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PAGE FOUR TllE ONABLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

Morning Dally (Founded in i887)

President: Llent. Col W. Chester I. MnLm-g Vim-President: J. B. Burnett, FJJ. Secretary: Lleut. Col D. A. MncKlnnon- 0.8.0.

Effor ano Managing Director: J. B. Burnett, FJLI

lslucmle Editors: Frank Walker and Inn A. Burnett

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_"The Strongest Memory is Weaker than {In Weakest Ink."

FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1941

Economy Needed

of all disabilities listed.

Medical association research shows that “so numerous were the ulcer cases during the early months of this war that a commission was set up in Britain, under the auspices of the Royal College of Physicians, to investigate."

Between the time the British Expeditionary Force wen: into France, and April 29th last year. thc Commission found over I2 per cent. dis- abilities due to peptic ulccr. “This matter con- cerns us in Canada," the, Medical journal notes editorially, “since a large number of men are be- ing invalidcd hack lo Canada with peptic ulcer, or other gastrointestinal trouble."

Investigation of causes shows that in ticarly every case the sufferer had his trouble before the war, but at that time a selected home-diet caused no irritation.

Based on a check taken on the records of I0,- 000 men the disability report shows (lCTCCllVC eyesight, at 14.14 per cent, to take the lead as a natural, or unavoidable disability. Foot trouble follows peptic ulcer, accounting for 8.36 per cent. disabilities.

Covering the result of a buck chcck on peptic ulcer cases the Commission lists: family idiosyn- crasy, unsuitable food, overwork, and \vorry as prime peacetime causes. In wartime, the condi- tion of fast moving and unavoidable change irri-

Mr. Hanson has not only charged the Iiiug Government with 't-xir;tv'.igzincc, but stiggcstcdl how his chzirgcs could he verified. “lf the .\lin-, istcr of Finance does not know that there is un- rest and dissritisiziction in the country over thei‘ lack of thrift in liiu-t-riiiiictit expenditures, bothl peace-time illltl wur," hc mill, "lct inc ask him t0 intcrvciw those who in the field were in charge of the war savings certificates campaign; and I venture to say he will hear a few things that may be convincing.”

The Opposiliim lczulcr nizule it clear that he was not rapposing war expenditures or the in- creased taxes required to meet them; he was opposing the waste of such expenditures which is sabotaging our war effort. He cited among other instances the CNR. (lcficit of over $16,- 000,000 in a ycur when war transportation was at its peak, and reminded the House that in spite of the necessities of war expenditure and the problem of foreign exchange, the railway went on with the Montreal terminal, a project which will cost, or actually has cost, over $25,- 000,000; a substantial portion of which had to be paid in American funds.

Queen's Canadian Fund

Aeodquarters of the Queen's Canadian Fund in Montreal have received a cable from London describing how the Lord ;\Iayor’s Fund, through which the Queen's Canadian Fund operates in the United Kingdom, brings relief to air raid vic- time in all parts of Great Britain and Northern Ireland when the need exists.

Severe raids in any region demand the im- mediate attention of the Lord I\Iayor’s Fund, and sums of money are telegraphed to augment the local committee's cash on hand. Thus after recent severe attacks on Birmingham and Coventry an extra twenty thousand pounds was telegraphed to ensure that there would be enough to meet any needs. Similarly ten thousand pounds was re- cently telegraphed to Glasgow. The resources of the Northern Ireland Regional Committee have also been reinforced as the result of the recent raids in the area.

Placed against the terrible losses to private property inflicted by raiders, such figures seem almost unimp0rtant_ But the government assumes the general responsibility for air raid compen- sation, through its nation-wild: insurance scheme and grants for immediate necessitcis. The flinc- tion of the Lord .\layor's Fund is to stipplemcnt and anticipate government action. State regula- tions, no matter ho\v comprehensive, cannot meet all cases of distress.

Even The Mother Of Parlaimenlsl

The practice of Ministers reading their speech- es is not confined to Canada. The Manchester Guardian notes that it is now almost universal. Discussing British parliamentary procedure, it gays: “By reading one does not mcan the use of notes, but the line by line reading of a manu- script. _ _ _

“Mr. Alexander rcud his speech lfi this fash- ion when introducing the Navy Estimates; so dit Captain Ilfargcsson in presenting the Army Estimates; and biggest surprise of all, so also did Sir Archibald Sinclair (one of thc best extem- pore speakers in the llousc) when moving the Air Estimates. .\lr_ GPUYQC Hicks, opening thc debate on the Ministry of Works and Buildings, read patiently word for word a manuscript that gcemed endless. _ I _ _

“Some old members say this is killing the House of Commons. \\'hile it is true that some old mcmbcrs would he unhappy if something was

not killing thc llousc of (Tomuions, since it would ,

deprive them of n funvral thcine for the smoke- room, thcy would bc right if they said it was kill- ing debate.

