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‘The Strongest Memory ie Weill“? "l" the _ Weakeat_I_n§."

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER, D5. 1939-

U. S. Opinion

The Olltzrcii Journal predicts that the Congress t0 which I'l'c.sitlcnt llotisevelt spoke last meek will give him what he wants: Right of the b111- tcd States to sell war munitions t0 nations that can l:u_\' them with spot cash. ludeetl, it is sug- gested lilcft‘ l> g-iod rcasvin for believing, on tlic pa“ of {niriy llllIlllYl'llJ1ll\'C reports, that Lon- gress will vntt- rupcal of ilie existing neutrality 121w by an ovciwvheliiiing llliljufll)’; perhaps by two to one. _

\\'hat the bnitctl Ftatcs does with respect to its uciurality- lil\\'>, or with respect to its attitude toward llllrv war, is oi course’ solely for Ameri- cans l<).ilt'.\'1'11lE1‘.Q. lhsir attitude is their own business, llicii‘ own lirtlldtlll; they must be left to work it out for themselves.

A; fin’ Sh; l\'-u-~t‘\‘('l[ himself, there can be

little doubt ; will his niiiid. lle spoke again of the "for-s of rcligitln", of the “philosophy of force“, of llli‘ "cuiinics of our faith, of our hu- n,;||,}n-_" ,\‘.. un..- I!l'l'll question what he meant. To \\li;ucvt~i' of Wu he was symaking, or whal-

ever thought was in hzs mind, when he added that the liniicd Flair-s must be “kept out of \var,” his own hcart, quite clearly’, is on the Bri- tish and .\lli.il si le.

The llrif anl .\llicd side will unquestion- ably gain if, with ic-prct lo neutrality laws, Mr. Roosevelt 311s his way. llritaiu and France and Canada, with ca-ii to pay for munitions, and with lhips to carrj: thcm to Europe, will have the whole vast Illlllll of the United States for arma- mcnis znid war iiiatcriills. To (iermzinyg with- out cash to pay for munitions, and without bot- toms to carry them even could she pay for them, they will not be avaihble. 'I‘hat, in the long run, in ‘the ca=c of a long war, should weight thc lcales heavily for the Allied side.

In this connection it is interesting to note the result of a survey conducted by the Chrirliail Scirure tllonilor to the effect that newspapers throughout the Ilnitctl States stand four to one for a repeal of the arms embargo. This coin- cides with the findings of the magazine Fortune, just aunouucctl. According to this 83.1 per cent 0f the C-S. public want Great Britain and France t0 ivin; only one per cent favour Germany; 29.3 pt-r cent diwire ihe bititt-d Ftaies t0 supply war and other IHZIYcTIHlS to all bclligercnts on a cash- aud-carry basis, which, of course, would prove of great atlvzuilage to the democratic cause; 24.7 per cent xvoultl refuse aid of any kind to either side; 13.5 per cent would enter the war on the side of the Allies if they were in danger of los- ing, and would stipply food and other materials immediately; 111.0 per cent would not enter the vvar, but would furnish the Allies with supplies, and refuse to do the same for Germany.

Adding it alliup, it means that practically two- lhirds of the IY.S_ people disapprove of a rigid isolationist policy and are anxious to assist in J0me way in bringing victory t0 the democratic powers. It would be strange if it were Other- wise. Anybody visiting the United States at this time must he impressed with the overwhelm- lrig sentiment in favour of Britain and France Ind the dislikc——amounting to positive aversion —of the system which Hitler i| l0 ruthlessly peeking ‘to impose on the world.

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"Said The Spider To The Fly"

In Belgium, the German consulate has posted u notice that doctors, engineers and technicians "of German nationality regardless of race," are invited to come home to Germany.

This, suggests an exchange, could mean no- body but the Jews, and it could mean nothing but that lack of their trained technical ability is now being felt by the country which so brutally and ruthlessly expelled them, and drove them as beggars into the world beyond its borders.

Needless to say, any Jewish technician lured l;ck into (it-rmativ on any such grounds as the promise to repatriate him and restore his stolen privpcrhv, would be too dumb to be 0f much help to llitler or anybody else.

Catholic Press Comment

Probably tioihiug more treacherous in the his- tory of the world has ever taken place than the Reds‘ attack on the Poles when engaged in a bitter and stubborn fight with the Germans, says the Nvrtt lirrrmriit. Such a thing is possible only in ilng mimh of such people as Gtalin and Ilitler toTWhom civilized cibics have no meaning.

Great llriiziin and France can do nothing to help lhc Poles because of the geographical Sllll‘ ation of l‘ol.'uul. The war will be. decided 0n the western front where the allies have alrcadv mad consider-hie progress in the face of tremendous fortifications.

