Pmr. mun TIIE OIIARLUTTETUIIN GUARDIAN

Morning Daily tl-‘ounded in i881]

Irqideut: Lteut. CoL W. Chester 5. Mel-um Viee-Prestucnt: J. B. Burnett. FJJ. Secretory: Licul. Uni. D. A. Meclfiinnon, 01.0. ldilor and itlnnnlinl Director: .l. H. Burnett. FJJ. Allocate Editors: i-ranii Wniiier and Llent. Inn A Burnett, R.U.N.V.It. tOn Active Service)

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker r11; the Weakest Ink.”

SATURDAY. JAN. 8. 19M

Airport Requirements

Nothing 1111s been heard recently of the pro- posal to extend the Charlottetown airport run- ways, but it is to be hoped that favorable con- sideration is being given 111 this project by the Dcnartiuctu oi llcfetisc 1111" .\ir and that, 35 anticipated 11y llayor 111111111111, something de- fi11ite \\ill l1e 1111111: in the near future. 'l‘l"1is measure is being 111741-11 as a wartime necessity. .\ftc1" 1111- 11:11", 1111-111 1s 1111 111111111 that 11111111- other 1111111111. 11111111-41111111 11111111111 will 11.111’ to he. Cn- larut-d. 1;, 11:1l1r 111 i111-11.1b1c;1~t11f the lllll'.\'.

lat is 11111111111 111 11.111/.e 1\l1at the new post- \\;11"1-r."1 i11 1111i : 1.1111111 11511 111111111. 51.11110 idea may b: eaiheied, l11111ever, fr11111 a few facts reqardiu; l.1"1 11"" 1:1 liield, New York, the

. \-. -1"l<l. ‘three 111111111» ai-

.1 l1.-111 11.1~ completed late i11 113,9

.\la_1or l.a tjttardia, 1-ver there was 1111c, has (your and better airport. 11111'£l1—1*.1st shore 11f _l:1111;1i1"1 11.11. ‘_‘1".11 11.1 (1151 SlOODC/OMOO. l1 will l. "1 13 1v. 11f 1'111111.'1_1s czitlt :00 fctt 1111.1." 1.1 1 1'11".11\.'11"\" will be 111,000, $41110 111111 f» 1.111 t1~11 111.11 ;11"111":1;_-11 r1111~ 1-111" 1-"1 1111.11 .1.r|111\ 11 1.1111111- nvd to h1."11ilc 11111 11: 11s each 11:11". The heli-

"11111111111~:111t11|1;11l..

the 1111111111 Cili/iett

:111 air-ntliuicd 11"..;1111: 1 alrradr 111:."~11.l 1.1.11 z 'l11is 1111111 .511.

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11111;. _§.'.111t1 lietl.

future. 'l'he 111;:11i:1p;11i1v with 1111 iuadcuttate airport is goirg 1o 11c a forgotten citv."

The Coal

Price Increase

The .\l1'111ci1.11 " p1 tLiherztlt has sonic caustic c11111111ert to 111111.111 1111 the advance 11f $1.011 ncr ton i11 tile price of coal auuouticed 11v the Drnninion (11:11 tfoitipatiy". lt says:

“The reason given is tl1at the company has been ordered 111 inc1"ea~" wages paid to miners and t0 grant 11111111 paid \ ‘tious. The wage in< creases. 11 11.-.~11t111l1 11711111 (ilace lizty reports, hail not vet 15111112 into QfCCt, but it was presutned the cruupairv was anticipating their pavment.

"T1111; 81111-1»: to be an intolerable piece of im- position. 'l'l1cre can be no excuse for increas- inz the pries- 11f the tirodttct tmtil tl1e cost of Dfvtltttliun has hceu increased. 'l'l1erc is no jllxllllCfttlwtt fur raising the price of 1:11:11 nlrcqdy mined. Until the company has sold all the coal mined at existing rates of pay. there is no rea- son 1vhy1 it should be permitted to hill the pub- lic for an extra dollar a 11111.

