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Morning Dally Wounded in I881) Author‘ -‘ an Second Class Mall. Post Office Department, Ottawa President: Lleut. Col. W. Chester S. McLiu-e Vice-President: J. R. BurnBlL F-J-I- Secretary: Lleut. Col. D. A. Maclilnnun. 0-5-0- Idltor and Managing Director: .l. ll Burnett, l"..l.l.

Associate Editors: Frank Walker and [an A. Burnett.

“The Strongest [Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink."

MONDAY, JANUARY Z8, I910

Those Bridge Projects

l. TllQfC r1._1\\ seems to be a very genera] Duly 1c demand 1.11‘ construction of the Norm and \_\ cs1 llircr bi 1111c proicczs T111, 1,- a Wdcome 507'" 111 1111' illllcs, 111111 it 10 l; 11011211 that this time 1111- Ctllllpillfiil \\'l1i 11c 1iiislie<l (lxmit.

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tlic ztiitzigoriasiii 11f 111C hluCliflllic K1111; 110v. criiiiiuiit. 11111; is 1111 11s 111-0110119115 have to worry 21110111. lllt‘ (‘tiii-crvilircs are 100 her "111 111'l1111Cl 1111' >1'livi111-. 111111 1111111 llU coiivtrl-

l1 1111s 1011111011111‘ laecu s1111l that both par- li“ i111‘ @<|l..1ll\ 11111111211111; but such unfortun-

ately is not the 111w. 'l‘111-.c has b61311 no offi- Cllll 1.1110131 1‘<11111r-_111111-111‘ 1-111]\1 a lot of in‘? fponsililc statements 11111111113 1111- pnrty 1O 110111. 5111-" -'\_fl"’~'11l 1110 .\'1‘111's o! campaigning. there 15 110111111! 1111 11-01111 1o show that either Prime Munster KPlQ or any of his Cabinet cO1__ lwcues have 111111 "sol-rt" 1111 the idea that we should have 11 .~ bridges. 'l‘l1;1t is where our Liberal _rt‘1i'_c-"c111:i11ves, Federal and Provincial, along with t"ci1-_1>:1r1y press and supporters, fell clown on their 10b.

Conservative ind-orsation. on the other handf 11118 been gweri 011 several occasions. It was given by the Provincial leader, Hon. Dr. Mac. Millan, at a muss meeting in Charlottetown in March, i931), when he pledged his party's full supporoto thee-e projects.

It is worth rioting that this meeting c0111. cided with a statement made in the Legislature by the Liberal Premier of the Province. An adverse report on the bridge projects had been received from Ottawa and the Premier ari- nouiicedthat h s Government was not prepared. to give its endorsement. I-tis words are worth

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“Ptlng. I am not prepared, as Dr, Mac- _ 111311 5¢¢m§_ 1? he." he said, "to give a defin- ite undertaking that this amount of money, either provincial or Federal, or combined, should b! 5119111 on 1 single project. in ‘one locality."

Since then there has been a change in the personnel of the Liberal Provincial Govern- ment, but no official announcement to indicate my change of Liberal policy in this connection.

Dr. Maclvlillarfls was the only pledge given by_ any leader until the Federal election cam- paign of last _y=ear, ivlicii the brirlgc proieéts were formally incorporated in the National Con- servative Party platform by the Hon. lohn Bracken. This was done because the Conggr. vative candidates and ivorlccrs had fully con- vlnced Mr. Bracken of the iustice of our trans- portation claims at Ottawa, and of the urgent need to have them implemented. Accordingly

was announced that the Northumberlancl

ait arid the route from Borden to Charlotte- hwn would be treated as a national highway, and that as an extension t1» that highway, and an essential post-war undertaking, the bridges at North and West rivers would be construct- tnalong with a new Borden highway at Domin-

expense.

This clear-cut statement should have in- spired Liberal champions of the bridge projects to obtain a sifnilar commitment from their own leader. Instead they sought to mislead the people into believing that the work was already under way, and even berated Mr. Bracken for stealing their leader's non-existent policy!

Such is the political history of the bridge projects, which it is necessary to recall to the public mind in view of so many misleading statements 011 the subicct. We need not, how- ever, liiigcr ovt-r the past. Let us rather learn hy past iiiistakcs ziiitl work together for the future. It is self-evident that the bridges will not be built by ballylioo. Tlicy must have the support of the heavyweights in the Liberal party, at least 1111111 tlic-rc is 11 rnnuge of government at (lltziivzi. .'ui1l 111'. llrackeii gets a chance 111 implement his platform.

