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Morning Llally (Founded in I887)

Pr! ident, LieuL-Col. W. Cheater B. Mclmro Vice-President, J- R. Burnett, F.1d. Secretary, LICIIBnCDI D. A. MocKinnon, 0.9.0. Editor and lilanaging- Director. J. B. Burnett. IJJ. l‘ social-e Editor, Frank Walker.

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TUESDAY, JANUARY l0, IMO.

On War Fooling

The annual review of the Natimlfll Rfifiallih Council of Canada reveals a year of fruitful experimentation and results. Major-General A. G. L. liicNaughtoti is now overseas, in command of the First Contingent of the Canadian Active Service Force, and the council is devoting its at- tention mainly to war needs, working in close co-operation with the Department 0f Natlmliil Defence and the War Supply _B08rd- DH" c- ]. Mackenzie, of the University of Saskatche- wan, is acting president during General Mc- Naughtoifs absence. The aiiii of the institu- tion is “ilie prosecution of war research referr- ed to it. to make the greatest possible use of ex- isting faciliucs in various centres throughout the Dotninitm, and to utilize the services of or- ganized teams of research workers wherever possible." It is not possible, naturally. WSW“ (lciails of the investigations for military pur- poses which have been undertaken; the)’ a" °f a varied character and will undoubtedly 3t‘- tended with important results. Que significant activity of the council is to examine “the vi1hi¢ of proposer] inventions." _

Willi regard to what hasbeen done in thC year just ended, progrcssis reported in the scvcral (livisiotis—in the field of INOIPSY and agriculture; in chemistry; 1Y1 flledlanlcal _°“' gineering; in physics and electrical engineering. 51mm (Ines not permit anything more'than_a brief reference to some of the outstanding dis- coveries. In plant biochemistry, for example. useful facts relating to the propagation of spruce cuttings have bccn disclosed. Hormone treat- ment, in cases of deficient moisture, has in- crcasctl the yield of barley straw, but not fhe grain. RCSfllfCIlCfS are providing the medical profession with an ever-increasing number oi useful synthetic drugs. Tests of paimfi. 0f WWI fleeces, of many commercial processes haye been carried out. In the division of mechanical en‘- giiitreriiig, a new ski for use on all types of Civil and military aircraft is announced, which sup-

erscdes clivlicr patterns. linportant experi- ntciits in defrosting aircraft propellers have b43811 iiizitlc.

(if intcrest to women is the statement that a “ltcavv” silk stocking givcs extremely little protection zigiii ,st cold ; \\'IIII(‘, on the other hand, the wearing of a knitted dress along With Othfl clothing is found to provide as much ivarmtl as the “irzirnily-clothed" man gets fronihi/ gziruiriits. Much is szlid about X-ray BPPQYKUI‘

and other technical subjects.

“He Should Resign"

Under the. above heading the Halifax Cliron- icle tLibt-rzili dclivcrs a smashing broadside at lion. lli. .\licliau<l, Minister of Fisheries in the King tjovertiinciit. \\'e quote the full text of the Chrouiclds comment, which should be read in coniuiictitni with the statements of Senator Duff (Liberal) quoted in yesterday's issue:

"The lion. E. Alichatid, minister of fish- eries, may lack much practical knowledge of salt water fish, but he has some knowledge of the red herring. The inipertinent replies and comments which Mr. Micliaud has issued, fol- lowing recent PTOICSIS from this province, are full of attempts to draw a red herring across the trail. _

“The protests arose because of the appoint- ment of a New Yorker to investigate markets for salt fish iti the \\"est Indies and Latin America. Those markets have been thoroughlv surveyed. The industry looks for action rather than any further delay. Senator William Duff. at Lunenburg, stiggests that the ministerlresign to give the prime minister ‘an opportunity t0 reorganize the fisheries department from the top down.‘ _

“Mr. Micliaud says he sees no way In which his resignation could help to bring about new trade treaties and tariff changes on behalf of Nova Scoiia's salt fish industry. He does not believe his resignation would do any good. Many Nova Scotians believe it would do no harm. It would offer an opportunity for re- organization, as Senator Duff suggests, or ._it could be presented as a protest against laxity in bettering trading arrangements between Canada and Southern countries which are potential markets for Nova Scotia fish.

