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THE GIEARLUTTETUWN GUARDIAN

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frosiclertt: Livut. Col. W. Chester S. McLllh Vice-President: J. R. Burnett. F-J-I- Secretary: Lieul. Col. D. A. Mnclitunnn. 9-3-0- Edllor and Dlauagittg Director: J. B. Burnt“, F-J-l. Asaoetate Edilnrs: Frank \\ alker and Inn A. Burnefl

SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Mall in I'.E.I.. $4.00 pfl’ year; $2.50 for 8 months. $1.25 for 3 months; 50c for one mflnth Clty Delivery: $5.00 er year; $3.00 for 0 monlhl $3.75 or 3 months. By Mail In (‘annda and U-S- 5-! $5.00 P" Y!!!‘ _ Iaturday Weekly: $2.00 per year: $1.00 for 6 months, 50c for 3 months.

‘The Strongest Jlentury is Weaker than the Weakest Ink." ' _

ruasnav. DECEMBER s, mo. “Very Much More"

about the disappointing rcsttllS bf 111a “111- savittgs campaign, .\lr. llslcy told ]"1rli'u11c111 11.1 n1~1-lv ".\ good start has been A A ‘i _ l _ l! “W1C 1,,“ 11,. 11111.1 1111 veiy 11inch mote. Applied 11,1 war satvittgs this continent. >315 the Financial l'o,~t, is a kindly tutdcrstatentetit. I11 six uitniths 11f effort 0111)‘ $31.5 11111110115 0f certificates l1.'1ve list-n will. 1118 T3118 0f 53195

even n1nv is Ytllllllllq little better than $2.5 mil-

dpeaking

llOll> a 1111111111. _\, _\l1-_ ll.l111~ painted 11n1. this is “far short"

of the 211111111111111111 nntst be 511111. The new ob-

jccthe is $10 millions 11111111111)’. _ _

\\'itl1 11111: 1"c~11ect 111 the new organization wl1it~l1 11,11.- l11~1n ~11 11p, 0111111111105 tltc Post, it is 141011 111 grate 11111111: if 11v1~n the modest sum of $10 1111111011: 1t 1111111111 will be achieved.

'l‘here are t\v11 rt-as11iis.

1.111111 the lint... clrtnitcls through which the war savings 111.’11;_11":t11111ic. is being merchan- llirCtl a11- i1;.'1.1l<‘1111:11et-1 reach decp down into the hear: and p1~:"1~ oi every Canadian.

2. 'l‘har the (‘1111-0111111111111 has failed as yet in bringing 1,11 t‘ nadiztns a realization of the real 11,1111(~ 1.1’ <1 1 sJlvlllQ that must be re- quired 11f 1-111rv if tlte war cffurt is to h." 11r11<cr111r1l s11 ,f11ll_v.

.\lr. llsley linrnvs the sacrifices that 1111151 be

made 111111 the smings 1l1:11 must he practised 11v lltlir/lizliis. llc 11111-11 appreciate the urg- ent 1111111 f11r gcttiin; snrh i11fr1r1t111lirn1 across to the 1.11111.‘ and file 11f citizens and to business and

crnnzuttuitv leaders. lf we are to do the “vcrv 11inch more" which

lilr. ll-lev speaks 11f. a starting point is the na- 1i1'111»\vi1le 11111 11f i11f11r111:1li1111r1l and inspiratimial l1~a1le11~l1ip 11111l1‘1' thc 111.111 iittaginative direction

\\'C CIlll FCTllFt’.

