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Morning Dally (Founded ln 1887) Authorised n Second Class Mail. Post 0m“ Department. Ottawa.

;.gflflent, Ian A. Burnett; Vice-President. Wm. It. B11119“; Sonya-Trees, (i. “M. Burnett;

Frank Walker.

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

FRIDAY. may u. 1941

llaluahle lleaith. Survey

Many surveys ui one kind cr crzthcr have been undertaken in the Province in recent yours, but none is likely to. prove of more Yuliw lhfl" the one undertaken by the Tuberculosis League in co-operation with the Department of Health and Welfare, which has been followed up by the X-raying, during the past year, of 34,658 persons by means of the Mobile X-Ray Unit. From an article on this subject in the curint issue of The Island Crusader, published ct the Provincial Sanatorium, we quote:

"The great majority of those X-rayed were assured that their lungs were healthy. The dis- appointment of the few who were found to be larbouring an unsuspected disease was usually tempered by knowledge of the benefits of early discovery and early treatment. Some of the cases turnd in by our survey were already known to the Health Department, but 97 previously un- known cases were discovered and given that early warning which is so imPOTTUM/I _

The cast of this survey, including deprecia- tion of the equipment, was $233 apt-ace for each of those 97 persons. This is a small sum com- pared with the value of a human life, or even compared with the cost of maintaining such a patient in the Sanatorium for the additional months of treatment which would be necessary if this survey had not given him an early ‘warn- ing. Part of the cost of the survey was paid for by Christmas Seals and part by the fees collect- ed from the persons examined.

“King 0f Canada"

The Canadian Government will iniliflll? <1 move to have the title of His Majesty changed to include specifically the designation King ‘of Canada. Such a move, ‘as External Affair; Minister St. Laurent explained to the Commons on Wednesday, can only be made, by action of all the Parliaments of the Commonwealth. This was agreed to at the 1927 imperial Conference. However, he gave the assurance that the Gov- ernment, through diplomatic channels, would consult the other Commonwealth governments and ascertain whether they would be willing to have the subject discussed at the next Com- monwealth Conference. _No such canfite-"W '5 now on schedule but the Minister felt sure there would be one within a year. The present of- ficial title of His Majesty is His M051‘ Exwllenl Majesty George the Sixth by the Grace of God of Great Britain, Ireland and of the Brilish Dominions beyond the seas K109. Diiflld" °l the Faith, Emperor of India.

The Government announcement resulted from a private member's resolution moved by Euene Marquis (L-Kamouroska, Que-i. ill" "l the next conference of the llnited Kingdom and the Dominions the Canadian representatives should ask for a resolution recommending legis- lation to allow the change.

London Housewives 0n Rampage

There is a steadily rising storm of pro- test among women in England against the scarcity and high cost of living. At a meet- ing in London housewives adopted a resolution demanding that the Prime Minister take im- mediate sheps to reduce the cost of living with- out introducing further state subsidies. 1t urg- ed an appointment of skilled administrators to the cabinet "in place of theoretical planners."

More and b-etter food and batter homes, with an abolition at once of unnecessary re- strictions on trade and industry, were also de- manded by the women.

The women's united front claims to he a non-political body. Miss Joyce Marsh, who pre- sided, is president of the Association of Women Launderers. She summed up the organization's aims by saying: "W-e want to see the people of Britain properly fed, housed and clothed, happy and secure."

There is no doubt that the women on whom the worst of the burden of rationing has fal- len, both during and since thywnr, have begun to revolt. The only question is how widespread ls the movement.

