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"The Strongest Jlcnlory is Weaker than the Wen/it's! Ink." slTiiltnlv, JANUARY s, 1942.

Sunlnlerside Daily Cease: \\'illl lzs lli:[ issue for 1941 "The Summcrside Journal LtillllJlllCd with Today's News" ceased plllilltliilitlll as a daily newspaper and reverted to

the wccl,‘ v ,-'. zluzl field. ln its obituary notice Olli‘ >l.l.~.: . .-. n s» -1clltllt-l;ll"_v gzlvc good and suf- lilzvlll l . ,, i : r- -lc:ll:-t~. lt says its rcatlcrs ill it. ‘ dc 11ml bccu glib: of thc lwufifillflltl-

ers. wl was cllclolll..glllg, “but subscription is sucll a Illtilul’ factor in a newspaper's revenue that )I‘.ll'.'l' Clll; exist from this source alone. This, ' lHt-l :ll.lt costs of production, :~ .lt- lililiCllstitl so greatly because ll;,ll1'lll tllc fact that the advertiser l sulpport of any publication, is en- ~ “llfl trade restrictions and other

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(iovcrzlzl lllS, has not uscd sufficient spzlvc- tr- ll (‘lid’) publication at the prescnt tilllc."

Nclvspa tors have been and still are the first civilian vi ims of the war both here and in the

Iliotller (‘olllttry for, while the costs of production are soaring g as our late daily contemporary asserts, the (l: r-rllnlcnt restrictions and the ab- torptiolls of grrzlz national industries in connection with munition production, have made great in- roads on the chic-f revenue of newspapers.

We rcgl-c: tllc rllrmise of tlle Sunlulerside daily, especially as it started out well, was a lively tab- loid, edited and produced with conspicuous ability and journalistic enterprise.

Finland Deserted

To the long list of peoples double-crossed by the Nazis, the name of the unhappy Finns can now be added. About s month ago the Finns were offered a peace with honor. They could have got out of the war with their country rc- storcd to its pro-war boundaries. The Nazis re- fused to allow the Finns to quit and the Allies were forced to declare war on Finland.

Then came the great Russian counter-attack which lifted the siege of Moscow and drove the Germans back with heavy losses. Reports from Sweden indicate that the large German armies have been withdrawn from Finland and the Finns are being left to their fate. If the Nazi desertion of Finland fnrccs the Finns to sue for a separate gpce, it will be a major victory for the Allies.

e threat to the northern supply line to Russia will be removed and the flow of goods to Russia will hasten the day of victory.

Disquieting Report

According to a Washington correspondent of the New York Times, Canada's Prime Minister is st odds with .\lr. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill about the arrllllgclllc-nts of an Inter-Allied Council to undertake tllc dircction of the grand strategy of the war. Apparently it is proposed that the basis of the projected council should be delegations representing equally the LTnited States and the British Ctllllillttlllltfilllll of Nations. According to the l\'t‘\\' lllrlt lzlllcg writer, All‘. King contgm- plates a rcftlsal of Canadian ctr-operation in the British Collll1l~tll\'caltll dclcgation, insisting upon representation by a separate delegation.

(Quinn w: this report, tlle Globe and Mail says: "\\ t» ' . lliilf. such an attitude would be in tuna; "3 t -.l'l.llll' y witll tlle previous rccord ‘g Allnistry in the sphere of Imperial bu: we tind it difficult to believe that ‘If, wllcn the clash of arms is rc- lvtlllll, it will cling stubbornly to i lull livulllrislll, which ought t0 be

of the lti

_ 1c of achieving for the Brit- lsll lfl-llllYC unity in policy and lctiotl."

