GIIARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

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President: Lieut. Col W Cheater 8. Mollie Vim-President: J. B. Burnett, IJJ- Secretary: Lleul. Col l). A. Iii-tor Ind Manning Director: J. ll. Burnett, LIL Lsauclale Editors: Frank Walker and Ian A. Burnett

SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In P. l. l., $4.00 per year; $2.50 for 6 month 81.25 fi-r 3 months; 50c for one month City Dellvery: $5.00 per year; $3.00 for I month $1.75 for 3 month! By Mall In Canada and U.S.A. $5.00 per your Iaturday Weekly: $2.00 per year; 81.00 for 6 month; ' 50c for 3 montlu.

The Charlottetown Guardian ml; be Obtnlnod Al flolnllurl New: Agency, Tlmn Soul". New Yorlu Old South News Anni-y. Corner lltllr and Wnhlngton. Bflllflll Ilulrulwlllau Ann illtlll‘), LN! Pool Sh, Montreal; J. Fina. S5! Bay Sn, Tnrunoi New: Stand, Chateau blur-or. Ottawa; whit-v. x011. stinitl, Qllllbul‘), 0m; Hub 10s,...“ Ihnp, Alunrfon, N. IL; Ellen llobv-rtlnn. About, N. A.

_"Tha Strongest Memory is Weaker than 1M Weakest Ink."

TUESDAY, JULY R, 1941.

Extra \Vickel Needed

$111114: zu .I‘.L{.‘lll\'ll[ should be made at the Charloiiet-vwii l'~<t llfticc to give faster service

l0 the large llllflllll‘? of citizens who must stand in line n1 the llli1lli'_\' tirder ivickets awaiting their turn. Lhzttiiipl-[viiiciit insurance and war savings iIZllllPS uliitfii are handled by the Post Office

have put :iii n-lilctl strziiii on the present facilities, 1nd delays ltxivi‘ caused much annoyance. ln view of the :i:uotiut oi work that has cheerfully been iturlertnki-ti by employers to assist in these necessary "-ps of govcrntiient financing and social secu: this bottleneck should be elimin- atcd.

_.__,__________ Russians Fighting Grimly

All that is clear from the conflicting accounts of the war in RHSFIJ. is that it is of staggering proporrionsfwith both sides claiming to have inflicted tremendous losses on their opponents. According to Russian sources, the Germans have lost almost a million men in killed and wounded. and their mechanized forces have been checked all along the front. The Germans claim to have penetrated the Stalin line at several points. Turkish advices indicate that the Soviet Govern- ment has alrentlv tunde preparations to move from Iloscoiv to Sverdlovsk, fromerly known as Ekateriuburg, a tiauie fatiiiliar to the world as the scene oi the exile and assassination of Czar Nicholas lI and his family. Apparently the Russian Government had realized that the west- erii indii-"tritil centres of Russia were vulnerable to attack oiid had established a great industrial and niunitiotis centre at Svcrrllovsk. which would guarantee a coutiiiuotis flow of military supplies ti» the l\‘u<<inu forces should they withdraw from \\'cs:ern llzis>ia and draw the Germans sixteen hundred miles CIIFC of Uoscow into the Ural hlr-uutaiiis. No doubt the Germans relied on lllilliillg such speed as to cut off all hope of a Russian retreat by destroying communications behind the Soviet lines and attacking Soviet for- ces from the front and rerir. But they do not themselves claim to have achieved this result.

In the tiieriiitiiiie, the R. A. F. is taking every advantage of the war on Germany's eastern front by intensified bombing raids over Ger- many and German occupied territory in western Europe. Latest dispatches describe the tremend- ous havoc wrought by the new bombs which the British fliers are tising_ But this is only prepara- tory to taking the offensive. If the Russians can hold out and engage the major Nazi forces in a long-drawn struggle, it will give the Allies their opportuuiiy' for a land invasion, and per- haps of administering a. knockout blow on the western front. The hour of destiny may b: nearer than we think, Highly significant in this connection ivzis the recent statement of the United States Secretary of the Navy, publicly urging that the maritime power of the United States be thrown into the scales immediately to offset the menace of German submarines, raid- ers and aircraft operating in the Atlantic, so that the tools can be got to Britain now, while she can make the most effective use 0f them.