N. B.'s Fiscal Need

Prciiiici" 1. Walter 101105 has gone to Ot-

. tawa for today‘: all-important conference with-

out taking the electorate into his confidence with regard 111 the hricf he is to submit. How different, and how less democratic, is this "don‘t-carc-a-lioot-for-tlic-clectors attitude" com- pared with ilk Premiers of other provinces, especially llldSl‘ of Ontario‘ and New Bnins- wick. livervlit-dy now l(l1_UWS Oi1tario's stand, and here is New Bruiisivicks as given by Pre- micr McNair am‘ sumiiiariztd by the Telegraph-

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"New tiruusivicks submission expresses agreement, in principle, with the Dominionk program. 13in it maintains that the proposed ‘scale of per capitzi grants is tlcfiiiitcly too low {Qjlflflllli rxnairsitiii of pr-sciit iiriblic services i118 .111: establishment of ‘desirable new serv- lifgs many of which have been sugasted bv the

_inlon. . .' No alternative scale of grants 1bpecifled and the door is left wide open for ‘ ' fling.-

“Another point-to which N. B. govern- taltesexireption is lbw-that the per cap- "t its-proposed by Ottawa. were to wipe pcclal grants and subsidies paid the the Federal treasury New Bruns- 411:7 was given an "interim subsidy" . _, recommendation of “the. amount was win 193$ 9111114 111 60111101111011

such an extent that we, were unable to main- tain a standaid of government services in keeping with that of wealthier provinces. “The N. l1. provincial brief holds that tlic basic economic factors which iustified the White subsidy will not be changzd by what, is now contemplated at Ottawa, and that for this rea- son the subsidy should be continued. “Also N. B. government is asking that the Federal government give assurance that there will be no further invasion of sources of provincial revenue, and that the Dominion re- tire from the following tax fields: gasoline, amusement, electric power. long distance tele- phone calls. telegrams. Then, too it wants Dominion controls relaxed to permit provinces to finance in the United Mates money mrkct. “The requests are out in a moderate tone, and, in themselves, are moderate. Nothing is asked that could be labelled unreasonable."

-EDITORIAL NOTES-

While Churchill has gone to Miami as the guest of a Quebec citizen. it is reported dc Lraulle 1S coming to Quebec as the guest of a Montrcaler.

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marred by great cruelty, as exemplified by the execution of his son, Alexis; yet owing to his genius, Russia made enormous strides during his reign.

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Evidently the recent visit 1o Canada of Rt. Hon. Herbert Stanley Morrison was not uii- corinected with British publicity policy, as no sooner has he returned that. it 1s announced Rt. Hon. Malcolm Macdonald has been withdrawn as High Commissioner, and the Ministry of Information, which supervises British official publicity, has been abolished. Now newspapers may once more be dependent, as heretofore, 011 their own resources and departmental “hand- outs."

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Canadian Legion Ladies’ Auxiliary have every reason to oongratulatc themselves on the report of work accomplished last year. No fewer than 475,522 meals were sewed by 62 voluntary workers per week, working three t0 four hours each, ‘with only one paid worker, and producing a profit of $502.84. It is a re- markable showing of practical christianity, which consists of doing ‘not saying.

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Saint lohn naval veterans are preparing a campaign to raise $3,000 for club rooms and furnishings f0! recreation purposes. The drive is being launched by the Main Brace Naval Veterans’ Association, a recently organized group of discharged men who will operate thc new club in addition to the Canadian Legion, in which all members of the Mam Brace Club must be enrolled.

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TB was the cause of the reiection of ap- proximately 15,000 men and women for mili- tary service in World War II. The discovery of the disease in almost every case was due to the X-ray examination which all applicants for military service underwent. Early in February the Mobile X-ray unit comes to Charlottetown, and will operate at 6i Grafton Street, between the Prince Edward Theatre and the Legion Hall.

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Mr. Bracken is now in the west 1m his “fact finding” campaign. He told an inter- viewer he was confident of the outcome of the Dominion-Provincial Conference and said his party stood behind supplementing the farmer to whatever extent it was necessary to assure him a fair share of national income. On farm subsidies lie said party policy was to let farm commodities be sold at ordinary prices. But to the extent that those prices failed to bring farm- ers a. fair share of the national income, the farmers income should be supplemented by the government.

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At Tottenlism Register Office, Iiondon. recently, 45 couples were married in 3 1-2 hours. The Superintendent Registrar, Mr. Walter Griinaldi. opened four rooms to accom- modate his "customers" and dashed from one room to another perfomiing the ceremonies. At 12:34, when he had married the last couple, he was still in good condition. "It was noth- ing to peacetime," he said, “although it was one of our biggest wedding rushes since I939. Every- thing went without a hitch." Known as “Cupid's Manager," Mr. Grimaldi claims to have married more people than anyone else in the world—30,000‘ couples 1:1 32 vears.

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A United Kingdom Aeroplane Company has produced the first gas turbine‘ unit in the world to "drive a propeller. The company claims that the new engine will give a cruising speed of three hundred miles per hour at twenty thousand feet. The fuel consumption is com- pafable withthat of a piston engine.‘ About four-fifths of its two thousand horsepower is used in driving the airscrew and the reminder for jet propulsion. The prediction that a E89 turbine jet engine will be liklilllfid in every air- craft within the next ten years has been made by Air Commodore Whittle, designer _of the first jet propulsion unit fr-i aircraft lfl thfi United Kingdom. .

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Automatic buffet cars, believed to be ths first of their kind in the world, are to be instal- led on trains operated by the Great Western Railway of the United Kingdom. The clra W111 enable passengers to purchase suaclis, ttnoloea

ting sixpence labout ten cents) or one shilling into the slot of one of the many hundred: of snack compartments. Stand up counters will be‘ fitted in front of the big observation win- dows on each aide of the cars for the con- venience of 1iaraerigers who 011111‘ Milk! W11!‘ refreshment there. The new can wl1l 11101111111 111110 service. ass-noon an food conditions in the. United- Kingdom-r penrilt, The autumn buffet 11mm ‘will muteblv be uscd on lhort distance

a journeys, 1on1 distance ' full ‘

trains being provided

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NoteaBy The Way The out mechanical cotton

picker eliminates every w ‘

of earliér typta. except that it still

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The loaa in London o! a mum- script, which tool: flve doctors two yearn to produce, The London Daily Mull reports, has held up a new edition of a famous standard work on children’! dlaeaaea

America's railroads run on eon]. oll, water~and sand. At. least, ln slippery weather they run on sand, says This Week Magazine. You may have noticed the Little Ripe: set ln front of the driving w eels of locomotlvea-tho e pl s pour sand on the rails en t e going 1s lcy. Last year one Eastern rall- road used 88,000 tons of the stuff to keep lta trains on schedule.

We do not hellave any town ln Canada can give a better account of its war years than Paris. Con- sld r that out of e population of 4, there were 710 enllstmei-us and you wlll see what we mean. Approximately one out of six every man, woman and child en-

Illsted for active service. Of those

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fourteen were women. During the course of the war thlrty-foilr Par-

Peter ihe Gfcat of 111155131 CllBCl 11115 (i316 lsians were decorated and thirty- 1725: was the first .1iretlcccssor of Stalin. rul- @1811,‘ m?“ the supreme sacrifice- ing Russia 11-1111 a rod of 1101i, his reign being‘ a" Br’

William B. Stout ls a well-known aviation engineer and automobile designer. He has some pertinent Ideas as to trends in automobile design and manufacture, The But- falo Courier-Express re orts. Mr. Stout predicts that wthln two years all major manufacturers wlll be producing cars with plastic bod- ies much stronger than steel. These cars will have half the weight and twice the economy of present day vehicles. Cars such as Mr. Stout describes will glve motorists a lot of things they've been wanting for years. Probably the most im- portant of all is the gift. of greatly increased vlslon to the driver. Op- erators of present-day cars have to guess st clearances to their right- In rear-engined cars they won't have to guess, they can see. Many an accident thus will be pre- vented.

‘I110 news from Hamburg, circus capital of Europe, that Hagenbecks world-famous circus ls being reor- ganized and plans to be back on the road in Aprll 1s a rembiiicr that it is a number of years since the "big top" has made its appear- ance in Canadian cltles due to war conditions, says The Kitchener Record. No doubt the circus parade with its funny clowns, lumbering elephants, dancing horses anti ex- citing culllope will be back this

sub-human Ind wonder why you ' wsl in front: of instead of around that. truck that was hurtling its way down the street when you were on tho homeward trail the night before, you aren't necessarily juat lufferlng the effects of a normal morning after, or what, II some- times Vlilldfly described no a hangover Reece H2 Ha ue writer in The Vancouver Prov ca. The probability 1a that you are mere preaching or have actual a - rved at the rlodlc low o your emotional cyc can least that is what a couple cndocrlnolo lat. have discovered. It a pears ha the out iit of our var our interns product on plant! lilch as thyroid‘ and pituitary glands, liver and so on, varlu from week to week. A round trip from high to low occupier ram thing over I) d”. When the out iit l1 at tha*ak t e world‘ oak: aroay . en the producizlon chart hfta bottom more outlook. ell that la ve Our endoerfnolo" llradviae u: to glen our work 1W 11h or low emo a! nave the tqulh 00_ requiring ener tor high. and, re ow I a for an a ibi these anion a

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INFORMATION WANTED

Sic-Would any of your readers care 1° jet ine know of any very large squads, dread or alive. entire or pieces, at see or oust up on the coast, which have been seen or taken of recent years, mention- ing time and place and whether the dimensions they give wereea- tlinuted or actually measured? -

1f anyone would be good enough to send me a spare print of a ho- to taken at the 1111111. I ahoiil be

most grateful. uoh data would be very help- " I animating (highbrow

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for oct-opi, euttles and sqiifda). Too, has an ne come across

Y0 very large curtleffishes (Sepiaa) or

cctopl with best New Year's wishes to all of you, including the squfds.