(lul- ‘l .ll-,,-~.-.» ,;..ll_:i~lllp<lrary reminds Mr. King that w; ll s n rllrll lflllll London he declared in a pulllzt pp W at lllC llccd for solidarity ill tllc

caust- ul Ill ll.lllil>l override all other consider- ations, lnclllrllllg nationalism, of which he made

g f llli Hllull. lt would sllock millions of (,,;ul.l<i:.lll. ll \' Ii\'lil.tll\' [quilt] 1119i;- Prime Blllllslcr, a: (l tllllilll stage of tllc war, still in-

sistllly; upull lllc llltlllltcllallce of national paroch- ialislll flllil tllrmvillg nlonkcy wrenches into the plans fnr :1 wl-lll-llilllltctl war policy. It is true tll-‘ll \‘-'-' bu." 1' liwll llflllflllfll status within the

Brut-ll il-ullw , ..!'.'llIli, l-ut of wllat value would that \l.l'.ll.- l1. 1:: lllt'('\L|1[i_»f:\|'|A,\i5 victory? lllt- lllllllt‘ . l fllall points out that one of the Zlfglllilfllb ll sllcccssftllly exploited by l'\llI(‘l‘2CIlli llgipfw-l-Illt- oi tllvll" cnuntryfls adhesion to lllL‘ l.l ~ (-. fsliltllin was that, whereas the l_ nu. . ,~_- w lull! only ltavc mic vote in tllc .\--<-llll-l_v t»: iiw lx-zlullll, tllc British Conlmon.

l tIlc st-pslrzltc rcprcscntations of the - ‘ill allntvltrrl tivc votes. It may ..l.l: l\,l’.'l, (IIIXIUIIS to soothe American ‘Hslvlllllll ‘~ ~ ll ‘,l i- point, is ttggrccablc to tllc lilllhll l “null, Alili liilVllig parity and nothing

ulllrv wiill tllr l tuful Stairs in the proposed Inte- l'\|ll<‘rl ( ltllliCll. Ill illnt case the Conltnnntvcalth il_"'l~l‘~lll~'l'l \\‘~»ul~l bc rcprcsclltatit": as much of t .lll:l-l:t all-l iiu-l-llirr Dnmmlnug a5 0f Great

lirililiil. All “i023 rulircrn about our national auto-

nmlll’ was lllc tlllvgtd reason for his refusing tllc and with it tllc Government's policy."

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British Government permission, in 1938, to train R. A, F. fliers in Canada under their own ad- ministration. That dog-in-the manger attitude was the means of delaying the Empire Air Training scheme until months aftcr the outbreak of war. Let us hope we shall not have a repetition of it in connection with the plans which Mr. Churchill and Mr. Roosevelt are formulating. Mr. King would be mucll better enlployctl in sitting at tllc fcct of these great lcadcrs of clnbattlcrl democracy, and acquiring something of their broad vision and capacity for virile leadership.

= EDITORIAL NOTES y.

Tomorrow the first Sunday in s momentous New Year. a m s s Rationing in gasoline has bccn prcccdcd by pro- llibition in new automobiles. s n- u u "l New Zesland they have called up all reserves, intiu "lg soldiers of the last Great War and all the nl l now eligible for CX]_)Ctllll0Il£iI'_)' force rc- itlforccnlcnts. s s n- a For how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods? i i! i i

Taxpayers in Cap Chat, North Gaspe, settle- ment have voted in favor of the granting of lic- cllccs for tllc szllc of beer and willcs. Of lllc 215 electors who wcrc rcgistcrctl, r17 votctl ill favor of the action. 'l"lle plebiscite lasted two (lIl_\'>,

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Berlin strongly denies that General Von Brauchitsch has joined Vice Iiucrllrcr Hess in his flight to Britain. Of cotlrsc, that may bc perfectly all right, especially as Von Braucllitsch was said to have inadvertently landed in Eire.

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Rev. William Cannon Smith, former parish lnitlistcr of Auchtcrardcr, Abcrdccnshirc, has dicd and left $535,484 to charitable and religious insti- tutions; he probably saved $484 frolll his stipend and inherited the $535,000.

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Lindbergh, who resigned his coloncncy in the U. S_ Army because he disapproved of President Roosevelt's policy, has now volunteered for service with his country's Air Force. But surely his heart cannot be in warfare against a liucl-llrcr llc

loves so well. I i i I

Col. R. I. Manion as Director of Air Raid Pre- cautions should prove the rigllt man in the right place. He did his bit in the first Great War, and has been “over there" in the present investigat- ing the auxiliary services in effect in the Mother Land.

