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_ , ‘War. Weilieednot repeat ‘ e nhd now the voluminous tri- ' _es, spoken and fwrittengexpree- e of our appreciation o.’ what e men living and dead have _ no for the cause of liberty and. - - oenity, and the honor and fame. hey have achieved which will be all‘, heritage for all future time. " l must agree that we owe tlielll _ debt which can never ilc repaid. "The best that we can do is to cx- press our gratitude and loving ad- inlratlon in some enduring forln. "' And the time for action to this it is indeed already over ripe. We have alreadyl delay- Qti too longl Niluch more promptly we moved after the little war in] South Africa, in which our losses.

9nd is now.

were small ftnd the siladow of mourning which fell upon our pro- vince was limited to asnlail num-t ber oi homes. for a public monument took shape

Then the mnveinentl

and Iwas carried into effect almost immediately after peace was de- clared nad while the glow and ar- llor of the war spirit was warm in our hearts and the events of the struggle, and the vzllor and endur- ihce of our soldiers were still fresh in our memories.

We have greater occasion now. a higher and more urgent call, a more obvious and important duty. A-ction has been delayed; present duty is none the less lbut rather the more urgent on. that account. Year by year the events of the Great War are already flltiin! but in the "distance. We are busy With our varied cnlllngs. Surely it is‘ high time that a decision should be reached as to the form which our Memorial shall take zlnd how the means are to bc provided for,

its erection, lest we forget, this

yo goldiers fought. in the!

‘year what should have been dons lalltrytar.

gafmdp °t m“ 1nd” ' "We quite agree with Citizen ill ‘flei-w‘ ‘l! Cmwm what he says as to the single ob- lim flmmy Bub‘. ject and purpose of our War Mem~

orial. in what has been dune to this end in the iBritish isles, and they have not been so dilatory in the mutter as we have Jbeen, the utilitarian idea has l-een reléféfll?" to the background.‘ l-lcre some persons have expressed approval oi what British opinion seems l0 have discarded. A public llbrarl‘ building has been suggested either separate or as an addition to the Provincial Building. The latter building complete in itself, would he marred in its fair proportions by any attempted addition. A new and separate library building would at the outset be more distinctively a library than a memorial, and in the future the memorial idea would be completely overshadowed.

We must also bear in mind that

‘the Memorial should be provincial

rather than local. Our soldiers dead and living came frolli all parts

of the province and all sections

of Prince Edward island will be asked and expected to contfibute

to its cost. Would they do so if the proposal were to erect a memorial

building ‘here to be of use chiefly

by the people of Charlottetown? To ask the question is to supply the answer. Mlc-reovcr there is al- ready available the considerable nucleus of a fund for u. Melliorial Monument provided, it shall he ex- clusively devoted to the one oh; ject, a soldiers‘ monument. That object is provincial in its scope. not

narrgw, r/r local, or dominantly for ‘local utility. We believe this pur-

pose wil ‘prevail. it may take the form of an artistic and imposing monument. or group, or n memorial arch. After hearing the views of all who may desire to be heard on tho subject, a decision should be promptly made as to the site of tllc Memorial. the form it should take and the estimated coat.

Current Comment

The Bell Government prison has-i ‘ket is increasing in leakiness. it was surely insecure enough ill its former natural, or rather unnatu- ral, condition. but now its retain- "Ing value‘ as a place of confine- ment is dyeing further impaired by the deliberate acts or those W-ilOSD‘ ‘duty it is-to maintain law and or-l der in ofur Province. Wblic the; House was in session we had oc- casion to refer to the shameful re- lease upon the community of a prisoner whose term of sentence as a, prohibition act offender hall not expired. Premier Bell in his efforts to discredit the Guardian, and eifculpate his Government at- tempted to throw the responsibil- ity upon the Prohibition commis- sion, reflecting upon it as an ac- tion of theirs. We claimed at that time that releasing of prisoners was not a prerogative of the Com-I mission. and are surprised that they‘ halve not yosented the aspar- llon. Their duty is to enforce. anti not to defeat the purposes of the get, and we cannot believe that. ev- en if they had the power. they would be parties to tllol-le whole- nlo releases of offenders which lion seem to he the order of the day. in point of fact no one but the Lieutenant Governor in Coun- cil -has any power to pardon‘ pro- hibition m offenders. and THE KIOVIIRIMWJJNYI‘ M-U-ST ASSUME "Ill-IE!!! [FULL RiDSPONlSIBlLITY lion ririllal-z RELEASES. , I