:'l"_t1r1l1c1"11111r<*. the a11111uu1 of the iucit-aq- in price announced appears to beru- no recognizablg relation to the increased cost of production un- der the new scale of wages, when that scale goes into effect. A dollar a day raise for the miners does not add a dollar, or to be exact $1.06, to the cost of the coal. liigtngcs furnished by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics for the ‘I940, the latest at hand. seem to indicate this is more than twice as much gs the wage increase could justify.

“The government which has pcrtnitted the in- crease 1n wage must accept the responsibility for seeing that the public is 11ot called upon to pay more than the increase i11 the cost of produc- tion. he \\'artirne Prices and Trade Board should have sinueiliine to sat" about it.

‘rpis seems to be another case, not infreqngng under Liberal administration, of “the public be damned."

Tiliirough Many Wars

To coinutcinoiate its 165th anniversary in a world at war, the Rlontreal Gazette, Ljanadars oldest newspaper, has published a brochure of 111111s'_"'11 interest. i11 which readers are invited to 11111." barb thruuuli its files, and t0 follow the 11 ar news of 11:11:14" rears as it was unfolded to earlier gctieratzoits. Extracts are reproduced in lZlCsllllllC of news reports and comment on the Xanoleouic war. the (rimean war, the Ameri- 1"11-.111"i1il uni, 11111 Fr: i-tlermau war, the l‘;_1111"1i:111 1r- 111111111 11f 1813:, 111i; North-west 1"c- bclliun i11 11$ 5, 1111; $pau1s11-.\n1erican war, the South .\ft'ican war, the First Great \\"'ar and the present conflict, with reproductions of famqn; pirtt es 111111.111 11f each. 111 thus recalling 011t- staudiuq 11v -nt~ 111 its 11111: career, The (lazette Pl'(‘.\f'lll\ in striking fashion evidence 11f the pro- ql'('$\ 111.11 n1 u_-\vs 1111111111111 111."er that pcrinfil, 11111111111- 11111" n1 .\u;_111.1_ 1815, "when The 11111111111 ritslu-d :11 pro». with 1111" news of Water- 11111 1' fouygln 1111 9111111- 1N1 whirh a brig has been thirty-fur 1l.1_\ ~ 111 hrittgittg across the Atlantic." tn the nrwent 11111’ 11f almost instantaneous rc- portinz of event. i11 every part of the world.

Canutlrfs Construction Record

l.'1111~'11.11"111111 1"1111t|".11ts awarded throughout

Catiuila, totalled .\'_:11I1,111_;__t1xi dttriug m“. M.

cording to a 1"1"|11pi111ti1111 by .\l.11"l.ea11 lluilrlittg

l1‘1-p11r1.~" 'l’h1' 1111.11 l‘1't1l\‘.~1‘tll< a 271.3 per cent

(hop fr -"11 11111 111|_' 111;.-1| 11f $_'\_\‘[_5tj_"|QU‘ 11w

d11w111var1l tr1-111l |'t’]ll't'al'llllllf_f llu- continuing

shift i11 111111l1;1.E.~ 1111111 war c1111strt1ction to pro- tlllClluH.

l"'11r 1'11- 111111111 111' llret-ipber, 111.13, contracts

a11111-1l111 11111111111 $11_1;.\!11._111r>. .\t the c1111 of

1111-"111 r1 111111111111 new 1"1111.~t1"ucti11n to-

) li-"t-IJ‘ f1. 111111111; Decetnber, resi-

1111111111 1-1111s:r111-1i1111 1111s $4,140,500; hn5ine55

‘inn 3‘i~l~i'-").~‘.\‘1111: lfltlll§lflfll construction

111111 rnqiilet-riitg cfittstrttctioii $1,-

l "gr 1'11u.1'.".1t ;11\";tr1l1'1l in

Pilflfllltlle Lizntula 111st tnuuilt 1111s that of $51),-

000 for a wharf at Sydney, N.S.

A feature of the 1943 construction picture was the year's total of $79,109,100 for resi- dential construction, only a fraction of I per cent under the i942 total of $79,279,800. Business construction for the year, however, was down 1o $61,017,900 from $98,164,880 for 1942, and industrial construction dropped to $32,857,000 from the 1942 total of $74,084,500. Engineer- ing construction for I943 was up to $33,119,900 from 1116 $30,065,000 total for 19.12.

