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Prelldent: LIIEIIL Col W Cheater 8. MoLdi-o Vic --l'rrs|dent: J. B. Burnett, FJJ- Secretary: Lleut. Col D. A MacKlnllon- 0.8-0- El"ur anti lluviaging Director: .I. B. Burnett, FJJ. Associate Edit-its: Frank Walker and Ian A. Burnett

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_"The Strongest Memory is Weaker than the Weakest Ink."

FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1941.

P. NV. C. Closing

“it! arc tigziiu iciuiii<lcd of the frecdotu we enjoy uii-icr l’ ¥li democracy by today's C0111- rneitcenicnt excrczses at Prince oi Wales College. No such freedom exists in the one-time great ¢¢=nti~c5 of lenriiiiig iii Gerniatiy, or in any part of xZlAl-tllllllllllllvtl litirope. There education ex- ists only for the propaigiitiou of lies. 'l‘ruth——in- tellecttial, scientific and tnoral-has been eri- slaved, and the old creed of blood and iron, of racial hatred and intolerance has been substitut- ed on a scale tinparallclcd in history. The ap- palling effects of this perversion of education- al idezils will dotibtlcss be felt in Europe long after the dictators have passed from the scene.

If our students lake full advantage of the op- portuiiiiies proviili-il for them at Prince 0f \\'ales tltillcge. there is no dotibt as to their fu- ture success; Tilt’)! may not all acquire wealth or proiniiicitce, but they will have gained sonic- thing of much more value-an appreciation of the finer things of life, as well as practical train- ing which will form a solid foundation for eu- tcriug the professions or other specialized fields.

A Sorry Exhibition

As will be seen from the Haiisard rcport quoted elsewhere on this page, one of our resi- dent Liberal .\I. P/s has at last been heard from. It cannot be said that his contribution to the discussion was either helpful or illuminating. lt had nothing to do with furthering the interests of this Province or country, or that “national unity” which Premier King says is so essential at this time. On the contrary, it was jllSf a ver- bal bricltbat hurled without apparent provo- cation at ihc C. C. l‘. member for Cape llretott and liis constituency. 'l'hcre follow- ed the inevitable comeback, in which our Kings County member’s performance was described as “a first class demonstration of his own ignor- ance." The Chairman had to intervene, but he did not support Dr. Grant's demand that the expression be withdrawn. He declared the inddent “closed"; and when Dr. Grant again insisted on a withdrawal, there was no reply from anybody. The Postmaster General calmly resumed (lisctission of more important matters, and our King's County stalwart relapsed into silence once more.

This httmiliating exhibition took place while the estimates for airmail and postal services were being discussed, Not a word from our ls- land members to itidicate that they took any serious interest in the matter! _

I: it any wonder that our requests for war in- dustries, for transportation and other improve- ments, get such little recognition at Ottawa. when our elcctcd representatives, by whom naturally we are judged, can neither speak out on our behalf nor refrain from partisan bicker- ing when others are speaking?

Mr. Gardiner’: Resignation

This is how a leading Liberal newspaper, the Halifax Chronicle, views a matter of current 1n- terest at Ottawa: _ _ _

“The resignation of Mr. Gardiner as minister of war services will he received with the ut- most cotnpostirc throughout the dominion. There have been various demands for cabinet reor- ganization. Most of thescdeinands envisaged the withdrawal of Ur, (iardiner from at least one portfolio. _ _

“As minister of war services he llllS been iii hot watcr on itinnv OCCZISlOHS. There have been repeated charges that he ivas not the man for the job. 'l‘llf‘l'\f have been many chzirgcs that war services rind agriculture each offered plenty of opportunities to kccp a minister engaged and that the two portfolios should not be entrusted to one man. _

"Hi5 gesture of relinquishing one cases the situation.

“int the criticism will continue. For there are those who (lClllEllltl another ituuistcr of agri- culture.”

