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Contrast the following report on Manitoba finances with the prospects of ever increasing debt presented by the Provincial Treasurer of Isis Province:

"Buoyant revenues and prudent and con- tinuing reductions in the public debt (says the Winnipeg Free Press) were among the high- lights of Mr. (Larson's budget speech yester- day. Revenues are at a new high, and they are expected ro remain at that level in the iortlicoru- lng fiscal vcar. . . . The Manitoba Premier was able to state that the provincial debt has been roduced by four millions in the year ended last April, and that since last May more than tour and a half millions had been lopped off in ad- dmom Th; reserves for war and post-ivar em- ergencies now stand at more than four millions, a substanttal sum, but it could be increased with benei-r."

Similar rosy financial statements are com- ing from provinces all across Canada; all sceni- ingly -— except Prince Edward Island ——__are ac- cumulating unheard of surpluses, and piling up millions in the way of “reserves for war and post-war emergencies.” \\'hat reoerves are ute accumulating.’ \\'e are faced this year with an estimated increase in liabilities of oveuthrec’ quarters of a million dollars. which does not in- elude “a stun sufficient" to be spent on the very necessary; work of Reconstruction.

"Anti-Baloney Man"

Dove Boone, of the North American News- paper Alliance. pays this high tribute to the courage and sincerity of Prime Minister Chur- chill:

"I wish somebody in the United States would picture the treatment of post-war prob- lems as frankly and honestly as \Vinstoii Chur- chill did. ‘It is no easy, cheapjack Utopia of airy phrases that lies before us,’ he said, as he blasted those who would ‘gain a span of shab- bily bought office by easy, fickle, frothy chat- Rf.’

“Far better to go down telling the truth,’ aaid Churchill, in part. ‘We shall not bid for votes or popularity by promising what we can- not perform. 1t would be easy to promise each other presents. bonuses and gratuities in a most enthusiastic manner, but if we woke tip in the morning to find that the pound sterling was worth only five shillings, we should have com- mitted a great crime.’

"Churchill said a mouthful about controls. loo. ‘Control for control’: sakc is senseless.’ be declared, in brief. ‘Controls under a pre- text of war or its aftermath, designed to favour accomplishment of totalitarian systems, are fratid and should be mercilessly exposed.’

"Boy, what an anti-baloney man \Vinnie is!"

And, commends an exchange. if there is any- thing more than another that the whole demo- cratic world stands in need of, it is “anti-bal- oney” men, who are not afraid to tell the truth. however tinpalzitable it may be, and regardless of political consequences.

Penicillin Available

Penicillin has started moving through regu- lr drug trade channels. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Ameriran Medical Journal, has said that paeiicillin is the outstanding medical discovery of the war.

It has been credited with healing battle-in- Ylicted wounds after sulfa and other drugs fail- od to produce improvement. It achieves its con- quest of germs, not by killing them outright, but by interfering with their catiugr and digestion. It is a chetnical manufactured by the common green molds of bread and cheese. Unlike sulfa, it is reported to have no bad after-effects on patients.

Extremely limited production for months limited penicillin to the armed services. Last year it became available in civilian hospitals, where it is being used extensively in combating many Ionms of infection and disease. Now the pubhC wlll hail the announcement that its output has reached the point where it is being made avail- able to all phvsiciairs and the drug trade.

Tr—illion Dolhar War

The cost of the war to all nations. as the New Vnrk Timer estimates it. has now passed the trillion-dollar mark. And the cost of waging war is s.ill rising at the rate of $200 511110115 a year. Of the total cost so far. the United States has borne about one-fourth, and Great

. . . . . _ Ema". about one-tenth, Russias direct costs hive not been revealed. but one estimate places them at ahotit $100 billions, while the Axis is said lo have spent about $300 billions.

In addition to direct war costs are the losses lhcurretl in the destruction of cities. industries

d farm areas. These have not been reckoned, t in the last war they equalled three-quarters ‘f the direct costs. I Since most nations have paid only half or In of the direct war costs otit of taxes. the orld's debt has been increased by somethlllfl e half a trillion dollars in the last five and ashalf years. and is still going tip. The manage-

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50' many important happenings are attract- ing attention these days, that the average read- er must find difficulty in concentrating 3am‘ tionon any one of them.

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A mun of $1,701,060 has been set aside in the new Federal estimates to cover the salaries of Canadian high commissioners, ambassadors, ministers plenipotentiary, consuls secretaries and staff abroad during the coming year. This is an incrcasf: of $336,450 over the $13545” °§' timate for the current year.