Picture Theatre Receipts

The increase in the national income of Cati- ada last year, accompanying the stimulation of business activity by the war, has been reflected in the patronage and receipts of the motion pic- ture theatres. The number of admissions has increased throughout the Dominion by nine per cent, while the total receipts have risen by eleven per cent. There \\':is a moderate increase in the number of mozion picture houses. In Halifax, Nova Scotia, to which the war has brought a marked increase in population, the admissions rose by 3S per cent rind t"e. receipts by 48 per cent. For ilic Doniiiiinn as a whole the motion picture receipts were the second highest on re- cord. lhtnl receipts of the motion picture thea- tres of (Tllflfltlil in 1940, according to a prelimin- ary report, aiiiotuitrrl to $37,589,000. In the previous jcar the totnl receipts were $34,010,- 000. The highest receipts were recorded in the decennial ceti<us for 1930, when they amounted to $3-\‘.47r)._=~o. 'l'lie number of motion picture houses in the Dominion rose. from 1,186 in 193') in 1,226 la=t year. Th»: total number of admis- sions increased from 138,497,000 to 150,812,000. The returns as to receipts are exclusive of pro- vincial amusement taxes. Ontario led the nine provinces of Crmarla last year in the revenues re- ceived by motion picture theatres, with Quebec second and British Columbia third. Receipts in Otitario increased from $i5,248.ooo in r939 to Si7.33i,o0o in 1940; in Quebec from $7,033,000 to $".473.oo0; and in British Columbia from Sgv-jzxxv) to $3»')52.000. The receipts increas- ml in all provinces except Alberta, where {here

' I 'l~"l‘ll1l(‘ from 520141)“) to $2,001,000. In

. .1» liilivziril lslztml receipts rose from $112.- J11‘! m SIlI/IIXII Nova Scotia from $1.420,000 1'1 SiRJ-‘ir-rwi: New Brunswick from $826,000 to 91871-00; Alillllllrlril from $2,iR2.mx> t0 $2,- 3i.i.~/»: rnnl slhhilitjlltWYilll from $1,434,000 t0 9' w" QUU,

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__ QHARLOTTETQW_N_ GUARDIAN

_-_- EDIIURIAL NUIES

It is a pity both the Nazis and the Soviets have so many millions of men to fall back on, otherwise the daily losses reported would speed- ily end in attrition.

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Isn't it too bad the Provincial Government should imply that their policy is reducing us to the status of “serfs". At least that is what we gather from a tourist who writes us from Monc- ton enclosing a tourist pamphlet announcing “here then is Serf". Of course, we presume it is a misprint for “surf", but the joke is on the Government.

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The difference. In Camden, N. J. Federal Court, Isador S. Worth, former Assistant U.S.A. Attorney-General ivas being tried on charges of tampering with the jury. He called a group of 30 witnesses including prominent business and professional men, who testified that i\'Ir. \Vorth's reputation for honesty and integrity “was of the highest". “Yes," commented Judge Albert B. hlaris. “thatls past reptitati0n—-\vhat we are n0\v investigating is present character."

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Mr. J. D. Rockfeller, American millionaire. born this date, i839. He, with his brother \\'ll- liam. Samuel Andrews, Henry M. Flagler, and Stephen V. llarkness, ‘formed the first great "trust", the Standard Oil Co" 111C 1711111111"? OI many great monopolies which have restricted competition and tnultiplied millionaires. In ad- dition t0 his business activities he showed much interest in educational, medical atidrharitable affairs, founded and etidoived the Lniversity of Chicago the Rockfeller Institute for Mfidififll Research, the Rockfeller Foundation for pro- moting the welfare of mankind. u n- v a

Every State in the Union‘, except Delaware Elllffl New Hampshire, sharesun the 11101110611011 0 limestone, the U.S.A. Mining Bureaus report shows. In one year these States quarried 1150111 139,000,000 tons of the rock, 01' 75 P" “m of the quantity of all kinds of stone sold _or used during that year. Although limestone is pil-lim- arily used for road material, for railroad ba ast and for other construction purposeS. Th1! B11113“ states that it is of utmost importance t0 1110")’ manufacturing and chemical industries which play an essential role in the national defense program. More than 25.000000 10115 9f “"5 rock are used annually in the processing or manu- facture of iron. steel, glass. PEPQF- 511g“- Plkal; calcium carbide, refractory brick and 111111613

wool. u w n- it

Two hundred million pounds, or about $300,- 000,000 at the present rate of exchange, is the estimated value of the approximately 011B Squafe mile area that constitutes the City of London, in which is the great fiuaucial (IlSiflCl: EXPO“ are studying a stiggcstion that now is the 111116 for the City Corporation to purchase the 6111110 territory for about that sum: ‘_‘The City, 110W QX‘ ‘ensiveiy jaid waste by Nazi bombs, occupies 673 acres, with a rateable value of 58-39010‘)?