I ani. B111. etc. SHAY MaoKIE. Roscgntes, Brundull Halt. Near Norwich. Norfolk, lkigland.

BRIGHTON BRIDGE

Sin-The iocatlon of the Bright- on Bridge is a miaitter of very great concern to the- bulk of our people. The general impression has been that the Bridge should be built at the natural location, namely; from the end of BriShWH R1030 directly across the river and con-

necting the Dockenclorff road on the opposite shore. thus making a straight connection

through to Cornwall and shorten- ing the round trip to and from the City by about 8 miles. Report has it that eertiin surveys have been made arigllriz across valuable D110- pertles back of the Sanntiorlum and of building the bridge further up river and connecting the oppo- ste shore at or near Mcllwenb landing.

This, it la contended would cheap- eii the Bridge costs, but 1t must be considered that valuable rights of way and the cost of n. new 111811- way to the snore on the Charlotte- town side will have to be taken iri- to consideration as well as further right-S of way and a new highway on the North River side in order to connect with the Cornwall Road. These extra coat-s would DOS- ibly increase the total over the

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the supposed fumes-tied eXPenditure. let us" not forget that hundreds of vehicles will use this bridge daily. involving thousands of daily saved to the traveller. The value to the farmer particularly wlll be tremendous. The stfmated costs as already anounced 111s be- tween the new Bridge at Brighton and a reconstructed Bridge on the old site. do not take into acooun

apparently costly approaches at the latter location or extra. road/way. rieft-lier does it state what type 0t bridge is involved in the Brighton project. If an all steel structure

then the estlma‘ is perhaps not too high. From o. layimans vlew- point a structure on the flats of a 1w pretentious nature would un- doubtedly lower the estimate by a very considerable amount.

In any event, it would be far bet.- tei- b0 have Hie Bridge constructed at. the most suitable point for the majority of our people evetn thoueh the cost may be in keeping vrlth the present estimate. Subeequen. saving and service over many years would soon cancel out such 11411511011111 expenditures ,

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The Racialimblem 1 In Malaya

(U.K. Information Bureau‘ 1 The problem which the United‘ Kingdom Government are now tackling in their White Paper- and it. is a formidable one-is tol forge political entity from three, very different racial and‘ cultural groups, Malays, Chinese and In- dians. The racial composition of Malaya ls quite unusiiallycompiex. The total population ls over five and a quarter million. The _Chl- nese slightly outnumber the Mal-

latlon of the lye states waa 1,8731- of whom very few are urban. Ma were sxty-slx percent, Chinese twenty-dye, T " rev- en. O O O Malays are given mostly to rur- al puraulta. working fn the rice fields, fishing, and some in rub- ber. w are tn business or the Government. The hlnese who mostly immigrated in the last six- ty yeors or IO from Southern China form the main ‘ _ ‘ n the towns, some gaining outstand- ing poaltlonii In commerce. ‘The rural Chinese are mostly workers in the tin mines and rubber es- tates. About one third of the 1n- dlans are urban but the majorlw are workers in rubber and tin factories and Government depart- ments. Europeans, of whom the great majority are British, occupy key sltloiis in the Government as a vlsers to rulers, officials of the Civil rvlce and important traders, estate and mine owners and business men. They number- ed 31,000 in 1M1. There were also 10,000 Eurasian, about 30,000 Abor- lglnes and many thousands of Siamese ln the North. In Singa- pore wealthy Araba and Jews were the largest owners of roperty. It was not until t e, British established law and order and be- gan to exploit the natural resour- ces that the great influx of immi- grants began from Chine, Iiigl: and elsewhere. They found t t the wealth of Malaya and the sec- urlty of British rule offered un- usual advantages: The ay was higher and living condl ons het- ter. Nevertlieleis, there was el- ways plenty of room and Malaya continued to attract all its neigh- bours until the Japanese came.

IIANDICAPPED VETQAN AWARDED IMP!!! IIONOIS

.t1wo Bridges, therefore. groom be considered tout-he and 11 this is done, there can be only one suitable site considered namely at nr-igiiwri. It may be new! 11M a saving of 4 miles will not iuetify

the direction of Mr. John Betje- msn. What amplitude, what gran- deur, what space or. rather, what waste of space; for that s: Mr.

Betjemm pointed out was the na-

ect of Blenheim that most struck ¥he mind of the twentieth century ll exemplified by the men and women who drove their lorrlea to lta doors. What, they wanted to did a man want with all about clean- No difficulty dreadful