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The hliuial lluurillun Publishing Co. Editor and bluiiuglng Director, J. It. Burnett. r Aliioclnlis Editor, Frank Walker.

1 . fThe Strongest Memory is Weaker Than

the Weakest Ink" CBARLOTTETOWN. SATURDAY, SEPT. 10. 194;

Campaign Medals Ready

Distribution of campaign stars and medals to the more than one million members of the Canadian armed forces and Merchant Navy who served during World War ll will commence about October 1st, it has now been announced by Hon. Milton F. Gregg, Minister of Veterans Af- fairs. The distribution will involve a total of ap- proximately 3,100,000 stars and medals with an additional 524,000 clasps signifying at least sixty days service outside Canada.

The Minister explains that in the vast ma- jority of cases it will be necessary for the veter- ans to apply for their medals. To facilitate the

application special postage free cards will be

placed in all Canadian post offices. These cards will also be available in all branches of the Caladian Legion.

Merchant Seamen and ex-members of the Merchant Navy will apply to the Department of Transport, Ottawa, submitting .with their ap- plication their ccrtificote of discharge or their continuous certificate of discharge book. From this, the Department of Transport will decide entitlement and forward the medals earned.

_ Members of the permanent force, however, will receive their decorations through the De- partment of National Defence without any ap- plication being necessary, while certain of the reserve units will receive theirs in a similar man- ner under arrangements already completed.

The next of kin of deceased veterans will bemligible to receive the stars and medals which would have been awarded to the veteran had he not died.

All told the Department will be distributing [total of eleven stars and medals. Widest dis- tribution is, of course, the War Mbdal 1939-45 which was awarded to all members of the forces with 28 days service. A‘total of 1,060,000 of these have been ordered. Next in importance is the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal of which approximately 900,000 will be distributed. To 5_24,000 recipients of this medal will go clasps ‘lfllllftlllfl "I lwit sixty days service outside Ca- nada.

The other medals and stars to be distribut- ed are as follows: Defence Medal, 460,000 I939. 45 5"", 233.000; France and Germany: 5pm- "fllY 5"", 102.000; _Atlantic Star,

I - Afflw Slur. 12.000.- Pacific Star, 10,825 and Burma Star 5,200. lfl addition 25 870 clas s to stars will be awarded. ' p

For Careful Driving

With the opening of the school term, news- papers across Canada are again reminding their readers of the dangers of careless driving. Mot- orists should have a special eye to the safety of the small children during the opening and clos- ing of school hours. ln general, motorists are more than anxious‘ to prevent a tragedy or an accident to small children, and it is hoped this reminder will serve to redouble the vigilance of the car driver who uses streets in school areas, where small innocents who hardly know their way about as yet are concerned.

Also worth re-emphasizing are the hazards bf semi-drunken driving. A statement recently prepared by the U. S. National Committee for Traffic Safety for submission to a Highway Safe- ‘ty Conference is of general application in this

connection.

_ “Driving while under the influence of an 1ntoxicant," it is pointed out, "is much more hazardous than the public realizes. O-ur attention is focused on the flagrant cases-the drunk driver who has a crash, who kills or injures. There is a vastly larger number of reputable citizens who operate motor vehicles after mad- erate use of an intoxicant. While they are not drunk in the common sense of the term, the driving ability of many of them is measurably impaired. Better understanding of, and a solu- tion for, this problem must cope with bath kinds of driver.

"The av:rage p:rson who has used an intoxi- cant in moderation feels perfectly capable of driving an automobile. He does 'not realize that alcohol has cllc:led both his driving ability and his iudgmcnt. The only remedy for this is a great-

er sense of in viduol responsibility and a mere-

realistic appraisal of cne's capabilities and lim- itaticns."

“lamentable Commentary"

The Winnipeg Free Press, the principal Lib- eral organ in the Canadian west, has had some- thing to say about democratic governments and economic crises. It points out that a crisis has descended upzn the democratic world far more suddenly and far more severely than was thought possible. The democratic peoples were kept unenlightened by the very governments that ought to have informed them. The British Gov- ernment-"no doubt sincerely," it believes -—al- Iowed its people to imagine, up to o few weeks ago, that the nation's economic disease was on the way to a cure, when in fact, it was sinking to a collapse.

But as for the Canadian Government, there is some doubt whether it acted oven sincerely. "The Canadian Government, judged by its el- ection "campaign statements," says ‘the Free Press, misgouged the whole situation as badly as anyone and only discovered what is perhaps the gravest economic problem of the nation's Iilstozooftor tho polls closed."

rnmonting on this statement, the Mon- ftlal Gazette says that to suggest that all that Ilflpenodwos aneiinfertuneto "inisgauging," is t0 Illvllke o statement with one eye cliorltably closed.

