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Morning Dolly (Founded In I881)

Authorised as Second Class Moll. Poss Olloo Department», Ottawa. President, inn A. Burnett; Vice-President, Wns. I Quest; Soap-Tress!" G. M. Burnett; Editor one Imaging Director, J. a. Burnett; Assoelsh Edison. hank Wniker.

"The Strongest Memory is Weaker Than trio" Weakest Ink.‘

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, i940

higher Education In Britain

Canadians who are interested in higher ' aaucation are following the debate in Great i Ititain on the future of English universities with growing attention. The British Government has accepted, as a - broad objective, the recommendation of the ’ Iarlow Committee that the output of university- trained scientists should be doubled "at the earliest possible moment." At the same time it is hoped to double the number of arts students within the next ten years. There were 22,000 oots students and 27,000 science students in nglish universities before I939- The response of the universities to this challenge has been mixed. Both \Oxford and Cambridge said a large increase in the number of their students was impossible due to the con- gestion already visible at the universities and . to the further fact that the personal tutorial I system they follow cannot be reconciled with indiscriminate expansion. When the replies of all the universities were weighed, it was found that they believed it would be possible to increase the student pop-

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ulotion within the next ten years by only 45 per cent instead of the I00 per cent urged by the Iorlow Committee. ‘ _ ' To achieve even this more modest ob|ect- Ivo, the government will be required to spend ' more money on university education than it has boon accustomed to do in the past. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has raised the uni- versity grant to nine million pounds, an increase of 3 I-2 million pounds over last_year‘s figure. While they naturally welcome this larger as- sistance, the universities are somewhat restive } out two difficulties they foresee. ' They are afraid, firstly, that this concert- ad emphasis on having the universities adjust themselves to immediate social need will tend to disturb the balance of university education In Great Britain. After all, it is not the primary function of a university to turn out engineers or research cialists. Its vocation is to train students in o e humanities of scholarship and touch them with the passion for disinterested learning._ It cannot do this by working to an arbitrary time- tobls. , Secondly, and equally important, _tho uni- i vanities are afraid that with the increased l money voted by the government w_ill come an ‘in- Wing; desire to meddle in university affairs. ‘irotexception they are resolved to guard fhgir academic freedom with the utmost vigor against any such threat. These fine scruples, comments an ox- ghange, may seem wire-drawn to some’ _Can- edians. But the mature academic tradition of the British Isles is not lightly to be mocked. It would be wiser counsel to urge that these de- "Mymgnr; be weighed and pondered hero in

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Monty's English

It was Field Marshal Montgomery who announced, after the Battle of El Alomein, that everything was tickety-boo and, on the occasion bf tho Allied landings in Southern Italy, that the troops were full of beans and had their tailsrhigh. "We were therefore gratified but by no means surprised," says an American exchange, "when he told a reporter in Washington last woek that he considered West Point ‘absolutely the cat's whiskers.’ This represents, for an Englishman, a practically current adoption of American slang. According to Partridge, ‘cat's whiskers,’ a variant of ‘cat's pyjamas’, dates from only about I920. It's reassuring to fihd that a military figure of the importance of the

.Viscount of Alomein is, as they will be saying over there in I948, so 'hep' (a successor to that vulgar neologism, ‘There ain't no flies on me,‘ which dates from circa I895). Of ‘tickety- boo', by the way, Partridge, mercifully, says Ilothipg."

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llew Savings Bonds

Al previously forecast, the Dom‘ h- Irnmont through the Minister of Finance has announced that Canada Savings Bonds will bo offered for sale to the public commencing October I5. This peacetime version of the Vic- tory Bond should prove a popular investment for it is a real gilt-edged one, carrying as it daemon Interest rote of 2.75 per cent. The bonds will bo issued in denominations of $50, $I00, $500 and $I,000 and the holdings by any one person will be limited to $2,000. They will bear tho Issuance date of Nov. I, I946, and will mature In ten years; are non-callabla by the Govern- mont but redeemable by the owner at any time et full face valuo plus interest at coupon rate. y, e bonds are also non-transferable and non- ‘i; assignable, and will be registered as to p'rin- . clpol thus providing protection against loss. .. A largo number of Canadians havo boon

lble to build up comfortable bank accounts in lots years, as revealed by tho high volume of Its in the banks, and thoy also have in- Jbsted In Victory lands, War Savings Certifi- f and Stamps throughout tha war years. ' rafloctod not only a desire to old in win- tho war but a confidence in tho Dominion

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continually purchased War Savings Certificates and Stamps, tho solo of which wore discontinued on Monday, will find in the Canada Savings Bonds as good an investment for the money they consistently placed in the Certificates and Stamps now withdrawn. The Minister of Fin- ance hopes that they will continue purchases through medium of the new bond issue and it is to be trusted that his hopes will be realized.