Sleep And Bombing —- - --——i—~—- n4 Avceptiitg i1~ figures as authentic and well based. a lillllllllliwll prt-pztrcwl by a contributor t0 the l.11111'l1111 $11ecta111r providCs further and c011- 1p1111111vary cvhlence oi the power of the human 1"1rg;111i~111 11,1 111111111 ll>tfll 111 the 11111st terrifying Clllltlllilllb. The :1111h1n~i1y is '1". llarrissou, and hr- ]'1l'Cf1lt‘<"~ his e11111pila1iot1 with the state- ment that "i11 peacetime investigations we found about 3 pct" c1111 of the people of London and

lJlllUZlSlllH‘ regularly getting less than four hours Sleclii 1111 .1111‘ 11i;h1 in the last fortnight (early September) there ltave never been less

than .10 per cent getting 105a than four hours in London. llowevcr, there has been a “slow bttt steady readinsttnent" in London by the propor- tion in six lnndou arvas who report no sleep at all 11111-1111; “typical tnghts" since the .~\..\. began. This table tells the story: Percentage saying they

Date get no sleep at all S6111’. l2 1 3f per ggnt SPPK. I5 2S per cent SQPt- 19 24 per cent SPPY- 12 9 per cent

Mr. l-larrisson says that the actual hours of bleep "remain itiarlcqttate", particularly among women. who average half as much sleep as men. Irle adds that “women with children have been sleeping noticeably less than women without, Ind in general women ltave shown an almost excessive devotion to others at their own ex- pense."

The man or wntnan who “didn't close an eye all last night” is likely to have taken at least a. few winks forgotten in the morning in the dis- turbed condition brought on by a restless night. But weariness works wonders in the human horlv and if one man can march asleep, another Ahntlld be able to slumber as the bombers dive and the anti-aircraft guns thunder.

. lard Godbout told a delegation from the south

Low On Patriotism

David Low, fantous cartbonist for Lord Ieaverbrooks papers, recently gave an address, on the subject of patriotism. In the course of it he said:

"it is the strength of the Ipndcmers today that they are at the head and forefront of or- tlinary decent people everywhere, the represen- tatives of Ordinary decency throughout the world in the ilefence of the sintple humanities. The Nazis hold otherwise, nf course. They pro- pagate the lie that this is a war of imperialism in which the wicked British ljntpire fights only to keep its winnings. 'l“he_v constantly 5¢Qk 1g segregate 11s nitliotially. 'l‘hcy w1111ld lovg 115 1o work ourselves 11p 111111 a good old lmntbastic jingu mood, itiatcltitig our boasts against their boasts and iniitatitig their fatuotis tiatioltal pride. They want us 111' scream about our race s11- periuritv. our 1111111 llnll and our Britannia be- cause that 111111111 jitstifv’ one of their funda-

H fore itjs a statue 11f Cromwell. the middle-class Etiglishinau wl1o“(li1'l'r1’t like t_v1'ant1v a111l so got

quor Act will be enforced “with the ittntost sev-

their countries to exccll, nut by depressing oth- ers below their own level, but by the exatnple of raising tl1e111 all t1» higher standards 11f well-he- uig. This is the faith 11f the ltopeful UHCF.‘ .\ new urdcr, a new ccoiioitiics, a new cifzritncy -that is what this war is all about, l think, 111111 why the British Lloitituunvrcaltlt is warring. why London is a battleground, and why l have to llllFl'_\' when l cross Westminster llritlge.

"As l walk off it. l pctss 1111 111v right an c11- ormun-s statue of loadicezt, looking like .\lr. Winston Churchill it1 itight attire, (lriving a couple of stone horses against the itivading 1P- gions of two thousand years ago. To my left is a delicate filigree edifice wdificc, please, 11111 ln1ilding-l‘arliatuent, the llotlse of (jommuns, the symbol of our struggle for the common tnau, of ottr unremitting striving towards orderly growth and a fuller life down the centuries. Be-

up and kicked it out. .=\ud so across the road from where. down \\'l1itehall, I can sce the column of Nelson. the Captain who disposed of the last swell-headed despot who tried to invade Britain."

EDITORIAL NOTES

Having given everybody credit for evcr_v1hi11g and taken none for thctnselves. thc Scotsineu will retire from after dinner oratory for a whole

year.

