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President: Lseut. Col W Chester B. Mal-Ills Vim-President: .l. B. Bnrnst IJJ. Secretary: iJeut. Col D. A Msc on. ill-Q [titul- enu Managing Director: .l. B. Burnett, IJJ. Assoc-late Eillluis: Frank Walker end Inn A. Burnett

SUBSCRIPTION RATIO By Mall in P. l. 1., 54.00 per yen-r; $2.50 for 6 month. $1.25 lvr 3 montns; 50o for one month City Delivery; $5.00 per year; $3.00 for 6 months $1.75 for 3__ months By Mail in Canada and U.S.A. $5.00 per yen! Intel-day Wet-lily; $2.00 per year; $1.00 for 6 months 50o for 3 months.

The Charlottetown Unnrdlsn lnny ho obtained I Botullns‘: Sen-l intent-y, ‘rinses nounro, New Xorkt Old iunlll Mme Agent-y, corner Alllls nnd Wnenlnrton. Bostons flgtruptllllllll Assn Agent-y, 1241i Peel lit. lontronls .l. Elsie, 351 ltuy isr., Toronto; News rilnnd, Chllenu gnu-i", Uttnwu; itlllfl-‘s sau- stand, Budbury, Ont; Huh Tobnneo Bllllp, Milnrlon, N. lLi Ellen Robertson, Alnlsnrst, N. I.

"The Strongest Memory is Weaker thou the Weakest Ink."

FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1941.

“Army Day" Tomorrow

With the twofold object of aiding recruiting and giving the Iwople of Canada a better under- st.'lnding I'l- inillzziry training, Saturday, June 2S, has burn itauicrl .'\rluy Day. All camps and barracks in Canada will be open tomorrow for public inspection. Units are arranging program- mcs to slnw as many as possible of the differ- eud kiiiils of irainiiig carried on, and visitors are inviicd to talk frccly with the men. Particularly it is hoped that all parents and friends of sol- diers will visit these soldiers where the barracks are not too far away. Cook houses, barrack fofillls, stores, etc, will all be open to visitors to see the details of administration. The only rc- stricicd HYUZIS will be forts and works of defense.

I.oc.'ill_v, Army Day will be observed at the military training centre at Beach Grove, and at the ilPflflilllilflPfS of the Veterans’ Guard, Bright- on Road. Yi-‘IIOFS to Bench Grove are requested to arrive before 4.30, as the regular training closes at that hour for the day.

This is s splendid opportunity for the civilian public io show its interest in army training, and in the boys who are participating therein. It is hoped there will be a very large attendance st the local centres, as undoubtedly there will be in other parts of Canada.

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i The Farm Problem

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Recent careful study of the farming problem 5s it exists today all over Canada, says the Van- couvcr Sun, brings into bold relief the relative conditions existing between agriculture and other iyulugtfies of the nation. Leaders in the agricul- tural sections have been particularly active in their expose of the situation, with the emphatic reservation, however, that winning the war is now and nlusr be the foremost consideration for ercrv citizen of Canada.

it»... ago the position of the farmer could be compared favorably with the industrialist. To- dav, the industrialist worker has several times the income of the farmer, while the latter in some instances obtains less for his produce than ever and pays more for his purchased neces- saries to produce that result.

Approximately 3,000,000 people ere sustained through earnings from farming operations in Canada. It is suggested that the Reconstruction Committee at Ottawa. take careful note of the situation which, if handled properly, should con- tribute to s stabilized post-war citizenry.

