FACE E9321? i TllE GIIARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

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President UeuL Col. W. Chester S. Mcluro Vice-President: J, B. Burnett, l‘..l l. Secretary: Lieut. Col. D. A. MacKmnon, 0.8.0. Editor and tVfanagln; Director: J. It. Burnett, FJ-L Alochte Editors: Frank Walker and Lleut. Ill ‘A. Burnett, R.U:N.V.I¢. (On Active Service)

‘The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink.‘

A Golden Opportunity

A golden ttplttttttlllll)‘ presents itself to the kltty and citizens in ztctlttirittg the housing ac- commodation at the Charlottetown Airport. .»\n advertisement in this issue advises those who would like to rent 2lll_\' oi these comfortable small homes tn get in tottch with the llousittg Emergency at the tjirv llttll by tclepltotte 53 or direct personal ‘contact.

The scheme, which ls vct in entbryo, is simply this. The tiitv can obtain by lease or purchase :00 nt- goo smttll ltouses, suitable to atcomntodztte 1111c or tun thoustttttl people. There is every ctiztietiicttce. lighting, ltcztting, sanita- tion, and a regular htts seryice, sitch as pre- vailed while the R, .\_ l‘. were in residence. Should sufficient applicants express their \vil- lingncss t0 tithe up residence there, accommo- dation will he provided for a tltocery store Qne 0f the drawbacks, however, is the cost: of transportation to,and from the city by bus. The members of the Air Force were able to get monthly tickets which cost them $6.90 per month. NQt ttt;1tt_\' civilian residents could af- (out so much, and it is here where the City Council can show its initiative and vision fog the future. lVhy not arrange 1' subsidy for thg bus service which would reduce the bus fare tn sav $3 per month? It would be a splendid investment, the beginning of build- in! of l. series of small communities in the vic- inity of the city, in themselves self-supporting, but depending on the citv for supplies. There is no reason, except lack of fnresightcditess. why the City and its rising generation of business men shouldl not make Charlottetown the centre of an increasingly large number of small communities, beginning at the Airport.

Halloween

There is probably little need to remind Our younger readers that tonight is Halloween, or All Hallows Eve. The name itself is stifli- eient to indicate that originally, at any rate, the event had a solemn Christian significance. It is the evening before All Saints‘ Day, but its religious aspect is nowadays almost entirely ignored. Instead, it is seized tipoit as a time of jollification and sometimes of mischievous horseplay. So long as the revellers behave themselves, however, there is little harm in dressing up and “having a good time."

These festivities go ltaiclc to pi-e-Cltt-istian days. as is shown bv the leading part which "witches" are supposed to play in the proceed- lnzs. According to some authorities, witches were merely the people who still clung to their pagan beliefs ‘after the introdttcliflit of Chris- tianity. They simply curried on their super- stitious practices, ltauded down by Druid an- cestors. The bonfires, which used to be lighted on this night, were relics of the great fires kindled by the pagan priests in honour of the 10d! who had provided bountiful attttttnn har- vests. So that even this lteatltett practice orig- inally had a religious significance. 'l'he belief h: witchcraft has, happily, gone out with many other foolish notions, which, in the "course of human history, ltave been responsible for a great deal of suffering and sorraiv. It would

'.l_>e as well, no doubt, if these litigering survivals

10f a less enlightened age were to be entirely abandoned; but so long a; they are kept up, the important thing is to ensure that tl y ar_e not made occasions for license.

"A little nonsense now and then is relish- ed by the wisest men," and no one should be- grudge young people their merry-making. so long as their frolics are harmless to them- selves and to others.

Another Liberal Blast

Lrke the Halifax Chronicle, quoted yes- terday, the lVittni/try/ Free Press (Liberal), is lllrmed at the ntanner in ivhich the King Gov- ernment is playing into the ltands of the big fntdttlts in Central Cattada. It says l0 quite ilqpflly. Here is its particular charge:

"Seldom before. ltzts a single action raised more fundamental issues than the 2O per cent duty 0n pipe and tube which was sneaked into the Ilsley budget by the cabinet protectionists. The cabinet yielded to pressure which every other cabinet since IUjU, including the arch- protectionist llcttivctt regime, ltas rcsistetl suc- cessfully. In yielding it cast tlottbt upon the 100d faith of the pledges ivliirh Canada has nude to the world that it will do its part in freeing the channels of trade. lt has cast doubt itpon the intentions of the titivcrnutettt to pro- eeed with vigor against tiittiiwttal and interna- tional cartels, It raises tlttttitls as to the Govern- ment's policy on the retronversinn of etuergcncv war Dlants."

The Frroi Prvrr deals at crnuidrrztlile edi- torial length svith this subject. chrtrgittg thztt the eompgtiy in tmestinn, which fiperftics in Wel- lnnd, Ont, has been shovutzig tvtrltittgi consist- Gully between $740,000 and Sr,oo0,oo0 a year ‘Ina 1936, and tltat even during the tire-ivar Agprgggion period it never itilsstvl paving divi- rlendsr ,

t Theyn-Qtgctjpfl granted this“ cnmpaity, u cum, ls indefensible 0n any around. "A: .1,“ 1g. 3.3m» favorftlln to one company, in t, of Labor's pwn liailiwlek. At afthecaasumon of pipe

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“Perhaps most disconcerting of all," says the Free Pref-r, "the enforcement of our Com- bincs Act comes under the Ministerpf Labor, Mr. Humphrey Mitchell. More than a year has passed since a commission ivas appointed to bring in recommendations for attacking car- tels and monopolies. Nothing ha’: been heard of this report. The Minister of Labor once promised action against cartels. Yet the first test 0f Government policy,on protection came from a company in Mr. MitchelVs own con- stituency which was a ntembcr of an interna- tional cartel. In the face of the performance of the cabinet, how can ordinary Cattadians have much confidence in Ur. Mitchell's prom- ises of action against cartels?"

How, indeed!

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.—EDITORIAL NOTES-y

Individual purchasers of Victory Bonds are twice blessed——they help their country while ltelpizig themselves.

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The Boy Scouts and Wolf Cubs have fixed Saturday for their annual Apple Day when they d0 a good turn by encouraging the apple growers, and at the same time helping he development 0f the Boy Scout Movement.

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Stalin is looking well after the interests of those who fought and bled for the Soviet. Agri- cultural local municipal banks will postpone or cancel the payment of debts of soldiers who died in action, of war invalids or of people whose homes were wrecked or their cattle slaughtered or confiscated by the invaders. These privileges are also held by dependents of those who perished.

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Hallowe'en——a. relic of pagan times, for there is nothing in the Church observance 0f the ensuing day of All Saints to have originated the extraordinary notion: and remarkable prac- tices associated with it; the leading idea. is that supernatural influence; prevail and that spirits, both of the visible and invisible world, ivalk abroad; there is a remarkable tmiformity in the fireside customs observed, including nut toast- ing and apple floating; in the first, two nuts are placed on the bar of the fire, if either cracks or jumps the lover will be unfaithful, if both burn together, they will be married; Will] apples, they are placed in a tub of water and the juven- ile: in turn duck their heads with a view to catching one with their teeth, the winner being presented with a suitable prize.

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A newly published biography is etitttled Cape Cad Doctor by James “lestaway. Ac- cording to Th: Canadian Doctor, the doctor in question was a farm boy front Prince ffdtvard Island who migrated as a youth to New E111!‘ land, later married a graduate nurse also an exile from The Island, and became the father of the author of this biography. It is a homey account of early struggles for the acquiremettt of a tucdical education and a subsequent career as a sntall-totvn doctor in the primitive condi- tions of the Cape Cod area in the early years of the century. The author writes lightly and entertainingly of a hardworking, big-hearted. high-minded doctor and of his equally inde- fatigable and Clever help meet, as well as of himself both as a prankish bov in an intoxi- Gating atmosphere and as assistant to his inedi- eal parents. He realistically creates the atmos-_ phere 0f this romantic section of New England and ably portrays its interesting characters The little book furnishes another interesting chronicle of a medical era that has almost pass- ed.

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Satisfaction and alarm must both resrtilt from the history of the Budget, says l/i/tc Le!- fer-Rcview. Al is well known, it was not the intention of the Treasury to mtake the conces- sions which have been tnadc, and it was only after it became perfectly clear that there must bc at least a handsome token in tax reductions that, in one of its later reviews, the Budget was amended so that as useful reductions were obtained as is the case. Thus, it is again dem- onstrated that public opinion can readily mould Government policy, but it would have been much more encouraging if it had not been nude clear that it took a great: deal of pressure to obtain quite modest concessions. Each conces- sion will tend to lessen the pressure for econ- omv and public spending, and it would be very unfortunate indeed if the concessions weakened public pressure for a complete change in the attitude of the Government's economic adviser: to our major national problems.

