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British Columbia Election

‘i winieiit l'.'lfilllt‘il 3i cegfl 1 i-leeiiin in Iil'l',l>ll Colum- 1 111 11:37. The official Con-

5\|‘1'\_i'1‘i1‘-t" ‘fly ll lllllllivtrlftl only eight. the Ll -l'- ~ \ '1 I1. I.Itlt1)l' and one hide- pcntleiii iii. t 1g the ll_\l. The returns 1'1"" .\'~"1\ .il tIi-eiiciii were not avail- alne a. t i i Qlilllg HI ‘W935, hm 1t ,5 re. gartliil a. t. . 1.‘ .1 li‘I\t‘l‘lllllt'l'if will be re- Y-lilliltl. 111m ' l rwhiceil iiizijoritv.

Lilitizxl. t aiiil CLIP. candidates ftllltv~lwl I 1 ti“ CitttsllttttllClcS. In 1113111751111. 111 \.i-.- l1t‘lt' wf the Socialist-Labor PIIYT)‘. bi-Y lllt ‘lltltlll Labor, and half a il1l/It‘ll Il‘ I "’l'lii~ ninltiplicitv was ]_'i1'ol-:ilil_v_\\_"t¥ .1 1 l_\ ihe l.j-1vt1i'iiti1eiit, as tend- liig to thviiit i -p<_..i..§t:-1ii1 forces.

The elii wi- uillad hv Premier Pattullo for the - p ti\t‘ of stibuiitting to the

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'il to the inrottle tax- iineratiiig" with the re policy which is that iconic tax entirely as

a swurw < w‘ l inci»iiic_ But the main theiiic 1hr all _i irft- \1..'i.< the relation of Bri- fish Coluiiiliii an". war effort. .\lr. R. L. Maitlziiirl, t‘. l. . . i: li-Ltiley Qligirggd the Gov- (‘Tllllltftli \\'.1ll i‘.i.l 11g i-i co-tipcrate with Ottawa in the \l'ItI' iii 1.l uiih h.'iving no plan for War or p11“ 1 1 i111 iri. 'l‘h~_> CCJT. stood for a war eiiiiri \‘ iizii profit, public ownership 0t the priniia” wzil t't‘.~tttll't‘(‘5 and extension 0f lrllriri- ' 1 i nize and participate in the war eiil ., lTii w liitvi" issues are so largely concernwl l i ' l'.'ll policies that it is diffi- cult to sti; ' 111.1; c iultl be applied provin- cially

I'll-mint‘ illo. it will he recalled. was re- sponsible uiih the Ontario and Alberta Premiers fiir ~i"niil.ii-__r the Driniinion-Proviiicial Conference on tlii- Siriiis Report. He was pretty Xotiiitlly fltlliltlllCttl by his fellow-Liberals in other l‘rii1.-ii1.ci-~ iiir lrs .-h'trc in that fiasco. Our Own l‘reiiiii1i" Utiiiiiliell at the last session of the local Lin. :iini"e hail siinie pretty harsh things

to s;iyali~iiit.\lt1.~~i1<. Pattullo, Hepburn and AllCfllitfl. lie arcn-cil tllClli of practicing "polit- ical chicani i"_v." Ztlltl ~aid he liarl wondered, while attending ihi- coiiit-rviicc, “what penalty the people of Prfltce liihrard Island. with all their common sen-e, \\'1'tlltl impose on their govern-

ment if \\'|.‘ hail .'tli1i]il'.‘ll an attittidc of that kind .

in sitting at that \‘11lilt"l‘(‘il(‘.€."

\\‘ell, \\t- ~hall know t11il.'iy' how the British Columbia elcczors reacted, and whether or not they posse-std the (‘Ulllllltill sense which Premier

Campbell hclfevt-s the people of Prince Edward.

