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THE ONARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

blowing Daily (hounded In I837)

President: Lleut. Col. W. Cheater 8. MeLnre Vice President: J. R. Burnett. FJJ. Secretary: Lieut. Col, D. A. Macklnnen, D.5._0. Editor and ltlarmging Director: J. It. Burnett. P-J-l- Associat£_ Editors: Irank \l'at11e_r_ and Ian _A._Burnett

SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Mail in P. l-..l., 54.110 per year; $2.50 for 6 month for 3 months; 511i: fur one month City Delivery: S5 U11 per year; $3.00 for I mnntho 3 .15 lor 3 munthl.

By Mail in (Yanada and I15. A.: $5.00 per yen Saturday Weekly; $2.110 per year; $1.00 for 6 monthn e for 3 month-i.

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‘Tlfeébifrultigiesl rllentory ts Weaker than the lieu/vest hilt."

THURSDAY. JANUARY 30. i941.

Recreation for Armed forces

It is pleasing to lcurn that success is amending the efforts o1 1111- good ladies who are arrangrng for stutzihle r1r1p111111 and iccrcalloil for lllcn 0t the arnicrl iorcvs 111111 111 our nndst. Accommo- dation 1s 111.11 l'l'\1\l.1c\1 111 inc Legion building, and 111.1111‘ 1s l111\\ 111 piegicss 10 fluke the tlcccs- sary rooms .1.- c-.111111»1'1.1111e 11nd attractive as pos- sible for our gi1cs1s-1n1v.1l, nulitary and air force.

There is still .1 lot 111 be 111-lic, oi course, and much to 111 11111111111] 11.11, but with the spirit of helpfuinc-s p111.1111-- .1;11o11gs: us, it should not be difiicnlt 11-1" 1111- ' _ niu-rcsicd to raise the necessary 111111.11.» 11» ; quire the furniture, and complete the 1l1~cor.1111>11s.

Let us rc111c1nb1r that there are several thousands o1 young men troni here enjoying similar pr1v1l1 grs 111 ‘.111; 1lo111elz111d; in other parts 0f Cana-la, 111111 1'lst-\\l1cl'c; 11nd surely it is not too n11.icl1 1o t'.\|11‘1.‘l the parents here should pro- vide facilities. ciilhclllcllccs and comforts for those who {ill 11-11111111111111‘ 111111111 our jurisdiction.

b-isoliiie Rationing

The qurszion 111' 011111- rationing has conic in for a good deal 111' 11...c1iss§1»11 since liinaltce .\lin- ister llslc_\*'s reference to the matter at the Sirois conference.

The _lantiar_v issue of Canadian Oil and Gas discusses the tiifficnltics of gasoline rationing in a leading editorial. l1 is claimed, on the basis of the last available governineiit figures, that a maximum of $10,000,000, or just under a fifth of Canada's foreign petroleum products expenditure, would be saved on foreign exchange if a ration- ing policy were adopted. Against this must be placed the loss in tourist trade. Notwithstand- ing that there has been no suggestion of curbing gas consumption 11v totirists, misreading of the regulations might have a serious effect on the traffic, as it did in the case of passport regulations last year_

'l'hcre has. says Canadian Oil and Gas, been no indication officially of government policy but it is believed that a gasoline-less Sunday a month, or oitencr, will be tried. This, it is suggested, would be fairly simple to enforce. The gas holidays might be tried on a purely voluntary basis.

lixamjiles are given of the difficulty of en- forcing gasoline rationing in Britain; in Canada, i1 is claimed. the troubles would be much greater.

5o far, it is stated, war demand has made little dilfcreiice 1o the Litllitillllll gasoline business. 'l‘he oil c11111panics co-opcrzited with the Department 0f 1\l1n1i11oi1s in establishing a reserve supply of aviation gasoline which now amounts to a full

car's need for the l\'o_v:1l Canadian Air Force. The companies are storing this aviation fuel at their oun expense, supplying it, as wanted, to the air force. The demand for air fuel is steadily mounting but it has as yet not begun to tax maiiu- facturing capacity.

Uri the other hand. we have the fact that the Government has appointed an Oil Controller for ‘Canada in the person of Mr. B. R. Cottrclle, who has placed strong emphasis on the need of coli- nerving gasoline i11 an article appearing in 1 Toronto publication last week.

