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Authorised on Second Clooo Moll. Post Offleo Department. Ottawa. President. fan A. Bunsen; Vice-President. Wm. I. Burnett; Sonya-Tress" G. M. Burnett; Editor and lhnoglug Director. J. ll. Burnett; Associate Editor, Frank Walker.

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

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 194']

Ganaila Anil ‘Germany

Canada's attitude on the peace settlement with Germany as outlined in a preliminary statement forwarded to London was tabled in Parliament this week by Rt. Hon.~ L. S. St. Laurent, Secretary of Slate for External Af- fairs. The proposed settlement, it is pointed out, need not result immediately in a formal peaQ-treaty between the victorious Allies and the defeated enemy. There is at presnt no German government to sign such a treaty mr is it clear that any such government will ex- ist in the near future. The real guarantee of tho dunrbility of a German settlement will havo to come, first, from agreement among the Allies as to the basic principles which would underlie it; secondly, from their continued readiness to enforce these principles. If the present task before the United Nations be envisaged as pre- paring the first draft of an international statute for the future regime of Germany, this, it is suggested, would facilitate tho association of smaller powers with that work.

The German people, the memor um

states, have for many centuries constituted a recognizable racial group in the centre of Eur- ope and within the past century have formed a modern national state. lt is believed, there- fore, that a German state of some kind will have to be reconstituted in central Europe. The German people, however, have clearly demons- tigated that they have not sufficient experience in democratic self government to prevent a centralized state becoming tho instrument of despotism and armed“ aggression. For this rea- son, the German state should be federal and not unitary in character. Decentralization in Germany through federation could be mode ef- fective and acceptable, particularly if it were carried out in the economic as well as in poli- ‘tical fields. The political authority of the vari- ous states of Germany, and the economic ties between the various parts of Germany and the neighboring sections of Europe should therefore be developed.

A federal system in which residual auth- ority rests with the member states and in which the powers of the central_ government are strictly limited and defined, is suggested as be- ing required in this instance. ln particular, the constitution should so circurnscribe the finan- cial and military powers of _the central gov- ernment as to make it legally impossible for the reconstituted German state to build upthe re- sources necessary to make war. _ _

The report deals with the importance in European economy of restoring industrial pro- duction in Germany. As an important contribu- tion to this end, the Canadian Government would urge the early establishment of an economic commission for Europe, such as _has already been proposed by the United Nations, but _has not bee-n put into effect "because of olbyec- tions which, in our view," the report sayi. lit!" no validity." _ . _

The report also deals with the questions of German reparations, which must be geared to the level of economy and standard of living

‘ permitted to the defeated enemy; also with abol- ition of German armaments and armed forces, and establishment of effective ipternatioiiol safeguards against violations and evasions by GermTliey" Opposition leader, Mr. Bracken, said that so far as he was able to Will“ "'9 Gwem‘ m-ant's attitude on this question was commend- able. Canada had Pl°Y¢d ll" P9" l‘°"°'"' ‘My in rhe wqr, and personally he felt that it would be an insult to this nation if she were denied the right-to sit in at the discussions oiiil settlement of the terms of peace with GeiiiiflflY- Other party leailéii $90k?- bYlQllYI l"d'c°l'"9 that they were in pretty general agreement with Mr. Bracken. _ _ _ _

There is, however, iilil ""5 PW" wllld‘ '5 noted in a mainland exchange: While the _num- ber of full-time soldiers, sailors and aiiiiieii in Canada is being drnsticollylimited, Canada is calling for a greater voice in drafting of tlio peace treaties. Perhaps the larger poWeIS flit willing to forget that the Canadian Govern- ment was in ah unholy rush to dodge occiilm" lion army commitments, but they are not liko- ly to disregard the obvious fact that the meogro Canadian defense force would ‘be hard put to join in airy international policing plan to en- suro that nations under treaty live up to their