Island would have exi-rcisctl in the circumstances. If .\lr. Paiiullo should be defeated, we shall ex- pect the Uinvplivll lifiYQTlllllCtlf organ to con-

gratulate thr- elrcii-rs on their verdict. I‘cr.<r,iii:ihtit-s :un<nig the campaigners included PI'OI.I'S‘,(II' _l. lfritiiil llay of Yaiicotivcr, support- ing the (lin-eiwxitivt- party; Professor Ii. S. Farr, I.llll‘l'1il caiiilitlziic in Oak Bay: Miss Dorothea llcltritlt- isider of Sir Richard Mc- Bride), Conservative candidate in New West- minster. 'l"'tiere uwrc twelve women candidates

including the lllrvt‘ foriiier members. Six of the women were in the ('.('.l’.. three in the Liberal and two in lllt C-iiisrriqitive ranks. In Victoria, there were iui. urinien CttlllflCllllg for the seat, i\lr.<. Nancy ll111l1_'t1-, lpilterztl. and Mrs. C. Mc- Alll\lt‘l'.

(inc thin; llriii>li Ci-hinibizi provided for in this clvrlinti, \‘.'li.~ lti give the franchise to all

their nicii fill active service, at home and over- seas. That stunt-thirty; the Nova Scotia Gov- ernment nr-gleeit-il to do, with the result that N. S. service lll’ll tt\'('l'~('t'l“- have no vote in the elecnon uhirh takes place in otir sister province on Oct. 21s‘.

M/ooden Ships Still Needed

Since the heuiiiiiiiig of the war reference has been made on nriny occasions to the desirability -0f pnttingdhi- Slll|)_\'.'tl'flS of the Maritime Prov- inces. to work turning out the wooden craft which could he t-iin-trueieil to mcet the increas- ing need fiir \‘r'~\'1l< of all descriptions, Little if Inything, cuniplaitis The Mnnctoit Transcript (Liberal) has her-n thine to take advantage of

the opportunity, although across the line along the New England coast, shipyards are humming again and new _v:trtls arc being created. The out- put from these yards is releasing other and larger Canada l\t grappling with the tieed for steamers and is un- scale which could‘ not l'\'f‘ll have been imagined before plates Concerning it, with considerable delicacy, "He (the Prime

craft for iirgriit duties elsewhere. dermkiug a construction program on a

the war. hut now a shortage of steel

threatens to curtail the program.

his sittiatinn our .\l11nr'on contemporary quotes

(he Ottawa ("liiwn ti. lllt‘ following effect: "Larger steel plaii mills are doubtless needed

‘Whatever is being tltlltf‘ to get the steel

_ ships launched, l1o\vt~\-i~i-. ihm- is another way to in- crease the tonnage of the Canadian merchant

marine. There could be more shipyards in the Maritime Provinces for the building of wooden ships.

"There is no shortage of wood in Canada. There would be no great difficulty in recruiting the labor. Handy men in the towns and villages from Cape Breton to the south shore of Nova Scotia. around the Bay of Fundy to Passa- uiaquoddy north along Chaleur Bay and across in Prince Edward Island, everywhere in the [blarititiies where fishing, farming and lumber- ing dovetail there are sturdy workers fit to be employed on wooden shipbuilding.

"Veterans of the craft are still available. They are to be found among the inshore fishermen: sonic are retired on farms, or as SfOffiliCcpcfS in the villages. They built ships in the They could be brought back to give Canada a seaworihy fleet of wooden ships to help to win this war. Every ship can be used.”

One of the chief difficulties in reviving wooden shipbuilding in these provinces has been the lack of funds for private enterprise. The government can find the money for anything that is regarded as essential. and surely any con- tribution toward the solution of the problem created by the lack of shipping is worthy of attention.

— EDITORIAL NOTES —

It is tinderstood there will he no further unit of the Home Guard on duty here —what is to become of the finely erected huts built for their use ? I U U I \\'ith the air plane passenger service we see less of our distinguished visitors than ever —- they pop in and pop otit with hardly time to say “how do?" and “good-hyc!" n t t I “lhen tobacco rationing became a famine in the larger Australian cities it altiiost led to a new phase of the war of the sexes Adelaide tobac- conists resorted to the device of selling smokes to men only. I I O I Sarah Bernhardt, French Actress, born this (litter I845. the most outstanding dramatic art- iste of the nineteenth century; she entered the Paris conservatoric at thirteen, made hci dehnt at the Comedic Francais in 1862; while from i880 to I900 her golden voice and dramatic power was universally recognized. In addition to being an actress, Sarah was a painter and sculptrcss as well, and exhibited in the Paris Salon. 4‘ i? V Dobbin and the Old Gray ‘Mare have hit the comeback trail to alleviate the gasoline shortage and fill other transportation gaps in the defense economy. Wayne Dinsmore, president of the I-lorsr and Mule Association of America. pre- dicts that the use of work aniinitls, already stimulated by the defense program will receive such impetus from gasoline rationing that the declining horse and mule birth rate will be re- versed. “Rationing or higher prices for gasfllfllf‘. difficulty in obtaining trucks, or truck parts. for l rural or city use,” Dinsmorc said, “is likely to b1:

lfclt in the horse and mule business." I i i I

A notable feature of the making of munitions in Canada is that within the last three months lccrtain plants that have gotten into real mass lproduction have been able to reduce thciraiiiit lcosts far below those in Britain and consider- iably below those in the United States. Some 0f the figures furnished are more than iluminating, they are startling; and they should help to break down what has come to be a rather ridiculous in- feriority complcx in our industrial field. Plant efficiency here equal to that in much older in- ‘dustrial countries has been completely demon- strated.

‘iii-rum

Are we retrograding or progressing backward? The following letter appears in a recent issue o ,The Spectator, London: Sir, -—In his “Country lLife" column in your issue of August 29th Mr. Bates tells us that sheeps milk cheese (‘tulle common on the Continent) 1s now being made in England; and in view of its excellent quality and of the present shortage of cheese in this country. he welcomes its introduction. I should like to point out, however, that ewe-milk cheese has long been known in Scotland, Readers of Scotts Heart of Midlothian (firstpublished in _t8i8) may re- member that Jeanie Deans, anxious to present a Dunlop cheese to her benefactor, the Duke of Argyle, says if he would like "the ewe-milk, that is, the Buckholmside cheese better.” she would see that one was sent him. . To this a note is ap- lpended:“The hilly pastures of Buckholm, whicn lthc author now surveys, are famed for produc-

ing the best ewe-milk cheese in the South 0f iScotland." I fear that the manufacture of‘ such cheese in Scotland has now greatly diminished, ~if indeed it exists at all; but if the example of Mr. Bates's North-amptorishire friends were to 1be followed in other parts of the country, ;t. would, I believe, meet with general acceptance. —I am, 8m.

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A nice constitutional point is raised in a Times leader of last Monday, says The Spectalvf. m which l\lr. Churchill is encouraged virtually to select a successor to himself and to itidicate to the King in advance that. successofls name. It has been suggested that this is rather like the method adopted _by I-Iiter, who nominated Goer- ing to succeed him and (a little unfortunately). ifailing him, Rudolf Hess. Ilut I thitik it is ‘sound constitutional procedure. When a Govern- ment is defeated and resigns, the obvious course is to invite the Opposition leader to form a lVIin- istry. But today there is no real Opposition. and no such contingency as the defeat of the Primc Minister in the House is contemplated. But the perils of this mortal life in war-time are not to be ignored, and if ever (quod Dcus avertat) Mr. Churchill had to be replaced the King ought not to be faced with the immense responsibility of deciding whom to send for. As The Times puts

Minister) can do much. while he is still at the head of affairs, to guide the choice which it will . fall to others finally to make." That seems good sense Mr. Churchill himself, of course, is where he is because his predecessor advised the King to send for hiin._

last war. ‘

‘NOTES BY TNE WAY

When Finland’: foreign minister- ls in the war on!

says ‘nis cnrntry the same side as the Nazis only by "accident," 1t. m be assumed he i5 HPOIIJBIIHB glldly for the I company. - Kansas City Times.

, Every statement issued by the Dmvlncifll Bflvernment on the state _or Alberta's finances should carry prominently a. note by the pro- ivinclal treasurer that, the results l amved at do not take account of | the fact that Alberta still refuses, clcspite t-he Privy Council's ruling, to pay $2,000,000 0f the pravlnces ‘annual debt charge, representing the unpaid interest on the public debt. - Lethbrldge Herald.

This newspaper has more than rice expresed its conviction that no sound peace can be made with l-litlerlsm. The alternative as we see lt is to azhieve as quickly as possible iivlia-t; the Roosevelt-Churc- v nill peace iIrt-‘cram called the ‘final i destruction of N-azt tyranny“. The best hope of speeding a sound peace is more rapid and effective wcrk to overcome the initial ad- vantage of the Nazis in arms- pients. - Christian Science Mont- or.

Britain last year hind a spate of marriages — or an epidemic, if you Prefer that view of matrimony: "honorable estate", The total was 468,267, exoeedlng that of 1939 by 20,573. Even the 1939 figure was a 111811 0116. being 21.2 per 1.000 of populanon, contrasting with only 17.} the average for the four pre- ceding years. The 1940 total worlcs out at 22.6 per 1.000. the highest

"gfifiitzg CI-IARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

000-006-904

WORDS OF CHALLENGE‘

A THOUGHT A DAY FOB A PEOPLE AT WAR

‘Tree peoples are aaflli co- operating to win a free world and no tyranny can frustrate their hopesP-John . Winant, United States Ambassador to

I Great Britain. . v 0 00000 0004-0

PUBLIC FORUM

‘Ihln column In open lo: tin

‘ dloouulon by correlponrlenh of questions o! Inter-ut- The

Charlottetown Gnnrdlnn done not

noccnully crirlorlo Ibo oplnlnnn

If oorrupnnrlentn-

APPEAL FOR AID FOR BRITISH MINESWEEPERS

sin-Would you kindly publish an “Appeal for Aid for British Mlnesweepers" received from the Royal National Mission to Deep sea Fishermen. The National Sec- retary wrltes-“How we are going to clothe these men and their families this winter, I do not know. There are no reserves of comfort-ti on hand at. any of the Depots. The men require now, immediately. heavy woollen garments. Civilian help in Britain ls cut oft with the rationing of clothing. We shall be very grateful for everything re- celved."

The Overseas Parcels League will accept. and ship without delay. fil- ro cost to the donor, any contri-

on record. At. London's Caxton Hall —a favorite register Office - ‘i0 per cent of the weddings are re-i ported to have been "unlifoi-m weddings". During the last war the record was established 1n 1915, vrlien 360.885 weddings took place ——a rate of 19.4 per 1,000, __ To- ronto Iielegzam. I

Washington is a town that has grown too fast There are more than a million people in the metro. politan area now; In 1930 there were only 621,600. The city has never been a~ble to catch up with this bvflmins growth, The local‘ government, run by an unlnteres-t-l ed‘ wngress concerned with other, ithings, is under-fmanced helpcss and cutmodcd in design, Tree- lined avenues ard impressye red- slone hcuses hide the squalid alley divellngs that beer! disease arid crime, vrheie whole families live in single rooms and negroes try twice as much rent as whites. Washing- ton itself is a bottleneck. —Al:ien Stevens in M'Call's Magazine.

Australia the other day deeded to tidcpt the Keyws plan. now L-i QPBIRVFH in Enforid. and in 1"'ur- "te a crmnu“ "y loan otfiyyvr desuatclv-s 5"" no copftierrtlcn l5 Whiz gvrn triv- t- tn~ trek ct a. ccmpulsory lcfn ard there i: no iikcliibocd cf any The Qffgiuuji government h" raised $l."27.(1.00.- 000 by way of kaus since the war began. $fl50,"0ti.f‘00 in the first. $3§0.0C0.000 in the second and $8a0.(100.0CQ l the mo-t. recent one. War S.‘.Vl _ certificates have Yiezed $87."0000O. The vcltntitary loan is ear-i ezcd by the govern- merit, to have w:i'k.d very well In Gaizzda so far and “ihile it e41- tinues to wcrk ins-re is no dtpcsi- t-lon to use cctixpulsicn. -- Vim.

i ccuvcr Province '

A number of towns anti fillages l-llT-llbziotit ‘the province have had tli-e nazue of t - place painted m1 some bit-Idling’. fillfih as the water tank or rink izof. in order to 95- tablish their identity from the tiir. The idea Ls 511d to have ginaied from the fact that pllcl u h the R..U.A F., who cccaslciially tcse melt‘ bearlngl. find it a great help if they can tdent fy some tcwn

, from the air. The nelghbcr rig ,vlliages of Tweed has made or. Ttlflseiments for the painting of its name on the roof cf the skating rink. and it might be a good thing lf the local authorities would follow ‘he “Em-title ‘Itie water tower or the skating rink would be ideal spots tor the sign, _ sprung l News-Argus).

