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this plain he could see from his father's house.

More than 700 years after his death the young man about town who gaveup ease and riches to serve lepers and the poor is one of the best

' Marlin] Dill) (Founded In 18W)

President: ueut. Col. W. Chester S. Malian Viol-President: J. K Burnett. IJJ.

Secretary: Llent. 0on0. A. Maolflnnorh "~54!- ldllor end Ms Director: J. IL Burnett. IJJ lloeute Editors: frank Walker and Llent. Inn a

Burnett, RALNJLR. (On Active dervtcsi

‘The Strongest Memory is Weaker Thus

. the Weakest Ink.’ . l‘.‘°l.“”."-_’_'{'.1¥_F- ”_‘1_ ._..__ Medical Science, In Battle

A remarkable reduction in the percentage of

beloved saints and endeared to very many out- side of his own communion. llis Fr rs of. Ord- ers Gray continue worthily" his work. The brder of Poor Clares still halloivs the name of its founder, the noble lady who gave up wealth, in- spired by the example of St. Francis.

The fifteenth-century churches full of the treasures of revived art are the most interesting monuments of the city. One may see the garden where the briars he rode among brought forth roses, the garden of San Damiano, where he wrote "The Canticle of the Sun." The only fault of Rome is the excess of sights. Assisi is more easily surveyed.

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~1- Qis not soldiers ln France have! else been advised to help the Womeni with the housework. And the ap-l Proving glances from Marie and q Madelon will repay them for all‘

that KP. training they got back, home-Windsor Star, ~——- CONFEDERATION HISTORY A rnllkman, inducted into the '

army, wrote back home from. sin-In the Canadian Woman's camp? "B95816. I sum do like this Magazine. "Chatelaine", for July. army life. It's nicetolie abed every 1944, there is an article entitled

5.30." - Montreal "Cradled in the Waves" by Misti

morning until Gazette. Adele White, Assistant Editor. A The illshtlcss dado bird of Mauri-

_ quotation marks is given as in- .lis Island, near Madagascar, he-

formation which l save Jo Miss

came etinct before 1700 A.D..'1ess white. It contains at least seven than a century after its discovery, errors. I wish to state that the because three or four of the birds errors were not made by me. Fol-

fumished a meal for s whole ship's lowing are some of the errors and

section of the writeup placed in

deaths from wounds was effected by the Allied Ariny medical services (luring the early North

African ("antpaigtls and later in the operations in Sicily and Italy, and the experience gained there-is being iipplicd with even more notable

results on the (hcrbonrg peninsula. ,

Tlicsc arc exceedingly heartening facts both for the fighting forces and for their relatives back bomc. llut cvcn more imporiaiit they rc- fleet great credit on the zirmv medical scrv at the front and on the c1‘ IiYClCSS search ivorkcrs in the .\'llicil Ciliiillflfi

C)“; Qportimt dcvclopmcut in army medical ,

progress in this uar is the iprovciiiciit in air evacuation oi the >lt‘l\' and uuiindcd. l: is no: new with the prcsunt \‘\‘.'l'l', lli)\\'(‘\'Cl', for, accord- ing to a government llllliliCllllilll reviewing recent achicveincuzs in the trcatiiicui of si"l' and wounded troops, 1111' " "1 rciil attempts were made irrthe Slllillldl civil \\:1r when the tier- mans used Condor niticliiiics to fly casualties from Spain over the l’_vre11crs and thcu high over the .-\lps to ticrziiaiiy". The high flying (lid not prove injurious to those being evacuated from Spain.

Then in this p.111" the Allied forces. during the North .\f1 icau cnuu uscd returning transport plziucs to lilbC winnulcd to stations for neccssarv "1lL‘fllilll\i"' iiratuicnt. The current issue of "kélllflllll at ‘i'.'ir“ comments: "The aero-uiedical lspufl has a two-ivziy" shuttle importance. lfi si, comes the transport 0f the sick and wounded front bzitile areas to rear cas- ualty clearing stations. and later from these sta- tions to \\'L'll-(‘l|\\lj)l)L‘il liri~jiizzils in the interior. Secondly, is lllc transport 1o active theatres of medical supplies, equipment and personnel."