Buller Price Fixing

Win." giw finvrrnlltclit fixcd the lllllllllllllll prim fm- imitm- ihn-ing the Sunimcr production “mm, at ')(\l\\‘(\(\n gq 1.3 and 32 ccuts. ilcpcnrliitg on the tuniith thc purchase is mndc, it put nczir- l_v Sijinootion cxtrri into the pockets of Canad- iziii dairy faruicrs.

Accnrilitiq in (hosi- who linvc iiimlc a study of prtTlllCflfill and lll'it‘(‘< this figrurc represents th’? (l|'|'{(\r(\|i¢i" l)(‘i\\'!‘!‘ll his-t vc1ir'.< rcturiis to farm- ers and what thcv lllZl_V (‘Xiwflylllli vczir uro- VlflClllWLlI iirniliictiiiii criivils that rif i040: Thcrc in"; fv-liiiq tlirit Willi lllf‘ higher fixed price this vim" ‘hc iunl-i- ll1'l\’ iiicrcnsc.

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Tim {mi-ii price, .'l(‘lll.'lll\' scxcii tn to crii.» nbnvc the averagi- fiir the Summer of i040. menus cnmiilembht hiqhcr rclrul Pllf" Fm‘ h?“ tcr next Winten The retail price will lll\‘(‘l\'.lf‘ around 40 rents as tlicre are scvcrtil bandit"?! and packaging charges and profits to be met be-

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fore butter reaches the consumer during the Winter months.

Consumers who realize what cheap butter means to thousands of farmers will not, in the opinion of an exchange, begrudge the extra money they will have to pay for butter. They will at least have the satisfaction of knowing the extra money they must pay has gone to farmer producers and not to middlemen and butler speculators. Most consumers now realize that cheap food can only be obtained at the expense of farmers and that in a country like Canada a depressed agricultural population must lead in- evitably to depressed conditions in urban cen- trcs. FZIFIIIEYS must bc able to purchase manu- ftictured goods in ordcr to give employment in the cities.

Last Summer, it is pointed out, butter sold at manufacturing plants at between 2o and 23 cents a pound. ht the \\'est it was considerably low- er. just what sitch prices mean t0 the dairy farin- er was the subject of a recent gixtetlh in the House of Commons by .\Ir. Blanchettc, member for Compton, Quebec. Front illtiy to October last year the inc-rage price nuts 23 cents Zl pound. which netted the farmer 8o cents a hundred pounds for his milk, he said. Anyone who rea- lizes the labor, costs and overhead in producing a hundred pounds of milk knows that 80 cents is a very poor return.

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Tomorrow ends the anything but merry month 0f May. u v is it A recent communique from Rt. Hon. Ernest Brown, British hTllllSlCl’ of Heath, contained eight items. One of the most important urged that the question of employing doctors from the Domin- ions should be further exploited, and to this was added another: “The possibility of recruitment of practitioners from the United States of Am- erica is a new factor and action in regard to it should be taken as quiclcly‘ as possible." Doctors are in (lciiiaiid iii liuglnutl as ncvcr before. Shall the Macedonian cry be utterly in vain? a a iv u Alexander Pope, English poet, died this date i744. He represents the culmination of the school of poets which began with Waller and Denham, and is. unexcelled for precision, terse- ness, epigrammatic brilliance, and perfection of form. His outstanding works are “Duticiad," “Essay on Man" and the “Moral Essays.” The last two were tmdertaken at the suggestion of Boilingbroke whose philosophy he borrowed. “l never knew any man in my life who could not bear anothcfls misfortunes perfectly like a Christian . " a iv iv a Arthur (Sonny) Kocstcr ]r., is only 7 but when he gets behind the wheel of. an auto lie is a speed demon. Sonny and his 5-year-old bro- ther, johnny, took the keys of a rclativds car and went for a three-hour spin in Boston before a truck driver, noticing the dintiutitive duo, curb- ed them. lle had to touch sixty-five miles per hour to do it. But Sonny, who manages to reach clutch and brake by sliding half off the seat, did not think that was so fast. “\\'liy," he told in- quiriiig police, “once we went eighty." He was taught tn drive a ycar ago, but evidently “forgot" the stern admonition that he shotikl never go alone. iv it iv is _Bcf0re this strange battle for Crete has been finally won or lost it cannot fail to throw added light on the respective roles of air, sca and land power. But its lessons may be difficult to in- terpret correctly beczitise of the almost unpre- cedented discrepancies in equipment. The British have their navy but next to no air support; thi- Ccrmaiis, as Mr. Churchill hiis pointed otit, have little or no artillery or tanks. One or two 16550115 however, are already plain. It is of the first im- portance to have air superiority at least over nne's own air bases. One must he able to protect 0110's own airfields from bombing or capture: this means enough planes, enough anti-aircraft _guns and in some cases even infantry’ to guard against surprise attack from parachute troops. is m is is Dr. Samuel Lcviiic. research fellow in physics at the University of 'l‘or0nt0. was lllf<‘l'll(‘(l last