A Lesson From The Classics

‘In time of war we come even closer to the Greeks.” This was the theme of e lecture on “Hellenism And Our Present Cause" prepared by Professor Gilbert Murray for delivery at s recent meeting of the Royal Society of Arts in London, and reported in the April issue pf the Society's journal. The failure of the "wishful- thinking" Athenians to heed u; voice of Socrates, warning against impending invasion by Philip of Macedon, is strikingly compared_ by Prof. Nfurray to the indifferent recepupn given Mr. Churchill's "Arms and the League speech-

. es in the months immediately preceding the war

we are now waging against Nazi Germany. “The Athenian Assembly" says Prof. Murray, "evidently hated the thought of plunging lnto war, just as our Parliament did, and they allow- ed that laudable aversion to blind them to import- ant facts and make them forget awkward re- sponsibilities. Also, whether by corruption or flat- tery or pure dcceit_or otherwise, Philip hid provided himself with s valuable group of partisans in Athens —many of them probably honest, and therefore the more influential. The nlajority of the Assembly argued that thcre ivas no necessity to plunge the country into war; Philips proceedings rind prin- ciplcs might not be what most Athenians sp- provcd, but hc had not made war on _ Athens. He had not attacked any direct Athenian inter- est. llc bad got possession of one state after an- other, truc; hut he had generally done it by threats and diplomacy, not by war- In Ell 511011 states there wcre parties which favoured him- No doubt he had upset democracies and put in their place ilictntorsltips dependent on Macpdon. He had (lllllllCfl Thessaly according to race and so broken its power. But none of this amounted to Wfll‘. I10 bad scnt troops into some states; was that not ivzlr? No, he always explained that he hm] w]; [Item in kindness to protect the country against possible enemies. And. after all, how could Athens interfere? In most of the countries the loaders of the anti-Philip party had hvi-u inipri-oilcil or ‘bczltcil up,’ and sometimes killed. Such countries would not welcome Athen- inn ll1I(‘l‘(‘II‘l‘(‘I1(‘(‘. It ivas much fairer and wiser to m- l.. 1m i, p-‘lflilrl Philip and appease him; there was ov l1 ilic- chance of persuading him i0 involve llllllivll in a ivar against his very 1MB ‘Ylelgh’ hour In ilw linst, 1b:- Pcrsuln Empire. livery stain.’ vi-ivd lli-mouthr-ucs, ‘congratulates itself ou llfflilg safe ivhilo Philip destroys its neighbor.

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They never see that they must unite for the com- mon security, that their only chance of security is by union, and that meantime he is growing stronger and stronger till he will be irresistible.’ When accused of warmongering, Philip has said: ‘I am at peace with all who listen to me.’ Was Athens to accept that claim —that peace was only to be had by obedience? ‘Not all Hellas nor all the rest of the world will satisfy that man's ambition,’ cries Demorlthcnes. ‘He has proclaimed his contempt for religion and for jus- tice between nations. Whatever the rest of Hellas may do,’ he concludes, ‘we at least will fight for freedom.’ And so at last, when it was too late, Athens girded herself to war and was beaten. There was no American arsenal then to redress the balance in support of democracy."

The parallel, as Prof. Murray concedes, may not be altogether complete, but at least it af- fords much food for thought, and a timely warning against the danger of complacency which was by no means confined to pre-war England.

e- EDITORIAL NOTES 5

Tomorrow, everyone having a relative s soldier is expected to visit him, if at all possible, in Camp or barracks.

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The question of the Car Ferry is not a depart- mental affair, but a Provincial problem which must be solved by us, and not the railway. It is for us to push our claims, and to see that they are respected. So far as Ottawa and the Railway are concerned, we are merely an inconvenient ap- pendix which may be cut off without injury to the Federal body politic.

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Dr. Arnold Branch, for several years connect- ed with the cancer research department of Mc- Gill University and a gold medallist of the class of 1.920, will take over the post of director of the provincial Government laboratories at Saint john, N .B. A member of the National Research Council of Canada, he will replace Dr. R. A. H. McKcen, recently gone into army service in Saint John. A native of Antigua in the British \Vest Indies, Dr. Branch entered the faculty of medicine at McGill in 1915 and obtained his M.

D., C. M. degree in 1920 after serving for a short period in the Canadian Navy of the last war.

