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nan... Dally (Founded u. 1am Althea-bed u Second 01m 11ml. PM Ofllw Department. Ottawl.

It Gulrdlnn may be obtnlned at:

llllb Tobacco Shop, Moncton, N. I.

The New; Shop- Mnucton, N. B.

George McLean Plctou, N. S. Illkelfi White Spot, ll Salter 81., llnlllll, N.l Ietropolltan News Agency, 124B Peel Si». Montreal United Glui- Stores. Chateau Laurie: Ottawa, Ont It Aitken, Lord Elgln‘; Hotel, Oil-III. Ont

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Wolfe's New: Stand, Sndbnry. OnL Old South News. Cor. Milk and Washington Sh.

Boston

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“The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than the Weakest Ink.”

THURSDAY, AUGUST l5, 1946

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Wells, lndividualist And Patriot

H. 13. \\'ells \\‘.1s a theoretical socialist and a practical llllll\'lllllllll>l. lle and U. B, Shaw were of the same tvpe and cl1arz1cter—\villiug and anxious 111:1: C\‘1'r_vv11e should share and lhare alike other people's income and assets, while excluding their 11\v11. 1111111 were strenu- o11s hackers 11f 1h.- ci-pvriglit 111w, which pre- vents zmyone 11111 1111- 1111111111‘ 111111 1111blis11e1- sharing 111 111-11111.» 111-111111111- 11-11111 books, even to the third generation, 111111 1111111 llZl\'€ been re- puted 111 he i1111111-11~1-Iv wi-ahhv, with incomes of ovcr $_>11o,111111 per 11111111111. Both have been adverse critics 111 1111111111 111111 the British way 0f life; yet 1111111 11111111111 themselves whole- heartily lovzil and 111‘ ‘ '":1l admirers of Britons and 11111<t things ll 1. .

'l‘\vo 111111114 11f \\ clls .111’ s1111p11se11 to delineate his own life 111111 111L'i1~, 111.. lfifl/lr 111111 1111', B11.- ling Mair ll ill/trough. "l don't '11ld with \\'eal1l1," said Sid lhlfllltdi. “What is \\"eal1h? Labour robbed out o1 1111- 1111111'....'l‘l1ere's no social 1liff1're111~e~—1ill 11111111111 come in." “Money —m011e_v like €\'1'l'\'lll1l]Q’ a *—is a deception and rdisappointment"; while "the path of social advancement is, 111111 must be, strewn with broken promises."

\\'h€u he essavs the 11:11": of Mr. Britling. “Walls is every inch a 11:1tri111ic Plnglishmau: “Nobody planned the llritish estate system, no- body plauued the British aristocratic system, ho- body 1ilarmed the e11111v111111le1l Constitution. It came about; it was like l:1_ver aftct- layer wrap- ping round r111 agate: hut vpu see it came about so happily in a war, it so stiitcd the climate and the lElllDCflllCllt 11f our people and o11r ls- land, it was on the wl111le so cosy, that o11r peo- ple settled do\v11 11111) it. You can't help settling down into it.”

This docs not prevent 111111 ltaviug his fling It himself and his fellow Englishmen-“that favourite topic of all intelligent Englishmen the adverse criticism of the British.” “ll: was lfl0l‘(llll1'l1(‘l\' 111111111 of England. and he lbused her i11cess.'1111lv"——cven on his death bed lcctisiug the 11111111 Family 11f l1eiug Fascists!

The 511m and Stll>~Il1ll€C 11f the whole matter is summarized by .\lr. Pritling in thcse cogent sentences:

“If ever there was :1 l1igger lie, my dear Daddy, than any other, it is that man is a reasonable creature.

“God...is the only King"... Then after a time he said: “Our sous who have shown us

God."

