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{gs Majesty's Government in Canada for an indica- toin of their views as to the desirability of main- taining diplomatic relations with the Vichy Govcrltmelit, His Majesty’s Government in the Utiitcd Kingdom stated that they considered it would be in the common interest if H.M. Gov- ernment in Canada remained in diplomatic re- lations with the Vichy Government."

Mr. l\lflll(l€i' then put this pointed, leading question to the Foreign Secretary: “Isn’t it rather odd that one part of the Empire should have diplomatic. relations with the Vichy regime and another part not?" To this pertinent query Mr. Eden vouchsafed no answer.

Surely, suggests an exchange, the question .\lr. Eden failed to answer should be answered by someone. Perhaps Prime Minister Mac- kenzie King may shortly have something to say on the matter -

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EDITORIAL NOTES

"Th; Strongest Memory is Weaker than the Weakest Ink.”

FRIDAY, MARCH 6. I912.

Our Province's Victory Bond objective should now be an increase of 5o percent. Ill i l‘ i

Funny, but our Victory Bond Campaign open- ed with s. Beacon, and will be terminated wit

Seeking Younger Commanders l Black-out. i

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While enhancing our‘ Victory Bond invest-

ments, do not overlook the War'Saving Stamps which serve the same purpose, s s s o

The opponents of the Plebiscite in the House of Commons were able to muster only 13 mem- bers—fateful number. '

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“Too many cooks" are spoiling our Island broth. This, of course, is due to the Provincial Government having fallcn'd0\vn on the job, and

“letting Georges do it." s s s s

Some days ago it was indicated by General McNaughton that consideration was being given to transferring elderly officers from actiye commands overseas and searching out promis- in; young men to take their places. “Those of ns running things now," he said. “are just a rover-crop. I mean by that, we are up there act- lug as sort of protection for the Ybung men growing up underneath us. . .This is a tougher war than we have ever fought before. The strain week after week and month after month, is too much for older men to stand. \Ve are always held ready to move within a few hours’ notice. Generals must be trained like athletes, and keep in condition."

This announcement has been received with favorable comment. It i; generally conceded that younger men are better able to stand Wat's pace, and are more likely to think in terms of today's realities. A man’s age for practical purposes, however, is determined less by his years than by the flexibility of his mind and the soundness of his constitution. The essential prin- ciple of promotion should be to grade men ac- cording to their ability, imagination, character and ambition to learn. Physical stamina is s. lim- fting factor. Those who can't stand the physical hardship are ruled out, no matter what their other‘ qualities may be, from all except the very highest positions of military responsibility. There may be places for them on the staff. But, given the physical stamina, intelligence, organiz- ing capacity, clear appreciation of the fagtorg which predominate in modern war, an inquiring mind, the capacity for study, and the spirit of adventure are the qualities most urgently u- quired, Wherever these may be found they must be exploited, and no consideration should inter- fere with the promotion of those who possess them.

It is intnfecting in this connection to note that the British Army Council has ordered s. review of the qualifications of all officers aged forty- five years or over up to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. This action, announced on \Vedncsday, came less than ten days after the appointment of Sir James Grigg as War Secretary. The Army Council order declares bluntly that "it has be- come evident there are now a number of offi- cers who for a variety of reasons. . .are not able_ to discharge their present duties." T11; in. voetigation will insure that those holding com- lfllnds at home and abroad "posses; the quali- fies essential for the strain m4 spxd of present day warfare.”

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It is understood the Car Ferry Prince Edward Island will be of! the route for seven months while being overhauled for next winter's service. Another seven months \\'OlllCl be sufficient to provide us with a new ice-breaker, why then not let the contract now?

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It is characteristic of the American type of “big business", as represented by Lord Beav- erbrook, that no sooner is he dropped from the Cabinet than he launches an attack on his former colleagues. It may, or may not, be justified, but why should his mouthpieccs have remained silent so long as he himself was in office?

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The best Easter present parents can give their children this year is a calm, courageous and cheerful attitude toward current conditions, Professor Harvey Zorbatigh, director of the Guidance clinic for gifted children at New York University declared. “The most valuable Present parents can give themselves," he continued, “is a useful and necessary job in conlmunity defence programs. The experience of English war condi- tions have shown us that brave children are pro- ducts of brave homes.”

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Dr. Jamel, Principal of McGill University, is in London assisting in the study of a vast post- war programme which is “to create a- more 5a‘.- isfactory society which will provide men with decent jobs and raise their standard of living." _Mea_ntime at home the powers-that-be are arrang- ing just such jobs for university students, A list of approximately 1,800 war posts will be posted at all universities and students wishing either tcm- porary or permanent work of a technical kind will be allowed to express a preference. Students who acceptsuch posts will be exempt from summer military camp attendance if their applica- tions are received in time. The plan is of parti- cular interest to students in engineering, architec- ture, physics, chemistry, geology 1nd the natural "W1C". agriculture and forestry. Final year students in engineering and science subjects are also asked to register so that they may be 311mm,] to industrial posts where their skill and technical knowledge is most needed.

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T‘ in?“ "l? kind of s. tax ‘law which will equitable for all takes considerable ingenu. of a typ‘: tole uncommon tof Th“, “n. m” Y l". Mme get o restivoly easy , while others get soaked. This, incidentally, DC Temple, the_new Archbishop of Canter- seerns to be s law of life. Nevertheless there is hm)’ '5 Pqmlar Wm‘ NfmmllfmTlllsl-‘l alld i! an anomaly in th¢ incom, tax law which might slated for the presidency of the British Council be looked into if anybody can spars thg timt of Churches. ‘Born to the ecclesiastical purple, nus?" d»; iLiJ.‘.“‘.‘.Z-'..“‘Zi“f.‘.’.““;‘%?*“’L"‘°*’.°‘ _ marl wt out epen ents is allowed ' _ , ‘ "f3" c“ er‘ X°T - l; exemption of $1,500 per year, so to illustrate t°PP¢d by a first 1n classics and the presidency of l ° P01?" well take just such s fellow and make the Oxmrd Um” i“ w“ h" Pfedxessm’ DY- sn example of him. On his $1,500 s, y“; he do“ Cosmo Lang and his successor Dr. Cyril Gar- n0t_own a country house, but his work is con- befi- Th°u8h_ ArcllblshPPi _Dl'- TemPk 513135111" 55112236212111! lthe hours alre lighlt. But goadled along ifiayctiegtlogjglsl; 131°“ l" hill‘ wmlgulllt?’ l! l l0" _ e I vOman, to 5m >5 promomm to a _ r n non-smo er. is successor as hard€er Job with longer hours but which pays him Arfhblsh‘)? P‘ Ywk. DY- Gflfbf". _Bl5h0l> .05 $j.yl_ to. Tlliat pats him smack llil0 the income tax. Vgilnchester isequally democratic, his pat armp- go £518“; Rig-g n the e£<tr£°$66ho l: yo,“ ha" m a rleshbeingléhctatoll-s, dlzyorce, llllfflll, pewvels, _ -. , over an a ye 1s e ence tax. m3 03!: e ma es is episcopa visit n on 1 If, nysteadvlof glowing with anrbition, he is a mm’ dad m 5 PulzlJle ¢a55°¢k find With 8 $00 azy ga oot u to ltcheves that work is for 110,-“; year old shepherds crook as his nvalkmg stick. tllielgdlllflllfs. he wotilt léllie the job. He golyes the As eartly a]: 193% he warned Britain to arm or ex ra cast y getting s, ‘o t}, agmst e azit rest.

little woman at $660 per year. Thejfamizly inf o s- o a m!“ l! ti" Mmc. $2.160. but no income tax is Michelangelo, Italian sculptor, painter, srchl- pald. Thus they are better off by $99 a year. tect, militaryengineer and poet, born this date But if, lli the cimrsc of the year, the wife gets I475; recognized as the culminating genius of _s raise m pay of bio a month, the husband gets the Renaissance; early showed aptitude for art, it lfl tlhe neck. Illcr 111C012: becomes $780 a year and secured the patronage of Lorenzo dc’ M¢- and tie zunilyr 11160125’ .. 2,280. The husbands flier, in whose school of sculpture he studied and exemption is cut to kflg-r). so he has to pay _16 imbibed much_of the Platonic doctrines that had pelrlccnt on the otlwtr v/ngfiioor Ffiqijgsoo. HIS wife beet]; fllewly reintroduced into Italy; after a Spell "i"! W)’ '5 ll" W" O" .01‘) - - at oognareturned to Florence where he fell who “v1: if. Hliywfll’. “T10 Said lhe “$111311 Hl- under the influence of Savonarola; on advice of vays pflvfl- Cardinal di San Giorgio. he journeyed to Rome — ~- where he executed his “Bacchus" and “Pieta"; later going back to Florence where he finished _ _ - the collossal statue of “David" and also “The lrihim‘, Foroign flvcrctary, Rt. Hon. Anthony lIoly Family"; recalled to Rome by Julius Il, lfitlcn his tirade tin. aitonnylltig gtaierlncntGm the and 13m; cast in bfonzc sftatue of the pope; “m, lmi-"c of (‘t-nimmis ilflf tie ritisi overn- turne to paintings and resco work, one of the ment f‘flll\lill'l't‘fl it in he in the ‘Jcnmmon inter- most magnificent pictures being "The Last est" for) (‘inttirlu t.>'i_<<-1'ii:ii_|i in dlplulnailc rcla- Judgment"; his poetry is like his painting, im- llnlli \\'lfll \ich_v. flu.- information was given petuous, accurate, ‘compressed; m his old age he in reply t.» .1 I]lll'<llnil by ficnffrey lilander, a became clnef architect nf St, Peter's, Rome, and ‘Liberal I‘ll('lllllt"l‘ of the House who had asked to him is due the present design of the great for a llFClJlFllllflll of the (inverntticnfs policy in dome: "The promises of this world are for the this regard. llen- is th: text of Mr. Eden's re- most part vam phantoms. and to confide in mm’; ply: _ self, and become something of worth and value

“lr reply t.» .-t tlllU-lllill received from lliS is the best and safest course."

Vichy and Canada

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THE CHAELQTIYTETQWN. QQARDIA"

NOTES BY TIIE WAY

When John Hart took ofllM ll premier no DNm-lled. l8 l m" duty um nrlvilrss. w do W"?- mtnq posslblo to aid the Canadian nation w win the war. Yesterday h, wrote g, cheque for $6 mlllitml to purchase Victory Bonds. thew- by vL-idicntmg his premise. as the

politicians used to w before ll" ' days of coalition. It was s fins ex- -

ample u» u» mock d Brill-I" Columbia and. s perfectly mud geswn to Ottawa. - VIMWVOI Sun.

Enlistments have drawn heav- ily on manpower ln the ooucitl‘! district; and while their men are away, women are milking, drwing asleep and cattle, pluwlns and d0- ing all sort of jobs on station and farm. One western Queens‘ station is being run by s. wosnan.

m.- husband is dead and her iiwo l‘ sons have enlisted. With the aid m

of two half-castes she is earryln! m, 1M station management, and is doing a man's work herself, in- Cllldlfig mastering the can of the meg, n, women's {and Anny is training girls for jobs on the 11M- -Austra1lan Press Unlim-

An auction price of 3.000 gulneas for a Friesian bull at Pala- ley yesterday is a record 11541" for this breed in Scotland. A Ral- klik farmer had the distinct-Mi of selling this animal, which was bought for Yorkshire. ‘Ihe horne- Iand. of Frieslnn cattle is Holland. but it, was from the Dutch 1811M“ of south Africa that we obtained our foundation stocks. A 1922 sale

at Slough of imported South Afri- t,

can stock produced the British record price for the breed —4.309 guineus. Scottish farmers mommi- Ly prefer the native breeds of farm shook. Fhlesians are the only 011t- siders that Scottish farmers have adopted upon any scale. - Glas- gow Herald.

The obscure relationship be- trween bodily state and behavior is frequently ignored by police and others tmleas abnormal conditions are detected. For example, we umderstand bizarre conduct in an individual 1f he is Inebnated. or if he has suffered a. head injury. But in the absence of such 6V1- denoe we tend to isnore bodily chemistry when behavior is anti- social. However, it’ has recently been shown that. there frequently exists a. state of hypoglycemia in chronic delinquents. Hypoglycemia means simply that the blood of I. person is below normal in sugar level. The normal content is taken as 90-110 m m. 100 c.c. One in- vestigator found that 2.8 percent of patients in a, general ward had a blood sugar level of 165s than '70 m.m. per 100 ac , but in a psychopathic ward 4.35 nerecent. showed s. similar depletion. Low sugar level is usually "induced" re g. by insulin treatment); there seems to be scme controversy as to whether or not it can be "spontaneous." In either case the syrnrptcsns are many, and may Dre- dfspose the person to crime. Here are some of the symptcms most frequently met: Discmeriy Con- duct: particularly towards repre- sentatives of the law, especially policemen. ’I‘ra.ffic Violations: this is an other manifestation of social ncgativism. Extreme irritability:

coupled with a seeming lack of izi-i

itiative. Hypoglycemia has also

been stiown to exist in such violn- Th

tiona as theft, sadism, exhibition- ism, and nttcnupted suicide. It ls not here suggested tmt a large percentage of police cases will be traced to hypoglycemia; but there may be a considerable number in a large police centre. — from the Mounted Police Quarterly.

W. h. Moore, My. put his finger cm one of the weak points in de- mocracy in Canada. today when in an interview with The Ottawa ggurnal he lamented the fact that.

ero lro now "no meet-hi: places to discuss politics" u that subject used to be discussed in the country store, the blacksmith shop or other favorite hangouts. There is, as The Ottawa Journal puts it, "No modern substitute for the Cracker- Barrel 0111b." This is an unfortun- ate development of our more hur- ried present day life. Perhaps what Ls needed is something along the lines of s one-time rather well- know-n sault group which some observers called the Arts snld Let- ters Club, but. which had no unem- bership roll, no officers, no dues and most important of all, no um- snimtty. ~ Soult Ste. Marie Star.

The 45th anniversary oi‘ the wrecking of’ the troop-ship Warren Hastings, and the Army still honors the men who were involved because of the magnificent discl- pllne they displayed. The troops comprised companies of the Kings Royal Rifle Coma ami the York and Lancaster Regiment, and s detachment off tho Middlesex Regi- ment, 995 s11 told, including wo- men and children. At 2 2o in the morning of January 14 the ship struck rocks off the Islands of Re- union tn the Indian Ocean, and became s. total wreck. The troops fell tn on the main deck, and st 4 a..m. were ordered to climb down rope ladders to the rocks. Twenty nuttutes later disembark/alien of the men was stopped. and the wo- men, chiidren, and side wen pas- sed down the aids from man to mart. ‘men landlm was expedited, and the whole ship's company, ex- cept two natives, were saved. — Sheffield Telegraph.

Thirty years ago in Germany two young paper hangars belonged to the same union. One of them Benny Nusiosum, was a good workman, and after distinguishing himself m the First. World War emilmted to the United states. Here he has exercised his paper hanging skill with success, be00me an American citizen and s senior post warden. The other, according to Benny, was "not only t. crsclepot, but he couldn't put up paper straight." He quit. his trade at. an early ago and went in for

WORDS OF CHALLENGE‘

A ‘thought A DI! Ior A People At War

“We haw done well. but a well 1s not enough." Lt. Col. s W, G. . Aird. general manager I and director of the Montreal cottons plant at Vslieyfleld.

The Alaska Highway

(Hamilton Spectator)

At s. meeting of the United States- Jan Permanent Defence Board n New York last. week. according to Jae mayor of that city, m". F. H. “sflfltlflfdll. who is also chairman of the American section of the board. "a great deal" was accomplished. though it. is not. possible. for reasons

te. to make public the exact nature of the discussions, One of the important subjects consioered. is reported. was the construction of th_o Alaska highway. Seeing that

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is of interest to study the suulzest- d route. On February l7 P-tsfdent Roosevelt. sneaking of the menace .0 tho northwest coast of the con-, dnent. said the United States War Department was examlnfnu plans for the completion of such s. high- wav as an urgent measure of de- fence. A commission of American army engineers had previously visit- ccl Canada to investigate the feasi- bility of an infiernational hilzhwa . r from Edaionton. Alberta. Alaska. and. it is said that noih in the United States and Canada the construction of a good highway over which military silpplias conl be carried up the coast. suoulement- int; the "inside" sea. passage. was regarded as a. highly desirable nro- ject. A strong base in Alaska would enable the Allies to strike at Jaimn: ut it is realized that work will have to be begun immediately and prosecuted with the utmost snerd.

There are alternative suggestions. President Roosevelt has referred to the advantage of building a one- track railroad. which could. be kept open all the year round without ser- ious difficulty, but champions of the highway claim an equal immunity from crippling winter conditions for their scheme. because of the snclrer- ing mountain ranges behind ivhich the road would lie. In 1938 an Al- nskan Intemational Highway Com- mission. appointed by the President. reported 1n favor of the route long advocated by Mr. Donald MacDon- nld, of Fairbanks. Alaska. known as the “Father of the Alaskan High- way." Stan-ting from Seattle. Wash- ington. the route goes north, over existing highways, until Prince George. in British Columbia. is reached. It: is said that from that point there are 449 miles of roads already in use, but more than a. thousand miles remain to be built. There has been a certain amount of opposltion to this route in the past from Canadian authorities. but. now that the United States La in the war, any objections o.‘ the kind have apparently been overcome. I-‘rcm Prince George the road would run due north to Atlln and Cnrcross and from there a highway is alrcativ available as far as Kluane but be- tween that point and Bin Delta a new road would have to re nunt: the latter point is. however. already linked to Fairbanks. The railroad project is considered by some to be too costly tn money and materials badly needed for war purposes; whereas the highway. it is arrzued. would be a comparatively inexpen- sive undertakimz.

stretches of the road ‘,8 will traverse Canadian territory, 1t

gawe call

By Any Other Name.

(Eve flhlelrlm- M. JOhIYI. mmtiowfoundland)

If s. flahmonner were tn offer I w t f d aflsh. it. uid ‘iifgbolfileyr iiecilefo o with indie

was believe. it wo

i0 nth s. representative of thil paper was given a sample of canned fish. The tin bore no label nor was there anythin to indicate what. nar- ticulor fish t contained. 1t was neatly cked with rounds of flsh from w the skin had been re- moved. Ind but for the vertebrae contained no bones. Served as s flsh pie. it was delicious, the flavour re- sembling mackerel but the tissue was finer. . It has since been learned that the product was dogflah and was canned th Coast flnn. From the 1o Fisheries Board. tt that a small shiv-

cans

market some time ago was most favourably reported upon. Needless to say. in that instance no secret was made of the nature of the Dro- duct. It may also be mentioned that durinz the last war and no doubt!