Of last year's totals for the Proyinces, the hlaritimes, with the exception of Saskatchewan, trailed the list. Ontario led all with a. total amount of $83,025,300, followed by Quebec with $131,816,700, then came Alberta with $18,629,- 300, British Columbia, $13,803,300; Manitoba, $10,083,900; Nova Scotia, $7,535,500; New Brunswick $6,620,600; Saswatchcwan, $3,971),- ooo. and Prince Edward Island with $719,300.

- EDITORIAL NOTES .-

Soon the iceman will be reaping his harvest, the prospects of which are good. It! ll i Ii

T\l1111t1"eal is said already to have more work- ers than jobs; this should he comforting _to far~ mers who are worried over the labour situation

here.

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\\'i111 .\l.'u"shal Stalin refusing to back interna- tio11al Couuutniism, and President Roosevelt dropping the name “New Deal" from his party and policy", the Leftists. including the CCF are

l1aving a r1111gh time of it. 11- 1-

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.-\ 11111ve111e11t is being engineered in_favo11r 11f National liovernmcnt. lhe alternative to_a National litwerntnent 1n succession to the 1.11)-

. .~ ,.- 1. ..; eral t11.1\:e1'n111e11t, says ‘Saturday Xtgltt A lihelv to be a Parliaitn-nt 1n which four or more lattrelv sectional groups will have to carry on tl'e administration of the country on the imsis of temporary log-rolling arraugetuents 9.1110111;

zlwmselves."

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The Rt, lrloti. John Curtiu, Prime lliuister of Australia, born this date 1885; leader of the _l.a- bour Party, which, prior to his ascendancy, lav- o11re<l an extreme socialist independent policy; after the l’arty‘s defeat i11 1031, and the retire- ment 11f Labour Prime Minister ‘l. l1. Scullin, I111". 1111-1111 sticcceded in ntoderating its platfornt, with the result that since the war it has ptusued a more or less coalition policy, strongly sup- porting Empire connection; Mr. Curtin was chosen Prime Minister in 111.11, and his govern- ment was sustained in the election of last year.

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i\lr. Bert S. Wemp, Telegram war correspon- dent with the Canadians in Italy, told in a dis~ patch from the front how a cl1aplai11~ll1111.. Capt. _]11l1n (joforth of Toronto- covered a quarter of a mile of open ground to reach a group of isolated, wounded Canadians after (iCYlllZilI fire had twice prevented a rescue party frotn reaching them. The chaplain attended 111 the wounded for fire. hours before a rescue party arrived, wrote M1‘. \\'eu1p, adding: “livery man will tell you that it was a miracle for the padre wasn't even scratched and he carried 011 i11 the face of a terrible hail of lead." Former- ly assistant minister Rt KNOX lhesbyteriati Church in 'l'o1"01"1to, llun. Capt. (ioforth is the sou of the late Dr. Jonathan and .\lrs. tloforth, who spent 50 years in Cl"1i11a as Presbyterian missionaries and were well-known in this Pro-

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"An official of the Federal Pensions Depart- ment informed the Canadian Press that they are. prepared to cope with practically any emergency that might arise out of a sudden, heavy flow of casualties from battle fronts. When this \\"ar broke out, the department had approximately1 2.- 800 beds. With the building of new hospitals and the enlarging of others the normal bed cap- acity has been increased to 7,200. That normal capacity probably will be doubled before the end of the war and could he redoublcd in a case of emergency. By next April I an addi- tional 980 beds will be available in hospital space now under construction in London, Ont., 'l_‘or- onto and Saint John, N .13. Contracts have been let for the building space for another 935 in Edmonton. Winnipeg and Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Que. The department is preparing plans for the setting up of an additional 2,777 beds in Vancouver, Regina, Toronto, Montreal, Hali- fax, Saint john and London, and also contem- plates the provision of 1,400 beds in five health and occupational centres. “We anticipate that b1’ 1945 some 22.000 beds will be available for the care of wounded and sick members and ex- members of the forces in the. department's hos- pitals and in the hospitals of defence establish- ments," he said. "In an emergency, space could be provided for 30,000 beds, more than 1o tiiurs as many as could be provided for at the out- break of Mr."

