355923, . ss ‘HIE BIIARLOTTETUWII GUARDIAN

Morning Daily iI-‘ounded in i887)

President: Lieut. Col. W. Chester S. McLurs Vice-President: J. B. Burnett, FJJ. Secretary: l.ieut. Col D. A. MacKinnon- 0.5.0. llfior snd Managing Director: .1. R. Burnett, FJI. Associate Editors: Frank Walker and inn A. Burnett

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"The Strongest Memory is Weaker than the Weakest Ink.“

sioxbfxiiiwannib-ii, 1941.

Lobster Advertising

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Yust before Parliament adjourned for the Faster recess Ilou li. llichaud, Minister 0f Fisheries, gave out some information 0n S0lll€ tilt-tor illtllislry \\'lllCl'1 had been

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suiight by lloii. l'v-.':_v llizick. 31-1)- bcrlruid. _ _-\ti>\\'t3l'lilg .\lr. Black's questions, Mr. Micliaild stzitcd the l)\llllllll(lli Government had spent $58.94 59 up to lim- 31. 194i. t0 met" chandise 4.410 5-8 czi-"cs of lobster at a value of $81.o79.2o. _ 1n 0111m- “wwiwli, _\lt'_ .\ll(‘ll.'ili(l supervised ad- vertising and iiiarkczii1g cxjrciiscs that amounted to 13.8 cents a tin to scll a product retailing st 27 cents! “Needless to sn Times, “the arlrc .

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comments the Moncton cxpciirliiurcs were not in daily and wcckl_y' nei apt-rs At the time the ad- vertising was souglu. the publishers were told other mediums would be used which would per- mit the use of color, which it was said, would stimulate salcs butler.

"Canadian newspapers made a successful ef- fort to increase fish sales; they aided in mar- keting more apples when the English market was 10st; they were not used to push marketing of lobsters with the rcsult shown above.

“The lobster fishermen of the Maritimcs will probably now hold the opinion that Mr. Michaud

knows as little about advertising as he does about the lobster industry." M/ell-Merited Tribute Prince Edward Island o\vcs much to the

Canadian Airways service which has now been replaced in the Maritinics by the Trans-Canada Air Lines. The Canadian Airways pioneered this route, and furnished a service uncxcelled in any part of the continent for safety, speed and convenience. It is due to no agitation 0n the part 0f Prince lidivarl l-laurl citizens that Can- adian Airways have been forced to discontinue; indeed, there is already some (lissntisfaction with the service under the new government setup. \Ve quote elsewhere in these columns a comment on the change-over from a Toronto financial paper. which is not complimciitziry. In the meantime, Superintendent Iones and his staff of Canadian Airways are still with us, and tonight it is plan- ned to do them honour at s banquet jointly sponsored by the Provincial Government, the City Council and the Charlottetown Board of Trade. The dinner takes place at the “Char- lottetown" at 7.30 and it is hoped will be ren- reseritative of all classes of our citizens Mr. Jones and his staff will not be short of em- ploymcnt; at this crucial time there is greater demand than cvcr for expert fliers. Yet we be- lieve it is with deep regret that these fine young men are leaving us now. They have all become Prince Frlwarrl Islanders by adoption snd wherever they go we hope that they will still think of this Province as their home.

Rewriting The Text Books

The suggestion has been made in London, Eng, that the history books 0f the United States and Crrcat Britain be revised and re- written to give the youth of both nations s juster appreciation of events affecting both countries. No more constructive work‘ could be undertaken than this, suggests an exchange. A joint committee of competent historians, having scccss to the official archives of both nations, could agree on the facts. Viewing those facts in perspective aftcr the lapse of time, and dis- cussing them in an atmosphere of sympathy and good-will, much of the bitterness would be re- moved when the histories came to be rewritten.

In the d;i_\'s to conic, while the war lasts and

afterward, the lil‘lll.~ll and American people must work in chi-r,- ns-ociiiiinn, first to preserve, and thcn to cxtvnd lllt‘ frontiers of liberty. The

first thing to he (lIlllC is surcly to bring each of thcm to a bcucr utidl-rstantliug of the other, and eradicate \\'ll.'lll'\‘t'l‘ jiri-jurliccs have embittered their rclziiioiis. it is not good that American children should be taught that the British are s nation of iyrziiit-z and nppressors who would have forced the Uuitcd States into perpetual slavery but for the great military genius of the colonial gvncrals undcr “Uisliiugton, and the cowardice and iiicpiiiudc of the British forces sent in suppress the rvbcllion. Nor is it good that liriii-h children should he taught that the United Status is a country where lawlessness and political rackctccriiiq zirc prevalent, where Negroes zirc lyncbvrl, jn-litiririns. are bought and the drug traffic fhiuri-hcs as big business. A joint ctmriiiitir-c of historian.- rcwriting the tekt- bunks of lmill (‘vuiiilrics would make it much easier fur their [rev-pie to work together liar- moniotisly in the fill-tire.

