CPAGF. mutt THE BHARLOTTETDWN GUARDIAN

lilttrnittg Daily (Founded in i887)

Ire ittmit, LicuL-Coi. W. Chester 8. MeLun \'ice President, J- R. Burnett, IJJ. Secretary, l.it-ut.-('oi D. A. flaclilnnota, 0.5.0. Idltor and ftiaitagin Director. J. R. Burnett. FJJ. P hftrlillt‘ Editor. Frank Walker.

SI'II§(‘R'PTION RATES cl $5.00 ti advance) lellver." ic iv $4.00 pcli-ermltlrni . advance) mailed to P I Island $5.00 pcr vt-nr tin advance) mailed to Canada and U-S- Mt-ntltcrs .-\utiit Bureau of Ci-cuiationa

LThe Sfrtmgcst Memory is Weaker than the IVca/vesl Ink.”

WEDNESDAY, APRIL S, 1940.

The iigltiiitg Men's Vote

\\'ltile 1E1: v1 ic cf Canada's active service for- ces. .1“ j.e.<.ct'tla_\', leaves the Librrfll ' ' ncnt unchanged, it was highly 1g the attitude of our sol- ariiieit on. tlte chief issue 111 campaign. That issue was i110 tjtivcrttutettfls success in ' s war efforts. lt will scar-

cely liq 1,. ,1 that these nten were itt a bent-r IYH‘ .11 to [tZlS5_ judgment on this cutes- 111111 :I;,.11 .. rt 1.1.1 cztihatt electors who, in view o.‘ .1... - - ‘ .il1t1io.1 of Parliament last

tfie platform assurances of 1.111s 111111 supporters t0 depend

"e tliat oi the 90,000 members tracts eligible to vote, only 56.‘

9.12 v~11 1 11111.11 this was due to obstacles plat-ml l’l 1 1 111' incit on furlough, to the 111.1 ti... 1 . 1-11.111.‘ itaiucs appeared on thc l..1‘.l<11 . L 1K.‘ intuit-s and rt-giittctttal 1iuttt- bers 1.11 - 111011 ltad to be written on the

g their ballots, is a matter ll is safe to assume that these l 11:11.": i0 the detriment 0f 0p- ' .rniitcnt candidates. lli any

Clef‘, ‘3 131.11 of the total service vine p _0 pct‘ ccttt was in favor 0f Natl. 11. 1 !l'<'lll tinder Dr. Manion's ltntlcr- .:1~t onl_v 4i per cent for Lib-

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mtcc cirry National Government '.1~-.-t1l by a ntajority of the en's County Mr. W, Chester votcs, his colleague Mr. 1 wcd witlt 306 votes, as Tfr lloiiglas, atttl 22g) for Dr.

lll lattice (fottttty Dr. Mac-

.1 '1 11,1 111111- as against 131 polled '1. lri King's County Dr. Mac- ‘ rtl opponent, l)r_ Grant, tt\"_) 1.1.11‘. votes as against

9;; i.<r :- Onr ‘ tir-"rv to the contrary not- wirlt-tain (lovcrninett: would do well to t the significance of the You‘ of 1' c forces, with its plain- §_1' <\";*'1 ' pztrtisatt politics be el- t11t1.1:1 . :1: '- ‘t .71 tor tlic duration of the war.

Newfotitttlland’: Example

tiriggt- of tntlzrfs issue ap-

ktillllillllll Press of the six .11 commission government in c- systeitt, it is claimed, has cvntse govcrntnettt without opposnit :1 1- . ile and because of the ex- clusion of 1.1. ass iroin ttll discussion." Otte newspaper is rpz-itetl as saying that while there have been intprovetttettts on the administrative aide, pCFSOllIlH and costs have been increased to such an exit-tit as to create a burden fat‘ be- yond the 1i‘1““_v of the coittiuunity to bear. An- other ci1:1 {>111 1S to the effect that the voice of the peopic, 2t qottied to making itself heard and felt for t1....._, getteratioits, is virtually mute.