Each lless Monster

For. the first time in more than a decade the Loch Ness monster is back in the news. Though the unkind suggestion is mode that its reappearance coincides nicely with the start of the Scottish tourist season, there is no reason to believe that the monster is subsidized. Thirteen years ago, when interest in the monster was a‘. its height, Sir Edward Mountain, a British busi-

’ ness man, hired a score of watchers, equipped

them with field glasses and cameras and sta- tioned thorn at various points about Loch Ness. in tho first two weeks of July, 1934, these twenty watchers reported seeing the monster twenty-one times and they obtained several snapshots, none of which provided the moans ofi curtain identification. In September of thel some year another wotch-ar took a picture of tho monster with a telephoto lens at a distance

of a niilo When this photograph and others

ltltod at tho Linneon Society of Lon- ‘ r, 1934, members of the audi-

lrlditur iinil' Managing Director, .1. R. Burnett: ABSOf-‘lBlB-Etlllflf-i

icnce did not agree upon Identification, but tho ‘weight of opinion was that the monster was a iszal; this was also the guarded opinion of the Nature, British scientific weekly. But others, as well versed in the observation of animals, said the creature was an otter; still others, that the verdict should be "not proven."

i in any case, not long after this most am- ‘ bitious attempt to identify the monster, it dis- apperrad from notice. .No more fantastic tales zcume from Fort Francis or lnverness; no more earnest eyewitnesses provided a host of con- llictiiig and contradictory details. No mere mon- ster of doubtful lineage could hope to compete for attention with oil the world-shaking news stories of the late '30's and the early '40's. But if fr: monster is reallyback in Loch Ness, it is lo be hoped that Scottish and English pertinacity . can 1."! loagued together to put a label on this clusic creature.

_0verstuffed Payrolls

Complaint was made recently by a high Government authority at Ottawa that unless considerable salary increases were granted to certain notable public servants, then they would be forced to take much higher remuneration of- fei-eil them by private business. .This may pos- sibly be true in some cases. But, as the Hamil- ton Spectator remarks, what people are more iiitc csted in at this time is reducing the size cf c- huge Government machine that demands cuch high-priced talent. Some other cases- inanr of them—may be looked on as pretty hypcthetical. A people harrassed by cost-of- living stress, and warned that it is a public duty

to cxercise restraint in doing anything that might push price levels up further, can not iinalyze too finely Government actions that

seem to be in sharp contradiction to a com- manly-pleaded policy of general w-elfare.

That is why it is so important that any considerable specific increases be fully elabor- iited and justified. Government cannot g-et so tar from the lives and thoughts of the average citizen as to ignore the very real concern these citizens have in the use of public moneys and "s bearing on a not foo happy period of post-

ur adjustment.

On a smaller scale-much smaller in ?rin:e Edward Island, of course--the Provinces all seem to be heading in the some direction as Ottawa. All are building up tremendous bur- caurratic services and there is no sign of any "return to- normalcy" insofar as curtailing ex- ...:liturcs is concerned. Out-of-town members of our Legislature must have found themselves los‘ in the maz-e of officialdom in Charlottetown -—that is if they ever tried to visit all the Gov- ernnent offices, Federal and Provincial, which arc scattered over the City, and increasing ‘in- stead of diminishing all the time.

- EDITORIAL NOTES —

The Empire Press Union has appointed a committee to arrange for a meeting of the Uni-m in Canada in 1950.

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Britain's coalminers will soon be the first in the world to work in bright daylight. Tests witl- fluorescent lighting proved so successful that the National Cool Board plans to instal it first in selected pits in South Wales, York- shire and S:otland, and ultimately in all suit-

eiblo mines.

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Butter has been boosted in price. Of the additional l0 cents a pound 8 l-Z cents is ac- counted for by withdrawal of the subsidy on but- ler fat and 1 1-2 cents is given to the farmer in the hop-e that it will spur butter production. Demands mode by the farmers as recently as 2 wecks ago called for a l6 cent adjustment, bringing the retail price up to approximately 6O cents. Wednesday's announcement indicates that Finance Minister Abbott and his Prices Board won out in the argument.

