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Morning Dally (Founded ll ll")

President Lisut. Col. W. Chester S. Moimn Vice-President: J. B. Burnett, I‘..I.I. - Secretary: Lleut. Col. D. A. l).8.0. Editor and Managing Director: .I. it. B ett, IPJJ. Associate Editors: Frank Walker and Lisut. Ian A. Burnett, II..C.N.V.II. (On Active Service) '

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker Tlion the Weakest Ink." THURSDAY, suns u, 104s

“hi... MacDonald Clan

A book of much interest to Prlnw Edwiill Islanders, especially those of the MacDoiiald clan, has made its appearance under the title: “The Lords of the Isles and their Descendants." The author i5 Mr. Hubert T. MacDonald, of Winnipeg, formerly of this PIOVIIICE.‘ _

In publishing this historical work it is Mr. l\IacDonalil's (lcsire to perpetuate the memory of a Highland clan that made an outstanding contribution to Scottish history and whose descendants rank among the leaders of ‘churn: and state in every province of Canada. There is a trailitim," says the author, “that the Mil!-

Tomorrow, the King's substitute birthday, is not s Federal holiday. a a

Notes By The ,Way

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g g Distance has hitherto p ted North America from the of Prime Minister King's seat in Saskatche- figfoplzlilllelglllg b euilllzlifit gal! by wan is in the doubtful column, depending upon gistfmu, l? fly“; mum ' ' IQBDCSIB, OIQVUI, I]! Y the overseas soldiers rote‘. . memo“ 00pm m”. bmggg _ bombs of t elrs are clever con < Strange but true. Autoists report the H0118 and 51ml: stionlly to s ROCKY no“, To Amman"

south shore clay road to Borden is in better

condition than the hard surfaced one. i j i i

fact the Western Allies would bs very wrong to underestimate their intelligence scientific sbiii or workmanship. - Vancouver

Education has to be m

' It surely pertains to Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera to have the gallant general. Mm’ ister of Defence, defeated by a ivoman-fhe

only woman to be elected, at that. a n s s

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the

More teaohs a are needed

ore than merely putting the ohlldicn through th dang routine of lessons.

memorizing

community. to share

If the Rt. Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King is as good as his word, this is going to be his

The polling arrangements here came in for a lot of criticisms, due, it is alleged, to the in- efficiency of not a few of the deputy returning officers appointed.‘

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es of training the Young people to fit into the higher standard of living in the count . Salaries have to be lm roved i. attract teachers with e talents of leadership. - Ottawa Cltlsen.

A woman in Chillisisok, 8.0., is

rry trees in her backyard and keeping her family in sllk stock- lngs. Still, we doubt if the culture oi’ mulberry trees and sllkworms will spread widely in Canada. Even under wartime conditions it takes less time and energy to stand in s. stocking line than to grow trees and silk worms and then do a spot of spinning-Edmonton Journal.

liloiiziltls are (lCSCCmlCd from Conn who was ‘ L n _ uh “has -f the“ l“ u‘ supreme Iiiiig pf Ireland and swayed the ‘Siftajlkiflglllu PalllameaténslédIsffilerlirillfén ti: ‘mental operations of these ‘Dank: at mi of tier-eve" $51.‘? ‘ g" °‘ ‘ .s'.iis.i.is.rt.sizyzstatistic. their power rivalled and indeed threatened t0 ¢ em ‘ l‘ y‘ g of obstlnacy in them. Yet, annoy.

eclipse that of the Scottish King. The founder at‘ the clan ivais Soi rlcd, son of Gillebride who lived about the d of the tenth century. liarly chapters are devoted to Clan geneology and lineage, to Ciillorlcn and after, the Massacre of Glencoc, and the Rhetland MacDon- alds of .\I0l'ill'. Tn the latter family belonged (faptaiu Allan MacDonald who, about the year i770, liouglit 10.000 acres or the half of Town- ship 25 in what is now Prince Edward Island. and whose family was the first to establish themselves at llcdequc. The detailed informa- tion given with regard to this family is very in- teresiing.

There is also a full account of Captain John Alaglloualzl, Laird of Glrnfiitnan and Glen- sladnle. who sold his estates in Scotland and immigratcil with his followers to Scotchfort, P. l5: l. The Sctliish celebration at Scotchfort,

This is United Nations’ Day, instituted Britain in I942, when the King and Queen wir- nessed at Buckingham Palace a grand march- past of men and women ivorkers and services, and later visited American tioops and institu- lions.

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lng as they are to their neighbors who do not share their taste for pamdlng ln the altogether, the penitentiary seems a harsh remedy to apply to these ml ulded religion- ts. l-Iard cases ma e bad law, as courts sometimes declare. These nudist parades must make the good folk of Nelson wlsh at times for s plague of mosquitoes. - Vancouver Province.