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The Federal Bureau of Statistics, says Alberta Wheat Board journal, has calculated the aver- age price of Canada's 1943 wheat at $1.02 net to the farmer. This compares with an average wheat price of sixty-nine cents in 1942 and fifty-five. cents in i941. The Alberta 111111531 average price for the I943 wheat crop is ninety- seven cents, second lowest for all of the Catia- dian provinces. British Columbia is the lowest with ninety-five cents but wheat production in that province is small. the value of the entire crop totalling only $2,063,000. The average wheat price for each Canadian province is as follows: ,

Prince Edward Island .$1,o5

Nova Scotia I100

New lil‘llI15\\'iCl( . 1.20

Quebec 1.09

Ontario . 1.07

Manitoba .. . 1.09

Saskatchewan 1.02

Alberta .97

British Coltunbia . .. o5

The initial wheat board price for I Northern 15_$I-25 at the terminal. To arrive at the net PYICB. to the farmer for I Northern wheat ap- prox1n1atcly1 sixteen cents for freight and hand- ling charges is tlcihteterl from the terminal price.

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1hr avflilfle [Illcc as given a|111ve 1's calutlatcd 1111 the a\ 111-age of the grades in each province.

liotos By The Way

Berlin Can Take it. bout: Goebbels. Flnel We are ready w let her nave tL-Peterborouxh mt- emitter).

There will be hope that this re- port about the scarcity of onions Ls another false alarm. Imagine the official mind 1111111111111; to rat- ion the lnunble onlont- Toronto Globe and Mali.

Ono startling prediction in that when anyone comes from Gsmimy to talk peace l: \vtll be Herr Guer- ing. Even H. G. Wells in his most imaginative moments never fore- cast that the shape of Jhlng to come would be fab-i Sudbury Dally Stir.

Cousin Winston, they my, h in- clined to think hi, knows more than the physicians - and why not? Who was lt who found Civilization in a coma and restor- ed 1t tn its present aboundlng vigor? -Detrolt: News. .

An Germany ls squeezed tighter Radio Tokyo tells the Japanese they can depend upon nobody but themselves for victory. It must be a relief for them to know theyre not going to have to share with Germany and Italy the glory of utterly crushing Britain and the United States - Minneapolis Tri- tune.

It is authoritatively declared that one-half of the appalling total of infant. deaths ln Canada are pre- ventable. ‘The Infant mortality rate has been reduced tn recent, years but. it ls still inexeusubly high. ‘Pherc 1:; still great need for education 1n the care or the child. Clinics for both backward and well babies should 11c encouraged --and utilized. -C11al.l1a1i1 News

n witielt flu- cor- respondent emoyts no munuiiltlcs. Hg takes his chances and shares the r1." k. All clmntes are alike to him. His Tflllgg ls tron.- Alaska to the Pacific. Death has come to at. least fifteen American war correspondent; Sonic are prison- ers, some are missing, Ono was wounded twice in 1111111111; at Salerno; one w; tilled by n bomb in Bvllsalnville; en: bailed out of a pltltio tn New 615.53, was lest in the Jungle six wee turned up and lived. General 11411251111111‘ dec- orated on? who had received six $11111 51111111011». They have fairly won their honuutxs. --N:w York Times

The action _of the §om:r\llle lire uepaixmcnt 1n Cl‘(lCl'lll_tt 1111 111111 to the tiracttt: ot sending out a 11(1- urr m; k to 11.11 prop];- lockezl out oi their own hctnes 1s a sensible 0110 Tuerc is always the danger that a fire truck be used ts as- sist some efllfcn in an enter. ' 1t be need

it. tft ..rn every-

CftllCCl on for help

“ and

2 " to accom-

1 ctlce of c1111-

_ 111111 1120112: 2e‘.

into tfictr own hcmes always seemed to b: taking Leo rntzrh ad- vantage of their generezltv. Boson Post. “

