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nir BHARLDTTETUWN GUARDIAN

blunting Daily (Founded In I887)

President: Lleut. Col. W. Chester S. McLure Vice-President: J. R. Burnett, F..I.l. Secretary: Llellt. cu. u. A. Maclttnnon. 0-8-9 Editor unu Mflllllging Director: J. R. Burnett, l-..l.l. Associate Editors; l-ranli Walker and [an A. Burnett

SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Mail in P.E.l., $4.00 per your; $2.50 for 6 month; $1.25 for ' nonths: 50c for one Inimtll City Delivery: . er year; 53.00 f!!!’ 6 Illlilltlll $1.75 or 3 months. By Mall in Cairuila and U. S. A.: 55-90 P" Y?" Glturday Weekly: sziio p" year; $1.00 for 8 month" 50c for 3 mOIIthS.

‘The Strongest lllemory is Wfllkfl‘ "W" the Weakest Ink."

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER ti. 1940.

Nova Scutids Example

The .\'<iv;i Scutizi lioveriiiiient has adolmll a tour» with rcgairtl tn thc Sirois licllorl “hlfh m,“ “pup. l“; cqnullgllllCtl n» an cxauiiplc to other provincial .itliiiiiii_stratioiis, our own included. ln a statement issued to the W655. PYmllle-r .\lac.\lillan eiuphztsizes that his goYeflllllcllf has no llllCllllttll of rushing tlieprovince into ac- cepting the report without giving the lullcst con; ipjcraiion p; it; proposals. "Livery nicnibci'_oi the Government," he says, "has been ‘studying this llcport for months. The Economic Couli- cil hits also incide a >l\l(l_\' of the Report, 8S Well a.- atht-r tiiiistiiiitliiig incii, some of whom have stibniittcil ltritsfs. The liczltls of the various dc- partiiieuts have for tnonthspast been studying the Report as it affects their particular depart- ments, and a committee consisting of the heads of all departments of (iovcrntnent are iiicctlflll together, studying zind investigating yHrIOHS lCCOlllllltflltlltlloll5, \\'lieii their work is lttiisltcd they will place their report befoietlie Govern- ment, and their report with the briefs prepared by the licononiit: Council and many others Will be rc ' ved by thc (iovt-riiniciit and economic cxpl-HS)’ 1t n45 l-xpcctetl that the Union of Municipalities would also present a report, to which the Government would give due Con- sideration. Some phases of the report have been discussed by the Premier with members of the lllll\'(‘l'$li_\’ facultics_

“After llll ilicse findings are received," says Premier MacMillaii, “a brief will then be pre- pared for submission to the Conference.” He added: “Fhcro are still six or seven weeks be- fore the. Conference at Ottawa and the Gov- ernment of this province will be pleased indeed to receive recommendations and suggestions from any public body or private citizen of this province. They should be in our hands before the end of the calendar year, in order that xvhen the first brief is being jirctiared they can be taken into consideration."

This procedure indicates the importance which the Nova Scotia Government attaches to the forthcoming trinfcrence, and shows a latidable sense of responsibility on thc part of thc Gov- ernment towards the PCUplP of Xova Scotia. There is no duolit that the representation of our sister province at the Conference will be mater- ially strengthened bv the course which thc Gov- ernment is ftillrnviiig.

The Late Mr. Paoli

fhe laitc .\lr. Simon P. Paoli was known and esteemed throughout the Province. llis sticccss in business was achieved by conscientious at- tention to detail. From the outset he realized the necessity and advantage of being thorough in everything he uiiilertook. llis interest in public affairs was ctinfint-tl chiefly to education and public health, which he rightly regarded as of prime importance and to which he devoted the same attention and ability as was evidenced in the management of his own extensive btisi- ncss affairs. .\= cbairinait of the Provincial Sanatoritini Ciuiiiiiission since its inception he performed a ninst valuable public service, and may be said to have becti the niainspring of the institution from the bttsincss standpoint. He was also a tncnibcr of thc City $chool Board, where hi; [irflflllfill l\'lltt\\'lt‘tlQ"(‘ and experience were also highly vitliictl. llis public spirit was an ex- ample to the whnlr cniiiiiiiinity, in which The Guardian joins in extcnrlitig sympathy to the bcrtaavrrl f;iiiiil_\'.

