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CHARLUTTETOWII GUARDIAN

Morning Dally (Founded in I881)

President: ueut. Uol W Chester S. Mull" Vice-President: J. B. Burnett, FJ-L Secretary: Lleut. Col D. A. MacKlnnou. Ill-O. Idltor ann Managing Directoi" .l. R Burnett, FJ-L Associate Erlliins. i-‘ranii Walker and inn A. Burnett

SIIBSCIHFKION HATES By Mail in P. i. 1., 54.110 per year; 82.50 tor e month _ 81.25 for 3 motitna; 50c for one month , City Delivery. $13.00 per year; 83.011 for 6 monlfll $1.75 for 3 months By Mall in Canada and USA. 55.00 per year Saturday ilei-ny: $2.00 per year; $1.00 for n mung“, 50c fur 3 months.

The Chnrluttetunn Guardian may he obtnlned Hauling’: Auiiu Agency, ‘riruea Square, New you“ 0m Iouin have": again-y. Utlrllfll’ aliiii and ivarnlnyton. Boston; llelroDnlltun Newa Ageuiy, 11148 Peel UL, Iontroulr J Fine. 851 Buy an, Tlirulllllf Newa Slullll. Chateau LIIIIQI. Ottawa: itnln-‘s News siiunil, eniltiury, Ont; Huh ‘long’. Ihup. Monciou, N. 11., Elli-n Kobe-fling, sum"; y, g, n .7119 Strongest Memory IS Weaker Man t“ Weakest Ink."

TIIYRSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1941. Premier King Overseas

Ever siiici- l’1""'i1i-.- .\l"11i.it-i- Cliui-phillg refer- encc- to 1h. 11.. pnuiiii- Alf linplinq an Empire ivrtr c~i1i'-i1i1.= 1'11 l-‘iigiziiid feeling has been

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strong 111 l.l"'!lll 111:1: l'1"i11it- Minister Mac- ksup" ‘b111,: ~ 11.1 .1 Hill‘ 1.1. \\'llllll,‘_,'1l€SS to at- lPlll- ~11. 1 li.:< lifvqlllllllill’ adopted this ¢"l11'<1'. 1311-1. "1". i-r-i ht- siiwinglv opposed 11- 11c 1111-‘ 1ri-11. :2 111w rziie, reached England suit-Iv, zifwi" .1 1,1. llll flight from Canada 111' a glltlll 1.11 r niibcr. llr.‘ will remain in the (ll-l (hi. 1' 11" 1 c 1i-1-1-l<<, rind will today 311N111 ll 1" :11." liflllill war can‘- iiii-t. 13.11 V1 1'11 1 . 11-; bigger in the Off. i112" 1'l'1'1I1=" 1 I '-'i' iii .\'i w /<':1l:iiid has post

Ill-WWI 11'_~' hiliwl ‘i<‘ll.'ll'llll‘t‘ from England for :1 :1 11" i111» . l'1":111e Xluiister hlenzies of . ".‘--1 :13.» ' 1~d lu -be in London 511mb ~_-1':1i_i1i " ".11 iiiiiritlties have arisen in .\u~. 111:1 iifivli ll1.l_‘.' iii-cu_~<itate this plan be- ing cli:111i3i~il_ l1 i~" 1 l‘("{.'ll'llt‘(l :15 possible that Cciicriil .\_111u1~, l‘1"ciiiii"1' of South Africa, who

was n-pnrti-il :1 iiwi" d."1_\"s ziygii to be in Egypt, may flv friiiii (I :"1 1.1 l.l)ll(ll,lll. Th1 in '

. , s icates pretty rlisirfy 111.1. :1 fiill dress Imperial con- ference is poi-ding.

