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15111117111? fifiETiiutTtitt-Ii TnTIVS-SIF-I Prelident: Lieut. c111. w. Chester s. MeLure Vice-President: J. R. Burnett, I-‘. J. I. Secretary: Lleut. Cut. I). A. blat-Ktnnun, D.S.0. Editor and Managing Director: J. it. Burnett. F-J-l-

Asmcfntc Editors: l-‘rank Walker and Lieut. Ian A. Burnett, ILL '.V.l{. tOn Active Service)

“The ‘Memory is "Taker The; the Wen/crust Ink.”

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The Big Fair

All roads load 11c.\'t wet-l: to the l1ig Provin-

Faint Exltibitiott and (lld lluutc \\'ct-l< i11 (‘har-

lottetmvn. The war ltas stttuzttvl the uccd for morale l)llll(llll_‘_f 'c11tt~1't;11111111:11t, autl this is precisely what tl1e tltott-atttls 111' visitors who will be here next wt-cl; fr1-111 all 1. ‘ls ui (Em- ada and t1t.'u1_v parts 11f tlzt~ l'1 d fitates, are looltittg to fi11tl. :.\l1t1,v 11f fortnet", Prince lzdtvartl l-lau lc: ~. wclcuu1c1 opportuuirv Iu rt-at-tv tltl f- and quaiutattccsltips. Tn 11111‘ 1’ 1d especial- ly our farttters. utht- 1'1‘; l les .111 op- portunity i11r getting t-g. catttpztriug notes on tttattcrs 11f 11111'u:1l which 110 mitt-t‘ l<i111| 12f 1 furnish. During tbt-

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The proure 11f ance at the Fair is . the reports from all _ the large influx of t1i<itm1< wI1 c 1.‘111t~<l their vacation trip so as to c11§11c1le wftlt this big event.

l4, tlte mac-track .-1111'.1l he desired. 1)111t111ts to plant 11t 1.1 i tulle‘

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A Fine Convention

King's (‘nuutv ("p granulated on the <11 ing and nomittating r11 at Ii1~111'_;c1<1\\'11 ygstgrday, In ggleeting .\l . .\l:1cl’l1ee, Al. L. A, as their standard ln-arer i11 the next Federal contest, tl1(1_v have choscn 1:1e 11f the ahlest autl ntost popular men in our ,11.1l‘?~ life. \\'1tl1 the tide rutmitig strctirglv aezti ~'. he t11"t\<<*11t I.1h- eral aclministratintt, as l'CCt‘l‘.\ (‘YUIIYS ltave clear- ly shown, there is every rvas 1:1. to expect that Mp Macphpe wgu Ive of 'l by a thtttnpittc majority Thgi 1,.,“1,».1,~, ,1.111¢111l r111 thor- ough Qrg;11\ij;\‘,inn 311i, m 1111<1.1 31:1 1111 tlte part of all his supporters at the ~,111‘1,l.<. .\'o one out- side the King cabinet l=1111\1.-~ 1\l:<-11. the election will be called; and pet rtps, after the Quebec debacle, even .\l1'. King 1l11~.11': ..o1v. I11 any ease, it 1's well to be r11*1.111'1"1'1l-

The ll‘ll)llf€\ paid at tht- c1111vc11ti11n to that veteran ca1np1ig11cr, llih .\- -\1 ~\l11@l3°'l41l<l1 were well deserved. Ile l1a= plolurd his wholl- hearted support to his s1trr-1s-1r 11s thirty czuttli- date, and ‘vim, “lmqtuu- (5, 6' gvts t1» arttott on a protuise of this l-zittd. e\'f.‘1'\111111 l\11 zvs that he means business.

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‘Island Ettlistnlettts A tuove l1_v tl1.- l':~1"1vi-1vi.il G11\t-:'11111t~11t and the Canadian Lech-u is 11.11w i11 progress t1) pro- cure tlte names 11f all l’ri l‘1l\\;:wl i~li1IIflCf5 who eulistcrl in the .\1'1t1_v, .\ vv, .\ii~ Force and Merchant .\l.'111f1111 1l=11i111g r‘:1> _111'<~<t111r v The percentage 1111l‘~'=11~11t- has l1t11~11 111t'11ti1111c_l from time to 1111111. I111: :1~ u; 1111 ztcvttrttte fig» ures are available. 'l‘l1t~ (i-1vt1f11111e11t and 1.11;;- iou ltave taltctt (1\<11' the vtork 111' c11ut|1ii g these figures. Tiltcre arc 11111111‘ 11' 11-1 1111.11",- fnt" 11111]. ertalrittq such :1 t. 11l1§1~<~1§v<- l1t1i11g tn ltave all the 111111111 '1 :1 l’1111-l< of lie- metttbratice a111l 111;. . .l1lt1 1-1 t§~c 1111blic at Th1‘ 1'11-ti 1111 of 1‘t-l.1ti\t‘s of our

\1r1' 11t‘t‘t'.s.sar_\' in .\~ u"! l1: 11~111l from an atl- all c-111vt-r11ctl are h Iht1 lxqinu 11f- npiliug the -111l FIfwuI.

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The liberal 1111'» 1' _ t\11t- ~t1<l grati- fication that i11 the tbtv-t- ptwvincial elections biking place this ntnnth, tht- ermmplt» 5,11 by the Jottcs (Z11vcr11111c11t i11 1li~1'1':1:1t"11isi11,4 the. overseas forces- \\'.'1s l11.'.,__ 1'~llt1tt-1-tl. This may ltave l1ct111 tla- p1"1t"tfrt1 1'11','11\\111l i11 Quebec and Alberta. l1t1t it is 1111i 'l.1~ ‘ft-c i11 .\'1-1v fruits-

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depends on their giving full expression to the voice of the people. How can they express the people's voice when the most deserving class of pcople—our active service forccs—have been disfrattcltised? The denial to these men and \vo- mcu of their rights as voters on the pretext of economy is monstrous. One can think of a great many worse uses to which Liberal elec- tion money has been put, in every catupaigtt, than in giving our soldiers their chance to vote.

EDI IURIAL NUItS Q

Next week Old Home Week. I ‘l 1F It

A visitor was amazed the other day at the rowdyism of two drunks in tlte vicinity of the Victoria Park. ,

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Saint Jolm reverts to Standard Time ou Oct. 2S, equivalent to Eastern Daylight. Sav- ing 'l‘i1ue.

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Evidently blood donors are wearying of well- tloittg and falling down or1 their job. The at- tendance at tlte blood clinic has fallen off alarm- ingly, and just at a time when there is a. great- er need than ever for the life sustaining ele- mcnt.

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Is there "protection" for certain prohibition offenders in city and country? Both the At- tornqv-General and the police emphatically de- clare “no". Then it must be, as tlte late Justice .\':u111ders said when Premier, prohibition is like chess with the bootlcggcrs always a ntove ahead

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A reader suggests that round about high tide each day, tlte tmlice should see that boys are kept out of the men's bathing houses at \tc— toria Park and scnt_t0 their own. :\lS0. lllfll a plain clothes policeman should keep an eye upon what is going on ashore while the bothers

are in the water.

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In the 59 ntonths of the present war Can- ada's total casualties for Navy, Army and Air Force have been 44,2I8. In the forty-five-day period front D-Day to July 20 our casualties “or; 6,545, or I45 daily. They were thus at a rate of more than 52,000 a year-

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Is Dr. Yen's retirement from the presidency of both the city and Queen's County Liberal Association preliminary to his assuming the greater responsibility of Lieut. Governor? _Of course that appointment as well as the appoint- meut of a new Senator must be made before the election, otherwise it will fall to the lot of the Bracken Government to handle the situation.

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The amount an income tax payer may de- duct from taxable income for ntedtcal expenses has been increased. Hereafter, IKXPQYCYS "HY deduct from taxable income medical expenses totalling more than four per cent of income. The maximum which ntay be dcduded i135 i160" increased from $400 to 060° m tile Case of a single ntanvand from $600 l0 $900 1" the ca“ of a ntarried man. ‘

Infantile paralysis has made itsappcarfllwfi i11 New Brunswick again this year with IO cases officially reported since the third week in July. The .\Iot1cton area has been ltardest: htt with five cases, three within tlte city lumts and two outside. The first case reported was" also from \\'est11torcla11tl County. York Count)’ has lml" cases, two of them in Fredericton. The tenth case is in Xorthuntberland County.

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\\'omen in shorts are taboo on the streets of llottaltatts, Texas, H1858 days- In C?!“ 50m‘: sbapely~or otherwise-female appears 1n sttclt attire, she is sent home, and flulCklY- The m)’ council passed the ordinance as an “cn1et'gency" and, perhaps strangely. tlte tueasttre has been popular, evcu with tlte women. Mayor lad. l)ttffe_v is all i11 favor of 1t ‘because so t11.'tuY wmnett call every day and ask tts to put a strip to shorts on the street."

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latucs Russell Lowell, xhtiericau lilteratett: ztntl. tliplotttat, tlictl this date 1X91; l1est lmowtt as the attthor of “The lliflln“. liflimii" hi" Pill?‘ lishcd a volume of verse, also ".\l_v btudy \\t_u- tlows", “Fireside Travels", "Iiuder the \\ll- buys", "The Cathedral", “llcartscase and hue", cttx:

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.\Ir. L. S. B. Shapiro, the well-iufortttetl wat cnrt-cspotttlcttt of the Alontrcal (iazcttc. con- firtus the previous reports received from .\or~ mtandv that the population tlttrre is not so c11- ltltttsizistic over the relief the Allies are brittpgittg [hgm at ugh [reat cost, as people ltere tptgltt itnagitte. “The population in this sector. he writcs, "seems adctlttatcly fed. This is a farm- ing and beach resort locality and ztltltottglt tlte tourist business has been uuucxistettt tor four years the farms ltave been maintained, except.

wicy. l‘rovi.si<111 l\ l111i111; t11:.1l1- t1» l'll.f‘ lit‘: votes 0f Elli flit‘ Flt’li\‘<' 1'l1f‘111'-,

A11 itctu t11 this t.‘ issue of 771.1 J/u/‘lr I. the Cattatliatt forces Miles liiibsott, special 1101 service electors. Il\ 4.11151; 11; 111l1l be no proxy vntiuq l1_1. 111'*11 ;:11 " :1 i11 the armed forces. .\'1-\1" l'-1'1111<-1\ . -111l1t'1's of the services "i11 1111'; 111‘111.i1rc11 i11 trutzttla and outside of (":111.~11l:1 1.\ill t~ 1 111N111; i111‘ candi- dates i11 tltcit‘ 111111111 t~111~vi11t 11111». Tht-se rustths will be atldcd t11 Il11- civil 1 I11 111111111 Iltt-tuvt-s of war, the v11ti11_1_§ tun-.- ltit. .11 l1t~ deferred. U1". Gibson paid; hut it will I111 lillwll illi\'l'l.llil'il'\.\'-

.‘\ll credit I11 the Tfilt/‘ral I§111.-1-1‘111111-11l 11f New Brtiflfswick I111" tl11- ~ta111l it has talwn 111i this question! .\]111l1-,4i\ts for lht" _l11111-. 18111-111111- mént said it c1111lrl11't b1- 1l1111t-, 111‘ at ltn-tst it wasn't feasible. It \v111.1l1l ltatt- l1t11~11 easier for the Jones (iovcrtttttcttl. I111». tl1'111 i111‘ tl1t1 .\lc.\':1ir Government at this time. .\ i111‘ l.‘1I‘f,_'L'l‘ utt1t1l11-v of Canadians are 110w i11 avti1111. I'111t why tall: about difficulty and 1-\|111 =11 :1 tnaticr 11f this kind? .'\ll (‘lCCliIIIH :11" t‘1- ' a:11l trtutblcsoulc. They are an cssz-tttvtl 1111‘ 11f 11111‘ tletttorrztcy, however. Iheir value-and their solo value-

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of course, for fields 111it1cd by the enemy. llreml, vegetables, milk autl eggs have ‘lteeu available in adequate (ptatttities to tuaitttattt good, even vnhttst, ltealth. (iertttatt adutiuistrators attached .10 the military attempted a system of rationing a percentage of the local produce for consump- tion hcre and trzutsportittg the reutauttlcr uilattcl _l,,_-|-h;1l15 10 the Reich-but the people say the)’ so confounded and foxed the (JCHIIRII 641111015‘ trators that most of the food remained here. Politically, these people are cottfttscd. lvlen- 1am of (i011. Charles tle (iattlle evokes some f-uut glitutnct" of recngnitiott in their eyes. lml 9"‘ iaittlv no violent eutltttsiasnt. It was news to most 11f tbcsc people to whom I talked that dc Gattlle has mnhnninui a fighting l1ret1cl1 establtshnteut in (it-cat Britain and Africa all these years. It was my impressintt that they regard de lvalllle ;1< .1 surf nf mystery patriot whose name has lwen infreqtteully whispered rather than RS U18 chief of the I'rc11cl1 organization beyond the lmttteland. 'I‘l1t1. explanation may be tn the fact

that all ratlin sets ltave been eonfisczitctl i11 tlte coastal sectors for tuany months; ticrhaps. loo, because tltese tacoplc living in .111 active Ger- man tnilitary sector have been under closer

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Notes By The Way

u Turkey do” 1111.11,- uboord the Allied band-wagon, the rumble seat. will be ood enough. -Stra.tford Beacon- aid.

Already iht; year there bu been a heavy toll of death by drowning. and In most of the cases careless- ness has been the cause, chiefly Bellini: beyond one‘: depth and swimming In waterholes where no help is available. - Niagara Balls Review.

Eire l; reported to be discus the question who shall represent 1t at. the peace conference. A more important question ls where does he DIODOSG to sit: with the con- ftuerors or with the conquered? - Toronto Saturday Night.

According to one‘; viewpoint, the war has brought: a terrible or B. glorious shortage of bagpipes In Scotland. Mayor Kenneth Dobbte of Dumfrles moans: "How can our

boys march Into Berlin without; bagpipes?" How, Indeed? The

“Ladies from Hell.“ greatest fight- lutl men in the world. need them t0 ring out their flaming spirit. And think what, terror the sklrl o’ th‘ Dloes will strike In the heart of the WngnerIan-weanecl Nazis! - Detrott; Free Press.

Search has been going on for I0 days for a bomb which fell off an aircraft into a small lake at Morton, Gainsborough. The lake, around which George Eliot. wrote “The Mill on the Floss", 1.5 In the grounds of Mr. W. Forrest, solicitor, and is about 50 yards from zhe

drained by the N.FS-. but It l: stated that; the bomb Ia going far- ther nucl farther into the earth and they fear they will not be able to catch up with It. ‘they have taken large quantities of slime from the lake's bed. and still the iOlg round the bomb fill; up. — orkshlrg Post.

An American merchant Iii] was sittklitg in the Mediterranean. ‘The third officer went b0 to cabin, deliberately put aside his

handkerehlefs and a bracelet he'd bought for his life; another of- ficer searched frantically for the ship's cat, which was about to have kittens; a seamen calmly took off hi5 shoes and put on two right ones; the pursuer opened o

packages of cigarettes from a car- ton. left: the rest left two valuable watches and all his other personal belongings behind. Almost every- one "left all of hls persortul be- longings. No one appears to have known what he was doing until It was all ovum-Providence Bulletin.

Mr. Anthony Eden [no 10mg In- terestlntz facts when answering e ' in the House of Common; last week. He Was replying to the contention that the Allied policy o! “unconditional surrender" for Ger- many stiffens the reststance of German, soldiers, tending to make themtfmutrunwto Allied appeals to surrender. Mr. Eden told the House that '77 per cent: of the rIa- oners captured since the Ian Ings in Normandy have admitted, on in- terrogation, that they had read

Allied radio messages. He said that 40 per cent; of the

ers were carrying Allied inthelr pockets when captured. Many of them had read the leaf- lets and regarded them as some- thing In the nature of a t for therrioment of surrender. - Brlttsh Infonnatton Services.

East. and west will meet again- in a Broadway play. After an ab- sence of 10 years, Mae West re- turns to the New York stage tn do her own play, Catherine Was Great. Rehearsals have com- menoed under the direction of Mike Todd and. according to Miss West. herself, the story and production will be "something." By all rights It should be. Catherine of Russia. If we recall our history correctly, was quite a lady-a hearty but. dominating soul whose long and eventful career never smacked of IiXIllIICSS. A lady who could meet any situation and give a command

1 est with equal relish. In Mae West's capable hands. Cathertne should be "boxofflcw, for given the right umterial she is absolutely in a 1111155 by herself-San Fran- cisco tlrgcnztut.

Al. lcnst 312.000 urban men and 011 10.11011 the Form Commando .- of Ontario List your and Istt-d in ltoelrtg. haying and nar- vestiug or in putting down fruits and veqetables I11 the cannerles. Far many 0t tlttm It was o new and 111011111111; expenence, and they cnpyezt tlie time they devoted t0 food trroducttnn .for the further- ance of victory. This year the farm labor situation ls no better and cvrn more workers are re- qturert to g0 out from the cities to give the farmer a hand. The need is urgent. It I5 advised by the eznnnando ltraclqtiartcrs that. Deo- ple 11.1110 have farmer relatives and friends should try to place them- selves with them, notifying the local commmido lteadquarters that they hnVe made arrangements so that; t1 record can be kept. Others, who have 1m furm connection, should net in touch with loc summation ltcadquartcrs. Tor- onto Telegram.

