v Time and again hlr. MacNicol hasigonc out of

- l_\' [ll‘(l't(‘~iL‘(l.

' ant clause was left out entirely; in another the

racy. mo: l T"! CZSMILITTETIIWI GUARDIAN

Ilrlfllilhfly llullllllld ll-lflfl)

- Frank Wulku lld Hell. Ill l. Burnett. B-(LNJLR. (On Aallvu Bombs)

‘The Strongeu Memory in Weaker Thu; - the Weakest Ink.‘

MONDAY, Amu. s, ms Maritime Possibilities

If an award went to the parliamentarian mak- ing the most constructive suggestions in the House of Commons, it wvotild likely go by titl- lnimous consent to the Conservative member for Davenport, Ont., Mr. John R. MacNicol.

his way to champion the grievances of this little Province with regard to car ferry transportation and other matters. lle has done the same for many other" constitucnccs in addition to his own. It has been his habit for years past, dur- ing parliamentary recess, to visit sortie parti- flllar outlying section of Canada, get first hand information on its possibilities and require- lll(’lll5, and then _coiue illto thc House and (le- liver n speech jirickctl with information and valuable suggestions. .

Speaking the other day in thc debate on the Sari Francisco Conference, Mr. .\lac.\'icol show- ed that he is still kccnly interested in the blari- time. Provinces. The Conference delegates, he thought, should spend sortie time discussing the economy of this country and the. providing of work for thc lllCll‘ and wouicn of Canada, in- cluding the privision of a LKS-blaritiitie high- way. “The Maritime Provinces,” he reminded Parliament, "are the forgotten part 0f Canada. They are cut ofi by that great northern bend in our international lxituitlury nrotmd the State of lilaine. li we Ztll0\V our American cousins, as we should, to use the .\laska~ highway, they might help us to build a through highway from Sherbrooke straight cast to Saint John, N.B., _ a super-higlnvzrv that would bring the Mari- time Provinces much closer to our great Central Provinces and provide quicker transportation. We must have quicker and better transportation to keep this country going. That is a com- promise we might make with our American cottsins. \\'e rnust work harmoniously together, and it would involve no surrender of sovereignty but WQIlld be for the good of both countries."

There is no doubt that such a highway would enormously benefit Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotizr. as well as New Brunswick. Cou- pled with it should go another project of even greater importance, the Chignecto Canal. These projects should have foremost place in any Dominion-wide scheme of postwar reconstruc- tion. Our Maritime members should be press- ing for them unanimously at Ottawa.

It is to be hoped that Premier Jones will have something to say on this subject before the Leg- islature prorogucs. A resolution of the whole House indorsing thc Cairal and highway pro- jects, prcccdcrl by a full discussion of the pos- sibilities, would be time and labor well spent.

Mr. King Getting Touchy

Prime Minister King is very touchy these days. ,llis insistence on running Canada's war activities on a llZlYtlSfill basis has brought him wcll mcritcd criticism, and his efforts to rnis- rcpt-t-scnt this criticism as being unpatriotic has hzvl little success with intelligent people. The other tlav in thc llouse of Conntious, smartiug under iljllJvfiltlttll comments, he went so far as to charge that Conservative lnembcrs “al- ways find it necessary’ to belittle Cattadrfs war effort." The slziuderluls statement was prompt- .\lr. King; rcltlscd to withdraiv it: the Uppusitioii (‘ztllctl for a ruling; and thc Spg-gikgi“ got out of an 3.\\‘l\'\\'2ll'(l situation for his lc.'rdct' by snyitig he understood the Prime hliuistrus strurmcnt \\'.'ts “nintctl at the Op- position and not .'lll_\‘ particular rncmbcr."