When Victory Comes

Canada's ivar and post-ivar problems were (ljgcuggpd in an itifnrntative manner by Mr. lltlntlv l\‘. llfllllllllfrllfl. prcsidctit of thc llank of Montreal, at thc ‘llaiiltbs ziniitiiil Hlvfillllll lasi .\ltllllli'l_\'. ln summing up .\li'. Urnitiiiioiitl said:

"Wliilg m the yin-sent timc from the business standpoint Canada is on the crcst of a wave. with pn-lplnyment higher than in anwprcviotis period and industrial output on a risirig cros- cendo, we niust not forget that thcrc will he an aftermath. and it behooves us all, ivhilc contri- hitting tn thc utmost iii ll1<‘_ ll""5<‘"\l"°"_°f llff» ivnr, tn lcccp in mind thc atllwilitlclllfi _\\'l11\‘ll_“"ll later bcciiitic nt-ccssrti-v l-‘_¢,,,,r,niv' in Prlvill“

be imposed upon us before the curse of Hitler- ism is removed from the world. Removed it will be. Life has no meaning for any free peoples unless it be removed, and not all the powers of darkness can prevail against the con- science of mankind. now thoroughly aroused. Already because of the war, Canada has attain- ed an importance among thc nations of thc world such as it could not otherwise have attained in generations. \\'hcn victory comes-tutti it may be sooner than we cxpect—cnormous newtasks, new problems atid, greatest of all, new oppor- tunities will confront us. Let iis, therefore, do everything in our power to be worthy of the position which we shall be callctl upon to as- sume in the reconstruction of the world on a new and a finer basis."

- EDITORIAL NOTES‘-

A rebellion in Lower Canada broke out this date, i837, and was speedily repressed, resulting four years later iii Upper and Lower Czitizida becoming re-tinitcd under one government.

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When the King Government appeals to resi- dents to open their homes for the reception of soldiers unable for the lack of time or other- wise to visit their own friends. it practically admits that there is a real need for paymt-tit of return fares. i Q i I

The number of marriages registered in 67 towns and cities having a population of 10,000 or over, decreased in October by 26 1-2 pcr cent. However, births and deaths showed an increase over October last year. Totals fol- low with 1939 figures in brackets: births 8,347 (7.300); deaths 4,721 (4,228); marriages 5.- 412 (7,355). For the ten month period ended October, totals are as follows. i939 figures in brackets: birth 80,884 (72,913); deaths 44,683 (43866); marriages 54.656 (41442). Marri- ages increased 32 per cent over the same period last year.

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Premier Bracken is not an optimist for

Western prospects iv h ct h e r or not the War lasts for years. He told the Un- ion of Manitoba Municipalities that with

war in Continental Europe Canadzfsmarkct ivas jeopardized, and the prospects were, if thc war were long continued, that the Western farmers would be reduced to a peasant standard of liv- ing. Mr. Bracken said there must be intelli- gent planning for the future, and atldcd: “We'll all be here, otir land will be ll(’l'(’. and we'll gct by. The question is just how intelligently we'll get by." He said the present problems of wheat storage, financing and prices would have to be solved at the latest by next summer. Fiscal problems of the “lest would be allcviiatcd if the Rowell-Sirois report on Dominion-T’rovinciril relations were implemented, he said.

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Those halcyon dziys when youth was passing rich on $60 per year are recalled by the retire- ment 0f Bliss Bridget McCarthy of Boiiaveiittire freight office of thc C.N.lt. Starting as an “apprentice on trial" before the days of stream- lined power, typewriters or accounting ina- chinery, Miss McCarthy has retired on pension. on completing 5o years of continuous SCFVlCC. She is the third member of the .\IcCartliy fam- ily now enjoying pension privilcges, two broth- ers, James and P. McCarthy, having previous- ly-retircd on reaching thc agc limit. A third brother in the service of the l‘illl\\'£l_V met llla death while on duty. As a girl of fifteen Miss McCarthy made application to W. \Vainwriglit, assistant manager of the Grand Trunk Rail- way, aiid was accepted as an “apprentice on trial,” receiving $5 per month. A tcst at thc cud of six months having brcn passed, Miss Mc- Carthy was appointed mail clerk at $100 per an- num and be an a study of freight station ac- counting which eventually led to her appoint- mcnt as interchange clcrlt, an exacting and rc- spoiisible position. w it v n-