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Jesse James lllll llttawa

It will be recalled that llobin Hood and Joioo James are among the popular heroes of folklore, because of their habits of ICUUIIIIQ the rich and giving to tho poor. Mr. Kings Gov- orwrrroot, says The Printed Word, has reason to

for popularity on tho some basis, although r in and losso would stand amazed at the sys-

oird efficiency that have replaced thoir. ‘soother credo and violent methods. Our con- ‘ adds: . flaw in tlio system ls that tho taxes now hit rlroro thon tho rich, who aro riot suffi- ‘aiootly humorous to corry the load. Arr Q0")- inlon to pay o provincial 'o taxes moons that tho prov-

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Al lllil Pupll

Prime Minister King, his colleagues from this Province and the Ottawa Journal are not tho only. ones who complimented our Prince County member, Mr. MacNaught, on his speech in moving the Qraft Address in Parliament. He also received this tribute from Hon. Mr. Brac- ken, the Progressive Conservative leader:

"l want to compliment the hon. member for Prince on two things. First, I want to com- pliment him upon the clear tatement he mode

velopment of Canada. Second, I want to com- pliment him upon the art which he in common

have developed rapidly, that is to keep both eyes open when hunting for the weakness of the Opposltionbut to put the telescope to the blind eye when it comes to looking upon the count- less sins of the Government.“

_.- EDITORIAL NOTE$ — The Ottawa government's non-war ex-

penditures are now much greater than the com- bined war and non-war expenditures in l9l7-I8. i i

One thing we may be thankful for-that we are still able to get along even when parti- ally deprived of what are considered life's noc- essities-—heat, light, power. But if would hard- ly be safe to prolong ‘the experiment.

ln order to increase the quantity of Scotch whiskey for export to this side of the Atlantic onnoun ‘ is made in Edinburgh that there is to be a l0 per cent cut in home whiskey dis- tribution in i947. ls it any wonder there is an increasing demand for restoration of emigra-

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Getting back to normal. Ontario's irk- some coupon ration system for the protection of

Ibeer and wine stocks came to an end Saturday

and for the first time in almost four years con- sumers could buy beer and wine without resort -_to coupons or permit. Sole restriction remain- ing is that only one case of beer may be bought by a customer at a time. The quota system also ended Saturday for hotels, enabling them to buy a_ll the beer needed. Hard liquor is still ra- tioned. _

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Jules Verne, French novelist with a uni- versal circulation, born this date l828; wrote a great number of much-read books, in each of which the plot works round a scientific or physiological fact; many forecast subsequent developments, such as the gromaphone, the movies, airplanes, submarines, wireless; his nov- els were, and still are, particularly attractive to boys, and have been translated into all Euro- pean languages. The best known are: "Round The World in Eighty Days", "Michael Stragoff", "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," "The Mysterious lsland."

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Government radio is having its own trou- bles these days, and has been endeavouring to prove alibis-to indicate that its deficiencies are no fault of thb management. This is how The Printed Word views the situation: "Here in Canada, where the government networks com- pete with private stations, the private stations are bossed by the government radio-bossed sometimes reasonably, sometimes capriciously, sometimes arbitrarily and always with no right of OPPEOl\M independent authority. Here in Canada,we combine the worst features of both government and private radio, for we are taxed $2.50 per household for the benefit of govern- ment radio and still must listen to the commer- cials. Of coiirse mast Canadians can, and many do, tune in the U. S. stations where the commercial is heard in robust purity, and un- defiled by a sonctimonious attitude of culture."

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A return to wool clothing is predicted. A "far-reaching fundamental change" in wo- men's fashions, accompanied by better quality of material, is in prospect, the convention ‘of the American Wool Council in San Francisco was told by Mr. F. E. Ackerman, its executive dir- ector. He said that the demand would be for "excellent worsteds, fine wool duvetyns, suedes, meltons and modified liroadcloths — fabrics which fall in graceful lines and which respond to the increasingly intricate tailoring demand- ed by the new feminine silhouette." The trend in men's clbthing, Mr. Ackerman added, was chiefly toward lighter weight, with a corre- sponding need for higher quality of woolen fab- rics. A "battle of the fabrics" is indicated by competition of synthetics and rayon, according to Mi. W. P. Wing, secretary of the California Wool Growers’ Association. He said that wool producers would have to he alert to keep their product "all wool and a yard wide" if they were

to survive.

What the Maritimes need is the proper de- velopment of our resources and potentialities, and men with sufficient ability and stick-at- itiveness to see that this is brought about. Men of tho type of the late Hon. J. ~A. Mathieson who dgvoted from twelve to fourteen hours every day to the interests of the Province, and at- tained somelliing worthwhile. What are our ro- sources and potentialities? They are few but worthwhile: (l),AgricuIture; (2) Fisheries; (3) Touristism; (4) Health; (5) Education. Wo could develop all these to our lasting advantage and to the benefit of Canada as a whole. Wo need not dwoll on Agriculture and Fisheries-t first stop in those is to obtain feed grain a refrigeration, togothor with sufficient efficient supervision. For tourists wo roquiro up-to-dato houso accommodation and wholooomo cooking. For a health resort, summer and winter, wo want more of a disease-fies area for both hum- ans and animals when we can offer the firiost all yoar round climate thotcon be obtained ‘ony- whoro on tho continent, fit for all sorts and con- ditions of nron and women. For Education, by

l" Illa _ . i... , i ‘, 1. " for» my, because their . — Turpin; re loilTiiiiiiiiru in. sov- ~ Thus tho tron’ ' {your ‘ Ir interior a ' flab». lro roblrina ‘finch porlropr vi ' y rich. Even Josso . i

insisting upon a thorough school system in tlro tliroo'l‘s, rid elementary humanities, wo can prepare our hildron for almost any position in lifo they may as iro to; and provido hornos arid schools for poop o of moderate incomes who wisli to bring up their families in tho foor of Gd for tho boiiofit of mankind.

of the contribution of his Province to the de-

wlth others on that side of the House -seems'to "'

'And in ihlo arob, uniidvenmrouo

This urmkwrririvviu GUARDIAN

llotos By The Way

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A university professor ooys that allowances must be made for g1“- dents. Fathers of students foimd

Standard.

A that: deal of holium ts writ- ten and Blwlten about taxes and debt but only work and saving over was able io pay off the 1110118988 on the old fiirm and no easier method has yer been dew‘. cd. -Fori Wllllam Times-Journ-

Slielklng of golden lublleeii, the London Wee Hess records the installation of the first indoor plumbing there 50 years ago. 1n ll"? ‘We ql’ great opposition, and dire predictions that soft. living Willa rot the moral fibre of the town, we assume. —-l?et.erborough Examiner. '

A number of new friendship pacts and mutual defence alliances are being signed these days. Infer- estlng imder the circumstance would be a statement: showing whet Percentage of these pacts have stOOd up agialnst teats. There la a more c-i- lees common belief that, plot or no pact many oountrleg rut ap- vowing l-o the expediency of the moment. A mutual danger 15 o. greater unlfler, than u mutual pact. If the dense-r‘ ls not mutual, riic pact is sometimes useless. _-Port Arthur News-Chronicle.

W. A. Weaker, now president of General Motors, formerly od this city. tells Canadian: who want nevincars that their prospects are 50 per cent better this year than last, that General Motors alone will Produce 150.000 to 110.000 new 0M5 and trucks. Even so, that wlll leave a blg market. for 1946. unless increased pirlceg prove g deterrent. -St. Oatharlries Stand. ard.

Ln vlciv of the recent loo-stoma txlierlence. this ls a good time to draw the attention of formers and rural residents in the. negd m; their co-operotlon ln the matter cf securlngJ-eliable electrical power service. Such co-operailori ls in reality o simple "matter. It hinges on the fact that. with relatively few exceptions. power interrup- tion on rural lines ls due to branches of trees coming down on the power lines and shorting or breaking the wires. I_r the trees were properly trimmed. or if the lines were located along treeleas stretches, all would be well. That is Where the cooperation is re- quired. —Branl.ford EZxposito-r. ~

‘Bio protection of the world against an lll0flllc holocaust wlll be achieved not by fine-spun dip- lom-nllc formulas or Juggling o! agencies. but. by the willingness and determination of all n-atlons io aibldc by the atomic law. That means the renunciation of all legul loop-holes for evasion. Until agree- ment on that. point has been reached. and until an effective international control system is in QDETBMOH- There is no reason for ihe United Slates either to abandon or to share its most potent Weap- on. -Ne'w York Times.

The sin-rt; of the school year per- haps ls as 800d a time as any to express (he wish that American youth again might be taught the art of peiimanshlp. Young people - and a great many people who no longer are conspicuously young- seem t.o have been somewhat mis- educated in that. respect. Only on rare occasions. does the average person see a lciier neatly and leg- ‘ibly written. A majority appear to agree Wl“! Hamlet's statement iiiai it is "a baseness" to take pains in any task 'of inscribed com- munication. -IWashlngton Star. These oomplloa ’, mystifying electronic calculators. or "broln machines," seem to be getting more complicated and mystifying all the iime. It ihlngs keep 0n the way ilieyre going. we foresee the day when they wlll be able i0 hnewer every question but. one: Who wlll think up (he questions to aek them? Generally speaking, We'd say (ha-t lhc billy posnlbli‘ answer ls an- other machine. And we'd advise (he clccltprdc ncleiilisls t.o get right at llle lob before they find themselves with a buttery of super- Milt}; which, having outstripped ihe bounds of human curiosity, slimd Idle and unemployed. ——Cal- gary Alberian.

It ls amazing what. eon lie done by just. relaxing. It may not be necessary lo take a long sea voyage; oil s man may need Ls to olockln tils pace It. periods during the day. loosen his necktie and ehoestrlngs, put his feet up on his desk or sn- other chair, and let the world roll by for two or three minutes with- out worrying about it. It hos been found that o good proportion of persona who suffered heart. attacks of the moat severe nature. and adopted right. measures of living. are gill] alive and enjoying llfe 10 or more years later. —Royol Bonk Bulletin. .

Proloe for the go-gottevo, the over-the -tilllii - and - ifsrr ovroym. What a thrill those fsnillleo must get vmo set oft to make o new life.

life-what o stimulus to tho rest of us! They invest their money In a l to travel fro Bsltotn to the cope. one pony as reached Rhodesia others oro hold up. Offlo- lal attempts ore mode to slap than Stripped one pray. they go iiuoisiu. If iii iris oslt of t-ho min. this m. pioneering irritable in- stlnctlve in our lsload people. Noth- lfll con moo thug Nothing dounts

that out long ago. —Klngton Whtg- v

PUBLIC FORUM

This column lo open to the discussion

Candles: dooo not aoeemr- fly endorse tho oplnloss of correspondent.

CALL FOB TEHPIGANCE

Bin-In recent issues of The ‘Guardian you have printed ‘letters

Prime Minister King Uri Federal Subsidies I

(Globe And Moll) r

Federal Stunts. oi- subsidies, og- gi-egisilng two hundred and twenty- _ seven mllllon dollars are now be- lrig offered the provinces. They are not. being called grants, but go by the more feochlng name of "rentals." If accepted they will lie increased according to the Brawl-h in population and the national tn- come. This policy of ewbsldlzaflon, which would ermlt the centraliza- tion of virtue y all taxing powers Dominion.

iwriui rir nollzoil rriu iioiiiiciii possi-

bllliloo of "separate deals, secretly arrived at," fixed mews and strong ones, on the impropriety of such procedure. Speaking to the report of the Royal Commlssl-on on Mrs-ri- ilmoOlolmo ho told the Commons (I-lsnoard, March 1927, page 1836):

"To gsln recognition by the rest

of Oiinodo so to t.h fairness and or readjust- s-_ ' l arrangements ' Not wind-mi; y, g gym-yon ca“ '

equity or any revloto merit of the f’

as between the Dominion and the ‘Mann

Maritime Provinces, lt wo that the proposed revlilo

Justment should be made a subject in the first ln-imrk, stance by u conference at which alll ,

Canada as

of considers“

of thej-‘ttovlnces of

uld appelil‘

n or xesd- Ame

sends across the lam,

The stark-the winter-ousted (m.

and understand.

pr-lsosied waters stir s“ atroln Against their loy bore,

concerned with tihe liquor problem. in the hands

of the

The one ln the February 4th Issue was, particularly instructive and. should be read by everybody. Bure- ly, the terrible destruction wrought by llquor is unknown to the ma- jority of our people, or we would not have such an enormous amount 0f money spent on "drink" as we now have. Let us ell d9 our has! by education and other means to help banish from this Land of ours the psll of drinking alcoholic bev- eragei. I om. Sir, em,

WILLIAM CAIRNS

Freetown, P. E. I.

- Parliamentary Reflections

‘PIG-HIYZNING THE NOOSE

OITAWA, Feb. '1 -Rarely has the roar of the opening guns in Parliament's Debate on the speech from the Throne been anticipated with as great interest as was the case this year. The reason was

JBehlnd-the-scenes sources in the Capital had broadcast the pro- phecy that a changed John Brac- ken was going t.o be seen ln ac- tion. The story was that, after several months of patiently paying out the rope of over-confidence to the Liberal Ministry, the Progres- sive Conaervntlve Chieftain at lest was ready to begin the process of drawing lt. tlghi. around the politi- cal peaks of Mr. King and his Cabinet colleagues.

The presentation of the terse Progressive Conservative amend- ment which didn't waste words to charge that the Government had lost the confidence of the country was the welcome fulfilment of this prediction. For the John Bracken who cllmaxed e telling speech with this all-out challenge to the Llb- eral Government was g different John Bracken from the one the Commons had grown accustomed to see.

He was o. different John Bracken Simply because the national situa- tion had changed for the first time so as to allow hlm complete frea- dom lo attack. No longer ylld ivar rmpose upon hlm the first duty, even as Opposition Leader, of co- operating ln the national emergen- cy, No langerr did wlse statesman- filllp require that he should avoid

rocking the boat" in the critical economic days of post-war recon- versron. At lest he was free t.o undertake the exacting task and lighting responsibilities which nur- mislly fall to the lot of a peace- time OPQOSlLlOJI Eguaer,

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m! Wflitquent arraignment of the King admlnstrailvm wgs g stimulating performance. It was rsn effective attack upon a spent, m- tery, uninspired ministry, bank- rupt of the leadership and ideas which the niailon needs if it is ‘co ficlilevo prosperity and expansion amid the grim uncertainties of the post-war era. Arid lt was all ihe more impressive because it had not been made earlier. Onoc Mr. Brac- ken displayed his fighting wires, the deep patriotism of the ie- strain! which he hisd shown dur- ing the war and during reCUXlYq- sion became obvious, 1i w“ men- io all who watched hlm from the galleries and floor of Parliament. that here was no time-serving or- fiw-soekiiia politician, but A ‘pub- lic servant‘ whose ability equullgd his great sincerity. “In his material Leader Bracken s owed a clear grasp of (he m lh which Canadians today run: iohlnkéng. He spoke for a place 1m" as“. a “l ‘he EIIYODEHn peace table no inferior to that. which yhe Dominion had held after World w" 1* H9 Sllvke for lower taxes §;d1l“l*°d °°mm°n sense about, @811 ill-de- He recognized ihq mliortance of lmmigi-ngion, and h dealt with Domlnlon-Provincial re’! latlona from the standpoln: or my’. national unity. It was a Compf -1