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Beaverbrook is a great optimist according to a

Canadian Press dcspatcll from SlIIitlCflHlid, Eng-

land. He rises ill tllc middle of the lligllt, we arc

told, to curse you if lle fccls liltc it, and on tllc

other hand he will ring you up at 2 r\..\I_ to thank

you if he fccls like it. 'l‘llat would indicate that optimism depends upon digestion.

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Montreal Gazette's Washington correspondent wired: The Washington lilncs-klcrald (isola- tionist) observed that a British army destroyed the Capitol in lbw-and Mr. Churchill captured it in 1941, alone and without lirmg a shut. llupcrtiu- ent observation: 1 wonder if Charles Lindburgll listened to Mr. Churchill's speech . . . '.l‘llc wea- ther? In uncensorable terms, it smells like April."

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Rt. Hon. Major Clement Richard Attlce, l\I, P., British statesman, Labour Patlizlmctltary Lcadcr, born this date 1883; graduated at Oxford with 2nd Class Honours ill Modern History, and after being called to the Bar at Inner Temple, became secretary of the famous Toynbce Hall, social centre of London's East 15nd; became Tutor and Lecturer in Social Science at London School of Economics; thcn served with the Tank Corps in Gallipoli, Mesopotamia and France; after war be- came Mayor of Stepney, and representative of Limchouse in the Labor interest ill llouse of Com- mons; was mcnlllcr of both the llacdouald ad- ministration; then Leader of the Opposition; vis- ited U. S_ A. on several occasions and Canada last year.

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All these R. A. F. youths in our midst may rc- turrl to us as citizens after the war if we are good to them now, ss the following verse by one of them indicates:

They posted me to Canada, To tcacll me llow to fly. But my course is almost over, The end is drawing nigh. I must leave these friendly people With their hospitality and charms, To return to my 0\Vli country And again take up tbc arms Of battle, against the hated foe, And strain, with all my might and main The Hun, to overthrow. So Farewell to you Canadians, There is nothing more t0 say, But with God's strength and Guidance l'll return again some day. ‘I I I U

This significant political itcm appeared m the New York 'l‘inlcs from its Washington corres- pDIidCtitZ‘ ."'l'lle Canadian Government under Prime Minister King, however, has always shown a disposition to keep closely in line with the Uni- ted States. The fact that sclcctccs ill this country are IIOIV liable to scrvicc zlnylvltt-rc in the world and might conceivably find (licmsclvcs dcfciltling blngapore or other British possessions in the Pacific, itis bclicvccl, will strengthen the hand of the Canadian (iovcrntncnt in tcllizlg its people that the Dominion must show all equal rcndinqw Mr, lung not long ago said that he would not inlposc conscription without coilsulling the Catladian people. This, however, was before japan at. tacked the lrlflilfitl Slates and tllenncctl Canada herself. l<or this reason it is thought Ilere that lllr. Churchill's visit may be considered by ihc Canadian Government an appropriate swing {or the announcement that the situation had, cllallgcd,

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THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

JANUARY 3. 1942

NOTES BY TNE WAY

Observes the Woodstock Sentinel- Rcvlew: "The census count E1"! Nova scotia a populatxln of 573.- 190. or about alpco lees than the city of Toronto. New Brunswick had 456,377. and" Prince Edwflfd Island 93.919. or about two-thirds one population of Ottawa. The Marltimes Ought to be able t0 Bel along with one governnrent," And would, were the crop of’ pmiticians sruallen-Stratford Beacon-Rinald-

Asslze Courts are taltlnl active stevpe to av the dark The asslzcs which open at Yiflt Wily and at Ileeds next w.ek. Wlll Yl-W earlier than usual. so that Jurors and other; may get b01114! hem" black-out time. I am told that one Sheriff's Officer has chosen jurors who live fairly near the courts. re- serving those who Ive in remfltel’ parts of the country for the long- el- days. —— Lsefs Yorkshire Post.