When the Canadian Government enters into partnership with the British Government in any deal. the latter holds out for economy. Con- solidation of inspection of tvitr tnaterials on tlic North American continent for thc British and Canadian Governments will go into cffcct with the establishinctit of a new body undct‘ the name of Inspection Board of the lltiitctl Kingdom and Canada. _Canada previously had four inspec- tioii services. two for the army. one for the iiavy and one for the air force. and thc Llnitcrl Kingdom had its own inspection service. Pcr- sonncl of the new board: Col. G. ll. llowartl. Chief Tnspcctor-Cicncral of .‘\l'lll.'llll(‘lll5 for Can- ada; Col. Victor $ifton. Acting Blnstcr-(iciicral of Offltiillicet hl-‘llb-(Vifll. R. l7. Lock who llllF represented the British Govcriiiiit-iit in Canada since the war started as liisncctnr-(jcncriil of Production: and Col. K. S. Klaclicnzic, British DCpllly IYlSDOCIOT-GCIlCFFIl. Th0 new litizlrrl will report to Defence Minister Ralston. Sir Gerald Campbell. British lligh COHIITIlSFlOIICI‘ in Can- ada. and various directors-general of production

of the British ("iovcrninent in London, 1 i i i

and public oxiwntlitiiri- should be pnictist-tl to the titinnst and hrolcfl-‘l "ill Yfl-“llllt! l" ll‘? “WV effort should ht- po-titonvtl ti» a 1111"‘- Wllf" lllTl’

will not interfere with that effort and when thc cnijilrrvnicnt llir~v zifftn-il will bt-‘ucctlctl. \Vi- must nut throw [>l'lltll'llt‘t‘ lit the win<l-. liitl HHNl fir, (\\‘(\|‘\'(l1lll" that in n. lit-s to l((‘(‘|) inir housi- in nrrl"r. \\.'.~ llt‘L'tl |>l'tltll‘llCt' in govcriitiiciifal expi-iitlilnrv, priiik-iict‘ in liiisini-ss .'iili1iit1i<ll'fl~ tirui zinil lll'llll.t'llt‘i' in our Iittlivltlllill fllllllllll‘ 1\1('1l{< \\'<~ nc-rwl :- tlt‘l"l'llllllt‘tl and ntiitcil frontl

ti. limit the illfl"lll'll of twists of nirttcrizil. wages

ftlll [lip ,1... i-f lit in; lll" “vicious syiirril" which l

“rflfilfiil .--(~1, hat-n» titer the (ii-vat \\'.'tr. whcnl ,- <','lH"I"‘l“L' l"1‘lll‘~ll1ll‘ltl itf priccs Ill'll'l\'(‘fl tlir| ,,~~,.,-,. 3.. ;, iip-qmflilll" t"'lllllllll_\‘ and ‘rft wido- ..,.....,| ,,,'..,-.- jtflql Ytllll in its trz-in. \\'t= nnisl

lt- it , i lllllfj tltril t‘llllllllilvll\' such H? ,. .,.- . ~ .~ ,,-...--'lilv lust, and that nhr"! n," :,....-¢~-.],]., ind l‘t lhr-in crimes. .'itirl we enter ,,.,,,-, ih- ll"\\' ‘l"'l\'1‘l' in our hi-tnrv and the- ltfqnn- H; ti". t- .--l,l_ llw- l'l'jttll|l\'llll("ll will lay N,“ ,.,,_., -i,.., “a. ')4\§:(‘\_: lllllfttVllli’ and

l. i; W,‘ 1,, (fliéV lifr- in which \\‘." are bcin." swcit‘. ltlll n ‘vml lift‘. llcavior trials gm; ggrifiggg than we have known are likely to

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“lith reference to thc rcccnt report that a large volume of tiiail ivas on board the C.P.R. Frciglitci" "Beavcrford”, recently stink in the Atlantic, ii may be interesting to know that llicrc were 11,000 parcels of tobacco, intcnrlctl for soldiers, nn board that strainer. A further iiist.'uicc of “tinavoirlziblc" ilclay iii thc (lclivcry of overseas mail has just been announced. The cover of an item of mail matter received on No- vember 20th by an officer of thc Post Office Department shows that it was mailed at a Field Post Office in England on October ryth. The lcttvr was iiicltitlcil in the mail jilaccrl on board SS. "lloavr-rliill" ivhich lcft linglaiiil 18th Octo~ bcr. This steamer ivas stibsctlucntly attacked by tlii- cncinv and was forced to return tn Eng- land for repairs, upon complctioii of repairs the steamer sailed again and arrived in Saint John‘ at 5.00 a.m. nil November 28th. Delivery of“ tlic inail on board. as shnwn by the item in ques- tion, was effected on November 2r)th—43 (lays after date of mailing. During tlie week ending November 23rd. snm.» ifiznzo letters, (0,640 parcels and 324 bags of news were handled in

