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President: Lieut. Col. W. Chener 8. Mobil-rt Vice-President: J. FJJ. =£€°'°“llh “"1" "Bl" "N" “f”’£“£i'.-'.‘s£“r‘5h

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ly Mall ln P. ILL, $4.00 per year; $2.50 for 0 month: PC“ 1-1"- .\ 19*?‘ _~ l9 Or e _ _ ' ‘ '

$1.25 for 3 priinlhs; 50¢ for 41110 1111111111 aiitcriiatroiral rclzititwus arc zilmost uriliinrlcd.

611-: Delivery: p‘: 51:11:41] fir" 1°‘ ' 111mm" 'l‘he_v always have I)C(.‘ll. That is lust as mrch a By Mall in (Janina and U. s. A.:' 55.00 pet yen: part of thc .‘\lllt‘l‘lt'llil systcni of government as is 5511"“! “ieeklYi 52"“ P" Ywnkiufo I" 6 ‘Mmh’ the power 0f the llotrse of Representatives to 5 *—-— loriginzilt- bills for raising rcv/snue. If war were his

0c for 3 mont ‘The Strongest Memory is Weaker than aim, President Rooscvclt wotild not be wasitig the IVea/rest Ink.” time asking Congress for the lend-lease bill.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10. 194l-

treatres, has never been clearly defined. The des- trover-base deal was an executive agreement.

He can scrrd abroad personal emissaries — such as Hopkins. Donovan or a Colonel Home. 11¢ can reach secret tiudcrstairdiirgs with foreign pow- ers—which arc as good as his word and his powt-r to execute thcm.

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EDITORIAL NOTES -t

Ruil Rate Increases

Charlottetown had 67 hours of sunshine during

Effective on lcbltiuyy 1, the rail rates on a January

number of comittotliiics, including catuicd lisli and iron rind siccl rtriiclcs", wcrc inatcrially 1n- crcascd frniu lllt- Alariiiinc l'ro\'iriccs to British Columbia curist lmiiiis. This is in liiie with auAup- trend in rail rxttcs which has bccn noticeable srtice Soldiers a, Yammufl, Camp under COL Ulric the ivar, and uliich sccrus to have bccii applied Dawson Subscribed inst Over $2,000 out of their Only to certain coiriiiioditics" from liastcrn Caii- pay for w“ Saving Stamps and Cemficatei Ida to the lkrcitic coast. The principal reason is * a u- w the withdrawal and curtailment of watcr conrpcti-l tioir, as tor cxrtrnltlc thc- lancutivcr-Sl. Lawrcircc' liiie which ztltantlotn-d rhcir service shortly aftcr| the oirtbrtrik of uar whcii thcir‘ chartered vessels were retprisiiioiicd by the British Government. The incrtriscs lltlYQ caiisctl a good deal of dissat- isfaction anti-tit; .\llll1])t.'l'5 both cast and wcst, but protest so t.tr' ha. provcd 11111111111111}!-

lliitish t hllttplyj, ,.»,~airtl\" étllpCillffitl to the Board of 'l‘t~,ttt.p-»i"i l~lllllll4\liilll‘l'S in the matter, an the apptuil \\.|s lllllttil lllt\\ll. The tlCltlllsli‘ put up by the l’.lll\\.'l_\'s, says the Yancotiver I.'l'()\'lllC-3» "aiiiouiitcrl to lhv iiioic than a clcar statciticnt that, now that llic war" had clcrtred away water C0lllllfillllutl, thq can gcr the increase and are going afit-r it." _

"The cust- of the railways,” adds the Province, "15 Exam.‘ m“ *‘*‘“"‘ ‘*5 m“ of ‘he 1391110“! who Both New Brunswick and Nova Scotizi Legisla- would lithe: ilil\'lllll.lgt.‘ of war exigencies t0 boost Mums are summnned for Tuesday 25m inst H “"15 or of m” “Wmlflm “ho ‘VPNId gouge an 'otir Crovcrntncnt follows use-ztntl-tvorrt the Legis- extra proiit on hiittci- or sugar. lhe landlord is datum Shank, meet on or about Apr“ 3rd- Th“, prohibirctl by i-t-giilrttitius uiidcr the_\\'ar Mcas- would be a week mfore Good Friday camping m, “m5 A“ [mm Wulnav ul) 1H5 rem‘ lhe “Ierchant adjournment to be made over Easter‘ as usual. can charge no highci- price for strgar 0r butter ., 4t s a than the War l'i'iccs Board allows. The Govern- ment is'coiict~rncd with keeping prices down so that there may be no widespread demand for‘. higher wages and that it rnay be possible to corr-, lrol inflation. \\‘h4\', under the circumstances,‘ lhoiild the railroads be an exception? _

"A further appeal—-to the Government this tiinc-ivoitltl sccm to be in order."

