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Cabinet Representation

It is interesting to note, on the authority of our local contemporary, that this Province suf- fers an “injustice" when it is deprived of rep- resentation iii the Dominion Cabinet.

Well, we had cabinet representation contin- uously under the Meighen and Bennett Govern- ments, in the person of one of our own lsland members, Hon. john A. MacDonald; and it was not until the King Government came back in I926 that “injustice” was perpetrated. B1111 f“? went without a. cabinet member until thc dying davs of thc (ioveriimciit in i930, when lloii. (Tvirus hlacmillan was appointed Minister of Fisheries in the pro-election cabinet shuffle. This eleventh-hour gesture of repentence didiit impress the electors, and so the new Minister as well as the King Government ‘went down to de- feat. O-ur cabinet representation was then re- stored by Premier Bennett and we continued t0 enjoy it until the Conservatives were defeated in i935. _ _ _

It was thought, in view of the emphasis placed on llon_ Cyrus I\'lacmillan's unquestioned ability that hc would have been renoininated as Liberal candidate at that ‘time; but he was dotible-crossed. The convention was stiruiigdwi) years before the election, while Dr. blaeinlllflfl

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ivas recovering from a serious illness, and thc ' result was the noiiiiiizitioii of Mr. Pcter Sinclair in his place. _

\\'h.-it happened our cabinet representation then? Did l\lr. Sinclair obtain the coveted place? Did the deserving and experienced Mr. A. F.. NzicLcan gct a look-in? At the time there was strong’ representation made by the Fi5li@i'li\8l1'5 Liiiion as well as by prominent Island Liberals to have l\lr. MacLeaii appointed Minister of Fisheries in the new King Government. There was no question as to his qualifications for the job, but l\lr. King turned him down cold. (That was his gratitude to the Cotinty which harbor- ed him when he himself was looking for a seat!) Not only did we get no portfolio appointment, but no representation of any kind iii the King Gov- ernment. And it was argued by our contempor- zzrv at that time that cabinet representation didn't matter much, after all, and that a rcp- resgntative would really have more time to de- vote to his constituents if he were out of the Cabinet.

Bc that as it may be, we remained the only Province unrepresented in the King Cabinet until it became necessary to find a seat for Fin- ance Minister Dunning. When Mr. Dunning re- linquished his portfolio we heard nothing fur- ther about Cabinet representation until a seat had to be found for his successor, Colonel Ral- $1011, who has accepted nomination at the hands of the executives of the Prince County liberal Associations with quite understandable alacrity.

\\'c have no concern with how Liberals run their noiiiiiizititiiis. but one thing is as clear as a pike-staff: The whole record of the king (lov- €‘l'1llll(‘lll in thc matter of P. l5. l. cabinet rcp- rt-sciitzition has been one of political expediency. iviihout the slightest regard either for thc claims of local talent or the interests of the Province. \\"hv otherwise have resident Liberal mcmbcrs failed repeatedly to “make the grade," and been turned down in favor of neccssitous outsiders? '

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Ii-‘remier Hepburifs Example

" A piltflflllC example has been set to other gov- ermiiciit leaders, federal and proizincial, by thc formerly much-criticised Premier Hcpbtirn. Af- ti-r zinnouiicing that thc Ontario Legislature vioiilrl mcct on jail. I0, l\lr. Ilcpburii at oiicc got iii touch with Colonel George Drew, Con- servative lcadcr in the province, and disclosed to him “all major legislation so far considered by the tiovcrniiicnt.”

This gesture undoubtedly will make for smoother legislative action and iiiorc intelligent co-operatitin from the Opposition party in Un- tario. lt docs not mean, of course, that Pre- niier llepliurii has rid himself of any part of his responsibility for government legislation and admiiiistratitiii. l\'ot' docs it mean that the Op- position loader has surrendered any of his right or duty of criticism because he has been given a prc-vicw 0f thc sessioiial programme. lillt it shows a “latidable desire on the part of the Government leader to lay his cards on the table: a desire inspired, no doubt, by the gravity of the war-time task which Canada has assumed aiiil in support of which all the provinces havc plcilgcd their loyal support and co-operatioii.

The Polish Conquest

A special article in the Globe and Mail des- cribes what actually happened to bring Poland so speedily to defeat. The indiizidiial details arc not new, but taken together they make a striking picture. \Vitli only thirty-five divisions to man her virtually uiifortificd frontiers, Po- land was prevented from rallying her forces by the swift and widely spaced Nazi motorized of- fensive. Planes lvorked with tanks to sever communication lines and the bulk of the Polish forces never did get iiilo position. Authoritative sources estimate that Germany used sixty (livis- ions, having fifteen times as many motorized units as the defenders. These were supported bv 2.000 aircraft, more than 55 per cent of which were bombers. In the first ten days of the war, those bombers had raided fifty-two iliffi-reiit towns and cities, reaching almost to the Soviet frontier. The. Poles had 30o planes, only 4o of which were bombers, with which to

igbt back.

