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SUBSCIPPTION BATES III Id l luiiverJ k CIh ' ndvndc-icnluuaailod to P I. IIIIIIII

55.00 per velr lln advance) mulled to Canada and 0.8- Melnbers Audit Boreon of lion:

‘The Strongest Memory fa Weaker than flu Weakesf Ink.”

ruasnav. FEBRUARY o, mo.

Deficit Financing

Souris meeting on Friday night

At the _ that when the Public

Premier Campbell said _ Accounts for 1939 were tabled it would be found that the Government had not exceeded its estimated deficit of about $80,000 “to any large extent." _

Hon. Dr. blacllillan pointed out that this the information in financial papers on the (icczisioii of the last PIOVIHCIEII loan. Ile was perfectly correct.

In its issue of Oct. 7, 1939, the Financial Port, Toronto, published details of a P, E. _1-. lmnd issue of $300,000, tlatcd Oct. 1, which the Campbell Governmctit floated through the Mid- land Securities Corporation and Dyment And- erson and Company. The purpose of the issue was to repay short-term indebtedness for high- “fly expenditures. The bonds were for seven years, at 3 per cciit. The cost to the Province was not revealed. But the Past stated, presumab- ly on the authority of the bond houses which were in direct contact with the Government, zhat “additional funds may be required by the Province in the current year"; also that the animated deficit on ordinary arromit It'll! $107,- 000. Premier Campbell's actual estimate at the last legislative session was 577-785 HIS f5“; mate at the Stiuris iticetiiig was “about 580.090- Ijveii this is $27,000 short of the figure given by the Financial Post last October which was accompanied b_v the ominous warning that add1~- tional borrowing might be necessary.

lt is all vcry confusing to the electors. If the Premier's figures are correct, why did he allow the Financial Post statement t0 go unchallenged? Or does he regard the difference between $80,- ooo Zmd $107,000 as unimportant?

11m ini- lln Financial Post statement, the public would have been completely in the dark as to the Liovcriiiuciifs bond transactions last October. The issue was not advertised in this Province, and was only partly underwritten, the remainder bciug taken up on an option basis. It ivas ncccssary for the Government to furnish the bond huvcrs with accurate information as to the financial CUlltllllldl at that time, and it is reasonable to suppose that this was the source of the Post's figurts.

But the year had still three months to go when the $107,000 estimated deficit was report- ed_ Three months more of extravagance iii the Public \.\"orks department would bring the total 1939 deficit up to an even higher figure; and this, of course, is only on ordinary account. \\"hat the total liabilities arc, only the Premier and his cabinet colleagues and officials kuowz; but it is safe to predict that they will be truly staggering. At the end of 1938 they amounted to $7,038,014. The dcbt increase in 1938 alone was $1._*.-;,S5S,—aii<l that was not an election vcar. The 1931) Public Accounts may well rc- vcal a further dcbt increase iii the vicinity of two million dollars. Where is it going ‘to end if we COllllllllC at the same pace for another four or five years? \\"ill not Dr. .\lac.\lillzin's predic- tion be then l'f‘lllI/.l'(l, and we shall find prac- ticallv all our jirovinchal revenue bciiig paid out in interest charges?

Do the electors of First King's want a coii- tinuantre of this reckless extravagance, which can only 11101111 more and still more taxation, or do they wnilt a strong and vigilant Opposition to keep the zdrcatly top-heavy Government ma- jority in check?

Already the Dysart Government in New Brunsiviclc, which also made a sorry financial showing last yt-zir, has intimated that it is plati- niiig higher taxation zigziinst which even its own part newspapers are protesting. The Camp- bell (inwriiuicii! may be preparing to follow suit. A by-election victory at this time may be just the excuse it is Ilmhlllg for. It is up to the Con- S(‘.l'V.'lli\'C and prudent Liberal voters of First King's to sce that it gets no such encouragement as a result of next Thursday's polling.