writes the financial editor of The London Dali)’ Mail. "It will have to be largclyrebuilt after the war. The men who are discussing its futurc maiiitziiii iliat its purchase by 1l_1¢ wrlmmllol‘ would provide the finest opportunity for rebuild- ing on a worth-ivhile scale since the great I115

of 1666." 1 i i1 U

A Toronto Italian millionaire contractor, James Franccschini who was iritcrtierl at Petawawa as 811 enemy alien, has been released. The release i105 caused much comment, and the Montreal Gazette sums up the situation thus: ‘The caseis not an ordinary one and there exists, unquestionably, a great deal of public curiosity in_ regard to i1, :1 curiosity arising from gossip which may or may not be based upon fact. This gossip is doing the Government no good. The Department of Jus- tice has in its possession a report from Mr. Jus- tice Hyndnian who went into all the facts and circumstances and whose findings, we may b1‘- sure, were not influenced by domestic political considerations of any kind. The Government would be pursuing a wise course 1n making known the substance of that report, or even the report in its entirety. The Minister of Justice should take it upon himself t0 prove to the pub- lic that Canadian justice has not faltcred in this instance, either in the original interment or in the recent release of Franceschini. The man is said to be broken in health and it will be an ex- ceedingly serious thing if through any judicial miscarriage his condition has been aggravated,‘ perhaps beyond remedy. It is not the reputation of James Franceschini that is at stake, but the reputation of Canada." w- n- w n-

When we recall the sacrifice made of Char- lottetown Wharf improvements in the interest of war economy it makes our blood boil to read ex- tracts like this from debates in Parliament: — Right Hon. l\Ir. Meighen: As respects the Canadian Nationals terminal in Montreal, not much need be said. I do not think the honour- able leader (Hon. Mr. Dandurand) should be quite so sure that the expenditures are within the $i2.000,000 estimate.

Hon. Mr. Dandurand: Oh, yes.

Right Hon. Mr. hfeighen: N0. The expendi- tures are far beyond this, even on my honour-

NOTES RY IllE WAY

j Where ls that "Yankee Inven- tlveness?" We'll get. nciwheie by tooling up to produce the wen/poms

‘that. others used last year. - a '

i Said MY. De Valera to the Aug.

tralian premier durlng the father's jvlsft to Dublin: “You'll have a Ilt- ltle refreshment before we talk?" "Thanks", replied Mr. Menz es. "I'd like a drop of old Irlfh". “That: A relief", said his host, “I was half afraid you would ask for one of our old powtafi-Manohester Guardian.

Britain, we may be sure, will have to forget past. friendships when and If the French collabora- tion with Hitler finds expression In overt. act. ‘Ihe United States. committed to the policy of all-zut ald to Britain, may al'o be forced by the new trend of events to list France among the allies cf Ger- many. - Baltimore Sun.

Every kind of pressure has been

hope of forcing it to acquiesce in, If not welcome, the policy of ac- cepting a niche In the "New Order." But. neither hunger nor the pecullarly cruel form of black- mail which employs the two mil- llori French prisoners in Germany as hcsta-ges has mrved French. opinion to abandon hope of a fnal democratlc victory. - New York Nation.

Rhode Island

ls the most con- gested of all forty-eight states and it has the lowest rates of fatal ac-

‘cidents. Nevada is the mcst thinly

pc-pulated cf the states and has t‘"e highest accident rate. Nevada has

ant to romp around ln_ Just about the sire of Central Park. Rl-iode

a persm, srmetihlng 1‘ke half a. New York Cltv block. Yer Nevada has four times as many accidents per head of the population as Rhcde Island, This Is startlingly different from what one would ex- pect. - New York Times.