Brief Berlin radio reoorts about Russia. using "flendith rocket. guns" are bellrverl by experts to be based on this amazing develop- ment: the British are known to have devised - and are apparent- ly having the Russians try out — unique ccmtfnatiors cf twelve nine-barrel "projectors." These will simultaneously send I08 rocket- like projectiles into the sky re- putedly as high as 20.000 feet. when each ptoiectile reaches a

redetermined" height. it ejects s.

orig cable attached to a parachute. The cables are culpable of destroy- ing or severely d-lmwztrig any plane that lfts them. In one salvo the combfnaticn vtcapon ts said to blanket a zcne I200 foot lcnit. 300 feet wife, and 300 feet deco — Ncwsrecl ,

l see that not one In ten of (the people I meet rec‘! spptecl- ates what n Gennan vic ry would mean ‘no you. I suprose it is that {or nine hundred ycrrs v"u have not known lnvasfn F;r IIIII" lturldrod years the only wars that have been on Ertg"sh soil have been cl I wars, vtiflictl l-Pft the life of the people Iargey un- touched: For all that time the Enszll-h Clhnnncl has saved you frcm wtlnt ‘ms Ilnppmcd 0n the continent or El‘t"pt‘ Nwv. as Hit- ler has said. "l'he"e are no more islands." Wak“ up yrur fellow- countrymen, Make them realize that everything that is vtfuable in life ls at stake in this war: your standard of life. y-ur property, your persons, the sznctlty of your hcunes: the persrns cf your women- folk, your mental ard spiritual liberty, your hcp: fcr the future- all depend on defeating Hitler. If only I could tell you vrlvt defeat moans at the hands of the Ger- mans! - From a BBC Broadcast by a Polish Woman Rziugce.

"Prime Minister Churchill's cigars." says ‘The Calgary Herald, "are almost as tumors as Glad- stone's collars, but of equal value to the cartcorlits." And “hat about Baldwin's pipe ard Cham- berlain's untlbnlln, to say nothing of Roosevelt's cl: reteholder? — The Brantford Expositor.

It will come as no surprise to most pevple tn learn that the Jen's of Canada are vrlulliezrlng for ac- tive service in zlunlbcrs compar- able to the average levcl ct rc- cruitlng, Out or a pipuation of 170.000 the Jens how provided be- tween 3,000 and 400] rccruLLs These figures ale off cl*1 and ap- pear in Hansard of November l2, placed“ on rexrd by Hon. J, T TIIOIFOII, Tllis lueragc rout at- about the same level as r crvltlng gen- erally, _ Willnpeg Frze Press.

When the 'I‘rn:lltu Memorial m plan for world conquest by Japan) was published in 1929, an incredu- lous world rvflrcd to bzieve a word of it The Japs had succeed- ccl in getting thtmsdvcs cloaked with an aura of romantic non- sense. We regarded tlhtm as simple harmless and charmzngly innocent characters out of Gilbert and" Sulli- van. It. has taken the (Path of several million nletl, women and children to disprl the fallacy. The Japanese arcun truill a cynical. cold-blodded and czuel nation. cf racial-egomaniccs Although re- pudiated at the time it was pub- ished, hist-cry has prove: the Tanakn Mcmcral to be the Jap- anese Meill Kacnpf. - Winnipeg Free Press.

If Japan had not with the full wquiescenu of the Vichy Gov- ernment secured air bases tn Cambodia and cthcr parts of French IndO-Clfna. two fine cani- tal ships of the Brflsh Navy, the Prince of Wales and the RleDUlSP. would still be afloat and \orne 600 brave British sailors would not have found s inst rest/rig place on the bed of the ocean. e Jap- onese Alr Force had had available no air bases nearer than Ctnvon. it would have been viltually imposs- ible fcr it to have launched iLs deadly stuck, and therefore the Vfdly Government must be re- amed as lndirecti responsible

s loss of Brl ‘sh warships which may have tilted the balance nt naval power in the Pacific in favor of the Japanese and exposed to terrible dangers both Australia and New zealand. m well as many British and American island bases. -'1‘orontlo Globe and Mail.