Mr. Cardinefs Innuendo

King Government members are proving as unscrupulous in thcir campaign statements as they have hot-n llIIlbCII iii their war activities. A notable example is 1o he found iii a statement made last wi-i-k by Ilull. T_ A. Crerar, Minister of Mint-s and Natural Resources. I\Ir. Crcrar stated that the resolution in the Ontario Ixagis- lature censoring the fiovcriiment's war efforts bad bct-ii usi-d for propaganda [iurptiscs by Ger- many. Iltr said further: "The supposed divi- sions in (ftinzidzt were played up. Canada was represented as having been btbught into the war by Iifilillll against ht-r will. It can readily be sccn whnt effect this propaganda might have on neutral couutrit-s in liurtijic such as Rumania."

It is, of course, to hc expected that Nazi broadcasters will ilistort facts to suit their piir- pnscs. llut that is no reason why I\Ir. Gardiner shouldidt) so or even why be should exploit stich misstatements for partisan purposes. The (liitario vnlc of censure, as- I\Ir. (iardiiicr I\'llf\\‘i'$. was (lirt-rltwl not against (Iiuinilifs parlicipatit-ii iii the war but against the King (iovernmcnfls iwgligcnce in prosecuting Canada's war efforts.

perly worded, would have had no point because similar misstatements issue from German radio stations every day. What he evidently tried to do was leave the impression that there was some- thing disloyal about the Ontario members’ cri- ticism, and inferentially about any criticism di- rected against the Government at this time. The stand taken by the Cliairiberlain Government in Great Britain, inviting frank and open critic- ism in Parliament, is the best answer to such an innuendo.

If indeed we must watch our step and say nothing that might be construed as indicating divided opinion in the eyes of Nazi propagand- ists, what is one to say of the unprecendented action taken by Prime Minister Mackenzie King in dissolving Parliament and going to the coun- try at this time? What a sweet morsel that will be for enemy broadcasters!

- EDITORIAL NOTES —

The number and amount of Home Improve- ment loaiis in Charlottetown as at January 1st were 298, representing $90,949.69.

u a- : s

King Charles II died this date I685. While he was yet alive the Earl of Rochester pinned the following epitaph to his bedroom door: "Here lies our inuttoti-eiitiiig King.

whose word no man relies oti,

lVho never said a foolish thing

Nor ever did a. ivise one."

To ivhich Charles replied: “That is very true: for my ivords arc 111_v o\\'i1, my actions are my

ministers . n- in w at \\'Iiat sort of responsible Government have we when Revenue .\Iinister Ilsley, commenting on a Victoria report stating B. C. copper was going to Ilussizi via Tliconia, said: “This is the first I've Iiczird of it and if it is brought to the attention of the Government it will be investi- gated." Yet the mines officials themselves de- clare that the B. C. copper is being shipped in large quantities to Russia via Tacoma, \\'ash. a a x n

Dr. Charles II. llertv ,the scientist who first iliscovcrcd the Iirztcticability of converting second growth pine of the southern States into news- print, at thc time told the American Chemical Society that it was an essential part 0f his dream that the South's fast-groiviiig forests should be cut on a “crop" basis so as to provide a continu- ous and -pC1'111(111e11t source of income to the region. To ilcnioustrzite how forests should be tended, Georgia has dedicated two model forests to Dr. IIerty's l1lClll(ll‘_\'. In addition, funds are being raised for a lli-rty Forest Institute that would contain a tiiuscum, a library and the headquart- ers for an educational program in forestry.

n? n- u 1r

A Liberal writing to the Montreal Gazette has this to say: “irrespective of our party we should

