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qhe Strongest Memory is Weaker than

the Weakest Ink.” I MONDAY, AUGUST :0, me

One Thing Sure

The best that can be said of the impending war crisis is that it is still impending. Hitler has not yet struck. While there is peace there is hope.

As the Winnipeg Free Press well says, the value of the present policy against aggression can be judged only in terms of its alternative, which is to give way once more, to refuse to honor obligations, to reason, cajole and threat- en the Poles to meet the Nazi demands. Faced with this alternative and its inevitable con- sequences, the wisdom of the determination to resist becomes at once apparent, for buying se- curity on the instalment plan has been proved a failure.

More important than Russian aid is the need today for the Peace Front powers to stand fast, cost what it may ; and in terms of long-ruri bene- fit that cost will be less than to permit further Nazi triumphs over thcir neighbors. \Vh:it must be asserted, if the future is to keep the lamps of civilization alight, is the principle that aggres- sion docs not pay, for that principle alone holds the clue to ultimate progress in the field of in- ternational affairs.

Hi’ller's Self Disclosure

R contributing factor to the present crisis in Europe has been the lack of attention given out- side Germany to Hitler's amazingly frank de- clarations in his book llrltin Kampf, which was completed as far back as November, 1923, and in which is contained the key to his whole sub- sequent policy of international trouble-making. A synopsis of Mein Kampf, together with much interesting explanatory matter, is given in one of a series of very timely pamphlets on world affairs, issued by the Oxford University Press.

The bedrock Nazi policy is clearly defined in these pages. Germany, llitler says, must ex- pand by eastern annexation. She can only achieve the annexation by a European war; and for that war she must start arming herself at top speed. Not only of the treaty limitations on her arms and armed forces, but of every con- fining shackle in the Versailles system: she must. in due course ruthlessly rid herself. The actual order of the steps eventually taken or adumbrat- ed by Hitler since he has been in office — re- armament, re-militarization of the Rhineland, absorption of Austria, subjugation of Czecho- slovakia and next the subjugation of Poland and Rumania—h:is coiiforiiiccl to a perfectly logical sequence. As to the stage at which he would have to fight his decisive war, it is clear that he hoped (as the events proved, rightly) that rearmament, the Rhineland, and Austria could be achieved without fighting. The Czecho- slovak stage he was bound to assume could not ; since, among other things, there was a. defensive treaty between Czechoslovakia and France, whose breach nobody could have anticipated. At that stage therefore he was ready—in August-Sep- tember l938—to launch the decisive war.

The object ‘eventually attained by Hitler at Munich—~the power to control and, whenever he liked, to annex C7.echoslovakia—could scarcely have been supposed by an intelligent reader of Mein Kampf to be a final one. Any notion of his wishing to march into the Sudetenland, or even into Prague, on terms of “thus far and no farther", however much he might for tactical reasons profess it at the moment, was totally at variance with his permanent aims. To real- ize his supreme purpose——the annexation of vast eastern areas for German settlcmcnt——-the con- trol of relatively small and densely populated re- gions like Bohemia and Moravia could make no intrinsic contribution. Their relevance to such a purpose was and must be solely strategic. Their value is that of stepping stones in a war for the ulterior conquest.

One glaring deviation from the principles en- unciated in Main Kampf has been the recent non-aggression pact with Soviet Russia, a fact which lends color to the belief it was entered into merely as a temporary expedient.

Four Gallons Of Cream

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Under the new Canada-United States trade

treaty, in return for substantial concessions from

this country, the King Government got the United States duty reduced from 6 I-2 cents a gallon to 3 1-4 cents per gallon on a quota of 3,000,000 gallons of milk zi year. It also got the United States ditty on cream reduced from 35 cents to 28.6 cents on a quota. of 1,500,000 gal- Tlicse reductions were held as a. great achievement in the interests of Canadian dairy farmers. Liberal speakers made the raft- ers ring at the last parliamentary session over

ions 3 year.

the results that would riccrue.

_ The treaty went into effect on Jan. 1. 1939. and the trade figures for the first six months Believe it or not, Canada during that period sold only 1,522 gallons of milk into the United States and received‘ for it

are now available.

$582. Of cream she sold, for the same period,

Canadian dairy producers receivcdthe sum of Two Dollars, or so cents a gallon.

These nrethe official figures from the Dom- lnion Bureau of Statistics : _ - « some if ' ii‘? risf siitgestun exchtnpe. ' 1« supply of Csmdim

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the gargantuan amount of ‘four gallons, for which

.eanp'srtnient of his auto-

TI-IE Cl-lARI.O’l‘T_E'

FOWN GUARDIAN

first six months of this year, under the revis- ed treaty, compares with 5,o96 gallons exported in the first six months of last year and 43.681 gallons in the corresponding period of 1937.

