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ldltcr and Managin- Director. J. l. Burnett. IJJ 0 soc-late ldltcr, l-‘ranl Willi‘.

ally. The militia, the naval service and the air force had been placed on active service. Other provisions had been made for coast defences and internal security, and the War Measures Act had been invoked and made operative. The sub- sequent action of Parliament was a foregone conclusion. Again, Mr. King is in serious dif- ficulty in attempting to explain the summary dis- S0ltlll0n OI Pilflilltticllt in the facg Qf his Qwn pledge. He says that the assurance given by

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“The Strongest Memory is Weaker than the Weakest Ink.“

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY ll, 193..

The City Council

Not in the long history of the City Council have such complete and informative reports been submitted and adopted as those at Monday night's meeting. As His \Vorship Mayor Foster pointed out in his full and comprehensive re- view, the last two ycnrs, and especially the last year, have been of the nature of a nightmare. But now that daylight has dawned, the new City Council will have a comparatively easy time building on the new foundations so well and truly laid, thanks to the competent auditors, Messrs. Archibald and Morell. It is unnecessary to dwell on the oast. \~\'hat the next Citv Council must do is to watch and see the new foundations are not undermined, and that from henceforth proper ztudit and financial supervision are rigidly adhered to. In a community like this whcrc everybody knows everyibody, where fam- ily relationships and connections are so in- \'t7i\'(’(l. and where political influences count for so much, outside pressure is apt to be appilfll.

making it difficult for the powers-that- be to h e w close to the l i n e, and to stick to that policy when o n c e it has

been adopted. For this reason alone it is a good thing that a lIlOli(‘l‘l1 system of book-keeping and accounting has been introduced, a system which. when the staff become familiar with it, will prove to be the salvation of the City, provided always, of course. that an efficient audit and financial direction such as the City now has are strictly maintained and followed in spirit if not even to the letter.

tsl The Vital School Lesson

In these days when so many unthinking people wish to dissipate teachers’ energies over innum- erable subjects in school, it is refreshing to find an old fashioned domine who swears by one of vitnl importance. Addressing the Sherbrooltc YUMcitIs Club the other day, Major Crawford Grier, hcadmaster of Bishop's College School de- clared the most important thing in education to- day is to inculcate in the minds of the young the llritish concepts of individual freedom and na- tional indcpendcitcc. Speaking 0n some aspects of modern educational methods, Major Grier was of the opinion that altogether too much lat- itude has been nliowcd- students in choosing their own subjects and iivmaking the school curri- culum ititeresting without placing an emphasis on the value of individual effort. Young people must be taught to think for themselves, to be able to accept and reject ideas. He maintained that the best results cannot be obtained unless the fundamental principles of hard work are stressed and less specialization is allowed. An- swering his own question as to what should be taught to aid in the formation and development of future citizens, Major Grier said thataknow- ledge of the British idca of life and its living was the most important. The freedom of the individual is the keynote of this British idea, and must be passed on to the generation that will some day produce the leaders of Canada. It is because of belief in the worth of their ideas that Britons are at war today, the fight for the national independence of European tradi- tions is the fight for the Liberty of the in- dividual.

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Hides Behind A Dead Issue

The Prime Minister makes a vigorous ap- peal for national unity and claims that‘ his Gov- ernment has been chiefly instrumental in pro- moting and preserving national unity. In that respwt, lays the Montreal Gazette, he endeavors to-makea virtue of the very defects of his ad- ministration, his earlier refusal to commit this country, its unpreparedncss, etc., which have been the subjects of public criticism and have occasioned public dissatisfaction. In this res- pect he skates Upon thin ice and in some other respects he has been less than frank. For cx- ample, when ltc asserts that unity was not achiev- ed “by declaring that without consulting either the Parliament or people of Canada, the Gov- ernment ‘would commit this country to fight at any time, at any place, in any cause, if Britain went to war", he is implying something that no one in this country ever had in mind. that no Canadian Government was ever asked or expect- ed to do or could be asked orexpected to do.

was that the Dominion should stand behind the Mother Country in a defensive war involving the interests of Canada as well as those of the United Kingdom. Mr. King knows this.