National (iovcriiiiiciit is what we require-with partizzui tliffcrcnrtns laid aside for the more ini- portaut and most sirions business at hand. The fate of Caiizidais zidiiuiiistrzititiii is again in the hands of thc jicoplc. Let us consider it wisely —-wc cannot afford to be bigoted—there is ton much at stake to be blind supporters of the wrong lcailcrs hccaust- they happen to belong to our party. and l'l'llll‘llfllt'l'l n; he forewariietl is to he forcarnicdl" Straws show how the wind

lylows. w x 4- 1r

Ilcrc is what the Ottziivzi journal has to say about radio campaigning. “.\Ii. King, we fear greatly, puts too much trust in the ‘coverage of radio. It is a COllllllOll mistake. Public men especially secin to bclicvc that if they go on the radio jit-oplc zillovi~rtlit~ co1111l1‘_\' ivillsit at their receiving scis- and lislcii to thcm c:ig'crl_y'. The act- ual trutlv-cliccltctl rcpczitcill_v—is that except in cases where some world figure has something vital 1o say about stimetliiiig of vast significance

election time people smut gut vcry fed up with

appointments or ‘dates’ with radio programs. Iii other words, people will not remain at home, stay away from the theatre, or from the movies, or from a hockey match, just to hear a speaker on thc radio, no matter hoiv important he may be. Indeed, assuming that people do stay at home. there is 110 guarantee that they listen to any particular radio Ilffigfillll, or even listen to lllt‘ radio at all."

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The export movement of Canadian butter has followed a more or less erratic course through the years. The amounts exported from Can- ada were comparatively small until 1918 when shipments incrczlscd to nearly ll million pounds as compared with 4 1-4 million pounds in the previous year. During the period I915 to 1918, exports averaged :1 littlc over 6 1-2 million pounds per year, and the total for the four years re- presented 7.7 prr cent of the factory output. After the ivar a more pronounced advance was

to 1025) in which exports moved up to excep- tionally high levels. The zivcrage was approxi- matcly 21 million pounds annually, and the total exports during those four years represented 12.6 per cent of the creaiucry butler make. The all- tiinc high ivas reached in 1925 \VlICI‘| 26 1-2 iiiil- lion pounds wcri- shipped from Canadian ports. A sharp reduction occurred in the course of the tir-xt twr-lvc tiionths, and a definite slump de- velopcd in i927. From i927 to i930 the yearly average was slightly over 1 3-4 million pounds; in the jwi-inrl 193i h. 193i the flvcrflgc was 4 3-4 million jioiiiiils, and from i935 in i938 the year- ly average was nearly 5 1-4 million pounds. In i935, Illf‘ (‘XpuHS of 7 3-4 million pounds were

l: was his ditty. as a responsible Minister of the Crown, tn have made that perfectly clear. If,

all 15,11 I\Ir. (iardincr meant was that the 0n- Lin

lafio vote ivas being wilfully misinterpreted by

the highest since 1931 when nearly ll million pdtiiiils of butter \\'f‘I'(‘ shipped out of Canada,

10,19 thvv fill slightly II('Ii1\V four million i

lat/e concerning sources. and wit of men amid their hardships on the seas. But. my favorite 1.; still m; old exploit of a Tynesicle skipper, which when Prince of Wales. used to rc- late as it cnme

friend on H.M.S. Leaving 3. 1914, with a cargo of coal for Hamburg. the skipper arrived two days later

Elbe. where very pleased with himself, on board news to the unswpecting skipper

doubtless he likes really No. enemy. rather shoot moose than rabbits, but J. Edgar Hoover impresses us 11.1 glvfniz an exagrternwd build-up to hi’: Chrsltian Front "It took only 23 men to overthrow Russia.” F.B.I . Fame logic. slnoe 23 were for bliz Rusfla.

IIIITES BY TIIE WAY

Irwin Brain. hood of the Welt Ihlrvfew, Pa" municipal council, ' "1 didn't

went. the 10b in the first. place:

wanted l. family argument. settled or complained about ashes dumbed in the street. or dogs hadn't. m enemy in inc world be-

Il8ht1118. 1

fore I took the Job; now I must.

nave at. least 11fty."— Baltimore Bun.

The city of Lethhrldge owns in

its sinking funds some $187,000 of Alberta. bonds — worse luck. When lmthrbrldge with the taxpayers‘

bought these bonds money the

rovlnce was paying 810,100 year-

y interest. on them. Mr. Aberbart . without so much u n "by your leave" slashed the Interest. to $5.000 a. year. Lethbrlclge citizens are be- int; “SYPPE a

d” to the tune of $5.000 year. Yet the Abernart Govern-

ment. deuiands the last cent. on ln- tenest owing 1t on bonds of Alberta eltlea held 1n provincial Yet. Mr. Aberhart. continues to nold himself up before Albertans as somethng special in the way of an example Ltetlibrldge Herald.

ln fair dealing -

A. l. W. J. writes: In the volume

of Klpllngls manuscripts that was given to Magdalene College, Cam- bridge, of which he was an Hon- orary Fellow, the followng inscrip- tion was written 1n Klpllngs own

hand: He's the man that. wrote The Jungle Books —ltkew1se The Seven Seas.

He's the man that knows the pn- vat»: soldier's life-

He's the man that. gets the credit -—but he owns on bended knees,

He isn't any good without his Wife. '

. RK. The Master of Magdalene will

be able to ascertain wnether this tribute is still ori the first page of the Volume of may have been expunged by Mrs. Kipling before handed over, but in that. case there will probably be some evidence of the deletion. - London Times.

Manuscripts. It

the volume was

It may be perfectly legal in sell

wheat to Russia, and 1t may be that Vladivostok will never reach Ger- many. and it may be that we need to sell wheat badly All be so. Russia is a neutral country —at least so far the present state of affairs go — and 1t may be that Great. Britain does not want. to force Russia to declare war on her. In spite of all this. the fact. predominant feeling in Canada to- day 1s that the money we get from Russia has blood don't. want. any part. of tt. Most. Canadians will feel that we ought at. this moment, to do nothing that. will help Russia and if the Gov- ernment. is wtse it will take some discreet step which will guarantee t U.S.S.R._ as long as behaves as she 1s doing now-Win- nipeg Free Press.

Canadian wheat. snipped to

this may

as the law and

remains that the

on it, and we

.nat no more of our wheat goes to

that. country

The same spree that would

have held 20 women l7 years ago

be big enough to zidnut it we do not feel that we would now hold 21, ‘Ann if you have thc right man in the right place. Our couu- 5MP Ym" Wlle bl’ "ellllll- W" __ _ ‘ _ _ - , _ _ should notice quite a little saving.

try nctds tho lust lnaiusat can muster to Wfifh mesa _.ee,n._.d 8mm the on-y lll close co-iipcrzitioii for its ultimate sectirity. A immediate T0°ults of a survey 1n which the Journal of the American

Medical Association sad American wcmen have yound shrinkaize since the buxom days of thing about it. the merited. Ls that the decrease has been widespread, general and unt- form, It extends through all types and age groups-old women. young women. choice, nrime, BtiOfl-lfl-m9dlltlll and culls. They trend and the same results-three to five pounds lighter. The Journal did not attempt to explrrin 1t ex- oe-pt to say that. 1t mzvv be. 17 years of dletlnc cr 1t may be fashion or health education. _ Chicago Dally News

sustained a three-

1922-23. The stirprlsing

Journal ccm-

tall women. short women.

all show the same

A traveller for a fancy grinds

firm ivalked into a local store the other day wearing tie that and flamboyarice of design would be hard to equal elsewhere. proprietor of the store was not in cheerful liumor. but tie caught his are and lie had to grin. "I don't blame you" snld the _ _ traveller cheerfully. very few jicoplc ll>ll‘lI to radio speeches. Iii |w1fe buyr you a Christmas tie, you

wear 1t for love of her, on?" Soon . _ traveller and merchant were (lee-p them. lii ziuy cvcut, thtrrc is 11o such thing as ‘in s (115211551011 or wives‘ gin-helm,“ and haberdashery the traveller departed with a com- fortable order for man who noted the incident han- pened t/o meet the traveller evening. "liixcuse mo?‘ ho raid "but. I'd like to see the wife that bought that tie." traveller. "I'm not the on‘ly Christmas present I got was from the DSYCHOIOEY." - Timmfns Advance.

a fancy neck- fnr brilliance nf color

The

that Ililflllf!

"but 1f your

and later on goods. A lccsl that

"Blazes!" replied

married.

the and

f1rm—a book on

Good stories continue to circu- the bravery, re-

our sailor-

the Duke of Windsor, to blm from a Colltngwood. on August

the Tyne

at tne mouth of the the German pilot, came the

smiling to break

recorded. In 1919 export shipments reached "Glad" l0 $99 Y0". cfl-Dtalflf’ hé 16 1-2 million pounds; and while a low tide fiilidyoryggg £313., vgéllscgwégn movement was rcvcalctl in the two subsequent was declared last night!" ' "You years, there folhm-t-il a four-year period (1922 “ital; retlglfid sxlfélgggé;

eating swme." and down name his telescope with fult thick German skull. the ship to the open sea. finding its way safely back to the ‘Pyne, with a sadder and wiser pilot rub- blrik a sore bate 1n the charthouse. and regretting blithely counted the coal before 1t was unhatched. - Ottawa Journal.

force on the Round went

that. he had so

When a G-rnan gets hIe man him to be a 1 specimen of public just as a, hunter would

D10 EMETS .

an 1:1 the omlnlously.

chief of the

And by the enough 17 now been an

then the n ciistoilv should have

ounds, but rose in 1939,11; 12.3 iiiillion pounds. maple number for the United

funds. ,

Extract from Paragraph a1, Defense of Canada Regulations made by Order-in-Council of the Government of Right Hon. \V. L. M. King:

“The Minister of Jiutlae. 1f satis-

fied that, with a view prevent- ing any particular

Demon from any manner breliidlcfal ublio safety 0r the oufetv . 1t. 1| necessary do so may notwftmtnndm: . rdetheao regulations nuke on o r: "(b) Imposln: 110011 him such restrictions u may be specified 1n f association or persons in m- of new!

talned ln such Dace and under such conditions u; the wnfater of Justice may from time to time de-

terrn e: and any beraon shall while detained by virtue of on otclc r this DEPBRIB-Dh be deem to be 1n lertsl ouatods."

From a news report of Right Hon. \V. L. M_.Kiiig's farewell to Canadian airmen:

“The Prime Minister. evlneina emotion, sold: ‘You will be mi: to preserve the things we value most 1n life-freedom. liberty‘ of thought, deed and word. all the cherished ideals we hold u dear as life itself. May God bless vou and keep you. one and all.’ "

All things and paragraph 21 considered, Mr. King should perhaps have left freedom out of the reference. Also God. It seems a little unfair to the Creator of the universe to drag llim into this election.

And another thing. Don't think the freedom that I\Ir. Iiiug, evinciiig emotion, said

tnembers of the diau Air Force iug to preserve dom of the air.

True, Canada's gallant air- men can use the air freely for the purpose of fighting to pre- serve all the cherished ideals that Mr. King holds as dear as life itself. Count them. But the air cannot be used freely for the purpose of discussing any cherished ideals that everybody who is not I\Ir. King holds. Not in election time it can't. The Canadian Broadcasting Coni- mission says so.

It has just finished saying so

Royal Cana- will be fight- includes frec-

upon the subject of co-opera- llOll_ Though it is an ideal that

many people hold as dear as, if not tlcarcr than, Mr. King's life itself, co-operation cannot be talked on C. B. C. airwaves from now until after the elec- tion. An order from C. B. C. headquarters has cancelled the series of talks on cooperation that the Canadian Association for Adult Education was broad- casting weekly over C.B.C. stations throughout Canada. The series was arranged and the talks started somewcclts hcforc i\lr. King, evinciiig emo- tion. (lccidetl that he could best cherish the liberty of thought, tlccd and word that Catiadizin citizens are fighting to preserve by scuttliiig the Canadian Par- liament. There were to have been eight talks in all, tracing the growth of co-operation and co-npcrzitivc movements in Can- ada, in Iiiiglauil, in the Scan- dinavian countries and in Bel- gium and France. Experts ap- proved by the C.B.C_ had been chosen to make the talks. Four hundred study groups scatter- ed from coast to coast across Canada were following each talk and preparing for the next