Aoejririt Tlli CIAILITTETUIII GUARDIAN

Morning Rally (Founded In llll)

Prcstdentzjlleut. Col. W. Charter B. Mel-urn V Jrutdeut: J. ll. Burnett, FJJ. Secretary: Lteut. Col. l). A. Maoklnnon. 0.8.0.

r sud Managing Director: J. B. Burnett, FJ-l.

ldlto Anoclalc Editors: I-rank Walker and LteutJauA. Burnett, B.C.N.V.B. (On Active Service)

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink."

FRIDAY. OCTOBER l5. 1M3

No Time To Relax

The fear has been expressed in some quarters that the coming Victory Loan appeal will be handicapped by the feeling of complacency which has arisen with the rising fortunes of the Allied troops in litirope, that the war is so close to its cud that there will be no further need of large Victory Loans. If there is a tendency t0 relax and rejoice, s'.trt'ly' there tnust always exist I feeling of grim dctvsrntinaliou to drive the last nail in Iliilri-‘s coffin as speedily as it can be done. This, must be the paramount considera- tion, and itothing lllllwl interfere with it. Thera- is itotltiug the >lft)'"1ll-i.-)|ll(‘> could do more to bring this about than by stibscribitig to the Fifth

revenues. Will it be necessary to retrendron social service expenditure, or resort to borrowing again? Perhaps the question can be solved by a sound rehabilitation programme. Newfoundland has vast natural resources and the development of these should provide far higher standards of living than was possible in the past. Tillers‘ seems no good reason why, under proper man- agement, the country should not go forward with the rest of the continent into a new" era o! prosperty in the postwar years.

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The welcome sound of the City Clock is heard again after a four months’ vacation. a m 4- a

Sure sign of Allied victory when the waver- ing neutrals announce in which direction their sympathies lic.

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\Vestcrn farmers can be fooled about many things, says The Letter Review, but no one is going to fool them into believing anything except that wheat traditig was suspended in \\'innipcg, to keep the price of w*hcat fiom rising.

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Prime Minister King thinks it intperative he should sit in at the Peace Conference. But he was of similiar opinion regarding the I932 Im-

Virmrv Loan. "Sin-rd The Victory" is the highly up: >lngztn for this campaign, but it must be lll',‘,l‘L‘ lllllll_ zt slwgziuj it itiust be a prophecv made true. Fhi-uld the war} cnd come within" the next thu months. or within the next twoi years, it will be fivlluwed by twthcr Yictorv Loans‘ just ll.- lll£\‘>~;ll'_\' 1A5 the l>l'4‘.~(.’lll one, itist as im-l purlznlt as any preceding Loan. I

Potato Pit-Storage

ln hlalnv. wlr-ru the lylato crop is cstimalcil at 6;.ooo.nou bu>h<l-_ llicrc is tall; of employing nit-sloriluw lw lllCCi the shortage of potato-houses and the slow movement by rail. Pit-storage in “nine is a method of fifty years ago but it mav be tried.

(me of the biggc-t growers in the Saint john vallev is rpzntv-(l bv the Frrdrtirlolt (JI/‘(HIFV as saying that. Ilcspitt- reports to the contrary, pit- MHYJZC wor vvrv well. The pits are scooped out of the Qrnilllfl. liuctl with straw. filled with! pr-tntnt‘ ull a pr ltrctlv»? C1>\’('l'lllZ of straw poles and earth placed ovcr lllt'n1.

.\Ianv millions of bushels were stored this way a half century‘ ago and by present indict- tiotis swuc of the 19 ntilliozi surplus barrels this yw-ni" wiil be storctl the satuc way.

The tilt-storage itlca has been talked up for the past several weeks in New Brunswick. and probably will be used onlv as a last resort. Mauv of the mozlcrit growers believe the potatoes will be iniurctl either from prcsstirc or from frost The old lllll(“f.\‘. lmwcvcr. disagrcgnatitl figure it is about the only salvation for a lot of spuds.

Newfou nTdland 's Prosperity

Were it nut for wartime transportation re- strictions, our trade with Newioutidland should be greater this year than it ever was in the past. l The war has brought unprecedented prosperity to the Ancient Colony. Never before in the colmliys hlstury- has it been possible to budgctl for an expctlditurs; oi $1,000,000 for education and 554200.000 for public health and welfare, nor would this be IlOSSllJlC now were it not for. the immense incrczlsc in revenue returns. But‘ these l'(‘ltll'll>' at due entirely to the greatly iil—' creased l>rlv>pcrily which the country has etijoy- ed under war conditions. The 5f. _l0hn's liveli- ilrfl Trlvg/rnlu, .\'ewfottnrlland’s oldest and best known ll(‘\\'~‘]3ftPCl'. exlnrcsscd serious concern as to whether this period of prosperity will outlast the w '.

Prior to the opening of hostilities Newfuuud-l land had no ncczuilm to worry ovcr deficits, since | they were met by the British Treasury. Follo\v-' ing the outbreak of war. Newfoundland decid- ed to relicvc Uritllln of this financial obligation which she lizld twinned when Liovcrmuent by Conunissioit wa< instituted. In view of the cer- tainty that the burden which British taxpayers hear will have to be shouldered for some yearsl after peace l~ dt-rlzireil. cottld Newfonutlland con-

tcutplzttc .'i~l,iuq tlui Imperial (itl\‘f‘l'lllll€lll1 later tn revert t-i the fwritici‘ artangetncn‘. of meeting, the cit-t of i1» budget deficits? The St. John's paper replies firmly in the ticgntivc. N0 citizen

who ll" >L‘ll~t‘ of national pride, it says,

bu‘. look; to l t-> the thy when the restora- tiwu of .\"v. it llttul to ll('l' full status of self- gui null lk- achieved. But such tesf

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perial Conference, yet it was Prime Minister lennett who attended. ‘v >|< n- ln this war, as in the last, Army Chaplains have suffered a high percentage of casualties. In the British Army, there are 2,000 uniformed chaplains. Up t0 the nligldlc of September, eigh- teen of them had been killed in action, forty- one wounded, and one hundred twcnty-hvo taken prisoner. Six have been reported missing. ill It‘ i! Ill

A wage ceiling which does not prevent such an intportltnt group as farm labour front obtain- ing increases is scarcely a contribution to pre- venting inflation. After all, when wages rise as in the case of farm help, it is not likely that the farmer can avoid raising his prices. and farm prices are the itiost impurtzmt factor in the national economy, at all times.

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Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet, born this date i686; published several collections of poems, but is bcst retuemberetl as the author of "The Gentle Shepherd", a dramatic pastoral of the realistic type,’ in 1740. largely through his efforts, the first regular theatre was opened in lidiitbtirgh; he revived vernacular poetry, and prepared the way‘ for Fcrgusson and llurns.

"Let fuwk bode wccl, and strive to tlu their best; Nae tuairs retpiired-let lleztven make out the rest." a a a n

.\'0 ztnlount of political skill can save labour, Quebec. or the Prairies for .\Ir. liiltg a: next election, says a Tittrontt» exvhzttlgt‘. The Prairies can bc won for .\lr. Bracken. In liC. and the Maritimes, they seem to have about cqttal chances. In Otttario, the iron-labor seats are more likely to support .\Ir. Ilracltcu tliztu l\lr. If Mr. llrackeit strikes the right note in his opening speeches, indepcndettt voters who are unwilling to sec a Socialist ii(l\'t'l’lllllL‘lll, or one dominated by a Quebec isolationist bloc. tilzty rally strongly tn .\Ir_ llrztckeu, as at least ltaviug a chance of a clear victory.

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Because of the ncccssitv of sending aircraft to the Middle East, Russt. India and China throttglt West Africa, British “lest African colonies have been intensivqtv developed (luring the war. .‘\(’rO(ll‘(ll1lt‘S were built rapidly — in Nigeria alone thereare thirty large airficlds, with control rooms. hangars, and all the scr- vices that go with them. Many industries have arisen for the production of building materials, leather and cotton goods. and cvery kind of woodwork; and local fruits have been preserved and local meat dricd, to scnd to Allied armies. Post-war West Africa itiay not ‘need all the acrodromes, but the industries and transport organizations will be of lasting benefit.

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‘ Cattle breeders from Canada and the United States paid more than $40,000 for 47 pure-bred shorthorn cattle, picked from three Ontario herds, at a dispersal sale last week at Union- villc. Ont. The cattle were picked from herds tiwned by “f. _l. Russell. Unionville, K. C. tirny, Gormley and Stanley Douglas, Calc- tlmua. Biggest prices of the sale, $2,500 each for three ltead, were paid by thee Ontario cattle- mcn. The cattle hrotight an average of $940. 1GP lm-“e for the 5tzinlcy Douglas ltcrd. which a"“"'§.'°d $552 a ltead, ivas flit/Li. paid for a cow, Brmvndale Non-parcil, by R. Kelcc, Mary- ville, Miss bulls owned by W. l. Russell aver- ~'\l.'@<l_$I.I‘07 and cows, $1.077. Six cows sold by l\. C. (tray :iveragcd $l.3;'5. "Wt/hat ithlsvcountry i needs}; L tin paraphrase Tom Marshall's famous b0“ K110i. ls more hard candles. Try

dollars-a sum out of all proportion to llre-ivarl

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[hen there's the farmrrette who mT-“tcnz; hi!‘ hands at bridge When- evci‘ $173625 are trump ~Branclon Sun.