ggt has been admittedly prisoners to escape through the flimsy or unguarded “doors or windows, this method . nil to be ‘becoming obslete, ll liiing- just as easy, and more con- vqgm, to waiktout with a Govern- lfllt pardon in the hand, which the advantage of freedom from Jotslble annoyance of a recap- rQ with the addition of more or 4! newspaper ‘publicity. The‘

lion in now assuming a tensity ‘ ounnou, involving as it does ion u to whether we are do day regard for llwor any on o! justice 1n this Wears fnlly" timeless

ment circles to our prohibition laws and of their sympathy for the liq- uor traffic. bllt this tines not just- ify this method of defeating the purposes of the act which is the ac- cepted law of the land. They have not had the courage to attempt its repeal, knowing the power oi pub- lic sentiment behind it. but by a system of taxation-license. and by repeated release of convicted of- fenders. they are doing all in their power to nulflfy its provlsiona.and its far as they are able to bring its working into disrepute.

There have been more than one of these releases by Government pardon. but the. last reported is the ‘most reprehensible. One acting as Deputy lSlieritlf in Queen's County was convicted for liquor selling, and because he was an officer of the. Supreme Court, whose -sworn duty, we presume, was to enforce and uphold the laws of the land. his honor the Stipendiary Magis- trate very properly imposed upon him the maximum penalty. lPublic opinion and all sense of right and Justice will applaud this, -but not. so the Government whose sense of right or wrong. in its pliancy, has become the bye-word and reproach of the community. By their com- mand this Deputy Sheriff violator of the prohibition laws, after serv- _mg only a very few days. of his sentence, is permitted to walk out .to liberty with the ‘Government par don in his hands. When lpublic of- ficials. those holding positions as peace officers of tll'e province, are thus encouraged to break our laws, and thlus pardoned for their oilfen- aeQ, how can we consistently keep the less guilty offenders behind the bars of confinement, or with any show nit decency punish them for their wrong doings?

We have a Prohibition Commis- sion to whom the people are look- in; for the enforcement of this low and whom, we fear unjustly, will be too tifien saddled with the blame for. these defaults ‘which

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there was something doing, some- thing reall and effective, to provide I a public memorial for our brave Soldier Boys. dead and living? High time, i have said. it is years l since the armistice was signed, years since the survivors of the Great War returned to us" and yet nothing effective has been done toward this much desired end. More and more the war recedes in- to thedistance; lnore and more we become engrossed in our daily oe- cuplions of farming, trading, busi- ness and professional life. ls there not danger that we forget our great dill-l‘ B! providing a lasting public Memorial for ali~tllat our brave llovs have done and sufferedl it was not always thus. After the war in South Africa in which only two of our brave lBOyfl met their death an immediate and strenuous effort was made to sign- aiise in lasting form the public - appreciation for all they had done and suffered. The Guardian lent its hearty and earnest effort at that time to awaken the public ill- lerest and carry the movement forward. A public subscription W“ Sltefidlly set on foot to which the people of the city and province contributed liberally. This was done almost at once after the war had closed and while the incidents of the struggle were still fresh in the public mind. the Iworthy and striking memorial mtmument whicll now stands upon our central square, and which has been. is and will continue to be an object of prime interest to our cit- izens llnd to visitors from abroad. lFor the fcw who died or were disabled or maimed in the Boar War there were hundreds who made the great sacrifice, or suffer- ed severely in the Great War. Those whom a kind Providence spared to return unscathed had made a great sacrifice, had suffer- ed lllllcli. endured greatly in the cause of liberty and - humanly. What they did, the living and the dead, nemands public recognition on a scale in some degree propor-| tionate to the magnitude cf their great services and the number 0f those who tookpart. The Great War was a mllch more colossal I and momentous stqlggle than the war in South Africa. w To my mind there is no place so fitting as our central square for suchu memorial. it is the one] nlost public place in our city and‘ province. There was placed our

