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THF. 7GUARDIAN

Morning Dally (Founded tn lain) Authorised ea i-lecond Clues Mall, Poet Office Department, Ottawa.

The lsland Guardian Publishing Co. ildltor nnd ‘ Director, J. B. Burnett;

Associate Bdltor, Freak Walker

l "The Strangest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest in!!!’

omnuonarowu, suuanov, my zifTcif llir. Dexter's llevelations n,

publish excerpts from a signed editorial page article in the Winnipeg Free Press by its editor, Mr. Grant Dexter. The Free Press is the leading Liberal newspaper of Western Canada, and Mr. Dexter is one of Can- ada's outstanding journalists. He was prominent in the Press Gallery at Ottawa during the war years, and writes with intimate knowledge of the events he relates. The fact that Colonel Rois- ton,’ as well as being Minister of National De- fense, was membe of Parliament for Prince and the last representative for this Province in the King Cabinet, gives added local interest to Mr. Dexter's revelations.

His story is not a pleasa net have been easy to write. But now that the last tributes have been paid, surely the people of Canada "lid his constituents most of oll—are entitled to know the truth about Colonel Rais- ton's "resignation." He was cocly dismissed by Mr. King, says Mr. Dexter, “while the Cabinet was in session and while both men were seated at the council table. Mr. King simply said that the Colonel would no longer be the Minister and that General McNaughton would take over. Thereupan Colonel Ralston rose and walked around the table, shaking hands with the men who had been his colleagues and walked out of the East Block a private member. He did not shake hands with the Prime Minister. He did not become a King-hater, like many others; but from that day forward he never had respect or affection for Mr. King."

Na comment would do lustice to this un- precedented incident. To Mr. King it seems to have been all in the day's work, and to haveilaft no feelings of compunction. There are_ few stranger anti-climaxes in Parliamentary history than his recent eulogy of the colleague he had stilettoed, as being one who was _"rlffldY l° sacrifice all for his duty as he saw it

Wanton Destruction

On the eve of the opening of the tourist season the Provincial Department of» Public Works is faced with the necessary task of replacing hundreds of road signs which have apparently been wantonly destroyed by passing motorists. A few days ago, .a local citizen brought back in his car the Afton road sign which had been smashed in several pieces, and he reports that practically all the main signs are downbetween here and Sf. Peter's Bay. Similar complaints have come from other sections of the Province, indicating that the destruction is not the result of occasional accidents, but of recklessness and irresponsibility. s

lt is, of course, a criminal offense to/des- troy government property, and in this case it may lead to very serious accidents, where signs have been placed at dangerous turns. ln other Provinces the law is very strictly enforced against offenses of this kind, and with good reason.

Citizens are requested to notify the auth-

ln today's issue we

nt one, and could

orities of all damage of this nature, so that the

signs can be repaired or replaced as soon as pos- sible.

Wandering Skull“

A British Army periodical gives an account of the wartime adventures of the oldest bit of

human anatomy extant. This is the famous skull unearthed in a chalk pit by a German professo

near the hamlet of Neanderthal in i856, on which archaeology has reconstructed the earliest According to scientists, it is at least 60,000 years old, for older than either the

known man.

Pekin, the Java, or the Piltdown Men.

lt vanished from its special museum, turned nn in 1939, but was evacuated during stles, and reported

up at Bo the war to various German co to Army Intelligence as having been sol astronomical figure to a collector.

dfora

the Bonn Museum curator, Dr. Neufer, som

' boxes collected from the Americans, and inside one of these the curator found the missing skull

of the Neanderthal Man. Scientists say he is not

ancient men. He had most pronounced supe

ciliory ridges, but "in size of brain he equalled

if he did not surpass modern Europeans."

ilasadifs World Trade Fair

As noted recently _in these columns, the first Canadian International Trade Fair, to be held in Toronto from May 3i to June l2, has de- veloped size and scope far beyond original ex- Initial plans provided for a maxi-

pectations. mum floor space of 217,000 square feet in

Coliseum, largest of lilsition buildings.

tab over trical engineering buildings to swell the

different nations. -'tties have already made arrangements to a

ittrciirkaiii lnlarhotionIl ‘ma. rev

Iliilliviitrtv

However, some time ego a bored Army driver delivered to

the‘ ancestor of mod- ern man, but a member of a separate race of

the Canadian National Ex- By the final deadline date for applications, however, it was necessary to the adioining automotive and elec- total sold out capacity to more than three-quarters

of a million square feet. Reservations have been

accepted for more than 1500 sepgrate exhibits,

representing tire products of more than twenty- Buyers= from sixty coun-

be held in North Airi-

‘dl 0.0%

an important factor in international commerce

for hundreds of years. It is a basic rule that

every product on display must also be on sale,

for delivery within a reasonable time. There will

be no purely "prestige" displays, no ferris wheels,

and the general public will be excluded except

on Saturdays during the Fair.