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Should the King Government carry on, we awn” raisin‘ ‘ulmmm ‘m mm’ “mm

mav expect the new Ferry steamer this sum-

mer, a dry dock at Charlottetown by the Fall,

and the bridges and highway to Rocky Point-

hefore another ivinter stetssn-perhaps- i

Prime Minister King to call

It would be adding insult to injury for upon Prince County to provide an asylum for General Mc-

defeated Minister of

The news that Dr. Nicholas Mur- ray Butler is to become president emeritus of Columbia University on October 1 next-after 4.3

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Naughton, his twice It is highly probable that .\Ir. hic- Naught will not be in a position to resign in when the soldiers’

Defence.

favor comes in.

Jerome Klappa Jerome, English novelist. born this date I859; was successively a clerk,

of anybody

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vote

presldent-rocalls that of is four grandparents, one was Scottish, one English, one Irish and one Welsh! His father came from England and hls mother's family who from Scotland, and lt ls s source of "justifiable pride” with hlm, he says (in his autobiography, “Across the Busy Years") that the predomin- IEPIILtSlIEIII is Scottish. - New York os .

July i922, marking the 150th anniversary cf this great event, is also recorded Other chapters deal with the history of Flora

MacDonald; with Father James MacDonald who accompanied the first Highland immigrants to Prince Edward Island; with Bishop MHCEHCII- eru, and his erection of St. Andrew's College; with the Bedeque .\IacDonalds, the Clan Ran- ald MacDonalds of the U. S. A., the Glen- gariQv settlement of Ontario, the MacDonald

Flour Back: “I like work; it fascinates me. I

schoolmaster, actor and journalist; edited The Idler and Today,‘ best known novels Three Men In A Boat, Idle Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow; most popu-lar play The Passing Of The Third

A factual cross-country survey shows that every important farm- ing district ln Canada is forcing a labor shortage on the farms, whllc the world food situation ls more serious than it has been in any

it by me; the idea of breaks my heart." w

Mr. W. Chester S. McLure, the successful

can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep ' getting" rid of it nearly

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former war years. There may not be much the town man can do about lt., if he ls already employed at some worthwhile job. But ._ with some exceptions - he can do something. He can make s garden. The more food he grows for the usc of his family the more wlll be left

migration to Nova Scotia; with Archbishop A. A. Siunott, a native of Prince Edward Island and first Archbishop of the diocese of Winni- PCE- _ '

The book rims to over 20o pages, is at- tractively hound in the MacDonald tartan, and may be purchased from the author through Carter and Company, Charlottetown.

The IBritish Twelfth Army

The fact that the liberation of Rangoon and most of Bumia does not bring South East Asia Commands campaign to an end is em- phasized by the formation of the new Twelfth Army to fight beside the Fourteenth Army. Thus the victory of the Fourteenth Army has led_ not to a reduction of the forces in Burma but to their increase for the taslf ahead. The liberation of Rangoon is not an end in itself; its splendid port is a springboard for the lib- eration of even greater areas than those already taken by SEAC.

The Twelfth is an entirely British Empire force, made possible by the release of resources and formations from Europe. Its commander. Lieutenant General Sir Montagu Stopford, and the commander of the Fourteenth Army, Lieut- enant General Sir William J. Slim, both serve tinder Lieutenant General Sir Oliver Leese as parts of the lilevtuith Army Group. Perhaps most significant for future operations is the news that large numbers of landing craft from Europe are being sent to Burma.

The \\.'llll(ll‘.'l\‘.'.'ll of the U. S. Mars Force and the T..'.S..~\.A.l". unit to fight on other fronts :igainst the Japanese noiv makes South East .\sia an entirely British Iimpire theatre except for the Chinese forces.

Canada's External Trade

Canada's external trade continsns to 8- psnd steadily, although it long ago reached vol- times and values which left all pre-war records far behind. During April Canadian exports and immii-ts, excluding, gold, had a new peak value of $-l5i,o38,o2o, as compared with $439,- 493,000 in March and $424.153.°°° i" APT!‘ I944-

Although “arch and April were the best months of this calendar year, the total for Janu- ary, February, March and April i945. which aggregated $i,6o7,7i3,ooo, was $3,000,000 up

Progressive Conservative candidate in Queen's thoroughly deserves his victory, for, not onlv has he a record of accomplishment in past years, but he has regularly and conscientiously kept in touch with the constituency through all the years of Liberal misrepresentation. He is a master of system, and had his constituency well organized long before the election was called. Wing Commander McLean did surprisingly well on his first appearance as a candidate, and has a good chance of securing the second seat on the soldiers’ vote. His great handicap has been his inability to get through the county and become personally acquainted with the elect- s.

