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TllE SIIARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

Morning Daily (Founded in 188'!)

President, LleuL-Col. W. Chester s. McLura Vice-President. J. B. Burnett. FJJ. l , LleuL-Col. D, A. ltlaclilnnon, 0.8.0. Editor an ltlnnagin; Director. J. B. Burnett. FJJ. Associate Editors. Frank Walker and [an A. Burnett.

SUBSCRIPTION RATES Iy Mail in P. E. l.. 81.00 ptr year, 82-50 for 6 Infill"!!- SLZS for 3 months, 50c for one month. City Delivery. $5.00 per year. 53-00 for 6 monthl- 3115 for 3 months.

By Mail in Canada and L’. S. A. $5.00 Der you. Iatnrday Weekly, 52.00 per year $1.00 for 6 months. 50c for 3 mont s. __€.____.._~u .- _____-__.--i? ‘The Strongest lfemory is Weaker than tliegjlileqlygest Ink."

r rvasnay. APRIL as. mo.

Canada ‘s \\’ar Expenditure

flow much of our national income can we lpend on war.‘ This question is posed by an Ottawa corrc-ii- cut and he warns in tlie first place that one stiiwiiil lie critical of comparisons between ivzir exp iiiitures in Canada and Bri- tain. SOIIICIlIHCS i: is argued that Britain is spending up to 35 per cent of her national in- come for war Iillil therefore, Canada should be able to spen-l a ‘ :5 per cent. It is contend- ed, however, >1: iii-i couiitrics are not coin- parable. Uiiiii; to szze and our federal sys- tem, the cost of g-werziment in Canada is far greater per cap" than in Britain. It costs about one billion cl ‘ n the federal, provincial and mimic its and, short of ex- trenle use or v. 1ft ; Uitaiva cannot control provincial and iii a‘. spending.

It is suggcstci the best wa of apprais- ing the impor: t our war ef ort is by as- suming that " l income this year will be $4._<OO.Cfi0_~ri0_ ill this deduct $1,000,- 000,000 to pay for t e 1st 0f government. \\'ar aetl at $500,000,000 for forces; $100,000,000 for

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ihe air trai tlte rapatr in Britain.

[rm securities now held buy back these securities m that Britain iiziy for ivhat she requires from Canada. . CXTQIIE of these repatriations cannot be estimazed. In the first six months of the war the 101a} was $~ 12.000000, and this was a direct deal iJi‘.\ cn the British and Canadian governments. Iliir from mid-March, repatria- tion is to proceed by private sale of these secur- ities by British holders to Canadian buyers. A substantial bii=i"e=s is (lerelopirig and it may well run to S: roooooc) this year.

As for the e res of war expenditures, it is noted that the e-amate for the first seven months of the war \\'f‘l’¢ exceeded by t5 per cent and the estimate for the full year now beginning will probably be excceilctl :0 a like extent All this adds up to a total war expenditure, direct and indirect, of about 80.40.000.000. And it must come out nf an income, after costs of gov- ernment have been met, of 83.500.000.000. It is evident, here, that if Canada does as well as this, the government wiil he more than satisfied.

The Italian Barometer

It is cheering to note, in connection with the Norw-egian ¢g1np>fligfl, the changed attitude of the Italian press. Rliusirliiii is in all probability very well itiiorircii as to the course 0t the fight- ing. He doubtless received assurances from hi! friend Hitler that all was going very M11, and the first ygagtfozl of the Italian press was to feature triuni 1i afici- triumph of the Ball iofces_ 31%;..- .‘ m, 110W have come to the conclusion that It.’ l ~65 aft 801118 1° b¢ ll" “l” mate victors. .-\n ions always to be on the side that seems to be svinnuif-T- l“! h“ instruct"! h“ creature newspapers to llfilltfllllt l-litler’s failure to ggmplclc the job he tmlertook so rashly on April 9.

The Roman barotncter, suggests an exchangfi. is not a bad one to follow these days. It in- dicates with a sure touch which belligerent ap- Pean w be top (log; and .\lliSSOl1l'\ls sudden change of front Prgifivllily represents exactly what is going on in the .\Ol'\\'Egl3f’I valleys.

______,____u___ Gravel And Mr. McIntyr-

tlon. I\lr_ blclntyre interrupted the Opposi- tion leader in his sieccli on the budget Wednes- day night to inform him, the House, and the public in general that it was he, Mr_ McIntyre. who “first found gravel on the Island.’ That. Mr. McIntyre explained, was back in I928, and he had a report from the federal engineers t0 show for it. _

Mr. blclntyre has put forward this claim on Rural OccnElnllF, bu: unfortunately it is one ‘vhich m, afllftffl]: of rvpitfition can substantiate. The facts are agrivt linn. There is on record s document known as the Dominion Audit Board Report. 1t is iln" to the lubsirly ("vi thereto is the mi-i Government in \\ now, was Xliui-‘t ways. Tlik fll’.‘7ll"l‘.'lll'l ing statement:

"On-big In Hm fur! flint we have N0 GRAvm, m 1hr Ihwiriiirr, fill/f the high coll of flllftflfliiil? Hm rriuir, rue have not a mild of pcrniunvuf liiyy/izr-ny-s."

If Mr, .\lCliif_vrc- l\'ll€\V in i928 that there was Island gran-l IHJIilIIlIlf", it is strange that he did “Qt (alto hi. g/iWYlllllFlIl colleagues into his con- fidcncc, \'<~i~i- strange that lic ivcrtt on itnport- in gravel iI:‘llli Nina $cuiia at “high cost", de- priving lsliiiitl [u-iqfii) of tnoncy and employ- ment; and he giiziiwlctl the secret 0f his dis- covery of l\l;1f\tl gravel so carefully that two years later hi5 own I’rcniicr and cabinet associates, in prt-iuiriiiq their brief for the Audit Board, (lt-clztri-il, {H tlii: rixn<ori for their lack of initiative in liighuuri- iwuisiriictioit, that there was "no grzivcl iii tln: l‘r<t\'liir£‘." _

Mn ,\i¢i..i\-.-i-'_,- {in-stint ICJIIILW‘, Premier Camo- bcn’ “T... Admin-yJiciioi-xil at that time. Prob- ahi,» i... m“ rph-pdi flu- Xliiiisicfs uicitiory on this subjvci. _

Iivcu rificr lllf‘ Siwiizirt-llchlillan Govern- ment hurl iiiti-orltictl the policy of using 1513M‘ gravel extensively, .\ll'. .\li‘lfl._\'l'f; COllIlflllCd. to criticise nlNl riilirtili» is value as rnarlbitikl- fng material. 'l'li<' ll“ll~', hi: was ivoiit In say, "wold pick it off the roads as fast as it was put

‘.1 Cit-i, 8, i930, and it refers.

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is Province. Attached m filed by the Lea. h .\l.-, Klclutyre, then as nf Viililic \\'orl<s and fligh- um cottiains the follow-

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down. He was constantly extolling the superior quality of imported gravel, and Quoting au- thorities to show that the use of the “native" material (as one Liberal member called it last week) ivas only a waste of money.

\Vhatever credit is due for the policy of de- veloping local gravel pits, it is to the McMillan Government and not Mr. McIntyre that it be- longs. Even as late as the I935 election cam- paigii, when the Borden-Charlottetown highway was under construction, the Patriot, Mr. Mc- Intyre's party organ, was declaiming:

"There are road: in this Province cot/trad eviih imported growl flint utill last longer than any paced /ff_fjhfi'fl_\‘.l' the Conservative: are building, and tliry ‘tr-ill be than whm their road: crumble fa dial." (July 22, 1935).

The highways the Conservatives were build- ing, largely at federal expense, included a stretch of solid concrete road which is not likely to crumble to dust for a good many years yet.

And what of .\lr. Alclntyre‘; imported gravel roads which were to be everlasting? It was not long before he was digging up what was left of them and sub-grading with Island gravel in preparation for continuing the Conservative hardsurfacing policy; this time not with federal money however, but at our own taxpayers’ ex- pense.

a- EDITORIAL NOTES n

The roads are drying fast. and by Saturday should be fit for heavy traffic. i Ill I i

Norway is giving the unthinking an inkling of the stiff time before us, before victory rests

0n our pennons.

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To encourage tourists to their National Park, the Ontario Government has abolished the $1 permit previously charged for autos.

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The Legislature is likely to occupy all this week, and probably the first of next, Three Gov- ernment members are slated to speak on the ad- dress for every one of the Opposition.

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James Montgomery, Scottish poet, died this date, i854.

There is I. spot of earth supremely blest,

A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rcst—-

Home.

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The New Democrats have chosen Mr. john H. Blackmore as their leader in the House of Commons. In last parliament .\lr_ Blzickmore was the leader of the Social Creditors-it is the same party under a new flame.

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One of our many esteemed correspondents sitggests it would be wcll worth the Govern- ment's while t0 pay the Leader of the Provin- cial Opposition a rcgtilzii" salary for services retitl- cred the taxpayers. Lest it be forgotten we may mention that the late Premier l-Ecll, when he boost- ed the salaries of the members of the Government and the indemnity of the members, offered to provide an official salary for lhc Leader. lion. A. E. Arsenaiilt, then in that position, declined the offer with thanlcs.

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An interesting appeal has been entered against a magistrates tlcci-itvn iii Saiiilt Ste. Marie, Ont. where Kltigistraic _lZllllCS .\lcl{\veii riilcd that a mail may not spank his wife but he may “re- strain" her, even to putting her on the floor and sitting on hcr. The magistrate clisntissed a charge of assault against Mr. A. Nolin, of l-lastiugs, who ailmitterl he llfiil t0 ilcal with his wife. “There is no law that permits a man t0 spank his wife, but he can restrain her,” the magistrate declared. "Such a verdict sets a dangerous pre- cedent,” asserted Crown Attorney W. S. Ma- guire, saying he would appeal the verdict.

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The weather has reversed itself in the Prairies this year—-the moist section going dry and the dry moist. Around Edmonton 2.22 inches of moisture have seeped into the soil since the start of the current month compared with a normal content of .6t for this period of the year-a jump of 264 per cent. In central areas of the foothills province moisture figures are more than 350 per cent over normal ivlitle m the south they are almost 500 per cent above normal. Iarms in the centrally located Drumheller district have re- ceived 152 inches of moisture since A ril I against a normal supply measuring .54. n_the ‘Outh’ app;¢,ximat¢1y_3,o5 inches have sunk into the land C0mpif€d‘\\'1£l1 a‘ normal of .44 inches.

Judith Robinson i_n_the Globe and Mail sug- gests the U.S.A. blinistry to Ottawa should be scrapped, as evidentlyltlie Washington Govem- mcnt has no use for it, and treats the Ottawa Government as though it were a State Govern- ment in the Union. She concludes: "Granted that Ottawa is no great shucks as a diplomatic post for United States envoys. Granted that transient politicians \\'lll do as well there as any. That being so, Mr. Roosevelt would do better t0 close up the Alinistry at Ottawa and ask .\lr. King to keep calling around twice a year for orders as at present. Doing that he would do I. lot better by his neighbors than he has done cle- grading the United States Aliiiistry at Ottawa to ‘the level of an EHHUZX of New Jersey politics."

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The Provincial Governmctits of Ontario, Bri- tish Columbia, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia have entered their appeal from the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada that the Domin- ion Parliament lias the right ti» abolish appeals to the Privy Council, “Tlicir lortlsliips would be of the opinion that this is a propcr case in which special leave to appeal should be given,’ Lord Maugham said. Mr. Frank Gahan, ap- pearing for the petitioners, indicated that the "m- tcntion of the ivirtics ivas to try t0 get a hear- ing this summer if it were possible," when Lord Maugham said the hearing could be postponed until after the war or for some lctigtliy period. In ‘Inrouto Atiorucyi-iicncral Gordon Conn"! announced that the czise would be argued inlLon- don wilhiii llic next two months, with t\lr. Clifford Magone representing the Province of Ontario. The Dominion (iovcriiuir-nt will be represented ivhcit the judicial committee 0f the Privy Coun- cil hears the constitutional argument on the po\v- ers conferred on Parlianirnt and the provincial legislatures rcspcslivrly in the British North rhiir-riira Art nuil lllf‘ Illllllilillllll pow-crs conferred 9n Ifarliatticitt by the Statute of wutnlinstrf.

THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

NOTES BY TllE HAY

‘Although I advocate the severest measures against. motor- ists who cause the saugmer of in- nocent- people t-hroucn nrtmtnm indulgence t: 51.001101, wit: In see n0 one condemned virimom. a fair and thorough. exanunntton," said the Minister of Transport, Mr. Semple, in explaining a now set. of standard vests to be applied. l0 such oases. Doctors exanunlirg driven suspected of being "under the influence" must carry out tests to determine whether the driver has recently consumed alcohol, whether the amciuit taken has dis- turbed his nonnai behataor to the extent of tnaking mm incapable 0t driving efrlcienm. The doctor mint then teat his vision, speech, memory and. oo-ordination. in- oluding his manner of walking and performing simple opera- tions. sutzh as dialling a telephone number or placing a key 1n a lock. Finally, investigations must be made to ensure the driver's omicli- tfon is not due to some patholog- ical state arising from a cause

other than the consumption of alcohol. - New Zealand Press Union. ‘

lritlil he prohibited the am- pluyment or clients in hairdressing shops, officially recognizing the fact that. Just as men tell every- thing to the bartender, women tcll all to tine halr-dreser. -- ‘Toronm

The csmegle Institute has a machine capable of exercfsmg is pressure of three million pounds u) the square inch. Pei-hues it. could break down Roosevelt's reistance and get at his intentions with re- gard to s third term. — La Pattie (Montrezsf).

Experiments by the Canadian fisheries research beard snow

that fish dorrt eat at all ivhen the water's temperature is below 32 de- grees or when it's over 65 — so save yous- baiit. - O'Hara in N.Y. Post.

Up to Sunday morning, Toronto had 37 lrit-and-run oafies t-lrs year Acme of them fatal. That is an average of about three every week. Take 1n the whole of Ontario, the vrhole of the Dominion, and the aggregate FIIOWS a serious and growing problem. The hft-arid-run driver is a selfish coward‘ and every one who is siii>=enuent1v~ caught should be serif to jail for a long term. - Strut-lord Beacon- Herald.

It is starilln-I in road that be- cause of ace. John D. R"ck"f"l‘rr, Jr.. has reured as cfi~rmzm of’ the board of’ the Rockefeller Founda- tlon. wlfr-“i he has alwnvs rrrr. d ed as h"-< N0. 1 fob. Piit a rranceat Who's Who shows thct John 1)., J'r., was 66 pr» T~ ii W "'1 T‘

offcers. CTlF of Arrrr

F? l1- omlstr, “Pr” __ _.. 1111mm apolls Star-Journal.

When German air raiders stages! an asiault on the O.kuey L-litttcs while the Taxi-n Counrzl of Strcm ness was in 5€§lCIL the \\’.T|t',iC-\\‘5 were shuttered. the gas war. 11f and busncss conzinitctl The wind may blaw, the snow mnv 533W, anti tlae Nazis hill)‘ tum KIQWII bomb‘-

but they cnilna If‘; ‘Tltll lilo liortii‘ sons of the 01-1: ‘North BH- tons or SCITTII B." the s" it is

the same. — afcntt-cal Gazette.

A visitor from the Old Country awenueu a. psnttc... liitcbfhg ca.- evetuig strum; ULUPO potun,» nay, l0 Sue vulzrl. ,» “as 1.1.‘. nit “tuning iweutiai», to sLilaii a.llscirll_.g_ int: speakers uicnea on for than," i.;i.cc- HOD-lb. he forum‘ u. very and unu boring; no euknusuasni, 1w racking

no avenues-s — Jab Spcbuait.) lney CODLUUD Ltungs unrcrcnL-y‘ on the oLncr sine o. bile ALAIN-C,

virere the cantpaign 1.. u lhilitwlllfl affair Instant; not mere than three weeks. n a meeting as auvervoeu to start at 8 o'clock, it. storm prompt- ly at. B: not halt-pan. Artycrae 1n the audience can HLGIJLCL quesinctis and ncbocw ooiecis to utciu—.easi of all the canitntlate——as long a. they are bone-tide questions and not attempts Lo fipOXl we naeetitrg. The clue! speaker Ls expected to talk hall an hour, or 40 nunuies at the outside. If he were sntl Lansing at the end of an hour he would De howled down. AL the close of tus speech the candidate asks for QUBSIJMH and they are fixed at min fromail meet-ions and from peo- ple of every shade of ODlILiOn. Questions may Lint. l5 minutes to half a.n hour. and a snafu-t candi- date, especially it he has a grit for reportee, welcomes these oppor- tunities. Few election meetings last more than an hour and a half. Parties choose their "colors." and supporters wear rosettes Ln their coats or hats throughout. tne elec- tion. There are bright posters or cartoons hung in the wmoows ot‘ private dwellings and it. is not un- common to lee a. duplex house 0r an apartment covered with differ- ent placards. sometimes the peat- era or banners across one half of a house will be answered by p0 t- ers or banners by the people In an- other part. It 1s not, sumrisnig that so few people turn up at. some 0f our political meetings. They need Ifvening up. Hecklers should be welcomed instead of bezng thrown out. - Stratford Beacon Herald.

When a historical film is made in soviet Rosita the former baker Iwdakov Ls called in to play the role of the Russian Czar Nichol- as II. His striking resentbtauce w the former Autocrat of all the Rus- sians was a curse m liim nitring t-he tie-ya oi’ the Cmr. ‘lite secret. police haunted him and lie ivas forced. to out. his board. Today nu one l; interested except for an oc- casional Soviet motion picture d1- rector in search of a czar-Scrib- ner‘s Commentator ftiagazzne,

Owing to the petrol restrictions one firm of Otago stock and sta- tion agents has put the clock back a. quarter of a century. They nave styppued their agents 1n some contra with smart cc-bs and gigs. These agents still retain thea- motor cars for use on long trips or in bad weather. but. daily rounds within a reasonable radius of headquarters are being covered by the gigs. Ihe price of petrol has been fnmeesed on six ooeasfona since the outbreak of war. and now stands at: 2; 6 1-2d and 2a 5 1-2d a gallon, according to grime, com- pared with 2s rnd ls 11d before the

war. -- New Zeoland Press Union.

PUBLIC FORUM

7U" "I'll! ll Olen for the ‘u'""lil i! Ilffllfllleltl o! annulus d intend. IQ Q". lotseeawn Guardian lees an "III"! "llflrlo tie some»

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"PRINCE NOVA”

sir-It may have required. as you stated 1n Saturday's Guardian. the mentality of a genius to have united the mainland and the 1s- iand 1n selec a name for the Wood Islands erry _ The manner of doing it. however, Ls likely to invite criticism. ls the feminine of the adjective “Nos/us" and, if used as a name, it. should not be prefixed by the mae- culine designation "Prince." "Princess Nova" would be accept- able and. doubly so, as many mer- cantile vessels are given feminine names.

I am, Sir. etc. H. K. S. HEDUIING

(But the Island's half o! tihO name would have been missing. Anyhow "Princess Nova" woud have been a misnomer, because the gsrigcf" or “Princess" Ls not new.

WOOD ISLANDS FERRY BERVICI

Bin-June 1st is the date new set for the inauguration of the Wood Islands-Cariboo ierrv service. This ferrv service marks a srreat forward steo in automobile connection - tween Nova Scotfa. and Prince Ed- ward Island. The crossing fa a dis- tance of’ about l3 miles. and should not take more than an hour with a 200d bout. It. is 10m,- overdue and rcrracos the poor four-hour fiftv- two mile service, bv the S. s. Roch- elaea between Plctou and Char- lottetown.

Plans for this service were form- ulated over two years alto. by ar- rangement. between the two Pro- vincial governments and the Feder- al government at Ottawa. The Fed- ora‘ "OVPIIIIIIPHL. through the Pub- lic Works Dept. undertook to bullo two terminal docks. dredging of the harbors. road approaches to docks. e . and other incidentals. A brand l"“.\‘ mau-tnarie harbor was made a_ Wood Islands. and an allllfbacfl l"i.’fl of concrete pavuniz made. All the works were to be 1n readiness for the inauguration of the Ferry service. Mav 1st, 19-10.

The Provincial government. it was understood ivas t0 provide s. Doved road between Charlottetown and Wwti Isloril. as their contribution to the scheme. H0w,_ one will ask. \.:.:.n i i- nrirv .:~‘I'\‘lC€ be of an)’ use. it this road were not Paved‘?

Well. litav 1st. is here. and what do we Kind‘? Ye 11nd that the dOQlKB are ready. harbors dredged. boat DtPJClIfiiEd tutti IJEIXIE made ready- Altcrations to the boat are held up at the sh nyards, due to prcferfllve

mvcn as‘ tirnltv orders-No fault of the owners. However. the bOM would have been ready. had ii; not