Representing the Provincial Government and, Boards of Trade of this Province will be Dr." J. A. Clark, Charlottetown, and Mr. Lorne Mc-

Farlane, ‘Summerside.

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- EDITORIAL NOTES -

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Tomorrow, first Sunday after Trinity. 1‘ i i‘ i

Fireman's Tog Day should be made a big day.

The Governor-General will travel to Brazil (to inspect some of the veterans who fought under him) before coming here for a prolonged

vacation.

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At the Birch Court of the Experimental Sta- tion on Monday evening agricultural films are to be shown to the public in general and farmers in particular by the National Film Board showing the mineral deficiency‘of.the* soil.

The Unemployment insurance Fund now amounts to $447,000,000. lt is made up of con- tributions by employers, employees, and th‘! Do- minion Government. All administration costs are paid by the Dominion Government. Conse- quently the entire Fund is available for payment of benefit. H l

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Mr. Forbes Rhude, Canod-ion Press Busi- ness Editor, who predicts that the Income Tax on farmers will prove the Government's Waterloo, is an Islander, and must be acquainted with the farmers’ bitter reaction to being taxed for work- ing sixteen hours a day to produce the country's food and dollar currency.

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Defence Minister Claxtan informed Mr. MacNaught, M.P., that building of housing units in Prince Edward lsland would have to be de- ferred for a year. The $20,000,000 voted for~< housing accommodation will be spent elsewhere. Of course, this may not be discrimination but nevertheless we are eigcludedft the outset. I I i Agriculture Minister Gardiner states that the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa has been unable to produce a soya bean variety that will grow in any part of Canada except south- west Ontorio. Replying to George Cruickshonk (L-Fraser Valley) during study of agriculture estimates, he said that for some unknown reason soya beans will riot thrive in British Columbia. i l‘ i i

Airmen evidently don't like Communism. The British-trained Czechoslovak air farce is de- setting wholesale and fleeing into Germany, a refugee officer states. The officer said only five per cent of the officer corps, which the R.A.F. taught to fly during the war, is Communist-mind- ed, The airrnen are sneaking over the borders by land. lt i; no longer possibll for them to steal planes.

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Some speed in bridge-building. About '30 army engineers did a swift‘ bridge-building iob last week-end in connection with a power pro- iect at Angliers, 50 miles south of Noranda, Quc., for the Northern Quebec Power Company Plans called for the soldiers to arrive Saturday by RCAF planes and complete a ISO-foot Bailey bridge by Sunday night. The bridge will be part of a proiect to double the capacity of the Quinze power plant.

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Charles ll, King of Great Britain and Ire- land, born this date i630. ln private character Charles compares unfavourably with his father. A historian says he was profligate, untrust- worthy, thoroughly insincere; but he knew when to bend to publieopinion, and this flexibility, coupled with geniality and an air of frankness secured his popularity, Qid this despite the fact that his reign was probably the worst in English history, a reign, except in Colonial policy, in which there was little but cause for shame. I i I ‘I

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Eight years ago, on 29 May, i940, an of- ficial Germen communique announced that the fate of the British and French armies on the continent was sealed. Beaten and driven right into the channel, it appeared that nothing short of a miracle could save them. That miracle hop- pened. Slowly and in good order the British and French ornvies withdrew towards Dunkirk where the naval forces of the two countries began their collossol rescue task. When the Germans at last entered Dunkirk on June 4, it was a ruined port from which their prey had‘ escaped. Q I Q

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The U. S. is still after Hollywood Com- munists. Two of the writers who defied ‘the Housd Unamericon Committee in its commlrn- ism quiz have been sentenced to a year in iail and a $1,000 fine. Thd two, Dalton Trunibo and John Howard Lawson, were permitted to remain at liberty under bond, pending appeals to high- er courts. They and eight others still to be tried refined to give the House committena "yes" or "no" answer to question whether they were mem- bers of the Communist Party. Thny were in- dicted on charges. of. Ciznlnmpt of Congress.

