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iiig to aid lter people in the terrific burden that is laid upon them. That is the principle we Can»

' h ld h id h b h 1' d f h Setate‘: theallilest fiafifihgiiillilriteafii atnd Muruliig Daily (Founded tu i387) France held the front line while the .'\lll€‘I‘lL"ZllI5

were preparing. It is only consistent tllat we

President: Lii-ut. Cui. W. Chester S. McLure ‘hould adopt if for Ourselves this time‘

Vie; President: J. R. Burnett, FJJ. Secretary: Llcut. Cul. D. A- Mlflummn- 33:31. Edit-w and nlnuuifi"! nlfPflfllfl J- B; Burn; Emma“ Associate Editors: l-ranli tiaiker an Ian SLISSCRIPIION RATES m. U] Mill In I‘.E.l., $1.00 DH’ r11"; $250 [Ognthllllm $1.25 for 3 months; 50o for one 1n

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B, ma“ m "uh, minim“ iii“; u, 5, a, $5.00 per year lng tonight in Z‘ion Church hall. at which a Ealuftlil) iii-inn. Smut) p01- year; 51.0010!‘ h‘ wont-l"- large attendance is expected as tisuaL 50c for 3 month: ‘ ‘I ‘ '

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.- EDITORIAL NOTES -

Friday and the thirteenth. ii- a u a

Tn; Clllfivlluflildu uoiaiinir-i M“- 1

llmilli he“: Altvl- I “"11" m“ r I ‘L. _ Buululll -\1J1'“'|"|"l"" ,, mill"... Airiiiiriiiiinrhisan- “Maud. the effect that the Island boy's are all in good

:i,:',:,i,.'.i'.i,'lir ....-i..- int-n... \\iilfr¢'a Psrue entail. saritnirr- trim. and thoroughly enjoying the lcttcrs, parcels

om. lluti ti»... -i....., smut-n... s. u-i ' and Palm's from home. e a a a

Now that the immediate fear of the presence of Mr. Meighen in the House has been got rid of, Liberal; are talking National Government, with Messrs Hanson and Earle Rowe members

_____ instead of Meighen and Drew. Stranger 11111185

h ed b f . A gr“, dmi 0i gjryqiieilce has been expended have appen cine‘

. - - " fll iers w the Prime Minister and some of m? 1o oviiv- gafiPi-flllff character of thC P913“ g

.1“ 5,,,,,,g,_;., Mentory is Weuker than the lH-alrest Ink.”

I~‘l§-ll!“:\'. rizmttvuiit I3. 1942-

Pledges

Untrtillslilulitlllfll

u e 1‘ ”' ' l d Soap for butter is now a slogan in Eng all - - ' ' ' 1 the Aliiiistryi of _ _ _ -_ i; i The former is being fa1lOll€(- _ _ en against fiil: ctiiiltilllsol‘) 5e“'“cddun;fi title “i- Food says, to economize on “certain important ‘kciilln °““‘l‘111.3“ Zflsd aiigrlgiagn- can fie ciied oils and fats so that a greater part of the shipping thoritres. sais the (hr-lie 111K _ ' guch an ‘u, space available may be allocated to sa1PfI11-"1T11111E 5Y1 <"‘11‘1""1“ 1k {n 0A1‘ fir" pqigiriiigimfor “many yea" our edible fat rations stich as butter, lard and 1110141)’ "f" " "' ""0115 o‘ ' i mar arinc." librarian of Parliament at Ottawa, W110 “'10” g is

_ n iii e copioilsl-v ‘iiouipcorii-Siilutltcma‘ Ezifnaiifjineiziig It ir cheering news to find Sir Stafford Cripps, praciicegj hi; ar iainen ary