';\lllll't from lllv iiiiiiiiilziiice of the deliber- ations of such .1 ciiiiit-iwaiicr: on vvzir policies, it

1'5 1112111)’ 511151‘! 1111-1 dv-"irnble that Mr. King should f-iihnv 1111- example of Prime ‘Ministers 0f otlir-i" .lJ11111i11' :1~ liy making his presence feit at the lli'.'l1'l of 1h.- tliiiinitmivcalth. There are many piwilfcins which he can discuss profit- ably with .\lr. 1'11 "chill rcgziriliug Canada's co-

operation i11 liri: < war effort. lle will also be able 11"» gziiii :1 cl ‘ili't‘l‘ picture of the war sit- uation i11 _L{L‘ll(‘l'lll 1h.'1ii was possible through the medium of ll" rulnntic cztliles and telephone messages, .\lr. King nisiv even be able to come back in-piri-vl i11 gin- the kind of leadership for which the pP-ililt‘ 11f (‘zinnrla have so far been vainly ClZHllOYI-llg. (in all couuts, his visit to England nt this time is to lie commended. and

it is to be liiipiwl that vcr_v important results will follow. lle 1111s iloiii- once more what the Oppo- sition leader, .\l1~. ll:ii1~"i»n, hits been urging up

on hin1_ This may not have dictated his acticm, but at least .\lr. King seems to have risen above the suspicion he formerly entertained, that certain persons wi-re merely’ trying to get him out of the couii11'_v, to launch some nefarious scheme against him in his absence.

"Useless Examinations"

Under the above caption the Saint John Tele-

graph _l0lll‘ll.'ll says:- _ “During the present week this newspaper pub- lished the names of those who were successful in passing the recent matriculation examinations. It was a long list which covered the whole Prov- ince of New Brunswick. This second examin- ation, which is required in New Brunswick alone of the .\l:1ritime Provinces and Newfound- land, is inflicted ezich year on high school pupils who have just finished writing high school leav- ing examinations. Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland discorded this moth- eaten method of determining the fitness of stu- dents to enter college. Nova Scotia forgot all about it Over fifty years ago. In this province the official organ of the minister of education openly opposes the system, but it persevere: in spite of official frowns.

"The Cxlilélllflllfifl of the continuation of this somewhat iiicrlizicviil educational policy is that certain teachers in this province are strongly op- posed to any rcf11riii_ \\’e alivays thought that the schools of New llrunsivick were designed to educate along llllitlvfll lines and were more or less maintnincrl wiili the idea of benefiting school children. lt now sot-ms that that idea is somewhat erroneous, and that the school sys- tem of this province is supported for the glory of a few school tr-nclicis. \\'e say a few because we know that there :1i-i- :1 great many wide awake teachers who will iigri-c- with this editorial.

“In our judgment the last matriculation ex- nmination wri1i<~n in _l1ily should be really the last ever ivrilli-ii lll this province, and if the min- ister of ("lllfllllllll 1111s the courage of his con- victions lic will si-i- in it that New Brunswick gets in stride with Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Xl\\'llllllllll.'lll(l."

We concur in llli’ vit-w expressed by our Saint John contciiipiiiwiry, and ri-grct only that its in- formatioii with [Tgilftl to Prince Edward Island is erroricntis. \\'c have unfortunately no uni- formity in nur school examination methods,“anrl would hesitate tn ailvise any province to get into stride" with us in this respect.

New Fishery Industry

A new fwilurv iif lllt‘ fishery‘ industry of Can- ada, notes the current issue of "Allrlfiiltllffll and l|‘|il||$.ll'l!ll Prngrcss in Canada]; is the canning of "silversides" as ,“sard|nes by e

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The scallop fishery in the 1940-41 season in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia reported a marked increase. These two provinces supply the bull; of the Canadian scallop catch, but there are smal- ler takings in Prince Edward Island and Que- bee.

