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Morning Daily (Founded in 1887) Authorized as Second Class Mail. Post OM00 Department. Ottawa.

President, Ian A. Burnett; Vice-President. Wm. R. Burnett; Sonya-Trans. G. M. Burnett; Editor and Managing Director, J. it. Burnett; Associate Editor. Frank lrValker.

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

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War Histories

To veterans of World War l it will come as l! dlfuPplllfllmcrit to lccirn that the official hist- ory of_Cciiiada's participation in that conflict is to remain uncamplcterl. To date only two vol- umes have appeared. One, dealing with the medical services, was written by the late Sir Andrew brillCpllflll. The other volume comprises Volume l, General Series, Official History of World War 1, covering the period from the com- mencement of the war in August, 1914 to Sept- ember, I915, with another volume of appendices Ind maps relative to the same period.

ln reply to a quzsticn raised in Parliament the other day, Rt. Hon. Mr. Lapointe stated that no further volumes will be published, but the material collected will be made available for qualified historians and others. That, of course, is not the same thing at all. The Minister offer- cd no explanation for this decision, which is shameful to all concerned in making it.

Histories cf World War ll, on the other hand, are planned as follows: The Naval hist- ory will hove three volumes, of which two should be published during the current fiscal year and the third next year.

The Army has already published three pop- ular accounts under the heading "The Canadian Army at War" nf which No. 1 covered "The Can- adians in Britain 1939-44", No. Z from Pachino to Ortona ”The Canadian Campaign in Sicily and ltaly, I943" aricl No. 3 "Canada's Battle in Normandy." A total of 33,000 copies of these three numbers have been published and distri- buJed and they are now out of print. A re- print is now in the hands of the printer. The Canadian army historical section has in course of preparation a one-volume history of the Can- adian Army during the war which will be pub- lished during the cuiwnt fiscal year. It has also in course of preparation, a four-volume history to be published over the next four years. The final volume will contain a general account of the work of all three services and of Canada's war effort as a whole.

Two volumes of a popular narrative of the R. C. A. F. overseas have already been publish- ed. The first, ”Tha R. C. A. F. Overseas: The First Four Years" was published in 1944. 13,000 were printed, 11,500 were sold. The second, "The R. C. A. F. Overseas: The Fifth Year" was published lII i945 and 3,500 copies were sold. Tnese were published by the Oxford University Press with private backing and the proceeds went to the R. C. A. F. benevolenbfurid. The third volume completing this story is incourse of preparation and should be printed this year.

Banger In Soaring Prices

The Dominion Bureau of Statistics has on- nounced that the cost-of-living index advanced 1.5 points in the month ended May l. During the preceding month of March, the index had advanced 1.7 points, the biggest increase since 1941. At May l, the indcx, boosted by lifted subsidies and ceilings, stood at 6.1 points high- er than at the first of the current calendar year, and ll.l points above the level at May 1 a year ago. The increase since August, i939 was 32 per cent.

Most significant, from. the standpoint of the wage-earner, is the fact that the food ind-ex jumped nearly three points iii March, and more than three additional points in April. Then was an evsn larger increase in clothing prices, while costs of fuel, light, rentals and miscellane- ous items also sltowecl increases. All this is adding up to an almost prohibitive total.

The Toronto Globe and Mail has made _a comparison bctwecn prices for cighty_items in groceries, meats, fruits and vegetables in March. 1938, as compared with the prices in March, 1946, and March, i947. The list showed an in- crease in cost of 46 1-I par cent up to March 0f lost year and 56 3-4 per cent up to March, 1947. This list, however, did not contain the items of bread, buttcr and milk. Of these, bread is the only one where the price is still controlled, the removal of the subsidies on milk, and, more recently, on butter having brought about heavy increases in priccr- _

ln his budget speech on April 29th, I'll?- Hon. Douglas Abbott, Minister of Finance, point- ed out that profits before taxes were still run- ning at abnormally high levels. "Business con- fidence and available funds," he Sflld. "We 5° high that good businessmen are competing more in their efforts to expand their investment quick- ly than in getting down their costs and keeping down the prices at which they sell their products. in his opinion, it is "neither pro??? "f" 9Y9" §°°d business, to charge all the traffic will bear. At almost the some time, President Truman was

giving similar advice to ‘the Unified States Chamber of Commerce. he wrote: A pressing task of the businessman today is t0 redllfii

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prices wherever‘ possible v steadily increasing production. By careful plan- ning, by elimination of wasteful methods and practices, by expanding facilities where needed: and by increasing productivity, bllilflfliml" W" greatly help in dispelling the inflationary cloud now hanging over us."