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Mr. Donald Gordon, chairman of the Prices Board strongly deprecates speculative stories about reimposition of meat rationing ~which tend to keep the public in a state of uncertainty.

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Ordinary consumers are not affected bv the reduced quotas for sugar going into effect in the baking and other industries; it is estimated nevertheless that no less than 7,000 tons of stigar will be saved during the next three months by the cuts. Beginning next month consumers will return to the seven ounce butter ration, which had been reduced to six during the winter.

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Queen Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen, died this date i603,‘ her reign was the period of ling- land's expansion and forthright imperialism; the little kingdom had great ambitions and found in its Queen one prepared. and anxious to have them realize}: her reign is marked bythe rise of the English naval power, the defeat of the Spanish Armada, and the most extraordinary outburst of intellectual energy in history; her acumen in the choice of councillors stich as William (‘ecil showed her statesinanship: “I know that I have btit the body of a weak and feeble ivoruzin; but I have the heart of a King,

and of a. King of England, too. . . . I hope you will rcmctiiber that who seeketh two strings to one bow, he. may shoot strong btit never slrztiglit."

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Resources hlinister I. L. Phelps told the Saskatchewan Legislature that the time had come to challenge the validity of the Hudson's Bay Company charter issued by King Charles II in 1670, and through which the company gained possession of lauds in the Canadian west. ln the past commissions had studied the character and "skilled counsel" had been eni- ployed by the company to uphold it. ".\'o\v the tables have been tairncd and the people are able to engage counsel," said Mr. Phelps. There had been "maladministration" of Saskatche- wan resources by the Dominion prior to their return to the province in 1930- "Th? d3)’ of reokouing is coining," said Mr. Phelps. Other “old agreements" must he re-examitretl, such as those under which land was granted to the Can- adian Pacific Railway and titnbenberths ivere

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Prime Minister King's veracity challeugctl. In a telegram to Mr. Harry Nixon (Lib, Brant), Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King denied that he had said to Hon. Charles Daley, Ontario labor jmiuister, that Mitchell F. l'l6|.\- burn, Liberal house leader, “has done more to put the Liberal party where it is today than any other man in the country." The statement was attributed to the Prime Minister by Mr. Daley in a speech to the House last week. .\lr. Nixon read a telegram in the legislature and when he finished Hon. Leslie Blackwell. at- torntyvgcneral, said he had been with Mr. Daley at the Labor Relations Conference in Ottawa soon after the present Ontario goverrimeirt was elected and had heard .\lr. King ruakc the statement to Mr. Daley. “I can verify that was said, and more," sjidxh; attorney-general.

Comparison of the casualty figures tip to Jill)‘ with the populations of the individual (an. adiari provinces, as of the i941 census, discloses that hlanitoba had the most casualties tip to last July, on a proportionate basis, says the Teleg- rapli- .r'auriial. Manitoba's castialty rate was 55 per cent. That is to say, an average hlanitoba coniuuiuity of 10,000 rueu, women and children had seen 55 of its servicemen listed as killed, wounded or missing tip to that time. Continu- ing this comparison, a similar-sized commun- ity in Nova Scotia had 45 casualties. In Brit- ish Columbia the figure was the same—45 cas- ualties. New Brunswick stood next, with 44. followed by Prince Edward Island with 43. Other provinces, in order: Alberta, 41; Ont- ario, 4o; Saskatchewan, 38; Quebec, i6. For Canada as a whole the average is -34 PH‘ Cfltli.‘ or 34 casualties in a community of 10,000 per- sons.

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Alter five years of collaboration between the peoples of Canada. and U. S. A. are now told that Canadians won't be welcome as visitors in the United States this summer. Why? Be- cause we haven't been tough enough in our food control, because our rationing has been too easy, because. in short, we haven't shown a readiness to save more food for the armed forces and the people of other countries. Because, to put it bluntly, we haven't been sufficiently war- minded, and much of this talk is heard in Wash- ington, says the Ottawa correspondent of the illonlrrrn! (inset/e. If one were tn seriously re- gard the warning against Canadians visitingthe United States this summer one might be dis- posed to consider \var policy, as it relates to the management of military man power, as a cause for tht- alleged cstrangement. The correspond- ent has talked with American writers who ltave come here to examine the conscription situation and the state of the public mind. and those \vrit- ers all exhibited auger. They just couldn't llll(l(‘l‘Sl3ll(l irvhy therc should he dvscrtcrs, why the deserters weren't summarily puuislietl. why there should ever have been any discussion even about the advisability of conscription. why con-

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We might thank the doctors for Pfolvhalna our lives. on the aver- lle. but. on the other hand. imag- 1116 Paying taxes so much longer. -I"rom the Guelph Mercury.