Canadian dairy farmers formerly had abigger market in the United States. In 1927, they sold 4,086,445 gallons of fresh milk for $990,746 and 4-495917 gallons of fresh cream for $7,749,341- The United States duty was then 2 1-4 cents on Canadian milk, and 20 cents on cream, and there was no quota limitation. The Mackenzie King Government boasted that it got a conces- sion on duty rates of 3 I-4 cents on milk and 28.6 cents on cream applying to a maximum of 3,000,000 gallons of milk and 1,500,000 gallons of cream: with the results above set forth.

Another case of the mountain labouring and bringing forth a very small mouse.

EDITORIAL NOTES -

General Louis Botha, South African veteran, died this date, 1919. t is is is-

An anxious week-end, reminiscent of the dark days of 19r4. it it t in: War: or threats of war, immediately react on the consumer, as already soaring prices for food- stuffs and hardware indicate. Hope for an abun- dant general harvest likewise is not too roseate. notwithstanding the splendid prospects for wheat in the West. in us: It :-

Hon. Dr. MacMillan told the Prince Con- servative electors that that County had been much more loyal to Mr. A. E. MacLean than his own party at Ottawa, for, notwithstand- ing his long membership at Oltzuva, his services had been totally ignnrerl by his own Prime Min- ister and successive Liberal adiiiiiiistrations.

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june imports of fertilizers were sharply low- er, amounting to 306,084 cwt. compared with 800,074 in May and 589,563 in June last year. The United States accounted for the bulk of the import. During the first half of I939 the imports totalled 1,742,547 cwt. compared with 2,622,160 a year ago. Exports were also lower, totalling 358.634 cwt., of which the United States took 262.701 cwt. In May the exports amounted to 756.181 cwt. and in June last year 434,180. The six month total showed advance. amounting to 4,000,113 cwt. compared with 3,- 884,735 in the same period of 1938.

as is as It

Giving evidence in the Thetis case in London, Professor J. B_ S. Ilaldauc surprised the Court in reply to the question from the bench. “It seems to us you are theorizing, professor. Have you ever had any practical experience with the so—called Davis lung?” “Ccrtainly," was the quick reply. “I recently spcnt eighteen hours in one.” Not many hours before he went into the

notes sv THE war

A Winning man who writes a regular weekly letter to 9. New York wuespondent says that for six weeks he has been mulling hls alr mall letter in Winnipeg at 3 p.m. The New Yorker receives It the next morning, answers the same day, and the wlnnlpeg man gets the New York reply on the second momlng, delivered at his office by 9 a.m. The service has pl ceded with the regularity of cloclrrwork which ruriazes both currespondents no less than its swlftness. — Winnipeg Free Press.

In the Welsh seaport of Cardiff there are nearly 50 men whose daily lives are haunted by vlsl_on.s of a firing squad. They are ex-officers and crews of spanish cargo ves‘els once controlled by the Spanish Government. If they are sent back to Franco Spain they will, they are convinced, be either shot out of hand or glven llfe prison sent.-- ences. As they are aliens, the men stay In Cardiff under permits. The original permits have long been ineffective, and they now stay in Cardiff on “renewals granted because lnterestecl organ- lzatlons guarantee their support. Desperate efforts have been, and are being made to find harbor- aae for the men ln South Ameri- ca. but lJO date all efforts to find new homes have fallcd.. -— Ex- change.

Substituting for Premier Hep- burn at the King Anniversary banquet at Toronto, Campbell Calder, president of the 20th Cen- tury Liberal Association of On- tario, made the shortest speech of the evening. Hls 12-word con- tribution was: “Liberalism ls 8. wide Idea as splendid in Ontario as anywhere else." How much more spfendld It would be if Premiers King and Hepburn were agreed as to its nppllcatlon. -— Financial Post.

"Women sflll meekly submit to being chosen lnstead of going out and selecting their own men," says Dorothy Dlx. That's what. she t.hlnks!—Wlndsor star.

Do not lead what is called a regular life, was the advlce glven by Sir Farquhar Buzzard to schol- ars ab Hawnes school, near Bed- ford, Eng., recently. “It seems B terrible thing for 9. clooctor to say but my experience has been that people who make rules for living and who regulate themselves like mschlnes become old by the time they are 40—lnflexlble and rigid, and lose all elasticity, both of mind and body, which l'I.I‘e qual- ities essential to their happiness and succes," he said. — Hunting- don Gleaner.