T. CIA. In The Maritime:

The Financial Post makes the following comment on a subject of current interest.

“Canadian Airways Ltd. has been forced out of the Maritime Province after l3 years of ser- vice in the area. The circumstances leading up to its withdrawal merit consideration. Last year the company secured two contracts from the Post Office Department for the carriage of mails from Moncton to Halifax, Saint john, Summer- side and Charlottetown and from Charlottetown to Magdalen Islands during the winter months.

"On the strength of these contracts Canadian Airways invested $200,000 in aircraft. radio and other facilities. The contracts contained a. 30- day cancellation clause. On March 15 lsst the Postmaster General informed the company that. from April r5, Trans-Canada Airlines would take over operations from Moncton to Halifax. This part of the contract represented 35 per cent of the company's revenue. Without it. Canadian Airways could not carry on Maritime operations which, incidentaly, resulted in a loss of $r7.636 for i940. Attempts to arrive at a compromise were unsuccessful. “The service provided by Canadian Airways was never questioned. On the other hand Hali- fax has protested long and loudly because the T. C_ A. terminated at Moricton. The city's “prestige" was involved, apparently. Seemingly it was politically expedient to meet this demand, war or no war. The air-mail contract was trans- ferred to T. C. A. The economics of the move do not seem to have influenced the Postmaster Gcneral's decision. ‘ “It is hard to see how the capital expenditure involved in replacing Canadian Airways service can contribute to the war effort. And it does not seem to be good business for Canada to de- stroy its pioneer airlines one by one to put all our commercial flying eggs in one government basket, at sll times subject to political in- fluences."

EDITORIAL NOI ES n

I i H. R. H. Princess Elizabeth's birthday, born this date, I926. Princess Royal and heir to the

to the children of the Empire last Christmas.

s s We boast of the agility of many of our old- est inhabitants, but have we any to equal this? A 12-year-old boy tried to snatch the purse of Mrs. Irene Button of Toronto. Mrs. Button is 97 years old. She chased the youngster up a. lane and held him until police arrived.

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We have been advised that two reasons for the non-activity of the Junior Board of Trade

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. are (I) That 22 of this number have patrioticaliy

enlisted, leaving only nine married men to carry on; and (2). The closing down of the Board of Trade room left them with no meeting place, s n- s a

Hcnceforth British raisers of livestcok may not dispense native-grown wheat to their poultry, etc., unless a. modest grower of wheat is also a raiser of poultry, in which case lic may make domestic use of his cereal produce and sell the surplus, for the same object, according to a new Home Grown Wheat Control Order issued by the blinister of Food. Approved buyers only will be permitted to use or sell home-gro\vn inill- able wheat for flour milling or seed, and this re- striction applies to any stocks in their possession.

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The seriousness of the situation is making itself felt more and more over the border. A re- port that Mr. Willkie was planning for renomin- ation as Republican Presidential Candidate for r944, brought this instant denial from him: "This is no time, with the world in flames, to engage in the nonsense of talking about can- didacies. I have no political plans of any nature. With the nation confronting what may be its greatest crisis in history, it is ridiculous for any one to make any plans for six weeks ahead, let

alone years ahead." s s s e

The proposed alterations on the Market Building would apparently be a distinct asset to the City. Improvements have been badly wanted for years but the Council has not been in s financial position to undertake them. Ac- cording to the plans submitted by the F. G. Spencer Co., Ltd., all it is going to cost the city now is an immediate $1,500 to be repaid in additional rental at 7 per cent on the outlay, spread over s period of l3 years. But the Coun- cil is acting wisely in taking time to consider the proposal from all angles.

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The paper recording the marriage of the psr- ents of the late President Calvin Coolidge has been found after being “lost" for seventy-two years in misplaced files of the town clerk of Plymouth (Vt.) The yellowed document, dated 1868, is in the handwriting of the late President's grandfather who as s justice of the peace performed the ceremony for his son- Calvin’: father —j0hn Calvin and Victoria Jose- phine Moore. Half s century later it was the same bridegroom, as Colonel John Calvin Coolidge, also s justice of the peace, who by lampliglit administered the oath of office to his son as President of the United States.

