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"The Strongest Memory IS Weaker than the Weakest Ink."

THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1911.

, Britain's Parliament Speaks

The .\.\"is Iioiicrs will dcrivc

sitiall comfort from tht- t>\(‘i‘\\lIt'llIllll].{ iotc of coniidciicc given Prime Nliuister Lliiircliill in the British llouse of lliiitmuns vcsterdayz The Churchill t}nvei-iiiiit'iit‘s \\'.'ll' policy ivas sustained by a ii-tc of ti,‘ to 3. ziftcr a twu-tlay debate in

which the rcvt-ut rcvcrst-s iii Yugoslavia and Greece were fully discussed. Highly encouraging, too, was Mr. Churchill's statement that nearly 500,000 Imperial soldiers are now in the Middle liast and that Briitiin expects enough new Am- erican incrcliznit ship.- to sec her through I942 in the bzitilc ni the Atlantic.

During the past two ivccks Mr. Churchill's ministry had ltwti midi-r rrititisiii; and the Prime hlinisti-r, iii-twitlisiziiiiliiig his tremendous per- siiiizil pria-iigc, iu-il; thc ilcmocratic course by asking fora vutc uf confidence from Parlia- ment. lle prciticcil this requcpt with a shake-tip of his cabinct_ Thzit is how “British representa- tive government works. Public opinion has not been denied its PlTlpCl‘ channels of expression; criticism "his bccn mct and answered; and the (joveriiiticiit, as a rcstilt, is stronger today than ever before So, too, is Britain's determination to carry on the struggle on land, at sea and in the air, until victory is achieved.

P. E. I. Farm Conditions

l’ i It has again devolved upon Hort. Mr. Hanson, the Opposition leader, to bring to the attention oi the lloiist» oi (‘minions the grievances of the farmers of this Province. lilscivhere in today's issue we quote the Hanszird report of Mr. Han- son's statements, which deal with certain cor- respondence betivcen Premier Campbell and Prime Rliitister Mackenzie King. A summary of this correspondctice. obtained by the Canad- iaii l-‘rcss, appeared in The Guardian last month, and was discussed in the Legislature by Mr. H. F. .\lcPhce. lliit the sections omitted from the hilllllllllf)‘ are of at lcast equal interest. Mr. llanson read the full text of Premier Campbell's letter to .\lr. King, tlius placing it oti record —a ditty which our lslzind representatives at Ottawa neglected to pcriornt.

.\s the (lpposition leader well said, this little Province, purely agricultural, is represented in the klousc‘ by a hliiiistt-r of the Crown, by “an eminent gciitlciiiiui from the city oi Montreal," and by twb local members; yet the plight and problems of our farmers have never been given voice to during the past two sessions -—cxcept bv .\li‘. lltiiisou llilll>t'lf. llc frankly commcndcd Prt-inicr Liiillllilivllis initiative in writing direct lo l‘riiuc hliiiistcr King.

The fact that such a letter should have had to be writtcn by a Liberal Premier oi this Prov- ince to lii< party loader at Ottawa is surprising enough ..\'lill more surprising is .\lr. King's rc-

ply, which is a ]ll'llll(' example oi diplomatic “buclt passing" liiit the most stirprisitig fea- ture of tho llauszird report is the outburst of our King! county ri-prt-scntative, llr. Grant. l)r. (irzuil, like his colleagues lloii. Cyrus hliicniillzui and .\li". ll-iiiglzis, has iiiaintaiiictl, for the past two yc.'ii1~", a Ct|lll|llClC silence in the; lloitse. 'l'hc_v may possibly have joined in the "hear. liczir," which llaiisarrl records as coiiiinggl (I(‘('2l.\li|ll2ill_\' from "Rome hon. hilcntbcrs"; but'

