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__PA_G§_FOUR TIIE OIIARLOTTETOWN OIIAROIAN

Morning Daily (Founded in i887)

President: Lleui. Col W Cheater B. Mel-ore Vice-President: J. IL Burnett. FJJ. Secretary: lJeut. Col D. A. MacKInnon- D.l.0. Idfior and Managing Director: J. R. Burnett, FJI. QSSINIiII-Q Editors: Frank Iilaikcr and ion A. Burnett

SIIBSCBIWPION RATES By Mail in P. L l., $4.00 per year; 52.50 for i! months _ 81.25 lu-r 3 months; 50c for one month , City Delivery: $5.00 per year; $3.01: for 8 month: $1.75 for 3 month: By Mail In Canada and U.S.A. 55.00 per your Iaturday \'t'e1-kl,\: $2.00 per year; ‘$1.00 for 6 moninl. 50c Ior 3 montlu.

The Charlottetown Guardian may be obtained ll floinlluro bone Agency, Time: square, New burln 0m South None Agency. Corner olilk and Washington. Buetonl Ileirllflflllllln hen; llleury, trill! Peel 51., Alunlreull J. Fine, lib-i ltny 51., Toronto; NOW! Stand, Chateau hour-er. Ottnwe: Wolfe’: Ne“; stand, Sulluury. Out; llub Tobacco Ihnp, Mont-Inn, N. IL; Ellen Kubrrtonn, Amherll. N. l.

fTlle Strongest Memory is Weaker than the Weakest Ink."

FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1941.

Empire Day Observance

Empire Day (hlay 24) falling this year on Saturday, the celebration in the schools through- out this PlT/VIIICC will be held on Friday, May 23 (;\l'l)l111r I);1_vl. Instructions to this effect ltave been issued ll\' the Provincial Department of

Lidttcntititt ztccntitpztuicd by the request that (‘h1g5 he 111.11‘ 11114. ptv-intic exercises ltcld, and spctlltczs 11t\1t<11.l 1-1 llllll'.'t‘.\> zhc pupils where con- vcnicltt.

The llcptlrtrtttttt is to be commended on fol- lowing the trtul ottal procedure tn this instance,

3111i not thc <~.\.'1:11ph~ 111' lhttrtrio, where the .\lin- i-u-r of lulu.‘ Z1111 lists .'l<l\'l\.C(l school principals [hyuuujttdti 1h.- Ihwvtttcc that he is withdrtnving thc 1141‘ l. 15:11 '1'»; I):1\' pr-1g111111s 111 the schools.

_i ctt i 1r this breach of tradition is that s11<~ci11 rcc-1gvition \v:1s given to St. George's ]);1_v 111., ytztr. ztnd this. in thc (lntzirio .\Iittistcr’s opinion, prnti lvtl an opportunity for killing, as it were, two hirtls with one stone.

Already, strong objection has been taken in the Otttnrio jircss to this procedure. The Globe and .\l:1il mqvtcs logically that in war time there is titorc 1 ' 9:1 th 1 cvcr for celebrating Empire Ikty, which i. n- tell with the ttzltnl dtty of good ‘Qucctt Victoria, whose long reign was SI'll4lll_\'lllt’lllS with lintpirc cxpzmsiott.

And ltcrc is a thuttght which our Toronto con- t<'111p1-1":11_v strt~~t s. and which might well be em- phzls cll l<-c:1ll_v in cutrttitctttoratittg the anni-

lc (‘I1l'l\‘ fittztncctl wLi lslcs ltztvt“ lll‘\t‘l‘

tl'\'('i1\11lllf‘tlf of this country was 11111111cy, 21nd the British ltd to provide the most dc- Thc early Ilritislt iiovl-rz:ors the foundations upon which :1 hcitili=v clvilizrttiotl can he reared. British tzctictitls 11ml l‘- ' 1 troops cleared the country of its cut-tuit-s 11nd prpcnrcrl the way for the cs- I£lllll\lllll(‘llf of sclf-govcrtting institutions and the lt::ri\:1Yl<-ll 51-111111 of llritislt lztw. .-\ people who spcztlt :1 diffctcztt totrzgnc from ours has grown up with us and rtttnittcll :1 lrtrgc measure of pros- purity uithuttt <' rifice of individttzllity, owing this to the Ill1‘€ L‘l>lll"."t‘.‘il~ll, lt is r11l-:l1l\\l1it"l1 they rcco" it 111d tire ]tl'('[|;ll'(‘1l to discharge. In South A11 tltcrc is :1 szmilrtr situzttiott with the Dtttclt-spcnlting llocrs living in harmony, but not alwilys in rtjgt-vctitcttt, with their English- sjicakitig cptnpntriuts. 'l‘hc_v too, are it1 large mea- sure contrihtttfug to the 011111111111 cttusc. New Zcztlntttl mid .~\1t>tr.'1lit1 and India are already in the thick of the fight.

