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Morning Daily (Founded I881)

President, LleuL-Col. W. Chester S. McLure Vice President. J. R. Burnett. FJJ. Secretary. LieuL-Col. D. A. Macliinnon. D.S.O. _. lditor and Mn ' Director, J. K. Burnett, FJA Associate Editor. Prank Walker - SUBSCRIPTION BATES

$5.00 per year (in advance) delivered to City. $4.00 per year (in advance) mailed to P. E. Island $5.00 per year tin advance) mailed to Canada and U3

Members Audit Bureau of Circulation:

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

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1938

Progress Towards Bankruptcy

Our couteniporary’ iutvrprcts the 1:1 c1-11a111c11h11g the Czuuivbcll

‘ improwiiicrit i11 provin ‘in: \\"itl1 higher 111. "pcurliturcs to 11111-(8. they zhnn 1111s incnrrerl i11 15135, lion y." r. 'l‘l1crc is no * ltLTZlllsL‘ 1 e Czuiiplrcll Cviveru- 1rd its Clifxllllll your. Lp to tl1c 1d piled up atli ional liabilities 111m dollhrs and their extravag- .-.'t-‘ rraqrrss 1151s i11-fly lwcu 1h-111u111cc1l by tl1cir

Liberal

1- .!1 ' 1- ll“ .\111"l -i11cr. tin‘ v pow - solruui

. ' I/"n bulb/u! unw without

on. the ~ they lnve

1 .. _' tuproiri11c- ' 111.""k1*1l or othetwvisz‘.

1 "hi l'".1i111 l" f" "". s 1".iy zl bare- ‘ ’ " 1 :11 .1“1.:It to the tax-

our contemporary lvlu‘: [left-Tm their pre-

. 11 lznlf a million in tizr V/Tflllt.‘ wllrrlad 1115i‘ ycnr, to the ricbt they" lrred last vear of '5 and \'.i' .. stand? Last l"’-1'1'l<‘1'r11'.' “its mismanngcrl that "It cad of the protu-

ovv. um!

i=~> nWxvvwi hi: lgct even of the. Pront- lrfis a"-'""'pa1'ed dreficit of $r13.288, rhev had a at no Ye=;_ than $l__>n_i7g_7| p ‘* ‘ P lflflfl Of ftllllllnfi tilt Quegng C-IWT" Asw-ciation indorses. Thcv are WW‘ to do =0. but our question was: llow do .. V. expect tne electors to react to such

fatuoirs adulation.’

Liberals At \Vaterloo

Commenting on the lNaterloo South by- ClC"Y'1L’\, the Ottawa jmirnal says: “The King G1’t'PrI‘.ll‘.t"llf made a strong effort to rescue the cs1: ':‘1.11.-11c_v, sent Cabinet Ministers there to expound. the Liberal doctrines, mzule an issue of the. forthcoming trade treaty with the United Ftri '——-and, when the votes were counted, saw a l. servative majority’ of I25 in I935 increas-

Tcchnical Education Act and support of Indian schools) to $1,622,486. In I935, the last year listed by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, the figures were: local, ‘$85,423,110; provincial, $13,435,736; and from the Dominion $1,746,541. 'l'husc figures hnlicate that there has been a

- heavy" increase in educational costs and also that

it has come practically" entirely upon the muni- cipalities and the provinces.

The figures presented by Premier Campbell to the Rowcll Commission indicate that in Prince Edward Island we are able to spend far less per pupil per anuum thnu any other Province, and yet our Provincial Government pays more than twice as much towards-such cost as any other Province.

The Free Press recalls that some _vcars ago an English cducationalist, Sir Michael Sadler, visiting in this country, obscrcvd that Canadian provinces were making a gallant attempt to pro- vide secondary as well as elementary education out of public funds. He expressed the fear that the taxpayers could not carry the burden. lt \\'1.1lli(l scem that that fear is being realized. Arc Canadians, then, asking too nmch of their pub- licly controlled school system or is the Dominion Gcucruiucnt the answer, and if so, for how long and under what conditions?

1 Editorial Notes 1

Toinorroiv, 23rd Simdziy" after Trinity. ll‘ i >l< 1k Relief of ls11cl<111.»\v-—-“'l'l1e Czuupbclls are Com- 111g"-—tl1is Slate, 1857. l! i

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50% re- aud have

Fox Ranchers fully expected a duction 1111 pehs going into the Slates. got onlv zzfk.