What has been accompl ‘- ed by the salvage campaign may be realized from the fact that dur- Ing 1940 British housewives saved enough scrap metal from their! dust bins to build an armada of 16,000 tanks. enough kitchen scraps to maintain an army of pigs many thousands strong, enough paper to fill 100,000 heavy lorries. In all, their efforts have saved the equivalent of 100 ships‘ cargoes frcm abroad _ ships wnch have been diverted Instead to carrying other vital supplies. — Bulletins frcm Britain.

If, In the words of’ the Prime Minister, "Hitler should batter his way to the gates of India", the fighting men of India wlll give him a. fitting reception. Here m Eng- land the policy oif the Government. of offering Indians of all parties the fullest Share in the war effort, while making panstltuticnal chang- es dependent on the support of the leading political elements In India,‘ deserves every support. It. ls de-

sirable that final decision should

‘await. victory. For when t-he whole.

energies of both Britain and India‘ are devoted to the clash of arms, it, 15 lmposzlble In either country (,0, devote t9 the complex political pTODIEITLS of Indla the care and at- tention which are tlhelr just due. - J. C. French in The National Rie- view lLondon).

Three or four weeks ago, we learn from London exchanges, aj group of newspaper-men concerned with British. alr activity were j given a. pleasant surprise part-y. They were called to the office 0.’. Lard Beaverbrcok, served a luncheon, and given a real inside chat on the state of the nation's alr progress. As told by Noel Monkst in Worlds Press News, a precedent! was set. when Beaverbrork walkedi into the "lion's den" unattended.

tomarlly shush Cabinet Ministers’ who mlgiht be tempted 1:) lndls-| cneet. disclosures. The Minister for Aircraft, Production talked for 15 mlmites off the record, then for, a smllar period fer publication.) It. seems to be the I nlque 11111011. has worked so satis- factorily for Mr. Roosevelt during, the past nine years. There are; few others In Washington who are‘ slmllarly at ease with the news- papermen, and according to Mr. Monks, there seems to have been none In London until Beavebrork cut. his way thzough precedent.

tended on both lantlc. - Editor (New You-k).

Londoners who travel on su-

able friend's own figures. He gave figures of over $16,000,000, which included upkeep of the property during the period when nothing was, going omthat is, from and after 1931,

Hon. Mr. Dandurand: Yes.

Right Hon. Mr. Meighen: First of all, I do not know why so much money was needed to maintain a hole. For it was nothing but a hole. Hon. Mr. Dandurand: There was much more than that. There had been $17,000,000 expended. Right Hon. Mr. Meighen: Not on construc- tion.

Hon Mr. Dandurand: Yes, partly on con- struction.

Right Hon. Mr. Mcighcn: I saw it. It did not amount to much.

Hon. Mr. Mnraud: It was mostly for ex- propriations.

Right Hon. Mr. Meighen: It was a hole, a

ghastly hole. I cannot see why so much money was needed to look after a hole. r- .1:

but-ban trains are nzw well ac-j customed to women porters. And

the women porters are beginning

to be accustomed to themselves In" their new role. My own suburban station master reports In glowing temis on their efficiency and ac- tivity. 0f course they are somewhat. highly tried In two emergencies. One. when acme unlucky travel- ler arrives with an aasortment of heavy luggage. Two, when call- ing out. the destination stations of an Incoming train. The spectacle of a. grizzled army colonel, with umpteen monstrous hold-ails, when comronled by a flve-fooc-four brunette rtress Ls something worth ltu ylng. Equally no that of a new-plpped subaltem, with his army gear heaped around, vrhen the porter turns out to be a slim blcnde with put-pied nails. Of course, as to the announcing of stations, ao- pranos are at a distinct. disad- vantage compared with OUIIIJBIIDS.

What tickles one most, however, Is Mum

the comic way the portresses pick up the genuine professional porter manner of stalking down a plat.- fomi or swlnglng a lamp-Ottawa. Journal.

Hunters, fishermen and vacation- Lsts continue their careless prac- tices, annually destroying as much forest, as the state can plant. In Maine, apparently. the Govem- ment/s patience w.th tihls aPPalllng and unnecessary waste has been exhausted. Anyone who you Into the Maine woods-no mam how experienced be may be-m con- fine hls use of fire to designated camping places where escape of the flames Is nearly ' r sol-hie; of, If he plans to m ke matches outside these spots, he must. be ac- - companlecl by a hired professional‘ gulde. A violation of thus laws en- tails a pretence so stiff that few men ever venture to offend a sec-l ond time. This seems a severe cur- tailment or the. roving Americana right to en]: himself as he pleases In Nature's cumin. But when men,

placed on the French public In the‘

nearly 800 acres for every Inhabit-l

by the fleet of stooges who cus-l m

We suggest that the Idea. be ex- sides of the At- i,“ 13$, country and Publisher (w, w;

leader. Mr. Church ers of sister Domlnfons with whom we stand or fall. . ____‘_"—__—_

A tywltberlmz llnnet.

