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THEM ciiinionriowii GUARDIAN

Morning Bully (Founded ln 1887i

President: Llcut. Col. W. C1105!" 5- Mad“. Vice President: J. R. Burnett. FJ-L sl‘l‘l'l.'l'll‘\' llelll. Col. l). A. lililcltlnnou. 0.5-0- Qhh, “I '_ waging llirector. J. R. Burnett. FJ-l- Aggnliljle liilllllir.’ l~i' iilt Walker and Ian A. Burnett “Est striunriuu RATES B, ma“ u, REL 54,00 per year; $2.50 for I mouth: $1.25 for 3 months; 50o for one month um l)t'll\'t'|'_\ sI-wiu pi-r year; $3.00 for B molllll-I 51.2.‘. for 3 months; 60c for one Month. 1.‘; .\l.iil lll twiiaiiii iiiid L.S..\. $5.00 per year Saluriluv lit-tiny: $2.00 per your; Sl-W tvr ii mill!!!"- ' 50c fur zi months

‘Ilia (,'..iii ..- i.ii.ii~.liiiii iiiiiy be obtained at lliwnui... .. \.. ll y, vi...»- emu-re. MW York: "Id l4 3, form-r llllh and Wilnhlilg ton,

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“The Strong/vs! Jlciriilry is Weaker than the lira/rest Ink."

liilly Billions For War

the iwiuuti lil which our American neighbors cs for war was outlined clo- t Roosevelt in his address t0 Of first and foremost im- "is placed on the co-ordin- 1. urchins who are light- Amrriczm armed forces 4 pzut of the world where it ge the enemy," he declared. s will be sent wherever e of Britain, of RtISSlEl, 0f ' zrican interests as the de- . iself. The U. S. budget ..r the coming fiscal year, to be ion cause, will be fifty-six bil- "rin one-half the total nat- i means in increased pro- _ i, , . f but impressive outline by the I’l'<’:1(l"l‘.f. l: means. the pf0<luCll0ll lllll yea.- of 60,000 planes, including 45,000 combat ‘ rate 0f increase t0 be mfllmil-lflfd 50

Jrrrr‘; jirwtluction will be 125,000, lit- : planes. Tank production _ , 155d to 45,000, and to con- to zzie rate of 75,000 by 1943- o he speedcd up t0 3.000.000 a “is year compared with 1,100,- at‘ 1 h; 11,113 to he increased to l0,- Sliuilarly with anti-aircraft guns

for war po-fcd

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ind other weapons of war, a tremendous increase

all along the line is indicated. ' can ths jiriigrnlllnle be implemented? There is

7 believe that it is well within the _ . e American people.

The .l1'.r1\\'1 journal points out that while Canada has a population of less than 12,000,000 people and a national. income of lcss than $0.000." (iUILUOO :1 vwir. the ljniieil States has a popula- llllll of igii_i,iiiii_iu_iii llClijllC and a national income (if i"iiii_~".il_v' Einr-,i.»i><i.i>i.o,o<x) a year.

During the first iwo years of the wan-before

this coiiii:r_v' re " i goi rolling—Canada spent on war Stifigoi v. 'l‘h.u was the equivalent of ' 1T r tlic lfiiitcil States. .. .. .. .u:;_; tlie present fiscal year, April 1, 194i, :0 Mari-Ii 3i, i942, will spend for war, Includin" firnii .l aid for Britain, $2,350,000,000. That is wnlciu of 335.000.000.000 for the ‘United . . s.

Canada w"? pin up in taxes during this fisciil year, taking acsoun: of municipal and provincial taxes, $i,850,0oo,0oo. That is the equivalent of $27,ooo,ooo,ooo for the Lliiited States

Canadians have loaned their Government since the beginning of ‘.‘.ie war $f,480.000,000. That is the equivalent of $_*2.ooo,ooo,0oo for the United States.

Considering these figures, and remembering the tremruirliwis financial and industrial power of our neighbors. it is i"l.l'/l to loiiht the ability of the Ufilfffl Slates tn take a $56,o0o,ooo,00o war ex- penditure in chair stride.

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Hitler's Fatal Error

' . bed 5L.C'JCSSCS achieved by the Rus- llari arnues, brrfii on the Moscow and Crimean frorns, are v being taken as a matter of course. we icatl of fresh advances, the v rwiiiiiliiijiie maintaining that I _ <Lll.\'.tl iou miles from tlie liigli .0: iiicir thrust south of Moscow and i “rli cncir lenient, are retreating at a * - as l>l as they had advanced." (\'t‘lllt‘lll \\'lll riuik as one of _‘ successes in all history.

‘in a “eh-informed American stud- .pc.ui situation, the Nazi army com- mantlers, altCI tlie failure of the first offensive “Kfilllfl ill ~~h~1r l 1rd the suspension of the . ill iiiul tlic retirement of the -,-i illcli- frulll which the advance ‘ .:i zhc spring. This was rejected who ordered the capture of ~~:-; zmd so extensive were the i ; l-il‘ fin‘ thzs svciuiil offensive while lrqlllg lii-guilcil by an almost

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cuinplctv cw ‘l i-f llthllllllUS uu this front, that Hitler, vital‘ l uzis lnimchcil, considered the vic- tory us ;;~<~l .|~ ‘i'\"ll imd so informed the Ger- iunu p i'-f. p ‘. . l»~.i,~".iul rjlClTll of Uctohcr 3. \\‘iii. l.» . '_ .\1....»..\.- W] than“. in 1,15 p05- SCSsillll, lli i iuI-l pron-ed witli his "unific-

ation" of liuriipc Jlllll offvr "peace" to the world on his nun lcllll-I flu undoubtedly believed that

if the l<ii»~ ~ ltfillllil give him these curil. l-i _ 4- of virtual WOTld domin- Zlllidl \‘.l»i..<l . iliis rizicli.

'll1~ . ‘h in retrospect may appear the in»: iii liisiury- and ilie most catas- l=~|~n1r iii ii~ lIWlIlICIICCS to those who played u, lll\ Ln i ‘; nllil lliih-r his to improvise a new jii~ii.':.i:i .-. will-ii ln- um, with lllC great forces siiil .1: . pn-iil, grt immcvliatc results which \'.'.ll uncut: l liii- pria-tigr: of hi; rule with {hp lisrniaiti pulpit‘ who .'ire tuulotiblctlly showing some sllqiu signs of cscipjng fmm jhgig- hypnom fi-xfiit‘. Wld. r‘.~i:ii:irti-ri~tic guile he puts the liur- ll"tl of thr- l-Ii ‘.ui deft-at iipun tlic army chiefs and. dwiii . ..i m info the wilderness as scape- gullllw, wllvlis iliilhflf ivilli his “fanatical will" as

an ever-victorious leader. A! b8 ll 110W ill lll° open, his whole regime and his own prestige b6- conie the stakes in the new gamble. They could hardly survive a second disaster.

=1 EDITORIAL NUIES -.

Big congregations at \Vcck of Prayer. Ill lll ‘ll ll‘

What ilie boys overseas iiced most, siiys Captain Gillis Purcell, General blcNauglitons liasoii offic- er, are letters. Don t let us weary in well doing now Christmas has passed.

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Preparations are going on apace for the rc- suniption of Parliament on 21st. llope they include an appropriation for a Carferry in success- ion to the Charlottetown, as well as one for a sec- ond boat on tlie Carihou-\\'ooil Islands route.

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Evidently both tlie Federal and Provincial Gov- ernments have agreed to wipe the Provincial Income Tax off the slate, for which many hard-hit salary earners and business men will be tlcvoutely thankful.

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Thomu Jeeves Herder, 1st Baron Herder of Ashford, Physician to tlie King. 50m lllll dale 187i ; M. D., B, Sc., F. R. C. P., Senior Physician to St. Bartholomew": llosjiital; educated London University and St. B2lflllOi0l1lt‘\\"s I-lospitiil ; Major R. A. M. C.; consulting physician Career Hospital, Fulham; ex-Presidcnt Harvcian Society; Presid- cnt National Birth Control Association, Scientific “ember of the Empire-Cancer Campaign: public- ations, "Clinical Pathology in Practice", “Essen- tials of Medical Diagnosis"; created liriiglit Com- mander of the Victorian Order iri i918; created a baronet in I923, raised to the peerage, i933.

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Production docs not necessarily mean increased iuunition resources. The U. S_ A. Army has re- jected and returned to the manufacturer 5,000 heavy machine guns built in one of the emergency plants created t0 manufacture ordnance. The machine guns, of an estimated value (if about $5,000,000 and representing about 7 pcr cciit of production in the last year, were first accepted, but then rejected on the ground of defective ivork- manship. It is expected that they can be made serviceable and are riot a total loss. At the same time as the rejection of the guns was disclosed, War Department spokesmen emphasized that similar difficulties had been encountered in many other fields of emergency manufacture of special- ized ordnance equijnuriit. The tlcfccts were credited to haste and inexperience, and it was cx- pected that tlic loss would be written off to "edu- cation."

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An Ottawa despatch says the present distribii- tion of Canadzfs air cadets is as follows: British Columbia, 3,190; Alberta, @003; Saskatchewan, 96o; Manitoba, 65o; Ontario” 3,325; Quebec, 3,3I0; Nova Scotia, 405; Prince Edward Island,

250. The new squadrons with their commanding officers and approximate en- rolments are, No. 59 (VLIilVOllYCY Rotary),

Vancouver, B. C., PO. S. l3. Iliiiiimcr, S0; NO. 69 (Verdun) Verdun, FO. If. li. Law, 105; No. 71 (Garnier) Quebec, PO G. A. Beaudry, 10o; No. 72 (West llill) hlontrciil, PO G_ 1*. Bras- ford, 250; N0. 73 (Summit) Coleman, r\ll2l., PO. H. I-ioughtoii, 25 ; No. 7.1 (For: i\lzicl.cod), Mac- Leod, Alta, PO. R. licer, 25; .\'0. 75 ('l‘rapp Tech) New “lestnlinstcr, B.C., PO. Sfl‘. hloodic, r50; No. 76 (Duke of Coiiiiaught), New West- minster, B. C., PO. \\'. Almaty, 100; No. 77 ('l‘rur0) 'l‘i'uro, N. S., I'LL U. L. Shipper, 50; N0. 78 (Y..\I.I*I.A.) Montreal, PO. Venis, 50. n t u u

At Ottawa Prime Minister Winston Churchill said that itiorc than 30 "states and nations" now faced the Axis group iit war, but tlic preliminary list shows only 29, although it was said that it was subject to revision. Pending further study of all details, officials point out that while war cx- isted iii iiiost cases with all the .-\.\'is powers, iii- chiding Lieruiunyi, Italy, japan, Bulgaria, lluiigiiiy and Ruinaiiia, in some other instances the tecli- nical state of war did not exist with all. ln some examples, n for instance Germany and Poland, no record of a formal declaration of war has been found by the State Dcpartiiu-nt. Ilritish sources count some 0f the occupied countries as still at war inasmuch as they maintain government: out- side of their borders and original declarations of war have not been cancelled. The list follows: Ilflllillilli. Belgium, Canada, Cuba, China, Costa IllC3,_CZCCll0Sl0\'2ll{l2l, Dominican Rcptiblic, Ethio- pia, lzl Salvador, Free France, Guatemala, Greece, Haiti, Honduras, India, Luxembourg, The Neth- erlands, Netherlands Indies, New Zcaland, Nicar- agua, Norivay',-~l’aiiaiiia, Poland, South Africa, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, United States, Yugoslavia Outside of tlie list given, a state of war exists, in other instances, Finland and Britain are at war but U, S. A. is not fighting with the Finnish Republic. Albania and the Soviet Union are at war according to reports to tlie State De- partiucnt. Diplomatic advices are not yet coni- plete on the actual situation between some of tlic countries involved in the world-wide conflict, and officials say that some time may elapse before all the facts are complete.

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At Edmonton, the Alberta capital, on January 24, there is to be a convention with the object of

reorganizing the C. C. F. on the basis of a single i;

pilfl)‘, to take thepliici: of tl‘: present federation of the Llllli" Party iuiil ilv: liCllCffll Membership Section. This meeting w ill be open to all meni- bers of the Labor Party, the General Membership, and members of tlie United Farmers of Canada, Some of the members of the latter also belong to the C. C. F. and vice vcrsa. A committee has been named to prepare resolutions and draft a constitution for presentation to the Edmonton coli- vention. Mr. William Irvine, former M. P., WIiO writes a column for The Pr-nplds Weekly, tlic C. C_ I‘. organ l)lll)ll>ll('(l in Edmonton, (lccliircs in the latest number that there is only one purpose in calling this special convention, and that i310 "find the "most efficient way of organizing a political party in order l0 achieve power." This very fgranksiatement places the C.C.F. in its true light. Officially it is the intcntimi In make ii ,1 Straight llllllllcal llilll)" lt sevm< likely flint the followers \\'Ill approve the proposal to he presented to tlic convention.

flirts av TllE WAY

The seriousness with which the government views the whole rental question is seen in the high flue 01 $5,000 or tlie two years imprison- merit as a penalty. With this 111 mind it. would be well for all land- lords and tenants to go cautiously anzi if any cliazige l.s_ desired to file an application. eitiiiei" for an increase or decrease vim. the court. clerk and thus not lay themselves open for prosecution. - Oshawa

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After an nlr raid on a South of England tcwvn, a mother learned that a cinema to which she had sent tier two small children liad been hit and damaged. She hur- ried to the cinema, but could find no trace of them. Returning after a icing search, slie found her chil- (lren calmly doing their home work. ‘Iiioy told her: "Old ffitlcr drop- pcd a, bomb on the Palace before we'd seen all tlie bi! P1410110. 50 we went rouzid to the Bnplre to see the rest of it.’ - London News Chronicle.

In its hectic hunt for foreign exchange tlie Geiman Govern- ment ls organizing the trade in slam for fta own advantage, and

rolibl what. might be called he fncom n" trade. particularly in stamps of the British Empire. which are valued more than others by piillntellsts, In regard to tlie outgoing trade, this runs into sev- eral million pounds, and ls attrac- tive to Germany in that it is dif- ficult for tlie British blockade to put a stop to the export of such a commodity. which has neither size ncr weight to attract attentlcn. The _bas'is of the trad: is the pcculliar position Germany occu- pies lri philately, Wlll(.ll is HIWG)‘; looking for the special and un- usual. The German Poet. Office started producing special issues four years before the war. There are over a. hundred of these, all ivlth B. collectors’ value. In addi- ticn there are special LSU€5 for Occupied Territories. which are even rmre valued. Thus recently Vichy published. n. commemora- tlve staiizp at. 50 francs which the Germans have been buying up at 2 marks for their own trading, — Ottawa Journal.

In a recent publication of the British lIiLs of Information m?" W" Telvflnledji suitable com- me". by an Italian newspaper, Regime Fkisclsta, on the Nazi in- vasion of Rnsslii. This ls what the admiring Fascist sheet, said: The Fuehrer had everythin 1.0 gain by lllvlefldlng that he beloved tn tlie loyalty of the Soviet. in order to eliminate. at least at. that partic- ulaigmoment. the threat on the Rll.\§ifl_ll front and obtain a large quantity of supplies that were in. ("Sllncsable to his 61TH)’. But. at the right moment the Soviet, comedy had to come to an end. No iumark about Hitler's limitless capacity for Elllle and tieiieiiei-y" could be more revealing. To the comedy, thus banned. there suc_ CQf-‘(led a lragecyi wiifi acts still lii PTOErGss whlfll. as they unfold, are less and less agreeable to the scene- shlfter. — Winnipeg Free 91-95%

It}: notifying u. note that the public taste in literature is showing a. marked improvement. Publishers say that. the sale of bfst sellers is not. as brisk as formeriy. Librarians point. out that patrons are turning to more sober reading _ to “forks that improve the mind. The prob- lem story. the society novel wlili the bioad-siiouldcrrd liero i-he ly-Wflléllf,’ roenimcc, sensational scuff", are iict taking as well as fzrmerly. The cmzc for light, m“- attire ls abaiizig. and, although 1.119 better authors today are retaining their popularity. the public has turned distinctly back to the old masters, There is a demand for Dickens. The public ls once again slioivmg a preference for the dc- lightful characters that. that. great Wrller created. Little Nell. David Copperfield, the jolly carefmg 01¢ Plclcwlckiauv, Min-l: mpiey, 1m. pe-curifous Mieawber. perfldioug Pccksmff. beautlftil Bella Wllfcr iinrl the hundred and one equally Pleasing flgurcs that. have glad- dencd tlie hearts of so many gen- erations. And it. is fittiri that this is so. It will be a. rel ef to get away from the aforementioned hero ivith the broad shoulders and linnd- some countenance, the society rake and tlie society girl with her frothy chatter, who have been figuring so prominently in fiction. -Ciuelpli Mercury.