“In short, the nations of the British Empire bnvc sct an example for all the world to scla. \\'hntcvcr thtir intcrnrtl disztgrcctttcttts may be. and ltowcvcr ntuch rimlry has been displayed in their external dealings, they have held fast to a common conception of civilized living, and have moyed wtih one accord to resist any threat to their common ideals These are things which should be kept lwfore the eyes of the children throttghotlt the Empire. And while it is right and natural that we should celebrate St. George's Day in recognition of the valiant bearing of the people of Etiqlanrl in their time of crisis, that is nn iustificntimt fur nlllwvinq the celebration of Empire Dzrv m lapse. It is perl-laps the most important of all our national festivals, and it was never so important as it is today."

IlClltIIllIiC 111.'1rl\11 fv-r 11111" pmducts.

Overseas Doctors To Britain

In view of the increasing demands on the scr- vices of doctors for war purposes in Britain. two Orders have been nmde, under the powers of the Defence Itcgulatiotts, authorizing the General Medical Council to include oversea doctors tem- porarily in the Medical Register under certain conditions. The first Order applies to doctors qualified to practise in Canada or the United

States of America. 'I‘l1cy must bc of British na-,

tionality or United States citizens. There are no specific conditions as to employment, but the ob- ject of the Ortlcr is to facilitate their employ- mcnt in the Emergency Ilcdical Service. The second Order applies to doctors qualified to practise in any part of the llritislt Etnpire or in the cottntrics of our littmpcztn Allies, or in Ger- many or ltnly. One of thc cottditions of registra- tion is that the doctor nulst be selected either for a ntcdical conunission in one of the fighting Forces or for ctl1pf11_\‘ttt<’tlt in a hospital, in- stitution, or scrvicc. not involving" attendance in the palicr1t’s own Itomc, approved by the Min- ister of Health (or i11 Scotland or Northern Ire- land the appropriate Secretary of State). The main objects of this Order are (I) to facilitate the entploytiicnt of tncllicnl officers in the allied Forces it1 the Vnitcd Iiiugllom by giving them the privileges of rcgistcrcd ntcdical practitioners, and (2) to facilitate the cutploytncnt of Dom- inion and foreign doctors in civil hospitals by giving them the stunc privilvgcs-

Less—C0slly In The End

There is some comfort in the reflection that,

THE QIIARLOTTEIQYVN QQARDIAN

with the prospect of great relief when victory has been \von, than that the war should be lost for lack of effort and that extremely costly national defence should have to be maintained for long yctlrs in the future. We pay the present heavy taxes for insurance against that worse fate which would inlpoverish the tax-payers and the country for a long pecriod. lt is well that recognition of this fact is being shown.

The Toronto 'l‘clcgra1n, for instance, is quite to the point when it says: “Americans and Can- adians should understand that by paying for a full out war effort to beat Hitler now their fu- ture taxes and those of their children may get back to normal. If Nazi tnilitarislti is not crushed now there is nothing ahead of this continent ex- cept an endless arms race against an armed Europe with taxes going higher and higher.

"From a purely dollar and cents standpoint it is common sense for the North American na- tions to go the limit now."

We must fight to defeat Hitlerism, in the first place because we cannot endure the thought of a world under Nazi domination. At the same time, we shall get a good return for the enorm- ous war expenditure in the security and great reduction in defence costs in the new, democratic world order.

-. EDITORIAL NOTES -

\\'e have now reasonable prospects for a good

fishing holiday tomorrow week. U U I

This day week will be equivalent to Saturday, owing to Victoria, or Empire Day, being cele- brated on the 24:11. Merchants and customers will have to govern themselves accordingly.

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According to Hzmsard, the voice of a mem- ber for Queens has at length been heard in the House as follows: “Hon Cyrus Macmillan (Queens) ntoved the second reading of Bill N0. 42 for the relief of Hubert Earl Roberts.

“Some hon ntcmbers: Opposed.

(After some discussion).

“Motion stands."

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Charles Chubb, English locksmith, died this date, I845. He made improvements on detector locks patented by his brother Jeremiah Chubb. and invented burglar and fireproof safes, whi¢h wttlt some improvctncnts by his son john, are still the lczltlittg sccttrity for trnlttablcs in use at the present time.