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tht-rc is no l‘t't‘lll'll of thcni having spoken onc word mi tlii-ir own nr on this Provinces behalf. But when .\lr. lltinsuu was reading [Jremicr Campbell's l('ll('l' tin .\l:iy tst, vvhcit hc quotedl the l'i"cnti<'r's stzitcmt-ttt th:it (lcspitc (leprcssedl farming and fishing ciiiidititms "business seems ti» bc fairly good in Lliiirliiitcttiivii," and whcii he madc thc CIIllllllUlIl that the .\la_vor of Char- lnttctoivit had told him pvrsoitzilly that there were fir» ni.'iu_v pct-ph- nn rclicf iii Charlottctoivn during the iviiiu-r as there had been at any time ditriiig the l('rlri'.'\.~lt'll ~ihirn and llifll only did one of our it-tlcral stalwarts come to lifc. “llc is the wot-Qt Tory in kililliillli l" said Dr. Grant. Ftinlit-i‘ in tlic ll."in~;ir<l rcpnrt, we find Dr. (iraiiit i"\l\'lllL: .\lr. llttllsitili "\\'lizit is the lion. mcmbcr ding it (l‘r<-mici' ('.'iiiiplx*ll's letter) for?" .\lr. llillhltll l'l'l|ll('4l that it ivzis t0 prove

his case that l't"|nci- lidivartl Island hail been shamefully ncglt-cii-il! \\'licrctip Dr. Grant. lapsed into silr-nco again, rind was not sub- sequently lit-aid from. llc :i\vokc, however, in

time to vt-it- : .1 the amt-ndmeiits calling for a rcfnrm in ti. lcrnl agricultural policies. So did Dr. Cyrus Xlzicinillzin. .\lr. Doiigltis’ llillllC is not rm rccrtrrl sis having voted: he apparently ab- sciitctl hiinscli \\lll'll this important issue was before lhrliainicnt. Perhaps aftvr hearing Mr. Hanson rend Prcmici" filllllllllfilliS letter t0 the House, hi..- (‘tillsClPllCC got the better of him. In his lsttcr to Prime hliiiistcr Mackcnziv King Prt-tnier (Zimplicll says‘. “l find that there seems to be a considcr:iblt* itndcrcitrrcnt of fer-l- ing among the farmers of this Pffl\'ll'lC€',~'lt'/ll('il fr Irv/z! mtdrr l/w sitrfrirr nnl_v by their iii/misc pnlilirril rrnli/urnl." Obvionslv, it was not to Torv farmers that the Premier was referring. lt was to those “good party tiicii" who lizid votcd for him and for the King Government last year Those ivt-rc the disgruntlczl farmers ivliose “iii- lCII-Sfi lrtililical sentiment” tircvt-iitcrl tltclil from

. merchant navy .

had told the Campbell Government something. 1t must have been to that same class oi farmers Premier Campbell referred when he said that this “undercurrent of feeling" took two forms, one being “the? feeling oi resentment at the Do- minion Government's treatment of western wheat farmers as opposed to Maritime producers.”

Premier Campbell's letter is strongly reminis- ccnt oi EiilUlllQf famous cpistlc, written to Prime Minister Mackenzie King by Premier Saunders some years ago. At that time, this Province was so badly off under Liberal rule that unless fin- ancial rclicf came quickly, “we might as well hoist anchor and drift otit to sea." Premier Saunders waiitcd to g0 to Ottawa to interview’ Mr. King personally; but the Prime Minister rc- ' plied that in view oi the length of the letter, there ivould be no need to do that. He also sug- gested, cynically, that Premier Saunders could not possibly have written it all iii one day!

Hr. King's reply to Premier Cantpbcll reflects the saitie irresponsible attitude of mind as did his reply to Premier Saunders ten years ago. lt is entirely’ irrelevant and unconvincing. It might have been written by a man in tlic Moon, with- out the slightest knowledge of, or concern for, the issues presented to his attention. One wond- ers whether Premier Campbell stopped there. Did he not sit down and write Mr. King another letter, telling him in still plaiiier language what the farmers of this Province thought of him and his gnvcriimcitt? There is no rccorrl of such a reply having been written: but let us cherish the hnpe that it was. It is only by chance that our Premier's first letter got into llansard; it was tabled in Parliament along ivith other correspond- ence dealing with the wheat processing tax. That was how Mr. Hanson got hold of it, and gave it to the country

Norway Sta nds Firm

Under the title, “Norway Does Not Yield," the Norwegian Legation in Washington has published the story oi Norway's first year of war. It is an inspiring little book. even if a tragic one, because while it tells of the German treachery which conquered Norway it tells more about the spirt of resistance which shines brightly in most Norwegian breasts —there are not many quislitigs —and the very important contribution Norway is making to victory, through her soldiers, her sailors, her airmen, her

