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BNABLUTTETOWN GUARDIAN

Morning Daily tl-‘uunded ln I837)

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King's Birthday Holiday

The ccltbltlliilll of the birthday of King George \'l will lake place throughout the Dom- lnion, Monday, Julie o. under the order-in-council declaring that (late a public holiday. [Zach year all order-in-collncil is pzlssctl setting the date of ob- servance of 3hr,- King's liirllltlzii’. \\'ltilc the actual date is lIt't‘(‘lllllt'l' 1.1, the tloverlllllent con- siders the sulnlller date more appropriate for celebration The King will be 46 next Decem- ber I4. The public holiday will be observed here as elsewhere, wilh slorcs closing, and such in- dustries as we have, apart from agriculture and fishing, ceasing over the week-end. Store as- sistants have not many "breaks" throughout the year, and the June holiday is really one of the few they can thoroughly enjoy out of doors.

Significant Anniversary

The celebration of _vestcrda_v’s 50th anniversary of the death of Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, takes place today at Kingston, Ontario, the city Sir John represent- ed during the greater part of his political career. The speakers at the ceremony will be represen- tative, most appropriately. of both major parties in Parliament: Prime Minister Mackenzie King, Hon. R. B. Hanson, Conservative House Lead- er; Justice Minister Lapointe, and Senator Meighen, Conservative leader in the Senate. This will symbolize the national importance of the occasion, which has special significance for us today. For the name of Sir John A. Macdonald stands, more than any other name in Canadian history, for the spirit of National unity and Empire solidarity.

Referring to Sir Johns achievement as a unionist, the Brittanica Encyclopaeclia says: “Few political leaders have ever had such a

number of antagonistic elements to reconcile as presented themselves in the first Canadian Par- liament after Confederation. The man who could manage to rule a congeries of jealous fac- tions, including Irish Catholics and Orangemen, French and English antl-federrltlonists and agit- ators for independence, Conservatives and Re- forrners, careful economists and prodigal ex- PEHISIOHISYS, WAS manifestly a marl 0f unusual power, superior to small prejudices, and WIlllOUl strong bias towards any creed or section- Such n man Macdonald proved himself to be. His personality stands out at this period as the cen- tral power in which each faction chiefly reposed trust, and under which it could join liilndg with the others 1n the service of the state. His single- nou of purpose and indomitable energy enabled him tonchleve triumphs that to others seemed impossible."

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In honouring the memory of such a states- men, Canada honors herself. And if his anni- versary serves to inspire our statesmen of tndav with the same sturllv patriotism and the same genius for leadership along lines of national unity, it will mean much, not nnlv to our prg. lent ivar effort. but to our strength and stability ll 1 nation in the years to come.

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Salvation Army Jubilee

The jzlbilce of the Darkest Iinglanll scheme, launched by lit‘ll(‘l'-'ll Hoolh in February, I891, is being Cl'l<'lll‘.'ll(‘ll by lllc Sallwllion .~\rlllv, with juslificil pridc and lot-ling.» of gratitude if“, [he appreciation and Support which have made the movcillctlt so fruitful in rcslllls. .’\ll the \l\"orltl, published by the international headquarters m’ the JOClety in lmnrlon, l",ll‘1l.'lll(l, Cflllliling a 1mm. bCr of arliclcs ll;l.\l‘(l on this lhcnic» one hcinq wholly ll\‘\'4il('Il lo a discussion of the origin off this cs~clllizlll_v (‘llrislian work for lhc reclam- anon of tllv (ll'|tl‘.'l\l‘Il' llllll the rclirf of lhc poor and tllllcasl. lt was licncral llrmllfs- {muons book, in llarkc-l lingllllltl and lllc \\".'ly Out. whltli first drcw public. zlllcntioll to lllc condi- tions thcn cxisliilg in lllc llczlrl of lhc llrilisll lim- pire mill fll‘f)l1\('(l gyqnlplllpv fm- m [he sufferings of the “sllbnlcrgcll tenth." lt is largc. ly (lll(‘ to the l-llclj-(clic and llllclmlplvllllisinq fight 0f the Fwllvzllioll .\l'lll_\' :l,;:lin.~l slplzllor, porcrlv and \'lC(‘, null lllr- snccta-sflll measures Zlflflplcil for the rcgcln-rlllitul and rl-habililalion of lllr tlercllcls of hunlrlll socicfv, that not rlnlv "(lflfk-(lsf England" but the Wlllrlf‘ world has bocit illumin- alcd with llll‘ gcllial rays of (llrislian chrlritv.

