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Morning Daily (Founded In 1887i Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Olloo Department, Ottawa.

President, Ian A. Burnett; \'ice~i’resident, Wm. IL Burnett; Secy.-’1‘re~.is., G. M. Burnett; Editor and Managing Director, J. It. Burnett; Associate Editor.

Bunk tl/alker.

"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than Hie Weakest Ink."

SAITJIIDTIT,‘ OCTOBER l9, 1m Busy Week In Sight

Civic and provin:ial authorities will be more than usually busy welcoming distinguished guests next week, as it promises to be a red-letter one so far as official visitotions are concerned.

On October 22-23 the Province is to be honored by a visit from Lord Rowellan, Chief Scout of the British Commonwealth and Empire, who is making his first tour of Canada since his appointment last year, and who will be accom- panied by Mr. A. W. Hurll, general secretary e-P the Bay S:outs Association in Great Britain, and Mr. W. L. Curler, Deputy Commissioner for Canada. The programme of Lord Row- ella\"i's visit has appeared in the press, and includes a dinner and Scout and Guide rally in Charlottetown on Tuesday evening, and a din- ner function at Summcrsidc on Wednesday. The public g rally, as well as all connected with the Boy Scout movement, are looking forward with great intcrcst to this occasion.

October 23 will see the opening of the Maritime Board of Trade annual meeting in Charlottetown, which will be preceded by the second Maritime Air Conference at which such important subjects as air services, development of the tourist industry by air traffic, the place of aeronautical education in the changing world, air cargo potentialities and airports and land- ing fields will be discussed. Among the speak- ers will be Capt. Carl Burke, O. B. E., manag- ing director of the Maritime Central Airway, Mr. George Brown, of the Northeast Airlines, Boston, Mr. John Kirby, assistant director of Air-Age Education Research, New York, and Mr. Charles P. Ware, of the American Airlines System, Boston. Of special interest will be the luncheon address on Wednesday by Mr. W. F. English, vice-president and general manager of Trans-Canada Air Lines, who will discuss the place of the Maritimes in commercial aviation.

Tho meetings of the Maritime Board of Trade, of which Lt.-Col. K. S. Rogers is presi- dent, are timed to open at 3 p.m. Wednesda” following the Air Conference, and will include important addresses and reports, such as those of tho president and manager of the Maritime Transportation Commission. It is understood that the railway request for 30 per cent in- creon In freight rates will bo discussed, along with other matters of vital interest to all con- cerned In our transportation problems. The din- nor meeting of the Board takes place on Wed- nooday evening, leaving COIIIIIIINOG‘ reports, res- olutions, new business and election of offic- ors to bo dealt with at the concluding session Thursday morning. __ _

There will be another important visitation on Wednesday and Thursday of_next week. namely that of the Royal Commission on Indian Affairs, comprising members of the Senate and the House of Commons, who will visit Charlotte- town and Summerside and will make an in- splction of the Indian reservation at Lennox ls-

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Other matters of more locol interest include the celebration on Monday of Gyro Founders’ Day, and the visit on Tuesday of the British frigate, H. M. S. Porlock Bay, which will remain at Charlottetown for four days as part of a routine cruise of the Eastern Canadian sea-

board. Mr. Bracken’: Plea

Hon. John Bracken, national leader of the Progressive Conservative party, has issued a public warning that the King Government's penchant .':r high taxation and unchecked ex- penrjfy-p has become a serious menace, not only tc '. n-rtional economy, but also to the right of i" i--: fions to order their own ways of life within the law. Addressing the Progres- sive Conscrvative Businessmems Club of Tor- onto, Mr. Bracken issued a compelling plea for rationalized spending and reduced taxation.

The trouble with the King Cabinet, oc- cording to Mr. Bracken, is that it "cannot get away from its wartime mentality," and that it has COTIVITICCZI itself "it can spend the people's money better than they can spend it themsel- ves." Several instances of the hangover at Ottawa of wartime spending which is no longer necessary were cited by Mr. Bracken in the course of his speech. He referred particularly to the Wartime lnformatizn Service, still main- tained at an annual cost between $600,000 and $700,000, and to the National Film Board which has nearly L000 persons on its payroll, and continues to be administered at an outlay of almost $2,000,000 o year. The Governments continued programme of wartime advertising and publicity is still going strong to the tune of more than $7,000,000 per year.

