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Iornlng Dally (Founded In 1887) Authorised as Second Class Mall, Past Ollce Department. Ottawa.

I ‘dent. has A. Burnett; Vice-President, Wm. I gunner; seep-Tress, G. M. Barnett; Editor use Managing Director. J. n. ism-cu; Amok" Eflim»

Freak Walker. '

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than llle Weakest Ink.‘

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBLR 23. 1940

Significant fly-Elections

The outcome of the balloting in Parkdale and Portage la Prairie on Monday was indeed a bad blow to the Mackenzie King Government, and a correspondingly significant triumph for the Progressive Conservatives. lt obviously re- flects the tendency of the times, which is to- wards a change of government. During the past decade the Mackenzie King Government has had practically everything its own way; for although it had just a bare majority in the House in recent years, it could always count on the support of the C. C. F.‘s in critical divisions, and Prime Minister King was shrewd enough to ploy up to Mr. Caldwell for that purpose. The by-elections had been delayed as long as it was possible, but now they have taken place in Que- bec, Ontario and Manitoba, the handwriting on the wall indicates that the Government's number is up.

Should a general election take place next year, as it is almost certain to do on account of Redistribution, these indications would lead us to believe that whoever wins next time, it will not be Prime Minister William Lyon Moc- kenzie King. This is not because he has inti- mated that he will not be in the running person- ally-for he may change his mind at the eleventh hour and continue as head of his party—but because of the general dissatisfac- tion expressed on all sides with the manner in which public affairs have been and still are being handled.

Quebec was looked upon as likely to prove, as on previous occasions, the salvation of the Federal Liberal party; but even there the ranks are broken, and certainly Premier Duplessis and his Government are not doing anything to help retain Quebec for the Liberals-federally. Indeed, the prospect is that should the Progres- sive Conservatives win out in the rest of Canada, the Duplessis party will throw in their lot with the Conservatives and participate in the gov- ernment.

This would restore conditions to what they were before Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Mr. Mac- kenzie Kin got in their anti-conscription work in Lower Canada. The Quebec citizens, both rural and industrial, are of a‘ conservative turn of mind, and the policies advocated by Mr. Bracken and his colleagues fit in nicely with the general ideas prevailing in our second larg- est Province.

lt cannot be claimed that the return of the Conservative candidate in Parkdale was a Liberal reverse as the seat has been uniformly Conservative; but it has been retained against all comers—Liberal, C. C. F., Labor Progres- sive and Communist-which goes to show that the opinion of people in Ontario is continuing to be reasserted in favor of safe and sane poli- cies such as the Progressive Conservatives have to offer.

In Manitoba, where the seat at Portage la Prairie has been regained, the conclusion to be drawn is that in the Middle West the electors are fed up with Agriculture Minister Gardiner, whose machine has been dominant in the Prairie Provinces for ten or fifteen years. It means more to Mr. Gardiner than to Mr. Mac- kenzie King, for it indicates that his chances of succeeding Mr. King have been knocked on the head. It was generally understood that Mr. Gardiner was put in control of this Manitoba by-election to demonstrate whether he was o fit and proper politician to succeed Mr. King as head of the Liberal party in Canada when the latter's resignation takes effect.

lnillan Affairs

lt may be helpful as well as interesting to the Royal Commission on lndion Affairs, now visiting the Province, to study the following authoritative statement, unfortunately by no means complimentary to all concerned in this matter. It is a copy of o section of the report of the Social Service Department of the Dio- cesan Church Society (Anglican) which was ap- proved in March, I944:

"lt is all too evident that after over I75 years of low estate in this Province an effort to raise the standard of our Indians as a whole to a higher plane will be a long and tedious task. The Indians, whose fathers once held sway on this lsland, have a right to far better conditions and chances of making amhonourablo living

-_than has been the case in the past. We under-

stand that their children are not permitted to attend many public schools on the lsland on

. the ploa that they are dirty and consumptive. ; Indians if they are given the chance and accept

it can be as clean as any of their white broth- rs-as was proved in the last war and probably s being proved in the present conflict. Greater fforts should be made by the Dominion Gov- ernment of whom they are wards, to improve "their health and home conditions and their edu- ‘cation, so that in a generation or so they could

l 1 fill their place In labour and tho professions as Qthoir brothers do in Western Canada. “ way they will become