Back-seat unvers have brought themselves into lll-repute not. be- cause they give warnings to the actual drivers when necessary,

witness box the manufacturers of the Davis escape apparatus had placed it at his disposal when he volunteered to lost it. The first experi- ment in it lasted fourteen hours; die second. when he entered the lung with four men, one hour and twenty minutes, and the third, wlien he was again alone, L‘l§.’,lllL’(‘ll hours. “The four men who went with inc,” he said, “for the sec- ond test were selected from a short list of vol- unteers. I wanted men who were not only bravc under all conditions but also cool—hcadcd—-men who knew that they had got to stick it, even if they thought they were (_l_viii,<.:. Thcy wcrc all in a bad way when they came out."

is 1 at it

In his recent address in New York on Dem- ocracy,'Lord Baldwin gave an inkling of the danger in which England is in when he told of the courage required of an Englishman to face the thought of Westminster in ruins and the ancient halls of Oxford destroyed by bombs. It is this ever-present sense of what may hap- pen to England if war comes that gives point to the news that Lord Halifax resumed his holi- day after consultations in London on the latest developments in the thickening crisis. In its way this item is as significant as reports of fever- ish diplomatic activity and that Germany has raised her terms for a settlement with Poland. Official spokesmen in Berlin now intimate that Danzig is not enough to satisfy them. The new claims apparently include not only the Corridor but the fate of “a million Germans” living in Polish territory bordering on Germany. Ob- viously Hitler is delibcratcly enlarging the issue for bargaining purposes, probably on the theory that if he asks for more he may scare the Poles into surrendering something. At the same time he is working up a bigger cause for the Ger- mans to fight for, for it must not be forgotten that the feeling that “Danzig is not worth a war” is as strong in the Reich as in other countries.

U#V.¥

Hardware prices for the most part are com- paratively steady at present. There are some indications of firming in certain base metals. Copper and lead have moved upward in the last two weeks. Slightly higher prices are being quoted now on copper and brass sheets, rods, tubing and wire, and other copper products are firmer in tendency. Manufacturers of rubber products have reducer their trade prices on cer- tain grades of rubber shcct packing, according to Hardware and Metal, Toronto, Ont. A slight advance is made in some sweat pad prices. One line of automobile heaters is quoted at reduced prices for fall _orders. The market for harvest hardware has been substantial this year. Good crops have been harvested in eastern Canada,

way now. Fruit and vegetable crops promise to have a heavy yield, and the tobacco crop in Ontario is of good proportions. This situation is expected to improve farm purchasing power this fall, and result in better business for hard- waremen serving the rural areas. .Wholesalers report that shipments of fall merchandise to'the retail trade will be heavy on September I, and bookings for later delivery are very encour- aging. Some early Christmas b'uying'lii al- ready being done, and this will increase next n1onth., Hunting supplies are being shipped to the trade now in anticipation of the opening of

and cutting of the western grain crops is under-

but. when they shout at hlm un- necessarlly, causing the motorist.

PUBLIC FORUM

‘I'll: column In out he Ibo diuuuln by centennial: of nuullona of IIMIUII. The cluu-limnto aiurllu can not necessarily one the oplnlou at urns): GI.

cuanwrrnrolygiv nu GARDB

Slr,—W1ll it acquaint the lottetown, also the outslde towns and Province 52 l with the Present. splendl c on of our cliy's free gardens lopated on the three large lots dli-ec ly south of the Sanatorlum and a con- tinuously from North River road to spring Park Road.

It is to be hoped during the next three weeks, beore the crops and vegetables are taken off these gar- dens, that many lriterested people will take the time to drive around to this site and view what. is In realltv the largest garden pro- ject of a voluntary Ttyqpe Marltlme Provinces. 0 results of faithful work, entry done. speak well for the st y odd gardeners who have labored there t.hls summer with ‘ canoe of the City of Charlottetown and the D. E. Island Government. There one will see orderly measur- ed rows of potatoes, corn, beans. D088. cucumbers. radish, summer savory, squash, beets and numer- ous tasty and wholesome - tables many of which will p do the homes of the workers with 3 partial winter's supply of their needs. No verbal description of these gardens can do Justice to thlelrri. A rvl/lslt: to the \\ 1- surp se a at man le who have mere heard yoiwoliiils project but have really no first hand acquaintance with It.