Yet for all the superiority of the German forces, and without discounting the precision with which the nuchines rolled forward, it was Russia. which smashed the Polish defense. Send- i "I110 ll 501ml l0 GNII Irllllll mg an estimated loo divisions against the de- feiiders' rear, the Reds cut oft all posibility of retreat to those areas where the Polish forces

might have managed to dig

Front.

40o aircraft and about 1,000 tanks. The

taken as reasoiiablv accurate.

Andrew Carnegie born this date, 1835. all your eggs in one basket, atid then watch

basket." a n- a- a

Canadian trnops. a a n-

This from the New York Times speaks

Norway. per cciit dividend for last season and today offer of $9,000 was made for one animal of not accepted." 111 m m v

A workman, having finished his job on

at Berlin to broadcast a little speech.

the fault of lifllillfl, then we should have one lcft iii Germany to keep us caltii. Mr. Churchill, might cost you your life." u i: r a

berlaiii government. This he attributes to

are in the Cabinet. the best equipped in Europe.

pacifistic disarmament.

1011011!

Dr. George D. Porter, veteran director of

thc average height has jumped 1 3-4 inches from five feet eight inches to five feet 9

6 1-2 potinds—~from 138 to 144 1-2. tipward trend. feet were hanging over the ends. 1K 111 1F I The danger of bacterial wilt potatoes and used potato bags consideration by the Provincial Department

of the inspection and fruit and

ation from :ill couccriirtltl. v 1k s n-

of dcmagogical politicians. regiment business and

for the benefit of the poor. called a clcvcr vote-getting scheme which

ing over America. llc addcd that thc people

A British Officer returning from Tibet

tip a corpse and coolv-iiig and eating it. On

.‘?l\'ClCf0l1S. dogs hanging about.

along it, chanting a peculiar hymn. cccdiiigs naturally excited his curiosity.

its,

adian (iiovcrnmcnt since the outbreak of war

mitlec. says Canada's Weekly. Working in

ihe_allieil cause. Furthermore, the recently gaiiizcd Western Committee on Markets

of thc rrsotirces of thc Prairie Provinces their most effective use '

though not as high as some estimates, are

Short though Poland’s struggle may have the n“ 9”“ °f u" “"9"” 511d been, it was not as ineffective as it may have

“put ‘for the cold wax. It would be a.

the

Dr. Fred \V. Routley, national commissioner of the Red Cross has gone to England to direct the establishment of the Society's overseas organ- ization iii zidvaiicc of the arrival of the first names:

for

itself: “Copenhagen, Dciimarlc, Nov. 2o -—The ftir business has proved a good investment for Sappture, star Sapptre, Oriental i One silver fox farm declared a 14o A111°111Y5b W111"?

an the

finest silver fox breeding type, but the bid was

the

lVestivall, was taken to the Tk-leftinken Station Accord- ing to 'l‘hc London 'l‘iin<>s’ interceptor, lie said: "\\'c are trembling for thesafety of our Finch- rer. lf something should happen to hiiii through

I10

That,

The Rt. Hon. Alfred Duff Cooper, former British First Lord of the Aduiiralty now says the British people have confidence in the Cham-

the

fact that Ministers Churchill and Anthony Eden l\lr. Chamberlain's appease- ment policy was costly, he declares, as it lost to the Allies the Czech army of thirty-five divisions, i But he neglected

to add that it saved the invasion of Britain and Dolnts east. but they 11150 0111‘- 0 1 France while still suffering the consequences of °r°ssw°rd Puzzles 9° km B“ ‘ihlmce

.._ _.s4lii

the

meiistudents’ health service at the Toronto Uni- {there was s. hole 1n the Maglnot varsity, says from his measuring and weighing ‘U119 111B 911011811 t0 drive n 1811K experience of freshman classes since I920 that

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inclies—and the average weight has increased Upper but in time the fans came to re-iof our 1pm Jesus 0mm, 1 am sure Canada College provides practical proof of this It has replaced the usual six- foot bed by a seven-footer because the boy's

infection from imported from the mainland, to which reference was made in these columns rccetitly, is being given serious

of

Agriculture in constiltatioii with representatives vegetable div- isions, and growers generally. It is not too much to say that the future of the potato industry in Prince Edward Island depends upon prompt ziction being taken to combat this menace, and on the ziuthoritics receiving thc fullest cooper-

