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Hospital Efficiency

When the American College-of Surgeons began its program of Hospital Standardization l1! I917,‘ the public had no way of evaluating the quality of hospital service, no guidance in choosing a hospital, in fact little interest in hospitals. The College formulated standards, started annual personal surveys, alid has pub- lished each year reports of the surveys and lists of approved hospitals. The year after year em- phaslnupon the importance of approval, with education in the fundamental requirements upon which it is based, has led to quite general appreciation of what constitutes good hospital care. It has also developed s sense of public responsibility for the kind of hospital service furnished. growing out of realization that to have high standards, there must be demand for them and provision of adequate support to maintain them.

Every hospital that is today meeting patients’ needs efficiently is proof that its staff mem- bers, employees, trustees, and friends in the community are activated by the conviction that there is war work at home ivhich, if clone well, will speed our progress toward a happy V-day. For disease is an enemy with which we dare not pretend to sign an armistice while we at- tack other foes. It must be battled every day by skilled troops, backed by industrious lay sym- pathizers. Any other victory will be worthless if we lose the battle for health.

In this connection it is interesting to note that the American College of Surgeons have once again placed the Charlottetown Hospital, the Prince Edward Island Hospital, the Pro- vincial Sanatorinm and the Prince County Hospital on their I944 Approved List. The re- quirements which the College considers funda- mental to good hospital care constitute a rigid test. 3,152 hospitals in the United States and Canada are on the latest approved list, which is 80.6 per cent of the 3,911 hospitals of twenty- five beds and over under survey in I944.

Target For Today

“\Ve have a missing generation, we must never forget that .— the flower of the past lost in the great battles of the last war. There ought to be another generation in between ilicse young men and we older figures who are soon, llZl])l\, to pass from the scene. There ought to be an- other generation of men with their flashing lights and leading figures. lVe must do all we can to try to fill the gap."

So spoke Mr. Churchill at “Q-stiliiilstci" a few days ago. lt is a thoughl, suggests the [Vinnipeg Fri‘: Pres: in a stimulating year-end editorial, which applies equally to us. The 60,000 deed of 1914-18 were the flower of our country and no one who thinks on them will doubt the extent to which, had tlicy lived. our affairs would have felt in every phase the stimu- lation of their leadership and vigor. Especially should we remember at this time when, again, the flower of our country is falling in affirming the faith for which the generation of their falli- srs died.

We are now Will forward in the sixth year of this struggle. It is the last lap when, as Mr. Churchill said, races are won or lost. Now is the time for the greatest effort. the most steadfast will to win. The war, with its sorrow, sacrifices, and irritations, must still be brought to the only end possible to us-complete victory. It is part of the means to that end that the civilian popu- lation, upon which the troops at the front de- pend, throw off their iveariness, forget their personal vexations.

Long after the last war, Sir Robert Borden made an observation which applies today. One nf the discoveries he made about war, said Sir Robert, was that the feeling of the people at home was the decisive factor in the morale of the troops at the front. The home front arid the battle froilt in fact are one arid the same front.

"It is on the foe that our eyes must be fixed," said hlr. Churchill. "All else‘ must be subordinated to this supreme task."

These are wise words. As we enter this New Year, all of us should remember and act upon them.

Political Anomalies

It turns olit that the by-election in North Grey, where General NIcNaughton will try for a scat in llic llllll$(' oil February 5, is not to be n. straight two-nay’ contest between Liberals and Progressive Conservatives as had been somewhat generally expected, but a three-way fight between the major parties and the C. C. Ii-Socialists. This triangular contest has been assured by a recent decision of supporters of the C.C.I*'. group in North Grey to place a can- didate in the field. The contestants will there- fore be Defence Minister McNaughton, Liberal. Mayor Garfield Case, of Owen Sound, Pro- gressive (foiiservativc, and a candidate yet to pe named by the C. C. F. party. ‘ ‘

The Ontario executive of the L. C._F. has approved the entry of a C. C. F. Calldltlfllfldfl North Grey, and has given out a statement with respect to the situation as follows: “The voter nf North Grey would find little to choose be‘- tween the planless drifting of‘ the present gov- ernment and the reckless political opportunlfim of the Progressive Conservative party. The C‘. C. F. will fight this campaign on its programm- making all members of the armed forces i111-

mediately available without discrimination for general service, and national planning for._full employment and social security after the war."

It thus becomes apparent, says the Sydney Post-Record, that as the argument over the manpower question progresses, the proponents of C.C.F.-'Socialism are swinging steadily and definitely toward all-out conscription. This is the more noteworthy when it is remembered that the C. C. F. members of the House voted against the all-out conscription amendment of the Progressive Conservatives, and supported the piecemeal, hand-to-mouth draft measure of the King Government.

North Grey will therefore witness more political anomalies during this campaign than originally seemed assured. Defence Minister McNaughton will be supporting a policy he

opposed, and will be asking the electors of North b

Grey to substitute hiin as Ministerlof Defence for Colonel Ralston, who lost his cabinet post be- cause he was the author and advocate of the

very measure of partial conscription the Gen- M.

eral now defends. At the same time, there will be a C.C.F.-Socialist candidate in the field ad- vocating the precise, all-out conscription lllS party voted against in the House when proposed there by the Progressive Conservative opposi- tion. The average North Grey elector will cer- tainly have to keep his head in making any ‘at- tempt at appraising the issues of the election and the merits or demerits of the rival candi- dates. I

_EDITORIAL NOTES-

There are four persons in one apartment house in Charlottetown suffering from broken limbs-—a. record surely.

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In Windsor, Ont., a munition plant was shut down because its war contracts had been completed. It has re-opened again. Full pro- duction, we are told, should be reached by lune this year when about 70o employees ivould be manufacturing cartridge cases.

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The hcreditary standard bearer of Scotland, Capt. H. _l Scrymgeour-“lcdderbilril, now is on Gen. Eisenhower's staff. More than six feet tall and descendant of an old Scottish family, the House of Commons has seen little of hinl since thc \var begall. He was Under-Secretary for Scotland in I939 but resigned to rejoin Ins regiment at the outbreak of hostilities, then held the Under-Secretary's post again in I94I for a vear. Later he went on a mission to China and then returned to hits rsgitllell; again-

Should Prime Minister King fill at an early date the present I5 vacancies the government's membership in the Senate would be 63, with only 33 Conservatives, probably the largest nlajorlty in a lengthy period. Another record has been chalked up by the existing Senate membership. i)f the Si members there are 1o whose combined age is 335, or an average of nearly 84 years. Up- in the top line is Senator l5. l). Smith, of \\i'in0n;1, Um" \\'l1f)5Q ago is OI years, while Sir .\lleil r\_\‘l(.‘s\\'ul‘lll, who was hlinislcl" of Justice under Sir Wilfrid Lauricr. is 9o. Two other 0t the older members are Sir Thomas Chapais (86), and Hon. Charles Tanner‘ (87).

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There arc numerous vacancies iii the llousc of Commons, the largest number in a long tune. 1f t-he vacancy caused by the resignation of Ur. \\i'.l’. Teltord of North Grey is included the total at present is I2. \Vrits have been issued for by-cleclions in three of the I3; Tisgilw. Yilclll" ed h_v the resignation of T. C. Douglas, now C.C.F. premier of Saskatchewan; Rainy River- Kendra, vacated by the death of H. B. Mc- Kinnon, and North Grey, vacated by the resigna- tion of Mr. Teliord to lliakc way for the can- didacy of Defence Minister A. G. L. McNaugh- ton. Most of the other vacancies for which no move has yet been made to provide members are in Quebec province, and these ‘VIICQIICICS were caused chiefly by resignation. Five meni- bers resigned to contest seats in the recent pro- vincial election ill that province and a sixth rc- signed t_o accept appointment on the bench. Ail- other vacancy was caused by the death of Mr. Eugene Durocher (Montreal-St. ]ames). Many times Mr. King has told Parliament andpcoplc of his determination to see that no constituency" is. deprived of representation in the House. True, this is a moribund Parliament, a Parlia- ment which must expire the middle of next April but in the eight or Io crucial weeksfthe closing period of this Parliament-lime ridings will be without Members, practically all of them in Quebec province, for the two \Vesterii by- elections are strangely called to be held about lo days after the l9tli Parliament will cease to function.

