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“ meg sub-commit!!! 9f the Privy Council to

PAGE roux A TllE ~ G-IIARLOTTETBWII GUARDIAN

Morning Dally (Founded in I881)

Indium Ueut. Col. W. Chester B. Mslinn Vine-President: J. l. Burnett. ILJJ. Secretory: Llent. Col. I). A. biselinnoss, 0.8.0. Editor and Managing, Director: J. B. Burnett, FJ-l. Annotate Editors; Frank Walker nnd l-lent. Inn A. Burnett, iLtLNJ/Js. (On Active Ins-vies)

“The Strongest Memory is Weaker The! the Weakest Ink.‘

MONDAY, ocronzn ‘n, sass

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Loan Campaign Opens

Everything is now in readiness for the launching today of the Ninth Victory Loan cam- Paign. The $3,300,000 quota for this Province is large, but it will be remembered that more than $4,000,000 was subscribed towards the last loan by Prince Edward Island citizens. This will be our greatest Victory Loan because it aims to cover (juiiadzfs borrowing needs for the ‘ext twelve months. It should not be necessary

stress the many necessary expenditures in- volvrxl. 'l‘til<e one for example:

For the year ending March 3i, 1946, more flsnn half of which came after the cessation of hostilities, the expenditures on the armed serv- ices and the Departnict of Munitions and Stip- ply will still exceed $2 1-4 billion. It is esti- mated that the cost of the Army will have been reduced only by about 20 per Cent from {he previous your. The cuts in the Navy and the Air Force are expected to be more substantial. By far the largest item in the continued high cost of the Armv is for pay and allowances. It offices and other ranks-died up in the military organiza- tion is expected to remain large for many months yet.

There is also the necessity of meeting re- habilitation expenditures. of contributing to the support of war-devastated Allied Nations, pre- venting inflation, and a dozen other post-Vic- tory objectives to which we pledged ourselves during the years 0f war. Apart from all this, of course, is the fact that Victory Bond-buying is not spending ones money, but saving it with interest, and on the very best securitv. It is hoped and expected that the response from this Province will he as prompt and generous as in the past. and that Prince Edward Island once ailaif] Will lead all Canada in this patriotic coni- petition.

Vancover Airway Project |

While we seem to be marking time here so far as airport expansion is concerned, otheri centres across Canada are busy with ambitious‘ plans and specifications. Here is s progress re- port from the Pacific Coast:

A nine million dollar expansion project for Vancouver's Sea Island airport to handle a tremendous increase in air travel within the next three years has been prepared by airpo manager William Templeton. The plan in- cludes extended runways, increased number of hangars, re-directed route and added passenger accommodation. The renovated base is calcul- ated to accommodate five airline services with 75,000 passengers a month, triple the number now carried. Companies expected to operate from there in transcontinental and transoceanic flights are T.C.A., T.C.A. (Pacific), United Airlines, Canadian Pacific Airlines and a com- bination of British Overseas Service and Aus- tralian Airways. In addition, feeder planes from the interior will be serviced. The pro- ject, according t0 Mr. Templeton, will cover r000 acres instead of the present 60o. Run- ways will be 7300 to 10,000 feet long, replacing the present .1500 foot ones. Hangar space will bl increase-l to house seven giant transport planes as pvt-ll as private aircraft. A new four- lane highway and bridge, estimated to cut two miles off the route. a modern hotel for the con- venience of travellers, and a new administra- tion building complete with two restaurants. barber and beauty shops, are included in the plan. Mr. Templeton points out that it has previously been reported the Dominion Gov- ernment is preparing to spend millions nf dol- lars at Sea Island and work is expected to begin before Christmas.

Need Tariff Board Again

Discussion of Canada's views on retention of Empire preference, points up one very im- portant omission is the failure to reconstitute the Tariff Board,

This board closed its doors in btr, I939, when its chairman, Hector B. MeKinnon, was seconded for \var duties with the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. It has remained

l , virtually inactive to this day, despite the re-

peated and urgent requests of business groups and others to have it resume its important duties.

The Tariff Board was s creation of the itself

nnce Minister ‘prepared a bill creating n tariff commission with wide authority of investiga-

"tion, recommendation and tariff control to meet

emergencies. The Liberals had a large major- ity in the Senate, and the tariff commission bill was so mutilated as to defeat its purpose. It was not untl r917 that the Conservatives secured control of the Senate, but in the mean- time csme the World Wsr I, when there was no stability iil prices, and s tariff board be- qme. unnecessary. Following demobilization in I900, the Union Government delegated author-

. f and business requirements snd i 1 i o! t mil-sun; tariff “commission ‘s; Slr

Minister, the

meudntions were resdy the merit was defeated.

Under Prime Minister King a Tariff Ad- visory Board wss set up in May, 1926 without any statutory authority. It was appointed by order-in-council, with Hon. George P. Graham at its head, and it was a political machine Pure and simple. When Mr. Graham was appointed to the Senate he was succeeded as chairman by Mr. W. H, Moore, a defeated Government candidate in South Ontario.

In plaoe of this partisan political board the Bennett Government in August, 1930, appoint- ed s new Board of non-partisan business men, constituted under authority 0f an Act of Par- liament and with statutory power to meet emet- gencies from business conditions, unexpected foreign tariff changes, and t0 exercise an auth- ority to prevent advantage being taken of tar- iffs to unduly increase prices. The latter fune- tion is being discharged at present by the War- time Prices and Trade Board, but no one has suggested that this organization should be con- tinued indefinitely in the peace years.

It is to be hoped that when a new Tariff Board is appointed it Will be along the lines of the Bennett board, with politics eliminated. Otherwise we would probably be better off without a board of any kind, At all events there w_ill be no excuse for the Government taking act- ion in this matter without Parliament's author- ity, ss it did in 1926.

-EDITORIAL NOTES-

The annual revenue of daily newspapers in Canada is seven times that of all magazines combined, according to the recently issued Gov- ernment report on Printing Trades.

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Farmers will have another chance of ac- quiring plant at the displenisli sale to be licld at Charlottetown airport soon. For instance, there are 58 three-quarter ton motor trucks which will be sold direct to farmers.

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It is expected that within no distant date, the improvements at Borden-Tornientinc term- inals will be under way, the plans, having been approved by the powers-that-be, and only \vait- ing financial approval for the signal to go ahead full steam.

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Prospects are not bright for a good time at the year’s end in Britain. It will be an aus- terity Christmas again for the traditional plum pudding. Manufacturers will not be permitted to increase quantity or improve quality, and the only difference from wartime years is a price increase of 2d (4 cents) per pound, Only two sizes are permitted—-one pound, costing 2s 2d,

and two pounds, at 3s 11d. i l I I

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Sir Philip Francis. autlior of Lvflcr: 0f Junior, was born this date I740; the authorship was long in doubt; they appeared in the Public Advertiser, and were the sensation in English public life from January 21st, 1769 to Janu- ary 21st 1772; they were ascribed variously to no fewer than 35 distinguished public men, in- cluding the great Earl of Chathain, Lord Ches- terfield, Edmund Burke, Edward Gibbon, John Wilkes, Horace Walpole, Henry Grattan, and Lord Chancellor Loughborougli; it was not till the death of the son of the printer of the Public Advertiser, Henry Woodfall, that private cor- respondence between Woodfall and Francis re- vealed the latter to be Jmiiur; subsequent furth- er investigation pl;OV€d tliisso be true.

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Military youth organizations established in Britain during the war are now being car- ried on with Government help, their object be- ing to train the youth of the country, not for the defence of their homeland, but for the preservation of peace. Boys and girls are en- couraged to join various youth organizations sponsored, but not controlled. by the’ War Of- fice, the Air Ministry and the Admiralty. In all cases the curriculum includes, in addition to ore-military training, special instruction in practical peacetime occupations. Thus the boys of the Royal Air Force's “Air Training Corps"

are taught drawing and the use of wireless for s,

civil aviation, the "Sea Cadets" learn cooking and office work in addition to astronomy, geo- graphy and mechanics., The girls of the “Girls Training Corps" will learn how to run homes or offices. All the youth organizations give courses of lectures on literature, drama, rhythmical dancing, and international quet- tions. Special youth camps are t0 be estab- lished for practical training.

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In the English language, the phrase: "French-Canadian hospitality,” has become al- most a proverb. Certain it is that Jean Baptiste likes to play the psrt of host, that he can do this worthily. The stranger within his gates, whether an undistinguished tourist or a fam- ous international personage, is ever sure of a warm welcome, of a gracious reception tender- ed to him with all the courtesy of ancient France. And in recent years, the province has had many opportunities to extend a friendly hand to the great and the near great of the whole world- the Big Three have met in the Citadel, UNNRA have foregsthered in Montreal, distinguished ambassadors. stat smen, snd even Royalty have made either Quebec City or Montreal their headquarters. This week three international con- ferences have opened their sessions, one in the

capital-the United Nations Food snd Agsi- Th

cultural Organization, the aim of which is to draw up n long-term plan to provide against hunger in any part of the world, and the other two in the Metropolic-PICAO (Provisional Intemationsl Civil Aviation Organization) whose deliberations hope to solve some of the

flying, and l. A. T. A. (International . Air Transport Association). The French-language press could hardly be expected to keep silent on such important gatherings, and it is with