But these are merely minor examples of careless Governmental prodigality. Twenty times as much money as is wasted ‘on these ortiftic items is squandered in connection with the re- instatement" of returned servicemen in civil life, notably in subsidizing idleness by paying dis- charged men and women hundreds of millions por year to "compensate" them for not accept- lng useful employment in fields of activity where holp cannot be obtained by the lure of any wage that may be offered. There is neither reason, lystem, sense nor business restraint in the’ King Government's administration of the notions fin- oncos. "

Speaking of the Progressive Conservative party's programme, Mr. Bracken stressed tliot it oimod ot tho preservation of tho incentive to

Ivoto enterprise, o foir dool to farmers, ond tho" highest social security standards possible, —|hort of taxing pcoplo to tho point whorl ont-

erprise i: discouraged, absenteeism increased, production lessened and every one made poor- er."

"Politically," declared Mr. Bracken, our emphasis is on freedom. We believe there is only one way to preserve it, and that is by rc- serving to each of us os individuals the great- est possible area of initiative, liberty, and self- disciplined responsibility."

A Word To The Wise

Newspapers with most influence are near- ly all independent and free from party direction.

It is a strange thing, but it appears that, if the wise and the intellectual are persuaded politically, their views somehow seep right through the community to people who, lacking a deep knowledge of affairs, yet somehow con- trive to reach the some conclusion as the peo- ple who reason it all out.

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.- EDITORIAL NOTIES.=

Belgrade liberated tomorrow's date I944. h: * Ii >F Next week a more than ordinary busy one in public life. It! d‘ 1 ‘ Monday Trafalgar Day-the Naval Birth- clay of the British Commonwealth of Nations. I k ‘k i Sir Charles Wheatstone, English electrician and inventor, died this date I875; professor of experimental philosophy, King's College, Lon- don, with W. F. Cooke took out patent for the first electric telegraph in I837; inventor of the stereoscope and instruments for measuring con- stants of a voltaire series.

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The Tourist Bureau will bring before the gathering at Ottawa next week, the unsightly condition at the landing stage and vicinity at Wood Islands. Col. Reid will be furnished by Northumberland Ferries with photographs of the scene, which should be sufficient in themselves to make the Federal Government take action for the immediate improvement of tho amen- ities.

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Figures recently made available at Na- tional Defence Headquarters reveal that as of tho 5th October 279,045 Canadian Army per- sonnel have been returned overseas since V-E Day. The figures also show that 55,263 service dependents have been moved from the United Kingdom to Canada by surface vessel and IIO by air. Of this total some 4l,000 dependents {gizrghed Canada in the first nine months of

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In accordance with the announcement of the Board of Insurance Underwriters, patrons of Sterns Laundry who lost their clothing, etc., in

the insurance companies with whom their house- hold furniture and effects have been insured. There is a valuable clause in such policies per- mitting the temporary removal of goods from a home and to be covered by insurance should they be destroyed on premises in which they are temporarily located. A laundry comes within such category, so there is no need in future for insurers to pay 2c extra on their laundry bill

to cover such loss.

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Mr. Harry Brown will be greatly missed in the community. Though never keeping himself in the limelight, he was always behind policies and schemes for the public benefit, and, as "mine host", was gracious and considerate to all his patrons. lt was to his credit, in spite of keen subsidized competition, he maintained and increased the patronage of the Queen Hotel, the management of which he shared with his capable wife, whose high reputation also is known from Truro to Vancouver. In his early days Mr. Brown was o printer in Winnipeg, and never lost his taste for printer's ink. He was a friend of the Press, and kept in touch with newspopermen. Sympathy goes out to his widow, who herself has not been in the best of health.