The best zinswcr t») .\lr. King's falsehood may be found in llanszlrd of July 23, i942. in thc report of a speech of his forntcr Minister of Public Works and Tirnnsjiort, llnu. l‘. /\. Cardin. TdlaC stnnc riLhcr members of the King Cilllillfl, Mr. Ccrrtlin irzis for a not-too-strcnrt- ous war effort (llltl his complaint about the Con- scrvaiivcs was this: “Il"-"(‘l'_\‘ sic/l Ilia! Ira: lwen fnkrn 11/1 h; I/lc [lrtxrvnl in flu‘ [lr/Lrccirfioii of f/m rtm" lnrr lirrn I.rl'rlr nx l/tr mum]! of l/it‘ Ilirra! of t n inn/um m‘ mitrnrinirnl Irving moved by l/rr t Opflarilion, and because of the fear that such 1 u motion or such an amendment, if proposed, would (lcstroy to a certain extent the strength of our party in the llotzsc of Commons. That is the position. I do not ncul to be afraid to speak my nrind."

.\'Ir. King seems to have forgotten the Car- din stalcment. lle scents til-n to have forgot- tcn the scathing indictment by his former Dc- fense Uinistcr. Col. _l. L. ltnlshin. By impli- cation, Ur. King would like to show that Col. Ralston also was “belittling Canada's war ‘ef- fort" when he cxposcd his lcadcr as the utter- ly unscrupulous partisan opportunist he has always been.

Houseiflilesdumes Tuesday

The Legislature resumes its sittings on Tues- day afternoon, when it is to be hoped thére will be more iniorrnatiorr available on the deplorable financial situation of the Province than was vouchsafed in the Provincial Treasurer's brief lpecch.

Also, it is to be hoped the Government will have its legislation in better shape. Bill after bill has hail to be nmctidcd on the advice of Op~ position legal members. In one bill an import-

section purporting to be amcndcrl proved to he the wrong one; in a third thc Chapter of the ‘At to be amended was omitted. and so on.

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-EDITORIAL NOTES-

Our legislators. locally and Federally, will be back on the job tomorrow. i U I I _Prcparations are now on foot for the new war loan, the organization being speedcd-up to begin operations fprtllwitfir. ‘l

Complaints are being made that property owners are increasing the rents of tenants to take care of the increase in civic taxes.

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Professor Edgar McInncs, on whom has been bestowed one of the four Governor-Gencrahs Literary awards, is a Charlottctonian, u nephew of Mrs. B. Waller. l-Ie holds the chair of Eng- lish in Toronto University, and isjone of the chief editors of Canada’: liistpryff the War.

A housewife who generously send-s parcels to boys overseas, complains she cannot get an extra pound of sugar to make candy, yet the bootleggers seem to be able to obtain all they want to make booze. Something wrong some- where.

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Prince Edward Island, as usual, was left out. Details of assistance given apple growers from the 1941 crops‘to date were tabled by Agricul- ture Minister Gardiner on the request of Mr. H. H. Hatfield (P.C., Victoria-Carleton). The statementreportcd $6.536,o2o paid in Nova Sco- tia and $656,892 in British Columbia and $3,819 in Ontario. No payments were made in Que- bee, New Brunswick, or Prince Edward Island.

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Saskatchewan in the past had an easy way of financing but now is finding the road rather rough. Treasury bills now held by the Domin- ion from Saskatchewan total $96,865,996, Fin- ance Minister Ilsley said in reply to a question by Mr. G. H. Castleden (C.C.F., Yorkton). The only demand for payment since 1930 has been that tirade this year for payment of a treasury bill for $16,468,852 given by the province as guarantee of the 1938 seed grain loan.

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‘Mr. Jean Francois Pouliot, M.P., does not like to have his questions wipt off the record when the House prorogues. He asked Mr. Douglas Abbott, parliamentary assistant at the Defence Ministry, what had become of a return asking about “brass hats who have never been in a theatre of war," Mr. Pouliot said the or- der asking for the return was passed at the last session of the Commons. Mr. Abbott said the order was passed, but it died with prorogation. Mr. Pouliot:—-“It was passed as an order for return. I want my honorable friend to shake up the brass hats."

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Quebec is persistently after the free port project. Mr. L. Philippe Picard (L-Belle- chasse) has tabled a resolution on the Corri- mons order paper proposing introduction “at the earliest possible opportunity” of a bill pro- viding for the establishment of free zones and free ports in Canada. It maybe recalled that

Mayor Lucien Bourne of Quebec, after Mr. Ilemming had ventilated the subject for Char- lottetown, had at various times advocated estab- lishment of a free port at that St. Lawrence city.

