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Auoclne Editors: Frank Walker and h,“ A. Burnett.

‘The Strangest Memory isiWeuker Than the Weakest Ink.”

SATURDAY. JA UARY I9. 199

An U ndeserved Reputa lion

In this is.~iic wc publish a series of letters n" ‘l‘e 1.13m] and its probLins \\'ll1Lll appeared iii lll!‘ Iliiiiii/Iriii Ai/‘rcltilor. .\ii Island lady now

rcsideiit there asked us to do so to show the, ridicule fllll zmucivaiicc caused “lslaiidcrs abroad" by- ‘iiiudivioiis claims iiiatlc on our bc- half liv “uolifti~rs" and nth of that lvpl’ who rush iino ' iii‘ to CllllYlllri‘ the outside world "how awfully good we 1pc." Such fzillacioits

dgims are almost certain. ZI> in tlic prescut in- stimcc. to h!“ unpleasant reactions, and it IS

n.- wvl] that not‘ j)t'ii!_‘l(' \ll(\"l(l rcaliw- this. Nccd- lcss to sav it» licre know perfectly wcll that tlii" letters 0n Iwvh sides of ttit- ttucstion are cx- aggt-rillltnyg ,1‘ d llll iiiicallcti for rcflcclioii on

the “Garden of thc tiull" and its hard-working, clean livirfl, and honcst-tci-gootlitcss citizens. who lav no claim to be saints or paragoiis of viitiic. but mr-rclv average incn and \\‘0I‘Il€f‘, with all average hiimaiiitv? faults failings and virtues: are proud of our heritage and ancestry. and csneciftllv proud of thv DIVIIR‘ bounty wc gninv in fins [lltflslllll lzuid. \\'ll(‘I‘(’ (‘vcrv pros- pert please: rind oiilv would-be critics vilc.

Old Subject Revived

Here is nun-u evidcncc that things are get- ‘ in; lKICk i; iiiiriiiztl iii the Old LYOuntrv:

The oltl (tucstion as to what constitutes tlic British Emgiirc what (listinguishcs the Empire from the (jomiiioiivrealtli, and the real mean- ing of the ‘.t"I1l “Ili"iti.~li" has been revived in tlic I.0iid0n 'l‘ii 2v by the sccrctar-v of tlic Royal Institute oi International Affairs, Mr. Ivison S. .\'l3C8(l3.Ill.

According to the Encyslopaedia Britannica, fBritish Empire" is tlic term now loosely given ‘to the whole aggregate of territory. the iii- liabitants oi which. iiiidcr various forms of “governmetit, ultimately look to the British crown is the supreme head. Mr. Macadam wants t0 know, lIO\\'*:\'C", why we haven't coined a dis- ‘tinctivc word for residents of the United [Qing- lotu as ivcll as for illllCl‘ parts Olifll€ Empire.

".\ll stihjccts of the Ring are British," hc cvritcs, "but whereas it is also possible t0 spczik pf Canadians, Australians, New Zcalandcrs. bouth .\fri-:.'itis and Indians, thcrc is no other word than 'l‘r§ti>h'. or tho horrible ‘Britishcf. oftcn uscd iii thc Lhitctl Suites in a derogatory scusc, or tit: somewhat pcaiantic word ‘Briton’. to describe the inhabitants of the lfnitcd King- ttloiii."

No S.'otsiiizui. he tiiitiiittiiiis. would admit Ihzit thc diffivultyi is solved hv tisc of the word flinglish." -

p In the matter of the l;i_iipirc's correct title,

Mr. .\l2l.C'lil'l‘I' savs official practice secms to use cithcr =lit- word "Commoiiiircziltli" 0r the yllvortl "linipirc" to dciiote all the lands iuidcr the British Crown: sometimes Empire is uscd to single out the Colonies,

v liven s . an authority as Liuiicl (itirtis, who origiiiu d thc term "Coninionwczilth of Nations" iii it. prcsciit tisagc, can but agrcc

that "thc qonfusioii of terms which hamper a ivriter on luipcrizil problems is admirably dcs- bribed by .‘~li". Macadam." The problem, he suggests, would (lisappcar if there came about a world union iii which tlic democracies would rucrgc thcii sovereign titles. But that would secm to bt- a Utopian scheiiic at prcscut.