Sonic bricf (ll-fails of the work of the Army

in Canada illal- bl- Qivcll, in ryrrlr-r in 51,0“- hm}, inlpnrlfltil lhv lli‘\'('lil]illll‘lll llils Imp“ §lncp d105,. (‘arlv days. 'l'llr-r<- arc 1.3111) officers. in llniforln. now :lclivc in Lilnalliali l(‘l‘l'llnr\'_ with a tolal of 27.417 nfficcrs SlflllHllfVl throughout lhp world, The bnlanct- slice! for Ibo (‘alulllirln .‘\r|nv for 7040 (W's .'l llll'll1l\'l'l' of |\\'l"l' right million do]. lnrs, .\'uw that lln‘ lfnmirr- is Ill \\'.’ll', with the consequent distress, suffering and loss cancer] m civilians and (‘fimbnlnnls alike, llll‘ rlninls on the services of the Salvation Army have become emu: than ever.

Scotching Nazi Propaganda

;\ll effcctivc nlcalts of scotcllillg Nazi pro- paganda was taken yesterday by President Roosevelt at a White House press conference. He revealed that he had on his desk two orders which had been issued by the official German propaganda zlgcnty in l-Jerlitt to Llermau zlgcilts ill lllc United Slams; The first order told lhcnl to stress the idea that Germany had no thought of ever doing anything against any country of the entire western hemisphere. The second 0r- dcrcd Nazi atld Fascist sympathizcrs, as soon as Ambassador Witlant arrived back lll the United States, to spread the story that Britain was"‘about all in” and was talking peace.

It was when he was asked by a press corres- pondent whether he cared to say whether Mr. Winant had brought no “peace terms" from England that the President fired his counter- blasl- “Not even a tenth counsin of a peace offer or anything like that, or‘ any discussion of peace," he declared. "Absolutely nothing like that." And he authorized pilbliczition of his statement provided the ncwslnen used it “not as a denial by the President but as an accusation by the President." Then followed his revelation of the orders from Berlin, by which he declared “sections of the American press and sections of American public opinion are being duped."

The wide publicity which will be given this interview in the United States should prove salutary. It is a striking example of the effl- cacy of “words spoken in season."

- EDITORIAL NOTES —

“Business as usual” these days means buying Victory Bonds.

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Tomorrow church-goers will bear in mind the host of Island boys now doing service at sea, on land and in the air, and likewise the strang- ers, temporary Islanders, within our gates.

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Islanders abroad are sending in their applica- tions for Victory Bonds, while those at home are welcoming the canvassers with open arms. At this rate, “Torch Day" will be a red-letter day as well.

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The proposed visit of “D" (P. E. I.) Com- pany of the North Nova Scotia. Highlanders on “Torch Day," June 17, Will be an event itself. They are part of the only Highland Brigade authorized for overseas service, and their Battalion has the reputation of being one of the best in Camp Debert.

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The Atlantic Ocean is a wide barrier between Canadian soldiers overseas and the folk back llotne, but it didn't seem nearly wide enough to a lieutenant from Toronto who wrote a letter of thanlts for a gift of “coffee.” Ile told them how much he enjoyed “a real Canadian drink." Two (lays after posting the letter, the lieutenant open- ed the coffee tin for the first time and found it packed with candy. Now he's wondering how he'll explain away his faux pas.

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The term of I-lon Eric W. Ilambcl- as Licllt, Governor of British Columbia, expired May 29, but at the request of Prime Minister King he has agreed to continue in office for a month or two longer. It is understood his successor \Vlll be Mr. W. C. \Vood\vzll'd, Vancouver, execu- livc assistant lo Mllniliotls Uinistcr Howe, who on account of war duties, is not yct ready to as- sume the high office.

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The appeal of Lord Woolloit for a voluntary creamlcss day in U. S. A. as a means of in- creasing food shipments to Britain was featured in New York newspapers, and at the same time appearerla despalch from Ottawa declaring that Canada was unlilcely to collie within the plan. This has caused grave rcscllllucnt and an ex- planation is being dcnhantlctl. \\'llo, it is being asked. inspired this mischievous dcspatch, so likely t0 play into the hands of the Wheelers and other isolationists down south?

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Ill selling aside a lllzlgislralc court's conviction of a teacher for alleged assault on a pupil, Chief Justice J. M. B. Baxter of New Brunswick expressed (lispleastirc that the case should ever have been brought to collrl. "Tllc school tcach- er,” he slated, “is entitled lo protection in carry- ing out her duties and if a conviction of this na-

' lure was sustained it would be time to do away

with our entire educational system." The origin- al charge arose aflcr the pupil had rcflisctl to tibcy hcr at school and in a struggle which fol- lowed lllc boy's nose hcgan to blccd- The mother claimed that bliss Russell hall struck the boy in the face. t a n- v

The King Government intends expending litigi- capital lo build a ncw dry dock at Saint John The ncw drydock is to be opcralcd by the Saint John Drydock and Shipbuilding Company on a rental basis. 'l‘ltis ncw dock will lakc care of re- pairs to lhc largest typcs of vcsscls atld will also provide facilities for lllC construction of ncw ships. The contract for its construction has been alvrlrdcd to the Canadian Dredge and Dock Company. llon. J. F. llichntul is crcditcll with engineering the scllclnc and obtaining the Gov- crnlncnUs approval. We c.'ln't even get our wharf repairs carried out. The approval of the constituents of a mclnbcr is of much more value than the approval of follow members of parlia- lncnl.