MF- W. _l- Cameron of Fords organization has been lauibasting what he callcd the destruc- tive assaults on business made by the new breed TllCSC “faiiatics", he said, framed a “planned economy" that would the people in general and at thc same time bring about redistribution of wealth by taxing the rich to the point of ruin This l\lr. Cameron

the

politicians believed would ltecp them in power long enough to achieve their purpose of mak-

had

learned that this plan meant “soaking the poor"

rathcr than the rich, by increasing unemployment

and that as a result they had turned against it. i I i U

1'6-

ports that he saw a group of T‘ibclaiis cutting

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other occasion the officer came across a large flat stone which was surrounded with bones and 'I‘hcrc wcrc a lot of hungry-looking Several Tibetans who‘ were with him became wildly cxicted. Tihcy flung themselves lcngthivisc on the stone and rollcd These pro-

He

was told that the slab was used by the Tibetans

of the locality to cut up thc bodies of dead per-

sons. The flesh was then thrown to the dogs. 1! w

One of the importziiit steps taken by the Cati-

has

been to establish an Agricultural Stipplies Coii1-

CO-

operatioii with the Provinces, the purpose of this body is "to mobilize thc Canadian agricul- tural industry in order to facilitate thc maximum export of agricultural supplies to Great Britain and her Allies and to insure domestic require-- mcnts." All the Provinces have joined in plac- ing their agricultural resources at the disposal of thc Federal Government, in order to assist

or- and

Agriculture Rrndjustment has offered its scr- vices \\'1lll a view to securing the mobilization

and

\

/

iffll‘ cipher mexages. Not througlilBut to

v

i notes av TIIE vmv _

by the closest bonds not of ifrfendablp but. of self-tn rest. lmriiiu there u not’ the minim» indication that the French wlll

"It is Not a Case of

in and drag the warlltaten to the siren voice, urging out a few weeks, and possibly months, longer. From the estimated cost of the campaign to the invaders can be drawn at least a partial ex- plaiiation of Nazi liesitancy on the Western The German casualties are said to have been 180,000 killed and wounded, !,ooo pilots, ‘ l fig_I:1fleBwN<Hl0n. - Niagara. Falls Re-j

ures are all credited to Italian sources, and, al- '

n. separate peace, for the people of France are realistic enough fol know lf such s. course were follow- ed and resulted tn the destruction

iwould become s. victim of German‘

; can.

The 1Chrisn'si

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Dilemma

Black ‘or White. but

This Gray or That, Cray!’ (In. Leslie D. Weather-bead of the Inndon Olly Tpls)

“I t-hlnk pectflsm 1s wrong, and I think non-Pacifism 1s wrong, too.

lot Bump, n», w...“ b, m, {I n x gave this iemmi a an» 1t would be ‘The oiirunauu Dilemma‘, and

putter of tlme em France also 1t 1s the nature of s dilemma. tn lock: that you cannot escape from it,

for neither way wlll work-that 1s what ‘dilemma’ means.

"I am quite sure that. war 1s wrong; let us wage 1t ls cleanly u we But however cleanly we may wage our war and call tt-s cause

No pence without victory over righteous, all war ts s, dsmneble craft.

Hitler can atop this war. It would

-t.he concentration camp. It. would

“Twenty-five yen-rs ago we said that War would end the intolerable domination of one Btnte over another.

‘We sald 1t would and Prussian-

be s pence in which m, an, can“; km. We out: off one head of the hydra only to flnd that another head 1a

lprogranis that would be necessary

"Wai- cannot be called right. But the alternative cuinot; be called right to my mind. Would 1t have been right when our country was com-

seenied. Those fotir weeks allowed the Allies ‘take off his uniform. It would be ralsed from t-he same place. to prepare their defenses and choose the initial l pence in which Britain and‘ Pisiior- 5.212;“ rad it" .2: a. e c w0u , ‘L in, u, 1.0m mam together’ ,,,,§'w mime w that DIG-VS inn. country called Poland to have withheld from whip their heartbroken people into Poland the only thing she would have regarded as assistance? =1 ED|TOR|AL NOTES = llne for the even greater armament.