. - late Ambassador to Moscow declaring that “there . ., .. _, . t n _ COiOITiL- and Pailariientary g°‘°m":$dar]d is every chance of Germany being defeated by England" Tittle long h¢e1f1fcc°pfiep ‘l’. mmt md this time next year.” The “chalice,” alas, de- vvorltr by pOililfllllfi, officials o ar la paid, fin us getting munitions and supplies 111110145111- to the stern arena in time Olli€l'\\'lSC-—llB ' ' Go ernrrient in Enl- . ‘ h1g1“ h; gafgiitrlliiizrilii:rlruddvlay' down ‘he {up hesitates to ray. ii ~ -

lowing rule:

“A 1111115127 have no rl-Zm 5° 51nd “m” ma“: lelvaa or their Sovereign b!’ P191139’ h‘ ‘$2M’ proceeding, m lrirpotlietlcal eases. er t" gtall their own fieedom of action 1n r699“ writlnrentlii; not immediately occurrent but that may afterwards arise."

ffodd tlieii proceeds assert that this point w“ finally established by general ‘consent through a famous political episode, the dismllii-l 9i the Vvhig Ministry of Lord Grenville in 1807 George ill. _ “The constitutional issue thus railed war full! Glrcureed in both Houses of Parliament, ""1 1B each resolution; were submitted to this effecti "Phat is was contrary to the first dill/lea of the amifldentlal aervarits o! the Crown to restrain themselves by uiy pledge. exivremé M‘ 11111111“- from altering to the- K1118 "1! "M" m“ m. wins, of clrcumstaricee might render rieceeaer! for the welfare and security 0! l!!! P!" 91' m. Ikriplre.”

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Prime Minister King's chickens are coining home to roost in Quebec. Mr. Liguore Lacomlie, Liberal M. P., for Laval Two Mountains charged him at a meeting in Montreal with "running away to the United States to escape duty in the Canadian Armv during the last war” but now preparing the way for conscription.

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Politics make strange bedfellowr. The outlaw- ed Communists of Quebec, distributed circulars in the recent Quebec elections signed by Evareste Dube and Emery Samuel for the Provincial Committee of the Party, urging the electors to "vote for the plebiscite and assure national unity." The Mounted Police say they are searching for the two signatories but cannot find them.

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The rioting in Montreal is just what one might have anticipated as the result of the jioliti- cai iiancour let loose by Mr. King's bleliiscitc reso ution. "After the war, the Province of Que-

Commenting upon this ease, Sir EnkirievMay, bee ‘will take control of Canada," Mr. lloucliaril. an authority higher even than Mr. Todd, in hi! Nationalist, declared at a meeting in Monti-cal. “Constitutional History" declared that the Gren- "if we can rally _to_ ottr cause all Canadians of ville Ministry, although they_ had agreed t0 nan-Brifrmnic origin. But first, we must be unit- abandori a particular bill obnoxious to Hll Mll- ed ourselves, because a country divided will per- esty were by virtue of their offices as the KmgS ish. United, we Wlil be able tn play ZUTIIIIPOTI- Ministers "free on any future occasion to"offer ant role incur country which we will lcad to great- eucl-i advice as they might think proper. and ness and liberty/i _The first step is evidently Gist no constitutional ttuthoritycouid now b0 anti-conscription rioting which could easily have found to defend the pledge. _ _ ' been avoided had Mr. King been a statesman in-

Sir Robert Peel war a practical pohtician of stead of a politican.

‘rug urperience, who was also a ltickler for pro- . 1" '1‘ t‘ *1 constitutional practices. He accepted thll A_citizen who was present at the launching of doctrine about pledges, and in a speech in the die ill-fated car ferry steamer Chiii-[oftclaztin at Commons in 1835 declared as followri the Davis Shipbuilding Yards, Levis, Quebec, re- ,“ ‘mm in unmoomin‘ m m, u , Mini,” calls a curious incident. Mrs. Dalton, wife of at the crown to consent to place any prerogative the. late Lieutenant Governor Dalton, had been

a the crown in nbevelwelol‘ “ZBRQQQEQYEE: invited to christen the steamer. The customary

a; Weigzlgwila“; $113; Oozmiuor h” I clt-itamlpeafrtfi bottle 1:80 be smashed on the bow was

