mo: rgpiz TllE BIIAIILOTTETUWII GUARDIAN

Morning Dally (Founded In 1887)

President: Heist. Col. W. Chester I. Nolan Vlco-Preslrlent: J. l. Burnett. I‘. J. l. Search ;. Lleut. Col. D. A. Mscllnnon, 0.8.0. Idltor and Managing P‘ ‘ . J. B. Burnett. F..I.I. Annotate Editors: Frank Walker and Lleut. In A. Burnett. R.C.N.V.ll. (On Aellvu Service)

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

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Sorry Liberal Aftermath

Coming on top of the fulsome eulogies de- livered in connection with Prime Minister King's twenty-fifth anniversary as Liberal party lead- er, Tuesday's election results should have a sobering effect at Ottawa and elsewhere. In the 1939 election in Quebec the Liberals ivon 69 out of 86 seals, ivitli the Union Xatinnale getting fifteen. Today the bnion Natioliale is on top, though it is dnilhtfill, at the tilile of writing, whether they will have an overall majority. In any case the (lPiPfll of the tiodboiit Govern- ment cannot fail to he illterpretctl as the hand- writing on the wall, so far as Federal Liberal hopes in Quebec are concerned.

This is the fourth truuncilig that Liberal governments have had ill recent years. It be- gan with Alberta, which threw out a Liberal (iovernment for Social Credit, and on Thlesday returned the latter party candidates for the third successive lllll€~—illt3 once dominant Lib- erals being as scarce as hens‘ teeth in the con- test. Then clune the great Liberal debacle in Ontario, which saw the Progressive (‘onserva- tives elected tinder Premier Drew, with the Liberal remnant playing a very minor role even as an opposition. Saskatchewan proved anoth- er Liberal Waterloo, in which the powerful political machine of Hon. Jimmie Gardiner was smashed, perhaps beyond repair. Now we have the Quebec fiasco-a bitter disappointment, as it was generally predicted that Premier God- bout would be returned, though with s reduced majority, Unfortunately for Mr. Godbout, he did not succeed irl having the contest confined to provincial issues. The electors evidently felt thst the King Government was on trial too, and registered their verdict accordingly. In s straight Federal contest, the adverse vote would un- doubtedly be much larger.

The situation in Quebec today is a concrete example of the King Government's boasted suc- cess in achieving “national unity." It was a ease on Tuesday of many Liberal chickens and ugly ducklings coming home to roost. Twenty- five years of exploitation of the Quebec volt on Mr. Kings part has culminated in tliis—— a resounding defeat for his party provincially, accompanied by more ominous signs of disilnity than have been seen in any province since Con- federation.

Canada's Merchant Fleet

/At the end of this year Canada will have close to three hundred merchant ships owned by the Dominion Government. Some are leased and op- erated by our allies st present. Some are oper- ated by s. crown corporation, Park Steamships, snd some by the Canadian National Stearriships. After the ivar Canada will have these ships available as s. merchant marine fleet, as against some thirty-seven ships before the war.

This increase of almost ten times our merch- ant marine accommodation will be s big factor in developing Canada's post-war trade. It will also present some problems and difficulties. Dis- cussing the mstter in the House of Commons the other day, Hon. Mr. Michaud, Minister of Transport, said he believed all our merchant ships will be needed and will be operated after the war. A definite policy in the matter, how- ever, has yet to be determined. It is under con- sideratiou by s committee of civil servarits who have not yet made their final report. While there ls no intention to "sabotage" any ships of our merchant marine, Mr. Michaud said, there re- mains the fact that we cannot expect to move all our imports and exports exclusively in Can- adian ships. Another factor in the situation was pointed out by other speakers, namely, the varying rates of wages and standards of alc- commodation which the crews of other countries have. Solne of thesc countries, before the war, were running ships at olie-third of the cost at which Canadian ships could operate. _

Calculating that after the war we shall still have olir complete quota of ships built during the war, Mr. 'I\Iichaud said this fleet would give employment to about fifteen thousand seamen.

