PAGE, FO ‘TR Ltes By The Way i ‘I'll! VBIIMILDTTEIUVIII lillAlllllAI flotilla] out; lrouium i; uni Italian unlit. Col. W Chalk: B. MIMIC Vice-Proficient: J. I. BIND“ IJ l Boolean-y: Haul. Col. D. A. llullrmou. 0.8.0. Editor um Managing Director: J. l. Burnett, IJ-l. AnoolutnIditorul-‘i-nnkwoltuundhleutlnl A Burnett. ILUNVJL 10a Active 80mm) “The Strongest Memory u Weaker Than the Weakest Ink.‘ MONDAY: NOVEMBER as, 1m General Crera r's Visit General Crerzir, who will be cordially wel- comed by our citizens this evening, is the first Canadian to gain the rank of full General while still on active service, a distinction which he richly earned. \\"hile a LieuL-General, he succeeded Maior-General A. G. L. McNaugh- ton as Commander of the Canadian Army on March 2o, i944, less than liree months be- fore he sctit his Third Divifiioill Onto the b¢fl¢l1¢5 of Normandy. After the fall of Cacti, Gen- eral Crerar personally took command of his form in the fieldand led the drive oii Falaise. There he (lirccterl one of the givatest battles of the war when he threw his formations in to take Falaise and close the Trun gap, sealing the fate of the German 7th Army. On Febru- ary 8 of this year, General Crerar was entrust- ed by Field blzirslial Montgomery with a large portion of the British 2nd Army to lead his forces against the northern flank of the Sieg- fried Line, and subsequently proceeded to win the great battles of the Reichswald and Hoch- ivald, setting the stage for the great Anglo- Anierican drive into the Ruhr and the plains of Northern Germany. The 57-year-old General, recently honored bv the King with the Order of the Companions of Honor for his military service to the Em- pire, is quiet and unassuming and was a prime favorite with the troops under his com- mand. ,, Island soldiers who served under General Crerar will welcome their Commander who was with them in the most stirring and dramatic days of the closing stages of the war. He comes to Charlottetown and Sunimerside to greet and talk with his troops for the last time. It is his special desire that as rrrany as can pos- sibly come shall attend the reception at Gov- ernment lIouse on Tuesday afternoon. The Ottawa Conference It is expected‘ that when the Dominion- Proviiicial Conference steering committee meets iit Ottawa this wock, there will be ready the most complete and authoritative report on the national income of Canada that has ever been prepared. -Tliis in itself is regarded as an im- portaiit step toward better understanding and knowledge of the basic elements of Dominion- Provincial relations. llowevcr, the going may not be smooth. As noted previously in these columns, the Mari- tiiiies are concerned iii re-establishing the Sirois Commission recommendation of fiscal need as I. basis of Dominion-Provincial financial rela- tions, whereas the main provision in the Fed- eral offer at the opening of the conference in August was a straight $12 peg capita subsidy to all the provinces. Many provinces are thought to look with concern and suspicion on a tax plan which though nominally to last for only three years may prove, lll fact, to be irrevocable, if once put into effect. It is possible, according to the Iiiiiaiirial Post, that there may be “some consid- arable agrccniciit 0n the virtue of seeking and exploring an arrangement which will be less in- iurioiis t0 provincial ‘sovereignty’. That is, as- tuiiiuig the wealthy provinces can produce a plan ivhich ensures ‘protection’ in good times and bad to the so-called ‘liave-iiotsfl” There has been much loose talk about pro- viiicial "s0vereignty” being involved in the Dominion tax proposals. The fact is that the Federal Government possesses complete power ovcr all ffifllli of direct and indirect taxes, ex- cept the taxation of Crown property of the Provinces, Tilt! broader needs of post-ivar fiscal oiilicv and the narrower technical problems of rcveiiiie zidiiiiiiistratioii lllflltfi it necessary for the Dominion to take over the assessment and collection of all corporate and personal in- roiiie taxes. That should iiot worry us in the least. lf it is found that too much discretion is vested in the Finance Minister at Ottawa, the matter cziii PZlf-llV he rciiicdicd by establishment of a iiatioiial board of tax appeals. . Iii an informative pamphlet "The Domin- ion Provincial Conference: Same Basic Isnuf’, by Maxwell Cohen, K.C., of Winnipeg, issued by the Ryersoii Press before the opening of the Conference, the important point in