“Comments from Mr. Micliaud have a sickly sound when one recalls the constant pressure from lIll\ province for helpful action by tthc dcparintcot of fisheries. Men in the salt fish intlusffv know ~--evct1 if l\lr_ Micliaud does not .__t],;,t int-iii barriers in Southern countries shut out .\'ov:i .\'i‘tilin's fish exports, and that com- ,,,,.,~,~i,,] Ht-Qotiiiiitm, to achieve entry to South-

qrn ll'l1ll‘Ii\'l\_ is of vital importance. “|'|'ti\'i~ii»|i of IIIIITIWIS is the great needofthe 5,11, frcli illilll>li'_\'. Producer and exporter agree

m, flint, It is a ivcak attempt at demagoguery. iltt-n. wln-n .\lr. hlichautl says that he feels the FINN-d. m.n..- ft-oni fish dealers rather than |.,.,.1,,,»ttr_.. ,\tnl ii is ihc cheapest sort of.politics \\li('n .\lr. llirliatnl says that criticism from the

‘rc.'iclitiiizir_v vlcniciit of the fishing ' industry’ iiitlil':itt~~ that tht‘ tli'\"'l'""lcnt I5 mOYIIIK l" tile right dircriioii. ' _ _

“'l‘li;it is ntot-t» than cheap: it is futile.

“ltii-t-rvtiitt- Hssiicililvtl with the industry knows ‘bat markets arc the l‘l'_\'iilg need. Everyone knows that tlic dvpiiriiiieiii li-‘ifi I199" \V0€f\1IIV p,‘ h, ;i4~l§iiilll"i' to lIlt" salt fish industry-and lo tlu‘ fresh fi~li iutlil~li'_\‘. iml- If" ‘I131 mall"-

_l'_\'(_lfyunc km,“ that another survey of poicii- Mr. Cliurcliills incognito picscivtd. ___

tial markets is a shameful duplication of effort arid expenditure-especially shameful, during wartime, when more emphasis than ever is placed on thrift and efficiency.

“The plain fact is that Mr. Michaud shows up badly in this dispute. His remarks are itn- pertinent anrl irrelevant. His performance is disappointing and embarrasing to friends and supporters of good government.

“One does not expect every minister to have technical knowledge of all the business of his department. But the people of this country ex- pect, and deserve, mitiisters who will take pains to maintain a staff with adequate technical knowledge, and who will see that that staff functions industriously and efficiently. The continued difficulties which have beset the salt fish industry during Mr, 1\Iicliaud's term of of- fice discredit his ministry.

"Mr. Micliaud should resign from office, to permit a rilccexsor zulio enjoy: pitblic confidence to reorganize the department of fisheries on an efficient and itreful basis."

= EDITORIAL NUTFS =

‘The Banks and Bond dealers had a busy day yesterday_ n- : n- -

Up to the end of the year 905 Home Improve- mcnt loans were granted to Islanders, totalling $222,314.

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A limited legislative program, a short session and a general election in May and not later than June are now indicated.

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If there are those in Canada who still think this war can be won without individual discom- fort, or without any abatement of their normal peace-time scale of living, they are living in a fool's paradise and had better come out of it.

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Edmund Spenser died this date, I509.

What more felicitie can fall to creature

Than to enjoy delight ivith libcrtie,

And to be lord of all the ivorkcs of tiature;

To raigne iii th' aire from tlf-czirih to

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All Russian attention is not centred on the un- proclainied war with Finland. A four-wheeled vehicle, estimated by Soviet scientists to date back to about 2,500 BC. has been found by an archaeological expedition which has been ex- cavating for four years iii the Tsalka district of the Georgian S.S.R. 'l‘lie vchiclc, which has been preserved intact, was unearthed at a height of 2,000 meters above sea lcvcl. The Moscow News reports that the Tsalkzi vehicle has been added to the collection of golden chaliccs, oriiii- iiients and other archaeological relics found in that district.

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A notice placed iii some of the offices at Whitehall. London, irouicztll_v recalls the fact that in the \Vorld \\'ar an cnciiiy agent planted in a neutral lcgation was able for a time to coni- iiitiiiicatc with a spv by nicaus of the zippzireutlv empty match-boxes lie threw froin day in day into his wasic-pzipcr haslcet. 'lilic'\\i_li_i,i_clizill Q0- tice rcadst “blesseiigcr coming on tluty at 7 zi7m. must sec that the confidential wasicpapcr basket in Room———(ieiiiporttrily a cardboard liathox) is locked iii a cupboard. Such things as are obvious- ly not confidential, such as ciiipty niatcliboxes, rho, may be put into the ortliuar_y wastcpzipcr basket."

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Concrete evidence of the increasing effective- ness of the convoy systciu was sccii iii the latest figures from the Doiiiiiiitni lliircuiti of Statistics on the value of Canada's iiiiptirts from the United Kingdom (luring the third iuoiitli of the war. Goods shipped iii convoy to Liaiiadzi from the Ifiiitcd Kingdom tliiriiig November, 1111i], iticreased to $13,481,462 from $5,777.31 the previous month and $i1,026.638 the correspond- ing month of 1938, the Iliircau said. Canada's total imports from all countries rose to $84,501,- 211 from $79,053.16 the previous iiioiitli and $63,303,669 the corresponding month a year be- fore. Iiiiports from all British Liinpire couii- tries amounted to $21,668,963 compared with $13,651,742 and $17,790,038.

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Never has there been greater need for clear. constructive thinking and jiractical co-operatioii nor greater necessity to avoid extremes and ex- periments, Mr. K. H. Olive stressed in his presidential report to the animal meeting of the Montreal Provision Trades Association. “It is my belief that we Canadians have an opportuii- ity to serve the Empire to a greater degree than ever before. Because of the great blessings of our natural resources, we are in an enviable posi- tion to contribute to the democratic cause to which we are pledged. If sincerity of purpose, thoroughness and energy in effort are pursued in this respect, we should be able to develop our country in lucli a manner that when peace

once again returns many of our old economic

problems may be well oti the road to solution." w u - a

It is just as reasonable to expect an elephant to pass muster as a hog as to expect that \Vin- ston Churchill could escape identification when he goes abroad. lie might change his name, but he cannot change his manner and mode of get- ting where lic wants to. During Prohibition Days in the USA. he visited New York, and wanted his liquid refreshments as at home. A young Iiiiglishman, Jim Gallagher. who knew his New York, was acting as his ciccronc. He arranged a visit to one of the exclusive night club speakcasics which New York society then patronized. But ilicy forgot to advise their po- lice escort, which was of dimensions befitting lITi'_C,I1llI'Cl1lII'S eminence. Progress to their objective was therefore marked by the blare of police car sirens. On their arrival, surrounded by police armed to the teeth, the proprietor thought there was going to be a raid and refus- ed to open the door. Mr. Gallagher explained the situation and filinlly they were admitted. “Good evening, l\Ir. Churchill," said the pro- prietor. "llis name is not Mr. Churchill, but Mr. Brown,” Mr. (iiallaghcr corrected. "Good evening, Mr. Brown," said the proprietor and led them to a table. .‘\s he did so both bands

struck up “(iotl §\'ave the Iviitg." Thus was

THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

NOTES BY THE YIAY

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Apparently the Soviet supplies are no better than their general military organization. Tnere seems little doubt that. very few of the Russian troops are property equ p- ped for a winter Cfllllplllflll in un- sympathetic territory, wniie me quality of the mechanized and motorized equipment L5 (lemon- stratcd by the ease with when the Finns have disabled or captured scores of Soviet tanks. Yet tizere are signs that the Russian lni/Eis- ion was not. without planning of a kliid, for the Asiatic tro.p> who hive been used 1n the Petsamo campaign because of their suppoled capacity t.o withstand Arctic condi- tions could hardly have been draft.- ed to the front since the war be- gan. 1t begins to seem, in fact. that the Russians’ greatest. perhaps htelr only. advantage over the Finns is tiielr enormous reserve of man-power. If this can be properly Offlanized, led, and equipped, there is little nope for Finland. - Glas- gow Herald. -