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Catherine the Great, born this date 1729; she was first mistress then wife of Peter the Great, and after his death became Empress in her own right. Peter set out to conquer Eastern and_ Northern Europe, and succeeded marvel- oiis‘y. His reign was marred by acts of great criiizlty, as exemplified in the execution of his son Alexis; yet owing to his genius Russia mode encsmous strides duripg his reign; he nominated Catherine as his successor.

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Six thousand students in Britain-that is onc in cvcry three-are to be provided each year with free university education. This was an- nounced recently‘ in Parliament by the Min- ister of Education when giving details of the Government's new scholarship plan. ln the past, four out of five State scholarship winners have stalled at Oxford, Cambridge or London. in tho future u greater share of Britain's talent will be allocated to other _universities ‘and SCfHlGfS will be divided among them all on a basis roughly proportionate to their size. But so far as possible this allocation will take into account individual preferences.

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There is no indication that the surplus of fats for eating and cooking will become larger on the North American Continent in the near future. In the States the report is that com- jbinud stocks of butter, lard and cottonseed oil "decreased 63,269,000 pounds during March. The ; tot 1| on April l was 486,756,000 pounds. That lcompared with 687,643,000 pounds on April 1, 1946. The visible supply of butter on April 1 win- only 7,865,000 pounds, compared with 9,- 98t,000 on March l and with 14,925,000 a year earlier. Tho five-year average for April 1 is 37,719,000 pounds. Stocks of lard on April 1 were 106,691,000, compared with 117,557,000 on March 1, and 174,553,000 the five-year aver- ngn. Cottonseed oil supplies totaled 930,500

flutes By tho Way

It's Franco who says Spain h to be a monarchy. The nice flung about. a dicarorship 1s that the Pwllle don't have to be bothered with making their own decisions. —Ot‘.awa Journal.

Ono wife ucku a dliorco because she says. hs-r hueband kicks the checkerboard when losing. Shucks. maybe he's just tryfng to develop a new game. employing the best features or chess and football-i Fredericton Cleaner.

0n one of lilo trips to this con-i tinenf. (Luiurchlll was asked wh Turkey stayed out of the war. H! replied that. the Turks could sep the remnants of 12 slate; d-inglin, from the Naziygallciws. and thong t it Wfllild be extremely unlucky for them in be the thirteenth. Pey- liaps ‘Turkey's reluctance to emgr

London, Ont. Free Press.

I At one time 0nt.u"o bcleivrrl that drinking CCiTNdlllLHS were worse in other parts of Canada than in this province. But svhaoas New Brunswlcks annual expenditures n liquor as shown by the offtc l Dominion returns for the tisqal year 194-5. avork out to $57 for every prrson ovrr the age of 20. and Quebec's to $60.6. those of Ontario represent $71.3 for evezy PBTSDH over the age at’ 20.—Toront.o Daily Star.

When President. Truman vlsfts Canada in June. he can be assur- cd of a warm welcome. Not; only shall we be honored to entertain the head of the Government of our neighbor nation. but We shall be delighted to greet a man for whom we hold B. deep respect. Some of our wamnest recollec- tions of the late President Roose- velt won; formed during the per-

both formallv and lufomiolly. We arc anxious to make the 5am." close acquaintance of his succes- cal‘, who matches hi5 great pre- dsccssor in sincere friendship to‘ all things Canadian. — Windsor Star.

Some of the glam-tor arrl Flor

lrelebratlons due to tit.- lca-n on i"1" sale of skyrocket? tut the measure ‘.5 0.1a of so" iifetyAThese are devices dangerous to both life and prop/spy. All fir-us of fireworks of course, havi- nlfnents of risk in them. They shculrl be handled with flip utmost can and only by or tinder the sun rvision of adults. Skyrm-kets, however are things that pass beyrmrl the control of those Fflttding ihein up. and thrro have been l1llrt".‘“0l'5 instances nf their lYliitiflfllF. still "lowing. falling on "people and buildings. we shall all he refer without them. —Wlnds0'.‘ Star.

