5, J o ¢_~ ~ - - - ~ - - - - ~ - - - - - - -_-_-_-,~ -,~:.~.- -.-,-_-_-_--:_'::_-_~;. ::::;::::.;.»-- -111-_ riff- - PAGE FGUR- ,- " 'rua and Advorti_alng_ Phono .....;..... _\ Now; and Edit. Phone ..;...,_......-_...........---- ‘|33 ' Haan -Office at Charlottetown. Brandi Omen at Sum- niqiralde, Atherton, sourlaiand Montague. y _ _- Morning Daily (founded 1891), 83-50 por year. (do- livorod) in-advance; 82.50-por year (mailed) in advance to anywheraln Canada; and 83.50 (mailed) to U. 5. A. ,- _gvening Daily (founded 197) $1.50. (dollvorod or by mall) in Canada. and $2-00 f°f‘ U- 3- A- _ Saturday Weekly (founded 1887) $1.00 per annum by mall in Canada' or U. 8. A. - Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY i6. 1930. A' Goon nizoinmiic The new Mayor and the newly elected City Council got into harness on Monday evening, llis \‘\'orship (.\lr l'.-"Ex -llrown) has already had experience of Council work, so he is perfectly familiar with the procedure and has nothing tolearn in that respect. He has introduced the coiiveiiieiit practice of visiting the I\layor's office for two hours each day, which will enable anyone who wishes to sec him on civic business to do so in proper business hours and surrounded by the Council staff. ln his inaugural speech he promised to do whiit hc- possibly' could, with the assistance of the Coiincil, in practising economy and increasing revenue to carry out necessary improvenients. This is war time, of course, and it would not be either patriotic or economic to enter into any scheme of civic improvement which could, with advantage. be delayed ; and this, no doubt, will be the keynote of the Council’s business programme. His \\"orship, like his prede- cessors, is anxious to get the city a share Of the illC0m€ tax, now collected for provincial purposes. Before this is possible, the l\layor and Councillors will have to win over the farmers’ representatives to their way of thinking. In the past the country members have set their faces steadfastly against relinquishing their right to tht- cit)'s _share of income tax, arguing that were they to acccilc to this all the other incorporated towns would desire a similar concession. From the corres- pondence appearing in our columns, it would seein some readjusttiient of civic taxation is necessary. much is being collected in water rates, and too little for civic purposes. ily reducing the water tax and proporti<_»natcly increasing the civic tax the situation might he coiisiderably eased without disturbing the existing gross assessinent_ ` i ----_--)::( NEW PARLIAMENT BUILDING Contrary to expectations, the Government docs not intend to depart from the original design in re-building parliament buildings at Ottawa. A number ofiycars ago, elal»or'ate plans were prepared for new parliament buildings but no action was taken on them. The idea prevailed that the present catastrophe would pave the \-vay _for the adoption of the new plans. Our Ottawa cnrrespondciit informs us, however, that the new linuscs nf parliaincnt in he built on Parliameiit llill will he in their exterior design as ncarly_as possible a rcplica of thi- olil_ The shell of the building struc- tur.; is still ihcrc. the walls are of great thickness and streiigtli and practical builders .say they are as good as eicr and caizzililt- ni carrying ivhatever weight would hx liltely to he placed on them in the construction of the interior. This weight would not he too great in 'view ni the fact that it is proposed toput up along side the old walls :i new franicworl\' of steel and concrete \\hich_ would cziri-_v its nivn weight. In this way the (inthic ht-:iiii_v‘ ni the fanioiis facade would be pre- 5vl'\'ed_ . .-\ rchitt-cts \\ ho are now engmged in examining the burned'buililiiigs are working on the idea of recon- striiclinn and not with a view to the demolition of the old walls in the construction of a new building of new cxtcrini' dcsi;.:n_ The worst wreck is the central por- tion of the old buildings." The new wing, built ten years ago at the west end at a cost of half a million, is przictically intact and the eastern section of the Senate wing is also in fairly good shape. V There is a strong sentiment in favor of preserving thc main tower. such as it stands ilkw minus the coni- cal roof which surniounted the masonry and which collapsed in the fire. The tower with- out this wooden top is generally regarded as being a liner structure and more in harmony with t_he rest of the building__ The tower stands on four arches which are of tremendous strength and so strongly rooted over that the wrcck- age from the clock room, including the great bell, nev- er reached the ground. The report of thc architect will be presented to thc Minister of Public \Vorks this week and he will probably take an early opportunity 'of -presenting it to barlia _-" _ \‘ _ __ , vw. i. x ._f V - anim* iiifiiiminnouours . The rate' at whidh aerial navigation is being driven ahead by the European war is next to unbelievable. `ro'- When the war broke out there were but few ‘ac planes in use and they were mostly for dcmbnstration, “training or experimental uses. They wcrerstill con- sidered unstable