‘MM “m” m. cm" u w m. mm. "I would but tile baffle ldildelu". Dadtodiddubf

ymmg- r ll ways an i no

break. As the rhi was movin down i . ,

Moreover, PR1 "Rd "P011 1111! <1°¢1Y111¢ 1°‘ an official grabbedpthe bottle and broke figliviiibf

ward the close of his career. He was ‘returned to iii. ‘idm Ships’ “ ‘n "e aware are of the in 184i as the head of a Ministry which fmniiiin. "x Ind u. proverbiaiiy temp“?

fir! secured a mandate for the maintenance ofthe mmiiiL Coiiid iiii, infoi-maiiiy in the iaiinch.

Corn LAW! Ind 11" if¢fl°rl1 lylm" °1PT°1°§'1°"- ing have been the jinx responsible for her sub-

But when four years later he became convinced “qiienh disaster;

by the gravity of an economic crisis which arose e a e n

that the Corn Laws must be abolished, he carried chi-i“ Mud“ d. Taneymndyeflgoid

151M181‘ I 111N911" 1°!’ 11151’ "P411 V1111 11* 11°19 French statesman, born this date 1754' ado ted

.1 m. Whigs it... more than half of hi] original ,.,, “Guiana, “m, in which he m,’ mpfidiy

C8111“? 1W1 1’°51f§11°d- but was excommunicated after resigning as Bishop

So the conclusion is that Prime Minister Mac- of Austin; w" proscribed by Robespierre ‘ha, lretlzie King is not mi sound constitutional ground "i uyfluccgsgful miygion to England. visited the "1"" 11¢ FY5151! 1" 11191111118 b)‘ Pkdl" 81"" °11 United States, and afterwards returiied to France a hypothesis whose validity has disappeared. whm Robespierre“ fa" fcmoved the proscriptién. T116 "Yllmflfllf! "1 l 111¢-l11d'<1¢l111 11111881“ attached himsef to Barras and became foreigii iviili three sivli=ter powers, all waging vvar on a minimi- uiidei. the Dii-ecioi-y- broke ‘viii, Na_ totalitarian basis, was not envisaged when the poimn’ and brought back Lou}, XVIII who“

1§d8° “:11! 2'1""- T11¢ Clbiflf-‘l 1! l1" ¢°\"1¢11 91 minister he became; and subsequently siipported

is llfajesii; nrit of Mr. Mackenzie King, who 1mg. piiiiippe; u . m“ always ready to "up is only its sprllcfslnatl, and it must be free to ld- flee principle to expediency but patriotic and a1 vi=e the Fot-rreiirn in circumstances demand. able dipiomat, "It seems i; me Si" to be m‘: Ministers cannot have. this freedom if they are beginning of ti“ and) ’ ' lettered by pledges, and in accepting these fetterr in a e n they challenge the opinion of high constitutional "Nag-ii" ti," h” happened “me me olnbmk authorities. The latter would certainly condemn of mi‘ w" h" had ‘ ma" digastmm effect on l F1“1“"~"11" 1" 111° 1"‘1‘-'1»‘¢ 01 111111151"! 1mm national tinity that the plebiscite proposal " writes P113112“ 11‘ 1“1l“11" ~“1l“1'1111“11‘ ""1 11311819101-15- the Ottawa Correspondent of the isibcrial Winni- -_.__-__-.----_- _ Frce Pres u I . . The Righl prmciPle confusion ‘ritual: liiflllftlilfleitgglillnllgntliffif (ditiiiiilizeiisi ———i Parliament and in the country gets hotter. A pos- nt is gr. Zfiuiq to note one feature of the Dom- sible explanation is that the conjunction of op- inion (‘I-lit ,, irik ii-ar effort which meets with ponentscf the plebiscite, like Premier Bracken unqun! Ficil ;.iil.i.c approval. That is the Prime of Manitoba, Premier Hepburn of Ontario, Rt. hfinirtt-i“; RJHHIIIICPIIICIII that the Government Hon. Arthur Meighen, the Copggrvafjvg hatter, prripmeil w. filflCf a billion dollars at the cred- and Premier McNair of New Brilgwick, i114;