Iltere i: a h ~» 11 for every province in Can- ada in thi- 1".tt1;' illL"f‘5 that have led up to Newt ' c111 plight. A succession of extr :1 1;- 111111-1115 brought the coun- try in v1.1.1 1.1 a civntlltlon of bankruptcy. It became ttctwsrtrv to petition the British Gov-

proved a it '

erutttt-ttt f -1' ‘alive. ivitlt the result that a Royal 1'1» .11 i-t-riittttttettdcd, after investi- gation ‘l . 5.111 of tntrliantentary govern- ment 1n ct’ §_"1\‘Ci'l'il‘ll€l‘lt by commission lppolntvti 1 e [tilted Kingdom until such time as ‘he l again became self-supporting. This r1 tl~i~t l toiiittllautl from dominion to cnlt-ttiaf s 7111i it vxrts ltopcd tltat the re- 8111M: " v-"tttltl ntore than offset this teitipotzirv H; . tage. This cxpectationhiti is itlttv f"..t1'.": tttiru/‘rlcd, has failed to material- ize.

At the 71." ~ n: r511», with Canada committed to llllgt‘ 1 .l"l‘llllll'(‘5, the need of practis- in; 0.1.111. -ii 11'} 111- tltrt-ctioits was never more urgt-itt 11111" 1c titwcrs that be in this country. At tlie lice. .1; r11‘ lllP last war, the Canadian PPWR? “"1" it ‘sing about $300,000,000 iit t.1~,-1~-: 1‘ '1» 11111111 of this one about $1,- <><><1.1\<.t»~11. l 112w I iimlly- they were less atid l?“ illtl" ‘<1 l -1l. z-Pvt‘ tltt-ir own social welfare allfl P1’ 7 ‘ Fl fiifl‘. The State ltad t0 be. cotttw - .':', I (lliviritisly people can- ll"? lldlbl l t’ "<1'1:ll'_'~ in iiovcrtiitteitts and also l...~:> i '11 i‘ 1' lll'li' 111111 use.

'llit‘ \‘. 1t 11. ‘wt lit‘ tntiil for, 3m] any gxpfl-lse "°“"“~'"'\' l" 111"‘ "Yllttv bits to be met. What ottglit 111 ~ 2111 1.». tlic r-zt-tt wav in which its cost ct il t. 1.. |1t' .'i1lt|--tI 1;, Kim heavy pgace- time r1 -' 1-' t'1‘1'.'l".| -. lilillisfi Dominion, Pro- vinces .'it:1| 1- "vitzlit-s cut down on nqrmai (‘xpt-it 1 . 1‘1.- .<i_i1i1i1_iit>o,tx)O will reach $1, 5°"-“‘"""-' ".1 1W t"1~t fiill war year. Next is the it‘ 1'. ' " ~ 11-11141 will find themselves regi- ttit-iititl iii i r l-'-\til|ii]('lll auspices tttorc firnt- l_v tltziit t1. .1111] ibiiliiiiiit-itinryt privileges citr- taili-il tit 111- 1 ilE .. iniiiq litt tcralic casts,

'l‘l1~ cot; '1 11 ‘i. 1. iv 11f practising the (‘l4 1111111‘ ~ 1: . of thrift in personal anti pub- lic at" l 1-1‘ cit-tiring that individual cn-

tvrplhi-I‘ 11.41 in l..- ,<i~:iiigli~il further in peace- tiiiic l. iitiiiiits lake on new power tlitifin! 1 11 ~t l uiggc-lioii has even been lll."'l!' t‘~1' 11 l~l'ili of coittptilsory saving Sltlitthl ltt- t l :‘lliil_ lllllfiyc ought to be com- pttlsort" .-.\ i111 for {_"i\"'|'lllll(‘|ll§ also on matters flfil 1'I~~11*"'1' 1! ‘vilt iltt‘ war effort.

'l'l1t- f-t/i 111' .\'< .1 foiiiiillttiiii Slilililtl serve our local lcgy-ltttotp- as tilt cxtttttplc 0f the difficulty

of regaining financial and economic independ- ence, and even of tnaitttaittiitg existence as a democracy, oitce the stage of chronic ittability to balance ltittlgcts ltas bccn reached. This is a matter wliiclt li‘lllist‘(‘lltl5 party interests, and should appeal to tltt- ttltirc independent sup- porters of the Governntcttt as affording an op- portunity of doing real service to the province and their constituencies.