“The hearts of lll(‘llll>l'l'$ go down to their boots when thcy scc a Xlinisicr risc, cough to clear his voice, and ihcu prodiurc from his pocket

tates the condition.

The journal urges, in closing the survey, that "a soldier with peptic ulccr condition should not be allowed to join the army,” and that he is a “liability rather than an assct from a mili- tary point of vic\v~"

-. EDITORIAL NOTES s

MotheHs Day Sunday. U 1i lit i

Cannot Prime Minister Mackenzie King keep

his own followers from making subversive

speeches in Parliament? I‘ i 1 F

A few more R. A. F. raids on the Sharu- horst and Gneisenau in their berths at Brest, and Hitler won't need to have them scuttled. i‘ i‘ Ill *5 Prime Minister Menzies of Australia is a real war leader. He has brought us what we most needed, “a message of confidence and deter- mination to the Canadian Parliament and people today." u a s- a One glaring injustice in the Ilsley budget is the imposition on men in active service of the 10 per cent travel tax. The tax is not levied on holders of free railway passes, such as our Members of Parliament and Legislatures. Why impose it on our soldiers, sailors and airmen? d‘ i‘ d‘ >ll The spirit of the “bombed men, women and children of Britain" was finely epitomized by the British High Commissioner to Canada, Rt. Hon. Malcolm MacDonald, when he said: “At dawn the sun rises on a sccnc of some desolation and on a people more resolute than ever to wage the war until the enemy is exhausted and beaten and sues for mercy." w i: n- u; \Vhile farming in Canada is, according to Mr. Mackenzie King, "a war czistialty,” in the Old Country, under proper leadership, the industry is being developed Not only have millions of grass- land acres been converted to arable for food- growing, but the whole landscape of rural Eng- land and is being transformed. It is hoped to produce millions of tons of silage this year, as against a production of 300,000 tons last year. =- n- w u

Born this dale, I800, at Torrington, Conn, John Brown, American abolitionist, lcadcr of thc famous attack upon Harper's Ferry, whcrc he was wounded and captured by a force of United States marines under Colonel Robert E. Lee. He was convicted of “treason, and conspiring and advising with slaves and other rebels, and murder in thc first degree," and on thc 2nd Nov. I859, was hanged at Charlestown. Shortly aftcr his death a now famous song became widely

i popular in the North, beginning:

“John Brown's body lies a-moulderlng in the grave,

But. his soul goes marching on." _ a »i= =r >0-

“The annual outpiit of Canadian silk industry was thirty-six million pairs of silk stockings. Of thcsc, thirty-one million pairs were sold in Can- ada, and five million pairs exported. The cx- ports. went to fifty-three countries, bringing in much needed money to Canada. These large exports were built up, says the Secretary of The Silk Association, bccziusc Canadian stockings were of the highest quality produced anywhere in the world. It will be seen that it was not ec- onomically advisable to interrupt the production programme of the industry. An adequate supply of substitutes for silk which could be successfully run on the high precision machinery and meet the requirement of appearance and wear was not immediately available. The substitutes were: (I) The finest cotton yarns that could be spun. These were only obtainable in Iiugland and be- cause of their fineness were slo\v in production. They were so fine that one pound of the yarn if laid out in a straight line would stretch for fifty-

half a. pound of typv-rripi —you cannot think of it in other terms than zivviirrlujiliis. This is not dc- bate, which should lit‘ lhv living play of mind in speech. No \\‘llllllt'l‘ llilll thc llotlsc walks out Ind waits for "l lzinszird" next morning.

“An irrcvcrcnt pzirly journalist suggested that if this is to go on llll‘ llousc of Commons must adopt for such hlini-tt-rs a Parliamentary equivalent of thc ll.l.l.C.'s ‘and this is Alvar Lidell reading it."'