' ll that resembles o wink. Actually the

tllflo by orrorbiit In sot pur- . of on economic crisis

inet laughed, with Rt. Hon. C. D. Howe laughing the loudest.

When in London, less than two months be- fore the election, Mr. Howe was greatly amused by reports of a trade crisis. "There will be a crisis every day now until the next general el- ection," he said. "No election propaganda is complete without one."

But the Canadian Government and the Ca- nadian people are not now faced with election propaganda. They are faced with the crisis. As the Winnipeg Liberal paper sadly notes: "|t has been a lamentable commentary on demo. cratic politics."

EDITORIAL NOTES

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Tomorrow l3th Sunday after Trinity.

Harvard Collegd fobnded this date 1636.

now the holiday season is at an end. I I I

Charlottetown cordially welcomes today the members of the Supreme Council, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, who are visiting here as a prelude to their annual meeting at Saint John.

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So the private agencies and the Government agencies in the social welfare field are to be allowed to continue. Thcre will be plenty work for both, and properly organized, there should be little overlapping.

I O U . Canada ls host to Lcgionaires from 21 Com- monwealth countries. The biennial conference of the British Empire Service League opens in" Ot- tawa tomorrow. This is only the third meeting of the conference in this country the previous occa- sions belng in 1925 and 193:1. I I

Canada ls to have on underwriters’ labor- atory in the near future, according to a recent report. Being able to instal approved electrical equipment, fire hose, oil furnaces and fire equip- ment should enable Canadians to get cheaper fire insurance.

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Highway and, to a lesser extent, building construction in our climate should benefit by the University of Alberta's development of a frost resistant concrete. The mixing of tiny air bubbles in concrete is claimed to make it 20 per cent more durable against water, frost and alkali soil.

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Scotland Is holding nothing back in her ef- forts to ease Britain's dollar shortage. In ad- dition to exporting some 9,000,000 gallons of whisky this year the Scots have added the Loch Ness monster to the Board of Trade's export list. Mr. Walt Disney is the new proprietor.

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There is a lot of money going a-begging ac- cording to a spokesman for the Central Mort- gage and Housing Corporation. It has distribut- ed about $1,000,000 to Canadian universities for housing research and to train planners but has no takers for the balance of a $5,000,000 fund for that purpose.

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The Church of England in Canada will con- tinue as a designation for at least another three years. l~t was too much to expect that the New- foundland representatives at the Synod would be ready to sacrifice their Church's name, as well as that of their "Ancient Colony" at one and

the same time. I I I

Mary Wolstonecroft, English writer and first known active. suffragette, died this date 1797. She married William Godwin, and their daughter became the second wife of Shelley. Her publications include Vindivicotion of the Rights of Women, and Original Stories for Children, for which William Blake drewfithe illustrations.

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Mr. J. B. MacDougald, urging the selection of ex-High Commissioner Massey as the next Governor-General of Canada writesi "ln May of this year, speaking before o meeting of the Royal Society at Montreal, Mr. Massey had this to say: ‘ln a country like ours we need every- thing we can have to remind us whet _we Can- adians have in common, of the special things which give us character of'our own. If there aro institutions, customs, habits which can be label- led Canadian, let us hold on to them tenaciausly. They will help to keep us Canadian. Let us cher- ish every symbol of unity we possess. National unity cannot be achieved, nor can any great question be solved, without a‘ full measure of national feeling, which all of us can share wherever we live, whatever language we speak, whatever we do. Before the flame of a real na- tional spirit, there are few problems, which will not melt away.’ I submit that those are the words and that is the spirit befitting tho next Govern- or-General of Canadf/x '

Just ten years ago, on September 10, 1939, Canada officially declared war on Ger- many and authorized the immediate formation of two divisions as the Canadian Active Service Force. Before the war had ended this small bo- ginning had been enlarged to such an extent that Canada had five Divisions plus two independent armoured Brigades and numerous other forma- tions and headquarters in the field . . . The first Canadian troops, numbering 7,500 — vanguard of an overseas army totalling 375,000 -—- arriv- ed in the United Kingdom December I7, I939, just three months after the outbreak of war . . . Only 73 Canadian soldiers last their lives at sea while en route overseas. All of these men were lost in" the sinking of one small iessel, the SS Nerissa which was hit by three torpedoes and sank in four minutes some 120 miles off North- ern Ireland on the night of April 30, 194i . . . Canadian troops in World War Ill fought in more countries than ever before and engaged the enemy in Sicily, Italy, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, North Africa and Hong Kong . . . Con- crete proof that the Canadian servicemen was a popular ally is the fact that more than 47,000 found wives in almost every corner of the world‘ wliilo serving overseas . . . Canadian casualties in the war totalled 104,196 for the three services

and included 32,046 officers and nien killed in octlgn. ,

rim GUARDIAN. Cl-IARLOTTETOWN

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SEPTEMBER 1o, 194.,

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Church organizhtidns ‘will be pepped up

WHY ,0 root's w! azure.’

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- Notes By

To commemorate a recent Incl- dent. in which o pair of roblns nested and hatched a family al.’ six In the lectern, a clock and an embroidered linen cover for the lectvern Bible are belrig provided ,In All Saints’ Church, Rlngsfleld, Suffolk. About 80 people from all ports of the country have written to the rector, thaRev, H. S. Ver- irells. about. the roblris. He has , had printed for dispatch to them n .detalled account of what he de- scribes as "a trivial but'charm- lng incident." —- London Times.

l American oducatlonlists and aclén- flsts foresee a city of the future that. la star-shaped and has a popu-

ylatlon of about 50.000. This was

‘the consensus of opinion acquired by Mr. Ken Cooper, public relo-

|tlona officer of the Saskatchewan Teachers‘ Federation. while ln

Chicago recently. The star-shaped

city would consist of a trading

area ist the centre with residential areas at the points. The aim of this type of decentralization would be to render atomic bomb attacks lee: profitable. This ti: all very well, from the point of view of speculation. But If we are going to speculate about the future. why not a future fear of atomic bombs’! — Saskatoon Star-Phoenix.

A New York visitor wrote to this newspaper about our liquor drinking habits. She pointed niii she had been ta .1 dance at one of our chief hotels, and Ihnt all the patrons had bottles under tho tables and that. quite openly and brazenly. In defiance of the law. they poured their own drinks. This .woman, asking pardon if nnynnr- thought. she was butting lain our affairs, said she thought cocktail lounges would obviate much of the drinking that she saw going on. What particularly Impressed her was that as the dance neared its end people sfnrterl pulping drinks of almost straight llqiior In an ef- fort to finish the bottles. She said she saw people who hnrl merely been feeling good throughout the dance suddenly ‘- very drunk. as the bottles were drained In a great hurry. This woman ls, of course, quite right In her observa- tions. -— Vancouver News-Herald.

Britain cannot aemoln the world’: great banker and trader If

The Wax ._

. . . Jun because w < pendent than the ‘ref: “an P‘ world-wide flow of trade gm must be looked to for Ieadersiim and be blamed If thing; g9 w, l’ for everyone. We are skilled‘)?! Dersuocllng ourselves that our n» a bles come from ill-luck, 1mm Si" great effortii in the war, kgmyhu: inconslderoteness of AITIETICBB] 1 letting their post-war boom m; but no one else believes lg a ' longer. To the rest of the “no.1: it is plain that the British pm pie are expecting a higher reward for their work than. In a Climpefl tlvr: market, it, ls Worth. Elihu‘- thr-y have to work harder, or mo, efficiently, or else the rewmd_th: British standard of Iiving_h“ y, fall. That ls the meaning of a1; the talk about the devaluation 0y the pound. There ls no point llt arguing whether or not the for- elgn verdict is "fair". What mat, tors Is llint the oplnlon, m1.- o, false, ls hardening fast. -— Mam chcster Guardian.

A young pilot went u ' Barksdale Field, Loulslarifa, hi’): other rlay In a let fighter plan. and at 10.000 feet flew Into g storm. Ho. prepared to bail our unhookerl his belt and was suck: ed swiftly out of the cockpit. Th. plane, czolng from under hlm 4g 350 miles an hour. crashed far he. low; tlir- pilot floated down by ‘chute nnrl lnnrlrrrl iii the hrnnchgg af n tree. This incident in the lifr- of nn nvlnlor will soon he for. [ZOIICH by ihr- world, but quite pro. porly mny endure as a family anecdote, A century ago the Forty- rilnars travelled west by wagon, cart and pack mule, nnrl ahnuq Ilfllf ri century nizn those semi‘ pioneers told stories In their grandchildren: "So we were awnlo. onorl In the rlearl of night by the yell of Indiana among our horses. and I climbed out. of the wagon with my rifle, crept n hundred yards lltfflllflli Ill? comp, walked. irilo n Redskin. we fought. and I killed him." "Then what did you do, grandpa?" "Oh, I just went back to sleep." And thnnwhot young Major Charles Cole of Bnrksrlalo Field rlld when he god free of his parachute and climbs ed to earth -—- slept there on tlid ground until awakened at dawn by n farmer's rooster. Hts grands children should hear of that. fllghfl

the world does not think she can. -Ncw York Sun.

Old Charlottetown (All P. l. L)

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DAVID STEWARTS JOURNAL

Continuation from last Saturday of the journal of David Stewart. Esq, of Scotland, great-grandfath- er of I-lon. W. F. A. Stewart, pre- sent Minister of Agriculture, re- cording his visit to Prince Ed- ward Island and Nova Scotla In the year 1831:

"Plctou, July 13th. This morn- ing ls beautiful, clear without any clouds. I packed up my things in a bag and delivered rny partmari- teau and portfolio to Mr, Peter- son the son of Mrs. Thain. the landlady. I was now ready‘ for Mr. Smith and ordered some lunch. He came while I was at. lunch with Mr. Dickson. I had a pint of bad wine; they took a glass each and we sot out. for the good ship ‘Ann of Pictou‘, Messrs. Munro and Christie owners, masters and cap- tains. Thls vessel was bound for Sydney in Cape Breton with bricks for the operation and loaded too deep. Of course I said nothing but. left all to Mr. Smith who made the arrangements. We aet sail, got out of the harbour with some difficulty and had a fair breeze to Cape George or as for- merly called Cape Lewis. We were now becalmed and It was dark‘, we lay here until morning. "July 14th. This morning ls beautiful nnd serene. The north coast of Nova Scotiu spread out. before us like a map as far _as the eye could reach and the bold Cape George before us and close to us. It was now 4 o'clock In the morning. I had Iald me down on deck in my cloak all night and slop! ivell for a few hours. We now passed Cape George and had the Gulf shore on our right and we steered for the Strait of Canso under a gentle breeze and reached If. about midday.

"We now had the Island of Capo Breton before us, but judge of my amazement when Instead of a bleak rugged rocky island I saw stretched out as for as the eye could reach on the left even up to'Port Hood, one of the malt beautiful soft. undulating countries imaginable, just like some parts of Hampshire. We now entered the strolls and met strong currents and tides. The wind died away and we made little progress. Wo- conflnued tricking from side to side of the straits from one to three miles wide until we reached Cope Porcupine. Past this w could not get. We tacked times and made It but always the current and tide carried ua back. and now It was night. We looked for a cove and cast anchor. I did not much like the ‘Ann of Plctou’ and prepared to go ashore and seek lodgings In some of the ‘houses near. It. was 11 o'clock. Mr. Smith with some wheelmen agreed and on shore we went. "We walked Io the nearest house: called the people up; no one there. but the mletresa and two children; she let us In after some little parley and showed ul lo a nice clean room and one bed. Here I took up my berth on top of the clothes In rny useful cloak. Mr. Smith lot under the clothes on‘ the other odlq of the bed. ‘We iiot up oi halt put a o'clock, left 4 shillings otid our pence with the woman an the table. and took our departure. Her name woo Maepherlon and hot husband woo [one to Mlramiehl m out, lumber. We hailed our boat and gee on board. A breeze o rang up and we polled Cape arcin- pine. Pi-evtous ~10 napping night we bod been IIOCIIIIIQC in

the Itmlts and we all went ashore on the Island. I went up the country and came to a Highland settlement-act some milk and learned all the habits of the coun- try. The people all spoke Gaelic and nothing else; some of them understood English. The Island ls very rich and beautiful. '

"July 15th Friday. This morn- ing is very fine, we have a small breeze. We passed Ship Harbour and soon reached the entrance into the Lennox passage. We now be- gan to encounter some gags but sailed on and presently e ship touched some rocks on her bottom but got clear soon. I became alarmed as I did not consider that we had one good sailor on board. at least not more than one. I-Iow- ever we went on and came to three or four Islands. We hart now the Isle Madame an our right. and the mainland of Cape Breton an our left. Here the land on both sides seems poor and nearly flat but It is all wooded and the small islands In the passage make thr- Whole beautiful. Now Ilia wind got. high and headed us; we could not go on, We went around be- hind one of the Islands and cast anchor.

“The wind abntcd arid the fan became dense; however we land- ed on the Isle Madame two larly passengers. ‘viz, a mother and her daughter. and this mother was the daughter of Mr. McLeod, the mln- ister of Glenelg before Mr. McIsouc went there. She hucl been mor- rled and knew Island Reach and rill the people of that country. We went. on shore with them and left them with some French settlers on Isle Madame. They, the settlers, could not speak one word of Eng- lish, the others not one word of French. How they spent. the nlizht I cannot tell. We returned on board. that is Mr. Smith and my- self and ‘a doctor who had come with us. The fog continued thick and we sent far a pilot. He came on board, a Frenchman from Isle Madame. We still lay at anchor. It was now night. I lay on deck In my cloak. Morning came, still the fog continued.