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Joseph Juqu“ Cessire Joffre, Marshal of France, horn this date I352; l!!!» flame 51"‘ be’ came known to the public when, in b394, l“ 0°‘ cupicd Timbuktu; promoted LICULICOhflIEl fllld received the Legion of Honour; iii I911 W35 appointed Chief of the General Staff, ‘an ‘zip-g pointment implying supreme command in time of war; was in command of the French armies in Great War until succeeded by Foch lo i916- thruilgh the black period which began ivith the terrible defeat of the French at Cliarlcroi, and was followed by the long retreat to beyond the Marne; while France and Europe seemed to be in the direst peril, Joffre, known to his soldiers as "Grand-perc”, was the one man in autllority who remained cool and unflurricd, and he quiet- ly organized "the miracle of the Marne" which lcd to the retreat of the Germans when victory set-med to be within their grasp; on handing over command to Foch he was appointed tech- nical adviser to the Allied Forces and visited Washington iii connection with U. S. Afs entry into the war; joffre was distinguished for his simplicity of character and life, alertness and clcarness of mind, and organizing power, ex- hibiting a combination of intuition and reflec- tion, taking a wide outlook, without being (lbscs- sed by details, having remarkable common sense, hewing clcsc to the line and letting the chips fall where they may; he was every inch the beau ideal of what a soldier and leader should

THE CHARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

The Ul igestlop tn Tokyo these days; Ia at another fIeeLof n-aes oi-. another earthquake? - Stretford Beacon-Herald.

Looking backward over the rho: that is lust past (no tears. plea u), one wonders how so many thi could have happened tn so sb rt a time-Kitchener Record.

The melancholy days ere the saddest of the year.

l!‘ W0 11907! and llzhts too ellght. we feer.— n i: peg Tribune.

From the Polaroid labors comes e venttfat goflle w cannot cloud up or o . The go" has a bulbous nosep eee. Norm. reathln8 sweeps s eomplei change of fresh a-lr ln front of th wearer's eyes about once a um...» Moisture from wlthln the goggl ls removed before there ls enougl to condense as mist on the lens my tests conducted at a dese base in California showed that the 808816 protects eyes against dust.

The allusion In the phrase “To but on on_e's tlilnklng (oi- consid- Bflbs) cap‘ ls to the ancient cus- tom of the judges of the hlg courts of donnlniz their crowning head-dress, a black cap. before le- llverlng judgment. Now, it l5 as. sumed only prior passing sen:- ence of death and ln state pro. cesslons or on public occaslols, such us the receiving of the oath of office of the Lord Mayor. The phrase. of course. means to think over a proposition before deliver- lng ones decision-Letter ln Lon- don Observer.

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Wllh the olg. etle famine sev- eral days old, more pipe; per- caplta protrude from Chicago faces than at any time since the In- dians moved away. Even some of the ladies are taking up tasty brlcrs. Alert tobacconlsts offrrr small and dainty pipes, together with delicate blends of the weed. One advertisement goes so far as a level this selling point: “No Need 30 131W! Men and Their Fra- Erallt Pllles!’ This notion ulll amaze those husbands whose wives, envylng neither their 631.3- basliers “nor the odors thereof. shriek: Keep that alfalfa-burner “Way from my curtains!" or “That thins smells like you'd caught your toupce on flre. A season of pipe. smoking for these ladies them- selves may help to blunt the sharp- isleils of their tongues. - Chicago u .

All around Britain n strange harvest is being gathered ln ~ a harvest of bamboo cane, says the United Kingdom Information Of- flce. Before the war only Corn- Wnll grew this crop, but through "E dying off of supplies from Culna and Japan the strong 31-1. tlsli cane has become of front-line llllllortance. Its strength ls the main reason wily bamboo cane is illfiisllensnble for the support of heavy fruit crops. Tliere are 5391500 LZPOVES. even in the north of Scotland Where some of the finest cancs grow. The cane (1531. er (usually also growers) l to any part of (Lie British to buy the whole grove out- . so heavy ls the demand for ._ . Bundles of 100

oily-graded canes are tied cn n special bundling; mnclilne, a rack vfltll a strong foot iaedal, which ropes them together,

To any that Anthony Eden as- Dlrcs to the premiership would be grossly untrue, says William D. Bayles ln the American Mercury. He would undoubtedly rather spend the rest of his llfe gardening and Pfllllllng, but men of his class nre taught from blrth that service ls an obligation and they walt to be called. Deeply conscious of the fact that the "orderly, regulated progress" of the Baldwin-Chamber- laln era practically cooked Britain's goose. most of her fighting men in their letters home make stri- dent demands for a new, pro- gressive Brltaln. But. as a nation they feel a deep. nostalgic attach- ment to the past. and given the alternatlv a of Eden or a genera- tion o! t rmoll, the vast majority would undoubtedly settle for Eden. “Fer a toff," they say. "’e ain't bad, not ’arf."