issue is thus summed up: _ “Constitutional and technical considera- tions apart, the underlying premise of the Con- ference is the reality of a federation composed of widely dispersed regions and a divided cul- ture all accentuated by a disequilibrium in the comparative financial resources position of the various members of the Union. Thus the real- ity to be faced is that Ontario and British Col- umbia arc rich. orcomparativelyrich, and prosperous communities while the Maritimes, Saskatchewan and Manitoba often have lived so close to the margin of their receipts and ex- penditures as to limit severely the variety and extent of the services their people are able to get from local government. It will be for the conference to ‘bring home again to all the great fact that Ontario is rich and powerful because Olllaflb is part of a greater commun- ltvivhich utilized hei- skills, accepted her well ‘firotectcd pfltdoctioii, and provided outlets for her financial finvestment and corporate energies. - 11m, i‘ while British Columbia may believe ‘ . ' ve unbq itself. in "stake in federation i ml ‘hunt it it whim to re- " " " 'W€llfl'l. . . Nor ' and the niany corporate enterprises of all Canada centred in head offices on St. Iames Street, reckon with- out the Prairie and Maritime channels, indeed the channels from all the provinces that feed Quebec's net and taxable earnings. That is the ‘price’ to be paid for a working federalism, a federalism in which all members have a chance to attain a generally similar living standard, and that price the Conference must again re-estab- lish clearly for all to see and understand." s-EDITORIAL NOTES- Tonight and tomorrow will be Red Letter Days in the Island's history. I I U It is not every day that a great general, who has won his laurel: in the greatest war in history, visits our shores. Let us show our appreciation. iii! When a soldier, or at all events an officer, is demobilized, his military life is not ended. He automatically goes on reserve, and there he is at his country's call when, and wherever wanted. liillt The government is giving “very serious" consideration to the establishment of a Mari- time commission to handle matters relating to the Merchant Marine, Munitklu Millim- Howe said in lll€*CO‘l‘lli'l1UllS. I I A total of $74,218,367 had been paid out in family allowance cheques up to the end of October, it was disclosed in a return tabled iri the House of Commons but there were only two families in all Canada with 15 or more children who received paymfnaunder‘ the plan. U Heavy shipments of pit props from Brit- ish Columbia, Ontario and Quebec are moving over Canadian Pacific Railway lines to At- lantic seaboard ports for shipment to United Kingdom mines. v u- a Senator W. M. Aseltiiie (P.C., Saskatche- wan) said in the Senate that the government should investigate air mail service in Canada because “something is seriously wrong." He said the service was "very unsatisfactory" due to repeated delays ‘in ‘deliyery. The Province of Nova Scotia will prob- ably call for tenders at an early date for a $5,- 000,000 issue of refunding debentures. During the five-year period ended last fiscal year ap- proximately $8,0o0,000 of the debenture issues outstanding have been paid off. u a u v New College, 'Oxford, founded by William of Wykeham, this date, i379; he was probably one of the most popular characters in English history; a. favorite of King Edward llI, he was the architect who built Windsor Castle; when the castle was completed he placed over the gateway “This niade “lykehain”, and when the heralds were busying themselves to find suit- able arms for Wykeham he gave them as his motto “Manners maketh the man," thereby meaning that a man's real worth is to be esti- mated, not from the outward and accidental circumstances of birth and fortune, but from the acquireiiients of his mind and his moral qualifications. I’ Mr. C. D. Howe, Minister of Reconstruc- tion, and Colonel Eric Phillips, president of Research Enterprises, Ltd., having taken it upon themselves to go over the heads of War Assets Corporation and sell a. $700,000 slice of R. E. L.'s plant to an American company for about one-fifth of its value, it remains for the Ottawa government to say whether or not that deal shall be permitted. Meanwhile, ef- forts are being made to save Canada a busi- ness built up during the war years largely by her own efforts, and one of which any country might be proud. This is the business of manu- facturing high-grade optical apparatus of vari- ous kinds, which Research Enterprises, Ltd, i!