- EDITORIAL NOTES —

It is now all over including the soldiers’ vote. i i‘ l‘ 4

1f only the dcfcittlt-rs of our country hail votes, this l'ro\iticc would ltave four Cott- scrvative representatives itt Cattadtfs next Parliament. a It a n1 Bishop Hcber, ltytttitologist, writer of “From Greenlaittfs lcy Bltiiiittztius", and other well- known favourites, tilt-d this datc, i820. “When Spring uttloclts the flowers to paint the laugh- ing soil." u 1t s1 1st The Federal parliament is not to be sum- ntoited till the ntitltllc of Eloy. Provided there be a two months’ session that will nteatt our legislators will be in Ottawa till half wav through July, the ltottest part of the year in the hottest city in the lflloittittitiu. v >i1 >1‘ til Iii proportion to population, Canada i5 second to the United States lll the number of tele- phones in use, a (Tztttatliztit Pacific Railway Ex- press publication statcs. llmvcvcr, in the ntitn- ber 0f telephone calls pcr ctttiita, the Canadian record is cvcit ltigltcr than ilte Litiitctl States. One ntillioit tltrcc ltuttdrcrl and fifyt-eigltt thou- sand four lturtdred and scvcttlcctt telephones were itt use itt Cattadu dining i938, the highest since i931. 1i- a 1i- n1

The following lt-tier of I\lr_ llarry Miller, Ed- itor of “Youth 'l‘oday"' to tltc New York Times has local application: Can't something be done to clear up the sitttation in regard to the use of the word “_voutlt"? It's getting us dowtt-—tltis busi- ness of picltittg tip a ucxvspapt-r scrctunittg with “Youth" ltctttlliitcs, only to find the ytitttlts re- ferred to with “bald and graying heads." The term "y01itlt,” we fccl, was itrvcr intended t0 embrace any one over 2t. Webster describes youth as “the [tart of lifc thttt succeeds child- ltood———tltc pCllUtl usually fvottt puberty to tttztt- urity."

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The total valuc of exports of fisheries pro- ducts from (anailzi in 111311. according to an analysis issued by tltc lmitiiitioit JJt-ptiyintgnr of lushcrtcs. was $_’<1.l.1i<\.'.1tt1o. This was an lil- crease of $2,ii2.t)oo ovcr the corrcspoiitling fig- tlre of $27,500,000 iit 1113b‘. lltese fiqttres in- clude some tttittor il\ll('l‘l('§ priidttcts which are classified otht-rtvisc in tlic trade rcttirits. 15x- ports to the [Yttitctl States last year were valu- ed $13,050,300, which \\ an ittcrcttsc of $941,- 000 over tltc sales to that country in I038. Ex- ports to (treat _llrit '11 last your autounted to 58.710700, an increase of $i,si._;_¢0O (jypf the i938 figure. Stiles to other countries were valued last year at $7,257,800, a ilccline of $091,- 200.

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What the average wontait ntarrictl for twenty years, with a fatttily of six, ltzts to do iit the home itt that ticrititl of tiitic was calculated by Cation Arthur Sinker, fiirtttcr rector of Ber- ntottdsov, a poor tptztrtcr itt London, who died the other day at Norwich. lie calculated that she: l\lSSC(l the family 45.000 titties (one ltiss per head per day). Pt-clcd 87,000 potatoes, Darned 10,400 soclcs and stockings. Made 29,- 200 beds. Buttered 175,200 slices of bread. Canon Sinker was widely beloved in his Lon- don parish where he was treated with deference even by ltootlltutts in other rcspccts incorrigible. He was known as tltc “plaiit-dcztlittg tiztrsoit," who was everyliotly-‘s frictid and an ever-pres- ent help in time of trouble.

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Exports of both butter and cheese from Can- ada showed gains last y'c.'lr. lCxpoi-ts of cltqcgg were the largest since i029. Exports of but- ter were not large but were tltrce times those of 1938. Total exports of ntilk products rose tn value by twelve per cent. Exports of con- densed milk and of evaporritctl milk declined but milk powder exports rcctirtlcd a ittarltctl gain. Canada is a large exporter of cheese and ranks third among cheese exporting cotttttries. Her shipments of this product are not so great, however, as in the opening years of the century. Owing to the growth of the population the manufacture of cheese for export ltas been re- placed by the tttakittg of butter for home con- sumptton.

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Although the rate of increase in the number of marriages registered in 67 cities and towns having a population of 10,000 and over has slack- cned somewhat since the sharp upswing in Sep- tember, the uptrend was still in evidence in Febr- uary when 3,052 ceremonies were registered u coutpared with 2.314 in FPhfllZlfy, i939, a gain of 27 I-2 per cent. TlllS brought the total num- ber rcgistered itt these citics during the six wat mottths to 31,866 in contparisott with 20,645 itt the same period a year ago. Births registered in these cities and towns in February numbered 7,007 and tieatlts 4,438 compared with 6,515 births and 4,570 tlcatlts iit JFt-brnary last year, showing an increase of four per cent in births and a decrease of six per cent in deaths, when adjustment has bccu made for the number of days in the month.

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New Batik of Ellglfllltl tioics, blue for it and tnauve for to shillings, will begin to pass into circulation in a few days. Ilardcr to forge, but cheaper to print, the new ttiitcs will gradually replace the jircscitt grccn and rnsi-ttolorcd is- sues. For some iliiiC both ultl and new notes will circulate and both will be legal tender. Forgers will be fact-d with a new problem in a thread about onc-fiftccullt of an inch wide, of special composition, woven titiiftirittly ittto the paper during ittitttiifttciurc. 'l'lte present notes are platc-prittictl, lllll tltc ucw ottcs will be pro- duced by .1 lithographic process which is cheaper and quicker. No alteration of size or design is introduced, except for the diffcrcitcc in color and extra entpltasis on the component parts 0f the dcsigu~tltc old liiiiik of liitglattd Ituiltling

and the figures of llrittiiiiila and St. George and the dragon

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NOTES BY TIIE WAY

Summer Welles has ordered six suite from his London tailor. and if you know how 1on1; Mr. Welles wears a suit you could make as good g, guess as anybody else how long he things the war will last..- Toronto Star.

There was disagreement among Americans u to the kind and de- gree of help this country prudent- ly might extend to Finland while the war was on. However, there can be no quarrel, except as to the amount. possibly, on the extending of aid for relief and reconstrttcuott now that the war is over. — De- troit News.

When the chef on Minister of ‘Frans rt Rowe's private car took ill at ng Lac. Mr. AlanA. Bar- ton National cattdidate tn Port Arthur, loaned his gtersoital air- plane to bring the man to ilt Port. Arthur Hospital, Political life has its amenities, even 1n the midst of a campaign, and human- itya transcends politics. - Windsor S r.

Dr. Charles Whortan Pennsylvania professor, ltas had an exciting six months. On Sep- tember 3, he was on the Athenia when she was sunk, being rescued after nine hours. He is a poet and published a poem about the disas- ter. Now a court has awarded ltim over $300000 from the estate of his great-grandfather who died 68 years ago. Tragedy, lltezaittre, money are mingled n this halt‘- yeai" adventure. -- Toronto Star.

In the midst of a Senate speech the other day Senator Prentiss Brown (D). of Michigan, named to "ride" his good friend. presidential aspirant Robert A, Tait, a liti "I hear." said he. “that the other night Senator Taft went down to the railroad station and said. ‘I want a ticket.‘ and the station agent, said. ‘Where to?‘ “Flt-e Sen- ator replied, ‘Oh, anywhere, I've got business all over'." - ChrLst- inn Science Monitor.

The best tux-book on geog- raphy of our day the most rvclv. the most up-io-date, sntttecne wrote recently, is the newspaper. Whatever the pedagmgues n-irtv think. it is incontesttrzile that. the newspapers. particularly dnritttz the past year, have taught. their readers a number of uecernpliicwl facts on which the. school text- books have never been able to in- terest the pupils. -— Montreal Le Canada.

Stork,

The "opening" of the Yanztse from Shanqhoi to Nwttkintz is tin- doubtedly a. lattdtnark tn the l‘!!- tors‘ 0f the developtttcttl- of the Javanese military invasion of China in relation to lite exlsttnq interests of third Powers. It ob- vlous'y represents a considerable chance of t-ac"cs on the nsirt of the invaders. But. this (‘llflilfifl of tactics do°s not. in any wav affect Tnkiois aims whim still reentr-t what they were-to destroy C'"i"e=e sovereignty. extintzttislt thc treatv nrivlleres of other countries. and institute the monopolist. exmottt- tion of Ch‘n:1’= resources. - Hang Kong Keekiy Press.

Sometimes this war may seem ouvzllng. Sometimes it ntat’ seam boring. But it is none tlt- i111»- a bitter si-rtttzgle azainsi bnrbttrlsm in which the British neooie ltttntt‘ that they are flchtlttg for their own lives and freedom. So said Mr. Attlee recently. He snake its an old soldier. who ieincntixrea many yeary hours of boredom itt the trenches in the last war. Now, as then. he declared, he believes that we shall win. That is the mood of the British peooie. That is the spirit. that is coins to de- side, not. for the first time, the fate of Europe. - London Herald.