In places like Northern Maine, Minnesota and Alaska outdoor men may know from experience what the armies are facing in Fin- land. Naturally. the cold grows greater as one advances toward the Pole from the comparatively mild climate of the Aland Islands and Helsinki. On the Petsamo front, 350 miles north of the Arc- tic Circle. James Aldridge writes ln the Tunes of "the cold killing as many Russians in the terrible night as the Finn patrols kill in the daytime." He write. of cold so intense that the breath freezes. there is ice 1n the nostrils, hands are numb under the thickest mil- tlens, feet are like frozen blocks. and men oare not go outside until they have encased themselves in layer after layer of wool, topped by a bearskln "pesky." If reports

are true, some one in Moscow blundered. The Russians were not ready for such cold. 1t numbs

men's minds as well as bodies. Fol"- get for a moment. the emotionliss sweep of power diplomacv, the hammering of absxract ideas. Here are men. peasants and workers under the hanimer-aiio-sickle ban- ner. The day is only a brief glim- mer in the south. The stars blaze like luminescent steel-Stalin is the Russian word for steel. The North- ern Lights dance like an unattain-

ablq dream of brotherhood. f 9%- dorn and peace. The stunted birches cast faint shadows Who

is the enemy - the men in white. slipping silently around the low hills, among the trees, aong the borders of frozen lakes. or the drifts, no whiter, into winch a man sinks and di€S'.' Or i. the enemy something eles, a man, a system. remorseiess and colder Still? “The silence here,“ writes Mr. Adi-loge, "Ls tremendous." Rifle fire. bre;k- ing out on a near-by hill, i.- like artillery. Wounded men freeze in the contorLoris of their last. agonies. For Marx's dream, tor Lentils. for Stalin‘.— does it mat- ter to a dying man? Docs he tliink of 1917. when the sad 0's o1 the

oid empire thronged nzmzwaru, shouting with Joy o1 a D311"! Y?‘ gained? An AITUHCQXI. ponderi g

these tnings, may recall the lines of Robert Frcsi: Some say the world will end in lire. Some say in 10'.‘ . . . . .. I think I know enough 0t hate To say that for destruction ice Ls also great And would suffice. —-F1‘CT'\ the New York T.mes.

The Government of Finland sends us a EZ-page brochure eni tied “Finland at Work-The Land and 1L5 People," It, i» made up entiieli‘ of photographs, with only biucl and explanatory reading matter, and the thing which most impres- ses the Canadian reader is that there is hardly a picture which could not be duplicated almost ex- actly ln this country Indirect, with titles and text. changed, tre book could be put out by the Canadian DepartmeniolTrade and Commerce with few people detecting the fraud, The front cover illustrates logging operations, and tlie back

has a harvest scene. Inside and depicted agriculture, dairying hYEIIO-QIGCLTIC power development,

tron and steel industries, lumbering and wood refining llldil=trle5i WX- tiles. domestic trade, sniping, coin- municatlons, finance, educaticn and urban life. The Finns sh: 'n in these pages are flue wholesome people, and we sliouid be proud to think of them as Canadians. Tie effect of the brochure, without a word 1n it having to do with tire battles that now are staining red the Arctic snows of that izalloni little nation, is i0 emphasize we atrociousness oi the Soviet inva» lon. Here Ls a country lfilflfesl‘ ed in nothing but, the econom.c expansion and the social develoll‘ merit which are possible only in peace; a country with a small population and so situated as to quite immune to the spirit. of a8- QIGSIVGIIGSS so ably taught by some other European states. Finland asked nothing of the world but to be let. alone. But. Finland L: the victim of a ruthless attack by o neighbor with infinitely greater rc- sources and a population neaivy 50 tunes as large. Her women and children are killed by bombs, her men are dying bravely in defence of their liberty. The blood 0f 1n- nocent people stains the bands of those responsible for these deeds of horror-"Red" has ccme to be more than a political symbol when applied to Stalin and his fellow cut-throats. - Ottawa Journal

Death of Mrs. Rudyard Kipling at ‘her bome in Sussex within a few days of her 74th birthday recalls the brilliant. career and fascinating stories of Britain's ardently 1m- perialiatlc poet and writer. The widow of the poet.—Kip1lng died in January of load-was an Ameri- can girl. Caroline Starr Balestier. of Vermont. she was married to the poet in 1B2, the year "Barrack Room Ballads" was published.

