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_ TIIE IIIIAIILIITTETOWII GUARDIAN

Morning Daily (Founded In I887)

huh! : I t. C l. W. Ch l: S. Mel-Ill’! VIg-Wegdtnl: “J. R. Basset‘. FJ-L

Liellt. cm. n. A. MMKIIIMII. 0-8-0-

ging Director: J. B. Burnetl. FJ-l-

Associate Editors: Frank Walker and lln A. BERN

CRIPTION RATES: g, mu in p.s|i;‘.'1|l.;,ss~i.0u per u... $2.50 for 6 uwnflu $1.26 for 3 months; 500 I°_l_’ "n! W99”! on; Delivery: $5.00 per year; u-W M 6 mm!" $1.75 or 3 months. By Mull In Cnnadzsoand U. S; A?‘ fi-Ilgrpgr d; w klzS2. peryea: - ‘an y N y 50c for 3 mouths.

‘The Strongest Memory is Weaker than the Weakest Ink.”

PIIIDAII, JANUARX i1._ 1941-

year months

Premier King's Blunder

\'o doubt uiuuv rcllsuils‘ will be assifimd l“ the failure of 1110-1 'll;l\\‘d conference on Duiiiiii-

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conference \\'11. lillUkllVllllfkl 1o tuilurc. This .\lr, lint; >illlkllll hzne known. II: show-

cil 1:1i1i<-1i1.'1111e i-Wli of llllbfllwllt a5 ‘Ycll 3'5 lack o,‘ i,.;,,i,.,-.~i,,.,, 1.1-1" 111w have >€l'l()l1S reper- ,.,,\_;,,,,_,_ 11,,“ W \\'.iil111~s1l1iy"s exhibition

. 11- ljberzil party——tlic oiilv b?

williiii 111C 111,111.» 11f

purtv l'\']'Il'1'¢Clll\'~.l £11 Luiizidzfs war czibiiict

i,,;(-i7p1-¢i1.l lll C‘.l1lll\ countries, or evcii 111 Great lh-itain mp1 by 11‘ll' iu-ighbore to tlic 50111.11: I! K111111111 11.1w bow» 111i iu-v lllJlllUY for the Priiiic .\liuis1cr i-v lL.l\'L’ ;.~1~1i‘1.1li~~1ii1 JHIHIIICC tlic views of me ,-¢,...;._i\@ pliflillfllll govcriiiiiciils. 111i- wng of 1111‘ p11“ tbroiiglioiit Canada should

have ivariicil 111111. MllL‘ public iiiiiid was not cou-

(m-HM “hi, 111111111111 (1l-<'ll~\1i\11S or COlliCYCiICCr‘. but with l11i\\ hi»: to 11111 lifllllllI in this hour of trial.

;\lr. King's atisiiipt to eziiiiivuflzigc the Sirois report as a \\'2ll' measure, when its adoption ivould have iiiezint rr-vi-ion of our \\lio1e Con- stitution, was singularly inconsistent with his pic-election appeal, not to “change horses in midstrenm." llow much more dangerous than changing llflffl‘? in uiitlurcani. or governments iii \\'.'lI‘ time. \\1\lllil i: be 1o embark at this crisis oii rzitliczil wiii-tiiiiiiiiiiril changes, involving a. whole new setup of ffllfiflll-flfflVillClill relations!

Gasoline Revenues

It 1111s been intimated by Fiiianfit ITiIiiSICF Ilslcy iliat 121111111 readjustment of Cfllléflléllihta)?“ 31it1i1sys1ei11;1s l'<'\‘i.illll1l€l1(.1(‘d by the birois (tiiiiiiiissioii, ilra<1ic iiiczisurcs may have to be taken by the Lluiiiiiiion Ur)\'(ii'11|1lC11[ in the way of invading provincial IZIXZIUOII fielils._l‘le also stated that in Wltllllllll the l)UlIlll1l0iI miglit have u» ration gusiiliiit. which \\"IL11<_l curtail provin-

cizil rcvciitivs Illllll cur licenses aiid gasoline

faxes. _ _ _ _ On this point PYPIIIIQI‘ l‘;utu1lo_ of British

Columbia ;\~'1.1~.l .\lr_ Il>1CtI “\\ill my hon.

friend gllllfflliivt‘ that '111'.'1'6 will be no rationing g1‘ ggtgtiliile if iilP ii-port is. iuiplciiieiited?"