The minister did not attempt l0 “Film h°w fie problem of maintaining s. proper stole of wages in the operating of these ships would be solved. This was something for the Commlllefi of experts to report on and be subsequently con- sidered and integrated in the general policy to be ‘domed by the government -_— Phf85¢°1°llY which has a familiar ring, lmPiYlng that there will be no undue lllirry in reaching a de- cisinn. _

Iii the meantime it is interesting to note that the officials of the Parks Steamshipfi. 817°"? f6‘ ferred to, have been in correspondence with Hi5 Worship Mayor Blanchard and as_a re- sult have proposed to christcn one of their new ships the S. S. Victor-m Park. after our beauti- ful park in Charlottetown. This is s nice gest- ure, and will be appreciated by sll our citi-

gens. Plain Political Speaking

The San Francisco Argonaut, whose editor isa stildent of British political history, has dug up a speech delivered in the Ilouse of Commons against the Government of Sir Robert Peel by Macaulay ivhich, some may say, could be deliv- cred in the Canadian Ilotise of Commons M this time most appropriately. Thus:

“There is much ground for the reproachel 0f those who having, in spite of a bitter experi- ence, a second time trusted the Right Honor-

pbb Baronet, now find themselves s second

time deluded. It has been too much his practice, when in Opposition, to make use of passions with which he has not the slightest sympathy, and of prejudices whichhe regards with a profound contempt. As soon as he is in power, a change takes place. The instruments which have done his work are flung aside. The ladder by which he has climbed is kicked down. . . . The nat- ural consequences folloiv. All those fierce spir- its whom you halloed on to harass us, are now turned against you.

“What did you expect? Did you think that when, to serve your turn. you called the devil up that it was as easy to lay him as to raise him? Did you think when you went on, session after session, thwarting and reviling those whom you knew to be in the right, that the day of reckon. ing would never come? It has come. There you sit, doing penance for the disingenuousness of years. If it be not so, stand up inanfully and clear your fame before the House and the coun- try. Show us that some steady policy has guided your conduct with respect to Irish affairs. Show us how, if you are honest in i845, you could have been honest in 1841. Explain to us why, after having goaded Ireland to madness for the purpose of ingratiating yourself with the English, you are now setting England on fire for the purpose of lngratiating yourself with the Irish. Give us some reason which shall prove that the policy you are following, as Ministers, is entitled to support, and which shall not equally prove you to have been the most factious and pnprinnclpled Opposition that ever this country mew.

Looking back over Canada's political history through the past 25 years, contemplating the scene in Quebec today and the obvious reasons for liiost of it, the Ottawa journal believes that the language of Macaulay could be used-cer- tainly qlioted-ivith a. degree of bitter relevancy.

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Crowds are arriving to join those already on the scene for Old Home Week.

I I I I At the beginning of the Soviet offensive on the harellan Isthmus, more than 25,000 Lenin- grad citizens reported to the Institute of Blood IIZIIISIUSIOI] to give blood for the Red Army. U I U Today. the C. C. F. are" politically. Nor do

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"don't know where they the Liberals in Quebec, nor the Government at Ottawa. Certainly none of them have reasons to congratulate themsel- ves on the result of the two Provincial elec-

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A new kind of summer wheat is being culti- vated at the Novosibirsk Grain Research Insti- tute. An enormous stretch of western Siberia, where the climate and soil are suitable, has been divided into a number of zones, and a special type of grain is grown in each. This method is expected to insure large and stable harvests. i U O

I-flvmwe Binyon, lingllsll poet, born {hi8 dale 1369; was s civil servant by "profession and an artist by nature, in addition to his poetry having published dramatic works, books on British and Oriental art; his best known poem is that "For The Fallen", written in i915 in connection with our losses in the Great War, but his Ioutput includes "London Visions", "The Praise Of Life", "Odes", "Parphyron Aim-l Other Poems", "The Death of Adam":

For Mercy, Courage, Kindness, Mirth, There is no measure upon earth; NW. filmy wither, root and stem,

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Here is what Mrs Eleanor B. Geary, of Chester, writes to The Enlpire N aws: "I went to Canada as s war bride of a Canadian soldier after the last ivar. It is in the country or small towns that you see Canadian life at its. best. There you experience the friendliness and help- fulliess of the people. There for nearly 20 years I made friends in that pleasant land, and my twu children were born. Always there is In atmos- phcrc of good cheer and real friendliness - - - simple pleasures, but so very much worth while. To travcl through the countryside when the maple leaves sre turning to red and gold in the fall of the year, to see the surrounding moun- tains covered in spruce, snd when winter comes and snow covers the land the trees, heavy with snow icicles, or, perhaps, s silver thaw, is some- thing to remember always. It is s good country for children to be born and raised in." On the whole, Canadians work harder than most peo- ple. Kcen competition, spurred by the personal ambition to "make good", whether in farming or manufacture, is the cause. There is hard striving everywhere. The Canadian way of life is fine and free and carries into penis; fig highest traditions pf ihizeopntry.