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A spirit of optimism‘ was manifested by mer- chants and shoppers 'l‘hur.~"rla_v and yesterday, resulting in a big turnover in sales and pur- chases. This speaks well for the prospects for Christtnas and winter trade.

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Our fishermen have gained little or nothing by the tariff reductions, as the same terms arc exlcudwl to Xc\\"foundla11cl. and according to Nova hernia leaders i11 day's of yore. the New- foiiitllrittders p11t it all over the Klaritimes when it cxime to competition in West Indies and oth- er markets. v a e

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lt was not very nice. was it? for .\lr. Lester Douglas to charge .\lr. Henry Lapthorn, and Mr. Russell Chndlcr, as good Liberals, if not better. than himself, with discrimination in select- ing labour for the airport. .-\nd thcu to blame it on the officials of thc Department of Trans- port! Fie, fie! 1i- 1r m "1: It is not every clay we have a direct descendant of King Robert the Bruce of Scotland in Can- ada. but we l1ave one in the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Elgin, K.T., C..\[.G., at present attending the Toronto \\'inter Fair. accompanied by Countess Elgin and daughter, Lady Martha Bruce. While in Montreal en route to Toronto, the party visit-

ed to a Con=crvative majority of 4.000 in I033, “fifth is sc-iucthing that cannot be explained by the. Liberils with any great satisfaction to them- selves. The successful Conservative polled, in fact. more votes than the combined vote of his liberal and C. C. F. opponents, both of whom lose their deposits. ln Brandon, on the other ban-l, the winning Liberal had s. majority of only If“ over the Conservative candidate. had some 25m fewer votes than the Conservative and C. C. F. combined.

Life Expectancy

It is cheering to read, in a current Flcalth pullicntion, that science has enormously‘ extend- ed the average duration of life. ln the I6tl1 century the average was 20 years: in 1850 it was 40; in loot it was 49 years; today" it is nearer to 6o. It probably will be extended further. Scientists say that under ideal conditions the span of life is not only three score and ten, but much longer. ‘

l-‘uit thcre is a "catch" in it. so far as adult longevity’ is concerned. The increased expectancy" of life does not mean that mcn live longer than lwilwre, but that the children, whose mortality" fifrv _vr:1r.< ago was beyond all belief. are nrnv b-inq saved. This brings the average duration of liic n1ucl1 higher. But the man of 35 or 40 vvars has today no longer life ahead of him on iho average than hc hnd before, except insofar '1,- lie adopts lhc methods of prevcntivtsmcdicmc.

Federal’ Aid For Education

T21 :1 rcccut address Hon. Ivan Sflllllbl) p-\lllll‘ ‘Lit-i- ni lhliuzllioii for the Province of .\l.1_111t<1»1, tn 1"1.tr1l tho desirability of Dominion (AFPVPFIP mcnt grants for education. This 1c 1n l111eyv1tl1 the recommendation made to the Rowell Lom- fnl<ivifl bv the Government of this Provincc. wli cl1' i-‘Hjltilffll “substantial Dominion Silbililivs tlcfinitclv‘ cnriuarkcrl for education, though not f,“ flnyfspcdfic cdltcational servicgmand grant. ed on some basis of provincial nee . V" v

.1\ difficultv in the way’. “Y5 llle ll ljllllllws’ FrrrYPrcss ‘is that'if' the Dominion (iovcrn- mrnt supported education 1n the provmrpslyl “hum ;,.-k for control of that education, anr 1. prnviiircs hold on to their control of education with the tightest of holds.

l: lns been the policv of the federal govern- mr-ut to‘ kcctw awav from school mnltcrs. When it has come forward it has been 1n fillcilalllgl ilcpnrtiticuts such as. those provided unr er t c Azricultural Instruction Act of 19k} andltlu: Technical liducntion Act of 19“)- bnder “T” acts the llottiinlon Government pays (lollilr 10f rlnllar with IheII-"rovince. By lO3h7 fmll’ provinces, Tlamtoba and SaskalCh 0211,01 11 sums remaining on which lhfi)’ "Hill lid“-

