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Monilng Daily (Founded ln I887)

[re ident, LIt-uL-Coi. W. Cheater S. MBLIIII Vice-President. J. It. Burnett, IJJ. leeretary. LleuL-Col D. A. tlac-Kinnota, 0.8.0. Idllor nnd Manazin; Director. .I. B. Burnett. FJJ. I social; Editor. Frank Walker.

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WEDNECDAY. APRIL Ill. I940.

The Navy In Action

At the time (ii wining reports are being re- ceived of a lllIl_]\tl' ll.l\lll battle in the North Sea, between tit s iii the CttllllJlllCd Allied fleet and the Nazi titty which has been conveying

licrmaiii léllliliilg pirtics on Xnrtt-c-ginn c-QM-r towns. lt sttclt is the case, it may be a de- cisive factor ill tltt: \\.'ll'. ll is. well, of course, to avoid "wishful mink-mg" in the circumstances,

but the Ilk'\\'5 that tin tipporttiiiity has at last come for the l‘ ‘iislt .\'.'tvy to strike with full force and effect cannot but raise hopes of a 5lllllSlllll,L{'\lClLtl’_\'_

Lieriiiittiy" Slliltltfll invasion of Norway and Denmark is iled by military observers in London zis .'i .:i~;ie blunder, iiiastiiueh as ii exposes the liilllldll {Link for the first time and gives the .\llit-. tl-i- teiy optiiirttiiiityt they were

waiting for. h ts iibiiiiiis lllill this action had been jilanncrl for siiliit: time, and was not pre- cipitaictl, as ;i'I'c , by the Allies’ action in laying llllllt‘ in iii Xortvt-giait territorial waters. .~\s jillillliil iiiu \\‘~lt'l'tlll\' in the British Parliament by l'll'lllll'l' thziiitltt-rlziiu, it would have been lll‘ siblr- for Lii-rmtiu luiitliiig

forces to be at > l points fair up the Nor- wegian coastline lllllv<s they hrid left German bases before iv-iis wi-ri» l:iid.

There can li- iliitilit, either. that this more Ull ilii; p iii (it-ruiitny was anticipated by the Allies. Since the Soviet invasion of Fin- land the position of the other Scandinavian cottntrics has bet-n prtcnririiis in the extreme, and recent stat. lll"ll‘s bv the British Printc Min- ister and Allied \\"!l' It-zidt-txs‘, coitplcd with the tightening of bfiit me;istii'es in northern waters. iridicatctl intensive preparation for any emergency,

A factor in the .\':i/i iiivttsiiwn of Denmark is

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the iiiabilitt- if 1.11 i‘itllllll'\' to Pffidnge the fecdstuffs it ri- - fiir its extensive agricul- tural cxiwrt frri li tirin llritain. This will increase tlit- il-iii for (I-uiailiztit bacon and other priiditets i-t lll'll‘i>ll ziiarket, and from now on (ittr (Yitiitlnin f "lllcrs will play an in- Cl'(‘i'i\'llIQlV\' lllllwd i iv in Britain's war effort.

lt is Clllltililtni. tots-stole, too. that the 1st cililllfllflll ltitisiiiii, ll<‘\\' in liugltinrl, will form

part of Itll\' ztrziw i-t tii ,\li>f‘\\'il_\', it is unlikely there will lli‘ ntit i-iiieiiil ltlllltlllllCClllCill in this

regard uiifil * l"~‘l'lts .l‘t' tietuzillv tit the Front. Iii the mi": tiiwi- is iz-zissurtiuec iti the tui- ntiitiieenit-iii - l‘. .. Tu and l-‘rtiitce have reached "itill win" on the iticrisitrc-s to be taken in this ._ tii'v' tiiezisttres which most ct-rttiiiilt" int zitiinis for the iiztvztl CllgilgQlllPlll ii -. i l to b2 taking PlZICC. and which lll1:\ |ll'l‘\\' .'l~1 illlltltfllllll. iii its rc-

aults as diil llit‘ lVlillt‘ in" dllllilllil in the last war.