Canada's sardine industry centres off south- western New Brunswick, where the pack is made up of immature herring (Clupea harengus). In 1939, however, experiments were undertaken by a Prince Edward Island com- pany in canning silversides (Menidia notata), small silvery fish which run into the inlets and estuaries along the Island's coast in big schools. The fish were reported to make a satisfactory pack and in 1940 canning was undertaken on a somewhat more extensive scale, some 800 cases of silversides being canned. Silversides are taken in two seasons in the Island, first in January, February and March with a second run in Oct- ober, November and December. The. fish are very numerous in King's County where the cannery is located Hitherto the silversides have not been of much commercial importance. though large quantities of them have been used as food for foxes on the island's numerous fur farms. Development of the sardine-type pack indicates that a more profitable outlet may now be available.

EDIIURIAL NOTES -ii

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hour-glass.

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A 467 percent increase in Canadian I941 lob- ster sales and a 400 percent increase in LYiiited States sales are noted in the report of l\lr. l). B. Finn, Lobster Controller, which reviews efforts to develop new markets to replace loss in export business when Europe closed its doors to Cait- adian lobster two years ago.

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In I939 imports of Canadian frozen veg-t- tables into the United Kingdom, says the Com- mercial Intelligence journal, amounted to 16,485 cases, but in 1940 the figure dwindled to 705 cases and trade in this type of product, which promised interesting developments during i938 and early 1939, may be considered closed for the period of the war. 1v e n- 1i-

Had Prime Minister King been a swimmer he would have realized long ere now that it is the first plunge that counts. 'l‘hat taken the rest is easy. He: has at long last taken his first aerial flight, and now declares he is airy minded for ever and a day. \\"liat a difference it WOllld have meant had Mr. King taken the plunge 53y in 1937!

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At the annual convention of the Canadian \\'eekly Newspapers Association at Quebec this week the trophy for the weekly giving the most‘ outstanding community service was awarded ‘.0 the Advance of Liverpool, N. S. owned and

cillor Day, Charlottetown, who served his ap- prenticship with the Charlottetown Guardian. 1 l i l‘

Britain's fourth national day of prayer since the outbreak of war is announced for Stinday, September 7, and a special call has been made to remember in prayer the armies and people of Russia. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England, at the request of the King issued the “special call to remember in prayer the armies and people of Russia and their heroic resistance to the military might of Germany and new and grave anxieties which are rising in the Near and Far East."

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Lady Mary Wortley Montague, English A11- thoress, died this date 1762- Is one of the im- mortal letter writers; daughter of the Earl of Kingston, she married Edward Wortley Mont- ague, diplomat, and accompanied him on an em- bassy to Constantinople, whence her famous descriptive "Letters" were sent; painstaking in‘ her investigations into all sorts of conditions, in Constantinople she became a pioneer of in- oculation for Smallpox, and it was due to a great extent to her advocacy that British opinion in its favour was formed; she also wrote poetry: “Copiousness of words, however ranged, is el- ways false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings."

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A problem that has to be met in seeking to make the nation’: economic machine function better for war needs is the apparent clash in the aims of functions of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board and the Boards operating under the Department of Agriculture to see that the prim- ary producers get a fair break on their prices. The former has to do with maximum prices, with keeping consumer prices down while the latter is primarily interested in keeping farm prices up. The new economic setup, under the directions of the Finance Minister, will be aimed partly at getting more harmony and less clash out of that condition but how remains to be revealed.

e e it i- Although it has not been officially announced, the known movements of various persons con- cerned point to Newfoundland, with the proba- bilities favoring Placentia Bay on the south coast where the new United States naval base is situat- ed as the meeting place of President Roosevelt with Prime Minister Churchill. Other possi- bilities are Notre Dame Bay and Bonavista Bay on the east coast. All the waters mentioned are within easy flying distance of the usual landing place in Newfoundland for transocean plane-x and would give sea room for escort craft which accompanied the two parties. Newfoundland also

provides a highly convenient point between Lori- don ‘and washmgtpn. both for purposes of sum- moning high officials by air and for air courier

Jervice between the two capitals,

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Any women who redly b61118 a. woman ls conscious 0A evety artncle she ha; on, You

‘could blrnoifolrl her and sne ceulu itejll you that she was wearing the pink dunity with the inserted side pleats, the row of tlny mother-of- pearl buttons down me back, me muslin ruchmg cleverly breaking the line of the dro ped but not bent. shoulder. and t. e red velvet, ‘sash with simulated ear muffs. There would be no fuzzlness about ‘details, though there ma be a ‘mistake or two lxi the detal here mentioned, when derive fr;m an imperfect. male memory. But ask a man to tell you, without first hav- lng a look, what ls the color and pattern of the tie he is wearing. He may know the batting averages lri the major leagues, or even the names of places in Russia, but his tle Ls 011.1 that, thing around his neck wh ch he pcked _ absent- mlndedl from the rack sixty sec- onds be ore he grabbed 11B coffee-—- New Yzrk Times.

The" l; no doubt whatsoever about, the magnitude of the Navys far-flung job in this war. When all has been said, and most JUSl-ll’ said, about the necesuty of 0cm- plete co-operatlon between the three arms, who must act. admin- ister and fight like a band of bro- thers, it féfllflmg true that at t-‘M end oit lt all we live by the sea, might die by the sea, and shall win by the sea. The vital 65591166 (I $69- power was never more fully reveal- ed to all who might have doubted it than it has been during these twenty-two months of Wiir- And yet the Brltlsh Navy alone has he'd to do what five allied navles did in the last war. and to 1M6 8s enemies navles whach then fought with it. It ls a terrific task, a crushing responsibzlity’. It. has not, been made easier by the fact. that already on four occasions the Navy has had to risk its own fate and endure heavy lcsses in succouring the Army. There should be and there ls no _s;rt. of complaint of this. But tiie self-sacrificing record should never be forgotten. - The Navy kLOltdDXii,

The most. terrible thing about the English ls their persLsIence. For once they make up their minds t0 do a thing-and th s, perhaps for- tunately for the peace and czmfort of the rest of the world, ls a. very 513w and not too frequent. process -nothing will distract their atten- tion frcin that cbicct, tiritil they have achieved it or satisfied them- selves that. it .s a: .evcd. _For so long it become; and" remains t0 them an overriding necessity and duty: an obsession, a mania, if you will. But. mania or no, it is a. mlghl-Y and awe-inspkitig phenomenon of Nature: to a student cf history one of the most fo1"n1.dab_le_ _th.r_igs 1n the world. A pain/er division 111 full blitz is a britue and almcst kitten- ish thing cocnpaierlto the Bnlish people with their maids made up. Even lf-as geneiatly happcns —- they are quite unprepareclvfor the ordeal cl endurance fur WLLZCII they" set themselves, they w.ll g0 through with it to the very end and be foun-a at. it when everyone else has thrown in their 112.1111. Only then will they st.-p, relax and start to flunk again. Until then they are inexorable, ‘immovable, unpersuzid- able. Al. such tnoments nothing has ever been known to deflect tnem. Our eneincs ale gambling on im- prcbabillties if they think it will now. _ Arthur Bryant. in Illustrat- ed London Newi.

A recent. vtsitor ln the editor's office d.scus=ed a tlrciy witch attempts to explain. in an unusual manner, many ot the llis of ccn- temporary 5.2101)". The visitor cl.d not take credit for originating the thecry. It was the creatncn, he said, of a Cape Breton lawyer. But he was impressed with its suggestions. The tfneory‘ ls that socrety lost a stabilizing influence when men shaved off tuelr whisk- ers. Just as Samson lost physical strength when h s lock; were shorn. so do men loJe a psychclogcal strength without their whiskers. The theorists mfllllllljl that. when beards were the fashion parental control within the iiome was strong- er, Father, they say. was mo1"e im- pressive when he issued his com- mauds to tiie family through a 61°11 of whiskers. A; a. result there was a, greater respect for the bead o1 the family and a more rigid tram- lng for young people during their years of development. Father, without his beard", becomes one of the boys and his words carry less influence. The same thing is true ln public life, say the theorists. When every politician wore a beard, or at least. an lmipresslve set‘ of aide whiskers, people were more inclined to regard the politicians asstates- men. Members of provincial and federal parliaments enjoyed more res t. than exists today, tiielr dec ions were accepted with bet.- tier grace, and the legislators, them- selves, gave more attention to their deliberations because the array of bearded faces gave them the Sense of being part of an august assembly of elders. That, at least, la the lthleory, - From the Halifax Chron- ce.