Why Prices Increase

A correspondent in a mainland exchange gives l striking illustration of the economic fact that the cost of living. like that of everything else with certain exceptions, is based 1m cost 0f pro- duction, aud that 11 general increase in wages cannot keep pncc with :1 consequent increase in the cost 11f living. Mauv people appear to b5 at a loss to 1111111-114111111 whv this is so. ln the figures givcu l1el111v. "111111111111 cost" is manu- facturer's cost of an article, plus profit, be- fore the cost of 11r111l11c11<1n 11:15 been illftcflsctl

by an increase in \v.'1g1~<, 1111111111 figures arc

used for the SflhC of 1'<111\'1'11ic11c:'sI 111111111". w 1121-: 1N1'1:1=.\s.1:

Xornial cosy . . . . - . - - . - . . - - - - 1.00

Selling c1111u111s~il111 347 per cent .- 20

Retail markup, "<1 1.1‘: cvrt - - -- - 72

Retail 111-5111 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.97 .-\1-"r1"11 “$11.1: lxcizt-Lvsi:

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Xnriual c11~1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1.00

\\'z1ge increzue I11 1.11‘ c1111‘. . . . .10

Selling couuuissiou .20 per cent -- 22

Retail markup 60 per cent u... . -79

Retail price . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . - 2.11

It will be observed that each time a11 article is handlctl the cost increases, and each increase is a percentage on the immediately preceding cost. It will he observed also that while the workman received 10 cents more for itiakitig the article he pays 11) ¢cnts more fur it when 11c buys it at retail. 111 other words he gives 11) Cents for l0 cents.

If the increase in cost of production were

20 cents he would pay 38 cents more for irl

than he would had there been no increase.

lbove normal. The Accident Toll

No fewer than 9,028 persons were killed in gnotor vehicle accidents in Canada from Sept. I, I939. to-June 3o, r945, according to a 111mm tabled in the House of Commons by Hon. j. A. M. MacKinnon, Minister of Trade and Com- ‘lllerce. The number of persons injured through trlffic accident; from January, r939, to Dec, 33. 1944. V"! 149919-

Fltll accidents from drowning from Sep- 1.,I9s9.~r111.,D¢<=mber s1. 1944. totalled

bcred 727.

Injuries at level railway crossings from Ian- l-lary l, I939, to December 31, 1944, totalled 2.264- .

Persons who died in conflagrations from Sep- tember I, I939, to December 3!, I944, totalled 1,221 on basis of data for three years. Eighty- seven per cent were in homes.

There were 22,488 persons killed from other accidents from September l, r939, to Decem- ber 31, I944. The number d1 injured was not available.

e- EDITORIAL NOTES =

About the only people working these days are farmers, newspapermcn and Exhibition of- ficials and staffs.

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The Australian Governor-General, the 11.11.11. Duke of Gloucester, will return 1o England earl next year, where he will act as Councillor of tale (luring the King's visit to South Africa.

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dcr sitting in Cambridge has agreed that dif- ferences of opinion between kussia and the \\'cst underscored a need for a commission to study thoroughly the Churclfs position cou- cerning political and social tensions. ll‘ i! it‘ ¥ Polish war veterans are to be Sllbsllltlletl for German prisoners of war who have been work- ing on farms iu Ontario and the \\'est. The new itclp On being recruited in Italy must sign a two year agreement to serve on :1 iflflll- This i3 equivalent to the imlcnture system which the British Parliament ordered discontinued when involving liast Indians in British Guiana and Chinese in South Africa — which Churchill characterized as “yelloiv slavery." >1‘ ll‘ ‘F *

A golden eagle was "tried" in abscutia at Perth, Scotland. recently by the Perthshire agri- cultural executive comtuittce on charges of carrying off .10 lambs. The members refused to announce the verdict, but an official said it would he submitted to the Scottish Board of Agriculture. Golden eagles are protected in Britain and permission to kill them must be obtained.