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The slalistics probably do not hear out the alleged inroads of the radio on lmnlts, magazines and nclvspapers. Bill, says the New York Times, cvcll if this should llirn out lo be so, it would only prove the greater nccd nf rcarling. People nccd lllc prinlcrl word as a check upon the air- borne \vnr(i_ \Vllt'n the head of a nation ad- dresses his people over the radio m1 a mailer of national importance most of us will wmll lo con- firm our first impression of llis- <]1l|l\'(‘ll words by scanning them more carefully in the news- paper. (hi: might go so far as lo sit)’ that the

printed word is indispensable as a dcfcllsc against the broadcast,

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I Amongst a muss of other tn- Lrttiauon to the some eflect 1 saw the other day in extract from a. letter wrioten from Hamburg by a South American. l-le evaded the censor by referring w a Chile-Aer me coil it 2i. Wlliib he wrote: Hamburg}; as normal as X was in 1339“. You know, in January, 1939, x was laid- ln ruins by earthquake. with encr-l mous loss. - Air Cmunouore R. V. Goddard ln the Landon Listener.

The action of the British nrrny forces in having an agricultural officer stationed with many of the large army units and me assigning o: soldiers to raising in eon- junctton with maintaining defences, in the British Isles is one that is bound to help the belcagured people cf Enigland. According tore- [JJFLS from there, 10.000 acres are under cultivation by the army's agricultural workers. ‘rm bulk of the land being utilized ls planted with potatoes. The crop these acres will yield would necessitate a '01. of vessels running the submarine blockade successfully to land equal cargoei. The move appears to be u smart one. —- Boston Poet.

For 80 your: the little peddle- steamer Lorna Doone nad splashed ut-ound the Lsle of Wight with pleasure parties from south coast resorts. But when war will: the was called up for active service for the second time in her 50 years’ llfe, and it was as HMS Paddle- Minesweeper Lorna Doone that she won a. lone battle with tzzree Dornier bombers recently. The Dorniers thought they were on an easy thing when they swooped out w! the 19w clouds on to the slow. old paddle-boat, But they found e hornets’ nest. Four heavy bombs crashed down. Lorna Dione dodged then opened up with all her guns No. 1 Dormer caught fire and there were l-wo heavy explosions as n. vanished in the haze. No 2. badly mt, shed pieces as lt staggered back. No. 3 Just fled. mma Deane. with two men wounded and a few bullet. holes in her brldbe and deck- house, chugged on. - Overseas Daily Mall.

Mr. O'Brien, llLP. for Northum- berland, wondered 1n the House “if it were constitutional" for the GOV- ernment. to deduct the defence lax from the members‘ SnSSlOnBl 1n- demnlties. If he argued, members 01f Parliament were m be consider- ed employees o1 the Crown then “the very basis of the democriwl’ for which we are fighting goes down to the graveyard. We imag- lne the member will Find the public not. greatly ititeresled 1n hi5 ah- struse constitutional argument. Of this we can be quite certain, how- ever - that. he would (IZSCOVBI ex- treme resentment LI it. were ser- iously proposed that. members of Parliament to the extent oi their lndemnities should be excluded from a, tax which everybody else pays. The answer L1) his pctnt; how- ever, is that the defence tax is DB1‘! ‘not. merely on salaries and “laces but on all income: is, in effect, part of our uicsme tax. And $4.000 a ses- sion in good Canadian money is lu- come in anybodyb buuscl.—-Olla\va Jouranl.

The garden ls golden with dan- delions. One’: iumiecllste impulse is to grab for the weeder. Dande- lions. Rock bottsm in flora, Skim- ming through our DUEL?) suell, we ffnu loads of odes to flower... To the rose, the daffodil, the peony, primrose and hyacinth. To mari- golds, ltollyhocks, poppies and orchids. To lilies panstes and even to the liumlbler buttercups and daisies. But, none of the dlndelon Forgotten flower. Yet gazing over the newly grccn carlu, the dandel- ions have beauty at a distance. Curiously. they have beauty close up too. Picking them apart, one finds the some magic of construc- tion as in the r ‘est -.-1 bio-ans Then one wanders. If it were as difficult and costly to gr. dan- dchons as i1 is to grow orcfrlJs and acacias, would the Jandcliori be prized, and exhibited, v1.0? As it is, they are woods, fit only for w nc or an inspiration for a ear-tune: s sat-n. Our sléllllfllClhfll luscu _o..s es. Were digging ours up, mo. -Phtlarlclnltia Record,

