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THE B NAR LOTTETDWN li llARD IAN

Aiurniiig Dally iFounded In i881)

President: Lleut. Col. W. Cheater S. MeLnre Tire President: J. R. Burnett. FJJ. tsei-relni-y; Llrut. Col. D. A. ltlflcklnnnh, 0.5.0. liilltni and .\l'.lll.l§lllg Director J. B. Burnett. FJJ. AanW-ull‘. Editors: Frank Walker nud inn A. Burnett

suisscnirrioiv earns By Mall in l‘.l£.i., $4.00 per year; $2.50 I01’ I months $1.23 for 3 uionths; 50o for one month titty liclivcry $5.00 per year; $3.00 for 6 months $1.75 tor 3 months By 31.111 in Cunailu and U.S.A. $5.00 per year Sutuidny i) cckLv: $2.00 per year; $1.00 I0! l months 50o for 3 months

111.1 (l1.ll'l1lll4:l1l\\ll (juurdiisu may he ohtnined ll il1-1.1t.11..- .\<~u-. .\|;i'1|1'), ‘lumen Square, New York; Ohl 51.11111 \\\\s .\-.;1111-_\, turner Milk and Wnhlniton, 11...1..1., dlrlrtipuliiiili so... Agency, 12411 Poei an. 51011111- .1. 11111- 0.11 lfuy st., Toronto; News Strand. t1..11.~..11 1.1111n--r, uiinun; Wolfe's Ne»: Stead. Bradbury, 011i, 11111. l'11i1111-1-u shun, Jlunetun N. 0.1 Ellen Robertson dinner-n, \

Tliu 5 i1 ullf/(‘Sf Jlcmory is Weaker than the ll cakes! Ink."

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Brilixli \Var Damage

the itnnt-il rt-grort which life assurance com- ' '11 limit liritziin have issued for 1940 t'1:1t the companies find themselves able

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cheese, will be guaranteed against loss, subject to the fulfilment of certain conditions. Steps have been taken by the Commonwealth Govern- ment, through the Commonwealth Bank, to guarantee loans made to factories requiring fi- nancial assistance, and the Dairy Produce Con- trol Committee will make arrangements with the Commonwealth Department of Supply and De- velopment to ensure that the needs of cheese main- ufacturers for plant and materials will be met. Since butter prices will tend to decline as ship- ments to the United Kingdom fall, relative val- ues of cheese and butter are also to be watched carefully by the Committee.

r- EDITORIAL NOTES —

Canadians, neither West nor East, are very interested in clectionecring at this critical time; Premier lifacMillan, Nova Scotia, would have been well advised to have accepted the Conserv- ative opposition leader's offer to resort to an ex-

tension of parliament rather than rouse ani- mosity by holding a general election I U I I Australia has discovered a new process for

making bullet-proof armor for fighting vehic- les,, said thc Director 0f Ordnance Production (Mr. F. S. Daily) in a recent talk. “It has to re- main a secret but we arc very proud of it," he said. “It has brought us $200,000,000 worth of orders from the Imperial authorities. " 111

11. 1,1 {till n zihczul even in these difficult 11 =11 i-

l'~""'~l"" l‘ 3 "llllllc l0 the lm‘ Svdiiey police patrol chascd a stolen car into 111* ~" ' l "l ill" mlllP-“lk-s "*‘5°l"°°5 and a dead-end lane so narrow that the doors of to t? f“ » d‘ 6° QIlF-“TIKlQYQd during a 1mg his“ neither car could be opened. The officers sat r111; by SllCCL -1'ul negotiations of many similar impotcnt ‘vhile that ma“ crawled through a

d wcathcr.

‘>11 1F..- 111 fiwlllll, however, the reports reveal 1 1< more interesting details, since

..l s‘. Zliflllvlllj have simultaneously and for

window and escaped-—ivliich is one argument for

small policemen . =11 i-

Feodor Mikhacrlovitch Dostoievslcy, Russian

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hole, the ance cmtjwnriics

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ziivcsuin-iiis 0f ‘ {e to have been

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I71‘: izicrzies "like.