it of the lii-iii-Zi (Liivrnineiit for 111C Purchase Provincial Liberal Leader and veteian of the of sui-ii‘ = i". (Einndn. and that this would not Great War, who favors compulsory scrvicmmight be t-n- -~l ‘ii lit!‘ light of a (lclit. There are. force a sittiation which will lead‘ to the forma- snis rin ‘w: qr, cquiid economic and political lion of a National Government ivliit-li these gentle- rr.'i~...-~= .1 1 ll 1 pnlfly To begin with experience men. holding the views fhcv do, miiccivabiy

fi-ll- ~' i- l». ' ivnr sliiiwctl the folly of try- would be invited to join. The (hm- Minirler, for ‘Y <~ ..-.;§i niir ilclits. The fricton over National Défeiise, the Army, ti», Air Form and llwxll i.» keep Britain and the Un- theNavy, appreciate the urgency for reinforce- Zlllll so ]>.'l\’(’fi the way for the merits, and would stipport it ‘¢.i...,,.,r_..,,, sfih-(‘h-ve 11111 \\'.'l'll< no such cause of mis- service measure, as would the Uini-lera of Fin- i..i iln- .\ilrlil(‘l' (fiiuntry fnllow- ance (Mr. Ilsley), Pensions and National [Ti-"hl-i , ' iln naiiiid place. it is only rea- (inn Mackenzie), and one or two others, it is he- soiialilt- ili:i. ~inr¢ l (llHKiil is t-strapiiig the eiiorm- lieved. The Prime iifinister will iriiilcnviir to ap- oiis los~~< nliErh iiYilJllll is sustaining from her pease Quebec. which has alivais bccn the “lain- vu-e-islicc in ilic front line that we should be will- stay of his Administration."

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I‘ HE CHARIUPTIITOWN __GUANQI_;A_N

NUTES BY TIIE WAY i

0n the eve o! his elgllr second birthday, Sir Chalice . Roberts declined to frantic any message to £10 Ceiladiflll P0093? "It. would DEW-WP me." he said, and luoed a tin- type of hlnlsel! at. 5: '1 we’: 0011K! tlicii. but Ive got over if.‘ The" Sill the father of Canadian 11km- tiire in a plum-colored. velvet uousecoat. ‘vliti liLs hllee yellow tomcat. Dingo, in his lap; Ind 11 was Just impossible to create Th0 atmosphere for an interview. Sh‘ Charles of tiotbemgglgtifibl; in 'te I 8W6 “t! It $11 a row of books st-retichinll back to 1880. He iemanis a BN8! contemporary, keenly alive to the present. and eager about the 11111111- Jmronw Globe and Mail.

“It may seem strange tie take All! top off a glare jar and insert NOW‘ toothbrush iii olderto iii-t the too'h- paste necessary to Cleanse Sour teeth, but that may be vi-hnt we W111 ecme to before long.’ car's D1‘. rrederlelr J. Cullen. executive vloe- presldeiit of the Proprletar! A8- soclatlori, Washington. Dr. Cullen adds that. while material necessary tio make moulds would be avail- able. sizes and shapes of the glass tooth ste containers would strlcty limited. -- Marketing.