An noted In tlfs column recent- ly. an owl made p, l:w diving attack on an Edinburgh ncllzeman in I113 blackout, apparently attracted by the metal disc on the constable! helmet. Now we have to record l. further instance cf an §dinburgh owl's temerilty. A jiu mists. cycl-

hOme fzoln his office in the “wee sma‘ hours" at the wctk-end, had Just. entered a tree-lined avenue when he noticed something drop directly 1:1 front of him. He stopped, end to his surprise found that the abject was a half-grown I'll“ ‘File rodent was not quite dead, and the cyclht. rcmptly dis- patched it. leaving if) in title gut- wr. he was abcut ta cycle on, when down from a tree s an owl and carried off the car- cese. From the brief lfmpse he had of the bird. he denttfied it as a tawny owl. of which there are many in the suburbs 0f the IIBDll-ol- The bird of pley had ob- vlvllall‘ made the unusual mistake for an owl of drupplng its prize. It lllsde no mistake. however. about retrieving its rztfcrl. and bore it off with never, n swish o! lte soft.- fealllcwd wmgs. Edinburgh Scotsman.

Why ore such (Gallop) poll; t". accurate? One reascn is that they seek t0 Obtain the views o1 the BWYBR min. and theze is no over-

e man. Afldll‘? PPQICII b that w lat a msn thinks when he ts ask. ed he may nct think the next morning. Another reason is that what- he roullcs in answer in g question may not be his actual Opinion. At this point enters the snare of the loaded question,

Calling 0. C. Kennedy

(By K. M. Hbin Winnipeg Free I‘

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According to a. news despaicll from Ottawa, a new call-up fol women in the arm and air fcrce will shortly be ma e. The number. it ts stated. nlay run ill a short time to 25.000 women. And that is only the beginning, With this need 1n view and also with the knowledge that the nunlbcr of women avail- able in ‘this Dominion for such scr- vloes is not overwhelming, perhaps it should be remarked to Senior Commander Kennedy that she should take some advice on the pub- licity slle is handing out.

When recently the new com- mandant of the C. W. A. C. was in- terviewed. she announced “Any wonltm who goes into this with the idea of finding glalnor and advent- ure is entirely lllisled. Her 10b Wlll probably be pounding n. typewriter. scrubbing floors, cooking, or some- thing cqually commonplace, but nec- essary." Yet, just 5o commonplace that she will be making history: Lust so commonplace that she will

ave her name listed tn the first military force for women ever raised in this country; just. s0 commoll- _ place that silo will take ller place

eside llel- SISUCIS 1n Grout Britain, _ for the description of whose cplc story words cannot be found; JUSL so commonplace that she Wlll taking her definite art in a con- _ fllct. which concerns ler own future. her children's future, the future of ller country and her Empire.

Has it occurred to Commandant Kennedy just what a. uniform means, llcl- country's tullfornl? Just what it means to the tnemhcrs of this new army what lt means that to them should‘ be given tile King's uniform and with the “Waring of it they shouid be entrusted with the _ honor and dignity of tllcir trillion? Lawrence of Arabia once Lllkcti about the significance of uniforms. He said something to the ef- fect that whoever wears it ac- cepts anonymltv on his own behalf. and is clothed in the grace and dzg- nity and the courage of the group. That is vlllzlt IIIt'll\l)f‘l‘Slll]) lll Lllt: (i W. A. C., and the C, W. A. A. 1~‘,. lllealls.

True. the service required may be scrubb ng a floor, 0r uncilng a typewrter. There is sa fsfaction in having a floor come clean and iresh brneath 0110's brush, and even pounding ll typctvrltcl- llns its Bille- tlcs, The point is that this scrubb- ing of the floor. this potlndillg of the typetvrlter, this cooking, this what-have-you is not scrubbing or typing or cooking-it is winning the t war. It Ls part of a great crusade. P

That is the sort of publicity thatc should be out over to the women; of Canada-and the men. too. That d is what the surging of the Cunndl- S an s irit means. This war is a great solrl ual adventure. It has all the, glamor of a march forward oi man- kind. Scme battalions of our forces ~ may fight with scrubbing brushes. and lron pots, and typewriters. They l are fighting just as surely as. the f mall at the tank tllrottlc—lf lt has a. l throttle-Just. as surely as the most t berlbboned squadron leader, or l whistling sailor. Canada ls fighting ll for a great, a precious, a lovely n thing, called freotlcnl.