Army Disabilities

Jcptic, or stomach, lllC3l' is listed as the major medical (lisability among modern fighting men, according to a survcy released by .\luj.-Gcn. L. R. LaFleche and published in lhc May issue. Canadian Medical Association journal. The complaint, attributed partly to "rapid change, front the selected dict at home, to the rigid rou- tine of army rations." causes 3PPY°Xl1l13l¢l¥ 3-44

six miles; (2) A type of rayon yarn developed fin England especially for use in hosiery. The basic material from which _this yarn is made is cotton lintcrs; (3) Rayon yarns produced in Can- ada. The basic tnatcrials used in producing such iynrns are pulpwood and cotton lintcrs; (4) A comparatively ncw synthetic fibre called “Ny-loii." The basc from WlilCll Nylon is made is coal tar. This fibrc is produced in the United Slates at present in limitcd quantities, and only a relatively small amount can bc obtained for use in Canada. "I venture lo prophesy that when the stockings of llic ncw constructions come on the market thcy Will be quite acccplablc, because within the personnel of this industry we have the flair for style which is French, the achieve- mcnt of quality which is British, lhe ingenuity for adopting mcnns lo curls chziractcristic of our cousins to the south, and thc pcrscvcrancc in overcoming obslaclcs, ivhich is our own inherit- ance from Canadian pioneers."

THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

NOTES BY TIIE WAY

oua export trace in fishing revives. In n. shop a stone’: tin- from famous St. Jame’: Palace, London, are five hundred varieties of fly. They range from the drab Dun group, of which there are twenty-four variants, to brilliant pieces of exquisite workmanship such as the Claret Quill and gaudy Ibis. Trout now cllsportfng them. selves 1n the lakes of Ontario and British. Columbia will in the near future rise and sna fore the war somet mg like 1,500, 000 flzes alone were shipped to sportsmen the world over, chiefly to Canada, New Zeaiand, the Unit- ed States and Argentina. The flies shown in St. James’s are for Can. ads. They form a collection to de- light the heart of any knowledge- able fisherman , minute ambassa- dors for British craftsmanship. - By Robert Williamson.

If Canada's cities were under daily and nightly bombardment by the enemy, we should not be pre- paring in a comparatively leisure- ly and half-hearted way to defeat toe enemy. Every man and woman in the country; every resource, would be mobilized to the full. Every factory or lant which could be turned from t e manufacturing of nonessential goods to the pm. duction of tlhe slnews of war would be working twenty-four hours a day, And simultaneously with total industrial mobilization would go the rapid preparation of the most form- idable military, naval and aerial forces which we are capable of creating. Yet it is true that the isue of the great battles which are ncw beginning, and may as this paper comes lnto our readers’ hands be rising in a crescendo of violence, will determine the future of every one of us Just. as surely as would a. battle today over Canadian soil. Victory for Hitler over Britain would mean the triumph of Nazism throughout the world, and the eventual enslavement. of the people of the Americas; as the outcome of economic if not of military do feat. “No matter what. the cost", said Col. Frank Knox, U. S. Secretary of the Navy, the other day, "it is cheaper to be ready too soon and too much than too little and too late." Those are words that should be taken to heart by Can- adians as well as by the audience to which they were addressed. To- day, on the insistent demand of the free people of Britain, their Gov- ernment is keyed up to the pace of total war. The people are demand- ing of themselves ever increasing sacrifice. They have adopted with- out, blinking the heaviest, taxation in their history-to earn as much as £5,000 a. year, after meeting his taxes, a. British cltzzen would today require a gross income of £66,000 a year. Canada's effort, impressive as it is by former standards, is by comparison with the British. effort. puny. —- Western Farm Leader.

One of Hitler's powerful allies in Europe is the seething discontent among the minority groups. l-le ls well aware oi this and has vigor- ously capitalized on it, It. has been said that the partition of Europe under the Versailles treaty played into Hitler's hands and to a con- siderable degree this is true. The minority problem in Central and Eastern European states has for a long time been a. war-pro- voking one. After the last war, the doctrine of self-determination was applied, but on such it faulty and weak basis that the strain ivas not eased. It was in some respects made worse. The boundary lines were shifted and thereby new antagon- lsms were created. For example, over two million Hungarians were handed over to Rumanla and Czechoslovakia; Bessarabia, with a large Russian population, was taken from Russia, and given to Rumanla; half of the pulatlon of! Memel, whch was rman, was assigned to Lithuanta. The South! 'I‘yrol, with a large German and Croat population, was taken from Austria. and given to Italy, and

Poland, Rumanla, Yugoslavia and‘ | Hungary. Poverty and hardship fanned the drop-seated cultural con_ I fl ts. It has been exceedingly easy therefore for the Nazis to apply the rllvide-and-rule policy with success practically everywhere. The Nazis‘ found it sufficient to appeal to de- sires for revenge and hopes for "llberatlon”, and in the minority groups’ intense nationalism found‘ the response to their bigoted propa- ganda. -- Toronto Star.