The book has an introduction by Mrs. _l. Bor- den Harriman, former United States Minister to Norway: “No power oti earth," she says, ‘fcan prevent the Norwegian democracy from rising again and re-establishing the good free life for all its people. No illusion of Adolf Hitler's is more stupid and more absurd than that he should think Norway is ever coiiqitcrable. That is the great thing about democracy —whcre it is true to it- self it caiiont die . . . .T\'or\vay is, as she alivavs was, a free coitntry. Hitler too will find tliat out." '

EDIIORIAL NUIES -.

Here is a remarkable voltc-face on the part of the Montreal Gazette: “If the provinces and municipalities are to gct into this war to any- thing like the iiill extent of their responsibility they will not only have to stop over-taxing thc people but will be obliged to institute very much more drastic economies than any that have been attempted tip to now. Financially, if in no other respect, they must get bchind the Dominion Gov- erninctit and remain there until this great wzii i job is over. They have been itizikiug things uti-i tiecesszirily hard for the Treasury at Ottawa‘ when they should have been helping with every means available t0 them. 'l‘hc_v should not have ivaitetl to have taxation rights taken front tlictu as an essential step in national war fiiiancc. Mr. llsley’s offer, in these cricumsttiuces, is not titt- generous. He is treating those govcriinieius rather decently."

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Mr. lvnr Brown. sonicliitic of Balliol, essayist, editorial writer, dramatic critic, novelist, has pleased us with tntiiiy accomplishments, (savs New York 'l‘i|ues) and not least by sound views oti chccsc. The great English cheeses are now but names for Americans and arc ltccomiug almost rarities at honic. As cliccsc departs, l\lr. Browit tells its, pudding, too long tlic neglected folloivvr of nicaf and cheese, has been restored to its old place. What zi glorious filling words is “pudding,” no limiter if in its early years it was a sort of liaggis! The more sound of the titles of some of these hcarties is zi meal: Army's Crumb Pic, Baked Alhcrt Roll, Diplomat, Roly Poly, Spotted Dog. Sir \Vatkinsi The American is true both tn pittltliiig and pic. Mr. P-roivn was here a few _\’(‘Zli‘S ago and he rcuicmhrrs the midday "slab" of pic, “possibly hcapctl with icc crcrim" —pic a la mode lle sccms tn forget in this article, how- ever, the cheese that is the ziccompaiiiment to the grand sweet song of pit‘. Yct Iic brought back front America and quoted not long ago a hymn whose author was Eugene liiclil.

But I, when I tiiidrcss mo, Each night upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me \Vith apple pie and cheese. 4 a u 1 n-

Herc are some suggestions for the treatment of snorcrs:

Pinch the offender's nose and roll him on his side.

Turn his palm upward to awalcc him,

Gargle the throat with petroleum jelly;

Cultivate nose breathing;

Inhale funics from a tcaspooiiftil of best bay rum in a jug of bot water;

i Drink a glass of hot lemon or tnilk with two aspirms;

Tie a handkerchief Easter-egg-ivise under the chin to prevent jaw dropping open;

Take a good quinine or iron tonic;

Pitt fcct in hot mustard or in soda water be- fore retiring;

'l'akc half a teaspoon fiil of common salt in a lunihlcr of warm water, use half as gargle and half as nasal douche.

And since "ordinary snoring is clue to the flapping of the soft palate between a stream of air c-utt-ritig by the nose and another entering by

‘ment, and it is doubtful lf his words

ias the war news of tne day may

torts BY TllE WAY I

There's an item going the rounds, of the press ablot u llghthou-se on' the coast of Scotland. 1t. nal no lanterns ot its own our a large ml:-

Hold Fire Till The Huns Are Over

(A Sergeant in In Anti-Micro". Battepy Writes in the London Ills- tenor.

rot- tnat picks up the poweltu. lgntl we have our own melrhCd W'i-h' NOW THAT APBll/S THERE

1t0lli anomcr lgiiuio-Le 500 yalos

away and soups out a beam that L- J -- 1w 1 and mm o m can be seen ior miles. Tue Dlflllkgxag £23 scguso (iitcsglmds h’

liTipllCfllLh in this tale of tnrilt ls

our seairchlltziits. We nod them

him, and we net in three or four bursts

that, the second ligutnouse is on the ' with the “W15 and 30mm hem-e

EngLsh side of Ottawa Citizen.

the b.rder.

The Dominion Bureau of Statis- tics repCrLS that the can. of llV-Ilg in Canada has increased by 1x55 than Lve points slilce the outbreak of war. TlLiS indicates that the con- trols of toe wartime prices and trade board a..e eflective, and pre- i venting the recurrence oi any such COlIGIUCIlS as marked the last con i tlici, when the cost. of llv.ng snared] to unjustifxd levels in many in- stances. — Hamilton Spectator.

Eastern newspapers who say that western farmers are to be paid for not growing wheat because we have too much wheat, conveniently for- get that. eastern manufacturers closed down their plants in 1929-32 and, ln effect, were pad for not producing manufactured gods. They merely fired their workers and the government hail to provide relief for them. Unfortunately west- ern farmers can't just close down their wheat. factimes and fire them- selves. 1f they dld the government. would pay a lot more for their re- lief than the po=stble $36,000,000 envisaged in the summerfallow bonus plan. - Lethbrldge Herald.

In making his first public address since the war broke out, J.sef Stalin indulged in no wild orator- ical flights. He contented hmself with a. harmless dissolution 0n Lenin and the Bulshevlk move-

made the slightest. ‘impress on, even on those gathered about. nun. As far as the rest of the world was concerned, he said nothing-surely nothing that. would cause his fellow dictators to stop and lsten. What.- ever Stalin's gifts may be, they are not the oratoincal line. Whether or not he ts jtolous of the rabbne- rousing abilities of Hitler or Mu so- lini, the worlu doesn't. know. He certainly makes n0 efforts along those lines. — Boston Post.

On the afternoon of the Clydeslde “Blltz" (telephones a reader) a fnend of mine lost thirty shillings. I-le reported his loss to the police. Next clay, to his amazement, the pallce informed him that the money bald been found and handed ln by a wmkman. This workman htid had his home destroyed in the rald. My friend sad, “Gozd heavens! You should have let the poor fellow keep the money". "Oh, we can't do thavfl said the police, but. they put trim ln touch with the finder. When my friend met, the finder, he res- sed hm to take the money. "rt no' take it", said he: "Then take a pound at least". “I'll no‘ take it." "But you coual nave kept. it. all," insisted my friend". “Aye, tu.cht o‘ that. but 1 tiiocht at the same Lme that. me money might hae belonged tae someone as bivclly off as maser." "well, I can't pos- sibly iet. you so without something", went on my friend. The workman hesitated, and then obvlouly feel- ing that something was expected of him, replied "Well, I'll tak’ two’ half-crowns if ye can apare them". -Edinburg-b Scotsman.

It. is to be hoped Canadians gen- erally read - and will remember _ wnat. President Roosevelt said tha other day to p€Jil6 ln the United States who allow tiieir "fuel- ings" to go up or dxlwti acceding

happen to be EOLCl or bad. For WhllE the boom-slump ifimpfifalllefll. ls more, or less c.mtn.n, there are very large lim.t.s within “fJlCll the emotions are or can be under coit- ti-u] of the will and the thlriknig facu.ty. Nothing can batter comuce to steadinsss titan to deveLp ii clear sense of preptrtou. Seen in perspecuve, the current. events of the war ate othy iiiodenis wlilth at IlLSl, may indicate the present. trend, but cumin. rcvtal iiie out- come. And ll. is the outcome, not. the daily incidents nor the present drift, that will count. Granted it ls mucn more pleasant to read about. victories than defeats, the fact. oi prime importance at the moment. is not. that we have sustained a re- verse ln Greece, nor that. we have about rounded up the lust oi the Fascsts in East. Africa; but. that daily vne Lrccs oi democracy are grownig stronger, in trained men and in sorts of equipment, not only stronger in the absolute sense Dill. in relation to thcse oi the enemy. Tnat is the all-miporrnni. tact against wiiLlt to measure the day- by-day news from the fighting fronts. - Edmonton Bulletin. Forty-iwo-foot bombing planes with fmeloge of V.dal pnasilc are, being built. tor Canada at. New Ro-' chelle, New York. I-or many months Canada has been investigating we merits of vlirlcus plastic and ex-, perlments have been‘ carries 0n int which the Dominion has been tnier- t ested. 1t. was announced in Van- couver last fall that. a businessman - of that cl;y was intsreided with an Amercan inventor, Harry N. Ai- wood, in the pi-oducticn of air-- planes frsm the waste products of‘ BC. wood and plastic lndu tries. Describing the Atwood process, the Vancouver Province said: "Between two layers of thin woven wood ls a _ foundation oi excelslor fused to-l gether with themio-pltistlc mater-i ial. The two sections when complet- ed are so strong that one may hit the outer surface (which might be a wing) a about. blow with a ham- mer without damage or leavng a. mark. An automobile may run over a. cylinder of the new material with- out. damag lt. It, ls so strong that pressurg tan s may be constructed from it." The Province said Mr. Atwood was develo ' Canada's first plastic plane M. the Brisbane Avlat on Co. plant, Sea Island. Last December a Canadian Press dispatch from Ottawa announced that. Canada has obtained exclusive rights to another ,.‘ " process known u Vidal and had ordered two plastic IILTGIBIES to be given "destruction teats" tn Canada. Said Bali ii Bell, director-general of alr- cr t production. "If these teats are successful, airplanes with plastic luaelages, wings, toll plane assem- blies and other component; may be flying over Canada before the end 0t 1941". ‘Ilhe dBPBYlP-IWM IUBIBSW! that reduced costs and eubotantliti increase tn output would be the re- sult of utilizing this process. "Ver- loua product; which now take days to produce could be turned out. in

I coast. defence chaps.

t i Mother's Day l

he has time to do anything. By this method we've tted as many as eighteen targets a night. some of them three or four planes

at a tune. .

I myself have seen three brought. down at nittht within the past two or truce months. Cine of these we followed vinlth the light-s after we'd hit him. and he seemed to be breakltiu to peces 1n the sky as though l/PHCCI‘ bullets were

coining oft’ hm a] over his bodvt

One day this mimuh we sank one and oippled another w-lttiin a quart.- er of an hour. and the heavlea finished off the crippled one.

Something ought to be said about the seachlipht men. Our lght guns couldn’ do anytlhlng without them at night, and they're always on the Job. One night our lights got a plane that. was COITLlXIR from the west, and the chaps were holdlriig him till we lhad him range. WhYe they were doing that another plane corms in from the east and dropped a bwnb within 50 yards of the lght. It didn't half whistle down. Bui- tbe men on the Fghts never worried: they held Jerry, be- cause they knew we were waiting for him.

They often drop stuff around us. of course. One night tlhey came after us about. fifteen Limes: but in spite of all the stuff they've drop . they haven't do“; n, w; 0f Home: in 1M. they nome- ttme do Us a bit of 300d. Once of their milnes ‘came!

1' own- We DODWG t. of’ with a. Iewls gum. There was a lot of fish about. when that went ofL. We 80f» i1 conger 6 foot twig-emf keivt the Sergeants‘ Mess going for a whole day. One night, they dropped a lot. of those Mdotov bread-basket. things, and 30mg of the little ones went: lnto the sand and didn't g9 off, when 1 got. 1n that morning all the rest. ‘ms ug-tsllgeip 1!’: mtoht onedof ' rm me. m 1 put lt into the stove:

M! by

Y 8 . gum! lt did; lt didn't half shift the chgvpksl outJof bed.

e11 6'11‘? 0011168 by day he's oftetn too high for us unless he's

mine-laying. But one chap did catch us on the h0p_ 1r, was a dew? wt or day. mo: thick. He dropped a couple. but he was too hlgfh; then he went south s, bit, dropped ‘another couple and came back f1 HR very 10w. We were a: “at” . and tgéggltflfimko gum held our fire till. he was totiniiartiwxi vlvse and we missed him. Very tmnvyuis it was for us with our reoord.