Ilit

Richard Cobden, M.P., British statesman and

apostle of Free Trade, died this date r865; he was credited by Peel with being the titan to

whom the repeal of the Corn Laws was due; believed implicity in the power of the Press to have things done, and utilized it extensively in all his political and reform campaigns; he ar- ranged the famous commercial treaty between Britain and France, the first effective step to bring the two nations together, declaring there was no other way of counteracting the anta-

gonism of language and race; it: was God's own

method of producing an entente cordiale: “I

believe it has been said that one copy of The

[imrr contains more useful information titan thc whole of the historical works of Thucy-

tlidcs."

till!

According to the monthly report of the Bank

of Motrtreal, wholesale and retail trade in the h/Iarititucs continues at a high level and com- pares favorably with a year ago. Collections are good. cred by unfavourable weather and, as labor is scarce, production may be about 25% lower

Woods operations have been hamp-

hau zrst year. The demand for lumber corr- inucs strong. Exports of driedfish have been ight, owing to quota adjustment. Vessels have

left for the first salt fishing trip of the year to the Grand Banks. Pickled fish has been in good tletitand at satisfactory prices. duction has been good and markets continue stead". or near ceiling prices, but shipments are being impe‘ d, owing to a scarcity of heated cars. Mantrfacturing plants are busy. Shipyards and ship repairing plants are active. Coal output in Cape lztreton was lower in February than in February, I944.

Fresh first pro-

Tl-re demand for potatoes is strong at

-;.

New and unusual occupations are being de-

veloped as thc outcome 0t the war. His war- time ramblings ovcr, 51-year-old George Phil- lips has gone to Algonquin, Ont., lnd found excitement by “dive-bombing” praying wolves

with a small plane and a rifle. A year ago he

was a squadron leader commanding an R. A.

F, transport command unit at Natal, Brazil, Before that he was l prisoner of the Vichy French in a French West African town. for to days because his plane's radio went wrong and they landed at the wrong airport. Today, as superintendent of this game reserve about 20o miles north of Toronto, he patrols the park in a Stimson Reliant plane on wolf hunts. Hr‘ controls it with his left hand and fit-cs his rifle through the cockpit windlow with his

right.

NotesiBy The Wa

I

"Men to Wear Pltobsu Thll Inter." Ilpugrlch else gm: of ‘am m l rulhln: l leu- lon.-Wlndso: Star.

Alolllplllnlwholllhlloyou about others: s. bore ls one who tllkl to you about lumlelf. lnd l brilliant converlltlonallat. ll one who talks to ybu about yourself. -Cluelph Me

Iurul rolidenll loohlnlrlo the future are making hllvy plaint- lnga of trees about their homes.

l PUBI_.IC' FORUM l

This column l: opul for tho dluonllon by oom- zpourlanlmnl qulltloul d’, tumult. Thu Ohlrlotllton Glllllhl doll

auuvwe uh‘ mu.

8111-1 would 1th to hww why the Ounldllu Government cln not secure for lervlco mm sol-v

tn Alla free air-mall poltage, 1 g informed Brltlsll service men lr ulr mall to

cathedral practically Intact. That speaks remarkably well for the lo- curscy of Allied bouib undr ar- tillery flre, whlch consistently en- deavored to protect that bulldln .—Broekvllle Recorder and Tlmu.

April wlll need to have gly mlll- lnery indeed to surpass some fea- tures of March's spring showing. But Agarll can be attractive when she se s her mind to lt. and lf she proves less fickle than usual she may more than hold hei- own with March. But the saucy jade must prlng no snow.—l-lamllton Specta- or.

Wldelprelll satisfaction ll ex- pressed that none of the big-shot war generals rldes a. horse. a thing that eventually leads to bad eques- trian statuary in parks. There was a picture the other day of our Gen. Crerar clrlvlng s jeep. Let. us have no statue of that. either. He looked rloubtful—llke a chap taking his test for a driv- er's licence-Ottawa Citizen.