In the illtfllllllllt‘, thc (iticstions raised by ‘Mr. blllCllllllill arc somcthitig akin to the flag issue ovci" ivhirh so much time ivas wasted iii Llhc Canadian llotist- of (‘ominous last session ;'-—piirelv :i.cidciiiic. though highly interesting ‘find 5HlllCllIIli~ cvcn cntcrtzitiiing. liormcr Prime Klinistvi- \\'in~i<»ii Churchill could probably give as good a J~finitioii as any mzui alive of the term " Iriiidi bniiiirc." lts liquidation, lic oiicc filitl, was Siillbllllllfl tivcr ivhich he had nu iutcii- lnill of tirf-sitluig, (hie ivislics one could find :.n I‘(1_ll2lll\' prcgiizuit rciiizirk in all the volumes of ll.'Ill>.'I1‘(l rccnrtling the utterances of lvlr. .\l:ic- lit-mic King Ill‘. thcisziiiic subject.

Wartime Wages

(If all l-cotilc conccrncd iii thc labour dis- piite situation says tho Iiimmrial Post‘. perhaps the war \'C!P‘.‘.’II. is the IIIOsI perplexed. A year 0r two ago tlic issue was quite clear iii his _iiiirid. He wasn't "cry happy t0 bc living in the mud and ganibing with his life for $1.50 a day ivliilc "t alt" he had grown up with at home were making that inucli an hour in munitions plants. -

llut lic &l")'lI€(.l it this way. War is the itiust wasteful enterprise in the cxpéricncc of the world. When a nation is fighting for its lifc It can't imp to count (lotlars. He knew that no one could assess the value, to him, of a Can- sdiatgglidll that silenced a German battery iust lqbpbgnt the range on In’: positioiifAiid no , _ dim: a value in dollars on anything that w wituiirpglhe war. Certainly, he envied the i ‘lliiitmskcrs, but he consoled himself ' glitthat, once the war was o er, would become normal again. Swolen would come down and he'd be able to jpbaf svages ,on__aboitt the same level as Ill0$§ vvlgistawed home. Is irupy wonder he is

ow wivnftbflcecp» on drawing down n stic pay aims. While whim infill!!!’ ufgtry ;i_ln",‘i'vhlfq,_collarf'. iobs rennin at

war to carry over into the peace. The soldier who climbed out of a wrytkcd jeep and “wrote it off" doesn't plan to trut hi: own car so cas- ually. Matty small firms which expanded to four and five times their ore-war size have re- turned to their former ditriensions to resume production of their peacetime lirics on a scalc only slightly larger than before.

The housewife docsift expect butter and sugar and meat to remain rationed once the supply situation has sorted itself out. Everyone was glad wncn regulations frcczing labor were finally suspended and when tires and gasoline came freely on the market agair The; expect~ cd both, because there was no place for those ivartime restrictions in a peacetime economy.

Judged or. that basis, it is difficult to sec how anyone can rationalize any demand when it is based on a holdover from wartime conditions. The sooner we get away from everything rem- iniscent of those desperate, heart-stirring but wasteful days, the sooner Canada will move along the road to normal, peacetime prosperity. And wartime ivzigcs cannot be expected to out- last the wai any more than wartime rationing and wartime controls.

-l;l)llURlAL NUllzS—

_ Novffiscotia Lcgislaturc will not be called into session innit the end of next month 0r early iii .\larch.

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'I‘licr¢ is still plcnty tiiiic fur citizciis to otter themselves for nomination for thc Citv COUIITII- The clcction is on February 13. and iiuitiiitations close one Wcik earlier, viz., Feb~ ruary o,

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Rcv. _Dr. E. Lcslie Pidtgcon, of the :\nici'i- can United Church, Montreal, has been noin~ mated for the modcratorship at the meeting of the 12th Gciicral Assembly to be hcld in Tllont- rcal, beginning Scptcinber II.