In this citizens rather than wards of this Dominion. At a recent court case In Montreal an Indian living an a reserve was lbenipolled to report for military dirty, as ho was a Irltioh shbjoct. Surely a man compelled to

‘illght for his country, ot m it" of bios‘ ~ stain» onthlodylgoll , can i , ‘hrotho hilt:

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men, whoeo husbands or sons are serving in the Forces are squondering their war allowances. In this respect they aro not unlike a far too large number of their white sisters. If the future of these people Is to be guarded more administra- tions of allowances are necessary."

- EDITORIAL NOTES —

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Welcome to the representatives of the

Maritime Board of Trade and Maritime Trans-

portation Commission Q

‘I I I Those who read on this page in yesterday's

issue the career of Heath, reproduced from The

gallows so long. From his earliest years he bad been involved in crime of one sort or another, and the pity is that ho was allowed‘ ultimately to bring the good name of the R. A. F. into dis-

repute. I

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Yesterday was a red-letter day in the lives of Boy Scouts and Girl Guides here when they were visited and inspected by Chief Scout Lord Rowallan anll Chief Scout Secretory, A. W. Hurll from headquarters in London. Both have been lifelong Scouts, as has also Deputy Chief Executive Commissioner Currier, of Ottawa, who accompanied them. "They know whereof they

speak."

rrrown

There was rejoicing in Progressive Con- servative circles yesterday, and corresponding gloom in Liberal ranks. The Mackenzie King Government is now in a minority in the House of Commons. The death of Hon. Mr. Cardin is also a blow to the Government, for though he was "at outs" with the party, hope was enter- tained that in the event of an election both he and Major Power would return actively to the fold.

crease in the price of newsprint has just been announced-tho third within 5 months. The market price of newsprint has risen over 46 per cent since May. Some people are making oodlesof money out of this commodity, but they are not newspaper publishers." Certainly not the two cent dailies in Charlottetown. I I O o

Many citizens could have been better spared than Mr. Jame R. Brown who was re- moved from our mids y death Monday. Of o quiet unassuming demeanor, he steadily plug- ged along doing the things his hands found to do, and doing them exceedingly well, being a master workman in the best sense of the term.

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Pablo Picasso, (pseudonym of Pablo Ruiz), Spanish artist, born this date 188i; founder and lender of the Cubist School, director of the Prado Gallery Madrid, I936-39; paintings in- cliide portraits, still life and decorations; his Cubist productions have created much contro- versy in the artistic world, but he has had a steadily growing following among European art- ists, and also some American. His book of en- gravings is entitled The Dream and Lie of Gen-

eral Franco.

F t t i

While Nova Scotia bemoaned a decline in tourists this current year, Prince Edward lsland is able to boast of an increase. Col. Reid at the Conference in Ottawa announced that of the 200,000 tourists visiting us l50,000 were Canadians. lt is only right and proper that Canadian tourists should visit their own terri- tories before seeking change and relaxation abroad. On the other hand our American cou- sins could not do better than spend their vaca- tion in this, the Garden of the Gulf. t

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Rev. l. T. lbbott brought forcibly before the Rotarians the necessity for more young men devoting their time and talent to the furtherance of youth movemenfi. Getting periodically to- gether and listening to orations is right and proper, but after all what is most needed now is personal service in the interest of the rising generation. There, if any where, he profits most who serves best. It is no use beating about the bush; the warfare of the immediate future will be between two ideologies--Christ's and Marx's. Russia as the principal propagandist of Marxism, would eliminate Christianity, and substitute a pagan Communism, in which might is right. As Christians, it is the duty of the service clubs within and without the churches, to offset this by aligning themselves actively with youth movements.

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An unusual situation has been revealed In A Montreal in connection with the appointment of a new city recorder. Mr. Aime Leblanc sat as and performed the duties of recorder from June, I932, until his death in March last without hav- ing the legal right to such office. Mr. Leblanc was duly sworn in as recorder, and the order- in-council making him a recorder was passed, but the hitch comes in the fact that the order- in-council naming him was illegal because there was no resolution of the City of Montreal ask- iyrg for the appointment. The discovery came a f_ow days ago, when thore was newspaper agi- Iatron in Montreal because of the tact that. Quebec Government had failed to name a ro- corder or cordon to fill vacancies. Premier Maurice l.. Duplessis looked into the matter, and found that there was no request on the port of the city asking for such an appoint- ment, and the city chartor—-which is the series of laws passed by the legislation for the gov- ernment of Montreal - specifically provides that the appointment can be made only on the request of the city, and this means of tho city council, and definitely not of the executive com- mittoe alone. The charter hornet changed since I932 as to this aspect of the matter, and as. matters new stand regarding the appoint- ment of additional recorders for Montreal there most be a resolution of the city council, In ed-

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take comfort 11o the time when he wheel uphill to the sound of mualc —a vision he couidhiillfllw 0113b’ associate dare-ants. Of course, the design may not please everyone For, in the future. cycling clubs gather in their hun- dreds for o. rally, clamor will herald hhe 6419103011 _e_specia11y lt thcy are not all some Christian Science Monitor.

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“The sun, which has all those planets revolving nammri it. and do. pendent upon ll, can ripen a bumh of grerpee on if it. had hotihlrsg also In the world :10 soot Aland Nuyes, poet. an au : "Th3 wee Galileo's mower to than who at- itaokod ihlm when he lid till "I9 earth woe not the centre of the bunlvarao, Hie lryslflil» l3"! “"445 said, mode human helm‘ 108i!!!‘ fflaont. Galileo's atrswer. made 300

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Readers’ Digest

1ains an interesting notg mm m authority. The charm: of being ln- WPWId 1n a fatal motor oer and: intihc Unitas Slateetromyur M? 4-800 11o 1. in an airplane coeds 94,000 to 1, lf’ tn; ugvelgr h“ y" buses to his credit during the your. ‘That rrsallseo m: travel I) tlmm

Times, London, must marvel that he escaped the raft? mm Mimld. mml-amt-

Butter In St.

this week-end to 9o cenrto and s1 a. pound - the tug-treat price in history — at the vesg- time the Wwt Illinois Coal OGIBDXBIISIOI! ex- hibiting several pounds of’ butter blade in Geraneny from coal It is Just possible trope is some spec. lal significance to this‘) synthetics from coal and pelmleunr are coat- ihg plantations a lot of sleep. Is King Coall getting ready to invade Queen Basiyls realm, and i,t' so. wouldrft. she better notch her slep? —-S»t. Louis Post-Dispatch.

the owners

Being blinded by tlu~ dazzling hshdllgihls of ah approaching car is no longer a firm defence for nwtar- lsits involved m accidents. Magi; moire J Art-lull" HLHTlI-TNHD has rhade an eiminen ‘y Leusible crxmmcjrxt on the responsiblllty o! a driver wlho proceeds us usual decrpite the fact that he has thus been temporarily blinded such a dclfeume amounts trobulbter- loge. The good driver blinded by headlights. how to avoid it All he has to du lr refrain from into them If he keeps his eyes to his own Slide of the road. he is hm

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I i II i likely; to gut inho trouble Comments the Sydney Post-Record which wr Sitar- costs 5c per issue: "Another $l0 per ton in- After visiting

yours ago in the course pf botan- ical wanderings admiring lllle ma‘. 1101s of scarlet azlemones. quite oanvlnlocd that, by the “lilies” of the Bible was lnicamt the anem- ones; but i-herc is a timer explana- tion A ccrrespwnzlcnt who posess. siccus of Palestine flower made a irundmd yeehs ago, tells me that the Syriac word ls probably gcnrsric, and is more truly translated as “flowers of this field". There are IIEXL m no lilies, so tarr as: I could discover in Palestine. The anemone flowered in eill sorts of plrlf-GS, the railways and flat. open plains. wnd the purpllllh among corpses. as wear Haifa and Store. second per- haps to the anemones come cyclamcns cn the upper slopes- London Spectukrr

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The latest rlcsixn of bicycle In Britain has a rxlllio and a mcirar Hurt stores em: and releases i: cyolisus joy incline is always marred by the unfortunate tend- ency of roads to provide a. reverse slope immediately. He sees ahead, and his thought. as

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toll are ideal for farming and “here tacmlng has been suocawfully practiced for 25 yearns, says The “imnlpeg Tribune. While hhe growing season is short, the long, hot snunmer darys speed mops no mmuurhy and it has been demonstrated sufficiently early to permit them being garnered before the fall rains ‘The reason mnvre has not. been heard of this part1 04' the aoulrrhry as n farming nrea ls the difficulty expesicnwzi by the settli-

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their produce.

100.000 bushels

THE ETOWN GUARDIAN

POTATO ITOI-AGI Nil!)

Ila-h yous- Irlltorlol Notes of October let n the potato situa- tion you lay, "Hie queetlog now h. however. has the were“ tar-m- er sufficient storage to safely keep and protect the surplus through the winter?" The answer that ls no and the only hope qt saving the formers potato crop ls for the citizens of the city, towns and vlllnsos to allow the formers to £10m potatoes in their cellars for the winter. This is a matter that the different Boards of ‘Trade might take action on quickly and help prevent the loss of thousands of bushels of potatoes this "ear.

I am. Sir, etc. JOHN F. McNEILL, MD. Summerside. P. E. I.

The Open St. Lawrence

(Vancouver Brovlnoe)

When the luternatlozlalizartion 0f the Danube was under- discussion at the Paris pouoe confeznence, a. smart Slur delegate asked why the, St. Lawrence was not farm-nation. ahead. Senator Vlmden-berg of (the United States had a ahsavp and quick answer-

There was u difference, he pug- Ecsted between a river like the Daimlibe. which was bluared by eight notions lust ether-gang from a wou- and Lhe St Lawrence which flow- ed between two nations that had been at peace ‘or more than 1m yea-as. In any case, he added the St. Lawrence was open to the strip. iping of all nations on an eqtmvhy with the drips of the United Stan/es and Canada.

The St, Lawrence of course, was not always an open river. The Fenoh guarded l‘. jealously in their clay. So did t-he Britlsil up to the repeal or their navigation laws in 1840. Canadians have always found it more profitable to shame it than to keep its facilities for their own use. Indeed, zhey spent a lot of money improving me charmei for the very purpose of enooiuragmg. American traffic

‘Ilhe Washington Treaty of 1811 Emil-bed the United States the free use of the Si. Lawrence and its canals in mourn for trhe right to navigate Laloe Michigan and the St. Clair Halo canal as well as the rivers of Alaska.

The British Role

(London Tunes‘ Ml!‘ Stalin's interview given t9 a, British Correspondent. lass week pro- vldts a timely and much needed recall lo sanity and modulation in internal-laurel relations. The opinion Th“! the danger 0t a new warr- "dices not exist an, the presrmt timie" will be generally chared in tlhis coun- try. The growing tension oald swirl- monlous exotrahges qt the past. few XmC/IIIILB, Including the diplomatic offensive of the Soviet Union ln the Security Council, have been ‘hitched hare with bewilderment, but certainly without. any belief’ ifhm they could lend to a clash of anne. These his been growing ap- prehension. however, o! their ef- fects on the pcaioe seULl-oment. and the danger has been exempli- fied by the faltering progress and repeated setbacks attending tlhe Paris conference. I The dominant role which social and economic qIKQsIIOIIB ame likely to ploy in determining the destined od Eiuvpe beware-s snare apparent every mo’. I1 the issue which lien behind mam-y of the debates 1n Paris is tihe issue between Adam Smith and Karl Marx, bctlween an American leaning towards unre- gulated private enterprise and u Soviet. predilection for o. fully regi- mmited economy, Great Brlltaln is committed to rwltiher extreme, and In he!‘ owvn affairs would repudiate bath. If ilhe British delegates in tihre discussions o! economic ar- rangements for Eur-cine. whether alt. the Pearls confers-nae or at the melons of the Fllxnoarrlc and Social Oourlcll arnd of he subordinate err-gains. were to give nhe inrpmsolon ca! maxing ttvalmaelves ln a lialsscz- false camp. this would be no less a mwuly qt the read Brlrtllslh out- loolt-end wpeoially of mall. of tlhe present British GOV€fl\il‘B1IL—-l-l"lBtl u thorough-going support of ah»:- Soviet system.

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