Thc agricultural classes 110w 2'1""! forward-

i- - ~ lc come 11n- t r unem 1lo ed young pcop ,. _ (STCCtF Eipnciir provisionlmadc by the DOYIHHICH Par- . ' - i . , _ ~"'l ltamcut 111 i037 “him $ltt?°o'?oz_alilt'1lirs1giet a Kc , ' t’ cs o vocalona . folinviigfgisghl-Ztighout Canada local school taxes ' - ' ' . t. for lccrnmtcrl for $36.636»567 1 Provmillal grgzaliiln-on schools to 35.731173“? “ml from ‘c '

ed Villa Maria Convent. formerly Government House. where his father was born during the term of the eighth Earl as Governor-General. IF i i i

A proposal that the name of the Church of England in Canada be changed to represent it as a Canadian rather than an English church was referred to a committee for consideration by the Syinod of the Rupert's Land diocese. Archbishop M. T. Harding favored I. change, saying the church was losiugmembers because the present name gave s11111c the idea the church was for English people only. \Vhy not call it the Elll>COflill Church of Canada, just as we have the Episcopal Church of Scotland?

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There are sly hints that the King administra- tion may defer its next appeal to the Canadian electorate until I940. Cine reason given is the apparent impossibilit_v of getting much done in the coming session before the arrival of the King and Queen. It is unlikclv the members will tol- cratc an adjournuiciit. Tlhose from the far \Vest and the Maritime Provinces arc not keen-about going home and returning in the hcat of sum- mer to unfinished business. flood arguments against postponing the elrction until I940 can Zllsn be found. Premier King. should hc wait another year. would be placed in the position of being obliged to go to the country then regard- lcss of economic and other conditions. Sparring for position would be impossible. * it >7 I

§h1111l1l thc federal authorities call a confer- ence with the provinces folloiviug submission of the Rowell tRoynl) Commission's report, as llon. lirncst Lapointe, Minister of justice, last wcvlc intimated they would. Quebec will “gladly participate." Premier Maurice Duplcssis (le- clares. "We will gladly participate in a provin- cial conference which should have taken place long ago," .\lr. Duplessis said. "and which, al- though it does not have all the necessary powers, would constitute a much better stop than the Rmvcll Commission.” lt was “more natural, he observed and “more according to common sense" when provincial problems l1.'1d to be dealt with. to convene the provincial authorities than to call a commission “ex parte" as the federal govcrn111c11t did.

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Dr. llntiion will re-enter the House of Com~ mom as representative of a highly industrialized couuuunity, the centre of a very large n1anufac- turing and agricultural area. London ranks as the metropolis of \\'cstcrn Ontario and is re- puted to be one of the most representative cities in all Canada, an important railway centre, a imivcrsity city. an airport, the scat of two bis- hops, an Anglican and a Roman Catholic, and far mlvnncr-tl in lmspitalizatinn. The site of Lon- don was chosen by (loxertior Simcoe as that of the future capital of Upper Canada. and al- though this Ilcstitrv was never reached. the city which grew there l1.1s achieved an enviable dc- vclopmcnt. inrlustrinllyg educationally and as the financial centre of an extensive and prosperous districlfl lt has a wide variety of manufactur- ing establishments. many of which are of na- tional importance. The interests which Dr. Man- ion will represent as member for London are

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THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN__

NOTES BY THE WAY,

The locomotive whistle can claim a musical pedigree. It was invent- ed by an English organist more than _a century ago following a level crossing crash between a train and. a farmer's cart on the Leices- ter and Swannington Railway. In Its original form it. was not. known as a whistle but was called a. "steam trumpetT-St. Thomas Times-Joumal.

King George of Greece is on the way to London. King Carol of Rumania was also reported a f~w days ago making preparations for a. journey to the same destination. Greece and Runlanla are tivo small countries along the route of Hitler's self-predicted "march to the east." Their kings are trot, l: may be surmised just gem: 1o London to pay social calls and see the sights. —Ecln10ul0u Bulletin.

Oh, for more public men like Lord 'I‘tveeds1uui1' One tiny he 1s at a plowing I11.11cl1. liobnobhmg with real dlr". farmers, and tok- irig a. turn between the plow handles; the next tiny he is ad- dressing a dignified giuherlug at a university nnd roceuring .111 honorary n0 rev. A‘ both places he is equally .12. l1o111e, and ".1! 01's

CDmmOHSCITSP YPTTTZTIJPZS Ull ‘flllfil occasion. -»St. Thomas Tlnzcs- J oumal.