I think my blood pressure rises prettiest to the behavior of the ugli-poivcied busiiics-man who says to his secretary. “Get me Mr. Benchlei on the ‘phone?’ and then toes an hiduln tho broom closet. His secretary lets my secretary and cave. "Mr. Gavin Gonnley calling Mr. Benchley." And my secretary sit-ya to me, "Mr. Gavin Gormlcy on the ‘phone?’ That's where the first flaw slicws up ln the routine. Mr. Gevln Gotmley la not on the ‘phone. I take over Bud My. as I was taught. to say by my French governess. "Alla?" And Mr. Gormleyz gecretarg says, "Just a minute. Mr. enchley, Mr. Gormley wants tn speak to you." My reply to that. is. "so 1

ave just been informed." Then beiine the hunt. for Mr. Gormle with occasional crumbs of ho thrown me b his secretary, l "Just a mlnu e. Dlease!" or "Mr. Gcnnley is busy cn another wire. Will you ha? on. please?" I hum hymns. and draw little airplanes on the blotter, waiting for Mr. Gvrvnlev lo finish on the other (Don't. forget. it. was Mr. who called me). And then comes he crowning insult, Mr. Gormlev ls finally put. on the line with me and says, in a very brusque voice, "Hello, who's this?" as if I were ties assLig on his time. Then I pul my telephone cord out. of the wall l) hard that _ Pulls Mr. Gormleyls receiver right. out. of his hand and I hope it. smashes lils inkwell and knocks the paper cutter so that. it flies up and gives lilm a nasty cut right. under the eye. If ll. doesn't, I'll go over and do it myself. - By Rpbe Benchley in the Coxnapolitan Magazine.

News as extraordinary as l men biting a. dig was flashed from Ber- lin this week. It was not. the dec- laration of Wflf‘ against the United States. an event. which ml ht have bren expected. It. was he an. nounoemenl, that. some one was thankfzuz God for Adolf Hitler It. l8 He)’ l0 guess who it was. The only person in the world who could thank God for Hitler is Hitler. But what. must. (3rd think, m, the mo- ment when he has at. last plunged the whole world into the izzeriio of wai- and sow-n death in the Pacific as well as the Atlantic. to be praie- ed like this: "If Providence willed that. this war iihruid not be avoid- ed. I must thank Prcvfdcnce for Pulling me at the head e-f the (Jer- man nation." - New Yuri; 11mg,

THE CHARLOTTETOWN ouwizoiwivg

Churchill At Ottawa

(f. N. B." in the Ottawa. Journal)

Mr. Churchill has come and gone. leaving s. score of different impres- sions of his many-sided personality that all add up to U10 opinion of one veteran newspapermnn: “It la a great thing that. we have him as a. leader at. this time; ho has caught the public imagination even more than Lloyd George in the last. war."

Rarely if ever has anyone cap- tivated so many affections and l0 much respect from so many types of people. Senators and Commoner: talked long into Tuesday night about; his Parliament 5118601 tri- umph; tlie people to whom lie wnv- ed on tlic street, felt they had "met" tum; newspaper 109011911 found him a most. genial subject to editors learned much from lilm on interview 0n Wednesday; newspaper ’I‘ncsday in a private conference. and the Cabinet Ls said to have Slot a great "lift" from his presence. That mi; man whose name had almost become a figure of spew“ was able to come to Ottawa and not detract from the image built of hlm must surely add even yet to that already formidable stature.

All his movcments in public were subject to close scrutiny bv r-poit- er; and photographers, and duly recorded. But perhaps there re- main one or two observations which at. the time didn't seem im- portant. enough to chronicle vet in retrospect trike on worth‘ in U1’: touching up pf ‘the’ flllfll picture.

First, there ls the delivery of his speech. Arguments have waged for many months whether or not he reads his speeches. The answer. at least for his Tnesiln)‘ flllillw? l0 Parliament, ls lzal b0 fl0°5- H15 “notcs" are not "nctesll but tlic full text, on small sheets of P3001‘- typed in what. meme-d like single spacing, without any mammal notes for emphasis or pauses. He read from that text. though was very familiar with it. Stimdiii-z back several feet. he was able lo devote a good deal of attention to lils audience. _

The second point about nis speech is that it "listened" almost as well over the radio ns It did l" ire Chamber; ])€‘l'llfl})S better. It seems that when lie tiilks to an as- sembly of hundreds lie rcruelubfil-i that “out. tlicre’ through me microphone are hundreds of thou- sands. And at no time is he neg- lectful of the microphone. Thus his expression, his emphasis, his liumor- -2ire mostly mllvfyell by Ills voice, bv his chance of Pilce- by his choice 0f words. Ellllllllllllg {PW physical gcstnres, ltis dcllvffy To TPIE EYE Ls not its exciting {l5 that of many a soap box artist. It is TO THE EAR that. l‘? iiims his thrusts _.;m»_{ through the ciir mind unil heart. _ _ ,_ .