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Morning Daily tFounrled in I881)

"d t: Li t.. Col. W. Chester S. Mclillro PNdVtlf-‘e-Presidlelnt: J. R. Burnett, F-J-l- Secretary: Lleut. Col. l). A. MBUKIXIIIOII, twig]

Editor unu Managing Director: J. It. Burnett. . ~ - - ' Editors: l-unk vlalller and lnn A. Burnett

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 2.1940.

Suporcilitius CriliClfl"

Prince lidwaiit island i'~'1\\l>‘1'> “l lmmlw ~ .- . . v l the un- Sdfttftfflv .\|_t/.'i/ \\lll talvt tltlt notice o _ called-foi- rriiivi-iii it lcwls "Qillml ill‘: LUIF i t‘i\ lldcr lion lv‘ ll. llilllatlll. 11W tllb‘ scrtu ‘v l‘ ~ - ' -

.. _ _ .. ' - luinu: ot ll'lll- cii-sing. to ih. txunipi tllltk w g . ‘. “up p“. pncitjtitt oi truck irzmstiuitation _ii\ ihisdhwnincc and our Clétlllls for bcttcr service tllltlfl‘ the it‘: 3- of tbnfctlcraiitiii. lhe (har- lnfleyown ]',.,;,,,5 til 'l‘r:ile llil> inst extended to

. . t - -. ; ‘l )l'(" Mr. llznt-titi zi wtini v-rt of ti\.t..l,s ind .pt

lllttlllll" in which he tlCillt'\_\'lill the floor of the lloitsc. ills)’ m", Alb“, “p.04 nm- {pitcral representatives. ex- ‘ ,1..- .~.v;,\t,,,~tt.-.ii "that a_ uuucd effcyri t-n tli r nit" tiould wcnrc for this‘ lll""\"“c° l“ intttv llt\ll“ltl‘\" tit-l ‘tWl-ltl lllc “ioml h“ I . - “- l til‘ cn" ftrrv s~rv‘ct“' \lr llzinson recently (ll § c‘ i _ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ' . ' visited this l'r-.>\incc. and was amazed. t?" 20mg into the mutter, to find how s-habbilyt YéEHlIiZA? bcsn treated lIl iht- matter of llrlll5Pol 3 _ v f ltftntllitdils‘. llc took the first tlllllorlllllll) o. "liuiiitlioiiiiig our czni-t- m lkirlizunenl, thereby giving lltllll)tl-\\‘ltlt‘ publicity to the matter.‘ ' 'l'oron:o Satiiriltiy Night asks S\lt)(’t'Clll0tl$lY- “llow on earth is a party lender to build hllllSflli up in the public mind as an ziuthtirity on the greill itrilters of s-"ttt- if llC has to hi? t‘t"ll5lalllll' deal‘ . ‘ ’ ~ , _ _ '~ - iii lug. from one of lllt most Utllshlkuom ‘lcsks t]... 1inmintnii_ with lticftl problems of this order of magnitude?’ _‘ v Vinr-up," nt the terms under’ whit! “C t?" tot-ed tbufetleriitioii affecting vitally the farm- ing and shipping intrrestspfdliis whole Prov- ince. is thus in-"nltingly dismissed by Szilltidiiy ‘(fa/if to whom “~t.zitt'crrift" apttflffflllv l5 5V1‘ tr- intercsts with 'l'oronio in par- arin in general. 'lhc instill is

‘on for Iii-s t suhlfivt till

pic-dug

inn-minis \\ilil ti llt‘lll'll'. miil l‘!

still tutu-c- brna .v cntivevcrl. h)‘ the fllflflcsllo“ “m, _\[,-_ ||;._n<..,._ {it sftiritiittg to (IYSCLISS the py-Hlylft“; of little Prince lidivrirrl Island at all. \\'2l'-‘ llt'tl\'lllll“f the country with "one of its most {iiiptcen}. and t‘ll".l'lllllt'_’ sources of entertain-

inent." ln Yiifin-diiv .\'i'ltlil’,v opinion, other Con- '-/~ members from _\'e\v Brunswick or _ , ~11, dtnult have broached this matter. tint ll". llllllsfltl. 'l‘t\€=_ forsooth. because "fliers ,1 ,,., tktnq-rv-ative member from the lslanrl. Thu what of ltll," four liberal members. “W112 .t~..,,t. 11s ovslers? The Liberal editor of 57th:?- ,;,,_. \':,,/.; t~-i= no words of criticism for them. Tor his r-nlirgbtennunt we tntiv state that "mil" the last King Floverniiieiit. '.\lr. Rrookgthe only Conservzitive lllt“‘ll){‘l' from the Nlaritinies. re- peatedlv voiced the "o-iwaoces of this Province in paritmquvni, Rut tn’: voice went unheard. l: t< because. n: Opposition leader. Mr. Hnnsolfl voice carried farther and did not go unheard-f- rven by Ftzlitrrlai- Xli/ilif-mtliat the oeonle of thlS Province are so rleeplv indebted to him.