011110101

Evidently lap Canadians are as patriotic as arc othcr Canadians. One 11f 111cm, a petisitntei of the CTCR. ltas just contributed his November pension cheque to a fund being raised to buy a modern $100,000 bomber plane for the R.C.:\.l*

101>11>l<1k

i Premier King and hlinister of ‘lustice La- Poitite do not see cvc-to-eve with Premier Aberhart, but all the same they have passed 1n ordcr-in-council renewing for one vcar the $6; 102,000 loan to the province of Alberta under tlle 1111en1plo_v111c11t and agricultural ti-Lsistititct‘ act. The loan matured lleeetnhcr 1. i! it i! 1K .

Because in a cable from Rome tn New York Titties, l\lr. llc-rbert 1.. Klatthews had said the .\.\'is would welcome the dcfcat of l\lr. l11111sc~ velt. he was ordered to lcave the ctntulrv. livi- (lcittlv hlttssolini has relented his rash action for the ltaliait Government has agreed without re- striction: m‘ cnnrlitintis of any kind 111 the return of Mr. Matthews 111 his post in Route.

111 =11 11- 111

One advantage of a Government enjoying an overwdielnting majority, its tneiubcrs can scat- tcr hither, thither during even the setting of the House without let 01' hindrance. The lillCSl to g0 0n a jaunt is Trade Minister‘ .\l:tcl\'i1111nn, who, accompanied 11y thrce technical advisers. has sailed for the \\'cst Indies and South Am- erica t0 encourage trade between this country and theirs. '

101*!‘

British medical authorities and British C1011- erumcnt are considerate 11f stranded doctors front foreign lands. Col. Peaks, the Under Secretary for Home Affairs, told the llousc of Lfonnnoils that "Americans and nationals of other friend~ ly cotmtries who have nhtaiited a llritislt 1legree may remain hcre tentporarily‘ and take certain appointments."

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Rev. Robert Stephen llawkcr, Fnglislt poet and antiquarian, born this date, 1Ro3. 1111 Cornish poems and ballads are Cllill'2l\'ll‘l'i\llt‘ 11f the district and people. llis best l1'1111\vn poem -—"And Shall Trelawnly die?" is full 11f spirit and life:

And have they fixed the where and when?

And shall Trclaivnlv die? There's thirty thousand Cornish men Will know the reason why. 111 111 111

The Defence Department i: enmmanrleering Maritirrte Exhibition property all right. l1 is a11- nounced the department will umv take over the entire plant of the Xlarititne Winter Fair at Amherst. and that the grandstand at Frederic- ton will be demolished from the trotting oval to make more space for military use. Negotiations with llalifax have fallen thrrntgh, the llali- gonians asking more than the economical gov- ernment at Ottawa are prepared to give.

n1 1v n1 111

The clean up of bootleggers is not confined to this Province. Provisions of the Quebec Li-

erity" by provincial authorities, Premier Ade-

shore municipality of lilontmagtty which urged strict application of the liquor laws in that dis- trict. “I have no hesitation in telling you that we intend applying the alcoholic liquor act fully in this province,” the Premier said. “We have started a clean-up in the province. As you know. a. number of establishments have been closed down and manydiquor licences l1ave_been can- celled. some permamently". The (lelegatintt in- cluded Mayor Telespliore Coulombe and Rev. Auguste Lessard, parish priest at Montmagity.

101 1a 1c w

According to a return tabled at Ottawa there are 278 Federal judges in Canada. The judges are divided as follows: Supreme and excheqtier courts, 9; Prince Edward Island, 7; Nova Sco- tia, I4; New Brunswick. 13; (Jitcbes, 52; On- taria, S5; ‘\la11itoba, 21; Saskatchewan, 30; Al- berta, 21; British Columbia, 25; Yukon, 1. Sal- aries are as follows: Chief justice, $15,000; supreme Court, $12,000; president of the ex- chequcr court, $10,000; puisne judge of the ex- cher|ner court, $0.000. Proviticial courts: 11°. chief justices, $10,000: 11.1 supreme court judges, $9.000; one senior circuit c1111rt judge. $8,000; three circuit court judges (Rlontreal), $7,000; 131 district and cottuty judges, $5.000; additional salary to four (ll.\ll'it‘l judges in .\1'.- miralty. $1.000: one district judge in .\1l1nir.'1lt_v. $800: one district judge in .1\1ln1iralt_v, $6011; additional to twn judges i11 divorce courts, $500. 'l'l1e answer tabled said judges did r1ll1cr work l1c=idcs [ire-idiug in their courts. such as serv- ing on royal cotnitiissinns in which case thev were allowed living and tritvvlling extremes. Ulllfldfi 11115 S“ i111l1ze< 1111 stipcr-atiitttation r1:-

THE CIIARLOTTETOWN GUARDIAN

NOTES BY TllE WAY

\\'e are safe. all right. Our only 1l111:s.t- 1s 111111, uea gel so ntad “E 111.11. 1731's whether we're .at-g or not. — Buffalo News.

Since early 111 life when we 1111111- inecl our head into a turrets‘ nest. lv-n-e 611111111111; a tree to Bsca-p: 1111 digital-tiled bull, we ltave been of the opinion that one doesni gain fllllllhllB by man 11g frc-ttt trcuble. -Wasl11ngton Post.

Russizfclaims to have the biggest Sllblllllllue T1021. lll the world. and and 11's Just that. sort. of boasting 111.11 tnakcs 1t so hard for Adolf to Pretend to be friendly with “the scum of the earth." -- st, Louis Pest-Dispatch.

Allllallfi SBFS I Nazi experiment- er, wood may be ascutce of super- 101‘ fwd. The Bcrlai gourmet eall- ing tsr a steakcd plank is a solemn thought. — Lo; Aztgeles Times.

The average person learns how to economize tn about the same way that a’ man learns to get along with very little water in a desert. - St. Louis Star-Titties.

It would be embarrassing ll Franco of Spain gave Gibraltar back to his kindly benefactors, the Axis twins, and said, "No, bzys-you take 1t."

speaking of “Saw- dust Caesar," instead of stuffing a wooden horse full of Italians for use agtalnst the Greeks, perhaps Mussolini stuffed himself with the hcrse. - Kingston Whig-Standard.

Incidentally,

Why do certain publications and certain politicaaus reproach Pre- mier Gadbout for advising young Canadians to learn the English lazi-

guage? Nctlting could be more stngttlai- than this antmosty, and only one tlilng will explain it.

namely. political prejudice of the tnost COIIlGIIIPIjDlO kind. The qua»- t‘ involved is 11ft one of senti- tn-i l. l1. is an ab clut-e necessity fcr incst. of us that we should be able lo speak English in order that. we may earn a Lying. ’I‘lte:e are :11 Otttuva. at 1v1.11n-:111, at. Quebec and elsetvlterc ‘many 1x1sttlons, .1111.111c11s and jolt. llllftl by Enwnch Canatllaits solcly because they are billngtial. If Anglo-Came 111s were as perfectly bilingual as crrtain of our coinpatricts are today. the latter would lose their employ- ment, T11. this fact there is 111111-11 for us to think about. Misguided people who seek to luflant-e pol:- tieal prejudice by attackllu! Ml‘- Godboul. for the gccd actvce he ltas given to I~‘1'cncl1 Cartadiatt ycutli. and condemn the Print:- Min- ister and the ll 11. Hector Perrier

fcr the erlucaticnal rsfnriiis they catitctttplat. lint- wtlt that ad- vice are d. , a great, dsservice to French (Ylllllldlfllli. - Quebec Solell.

Whatever may have Itnppencd. M"?

thirtg z-ne, The British pOOplg are lllg g1 c ' c of wlttnt we have any ‘l record. When 1 was a fr 111 1n in csllcgc, a Latin lcmher said the Romans were the greatest nation in an-

tiquity, becatvc they were gicabrst i;1 1.111: greatest things -— self go-v- erumcnt, respect for law, and ecl- onizalion. B111. even then I did n01