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It is announced that the Archbishop of Canterbury, on the occasion of his coming visit to Canada, will preach in “linnipcg only. “Pct-

haps,” says the Toronto Trlvgram pitluslv, "the nccd is evcit greater in Montreal." i IF ‘l! ll!

Arc we to Iiave a Canadian in one of tlic I5 judgcships in the International Court to bc set up under the United Nations Charter? Ans- tralia, ever alert, has already/nominated Pro- Icssor R. H. Bailey, professor of Public Law at Melbourne University, f0r one of the posi-

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An important step has been lillxfill l)\' tlic United Kingdom Ministry of Health, 1t 11,15 announced that its wartime milk and Vllélllllll schemes are to becomc a permanent peacetime feature. This is one of the most inipoitatit dq- cisions cver rakcn by a (iovcriimcnt in regard t0 the health of its mothers and children, for it means that the vitamins so csscntial to cx- pcctant and musing mothers and children under five will be guaranteed and the nation will

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.~\n ad offcriiig hain and bacon for sale was recciitly ri-n in a Nciv York ncivspapqy by a‘ local department sturc. lVithin fOur hours, five thousand hungry customers who spotted the ad swarmed to the storc and bought out the entire supply, 3,500 hams averaging I5 pounds and 3,000 slabs of bacon! The ad which got this terrific response WZIS only two columns widc and two and t. half inches deep!

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“After cvcry great iiitcrnatiotizil convulsion (writes Mr. Wickhzini Steed) there are iiioiii- cuts whcu individuals and nations fccl that thcy would like to withdraw into themselves and let other people and the rest of the world, go hang. This is such a moment. It will not last, for two reasons of which one is psychological and the otlicr physical in the scientificiscnsc of the word. Psychoiogically thcre will presently be a rebound from the rebound that invariably fol- lows l war. Physically, this second rebound is the more certain to come bccatisc the alternative would be, soor. or late; llrhfrSfil pcrdition."

Robert Edward. Lcc, American Confeder- ate General in the Civil War, born this date I807; in the campaign of 1862 provcd himsclf to be a great lcadcr and a cousuiiiiiiatc soldier; commanded the North Virginian Army in i863, winning a seven days’ battle; defeated the Fcd- cralists undcr Pope; invaded Maryland; won battles of Frcdcricksburg and Cbancellorsvillc; but was dcfeatcd at Gettysburg; was opposed to Grant in I864, and ultimately defeated: "Duty thcii is the sublimcst word in our latigiiage. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never ivish to do Icss.

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bell-bottom trousers notwithstanding to the Contrary. Vice-Admiral Jones, Chicfiof the Naval Staff, told an interviewer the Can- adinn Navy was giving no consideration to such a move. ‘Tm uiidcr the impression that tlic men prefer the present distincti type,” he said. “However, any change of uniform iii the Canadian Navy iii not practical policy at this time. We have sifch large stocks of ac- cumulated uniforms on our hands now that it will take several years before they are worn out and replacements arc required." 4- n- u, i.

“The announcement bv the Attlee Govern- ment that it will support free, initiative and private enterprise in the insurance business is of the deepest significance to Canada-l-not only to the life insurance but to the whole national economy (says the monthly bulletin of the Chamber of Commerce). Canada attainedits position u the world’s largest ‘exporter’ of life insurance by the inicative and soundness of the companies themselves. Sir Stafford Critics, President of the Bohrd of Trade, in moving the second reading bf the Assurance Companies Bill said that apart from‘,the limited urtent to which aoclll captivity and workmen’: compensation might affect it ‘tlie Government has no intention of interfering with the free

Our Navy is not-going to dispense with it! ~I reports i

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the lion's share-of the foreign trade of the world for the next 20 years or more. at do they care. meant-rig the ‘hlgli salaried potentatcs who order ltrikes? --st, Catharlncs Standard.

The world look: fonnnl nu- malvb’ by Chrlatmu, 10M. Ktm In rIch North America, 100d: we In short supply In the Ohrlltma u. 5011 111B! Past. That fact Im rened on all of us that, though t e war is over, we are a long way from a peacetime footing. It should have Impressed on us that, If the next Christmas is to be a normal pence- timc Christmas, the world must go to work diirim: I946. That Is the only way that the goods lacklng this year can be made available and dlstrlbuted throughout the world before the next Christmas season rolls around. —Lethbridge Herald.