wcclt-cnd under D e fe n c e of C a n a d a Regulations. The in t e r n m e ll t Orrin, i5- sued by the Department of justice, was

executed on the expiration of a six-month scul- cncc. served at the rcformatory in Guelph. Dr. Levine had been convicted of knowingly having in his tiosscssioti a qllflllllly of stihvcrsive litera- ture. Thirty years of age, born and educated in Toronto, he was the author of sixteen articles on mathematical physics, published in scicntific journals. For the past five yczirs he hnd hccn engaged in advance studies and research on n scrics of scholarships at the Universities of Princeton, Pennsylvania, Cincinnati and‘ Cam- bridge, England. iv m iv

Snnn all the Kitigs mid Queens of Europe will be resident in Czuindn. The exiled Yugoslav Government of yinung King Pctcr may make its headqtiartcrs iit Canada until its territory has been won back from (iermaityu King Peter is coming l0 reside iii Canada. llis arrival will raise to five the number of royal houses repre- scitted hcrc. The others are the Netherlands. Austria, Norway’ zuid Luxembourg. Although Queen \Villicliiiiiin of tlic Nctlicrlziutls has rc- maiuerl in Iiiiglzuitf, hcr daughter, Princess Juliana, and her children, arc living in a villa in Ottawa. Rccciitly the Princess was delighted with a CéllllC from hcr husbzuitl, Prince llclinhard, telling her that he had passed his flying examin- ation iii England zuitl was now a pilot 'iii the ltoy-iil Air Force. The former Empress Zita of Austria and hcr children are living in Quebec Province iuid hcr eldest son, Prince Otto. visil5 ll(‘l' tlicrc from time to tiuic. The (Brand Duchess Charlotte nf Luxembourg is head of another cxilcil court with Czniatlinii rcsitlciice and the Crnwn Princess of Norway with licr children is zuinthcr exile living here. Pcrniissioti for King Peter of Yugoslavia to come here was sought some days iign and has bet-n granted. It is expect- ed that ri Yugoslav legion will be niised parallel- ing the successful effect of lllt‘ llclqitins, Czechs. Poles, Norwegians and Nellicrlanders.

Till‘? --CB.QRLOTTETQWE__QU_ABPIAN

NOTES BY I'll! YlAY

Ono of the molt expectant times of Lhg da for the soldier oversea is when t e mall corporal br s‘ the day's letters. As tie itan and calls off the names, each mun receiving a letter ‘rotn home smiles happily. Eam. nian waits until the very last. letter has been called, because there .5 always the hope that there may be an- other budget of home news Tlie boys who do not, get any letters are doivncast. And, if a nuii-ber o! days go by without their get/ting a single call, they begin to wonder if the folks back home have forgotten them. They have all sorts of dire foreboclings. Tlmey think the foiks may be sick. that they have Suf- fered some accident and are unable to u-rite. And, if the girl friend does nut. send a letter. the soldier begins to think site .s two-timing» him and running around with some stay tat-home ivnlle he is fighting for hLs country. The bovs want. lots of letters. Just. tell them ivliiit is happening. They are in- tcrcsted in all the minute details of home life and what is gclni; on. -Windsor Star.

