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TIIE GIIARLOTTETOWII GUARDIAN

hloirilng Daily (Founded in 1887)

President: Lirut. Col. W. Chester S. McLiire Vice-President: J. R. Burnett. FJJ. _ Secretary: Lieut. Col. D. A. Maclifinnon- D.S.O. Iiltor and ftlimaglng Director: J. R. Burnett, FJJ. Associate Editors: Frank Walker and Ian A. Burnett

SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail lll l‘. l.‘ 1., $4.00 per year: $2.50 for 6 months $1325 h-r 3 months; 50c for one month C"! Drlivery: $5.00 per year; $3.00 for 0 months $1.75 for 3 months By Mail In Canada and U.S.A. $5.00 per year lemme! ‘Whip 52-00 iwr year: $1.00 for s months. 50c for 3 months.

{The Strongest Memory is Weaker than the Weakest Ink."

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22. 1941.

Fertilizer Prices

Nniirc has bccii l-llvcn by Mi". ll. if. llatticltl, l\l. l'._ 1111‘ \ ictoria Carleton, .\'. 11., tli.'1t 11c pur- llllrfis 111111111); lht: fi-llniviiig rcst-liitioii iii tlic llnusc of (oiniiitiiis: \l.'l‘tt‘l'f?‘cl5 oiilv one of tl1e various ingredients of commercial icrtilizei", namely, sulphate of aniinoniii, 1s produced in Canaoa and thc other lt-‘iits. lltiillt?l_\', nitrate of s:cla, supcrphcs- 1 potash and sulphate of inagiiesfiun, inust tic inipoiwcd. p .~\11'.i ivlicrcas it of vital importance to the tarnur. who is presently selling the greater part roduce below the cost of lfibflllbbiolh, that? . s oi production, of winch fertilizer 1s_ an 21-111, should be kept as tow as possible, the W111" EXCIIEIIIQC Tax cf _l0 pei" tlic cost of commercial fertilizer to ible extent, V v _

it resolved that, in the opinion tlic Government should introduce mpting imported materials, not pro .c1i in Canada, used 111 the ma11u- .1 c1 1~cii11n1c1"cial fertilizer from the lVar fang-e '1‘:1x. '1Il\‘l‘ of fcrtilizci" priccs is of as inucli c to tlic iariiicrs of Prince Edward . tn .\li'. llatilelds constituents in l\1-\v lirunswiclt ; 111111 it is in b1- hopctl that his resolu- tion, \\l1\'ll pri-sciiicil lll l'tll'lllllllt‘lll, will rcccive the support of our provincial rcprcscntativcs. ltcccntly o. Xcw 1i1'1lll>\\'lCl\' correspondent c0111- ylzuncil 1n Ilic tjzuirititm of the silcitcc of the lslzind lllCllllllClb‘ \\‘l1Cll this subject was brought up last >cptt~inbcr by .\lr. Hatfield. The I0 per c<~nt \\ ar iixclizingqc 'i‘ax is in addition t0 the i1 pci" ccnt [Jfclllllllll on U. S. funds and tlic $1.50 poi" 11111 lllCi't.‘£l>t‘ iii (iccan freight from the LlilllCLl States. Aliogcilici", i1 is claimed, fertilizer 1iriccs have increased $9.00 per ton since the war. Sul- phate o1 aiiinuiiiia, :1 l))’-|)l‘0(llIc'[ of stccl and coke plints, which should he obtainable at reduced 1irircs in Cauitula owing to iiicrctisctl steel pro- duction for war purposes, is now $12.00 per ton higher than. it was a fc\v years ago. Neither the tjtivcriiinciit nor its protege, the Wartime Prices and 'l‘i'a1lc Board, have seen fit to pcg the price of this commodity, although they have stepped 111

"tn sci maximum prices for the fz1ri11er’s products.

ffhis llllllSC of the situation is riot covered in N11‘. ]~l.'1tlicld's resolution, though it will no doubt be discussed when the resolution goes iiilo coi11- fiiiitcc.

Uni" Island incinhcrs should be prcpzircd 1n take advantage of this OppLlflLlfllly, representing as {they do the greatest potato-growing Province of Canada. They had 11i1icl1 to say about our farin- ers‘ interests in the election campaign; now is the time to put the [irncticc they acquircrl in spcccli- making to some worthwhile use.

Observer gives the answer in the following terms:

The Nazis have restored slavery in its Primitive form, in the shuffling of the caravans which tear liuinun beings in thousands from their homes, to be pcnned like beasts in a compound or to won." as lielots for their oppressor. They have revivcd in its crudcst shape the egoisin of nationality, building it wholly upon the legend of a superior race. Their political device has been to inflame znid to divide by exploded liatreds, staking Slovak" against Czech, Ukrainian against Pole, Croat zigziinst Serb. 'i'l1cy have marched not to release but to imprison, they scorn the equal justice of this world and have no faith in the doom of the ncxt, acknowledging no deity but their race, and no law but their sword. 1n scvcn years they have outdonc tlic pillage cf Bonripartisni in decline, the savage long memories of tlic Thirty Years \Vzir, the heresy hunting of the lnqtiisitors, the dcstructivencss of .._lcngl1iz l§hai1 and every passing Oriental hordc. 'i‘11ey have ipllcd up tlic inap of Europe. Not just the iiiup of its frontici" posts, but the Mappzi Muudi, the chart of civilization. \\'lici‘cvcr they go, sclf- govcrnuiciit and free speech and Christian relig- ion perish, the Pope is under their shadow, and ticrinaii Lutlicrzuiisin is their laughing stock. 'I‘h1-ii‘ cruclcst \\'1ii" is waged upon tlic mind and the soul of iiicii, dcciiiizitiiig the intellect of the peoples whom they subdue, and poisoning youth at its pure wells.

Paardeberg

Tomorrows memorial service in St. raufs Church is in counneinoration 0f the forty-first tiiiiiivci"szii'_v of tlic Battle of Parirdcbcrg, tlic flfzl tlccisivc Iiritish victory in the Boer \\ a1". The stirviving island veterans now number less than a dozen. Many of them have sons or grandsons ptlfllClptllltlg in the momentous struggle now in progress, zigainst a more murderous and more unscrupulous foe. The dccds achieved in South Africa by the itoyal Canadian itcgiincnt, which included some sixty l’i"ince Edward islanders, exhibited the same (pialitics 0f courage and dc- votion to duty which are so essential to Czuiadzfs wui" effort. today, ‘

EDITORIAL NUIES —.

Have you really invested in \\"ar Saving Cer- tificates r I! II‘ it‘ >1‘ Islanders are being utilized abroad as Spcakcrs; wonder whether their influence be as ineffective as our representation in parliament! >1‘ >t< >l< l!‘

Less than a 111011111 till SI. Patrick's Day whcii

the lrishmcn are entitled to dry thoroughfares

for their procession; much sunshine Will be rc-

quired before that can be accomplished this year. >11 =1= =1< =1

Very unfavourable weather conditions in Arg- entina—prolo11gcd heavy iaiiis-diiriiig the scc~ ond half of December have caused some damage to all the grains except corn. The total loss is estimated at about 1o per ccnt of the first official estimate. 1F ‘l! 1F I

Proclamation of April I0 as “National llird Dayf’ is proposed in a bill introduced in tlic House of Commons by Mr. john R. hlacbiicol (Con., 'i‘oronto--—Davcnport). He said the date was tlic birthday of jack Miner, noted bird con- servationist 0f. Kiiigsvillc, Uiit. The purpose of the bill was to honor Mr. l\lii1cr's work during

; his lifetime.

When Parliament Fails

The Lilolic and .\lz1il notes that while the Par- liannnt at Wcsiininsici" and the Congress of tlic 'L'iii11-d Stttttrs have bccn almost continuously in session sincc tlic outbreak of tlic war, tlic Parlia- iiicnt of Canada has been almost continuously in recess, having hcld 10:5 than scvcnty sittings lll lIl'il'L‘ than four hundrcd working days on which sittings 111-re ]itJ>>llilC‘. ilitlcr has all but abolished tlic ltcrinaii 1\'t‘lL‘ll.slZl_Q ;1iid—s11ys our Toronto cniitciii]iovury~—il1ci"c arc Cabinet Ministers ill Cttllitlltt who would gladly gct rid of the nuisance. of having to lllt'l‘l. lhirliaiiiciit and give an account of their sl1'\\'tt1'il>lll]),

This is strong criticism; but iii view of tlic 11111111101" in ivhich .\li'. ilaiisoifs zittcinpt to dis- cus.» the failure of federal aircraft production ivas rul1-1l out of tirdci‘ on Thursday, who c2111 dciiy that it is justitlcd?