.\‘lr. ll=leyr "l (1'(1 ii-it say that, 1 said that we would havg m compensate in that event."

Premier Paiiullo: "Where are you going to get the money?"

lt is lint YPCllfflVfl that .\lr. Ilsley made any reply to this qucsiiiru. Yet it would seem to go to the root of the tuattci". If implementation of the Sirois report was necessary as l Wartimt measure (which ivas Premier King’: excuse for calling the conference at this time) it was be- cause of the assurance it held out of financial stability. Where-iii would our stability lie? In the case of Prince Edward Island, the report says: "The min-cc; of TCTFIIHB which Ibdtfld remain u-ifh Hie Pnirinra are peculiarly stable since they roiliprir: giiroliiie, automobile and land frirei‘, while the lit-o itvmr 1110.1"! subject to fluc- tuations, 111., public ilumuin reixenim and rev- (If!!! from liqiirr con/ml, are of negligible im- jiorfmica a: riviii/iarcd "with those of other prov- fuses.”

Rationing of gasoline as a war measure would thus completely 1111K‘! the Sirois plan so far as we are concerned, \\'e would be left with only one “stabli” source of revenue, that of land taxes. llow the lJOHlllllOlI llovcriimciit would be able to conipemate us in that event is now an academic qllP-‘IIHII, siiivc the conference has crime to lliillllllvfll but it would have been in- twice-ting to have had .\lr. Ilsley elucidate this point.

A Farniiar’: Viewpoint

A farmer wriiiiig in the Gazette says: “I would like to fll'él\\' your attention to a few poinlS g('li('l';ll1_\' n\ei'li1n]<e(l in the discussion on the fixing of :1 iurixiiiiiiiii butter price. First, the westcru fur11ii~r< are ui-zirlv mined with their unsaleablc record crop 11f grain, the lower grades of which are used for iuill feeds for liastern Canada and Lhiti-d States. Now, here is a great mystery. The price of uiill fcvils has risen steadily for the last two years. Who gels it? Western farmers can't sell their grain. Eastern farmers, who have to use this mill feed to sup- plement home-grown feeds, are to have a maxi- mum price put on l1utter—uot on mill feed, oh no! It is generally well known that Eastern dairy farmers have had a desperate time trying to stay on their farms. T116)’ have done so be- cause no one else mints the farms and because farmers will get along rm less than anyone else to keep llll'll' farms. \Ve farmers are willing to pnv extra tam-s, We are ivilling for our boys to go 0\'('|‘~'I'1l~', we are anxious to do our part in the \vzii'——-liiit we do not want to be the goats. 'I‘hvre are many middlemen who will unload storage hultcr \\'ll(‘n the market goes up. There are p(1\\'(‘l’fiil grain t-oinpziuics who will pocket the sprciid of piicc in feed-and make a big

noise an they tum over a fat cheque to this or that war fund. But our all-powerful govern- ment could surely, if it had the will, put its heavy foot down on these lads as well as on the farm- ers. There could be a limit io_ the turnover in storage butter prices, to the spread 011 Hull-fetid, and then the butter price would take cure of it- self. the \Vestern farmers could sell more grain to the East, to the advantage of both. This. wild talk of butter bring rationed in Canada would drop. From the farmer's viewpoint the goverii- iuetit ls sacrificing the farmer to protect the grain companies and tlic middlemen."

In The Mediterranean

The result of last Fridays battle iii the Medi- terranean between British warships and air- craft of the fleet air arm, 011 the one hand, and Ucriuiin dive bombers aided by some Italian aircraft and surface bouts, on the other. is thus summed up by a Canadian Press writer: Britain lost a fine cruiser, the four-ycar-old QJOO-IOH Southampton; and the modern air- craift czirricr Illustrious was iliimziged by bomb liits 0r iiczir misses but rcziclicil port szifely. The Llt‘.\1l'\.)_)'Cl' (izillaiit was ilaiiiiagctl but lllZlllC port. The credit side liaid llicse iiiiportzuit iici1is:—-—- The British fleet succéssfully pushed a cou- voy of apparently trciueiiilotis importance iliruogli the strait between Sicily and 'I‘uuis. ziiiil ou to (lrcccc.

'l‘l1e enemy lost at least i2 aircraft in the ac- tual attack; then Sunday night the Royal Air Force visited the base from which the Cieriiian (live bombers operate, Ciitaiiia in Sicily, and de- stroyed or severely damaged bctwccii ",0 and 40 aircraft Oll the ground.

An Italian destroyer was sunk at the scene of the engagement. The British submarine Pandora sunk two Italian supply boats seeking to siicalc across to Libya to liiiid materials for Klarslial GraziauYs army.

Appearance of the Nzizi dive bombers over the Ilediterraueaii, taking over the task at ivliieli the Italians had hopelessly failed——tliat of div- iding the Ueditcrraiiezm liy preventing Britain from using the Sicilian Struit—presciitcd a threat which Britain was prepared to nicel.

EDITORIAL NOTES F!

The state of our agricultural development dc- mands more practical attention than is being given it by bureaucrats.

>11 >1- »- n- The Commonwealth Staff at the Airport are to play hosts to the British guest children this afternoon,

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"Add they all came hack, every blessed one . . of cm, as though theycl got the sack, they all came back. sadder and wiser _tlicui"—tlic old saw has its modern application.

>1 v -o= u- Acting Premier Dennis has the advantage of two acting ‘attorneys-general, neither of whom has a seat in the Legislature. Mr. Dennis has been long in office, but has usually been passed over by Mr. Campbell when requiring a deputy. I\lcssrs_ LePage, llclniyre and “iright having had tliepreference. Izvcrytliiiig (011105 1O him who waits.

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A committee of volunteers has l)(‘l‘Il foriiicd aiiioiig \\ cstcrii [fiiiou employcs in New York City t0 co-operate with the British War Relief Society in efforts to alleviate ‘the suffering of the people m the \\'<'li‘l0t'n British Isles. Fundg will be ffilSvCfl through donations of thousands of “esiern ‘LIIIOH eiiiployes, for the purchase of rolling kitchens. The committee also is seek. mg clothing, knitted articles and tin foil. ~

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Mr._ R. G. Loughlin, bond broker, Frederic- IOH, 54.3.. has been appointed provincial director of the National War Savings Committee; of New Brunswick and Prlucc Edtvard Island a, I full time job. He was formerly in the employ- ment of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, and served for a. time in the Charlottetown office. 1'16 118s becn in company with Mr. j. O. Mc- kenzmi 53"" 1°11". with an office at Frederic- ton as a bond dealir since I932. n- x

_l\lr. Iolin Patterson, director of Meteorolo. Emil Services of Canada, reports that it prob- ably will not be loiig until a five-clay weather forecast will be an established routine for a meteorological service. Five-day forecast, now are being tried out experimentally and, he pre- dicted, in the distant future it might be possible f0 forecast weather conditions for a year in ad- vance. At present, general forecasts are for 36-48 hours. =1- »: >1- v

Farmers are no farther ahead in “the pcggiiig” wfllrovcrsy tlianhlieyi werebefore the confer- enceqwith Mr. Gardiner. 'Ilic Wartime Prices 3fld_ ride Board still has authority maximum prices for butter, l\lr. Gardiner re- PPFWI Riff)’ the London (Ont) conference. The ‘Canadian Press erroneously reported Mr. Gardiner as saying rrr--~1hg"-""5O“f¢rfl,¢¢ of 0m tario farmers that control of butter prices had been takcnfrom the board. i\lr. Gardiner said that authority to settle minimum prices for bitt- li€l"l1al(‘l been settled in the Dairy Supply Board. which would take this action soon. It is an- other case of “Jam yesterday, jam tomorrow, but never jam today."

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‘Benjamin Franklin, American statesman, diplomat and author, born this (late, 1706; ‘m; one of the heroes of the \\ ar of lnilcimudciice; began life as a working priiitcr iii llostoii; en- tirely self-taught; established in Philadelphia one of the earliest circulation libraries; appoint- cd postmaster, and organized the first police force and fire brigade in the colonies; founded the Academy which became the University of Philadelphia; member of the (jencral Assembly for 13 years; his famous experiment proving the identity of lightning and electricity made in June I752; was London agent of Massachusetts, Ivlaryland, and Georgia; induced France to make a_n alliance Wllll the revolted Ciiluiiirs; (luring his life time received many literary illstiiictious, and published several political pamphlets and writ- ings on economics: his many-sided genius was eminently practical, and in science and politics he was an altruist.

, tions" of Dr. Forbes Wmsl-w-but. , it has some merit none m less-

to set ,

THE QHQIQQUPTETOWN GUARDIAN

NOTES BY TIIE WAY

Tho in; Ien years have been trying ones. There has been suf- fering enough, Heaven knows. And yelp-die average resident of North America L; better off today than he has ever been. That is the deliberate conclusion of one czmimtcnt ecmomlst. — Quebec Cfuonicle-Telegraph.

l cannot. pretend that this quota- tion is fi-c-m a. new back-it is from quite an old one, the “Recollcc-

‘Italy Seethes _ with Discontent

(Winnipeg Free Pun)

Feeble and faint was liho voloe of forty million Italian pevnle scarcely ti; be heard by those who would it. was an insistent, voloe, It was the voice 0t the peo- le. Those who visited this 601m- ry, who had on: to hum", heard c-f that vole» even though it. was muffled behind the Faaclst gag which Mussolini and his Black shirts had imposed upon the limo. After Mussolini entered the war the voice became vocal and louder. Since 1mg amazing Greeks have trounced the Dimes Albanian lei;- ions lihe voice has become so loud that, even the deaf can hear i1. Since tlhe arrival of the wunded V _ _ Iron-r Albania. the women of Italy fensive in Libya and Albania, their are speaking m chow‘ 1m voice morale at hoinie still further shak- now shouting openly m‘; ioudw,

w. their influence within the AX" tells of 11mm and dissatisfaction all but ruimfi.

“On the completion of hi; first. year of study he (the writer's brother) was bitten by a maid dog whilst playing in a cricket match. and being apprehensive of the result he suddenly threw up medicine and began to read for holy Crclers." — London Spectator.

The Italians are on the de-

NQI J1!’- 1988! 911- amo the middle grid u s: 618M- wumelns aspect o! the British e3, o contempt for c e rabble “M39955 l5 l-he Yal-‘l’ 1118i’- lil W55 Black Shirts b tho aristocracy, of

won by an army of frce all es-an amiy of British, New Zealanders. Aivtrallaus, Free French and 1th- ers. leagued together" for the 11b- cratiou of Europe. In this first convincing proof of what an army of free men can do, the BFIILSD may veil- have glvcn the world a forctaste of the great/rt‘ dellveranm to c.me. - New York Tmcs.

poverty and dstress among the peasants and fiuimers. and of dis- appointment and disillusionment among the nation as a whole as a result of the military and econ- omic failure cf wars. wars and wars. The whole of Italy today Ls like a military camp, -brlstiing ‘with soldiers of all ages and tyipesdress- ed In uniforms which range from the sombre black of the cfflclal Fascist Guard to the rather "Rui-i- timian" cocked hats and large swords cf the military pofce. Butt wherever you go you never find a. martial air on the part of the people. either in or out of uniform. The people behave as though Italy

With Clarence D. Howe. Dominion Minister of Munitions and Supply, at present in England. the Gov- erriment at Ottawa can scou be d1- reclly informed on the DITSDECIIVG demands. ahead of Canada to make up for the damage d ne by the German air war on‘ British ln- hm signed an armistice and any dustrlal towns. The Minister should hqur an invadjng army w:uld match- be 1:1 a better position to advise on In. ' the ‘possibility ‘of moving certain The Black shirts no longer mmn British industries to Canada, after through the streets with the stride they have been bcmbed, rather than of the German goose-step.

try to rebuild the factories where Qnly m0“ 1n b14101; shirts are they can be bmbsd over and over seen with newspapgft pamphms again. Canada may ‘well consider and postcrs printed in cellar and i119 Pwsibllii-i’ 0f findln; filie neCe-S- attic secret. propaganda, drives have sary financial credit to build more a, larger cimuiagion mm giascist. new factories. They could perhaps‘ dominated sheets.

be loanid or leased to British firms, If L; impgsgjbk; to estimate the with experienced British wcrkers damage WYUEIM; by Brllish lrmb- f0_p1'CVld9 [he skilled craftsman- ings. According to official sting. 5111p: There would be mutual bcne- merits Bflfjsh bombs are fascinated fit 1:1 the transference of b mbed by small farim houses and hospital; industrics to this side of the At-lan- Of course no one believes this.

ti: Ocean where they would con- Intercourse between cities is ab- tmue to be within the British fam- solutely prchtbbed, but stray strag- 11y‘ of nations. Out of this war, the glers, laboring men, wh: reach British Commonwealth has l/O Raine from bombedr areas, fiell hill‘- emerge more unified along econ- rowing stories of the devastation i-mlc lines. The process of re-build- wrougih-t by British bombers In lug to bring ca-operation more Into Italy's industrial region.