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A 5-year advertising campaign at the rate of perhaps £200,000 a year is the astonishing re- commendation of a special “commission" of the Church of England. This plan is embodied in a remarkable new pamphlet "Towards the Con- version of England," dedicated to the memory of the late Archbishop Temple, who began it. The booklet can be obtained for the very modest sum of one shilling from the Press and Publica- tions Board of the Church Assembly, 2 Great Pater Street, Westminster; and is,well worth anybotlys money-either as theology, as reason- ing or as showing that the fifty Eminent clerics and laymen who sat 0n the committee are not blind to what is going on in the world. The Commission thinks that the Church could do with a Public Relations Officer, or what in diplomatic circles is now called a press attache. Ile should be high, it says, in the confidence of an archbishop or bishop, quoting the "press con- ferences" that every goverimvent tieparttticnr’ now ltoltls. But most of all, it pltimps for press advertising, using especially daily and weekly newspapers, upon wliidt the major part of the proposed campaign fund should be spent. Specimen advertisements have even been pre-

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Notes By The Way

Those , flirt with the Idea of restoring the “Wm-why must: share the moral responsibility f! a new cfvft war breaks out. In Spam, - Dr. Jum Nesrln. Spanish refugee leader.

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Trade In not always l tInHuy Proposition; sometimes 1t. Wfly- One cannot: think 1n terms of dtlnu. swapping commodities - lt will not always be possible to ket Chinese matertals tn return for the machines we have supplied. But Chino. can sell textile; to Malay-i and Malaya can supply rubber t0 us and so obtain Ameri- can mllat-s with which to pay China. For these dollars we can then sell the Chinese some of our esptm equipment, This means, tn effect. that we get rubber ln ex- chnnae for machinery. _ Chris- tlan Science Monitor.

President Truman’! conduct. of foreisn affairs has thus far been statesmanllke In character. He took over command of the war effort, when the death of President Roose_ velt made the threat of ‘crtsls real, with such quiet. efficiency that. confidence was immediately re- stored and not. a tremor disturbed the mighty war ma. e country had built. Hts forthright. manner and plaln speaking In for- eign affairs and in the closing months of the war have won hlm a high regard and gratitude tn the Republic. An examination of his record in these fields showed than he acted primarily 1n the national interest and on more than one occasion with a courageous disre- gard of pzuotleal political concerns. -Provldence Journal.

Luminous paint. on walls, ceiling and floor of an operating room ellmlnatea shadows bust y the surgeon's hand and Instruments and reduce danger from the sudden failure of lights during an opera- tlon. Light appears to pass through the solid walls and cell- lnys. A mercury vnpor lamp ~,v‘.t.h a black reflector activates me lum- inescent: paint, which 1a made by mixing small utmtttles of zine or cadmium sulf de with ordinary pigments. Light is emitted spon- taneously for about. an hour and a. half after exposure to dayltght or artificial ultraviolet m; from the mercury lamp. Wal of a room painted before the war sttll glow, though the windows were blown out by a bomb-blast tn Jan- uary, 1941, and the nlnt. was sub- jected to all went er cortditions for almost three years. —- Soviet. Science Committee.

We hear a great daal then day: about the threat and peril of mon- etary inflation. but, not, much, lf anything. about what. one sills “inflation in the realm of words." The topic is worth more than a passing thought. We are apt to orget that words, like money. can lose their value. Value rests with the words that are backed with deeds. To restore and vtvtfy mans confidence in the spoken or tvrlt- ten word ls one of the urgent, needs of our time. We must be able to trust the simple “yea" and "nay" of the world's peoples. The day of half-truths and half-hortestles must go. Verbal evaslons, clever elreumlocutioits. mental reserva- tions behind spoken utteiuitces de- base great. ivords, rob them of thelr true values. This 1s Inflation 1n the realm of words, It can be far more perilous than monetary 1n- flatlon, for tf truth. justice and honor lose their tneanlntz, there can be no true foundation for the futurefi-Hallfizx Herald.

In Bronx Magistrate's Court. Magistrate William Klapp imposed e. fine of $5 On Charles Colenso, charged by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals with the wrong method of killing rats. The New York Herald Tribune reports. Mr. Col- enso, apparently a gentleman of spvrtfnl tastes. had fumed loose 1n a vacant lot flve rats he had trapped. permitting hla fox terrier to chase the animals. The not: killed two eight-inch rats, but the others escaped. Magistrate Klupp ruled: ‘Even a rat ls entitled to certain eourtesles. If you want to rld the neighborhood of rate you should trap them and drown them and not, cnuse them the anxletv o! being chased by n fox terrier." T1118 499181011. it mnv be noticed. leaves out of the question ttny oats who, throughout feline hts- tory, have been causing grave anxiety to rat-s. It also leaves m full alr and vacant lot- the exact. polnt when anxlety 1n a rat cm be said to reach the “excessive cruelty" with which the A.S.P.C.A. changed Mr. Colenso. The qu-as- t-lon ls the more difficult. because there 15 not, to date, any Rodent Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Men. Such a. socqety might well be desired. For rats remain iferoelotts, cunning and a13- gresslvely destructive.