If there is any need of rationing gasoline, the Govermitciit should 11nd ways and ntcans of doing this with the lcttst possible inconvenience. lf, on the other hand, such measures are not neces- aaryt, a further statement from Mr. llsley would seem to be required. He is quoted in “Time" and other L". publications as having predicted gasoline rationing as a definite policy, and while this statement has been contradicted officially, it has left a great deal 0f misunderstanding in its wake.

Cabinet Needs Strengthening

Atressitig the need of 1i strengthened war cabinet at Llttinva regardless of political affilia- tions, the lilohc and .\lr1il szrvs:

The ovcrritling section of the Cabinet is the \\'ar Co1111nit1ec, Ctilllpnscd of the Prime Minis- tcr; the Government Lcadcr in the Senate Hon. Illr. Dandurand; the Minister of justice, Mr. Lapointe; the blinistcr of Finance, Mr. Ilsley; the hlini-toi- of National Defense, Colonel Rals- ton; the .\lini_~11~1- of Mines and Resources, Mr. (tcrrir; 1111- .\lin1s11-1~ of .\lu11itons and Supply, 1\lr.ll11\11~;1li1- .\linislcr of National Defense for Air, l\l1-. Hurt-r; 1111 .\li11i.~tcr of National War Services. .\lr. Gardiner. \\'i1h Messrs. Ralston and llowc awav and three Ministers serving in dual Capacities. 1h1~re were tcn special committees composed of Cabinet Alinistcrs, and under their direction sonic _<('\('lll('t‘l'l related agencies engaged chiefly on war unrlc.

As a whole the (fahiiivl is no sturdy lot of Ilratcgists (‘slrcvililly equipped for wartime scr- vice. Sevcrzrl 111' the niost experienced in politics are not (]llZlllll("l for the exceptional duties falling upon them. .-\ number, inrlurling the Minister for Naval Services, who had to (lotible up, are comparative juniors in hctlcral atlmiflistration. The \\':ir Litinnnittcc consists of live lawyers, two "farmers" and an cntginct r, besides the Prime lllillisler. 15111111 (‘lnlsitlvfiflg the war experience of several, it is difficult to visualize them :15 st1p1-rn11111 to whom :111 ndtlitional war portfolio or

1 two inztltes n11 difference.

The fact to 11c fact-d in lhis connection is that the war and its responsibilities are lint being taken seriously enough hv llic finvcriinictit. Canada should have :1 \\'1'lT (Ilihittct atlcrptatc in size for war ptirpn<1~< (‘otttpnscrl of the nhlcst administra- tors nvailable and vuith no partisan tinge. 'l'l1is is so clcmcntarv 111:1: i1 is hard to believe anything

-: EZDITUR|AL NUIIZQ -.

Annual session of the City Council tonight. Will there be a surplus?

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The honey yield of this province for last year is reported to be 52.4 per cent over production in 1939. According to the first federal apiary pro- duction estimate for 19.101111: provincial output is given as 18,900 pounds as compared with 12,400 pounds during 1939.

The Lxgiuifs education program for Canadian soldiers in the 01d Country‘ has become an out- standing success, iuarly 4,001.1 uien and officers being 110w enrolled for studies. Legion head- quarters at Ottawa point out that the overseas enrollment, added to the 10,500 in Canada, now makes nearly 15,000 the number of service mcn who are taking advznitagtfof the education facili- ties.

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Record breaking President of the United States, born this date 1882. Was Nciv lurk b12110 Democratic Gover- nor before becoming Llnitcd States Democratic President. llis policy has been summed up in the \\‘0f(l5 “trust tlte people, but first show them the right way." He has been indefatigable tn

endeavouring to convince them of the right Democratic way, according to Roosevelt, and hat reaped the reward 0f a third term, and ltaviug gained even the support of his Presidential Re- ptiblican opponent in his policy of helping to pro- vide Britain with the necessaries of war. n- 41 =11 1v

Once a traitor always a traitor. The police in a prosecution at Batavia, Netherlands East Iri- dies disclosed that Dr. Douwes Dekker, head of a private school at Bandocirg, headquarters for the East Indies army, has been interned on charges of furnishing infortnation to the japan- esc. lle also was interned i1i Singapore during the Great War 0n charges of aiding Germany, they said. He is a Netherlands stibjccl, but has posed as being an iutcrnationalist in political outlook. \\'l1ich, in his case, has meant helping the elleltly of his country in the time of hcr dire necessity.