It is surely time that a halt was called to than soaring prices. They more than offset the meagre ilcome tax reductions announced by Finance Minister Abbott, which in any case have not yet come into effect.

ln this connoction at least than is a dif- ference in the situation rn Canada and tho United States. A dispatch from Washington conveys the information that the American Senate has voted, 4i’. to 44, in favor of p ocecding at once with a bill purporting to make another slash in per- sonal incomc taxation in the United States, as from July 1, 1947.

This vote, the dispatch says, has virtually assured the passage within a few days of Con- gressional legislation for a graduated tax re- duction, ranging from 30 per cent in the low- est income tax brackets, to 10.5 per cent in the highest. This plan of tax reduction has al- ready received the approval of the House of Representatives, but in that chamber the time ss-‘r to make it effective was to be retroactive as from January 1, 1947. The Senate, by post- poning the operation of the bill by six months, indicates that the upper chamber is either more prudential, or less concerned over electoral re- action, than the House of Representatives. ln any case this reduction will bring the whole American income tax structure distinctly lower than that established in Canada by the Abbott budget.

.1- tDiiURlAL NUHIS s:

"U" Day this date INA-Hie beginning of the ending of Great War ll.

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Summer is "a-cummen in" and with it the casualties from careless swimming, boating and driving. lt is tritc to say but vital to remem- ber, "Safety First."

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Alexander Sergeievich Piishkin, famous Russian poet and novelist, born this date I799: was killed in a duel in Petrograd in 1837; he wrote excellent lyrics, being greatly influenced by Byron: "But l, in love, was mute and still."

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Judging by the attitude of Justice Minister llsley, when it comes to "sharing the expense", the Federal Government is opposed to central- ization; it is only when it is a case of "sharing the wealth" that it becomes aggressively active.

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Scouts everywhere will welcome the news that Canada will be represented at the forth- coming Jamboree in France. The shortage of shipping space was expected to prevent our sending a contingent, but it is now announced that 35 Boy Scouts, including one from this Province, will cross the Atlantic in August in Canada's aircraft carrier H. M. C. S. Warrior.

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John Bracken advocates a long-range pro- gram of decentralization of industry in Canada, and the establishment of secondary industries in the Maritimes. Although he did not say so, such a move would bring prosperity to this Province, allow the worker to live more spacious- ly than in a big city and, incidentally, would be sound from the point of view of military stra- tegy.

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Coinciding with the opening of the fifth national foreign trade conference of the Can- adian Chamber of Commerce at Vancouver, the Vancouver Daily Province has produced a com- prchensive ,§Q_page edition, featuring British

The issue is ex- illirstrated, and

Columbia industrial activities. ceptiorially well edited and mokes a valuable souvenir.

A woman in the home is doing one of the most difficult and necessary iobs in the world in the opinion of the president of the House- wives’ Progressive Association. She suggests that the. term, "home trainee", should be used for young girls just beginning a domestic career and home associates for more experienced work- crs. Older wom-en might be called "home aids."

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Reminiscent of our experiment at French- fort in by-gone days. A South Australian syn- dicate has been granted a lease of 394 square miles in Central Australia, near Alice Springs, to develop an Australian Persian lamb industry. An expert on Persian lamb breeding, Dr. P. H. E. l-lecker is being sent from London to assist in establishing the industry. The syndicate is negotiating for the purchase of Persian or Karakul flocks from Persia and Africa.

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The seventh anniversary of the first land- ing of on organized Canadian force on Euro- pean soil in World War ll will be quietly ob- served next week but it will not b-c marred by the profound gloom and stunned hopelessness of those dark, early days of the war. Early in Jone, 1940, when France was in a bad way and there appeared little to do but wait for the end, tho 1st Canadian infantry Division, then station- cd in the Northampton area, was hurriedly re- turned to its former billets at Aldershot in pre- paration for a hopeless crack at the enemy. On 8th June it was visited by Their Moiesties the King and Queen, and by evening of the next day advanced elements of the Division had moved out of Aldershot bound lor Falmouth and lily- mouth.

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The Federal Government have decided to pay $300,000 for a residence for our Ambassador at Washington. The property is described as the Davidge House, a residence facing Wash- ington's Rock Creek Park, which was built 10 or 15 years ago and whic_h architects estimate would cost some $350,000 to build ot this time. Mr. Pearson, deputy Minister of External Af- fairs, explained that the Ambassador, Hume Wrong, now was living in a residence renting ror $9,000 a year which would have to be vacat- ed in July. In a year of searching, the Govern- ment had been able to find no other property which could serve as~ an embassy. Both Mr. Pearson and Mr. St. Laurent felt Canodoshould be represented in Washington on o ”pretty im- pressive scale" and said tlrc proposed residence Jrad "dignity" without being "extravagant."

THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN 4:

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liven" rur. on our birthday, we are delightfully flllrpriggd u; m- cerve l. C1111 from a friend-in the community who has no logical res.- sarr for remembering the o ' Fcr‘ a long time. we rhoutzlit he had Just learned the date by rlrrmve. and happened to remem- bcl‘ 11-" Then we found that. he does the some thing with scores of acquaintances. It seems he keeps 9- 79C010. Which h! consults every day- On few of bheni does he not make at least one call of congratu- lation and good wishes. Even now. when we know the secret of the accounting sytem. we set a glow from that annual call. It is such gli-‘Ffilld. friendly idea. -Windsoi'

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A new true of airport lighting, tested at Cleveland, promise; to take airlines another step toward all-weather flying. says The Wail Street Journal. The light is pro- "ldmi by Westinghouse’: krypton lamps. These la-mps, throwing out the most. powerful artificial light knowxv are able to pierce tho thickest fog. heaviest snow. or wettest rain. Tliey can penetrate "zero-zero" fog for at least a. thou- sand feet upward. One of these lamps. only four inches long. is u quartz tube filled with krypton, one of nature's rarest gases. When a surge of electirtcity heats this gas to tncandescence the lamp flashes With a brilliance of a million can- dlenqivrr per Square ‘mch. Com- binations nf reflectors and lenses are userl to magnify the flash of one of these lamps to three and l. half billion candlepower. That's equal to 50 million 60-\\'8_liZ Incan- descent bulbs of the household variety.

Lady Alexander has bold a To- ronto audience that her famous husband. tho Governor General, reads the cc-mlcs —- those vignette; from real and unreal life which decorate the North American press. His Excellency. in this respect, be- longs to a very large and mixed company. The comics have indeed a nation-wide audience. Parents read them to make sure Llrey are fit for children. Children read them for obscure reasons of their own. perhaps to make sure they l" fit for oer-mu. Editors scan them to find-what makes "reader appeal." Philosopher's study them to discover social trends. We feel, therefore, that Lady Alexander's comment on her husband's reading of the comics —“all men are child- rr-n after all"-falls short of a. com- pleie explanation. It may be mere- l_\' His Excellenrys form of escap- lsrri. but, it could well be part of his serious study of llfP on Iihlc fantastic continent. -- Toronto Globe and Mail.

We may he mistaken but: we ven- ture n. predict that in course of time (especially if male candidates for" the ministry continue to ae- cllne) women ministers will he- rome relatively common, even In some of the churches which still deny them admittance. And per- liaps the churches will gain rather than lose from their ordination. something to which the sex would seem to be entitled In view of its conscientious devotion to church svork. If women can ml” most of the money for that. ivork 5nd fill most of tlre pews at church services. they ought. to have a. share in the active ministry of the church. —-Brackville Recorder and Times.

Irruppose every garden-minded person is familiar iviih the com- mon bleeding-heart. so familiar ls i-t, rrnrl so accustomed are we tn thinking of it as an old-fashioned flower and a choice favorite of our mrandmothers that it comes as rather a shock to ‘learn that it has not always been available to American and European gardeners. Yet. as garden plants so. ‘rt is a comparative newcomer. something of an upstart when alongside such "Bl Oldllmfifs u tulips. lilacs, daf- llllllls- Dnonies and pinks. This year niarks this centenary of the bleeding-heart's first flowering in a. Western garden. In 1847 it plant brought from China, the previous .\'r~ar- by one of the most famous nf n1] plant collectors. Robert For. tune. bloomed in ille gardens of the Horticultural Society of Lon- don_ ‘England. Mr. Fortune obtain- ed his plant from a garden on the island of Clrusan. off the China. coast. where, he says. it. crew "a. incng nrII-flr-ial rock-s near the beautiful Weigctri roses." He fur- ther tells us that. “it 1,5 one of those plants of which the Chinese mandarin: in the north of China, are so fond. and which they cut-v tivatc with so much pride ln their llllle fairy gardensfl- New York Herald Trihunr», i‘