The Sirois Report

The. Halifax llrmhi challenges the statement tn the Financial Port that the three iklarltllflfi Provinces are a unit in favor of the Sirois _re- port, and wants to know who gave such intim- itioii. Our llalifax contemporary overlooks tlw fact that this is a democratic country,‘ govern- ed provincially by constitutional practices, and naturally the government for the time being is the bodv which decides to assert what is the will sf the petiple on any given constitutional ques- riori. .-\s luck has it, the three Premlfl’! 0f ti"? Marithnr; Provinces are Liberals. the three gov- ertlmcnt- are Liberal, the majorities of each of the legislatures being Liberal. \\’lien the respec- tive Premiers in reply to the letter sent them by the Prime Minister of Canada. on the Que!‘ tino of the Firois report state that on the whole the report has thtjr approval. that meal" nQlh‘ ing more or less than that they, -as representing their Provinces, consider that the PTOVIHCC! l"! still behind them in matters coflstltllllmlal-

Of course, that does not. justify- the respec- tive Premiers declaring that the report should be adopted iii all its phases. There are certain matters of detail affecting each Province which it would not be to their advantage to have en- acted as the outcome of the forthcoming con- ference at Uttznvzi. We have suggested certain objections that should be raised to the report s0 fzir as our own Province is concerned, and we feel sure lllill. Premier Ctinitibell himself, and other Premiers throughout Canada, are de- sirous of having public tipiiiiun and not the opiu- imi of the Sirois tinniniission incorporated in any agreement that mziy be zirrivetl at.

It is pleasing to note the growing interest be- ing takcii in this great question, as evidenced by discu-sions in llll‘ vzu-inus leading newspapers

and the consitlt-rzitioii Iieing given to the report

by Boards of Trntlc, etc. We hope that the mat- ter will he thoroughly discussed iii all its de- tails and a {trcrfr of the views of the different organizations presented to the respective Prem-- ipr. s. a guide for any action they may take ivlicu the conference sits.

$511335 iisifiieiiiage

l.'uder the zibove title the Department o1 N8- Eional Defense has issued an attractive booklet, ~11» 1\t‘l‘t\'i<(‘ of ivhich is to serve as an inspira- ‘inn birldei‘. for the boys now in training in the Rovat (Tanndian Air Force for air-crew service iverseas. l: contains biographical sketches, ac- roninanieil by coloured illustrations. of four of Canada's greatest airmen in the last War - -=- >'----- w. A 33-11109. .v..c. at. col. wit-

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liaiii George Barker, \'.C., Lt_ Col. Raymond Collisliaiv, C.B.li., and Licut. Alan .\rncu Mac- Leod, V.t.'. Unly two of these heroes now sur- vive-Bishop and Collishaiv. The latter, Wilt-l” has fought iii the air over Germany, France, llol- lamd, Belgium, Ruosill, Persia, .\IL‘$U|)Ulillllli.\, Palestine and ligypt, at present holds a vital post with the ROyZII .~\ir Force iii the Middle East. Barker was killed .\I:ircli l2, I93! in a crash over Rockcliffe Aerdrome near Ottawa while making a trial flight inst pritgr to demonstrat- ing a new type of iwti-seater plane for the Civil Aviation branch of the Department of Na- tional Defense. .\lzicLcod succumbeckti) iii- flueiiza at \\'imiipeg on Nov. o, lQIS, while he ivzis coiivalcscing from injuries received on ac- tive service.

Nobly begun li_v these lierocs and by thous- ands of others who served with distinction iii the Royal Air Force in the Great War. Canard ‘s air trzitlitious are being carried 0n. “Fodziyi C other generation has lilhCll their place and is writing its deeds in the skies ovcr linglatitl and Europe. Others are preparing in the train- ing schools throughout the country. lt is planned to present to each of the trainees. on the dzty he receives his wings, It rotty of the Defence Department booklet. suit-

ably inscribed by his Commanding Officer. The idea is a cotnitienrlvtblt‘ one. .\litch of the material used in the booklet has bee- taken from l.t. Col. tieorge .\. Dreiws “Canada's

Fighting lien," to whom due acknowledge- ment is mzidc. '

- EDITORIAL nores -

Now fur the lllllll kip in the rzice of i940. i i‘ ll ‘U

From now till after _lauu'.iry' l5 the three main

subjects reciuiring attention are the War, Christmas and the Sirois Report i1 d‘ ‘ll d‘

“but has become of all those prophets, Iii- dizin, buslimeii, and naturalists, who, in Octo- ber predicted we would have little or no snow this winter.’ ' >k it I 1K The City Council and llolircl of Trade arc surely not going to resort to liolc-aiid-coriier meetings when the public interests are at stake. That is not a democratic gesture, though dear to the hearts of bureaucrats. is ti l F In order to ecoiioniise ship's space and bene- fit toiinage at large, the British Govcrntiieiit have banned the iiutiortatiou of bananas from Jamaica and the Cameroons. This tiieaiis hard- ship to the (33,000 employes in handling the ini- ports in llritaiu. not to mention the all but ruina- tioti of the banana planters iii these two colonies.’ Jamaica will fare better than the CZHIICFOOIIS as she has the 'U.S..-\. practically at her door. It i i I Though Japan is':ui Axis partner of Italy. the Japanese-owned llong Kong News couldn't refrain from joshing .\ltlSSOlll‘ll over his adven- ture in Greece. The paper, published in l§tig~ lish iii that British colony, and generally believ- ed to be financed by the governmetit of jzitianesc- owned Formosa, printed a cartoon depicting ll Ducc sliding backward into ltalv from a map of Greece—labclled “(ireasef “Slipper-yr, isn't it?" the caricnturcd dictator exclziims ll‘l thc caption. ' ’ " w it x w Robert Bloomfield. post, born this date, i766. His best known poem, “The Farmer's “Boy” was not only popular in England but was. trans- lated into three foreign languages. ,llis other works were of varied character. but ‘most read were those on the seasons, “Summer”, “Au- tum”. \Vinter". ' “Thine heart should feel what hourly see, That Duh/s basis is humanity." a n- n- o - .. The Federal Government has decided‘ that Ministers sending Christmas cards to their con- stituents and friends must pay for their own cards. In the past they were provided at the expense of the taxpayers._ .-\s these cards were “franked” through the mails, and despatclied by the Department's staff they did not cost the Ministers a red cent. But do not let this be taken as an excuse by the ordinary individual todiold up on the kindly custom of remembering friends and acquaintances at Christmas-tide. To do so would be to deprive the Government nf postal revenue now greatly needed. besides tend- ing _to lower the morale of the Christian pop- ulation at a. time everything possible should be done to sustain it. a o e a Premier Adelard Godbout, spokesman of FrenchCanada, left no shadow of doubt as to the attitude of French Canadians towards the war, _or_as_to their appreciation of what (INT/WI Britain is fighting for and the whole-hearted cle- sire amongst them to co-operate with the British in_ that fight in "facing the facts" last Sunday night. French Catiatlians fully realize that, al- though tlic scat of war is thousands of miles away, the front line, Canada's front line of die- fciice, is where the enemy is striking now. They know ivlierc our national security lies; they knoiv, as everybody knows, that if the Germans shgmlrl pierce the overseas rampart. tliev soon ivould, as Mr. (ifirliY0l1i'"SffCSSCS'.“‘ITIVEKIC Canada. lleiice Canada's front line of defence is in Britain o.‘ Europe, wherever the war is being fought. a n-

thou may’st

l-low these lllacltcnziz- Kiiigites do love to multiply their office. A new portfolio of Gov- ernmcnt—-"A Department of Romance" -was suggested to the Government bv Mr. C. F" loliiiston (ND. Bow River) who tiominated Agriculture Minister Gardiner for the nosf. '.\'fr. Johnston read an extract from lllr. Gardint-Hs recent speech in the llouse when lie expressed his devotion to agriculture and declared that no change in his official position would "remove my lifelong association ivitli and love for farmers and farming." That love for tbe farmers was “very touching." said l\lr. Johnston. "l thought then that we should advise the Prime Minister to relieve the Ifinister of Agriculture from his many portfolios and rvive him another one, er‘- titling him to be called tliz- Minister of Romance because he has such a loving heart." It should

tional War Services.

be noted Mr. Gardiner is also Minister of Na-

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t. ' THE- CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN i.

iioiiss av TllE. wiv

The appearance of Main street is a sign of imprzv n2 UIIIES mt everybody can see and appreciate. The vast tmpvvement ln the ciiys hrlslness section is the creates: vezble procf u! the he t.iy state of affairs tn North Bay. Butliiess con- cerns have spent huge sums o! money during rzcerit. veazs either m the ereztlori of new buildings or in extensive altratioiis. Practically every business place on Main street. has entered into tlfs improvement. scheme. with the result, that North

lug business stICtlCIls lri the prov- 1110C. —- North Bay Nugget.

Printing House Square has been bombed with considerable Interior and exterior damage, yet The Times has continued publlcatlon. The editorial department. has been destroyed. but, as Mr Churchill says. lri paying trpbiife to the news- pa-per. "the resourcefulness arid adflptabiltty of y ur staff ls beyond praise.” It was only {I few weeks 88o that the marager of Tue Times made it clear that. it would eon- tlnue to publivli. up iriiittri- what happened. "If". he said. "Print-lug House Square i; knocked out. we will publish cflsewhere in Lmdon. 1f that should be rendered impos- sible. we'll publish scmewliere else in the country. As lorg a= there is a stiitzib": printing plant in Enz- laiid The Times will be printed and published. And if__vcti can imagine such a thing that we are blown out of Britain. then ue‘ll,ero‘s the At- lantic and publish .'I‘1ie Times

flier .” The Times lri this pro- nouncement. has show itself oi’ the spirit of London. f the soul

of ElllZl8lld...'l‘ll(‘l'€"ll a Avays be The Tim-es- Vlctorza Duty CCLU- Lst.

Th; Dominion and the Provinces. when they. meet in January to con-

sider the Sirois report, will be equipped as no p1‘ us c 11' - ence ever was equpped to deal

with questions cf Dominion-Pro- vincial relationship. It 1s known that the findings of the Commis- sion are as acceptable to many of the Provinces as they are to the Dommicn. Indeed. no Province has taken up B, position cf outright hostility’. That, even given coni- plete agreement. about the political philosophy which undeites the repcrt, changes may be found ad- vlslble, is of course possible. and perhaps probable. But an cutrtgtit, rejechcn by any province. or by prcvliiees. would liiv lve the dis- ss-ritlrig bodies iii the responsibility of proposing more suitable alter- natives. Becaue upon one point. there can hardly be dffererices of opliiisii. The report of the com- mission and the attendant studies have made it clear to all that our existing federal system’ lg no leng- er; adequate to the requirements of Canada; and that to persist, lri re- taining it iutart wilt be to invite disaster and perhaps t4; make (115- aster inevitable. - Winnipeg Free Press.

The statement has been some- time; heard during the past, year that- a, mistake was mad-e by the. farmers of this county when they devoted so large an extent cf their properties to the g1‘ 'l;ig of apples. There has certainly ten Vtry great progress made in tlie development of that industry. and cii every hand extensive orchards new greet- the eye. That so much. of the land has been set. cut reason given for the falling off to so large an extent of other farm products, but ' there 1s plenty of evidence that there yet remains an abundance of laud cultablé for agriculture that. ls not worked. A better reason is probably that apple growing Ln part years has brought! so mucii better returns than any other branch of fanning that there has been little inducement ‘else- where. Hoivever, if a. mistake’ has been made there lsmow a good chance to correct. it.‘ Last, year the provincial department of‘ agricul- ture lnstituted a p:lic_v which pro- vides facilities for the removal of old trees that have outlived their usefulness so as to enalfe the set- ting out of young trees oftbetier varieties or the use of the land for other purposes. In quite a few sec- tions the=e facilities have been taken iiclvaiitaae of-iiiid many trees taken out. It l5 said that at present there ore no less than 1'15 applies‘- tlons in for this servic: and" that no less than 10.000 trees are now ready for i-emzval this fall. a, num- ber that, may be considerably iri- creasedjlt seems like a good move, and the result wlll undoubtedly be not only a better future. condition of the ordiards, but as well ii re- vival of mixed farming that. cam. not fall to work out. to tii mate good. - Wolfville Ac