Former Superintendent Penne- father of the Mounted Pcllce is right when he says that old Fortl WhOZ-p-Up, just southwest of Leth- bridge, should be suitably marked by the I-Lstorlc Sites Board. For it is true that it was Fort Whoop-Up more than any other trading po.-t 1n the southern prairie region with the whiskey smuggling and the de bauchery of the Indian caused thereby, that led to the Mounted Police being sent to establkh Fort. Mscleod in i814. l-listzry tells us that it was a maséacre of the In- dians in the Cypress Hills, arismg out of the illicit whiskey trade north from Fort Benton and other Montana trading posts on the Missouri that brought about the. demand tn parliament. that such a‘ force as the Rioyal Mounted should‘ be established. For Whoop-Up was] the most. important of the American trading posts nortih of the 49th and’ most of the trading in the Canadian border areas stemmed from there. —I.ethbrldge Herald.

Spring is the safest season of the year and April the least dangerous month with regard to accidents in the United" States. According to Fred C. Kelly, writing in

of the dangers that characterize both. winter and summer. Fewer fires are needed, thus the risk of death from burrm or nsphyxlatlon is lessened. Babies ire not bundled up so heavily in bed so there 1s not. so much danger o smothering. The season of fails on icy sidewalks is about over, too. On the other hand, it l: not yet time for Swim- ming a-nd canoemg, and the heavy motoring season has not arrived- and‘ all those activities take a heavv toll during summer months. April

that. helps keep it; record clean. - Gait Reporter.

The speotahie of o defenceless people unafraid of the tyrant in

their midst is an exhilarating sign

of the resoiuteners of m Dutch l democracy. But it ls what one had l cccne to expect from Hnlland. Non- co-operntion has been the watch- word of the people since the in- vasion of May 10. This is bud enough for the Nazis, but the solid moral support which the Nether-

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WORDS OF CHALLENGE

A THOUGHT A DAY FOB A PEOPLE AT WAR

“Did you ever notice that when Hitler. Goebbels and Cvoerlnz rant and rave about the decadent democ nClefl never do you hear Canada mentioned?" - Lord Marley. Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords.

Have Our Own Tasks

(EveiFrTg_;ews)

It. ls doubtful if at any time in the ltlslory of this Dominion. ll‘. his bwn so necessary for Canadians to keep their feet planted firmly on the ground. With the Nazi con. quest of the Balkans now virtually complete. the international scene ls hununlng with rumors concern- l-Iw.‘ Elle Drobable “next stop” of the German ivur tn-achlnc. Some reports have named Russia. as its next destination. Others have pointed t0 Syria.’ not o. few have mention- ed Gibraltar: and m assault on Britain itself is not regarded as im8r le- mu

e "y- ecanbealn b theorizing at this giritlcalgtlmtz? OT one thmiz couice i Hitler's next bIOW. Canadians can e sutc. It will be directed against the British Emplte and it may well be success- ful unless all of us do everything that we can do to supply me man. DOWN‘. the ~arms and the financial moans with which to withstand the assault, cautions The Sudbury Star. 1'06- Dmblem of determlnllng the locale of I-llltea-‘s next move has been Dlaced Ln the hands or men fwm many mus of‘ the Empire, seected for their ability as strate- gists We may rest assured that. l/lley Wlll d0 their {£15k a5 well 5,5 is humanly possible. The mt of us have our own tasks to do. and wa should not allow ourselves to be dlstracbed from them.

It has also become evident, that Canadians cannot afford no lndulgg in any more wshful ljhlnkl.ng_ p0]- and. thc limvl-ands. France, Rum- 304B». Bl! Earls. Yugoslavia and Greece have all been set up as pot. ential matches for Hitler. only to ominrblc ivhen the pressure was filmed _on. Some surrendered with- 011$ flifllls a shot. Othes fought erratum-sf hopeless Odds until they “P19 9001061121."! to lay down their aims. Yet even. now, Russia and Tlllkry are being built up as do“. Ebrous cwbstaces in Hitler's path. The lessons of the past should be magllled now.

Jen ever the people of the Brlth Empire have expected other; to stop Hitler, they have been dis- appointed. What gains have been made in the field. are the result of the Ehnphcs own effort. Cane,- d-lfillls should cease toflook thorough °° Med RlBSses at Hit er's potential adversaries and should devote all their efforts to increasing {he

British Cofrmonwealth of Nations. They need not pry into the future, but can be assured that it will be dl-‘aslmus if they are careless.

ENGLAND, 1802

When I have borne in memory what has tamed 4 Nations. ennobllng thoughts depart When men change swords for ledg- ers. and desert The student/s bower for gold, some

fears unnamed, Ihadmy Country! am Ito be bla ed?

Great how

m ef But when I think of. thee, and what

thou a1 . verily, in the bottom of my heart, those unflllal fears I am ashamed. But dearly must we prize thee; we who find In thee a bulwark for the cause of