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Still they comel Discovery of s new "knock out drug from which s person recovers quickly with no ill after-effects is announced by the Am- erican Chemical Society. It has the tongue-twist- ing technical name of “5-5-dialkyl l-2, 4-oxazo- lediones." A new class of chemical compounds having hypnotic and sedative properties, the drug was suggested by Dr. Roger W. Stoughton of Vanderbilt University as useful in medicine to produce s short anesthesia for minor operations. Dr. Stoughton said experiments disclosed the length of time the patient is "out" could be con- trolled and indicated the drug should prove ad-

vantageous to dentists as well as surgeons. It docs not have the undersirahle reaction which many patients dread almost as much as the oper- stion itself,

throne, gave her first address over the Radial

THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

TIIUTES BY TIIE WAY

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I-le was also email and frall, out

and {Th4 people often have ve.y strong vases‘! He was not only audible to QVCIyDJC-y in the railway carriage; the platelayexo on the ling must. have caught some of his words. Ha roared at his neighbor .n all serlcusness: "They wrote and asked l: I was fire-watching at my place the was evidently a small- shop keeper.) I told ‘em I was sorry but; I wasn't able. I said I hoped they wouldn't think I was a. selfish old man, but if I was going to 1.1V; to see the chap beaten I'd got. to take a. greet care of my- self." After musing for u. moment, then roaring still louder. "Even then it's going to be s. struggle.’ - Manchesu-zr Guardian.

Mr. Adams. in his suggestion that the United States take over Ber- muda. and other possessions near the American Continent in payment of the debts due frcm the Bfiiiéh. seems to forget. a “seifevldeni truth" set forth by our Declaration of Independence, namely “that .. governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." Does Mr. Adams suggest s. plebiscite among the peoples of Bermuda snd other possesszons? 0r, does he be- lleve that the conquest of a people by finance is justified while a. conquest by armed forces is not? In connection with these debts I quote from Ambassador Dcddls diary dot/ed Jan. 3, 1935: "(Senatorl Johnson has howled about debts due the United States a5 though oui states had not repudiated hun- dreds of millions due European creditors..." It would seem that a lot of us are calling the kettle bldCK and wanting the kettle to pay for lt.—M.M., Augusta. - Letter 1r. Portland Press-Herald

An interesting little list has been issued of Lcndcn statues on behalf of which it. has been thought proper to go to the expense of special protection. The object in view has been to protect statues which are valuable as works of art. rather than for the merit of the orlgmals, so that James I1 gets protection denied to more popular monarchs, and even that most ardent. of modern CrcmwelLans who looks after the Interest of Oliver in the House of Ccmmons today will not one feels sure, have grudged the prctccwe covering given to Charles I. As it happens. we have some royal authority on the subject of the removal of sucn statues. When in 1897 it, was found that the statue of Queer. Anne in front. of St. Paul's was inconven- lently placed fcr the plan of bring- ing Queen victoiuals carriage to the foot of the steps, scmeone pro- pounded the “obv.ous" plan of re- moving Queen Anne altcgeuier until after the event. Fortunately, as it turned out, it was thought well t0 mention the matter to Queen Vic- toria. first and she dealt with it very summarily. “Move Queen Anne?" she cried. "Certainly not! They may be wanting to move me one of ale-e days!" - Manchester Guard- 1'1.

A curiously circumscribed Ger- man mentality is revealed in the lengthy official explanatlzn of Hit- ler's invasions oi Yugoslavia and Greece. As usual. the invasions came first and the explanation afterwards. ‘Ihe model ls always the some and denotes a. lack of (If-gill- allty on the part. of the Nazi High Gourmand. Tne mendaclty his be- come stereotyped and the matrix is becoming worn through over use This lnanlkty to find a new or mlrc convincing lie is inconsistent with the theory of German efficiency The High Command is incapable even of telling the old lie in a new way; it. has DQCCIHE the slave of a pattern. Probably the only effect. of this constant adherence or a fic- tion formula, is w puzzle milkons of intelligent people throughout the world, even those Germans who may be presumed to be still doing their own thinking. The ile has ai- ways been useless because so ob- vious. To utter it. therefore, is a waste of time and s. waste of effort, and totalitarianism has been rep- resented hitherto as exemplifying the elimination of waste in every department of the national life. military and civil. Someone 1n the High Command Ls slipping. Only upon the extravagant suppos.t.0n that Nazi lenders believe their own falsehoods is it. at all DQ551513 to assume that these leaders expect. these falsehoods to find acceptance in the minds of those for whom they are intended. The difficulty is inst even a Nazi fanauc cannot be u stupid u that having regard to the fact. that the ile has been used so often snd has never worked. It did not work in the case of Czechoslovakia, or in that. of Po- land, Scandinavia. Holland and Belgium, and its crudity has become more evident and more wearisome the more it; has been used. — Mon- treal Gazette.