Melghen Govern-

msny knotty problems concerned with peacetime h

Tl-IE CHARLOTTETQWN G_UA_l}_D_I_A_l§

Notes By The Way

VIY m! the In, wsnts to dis 2.31 " lhf-fisbislfillili" f3’.- onto om» and mu. '-

Gsnes-nl lhenimwsr put whole problem of s Allies in tbs. ‘ hi n sentence

- talk of the Allied 0on- t-M author l; so the us. lon to sotvenc st the su cs level." _ tnuoi-q Beacon-Herald. Iahnblllhflon turn of the bulk o the

that; the battle veteran l5 entitled to all of the preferences that can be secured for him ln this land. The point system seemed to prom- ise that. Is lt, being mlslsld? - Vlctiorln. B. 0., Dally Colonist.

The suggestion oomee from Pen- sylvanlivs Institute of Public Sat- ety that high schools give their students instruction in the driving 0f motor vehicles. Desirable as it ls that licensed drivers should be trained and competent we doubt that the school ls the place for such ln- struction - there are enough dis- fractions already from the bssle glsln of education. — Ottawa Jour-

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Whatever the cause may be the fact remains that production has been dwindling and a danger exists that Canadian bacon producers may lose whatever position they have gained during the war years, once such bacon producing coun- trle as Denmark become i-e-estab- llshed. There also is the angle that Britain needs the bacon and Cari- ada may be unable to curry out commitments, Fort William Times-Journal,

The country properly intends to fulfil its contracted obligations, either toward discharged members

the armed forces and those about to be discharged. or toward friendly countries whom Canada, has undertaken to assist. Every act which tends to rldwhe world of 11115911’ 0r Drlvatlon undoubtedly I-‘Olltrlblltes to the hastening of a return to solid peace. just as aid tendered to countries seeking to recover their equilllbrlum ls ac. companled by an increase in unl- versal pros erlty from which the Dominion raws advantage. _- La Presse (Montreal)

When it ls sald tn the American people that the United States ts engaged ln this prodlgously costly undertaking of the reconstruction of Europe without thought of ud- viintage to itself. it ls probably W156 to add that there ls for us, as a people, compensation enough for all the expenditure of our e1‘- fort and money ln securing, 1f lt be possible, u stable and a peaceful Europe as the key to s stable. peaceful and prosperous world, 1t is th-gt objective which would serve us best, not the pursuit. t any spe- cial l crest in any Eur pearl coun- try.— rovidence Journa.

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The people of the word will not be content, we feel, with an armed truce, instead of paclficallon. They will liisist upon perseverance in working toward the goal of pacifi- cstlon. Mid the failure they have one thing to be thankful for, nume- ly, that no great fundamental has been compromised which would have betrayed the cause for which mankind has bled. Till the next meeting the task must be to re- hove the causes of distrust, which the victors still entertain toward each other and which explain the debacle that has come over the first, essay lri pesoemsking-Wash- lngton Post.

Now ls the time to let tough with the criminals tnfestlng Vancouver. Shootings, slugglngs arid hold-ups are on the increase all over the continent. Law enforcement ofllc- ers expect. that the situation wlll become much worse. Some go so fur as to predict the biggest crime wave in history. Vancouver should serve notice that lt ls an unhea]. thy place for baridltry and vlo- lence; that thugs and gunmen had better stay sway. Severe sentences involving the application of the rap to these brutal gentry would be one means of impressing the point. The professional underworld would be much less apt to turn Vancouver into s M-ppy hunting ground lf the world spread corporal unlshment was s. part of the pens ty meted out- by local courts-Vancouver Sun.

The nlik hut has lever been oompletely domestic ‘ ’ lri West- ern America. Small boys have been throwing snowballs at lt ln the funny papers ever since there have been funny papers, though such tempting bat-gets are rare ln real llfe, Historians of the West say that the Westerners contempt for this kind ol’ s hat grew out oi’ n genuine hatred with an economic bssls. The silk hnt destroyed the living of the mountain men who trapped beavers, Klt Carson's and Jtm Bridger! companions st. the Green River rendezvous lri Wyom- l use of the skins been bo mske fps

Henry Clay The sllk topper was cl-isnper and drove the besver oft the market. Mountslri men did sometimes set- uslily (as well u lri cartoons and m es putebulletthmilhssllk list w en they sew one. - Onto- sgo Dally News.

At ti enl of Inly Is knees! oi Ethlgpls proclaimed s new curi- rency -- the Ithlopinn During the I

granola ltl silver dollar, sn lillilm, which

by the British

lthioplnu pride that the Montreal-Marin in its October m, 5m

16th issue, writes lnggrest praise of the Hotel Windsor where the sir-salaried are now in

PUBLIC FORUM

ANSWER T0 "FAIL!!!" - tee , and sn sxssrv man ad

o mums not bovine h gas uelntsncs of Mr. Frank B.

lnrke I wlsh to take lsslte with the letter signed "Farmer" in the October 16th Issue of The Guar-

dim. By making n very poor attempt- to make light of the interesting

letters Mr. Clarke has written.

In "Runner" elttier hopes to distract

attention from the real issues, or to discourage Mr. Clarke from bringing before the people s. few matters that sre. or should be, of general interest to the public, and particularly to the farmers of our Province.

If the writer who designates himself "Fsirnei" really had the interests of the farmers st heart he would not be critical of Mr. Clarke or any other man who had the courage to speak up in protest of such undemocratic conditions as alleged.

It ls puzzling to understand why "Planner" should be so interested ln defending either Premier Jones or Mr. Boulter. The Potato Grow- ers’ Association's main object. seems to have s. double pur- pose: (l) shutting out all other competitive concerns; which gives them un even easier o portunlty to proceed in (2) dicta lng their own price to the farmers.

Farmers of Saskatchewan have set an example that. we on P.E.I. would do wel to follow let us not forget this st our riexl provlriclrzil election. Let us elect, s government to whom farmers are something more than merely potential tuit- payers.

I am inclined to think that "Farmer" ls not very well acquaint.- ed with conditions regarding our veterans, or else on reading Mr. Clarke's letter he too would have been pleased to hear that at least someone ls extending a little us- slstance to some of the returned men. since our Provincial Govern- ment seems to think their obligat- ions have been successfully dis- charged by having a representat- lve at the railway station every once and awhile to make a speech to the returning men. These men have heard enough speeches; what they want ls jobs. Z I wonder lf our Temperance Federation instead of boosting the morale, as well as revenue, of the bootlegger by attempting to maili- tuin their hold on “Prohlbltlon" would not render the Province ll much greater, and more Christian good, by using their collective ln-

fluence ln an effort. to get the Government to take immediate action to provide employment for the hundreds of unemployed peo- ple, nnd especially our exservlce men and women, who have long since begun to regard Service" as a farce. Altogether the situation is dolly growing worse instead of better, and l1; ls high time that, our clergy, Women's Institutes, Unions, Lodg- es, etc. united in demanding that ll our present Government cannot or wlll not make an effort to better tlicsc, nnd several other conditions which are disgraceful to our be.»- ple and Province, then it should resign. It ls unfortunate that, there are not more progressive and public- splrlted men such as Mr. Clarke, but for some unknown reason there seems to be an element on this Island who are always ready to bite t e few hands that would help, I am, Sir, etc.,

G. l. W. Crspaud, P.III.I.

POLITICS AND PROIIIDITION

Sin-So many changes h-a-ve been made in recent weeks that it ls dlfilcult to get. an accurate picture of the real Prohibition situation. From the confusion of eonfllctlng interests, and differing opinions, one tendency stands clear. We are moving steadily toward an era lii this Islands history when alcohol for bevemge purposes wlll flow ln an ever mcreaslrig torrent. Under Government control the only llm- its are the unrestrained appetites of the thirsty populace srid the ability of the brewers; and the dis- tlllers to satisfy the ever increas- ing demand. When our consump- tion per csplta reaches that of the other provinces under "Govern- ment control" our annual expend-

that lture for alcoholic bevemges wlll

be in the vicinity of $3,000,000 s year, and that consumption can easily be reached within the next. five years.

Never was the situation more slsrmlrig. In days that are passed when Prohibition was vigorously enforced and public o lnlon wss s factor to be reckons with any Government that dared to nore the expressed wishes of the elect- orate was speedily brought to task. and the result was never r s méagen‘: lgigoubtg Tlgld‘: hthelslitu- g eren . op n mt has not changed but Government

"Selective anything that has ever been done

ar- rangement to uovids bsverses sl- ooisol in revenue purposes must take its . Tbn is the issue that ts us tndsy. sud it is m issue that. should liud every elector definitely on one slde or the other.

uor traffic is driven from our shores.

It ls the fnllun of enlightened oplnhlslm to et behind these

in so msny parts of our modem world. Once let the homes, and the schools and the churches of our country get behind this Pio- hihltlon Issue and ft will be easy for my Government to do the right, . Government control on Prince Edward Island is uu- thtnknble. I am, Slr, etc, .