The Dominion‘ Bureau of Statistics reports there were more babies born in Canada in 1947 than in any other year. Preliminary figures showbd that 358,709 live births were registered in 1947 throughout the Dominion, compared with 330,731. in i946, the previous record year. Fol- lowing are the births by province, with 1946 fig- ures bracketed: Quebec 115,701 (111,205); Ont- ario 100,748 (97,446); British Columbia" 24,143 izzmi- Alberta 24,509 (new: more».

(IIAJI); Manitoba mos (10,794); Nave

h.

-lletos

hi‘! Chink

iofrlty 1n sports. u 1n nli other lcl-lvlilee. as they are- as quite the noreml thing for Canadians, east or west. —end not. as some- thlnr so unusual es to merit. hos- nnnuhs. - Edmonton Journal.

There is en

loslty killing s cat" and if. proved true in Fltchburg. Mass, where one sat. on the rlm of a washing ma- chine and when looking more closely at. the caught by the neck end klllea. — St. Thomas Times-Journal.

A we! of gauging rat population was given recently by the State Form Science Reporter: "1! you never see rats, but see signs of robs and rats damage, there’ are -from one to 100 rats an your farm. If you see rats now end then at night. there are from 100 to 51.10. Ii you sec rats every night and a few occasionally in the daytime, you are boarding from 500 to 1.000. If you see lots of rate at night. and several every day, you have from 1,000 to 5,000 rots." — Woodstock Sentinel-Review.

There is a

makes s. grave problem for the free state of Burma. beak forests and the export that very hard wood ls its main support. Now e severe shortage of elephants and buffaloes 1s hamper- ing Burma's vital beak Dining the war the Japanese used up all the accumulated teak-wood logs and wrecked the big sawmills in Rangoon and Moulmeln. but the magnificent hardwood forests are almost intact. In unmeohenlzed Burma, only well-trained elephants -ar at. a pinch, buffaloes — can move the huge teak loge out. of the forest. - Brandon Sun,

Give e he ry Saunders

alive today foal: and bo when Jimmy

bankment. lnbo 10 feet. of swirling water in the Thames River. When Jimmy plunged into the river, Jer-

tY ‘i500 his

boy. Jimmy

that are r

BUY PGBSOD

The rules a

the proper the and roedsl

have iio of

new earth earthquake

detlon for want nay This we) chairmen loerd whe taken e ~

subject to

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untvuu€wifsidlis~< .

After parents have tried for years to stop babies sticking their thumbs.- n psychiatrist now says to let. baby do it. if he wants to. Sounds llke a good idea. I-‘fe can't swallow 1t., and it should serve as s partial 1111511101. —Klng.sl.on Whig-Stand- er .

Health menus more bodily well-being. declare our Ce- nsdian health authorities. Although physical health ls important -for men needs a safe frame 1n which to dwell — the brilliant brain en- cased 1n s. body wrecked by disease 1e not truly healthy. and the sound body and clever brain warped by twisted thinking are not. well. either. Healthy, they Mil us, 1s an ell-around mutter, involving the highest. form of mental and physical fitnem. -- Brandon Bun.

my Ciark of Imidan. Jimmy is

pole with its length of store string to toss out e. line to the struggling

hauled downstream and then i0 shore. It. was one of those fest thinking affairs, when two brave bays showed t. Ltd. of mind and effected the rescue of one of their number. lads like

greet promise. — Windsor star.

Motorcycles ere not noted for their ellenoe, but neither is there

pennltted to make the maximum rumpus of which they ere capable.

operators will refrain from mon- keylng with the motor muffler — gadgets that. seem to invite mon- keylng- and if they will stop press- ing the spark levers on and all, their machines will run with pro- bably s minimum of bangs, pops ehd roars. ‘rhet- assumes, of course, that the machines are 1n proper working order. If

removed from the

Big,‘ earthquakes inst for e half century and longer. Dr. BeiioGut- enberg recently informed tne Am- erican Geophysical Union. the. big quake, with diminishing intensity, he re- ported. The i000 disturbance that. burned Son Francisco and the i012 shake at. Santa Barbara are still being recorded. While these alter- shoaks relieve residual stresses, they

that ere bulldlrlg up to produce

enberg predicted. will take place 1n fromdO to 50 years and will be centered either in northern Cell- fomla or northern-Mexico. - New York Herald Tribune.