Tlwro iii B Indy operating a board- liig house down in Alabama who has a simple. silent. but moat of- fcctive rmclhod o! collecting money fro-in delinquent boarders. A new arrival of this lady's establishment noticed at supper that cine of the boarders had one fork to m-any be- side hi5 plate. and seemed to be acutely embarrassed over the cir- cumstance. “Why L; be so disturbed over the extra fork?" the new boarder whispered to the gentleman seabed beside him. "Oh, thatshow the landlady collects past due board bills", was tho laughing explanation. "When she puts that extra imple- ment beside a plate it slimcly means ‘fork over’." - Wall Street Journal

There ls a growing trend towards installing power and telephone lines in underground ducts and it would seam a natural development l! the city and utility companies. could, in future. co-opcrate in construction of permanent tunnelg housing sewer and writer nmins and tele- phone and power lines when there is a concentration of such facilities in the downtown area. Such per- manent tunnels would naturally cost more lnillally but in the long run they would prove cheaper 1n view of further changes which will inevitably have to be made to SEWER’. Will/ET rind utility services in a grow- ing city like Vancouver. Tearing up our mnln streets every generation can get to be o costly thinness.- Vuncouvcr Province.

If the young pomp‘: (In the fnrm 02:1 h- induced in enjoy the farm. in learn the skill and science of farming. and to niako it their life work. agriculture will be preserved niiri rural communities iziven n new ‘tcrzn of life. Fz-srmirig is a way o.’ life its well as revrnue z-nri income. The work being done by the 4-H Club in thr Unlled States and the Junior Farmcrs Association here are hopeful signs of n hcialthy change. In l'V'.‘l'y other industry success de- ponds on lite influx of young blood. young ideas. young strength. ‘If-ii- fcrm l5 no different. Indeed the value O1 youth is accentuated on the land because research has come to agriculture later than to most other industcies and generally speaking the oldcr men are strangers to the science of their business. - London Free Press.

One of Manitoba's irillnary de-

‘rms cnAnLorrTriTowoi GUARDIAN

such a struggle is understandable-i

icds when tie visited this countw.‘

will be missing from Vlctrfia Day]

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l-iUBLlC FORUM

This column la open so the illooaflon by carro- opoisloata of gaaofloua cl mums. ‘Ibo Charlottetown Guardian does not uncensor- fly oadoroa the opinion at correspondent

PIN FBIINDQ WANTED

Str.—I um Writing to ask you if you ooula get me 1n touch with pen fries-ids. For a long time my favorite author has been L.M. Montgomery. Her descriptions of Prince Edtward Island ihave mode me Lhink what a wonderful place 1t must. be, and I should like to hen.- more about tr. 1f you could help me throng-h your paper I should be very grateful.

'1n case you can I will give you a few details of myself. l have just been demobbea from the A.'r.s., I have brown hair. blue eye-s. and am very short, Just, 5ft 1 I-Zins. My cihfef interests are bocks. films. mus- lic. and travel. Wlhlie in the services I spent some time Ln Egypt.

1 do hope you can helpmmany- way. thanks very much.

I am. sir. etc. (Mina) Shelia. Ralney - Green Parade, Ktngsbury. London. N.W.9.

“TOO M UCII SCOTCH"

' Sir. — As every Ono knows. the Scotch rule Llie earth; but too much Scotch does really affect. the ord- ina-ry mortars equilibrium.

Ever since the announcement by the Guardian a day o: two ago. that the Suprcme Court at. Ottawa ‘had “made Avtzandum" Qt a cer- tain Appeal Case ivhich was argued last. week, the wires have been hot. and life has been made miser- iable by the constant query: 'Vl.'1:;ii [the heck‘ does “avizariclunfl nzsaii? ‘The word can't; be found ln any ‘dictionary’?

