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Vice-President: J. B. Burnett, I'..I.I.

Secretary: Lieut. CoL D. A. Maellnnon, 0.8.0. lditor and Managing Director: J. I. Burnett, FJJ. Isaociate Editors: Frank Walker and Lieui. Ian A. Burnett, B.C.N.V.B. (On Active Service)

‘The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than

the Weakest Ink." WEDNESDAY, JUNE m, 1M5

A Liberal Warning

If Prime Minister King is thinking of nil‘.-

ning in Prince Edward Island, now that he has been dcfczitcd in Prince .\lbert, he had better pause and weigh the following editorial com- ment from that strongly partisan Liberal organ, the Srickcvllti Tribune:

"Prince Ifdulirri Island "it'll! rend three Lib- cmls lo Otliimi inxictid of four. Thv man who 2x11: dcfratril '.'\'(l_f Dr. Cyrilr Jlfxllillan, of Mon- treal, who in x/iitl.‘ of warning: to stay out al- lorrucd liiiiirclf to lic riominatcd as one of the ramlirlurrr in Ilia cmixtititcnry of Queen's. The

Maple are iirctl of aliscntecism; they uiant a

memhri- nf parliament ‘who live: in Iii: ronstilu- 1‘llL'_\', not (l mun who ‘visits his rizliiig once in 1l zc/iilr. lltld llr. .llt‘_llill(lll i-rtircd and allow- cd niml/icr cliinlirlii/c t0 fnkr hi: place all would hum‘ lltTlI rvrll, lllll ronicti/ucs mcn get it into //i1'ii' headr I/iii/ f/lt‘_\' on‘ csrcn/iiil; that lllU rrnrlil could no! (/0 on roithunt them. Dr. Mc- llilhm is (I i‘. v ab]: nmn, but he doesn't live in Prince Edrtnrd lrliiiid: he liar lost touch with h_i.r uzitiw fiviriiiru, T/ir profile have said by IlIFlI‘ rotor t/iiil I/iry 1min‘ Dr. lllcdlillan to de- ‘vritc hir vi/Iiri- tin/r to his important work as profrrroi- of lifiigililv/i in JIrGiII University."

If that isn't a strong hint to Mackenzie King to keep out of Prince Edward Island, there is no tut-ailing in language. :\nd Mr. Avard, the Trilwiic manager and author of the above quoted editorial. is reputedly in very close ‘ouch with leading Liberal politicians in this Province.

Readjuslments Necessary Now that victory in Europe has been won it

is particularly appropriate to examine the scale and itature of the problem of reconversion to peacetime activities, says The Bank of Nova Scotia in its current Rec-few. It points out that there is no better measure of the changes wrought by the war in our economic structure than the statistics of manpower distribution, approximate though some of them are. Using these as a basis, it outlines the problem of re- conversion in terms of jobs. It shows how the war has expanded and changed Canada's work- ing force almost beyond recognition. It esti- mates how many more jobs will be needed after the war than existed before it if a high level of employment is to be reached and improved standards of living attained. It briefly sum- marizes some of the main features of the re- arljustments in the working force that will be necessary in the next few years and it makes some rough approximations of the amount of employment which might be required in the main industrial groupings to reach and main- tain an overall high level of employment after the war. The war has expanded Canada's employed working force, including the armed services. by more than a third, from some 3.7 million per- sons to over 5 millions. Nearly half of the additional workers came from the ranks of the unemployed. Another group came from the natural growth in the working population, and the remainder consisted of people normally out- side the working force — married women, stu- dents and a number of older people who would ordinarily haw- retired.

Meat Rationing On Way‘)

Each itioiith the Dominion Bureau of Sta- tistics puts out a statement on food in wholesale storage. Read in conjunction with weather rc- ports and the general farm picture in the coun- try the Bureau gives interesting information on what may be expected as regards food supply and prices during the remainder of the year.

For instzuicc, the current report is not re- assuring in the matter of the meat supply. Un- less something tinforcsatn happens, such as the very unlikely decision to reduce shipments t0 Britain and Iinrope, it is more than possible Canadians are in for a period when meat stocks will be dccidcdly short. At june 1 total stocks of all tncats in wholesale storage in Can- Ida were less by 15 million pounds than at the beginning of May, more than 56 million pounds less than in June a year ago. That is a very stibstzititiitl decrease.

Those who are hoping for more pork soon are likely to be disappointed. Stocks are down bv a big margin, 56 million pounds at June 1 this year compared with ticarly 89 million

pounds the same date a year ago, and the pros- pects for the months ahead are not as good as they were at this datc last year. Poultry stocks are about half what they were last year; eggs also show a substantial reduction.