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This how the Civil Service grows. Total per- tnzlttent and temporztryr Dominion civil service employees were 45.776 on july 31, 1930, 41,449 011 August 3t, 1935, 48,533 on September 3o, 1939 and 571333 0n September 3o, r940. The average ntottthly salary 11x15 $126.56 irl I930, 6125.75 1n 1935, $126.64 in 1939 and $117.67 in 1940.

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A sixpcnny booklet just published by George Philip and Son, Ltd, Lo11d011_ contains minia- ture portraits of British, Dominion and allied \\'.'1r lcttzlcrs, slntcsntctt, naval and nlilitzlry and air chiefs. 21s wcll as of 21 ntunhcr of tnctt and wo- men engaged in civil tlcfcltce, Red Cross and other activities, with a “pom-ti" biography 0f each. .-\ timely “What's \\'ho" i11 mittittturc, this attractive PLIIJIICIIIIUII should supply a popular demand ill Clllliltlll as wcll as in the Old Cotmtry.

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U.S.A. is becoming Anglo-minded in more senses than one. More than 50 pcr cent more mon- oclcs have been sold in this country since the outbreak of the war than before, it was reported j recently in the optical trade. Paul Gravatte of the Community Opticians Association attributed the upswing to the migration of foreigners to these shores. "Most ntonocle sales made by optlclans throughout the country are to refu- gees,” he declared. However, he added, opticians have also discovered that some Americans, es- pecially on the \Vcst Coast, are wearing mon- oclcs, “which tnay ntcan that a tnouocle fad is starting, inspired by the refugees."

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Men from all walks of life and of all creeds and races have endorsed New York City's “I am an American Dav" celebration on Central Park hlall hlay 18, Mayor LaGuardia announ- ces. Bishop Thomas Molloy of Brooklyn, accept- ing an invitation to serve on the executive com- mittee. said: "At no time has it been so fitting to realize the precious privileges of freedom,

NOTES BY TNE WAY

St. Thomas city mu declared war on I-Ihlllp alto loving dogs. ‘lllt: L-lilta-uuullltil cl mat. any calls ut- LeIII/Avn to Lllr: cat. militant: a.- he‘- Tue cultures are nara en lawns all- flower Lfitafi, n. 1s true; me cats Kill me ulrus, wlltch ls melt natule, nu. i1. l» alamelul. — 5i. Cam-mine. olnndara.

Pie. for breakfast? BUv—WI‘I,) not: A la.“ ZIlh-l well- known hotel in Vermont has ue- lleo conventions ano as a result. of pelslstent QEmiiJJlia from its pauuns now IlbLS apple pie on its breakfast mellu. We cunt know ulntly l-osts vlews on the subject, but. we ste no particular felt-m wny a person wno, likes pie for breaklast should not nave lt-es- pectally as nealth aucholulles state that me best tme to eat, pie is in the morning. -- Kliclltllél‘ necoru.

Horrors!

The ll-IIOIIIODIIQ ls a wonderful conveltenue. 1|. has mane for a. wider. and perhaps a fuller I118, nut. it will not. be making fer greater length of days 1f it. entirely elimzn- ates me habit. of walking. Ana a reasonable measure of walking ls not. a matter o1 health; it. ls e..~..:n- tlal to the full appreciation of scenic beauty. The rate at WhlCIl the human eye can assmllate beauty Ls the walking and not the machine rate. He is a w.s¢ atltolst that. sometimes uses nls macnlne as a means of taking nlm to the place where he can efljuy a pleasant walk. —Guelplt Mercury.

This popular form of refreshment (the sundae) was orlgalated in Wis- consin absut sixty years ago. A boy in an ice cream parlor asked to have some chocolate syrup pour- ed on ILiS dish of ice cream. His example was quickly followed. But the addition of the syrup increas- ed the cost. and decreased the prof- it. on ice cream. This led a confec- ttaner to annsunce that he would sell the new dish for a nickel only on Sundays. The confectcner later gave this Sunday specialty the name "Sundae", and applied it to ice cream covered with any syrups, sauces. crushed fruits or the like.- Trle Pethfmder.