Intel proprietors prepared to spend e total of 13.000,- 000 providing improved accommo-

the‘ urist Aeeocde e_ subject. to- prohibitsoas. entrain the hour we do that our independent usefulness

1d

i. liid whet llbllfll.

ed to rny own _ foot.

lly The Way;

of honesty and in-

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old adage about “our--

mechanism was is

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probably

thnntnere

really

shortage of labor that

It. has large of

industry.

nd ti: 10-year-old Jer- and 11-year-old J1m-

beceuse Jerry thought t.h boys had courage, fell afd a cement em-

home-made fishing

grabbed 1i: and was

DIGSCDCC

esaurcef-ul and show

why they should be

re simple. 1f motorbike

they ere not, authorities should have streets — Brentford Expositor.

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After

shocks continue

feoi. 1n releasing stresses

110KB

big ti. Dr.

Gill-

quekes. Th in this reglo

iniooilentletl

tourists, end they do nor. outside financial old. ecleily etsetsed by tile

of u» acorn-ii Tourist g4

ri “he laid: '.'We pave not penny at government

money. When we do" that we ere majority mat-role from m“

in Landon. bitloae and

lcottieli nee

1 ‘ itdeilver-

Septembe ,

essuy"—t.he not by order-ln-cotmcll prior reference to ?srllsment.

tive.

lfalston,

, (Grant Many thought

gould not go on

stews. Mr. King

Minister of Iinance in successio

to Mr. Dunning who had retire

because of ill health. ‘Ilhen 1n the summer of 1940, after Rogers was killed lrtgnmlr crash, the Colonel took ovetWtle Min- Prom then un- t.ll November. 1044. his career is l-he story of the expansion, train- ing and deployment foa- battle of the Canadian emiy.

t.ry of Defence.

The

‘Mr. King's course

is lmportan

meat of the repeatedly expresse erel McNeughturfi-s course impossible.

and klnclllness to Noughlon, who, in

consenting party to

sonsl elation: of

not allow personal

General retired in

folio from Col. :1. l

crisis. it began in cner of 1044. Cal.

out that reinforce

could provide. Be back to Mr. King e himself oil I

24. The time had acrlption was nece

the word "resigns

formal‘ espilnetlorv to the House

of Commons at.

Win-Virtually

n} lrisidrStory 5r n». Conscription Crisis

that. Balaton was recalled to Ottawa 1n 1039. That was not the cue. On the night. that Hit- ler struck st Poland end wsr be- gamellnevlteble. he realised that

e or any kind cf private business. He must sontchow have I. direct pert in the nor. even 1f it were only to be “Clarence Rowe's mess- enger boy." The next. 1110111111‘ he went to hlsotflce, turned the key 1a the lock and took thcitrsln for

Two events, leading to the Con- scription Orisls of 1944. are 1m- percent. the dictum in February, 1942, that a plebiscite was uecess y to free the hands of the from earlier pledges against con- scription for oversees‘ service. He campaigned for s “yes" majority and when the Government in the summer of that year proceeded to implement the verdict by legisla- tion he took the stand which. in fact, marked the beginning of the break with Mr. King. Col. Rslston insisted that 1f and when bhetlme came to apply conscription-the formula was “not. necessarily con- scription, but conscription l! nee- Govemment. would

He first. indicated n pref- erence for prior consultation with Parliament but. finally agreed that, while the Government would act. "filament. would be celled the order tabled at once. The Col- onel pledged himself in I-‘fsnserd. and llhls proved to be of crucial importance lat-er. to be the judge so long as he was the Minister of Defence, of when. 1f ever, scrlption was required. The public dild not know it but. this difference of view caused a cabinet crisis in 1942 with resigna- tlons being narrowly avoided. From this time forward the Government vies split. ‘Ilhree of the ministers were determined that conscription. if necessary, would not be wlth- held. They were Col. Ralston. Mr. Crerer and Mr. Macdoneld. With- out inferring any lack of such de- termination among other ministers. it ls doubtful 1f they had begun in 1042 to think in these terms. Actually, the crisis which came two years later took most. of the cab- inet wholly by surprise.

‘The legislation of 1942, there- fore, marked the parting of the ways with a chief whom. in earlier years,‘ he had held in deep affection.

The second event was the re- tirement of General McNaughton from the commend of the Can- adian Army overseas. This was longer in the doing than the pub- llshed facts indicate. Col. Relston took action only when the Judg- British