' Wlthout waiting for the develop- ment that will put atomic energy at the service of the householder an English firm has produced II domestic utensil that will be a ,boon_ to tired housewives and a i Iilessing to their harassed husbands.

This is a “sI-illlLiig-tn-the-slot" trashing machine. The apparatus. reported simpler to operate than a radlo set, requires only the turn of a switch to wash the clothes- prcvlously sprinkled with soap flakcs—“triplc-vlnse" them. Iii 40 minutes it can restore their pris- tine candor to 40 pounds of sulled garments, after wlilch it empties itself. cleans itself and shuts itself ofL-Toronto Telegram.

Herbert Morrison, Ila In my "Number One" tip-off for the blg job (Prime Minister of Great Brit- ain) when It falls vacant. Compared with Crlpps or Bevan he is not. In the same street, Intellectually or culturally; but- I-Ic has sonic- thing they have not; he has con- trol of "the machine." And that means—if not all-much. Morrison learned long ago where authority resldcs—in the party membership —and he sought to get hold of it. He succeeded. He more fully than anyone else in the party realize: the value of the vote-and goes out to make sure that he controls the vote-making machine. Downing street doors open tn the man with the vote-poweia-London Daily Mail.

D. Len Dolan, head of the Doin- inlon Travel Bureau has been sug- gesting that we get rid uf the small dog-house lypl‘ of overnight cabins to be found along our high’- ways catering to the tourlst trade and replace it with something slightly morc protcntious, trom- modloils and ornamental. He would oven have legislation adopted tn that. end. We question thc dcsira- bility or advisability of such a course being followed. Much the better plan to adopt. would Ic-v to have a better-equipped cabin unit and allow tho natural sequence of events to follow. Owners of small cablns seeing patronage flow to the bcttcr places would have to follow sult if they wished to attract cus- tom anrl we would thus have Im- provement without recourse to ar- bitrary legislation or compulsion which would scarcely be supported.

Wlthln the memory of most nf us, Canadians and Americans were able to visit cach other without benefit-or inconvenience 0f passports, and we got along togeth- er amazingly well. Those vlstts cemented our relations; we built up what Mi". Roosevelt would have called a “Good Neighbor" policy on our own without governmental rcgimcntation and oversight It. was in 1940 that passports to cross the border became necessary and It has been a headache evI-r since. Last year this order was relaxed tn appy only to persons who in- tended to stay In the United States more than twenty-nine days. We on this North American continent are daily becoming more and mnr,» one people, and official red tape and other obstacles which tend ta keep us apart hinder our mutual under- standing and are Irilmlcal to Can- adian-American goodwill. — London Free Press.

The term "Toronto the Good” has alyvnys been consldcrerl an epithet by many solid Torontcn- iims, some of whom could snarl effectlvely when it was repeated wItIiIn their hearing. We never considered it a satlsfuctory term ourselves and often admired DUI‘ Eastern friends as they izallantly defended what they called “just a normal Czmadlan city." Today, however, things havc changed most alarmingly in Toronto and the old epithet won't do any longer, In fact it Is strlctly out of date. For a certain unsavory element has come to light; with a bang 1-1 the Queen City and threatens to give hcr a very bad name indeed. These thugs, not satisfied with robbery and violence, have resorted to cold-blooded murder In their latest escapades. So due to the efforts of thls mob of gangsters. Toronto the Good has dled a violent \n'I not very glorious deuth.—-Lcthl:i'idgu Herald.

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i CHAR IJOTTETOWN ' GUARDIAN‘ _

Oorre onderice. complimentary and otlirrwlse, about the Garden of the Gulf, aptiearlnl récontly In tlle Hamilton, OnL. Spectator. The headings In each cue are thou In the Spectator: .