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Alfred P. Cale of ‘Fitehburg, Mass. thinks there ought to be an easier" way of petting in and out. rrf R bathtub. so he's invented rr tub with a door in the side. the Kansas City Star comments. Cate describes his hinged fixture as a slip-proof aid to "the aged, the crippled and the young" as well as a boom to persons of all ages who are just. plain lazy. The can invention would seem Io have its points. Only if it's Intended ‘to revolutionize bathtub design. It doesn't go nearly far enough. It strikes us that. the standard model tub might well be Improved Ln lots of ways, from the uncles of both utility and greater comfort while lolllng in the water. Thus we would like to lee Mr. Obie and the other bathtub-conscious tn- ventors turn out l tub with a downy-soft. built-in headrest. a readlnz rack with lamp attached, a wall button making It. unnecessary to reach for tho trot water tap while submerged, and an automatic back-washer. An attached accessory

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PUBLIC FORUM

‘flail column in open to the rliaonnlon by corra- npoaderm of questions oi Interact. Th C Iottetown Gym-dim don not aoooaaar- lly endorse tho opinion of correspondents

>~ APPEAL COURT

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Str—Once more the urgent. need for a proper Court o! Appeal for this Province has come up as a. result of the recent. appeal of J. W. Windsor Company against the City of Charlottetown upon a tax assessment ease. According to the report in your columns and as appears by the record the appeal In that. case was dismissed with one Judge expressing an opinion in favor of each party.

Nothing in this lett is. tn any way, intended to cos reflection upon the Judges who heard the appeal. Talented had learned men (Io not; always see eye to eye. hence the necessity for an un- even number of Judges so that. the majority may decide. But: the point: to be noticed in this appeal as well as tn many others that. come before our Appeal Court ts that. the parties. after going to all the trouble of preparing and contesting the appeal and incur- ring Supreme Court costs. which are much too high to be incurred without. result. are tn exactly the same position as they were before the appeal. _

The highly unsatisfactory posit- lon with respect to our Appeal Court: ts the more forcefully brought home when it ls realized that. had the cleelston of the Tax Appeal Board been against the city and had the City appealed. the appeal would. likewise. have been lost on the equal division. It looks as if the appellant. 80¢! i0 but. with two strikes already call- ed upon him.

Surely the position ts. at least. deplorable and one that calls for relief at the earliest possible date. The Government. and the Legis- lature owe a duty to the people of the Province In this matter and should no longer continue to shirk It.

I am. Sir. etc. FOR A SQUARE DEAL. Charlottetown. Juno B. 1847.

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NEW LONDON LOCALXTIES

Ar. population increased and the land arcund New London Hav be- came settled. different loi-zililics were given different. mmrrs b)’ which they are known at thr l“?- Bent iiune.

Cavendish was given its laTe by (Faptain William Winter in the Sear‘ 1772. in honour of Field Marshall Lord Cavendish, a. noted ml ‘rtary man of that time. Captain Winter" was props-lets:- qt Lot 23 at inat- time, and heltved on the norlhttn end of tho Lot. ivltb his family for a number of years. A locality in Rustioo by tihe name of Winter Covg commemorates the name of this gentleman.

Bay View no doubt was named on account of its position on. New London Bay rmd the good vlr-w that may be obtained of that ‘say from this locality. y -

Hcpe River is an old name. It was given to that amt of the New Lan- don Bay by Capt. Holland tn 1785 in honour cf Brigadier Hope. ri Cov- crnor of Quebec from 1785 to 1789.

Anderson's Crock gets it; rizrnre from tbs fact that. a toward Scotchman settled there earlv tn tho last century. Scme of his descend- ants are living there at. the present ilme. _ Stanley comes to us from bile original name of the south-eastern branch of the Grenville or New Inndon Bay. The ozlginal name of that branch was the Stanley River and that. name was given tt. by Holland In 1785 tn honour of one Sir Hans Stanley, a Lord of the Admiralty in those days. Thi5 ni-m of the bay is now known as Mll River. when. liow or why the or- iginal name was dropped and iillS one came into general use. 'l\'3 do not. know. However. the name Ins not been entirely; lost. ft. ts preserv- ed tn Stanley village and Stanley Bridge. The latter was built in the year 18M. Previous to that time there was a ferry where the br age ls now and it wrs known as Ffes Fcrrygso named from William Fi'e_ n lowfand Scotihman who st='l"‘cl ‘by the water side them in time year 1820.-

Fountatn Broad got. its name froI the presence of a large spring of water that. is found on the right hand side of that. rcarl. The w tor from the spring runs to riti- norih and empties into MclntyreKs Crw-k and throrghl it into the South West, River. ’I1'ro first caimral the‘ was ever ground around Noiv Lorvon was ground by watt-r that fowd from lhLs spring.

Wlgmrrre Road commemorates the name of Robert Wigmorr, n native .rl' Ireland uho sttlrd In that vicinity in the year 1821.

Graham's Road war named after William Graham. a Secret-man, ah came to this part: of the lslan