the Commonwealth cannot begin The authorities Ioudiiy deny that too soon. It has never been more British brmlbings have destrcyed urgently needed than at this very Italian IIIIIIISBTIBI works. but the time. - Ottawa Citizen. tens of thousands of skilled and unskilled unemployed that are now actually gluttlng the strests are mule evidences havoc inflicted

The important thing to remember about; the two earthquakes that. have shaken New England, one Pri- idiiy and the other yesterday, is that the $€lSm0lOgl5I5 both at Weston and at Harvard ‘insist that “there is Iiothiiig to worry about." It hap- pens bfiat New England's subtler- ranean regions are lacking the “foul? that; has in the past. been responsible fir the violent, destruc- tive quakes on the Pacific Coasts. This fault, of which New England. we are told, is free. i5 a kind of fissure or huge crack over a vast. portion of the rocky sub-strata, so that. one mighty section "skids” against the cther causing the re- markable movement that; brings such great. destruction on the sur- face. But in New England, the geologists say there is reason to believe that no such fault exxsts and that, We have more of a solid or monolithic conditln underneath our soil, the presumption being that if such. a condition had existed here we'd have known 1b long be- fore this. On other point-s. as to the cause precisely bf tho disturbance. or its fimdani-ccit-ai background the geologists are disinclined to make speculations since it may be due either to a relaxation of rock struc-

of the widespread upon the land.

T0 A SPARROW

Because you have no fear to mingle Wings with those of greater oars So like mo, with 50ml I single Your sweet impudence of heart.

And when prouder feathers go hee

w r Summer holds her leafy show. You still come to us from nowhere Like gray leaves across the snow.

In back ways where odd and end Ito To your meals you drop down sure." Knowing eveiw broken window

OI the hospitable poor.

There is no bird half so harmless.

None so common and socharmlesl,

pcaitlon, because if he lets his Italian Jackal collapse, his own reputation will collapse too. U, on the other hand, he revives the Jackal will then revive its claim on the carcass of France with which Hitler is trying to do a deal

crops btnibs on an enemy ccun- try?" Tim's ivas the question put by a representative of tihe Asoclatied Press of America in Berlin t: a Get-man university graduate who. after a. career in journalism and service as n. government. official, is

only thing that can safely said is that 11¢ simply mus/t do the dirty somewhere." — London New States- man.

contact with pecple of many na- tions and confessrd to 11k rig the British as individuals. His answer to the Amer can was that hem-bug was the carrying oul- 0f a purely‘ mllilaijv ccmmaxid. the dsiclinrge of which. brought- relief. "Thcrc is so much R1IgPl‘<$110I'(d up Iii us t at. the ccmmand to start. cri a. l: ' raid evokes chcei" and ‘ r1 lief." he added. We drco Ircmbi n t. because we vivaiit to k ll Enzl sh peoiilc. but. because we loci some- how lliil the best w. mxi t'"o|

Proved 21:2; , - - I Prescription Accuracy

In having a prescrip- lion put up there ls one particularly important matter to consider and that ls accuracy.

1cm an l . thought, 11f‘ run cnirbi 111s rwn f-nvily wl i1 L‘. t4 regard for I111" . cf Eglish wa- mon and c1111: ‘l simply because hi1; IPuchrer wills it. _ Belfast Tele- graph.

I am continually asked If 1 Ihhvk we can win through. A treat; many prcibhm; have 1.0 be overc mo, A grcat, many dangers have to be fac- c-d. Suffering and tribulation are certain, but I see the situatlcn in sharp contract to those nights In early June. when it. was touch and go wlictlier we lest the whole of the B.E.F., when even friendly ob- scrvei-s d ubtcd our abllll. to stand the strain. Contrary to l. e glromy antlclpafon and fears of those days, the Battle of Britain ls not prorecdlng accziidlng to Hitler-b plan. and given the continuance of unity and endurance. we cannot be beatcn. - A. V. Alexander in Unit- ed Empire.

"I wonder," uld n. friend who should know, "if we are dtlng enough to exploit Hitler's perplex- ltlea and to make it clear that, he has been hesltatlng for some time whether to sell France to [my or to France. and hiu latciy been inclining to doublecnu his Italian allies In the hope! of let- ting more out of France in