Highbv valuable zumy medical research is being conducted at homo. There is the vital question of the effrcls of air transport on vari- ous types of wounds" and injuries and the eficczs of drug's at high altitudes. Patients who have been flown from czi-icru Canada to the Neuro- logical Institute at Moutvcal, the (Fazette cites, have been studied for adverse effects. Experi- ments in llCy"'lll]il‘C5 on or ziltiiudc chambers have also been conduc 'l. l‘r:iciically' all types of sick and ivoundcrl, the review says. seem to withstand transport by air excepting those with alvdominal wounds. lhiriug the African campaign tho-r suffering from bcad, chest and face in- juries an-l >\'\'\'l'€ burns were found to be thc better zidrtpicd to air ciacuzition.

.\n cmincui jiliilosojihci‘ of FTZHICC remarked \\'ll(‘ll- the (icrmzuis bcvan their war on his coun» try t>\'<’I‘..~'C\'t'll1_\' _vra:< ago: “Now we will see what s1 -1icc can do uiih a rifle on its shoulder." Science has in the jllhl quarter century devised diabolical instrumciiis of torture and destruction, fiendish weapons for use in warfare. but it has also worked marvels in the cure of casualties. in ihc ll'lt“\'ir".ll11ll of suffering, which should he of momciitiiiis import in the days of PCZlCC to come.

Hitler's Manpower Silmc couimviitfitoi". rcczilliug that llitlci" still has some goo div sious of combat troops.

wonder why he l>ll't using more of‘ them againstl

the _\lll('s on ibt- Nnriiizniilv bridqchczttl. 'l'hcj Allies, judging‘ from iiic bc-t i'1f»ir11i:1tiiii1 at‘ hand, l1.'tvc11't in 111- firm l"'l\\'t‘(‘ll 2o and J5 div- isions in France.

The ziusivcr. clciu" '. is that llitlcr can't use all his divisions in Nu1':ii:i‘idr, or cvcn a good fraction of tluzn, for thc l"-l~"lll that his forces arc strung out all ovvr liur-ipc. llc still has lhc bulk of his ' ‘illivi in Russia. lie has armies in Italy‘, armie. in Yugoslavia, :11‘mics in Greece: millions of other lflulps stretched out from the

northeriiiuost tip n: ..t_v to the southern- most coast of l"r I‘

llitlcr can't 11.11/11 those armies; not safcl_v. llc is iaccd w ll :1 fresh mighty drive by the llu-wi 1v; bc has llls lvmls full in Yugo- slavia; bo i; l ~ mauled i l ly: he docs not knmv at \\'i"l‘. l1"! ' or ivluit t tbc .\llics will strike all the \~::;_\ from .\'o ._v to Marseilles.

'l'hat being tlic paisnimi, the idea of a gigan- tic (ieruian counicr~offe11sive against the Nor- mandy bridgehead may turn out to be all wrong. It may well b1‘ ilrn as that bridgcbcarl is enlarg- ed, with tbc .\ll:'i-s shoal g that this is to be their main invasion move, llitler will bring up increasingly large forces, lcave his other fronts in the ivest thinned out. liven then. the meas- ure 0f what he can do will dcpcurl upon the tide that 1'0ll5'(l11\\‘fl itpmi him from Russia.

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lri Uinbria the Allied troops are occupying the country of the most ancient race in Italy, says The New York Times. The Lfiribrians, ap- parently tlic first settlers on the coast of the Adriatic and in the valley of th"e Po, were gradu- ally pushed out by the litrurians. The Cnihrian plain, rich in lllPIUlfHY and vineyard, niulberries and maize and \vl1i'.'1i. with its old olivc trees. its oaks, and hcrc and there poplar and cypress, its gin-dens and orchards, its hills crowned with famous cities, has as much beauty, perhaps, as can be sccn cvcn in Italy. Our men who reach- ed Pcrugia the other flay are now in its neigh- bor, Assisi. (in their way they crossed ‘a Rom- an bridge over tbc 'l'ibcr.