and in many ways uncertain in their tl( " _least-piie sgrious challenge had been made for ir. The \\-’nnamaiter aeroplane was thc challenger and had biien i specially' cor;structad_'itie'et the untried perils of the a r I " ’ ' ' __ actions. A very large prizeliad been offered 'and ti'1ns~`/ttlaiit c, trip. ,t;was' far larger and far m - . _ , e -_ It _was sqiislilgfed a_=w<>iid'¢f_ ltfouiiid can-y four iii' li: V ii Ain I I I I i the trip.ii'I`liat is only about: eighteen months ag0._|§|)u§§ mg llnilotlalovn 132 _ , and the barrels point in opposite directions. f'_I`hey are charges a shot of sand instead of steel. _-Titus the two other and nine very powerful propellexs, all driven at the sam.; time. It is especially intended to carry large loads of very high power bombs to-points far behind _ the enemies lines and cause grtiit and lasting damage. Atlantic air fleet develop out of such battle planes a _g , - . and near completion, a _num lj ofaeroplanes of such size, 'power and radius of a to-make that one a very small affair by com` f isou. .These latest ones can carry avcrciv of twelve _‘men _'and a .load of _three thousand pounds. Their higli-ii'o\ver%ugines are cap- able of driving these enormous'ai1'_ vessels at a speed of ilo miles per, hour continuously and they may travel six -hundred miles from lise and retum. They are armed with small cannon, 9-cientimetre calibre, and these cannon are specially arranged so that there is no recoil when they are shot. They are_t`loubl_e barrelled tired at the same time and the rear\vard‘l§?rfel dis- recoils neutralize each other. ' This giant has three sets of planes one above the It would not be surprising to,see a regular trans- payer* Mayor tako the wat and use '-tax wal and' uid w when the ‘.11 -they SISESSOIIS l||0 THE IIYOR 'Brown at Monday nights meeting that the assessment. owharlottetownisonly 5 $335,000 puts the city on a par with a country village. _ .Ill ES ‘."I`lt~i the new i them to tl! fund This Sir.-Your o to waior , No was water ur that self get that and sew- Council ‘ that ta! used 100- mulb. and the am Sir, etc., - ANo‘ri-isa TAX-P/ivan Sir,~ The statement made by Mayor suis g ii iii inn these. It is almost certain that one of the results o the war will be thoroughly reliable tr'ans-Atlantic ai navigation. ' _ -1-in f r in--é i NURTIICLIFFE COMPLIMENTARY Lord Northcliffe, of the London 'I`irnes, the Dail .\Iail and other newspapers in thc Old Country, ha .Y s The assessment of Charlottetown for real and personalestata is nearer ‘ Five million dollars, but a million here or there does not amount to much with Mayor Brown. If he did not know Who! he was talking about he should have asked some one who does know. lf Mayor Brown owns any estate in this Clty he can point it out to the as- sessors and they will confer with him -as to the amount assesslbie hui, he was treading on dangerous ground when he suggested intimidating the assessors. who are sworn olllclals and been interviewed by the special correspondentot the Toronto Daily News. His lordship is full of enthusi- asm for Canada, which he knows pretty iiitimately from first-hand personal experience as well as by report. He considers us a "‘ capable nation in the eyes of the \vorld," and passes thisverdict: " Canada stands before the world to-day as a com- plete nation, a nation which has sent a larger army a greater distance than any in the world’s history. Our effort in South Africa sixteen years ago was a won- derful picce of transport, and difficult lighting, but if Canada sends her 500,000 mm across, enlisted out of a population of eight millions, it will be a record un- etinalled." _ The news that the Dominion, with a population of eight million, intended sending half-la-million volun- tcers io the front has had itseffect all over the world. Canada had alrmdy gained her prestige in"the great world struggle before this magnificent offer was made, and the most perceptible result is-that in both Europe and the United States people who were hitherto in- different are taking note that Canada is something more than a possible adjunct to thc republic to the south. ' I Lord Northcliffe sums up the situation thuswise and from the Imperial standpoint: “ The rise of Canada has been comparatively slow. It is about 370 years since jacques Cartier began the process of opening up; it is little more than 156 years since \Volfe put Quebec on the map of the Empire; and 30 years since the whistle of the transcontinental locomotive was first heard on the-P_acif`ic. It is only a few months since ‘ Ypres ’ was on the worldls tongue. To-day it' looms largest in the world’s history, and a* the years go by it will grow bigger and bigger. " Canada’s charity,'too, has shone out like a great star in a dark firmament. The results of ‘ Our Day ’ collections have . amazed people in Britain. llut Canadian financial stability, her willingness to help fipancc the war. are two new lights on the Doinininn. For more than a quarter of a century I have been _an admirer-of Canada, but I confess her efforts have surprised me. Sometimes, in many parts of Canada, l have met gloomy men who thought the Iimpire was