(~11 1.1 l1» not \‘c:'_v con

dcclzirc that. llltlWilll mnr .> pPVlZlllwll. fhztt \\'.

l‘ wirlS l5 (lPJllli cl

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l1" the last five months of I940.

show that damage to the exten-

.1.11i Proridciit, for example, which -- n real estate to the extent of some $»t~>-"->O1“@°1 P1"; the PY°P°Yli°T1 °f PY°P°Ylle5 and taking measuru to prevent the Nazi inva-

' ' . nziqi-rl or wholly destroyed by bombs

tlt rind, Blvdical and General. with prO-

t-rzible pan of the real estate owned .'ls-\il‘.'1ll\‘(,’ flullllillllCS, is sittiatcd in Lon-

rd tlzrtwtighout all districts, it is very

that rhcsc first official figures can be to r1‘.'ll estate throughout Great Britain. . iliwt bomb damage has been far heav- ii-i- tnr s-mll 11nd chcztp houses than for larger litre tlIHIILIgC, on the other hand, has bct-n >1)l(‘1'l.\l. fairly even over small and

\‘{:1r ("HllIllIlUS in Croat Rritan have also prov- titre is that most assurance offices were able to has been not much beyond normal ex- sticd by 22 companies stat»

IlllilS have augmented norm- Ill ch-ntli chums hy only 10.4 per ccnt.

Premier Patlullo’: Mistake

made on the extent of war Damage to buildings and

c czisc after mouths of heavy reports issued by the assur-

by them as guarantee for igcs some 2 pcr cent. The

2 pcr cent and 3 per cent,

about $30,000,000 finds war less than 1 per cent of book

appears to be fairly evenly

large

siilcrzihle. A remarkable fea-

standing war deaths, the

‘l I11 Wimiirn-q Frcc Press (Liberal) comes sadly :11 the ronclti-"ion that the Pattullo Govern-

~ 1 in liTlfl<lT Columbia “did not help itself by 11g 1H1- vlcctnrs to vote for it in confirmation ‘ < 11f co-opcrzition with the Dominion nil-n: in the wzir effort. Thcrc was in this 1n that the opposition parties were less l in such cn-r-pcration, which quite pro- ltfil to t)l'(1l(‘<l.<." r ‘l -'11'~.~\vd analysis, and a most revealing fi-nni lilf‘ lczirling Liberal newspaper \‘rv only in British Columbia, but .- P11111111 tlirre is resentment at the im- t 111111-11 pnrlics are lcss loyal or less 1 11111 p111- cciit wzir participation than i‘ 11w l.il111r:1l party who happen to be . l~ l: I’r§n11- Xliiiistcr King's great iveak- ' n» 1:111 we nothing in members of other

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novelist, born this date I821; wrote very pow- erful stories dealing with peasant life and soc- ial problems in Czarist Russia which did not fail to attract attention to, and sympathy with the downtrodden serfs of an outworn autocra- cy. His masterpiece was "Crime and Punish- merit," which was translated into seven langua- ges, including English.

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111 a Evidently the U.S.A, Defense Authorities are acting upon President Roosevelt's warning,

sion of Panama at all costs. The banks of the Panama Canal and adjacent areas, from the Mi- raflores Locks on the Pacific side to Gatun Lake, have been declared a. prohibited zone for all un- authorized persons. ‘ The military authorities have posted public notices stating that any un- authorized person who leaves the highways or other roads in the prohibited area docs so at the risk of being fired upon without warning by patrols and hidden guards. n- u 11- n: News from the ancient colony over the week- end indicates that Sir John R. Bennett, one- time member of the legislative council, had died after a long illness, at the age of 75. He was the ninth member of the council to die since New- foundland was placed under commission govern- ment and its legislature suspended in 1933. Sir john, who began his career as a clerk, became the president of large concerns, besides taking an important part in the government of Newfound- land, for which public service he was knighted in 1926. >11 >l< Though we enjoy the doubtful distinction of being the only province with a decrease in In- come Tax payments, that docs not mean there is less money in circulation among the average cit- izen. The reverse is the case. Owing to separa- tion allowances, soldiers remittances and pay the general community is much better off financially than ordinarily, which accounts for a growing prosperity of farmers and stores alike. It is to be hoped a “ceiling" will not be placed on farm produce for this Province was ncvcr hotter off than when butter sold in the market at 50c per lb. and ungraded eggs at 45c per doz. =i= =1 =11 >1