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“To him that hath", etc. Preliminary tabulation of 43 new industrial and other commercial under- takings-including scvcn war cntcrpriscs—cstab- lished in Montreal and adjoining region during 1940, which were said to represent capital invest- ment of "niany millions of dollars" and which “will provide employment, when the plznit facili- ties are in complete operation, for more than 25,000 workers", is announced by l\la_vi1r j. Adhcmar Rayiiatilt. “;\s a rcsttlt," the report, prepared by the cit_v’s Industrial and Economic Bureau, stated. “bv the lzitc spring of this year, it is expected that .\lontrcal's. available labor supply will have liccn substantially :1b.»11i"l1e1l." .~\ud poor Prince Eduard Island cannot cvcn get :1 look-in.

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Exports of daily products from Canada rose in value in I931), but imports decreased. lin- ports declined from $1,788,000 lo $.155.0<>0; 111i! exports rose from $111,220,000 to 818.222.0120. The decline in imports was due chicflyt 1o a drop in butter from 5.232.000 to 5.1101) pounds; c|1c9>c imports rose slightly from 1.337.000 to 1.397.000 pounds. 'l'l1c rise in exports iras l11't111.L'l1t about largely by an increase in hutlcr from 3.803.001) to 12,399,000 potinds and in chccsc from 811.989.1100 to 90,945,000 pounds. Exports of condcnscrl milk declined from 21675-000 to 1,136,000 jiouuds and evaporated riiilk from 27.023000 to 2501211110 pounds; but skint niilk powder rose from 34ft- ooo to 2,300,000 pounds and whole milk powder from 4,533,000 to 6,021,000 pounds.

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The National War Charities Fund advisory board, under the chairmanship of Mr. Charles L. Burton of Toronto, and of which Mr. \\":1ltcr Grant is a member, niet in Toronto last: wcek to make a report to Hon. James Gardiner. 51131151" of National War Services. The five organizations that have arranged to join in the March drive for charities funds are the Y.1'\l.C.A., the \'.\V.C.l.'\., tlie Knights of Columbus, the Canadian Legion and the Salvation Army. The war work done by these bodies is specified by the auxiliary war ser- vices branch of-the National Defence Department while their normal peacetime activities are direct- ed by themselves. 1t is understood that the Canadian Red Cross will not be a member of the organization to be engaged in the funds drive 111 March because it has already collected its money for the current year's requirements, but the Red Cross will unite in next year's campaign as well as other oraginzations should they by that tune reach a national status.

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A psychological treatment which lssertedly makes individuals unable to tolerate the 515111- smell or taste of liquor is reported by Dr. Wal- ter L. Voegtlin and Dr. PIEdCFIClC Lemere of Seattle, Wash. Their patients were mentally “conditioned" against certain intoxicants, much as animals are conditioned to react in untisual ways, sometimes violently, to a blinking light, the tinkle of a bell or the drop of a hat. Une who took the treatment was so deeply affected‘, Drs. Voegtlin and Leniere said, that he was even unable to look at a wthiskey advertisement. They set forth their method in California and West- ern Medicine, a periodical for physicians. The patient is put into a comfortable room contain- ing a table with a spotlight array of bottled liquors. He is told the liquor will make him ill. He is given an injection of a drug which in a fcw minutes can cans: profound nausea, Then at just the right instant, when the drug is sup-

He becomes acutely but not dangerously ill. The physician, especially trained in giving these treatments, continues to pour out drinks for him until he becomes quiet. The process is repeat- ed five to seven times within a week. There- after the patient is liable to nausea whenever he secs, smells or tastes liquor, the experimenters reported. But it is the drug and the circum- stances rather than the liquor which does the work. say Drs. Vncgtlin and Lcmere. Mental suggestion causes the patient to suspect-er- rn1icntisl_v—-the liquor itisterid of the drug. lt is suggested the treatment be tried nut in jails, ivhcre drunks are locked tip. undcr the stipcr- vision of the medical officer in charge or pub-

else would be considered,

lic health officer.

NOTES BY TNE WAY

A year and a Iulf ego a toad was released frcrn a box at. San Franerseo by a man from Mnem- cliitsetts and told to hop back heme. The departure of Teddy, the road, on li.s transtxntraeutal ho-p was brcadeant to the world by the press. I-le ls over-due now. It lIe has been averaging four inches to the hop and the path between San Francisco and ha Massachusetts home be counted as xruglily 3,250 miles, Teddy the- oretically ought to make the journey in 5L2B5.6B_l hops. Yet of course this l; figuring on an impossible bee-line and allowing not-hing for slippery starts. Actu- ally. Tcddys hcppage would run much higher because d mountains

clamber over, rivers to swim and cities to detour. Unless hi: master wishes tot-ally to dlsllluaion a trustl public, he sliculd um range to ind a worn and weather- ed toad in his dnveway some fine morning. Such a resntoeful fellow should not. need to welt even for the end of the hibernation season. —O‘hristian Science Monitor.