To some extent the vagaric American foreign |lllllC_' consequence o1 (in iencies and

the underlying certainties 0t Ame: itself regarding the p for the United Staffs world affairs. In so 1.1 ter consideration is r310 1 factor, we can only 111:: upon the final crystallization of ."\fllt‘l‘lt.lll

Opllllilll ‘ CnlileL‘

ODlHlOl"i—-£lfld mcantuue strciuzlieii our defences ilgillllSl Lhc forcrs of aggression. For while 1: 1s true that is the

a clear-cut foreign ])Oll(‘}' logical first line of 11:1" defence and while 1' l. that; our foreign policy uncertain and confused, have plainly reached a point at which some further l11crvn=e in our armaments 1s necessary. —New York Times.

It wouldn't lnok right for WPA workers to operate a wheelbarrow single-handed. '1‘o fit the general idea. as lt looks to observers, n. crew of six to each wheelbarrow: would be sufficient. It would con- sist of one loader. one lead push- er. one unloacler. one empty bar- row pilsher, one load inspector, onc- wheelbarrow mechanic. Then. too. the wheelbarrow should have W0 Wheels. pneumatic tired if the full crew idea is to be given full consideration. A loaded one-wheel barrow ls not always easy to bal- ance. Even a specialist sometimes is annoyed by its wobbles. Ob- viously one wheel should not be made to do the work of two if one man will not do the work of two-or six. ‘Pncre ought to be a law. -—The Bulletin, Philadelphia.

What could he more timely than: "To lead an uninstructcd people to ‘war ls to throw them away"? The doctrine in preparedness is compressed in ttvo pregnant sent-

ences: “Let a good man teach the people seven years and they may be led to war!" “Dig deeper your moats; build higher yotu" walls; guard them. you and your people." Where ls the “will to win“ and 1's unconquerable spirit better set: forth than in the words: "With walls of grant height. with moats of great depth, with arm, both of offense and defence. trenchrlnt and mighty. with tzrcal stores of rice and other food. the city ls surrendered and abandoned. This is because material advantages do not compensate for the absence of the spiritual union of men. Therefore it ls said. ‘A people is protected. not by bulwnrks and ditches: a kingdom ls safeguarded. not by rivers and mountains; an empire ls conquered. not by the superiority of armsfl-frhe sun. New York.

More than a million pounds of buffalo meat will be provided this year by the slaughter of 2.000 su1'-' plus animals from Cnnatlnsgreat uffalo herds ln Buffalo national park and Elk Island national pnrk in Alberta. Once in danger of ex- tinction. the buffalo. thanks to

steps taken for their conservation by the Canadian rzovcrrunent. have .,_

so increased in numbers that odlc slaughtcrs are neccssn reduce the lvrds lu keeping Willi the grazing capacity of the parks. The slaughter of the buffalo is carried out under the supervision ofa government li1spector and strictly humane and up-to-datr: methods are employed, Canada's success in saving the buffalo from extinction has sen heralded as one of the outstanding achieve- ments ln the histcrv of wild life conservation, More than sixty years ago the buffalo inhabited the western plains of Canada and the United States in countless thous- ands. but the advance of settle- ment and the i111n1:r.11"iclr111c': of hunters brought about. rno of the greatest slnughtcrs i11 wild life history. all but wlpinc out of ox- istence this most lntr1"c.~t:1*.:, r-pc- cles. In I907 the Canadian qnvern- | ment purchased 11 horn of pure-

bred buffalo whlch (oi-men the

nucleus of the prcsrnt herds. and

under the sanctuary conditions

afforded them in Buffalo and Elk

Island national parks the animals, increased so rapldLv that varlous1

measures became n-ccssarv. —- Brandon Sun. A pack of cards that may

have been used to teach children geography in the reign of Queen Elizabeth has been added to the collection of the British Museum. ‘it was designed ln 1590. The cards are hand-colored and represent the counties of Ennland. based on Christopher Saxtonfls atlas of l579_ One of the cards bears a portrait of Queen Elizabeth with the fol- lowing poems:-

Thls mayden queene like Debora. doth rnlfln. _ p She by hlr wisdom and hir con- stant zsale: In peace and nlrrnlle doth gods wnrrie malntaine. Would 20d I rout! lair vcrtues all

reveale. ‘hvise slxteene verx ye scepter in hlr hand. No traitors could. nor forralne

foes wrest out: Great Warres abrode, yet prod de- fends hlrland. Lord. let thy angels hlr aboute,

The peck ls older

com passe

bv 70 Years

(“n43 the Agricultural" Instruction Act, the

unusually typical of the interests oi all Canada.

than any English plevlniz cords previously in the Museum. — Corning Events 1n Britain.