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Medical students are not exempt from mili- tary service. Maj-Gen. L. R. LaFluchc, As- sociate Deputy Minister of National War Scr- viccs, specifically states that medical students at Canadian universities will be granted no ex- emptions or partial exemptions from compulsory military training, but that some of thcm will bc given an opportunity to study "military medicine" instead of the ordinary training course. Gen.

t excl-ti‘. [mllliCZll opponents. The Pattullo :11 \\"1< fitllou-ing Liberal precedent in 1 - g 11, . nniuili/i- r111 the: war effort. If, as the’

\\ -,- ; t 1111» |'r11-< suggests, this was resented b - 1' ~t1»1*-, tln-n it is as much a rebuke to 1h 1_ ii11\'\‘l‘lllll('lll as to the Pattullo Gov- cr~ ~ 111. Pzvntivr Ikiltullo would probably have’

less

- :1 ha». jlilfiisllll appeal if he had a .1 111i lc:11l1-t' and ;_"()\'Cl'l1Ill(‘lll'. at Otta\va_

Rrziliictiiig Australian Butler Ont itq tl11- <'lll‘1"1 nt PWVlTIClifIIT season Austral- in ni" liLc (Eniudii, ti» incrczisc its chccsc Olllpll‘ 1111 .-l1ip1111,11t lo the l'nit<-1l Kingdom. and in 17.1 .11 will cut down the production of hut-

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lion of llll‘ .\1i.-tr.'1li1i1t dairy industry is to meet ‘Uniud l\'-I1ii_~l1111i rc-uiirciiiciits. During last 511111111111‘ tl1~ lrili-h hliuistryi of Food indicated that rdfit-tncnt- of liuttcr from Australia to the. Unilcd Kingdom irould be limitcil in the. coming Aiistruhnn >1-.'1~11n tn zippmxiitiritcly 6O pcr cent of 111v 1|1t"1ntit_\ diippwl ill prcviiwus seasons, but that 1111.011 lltlln of chu-sc, 1n" inorc if zivailzihlc,

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T11 11111-1 ll1i~ <it11:1ti~1n. the Cnnitiininrcaltli Duirv Pr-diu-t- 11111111»! (I-niniiticc lllllifillllCftl that '11 subuzinliul quantity of milk would have to be dir1-rt1-d 1-111111 l1ll'l(‘l'll1.Cl1(‘('\‘C manufacture. and 111 facilizww- the change and expansion of 51191-51- 111111111‘ ipprnrtwl 11f the formation of a

Stale i,'li1~1--~ Vniiiinittci- in ('.'l(‘ll state.

To encruiingl’ chccsc manufacture. writes Frederick Palmer. in a report to the Department of Trade :11~.d Commerce, manufacturers who undertake the mimnfncttirc of additional quan- tities of ClTCCsQ, or ‘vVllU bcgiit the production of

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tcr l.'J1'_1'\;1-¢1I'l. Thi< zidjtidtncnt in the produc-'

LaFleche said the Department of National De- fence has worked out a method whereby medi- cal students in their final years may give parti- cular attention to courses or subjects which the Defence Department has designated as “military medicine." m n1 s- n1

The quality of the prcsotincl secured to or- gaiiizc the new totalitarian regime in our wziy of life is widely conceded to be quite as important as the terms and conditions of the plan itself. Statements emanating from certain Government officials are to the effect that the supply of equipped man-power for the rapidly increas- ing ivar control tasks is almost cxhauscd. but the fact remains there are many ivcll-cquippcd of- ficials in the present departments who could take on the new jobs without impairing the cf- ficiciicy of administration in those departments. It is known that in Ottawa there arc many of- ficials in what might bc termed peacetime dc- partmcnts who are not overworked and others who would welcome uscful ivar (‘ll1[)l4)_\'lll(‘lll; but tip to iliilc llic Cabinet has cmitctitvrl 1t- sclf with bringing in mm from private cult-r- priscs. So much 11f this has l)(‘l‘ll dnnc that nizuiv private litisincss and industrial firms arc obliged to conduct their business" with almost skeleton staffs, whilc almost 11S many nicn in (invcrir mciits posts arc not only available but eager to have a chance to engage in work more closely re- lated to the war. On top of this. too, is the Civil Service system, not the commission that some- times makes it difficult to fit persons already in the service into new and wartime tasks The time hascome for a change in this respect and the getting rid of all "Red Tape" restriction; and hindrances, - ~-