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A well-known figure and popular citizen in the person of Capt. T. G..Taylor has gone on his last voyage, He lived to a. ripe old-age, es- teemed and respected by everybody. His parti- cular interest and care in life was little folk.

-\Vhen this newspaper started its Alias Santa Pal

plan away back in I916, one of the first con- tributions came from Captain and Mrs. Taylor Then for years he has been closely associated with the Protestant Orphanage in which he took more than a director’: interest—a paternal inter- cst—in the well-fare of the little ones. It will be a long time before we look upon his like again —a big-hearted bluff, jovial sailor man with his gen- erous heart in the right place adjacent to his pocket. a n- a a

Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish Leader, born this date, 1846, son of John Henry Parnell of Avondale, County Wicklow; educated at Cam- bridge, became M. P. for County Mcath (1875- 80) and at once commenced a policy of opposition to England, in first speech in Parliament ad- vocating Home Rule and Irish Nationalism. Was chairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party, and President of the Irish National League. While pronouncedly pro-Irish and Anti-English in po- litics, strenuously opposed ruihlessness, and his condemnation of the Phoenix Park murders and other outrages threatened him with the loss of In- fluence over the party; he was, however, chair- man when Gladstone declared for Home Rule in 1886, the Bill for which was thrown out by the biggest vote ever recorded in the House of Lord-s. In 1891 he married Mrs. O'Shea, divorced wife of Captain O'Shea., and was re-clected Chair- man of the Party. Gladstone objected, and a split took place» 45 Anti-Parnellites separating themselves and forming s new organization, the minority, 26, who stood by their Leader were henceforward known as Parnellites. He was the greatest figure in Irish political history, and had he been allowed to pursue his policy unhinder- ed by scarldal-mongers, would almost certainly have solved the Irish question without resort to arms and armed intimidation.

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Startling things happened 1n quick succession at the English village of Cox Green, in Kent, the other day, when a pet cheetah that figured in the film “The Thief of Baghdad" walked out of its cage and took it into its heed to see the world. The cheetah belongs to Flying Officer Harben, who keeps it at his Cox Green home. It is perfectly tame and he has taken the animal with him quite frequently to fashionable restaur- ants in London After emerging from the cage the cat made its way to a hedge screening the Harben property- At this juncture Archie White, racehorse trainer, came along with s. riding party, which included a. boy, Alistair Allen, mounted on a pony. Suddenly, over the hedge leaped the cheetah and alighted on the pony, which promptly threw’ its young owner and bolted, with the big spotted cat on its back. A few yards ahead was a woman wheeling a peram- bulator with a hahy in it. The pony crashed into the carriage, smashing it and leaving the handle in the astonished woman's hands: charg- ed into s horse ridden by a woman, who was catapulted over her mount's head, and continued its mad dash into a farmyard, where the cheetah lumped off and the ponv brought up in a stable. Meanwhile. the baby that had been in the-perem- hulator and whose head and face were injured had been taken into thi- “uchess of Manchester's house, near 11v. The (1li"'"‘SS gave first-aid until a doctor arrived. When Flying Officer Harben reached the farm in resoonse to a telephone call and secured the cheetah it was eveinv a colt In a barn and crouching In spring. Mr. Harben con- iectured that Ills pet 11nd spied voung Allen's ooriv tlirrnvvb the hedge and TIIISIQBSIL i§_f_o_r___a buck or a deer ' i '

IIOTES BY TIIE YIAY

The old story, “wires down”. which so often follows storms floods and other disasters, will soon be e memory, u for es telephone communication scross the United

States is concerned. Within s you‘ i

an underground cable is expected to be finished which will carry messages. As B. defence meilsu t. its value Ls incaicislable. It knits the two coast; of the United States even closer together. we will be even more s. united people-Boston Post.

