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The Strongest Memory is Weaker than the Weakest Ink.‘

FRIDAY, NOVTIDIBER 7, 1941.

The Farmers’ Parliament

Today's annual meeting of the P. E. I. Fed- eration of Agriculture may appropriately be dcsignuuil our Farmers’ Parliament. The Fed- eratimi rcprcsi-iiis some dozen farm organiza- tirins and is affiliated with the Dominion Fed- grgiliim and with Fllllllfll‘ MSOClKElOIlS illfOllgll- oiit (Iiuiudii. 'l'liis will be the first annual meet- ing of the l~lillltl Federation since its Qganiza- tiou, aiirl ll llIlS hccn looked forward to with

"HM, i]‘l(l'('\l, The afternoon meeting wilhbe (ksphygll i.» liilslllvsfl while the evening meeting n, [he 1511i. .- ml \\';il<~5 College l-lall, which is

- public. irill he lcft free for formal izil ill<Cl155lfJll on the report of the ion President, Capt. L. R8311, 311d i-r relevant iiuiticrs. ' ii-re urc iiiriiiy pressing problems facing agixiiiiiizc lll llll\ Province t0day—problems CHEIIiCUIKfl i\i:li marketing and marketing fa- cilities as wcll as with production-and all have a dirt-ct hearing oii our contribution to Canada's wur eiiTu-t. It is fruiu our farmers themselves that C‘>'i~ll'llCll\'t;‘ criiicism and suggestions for inyprnvilig lil'i‘~f‘lll CulKllllOnS must come. The dclcgzucs at ioilziys meetings are representative oi evc-rv section of our farming community, and the n-siilr of their deliberations should be of rcal practical value.

Pa rlyism In Wartime-

lt is strange to find Liberal newspapers criticising lllC Conservative House leader, Hon. R. B. lluiisciu, for stating that conscription for overseas service must be brought about, if at all. ],_,~ n... firfCl‘ pf public opinion rather than through

it. {lll\'IlCI\l_\' by the Conservative party. “Mr. lL-uiuui l‘>>bll lll mind, of course, the traditional l.il1(‘l‘.ll iillllt lllvll to conscription‘ since i917 and lllL‘ pusqliiliiy‘ of the question again being made a

Iiifiizii-ul l~.~lll‘, will) all the unfortunate consequ- ciiri . \\lllL’ll \\oiil<l follow.

This. riiiiiiiiciiis the Ottawa Journal, l! pafl of ilic yiricc we pa)‘ for the maintenance in war of a party griveriiment. It is clear that if we had in purer in the Dominion I. cabinet chosen re- gardless of party but on the sole basis of com- pciciire for a ivrir job, such a question as con- scription could be taken up in the cold light of its usefulness or otherwise iii the extermination of Hitler.

Such e national cabinet would consider con- scription not solely as a measure to put men in the Aflll€fl Services but in a far broader sense: the conscription of evcry man and woman in Canada to that all able-bodied adult: could bc used where their rervices would be most useful, the conscription of our entire resources for the great cause.

But we have l Government ln which the first eondition of membership it a man’: politics, and in a frankly partisan atmosphere it i: quite useless to expect so controversial a question as conscription to be considered in anything but a partisan way.

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The leading article In the current leeue of "Christendom," |. quarterly published biy the American sections of the World Conference on

utterly uncontrolled promoter of unrest, treason and hatred the world over. Even those ivho pre- tend to believe in the possibility of such evolution cannot regard it as a probability. Reason does not motivate dictators. To measure them with usuil yardsticks is plain lack of judgment. Dealing with them means having to do with not only un- moral but abnormal minds. For these reasons. every pact concluded with tliem would amount to entrusting the future to the vagues. of expccta tioiis contrary to all the expensive and trzigiciil experiences of the past."

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A Soviet War News Russian pamphlet print- ed in London, says that Soviet guerillas have taken oath "not to lay down arms until the last fascist on Russian soil is destroyed.”

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In this Province, thanks to the patriotism of some 7.000 of its young manhood, the usual sequence is reversed, for the rich are becoming poorer, and the poor richer, judging by Income Tax returns.

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The Dominion Bureau of Statistics in its last seasonal report on condition of fruit arid vege- table crops in the main producing areas of Can- ada estimates a. reduction in the Canadian apple crop to 3,436,400 barrels in October —~a drop cf about two per cent. The report blames insuffici- ent devclopment of fruit in Nova Scoiia and loss- es in Ontario due to gales in September as cause of the reduction. Estimates of British Columbia and New Brunswick crops were unchanged.