‘ developed astonishingly during its compara- tively brief wartime life. t a a n- i- It now appears the present session of Parliament will end on December I5, and the second session will begin carly iii March. Such a program will involve the transferring of some important legislation from this to the next ses- sion, and one measure which may be deferred until next year is the bill of Secretary of State Paul Martin regarding citizenship, nationality. naturalization and status of aliens. Between this and the next session will be resumed the Dominion-Provincial conference which was ad- iourned about three months ago. The co- ordinating committee is to meet Monday to de- cide on agenda and to recommend the date for the holding of the plenary conference. Present indications are that the conference will be call- ed for Iamiary so that there will be abund- My hurt bleed: for the poor diamond cu m, forced to subsist on an QVQIIIQ weekly wage of $116, who seek to fbcrouosthulr averaa ca! to 0144. urcly some charitable Institution could belp out then mar dot-paid un sweatshop laborers un they are able to get, their lncre e. I won- der where they manage to lfve on their wages-A Letter to the New York Herald ‘Ifibune. “For own and their Gzllflll ghere good new: comm: own rom Schenectady. The General Electric Company ha; lately announced the making of a. simple device go warm watering troughs so their contents wlll not. freeze. This, of course, will be l bovine boon for upstate farms equf ped with kllowat Less lucky nort ern brim ands ll have to stock to an oder system. Noses will continue to be dipped shrink. tngly tn morning ice, arid chilly, lnte llgent. heifers wlll long fa the days oftthelr nomadic pncestors— when happy herds followed the sun southward through lands of un- lropen brooks imd no stanchlons- New York Herald Tribune. It appears that l unfortunately used the word “unfortunate" too often last week. This ls unfortun- ate, but, there are mitigating fac- tors. The various aragraphs which ultimately flll up he allotted space are unfortunately not ell written at the same time. They are liidlted as u articular inspiration fires tzhe ber. and lf several deal with unfortunate subjects 1t may unfor- tunately haprien that. while each paragraph ls flawless ln itself, the collection as a whole betrays unfortunate characteristics. -From, London SpeCtai/ur, Ever since the apple opened Adam's eyes, man has been looking for u dependable way of predicting weather. Long years ago t ere were some who seemed to penetrate the secret, says The Lake Carriers Bul- let-ln. Noah had time enough to bulld his ark before the rains came, Joseph saw in Pharaoh's dream a forewarnlng of seven wet. years and seven dry ones. Then, with the passing of the prophets. supersti- ion took full sway. Medicine men, in one guise or another, professed to drum u thunderstorms on their tom-toms, lnally, someone checked up all those “saylngrfland symboliz. ed this common-sense result in the little pottery figure of a donkey. Its tall was a. piece of ordinary rope. If kept. outside, the donkey and its alLlmportant tall became a constant scoreboard of the weather. It was read as follows: Tall dry- falr; tall web-rain; ball swinging —stormy; tall frozen-cold; tall missing-hurricane. Race track patrons In New York State have created a. record for the season just closed-wagers amount- ed to $421,156,982, an increase of 31161182 over last year's, a1- ghough the racing season was 36 days shorter than tn 1944. We just wonde, when employment chops off and wages decrease. how many of those who contributed to the building of New York's record- breaklng racetrack revenue will be wishing that. the had some of the cash they s uan ered on the pono- fes ln the ef ort to obtain something for nothing. -Owen Sound Bun. Times. There ls absolutely no indica- tion yet that the atom will river replace, for industrial purposes, bhe present means of deriving energy. Even lf scientists were nble to soive tomorrow the problem of complete- ly controlling atomic energy, the question of adapting 1t to industrial use would be an engineering job requiring many ears. It. would mean a completey new plan of power generation, new machines, new tools and countless thousands of new techniques. The St. Law- rence reject, has nothing to fen)‘ from he possible development of atomic power. If the opponents of the seaway could flnd no