When one remembers that there is only one paid employee (an overseer) who did splendid work and very faithfully, and that the cost to the two sources of revenue with which this project: 15 earned on ls less than $7.00 per lot, the value of the undertaking to the ims-mployed workmen who are the owners of all the roduoe raised, and to whom the re urns ln money value alone one at least four timgs that of the investment, will readily ‘be understood.

Many of the gardeners previous to {W0 years ago were new to the possibilities of the value of a Summer garden. One instance is that of a gardener. who took an extra lot and has raised for him. self forty bushels of fine potatoes beside in his other table produce. Many gardeners have grown a fifty-foot: row of flowers as well to beautify their plots, Even this hot weather has not daunted these am- bitious workers. They do all water. ing needed by hand from a, central supply and there is not 9. taco bug nor an insect; iipoarent. n the whole garden. lrisectlclde having been systematically used,

Tr‘ gardeners take pride In their work and Ass results They “F9 nleased to have vlsltors frorn City and Province drive around to lnsbect them, By all means show an interest In this commendable ‘‘'°‘‘k 1"’ DHVIHK an evenings visit to the Charlottetown Free Gm-d¢n5_ I am, Sir. etc

A. L. WRIGHT

TI-IE CIVIC REPORT

to become jittery, angry, and un- certain, hence a. danger to traffic. Those who overdo this back-scat driving hobby frequently defeat. their own purpose. They should remember this. —- Windsor Star.

Keeping chickens looks to be an easy, slmple sort of job. It proba- bly Is to those who are wll‘lng to adapt. themselves to the rigorous routine, daily and even at times hourly, necessary for the success- ful handling of the humble, but frequently temperamental blddy and her progericy. To the rest of us who have the urge, but lack the willingness, keeping chickens too frequently turns out to be a. losing venture. And this leads one so the conclusion that chicken fanclers who succeed are, generally apEflk- lng "naturals" at the business. As for the rest of us, let. us be thank- ful that there are always enough “nal:ui'ala"' on the chickcn-keep- trig job to make certain 8. reason- ably adequate supply of both eggs and fowl to supply our tables. — Calgary Herald.

A Canldlan Little Theatre cast may go to London, England, next May to compete tn the British Drama. League festival. The Can- adian movement has gained such a high reputation ln England that for the first tlme since lis organization the British Drama League has lu- vlted representative groups from Canada to participate in its flnals. The British festival is limited ro one-act! plays, and consequently the group that is selecte‘ to repre- sent Canada will have to present a play of this type. Last spring the Domini . Drama Festival was held in this city. and Londoners know something of the high standards of the Little Theatre movement In Canada. Adjudlcatnrs in recent years have come from Great Britain. and they have brought back glowing report; of the high character of the Canadian acting. London com- panies have several times won the Domlhlon Festival, so it may be possible is company from the city may represent Canada in the Brit- ish competition next. May. —- Lon- don Free Press.

There Is a Japanese problem. and I serious one, in ‘certain parts of British Columbia. An Item In the Harley Gazette gives a sldellght. Pl: seems the dlfflcultles of teach- ing in the Whonnock and Ruskin schools were being discussed by the school board. Mr. Loughton, principal of one of the schools, re- ported that In the beginners’ class next month there will be 21 pupils, 22 of whom wlll be Japanese. seventy-flve percent of the en-

Sh‘.—In my series of letters I was alternately accused, first of leniency in not alleging guilt against any. and secondly of too much severity ln denunciations.

The Civic Reports now justify my attitude in many respects. I strongly condemned the proposal to call an election for 9. new Conn. cll, mnlntalnlng t.l1a.t. we would get‘ none better than what we have. I‘his Ccuncll have shown the good sense to pay attention to those letters. and the wisdom to adopt much of them In action. whne open to criticism, which on my part. at least will I trust be help- ful rather than antaitonlstlc, and which I hope will be taken in this Slllrlt. I reassert with a still greater assurance than before. that no new council would give a better gc- count: under such severe emergent eonclltlons.

I adhere to the conviction that tax assessments and lidjustxngntg should be removed entirely from ctvlc influence and control. Then- roporis enormously Justify this ,9- qulrement. It. is the seat of all the nlllesed lelgeg‘hula.rlf.lps’ct

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of the Act optl sr a(:m1'Vfl;In§ collateral laws is imperative. Flu- ance Chairman (mandler, In his NDOTL indicates this to be their Objective. at. least in the matter “ “TOM'S. both In letter and in spirit. 'I'hLs ls commenrl-min, and, if 0b§e1'ved'1ri the British spirit, that doubt’ ls the property of mg accused, still more commendable.