Tu the city lllt‘ pfirliffl of a temple of Min- erva with slX Ci-rinihiziu coluines greets them on a public squarv. .\ rcimiviicd Latin poet, Pro-

" EDlIURlAL nuirs -

Quebec founded this date 1508 by the French traveller, Samuel Champlain. The French fleet saved from the Nazis this date 1940. '

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Now wc are nearing the “dog days", Parlia- mentarhtns are longing for the cud of a session :he_v themselves have prolonged.

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General .\lac.\'aughton who has been de- servedly llfiilllfilCtl and provided with adcijuziti‘ pcusion rights, has had his leave of absence cx» fended for three months from this week.

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According to Finance Minister llsle_v, the trend of personal incomes is still upward, and, despite taxation, tbocxccss of personal ilisjitis- able income over the cost of uccessary- waiitiiiic living standards is greater than ever before.

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The Chief Justice in ihroiving tipeii the hear»

lug of the recent rape case actcd in the best i11~ tercsts not Onlyzof law and justice, but 0f demo- lcratic jirinciples and practice. 'l'hcre is too great a tendency these days to deal with matters of ‘public interest behind closed doors, thereby e11- dzuigcriug that saun- public interest. i‘ i i‘ ll‘

Three ministers in Premier lvaiioe Bon- oinis new Italian tiovernment have declined to swear an.0ath of allegiance to Prince llumbert as “Lieutenant l_i<‘1lL‘l‘1ll of the Realm." The tbrce arc lleucdcito Croce and Alberto Ciaiica. ministers without portfolio. and .\tl111ll'E1l Raf-

faele de Courteu, Navy Minister. >l< i‘ 1R i

Mrs. (iladys Moorewootl. SlSl(‘t' of Richard Llcyvcllvn. author of "llow tjrcen \\'as My \'al- ley" has been killed by a German rocket bomb which struck her homc in southern England. llcr brother, a captain in the British Army, is stationed in ltaly. The dispatch said Mrs. Aloorewood, her stepmother and two nieces were killed by the jirojcctile.

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At least 500,000 yards of cloth have been saved during the last year as a result of the salvaging 0f outinodcd wardrobes by Lianadizni ivomcii, Miss Kate Aiikcn, supervisor of the Prices Board Consumer llranclvs Clothing Con- servation Program, says in her annual report. In the past 12 months, 98.471 garments have been remade by 25.403 ivouicn who registered for instruction at the lJl'ZlllCll'$ 1S3 remake cen- tres.

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There were three West Kent School chums, inscparables. They joined the Scouts together; ithcy joined the P. l".. l. Highlanders iii jirc-ivar ldays together; they volunteered for overseas io- gethcr; they' were wounded in war separately, one in Sicily, one in Italy‘, one in France. The one wounded in Sicily recovered sufficiently in time to take part in the invasion of France. and ‘distinguished himself lcziding a Cthlljlillly of tzuilcs jalml infantry" successfully against the foe. Blood 1 tells.

U F $ \ Customs duties and war exchange tax on jfllfill implements and vrczun separators are re- lniovcd under the new biulgct brought down Alondziy evening in the House of Commons. The liiiiaube Minister‘ was at pains t0 emphas- ize that this will not increase the supply‘ of such 1lll])l('1ll€‘1llS coming fri-m the L'nitcd States. be- cause they are subject 1o restricted zilloczitious.

however, amend its ordcr setting ceiling prices on imported farm implements and repair parts in stich a way as 1'1 give cffcct to any decreases

The \\'artin1e Prices and 'l'1':ide Board‘ will,’

crew-Science Digest.

ford Beacon-Herald,

World. painted by Holman Hunt.

;shows Christ in a uarden at uzid- three colonies, iind eleven visitors‘

.11:ght. In His left hand He is hslci- ing a lantczn and with His right

panelled door. lartist, “Ls the dcor to the human hearP-it can l): opened only from the insidcf-Fnirfax Downcy in LJIEEISlPI‘ Fighters.