Thc tilobc and .\1:1il ailds this coniniciiiary:

“It must ncvcr be forgottcn that Pzirlizuncnt is tlu- high court of the nation iii ivhicli lll1‘lll1)t'l'5 of tlic ti1iv1-ri1i11ci11 arc rcquircd to justify all cx- 1;t‘ll<lillll'1‘\ of public funds uud itlso 1o tlcfciiil the ])lIl1ClI_'\ of 1111- Xlinistry, This is important in tiiiics 11f pcacc, but it is infinitely niorc iiiipiirtriiit in tinic nf ivar w 1 the fate of the nation dc- pcnds ltpoii lllC cf cncy of the national admin- istration. The pcnplc who arc paying unpre- ccdciitctily hcavy‘ taxcs have a right to know wlic- thcr the iiinncy is being spent economically, and it is the duty of the Opposition to turn the search- light of publicity upon all transactions 21nd expose instaiicvss of cxtrztvzigiiiicc and malfeasance.

“\\ licn lkirliiiincnt iuct last year the Opposition 1ir1-~.>c1l for tlic cstzililisliiiiciit of a special coin- iiiittcc similar tn the llritish Parliaiiiciitai"y Coin- iiiittcc which tlcals with war expenditures and the war cllort iii gciicral, and if this is not s1iffic- iciitly witlc in scnpc tn examine all facets of the viar program tlic Public Accounts Couliiiitlcc ihould lic rcvivcd without dcluy so that expendi- 1111135 11i;1y bc thoroughly scrutiiiizctl.

"it is not to be (‘XPCClCIl that tlic partisans of tlic liowriiiiicnt will hcsili" thcmsclvcs to perform i111: functions for which all iiiciiilicrs arc clcctcrl; thcrcfnrc, it is all tlic llltil‘(‘ incunihciit upon the niciiibrrs of tlic (lppusitiou groups to tlciiiziiitl 111.: ilctails of (invcriiiiiciit policy and iulniiiiistratioii."

This; i5 \\‘]1;|[ tlic 1111111151110“ lCfltlCf i5 I111“! fltrlllffi-ssllll'tlllgll tlic press since the opportunity nus l-rcn ilcnicd liiiii in Parliament.

The Nazi Curse

“Let us therefore brace ourselves to our ditty," aavs (Iliurcliill, “and so bcar ourselves that if tlzc British Commonwealth and Empire last for a. thousand years. men will still say, this was their finest hour l" What is this Nazi curse from which llritain is - king in l't'~t‘ti(‘ liuropc, and upon ivhicli tliristiaii lt‘.'ltlt'I‘S 11f ull dciiniiiiiiatiriiis llftVt! declared a holy crusade? A writer in the London

iv w w it A bill amending the criminal code to tighten penalties against "hit-and-rtiii" car drivers has been introduced in the iiousc of Coninions by M1". '1‘. L. Church (Con. Toronto-Uroadvicw) and given first reading. The amendment would incrcasc the penalty foi" leaving the scene of an ZlCClLlClll. to a inaxiiiiuiit of a year's imprisonment without (lllllUll of Iliic. The prcsciit penalty i5 :1 inaxiiiiuni of six nioiiths or a 1111c of $5o0_

"l IF Fl‘ 3- Spousorcd by the Studciit Christian Movement and under tlic patronage of 111s ilonour Licutcn- tint-Governor LcPagc and 1111's. LcPagc, :1 sacred concert is being held tomorrow evening in the Prince Edward Theatre. It is in aid of a most worthy cause-the Save the Children Fund which has been organized 011 behalf of needy children in 1111: 1-1111 Country and other parts of the liinpirc. Thcrc will be a voluntary silver collection, all of which will g0 directly to the f1ii1d_ w- >11 =11 =1=

The diarist Samuel Pepys (Peeps to you) was horn tomorrow's date (1632). Father of the prcscnt Navy. iiis Diary began in i059 was in cipher, and probably was never intended for pub- lication; hcncc lie wrote freely of his thoughts, his viccs, his domestic affairs; lic noted down all the scandal he heard; it is invaluable as a source of information concerning 17111 Century manners; it stops abruptly at May i009. 11c wrote “ivlcni- oirs of the Navy" (1690)

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Professor Frederick Alexander, head of the I-iistory Department of the University of West Australia, who recently returned from the United States, suggests the endowment of a chair in American history in one of .‘\1isti"alia's 1iniv1isi- tics. He says the appointment of an American to the post ivould counteract the Australians’ c1il- tural indifference t0 the United States. i-le stresses that automobile and oil salcsnicn and ilollywvood producers are not the best mission- arics of American civilization and that Aiiiericzm universities do riot revolve around football coacl1- cs and glamorous coeds as the movies suggest. l‘ ‘I 1F I