111v-e \v:rc the greatest. : the greatest things are pc . drama. philo ophy when it. is literature, and original thought: on profound tltcttics. Thus I plrced . (ll‘f"l:;s ulyve the Rcmans; and ' 11 are creatrr than either ‘eks or 1111 R311 zts beeattfe they have combined the be‘! qual t- ies cf the Greeks. of tho Romans, and also of the J:\vs. They have produced even nrrn splendid poetry and drntntt. than the Greeks; they have shown a et11~a1-i1,v' fer self- gcvvrtinicnt and colonization super- ior 1o that cf the Rc-inans: and while the Jews gave the vrcrld the Bible~for of the slxty-slx books of the Bible, all but two were vvrzttcn by Jews-the Brifslt tirade a trans- laticn of the Bible which 11= litera- ture, ls superior to the orig ill-ll: 311d by 115 light. their moral ideas Im\(3 been steadily itialtttaiticel. The feundatimt or Attglo-Saxnrt civiliza- tlcn ls the Bible. - William Lyon Phelps 1n Esquire.

Perhaps vvlirn you lnuk at. your paper _\'0u will SP9 the photo 0f a young man in unlf..rn1, and below the photo the words: “Killed cn ac- tive service." Wlial. do you think when you see such an Item? What do ycu feel? Tit-e supreme sacrifice always canes an entotlotial reac- tion. It ls so, even though we have never before heard of the one who has made the sac1'iflcc:""‘1‘hc1'e is always an impersonal sadness, l1 fleeting sorrow. There may be gratitude. And we reflect that those who knew him know every shade of grief, from that. which ls l€ll1XJ9I€(l‘\\'iLl‘l pride to the depths of lcttellness. He loved azicl was loved. He lived and loved llfe. Yet. when he stood at. the threshold, he relinquished everthlng, cheerfully and. voluntarily. What, do we feel when w; mink of it? What. do we do? For a time glib words llghtly touched on a. pew order. Now the attitude ts changing. We are. too moved for gllb talk. In the PIE-WK!“ of the shining revlval of democracy words fall me because the heart. 1s full. Through our travail the new order of which. we talked lightly takes shape at last.._'f‘here 1s a new depth to our thinking. and a new clarity. Surely. certainly. charity emerges from the mists of 111999589" ment and expediency. a1 flne, flght- 111g charity 111111 ls proud w 111KB the offensive for the mninwnhlwe <11 liberty. — My Marjorie 01111111- bell. ,

Thanlghfs are Indeed terrible... No-one who has lived through these tilghts, that have only Just begun. wlll be the same when they are over. And yet, fervent as the yearn- lng ts that they may be over soon. the resolve that. they shall n01- be over unl-ll the foe Cuts been broken is more fervent. still (there are pray- ers for peace ln all the churches, and rightly so. but. the prayers must be for peace and victory, nevcr for perer alone), Awful as the horror and the tragrdy are. and unenduralale. almzrt the apprehens- ion of what ls still to come. lhfife ls n pride and glory tn being 11 Londoner ln London 111w - 1:1 Lon- don, ln-e-at-rst city (T1111. ls and ever was, worthy sticcessor to ancient. Athens and Rome. lteart- of the Empire, 11nd last slvcughold of free- rlcni 1n Etircqxe. When l1. ls all over, London will have earned lmperkh- able lmnottr because, when other capitals stirrendered or were over- run. or stocd aloof, and when even Paris f-rll. rho bezame. as lt were. the snnbol and 1'11» vpltnnw of the and nf the Empire that I111 and ezttfietl "lite evil tltlnrz“ --l . ._vmb:1l and llte rpllrttic, in

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l1 3- 'l11 1111 l1l1l 11v 1h." people who 11e- ' ‘1 111:1: 1‘:1- 1 v11 1»~111-111111- and 1~1111<11111111a1i1111 of the 111‘? ~1 "1 1111-11 i< 1111- 11r11d11ci11g 11f as llruw l": '11 '1‘ '1111-11 l1~111v1l 11111111111 creatures n11 pogible. 'l'l11-y\\11nl1l wish the people of

ceiving a total of $307,153.