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The flying bomb on the one hand and equally the solving of the oversea invasion problem m the other are both clear warnings that, technology will ultimately des- troy us 1111 If we ever again per- mit. It to be debused by powerful regimes into the service of War and conquest. It used to be sold that science would ultimately eliminate war by mztklntz It too terrible; ex- perience has unfortunately shown that Its potential terrors have only tnl to turn them upon others in escape the consequences» In the case of Hitler Germany the hope has proved 11 catastrophic failure; but. that; monsters dying thrust; I; a plain announcement

ernments nrc prevented In the future fmtn perverttrtg the re- sources and skllls of great, peoples to ntfzrcsatve war. And there Io no way in which any one people, Iiowever mighty. can prevent. that by tta own unaided efforts in de-

tenet! or (Itplomncy. Them Ia n0 way at all except. by some effec- tive Interutttlonal

which will hold the war-making process Itself In cheek. That truth is Ilttlertsmls last bequest to the wm-ld. —- New York Herold "m- DIIIO. " 1 - ’ '

River Trent. The lake has been '

watch and rlug and picked up six ‘p

drawer below the bunk, took two m

Allied pamphlets and listened to m

a1 Post Office. particularly since the

incited the ambitious and the bru- trflmtto the hope that they can themselves tglgprtnm

o1 what. others wtll do unless uov- be

PREMIER JONES

8I|n~Preu1Ier Jones was revere- ly criticized by Liberals for ap- pointing r. Large with no o0!- ttcul Mr " '“ I’

m o ‘“ , oenml In the when! Government. Now he I; criticized for allow Mr. large to enforce the laws l d down In the Statues. One more point. tn partlcuirr is the

or shop. It Ir Duthettc to listen t0 the Wllltng of u num- ber of our citizen; about Mr. Largeb actions In enforcing the

regulation. temperate man and realised Irregular use made of the back door of the ven- dor's shop. “Stick to your Ans. gentlemen. unttI you have some- thing better to offer-let the chips. fall where they may." I um, str, etc, ONLOOKQ.

Mr. Macblicol’: Canada (Baht John Tobin!!! 1

I all our MP3; had the vision o! Mr. John Ritchie Macwcol. and his a ecfatfon of the fact that. a no ton, like u chain. t; no atron e1:

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Mr. MaoNfool, u manufacturer bobble; are golltlca and travel, live; In Toronto, ut unlike oetrtutn reotdenu of the self-styled "Queen Ctty" he Is aware that Canada stretches from the Atlantic tp the Pacific. He has never been known go utter the familiar and IfOlliy unwarranted complaint that. the taxpayers of Ontario are fumed m "support" the rent of my Dominion. Ha even ad- mit‘ that there may be some Justi- fication for the complaint. of other the Dominion that. under bl pollcy which his made for yndgitz-Iagecentrsgtzatlon, they hayte, ns , en orceq tn "su " Ontorlo. m” Mr nu frequently been on hie feet; In Common; battling for measures w bet the Prairie Provinces. He hB-s a championed e Mar whenever the occ- adon arose. ‘Ilwrg were two such occasions the other day, during eon- oiderwtfon. of we estimates of the department of trnrtaport. One Item had to do with the new ferry ‘wing built to operate from Dupe Tormen- ane on the New Brunswick mainland

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come when

ns going to and from that Is-

land will have twice that many

cars...A11I ufnflbingtpgo/ylg

that the Island 1| entitled m the best i: country can Rive It.

lsndpnu- rare entitled to t-he

moat 1m to date mm-

pomt/Ion which can be secured be-

tween the Island and the mainland."

Mr. MacNIcoI proposed that the ratlwoy car 5nd mobile aoc. onunodotton of m; ferry be enlarg.

. at additional expense 1f neces- ary. and that, "pm docks” be provided at Tormert ne and Borden,

A few hours later he again went to but for a. Maritime project-the Chignecto Canal. Said he:

"I h!" fllwllye been 1n favor of that: ctmnt being built. It has been n 111151900 which hu been before thin Home since 1m. It was one of the first canal projects proposed In the parliament of Canada, a. matter of seventy-five years ago. So that‘. I think It Ls about flute. lifter seventy- five years of argument, that th Job be not on with . 1t the cona were built. It would save at least ftve hundred mile; the nearest New Brunswick port, which I believe is Shediae, to s m, John. as compared with the present route from Stiedlac around Nova SCOUB to Saint: John... I think this House should to Increase the prosperity of the Maritime Provinces, and here I; one way of doing It“ "

We want. to thank you, Mr. Mac- Nlcol. for your support. We app- reciate lt sincerely. We hope your 800d example wll! be followed 11v other MP’; from the central pro- vinces, who have mo long begrudg- erclli the Maritime Phovtnces any- I; I18.

Problems Of British Post Office,

(British Information Service),

GENERAL EISENI-IOWER has written to Captain H. Crookshank. the Postmaster General. thanktng the General Post Office workers on behalf of the Allied Expeditionary Force for the "excellent oo-operat-Ion they have given towards our suc- ease."