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The British people are well read and well informed. Today they buy rather more than one daily paper for every two inhabitantsncompared with one paper for every three inhabitants of the United States. More significant, the total circulation of British daily newspapers hos in- creased from I9,Zl0,000 before the war to 25,- 530,000 in May, I946, with no artificial stimula- tion of sales. Demand still exceeds supply, and it is possible that the temporary return to unre- stricted sales which is planned for the rest of the year may raise total circulation up to nearly 27,- 900,000. An increase of circulation by more than o quarter was on unexpected achievement during o period when the supply of newsprint was drastically curtailed, having been cut at one time by no less than four-fifths. It was only possible by a reduction of the size of most papers to a single sheet of four pages, and there is only one European country, Greece, where newspapers are smaller, and only three others, France, Italy, and the U.S.S.R., where they aro as small.

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Here is a tip for our own Tourist Bureau. The Scottish Council (Development and In- dustry) have published the aeport of its Tourist Committee recommending the fullest possible use of Scotland's national assets-—its lovely glens and mountains, its sport, its pipe music, its Highland dancing and its good food-to stimulate visits by tourists from all over the world. To enable visitors to enioy the nation's amenities in comfort the Committee-represent- ing local authorities and business interest: all over Scotland-proposes the expansion of accom- modation of all kinds. Country hotels will be encouraged to specialize in Scottish notional dishes-not merely haggis and porridge but also salmon, venison, trout, grouse, shortbread, heather, honey, etc. The report suggomtliot Scotland should have ot least 60 camping altos of I4 to 20 acres, while croltors should bo on-

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THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

Note: By The Way

Donald Gordon, pIInQ our, “y; ‘helflwlmtowoituidaoowunt 41:19pm ‘now ‘that the otooi men ‘ave go a ..I.oent wage bongo, Wfllhflvwuaedtoooywwum unlucky number. --L¢\ndon n“ Prose.

A chlcllo c!!!" our huh which 01780111‘! their Viszun haw g 830d deal to do with bod driving among women. But hosts of mien abo drive badly end w-itihiout that err. cuse. —Othaiwn Evening Journal.

The need tor vigilance l; p“)-

tectlng human rights becomes pair-em when it is iealiood than; only I6 ot the world's 72 mun- tries have freedom at the prose as we know it. —Vimoouvm- lmse Press. R9159?!’ D189“ this month can- tains am Interesting note from on authority. The char-es or 59in; involved in a fatal iiw our onosh in the United State; .n one your are 4,800 to 1; in rm Blfpllnfl amgh Q-LOOOmLiJrJIetr-uvoltorhoo 511 mites m nu credit dilrlng the year. ‘Ilhiait makes air triwel 20 times safer than; highway t-mwL -St.ratdorvi BoamnJ-Ieraid.

It Io u shock to learn from u me- teorologist that an tom outdoor climate would ooll foo- n range or Ifmllerature of only two degrees. Piotesscire David Brunt, an emin- ent British authority, iemvtliy said that suah o cllmailie would peanut a. man to walk at three miles m hour In bmlgftvt. shunshirio without sweating arpprwiably or to scam in the shade doing llghit work without loss oi body heat. The upper limit would be 68 Fahrenheit and the lower- limit 0B degrees Many clays o1’ tine your in this climate provide at least. a tow Iiours of tihls restricted range o! tiem_ euiature, but incry are recognized as ideal because 0t the humrs iund days when the mercury

from that restricted range o! two diegnieeo. In toot, tiho ideal allmmte, tram tihe point o: view ox the man who must, live in it, requires norm titty or titty-five diegizoes of range to set ott those iiwio degrees In the upper siictlsa or the guns that itltiiey are. Witfnout earn-emu at oli- mane, wthot is now considered ideal might become merely . —Fvodericton Gleaner

What we think is needed in a new uppauaoh to stiriilsm, a trash conception ct tibielr significance, wltth notion to hiring about mods. tnory to dieail with tlhem We are not ttilrnlding at mwu forbidding strikes: mt thinklfl! of oomtpulslon. Mutt we have ir- mind is the need of a niatioinail inquiry, in whidh tihe best qt labor and Industry and Industrial set-up generally, labor-industry code After all. most of the rest of our wafional activities are organized. put on a sot"-

Ized basis; lit should not be beyond our wit to put upon a s» |

outlier to support it, qt Lhe good things which can be provided by free capitalism. —()ttawa Journal.