11- m _ Sir “x1111. Scott, poet and novelist, born this date I771; his first literary work consist- ed of translations of (Sermzm poets and collect- ing Scottish ballads; The Lay of the Last Min- rlrrl, 1111111111011, Lady 0f the Lake, Rokcby, Lord of the Isles, published iu quick succession ‘placed him in the front rank of narrative poets; he then turned to novel-writing, and produced the series known as T/le Waverley Novels,‘ he is known as the creator of the historical novel, and his works are now liuglish classics: Love rules the court, the camp, the grave, And mcu below and saints above; For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

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Mr. \Vickham Stead, former editor of Thu Timcs, London, holds similar views 10 those ex- pressed here the other day on the drawbacks of open sessions of the Peace Conference. Broad- casting over BBC on “\Vorld Affairs" he said: “Now l am not at all surc that public controversy between leading statesmen of East and \Vest is the soundest method of promoting harmony or agreement among them. llowever careful they may be to argue reasonably, and not to score points off each other, they are apt to be driven into positions from which they cannot easily retreat ivithotit appearing to “climb down‘ or to ‘lose face."

ll lVoolleu stoclcings, as sheer and as lustrous as nylon or p11re silk, were forecast by Mr. I. l". Abbott, .\l.l’., a member of the Australian “fool Board, as being the type of stockings \vo- men would be wearing in preference to all oth- ers. Hr. Abbott said that wool could easily become the prc-eiuiiieut fibre of the world, and added that the \\'0ol Board was working with great success 1111 a tirncrss to make all woollen goods both shrink and 1110111 proof. “I think that we can even take the ‘tickle’ out of wool. for the lloard has devclopcd a chemical that will make 11111.1 as smooth and as lustrous as silk," he added.

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Saskatchewan is returning to some of the old pre-C. C. F. ways, as for in- stance, the restoration of the twelve-luau jury in 1111111 civil and criminal cases. For reasons of economy during 1111- depression juries were reduced to six members, but it was found the difference in cost was not substantial. Consequently, by an amendment to the Iury Act :11 the last session of the Saskatcheivarl Legislature, provision was 11111111: for a iury of twelve in civil matters, 10 become effective on proclamation. The Federal Minister 0f lus- tice W115 petitioned to have the Criminal Code amended to provide the larger iury in criminal matters also, and proclamations ltztvc been is- sued bringing the two amendments into force

on September I.

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Mr. Solon Low, Social Credit Leader, is charg- ing the Liberals Willi courting the Communists. Ur. lustice lllinistcr St. Laurent, actiug\G0v- crnmeut leader indignautly denied the accusation but Mr. Low stuck to his guns. “I did not charge Mr. Mackenzie King personally with deliberate- ly courting the Communists in the 1945 election campaign," said Mr. Low. “What I did say was, the Liberal Government is alone responsible for the alarming growth and spread of Com- munistn during the past fen years. I further statéd that the Liberal party deliberately court- ed the Communists prior toand during the 1945 election campaign." Continuing after noisy Liberal interjcctions, Mr. Low said, “My state- ments are based on an imposing array of factual evidence which I would glady present here if the rules of the Ilouse did not forbid it. l stand by ivhat I said and will present the evid- ence I have in this House at the proper time and before the highest court of the land. the people." "What the member said was unutter- able nonsense," stormed Veterans Affairs Min-