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lt is more blcssctl to give to tlrc \\'ar Certificate caiivasscrs than for thcin to receive. 1K >01 101 101

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Thcrc is a lot of Lord Haw-flaws iii Germany, it is now reported. just so; as is also a lot of Hitlcrs; hut riot so irrairy l.\Itrssoliiii’s in Italy as heretofore.

:- m at n- , What docs Prime Minister Churchill want most of all? More spitfircs. The Malayan Press sent him approximately .,57,5oo to be spcnt as he wished. lle trirucd the money vvci‘ to Lvfd

leaverbrook for the purchase of Spitfires,

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A rrieilicztl llllSSlfJlt to llalifztx from Ilrtrvard declare they have found that city a “perfcct" point from which to study meningitis. Rather a left-handed compliment to pay so important an eastern port as the czipital of Nova Scotia.

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Premier Aberhart got a vote of confidence and endorsation of his Sirois report policy at the bv- clections in Catnrose The only opposition candi- date was a C. C. F. man who argued that the Sirois report would have bccn bcircficial to Alberta.

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At Stalingrad. Russia, four Christian evangel- ists have been sentenced to ‘dcath for preaching the gospel, ivhile 12 others have bccir scnt to peni- -——~—?—~ tcntiary for a like offence. Dictatorship, Commun- Oire thing achieved by the Ottawa conference ist, Fascist or Nazi, cairnot tolerate free speech or

religion—-or at least’, not far lgng. ' w-

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on the Sirois report, says the Fortnightly Law t journal, was to demonstrate that Canada will need

to work our its salvation under Confederation as Prince Albert Francis Charles Augustus Ethan- it exists, and that: experiments in new forms of uel, youngest 5011 of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg Coiifcdcralioit can only serve to precipitate a married Queen Victoria this date r840 aird fir?’ crisis. “There can be no doubt,” adds the aw lived lid il to ether for 2r years, w rcn 1 c Journal, “that Confederation has worked and iPrincg Cgiisgrt (tiled of typhoid at Windsor. He 110111911 We“ 101 1011f! ¢11°11EI1 10 511°“! 111111 111°" ‘was mourned bv the whole nation \Vl1lCl1 had is no inherent dcfcct either in the idea or in the Ilgafned to appreciate his elevated character and form ivhicli that idea was clothed in 1867. 'l‘ltefbengficignt influence, The present King i5 hi5 fault must lie elsewhere. 1t seems to us that gfeat grandson,

that fault lies in the fact that the system ofl machine politics that prevails tends to discourage‘ leadership and encourage only mediocrity. The politician himself pays lip service to democracylTol-onlo the QlhQr day, that the tendency was t0 while at the satire time holding hitlerian ambi- exploit the patriotism of the farmers by enmm. tions for himself. Everywhere we see only the aging them to produce more and 561i b91011’ C1151- 111511 101' POW". T11! leaiollsiel 0f 11W ¢°11fefe11¢et He said that dairy farmers had just passed

1110 lfilousl" <91 1116 ifgliliill-ll‘?! 0f the P01111315 °1ithrough some lean years and added that “just at a time when it looked as though butter would

the judiciary, the increase of administrative tri-

burials, funny-money politicial regimes, all show reach a price which would bring g profit to the the trend of political self seeking. We are in themyodticer, we find the government authoritiesat wildernes: indeed, and the Rowell-Siroi: report is Ottawa pegging the price at a level which, with l0 M056! 10 11184 ti! 0111M 11-" the rising cost of production, will not pay ythe farmer a lQZlSOHBbIaFCQlYILEOZ feed and labor.