The Canadian hunter of carries a cIep-ndaibie. stralgh shooting gun Very dif-scrcii

oenimrry ago. Its maxnntm ..;.;_,: was 150 yianvls. it uiuis inozin- venieint to use. uncertain enough in good waotihez‘, vvcmoo hi bod. Our great grandfather used o llintlock suoh an those on dis-pioy in the Royal Onitairio Miueum In order to use his gun, he hnd to oost his bullets, round-pellets oi’ lead and teat uhe black powder whidh was vary variable In quality To load his weapon, he meaaumed out o, quantity oi’ powdiar, poured It down tine barrel and over this taimiped in a piece oi wedding. The lead ball was dropped in. and nus helid In place by oiizolliiez- piece 0t wedding. Finally o. little powder was spo-irvcled on the tiring pain. On pulling the trigger. o. spark toinm- eci by tihe imparot. at flint on steel. ignited brie mail o! power which 1n tum set o1! the powder inside. Its eioplioslxiin propelled the imd 51ml, Much q! the power viioio loot. sinoe tihio shot titted tlhe bore loosely and the tllniblock had no ritllng -R.oryai Ontario Miueeiiun.

Many trains on United Stile! railroads are nmv driven by 1710901 Locomotives burning oil. nmd quite a number ot American and 0am- adian Iiooanwtives are also all burneins. During the weir, wimi ocin. sarviition o! will become urgent. British mamas oesmi to exocri- miont with ‘owrnotlven convex-ted to oil. The recurs were satisfact- m-y and waxy there are 1.200 oiL bumin-g looorrvctIvr-o on tihe ion! main lines. A SBNIDQ o! over one mil-lion was o! cool o. your to et- footed and the amount will grow in the ratio oi increasing odumlm ot old locomotives and tihe bulld- Ing qt new ones (or oil only. Many engines In Canada and United raihoads have uutcirnaitic ooal iuell. Ing, which gives the i‘ o reliaitlvely easy time, but the tire- man on obese all-oil loomnotlvoo has not only o still easier Job but n cleiuner one He sits all lure time watching o. row devices am resul- oumg the flow as required. “Firing a big hooimoti-re In o bani. sweaty job than requires If”! Dhvfllml ellwtwalooveltwnmtitireotiolu o! cool Into the tumme on o Ion! iisui. Science i. rmklr-B physical laiboiuu ouster, and it In hidh time or {Immpm got a 'breok'."- Bt. Thomas TImro-Joininal

‘rho rooont war drove hone tho Oh Imam mic, It a sum u w flourish and even to outvivo hi the imam-n world. It mimic be mnneric- nlly strong and ovxmomioaln blood. bnood. All the Dir-minions recognise the need to supplement. nhoorption n! Immigrants, and the ooll to- dmyionohooin outioryoamtor me-nwlaowlliiaukegoodouittio

niciom. Policlvs have boll Billed

couroged to set up hostels alongside their own

crofts. Redundant shooting lodges might also be used for accommodation. _

m scum, In ptcrllflllll‘, ohm ox.

This column In open la tho dlnaunlon by oorro opondonh o! amnion: on lntoliot. Tho Charlottetown Guardian dooo not nooanr ll) IIIOIII the opinion at eorrollbonaoritl

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Sin- A tow dove ago I wrote umier tihe heading "The mm or mo Trouble" and in my oonolud. his waemvh. It made thmee 518- Qeotlono. Under tho circumstances and in view at rooont pirieoo dis-

UULOBER 19,1946

lT’S GO0D POLICY

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All Lines of Insurance effected.

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uiioin to the basic mutter. mentioned thereon - trhe Dominion Provincial Govemymgnt Stwlikie. It is o! tremendous

vinoea alike that Iihh dispute be battled. Tho tenn-imtlng o! o. Steel Strike In various portions at Con- aids. Io a mariner to ‘ojoloe over, but autnequent wusequunoeo, were i; DUIWWIR. would be infinitesimal In 111119011. in c/nnpiriam: with toIL We oi’ Canada and its component Pemiltocametoteiimmtolrtoboth contending parties.