tumbling to pieces, that their future relations were all ‘inortli and south,' not ‘east and west.” Ilo\v wrong they were! The future trade relations are obviously ’still'more ‘ east and west ’ than ever.” _ _--~)>f( A miner riiou rue itiiiits _ Reputations are made and lost in every war (says tli¢__(,i,:_izctm), and in this one a goodly number of men haviei been ‘advanced and many more retired. _loffre has replaced generals by the score. The- Czar did not hesitate to remove his commander-in-chief, and lesser generals naturally had to bow to the same fate. The enemy also`lias been compelled to make changes. Iii the British army the experience has been the same; litfieieiicy is ivhiit tells on the battlefield and to ignore that is to court defeat. _ ' _ One of the names which has come to be talked of most of late is that of Sir William Robcrtsonfwho is now chief of staff, and well on the road to universal fame. He is one of the ,fcwf melt -to rise from the ranks of _thc British amiy to the high office of general. ‘ it issiid of him that tie won hiswniy by _raison of ‘his intellectual qualities.; I.Ie_l1as liadiall .Sorts of ex- ‘periencc in connection with army`life. It is nearly 40 years since he enlisted in the 16th Lancers. During his career he has seeii_much active service, in' India and South Africa. In the Chitral campaign he was severely wounded. I-le was a railway transport officer in tim Miranzi and Black Mountain expedition. He has been assistant' director of ‘military operations at thc War Oflicc for half-a-dozen years. In igio he was made commandant of the Stall' College at Cam- berley, where he was especially noted for his ability ‘as 'a léctiirer. He is a student o_f languages, and is' generally eoneededto have a profound knowledge _of the science of war. - _ _ will do their duty ludepeudaiitly with- ou_i fear or favor. I merely write this .tu let the public know the facts, as a stitemenl of this kind going broad- chrt over the country-will tend to ln- -.lt' f: the Cit ‘ months ago, when the submarines were .fled the expectation that some effec- .tlve merino would be discovered for do s _the means adopted. -ct-ssful. Probalily more submarines 5. l ani, Str etc.. R. C. A. GRANT. Chairman Board of Assessors. oi' the (lerruan submarine attack ou. iuorehuut shipping we witness niiotlier of these silent victories over the Ger- man navy, of which thu present. wi-ir has been so frultfiil_- The tlrat' and greatest of the-ae, of course, was the complete inuuoblllzatlon of the Ger- iunn North Sea ports and ln the Baltic. from the _very day that war was de- dared.- 'l‘o what are we to attribute the sud- den collapse of the German submarine radlng expedltioiis? The answer is to be found in the two fields-of mechan- ice and phychology. Wie stated many at the height of their activities, tliut the experience of past naval wars justi- foiitlng the Ll-bout attack; and the events have proved that wa are rlght.1t ls safe to say that no branch of the great. naval a_ud military 0 eratlons of this war has been the subiiect of more thorougb investigation by the scientist and the inventor tliantbat of submnn ine warfare on its defensive--side. Very fruitful 'has been the study of this problem and most efficient have been Nat. until the lilstoy of the war comes to he written, probably, will it be known which of thi: defensive utens- urrsi have proved to he the most suc- have been ace-oimietl for by nets than by any other niears, although a large number have hr-nn sunk by dest'royei's and swift motor boats rushing in upon und rtiminint: them or destroying them with their rapid tlri- guns. We are iii- "orine~'§_’_‘* three of those clocks wei`b"=a`%ltl-lu thlay ’-- y Vi 'l ito h nd Lehachoaur and subtle- . t. i s ii B $5_00_ Father J_ol1il his parish priest, public' arose more through intense zeal for, 5113, (7, 5 __. - wa _,.».. -vols# _-. c ._»-,i- _ '. SUV!--_--~-_--_-. _ _ _-Getai>a_1ft°d=v- - - - __ ~_ Dei; ' ithm ` e_week."_` . smartestbiiiilbrgs seen giil the _ 3 A “"°i\`ir°i-:NcA1'~i save you iuogpr-_-iiei&f_§ °` ' '§`if`é¢i.iis_‘¢’_ 3n§'.'i°m ssimoh mi' nes.” »¥¢ii~» ~ - ' forms from $30.00 UD- ~ __ ¢ Officers and Men who intend _ ` ai Course next miinlli ~ ' Profit by a mit to our Military _ - - Department it flrgi and a short time a§ter to alittle; _ . ,_».’ co ti on a_small table n ii corner-o - _ . _ _ ¢_ _~~. tire same mm_ rits “me miie coma The following are a few prices -- was revealed lu a fairly good state of ' Ofllcers Trench Caps Officers Great iii Bay Fortiino cbiiiychggrd about tous; A $3_']5 _ up ’ (With SCt‘e€l'i) ¢0L§0_.w._ (S8710 Ol' een years ago.,a er ri repose- - ' i ‘ ~~ __ seventy years in the earth. OillC8l'S TI’€llCl'l C393 Leather ‘nigga .- " _ $4.50 un. (With SCr€¢I1l Otticers'~British Warm. tie westl S ll r , Ho o. forniorl _ ' ' tlierresldencib oi \lll‘liliampCooper, thi wamfpfwf Cap covers ,(ShmTt overcoat) _‘ ' apostle of escheat. now the home of $1-.00 - 50- ._- Swmer SMS 25°- worded sms p'erpr; n e _ro o p_ ' ~ - _ account of nonfulflllmont of thercondl- Walking Sucks $125 - ' _ , -3, ,_ . and 2.00. ' Rankand FileBreeches Cf°;"_'5 » - Khaki Metal li2l‘S_,_ L ‘ $9l_§.li_ail