Despite all the contradictory statements it seems evcn less likcly that Italy will line her- self up in zuiy combiuatioii in which Russia is r1 partner, whilst as for Nationalist Spain — the eounirv which has been so vilcly misrepresented a5 pro-German, etc. — General Franco long ago stated that, in (h: cvcnt of a European war, Spain would be neutral. If there should he any doubt on the matter now, the joining up of Russia with Germany settles it. Flpain has had a taste of what Russian terrorism means.

\\'h.'it has happened in Poland (luring the hast few davs had been feared and anticipated. Now that it has l1‘1p|1(‘l1(‘(l the issue can be faced as i! is. with (‘Illiiinrss and determination. Nlorc than

ever must Ilitlcrisin go, for the peace of the would. '

5 EIDITORIAL NOTES .-

Metius, inventor of the telescope, died this

date, 1635. e a a e

A leading London writer to the Press de- clares that as the result, of a lengthened war, Canada would undoubtedly become the centre of the Empire with Ottawa as the political and imperial capital.

w- e o w

Our fox breeders believe in carrying on busi- ness without interruption, and have decided to hold their Fox Show as usual, in the week com- mencing November 20. The Pelt Show also will be held, details of which are to be decided upon later.

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Imports of living animals in July were valu- ed at $63,842 compared with $156,148 in June and $135,674 in July last year. Most of these came from the United States at $59,717, Great Britain coming next at $2,711. However, the animals from the United States for exhibition purposes were valued at $40,220

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Monday 9th October is Ilarvest Thanksgiving and should the present state of weather continue, all our potatoes should be up and stored by that time. This promises t0 be the most bountiful harvest financially for years, and our farmers are deserving of it, though the cause itself is to be regretted. Farmers, too, are not i1iiser5—— what they receive in cash they give back in trade. making the wheels 0f industry revolve. I i Ii i

Canadian imports of meats were valued at $683,250 compared with $678,882 in June and 202,930 in July last year. The outstanding item was canned beef from South America, the amount from Argentina being $79,857 and Uru- guay’ $36,833. A quantity received from Aus- tralia amounted to $17,241. Shipments of mut- ton and lamb from New Zealaud amounted t0 29,490 pounds at $1,367 and from Australia 17,- 133 pounds at $583.

m e u a Politics must not be left out of schools. Mr. G. II. Calpiu, editor of a Natal newspaper, told delegates t0 the Natal Teachers Society annual conference recently that if teachers were not di- recting their students towards the best in de- mocracy they were failing in their duties. By politics he did not mean the merits of any par- ticular party. -“I am impressed by the failure of democracy to start with the beginning of things” he said. “Democracy, that is so well worth dy- ing for, must be made worth living for and that immediately throughout all our work and at all times of the day.”

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What, we should like to know, has become 0f the Campbell Government's precious land and canning factory schemes with which they went to the country as main planks in their election campaign? Now is the time when everyone is being told to develop all the necessaries of life possible, Canada being the breadbaslcet of the Commonwealth of Nations, if not the civilized world. Surely, the Government is not to take advantage of the second World War as an ex- cuse for abandoning the proposed systcmatized development of our principal resources. Where

there is a. will there is a way. l it

Primaries, the Times says: “The defeat by Jonah J. Goldstein of Chief City Magistrate Jacob Gould Schurman Jr. for the Democratic nomination for Judge of the Court of Special Sessions is a. regrettable violation of the princi- plc of bipartisan selection of judges. Through the efforts of the bar associations the Tammany leader and the Republican County Executive Committee accepted Mr. Schurmau, a Republican and Mr. John A. Mullen, a Democrat, as can- didate for the two places on the bench of Gen- eral Scssions. Governor Lehman declared his intention of voting for them. By a narrow squeak the enrolled Democratic voters have smashed the agreement. It is to be hoped that in the Fall this decision will be reversed at the polls." a n- u a

Rev. T. G. Wallace, London, Ont. writing to the New York Times puts in these words which most of us think: “lvlay we in Canada remind our American brothers that air wavcs do not stop at the northern border? Now and then there are speakers who profess to be great champions of peace but do not hesitate to make statements offensive to a friendly nation across the border- \\'e in Canada set up the United States on a pedestal alongside Great Britain as a people deserving our highest respect and ad- miration. The pacifist, if conscientious, deserves consideration, but I have my doubts of those paci- fists who spit venom at their neighbors. The young nation to the north of you is at war-not against Germany but against Hitlcristn. In this we have acted (lcliberately, and you are big enough to give us credit for doing what we think