Maurois On France

(Winnipeg Free Press)

is itutesuug and l1. ls often lm- pcrtant. 1111s bcok "Tragedy 1n r‘l‘31lC€." in which he recount; 11.5 own expet-lences wtt-h 1.110 Bnfsh and Frencn armies up to the m0- ment of France's 11111 ls u part of 1.114,- vltal history of our tlmel.

flow does this Frenchman inter- pret. the background of the French collapx? He says:

The war spirit of the French people was less fiery. than 1n I914. ‘Phe France of 1914 was relatzvcly united. The France of 1940 was profoundly dlsunlt-ed.

A small but active Flfth Column skilfully Joined forces with a vast. group of malcontents who contri- bu-ted unconscious support to Nazi prcpazanda. In 1914 France was invaded and the Issue was clear. But in I939 Danzlg was the super- ficial causes of war and many Frenchmen did not understand. Some of them believed France had been dragged into war by England whore forelzn policy, veering from sanctions 1n 1935 to appeasement in 1938 and b0 war ln 1939. left mam puzzled and confused.

Had the French army had the necessary equipment: and had It scored an lnltlal success. the lacka- daisical attitude cf at large put, of the middle class would have been transformed. tbs patriotic tradition would have asserted itself.

Why had not. the army fife necessary equipment? Because its military leaders held a mistaken theory of war. Because the work- ers for several yenre had not. worked hard. Because the manu- facturers thought. more of rofits than of the safety of the sta and checked purchases from outside SOIIPCCS.

‘Illtis of course involves a funda- mental fallure of the Government. to govern:

"Unfortunately political lead- erg have grown accustcmed to con- sulting opinion rather than guldlng it. You see the meaning on public epinicn, sounding it. out. and try- ing to flnd same way In which they can. at once. please it and convince it. respectfully that lt. ls better for a eountty to live than to dle. "We made our timetable; back- wards. It was the war that should have governed technical exigen- cies. not. the technicians who shculd have controlled military require- ments. As a result. we ntade prep- arations for a war ln 19412 which ivas over ln 1940".

Patptamentaiy government seals- ed o have reality. Parlia- ment bernme divorced frcm the real leaders of IPrench culture, business and labor. When the struggle betivveen parties becomes a struggle between classes. parlia- mentary government can no longer function. P‘l‘0m the .11.~1n-:~11t when fear and passion became greater than the love of country, French dcllwcracy was a hctice dfvded against. itself and no longer cap- able cf winning a military victory.

These are the main finding: of M Matti-ols, but his book con- talus a wealth of lzocd anecdotes

He tells the stciy of the bitter rivalry between R/eynauld and Da- ladter that raged between 1111111 two mistresses. Reynaud once said to

him:

“I believe Daladler desires the vldor-y of France. but he desires my defeat eVPn more."

l-Ie tells the stnry of Bonnelis last-minute attempt to re-appease Gr-r-tnany thrruizh Italy.

He throws light on the charac- ter of General Gemelln. and tells of the antagonism between hlm atvl Revnaud.

Evetivwher-s- there wrs the same story, art‘ Maurcfs sums ft up Ln these wcrds:

“....In 19141 Clemenceau Pow-care tinted each other. were vlelerfotls r-r-rlaln ncblld" of heart rllvltled nntt-‘etlsm Mumphed over fll¢"€ nasdcrs. Poincare had no love of Clemenceau. hut 110 loy- allv cdhberate-rl with hfm. Petflri with self-abnezntlon served under the orders of Fcch. ln 1040 Prence “'11s an rllvklvrl. n'~l’t'cal hatred: were so vlolrnt. and the decline of nubltc m"r.=lilv far gdvarced that no cbstacle was lnlernowd to pcrscnal hut-eds. The part nlaved 1~11 persenalltlrs was net the even- ftal cause or (be defeat, ‘that cfllre-H-vlars lack of nrenarotlrn. mtlltary, rholcmnfic and lwum-lql on the part of the All'es. But the nuarrele of the mltrsterr and the lack of arw leeden capable or 1m- nasfm imity m1 tlhe metfon de- prived the armies of their last chalice"