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There has been a fall in the use of asphalt roofing. Sales of asphalt roofing in Canada in September included 310,409 squares of shingles. siding and roofing and 4,159 tons of felts and sheathing as compared with 319,316 squares of the former and 4,126 tons of the latter in the cor responding month last year. Sales in September this year were made up of 98,728 squares of asphalt shingles, 5,527 squares of asphalt siding. 139,960 squares of smooth surfacvd roofing, 75.- I94 squares of [mineral surfaced roofing, 2,840 tons of tar and asphalt felts and 1,319 tons of tar and asphalt sheathing.

- m i: n- Coming events casting their shadoirs licfore. British authorities in Shanghai urge all British nationals living in Japanese-occupied areas oi China to register for evacuation or face the pro- bability of having to remain irrespective of the future course of events, since it is unlikely that a similar opportunity for evacuation will recur." The notice declares that the Britsh Government agrees "in principle” to assist in defraying trans- portation costs for those without adequate re- sources following official registration between Nov. 3 and I5, The announcement further de- clares that, should shipping facilities prove in- adequate, additional ships will be provided. e a n- m

Herc is surely a. terrible indictment of the government for incompetency by one of its nivzi 0fIlCl21lS..“Pl1bllC information has done some useful things, but, like a number of other war departments, it is entoiled in the meshes of the red tape of an archaic system of government." ll/Ir. Herbert Lash, director of Public Informa- tion, declared, in addressiiigthc Kiivanis Club Call. "The things it has been able to do are not, in the opinion of those of us who work there, as important as the things it might have been d0- ing and which we hope we still may he able i.) do,” he added “Unless we mend our ways and m€lld them noon, we are in dreadful danger of losing this war," he declared.

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_ The IJOINTOII Gazette, the first recognized Eng- llsh flewipflpcr, was published this date, i665, at Oxford. The earliest indication of the spread of pews by “the printed word was witnessed in the iuuc of Diurnal Occurrencesf‘ which in i641 included reports of the proceedings in Parlia. merit, This was little to the liking of the mem- berl who. then, and for many years afterwards. PNWd hlghly sensitive to any unauthorized re- ferences to the business of either House. The Long Parliament suppressed all newspapers or pamphlets except under license, and Cromwell when he became Dictator declared that no one mlllli Print _any newspaper or intelligence with- °llt ti" Pemllllon 0f the Secretary of State. and from n56: to 1655 a vigorous Licensing Act con- tinued lll operation, It was in that period the London Gazette (ptill existing as an official organ) was first issued.

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NUTES‘ BY TIIE WAY

Hitler lii again persecutlng the Jews in Germany. Whenever he has no further vlctorles to offer his dupes. 1t ls upon these and people that his heel must be press-

_Tl_l_E QHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

PUBLIC FORUM

I'll: eeliun: l: nil: III ill dlaooealoa by eorreapondana: 0| qneatlona 0C lntereal. ‘Ila Charlottetown Guardian daea I0! ueeeeeully e done ti: Oolnleal el w. en Illa.

ted the heavlen-I-lamllton Specta- or.

More than 25,000 men enlisted In the Canadian army have now been discharged. many for some injury not. apparent at time of enlistment. This should sugizcst a career as diagnostlcian for some ambitious young medium-London Free Press.

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There are, lt ls said, more ways than one of skinning s. cat. Those Nazis who were taken forcibly from Greenland to Boston. after being caught operating a secret radio

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removal of the cultural Hull from the residential district on Fitzroy Strcet between

TllE AGRICULTURAL HALL FIRE

Sin-While the dollars and

cents loss to the Province result- ing from Wednesday night's fire

of course to be regretted, the

unsightly Agri-

i-ince and Hlllsborough stream

will afford a. sense of relief to all who have at heart the artistic improvement of our City.

station, have been charged wifh It ls to be hoped that when illegal entry into the United States! Twill-ding the Gill/eminent Wm select a more suitable location

-Edmonton Journal. a

Even If Mr. Churchill were to p

fall we are assured, "someone else would rise up to replace him, qulte as strong and able as he 1s." But would his successor jut his jaw that way. chew cigars that way, rllt his hat that way. woke spontan-

lots, four houses on the land occupied by the Hall and vacant lot to

rid dispose of the Fitzroy Street roperty for residential building There is room for three or the adjoining the east.

I am sure that Mr. Rogers, Mr.

Glllls and Mr. Charles Longwortli whose residences face the burned

eous outbursts of clzeerln on every b 11d, w“, m, h b0

appearance? We can on y hope.— ,,,‘,‘g,,,_§{§,,,_ an“ w t e a’ v0

Windsor stir. I m“ 51, em H. K. S.‘ IIEMMING.