"rm; CHARLOTTETQWN GUARDIAN ___

NOTES BY TllE YMY

British prisoners of war In Ger- many are in dire need. ill-ted and lack of worm clothing. But. to ex- pect Hitler to live up to the Genet/l convention is to look far mercy from one who is superliumanly evil. - Hamilton Spectator.

We are told thiit the 8-19 army bomber now nearing com- pletion 1n Santa. Monica L; long ¢11°118h to contain three railway b0!‘ 081$. as h.gh as a. three-stcrey building. and could ores the At- lantic, crop 28 tons of bombs, and return wliliout landing or refuel- lrigl The very thought is indigest- tbie. - San Francisco Argonaut.

Among the 500 or so old sol- diers at Cheslsea Hospital are veterans of the Zululand and Matabele campaigns and of the Egyptian wars of the eghtles. Many who are there new were too old, 25 years tgo. for the first German war, but they have been tasting the second. Three times during the past. few weeks bombs have fallen on the Wren buildings of the hospital. One smashed 1L5 way into a dormitory, another struck the inflrmary a. glancing blow, a third missed the guani- room, but was near enough for the blast forcibly to turn out the guard. There were no casualties. The ex- Htissai‘ who showed me round had ridden with the first, relief column to Khartuin, Now, because he ls only 75, he looks after his seniors. He had slicpherded the really old men out of the dcrmltory that. was ruined a few minutes latter. They were too old to climb down into the excellent underground shelters. so he stood with them under a sandbagged staircase. “That. wasn't. ve pleasant for the old tellers," be said, was 1t?" But none 0f them has since gone sick with shook. Nor has any one of thcse who were carried out of the infirmary — not. even Private Rattiey. of the 24th Foot. He ls a hundred years old, and very properly, too old to bothered by Journalists. Bombs do not. bother him to the salve eXtent. -~From the Manchester Guardian.

Napoleon had not been able to lil- vade England and, although his armies seemed invincible and ins genius unfailing, his structure be- gan to disintegrate. The Spaniards arose and. their spirit spread over Europe. A holy war for national independence was incited. Alexand- er of Russia. in fear that the re- constitutmi of Poland was planncd. abandoned his ally and denounced the blockade. Napoleon was led into the Moscow campaign and lost. his grand army. The Prusdan Government, which had prcfessed fidelity. proclaimed a war of libera- tion and unmasked its tiiddcn army against liim, Holland was in revolt. ‘Prcops of the German confedera- tion betrayed him. Bernadette of Sweden betrayed liim. The peoples lie had almost brought together tn a reconstructed Europe toredown the structure built upon thezr loss of national independence.’ On Apr.1 11, 1814, at Fontainebleau, thegiefl: idea was dead. Napolean abdicated and Waterloo dld not cinmse h‘: destiny. - Oiilcago Tribune.

Journalists annoy us when they ick up a, new wold and worry it, ivltlicut telling us what lt meimi. like “stick" - "A ‘plane of the R. A. F. dropped a stick of bombs on a power tilazit in Berlin." D0- ing n chore that. the fl(3\VS---SEJIV§C€S» should have done 1C1‘ us. we tolled down to tthrce words censored here). where a man who asked 11$, not. to use tits name uetincd ‘stick’ for us. It. is the number of bombs dropped from a ‘plane with one push on the relcaie bllttfin- A sLiCk may be anywhere from four to 20 bmclis, and these leave the ‘plane automatically one by one, in whatever ‘intervals the mechan- ism 1s set. for. It. may be every second, or it may be every tenth 0f a. second. The origin of the term didn't have anyttsang to do with pushing it stick to release the bombs Fifteen years ago, our mim Bit the (three words censored here) told us. someone ln the British military establishment. referred to a line of dropped bombs as a "stick" of bombs, and it's been "stick" ever since. Its distinctly a British wold; officially. m9 United States air force never heard of a stick of bombs. - The New Yorker.