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Soap chemical workers’ disputes are alleged to be The cause of laundry soap shortage. The women ‘ " be given a hand in settlement of that strike.

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Francis Williams, public relations adviser to Prime Minister Attlee, has suggested that membership in the United Notions "should be limited to those countries that guarantee free- dom of information and news."

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Ottawa despatches announce that letter carriers have been instructed lo take note dur- ing their daily routes of unoccupied apartments or houses and to report the address and wheth- er the accommodation is a single house, double house, apartment, duplex or triplex. This act- ion will assist the Emergency Shelter Adminis- tration in completing a nation-wide survey of vacant family dwelling units.

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In connection with the “floor" delegation now in Ottawa, the Bureau of Statistics reports that the potato production this year is estimated at 44,628,000 hundredweight compared with last year's harvest of 36,986,000 hundredweight. The estimate, based on conditions during the fourth week in September, is 24 per cent greater than last year and nine per cent greater than the five-year average. Substantially heavy yields per acre and heavier planting are credited with the

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Our External officials, who corresporid to tho British Foreign Office staff, arc on the move this month. Mr. Norman Robertson, newly-ap- pointed Canadian High Commissioner to the Uni- ted Kingdom has assumed his new duties. Mr. Hume Wrong, assistant undersecretary of state for external affairs, is expected to leave Ottawa sometime this week for his new post as Can- adian Ambassador to Washington. Mr: L. _M. Pearson, the present ambassador, who is going to Ottawa as undersecretary of state for ex- ternal affairs, likely willtarrlve soon aftor.

The Church of Scotland has received from an anonymous donor a gift of $I,045,000. The gift is In the form of stock, and is to be used for specific purposes. Mr. Hay Downie, C. A., treasurer of the Church of Scotland, told a reporter: “l am under an obligation to the donor to say nothing in the meantime except that he is a Scotsman and a well-known church-

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Alberta's "bill of rights", a measure by which the Social Credit Government hopes to provide a social security pension to every un- employed Albertan between I9 and 60, is now before the appellate division of the province's Supreme Court in its first test of validity. At- torney-General Lucien Maynard himself present- ed the Government's case in this new attempt by the Social Credit administration to put into effect its political philosophy based on depart- ure from the usual monetary practices.

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William Morris, poet, artist, socialist, died this date I896; associated in art with Burno- Jones, Ford Madox ‘Brown, and Rossetti: his outstanding poetic works were: The Defence of Guenevere, The Life and Death of Jason, and The Earthly Paradise. In prose he wrote much, including his masterpiece, The House of the Wolfings. His socialism was aesthetic; poverty to him meant lack of pictures and artistic joys, hence his anger against a system which entail- ed poverty:

"There are such as foin would be the worst

Amongst all men, since best they cannot be,

So strong is that wild lie that men call pride." I i I O

Apparently the ready tongu! of Britain's famous wartime Prime Minister is a family idiosyncrasy, as one Australian police sergeant discovered recently. In the Dorrigo country of New South Wales lives a cousin of Winston Churchill, who, naturally, is a center of inter- est. Wearing a long, tawny beard, ragged pants at half most height and sandshoos, the local member of the Churchill clan recently turned up for his gas ration tickets at the pol- ice station. On the score of his beard, the sergeant remarked: "You know you'd much improve your looks if you shaved your whiskers." “Think so," was tho answer. "Well, let mo tell you, sergeant, that if you grow a beard it would much improve your looks. It would hide some of your cheek.“ Churchill's relative received his tickets and was shown the door in record time.

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Captain Russell writes to The Times! "A day or two ago rCanon Meyer began o letter to you with the words, ‘Poor B.B.C.—a gallant colonel finds fault with the B. B. C. bo- couso. . .‘ Why did the Canon use the ad- jective gallont? Not, clearly, because any ques- tion of gallantry wafinvolvod. I very much fear he was using it in on unflattering sense, the intended implication ‘being ‘gallant possibly but wooden-headed undoubtedly.’ It is about time wo titular 'gallants‘ began to reply in kind, and I suggest to my brother wooden-heads that when wa wish to indicate in tho public Press that one of our follow citizens has boon talking nonsense we should couplo his riomoor title with a suit- able adjoctlvo on tho following lines: for a Minister or ox-Minister of the Crown, statesman- liko; for a public relations officer, faithful; for a poor, aristocratic; fora business man, enter- prising; for a professor, erudite; for o Civil Servant or ox-Civll Servant, lncqrruptiblo; for e lawyer, porsuosivo; for a manufacturer, pro- ductive; for o trade unionist, solid; and for a canon or other divine, saintly.‘ I can think of

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others, but thoso should suffice to start the bol rolling."

to the bone. we can't make a soon —Peterborough Fhramlnei.

spring, anyway Lowering the hem

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Notes By The Way

According to reports from Greece. 106 percent of the electorate voted there in the reoent plebiscite. Even by working our party “repen-

l'(:e that in a Canadian election.