It takes moral stamina to stay st work when the air raid slrens have shrleked their warning. take; courage of s still higher order to go on making an airplane an engine, a. gun, a shell, when you know that. at any moment a. bcmb may crash tiirotigh the roof above you. Lord Beiiverbrock. win-e enrrgy has worked wonders st the Ministry of Aircraft Production, has prais- ed the bravery of workers who volunteered to go on with their jobs even when rooftop spotters re- ported "danger imminent," and planes overhead. "Theirs," said 10rd Beaverbrock, "is the spirit wlicti makes our victory certain." Flor- tunately for Great. Britain and for the daiiocratlc world. British lab- our as I. whole has shown superb courage as well as endurance ever since the intensive air raids began. There have been excetvtlms. but they may well have been the fault of timid factor leadership which understlmiited e workers’ capac- lty to "take it." Whenever a re- spouse has been needed from Brit,- lsh labour, it has come magnif- icently. There has been no 11mg‘- lng, no faltering; the British wor - lng man has wcapted longer hours, harder working conditions, repen- tlon from tile family, and physical risk as great as that of the soldier. He has dcne it because he knows that this is a people's war which de- mands ii people's response if this freedom is to be preserved. —New York Times.

Nnul launehlngs In wertlme are generally private occasions at which only these who have ordered or made the chip are pres- ent to see her waterborne. But the public, through the newl- pmpers. can sometimes joln bi such n ceremony and to the ship end Ill who nil tn tier. Recently a cruiser “o! ' the water in ii British yard. Eventtue lads thzrc dld nst. knew the nitnie Mrs Darling twlfe of Rear-M-

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lFlRST PRINTING IN CANADA

Sir-The statement hu been

, made that the book. “First Things In Acadia."

by John Quinpool. Halifax. is the first. commercial vol- ume wholly produced tn the Marl-

. tlm Pr vtnces in thedast '10 to 100 B53’ 5°85" 0119 01 the fins-fit 1°01“ l yeafs arid one wonders if this is an

exaggeration.

“Wholly produced," means, it. Ls explained, not only compiling and writing and editing. but. rather re- fers to piloting, illustrating, bind- fng, and marketing and that. this implies cost. rather than quality. involving output and machinery.

"CClllm6fClBl' ‘alludes to volumes intended for national circulation iuid actualy securing wide dls- tribution, as this book his won. and "home marketing direction" has the same significance. "Binding" means hard covers, cloth or leather.

Many excellent publications have been ivritien and printed tn the Maritiines,~espeeialtv lll paper cov- ers. Others have been issued in ‘boards’ for provincial school texts or for limited institutional, society or family circulation.

The suggestion is that tn the case of a ivell-knoivn standard volumes in hard binding relating to lils- torical and literary matters in New Brunswick, P. E. Island and Nova Scotla. it tnviirlabl" has been found iecessary, where large edi- tions have been planned to have the work done elsewhere on ae- couiit of cost. This presently applies to ‘virtually all school and college texts. ‘ -

As is well known printing and binding in Canada commenced "old"' Nova. Scotla, when that pro- vince embraced sister Msritimes. The undersigned will be glad. to hear from readers any informa- tion as to book-printing and book- blndliig in the Maritimes.

I am. Sir. etc JOHN W. REGAN 75 Jublle Road

Halifax. Nova Scotia.

LARGER UNIT OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION

Sir:— In order to explain what the Larger Unit. means we have drawn largelyjrom information at liaiid'ori how the Larger Unit-op- crates iii countries where it. has been succemfully used. It ls understood. of course, that this information wlll serve only as a guide and that any successful application of the prin- ciple in our- Province will necessar- lly- take into consideration our own peculiar conditions and needs, and can be applied only after much study and experimentation on the part of competent educational au- thorlties. ‘Probabl-yy the simplest way to ex- plain tlie Larger Unit will be this: Where, in Alberta, under the old system, there were sixty or seventy schools managed by sixty or severity sets of elected trustees, under tlie Larger Unit system, the same sixty. or severity schools are managed y one set of elected-trustees tusuiilly five trustees), with'oiie secretary to serve the unit instead‘ of the us- ual sixty or seventy. The local school boards of three trustees are retain- ed in an advisory capacity to look after local interests. “i ' The Divisional Board 1s given full control of the stuffing of the schools of the division. and of the financing of their operation. It ap- points the teachers assigns tltem to the schools where they are best. fitt- ed according to ability imd exper- ience, pays the teachers’ salaries (on Prince Edward Island their supple- ments) and tenniriates their eon- tracts when this step becomes neces- sary. It_ is responsible for. the er- ection amd care of bulldlnfl. and, in some cases, their location, and for the supply of equipment and fumi- ture as needed. ' t In Prince Edward Island lt will be found convenient to group from seven to ten schools’ more or less, iii one unit. according to their get)- graphical location. The ultimate ob- Ject would be to have in uch unit t! Central, I-lfgh Bchool 4p: Grade; i————————-+-—