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A British Army officer. now a Conservative candidate for Parliament, told how he had his face permanently altered by plastic surgery in order to fool the Gestapo when he was dropped into enemy-occupied Iirance to help direct the. resistance movement. Known to the Germans as the result of his liaison work in I939 and i940, when he helped to get the members of the national council out of France to Algiers. Lt -Cnl. R. H. Hutchinson, 52, undertook '.f'i lose his identity. \Vith the consent of his wife, he entered a. hospital. A doctor took pait of his thigh bone and grafted it onto his chin.

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CDHC

for other people.-From the Edmon- ton Bulletin.

High up in the Torricelli Moun- tains ln New Guinea a commando was hlt by a Japanese bullet which penetrated his skull and left part of the brain exposed. A 24-year- old doctor decided to operate and all hands and the cooks set to to

Slgnallers sent out. a call

for blood plasma which were delivered b and three volunteer hood donors shed their contribution make-shift container. knocked together

table out of jungle slgnsllers above it. tlny silver fasteners were made and the cooks stoked up the fires to keep up the supply of boiling wat- ers fashioned a hot wlre caifterlser from signal ivlre. Slx hours later the operation was pronounced a success. - From Aus- rallan Newsletter. '

Two soldl

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Bil

penicillin, parachute

Carpenters operating

timber and rigged electric

lights

From threepenny pieces

No one who ever attended Physics 2P will forget the late Prof. Hers- chel E. Reilley's arithmetical pow- ers, which he delighted to exer-

He belonged to that rather

erned.

rare group of people who possess from childhood a. useful "number form" (l.e., an unexplained mental picture of numbers arranged ln an orderly pattern) and he could fslr- ldy be classed as a "calculating ro-

lgv" in so-far as multiplies ion, dlvlslon, powers and roots

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e To see him multiply

The bridge was removed from his nose and his ears were clipped.

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lie he

Today even his

nds fail to recognize him.

was dropped into France.

helped organize the attacks on

bridges and munitions dumps

Canada are explained. says, whereas "in a

security and ideals." part:

limited but real.

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Government in a democracy is far from simple, declares the current ‘ssue of The Royal Bank of Canada Monthly Letter, iii which the form, system and procedure of government iii “An autocratic govern- ment need satisfy only the dictator,” the article democracy government must work for the average citizen, his welfare, The Letter continues, in "In the British Commonwealth, demo- cratic government is further complicated, be- cause in addition to being an autonomous dem- ocracy every Dominion is part of a monarchy, Canada's government follows the British system in its main outlines. popular representation based upon

‘closest Four days after the invasion of Normandy, with a radio op- erator and l2 members of an airborne division, \Vith the Nlaquis railroad

It has the sound

and dlvlde three and four-figure numbers mentally before others had time to put the sum down or even begin to operate a slide rule was an impressive experience. Until he was ln hls thirties he did not know that others could not handle their arithmetic as he dld. He was over 35 when the writer happened to discover that Rellley could, for example, find the square root of a four-figure number, multiply it and dlvlde it by other numbers in his head in a few seconds-and yet dld not know, had never observed, that others around him were not similarly gifted. -- Prof. A. Nor- man Shaw ln the McGlll News.

ssssorzs or THE MIND

Not alone when strain of Winter ease Into

from the comparable 4 months of last year, and peak in external

judgment of the average man and the theory of political equality; it has executives responsibil- ity, channelling down from a cabinet selected by the major political party, through Parliament to

when shrouds of sl n Melt-End freshets begin ‘now

5W1 . Nor withnghe debacle oi’ Winter

eet loosen

As might be expected, Canada's exports greatly exceed imports every month, this Do- minion being one of the major supply countries for the Allied armies and field-s of occupa- tion. Canadian exports in April were valued st $3i2,323,ooo as compared with impOrts worth $133,827,000, showing a "trade. balance” in our favor of about $178,500,000 for the month. In the whole 4-month period, January to April inclusive, exports bad a total value of $1,030.- 16o,oo0 as against imports valued at $508,371,- 000 in the comparable period last» year.

These totals represent an annual external trade which, if approximately maintained for the remaining two-thirds of i945, would amount to almost 5 billion dollars for the pres- ent calendar year.

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political strife.

the welfare of all.

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the electors; it has the two-house plan, elected by popular vote and die other composed- of persons holding their seats for life; aind it has at its head the Crown, far removed from In addition, Canada has a Fed- eral form of government necessitated by the fact that the Dominion is composed of prov- inces, each s political eittity exercising powers of government for provincial purposes but com- bining with the others in affairs which affect "Constitutional government to the Britislier and Canadian means more system of government than government under any document, and in its simplest terms it is merely a system in which jiolitical authority is bounded by established rules and procedures, most of it;

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M And s Whiter out of reason; And a lush g “fir?! belml tiphonst e n . a Past will or dug: y n These are the seasons of no wea-

er

The seasons of the mind

That. {fist surely. vet like sny fes- e

r Blow with any wind;

The newness of Springs heritage. 'I'hc blossoming of an inner tree a Insyllebles of truth

May inhnbt And stern Winter, youth.

The freshness or thoughts blowing

Pwpetuall

Is the middb sbemsl spring.

-.t\m_v Bonner in the New York Baas

"l PM»: _ tion o1

Works slfsirs in this part of our fair Island Province. I refer to that mection of Prince County leading bergon to Kllderc Sloutlk

an Cape respective y.

traveller on that road would won- der why, when ng space ls " so limited. our Pub Works of- ficials should have the Giant's Causeway dug up and broudllf. all the way from the Emerald Isle to transplant between Alberton and the communities above men- . Perhaps everyone ls not familiar with the physlognaphy o! this locality but lt has t.‘rie best fringe of beach known anywhere in the Province - a veritable "Tourists Paradise". But, no tour- ist or native can travel over that. road and still keep his claim w Christianity. we wonder if it would not be an ideal punishment for war criminals to have them walk over it barefoot, We are quite convinced that; the “Fuchs-ea” him- self would not raise hls hand again m aggression and we all. know he could not use hls feet.

Now we could easily excuse all thk l; no other material were available. but when the ocean washes hundreds of tons of the best gravel obtainable almost Within B few yards of any of these maids. why we must travel o/ver rocks no smaller than the smallest head in the Provincial Legislature to suit a few mligilons of tthta-t body. We just can't, igure ou .

In all fairness to the God-fearlrm-

Stn- would you kindly . all Rmoe in your uable wit: I may state a few facts with regard to the tra Public

The ‘Canadian Army

111th, i 1945.

-- accounts.-

Charlottetown Armour-ice has been @108“ 0n Jill!

Recruiting Station» at the.

Armourles.

Army, and the C.W.A.C. should now be directed tn tlle " 17th (R) Armoured Regiment at the

Charlottetown I

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Except that, on authority of the Oil Controller. on Mondays. ilayb. Wednesdays and Thursdays during MAY AND JUNE, the I! sun. and I p.m. sailings will bs cancelled unless i-hers is evidence that the other crossings will not carry tho traffic offering.

I j Applications for enlistment ls the Canadian Active i

M. V. PRINCE NOVA

The Connecting Link Between-Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island I915 NOVA SCOTIA - PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND FERRY SERVICE WOOD ISLANDS. P.E.I. CABIBOU. N. S; LUNCIIES SEIWED (0 Miles from Plotoll) SAILING SCHEDULE (DAILY INCLUDING SIINDA!) ALL SAILINGS DAYLIGIII‘ SAVING TIME ‘ May 1st to Sept. 30th ‘l a.ai. 9 a.m.

i1 can. I pass.

Lesvs Wood Islands Leave Caribou

I ll- Inns. Tues-

October lst to November 30th _ Leave Wood Islands 8.00 a.in. Leave Caribou 12.00 noon

NORTIIUDIDERLAND FERRIEB LIMITED ClIAH-LOTTETOWN. PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

2.15 pan. 4.15 p-ns.

peace-loving, tax-paying residents of this locality. we would ask the Minister of Public Works and B. few of the manv roud engineers W11?’ we Me the forgotten people and lfi remembered st all, why Wli-lgfflcks? m lr. etc.

a . PERPLEXED TAXPAYER l Tlgrilsh ILR.

Churchill's Bodygard

(By Fred Backhouse, Canadian Press Staff Writer, London, Eng) One man who can claim he is indisputably and precisely as active as Winston Churchill during this general election campaign is an or- dlnary-looklng, practically-unknown, Englishman of 50-odd years named Walter H. Thompson.

He has been the Prime Minis- ter's "shadow", bodyguard and constant companion since 19401919 man who gets hls picture in the papers almost as often as Mr. Churchill, but somewhere in the middle-distance between the clfifl? and the onlookers.

For more than 30 years Del-er» tlve-Irispector mumps“ W" ‘me of the smi- watchdogs of the sllwlll branch of Scotland Yard. asslflled to guard local and visiting notables. He retired in i930 and made a little’ by writing his memoirs»; which included intimate close-ups of hundreds of otentates and po- liticians who ha ‘be-en hls chflrGeh- .