At least some of the tel-prises of the United tates real- lze that the survival of private enterprise depends upon vigorous competition. and the lowest nus- slble selling price of goods. The Ford Company announces that, despite advanced costs during the war years, it, will produce a new and thoroughly modern car at pre- war prtces when peace comes. This announcement. denles the general expectation that cars must sell at higher prices after the war because manufacturing costs are higher; for against higher costs stands increased efficiency and its full use. Mr. C. E. Wilson. presi- dent of General Electric. announces that when his flrm goes back to elvlllan production its goods will sell at pro-war prices, despite all the increased costs of operation. Other manufacturers in the some llne have been suggesting that their goods must advance from 10 to 35 per cent ln price. Mr. Wil- son sees no such necessity, and he proposes to maintain his bre- sent wage level. He can do both, he evidently believes. by handing on to the consumer and the wage earner the benefits of mass pro- duction and improved technl ues. private enterprlse everyw re would follow the same policy, and apply lt to international trade. there would be no question about recovery after the war, and no doubt that private enterprise would out-produce and undersell all forms of state enterprise. Men like the Fords and Mr. Wilson offer a challenge to all private enterprises whose system must enterprise and compete or eventually go underr- Winnipeg Free Press.

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Ailmtnl Sir James Somervllle. K.C.B.. D5.0.. new head man for the British Navy on the Joint Chlefa of Staff ln Washington. comes fresh from service ln the Indian Ocean. Up untll a few months ago he commanded n. fleet which didn't exist. When people ask hlm "Where the hell was the British Eastern meet?" he savs he answers with, "What the hell was the Eastern Fleet!" But the Jabs thought there was a British fleet operating in the Indian Ocean to protect the supply lines. and thata why they weren't more active ln raids west of Blniwbore. It was one of the blinzest bluffs of the war. and lt worked-New York

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Poems From The Desert

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The flfiht of Army in the thsert wss an epic. But. the soul of t flaht. perhaps never been so vividly

nae so knprnstvely revealed ss in the poems written by those who fought, whlle they were fighting. These poems recently ubl ed in Canada by the 01d.’ University Press, are not the e of ii§°°l$i poem wrreffteu unda u; 1 t. As Field Marshal

B. L. Montgomery says in his fore- word. base 5:0: were written by W Duert. from m Anny wblle

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hlss cram." n “M uc , er such c have been strik- ingly cleansed o! ertlf ‘ialtty, They are not obiectlve, nor abstract. nor oontemplet ve; for they were writ- ten when the sting and the shock e nerves. Yet. they

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have about them the sharp pene- tratlon of being so close to ex- poi-fence.

They are the work of men in the Eighth Army's varied services — of lieutenants and se esnta, of lance-corporal! and pr vetce, of bombardlers and troopers. of slg- nalmen and gunners. Yet. from this variety of ranks comes a un- ity of expression. Clearly o0 all these men. lt was a long struggle and a desperate one, fought. out. ln exhaustion and wlthout mercy. against a strange desert beck- ground that made llfe itself seem remote and unreal and pltlleas.

Indeed, the pltlless cruelty of the desert finds ts way into nearly all these battle poem-s. These men write of the "endless plain of b - ren sorrow”; of the "cruel not - lngnesa of sterile sand"; of the "heat that plueka the very Ilfe of withered thorns"; of the "silencer of vast spaces where even the wind ls soundless"; of the desert, "mighty vold of hope. _ disturbed from tortured sleep by sounds of war." Even those who‘ sense the antiquity of its human history. sense still more keenly liow utterly that history has with- ered and died, until now it. ls sunk- en and lost in the drifting sand.

This pltlless barrennesa becomes all the more terrible as the back- ground of so much death. It ls into the uncovered sand that the spilt blood soaks, while. with the com- lug of‘ each night, the desert claims and enwra-ps its new dead. The bitter sadness expressed in the llnee of Bombardier L. Challoner ls made all the greater by the slin- ple lightness of their lllt:

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1y. As the sun dropped. angry. red. Out of the golden western sky? The smoke still rose ahead, And the lust. of the fighters from‘

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their void The last of their unknown dead.

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FOXES

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BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE

(Dedicated to the slxt/v thousand Canadians whose ntkiies are written in the Book oi Remembrance.)

Rlnll out. ye bells of Carillon

These poems leave unforgettable lrnipreslons, not only of the stark background of the desert. eam-' palgn, but of the human fury with which that campaign _was fought. There ls everywhere urg-- ‘cncv and tension, the straining of. muscle and brain. It appears ln| the significant flashlng of the guns m such lines as those of Lance- Corporal I. Celner: