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r111; CHARLOTTETOWN GQARDIAN

TNE GNABLOTTETUWN GUARDIAN

Morning Dally (Founded tn 1887)

President: Lleut. Col. W. Chester B. MeLure Vice-President: J. B. Brnett, IJJ. Secretary: Lieut. Col D. A. MacKlnnon- I).!.0. Effor and Ilamaglng Director: J. It. Burnett. FJ l. Associate Editors: Frank Walker and Ian A. Burnett

SUBSCRIPTION BATES By Mall In l’ l. |., $4.00 per yenr: $2.50 for 6 months $1.25 for 3 months; 50c for one month City Delivery: $5.00 per your; 83.00 for l months $1.75 for 2t months Ily Mall tn Canada and U.S.A. $5.00 per year Saturday Wei-lily: $2.00 per year: $1.00 for I months. 50c for 8 months.

haven't got the initiative to go after the work and to the mainland for jobs this spring and summer.

Fatal Recklessness

\Vith all the protectioti at railway crossings and with the constant warnings of the Board of Transport Commissioners, it seems incredible that so many fatalities should continue to be recorded. N‘ o less than 68 accidents occurred, and 43 people were killed, at protected crossings in i940, and 9o more people were killed at level crossings not pro- tecied.

It is hard to believe that 35 motor vehicles ran

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

FRIDAY. hIARCll 21. 1941.

The Seaivays Project

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\\'itli ~llll>iilllliltl goveritiiivtit majorities al (ltitt\\;1 ittiil \\;1sl1i1ig1t1n, it niay be taken as a tint-gone conctttsitnt that the Si. 1-ll‘.\'l'(.‘llL'C ivatcr- wars agrcciiicttt \\‘1ll 11c ratified by both the con- tracting l1;1t'llt'-, (ziiititlzt 111111 the ljtiitcd States The lJoniiniun lklrlitittictit will not be asked to d» so until i1 hits ]J;l>\k'tl the L'. S. Congress. which l'rcii1ici' .\l;l&'l\L'llAlC lung anticipates will be tluritig the term oi ottr prescnt parliamentary session. The projcct ts a stupendous one, lll\'t)l'.'- 111g :1 deep \\.ll('l‘\\<l)' from .\lo11trez1l t0 the head o1 the 1.11111 l.itl\lf.\, ntitl power tl(?\‘t‘lctl)ttl€ll[ on both stilts oi the ititcruiitiotttil boundary" line. The work will iciltitre four years to complete, at a total estiiniiteil cost of S5oo,ooo.ocx> which in- citiilcs, hu\\c\cr, expenditures already made by botli cotnttrii-s. llutiitls of the agreetneilt will be tli-cti-sci! by .\ll'. hing in the llouse of Corti- iiioiis today.

T1115 is a project irhich President Roosevelt 1111s had iii 111.1111 for a long while. lle urges if now on the _;t‘1.1tiit1l that it is essential to tlte littgc tlcictiw plans which the United States has Cllllhtflictl upitit. 111111 to effective co-opcratioit with the ljritislt Lomtttottucalth. A correspondent in the .\'ew lt-rk Titties points otit that by estab- lishing ii;1\;1l bit-cs lll Newfoundland the United States is alrently committed to defense of British Xorth .\11icric.1, and claiiiis that this "cannot be done effectively by ttiaintaiiiing a bottleneck in one of our greatest rivers, blocking the way to the greatest itilzind lake systctn in the world.”

Completion of the project ivould likely benefit Ontario ports at the expense of Montreal and Quebec. 111 witttcr, of course, when the 5t. Lawrence is frozen, traffic would continue to cotiie to Maritime ports.

The only justification for Canada's participa- tion lll the project at this time, whatever its fu- titre rcsttlts ntight be, is the bearing it has 011 our \\"11r effort and that of our American neighbors. This is the point which Mr. King 1S expected to dctil with iii his statement today.