The bur-lo! scene ln ‘Conventry when 200 victims of Nazi brutality were laid attiay tr- a common grave. bring hniiie to those remote from such teiroi" tiic grim l'~’.'lll_i~_'l of war as carried 0n by forces wthout re- gard to linntaii l.l'_-,~ tr for those cit to mourn its taking. The some brings realization o1 zvnai. a small thing ‘t is to be axed ncaviiy and called upon to answer numerous appeals for material support, of a war waged to criisn those respons- ible for wholesale killings in an English. clty, and throughout the land. Awesome as is (Hi5 occasion of gloom and sorrow. the Runs are utterly astray as to lts effect on the, people of Britain p Graoltlc pen-picture; of the burzal cere- mony (lecrihe the mourners as, tn the main. “dry-eyed but thln-lpped and grim-faced, though a. few wept. bitter teats. in which hatred mingled with sorrow.‘ Hatred ls not the word to describe the thcughts of this grief-stricken asiemblase Nor 1s revenge. Rather, say that. standing beside Le great sepulchre that, received the bodies of reliityes and friends, the people of 601/01- try resolved that, came what may ln the meantime, the murderers who wrought this human wreckage

and laid waste their ctt, shall be crushed. — Toronto G1 . - The vast plains of Australia

carry 110000.000 sheep. yeldlng annually 1,010,000,000 pounds of wnnl worth approximately $200,000,- 000. Although Australlaan flocks com-prise less than one-sixth of the world's sheep. tciey produce more than one-quarter of the w:rld‘s wool requirements. and

-malntaln an Industry with a capl- Ml

tal value of $8,000.000.000. And this remarkable development, from ii few sheep, brought out by the first colonists for meat. to an industry of world preeminence. has taken place ln less than 150 years, - Victoria Colonist.

I wrote last week o! Mr. F. G. Frlctllantter. the new Fellow of 'I‘rtnlty, who at the time of his e1e:tlon was residing in an intern- mert camp srmewhere ln Canada. having been tranf rted thither from a similar lnaltutzon ln this country, I learn that the Hcme Offlce has now decided that Hr; Friecllaneler can now safely be liberated. and will be free to re- turn to this country if he ch o es. I should be hit-crested to know at whme expense he will travel,

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“(INTER PLAY GROUNDS

Sin-We notice ln the press a lob of complaints of boys and girls coastinz on the streets and hang- mR on to cars.

We watched on a holiday last win- ter a number of boys. waiting be- hind everv car that wouid leave the ratlwav depot. hold on. and slide along at a dangerous rate. and wondered how they escaped getting hurt. or killed

Now it seems to me that 1t. would be almost impossible for the police to stop the practice. "as 1t certainly should be. and l! we wlsh the boys and girls to be out tn the fresh alr and eniov themselves, the only thinz to do is provide places where they can coast lii safety.

A few low tobogizan slides on the squares or vacant lots would not cost much. and even few of our slonlnw streets roped of for a. block or two on school holidays should not work much hardship. We feel there are nlentv of grown-ups who would willingly take charge of those _ the Bov Scouts or Girl Guides can always be depended upon. And what a relief lt would be to tired mothers to know their children were having ii good tlme 1n a safe place.

We know there are Cttv Council- lors who are well ab‘e to work out some plan whereby the practice may be stooped and children still have their play.

Yount! children do not; realize the danger. but that very element only adds rest to the more darlnz older ones.

Now. with the holldav season here. with its larze numbers of new slelizh owners. anxious to trv out their new izlfts. instead of havlnil the police chasing them to their homes. only to make plans how to evade them. zive them a. chance to cnlov our wtnteis in the izood Can- adian way.

I am. Str, etc.

on) TIMER. The Lotus Eaters

(Reprinted on Page One of the Chicago Daily News from the Louisville Courier-Journal) America has had time to recover from her descent. into the opium dens of politics. But she seen-is to have caught the drug habit; she shrinks from retumlng to the cold

ugliness of life.

It: was fun to tum our backs on the world blizzard. to behave for a. ,tlme as lf nothing mattered but the fairy-tale wickedness of Roosevelt .or of Wlllkie. But during our days of indulgence the blizzard grew more severe, and now 1t is not fun to face again into that freezln wtncl. Like the lotus-eaters of ol we weakly cry:

"Let us alone. Time drlveth on- ward fast. ‘ And 1n It; little while our llps are