Although I have no Scotch what- ever in my Composition, 1 might s't at rest the troubled mtncL; of ~ .;.:"i lawyers and even of some r izcn if you were good enough t; publish the following explana- tion. which is taken from "Bell's Dictionary and Digest of the law jof Scotland", (published Ln 1861). iIt readsz- ,

“AVIZANDUM: To make wiz- andum wit-h a process, or part of lit, ts to take it. from the public court to the private consideration ‘of the Judge. When l]. Lord orato- ary 1n the Court of Session, either after hearing parties. or. of con- sent. without. a. debate, 1s called upon to pronounce his decision. and. in place of doing so do Plano

sider. he makes avtzanrlum with the process a-nd debate. 1f there has becn one. and a formal inter- lccuitor to that effect is in such cos-es written out. ‘Ilae process is them Lrimsmittm to hl.rn by the clerk; and. after considering it. the 10rd Ordinary issues his dtxision 1n the usual form. Prior to the changes "introduced by 13 and 14 vicL. e. 30. when the parties had finally adjusted their avermie-nts and answers. and were prepared to close the record. the cause was en- rolled before the 10rd Ordiinaryi. also made isviziandum with it. with the view of seeing how for the av- errnemis of the parties met each other, and that the record was in a, fit shape for being closed. a for- mal fnterlocutor making avlaandiun petng also written by the clerk; and the Lord Ordinary having sat.- isfled himself that the record was correctly framed, retumed the case from avizandum. and ‘lrdezicd it lo be enrolled, for the purpose of closing the record. as more partic- ulgrly explained voce Record. This form of procedure 1s_ now entirely abolished excerpt 1n actions of multtplepoin-dlng and other pro- cesses of competition. which are still regulated by the for- mer; rule; and the revised P8P- ers are now simply transmitted to the Lora Ordinary by the clerk, without. any enrolment. or formal inberloculor roi- the purpose With incidental prmeedings, such as re- ports ordered by himself for his own information, the Lord Ordin- ary usually makes avilznndum. In

ovizandum with the summons. I order to consider and dispose o the releusncy of the avecments be fore allowing proof."

The practice has no countierpar. in either English or Caniadla Courts. In these Coin-ls. after art! umtitit. the Court frrquontly ‘tak time 1o rdnsldor". ‘This 1a usual expressed in the Latin phi-as. "Curio edvlsarl vult".

I am. Sir. etc. "NO SCOTCH FOR ME"

--oi3vTTioriri 0a.»

Sir.—Agr1r-.ulf.uc'isl.s in this Prov- ince may be classified as fallvwfll i1). Those who believe in 1111181138 their own farms to minimum pro- ductilon levels and keeping them there. and (l?) Those who depend largely on imported feeds.

As farming 1s a tiamrdous oc- cupation depending upon- the vag- arles of the weather. the ups and dawns of thii business cycle and the whims and fancies of politic- fans. We will find successa and mtiuna among both classes. In the

itcacles. Winnipeg goldeye, is be- coming scarce and prairie people are greatly concerned. Them are still goldeyies. but their number has decreased by as much as so percent in some lakes 1n the put three years. Their presence on a dining room table Ls now more by good fortune than abundance. Once goldoyes were a standard item on railway dining ca: menus. Now they are rarely included. Pbrmerly the eastern market absorbed forge ship- ments. Now when Toflrnto and Montreal fish-eating places advertise them. eplcurlans hall it as a red- letter day. The present shortage 1s not to be construed u moaning

last analysts under democ -t.lc tn- ctttuttons. each farmer must choose fa: himself the‘ best method or ho may elect. to follow is middle course. trusting to providence and the daily press for guidance.

The scarcity o! farm labour. the reluctance of sauna maple to ful- low ln the footsteps of their fath- ers and the (nee with which for- eign feed: con be set down at our doors m1 often the deciding fue-

our feed stuffs 1n the open mar:- ket, we help to support the firin- ers and business mm of the West. the Jranooontlncntul railways, (which are always f‘ lincially em- bamaoed), and the Dominion

that goldoyu are on the way to extinction. But the rouon for their dearth ls not entirety clear. Ind