Vichy declaration

The recent that no Germans are at Dakar could be literally true without

meaning anything. If there is a Nazi occupation of this menacing port, it. ‘probably wlll be sudden and in heavy force; the Nazis would probably leave it severely alone tas they are ignoring Ice- land) until they are ready b0 pounce. —Los Angeles 'I‘lmes.

While Canada Australia, South Africa and Northern Ireland have not. adopted conscription, New Zea- liiiid conscripts men of eighteen to forty five, and gives them two months of elementary drill before sending 111cm overseas. According to a New York Herald Tribune dis- patch, "the New Zealand draft. operates like a lottery with no classification by age groups. You see a body 0f eighteen or nineteen drilling alongside a man of Forty- five." It seems hardly an up-to-datc way of securing the most effective man-power.

One of the ironies of the thing ls that. the Germans themselves de- monstrated the difficulties, if not .I:e impossibility, of bayonet man- agement. of modern industry. The French occupation of the Ruhr in 1923 designed to collect reparations direct from German industry, was rendered abortive by strikes and sabotage. German ownership, mail- agement and workers were iill leagued ln that resistance, but the brunt of lt. fell upon the workers, of course, and they made the French army impotent. with that example 1n mind, ls it any wonder that the German army faces the same sort of problem today in Norway. H01- land, Belqlum, France, Czecho-Slo- vakla, Poland and lri other occupied lands? —Chicago Dally News.

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It ls not unreasonable to hope that when the nations that wlll for the second time save the world from enslavcmciit by a self-ap- pointed “master race" meet. to coii- sldcr the rebuilding of a ruined world. the controlling factor in making provision for the future will be not retard for national sus- ceptibilities and jcalousics but. in- slstcnce upon the subordination of every other consideration lo the supreme neccssltyi of creating, an international organization rim: will outlaw war not by valn professions but bv providing both the will and the DOWN‘ for iictlori when the need arises. Given this firm purpose the building of rm orsanization equal tn its fulfilment. will not be beyond the capacity of the democratic peoples.

Britain ls commonly regarded as having all the fish lt. needs without seeking it elsewhere. Today. how- ever. so many trawlera are engaged in naval service and so man" fish- ermen are wearing uniforms that she has to import mucli of her fish; and here, too, Canada ls doing what. she can to Iielp. She 1s now filling contracts for 1.600.000 cases of tinned herlng and 1.200.000 cases of tinned salmon, and she wlll send more of both lf that ls re ulrcl- Brockvllle Recorder and Tmcs.

Mr. Eden, the British Foreign Secretary, ln a speech made ln the House of Commons recently, called for "production and more produc- tion, effort and yet more effort untll victory ls won." He referrer. to the preparations now 1n progress for : at forward movement 1n clle East which wlll strike telling blows at the enemy. If euc- cess ls to be assured 1n this new move, it ls clear that nothing nan be left undone 1n increasing the output of war weapons and lmter- lals 1n Great. Britain and Northern Ireland. Hitherto, lt. must be ad-

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the burning of the Hall yesterday, may I have a little of your valiiai 1e space w grateful tribute to our

Fire Brigade for their magnificent

evening. Wit/h what was, blowing heavy burning cln- ders directly over our house, and this followed by an apparently ever increasing fire, 1t looked on couple of occasions as if we would

observations the Agricultural Hall which I hope

which present just fire hazards as dd the Agr cul- tural Hall. and cif occurs at all times even or night when detection L; not. as prompt as at a more rintable hour.

the Dumper‘ lam-pic. But.‘ this could not. be sold of these directly attached to hydrants. This may have been caused by attaching 1.0a circult; 1f so this 1s satisfactory arrangement. A fierce fire such as last night tcok a lot; of equipment, and with such a. flow 0f red hot oiway by ii strong wlnd. would we have equipment enough to send a. crew to another location to com- bat a severe blaze.

TRIBUTE T0 ‘FIRE BRIGADE

Sirz-Ae one whose

property arrowly averted destruc

on at Agricultural

Pa)’ B splendid

andling of the situation last.

wind there

ave lo leave home and allow lb

to be consumed by the flames. But by the heroic effort; of the Brigade under its they kept the water floiivlng ln the proper places and the consequence was we suffered no fire damasle at all._ so asking lilie firemen to accept. the grateful thanks of Mrs. Ryan and myself for the rendered which enabled us to re- main ccmfortaibly 1n our home.

very capable officers,

I take this means of

splendid sexvces May I at this tlme make some

in connection with lll be of benefit. We have ii most.

effllpierit Fire Brigade. They are a un

cerned. But. We as citizens must not, let those brave boys down. The th best pass ble equipment. ‘must be secured and made their immediate use as we may not always be as lnus flres ln the future as we have been 1:1 the

so far as organization l; cori-

avallaible for

lucky as regards ser-

past. There are quite number of buildings in the City as dangezous

course fire Ln dead

It, was evident to all observers

at, Wednesday night's fire that the

ater streams coming direct from were powerful and

the

the piimper not. a.