Nothing ls surer than the fact that Canadians are going to see this war through to its b.tter and triumphant end. They have shouldered without. hesitation a series of heavy financial burdens. This week, with the new budget, they take up an even heavier load. They have already develaped an army, navy and air force on a sub- stantial scale; and as me scale of the needs for direct manpower an- creases, so the readiness of Cana- dians to shoulder them will ap- pear also. We are only at the be- ginning of these demands. They will become larger and larger as time goes on, as successive cam- palgng develop on various ftglttittg fronts. —- Winnipeg Free Press.

German daily paper,

Marshal Gcering could legitt- 1 mutely clam to be the cousin Ofi George VI_ King of England, as

a. descendant of Henry Plantagenet.

The town of Brunswick undertook

the investigation of the descent.

of the marshal. to ntark llie cele-

bration of his 48th txrtztday, which

tosk place last. January. 1t was, dtcovcrcd that. Goerlng was a.‘ descendant of Henri le LIOH, Duke} of Bavaria and Saxony lll the

twelfth century. If that is true,

according to the Lexicon Meyer. (the German equivalent of the? Encyclopedia EYllJflFlCEU, (jOflZllg

must be the direct (IGLCCTICIQIIL of

Duke Albert II of Brunswick who

died in 1318. The lat-tor was a

grandson of William, one of the

tltree sms of Henri le Lon and

of Princess Mathilde. 111s second

uufe. and daughter of Henry II of

England. This woucl perhaps; justify Hitlerls satellite in re- placing George VI on the throne of Great Britain if the Nnzt in- vasion should succeed. - Front Le Canada.

Perhaps there are no otlltl" people in Canada who can appre-l ciate and enjoy the beauty of spring more than the rural mall courier. For the past manths he has faced daily sleet and snow, wind and cold. mud 11nd drifts; a-ppreclaltng to the limit the fine days when it. was a pleasure to

prehenslon and wonderment as to what the morrow would bring. Spring is here, and, knowing that the fine Summer days are ahead, we need not worry about the morrow, but can enjoy the beautiful Springtime tc the full. Many, if not. the majority, of routes include byways that are a picture of desolation ln [dig bleak Wlntertllne. but new as we pass along the same way we can listen to the songs of the birds. -— Rural

equality and security in our American demo- cracy." Thomas Mann, German novelist, bailed- democracy as "the only form of government compatible with the dignity of human beings and favourable to peace and progress." l- a a 1r

Under the 1941 Government program farm- ers are to be paid $4 an acre for wheat land turned to summer fallow, and $2 per acre whete

ed wheat area for i941

acres, a reduction of 25 per cent, or 6.596.000}n1gt1t; only comedians we“ Wm“ acres, from 31¢ 27,750,000 acres 50wnw to wheat l ties. There is a tremendous revival‘

l in I940," the Bureau of Statistics says. “This re-

l dttction represents virtually an unparalleled in-- dividual effort on the part of farmers to ad- just their production in light of the existing wheat situation, the nearest approach being the 2o per cent. reduction in wheat acreage effected by United States growers in the autumn of I938 and spring of 1932.’;

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In reversal of the early New Deal policv of eliminating pigs, the Department of Agriculture at Washington announces that it was driving the price of hogs toward the $9 desired. as a result of heavy purchases for defense. It is the govern- ment's objective “to encourage a large increase

Fall of r941." Since April 3, pork and lard pur- chased under the defense program totals 18f,- 000,000 pounds. During this period Chicago hog prices advanced from $7.65 to about $3-7°- It 1'5 also the declared intention of the government

of hogs marketed this Summer and next Fall."

The increased price is expected "to stimulate

Imrdcnsmttc as the new wnr taxation tnzty be, it‘ feeding hogs to hcavicr xveights this year,” thus

.1 hcttcr that it should be borne fpr a few years,

requiring more corn cottsumption.

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such land is shifted from wheat to coarse grains-TI“ 8°“

or grass. “For the Prairie Provinces the intend- I out that they have just been 1nd- amounts to 20332;)“; _ ding. You don't see a dinner jacket

in the number of sows .brcd for farrow in thel 11, l;

Mall Courier (Toronto) .

The war and Slr Kingsley Wood have certainly changed our standards of living. A publlcan in Susses was telling me the other day that bitter ls now a. Matt's drirk the ordinary man's drink being mild and bitter or just mild. Base- ment flats are now at a ptemium and perlihouses are a drug on Zhe market. Ernglish restaurant keepers owuo used to pretend to be foreigners are now careful uo pain:

l PUBLIC FORUM

Thle column le 09in III "l! dloeuulon by eorreevilllhl" ‘I quotation; or lnterelt- The Charlottetown Guardian doe: not oeceeurily enlloreo the opInIOIII of eorrelnondentn.