Writing from Naples. il Knickerbocker, cliict ' L113

ago Sun fcreign s ~

to ray about letters for the armed forces. People at home can scarce- 1V K301160111? What; an important role leders play in army 1m “more Ioncsomencss Ls likely to be more dilmflgiflg t.» happiness than enemy bullets. A uocd many tncn receive litters written daily from some and even though sometimes to to 30 letters are coming re- lmfiwinrz letters are CLLIl“.1Il[,',]'g. main cheerful. The most. miser- able wretelies are those ct‘ the crew who havr- no one at. tictm to wrlte to them _ ‘n11; time; o; these boys as mail ls being delivpy. ed to others 111011111 wring teary; from stone." _K_1t¢11g~_\~; Remy-d,

l" 9319111311!!! the index figures for “@805 91"‘ Prices there must be no room for tricky dodges. Such for example, 11.; snowtng ma; °n l 51710“? weekly basis wages hill/e increased faster than price; _wtthout indicating whether the W891! Worked ls 40 hours or '70 létours. The calculation must. be PM "I1 Mich simple and funda- mental terms as the time ua-id to the farmer for a bushel of wheat. say and what the worker Sets per hour for 111a labour. The“ "l! ‘h! b11516 Drive-i; One man's ovetime windfall ‘doesn't feet-t “will” ma" Wflrlflllt; standard hours. To make the new form-nut work well and to keep our domes- é-IC economy on a sound wartime 00151!!! We should have eeorromn; action on many fronts. we need more not: fewer subsidies to keep the cost of ltvlng down. ynsggad of an caster renegotiation act we 511131116 118v: I wvzher one to re- tmmlnfl Industrial WB-r eomracu and revenues excess profits. we h review wartime profits of all kinds 11nd t0 evolve g1 new W! Dfoflfflmme. And again we flmnhaslze. we need a national get-vice not. which will distribute e labour and sacrifice that n" lflfilflilflble in war among all o1 us. each according to his strength ""4 "Pflbllltles. men and won-ten alike. —New York Post.

There h nnnmuslnv flmy n. Birding Dr. Wellington m»; A dlamonddn- the- rough Amgflcgn Benet-cl wu invited in tendon to an official banquet (during m. end-front discussions) and found himself sytting next n. Chine“ citizen for the ftrst time in his life. I-fe did not lrnow that the Chinese gentierutn was Dr. Wet~ llnrrum Koo. n Rraduaw of oxford

of the most enidlle people tn the ""111 But £1111 keneral felt that propriety demanded his making at. least one comment to Dr. Koo, and n! the waiter removed the soup dishes he said: "Likee pounce?" Dr. Koo merely nodded his head. surprised. and milled. Hi: dutv. 40110- 111R Renerat devoted himself to his other neitzhbor. While ll- queurs were helm passed Dr, gm was called upon for n speech 3s rose and Rfldkfl hrltltnntv

minutes whlte the venm became

1W- '"""rr1l "illtet- s1t"'el~|-\¢1?' hp

tnnutred sweetly. -—Wlnntpeg Free Press.

and Columbia universities. and one

for l0

more and more urp-mngwub1e_ M he. rat. (101111. "t". Koo turned to’

What, N0 Finger Bowls‘ 7

(Wlnnipez Eros Press) unnoticed among the casualties of wartime living in Cunnin-

been th all’? arena p!

er-bowl. 1 oouia hi!‘

wt decency llit it email our war winning deprlvetlonr, along witch automobiles» refugee-atom, ‘trlcycles and the esoteric shades of nail polish. stilt there lbs somn satisfy-ton to b0 B9111“ trcm the said dlsappearaiices. 1! the slxht oi’ the finger-bowl irrit- le th it. did

e we) us. which was considerable. when the discarding uf this anachronistic lflblp, wash basin has been e cteiu- gain for nubile morale.