The Prime Minister also tells the people that he and his colleagues "were determined that Parliament, or the people themselves, would de- cide whether Canada should participate in war,” “d, "I kept that promise." The facts are that when the war did come the Government had no-

him was that a general election would not be held “before Parliament had again been sum- moned." If the assurance meant anything it meant that there would be a session of Parlia- ment. The words used by Mr. King on Sep- tember I2, in Parliament, were these: “As t0 the question of a. general election before an- other ‘session, my honorable friend ‘has been kind enough to say that I told him some time ago that I would not think of anything of the kind, or countenance it. Nor have I had a sugges- tion from any member of Parliament that a gen- eral elcction should be thought of between now and another session." lt will be noted that the word “session" was used twice, whereas Mr. King now says that he had undertaken not to have another general election "before Parlia- ment had again been‘ “stimmoned". The record proves that he had promised a session.

The Prime Minister has endeavored to turn a sharp corner in this matter of the dissolution of Parliament and he has been unsuccessful be- cause he has been unconvincing. He stoops still lower in his reference to the widespread demand for a national government. National unity he says, was not brought about by any pledge "to form a so-called ‘ilntional’ government that might enforce conscription or disfranchise manv classes of Canadian citizens." This is rather tinworthy of Mr. King. Ile knows quite well that the (lemnnd for a national government has had nothing whatever to do with conscription or disfranchisement, that neither of these things has been contemplated, even remotely, by those who have urged the establishment of something more ltrozidlvrcprcsentzttivethanaparty govern- ment. that all they have had in mind has been a national unity which does not stoo short of the Council Chamber at Ottawa. He knows that a tmtiottal government would he one of the stir- est guarantees against the two things that he has mentioned. lie has deliberate-iv dragged out .1 dead issue in order to hide behind it, and if that is his only answer to the national govern- ment proposal he is very hard pressed indeed.

- EDITORIAL NOTES -.

Valentine Dny.

a a u a Civic Election Day.

I i O U Governor GctieraVs Funeral Memorial Service St. Jntncs Church this afternoon. a a- a t-

The electoral lists arc now fluttering on lamp posts and telephone poles throughout the city and country’ for inspection by electors and others. e t- a x All eyes arc turned these days to Ottawa where john Buchun, Baron 'l‘\vecd.<ititiir lies in State, preparatory to his ashes being carried for in- ferment in his native land. (loll rests his soul.

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As time advances the necessity for active re- cruiting becomes more evident; only’ the very pick of the “A” men have so far been accepted for service; the others will soon successively have

their opportunity. a t- a

Captain James Cook, navigator and explorer, killed at Hawai this date, 1779. His marvellous voyage of discovery in the Resolution (i772) destroyed the old idca of a southern continent, and his auti-scorbutic precautions for the first time prevented heavy death-roll usual on long

voyages.

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Andy Hennesscy has“ passed to his reward as unexpectedly and more suddenly even than thc Governor General. It is no disrespect to call him Andy. In life everybody did, and he held an outstanding place in public affection and es- teem as testificd to bv his successive bi-annual return to the City Chamber. He came of a fine old Irish family which has contributed in no small measure to the cultural and religious life of the Community. His determined char- acter and spirit of independence carved out for him a unique place in Civic life which will be hard to fill. As with His Excellency, God rest‘

Andy's soul. a u a

Clearing out a book-case yesterday, _writes Harold Nicolsou in the Spectator, I came across a copy of Emanuel Berl’s Mort dc Ia P011308 Bollrgeoise, and as I turned the pages my attention was arrested by two passages which I had heavily tmdcrlincd. The first was as fol- lows: “I believe that the gravest malady which afflicts contemporary thought is lack of cour- age, not lack of universality." The second was as follows: “There remains something which we intcllccttials can do in this modern world. We can dcfcnd l\l.1n." Is it trite that the mod- ern intellectual is treacherous to his calling, and do we really lack the courage to defend those humane values in which we were trained and in which we believe? It is not, I think, that we lack courage, since most intellectuals would be prepared to fight, to the point of martyrdom, against any dictorial suppression of free thought. It is rather that we lack lucidity. \\’e do not realize with sufficient clarify that our standards of thought and conduct nre Ireitig threatened, not so ituiclt hv nny suppression from above, as hy a slow infiltration of disbelief and ridicule from below. Our enemies, in fact, are not the old regiments of rigid conservatism, but the new hordes of half-educated progressives. We must

choice, since public opinion permitted only one course, and that between the outbreak of .war

‘Tend the meeting of Parliament on September 7 _ *3“; mmtry your at war, practically if not form- our friends

acquire the itilclliqcncc and the energy to save ourselves from those whom we believed to be

Iver-y year that Quebec City la gltnout a Jaye? aaurtnnii is

coming young ves u appu- neas and violence. Just as it ls eon- demntng itself to pay a penalty in dollars and oeuta for making tresn criminals needless-Ly and tor m- prieastng their lawlessness once my are made.

All told. it is an umlne and not very sensible

situation! - Quebec Chronicle- ‘flelegrapn. ‘

The pro ed blll of Dr. A. S. Duncan, .I...A. of London, te-

qulrlng muorists to remove keys from parked cars under pain of ‘prosecution, ls entitled to support. ‘mere is no reason why police should be put to the trouble or tracing stolen cars when in nine canes out of hen their abstraction is due to the carelessness of their owners. Keys left In a car when it ls parked are merely an invitation to theft. + Brockvllle Recorder and

A correlpondent sends us the following interesting and arousing story from an English paper of a vlslt of’ Canadian soldiers to an English village: The Catiadtati soldiers have completely conquered my village. They have stormed the shops In search of coke. which ls slang. it seems, for o. soft drink. They have sought out the elusive not dog and the onlon-trinnned ltelxtbuxger. They call chocolates nauras and all ccnfectlonery candy_ And strange Canadians, arriving here, can still sometimes be found asking passersby the way to the beverage noom. It startled us at first. Since then we have become completely dominated by the Do- mlnlon. We soon learn that bever- age rooms in Canada are dull pubs suffering from a form of prohibi- tion and purveylng nothing but. beer-- no crisps. no cheese, n0 darts. no sherry. Our rural inn-s n-re already showing the Canadians the dellghts of the English coun- tryslde......and now! And we are already trying to make out guests feel at home by talking or vlctrolns when we mean gramopnones, mallmen when we mean postman and post-boxes when we mean pillar-boxes. -— London, Ont., Free Press.

Snld Ben Jonson:

would tempt you to eternity of lclsflng." said Dr. William G. Donald of San Francisco. concern- ed with spread of influenza on University of Calilornla campus: “Influenza ls n, mouth to mouth disease." Said Dr. slmon L.

Katzoff. consultant for the San Francisco Institute of Human Re- lations: “If there ls an influenza epidemic at the university-munch tnere is not - I might suggest there has not’. been enough kissing lately." The kiss, Dr, Katzoft sug- gests none too subtly. should be fervld, heavenly, scul-ssul. It should be a good. solid kiss and no mere peck. The heat; generated. he claims, will kill oil any lurking genus. Anyway. no ordinary germ could get thrcugh the llostzck used by the average girl, he adds. Every time we get the kissing question dusted off. somebody brmg-a it. up twain. Until now. it. was pretty generally agreed thct tossing was n gcod thing mcrallv, bctiveui the

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ONI MORE Sin-I read with ‘

t ensure Vet.- eran's letter ln yesterday's Guard- lun and to say another Vfllfl‘ eran Ls in the field for clvlc hon- ors vlx. Mr. Jae Iielghtller who ll a candidate for Water Oommls- sloner.

Mr. Lelghtlzer has been ulte prominent ln veterans affairs ere and held the honored position of President of the Canadian Legion“ With Mr. Lelghtlner on the Board of Water Commissioners veterans would be represented ln our city's gag. most unportant administrative

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I am, Sir, etc., ANOTHER ONE.