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Mr. Churchill cannot ask this country to undertake convoy, how- ever much he may ‘dupe that lt will do so. In expressing his “in- describable relief" at r-ne decision to "patrol" the sea lzn-ie5, m; can- not add-what ls obvious to every one- that this lii still a confusing half-measure. He can neither prom- ise that, Britain will survive In spite of everything nor threaten that, without far more vigorous Ameri- can action, she is certainly doom- ed. I-Ie cannot ask the people of the United States for anything. and lf he did. that would b¢ no reason in ltself why they should grant lt. I-Ie can, however, state the situation as it exists, as neither better nor worse than at! can see it. to be for themselves; and he may well expect that the American people, noyless than the British will have the courage, vigor and independence to make up their own minds promptly as to vfiat ln their own interest, they are going to do about it. - New York Herald Tribune.

There la on; point. on which 0a- nadlans are altogether too com- placent in this war. That ls the buying of British - made goods. And we have yet to see in any of the Eastern financial journals which have been howling that, Ottawa has been too complacent about. our war effort any mention of the subject. The truth of the matter is the United States todav is more Brltisli-gocds-minded than we‘ are here lii Cannon. Today we are selling Britain tw-ce what we are buyin from her, and at a time when Brlfaln is straining every effort to maintain the needed vol- ume of Canadian doilars. Hun- dreds of millions of dollars of Canadian securities held in Bri- Lain are being repatrnted in Can- ada. in order to raise the money to buy what Britain needs from its. Yet British-made goo-ls are not. re- ceiving a break on our market so tar as making people OOHSCIOLIS of tliiem is concerned. -- Lietlibridge Herald.

What ls the rule about American opinion, or emotion? In proportion as Britain seems more in peril, how do the American people react? Do our people say. “We had better liurry and help"? Or do they say, "We had better stay out of it”? ‘this question Ls momentous today. The condition - Britain in obvious peril — has existed for some weeks. How our-public will react to Bri- tain's adversity is a clue ti; ‘what we will do. For President Roose- velt's conception 0f l-tadersiilp is that he should be guided by public opinion. The answer l3 plain. In proportion as Britain 5eems ln greater danger, we more further to- ward helping lier, This reaction is at. once a credit to cur generous emotions and proof sf our prac- ticality. For in proportion as Brit- ain scents in danger, in tlie same proportion does the war move clos- er to us. We are moved to help Britain endangered because Britain stands between us ism! danger to ourselves. We move bebi tedly - but we move. -- By Mark Sullivan ln the New York Herald frlbune.

A compoflite food. p-oducetl on a scientific basis, and consist- ing of meat, potatoes, and other necessary "vitamins", will shortly be available for household pets. Owners of cats and dogs who have been worried about how they can feed their pets with the rationing problem becoming more acute, wil welcome this news, given by Mr. Thornton Ripley, Chief Inspector and Lecturer ot the Scottish. Society for Preven- tion of Cruelty of Animals, "At the outbreiik of hostilities’, said Mr. Ripley, "there was panic; an un- precedented rush on the part of the people, who Imagined that 1t would be more humane V» have lHFll pets destrryed rather tlinn let them suflcr ln iiir raids. Thousands of dogs ivere destroyed throughout the country, although we pleaded wits. their owners to give them a chance". Fortunately, people were now beginning to come to the right way of thinking, and fewer cats and dogs were being destroyed. Elven in badly blttzed ‘ITERS it had been rirnved that many of the fears regarding animals - hysteria and S9 on — had not been as marked as was anticipated in the firstt place. - Edinburgh Scotsman. I