In a itormal growing year in Canada such reductions itiiglit not be alarming at this sca- aon when stocks of most food are usually low but are bound to be replaced shortly. But this is no ordinary growing year; as a matter of fact it has been decidedly backward, especially in Eastern" Canada, where many farmers arc only now sec-ding fields which normally should be well advanced in growth. Grain crops are likely to be vcry short in Ontario, Quebec and the h/Iaritimcs and farmers depend on grains

head compared with 280,000,000 at the be- ginning of r944. The i945 number represents

belt. ~

It is not being suggested that any actual over-all dearth of food is in prospect for Can- adians. Even with the backward year so far there would still be plenty of most foods for domestic demands if it were not for our over- seas commitments. But we have contracts to ship large quantities to Britain and Europe. The beef situation may ease if ways and means can be found to move some of the big supply of cattle now on the hoof into nmrketing chan- nels. Pork is almosfcertain to remain in short supply, because of the numbers bred last Fall and the overseas shipments guaranteed. As for

ing the next few weeks

-EDITORIAI. NOTES-

same could not be said of the

supersedes. I I U I

lines.

tenance. a a a a

the Province. n- u n- n

seas, at the Governments expense, to be with their husbands. This should be welcomed bv hundreds of women, as there will be little risk. and the prospect of happy reunion while prac- tically on a sight-seeing trip. _ u u x c One thing is now certain: the new House of Commons is going to functionmore effi- ciently than before. There is an infusion of new blood in it, and a strong opposition. When the government has such a huge majority as it had in the last House, there is a strong tend- ency towards the breakdown of the Parlia- mentary system. The balance of the strong opposition is needed for the operation of our

democracy. U U U I Queen Victoria the Good, commenced her sixty-year-long and glorious reign this date 1837; in 1856 she instituted the Victoria Cross, a decoration conferred on officers and men of all ranks in the Army and Navy (including Nurses) and now the Air Force, for personal bravery. It consists of a bronze Maltese Cross one-and-a-half inch in diameter, with the Royal Crown surmounted by a bar in the centre, and beneath the inscription “For Valour"; a special pension of $50 per annum is granted every soldier who receives the Victoria Cross, with $25 for every additional bar. U i i I Apparently the Liberal organization at Ot- tawa consider this a suitable dumping ground for unwanted political office-holders or pros- pects. Mr. King himself started his career as leader representing Prince; next Mr. Dunning made a deal with Queen's County Liberals to provide him with a seat as Minister of Fin- ance; then Mr. Ralston in search of a seat as Minister of Defence found a resting place in Prince. Recently it was suggested Gen. Mc- Naughton, dcfeated in his home constituency, should hie him to Prince Edward Island; and now again it is proposed Mr. King should end his career as Liberal leader where he began it in Prince Edward Island. All of which would indicate that Lincoln was not altogether right when he opined that “you cannot fool all the people all the time." This province would seem to provide the proverbial exception.

' l V i I

How many of our great soldiers are literary- minded? A surprisingly large percentage as announcements from time to time reveal. The latest is Field Marshal Viscount \Vavell, who has just published an "Anthology of Verse- Other Men's Flowers"——a volume of some 400 pages. It is said he can recite all of the poems he published. These include Francis Thomp- son's "Hound of Heaven" which Lord Wavell learned while playing golf at St. Andrews in Scotland; a fagrnent of Kipling which he first heard playing poker; Greta Briggs verses on "London Under Bombardment" which he read while flying to Cairo in 1941, before meeting Field Marshal Rommel in battle; and a sonnet by Rupert Brooke which Field Marshal Lord Allenby repeated to his young aide, Lord Wav- ell, when both were serving in the Middle Iiast in the First Great \Var and Lord Allenby had just learned of his son's‘ depth in action. I O

Reflecting sharp reductions in the United States and Canada, thc world's 110g population declined about nine per cent during the last year to complicate the problem of stretching meat supplies over a war-weary world. Reporting this, the Office of Foreign Agricultural Rela- tions said the reduction in war-besieged Cott- tinental Europe is much less than in the United States. Hog numbers dropped nearly 3o per cent in the United States during 1944. This rc- duction reflects principally a short supply of feed during the first nine months of the year and a lowering of the Government's price guar- antee for hogs. World hog numbers at the beginning of i945 are estimated at 255,000,000

for feeding and finishing meat animals.