Contribution By Dominions

In its current Bulletin of International News, the Royal institute of international Affairs, Lhatliztnt llotise, London, offers this striking CtllllllllflsOll of thc ratio of war expenditures to national income:

Ratio of \\'ar Expenditure (excluding bor- rowing from abroad) to National 1111:0111: (per cent)

1938-9 1930-40 1940-41 uahrolla — — ~ — —— 2.4 7.0 16 New‘ aland————-—

Total Dominions — — - Unltied Kingdom - — -

Tlie conclusion reached by the editors is equally striking:

"The Domirtiorts’ total war eflort is already im- pressive. In the current financial year, their total war expenditure exclusive of borrowing from Lireat Britain will amount to £410 to £420 million tsterling). which is more than the armament expenditure of the United Kingdom in 1938-39, and some t2 per cent. of current United kingdom war expenditure. In the near future it may bring the Empire's war-material production a decided superiority, which will require only the rapidly increasing flow of United States assist- ance to make overwhelming."

Initiative Needed

‘Throughout those districts of Nova scotis where a tine tradition of shipbuilding exists, says the Halifax Chronicle, there it s surging demand for more of such activity as part of the vvar ef- fort. lt calls attention to a recent news item, telling of the arrival in a llalifax freight yard- “a freight yard l"—of a hospital boat built for the Royal Catizidian Air Force. The craft arrived by rail from Trenton, Ont. It is the first of a group to be built in Otittirio for the same purpose.

“The boat," says the Chronicle, "will feel salt water under her at llalifax when she is tested for seawortltiiiess attd her engines are given a run. ,To Nova Scotiaiis there is something indescribably vexing about such news. The idea of bringing seagoiiig craft from Ontario by flat-car seems fantastic. Small wonder that there is a surging demand for more boatbuilding and shipbuilding in this Province. There may conceivably be certain types of craft which can be built more advantage- ously by specialized plants. But Nova Scotian builders know of many useful sorts of craft they could well build in our own yards. And such ves- sels slide down the ways into salt water. There is no railliaul. Capital assistance, such as other industries enjoy, would help to set in motion a great pfftgfillll of useful building . . . A sane choice of dunestic materials, too, would do much to put the task of providing ships and boats on a practical basis."

Hon. Mr. llo\1'e has since stated in the House of Cutiirnotis that the Government will “move heaven and earth" to provide all possible facilities for boatbuilding and repairing in the Atlantic Provinces this year. 'l‘hat assurance should hold out some promise of activity in Prince Edward Island as well as Nova Scotia and New Bruns-

, wick. But we shall never get anywhere by sitting batik waiting for government contracts. If we

into the sides of trains in broad daylight, 11 lives being lost. But this is in the official report. Four more accidents of this kind occurred last year than in i939, and four more people were killed. There were b0 accidents of the same kind at night in which i1 lives were lost. More motor vehicles ran into the sides of trains in Ontario than in all‘ the rest of the country.

At crossings protected by gates, I0 vehicles stitashed through, and four people were killed. At crossings protected by bell and wigwag signal, 46, accidents with 34 fatalities were recorded. The presence of ivatchmen did not prevent four cross- ing accidents and the loss of two lives.

lit addition to those who were killed at the level crossings, 485 people were injured.

HJI IURIAL NUIIZS q

llalf of Lent all but go

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Iiquinoctial gales now due.

U 1U '0‘ Ilare the City Ifathers dispensed with their monthly audit?

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u - ~1- The snow and ice above ground are about three

weeks beyond the average in disappearing. ~1- 11- m v

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An airman “guessed" yesterday it was easier to‘ fly than auto orcr this province, Watt till he SW5 our summer ltighways!

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The eighty or so trainees are welcomed to their four months residence at Beech Grove, and the citizens need not to be reminded to extend to them a share of the gctterous ltospitality for ivhich they are noted.

n- »- e is According to Senator Pepper the three great- est men iit Anglo-Saxondom at present, in order mentioned, are Winston Churchill, William Lyon .\Iackenzie'King and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He is to be complimented on his modesty and dis- crirnination. a w s a

Torn I\lann, the Etiglish Labour Leader, was in his early years a lay preacher and teetotal orator. While he continued all his life to be closely allied with Nonconformity, he abandoned teetotalism for beer, and at one time ran what he was pleased to call “a model pub” in London.