In these precarious days It ls a proven fact that more and more people are turning to the higher things of life. And one of them is the art of music. The increase In audiences fcr opera and concert both during and sir-so the war has been phenomena-l. It ls estimated by those who have studied the sit. uatlori carefully that the number of faithful music-lovers has been more than tripled in the course of the past decode. —-‘l\fan-treal Gazette.

With Thanksgiving so near, and Christmas not so far BWay after that. its timely to learn that the Amherst branm of the Fish and Game ASSOCIBIIO!‘ Ls planning to raise wild turkeys aicd set them loose, under the care cf district farmers, in the hope that the flocks will thrive and eventually Jolri the permanent. ranks of Marl- iilme game birds. Not that the step will mean onythln; to sportsmeizrs dinner tables this year, or even next. year but ti sounds intriguing Just the some. —Snlnt John Tele- graphulourral .

Albert Pierrepolnt, Britain's ace 9

himgman. 1s going to Austria, says the London Herald to teach his art. to Austrian execiltlcmers. It's a humanitarian move, however, as British occu a-ilcn authorities have refused to urn over eight. young convicts to Austrian harigmen be- ca/use of their bungling brutality. Evidently Austrian practice In this ~-rr:|ect has declined from the early 19th cerrurv when the "Aust. rlan hangman" was almost a stock term of British and American poets denouncing Austrian oppression in Italy and Hungary. —Chlcago Daily News.

ample of a word derived from a llvimg statesman. after the manner of sandwiches, gladstone bags, and wellington boots. It was in a min- ing village where when a miner was unable so work through no fault of his own but owing to the lack of apparatus or similar olr. cumstarice and still, its consequence drew his pay, the circumstance was referred to "as “having a Bevin". The pit in question was in Derby- shire, bun. I ivas assured that it was a conventional term; anal I ahauld be interested to know whether it is in use in for example South Wales, Durham and York- shire. -John 0'i.ondoin's Weekly.

"Sing" Ia dead and along every Pacific Coast waterfront, from Seattle, Victoria and Vancouver to Skogway. there Ls sadness. Chew Chue was his irroper name, but no one ever called him that. l-le was the one and only Sing; others may have had that. name too. but when Sling was mentioned you knew who was meant. Sl-ng was a cook for half a century on the BC Coast's "Princess" liners. Fortunate were the passengers who travelled on Sings ship. 'I'.‘iey dined like kings. No one wuld hroll a steak or bake a cake quite like Sing. But he was more than a cook, though an ex. cellent one, He was friend to thous. ands of passengers, he was a phil- osopher, he was a good citizen. — Vancouver NevrsJic-rald.

Because he Is illsxflll-ed Willi DWI" war conditions, Robert Smith, a Z3. year old veteran of the Merchant Marine, is on his way to the famed South Sea Islands of Tahiti, sall- ing alone in an 18-foot sloop. He says he's going to stay there until the world setales down. If Smith. had lnwited all the people who share his views ta accompany him. his little vessel would be swamped by would.be passengers He'd med a transport or two to accommodate them. As it is judging from the trend of news frpm various parts of the world. Smith had better plan his Tahitlian residence on a fairly long-term basis. If he waits until the world settles dawn. he's due fon- quite a stay. -.'Buffalo Oourier-Expxss.

Msny old English Inna have quaint imri curious signs, the origins of which have been forgotten or which the common tongue of centuries has twisted into something quite different from the original instance the inn sign "'I‘he Goat and Compasses" is a corruption

"God Encompooseth Us" and "The Elephant smd Castle" Ls said to be a corrupiion of "The Infants of Castlle." Speaklrr, In the BBC program "Radio Trek" recently, Rose Ma Sands, told of the fam. ous inn s n "The Swan Wit-h Two Necks," which she sold was origin- till-y ‘The Swan With Two Nicks" From long custom all IWIIIIB on the river Thames are private property arrl belong to one of three owners

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time to time of persons finding four-leaved clovers and of being lucky. If that should be tho case abundance of luck in the future. The second week in September I picked four four-lesved clover, the following week four more, the last week six; and on Sunday lest picked two ftve-leoved clovers and two four-leaved, and today I have found two more.

up thirteen In one day. all of those in the yard of Mr. Tapper Iergu- son in Morshfleld.

lng of four leaf clovers.

Mirsh field, York. R32.

dance at. an irregularly called mllk ‘producers meeting in Prince of Wales College Monday evening are as follows: professionally engaged until after

pointed by the ducers and Vendors Aggoglqtloyy a; chairman of a committee to bare a brief to be submitted to the Milk Control Board. Then lt nat- urally follows that he would re- port back to his parent anrsriin- tlon. which I do not believe was done as I have not heard of any further meetings of this body But mark you, Sir. Mr. ' ported to a meeting which he him. "if. called without having auth- ority so to do; that the findings of such e meet- lne should not be recognized by the Milk hoard because of the said un- constitutlonalitty. n, rumor has lt that Mr. MucRae ls not even a member of thg Char. lottetown Producers and Vendors Association.

PUBLIC FORUM

Thin ooliussii h open fo tho diocuoslan by oorlv| apondente ol eueotlalo ell Interest. ‘ltio Charlottetown, Guardian does nos neoa—l'~ u; aiiilorea Ilsa opinion el

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FOUR-LEAVE!) CLOVIIS

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That ls quite a record of find-

I avm, Sir, etc. MRS. MARY MACLENNAN

DR. CARSON REPLIES

Sin-My reasons for non-atten-

flpdfllai a mean and base attack n the us: meeting on one who was not she's-o to. defiond ti ‘ems t s .

illudarldt oontbIIsTIIIIIIieQccMsnt of the spleen that was vented on my-“QQQ, n would have been terestln to have soon Mr- Sm l-

m“. h ‘mach, I wonder l! cried, or lowered w "Y- 9"‘ flung that, his chief objection to my, yglfln] was the fact that he could not answer it or even W11"

‘Tilblil-‘the climax: As to rotund. rubicund. rollicking Rollie ffiom mfl-mggpqrg was n riot. He cla ml that I was "off m)’ b91371"- w" ho ever on- his? I'll leave that for his neighbors to answer. T118" was no doubt of my llllldnlln "'9 milk question-any “done, will lee that, and Rollie did".

"What a "HoPlW 51118 fl" "Qi or shell I uv ‘Unhappy’? W" confess that there ore men? "l" men among the milk producers. I was glad to read o sane report from Major Robertson. He ls a good stabilizer ringing thew he" dozen little "atoms 1 u! in!!! ind fly shout. There is good rel“?! why 1 dld not “knock at their dour.”

In closing, Sir, I would sufisflfi that this little "Unhiiwv Gem! do not retain a Tim Buck attitude. They should dust the flies and “skeeterfl oft their overalls and hle themselves book to their milk- ing, aver remembering not to get too close to u cow's head as there ls danger of their bel-ng eaten.- cows like a fresh green bite occas- ionally, and if I understand a bit

first, because I. was

o'clock; second, bee; use the

meeting was irregular. and, tliltd, because I believe that, the Milk Beard. if It is to properly maln- taln the purpose designed, should receive all briefs, committees, complaints und threats at a regularly constituted meeting and before its three mem- bers only.

for which It Is

even that

I was also informed no

members of the Board would he present, and I hereby strongly ob- ject to any o-f its members mak- ing commlttments to any organiz- intlon outside of its regular meet- I18

In this letter I am honoring my

promise to the Bond's chairman to desist from writing as the con- sumers’ representative of E, I. Milk Control Board. However, I um signing my name as on or- dlnary square deal to all without hiding behind a smoke screen.

the P. citizen interested m e

The self appointed chnlrrmrui of

this meeting Mr. Andrew Machine. is quoted as follows: "He, (mean- ing me) was afraid some of those present would go to work on him”, and such was alleged reason for my absence. This state- ment has a double might be vocal or physical. If it 1s to be considered as being the let- ter, then I have reason to prefer

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charge of somewhat serious dim-

ensions against this cocky young farmer with nine months’ experi- ence in the mllk business. It in- deed’ provokes my demanding a Public apology. I am unafraid; yea.

am ready to meet this agricul-

tural probationer. or any, or pl] of his cohorts on any platform at any houir, or constituted meeting osllad ta rlis- cuss milk problems, My feelln s are tversely described by Scott In his lines on the combat between Fitz James and Roderick Dhu, as the former with his back to s rock faclnl! an unsportsmunllke enemy exclaimed: this rock shall fly from its flrm base as soon as I,"