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it is griit1i'_~.iii§_; tn nine tlizit the directors of the (fharlottvtotvu Y. .\l_ C. A. were able to collect the $ Mill! absolutely tiecessary to pre- \'(‘lll'. the rlosiitg iii the iiistitittioti. There was .1 gcticrittis vvspini-t- front lJFHEVtIlUIIL citizens and

the $500 which nits llfllllllwll on condition that the whole zuniititt: would be collected. was secur- ed. Now the aiiiitiril cnmpziigit for the necessary money to ct. i i.ii dtiriitq the year is about to

be launched, ll is hiipcil will nicet with equally lil\‘tll'.'llttt‘ "ispiins: from the ptiblic gen- erally. The ciiiiipiiigii (nit-us on April 15 and closes .-\pril so. lll nililiiiiiin to local mainten-

ance ffifjlllftillltllls tltn "Y" is appealing on be- half of iiritiiuiizil w '11‘ work.

lihcivlirrt‘ iii iiidtij." issue appears a review 0f the activities oi tlti- .l.ll'l<!llt'l(I\\ll Y. I\l. C. A. during 1113')- ll will be tioteil that since the out- break of wrir in Sopti-iiiltei‘ all men in uniform have been llllltlc tit-iconic frcc of charge, to the privileyics. of ltlvllllivfs i llllS is but one of

cr-utriiititiiiiis to Wtllllilllllllv service is niitkziig, Illltl tiir which fuiiils are

needed.

Coal Marketing Problem

lid]. Fit-wart, l\'.(‘,, (‘mil .*\(lillll"llSll'ZllOI' for the \\':irtiini- Prices and Tfllilfi lloard, has announcer], according to a press dispatch from Halifax, ttvit ll t‘ l tit li:i.s been reached in the marketing of .\' uiiiit Ctllll in ("cntrtil (Titti-

aila. llis vsplii on is that. ilesitite till efforts to give llltlllP-llt‘ Fltdl tht- ]>l‘L'f(‘l‘t“l1Cc in the Catt adian market, cozil from the Vuiterl States, which has only risiin 3; i-vitt. per tint in price since

the war lwtzan, still llii< the cdgc in the competi- tive Ontario lttli1'l{l‘l.

lt is cash-r. to tinili rstzinil this cxpltiiiatiott than to accept it, ci-miiteuts- the Sydney Post-Record \Vithotit access t-t llll‘ most roceiit official fig-

ures. it is a ciiiisi-twwitivi.» estimate that (Dnttirii- is now ciiiistiiuiittg foiwigit-itiiiitwl coal. to thr- volumc of zippiv-viiiiiiti-lv $,<nio,rviti lung a YPIH‘. The couserwitii-n of iliv homo market for the

product of ("anttditiii i~::i:tt--t-.'irtici"s lacing an no cepted indeed a (‘Illilllliil iiritieiplc, of I7cder=l policy, this inuioitzitiitir of foreign fire] nit such a scale. wliili- ciilliwv tineititiliwtnt-tit iii the win- fer seas-tn rcuiiiins a tniiin" ticonomic problem

in this country. twist-tits ziu anomaly auythint: but creditable to (‘aitntlinu stnlcsiuansltip, even in times of peace. .\'i.w that (Ytuntla is at war such a condition brciitiit-s indefensible and intol-

erable. lf (‘tmziilii is not itirulr- indcpenilritt of frirciqn fllPi sinrii-s in lititc of \\‘.'ll', we mnv nt-"t-r i-vpi-c! ti» ~l‘i‘ :in l'lllll‘t'll\'l‘ fuel policy cs- taltlislieil in ('.-iit:il;i iir any ntlii-r time. lt is

stirt-ly up ti. tlit- \\':tiruni- Prices and Trade Board to find :1 wziv in lllfll'l\'l’l in ("nnada every l0n of coal lbw! (‘fill bii jtl‘('t(lllC(‘ll iii Canada, at least as long as lllt" war lasts.