Beaver in the Bruwnv district ‘ll’ Algonquin park are a sad trial to Aug Hoffman, the section foreman of that stretch of the Canadian Na- llonal _railwl1y. We gather from an article 1n the Canadian National Magazine that beaver tnaking thelr dams near railways ltndermlne the tracks and bring down the wrath of division superintendents on the heads of section gangs, T‘h-'- virtu- ous industry of the beaver that may be symbolic of Canadian character Only give." a pain in the fleck lo section forclnen. Aug Hoffman worked a lot hauler to keep his track in shape than the beaver worked to undermine it. Aug spent the daytime vainly swung to undo what the beaver did in the flight- time and now stays up at. n.g.l'. t0 scare the beaver into laying off or moving on. Aug slung Lin cans on a waler-tvhecl he sci, in the current of the dam, but the beaver stl.n,;ped' the wheel turning by slaving a pole between the spokes and then cov- ered the whcll wltgugtlgkgbvland mud Aug thought up "anofltel ruse to scale the beaver, but the light he left shining in l-hc lantern at, night was turned off when the lantern, too was found 1n the nnzmlng cov- ered with sticks and mud. Aug next built. a culvert twelve feet long to carry off the wntcr in the dam. but the beaver raised the dam again hy plugging the end of the culvert. Aug now feels he must give up aft/er finding the picket. fence he built. round the dam cut down and used to plug the dam worse than ever.- Wlnnlpeg Free Press.

"We have got to hold the fort for the next four months and then the ascendancy month by month ls ours". ‘Ihese words of Mr. Bevin‘: are wise words. They are also true words, In every war there come moments when the outlook seems so black that 1t is almost hopeless. we had such a. moment when France fell. We had another when Hitler swept through Libya. We may have others in the very near future. But hold on m this fact, for it is s. fact. The factories of Britain. by the magnificent efforts ln the past. year have given Britain a power that I-l tier now can never break. We know now that. t! he ,evei- invades us Hitler will not only be beaten but destroyed. Could we have truthfully said that. only six months ago? - Sunday Express (London).

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WORDS OF CHALLENGE

OUGIIT A DAY A E38 A PEOPLE AT WAR

“The American P601919 91° willing lo spill their blood b0 crush Adolph ‘Hitler and ‘are eagerly notalting NsPOHB-ble and authoritative oovemment leadership w nut forth B "m"

gfajn efeat the wet-s." — U. S. Senatoi; _ Claude Pepper, Demwml ° Florida.

PUBLIC FORUM

Th“ ‘omn- h qpen for tun tllllilllllflll w ovrre-wnfwl-Tz: nunntloln of [nines . n" CIIIIIIIEEUCOWI 1"‘: I". noeenisrlly undone the 09 of eorrellrfllfhml-

A WAR PLEDGE

But-flu; ll wu-l It 1e b0: m; mught. so thnril I T11R11 lgflnonlfic ‘mild iiiureigiitilgéoigcih w

n po ca - asoldiers, sailors and 0511MB 0! the Commonwealth and Aer All-lei have given “P We“ wmmrl‘ m“ security to tight for ms so that, I may be kept from the lash of Nazi Despois and the terror of their rule.

Merchant seamen risk their lléles on the caTEO $111115 that Ply ° oceans, cnrryilnpe munitions to the widespread batt fronts. They d0 Ill w um 1 may live smly-

Clvlllans ln Great Britain undetr-l g0 pltlless u: raids In this T° l war. They bear n11 the horror and anguish of bOmbm so that I mill’ have the QppOTLUH by to build uP a better Canada. a better Common- wealth, s, better world where Jus- tice w all‘ Freedom for all and In- legrlty by all shall be vll-lll. dynamic things, bringing pence and goodwill

g men.

miiliilt- l5 my war! 1t ls being roughl- fo, me, The least, the very least. that I can do 1s ‘ll Show that I am grateful u; those who ere offerln! thefi- lives for me. I must not;

shall not fall them. t nledse my- self to stand lLV tit-rm w thé end- 1 pledge my help. my IIWYWY- l"? lrlfe, to those who are defending

me. , s1 , t ., I m All; ennui. CANADIAN. Port Hone. Ont. June 2, 1941.

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Use slightly softened beeswax for filling that crack in the woodwork, xvhether it. be on the dlmng-table or the front door, smooth the surface level wit-h it knife, slain to match the woodwork, and presto the crack ls gone.

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