As 1f each brambles-spray And mouriaed izold-wrvathed furze,

Dld to one blrd belong.

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CHALLENGE

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' A THOUGHT A DA!

eon A emu: u‘ wan l

"Under our voluntary sys- tem 0f recruiting, a. grave re- spousioluw rests with the ln- ‘ divldual. Accept that respon- slbilityamd come forward for Enlistment. no Gen A

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PUBLIC FORUM

full column h IIII he the dluulnlol b! Qfirrolpunduto of qnutlolu 0| Interact. Th: Chorlotletmvl Guardian don lol uooulully undone llu oplulolq 1st wrulpollelrl? ‘ ' '

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WHY THE INACTION l Slr —'I'he are In this Province

fanulles whrlech have been exlstmx‘

for o. number of years on a mere pittance of unemployment relief, ne- cause the famllv bre winner lbeen Ill with TB. Dunn: the 1940 session of the Legislature, the government was Iurxed to make adequate provision [for those fantllles. But their only action was to appoint s. commit

Place

-___.__ (Toronto Globe and Mall) ousands of

fer 1n Londcn wth and the Prime

other Domlnions. lllfllly all the people

Ministers of the

. Churchill. having indi- cated that. he very much dash-Es such a conference. I Wlll rto by me Quickest. rouielf I-lad he taken that, aturude. the Prime Minister of Can- and Independents

King himself admits that a. conference may be helpful: 1 have,

Conservatives Ike

01 6011156. fully honed that the !n0m-, might. come when it would be of] d

tent l 10113110828 to Canada. w Brit-am an

IMIIIISLGI‘ of Canada, to J0l1l in con. ICPBHCC

Ministers of the British Common-

15101111 01in 515111-16 01113’ 0119 B"? I0 iwealth. When the right. mom-int ' ‘comes, I shall not hesitate to cross

the Atlantic for purposes '01 cqn. terence when chat can be iomtly M. ranged."

But. m. Kim! Drofesscs to fear his departure would promote disunlty, and says "I myself must be

_ the JUGIZE of what, in the light of myi

responsibility L0 the Canadian D60- ple as a whole. is a time which will permit. of my absence 1mm Canada, while Canada is at war. This is a 18590115111100! that cannot. be shared

reno the country In _ Mr, Churchill told the British House of Commons: "We very much desire a, conference of Empire Prime M11115.

ters. and had hoped the end of July] T

or the beginning of August. might, have beena suitable occasion.’ In view of this Mr. Kim: should have dropped all domestic engagements and said "Ready. Aye ready!‘

gfifiéhl’ €.""‘°“°° 13th‘: 911%.;

. as comp e o5

m Mr. King. According to our staff correspondent. there were audible cries _of disapproval on at least. two 99911510115 lflfkely from one section ot the erand stand. when Mr. King aijrtved at the stadium and before he 31121111941‘ from his motor there were cries of ‘We want conscription." But

rum his speech. and sustained ab- plause was heard at. the tenninatlon

xriore about the temper and senil- ment of the Canadian people by 1811111111: sycophants and the cloistcrs of Ottawa and touring the 691111111‘. He can obviously speak W111i real authority upon the details of the Canadian war effort only If he makes a meticulous examination of every phase of It. Bub such a 13,51; would occupy a loniz time, and in Lhls war of rapirlmovemeni: the en- emy wlll not. wait. while he spends three weeks for 1m impaction of Western Canada and like periods in Ontario. Quebec and the Maritime Provinces. He surely does not, pm. pose to speak with more accurate fluthorl . upon one section than im- o er. 1f he carries out; his Intent-ion 0! $661118 all our war effort. with his own eyes, 1L will be September b1,- ore he can reach Britain. By that me the Germans may be In con- trol of the Ukraine and the Caucas- us and Japan may have been added to our foes.