"I am indebted to some words of the Dean of St. Paul's for an lllus- tratlon from the life of Socrates. When Socrates was 18:08 to face with

imam m which the human 5mm the cup of hemlock and death, he had a dream, and 1n his dream there ‘shattered 1n its great effort, wqirq came to hLm a symbolleal figure which he recognized a; his country's

flnd only is few crannies 1n whleh to hide. batltke 1n a chlll world. -New York Post.

llbertles. when he was tempted to run mway this figure rebuked him , for even being tempted to disobey the appeal of hls country when 1t

t l would have been caster to have labelled her action wrong and thus escape Ceylon is the land of [ems and its cit-sequences. I hope t& b deer to you; 1t. means ii. very great

|what poetry Ls 1n their very deal w m¢_ Corundum, Sptnel, Ztmon, Tourmaline, Topaz, Garnet, Chry-l soberyl, Corlertte, Amethyst, Fels-' par and Beryl. A whole glittering family 1s gathered under the name| of Corundum. It: includes Ruby,

Duly to the Slate

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they take the obvious precaution of that. I wlll have nothing more to 011110811118 ,1111111ed1B-1'E1Y 111811‘ 511b- do wlth her,’ and leave her, and scrlptlons from neichtesgaden a d belong w “other country“ Th," L, logical. Go to a desert island or a neutral country-that 1s loglca] say: ‘I wlll stay and .1119eiqtythqvrseyiioifldths Qmmlfawept defence from mv ccuntry. "SUN/U LIHXMV-IIWU HOITLODLBI Kflyflfltaceept the whlvch other men are laying down their lives at this moment, accept the pro- tection, and the culture, and the friendship which my country makes possible, but I wlll do nothing to help her'-no, that. ls not. the splrtt

‘of having them used as mediums

with sixteen vertlcal and learn that

through, if the chauffeur was tlred of lffe. At first tihe puzzles were not: missed. Readers who en- Joyed being befuddled merely ‘switched to comments on the war,

altze that there was no answer so |they put 1n a crossword or two for ‘the restoration of their favorite pastime. Beginning this week, they get. their way. Not only may they exercise their wits on such puah- _ overs as that old stanby, the large did on‘; millionth o: we damage Australian bird with three letters 11"“ H11" h” d°“°' 111° "hm beginning with E. In a. spirit o: community would rise up to resiraln utter recklessness, the cansorsnilm and you would defend such i§i'."-.‘.l-..$.'.?.’l...“ZE...§’$3§€;?°$..§§1“°“°“- 1‘ ""11 1"’ ‘"‘°‘"“"'e ‘° meanmg an anthropophagom you that. 1n any little town the dinosaur o; we Paleozoic em The criminal forces at work in 1t; should puzzles are gettlrigbetter too, Many,be ln command and should be en- °1 1119111 1'11""? 11 31114131191‘ dellflwcouraged to spread further to other tlon for a. trouble-maker and wwm double-eraser, with the fourth let-i, __ ' tier 1.. whleh makes 1t dlfflcult toi Y°11 “Y 111° 1181"" 11°" 11°11 mil whether the answer is Hitler hold because 1n this mad universe 01' 51111111- ~— WB§11111811011 31M’- lwe do not restrain the erlmlna‘. A Canadian Wm" dean“! wuhflidllli. we do ls to klllha number of some of the economic and social 99mm people M") 5 are the “me problems of the day, expresses the 1119315 115 01119311165- opinion that. the acquisition of a “That 1s the dilemma of the small farm ls one of the most de- ch,.15t,a_n_ “M, u the damname

slrable forms of llfe lnurance. H's

wuggesuon is m“ it ought to be l poignancy of the situation, Thatlt goal ion the part of all totacqulre a 15 fir“ n"? °n°5 11°11“? 111 1W"- smal farm, one acre o twenty Bu s ev o go entrey unre- ‘acres, so that the lndlvtdunl may strained because we have peflecged have f‘ have“ l“ the declining yea" no way o1’ restraint? 1f this dread- of life or, 1n the case of serious

economic depression, a. scuroe .11" math“! l’! w“ l5 the “my from which to obtain an existence. method by which evll can be pre- In view of commercial and 1n- vented from spfggdlngi are we w dmtflal deliflmpwfmsi gheref m‘ eschew 1t and let the evll spread? new a com em e mun er 0 pa‘ "If you can see the right and the sons who retire at the age of G5 or ' even game; Many o; these m. wrong 1n that I should like to hear 1111111111515 111111 111911‘ WWAY-Nllfld about 1t». Force has never turned ‘Ymfmxcléregfziq; gfnoaggémae 3111:: evll into good, Force has~ never m“ ' ‘ turned a bad man lnto a good man. they have nothing to occup their

time. In such cases, posseasilon of I ‘m n“ °Puml5m° m“ 111° a. plot of land is a great. tnoenttve present use of force wlll crush the to continued interest tn ltfe and 1r force; o; 9v“ in gel-man,“ M; ma; ‘fiia.l'.-°“.fif.‘llfii“iii’tifé2112.22?11111111 w- m merit of sucli an estate l; conducive cmfort ca“ be mum‘ f" “m” M to good health and long life. ‘There in in this-ls that time can local- are many 6111111111168 0f Pflfwns 111 lse, ltmlt the area over whlch the indifferent health at. t-he time of u h m; he “,1