(icorgc Washington, first President 0f the hnitcd States to refuse a. third lcrni, ‘born this datc 1732, deprecated revolt against Britain but .\lI])p0I'lC(l resistance to tlic Stamp Act, and was a (Iclcgatc to the first Congress of American Col- onies (i774). Bccanic general in i1c1v American .\riny, drove llowe from Boston but was defeat- rd and driven bztclc in Pennsylvania. Next year compelled British to ivitliilrtiw from Philadelphia. livcntually with tlic help of the French, Wash- ington forced Lord Cornwallis to capitulatc at Yorktown (1781), The arlny was tlicn dis- banded and Washington retired into pffvatc lffC at Mount Vernon, only to be €l€Cl€d Pfefiidbfll four years later. Issued declaration of neutrality in tlic linrtipcan \v:1r (i793) despite an alliance with France; rctircd from Presidency aftcr 2i second term in office $1796.),

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llllTES BY TIIE WAY

“The Peopleh Convention" held 1:1 London over the last week-end attracted 2,000 IICRQGDES frcm Communist and loft wing labcr and professional groups In England, Wales and Scctlmid. The primary puspore cf the meeting was to 1n- itiate a, “countrywide movement" to overthrow the present British govemmznt and replace it with a “people's government" that would brine D8860 by appealing to the Gemian masses Instead oif by fight.- mg their leaders. The idea is barn out 11' wonderful phantasy. We Sllsbiet that the German masses might run int; a little trouble try- ms’ to overthrow Hitler even after they had heard the clear, shrill a-p- peal cc British Communists The People's Convention also called for a restoratizn of civzl liberties in Britain. How they could do sc with a straight, face is beyond under- standing, since thry were allowed to ineet and p.:1n tee overthrow of the British government, in time of wai" and without the slightest inter- ference. There wasn't even a piice- 1112111 in sight. Hitler must get ap- Oblectic when the British govern- ment betrays such oonfidcnce. - New York Post.

"- is nearly eight months ago since the eX Emperor of Abysstnia left Eurcpe fcr the Near East in expectation of a situation cut there which has now arisen. Aczompanied

, bi‘ British Army ctffecrs who know

the country “"811. be is now 111 his ciivn country, and the Imifitraal war drums are scuncllng 111 Ethicpm t,» announce to the tiubesnien and tl1e.r chiefs ‘that the day q; Itaiim; retribution 1s at hand. It is Halle Selassies confident hope that he may be able to’ head an Abyssinian rising when. will spcedily drive the Italians from his country, and e11- able the white marble Lfion of Judah ctice m.re to stand in Addls Ababa, square where the Italian m- vaders have erwted the cifflgy of a wolf. Meanwhile. his Empress is living with hm six children at Bath, uilth occasional visits to London. Last week she attended, with P: m- cess Tsliiil her second daughter. a ballet performance at the Ambass- ador's. Princess Tshai, who strikingly like her father, is a trained nurse, and xvorking at Guy's Hcspital. -— Ffflni Lcndcn Latter.

Word from ‘Mlshington that the supply of fann workers is the 10W- est since 1937 serves to recall v.vid- ly that. all-but-forgotten factotum whose mcdest but unremitting ef- forts cuitributzd to place agricul- ture on its present. pedestal — the "hired man", He was a familiar figure on the faicns of a generation ago. Literally "one of the family”, since he shared their hcmc and h:- was in reality an ex “unc1e", helping the vsung- sters with their studxs, sqiiirlng elder daughters to “s:c1aibles." Since h: had as a rule 1v rkcd cu faiins in other statcs, he sxmetimgr, filled the place of the present-day fitim adviei‘. But, however far his Won- clerizigs may have canned £1..m, he ‘was not. neussarily itinerant by nature. We all know hiin, ivhethcr we live on 1111115 oi" iict. Because

and in The

haw

He splits the klndlin’ an’ chops the word‘

Raggedy M1111, told

A11‘ ncn he spadrs our garden, too, An‘ docs most llllllgs 'at bovs can

d:—~ I-fe clumbed clean up in our b}: tree

oked a' apple down far

Rnggcclyi Man, he known 1. t. rhyimcs

A11’ 11.115 'cn1, if I be grim, some- ." s.

—-C.1i1stian Science Mcziitor.