The church bell la far Fore lm- portant than tho fire be . but it doesrrt make the people run near- ly as fast. - Btratford Beacon- Herald.

Tesla of’ ‘ opinion have shown overwhelm! public eup- port for unposlngnfhe traditional death penalty during this war upon enemy spies. Trained Nazi agents. secrcly sent into this country to carry out spying and saboteurlnz missions. deserve no mercy-From Derolt News.

"Ono day this storm would have broken loose from the East. would

ave passed over Poland“ and, before we knew it. would have been a mere 150 kilometers east of Bur- lln.' So Hitler ln 1942 rejoiced that he had not made peace tn 1939. Today Bcrltn reports the Run. shins 26 miles east of Berlin. - Chrlatlan Science Monitor.

The Jap; appear to have got tired of hara kiri so they just. walk out into the open now for the Al- s to shoot. them down. That may fill the bill and meet their particular religious beliefs. but it

likely to result in the war against Japan going down in his- tory as the bloodiest ln history.- From the Lethbrldze Herald.

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A Southampton works told a Labor Exchange that he

manager official needed rivet sorters. "I the job with my eyes aid. When the official suggested blind persons he was rather incredulous, but agreed to give two blind workers a trla. After a fortnight he returned and asked for more and novv_ blind people at work. who have been blind” menu-London Dally Sketch.

Back ln Afrlea. inside a box of K rations. Pte. Edward L. Iwle. 2nd Armored Division soldier from Walton, Ind.. found a piece of hard candy wrapped 1n paper bear- ing a -glrls name and address. I-Ie wrotp to her, mentioning that he dldnt. car_e much for hard candy. In France, 1n another K ration, Ingle come across the same ad- dress wrapped around enamels.- Stars and Stripes.

From lhc University of Call. fornla has emerged a device which inevitably was named the Stinks- meter. It measures pleasant odors ax well as offensive ones, and its creators-Dr. Otto W. Lang, Llonel Farber and Fritz Yermam-see a future for lt in a broad range of manufacturing and processing tn- dtistrles. The inventors have meas- ured the increase in odors of meats. prunes and raisins, and the loss of aroma 1n such items as coffee, 8111685. pepper. as well as ln some perfumes-Business Week

The extent to which citizens of the Ul1ll9d States have rallied to assume a major role in the war has brought generously eloquent praise Pom The Ottawa Journal. Comm’: from the good irc-ighbor Canada has Hl\\’;1.'5 been 511,311 a salute is appreciated by all citizens of the United States. Canadians have rarovecl to he not. only good neighbors. but. also tileasant visitors and residents in the Utilted States. The Canadians we have come to know here in Florida have proved to be individuals of unfalllniz sta- bility and ready friendliness. - Lake-land, Florida. Ledizer

An unmallcd letter taken from a German captured on the V/cstern Front contained this highly reveal- lng passage: "Tire German soldier has acted in such a way here that these borderland Germans no long- er attach any value to being or re- malnlngeGet-mnirs. So lcw can a people sink!" When thtrv begin to feel so heartily ashamed of them- selves there may h:- a chance of reform. after all. But their rr- pentancn must lie siticcre and last-

lng-nnd they will need constant watching. in any case.—I-lamlltun Spectator.

George Bernard Shaw opposes the hanging of a London woman convicted of murder, but only be- cause he considers hanizlnz a bar- barous method of execution. not because he. opposes capital punish- ment. On the contrary, he as- serts that liquidation should be ex- tended to include not only mur- derers but dangerous unatlcs idiots "and intolerable nuisances" as well. too fin". but. it. is not always easy to demonstrate exactly where he has r-un into excess. But in this case the proof is obvious. If con- viction o being an intolerable nuisance had been followed_by the death penalty for the last. centurv would George Bernard Shaw have lived to deltizht and invigorate as well as irritate the world for elithty-ehzht years? - New York Herald Tribune.