Civilians In Great Brltaln are now getting along with 24,500,0tX) fewer palra oif boots and shoes a. year, but a steady increase ln the numbers shipped overseas ls reported from N01 tltarnpton, heart of the shoe ln- dustry. Before the we: Britain bought 105,000,000 pairs of leatheri boots and shoes a year and lt ls a. sufficient, indication of the large resources of the British industry that, not until July 1, tzwo years after rationing lvd been begun ln Germany was it. necessary to restrict the total of 80.500000 pairs. —Brltlsh Industries Bulletin.

We have more and better cows now than when Canada was export- ing ln excess of 200 million pounds of cheese annually to Britain. Sure- ly we can spare the 112 m'll‘on pounds thLs yea even ll’ we have to do with a lttle less ‘ce cream and candy. — Farmer's Advocate.

One hundred years ago this month, Thomas Cook, a prominent, temper- ance worker who published tern- plerance literature l1 the town of ougtiboiough, Lelcewerahlre, Eng- land, organized a. big teimperenoe demonstration. He wanted to brln as many supporters as he ooul city of Leicester, ten miles away. Horse tranépiort would have been impossible. e railway was at that time a primitive mode of travel, but Thomas Cook con- ceived the idea of hlrln! 1* 81100181 train to carry his Leicester su rt- em to Lough-borough and bee _ It. carried 570 people at. one shilling (twenty-five cents) ietum. oee people dld not. know it. but. they

were making history. That was the first, excursion train lri the world- snd the fnundat"'n of Thomas Cook and Son, the greatest travel

workmen.

‘lhle eolumn ls one: ler the dlseunlon b! eorreepondauta el qneetlone of Interest. Charlottetown Guardian deel Ill necessarily endorse the ovlaleae el correspondent;

CHALLENGE‘

A THOUGHT A DAY FOB A PEOPLE AT WAR

I CONGESTION AT BURDEN i; 1 s‘ H l n example at the‘ “me ddeniii cttiiimedilirv: irz- ere s a ve n . l transportation difficulties which we Qilepgimia to acct, and line up against in iéhla Prolvlnce.‘ A w, must be prepared to’ act i z- $.25 v3.11. .113... - lend, left Siun-merslde at. ten mln- ' utes past l0 am., and were unable. owllng to the cont-fisllc-n atllgordert: to eave there unt pm. ey ar- ' ‘ rived 1n Monet/on at 11 pxnn juetl The Arvlda Affalr ' (Saturday Nlzht)