When the record of this war Is written-the war in which. there is no cnt tine“ and women and children in the cities fhare in cqunl degree the pfifllg of the c m- batant forces - there should be a spezial chapter for the women of Great Britain and the part 1.1e,v are playiitig in a herclc resistance \vh ch compels the homage of the world. Tlitrc are the girl wardens in st-rel helmets and brown dungarees who make tlic rzunds of time Ltndon shelters at night; tlic shop girls and the tvi ‘sts who go to work through the in ' " ' of c:1.ii"se;

social vi-arkcrs ready to fced and clothe the 11.1110-

less at any hour tn the twenty- fcui"; thousands of these, sharing a cxnnwn lirrofrn anonymously, and ctlicrs ivnose identities chance has revealed. The first w man 1.0 win the G-Coigc Medal for civilians 1s Sonia Shaw. a 19-year-old girl 1 t in a lawyer's cffice who had n1" an air-raid warden. When b \\'I‘{Cl{C{‘l n public sheltcr. g many of the women and i1 .11 it, she stayed with them,

all fnibs were falling all arc ' c "‘ 1 help she c:uld un‘ PlWVflYdS, other aid

" that she walked

d street and into to rescue an dd e Pearson cf the W v All‘ Free. When a plane mace a forced lancl_ lng outside l1e1" quarters and burst into flcmss slie liilptd to drag out. the ivounded pilzt Mfrs Hor- ton, the eid-21"l_v L g ‘T111311 W117. tirat>ptll foi" s. I .111‘; with a huizrlrcd other pccyil: ".11 an 151st London shelf-tr, calnsrl frightened women and put c‘.1i1rlr:n back to sleep. And the girl otpcrator who ttircugh a 111g t raid when the fire station s hlt and several men were k ed stuck ta her tele- pfllllcr to 11:1; a the service gztng. The number of these women 11m)- incs is leglcn. though few are knzwn by name. ‘Ihelr deeds are a shining glory alcngside the bright record of the men whose c urage and stendifnstness they emulate. - Ncw York Times,

Always managing to be colorful, Tne Sault Daily Star has advanced a unique suggestion. It proposes that the camps 1n which German prisoners cf war are keipt be public- izrd as tourft iittrncttzns for Am- nrlcan vtsltcrs thisccmlng summer. This c-f course, would Involve the lifting cf the veil of scerccit as to the lcoatfon o-f til-EEO camps. and this ls just what the Nit-them Ont/- arlo pfbplll‘ prcpcsez. It pomts out, and with scme mason, that, It Is rather ridiculous to forbid public mention c1! the lzcatlms. Everyone Within several hundred miles o! these places knows Micro they are. anyway. Thtre is no doubt that a. greet man-y tourists would be at- tracted to the prison camp ITEM- and incidentally the Bsiult Ste. Marie district would reap much of the benefit, - but there are t-ttier considerations that must not be overlcoked. A110! the American visitors might nzt 11s imparted sole-

Jiimes Whitcc-inb Riley remembered, 4

PUBLIC FORUM

This column in open [or the 111-equin- by correspondents of question: ol’ nteront. The Charlottetown Guardian ilou not necessarily endorse the oplnlonl of eorrelpondentl.

THE HUNS AGAIN!

S11".—We have read with much pleasure Farmers Wife's letter in a. late issue of your Joiimal- She or- pressed a feellniz with which _v.’e agree 1n respect to the Hungarian cartridges, nasnely, that It ispleiis- ing to see them flying at large over the fields 1n winter. Bird llfe adds pleasure to the farm at any season and for that reason we wish to pre- serve them. Moreover, thev are an asset to the farmer inasmuch as they destroy noxious nests. eating as they do weedseeds. grasshoppers, etc. Certainly in ivmter thev must be fed and 1t. is SlITDflSIIlR what ‘a quantity of grain they eat. is futile c caning out horses’ inangers, for that does not. supply them 11111.11 sufficient nourishment 111 the cold wintry weather. They need grain and grit with 1t. for it is not cold which kits them. but hunger. With no warmth of body they surely 111 1 victims to the cold. Farmers aie supposed to feed them. and. farmers do not refuse to do so if they enn afford the grain which some cainict do. Besides, it adds an extra chore to men who have much work on hand. We have been feedinir “Huns" r111 winter. Thev were few at first, but. they have increased to four flocks How they find where the food 1s rea-dv for them is rather puzzling. But in this case the adage holds good, “Birds of a feather flock tot-tether.” , _ But 1s it fair that farmers shou d be expected to feed these partridgcs in winter foi" sportsmen to shoot at. their pleasure in the autumn? We are determined that 1t shall not be so on our farm, not that we wantto shoot them for ourselves. but to preserve them for other uses. Our sportsmen for the most part are a oer sort, mere pot-hunters. C:n1- 1m: in the morning just at sunrise before the birds are up. and in the evening when they have gone to 516611. they take the birds at a. dis- advantage. Otherwise they could