Even milk production, which normally bounds up in May when cows are put 0n pas- ture, showed little if any increase this year over April and this was reflected in a slight over- all reduction in butter make. The prospects for "nth fruits and canning vegetables are not the

a decline of f3 per cent from the record level of

I940 and I0 per cent from the average for the

the rest it depends a lot on the weather dur-

Be it noted, the Progressive Conservative Party in the House of Commons is represent- ative of every Province in the Dominion. The parliament it

The proposed Christian Social Council for this province, now being organized, is an inter- denominational attempt to create a live wire body to handle social problems along Christian Each of the various Church authorities would be repreeented in its direction and main-

Thc School Improvement League is mak- “t with f t t hr ing its presence felt not only.in the city but °pm 5 e a“ l‘ ‘e e throughout the Province, as witness the appeal 0n the part of the Teachers’ Federation for its aid in carrying out an educational survey of

There is a prospect of the wives of soldiers in occupation of Germany getting a trip over-

we would eat stll

Notes By The Way

Surprise of the been the Chinese been on the floor for e lt suddenly starts its puuc

there.—&rstiford Beacon.- raid.

"Time in ra

declares better g We'd be in an awful predicament

if we should run out of places to put, thingsFKitchener Record.

Iu Moscow the reward for bravery ln military brass hate ia a spaci- ous new apartment. Almost any- where lu the world today would rate as just about the high- couver Province.

Itmightbeagoodilleaiebave story readers and mystery fans send in their guesses u to what happened to Iii er.

all these speculations could be no wider than some of thou already going the rounds.—Brantford Ex- posftor.

A New York operate of band-

$22,500,000 during the years-but his account other banks and the contents of eight safe deposit boxes have et to be examined. The "smart lows" who made him rich should at least. feel that thev dld a thor- ough job of its-Hamilton spectator.

Sometimes the logic oi strikers is more than puzzling. In Quebec, employees of a shipyard ult their

ss and less work." By refusing to carry on, they seem to figure that more work will be given them. ‘They may he right, of course. On the other hand, it might be sup- posed they should have consider- ed the sslblllty that such a pro- test str ke could result simply in transfer of contracts to other yards, leaving the strikers without jobs at elk-Montreal Star,

You haven't tasted pickerel at its best-unless your home ls very near the place the pickerel was caught. Like all fresh-water fish, the sooner a plckerel is in the pan after being caught, the better 1t tastes. Any plckerel fisherman knows the proper set-up. The flsh should be fllleted before the boat reaches shore. then popped in ti pan in which bacon ls sizzling. Serve whatever" you will with it, a generous helping of plckerel fillets and crisp bacon under such clr- cumstances ls enough to convince any right-minded person that fish- ermen who boast of the incom- parable edlblllty of trout, bass or perch are trifling dangerously with the truth-Kingston Whig-Stan- dard.

It was the annual dinner of the Overseas Press Club at the Wal- dorf-Astorla ln New York Clty, and Gen. George C. Marshall was there Bs the principal speaker, Pageant relates. Near hlm, at the table of honor, he discerned a smnll wlry old man with thinned white hair. He went over m the oldster and the two began an animated dis- cussion. Later, our Chief of Staff confided to the other guests that he had once been a newspaperman himself. During the Russo-Jap- anese War, he sald, he had held photographic plates for (he famous war photographer, Jimmy Hare. whlle the latter was shooting plc- tures. The little old man at the Waldorf-Astoria was none other than Jimmy Hare, alive, vigorous and full of reminiscences at the age of 8'7. Marshall had not seen the veteran photographer for near- ly 40 years.

From the Dominion Bureau of Statistics there comes the enlight- ening information that only one erson ln every 2,500 in Canada econ-res a writer. And the Bur- eau conslderetely defines a writer as an author, editor, newspaper re- porter, newspaper correspondent, publicity agent, or the like. It of- fers the further lnfonnatlon that there were 4,576 of these profes- slonal workers in the Dominion at the date of the census of 1941, of whom 3,866 were men and 713 wo- men. Thls up arent dlsparit may be accounted or by the lac that women are supposed to show a partlallty for the spoken as dis- tine; from the written word. This, however, ls a matter of hearsay and perhaps should be made the subject of scientific examination. In any case, there are and wlll remain many openings for ‘people who possess or acquire-an cul- tlvate-the art of stringing words together tn such a matmer as to tell a good tale or write a. read- able and accurate report. — Brant- ford Expositor.