Parliament, including representatives from At-

lantic to Pacific, representatives from two cui-

turcs, French and English, stood for democracy

and Christianity with only two (lisscnting votes i" m a a u

Impossible to calculate but of far-reaching ini- portance to Canada's economy will be the results of the hlackcnzie King's government's an- nounced plan to rcpalriate as much of the $2,- 8('>5,o00,000 of Canadian bonds held in England as are necessary to permit Britain to pay for her war orders here, besides the $1.§00,000,000 of foreign securities owned by Canadians if that is found necessary for itiaintainiug the Canadian dollar. The Douiiiiinii did nothing 0f the kind in the last \var. Of Great Ilritaiifs $2,685,000,- ooo investment in Canada, $317,000,000 is in Dominion Government bonds, $61,000,000 in provincial and $136,000,000 in municipal secur- ities. The Federal Government might repatriate the last two categories in toto and use them as a means of enforcing that centralized Dominion control over all Canadian indebtedness which failed of achievement in the. form of a loan coun- cil some years ago- It might buy up at bargain rates Canadian Pacific Railway common stock, owned almost entirely in Britain, and thus settle the vexed railroad question. \Vhelhcr it does or not, the repatriation of Catiadian securities from London will leave (Tam-Ma's foreign debt entire- ly it! Unit"! 5mm hind! " " r"

IIOTES BY TllE WAY

tail could, of course, be plc.ked out, and they have been by various critics. Generally spec-king, how- of the pub- ic was 1e. and the work of the authorities excellently and steadily organized. The most. not.- e. uu erence from the actual condition! ‘if a. raid was the fact. that the population. anxious to see the “sightsfi did not. obey the in- structions to put. themselves under cover. ‘Phat defect would be “re- medied" in the event of a real raid, for the first. bomb explosion would be likely w empty the streets. There was not. much harm, there- fore, 1n the publieb failure to over- eorprg their curiosity-The Sphinx, Cs. .

In 1937 we sold nizltel, aluminum. copper, asbestos, zinc, lean‘. scrap iron, and hides to Japan w a value of $16,026,057. Last yea: we added mica. to the list and boost- ed the total to $18,375,282. Some 94 per cent. oi Canada's exports to China last. year were raw materials for munitions or supplies. If the United States halts such blood- stained trade surely Canada must stop it. also. Otherwise we will be continuing partnership with a na- tion whose guns may be turned against. our own coast; and those of our sister Domlnlons. — London Free Press.

THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

PUBLIC FORUM

thin oolunu Ie Open II the

lileuuleu by correspondents 0|

queutlele If Interest. Ibo

Charlottetown Guardian loan lot

annually undone the opinion of nrrupollclh. l

SAVAGE HARBOUR VI. WOOD ISLANDS

Bir,—Wou1d you investigate what I consider l very lo rumor to the effect that paving is now being laid on the Savage ur- ibour Mad, while the direct. road m the Wood Islands Berry except for a. few miles, la not yet let. for sub- eroding. and n far u the direct road to Borden Ls concerned v- ing it 1s not yet even prom .

I em. Sir, etc.. (Th PWO Iitsepaxtiitllznt rt o . . . rcpo

that two lisht pieces of worik are M1118 done on the seven Harbour- Road to demonstrate e. new type of road surfacing suitable for second- ary roads: the contract for Wood Islands road was let. only three weeks B80. and one steam shovel and two road machines are now 91188806 upon it: while in the case 0f the Borden Road, t/wo steam stoyfls and IOU‘; road machine; ere ma m: as rap r n5 pqg- lble. Ed. G.) p ogre“

WAR ORDERS FOR CIYTOWN Bl11~N0w that the newly formed

posltor.

Intoxication.

ernments for newspapers.

The statement

39 cases out of 100 jealousy is the cause of gossip, On this basis the green-eyed monster control of a vast. number of people 1n in all communltles.—Brantford Ex-

a Chinese laundrymani establish- ed a local precedent the other day by getting himself sent to lull for

search of court. records here for over. a hundred years failed to re- veal the conmclion of any other Chinese on a New York Times.

It le a good thing that people do not have to depefiid upon their gov-

t e The report of Hospital division, Ontario Depart- ment of Health, for the year ended March 31, 193B. has only now made its public appearance. — ville Recorder and Times.

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War Supply Board at Ottawa has announced a great. p: m or man- ufacturing war Sllpnles for the motheli- country, in all of the var-t- ous pants across Canada capable of tumln out such Jlrpplleg and rt-lcu ar the marvufacturi-ng of shels and other tvpes 0f arm mllnlllon. ls it. not the duty of our Federal representatives for P, E. Island at Ottawa to press for a portion of War Board orders for ou.r local machine shop, the Bruce Stewart Shops. A visit. to this large and important set of foundries and machine shops will convince any- one, either layman or government official of the alrilitv of this plant to take care of a very large share of War Board orders for am- munition. Sad to say there are numerous great lattice, ponderouc cranes, Jigs, etc., that. are lying idle and that have not turned in years for want 0f orders offered. Now withal the ‘equipment, the skilled mechanics and other needs lying idle awaiting business. no orders will drop from the heavens to this

ls made thal. In

must. have

said

that a

charge. —

production of the

Brock-

In discussing the result of the New York ,5

is best. “'11s it not an impressive fact that our i

It is a serloufs and far‘ from easy

of the entire country as the schools open this week and next. Many mistakes were made twenty-five

be repealed. if war continues. yet the choice 1s clearcut. alternative to clear

And The reasoning on

peels of another generation of chil- their elders-Washington Post.

arms, munitions and implements of war on the one hand and other articles classed as contraband by the belligerents. It will permit all trade to go on. But it would regu- late such trade. It would require belligezents to pay cash and take title for all purchases in this coun- try. It would empower the Presi-

can ships in combat areas. It. is, in short, a sensible programme ic- cogiilzlng our right to trade designed to reduce friction with the belllgerents to a minim-um. C0n_ gress ought to BAZIOpl. iL-Baltimore un.

Squirting shipping reporters in the eye with a buttonhoie gadget, Mr. F. A. Hammer-green, business- man from San Francisco, announc- ed himself as the Prince of Prac- tical Jokers and related his ex_ plolts with DeliSh, Promptly arriv- ed an invitation to a. 10rd Mayoral reception and a. car to take him there, but he found himself pre- senting an elaborate entree card at. the Reception House for lunatlcs. ‘Come right in". said the gate- keeper. And the undergrad chauf- feur slowly drove away. _ A115. iralzan Press Union.

, ____ But then what‘: left of our ripe xholar? Nothing. What. with new model verbs and pronouns, split 1n- finitives, interpolated Dreposltions, traffic-sign nouns, and buried verbs, our krammar seems to have abou; as much stability about it as a. French franc, or a. Japanese treaty or an pver-the-counter share 1n a. gold mine, or any other up-to-date phenomenon. N0, our ripe scholar has fallen off his stem-From Mo- del Memoirs, h" Stephen IJEBCOCK.

It is well that there ls u mora- torium on provincial politics. Col. Drew states than. there is no neces- sity such as might. apply to the national arena for coalition in Ontario, but that affalrs might be carried on without. any serious disagreement and he believes such will be the case. Ontario has set a splendid example of political co- operation. Conscription is a. war word which has several meanings and can be applied not. only to manpower, wealth, but. t0 ability, energy and industry, _ st, gunk arlnes Standard,

Neither the proposal to repeal the Neutrality Act and return to the principles of international law nor the proposal to repeal the Bfms embargo provision and enact a "cash and cariy" provision in its place can be described as Senator Boarh described the latter proposal WWW"?! Imposing a strain upon accuracy. He refers to “some of us" who would prefer to keep "the old law," but this, too, ls mislead- ing, for the. law described as old ls actually a very recent product, with no background of tradition. The old law, so far as the United States is concerned, Ls the law of true neutrality based on international low-New York Stun.

Chancellor Hitler asked Premier Daladler to imagine part. of France, Marseilles for instance, being cut. off from the rest. of the country by a corridor such as separates Blast Prussia from the rest of Ger- ms-ny. Sinoe than it. is revealed that. pro-Nazis have been sending to Americans a post card on which l! B 111W showinll a Canadian cor- rldor taking up much of New Hampshire and, running to the eel. separating Maine from the rest. of New England. Cynical New Yorkers who received these cards were heard to say that such a corridor would have been mighty handy in the long years of pro- hibition: and nobody has been sent to a concentration camp for that. dieloyal remark. In fact, the re-

cipient-s or the propaganda by post recalled that. for '12 years our own dear Alaska has been shut 0111mm

orders for shells and will be ordered bv the board dur- in-z the 00min": weeks or months. dent to control the movement. of We have the Shflll- WP e-‘(Derlenced American nationals and of Ameri- workmen, others can be trained un- der zovernment supervision and a greatly accentuated pay roll but result f0:- our city for two, three. knights who fought. for their fawn

or more

of Trade. the Junior Trade, get behlncl (this opportunity iillrlitirlllffi: Qsléléurrlzprfipvlpxgveg’ tot 1p‘: has been noble and self-effacin-g in business for our Citv?

amples of patriotism. ful odds," they have fought on de-

‘ner tragic history.

plant, nor will the government give task um ls falling to the teachers gmlffgfifem‘? W" 1111mm“ W1" Canada unless one or more of our local representatives at Ottawa. put years ago and many will doubtless 3e; gfcgTg galclénémwioglggfgttg!