twelve hours after they started out. It was pouring raln and they fluid, to keep tn llne or lose their place on the boat, One member of’ the this ma" to was; part-v was not 1n awd health and oi ccnitiient upon the total lack qr 001111‘! n01 W811i 11D f6 the hotel 1'01‘ information available to the rmblic a meal, so they had to hire a Bor- on the Arvlda Affair. We dld so in den car to take them from theJihe evidently unfounded confidence dock to the hotel. Here. owing t-o that no democratic government. not the congestion, they had to waif even the Government of Canada, r11“, “rabbi; gtm"r,.,‘"- l“; tzlélatfizfltlltlfitah fllitlfll‘; o e peope .em ey a been working all night. They were more than a few days at the outsllde. out o; meat and vegetables’ and We have assumed that; ln the tme could only supply eggs on toast A thpt. muff; elapse between tlhdfs Dihtzer good many motorists were worried m,“ Dr “fgdbgng being ‘fa,- 'rs° Lg; about gas, all t.he gas being bought. C 35f“ bu "mm m“ fligmm, up in Borden early ln the day, Lat- matmtgnthg‘: 1f “is m He, SSH.“ er. however, another supply arrived. ion that sevéraelm hundrede askppd one man, a commercial traveller. workmen m the muvmm o; Queioéc informed the Summer-side party he He‘ Sabowws m. at ha“ the mo“ dld 110i‘. Rel. over till "all b01175’: and of sabotemi ‘man-Isl; the “allows Blrlved l" Mmlliw" "If 4 °°1°°k war efforts But our expectation has sunday morning. been disappointed for two weeks, I 11m- slf- etc-i and our confidence ls being uncle:- PRINCE COUNTY. mllitcdhThe Govgtlgupfint we] 5:15- nee , as come e oonc us :n phat if thge optbllclinls izlvefn not facts o remem 1- w soon urge even ' ' the rumors. the charges, the angry HIIIBI‘ Try wiigrdatoftlptlnlsters. ltllie fragtlcuacvgji- _____ V V O E CCIISOTS l) an l! 8 ,, <T-----,-i,-"---=,--=-> ,,, ,‘t".'.2'=i.1':i.:1v.:.11.r:n1z1..t-:.1t:.1 ne a . the Alignncmfl‘ aflgfimpflaf bum-egg that the aluminum ln the Arvlda against German air raids on cent- mtilgljty-Wlg H1111“: thee" 1111211316“ o“; ~ , 1 g‘; SO y- BJI 6 B. 91' EXIIIOU '1 glint-gig? U519 31:3,, afifivioffelry the that. the workers were back at work present ocean flights, Lame macn- and 111 W011“! lake 80ml? Weeks W IJICS carrying a. slzeable load of men C111" ll °"l R181"- eim travel loniz distances. xnvim- If the Govemmenrnas reallv come in; planes with false miukmgs to that conclusion. we thlnik lt is en- nught escape the vigilance of ont-KIWIY Wmml- We think that @115 110,5 and any“ gaunt-m "m some wild Canadian public ls this time thor- uninliabltecl region. Thence they M19111!’ fed 11D Wm‘ b91119 k913i l" 111° might. tly soutn to m; hidixuk let loose a nunbe; o; too RTave a matter for the Govern- men m own-um clothe who were merit to bury under the tombstone of s . trained ln the work of sabotage. In‘ the (1911591511113- we d0 1191111117“! 11151- clssneration Hitler might, well i-rv “will “'11” the cfinadla" Du°ll° Such bricks in m“ w,“ o; sulmvCfin do about lb. except to keep on prises. iumtestlnz. but we thin-k that. it Will '1 m, knowledge that his Dian“ keen on protesting. and. we propose could never return and that their 1° 1191B ll T1115 15 l" 0111' 991m?" Cwumnts l; may rnanam w make the most, outrageous misuse of the it woina ultimately DE killed or 0841- WW9“ of cenwshlv that the G0"- tured, would not daunt, the dictator erllllinenl- 118$ W1 Dermll-led 115911 N0 ' . m to m Si‘, mgflfil§flddifiggéh° they enemv from the publication of the Could and My w break the morale facts about the Arvida Affair. No of the canadlansvqyhich his Ger- detriment to Canaflltfn morale can nun usvclwiogv [ails w let, mm see result from the publication. that is that be could not do. Of course, his "W lnfinllelv 1955 ma" the def-ll- German emmlssarges would bank on. merit. that ls already belniz caused bv surrender Mm- mev had done the“ the suppression or all information dlrtv work, and belniz sent. to soinel 93ml“ 1t N0 11mm 1'0 the Pffilllfle