The Health League Of Canada

A TUBERCULOSI CONTROL OBJMJIrVn

If one province of Canada can re- duce 1m tuberculosis oearn rate so nmcnlsalpercentlesstrtmtltut tor one country as o. wnole, it. is 581B to take the lowest rate as an ODJCC- Live lll tuberculosis control nven as- sutnmg mat tsaskatcnewans ell- tnate may be more favorable to t-he keeping uown of me tuberculosis mortality, me dlrterencc 1n the GCBJ-ll rare ls so marked ma: those wno are working to conquer time d1see..e_ may well be encouraged. Uflmllltflll Government. figures lor 191:8 credit Saskatchewan with hav- mg only 28.5 deaths from tubercul- osrs per 100,000 people. Canaan's average was 54.6. ‘this of course. ls a splendid improvement. ln the last decade. ben years ago there being over Bu QEELHS oer 100.000 people. If the low rate for Saskatchewan Iltbu applied to all Canada In lust! there wcutn have been only 323.4 deaths instead of the actual num- ber of 6122.

when it ls considered that the Canadian rate ls only one quarter of what it. was at. the tum of the (enturv. an achievement of which this country may be proud. t-hose who are specializing ln the fight. a- gainst tuberculosis may well feel Justified in working coward the 0b- JOCLIVB of securing o. Dominion ave- rage equal to Saskatchewan's. ‘this would, tiaulrally, mean that some provnces might even excel Saskatchewan's record —perhaps Saskatchewan itself — and to prove that even this 1s possible, it. ls point- ecl out that in some Canadian cities there are now only l5 deaths per 100,000 population from tuberculosis.

A gain of 31 per cent in logging production and an increase of 24 per cent in water-borne exports for the first nine months of 1939 ls reported by British Columbia's lumbering 1n- dustry. Up to the end of September the log scale amounted to 2.333.296,- 593 board feet and water-borne ex- ports totalled 1,090,082,035 board feet.

flim- Deflllle. and a bad thing frzm the standpoint of ltealtlt. Now. along comes someone who says it's a gcod thing no mattrr how you lock at ft. Ben Jonrcn ls probab- ly the only one who's right. A young man, confronted by a “ssft lip" isn't likely to review his Rules for Good Health. The invoulse of the moment will take care of every- thing Anyway, it l. a gscd soo- ject to take your mind off the electlcn and the war_ — New Glas- Eovw Evening News.

Whether people rezlhw realize It or not the month of Janttarv was exceptional in its st/eiidincss cfwlnt- er weather though wlthrut any ex- tremes. The rep'rt of the Experi- mentel Farm at Nzppan states that there were fifteen days in the month when the temperature was below zero, but there was so little rain and so little snow and so lit- tle wind that the temperature was not severely felt. anywhere. People moved about without the dlserm- tort. of high drifts and blinding storms. and 1t. was easier to keep the home temperatures more even. We mention this because it ls so easy t0 forget some of cur blessings and surely this was one in the month of January when blustery day-s usually are expected and when people prepare for what are some- times called old fashlctied vllntlers. Another effect has been seen in the lumber woods where o-oerntors ‘nave been able to carry on their work to c. maximum of output and where there has been but litne tut- flculty in getting the cuts to the mill sites or to the sittings. The expected larger demand for lumber has brought nearly all the former operators back into the industry again and with the fine start made tn January 1t ls not doubted that the cut will be one Off the largest in recent years. This has meant not only more employment 1n the

will mean much more work in the spring when the finished product is taken to tlhe waterfront to,,pro- vilde more employment for the swvedores and many other classes of workers The only possible draw- lback may be the difficulty of securing vessels to carry the lum- ber across. Just by way of forming a new habit we might remember

this about the two month; 0t winter already passed. so many persons. do not. remember what

happens from year w your and are puzzle“ when they are asked any- thing about. weather of a previous period. Here Ls something dellnlte to keep in mind. that this year of 1940 which ls expected to be s0 eventful in so many ways, started out ln a way to give every reason tor encouragement for the months that are yet, to come. — Amherst News.

A friend (writes a corre- spondent) has been complaining that those branches of the civil Service with which the public have to deal are entirely devoid oi’ lmagtnatlon and humor, a very sweeping statement which was rc- futed by another member or the aforesaid public who was pres- en-t He had a small pet do: which was unfortunately killed. When the licensing period 8l"l‘lV°d he received the usual notice. and an a splnt of’ levliy, perhaps not comma in n Scottish doctor, he wrote acrom the form, "

deld. Nae dug noo." He expected either to be asked for details or the dog's death. tickled oft for his ieviiy in anrwerlna an official form, or ignored. Instead he received a re-

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