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NOVEMBER 19. 1938

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Public

Forum

S1r,-——If the sublect dealt with l" the Premier's statements to the Temperance Federation were n0! so vital to the well-helm: and the lives cf so many of our 080016 hi5 rfteech would indeed be amusinz. "the Premier's troubles are mostly twins with occasional triplets. Some of these are u follows:

TWO factors complicate or az- gravabe the problem of Prohi- bition enforcement; (l) Increase in mstor trafflkc‘: (2) Roma-l of Proiu- buion eiseW‘ 6Y9.

TWO special problems and @1151 points of attack face the Premiers adnllulstratlitvni i1) Sales by boot‘- lcqgers: <2» Sales by "he Heme" own Vendors.

TWO new factors or featurvs have been introduced bv l-hfi Pfe- nnier; i1) systematic employment of detectives; t2llPadlcckme the premises of law violators. To this enumeration the Premier adds an additional factor or complaml- '3' Lack of co-operation from boot- lorztzers. _

The situation. the FY9011?!‘ 60m‘ plains. 1's like a bat! mtnLWO H1115- full cf wind. Squeeze ll at "he end. lt bulges out at. the other- Squeezlniz it at the bootIeztZl-‘YS 60d 1t bulqes, he says. 110i mewly l“ one other direction. but lp tWO- These areJl) Incrcaseof moon- shine", t2) Increase 0f sales by the Premiers Vendors.

A third problem confronts thé Premier; Drunken driving.

Two defects. he says, exist m £1118 former system of rleallnz ‘yvlfh m5 evil. These are. i11 vflllatlll“ F“ the periods of cancellation of lic- enres; <2) Return of licenses by the Premiers own Devflflmefll l? car drivers before the explrailml °

the period durmr: which tne license was suspended or Calwelled»

Two remedies. he tells us. hzivfi been discovered by U16 PIE-m"- These are. _<1t Changing the time cf cancellation of drivers llceneei- 121 Takinz away from the Provin- cial Secretarys this own) Depart’ meng m9 privilege It had abllied- iThe Premier holds so many D081‘ Lions that when he slW-lks’ of the Department of the Provincial Sec- retary one mlgltt. think he W85 talking of some man he had never met).

The Premier ls rHDOTTIBd w have concluded his QMIBHYUC. 0T hi5 .13‘ Inent. bv aver-ring that he is only too willing and anxious to carry the laws to their best possible e“- forcement. One may express the hcpe that the Premiers latest pressure on tlhe baz W111 00$ @1159 it to bulge 1n some new direction.

Examine some of the Premiers statements.

lst-The Employment of Detec- tives. Is this stippcsed to _be some- tnintz new that the Premier boasts was introduced by him during the time he has had the administration of the enforcement of the Prohibi- tion Act? Where was the Prerruer ln 1913 when "the systematic Pl!- eratlon of under-cover Investiga- tors“ toe-k place. which resulted in some sixty‘ or m:re prosecutions? The fact that the Premier may than have been attending school is no reason for the assertion that sys- tematic operation d detective: has only been Introduced by him- sel

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Znd-Co-operatlon from bootleg- gers.

The Premier asserts:

"Another factor which in brevi- ous scars was effective ln com- battlniz the activities of the boot- leztzcrs was the competition among themselves. Up till recent years one of the most. fruitful scurces of information azainst. booLlwtZiflB was supplied bv rival operators; but the bvotieggers have apparent- lv become alive to the dander of carrying on business in this way. and now. instead of operating as FlVfll competitors and assistlnk the public in getting information azainst each other. they seem to have formed a sort of s. union to suppress information."

The statement that bootleggers in this Province have been sunnin- inz information arrcainst. rival boot- lcqizers and have been co-operat- in; with the public 1n prosecuting rival bcctleeszers ls new to me. So far as mv knowledtre or informa-