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WEDNQDAY, JUNE b, 1940

Red Cross Campaign

The Provincial Red Cross campaign has gotten away to an exccllcnt start, and it IS‘ hoped to coniplctc thc canvassing iti the City ivithiii “a f“, thy; The itiinimtini ohicctive for tlie Province is $3,500 but tlicre is no reason why this quota should not be cxcccdctl by a wide margin. lt l> tuiucccsszirv to enlarge on tlle pnmmn (n- inniurtatirc of this campaign, ex- ccpt to point uut that every dollar donated bi’ tlit- public in tlu- provincial drive will be used t0 further the irurl. of the Red Cross in Prince Edward Island. This Province, which has led all Canada in prcvilitis lififl CYQSS Cfilnpilllllli. should have no difficulty in clearing the hurdle on this occasion.

Provincial Premiers’ Attitude Attorney General Larges comprehensive address on tloc DOminiOii-Provincial Conference pfgpggalg, given at Rotary Club on Monday, disposes of at lcast one fallacious argument, . namely that the Frontiers of Ontario and Que- bec were in any ifiiy responsible for the failure of this Province to obtain special consideration on the terms suggested by Premier Jones. Pre- mier Jones’ brief, which has appeared in the local press, sets forth claims for $3,000,000 an- nually exclusive of licalth insurance for the next three years. This was turned down by Finance Minister Ilsley, whose offer was lim- ited to $2,000,000. There is no evidence, how- ever, that any of the Provincial Premiers were opposed. In this connection Attorney General large says:

“Our Premier's submission was well re- ceived and his arguments did take hold as was ahowri by the statements of both Premier Drew and Premier Dtiplessis. Premier Drew acknowl- edged that two provinces, one of which is Prince Edward Island, would have to receive special, treatment and to be compensated 0n a lump sum basis. The Premier of Quebec stat- ed on May ist and I quote: ‘I may say right away, that I, for one, always thought and still think that the liiaritime Provinces have real grievances and that they did not get from Con- federation, what Confederation was meant to giv; them. As far as Quebec in concerned, we are willing to work hand in hand with the Mari- time Provinces to help them get what they right- ly and justly exptcted of Confederation?’

peacetime Resea rch

Wisely, in t-he opinion of Parliament, the Government has decided that the peacetime needs for scientific research in Canada require that the activities of the Research Council be maintained on the same order of magnitude as in the war. In the estimates for the current fiscal year the needs of the Council are placed at about $6,378,000, which is apart from the very sizeable expenditure on atomic energy act- ivities which are directed by the president and administrative officers of the Council.

Information on this subject was given in the House of Commons the other day by/Hon. C. D. Howe, Minister of Reconstruction and Supply. Compared with the staff of 300 in i939, the full-time civilian staff will number about 1,500. In addition to the one large labora- tory building of i939, the Council is now op- erating sixteen other laboratories in Ottawa, in Montrea,l in Chalk River, iu Winnipeg, in Saskatoon, and plans have already been drawn for several others, iticlutling a building research laboratory, a road research laboratory, and a new radio and radar laboratory.

In addition to the laboratories, flie pred- dent is responsible for the administration of about 50 associate rcscarch committees and too sub-committees, on which sit literally hundreds of the country's most distinguished scientists, engineers and industrialists, and who in turn consider and lay down policy in connection with broadlresearch proiects such as aeronautics, Canadian govcrnrnetit purchasing standards, ‘medical research. explosives, goo-physics, dental research, radio research and a number of oth- GfS. , _ .; , The Council also operates scientific liaison offices in London, Washington and Ottawa, maintains a large scientific library, publishes the Canadian lournal nl Research and many other -reports. It has an active prmramme of award- ing scholarships and making grants in aid of re-

i ieearcli-all of which have increased during the

ppeat tfew veers in the same proportion as the ' other" activities. '

‘ The president of the Cotinci? acts as ad- ywlegr, lo the GM rriitienton an increasing num- ber "if ‘~ ‘ “sub eets, "jslts on a large num- Ofltniilfees of a rai

responslbiliten of ii and tibveiop-

and i939. While the war was on, the adminis- tration of the Council received help and advice from senior officials seconded from tmivers- ities and from senior officers in the Department of Reconstruction and Supply, but now that such help will no longer be available, there is need formally to strengthen the top administrative set-up of the council by providing for two senior officials: a vice-President (administration). and a vice-president (scientific); and there is also need for other provisions which will be found lll the proposed amendments.

As a guide to the Canadian program it is iIIlBYESI-lflli to note that a Government-appoint- ed Scientific Manpower Committee in Great Britain has announced that the United King dom must double the present output 0f scien- tists (now 2,500 a year) if tiatiorial recovery, defence and industrial progress are to be main- tained. The committee recommended extension 0f the scope of university training and the creation of a completely new tmivcrsity, plus greater financial assistance by the Government for scientific education.

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Atomic heat and power within five years makes tis \\'0lid€i' what we are going to do with our electric plants, oil and coal fuel, not to men- tion hardwood and kindling.

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Maple Hills troubles liliVl|llfl been ventil- ated iu Parliament, we may tisstillic something definite in the shape of settlement will follow before long. '

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Whetlicr we like it or not, Monday next, the King's substitute birthday, is a statutory lioIi- day. Some merchants and others are becom- ing "fed up" with off-days, and are indicating they will not observe His Majesty's birthday. but “let George do it.”

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A cordial welcome is extended to Colonel Stanley Clarke and the officers and crew of the “Island Connector” on the occasion of the inauguration of the service between here and Newfoundland. Notwithstanding temporary labour troubles, it is predicted that the installa- tion, of this passenger and freight service be- tween the two Islands will result in great ex- pansion of trade and commerce, and make us to a considerable extent independent of the rail service between here and Sydney, leaving that for the haulage of coal and other produce.

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The fivetind a half to nine per cent in- crease in clothing will apply at the manu- facturers level and will be passed on through the trade to the consumer. Manufacturers of wooden and upholstered household furniture were allowed increases which the “lartime Board said would result in a rise of from seven to I3 per cent in retail prices. The iii- creases do not apply to stocks now in hands of dealers nor to “hard furniture” manufactured in British Columbia 0n which prices increase previous had been authorized. Clothing price increases resulted from elimination or reduc~ tion of government cotton and wool stibsidies and wage increases recently authorized by War Lalbor Boards in the textile industry. Furni- ture manufacturers, the Board said, had been faced with increased labor costs and rising costs of raw materials such as ~liartlwood lumber, veneers, glue and hardware.

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Adam Smith, philosopher and economist, born this date I723"; was professor successive- ly of logic and moral philosophy in Glasgow University; published his Theory of the Moral Sentiments in I759; in which lie takes syni- pathy as the root idea in morals, a claim as important, and almost equal, to that of his economic researches, which later found expres- sion in his monumental work Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, which influenced the British Government to change its policy from protection of the farm- er and labourer to Free Trade in the interests of the manufacturer and shop-keeper: “No soc- iety can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the greater part of the members are poor and miserable. “To found a great Em- pire for the sole purpose of raising up a nation of shop-keepers may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shop-keepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shop-keepers but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shop-

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With reference to the visit of Major-Gen- eral Foster, we may remind ottrselvcs, com- puisory service is still the law in the old coun- try. Eighteen-year-old men will be inducted into the British armed forces for a two-year period in I947 and this term will be progressive- ly reduced until December, i948, when the con- scription period will be I8 months. This was announced in the House of Commons George Isaacs, Minister of Labor, who out- lined the interim program for conscription cov-

s ering the next two years until the government

had reached a decision on the permanent peace- time forccs. Until the end of this year the

thereafter, Mr. Isaacs said, the call-up will be confined to men reaching the age of l8,‘ with certain exceptions. Men over that age who had their call-up deferred becauue of the national importance of their civilian employment would not be inducted but kept on the same or equ- slly important work. No deferment; on indus- trial grounds would be granted after the end of the current year except in coal mining, agri- culture, building and building materials, but uni- versity wludenls and certain trade apprentices my postpone induction until the completion of . elt lttitlles or term ‘of apprenticeship. Mr.

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Notes By The Way

5| i0 bolt-seller dobuukerl

9d. —_Ve.noot:ver Province.

9'1"“. we lfCjl-IE, was 501d as a medicine Some restaur- srmeri.‘ “":P.*:r.2 s s m monton Journal. '

The farmer nu have u hard time l" his milk den nus, but at legal; he does not stand naked in n hate-h z-lilliste light when hh income tsx i! due. like lhoce of us who work t....'“-€§°§2’55.l~l‘l..°.°§‘”“m.¢""°° "““ likes. Peterborough ha

It should now be evident to even the dulleot observers, that regud. less of whet busily-browned Bro, LewLs and his followers eventually scln. the rest of the U s citizenry and eople of other population; 95 well ave lost pretty heavily by m9 n; ne strikes. —Brand1.'ord Expos“.

There are 1.1317}... bent» m? Postwar Ponerstion "w" QHlQYPYi-Bfllll and resourceful than their fathers. Certainly the British are the best riskts i.ii the world lfl¢lfly~lfltd the only strong competitors in the bitstneus of main trig the democratic system work.“ New Your Tunes.

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Frederic Joilbtijsuneo’; "mun; physicist. has imesientcd the world with another worry. Dr. Jollot says ll 151W ellflllgli to concern owroelves with tihe a-tomlc bomb. Even ii we succeed in controlling the‘. awful wea- pon, there will still exist the don pr 0f fl Secret W111‘. ‘milled witt- ra 0- li-ctlve substances. the dire effect of which will not be Immediate v noticeable. —QWi"Ki Sound Sun‘. Time-s

1i illrlus are 80in; to refuse to im- pute murder to any youth with good ooks and presentable manners. i: may become neccssary to press (m- life sentences wit-ii no reduction foi- good behavior tn all oases oi man- slaughter which v/oulti have been

ed as murder under the old definitions. Imprisonment. with a-b- wlulfily 110 mile of eve-r gaining freedom- is BlXTiOSl/ as impressive as khqeéhgallows. Jfomntn Saturday

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iiiiirihi‘ i forest: "tit? fir: foqliiifieriilere with this riBht b)’ legislation is an invasion of “WP sonal liberty". Contentions of this sort come from minds in which the teuchllrig l?! history and of exPen‘ ence s o scure. Take the case of Norway; For a period of 30 years in Nor- way-there was not any invasion of personal liberty by leflllllilllfl l" connection with the manlllflclllfa of certain liquors. These Nordics or Aryans of the Scandinavian peninsula are by nature as stalwart and healthy u race as elm be fWfld- It will be recalled they were even admitted to Herr Hitler's pantheon of superman supposedly endowed b nature with the right w rule- Lfore fitting subjects for a practi- ciil test of the results of the ‘per- sonal liberty’ prlvllele of ‘taklns llquéalr o; ieaymtgdlt alone‘, wold har y e seec e . Between i816 an lawful in Norway for ‘ dent of that nation to dlstil bran- dy. Distillation becume common The consump-tl-on of brandy re- placed ‘the consumption of other drinks In several of the mountain valleys. What was the effect upon the offwrlng of these personal lib- erty devotees? Among the com- niunltles where brandy was pro- duced the number of feeble-mind- ed increased from 1816 to i835 more than 100 per cent: The coun- try was alarmed. An title t Wfl! first made to diminish ths al- cohollc indulgence by the imposit- ion of a tax upon clisum tion. That proved lrlifflcient. Fnully the distillation had to be stopped by krglsiatlon which was passed in the year 1848. As r ted in the British journal of nebrioty. July, 1914, by Dr. ween, a lend-

The University of Western Ont- ario and the London Little Thmtre are two local institutions which re- flect. great credit on the way. it was probably inevitable that they 8K0"!!! endeavor to oo-operste. Now tn oormectlon with the university's rapidly-developing school of Fine Arsadramaschoollstobeln- stltuted, The Little Theatre has alread been carrying on classes in severe types nf stage activity. Last Winter it hail an exceptionally satisfactory record. Now this is to be integrated with t-he university wotrk and will count for university credits. -Lomlon Free Press

By demanding still higher wage rates and shorter working hours the leaders ‘of tne organizw labor movement. are wrecking our econ- omy and wrecking the organized labor movement itself. Trade union leaders hate Ocmmunlsm became there ls no place tn it for chem, yet _by their sctlons- they are hastenm the day when we shall have mniun or Fas- clsm in this country and when they themselves will be deprived of their well- alci and comfort- ablejobs . at is wit tne Com-' murusls ln Russia elsewhere are laughing at us, -Caivedlan Oountrymari.

A new device now being tested lit the navys eicperunentol field at Area-to, Calif, screeehes high-frequ- ency supersonlc waves at fog-end presto. the tog wax-tides condense

.to rsltnl, thus‘: erg-n ‘igiislbllltgd

ewsr he orieer w s fog disperser which. burned high octane gas and took sometimes as 11111611 as 85.000 worth

new dispense-r named

is expected to do the $160. But more rwenty experimenting with sound

The first attempts were made with abet ofsl iisandwhile sile- ceesful i-n that blamed iogunto rain. the noise natlseeted ‘personnel on tire field Now hlgh- requency supersonic vibrations with up to 40.000 cycles second —1-.50 octave; higher than gh. (;--arixl completely inaudible to hum-an ears; are bel used. These are expected to be stli more effective and cheaper no we“.

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Diaper-re anti so underground — rules which

id down were t0 be any more wsra. Industrial cities would have i-o be

gin tcominfl w trite our?’ ce u n lid scurry f in all dilrectionslto their wand) - camcuflaged homes. Trees would wave their serene branches above

we never will Navy, nit

in study such matters as floor and ceiling and

space for aircraft and ry, mi wnpm o hixniclllzy tectlori and coabf putting to h; -l"nom NI. Times.

One would dueribe a eab- tcn

Th’. women’; auxiliary , gtm , .

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entail twenty-five to conveyed b

lng Norwegian authority: "The enormous increase of feeble-mind- ed came and went with the brun- dy." The parents had eaten sour grapes. The children's teeth were set. on edge, The children old the penalty of their parents‘ rinklng.

In this Norwegian "muss experi- ment” the change in the hahl ul drinking habits was so |l‘".i'k:d. and the result on the offspring wns so rapid and so catastrophic that it became demonstrably certain the cause of the ieeble-mlndedness of the ctilldren was the use of al- cohol by their parents. Am experi- ence such ns this where large numbers of persons were involved. and when the results n11 pointed l-n the one direction, ls considered by medical authorities to he of great value, since the mass of numbers outweighed any minor factors that might be considered.

While lt ls true that the stronger alcoholic solutions. such as brun- dy. etc, do the 0st harm. which is but natural, t is does not pre- vent the weaker alcoholic ‘iquors from doing their own quota of harm to the offspring. Hniinstuklng investigators have shown by re- searches both upon man and ani- mals that the offspring of those who take alcohol ln relatively small quantities a? less well du- veloped than the o_.sp-ring of those who abstaln._Thls can be shown by overwhelming authority.

But let. us take an example "gear- er home. Take the case of Prince Edward Island.

For a number of years in Prince Edward Island intoxicating liquor might be bought and sold as free- ly n tea or coffee. There was no legislation whatever to prevent its manufacture. ltl sale, or its use. Rum from Demarars, whiskey from Scotland. and brandy from France, mlglx legally be PtiIChflSEfl at any store which saw f l. to keep such liquor for sale. The healthy and the sick might select and de- mand their special, bran s of “hootcli" without the production of any prescription or any certificate whatsoever/All that was lie was the price, and in thos liqi-o viva! cheap. Every "sl per- son’ a chance to recover uigi get w by procurln his "medic- ine" wh ever he fet the Personal liberty w‘ quite unre- stricted. There was no phohlbltoi-y law to induce men to violate it. The Colony was even free temperance fanatics and hihltionl-sts.

But what was the finding of the Legislature in 1TB. at the first. session of the General Manual?

a Colony? Chapter l2 of the Statutes of flat year contained the state- ment: "The practice of drinking Rum, or other distilled spirituous liquors has become ve prevalent and common. especial y among

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ALL "" 1315GT. piece and gear-eel of land situate, lyl and

lag on tot or Township ‘ umber slxtv-three, in King's ‘Jouflt Prince Edward Island, bounded an and described “lows. that ll to $l"1-— '

UNDIJ on the North by the

BO r rear line of the Peter-sliced farms;

on the Welt. by the Northern ex- ‘ounda y mndred (Sill) hold d hi posuulan, at George llrnie- on the last by ) acres of mind the Commissioner of hlln hillgrag-

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These include Public anti High School subjects, Junior and“ Senior ‘Matricula- tion courses, Commercial, Technical, and Vocational courses in Agriculture, Fishing, etc., etc.

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Ai-tltlcers. Servants. Labourers, Soldiers, and Sailors, sojourning in, md belonging to. this Island‘ ‘he constant and exceslive use W ere- of tends greatly to the prejudice of their health, renders them tn- capable of discharging the duties 0d of their respective occupations. dabaucher-thelr morale and in- cites them to the practice of veri- ouli other vices."

Whether this condeiruietlon of the use of alcohol be uttered by temperance fanatics, by prohibit- ionlsts, or by the first legislature of 1778, the condemnation ls true; and the very condemnation shows that conditions such as those des- cribed culi for the interference of the Legislature. Thus ‘lhlqiez-ffllffl’ has been condemned since the very beginning of the history of mar legislation.