England's national flower, rose. wtll blocm tn treeless Iceland on bushes exported there by Brit. 15h inllrserymen. They have been, “med 1n stuns of the Iceland‘

buttons for these men, Now accent ecl as the British Minesweepers Auxiliary, the League is shipping weekly some five hundred woollen garments direct to the seamen! Missions ln Britain. Consignments are taken over by them at Pot-t. of Landing and distributed where needs are the most: pressing. We ask your help. The League operates with no overhead cost at all and weekly ships all stores 1n hand, to date witih no losses

Comforts are needed most tn the order given. Heavy turtle-neck Sweaters-Sea Stockingsfisocks- sleeveless sweaters-Scarves-Caps and Balaclavas-Mttbens. 0n ap- plication. instructions for the mak- ing of any of these with the ex. ceptlon of the turtle-neck sweat.- ers will gladly be furnished. These are machine-knit, and are pur- cliased from the factories as a more suitable, bettenwearlng and warn-- ei- garmerit; than can be knItt/ed by hand, also they are cheaper. $2.00 donates a sweater. Information re- garding these also will gladly be given by writing to the address he- tsw or telephoning PL. 7l8l-ro0m 520.

Mine weeping, bzcause of the personal sacrificcs n cessarv, ts a voluntary service; yet such is the calibre of the lllfrll, that when the Arlmirrttv took over all but one traulrr from iii-c pre—\var Premier Fishing Port cf the World (This is oft. bor-nberl l-Inll) EVERY MAN VOLUNTEERED and went. with his boat. Mr. Churchill, stleflkifltl recently said of the mineswceplnr: servicc-“We don't hear much about. the mining menace now, yet. almost evcry night thlrtv or forty enemy airplanes are casting these destructive enttnlesfyvltll’ ‘all tncii ingenious variations, in the most like)" spots to catch our shipping. We don't. hear much about it be. cause men and ships are toiling ceaselcs-ly to clear the approaches to pftllS every morning of the deadly deposits of the night It. is going on night after night and day after day, and it. may tvcll be imagined. as the service has to be 1nerformed in all weathers cou- stantly under the attack of the enemy, new excererit is the ser- vice rendered by the faithful mar. engaged in it. It. ls done in secret and in silence. and we live on."

I am, Sir, etc.

TIIOS. WALLGATE Hon. President. Overseas Parcel League, Windsor Hotel, Room 520. Montreal

iiiilTurkey And The War

(Sydney Post-Record)

Independent observers at Ankara,

Stecmship Company, whose house- who have been able to get s. ‘ close-

flag bears the original swastika-l up" slant. on the currentsandcross-

Nflfls- which. say heralds, n“ B tradition of evil centuries old. Car- nalllm plants Brown in Sussex have Qslsowsfiae to Ipetitalnd from Bruin e as co ' , b0 $095. 61161110818. ncggarmolwsireliellg |sets, toothpaste fishing gear, mus- teal tnstrumen , min- pim, 3m, i 5°81). bricks, motor can, floor p01- ‘ lsh, and foodstuffs, including | Jliousands of tins of biking _

der. Ohrlsunas puddings were 5mg’ and Turkeys total supply,’ ggcrly fly did not, arrive coveted by Germany, has all been imports sold to Britain up to the end of

18st year. but t

un til January. Icel

and

not the twlstcdfoim used by the current; o1 Turkish sentiment. are

convinced that Turkey t- neither pro-Ally nor pro-Axis, but la on trte fence to stay tlll the wars end, un- less sooner pushed off. The recent T u rk o-G e r m a. n haggling over chromium, and the way It has turned out. furntshes a. perfect case in point. Chromium is an essential raw material for armament itecl,

l OUR ANSWER

' Io your budget problem

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