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Force at February 19, last, was 50,385, according to a return tabled in the Commons. The force is composed of 3,136 officers, 39,803 airmen and 7,446 civilians. linlistitients since October 1, i939 showed the largest number, 16,194 was from Ontario. Quebec provided 4,237 recruits; Mani- toba 4,046; Saskatchewan, 3,897; Alberta, 3,065; British Columbia, 3.136; New Brunswick, 1,543;

the money necessary to provide facilities for doing it, then we shall see more of our workmen going

NUTES BY TNE WAY

Nay York he; adopted en lastl-

niwii-riamg bus with taii tgiiufl license plates and wtndsws. flush

wltu the outside, and marker Lghts

at top corners removed. 'I'l1e object» is Io make lt imp ssible toi- child-l ten to hang on behind. there bemg no crevices 1n which u; gain we and finger holds. Evidently the Lttlc New Yorkers are like the little Montrrealers tn tuelr daring efforts !'4D have forbidden fun at risk of | limb, l! not life. — Mntreal Gazette

Hollywood laus a fllm tn which‘ the central lgure ls a. newspaper, editor whose prototype in veal life was "a pact musician, philosopher and liumani rian." Holtywozd trad. better change its mind. Never again can 1t; only the slightest public confidence ‘if it portrays an editor who does not. spend all his time talking into three telephones at:

once, smultanecusly chewing a cigar and indulging in heroics of detective work to break up the gang tf hoodlturis which is dom- inating civic politics. - Wlndor Star.

" ulz" programs on the radio often lead to remarkable answers — ssmetlmes by the quizzed and as often by the qutzzer. For example, there was the boy who was asked to describe a. "Quizllng!" ‘A Qu zl- lng." he replied, “is one 1f those radio fellows that runs a. quiz hour." TYi-Erel-iave been some funny answers 4.11 local quiz prcgrains. The prize answer to a “qulz," how- ever, gees to the young lady who was asked abnut Lindbergh. "Lind- lxrgh," she answered confidently, "is a ranksmelltng German cheese". The qulzzer said. “No, that's Lim- burger." but thoughtful pet-pie will be inclined to agree that the ycung‘ lady knows a cheese when she sees‘ 1t. -- Timmfns Advance.

Says the Edmonton Journal: “Lots -:f snow -a:id how 111 avy that Isncw shovel gets!" Out; tn t-lis cli- matewe can sympathize with Ed- m:nton's hardships. Often these week-ends our golf clubs begin to feel burdensome. and digging tn the garden, among the sprouting snowdrcps, many a gardener finds the weight cf his tr wcl oppres- sive. — Vancouver Sun.

PUBLIC FORUM

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United States And The War

Elwrlbtl from an erldr dellvered by In: fir! of the t It the Untied Stein WHITE SANDS W. l.

Con erenee of Mayors held -—--—- ‘ Iwmtly lu St. Louis. montly meeting of th! "W?!"

" Women's Institute of Whllfi

For more l0) mo» 1111-1.- ssosiislti'a"s°a‘fii.a°'ii° Policy has been the Monroe Doct- ttne. Astaln and again our people have indicated their willingness to 8Q to War» ff necessary t» main.‘ tam this doctrine. It is more dang-l emit-fly chat-tensed today than ever‘ before This doctilne which forbids

b i111!’ the Creed 1n meinbete responded to tut “Irish Joke". During the 1110119115 of January-and February th the list-lg of agveral Indie; $51 £91m Dilig- me expansion 1n n‘ w _| f. c we ‘IVE 60ml! _ - .59.,“ o, ,,°,,_Amg,,°§§ll"gu,l,‘,i¢y, whole mitten ewes-let's‘; a palates. and political control was inflated 1 I W“ p '7 for bile purpose or preserving th “l” l-Cffllbllfll. economic and social tn- WKHW of the United Staten, Li; 8R0, we saw that this w“ the on“. Way w.- could be safe from ugly“. .. |

that mix: Elbe T“ ed W0 3911 01‘ . V 1T1 and material for 8 hospital gowns. W donated Greek Wu‘-

slon. that ls. that we hm 1,0 test the entire western h.” l0 be safe ourselves. Our covuntryl under the Monroe Doctrine. has Riown from weakness to strength, turd the other notions of this hern- sphere have been offered an 0p- flvrtllnlty to develop their own civilization, free from we lieu- o; mnqllesl- 3° 1911i! as we maintain. an association with Gregg 3.1mm sufficient sea power kfprgven/g m1 (ENS-stir nations using the omen lanes for t-he transport of lnflltgfy power we can be safe. gm; Joint control of the ltlizh see; ti: broken. We are 1n dancer. It t, be- cause of the close annotation; m4 vflrmllel purposes of Great Britain flllcl Ourselves with res sci; to sea Pot-var that We now en y what in effect, Ls a two-ocean navy. We génvpvrtcatriis nay: thug/Bong, an or ua

construction, of a l tawb nnbkg which ft will take five or 1° blllld- Ill l-he meantime, we are only safe on the high m" w long as the Bzltlsh fleet continues to ex. eictse control over the Atlantic. The preservation of the British fleet 1s imperative while w, n; 5km 911818184X! 1n_ building up our, full naval strencth to g two-ocean purpose. The British part of the;

ere pl-gium consisted of rlddlee. recita- tion and contests. Next meeting w be 1d et the home of Mrs. Howajzd Bell Roll cell "Household