And, of course, the patriotic bride and grocm itiake the salvage depot their first stcp to get’ rld of the shoes and tlnvxarv. --Chri.=tizin Scl- cnce Monitnr.

We have Oltlvrllll"! one man who

lined has tzelultboui- better‘ than himself. She was n widow with four sections of laud and $20,000

ln Victory binds. —~Qttelzec Chi-onl- cle Ielctzraph.

The proprletcr of an Edmonton’ ccffro shop zlcztltucs to lay a charge akalrst. a man who put his flst through a iuke box. Apparently a gentleman who rcccvnizps extreme provocation when he secs lt. —Ed- moutnn Journal

The man customer In the neigh- hoxrliocd butcher" sllCp was grip- lne lllf‘ other thy. We haven't got tlu: lll\‘ Pore and we havent‘ got that l-' complaints were

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sun‘! men around here ' either.“ -Mllwliukee

Thus;- ri-rrnt traln wrecks have hn-n rclimrrl ut- m,» um- newfi hut Ihrv sbntllrin‘! hp fm-gnttpn There's n llne in this press about the probe now and then. but noth.

lng to make the publlc feel safer. Common sense would seem to re- quire thnt these extra speedy pas- senger trains cut their time away down for the dumtton. Moving war suppllea and troops ls the 1m- portant Job, not whisking the pub- llc around at hlghlv dangerous speeds, I'd reduce the pace of the deluxe passenger flvers down to a crawl lf it will prevent these hor- rlble wrecks. Most of the folks demanding the super-service are not going anywhere important. — Dave Boone. ln New York Sun.

The business of attachlng wolf falls to cars and blcycles has become a mon one, popularly supposed to prevent the carrler from meet- mg Dame Misfortune tn accidental guise. But. one cltlzen the other day thought for a moment that the fad had brought hlm no luck at all. The cttlzen was a blg collie do; whose mother perhaps had been frltzhtencd by a wolf. Whatever his orlgln, he was the possessor of a flne personal brush which he waved gallv as he meondered through a crowd of cltv shoppers. Then he spotted the bicycle leaning against a store front. complete with wolf tall. He approached lt. casunllv ie- Rnrtled lt. sniffed once. Suddenlv consternation struck hlm. He. took a startled sten backward and snan- oed his head around to look for his own tall. It was ln lts usual plow still flrmlv attached. Its owner strolled on. obvlcusly vastly rpllgvcd tongue lolllmz In a wlde cnnlne Rrln. —'I‘he Printed Word.

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and Bet thorn to but ln the boxes you send overseas, lf you don't be- lleve lt- A recent news ltem reports that manufacturers can begin mak- lng hard candles ln some quantlty agnlti. That's really good news. A generation ago when the famllyt went to town Saturday evenlng t

do the week's shopping. hard can? dles were a part of the rltual o

shopplng. Father took a person

Interest. Mother might pretend th

such trlvlality was beneath her ri - tlce, but she was tolerant about it. After Father had bought the ker - sene a bag or two of grain, a.

hammer handle, and a bolt for the cultivator, and Mother had swnp- Ded the eggs and butter for l, spool of No 60 black thread, a paper of common plns, a dozen safety plns, a red hali- rlbbon for Mary and a blue one for Allee. a rlalr of stock- lng for John, s piece of gingham for a new apron. ten pounds of sugar, a pound of coffee. a box of cocoa. and a can of baking soda the family gathered around the candy counter. Father llked th

small round. yellow lemon drops. Each sLster spent her dlme for the rnlnbow-hued mixture which came ln the quarter-barrel keg, Johnny took flve of thr- fnt round cinna- mon sticks for flve cents and the other nlckelis worth ln green. rectangular p'~-1-ier1nlnt pieces. Mother chos- m orange-flavored flat disks. 1 mndles lasted A btx of chomln s" on the llvlng- 'Il"-l'f7."l1'l tnhlr triv prwihly hold nut more than one day. But ten cents worth of hard candles, carefully

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TELEPHONE T0 WOOD ISLAND "WEBB-Y

Slrr-Well Slr, I have at least suc- ceeded tn some information for the pifiltc from the Nortbum-l bet-land Illerrlas Illmlted on why the telephone ls not down on the who?! at. wood Islands so the publle can get the news. I know of the relu- latlons re phoning information about ships at. sea, but that does not atop ti: placing of a phone on the w

arf.

I may state that I rlld make oh- qulrles about the W" 07 “final” lng the head of the wharf with e farm at the top of the approach. even lf lt Ls a. rural llne, and was advised that a number of extra posts would be requlred at a nomln- al cost. so you ace I have been ln- {grestlng myself for the benefit 0f - e Ferry COMPETE’-

Now thal: the subject has been queued the travelling publlc would like to know why there were only two trips a day made ln May. June and October.