Where the finger-bowl came from iiu eluded us in a lurch through several encyclopedia. It sprang, no doubt, from necessity and bably arose during the flowering of knighthood. Though the knights-errant were always W-lite and on all oc- tite nicest oi’ inannerl.

llng of chicken-wings and drun- sticks. If they wiped 1.11211 tmids on their pants 1t marred their otherwise unpcouabic appearanue. So some thoughtful nustcss came up with miniature wash basins tn which the knights coutd dip and wash their lingers lite)‘ putt-tn: their meal away.

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However, as Deople lettrned to manipulate knives, forks and spoons with neuter skill, they kept their hands reasonably free from grease and gravy at; the table. But: the finger-bowl was kept tn use. Long after l1. became a flowerpot holder tn tnlvate homes. it. was kept. to its unnecessary function on railway 13111111 wars and in hotels. N0\v :11: r1111 ways. 1n so far as we can nee, have sent. their fingeulyawls to the scrap drive and even the notcls are gradually fillSbilfdlhfl it. In another genera- tion o1" so it. will none frcm there. Luo. ‘and then tJ-ae students ct‘ such things call 1.1-1 to work ccmpittiiig the number of man_ hours the 11111111111 race has wasted toting fingcr-hoivls back and forth from kitchens to tables I11 a-bandcning tingei-howls, our railway dining service ‘Bias made n grout break "ti/tin lYddlLlOIi. They are entitled to tIIlZlI marks for this splendid reform, but. we wonder why they did ttot e0 a step further and put a. slop to the fantastic waste of linen that has been their hallmark for lo thesis 1111111)", years. Unfortunatetv our dining-car service not 1111-‘11’ on the 1111101111 fool; years ago. Instead of (lest nlng a :.(‘l'\'l',c which would feed t e most y; epic ir- the shortest time and 1 st, comfort, they went in for They tried. w‘.th some suc- ticVieittalty, to imitate the

when the great changes tcok place in public eating tmbtts they ignored them. Thus every tuck. had t0 have a. spotlessly eleun lnien cloth upon it. It it. out even slightly soiled or wrinkled, lt 11:11‘. - eliangcd. This 110111111‘ entry, work for the Witllelo. l1, k laundrles at! across 11.11; country working ovcrtliize waslitilg stuff that, dLd not tired’ 111315111111!-

wanted to do useles

- that was their

. Bu; l1 w the policy

j ed in wartime thvflPee U8- Obvlauriy the best. solutlcn WWII! be that 11inch ‘cu many rflfil/Bflfflnl-‘l have adoeted-the polpliect table top sans lmeu cloth. Tue 111110111111 of 1211:1111 this 1iv1.uld save the cuun. try would fin" twutstrit! i111" sat/BIB" from tlnowlug away ‘the f1!!!“-

bovrls. _

nut perhaps 1111s ts too much to expect all at once. Perhaps the next generation of railway travel- lers wlll be 111-ed from the curse of lhten-chattglug waiters. We of this tienertttlon can at, 1935i 17K! thankful for the eclipse of the finger-bowl. If the ranvrays want tu make 11s ."eal1y happy, they could rrspense 110w with the mass of s:1 . 1; dishes that they use to etnuci- 111,1 tables. Perhaps this re. 101m is 1m tliceards nnywfly- T?" dishes now being 111.11 CBIiTi be replaced. One Ottawa now serves dOllbltLllfififlllCd soup cups. the crockery shortage tilts 1.he rail- ways, eating ls 11011115 ‘to set a lot 1955 complicated. Indeed it may ycr come to p855 that somebody wlll find a real use 101‘ the 51$" carded finger-bowls. We await thll: day with considerable impatience.

In 12011112111111: o8 her

1t tacuple |1".‘_v nlc to

ritaifiwai.

(The Ioncton New Slatcxnnn and Nation)

"we ought: at least. to know whet we are doing." writes a correepwd‘ ent. H; encloses the full and hor- rlftc text. of a SW18! P3P"! I43‘ count of the results 0! 0H1‘ Nmb‘ i111: tn Hamburg.

Fuepert opinion tells me that the scientific reconstruction oi’ this article is fanciful. But recent de- scriptions of the results bf the new types of bomb on Berlin con- firm the general picture of an tn- ferno of flames, so in $11911’