A Quebec , that. of $268,490.B94 advanced by the federal government for industrial construction or extiensisn, French- Canlsdlsn industries get only $15,- 337,520, or 5.’! per cent. instead of one-third, the proportion according

to population. “War or rlo war." it-

says, "French-Canadian enthus- iasm cannot grow out of such discrimination". Quebec Ls still thinking in terms o4 lire-war pat- ronage of which II. was never sc- cused o1’ receiving less than its share. -- Victoria Times.

Doubt still exists u to whit flower Shakespeare was alluding when, in "Love! Labor's lost."_ he wrote of "cuckoo-buds of yellow hue". Correspondents have been speculating on this in a British newspaper. It is symptomatic of the British that their minds can find escape frcm the terrors that hang like a sword o! Damocles over the land. One correappndent says

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that. Dr. Prior. lar Names of British Plants", says, “Cuckoo-buds are probably the

buds of the crowfootfl’, which he de- scribes as the buitercup. Another correspondent. believes that cuoltto- hops are wwsllpe. — Victoria. Col- on .

United Sintee citizens no longer will be subjected to the restrictions of the Australian Alerts’ Registra- tion Regulations, ns s result of n Commonwealth Government dece- ion. The Australian-American Co- operation Movement, which has an influential membershi in Sydney, took the matter up wth Attorney- General Hughes, and through his intercession the Federal Cabinet. decided that. people of the U. S. A, as citizens of a. friendly power now materially helping the British causes, should not be required to register, notify changes of ad- dress, or in any: way comply w.l.h regulations appl able to aliens gen- erelly,

0f the vex-ions’ robierns related to compulsory m itary trsinins. the preservation o1,’ the morals of our young soldiers is undoubtedly the most. important. And it is quite natural that parents should become uneasy over reports from the bar- racks and through some press news. Yet military training, even if fraught with some danger, may be of very great. advantage. A veteran of the 1914-18 war used to say that while camp life was a. total disaster for sIme, many others came out. o. the e rienoe in splendid condi- tion. e problem then is i0 help the young recruit g0 through the test. decently; and the family should play an important part. in this respect by keeping in cons ant. close touch with the recruit, mak- ing him feel that. he is always liked and loved. Regular correspondence from father mother, brothers and sister; will eep him within the family circle and save him from many dangers. In a small way, the sending of candy, cigarettes or some little gift. will always hellp. — L‘Action Cstholique (Quebec).

The details published show clear- ly that the Gerrrlarls id not; ex- aggerate when they dwlared ex- ultingly in Berlin that this was "the b est. air raid of all time".

18.161181‘ pretense there has been of bombing only places 0f military vslue has gone. Wanton destruc- tion of sadistic joy of muiilatlng and killing is obviously to be is routine th from now on. Ameri- cens are no given to s lust for

ood, but e. reprisal raid on Berlin and s. loss greater than that suf- fered by the residents of London would delight practically everybody in this country. ‘that. the Gel-minis will be spared indefinitely misery of the kind which they have inflicted on the lilnglish end other peoples is improbable. Until then shout. the beat that rican civilians can do for Eng civilians is to eon- tribute to the limit of their ability. American and lfsll planes will attend to the mil tary part of the Job, sooner or later. - Boston Herald

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to the Italian air force s. iii-mile

miss tau: ssehit Faclsts 0f course, have peculiar ideas. One o! them, fostered by Mussolini, is that when the Italian says s thing istobedonoitisasg ssdone. It is s. dangerous primal. le to carry into warfare, u time rte isns should have learned in their fugitive oc/n- tects with Admiral Ounninaharlfs

br ht. boys. but It is a hard rlrl- . On Jn

cipe to down no the Italian High Corn-mend claimed that it. had born Gibraltar end

hits on the Block. The Rook British defenders could not find them, nor did they even hear the planes. But. the other day word came froim lbteponis, s Spanish town 25 miles from Gibraltar, that. on June 5 bombs from unidentified aircraft hed dsmsged private build‘- ings and caused casualties. Borne- body should get. e medal for this, because it. is the nearest the Itali- ans have come to hitting anything a‘?! in this war. - Windsor