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President T. R. Dent, of the Hvlstcin-Ffififiillfl Association declared at the annual meeting m

President Roosevelt's Powers _ Lord Lloyd, who has recently‘ passed to hr: Opposition to the lend-lean bill in the U. S. final reward, _was _ om 15111P1" Sfatcsmm (jump-es, geems to be palm-id; Dug, In any case, wholresrgned his official position, as High Com- it has an air of unreality in view of the fact that|mi55i0ri€f f0? Egypt. T811161‘ 111311 611410116 01' 113")’ the Pl-csident ha; alfgady practically unlimited out the policy of “scuttle” inaugurated by Ramsay powers of action, and there is nothing in the liiacdlmflld 311d the LaIJOHf P3111)’ W116" 111 PQWQT- lend-lease bill to alter hi: status in that regard. HQ W35 111°" backed 11V M1’- W11151°11 Qhulfchl" m If the President wants to go to war in aid of the House of Commons. and when “\Nrnn_i" came Britain, he has all the power he needs to do it. iinto his own, he remembered Lloyd and his sacri- Qnly Congres: can formally declare war, but thefice for principle and called him t0 111$ C3111?“- Pfggidgnb-any Presidcnt—- can precipitate warlThe Empireis the poorer today for his demise at by exercise of his indisputable constitutional the age of sixty-one. _ ower. Here, according to an authority in the "‘ _ _ T inneapoli; Star journal, are some of the things No companyor individual may export cheese which the President can do, and which other from Canada in shipments of more than 5o Presidents have done; pounds without permission of the Dairy Products i He can send the navy, or any part of it, any- Board, tinder an order of the board. ($116956 $111?" where in the world. Theodore Roosevelt sent it ped to the United Kingdom by licensed exporters uncl the world. McKinley sent the battleship under instruction of the dairy products board are Elaine to Havana Harbor when the U. S. wa: not not included in the order, the announcement said. t war with Spain. The board has also ordered that on and after l Th President Iras the power to send a battle- March f, no person may export concentrated milk ghip Er the whole fleet, into the English Channel prodircts outside Canada without its permission. or the Mediterranean tomorrow. As in the case of cheese the order does not applv probably he could order the navy to protect the to concentrated milk products shipped to the sea lanes all the way from New York Harbor to United Kingdom underanstrucltron of the board. Liverpool. lUnder the agreement Britain Wlll take rr?,ooo,ooo He can send, and has sent, troops into foreign pounds of Canadian cheese in the ensuing year: countries ivithotrt dcclartttiuir of war by Con- and Canada may deliver $3,250,000 worth of con- gress, _ densed milk in the same frfltlfl Uthcr Presidents have sent American troops . y 1' * _ ' n _ into Mexico, Nicaragua, China and other irations,‘ “We are told we are fighting for liberty, said whwe tlwy etigrtgetl in armed conflict, without Mr. Lcslic, M. IT, n1 th~ British Commons. bcnl-lil of t; declaration of war. "‘\Vlicn we speak of liberty I am always reminds-l Hg can proclaim and pursue a policy which may lof those brave words of that great Scottish pat- lead to war, or must inevitably lead to war. lriot. Sir \Villiam Wallace :——“ When I was a The Monroe iloctrine was a presidential POIiCY. lvotith and tinder the care of my uncle theprrest of and it rcmairitvl a presidential policy until vcrv Dunipacc. all l could carrv awav from him was a recently it rcccivctl congrcssional sanction. The single proverb. but it seemed to me above all price Monroe doctrine i5 a CUIIIITIllTTTCIII to fight under and I never forget it It was th_is:—“I tell you “ha,” ¢.»,||,lj1i..tt<_ _ ,a truth: lrlwrtv is thc best of all filings‘. MY 5°11. Wilson's- pnlhfv with rcgard to submarines lic- ticvcr live under a slavislrbond. If ‘that was (._.,,,,,. _., CNN. f," “m- i" i917. Ile could have trut- in thv davs nf Sir ‘Aillllfllll Wallace it is true adoptctl .'l iliffcrcitt policv-—-as Bryan tirgcd. llw tmlav so far as this country is cirnccrticd. FY00- (lccisitili tin tinlivv was 111-140 liv _lnm, not by Con- tIflttt-Invlllg‘. ponple have yicwcd with _horror ma“, llp (‘|'(‘.'\l(‘lI a Sillltlllfltt which led to war. ;Nazt<m, with its coitccritration camps. itsnsup- Tl"- lwt-dtlt-nt can break off diplomatic rcla- Drcssioit of frr-cdnm, its oppression of feligrnn tinns with any country without consulting Con- and its robbery of ivnrkmg-class orgatnzations. grc“ ' It should he made clear that all lcgilimfllc E1161" llt- m" nmke vxcciilive agreements with for- ances can htqremc-ilii-rl hv negotiation, based not

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NOTES BY TNE WAY

Stripped of all its fancy verbiage and bereft of all its tabulated sta- tlstcs. the Site's Report says sm- ply that the tlnances of Caiusda have to g1 through the ceaners and one method cf dong it. as re- commended. Scme of the provinces {rave been spending more t an taey could afford. The lll€VlL8bl€ day of reckoning I5 apprflirchlng Lo fast for equrrnrmzty. By a QLITLIIQ o1 financial responsibilities from the provinces to the Dominion. Ottawa hopes to salvage most of the 1m- pendrng wreckage. It, 1s not. a nice pill t; take. But, there is no use tryin to drem uip [I13 report tn a lot o pretty words that. won't help at. all, when the hand facts have to be revealed. - Harrison 1n Wind- sor Star.

l! there had been no war ft. l: quite probable that the “Ashes of Jehcviurs Witnesses not t. have rhea Children sing the National Anvheim and salute the flag would have continued to be tactly granted. But. when a nation is at war those who are not. for the flag are righly regarded as against it.

Apparently these do not. care whe- therjit flies or falls. Such un- patrutlc indifference merits the displeasure of Lyai pesple. If the Union Jack should fall, those re- ligious sects which refuse to honor 1t. would be compelled to bow to the swastika, the emblem of o'- presslon, or be herded ‘into con- centration camps. - St. Tnaenas Times-Journal.

y The Ottawa Journal ls author- ity for the ststemtrit. that, in ad- dition to all the temporary build- ings which have already been erected in the Capital. upwards of two millions more will be spent on temporary warden burldngs this tvear. 112v varicus depart.- ments are s. expanding that more space is urgently required, which means nrore staff. The people of Canada will soon be paying taxes that are the hcavlest. in our history. There will be no grumbling. Crin- adians knew war costs money But they do want to make certan they get a dollar's w.rt.h for every dollar spent. One wozid-ers whet-her an tfflci-sncy expert ls not "ceded at Ottawa. - Mridcn Free Press,

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The Pigeon Menace

(Halifax Chronicle)

Pigeons trcm now on are all-WWI of firth corurnn activity. Any prgeon found wftnout a national registra- tion card had better watch his 310D- Juire whole thmg is set out. 2n an Extra in The Canada Gazette, allied tuttawa February 1. It would be a =sirame to paraphrase the dignified liarrguage of that official sheet. Let u quote it. direct:

“whereas the Minister of Justice reports taut it has been represented |by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police that the unrestricted traf-lc in hcming pigeons, to and fro. across the International boundary ‘line. presents a channel through which communication contrary to L118 Defence of Canada. Regulations may be carrledpn:

"And whereas the Minister of Jus- tice f; of opinion, upon the facts represented, that. it ls expedient 1n the public interest. that the De- lfenoe of Canada Regulations be a- mended to restrict the traffic 1n ltromlng pigeons to and fro across lthe international boundary line."

Now just. a moment. Let's pause tbefore examining the rest. of lt. So tar it makes sense. Carrier pigeons would afford an ea. y channel of conununlcatlon for enemy agents, although other channels exist, It should be fairly simple, too, for Customs officers to check any ship- ment. of homing pigeons across the border. If any more German pris- oners escape 1t ls important. that. they have no _ access to such a simple method of sending messages out of the country. But let's con- tlnue with the Gazette:

"Therefore. H15 Excellency the Governor General 1n Councll, on the recommendation of the Minister of Justice and under and by virtue of the War Measures Act, and by Chapter 206 of the Revised Statutes of Canada 1927, ls pleased to amend the Defence of Canada Regulations (Consolidated) 1940 and it. is hereby amended by arid- iiig thereto immediately after Regulation 18A thereof the follow- ing as Regulation 183:"

(Phewl)

"1813 (l) Subject to any exemp- tion for which provision may be made by Order of a competent au- thority, no person shall, except 1m. der the authority of a written per- mit granted by or on behalf of a

—-"Nevcr sry die" ls apprrr- . ently tire slogan of that, vFIIHOiCUS, rnitrci-ity in Califcriria wii ch is st. ll. s.ekr:rg to incorponzte its "ham and eggs" fantasy into-the state's cnstitutlciral system. This some- thing for nothing mcvemeirt, which] once crusaded for $30 every 'l‘lnrrs- t day, has been condcmned by every} ccmpettnt. economist. and twice re- i jected by the voters, yet 1t comes back for ntore. Nw the same» ringleaders of “Ham and ."| have launched a new pensizn drive and are preparing to circulate art-l other initiative measure. The new organization is to be known as the "Pay Roll Guarantee Association, Inc." The provisi its. although somewhat modified, are essentially the same as before. Mcnsy ls to be‘ doled out to almost everyone c-ver 21. in different amounts based upon age and srtuatfn. - San Francisco Ar-gonaut.

Silently through the snowy hours scft bits cf sky have been flsating earultwrrrd, like bright nrhrntcs gathering from distant planets. All trees — maple, ash, oak-arre- b.rch trecs, at. least on the upper sides ofthetr trunks. All afterno :1 the vo.c;s of children have shot slv-eri shafts through the mirifflcd white- ness. Snow! There is too much de- light for one day's savoring. So two sleds are abandhed at the scle- walk’: edge. Somewhere in this} vast, deep featherbed of frin threr. owners are hidden. perhaps build mg a snow fort. or rolLng into mammoth balls the tiny, gum-like particles that. lock so preclcus when the shine singly an w oily sleeves. Al these white star's — made of the very air, made of

thevhave been falling on the earth Twilight stays bright with them

The evening shadows are almost dispersed as thcy try to olo3e in

Ni ht; must watt. — Cttrastfan Sc encc Monitor.

Ac for those Japanese wlm are here. whether rrnitve-ba-i-n or naturalized, they are tntitled to exactl the some treatment as is aooo 0d all Canadian citizens, and 1t would be the part of wisdom to accord them that treatment. The Province has defended out: fell-cw citizens of Oriental blood against those who, for their own purposes would like to put them 1n a. re- stricted and lower categ ry of citizenship, and will continue lts defence. - Vancouvtr Province.

Commenting on Ohe [rent copy. right. war raging between the radio broadcasters and the music cmnpo-ers, an official of one of the major chains 1s quoted t; the effect that 1t. amounts to nothing anyway, “My theory," said he, “.:, people don't pay any attention to what is playcd, anyway. It's just. noise." It. eztrzrds like poison ivy, but who gets the wreath-the song writer, tire radio public, or radio a: an institution. - Chicago Dally News.

The Second Canadian D1- vlsronal Signals are adapting c:.m- merclal facsimile transmission to military purposes. After long ex- permrmmt. s. system has been de- vised which has never previously been used in army work. The machines envplived resemble mod- ern tcletype machines. Map: sketches, and written or rlntted matter can be tranisrrilt. over regular wlre or rad-to air-cults. It ts claimed that the system l: : scientlflc application of commer- cial equipment to army needs, and that. it provides speed, accuracy, and variety. The machines oper- ate over any available speech channel. - London Times.

What he: changed the United States outLok? The bombfng of British citlee has had I tot to do with. it. Ycu typlets and bu; con- ductors and factory workers who have stuck to your jobs after these days and nights of mus siauehter. y u have convinced America. u Churchill and Lcthtan could never have done that Brit» sin has Eur heart. ln this So have or: auxiliary firemen who have timed out to fight the gest blazes since Mc-rww in and have died in your downs. ea fresh bornibe were rained down an ycn. Then the sheet- efficiency of our airmen ha: caught. the American imagination. The fut of men who saved London on septemiber- 10 and the smaller handful who crippled the Italian flert, don't. seem like war been.

eign nations which may be far more important on the flirt-at of force, but ..n mirtual respect for aim. Rffliliilfl‘ . 11,. it“; between executive agrec- the pledged word." ' .

American money. Amerlcm ma- terial m, even more lap:

cloud and wind and lightP-all dayl

competent authority, bring, take or send any live pigeon into or out. of Canada: and where any officer of the Department; of National Re- venue finds any llve olgecm or any occasion on which it has been’ brought or sent Into Canada or l: being taken or being sent out of Canada, then, unless he 1s satisfied that 'ucb bringing, taking or send- ing is either exempt from the re- striction imposed by this regulation or authorized by a written permit pursuant to the provisions of this regulation, be may seize and detain such pigeon and may cause it to be liberated, detained, destroyed, or otherwise disposed of in accordame with instruction.- glven by or mi behalf of a competent authority."

This breezy discourse ends with the following a lde;

"(zl For the purposes of this Regulation ‘a competent authority’ shall mean the Minister of Nu- tlonal Revenue.“

And there it 1s ln all its “Any live pigeon" is ruspeet 1t the officer finds any pigeon or". airy occasion being sent in or out of the cuntry, illegally, he iviay seize and detain 1t. (A pretty p'f!'l!2'6 of Atr- tltorrty in action J F'r0m now on Cirstoms officer's wh] regard all pigeons with sirsplclvn, F93- who knows what pigeons among