Mayor LaG-uardia announces that New York's noise-abatement carn- patgn, which was inaugurated ln i935, will be revived, the first. step being 1i. drive against rauxxus eulo- mobile horns and the unnecessary use of any type of hams. 'I'1ie Mayor. benig a believer 1n direct action, has written to eight major automobile manufacturers telling them that, this year's horns are “unnecessarily loud and strident," and requesting that. they be mod- ulated. Mr. La Guardia will have lite thanks n.t alone of New York-

the response lie and the people de- sire. - Montreal Gazette.

The Gallup Poll, released 111.1: before President Roosevelt's speech on defense, furrtlshes evidence that the country ls in favor of 111d to Britain, by a, ratl; of nine t9 one, Still more revealing, however. Ls the latest rcspcnse to the Institutes question: "which of these two things do you think ls the more tn:- portant for t-lie United States to do—t kefp out 01f iivar ourselves or to help England win at the risk of war? Six‘y per cut-t of the persons interviewed put help for England above trying to keep out of the war, As recently as May the question brought a 65 per cent vote the other way, The phrasing c? the question. to be stire, ls msleading, in that it set-i up nonzxistent alter- natves. As President Roosevelt has explained, risk 1's involved both in aLdmg England and in retusfng ner aid. Uzidcttibtedly many perszxis chcse “help England" as the best way to minimize the ri=k cf war l:i- vslvctncnt. _ New Y.rk Poit.

A Washlngon business review calls attentlcn to these queer facts:

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Guns And Butter

(Halifax Chronicle) Delegates at the Canadian Peder- atlon or Agriculture convention are exercised. and properly ports that. an emigrated artery 0!

utter scarcity 1.5 be g developed to pave the way for ma e. Inter- ests who want to ae margarine "not for patriotic reasons but for profit,” the convention hears, are trying to bring about the importa- tion of vegetable olLr and the man- ufacture of oleomarnrine to relieve 1m alleged butter shortage.

A properly balanced economy ln this country should make a butter shortage impossible. Butter, and the things needed to produce, it, is n. local product. It is different from luxury items which must be brought to us across tlie seas. Canada hu many productive dilryln arena and potential produotfy of ttor. un- der adequate conditions is more than enough for our needs.

The people of Canada are solidly behind the war effort. ‘rhelr eager- neae to defeat the forces of Null Germany, at times, exceeds that of their leaders. The Canadian people are willing to eat oleomergarin and other substitutes, 1f it. fls ne- cessary to further ghe war effort. But so long as they are convinced that. these substitutes are unneces- sairy, they will maintain a strong and natural preference for their regular diet.

Nor will it. whet their a to for margarine to think the lt is being presented under the guise of patrtotim merely to serve selfish proflfeering interests.

The effort of the Canadian Fed- eration of Agr-fculturehu the inter- esrt! and support of Canadians every-

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The Air Terminus

(Monctom Tkanscrlnt)

Premier MocMlillan, on his m- tum from Ottawa, ls quoted as say- ing that a. “favorable and satisfac- tory" urn-uncement may be made shortly on the question of trans- fetring the eastern terminus of Trusts-Canada Alr Lines from Mone- ton to Halifax. The mm: aitrsfa tori" announcement that couiu be mode would be that Halifax has abandon- ed its silly demands ln this con- necticn.

Just what the Nova. Sec-tum Pre- mier means by the transfer of the terminus is not clear. In fact the noisv agitation that has hem ear- rled on 1n Halifax in support of the demand that the terminus should be located there never has been suffeiently specific to enable anybcdy outside that city to under- stand what Halifax does wznt. All parts of the Maritime Provinces would support any resasonalfe de- mand for adequate air service to any ether part, but. it has not been demonstrated that I-Izilifax is not being given an adequate service.