Perhaps, now that a [fart has been made, the responsible authorities will turn their utter.- tlon to men's shirts. We are get,- tlng ayvfully fed uip with neckties. We hate buying them. we hate gel-ting them for presents, and we hate tying theim. To keep ilicm in plaCe unless they are tied tight.- ly is impossible. and if you tle Lhcni tightly enough to keep them In lace there is danger of im- nie late strangulation. But per- haps a. civilized shirt B too much to ask for About all we can do is accept our fleedom frcm the bon- dage of the clothing Hitlers and

hope for the best. — Winnipeg Free Press. Manufacturers of- teapols are

now making tlzi hats, a cap fac- tor l, turning out bullet-s. and ma ers of roller and fee skates are at work on aircraft components, as the result or factory control in Britain. Many British concerns have swung over to war production 111K191‘ earlier re-aririametil, pro- grams. but in the last. six months the work of the Board of ’I‘radi='s Factory and storage Premises control has brought thousands more work; large and small. to direct war production. Torpedccs are coming from a boot and shoe factory and aeroerlglne parts from a hairpin works, while a beauty-cream factory is applying its experience to the making of null-gas and medicated ointments. Art. silk manufacturers are busy on munitions and a ivallpriipei‘ mill ls fillltii: shells. — British Industries Bulletin.

Some weeks ago Navy Minister MiICGOIIQld announced that enemy submarines were on the watch for prey off the coast of Newfound- land, and since then one of them has struck Hon. Mr. Macdoniild ls confident tlhat the submarine peril will be kept lii control off Canadian shores. lust as lt was in the former war. Indeed, the pros- pPCliS are that the undersea boats trill have a far more difficult task now titan t-hen. In the years 1914- 1918 the Canadian Navv was e. sinnll thing by comparison with other iiavies, but. today ft ls a powerful and growing force. Mr. Ma ziontild. in his most recent. slli _ declares tihnt Oiinndiaii ' >illps are 0111511111118 on bolh the Atlantic and llle Pacific. and that. the Navy's siren tli in officers and TRLIITES will be iicreased to 40,00‘) by MBYCII of next. year. It is a formidable force today and ls do- inE effective work. According to tlic minister, some fifty million pounds of war material and stip- plles have loft. Canadian shores for the United Klrigdcm slllce the be. zinninu of the war. ‘Ilhls great merchant marine moveyngnf, will contlnile, despite anything enemy submarines may do or try to do In the connection tie minister ex- plains that successful ill-tacks 0n submarine boats are not to be re. ported, as such information mlizht shown the enemy where naval BtNIIEI-h is concentrated. can- adliins will appreciate this pre- caution while resting assured mint, their evergrowlng Navy wlll be fully equal to its task o! protect- lXlfZ shipping 1n the sea lanes lead- lrrz to and from the Brltlaii Isles. —M0rit.reiil Gazette.

The German aoldler l; no longer the natty jiiunty. young fellow who went out to do battle for his country, When a soldier- in field lrrev returns from the front today his bleak. his mien is sombre, and no says nothing... He I5 a much different. soldier from that oif the campaigns of 193a and 1 reason? The frozen wastes. the marshes, the villages reduced to ashes the death which pervades! The ferocity with which the Soviet soldier rights, the Indifference with whlda he dies, his mortal mite, nls war without quarter, the sabotage, the constant and spine-tickling danizer of mines, the fnteivniriable massacre. Yes. all flhat arid TAU" has contributed to the slough qr fndlfferenoe and the bitterness wit-ten on the faces or the Ger- man army. - Part of a despetch to t-he Italian newspaper Corr-fare dclla scra. of Milan, from its cor- respondent with the German amiy fn Russia.

The western economy resents a reasonably favorable ml look," ae- coivllnii to the year-end review of the Winnipeg Board of Wade. It iii noted with satisfaction that the ri-isli lnccme from sale of farm product-s has stood up well despite the greatly reduced wheat yield, that tlhere has been a general in- crease in business, and that, the prose value at lnd/ustrfail produc- imi i-i Manitoba has increased 531.000.1100 in the last, t/wo years. A: a result. there has been an in- crease ln all public revenues. - Manitoba Free Prose.

Before seeding commences next soflflf! there may be far-reaching changes In the wheat situation. Mvvrdliiizlv ft u m» early for the government to decide definitely what i-ereave ti. will “i; in; “m. era to sow to that grain and what measure it will adopt. to keep this Wll-hln the limit at which ft aims. But fr conditions are mum the same then as now, there should be litfln d1fflcii1fy in restriction the service to G's" per cent of that. of 1940. - mimonton Journal.