Inspiration Front The Past

Under the titlt- Qt‘ "What's the tise—the motto of the defeatists." a striking tinniphlet has just been issued bv lllt- Citizen's Research Institute of Canada.

It recounts the \\'t>l‘l< which the Barons at Runnymede, joltii llzimptlen, Jacques Cartier, Wolfe and other great mun did tn win the pat- rimony which is the prinnl heritage of every (Taiittdiati. zmd piiiitts out that the responsibility for preserving those privilcgCs rests on the pre- sent generation.

"It we now sw ‘\\'lt.tt's the use',' continues the brochure, “and zict i.r fail to act accordingly on all public questions, \\'t’ ris losing all that we most prim- ill the field of civil, religious and personal liberty. No ont- Cllil take our place in the struggle. \\'c nrt- till in rcalitv combatants whether or not we are enrolled in the army. the navy and the air force."

This an ltppitsiti‘ rcttiiiiiler and it cannot be too strongly eitiplinsizeil zit this time. There is no room for the ilefezitist in Canada today. If we adopt the Ltissc/z-ftiirc attitude. disaster is bound to come and bring retribution in its train. It is not vnough these (lztvs to pay lip service to democracy: \\it- uiust bend every effort and employ all our Clll’l"'l‘\‘\' and abilities towards helping Canada in the struggle for liberty.

EDIIURIAL NOTES

\\'e llltly cxticct l r and wiiic legislation this session of the lxgislttttire.

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Some of the “neiiti-zils" are beginning to cry otit before they are liiirt by the Allies.

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A. C. Swiubtirtio died this date, 1909. "Al the door of life, by the ginc of breath, there are worse things; twining for tiieii than death."

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The Tctiipt-r:tiirt* Fe-lerzitirni delegation was well l‘(‘Ck'l\l‘tl by tlit- (iiivcriim<-iit-—\\'liy' shoulilift it, being a l-lllilllvl" political ally?

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It is aiuiotuict-d that (termatiy has banned modern dxinri-s for tho tliirzttion of the war. Then \\'lilll l-;iuil dti they fztviittr now —- the old goose-step?

I I‘ i IF At the Rotary Club the speaker was enlarging 0n the great fttllife there \\'ZlS for development of new iiiiltistrit-s -~_;oiits, fut‘ instance, the breed- ing of goats, "liitills," rt-iuztrketl a tiicniber sol/n Tom, "l think lllll! is our main trouble —- we have too lllilll_\' goats tiirentlyx" * Y1 * ‘F

Premier (Iinipbill resents being told that politics entered int.» ungiitiziiimis regarding the extension of llttlt‘ {Pl-it'll by the cx-Lictitcrtziiit- Governor, ls it h gitilty conscience that is roused to protsst. s- ' dig that the [Jrinte Minis- ter quite i‘\'lill'llll_\' "icisst-il the Iiuck" to hint. and zictcil upiiu lii~ ziiiviei- ?

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'l"hcy start their llZl\';ll officers yotiiig in the Old (-()t1llll‘_\', cspi-t" lly those whose forbears have long been ziss. .ilt*(l with the senior ser- vice. Thi- ig-yiwir-iilil son iif .\ilmir:il Sir lletiry .llill'\\'()itfl, Ciillijllkfltl‘ iif llh‘ .\rhttii':il (irztf $pet?, is jiiiiiiiig iltt‘ lIJt'\\', liti- lttty, Cyprian lleiiry llziiwviiiid. llfls‘ l-iiii niliniiii-il to the Royal Navy College, llzirtiitiitith. .\tilllll'.'ll llartvootl has been iii the tiziiy \lll\'(' liiiiliittitl.

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llzilf a milliiiii li iniing l\l!_‘~‘!lllS are being used

by the l\'(i_v:tl .\ll' l-‘itvci; iif which 2,000 birds are on duty diilv with tlit: coastal command ready to t‘ill‘l'_\' messages- from reconnaissance

aircraft to bnscs- \\'lll'll it is tiiiccsstiry that radio should rcmztin silent. The pigeons often show reuittrluiltlt: tcittii‘ in fighting their way home. One bird, rtdeased front :i plxiiic at 13,000 feet in cletir weather .'llll1\‘(‘ a blizzard, off the Sean- dinavitiu coast and Ill~ll‘(‘~'.~‘t‘(l by the altitude,

dropped like a plummet to 1.500 fcct at which height it \\'.‘is .'!("\‘ll\it1lll\‘ll to fly. \\'hcii the bird disa|ipi:irt~il llllit the blizzard below the pilot give it up fir lost, bttt three days later the tiigcon returned iii ii< i- lr had fought its

way across the North S‘ in blinding stiow and a roaring iiiit‘tl|\\(‘~i('t'l_v gtile, >l< ll‘ =l< i’

“ihcti the Rev. .\i. (7. .\i. llulte lcft Doncaster.

Yorkshire, to lrceiiittc viczir of a London church.

Whiskers, the fillllllV (wit, gave the metropolis

the once over from ltt-i‘ new tibttdc in P;t(l(]i|1y_i_t- ton and ‘.\'Jlll\'/'fl iitu. 'l'li'it itzts just before Christ- nius. The llll~li|l c urge strong tipoti hcr, she kept right on \\ iltitig ttitd iii due course sliow-

s in ll-iiiczister, having cov- mtltfsWu two months and

cd tip at lll!‘ viczi __ crctl the ilistriucv of if;

eighteen iltiys. .*\ii|i;irciiily' silt‘ had tnadc the j1iiil'll(‘_\' by t-zisy- .\l.'i'\'(‘s' yiuttiiig up for a few (lays with proph- eti route, for she arrived fit, though thin. lint it wits lllll)’ to stiffer a new

shock: the qrvciiliiiust- in the vicarage garden, where she lizid been born and hztd her sleeping quarters, htid ltet-n puller] diwvii by the Rev. .\lr. Duke's successor‘. Whiskers, dfscotisoltite, ilcclincil proffcitvl llllsjtl 'ty at the house and

niadc her way to iln- ri-siilcitt-c of a woman itciqhltor, who used to look zificr her during ab- sences of the llnlti- fiimilya .\fl('l' rcstiiig there for a few (ltns, liiitvi-ttii‘. the cat vanished and lit is sitrniissed that she is on her wziy back to

London. ll 1i i! i

Patronage, a handy itistritiiietit when votes are being solicited but It iiiglitiiizire to the politician ziftct" lic is ('lt‘l'l('/l, iti:i_v vvi-ittttully be the C3115!‘ of the creation of ibi- lttllifrlllfilllcd civil service cnmniissitin in lllt‘ Province of Quebec. It is learned that zit a l'('l"‘lll Liberal party caucus at Quebec, tit-i. ll"\‘.lv\‘ i‘lt‘t'l(‘(l lll'lllll(‘l‘$ threatetiul to resign if It citil serviet- u is not set tip to rid ilieni of llie jtlitgtti“ of piitriiiisigv. And, strange- ly enough. one of llit‘ itirinbi-rs who ititide the ithrt-nt was .'l lll“l'll>.'l‘ front {l rural riding where the jlillllllilllfl‘ ill‘lll.'llltl\ are nut half ;|§ unmet-mtg (is those, llllltll‘ till llli‘ uu-iiibrrs for [hc iii-hm] ti('llll‘(‘<. "To {lli tiiii-irtiiiintt-lyt great number of the electors, the siili- duty of the legislator is lto find them jobs lillll ll('-'l\'(‘ll help him next [election if he fails." .s'iid this member. “\Vhile it tiitty be true," h.‘ iwiitiutit-il, “thtit ptitrotirige is useful to ti party .'ll'flllll’l i-li-rtirtu time, what ad- vantages it iuny lizivi- iiiiiiiu; thrit period are off- _set ti lttuiilri-il fold llilrl" the election is oven For

every one ticrsou for whiini you arc able to find some little job lllt'i'(‘ are '_,;t'lli'l'.’llly 50 to 100 totlici‘ ztppliczuits who .'tri~ ilisripgitiititerl and who will] vote against you at the iicxt election," he sat .

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THE wljlrlAllbQjlifETOwldwGllfllfiDlAN

llllTES BY TllE WAY

The reports of the record of commercial aviation in the United Slaves during the year 1939 show, for the fl.st. time, a complete ab- sence of fatalities. In 1935 there were live fatal airplane accidents in the United States with a total lcss of twenty lives. The year he- fore thirty-two passengers were killed. This year none was kllleu —and more than 2,000,000 passen- gers were carried more than .".',- 000.000 miles. — New York Herald Tribune.

A new factory at Tbilisi, Russia, Ls to produce 1.450.000 bottles of champagne this year. By 1942 the output will be up to 4.000.000 bot- tles. As there are 170,000,000 people in Russia. the plant must. do much better than this, else the proletariat will have to continue on vodka. But; then, only in a Utopia would all the people have champagne, and Russia. iIs no Utopia.-—Winds:n- Star.

In the presence of 35.000 Bud dhist. pilgrims, and with time- honored ritual. the ceremony of laying the base of the pinnacle on

the restored Ruwariweli Srya Da- goba (temple) at. Anuradhapitrti, ancient capital of Ceyion, was per- fotmed. When a button was pres- sed a. bell rang at tire top of the s ire, and the first section of the gent. pinnacle was fixed. Fifty crackers were exploded, while a thousand monks chanted prayers. The original Dagoba was ‘mu by King Dutugemu-nu in 158-137 BC. — Indian Press Union.

A Chicago newspaper lists 30 murders which have token place

in that. city during the past six years, 15 of the victims being policemen and the other 15 were officials labor unions. There have been well over 1,000 murdeis in Chicago during that. period, but these 30 were selected to prove a point. The point; ls that out of the 15 police killings the police solved 11 of l-l1€lI1-—~ll1€ murderers were tracked down and convicted — Wl1l.E of the 15 union murders not. one was solved. If the 1,000 or more gangsters and other slayings were examined, the percentage of ar- rests antl convictions would not be much better than In the cases of union murders. — Stratford. 12PM‘,- on-Herald.

There ls nothing that worries the human race ulte as much as tin- pllcattlons tha , in certain respects, t tI.r ammats have the jump on us. Major Stanley S. Flower. Brttisn zooiogist, has just contributed to the collective ego of the WOT-Cl by aimounclng that man can truth- fully boast. the longest span of tire. The old myth about. the elephant. living longer has no basis in la/et, the major says. As a matter of fact, the oldest. elephants fail just

" cf livlnzt 50 y:ars. The world of man could be a little prciicer t. ...Is t.._..iii;t...ii if it. could only forget. that elephants, at leas... have a pretty goccl chance 0t liti- lshlng their normal life span wttli- rut wonirlng about wars 811G” "rif- flc accidents. -— Winnipeg Tribune.

Those youths ln Brooklyn's murder - for - hlre industry, who killed on assignment for as 1it‘le as a dollar a job. wiercirt “boin kille s." Neither were they all pro- ducts of ldentiflably bad environ- ment. Some of them got. into the business of incorporated tniirticr as simply as this: Tin-y borrowvtl money from loan sharks, eauldirt. pay it back, and were co-ereitl into waving t‘1c‘r debts and "avoiding legal action" by doing petty mis- cexis iirst; tliui heme for d into more and more felonious . threats of exposure. , thrv were nsslmerl to kill. strous? Surely, and it. is rtisv to see what, dupfs thev were. Bu‘. l‘. ls also easy to read in their pits-lit a lesson on the evolution of crim- lnnls from trivial beginnings. — Minneapolis Star-Journal.

Mr. F. A. Macquisten (whose death ls announced) was an ldlosynciatlc in his own Way as Colonel Wedtrwood ls 1n his. For years these two have been tire most strongly marked “characters lri the House 0f Commons. The clif- fereoce between them is that. the oddity of Colonel Wedgcwooi btirns at its most. attractive in .tie cause of freedom anti lndlvldtiil liberty, yliereaIs served humbler ends. l-lis p: :i philosophy mlzht be summed tip as antl-Purltmilsm. In articular he hated the eople who ate whiskey. which he t ought, moderately uscrl. as he himself used it, was neces- sary to salvation. the mark of spiritual (not spirituous) grace ln a man. Mr. Bellods one-time ob- session with beer was not more pro- nounced. Praise of whiskey got into many of his speeches. -- Man- chester Guardian.

Amongst the 1914-18 veterans now getting back into active

servloe khaki, in spite of all offi- cial obstacles, is Mr. B. M. Clottt- mm, tin Honors BA. of London, and a barrister practising on the Western Circuit. He was educated at. Berkhamsted school and Lon- don Unlversty, and the last War served with the R. Efs in France, Belgium and Italy. Whilst commanding the 59th company, R. E2. attached t.o the 5th division. Mr. Cloutman won the V.C. as well al an MC. His V.C., the last awarded in the last. War, was gained 0n November 6, 1918, five days before the Armistice, by swimming the Sttmbre rlvtir into the German lines. and cutting the electric wires by means nf which the enemy were going to blow 11D a veiy vital bridge, thus impending our advance in the victory push. Mr. Cloutman, who is now 48, left the army after the War with the rank of Major. He now re- turns into patriotic harness, dis- carding his legal gown and wig for a Sam Browne and steel hat, with the rank of junior sub. Sure- ly this must involve some waste of magnificent experience. Honors B.A.'s, who are V.C.'s and have been Majo s. must. be fnlrly rare. -Otl.awa Journal.

A grave, an almost terrible. re- sponsibility rests on the shoulders of the government. now stistalnrd by the peo 1e. It. is for them to mend the laws that. were so glar- ingiy exhibited when war broke out in September It is for them to see that this country will put. iLs full weight behind the prosecu- tion of a war that has already brought forward such a noble re-

]; got too extensive and unwlelcl

Olympic Games “Off”

(Globe and Mall)

The chief reason there will be no Olympic Games this year Ls mat there isn't. in the world enough peace to permit their holding. The nations are in too warlike a. mood for sport. on an internauonai scale. Peop.e cannot vet-y well fight and pay at. the same time-except occasionally 1n hockey.

Wfll’_l1llS cast. its shadow over the Olympics. The last. Games. in Ger- many tour years ago, hardly were enjoyed by spectators or particip- ants. Even men the international HUHQSPIIEIC was troubled. p wanted the event. this year, but. Jap- an Vcould not prepare tor the Game while otherwise engaged in China. and elsewhere. Gallant. little rin- laiid was, wlillng to provide the ac- commodation, but announces oftlc- ialy that "because oft lie abnormal situation prevailing" this can't ue done. Poor Finland has more LIBKIC affairs to consider now.

in sucn circumstances 1t is per- tinent. to ask why the Games should be rcnctveu at all. One aim. 0t the Otynipics was the promotion of tn- teriia lonal understanding and g - uni. ‘rncugli these sports gatherings cannot be blamed, there still is a lamentable lack ln the world botri of understanding and good-Will. Lat- terly the Games have resulted in a. good deal of bickering. It. is hard to saLsfy ambitious and highly strung athletes of different races and tem- peraments. It any of these complain of treatment received, their people at 1101118 also are aggrieved which does not promlte good-will between the nations.

lt is ulaitnecl that, by the addition of events, the Odympic Games gay; run off without. friction. In 1 30 the Games cost. Germany $25,000,000. Hnland, iii-here they were to have bet-n field the year because of Jap- airs war ti-oub cs, has spent many nnliicns in preparations, and now Ignition horse ls practically wreck- C .

None can forecast world conditions during the immediate ears to come A prolonged war w ll leave all countries in financial trouble; cer- taiulv with demands on public and private purses more urgent than prciatiration for Olympic Games. ‘Pile Etnptre Games were successtul, and in Food time these might be revived, Bu the universal nature of the nse involved.