Garden of

To the Editor: Thanks tor the “better: to the ndltox" Wlllmll

Pint of all, the beer topic. As every ole knows Montreal ll noted for its night clubs and the amount of Yk-Iinklng that goes on through- out: the day. Believe me, I know because I was stationed there for a year and I also was stntloned on Prlncc Edyvarél Island, which Is su sed to e ry.

fnpoMontrenl It Is a rare slght see a drunkutrd on the screen, yet In the towns of PEI. one but of five is tight: yes. that’: lust about the average. The people In P111. make their own poison out of tomatoes, potatoes and all W968 of grain. They drInk any hair ton- ic, strained shag polish and so on that they can put their hands on or buy. A chum of minc_mndc a small fortune selllng hair tonic. He had it shipped all the way from Toronto.

All this drin ‘m; and the pro- vince doesn't co ect. one red cent for taxes! No wonder their roads are horrible and transportation the worst I have seen. There aren't any public playgrounds for’ the klds. The; liavc.ii't got many of the tlilngs that we have. Yet if asked why thcy_haven’t got tnese things, which we take for gi-antcd. all they say is that it Is Imposslblc because the province hasn't got the money. But they let millions slip through their flngcrs. In Montreal there is five times as much con- sumed per person, yet there are fewer drunks and the Government I; reaping in plenty for public works.

Oh! by the way. I drink very little mysvlf. But I do enjoy. u drink or two.

B18679, GNR. WILKOVESKY, W. 3209247, LAC. WILKOVESKY. W.

(Now Mr; W. Wllkovesky. 65

Sheffield street.

(January 3) I’. E. I. IIns Envlnblo Record Under Prohlbltlon

To the Editor: The following record of conditions in the pro- vince of Prince Edward Island, appearing in a recent. Issue of The Temperance Advocate, would seem to contradict statements mark; i_n a letter published In Wednesdays Spectdor:

“Prlncc Edward ‘Island adifs most blessed provlnue. It has no unemployment and \c_i'y little poverty. Though li. permits divorce and has a divorce court provided for. the court h“ "W"

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was granted In 60 years. It is re- poi-mi that since 192': in the whole province there has’ not been a single case of assault, desertzon of family, neglect of children. rir contributing to the delinquency of a child." -

"There are no ighwaym-n. _no gangsters, no comi crclnlizcd vice. no real crime problems, and no pecillenbiafy. ‘Ifhercare only 13 policemen for its ninety thousand people, and it hasn't had an ex- ecution in 40 wars. Per square mile, the island has twlce as many people, four times as much cattle. and eight tlmes as much poulfly as any other province In Cimada. 115 per caplta savings are greater than In any other Canadian pro- vlncc; and for its size it has more railways, more post offices, more telegraph Ilncs. and more churches than any other province."

It. ls estimated that there are 10,000 motor cars on the island and the roads are very winding and dangerous, yet in some years there are as low as two motor accidents.

Is Prince Edward Island hcnven’? There must be a catch in all Ihls.

No‘: It. is simply that the Island- ers adopted prohlbltion many years ago-IQOO-bellcve In and practlc: It. and have let It work out. its own consequences. Prohibition does not. prohibit, but. first ll. must have time to educate and tlrnin; and its sponsors must "not. vote dry with a wet. breath.

SHIRLEY CULVER. '15 Melbourne street, Hamilton.

(January 5) Apparently Has Twlutcd Idea of . . [LIL]. and P.Q.

To tlie Editor: My attention been called In a letter In issue of December Wllkovesky, a returned soIdIc-r. writer of this letter makes some statements about conditions m Prlncc Edward Island wnlcb are so far from the facts that. I Icel your readers should be told the truth. 1 am thoroughly familiar with coiiditloiis there and have re- lcently pald the Island province a two-weeks’ visit. To say that In the towns of Prince Edward Island one In ftve is “tight? Is absolutely untrue. 1m me give yo“ IW" 111°"-

On October 3 last the Dominion Government. licld an auctlon salt.‘ o; the equlpmenl. of an airiwfl- The press estimated the attend- ance at between five Lholliflfld and six thousand. The sale lasted an day and lnbo the night. The preps reported that. not. a single can of drunkenness was seen at m; ma. 'I.‘tits was personally confirmed to rnv by peverul wr- sol-s who had attqndei. it. A leaki- Ing cltlzen of Charlottetown told me that. durlnz the