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TH_E CTIARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

NOTES BY TNE WAY

Britain's rising income tax ll having the incidental result of re- leasing from wider apprec stlon overseas more and more of the beautiful porcelain of England. The recent London sale of one private collection disclosed the astonishing fact, that the own- er was regularly using more than one hundred dinner, tea. and des- sert services of the finest porcelain. Collections llke these ‘on now lug eagerly bought. up by Australia, Canada, New Zealand. South Africa, South America and the United states, Prices vary amazingly. A Worcester dinner set. specially painted for the Prince Regent ln Waterloo year by Humphrey Chamberlain, was knocked down for £380. In other days it ml t well have fetched twice t at amount. On the other hand, n private collection from Walton Hall, Warrington. went up to £2,- 136 Chinese (Nanklng) decorated in the lowest-oft tradition, brings in £3 1i piece and. as u. good set will run to anything between 110 and 2'15 pieces. the cost ls impressive. The United States is particularly kccn on Crown Derby and old Worcester; and one London dealer t5 now shipping dinner, tea and dessert services there to the value of 6.000 dollars wort-h a month. Americans used to buy as collectors. To-day thov are buying for use So do Canada, Australia and New Zezilnud South America ls l-he re- maining market for decorative pieces prized by those who Just collect.

Not one letter has been lost of the thirteen and a half million flzwn between England‘ and Lisbon in the last. year by the British Overseas Airways Corporation. Sea-planes and aeroplanes have safely covered 750,000 miles with 4,000 passengers, and neither war, nor weather has mused the service lo change iLs time-table since it opened in 1939. Throughout the Battle of Britain. severe weather and hazards of war. the air link between England and Portugal, and by Clipper on to U.S.A., has re- mained unbroken. Malls for pris- oners of war are flown to Portugal and letters frcm them are flown, free of charge. back to Lisbon where the Portuguese Post. Office transfers them to British Airways. In July a special ll htwelght let- t/er-cnrd was devl for airmail: to prisoners of war. It costs only lhreepence to fly one of these cards to Lisbon and on by neutral plane to Germany. Four thousands five hundred of the new letter-cards weigh Just one pound; the some number of ordinary simiall letters one cwt. and a half.

Thousands 9f miles from the war zone, people are now slitting their letters open with paper knives made from bits of bombs rained by the Nazis on London in the blltz. The larger pieces are melted down and used again by industry. but. small fragments have been shaped into blades, leaving the handle in the rough of the origins} splinter. The paper knives are from six inches to two feet long end quantities of these souvenirs have already been shipped to the Do- minion and U.S.A,

The system of getting aid to the Axls Powers (through South Ameri- can countries) should have been crushed sooner. For even though it. takes us a long time to create our weapons for defence, it ought. not to have required a great deal of time to discover when and how our exports were being used for Ax‘s advantage and to have stop- ped the business immediately. Yet there is actually more to the prob- lem than merely keeping Ameri- can supplies from reacting these Axis-controlled Latin American firms. They are an integral part. of Latin American economy. ‘Ilhelr roots g0 dee into the industry and finance an commerce of the various countries ln which they are established. Hence an obliga- tion rests on the United States, after this necessary blackllsttng, to co-operate closely with the affect- ed Latin American countries in making necessary economic re- adjustments. Acting Secretary of State Wells promises that wll be done. But lt should be done promptly and as adequately as we can in the mldsl- 11f our defence program. - Providence Journal.

T11 May, 1940, u month before the Nazi invasion of France, the fam- ous Pasteur Institute in Paris en- nounccd the discovery of a serum against dysentery. The importance of this discovery was classed with that. of the anti-tetanus and anti- chclern serums. But now t/hat. Nazis are ln Paris. there is up- prehenslon as to the fate of this world-famous laboratory. It is well known that through the brutal ap- plication of their silly race theory. the Nazis have robbed German science of much talent. and it: is fe-rired that the work 0f the Pasteur Institute is now being rncnaced.—

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WORDS OF CHALLENGE

A ruooonr a on , r01: a econ-us u‘ mm

"Canada must prepare and 1 have armament so that when | the time comes to take the of- fensive-and there ls going to come a time-we can strike hard and hesvyflqf. L, Ems- ton, Minister of Net-lone! De-

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6 Moscow Holds Cut (librcliange)

The German high and can see itself capturing Moscow and still have to speculate on whether 1t; has either destroyed or isolated the Russians ln the north. If it does not. do this, the Ruslan army continues to exist, and so long as it does ft may jotxi with the Rus- sians around the Black Bea coasts. There will be bitter recrlmlnatlous ln the German high command lf the northern Russians escape stlll to block the way to the Crimea and

on to the Caucasus. There remains every indication that even a break-through to Mos- cow itself wlll not relieve the Germans of still having to over» come a Russian army. This must be inferred from every announcement officially coming out of Russia anc

If the taking of Moscow were 1o overwhelm the entire Russian army, why continue to ship war rnaterlul to Russia? To do so would be to waste supplies the nations at war are aware

they will still requke. '

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s. A. McDONALUS BARGAIN BASEMENT

LADIES’ DEPARTMENT

I Ladies’ first quality full-fashioned silk hose, chiffon, only newest p111 shades, all sizes, pair — — — — — — — —- - —

i Ladies’ fall skirts, asst. shades and sizes — — —

crepes————————-———--———-——-—— Ladies’ snuggies and snuggle vests each — — -— — —- -- 24c and 11p Ladies’ Lisle hose, asst. shades and sizes, pair — — — — — - - - 21c Ladies’ Rayon hose, silk asst. shades and sizes, pair — - — — — -- 21¢ Ladies’ winter coats, asst. kinds and asst. sizes. Special each -- —$l-l.t1.', Large assortment Ladies‘ wool gloves, pair -- — — -- — — — - - I301: Large assortment Ladies’ pure wool ankle hose, pair — — — — — illu-

MEN’S DEPARTMENT

Men’s fancy V-neck sweaters, asst. shades and size, each - —- - - 79¢ Men’s Jumbo sweaters, asst. shades and sizes, each — — — — — —$l .93 Men’s All-Wool fall caps, also winter caps with ear bands, all

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They must have good reasons forl i diverting that materiel to Russian 1 uses, and 1t must be assumed that 1

they can read more of the German strategfcal intentions than most o1 us can dlvlne in any fall of meow.

O O O O I

Enough can be seen ln retro-

Russiori front to confirm the only German Intention to isolate the nortnern Russians from the Black Sen coasts. If this had been done earlier, done when Lenlnsfod was meant first to be taken, the Ger- mans would have completely re- pulsed Mm-shsl Budyenny and by now be well across the Crimes and through the Caucasus in their ep- proach to the Middle East.

What happened? Germans and Finns co-operated to take Lenin- grad and, when balllked, deflated for an interval that ended with the sudden resumption of the offensive in the last two weeks of August. That resumption of the bffensive ln the north was expected to break down the of Budyenny ln the south.

The Russians in the Ukraine were hard pressed and have been driven back, but they were not so completely routed as the Germans had meant them to be. Other tac- tics had to be resorted to by tm Germans, and the colossal gamble of the all-out attack on Moscow was prepared.

In spite of these setbacks to German plans it ls obvious that the directive mentality of the Ger- man high command is as Prussian as was that of Moltke in the war of 1870. The dissection of Moltke's mind was done by Marshal F-"ch when a colonel lecturing at YBcole Superfeure de 1a Guerra at. Paris. and is embodied in Pooh's book, The Conduct of War.

The mentality that Foch saw operating li-i Moitke can be seen by us today governing the mind of the German high command on the Russian front. For Moltke, Foch wrote, was more interested in his plan of operations than in the safety (preservation) of his army, and for hlm preconceptions were infinitely more important than facts.