191B. - 1941

Slaw-Iroday is the twenty-third annlvereI-zw of the peat German onfexistve ftf

the 80mm 1 bfialouazsht to s standstill on the twen- ty-etght. both sides belna exhaust-

Sieventy-tiltitee fresh

the Britten forces of only twenty-t

and prepared for the final oifensfve 0f tlhe following August

On litre twenty-sixth for the first time

saw flfibflle on the road. and a. terrible sigh

g fugitive It was a

b-tne peopte

men of affairs naturally stop at the Windsor because of its repn. ration for dignified comfort and unobtrusive, courteous set-via. its convenient location-and be. cause the Windsor is recognized u the proper place for busing," and eocisl meetings. ‘rue

3H3 ntlsor

QI DOMINION SQUA

I. Alderle ‘IIYIIQIII Ireullul

German§ -

dlvlslons had been hurled atffllnst- “

nlne divisions and three cavalry much time attending the "Dali-y- d visions. all greatly under atrmtrlth- m {me gzent. d.1ve inmost». won theata ln writing w, u, ,war for Germany and her Allies. not have made the mistake he 111d, Y’ ‘ but. the BDlrlt of the British Army iand iiugiit have contributed some- ,was not. broken. It was reorganized thing worth while.

- u. the writer

ll 89d license to sell mllk in that town

tli leaving their all except what they. when the dglfy

1f "Producer" bod Vspent u

ens’ Assocfatlo

n _, , aa his letter, he would th storing it; at any Othell- WDt where the meeting naImely at Borden?

sense spot

Just so that he may not make e same mistake again. let me tut out, ‘I d0 nortuillve fr; Borden 1 on a arm o. mus pay o n any way, l- ll Primary producers, flieii hlemsiliogtl come ouhman fashion and til;

e same as anyone else. thlnet over. because m. time i...

inspectors re-

present ttvfl-ccean navy upon which

The actual strength of the Royal Canadian Air,

The Never-Again Assnciaton has been termed in ImndCn to try to, ensure peace terms that will "once and for all prevent organization of the German piwlaie f"r wttr." As the "Never Again " are pl-tdged to‘ assist 1:1 the p utltn of the war by all means they are mace lovers rather than “pacifistsfi Iliey might. adopt; the slcgan of the 1914-19111 war and of wars before that. one, namely, “This is a. war to end war", with the addition. ‘by beating the Nazis to the gr 11nd." That ls the only way satisfaciorily t»; end the present expanding ccnfllet.--Mouc- tori Times.

How utterly impossible it ls for

The Br'tls‘1 navy 1 lf the British Islesciifixrvfltiile-Yllgligtlild the Bzltlsh Isles fail. we qm Qnly believe that the British navy, wmcl; neve. runs from danger. w l fall at. the same time. We need time m t blllld 8111118 and to train their crews. | We need time to build up our base; so that we can operate otir fleet a; a._ screen for our continent. We new time to train our armies and w ac. cumulate war stores and to gear our industry for defence. Only the preservation of the Bltlsh fleet tn its f gifting integrity can give 11g 111M- tmte. and the..- need oui- help f0 survive. How deadly important gmlflwlfiflgighev tshall survive can be the most; earntst reader to keep up out, [hag ififie ‘1’;_‘l‘l’g‘§hw§_‘§§, with. the tglcod Log! new books gs tmyved tonight. we shall have only s-iown by 1e fac nai 1n the U11" - l5 battl l1‘ t - ed States along 176,500 new tttlesl ships fliiintltrpstheo ftlggpgsbfzlfltgakiilis were issued tn the past twenty pzwers. of airplane carers. we years. Last year saw 11.300 placed would have slx to their eight. Of before the public. In 1940 11s ecm- cruisers. we would have 3'7 to pared with 1939_ ficttzri 1ncreased"l5. Of destroyers we would have by 189 per cent, t1 chifcal books by, 159 to their 271 and of stlbmgrlngs I 9 and religicus by 146. Books 0n We would have 105 to the ax}; 254 the fine arts fell of by 66 per cerith 'I'l1a_t; epitomizes in s, sentence, British publishers have issued a5 how vital it Ls that British sea pow. many and (ften more newt bCOks e1" shall su vfve. Bntlsh sea. power yearly than has the United States. 0f Wdfiy Dlus American sea power The war, however, has curtatlezlof l-Odfll’ l5 definitely BUDErIOr t0 grtlllfllggliloll sharply. — Erltriznton l 2Y1: iiiilllibltilllltzdtgaelaeléaslllaitmlglfi Dig“- 0 - -. v X- CYCISG COIILTOI 0V6? QVGTY Dirt Q] {he sci/sf“: sill” 1t t1 ".- 984? B 9P cs say that; even if Britain falls. it wlll - a long time befote the axis power-g wutq iiiiirgiiiiiif ti? {r folriiflsulizeiw tmtiiiii . 0 n kind wishful thinking ls to lnthwblt

Visiting (lay at one London hosp- ‘ ital recently became a game of “spot the doctor". Patient-s f urid that visitors, having asked about their health, wanted to rec the dcc- bors who trad saved their lves and

Nova Scotia, 1,352 and Prince Edward Island 33o, making a total of 37,800. , e e 1e e

A: previously indicated beginning the first of next month or tliereabout planes of Trans-Canada

stead of making l\l011cton, N. 8., their eastern terminus. The frequency of flights will be in- creased to two round trips dailyincluding Sunday and the elimination of transfers of passengers and mail at Moncton will “further reduce the elapsed time necessary to fly between the Atlantic and Pacific shores of this Dominion.” Purpose of the change is alleged to be to relieve the congestion at Moncton, now eastern terminus, because the planet; which carry passengers on to Halifax are only six-seated and there are often as many as 25 peo- ple wanting to make the flight I l

Robert Southey, poet and man of letters, died this date, i843; friend of Coleridge and included among the “Lake Poets"; appointed Poet Laur- ente 1813. His big works, such at "The Curse of Kehama", “The Vision of Judgment,” while showing a great command of language and careful craftsmanship, lack spontaneous inspiration; he is remembered rather for his clever ballads, and for his prose which is nervous and manly, includ- 111g “Life of Nelson," “History of the Peninsular War,” and “Lives of Bunyan, Wesley, Cowper" etc.

“Here I possess-what more should I require?

Books, children, leisure,—all my heart's desire. IO i l ll

There is division in the Temperance ranks of Ontario over the advisability of resorting to pro- hibition at the present time. A labour deputation journeyed to Ottawa and entered a protest, and the Rev. H. S. Cobb, United Church pastor of ’l‘illsonburg, Ont, in a submission to the legisla- tive committee of the Ontario Temperance Feder- ation, declared the present is not the time to divide our people on so controversial a matter as prohibi- tion". This, he said, is one of two matters “which should be brought to the mind of the pub- lic in respect to the strategy of the Ontario tem-

Federation.”

“. . . This is not the time to divide our people on so controversial a matter, which necessitates both drastic legislation and vital means of time, energy and money. Many men who are influen- tial in their home communities are away serving in in the forces of the Dominion.

“To divide our people and to make unnecessary expenditures of any kind is most deplorable when unity and wise sacrifice must be oure to win this war. This is our immediate task-other lesser matters must wait."

The second matter is that "the clamor of this

group for prohibition of any duration comes from

only a section of the Protestant churches of the

province. It is far from s unanimous demand."

,Danlel ‘old Scotsman. and Dr. Mustaphn

Air Lines will fly from Montreal to Halifax in-l

1 Dr. Dr.

perance, or more correctly, Ontario Prohibition no

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a fool's patadnre. The assemblage of a naval force superior to our own would consume but little time. and an attack. Ln s few months. could readily be organised to decend

upon us from. two sides. The. lntttlnl ‘ attack need not be directed directly at

the hospital by prJsng an unexplod- ed borrrb from a ward floor and carrying it cut 1n a tin bath. The bomb-ln-a-bath heroes are Dr. Crawford Logan, 32-year-