The man who cried "Give me lib- erty or give me death!" also said. s little latter. “Since the achievement of our independence 11¢ is the great.- est patriot who stops the m-cst gul- liel.’ George Washington, who led us through our first war, saw even in I707 how we were "mangllng", rilining snd wasting our land. It. anything but inappropriate that there should now appear, amid the thunder of LIIQ munitions factories snd the trunp of the new armies of freedom, s brave, well dressed. well edited little quarterly, "The Land" highly dedicated to "the eon- servatlcn oi roll. rain and man." The antithesis between guns and butter reveals that between guns and gullies mere is even 9 short- range connections, to ssy nothing of

the defense oi the nation and its liberties against the new barbsrism and the defense of the sol from which, literally, our democracy springs against the old. old barbar- isms of waste, ignsrsnca and un- thinking vsndslinn. Morris Llew- el n Cooke. president of tile Freud; of the Land. the organiza- tion for which the new quarterly speaks. explains that. the venture iwils to have been laundied s year ago, n the war crisis. distract- ing ev ry mind. hailed the work, though it did not lessen the need for it. The organization believes the time has come to try again: “we have funds enough to start," they ere going Into action arid they hope for support. We hope they get 5 it. Boil conservation is s technical subject, but it is a profoundly mov- ing one, snd "The Innd" has learn- ed In its first issue how to express the deep human values which gather around it. Simply, it. con- vsys s love for the isnd itself - not s literary man's dalilance with it, but tbs strong love of the

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- PAUL A. TIEBNEY- W!

ARTICLE V

The food situation in Britain though fairly satisfactory at this moment, will probably become scum before next summer ls over This ll the considered opinion of the the highest British authorities, who beilevo that when the winter storms have passed the Gennins will launch an extremely heavy submarine campaign.

They have no fesr that the sub- marines campaign will starve Enl- limd out. But; they do expect that singings of food ships will mach new high figures.

Moreover, their records tell them that the total output of British shipyards will not keep pace with the expected losses. Their hopes for the future rest on shipping from the U5.

Other phases of the shipping sit- uation wlill be discussed In s later article. For today I shall confine myself to the question of food supplies alone, s. matter which I have lsc with both Ronald Cross, Mnlster of Shipping. and with Ilord Wooiton, Minister of Food. Since neither spoke for pub- llcatlon, they must not be held re- sponsible for the statements made in this article. At. the same time, wit-bout breaking confidences I am able to assure you that. I believe they would agree in prinqiple, at least, with the basic conclusions I am setting down.

A Complicated Problem

The use to which svsllsbls shipping 1s to be put is decided by the War Cabinet ltselfflrhe problem is extremely complicated and must be repeatedly considered and re- considezed. For the War Cabinet must. decide how many ships are to be diverted to such military and naval matters as maintaining the Army in Africa and giving assist- ance to the Greeks, to mention only two such points. It. must: further decide how much shppln ls 0o be used in bringing in m ital-y and

it must. decide how much cargo space can be reserved for the basic task of keeping Britain fed.

Britain cannot feed herself be- cause in pile past British agriculture hasn't -pald. Food could" be more cheaply produc- ed on the continent: and in south carried to Britain and sold there in exchange for manufactured pro- ducts. Britain doesn't feed herself for the same reason New York State doesn't. But where New York ers can get. fruit fromlrlmdls. and Callfomia, meat and wheat from the Middle West-all places many hundreds of miles away-yet still inside the limits of the USP-Bri- talus food comes over the water, and frequently from foreign lands. These elementary facts have to be repeated here, because they are the crux of the situation.

When I was in England there was still plenty toeat, though cer- tain Imported terns had all but disappeared. Butte: was extremely scarce, but even in normal times the working classes ate margarine, which every one is now learning to eat. and to like. -

A portion of butter In a restaur- ant, was about. one-quarter of the normal-sized pat served here, and no second helping was possible. Sugar is being replaced by sacchar- ine, and restnuzants having sugar deal out to each patron one tiny bit, about one-fifth the size of the usual American lump.

There were no oranges tit. all; no vegetables other than the eternal British cabbage and Brussels sprouts. Tomato Jillce was s. shill- ing a mouthful.

Cereal Available

But. for breakfast I could al- ways get n cereal with milk. one egg and a piece of ham or bacon. n generous portion of" toast with plenty of orange marmalade, and a cup of coffee or a poi. of tea.