There the sclz-ontl memorial, larger and morn imposing, as artistically beautiful and impressive as ii can he madeg-hould also he placed. Let it be. in its ailli and object purely a memorial as the first lllonllmont is. i would discard any utilitarian. Lot. our lliemcrizll express our lid miratlon and gratitude for the hel- oic spirit, thc noble self-sacrifice. ihl- valorous achievements of 0lll' Flfllliers rdcad and iiivtingw "Phat should he. in my opinion. its one,‘ all-sufficient object. ‘ I alll. etc. CITIZEN

illicit sellers in the provincial pri- son basket, if by these simple pro- cesses the culprit ls to be ilnnlcdi- ately set at llhcrty ‘by the fiction of a government giving ovcl‘)! hvid- encc .of being hostile to the act? Of what use is it law lllpfiil our stat- ute books when those who are elclz- ted and sworn to protect and cn- force it. become the prime instru- ments to nullify its provislonsand prevent its successful operation? We hear on every hand that lprohih- ttion is a failure, and that it does not flrohilbit. but is this prohibi- tion or is it the embodiment of free liberty to sell and violate as the law breaker may please, assured that their friendly government will tide them over their difficulties. and Drvtect them from the penaltie! of their wrong doings? it isitime that our temperance people, and those who are not of the temper- ance clans, but who believe in law respect and law cnforccmentdo get a move on to save the wrecking of our legal systems by those who have devastated everything com- lag within their reach.

Daily Selections Guardian lleaden

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REST A WHILE

Men seek out retreats for them- selves, cottages in the country, lonely seaahorcs and mounts‘ . Than too art disposed to banker greatly after such thins; and yet all this is the very commonest stup- idly; for it is in thy power, when- ever thou wilt. to retire into thy- self: nowhere is there any place whet-etc a man may retire quieter and more free from politics than his own soul; above all if he have Within him thoughts such u he

home of a minister in Loo Angeles recently and applied for a position Now it happened that the house- hold vras already well supplied with servants. 5o the minister's

OUR SOLDIERS wife said. "l am sorry, but we real- ly haven't enough work another ~Slr.-ls it not high time that Barbary!‘

have You may not know what a

rne employed.‘

fish Empire's troubles.

of church union (4 to l) register- ed at the general assembly of .l"res- byterians in Toronto yesterday is

event of recent times.

OBSERVATION, NOT ARGUMENT

The result was i’ _ i-ied, a Port Arthur woman. resid-

ent oi the section where most of the. foreign born her of four children, answered:

lets me keep boarders and I make plenty of money."

that many other and other countries would receive

if she were not bound to him by the legal ties constituting marri- age. ISelf-satlsfied possession ‘is in many cases. not conductive to pro- per appreciation husbands.

tions become seem to have much the advantage

first :ln:l only public lllonllmenh|w°uid lllliliy t0 $07119 me"-

ument merely an observation.

ent question when it queries whet-

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Experienced ( Christian Register)

A 189311939 "b0!" clllle l0 the

“Madame? said the Oriental po- itely, “~i am sure that you must

lttle bitvof lwork it takes to keep

NOTICET) Amman (Columbus, Ohio. Citizen)

The nun never sets on the ‘Bri-

“mosr lvlomewrousi" (‘Hamilton Spectator)

The overwhelming vote in favor

nl ument-cue

the most 1911810115

(Port Arthur News-Chronicle)

When asked by ‘one of the Pen‘ -us enumerators if she were mar-

reside and niot- "No. but the man l live with is better to me than n husband. l-ic And it is more than ll possibility women in this

better treatment fronl "her man"

on the part- of The woman who can

whenever condi- unhearable would

‘up and leave"

of the woman who is “tied for life" and, ipursuiug the idea further, it might be found that the same thing

Please Note——This is not an arg- against marriage. It ‘is

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WHAT IS A BETTER WAY‘?

(Guelph Herald)

Tile ‘l‘oronto star asks a pertin-

her the Province of Ontario is pill- messed of a fair, honorable or sat- isfactory method of disposing of its timber-wealth? We inlaginc the answer. if truthfully given from all interested, would he that it has not. ~ There appears’ to be ton muc guess work about the value of ltlle timber lilnits offered forsaic from time to time by the-various govern- lltcnts who alplpear to ‘be in power, and it is this lack which has given rise to much of the auspicl u. which prevails over the disposal of tim- ber limits in Ontario. This might have been permissible in times gone by, when timber was so cheap, but it is not‘ so any longer. lScrne better methods than the one now in use. which plays into the hands of the "interests" could surely be devised. A better pol- icy. for the time ‘being at least, would be to put up only such tim- "ber lands for sale as have been thoroughly cruised ‘by agents of the province. Were this done and the data put at the disposal of poss- ible buyers. a larger [Gllelllleiiilflilill inure to the province. Under any other system the public will al- ways be suspicious that it is not getting full value for its forest wealth and that privileged persons are getting confidential tips as to the nature of |the information _ln the possession of the government.