It ll falr to sly, on balance. that every half-hour of the twen- ty-four, in one or other of the seven seas. a British naval ac- tion ls being fought. In the main. it. ls Britain's little ships that are engaged. and not one out ofva hundred of these actions ever hits the headlines. says the London Sunday Dispatch. The work o! guarding ocean and coastal con- voys to Britain and Russia. of protecting fighting men withdrawn from Narvlk, Dunkerque and Crete. the supplying of Malta and the North African fomes during the grim days of Italian dotnlnan of the Mediterranean-all took toll ln British ships and British lives.

From the University of Call- fornln has emerged a device which inevitably was named the Stlnko- meter. It measures pleasant odors as well as offensive ones. and its creators-Dr. Otto w. Lane. Lionel Farber and Frltz Yerrnan-see a future for lt in a. broad ranfle mnnufacturlng and processing industries. The inventors have measured the increase ln odors of meats. prunes and raisins and the loss of aroma. 1n such ltetns as cof- fee, spice. pepper. B5 Well l! l" some perfumes-Business Week-

The most holly ‘debated qllei- tlon ln the book trade Brains Trust organized by the London brunch of the Associated Booksellers of Great Britain and Ireland. was whether the present book-buying boom wlll continue after the war. Harold Raymond. representing publishers. pointed out. that the Brltlsh public now spend exactly double their pre-war figure for books. This ls not so impressive as lt sounds. Before the war they spent on the average one penny per head each year. Now they spend twopence a head. For beer and tobacco the yearly average a head ls ln.-Leeds Lorkshlre Post.

The Dominion Food and Dru Act requires a purchaser to presen a doctor's prescription for s. drug or product which ls known to be habit-forming or a possible source of danger to the person using This should operate to protect the pplbllc ln the case of penicillin.

ere ls, however, the danger of its irresponsible use in the production of face cream. hair tonic or soap.

Hospital magazine has Issued warn- ing that. some groups "mnre en- terprlslng than scientific" may through their advertlsements “urge us to take it (penicillin) thrice daily tn our dental cream. on our shav- lng lather or perhaps on lipstick to sterilize kIssesJL-Toronto Star.

The extent. lo which cltlzens of’ the United States have rallied to assume a. major role tn the war has brought generously eloquent praise from the Ottawa Journal. Comln/Z from the good neighbor Canada has always been. such a salute ls appreciated by all citizens of the United States. Canadians have proved to be not only good neigh- bors. but. also pleasant vlsltors and residents ln the United States. The Canadians we have come to know here in Florida have proved

to be individuals of unfailing sta-

bility and ready friendliness. From Lakeland, mortals, Ledger.

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FROM: DOVER BEACH

The sen ls calm tonlght,

The tide ls full, the moon llal fulr

Upon the stratum-on the French the light

coast Glenna and-ll fine; the cliffs of

England s d. Gllmnraer nguuand vast, out. in the 111W 00am e an blanched land, kloa

mum you hear the tln; not Of pebbles which] the waves dnw

. and . M that: return. h! ltrlnd Begin, and and? and their anlni

Wltl-r bxrpnnéthotn cadence slow, and

The etfunlalknfgotfgpf sadness ln.

Hoard ft. on the Aegean. lnd ll.

m» his mind the turbid m» and fldI '

Of h misery: we

Find lllo ln the sound l thmurht,

Heel-lug lt by thll dlswnt. northern . DOI-

—lfliillllll.

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In this connection the Canadian t

a lust clt igiiiiiiess ‘in: xiii-Madrid; ln" foi- ab" W Md letters Sunday dlnner ln unit: poat-war Easting‘ 15?; ofwcham. __ t _ b 6 . helicopters Karim 0 y Stur- “Tmnrm r NT m u, —'-. . . . n“ 00,081,’: ma‘, “and um o, m, ruuumns mo murmurs clty 1n ruins but the celebrated

5112- y means of a majority voted in 551111118 the Prohibition Act.

On lnother occasion Premier Stewgat rln on l "wet plant." He

DD . W1" lily lenslblu Government f onsor government sale. thereby outing the volce of the elector- fllB and the word of God as spoken pyv the prophet Habakkuk 2-15?- oe unto hlm who glveth his nelrzhbvur drink. that putteth thy bottle to hlm and maketh hlm drunk also." I am. Sir, e

to. A. J. MATIIESON

plebiscite, the favour of re-

O‘Lelry.'

T0 sron on nor T0 SIGN Slr.~From time to time ln your Forum letters have appeared, whose authors frown on the use of a nom-de-plume, attempt to castl- Eate those who do, and even threat- en to abandon such eplstle to the scrap heap. The letter which a - pears ln today's above the signature of a female pedagogue ls one example; article of value always has a full signature." I, being one of those who sometimes writes, anonymous- ly (though not on the present ro- hlbltion controversy) must 5K9 exception to this statement. Even Uwllfih it lnfly be justified as re- gards my writings, I wish to sub- mit a few words in defence. First, I do not uarrel with those who wish to use helr own names. So e- it Ls necessary. Some- times it adds much—lf they are well known men of learning and integrity. Even some of these are filéy about disclosing their identi- s. as "Agricola", “Ellen" and "John of the Lllacs"-and even editors, lt. has been charged. sometimes wander ln disguise to their own Forums (this charge has never been substantiated.) There have been many great literary men both an- cient. and modern who have ln- dulged in the practice of using only lnltlals or pen names. A mod- ern who comes to mlnd ls F.P.A. Some persons may become greatly exhllurated by seeing their own name prlrtted in public-for Dale Carnlege says that to us vain mor- tals the sweetest muslc ln all the world is the sound of our own names. Sometimes this writer exhibits l personal curloslt to learn the iden- tity of the au hor of an article well written, so I can well under- stand the mental strain on a fem- lnlne mind to know just who wrote such and such. But ls not this Just curiosity for curioslty’s sake? Or do some wish to know so that they may heap personal abuse on the writer? Cannot; an article or letter be judged, praised or condemned on its own merits, it's logic or lack of logic, without knowln whether the author be whtte or lack? Another unworthy charge ls that he who uses a pen name ls afraid to use his own name. This could be so and still justified. If my boss f ds out my views on a cer- tain tplc, I might be flreul. If my wlfe finds out my views. the ruling-pin may be fired. Any ow ' rose-.." Again the disclosing of too much personal knowledge may detract from the value of a contribution.

“Any

it‘ For example, when the lady who

wrote to your Forum, Sir, several days ago identified herself as a feminine pedagogue, m imagina- tton lmmedlatey went nbo motion -the result. a very disturbing men- al picture, perhaps entirely un- justified by the facts. I can still see in imagination a lady rapidly advancing towards the misty twi- light of maidenhead, stand n; by a blackboard. pointer tn hand, eyes glaring sternly over lowered spec;- tacles, shouting ln a high-pitched

vnlcp: "Dent you know the ans- wer " Finally I must: savthat I do not

condone the practice of hldlng be- hlnd l pen name to rldlcule or sa- ttrlze unjustly or falsely. Yet, those (and this applies especially to the femlnlne element) who write in a Public Forum, under a real or fictitious num-s 0n such a con- troversial subject. as prohibition are sticking their honourable necks cub-and please, ladies, don't ex- pect l necking party-

I am, Slr. etc.

a. rllolm The Bramble Bush. March 28. 1945.

PIOIIIIB$ON URIN- ' IO BAIL!

Bin-I cannot lee what there il ln being so strong for prohibition. If those tn favor are vnltlnz for the good of the people. Vivi-l l" them furuet prohl-bltlon. for lt con- not be enforced for any benefit forutlw , ' . "

on emperance are o - ‘figélterpa ‘who think the w?! gro- vlng themselves united vrlth those producers of alcohol. and he]? the rulnstlon of our younger zen- erstlon. Any one who remembers the lust tithe the queltlon elme before the people on l plebiscite knowu the only onel who hld ln- tereot ln vottng were prohtbltlonlsts and bootlewcrl. Now why lhoul there be two governments ln thts little province? Could thll present