Now that the pence offensive in under way by wh‘ch Hitler hopes to hold the gains he has made so fur in his effort to establish a Nazi empire in Central Etirope, with Czechs. Poles and Jews as the aborigines. it becomes important to inquire what part Mr. Summer Welles. the president's inquiring reporter, has had in all this. It is fairly obvious that the Germans have been led to believe that Mr. Welles was worth working on. Von Ribbentrop visited Rome as soon as he decently could after Mr. Welles had been there, and when Hitler met Mussoilini at the Brenner, Mr. Welles’ homeward sailing was post.- boned. No wonder London and Paris fear that Mr. Welles is to be the vehicle for an Amerlctttt-ivtt- gineered super-Munich for tile benefit of Nazi success. Up to the time of Mr. Welles‘ Journey Ameri- can policy, as expressed in the speeches of the president, the elim- ination of the aims embargo from the Neutrality Act and toierance of British efforts to enforce titeir blockade. was clearly anti-totalitar- ian. Mr. Roosevelt‘; address of Saturday. in which he excluded its satisfactory peace terms the results of oppression and conquest of small nations, has momentarily massur- ed the Allies as to American in- tentions. But Mr. Welles still gives them quite a jolt. They find this Weller more terrifyin than Orson. Almost unannoun , he finds himself at the centre of a new Nazi peace offensive. What Ameri- cana will want to knew is how he got there. — Baltimore sun.

The story of the rescue of six sailors of the wrecked Canadian lumber schooner Chisholm after they had drifted two weeks and lived on whatever floated up from the salt-watered galley is not a new story to the people who make their iivinz by the sea or take a special interest in the sea from their» lubbeivapartments for from the water's edge. But somehow in this latest rescue story in the c‘lin of seafarers’ tales there was it hint which takes one back to the phoe- riicians and a promise to the port of the civilized world that believes the defeat. of the Nazis would be for the itood of the future of the world. The hint lies in the details of the rescue. Although they ex- perienced great hardshi , the crew managed to survive or fourteen days on raw potatoes and turnips and pieces of pork much saltier than normal. some of the crew cut. a hole in a, deck that lay floating juitt beneath the water. and up bobbed a barrel of water. They saw two ships during the agonizing days and nights and be- cause their wttliowintt ht1‘k was no mark for a seamant-t glass these two vessels went right on by. At 7.30 on the thirteenth nivht a third ship the Swedish freiehter Sarto- iand. came in sight. and they jiz- ged mound and found n drum of woline and set it nfirc. 'I‘|tev littltted one of their precious ovu- coots and out it on aiifck and l 1i tv t Wll

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APRIL 3, 1940

6'1‘. JOHN'S Nfld., After six ears of commission government tie newspapers of this Newfoundland capital have weighed and found wanting the system in- uugurated in 1934 after the is- land's status as a Dominion was voted out by its Parliament.

"The system has failed," writes one observer, "because government without opposition 1B impossible and because of the exclusion of t.ite press from all discussions."

In November, 1933, the legisla- tive Council and Lower House of Newfoundland passed a resolution petitioning the Government of the United Kingdom to implement re- commendations of a Royal Com- ntisslon which had investigated the financial and economic position. 101d Amulree of London was chairman and Sir William Stavert of Montreal and C.A. Ma- ggath of Victoria, B.C_., were mem-

is.

The Amulree report favored the suspension of parliamentary ov- emment in favor of governmen by commission appointed by the Unit- ed Kingdom Government until the island again became self-support- ing The Mother Country would asist the solution of financial problems embnrrusslniz Newfound- land. The effect of the change was to reduce the island from do- minion to colonial status.

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Even after Newfoundlandb ac- ceptance of the Amuiree proposals, the measure had a rotigh road in London Laborities and left-wing- ers in the British Commons had a series of amendments ranging from a three-year limit on sus- pension of dominion status to establishment in the ancient col- ony of a "socialist. (to-operative cottmtontvcaltit." Fnnlly the bill for qomntisslon government pass- eti the "moth-er of parliaments" hv a vote of 211a to 38. It became operative on Newfoundland Feb. i5 1"". the “rltish flotierrtment anpointing three commissioners ft'0m lite United Kingdom and three from Nowfottndiand to meet nutter the chairmanship of the governor

Revlcwinc the six-year exocri- ment the Dally News says: "There have been improvements on the administrative side. The commis- ~=~1~ ‘w: reewanlzed the civil serv- ice but in this respect the eenera‘

“'1 i= that it has gone too far. It has increased personnel and 11' '~ "t 1'I'"‘"l4‘ a burden far be- yond ilte ability of this small coun- i.t-_v to carry . . There ls goori reason to fear that the ("files wno t-tk of ‘nnrenttcrntic despotism ltavc n good case."