A sensible system of educationl

girl with

brains, and keen bushing them on

in schooling as far as they are _content to go-knowing well that jsuch training can never be a loss , to the world. It is only cranks who l wi<h t0 open the top of the human ‘head and cram in a measured set of “lessousfl which may by no means fit that particular kindof a head. Education is. and must oe, a leading out of something wvitliin the individuals-Victoria Colonist.

v jivould take the bay 01'

lllarshal Petain is being sustain- ed by carefully controlled doses of ephedrine and benzedrine, which

cr and older, and being kept alive for about four hours a day by en- ergizing drugs, says The London Daily sketch. Four hours. says an informant, is Pctaiifs active dayn For after his morning's work at Vichy he sinks back into the com-

atose stabs fitting to a defeatist octogcnarian. Ilow long will the war last?

V911. from what I have been able l0 Cbsvfve, 1t will last only as lone as the grandmothers can take it. These heroic creatures are put-

is_a limit to their endurance. WithI cribs in the parlor and nursemaids,

ning short of sleep. quent changes of equipment and

not to speak of bottle-warming in the cold gray dawn isn't as arduous‘

time off to recuperate. When granny cracks. the fire will be out.. H V. OBricn in Chicago Daily’

News.

Reduction by 50 iii-cs in the Union of SCWICL Social-l is recorded in Moscow. The suit is ascribed to modem mamas, of prevention and forest manaqe-l ment. Despite the confusion cans-l ed by war conditions, great pro ' cautions have been taken to ore vent avoidable loss of timber ie-, sources by fircs. Planes patrol for-est areas and drop messages‘ in thcl nearest community when a blaze is sighted. In remote regions fire fighters and equipment are drop-

by parachute.

But did we go to war to 11love our social conditions?

im- Did

a standard of living? Is it not. more real and honest to say that we went to war so that London should not know the pollution of a Nazi victory parade; that in Manchester's Albert Square its civic leaders should no: hang from German gallows; that, the Scottish and Derbyshire moors should not

was the reality of our declaration of war, and it remains a reality today. A better world we may hope for after the war. We shall. however, still need to wcrk for it. And, more than ever,.1ve need —ai1 of us to work for it today.- Lonclon Sunday Dispatch.

News reports coming from lhc| invasion beaches tell cf an act of gallantry on the part ofya barge commander and his men.

in the laid-down cm~t to importers which will result from the anion taken. >l< -‘ >1‘ d‘

The number of chiirlrcii in Canada under 161 of age was sci at 3,409,911 by 'l'radcs, Mzickiinion in a rcturn tabled in the Commons. The total was believed to represent approximately tiic number of children in Cain‘ ada who would lie-entitled to the family allow-l zuiccs which the grow-rniiiciit jiroposcs to pay asl from _luly i, 111.15. The return mndc no rcfcr- epce, however, to the family itllowance legisla- tion. .-\ break-down of the total by provinces follows: Prince lidivard Island 30,484; Nova Scotia 179.590; New Brunswick 155,319; (Que- bec 1,135,137; (hitario 088,033; Manitoba 204,- 684; Saskatchewan 286,821; Alberta 243,547; British Columbia 187,427.

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The economic effects of the war on the Alaritime Provinces are set forth in a report by Mr. B. S. Kcirstead, formerly of the University of New lriiiiswick, now lronfinan professor of economics and political science, McGill Uni- versity, publislv-l l~_" the Institute of Public Af- fairs, Dallim l.li\‘(‘l'Slly, Halifax. Accord- ing tn Prof. l\'i1'r' id's preface, the work has as its aim tlic jirov ion of information 011 the more significant events of the war period that will assist those who bear the responsibilit_v of policy formation. In the work is included a chapter on fisheries by Mr. Stewart Hath-supra- fcssor of commerce at Dalhousic and cconoinic adviser to the Department of Fisheries. Otta- wa, as well as a section on agriculture by Mr. _], ll. Lattimer, jirofessm- of agricultural eco- nomics, -\laciloii.'1ld College. The scrvices of Mr.

pcrtius, was born in Assisi. but it is the city of 1 f" greater poet, St. Francis. This ivas his gjty,

Lattinier have recently been procured for a lll1l- ited period by our own Provincial Coy/eminent.