Kipling had the advantage many great. men have had a clever. cap- abla woman as mother. He was the aon of Alice Macdonmd, of Bir- mingham, two of whose alters had

married IEMJCCIIVGIY I/WO DOIllWf-S.

Political N on-political

(Vancouver Province)

Political friends of Hon. Ian Mac- Kenzie, Minister ol Pensions in the K1118 Cabinet, are organizing a ban- quet. to be tendered the rmimter m ilimcoilver or} Jan. 19. The banque it is stated, w ll be non-political.

Mr. Mackenzie 1a a member Parliament, representing an impo t- ant Vancouver constituency. and ls also a minister of the Crown. If hl§ friends, political or non-political. wish to do him honor by tenderin him a dinner, that is their aflalr. l this political friends on the occasion oi h s_ visit to the city, wish to hold a political joliifleation. that is their affair also Jhough political joliiflc- ai..ons at a time oi DOIIHCBI truce are hardly in taste.

This banquet, ltuwever, is, appar- ently, to be a sort of hybrid affair.

It is described as non-political but. it is understood the urpose of the gather-l is to give e minister an

opportun ty to reply to certain c urges which have been made against him by eastern periodicals. As these char es are definitely poli- tical, havhig_ do with Mr. Mac- Kenzlets administration of the De- partment of National Defense from winch he was recently transferred. reply to them will necessaril give the banquet a political charac r.

There I 1s no question that Mr. MflCkBnZle widies to repl to the chai es made against him. ere ls

as i1 tie question that the charges demand a reply. But the place where the reply should be made 1.5 t-h? House of Commons, where the minister can be sub ected to ques- tionlng and where r uital speeches will be in order. To hold a political banquet hi Vancouver in this time of political truce and to seek w give l‘ "16 iippearance of a public testi- monlal s not only a challenge to Pllblw patience; it is an importin- eriee that will invite resentment.

‘Kill. POPLAK FIELD

The poplars are felled, farewell w the snaoe

And the whispering sound of the cool colonnaae;

The Winds DIBy no longer and sing in the leaves,

Nor Ousepn it. bosom their image receives,

Twelve yiears have elapsed since 1 last _k a view

Of my favorite field and the bank where they grew;

And now in tlie grass behold they HIT.’ .

And the tree is my seat that once lent me a shade.

The blackbird has fled to another etr at

r e . Where the hazels afford 111111 a screen from the heat; And the scene where his melody charmed me before. Resouiids with his sweet-flowing ditty no more. My fugitive years are all basting away, And I must ere long lie as lowly as iey. With a turf on my breast and a stone at my fiend. Ere another such grove shall arise in its stead. -C0\vper, 17111-1800. Sir Edward Hume-Jones and Sir Edward Poyntei‘. Another 5151/31’ wzs the IIIOIACI‘ of Stanley Baldwin, former Brit sh prime muster, now Lord Baldwin of Bewlcy There were five Macdonald sisters, daugh- ters of Rev. G. B. Maccionald. a Wesleyan minister. Louise was the mother of Mr. Baldwin. Kipling rncl Baldwin were first cousins. —Lon- don Free Pres.

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(Manchester Guardian) —Ln few ways 1s the intense conservatism oi our Parliament- lary system better exliihted than in the announcement oi a new editor of Hansard, for it will soon be 50 years suice there was any connection between the name of f-Iansard and the daily publica- tion of the Parliamentary debates. But members who were not born when the change was made con- tinue to speak of I-Iaiisard as a matter of course.