In their own interest, workers everywhere in this country would be well advised to rid themselves of such leadership ss was responsible for the Inglewood walkout. Vlrllils California is s notorious stamping ground for these anti-social ole- ments in labour leadership, there is not the slightest doubt thsi. they exist in some degree in every in- dustrialized State. Tile vern- ment has proved in the Inglew

instance that their leadership will not. be tolerated if it results in such universal suspension of work es occurred in tilst Oslifomie community. But. the Army's func-

tion is not to lice industry. The vest mejorigy workers unless im- rl in uerloed by enemies of

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he Republic. doubilws regret the need for mllit IUPOTVWOII, hw- ever briefly, qui es much as my other average citizen of gence. Tile Government itself is

moot. reluctant of ell to take men lest-ditch mess w. — Providence Iollrnsl.

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WORDS OF CHALLENGE

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A DA! FOB A PIOPLI AT WA! “A Dlll-nism. this . nelned. lmlehamed. h: Ioille on s fearful ram e, and only our money ll ice the means wnerebv med

adventure may be stooped and rendered impossible ." _. Rev. J. B. Skene. Moderator of the General Assembly of the lzltifisbvterian Church in Can- , .

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Broom out the floor now, lay the i fender A y. I

And plant this bee-sucked bouzll of' Woodbine there,

And. let}! 1x116 window down. The but-

Fiosts in upon the sunbeam. and‘ the fair

Tanned face of June. the nomad BIDSY. laushs Above her widespread wares. the

while she tells | The farmers’ fortunes in the fields, and u is

o The water from the soider-peopledl g wells.

The hedges are all drowned in green grass seas, .A.nd brglggtflll lmwbies flare like E1- 8 . While siren-lure the pollen-stained! Drone In the clov d ths. And l the h z t or en 11D, The cuckoos voice is hoarse and roke with joy. ‘ And on the lowland crops the crows ma? raid, , N0!‘ 19;?‘ he clippers of the farm-l Who sleeps. like drunken Noah. m‘ the shade , lAnd looggillis red rose in that hazel That snaregryour little en‘. for June And we must 10v in it. and dance and sing, Arid from her bounty draw her rosy wor . Ml soon the swallows will be flying south, 'I‘he wind wheel north to gather in snow. Even the roses split on youth's nedi

mou Will soon blow dovm the road. all roses so. I

—I"ra.n¢1s Iedwfdge. i

PUBLIC FORUM

This column ls open for tne discussion by correspondents of questions o! interest. The Charlottetown Guardian does not ""11""! endorse the opinions ol correspondents.

HORNED OWLS’ DIET

I Slr,_In Wednesday's issue oi ' your paper appeared an item un- der the above heading. It states that rats and mice were both absent from the diet. The only way that fact could be known would be by the examina- tion of their stomachs or their re- Iurgltster pellets which no doubt would have revealed large numbers of skulls of both as they swallow bones, fur and all. the indlgestlble Darts being put up 1n masses of fur. bones. etc, sill matted io- Zelhel‘. ‘This is liow the food of owls is arrived at by authorities. Owls, like other beings, of course, have to live to eat. Their diet var- ies with the food at hand and that depends on their location. In this case they may have found easy pfckl among the food found most plenti ul. A noted sportsmen who has stud- ied the owl question In ell its dif- ferent. phases told rne only this week that if he had a pair of nest- ing horned owls on his farm, would surround it with barbed wire and protect it in every way. - AI. present this province is being overrun with s plague of both mice end refs which due to the absence of owls and the scarcity of hewks are l. creasing st an enormous rate. A conservative estimate of the dam- age done on each farm at present would be from twenty-five to fifty dollars, Multipy this by the hum- ber of farms on the Island, and we have s truly astonishing figure; end vet we go out killing our best