more ef. fectlve method of fighting it, the proposal would pass Congress with- out op sltlom-Comwall Stand- arcl-Free older. Somewhere up in the hllls of Grafton (New South Wales) men are conducting one of the most intensive hunts of all tlme. They are looking for a sleekly groomed kangaroo wearing u navy blue tweed vest-arid here's the story behind ft. A few days ago. kind- hearted, goodmatured William Thompson was rldliig the boundary of his farm. He came across a dis- abled kangaroo caught, lri the barb- ed wire fence. Thompson tried 0o free hlm but. decided that. he would have to go back to the farm for tools. Night was near and it. was chilly, so Mr. off his vest and ‘pint. it on kangaroo to keep rn warm writ e| ho wu away. He returned wlti wire cutters and soon had the an -' mal free. Mr. R00 promptly bounc- ed 01'! lnto the bushland with haste that. fully expressed lts grin. tude. Thompson smiled then its ed and began a futile chase to t-ho dlanppeiirtn didn't. re but he was-an valuable pii era .5“ silt-Ant u 1m News lgevlew. n m" 3L rue CHARLOTTETOWN the fact that ln many cases they zle King n1 the House of Com- mons yesterday ltxlliat myrlads of uprooted people themselves in the same grim war winter! PUBLIC FORUM Thhooluln h spun‘ hr u" 0on0 “room nutrition-non Bin-As oneof your yell-nourish- ed readers, permit mo to uubbc lollowlngltemua“text' on which u; bulld this little letter to editor, on the developing food crisis around this war-torn world: "If it could be shown that such revenues (liquor) paid all the ex. penses of the government, it would remain a tragic spectacle for a Christian civilization to consent to derive its revenues from the vices of the people. For the church to come to any sort, of terms with bhe beverage llquor traffic ls to betray the human family." (W.C.T. U. Notes, Guardian, Oct. 21, 1944.) In recent. days the newsnolumns have been carrying increasing ererices w the deteriontlon of the "food" position tn many European countries, and the ignition-spark behind this letter 1s the following statement by Prime Minister Mac. kenzle King 1n today's news-col- umns of your Toronto cOntemDOT- ary (The star): Ottawa, Nov 21- A large part of the population of Germany "wlll certainly face star- vation and very large numbers will die this comnlg winter, owing to are wlthou ter," sald food, clothing or shel. ime Minister Macken- c . . . . a It wlll be noted that the above reference ls merely to ‘the popula- tion of Germany," but; 1t well known the liberated comm-fer fir-d light, at the threshhold of the first? pizst. Is there nothing that the res! of the human family can do, to avert. this wholesale destruction of life? It ls certainly a humbling ex- perience to find that the entire strength of the United Nations Ls up arently unable to channel siif- flc ent nutritional munitions to the people "on the borderline of star- vation" (Ernest Bevirfs phrase) to maintain the s ark of life, even on a community evel of subsistence! 1f we could save these millions, it. would pay us rich social dlvlderds in the coming years, It; would be worth 20 years of effort, in winning the people for our brand of Demon. racy? I am, sir, etc. "l was HUNGRY." AT IT AGAIN Slr,-—It. seems that national states about once ln twenty, years-or at least at. the end of every great war experience a great resurgence of national spirit, Their sovereign status must be proclaimed again and again. For Canada Great Wor No. 1 gave us the Statute of Westminster. and a persistent demand for a no. tlonal flag to flttlngly express our growth ln the galaxy of nations. We got the statute but, We did not get the fliag. The Statute of West- minster added not any cublts to our stature, however, us it. merely gave documentary recognition to national and lntematlonal pro- cedure that, had already become well-established, It dld, however, give one country, Ireland, the op- portunity she h-id been waiting for for a century or more, namely to enjoy the benefits of British Com. monwealth relations without as- suming any or many of the respon- bllltles. And so we are to have a nut.