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THE GUARDIAN

Morning Daily (Founded ln 180T‘! Authorized u Second Clue Mull. PM! OHIO! Department. Ottawa.

President. Inn A. Burnett; Vlco-Presldenb. Wns. B. Burnett; Seep-Troop, G. M. Burnett; Editor and Managing Director, .I. B. Burnett; Alt-Millie E090!- Frank Walker.

f‘The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than , the Weakest lnk."

OHARLOTTEIOWN, ssrunnav, ocromm 11,

. Thanksgiving

"Whereas it hath pleased Almighty God in His great goodness to vouchsofe many blessings during this year to the people of Canada; and whereas, under the blessings of Almighty God, Canada has been spared a great measure of the privotion and suffering which many notions have undergone during the year; and whereas it hath pleased Him in His great goodness to grant a bountiful harvest which has enabled the people of Canada to assist the peoples of other nations at this critical time: We, therefore, considering that these blessings vouchsafed to the people of Canada do call for a solemn and public acknowl- edgemcnt have thought fit, by and with the ad- vice of our Privy Council for Canada, to appoint, and we do hereby appoint Monday, the thirteenth day of October next, as a day of general thanks- giving to Almighty God for the blessings with which the people of Canada have been favored during the year; and we do hereby invite all our people of Canada to observe the said day as a clay of general thanksgiving.”

Thus reads the Proclamation issued last July in connection with the observance of next Monday's holiday. It provides on ample text for Thanksgiving sermons throughout the length and breadth of the land. In no port of Canada have we more reason to feel the truth of the words quoted than in this favoured Island Prov- ince, where, despite some handicaps peculiar to our position, we have indeed be_en blessed.

While Monday is the official Thanksgiving Day, the Sunday preceding the holiday affords o better opportunity for devout expression of thanksgiving, and the church services tomorrow will be of special interest and importance in this connection.

Gity Hospital Bazaar

For several years past, one of the big annual events has been the Charlottetown Hos- pital Bazaar, at which wholesome entertainment is provided along with the opportunity of helping o worthy cause, and contributing to the main- tenance of on institution which has served this community and Province so long and so well. Soaring costs of living and shortage of trained heln have mode hospital management exceedingly difficult in recent years. Every cent contributed

roflctod back to tho people by tho press and radio in the happenings of the day. Trends were caught and crystallized in the movies and on the stage. "The confused state of public opinion is an unflattering commentary upon tho moulding and that includes the clay as well as the moulders. The press moulds for good and bad by reflecting the happenings of the day. Editorially it does its best to counteract the bad."

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Tomorrow Thanksgiving Sunday. I i II I

Tomorrow, Nineteenth Sunday after Trin- ity .

Monday Thanksgiving Day and a public holiday.

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Monday evening, reception for the Arch- bishop of Nova Scotia and Primate of all Can- ada in St. Paul's Church on his first visit since

his elevation.

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lt will be noted from our Public Forum that "Ellen" will suspend publication of her Diary during the potato harvesting. It will resume (D.V.) on Oct. Z7.

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There is something a little childish about the way this country and Russia have left their respective embassies unmanned since the spy probe. That sulkiness has resulted in almost a cessation of trade between the two countries.

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It is hard to believe the Australian report that workers on a rocket-bomb range were re- signing "almost en masse" in disgust at the waste of public money. Their political educa- tion must have reached a point where they knew that government money was their money and

resented the waste. I

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It would seem that the anti-picketing Order- in-Council is merely a brutum fulmen for such activities of strikers as were illegal, of course remain so, and such as were lawful are not now offences just because of the order. Perhaps its reol justification is that it serves notice on the strikers that illegalities in the guise of pic- keting will not be tolerated.

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Henry Vlll, the much married English sov- ereign, become Fidei Defensor, this date l52I. That was after the conclove held with Francis I at the "Field of the Cloth of Gold" in I520, though he afterwards sided with Francis’ rival, Charles V: ”Of seven peasants I can make as many lords, but of seven lords I could not make

one Holbein."

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An announcement "within a few weeks" that will lead to the construction in the Saint John area of "a substantial cement-manufuctur- ing plant" was prophesied in Saint John Muni-

to or collected for this purpose is needed, and urgently needed, if modern efficiency in service is to be maintained. The new annex to the City Hospital now under construction is of course an additional expense, but it has become a matter of real necessity. Our people demand noth- in, short of the best in hospital care and treat- ment, but few have any idea of the manifold ex- penses involved in meeting this demand.

The Bazaar opens next Monday at the Sporting Club, and will continue every afternoon and evening during the week. It is hoped to surpass even last year's big attendance record, and this can be done if all our citizens cooper- ate with their patronage.

lllstlngulshed Visitor

Charlottetown is to be honoured over the week-end by the visit of a distinguished Com- monwealth statesman, the Rt. Hon. Francis Michael Forde, Australian High Commissioner to Canada, and o former Prime Minister of our sister Dominion. Mr. Forde is due to arrive here at ~ioon today, and leaves on Monday afternoon.

Unfortunately, due to the Monday holiday, no public functions have been‘ arranged in con- nection with Mr. Forde’s visit, but it is hoped that his brief stay will e enjoyable, and that he will gain a favorable impression of our Prov- ince and its people.

Many Australian airmen were stationed here under the Empire Training Plan during the war, and Mr. Forde no doubt has read and heard a good deal about Canada's smallest Province.

Mr. Forde is a veteran parliamentarian in his own country, where he has acted as Prime Minister on several occasions. In April, I945, he was chosen leader of the Australian delega- tio-i to the United Nations Security Conference at San Francisco and before the Conference opened, wcnt to London to meet other British Commonwealth leader It is a compliment tc

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'Canada that a mon of his prestige and ability-

should be selected to represent the Australian Government and people at Ottawa, and it is indeed o privilege to have him visit us here on this occasion.

Editorial Responsibility

t Jne of the outstanding editors and publish- ors of daily newspapers in Concda is Mr. F. l. Ker of The Hamilton Spectator, and at present President of the Canadian Press, holding a semi- onnuol meeting in Vancouver. Addressing the Board of Trade Ad Club there, Mr. Kor com- mented on the evidence of a decline In the soundnoss of public opinion in all phosos of pub-

,llc lifo. lt could be found, he said, in docreos-v

o_d church attendance, increased criminal con- victions, and the triumph of political opportun- gm. i-lo said tho responsibility to cultivate wis-

om among tho pooplo lay with the homo, church, g hools, collogos, press, rodlo and theatre. "How

rd It tho cultivation of rovorenco and, y and o docont humility boforo God in our . colleges, newspapers, radio. and tho-

hlr. Kor oddod that unwise spooclioo, on- who ofl dodllolq roctltolo ool niorollty woro

cipal Council by Warden James A. Whitebone. Tho matter was brought to the attention of the council by a letter from Mr. J. R. Dudlcy, in- dustriol commissioner of the Saint John Board of Trade, who stated in a routine report that he was in frequent communication with at least two nationally-known cement industries which were "vitally interested" in establishing plants for the manufacture of cement and cement by- products in that city.

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The I947 spring pig crop was l0.5 per cent greater than that of I946, hence it is expected that mcirketings will be considerably greater during the last quarter of I947 than during the same period a year ago. An increase of 6.9 per cent in the estimate of the number of sows bred to furrow during the six months following the date of the survey indicates that hog produc- tion will continue to increase. The seriousness of the feed situation, particularly in Ontario and Quebec, which has developed since farmers re- ported their intentions for the fall pig crop and which has led to the marketing of a consider- able number of sows, will tend to reduce the in- crease somewhat from the 6.9 per cent indicated

at June I.

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Bermuda has been patronizing Canada to q greater extent than she can afford. Because of ‘the dollar shortage citizens of Bermuda may ‘be barred from travelling to here and the West jlndies by the Canadian National Steamships |Line, the House of Assembly heard at a sitting this week. John Cox, chairman of the Finance Committee, told the Lower House of the Col- onial Parliament that during the first seven [months of I947 Bermuda had a $4,000,000 od- verse balance of trade with Canada and the Uni- ted States. He soid restriction of travel on the Canadian line, which would be one measure adopted to combat the dollar shortage, was under consideration but that he could make no def- inite statement at present. In I946 Bermuda showed a $325,000 favorable balance of trade iwith the United States but had over-expended in Canada by $4,000,000.

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It seems Ribbentrop was a wholesale rob- ber as well as a wor manger. United States war crimes prosecutors have emba ked on u vast treasuro hunt in search of millions of dollars in gold-perhaps as much as $50,000,000—they believe was cached by him. Existence of the undiscovered funds was tipped off by former henchman of Ribbentrop in the Nazi Foreign Ministry. Ribbentrop was hanged os a war criminal lost Oct. I6 before the prosecutors got on the trail of the hidden gold. Ho had four 'funds-a general budget, a "secret" fund of about $4,000,000, a wor emergency liind of un- limited amounts, and a "super-secret" porsonul allotment which liald at one time or least $45,- MOJIIO, raid Dr. Robert Kempner of tho war crimes staff. clorod, Ribbantrop started to ship gold in small ban to various embassies "in tho ovont that war lolioold cornoff ~

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Defence Mlntlor Clinton's nn- nouncement. that Conch ls no qulflfls B5 new Ioeedv lemmas ind-testes on awareness of this country's defence needs nnd on intent to meet them. - Ottown Journal.

A Northern Ontario mon bu o. cat that has brought. ln nearly 200 rlbblli. of which both mon and cat. are very fond. That ls enough to make any enterprise kitten run FWBY to the northland, where there ls bigger and better game

Londoners for newspaper reading _-t.o see large numbers of people deeply immersed in their papers ln tubes, on the streets, in cafes. ln fact. anywhere. was quite strange to mo. because in Salisbury newspaper reading ls connected with ones home or the Clvll Ser- vice Offices! — Pamlla Walker ln B. B. C. Broadcast.

An tntereotlng lult has been de- clded ln Toronto whero Justice Dole has dismissed m octlon for damages brought by a woman who slipped and fell in a theatre. The judge found that lf she insists up- on wearing hlgh heels "you must abide by the urn eq ences." It was said the woman was wearing four-inch heels, described as med- lurn height. What height must they be to be high? -- Niagara Falls Review.

There ll plenty of evidence that the only real sorrow ln the hearts of the Germans ls over losing the war, not causing it. There is noth- ing to show that they blame them- selves for the predicament in which We)’ now find themselves or for the tortured state of the Eur- cpe they ravlshed. Rather they seem to blame the Allies for des- troying their economy, their cltles and their factories. - Gait Re- porter.

It was natural that Brltlnh peo- ple_ after saving the rest. of tho world should feel that. they them-

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selves had earned the right. to better living conditions - shorter hours, higher wages. more holidays with pay and a generally easier time. But an easier time has not. produced the increased goods nec- cssary to sustain her economy. Her economy also has been further dls- Qortecl by too much money in the ;pocke‘.s of her people, creating on iabnormal demand for goods and services at home. Vancouver News.

One might imagine that even Socrates with his wealth of phllos- ophy and hls calmness ln the pres- ence of death, might. have been startled just a bit if he had sud- denly caught a vlslon of horseless carriages, huge machines soaring in the heavens and had seen light- nm: made a drudge. Though he heard "voices" from Invisible sources theirarllo would have am- azed him. -_ chatham News.

There ls no apparent founde- tlon for the long-staridlng belief that plants that twlne in one dlr- ection in the Northern Hemisphere reverse themselves and twine in lhe other direction ln the South- ern Hemisphere. This erroneous belief, which probably gave rlse to the similar idea about. pigs’ tolls winding in different. directions ac- cording to the hemisphere the plg was in, seems to be based on o. misunderstanding of some of Dar- win's statements about twlners. — Bulletin. New York Botanical Gardens.

Gasoline can be mode from low grade cool and llgnlte by a new process which has been developed uy V. P. Parry, E. 0. Wagner, A. W. Koth and B. J. Goodman of the United States Bureau of Mines, Golden, Colon says a New York Times science writer. Soft. coal or llgnlte ls poured ln at the top of a double-walled cylindrical oven. steam ls introduced as the coal slides down between the walls toward the hollom of the retort. which is heated to about. 1,900 degrees cenllgrade. The steam and hot. coal react. to synthesize gas. a mlxture of hydrogen and‘ carbon monoxide. This ls piped off through a vent. ln the inside wall.

In these times, when the boot scientific brains are busy improv- ing the atomic bomb, It's com- fol-Ling to find at least one Inven- tor who ls trying to make llfe n little less hazardous. Hls master- pieco-recently exhibited ln Los Angeles-ls o. timed traffic signal. It has a clock attachment which tells motorists and pedestrians how long they have before the llght. changes. If widely adopted. this signal should remove one of life's major uncertnlnltles - especially for the unhappy pedestrlon. Al matters stand now, crossing n street, even with the light. ln your favor, ls o great adventure. You may think you have all the tlrno ln the world. But, just no yon leach the middle of the street. tho ominous rattle sound.s_ the light changes. and you run for your llfe. - Edmonton Journal.