POLITENIGB A OIVIO DUTY (Cleveland Plain Denier)

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‘If visitors are treated with, cour- tesy by salesmen in the stores they patronize, if the questions they ask of pedestrians or 0f traffic officers are answered as if It is n pleasure to impart information to strangers. if street car conductors hotel clerks and taxi driverlrre- meniber that civility is not only a

mind. Constantly then ruse this retreat. and renew thyself therein and .-be thy principles brief and elementary. which, u mil ll ov- 0r "Wu recur to them, will suffice to wuh thy soul entirely clean,

d send thee back without vou-

but a civic‘ amt u well, than thousands will re- turn to their homer ready to sing the praises of the city and to some again when opportunity offers. _It at it;

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"- don Free Press.) ,_ Mr. Backus has huge pulp and paper interests in Minnesota and Northwestern Ontario. lie con- trols a‘ big paper mill at Fort Francis. Most of the paper he manufactures goes to Chicago and Western American papers. Dur- ing the war he openly defied the orders of thc Canadian papercon- troller and refused to supply his quota of paper to, Western Cana- dian publishers. Recently he was granted vast timber limits in the Kenora district by the Drllry Gov- ernment. Along with those limits have gone valuable water power rights on the Lake of the Woods and tributary streams. Such pow- er sites should have been earmark ed for the ‘Hydro-Electric Commis- sion. but tile Drury Government ls ‘evidently following in. Northern Ontario the policy of the old Roz-ls administration at Niagara and ir. lnvingaiwayppower rights to priv- ate interests. iP-he City of Winnipeg has a great public ownership power dc- veloprnent scheme and feared that control by the Backus interests would‘ seriously affect its power project, the waters coming froln the Lake of the Woods drainage basin. It was supported in its pro- test lby the Province of Manitoba. Rt. Hon. Arthur Meighen held a conference with Preirier Drury and Premier Norris, when it. was decided to appoint ll. control board. ‘the Ontario anti Manitoba Legisla- tures and the ll-‘eileral Parlilllnent passing concurrent legislation. Mlanitoba did its part, but Premier Drury failed. Now the Dominion is fulfilling its compact lwith Mani- toba, by flasslni; legislation which Premier llrury admitted was nec- essary. ll‘ there is invasion of pro- vincial rights in the l)olllinion's legislation. it is -nlercly invasion 0f the right to hand over to all American plllttlcrabwho has shown callous indifference to Canadian interests. tllc control of Ontario's bqupdary waters. \

OLEOMARGARINE "Tibia-lord Free Press)

iTllr Filflilfifil Sun is protesting with vigor againstr- the bill of tho Govrrnlllont extending for llntitllcr your permission to manufacture olrolnzlrgilrlne in Cflllfliid- The 511" nlzlkl-s its usual attack 0n the ‘Tim-

la wort-ll while. any way one looks}. _~ -

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Queen Street

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phate, hem-oi. and tarp-were worth $115.60. it is a mistake, these scien tists_ state in a Government bullo- tin entitled "Coal The Resource and its full Utilization,“ to belive that a cut in production costs would greatly cheapen ‘coaliii these costs were annihiliilted coal would be. only a little over a dollar lower. The real remedy for th¢ high prices of coal is t0 eXti/QCI. all the treasures locked up in it. Our city should set up huge plants for manufacturlngmot coke, but either gas and byproducts of eoni or a non- celular "artificial antrncite" with gas and ‘by-products. Some day the nation will sec a better uttiiiation of coalrs byljproducts. But the slow growth of the coke. benzol, and toiuol industries shows that the advance will take time.

rcprcslinlat-ive Parlinnlent.“ it plight liiterest the Farmers’ Sun tt. know that every member of tile FHITIHPFB’ party in the HD1188. from l-lon. T. A. Crerar down. voted for oleomsrgilrlne. in- sitoiltf of attacking the Government. Tile ‘Sun might wcll turn its bulli- eries upon its own leader and his followers. including the recently- olected memelir for West Elgin. Oleomargnrine is recognized as a fit. and pro-per food product in every country in the world except Canada. Even Denmark, the greatest European dairy nation, ai- iows the use of oleomargllrinc. At the present time, with butter at it low figure, htere is little likelihood