil take the hinmriost. 50 fir? you, _ Saturday Evening Post tPtiiiadelphia).

more is to cOme of

Niiilbllxbltj)? for war- crimea than W118 0 inst war. it must be kept before the mind of the civilized world. and not. allowed w degenerate 1M0 a mere emotion of revengefuinecs that ems 1:1 nothing. Dr. Temple dealt. recently with this sllblfil- 111 hi3 presidential address w the Convocation of York. dilwlniqt-ht essential distinction between lust retribution as a means to the’ vindication of moral principle and the simple returningof cruelty’ for cruelty. The repudiation of t-ht‘ barbaric rule oi mere retaliation lies at the root of Christian morals; and some of the corres- pondence that. has appzared latflly 1n the paper suggests, or indeed demonstrates, that there are those who, cn grounds of ieirtlwur‘ W111- eiple. would rule out the idea 0f retribution altogether. London Telegraph and Morning Post.

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Not only has the circulation of books been influenced by the war; the C011S€q11 trees are reccrded even in the kinds of imopie turning to the libraries Details of chanit-‘S that, occurred last year appear in the annual report of the director of the New York Public Library. In some sections of the city air raid wardens have been meeting in branch libraries, A IUaJOTlty of them, one librarian noted, “are not. readers, but. they are now lmnlflg the library so that they can borrow books and pamphlets on defence. first aid, etc.,"_ An increasing in- terest in iechnzcal bcol-Ls and in magazines and books on Latin Am- erica has, of course, b:en observed in many brariciiesas wrii as in the maiirlibrary building. All signs in- dicate that uncoiizitcd tens 0f thousands of persons‘ who have never been registered in any pub- lic library’ will suddenly dis/cover services that may infiiicnce their lives Mutti lllai» librarians do to aid bewildered borroweis will Bo 11"‘ sung; if they are plhhid and har- ried, the public can h be- ing patient and ezpecay by be- ing clear about what it. wants — New York Sim.

Th; more one reads of the “war guilt" trial at Rioni. France. the more one wonders why Marshal Petarn himself is not on trial with the oiincrs. The premier was com- mander in chief of the aim from i923 to 1931. inspector cf efence up to 1934, minister of war after that. and iticu president of the commission of national defence, a very significant title. up to Febr- uary. 1939. Just seven months oc- fore the war started. Li_ Dalutlicr and Blum, during their brief, inter- mitteni, reigns, are partly i-esirons- ible for lack of adequate military preparations and the ultimate collapse of the country. why W85 not the present chief, ‘who treid various key posit-inns directly af- fecting the defence of France continuously aliricst, up to the oui- break of war, even iiwfe 9111M’? certainly he was waking right at t-lie side of the others. If tie had seen anything wrong, he surely could have done somcitiing about it. 1t is a travesty on Justice to see this man now pointing an accus- ing finger at his former ctr-part- ners, using their very negligence. which he shared, as a means to justify the lotalitainan regane he himself has built up. -— Boston Post.

What with all the glorification of the German race as the greatest in the world, a boon to civilization. and all the rest of the twaddle which the Nazis have been iving out; what. With all the stores of free and easy marital and extra- marital relations in the Reich; one might have been pardoned for suppcsiiig that the German birth rate is very high. The world has been led so to believe; Dr. Goe- bbels and his crew tiave been pin- ning the adjective "decadent" upon fiance, whose birth rate has drop- ped steadily, and giving us to un- derstand tliat in the Nazi state, such a thing could not. happen. But. it. has happened. Word comes now that continual radio appeals are to the German people to have more children. Four children was set as the correct minimum for a family. But those who have been married within the last. ten years, roughly the Nazis era, have on average of only two children and. says the frantic radiorator, "Germany needs chil- dren today and especially to- morrow." Yet during the first Iiinb months of 1941 the total number of babies born in taities of more than 100,000 population was eight. per- cent less than for the same period of 1940, although the number- of marriages 1.1 the same nine months was off only one perecnt.-Port- land Press-Herald.

lt la reported that a bill to ex- tend for one year the life of the present Ontario Government, will be introduced in the Legislature before the close of the session. Such a bill should carry. The people o! Ontario have more im- porian-t, things to do than diffuse their energies on domestic politics at a. time when the fate oi the Dominion, ilie Empire, and rlie world hangs in the balance. 0r- dlnarily such extension would be objectionable, but ttie present circumstances are not ordinary The postponement of an election for at. least another year will occa- sion no serious interference with party rights or prerogatives It will not be taken as an endorse- tton of the present Government's record, nor entail any substantial restriction of a constructive critic- ism of administrative policies. — Brantiord Expositor.

Mr. Aberhart now has the Al- berta University into his own hands He tins taken the mari- agement from the facility and PIN-Til l! in the hands oi a bcirrti of gnveiiors. hrs the ap- pointment. of it" of the "til-tun- member; of the board. He can dismiss any or all 0t me my, members any time they displease

rm; gnrairwrr-e-rowiw otiaanrais

m‘ fated to the war.

A Confidential Wrr Book

(Exelieflke)

Canadians will breathe a sigh o! n mire; tpday to learn that the Becre- j; tary of State has had published a ..

im- ge blue-covered book-“Otuldg to lative Precedence at Ottawa Th1, 0g murge 15 what we have all been waiting for since the war be-

can.

Publication of this book - on heavy and expensive PM?" -— l.‘ this time is surely a great credit to the Secretary of Stale Mid "16 Cabinet which authorized it. for it must have been put out. lzi the face of the aper shortflge. mon- power siior age and Printing Bureau congestion that we have heard about for so many months now. Obviously someone has rid- den herd over the dead bodies of waste controllers arct presented a fierce front to the heads of other departments who have 1on8 be"! crying out. for Printing Bureau work on matters less iiraently re-

Uhfortunmtely for the common people working in the fields, the renches or the factories. l (hi5 book is a conififentiai affair ‘pro- vided for the information of Of- ficials at. Ottawa. who have to deal wth questions of emmonni." Thus it cannot be bought but is sent only to the chosen few thous- ands with a. full-sized piece oi’ beautiful heavy white riotiepaper indicating in delicate and artistic scroll that it has come "with the ccmplimenis of itie secretary of State of Canada "

But, we may tell the common people that it contains nothing of unportance other than a page bearing the Revised Table oi Pre- cedence for Canada as set forth Dec. 3, 1023. And anyone who has cared to look inside the Parlia- mentary Guide each year since then has been able to read this same table.

Apart. from this page, the sec- ond in the book, there is nothing but 13 pages ct the names, initials, addresses, titles (and names of ihe wives or daughters or aimtspl‘ sisters) of all our Priry Councill- ors. our Lieutenant Governors our men of Church and Bench, al the Senators and Ccmmcneis, and .50 on to page 116.