- fonal flag, The Union Jack ls no longer acceptable. Never, perhaps, ln humiari history were so many problems pressing for solution and yet, day after day, in our legisla- lve halls men seriously consider the size and shape and the content. of a flag that, will adequately ex. ress our national significance. ow many maple leaves, how many Canadian Beavers, how many flours- de-lls can be worked into the de- sign without making 1t top-heavy, and would a Union Jack 1n one corner or the other make any difference? The time wasted over‘ this comparatively unimportant matter would make little differ. enm if that were the end of it. But ft ls only the beginning. No sooner does Canada get her distinc- tive national emblem than every Province of which the Domtnlon Ls composed wlll want. a flag of its! own. Any day now we may learn that Prince Edward Island ta tn have a. ance of time in which to dispose of the pressing questions to be presented, including the Fed- eral project for a. national compulsory health insurance scheme and the financial proposals of Finance Minister Ilsley. i i l I The famous “Blueiiose" pilot who outwit- ted the United States Navy one pitch black nigiht in Halifax harbor is vividly depicted in a portrait which went on display in Saint John in connection with the publication of the poem “Tallaliassee", by Mr. A. D. Merkel, of The Canadian Press. It was Jock Fleming, the Ketch Harbor, Nova Scotiii pilot, who took the Confederate Cruiser Tallahassee out by the tortuous Eastern Passage of the Halifax har- bor to the open sea and freedom, while Federal warships friiitlessly patrolled the main entrance to Halifax. The pilot's portrait wla done by Mini Faith Wood, allo a Maritimer, and a man- ber ‘of a well-known seaboard family, who has shown the seumim, clad in souhwestern and waterproof, outlined against the night sky-Is he concentrates on his hazardous feat. Min Wood, a promising Canadian portrait painter. is a granddaughter of Hon. Josiah, Wood of NIGHT I've traced the rhythmic splendor f night’! pageant the darkened space on w c a Buck to its IOIIIOI Jlld luddorily recaptured My own belle! in and and lullnl good. - I've walked on 0 Acton i imi ma‘ fhtmun‘ ewe ri w n ei- And claimed they lhod on nhuvu of And I have jounl with the moon: of A Into the nllht to such a glad ro- That atm- this ll lone Ind 1 coiitlnU , In some bright atnr .010 work .- ove to o w.“ Until it low: WIQIIM (m0 lmvlr- f on , m‘ m my unwllrlod m8 when 1 throul I shall be moved by bnuty to ro- How Vrlltfu the llihtcnfl dirk Sackville, a former. lieutenant-governor oft New Brunswick. and a niece of the late Senator‘. Frank B. Black, also of Sqpkville. *_ _ --l_f.A.Mwn . ‘It = After a My lllll on lvidefnt. ' The Mon ffw“ UlFlISlili/Vi filll ll. J. IIIBOII DPIOIITIIT Fltlfnl Ind 8 GIIIII lloutlllml-ll. 0H0! I i." ~ '- “"3ilZ.."¢‘:.3.l.7"'.i'8"‘. union-oar ‘ l. F. lliitcihoson G 80H . OPPOMETRIBTS "Specialists In tlio flt- tlu] of [luau for the eorrgstloii of ocular d; full. ' s; cum» aim: _ to 0P6. GUARDIAN. ' y, lips Chopped, i’ Rough‘; 50!’? flag, l. flag of its own to identify it 9,5 the smallest; and the driest Province 1n the Dominion. It ls high time that this flag waving for political purposes came Foster it, encourage it and Canada may well in the near future become a second Eur- Ig, is the insistence on nut. tonal soveretgnty, and’ racial sup- erlorlty that has made of a human slaughtenhouse for last thousand years. more flags we need but less. A time when great men every- where are directing their thoughts and ours toward a world state where racial dlsttn sovereignty wlll be of no BCCJLUIl. ls not. the time to bring this dis- redlted an end. subject ctlons fiddled while Rome he did at least afford e spectacle~for the hungry and uii- r ‘a’ Gives quick relic l O Rough, cracked, chapped lips are painful, bore, easily infected. Get quick relief with soothing. protect- ing Lypsyl. Sold everywhere in ‘handy stick form. Ge; Lypsyl today. employed populace and 181d H10 ground work for a greater Roma to come. Just what contribution this fiddling on Parliament l-Illl ls making toward the solution of our twentieth century problem! is dlf- ficult to ascertain. The release of atomic enemy find the emergence of bacterial war. fare make this wrangling over na- tlonal flags about. as trivial an oc- cupation as learned Parliamentar- ians ever engaged ln. When an international confer- enCe is called foi- the purpose of inaugurating a World State, with u. universal language and code of laws. a universal flag and a unt. versal code of honour we shall be- come interested. Just at, present we are only depressed and some- what disillusioned. I am, Sir, etc. VERNON caociierr. Charlottetown, P.E.I. Europe the It. ls not and national into the open - k aulflre‘ I ‘ DIEN lOVI -- PITWOOD WANTED -.. 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