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landing craft on its Vlny to the‘ French shore developed a 1: in: The barge unis filling rapidly With‘ water. When it became obvious’ that it could not reach the coast the commander ordered it gutdq cd out o1‘ the lane swept clear ofl mines. He did not \vant it to beccnz: a derelict and a menccs~ to other landinzz barges fcllcriizijfl behind. 'I‘hc craft iy guided frcm the safe into the minestrewn outer wat- ers. Fortunately, when the barge sank most of its men were pick- ed up by motor launches. These are men to be prfllld o’. They have no thought of personal safety -they risk their lives rather than delay for an instant the flow of men and materials to French soiL-Winnipeiz Tribune.

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The Home Guard has acquired a large anecdotage, much of 1t obviously invented. Here is a story for the authenticity of which a correspondent vouches. In the very early days of the I...D.V. an ex-sergeant of the old school. complete with waxed moustache, roaring parade-ground voice and all, had an experience which was novel to him in spite of his long and varied military career. With an incredible effort -of (patience, self-restraint. energy, an vocal variation he had wrestled for two rather heart-breakin hours with a very raw, squad w ose sole re- deeming feature was its obvious nnxicty tn please. At the end of the parade he was standing for a moment regarding them much more in sorrow than in anger when one of their number took a pace for- ward from the ranks and. turning towards the squad, said in prec1s~ and precious tones, "Gentlemen, I should like to propose a vote of thanks to the scrgerint for his ef- forts with 11s lunlghtll‘ Nobody knows wh-s‘. the sergeants Lllflll‘ his

opens visions of rulers getting old-'

The age-cldtragedy in modern, setting: A mother abandoned her baby 011 t e_doorstep of Grace Hos-j pital, Deroit, and left with it a note - written in 1ipstick.-Strat-

The picture, The Light of the.

hand is knocking on a l‘l_9il7ll)'~,‘ "That." Salcl we; of Upper and Lower Canada"

the corrections:- I. Wrong, "Arranged a meeting with representatives from New- foundlancl, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia." j Correct: The meeting nt Char- lottetown on September the first, 185i. was called to discuss a union of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. There were lfivc delegates from each of these

gfrom Canada. Newfoundland was not represented.

II. Wrong: “The Governments

Correct: In 11364 there uLere no colonies known officially‘ as Upper and Lower Canada. They wer ,joincd as United Canada in 184i. and known officially as Canada until 1867.

III. Wrong: "For three days thev argued back and forth."

The meeting at Charlottetown continued until the evening Scptruibcr the eighth, eight days not thrcc.

at Quebec a few months later."

Correct: The meeting at Que- bcc opened on October the tenth. six weeks after the opening of the Charlottetown, meeting.

V. Wrong: "Hero are the signa- tures of the delegates."

Correct: I have not in my pos- session the signatures of the dele-

gates. Neither have I ever seen them. VI. We have the signature of

sir John A. Macdonald in our re-

gisters. Thn one which I show-

ed Miss White is as follows: Name _ John A. Macdonald. re-

sldence Ottawa, occupation, cabi- net maker, Dntc, August 9th. 1890, the your before his death

ting up’ a great bottle. but merelBetter Terms were promised in the yvar plants. they are run-, great need of a readable. and au- Making tre-‘ thcntic history of the Dominion of doing the laundry work afterward, .

as piloting a B-17, but there is nol Charlottetown, ‘June 30, i944.

per cent of forestl that

ist Republics in the last five ycarl my jlufsfs re-i mentioned l

we hope, by lavish e endit lb? “llmlg l‘ ,. the machines of death? to iifirgrolirbl “as “lulled l“ me bud"

become sites for concentration Fzilcomvocd is Just as exciting ii camps housing and torturing inc. Hvt mi " - than i n crucial hos- brflvest and most loyal? That b-lil r .cs ihc c ~ and iicvctinn

‘small benefit to the country and.