The tinal conleronoo ended In disagreement. and was prorugued —-niot dillolved — at the Instance at the Doirninlon Government. Such on ending would Indoooile some In- tention 0d re-cnnvening, but now, not so interprewd. At the time oi’ adlourrunient, eight or the Prov. inoes were In various Staggg 0g dis- u; t. with ihc Dmiiniioin, but In the morn. twvetul. vvIhIIe the. ninm- Mmitdn — wlo hovering and In more o: leoo lllépended m. oouitalntry. During his Button pm. “million. the Finance Minister served mtdoe at new ieirims upon which the Provinces migm M301. Ira/to with the iivttorul Government, but It mruot be individually and witihout llunhvr Initerpmvlncial oomplieor, but so for this invitailzion lms provein abortive of results. Some time ago Premier Drew o! Ontario Bltlmltiod a desire to again xie-aaenirble Dcminimiawhiicimtbr, with Prank- Muidanald at Nova. Sootla lntIm-atirg amour-mice. Dair- ndence on the oubjam ensued, oontIde-ntially an. first, but now re. vealed and according to the Ont- ario Honda's am-ounoorriient, Ott- awa. is adamant and will hoive nnine oi it. So the stake to at a dread. look; OtIIA-wa says unconditional sin-madam, the Provinces will nary. . . . i‘

I Sir. etc. ELECTOR

The interdependent Nations a Mailer For Public Opinion

(United Kingdom lntcmiatlooi) The first week in Ootoibeii‘ was widely oinervea In Britain as Unlbed

569d by messages tram leading Dwple from time Kim: downward. were organised by the United Nu- tlons Association n! Great Britain

Nations Associations formed last month

Mlr. Eden, smelting at a 35mm- In: Dwsided over by Iihe

194° Mayor at London on October 2nd, a

was evidently quite conscious of the general doubts about and lwk

tlhe flint-look siill in wide use llm- coy-Luciana“, the United Nations‘ Ell nallom 9mm “Id “mam “mm

Hewais equally convinced, however ot the Importance at enoourngirzg contacts not, only between Govern.‘ mm but who between citizens and ooganlnstlonu.

WIhehhor we like lit. or not. he B-Iirued. we are now all one an- othefs neighbours living not only In tihe saone country but in the some parish, almost. on the saime stixioet. The ahocl: aixiortbmis pro- vtdied Iormerly It! tiho siowness ot wmmunioaitioiu are no longer theme. There is no escape from rubbing shoulders. m may be disagreeable but we Just cannot hen: It We have to not home farm oil’ would under or endure world bmwllm and world ohwoo.

The sortie sclontitlc developments which have outpaced the polltloal main, Mr. Eden went on. have nought us Iihe Iowan ot the in. independence qt nations ‘Phone is m notion, however poweiritul, how- oven- rlah in material mioiu-oos that cannot gain more for its people In association with other: uhon by its own undivided elm-rm Within Ida ovm bclundnines. \Vo need a United Notions organisation to give expression tio that interdependence 0t natloiris.

Speaking with an unrivalled know- ledge qt Internrctlorrml attains. Mr. Eden affirmed his conviction that it Io the human factor — suspicion and onrtiogonlmn- not the mooh. anical stiorteomlngs 0d intermtlon- an machinery not oausvs YBIIIIIVS. Without being hnIl-ihairted in our avmtnimwemustnotbetooim. patient, of conclusions which ooin- fllot with aura or too sure that our view oiwovo has all Justice and all merit. Criticism stiould be oon- otiructive. In this connect! , he abated, omtiwta between those not ‘ ‘ wlnli BUvcu ‘ are Invaluable; and the people ot Bri- toin he concluded, can In this make on ever-growing oontirlbutlon to nheir iiooosd o! oervlooo to main- hind. .

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‘rho United Nations week had be. oidwatholooilwilloltihoflov- ornrnent. the uotivc cooperation o! tho cihumhu, portion, trades unions, and many societies. With the hdip of the plus. Broncutlng Oar-potat- hn and tihn Ofllnllltlonn, ch

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