Home newsmviern In featuring income tex fables do not include the national d-feww levv Thie we think, iii a serious mistake. It gives a wronv fmpre-sw-n to ont- iilder- who might. conclude that Canadians are [ettlng off lightly

hardened and by

PUBLIC FORUM

i ZIOIIOIGOI“

MYSTEIOUS COME-BACK

rz-We are ‘eased t0 see by I regirt o! the Geprhe Warden o! tho recur. um: the Hilnfllfiu W'- rldge has made a good come-beck slim last. fall and we could not help but wonder where they came (run. Not from sonle o! I110 sportsmen‘: tables we PAW’. "Id We have never yet heard of them having a nesting season in the late fall or early winter. They must have oome bait with the Snow?’ owlgforheaaysthetvaeem tiobe thriving at resent: or they 1111181» be like t-he birds in the legend of Hunter's River where:

"The maiden believed as true

What. the little bzrds sang

Th“ rrsom nowhere flew." I am. l‘. 098-. INQUIRER

TRANSPORTATION TO THE MAINLAND

Bur-In referring tio our a9- pioadiins Summer tourism’- _Y0\l said In Thursday's Guardian. ‘l-fif» n5 not, forget tihat the Prlnoe Ed- ward Island (ferry) will have to go off the route for OVPIUSIUIIIIR arid there is no car ferry steamer to substitute tor her." Presumabl)’ that means that during the over- hauling pcrtod we shall have _rl0 means oif importing or exporting merchiiridiae by railway car, or of crossing to the mainland ourselves. Moreover. so far as the public has been informed, there is no steamer or steamship available either for passenger or freight service be- tween Charlottetown and the mainland.

In a letter recently addressed to Mr. Ainsworlli, as President of the Charlottetown Board of 178(16- suggestcd that» the Dcmlnlon Gov- ernment be asked tio dledfl m9 approach tio tihe Charlottetown railway wharf, so tliat, unt-ii inch time as the steamship, s.S. Char- lottetown shall have been replac- ed, ships of all sizes could dock 1n Charlottetown 0:1 the East. sldepf the railway wharf, which unlike the West side, is in good repair. All that would be required would be that. the short distance from the wharf would be dredged, a compar- atively inexpensive undertaking. anci one that could be done in a feiw weeks time after the ice has disappear .

I understand that the Bcard of Trade regarded the above propos- al favourably but. did not include it in the Nsollilion adcilessed tn Prime Minister King as it was felt that it would be unwise to niake more than one request. at. a time.

A little further consideration would, I believe, have made the members of the Board realize that. as in any event, 1t will Lake many months and pcssfbly years fcr the Government. to supply the Leland with a. new ferry, the dredging would be sfiiiiply B. matter of safe- ty insurance, while it would at. tine same time free the Island or! it's present serious handicap cf liiiv- ing to ship all it's produce over seas by rail tin Halifax or Montreal at a prohibitive cost.

It ls to be hoped that. the Board of Trade and the City Council will take such steps HS may be iicccss- ary retiring this itiat-ter before itie Dominion Government in time to be passed ilpcii diti-iiig the present session.

I am. s'r, etc.,

II. K. S. IIEMMING

Chiibchill Reaction 0n Churches

(St. Thomas Tiii1cs-Jo.uriiiil)

It may not have occurred to many how the Churchill oratory may have produced a reaction in the churches. but. a notable editorial in the United CllUr0l‘l_Ol)S8l‘V8l‘ proves the fact. The editor was amomz the journal- ists who were particularly addressed by Mr. Churchill at Ottawa and the former admits that he was greatly struck by the view that Mr. Churchill had much to teach the chuiches, particularly with respect. to his faith in the common people's response to high challenge. no mat- tier at what cost, this being it note that ls almost lost: in modern preaching.