The International Conference on \\'0rl1l Or-I

THE CHAR L0 TT ETOWN GUARDIAN

Notes By The Way| Trek From The Farm

(The E101] kpflg) ,1 gum evidently. Olnldlllyhoys 1m young men a: no o bur-k iém fannsuAltholuollthtohea m‘ 8W BXWP one r immediate neighborhood, the. average onus-lo ‘farmer is past maid]; age, wflhqm a hired man and not too optimistic about his ability tn increase pro- l flllfillfllll. 'I‘lt1;re ha? cling n. number of i 1 .. arms n is Jue te neighbor- n lulled Sate! re h?“ 0:: whEg “ V! P" End __ 111d.,wc evcuorogruss géflfleymvamnlr:r n13: 3,,,§"_ ‘gig farms. a policy which hnalbeen 1n- mm imply “tan, the Wm“, (offlrfillslng ever since the tnt year be first m, i, ca“ be ma, 1,11,31,10! the w-ar whmever the lovem- mlncls are on the women more em expert‘ 5w‘ than on ma, work and 1n may On the contrary the American use l, might be a ‘femmme cum editors who visited Eloru fast Sn‘.- splracy to discredit. the mule srzwrd“ wld “5 ma‘ m m9 Unlwd You never 1mm where ,0“ m, states the trend is toward tne with mu kind of 51111151115. mm?“- we d‘? P?‘ fivlt w!" W 1'" wwgd-rd- 1.1."1.1:v.."2r1....1°.1:;.;r:12:

There ls apparently no llmlt to the punishment Canadian news- paper men can take. ‘Fae party now vlsltln Britain has lust eon- sinned h2g3 In olassow. -Br<>¢ls-. ville Recorder and Times.

A college ports that girls’ grudes ‘.013 those,

Britain cannot have the security of the Suez (711.11 left. to chance, o1" divide with zuiybody the diuy of protecting l Let 1t. be clearly‘ understood that there om be no compromise so tar us me Suez Canal ls concerned If Britain purl.- ed with it, un essential‘ part, vital chair. of tno Elllpll" would be gone. The S1112 Canal is as much 11 art of ll-e Empire as the homelan itself. If, 11s Mr. Bevin rcgently said, the Middle East 1S the throat of the Etnplpe, ‘hen the Suez Canal ls lls jugular vein. In

Ifzirm organizations are partlcul ly strong might be one.

There was considerable criticism during the 'v-1r. even ln papers as tolerant as me Christian Science Monitor. of the. fix-m stand on farm prices taken vv _a strong agrlculn- ural lobby. But mls, in connection with less rigid controls, ls undoubt. edly one of the main laclnrs un- ,der1yir1g [he return to farming by the young mt-f of that coimtry. 1 A111 either tht young "nen must return to a wfly o! lLfe which will offer them u i r return for their

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1o the first ctirso-i who 01ers over 3.000 pounds for 1t. The 1sla!2'l-- stranger's Cay- is in the New Providence Group It is about 21H acres in extent. has a fine lem- perate climate. a sug-ir-caze plan- tation, big-game Iishllts. fresh water, flamingos, hummlng.blr¢S. i1 coral reef-and 11¢: income tax. 11s ou-ner l5 in private life the wlf: of ND‘. Robert Armstrong-Jones. barrister. Telling now she came to own the island, she said: ‘It was at; 9, party, some veurs before toe war. I had always ul-xnted to our‘. 1r.

(Melropolihan Life Bulletin)

In 194-4. Im- rue first time» fn our history. the .1'/erage length of life 1lexpecfatlon cf life at birth) -f the American people, l ‘ ‘"1 military personnel within the oourl- try, exceeded r16 years. Th1- actual. figure, 65 l-R years, ls almost 16 years greater than at. the begin- ning of the century;

As o. esult cf 1h truly remark- able gain, the person of age 20 now has, on an average as many years of life remaining as the new-born child had in 1900 Even more strik- island, and I mentioned my Bmylng ls rude observriltion whfi- billon. Another guest—— u ‘it. as accor in; to e ear. er mo .- business man —sa'c‘1: ‘Yve 5:01 some! nllty only three-quarter.- of the dam‘ island "1111 fr. the Bihsmas. babies would 2111:1111 age '35 under , , _ so my husband bought 1t present conliltfoi-s three-Huerta‘: for me." -I.mn'lon Daily Mull. of them will teach 5'1.

For white females in 1944. the average length of 111g was 68.95 We were in a women's sheath", sears. White females wru have other day 11nd fvund 11. good S} 11|a1talnod 1 elr first birthday anni- pile of articles made of shirti versary wll llve on an average. to 11rd beariXlB 11"‘- Wme 9f l1 mlml“ _ agp ‘l1. For those who have attained Iacturléig farm ulllilich figs tslilwflfi 1721811‘ 49th birthday, the figure ts concen rate on e Dru llC 0n years. men's shirts. The suleslsuy 511.111 The 11191193331111 lqngeygy 5mm“; her shop could buy all l‘. Wantel white females tn 1944, as compared of these articles, made of the same with l943,'w-as two thirds c1‘ u year. shining 111st goes 111111 1'11» manu- 1 It. was more than 10 ears over tiie f-icture of men's shirts, but that average figure for 191 492i and al- many of them were lefttoléffs rlngggt. 18 years over that for 1901). because women wsose 11s :s c -s~ . rapidly no longer wanted to buy. Although white males ln 1M4 them. In othin- ivords, wazle men reached 9, h1g5 1.1161 o; 3355 was crv out for shirts they cannot but. 1n average length of llfe, their reo- the firms nortnzillv pl‘0d111)l.\g_ rhea". mg was a 111115 below [he peak n- seem to be 1151113 large quanlites of tnir-zd in 1942. Thechlef factor -n shlrtlng lnwne manufacture cf 1111s slight setback 1s the relatively shirt-like garments for women 111111 high morbauty from accidents they do not. want ‘and that cannot among men in the mllltgry 59;- be sold.‘ The’ 1.1011211! 1S 1Y-'-5¢P\_D8ble,vlcesA. The gum 1n average length that this slurlirg has bDOn diverr- o; me among whim may; 511mg ed fro)? mew: wear to wartneilrlis 1900 amounted to 15 1-3 vears. W611‘ 122111501 15 1110K! ‘.110 fl. 1! - -Brockville Recorder and Times. lican We

The weather has hardly been waim Tough t“, 6mm: wmflex, France Potatoes‘? gee en oymer. 111 ar. on 11c ——— water, yet the toll of '.l"f)\ll'lllll_g‘v1 (Saint 30hr! ielllfl-Ph-Wlfinfln have been hcavv under 1112 cir-I Accordlngjq Mr. Jean Bustarete; cumstances. only in 11in; cases ls F‘1~:_n_cn ngricu-ttlrlll 9W4?" ‘"1"’ 1° there any excuse for drorvzatiig I-‘avisitmg this province, our chances is so easy to be safe if only ordln-10l gaining a foothold on the F‘rer-.h ary intelligence ls used. The Wmd- potato market cepend on 1W0 sor Star gives r1 few simple rules things—- first, the extent to which which, if foll-Jweu‘. will make vac- | our varieties can be popularized l" aliens happy instead of tragic. this country and second. our 1.1111111! They embrace nothing new. b'lt[1o demonstrate that our tubers they have lhu esseme of common will not carry to France anl’ HEW sense: "ff you cannot. swm, stay plant diseases or insects. out of deep ivater. and be sure you; The French prefer yellowish know where the deep war-r ts. Ifipotetoes mostly orffllilailfi"! l" U9 you can, knuw definitely how for Low Countries and Germany‘- you can travel without undue et- Housewives ln Can-ads 11nd the fort; 11rd keep within that dlstancrl United States would not consider of safety. Don't go into leaky 9011113511011 potatoes flt for the not. *- and no matter what kind of craft1 taste on this sfce o! me Atlantic you are in stay still. Standing up runs to meaty saow-whte potatoes n boats, or rocking them, are -—-the klnd for wnlch New Bruns- amcng our cnlef killers. Above all, wick ls famous. stay out of 1:111; water for at least‘ It ls possible, as Mr. Bustarette in hflllr after a nteul." Within the suggests, that. we might be able lfmlt of these DYEOZIUllOTl, there is1to ecluoate the french to the ud- lemple opporuuitv for fut. cnjoy- vantages of white-fleshed potatoes mem of the water. ~K1tcnener Rn-lover yellow-fleshrd potatoes. This 60rd. vroutd require a campaign of ad- _ lvertlslng 11nd publicity. The suc- This stale, which escaped the, cess of such a campaign would mt war. should have been 1.. r1 posh.‘ bv nny moms o1: a foregone con- tion 1o reduce tavatiou before eny cluslon, us the people of France of the belligerent states. Doubt- stick closely to tradition and have less the Mir-aster for Finance 113G fixed ideas 111 most. stlblects his own reasons for not fntroduc-iflflflltulflfly on Y00d-- 111M "B PM. lng an interim Budget, with this easily changed. object lu vlew 11111 he will, there-l But as an alternative, 1f 'the lore, be all she letter placed next . nwrket possibilities warranted. lt month to ui-iitunce sutistanthll wnuld not be "BT13 f0!‘ NEW Bflmfl- concesslons. Alrrl dy some o1 the “lf-‘k 10 STOW R 118118111 Volume 0f lnduslrlss in he bzlllgercnit co11.1-'Y9110\V'f1°Shed fwlawes 859961811!’ trlcs are gelling on their 1:01: more 101' “BN9- rapidly than lrlsh lndusarlcs are. The idea 11f nwduclns olflerent Heavy taxes are 1m impediment to| types 0f potatoes for different gndusmm pfggfe=s_ 1n regard go countries ls one lvhlch merits con- food, clothing and other necessities! slderall°n~ 501M Wllnlflel 11k‘? [he people 1nd u, m,m__,g3 with. potatoes with a pink tinge, others what they eculu produce them-l 11kt‘ 11131111995 ‘hill We “V01” 0"!‘- selvcs during zhe wnr ycfrs, WC. selves, We have accepted ft as :1 suggest 11,91 11m 55m; m1“ o; w?‘ fact that wnlle potatoes are best. ting our cloth according :0 0111 1° ever-Vb"? h-"Wlllse W0 feflflrl‘. measure should De applied 1o pub- ‘hem 11$ bcst- Th1! film-Me "BY M! 11¢ flnance- 111111 the expenditure be the one wlfllllattd w llwrem 111011111 be 111mm to the enmmurv‘ “l” BbY°Rd~ 11y’; capmny 10 pa). Th. 599mb] It should be essv to demonstrate lng departments should. £1 ueces- m“ '31" WMW“ W111 Fm ca"? 5a,.“ be rauoned Just as me m,” France new r-lant diseases or ernment has TBtlOllCd the house-,1"5ecl5' A5 1°? lmflm- ,1‘ WE h!" holder 11rd me shoplzecpen-The “ny m“ “all” 5°95!" '4!" ll- msii Independent 011111111. "ady- 11"" WM l?“ "no w‘ <1! __1 by modern m-etllofl! of rumination

Plane for the nliicraft tor H1111 wnoo ulm OUB '

reorganlsed Kings T115111, now, being built at the Weybrldge factory-l . Whooping cough cause rlve

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the fact that. tn that; country the ,

docs-not-pay banned frcm riuenas hero by ifne clty witch commillep because they say lt glamorlzes crime.

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TO A GRADUAT

(Joe P. B.) Be wary nu.rse—1he road. up which you no m long and sieepel‘ than you dare to 1.11 ~

And since yoii leave nurse. be 510W

Will drink. r059

hundred scars.

The welcome breeze may herald

storms ahead,

And though your eyes would trace~ the course of stars Or gaze on gray horizons growing

r . Let caution rule your step that you

HlElV 58E

The gaping p11, the waiting bog. the w

Thev built for you to scale. Go cine-

And hopefully: but

you slnk or fall.

Remember vuhere you walked ycu smoothed the way That. those who follow may discov-