ciriders driven

Now that a new and up-to-dutel

pamper is in tlie ollflrig, wou‘d lt. BOY. be Well 1o make a thorough in- vcslizatlon of needs with a articles of which we are short, I41, us as citizens see to have the very best flre equipment iprocurable for the use of our mach efficient brlizade. Let us not wait. gifts] catastrophe such as the Queen

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our fr e ul t view of (ieciiirlnpgunffie

that we

at HflllfBX happens 1:1 our

W. which would cmipel us tp

procure 1n a hurry equipment that can now only needless loss of 59V‘??? D-Qirerty loss u well.

be secured w prevent not life. but

1h Bfflleflll thanks b0 the

firemen. and thanks for space,

Sir. etc“ GEORGE l. RYAN

Hitler And Hess

(Exchange)

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» J0?!“ Cudflhy. who was American Ambassador to Belgium before may cvuntw was overrun by the German ordes, made two statements of in. tel-eat when the Senate Foreign Relations Com-

glvlng testimony before

lttlee at Washington this week,

One had reference to Adolph Hitler, the other to Rudolf Hers.

M?» 91-168"? le convinced that the adman of Berlin L; the vtcetm o1

an incurable malady. Thle la the

WORDS 0F CHALLENGE

IIO GIIT A DAY A TOBUA PEOPLE AT WAR

"As I have said before, the question u not really neceu f

morrow. - John G. Wtnaiit. United States Ambassador in Great. Britain.

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lng iio credentials he became a pri- soner of war as soon as the British police could contact 111m. The other l: that no British Government will treat Hitler or any of his Nazi emlsserles, nor wlll entertain any peace proposal from Germany

tlon of Nazism. and retribution to the monsters v.I.:o have turned the Continent into u shambles. This 1e. and wlll remain, Britain’: answer to any overtures from Berlin, whether they come directly or by the tortuous, tricky routes Hitler has thus far employed.

Will Hitler’s Northern Armies Retreat

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The military expert of the 1on- don News Chronicle predicts con- fidently that the northern and cen-

sectors of the German armies in Russia will soon be 1n retreat. "Never," he odds, "was eiich a oer- talnty predicted ln a more obvious though oblique fonn them lri a re- cent Berlln broadcast." These broadcasts were made on Thursday night, October 30. and they emanated from several Ger- man stations. Thelr urport was that Napoleon's debace ln Russia ln 1812, was attributable to the fart he dld not suspend his campaign at the beginning of the winter and rc- sume lt. ln the spring, under more tolerable conditions. If he had followed this course. one of the Berlin stations argued. he could have beaten Russia, "but Napoleon the general was superseded by Napoleon the Emperor and polltl- clnn; the English made ii landing in the Low Countries: the oppressed nations rose, and Napoleon's striv- lng for e quick victory became the cause of 111a downfall." The News Chronicle expert re- gards these statements, coming as they do from Hitler's own radio stations, as offlclal propaganda tic- slgncd to prepare the German people for e. general withdrawal of their armlee from northern and central Russia. This decision, he inks. was reached at the recent Eastern Front meeting between Hitler. Keltel. and von Brauchltsch "The last throw of the winter campaign," he concludes "is likely to have been cast 40 ml s west of Moscow. The history of Bomdlno has been repeated. There bu been, ln effect, another world decision. The Russian campaign of 1941 is about to be terminated by a signed Nazl admission of defeat, about to be demonstrated by a limited with- drawol." ‘mls sounds plausible and may. Ln part, be verified. One hopes it shall be. But the situation ln the North and Centre has to be con- trolled to some degree by the situa- tion ln the South,-- ln the Ukraine and particularly 1n the Crimea. In this southern sector the Germans have made their most formidable advances, and are evidently deter- mined to push on toward northern Caucasla, with Ire Soviet oll fields as their ultimate objective. For oll, and still more oll they must have. lf Hitler's war ls not to be sudden- ly bogged down for lack of motor fuel. But this southern drive cannot be maintained with any hope of early success. lf there ls to be a. general withdrawal of the German foroee from nearly all the remain- der of the Eastern front. It seems much more llkelv that the Germans wlll assume defensive positions o- tlie norliern and central Russia terrain they now h0ld,lll1d wlll move 50 or 00 divisions from those sec- tors to reinforce their offensive ln the south. But even at that, the abandonment even for the winter months of the Nazi attempts to slcrm Leningrad and Moscow wlll be an admission of flat frustration, and not of practical failure.