We were at a semi-public meet- ing not so very long ago in which one of the speakers fell into that state of mind which can only aptly described as "'I‘hat Reminds Me." He. told several stories, come of them excellent, some good, and at least one decidedly risque in spite of the fact that a minister of relfg small group of ladies were wtthln easy earshot. eularly prudish. We often fear that we have lost the art of blush- lng, nevertheless we always form the opinion, when we hear a rla- ue sory from the platform. that t e speaker's mind must be full of such thoughts to the complete exclusion of any worthwhile ideas. and we wonder why he ever had the infernal cheek to get on to a platform and make a speech. - Owen Sound Sun-Times.

There was a fine touch of the communal splrlt. about the report- ed observation of the Queen while visiting the Kitchen Exhibition ln London on Thursday: "My good- ness. it has been cold tn uck- lngham Palace!" Almost as cold in parts, perhaps. as in those cele- brated Stralts of Dover whose weather exercises at. times have such a far-reaching effect. After all, palaces, whether royal, epis- copal, or crystal. were built. ln the days before fuel ratlonlnlt; one has n feeling that even the full five hundredwelght; of coal a month (if procurable) would not go very far towards raising the average temperature of any of them. In the palaces of fairy tales there was once a prince who could not shiver. If he had step- pod aside into the imlaces of re- cent fact evidently he could have. learnt the art without difficulty. -

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Bin-A fortnl ht a o, ln a Ietto addressed to The Griardla I an: dertook to accept, on behalf of the men of Prince Edward Island, the aerloua challenge issued by the women of the School Improvement League to the effect that the men are neglecting do all possible for the general Javament. n; economic conditions. I have been

to d l fl ; h f fear that ‘ailgttfliigonthamw: iii any mllht in some way hamper he

excellent work regard! tlonal system that. has n outlin- ed in a series of letters appearing n the press durlna the recent months. To this reguest I have gladly acceded as have been eartily in s pathy with the ef- forts of the adea of the Improve- ment League.

My chief reason for stating that the challenge was not called for at this particular time, just-when so many people are showing an active interest in a large variety of proffered improvements, was that I felt that crltfclavn might: have the effect. of lessening their efforts, whereas by encouraging them continue in their good work not only would their results be battered but more people would jolt-i with them at this critical moment.

Had the women of the League taken this step l0 or 15 years ago they would have been fully justl- flecl, for ln the early 1960's a aplrlt of inferiority complex aeeme to pervade all parts of the Island. It was common in those days for men of prominence to say publicly that, because of the Island's limited area. lack of natural resources such as mines, timber, electric

ower, and soforth, "nothing could

done" to improve conditions. There are still a few of our older citizens who continue to take a negative stand, but as a rule the men of Prince Edward Island are today not only full of hope for a widespread development of Island possibilities, but many of them

our educa-

are saying. "There must be change; for the better. nor are we wi l to wait for others to init-

late t em."

Reading the daily news of the war, 1n which the sons of so many Islanders are taking an active tn- terest at the front, has set. all classes of people thinking serious- ly. They are realizing at last how greatly‘ Prince Edward Island has been amoered by the very limit- ed transportation system tipnn which it has been dependent for the past 70 or.'f5 years. Thev have been thinking about and discuss- ing how different were business and living conditions in the Brit- lsh Colonial days prior to Confed- eration and have been made to re- allze that before the advent of ocean stcamshios the Island wind- fammers sailed the seven seas oaded down with the products of ‘our farms and fisheries. They sec the many wharvcs and docks that. were built ln those days to accom- odate the sallinyz vessels lti the dif- ferent ports and harbours of the Island and they naturallv ask why it. 1s that nothing has been done to enlarge these docks since the Island became n partner in the Canadian Confederation. ' H o w was it", they ask, “that the Island lost. the British splrlt of adventure so general iti the days of our grandfathers? What has become of the valuable export trade of those days?" To these questions there ls but one reply, namely that the ocean steamshlps were larger and carried greater quantities 1n their holds. they travelled at a much greater speed than the sailing ves- sels and were able to quote freight rates that stranded Island schoon- ers. Not only tint, b t; lti slx short. years after the Is and entered Confederation. namely 1n 1879. Canada adopted a hlilh ¢11$l°111b roteetlvc system which fllllilgfill- zed many foreign countries. This protective system became a neces- sity g5 the result of competition both in manufactures and agricul- ture from the United States which was drawing Canadian population south nf the llne. Be that es ll: may, this protective system meant the loss to this Island of its abil- ity to export on a free trade basis, which fact. added to the competi- tion of the ocean steamshlps acted