1 Untied States ships can carry gocds to Japan, but not to Canada. 2. Japan and Russia can buy. gccds .n the Unltid Stttes on bet-l tci- Lrms than are 1:c.s'~:'ble for Can- ada and Great Brtain. 3. M ney can be batted to Mexicans, Brazil- ians and Peruvians. but not to, Englisltnleti, although we have rub-' bcr cliequ-Is from all of them in 41121; bix There and

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posed to take effect, he is urged to take a drinkf

p iicy are me. y effects sf laws p :1 at v laus time; . t ans currgvrtig favor with pacfst. 101111165. and mindful of the fact. that. tlie_ ordinary American vcter is never VlIIICPCSlGO in such matters 1xccpt. 1n periccis cl nut cnal l emergency. One of the mat IICCES- snty step; in a tlrfcn e pttg am is 1o clean .111 the lQWlJCjkI. I~1i‘t it about time that Ccngrcss; got out t-he brnrm and dust.l's?—Chicago Daily News

Fri-nee ls slinrn of leadership, she has been dvcprived cf firms. such as CIQYITIHTXY hives she wll be able to use htrsclrf agairsl. Brita n. Can any nation ln this plight give ex- pressi n to lts real spirit? Thnk of France herself a century and a half nzo. when her troops, many of them without bozts to tlielr feet. wlt-licut UIIlfOTIIIY, wititaut proper wcapons, threw back the whCle cm- battled might .f a ccmnlacement Europe, and then with the genus of Napoleon, dcmlnated the Con- tinent for a time as it had neier been dominated before or since. The lively Gallic mind 1s astir again aft/er tliestunnlng blow 1s received from the German blockcecu. Just. n-w it. shrugs its shoulders. It pokes fun at German blcckades, it see; through the clumsier attempts at Nazl propaganda. 'I‘liat mood will pass, The shackles on Hench thaugli, the deliberate chaos which the Nazis are making 01f French hfe and communications, the piluge of French art, and commerce will call fur action. The action will come Sever fear. - Dally Drpresa (Lon-

on).

It ls perhaps natural that Wen- dell Willkic. defeated Republican candidate in the recent United States presidential election. self- made captain of industry and pub- lic utilltes magnate, should fear dictatorial era at the White House less han the prospect of Nazi invasion. In his latest ubllc statement issued at. New Yor , Mr. Winkle declares his favorable pcal- tlrn on the Roosevelt "lend-lease" blll. Admitting tie thinks there should be modification ln the bill, although he falls to specify the do. xree of modification. Mr. Wlllkle says: "It ls the history 01f democracy that. under such dire eircurmtances extraordinary powers must be izmnted to the elected executive. Dem .cracy cannot hope to defend itself from aggression any (tlier way. It is for this reason only titat I favor grant of pctwer at this t'me to the administration." Mr. Wlllkle l; no more than putting lnto w rds for an American public what the ‘British Parliament has put into effect ln Britain where bxtraordln- ary powers have been granted to the Government. where Prime Min- lsler Churchill ‘has been made ec- tlve head 0d’ all fighting forces. It. la the only way. In this regard Mr. Wlllke take; issue with Senator Wheeler, of Montana, chief of the “stand - pattern." who protest ahrllly the granting of arbitrary powers to the President. Without mentioning Alf Landon, ' defeated Republican candidate for I036. Mr. Wflllre placed himself on record as one who li-tlds that defeat of the

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So far as we are a-ware. the present fttc‘litles have not been overtaxed.

they were, that scon wzufd be remedial by the use of an add- tioxial plane. N0 Lansportaton company will neglect to prcvlde the facilities for handling profitable business.

The arguments advanced by Hall- fax in support of the czntintiori that the terminus should b: trars- fsrrecl to that citv lrve be:n for the most part prttv and CllldlSh. has been ellestad that this is szniclitlng to when Halifax “is en- titled“ altliounli little e"fort has bzen made to establish the title. Equallv puerre ls the a gumznt that the Hans-Canada Air Lines should not be allowed to opeiate uncle" that nam~ tlnlcss its planes actuclly enter Halifax. Sydnav or Glace Bay could present U1‘ same arwment with equal or ltreater rtzht.

One and only one consideration sliculd dieafe the sruatlon o‘ the tcrmnitts and that ‘s lh~ be-"t intrr- csts of the c-nllrv field servei by the all‘ lines. Monctctn was chosen becaue it was the 0'fll.V place from which the lines co1t‘d radlare to cover all parts of the Marilimes. To suggest that the traffic could be dsx-‘buted mot? rfflclently f om Halifax is ricrculous.