In view of the Bloc Populaire fiasco in Quebec election, the following proves interest- ing: "For s long time, Lbfulorila has maintain- ed that the Saint-Jean-Baptist Society, s so- called national society, and so regarded in the eyes of the crcdulous, is nothing more than l. branch of the Bloc Populaire, and that the two are controlled by the secret Order of Jacques Cartier. It advised all sincere Liberals to quit ivithout delay this hypocritically political organ- isation which is making la mockery of them. Proof has made it obvious that the Saint-Jean- Baptist Society is one hundred per oent Bloc and exhibited unbelievable cynicism iii launch- ing its vast national recruiting campaign s few months before the election”: campaign which was s lamentable failure. Of st least ioo,ooo Montrealers who should belong to s truly rep- resentative French-Canadian Association, the Saint-Jean-Baptist Society numbers no more than 6,000 as s result of the desertions which have occurred during the past few months." The paper concludes that “since the Society has tak-

irlated along with the Bloc and the Order of Jacques Cartier. This trinity is a stumbling block in the Province of Quebec, and has covered us with ridicule and ignomilrv. Let us organize a new national society which will really be nat-

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cu all active part in politics, it must, be exterm- l’

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WARNING T0 DELINQUINT _PAI.IN_TS

Bin-Not s few Juveniles should be in Juvenile Court. for deliber- ately breaklng windows. In Im- p Biscuit Factory near the railroad crossing, across from the jail, every ‘pane of glass ln the rear ls smashe and several ln front; next the entrance are broken. This city has evidently more oung hoodlums than ls [ood for t. In insi-iy ports of the city vacant houses have windows smashed. believe they are really Juvenile thieves. as window breakers will steal. Some of them have a habit of calling dlrty nicknames to old folk passing along. A few of them should be picked up and punish- ed as a warning ‘to others.

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llstss By The Way

IIIOIIII. the extinct volcano, ls 61, and Hitler wishes him a happy future. I-Ie hopes. that ls. that his old partner in crime will escape the hnngmen and dle ln bed.-Ot tows. Journal.

A fuel merchant In Ontario ls convicted of sliortaelghlng his customers‘, in one instance by 2,- 400 p , and ls sentenced to l5 months 1n lull addition he must make the amount of $400. There will be few persons to sympathize with hum-Hamilton Spectator.

illiteracy among the 80,000 Ital- ian prisoners of war in Britain when they srrlved was as high as 26 per cent. says the Manchester Guardian. Today. according to the Y.M.C.A., which has organized many reading and writing classes. lt. has been reduced to rive per cent. Thus about 18.000 Italians have learnt the three R's Lu Britain ind W111 go home no longer de- pendent. on the local village scribe when they want to write s letter.

German humor traditionally swim shorter poking fun at them- selves and the present powers that be ln Germany have unpleas- ant ways of comlnlz back at those who poke fun at them. Therefore it. l5 not surprising to find that a pleasantry alleged to circulate among "Germans who can still joke" comes out of Switzerland.

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in D I “These people say," said he. “that the only secret weapon which can save Germany ls a long pole with a White flag on top Saint John Telegraph-Journal.

Mr. ‘Churchill pays tribute to General Eisenhower a5 a genius who has an exceptional capacity for bringing his ‘Allies together in a firm spirit. of comradeship. They fight. for freedom not is the sol- diers of this or that race, but as true brothers-ln-arnls. There are no national rivalries among them —- use, unhapplly, are the out-

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growth of little men on the home

fronts General Eisenhower has done a superb Job as Comtnandor- ln-Clilef of the invasion forces, and it l5 Plfifllhl: to know that he and Mr. Churchill get on so well to- ietlien-Hamllton Spectator.

The Allied forces of libera- tion have enjoyed an enthusiastic reception from the People 0f Rome. Our special correspondent. telegraplilng on Wednesday. wrote; —.Ms.ny scenes which Allied sol- diers may have dreamed of dur- ng e past slx months are now being realized. Allied transport ls parked lri the Piazza Venezla lin- der the window from which Mus- sollnl made so many bombastic lllflflhll HER. £00. the pipers of two famous Highland regiments have played. creating n furore IIIIOII Roman onlookera- Lori- dvn eekly es.