And speaking nI that West Coast l that is now adopting moiicclgs. there was a time out here when lt was considered effemlnate to l/FJI‘ black shoes. even with formal at- tire. and when to sport spate was to rlsk shooting. Here m the East Coast. there is no PDlflEmlC of monocles as yet. but. let. us not be gstonlshed if it comes. — New York

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Evidently the Vlclll’ Chief nf State has never read Hitler's ‘Mein Kamp". That interesting volume sets out plainly the theory that the best thing to do with a oeaen enemy is to offer ‘tin reot-lvely eas tenns and then. it‘ due course

an at the roper time, grind h‘m right into t e mud. .- Brantford Expositor.

Japrnene citizens of British Co- lumbia are exempted from the fcur months‘ training provision pie-

scribed for every Canarlbn of the

right age. The Coast Zlrotvtnce La teeming with Zl-year-o ds f Nip- punese ancestry. Why no than.

.on the Alaska I-fgfiway our poli-

piit 'em to work for ‘our months Hcfans have been gabbnp so much

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0r. Grant clashes l With 0.0!. Member l In House of Oommons

Outburst from oiu- King's County representative in the House of Corn. mons, Dr. T. V. Grant, as reportedi in l-Iansard. May 23:

(The House in committee on alr and land mall services. Riefeieneei had been made to the low remuner- ation received by rural mail car-l riersi i

Mr. GRANT: “Is 1t not a fact that" prior to I930 the rates received by rural mail carriers compared fiiv-‘ ourably with the 00st: office estl-| mates of the raties at which

. l could be carried? In 1930, 1931, vlxlilill‘ 1e

and 1933 the department establish- ed a practice of throwing open to tender as nianv routes as possible, and when Limes were so hard dur. m8 those years people tendered for tliese routes at. less than half of ivhat the mail could be carried for. That accounts for the low rates which have been established for the

are asked by these mall centers to renew their contracts, and t keeps the rates at the low standard fixed between 1930 and 1985. I was surprised to hear the hon. member for Cave Breton South (Mr. Glllls) say that; he lived in an obso.;et.e lJa-rt. of the country. A short time ago an hon. irentleman said that Nova Scotla, had 801m behind f fty years. The same thought. run. through my mind on the night. of. March 26. 1940. when news came over the radio that that province liad elected a Cooperative Common- wealth Federation member." U O U I

(Mr. Gllllr apparently did not t a chance to relllv for a few - utes. questions being raised by other members with regard to alr mall services.) Then:-

Mr. GILLLS: “While the Mlnlster is looking llD that information I should like to say that in the few remarks I made in connection with the boat office estimates I endeav- ored to deal as specifically as bos- sible with the item under discuss- ion. and I want to protest against the statements of’ the hon. member for Klnizs (Mr, Grunt). I refuse to allow lilin to put words lnto my mouth. I sald that I considered our end of the country obsolete so far as the services under discussion were concerned. When the rum. member made an uncalled-for state- ment with reference to the intelli- gence of the people who sent ma here I think he gave a first class demonstration of his own ignorance. If I accomplish nothing more dur- ing the time I am here, at. least I have given lilm an opportunity o getting on his feet. and saving‘ something. Perhaps tlie reason t ere‘ are Cooperative Commonwealth Federation members in this house

The CHARMAN: "I would ask the hon. member not to indulge ln a personal quarrel with any other hon. gentleman, but to sDeBk to the item under discussion. If any stanc- merit made by the hon. member for" Kings was offensive and exception- had been taken to it, I would have called him to order and asked that it be withdrawn. But now that the incident ls closed I think we should ' discuss the item before the commit- we”

Mr. DOUGLAS (Weyburii): "Well, Mr. Chairman. you did not draw the attention of tlie hon. member for Kings to the fact that he was indulging in personalities."