THE CITY REPORT

Sin-The City Report as ureter“ under the new system now in 0P- eratlon at City Hall does not. Bit/e all the detailed information which should be available to the citizen!- lt. L; just as important that item- lzed_ details should be Elven B15 ‘u’ ‘Capital Expenditures as is time l1 regard to expenditures on Civic Ac- count. For instance I was anxious to see how much who 80min!’ spent on the new "works" building on Pownal Wharf but. such in-IOYHIII-IOI! is not Riven.

I do not wish to infer that U10 total expenditure is not. 81V?" m’ pets: Dartleodf ther amgwlytnt #:1110213

X1 carr 0V9 1 < mention made in the New“ l8 ma]; "the contract price was “$700k Whatever the actual cost was doubtless included under £116 Rt}?!- al term of "Permanent Works.

The Council Lakes credit that n smaller amount was spent untifi‘ w: title of "Street Maintenance ou what do we find but the fut that all replacements and reconstruction: and repairs to worn out 84 s9‘ surfacing to the extent of $8 53- has been charlfld W 959ml 5°‘ count. This amount. also i.s included

in "Pcrtuanettt Works“ altlwuih II! I15 a yearly expenditure and should l be provided for in Current Account.

what do our Chartered Accountants lthink of such expenditures. | The Council has made much ape 3m persuade the citizens that t5 ‘flllkilcltll manatzemeflfi I135 bee" ex‘ |cellent and thpt. 1L has" been 61:"- nomlcaL-that economy has B" the watchword. Well here is the ' picture as gleaned from the Primed

rt: -

reToThe highest revenue 0W!‘ ID bl

collected. , 2. A deficit on the veer! Wm- “lmllév Debentures issued for at

. 0.00. ieiitoiigelriliigft Royal Bunk °f 59"‘ ada. Civic Account, December 31st, . 1.

lggmbioitiiifiaiimatlon as ID Dflfl! at vrhlch Debentures were sold nor as to interest rate. Si tc

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How Old Is Ann?

(Globe and Mall)

Mcses numbered the children of 151-110’ in the fifteenth century. B- C. lllacKenzie Kim: 1S 8° i" numlber not onlv the children i? Canada but the binis and bees; and flowers es well. On June. seventeen thcttsnnd census enumera- m s, presumably all e001 l-llbeTal-s- will sally forth with armfuls 0f nine different kinds of forms f0?

The Hamburger Tagehlalt, a jme decennial stocktaking of the recently "Wc-wnscisn people. designed w 511°“ ported, with much solemnitit, tltatt p” the widest angle the point

tint; 112s been reached in the Em‘ errll progress of the nation The cen- sus has been called "vhfi IHYBBSI single act of a/timctistratlon of the Government." This perflflllfl-Y ¢°“nl' 1m m heads ls u» cost nearv $11-- 013000.

Now the ideaqof taking a 6615115» crnerallv snea-kturr is n c0011 c1161 \Vi(h(y11t ‘t accordinl: to the pun- dits. liezlsl-sl-icn and administra- tion w-nttld be carried on in the dork and there would be no mean-s OI knowinc urhtuher the country was on the road to success or disaster But we tvctider what: the farmers ..,.. 9.1.72 1;; sgv when the enunien- tor 7:"‘.se!\l6 them will 8- lofm owntcltfnit 167 flumilmls which would fill a whole Daze in this newspaper. ,

The farmers have been to d. and rl-zlttia". that the-v muil 197ml!“- tlnt they are cur second lire Ol cinfettse. etc. 'I'bcv mud mohllflii

prodlll-Cl-IOH to feed the flehflnc forces and the people 0f Bill-ll" 'I'h1=_v have been bttsv DIOWI"! and sewing ever since thev could Re‘ on 114i. 'I'l1ev will nrobablwbe busy cn June 2. Are they to sop yvork al‘ over Caztad-l to answer elzht- score questions and fill out 8 10m that. might well baffle a Chfififlled accountant? Unless thev have ke f. minute records they are 801118 ° get a headache.

To the iavmwn- the form to b“ filled out. by t-h~ farmers APWBE

be out, but always with that. ap- I to have been hatched at a confer-

ence of statisticians who burned the midnight oil all w'nter it sugg- esfs 1t conspiracv of nltwlttery- Tl-tere are the custormarv qlleallm“ about farm pcptuatlon. acreage. values. machinery. mortsrses 61°95» production. Then follow scores 0f questions which are apt W "m" busv farmers u frivolous. For ex- ample: