not: prptm TNE ONAIILOTTETOVIN OIIAIIOIAN i

Morning Dally (Founded In I087)

President: Lient. Col. W..Chester S. McLnro Vice-President: .I. B. Burnett, FJJ. Secretary: Lleut. Col. D. A. MncKinnon. 0.9.0. liiilior and lllimiiging Director: J. It. Burnett, FJJ. Associate Editors: Frank Walker and [an A. Burnett

SUBSCRIPTION BATES By Mall in P. l. l., $4.00 per year; $2.50 for 8 months $1.25 iv: 3 months; 50c for one month City Delivery: $5.00 per year; $3.00 for 6 month; $1.75 for 3 months By llnll in Canada and U.S.A. 55.00 per your flaturday Wei-kly: $2.00 per year; $1.00 for 6 months. 50c for 3 months.

mind must be launched quickly if launched at all.

Geritiany"s military operations.

sources open to her: England, Belgium,

estimated barrels,

in Germany and Hungary.

ade maintained by Nazi planes and submarincsy; will soon be made known, but l\lr. Ball says ihat' whatever programme the German dictator has It} it is to b ' This conclusion lie reaches afte M"! """5““| ‘m’ M" hm‘ "' a review of the gasoline situation as it affecti- (iermany's onlj available oil supplies now are such as she can ob-i tain from the Continent of Europe. These are th From Germany, France Holland, Denmark, Norway Sweden, Hungary, Rumaiiia and Belgium, the production for the year is 83,500,011;

To this total may be added a possible increase amounting to 3,000,000 barrels from newer fields

NOTES BY TNE WAY

celveci by Lord Provost Dollan for Glasgsws Central War Relief Fund, ‘ and time which intrigued him to- day was a y of “The New Testa- ,ment in Brad Scots", which was , gifted by a lady in ’I‘rcon. It will i form one of the “lots” to be auc- | tioned on behalf cf the Fund. A r colleague who examln-sd the vclilme 'dlscovered it was publishfid in 1901 iby a, Paisley firm, and had been compiled by the Rev. Wm. Wye Smith, of St. Catherine's, in the Province of Quebec. Canada. —- Edinburgh Scotsman.

Somewhere ‘in his "Don Juan".

fT/ie Strongest Memory i; Weak" mo" m; Another potential source which may i yield Eggs;tgfififigaifiudlgvfiicéifgic: Weaken [nky- 3,500,000 barrels is the production of gasoline by mm mat ever slit a throat," we m.

synthetic processes. SATURDAY, MARCH E, 19M.

Gardiner Under Criticism Hf I0-0<><1.000l>=11'1'¢ls.

lrlou. .\lr. Gardiner, Minister of Agriculture, w» u: i1 under fire iii the ilotisc of Loiiimons yc-ttiwlziy; "Liovcrutiicilt supporters and Oppo- sition groups zililte,” says the Cauztdiail Press", criticistd his handling of the 194i wheat crop. In an attempt to reduce by 9,000,000 acres the prairie land tioriually sown to wheat, the Government proposes, at an estimated cost of $35,000,000, to pay a bonus of $4.00 an acre for wheat lauds left lll sllllllllcl‘fiilli)\\' this year, and $2.00 all acre for Wilclil lauds sown to grass or coarse grains.

.\'u assurtutce could be given by Mr. Gardiner that the huge estimated cost of these bonuses would iloi be exceeded. \\'hat lic is asking for is a blank chcque. l\lr. Hanson, the Conservative lender, protested particulztrl_y against this method of procciltire. lie claimed that there should be a specific bill introducctl, setting forth all the pro- visions" tinder which the bonuses were to be paid.

Mr. Liardiuct‘ offers nothing iu the way of assistance to our fatrmcrs in this part 0f Canada. lIis rcciird iii this regard ivas treiicliaiitly summed up by l'l't'iliit‘l' (timpllt-ll at the Ottawa confer- ence i~n the Sirois report lust _illlllltll'_)'. “\\’e," said I'i'L'iilicl' iXuupbt-ll, "have not even the bent-- fit of the peg which has been put in the baftoin of the wheat market. Pork, on the other hand, '1 is Imggfll from theytop; btitier is pegged down. _.._ Potatoes, during this year, have been ‘SZiCflflCCd Tomorrow Fifth Sunday in Lent, on a market which we feel with a certain amount ~ s s a of regulation could have operated at more SllllS- Prospects for totirisis factory prices. The wheat processing tax (since ingly eticotiragiug. rebatcd) has borne with particular weight on the advises us that lie has farmers of our province. On the other hand, the literature compared with farmer sees labor pegged from the bottom, es- * v pecizilly in the case of governmental construction. Ilc- secs fertilizer, equipment and necessaries ris- ing in price, and transportation facilities citr- tailt-rl or at least deferred.”

.»\ll over Eastern Canada similar complaints eiits, hupe been heard with regard to Mr. (iartliilcfs m it- m a administration. ls it any wonder, therefore, that the Lluizttliztu Press correspondent predicts, from the TCIIIPCI‘ of Ihrliament yesterday, "a stormy passage" for his $35,000,000 wheat bouusiiig scheme? l\lr. Gardiner is said to have made “a loiigsyicccli lll an effort to convince the I-lotise," registering identification mark. but it is 1111f rccortlctl that he succeeded. * r =1‘ v

within Germany's reach during 194i.

000 barrels.

the total output for the matcly 2,000,000 barrels per month.

placed by this Edmonton

tries are estimated at about 21,000,000 barrels.

plies.

EDIIQRIAL NUI tS B!

l\lr. B. Lirahaui

4,000 last _year_ t it

must wait till 1942

farmer in Vermont has

on the shell.

Air Force Commissions Interesting information on the subject of train- ing and commissioning R. C. A. If. officers was given recently in the llouse of Commons by the tomorrow. responsible minister, Hon_ Mr. Power, in reply " "‘ "‘ "‘ to questions on the order paper. Approximately 5o pcr cent of the men trained as pilots or air ob- servers tinder the Commonwealth Air Tflilillllg Thin are to be commissioned, l\lr. Power‘ said. Approximately 33 pcr ccut of these commissions are awarded on graduation and i7 per cent fur service in the field. The remainder of the air- crcw trainees who complete their training are pro- muted to the rank of sergeant on graduation.

The (‘XlllllliliillflllS mt completion of the course held. consist of ground subjects (tiavigatiou, signalling, "‘ " * I‘ airninnsliip, ground gunnery and the theory of bombing) zuid flying training (aerobatics, forced landing, service manoeuvres, air gunnery and practice bombing.) To determine officer quali- iications an assessment is made by the instructors during the cntirse, considering capabilities as to leadership, initiative, educational baclcgrottud and dt-portulcnt. _

The process of making the appoiutiticnts to Ciillillii\<itilll‘ll rztnks bcgitis at the school whcrc a board of officers is formed to recommend 50pm ct-ut of ertch class for zippointtncnt to commission- ed rzinlt. This boiirtl stibniits their recommend- aiioils in nrdcr 0f priority for the whole class. llic rccriiiiniciidzuiuiis are forwztrtlcd to the air officer (onnnniiiliug the couuuaiitl iti which the school is located and hc in turn stibmiis his recotuineutla- tious to i\ir horct- Ilczitlqtizirtcrs. Appflllllliiclllfi to cmumissioiicil l‘.'iill( are made tinder the atlthopr- itv 0f the Minister of National Defcuscfor Air, who acts 0n rccoiiimciitlations of a selection coin- mitice prcsidctl over by a Wing Commander of the Royal Cauadiziti Air Force arid Comllosed of representatives of the ‘R. A.‘I'., R- A. A'_F' R, N, Z‘. A. Iii, and R. C. A. l‘. A" allfmllff‘ mcnts made iri tlic service of the Conimonwealins other than Canada arc subject to their respective

tivcrnmctital approval. _ _

g There seems no loophole‘ _in this carcfilllY worked out system for favoritism of an)’ kllld‘ “flint a contrast is afforded between the effic- iency standards demanded of our fll/mgfllflccrs- and the rcqtiircmcnts for P01111631 QPPOmimQm-‘i such as vacant Sciiatorships, for example!

bereaved families whose dear naval disaster off Halifax.

general public. “The list of these

istcrs.”

between all these categories?" 4i m w it

to Gibraltar.

and their daughter at their homo there.

mtuiication.

cabled from Gibraltar.

Labor member, had been filled in his absence. it iii 101 n-

Germanyk Oil Sources

The limit Russia can possibly spare for Ger- tnztlry (cvcu if she is prcpztrcd to do so) is placed These totals adds tip to a grand aggregate of approximately 100,000,000 barrels, which is believed to be the very limit

As against this potential Silpply, Germany's civil consumption of oil amounts normally to 70,500,- _ This wotild leave for tiiilitary cou- sumption approximately 23,500,000 barrclg from year. That means approxi-

Gcrmzuiys retpiircmetits for war purposes are _ I petroleum expert oc- twecu a minimium of 6,000,000 and a muxilnu," of 9,000,000 barrels. This would leave a monthly shortage of from 4,000,000 to 7,000,000 harm}; Ihe oil reserves llO\V on hand in the Axis coun-

If these statistics are at all near the mark, it is obvious that Ilitlcr's war activities will be check-ed sharply by lack of oil stipplics, or he will have to turn to iic\v fields to augment his existing sup- ‘ p _ The Iraq oiliields are the nearest and most inviting of all sources of supply outside the c1».- tiilcut of litirope, but the road from Germany to Iraq will be long and costly, arid almost certainly disastrous to the Nazi litisis, if they should .tl- tempt a diversion through Tlurkcy iuid Iflulcsiiiic.

this )‘C£il' are outstand- Roget's had 15,000 requests for

_ The Red Cross is now sorry it refusctl to join in the united campaign for funds this year, as it before malting another germ-a] appeal on behalf of the worthy object it repres-

Wondcrs will never cease iii the hen yard-at _ just discovered that one of his hens lays an egg with his itiitials embossed _ Ile is exhibiting its product in order that his neighbours may know of this self-

This week-end is a sorrowful one for ihosc ones were lost in the The sympathy of the whole community goes out to them and they will be remembered in the prayers at public worship

Sir Edwin Lutyens, P. R. A., distinguished Etiglish Architect, born this date I809; model city pioneer, designed llztmpstcttd garden stiburb of London, and planned the iicw City of Delhi, India, which was formally inaugurated by King (leorgc V. In I919 his design was accepted by the Lord Mayor and Common Council of the city of Lon- don for the cenotaph, at which every year tnemor- ial services for the dead of the last great war wvrc

The British House of Commons recently relish- ed the explanation offered by Minister of Trans- port john T. C. lvloorc-Brabazou for placing signs in certain railroad cars prohibiting their use by the reasons is rather a curious one,” he said. "It includes broken windows, infectious diseases, corpses, high scr- vice officials, ltmaiics, convicts and Cabinet Min- Mr. W. Lcttcli, Labor member, asked: "Can you say how the r:til\v':ty officials distinguish

Tragedy rulcs the old laud. After having brcn ilctaincd with the rest of his ship's company for five mouths iii a French concentration camp in lvIoi-occo, William lllackin, an engineer, was rc- lcased with his companion and sent on a trawlt-t- Thcrc he joyfully cabled his wife at Bristol, England, that he would soon rejoin her Sub- sequently he landed at a Scottish port and made for the nearest telephone to let his family know of his arrival, but was unable to establish com- So he boarded the first train for Bristol. Arrived in his home town lie found only a hole where his house had stood. Then he learned that a German air bomb had destroyed his home and killed his wife and daughter the day he had Irlc found also that his scat on the local Cotincil, of which he had been a

Although there is only one itiembcr of the Cecil family in the British House of Commons, Lord Burghley, the elevation of Lord Hugh Cecil to the peerage raises the number in the Upper Ilouse to six with three collatcrals. The six are: Marquess

called this masterly descrlptlin as we read of the latest ccomg of Japantse diplomacy. Majcr Kumo Akiytima, it itppcars has decided ornithological opinions about cori- tem-porury pflltics in the Pacific. Addressing a press conference re- cently, he dcclartd that the Brituti and Americans "were snakes plac- ing snakes’ eggs in a doves nest". ...It is to be wondered what Gen- eral Chant; Kai-slick must timink oi this latest outburst of anti-vernal pce-‘y; now he knows that the cities or China lle in ruins. because his country was not sufficiently pre- pared with anti ove guns. - Can- adian Jewish C. rznicle.

Aunt Martha is eighty-four and lives alcnc in a little house vrtiere her dcmestie ecsnomy is nobzdyis concern but. hei- own. I called ch her on Sunday afternoon twrites a correpznctenti and found her hav- ing tea. Size was eating dry bread and sweetening her tea with rais- ins, so I asked her if the had been unable to get her raticns for the week. "Oh, yes" she said. "1 al- ways get my rations on Thursdays. But it's like this: I have a very sweet tooth, and I like plenty of butler on my bread, and when 1 see time week's rations on the table 0n Thursday I say to myself. ‘A w;- man who's eighty-four may die any mlrltili‘, and it would bc n p.ty '- to time sugzti- and butler bet » you gofl and so they don't usual y last beyond Friday night." -Mn:i- clicstcr Guardian.

Current history is often roflccled. in the Scottish bull-sale Cal-III guzs, icr bzesuers, we have IIOL-CEG, have the habit of naming that‘ faventes utter places or lz-ersms that ale in the news. There is ziiwayspa ngli reserve price on u. Churchill. We unve been siudying the Perth and Aberdeen Spring sale catalogues, and must. ccnfess that we tire u lit- tle d.sa.ppolnt:d. The Cabinet has been quite neglected, Lease-and- Lsnd is forgciteir and the retr- ing qualities of the Italian General Staff have not been cnsldercd in the naming of the bull calves. There is on: Maginot, which should not". be cesilv said, although a daring speculator may take a chance on Weygand, and there is a Hitler (he'll bellow a bit). Narvlk gives away the age of another entry, but the onlv other tPlcfll flame-I we can find are a General Srnuts. two Spitfires and an Air Raid - Glasgow Herald.

Sumo people seem to think that profits fi-zin the canteen. operated by thedlffercnt Canadian War Services at military camps go to thcse Services. On the contrary, the canteens are run on B. n n- profit basis. Five percent of the gross proceed‘; from sales goes to the commanding officer of lite unit served by the canteen for tho bene- fit of the men. If more than one unit is served the five percent. deductiu is administered by the camp commandant. Two percent. of the grcss proceeds from sales is allows-cl to the service organization operating the canteen for admini- stratlcn expenses. Any surplus after tti-aze deductions is placed in a trust fund for the benefit (I the men. _- Brcckvllie Recorder and Times.

'l‘licro are at least half l dozen stibstitutes for the onion. 0f these leeks are, cf course, best known, and have been celebrated as a vegetable for centuries. For flavoring, chives have all the taste but none of the after-whiff that has surnuncied the onion, in Eng- lttnd. with what was once called a ccrttun Craiifcrdian atmosphere. and its mauve treads of lowers are as cbnrniing as sea-pink. Clbbals, oucc a czttage favorite, is a kind or cvcrgrecn chives and therefore use- ful icr Winter. No cite needs an iii- trcductioti t; shallots, which it ls iicw Limo t3 plant; but the tree- cnion, which grows small bulbs on b 11.1 stem and rcot, is a little-known variety. Ncr is the ro-callcd Welsh uni n well known. Introduced into England in the early 17th cnttury. it l5 a native cf Sbcrla — a kind of pei-cntiial lock, with tubular leaves. llic small side-leeks being pick-ca as required. while the main plant is left to crow on. Tiicre is also a Japaurse form, Nebukn, said to be excellent. - Lzndon Spec- tutor.

Mussolini has a word tor It. To be precise, he has two words for it. They are "gray days." 1i’ you lose halt of lilbya and an entire army corps into the bargain, why worry? These are just gray days. Every natizii has them. If your Imperial legions are hurled back in headLiig flight by a tiny Greek army, what of it. Such gray gays are the ior- tunes of war. They serve merely to exaspcrate the national will. mak- ing ultimate victory so mucu the more certain. . .Wait until your hear tlie Duce sing:

“Gray skies,

All of them gone:

Nothing but blue skies

l-‘rctn now tn."

Just you wait. It's only the bc- ginning ladies and gentlemen: only the beginning. - Kansas City Star.

THE CI-IARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

Q n‘, Oit.1\v.'t (‘Xplllllilllg wlisd, had ltap-

Geriiiauys nccd for oil becomes stiii more pressing in view of the failure of efforts to bring Yugoslavia tinder Axis domination. Even be- fore the change of government in Belgrade, the situation was serious from the standpoint of

of Salisbury, Viscount Cecil of (Iliclwood, Lord Cecil (Viscount Cranborne), Lord Sclborne (Vis- count Wolmcr), Lord Rockley, Lord Hugh Cecil, who has not yet chosen his title, There are allied to the family by marriage Duke of Dcvonshirc,

A ship ha: crossed the Irish Sea wiiuzut a. crew and with her

PUBLIC FORUM

he the mitt-if“... fiaitfiiui- -1 onutlone o! I Th" Charlottetown Guardian dliflzl". noeeeeneliy undone the 0D“ l of oorrellwndontl.

RAILWAY WHARF

Slrz- Mr. R. E. Mutch is a man of strong convictions and a worthy opponent in an argument. On the other timid, he would be the last intentionally to do another an in- justice. Had Mr. Mulch read the correspondence itself’, instead of the summary outlined in your recent editorial, he would mt have infer- red that I had failed m play crick- et with the Charlottetown Board 0f ‘Trade. Mayor Holman. prior to leaving for St. Louis. asked me to send to him at Ottawa all possible data. re- garding the proposed Charlottetown Harbour Improvements, as he in- tended to stop over at the Capital on his way back to urge upon the Dominion Government the insistent need for an immediate renewal of the Porter 8a Sons’ contract. To this I readily assented and further- more suggested that the local Board of Trade be asked to strengthen his hand by passing a strong res- olution. The Mayor heartily ap- proved of same.

Col. Keith S. Rogers, President oi’ the Board, called a. special meet- ing and I prepared a carefully- wotided resolution which I submit- ted to some of the leading members of the Hoard of Trade. Subject w suggested alterations. which I made. all those consulted approved of the wording. Hon. T. W. L. Prowse sign- ed the resolution and agreed to sec- ond . At: the meeting of the Board, Mr. Prowse being absent, due to a car accident. the Chairman called for a

willingness to lake Mr. Proivses plaice. providing certain clauses iu the preamble were deleted. to which latter I made no objection. In the ‘Guardian’ on the following morn- ing both the full and the abridged resolutions were published.

I, at once wrote to Mayor Holman

ueiicd. I send iou the duplicate of my letter which you may publish. I also wrote to Premier Campbell, sending him a coQv oi my letter to the Mayor, and to Dr. Cyrus MacMillan. In the letter to Mayor Holman, it will be noted that I ex- plained that certain of the preamble clausrs had been omitted when rin- aliy passed by the Board of Trade. I naturally. however. sent the Mayor all the deleted clauses, as I had promised to vive him every possible argument that could be used when stating his case to the Govern- nienit.

Mr. Mutch contends that some of the clauses in the pireeirnble were irrelevant. Relevancy is a. matter of opinion and I am quite willing to leave this point for the public to decide. Each and every clause gave a cogent reason why the pro- posed repoirs should be mode, and without delay. That point alone should be the test of relevancy. Regarding the accuracy of the statements contained in the pream- ble clauses. all I have to suy is t-hwt, in every case. the assent of the interested parties was obtain- ed before the resolution was pre- sented to the Board of ‘Iriide. May I in all earnestness suggest that this matter of vnter transpor- tation is of such pffllnflllflt impor- tance to every man, woman and child on the Island that, inst/earl of dividing our efforts over minor matters, we should all join together to overcome the apparent lack of understanding by Ottawa of econ- omic conditions in this Province, with resulting indifference when important petitions are presented at the seat of Government;

I am Sir, etc,

II.K.S. HEMMING

(EIICIOIIITc)

Feb. 22, 1941. B. H/oy Holman, Esq,