Some as yet undisclosed "Colonel Blimp" at Ottawa has ordained that members of the Canadian Women's Army Corps Pipe Band shall not wear the kllt, because, forsooth, they would then be show- lng their knees. The girls are to have their pipe band and cute cut-away khaki jackets, but that. l5 far enough. The will went" skirts, not the kllt. T ere is some mystery attached to all this because the order for the kllt had been granted. Now, presumably after consultation wlth Mrs. Grundy the order I155 been rescinded. The gods-and their girl friends _- in Valhalla must chortle. After all that has been exposed on the beaches of this continent for a decade- after the sweaters became what they became; after the ladies went into war work and saved the country ln men's redesigned over- ails-what is a feminine knee? Years ago when we had Caledoninn games at Port Stanley, the girls

danced ln the kilt, which was part the never saw any evidence of the Highland dress, and very suc changing of trade-marks by nice. - London 'F'ree Press. the British. There can be no

It has been observed that hu- ipan nature ls peculiar. but fresh tlustratlons come to light daily. A Prices Board official says Cann-

than the did nhen it was ra- tioned. ey buy now as much as they want to eat, but used to buy

they needed that much or not. It is different, however, with but- ter. The ration nrra gement ls to be kept ln force, and there is little prospect that the allowance will be increased.‘ At a half-pound per person per week, the official ob- serves, we are the greatest per cspita butter-eaters in the world. And as the coupon limit is to be rationed, the lm llcation is that more if the in- tlon restriction were removed. It

Having Sh; years. from

cs1’- -

c‘ m.n”u a p ysicaienwgogn’! We'd et busy and ration space.

that est award for anything. —- Van-

all the amateur sloutlm, detlggi-yn; “a, m

After

books ls alleged to have biénked

origin of many of the items furn- e jeeps.

dluns are eating lam meat. now maker's name clearly on the container, usually with lend-lease labels all their coupons allowed, whether all packages, boxes or barrels. 6—Fictlon

purchase cigarettes have sometimes e

shortage was the , furnished to other countries under| lend-lease.

cigarettes ln about ductlon. For every cigarette w lch

1936-40 period.

compared with

Hog numbers in North Am- erica-mainly the United States, Canada and Mexico -— totalled nearly 75,002,009 head at the beginning of this year record of 99,000,000 at the beginning of 1944.

the

will have to be left to psycholo- gists to tell us why we ate more meat when it was rationed but are eating less butter because that. ls rationed. None of the ordinary rules of human perversity or an

we lend-leased i to our anned the people in this count? smoked m. e

piled use. Some have gone to the French

_ CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

Lend-Lease i Fact And Fiction

Th fllowlng m“; the Isresident ex u’ I Nineteenth Report to 0o

194s._. "Since the be; lease program wk. l

incorrect or exaggerated, which are a natural ou so vast an operation s; have circulated United States These rumours and report; Jpn burl on e a“ purpose of which is the effective utilize of the man the UIl Several facts

one which

mours. Mlllta the Daramoun and detennlnin factors in the provision lend-lease aid to

our allies. need‘ of our allies

Th

the spot. The

War an Nev rim War F 0a Kannada. ems’ m

War Production Board and th order to make certain that the ra-

of the war. This

l that lend-lease su rev cw “sure

lies are sen

ful consideration of our own armed population.

the needs o

of essential supplies from our a1 lies as reverse lend-lease without cash Eloh 811$’ Slllllblles to the com

ged rpasonitclaf restzurces or TED QB 5 011, Ll l. In the flillow s ppy forth a number about lend-lease facts regarding can , L-Flctlon

0f the

Britain as

share of plies. Faci. We thirds of 1

from Canada lt from the lend-lease. Fm- Durlnz 1944 Canada ship- ped to Britain approximately one- hlrd of her total production of meat, including 700,000,000 pounds of bacon and the beef from 325.00) head of cattle. These shipments were made largely without payment by Britain under Canadian mutual aid, which ls similar to our lend- lease program. 3—Fiotlon

It ls widely

r»

rumoured that our B11195 Plan to use lend-lease ma- terlnls in their export trade in combeltlon with us when the war is ended. The rumour ls heard in

connection with various types of goods but ls frequently concen- trated on aircraft,

Fact. We retain title to all lend- lease material that has not been lost, destroyed or consumed and no disposition may be made of lend-lease property without our consent. We shall determine whe- ther we wlsh to move the material back to the United States, sell lt or otherwise dls ose of lt. We therefore contro the post-war availability of such materials. k-Flctlon